AN: Another day another year, and another chapter of the Apprentice! Enjoy!
Cover Art by Keji Springfield.
Weiss was having a good day. She woke up like she always did, now used to the team Sapphire dorm. The dorm was now her home, away from home and her team was like a family. A-
" Yang! Get out of the shower!"
"This hair takes time P-Money! Can't rush greatness!"
"It's almost time for class!"
"I'll be done in a second!" Yang called as Pyrrha pouted slamming her foot down as-
Whack! The door opened as a head of blonde hair over a pair of blue eyes entered. Jaune walked in a wide stupid smile on his lips and that ridiculous noose! On his neck, as he smiled.
"Morning team! Best partner in the world! How is everyone?" Jaune asked walking in covered in sweat, the boy had gone another of his morning runs returning hot and sweaty making Weiss roll her eyes.
"Jaune you know you should not run before big days you know?" Weiss asked glaring at her partner, for one who claimed to like to come prepared. Jaune knew better than to exert himself like this. He had a full day with his team, and she would not have him tired.
"Sorry Weiss! I just had to run!" Jaune said closing the door walking up to Pyrrha who smiled brightly at him.
"Good morning Jaune! How are you?"
"Great Pyrrha! And might I say you are looking extra beautiful today! Though I don't' know how!" Jaune said winking as Pyrrha stifled a giggle the taller girl blushing a bit at the shorter boy's compliment.
"I would not say that, but you are still as cute as the day I first met you."
"Oh don't say that! I'm not that attractive." Jaune said elbowing her side making her flush as-
"Is that the future father of my kids?" Yang asked coming out of the shower in a wall of steam fully dressed in her Beacon outfit as Jaune sighed.
"Only in that head of yours Yang. You won't be getting any of this Arc anytime soon!" Jaune said sarcastically rolling his eyes as Yang grinned.
"Oh, I don't know about that I can be very persuasive, especially with cute boys who look good enough to eat."
"Oh? When was the last time you persuaded a boy to do anything for you? Besides in your dreams that is."
"I got you to get all sweaty for me, and I will be damned if I am not enjoying the sight," Yang said in a sultry tone licking her lips as Jaune rolled his eyes.
"Enjoy the sight cause looking is all you are going to get."
"Aw don't be like that! I think you want to Yang-
"Xiao-Long. Need I remind you that, you are talking to your, teammate and my partner?" Weiss asked finally making her presence known to the one who sighed.
"Jaune is a big boy Weiss. He can choose how he wants me to be his girlfriend."
"And what if I don't want you to be my girlfriend?"
"Oh? Then who else are you going to pick that looks anywhere near as good as me?"
"I have her!" Jaune said gripping his other team by the waist making Pyrrha flush. "Jaune!"
"She can be mine!"
"Whoa! P-Money is cool Jaune but come on, can she Yang with me?"
"If you didn't make puns I would have swallowed one of my satchels you know?"
"If you play your cards right I can swallow something else for you, you know?"
"Yang!"
"Xiao-Long! How dare-
"Careful Yang, big talk coming from someone who's never even gotten a kiss," Jaune said as Yang froze her mouth gaping like a bass as she balked.
"How did you know that?!"
"Besides you just admitting it? I didn't I was totally guessing." Jaune admitted as Yang blushed her cheeks turning the color of Ruby's cape.
"S-Shut up! I've kissed a boy's! In fact, I kissed lots of them!"
"Really then? Give me some names."
"Names?"
"Yeah, you kissed a lot of boys, right? Surely you must have some names right? Unless you were lying-
"I was not lying! There were plenty of them! For starters there was Pete! And Pumpkin-
"Pumpkin Pete?"
"Like my cereal?"
"No! Not like your cereal! Nothing like that!"
"Ok, then you kissed a boy named Pumpkin, Pete?"
"I thought she kissed two?"
"No! I didn't! I did! I kissed more than two! There was Pumpkin, Pete-
"Wait. You are trying to tell me someone named their kid Pumpkin Pete?"
"Like my cereal?"
"No! Not like your damn cereal! And some people can't name kids for shti! Anyways! There was him then... John Doe?"
"Really Yang? A dead body?"
"Shut up! I kissed so much I lost count! There! You happy?"
"No. Just glad that my future girlfriend also hasn't kissed anyone yet, just like me!" Jaune said making Yang pause her face turning back to rosy red as she began to stutter.
"What!? When? Me? I mean hell yeah! I'm your future girl!"
"I said you might remember?"
"No, you did not!"
"Well, I meant to. Pyrrha?"
"Yes, Jaune?"
"Can I shower before you? Please? I'm all hot and sticky! I really need to get these clothes off me!" Jaune said as both Pyrrha and Yang froze gulping once as Weiss rolled her eyes.
"There is no way."
"F-fine! Of course! I'd be glad to let you go first Jaune."
Pyrrha said bowing as Jaune jumped in the air and clapped.
"Oh! Thank you so much! You are like the best non-Weiss teammate ever!"
"Yeah! What about me?"
"You are close. But you are not Weiss!" Jaune said slipping into the shower as Yang snapped her fingers.
"I almost had him!"
"In your dreams maybe," Weiss added finally getting out of bed as Yang frowned.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It means that Jaune is not easy Yang. If you want to date him, you better get serious."
"I can be serious!"
"When was the last time you were serious that didn't involve you punching something?"
"I! That's not fair!"
"And so I prove my point."
"No, you don't!"
"Yes, she does!" Jaune said from the shower as Weiss sighed.
"Enough arguing all of you. We have a big day today. A half day of class then Forever Fall. I hope you are already it would not due to have our team reputation smeared do early."
"What rep? We have known each other for like what? A month and a half at most?"
"We all have the burning of team Sapphire on our shoulders, Yang. We will be the strongest first-year team, then the second, third and finally fourth until we graduate. Now simmer down. We need to get changed while Jaune is in the bathroom."
"We could change in there with him."
"Not happening!"
"Take your shower and stop eavesdropping!"
"For one Jaune stop. Two Yang you will not do any pepping now calm down it's time to get dressed and ready."
"Is everyone ready?" Weiss said her nerves already frayed as the haphazard mornings of team Sapphire took a toll.
"Hell yeah, I'm ready!"
"I am dressed."
"Ready to go, perfect partner!" All three member of Weiss team said in order as she nodded.
"Good. Jaune?" Weiss asked holding out her arm, an invitation that Jaune eagerly took. Snaking his arm through hers and locking them together.
"Ready best partner!"
