Chapter 3

Classes were back in session at Beacon, and Jaune was about to make his grand debate as the new and technically only Teaching Assistant and groundskeeper. Funny how groundskeeper didn't mean the same as he first believed, it was just a better way of calling him school security and Grimm exterminator. Yup that's right, his job besides helping teachers were breaking up fights between kids his age and hunting Grimm, but now he got to do it somewhere he hated. Frankly, from what Miss Goodwitch told him, he's just taking most of the physical parts of her job. But he sucked it up like the grown child he was as he looked at the class before him, this was the bigger problem now. He looked over to Professor Goodwitch as she was about to introduce him to the class, it wasn't needed. It really wasn't needed, couldn't he be a shadow helper or something.

"This is, Jaune Arc," She did it. "He will be my new assistant for your combat classes, as well as handling other tasks around the school ground."

"Just for the record, Mr. Arc is the same age as most of you but he has been handling Huntsmen's business for many years now." He knew why she had to say the words like that, it's because he just got his Huntsmen Licenses. But, hey, Ozpin made the deal to give it to him. He just took the offer. "Mr. Arc, do you have anything you wish to say?"

He really didn't. "I'm just here to help… So if you have any questions, Just ask." Yes didn't flub.

"Arc?" He heard a voice in the crowd, his eyes moved to a big dude in heavy armor. He well protected but slow. "As in that Arc?" He pointed right over to Jeanne, who was sat in her combat gear.

"Yes," He looked back at the guy. "She's my sister."

"Wow, you just as weak as her?" Jaune didn't like this guy.

"Mr. Winchester, I will not keep telling you to reframe from making those types of comment, soon I will just be writing you up and giving you detentions." The professor glared at the bulky redhead.

"I just wanted to make sure our new assistant teacher wasn't going to be lacking like the failure." His smug tone annoyed Jaune. "I didn't mean to offend him, Professor."

"Professor, I wouldn't mind giving a demonstration," Jaune spoke up.

"No." But was shut down quickly. "The last thing I need is someone getting hurt because of your lack of self-control. Understood, Assistant."

"Yes, Professor."

"You will help with advice only, for the time being, Mr. Arc." She ordered. "I've heard you've learned how to use plenty of different types of weapons."

"Yes, but only melee." He rubbed the back of his head slightly. "My father trained me to fight with anything I could get my hands on, but my go-to is swords and spears. They will be where I'm most helpful."

"Good to know." Her gaze went back to the class. "First up for today will be Rose Ruby vs Carmine Bell."

After about the sixth match, Jaune started to remember why he hated watching fights. Hell, he remembered after the first one. They bored him. Watching others fight was boring, but this one, this one was different. He took his eyes from the fight to look at the fighters aura, to his surprise, one of the fighters didn't lose a single point.

"Pyrrha Nikos…" He went back to the fight as he watched the fiery redhead dodged her opponent's slash by spinning over the blade as she threw her round shield into his face, stunning him. She was fast, powerful, flexible, she was really good at the time and shafting her weapon when she needed to. This confused Jaune slightly. "How the hell did I beat her?"

"Hmm?" He heard Goodwitch question.

"She's amazing, all around amazing." He kept his eyes on the match. "She might be on the level of a pro huntress, if only…"

"No, speak your mind."

"She's a show-off." The Professor raised an eyebrow at him, he could tell she already knew what he meant, she just wanted him to say it. "She should've beat him a while ago, but she's putting on a good show. I don't know if it's to make him feel better or she just doesn't notice that she's doing it, but this fight was over about three minutes ago."

She went back to the match but Jaune swore he saw a smile on her lips. From the few days he's known the lady, he didn't think she could smile, but working right under Ozpin would probably do that to you.

The sound of the fight ending with a buzzard ring gained his attention.

"That is the match." Glynda walked in between Pyrrha and… Clay. "Mr. Roland, you must work on your defenses, charging in non-stop is a good way to get yourself killed. As for you Miss. Nikos, Nice job." She looked towards me, to add more input. "Anything to add Mr. Arc?"

