So after three chapters worth of filler material so that I could do some worldbuilding and plotting, we are back to the main story, specifically of course, Blake's little Arc (pun maybe intended) concerning her and the White Fang, as well as the docks incident.
We start off with yet another dream sequence.
DO enjoy!
Jean Arc, reigning Duke of Armorica surveyed the scene before him, a ruined enemy encampment. Fallen tents, overturned pots, braziers lying haphazardly on their sides…
And dead bodies everywhere.
Mostly rebels.
It had been a vicious attack that had started first in the night with Faunus infiltrators slaughtering sentries and guards quietly, opening the way for the rest of his own forces to follow through and decimate the enemy in their sleep.
How ironic. Jean thought, scant days ago it had been these very men who had been lying in wait for him, with the benefit of word from Robina, the olivewood ranger, he had sprung his own ambush on the ambushers. In the course of a single night he had utterly annihilated at least three quarters of a force of several thousand strong, the commanders had been targeted first for assassination, disorganizing the entire force and leaving them easy pickings, the remainder had routed and fled into the wilderness, probably to become food for the Grimm later on.
They were unlikely to be a problem.
The next step would of course be to continue onward to Corlayn Castle, he could only hope that this momentary delay had not given its besiegers the opportunity to force a breach into the castle and take it. It would have made all of his efforts up until this point worthless.
"Milord." One of his captains came up to him he turned to face the man, "There's nothing else for us here, the enemy have been totally vanquished, what do you wish the men to do now?"
"Spread the word, give them an hour's rest, and then get ready to move, we will press on as usual as far as we can until we reach Corlayn castle, time is not with us." Jean ordered.
"Understood milord." The captain gave a respectful bow and headed off.
An hour should give me more than enough time to bathe; I am utterly filthy after so many days… Jean thought to himself, he knew of a nearby stream that he could use for his own needs, and so he gathered up a new set of clothing from his own pack and made his own way to a nearby stream within shouting distance of their temporary camp.
He placed his sword carefully at the water's edge within reach and undressed himself before stepping into the cool water; he let himself soak in it for several minutes, enjoying the warm sunshine on his own body.
"Either your bravery or your stupidity knows no bounds." A soft snicker sounded and he grabbed his sword, or rather, he made to grab it, only to find that it was not where he had left it, he turned to face the voice…
And there she was, lying on her side, one arm propping up her head, hood pulled back so her crimson locks and fox ears –occasionally turning one way and the other- were readily shown, looking…no, gazing at him with her deep brown eyes, her bow and quiver lay at her feet which were crossed one over the other. His sword in its sheathe were held in her other arm which she had lazily draped over her stomach.
Robina, ranger of olivewood extraordinaire.
"Oh don't stop now," A mischievous smile crossed her face, "keep going, I like what I see." She narrowed her eyes so that she had a dreamy look on her face. Jean was suddenly conscious of the fact that he was fully nude in front of a member of the opposite gender, but he fought down his embarrassment, stood his ground and looked right back at her.
"Blasted woman, what do you want now?" He growled and turned away to return to washing, "Have you no respect for privacy or another person's modesty now?"
"Aw, is the knight in shining armor ashamed of another woman seeing him?" She sat up and let her feet dangle near the water's edge while she put his sword aside and tilted her head quizzically.
"What is there to be ashamed off?" He scoffed in return, "some pattering Faunus lady who lives in the woods?" He rolled his eyes.
"I do not 'patter' sir knight," Robina growled back, before growing silent, "I've been thinking…"
"About what? How you can next best ambush me when I'm alone and easy prey for you?" Jean sarcastically interrupted.
"Oh don't be so proud of yourself," Robina waved her hand dismissively, "I just happened to be in the area foraging."
"Yes 'foraging', I can already tell that will be the new byword of the day."
"Oh come off of it!" Robina growled in a frustrated tone and kicked some water at him, "What I meant to say was, I was giving some thought to your…proposal the other night." She cast her eyes downward, "Where you serious about it?"
