It was the day of the Vytal sports Festival ball. Jaune was getting dressed in his team room along with Ren, "Jaune, which one looks better? pink or blue?" Ren asked Jaune "pink, it suits you" "good I was thinking the same" Ren said walking in the bathroom and putting on the tie, "Ren should I go with Atlas Snow or Menagerie Mist?" Jaune asked holding two bottles of perfume "let me smell" Ren said and Jaune sprayed the two perfume's and Ren took a whiff of each "Menagerie Mist for sure, it smells like a forest near an ocean" "thanks bud" Jaune said spraying the perfume on himself. They were both ready for the dance, then both Pyrrha and Nora walked in wearing their ball dresses "you two are looking stunning" Jaune told the two "aw! Thanks Jauney!" Nora said giving him a bear hug that could break and Ursas back, "Nora! Can't breath!" Jaune cried "oh! Sorry!" Nora said letting go of Jaune, then they heard two loud crashes coming from across their sister teams room, they opened the door to see both Yang and Ruby closing the door in a hurry "h-hey Jaune! How are you this wonderful morning?" Ruby asked "Its night" "well how are you this wonderful night?" Yang replied for Ruby "what's going on you two?" Jaune asked "well...Um Vernal got her dress today and she wanted to surprise you at the dance tonight!" Ruby cried "oh! Cool! By the way how did you convince her to wear a dress? She always told me she would hate being in one" Jaune asked "well..." Ruby began "Let's just say a certain fashionista "helped" her" Yang finished, he knew they were talking about Coco Adel, she was one of Velvets teammates, "cool! so is team CFVY going to the ball?" Jaune asked "yeah though Velv's going with a kid from Haven academy while Coco's going with Fox" Yang told him "nice, let's just hope Fox can survive the night" Jaune chuckled nervously, both team RWBBY and JNPR knew how the leader of team CFVY was, and trust them when they said if she ever asked you for a favor, you should run.
Both teams had gotten to know CFVY thanks to Jaune helping out Velvet with Cardin, they would visit from time to time but not hang out all the time. Jaune and Ren got together well with both Fox and Yatsuhashi, Jaune and Fox were both skilled fighters and they both loved X-Ray and Vav comics, while both Ren and Yatsu were very calm and similar. They would hang out when each of them needed time away from their teams. Jane would take them to Junior's. Jaune was still concerned about both Junior and Militia, Melanie's funeral was two days from now, they both acted fine but Jaune knew them both and he also knew that things weren't going to be the same...Junior was looking for whoever Roman was working for and then he was looking for whoever they were working for. Militia has been asking Yang for training in hand to hand combat. While she asked Ren how she could unlock her semblance, she also asked Jaune about fighting with a short sword or at least a knife. Jaune knew she wanted to get Revenge on those who hired Roman. And he wanted to do the same.
Jaune walked down the halls to see if he could help set anything else up just in case. Thats when the two pumped into each other, Jaune Black the Bastard son of Jonathan Arc had clashed heads with Mercury Black the Bastard son of Charles Grey, "sorry man, wasn't looking where I was going" Mercury said "nah! Its fine I wasn't either" Jaune told him, Mercury got up and then helped Jaune up, "the names Jaune Black" Jaune said holding out a hand for a shake "Mercury Black" Mercury replied back shaking Jaune's hand, Jaune found it weird someone had the same last name as him, unless... "I don't mean to sound rude or anything but Your last name...are you Bastard child?" "Yeah, my fathers name was Charles Grey, are you a Bastard kid as well?" Mercury asked "yeah, I'm the Bastard son of Jonathan Arc" Jaune told him, "well hey, guess we're both two Bastards who just ran into each other" "yeah, you heading to the ball?" "No, my date wanted me to come and get her out of her team room" "real gentlemen huh?" "Yeah...You could say that..." Mercury said with a blush "so what's the lucky lady's name?" Jaune asked with an eyebrow raised "well her names-" Mercury said but then a green haired girl walked up to Mercury, "Merc I thought you were going to help out your date" Emerald said but then she looked to see who Mercury was talking to, it was Jaune, she froze stiff, Jaune then looked at her and immediately knew who she was..."Emerald?" Jaune asked.
