Heyo, Malluk here with Chapter 2 of Knight of Hunters! Not much to say for this one except I wrote a lot more then I expected to cause me to push back some of the story into the next chapter, whether that's a good thing or bad we will have to wait and see.

The only real thing people commented about was spelling and its something I'm trying to work on, but I don't have a Beta so when I do spell and grammar check I tend to miss some things still. Being from England when most reading are American can cause some spelling due to be different (even if I'm crap at it anyway) I'm sorry for that, and I'll try to get better.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter.

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(UPDATED: 25/01/19)

Beacon Academy, regarded as one of if not the best Hunter Secondary School in the world, many different people try to apply to the school each year and only around 100 are accepted into initiation. Those accepted were currently riding a Bulkhead heading towards the prestigious academy. Excitement, anticipation, worry and many other emotions ran through the thoughts of those on board, but for our Hero, it was the not the emotions running rampant but the content of his stomach.

'Damn, why did my motion sickness had to come back for vengeance NOW of all times! I thought I got rid of this when Mordred threw me on that train a few years ago to help me 'get over it'! That was the worst experience of his life. 4 HOURS he spent on that train till it finally reached Vale and he finally managed to crawl off it. Mom was furious about that little adventure. At least the plane ride back showed it did somehow work. Jaune's stomach growled causing him to groan, his hood covering his face, stopping anyone seeing how green he was getting, "But why now, I enjoy a ride now and again, but this is agony. Ok Jaune, calm down its just the stress getting to you, just breath, do that aura technique Tam taught you to calm down." He said to himself, taking a deep breath and focusing his aura on settling his stomach. When it finally settled down, he breathed a sigh of relief, finally taking the time to look around the bulkhead at his fellow Huntsmen and huntresses in training.

He saw two girls hugging near the window, well he says hugging, but it looked more like the blond cowgirl was trying to crush the goth girl given how her feet were off the ground. 'Reminds me of when Nero was proud of me for something, she always was a hugger. Would have been great If she hadn't shoved my head in her cleavage when we got older, puberty was a real bitch during those years, but I know she just does it due to how excited she gets.' He smiled thinking of his older sister before an annoyed pout made its way onto his face when another sister made her way to the front of his mind. 'unlike Tam… I know she does that on purpose.' "The sly fox." He grumbled to himself before looking across the sea of students; he didn't really focus on anyone else as much as the two girls. His eyes did linger on a few of the girls but who could help him? He was a 17-year-old Male surrounded by women who could be supermodels. Like the black-haired beauty, he spotted reading in one of the corners.

At first glance, the book looked like one of his sister's but on the closer look was something called A Man with Two Souls, it would have been awkward seeing her books being read in public given their 'content.' Another eye-catching thing about her was her Amber eyes that seemed to catch the light along with the bow on her head; he thought he saw it twitch a few times and thought that should mean something but couldn't quite remember what.

Another to catch his eye was a girl who looked like she was made of snow given how much white was on her, only her movement and a few splashes of color proved she was alive. Her ice blue eyes and side tail hair are what stood out the most about her along with her strict look, she screamed high class, and Jaune would have written her off as a spoiled brat who paid her way in if not for the scar going down the left side of her face over her eye. 'That looks like a sword wound, she must have got it during a fight? She's lucky she didn't lose that eye and I kind of like it. Adds some danger to her look.'

Moving on from the girl he would now dub "Snow Angle" the next to catch his eyes was another pair, this being a short haired ginger girl in white and pink talking at what looked like a mile a minute to her companion who, upon a closer look, was a long black-haired guy in green with a pink streak in his hair. Given his stoic expression and the slight nods, he uses to answer the girl next to him he must have been used to her eccentric personality. 'The two must have known each other for a while if he can sit there and let her ramble on, kinda feel sorry for him but hey, he must enjoy her company to stick around.'

Next to catch his eyes was a small crowd of people who seemed to be trying to talk to a scarlet headed girl in the middle, her hair was in a ponytail and she had brown and gold armor on. Given the way people crowned around her she must have been popular but the smile on her face looked fake. Jaune was well acquainted with that smile since he would wear it when he didn't want to trouble his sisters. Just by chance their eyes meet, his azure blue to her emerald green, they reminded him of his family, he gave her the most genuine smile he could as well as a small wave, she returned the waved and the smile turning into a genuine one which makes him happy before her focus was pulled away by one of the people next to her. Jaune thought about going over but the screens in the bulkhead changed to a light blond woman with green eyes welcoming the students to Beacon before landing.

'She kinda looks familiar?' Jaune thought to himself but before he could really think about it the bulkhead finally landed, gripping his weapons, clipping Crocea Mors to his waist and pulled Excalibur over his shoulder (it was still wrapped but had some cloth tied to the guard and blade to act as a sling) he stepped off onto solid ground taking in the sight of Beacon.

Beacon was located along the east edge of the city of Vale and was located at the end of the river that ran through the center of the city, Beacon was located at the top of the large cliff face that was at the end of the river. The School was once a castle nearly hundred years ago before it was converted to a school for huntsmen after The Great War and it showed with the architecture, the centerpiece being the old CCT tower located in the heart of the school.

Jaune took a moment to take in the sights, having grown up in an old Keep that was just as old as Beacon he wasn't as blown away as many of the others, but he could still enjoy the differences in design that the two places had. It was a welcome change to the only son of the Arc family having not traveled much in his youth due to his family being busy, it was finally his time to see the world! And the best way was to start it off with a bang!

*BOOM*

'… Not quite so literally.' Jaune sighed to himself setting off to see what caused the explosion.

