Hello, world!
It's the after Halloween weekend. And you know what that means! Christmas songs all day every day. Please help, my ears are bleeding.
This is kind of an odd chapter, it won't have lemons in it, even if you thought it would. You'll just have to find another guy for that, I'm not that kind of guy.
This'll be more of a transition chapter more than anything, the first quarter will be Jaune leaving on a good note with the Belladonna's as he leaves for an apprenticeship with a family friend.
And after that, we finally won't be doing an exact time skip with Penny, more like some short stories including her and a few others. With the highschool DxD story up and everything, I'm having to work twice as hard. As I brainstormed with my Beta I'd think this would probably be the easiest way to have time progress with short funny moments.
And after this, it'll be only one more chapter until we hit Beacon baby! Get ready cause It's going to be a real doozy!
I hope you enjoy reading this chapter as much as I did writing it!
"BLAKE!?" Jaune screamed. His sister was currently in his bed. His bed. "What the hell are you doing here? And why are you in lingerie!? Can't you have some decency?" Jaune was about to rant to make the embarrassment of finding your younger sister in your bed. Unfortunately, she put a finger to his lips.
"Mom said this was the best way to do it." She purred. She crawled onto his chest which felt rough underneath her skin. As she crawled to her love she continued to purr. "Don't say anything, just let this happen."
"Let what happen!? Blake, you're freaking me out right now!" He was about to back out of his own bed. But his sister grabbed his shoulder and dragged him back to the bed.
"Jaune… I love you." Blake held his head in her hands and smashed her lips to his. Her tongue waiting for acceptance in his mouth. Jaune tried to bring his mouth from his sister's but she held strong. He was worried about the consequences of what was happening right now.
Jaune leaned back as Blake leaned forward having the two teenagers lying down with Blake on top, she used gravity to her advantage and soon, Jaune found himself not caring about what was going to happen next. Or at least he thought….
Blake's hand had reached for his crotch which made Jaune's eyes open to the size of dinner plates. Pulling back his head, a string of drool hung from their lips as Blake let out a predatory growl. "We can't do this Blake!"
Blake cocked her head to the side in confusion. "Can't do what Jaune? I already told you I love you! More than a sister should!"
Jaune motioned to the entire scene in front of him. "This! We can't do this Blake! This is wrong! We're brother and sister! We can't just start to make out whenever we want. And we especially can't have sex! Think with your head, Blake! What if mom found us like this?"
Blake lowered her head. "But mom said she approves…" She mumbled. She was more disappointed that their kiss hadn't lasted longer. However, Jaune stared at his sibling in thought.
"Mom… Thought this." He motioned to the scene that they were in again. "She thought this was okay?" He slapped a hand on his forehead as he sighed a deep sigh. "Jesus, I bet dad is recording this too."
A far off voice shouted, "Am not!"
As another sigh escaped his lips, Jaune sat down on his bed. His legs were over the edge, swinging aimlessly. "Look, Blake. I like you. No, I like you a lot." This got Blake to perk up with her ears pointing straight up. "But we can't just start by making out. How about this, we can work out this whole debacle when I get back with my apprenticeship with Japhetto. Then we can go to Beacon together!" Jaune looked at Blake who looked disappointed more than anything.
She put a hand on his thigh. "I love you Jaune. So much, you're the only one for me. And if I have to wait a year before we can be together then so be it." Blake lied back down on the bed and patted the empty spot next to her.
"B-Blake? What are you doing? Go back to your own bed!" He yelled adamantly. To which the cat faunus nodded her head no.
"Why should I? We may not be dating yet. But now that I've confessed It would be awkward not to sleep in the same bed…" She mumbled as she drew a circle with her finger on the bed sheets.
"That logic is screwed over! C'mon Blake, can we at least be like normal siblings for the last few days I'm here?" Jaune pleaded.
Blake reached up and dragged Jaune onto the bed to which she immediately slung her body weight over his chest. "Nope, I want to make you mine as soon as possible. And that means I have to convince you to be my boyfriend before you leave!~" She sang as Jaune sighed in defeat.
"Fine." Jaune slumped his head on to the pillow trying to fall asleep. Unfortunately for him, Blake decided to play with his chest. Or to be more specific. A golden necklace around his neck. "Can you please not touch that? It's kind of important to me."
Blake let go of the trinket but asked. "I was always wondering, where did you get that? We found it in your cloak when you first came here."
Jaune rolled over to meet Blake eye to eye. "And you waited a year before asking me?"
"It just crossed my mind again! I'm just trying to make conversation to my boyfriend you dummy!" She pouted.
"I'm not your boyfriend Blake! For the last time, we're brother and sister! But to answer your question, it was from a… Friend. I guess that is what you would call her."
