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Chapter 2: Butterfly Beats

"Today is not my day…" stumbling off to the side, Jaune started vomiting out his stomach once again.

If he continued to do this, he would probably get a horrible nickname like 'vomit boy'…if he hadn't already gotten it by letting out his lunch on the shoes of that pretty blonde. He was thankful enough that the girl didn't beat him to a pulp. He knew that shoes were one of the things that girls liked a lot from his sisters.

Still, it only took him a minute for his body and stomach to stabilise into something that he could deal with. That minute was also the amount of time for everyone else on the airship to leave without him, going ahead.

"More importantly, where…is everyone?" he wondered. There were people here and there but the main crowd that were new students weren't anywhere he could see.

Paling slightly, he realised that he was already lost and it hadn't even been a minute since he had stepped into Beacon! What was he going to do now? Was he going to be kicked out because he couldn't follow everyone?

"Damn it! I can just figure out where to go on my own" he growled, though it was a weak one. He had never been the type of person to just blame others for his own problems. Usually those problems were because of him and everyone knew it.

Therefore, looking up at the large building at the centre of his vision, he figured that if there was anywhere new students would gather to, it would be towards the overly large main building of Beacon.

But then, something caught his vision.

"Wait is that a girl there?" he saw a girl with some red cape or cloak in the middle of the path doing nothing. Perhaps she would know the way to the other new students. It wasn't like everyone he would meet would be lost or new students like him.

Though he had to question on what she did to end up in a cater like that. Were there random caters around Beacon?

"Hello there" a voice next to him caused him to turn his head from the red-girl to a stunningly beautiful woman. She was a bit shorter than he was which was a bit surprising but more importantly he could see the curves of her body and her breasts!

His jaws dropped slightly seeing such a person would talk to him of all people.

"H-Hello" he meekly replied.

While he was more or less used to talking to girls thanks to his sisters, he still struggled to talk to people outside his family in general without making a fool of himself. That and he was a teenager who was in the presence of someone very attractive even if she wasn't exactly his type.

"Do you perhaps know where new students are supposed to go? I'm afraid I'm a bit lost" she asked.

The good thing is that she had enough confidence that he knew the answer. The bad news, he actually didn't.

"I…actually don't know either. I'm a bit lost as well" he admitted with shame.

Jaune was expecting the attitude of this woman to change when he said that. One of his sisters mentioned there were some girls who used their looks to get men to do what they want and if they can't…

"Oh, my apologises then. Would you like to search together?"

It was like a dream came true. But the red-cape girl looked as lost as he was and he couldn't call himself Jaune Arc if he let a girl like that alone…even if it meant angering another one.

"Sorry but I have some business before that" he said trying not to express how much he did want to search around with her.

The woman pouted before sliding her hand off his shoulder, "Too bad."

A few seconds later, the blonde remembered what he was supposed to do. Think about helping red-cape girl and not the fact that he blew a chance to be with a hot woman. Think about helping red-cape girl and not the fact that he blew a chance to be with a hot-damnit!

Why the hell did he do that?

He could've talked to her! Even gotten her scroll number! He wasted such a chance.

"Damn I'm an idiot…this is the reason why even my little sis mocks me when I fail" he grumbled.

Still, if a woman like that could talk to him (and possibly flirt with him), what was anything else?

Hell he might be able to flirt and succeed next time round.

-o-

It was official. This was probably the worst day of her life recently. Not only had Yang disappeared to catch up with her 'friends', she had accidentally bumped into this crabby girl before accidentally blown up from dust alighting.

"Oh gosh, I hope Yang never hears about this" she moaned. She knew her sister would tease her for this for nights.

Worse, it wasn't even her fault that the last explosion happened! All she did was cause herself to be flung into that white-haired girl's luggage before she started berating her for no reason! So what she was a bit young for Beacon, it wasn't like the Grimm would care how old you were when they attacked you.