Ruby Rose was having a roller coaster of a week, the new issue of Weapons Weekly was released! Uphill. Her favorite Dust store was attacked and robbed by Roman Torchwick. Downhill. She was in the store, so she beat up all the bad guys! Uphill. But Roman got away and is still at large. Downhill. She got to meet a professional Huntress! Uphill. But she turned out to be strict and mean to hands. Downhill. Then she met Professor Ozpin! The Headmaster of Beacon! Uphill. He gave me a WHOLE plate of cookies to herself. Uphill again. THEN INVITED HER TO BEACON 2 YEARS EARLY! Top of the World! But things had been steadily going downhill since she arrived.

Yang had but a lot of pressure on her on the way over from Vale. Then she ditched her almost as soon as they landed, leaving poor Ruby alone surrounded by people older than her. And in her confusion at being ditched, she tripped over some rich girl's luggage causing the dust in them to fall out and was yelled at by said rich girl along with having a dust bottle shaken in her face cause her to explode! The rich girl really started laying into her, getting annoyed she snapped back until another girl intervened calling the rich girl Weiss Schnee, and listed off her family rap sheet causing her to storm off. She was going to try and make it up to her later and turned to engage the new arrival, but she turned to see her walking off leaving her alone, again. Fed up with what was happening she flopped back into the small crater that was created from the explosion, finally hitting rock bottom, and a few feet further.

"Welcome to Beacon," she said to herself dejected, eyes closed to block out the sun.

"Hey, need a hand?" a voice said as a shadow overtook the young girl.

Opening her eyes Ruby came face to face with an armored and gloved hand. Giving a small thank you, she was pulled up to her feet finally getting a look at the NEW-new arrival.

The person who helped her up was a male student wearing silver half-armor with blue lining that covers from the neck down, under the armor was a blue coat/tunic with white trim that went down to the front of his legs, past his waist guards with more coming out to the side and around his back down to above his ankles. One thing that caught her eye was that the hand that pulled her up (his right) had most of the arm armor under the sleeve which had a white fur trim and a black center line with white rope crisscrossing up his right arm to the pauldron. He currently had the hood, that was attached around his neck to the front plate, over his head but given he was around a foot taller she could see his face.

The two just settled into an awkward silence as they stared into each other's eyes, her into his deep blue and his into her unique silver. After a few moments Jaune realized he was staring and still holding her hand, letting go quickly in embarrassment, he gave a weak chuckle and rubbed the back of his head. "Sorry, I'm Jaune."

Ruby noticing, she too was staring and that they were holding hand also went red with embarrassment, pointing her fingers together and looking at her feet she meekly replied." I'm Ruby." Looking back up to meet his eyes.

"Hey, aren't you the guy who was moaning on the ride over?" she questioned causing Jaune to groan in response.

The two were now walking/wandering around the front gardens as they got to know each other.

"All I'm saying is motion sickness is more common then you think," Jaune said to the goth girl next to him, trying to explain himself.

"Look I'm sorry, Moaning-guy was the first thing that came to mind". Ruby said trying to appease her first friend at Beacon.

"Please don't call me that. It sounds so wrong." Jaune sighed to himself, running his hand down his face, removing his hood allowing his golden blond hair to breath, he kept it in a short, scruffy state like he did most his life. He did grow it long once but soon cut it at the idea of his sister Nero getting her hand on him with long hair. He already had an album of embarrassing "outfits" he wore when he was too young to know better but, now it was all just pictures and repressed memories of a darker age.

"Gross, but like I said. It was the first thing to pop in my head." Ruby responded, wrinkling her nose at the implication of the name. While her sister may want to think she was still a pure, innocent child, as a teenager, like most she got curious and looked a few things up. Not to mention knowing Yang's scroll password, girl seriously needed to close her tabs when she's done.

"Well, what if I called you Crater Face?" Jaune shot back in retaliation.

"Hey! You know that the explosion was an accident!" Ruby replied, emphasizing the "accident" part.

"Well, the names Jaune. Short, Sweet, Rolls of the tongue, Ladies love it." Jaune stated with a large amount of charisma.

Ruby just looked at him funny, "Do they?" she asked in confusion.

"Well according to my Mother and my sisters. Yes, yes they do."

Ruby could help but giggle hearing Jaune try to justify his horrible pickup line. Hearing he too had at least one sister she could help but comment. "A couple sisters? I only have one and she drives me up the wall. I can't imagine having more."

"Yeah, while they can be a pain I love all my sisters." He commented with a smile, thinking of all his sisters, younger and older. When the face of one, however, came to his head his smile became a bit melancholy. 'Yeah, they're all great.'

Noticing the shift in his mood an awkward silence settled on the two once more. Ruby not wanting the dreaded silence to return quickly decided to focus on one of the most important aspects of a huntsman, their weapon.

"Soooo, I got this thing." She said whipping out her weapon from behind her. While a red rectangle box at first it quickly expanded into a 6-foot-tall scythe that she impeded into the ground.

Jaune not expecting her to slam a giant scythe into the ground jumped at the impact, quickly locking eyes on the weapon. "Is that a scythe?" he questioned, having never seen one used as a weapon before.

"It's also a customizable, high impact, sniper rifle." She said puffing her chest out in pride.

Jaune, letting his brain catch up with what was happening finally replied after a moment. "Soooo, its also a gun?" he questioned.

Coking her weapon, she nodded in confidence. "It's also a gun."

Jaune just looked at her weapon. "That's cool." he cheerfully replied.

"So, what do you have?" she questioned, place her weapon back behind her looking at Jaune expectedly.

"Well, I've got my sword and shield, Crocea Mors." Pulling the sword free and expanding the shield from the sheath.

Oooing back, she had to ask, "So what can they do?"

Softly laughing at her enthusiasm, he collapsed the shield and re-sheath the blade. "Nothing to fancy, the shield shifts into a sheath for the sword that's just a normal sword." He explained clipping it back into his waist.

"But doesn't the shield weigh the same?" she questions.

"It's convenient, besides doesn't your weapon weigh the same when you put it into its collapsed form?" he countered.

"Touché" Ruby replied, not expecting him to turn it back on her. "So, you don't have any ranged? No gun or bow and arrow to go with the whole 'knight' theme?" she questioned, joking about the Bow and Arrow.

