Hi everyone! Nutshop here once more to bring you the final chapter of their adventures in the Emerald Forest. Well, technically it was already done in the previous chapter but I simply ended with a little cliff-hanger of where our lovable derpy pair of hunters are snoozing happily on the stone-cold bridge in their initiation (Nora faring better since she was sleeping atop her awesome partner XD).
Now I want to make a little announcement. I've been having a problem that's been nagging at me for a REALLY long time ever since I've started writing this epic paring, and to be honest... I JUST CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO CONTINUE MY OTHER STORY (Keep on Groundkeepin)! Sure Evi Magkumpun is my unique OC for the RWBY universe, but for Pete's sake IT'S SO DAMN HARD TO WRITE OC STORIES! The writing block has just been a complete jerk to my repairman that I don't even know how i'm supposed to do his initiation! And quite frankly, I've already written about the Emerald Forest that now I've got to think up some more new, fresh and hilarious means to make his experience as painful and memorable as possible. Not to mention if he should be on a separate team, joined onto one of the other teams etc. etc! There's too much scattered about for me to even start! I'm sad to say this, but I will put my groundkeeper repairman on a hiatus for a few months. Sorry for the inconvenience :-(
[Edit] WHOA! 200 Followers and over 20K views?! That's AMAZING! Thank you so much! I will continue to write this fantastic pairing!
But enough of my sad lament, I hope this new chapter of our favourite duo will compensate for the sudden halt of Evi Magkumpun's adventure! So without further ado, enjoy the story!
You Can't be Serious (Part 1)...
Jaune was really enjoying his long, peaceful nap. He was quite surprised that the stone-cold ground felt incredibly soft and warm as something thin and fluffy enveloped his body. Not to mention that he felt something, or someone cuddling with his left arm breathing soft and quiet on his neck. This familiar feeling reminded him of his younger sisters who were usually afraid of the dark and would seek the comfort in their big brother's protective embrace. His brotherly instinct kicked in and caused him to subconsciously wrapped his right arm around the thing or person that was snuggling alongside him with a content smile on his face. After a few seconds, he swore he could have heard several hushed voices whispering quietly.
"Awwwww! Did you guys see that?! That's so cuuuuuute!" A playful feminine voice gushed quietly.
"Shhh Yang!" A younger voice shushed. "Don't wake them! They need to recover!"
"Ruby, weren't you doing the exact same thing a few minutes ago when we brought them in here?" A calm collected female pointed out.
"Well, who wouldn't Blake?" The younger voice huffed. "Look at them! They're just like little puppies all pooped out after a long day!"
"What do puppies have to do with those two?" An angelic icy call whispered loudly. "More importantly, why are we even watching these two when we should be getting ready for the end of the initiation?"
"Weiss, they did save our lives from that Nevermore." A wise feminine voice pointed out. "It's only fair that we tend to them until they wake up."
"But all they've been doing is sleeping Pyrrha!" The icy angelic voice shouted rather loudly. "What are we even supposed to do!?"
"For one thing you could be a little bit quieter." remarked the calm collected voice. "I don't think they would like to be awakened by the sounds of you complaining."
"Ohhhh! You better get some Weiss for that injury Ice Queen, because you just got BURNED!" The playful feminine voice cried loudly before laughing happily at her pun.
"YANG!" The young voice screeched. "Stop it with the puns already! You're supposed to be quiet!"
"You guys..." A masculine voice groaned nearby. "Jaune's waking up now."
The blonde knight yawned silently as his eyes fluttered open from all the bickering. "*Yawn!*...Man, that was a good nap." He confessed as he began to rub the sleep from his eyes before looking rather surprised at what he saw. The first thing that caught his attention was where he was. He wasn't on the stone bridge anymore and from the look of his surroundings, he appeared to be in some sort of white and pale green room resting snugly on a soft bed. The next thing he saw was his six fellow hunters friends from his initiation. Ren had a content smile and was sitting on a chair with his partner Pyrrha standing behind him happily. Yang was wiping a tear from her eye as she waggled her eyebrows from some reason standing at the foot of the bed. Blake seemed to have preoccupied another chair at the corner of the room with a book half opened on her lap. Weiss seemed to be grumpier than normal as she faced away with her arms crossed from both Yang and Blake while her partner Ruby seemed to have a sheepish grin on her face. "Oh, hey guys..."
"Welcome back to the land of the living Vomit Boy!" Yang greeted with a playful smile.
"Yang!" Ruby shouted loudly at her beloved sister's behaviour. "Stop being mean."
"Where... Where am I?" Jaune asked as he began to stretch his limbs and turn his head for a better view of his surroundings.
Pyrrha cleared her throat before answering the blond knight's question. "You're in the infirmary Jaune. After you had passed out from exhaustion, Headmaster Ozpin called a Bullhead to bring you back here for you and your partner to recover comfortably."
