Chapter 7: Jaunedice

A/N: Hey! Reading those cards is really boring, I tell you. So, I couldn't really come up with a chapter name so forgive me. The reason being that I'm trying to stick close to canon as possible, and it is around this area anyway. So, hope you guys enjoy. :) ALSO PLEASE READ THE Author's Note AT THE END!


Jaune was panting as he held onto his knees to stand in front of his opponent, the mace wielder known as Cardin Winchester. Cardin chuckled before Jaune made a last ditch effort and charged him head-on. Cardin slid to the left and let Jaune's momentum carry him past Cardin. Once Jaune was past him, he swung his mace and hit Jaune's shield, knocking him back a few feet to the ground. Jaune got up quickly and charged once again, colliding his sword against Cardin's mace. Cardin levered himself over Jaune.

"This is the part where you lose." He said as he grinned.

"Over my dead-GOH!" Jaune winced out as Cardin kicked him in his gut, causing him to lower to the ground. He looked up as Cardin raised his mace, about to deliver the finishing blow.

"Cardin, that's enough." Glynda Goodwitch spoke as the lights flashed back on for the whole room and a buzzer sounded, signalling the match was over.

"Students, as you can see Mr. Arc's aura has now dropped into the red. In a tournament style duel, this would indicate that Jaune is no longer fit for battle and that the official may call the match. Mr. Arc, it's been weeks now, please try to refer to your scroll during combat. Gauging your aura will help you to decide when it is appropriate to attack, or when it is better to move to a more...defensive strategy."

Jaune sighed as he knew that her words were true.

"We wouldn't want you to be gobbled up by a beowulf, now would we?" She finished.

"Speak for yourself." Cardin said lowly as he shouldered his mace and walked away.

"Remember everyone: The Vytal Festival is only a few months away. It won't be long before students from the other kingdoms start arriving in Vale. So keep practicing. Those who choose to compete in the combat tournament will be representing all of Vale." Glynda concluded before a bell rang.

Pyrrha looked at Jaune as he looked back at her, then he lowered his head. Devan was sitting next to Pyrrha and noticed she was looking over at Jaune. "Concerned for your leader?"

"Yes. It's just, I thought he'd fight better than that." She said.

"Well, you never know about some people. I'll bet he'll get better in time." Devan stood from his seat and left with the others.


"So...there we were, in the middle of the night."

"It was day." The black haired male from the other side of Devan said after his female friend.

"We were surrounded by Ursi..."

"They were beowulfs."

"DOZENS OF THEM!" She girl shouted.

"Two of them." He corrected.

"But they were no match!" Nora continued her story as Jaune was picking at his food, receiving looks from the leader of Team RWBY and Pyrrha. Devan was sitting next to Ruby having trouble dissecting some of the food on his plate.

"Jaune are you okay?" Pyrrha asked.

"Huh? Oh yeah, why?" He said as he came back from his thoughts.

"It's just that, you seem a little...not okay." Ruby said with concern.

"Dude, we can see it, you're obviously not happy." Devan was poking his food to see if anything would happen with it. Getting some reactions from the other side of the table, he decided to put down his fork and rest his chin on his hand.

"Uh, guys, I'm fine. Seriously, look." Jaune stuck up a thumb and smiled sheepishly. "Heheheh..." Just as he finished, some laughter was heard from another table. A girl was being harassed by another team.

"Jaune, Cardin has been picking on you since the first week of school." Pyrrha stated.

"Who, Cardin Winchester? Naw, he just likes to mess around, you know, practical jokes!" He said, trying to defend Cardin.

"He's a bully." Ruby said flatly.

"Oh please. Name one time he's bullied me." After naming a few occasions when Cardin has bullied Jaune, all eyes were on him. "I didn't land to far from the school."

"Jaune you know if you ever need help you can just ask." Pyrrha assured him.

"Ooh!" Nora popped up from her seat and stated, "We'll break his legs!"