"Not, really." He looked to the boy first. "Clay, you have a great handle on your weapon, but when fighting someone faster than you, it's good to slow down and look for an opening."

He then turned to Pyrrha. "Pyrrha, you need to stop showing off."

"I'm sorry?" That was a confused 'sorry' and not an upset one, he could tell that much. "But what do you mean?"

"You was dragging that fight out way longer than it should've been, not to mention some of your moments was more for show than practicality." She still looked confused, this caused him to sigh. "I saw that you had three chances to knock him out the ring, and five chances to follow up your attack with another to end the fight faster, but you either waited for him to make a move which you would dodge in a spectacular way or you waited for him to get his bearing before you followed up."

He rubbed the back of his head slightly.

"I'm not saying it wasn't a good show and the both of you did great, but if this was real life combat, things like that will get you killed."

"But we are just sparring."

"For now." Glynda stepped in. Oh, thank goodness. "Mr. Arc is correct, this may be sparring at the moment, but this sparring is training you for a real-life situation where your lives can and will be on the line."

The two gave her a slight nod.

"Alright next up-"

"Umm… Professor." She turned towards Jaune, he took a few steps forward closing the gap. "I would like to try in the next fight."

"Mr. Arc, I believe I already explained…" She saw the look on his face. "Who did you have in mind?"

"If she isn't tired from her last battle, I wouldn't mind sparring against Pyrrha." He watched as she entered her mind for a moment, she cupped the bottom of her chin thinking. Before she turned to Pyrrha with a questioning look. It was up to her know. Her eyes widen as she finally caught up.

"Oh! I don't mind at all."

"Okay then, Mr. Arc go get ready." With a nod, he left.

"So, got any clue to why your bro wanted to fight Pyrrha?" Yang leaned over to Jeanne who just gave a confused look. "I mean don't twins have the power to think what each other is thinking?"

"Yang, that is just a mind up thing," Weiss added.

"Are you sure?" Ruby asked her partner, "Jeanne and Jaune have done it a few times."

"That's just them living with each other so long." Weiss rolled her eyes slightly, "Like how you can tell what will happen if you wake Yang up to early."

"Well? Jeanne?" Ren asked their leader.

"He's wondering why he won." This gained everyone attention as they leaned in closer. "My brother doesn't know anything about Pyrrha, besides the bits I told him when we were hanging out. He doesn't know her semblance or that fact that she's a champion fighter. So he's probably confused why we didn't win with her on our side."

"But, your brother is amazing."

"My brother can be an idiot, at times." Jeanne chuckled softly. "No matter how much he does, or how much good he can do. Jaune always thinks little of him."

"So it runs in the family?" Weiss said, Jeanne didn't take offense, she knows that Weiss speaks before thinking how it comes off.

"He was talking a lot of trash the other day for someone who thinks little of himself." Yang leaned back into her seat.

"That was a more of the heat of the moment thing, Jaune's whole personality changes when he gets upset." She looked around before looking down back at the floor where Pyrrha waited. "His semblance, it does stuff to his mind."

"What type of stuff?" It was Blake asking this time.

"I can't really explain it well, because it doesn't happen to me." She sighed. "But from what Jaune says, the madder he gets the more the world just slowly turns red, and all's he can see is the person he needs to beat."

Jaune was walking onto the stage and her eyes widen at the sight of him, he was in his armor, well part of it. He had on only his breastplate, gauntlets and greaves. The pure black armor had no shine to it once so ever. And in his hands resting on his shoulders was a spear that was just a little bit taller than him, The spear was fully black with hints of red on it. Mort Noire.

"Woah." She heard Ruby saw. "He's like a black knight."

She wasn't wrong. But she only knew the half of it now.

"At, Mr. Arc's request, there will be no ring out for this spar. But in exchange, whomsoever aura hits half first will be declared the loser." She explained the new rules. "Or both combatants ready?"

The two gave a nod and readied themselves for. Pyrrha covered herself slightly with her shield and had Milo in sword form, as Jaune leaned back slightly having his spear gripped in both hands.

"Begin!"