"Well that was nice of him." Jaune hummed as he laid his head back onto a soft pillow to stare at the ceiling tiles. "How long was I out for?"
"If you're talking about when we entered the Bullhead, you've been asleep for... about two hours now?" Blake estimated from afar.
No wonder the blond knight felt so rested. After all the events and battles he had endured during his initiation, his nap truly was well deserved. "What are you guys doing here anyway? Shouldn't you guys be getting ready for the team selection thingy that's supposed to happen?"
"That's what I said!" Weiss exasperated as she waved her arms in the air. "But 'Nooo!' they all said, 'We had to make sure that our saviours are okay and that we have to watch over them!' We could have at least taken a nice shower to remove all the smell from our initiation than watch you sleep all-"
Jaune quickly cut off the young heiress's rant with his right arm as he looked at the six hunters with confusion. "W-wait a minute." He called out. "Me? A saviour?"
"Well... Yeah!" Yang cut in. "If it weren't for you two and your crazy plan, cereal box and green boy here wouldn't be standing here with right now! Not to mention that the Nevermore would've turned us all into Swiss cheesed bird food!"
"Which, by the way, was incredibly reckless." Weiss huffed.
"But was one of the most super awesomest things I have ever seen!" Ruby gushed loudly in amazement. "The way how you were able to get that evil Grimm bird's attention away from Pyrrha and Ren so easily while we were trying our hardest to save them because we were all like 'Whaaaaat?!' when it worked! Well, I did get its attention once when I shot it in the eye but then nothing else seemed to work for some reason. And when it was stalking towards you, I was super scared because who wouldn't be when they saw their friend sacrifice himself for the sake of his friends! But then your partner Nora suddenly came like, out of NOWHERE with a *WHOOSH!* and everything and smacked it with her grenade launcher war hammer making that really loud *BOOOOM!* sending the Nevermore to crash with a *BANG!* all the way towards the Cliffside!" As she was retelling her perspective of what had transpired during the fight against the Nevermore, she was making a series of hand gestures and sound effect which caused many of the other hunters to smile or chuckle at her child-like behaviour. "If it weren't for you guys, we couldn't have initiated my amazing plan that I called 'Red Comet' which involved-"
"Alright, alright little sis." Yang chuckled as she covered her sister's head with her red hood while successfully cutting her off. "No need to tell him your life story right now."
"B-but Yaaaang!" the young huntress pouted as she removed the hood from her head. "I was getting to the best part!"
Jaune chuckled at how nostalgic it felt when his sister's did the exact same thing when they talked about their dreams when he realized that something, or someone, was missing. "Hey, where's Nora?" Everything went silent as the other six hunters gave him a look that clearly meant 'Are you serious?' "...What?"
Ren decided to clear his throat to break the awkward silence in the air. "Yeah... about that."
Before he could explain, Jaune suddenly heard something yawn loudly beside him whilst feeling someone finally letting go of his left arm. He finally turned his head towards what had been occupying his left arm when he was suddenly greeted by the sight of turquoise eyes fluttering open and orange hair falling gently down her drowsy face. "*Yawn!* ...Morning Renny." Nora greeted to her childhood friend as she began to rub the sleep from her eyes.
"Nora?" The real Ren spoke up. "I'm actually over here."
"...Huh?" The drowsy bomber mumbled before turned towards the sound of her childhood friend's voice. Sitting along the side of the bed was her friend Ren since he wore his usual getup of the green tailcoat and white pants. "Oh... Morning Renny." She repeated once more. She stopped rubbing her eyes and blinked a few times when she made the connections of who she was talking to. 'Wait a minute…' She thought to herself as she continued to stare at her best friend. If her childhood friend Ren was sitting over there...
"Uh N-Nora?" The childhood friend imposter stuttered right beside her. The bubbly bomber flinched before slowly turned her head towards the direction of this very familiar voice until she saw the other occupant of the bed she was currently lying in. She knew those blonde, scraggy locks. She also knew those ocean blue eyes. She definitely knew the tone of that voice. If memory served her correctly, then the person she was sleeping with was none other than...
"...Jaune-Jaune?"
The blond knight gulped while his face grew redder from how close their faces were next to one another. "H-hi?"
Another looming silence consumed the room as the two hunting partners were completely still from trying to comprehend what in the world was happening right now?! When a few seconds had passed, the bubbly bomber's face grew crimson in a span of seconds before she said the first thing that came to mind. "AHHH!"
Jaune, who wasn't fairing any better, was completely caught off guard by his partner's response and could only reply with a rather girlish, "KYAAH!"
Now Nora was REALLY not expecting a response like that from her partner and with a, "UWAAH!" she shoved her arms against the white chest plate of her partner.
