"..." : normal talk
"(...)" : individual thoughts
*(...)* : mind talk
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A great news was at hand, as Jaune looked at his scroll that had a message that told him that he had been admitted to the Beacon Academy.
He was still on his bed, looking at his scroll multiple times, as he made sure that the message was real.
"Congrats. And now... we need to think about how are you going to fight..." Rufus said as he was formulating a plan.
Jaune didn't know why, but Rufus was a real mood breaker.
"Ugh..."
"So? Did the message said something?" Rufus asked, feeling curious.
"Um... meet point at vale's airship dock? Where is that, anyway?"
"Go find some information or something." Rufus replied.
"But I got, like, 100 lien left!?" Jaune screamed as he looked at his lien.
Rufus was thinking about their decreasing lien, and how they were going to survive without food.
"(Wait? I don't feel hunger?... well... Jaune got admitted, which is good. Now he just need some training by Pyrrha...)"
A sad moment had attacked him as even though he hadn't seen all the volume of RWBY, he knew some of the spoilers... about Pyrrha... and there was Yang too.
It was inevitable.
Internet was a wide network, and sometimes, spoilers would be right there, but he was okay knowing about it.
Rufus sighed, trying to cast the thought away, but Jaune had noticed.
"Um... You okay there? You seem pretty sad?"
"Ah, nothing... just remembering about family..."
And now, it was the sadness of being worlds apart from home... from his family... from his friends.
Rufus went to the window to look at the morning sun, "Do you miss your family?" He hurled the question to Jaune.
The words hit hard as Jaune put down his scroll, his eyes moved towards the Crescent Mors.
There was that guilty feeling weighing in on his hearts, wondering what were the feelings of his sisters, his mom, and his dad about his departure.
"(My sisters might be angry... which is bad! Uh! I hope I survive meeting them, if... we meet again.)"
"Did I make the right decision?..." Jaune said weakly, hoping to have someone gave him an answer.
"It's your decision... not mine... and I'll follow you forever... which sounds weird..."
"... it does sounds weird." Jaune replied, holding his laughter at bay.
Rufus looked at Jaune that was stifling a giggle. "Seems like someone have a good laugh."
Jaune stood up, and went to take his towel, "I'm going to take a shower." He said to Rufus.
"What? Are you inviting me to shower? Sorry Jaune, I don't swing that-" Rufus said, which sounded fake.
"Wha! I'm not inviting you, I'm just saying!" Jaune interjected.
"I'm just teasing."
Jaune was now out of sight, as Rufus used the time to recollect his thoughts.
He looked at his status.
Rufus's Aura: 520
It was a shocked really, seeing that he was like a storage for aura, taking bit by bit of Jaune's aura for himself, and beside, Jaune's aura would regenerate to its original.
Extending his hand, he conjured a scimitar made up of aura, and held it with his right hand.
Swinging it around, the sword felt like a real sword, heavy.
Then, he continued to make a knight armor, which covered his whole body.
At that time, Jaune had walked in with a towel on his body, "Wow! You're shiny! What's this all about?"
"Just some trial and error." Rufus said, as he did some posture in front of a mirror.
Jaune put on his clothes, "Oh?"
"By the way, I noticed that this body have a different eye colour." Rufus said, as he faced Jaune that had already put on his clothes.
He pointed at his eyes, "What colour are my eyes?"
Jaune looked at Rufus' eyes, and to his surprised, they were dark brown, contrary to Jaune's blue eyes.
Rufus also said that he had dark brown eyes, before this whole transferred to remnant had ever happened, and guessed that might be the reason.
Rufus dissolved all the aura, and recovered it back into his own body. "Are you ready?"
Jaune, with his Cresent Mors at his left hip looked back at Rufus, smiling. "I'm ready!"
--New Scene--
"(Okay... Jaune only have 100 lien... and he is-)" Rufus eyed Jaune. "(-lacking armor-no. He doesn't have any armor ha ha ha...)"
Lots of people were crowding at the airship dock, as the sound of conversation were being drown in the sea of conversations.
A few had formed a group of their own, boys trying to flirt with some girls, and many other things.
Meanwhile, Jaune eyes were looking at the large airship in his sight, appreciating the grandeur.
