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Arc 1 - Chapter 7: Is It Worth It?

(Beacon Academy)

Jaune didn't know what to do right now. All that rushed feeling disappears instantly the moment he saw his mom's face on the screen. Even with his new combat experience and powerful sword style mean nothing against his mom, who could put the fear in anyone she laid her eyes on.

"Aren't you going to greet your own mother, Jaune? I'm pretty sure I raise you better than that." Mom said in the same cheerful voice.

Jaune did what he always did when he got his mom's attention onto him.

He made someone else take the attention for him, which he didn't regret throwing his scroll to Pyrrha, who had the reflex to easily catch the scroll without dropping it and accidentally break it or turn it off.

And Pyrrha was greeted by her partner's mother, who was surprised to see her and she in return was surprised to be the one to see her partner's mother out of the blue.

"Oh, so that's why you called. You wanted me to see your little girlfriend." Mom said in a cheerful voice, but that different change the fact she pissed.

Pyrrha upon hearing this blush in the same shade of red like her hair.

"I-It's nice to meet you." Pyrrha stutter at the beginning before she regains back control over her voice right away or risks embarrassing herself in front of her partner's mother.

"It's nice to meet you as well. Now, can you be a dear and pass me over to my son? I still need to talk to him. We can have a girl to girl talk later since you're dating my son." Mom said to Pyrrha, who looks like she had her dream come true and move her eyes to Jaune.

Where Jaune's face is very pale and looks like he about to faint, no sign of that prideful look he was putting up a couple of minutes ago.

Pyrrha silently moves her mouth, to apologize the moment she passes the scroll back to Jaune.

Jaune wanted no more than to toss his scroll out the window with all his strength, but know if he does. His mom would likely come to Beacon as a result of doing that.

"You know, son. I figure you were heading to that dreadful Beacon Academy to become a huntsman, but I was wrong. You were looking for a girlfriend that you are planning to marry! No wonder you didn't contact the family at the time. You were busy looking for that special girl." Mom wink at her son, who didn't know what to say right now.

"Now, son. I'm not mad about this, but you really need to return back home if you wish to marry that nice girl. After all, family traditions need to be kept. So, I'll call you back later after telling the rest of the family of this great news." Mom hangs up from the other end, where Jaune never got the chance to say anything at all, even his partner got a few words in.

'But, I don't even see Pyrrha in that way!' Jaune may have like having Pyrrha as a girlfriend, maybe even as a wife, but that wasn't until he continues to notice the way Pyrrha look at him, that just send a chill down his back when she thinks he wasn't looking.

At the corner of Jaune's eyes, he could see Pyrrha blushing and didn't look like she rejected the idea of being his girlfriend/future wife.

"Does that mean Jaune and Pyrrha is a couple now?" Nora whispers to Ren, breaking the silence and causing Pyrrha to blush even more when she didn't reject the idea while Jaune looks like he is really close to fainting and entering a coma too.

"I-" Jaune was about to say something, but was cut off when his scroll rung and he answers the call unconsciously, where he freezes up again when he sees his mom again.

"Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that if this is just a joke and she isn't your girlfriend. I'm skinning you alive. Love you, son, I'll call you later."

And just like that, Jaune's eyes roll up to his skull and fall forward, as he passed out, where his team rushed over to help.

A few hours later*

Jaune slowly opens his eyes and found himself in his bed, wondering if everything that happens to him was just all a dream and he still hasn't made up with his team.

Just before Jaune could figure out what's going on.

Nora appears before Jaune with a smile on her face like she had before that incident.

"Gooooood moooorrrriiiiiinnnnnng fearless leader!" Nora shout, causing Jaune to have a jump scare and fall off his bed, where he reacted on instinct and roll under the bed next to his, then flip himself back on his feet after his exit from the other side of whose bed he just rolled under and got into a fighting stance, where it looks like he about to draw his sword, if he had hands on his weapon that is.

"See Ren! Our fearless leader is always ready for combat!" Nora acts like she knew this all along and the proof shown itself finally.

"Morning. Jaune. You fainted yesterday if you were wondering and we just help you get in your bed since it was night time." Ren answer Jaune's unspoken questions.

"Oh." Jaune blink, "Thanks."

Then Jaune lowers his guard and was still kind of out of it. Wondering why he fainted, then remember the reason why, causing him to pale a little.

"By the way, now that you and Pyrrha are a couple now, are you going to take her out on a date?" Nora asks in an innocent tone, but Jaune could easily tell Nora was anything but innocent with the way she winked at him.

"Since when were we dating?" Jaune asks in dumbfounded, forgetting that he accidentally got his mom thinking he's dating his partner.

