Alright guys here I am with the next chapter, I hope you guys enjoy.
How To Make A Dragon Laugh
Jaune was nervous today, ok that's not exactly unusual, but he had an extremely good reason. The knight was in combat class, normally he was perfectly calm about it. He'd be fighting either Cardin who challenged him whenever Professor Goodwitch offered him a chance to pick his opponent. Surprisingly he's won every fight against him so far, also he'd fight other hunters in his year, none of his friends... until today.
Now which of his friends, who are probably leagues above him would be selected to fight him?
Pyrrha grabbed Jaune's shoulder before he was coming to the stage. "Jaune, you'll be fine, just try you're best."
The hooded knight looked to Pyrrha chuckling nervously. "Ya think so, cause I don't think so." He admitted.
"Of course we do." Weiss agreed at his other side. "You may have a small chance at victory should you remember our training sessions." The ice maiden encouraged. "Of course I will not be able to cheer for you this time, I hope you understand."
Jaune gulped and looked to Weiss. "I know Weiss, but thanks anyway." He was wondering how hospitalized he'll be at the end of this.
"Hey yo vomit boy!"
He looked at the stage seeing his opponent, Yang Xiao Long waiting for him throwing a few practice punches.
"Quit your stalling and get over here already!" She shouted as she used a finger motioning him to come. "It's rude to keep a lady waiting." She said with an excited smile.
Jaune sighed knowing how this was going to end, with him face first on the floor but shrugged it off. Sure Yang's a friend, but the way she fights is rather brutal. Every spar she's went through ended with more than half of her opponents going to the infirmary, and those were the lucky ones! "Ok" The knight said to himself as he trudged to the arena, but first he looked to Ruby. "Any advice?"
"Just don't say anything about her weight, and avoid cutting the hair." Ruby whispered. "You remembered right?"
He nodded. "Right" He said as he continued walking worried for his safety, he was in the stage and looked to Yang who was still shadow boxing with a smile.
"Chin up Vomit Boy, it won't be so bad losing you're wining streak to me." She said with a wink.
Jaune gulped and looked to the referee. "Professor Goodwitch, don't you think I'm not ready to fight someone like Yang?"
Professor Goodwitch looked at the list. "I believe that you are ready for a battle with someone of Team RWBY's caliber, given that you have proven yourself among the top tier of students." She stated as she looked through a list of Jaune's matches all of them ending with victories.
The knight was shocked when he heard that, a top tier in the first years? That was something he never expected to get, hell he thought it was lucky that he wasn't last place on the roster, but this? He shook his head and looked to the witch. "There must be some mistake, I mean sure I've won every fight I've been in, but weren't those just luck?"
"There is no such thing Mr. Arc, and if it was it would have run out by now."
"Ok, but can't you have me fight someone other than Yang, like Ren, Blake, Ruby, Weiss,"
"Everyone else in the first year tier have already and their match ups for today Mister Arc, Miss Xiao Long is the only one who has not sparred as of today."
"But"
"Ahem!" Yang feigned a coughing noise to get his attention, she crossed her arms and frowned. "Jaune, just shut up and get ready." She ordered getting fed up with the knight's stalling. "If it makes you feel any better I'll hold back for you."
Ruby from her seat shouted. "She's lying she doesn't know how to."
"Anyway" The yellow themed girl ignored Ruby's calling. "Man up already, you're not getting out of this." She stated as she cracked her knuckles, making Jaune frightened a bit. "Besides, I've been wanting to see how good you'd do against me." She said with a wink.
Jaune sighs and took out his sword and shield. 'Ok, ok, remember how she fights.' The knight thought back to the many battles she won, unfortunately all he can think of is that she punches, he has no familiarity in hand to hand. 'I'm dead.'
Professor Goodwitch looked between the two fighters. "Now that that's out of the way, you all know the rules by know." She raised her hand up. "Begin!" She then stepped out of the stage and aura bars showed above.
