AN: Here it is! The next part of Game on! I hope you're liking the series because this is where things start to become interesting...
Our boy is lost alone and running on fumes! Will he make it Beacon? Will he find a harem? Will he ever get back his soul!? And what the hell is a save point and why does it only say Friday!? Find out soon! Also warning this will probably the last time this story is rated T. After this chapter it has to be a hard M so yeah fair warning. Until then? Enjoy.
"Tell me about yourself Jaune. I want to know the real you and not just your name."
Weiss said in a smooth calming tone as the heiress sat opposite from Jaune dressed in her usual immaculate white and blue outfit as the two sat in what had to be one of if not the most expensive restaurants in all Vale.
"What do you want to know?" Jaune asked fidgeting slightly felling entirely out of place in the restaurant as everyone who was around him even the waitresses where dressed leagues above him, making him feel like he was woefully underdressed for the occasion. As even the staff here had fancy dress clothes fit with outfits whose socks that cost more, then his entire outfit combined served them their lunch.
Which despite him not being able to pronounce half of the menu items was still enough to drop his jaw making Jaune's mouth water at the presence of food.
Jaune fought to keep his mouth on its hinges as tray after tray of hot steaming food was brought tot heir table. Well, a table was a stretch and frankly an insult to whoever the hell built it. The area they sat was more of a cocoon than a table. Built so that it was perfectly encasing its occupants in a semi-dome shape giving whoever sat in it near complete privacy and a stunning view of downtown Vale in the process.
Though it was an impressive view it was also secondary, Jaune had seen city's before and this, while a good view was always nice to look at, there was little to glean from it besides a nice sprawling metropolis, as A it was not going anywhere. And B he was hungry.
Unreasonably so as the steaming meats, that Jaune guessed to be a duck? And what he knew to be a quale was served to them by a calm beautiful waitress in a stunning black dress with red hair and pale skin nodded them leaving without a word as Weiss thanked her.
"Weiss... this looks expensive. You didn't need to spend this much money with me you know?"
Jaune asked as the girl in blue simply waved her and at him.
"Don't be silly! This is hardly going to make a scratch in my account. And, it's worth it to see you this quiet and alone." Wiess whispered making Jaune blush as the heiress grippe his hand.
"You are so cute! When I finally get you alone in Beacon Jaune of Arc, you won't even be able to think of another girl again! Just you wait till I get my box and...
"I'm starving!" Jaune said severing their connection blushing fiercely as Wiss grinned predatorily at him as he began to stuff his face.
"So what do you want to know?" Jaune asked as the girl looked on in shock.
"When was the last time you ate?"
"Like this? Never."
Jaune admitted as he finished his third helping of food. Weiss was shocked by the sheer amount of food he ate. Usually, Jaune only had one meal a day in Beacon. Consisting of a hearty breakfast and nothing else. A habit both she and his partner both heavily disapproved of.
Though Weiss was forced to admit she was not his partner as much as she wanted to be. And he was his own person and a leader at that! Weiss had been wondering about the merits of a man as a team leader, but Jaune had proven to be a capable one and a competent fighter at that!
He had bested her partner, Weiss shudder to even think of her like that in the arena quite handsomely and shown a knack for insight and battlefield acumen. Something Weiss approved of.
Unlike others Weiss saw no issue with him being a leader as a man, but because he was one. After all, men could do just as well as women in the world that was something her father had proved time and time again in his masterfully run Schnee company.
"So what do you want to know exactly? Or are you just looking for general information about me? Becuase if you are I'm sorry to disappoint, but there's not much to know."
Jaune admitted weakly as Weiss brushed him off.
"Nonsense! You are a unique individual! You escaped from your... troubled home life and went on the road to become a hunter! You must have some tales from then don't you?"
Weiss asked fishing for information as Jauen scratched his head.
"Not really. Unless you count the time, I was starving to death, running from bandits, getting eaten by Grimm. Bleeding out on the ground an-
"Never mind! Let's change the subject shall we?"
Weiss asked face blanching as Jaune nodded.
"Sure how about you tell me about yourself, Weiss? I mean you are not just an heiress are you."
Jaune asked as the girl smiled sharply in return.
"Of course not! I am Weiss Schnee! The heiress of the Schnee dust company, the middle child of three and Huntress in training!"
Weiss said proudly as Jaune smiled.
"You have a family?" Jaune asked as the girls face brightened so fiercely it seemed like was attempting to outshine the shine of the sun.
"Why yes! I have my role model, of course, Winter! She's my elder sister and a specialist is Atlas! She is both an accomplished huntress and military officer! Then I have my younger brother Whitley! He is adorable and the best brother I could ever ask for! I love them both very much!"
Weiss said beaming with pride and happiness as Jaune's smile dipped.
"It must be nice. having siblings that you care for, and care for you as well...
Jaune admitted darkly as Weiss began to sweat. "I also have parents! That care for me as well...
Weiss added mentally kicking herself before sighing into her hands.
"Jaune I don't know what your family was like. I don't know what you went through but please. Not all families are alike. Because your's was bad does not mean mine was."
Weiss said gathering her breath before speaking.
"I mean my sister is the most driven and fair woman on the planet! And my younger brother is the picture of innocence, kindness and trusting! While my father!"
Weiss paused gathering her thought as Jaune spoke up.
"I've heard rumors about your father... None of them good I'm sorry."
"Why am I not surprised? Jaune listen to me my father Jaques Schnee. Is by far the most, kindest loving and affectionate man that there is!"
"Why when he took over the company after my mothers incident... He not only held the entire empire together through usurpations, dissent and hostile attempt to take over the company but! He also while defending our very home reformed our entire wage system allowing equal pay between Faunus and human workers! Ensuring that our company is regarded both wide and far as a Beacon of fair pay, equality, and trust! And has since brought the company into a new light of prosperity!"
Weiss said with a burning determination to her voice as Jaune was briefly captivated by the conviction of her words.
"Whatever things you hear against him are simply foolishly made up rumors meant to discredit a great man! Who has spent the majority of his life not only keeping it together and making it even more prosperous! Has also dedicated his time to civil rights, raising a family and being the best father he could be! I have nothing but respect for the man and I dare anyone to say a thing against him!"
Weiss said glaring fiercely at Jaune who grinned back at her.
'That's nice Weiss. That's good to hear."
"As I thought! You just needed to hear the truth of him from me and your misconceptions are sorted out!" Weiss said as the waitress soundlessly came to the table showing twin plates of vanilla ice cream.
"Thank you," Weiss said giving a generous tip to her as the waitress bowed as Jaune sniggered.
"Aww Weiss. You're actually nice." Jaune said as the girl's smile dropped and she kicked him in the shin.
"No puns."
Weiss thought as Jaune sighed.
"Well, at least I think I'm funny," Jaune said dodging the claws fo an Ursas it roared at him.
"No, I am sorry. But I insist. I am not on he menu. Please stop asking me."
Jaune said bending under its attack slicing up from its chin swinging Crocea Mors upward to decapitate it. Sending a hot stream of blood washed over his body as the monster began to disintegrate into nothingness.
It was day two of his campaign trip. Alne outside of Bea on Jaune could have technically been home yesterday, but he was taking a longer safe route to avoid Grimm.
Or he was until he realizes that the day was Thursday and he had a date tomorrow! He and Weiss had such a second up, and an Arc never breaks their word, so Jaune was double-timing it through the forest to meet his date an not break a promise Grimm be damned! He was going to make that date or die in the process!
A fact that was growing ever more likely as a giant death stalker now blocked his path.
It was at least the size of the one he fought in initiation and coated in thick bone armor pitted with scars and dents shown off a life of fighting and battle. As the thing roared as Jaune sighed heavily.
"Oh great," Jaune said as the monster yelled as he sighed heavily.
"Ok! Ok! I get it! You die next. You don't have to yell." Jaune said as he sighed and began to charge...
FISSHHT!
FWNAP!
FITTT!
Hatred, Loss Guilt.
FISSHT! XERR! FISSH!
Rage, Sadness Guilt.
"FISSHT!
The last combat drone came apart in a brilliant shower of sparks as Pyrrha glared at it red rage boiled behind her eyes as she stood alone surrounded by desecrated Beacon drones.
She couldn't talk, she could barely breathe. Her who body quacked and trembled as she struggled to keep herself under control.
Rage, Loss, Guilt.
Pyrhha had been doing this for the past week. Getting up at the peak of dawn, going to the Beacon training arena's and laying waste to as many mechanical drones as humanly possible. She did this every chance she got starting at the crack of dawn and stopping well past the last vestiges of the sun fell below the horizon.
She couldn't sleep she barely ate her entire world was filled with an overwhelming sense of hatred, guilt, and helpless and loss...
As the last robot sputtered and sizzled, it was all she could do not to wail. Jaune was gone. Her partner for less than a month and the first person to treat her as a normal person was dead.
She didn't want to believe it. Not at first but it was true. It was a tragedy, Jaune and Ren had been attacked by a horde of Ursa during the forever falls trip and had been forced to flee. When they found him the poor boy was beside himself balling freely as he desperately tried to explain the situation to them.
Only Nora had been able to translate his tear soaked words as they made a mad sprint for the clearing, up arriving they found the remains of dozens of disintegrating Ursa followed by many more live ones. They killed the live ones in a furry fueled rage only to find a Beacon uniform covered in blood.
Pyrrha didn't remember the last time she cried. It was a rare thing for her too, one because she was a proud warrior and had a certain public image as the invincible girl who could not be defeated let alone cry, also she was always thought that girls just don't cry but seeing her partner's bloody clothes broke her. She blamed herself. It was entirely her fault not Rens.
Jaune had been her partner, her duty her responsibility! She should have asked no insisted that she be with him and not Ren. If she had been there, she was confident she could have made a difference! She knew she could have saved him...
As of now, he as one and JNPR was no more...
Opal had asked her to be leader position she refused. She failed her last partner she would not risk failing her team. Losing Ren was already bad enough.
The boy blamed himself comply even if he had been injured and stripped of one of his weapons he shoulders the blame squarely on his shoulder.
He refused to talk since the incident. Even to Nora for the last week and had been sullen and quiet, Spending an odd amount of his time in the bathroom where Pyrrha would always her strange slicking sounds folwed by sharp gasps of sounded like pain filled pleasure. Pyrrha had no idea what he was doing and when Nora questioned him he just ignored the girl and walked back to his bed.
Team JNPR Had lost a member, and the loss was heavy for them as well as others.
She never thought a person would make that sound when confronted with loss. Ruby broke down at seeing her friend's death as she was apparently a close friend of Jaune, a feeling that caused Pyrrha to burn with jealousy only for her to stomp it out in anger as she berated her selfishness.
Jaune could have friends. There was nothing wrong with that! She just wished she was one of them. Pyrrha thought as she walked painfully slow back to her bench where her training gear was held.
Jaune and Pyrrha were not friends, as much as she wanted them to be but it was her fault. She hadn't really tried being his friend in the two weeks that she had known him. She was too concerned with getting him to like her so that he would fall for her and give her a husband she alone could keep. Just like her mother, she wanted to marry one man and be his only bride. Not a part of a harem, she did not want to share.
She never asked about him or attempt to be his friend as a good partner should and in the absence he turned to Ruby a true friend a-
"Stop moping.'
A calm voice said s freezing surface touched Pyrrha's face.
"AH!" the girl gasped turn around to see the one good thing that had comes from this disaster.
"Nora. I'm glad to see you again." Pyrrha said as the only silver lining of this mess was that her and Nora's relationship had finally improved.
Apparently breaking down crying was enough to convince the hammer wielder that whatever affection she had for Jaune where genuine, and she was not simply using him. Not that it made a difference and-
"I brought your dinner. Not that you ever eat it."
Nora said with a smirk as she showed Pyrrha a plate of meats, salad, and water bottle.
"Thank you, Nora. I appreciate it. It's been... difficult to adjust and-
"I know, but you can't beat yourself up over it. What happened was not your fault."
"I know it's just... how's Ren? Is he talking yet?"
Pyrrha asked as Nora grimaced.
"No. He's still hold up in the bathroom. I don't know what to do about this. He's never gotten like this before. I guess he really bonded with Jaune."
"I know he isn't the only one," Pyrrha said referring to her sister team RWBY who nearly broke apart of the last week. Apparently, a friends death was a tipping point between the leader and the Schnee and the two nearly came to blows over an argument over command.
Pyrrha had no idea what they were arguing about but it was not half an hour before shouting filled their dorms, and the sound of open combat filled the air before the dean broke it up...
"Just keep it together Pyr. We'll get through this together yeah?"
"Yeah. Just keep it together.' Pyrrha said denying her own guilt as she and her friend walked out of the training arena.
"Just keep it together!" Jaune said dodging out of the path of the Ursa as he sliced it's forward was off causing to yell in anger as it's momentum carried it forward where it collapsed into the ground.
"Just keep it together!" Jaune hissed killing another Ursa by stabbing it in its chest before reversing the return strike of the now armless one to gut it messily before panting in the clearing.
"You do know that we are both going to die here correct?"
His reflection spoke in the blood-filled sword as Jaune looked at his right arm.
It was bad. The deathstalker had managed to graze his arm with its stinger, and some thankfully not all of its position was in his body.
Had it been a direct hit he would have been dead in the first few seconds. Already Jaune could feel the toxins working through his body closing him down, racking him with sweat as he felt his movements began to slough.
Now it was just the slow waiting game as his arm turned yellow and began to slowly succumb to infection.
"I rushed tiring to make it for my date an now I'm lost great," Jaune said sarcastically as he spoke up.
"At least we get to die as men you know? Out here on our won making the glorious last stand! As Vernal called it. Even if she hated that word glorious. What's so glorious about your death! As she would say."
His reflection spoke before the word shook and rattled like someone was picking it up and shaking it. The tres rumbled, and swayed as the rocks on the dirt began to vibrate as a sudden force comes over him as Jaune was overtaken by a shadow, as he looked up to see a towering leviathan of stell and metal fly overhead.
"A battleship!?" Jaune gasped as he began sprinting after the ship tearing through the forest as fast as his legs and rapidly weakening body would take him. A ship means people! And a ship that size needs to dock somewhere! The only available dock is Beacon! If I follow the ship...
"I find my way home!" Jaune yelled coming to a clearing overlooking the entire forest where the Beacon tower was visible and pumping his fist into the air.
"I'm coming home!"
"How do I look?"
A worried feminine voice asked as Opal sighed for the umpteenth time.
