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Note: Hello! Back here on... Tuesday? What blasphemy is this I gave you all a chapter yesterday! Well, I felt as though the long pause warrants me to pump out another chapter quickly for you enjoyment!
Not to mention that the people staying with me will be leaving my home temporarily job searching today so there's that!
Well, we've got another continuation of initiation today. A lot of them are happening eh? Well, that's simply because I didn't expect initiation to take so long during a Gamer story, but I guess it's to be expected. It still has taken less time than in my other stories.
Well, here we go, right back into the world. For those of you wondering, there will indeed be a little thing at the end of the chapter for relationships and stats.
The Woman Whisperer
Chapter IV
Looking back upwards and focussing his 'Gamer's Sight' skill onto the rapidly falling snow angel from earlier, Jaune put his 'Intellectual' title to work as he calculated her general drop location.
Getting up he took a brief second before sprinting across the field arms held out in front of him. Diving forwards into a roll, he rolled to his knees sliding across the still dew-wet grass and underneath the appropriate location.
Taking it significantly better this time, he let out a 'phew' since his math was right. Falling directly into his arms, the silver haired goddess from the night before who just so happened to be Ruby's partner latched her arms around his neck as he cradled her with one arm under her knees.
Looking down into her perfect porcelain face marred only by a single scar, he was about to say something awkward like 'So how about that weather.' before reconsidering.
"Hey there snow angel. Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?" He said winking at her. Seeing the hue of her face go pink-ish for just a second he felt triumph.
"No. Now put me down!" She said. Quickly complying, he stood up and bent over putting her feet onto the ground before straightening back up. Straightening out her combat skirt and wear, she huffed before putting out her hand. "Weiss Schnee, pleasure to make your acquaintance."
Grasping her dainty hand in his much larger one he gave her a quick handshake before dropping it and smiling. "Jaune Arc, the pleasure is all mine."
You've gained +1 Closeness with Blake!
You've gained +1 Closeness with Pyrrha!
You've gained +2 Closeness with Yang!
You've gained +2 Closeness with Ruby!
You've gained +4 Closeness with Weiss!
You've gained +2 WIT!
You've gained +1 DEX!
Smiling at the various good notifications, he decided to brush them off so that he could spend his time looking at something arguably much nicer than some silly numbers. (Maybe not silly but certainly not important right now.)
Weiss was stunning and pristine in complete white. Her thigh-length strapless dress went from white to light blue the further down you went, and the small black lace peeking out the top from between her cleavage was a nice contrast. Her slim and perfect shoulders would've been visible were it not for the bell sleeved bolero which was as white as her dress save for the bright red lining on the inside.
Tied around her waist was a simple white sash which seemed to be holding up a small pouch at the small of her back, while a silver chain held up an apple pendant against her chest. With her snow white hair hanging behind her in a bun-tail which was off center, it seemed obvious that it was on purpose. Also keeping her hair back was a silver tiara which matched her square silver earrings. Both were just barely noticeable yet noticeable enough that they drew their own attention.
Just bordering on the left side of her face, partially hidden by hair was a small pink scar which went down to about two inches below her left eye which was -like her other one- icy blue.
'Huh, I guess this is what they mean when they say "All your perfect imperfections.". Man, I do wonder how she got it though. Maybe she'll tell me one day. One day…' Jaune thought out before realizing he was rambling in his own mind. Realizing something a second later Jaune turned to the group who'd just finished grabbing relics and meeting each other.
"Hey guys, how'd you get in the sky anyways? I mean, it's kind of odd that you just kinda… Fell out of nowhere you know?" He said gesturing around. It's kind of odd really. Seriously, there was no place to fall from around here.
"Pfft, don't worry about that." Ruby said while picking up the knight piece. "All we did was fall off a Nevermore! Besides, it's not like it's coming back anytime soon!"
Looking upwards, Jaune could indeed make out a very birdlike shape in the sky. Huh, that wasn't too big actually. Maybe he should just take it out for the XP? Nah, it's not going to get any clo-
"Nevermind, it's coming back." Ruby said taking out Crescent Rose and aiming down the sights. Zooming in with his 'Gamer's Sight' he noticed a few things. One, that he was very, very wrong about how big it was, and that it was indeed getting close rather quickly.
"Huh, sure looks like it." Jaune said before scratching the back of his head. "Maybe we can just leave it alone? I mean, surely it should-"
"It looks angry! Everybody run! Or kill it! Or kill it and run!" The adorable reaper said folding up her scythe and popping it back onto her belt. Pumping her gauntlets Yang grinned, while Blake simply sighed.