"Oum No! I'm more likely to shot myself than anything in front of me." Jaune exclaimed, shivering at a memory of long ago when he got his hands on a gun, 'maybe something more modern would work for me' he thought, never again.

"That bad?" She asked seeing him have what appeared to be a horrifying flashback, given how pale he went.

"Worse."

"Okayyyyyy…" Deciding to give him a moment her eyes landed on the handle that poked from behind his back, only now noticing he had another sword on him. "What about that one?" She said, pointing over his shoulder.

Snapping out of his flashback his eyes turned to the object over his shoulder, the covered hilt of Excalibur. "That one… special." He said, unable to think of how to describe it.

Confused by his response and the fact it was wrapped in cloth she asked the one question he didn't really want her to ask. "Why is it coved up?"

Looking to Ruby, debating whether to tell her or not he decided against it, he only just met her, and he wasn't really feeling up to explaining something so personal. "Sorry Ruby, but that's a bit too personal. Maybe someday?"

Wanting to know but seeing the conversation was making him uncomfortable she backed off, for now. "OK, at a later date then."

"So, why'd you help me out back there?" Ruby questioned.

"Well, my Mom always said, 'Strangers are just friend you haven't met yet.'" He said with a smile, remembering when his mother told him that when he headed off to Grail Academy.

Ruby just hummed and nodded as the two walked in silence till Ruby asked: "Hey, where are we going?"

Neither of the two answered, looking at each other for answers that the other didn't have, they just stood there, waiting.

"Head back to the front?" Jaune finally asked.

"Yeah... let's do that," Ruby said with a shrug

After backtracking to the front of the school our two heroes finally made their way into the main Amphitheatre where all the other Beacon hopeful were waiting. The two were greeted by chatter and a sea of different colors from the different outfits people wore.

"Ruby! Over here!" a voice called over the noise, the two turned to the sound of the voice to land on the blond girl who was hugging Ruby on the ride over, waving to the younger girl. "I saved you a spot!"

"Oh, I got to go. See you later Jaune!" Ruby quickly stated rushing to join her sister. Not catching Jaune reaching out to her.

"Wait! *sigh* Great now where am I going to find a nice, quirky girl to talk to?" he questioned to himself, deciding to wander around the room until the ceremony started, missing the redhead he waved to on the bulkhead behind him watching him walk off.

Walking around he decided to continue observing the other candidates around him to see if anyone was worth getting to know. He did spot a few faces from his time at Grail Academy, but he never interacted with most of his classmates. Due to his years without a weapon most people wrote him off and either ignored him or the few dumb enough to bully him, his sister usually sorted those people out if he didn't but his above average hand to hand skill to use braking their noses, it was the older sibling of said noise broke kids who would rough him up for 'attacking their sweet kid sibling', sadly for them his sisters were stronger.

Speaking of bullies, his eyes travel over to a group of guys that screamed 'Bros'. while their color scheme was quite dull compared to most, they were a few of the only ones, besides himself, wearing armor. The two in brown and grey were the most forgettable but the one in green had a light green mohawk, so it was hard not to be drawn to that. The biggest of the group was a ginger male in silver armor with gold trim, his armor was adorned by a giant bird spreading its wings. The guy really rubbed Jaune the wrong way for some reason and he planned to interact with him as little as posable.

Moving on he spotted the pink and green couple again. The girl was still talking the guy's ear off, Jaune wondered if she even stopped. He could respect a guy who could take a barrage like that, the closest he ever got anything like that was when either Jeanne was hovering over him in worry when he pushed himself too far in training or when Tam wanted to embarrass him by going over her ideas for her 'books'. Catching the male wandering gaze, he offered a small salute to his brother in arms. Seeming to understand the gesture he returned a small smirk of amusement before wiping it off his face before his companion noticed.

Chuckling to himself he continued his way till a voice caught his ears, turning to the voice he spotted Ruby and the blond girl taking to the "Snow Angel" he spotted on the way over. She was pointing at him for some reason, not quite knowing what they were saying about him he started to make his way over to see what was going on.

Finally making it over to the three it looked like the blond one was going to bash the white-haired girl's head in so he decided to make his presence know before a fight could start.

"Hey Ruby, what's going on over here?" he started, announcing himself to the trio and distracting the two arguing girls.

Sighing in relive at Jaune's perfect timing she greeted her new friend. "Hey, Jaune! Just trying to resolve a misunderstanding." She explained, trying to make it seem like not a big deal.

Weiss and Yang both turned to examine the newest addition to the conversation. For Yang, he wasn't a bad looking guy. Shiny blond hair, bright blue eyes, and a cute face, he had the whole knight look down as well. 'Not bad,' she thought to herself, 'but how does he know Ruby?' she asked herself her big sister mode activating. She had only been away from Ruby for a few minutes, 10 at most, yet in that time she gained a new friend, which was good news, but that friend just so happened to be a guy. While Ruby did have some male friends back at Signal, everyone at Beacon was around 2 years older then her sweet sister so she felt she had to make sure this Jaune guy didn't have any ulterior motives for her sister.

Weiss on the other hand, hearing he was familiar with the safety hazard only gave him a quick glance before scoffing. "Just great. Another one of you people shows up to waste my time even more." She said hauntingly.

"What do you mean 'You people'?" Yang asked heated, eyes going Red in anger at the heiress's statement.

Seeing the conversation returning to a more violent path Jaune quick tried to defuse the situation. "Hey now, we're all trying to become Huntsman here, let's not start burning bridges on the first day. OK?"

Seeing that he was somewhat right the two just huffed, turning away from each other. 'They're acting like a pair of children.' Jaune and Ruby both thoughts, signing at the two's attitude.

Yang turning again to look at Jaune and had a memory click in place from earlier, "Hey… aren't you that guy who was moaning and groaning on the way over?" she blurted out not caring for how it sounded.