As Jaune was captivated by the airship and stuff, Rufus had noticed that there were a few students, which seemed to be disconnected from the whole group.
And he noticed, that the students had a different physical trait, which was hard to notice, such as cat ears, a tail, and many more.
A loud voice had caught the attention of the people, as they saw a female hologram near the large airship.
One by one, the would be students were going in for a routine checked, just to check for validity and stuff.
--New Scene--
*(I got to thank you for healing my motion sickness.)* Jaune said to Rufus.
*(it's not healing. I've just use aura to basically try to make you not sick, and it's quite good, actually. 1 aura so that you'll be motion sickness free for 1 minute.)*
Leaning against the windows of the airship, Jaune enjoyed the beautiful scene of Vale, while the airship was hovering over a waterfall, as the students could see a rainbow formed due to the water droplets, which was visually exciting.
*(so beautiful...)* Jaune said.
Meanwhile, Rufus sight was at the distance horizon, which seemed ominous looking.
The flight didn't took that long, as they had now reached at their destination, the Beacon Academy.
Having landed at a wide space, the students poured out of the large airship, as they embark on their way towards the main hall, a wide space, which allowed for the gathering of lots of people.
Jaune was feeling excited, seeing the Beacon Academy.
He could see countless different things that he hadn't seen before.
*(Jaune! Go to the side. At least you're not blocking others from moving.)* Rufus told him, seeing the army of students pouring out.
Hearing that, Jaune moved to the left, and stood there as he watched the inflow of students, going into the Academy.
Meanwhile, Rufus was waiting for the explosion, where Ruby had accidentally sneeze.
But, after a few seconds passed, there was still no explosion, which was good for the public safety, but bad for Rufus, who depended on his so called RWBY knowledge.
"Uhm! Can you move away, please!"
Jaune turned around to see Weiss, and behind her were two helpers that were pushing something which were carrying dust.
Jaune was looking at Weiss, and Rufus knew what he was going to do next.
"Well, hello there princess. Do you need a hand? A strong hand perhaps? The name's Jaune Arc by the way-"
"Oh, Jaune Arc! That's so sweet of you aww-" she said in a fake voice. "Now get out of the way!" She said, in a commanding voice.
Dejected, Jaune gave way so that Weiss and her helpers could pass through.
Jaune sighed, while Rufus was trying to find Ruby.
"(She's got to be here somewhere.)" Rufus muttered.
Since the flow of the students had lessen, Rufus saw that Ruby was at the side of the street, just in front of Jaune.
But from the looks of it, she was not alone as there was another girl, slightly taller than Ruby, wearing a cloak just like Ruby, but the colour was white.
*(Jaune? Look in front of you. Can you see two girls, one is wearing a red outfit, and next to her is wearing a white outfit?)* Rufus informed Jaune.
Jaune looked in front of him, and saw Ruby that was wearing the red outfit, but he didn't see anyone that was near Ruby.
*(I see the red one, but the girl in the white? Nope.)*
*(hm? But she's next to that girl in red!)*
*(where?)* Jaune was trying his best to find the girl in a white outfit that was near Ruby, but there was none.
*(she is left to the girl in red, and I could see that they are near each other. I mean they literally can reach each other by hand.)*
Jaune looked at Ruby's left, and if What Rufus had said was right, there should be a girl in white there, which he didn't see.
*(are you sure, Rufus? Cause I don't see nothing. Maybe you're just delusional?)* Jaune said, not convinced of what Rufus had saw.
*(well, let's just go and meet that girl in red. It appears she is lonely, like you.)*
Jaune was walking towards Ruby, and it appeared that she had noticed.
Meanwhile, Rufus could see that the girl in the white cloak looked at Jaune, observing him.
"Hey, the name's Jaune. Jaune Arc."
"Oh? Ah, the name's Ruby Rose. Um... nice to meet you."
While Jaune and Ruby was talking, Rufus was observing the girl in white cloak, and then he noticed something.
"(Why does she resemble Ruby? But she have a longer hair...)"
It was really suspicious, since Jaune had said that he couldn't see the lady.
Before Rufus can looked at the lady further, she went away somewhere, catching a glimpse of her happy expression watching Ruby and Jaune.
Rufus looked at the figure disappearing from his sight, when he realised something.
