A new battle in the tournament was about to commence and everyone at Beacon made their way to the stadium once again. Although they already knew who was up against who, they were waiting to see the outcome. Jaune however, was not excited like everyone else. He knew something about one of the fighters that he hadn't told anyone about not even his teammates. When his teammates asked about Pyrrha he made up a few cover up stories that she was helping one of the teachers with something and she would be back at some point. But now, if Pyrrha doesn't show up to this tournament he knows he can't hide it anymore. He just hoped that Pyrrha would by some miracle show up so he could be in the clear.
"Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm your host Oobleck." Oobleck said through the mic.
"And your co-host Port." Port said through the other mic.
"And it pains me to say that we are now coming close to the end of this tournament." Oobleck said adding a bit of a sad tone in his voice. "There has been many battles both won and lost and now we come down to the quarterfinals. Our first quarterfinal match is between Pyrrha Nikos from Beacon and Penny Polendina from Atlas!" After that announcement was made, cheering was heard from parts of the audience that were both from Beacon and Atlas. Although Penny had come on the stage, Pyrrha was oddly nowhere to be seen and after the audience stopped cheering for a while a lot of the audience had started to wonder where Pyrrha was and why she hadn't come on stage yet. Jaune just had his hand on his mouth hoping that Pyrrha showed up right now.
"Come on Pyrrha, where are you? Please don't still be at the abortion clinic." Jaune thought knowing that Pyrrha's absence was a VERY bad sign for him.
"Hold tight Ladies and Gentlemen, we seem to be experiencing a delay in the match. Would the guards please tell Pyrrha to come on stage ASAP please." Oobleck said through the mic.
"Where the hell is she?" Oobleck asked with his mic off. A few moments after waiting for Pyrrha, Oobleck's scroll started to ring and Oobleck got it out to see that it was Dr. Yuri Kublanov ringing him.
"Hello?" Oobleck asked answering his scroll.
"Arrrrghh! Oobleck! Glad you ansverrred, I have something urrrgent to tell you." Yuri said on the scroll.
"Well can this wait? I'm trying to host the tournament here and there's been a delay that needs fixing so I can't take calls right now." Oobleck said back.
"Zat's actually what I vas going to talk about." Yuri said before asking for confirmation. "Is delay to do vith miss Pyrrrha Nikos?"
"Wha- Yeah." Oobleck answered but started to push Yuri for more information. "Yuri could you tell me what is going on here?"
"I just rrreceived kall frrrom clinic she's in. Zey said She kan't take parrrt in tourrrnament due to of her sickness." Yuri explained briefly.
"Why weren't you taking care of her?" Oobleck asked questioning his ability. "I thought you were a professional doctor."
"I am. But I kouldn't perrrforrrm prrrocedurrre vith what she had on grrrounds of Beakon. I had to send her elsewherrre to have prrrocedurrre done." Yuri replied.
"Yuri what is it that Pyrrha has that stops her from participating in the tournament?" Oobleck asked still pushing Yuri for info.
"Vell i'd like to tell you, but she asked me not to tell anyone about it as it kould apparrrently kause mass hysterrria." Yuri responded.
"Oh, What?" Oobleck said confused as to why Pyrrha would not want anyone knowing about it, but stopped asking Yuri about her. "Well how long is she gonna be at this clinic for?"
"Not too long I assume." Yuri responded. "Clinic just said zey starrrted prrrocedurrre now but I kan't tell if she's rrreturrrning back herrre once it's done as I not vith her."
"When did Pyrrha come to you to mention this sickness she had?" Oobleck asked hoping to get more of an idea when Pyrrha would return.
"It vas about veek ago." Yuri replied roughly guessing. "I don't know if it took her zat long to get to clinic orrr if she hesitated to go in as I did just say i'm not vith her."
"OK, so what do I say to everyone else? I am hosting a tournament let's not forget that and this does explain a lot of the delay but I'm not sure as to what to say to the audience." Oobleck mentioned focusing back to the tournament that was supposed to happen.
