First thank you to my brother who helped check the spelling and grammar. Sorry there is no fighting in this chapter, originally this was going to be one big one, but it took too long and so I broke it into 2. There will be other stand users, but most of them will be villains as I think giving team RWBY and the rest of team JNPR stands along with there own strengths and abilities would make them too overpowered and would take focus away from Jaune. Also all stands will be from Jojo's Bizarre adventure, no original stands. Hope you enjoy.
Jaune stared upon Cardin's unconscious body slumped against the wall across from him as the purple being floating above him disappeared back into his body.
For a solid 5 seconds the combat arena was completely silent. Jaune was well know for being the weakest student in Beacon, he hasn't won a single fight since the school year started and now all of a sudden a jacked up ghost comes out of him and processed to complete destroy a, at the very least average student into next week while constantly roaring the same word over and over again.
After the silence came the remarks disbelief from various students.
'Did that weakling's semblance just punched a guy into a wall'
'No way! He complete depleted his aura in a matter of seconds'
'No one has a semblance that strong especially after just unlocking it'
Jaune even heard an older student yell 'horry sheeet!'
Then came something Jaune didn't expect.
"whoohoo go Jaune." Jaune turned to the source of the voice to see his partner Pyrrha standing up out of her seat throwing her fists onto the air as she shouted her praise to Jaune. This was the first time someone genuinely congratulated him after a fight. What Pyrrha and his friends usually tried to do was just tell how much progress he has made or how much effort he had put into the fight mostly just to make him feel better about his loss, but this time Pyrrha's cheering was not out of pity, but out of joy that he was able to defeat his opponent and win the fight. It felt really good to say the least.
The rest of his team followed up Pyrrha's cheering, then the whole room started to congratulate him.
With all the positive attention Jaune couldn't help but blush and scratch the back of his head. As Jaune looked at the floor in an attempt to hid his bright red face he heard the click of Professor Goodwitch's heels as she walked towards him.
"Congratulations Mr. Arc not only have you had your first victory, but you also found your semblance." Professor Goodwitch said as Cardin's team hauled him to the infirmary in the background.
"Yeah, its great to finally have something good happen after being sick with that weird illness for the last week." Jaune said looking up at Miss Goodwitch with a wide smile and still scratching the back of his head.
"Weird illness?" Professor Goodwitch asked with one brow raised
"Oh its nothing, I just got sick almost immediately after getting a cut from this gold arrow at my uncle's house" Jaune said thinking nothing was very special about what happen.
"A golden arrow?" Professor Goodwitch said as Jaune noticed that for a split second Miss Goodwitch's eyes widened in shock before turning back to her natural emotionless expression.
"W-what? Is something wrong" Jaune said beginning to get worried that made maybe more to that arrow than he thought.
'Is the arrow, my illness and my semblance somehow connected' Jaune began to wonder how likely it was that this was the case until his train of thought was broken when Professor Goodwitch spoke up again.
"Nothing is wrong Mr. Arc" Professor Goodwitch said as she turned to address the rest of the class. "That will be the end of combat practice, unfortunately I have to speak to headmaster Ozpin" Professor Goodwitch then proceeded to walk to the headmaster's office.
As Jaune walked back to his team his mind began to wander. 'Did Professor Goodwitch have to leave to talk to Headmaster Ozpin because of what I've said, is it really that serious.' Juane thought to himself as sweat began to form on the side of his face. 'Even if it was that serious I'm sure they will take care of it, I mean who in their right mind would send students to solve the problem instead of the train professional working here, that would be crazy and highly irresponsible.' Jaune would have continued trying to pretend everything was ok but his foot hit something metallic. As Jaune looked down he saw the broken sword of his ancestors at his feet.
Jaune bent down to pick up the two halves of his weapon unable to do anything else as his mind was trying to process what his family would do to him when they find out.
"Jaune." Jaune was broken out of his trance to and saw his partner bending down in front of him a putting a hand on his should.
