(I Do not own Rwby)
Jaune and Pyrrha sat underneath the tree, being covered by its massive shadow.
The two took this time to catch their breaths and rest, mostly on Jaune's end. Having narrowly escape death once would be more than enough to tire someone out, but narrowly escaping it twice, now that deserved a nice long break.
Jaune laid on Pyrrha's lap, Though earlier he suggested that they should start heading towards the end of the forest where they had been instructed to go, but Pyrrha quickly laid him back down urging him that laying down and resting would be most beneficial for him after the events that had just transpired, as much as he insisted that he could manage Pyrrha quickly shot down all arguments he would try and make.
Secretly she liked having the knight lay on her lap. She knew this wouldn't happen very often so she should take advantage of this time and every second she could manage to get. Slowly Pyrrha was starting to realize how much it was that she actually cared for the knight. Having seen him battered and then impaled had left her with some horrible images stuck in her head. She sighed and tried her best to shake them off. She needed to focus on getting Jaune back into fighting shape, whatever shape that was given his current condition.
"Ummmm Hey Pyrrha.." Jaune asked.
"Yes Jaune?" she replied politely.
"About earlier, when you were you know... unlocking my aura, did you by any chance, oh I don't know remember anything from it?"
Pyrrha looked down at the knight puzzled by his question. "I'm sorry Jaune but I don't think I quite understand." She replied raising an eyebrow.
"Uhh... ohh never mind forget I mentioned it." He said looking away, so that Pyrrha couldn't see the slow stream of blood rushing towards his face. At that time Pyrrha remembered what she had to do to unlock Jaune's aura and quickly realized what he was trying his best to imply. Pyrrha tried her best not to blush but to no avail.
"J-Jaune" she asked. He turned his head to look at her. "Yea Pyrr-" he was abruptly cut off by Pyrrha as she suddenly kissed him. The knight was surprised at first but slowly let himself be consumed by the warmth of the kiss. Suddenly without him noticing Jaune's aura began to react. His whole body radiated a bright white glow and he felt all the aches and pains that he had accumulated begin to melt away.
The moment they separated Jaune's aura began to slowly dim down and then disappear. He opened his eyes and they met her emerald stare. " Wow" he whisperd, smiling. Pyrrha giggled at the Knights remark. "I'm glad you enjoyed it." She said slightly giggling.
"I actually kissed him!" She thought to herself trying her best not to lose her calm composure. But who could blame her. She had just kissed her first crush on impulse. Something she had never had the pleasure of experiencing up until this moment.
"I think that might have been the best kiss I have ever had, all my pain just disappeared." He said slowly standing up and moving his body in a way that showed cased his full extent of motion.
"After that I feel like I can take down a pack of Beowolfs" he said unsheatheing and beginning to swing Crocea Mors. Pyrrha giggled. "Well in your case lets hope that doesn't happen." she said politely joking. "Oh Ha-Ha, very fun Pyrrha." He said sticking his tongue out and extending his hand out to help Pyrrha up. "For your information I would have easily taking that Beowolf out if I didn't hit my head so hard" he said crossing his arms in a pouting motion.
Pyrrha placed a hand on Jaune's shoulder "I'm sure you would have" she politely reassured the knight. "Thanks Pyrrha" he said smiling. "Anytime Jaune. Now judging by where you had landed I would say that end of the forest should be in that direction." She said point through a small clearing in the forest. "Well, when I was dangling from that tree I saw a cave up ahead we should check that out maybe they might have hidden some of the relics there." He said slightly puffing out his chest. "Well it is on the way so it wouldn't hurt to check it out, who knows maybe you could be right." She said nodding in agreement.
"Then it's settled let's move out!" he said gesturing with Corcea Mors. Pyrrha noticed Corcea Mors slightly glow white then a slight purple took over. She slightly frowned. "Julius." She thought to herself as she followed close behind Jaune towards the cave. Before they could take another step Jaune quickly halted and turned to face Pyrrha.
"Pyrrha I know this is kinda late but I guess this make us partners" he said extending out his hand to give her a handshake. Pyrrha smiled "Yes Jaune Partners." She said gleefully shaking his hand.
A few minutes of walking later the duo arrived at the entrance of the cave.
"You think this might be where the relics are hidden at." he asked looking curiously into the dark cave.
"I'm not quite sure." She replied looking around the cave. "If it is where the relics are suppose to be located it. It might seem that we are the first ones to have arrived." She said politely.
Jaune and Pyrrha noticed some cave drawings next to the entrance of the cave. It looked as if a group of humans were fighting off a giant scorpion. Jaune shrugged off the images and focused on making a torch so that they could venture into the dark cave.