"Easy, just say zat Pyrrrha has had to forrrfeit match due to sickness and whoever she vas meant to face off against moves on automatikally." Yuri said telling Oobleck what to do.
"And you think that'll work?" Oobleck asked curiously.
"Is zerrre any other option? You kould just tell people to vait longer forrr something zat's not going to happen but I don't zink people vould vant to sit arrround doing nothing forrr whole day." Yuri replied with a lot of common sense.
"True." Oobleck thought in his head.
"Alright well, thanks for the info and I'll speak with you next time." Oobleck said ending the call.
"Happy to help." Yuri managed to say before Oobleck hung up.
"So what's going on Oobleck?" Port asked as he saw Oobleck end the conversation between him and Yuri. Oobleck didn't respond though, he instead went to his microphone to make the announcement.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, I have just received confirmation as to why there's been a delay." Oobleck started saying through the mic. "Our doctor has said that Pyrrha can no longer participate in the tournament due to some sort of sickness. As for Penny, since there is no fighter for you to go up against, you automatically go through to the next round." Once Oobleck had mentioned why Pyrrha wasn't gonna be in the tournament no more, a large portion of the audience mostly the students of Beacon had gasped and said short exclamations of shock and concern. Despite not being human, Penny was quite mixed as she heard what Oobleck had said. On one side, she was glad that she had won despite not doing anything. But on the other, she could tell this was not a good sign and the voices of concern coming from the audience did not help at all.
"Shit. Shit Shit." Jaune thought with his hands over his face. He was fucked now, all the lies he said to Ren and Nora was now exposed thanks to Oobleck's announcement and he knew they weren't gonna be happy with him. The audience had a little debate on what happened with Pyrrha and wondering how it happened and then after a while, went to give her last opponent she fought in the tournament some weird looks.
"Wha- WHOA! WHOA! Don't look at me! I haven't done shit!" Riley exclaimed as she saw a lot of people looking at her suspiciously and immediately realised why they were doing so. Ren went to turn to Jaune to ask a few questions but saw an empty seat where Jaune used to be.
"Wha- Where has he?" Ren thought before getting up to leave the stadium. Nora saw this and followed behind him. As they left the stadium into the hallway, they saw Jaune walking at an unusually fast pace.
"Hey! Where are you going?" Ren called out to Jaune. Jaune looked behind him and when he saw who it was, he changed from walking oddly fast to sprinting as fast as he could. Ren wasn't gonna let him go and started to chase after him as he knew something was very suspicious. After a while of chasing Jaune around Beacon, Ren finally caught up to him and managed to pin him against a wall using his arm.
"Jaune, Spill it." Ren said to Jaune interrogating him.
"What do you mean spill it?" Jaune asked despite knowing what he was going to say.
"You damn well know what I mean." Ren said even though he was gonna say it anyway. "All this time you said Pyrrha was out on a mission and was gonna be back soon, turns out you were FUCKING lying to us! Tell us the truth!"
"I can't! As much as I would like to tell you both, I promised to keep it secret as it was very bad." Jaune said in a attempt to make an excuse for not telling the truth.
"Enough of the BULLSHIT!" Ren exclaimed clearly showing his patience was running thin. "If you're not gonna tell us the truth I will break your face so much that Pyrrha's not gonna want to kiss it anymore."
"Oh come on Ren! Not the Face!" Jaune begged literally sounding like a dude who didn't like having his good looks ruined.
"So FUCKING TELL US." Ren said before telling Jaune he wasn't gonna be pushed further. "I'm not afraid to get blood on my hands if I have to."
"OK OK! Fine i'll admit it!" Jaune said letting his guard down. "She... she went to get an abortion."
"WHAT?! Jaune!?" Ren yelled in a tone that was more horrified than angry and also unpinning Jaune from the wall as he finally admitted the truth. This was a lot worse than he imagined. Although he had an assumption that it seemed pretty bad, he didn't think it was this bad.
"See? That's why I didn't say what actually happened. The whole thing just got way out of hand. I thought I could keep this secret before Pyrrha-" Jaune said going off on a tangent until Ren cut him off.