The battle started and Jaune already starting holding his shield up, Yang runs his way with her right fist cocked back and slams it against the shield. The impact was strong enough to push Jaune back, if it weren't for his large aura reserves, nearly indestructible shield, and his stance which was corrected countless times by Weiss and Pyrrha, he'd be flat on his back already.
Yang was surprised that she didn't cause too much damage with her first punch but didn't let it distract her as she threw more against his shield, she then stopped as the shield was being thrusted towards her face, the sun dragon raises her arms up blocking the bash. When she placed them down she sees Jaune's sword going for a slash, she ducks underneath the strike and throws a hard left against his stomach causing him to keel over. "Hey Jaune." She says loud enough for everyone to hear. "I see you've." With her right hand she uppercuts him sending him to the air and falling flat on his back. "fallen for me." She stated looking around the audience for everyone. "Get it?"
Her response was a loud groan from all around her. The boxer growled. "No one at this school has any tastes." She shouted in annoyance, and then she heard a bang noise and felt pressure against her stomach, causing her to place a hand on it. "Wha-" She looked to Jaune was getting up with a pistol aimed at her. "Oh, was wondering when you were gonna pull that out." She stated as the small pain subsided.
Jaune shook his head. "Still getting the hang of this." The knight stated as he pulled the trigger multiple times.
Yang may not be as fast as Ruby but her reaction time is fast enough to dodge bullet after bullet, she gets closer to Jaune as he keeps firing bullet after bullet, as she got within her striking distance Jaune quickly put the pistol in it's hoister on his right and took out his sheathe hanging on his left side and immediately pressed it's button to form the shield blocking Yang's fist staggering him back.
"Come on Jauney boy, I'm barely trying." She complained as she jumped over him.
Jaune turned around only to meet a solid straight to his face sending him flying back again and hitting the ground. The knight quickly got up to see Yang chuckling. Yeah he was dead meat. He looked at the aura meters noting that he only managed to slightly damage Yang's aura by a meter by a tiny sliver from that gunshot he landed while she was distracted, however when she was ready Yang was simply too agile to hit, up close is suicide. What can he do? Yang is an extremely great brawler when she's focused, but what about when she's angry? No that would be suicide, he'd be on the floor bleeding. But what other chance does he have? Ok, he just has to get her mad, easy she has a short temper, but he can't just insult her, and he prefers not to cut her hair given that would definitely end with him in a body cast, and he would never insult a person's weight. Ok if you can't make her angry then what can you do?
"Come on Jaune , get up already, you don't have to be so down." Yang punned and looked around. "Get it guys?"
The crowd again groaned much to her annoyance.
Yang growled that again she wasn't getting anyone to laugh at her puns.
Jaune's question was immediately answered with that, he gulped. 'I hope this doesn't end the way I think it is.'
The sun dragon shook her head irritated that no one found her puns funny, she always came up with the best puns how can no one laugh.
"Hey Yang."
The girl turned to see Jaune getting a knee up, she smiled to him. "What's up Lover Boy, giving up already?" She taunted. "Man you can take a lot more punches then some other students."
"Yeah" Jaune states as he stands up and gets to his stance. "I guess you can my aura is my only souloution."
Yang's eyes widened as she heard that and started to chuckle as the audience groaned. "Hehehe, good one Lover Boy." She legitimately found that funny, she stopped her laughter and charged at him still smiling at his pun, she threw a punch as Jaune had his shield up blocking it. She tried going around however he kept blocking every one of her strikes.
Jaune kept getting pushed back with each hit, he was starting to go numb as his aura reserves were weakening, he had to think of another pun to distract. "Hey Yang ever try eating a clock?"
The yellow themed girl raised an eyebrow as she kept throwing punches. "Huh?"
"I have and it's very time consuming,"
Yang stopped throwing punches and started giggling. "Hehehe" The blonde girl then held her stomach. "Hahahahaha good one!" She yelled as she laughed.