"We're not?" Pyrrha look at Jaune in a sad face and close to crying.

"Uh, do you want us to be a couple? I mean, you did hate my gut like yesterday or something for snapping at you before." Jaune may have the experience of a lifetime for combat, but when it comes to girls. He doesn't know jack shit other than know how to fight and kill them when the situation needs it.

Before Pyrrha could say something; Nora appears next to Pyrrha, with her scroll, showing what should be a message for Pyrrha to read since it looks like Nora figure Jaune had enhanced the sense of hearing and would have heard her.

Jaune had no clue how in the world, Nora found that little fact out or if she actual know, but that didn't stop him feeling very uncomfortable and wonder if he should take Pyrrha as his girlfriend, forced or not, with his mom on his case.

"If you can beat me in a duel, then we'll see." Pyrrha gives her partner a smile, where it feels like something hidden behind that smile.

"Huh?" Jaune looks very confused and wasn't even get the chance to ask a follow-up question when he was being pushed out the room, with Crocea Mors already in his left hand while he was being pushed out by Nora. Something he should have done something to stop, but for some reasons, his body didn't react at all, other than grabbing his Crocea Mors.

"Pyrrha will be ready to face you, fearless leader in half an hour! You better go find us a good place for the fight or else!" Nora said before closing the door, leaving Jaune in the hallway with a dumbfounded face.

"What just happen?" Jaune is really confused what just occurred and wonder if he should do as Nora said and find a place for the fight or not.

Thinking about it; Jaune may as well as this still haven't completely fixed the relationship between him and his team. In fact, it may look a bit forced, so he may as well continue with this course of actions and hope for the best.

30 minutes later*

(Beacon Academy: Unknown Open Grassfield)

After Jaune message his team about the location where the spar is taking place.

Jaune started wondering if he truly wanted to do this and he just realizes he been duped. As Pyrrha never answered his question if she wanted them to be a couple for real and didn't even replied his next comment about her hating his gut, which either Pyrrha's mind wasn't completely paying attention to what he said due to Nora or whatever Nora said to her had literally made her forget what she was going to say to him.

Then quickly realize he still hasn't worked on his control over Crocea Mors and would likely hurt if not kill Pyrrha if he wasn't careful enough. This made this even more trouble for Jaune.

Without his sword; Jaune is mostly defenseless and won't be able to fight back at all. In fact, the most he could do is outlast Pyrrha until she out of stamina for him to take advantage of, but if Pyrrha could outlast him while he doing his best to dodge her attacks, then he's screwed.

He glances down at Crocea Mors and wonder if he could just fight with his sword sheathed, then Jaune had this weird idea that just pops into his brain and hit the switch to transform his sheath into shield form, but with that feature no longer available. He wonders what would happen if he tries again, but with the sword hilt still inside.

And much to his shock, the sheath becomes a wider blade for the sword by extending the sharpened edges of the shield; well, used to be a shield and with the added weight of the former shield to increase the force of his attacks.

Not to mention that he doesn't even feel any Aura being drained when he uses his Crocea Mors like this. In a way, this kind of solve his problem when he doesn't have to use his sword that made out of his Aura that would bypass other's Aura shield like paper.

(Unknown)

Just as Jaune was about to celebrate this fine discovery without the need to buy a new sword whenever he is sparring against his fellow students. He found himself back in this void of darkness realm once more.

"Oh come on! Is this going to be a common thing now?!" Jaune cried out in despair.

"My third sword was heavy and blunt."

Jaune blinks his eyes and found himself holding what looks like a big sword with blunt edges, that would require to hold with two hands, but seem light to him, much to his shock.

"The uttermost cunning is based on simplicity. With it, I roamed all lands under Heaven unopposed in my 30s."

And like before; Jaune went through another life-experience, but this time he learned how to use a big sword with just using simple movement, where he found that he defeating many opponents just by that alone.

What made Jaune even more shocked is that he learning a new move called the Heavy Sword Technique, which uses Aura all the time, causing Jaune to feel a bit of grief that even after finally found a way to not use up his Aura. He learned a new move that uses Aura.

The Heavy Sword Technique emphasizes simple swings and moves accompanied by potent Aura exertion. Although it lacks the fancy and stylish movements of typical sword styles, it is more effective than the most complicated form of sword attacks.

Another thing he learned while going through this life experience. Is that using the average swords would break upon using the Heavy Sword Technique and the sword's weight would also boost the power of his swings and thrusts.

(Beacon Academy: Unknown Open Grassfield)

Then, like nothing happens. Jaune found himself back in Beacon, in the open field.

Glancing down at Crocea Mors in its heavy sword form. Jaune channels his Aura through Crocea Mors, but not gentle like he usually does to form the sword, but a large amount of Aura in a quick burst.