Then that girl took out one of her dust vials and started waving it into her face causing her to sneeze. A sneeze caused a dust explosion. If her luggage was secured as that girl said it was, the damn vial wouldn't have been loose enough that a sneeze could make it blow up! She didn't even help her up and just left!

Still, the black-haired girl that name herself as Blake seemed nice enough that she wasn't against Ruby but she had casually left as well. Ruby had some hope that she might become friends with her with time as well. But not that Weiss person.

"Geez, it makes me angry just thinking about it" she clenched her fist before looking tired.

Not only did she not make any friends, she made a negative friend. An enemy not even an hour on Beacon. This…really couldn't have gotten worse.

"Hey I'm Jaune" a tall blonde approached her and lent her a hand. For some reason, he seemed familiar with him.

"Hello" she replied pulling herself up. At least he was nice enough to help her up. Unlike some people, it looked like there were still people who at least acted like gentlemen. Well, gentlemen that would like to do things to her according to Uncle Qrow.

Not that he would tell her what they would want to do to her by acting now.

Smiling in a goofy way, the older boy introduced himself more formally ending in a slight bow, "Well the name's Jaune Arc. Short, sweet, rolls off the tongue, ladies love it."

"Do they now?" Ruby couldn't help it. She giggled before she realised where she recognised him.

"Aren't you the guy who threw up on the ship?" she asked. The blonde looked startled at those accusations and she was a bit interested in his reaction to that. Not to mention she was a bit curious on why would be that bad with air-sickness that he would practically spend the flight near trash-cans.

Jaune groaned placing his face in his palms, "Please don't tell me that a bad nickname already spread for me."

She gave him a sympatric look but still said, "Sorry, you're forever known as 'Vomit Boy' as long as you reside in Beacon" while patting his shoulder…after toeing up higher. Why was he was tall?

Even so, she caught the glint that appeared in his eyes before he shot back, "In that cause you would be known forever as 'Cater Face' then. Don't think I didn't see how you manage to somehow explode like that"

Her face suddenly turned red from both embarrassment and rage to that comment.

"You…saw that?"

"Yep" he grinned, "Never going to let you forget that as well. It's not every day that I have ammo against other people."

"Ammo?" Ruby tilted her head slowly in confusion, "What does having ammo have anything to do with this? Oh are we talking about our weapons now?"

Jaune looked startled but seemed to agree with a nod.

Seeing the confirmation Ruby almost squealed with glee before bringing out her precious weapon in her hands to show off to Jaune. He looked curiously at it before asking, "So…what is it?"

"This-" she grinned before pressing the trigger to shape-shift it into its scythe mode with the blade sticking out and piercing the ground with ease, "Is Crescent Rose. My precious weapon that I made with blood and sweat. Took me years to properly configure it into something I can use to hack Grimm apart."

"That's…" Jaune gulped and Ruby could tell that he was surely impressed, "Is a very big weapon. How do you actually move it without swinging your body with it?"

Oh, that was a question she got more than she could care.

"Simple. I trained in using it all my life which helps a lot. Strength training is important for using a cool weapon like this. Besides that-" she pointed at the end of the weapon, "It's also a customizable high impact sniper rifle. I use my shots to push my body faster and faster forward before I cut into things. I'm pretty sure I've exploded a Beowolf's head with a single shot of this baby before."

Now Jaune was stunned which was a good sign that he recognised her sheer awesomeness. She decided to tell him more of what she could do with her beloved weapon. Oh…wasn't that what friends do?

"Jaune are we friends now?" she suddenly asked. Ruby knew that this was out of nowhere but she needed something to confirm what she thought. She really didn't have many or any friends aside from her sister after all.

All she got was a numb nod back.

Were…they friends now?

YES!

Her first friend and it wasn't even an hour yet. Wait till Yang hears about this. It'll show her that even she can make friends on her own.

"Yay!" her shout seemed to have snapped her friend out of the trance he seemed to be in. She didn't blame him. Crescent Rose would naturally make others stunned like that. Ruby was glad she chose a good friend.