"Moaning and Groaning!" Wiess asked in a scandalous way, going red at the thoughts that came to mind.

"What!? NO! Well yes, it was me but not for the way your thinking!" Jaune tried to defend himself.

Seeing his eyes turn to her, Weiss covered her chest with her arms, "Don't look at me you brute!"

"It's not like that! I used to have motion sickness and it comes back from time to time! I was just trying not to throw up!" He explained trying to clear up any mistakes.

"I don't care for your excuses! You deviant!" she continued, turning away to hide more from his gaze, her blush not leaving her face whether it was from embarrassment or anger no one could tell.

Yang just laughed at the two's interaction, while she expected some reaction from the blond male, hoping to turn him into a stuttering mess, Ice Queen's reaction made it so much better.

Ruby, while finding it funny, tried to support Jaune and clean up Yang's mess. "He's right, he does suffer from motion sickness! It wasn't anything bad like that!" Seeing her words fall on deaf ears she turned to the sources of the dilemma, "Yaaaang ~ stop bullying my new friend and help him ~." she whined to her mean sister.

Before Yang could reply an 'ahem' passed over the crowd, silencing them. Everyone turned to the stage where the Headmaster of Beacon, Ozpin was standing in his classic Green suit with his cane in hand, finally addressing the new students.

"I'll...keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge, to hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people." He stated, his eyes sweeping over the crowd, his eyes lingering on a few students, the Schnee Heiress, The princess of Menagerie, The Goddess of Victory and the last of the Silver eyes. "But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose, direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step" he finished, taking his leave.

His deputy, Glynda Goodwitch, stepped up to the mic directing the students to were they would be sleeping for the night and that initiation would be in the morning, giving them a warning to be ready before dismissing the crowd.

"He seemed kinda off…" Yang stated, a little of but off by the headmaster's speech.

"Almost like he wasn't even their…" Ruby followed, equally but off.

Jaune decided to add his two cents on the matter, "I guess he had other stuff on his mind, or that his so use to giving the same speech each year he goes on autopilot."

The two sisters could only nod in agreement at the blonde's assessment. Weiss just scoffed, taking the moment to finally remove herself of their presence, she didn't even say goodbye, she just walked away to do her own thing.

"Rude" Yang stated watch the Ice Queen storm off, part of her wanted to continue their fight but she was glad to be rid of her. 'Hope I don't get stuck on a team with her' she thought to herself, enacting murphy's law, sealing her fate.

"Welp how about we forget about Miss Grumbly Pants and get Something to eat?" Ruby asked, getting their mind off the disaster of a conversation they had with Weiss.

"Sure."

"I'm Game."

"Great! Let's go!" Ruby said after getting the two's approval. Marching off on a random direction after a few steps she turned to the two older members, giggling in embarrassment, "SOOO, where's the cafeteria?" she meekly asked. Cause the two blonds to start lighting, embarrassing her more.

"GUYS~!"

Night had finally fallen over Beacon and the new students were finally getting into their nightwear and getting settled in the Ballroom, no was given a room since they didn't know who would be staying and leaving tomorrow to find something else to do till they can try again next year. Because of this people's luggage was kept locked away for the night to be placed in a room if you passed or shipped to Vale if you fail, because of this people were told to have a small bag but aside to hold pajamas and cleaning supplies for the night before initiation. While the males and female have different changing rooms for the gym/swimming rooms, combat class, and living arrangements were going to be co-ed, teams would get their own set of lockers next to each other, so teacher advised getting used to getting naked in front of the opposite sex, since as huntsmen they didn't have time to complain about seeing each other naked.

For Jaune, he had just finished cleaning up after some last-minute training. He had departed from the sisters after dinner to get some time in with Crocea Mors, he hadn't touched the SnS pair since getting Excalibur, so he wanted to make sure he could still use them somewhat. He noticed his swordsmanship was better than before Excalibur but not as good as when he used his soul weapon, this annoyed him somewhat as he hoped even just having it let him use any sword now, he was sadly mistaken as he could only do as well as 60% of what he could do with Excalibur. While not bad he estimated he was comparable to around bottom 50% of a final year Primary school, not bad but not great for a place like Beacon. It was his shield skills that had been hit the most, having rusted over the years, this did cause Jaune to berate himself, he spent so much time making sure he could use a shield but after obtaining Excalibur neglected that side of training. You couldn't really blame him, he had to catch up with his siblings and the easiest way was to focus on Excalibur.

'Now you're just handicapping yourself.' A part of his mind wisped to him, he knew what he planned was stupid, but he just had to see if he could do it on his own, to prove himself. 'You're acting pathetic, you know you can't do anything without Excalibur, it's a part of you.' The voice continued, he knew how important a weapon was to an Arc but years without his had built a slight resentment in him towards his families reliant on their weapons. If they didn't have it integrated into their very souls. He wouldn't have spent so many years seeing the same look in people eyes when they found out he didn't have a weapon, pity. While gaining Excalibur had been the greatest moment in his life it didn't come at costs, mainly in his relationships, in and out his family.

'It's your own fault.' The voice finished leaving Jaune alone as he stepped out the shower to dry himself off. Not wanting to think about his situation he moved over to his bag that held his pajamas. Opening the bag, he sighed in relief seeing a normal t-shirt and some trousers, he had let Tamamo put this bag together while he focused on his main suitcase, he caught her trying to but his bunny onesie in the bag but quickly swiping the attire, he couldn't imagine walking into the ballroom as a giant blue rabbit, he'd have been laughed out. She tried to argue that it was what he wore while they cuddled so it would be perfect for the cuddling he would be doing with all the girls he would swoon on the first day. But after threatening her snacks, she lamented, putting in some more normal attire.