"(White cloak... wait! There's a lady if I remember... the ending! Ruby's mother... is it because I'm an aura?)"
It made sense, since aura was related to the soul of a person, and what he saw just then might be Ruby's mother.
She should be dead, but maybe, there was a piece of her that was left, still watching over Ruby.
Even in death, she looked after her.
Rufus turned his attention back to Jaune as he realized that Jaune and Ruby had started walking towards the main hall, which they seemed quite lost.
Fortunately, an upperclassmen had helped to lead them into the main hall, and they were just in time to hear Ozpin's speech.
*(so?)* Rufus asked.
*(Ruby's nice... We are the same-ish? And there's that pretty cool weapon she have...)* Jaune stated.
*(yeah... she's a weapon maniac. So... about the thing we had discussed back then...)*
*(I guess I can trust you. Beside, if you know about-)*
*(move right!)* Rufus gave Jaune a warning.
Jaune moved to the right, missing a crumpled paper, which unfortunately had hit another person.
"What!" The male student said loudly, halting the speech that Ozpin was giving.
Glynda glared at the male student, "Is there something important you want to ask?"
"N-Nothing ma'am!"
"Tch! I miss." Cardin snickered, not happy that Jaune avoided his paper.
--New Scene--
It was already night as the students were told to sleep at a large room, which was wide and void of any objects.
The teacher had separated the area where at one side were the girl's sleeping area, and the other were the boys.
Ruby, Yang, Weiss and Blake could be seen nearby, while at the boy's area, Jaune was nowhere to be seen.
--New Scene--
At the male's toilet, two figure could be seen having a conversation.
"So you're going out to train?" Jaune asked.
"Uhuh. Besides, I'm awake twenty four seven. Better do something rather than nothing." Rufus stated.
"But how do you get out here? Since we have the same face." Jaune questioned.
"Ahah! Looked at my trans~ formation!"
Immediately, his figure changed into a black cat with white colour legs, which made the cat looked like it was wearing socks.
In his cat form, he made his way out of the school buildings, trying to find a good training area.
After a few minutes searching around, he had managed to find an area that was flat, which was surrounded by trees, and was out of view from the school buildings.
Rufus turned back into his Jaune's form, as he did a bit of a warm up.
Jaune's Aura: 205/500, Rufus's Aura: 945
He could see that Jaune's aura was already regenerating, which was good.
He was thinking about what kind of things he should do.
Kamehameha? Already tried, but nothing happened. Shadow clone? Nope! Bankai? Well... he hadn't tried that.
Standing still, he wore a serious expression, as he tried to bring up his aura.
"Bankai!!"
Rufus looked at himself, but there was no pressure kind of thing that bankai form would do, so he could took out bankai from his would be skill.
"Earth! Fire! Water! Wind!... hmm..."
Rufus looked at his legs, thinking about applying his aura there.
Slowly, a white flame like glow enveloped his two legs as he could feel the power stored in his legs.
He prepared himself, and moved, leaving a crater behind as he accelerated forward, having difficulties in seeing, since he was moving really fast, and hit a tree.
Then, he focused his whole aura into his body, as he was clad with white aura that looked like flame.
Slowly, he could feel that his body was levitating, taking note that he could fly, which was good.
He landed on the ground and walked to a nearby tree to see how aura was affecting his hit.
Focusing a bit of his aura into his right hand, he punched the tree, leaving a hole in the middle.
The he tried to put more aura in his fist, and he could see the raging aura in his hand, feeling really excited about it.
"I wonder how powerful my damage is... maybe just add a little bit... just a little bit..." Rufus muttered as his hand was glowing more and more and more.
--New Scene--
At the girl's sleeping area, Ruby and Yang was still awake, so they decided to chat till they fell asleep, which seemed legit.
With her back facing the ceiling, and a pillow in hand, Yang was gawking at a few boys that were displaying their naked upper body.
And then proceeded to pay her attention at Ruby, "So?... how's my baby sister doing? Did you make any friends?"
"Yang... how dare you left me, hmph!" Ruby faced Yang away, eyes closed, and arms crossed, while faking her rage.
"But... I did make some friend... well, just one really... and he's nice! A bit funny, but nice!" Hearing that coming out of Ruby's mouth, Yang made an exaggerated expression.