"Glynda you like acceptable. Now, will you stop fidgeting?"
Opal asked her second who was behaving like a damn school girl and not a dean of Beacon.
" I can't settle for acceptable Opal! I need to look immaculate and-
Her words were cut off as a glowing red portal open in the office as a woman in a bird mask stepped out.
"Raven. So good to have you join us." Opal said as the woman took off her bird mask.
"Sorry, I'm late. I had to deal with something in the wilds. Is he here yet?"
Raven asked walking slowly to the side of Opal's desk and leaning against the wall mask in hand.
"No, but he's coming soon."
"I see," Raven said giving Glynda an unimpressed look at the sound of an elevator ding! Filled the air as the doors opened as a figure stepped out.
"James! How good to see you!" Glynda said sincerely as a pair of steely grey eyes met her.
The person was a man, covered head to bottom in silver dress garb. His enter body seemed hard and unfeeling as if it was carved from solid granite rather then flesh. His eyes were a steely stormcloud grey color and gave a withering tired look, as his face and neck both had a thin level of stubble to it giving him a permanent five o'clock shadow.
Even if he looked like chiseled marble the man was surprisingly young. In fact, if you somehow managed to look past his hard chiseled figures, that looked like sold granite instead of flesh you would see a shockingly young man who was probably in his late twenties.
As he turned to see Glynda his formerly neutral gaze twisted into a snarl of contempt as he eyed the woman.
"Glynda."
James said walking past the woman completely not even bother to make eye contact with the woman ignoring her outstretched hand and bypassing her with minimal effort. Causing Raven to smirk and Opal to sigh as this meeting was already off to a bad start.
"James. So glad to see you. I'm glad you made it on time. I trust that your trip was comfortable?" Opal asked the man who turned to the other figures in the room. Opal and Raven, and gave them both an irritated and neutral look accordingly.
"It was fine. Now we have matters to discuss. Why did you call me and why should I give you my fleet?"
The man asked gruffly getting an approving nod from Raven.
"You're blunt. I like that."
"Than you Raven." The man said not turning to face her as Glynda recovered from her shock.
"James! It's so nice to see you back here and-
"Glynda, I did not come all the way here to discuss pleasantries with you of all people. Now Opal why am I here?"
The man asked mollifying the dean in a moment as Opal sighed. This kind of thing always happened when she brought the two together, as the two were literal opposites. Glynda was a hardcore traditionalist and Jame's Ironwood was a hard challenge to social norms.
James Ironwood was not only the youngest person to reach the rank of general he was also the first male general in history and in Atlas of all places and had become one of if not the most successful generals of all time. When they came into contact sparks where sure to fly, and it was not the romantic ones.
Those sparks between the two had died off years ago and were now firmly dead and buried under a mountain of resentment and liquor.
"I was just trying to be polite! You don't know often see someone who genuinely cares about you! I was only asking for your well being you know!" The dean yelled as the man's already penetrating glare tripled in strength.
"Excuse me if I find it hard to believe that any care you have to give is anywhere near genuine."
The man shot back macing the dean waver.
"James? Why would you say that? I-
"Maybe because he's allergic to bullshit?"
Raven asked with a shit-eating grin as Glynda glared at her as James smirked and Opal shook her head in her palms. Seriously. These three were to be some of the defenders of the world yet they bickered like the children she was charged to Shepard!
"Why you-
"Stop. All of you. I know we have had our differences that we are all at fault for." Opal said shooting Glynda a pointed look quieting her as she backed down as James harumphed.
"James. I need your help. Beacon is going to be under attack I believe at the Vytal festival we need your army."
Opal asked as Jame's piercing gare was leveled at her with full force as she held it with her own withering own.
"Ask Vale. This is not my concern. I came here today as a friend. And nothing more. If you have security issues, ask the Vale council. If you have nothing else to say I will leave. Now."
He said shooting pointedly glaring at Glynda turning around to walk to the elevator door as Opal gritted her teeth.
"James. I can not go to the council for this request."
"Why not?"
The man asked pausing his exodus and Opal gritted her teeth.
"It is of a sensitive matter and-
"You mean illegal. You want my fleet because of our friendship, and I use that word in the loosest way possible, you want me to risk the lives of my men and woman under my command, people that I have been entrusted with guarding! So that you can play your little games of chess?"
James asked as Opal finally lost her cool, gripping her mug to the point where it cracked as her eyes glowed a baleful green.
"These are not games!" Opal shouted slamming her fists into the table breaking the ancient wood as angry green energy came out from her cane causing Glynda and Raven to back away as James refused to be intimidated by her as he glared at her.
"Do not presume to threaten me, Opal. I came here today as a friend but if you have nothing but threats and back door dealing I will leave."
James said in a steely tone as Opal sighed. She knew he was right, and she needed to treat this matter carefully, diplomatically. James held all the power here. She needed his fleet, and James could always just up and go. And that was not an option.
"James. She is making her moves. We- no I need your help."
Opal said observing with an eagle glare as Jame's mouth dropped by an imperceptible amount as he grimaced.
"How do you know? What sources do you have?"
"Me."
Raven said sullenly as James nodded.
"I'll take her word for it."
"Thank you, James. I know this is not easy for you-
"I am not doing it for you Opal. And especially not you Glynda. There are innocent people and if Vale falls then Atlas might as well be next in line."
"Thank you for seeing this our way James."
"Don't thank me, Opal. You knew what you were doing. You brought me here under the pretense of friendship and old times only to create a situation where I could not refuse. you know I won't let innocents die, but you refuse to ask your own government for help!"
"Because they won't! They are all lazy, incompetent, greedy woman who have no way to see anything that does not affect their own coffers!" Opal yelled glaring balefully at the man as James sighed taking out a flask and taking a hearty swig.
"You know... I thought we were friends once. I see now that I was mistaken. I was always just another chest piece for you. Is it almost funny you know? In a macabre way."
The man said solemnly taking a deep drink from his flask as Opal grimaced.
"James... I always thought of you as a friend." Glynda said putting a hand on his shoulder green eyes filled with hope as his face softened into one she had thug long gone until it hared to shet stones as he glared at her green ones, before snarling at her roughly tearing his shoulder from the woman and briskly walking away.
"Now I know you all came to deceive me," James said irritably as Glynda seethed.
"I always thought of you as my friend, James-
"Then why didn't you act like it?"
He asked as the woman froze as if she had been shot as Raven rubbed her head.
"Why do you let them in the same room?"
"Because we need them both. James. You are, my friend. Never forget that I would never abuse your trust."
"Right."
James said sarcastically as he held the headmistress glare.
"Your words mean nothing to me, Opal. You lie and cheat all the time; you make laws to judge others and rail when they are not followed to the letter! While simultaneously bending if not outright breaking them for your own benefit! You are the worst kind of hypocrite, and I am ashamed that I bought into you guise of friendship!"
"James! I do what I need to do! I exist to serve the people fo Remnant, Woman, Man, Faunus. I do what is for the greater good, and I do not need your insults!"
"You and so many others," James said bitterly taking another swig from his flask as he glared at her.
"Do you even hear yourself speak!? Do know how many others before you said those same words? How many times do people say their work for the greater good? And then the butcher! Those they swore to protect. You don't trick me, Opal. You are nothing but a would-be tyrant in the making masquerading as a school teacher."
"The only one of you to have a shred of moral decency is her! And if Raven were not here herself I would have walked out this door the moment you made your request!"
"Thank you for your vote of approval," Raven said nodding her head and walking over to the man.
Raven liked James. He was strong that was a big thing for her. He lead with practicality over bravado and always put the lives of his men before his own. He acted with honor and integrity refusing to both lies or mislead those he associated himself and was honestly a breath of fish air in her intrigue-filled life of cloak and daggers as one of Opal's agents.
"James. This is a serious matter. I am asking for your fleet because it is needed to save the lives of thousands. Possibly more. Plese, lend us your strength on this matter."
"If you say so...
"Trust me. I would not give my support to a project that was not honorable or in any way deceitful. I assure you the moment Opal or anyone does the slightest moral infractions I will withdraw my support for it."
"And I take my fleet away."
James said with a harsh finality as Opal glared at him with sharp eyes.
"If you will find it. But until then how about we drop our hostilities and enjoy a moment to meet up with our old friends? We hardly get to meet in a place where we are not in life or death situations you know?"
The headmistress asked as James sighed heavily his face losing some of its granite-like qualities and appearing to be vaguely human for a moment.
"You are right. I apologize for my earlier hostility."
James admitted as the granite reasserted itself covering up the soft vulnerable flesh with thick unfeeling granite as Opal sighed into her mug. It was with a great sense of sadness that the woman watched her friend look like that. Soft flesh turned to unyielding stone, he wasn't always like that.
He used to be so alive! His face alight with a permanent smirk that shines with a preternatural mirth and sense of good will. He was qucik to a joke or to take a drink to his men and allies, he was a likeable and charismatic man that Opal had grown to call a friend a rare position in deed. Opal had many contacts, operators, and agents but few true friends.
And Yes James was her friend. No matter what he or anyone else said about it. James had been Opal's friend for over a decade and a trusted confidant for much longer. It hurt to use him but she resigned herself that it was for the greater good. Surely he would see that in the end. Hopefully...
"No. It's entirely justified I admit to playing fast and loose with my own moral code. And I apologize, but on this I assure you. James, we do work for Remnant here. Not for myself so please let us be friends?"
"Fine."
Jame sad sighing heavily taking another drink as he turned to the woman.
"How are the students this year? I head you had a fatality?"
"We did. Jaune Arc."
"Arc? Really? His mother will not be pleased to hear that."
"Like she cares for her son." Glynda shot as James cocked an eyebrow at her.
"Did you care for him?"
"Of course! He was my student! I was responsible for him, and I failed him...
"All men die Glynda that is life. He chose his path, and he met his end that' all there is to it." Opal said as James nodded.
"It's true. All of us are doomed to leave this mortal coil one day, and the fact he died of his own power is a thing to celebrate not to mourn."
"Spoken like a soldier. I like you even more James."
The masked woman said as he nodded to her.
"Same here Raven. How is your family doing?"
"Excellent. Tai is fine at home, and Summer is on a mission in Vale. Though my daughters are shaken by the Arc's death."
"Where they close to him?"
"Yang only saw a boy to grope, of this, I'm sure and was just shocked by his death. Ruby, however... She had grown close to him I do not think she will recover anytime soon if at all."
"She is Summer's child after all. She takes after her mother in the best qualities." James said as Raven nodded.
"And her less than best," Raven said as James sighed.
"Fine. Opal, you have my support just don't have me kill too many of own soldiers this time ok?" James asked as Opal nodded her head in agreement.
"Well, I'm almost home then," Jaune said aloud as he looked at the Beacon clock tower he was within a twelve-hour walk or another day form Beacon and he needed to make his decision.
On the one hand, if he pressed forward today he would be home before the night's end, and he would be able to sleep in a bed. That plan while appearing to be optimal would also come with its own disadvantages. If he went through with it, he would still need to walk through the Grimm infested woods at night, when almost anything that wanted to kill him could see perfectly well in the dark and he would be blind.
And while fighting Grimm in the dark was not a new thing it was still not a preferred option as Jaune would rather fight in the day.
Now if he waited for the night he would have to spend another night in the woods, but he could go back in relative peace. Which while optimal and much safer came with its own pressing yellow issue.
As Jaune looked down to his right arm and grimaced. Jaune's limb was running on borrowed time as it was and he fought the urge to wretch at the sight of it.
The limb was no longer it's original healthy pale skin tone but now it was turning the gnarly color of sickly yellow and was falling apart as it appeared to be rotting. The deathstalker venom had worked into his arm and that if he didn't get it treated soon, it would either need immediate removal as his limb something that Jaune was not afraid to do, simply because he had done field amputations in the past on others that is.
And while it was possible he still did not want to cut off his arm and risk bleeding out. For one it would be painful, and two the fever he was sporting made it damned impossible to think straight let alone stem the blood from an amputated limb.
Now he could build a tourniquet from the remainder of his tattered Beacon uniform that would consume the last of the shattered clothing and leave Jaune down to his boxers.
That being said Beacon had medicine and could save his arm. He wanted that. But if he died because he didn't see the Ursa sneaking up on him in the forest that more or less defeated the point of him going home in time.
"Either way," Jaune sighed as he rolled don't his back as his fire died down.
"Time to sleep. I'm going home." Jaune said as he closed his eyes and went to bed.
"This doesn't make sense!" Mink said angrily as Jaune opened his eyes to instead of seeing smirking demoness he saw nothing, but his screen as Mink was off in the far corner sitting down cross-legged looking at a screen.
"Mink? What's wrong?"
"AH! Flesh sack! NIt's nothing just checking over a skill on Velvet that doesn't' make any sense!"
"Doesn't make any sense? What do you mean?"
"Come here! Check it out!" Mink said snapping her fingers as a Velvet's screen appeared to Jaune's face. Specifically, her special skills screen as Jaune looked at the screen and paused.
Special skill: Some call it stalking
"What's so special about this?"
"It's the name!'
"The name? What's wrong with the name?"
"It doesn't exist! I mean I can't find it anywhere!"
"Find it? What are you talking about? What do you mean you can't find it?"
" I mean I can't find it! I have all the Gamer's special skills listed in the bestiary, but I can't find hers!"
"You can't find it? Like you have's seen it, or it just doesn't exist?"
"Like it doesn't exist! I mean I'm looking for it, but I just can't find it!"
"Maybe you didn't list it?"
"I listed it! It's our game! I know everything about it! I know this thing like the end of my tail! There is no way that I could not find a skill!"
"Are you lo-
Jaune paused as the demoness pink eyes sent a withering glare his way as Mink glared at him.
"I built! This system! I know everything about it! But it's not here! This is ridiculous! Assign your levels and level up, at least that's been doing well." Mink snarled as Jaune nodded as he turned to his screens.
Mink spoke the truth his time in the wild had done wonders for his leveling with the constant fighting as he had gone up around ten levels in a week and had the skill points to match as he flipped to his screen.
Name Jaune Arc.
Level 19/?
Xp till next level 1200/ 1600
Passive Last gasp.
Skill points available 40
Str: 57 +3 increase
Wit: 24 +5 increase
Charisma: 42 +2 increase
Charm: 27
Intellect: 47 -1 due to Drunkard trait sober.