"Just a friend?"
"For the love of god Blake! Yes! She's just a friend! Now go to bed!"
"...Goodnight."
/A week later\
If you haven't experienced your sister confessing your love to you, then you're super lucky. Have you ever tried to have a meal with three members of your family, all of them knowing that you're sleeping with one? And being forced to? Let's just say it's pretty awkward.
Jaune Belladonna had to suffer through this past week, with Blake nearly attached to his hip, trying to feed him. Much to his annoyance. She tried to turn a trip to the grocery store into a date at the arcade. Luckily, it hadn't worked out at all as Jaune was the one driving home.
As for training, Jaune had been working on combat for his new limb that was to come. Adapting to the wild swings from having a single arm to a more refined version that allowed for two limbs to be used.
Jaune was currently waiting outside at a bullhead landing pad. A green duffel bag underneath his arm and a sword on his back. Blake and Ghira were next to him with more bags. Blake kept on trying to scooch closer to Jaune in which he scooched away. Nearly making a full circle around the pad as they played a game of cat and mouse. Ghira just playfully shook his head watching his two children slowly schooching away from each other.
Before the game could continue, the bullhead made its way towards the Belladonnas. Slowly pushing air from underneath it as it landed on the pad. A side door opened to reveal an older gentleman with a large round nose some white sideburns and a lab coat over a red sweater. A girl in attire much too light for Atlas rushed towards the two teens, completely ignoring Ghira. Her ginger hair and freckles almost shined in the sunlight. Her pink bow fluttered in the wind towards them.
"Cousins!" She squealed. Rushing toward them and pulling them into a bear hug that seemed too strong for a girl of her size. She squeezed so tight that Jaune had to drop his bag making a large thunk on the ground. "Oh, it's so good to see you! I'm so excited that cousin Jaune is staying with father and me!"
"I-It's good to see you too Penny, if you could drop us though. I think Jaune is running out of air…." Blake muttered to which the girl dropped both of them and put her hands over her mouth in a surprised fashion.
"I'm so sorry! Father says I'm too strong for my own good!" she bowed slightly to which the older man chuckled as he left the bullhead.
The man walked over to the three teens and stuck out his hand to which Jaune took it. The two males each gave each other a hardy handshake. "Japhetto Polendina, it's a pleasure meeting you Jaune, I hope we can get some work done. You'll be my much-needed muscle for the next year so I hope you're ready!" Japhetto took his free hand and grabbed Penny by the shoulder. "And this is my daughter, Penny Polendina. She's… A little excitable, but I think you'll get along fine."
"I hope so sir, it would suck if we couldn't" Jaune responded to which Ghira gave a hardy laugh and patted his son on the back.
"It's good to see you Japhetto, now we must get going. The lock on Kali's cell won't hold much longer. And you know how she gets when one of her cubs leaves her for more than a few hours. Do you remember Blake's sleepover a couple years back? Her 'mama-panther mode' nearly brought down the house!" To which both men chuckled before sighing and hurrying Jaune and Penny onto the Bullhead. "You best be off my son! I'll hold Kali off as much as I can!" He yelled as the bullhead's engine roared to life. Blake was scratching at the Bullhead's door as it closed shut. Ghira was holding her back by the collar as she tried to pounce on the poor machine.
Japhetto gave another hardy chuckle as he sat down next to Penny and across from Jaune. "Let's head off, shall we?" Japhetto chuckled at the sight of Blake.
Jaune looked fear-stricken at the sight of his brocon sister. "Yes, let's. As fast as we can…" Jaune said. As the bullhead lifted off he sighed and closed his eyes. Leaning his head on the wall…
/Two months later\
Jaune awoke from his bed. He was in a white room in the Polendina labs. A bedroom not a hundred feet away from the labs in case of emergency. However, the thing that woke him was the odd weight on his chest. Looking down towards his torso he saw Penny sleeping with an orange nightgown that matched her hair. "PENNY!? What are you doing here?"
Penny's closed eyes opened to reveal her green eyes. "Father told me to wake you for breakfast. But you looked really comfy and I still needed to charge so…" She gestured to an odd wire sticking out of her wrist.
Jaune sighed at his cousin. Or as she now refers to him as her brother much to Blake and Jaune's annoyance. "Penny, what have I said about charging in my room? What if one of uncle Japhetto's assistants walks in here to find their boss' daughter having a wire sticking out of her wrist? Your secret could be let out! I mean, that's how I found out and I'm not half as smart as some of these guys!"
Penny looked down. "I'm sorry brother Jaune." She pouted.