There was a large crushing sound of snapping bone and a thump which sent vibrations down the ground he was standing on.
"Yeah! You heard them Ren! Put those skinny legs of yours to work NOW!" A completely different voice came in. Was it more people coming? "I SAID NOW!"
"Coming Nora." There was a deep sigh from the side before out of the bush came two figures who didn't seem at all compatible for partnerships. Jaune instantly pitied the quiet seeming one.
The girl he assumed to be Nora was dressed in a collared black vest which ends at her waist, overtop of a white of a white sleeveless top which which formed a tiny heart shape between her rather sizable cleavage and underneath her collar bones. Beneath the shirt going down her figure was a pink skirt starting at her waist and ending mid-thigh, until eventually down those nice legs was a pair of pink and white shoes.
Her turquoise eyes and orange bob-cut simply seemed to scream 'cheerful' or 'peppy' or even just plain 'loud' though he couldn't deny it was a good look on her and that without a doubt it was attractive.
Strapped to her back was a large grenade type launcher weapon. He did not want to tango with that thing!
Beside her was the guy Jaune could only assume was Ren. Appearing as a rather monk-like figure, the fellow male teenager had long black hair pulled into a messy pony-tail which was oddly contrasted by a bright pink streak down the left side of his hair.
Obviously it was Nora's fault. Even if they had just met five minutes prior, it seems like it could've happened when around the peppy girl.
Wearing a dark green long sleeved tailcoat, it was nice looking in quality and a rather practical pick. With red lining on the inside, it had some gold trimming which continued the right side of his torso until meeting with a black collar, while the sleeves had pink cuffs on it.
Moving down he seemed to be wearing just plain tan pants until they seemed to be tucked into his black shoes. All in all, he seemed like an okay quiet dude. Friend material? Hell yeah! It was currently a bit of a taco-fest and Jaune needed all of the guy-friends he could get!
"What?" Weiss said her voice raising as she turned. "Where did you guys come from?!"
"Hi, my name is Nora and the boy with the skinny legs here is my partner Ren!" The bubbly ginger haired girl said. "We got here by getting together and then- Wait, I mean, we're not together together we're just together or rather we're not together together we just got together together without being together together. Got it?"
"I think so? I was going to say what's up with the Ursa you rode in on but-" Weiss said pointing behind them. Sure enough, there was a decomposing Ursa major on the ground which looked absolutely gargantuan in size.
Jeez, she have a monster strength stat to be able to do that!
"Oh that? Don't worry about that! I was just teaching him some manners!" Nora's face light up with a briefly sinister grin before it disappeared into a friendlier smile. Jaune could feel a shiver running down his spine.
"Nora, you can't teach a Ursa manners. Assuming that it's only desire is to eradicate life, we can safely assume that it can't comprehend what the concept of manners even is." Ren piped in offering his sage advice.
"That's a good point you have there Ren. I'd love to discuss with you someti-" Jaune was rudely interrupted by a odd howl which was quickly joined by dozens more. Rushing out of the bush from the same direction the Nevermore was currently in, came about thirty or so Beowolves snarling their crimson red eyes filled with the desire to kill. "Well, that's odd."
"EVERYONE BE QUIET!" Jaune was shocked into submission quickly by a rather hot Yang. Get it? She's on fire. "I NEED LIKE, ONE SECOND TO THINK PLEASE!"
There was an awkward few moments where everyone just kind of shuffled around getting into a line facing off against the horde of Beowolves and the rapidly approaching Nevermore. Apparently having calmed down, the swirling flames which had engulfed her mere moments before died down as her apparently brightly glowing hair did.
"Thank you! Now, what're we going to do?" Yang said turning to the rest of the group hands on her hips apparently not caring that Beowolves were just behind her. Though, she did bring up a good point.
What were they going to do?
Tapping his foot against the ground for a second, Jaune couldn't quite think of anything. Well, technically they could run, or kill them, but it was easier said than done. Even then, it would be hard pressed with just the eight of them against the apparent pack of Beowolves and the giant Nevermore…
"How about we run and live?" Jaune spoke putting his finger up. "That is a plan I can get behind."
"That's… That's actually the only plan we've really got right now." Turning towards the pack and avian grimm, Yang continued. "Yeah, how about we don't go that way and instead just run that way." She said pointing behind the ruins.