The blond knight was struck with so much force that it pushed him all the way to the very edge of the bed. "W-Whoa whoa- WAIT!" He tried to balance himself back onto the bed with his flailing arms but was sadly unsuccessful at the end when gravity took over and crashed landed him onto the brown, wooden floor with a loud *OOF!*
"JAUNE-JAUNE?!" Nora cried out in surprise and embarrassment from her current position. "Wha- what were you doing in the same bed as me?!" She soon heard the painful groans of her partner and crawled to the edge of the bed and peeked from atop the bed to see his condition. "Uh, Jaune-Jaune? Are you okay?"
"Ow... yeah. Never been... better." He called back with a groan as his head, arms and back were against the ground while his grass-stained legs were dangling in the air.
"Phew, that's a relief." She hummed. Sadly, that only lasted for a few seconds as her blush returned in full force when she remembered her previous question. "Wait, no it's not! Why were you sleeping in the same bed as me?!" She cried out as she covered her heated face with her hands.
Jaune suddenly recalled that they were indeed sleeping, literally cuddling against one another on that bed as he tried his best to come up with some sort of explanation. "I- I um, a-about th-tha... Uh." His mind was in a mental breakdown from what was happening to the point that he couldn't even form a proper sentence!
Nora's mind was also in disarray when she could only come up with one visible solution. "Were you in my bed... because you wanted to sleep with me that badly?!" She cried out loudly. "Oh my GOD Jaune-Jaune! You're so bold and daring!" She soon grabbed hold of the white blanket with her right hand before covering her chest from the perverted mind of the blond knight.
"Wh-What?! N-NO!" He cried out in embarrassment as he quickly stumbled to pull himself from the ground. All he did was nap on a stone bridge! How did things escalate to this level?! As he was waving his arms in denial of his partner's response, he turned his head towards his friends for some sort of explanation... only to see all six of them REALLY enjoying their embarrassing misfortune. Yang and Ruby were on all fours on the ground howling in laughter, Pyrrha was chuckling happily in amusement holding onto the chair for support, Weiss was wiping the tears from her eyes from how hilarious the two were acting in front of her, Blake had dropped her book as she held onto her stomach and finally, Ren was simply shaking his head in amusement chuckling quietly from what was transpiring around him. After all the years he had spent alongside her, he had never seen his childhood friend ever react like that before! "WH-WHAT IN THE WORLD IS HAPPENING?!" Jaune screamed for an answer only to be responded back with more laughter.
"Th-this is the funniest thing I have ever seen in my life!" Yang cried out on the ground as she whacked her fist onto the wood floor repeatedly.
"Y-Yang, my ribs! Th-they hurt so much right now!" Ruby shouted out between laughs as she held onto her ribs with her back against the ground.
"O-oh my goodness!" Pyrrha giggled as she attempted to compose herself. It failed miserably as she lost hold of the chair before collapsing onto the ground to join the two sisters.
The Blonde and the Valkyrie were staring at their friends with a mix of confusion, shock and embarrassment before turning towards each other. However, when their eyes made contact once more with one another, they quickly turned away to hide their faces with Jaune curling up into a ball facing the wall while Nora hid herself beneath the white blanket.
After a minute of composing themselves, Yang rubbed her hand into Jaune's hair while Ren patted Nora's back. "There, there, Vomit Boy." Yang comforted with a smile.
"Calling my Vomit Boy isn't really help Yang." Jaune whimpered as he hunched closer to the infirmary wall.
"Renny... What happened?" Nora quietly mumbled as she unveiled one turquoise eye and directed it towards her childhood friend desperately for an answer.
Ren took a few deep breaths to make sure all the laughter was out from his system. "Well Nora, after you and Jaune over there decided to take your naps on the stone bridge, Headmaster Ozpin picked us all up with a bullhead and brought us all the way back to Beacon. When we had arrived here, we had been trying our hardest for the last hour and a half to pry you from your partner but you mumbled something in the lines of 'My comfy pillow...' and refused to let go."
Nora quickly realized the last time she had done this was when she was twelve during her very first sleepover at her childhood friend's house. From what his parent's had told her that morning, she was like a bike lock refusing to let go when she had fallen asleep in Ren's lap. The embarrassed explosives expert turned her attention towards the Spartan huntress. "Please tell me I didn't do that..." She begged quietly.
"Sorry Nora, but what Ren said was all true. Not even my Semblance and our combined strength could remove your hold towards Jaune." Pyrrha added followed by multiple nods of agreement.
When she had heard this, Nora's heated face cause the blanket to get steamy as she buried her face into the infirmary bed. "I'm never going to be able to show myself ever again!" She wailed from underneath the white blanket earning a few more pats of comfort from her childhood friend.