"And stop calling me your brother! Your father is my uncle! We literally cannot be siblings!" Jaune ranted. As he got out of bed he looked around the room. It had posters of huntsmen and pictures of Jaune and Penny looking at the sunset. The bed and desk were white. As well as the coat rack near the metal door that held Jaune's lab coat. "Now get up. Uncle Japhetto has a test that I need to help him out with. Okay? And maybe we can hang out afterward."
"Really!?" Penny jumped up from Jaune's bed. And went to hug her cousin. "Oh, thank you thank you thank you! There's a new candy shop downtown and I really want to go to! Will you take me there?" Penny looked up to Jaune. Who was significantly taller than her. He ruffled her hair at her cuteness.
"Sure Penny. Now I've got to go, we're still only about halfway through making my arm and want to get as much work done as I can. I think today we're going to try and infuse aura into it like you." Jaune said. He hung the right shoulder of his lab coat over it and slung his arm through the other. "Now I need to get going or uncle Japhetto is going to have my head."
"Okie Dokie! Bye Jaune!" She waved at her cousin as she let go. Standing in his room and watched until he left. Using her heightened hearing she waited until his footsteps couldn't be heard. Waiting a few more seconds, she turned to his bed and jumped back in. Her charging wire still connected to her wrist. "I still have another hour to go. Might as well sleep in Jaune's bed!" She said to herself. As she started to hum and wait for her battery to fully charge.
/Two more months later\
Jaune was in the lab. A pair of goggles tightly secured around his head. As he held a screwdriver to a robotic arm. It was painted a dark crimson. Close to the blond teen's eyes and cloak. Jaune's gold necklace was tucked tightly underneath his sweatshirt and lab coat. As he fiddles with a knob that activated some sort of weapon, the door crashed open.
"BROTHER JAUNE!"
Jaune shrieked a 'manly' screech as he dropped the screwdriver. Flicking the knob. The arm turned into a cannon and fired a massive round of pure steel. Causing destruction and a few small explosions to echo around the lab. "Penny! You have to be careful! I almost blew up the lab! Well, I did blow up the lab."
"I'm sorry brother Jaune! But this a question of utmost importance!" Penny gave a slight bow as she walked to her cousin.
"Oh? And what could be so important that you have to ask me and not uncle Japhetto?" Jaune turned to Penny in his chair. After grabbing his mug full of hot cocoa and taking a drink from it while he waited for her to ask him her question.
"What is love?"
It was at that moment Jaune did a spit take, not seeing that question coming at all. "P-Penny! Can't you just search that up on the internet?" Jaune put down the mug as he went to wipe up the spilled contents.
"I tried… But they never gave me the answer I was looking for. What is love Jaune?" Penny asked innocently.
"W-Well, love is a feeling deep in your soul. Like you and me, we find someone who we want to spend the rest of our lives with. Some people find out they don't love each other. While others find love at first sight." Jaune answered as he went back to work on his arm.
"How do you know if you are in love with someone brother Jaune?" Penny asked.
Jaune sat up from his chair and walked over to Penny. He sat her down on a table and sat across from her. "Penny, if you love someone. You're brain, heart and very soul will cry out to them. It hurts to be away from them and you are really happy when you are near them."
"So let's say I'm in love with someone… What would I do next?"
"Well… Usually, you would ask them to go on a date. And maybe after a few months. Maybe even years, one of the two people would ask them to marry each other. Which symbolizes there love and devotion to each other. Most people then spend the rest of their lives together."
"Thank you, brother Jaune. I appreciate your honesty." Penny sat up and walked to the door. But before she left the lab she turned around. "And brother Jaune?"
"Yes, Penny?" Jaune asked, his back already towards her as he went to continue with his work once again.
"I love you!" Penny said. As she left the lab.
Jaune froze, the screwdriver slipping through his fingers as his body was frozen from shock. It took a few seconds before his brain finally processed what she just say only for the teen scientist groaned into his hands as he leaned his elbows against the station he was at. "I don't know who's going to kill me first. Blake or uncle Japhetto…"
/Another two months later\
Jaune was woken up by a shaking of his shoulder. His robotic arm came to grab the wrist of whoever was disturbing his sleep. The crimson fingers clasped nearly white skin as he woke up with dreary eyes to meet the eyes of his cousin. "Penny? What do you want?"
Penny shoved a piece of paper and pen into his face. Jaune sputtered as he sat up from his bed to look at his ginger cousin in utter confusion. "You need to sign this Jaune." She said as she dropped the pen and paper in front of the blonde teen.
Jaune grabbed the paper. "Penny it's like-" Jaune looked at the alarm clock near his bed "Five thirty. Can't this like wait until breakfast?" Jaune sighed. Penny slammed her hand onto the bed. Her robotic strength made the mattress wobble and bounce.