"I'm sorry what happen to your sword, I know it means a lot to you" Pyrrha said trying to comfort Jaune
"Thanks Pyrrha, but I don't know what I'm going to do, If my family finds out I'm dead" Jaune said, the anxiety in his voice was easy to hear
"Couldn't you ask someone to fix it" Ren interjected, hoping the be of use
"No, see crocea mors was forged using a very specific technique, if someone tried to repair the blade using a regular method the mark were the blade broke would be obvious. Only other Arcs or people an Arc trusted enough to reveal the technique know how to fix it properly." Jaune stated knowing the only people how could fix it would kill him as soon as they find out what he did
"So there nothing you can do?" Pyrrha asked worried for her partner
"Well maybe I might find something later but for I'm going to try and keep my mind off of it." Jaune said with a smile to try and reassure his friends.
"Yay! That's our fearless leader never letting anything get him down" Nora said with a massive grin of her face, as she was hanging off of Jaune neck while Ren tried to pull her off.
As team JNPR walked through the halls back to their dorm room team RWBY started catch up with them.
"Jaune!" Jaune recognized the voice's owner as Ruby Rose but as Jaune turned to greet her, but all he saw was a bunch of roses and at moment he felt the young reaper slammed herself into his chest to give him a hug
"Oof! Hey Ruby how have you been" Jaune said as he recoiled from the sudden shock of 5'2 girl being shot into his stomach.
"Never mind that why didn't you tell me you found your semblance" Ruby said as she let go and look up at him with her eyes and voice full of excitement that her first friend outside of her family final found his semblance.
"Well I just found it today" Jaune said as she looked away and scratched the back of his head out of embarrassment.
"Really! And your already so good at controlling it, it was sooo cool, it was all like 'ora, ora!' and then 'bam!' and then 'pow!' oh show me now" Ruby said jumping up and down on the spot talking almost too fast for Jaune to understand.
"Well I would but I don't know how I did it." Jaune said, as he couldn't show his friend even though she really wanted to see it.
"Well how did you use it the first time?" Jaune's teammate Ren asked thinking he might be able to figure out what caused Jaune's semblance to activated
Jaune put his hand to his chin; "Well I tried to punch Cardin in the face, but I missed and I remember feeling horrible that I put everything into that punch and it still failed" Jaune said feeling a bit sad after remembering the moment.
"Mmm, It could be that your semblance is controlled by strong emotions" Ren deduced.
"So I can only use it when I'm depressed, isn't that just swell" Jaune said with his shoulder slumped
"I said 'strong emotions' they might not have to be negative ones," Ren countered.
"But try to focus on how you felt when you weren't able to hit Cardin, maybe that will work"
"Alright"
Jaune closed his eyes and focused up the negative emotion for about 5 minutes until he opened one eye to check if anything happened, but unfortunately nothing happed. Jaune's shoulders slumped even farther at the unsuccessful attempted to active his semblance.
"Don't worry about it Jaune if you did once you can do it again, right Blake" Ruby's older sister Yang said as she gave him a slap on the back, which nearly caused him to topple over and turned to look at her partner.
"Yeah, sure" Blake responded not really listening to what was going on as she was busy reading her book.
"And besides, Weiss-cream still hasn't fully gotten her semblance working either" Yang continued, remembering that a part of the Schnee family semblance allows the user to summon defeated enemies.
"Hey! I have you know I'm doing just fine thank you very much" Weiss said after only really paying attention after her name was brought up.
"Although I am impressed on how powerful your semblance is," Weiss continued as she looked at Jaune.
Jaune was surprised and heart warmed that his crush gave him a sort -of compliment for the first time.
"Well maybe you and me can help each other use our semblances alone together." Jaune said winking at Weiss, standing up straight, hands on his sides and tried his best to look confident.
Weiss just walked past him saying, "Don't push it Arc" without even looking at him as she entered her dorm.
Jaune slumped back down sighing, "Worth a shot."
"Better luck next time lady killer" Yang said giving Jaune at pat on the shoulder as walked into her dorm followed by her sister.
"Bye Jaune" Ruby said giving a quick wave before entering the dorm and closing the door after her.
Jaune was about to do the same until he heard professor Goodwitch's voice from behind him. "Mr. Arc, the headmaster would like to see you."
"Am I in trouble?" Jaune asked partially worried they found out he faked his way into beacon
"You are not in trouble Mr. Arc the headmaster would just like you to confirm something, follow me" Professor Goodwitch turned around and headed down the hall, Jaune followed behind telling his team they didn't need to wait up for him.
They walked in silence while Jaune tried to plan how he was going to get his sword fixed without his family finding out. After 10 minutes of walking they reached the elevator to the headmaster's office. When they reached the top Jaune saw Ozpin sitting in his chair with a cup of coffee in his hand.