"Anyway, what kind of weapon do you have?"

Jaune flushed before showing off a sword in a sheath before explaining, "Nothing as complicated as your weapon. Crocea Mors is just a normal sword with a sheath that doubles as a sword. A family heirloom from the Great War actually."

Inspecting the weapon, Ruby was surprised that the blade was still this polished with no rust. But as a weapon from that era, it hadn't been integrated with some of the more modern addition, namely guns.

Almost every single melee weapon these days also doubled as ranged weapons or the other way around. Jaune would be of a bit of a disadvantage if he didn't get a new weapon. Although that may just be because he was that much better in close combat than the average Hunter-in-training.

"Nice. Not many people just use a sword and shield these days but the basics are pretty important" she said.

"Ah…yeah" for some reason, Jaune seemed to be really hesitant for some reason. Ruby quickly, using her fifteen year old mind figured the reason why.

He was…embarrassed. The sheer awesomeness of Crescent Rose made his own weapon look inadequate! Oh now, even though his Crocea Mors didn't have much on her own beloved, it was still a fine weapon.

She was quite sure it was made from rare metals and that along with the craftsmanship being the core reason it hadn't rusted till now!

"Don't worry about it Jaune!" she said full of confidence, "Crocea Mors is a good weapon to have."

"Yeah" he agreed, "And your Crescent Rose I think is the most frightening weapon I have ever laid my eyes on."

She blushed to the praise and slapped his arm slightly.

"My, you're just saying that. Do you think I'm cute with it?" she teased. Ruby grinned the same way her sister did when she toyed with boys her age. Although she didn't have her figure, she did have her decent looking face!

She remembered something about getting a boy around her figure this way.

"Of course, you are pretty cute" Jaune nodded which only caused Ruby to blush even more. Abort! Abort! She had no idea how to deal with someone complimenting her this way. She started squirming in place before the blonde looked at her strangely and started reaching out to-

"What do you think you're doing?" Yang Xiao-Lang growled grabbing Jaune's arm before squeezing. Jaune winced at the grip and looked like he was about to explained but her sister didn't let him.

"Ruby" Yang turned her eyes to her, "Do please be careful. There are some people who would want to take advantage of you."

"But he wasn't! All he did was call me cute and complimented me!" she protested.

Seeing her sister's eyes flash red…Ruby realised she may have made a mistake. Jaune started screaming just as Yang was about to beat him to a pulp with just her fists and Ruby immediately moved to save him.

"Wait-JAUNE!" she shouted.

Activating her semblance, she quickly and barely managed to grab him out of harm's way. The fist barely missed him and she managed to save her friend from being beaten up. She knew more than most that Yang was actually quite strong even for Hunter standards.

Unfortunately, her new friend still had his sword in his hand and the sheath nicked Yang's hair by a centimetre when he was waving it around while she was grabbing onto him.

"…You"

Ruby gulped to see that Yang's eyes turned completely blood red and her hair was on fire now. Crap. Her sister was in her enraged state. Every time anything managed to even harm her hair in the slightly, Yang would go berserk.

And although she had never outright attacked Ruby even in such a state, she wasn't going to bet that she wouldn't harm Jaune just because he was in her arms right now. Therefore she did the most logical thing she knew.

"Jaune! Run!" she screamed while pushing the blonde away while using her own body as a shield.

She hoped that her sister wasn't angry enough that she would even attack her.

-o-

Cinder looked in amusement when three people entered the halls where the other students gathered quite late. Two of them were blonde and the last was wearing a red cloak. But the most noticeable thing about the trio was that the male blonde was burnt in several places while the other female blonde was apologising to the other two quite frantically.

Of course, she knew what happened. She helped cause it to be after all.

Jaune Arc seemed to get it in his head that it was a fine idea to flirt with the 15 year old, prodigy Ruby Rose not knowing that her older sister, Yang Xiao-Long was quite protective of her. Of course, this would normally lead to the older blonde to threatening her potential tool but then young Ruby decided to 'save' her new friend.