"Awww~~ my baby sister made a friend! Good for you! Well, don't just stop there. Let's make another new friend!"
Yang scout around for nearby vict-friends for Ruby, and slowly, her eyes locked on a girl that was reading a book, looking completely immersed in her book.
Ruby saw her, "Yang?... I don't think that she wants to be disturb..."
"Oh, don't worry about it." And she was dragged by Yang, as they approached Blake.
Blake could hear them approaching, but feint ignorance to their presence.
Yang and Ruby could be seen trying to make their way towards Blake, but since the place were crowded with sleeping bags, "sorry!" and "watch out!" were being muttered by Ruby and Yang.
Unknowingly, the two sisters were a bit rowdy, which annoyed one particular girl that was feeling really irritated.
And the conversation didn't look like it would stop at any time soon.
She stood up, and shouted at the two, "Please stop talking!!!" Weiss shouted.
Just after Weiss's warning, a loud thunderous explosion could be heard in the distance, startling the students that were trying to get some sleep.
All eyes were trying to find the source of the sound
as curiosity started to build up.
While Jaune was thinking about a particular someone that was gone just then.
"(Is it Rufus?)"
Suddenly, Jaune could feel power surging through his body, which meant that Rufus had returned into his body.
*(there's an explosion just then. Everything okay? Are you okay?)* Jaune asked.
*(hahaha... my bad. But I'm okay. Just shock.)*
"(And afraid, but I'll keep it to myself!)" Rufus mused.
Rufus looked at all the scene of people trying to look at what was going on, and was amused by it.
Soon, the students had calmed down by the teacher, and proceeded to go back to sleep.
But not all were feeling sleepy after that explosion.
--New Scene--
It was 5.00 a.m. in the morning, as Rufus had tried multiple times to wake Jaune up, which was successful.
He sat up and saw that he was the only one that seemed to be awake.
It made him hate Rufus, but only slightly.
*(I'm going to take a shower.)* Jaune said.
*(wait, let's go straight to training, and then... take a shower! Besides, I want to show you what happened last night! Hehehe...)*
*(but don't the teacher-)* Jaune squinted his eyes to look at a figure in the distance, which was one of the teacher. *(- will notice?)*
*(ah... well, I can show you next time then!)*
--New Scene--
After Ozpin gave them the speech, the students braced themselves as one by one were launched into the air.
Jaune was really nervous, since he didn't know about any landing procedure, and the fact that Rufus also didn't want to help him had increased his nervousness.
Jaune didn't know that Rufus was hoping that Pyrrha would help Jaune out of pity.
Looking at the launching pads, Jaune was the last one to be thrown down the cliff.
The rush of air hit his body as he could hear the wind hitting him, his sight getting a bit blurry.
Jaune was screaming his lungs out as Rufus was praying that Pyrrha would help Jaune, or he would die with Jaune.
Soon, they could see a spear was heading towards them, which greatly alarmed Jaune.
To Rufus shocked, Jaune used his aura, which deflected the spear.
Speechless... Rufus was too shocked to even consider about their dangerous situation.
Meanwhile, Pyrrha ran as fast as she could towards Jaune location, worried about her weapon not hitting a tree.
"(He's not dead, right!?)"
Back to Jaune, he was currently on the ground, and looking around, there were a trail of broken trees that went in a straight line.
Rufus sighed as he looked at the status.
Jaune's Aura: 439/500, Rufus's Aura: 1200
"(What a wasted aura... well, I wonder how's Jaune doing?)"
*(Jaune? You're alright? Right?)*
*(uhuh... I'm okay, I guess? My body is one piece...)* Jaune checked his body, just in case.
*(sorry.)* Rufus said.
*(for what?)*
*(I can do this-)* Rufus enveloped Jaune in the flame white aura. *(-but I was a bit shock that I forgot to do this. Try moving around.)*
*(wow! What is thiiiiis!!!!!)* Jaune flew out of control, as he went haywire, flying in random. *(Help!)* Jaune yelped as he flew past a gap in a tree.
Seeing this, Rufus took control as he guided Jaune back to the ground.
*(you need some practice...)*
*(uh... )*
*(by the way? I've been thinking. Jaune... can you conjure aura weapons like me. If I can do it, you should be able to do it too, since I am your aura.)* Rufus spoke.
