What's this? A chapter early? Why's that? Is the poll over early? Why is he asking questions that I would ask him? Because I'm awesome! Hey guys, just thought you'd deserve an early access because of that earlier chapter I did on fair use. I also didn't expect as many people to fav, follow, and review so my mind was blown. So I'm proud to present! The Failed Knight!

"Well I am going to die." The failed knight said to himself as he was flying through the air. "You think they'll give you a normal test, maybe a writing exam, maybe a fight, hell a damn game of tag would have been great instead of literally shooting us into the air!"

Despite his rants he sighed. "If there is at least one thing I'll regret," He closed his eyes as he noticed he was nearing the forest with every passing second. "is that I'll never get another look at that beautiful white hair."

Oh faint wasn't done kicking him below the belt just yet.

"Huh?" Jaune opened his eyes when he heard the surprised gasp of a female. "Weiss?" He called as he collided with poor heiress knocking her down with him on top of her. They both groaned in pain but honestly Jaune was happy that he was still alive… Weiss… not so happy that he's alive.

"So," Jaune tried to play it cool as he placed a smirk on his face and dipped his head lower towards the ice-queen. Her face was blood red and Jaune assumed that it was because she was embarrassed but it was because Weiss was wondering if she could possibly get away with murder… "I always knew you'd fall for me."

The redness from her face vanished in a instant. Because the pickup line was bad? No. Well it was… just the wrong situation. "You're supposed to say that if I fall on you… not the other way around." She growled through gritted teeth.

Jaune let out a chuckled, "Well then I guess I fell for you." He tried to play it off. "I guess this means we're partners."

Weiss cocked her head at first but her eyes quickly widened at the realization. "I know right? Speechless I bet-ow!" He cried as her foot connected to his stomach launching him off her. Now the duo were sitting across from each other. "This can't be happening, this can't be happening." She repeated to herself as if it was just a bad nightmare. To further try and 'wake herself up' she placed both her hands on the side of her head to shake her head left and right.

"It's okay, it's okay." Jaune tried to calm her down by rubbing her back with his right hand. "You're with me now, snow angel." He received a hard elbow to his abdomen. Weiss really hated that nickname that he for some reason felt the need to call her.

"How can this be happening to me?" She covered her eyes with her hands as she wondered where she went wrong. She was supposed to team up with Pyrrha! Not… Sir-goof. She turned her head to see the failed knight down in the fetal position as he complained of the pain she inflicted on him. First that red hooded dolt, then that no mannered ribbon girl, the dolt's hot headed sister and now!

"Are you okay?" Jaune tapped her on her shoulder. More like poked as he was getting as much distance from her as possible. Saying she was angry… was an understatement. Not only was her face red but she was gripping her hands so tightly that they were turning paler than they already were. Not to mention that she was literally STEAMING mad out of her ears.

The heiress coughed into her fist as she stood up and said, "I do not believe that this partnership will work out. Good day." She turned to leave.

"But… But Snow-Angel." Jaune reached out to her.

Weiss walked about fifteen feet away from Jaune but stopped in her tracks when she saw… "I have the power!" She saw a orange haired girl yell as she rode the back of a Ursa who seemed to want someone to put it out of its misery. "Poor Grimm…" Never did the heiress believe she would feel bad for a Grimm.

So insane hammering over the top girl? Or Flirty lame knight? She weighed her options. She sighed as she made her decision and walked back to Jaune who was in the same spot as he was before. "You came back!" He cheered as she dragged him along with her.

The lotus ninja sighed as he made his way through Emerald forest. He knows something is stalking him and was ready to attack. The question was when? He didn't want to drag this on any longer, if it was Nora or any other student following him they would've identified themselves to him by now.

His aura usually never lets someone get the drop on him.

Then he heard something. A hissing sound, from behind him!

Quickly a giant snake Grimm called a King Taijitu slithers in front of Ren and hisses right before lunging at him for a bite. It may be able to do serious damage to me if it gets a good hit. Luckily for him though he's very agile and he dodge with a series of backflips successfully avoiding its first attack.

After a short time, he tried to anticipate its next attack by leaping into the air but it wasn't fooled and it lunged at him. He couldn't dodge it but he managed to hold up a guard and blocked the attack though he was knocked back a good distance.

The snake-like Grimm immediately coils itself around Ren, prompting the Lotus ninja to draw his StormFlower.

The King Taijitu continued to coil around him in an attempt to smother him, Ren leaps upwards and narrowly escapes the snake's attack. While in midair, he fires many rounds from his weapon, and when the Grimm retaliates, he kicks it in the face knocking it over.