"No I understand, and thanks for telling me but. God damn." Ren said realising how much pressure he put on Jaune and feeling guilty for doing so. "I wouldn't have done any of that if I knew it was this bad. Part of me hates you for not telling me sooner but, I can't have imagined the stuff you had to deal with once you found this out."
"I'm gonna tell this to Ruby!" Nora said out of nowhere. "Her reaction will be priceless!" Nora was about to go off but Jaune immediately stopped her by placing his hand over her mouth.
"DON'T." Jaune said in a very serious tone. "It's bad enough you and Ren know about this and I don't want anyone else finding out about it."
"Aww come on Jaune, where's your sense of humor? No harm in telling a few people about this for some surprised reactions." Nora said as Jaune removed his hand from her lips.
"NO! The less people that know about this the better!" Jaune stated refusing to turn this into a joking matter. "This isn't a joke Nora, It's been hard having to deal with this recent discovery and this doesn't apply to just me. I can assume Pyrrha hasn't had an easy time dealing with this either."
"I'm with you Jaune. Although I'm not in your shoes, I understand the kind of stuff you're going through." Ren said telling Jaune he had more of an understanding than Nora. "I will say this, as long as everyone suspects that blue haired girl she faced off with a couple of months ago, we should be fine. Let's just hope they don't ask us anything related to this. Especially Nora." Nora was about to butt in and defend herself, but she, Ren & Jaune started to hear footsteps and chattering mutter come from the hallway which was a sign that everyone had left the stadium and was presumably talking about the events that just went down. All three of them went to their dorms and decided to call it a day. Several days later, the next match was about to go down. Although there were some concerns with the audience about the last match, they weren't going to let it distract themselves from the match at hand. Oobleck and Port both switched on the microphones to announce the match.
"Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm your host Oobleck." Oobleck said through his mic.
"And your co-host Port." Port said through his mic.
"And before we get into the next match, I have got confirmation from trusted sources that the fighters of this match are outside the arena waiting to fight so it will not be the disappointing match it was before." Oobleck said having to assure the audience that there will be a fight due to what happened last time. "Our next quarterfinals match is a team of twos match and it's between Yang and Weiss from Beacon up against Dan and Jennifer from Shade!" After Oobleck made that announcement, both teams entered the arena and the audience was cheering and clapping seeing as there wasn't gonna be some stupid delay that would cancel the fight. As she entered the dome along with Weiss, Yang looked across to the opposite team and was shocked to see who she was up against.
"Oh no." Yang thought as she was able to immediately identify Jennifer as she had a hard thorough look at her. She still had the same long ginger hair and green eyes from when she had been sleeping with her. Yang remembered that her relationship with Jennifer didn't last long and that was for a good reason as well once she realised who she actually was. Yang didn't really look too hard at Dan but that was because she didn't recognised him unlike Jennifer. Although she had dated a few guys, slept with a lot more and only a few of them had the styled brown hair and brown eyes that Dan had. His face and the clothes he was wearing wasn't something she had seen them wearing before.
"The theme for this match is probably gonna be a repeat of something we've already done." Oobleck said through the mic. "We've had a lot of fights now that there's no telling if we have already done this theme before. The theme for today's match is very urban and again, sorry if it's already been done but there's not enough places in the world to keep each match fresh and original. Now let the match begin!" Oobleck then switched his mic off like always and proceeded to watch the match. Port did the same thing, but remembered he was gonna ask Oobleck about something first.
"So did you find out what Pyrrha has Oobleck?" Port asked to Oobleck.
"Come again?" Oobleck asked not understanding what Port was asking him about.
"You said at the match that Pyrrha wasn't here because she had some sort of illness which you got from Yuri, didn't you ask him what exactly Pyrrha had?" Port asked having to go into more detail on what he was asking for.
"Oh! Wait I was supposed to do that?" Oobleck said now catching on to what Port was hinting at but followed it up with the dumbest question imaginable.
"Oh for fuck sake Oobleck! You were on the fucking phone to him!" Port yelled quite annoyed at Oobleck's stupidity and with his hands covering his eyes and cheeks.
