This was way longer than it was supposed to be
Jaune still didn't understand how his semblance worked; it didn't rely on his emotions like Ren thought, that is not to say he was not able to use it, no the problem was when it did come out, he couldn't control it. For example, After being rudely woken up by his alarm clock and after many frustrating attempts to hit the snooze button on the top to get those sweet, sweet last 5 minutes of slumber, he was unfortunately fully woken up by a loud 'ora' along with every dorm for the next 20 meters to the sight of a broken alarm clock and table next to his bed, on the bright side he now had a great view of the dorm below his.
His friends were a little angry about their rude awakening at first but got over it knowing he only got he semblance recently. Part of Jaune was glad to have woken up, he was having this really bizarre dream where he had a Spanish cousin 'Juan', who was trying to steal the arc family fortune using a magic stone mask.
The morning went about without anything major happening until they reached the cafeteria. Jaune was returning with his food to the table his team and team RWBY were, when he noticed that faunus upper classmen from team CFVY, her name was Velvet if he remembered correctly, walking ahead of him start to look nervous, Jaune wondered what could make her so nervous so suddenly until he tripped. Out of the corner of his I he could see one of Cardin's teammates sticking his leg, he was probably made at Jaune for hospitalizing his leader. As Jaune tripped he also knocked Velvet over launching both of their trays of food into the air. Jaune now realized why Velvet was so nervous, earlier in the year team CRDl bullied her about her Faunus heritage until the teachers and the rest of team CFVY put a stop to it, knocking both Jaune and Velvet over must be like hitting two birds with one stone for them.
Thanks to Pyrrha's training Jaune was able to stop himself from falling and catch Velvet too, but the food was going to fall back down on them any second now. Being lathered in food wouldn't be the end of the world but that wasn't what he was thinking about, for some reason the only thing going through Jaune's head was to catch their food.
ORA!
Before Jaune could even blink the arms of his semblance shot out grabbing the 2 trays. With lighting speed and surgical precision it was able to make it so all the food landed back exactly were it was before they tripped. He was even able to catch the soup Velvet got back into its bowl on the tray without spilling a drop.
Jaune's semblance held the trays while he held Velvet back up. His semblance faded back into his body, the trays being placed in his hands, Jaune gave Velvet back her tray and received a quiet 'thank you' before she returned to her team. The cafeteria was silent for a few moments until they went back to their business, people were surprised at the speed of Jaune's semblance but not as surprised and the day before, although Jaune did hear that older student from before yell 'OH MY GOD' quietly in the background.
Jaune walked to his friends with out paying any attention to team CRDL knowing they wouldn't try anything again. While walking back Jaune was trying to piece together what happen to get his semblance to come out.
He was broken out of his trance when Ruby started talking to him. "Hey Jaune your getting pretty good with using your semblance now aren't you"
"Well I didn't do it on purpose, it mostly happened out of instinct." Jaune replied. Suddenly an idea popped into Jaune's head. What if his semblance was activated by instinct? I would make sense since only times it did work were when he wasn't trying to use it.
Jaune's train of thought was interrupted by his teammate Nora. "Hey Jaune, you know how your semblance looks like a person, well I think we should name the newest member of the team"
Ruby's eyes widened and a gleeful smile appeared on her face. "Oh, oh let me name it, I'm great at naming things, doesn't Crescent Rose have an awesome name"
"I don't know, it always sounded a little to edgy to me" Nora replied
"What! Well your weapon's name is stupid, what does Magnhild even mean!"
"It means strength and how dare you, Renny helped me come up with that name"
"Well that just shows that your unable to come up with cool weapon names"
"Is that a challenge, the one you can think of the coolest name wins"
"Your on"
"Ok I'll go first, purple fury"
"Boo, the phantom fist sounds way better"
"Ok, how about ripple"
"What does that have to do with anything?"