"Hey! How come she gets to cuddle up with you! Yang complained wishing that she had a blonde boy to walk arm in arm with.
"Because of she! Is amazing! The best partner in the whole world and she cares about more than my looks!" Jaune said winking at the blonde who growled.
"I care more about your looks!"
"Really? Name something positive about me that's not my looks." Jaune asked as Yang froze, paused and scratched her head.
"Yang? I'm waiting..."
"I like your... tongue?"
"Xiao-Long!"
"Sorry!"
"If you keep harassing my partner Yang I swear as your leader-
"It's fine Weiss! She means well! And besides, she's not that bad herself." Jaune said flashing Yang a quick wink that made the brawler grin.
"Oh, I'm more than not so bad blondie, give me a chance, and I'll rock your world!"
Yang said licking her lips in an obvious and in Weiss's opinion vulgar display of intentions as she sighed.
"Yang, do not try to seduce my partner in front of me. Please."
'She can try." Jaune said smiling as Weiss had enough.
"Enough! Team Sapphire, we have a long day today. We have morning classes, combat and then a field trip so let's get this day over with."
"He's playing games!" Yang whispered to Pyrrha while stuffing ham into her mouth. Her redhead partner smiled calmly as she looked to the object of Yang's affection. Jaune Arc, a semi-famous name in Remnant. A missing child from a prominent family that was now attending Beacon as a hunter?
"Is he?" Pyrrha asked not sure if Jaune was legitimately flirting with Yang or just pressing her buttons. Jaune was in her opinion cute, and he would be a good husband in the future if she could get some of his more rebellious tendencies down a bit first.
"Of course he is! I can fucking see it from here! Look at him over there! That cute boyish face those cunt munching lips! He's teasing us!" Yang said as Pyrrha frowned.
"Cunt munching lips?" Pyrrha asked a genuine curious look in her emerald eyes as Yang nodded.
"Duh! Look at him! You can't tell me you don't fantasize about trapping that head between your thighs at least twice a night! His face stuck in between your legs your hands down his pants!" Yang said her eyes watching Jaune like a haw as Pyrrha blushed. Images of Jaune's anatomy stuck between her own flash in her mind before she shook them off. Jaune was her friend, she would not fantasize about him any more than usual. And besides, he was busy being a hunter...
Pyrrha was fine with Jaune having a hunting hobby. Something he could do locally and in limited actions but a full-blown hunter? That was a bit much Jaune was a man, and while he was proficient in his form of combat, it was best to leave the fighting to those best capable. Hunting was a woman's job, and while Jaune was good, he was still just a man.
"I know he is! One of these days I'm going to pin him down and-
'And what? Yang me till I cream?" Jaune asked through bites of a slice of bacon. The blonde boy smirking mischievously as Weiss rolled her eyes.
"Yang do not sexually harass your team at breakfast," Weiss said almost on instinct. She had had this exact same talk with Yang, many times before and it was starting to get repetitive to the extreme. Really! Weiss could not count how many times she had to pull Yang off her partner! The girl did not take no for an answer! And Jaune's relentless back and forth did not help!
"Jaune!"
"Ruby!" The other irritant in Weiss's life spoke up as she took a deep calming breath. Jaune was his own man. Jaune was her partner and by now best friend in... well just best friend. Weiss did not have many or any friends back in Atlas, and now that she was in Beacon, Yang was... her responsibility.
Pyrrha was her friend, but a distant one and no one else came close after Jaune. He was there when she woke up, he supported all of her decisions yet would still offer her advice and corrections if he saw them. He stood by her calls no matter what and they even walked arm in arm in the hallway! A surprisingly intimate action that Weiss did not think she dared to do with any boy but now could not fathom a day without doing so.
"Jaune! After the hunt today we should go out! I know a great dust shop for you to go! You could get some for you bombs!" The younger girl said as Weiss winced.
Ruby Rose... Ruby Rose was the opposite of the start in her life Jaune. Ruby was younger, impulsive and had no self-control. She acted on impulse rather than logic and she often! Got her team and her in danger.
She was too young to be in Beacon and far too young to be a leader. Weiss shuddered thinking of what would have become of her had she gained Ruby as a partner.
"Sure! We can go out later!" Jaune said smiling widely, Weiss felt a pang of jealousy at that. Seeing Jaune smile for another girl like that made her eyes narrow, and her fists ball up. Jaune was her best friend and she his. Only she should make Jaune smile like that, not some... child.
"Jaune I do not think that is a good idea.'
"What? Why not?"
"We have a team exercise after the trip. You do not have the time to go and hang out." Weiss said watching nervously as her team's eyes widened.
"We have a team bonding exercise?"
"Since when?"
"I was not aware of this."
"I just decided this morning! For a successful mission in the Falls, I am taking you all out to dinner." Weiss said wincing as Yang's jaw dropped.
"Free food!? Hell yeah, we are going!"
"I must admit that sounds grand!"
"You're buying us dinner!? Weiss, you are the perfect partner!" Jaune said hugging Weiss. Wrapping her side in a snug embrace that made her cheeks light up like Pyrrha's hair.
"Jaune! Stop it!" Weiss said in the most half-hearted complaint ever. Her heart thumped! At the contact, her family while not cruel was always distant with emotions.
Winter was hard but fair. Whitley never really had the nerve to look her or anyone else for that matter in the eye. Let alone hug them. Her mother... Weiss didn't talk about her mother. And her father? While she was definitely loving he had been drained by his duties at the SDC and had little time for familial affection besides a quick hello and buying them whatever they wanted for birthdays.
"Oh? Free food? Can we come?" And just like that Weiss's good mood shattered like a veil of fire dust.
"Ruby. While I do appreciate your... enthusiasm, this is a team Saphire event." Weiss said with perfect tact, she did not like Ruby. Not one bit but that was not a reason to be rude to the girl. She was a Schnee, and a Schnee had a certain image to maintain. Being rude would not help that image in the slightest.
"Oh? Is it a problem if she comes?" Jaune her oh so precious and innocent Jaune asked as Weiss bit back her tongue. She could not just say she did not care for the reaper without causing dissent among her team, so she needed to be smart.
"Not at all. I just want to have a team bonding day. We are all teammates for four years and friends for life maybe. I want this to be the first of Sapphire only moments." Weiss said trying to sound diplomatic as-
"But I want to hang out with Jaune. He's my friend."
You don't' deserve him!
"Ruby you can hang out with Jaune later. Tonight is for our team ok?"
"Yeah Ruby, it's fine."