Where he found his Crocea Mors' blade edges have a thick layer of white light.

Shaking his head, Jaune stops channeling his Aura into his weapon and hit the switch to put Crocea Mors back into default form.

Then bring out his scroll to check on his Aura gauge and to his shock once more. He found out that he barely uses any Aura at all, even when he just literally use 30% of his Aura in that one quick burst to use the Heavy Sword Technique with Crocea Mors.

If what Jaune's scroll is real, then he uses less than 1%! This made Jaune realize that maybe each time he goes through that life-experience, his Aura reserve would increase in an incredible unknown amount.

Heck, Jaune remembers how Pyrrha mention how his Aura reserve was already considered big at the beginning and now his Aura got an increase again. Jaune says again since he never did check his Aura gauge after he went through the previous life-experiences to see how much Aura he got through some tests.

Jaune blink once again, he really needs to stop that as he has been blinkings more than usual, and found his reflex and speed improved, even more, when he moved away when a branch almost fell on his head, but what made Jaune shocked is that he moved out of the way without even looking.

Jaune's mouth opens in shock when he realizes that at this point, his body reacts anything that comes towards him. Even if it has no hostile intent towards him.

Jaune believes that at this point. He could dodge anything that aims to hit him.

Honestly, Jaune love that he could dodge pretty much almost anything. After all, if he remembers correctly. Being a Huntsmen is a life of dangers and most rookies would die an early age due to being careless sometimes.

"JAUNE! WE'RE HERE!" Nora cried out to Jaune, who was too busy feeling happy about finding another thing that's good about this whole crazy event happening to him.

Jaune looks in the direction, where he heard Nora and was surprised to see team RWBY tagging along and he could easily see that all members of team RWBY look a little uncomfortable and awkward coming with the rest of his team.

Ren noticing this decided to answer before Jaune get the wrong idea.

"Nora invited them and wanted to show how you face against some like Pyrrha. Plus, that Nora even mentions how you wanted to make up with team RWBY like you did with us." Ren replied in a dull tone of voice, where team RWBY look at Jaune with a bit of hope that what Ren said was true.

Jaune didn't say anything and wonder if he should take away Nora's pancakes away as punishment or reward her instead for doing something this for him when it would maybe take days or weeks before he gains enough courage to speak with team RWBY as he did with his team.

"Right..." Jaune slowly nods his head, showing that what Ren said was the truth, much to the delight of team RWBY, but Jaune could easily tell both Weiss and Blake had doubts about this, but was dragged along.

"By the way, Pyrrha. I forgot to ask at the time." Jaune didn't mention how he didn't really forget, but more of never got the chance to ask what she meant back in their room before being forced against his will to find a spot for their sparring match to take place.

"What do you mean when I beat you, we'll see?" Jaune stare at his partner, who blush a little and direct her eyes away from him. "You're not going to answer are you?"

Pyrrha couldn't speak a word at the moment and just shook her head in response, that she won't answer Jaune's question.

"What's this about Jaune beating Pyrrha?" Ruby ask Ren and Nora since these two should know what's going on.

"I know Jaune is strong and all, But I don't think he could beat Pyrrha here, who won the Mistral Regional Tournament four years in a row." Weiss comment about this whole deal and wonder how thing will go.

Blake didn't say anything and just watch everything happen around her in silence.

"Honestly, I don't care who wins and just want to see some action. Mostly with me doing some of those actions." Yang grin, but a bit forced when she looks at Jaune and let out a nervous laugh.

"Well, Jaune and Pyrrha are going to fight each other and the winner gets a wish, that the loser will do what the winner wish for." Nora happily to inform everyone what's going on by telling what the winner and the loser get from this.

"Say what?!" Jaune didn't even agree to this! In fact, he was hoping to get an answer to why he needs to fight Pyrrha in the first place; well, he got his answer, but not like this!

Jaune wanted to know if Pyrrha wanted to be in a relationship with him!

On one hand, he happy to get a girlfriend after all these years of trying to get one after puberty happens. But, he didn't want it to be a forced one! He was hoping that his stalk-eer, Pyrrha, would reject the idea of becoming his girlfriend!

Right now, Jaune wondering if fixing the bond, or what's left of it, between him and everyone else was worth it!

Pyrrha didn't seem to deny what Nora said, instead, Pyrrha look like she ready to win this fight and eager to finally fight Jaune.

Jaune, on the other hand, wished life was normal before he got his Aura unlocked.

At this point, Jaune wonders what his life would have been if he didn't go through this swordmaster's life and just got his Aura unlocked without figuring out what his Semblance until later on.