Chaos Comes to Remanent: Unleashed Secrets
It was in the midst of Professor Ooblecks class when Oobleck was discussing the white fang, Jaune was badly staying awake, Charlotte was elbowing him hard in the side every time his head drooped.
Annalise on the other hand was sitting in the back of the class, snoring gently, occasionally letting out a grunt or snarl in her sleep that had the other students around shifting away awkwardly.
Cardin was sitting behind Jaune, lazing around with his heading leaning on his hand. He noticed Jaune had just fallen nearly to sleep again, and flicked a wad of paper at the back of Jaunes drooping head.
Jaune woke up with a slight exclamation that caught the professors attention. He looked slightly irritated at the student who so blatantly sleep in his class.
He crooked his eye at the bleary faced blond sitting in front of him.
"Mr. Arc! If you have been following along, could you please enlighten us as to the name of the general who's mishaps led to a large defeat at fort Castle?"
Charlotte casually slid her paper with the answer until it touched Jaunes elbow. Oblivious as usual he proceeded to stutter a string of non-sensical syllables that had Charlotte and Pyrrha hiding their faces in dismay.
"General, uhhh," Jaune frantically searched for inspiration, his eyes suddenly flashed with inspiration that had hope rising briefly in Pyrrha and Charlotte's eyes before he finally finished his shock of 'inspiration.'
"Uhhh, Fleshlight! I mean General Flashlight!"
Cardin snickered as Charlotte and Pyrrha hid their faces at Jaunes asinine answer. Oobleck shook his head.
"No Mr. Arc, What about you Miss Nikos?"
Pyrrha stood up with a regretful look at Jaune and recited.
"General Langune was a young and inexperienced general who neglected a major facet of faunus physicality and attacked the faunus encampment at night when their nightvsion granted them a large advantage."
Cardin sneered.
"I suppose its easy to teach tricks to animals."
Blake and Charlotte both looked at him with a glare before Charlotte's aristocratic features twisted into an anger filled look that shocked the watching students as Charlottes skin shone with a blue light as she snapped back at Cardin.
"Your not very smart are you Cardin? Maybe if General Langune had payed more attention in class he wouldn't be remembered as such a failure."
Cardin stood with with a snarl but Oobleck spoke before he could move any further
"That will be quite enough Mr. Winchester. See me after class for extra readings."
Oobleck frowned as Jaune snickered under his breath at Cardin getting his just desserts.
"You as well Mr. Arc."
Later…
"Mr. Arc, Mr. Winchester, You both have had difficulties since the first day of class. I don't know wether it is a lack of interest," Oobleck stared at Jaune before turning to stare glance at Cardin. "Or just you stubborn attitude. But I have enough. You will hand in five pages on Langune's failures and what he could have done differently. And Want it by Friday
Outside of Ooblecks classroom…
Pyrrha, Annalise, and Charlotte all waited for Jaune outside of Oobleck's classroom, who exited at speed, followed by Jaune and the sneering Cardin who pushed heavily at Jaune, knocking him to the ground. The three girls rushed over to see if Jaune was okay, fending off anything further by the grinning Cardin. He was quickly pulled up by Pyrrha and Annalise who dusted him off before glaring at Cardin. Annalise looked at Jaune with one eyebrow raised.
"Still ready for training tonight axe-bait?"
Jaune nodded, his eyes aflame.
Neither Pyrrha, Annalise, or Charlotte noticed Cardin down the hallway and around the corner, leaning against the wall with a sly smile on his face.
Scene Break - on the roof of the dormitories later that night
White sword clanged bronze shield, Annalise watched on as Pyrrha and Jaune fought each other.
Well…. It was a little generous to call it fighting. It was more Jaune flailing against Pyrrha's guard while Annalise watched, snickering as a few particular flailing moves, but taking careful note on his moves and tactics. Such as they were.
After a while of getting beat, Annalise motioned for Pyrrha and Jaune to stop. She sighed to herself as she rubbed her eyes.
"So axe bait, do you want the bad news, the worse news, or the good news?"
Jaune shrugged. "The bad news first?" Annalise nodded, looking put upon.
"The bad news is that you have no fighting skill, and have had no fighting training , and since is one of the premier fighting schools in Remanent, which brings me to the worse news, you lied your way into Beacon."
Jaune's jaw dropped while Pyrrha nodded, she had figured it out the second Jaune had said he had no idea what aura is, and then confirmed for the second time when she saw Jaune fight for the first time.
"That brings me to the good news. Despite your apparent tendency to lie, and your inability to fight, I can train you, but its gonna be a long and hard slog without any physical prowess or skill to build on. Aura will help, but its still gonna suck."
Jaune nodded absently, his mouth still open.
They warriors and prospective warriors training on the rooftop all missed the slightly open door, and the smirking Cardin as he held a recording scroll in one hand, it had been open and recording since the three had begun training on roof.
Scene Break
The next day before classes, Cardin cornered Jaune in a secluded hallway, his scroll already held out.
"Hey Jaune-boy, I just happened to be on the roof last night, and guess what I heard?"
Jaune paled dramatically as Cardin continued speaking, his sneer-like smile spreading further across his face.
"I heard that you lied, your way into Beacon."
Jaune took a step back, Cardin took a step forward, his green stretching wide over his face.
"Now, I think a liar, would like a friend at Beacon, and do you know what friends do for each other?"
Jaune stuttered slightly as he responded.
"W-what?"
Cardins smile dominated his face as it took a slightly malevolent edge.