"But Jaune-
"Hey how about this! Later on me and you can go get lunch! Together just the two of us? How does that sound?"
Terrible! Weiss thought images of the impulsive out of touch reaper corrupting her perfect partner filled her mind as she ground her teeth. Her fist clenched up as she forced a smile on her lips.
"Ruby-
'That sounds awesome! I totally want to do that!" Ruby jumped at the chance to steal her partner away like a harpy and-
"What!? She gets a date, but I don't?! How fair is that!?"
"Yang, you can date me when you pin me in the arena, until then? You need to chill out." Jaune said as Yang grinned like a hyena, it was disturbing.
'I'm going to do more than just pin you." Yang said winking sultry at Jaune who cocked his head.
"Care to elaborate?"
"You want everyone to hear how I'm going to make you scream my name?"
"I want them to hear what you dream about, or why you like to call my name when you go shower," Jaune said as Yang coughed choking on her water as-
"Hah! Got her!" Nora said finally joining in as Ren sighed.
"Nora doesn't yell."
"But she did! Can you imagine if one of us did that in our shower?"
"You say my name in the shower," Ren said as he picked through his small plate of lettuce and-
"HAHAHA! He's joking! Joking! Hah! Such a kidder!" Nora said covering Ren's mouth a bright blush on her face.
"He jokes! He jokes! We are a wholesome team! Except for Blakes porn. This is not wholesome!" Nora said as the previously silent faunus chocked spitting up her water as she glared daggers at Nora.
"What?!" The indignant faunus said her cat ears twitched in her bow as she blushed wildly.
"I don't have porn!"
"Yes, you do Blake... I've seen your books." Ruby said blushing wildly as Blake gagged.
"I do not! Stop going in my stuff!"
"Then don't leave it out," Ren said finally free of Nora's grip as-
"Weiss! Time!" Jaune said pointing to his scroll as Weiss nodded.
"Ok, everyone we have a class to attend. I want full marks on all of you, we don't even have a full day so make this a good one? Please?" Weiss begged her team hoping for some unit cohesion and-
"You got it, partner!"
"I will try my best."
"I won't break anything." Weiss saw it happen. Ruby. Of course, it was Ruby. The child had a smirk on her face as she reached out a questing hand.
The small limb moving to the back rope of Jaune's noose. Weiss froze her mouth opening in warning as Ruby gripped the rope and yanked.
"Surprise!" She yelled pulling Jaune's head back as-
"STOP THAT!" Jaune shrieked his voice piercing the cafeteria as the entire table froze. Ruby eeped! Jumping back in her seat as Jaune latched onto Weiss.
His arms wrapping around her shaking like a leaf his blue eyes wide with fear as-
"D-d-don't pull on my noose like that! Please!" Jaune said voice shaking as-
"ROSE!" Weiss shouted anger clear in her voice her eyes fixing Ruby with a glacial stare. Not only was it bad enough with Yang sexually harassing Jaune now Ruby had to physically harass him!?
"I didn't mean to! It was a joke!" Ruby tried and failed as the whole of the table gave her a judgmental glare. Even Pyrrha! Frowned at the rose her emerald eyes narrowing as she winced.
"Ruby you can't just pull on people without asking their permission!" Yang said her voice rising and eyes turning crimson.
"Rose. That was not nice. Please apologize." Pyrrha said a forced clam in her tone as-
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! It own happen again!"
"You are right it won't happen again! If you so much as get close to Jaune gain-
"It's ok! It's ok! Weiss! Everyone, she made a mistake! It's my fault really! I should be wearing this thing after all..." Jaune said his voice still high and shaky but returning to normal.
"Jaune you are far too forgiving! She harassed you!"
"It's ok! It's ok! It was a joke! Right, Ruby? It was a joke?"
"Yeah! Total joke! I'm sorry." Ruby said nodding her head as-
"That's not good enough-
"Weiss. Forgive her. For me?" Jaune asked batting his eyes in a way he knew! Weiss was weak too. Giving her puppy dog eyes as she signed.
"Fine. For you. But she is on thin ice.'
"Thank you! You are the best partner in the world!" Jaune said hugging her again this time snug and full of warmth making Weiss smile as her partner gave her a hug.
"For the next match!" Catherine said her face looking down to her data sheet as she got a random listing. The eldest Arc walking up and down the arena checking her scroll a dim scowl on her face as she did.
"Jaune Arc!"
"That's me!" Jaune said pumping his fists, the boy dressed in his thick brown combat leathers, that awful garish bird mask pulled on his head, giving the impression it was swallowing him whole.
"I wish you would take that off.' Weiss said rolling her eyes at her partners... strange habits.
"But it looks cool!"
"Jaune. It looks hideous." Weiss said rolling her eyes, as her partner faked insult.
"I'm hurt!"
"You will be if you don't get down here!" Catherine yelled up stomping her foot down to the floor as Jaune eeped!
"Sorry, sis!"
"It's not sis! In here it's Miss Arc now get down here!" Catherine yelled as Jaune stumbled nearly tripping as he ran down.
"I don't like her."
"Ditto," Yang said agreeing with Weiss. None of team Sapphire had forgotten the black eye she gave their leader slash crush for some as they narrowed their glare.
"What kind of sister hit's a brother?"
"A bad one," Weiss replied her eyes slits as-
"Verus! Pyrrha Nikos!"
"That's grand!" Pyrrha said smiling broadly as Weiss gulped.
Jaune versus Pyrrha!? This was going to be a disaster…
"Jaune, ready?"
"Yes, mam!" Jaune said bouncing up and down on the balls of his feet. Tossing one of his many satchel bombs up and down like a tennis ball as Pyrrha drew her weapon.
"Pyrrha, ready?"
"Yes, mam." The redhead amazon said smile as she took out her sword and shield.
"OK! First to red aura loses! That or ring out and or surrender, begin!" Catherine said stepping back as Pyrrha smiled.
"Don't worry Jaune! I'll go easy on you!" She said a bright smile on her face.
This will be quick. I don't want to hurt him, but I can rough him up. Maybe show him that hunting is not for men? That would be nice the sooner Jaune kept hunting to a hobby the-
"That's what I was going to tell you!" Jaune said jumping back as Pyrrha grinned. It was nice of a man to have some spirit! It would make it better to crush.
"As you say," Pyrrha said as Jaune attacked. The boy tossed one of his odd satchels tossing it in a fastball attack dead at her core but Pyrrha was ready, she saw the horrible effects it had on poor Ruby and was there with her shied a time that unlike Ruby could keep her safe.