Vitality: 91 +6 increase
Will: 119+ 20 due to stubborn trait + 10 due to Martyr trait.
dexterity: 74 +8 increase
deception 29 +4 increase
Luck: 50 +6 increase.
"Twenty to vitality, ten to dexterity five to deception, three to charm and two to intellect," Jaune said as Mink waved dismissively as the screen changed not reflect his decisions as it updated Jaune found himself in a unique situation.
Usually when he arrived here, wherever the hell this place, if you could call it a place was Mink, had some snide comments to make to him but this time?
Mink seemed genuinely concerned about the issue with the special skills of Velvet as she was ignoring hi entier flicking her finger across a floating keyboard she worked on her keyboard.
As Jaune watched, her work he had no idea what the hell to do with any free time he had to do as he walked around the room.
Well-liked was a strong word as he found that outside of a small circle of light Jaune was surrounded by darkness as looked around him.
Not wanting to press his luck and step into the swirling darkness even if he was sure Mink would never let anything that bad happen to him outside of the Gamer proper but still did not want to risk it Jaune simply sat down and looked at his screen.
What's so wrong with her skills? Jaune thought as he flicked through his screen as he saw Velvet's page pop up with the now usual WARNING! Out of range! Icon next to it.
That appeared next to all of his other contacts. It seemed that if he went a spent amount of time away from his friends they would fall out of range of the bestiary and it would warn him that any skills or stats that it displayed could be wrong or misleading as Jaune saw Velvet s scenes.
Sure there enough was her skills, and there was the special skill Some call it stalking...
As Jaune stared at it, sure enough, it was strange...
To say the least, as right on the left of it there were spaces. Well, spaces were the best way to describe it as it seemed like there were several slots next to the name as Jaune stared at it.
Imagine a game of hangman. There is, of course, the man about to hang from the platform he stood on and as usual the spaces where you put the letters of the words to free him. It was like that there were several spaces next to the name as he looked at it.
Right next to it was a single space that seemed to fit a letter Jaune could only presume to be I as there were no other individual letter words in the English language that the could think of assuming this was the English language and not some insane demonic scrawl.
As he looked next to it was a three letter block, then seven then four, ten than five then six.
Meaning after I was first followed by a three letter word followed by seven, four, ten, and six that appeared to make up her skill. As it looked like it was a glitch in the system as Jaune scratched his chin.
"Oum Dammit!"
Mink yelled as Jaune looked down to see the end of the letter next to her defining trait empathetic. Something was off about that too. I was like the was two spaces right next to it as Jaune wondered what the hell was going on in the gamer as he gulped.
His real body was in bad shape, even if he had been eating well-ish. As for fruits and berries and killing small animals was a skill his other self-had in abundance his infect arm had tried a warning on his screen showing an entirely new file for something called Status affects!
Anything that was a foreign presence in his system was listed their like position and alcohol. As he watched the infected limb. Although what really bothered him was the latest addition to his screen, a string of letters that spelled out save point Friday. Jaune had no idea what those things meant but with Mink preoccupied there was little he could do as he sighed Jaune had nothing to do but rest as he waited to get up...
"Yes! I finally can go home!" Jaune said aloud as he walked past the walls into Beacon proper. He was lucky that the massive battleship that was actually leading a fleet of ships was into anchor over Beacon as Jaune walked past the ship and inot Beacon proper. The shadow from the ship gave him a nice amount of shade as he wondered about his team.
I hope they didn't worry about me too much. I mean I was only gone for a week! And I came back roughly unscathed! I mean I did lose my uniform and am walking in what amounted to a worn out pair of tennis shoes, a ripped pair of pants and a torn shirt that was little more than two cloth straps covering his entire chest as he walked forward.
As he left the shadow of the battleship and stepped inside the entry doors of Beacon proper and wondered what he should do?
He could go to his room and get some much-needed sleep as he wanted but! He needed to get his arm taken care of, he still had a date with Weiss today, and if he wanted to make it, he either needed to treat it at the infirmary or cut it off himself. Maybe Ren can cut it if it deemed necessary? Well, it's not like Jaune's near fever dream state could do it. His aura was keeping him up but if he didn't get help soon...
Jaune thought as he walked into the Beacon hallways as he saw they were surprisingly empty. And devoid of life.
"Where did everyone go?"
Jaune thought before he saw familiar green form walking down the hallway alone for some reason? The hell is Nora? Jaune thought before yelling across the hall.
"Ren! Over here!" Jaune called his friend as Ren froze like he had been shot as his head whipped around with such force Jaune was sure it would break as he gasped. Come to think of it Jaune had never seen Ren without Nora as the boy paused and froze like he had seen the devil himself before breaking into a dead sprint at Jaune yelling something into his scroll before sprinting at him.
"Ren? What's up why the hell are-
"Jaune!?"
Ren yelled slamming into the boy crossing the Beacon hallway a good half of a quarter mile in record time entering near Olympic timetables as he bowled Jaune over like a freight train sending them both into the ground in a tangle of limbs and tears!?
"Ren!? Why the hell are you crying?!"
"Alive! Alive! Alive! Alive! You're actually alive!"
"I thought you were dead!" The boy yelled as Ren latched onto his bare chest gripping him like he was going to vanish in a heartbeat as Jaune felt a growing sense of dread in his stomach. This was not a good sign. If Ren was acting like this then-
"Jaune!?" A familiar sharp voice yelled before Jauenwas torn form Ren's great and wherein for air as a mass of red entered his vision as he was pressed into something insanely soft as his partner wrapped him in a bone-crushing hug.
"Pyrrha! Please! Can't breathe!"
"It can't be! This is impossible! He's back! He's really back! Thak you! Thank you! Thank you! I don't know how you're back but never leave me again! He has a fever!? Is he sick?"
Jaune wheezed as his partner threatened to break his spine in a bone-crushing bear hug as she crushed his spine.
"Jaune! What happened to you!?" Pyrrha asked as Jaune gakked as his face was crushed into her back. She smells good. Jaune thought as Pyrrha hugged him tightly before a voice yelled at the top of its lungs.
"Your arm!?" A voice that sounded like Nora yelled but was far too much for the quiet girl to be yelled as Pyrrha broke her bear hug of him gasping in fear as his yellow infect arm waved limply in the air.
"Oh, my Oum! What's wrong with your arm!?"
"Dear Monty! Why is it yellow!?"
"Deathstalker stinger."
Jaune said planily as he felt Pyrrha's anger.
"Why aren't' you in the hospital?!"
His partner yelled as Jaune finally felt his fever get the better of him as his knee's buckled and Pyrrha grabbed before he could fall.
"Jaune!? What's wrong!? Jaune talk to me!"
"God! God! God! Be okay! Please! Please! Please! Be ok!"
"I was on my way actually. But I don't feel so good right now..."
Jaune said as his eyes finally fluttered close before Pyrrha glared at him before picking him up in a bridal carry and sprinting towards the hospital.
If Jaune thought Pyrrha was emotional he was caught completely off guard as a red comet burst through the infirmary doors and slammed into him as the shaking form of Ruby hit him like a wrecking ball.
She hit him like a red train crying and sobbing and somehow thanking? Him as she bubbled an unintelligible amount of thought to him. Luckily his semblance kicked in, and he heard her ideas.
"Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! I thought you were dead! He's alive! Thank you, Monty! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" Ruby thought as she rested her crying face on his neck smearing him in tears and snot as she wrapped him in an Ursa grip as she refused to let go. As Jaune was moderately concerned she would rip out the IV in his arm that was keeping his arm on his person and keeping the morphine drip coming.
Soon the rest of RWBY came in as they all give him various greeting and looks of astonishment at his presumed return from the dead.
Apparently, everyone had thought he was dead for some reason. I mean he was only gone for a week back with the tribe that was commonplace and-
"Your arm is going to be fine." A calm voice said as a woman spoke up from behind them.
"Thank Oum!" Pyrrha said letting out a breath she had not realized that she had been holding as the nurse a tall woman named Sandra who Jaune had been loathing because she was the one who began his diet said as she showed a clipboard to him.
"It was close, but you should be fine. I'm surprised you made it this far as you did. You will need to rest a night in here, but you will live. Count yourself lucky." The nurse said Jaune signed as the various girls and Ren breath sigh of relief before him and Ruby began pestering him about the story demanding every detail of what happened to him.
A story he would honestly rather not tell at least not today as Jaune really wanted to get some sleep and even if it was not his bed the hospital bed was close enough.
Though this request soon became impossible as the dean and headmistress ented the room and Jaune sighed and began to speak.
He told them everything, that occurred after he was separated from Ren and lost int he forest. He told them tales of ducking through the trees using them as walls to block the wall of Ursa that charged him. He explained how he used the trees to force them to attack him in ones or three's. Making them never able to use their numbers to their advantage.
As he killed his way past them taking the apart pice meal before seeing his chance at freedom and running away. He watched as both Ruby's and Ren's eyes lit up like fireworks at his story she saw Pyrrha glaring at him with a fierce pride as he went on.
He told them about his decision to either take an extra week or not to return home or to take a shortcut that would lead him through a more dangerous area of the forest.
He told how he decided to half his journey's time once again leading him to face the deathstalker that struck him. Though this part led his partner to rage and demand why he didn't take the safer route. His explanation surprised her.
"Because of her," Jaune said pointing at Weiss who stuttered and coughed as her eyes opened like a deer in the head lights.
"For me? How? Why did you do that for me?" Weiss asked flummoxed at the boy who she had presumed dead.
"We had a date today. I told you that we would get out so we would. If I didn't cut my journey, I would have missed our time. And an Arc never breaks their word." Jaune explained as stunned Weiss's jaw dropped for a moment before her face turned into a snarl as she began to rage.
"Idiot! Foolish! Incomprehensible!" Weiss shouted as his words caused the heiress to flip a switch and go on a tangent again them as she listed every reason he should have stayed safe and taken his time coming home, a statement the entire room agreed with. Although while she claimed to be mad her blushing cheeks betrayed her true feelings as the headmistress interrupted her as Jaune continued.
Then he said how he followed the battle ship's course hear and that was that. The nurse gave him pills to take twice a day every day for a month to work the poison out of his system and after that Jaune was given a dose of sleeping pills as Opal forced the team out to give him his rest before his partner asked to have a word with him.
The dean sighed but gave her five minutes as Jaune was soon alone in the room with Pyrrha who had a strained look on her face.
Pyrrha was shaking. She couldn't believe the day. She started the day not knowing what to do. She had been coming back to her dorm with Nora only for a frantic call form Ren claiming that Jaune had come back and was in the Beacon hallway.
Pyrrha didn't believe it. Not at first. She wanted to believe it, but she was too used to living with the grief of a dead teammate too. Still, she ran. She ran faster then she thought she could as she ran as fast as her legs could carry her as she sprinted with Nora.
As she rounded the corner, she froze. Jaune was alive beaten battered but alive. She ran to him as fast as she could not want him to slip away. To vanish into thin air, even as she gripped him in her arms she was worried.
She thought the moment she let go he would vanish and despair ina puff of smoke. Thinking back it was a foolish concept. No one just disappears as she held him to close she saw his arm and nearly passed out.
It looked awful! It was a vicious yellow color sickly and lean, his muscle mass speed diminished and slack. As the arm seemed to be rotting in its socket.
After that, she decided to carry him to the doctors where his limb was saved. After that came the tears as Ruby found her best friend, something that Pyrrha still had resentment of as she wanted that title for herself.
As she hugged Jaune Pyrrha pushed that thought to the back of her head as she saw the sheer passion in the younger girl's eyes.
She cared for Jaune. She missed him and wanted him to be safe. She knew Ruby had feelings for the boy and she wanted to have him as much more than friends but she wanted his safety more than anything.
She just got to have her friend back her in her life, and Pyrrha could not fault her for that. After his story, she almost tore his head off at his decision to risk his life over a date. But Weiss had done a sufficient job at that as she made sure Jaune knew how displeased that decision had made her.
Even if she blushed like a child as she heard his words the girl despite her clearly ulterior motives and blatantly transparent motives she did care for Jaune at least enough not to want him dead.
That said Pyrrha needed to talk to Jaune. Alone. The last time they had talked it had not ended well.
They had a fight and a serious fallout. Jaune had grown tired of his forced diet of soup and her as he put it incessant scheduling of his days. The nurse said the best way to get his body back on track was a mostly liquid diet and no solid food besides crackers.
Pyrrha had insisted Jaune follow his diet despite his objections; she only wanted what was best for the boy! And after two weeks of this, it lead to a conflict.
It was a shouting match in the JNPR dorm as Jaune finally had enough, he refused to eat soup again and demanded food. She had told him no. His diet was for his own good, and he would keep on it whether he wanted to or not. Looking back Pyrrha hated herself.
She was selfish forcing her will on him even when he did not want to. This lead to arguments, shouting, more shouting. And both of them had said things they did not mean. Or Pyrrha prayed Jaune did not mean the things he said. She did not want him to hate her.
But now she had a chance to make thing right, and she would not let it slip between her fingers.
"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!"
Pyrrha said gripped his bed rail and bowing her head.
"Pyrrha!? What are you apologizing for?"
"For everything!"
The spartan admitted before going into a speech. She vehemently apologized for forcing him to do things that he did not want to do. She refused to work with him and insisted on doing it her way.
She wanted to get closer to him not for friendship but for personal gains. She apologized again and again before her voice ran hoarse and cracked as she went to her final point. Friendship.
"I am your partner. And I only want what's best for you. Please understand that. I refuse to let you hurt yourself or be harmed. I don't want to smother you but I will not let you be injured if I can help it!"
The spartan barked before she grew quiet as she seemed to become smaller.
"That being said! I also want to be your friend. Please. I'm sorry about before, I... I just don't want this to be the end of our relationship. I want to be your friend Jaune. Please." Pyrrha said gripping his arm feeling the warm flesh of his arm into she averted her eyes.
Jaune's chest was something she did not want to look at. It was a horrid desecrated thing filled with scars of all types of knife wounds, claw marks, and bullet holes. When Pyrrha first saw it, she nearly passed out as Jaune explained it was just a memory from the wilds. A memento from a rougher time in his life as Pyrrha barely held it together.
"I do too. I want to be your friend Pyrrha. But things have to change."
"Yes! They will! I'll do anything you want!"
Pyrrha said as the boy grimaced at her.
"I don't want you just to do what I want. I want you to listen to me. I am your partner, leader, friend? I want us to be friends. But we need to be a team. If I say something if I don't want something done until we talk about it."