"It sounds cool"
"Killer queen"
"Metallica"
"Emperor"
"Golden experience"
"Crazy diamond"
"Jaune-Jaune's bizarre power"
Jaune tried to intervene, but soon their contest became a shouting match. 'I don't really see the point of giving my semblance a name, thought I guess things have been looking up for me since I got it, wait'. While Jaune was thinking to himself he remembered when one of his sister when through a bizarre phase where she would try to predict the future using special cards
'If I remember correctly the star card, symbolized optimism and hope, so maybe I can put star in the name. Star…purple? No that's stupid.'
"Star platinum". Jaune said proud of himself for coming up with the name, just before he realized he said it out sound.
Ruby looked up and put a finger on her chin "Star platinum huh, I like it, sound cool"
"Mmm yeah not bad, Star platinum it is then" Nora said happy with the winner of the contest.
"Hey I just remember something." Jaune turned his head to see his partner Pyrrha was the one talking
"What is it Pyrrha?"
"What about your sword, you seemed very worried about it yesterday"
"Oh yeah, Headmaster Ozpin said he'd call my uncle back early from a mission so he can fix it"
"Wait, thought your father didn't have any siblings"
"He's on my mother's side"
"And your father taught your uncle that special technique"
"Yeah, my dad and uncle are good friends"
It was then, that Yang decided to give her two cents "that's surprising, if some guy tried to marry my sister I'd threaten to rip of his arms" Yang then processed to wrap her sister in a headlock and ruffle her hair, much to the dismay of Ruby.
"My uncle hated my dad at first but then my dad saved my mom from being attacked by this weird guy with two right hands and they've been good friends ever since"
"Well I'm glad your sword will be fixed then we can go back to training together, but I guess you might need the extra sword fighting lessons now" Pyrrha look a little sad at the thought of not training with Jaune
Jaune was a little confused of why she was sad but figured she thought her efforts were in vain and tried to cheer her up. Placing a hand on her shoulder; Jaune spoke "Don't worry Pyrrha even if I mostly use my semblance from now on your training help me get into shape and we can still train if you want" Jaune finished his little speech with a smile hoping that will help cheer Pyrrha up.
Pyrrha smiled back at Jaune. 'Thank you Jaune that means a lot, maybe after class today you and me could um I don't know hang out or something."
Jaune pondered this for a moment, 'Pyrrha and I haven't done anything together other train for a while, it could be fun'. Jaune was once again confused by Pyrrha's sudden shyness and why she suddenly found the ground extremely interesting, 'she might be sick, her face is a little red'.
Jaune was about to open his mouth to reply, but beacon's local buxom brawler beat him to it. "Actually Jaune, I was wonder if you could help me with something"
Jaune was surprised that Yang needed his help, but he was willing to help. "Sure Yang what is it."
"Well your sembla- sorry 'star platinum' seems to mainly fight with his fists and there isn't a lot of boxing type fights in beacon other than me, so I was thinking we could spar after class. You can get a better grip using your new power and I see if my fighting style needs work or not"
While Jaune would have liked to go with Pyrrha, he came to beacon to become a great huntsman. "Ok yang that sounds like a good plan"
"Great" It was basically time to go to class so Yang and the rest of team RWBY stood up and went to class, Yang turned around while walking to class and yell to back Jaune "I'll ask Professor Goodwitch if she can supervise match, see you after class"
"Sure thing" Jaune turned to Pyrrha smiling apologetically. "Sorry Pyrrha I promise we'll hang out some other time, I just thought sparing with yang would be good experience."
Jaune could see a little bit of sadness in her eyes, but he know she wasn't crushed or anything. "It's fine Jaune but I'm going to hold you to that promise" Pyrrha said getting up from her seat to head to class
"Of course an Arc never goes back on his word" Jaune said happy that his partner was in good humor.