Fisht! The acidic bomb broke on her shield, like a wet fruit the metal taking most of the hits as some of the caustic sprays landed on her arms and legs. Pyrrha had to admit it hurt like a bitch. The amazon winced as even the tiniest splatters of acidic material made her wince. It felt like miniature potato peelers were being run on her bare skin taking of her flesh bit by bit as she grimaced. The pain was great but not debilitating just painful.
Fisht! Another bomb hit her shield making her grimace more acid splashed on her skin more potato peelers. I have to attack him. Pyrrha reasoned moving several steps back taking time to adjust, she couldn't even see where Jaune currently was. She blocked her eyes to avoid taking a direct hit to them, but now she needed to see who was attacking her so she risked a glance up-
It was a mistake. Jaune timed her glance waiting for the perfect opportunity. Baiting her back with repeated blows to her shield waiting for the ideal!
Chance to strike! And it did, when he tossed the last satchel a wide smile split his face as Pyrrha's beautiful emerald eyes popped up just in time for the bomb to explode right in her face.
Fisht!
"Aiieeee!" Pyrrha screamed the bomb detonated on the tip! Of her shield, half of the caustic dust went wide on her shield the other half straight to her eyes.
"My face!" Pyrrha screamed as her eyes felt as if they had been doused in the fire. Her body shook as she swore! Her face was being torn off piece by piece. She shrieked dropping her shield hands flying to her face as-
Fisht! Another bomb hit her dead in the face, exploding all over her once pristine face coloring it a sickly green lime as she fell back as another bomb hit her in her neck. This one taking her off balance and sending her stumbling back.
"AHH!" Pyrrha screamed her legs shaking as she fell backward-
Fisht! Fisht! Two more bombs hit her as the girl cried. Her aura dropped like a lead balloon. Going from green to yellow to deep orange.
Her body was not able to take this kind of damage as she fell backward. Training kicked in at once and Pyrrha never once dropped her weapons. Instead even blinded by acid she opted to turn her sword into rifle mode and fired. Bang! She shot three times firing wildly into the arena not caring what she was shooting just trying to buy herself some time and get some much-needed breathing room and-
Fisht!
A bomb hit right when the casing was fired. The caustic material jammed the weapon. Stopping it from firing eating the metallic gun barrel as-
FISHT! Jaune ran. He ran right at Pyrrha in a dead sprint the boy jumped up smashing a bomb of acid int her face like one would do a slam dunk! Taking her aura to red and slamming her face first into the ground in a screaming twitch pile as-
"Winner! Arc! Perfect win!" Catherine said as she raised her hand as the match ended with a grinning Jaune and a screaming Pyrrha.
"OK! Good fight! Both of you did well. Jaune!" Catherine yelled as Jaune snapped a salute.
"Yes, Mam!"
"Another perfect victory, that's two in a row now Jaune. And against her no less? I don't know what else to say, but you did well. I... I am proud of you Jaune." Catherine said smiling warmly at her youngest sibling before scowling.
"Pyrrha!" Catherine barked not showing any form of kindness as Pyrrha quaked.
"Yes!?"
"You lost. Badly. To put it bluntly, you got your ass kicked. You walked in here cocky expecting an easy win, and you paid the price. You thought you had the clear advantage when you did not! You fought an opponent who behaves and acted in ways you could not have predicted! A double shame since this is your teammate. You live with him, sleep with him eat your food with him. You of all people should know his fighting habits like the back of your own hand!"
"Yes, mam!"
"You underestimate your opponent in a real fight you die! So don't look down on another person. No matter what they are." Catherine added as Pyrrha looked away from the scowling elder sister of her teammate her light green skin and lime colored hair shaking with pain as she nodded.
"I'm sorry!"
"Good. Until next time? Break!" Catherine said as the two teens nodded and walked off. As the two walked off, Pyrrha winced in discomfort. Her skin aflame and her body shaking. She lost badly her only defeat in her history.
And to a boy no less? Pyrrha should have felt shame discomfort despair but instead? She felt good. Pyrrha felt a flame kindled in her heart, a burning passion roared in her chest that she had once thought lost.
I lost, I lost, I lost! Pyrrha was elated! A defeat! A real defeat! Someone had not only put up a fight but triumphed over her?! The invincible girl was beaten, that meant she was no longer Pyrrha Nikos the invincible girl just Pyrrha Nikos! Ordinary girl! It felt amazing! She lost a battle, that meant she had found a strong opponent!
She had found someone to train against to truly put her skills to the test on and he was on the same team!? How could she be so fortunate!? Jaune was perfect! Strong, confident, and easy on the eyes? Pyrrha was going to deepen their friendship and soon.
"Jaune." Pyrrha began a wide smile on her lips, even if Jaune could not see past the wave of irritable green skin.
"Pyrrha? You are not that mad about me-
"I'm elated! Thank you so much!" Pyrrha shouted picking Jaune up wrapping him up in a back-breaking hug, swinging him around in a wide loop making him blush.
"Pyrrha?! What are you doing!?"
"I'm hugging my friend! What else can I do!?" Pyrrha asked laughing out loud as Jaune felt his spine break.
"I can't breathe!" Jaune hissed as Pyrrha spun him like a child's top as the two hugged a certain heiress was grinning ear to ear.
Weiss Schnee was having a fantastic day, a smile wide as a barn door split her face as she grinned. Jaune was perfect. Not only was he brave, loyal, strong and kind. He was also strong. Jaune. A boy had just bested Pyrrha Nikos, Pyrrha Nikos! In a one on one battle!
Jaune a man mind you beat the unbeatable female champion without taking so much as a scratch! It would not be long till word spread rumor traveled fast concerning celebrities. Soon people would be asking how Jaune could manage such a feet?
How could a male take dome the most powerful female champion? Well, it was mainly due to his own skill, and to a much lesser extent Pyrrha's own arrogance but any! Improvement Jaune made would inevitably be leaked back to Weiss's own immaculate leadership!
After all, she was by Jaune's own admission the best partner in the world, and any success of Jaune's was by default a success of hers. So it was like Weiss! Beat Pyrrha! And Weiss-
"Weiss? You ok? You got a creepy grin on your face." Yang asked worried about her leader as-
"Why whatever do you mean Yang? I'm fine things are perfect." Weiss said flashing far too many teeth as Yang backed up.
"Ok... I'll be at the ships going to the fall see you there?"
"As you say, Yang."