'Now!' Jaune yelled in his mind and bashes his shield.
"Huh?" Yang still laughing sees a shield getting closer until hitting her face causing her to stumble backward. "Wha" She was then slashed multiple times by Jaune's sword, she came out of her stupor and starting blocking with her Ember Celica or swaying the attacks. She then threw another punch that hit his shield. "Oh I see what you're doing." She said as she kept throwing punch after punch.
"You do?" He asks as he keeps avoiding all her strikes.
"Yeah real cute." Yang said as she kept throwing punches, she managed to force Jaune's shield back and threw a hard left against his face sending him sliding on the stage. "But that wasn't." She said as she got back to her stance.
Jaune quickly smiled. "Well then I guess, this will be my final stand." He stood up hoping that terrible pun somewhat affected her.
Yang giggled a bit but shook her head and ran at him throwing more punches at him. "Stop, that's fighting dirty." She said giggling as she kept throwing more and more punches at him.
The knight couldn't help but blush as it was kinda cute how Yang was giggling but he stopped and went back to his verbal assault. "What are you talking about, I can't be fighting dirty, I took a shower today."
The boxer couldn't help but giggle more at his puns. "Stop!" She yelled as she was having trouble concentrating, her strikes were getting less and less focused.
"Ya know, you and I should work together on these puns, since were both blondes I know what we'll call ourselves." He staggered from another hard punch. "The Blonderhood." A punch stopped just a centimeter away from his face blowing wind blowing in his face, and shotgun blast hit his face forcing him on his back, he held his face in pain as he got up and sees Yang laughing and holding her stomach. He sighs holding his in pain and takes out his pistol, shooting multiple bullets at Yang's stomach and face.
Yang was just laughing hysterically, she was being shot at but she just couldn't concentrate as she was too busy laughing. "HAHAHAHA! Blonderhood, that's good! HAHAHAHA!"
Jaune looked at the aura meters and Yang was starting to get to get below half of her aura. All he has to do is keep shooting until she runs out and he'll win. He couldn't believe it, he was going to win, with a weird strategy he just came up with, and against Yang of all people.
The sun dragon tried to get herself together but was still laughing at all his below blonde's jokes, she still laughed even as a small strand of hair fell in front of her face... wait what? She stops immediately.
Jaune stopped shooting when he sees Yang has calmed down and put the gun in it's hoister and brought out his shield. 'That was too sudden what' He sees a small strand of hair fall to the ground. "Oh so close." He states knowing what's coming.
"You" Yang's body started to shake as she squeezed her fists to crack her knuckles. "You bastard!" She yells as she runs at Jaune at superhuman speeds.
"Mom" Jaune says behind his shield as Yang charges at him with red eyes and shining hair. And with one hit he blacked out.
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Jaune awoke with his vision swimming, he sat up and immediately grabbed his head. "Oww" He looks around to see Pyrrha, Nora and Ren around him.
Ren was the first to speak. "He's awake."
"Jaune!" Pyrrha shouted and grabbed his shoulders. " Are you alright?"
The knight only groaned as he rubbed his face. "I feel like a train just ran me over." He stated and looked at his friends. "Hey what happened, last thing I remember was.. Yang running at me." He said slowly realizing what happened. "Oh I lost didn't I."
"Yes,but you fought well." Pyrrha encouraged and chuckled. "And with a rather unorthodox strategy."
Nora chirped in. "Yeah, it was funny, no punny, get it?" She shouted and then looked to Ren before anyone could answer. "Hey Renny, let's start our own comedy duo like Jaune and Yang."
Ren merely sighed hoping this wouldn't be the start of something new.
Jaune groaned as he kept rubbing his head. "I'm fun, just, my head hurts a bit much, how long was I out?"
"A few hours, you missed all your classes for today."