Putting the trousers on first he then pulled the top over his head letting it rest over his body, after a moment the shirt started to shrink causing Jaune to jump in surprise. It final stopped when the shirt lay close against his body like a muscle shirt showing off his physique, pulling at the material around his neck to let it breath more he spotted some writing on the back, inner collar through the mirror, looking closer it looked like someone had written in the inside of the collar at the back.

'When worn, Shrink two sizes between until 6 am'

Taking some water in hand he tried to rub the words away, but they didn't smudge at all. "Permanent ink. Damn that fox." Jaune sighed to himself, the shirt neck had gotten too small for his head to be pulled through so the only way out was to rip the shirt off, but it seems that Tam had 'forgotten' to put a spare in his bag, imagen that.

Feeling going shirtless would be worse he resigned to his fate and made his way to the ballroom, hoping no one brought up how tight his shirt was.

The Ballroom was full of people either lying in their sleeping bags, walking around or talking with other in whispers, while a natural divide was made by the males and females there were a few groups of mixed sexes sleeping together, whether they were friends or one of the few couples in the room. While a few of the older year were placed to keep order for the night there was only really 4 rules for the night. Lights out at 9 pm, no fighting, no loud noises or chatter and no 'hanky-panky' between people. So long as they are followed people could do as they wished.

For Ruby, she spent her time writing a letter to her friend at Signal, being moved forward two years while exiting, meant leaving all her friends back home. While her friends were supportive of her advancement they couldn't come with her meaning she had to make new friends socialize with, but it didn't mean she had to lose contact with them either.

"It's like one big slumber party!" Yang said, dropping next to her sister in her sleeping wear of an orange vest with her symbol on it and black pajama short-shorts.

"I don't think Dad would approve of all the boys though," Ruby replied not looking away from her letter. She too was in her sleepwear, her own black vest with a large heart in the middle, white pajama trousers with roses on it and an eye mask with red eyes.

"I know I do~" Yang purred, seeing a few of the boys shirtless and flexing, trying to catch the attention of the opposite sex. Not hearing Ruby react to her teasing comment she looked at what she was doing and asked, "What you got there?"

"It's a letter to the gang back at Signal. I promise to tell them what its like at Beacon and how things are doing." She explained.

"Oooh~ that's Soooo cute~" Yang teased getting a pillow to the face with Ruby telling her to "Shut up" rather angerly.

Pulling her own pillow close she explained, angry her sister was making fun of her, "I didn't get to take my friends with me to school. It's wired not knowing anyone."

Seeing her sisters distress she tried to cheer her up, "What about Jaune? His nice, not to mention cute. ~" she said, not giving up the chance to tease her sister.

Ruby, being an easy target for her sister shenanigans easily went red so supplied her sister with another pillow even if she kinda agreed with, "Shut up!"

Laughing at her reaction Yang got back on topic, "Well his plus 1 friend, that a 100% increase." She stated in confidence.

Turning onto her back to get comfortable she replied in a monotone voice," I'm pretty sure Weiss counts as negative one friend. Back to zero."

"There's no such thing as a negative friend. You just made one friend and one enemy- "she stopped suddenly, while she was trying to comfort her sister her eyes caught sight of the conversation's positive friend, upon seeing his attire her mind froze.

"Yang? What's wrong?" hearing her sister stop she turned and asked what was wrong, seeing her stare over her with wide eye and blush she, naturally turned to see that she was gawking at. When she turned to look a blush exploded onto her face when her eyes locked on the person she considered her first friend at Beacon.

There, across the room passing the guys who were flexing their muscles was Jaune, in a VERY tight shirt that left nothing to the imagination. While not overly muscular he was more muscular then most people their age, with the shirt so tight to his body it molded around his pecs and abs making them stand out more.

"Damn Sis, out of all the guys you became friends with, I approve of this one the most…" Yang stated, eyes glued to Jaune's Abs, a nice 6 pack she gladly drank in.

Ruby couldn't respond, too lost in her own world at seeing Jaune practically shirtless, she had only seen him in his armor, so she had no idea he would be this buff. She had seen a few guys shirtless, whether it was during summer when her friends wanted out of the heat or when staving her curiosity, but they were either too young to have a large muscle definition or were on a screen. The guys flexing were the oldest guys she saw shirtless but even they paled in comparison to Jaune.

As soon as Jaune entered the ballroom he had felt eyes on him. The shirt had modeled to his body in a way that he may have just gone shirtless anyway. He knew his physical appearance was more defined than most his age group. Aura was usually unlocked around 13 so the physical increases from aura allow hunters to have a much smaller frame as they usually don't have to do as much physical training to reach an optimal physicality. Its why so many huntresses aren't heavily muscular even if they use a large weapon or have a power type fighting style. But for Jaune, he didn't get his aura till later and in an attempt to catch up to his sisters, he focused heavily on his physical prowess, pushing himself to peak performance for his age group. He could never match anyone with aura, but it made him a lot stronger than those without. By the time he got his aura he was already near the physics he was now and just kept himself around the fitness he was since most of his training when fully into using Excalibur and Aura, but he was still most likely the fittest person in the room.

Trying his best to not make eye contact with anyone he scanned the room looking for somewhere to sleep, his eyes fell upon Yang and Ruby and seeing them looking at him he decided to make his way over, hoping a conversation could distract him for the eyes around him.

"Hey Ruby, Yang, how are you to?"

Silence greeted him as they continued to stare off into the distance, a blush on both girls faces.

"Guys?"

"Hum?" Ruby finally responded, blinking her eyes in confusion, she lost herself a minute there when she saw Jaune, the things she thought kept the bush on her face as she tried to shake the thoughts away. But now he was standing over her with a look of confusion.

"EEP!" she jumped seeing him so close, quickly trying to compose herself she sat up and looked down, poking her fingers together and finally answered him. "He-Hey Ja-Jaune. How are yo-you?"

"I'm doing ok. You're looking a bit red, you're not cold or anything?" he answered, dropping next to the blushing rose, placing the back of his hand against her head to get a read of her temperature.