Jaune took the first step dashing at Pyrrha, Her eyes widen slightly almost forgetting how fast he was but he wasn't as fast as Ren. The spear slide off her shield, leaving him open for the two quick slashes to his chest, she quickly rolled out of the way as he swung the back end of his spear at her. But not quick enough to dodge his next attack, lifting her shield she blocked the three consecutive hits, each one siding her backward away from him.

She opened fire on Jaune once she stopped sliding, they didn't see her weapon transform at all. Jaune was moving in as he swung his spear blocking the bullets only a few getting past. Once he closed in Pyrrha was quick to dodge his spear, moving her head to the side. With a quick turn to her body, she moved out of the way of him slashing with the back end. Quickly back-flipping out of the way of his combo she gave herself a bit of space, only for him to invade it once more. He would not back down but she was able to keep up with him, She would steal a hit every now and again as she blocked and dodged his strikes.

Suddenly he did something she didn't see coming, he backed down. She got a chance to look at the aura meters. Her eyes widen slightly once again but she did her best to hide it. She only took him down by six percent. But before… he wasn't wearing his armor.

She looked at him to see that he was staring at his weapon oddly. He gave it a few good swings and stabs to the air before he planting it into the ground. Turning his gaze to her, he smiled.

"I had a feeling you would just stand there wait for me." Her eyes widen as he shot off to her, he swung a heavy left hook which she dodged by ducking him and slashing at his leg, which he lifted and shot out to her, she moved her head and arm just into to dodge the attack and rolled to safety. Firing potshots at him from Milo, Jaune turned into a wall using his gauntlets to protect his face and the rest of his body was already well protected, she had no openings like this. She soon heard a click and knew Jaune heard it too as he took off at her. His punches were quick and she was sure they were powerful, she could feel it each time she blocked with the shield, she couldn't let him land a good hit but he kept getting close, she was only able to dodge ever so slightly right before a new limb was coming at her. He kept getting closer and closer until she noticed.

She was getting winded. She had to get space from him but he wouldn't let up, how was he still pressing so hard. She couldn't even peek at the aura, she had to keep moving, dodging, striking whenever she could. She had to push him back!

She ducked under his backhand and slammed her shield into his chest, she had to focus. Plus and Plus. He went flying back from the slam, but he rolled right back to his feet and slide to a stop. He gives a small nod.

"I see what you're doing now." His left hand grabbed his right and was about to yank the heavy gauntlet off but the bell rang and he stopped. The class was over. Her eyes shot over to the aura meter to see that she knocked him down to 78% while she was still at 94%. She was going to give Akouo a good cleaning tonight.

"That ends the match due to time, in a real tournament setting, Miss Nikos would be the winner." Professor Goodwitch spoke. "Remember to practice with your partner because next time we will be doing Partners versus Partners, You are all dismissed."

Jaune pulled his spear from the ground as the Professor walked up to him. Whatever she said was lost on Pyrrha who was too far to hear her, but Jaune rubbed the back of his head and give a nervous laugh.

She liked that laugh.

No, she didn't.

She shook it off and made her way to the locker room.

"Wow, those two were amazing!" Nora cheered as they stepped out of the classroom. "I could hardly keep up with how fast they were moving."

"I know right, Jaune was really skilled with his spear!" Ruby quickly turned before Jeanne. "You think he'll let me check it out?"

"Yeah." She smiled at her. "Just use the power of the little sister puppy dog eyes and you could make him do just about anything."

"I'm just surprised Pyrrha was able to beat him," Blake spoke up as she was reading her book.

"Well, thanks to her semblance and her skills, it's no real surprise," Weiss stated the facts. "She was faster than him and more agile too."

"But, he was holding back." It was Yang who spoke, catching Weiss off guard.

"How so?"

"Jaune didn't use his semblance at all during their match." The blond explained and Weiss took a moment to think about it.

"She's not wrong," Jeanne spoke. "Well, I don't think he was holding back, but he didn't get angry at all. I think this was the first time in a while I've seen Jaune have fun in a fight."