"Oh, well that's one bright side." Jaune said chuckling, he and the others heard a JNPR turned to see Yang standing against the door way.
"Hey, just wanted to make sure I didn't break you." Yang said to Jaune as Pyrrha narrowed her eyes, she noticed and looked to Pyrrha. "Easy Cereal Girl, was only joking." She said calmly, it seemed to quil Pyrrha's anger as her eyes got to normal, she then looked to Jaune. "You alright?"
"Yeah.. just a bit dizzy." Jaune said rubbing his head. "Sorry about the hair."
"It's fine but remember." Yang began pointing a finger at him. "You can ruin my shoes, but do NOT mess with the hair." She said as she waved a hand through it, and then pointed at him. "Got it?"
Jaune immediately nodded knowing how scary she can be. "Yeah"
"Good, oh and sorry for you know... knocking you out." Yang apologized. "But hey your the first student I fought and haven't broke any bones." She said remembering how hard his aura was to penetrate.
"It's ok and that's good I suppose." Jaune said to himself looking more to the bright side. "I seriously thought I would break all of my bones against you."
"Well you marrowly escaped that possibility." Yang punned causing everyone in the room to groan. "Oh come on, I saw you guys laughed at Jaune's puns but not mine?" She asked and sighed, she then looked to Jaune and quickly put an arm around his shoulder. "Hey Jaune, how about we form that comedy act you were talking about?"
"W-what" Jaune shook his head. "Yang, that was to distract you, I didn't really mean that."
"I know, but you came up with some of the funniest I've ever heard, come on it'll be pun-tastic" Everyone groaned, the rest of JNPR started leaving the room. "Oh come on!" She then looked to Jaune. "Jaune, help a girl out will you?"
"Yang, I only came up with random ones at the top of my head, I wasn't even thinking." He said and watched as his team was leaving. "Guys don't leave me here with her."
Pyrrha looked to Jaune sympathetically. "Sorry Jaune, but Ren needs me to help pick up some syrup and keep her from drinking it all.. again." She then started walking away. "I'm sorry!"
"Guys!" Jaune shouted but Yang merely brought Jaune closer to her.
"Come one Lover Boy, I'm sure we'll have a pun-derful time here."
Jaune groaned hoping to get away from Yang soon. "What have I gotten myself into?"
Yang merely laughed in response. "Seriously though where did you come up with those, there's no way you came up with those on the spot."
"Well I did I" He stopped and paused staring downward. "I"
"Jaune?" Yang asked and looked to her right. "What do I have something on my arm or something?" She asked holding her right arm.
The knight shook his head and scratched his head. "No, no, just." For some reason he couldn't help but gaze at that arm. "How's your arm, I'm told my shield is made of some tough stuff."
"Oh it's fine." Yang said holding her hand. "Not just your shield but your aura too, your like a tank." She says as she playfully punched his arm. "But don't worry about it, anyway, you got to tell me how you learned those awesome puns."
"Well" Jaune was hoping that she'd drop this subject but ended up saying the first thing in his head. "I was cheering up a friend of mine who wasn't well." He said unexpected that came out of his mouth.
"Oh" Yang felt awkward when he told her this, she sees the look in his eyes, it must be a sad thing to think about, she released him and put a hand through her hair. "Well, this friend of yours is fine now right?"
The knight looked at her and gave a weak smile."Yeah, yeah, she's fine now." He told her not sure why he said it. "But anyway, how about we pun this to rest for now ok?"
Yang laughed at Jaune's pun and stood up. "Whatever you say, I'm glad to have fought you Jaune, it was pun." She said laughing at her own pun and began walking out the door.
Jaune chuckled as she left and wondered, just what was that. When he stared at her arm, it felt wrong. Why though? He held his head. "Maybe she did give me a concussion." He groaned as he held his head in pain. 'Just another headache... I hope.'