Feeling his hand against her head Ruby went stiff, not knowing what to do in this kind of situation. "N-n-n-no, I'm f-f-f-f-fine!"

"You do feel a bit hot…" he said, not noticing Yang retune from her own 'adventures', turning to see Jaune holding his hand against Ruby's head and seeing her blush, she could help but smirk at her sister's reaction.

"Well, well, well~. Never pegged you as a shower Jaune~" Yang purred bringing the two's attention to her. Her lidded eyes staring right at Jaune, who shivered at the tone.

"W-well, Umm I don't really wear stuff this… tight usually, my sister but this in my bag and I don't have any other shirt to wear so I'm stuck with this." He strutted and sighed to himself, trying to explain himself. Somewhere to the far east, a teasing sister laughed to herself feeling her plan go perfectly.

"Oooh~ I don't mind. Not at all~"

"Yaaaang~ stop embarrassing Jaune." Ruby finally joined the conversation after pushing her blush down.

"Don't give me that. You were looking as much as me." Yang said, causing her sister's blush to return. "~When did my little sister grow up and loose here innocence, where did I go wrong. ~ shew cried to herself in an overdramatic fashion.

Ruby deadpanned at this, deciding to tease her sister for once. "If you must know, I got hold of your scroll a few years back and you left your 'tabs' open." She returned dryly, shocking both Yang and Jaune, more so Yang since Ruby basically said she kept porn open on her scroll.

"RUBY! Don't say that out loud!" she blushed like never before, tackling her sister in embarrassment causing to two to start fighting.

Jaune couldn't help but laugh at the two's interaction, it reminded him of his interactions with his sisters, getting into fights and trying to embarrass each other.

"OK you two, stop before we get in trouble" he stated, pulling them apart.

The two just huffed causing him to laugh again, enjoying the twos little spat. 'Defiantly like my sisters' he thought fondly. Just then the sound of a candle being lit nearby pulled the trio's attention to the black haired and amber eyed girl Jaune saw on the Bulkhead.

"That girl..." Ruby said.

"You know her?" Yang questioned.

"Not really, she saw what happened this morning but left before I could say anything," Ruby answered

"I only recognize her from the bulkhead, it must have been just before I helped you up," Jaune added.

Yang remembering their earlier conversation before Jaune 'distracted' them came up along with a great idea. Standing up she grabbed Ruby's wrist pulling her along. "Well now's your chance! You can make more friends as now."

Panicked at trying to interact with someone who saw her explode she tried breaking free of her sister's grasp but was uneventful as Yang dragged her away. "Wha-! What are you doing?! Jaune! Help me!"

Jaune just laughed following, "This is gonna go well".

Blake had finally settled down after waiting for all the other girls to finish to make sure no one saw her ears, she planned to continue her current book. She did plan to read her favorite book to help calm her nerves but given all the eyes in the area, she thought it best not to read her 'adult literature' out in the open.

She had finally made it into Beacon even if it was not guaranteed now, she had a second chance to do the right thing after leaving the Fang a few weeks ago. While she felt they were doing good work for Faunus kind her ex-boyfriend and mentor, Adam Taurus, had been made the head of Vale's Branch a few months ago and he had started to become more violent, more so then High Leader Sienna allowed. While they targeted places that treated Faunus poorly, they never tried hurting innocent people. Politicians, CEOs, Judges, they were fair gain but people doing their jobs like workers were not targeted. A few did get killed but it was always 'for the cause' and a 'necessary sacrifice' for the Faunus kind but now Adam just wanted any human to burn along with all the corrupt ones. She was lucky to be on surveillance and espionage mission, so she didn't have to spill blood, while she was offered assassination missions she turned them down. Some think the Fang forces it member to kill all humans but only those that want to do tasks like assassinations and raids kill people. Blake wasn't a fan of taking lives, but it didn't mean others weren't.

Not wanting to continue she focused on the book in her hands, content on getting some light reading in before lights out. She was a few pages in when a pair of voices made their way over to her, the noise came for two girls making their way over to her, one joyous with a wave and the other in a grumble being dragged behind the other, the one being dragged looked like the girl from that morning that blew up with the Schnee. Pulling up the rear, not making much noise apart from a suppressed chuckle was a blond man in a tight shirt. She like most caught an eye full of him when he entered the room and given her taste in books, she like most fantasized about the boy. Blushing at seeing him up close, thus getting a better look she turned to the female blond to distract herself and as she was the one calling out and waving at her, it seemed she wasn't going to be reading in peace after all.

"Hello~, I think you two may know each other?" she said, arriving finally letting go of Ruby who crossed her arms and pouted at being dragged over. Jaune just laughed at her expense revising her pout as well.

"Aren't you that girl that exploded?" she questions, trying to confirm her suspicions.

"hehehe… yeah, my names Ruby" she reached out a handshake that Blake ignored, awkwardly pulling back she continued," but you can call me Crater… you can call me Ruby."

The slip of his given nickname caused a snort to make its way out of Jaune as he tried not to laugh getting a glare from Ruby and an eye roll from Yang. Blake was not understanding the joke just responded with an "OK" before going back to her book.

What are you doing?" Yang whispered.

"I don't know. Help me" Ruby whispered back. The two turning back smiling as Jaune continued to 'not laugh.'

"So, what your name?"

"*sigh* Blake."

"Well Blake, I'm Yang, Ruby's older sister! I like your bow."

"Thanks"

"it goes great with your… Pajamas!"

"Right…"

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"Nice night don't you think?" said ruby

"Yes. It's lovely. Almost as good as this book." Blake replied

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"That I will continue to read."

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"As soon as you leave." She finished

"Ye, this girl's a lost cause." Yang finished seeing the conversation going no were. Jaune during this was dying in the background of laughter, something Yang didn't take kindly to, taking a swing at him that he somehow dodged give how little air he had running through his lung.