"I'd count it as holding back." Yang looked to her fellow blond. "It's like Weiss not using her glyphs and Ruby moving slow on purpose."

"I guess, but I don't think Jaune will see it like that."

"Still, whenever I get my rematch, Imma force him to go all out." Yang punched her fist into her open palm. "And this time I'm going to beat."

"Me too!" Nora joined in. "I didn't even get a chance to fight him! It was so unfair!"

"Good luck with that you two." Blake turned the page to her book. "I'd prefer not to have another teenage girl swung into me."

"Oh, Jeanne!?" Ruby looked at her blond haired best leader friend. "Why does Jaune have more than one weapon?"

"Hmm?"

"I remember him saying the Crocea Mors was his, before you… Borrowed it. But he also has his spear."

"Oh, well." She started. "That's because we picked up our main fighting style from our Mother, she always used a sword and lance. She has been training us since we bugged her when we were seven, but after an incident on a mission, Mom couldn't be a Huntress anymore and she became unable to train us, so she passed down her weapons to me and Jaune. He got the sword, I got her lance."

"We then started to train for our father, but once I wasn't able to keep up with Jaune, Dad stopped training me."

"How are you supposed to keep up if he stops training you?" Nora questioned. "That's just dumb."

"It's because I couldn't unlock my aura." Jeanne looked down slightly.

"Why didn't he just unlock for you?" Weiss asked.

"Yeah, our dad unlocked ours," Ruby added on.

"Remember how Jaune unlocked his aura and took down a Beowolf Alpha?"

"He didn't." Yang's eyes widen with concern.

"He tried, a few times, Jaune had to step in to save me each time." She rubbed her arm slightly. "Once mom found out she put a stop to it, and with that, he put a stop to training me. Focusing on Jaune."

She looked down. "Can we not talk about this right now?"

"Yeah, we can talk about uhh… the tournament."

Pyrrha had just finished washing up and changing back into her school uniform. Leaving the locker room, she turned right and-

"You take just as long as Jeanne, huh."

She screamed. She turned with both her hands up ready to fight until she saw who spoke. Of course, it was Jaune, him and his big goofy smile, and laugh. Stop!

"Sorry, didn't mean to spook you." He apologized.

"It's… Fine." She let her heart settle from the jump scare. "Did you need something?"

"Not really." He just shook his head and smiled. "I wanted to say that was a good fight."

"Oh, thank you." She slightly returned the smile.

"Jeanne wasn't pulling my leg when she was talking about you." He started to walk down the hallway as she walked with him. "You do hit like a truck."

"Compared to how hard you hit, I think I equal out to a large house cat."

"I'm not that strong, that's just a lot of Jeanne's Hype." He rubbed the back of his head. He keeps doing that, just like how Jeanne waves and plays with her fingers. "Also don't worry, I won't tell anyone about your trick."

"Huh?"

"The trick that you did with my weapons and armor, it took me a bit to notice." He looked at her. "Is it your semblance or something?"

"Jeanne didn't tell you?" He shook his head to answer.

"She just told me you were a really good fighter, the best on your team." He looked back forward. "Other than that I only know small details, like how you secretly likes comics."

"She told you that!?" Her cheeks lit up.

"Well, she was rambling and it slipped out, so did a lot of other things about you and your team." He smiled slightly. "Nothing that I think is too embarrassing."

"It's weird as she hasn't spoken about you once until that day you showed up." She flinched slightly, that came out wrong, she didn't mean to sound rude. But he just chuckled, it was nice, stop that.

"Well, I'm not really much to talk about." He looked at her. "Just an overprotective younger brother, nothing too special."

"Don't you provide for your family?" It was less of her asking and more of her stating a point.

"I guess, I mean someone had to do it after dad went missing and mom couldn't work after her condition." He rubbed the back of his head. "But it's not really a big deal, I'm just doing what I have to do, y'know?"

He turned and noticed Pyrrha had stopped with her hands covering her mouth. It took Jaune a moment to understand why she stopped.

"Oh, I'm guessing Jeanne never told you about that." His chuckle was weak. "Oh, well it's not like it isn't my story to tell too." She didn't under her mouth but she took a few steps closer.

