AN: Hello Everyone! If you forgot who I am then let me give you a referesher! I'm the guy who created Connecting Past! but due to revelation of Vol 2 and 3, so I discontinued it and now I have created this new Fic! well Created in a way and took an Idea in another way.

This Fanfic was originally an Idea by Coeur Al'Aran creator of great fics like Professor Arc, One Good Turn Deserves Another and more! I had ask permission on making this FanFic cause for some reasons Coeur has no motivation(?) to make this a Full fic so I took it cause this has so much potential even now that we have more material because of Vol 3.

Now I dont wanna keep you guys waiting so here we are! The Prologue of JNPR-Sempai

Disclaimer: I do not in anyway own RWBY cause it belong to RoosterTeeth and JNPR-Senpai Idea is owned by Coeur

"Promise me…." That's what she said before she left me.

"Promise me to smile…." Those were her words before she passed on.

"Promise me Jaune that you will live as a Hunter our parents would be proud of." She made me promise before she left me.

"Promise me that when I look down on you from Heaven I would be proud that you were my little brother." Her hand outstretched as she took in her final breath of air.

"Yeah….I promise." I grasp her hand as I said those words, biting back the tears that threatened to fall. "After all…an Arc never goes back on his word."

"Thank you, Jaune." Her last words…her last breath…her last goodbye.

"Jaune!" I woke up with a jolt, instinctively grabbing my weapon besides me preparing to fight at a moment's notice but a warm hand stop me short before I could. Looking up I saw Pyrrha looking at me worriedly as if I had seen a ghost, which admittedly I did. Closing my eyes, I took a deep breath to calm my nerves before looking back at my partner, giving her one of my reassuring smile to let her know I was fine…for the moment.

"You okay Jaune? You look a little…unwell?"

"I'm fine Pyrrha." I internally sighed as she look at me unconvinced. "Just a bad dream." From the sigh that came from her I instinctively knew she understood which dream I was talking about.

"Jaune it's been four years-" I silenced her with a finger to her lips and a pleading smile that she couldn't help but relent. A nod of affirmation was all I need before I let her go but the concerned look on her face didn't leave.

Four years….

"Man, I can't believe we're going to be fourth year student now." I said loudly so that the rest of my team could hear me, dispelling the heavy air around us. "I mean it feels as if initiation happened yesterday with the Deathstalker and all that." A small smile showed on my face as I stood up inspecting my armor at a nearby mirror.

Man, how I had changed, gone was my black jacket and chest plate and now I wore a full platemail, my old shoulder-pads were replaced with thicker plated shoulder-guards and my leather gloves with metal gauntlets, under all that armor was a blue tailcoat. My sneakers were replaced by plated boots and shin guards and my worn out jeans into straight cuts. The entire armor set was forge by my family and I right after I got back from Beacon when I was in my second year and needed a new armor, we called it Arc de Ciel aptly named cause of the seven colored dial at the base of the neck in the plate-mail.

It wasn't just looks that I had to change, my weapon too. Crocea Mors was a sturdy weapon of choice but its main weakness was that it's just a plain old sword with no tricks barring the shield turning into a sheath, even so I still carried it around as a backup sword in case I get disarmed in combat. Grabbing the two large caliber pistols holstered behind me, I inspected one of the new weapons in my arsenal. One was a white and the other black. Weiss Shwarz that's what my father named it after forging it at the end of my first year in Beacon and discovering my lack of ranged weapons. The gun itself was simply…a gun, what? Expect me to say it transforms into a sword or something? Forgive me, but I like my weapons with one form only, the name could use some work but I never bothered about changing it. Last but not the least, my newer sword and shield- Excalibur and Prinwen - well newer in a sense that they were given to me, apparently Excalibur and Prinwen was one of the many, many weapons lying around the Arc Armory and has been collecting dust since Oum know when. Unlike Crocea Mors though it has what seems to be the prototype of today's revolving Dust Mechanisms and to my surprise it still works. Gotta give credit to my ancestor for making such durable weapons back then, these weapons never rust or dulls…must be the Family's Forges magical secret or something.