Nodding Jaune agreed. "Good idea. Nora, Ren, grab one of the relics."
Grinning, Nora picked up on it and ran over to the ruined temple while Jaune and the others began their breakneck sprint in the opposite direction of the Beowolves. Leveling up his dexterity and strength again, as well as his vitality, they sprinted along the grassy clearing before coming to a large stone bridge spanning a massive ravine.
Rising out of the center of a ravine was a large stone tower easily a two hundred feet tall until it arrived at a domed peak. Looking back over his shoulder, he noticed that he was ahead of most people simply because every once and awhile one of them would strafe and take a pot-shot or two into the crowd.
It didn't do all that much.
"Everyone get to the tower! Nora!" Jaune shouted behind him while his feet made contact with the stone blocks of the bridge. Sliding across the stone blocks towards the tower he turned preparing a pair of 'Aura Arrows' in his two hands while the rest eventually filed past him.
Nora, picking up on what he'd been hinting at, swung out her massive grenade launcher before coming to a stop in front of him. Turning around and flicking a switch on the handle, the entire thing mecha-shifted into a huge warhammer which she hefted like it weighed nothing.
With her back to him, she instantly did a huge overhead slam against the floor of the bridge shattering a stone block and causing the entire thing to shudder. Raising her hammer once again, she repeated the motion and the entire structure shook.
Deciding to take this time to hurl the two aura arrows into the pack, he shaved off some health before another much more powerful swing came down destroying part of the bridge. Collapsing in on itself, bits crumbled as the entire pillar she'd been crushing slowly destabilized and caused everything held up by it to fall into the cavernous ravine.
Hopping over to him Nora quickly made her way to Ren who was with the others at the base of the tower. Looking towards the pack who were sniffing around the other side he considered taking them out, but figured taking out the Nevermore would be a better use of his time temporarily.
Rushing over to where the rest were, he looked inside the tower only to find a stupidly huge amount of stairs. All apart of the same spiral, there was a massive set of stairs heading up the tower, really it was a miracle they weren't destroyed by now.
Seeing that everyone else was a couple flights up, Jaune sighed deeply and began his own run up the stairs, careful to not trip. Aura or not, a fall from a couple hundred feet would probably kill you if you his a set of stairs on the way down.
A few minutes later after another vitality point notification came up, he joined the rest of them at the top of the tower. Looking over at them, he could see they all had their weapons out.
Ren had taken out some sort of sickle/small machine gun combo weapon and was currently unloading at the Nevermore who was coming closer by the second, while Nora had turned her hammer back into it's grenade launcher form and was aiming for the wings.
Blake meanwhile, has also taken out her katana, and he was surprised when the blade flipped down to be parallel with her arm and it too was an SMG. Did everyone here have makeshift weapons?
Pyrrha was shooting herself with her hunting rifle, while it seems like Ruby was now using her sniper rifle's superior range to take body shots on the Beowolves below. Weiss wasn't doing much, but it seems like she was reloading her dust so that's good.
Yang… Yang was something else entirely.
Having scaled up the side of the tower to get access which wasn't available via stairs, she was crouched atop the dome of the tower, reloading the shotgun shells apparently incorporated into her gauntlets.
Shuffling to the other edge where not everyone was standing, he himself jumped gripping onto the side and pulling himself onto the little ledge beside the dome. Looking downwards at the noise despite the constant howls, barking, and shrieks coming from the grimm around, Yang noticed him.
"Need a hand there?" She said grinning before reaching her hand downwards. Taking it in his, he was surprised by her strength when she yanked him to the top of the dome making a bit of room so he could semi-stand there.
The Nevermore came down swooping low then changing course and flying vertically staying suspended there for a moment. While suspended, it shrieked unleashing a volley of razor sharp feathers towards the assorted hunters in training.
Already preparing a pair of aura arrows in his hand, he threw them towards two of the feathers before doing it again knocking another two out of the air. Ruby had apparently used her semblance vanishing into a flurry of rose petals which swirled about in the wind to dodge, while Blake jumped off the tower giving him a heart attack before she swung around using a ribbon which was wrapped around her arm.
Ren twisted his body slightly before his pink eyes blazed and aura came from his hands, deflecting it ever so slightly away from him through the large empty space in the tower and out the other side.
Nora simply smacked it.
Weiss cast some sort of anti-gravity glyph on one stopping it in midair before reversing the polarity and sending it flying towards the caster but it was too late as that large avian grimm's already left.