"You don't need to force your way all the time. We need to have a discussion and work on things. Together." Jaune said Pyrrha nodded.
"I understand. I won't let you down. Friend?" Pyrrha said as a faint war feeling appeared to din her chest. It was a simple, fragile thing, weak and feeble but it was there. A bond was formed in that ward as the two smiled together... It was Monday...
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"Mister Arc... I normally do not have this talk with a student, but you do realize that you have a mandate for requirement correct?"
"Yes, mam! I just don't have a spare uniform... Jaune said as he lowed his head as the dean's eye him with a pitying glare in the hallway.
"Mister Arc... The fact that you have just come back from a trying time does a lot to lend me sympathy to you. And knowing your personal backstory I am lenient, but I must insist on this. Man or not you must follow the Beacon dress code. Find a new outfit by tomorrow, or I will put you in detention every night until you do. All right?"
The dean asked as Jaune gulped he thought this might occur even since Pyrrha warned him in their dorms earlier on...
"Jaune, why are you wearing that?" Pyrrha asked as she looked at her friends uniform. If you could call it that.
Pyrrha had forgotten exactly what Jaune's tatted outfit had looked like, and it was not good. It was a messy jumble of clothes, it seemed less and less like one singular outfit but more like someone had taken parts from various outfits and tossed them haphazardly together.
In what looked suspiciously like a wedding dress and simply stitched around it. Taking out patches and large segments of its original fabric as it was destroyed or dirtied. Fixing the jacket with whatever was on hand and leading it to be disjointed garbage amalgamation of colors that clashed rather garishly in the light of day.
His pants were not much better a similar hodgepodge of colors and patchwork fabric as Pyrrha grimaced.
"I don't have another uniform Pyr," Jaune said simply as Pyrrha grimace. He looked bad in that outfit. He desperately needed a new outfit as Pyrrha sighed seeing no other option but to let him dress up he couldn't go naked now, could he?
As much as she would like the sight of-
NO! Bad Pyrrha! She thought to shake her head; he is your friend not apiece of meat! He is your friends. Your very cute friend...
"So why don't you go buy a new one?" Yang asked looking at the boy who came back from the dead who sighed heavily.
"I don't have the money," Jaune said darkly as Yang cocked her head.
"What do you mean you don't have the money? A new uniform is like what? Thirty lien? How can you not have that much?"
Yang asked wincing as a blade hit her side as Blake glared at her from across the cafeteria table where JNPR and RWBY along with the addition of Velvet sat together eating their lunch.
"I don't have the lien...
"What? No way! I Know you have some money! How much do you have Goldilocks?"
"One."
Jaune admitted looking downward as Yang blinked owlishly at him.
"One hundred? See! That's not so bad you just-
"No. Not one hundred one lien. I only have one lien on my name. I have no money." Jaune said hanging his head low as Yang coughed as Weiss struck her with a glass shard from her left.
"Oh... I'm sorry to hear that...
"I am too."
Jaune said before three sets of gears began to turn. As Yang, Pyrrha and Weiss saw their moment to get closer to the boy.
This was it! An opportunity! Jaune needed clothes, Jaune was too poor to buy clothes if Yang bought him clothes Jaune would be grateful for her. And he in his gratitude would then fall happily into Yang's arms where she could show him the exact ways she could please a man.
As she formed a plan, she saw both Pyrrha and Weiss thinking too. No doubt the same thing as even Ruby in a blatant lack of tact had taken out her strawberry themed wallet and began to count her lien in front of him.
At least try to be subtle Rubes. Yang thought as Weiss gave her now friend? A glare as even Blake looked disapprovingly at her.
"Jaune why do you need a new uniform so bad?" Velvet asked eying her friend who she was incredibly happy to see alive and well. It had been a day since his return and she was currently over the moon at her crush being alive and well. As one of the few helpful students at Beacon turned out to be a man and her friend whom she shared a series of classes together with.
"Because if I don't wear the uniform Miss GoodWitch will give me detention starting today, and then every day after until I get one, and I don't have the money to buy a new one," Jaune admitted as his partner began to speak up before Velvet gasped.
"So all you need is a new uniform right?"
"Yes."
"I got it! I know how you can get one that will not only be approved of by the school but will also look great on you too!"
"Really? How?" Jaune asked as his partner closed her mouth as four pairs of eyes glared at the rabbit faunus who eeked! As she weathered the storm.
"My leader! She's a bit blunt of a person, but she has a good heart! She is also a master at fashion! She would be ecstatic to take you shopping for new clothes!"
"Velvet. I can't just take your money. I wouldn't feel right."
Jaune said as Pyrrha lowered her wallet as Velvet shook her head.
"It's no problem! I'm sure she will love to shop with you!"
"I just don't feel comfortable borrowing money from my friends."
"Then don't think about it as borrowing!"
Velvet said as Jaune cocked his head at her.
"What do you mean if I'm not borrowing money what am I doing?"
"Think of it as me paying you back!"
"Paying me back? For what?"
"For helping me out when we first met! I've been bullied my whole life because I am a faunus and I can count the humans who stepped out to help me with one hand. And you are on that hand."
"But... I was just doing the right thing. I don't need a reward for it. I wouldn't feel right...
"Jaune. Do this for me? Ok? Think of it as you doing me a favor a deeply personal favor alright?" Velvet asked gripping his hand in hers.
"Do this for me?" Velvet asked brow eyes shining in the light as Jaune sighed. "Fine... for you."
"I can't believe I said yes," Jaune said aloud as he stood on the Beacon air docks. Where he was currently standing alone in the hot Vale sun as he held a handwritten note in hand telling Jaune to wait for a Coco Adel? Of all things at the docs.
He had no idea why but when he had tried to say no to Velvet his mouth went dry and his tongue was tied in knots as he felt like what seemed like cold chains wrapped around his limbs as he was forced to say yes.
As he stood alone in the warm Beacon sun, Jaune sighed at least I'm warm. I wonder where and who the hell this Coco is and where-
"Hey, there hot stuff! How the hell are you! Besides looking a mess that is!" A loud, confident voice called out from behind him before a hand struck him in the back with enough force to send him sprawling forward as something hit him with the power of a sledgehammer as the sound of rich raucous female laughter filled his ears.
"That's a helluva outfit you got there kid! I mean you look great but damn! You need some new threads yesterday!" A woman said as Jaune turned to see her.
To call her beautiful would be lying calling the sun bright. She was jaw-dropping gorgeous and walked with a natural swagger that Jaune knew to mean absolute confidence. The was only further cemented by her slightly over seven-foot mark height and was dressed in the most stylish clothes that Jaune had ever seen on anyone.
She wore form-fitting black pants, that hugged her thin but thick legs tightly. As he saw her upper body, he saw her torso was wrapped in black tight fitting she followed by a brown vest with a necklace of gold bullets?! Hanging off her neck all tie doter by grow barret and a fashionable pair of sunglasses.
Followed by the single fanciest handbag he had witnesses ever as the girl eyed him like a piece of meat brown eyes watering at his sight.
Good god, what is he wearing?! Coco thought as it took every once of her willpower not to openly weep before ripping off the blondes abomination to fashion and dressing him herself wither own personal wardrobe. Seriously!
What he was wearing could not be counted as clothes! It was the unholy amalgamation of over a dozen types of shirts, pants, and assorted cloth quickly and practically stitched together to create the vague resemblance of an outfit and the only reason Coco did not rip him apart over it was that she saw it in him.
There were according to Coco two types of people in the world. The ones who thought that all clothes should be stylish and only the most elegant of dresses should grace your skin! These people were the sensible ones that led society onwards to greatness!
Then there were the ones that preferred practicality and comfort to looking good. Thinking that as long as their clothes kept them warm in the winter and cooled in the summer looks were secondary.
These people deserved to be shot.
Jaune, on the other hand, was none of the above! He was poor. Dirt poor, and while Coco usually had zero sympathies for those who did know how to dress she drew a line between those who did not dress out of free will and those that lived in sheer poverty and never got the chance.
He was one of those. They type who never got a fair shot in life and lived by stitching to get whatever would keep him from starving to death.
As she already knew who Jaune Arc was. Hell, every woman with a white knight complex knew of the damned prince in the castle! And if the rumors were true the boy had his fair share of falling down a staircase that had fists.
Coco thought darkly as she eyed him. He was a good kid from all Velvet's accounts. He stood up for her when she was getting bullied by a team of girls by himself! Something that meant he was either suicidal or a serious chill person. She hoped the latter as her eyes looked him up an down hungrily.
As far as half-starved runaways went, he was not that bad. He was skinny that was clear as day, when you don't eat for weeks you do tend to lose a fair bit of weight. And all he needed was some food to fill out, though as far as Coco was considered and he would fill out all the places that count.
That ass... Coco thought licking her lips as she stared the boy down. What? She was a healthy young woman! She knew what she liked, and she knew how to get it!
And unlike another woman, Coco would not pay for a date! Nor would she visit a damned palace for a man! She wasn't that desperate. If she wanted a man, she would win him with her own hands!
And clothes, that is as the best way to get a man to look at you is to look fabulous! Something she always made dure to did, now if there only wasn't a damn shortage of men in Beacon!
I mean really! There was less than a couple of dozen hunters in Beacon, and most out of all of them were either taken by a strong woman most likely a third or fourth year or in harems! Leaving precious little men for her! In fact, Coco had been in Beacon for two years and only been on two dates! Two Dates! That was ridiculous!
That's where he came in, nice figure, good personality, easy on the eyes and had what was a definite submissive mindset? The only reason she didn't have a firm hand on his tantalizing plump rear end was that one that would be creepy. And two! Velvet using her exclusive Adel best friend privilege had asked her to help him without sleeping with him!
A request she begrudgingly admitted to, and only because Velvet was already crushing on him and dreading the infamous Coco taste test. Where she would test potential boys that Velvet brought home to make sure they were up to snuff so speak before Velvet got her claws into them.
As any thought of the future where put on hold as a bullhead landed Coco tossed an arm around the boy's shoulder making him blush as she pushed him into the bullhead.
"Come on Jauney boy! Me and you are going to town!" Coco said as she dragged Jaune onto the bullhead ignoring the boy's protest as she pulled him along.
"Try on this! Then this! Then that! Then you can change in front of me and do a dance what do you say?" Coco asked relishing the blush on the boy's face as he went dashing into the Dressing Room at Adel fashions! Enjoying the flustered looks on the boy's face as she took a sip from her steaming mug of coffee as she watched they boy flush and stutter.
Coco's family owned this entire shopping line as Jaune blushed furiously as she tossed outfit after outfit for him to try on.
"Then this! And this! And after you finish that you can try this!"
Coco said as the boy sighed as she put down another mess of clothes.
"How many more clothes are there?" Jaune asked as Coco grinned at him.
"We are nowhere near the end kid! And if you think those puppy eyes are going to work on me you got another thing coming! If I can beat down, Velvet's whines I can ignore your's so unless you can pick the perfect outfit we are staying here till you try on the whole store!"
Coco said as Jaune sighed head popping back down the dressing room door as he looked in the dressing room mirror.
"Well looks like we're stuck for the moment."
His reflection said as Jaune sighed.
"Tell me about it. What should I wear?"
"Anything looks good on you!"
Coco yelled from outside as Jaune blushed.
"Fool. Don't to me in public. You are going to look like a crazy person. Now hurry up and try the shorts with the shirt. We haven't tried that yet."
It was true, Jaune knew that there was no way that Coco would budge on the matter as he sighed heavily.
"So if I pick a perfect outfit you'll let us go?"
"If you find the perfect outfit. And when I say perfect I mean it must both meet and surpass my own personal standards." Coco said from behind the door as Jaune looked at his new outfits.
There were three piles of clothes laid out for them as Jaune had already tried two out of the three to varying degrees of appraising from Coco as he decided to put on the third outfit. A seemingly snug white top along with a pair of shorts.
"How does this look?"
Jaune asked as he stepped outside of the changing rooms Coco looked his way.
"Let me-
"Good Oum!" Coco coughed as she nearly spilled her beverage. As she saw the improved Jaune Arc walk out of the dressing room.
Sweet Oum! What happened to him!? Coco thought as she fought it keep her coffee down beating down a knee-jerk spit take as Jaune walked out the changing room.
He wore a shortly cropped Beacon uniform variant that jealously clutched his upper body openly showing off his thin well shaped upper body as his muscle tone shone through the top. Giving her a good amount of eye candy as Coco coughed. Looking down her breath truly caught in her lungs as she saw his legs.
No way! No way in hell I can send him back in that! That hugged his waist far to tight! If I send him back into Beacon, there won't be a girl that can keep her hands off him! Not to mention that Velvet will kill me!
Coco thought as she saw the altered Beacon uniform shorts that seemed to cling to his legs like another skin perfectly defining them as Jaune blinked up at her.
"So how do I look?" Jaune aksed with a completely innocent expression as Coco coughed.
"I'm going to take you right here."
"What?"
"I mean you look amazing! Beautiful even!" Coco said before catching her tone.
I can't! I just can't! I know that outfit is far too revealing even if it is technically Beacon approved! It looks too good on him! Those white and blues go perfectly with his eyes and hair! I just can't send him home without them!
I know! How about this! Coco thought gripping a pair of Beacon approved uniforms and tossing him a couple of coverings.
"Here! Put this on! You'll look even better with this!"
Coco said as she began to be covered with a thin layer of sweat.
Oh, Oum! Why that one!? Why did he have to try the one uniform that I did not want him to wear! That was supposed to be a gag uniform! The type that no one would even consider wearing! And he not only just had to put it on but like it!?
"Sure thing," Jaune said as he stepped back into his changing room as Coco fought to keep her cool.
This is bad, bad, bad! If he ends up picking that outfit, I will never be able to live it down! Why does he want to wear it anyways?! Can't he see the way it clings to him!? It's basically a second skin! It leaves nothing to the imagination! Coco thought breathing out of her nose as her face became a beat red.
If he keeps this up, he's going to-
"How does this look?" Jaune asked stepping out of the changing room nearly making Coco faint.
It made it worse! The original outfit was already showing off far to much skin the addition of the outer skirt only made it worse! As now even if there was something covering his ass and front there was a subtle curve showing followed his already tantalizing rear end and the curve of his hips was now highlighted along with the faintest bludge in the front of his shorts-
"GAH!"
Coco coughed violently as she fought to stand up straight. The skirt added only enough coverage to make it so that it now looked like he was trying to tease her! As she began to pant openly. This is the exact type of outfit people talk about when they say people are asking for it! Coco thought before kicking herself. No one ever asks for it. Coco berated herself before turning to the boy.