"I... Weiss?"
"I'm fine just... seeing the possibilities..."
Weiss was still having a good day.
"Ruby Rose! Jaune Arc! You two are partners!" Glynda said making Weiss's eye twitch. The dean in her infinite wisdom had decided to randomize partners for the sap gathering trip in the forever falls. Something Weiss did not agree with not at all.
Jaune was Weiss's partner for a reason, besides the fact they just happened to make eye contact with one another and seeing him go off with Ruby of all people left Weiss feeling a bit uneasy.
"What's wrong?" The cool, collected voice of Blake asked, the calm girl walking next to Weiss, her partner of the day a respectable young woman. If you were to ask Weiss that is.
"Blake... you know Ruby well?"
"She's my partner."
"Do you think of her as a friend to you?"
"She's not an enemy yet why?"
"I just... how do you think she is in danger? Would she protect those around her or run away?"
"Are you asking for yourself or are you just worried about Jaune?" Blake asked the ghost of a smile on her lips as Weiss frowned.
"Both?"
"Well to answer you she is a brave person, Jaune won't be abandoned with her I guarantee," Blake said smiling as Weiss dropped some of her tension.
"That's... that is good to hear. I know it is wrong to judge people based on appearance, but Jaune is my partner and he his a boy. If she were to act impulsively and get him injured?"
"She won't do that. Ruby is not a bad leader she is just young ok?"
"I... I know that I'm just overreacting-
Ding!
A sharp ping went through the air as Weiss looked down to her scroll where Jaune' aura reader just dropped by half as a gunshot filled the air as Weiss was not as overreacting as she thought…
"Damn! Ruby!" Jaune yelled as he tossed a caustic bomb dead into the mask of the Beowulf. The massive monster screeched as Jaune smashed it on the face. The monster reeled the acid already eating into its skull as it fell backward. The thing shrieked as its clawed hands raked across its skull, desperate to get the virulent dust off its skull.
As the monster roared a harsh crack! Filled the air as Ruby fought, the reaper fell back her rifle blazing placing bullets into the skull masks of the Grimm that swarmed them. The Grimm had come from nowhere, drawn to the sap that Ruby and Jaune had been collecting. The horde had surrounded them and cut them off from thier friends and-
"RUBY!" Jaune yelled sprinting forward, a clawed had raked his legs making him grunt. He meant the hit his semblance activated increasing his speed, sprinting ahead as he jumped.
"Look out!" Jaune yelled getting into of Ruby and the Ursa that had come from behind her. The monster roared in defiance as a satchel hit its face. Fisht!
The beast roared as it fell back its hand dropped like an executioner's blade striking Jaune's arm where his scroll was torn to pieces.
Kisht! The sound of screaming metal and frayed wires filled the air as Jaune cried out.
"Jaune!?" Ruby shouted as Jaune's photo on her scroll went black. His aura reading nil as Jaune fell back.
"Down!" Jaune yelled as Ruby ducked the Beowulf behind her. The monster's momentum carried it past her as the monster lunged. Jaune hurled a caustic bomb into his face the monster screamed choking flailing forward as Ruby twirled in a shower of red, putting her gun over Jaunes shoulder firing once. A loud crack filled the air as the Ursa's head exploded in a shower of red.
The monster fell back as Jaune put another three satchels into the Grimm that had stumbled. The Beowulf hissed and gagged as it dissolved into a sickly green pool of acid. Its muscles sloughing and bones turning into a puddle of green goop.
As the Grimm fell, another shadow fell. Jaune could not move fast enough.
"Ruby!" Jaune shouted another Grimm an Ursa Majoris fell on them. The wrecking ball of black and red attacked with a single-minded determination as Ruby squealed.
"AH!" The girls shouted as her scroll was shattered, the Grimm's claws shatter her scroll tearing up her cloak, and digging into her back. Blood came out from her side as Jaune panicked.
"No!" Jaune yelled tossing twin bombs on its arm the other leg. The thing slowed falling to the floor as Ruby planted the tip of her scythe into its head killing it in a moment.
As the two paused, it roared. The mass Grimm the Ursa Canines that started the attack it roared. The massive two-story red-headed beast let out an ear-splitting roar that made Jaune fell like someone had stabbed his eardrums sounded once and bounced back into the forest wounded.
"Jaune! We have to kill it!"
"Ruby! Wait!" Jaune yelled as Ruby ran at it going into the forest line vanishing into the trees leaving Jaune alone as-
"Goddammit!" Jaune yelled and swore bursting into a sprint as he chased after the girl into the forest of Grimm alone...
FIST! The sound of crackling fire along with breaking wood entered the air as Jaune sighed. The fight had gone well until Ruby had left to attack…
"Jaune, I didn't mean... I'm sorry..." The small girl said looking away from Jaune staring down at a log as she refused to meet his eyes.
"It's ok Ruby. You did what you could.' Jaune said kindling the fire as Ruby shook her head.
"But you got hurt!" Ruby said pointing to his side where Jaune took a nasty hit from the Canine. The massive Grimm had landed a good blow on Jaune in the forest. Bringing the boy's aura to almost nil and if not for Ruby stepping in he might have died.
"I got hurt with my friend. That's fine." Jaune said as the fire started up. The two of them were far off. Miles from wherever the hell they started The shimmering tip on the Beacon tower illuminated the sky acted as thier only waypoint home as Jaune sighed.
"But!"
"No but's Ruby. We have to make it back to Beacon, our scrolls are trashed, and we are about five miles from where we left. If we start in the morning, we can make it back to Beacon in one or two days. You can make that hike right?"
"Yes! I can do it! You can count on me!"
"Good. Now try to get some sleep. We have a long day ahead of us." Jaune said as Ruby nodded. The girl laying down next to the now roaring fire as Jaune sighed.
"Think of it like camping! You have gone camping before right?"
"Not really... my parents were not that big on the outdoors. Well, my dad is! But my mom kept him in the house really."
"She kept him in the house?"
"Not like that! Dad was a hunter before me and Yang were born! After our birth, he chose to look after us. He took hunting jobs around Patch, and he didn't have much time to take us out past our own home. We never got to camping much."
"Oh, I see. That's nice?"
"I like it! Patch is nice, I think you would like it if you wanted to visit."
"You know if we make it out of this? I'll go there first chance I get."
"With me?"
"It's a date," Jaune said as Ruby eeped loudly rolling in her side of the fire as he closed his eyes and went to sleep.