"Oh, well I was certainly serious when I said that, how about it?" Jean finally turned to regard her. She looked up and leaned back on her hands.
"I have lived almost my entire life in these woods, living off the land freely one day to the next, hunting, protecting, and now I stand at a crossroads, an opportunity has been given to me to change the world, do I accept it? And all the hardship and pain that it will bring me? Or do I stay on course; peace and safety abound, but at the end of my life accomplish nothing except itself…" She seemed to talk to herself.
Jean remained silent for a while before he spoke, "I won't force you to make a decision, you yourself should now best what you want, and no one else can decide it for you." He remarked, silence reigned between the two.
"I will be leaving the area shortly, make up your mind in that time." He stood up and moved to where his clothes were.
"If I do join, what about my own people?" Robina asked.
"They can come if they wish, or they can stay here, the choice is all theirs or yours to make." Jean explained as he began putting his clothes on. Robina gave him a somewhat shifty and disbelieving look.
"Would I have your assurance that my own people would be treated equally alongside your own?"
"I treat all my men equally Robina." Jean finished buckling his belt, "In war, we are all brothers and sisters in arms."
Jaune Arc woke up with a start, he surveyed his surroundings carefully, he was back in Team JNPR's dorm in Beacon academy.
His dormitory
He set up and scratched his head; at least it was not another battle scene.
Robina and Jean huh? He smirked as he looked out the window to watch the first rays of sunlight peeking out over the horizon. It Saturday, that meant no need to worry about classes, no need to worry about Port boring all of them to death with his stories, no need to worry about Glynda getting angry at everyone again, no need to worry about Ozpin, no need to worry about Oobleck…
Ok the last one he did not mind at all, history was a fun subject to Jaune, after all those who did not learn from it were doomed to repeat it time and time again no?
He hummed a little tune to himself as he changed out of his sleeping clothes; Nora and Ren were probably at breakfast stall already, while the weekend meant that Pyrrha probably wanted to sleep in. He looked over at his sleeping partner sprawled out haphazardly all over his bed and let himself snicker, he briefly contemplated taking another picture of her before deciding against it, that arm lock really hurt.
He scribbled a quick note and tucked it into her hand and walked out of his dorm and towards the breakfast stall.
The dining hall did not operate on weekends, which left Nora Valkyrie's Breakfast Among Other Things as the only available source of food on the weekends, this was done not just to give the dining hall workers a break, but to also encourage the students to go out into the city of Vale and socialize with each other. As it was, the stall was mostly empty save for the two teams that set it up in the first place. It was here that Jaune met up with Team RWBY, Ren and Yang were in the process of making breakfast while Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Nora were seated at a table.
Ruby waved Jaune over, "Over here Jaune!"
"Good morning everyone, how're we all doing today?" He smiled and looked at each of them.
"Great!" Ruby grinned widely.
"Super!" Nora smiled.
Blake gave the barest of nods in acknowledgement as she continued reading.
Weiss merely grunted a non-response as she continued fiddling with her nails.
Before sitting down, Jaune decided to brew a cup tea, he headed over to the front of the stall where Ren was making a stack of waffles.
"Any special tea today?" He asked as he leaned on the counter.
"Green tea this morning if you would Master Jaune." Ren kept a straight face as he put on his best butler voice, Jaune laughed at that as he took the teapot from Ren and took it to the table with two cups.
"Tea Ms. Schnee?" He offered, Weiss rolled her eyes but gave a small smile and pushed her own cup closer in response, he poured it out accordingly and she mumbled a small thanks. Jaune resisted scoffing, that was as much gratitude as anyone would get out of the heiress, it would not do to push his luck.
As he sat down, Weiss surprisingly began speaking, "The Vytal Festival is coming, obviously preparations are being made down in the city, and so I was thinking we should all go down and see what's happening." She looked around the table for responses.
"Splendid idea Weiss, since it's only friday and we have all the time in the day, we can start as soon as we finish breakfast." Jaune nodded.
"Aw do we have to?" Ruby groaned.