Nothing spectacular happen in class and now both Jaune and Yang were standing opposite each other in the area in their combat clothes. Some of the remnants of the crater where Cardin hit the wall the other day were still there, it was mostly fixed but there was still some rubble and dust around it. Both teams were on the sidelines waiting to root for their respective members while Professor Goodwitch was looking down at her tablet making all the necessary preparations for the match.
Professor Goodwitch looked up from her tablet at both fighters. "Is there any questions before we begin?"
Jaune raised his hand "Yes, why didn't you use your semblance to fix the wall"
"Because Mr. Arc I have been so backed up with work I haven't had any time to clean up after your mess" Professor Goodwitch replied while giving Jaune an annoyed look
"Heh, heh noted"
"Now, are both contestant ready"
"Yes" both Yang and Jaune said at the same time
"Very well on my mark you will begin"
Jaune's mind was running at 100 miles a minute. 'Ok Jaune remember just don't overthink it, just focus on wanting something to happen and let your instincts do the rest, Ok what I want to happen is a quick jab, that's it just focus on that quick jab'
"Begin!"
ORA!
At the millisecond the professor opened her mouth the familiar purple being launched a fist right into Yang's cheek, knocking her face to the side and making her almost trip backwards
'Well shit'
Yang didn't move from the position she was in and her hair was blocking her face so Jaune couldn't see how much damage was done
Jaune began to worry if Yang was seriously hurt
He took a few steps towards her, with star platinum hovering next to him
"Yang are you alri-" Jaune was stopped by Yang hitting not Jaune, but star platinum in the side of the face. Somehow Jaune was able to feel it
"Didn't know you had it in you vomit boy, that was quite a punch"
"ow! That was a dirty trick, I was worried about you!"
"Why didn't you just check the aura meters above us?" Yang said pointing up
Jaune looked up to see that a fair amount of Yang's aura was gone and some of Jaune's aura was gone as well
"I panicked ok," Jaune said trying to justify his actions
"Whatever, but how did you get hurt I didn't hit you"
"I don't know I just got a suddenly pain in my cheek"
"mmmh" Both Yang and Jaune turned to look at Miss Goodwitch who was thinking of a correlation, she turned to face Jaune. "It would seem that what ever happens to your semblance, also happens to you, either way the match will continue"
"Good 'cause now that I know that Jauney-boy can use his semblance" Yang smashed her fist together, eyes went red and her hair began to glow. "I don't need to hold back"
Yang rushed Jaune immediately with a flurry of rock hard punches, before Jaune could process what was happening, star platinum had already moved in front of him and blocking the punches, placing his forearms in front of him. Jaune still felt the attacks landing and loss some of his aura, but the majority of the damage was blocked.
'Looks like it really does rely on instinct' Jaune thought, relieve at the lack of major pain in his body.
ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA!
Star platinum unleashed rush of punches with Yang doing the same, each at amazing speeds. Yang was able to dodge or deflect a majority of blows because Star platinum wasn't able to go at full speed as he was also blocking Yang's attacks (due to Jaune's intense fear of yang's fists had been quickly reignited when he learn he would still feel being hit) while throwing his own punches back at her. There was a stalemate for a few seconds
Yang threw a quick jab with her left hand pass Jaune's head deliberately meant to miss. Jaune's head flinched to the side in fear, his eyes locked on the fist.
Yang smirked. 'He's distracted, nows my chance'. Yang focused a good portion of her aura into her right fist and launched a powerful punch straight at Jaune's face. 'Eat this vomit b-' before yang could finish her thought her hand stopped, 'what the-' she looked down at her arm to see a large purple hand grapping her, she flicked her sight to jaune to see he was just as surprised as her before turning back to see star platinum pulling back his fist to unleash a devastating blow.
ORA!
'Fuck, fuck, fuck'
Yang quickly brought back her left forearm to try and deflect the fist rocketing towards her. A large 'boom' was heard as yang was blown halfway across the arena
She was somewhat successful deflecting, the gauntlet absorbing some of the blow, but in the process the yellow metal cover on the top was blown of showing the inner working of the weapon, still fully functional. Yang looked up at the aura meters to see that more than half of her aura was gone. She looked back at Jaune.