Flapping higher, it shrieked and he could feel his ears briefly bleed before the 'Gamer's Body' as well as his aura repaired them seemingly completely. Though he noticed that Blake took it worse than most face moving into a scowl.
Passing above them, the Nevermore swooped circular around the tower deflecting bullets easily for the next few seconds which he took to check it out using the 'Gamer's Sight' skill.
Neyver Morhe The Nevermore
Level: ?
Relationship Status: Borderline/Complete Hatred
Well… That checks out. Though, it was likely another secret boss he couldn't see the level of since he was too low. Maybe a raid boss type thing? Yeah, that was likely. He was about to turn to Yang to ask her what her plan was before noticing that she wasn't there.
Looking downwards instantly he noticed her falling towards the Nevermore and realized it really was the smart thing to do. Himself included.
Sighing, Jaune took out Crocea Mors and dove off the tower himself praying that it would work while he accelerated towards the ground at an alarming rate. Coming to land on the back of the Nevermore whereas Yang's landed basically inside the mouth, he dug Crocea Mors underneath the feathers into the skin to act as a handle for his time there.
Laying on his back and grabbing the sword hand in one hand with an iron grip even while he flew around, he cast spinning aura arrow and drove two straight into the back of the Nevermore causing a screech of pain.
Doing a barrel roll and tucking its wings in towards its body, he yanked the blade while falling. Having gone completely vertical, the Nevermore then bunched it's wings, meaning of course that he was vertically falling towards Remnant a bit faster than he wanted to.
Just as he was about to try creating several more spells to slow his fall, Jaune felt his arm nearly rip out of his socket as he stopped falling and began swinging. Latched onto his arm with obvious effort was Blake as she swung from the ribbon circling around the top of the tower before coming towards a pillar.
Letting go of him, he fell the remaining twelve feet while she bent her body like she was on a swing and continued the momentum before wrapping around a pillar. Sending a look over to Yang who pulled the other end taut, Ruby came flying towards it causing it to stretch further back before it stopped stretching.
Standing in the middle holding the end there using a gravity glyph was Weiss lining up the shot using her rapier, and he could only look on while Pyrrha, Nora, and Ren were shooting at the Nevermore.
They were causing it to move exactly where they wanted it.
He heard some banter between Weiss and Ruby before the Nevermore screeched again and -seeing everyone bunched up together- flew directly in front no doubt ready to stop us all using its one last area of effect attack.
Running over to where they were lining up Ruby, he noticed everyone unloading their ammo into it keeping it there unable to move or dodge simple able to keep itself in place. Grabbing onto the back directly between Ruby's feet, he took out Crocea Mors again while unfolding the shield getting a raised eyebrow from Weiss.
"I don't think this can handle the strain if we do this." She said her elegant eyebrow falling back down.
"Meh, I'll buy Blake a new one." He said before winking at Weiss getting an exasperated eye roll. Though, technically their (sadly very small) amount of closeness didn't go down so that's good. "Launch me like one of your french boys."
Smirking just a bit, she twirled releasing the glyph sending both Ruby and Jaune flying forwards. Ruby was propelling herself with the recoil from her scythe while accelerating using her semblance at the same time, but Jaune was just flying normally using the power of physics so he wasn't the first one to crash into the Nevermore.
Hooking Crescent Rose under its neck, she pulled it's body backwards into the cliffside against the gravity glyphs holding it there. As she was about to start accelerating, Jaune himself crashed into the lower body of the Nevermore digging his blade in past the tough feathers like butter.
Accelerating quickly with a yell up the cliffside Ruby went flying dragging the enormous body of the Nevermore behind her., Jaune wasn't held by the same glyphs so he began sliding do to air resistance down the body leaving a massive gash along belly before stopping his downwards descent and beginning ascent as the entire body stopped moving.
While he was being pulled down by gravity, when the body stopped moving upwards, it launched him upwards too.
Screaming while he went upwards and somehow did a flip, Ruby gave a grunt of exertion and yanked the entire head off the Nevermore leaving its body to fall stunning nearby grimm in the area as the shrieks stopped.
A silence enveloped the ravine while the body fell through the air, towards the ravine floor below, and Jaune couldn't help but notice auto loot was on bagging him some sweet sweet loot thankfully.
Landing on his feet rather gracefully despite his almost random launch off the body, he landed with his blade out before he quickly put it away onto his hip looking at a magnificent sight.