So I thought I'd show you guys Jaune's limit, while he is stronger than other students in his year, he is still by no means the top hunter in training. Against people like Yang, Ruby, or other main characters he still has little chance of wining. He only managed to land a few hits on Yang due to distracting her with puns, which I thought would give him a leg up.
Of course he still lost, because he accidentally made her lose a strand of hair, but you get the idea, physically, he is still behind his friends in terms of power and skill.
I thought this would also be a nice light hearted chapter, you know aside from Jaune staring at Yang's arm.
I fucking hate Adam, I hope Yang get's a robot arm in Volume 4, and uses it to beat Adam to a bloody pulp! And while she's add it tear off Mercery's legs and beat him to death with them. Emerald take her eyes out, so she never tricks anyone into killing another character like Penny, or lock up Yang! And Cinder, ohhh make her suffer!
I'm sorry whenever I think of Yang's missing limb, I just want to see Adam die, and Cinder with her little trio. I fucking hate them for making Yang lose her arm, making her depressed, killing Penny and Pyrrha. But that's what makes them good villain, or a misunderstood anti-hero, with him wanting faunus equality and all that.
That's one of the many reasons you gotta love about RWBY though, it has sooo many villains you love to hate. Or think their misunderstood, if that's your thing.
But enough of that sad episode that took away RWBY's happy tune, let's get on with the review responses.
Lkjfdsa321- Thank you I hope you enjoyed this chapter as well.
GhostHornet- That was one of my ideas prior, but the problem was I'd have to find someone to teach him, and I don't know if RWBY ever wielded a crossbow in her life, so I might have to create an OC to, that's why I gave him a gun, so she can teach him, if he were to get a bow or crossbow, I'm not sure who could teach him. But who knows later in the fic he might use a weapon that seems more his style, for now, he will rely on the pistol Ruby handed him.
FF8cerebus- That was the point, not only is Jaune stronger due to muscle memory before the time loop, but he's also gaining more and more teachers due to interacting with them in a positive light, I got Pyrrha to teach him because he wanted to get stronger, I got Weiss to teach him due to finding out that she's sympathetic to him and dealing with a similar situation, and now Ruby because their best friends. I'm not sure if I can give him another teacher, meh well see, this fic is far from over anyway.
Guest: Will do, I try to update weekly.
IWEYC: To each his own, I thought she might be if she caught her sister in a situation. But I'm glad you enjoyed the previous chapter, hope you enjoyed this one as well, and of course I'll understand if you didn't.
Also he might have been able to use a gun before the time loop. Didn't want to say anything to give too much away, also I'm trying to give less foreshadowing than I was in the beginning.
BBWulf: Thank you.
patleon909- Thank you, it's hard for me to write light hearted chapters without fighting, I guess that's what happens when your first fic is a DBZ one. Anyway yeah I thought he might want to use one since he'd have a hard time against an enemy who prefers long distance.
ArytomXIII- Yeah Tomorrow and Never Again made time travel seem kinda pointless, still one of the best RWBY fics written, and ironically the best time travel fic in my opinion. Of course here he'll regain his memories back, slowly, hopefully he gets it back when it matters.
Anyway, this was just his starting sidearm, eventually that may change. Well see. I'm glad you liked his interactions, it's kinda sad that we never saw Jaune interacting much with anyone besides his team, besides Weiss and Ruby. But team RWBY are the stars of the show, so it's only natural that he's the underdog. I have more interactions planned before the plot so I hope you enjoy for the ride.
HavenofUmbar- I'm up for opinions but until you list reasons why Pyrrha should die I'm going to assume that you're a troll looking to enrage people by saying you hope Pyrrha dies. And I wouldn't put your hopes up here. So sorry, but you'll get no reactions here, bye.
Ok so that's all the reviews, if this is you're first time reading my fic and you liked what you read please Review, Fav, Follow, I'll continue either way, it's just a nice bonus for me knowing people like my work.
As usual have an awesome day. :)