"Sign. Now." She uttered.
Not even scanning the paper, Jaune looked for the line at the bottom. Writing a signature with his real arm. The signature read Jaune Belladonna as Jaune handed whatever document back to its original owner. "There. What was that anyway?"
"Nothing to worry about husband Jaune!" Penny said as she scrambled out of the doorway.
"...What?" Jaune uttered. Not seconds later, his uncle Japhetto crashed through Jaune's door.
"Don't sign it!" He screamed. But when he looked at Jaune who was just as disgruntled and tired as himself. He looked to his nephew who had nothing but a pen in his hand. "Did Penny just come in here with a paper?" Japhetto asked, almost begging Jaune to say no.
"Yeah, why? What was that paper?"
"You didn't sign it. Did you? DID YOU!?" Japhetto screamed.
"What was it? You're scaring me uncle Japhetto." Jaune said as he got up to shake his uncle by the shoulder.
"You just signed a marriage contract with my daughter."
"..."
"..." Jaune fell flat on his back. Fainting…
/Two months later\
Jaune was at the CCT tower in Atlas proper. It was only a few blocks away from the Polendina labs and was pretty accessible. Japhetto and his assistants had their own private room to discuss science and technology with their colleagues around the world. Currently, Jaune was using this room to his advantage.
The computer screen pulled up a video image of a very angry cat faunus. Her yellow eyes filled with rage. Jaune decided to put his two cents in before Blake could start a rampage back at home. "Hi, Blake!"
I didn't say it was a good two cents.
Blake crossed her arms and Jaune assumed she was tapping her foot in anger. "Don't you 'hi blake' me buster! What's this I hear about you marrying our cousin!? How could you leave me behind!" Blake cried to the screen.
"It wasn't my fault! She handed me a piece of paper at five in the morning telling me to sign something? What was I supposed to do?"
"And you didn't read that it was an Altesian marriage contract?"
"I was tired alright!"
"You still could have read the darn thing! Now, look where you are now! Marrying our cousin before I even got to have sex with you! …You haven't had sex with Penny, right? RIGHT?"
"What! No! I don't want to have sex with my cousin thank you very much!"
"Why haven't you divorced her then?"
"I tried! But she blocked any sight that would allow me to file divorce papers in the entire lab! And she knows if I search for one! She literally cries until I close the page! What am I supposed to do?"
"Get someone else to try then Jaune! You're a smart boyfriend, figure it out yourself!"
"You think I haven't tried that either? Uncle Japhetto has been trying but Penny cries in front of him too! What are we supposed to do? And I'm not your boyfriend!"
Completely ignoring Jaune, Blake continued "I'll send some to you. Or better yet you come back home and we can fill them out together! It will be a great boyfriend girlfriend bonding experience for both of us! When are you coming home anyway?
Jaune looked up two a calendar on the computer. "Like two months? Uncle Japhetto wants me to help him on making Blood Styx stronger. As my 'Parting away' gift. So it should be done by then. And I'm still not your boyfriend!"
"But I don't want to wait two months! I want to kiss you now!"
"You're going to have to deal with it, Blake! Now if you will excuse me, I'm going to go and find Penny. At least she doesn't sneak into my bed and try to make out with… Most of the time."
"What was that?"
"Bye Blake! See you in two months!"
"Wait! Jaune-"
Wrapping it up here. Now before you go screaming that I missed a week I want to explain that I'll be changing up my schedule to every other week. So that I can post Pantheon harem and Family Ties on the same Saturday. So that means you get two stories in one day! Yay for you!
Yeah, this chapter kind of sucked. But there was a ton on my plate this last two weeks. And my job has been killing me. Not literally but you know what I mean? My fingers bleed. They bleed I tell you!
Bleeding fingers aside. We're counting down the clock until Beacon Academy! Woohoo! So much excitement. One more chapter and our favorite blonde bastard finally gets to be found!
I know a lot of you have been asking about a few things. Mostly about the blond bastard's connections to his family. Does he care about them? And in the short term, yes. But if you really think about it. The connections would kind of numb over after a while right? It's like foster children, after a year they could be moved and never meet that family again. And after a while, you would start to not care if you lived with them or not. Does he love the families? Yes, of course, he does. But Jaune never sees that one family being a permanent living place. The only family he would really call his own would be his father. So as our blonde bastard continues to look he will never really come out on top.
Next week will be half a Penny and Blake chapter and Half a certain pair of twins chapter. Who knows what will happen? Maybe a certain redhead will show up and make things worse. But who knows? Well, I do! Muahahaha!
-Nate
(Next chapter) November 22nd AkA THANKSGIVING! Woooo!