Standing on the side of the cliff they'd just used to decapitate the Nevermore, was the one and only Ruby Rose. During the fight her hood had flipped on and it now obscured most of her face, while rose petals left over from her semblance fluttered in the wind as a red trail. Her cloak fluttered briefly while he looked at the massive scythe which she casually rested over her shoulder.
'Beautiful. That's the only way to describe it.'
Making sure his eyes wouldn't stray down to that perfectly petite yet shapely posterie- 'DAMN IT JAUNE! FUCK! No naughty thoughts about friends! Well, not yet anyways! I should wait until our closeness is up at least! Jeez! Though, her butt really is cute. I mean really, I could look at that all da- FUCKS SAKE!'
~o0o~ The Woman Whisperer ~o0o~
After that it'd been a fairly simple affair really. Jaune had scaled back down the cliffs with Ruby while checking his notifications and stats, before they quickly annihilated what was left of the Beowolves back across the bridge.
It was almost too easy once the Nevermore was taken care of. Though, maybe that was just since he leveled up a few times after killing the Nevermore. Turns out, when he'd been yanked down the body and cut open that huge gash, he'd gotten several critical hits damaging some major organs.
Of course, this meant the kill was his and he got the most experience of course.
He'd leveled up then a few times, while he leveled some stats from that encounter so it was good overall. The fight with the Beowolves was good, as it racked him in just a few more levels that he really needed to feel comfortable in his place in Beacon, not to mention it allowed his various combat skills to level up themselves.
Also, he'd breached level twenty.
While the Nevermore and the Beowolves weren't enough to get him past level sixteen, as soon as they'd arrived at the top of the Beacon cliffs overlooking the Emerald forest, he'd finished a 'Quest' he didn't even know he had and gained four more as well as a spot in Beacon.
The ceremony was in a few minutes which he spent looking over his stats, but he should be fine as long as it's quick.
Sword Proficiency (Level 16)
Shield Proficiency (Level 17)
Aura (Level 15)
Aura Shield (Level 10)
Spinning Aura Arrow (Level 8)
Grim Anatomy (Basic) (Level 16)
There were his skills. It was good progress, and assuming that the cap for skills was one hundred levels, that meant that in one day he'd nearly gotten one fifth of the way through for most of them. Bar of course the few he'd made later on into initiation, but it does indeed seem like he's gained a lot of skill experience from the various combat on the way back.
Now onto the actual stats.
Name: Jaune Arc
Level: 20
Title: Intellectual
Nickname:
Perk:
HP: 640/640
AP: 4600/4600
Basic Stats:
STR : 32
DEX : 30
VIT : 32
INT : 23
WIS : 19
LUK : 12
Romance Stats:
Charm: 15
Looks: 13
Wit: 15
Stat Points: 95
Lien: 10,800
First off, let's talk money. Jaune just made money. A lot of money. In one day, he'd accumulated ten thousand, and three hundred lien. That's around one tenth of his father's normal salary, and he made it all in one day as a huntsman in training.
Of course this meant that either there wasn't much money you actually got from being a hunter, or that his game simply dumped money on him.
Hell, it was probably both.
Now let's talk levels. From killing the Deathstalker early on, he'd gained five or so levels, while from the first grimm kill he had, he'd gotten two, putting him up to eight. From killing various Beowolves, the giant bonus boss Nevermore, as well as finishing the quest he didn't even know he had which was about surviving initiation, he'd gained another twelve.
That, was probably normal.
Think about it, he a regular civilian, gets a quest to complete initiation something that takes years of practice for even huntsmen in training to do, and then he does it? Yeah, that would be not much XP for the trained huntsman in training, but for him that's a metric shit ton!
Of course, along with his level came the obscene amount of stat points he'd gained as well on the side.
The regular physical stats didn't quite surprise him. His 'Aura' skill after all did make leveling up physical stats one hundred and twenty percent easier now. Was it a bit OP? Probably, but for a huntsman in training, that was likely normal as it explained their ridiculous feats of strength and speed.
His intellectual stats? Those were arguably even more useful than his physical ones. Considering the fact that Jaune would probably play more like a battle mage, it made sense to have high aura to fuel spells. Thankfully, the 'Intellectual' title granted him a large boost when it came to grinding up intelligence, so his aura points were at forty six hundred now.
Which was a bit ridiculous.
But what was arguable better, was the fact that now that his wisdom was letting him regenerate aura at ninety five every second, that meant that he could go from empty back to full in less than a minute.