"Favors Jaunie boy. They do favors."
Scene Break
Pyrrha, Nora and Ren were sitting in their rooms, Nora bouncing up and down in her bed was the first to speak.
"We have the trip to forever fall tomorrow right?"
Ren nodded and he cleaned Stormflower, Nora flopped back on to her bed before turning to look at Pyrrha.
"So where is our fearless leader?"
Pyrrha looked thunderously towards the door.
"Ive no idea, but no matter where he is, Im sure, that our fearless leader knows exactly what he's doing."
Just then the door opened and in walked Charlotte to see a selection of downturned and disappointed faces, she cocked her head in concern.
"O-kay. I came to see if any of you wanted to get some sparring in, maybe as a team, but I see that Jaune isn't here, so I suppose Ill skip it for today, but what has you all in such a funk?"
Charlotte sat to listen as she was regaled by Nora and the occasional interjection by Ren and Pyrrha.
Beacon Gardens…
Ruby smiled as she helped Olivia cart the last of her plants into the greenhouses, never wondering what might have occurred if she had chosen to go to bed early to prepare for the field trip tomorrow.
In front of team JNPR's room…
Jaune sat, stewing in his emotional turmoil. He had listened as his team, concerned over where he was spoke, he had hid as Charlotte had entered into their room. And now he sat, unable to decide what to due.
He started as a hand fell to his shoulder. He looked up to see Annalise in a red shorts and shirt with bronze highlights. She looked down at Jaune, concern shining in her eyes.
"You okay there axe-bait?"
Jaune sighed, ashamed to be caught outside his room.
"Yea-no. No, not really."
One red eye rose, Annalise sat next to Jaune on the floor, her tanned feet tucked underneath her, dark red colored toenails glinting in the light.
"Whats wrong Jaune?"
Jaune's head drooped.
"Im just afraid I guess."
"Afraid of what?"
"Afraid of letting down my team. You know that I basically lied my way into Beacon. I though it would all work out, and that I would be able to become a hero, but all Ive been so far is a liability."
Annalise sighed, leaning back against the wall.
"Thats all true. But you know what your forgetting?"
"What?"
"Ever since you figured out that you had to improve you've been doing exactly that. You've been working your but off, practicing with me night after night to get better for yourself and for your team. And do you know what that tells me?"
"What?"
"It tells me that you are going to be a great leader."
Jaune shook his head, not getting why Annalise just couldn't see how badly he would fail, and he would, it would happen when his team was counting on him.
"But what if I fail?"
"Nope."
"Nope?"
"Nope. Your a leader now, that means your responsible for other and don't get the luxury of failure."
Jaune sat back, stunned at the thought which had truly just occurred to him.
He was responsible for his team? He was responsible for his team…. HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS TEAM!?
Unaware of Jaunes inner freak out Annalise stood up, stretched, which did interesting things to her chest, and kissed on the top of the head.
"You will be fine Jaune, I have faith in you. Get some rest."
Jaune watched in shock as Annalise walked away, her bare hips swaying more then was necessary.
Scene Break
"HAHAHAHA!"
Khorne began laughing maniacally as soon as the doors closed.
"If I had known how easy it would make manipulating people I would have taken a women's form years ago! HAHAHAHAHA"
But unbeknownst to Khorne, her hand risen up and come to rest on her lips, and in the back of her mind, a tiny seed was planted…
'Why, why did I do that?'
Scene Break
Deep in the chasm where the humanoid Grim had climbed out of, so deep that no one had ever bothered exploring there, a keening arose, Grim of all shapes and sizes gathered around a stone tomb that was rattling itself to pieces. Abruptly a rocketlike crash sent the lid of the tomb spiraling upwards, it fell almost a hundred yards away, crushing a bewo-wolf underneath its weight. A fanged, horselike skull arose out of the tomb, its eyes flickering with bale fire.
Those same eyes raised themselves to regard the shattered moon and howled, and the hundreds of grim surrounded it echoed the creature in a cacophony of howling, hissing, screeching cries that echoed across world, signaling the awakening of an ancient evil. An evil that smelled a familiar taint in the air. A corruption it hadn't sensed since it was banished to this backward world.
The fanged maw opened, letting out a few periodic screechy hisses that from anything else, might have been laughter.
Authors Note
HAH! Weren't expecting either of THOSE now were you!?
No Omake this time. I wasn't lying when I said Ill put the best ones in the story, but Im only going to put in great ones.
However, the challenge is the same, write a good Omake and Ill put it in the main story, now, boring stuff aside, ON TO THE PEANUT GALLERY
Oldest to newest as per the usual.
Magnusthered1999: Thank you. I hope you enjoy this chapter as well.
Varangue: Eh… Kinda sorta. Nurgle is worshipped as Grandfather Nurgle, Khorne yeah, doesn't really matter. Same with Tzeentch. But Slannesh is both sexes, she/he is literally born as the perfect man/women for either or both, Remove half of a target audience and what do you get? And while I agree personally that most of them probably dont give a crap, they are literally pieces of the warp given shape and identity by human emotion, they would care if their new forms went against that longstanding emotional bias/basis.
Snoogenz: Ya know, who knows.
Sir brocktree: yeah… sorry bout that. Hopefully this is better. But feel free to write more Omakes if you enjoyed it so much.
Richard1081: Write it up! Write it up!
CADIA Is Fine: Work on your grammar, I enjoyed both of them, but well, it just didn't tickle me the same way your first one did.