Jaune raised his open palm of his right hand in front of his face, he opened and closed it a couple of times. Star platinum was repeating the action out of sync. Then both Jaune and star platinum clenched their right fist at the same time. Jaune looked up at yang "I think I'm starting to get the hang of this."
Yang smirked at Jaune while dusting herself off. Yang cracked her knuckles, before retrieving two rows of 12 shotgun shells each from her back pockets and flinging them into the arm. Opening the ammo compartment of her gauntlets and ejecting the used shells, she was able to the rows of shells to land into the slots without even needing to look.
Yang fired off shots of in quick succession. The barrage of red dust projectiles, rapidly speeded towards Jaune, the area around him becoming increasing covered in red light as they through closer
ORA!
Star platinum punched the bullets as soon as they were in his range, causing them break on contact, unfortunately this didn't go as well as Jaune would have hoped.
"Ouch!" Jaune felt a burning sensation on his hands and saw burn marks on the gloves of star platinum. Jaune looked up at the aura meters about to seen the aura level has decreased. 'Crap, the bullets were broken apart, but the fire dust still ignited.'
Yang realizing that she now had the advantage at long range continued to fire upon Jaune. He tried to run, but Yang is one of the tops students in combat class and all around great fighter. Each shot would have hit their mark if not for star platinum blocking them with his forearms, Jaune he was still taking damage, from feeling of burning from the fire dust.
Jaune panicked and tried to formulate a plan of action. ' Ok Jaune, think, think! Star platinum can't go long range and she has 24 bullets in total there has to be a way out of this'
Jaune charged at Yang who was still standing in the same place. He drew ever closer using star platinum deflect the bullets, until Yang was just outside his range. She reeled back her right hand and fired the last shell at Jaune; the shot was deflected into the ground in front of Jaune causing a massive explosion blowing Jaune off his feet and causing dust to fill the arena.
When the smoke settled Jaune was on his back coughing out the smoke that entered his lungs, star platinum nowhere to be seen. He looked up at the aura meters to see that he was 1% away from losing. He stood after a substantial amount of effort.
Yang was standing in front of Jaune, arms crossed smiling at her almost guarantee victory. She shrugs her shoulders "Well Jaune for what it's worth you but up way more of a fight than most people". Yang unfolded her arms and raised her left gauntlet "But you still have some to do", Yang shot her arm forward ready to deliver the final blow
Click
Yang's eyes widened. 'Wait what' she looked down to see used shells jammed into the open mechanism of weapon. Through years of training and fighter, Yang instincts hand been honed to a razor sharp point and those instincts were telling her one thing when she saw Jaune stone hard face with not a sign of hesitation.
'He planned this'
Jaune grabbed her out stretched hand. Thanks to Pyrrha's training he was able to pull Yang to him in her stunned state. He spun her so her back was facing him and rapping his arms around her sides he hefted her of the ground.
Jaune released a mental sigh. 'That was close good thing my plan worked'. Jaune recalled the memory right before the explosion. He kept count of each shot and purposely causes star platinum to deflect the shot into the ground. Under the screen of smoke and thanks to star platinum incredible speed and precision, he grabbed some of Yang's used shotgun shells and shoved them into the mechanics of the weapon. 'If I'm right about this, if Yang can't get her footing then she won't be able attack me'
Jaune summoned star platinum to face yang. Yang had a good idea of what was coming next. She looked back at Jaune from the corner of her eye. "Heh, heh, are you going to do the 'ora, ora' thing?"
"Yes"
ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA!
A buzzer went off, signaling Yang's defeat.
