Authors note
Okay everybody. I know I'm a failure. I never intended to put off posting this long. And I apologize for the lack of Simon last chapter. So now I'm finally posting hurrah hurray yippee.
Last time
"Damn Jaune when did you get so fast or strong?" yang asked awe in her voice I just shrugged and said.
"Well Crocus Mors weighs a lot so it slows me down and increased my strength threw working my muscles just to carry it." I told her.
By this point the rest of her team had shown up and ruby informed me "okay I believe you so we can start your weapon tomorrow."
Tomorrow
I was slightly nervous as I walked to team RWBY's door and honestly why wouldn't I be I mean I'm about to break the family tradition of using Crocus Mors and honestly that's kind of scary since my parents could disown me for this. But honestly out of all the emotions flowing through me the largest was excitement and happiness. I am finally going to be able to pass my classes, no more exhaustion from carrying that sword and shield around, no more lost fights in combat classes because I'm inept with any blade longer then eighteen inches, and no more Cardin and others thinking I don't belong here.
"Okay, time to grow a pair and face my future like a man." I said encouragingly under my breath as I raised my hand to knock.
Knock, knock, knock
Fwosh. The door was thrown open and suddenly I was being dragged away in a red blur. The moment the world stopped being a blur I realized we were in beacons workshop where students can do maintenance on their weapons.
"I got permission from Professor Ozpin to use the special creation labs." Ruby stated as she walked towards a locked door and inserted her key card into the card reader. The lock clicked open and ruby dragged me in "so we can have privacy and silence in order to concentrate on creating your weapon. Now we are going to start by using the 3D design software on the computer to create a model and schematics of your punch daggers (think assassin's creed hidden blade)."
"Okay let's get started, but I don't know how to use any of this equipment" I admitted shyly
"That's why I'm here "ruby said in an incredibly chipper manner. And with that we got started designing my weapons. After about half an hour we were done and ruby asked me "okay, do you want metal or leather braces?"
"metal." I said confidently
"Okay, my recommendation is a light metal such as mythril or high grade aluminum"
"Mythril?" I questioned "what is that?"
"It's an extremely strong metal but is rare and expensive" ruby informed me
"Well I guess I can dip into the family accounts for some" I said
"Ok, perfect and do you want any add-ons such as a gun" she queried
"Yes a small high caliber pistol would be nice" I stated hopefully having always loved shooting my cousins hand cannon.
"Uh, Okay that's do able but going to be expensive because the blade and barrel will need to be made from adamantium." She stated but upon noticing my question before I could ask it "it's an incredibly strong metal created by mixing Mythril and several kinds of dust."
"Ahhhh" I said in understanding "well the arc family is rich so we can afford that." I said and so we went to vale to go shopping.
Three and a half hours later
Ok mental note never take Ruby to a metal working store. But now were back and can finally get started
"Ok Jaune I need you to leave so I can make this. Thank you. Good Bye." I heard ruby say before I was shoved out the door and the door was slammed shut in my face.
"Wait I thought we were going to make them together?" I asked the closed door before my shoulders slumped and I decided to sit down and wait.
"What are you doing Jaune" I heard a voice say and as I looked up I realized it was Simon
"Oh hay Simon; I'm waiting for Ruby to finish making my weapons. I thought we were going to be making it together but she kicked me out." I said to my mentor/friend.
"Ok well in that case let's go spar you're the only person in this school with any real skill at hand to hand fighting." He said surprising me at his declaration of skill.
"Ok that sounds better than sitting here waiting." I stated
P.O.V shift Simon
As I said that Jaune was the only person in this school with any real skill in hand to hand fighting I may have been lying but he does have some degree of talent in fighting. But while lying is bad I know that if I build up his confidence he could be one of the best.
Upon reaching the sparing arena we both adopted our stances and began. The fighting was intense and anyone watching us fight would think we were really trying to kill each other but for me this was a warm up and for Jaune it was a blast of fun and hard work unfortunately it ended to soon as we heard a clapping and both turned to look to see Ruby clapping and beaming
"Well Jaune, allow me to present to you your new weapon" "grève de l'ombre" Ruby then kneeled in front of him and presented him with the pair of gauntlets. As he took them and put them on I smiled as did he.
"Shadow strike" Jaune said looking at me and said "they feel perfect"
"I didn't know you spoke French Juan" I said shocked
"Well I would hope that I could I am French after all." He replied shyly
I just laughed as something clicked in my head "oh god when they say history repeats they mean it"
"Huh" was all Ruby and Juan could say and so I explained
"Well thousands of years ago before even me, a woman named Joanne of arc, a famous knight that almost single handedly fought off a rebellion and was then condemned to be burned at the stake by a cardinal of Winchester. Seeing the connections?" I asked they both nodded and then Juan brightened up
"That means I'm going to be famous right?" he blurted out happily until Ruby said
"And then you are going to be betrayed and killed by Cardin. Excuse me if I think its all coincidence."
"Yeah I agree with Little Red here Jaune" I said but we were then interrupted by an intercom page
"Would team RWBY and team JNPR please come to my office Professor Camron as well." I heard prof. Ozpins voice say.
Ten minutes later
After we had all been assembled Ozpin spoke
"Ok everyone I've got a mission for you. You will be going into the mountain glen expansion tunnels and clearing out the grim that have entered since the valine breach. I wish you good luck. You leave tomorrow."