"Mr. Arc please take a seat" Ozpin gestured to the chair in front of his desk while Professor Goodwitch walked over to stand beside the headmaster.
Jaune sat down, looking out the window, more focused on his sword than the moment at hand.
"Mr. Arc, Professor Goodwitch tells me you were sick for a week before getting your… semblance, would you mind running me through what happen exactly?" Ozpin said before taking a sip of his coffee, unfortunately Jaune 's attention was still on his sword.
"My swor-, what?" Jaune said snapping back to reality after a couple of seconds of silence.
Ozpin sighed putting down his mug, intertwining his fingers, placing his elbows on the table and resting his chin on the back of his hands looking at Jaune. "Mr. Arc is there something else on your mind."
"Sorry it's just that my sword broke, it's been in my family for generations and it finally broke and I'm the one who did it an-"
"It was forged using a special technique, I am aware"
"You are?" Jaune asked confused not expecting the headmaster to know this as while the sword may have a lot of history to it, it is not some sort of legendary weapon.
"Yes, I also know of your uncle, he is on your mother side of the family, but he was very good friend with your father, is it possible he would a been told the technique?" Ozpin said waiting for a response
"How do you know that?" Juane said now even more confused.
"Your uncle does missions for me every once and a while, but you haven't answered my question yet"
"Well yes but-"
"Didn't he also spend nine years creating a rapier"
"Yeah, but he didn't spend the nine years just working on the sword, he also took up missions too, besides he recently took up a mission and won't be back for a couple of months at least." Jaune said looking down putting his hands on either side of his face, scared of the probability that his family would find out giving the amount time he would have to wait for a repair.
"Well, I could make a call and see if I can get your uncle to come back early." Ozpin said with a smile
"Really!?" Jaune half yelled in relief that his family won't try to castrate him
"Of course what is the point of being in a position of power, if you can't pull a few strings here and there" Ozpin said unaware of Professor Goodwitch trying to burn a whole into the back of his head with her eyes.
"Wait what?" Jaune said eyes widened in shock
"Never mind, it is late you should head back to your room, I'll call your uncle later" Ozpin said, immediately aware of how incriminating what he just said was and the death stare his colleague was giving him.
"Oh, ok goodnight Headmaster" Jaune said getting up and heading back to his dorm, waving goodbye as Ozpin waved back with a smile
As he opened the door to his room he saw his team fast asleep, he tiptoed to the bathroom to get ready for bed without waking his team.
As soon as the elevator door closed, Ozpin's smile disappeared as he looked down at his table now slightly worried
"So Mr. Arc has a stand" Glynda said breaking the silence.
"It would seem that way". Ozpin said as he typed the number of Jaune's uncle into his scroll.
The scroll rang for a while until a familiar voice was heared
"Ozpin is that you? What are calling at this hour of the day for, I'm suppose to be on a stealth mission you know"
"It is important, I don't know how to tell you this but your nephew has a stand"
"What! Jaune, but that's impossible unless, damn it he most have found the arrow, when I went out to get dog food"
"I told you to hide it well, how was your nephew able find it"
"I did hide it well, I put it under my mattress"
"…What" Ozpin was gripping his scroll almost shattering it to piece
"What? I thought it was the last place anyone who was looking for it would check."
Ozpin breathed in heavily and out slowly trying to contain his almost unyielding rage.
"I need you to return to vale"
"Why?"
"Since Mr. Arc now has a stand I think its best you explain the situation to him and to move the arrow to an actually hiding place"
"Yeah, yeah I'll take the first bullhead to vale, it will take a day or two"
"Good, I will speak to you soon Polnareff" Ozpin said hanging up
"What will we do in the mean time headmaster" Glynda remarked
"All we could do now it wait and hope for the best."
Little did the headmaster and professor know that there was a wanna to be fall maiden listening in to their conversation.
"Mm a stand? I should report to my mistress about this"
This take place after the dance so Cinder as hacked into beacon and would probably be able to listen to conversations through the cameras. Also I decided to make Polnareff Jaune's uncle as Polnareff is French and Jaune is based on Joan of arc who was French, also since Polnareff had a sister I thought she could be Jaune's mother, so in this universe sherry is alive.