"Yes we should, as a representative of this academy it's my duty to provide the best welcome we can to any arriving students from other academies."
Your remarks to Pyrrha at initiation notwithstanding. Jaune thought.
"It's your duty?" Ruby raised an eyebrow.
"Our duty." Weiss corrected herself.
"So how do you plan on providing the best welcome possible Weiss?" Jaune asked as he leaned his head on one arm.
"Simple, we show them the best we have to offer; we are a proper, civilized people who will provide the best environment possible for the festival to take place."
"We should also sweep all the nonsense under the rug too, maybe bind and gag a few of the more excitable ones, present a perfectly squeaky clean image to the other kingdoms." Jaune took another sip as everyone at the table gave him weird looks.
"Was that sarcasm leader?" Nora asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Honestly?" Jaune responded, "I'm not really sure myself."
Before anyone else could respond to that remark, both Ren and Yang came out carrying trays of food, "Breakfast est servi!" Yang cheered as she set down several plates of waffles, pancakes and sandwiches with the accompanying maple syrup, honey and ketchup. Nora and Ruby immediately began digging into them wholeheartedly while Weiss levelled a somewhat disgusted look at the both of them.
Neither paid attention.
Jaune himself picked out several sandwiches, knowing that Nora and Ruby would devour the lion's share of the pancakes and waffles.
"Yeah and I'm the queen of Vale." Yang rolled her eyes; Jaune barely stopped himself from choking.
"Right, you'd be a horrible queen anyway." Weiss scoffed.
"Excuse me?" Yang folded her arms, "I'd be an awesome queen! I'd have all the men falling over me, I'd beat up the bad guys in front of my people every day and they'd be cheering for more, I'd drink the hardiest men under and over the table, they'd love me!"
"What does any of that matter? A queen should have a certain grace, a certain poise, elegance, charm and control." Weiss broke out her highborn tone of voice, "Jaune would know right?" She looked at the resident Armorican.
"Sure thing Weiss." He nodded, Weiss gave a triumphant look.
"See? Even Jaune agrees with me, I'm sure I'd make a brilliant queen if I were given the chance." Weiss nodded.
"I'm pretty sure you'd just yell at anyone who got on your nerves." Jaune deadpanned and sipped from his tea as Yang burst out laughing and Blake smirked widely. Weiss directed a sharp look at Jaune.
"How dare you, I-" Weiss stopped herself and grit her teeth together when she realized she had taken the bait again.
"See? You're already learning to control yourself, am I not the kindest of teachers? Who gives his students hands-on lessons and endless opportunities to improve themselves?" Jaune gave a very smug smile as Weiss clawed her temper back down.
They settled into a comfortable silence as they began eating, eventually Pyrrha joined them, having fixed herself properly and giving not a single indication of her usual sleeping habits. She exchanged a knowing smile with Jaune as she took her usual place beside him.
Sometime later, after breakfast was finished, after Nora and Ruby had been done fighting each other over the last few waffles and pancakes, after the stall had mostly been cleaned out of food and after Ren and Yang had finished cleaning up everything.
They were finally in Vale, looking around as flags and streamers and banners were being set up with words welcoming the people from the kingdoms written all over. All eight walked slowly around, admiring the preparations, although one of them was a little distressed by the current situation.
"What are people going to think I wonder?" Jaune spoke softly so that only Ren could hear it.
"What?" He raised his eyebrows at his leader.
"We're two guys in a group with six other girls, what are people going to think?" Jaune whispered quietly.
Ren nodded as he watched the group of girls in front of him, while he had never been uncomfortable with the prospect, sometimes he wondered if he was ever going to be able to have any other male friends besides Jaune. In fact now that he thought about it, while he only had Nora to contend with, Jaune on the other hand was frequently interacting with all the rest of the girls, not even including the Beacon staff. Talking with Ruby, drinking tea with Weiss, reading with Blake in the library, flirting with Yang, training with Pyrrha…
He found it rather amusing somehow.
Still, despite Jaune's complete ease with being around so many members of the opposite sex, it seemed he wanted out for once.