Jaune tried to do what Rufus had shown him before, but to their surprised, he couldn't do it.
*(aww... I want to summon cool weapons too!)* Jaune pouted.
*(well-)* Rufus created a weapon. *(-I can create it for you, since... I am your aura, maybe... c'mon! We've got to find someone!)*
And right on time, Pyrrha emerged from the bushes, her expression was that of worried as she approached Jaune.
"A-are you okay! You're not hurt, right!" Pyrrha checked on Jaune as she checked his hands, body, and then on his face.
Jaune's head was being held by Pyrrha's abnormal strength, moving from left to right as she tried to searched for like maybe, lost ear, or broken nose... just about anything that were out of place.
Rufus noticed that Pyrrha was very near to Jaune, and both didn't notice.
"Are you sure you're alright!" Pyrrha still held Jaune's face, not that she was bothered by it.
After convincing Pyrrha that he was alright and in one piece, the two did some introductory about themselves, and were now on their way to find the relic.
--New Scene--
"I am pretty sure that I aimed properly at you back then, hm... I don't know why, but something was interfering with my weapon." Pyrrha said, not knowing that Jaune was the one that had used his aura, so that the spear would be deflected.
Jaune could only laughed wryly, for thinking that the spear was an attack, but Rufus could accept that kind of thought, since it was a weapon, and it was flying nearby.
Everyone would be afraid about that, and Rufus remembered that Jaune hadn't unlocked his aura in the series RWBY.
*(Rufus?-)* Jaune broke Rufus out of his thought. *(-I want to know why you're staying inside. I mean, you can come out and help me.)*
Rufus started to explain to Jaune about "surprises" and beside, with the people not knowing about Rufus, he could be a hidden weapon that would be a surprise to the enemy.
People should have a few tricks up their sleeves.
--New Scene--
Arriving at the relic location and obtaining the relic, they were later joined up with would be team JNPR and RWBY, and Rufus could see two nervermore flying in the sky.
"(Great...)" Rufus thought to himself as he looked at the two Nevermore in the sky.
Hoping to at least decreased the danger, Rufus had told Jaune to not enter a cave where a Death Stalker was residing, but alas, with two Nevermore, the danger was still the same.
"Maybe mommy birdie and papa birdie are angry about their baby, which was killed, since I fly into it... whoops..." Ruby confessed.
"Ugh!! Now what did you get us into!" Weiss complained.
"But-"
"Sorry to disturb you two arguing, but unless we don't do anything, we'll be Nevermore." Yang tried to make a pun, but received many eye roll from the others.
The two Nevermores could be seen opening their wings wide opened and initiated their attack as lots of feathers rained upon Ruby and the others.
Jaune held his shield up as Rufus reinforced his body with aura so that he could take the heavy hit by the large feathers.
One of the Nevermore flew close to the ground, Ren and Nora went to an offensive as Ren was propelled up by Nora's hammer, approaching its head as Ren shoot hail of bullets at its face.
It wings spread wide as the Nevermore stopped at a still, stong gust of wind pushed Ren that was in midair away as Nora went to save him.
Blake attached Gambol Shroud onto the hovering Nevermore, rode its back as she repeatedly slashes the Nevermore's back, and jumped away just in the nick of time as the other nevermore came to attack her.
Ruby and Yang shoot from the ground, while moving about to avoid any feathers projectile on the ground.
"We needed to bring the Nevermore down to us and hold it down!" Jaune shouted.
Hearing that, Weiss replied to Jaune, "I can hold them, but you need to bring them down!"
Ruby came up with a plan, after seeing Blake's weapon in action. "Blake! Rope!"
"On it!" Blake replied as she extended her Gambol Shroud towards Ruby.
Ruby jumped towards Yang as Yang propelled Ruby up into one of the low flying Nevermore, while she shoot some bullets to propelled herself up.
Jaune could see that the other Nevermore up high was targetting Ruby, "Nora!"
Jaune was planning for Pyrrha to go up and handled the other Nevermore, but since this was Nora...
"Wa-wa-wait!" He shielded himself as Nora slammed him with her hammer, doing an action as if she was blocking the sun ray's, while looking at the flying Jaune happily.