"Jaune! Are you sure you want that outfit? I mean absolutely positively sure that that is the one you want?' Coco asked in a last ditch hail marry to get the boy to reconsider as he shook his head.
"Yup! It feels good to me and me like how snug if fells! I can get this one right?" Jaune asked with a purely innocent face making the beguiling effect of his outfit only compounded ten fold.
"Sure! Just let me get my card!" Coco said even though she would be getting this outfit for free. I mean this was her store after all! Or one of them to be precise.
"I'd want to get one for Ren to an-
"Fine! I'll get you all three pairs now let's go!" Coco said finally saying to hell with it! She had always been a firm believer in if you had it flaunt it! And this boy after a quick make up he definitely had it! She thought ushering Jaune out of the store before she or any of the other ladies looking at Jaune finally had a lapse in good decision making and tried to drag him off to a quiet corner for some alone time. If he walked in the wrong hallways at night...
"Thanks for the outfit's Coco! I don't know what to say."
"Say nothing at all! Just keep being a good friend to Velvet you hear!" Coco said with a wide grin as she sweated buckets internally.
Oh dear Oum I've created a monster! Coco thought as she looked at the walking catastrophe that was Jaune Arc. He was a sexual harassment case in the making, and she could see it already!
The boy was that odd perfect mix of trusting and alluring. He looked like was one of those types of guy, but his actions and metamerism were so innocent and pure it completely negated them!
But instead of a perfect counter, they mixed with each other perfectly giving him an impish charm that made him irresistible! As they sat on the bullhead going home form the store.
"Really. If there is anything I can do to pay you back please just let me know!" Jaune said as Coco bit her tongue.
Fuck it! He's practically asking for it right now! I'm sorry Velvet, but I have to do this! Coco said as she took a deep breath an spoke.
"Well now that you mention it... I wouldn't mind if you took a seat here." Coco said slapping her leg playfully.
Good this way if it works great! And if not? I play it off like it was all a joke and-
"You want me to sit on your lap? Why?"
Oum, he is too innocent!
"Because the bullhead might get crowded! and I don't want you to feel uncomfortable?" Coco asked hit her head internally. Great going, Coco! You jet went full bunny! Never go fully bunny even if she is precious and-
"Are you asking me to sit on your lap?" Jaune asked in a steely tone as Coco gulped.
"Yes. Jaune Arc would you sit on my lap until we go into Beacon proper?" Coco asked as Jaune grimaced.
Jaune liked Coco. She was kind beautiful and seemed to respect him. Even if she was hitting on him now, he couldn't blame her. She probably found him attractive, and as long as she was just asking him, there was no harm.
Thought Jaune did not want to sit on her lap and was going to say no. And plus! This was a good test! If he said no and she accepted it and moved on there would be more grounds for his not all women are bad theory!
"Sorry, Coco I-
Jaune froze as he felt cold chains wrap around his limbs as his mouth went numb and limbs fell slack. Like a puppet with its string cut.
"Sorry for-
"Yes. I would love to sit on your lap." Jaune said in a dull monotoned voice making the girl blush as he picked up his bags and made the two-seat journey to her lap where he plopped down right onto its heavenly feeling.
What am I doing!? Jaune thought as he snapped out of his trance. He had just been trying to say no when he agreed!? The hell was that!?
Jaune thought as he felt two strong arms wrap around him as Coco gripped his sides holding him firmly making him blush.
Oh dear Oum he's adorable! And his body! It's so soft yet firm! I want to tear off his clothes with my teeth! Coco thoughts gipped the blushing boy.
Coco was different for some reason, but chief among them was her clothing. She was covered almost head to toe in the fancies, and most stylish clothing money could buy and had little to no skin open to him.
No skin meant no semblance. No semblance meant he had no idea what she was things the girl's hands traced a circle around his body making him whimper...
Coco was breathing heavily as the two sat in eerie silence as she flushed open. Fuck me! Why is this so awkward!? Coco thought as she felt her arms tighten around the boys was making him gasp but not protest as she gulped.
And I make fun of Velvet! Gah! Just calm down Coco you need to play it cool! The fashionista thought as the two sat together Coco had a rather interesting dilemma. To be blunt she wanted to have sex. To be very blunt she wanted to have sex again. To be honest, despite her stunning outfits, magnetic personality drop-dead dead looks Coco Adel, resident fashionista and the single most stylish girl in all of Beacon maybe even all of Vale! Had only had sex twice in her entire life!
Single men were hard to find. And especially in a huntress academy! She had been lucky twice before with temp students and a socially awkward third year but that was the past! And it had been months since she last shared a bed and she was starting to get an itch that she needed to scratch.
She just needed to play her cards right! Jaune was already literally in her lap! She just needed to make him hers! Well, theirs really. As Coco had a current share deal with Velvet. As she put a hand on his inner thigh making him give a sharp intake of breath as she gripped his inner leg before shifting his body craning his neck up with her free hand staring her deep brown eyes into his light blues as she finally made a move...
"I wonder if Goldilocks came back yet?" Yang asked aloud as her Blake, Weiss, Pyrrha, and Nora walked to their dorms.
"I don't know Yang. Nora, did Ren call you yet? I heard he went to the dorms to sleep?" Pyrrha asked her teammate and friend Nora who nodded her head.
"Yeah, that's what he said. According to him, Jaune came back from his shopping trip with six uniforms. Three for him and three for Ren."
"He bought Ren uniforms? Doesn't he have some of his own?" Weiss asked as Nora nodded.
"He probably felt bad about not buying him anything. He's a nice guy." Nora said as the teens turned to their dorms before Ruby burst out of JNPR's dorm slamming into the opposite wall at full speed.
"Easy there, sis! You're going to hurt your-
Yang stopped her jibe as she saw that her younger siblings face, as the girls gasped as they saw Ruby's entire face was covered in blood.
"Ruby!? What happened?!" Yang asked rushing to her dazed sister who was currently gripping the side of the wall gasping her face trying to stem the massive amount of blood falling from her, not as the girls drew their weapons.
"Yang! It's Jaune and Ren!"
Ruby said as Pyrhha felt her heart froze as her world ground to a halt.
"What about Jaune and Ren!? Did something happen to them?! Ruby where are they!?" Pyrrha demand of the younger girl as Ruby pointed to their dorm.
"They're in there! But wait! You need to hear this!"
Ruby's pleas fell on deaf ears as Pyrrha and Nora charged their dorm, both determined to see what fate befouled their teammates as their looks only promised bloody vengeance on whoever-
"Pyrrha!'
"Nora!"
Twin happy voices said as both Pyrrha and Nora enter their room weapons drawn only to freeze mid tracks as the stopped gaked and started to bleed profusely from their noses.
"Jaune?! What happened to you!?" Pyrrha asked not believing her sight. Infront of her was Jaune but it was not the Jaune she knew. This was not the boy who had left Beacon dressed in a ragged cloth and a hodgepodge of fabrics.
Oh no, this Jaune was covered neck to bottom in a pristine new Beacon uniform if you could even call it that. As it hugged his body like a second skin.
His chest was covered in a skin-tight white top, that was made of a searing white cloth, and it flowed down his chest, decorated with intricate patterns of blues and browns that clung jealously to his skin chowing each and every curve of his slender chest.
Pyrrha's brain stopped, as the gears in her head ground to a screeching halt as she felt blood rushed to her cheeks and burst from her nose as her eyes droned downward and her breathing hitched as she felt her thigs quake.
His ludicrously tight shirt was closely followed by a pair of far too short shorts that gripped this leg so tightly they seemed to breathe with his body leaving nothing to the imagination as Pyrrha traced her eyes up to see him wear what appeared to be some type of skirt that was meant to cover his crotch area only it did the exact opposite of that.
As it's lackluster cover only gave Jaune a beguiling look that broke Pyrrha's will as hot blood came pouring from her nose.
"I'm going to fuck you up a wall," Pyrrha growled out of the corner of her mouth as a blur of green rolled past her as Ren proceded to tackle Nora.
"Nora! Look at the new clothes Jaune got me! Don't I look cool an-
"Nora? Why is your nose bleeding?" Ren asked as he wiped a long line of blood away from his uniform before Nora began to gak.
"Ren! What are you-
"Why are you!?-
"What!?" Nora finally stuttered out in the single loudest voice Pyrrha had ever heard her use as her face was currently becoming redder than her hair as she refused to look Ren in the eye furiously wiping off the blood flowed in her face as Ren blinked owlishly at her.
"Pyrrha? Is something wrong? You have a nosebleed too." Jaune asked as Pyyrha flashed her hand to her mouth.
"No! Nothing's wrong at all! It's just-
"Hey, Goldilocks! We heard you were back what took you so long?" Yang asked as Ren leaped out of Nora's arms leaving her fragile embrace before slamming into Jaune pressing their faces together and interlocking their hands.
"We went shopping, and now we have matching outfits! How do we look!?" Ren asked as Yang walked in the door only to stop stuttering openly before coughing thrice before covering her mouth as blood fell from her face.
"Sweet fucking Monty. If I was alone with you two, I'd-
"Xiao-Long! Language! What is going on in there? Why is everybody screaming? Why are you bleeding everywhere! What is going-
"My word!?" Weiss gasped as a fountain of blood fell from her nostrils, staining her immaculate white dress painting the color of her leaders cloak as she broke into a furious blush as Blake followed.
"What's all the-
Blake stopped on a dime her body coming to a screeching halt as no blood cam form her nose as. Instead, there was a blur of motion the girl reached into her pants as she flipped out a journal of some type and began to scribble in it furiously as a gleam took her eyes as she began to mutter words like
Two boys, alone, into tight clothes. Desperate huntress, bondage, nonconsensual...
"Jaune! I heard you got back from shopping with Coco! How did it-
The accented voice of Velvet entered the room only to be stopped in its' tracks as the bunny girl reacher he hands not her mouth before fuming.
"COCO ADEL! When I get my hands on you! I warned you about this! I am so sorry for this Jaune! I know she forced you to wear this! I'm so sorry I don't know what gets into her sometimes! But I promise you she will regret this an-
"Velvet! You got this all wrong. I wanted to wear this. Coco didn't force me to wear this at all."
"She didn't make you wear this skim-
"Skintight outfit?"
"Nope! If anything she tried to discourage me from doing it! I wanted to wear it because I think I look good in it! Don't you think I look good?"
Jaune asked batting his eyes at the bunny girl who finally let her nose bleed draining her strength falling to her knees before standing up on shaky legs as she mumbled a muted goodbye before running out of the room nearly bowling over Ruby as she left the room.
"See! I told you!" Ruby yelled as the room fell into anarchy.
Fuck this! Yang thought as she felt her body became a furnace, two boys wrapped up wearing that!? Oh no! Oh hell no!
"I need to take a shower!" Yang yelled before stomping out of the room before Weiss yelled at her.
"The shower!? For what!?"
"What do you think I'm going to use it for?!" Yang shouted back ignoring her nose billed as Weiss gasped.
"Yang-Xiaolong! You will not do that in our shower!"
"Would you rather I do it in the room!?"
Yang shouted back as Weiss stuttered before regaining her wits.
"I would rather you learn some simple self-control!"
"I need to take a shower too!" Pyrrha yelled wasting time to argue before stomping over to her shower. Her body felt like a furnace as she felt her hands drift to her groin, oh Oum I need this, Pyrrha thought as she stalked into the bathroom.
"Xiao-Long! The shower is a communal room, and you will not dirty it!"
"You can't dirty a shower Weiss cream! It's literally meant for stuff like this!"
Yang declared as Weiss blushed as she wiped the blood from her face.
"Weiss Cream?! Why I never!"
"What do you want me to do? Do it in our room!?"
"NO! We sleep there and-
"That where I do it," Blake admitted dryly putting away her notebook as Weiss nearly fainted.
"I am surrounded by degenerates! Hoodlums! And perverts!" Weiss yelled before glaring at her leader.
"At least Ruby doesn't have these urges! You are still pure right Ruby!?"
"Pure? What's going on? What's so wrong about Yang taking a shower in our room?"
"Ruby she's going her to touch herself." A pair of amber eyes said before Ruby's mouth dropped as she turned out, her sister.
"Yang-Xiao-Long! You will not-
"Already moving sis! If you want to stop, me come and try!" Yang said as she left from the room as Weiss began to fume.
"Not like this you brute!" Weiss yelled as she stalked after Yang as Ruby and Blake both chased after their teammates as Ren and Jaune shrugged their shoulders.
"Nora? What's happening?" Ren asked as his best friend was currently wiping the blood from her face.
"N- Nothing Ren! Just! Just go to bed ok?"
"Ok!" Ren said as he shrugged it Jaune who shrugged as he took off his clothes and slipped into bed. Jaune had a long day, and now it was time to sleep it was Monday...
"Hey! Hey! Blondie! Wake up!"
An irritated female voice said as Jaune panicked.
"I'm sorry!" Jaune said as he opened his eyes as bright sunlight hit his face as an angry pair of brown eyes looked down at him.
"Get. Up. We have work to do blondie if you don't want me to drag your sorry ass out of bed then get moving!"
"I'm sorry Vernal!" Jaune said leaping out of his cot as he fell to the nice heated interior of his tent.
"I'm sorry Vernal! I slept in-
"No shit you slept in! Now get up! We got work to do unless you forgot that is!"
"No! I didn't forget! Mam!" Jaune added hastily getting dressed in his tattered outfit as Vernal gave a heavy sigh.
"Fine. Meet me outside five. If you are not out in five minutes, I will come back in here. Jaune. You. Do. Not. Want. Me. To. Do. That." Vernal added menacingly as Jaune nodded.
"Why is she so grumpy?" Jaune thought as he flicked on his tribe clothes as he checked his vision in the pocket mirror of his tent.
His face was still scared to all Oum as the fresh cut's bruises and burns he earned on his way to his freedom stood proudly on it.
"Ah well like the boss says that's life," Jaune said turning down the shattered mirror as he lept outside into bright sunlight.
"What's the job today?" Jaune asked his tutor and guardian, Vernal who glowered at him menacingly.
"Today we gather wood. The tribe needs wood to cook, and build so we will gather it. Now come." Verla said tossing Jaune an ax as the two walked off into their day.
It was already morning, and all around Jaune the hustle and bustle of tribes life surrounded him. Men woman children all moved about in an organized chaos fashion each of them going about their day to day lives as they built up, tore down or planned new buildings, farmland, or anything else the time needed.