Jaune and Emerald were chatting like they use to when they would steal together, "so I can see that the years have treated you better. Who did rob to get the money to attend here?" Jaune asked with a smirk and Emerald just gave him a light punch, "I didn't steal from anyone, a certain person picked me off the street and put me on this path" "I see. Oh! I know this is weird but would you like to meet my fiancé?" Jaune asked and then Emerald's heart sank, he was getting married, but she didn't want to seem rude, she still loved him but she felt terrible knowing that he was getting married, and not to her, "yeah I love to meet her" Emerald said, cool, I think you might like her in my opinion" Jaune said and the two walked to the team RWBBY's room. They arrived and Jaune knocked, Weiss answers the door, "hey is Vernal in her dress? I have someone who wants to meet her" Jaune told her "she's getting dressed for the Ball, and she still wants to surprise you so if its not an problem with your friend could she wait till the Ball?" Weiss said kindly, Jaune looked back at Emerald "is that ok?" He asked her "yeah, I can wait till the dance" Emerald replied, Weiss looked at Emerald "thank you miss...?" "Emerald, Emerald Sustrai" "nice to meet you and thank you again" Weiss said and shutting the door. Jaune and Emerald walked into his teams room and introduced his team, starting with Ren "Emerald this Lie Ren, but just call him Ren, he's like my brother!" Jaune said proudly, "Nice to meet one of Jaune's old friends" "the pleasure is mine" then Jaune looked to Nora, "this is Nora Valkyrie, and watch out for the hugs" "why?" But before Jaune could reply Nora gave Emerald a huge hug lifting her up, "never mind! I see why!" Jaune chuckled "Nora, let her go please" Jaune asked Nora "oh sorry!" Nora said to Emerald "its fine, just warn me next time" Emerald said with a nervous smile "and this is my partner Pyrrha Nikos" Jaune said pointing at Pyrrha "hello!" Pyrrha said cheerfully "hi" Emerald greeted back, then Emerald got a text from Cinder, "sorry Jaune I have to go, I'll see you at the dance later! Bye!" Emerald said leaving the room, "see ya!" Jaune said. Emerald raced back t her room, her heart was still rapidly beating.
The dance was going great so far. Jaune and Fox were talking about the new issue of X-Ray and Vav, while drinking some punch, "so how's it going with your date?" Jaune asked Fox "Coco's being...Well Coco" Fox chuckled "yeah I can get that. How do you deal with her? She's even crazier then Ruby and Nora on sugar!" Jaune laughed "well, is easy to handle her when you know her for almost a year and a half" Fox chuckled "you like her don't you?" Jaune asked and Fox looked down in shame "wait!? Holy shit you actually like her?!? Dude I was teasing!!" Jaune cried in shock "dude shut up! At least you don't need to worry about going through shit like this! You are getting married!" "Yeah true but that doesn't mean I don't have problems thinking about how to please her!" "Bow chika bow wow" "you know what I meant!" Jaune said with a blush, "so when's your fiancé coming?" "I don't know, she should be here any minute" Jaune said taking a sip of his punch, Fox then looked at the door and saw Vernal, "dude she's here" Fox said nudging Jaune, Jaune looked at the front door, and he was in awe. Vernal was wearing a brown elegant dress, the dress had a glitter like pattern from the breast's to her waist, and the rest was a long brown dress that covered her legs.
Jaune couldn't look away from her, right now she was definition of beauty, Jaune looked at her as she walked up to him, "hey" was all he could say "hey" was all she could say back "you look... Beyond beautiful, you look like a goddess" Jaune said still in awe, "Jaune! Don't say things like that! Your making me blush" Vernal said with a blush and a soft smile, a slow song came over the speakers, Jaune put down his cup and put his hand out "may I have this dance, my love" Jaune asked softly "of course, my knight" Vernal said taking his hand and the slow danced. As they were dancing, Jaune saw Sun dancing with Blake, Yang Dancing with Russel Thrush who was one of Cardin's teammates, he was actually a nice guy if you talked to him, Neptune was trying to dance with Weiss, Fox with Coco, Pyrrha dancing with Yatsuhashi, Ren and Nora, And then that's when he saw them, he saw Mercury dancing with Velvet! 'So that's his date' Jaune thought to himself, it did make sense, Mercury was a student from Haven. So far everything was going well. That was until the there was an explosion...Everyone Ran to see where the Explosion was coming from and what they saw scared both Jaune and Vernal, Ruby was fighting off a woman in all black. But the woman was floating with fire engulfing all around her body, Ruby was doing her best to fight, "we need to help her!" Vernal cried "tell the others to grab their weapons! I'll meat you guys down there, Jaune pulled out both White Raven and Black Falcon, and busted threw the window, and slid down the roof and down to the fight.
Ruby was blocking all of the fireballs coming from the woman, whoever she was, she was strong, but there was something off about her...She didn't feel human. "Ruby get down!" Yelled Jaune as he shit at the woman, but the bullets didn't make their target as the woman moved around and dodged the attack, Jaune landed next to Ruby "what are we dealing with rubes?" Jaune asked her "I don't know! But whoever she is she's strong!" Ruby told him, Jaune could feel her power, and it scared him...What the hell was going on. The woman then let out her energy and she began to shine! Ruby and Jaune couldn't see her and them there was another explosion... And the woman was gone all that was left was a broken black porcelain mask... Jaune looked at Ruby, whoever she was, they knew she was strong and they were gonna see note of her.
Ozpin, Glynda and James were now panicking, Amber, the fall maiden that was attacked by unknown enemy's, was dead, and her powers were taken...They knew this new war was close to beginning... And they didn't know how close it was...