Soon, Jaune's body was enveloped with flaming white aura as he reached the Nevermore, and rode its back.
Rufus gathered aura into Jaune's hands, and seeing this, Jaune put his hands into one and slammed at the Nevermore.
A loud explosion could be heard as the Nevermore looked like it had been hit by something heavy, falling down to the ground slowly.
Yang took a glimpse at the falling Nevermore, "(And I thought he was weak... hm. Looks can be deceiving I guess. I wish I can Jaune-in the fun!)"
Meanwhile, Ruby used her semblance as she wrapped Blake's weapon around the other Nevermore's neck. "Pull!" She shouted to the people on the ground.
Pyrrha, Yang, Ren, and Nora were trying to pull down the Nevermore, and it seemed to be a success as its front was facing the sky, and its back facing the ground.
Soon it was helpless as it fell down hard on the ground, Blake's weapon still on its neck.
It struggled to break free, but was disabled by Weiss ice, after Weiss disabled the other Nevermore.
"Now the Nevermore's down, what should we do?"
Ruby exclaimed happily, "We cut its neck!!"
Preparing her Crescent Rose, she ran towards the Nevermore's neck, "Yang! Nora!"
Meanwhile, Ren and Jaune were attacking the other Nevermore glued on the ground as the ice that were holding the Nevermore made more cracking sound, with each passing time.
The Cresent Mors were wrapped with a little bit of aura, just to add in a little damage, and for Jaune to practice his swordplay a bit.
Back to Nora, she was preparing for the greatest jump that had ever been attempted as she was being slingshot into the air, spun around vertically, as she approached the Crescent Rose.
Nora spun and fell down faster and faster with the help of Weiss glyph, "Wheeeeee-" and at the last moment of impact. "-aaaaaand smash!!"
A powerful burst of energy was produced as Nora had added a little explosion to push Cresent Rose into the Nevermore's neck, and decapitated it.
The two boys saw that one of the Nevermore had died.
Seeing that, Ren called, "Help."
And soon, the second Nevermore ceased to exist.
"Whew~ now that's taken care off. Heh, pretty easy I think." Yang said without a care for the world.
A Death Stalker emerged from the forest as it was heading towards them.
"Uh-oh... well guys-" Jaune looked and saw that he was alone, and saw that the others were running away.
"Run!" Ruby screamed, already far away.
"Wait for me!!" Jaune screamed.
Jaune ran to follow his friends.
*(huff huff huff this is tiring huff)* Jaune said as he was having trouble keeping up with the others.
*(heh, I guess I should help a bit)*
Jaune's Aura: 317/500, Rufus's Aura: 1200
Rufus manifested into the world, as Jaune continued his running spree.
Rufus looked at the incoming Death Stalker, feeling afraid, since it was a large scorpion looking thing.
But that feeling of afraid was gone, since he was an aura, and he wouldn't die... maybe.
It was getting closer... and closer... and closer, and he realized that he didn't know if he wouldn't die.
The Death Stalker was approaching Rufus as he rolled to the front to avoid its poison tail, and ran to punch the Death Stalker.
Rufus's Aura: 1200 -- 1100
The Death Stalker was shattered to pieces as a large crater was formed.
"Uh-oh! Maybe too much. Well, it's done. Better than me dying..." Rufus said to no one.
--New Scene--
They heard an explosion at where the Death Stalker was, but they still ran towards the cliff.
*(I'm back!)*
*(did you kill it?)* Jaune asked.
*(exploded!)* Rufus exclaimed.
--New Scene--
At the end of the day, team JNPR RWBY was formed, which was good, and now, they were currently on a campaign to renovate their dorm room.
*(you should arrange the room though...)* Rufus said as he eyed the room.
Stuffs still laying down on the floor, bags and luggage everywhere.
*(but I'm so damn tired...)* Jaune complained.
Jaune's Aura: 500 -- 494
Jaune could feel himself feeling light all of a sudden as his he felt really fresh.
*(wow... what did you do? I feel energized all of the sudden!)* Jaune stood up, feeling wide awake, and good to go.
One aura could make Jaune felt energized for ten minutes, which was good.
And soon, their room were completely organized, thanks to his experience of living with his seven sisters.
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