Five days. It took Jaune and Ruby five long days to get back to Beacon. Not only did he woefully misunderstand the range back to Beacon, Jaune did not account for a traveling companion that did not know how to travel.
Ruby was not in any way shape or form meant for the travel. She was not fit for endurance, trips her body leaned itself to short quick bursts of speed not long trecks in the woods. She tired easy and needed constant breaks. That and the fact that the two had no food or water whatsoever did not help in the slightest.
Jaune was used to soldering through bouts of thirst and hunger. Having gone days or weeks without food or water in the past. With resources scare in the wilds starvation was nothing new to Jaune. But to Ruby? A girl who had never know a day of hunger she tired easy.
She needed to have food and water twice! A day and Jaune had to take time off to hunt. Literally, hunt, he had to trap, skin and cook wild animals while Ruby held off any questing Grimm. A task made only worse as neither of their weapons was meant to hunt. Ruby's Crescent Rose would not leave enough of an animal left alive to eat and putting something stuffed with acid into your mouth was never a good idea.
So! Jaune had to make traps, that meant finding bait, that meant waiting for said animals to wander into said traps. And then capture, kill, skin, cook and feed him and Ruby. Since she was eating, he was also. That alone added two whole days to the trip, and after the first time, Jaune stopped eating.
He cut down the amount of nutrition making Ruby's the priority. He fed her and fasted, that might have gone over poorly with Ruby who was feeling useless as was but now? It had finally gotten them back into Beacon…
"Jaune! Are you really ok?" Ruby asked her voice high and shaky. She was already miserable enough she did not need Jaune getting sick to be added to her list of a guilty conscious.
Jaune had for lack of a better word saved her life for the last five days. Jaune feed, watered, and looked after Ruby like a child! Sure she helped fight Grimm but concerning other things? Jaune had done everything else, he caught their food, he cooked their food, he prepared it, he lit the fires he found places to sleep!
He kept Ruby alive and even when he started to skip his meals to cut down on travel time despite! Ruby's repeated objections Jaune managed to get them both back to Beacon in one piece.
"You need to see the nurse!" Ruby insisted her arm under Jaune's shoulder as the two walked into the Beacon courtyard. The courtyard was empty it was the middle of the day and almost lunch time. The students should be coming out soon and-
"I really should go see Weiss. She's probably worried about me. I have not even talked to her in five days." Jaune admitted his eyes shimmering bright cobalt now marred with fatigue. Large bags held under his eyes from keeping watch in the night. His body was slightly frailer, and he was definitely weaker. Jaune needed rest and soon.
"You can see her after the nurse! I don't want you to get hurt, anymore." Ruby said her cheeks bright red and-
"Jaune!? Ruby!?"
"Ren?" Jaune asked as the small green boy walked out his magenta eyes wide. He picked up his scroll dialing once before shouting.
"They are here! I'll do that!" The boy said with more emotion that Jaune thought possible sprinting up to them a panicked look in his magenta eyes.
"Jaune! Ruby!" The boy yelled sprinting up to them his hand flying to Ruby's wist checking her for injuries. Making ruby blush before he did the same to Jaune and frowned.
"You two are ok!?"
"We are fine. We were lost for a few days."
"Ren? What's the problem? How are our teams?"
"Bad. We thought you two were dead."
"What!? Why!?"
"Your scrolls went dead. Ruby we saw Jaune's image go grey, and when yours did? We found some tatters of your cloak with blood, and we thought the worse." Ren said frowning as-
"JAUNE!"
"Weiss?" Jaune asked as his partner appeared her face wild, her eye shimmering she had dark bags under her eyes to match her own, her hair was a mess, no longer pristine and done up. Frayed ends in tangled knots, unruly knots were prominent as-
"Ruby!?"
"Yang?" Ruby asked as the two tens appeared before and sprinted.
"Weiss used her glyphs to travel. Using her speed to blur up to Jaune in a Ruby-like force as she slammed into him like a comet. Her hands flew to his sides. Roaming up and down his leathers checking for any sign of injury.
"You are back?! What happened to you!? Where were you?! Why did you call?!" Weiss asked satisfied that her partner was not only A alive. B not in any critical danger. The girl gripped Jaune id death grip making him wince.
"Weiss! Why are you so worried?" Jaune asked as Ruby gagged. Yang pulling her into a bear hug and nearly breaking her spine.
"Ruby!"
"Yang! My back!"
"I was so worried!" She yelled picking up her sister as Jaune frowned, soon the other members of their team arrive a chorus of worried overfill his ears as his world melted into chaos.
"Why is everyone so worried?!" Jaune shouted as he felt his ribs crack! A wave of dizziness overcame him as-
"Jaune!? Jaune?! What's wrong?" Weiss asked her and flying up to his face, resting on his head before a gasp left her lips.
"You have a fever!"
"I do?"
"When was the last time you drank something?!"
"He hasn't drank in over a day!"
"What?! Why!?"
"I was saving time-
"Idiot!"
"Weiss!"
"Infirmary. Now."
Weiss was having a bad day.
"NO!" Weiss felt her blood freeze, her eyes widened to the size of saucers as she saw it. Jaune's image on her scroll flashed grey. His aura turned off as he winked out. Weiss felt her blood go frigid.
Her legs refused to move. Faster. Faster. She thought as she willed her legs forward.
It didn't matter how fast she ran, her legs felt like they were moving through molasses. Her body felt sluggish and slow. No matter how fast she forced her body to move it didn't want to.
As she ran, she bursts into the clearing and felt her world snap! The signs of battle were clear, broken heart burned grass littered the ground. The melting pools of Grimm. Sinking into bubbling pools of acid filled the area showing signs of Jaune's bombs-
"NO!" Yang screamed, Weiss didn't know she could sound so hollow... Yang was in the center of the field on her knees clutching the bloody remains of Ruby's cloak. As she fell Weiss saw it, Jaune's scroll cracked and broken along with some of his leathers. Weiss felt her heart stop. It rose into her throat and gagged her. She felt tears fill her eyes as her hands trembled. Her partner was gone, she was too late...
Failure was not a new emotion to Weiss. She was human, even a Schnee failed from time to time. Business deals went bad, life went awry family got abducted the usual but now? Now it had hit her close to home. Her partner was dead...
Jaune's death was like a lead weight on her shoulders, she saw it every day. The empty bed in the Sapphire room seemed to mock her. It teased that her partner would never sleep in it again. I should have never left him! Thought's pervaded her mind eroding her will. She thought for hours how it could have been different. How she could have saved him. She left him with a child! A child who was also dead...