"What's it about?" Ruby ask out of no were.

"What?" Blake asked not expecting the question.

"The book." She clarified, "does it have a name."

"Well, it's about a man with two souls. Each fighting for control of his body." She explained the premise.

"Oh, that sounds, interesting," Yang added joining back in after hitting final hitting Jaune, but her response sounded forced. Jaune joined into seeing she had finally calmed down. "Well, I think so." Earning a punch to the shoulder that stung quite a bit.

"I love books," Ruby continued" Yang used to read to me every night before bed. Stories of Heroes and monsters. Its one of the reasons I wanted to become a Huntress."

Blake found the idea of becoming a huntress due to children stories fun, and asked with a slight chuckle, "Why was that? Hoping you'll live a Happily ever after?"

"Well, I'm hoping we all do." Ruby expressed, "As a girl, I wanted to be just like those heroes in those books." She continued, determination dripping in her voice as she went on. "Someone who fought for what was right, and who protected people who couldn't protect themselves."

Blake was shocked by Ruby's conviction and naivety and couldn't help be exclaim her thoughts "That's, very ambitious for a child. Unfortunately, the world isn't the same as a fairy tale..." She explained, going melancholy half way through, having seen how unfair it was in her time in the White Fang.

Ruby just gave her a small smile and countered, "Well that's why were here… to make it better."

"Oooooh~ I'm So prodded of my Baby sister~~~!" Yang cried, grabbing Ruby in a bear hug. Ruby had gotten so serious in stating her dream it brought a tear to her eye.

Ruby, having her sister embarrass her after finally saying something cool got mad and punched her sister with a cry of "SHUT UP!" causing the two to start another fight.

Laughing at the two sisters. Jaune moved next to Blake to lean against the wall as they watch the two scrap. "She's right you know." He suddenly said drawing Blake's eyes who hadn't noticed him move next to her, to focused on the dust cloud in front of her.' Was that a cat screech?'

"Excuse me?"

"I said 'She's right you know'. Well, you both are. The world is a cruel place that can be unforgiving to just about everyone." Jaune stated remembering growing up in the shadow of his family, the years of ridicule from those who saw him like a stain on his family as well as saw him as the easy target. He took a breath and continued, "But if we give up hope and don't try to make the future a better place than wants to point? We'd just stagnate and never progress. So, it's best to walk forward and never stop reaching for a world with a happily ever after." he said, catching Blake's attention.

She had always tried to move forward, she thought by abandoning her family and stayed in White Fang she it would lead to peace. Her father had dropped leadership of the White Fang to the mayor over Menagerie, something she saw as him running away and had stayed with the fang believing it would lead the Faunus to a better tomorrow, but it had only led to bloodshed. Now after seeing how cruel the world is she had decided to run away, not wanting to live the life she had led up to that point and start anew. While understanding his point he couldn't see him achieving a world like the one he aims for. "But how do you expect to achieve a world like that? It not that easy to see the good in people and it's even harder to change people's mind when they start believing something." She said dejected, thinking of the horrors she had seen with the Fang being unable to see people putting their difference aside to bring peace. Unknown to her, her bow had moved down onto her head, something Jaune noticed. Putting the pieces together he could guess where Blake was coming from, having seen his sisters come from the same place.

"I don't expect to "win" in the end, I'm not expecting to solve all the worlds problems, no one person can." Jaune said bringing Blake out of her depression and back onto him "I'm not doing this because it's easy, god knows it's not and let alone because it works. Hundreds have tried before me and many will after." Jaune started, confusing Blake as he was just listing a load of complaints about being a huntsman, he hadn't even been fully accepted into Beacon yet! Before she could interject he continued, neither noticing Yang and Ruby had stopped fighting to listen to Jaune's speech.

"If I run away from being a huntsman if I don't become a hero like, in those children tales, good people will die because I wasn't there to help them." The line about running away caused Blake to jump a little but no one noticed, they were too focused on Jaune. "If I stand and fight, some of them might live. Maybe not many or for very long given the Grimm, but it will be at my very best, with everything I have until the day I die, and I would have it no other way. And that's an Arc Promise." He finished. 'But you're not at your best' the voice from earlier returned contradicting his words given what he planned to do during his time at Beacon. He elected to ignore it for not, aiming to lift Blake's spirits instead, seeing that as more important than pointing out his own faults.

No one said a word, who could after a speech like that, a few near by like the Green male had listed in, his partner had gone out like a light as soon as her head hit the mat. He was happy to hear there were people in the world that aim to help those in need no matter what the cost to themselves, while he did see it as a bit too suicidal he could get behind the message the blond was trying to give, he hopes the two would work together in the future.

The other person listening in was the Red-haired girl who he had waved to, she was also listening in, having dispended her followers a while ago under the pretense of going to sleep but like most had been "distracted" by the blond and had kept an eye on him since he started interacted with the two girls who were just fighting. She didn't expect him to give a speech to the black-haired girl, Blake she thinks if she caught her name right, to support the younger looking girls' dreams, it was a nice change to see people who do this because they want to help people. 'Maybe I should try to get him as a partner…'

"I never did get your name you know," Blake asked breaking the silence that had settled in.

Embarrassed he forgot to introduce himself the serious look he gave off vanished into an awkward teenager as he blushed and rubbed the back of his head. "Oh! ye, hehehe sorry. I'm Jaune." He said, reaching for a hand shake, one Blake returned with a small smile," Blake". She may have a long way to go but she hoped the two would be able to believe in her dream as Jaune and Ruby did. 'He's a bit of a dork but in a cute way' she thought, a blush coming to her as she realized what she thought. 'Where did that come from?'

Finally finishing the shake Ruby felt she should lighten the mood after such a heavy subject. "Hey! How come Jaune got a hand shake and I didn't?" she complained causing Yang to giggle, Blake to roll her eyes with a small smile and Jaune to smirk.