"That'd be a way I'd handle it." Devan said just loud enough for everyone at his table to hear. This gave him many looks, including an excited look from Nora. "But, I'm just an alien and I don't know aaannnyything on how to handle mean people on this planet."

Ghost popped out from his helmet and floated around Devan. "We could confront him, but I don't think that would be a good idea, considering there are too many civilians."

Jaune stood up from his seat. "Guys, really it's fine. Besides, it's not like he's only a jerk to me. He's a jerk to everyone."

More laughter was heard from the same table as before, this time, the girl cried out in pain. "Ow! That hurts!"

Cardin and his team only continued to laugh more as she said politely, "Please stop."

"Hahah, I told you it was real." Cardin said to his team as they laughed along with him.

"What'a freak." One of the members said as the others chuckled.

Devan had just about enough of what he was seeing. He stood up and walked over to the commotion. The others at his table watched carefully as he stopped in front of the two. "I'd like to ask why you are hurting this girl's ears." He said.

"Who the heck are you? I don't need to tell you anything, freak." Cardin let go of the girl's head which allowed her time to escape.

"You're here to train to become a hunter, right? Why are you terrorizing people when your training to protect them?" Devan asked him.

"Okay, one: I'm training to be a Huntsmen and two," He stood up to eye level, staring into Devan's helmet. "Aren't you the alien I heard about? That'd make you a freak out of anyone in this room, including the animals!" Cardin shot at him.

"Okay, for your information, I'm ALREADY a hunter. Where I come from, it would take 5 huntsmen to take down a hunter. And before you go calling people animals? You know humans are mammals, technically, we are animals too." Devan waited for Cardin's next reaction.

"God, you are a freak." He stated before sitting back down to laugh with his teammates.

Devan backed away slowly and sat back down in his seat. "He's scared of me, I could see it in his eyes."

"Didn't look that way to me." Yang grinned as she stated, "Looked like he just wanted to be the bigger man."

"I've seen so many things where I'm from, Yang. He definitely showed some fear when I stated how many people it'll take to bring me down." Devan grinned behind his helmet. He poked at it and laughed. "Most people get scared by just looking at me.

Most of them gave Devan a look. "What?"

The girl whose ears were just being pulled was seen walking out of the cafeteria with her hands over her face.

"Atrocious...I can't stand people like him." Pyrrha was talking about Cardin.

"He's not the only one." Blake said, glaring at Cardin.

"It must be tough to be a faunus." Yang sighed as she lowered her head to her chin and rested on it.

The others looked over at Jaune, who sighed and lowered his head as he walked to throw away his trash. Devan noticed Cardin was grinning at Jaune. "Hey Ghost...you see that?" Devan whispered only so Ghost could hear him.

"I do, it looks like this Cardin is targeting Jaune." Ghost said.

"Yeah...I think we will be seeing more of that jerk." Devan narrowed his eyes at Cardin and grinned. "Jaune won't be the only one targeted..."


A/N: Does Devan plan on bullying Cardin?! WHATA JERK! XD Short episode means short chapter, I will be quick to roll out a new chapter because this one was short. Yes, I know some of the 'Canon' was changed, but hey, I try to stay close as possible. ON ANOTHER NOTE! I'd like to ask you guys a question. Now, I know most of you will request the first option, but I'd rather ask. SHOULD I MAKE FLASHBACK CHAPTERS? Now, I mean a chapter that has NOTHING to do with the RWBY story line that I have planned out. I mean so you guys can get information so you can understand more as I make references in the REAL chapters. So, Flashback chapters? Or continue with said plotline, and add in the flashbacks INSIDE the normal chapters?

In other news...for the ones wondering about my other story The World of RWBY. Don't worry, I do plan on continuing, I'm just having writers block for it. I have everything planned out, it's hard to get it on paper, you know? So, since I got all that out, SEE YOU GUYS NEXT CHAPTER! :D