He'd be browsing for skill books later to increase his magical arsenal, but for now what he had would certainly do. Though, he should probably raise his intelligence stats using the stat points a bit if only to make them to a nice even thirty, if only so that his OCD didn't kill him.
Luck was… Tricky…
While it had gotten two levels added to it, his luck was easily his lowest stat. It seems that he'd only raised it after a couple times when nothing gambling related occurred, but when he'd gotten lucky and someone saved him from being back slashed by a Beowolf or something. Or like that moment where Blake caught him, that raised his luck as well.
Interesting indeed, but who really needs luck anyways? His father always said that real men make their own luck, and he sure as hell would. Technically, he'd be making it from grinding. Wait, does that still count?
For being a hilarious idiot, you've gained +1 LUK!
Sighing at his game's stupid sense of humor, he closed his stats and opened up his inventory taking out the stat boost potion he'd gotten from the Nevermore thanks to his auto loot. Jaune leaned back on the toilet feeling the cold porcelain tank pressing through his clothing.
Wait, did he forget to mention he was hiding in a bathroom to do this all? Though, Jaune had made sure to make sure that it was the men's bathroom he was indeed hiding in this time.
Rolling around the small cylindrical potion in between his hands, he considered which stat to raise… Technically, it should raise the stat the same amount of points as the potion before right?
Looking at his stats, he tried taking it all in.
'Okay, I won't use it on any of my physical stats that's for sure… They're all above thirty, and I don't think I'd want to increase them any way other than naturally until they get ridiculous to level… I won't do it on my luck since it seems useless, it would only likely increase drop rates for rare items anyways, but there's no point to that. My romance stats… No, I shouldn't do it on any of those… Really, I should do it on my intelligence or wisdom to get it to that thirty shouldn't I? Well, if I did it on wisdom, I'd only need one more to put it up to thirty, and then I could spend another seven on intelligence to get it to thirty as well… Then I suppose I could just stockpile points until I need them or until I feel I need a boost. Huh, sounds like a plan then.'
Downing the potion while thinking of wisdom, he felt the same surge of power he'd felt earlier except this time it was of a different kind. Where before, he'd felt all these things revolving around charm infuse his mind, now ethics and morality flooded in overloading his circuits before it was all washed down by the 'Gamer's Mind' skill.
What just happened? It seems like he gained knowledge on morality, but thanks to the skill it didn't change his morality. Well, that's good. Having suddenly changed views on what's right and wrong in the world could raise problems eventually.
Looking at his stats he noticed it was indeed at twenty nine now, and he pressed to add one more and bring it to a nice round thirty. Looking at his intelligence, he pressed it up carefully until it too reached a nice round thirty.
Feeling more intelligent by the second as his mind expanded and felt more free, he realized that already thinking of multiple things at once was easier.
Almost as he thought this, a small set of numbers appeared underneath the health and aura bars at the top left of his vision. 'Huh, now it seems like I can constantly check up on what my aura recharge rate per second is. That's not overly useful, but I suppose it's pretty good. Doing homework while fantisizin- I mean planning out my futures with multiple girls will be much easier now.'
Last but certainly not least was his gained relationship points. It seems from his impressive kill, and him finishing the quest, through idle chatter with all of them while he hadn't leveled up one of them in particular much, he'd gotten a notification saying all of them got another two points with him.
Though, there a few things in particular which were odd.
For example, under the profile for both Pyrrha and Ruby, there was something which wasn't there before. Or rather, a couple things.
Name: Pyrrha Nikos
Closeness: 24/100
Relationship Status: Best Friend (?)
Gifts Received: Mood Understand
Name: Ruby Rose
Closeness: 23/100
Relationship Status: Best Friends (?)
Gifts Received: Mood Understand
One of them was indeed the pair of odd question marks after 'Best Friends'. Now, while this could mean that they simply weren't sure of how much of a friend Jaune was, he's played enough games to not think this is the case.
Normally, this meant something else. More specifically, it meant that they might have a crush on him.
Of course, the question mark meant that they don't know it yet. From all the visual novels he's played, there was normally a route that you went through. It went: start a route, make decisions during events, get a happy ending with the girl.
Now if this system was actually possible, then that meant that either he had yet to start a route, or that he had access to all routes at the same time. The latter made sense with why they were both able to have the same relationship status without coming to have a fight about it yet or glomping onto him oddly.
Strange.