"Then Yang came up with the idea to just forget about taking you guys apart and stick you two into the same bed." Ruby continued.
"Many of us were against the idea of you two sleeping in the same bed." Weiss huffed.
"Though you have to admit, it was hilarious!" Yang commented with a smug grin.
"It wasn't for me and Nora..." Jaune groaned as he was just as embarrassed as his partner.
His quiet response brought forth the scene to repeat in the heads of the other six hunters once again. Before they began to laugh once again, the infirmary door creaked opened revealing the Headmaster himself with his trusted assistant Professor Goodwitch walking behind him. "Greeting everyone, I hope I'm not interrupting anything important."
The young hunters quickly turned their heads towards the headmaster bowing respectfully towards his presence. Well... most of them were since Nora was still hiding in the blanket and Jaune quickly pulled himself from the ground without looking. As he attempted to ascend to his feet, his head whacked against the metal bed frame. The impact caused the blond knight to grab hold of his injury while mumbling quiet cursed as his foot got tangled up with the blanket as his other foot tripped on the pillow that had fallen from the bed. When his foot yanked on the blanket as he fell, Nora was caught off guard by what was happening to her linen cover before being pulled towards the edge of the bed along with her blanket onto her partner with a *YIPE!* and an *OW!* The headmaster, and hunters brought their attention towards the fallen comrades, only to stifle their giggles as they saw them try their hardest to untangle themselves from the knotted embrace of the blanket. Needless to say, they were failing miserably.
Glynda brought her had towards her forehead mumbling something incoherent before flicking her riding crop towards the two hunters. Jaune and Nora gasped in surprise when they were suddenly consumed in a purple glow before floating into the air as the blanket and pillow were gently played back into their original position. Once that was done, she snapped her fingers causing the two hunters to stop flying and land cross-legged on two separate beds. She then brought her attention towards the other hunters who were staring at her with amazement in their eyes and cleared her throat. "Children, can you please leave the infirmary? The Headmaster wishes to speak with Miss. Valkyrie and Mr. Arc in private. Not to mention that you still have to ready yourselves for the ending ceremony of your initiation." The five huntresses plus Ren nodded their heads quickly before heading out the door for their special moment. Ozpin used his cane to halt the blonde brawler before mumbling something secretly into her ear. Yang had a broad smile on her face and suppressed a giggle as she gave an 'ok' sign then walking quickly out the door. Once their friends had left the room, Professor Goodwitch followed suite with a nod as she shut the door behind her.
Now that it was only the three of them, Ozpin quickly brought his attention towards the two hunters seated criss-crossed on the infirmary beds.
"So, Jaune Arc." Ozpin started out as the boy in question flinched at his name being called.
"Um... Y-yes sir?" Jaune asked hesitantly.
"No need to be frightened my young man." The Headmaster reassured as he placed a hand on his shoulder plate. "I am simply offering you a friendly proposition."
Author's Notes!
BAM! DONE! LOOK AT THAT CLIFF HANGER! Oh man are things getting funny! I wanted to end it here mainly because after laughing this much at their circumstances, I thought it would be a good break to catch your breath. Not to mention, I still have a few things I need to finalize before announcing their teams and whatnot. Also, college... That's all I really need to say actually.
So! I hope you enjoyed this wonderful chapter so leave a comment or any constructive criticism so I can make this story even better! With that finally out of the way, this is Nutshop saying:
Stay Handsome, and have a Nice Day! :D
[Edit] Whoopsie! I forgot that I was going to do that thing where I respond to feedback that I received in the reviews! Sorry about that, I'll start with everything that began at Ch 10 since starting back at Ch 1 is going to be WAY too long. :I
Noob6: Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
an25: It's a possibly my friend, I may not be the one who would write it, but I'm sure it will be fantastic XD
Frik1000: Thank you very much :) It was quite difficult to write in the beginning but eventually it turned out pretty good! As for the natural affinity of things feathery and getting attacked all the time, It's a VERY important piece for this fanfic so be on the lookout for more :P
cram261444: Thank you very much!
Sekai - The World: Why yes, Jaune-Jaune does indeed have a parachute! If you were from where Jaune was from, you'd never leave your home without one! And Yes they did retrieve the White Rook pieces in Chapter 6. And finally, Thanks!
SeijuroRen: Homework hurts... And don't worry, She'll have quite the reaction for our little Sunflower Seed XD
ralf07: Trust me, they are going to think of him as the most amazingest man when I'm done with him :P
The Loneliest Of All: Trust me, you'll enjoy it! And I'm quite happy that my story makes you react like that XD
OBSERVER01: Thanks!
shadowdoom10: Why I'm happy that I was able to provide it for you! As for the White Rose paring thing, it's more so centred around our lovable derpy pair. It could happen, but until then, just enjoy the ride XD