"Well sor-ry, also what was stopping you from finding out yourself?" Oobleck asked causing Port to hold up his fist which also made Oobleck hold his hands up. "Just asking!"
"Oobleck, this is serious." Port said as serious as possible. "Yuri called YOU up, not me. As much as I would like to find out what Pyrrha has, He'll start asking me how I found out about it and I don't want to go off track."
"Well you could just say that you heard the conversation between me and him when he called me on my scroll." Oobleck suggested.
"Oobleck, I'm not going to repeat myself." Port said standing by what he said.
"Alright Alright." Oobleck said seeing as his suggestion failed. "I'll talk to Yuri after the match and see what I can get."
"Good." Port said before turning his attention back to the arena along with Oobleck to. Back down at the arena, the circle ground started to grow buildings and some other things found in the city. The buildings didn't grow in between the fighters however and they didn't grow tall enough to obscure the vision of the audience which cut the need to add screens for the match. Jennifer hadn't really paid much attention to her opponents as she was admiring the atmosphere of the arena and was also caught a little off guard by the buildings coming out of the ground. But once all that was done, she got out her weapon and readied herself for combat along with Dan. At a first glance, Jennifer hadn't recognised Yang like Yang had with her. But as she looked more harder at her, she started remembering all the stuff they did when they were together.
"Hey it's you!" Jennifer said as she finally recognised Yang. This made Weiss and Dan lower their weapons in confusion.
"What?" Dan said in a surprisingly British tone, confused as to why his teammate knows an opponent.
"Been a while hasn't it Yang? But I sure remember all the times we had together and it was quite sexy!" Jennifer admitted despite that she was live to hundreds of people. Yang immediately covered her face in her hands in embarrassment as she heard what Jennifer just said, she even knew what she was gonna mention next and there was no stopping her. A lot of members in the audience from Shade started to watch the karma hit Dan hard. They had mentioned to Dan on multiple occasions as to why no-one wanted to be on a team with Jennifer but Dan ignored them thinking they were just bringing her down for no reason but he was about to be proved wrong big time.
"Kinda sucks that you left me, but it's your loss missing out on this sexy body." Jennifer said showing off a pose as she said the last words.
"OK Jen that's quite enough. Let's just get on with this fi-" Dan said trying to get Jennifer to stop saying those words and get on with the fight but Jennifer didn't show any sign of stopping.
"We could get back together though, bet you miss doing all that kinky stuff we did together." Jennifer just blurted out without hesitation. Most of the audience were a bit shocked and disgusted upon hearing what Jennifer just said, and both Weiss and Dan were not approving this either.
"Wait, What?" Dan said starting to not like where this conversation was going. He also had doubts on if he was right about defending Jennifer. Most of him was still giving Jennifer a chance to redeem herself but a small part of him didn't want to. Despite causing some tension, Jennifer was still not finished with her talking to Yang about what they got up to when they were together.
"Hope you haven't forgotten those days, especially a specific toy we used. I remember calling it '9 inches of pure pleasure' does that ring a bell?" Jennifer also just blurted out giving out more embarrassing info. The audience had the same reaction they did before when they heard Jennifer's sentence but more extreme. Yang was just cringing hard in her hands as Jennifer was just saying more humiliating stuff they did in the past to the public. She really wanted Jennifer to stop going on about what they did but she could go on for a VERY long time knowing her and there wasn't anything she could do about it. Dan had his hands on his face with a look of just pure horror as he heard what Jennifer said.
"WHAAAAAT?!" Dan yelled disgusted by what he heard. This almost hit his tipping point, Dan started to understand why everyone was bringing Jennifer down after what she just said and he felt like his time defending her was for nothing but his morality still gave him hope that Jennifer would mature at some point. Deep in the audience, Ruby was also shocked as to what she heard and slowly turned to face Blake after a short while wondering if she knew something about this and her face said it all. Blake's eyes were just wide open and she had the most horrified look on her face she could possibly make. There wasn't just reactions coming from the audience only though, there also happened to be some commotion happening in the announcement booth. Despite that Port and Oobleck couldn't hear much of what was being said.