Another thing, was 'Mood Understand'. Now while he's barely had an hour to really check it out, it seemed to do exactly what it said. By selecting one of their profiles he could scroll down past the limited backstory and information he knew about them previously, and go to something which simply said 'Mood'.
For example, selecting Ruby's Jaune scrolled down and came to the mood section.
Ruby's Mood: Excited, Nervous, Curious, Hungry
Jaune couldn't help but chuckle at the last one. Classic Ruby alright. Well, probably classic Ruby, he'd only met her the day before of course despite the fact it felt like he's known her for weeks.
But now that he's gone over how you use 'Mood Understand' and how you let's talk about why he got it and the implications.
It seems like he's got it for each of them once their closeness points reached over twenty. That was likely the factor which caused it considering that they were the only two with it, and both of them were over twenty.
Though the implications of it were something else.
Assuming that he could get gifts for closeness, he could get various things common in games with relationships from stat boosts, to gifts, to items, to all sorts of things really. It was a bit of an over powered system, since it meant that should he decide to dump everything into his 'Romance Stats' and romance everyone, he could technically increase things like his levels from the XP gained by simply romancing various women across Remnant.
A scary thought indeed.
Though at the same time, it was a nice thought. He, Jaune Arc, probably had the best chance at getting a girlfriend out of anybody he's ever known all thanks to a power that came from nowhere.
Haha, it's like the lame plot to some sort of anime or something.
~o0o~ The Woman Whisperer ~o0o~
"...Jaune Arc, Pyrrha Nikos, Lie Ren, Nora Valkyrie." The polite applause of the crowd was accompanied by the whistles and hoots of their friends before Headmaster Ozpin continued. "From this day forwards, you will be known as Team Juniper."
The screen above them changed assorting their faces into the order of the initials before they lit up below them. 'JNPR huh? It could be worse. We could be something silly like Team Whirlpool or Team Jazzberry…'
"Led by, Jaune Arc!" Ozpin's next words had him raising an eyebrow while their other friends did something along 'girly squeal of proudness' or 'Go Jaune!'. Pyrrha gave him a pat on the back while he did the best he could to straighten his posture and smile at the crowd.
"Looks like you're our fearless leader now Jaune!" Nora said saluting with a bright smile on her face. Ren simply sighed one she punched his arm before he did it too with a little smile of his own. Turning to comment about it to Pyrrha he couldn't help but notice she was doing it to looking him right in the eyes.
Laughing he walked off the stage with his team reading with one part of his mind while walking with the other.
Nickname acquired!
Fearless Leader: You don't know it yet, but this is going to be your nickname from now on due to Nora's insistence! For that, we've decided to give you this awesome nickname!
You're immune to fear when asking out possible girlfriends.
You never show (not never feel) fear when someone else be trying to steal yo' gurl.
Equipping it immediately, Jaune felt better. Those were some good advantages when he did eventually decide to ask someone out when his charm is high enough. Realizing he still hadn't equipped a perk, Jaune browsed through the one's he's gained from maxing out lame skills like 'Housework' or 'Cooking' and put one on.
So You Think You Can Dance?: Due to your multiple prestiges and end maxing out of the 'Dancing' skill tree, you've gained this perk!
There is a 50% chance a flashmob will start if you start dancing.
Any dancing you do with others is perfectly in sync without practicing.
You are able to dance even without music since there's always a song in your heart!
Feeling tempted for a moment to break out into dance and start a flashmob, he restrained himself. None of his friends had started a flashmob of a couple hundred people during an important assembly when it was his turn up there getting a team, why should he start one?
"...Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long. From this day forward, you will be known as Team Ruby. Spelled RWBY." Ozpin said taking a sip of coffee while leaning back from the pedestal for a second. Good thing he clarified the way it was spelled, Jaune was confused for a second. "Lead by Ruby Rose…"
Giving a thumbs up to her while she was being glomped by Yang, he noticed her return the smile before the crowd started dispersing. They were done for today with the naming ceremonies.
Noticing that Ruby's face was going increasingly red, he walked over to the recently dubbed Team RWBY, and tapped Yang on the shoulder. Turning to him she flipped her hair over at the same time.
"You need something?"
"Well, I'm not too sure but I think you're kinda suffocating Ruby right now." Jaune said scratching the back of his head sheepishly. "I mean, surely you must do this all the time, but she does not look well right now."
"Pfft! Don't be silly 'fearless leader'" She said putting emphasis on the last two words getting a 'whoop!' from Nora and a sigh from Blake. "I do this literally all the ti- Oh my god she's suffocating!"