"What do you have in mind?" Ren asked.
"I saw an arcade back down the street, you wanna go?" Jaune nudged him, Ren thought about it, as much as he wanted some time to get away from them…
"Can't, Nora will just follow us," Ren replied.
"Oh right, forgot about that." Jaune sighed.
"The Vytal Festival! Oh, this is absolutely wonderful!" Both their attentions were drawn to Weiss's sudden remark. She was waving her arms in amazement and had a brilliant smile on her face.
Ruby frowned a little on hearing this, ""I don't think I've ever seen you smile this much, Weiss, you're weirding me out..."
Weiss spun around to face Ruby, "How could you not smile? A festival dedicated to the cultures of the world! There will be dances! Parades! A tournament! Oh, the amount of planning and organization that goes into this event is simply breathtaking!" She was practically squealing in delight as they continued on.
"I'm can't tell if you're more interested in the festival, or the due process of it." Jaune scoffed.
"Well you know Weiss, take the most exciting thing and make it as boring as possible." Yang shrugged.
"Oh be quiet you two!" Weiss turned her nose up and continued on. Soon the entire group had reached the docks.
"Hey why are we at the docks? It really stinks here," Nora waved her hand in front of her face, "can we go somewhere else?"
"Yeah, how'd we get here anyway? Weren't we supposed to be checking out the preparations for the Vytal Festival?" Ruby asked as she pinched her nose shut. Even Pyrrha and Ren seemed rather put off by the smell, Blake seemed to be enjoying it though, and was taking in deep breaths.
"What? No fishy smell puns Yang?" Jaune asked.
"Well the smell is really fishing me up if that's what you're asking." Yang rolled her eyes, Jaune snorted at that.
"Well in answer to your questions, we're here because I heard that students visiting from Vacuo will be arriving by ship today. And, as a representative of Beacon, I feel as though it is my solemn duty to welcome them to this fine kingdom!" She spread her arms out wide; Jaune and Yang traded a questioning glance with raised eyebrows.
"What she means is that she wants to spy on them so she'll have the upper hand in the tournament." Blake deadpanned.
"You can't prove that!" Weiss scoffed and folded her arms.
"Hey what's that over there?" Nora gestured over to a curious sight. A shop down the street had its window shattered with its door taped over with yellow caution tape, at the same time a pair of detectives from the Vale Police Force could be seen writing things down on a notepad. Curious the entire group made their way over to the sight.
"What happened?" Ruby asked.
"Robbery. The second dust shop that was hit this week. I swear this place is turning into a jungle." The first detective shook his head and walked over to his partner.
"Well that's crappy." Yang sighed.
"It's apparently a fairly recent trend; multiple shops have been hit over the last few months." Pyrrha suddenly said, everyone turned to her, "I read it in the news." She said.
"Who needs that much dust anyway?" The first detective said.
"I dunno, an army maybe?" The second detective responded.
"White Fang?" That got Jaune's attention among other things.
"Yeah we're not paid enough to deal with this shit."
"That bunch of bloody terrorists again." Jaune hissed in a very angry tone as he looked over the destruction, it surprised everyone greatly, rarely was Jaune anything but polite, calm and well-mannered, he almost never got angry at anyone or anything for that matter.
"Jaune? Are you-" Pyrrha reached out and placed her hand on his shoulder, Jaune seemed to ignore it though.
"What a rotten cancer they are, they speak of freedom and equality, and yet their relentlessness steals the hearts of innocent men, women and children alike. Arrogance matched only by their capacity for violence." Jaune spat in an incredibly poetic tone, no one knew what to think about it. They knew Jaune had a capacity for poetic eloquence, but it was usually something fairly benign.
To hear something so dark was new to them.
Blake did her best to conceal her growing consternation and hid at the back of the group.
"Huh, well I guess I couldn't have been the only one who hates the white fang." Weiss folded her arms.
"Hate huh…?" A positively vicious smile crossed Jaune's face, "What'd they ever do to you?"