As the Grimm starts to get up from the hit, Ren closes in and cuts it with one of the blades on his StormFlower. But the Grimm manages to get up anyways, and gains some distance before making a fast charge at Ren. Ren jumps over the strike, which was so fierce the ground that it struck instead created a crater. Using the momentum from his jump, Ren lands on the King Taijitu's head, impaling it with both bladed ends of StormFlower seemingly ending the beast.

It was the worst time to let his guard down however since at that moment the white end of the King Taijitu became active and attacks Ren, forcing him to gain distance. At that moment both heads of the King Taijitu became active, and moved in union to kill Ren. Ren dodged their next attack and jumped onto them using their smooth scales as a makeshift slide, Ren moves around the coiled mess, dodging any attacks they tried to get him with and getting off plenty of shot's with his pistols.

Ren couldn't dodge forever, the white head finds an opening and hits Ren out of the air also causing him to drop his pistols. Immediately following up, the black head dives at Ren with its mouth open. Ren reacted quick however and blocked the attack with his hands using his aura.

Ren grabbed the fangs in the Grimm's mouth and tears both fangs right out of their sockets. Despite its pain the black head attempts another attack at Ren, but the hunter easily dodges and stabs one of the fangs into the King Taijitu's eye. Ren then gave the Grimm a vicious palm strike charged with Aura, to the fang in the creature's eye. The force from it causes the fang to act like a bullet surging through the King Taijitu's skull utterly destroying it and effectively killing the black side. Picking up StormFlower he quickly charges towards the white end.

"I can't believe I'm with you." Weiss said aloud as the hunters-in-training made their way through Emerald forest.

"You kind of said that already."

"That's because I still can't believe it!" She screamed at the top of her lungs. She began to take a series of deep breaths. "Maybe this won't be so bad." She was desperately trying to convince herself. Her eyes found themselves looking at the symbol on Jaune's shield. "That's an odd symbol."

Jaune looked at his shield curiously. "Oh that, yeah I guess it is." He shrugged. "These are Crocea Mors, a hand-me-down from my great-great-grandfather, who used it in the Great War."

Weiss couldn't lie that she was actually a little interested. "I take it you don't have much respect for it." Referring him simply calling it a 'hand-me-down'.

He nodded his head. "Exactly, I wanted to create my own weapon." He stared at Weiss' rapier. "To make it cool like how yours is."

"Then why not make one?"

"I guess… It just wouldn't feel right?" He didn't even know the answer. "My family is full of great warriors and they had this weapon to. I guess I don't want to disappoint."

"Hmm…" Weiss placed a hand under her chin. If he's from a family of warriors, then maybe he won't slow her down!

Weiss pushed a tree branch out of their way but it swung back and clocked Jaune in the face knocking him on his back. Or not…, Weiss thought.

"Ow…" He groaned but smiled when his Snow-Angel offered him a hand up which he accepted.

"You're bleeding." Weiss said as she noticed the cut underneath his left eye.

Jaune brought his hand to the cut to see that she was right, he was bleeding. "It's only a little bit." There was barely enough blood to even get on his fingers at all.

"Why didn't you protect yourself with your aura?" Weiss questioned.

"My what?" Jaune raised an eyebrow.

"Aura." She repeated.

"Bless you." He misheard her.

"Jaune…" Kill her now… "Do you know what aura is?"

"Pssh," He was currently failing at convincing her… before he even tried to convince her! "Of course I know… do you?"

Weiss shook her head but decided that it would be best if she explained. "To make a long story short you dolt, aura is a manifestation of our soul. Pretty much everything with a soul can use mana, even animals."

"Monsters?"

"No." Weiss shook her head. "They don't have souls."

"Well what's mana for? I mean I obviously know what it's for but… I'd just like to see if you-"

"Do you want me to tell you or what?" Weiss barked getting annoyed.

"Yes please." He bowed his head.

"We use mana for things like defense, offense, healing, and we can even unlock the aura of others whose aura is still locked."

Suddenly he gasped. "It's like the force!" He squealed

"The what?" She cocked her head.

"Oh wait," He gave it more thought. "Never mind." He coughed in his hands. "So… why don't you try that unlocking aura thing on me? You know… for practice?"

Weiss' eyes widened. "Oh my god… you don't have aura do you?"

Jaune merely again tried to play it off as if he did and if it was even possible it was even more obvious that he was lying than before. "This is my life now…" She face palmed.

She beckoned for Jaune to come closer. "You'll only be trouble if you don't have access to aura. Close your eyes and concentrate." She ordered.