Weiss was not cruel, she would not lie she did not like Ruby, but she did not wish her harm. Not at all. Weiss wished nothing but happiness for Ruby but now?
Yang was a mess. She cried every day, the normally unflappable blonde took the loss of her sister hard. Weiss could understand if she lost Winter? Or Goddess forbid Whitley? Weiss did not know if she could keep it together. She had only know Jaune a scant few weeks, and his death felt like she had lost both of her siblings.
Team Sapphire had been shaken. One member dead, two incapacitated. Pyrrha tried to pick up the remainders of the team, but the Amazon had nothing but empty words. She did not know how to comfort either of them, and she only seemed to make things worse when she did.
Team Sapphire was pushed to the breaking point the team fractured beyond all repair until a miracle happened and the dead came back to life.
"Is he going to be ok?"
"He is going to be fine Miss Schnee. You can let him breathe you know?" The Beacon nurse said smiling. The brown haired raccoon faunus giggled as she saw the young Schnee grip the blonde like he was a life jacket. The teen had wrapped her arms around her partner and refused to let go.
"And her?! Is Ruby ok!?"
"She is fine Miss Xiao-Long. She is actually no worse for the wear."
"Thank you! So she's ok!?"
"Yes, but for Mister Arc-
"What!? What's wrong with him!?"
"Nothing major Weiss. But he is suffering from several minor conditions." The nurse said as Weiss gulped.
"What's wrong with him?"
"Besides a minor case of dehydration? Jaune is suffering from a mild case of anorexia. He is currently twenty pounds underweight. Not major but something that needs to be addressed. I suggest you increase his meals from three to four in a day. With plenty of snacks and fluids in between."
"He will get five, and all the snacks he can eat."
"Good. Now from what I can tell besides that? Jaune you suffer from a long-term case of frequent malnutrition. This has caused your bones to be slightly more brittle than most." The nurse added as Weiss gulped.
"Is he ok?"
"He is fine. But he will need to take care to not get injured in training. He will suffer broken bones slightly more frequently but it should prove no problem to his training."
"I doubt that's a problem he beats anyone's ass who he steps into the ring with," Yang said flippantly getting back into her normal mood as her sister and friend was once again safe and sound.
"Be that as it may, I am recommending two days off from training."
"I don't-
"He will take it, he will take a week off from training," Weiss growled silicon Jaume who whimpered.
"Yes, mam."
"Good. Now Jaune, please go to the dean's office. Glynda wants to meet with you."
Jaune was having a good day.
"I can't believe it! Of all the idiotic! Foolish! Hairbrained things you do this!?" The irate voice of his aunt Glynda said as Jaune sighed.
"I'm sorry aunt Glynda- MPPHH!
Jaune gagged as something long, soft and wide was shoved into his mouth. Glynda shoved her muffin into Jaune's mouth eyeing him like the devil herself.
"Swallow." She demanded as Jaune whimpered taking a breath and choking down all of Glynda's thick, steamy muffin in one go.
"Good boy. Now swallow that load while I get another."
"Yes, mam," Jaune said as Glynda did what she did best bake. Despite all looks and appearances, Glynda liked to cook to bake specifically. She liked to bake muffins, and she liked for Jaune to eat her muffins. So there Jaune was in her office and eating Glynda's biscuits.
The rich smells of a pastry shop filled the small room as Jaune ate the muffins. Glynda sighed taking more biscuits out of her oven and giving them to Jaune.
"Eat." She demanded as Jaune groaned.
"Aunt Glyn! I already ate your muffins! I'm full!"
"Jaune Arc! You will eat my muffins right now or so help me! I will force them into your mouth and make you choke!" Glynda shouted as Jaune whimpered.
"I'm sorry!"
"You bet you are! First! You have the gall! The gall! To run away! Then you vanish for years!? What were you thinking!?"
"I needed to!"
"Why!?"
"My dream!"
"Why are you so hung up on being a hunter!?"
"Because I want to help people!"
"Be a teacher! A firefighter! Something else!"
"This is my dream!"
"It almost got you killed!"
"Why are you worried!?"
"Because you are my nephew! I am allowed to worry about my stupid, foolish idiot of a nephew that's why!"
"I'm not a child!"
"You are an idiot! A dumb! Selfish! Idiot! Who let his own aunt worry about him for over three years! That is what you are Jaune Arc! A selfish idiot!" Glynda screamed rage in her voice as Jaune paused his mouth falling open before a sigh left his lips.
"I'm sorry."
"You are damned right you are sorry! And now look at you! You have a crumb on your face!" The dean said before wiping Jaunes cheeks making him blush.
"Aunt!"
"Don't you aunt me! Learn to eat properly!"
"Stop shoving your muffins in my mouth!"
"I would not have to shove my muffins in your mouth if you would just eat them!" Glynda shouted before sighing, wrapping her nephew in a tight hug smothering him in her chest as she rubbed his hair.
"It is good to see you Jaune."
"You too."
"I missed you. So much."
"I... I missed you too."
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"I... you would have stopped me."
"I would have! You are my nephew!"
"This is my dream!"
"This-
Wrap! Wrap! The sound of knocking filled the room as Glynda paused.
"Come in!" She said as the door swung open at once, a pair of piercing blood red eyes, under a familiar main of dark black hair appeared as a tall woman stepped inside the room.
Yang? Jaune thought as an older, more mature and much more developed version of Yang in red and black armor walked inside Glynda's office.
"Raven?" Glynda asked as the older Yang doppelganger walked in.
"Hello, Glynda I am here for my interview with Jaune." The woman said fixing Jaune an easy smile as she sauntered over to him.
"Aunt Glynda?"
"Jaune. Meet Raven Branwen. The head of security for Beacon."
"A pleasure Mister Arc, now I am here to ask you some questions about your latest endeavor into the woods."
"You look like Yang."
"I should hope so, I am her mother." The woman said smiling gently at Jaune who melted into her gaze.
"That explains where she gets her good looks!" Jaune said winking at Raven making Glynda roll her eyes as the reformed bandit gave a soft laugh.
"If I were twenty years younger and single you would be on your knees eating more than just muffins," Raven said smiling as Jaune grinned.
"Now I know where she gets her sense of humor from. She wants me to eat more than her jokes you know?"
"Jaune?! That is her daughter-
"It is quite fine Glynda. Yang is a good girl, she has not done anything, untoward you has she?" Raven asked eyes narrowing as Jaune shook his head.