As Jaune and his tutor, as she had been appointed to him, Vernal stepped through the maze of tents, and Tp's as they walked Jaune could not help but smile.
He could not believe his luck! Less than four months on the road and he all ready had a new family! A place to stay, the meals a day and a bed of his own!
The tribe's leader had saved his life from the camp months ago and offered Jaune a place with them one he had taken in a heartbeat as he and Vernal walked past the various tents, before passing by the ornate hut of their captain. As their leader request their name to be changed from chief to captain!
Much to Vernal's disappointment, she was a bit of a traditionalist after all and-
"Why are you smiling blondie? You look happy. I don't like it."
"I am happy Vernal! I can't believe my luck! Less then half a year on the road and I have a home, a family and a place to call my own!"
Jaune said as the usually stoic woman's face turned into a smile.
"You are right about that. Jaune the tribe is your family form this day onward. Do your job, work hard and stay loyal and you will have a place until you die." Vernal said as the two smiled at each other as they began to hack into a set of trees...
"HAH!" Jaune gasped as he woke up to sunlight falling on his head. One look around showed him awake in the early morning his teams dorm.
"I... I dreamed?" Jaune asked as he looked at is sweating palms.
"I never dream. Not since...
Jaune thought as he looked at his sleeping teammates.
It was less than five minutes until the day started as Jaune sighed and prepared to get dressed.
"Ready?" Jaune asked as team JNPR finally finished gearing up. Jaune could not help but smile. His team had come together, both Pyrrha and Nora had buried their hatchet, and he and Ren had shiny new uniforms that felt like a second skin as team JNPR headed outside into their day.
"Boy's are so cute," Nora said as she watched Jaune and Ren waking down the hallway. Ren latched onto the boy's arm for dear life as the two chatted amicably as their partners smiled happily at them.
"They are, especially with that on them," Pyrrha said mouth slightly watering at the sight of the two boys clad in clothes that seemed to be little more then a second skin as memories of last night entered her head. She had spent over an hour in the shower with herself thinking about the things she wished she could do to her partner if he gave her the chance! The memories brought a flush to her face as her mouth watered as Nora chuckled.
"Tell me about it. I almost ripped Ren to shreds last night." Nora added as Pyrrha cocked her head to her friend.
"About Ren. Are you two together or...
"No. We are friends nothing more."
Nora said a bit too sharply than necessary as Pyrrha backpedaled.
"Oh! I'm sorry! I just thought that since you were together you and he was-
"A couple?"
"Yes, I assumed you loved him and-
"I do."
"Romantically?"
"... Yes.
"Does he love you?"
"Yes."
"Then why aren't you together?" Pyrrha asked Nora sighed.
"Life isn't that simple Pyrrha. Not with us." Nora added darkly as the two walked down the hallway.
Jaune was happy. Things were finally going his way as he did a slide forward as a ball of fire rained down next to explain with a loud crack! As he moved forward barrel going out of the raging cataclysm. Today was a good day, in fact, the last two days were great! Not only was his team getting along perfectly, but he and his partner had also finally become friends!
Jaune through grimacing as burst of ice exploded next to him making him grit his teeth a twenty-foot-long shard of ice nearly impaled him as he grit his teeth launching himself forward to deliver a satisfying shield bash to its ower as Weiss screamed as his shield connected with her face send the girl reeling as he produces a pushing sword strike to her chest knocking her off balance.
Not only was she far less mothing and controlling she had been actively consulting with him about team maters. Pyrrha had tons of ideas of how to better help the team with various training, diets and a slew of another idea that he was happy to indulge as-
"AHH!" Jaune cried as a ball of flame struck him in his chest making him cry as an alarm rang.
"Winner Schnee!" GoodWitch yelled as Jaune sighed as his flawless arena performance came to an end.
As he looked up his aura was in the red and hers low orange. It had been a good fight, but Weiss outranged him too much for him to stand a realistic chance of beating her. For now.
Jaune thought as panting heiress walked over to him.
"Good fight Arc! You showed an impressive if not an ultimately futile display of abilities!" Weiss said with a wolfish grinned as she held up a hand that Jaune took.
"My my, you are strong. Even if you are a man. I might have to reconsider my position on you being a hunter at this rate. Keep it up Arc while you might have always had my curiosity now you have my undivided attention."
Weiss thoughts Jaune smiled at her.
"Thanks! Yout too Weiss." Jaune said as the girl smile at him.
"Of course and oh! Before I forget! For our make update would this Friday work for you?"
"Friday? Sound good but why then?"
Jaune asked as the dean gave them both a brief appraisal of their combat skills citing ho Jauen did well in countering opponent with superior control and range of him acting in the best tactical sense but lamenting that he needed a ranged weapon.
Jaune was surprised she could talk. The first time she saw him in his new uniform she had been reduced to a whithering stuttering mess as blood spurted out from her nose, and she had to excuse herself from his and Ren's presence.
Why do woman keep doing that? Jaune thought as he realized that ever since he and Ren got their new uniform girls tend to stop stare more than regular and burst into nose belled at the sight of them.
Even the teacher was not immune! The dean became a stuttering mess, Pretoria had simply stared slack-jawed at them before merely giving them two papers with a large A on them. When asked what for she simply said for the school year as Jauen and Ren shrugged.
Oobleck had spilled her coffee and coughed so hard Jaune thought she would die as her thermas flew to the floor as she struggled to find the right words, even Opal herself was not immune! When she first saw them, she chocked on her mug nearly dropping it and spilling a hearty amount of coffee in the process. Even still it was not limited to them!
Every time Jauen and Ren walked in the halls girls would consistently walk into walls, doors, and even in some dangerous case out of windows! As they all seemed to lose their motor skills and crash into things that or develop massive nose bleeds at their sight. Girls are weird. Jaune thought as he looked at Weiss.
"Well, to be honest, I am going be going out with my team today to explore downtown! And Friday is just a good day for me."
Weiss said as the got back to their team's benches where Blake smirked at her.
"She means she just wants to scope out the competition for the upcoming Vytal festival," Blake said snarking as Weiss gasped.
"What!? No, I don't!"
"Weiss, you do know you are blushing right?"
Jaune asked as Weiss' face became beet red before gripping his hand.
"Stupid male! Don't think you can beat me just because you are stronger than normal!"
"Jaune! Are you picking her side!?"
"You better not be!"
"No, I'm just saying that you are blushing. Are you sick?"
"Of your bluntness! Jeeze! Boys are supposed to have subtly and tact! What's wrong with you!?"
Weiss thought before Jaune sighed lett go of her hand and getting nearly bowled over by Ren in the process.
"Jaune!" His best male friend said as Jaune sighed.
"Hey, Ren. What's up?"
"You did great out there!" Ren said happily as Jaune sighed long used to Ren's antics as his partner spoke up.
"I must agree, even if you did lose you handled yourself well," Pyrrha said before the dean spoke.
"The next match will be... Yang-Xiao-long!"
"Oh yeah! That's me!" Yang said standing up pumping her fist together in a shower of sparks.
"Who's the unlucky bastard I get to pummel!" Yang asked laughing raucously as Ruby squeaked.
"Put a lien in the swear jar!" Ruby demanded suddenly shoving a large crystal har full of small bills into her sister who blinked once.
"No."
Was Yang's reply as Ruby seemed offended.
"But you-
"Versus! Lie Ren!"
"Yeah! That's me! I'm the one you get to fight! Are you going to pummel me, Yang?" Ren asked bouncing on the balls of his feet using stutter and blushed before felling the hand of death itself on her shoulders as Nora glared at her.
"Ummm... Yeah... I'm going to pound you good...
Yang said half-heartedly as Nora shot her a baleful glare as the two made their way into the arena.
"Xiao-long! Ready?"
"Yup!"
"Lie Ren! Ready?"
"As I've ever been!"
"Then begin!"
The dean said as the fight started.
Ok, Yang calm down! You got this! It's just boy! You can win, even if he is insanely cute. Oh dear Oum that one shower wasn't nearly enough to satisfy me! I should have gone back and-
"Yang! Hey Yang!" Ren yelled from the opposite side of the area jumping up once waving Stormflower in one hand.
"Uh... Yes?" Yang asked flummoxed by the energetic boys greeting her. Why is he calling me-
"How are you doing! Are you ready for a fight!" Ren asked waving his arms happily as Yang smiled.
Boy's are too cute. I just got make sure I go easy on him. No need to break the pretty face of his. For on it's a shame and two Nroa would kill me!
"Sure am pretty boy! Now where-
"The fuck did you go?"
"Language!" Ruby shouted from her seat as Ren had vanished.
Really! He was standing right there! Dead ahead of her a second ago and now he had simply gone! Vanished disappeared in a puff of smoke!
"Where the hell-
"Hi, Yang! I'm going to stab you now! K?"
A hyper voice asked from her side as a blur of green slammed into her left.
Yang barely had time to raise her gauntlets to desperately block as the bayonets of Stormflower stabbed into her arm as Ren brought both of his bayonets down in brutal thrust making her grit her teeth at the shocking amount of force behind them.
"Oh! That's a nice block! Good job!"
Ren said forcing his bayonets into her gauntlets as Yang balked.
"Thanks!?" Yang asked before in a puff of smoke Ren vanished.
"What the he-
"Over here!"
A voice yelled before twin bayonets stabbed her in her side making her cry out in pain.
"Ahh!" Yang yelled eyes growing red as she cocked her gauntlets swinging them wild Ember Celica blazing away filling the air with buckshot only to hit nothing as Ren slipped away from her fire and disappearing from sight.
"The hell did you-
"Behind you!"
"AHH!" Yang cried as twin bayonets slammed into her back taking her to her knees before a hail of bullets impacted her back driving her forward before delivering a devastating kick to the back off her head that took her oof her feet and sent her sliding to the ground.
"Hey! That's not right! Yang this is a fight! No sleeping!"
Ren yelled raking the blonde with gunfire as she grimaced.
Her aura was already at seventy-five, and he was at full.
"No way in hell!" Yang yelled roared leaping up from the floor in a burst of flame the floor like bullies Ren grinned
"Watch out! She's angry!" Ren said mockingly as Yang charged him. It was pointless. It was like a weightlifting champion trying to grapple an Olympic gymnast.
Yang would attack and swing with all her force only for Ren to simply duck dive and slip through her attacks, parrying shooting as needed and striking her in a shocking display of agility and dexterity that gave Yang one to my ideas of what she could do to a boy who was that flexible...
If he bends over one more time! I swear to Oum-
"Stop spacing out! This is a fight you know!?"
Ren asked slicing Stormflower over neck taking her aura all the way to the orange as Yang panted. She was going to get perfected by a boy!? Oh no! Oh Hell no! This was not going to- all Thought in Yang's head froze as her eyes widened to the point of saucers as she looked down to a single floating thing in the air.
"Oh? It looks like you lost some hair there! Don't worry Yang I'll end this quick!"
Ren said before shadow stepping away avoiding her attacks as he prepared to deliver the coup de grace and-
"YOU MONSTER!" Yang yelled she was suddenly enveloped in a raging inferno as fire exploded out of her body.
"Yang?! What's wrong!?" Ren asked before twin flaming eyes locked onto his making him quake.
"You monster!" Yang yell before launching herself into a low stance and deliver a flaming punch into his stomach sending him flying out of the arena and impacting the wall with a sickening crunch!
"Winner! Xiao-long! By ring out and loss of aura!"
Goodwitch said as Yang, saw Rens' aura, go all the way into the red as a low, pained cry came from the other side of the arena.
Oh crap. Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap! Yang thought to rush forward to the down moaning boy as she felt a death glare on her back as she came to the form of Ren coughing heavily as he laid in a pile of rubble.
"You hit too hard!" Ren said as Yang swore she saw tears on his clothes.
NO! No! No!
"I! I didn't mean to! Please be ok! I-
"Good fight!" Ren said leaping to his feet before smiling at Yang with an innocent look.
"You... You're ok?"
"I'm great!" Ren said as he looked at Yang quizzically before beaming up at her.
"Thank for the fight!" Ren said suddenly leaping into Yang's arms and hugged her tightly.
Yang nearly had another nose bleed before her body lost all temperate as a cold hand gripped her shoulder.
Ther was a dark spiraling anomaly hovering over the team JNPR beans as the N of the team glared at Yang with naked contempt as Yang was somewhere between blushing in embarrassment and quaking in fear as Nora glared at them.
"An excellent fight you two! Congratulations on your come back victory Miss Xiao-Long! Even if you won more to your instinct and lack of strategy!"
"And you Mister Lie Ren! You displayed an absolutely outstanding level of skills and stealth. Using your superior speed and agility to wear down a superior opponent was masterful!"
"My only real critique for you two is for you Miss Xiao-Long to not rely on your emotions to win, and for you Mister Lie Ren. To not mock your opponents so much. If you had spent half of the time talking and hit her you would have won handily. Until then you both did well and showed signs of promise!"
The dean said dismissing them as Yang and Ren walked back, Yang withering under the baleful glare form Nora and Ren humming obliviously as the dan called out again.
"Next fight! Nora Valkyrie!"
"I need to hit something."
"Versus! Sky Lark!"
"All right!" A girl with a mohawk of all things said leaping out of her seat as the two walked into the arena.
"Hey! Nora Right?"
The girl with pale skin and a garish green mohawk said as Nora cocked an eyebrow at her.
"Yes? Why?"Nora asked the girl who grinned at her with a wicked look.
"You got that boy Ren with you right?"
Sky asked giving a rough glare as Nora shot her a dirty look.
"Yes. Why do you care?"
Nora asked not at all liking the way this girl was talking.
"Because! I mean tell me about it!"
Sky said as Nora cocked her head at her.
"Tell you about what?"
Nora asked flexing Magnihild already not liking the girl's attitude and anticipating shattering her kneecaps shortly.
"About him of course! I mean it must be great having drag around meat stick like him! I mean I bet you push him down every night and ride to your heart's content! I mean hell he's so cute! Do you think you would be open to sharing? I have lien I can rent him for what do you-
Sky pause as she noticed Nora had gone vanished in a puff of smoke as she coked her head before a literal sledgehammer slammed into her knees making her cry out in pain as she was sent flying out of the arena.
"Winner Valkyrie!"
GoodWitch called in shock as Nora launched her opponent outside the arena with the force of a train as she slammed her into the wall depleting her aura to red without taking more than ten steps.