That led to poor Jaune cutting a bit of Miss Xiao-Long's hair off causing her to become even more enraged. The next ten minutes was then filled with explosions, flames, screaming (from Jaune) and lots of destruction that she wouldn't be surprised if they would be punished for it later.

As a naturally talented person, she spotted this happening a mile away. Quite literally since she was spying on what was happening and she knew a few others were watching the scene play out as well. It was too bad none of them saw the 'potential' of the Arc. He was surprisingly adept in surviving what would be his immediate death if a single blow from Miss Xiao-Long hit him.

Without Aura, he would've at best gotten through with broken bones and crushed organs for months if he somehow managed to survive the trauma.

She positioned herself to hear more of their conversation.

"Yaaaang…did you have to try and kill Jaune like that?" the young Huntress whined. She noted that even her cloak had some burn marks in several places. Probably by being too close to her sister's attacks.

"Hey! It's not my fault I thought he was taking advantage of you" Yang (Thinking her as Miss Xiao-Long was tiring) protested. She swung around and hugged the back of Ruby's body. Jaune looked very interested in the sight for a moment before looking away when he got stares in return.

Cinder grinned seeing how much easier it would be to manipulate him if that was what distracted him. The sisters were actually attractive but she was much more even if she lost slightly to the sheer figure the blonde had.

"I'm sorry?" Jaune said scratching his cheek, "Have you seen the weapon she carries. I almost pissed myself just by seeing it. That is probably the most dangerous and lethal weapon I have seen."

Both of them looked at Ruby who was cuddling her weapon, disturbingly enough. Even Mercury wasn't that…desperate to do the same to his metal legs.

"Hehehe. Crescent Rose is magnificent in every way" Ruby purred.

"Ruby I think that wasn't a compliment…aaaaand now I'm starting to think you misunderstood what you think Mr Blonde here said to you. And I'm starting to think that you're first boyfriend will be your weapon and not an actual person" said Yang with a deadpan expression.

Ruby huffed before declaring, "Crescent Rose is naturally female. Elegant and lethal, just like me."

"I am questioning my choice in friends" Jaune looked very disturbed now. Cinder was too and that was saying a lot. She had seen many obsessions that went from collecting virgin girls to swimming literally in gold but one that involved a weapon that deeply was a rare thing.

"I'm questioning the sanity of my sister. I do wonder what you said to make her think you said she was cute" she shot a look to Jaune.

"He actually told me I was cute" Ruby admitted quietly.

"…."

"That I admit but that was only after she showed me that weapon and asked if I thought she was cute" he raised his arms in surrender. Yang was shooting Jaune another glare and was cracking her knuckle threateningly.

"You're a bit too easy to threaten" deadpanned Yang.

"Lots of reasons for that. Haven't actually gotten many chances to do things without someone pushing me around my whole life" Jaune sighed.

That comment…actually boded well for Cinder if she managed to partner with this Jaune Arc. He was weak, weak-minded and was easily enough manipulated for her plans. And from she could derive, he was also used to being pushed around that it wouldn't be new for him if she commanded his every move.

That way, even keeping her true age from him was simple. Was she focusing on her age too much? Not at all. She was perfectly within the age range of the other students here.

And compared to the other dozen people who also forged their transcripts into Beacon this year, he was the better partner as far as she was concern. Most of the others would eventually figure out her schemes due to proximity.

She would've made up her mind on her choice now if she hadn't before.

Cinder Fall was going to become Jaune Arc's partner in Beacon because of how incompetent and easily manipulated he was…and wasn't that a sad thought.

-o-

Pyrrha Nikos woke up and prepared for the morning. Slipping out of her sleeping bag, she unpacked her clothes and armour before bringing her sleep-wear into the bathroom to change. Having a massive sleepover in a room full of strangers was a first to her and it was an interesting experience.