"Hey, don't worry about it, that was four years ago and it doesn't bug me." He looked away slightly as he spoke, she could see the bit of sorrow on his face. "So… I gotta go and talk to Ozpin about something, so I'll catch you later. Tell Jeanne I said hi."

With that the tall blond took his leave, Pyrrha still just standing there, staring at his back as he walked away. She didn't know what to do at this moment, did she talk to Jeanne about this. Did Jeanne even want to talk about it? Did Jaune want to talk about it? Did he have a harder time dealing with it, or did Jeanne. How would she even help? Her best friend had a really hard life, and she walks around with her big bright smile as if nothing was wrong. And here she was just worried that someone would know her name. Something from the back of her mind slammed right into the front.

"For, you know, looking out for my sister and being her friend and stuff."

He said that was something he couldn't do like it was something he tried. He thanked her for what it felt like from the bottom of his heart, did he thank her old friends?

"… Did she have old friends."

"Hell, you have seven more friends than I ever had"

Her eyes widen slightly. She felt the pit inside her open up, she understood the pain of not having real friends. People who just wanted to use you or ones that just listened to their parents. But, what did they have as friends? She wasn't sure, but the way he made it sound… They only had each other.

"I'm called Hound of Arc for a reason."

Hound of Arc.

"You're not a Mad Dog or Hound or any kind of Mutt!"

Infamy.

"Jaune, He's the strongest person I know, Deep down I know he can't lose," Those words hurt Pyrrha but she remembered that Jeanne said more. "He's not allowed to lose."

He had to win. Because everything he loved counted on him winning.

"Mr. Arc is the same age as most of you but he has been handling Huntsmen business for many years now."

"That was four years ago, it doesn't bug me."

"Fighting is the only thing you've done for the past ten years."

"He's not allowed to lose."

"This is my life, Jeanne."

"You can't keep sacrificing everything for us!"

"If only I was stronger..."

She needed to go give Jeanne a big hug when she saw here… Nora must be rubbing off on her.

Ozpin sat in his office stood before him was one Jaune Arc, He knew Mr. Arc had a distaste for him. It was written all over his face. His arms were folded before him and his face was just glaring almost.

"Thank you for coming, Mr. Arc." He spoke.

"Well you do pay me now, so it's not like I can no."

"True." Ozpin took a sip of his coffee.

"So, what do you need?" He watched as Jaune moved to the window, taking a look at the view.

"Just a small favor." He saw Jaune's eyes sharply turn towards him.

"The same kind of Favor you asked my Mother?"

"… Nothing like that Mr. Arc, I wouldn't ask for anything like that after everything your family lost." He took another sip. "It's more of a favor for your sister."

This got his full attention.

"You are familiar with her friends on her sister team, Team RWBY." Jaune gives a nod. "Those girls for some reason seems bound to trouble. I would just like for you to keep an eye on them, you don't have to interfere with their lives, just keep a look out for them. It's all I ask."

"… Fine." His eyes moved back out the window. "Anything else?"

"Just for you to enjoy your time here at Beacon, Mr. Arc." Jaune left the old man after that.

Ozpin took another sip from his mug and looked down at the profile of the sibling pair. He let out a small sigh.

"Forgive me, Joan." He said to no one. "But your children are some of the best warriors we could ever find."

Heey… Me again, so to answer a few things. This is happening in Vol. 2 and a few things are different in the story, but I'm trying to keep it close to canon, Like Cardin is still a bully, Jeanne just stands up for herself now.

Also, Jaune isn't just a copy of Cu or Lancelot, I do borrow a few themes from them, but Jaune (Hound) is more like what I think Jeanne (Fate) and Jaune (RWBY) would be as a Berserker class. The will the protect someone so bad, you forget about your own life. The drive to give your life for everything you hold dear.

Also, thank you for all the Favs', Follows, and Reviews. It's like super crazy because I didn't think this would be so likable when I was writing it.

Also, the plot is about to move forward so, Yay.

… Uhh, Bye.