He groaned while slowly lifting himself from the burning crater he had formed in landing, and immediately proceeded to check himself over.

After confirming all of his limbs appeared to still be attached, and his weapon was somehow, miraculously still with him (He wouldn't put it past fate to have it go flying while he was airborne, she did have a wicked sense of humour,) He began to try and figure out where he was exactly.

From the look of the tall trees, and thick fog, He quickly knew he was back, somewhere, within the emerald forest, and more than likely, hopelessly lost.

"Well just great," He groaned, sinking to his knees, and wincing as he kneeled into a briar patch, "Looks like I'm going to miss dinner again."

"Might as well not just sit here, and try to find my way back to the school," He groused, and began to walk in the direction he could only hope was towards the school, trying to use the direction his crater began from as a marker.

While he walked, his mind began to wander a bit, back to what had once again incited the wrath of his Snow princess (though he knew she detested that nickname, and it could easily cause her to burst into berserker rages), and she had all but sent him flying, with a table.

Not to be confused, this wasn't the strangest way he had been rejected, no, that spot still belonged to that one, awkward night in the club where he had both had his first intimate (and awkward) encounter with a woman's bosoms, and the night he found out that women were very, very scary.

That also turned into the first night he would be put into the hospital for trying to pick up a lady, much to his parents amusement.

Well at least this time he didn't have a concussion, and hadn't been judo thrown through a brick wall...several brick walls, actually, and he could actually remember what happened.

Jaune continued his walk back towards the school in silence, lost in his thoughts for a while, until he stopped dead in his tracks as a loud "Thunk" echoed nearby.

Heart feeling as if it stopped, Jaune tried to pinpoint the sound, and quickly realized, as he noticed a large spear, a very familiar large spear, sunk deep into the wood of a tree right in front of him, which had barely missed his head by mere inches. He was almost convinced it had sliced a few strands of hair from his head that time.

"Oh Jaune I'm sorry, I guess I should have aimed a little better," The ever-familiar sound of Pyrrha Nikos' voice echoed through the quiet forest, her understanding green eyes and soothing voice stopping most of his worries almost instantly.

"Oh...that's okay Pyrrha, no harm done," He tried to reason, even as a nervous laugh escaped from between his lips at the near death experience.

"I told you that we'd find him if we followed Pyrrha, didn't I just tell you Ren, didn't I?" The amusing sound of Nora's ranting further comforted the leader of team JNPR, who failed to notice as Pyrrha retrieved her spear, and stored away her weapons.

"Yes, but I would like to know how you managed to land all the way out here, all we heard was your...familiar screaming, and a faint black figure going flying away from the school towards the emerald forest, before Pyrrha was in action," Ren's calmness in the situation finished off the group's usual aura, and Jaune had to grin sheepishly as he tried to formulate an answer.

"Well Y'see..." He began, but Ren quickly held up his hand, asking for silence, and a knowing smile flashing across his features.

"Don't worry, it's fairly obvious, and none of us blame you for it, we heard about the damage to the dining hall's windows just before Pyrrha had us move out to hunt for you. Weiss Schnee is a very intimidating adversary," Ren explained calmly.

"Yeah, I'm amazed that Ruby can even manage with Weiss' grumpy-tude, those two just don't seem like the type to be able to get along, and could you even imagine if they ever were honest with their feelings for one another, uhh, the thought alone is just scary."

"Wait...honest with their feelings?" Jaune asked, only catching the tail end of Nora's rant, as he had been quickly teaching himself to over the last few weeks, a talent Ren had all but encouraged the other members of their team to exercise, learned himself from years of being friends with the powerhouse.

"Yeah, can't you tell just how much their emotions are repressed around each other, and all of that tension between them. Why do you think that Weiss is always yelling at Ruby?" Nora asked, gaining the attention of all three members of team JNPR.

"You know, I think that perhaps Nora is on to something, those two are always in an argument about something, though most of the time it seems Weiss is the one that instigates them," Pyrrha began, the gears turning in their minds.

"And The other members of the team are also constantly worked up whenever those two are in close proximity to one another, especially when Ruby's older sister is present," Ren added as an afterthought.

"So you think that, maybe, the reason Weiss and Ruby are always arguing is because they like each other? and are both not admitting it?" Jaune asked, feeling left behind in the conversation.

Pyrrha and Ren shared a look before they turned to their third team-mate, and each had a solemn look on their faces.

"Most likely," The pair chimed in unison.

Meanwhile Nora had all but diverted her attention away from the conversation she had started, and was chasing a butterfly around the clearing, with the intent of showing her best friend the wonderful colours.