There were a couple of males that wanted to 'pick her up' but fortunately most of them were deterred when she refused them. The rest were further deterred by the sheer number of Huntresses in the area she was sleeping at. Still it didn't stop some of the girls to try and pick up some of the boys. Really, she didn't blame them for acting like this. This was probably the last time in a long time that they would be allowed to act like this.

While they were all training to become Hunters, they were still teenagers.

And at Beacon, they were expected to become something more than mere teenagers. With the power of Aura and many skills, they were expected to become the protector of people. They were expected to become Hunters that would safe-guard the world for the next generation. There was no room for 'fun' when you stepped into such a world.

It was one of her hopes that if she became a Hunter, those later associated with her would not care of whom she was before. So far, it was good. While the other girls she slept near didn't actively seek her, she really didn't connect to them. Make-up and other girly things were abandoned at a young age to train to get stronger.

"Still, I hope that my future team will be people I can relate to" she mused.

Hopefully none of the people she would be on a team with for the next four years would be bad people. Despite being the best Academy in the world for Hunters, there were still people who would hide their intentions to gain power for their own gains. Even in training, she feared that there were some that thought themselves above others already.

She did not like the look of that one girl with a too sharp gaze. She too was peering at the group from yesterday that made a racket.

She shook her head. There was no need to antagonise something based off what her impression of them was. The reality might be that the person she saw was in fact one of the kindest people she would ever meet. Still, Pyrrha suspected that there was something else going on and it was one of her carefully honed instincts that told her so.

Or it was her hormones. The unfortunate fact was that they were all still teenagers. Even she couldn't help but to let her eyes move across some of the boys 'playing' around just before the sleepover without shirts. Sure she was serious with her training and goals, but being at the age where emotions were most heighted, she suspected she would struggle to control certain urges sooner or later.

One would think that it would be the opposite.

In fact, it was just like what happened to that decent looking tall blonde that somehow managed to be in the middle of an argument of a pretty white-haired girl against a busty blonde girl and what seemed to be her younger sister despite the differences in their looks. He couldn't even get a word in even though he seemed like the decent kind.

'Still, it was surprising to think that the blonde girl and short one are sisters. If I didn't know better I would've though the blondes were related instead' she thought. Right now she was brushing her teeth.

It was too bad she didn't catch their names; she had a feeling that they would've been people who would've accepted her as she was and not what she was famous for. It was quite an argument that they had. Pyrrha was sure that almost everyone heard the shouting.

Packing up her things, she decided to store her things in her locker until she would have a room with the rest of her team.

But when she got there…

"So Pyrrha, have you given any thoughts on whose team you would like to be on? I'm sure everyone is eager to be united with such a strong well known individual such as yourself" said a familiar white-haired girl was standing next to her locker.

Wasn't she one of the girls that had gotten into a shouting match?

She believed…her name was Weiss? She was related to the SDC, probably a member of the Schnee family if she recalled.

"Hmm, I'm not sure. I was planning on letting the chips fall as they may" she replied. She wasn't good with these kinds of people. Still, it is rude to not respond to her so Pyrrha spoke the first thing that came to her mind.

"Well…I was thinking maybe we could be on a team together" said Weiss.

Oh, so this was what this was for. As someone who is famous for being strong, there was probably no more coveted partner if you were to base on combat skills alone. Considering that she was as strong as perhaps even the upper year students, it wasn't surprising that some would come to her with that kind of intention.

It seemed that with no one else asking for her for this, she had falsely believed that no one would come up to her with such a request. Still, Pyrrha naturally slipped into a smile like always. She was trained to smile and talk politely to people.

"Well that sounds grand" she absently replied. She really didn't care and at the same time suspected Beacon had a method to prevent people from being forced to partnered up with those they don't like.

It wouldn't do for a team to die because a pair didn't get along with each other.

"Great!" the other girl looked extremely happy for this answer.

Pyrrha restrained her disappointment and still had hopes that someone would answer her unsaid plead for being treated as a normal person.