"It's 'cause my speeches are better than your's Rubes. Can't hold it against you since your so much more naive." He teased getting Ruby to blush at the nickname and to run up to him and start beating on his chest.

"Stop being a meanie, you're supposed to be on my side." She pouted drawing a laugh form the three older students.

"She's right Sir Knight, teasing her is my job," Yang added getting a groan from Ruby and a confused look for Jaune.

"'Sir Knight'?" he asked.

Yang just shrugged, "Yeah, given your speech about making the world a fairy tale and what your combat clothes look like, I will here by dub thee "Sir Knight"! she explained, going into a stereotypical Queen voice and acting as if she was knighting him.

Laughing at her explanation he followed along getting to a knee in front of her, "Then by your liege my Lady." He bowed extradigital getting the girls to chuckle with him joining in soon after. However, the fun came to an end as a piercing voice yelled out "What are you doing?!"

Turning to see who the voice was they all knew who it was, it was the person they had all had a confrontation with at some point in the day, Weiss Schnee in a while nightgown and her hair undone from its side tail. "Don't you know some of us are trying to sleep?!"

Seeing who it was her and Yang both called out at the same time "Oh Not you Again!". While pointing at each other.

Ruby, seeing that they were being loud shushed the two "Guys! she's right, people are trying to sleep!" she whispered.

"oh, NOW you're on my side?" Weiss antagonized.

"I was always on your side!" Ruby exclaimed with Yang starting to back her up.

Seeing the three get into an argument Jaune and Blake sighed at the same time causing them to look at each other and give a tired smile. Jaune dropped onto his bottom to sit next to her and so he could lean in and whisper to her. "I've seen how the world treats people like you, and it feels like its best just to hide away but in the end make sure to be proud of who you are." He whispered very quietly, almost un-hearable but due to her Faunus hearing and how close he was she did.

Eyes going wide her head snapped to look at him. 'HOW DID HE KNOW?! IT HASENT EVEN BEEN A DAY!' she started to panic, 'will he turn me in? will he black mail me? How'd he figures it out?' her mind was a buzz, trying to figure it out. It wasn't until he shook her shoulder that she focused on his face, he was just giving her a comforting smile, one she would expect from a close friend.

"How?" she could only whisper back. "I got a couple of people close to me who are like you, took a few beatings in their place to. Never regretted it." He explained getting a nod from Blake, knowing a human stood up for a Faunus make her think her own dream could come true, even a little at a time.

He continued "I'll keep it secret since it's your own to tell but to make it fair I'll tell you one of mine, deal?" he said, she was shocked at this, him giving up a secret about himself to balance out him knowing hers. She nodded, and he leaned a bit closer, cupping his hand to her ear," when I was younger, one of my older sisters used to stick me in a dress because she thought I looked cute." Hearing this she burst into giggles, unable to get the thought of him in a dress out of her head.

"And what are you to whispering about?" An annoyed voice asked bringing the two back to the room where it seemed Weiss had turned on them for an explanation.

"Just something personal between us, not to worry," Jaune said, standing back up.

Upon standing Weiss saw what he was wearing, having been brushing her hair when he first entered, so it was the first time she had seen his tight shirt and thus tight muscles. Going Scarlet in an instant she yelled at him in embarrassment, "WH-WH-WHAT ARE YOU WEARING!? I knew you were some deviant, but this is pure indecency!" she screamed, being louder than before.

"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Let's not go that far and besides, it was my sister that packed my bag, she did this as a joke!" he explained.

"More excuses you pervert! Don't look at me with your perverted eyes! And remove any thoughts of me from whatever little mind you have!" she continued, turning away and covering herself with her hands like she did earlier that day.

Seeing another argument starting Blake rolled her eyes in annoyance and picked up her candle holder next to her, it had been given the group light for a few minutes now since it was around 9:05 pm, she blew out the light sending the room into darkness causing Wiess to stop complaining and storm back to her sleeping bag. The trio gave her their own goodbyes as they made their way to their own sleeping bags leaving Blake in peace, finally. 'Seems Beacon will be a lot more interesting than I thought.'

And done, I will say a lot changed from my original plan for this chapter. At first, I planned to end at everyone being in their pairs, then at them getting launched but I kept writing so decided to just have it be the arrival. I know some would have liked some action, I want to add some in the least this chapter but in the end, just decided to leave it all for the next chapter that will be the whole initiation up to teams forming.

For his physique, think of someone like Natsu or Gary from Fairy Tale, not 'big'' but muscular. I wanted to add a bit about how Aura affects Hunters/Huntresses more and add to the type of things Jaune put himself through to try and catch up. While some hunters can have muscles like Sun it takes longer to achieve them since Aura gives such a large strength boost its harder to gain them and usually the power goes into a person's aura to use so only older hunter will really be seen having them.

Some people don't like to fact I'm making Jaune not use Excalibur but I'm hoping this chapter added a bit into the why he doesn't.

But if you want to know a few minor spoilers for those who want to know when he will start using it will be the end of the Jaundice Arc when it comes into play and becomes his main weapon. I plan this to be at around chapter 6 so not too long.

Someone also asked what version of Excalibur I'm using and its Saber's from Fate/Zero or UBW's Excalibur, not Proto's Excalibur. This is due to Saber/Artoria being his ancestor, so it was hers I plan to use, while Jaune dresses like Proto/Saber the sword is still the one Saber used so it looks like hers.

For the poll, I've moved it the end of Jaundice since It will take a while to get to the end of S1 and I could use a bit more wiggle room in the story. The results so far are quite one-sided to Haram at the moment but Pyrrha did get a few and is catching up.

Shout out to lord Rikudou for our talk on Jaune's Semblance, it was really insightful t discuss it with someone and I will be taking a few ideas to form that talk for this story but not all of them, thank you.

That's this chapter done and I how you all look forward to the next one where we will be going through initiation and will be seeing Jaune's Semblance in action.

Till then, Malluk.