Letting go of her sister sent Ruby sprawled onto the ground heaving for sweet sweet oxygen for a minute or two. Taking that time to berate Yang about almost killing her partner, Weiss turned to Ruby who was still panting but picking herself up off of the floor.
"Are you okay you dunce?" The white themed girl said with a scowl. Was she angry about something?
"Yeah… I'm fine Weiss…" Straightening herself back out with a few audible pops from her back which made Yang wince she turned to her savior. "Thanks for the save Jaune."
"Anytime Ruby… Anytime…"
~o0o~ The Woman Whisperer ~o0o~
Note: Done! Great! Wow, man it's taken me two days to get this out. Why? Because all of you great fans deserve this! The next chapter will be out next Wednesday probably, 'Augmented' is Friday, 'Criminal Mastermind!' is Monday, and maybe a lemon flavoured treat on Sunday.
Now, read and prosper my friends! Please, leave a review, follow or favourite, write a fanfiction, or simply have a nice day!
(There will be a small segment with his current stats and relationships with the girls at the end after the responses.)
Review Responses:
Azrael Zero: It's majorly fun man! I mean, that's why you got this longer than normal chapter this fast eh?
Sj: That's not a skill, that's his Vitality score.
killerdio123: That won't happen, but maybe something with Peter Port soon.
CrimsonDarkness13: What would you do to not let them know? I know how it'll be solved. If it's solved at all of course. Also, thanks. I'm personally the least suave guy there is! (Sometimes I'm fucking James Bond though.).
Cadelorbe12: All I have to say is: HERE YOU GO!
EMIYA KURO: Thanks, I try hard.
BlackHum3r: Thanks! (We talked about the merging letters in PM.)
Lu Bane Na: It is now.
The Exiled Darkness: Not Nora. I went back and corrected that.
nullstudent: Mate, don't ask questions where the answer is obviously yes. (He's got to save the world somehow.)
Broken horn: Ouch, my ego. That's fine though, please remember me now.
desdelor87: Won't be going anywhere soon!
lordrednight: *points* That is the door. Open it, step out, lock it behind you, never pun again.
HaveBookWillTravel: Thanks!~ I'm still on the fence about Penny indeed, but maybe I can do something for her.
Benthino: Haha thanks man! Though, you didn't have to wait long.
gusbot3000: Thank you.
Fellowman: Crazy man, really. But thanks man! I won't be going anywhere soon!
Cerberus13: *cough* Salem.
Lloyd RPGFan: I'm sure he'd like something else in his hands ;) (More specifically, her boobs.)
EuclidWriter: Doing it now.
That guy: I thought I'd made it obvious.
itsMARWIE: Don't wait long!
psychominer: It was never gone.
Guam: This fast enough for you?
Mystic Koolaid: Thanks man! It's good to know I'm someone's favourite.
rwby1989: Nah, autoloot is too good. Yeah, seems like something Blake could do. Also, your Ozpin theory isn't quite correct. Sure, maybe, just maybe I'll give Penny a chance. (You know, I'll bring a whole 'nother meaning to 'In For a Penny' and change it to 'Into Penny')
Frank Horrigan: Meh, I never liked Joan of Arc either.
Done! Great, now I'll do this lame sentence I do every time, sign off, and then stat dump you.
-DragonManMax
~o0o~ Stat Shit ~o0o~
Name: Jaune Arc
Level: 20
Title: Intellectual
Nickname: Fearless Leader
Perk:
HP: 640/640
AP: 6000/6000
Basic Stats:
STR : 32
DEX : 30
VIT : 32
INT : 30
WIS : 30 (150AP/Second)
LUK : 13
Romance Stats:
Charm: 15
Looks: 13
Wit: 15
Stat Points: 87
Lien: 10,800
~o0o~ Relationship Stats ~o0o~
Name: Pyrrha Nikos
Closeness: 24/100
Relationship Status: Best Friend (?)
Gifts Received: Mood Understand
Name: Yang Xiao-Long
Closeness: 13/100
Relationship Status: Friend
Gifts Received:
Name: Ruby Rose
Closeness: 23/100
Relationship Status: Best Friends (?)
Gifts Received: Mood Understand
Name: Blake Belladonna
Closeness: 6/100
Relationship Status: Acquaintance/Potential Friend?
Gifts Received:
Name: Weiss Schnee
Closeness: 6/100
Relationship Status: Fellow Hunter In Training/Potential Friend?
Gifts Received: