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Welcome to the fourth chapter of "Operation: Jaune's Ex-Girlfriend."

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Chapter Four

In a shocking turn of events it is revealed that Jaune's ex-girlfriend, the once thought famous actress of the Mistral region, is in fact his obsessive stalker, who's been following him ever since they were children. Jaune, who had been avoiding his friends like the plague, was now lost with the Emerald Forest after launching himself from the top of Beacon Cliff in a desperate attempt to flee from his "psycho stalker".

Now, in a bit of a conundrum, the group of seven friends had decided to split themselves off into two distinct groups. The first group, which consisted of Ruby, Yang, Nora, Zwei, Sun, and Neptune, would search the Emerald Forest for their lost friend, as they currently had no way to contact him while the second group, which consisted of Weiss, Blake, Pyrrha, and Ren, would deliver Bella to the most responsible professor out everyone at Beacon Academy, Professor Goodwitch.

After safely delivering Bella, now handcuffed to prevent her from escaping, and her secretive VIP notebook to Professor Goodwtich's personal office, the normally calm and collected combative professor had this to say; "ARE YOU ALL COMPLETELY OUT OF YOUR MINDS?!"

Needless to say, things were not looking up for the second group.

As for the first group, they were currently traversing the massive expansion of the Emerald Forest, searching for their friend Jaune. Luckily, they had the power of Zwei to help them succeed at their mission. Still, that didn't mean it was going to be entirely a cakewalk as they still had to deal with wandering packs of Grimm and considering that Jaune had quite literally jumped into an infestation without his weapons, meant that not even Jaune was having an easy time.

"Yang?" asked Ruby, her high pitch voice catching the attention of her older half-sister.

"Yeah, Ruby?" she replied, slowing her pacing to match her sister's while Sun and Neptune quickened their's to join alongside Nora and Zwei.

"Are we bad friends?" asked Ruby, looking up at her older sister with silver eyes full of sadness.

"What? No way! We're terrific friends! Anyone would be lucky to have us as friends." said Yang, smiling full of happiness while silently hoping her little sister wouldn't be able to see under her mask.

"Would Jaune?" she asked, breaking Yang's mask of happiness as she turned her head to look into the azure sky with a tired sigh.

"No. Probably not. Not after bringing in his ex-girlfriend." said Yang, causing Ruby to look downward with a dejected expression.

Every part of Yang wanted to do nothing more than make her little sister happy. And seeing her look so defeated was like stepping on her heart with a spiked boot. Some would say she was overprotective of her little sister, seeing as she 15 years old and by now should already be treated like an adult. But to Yang, it didn't matter how old her little sister got, she would always be her little sister and yeah, sometimes that meant she could be overprotective or annoying. But so long as her little sister could still smile then Yang didn't care about the insults of others.

But there was no denying that what she and the others had done to Jaune was too far this time. Not only had they essentially forced Jaune into avoiding them but they also personally invited the very ex-girlfriend that he wanted nothing to do with. And while Yang could attempt to try to convince herself that they were merely doing what they were doing because of what they thought was best for their friend. But truth be told, if wasn't going to happen now then odds are Jaune was going to give his friends WAY more than a stern talking to.

"Yeah, who would've thought a celebrity would be a stalker, especially for someone like Jaune?" asked Sun, turning his head over his shoulder to look back at the two sisters. "No offense to Jaune or anything. Guy's definitely pretty cool once you get to know him. Actually...Hey Neptune!" shouted Sun, catching Neptune's attention after he jumped into the trees to get a bird's eye view of the surrounding area.

"Yeah!?" he shouted back from atop the tree's branches.

"Didn't you tell me the other day that Jaune helped you out with Weiss at the dance?" asked Sun as Neptune leaped back down to ground level before placing his weapon at his back.

"That's right. Weiss asked me to the dance but I was sort of self-conscious about my well..." said Neptune, droning on as he still didn't want to admit it, especially in front of three attractive girls.

"Terrible dancing skills?" asked Nora, appearing in-between the two boys as Neptune looked away with a sour expression.

"Yes. Anyway, I said no to her and on the night of the dance, Jaune basically set me straight. Told me to just be myself. No flashy moves. No trying to hard. Just being myself." said Neptune, smiling at the memory. "I may not know the guy as well as I should but there's no doubt in my mind that Jaune is definitely someone you want as a friend."

The group remained in silence after the words left Neptune's mouth as Nora, Ruby, and Yang all had the same thought, "Then what kind of friend am I?"

After a few minutes, the group went back to work, searching for Jaune by following after Zwei. That is until they saw the little corgi stop in his tracks and plop his furry little tush down on the ground as he let out little whimpers, signalling that he had lost the scent. Seeing this, the little red reaper walked over to the sad little corgi, gently running her fingers through the fur on it's little head.

"It's okay, Zwei. We'll find Jaune, don't worry." she said, trying to cheer up the poor little corgi before she turned to face the others in her group. "Zwei lost Jaune's scent. Nora do you still have Jaune's weapon?" asked Ruby, watching as the hyperactive Valkyrie pulled out a familiar white heater shield and longsword.

"Got it!" she exclaimed, holding the weapon in the air before handing it off to Ruby, who held the weapon in her hands as the sun's glow glistened off of it's shining surface.

"Alright Zwei. Let's try this again." she said to the little corgi, kneeling down and placing the weapon near Zwei's nose where he then proceeded to sniff at it with purpose.

Afterwards, the little corgi stuck his nose into the sky, having one final intake of air before exhaling it through his nose and then began to put his nose to the grindstone, sort of speak. The little corgi quickly went to work, placing his nose close to the ground and waddling around sniffing for Jaune's scent once more. But when the little corgi once again sat on his furry butt and began making whimpering sounds, the group could instantly tell that something was amiss. If Zwei couldn't find Jaune's scent then that had to have meant that someone or something had taken Jaune.

In response to this harrowing situation, Ruby immediately unleashed her weapon, cocking it as she rechecked it's magazine before turning to face the others with a serious expression on her face.

"We've got a problem." said Ruby, watching as the others' eyes all widened at her words as they all had the same thought once more.

"Where are you, Jaune?"

Back with the first group, they had all taken refuge within Professor Goodwitch's personal office, where they kept Bella tied to a chair in order to prevent her from escaping and where Pyrrha, Ren, Weiss, and Blake could all keep watch over her while Professor Goodwitch read over the notebook. The group sat in silence as the blonde-haired professor read through the notebook that held a plethora of information, most pertaining to Jaune while some pages held information on all of those that ever had interaction with him. And the more she read, the more concerned she became for Jaune Arc.

Every detail ever known about Jaune's history broadcasted before her very eyes and all from the mindset of, what she had thought to be, a well-behaved and ambitious girl. But now, all of that was quickly over-shadowed by her obsessive feelings of attraction towards Jaune. And all it did was cause great concern for the boy's safety.

Finally, after a few minutes of reading the notebook, and silently telling her to set up an appointment with her therapist, Professor Goodwitch gently closed the notebook's cover before placing it under her arm and exiting her bedroom to address the group. And what she saw only continued to cause the poor responisble professor much more strife as she witnessed Ren, Weiss, and Blake desperately trying to prevent a furious Pyrrha from strangling Bella, who wore a very smug smile on her face.

After having quite enough over the group rowdiness, Professor Goodwitch quickly activated her Semblance, coating Pyrrha's body in a purple haze of aura as she slowly began to levitate off the ground before being pressed with her back against the wall. And in a show of intimidation and habit, Professor Goodwtich glared at Pyrrha, a person she had thought would likely never be on the receiving end of one of her patent glares.

"Ms. Nikos, while I am understanding of your rightly deserved feelings of anguish towards Ms. Bleu, you would do well to remember that Ms. Bleu is still a civilian and as such any and all personal injuries received can prevent you from obtaining your Hunting License and could possible put you in prison." said Professor Goodwitch, deactivating her Semblance as Pyrrha was gently placed back onto the floor.

Turning to face the so-called "ex-girlfriend-turned-psycho-stalker", Professor Goodwitch sat down in a chair placed directly in front of Bella's. Flipping open the notebook to the selected page titled, "Operation: Save Jaune From Beacon", and holding it open for Bella to see.

"Ms. Bleu what I have here is an extremely detailed plan to sedate and subsequently kidnap a reasonably well-respected student and eventual protector of humanity. Not only is this HIGHLY illegal, it also violates many privacy laws that we hold in the kingdom of Vale. As such, given the evidence and the motive, it is very likely that should we deliver you to the proper authorities, they will put you away for a VERY long time." said Professor Goodwitch, frowning as Bella began to laugh hysterically at the stern professor's words.

"Ah, Ms. Goodwitch, have you ever been in love?" the obsessive girl asked.

Seeing no reason to lie, the combat professor chose that speaking truthfully would harbor no ill consequences.

"Yes, I have." she replied, raising her eyebrow in curiosity at her question.

"Then you must know that there is nothing that could ever stand in a woman's way of achieving true love." said Bella, smiling as she would at a wedding ceremony.

"Ms. Bleu, with all due respect, and trust me that respect is very rapidly depleting at an alarming rate, what you are feeling is not love but rather obsession. It is very common to get the two emotions confused due to their similarities." said Professor Goodwitch, folding the notebook closed and passing it off to Ren, who was standing by.

But Bella merely scoffed at this notion, furthering Professor Goodwitch's concern.

"You sound just like Dr. Wicker." she said, adding venom to the aforementioned name and piquing Professor Goodwitch's curiosity.

""Dr. Wicker"?" she asked, causing Bella's eyes to widen at her stupid slip of the tongue before snarling after knowing she'd been caught.

"He was the so-called "doctor" my parents hired to "help" me with my feelings towards Jaune. But all he ended doing was making me forget everything I ever knew about Jaune. I had forgotten him for so long but then I found that notebook and after reading it, I realized what that doctor did to me. He caused me to forget the love of my life. After that I knew I had that I relearn everything about Jaune, including who was going to be my biggest rival for his affections." she said, glaring at Pyrrha who returned her glare with her own.

"So, your family hired a hypnotist or at the very least an individual who possessed a mental-based manipulation semblance, who then proceeded to purge your mind of any memories, obsessive or otherwise, of Mr. Arc. But then, after coming into contact with this notebook, you regained those lost memories. But then how do you explain the additional information on those who came into contact with Mr. Arc?" she asked, watching as Bella gained a very smug smile in response.

"You'd be surprised just how much you can benefit from being an attractive actress. And a rising reporter is surprisingly very willing to break a few laws if it means they can advance in their careers." said Bella, feeling smug while Professor Goodwitch only sighed in response.

"Ms. Bleu, what are your plans for Mr. Arc?" asked Professor Goodwitch, crossing her left leg over her right.

"You read my notebook, you should know it." said Bella, frowning at the huntress when she continued to stare at her in silence, causing Bella to sigh. "I was planning to find Dr. Wicker and pay him to manipulate Jaune's memories. Then we would leave for a remote area and live out the rest of our days in true love." said Bella, smiling as Pyrrha's righteous fury as she once again was being held back by Weiss, Ren, and Blake from attempting to straight up murder Bella.

"You don't want to love Jaune! You just want to own him! Treat him like your own personal doll! Well he's more than that! He's brave even when he's scared! He's sweet and kind and charitable! If you're ever feeling sad, he'll gladly sacrifice his own happiness or even his pride just to see you smile! A psychopath like doesn't deserve someone has great and lovingly as him!" shouted Pyrrha, releasing all of her pent up anger when suddenly Professor Goodwitch's electronic scroll buzzed to life.

Plucking it from the top of her desk, Professor Goodwitch's eyes widened as several of the Emerald Forest's hidden cameras were swiftly taken out by a massive dark shadow. Causing alarm, the combative professor quickly replayed the last image on one of the hidden cameras to see a flash of Mr. Arc's body being carted away by a very peculiar Grimm with a red skull marking on it's body.

Seeing this, the professor stood to her feet, causing her chair to fall back and gaining the attention of everyone around her.

"We need to go to Emerald Forest, immediately." said Professor Goodwitch, rushing to gather her weapon and dome Dust, making sure to grab an abundance for good measure as her students watched her with confused expressions.

"Professor Goodwitch, what's happening?" asked Weiss, feeling quite frightened as she's never witnessed the usually calm and collected Glynda Goodwitch act so frantic.

"There's reason to believe that Mr. Arc has been captured by a Widower and if it has brought him back to it's hideaway..." said the professor, not bothering to finish her sentence as even the group could tell exactly what she had meant.

"But with no way to track the Widower, how would we be able to find Jaune?" asked Pyrrha, feeling panicky for her crush's safety.

"I know how to find him." said Bella, her usual expression having shifted into a very serious one and causing alarm bells to ring off in the groups minds.

"How?" asked Blake, feeling her ears twitch ever-so slightly.

"I've been following Jaune ever since we were kids...Plus, I may have placed a tracking chip underneath the sole of his shoe when he wasn't looking." said Bella, actually looking like she was embarrassed by the group's looks, causing her to blush fiercely. "Don't give me those looks! Listen, if you want to find Jaune then you're going to have to bring me along!" she proclaimed.

And before anyone to call her out, Pyrrha swiftly marched over to Bella, grabbing her by the collar of her shirt and pulling her up with her bare hands, glaring into Bella's orange eyes.

"And just what makes you think we'd believe a single word you'd say?" she asked, glaring at the girl currently in her grasp.

"It's fine if you don't want to believe me. But believe this, I'm not about to let some overgrown bug take my man away from me." said Bella, staring into Pyrrha's green eyes when suddenly she felt her bindings break away, causing her chair and bindings to fall to the ground while Pyrrha held her up.

When, from out of the corner of her eye, Pyrrha's sword floated just above her chest, it's bladed tip pointing directly at Bella's exposed neck. And just as quickly as Pyrrha's semblance caused the weapon to float, the black haze faded away, dropping the weapon into her hands as she glared at Bella's eyes.

"If you make one motion out of line then hunting license be damned." said Pyrrha, snarling as Bella giggled at her thinly-veiled threat as she pulled out her scroll, switching it on to show a radar screen with a rapid moving yellow blip and as Bella sashayed her way towards the exit, a hungry smirk graced her lips.

"It's hunting time."