"What the hell is going on down there?!" Port asked baffled by what he was seeing in the arena.
"I don't know, but I think it's got something to do with that girl." Oobleck said pointing at Jennifer.
"I can see that Oobleck, but what on earth is she saying? And why is the audience getting uncomfortable with it too?" Port asked still confused.
"Well, do you really want to know?" Oobleck asked seeing if Port had some common sense.
"Uuhh, you know what? Probably not. If the audience isn't reacting positively, then it's best if I don't." Port said assuming that whatever Jennifer was talking about was not exactly something he would want to hear.
"Thought so." Oobleck said glad that Port said what he wanted him to say and do. Back down in the arena, Jennifer was still going on about what she and Yang did when they were together.
"How about the thrusting we did? That was pretty fun to, I remember them going something like this." Jennifer said whilst demonstrating what she was on about. The audience roared in disgust as they saw Jennifer do what she did, with most of them shutting their innocent eyes from the filth being portrayed.
"Oh My God!" Port yelled shielding his eyes from the scene in the arena.
"Good lord have mercy!" Oobleck yelled also shielding his eyes from the scene in the arena too. Dan was just lost for words. This was too much for him to bear, all the times he thought Jennifer was just an innocent girl was nothing but a cold lie as Jennifer showed her true colours. Everyone who he thought were just bullies was actually telling him the truth but he didn't listen thinking they were just bringing Jennifer down and he ended up having to pay the price for not realising about Jennifer's past. Now that all this unfolded right in front of him, he can't defend her anymore. She did this to herself and Dan was not going to back her up.
"Nah! Fuck This! I'm Out! Jesus GAWD!" Dan yelled as he stormed his way out of the arena. Jennifer didn't pay attention to this though as she was still rambling on about the past.
"Yeah those were the times." Jennifer said finally done with her demonstration. "But now, we fight. I'm gonna take this victory along with my friend Dan here and get that tournament victory! Alright Dan, let's give them all we got!" Jennifer was waiting for Dan to say what he normally says after which was 'Absolutely, got your back like always.' but was met with complete silence. Jennifer was a little confused that Dan didn't say what he always said and looked around to see what was up.
"Dan?" Jennifer said as he couldn't see where Dan was for a short time. Once she did see Dan though, she saw that he had just turned the corner out of sight in the same way they both came in the stadium. Jennifer was sceptical as to why Dan had just left the arena when they hadn't even won yet.
"Dan! Hold Up! Where you going?" Jennifer called out to Dan chasing after him to see why he was leaving so early. Because of this though, Jennifer went out of the playing area causing herself and Dan to lose the match and get eliminated from the tournament by ring out. Oobleck hesitantly went to switch on his mic to announce the winners
"Well everyone, we've uuhh... got another win by personal ring-out which makes two in one tournament." Oobleck said slowly and disoriented. "Yang and Weiss will be moving on to the next brackets and uuhh... that's it. I'm gonna go drown my eyes out to forget about what just happened, anyone's free to join in if they want." Oobleck switched his mic off again and left the booth along with Port. Everyone in the audience left the stadium disappointed again but was more disgusted this time than disappointed. Yang and Weiss also left too with Yang having the most embarrassed look on her face and Weiss looking like she had many questions to ask. Although she had stopped to hear Oobleck's announcement and see a few people leave, Jennifer continued to chase after Dan to find out why he left so early. As she got to the hallway where her and Dan entered, she turned the corner that Dan had made and saw him still walking away angrily.
"Dan! Why'd you leave so early?" Jennifer asked raising her voice a little so as to be heard.
"FUCK OFF." Dan replied furiously and not stopping his walking.
"Aww Dan C'mon, don't be like that. Not to your teammate." Jennifer said trying to make Dan feel bad for what he said but failing.
"I DON'T WANNA BE YOUR FUCKING TEAMMATE ANYMORE." Dan said still angry.
"Why not?" Jennifer asked not knowing that she was being oblivious. Surprisingly though, Dan suddenly stopped in his tracks and turned around to face Jennifer but was still not happy.