Jaune happily complied and when he closed his eyes he puckered his lips and leaned towards her. Weiss blocked it with a single finger. "Not that you, dolt!" She screamed.

"Sorry." He scratched the back of his head nervously.

Weiss sighed as she made her second attempt at him. She rested her right palm on his cheek and the duo began to glow as she spoke, "For it is in passing that we achieve immortality. Through this we become a paragon of virtue and glory to rise above all. Incident and distant unbound by death, I release your soul and by my shoulder protect thee."

"Snow-Angel?" Jaune said in concern as Weiss grasped her knees when she finished speaking.

"Don't… call me… that.?" She said between breaths. "I just used my aura to unlock yours. Right now though, it's completely yours."

Jaune looked at his hand to see that he was now surrounded in a white light. "I… feel better. Thank you, Sn-Weiss."

"You… have a lot of it." Weiss' eyes widen as she placed a hand where his cut used to be.

Jaune smiled for it seemed like for the first time she was admitting that she as impressed by him about something. It was also pretty nice to know that he had a lot of this 'mana' or whatever it's called.

"So... can I touch your face now?"

Weiss' answer was a hard jab to his crotch… his aura was unlocked now so he'll be fine… maybe.

"Oh my god, I hit that poor bird!" Ruby panicked as she flew through the air. "How could I hit it? It was just doing its thing and flapping to his little bird house I bet. I never been good with animals besides dogs. It's like that time dad told me how my turtle ran awa-"The red reapers eyes widen. "Turtles don't run… DAD!" She screamed.

After she was done with her little rant on her father another thought crossed her mind. "First person we make eye contact with is our partner? So if I see Ren before his friend then my points will go up by thirty! Take that sis! Those dating sims do help!"

She had a plan and she's not afraid to use it! Or how to even start it now that she thinks about it. She was like one of the last people to get blasted… What if he already found someone? What if that someone's Nora or Yang?!

"Wait a minute… is that?" Ruby looked to see someone wearing green as she descended to the Emerald forest. "Ren!" She shouted.

"Huh?" The Lotus ninja said as he looked up to the sky exhausted. He had just token down that giant Grimm and if that wasn't enough, a group of Ursas had found him but he managed to take care of them. "Ruby?" He tilted his head as he saw a mess of black and red descend towards him.

"Partneeeeeeers!" She cheered with a smile on her face as she got closer. This was her perfect chance. Fall towards him, have him catch you, ask him on a da-… maybe not that last one but… who cares, damn it!

She closed her eyes to enjoy the moment as much as she could. It was like a dream come true. Not a Nora or a Yang in sight. Just a bunch of dead Grimm… still very romantic to her.

"Ruby!" This time Ren called out in concern. Ruby didn't understand at first but when she opened her eyes she soon found out what was up. She may have… she had definitely been fantasy some bits. She wasn't landing at Ren, she was landing in his general area but not to him. Instead she was landing into the tree he was resting at!

"Ahhhhh!" She screamed and a loud thud went off as her face connected to the wood. She slowly removed her face from the tree, leaving a perfectly shaped 'Ruby-face-mark'. That's when she fell straight down.

"I got you." Ren said as he caught her bridal style.

Ruby smiled. She wasn't in pain… well her pride was but you can always kill a bunch of Grimm and get that back right?

Ren chuckled at her. She reminded him of Nora with her crazy situations. "I guess this makes us partners."

YES! Is what Ruby wanted to scream. But she needed to make herself look cute. She had to make sure he doesn't see her as some 'little sister'. So she settled for giving him a big smile to show that she was happy with the match up.

Ren's eyes widened at first and he laughed soon after.

Ruby cocked her head in confusion. "It's nothing… nothing at all." Ren calmed himself with a series of deep breaths. "Shall I continue to carry you?"

Ruby answered with a nod and made herself comfortable in his arms by snuggling into his chest as he began to walk them in a direction.

Although Ruby wouldn't notice for a while that the reasons for Ren's laughter was all the tree bark that she has not yet noticed stuck in her teeth… why ruin her moment?

Hey don't forget to Fav, Follow, and review if you wanna keep up with where this story goes! Well it appears that we see two different groups team up but who's going to be in their final group? Well the poll is ending 4/2/2016 so if your choice isn't winning it's time to try and get them out there :P. Oh and since I really enjoy writing this, I wouldn't mind if you guys gave suggestions on things you'd like to see. Like interactions between certain people and events for different couples :P idk you guys do tho. Ill see you later :D.