"Hey! Fearless Leader!" My musing was cut short when Nora grabbed my attention, her overall appearance hasn't change since first year with the only not so subtle difference in the rather large Missile Launcher modified to launch its entire payload in one go which she named Brynhildr. That and the sloth hanging from her shoulder she named Pancake, Team JNPR's mascot and Nora's Animal Partner. How she convince Headmaster Ozpin that a Sloth was a useful partner animal still elude me even today but then again it's Ozpin, you never know what that guy's thinking half the time.

"What is it Nora?" I asked, curious as to what the team's resident explosive expert had to say.

"Can I start this party with a Bang?" She ask with a rather innocent smile…well innocent enough when you have a weapon of destruction and a sloth hanging around your shoulder.

"Nora." Another voice spoke, Lie Ren, Team JNPR's martial arts expert and tech prodigy, also the only one who can rein in the hyperactive ginger.

"Yes Ren?"

"Please put that down."

"Okay!" She then promptly dropped Brynhildr as if it was nothing, rocking the Bullhead.

"Nora."

"Yes Ren?"

"Don't do that again."

"Okay!"

I couldn't stop the chuckle at the interaction between the two, being together but not together-together since childhood can do that to two people.

"Jaune." Pyrrha broke my musing as she strapped her new and improved Milo and Akouo, Milo now has an added weapon form in a whip and Akouo has been upgraded to have retractable blades when she throws it as a discus. Her attire had also seen some changes, her bare shoulders now covered with shoulder guards and her revealing cleavage with a red cloth veil.

"Yes Pyrrha?" I looked at my partner as I sheathed Excalibur in Prinwen and strapped it behind my back.

"Shall we start the briefing before we arrive at our mission objective?" She suggested to which I nodded and look at the rest of my team who nodded as well. I clipped an earpiece on before pressing a button, revealing a HUD display revealing everyone's Aura levels and status, even the sloth has its own HUD, again it was Nora's idea so we stop questioning it after all this years.

"Mission has been requested by the village of Merci, apparently there has been increase in Grimm activity as of late, village garrison has sighted Beowolves. There are also sightings of a Beowolf Matron leading the pack." I said the last part with a grimace, Beowolf Matrons, the top dogs of the top dogs, twice the size of an Alpha, twice the armor of an adult Borbatusk, twice the bitch to kill.

"Pack size?" Pyrrha asked as she read the mission detail on her own HUD, unlike mine or the rest of the team her HUD drops down from her Circlet instead of an earpiece.

"Around 200 to 400 strong, half of them Alpha class or above, confirmed 3 Matrons within the pack." Ren replied in my stead while double checking one of many of his new weapons, Storm Sakura, 20 sakura colored daggers hidden within his combat attire which hasn't change over the years.

"They have been last seen south of the village which consists of open plains that is where we are heading. Thankfully there are no sightings of Nevermores or other flying Grimm so we can do a high altitude drop without any hindrance." Nora said excitedly, giddy for the action to come.

"So what the plan?" My partner asked as she did her own double checking.

"Children." Prof. Glynda Goodwitch, Head Disciplinarian of Beacon, announced as she step out from the Bullhead cockpit, grabbing our attention. "This is will be your assessment mission of if you are worthy to move on to being fourth year students of Beacon. Your Primary objective is the Matron, the rest is secondary." We nodded as she pause looking at each one of us. "Now I don't want any of you dying here today, you've gone too far to lose your lives here, also remember…. No Heroics. Am I understood?"

"Yes Ma'am" We shouted in unison which she nodded in acceptance.

"Very well, now prepare for drop, ETA 2 minutes until your drop point." As if on cue, the side doors began to open revealing a vast plain, down below black blurs darted across the evergreen plains chasing us. Clearly they had noticed us for a while now. A tap on the shoulder made me look away from the view down below just to see my team grinning at me.

"So leader time for a final check." Pyrrha said with a small smirk as she prepares for the fight that is to come.

Dang I hate it when she says that with thatsmirk of hers.

"Okay." I nodded as I click another button on my earpiece. "Team JNPR sound off!"

"Pyrrha Nikos ready." She called out from her mic, Akouo unsheathing its hidden blades.

"Lie Ren at the ready." Ren called out, unveiling Storm Flower from his sleeves.

"LET GET THIS PARTY STARTED!" Nora screamed as she lifted Brynhildr ready to unleash its entire payload.

"Guhh." Pancake voiced out. Who was now being carried by Prof Goodwitch. Who knew the strict disciplinarian had a soft side for sloths, not that she would admit it.

"Nora let start this with our new Team attack." I said over the comms and saw the huge grin the Valkyrie had made when she heard that.

"Copy that Fearless Leader." She saluted as she hefted her missile launcher near the other door.

Breath in…Breath out...3…2…1

"Nora! War Maiden!" I screamed as I jump out of the Bullhead followed by the cacophony of Missiles being launch by Brynhildr. Even then I could hear the faint clicking of Arc de Ciel as it clicks to the right vial of dust.

The Hunt had begun….

I gave a deep sigh as I walk down the cobbled walkway of Beacon's Courtyard, it's been two week since the assessment mission which we passed with flying colors. That and apparently the village of Merci renamed the plains we fought those Beowolves as Juniper Plains, named after our team as a reward for clearing the Grimm infestation.

I wonder how many of us passed the test to move up to fourth year.

"Hey Lady Killer." A slap on the ass stops my train of thought. What's with people stopping my musing these days?

I turned to regard Coco Adel, a fashionista and a Huntress in training, leader of Team CFVY who passed their assessment mission around the same time as me and my team. "What with you and slapping your friend's asses?" I ask slightly annoyed at her bad habit. The only response I got was her lowering her sunglasses and sticking her tongue out. I sometimes forget that Velvet was rubbing her childish ways into Coco.

"Hey, Coco wait for me!" I shouted at her, damn that woman and her teasing ways.

"So Lady Killer got that message from Ozpin?" She asked as I jogged up to her.

"Yeah I got it and it annoys me that its cryptic as ever." I responded showing her my scroll with the Headmaster's message which read:

To all Fourth year Team Leaders,

I would like to congratulate you all on your successful elevation to fourth year students here in our prestigious Beacon Academy. Now I may be cutting your celebration short, but I request all Team Leaders to gather at my office by XX00hrs (Really? At least set a random time.) today for an announcement about your graduation mission.

Headmaster Ozpin

"So got any ideas what the Headmaster has in store for us?" I ask the chocolate themed woman beside me who shrugged in response.

"It's Ozpin, if there is one thing I've learned this past four years, it's that whatever the Headmaster throws at us is 1 of 3 things: Weird, Crazy or both and mostly for his entertainment." She said as we reach the elevator that would lead us on top to Headmaster's Office.

"True enough." I sighed in acceptance remembering all the times the Headmaster had sent us on missions.

"Remember that one time he sent us to a coffee farm to harvest his favorite brand of coffee beans for an advancement mission in our first year" I said as I smirk at the memory, apparently Coco also found that memory funny.

"Yeah, Yatsuhashi couldn't look at coffee the same ever again" She said between giggles. Huh, this is a sight to see, I rarely see this side of Coco. But before I could say another word the elevator ding and the cute fashionista has transformed back to the Huntress in training I knew. As the door opened fourteen pair of eyes settled on us.

I look at each one of the team leaders from the other fourth year teams trying to match each face to each team… Team DARK, SLVR, GOLD, NITE, REVN, KROW, BEIG, TERA, CLOD, LITE, DAAY, and THRN. Including my team and Coco's that makes fourteen teams who successfully pass the assessment mission. Moving at the front of the crowd, there seated at his chair was the Headmaster of Beacon in all his Green glory along with Prof. Goodwitch at his side who was rubbing a headache away.

"Now…" that small smirk suddenly appearing hidden behind his be love coffee mug, "I shall now announce your Graduation Mission."

Why do I get the feeling that I don't gonna like this one bit….

Unknown to myself those were the thoughts of all the Team Leaders in the room.

Edited as of 4/29/16 by Glacium Frost.

As of Today I have Found an Editor so I have taken down the Wanted note that was suppose to be here so yeah. This chapter will still be continued to be edited by both of us since we might miss a few errors here and there. Do tell in a PM or Review where the errors are after all we are just human.