Jaune let yang drop to her feet, with star platinum still hovering above them. Yang signed, "heh, I didn't actual think you'd win"
Jaune scratched the back of his head "I didn't think I would win either"
"Really? You seemed to be pretty cool and confident just before you got me"
"Oh huh, I guess it all happened too quick for me to get nervous"
"Well you should be nervous less, you definitely get a lot cooler. Hell if you keep that up, lets just say that Pyrrha might have herself some competition" Yang nugged Jaune and gave him a wink.
A look of confusion appeared on Jaune's face along with a slight blush "w-what are you getting at?"
Yang sighed once again and places her palm on her forehead. "You really are hopeless, but still I can't believe you got so strong so quick, you're a real star hahaha, get it."
And with that everyone in hearing range groaned
Jaune closed his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose "I'm going to pretend that wasn't a pun and just take the compliment, so thanks and sorry about breaking her gauntlet" Jaune said pointing to yang's left arm.
"Its fine Ruby is probably going to have fun fixing it, oh hey can you hand me that piece next to your foot"
Jaune looked down to see the yellow metal cover that broke off. Jaune bend down to pick up the piece "Oh sure no pr- Ow!" He immediately dropped the piece and looked at his open palm. There was a cut with a bit of blood oozing out, he switch his gaze to the piece to see that where it broke off was incredible sharp.
Jaune was distracted by his cut and didn't notice Pyrrha had come down to from the sidelines to greet him. "Are you ok Jaune?"
Jaune turned to Pyrrha and showed her his hand "Yeah I just cut my hand, see"
Pyrrha held Jaune's wrist and looked closely to the cut. A concerned looked appeared on her face.
"Jaune you still have some aura left, this should have at least started to heal by now."
Jaune's eyes widened with fear "What! Well what should I do?!"
"Lets bring you to the infirmary just in case"
"Right" Jaune turned to Yang giving a quick "Bye Yang" before walking away.
Yang waved back to him "see ya vomit boy, this was fun lets hang out some time"
Jaune followed Pyrrha to the infirmary, while doing so he subconsciously called back star platinum
Suddenly Jaune felt a funny feeling in his hand. Looked at it to see the familiar sight of his aura healing his wound.
"Wait why is it only now that my aura is healing me"
Pyrrha looked up and placed a finger on her chin, until a theory came to her mind. "Juane your semblance, star platinum is active right now, right?"
Jaune looked around him for a moment "No, why?"
"And he was active when you cut yourself, right"
"Yeah"
"So what if using your semblance consumes so much aura that there is non left to heal yourself"
"Ok that makes a lot of sense, so my semblance basically makes me into a glass cannon"
"More or less, either way I'm just glad there is nothing wrong with you" Pyrrha gave him a friendly punch on the shoulder. Unfortunately, due to Pyrrha's incredible strength her punch had a lot more force in it then she intended.
When her punch made contact with Jaune's armor, it didn't do any damage but it did cause the strap to break and the chest plate to hang freely.
Pyrrha covered her mouth with her hands "Umm pff-Juane what is that?"
"What's what?"
"That, on your hoodie" Pyrrha pointed to the picture of the bunny
"Oh its pumpkin Peat, you know from the cereal"
"You've been wearing that this entire time"
"Yeah why, what's wrong with it"
"Nothing, nothing pff-its j-just pff-hahahahaha"
"Hey! Stop laughing this is my favourite hoodie"
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have laughed but on the plus side I know what we are going to do tomorrow on the weekend"
"What do you mean?"
"Remember you promised we'd hang out, so I think we should go shopping for something new for you to wear"
Jaune scratched the back of his head "Well I did make a promise, Ok sure"
Pyrrha clapped her hands together with a happy grin on her face "great, I'll meet you at 11 am at that mall close to Beacon, now lets go back to the dorm"
While they were walking back to the dorm Jaune noticed that Pyrrha had a skip in her step and seemed a lot chirpier. 'Huh, she must really like shopping' Jaune thought to himself, believing this to be the only explanation
I looked up what the star tarot card and found it's meaning, I also found that the 'magn' part of Magnhild can mean strength or mighty