"Besides undress me with her eyes, make every last joke about riding my face till I pass out and saying she wants to fuck me on every wall, bed, couch, closet, and desk in Beacon? Nah! She's cool!" Jaune said making Raven blink owlishly her crimson eyes fluttering for several seconds before a coy smile split her lips.
"That sounds like her. She reminds me of when I was young." The woman said smiling nostalgically as Glynda groaned.
"Raven!"
"Now Jaune why were you out of Beacon grounds?" Raven asked ignoring Glynda and finally going to do her job as Jaune sighed.
"Ruby saw a powerful Grimm, she thought if we let it live it would hurt others."
"I see. So it was Ruby's idea to chase the Grimm?"
"Yes I tried to stop her, but she is fast."
"Don't I know it? So you went after her, did you actually kill the Grimm?"
"Yeah we killed it, or she did."
"Good to hear you slew your prey. Now after the kill what happened? Ruby said you hunted, cooked and provided for the both of you even at the cost of your own health?"
"I did, but I'm not mad! She needed the help with survival."
"I told Sumer to train her better, ah well. I have all I need now. Jaune in the future don't chase after Ruby. I can yank her back with ease. If I was not on a mission, I would have retrieved both of you with time to spare."
"Mam?"
"Do not worry none of you are in trouble now enjoy eating Glynda's muffins. And I'm sure my daughter who is much closer to you in age will have you eating her muffin soon enough."
"No, she will not! And what does that mean!?"
"You said the same thing about Tai with me, you remember ho what turned out TA Goodwitch?"
"Raven Branwen!"
"I'm leaving, I'm leaving. Bye Jaune or should I say future son in law?" Raven asked a coy grin on her lips as Jaune smiled ear to ear.
"Bye future mom in law! I'll eat Yang's muffins for you!"
"Don't be afraid to ask her to go down first!" Raven said smiling widely as he closed the door and-
"No."
"What?"
"You Jaune Arc will NOT date Yang Xiao-Long."
"But she's nice!"
"Jaune Arc!"
"I like blondes!"
"You will not date her! SO HELP ME!" Glynda yelled raising her crop high as Jaune sighed.
"Come on Weiss! It's a good idea!" Nora said for the tenth time that day as Weiss finally gave in. She had been entertaining Nora's idea to get Jaune out of a small funk he was in for some time and she finally had enough.
"Nora. What if Jaune or Ren! Get hurt on this guy's night out?"
"They won't! Besides Yang will watch them! They need this Weiss! Jaune needs more friends than just you! And Ren needs more guy friends! You don't want Jaune to be stunted!"
"I don't," Weiss admitted seeing some logic not much but enough to consider.
"So yes!?"
"IF! And only if Yang watches them both. And I want them all back by tomorrow!" Weiss growled as she finally gave in to her friend's demands. Nora had a point, Jaune could not as much as Weiss wished otherwise be tethered down to her. He needed other friends and more specifically he needed male friends. It was only good for him, four out of five psychologists said that men who did not have other male friends tended to get depression much easier. And since Ren was the only real viabel option a night on the town with them and Yang acting as a chaperone seemed safe enough.
"YES! Operation guy's nigh is a go!"
"Drinks on me boy's go nuts!" Yang said as she slammed back a Strawberry Sunrise. It was Friday night and the floor of Juniors was bumping! Large heavy techno music blared in the air as bodies ground together on the dance floor. Yang downed her drinks without pause or hesitation. Her two charges at her side Jaune and Ren. Both now very, tipsy as Yang grinned. The two boys got in free of charge, and now they got her free drinks.
"Another!" Ren said slamming his fist on the table the boy was a featherweight! Two cocktails and he was a mess! Could not even talk straight! The boy was half laid out on the bar his black hair a mess and his eyes spinning in his skull. He was already wasted and looked ready to pass out!
"You look good with your hair down Ren! Keep that look!" Yang said snapping a photo of the frazzled Ren to send to Nora in the future as blackmail or a bribe.
"I love Nora!"
"I know you do!"
"I love liquor!" Jaune said slurring his words as Yang put him in a headlock. Smashing his face into her chest as she chortled.
"And I love you blondie! You and that perfect pair of cunt licking lips!" Yang half shouted half slurred as-
"Here you go!" The bartender slammed several more cocktails down in front of them as they all cheered.
"Cheers!" The tree said as they clink the glass and the drinks flowed...
The night blurred into one long inebriated mess as the three teens drank, alcohol, loose morals, and a drive to live life to the fullest bleed together in a potent cocktail. Soon the three split up... Yang pounded more drinks downing her liquor like she was a drowning man in the desert, tossing back cocktails until she passed out head first on the bar and began to snore much to the annoyance of the bouncers.
"Stupid blondes."
"Right sister?" The twins said as they frowned and began to drag the knocked out blonde bimbo off the bar and out of thier club.
In the back of the bar, a boy in green stumbled and fell landing face first on the tiled floor never making it to the bathroom before a pair of white boots came in front of his vision.
"Kid the hell happened to you?" A strong masculine voice asked as Ren moaned.
"Love... Nora..." Ren groaned out loud as a heavy sigh filled the air.
"Fuck me. Hold on let me get you somewhere safe." An irritated voice said as a man in a white suit picked him up slinging him over his shoulder like a sack of flour taking a moment to father his cane complaining about kids before he lit a cigar and walked out of the club.
Outside the bar, a lovely blonde boy laid on the side, of a cold lonely alley smiling weakly too drunk to walk laughing freely as-
Tip! Tap! The sound of tapping high heels filled the air as a long pair of boots with hells came before Jaune, stopping dead in front of him as a pink parasol flowed before him.
"Who are you?" Jaune asked eyes drooping as a pair of mismatched eye looked down to him. A woman in brown, pink and white stood over him her head cocked down to look at him like he was a tasty morsel. A thin giggle left the mesmerizing woman's lips as Jaune groaned.
"You... you are beautiful," Jaune said as a woman in a leotard with fantastic! Multi-colored eyes who smelled like ice cream? Of all things looked down to him and giggled...
The next day Weiss was reminded of a simple saying. If you want it done right, you do it yourself as she felt her mouth drop.
"You... you what?" Weiss asked her voice barely above a whisper her hands shaking in rage.
"I lost them," Yang said head hung low unable to meet her leader's eyes as Weiss's world shattered...
AN: And there we go! Apprentice is up and done! Hope you like this fic cause now it's officially in the release schedule after Bastion and before Lovestruck! This fic is in the mix now boys and girls so happy new year!