"You wanna know why? Let me ask you this Jennifer, What the fuck. was that?" Dan asked obviously referring to Jennifer's action's in the match that just happened.
"What was what?" Jennifer asked stupidly. This made Dan breathe in angrily as he felt like Jennifer was being dumb on purpose.
"You damn well know what I mean, that shit you just did in the arena what was that and why?" Dan asked going into detail on what he meant even though he thought Jennifer knew what he was talking about.
"Oh that right. Well one of the opponents happened to be someone I knew previously so I thought I'd intimidate her before we fought." Jennifer answered. This made Dan slap his face with both of his hands and change his expression from angry to horrified again.
"INTIMIDATE HER?!" Dan yelled blown away by Jennifer's dumb explanation. "That's not intimidaytion! You just went on about what you did with her in the past and add to that, you don't admit that kind of shit TO THE WHOLE. BLOODY WORLD WOMAN!"
"Oh. Wait, other people saw that?" Jennifer asked as she heard Dan say other people saw it.
"YES THEY FUCKING DID." Dan responded instantly.
"Well how many people saw it?" Jennifer asked even though Dan had said the amount.
"Are you serious? THE WHOLE. BLOODY WORLD. I LITERALLY JUST SAID IT A FEW SECONDS AGO YOU DUMB WHORE." Dan said losing the world to live from hearing so much stupid.
"That sounds like a bit of an exaggeration there Dan, why would the whole world be watching us?" Jennifer asked oblivious that she just went out of the tournament.
"CAUSE IT'S THE FUCKING TOURNAME-" Dan stopped his sentence and just covered his face with his hands and groaned loud and angrily. The amount of stupidity was just too much to bear, he had seen some people do really stupid things but none of them topped this by a long shot.
"I don't get why you're getting so worked up about it." Jennifer said before saying something that she thought would calm Dan down. "I didn't say that you were involved in the things me and her did when we were together now did I?"
"Are you serious?" Dan said lowering his voice finally but still not showing any signs of happiness. "Out of all the statements you could've said, you say that?"
"I thought it could stop you from being so tense." Jennifer explained. "Also I still don't get why this is such a big deal for you."
"Do you wanna know something Jennifer?" Dan said before telling what he went through before this happened. "As soon as I got on a team with you, people said to me why they didn't want to be on your team. They told me you were a sket, a slut, and I didn't believe them because I thought they were just trying to bring you down. I have defended you for as long as I have known you and then you went on that stage and proved me wrong and everyone else right. So many months of me defending what was seemingly an innocent girl at first sight, has just been wasted thanks to you. So yeah, I do have a right to be pissed off."
"Oh. Dan i'm so sorry. If I'd known that you went through that much work then I wouldn't have done what I did!" Jennifer said realising that she finally fucked up. "We're still teammates though right? I can fix this if that's what you want."
"What's the point?" Dan said before saying something Jennifer was afraid of him to say. "The damage has been done and there's no repairing it. You've embarrassed me in front of so many people that I can't even forgive you. We're done. I never want to see you EVER AGAIN." Dan then started to walk away again after he said those words, leaving Jennifer still trying to make amends in a dead relationship.
"No Dan! Please don't do this! I'm sure this can be swept under the rug somehow! We can be teammates forever!" Jennifer yelled to Dan. Dan stopped to turn to Jennifer one last time.
"I SAID WE'RE DONE." Dan said harshly back to Jennifer before continuing to walk away. Jennifer watched Dan walk away until he was out of sight, Jennifer then leaned against the wall ashamed of what she had done.
"I hate myself sometimes." Jennifer thought almost wanting to cry. Tears weren't going to do anything though, this was her mistake alone and she just has to accept it. Jennifer then walked in the opposite direction to Dan as she knew he didn't want to see her again. Without a teammate and presumably no-one wanting to be her new teammate after what she had done just now, it was going to be hard. But maybe it'll be better solo, Who knows?
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NOTE: You may want to mentally prepare yourself for the next chapter. I won't spoil too much but it's the filthiest chapter in the entire story.