"Oww! What the hell!? Why did you-
"If you ever talk about Ren like that. Like he's a piece of meat again. I'll do far worse than break your kneecaps." Nora said darkly picking up the girl by the scruff of her collar before tossing her to the ground and stalking back to her team.
"Nora? What's wrong?"
Ren asked as JNPR looked at her with varying levels of concern.
"Nothing Ren. She's nothing." Nora said as the fights went on...
"The harlot! I would have done far worse to her!" Pyrrha hissed in Nora's ear as they sat in Oobleck class advance sciences. As the two girls sat above team RWBY
" I know. But she's an idiot. I don't want to waste my time on her. Plus... Ren wouldn't like it if I did."
Nora said as Pyrrha grimaced, she already didn't like the Sky girl for bullying Velvet because she was faunus but now? It seemed she was also a scoundrel and a predator to men? If she said that about Jaune? Pyrrha grimaced as she doubted that herself control would be on Nora's leave the girl would be lucky if-
"Attention! Attention! Beacon students! May all members the Beacon soccer club, please meet at three PM for field practice!"
"There are some class cancellations today. Please if you have and advance history of physic classed do not show up. The teachers have a meeting, so they are canceled."
The voices of Ren and Jaune came over the schools PA system Pyrrha smile. The boys were chosen to have announcement duty today and-
"Jaune! What are you doing today?"
"After school? Nothing why?"
The voices of the boys said as the arraigned students and doctor, not professor turned to the speaker as the boys had apparently not noticed that they were still on the air and were having a normal conversation.
"We should hang out together!' Ren said for the entire school to hear as Nora cocked her head.
"Sure. Let me call Pyrrha and Nor-
"Nope! Not them!
"Ok... What about Velvet and-
"Nope! Not them either! This needs to be a guys night out!"
"Guys night out?"
"Guys night out! Just us! We never have any guy time with the girls around! We need to have some us time!"
"Sure... What are we going to go do?"
"What do you think we are going to do!?" Ren said as now Pyrrha Nora RWBY and what had to be most of the school was paying attention to the speaker.
"I don't know. That's why I'm asking you."
"We are going to the club!"
"The club?"
"Yes! There's this great new club downtown that I've heard of and we have to go!"
"Umm Isn't that club for like drinking?"
"Of course! Drinking is great!"
"You drink? Ren? Are you even old enough to?"
"Of course I am! I'm the legal minimum!"
"I'm younger than you...
"And!? Jaune we need to get out get free! You just came back from the forest should we celebrate a bit!"
"Sure... But I have no money...
"Don't worry! I've squirreled away some lien over the years without Nora noticing!"
"Really? Your hiding things from Nora?"
"Of course I am! I don't think she would approve of my drinking!"
"That's...
"Don't worry Jaune! Me and Nora don't know everything about each other! I hide lots of things for her that she doesn't know about!"
Ren admitted as Nora suddenly stood up and grimaced at the speaker.
"So what do you say! Boys night?!"
"I mean what about the others? I mean Yang looks like she knows how to party. Maybe we should invite her?"
Jaune asked as Yang perked up in anticipation as her head crooned up as she started to smile.
"NO! Jaune this is guy's night! And Yang's a girl! she can't come!"
"Ok... What about Ruby?"
The girl's head leaped up as she looked up hopefully.
"She's basically one of the guys. I mean I look at her like a brother almost." Jaune said as Ruby's happiness died on the vine.
"No girls! this is for us guys!"
"Fine. When are we going?"
"Now!"
Ren said as the speaker finally went dead as the two left the room.
"So let me get this straight. She is lying saying that we are here to go out as a team and not to spy on the new students. And you are lying because you want to go see what club Jaune is in?"
Blake asked guessing her team's motives as team RWBY marched strong downtown Vale.
"We are not!" Both Yang and Weiss said at the same time drawing alow chuckle form the cat girl as the two passed a dust store that looked like a tornado had slammed into it.
"What happened here?" Weiss asked as the two policewomen turned to face her.
"Police scene miss. Please step back."
The detective said flashing Weiss a badge as she turned back to the crime scene.
"We are hunters in training. What happened here?"
Weiss said as the detective nodded once.
"Dust robbery. Most likely the White Fang." The first officer said as Blake stepped up.
"Why the Fang? What evidence do you have that the Fang are active in Vale?"
Blake asked as the detective spoke up.
"Simple. There has been a shocking increase in dust store robberies recently. The fang has their hallmark all over it." The first detective said with a grimaced as her partner called her inside.
"Sorry ladies, we have work to do. If you sen anything give us a call alright?" The lady asked as she turned her back to Weiss as Blake grimaced.
"The fang? Why would they do smooth like this? What reason would they have for the dust?"
Weiss asked as she scratched her head as Blake spoke up.
"Becuase they are desperate," Blake said as Weiss cocked her head at Blake.
"Blake? What-
"Stop! Stop right there you no good stowaway!"
A loud feminine voice yelled as lour laugh filled the air.
"No good!? That would imply I'm bad at my job! And since I didn't get caught I argue that I am a great stowaway!"
A voice said as tall monkey faunus leaped over the docks barrier.
The faunus had short blonde hair, piercing blue eyes, and a thick rack of abs as the stowaway apparent ran past a shaken team RWBY flashing Blake a flirtatious wink as they passed them.
"Stop you, rapscallion!" Weiss yelled before being stuck in the face by a banana peel.
"Make me Schnee!"
The monkey faunus yelled causing the heiress to fume drawing our her rapier and shooting a jagged shard of ice at the stowaway as a chase began.
"Ren, do you know where we are going? And was it wise to turn our scrolls off?"
Jaune asked as he saw two missed calls on his scroll both from Pyrrha as Ren sighed.
"Of course! I know where I am going! I have a map!"
"Where?"
"In here!" Ren said pointing to his head as Jaune sighed.
"So you do not have a map."
"It's in my head!"
"Great. Now I just-
WHAP!
Jaune paused and gasped as he ran into a cement truck as he crashed into something that was hard as steel but somehow also impossibly soft.
"Oww...
Jaune said as a piercing pair of emerald eyes locked onto him as a mouth gasped.
"I am so sorry! Are you damaged!? Are you in need of repair!?" The sharp voice of a girl? Asked as she leaped up to her feet. Showing Jaune a strange cheerful girl with a purely ostentatious even by Jaune's standards color combination of clothes.
She wore a pair of storage off color white plaid shirts, that fit snug across her chest showing off an ample pair of breasts, along with a pair of khaki green?! Of all things pants and a couple of jet black combat boots with a lime green bow atop of a mass of messy orange hair on a freckled face.
"No, thanks? Why were you just standing in the middle the street?"
"I was collecting data on the citizenry of Vale!"
The girl replied as Ren tugged on Jaune's shoulder.
"Jaune let's go! She's bothering me...
Ren said as he eyed this girl? Jaune thought as while she looked human, she had a disturbingly androgynous appearance almost synthetic in nature. Like someone had covered a mannequin with vaguely feminine features and tried to pass it off for a human.
"Ok. Sorry about that friend! But me and Ren are going to go out and-
"What did you just say!?"
The girl suddenly yelled running into Jaune gripping his hand and gripping it tightly.
"See you later!?'
"NO! Before that! You called me friend! Are we really friends?"
The strange girl? Asked as Jaune completely ignoring Ren's frantic neck slicing motions and nodded.
"Yes?"
Jaune said as Ren facepalmed as the girl jumped with glee.
"Sensational! I have a new friend! My only friend! Oh, wonderful day! Oh, Happy day! Oh, Splendid day! Oh, Stupendous day!"
"I'm your only friend?" Jaune asked as the girl stopped bouncing as she blurred to Jaune in an inhumane speed as she crashed into him.
"Correct! Until this very moment, I had no friends! Now I have one! This is a one hundred percent increase in friends since yesterday! This is spectacular! I will start compiling friend activates that we can do right away! What is your scroll number so I can contact you, friend...
"Jaune."
"Friend Jaune! How wonderful to have a friend! My name is Penny! Penny Polendina!"
The girl said as Jaune's breath caught in his throat. Silence. Jaune tried and tired, but he couldn't hear her! This girls thoughts were silent to him! And instead, Jaune heard an empty swirling sound in her head.
"If you are Jaune's friend then you are my friend!"
Ren said lapping forward as Jaune gave Penny his scroll number as the girl's hand gripped his.
I can't hear?! Jaune thought as much as he tried he heard noting from Penny. She was like a blank slate as his semblance picked up nothing but a faint whirring sound?
"Penny, can I ask you a favor?"
"Anything only friend Jaune! I would have you know that as your friend I am prepared to assist you in any legal endeavor! In fact! I have already drawn up several friend activities for us to participate in!"
"That's good... I think? But can I have your hand?"
Jaune asked thinking maybe two hands would allow him to hear her.
"My hand!? Friend Jaune! I do not know about this! I mean-
The girl stopped as Jaune caught a faint whirring sound in her head as she gasped.
"Freind Jaune! You are Jaune Arc!?"
"Yes?"
"Then Yes! I will take your hand! I will devote my existence to making you happy!'
The girl declared making Jaune blink owlishly at her as Ren broke them up.
"Hello, Penny! My name is Ren! Lie Ren! I am Jaune's best friend and now your friend too! As any friend of Jaune is a friend of mine!" Ren said happily while glaring daggers at Jaune as Penny gasped.
"Two new friends!? A two hundred percent increase! And the general told me I couldn't go outside!" The girl said as Jaune turned away from the girl only to hear a scream enter his ears.
"Look out hot stuff!"
A loud voice yelled before a force bowled over Jaune as he was once again on his back with something incredibly soft on his face.
THe hell? Jaune thought as he felt something soft and pillow like in his mouth as he positively bit into it. Whatever he bit into was surprisingly soft and malleable with a soft doughey like consistency as his teeth bit into something soft a sharp gasp filled his ears as his face was caressed by a long yellow tail.
"Eager? I like that! Good with your tongue too? Not bad! But I expect nothing less from my fellow blonde!"
"Oh? You like me that much! I can't say I blame you!"
A sharp feminine voice said as Jaune looked up. Straddling his waist was a tall blonde monkey? Faunus with blue eyes, blonde hair and tail, and a great pair of toned abs and a pair of wrapped breast.
"Who are you?"
Jaune asked the monkey faunus leaped up taking his hand with her tail and pulling him to his feet.
"Name's Moon! Moon Wuknong! Nice to meet you! And you, and You!"
The monkey faunus said talking to all three of the people in front of her one by one.
"Three cuties for the price of one!? And one is a blonde? Oh, I am loving Vale! I defiantly made the right choice in coming here early! I bet Neptunes still on the ship puking his guts out! I bet he wishes he was here!"
Moon? Said as pulled both Ren and Penny into a tight hug before gripping Jaune with her tail pulling them all close together.
"Moon!?" Jaune asked blushing again as the girl grinned at him.
"Well look at his! I'm surrounded but nothing but hot stuff today! Gentlemen! Lady!"
Moon said winking at Penny and making Jaune and Ren blush.
"What?!" Jaune asked as the faunus grinned at him.
"Don't be shy hot stuff! Guy! Girl! I don't judge! I can play both teams! Now, let's say us three friends go out for a drink yeah?"
"Three hundred percent increase...
The girl said reverently as the day dragged on...
"This is it!"
Ren said as Jaune and ren walked up a giant red carpet and into a bustling nightclub. The entire club was purely throbbing with electric music as Jaune saw a line stretching from the entrance doors going over a full block off. As Jaune noticed that Ren walked right up to the club's door ignoring the line and going straight for the bouncer guarding the door.
The female bouncer took one look at the two boys and grinned. "Come on in boys. No charge." The woman said allowing Jaune, and Ren cut past the looping line that spilled onto the street as Jaune, and around the block as they entered the absolutely thumping nightclub.
As soon as they entered the club now know as Juniors Jaune knew he was in someplace special. From the first moment Jaune walked in he was slammed by a tidal wave of electric music, as a deep techno thump pulsed into the air. The room was filled with hundreds of dancing bodies sweating and grinding against each other, as the scent of heavy sweat filled the air.
Men and woman, all danced on a pulsating dance floor that had hundreds of brightly colored tiles that flashed up in violent colors when you stepped on them.
As the walked, the entire cloud was dyed a deep red as the walls carpet and even the couches! Where a shape crimson color as Jaune and Ren walked inside felling the infectious beat control them as a pair of shining eyes found them.
"Do you see that sister?"
"Oh, I see it, sister."
"Are we going for them?"
"You know we are."
"I call the dark, happy one. I'm going to make him squeak something else by the end of the night."
"Fine. I'll take short blonde and scrumptious."
"Sorry cutie but your money is no good here."
The lady behind the bar said as Ren looked at her with a confused look.
"Why? What's wrong with it?" Ren asked confused as to why he was unable to pay for his drink.
"Boy's drink free! Especially ones as cute as you two. Whatever you want it's on the house!"
The bartender said flashing the boys a wink each as both Ren and Jaune grinned.
"Can I have a gin and brandy?" Ren asked as the lady noted.
"Sure thing hot stuff and you blondie?
"Can I have an Atlas mule?"
Jaune asked remembering his favorite drink from the days the tribe lived in a Atlas penthouse. That had been a great month.
"Sure thing! Coming right up!"
The bartender said as she went behind the counter to prepare their drinks.
"Ren I love this place!" Jaune said as Ren nodded.
"I told you this was going to be a good night!"
Ren shouted to be her over the loud thumping techno beat of the dance music.
"Here you go cuties! One gin and brandy and one Atlas Mule! On the house! Enjoy!"
The woman said as Ren and Jaune thanked her as they took their drinks in hands.
"To guys night!" Ren said grinning wildly as Jaune nodded.
"To guys night!" Jaune mimicked as they toasted their glasses with a sharp clink! As the tipped back their drink and took a swig. As the first shots of alcohol flooded their lips and entered their throats.
Sweet Monty! I forgot how much I missed that! Jaune thought as he finished his drink in one swig as he and Ren grinned at one another.
"MY! MY! That's some good drinking! You boys want round two?" The bartender asked as Jaune and Ren nodded.
"Another Mule!"
"Another Gin and brandy!"
"Coming right up!"
The bartender said as the night began as the drinks came...
And come they did as quality liquor mixed with youthful spirit, mixed with infinite supplies lead to an ever-increasing stack of cocktail and shot glasses and increasingly slurred patterns of speech...