Pyrrha kept on studying the images. "Umm... Jaune I'm not quite sure this is the correct location." She urged the knight.
Jaune, who finally managed to light his torch turned to look at Pyrrha. "Oh come on, I just got this darn thing to light" he said frowning
"And it's an excellent torch no argument there
but I really don't think we should go in there." She said politely.
"How about this." he began to reach into his pocket and pulled out a coin. One side had the beacon tower on it and the other had a Grimms face.
"Let's choose, If I guess it correctly we go in and investigate, if you guess it correctly we won't go inside and we will keep looking for the relics somewhere else, sound like a deal?" He said grinning. Pyrrha nodded "An excellent idea Jaune." She said beginning a slow sarcastic clap. "Yea,yea,yea, quick pick heads or tails." He said getting ready to flip the coin. "Heads" she replied.
Jaune flipped the coin, as the two watched the coin rise up and fall Jaune quickly caught the coin in his hand and threw it as hard as he could into the cave. Pyrrha's jaw drop. "Why did you do that!" She said. "Well it would seem that the coin has landed inside the cave, it looks like we are just gonna have to go inside and find it, or else we will never know what it landed on." He said mouthing an obvious "Oops" and shrugging his shoulders. Pyrrha gave Jaune a quick glare and then giggled. "Fine Jaune you win lets go inside" she said giving him a polite smile. "That's the spirit !" He said giving her a thumbs up. Pyrrha rolled her eyes and smiled.
Jaune pulled out his shield and put up a guard just in case something decided to pop up on them as they went inside the cave. As he began to walk into the cave the whole floor of the cave began to shake. "It's an earthquake he shouted" Pyrrha looked into the cave and could see a faint light begin to grow closer and closer to Jaune. "Jaune looked out!" She shouted Jaune turned and was instantly hit by a Giant claw/pincer like object. Lucky for Jaune his shield had taken the force of the impact but it was still was enough to Send him flying in the opposite direction.
"AAAAHHHHHhhhhhhhh..."
He screamed as he flew further and further away. Pyrrha watched Jaune fly through the air. She quickly turned back to see what had knocked him away.
To her surprise she was standing toe to toe with a Death Stalker. She quickly pulled out Miló and Akoúo̱ and took her battle stance.
The death stalker lunged its scorpion like tail towards Pyrrha followed by two horizontal slashs from its left and right pincers.
Pyrrha quickly dodge rolled out of the way of the tail's strike, making sure to use the momentum of the roll to booster her self into a upward jump, dodging the two pincers. While airborne she turned Miló into its javelin form and hurled it towards the deaths stalker's visible eyes, managing to take out one of its many visible eyes.
The death stalker reeled in pain letting out a gruesome shriek. As it tried to use its pincer to try and pry out Miló, which was still protruding out of its shell like armor. She quickly used her semblance to pull Miló out and summon it back to her side, grabbing it as it flew towards and past her, using its momentum, she rode it away from the death stalker and into a full sprint towards Jaune's general direction. "I gotta get away from this death stalker and find Jaune" she thought to her self blindly beginning to running through the forest.
The sound of trees being crushed and snapped caught Pyrrha's ear. She turned to look back to see the death stalker hot on her heels. It wanted pay back and it wasn't going to stop until it got it. "Great." Pyrrha muttered annoyingly.
"AHHHHHHHHHH" Jaune continued to scream as he flew through the air. "I can't catch a break today can I?" He thought to himself. Suddenly he could hear another scream from somewhere, it was drawing closer and closer to him. "Who could be screaming so loud that I'm hearing it from all the way up here" he said looking around and adjusting himself mid flight.
*THUD*
*CRASHH SNAPPP*
Jaune opened his eyes and the whole world was upside down. "Ughh...oh man what did I hit" he said rubbing the side of his head. as he looked around. He was hanging from another tree but this time he wasn't alone. He looked and saw Ruby slowly regaining consciousness.
"Ruby?!"
He said surprised. Ruby looked up startled to hear her voice.
"Jaune?!"
She said surprised to see the blonde knight.
Sorry it took my so long to get this chapter out. I had a rough copy of this already written but after reading over it just didn't feel good enough so I had to scrap that whole chapter and start from scrath. This newer one is better and feels more smooth plus it's got some Arkos loven action which the other one didn't so that's a plus for everyone! Again I'm sorry for taking so long I'll promise to work harder from here on out! Please leave a review or a comment I love to hear the feed back!
Anyways Onward to the next Chapter!