"You! You're the mean person Ruby mentioned!" a voice to the side called. Both girls turned and said a familiar blonde person in white chest-armour who was pointing his finger at Weiss.

"What? You again!" Weiss looked confused for a moment before her face turned enraged.

"Hello" Pyrrha waved politely.

"Yeah yeah", the boy seemed to ignore her with a dismissive wave before paying his attention to Weiss, "So Weiss, I couldn't but to hear that you're trying to get this poor girl into your team."

"So what? It has nothing to do with you" she snared with a glare.

"It may be because I know that people would want to be on a team with me. Still I don't mind if you want to be on my team Snow Angel" he flexed his arm. He was quite confident at least.

…And he seemed to have a strange relationship with her already. Was he on good or bad terms with her? He also seemed to have an impressive that teams were made up of only partners.

Pyrrha decided to correct him, "Actually I think the teams are comprised of four students each so-"

"You don't say" he quickly cut her off before approaching her, "Well hot-shot, play your cards right and you may end up on the winning team."

A small hope appeared in Pyrrha's heart. Perhaps he didn't know who she was.

Weiss immediately moved to move both of them away from each other.

"Jaune is it? Do you have any idea who you are talking to?" Weiss asked. That hope increased with the confused look on 'Jaune.'

"Not in the slightest Snow Angel" he replied smoothly.

Weiss seemed to smirk at that moment before introducing her, "This is Pyrrha-"

"Hello again" she cut in and waved again.

"Pyrrha graduated at the top of her class on Sanctum."

"Never heard of it" the reply was the same.

"Ah. She had won the Minstrel Regional Tournament four years in a row. A new record!"

"The what?" another confused look appeared on his face.

"She's on the front of every Pumpkin Pete's Marshmallow flake's bar" that time, a look of recognition appeared over the blonde's face. Of all things, that was what he knew her from. Actually…that was a good thing in her books.

Jaune gasped pointing, "That's you? They only do that for star athletes and cartoon characters"

"Yeah, it was pretty cool. Sadly the cereal wasn't very good for you" she blushed slightly to the new feeling. Not many people would even associate her with the cereal branding.

"So after hearing all of that, do you really think you're in a position to ask her to be on your team?" Weiss asked again.

Pyrrha looked sadly as Jaune got depressed and muttered out, "I guess not, sorry."

It was then, whether out of sheer rebelliousness to Weiss's words or own hopes that she could partner up with someone who she could talk to as a normal person, she decided to clear him up, "Actually Jaune, I think you would make a great leader."

And it was strangely dazzling how he smiled slightly and how his eyes lit up to even the simplest praise. Something…she had been missing for a long time now.

"Actually I haven't heard you introduce yourself yet. My name is Pyrrha Nikos" she said ignoring the looks Weiss was giving them.

"Hello. My name is Jaune Arc. Nice to meet you Pyrrha!" there was little recognition in his eyes. As far as he knew, she was a normal girl.

It was then, that Pyrrha Nikos decided Jaune Arc would be her partner.


A/N: Jaune's relation to Weiss is a bit different than normal. Cinder's well…boost in confidence ended up causing him problems as he got too confident with Ruby and decided to try and flirt with…when Yang appeared to see where her sister was thanks to Cinder. Yeah, problems happened there.

While Jaune thinks Weiss is attractive, he's under the effect of Cinder who is both attractive and actually treated him better than she did at the moment. She wasn't exactly the kindest person when Beacon started and combined with Ruby's experience with her, it really didn't the 'angel-like' impression to make him completely smitten with her.

This of course led to Jaune not wanting to actively want Weiss on his team which a bit new. Still didn't chance the fact that he was trying to flirt with her if not as much as what Canon did. And of course, with Jaune not being super-creepy and clingy to Weiss, Pyrrha had no need to ping him to the locker via her weapon.

Next chapter is initiation and I admittedly had a lot of fun with that.