"I'm telling you, Ren! Hiccup! I don't know how you do it! Hiccup! I mean how do you deal with girls like you do!?"
Jaune asked swiveling in his chair as Ren grinned lazily at him.
"Jaune! Hiccup! You're over thinking it! Woman are simple creatures! If you know how to work them that is!"
"How do you work them?"
"Like this!"
Ren said taking his hands and gripping Jaunes arm and digging his nails into his skin making the boy blush.
"Woman like to think! That they're so special! That they are so tough! But they are weak! You just have to dig your nails inot their arms like so! Twist your nails into their skin bat your eyes and they will be eating out of the palm of your hand in no time!"
Ren said as aloud round of boisterous laughter came from behind them.
"He's right you know! If any of you did that for me I'd be eating out the palm of your hands in no time!" The bartender said as Ren pulled back from a blushing Jaune and laughed.
"See! I told you so! You do that and they will be eating out of your hand in no time!"
"Speaking of eating someone out."
"What are two cuties like yourselves doing here all by your lonesomes?"
Two sweet seductive voices asked as Jaune turned his head. Already the alcohol was affecting him as he was well into the double digits of cocktails and half of that in hard liquor with Ren as two beautiful girls approached them.
Twin girls both mirrored each other in looks but differing completely in appearance.
One wore a flaming red dress that appeared to come alive with bright crimson fire as she walked over to Ren's chair and took a seat next to him.
While her counterpart a girl in a pure silver dress giggled in a hauntingly melodic tone that Jaune somehow heard above the tone of droning techno beat as she sat down next to him.
"Who are you?" Jaune asked vision slurred and good sense fading rapidly as his world slurred and bent in a violent display of stabbing lights and piercing beats as the girl's silver eyes shine in hunger t him.
"My name is Melanie Malachite. And that is my sister Miltiades Malachite. And we think you two are delicious." The girl said licking her lips as Jaune heard Ren hiccup and laugh.
"Hello, new friends! ~Hic!~ My name is Ren! ~Hic!~ Lie Ren! And this is my Best ~Hic!~ Friend Jaune Arc! ~Hic!~"
"Jaune? Is that your name? It's a lovely name." Melanie said running her gloved hands all over his arm as Jaune felt his face flush.
This girl was beautiful. Her eyes were a near mirror Ruby's of off-color grey and her hair like Blake's. Her skin and dress was almost a direct imitation of Weiss, but her personality was the polar opposite of any of them.
When she spoke it was like a cool spring breeze; her words carried a subtle cool tint to them that made Jaune's toes curl as the girl put a gauntleted hand with a menacing claw on it over his shoulder.
"What makes a cute little thing like you come all the way here?"
Melanie asked as Jaune felt his face flush the world became a wild mass of sound and light.
"Guys night! ~Hic!~ We are getting away from our friends to party!"
"Party! ~Hic!~" Ren mirrored as the girls grinned.
Jackpot. The twins thought as two cute drunk boys were dropped into their lap.
Oum gave them a gift, and they took that award. They kept the drinks coming feeding the boys cocktail after cocktail for the next half hour. Humoring their stories of hunter life and Beacon as the boy's speech became more and more blurred. They lost the ability to sit straight as they took their ninth shots of liquor and whatever unholy number of heavy cocktails as Melanie grinned at her sister
"Hey, Jaune." She said leaning in closer making him blush.
Jaune felt himself freeze as the girl's hand traced delicate figures around his body as he felt himself pressed into something unhumanly soft.
When did I get on her lap? Jaune thought as his vision blurred as he looked to his left to see a bleary version of Ren being forced against the bar as the girl in red viciously made out with him slamming her lips to his forcing him back to the bar one hand gripped firmly on his back the other far down his pants and nearly pinning him on the counter.
"Yes? !HIC!~ Melanie? What' wrong?"
Jaune asked as his dreadful voice of slurring of speech and slurred syllables.
"Nothing is wrong Jaune. We are just enjoying are time together. You are having a good time right? Because I know I am."
Melanes said to be boy who opened his mouth to speak before she put her hand in it.
"Shh! No talking. Just relax. That's it just like that." The girl siad as she hled the boy's head back as she traced his tongue with her fingers, good with his tonge? That will come in handy. Melaine thought as she removed her hand form the boy's mouth with a wet popping sound.
As the sister grinned at him as she put her mouth to his ear and whispered into it.
"How would you like to get out of this static and go somewhere more private?
The girl asked pressing a hand to his crotch and squeezing in between making him moan in pleasure as her sister took a break from assaulting her toy but not removing her groping hands from him as they shared a vicious grin to one another.
The sisters said as the boys blinked together. "Sure?" They both said as the girls grinned.
Perfect! They had the boys right where they wanted them, young, drunk an out of their right mind! Now they just had to lead them up the stair to the bar's private room where they could be alone...
"Wait right here." The girls said as Jaune and Ren leaned into one another.
"Jaune... I... I don't know... I don't feel good...
Ren blurted out as he felt his stomach began to revolt as his body threatened to throw up.
"Ren... We should get going...
Jaune said in a slurred voice his vision going completely blurry as it exploded into a kaleidoscope of yellow, purple and glaring blues before an unfamiliar voice came in.
"Hello, boys. Would you two like a drink?"
An unknown feminine voice said this one much older than the twins as Jaune and Ren looked at each other.
"Wha...
Jaune asked as the woman who was little more than a blur of black spoke to them.
"Two martinis!" The woman said Jaune fought to protest.
"No... I don't want any more drinks... Jaune slurred out a reply as the woman giggled.
"Of course you do."
The voice sad as a rough manicured hand gripped Jaune's throat making him struggle with a manicured hand gripped his throat forcing a drink into his mouth.
Jaune gagged and struggled but the alcohol already flowing in his system dogged down his limbs as Jaune felt something substantial of solid mass enter his throat. Making his eyes bulge out as he swallowed something as he felt the hand leave his throat as he heard Ren endure a similar fate.
"There. Now you boy are in for a good time!" The woman said as Jaune felt his limbs slough and jaw drop as he lost all control of his faculties as he leaned off his chair and the world collapsed...
"What the hell?! Where did they go?!" Melanie asked the bartender who shrugged in response.
"Some chick came and forced a cocktail in them then the two then bolted. No idea where they ended up."
The women said in a phlegmatic tone as Militades lost it.
"She what!? You let her drug them!?"
Militades yelled making the bartender shrug her shoulders in a what can you do? Gesture.
"I didn't see any drugs, so it's not my problem." The bartender said as Melanie raged.
"We had them! Now we have to look for them! This is ridiculous!" The sisters yelled as the twins went on the hunt for their potential boy toys.
"Nora... Nora help me!" Ren blurted out as he crashed headfirst into an alleyway eliciting a loud SLAP noise as he cried in pain.
His face exploded in pain as he slammed into a cold brick wall as he felt his face split open. Hot blood poured out his forehead flowing down his face covering it before his aura stitched him up as he cried hot tears onto his face.
"Nora... help.
Ren asked as he fell down to the ground crying softly too drunk to even move as the world's sounds and colors blurred into one, before the tell tall clicking of a long object striking the ground entered his brain as he opened his eyes.
"Kid? The hell happened to you?" An irritated voice asked as Ren looked up to see a pair of searing white shoes and a long white cane...
"Where... Where am I?"
Jaune slurred as he crashed face first into a brick wall before being sent back hard onto his face as he crashed into the cold unfeeling asphalt of a back alley somewhere. He had no idea where the hell he was only that he somehow ended up outside the club and was now in the ass end of some random back alley in the seedier parts of Vale, crunk, tired and with no control of his limbs.
His drunken stupor was made infinitely worse by whatever was in his drink as somehow even in his beyond inebriated state he fumbled out his scroll to call for help.
"Pyrrha... Weiss...
Jaune mumbled as he pulled out the scroll he saw 58 missed calls and the time it was 11:59 Pm and it was a Wednesday.
"Yang...
Jaune said before the rich sound of feminine chuckling filled the air as Jaune began to panic. Even in his beyond shit-faced state survival instincts learned on a lifetime on the road kicked in, he was alone in a dark alleyway without any help surrounded by woman. This was bad! Really Really! Bad! Jaune needed to...
The sounds stopped as soon as they began as an eerie quiet settled in the alley as everything went dead silent. Not muffled not less the alley went dead quiet like it had been cut off from the outside world and sucked into an alternate dimension where sound had yet to be invented.
For two minutes there was nothing, no laughing, no far off droning of techno rhythm no feminine laughing, no sounds of a city at night just silence.
The only thing Jaune could hear was the sound of his own breathing as he struggled to hear anything in the dead silence his efforts were rewarded as the sound of clicking heels filled his ears.
Tic! Tac! Tic! Tac! The sound of clicking heels filled his ears followed by cute feminine laughter, as he looked up the sound of the women were replaced as twin high heels filled his visions a soft feminine mumbled filled his ears, his world went black as the sound of cute feminine giggling filled his ears followed by the smell of ice cream...
As the world turned to black and cute giggling entered his ears it was twelve o'clock midnight. And it was Thursday...
: An! Here we go! Another week another chapter! This fic's been doing really well recently and I've decided to put a little more work into it! If this thing gets a hundred follow in two months I'll make it a weekly thing.
So this time our favorite boys are out drunk off their asses, drunk lost and in the palms of two morally questionable characters. Well! As things go this stories going to get real so stick around!
Also, this will be the last T chapter of the fic I said this fic would be filled with sex and violence and I meant that. If you don't like that then I suggest that you don't read. Until then thanks for reading.
PS. The hell? Why did somebody leave me a plant seed? And why a lemon tree seed at that? What am I going to do with a lemon tree seed? Hell, I guess I'll toss it into the ground throw some dirt on it and douse it with water and see what happens... Until then stat break down.
Name Jaune Arc.
Level 20/?
Xp till next level 1600/ 1800
Passive Last gasp.
Str: 57 +3 increase
Wit: 24 +5 increase
Charisma: 44 +2 increase
Charm: 30
Intellect: 47 -1 due to Drunkard trait sober.
Vitality: 111
Will: 119+ 20 due to stubborn trait + 10 due to Martyr trait.
dexterity: 84 +8 increase
deception 29 +4 increase
Luck: 50 +6 increase.
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Omake. Darkest Remnant part two. The hamlet.
"Attention! Attention! Brave heroes! I have just delivered my request! Now, who will come with me to bear arms and retake this town from the eldritch horrors that seek to take it from us!?"
"Up yours! You noble prick!"
A voice yelled as Oscar sighed. He had been hoping that a visit to the local tavern would turn up more heroes willing to help his cause but that was to no avail. As the heroes only saw a spoiled NPC with more money than common sense as he sighed heavily.
"Don't be so hard on yourself. These are a tough crowd."
Ren said as the man stood next to Oscar providing a silent but deadly bodyguard for the boy as he eyed the other heroes keeping any less than savory glares away from his young charge.
"But I thought they would listen to me! I mean I'm here to help them! Can't they see that!?" Oscar asked as bar fight erupted to his left as three men all heroes of some sort engaged in an open brawl tossing beer glasses table legs and chairs everywhere as Ren sighed.
"Perhaps Jaune had better luck at the stagecoach? We should go check up on his to see if he has managed to persuade anyone to our cause." Ren said in a neutral voice but Oscar knew the play. Ren was eyeing each and every other villain class in the pub and was trying to get Oscar to go with him to a safer environment as the boy sighed.
"Fine let's see what that Crusader squirreled up." Oscar said as the two left the bar leaving the rolling bar fight and leering eyes behind.
"Seriously! I don't know what he expects to have done with...
The nobels words died on his lips as he saw Jaune standing next to two stunning women both heroes and both waiting side by side.
"See! I told you I could get us some help!"
Jaune said as Oscar looked on in shock at the two new heroes.
One was a Vestal the words displayed proudly over her head. She was also a rabbit faunus with long brown bunny ears, wearing a nun's cloak over battle garb along with a bible in one hand a large metal mace in the other. As she looked at Oscar with a peaceful expression.
"My name is Velvet Scarletina. I have heard of your plight and wish to lend my assistance to you. Sir Jaune has convinced me of the righteousness of your cause and I along with my companion are eager to help you."
The rabbit faunus said gesturing to her friend, a figure that was barely recognizable as a female under swath after swath of robes as he saw the words Plague doctor hovering over her head as the woman coughed.
"My name is Ciel Solei. I am pleased to make your acquaintance. I hear there would be a grand reward at the end of this quest? If so I would much like for you to reinstate me in medical school. As I have currently misplaced my practitioner's license and require a spare."
The hero said as Oscar nodded his head.
"Sure?" Oscar said as the Crusader sighed his heavy plate mail clinking over the mud as he looked at Oscar.
"So kid where are we going today?"
Jaune asked as Oscar straightened out and puffed out his chest.
"Today we venture to the ruins," Oscar said as the party nodded and prepared to depart. This was a bid day. Oscar thought as he and his hodgepodge team of heroes set out. Today would be his first real test of combat. He didn't count the initial ambush of his arrival as one. Mainly because he was hiding behind the carriage rubble. As the heroes moved out Oscar and Ren made one last stop before going to the ruins.
They visited the shopkeep, a rather unsettled NPC with the name Oobleck who manned the town's general store with a manic grin. There he uses what little gold he had to buy several torches, shovels, and extra vials of holy water. As Oscar doubted that the one vile Jaune had would last them very long.
As the five members departed this was a test. Today they probed the ruins on what the first and hopefully not last expedition for them inot his ancestrial abode, as Oscar sighed.
"You ok kid? You sure you want to come with us? We can go alone you know? It's not like we are just going to take the loot and run. Nowhere to go and all."
Jaune asked Oscar as Velvet nodded.
"This is a combat situation, and I do not mean to sound rude but we are heroes and you an NPC. There is no shame in staying behind and letting us go off on our own. So you know." Velvet said in a calming empathetic tone as Oscar glared at her.
"This is my home. I will see it with my own eyes. Dangers be they mortal, beastly or eldritch be damned!"
"The ruins are rumored to have the undead. My tonics can melt them but I suggest caution." Ciel said as Jaune sighed.
"Looks like his minds made up. Come on kid we go work to do." The crusader said as Oscar nodded his head.
"On that, we are agreed. We have allowed the undead to live unmolested for too long! That end today let us show these creatures who the true masters of this estate are. Now let us be off, there is much to do and precious little time." Oscar said as the party depated from the town to meet thier destiny.