Weiss seemed rather put off by his expression, but was nevertheless about to respond when the group was interrupted by a commotion.
"Hey stop that Faunus!" A man shouted, the group's attention shifted to the docks, where a blonde boy with a yellow monkey tail was running about a boat, he jumped off and onto the dock laughing.
"Thanks for the ride guys!" He waved at them and continued running.
"You no-good stowaway!" Another person on the boat shouted at him.
Hey! A no-good stowaway would've been caught! I'm a great stowaway!" He grinned and jumped on to a lamppost and while hanging from it with his tail, he peeled back a banana and began eating it. He was stopped when one of the detectives picked up a stone from the ground and hurled it at him
"Hey! Get down from there this instant!" The detective shouted, the boy rolled his eyes and dropped the banana peel on the detectives face before jumping off the lamppost and continuing to run, in doing so he ran right past the group of eight hunters-in-training.
Giving a small wink to Blake as he ran by.
"He certainly doesn't lack for theatrics." Jaune flatly noted.
"Well there the competition goes," Yang noted airily, "Hope you're happy now Weiss."
"Quickly Pyrrha," Jaune turned to his partner who looked at him with confusion.
"Throw something at him before he gets away." Pyrrha smirked and shook her head in resignation.
"Oh I don't know Jaune, I met accidentally kill him or something." She responded smoothly, Jaune looked shocked, but recovered from the comeback with his own.
"My oh my Ms. Nikos," He smirked and leaned on one leg with his arms folded, "Is that bloodlust of yours acting up again? I'd better be careful now."
Pyrrha stood her ground, in the time she had known Jaune he endlessly enjoyed teasing and occasionally laughing at her, and she enjoyed it. She was no masochist but the feeling of normality it gave her felt really good and so she had let most of it slide with good cheer. But now she knew most of his jokes and taunts, and was more than willing to ply him back in the same way with which he plied her.
"Well Mr. Arc, perhaps you'd like to take this to the arena, I'm sure we could give each other a good working over?" Both laughed at this.
Pyrrha knew of course that she had said it in jest, but she did wish he would give her a proper "working over". Notice her more or something; his attention was frequently divided up between all sorts of things at Beacon –the other girls notwithstanding- even though he did spend quite a lot of time with them regardless.
"Should we go after them leader?" Nora gestured to Team RWBY disappearing in the distance, chasing after the monkey Faunus.
"Nah leave them to it, let's just go ahead and enjoy ourselves, but first things first," Jaune held up a finger, "let's get away from here before the smell starts clinging to our clothes." The rest all nodded immediately and made their way out of the area.
"Well I need to go get some things for the food stall, so I'll leave the two of you to it." Ren nodded at
"Yay! Let's go Renny! To the bakery!"
"We can't only have food from the bakery Nora, it would…" Jaune chuckled as he watched the duo disappear into the distance…
Leaving him with his crimson partner.
"Well, what do you want to do?" Jaune turned to her and asked.
"Well I was thinking we could just spend the day together, doing whatever you want." Pyrrha said airily.
"Fine then, there was an arcade back down there some ways, shall we?" Jaune held out his hand and smiled brightly.
"Lead the way Jaune." Pyrrha returned the smile.
What a strange turn of events this is, though I can't say I'm complaining… Pyrrha thought happily as she followed Jaune.
They spent the rest of the day wiling their time –and lien it should be noted- away within the arcade. Eventually though, it began to get dark and so Jaune called a halt to their activities, Ren had already notified the two that they were heading back to the dorm first with their shopping list complete, and the knight and the champion returned on their own as it was getting dark and the sun was setting, Jaune deviated his course to get to a nearby toilet and told Pyrrha to meet him back at the dorm.
As he walked down the hallway to his room, he ears perked up on hearing some rather loud yet muffled shouting coming from Team RWBY's room.
Well there's a strange commotion in RWBY's room, probably best not to-. Suddenly the door to RWBY's dorm exploded and Blake ran out at full speed, so fast that she ran right into Jaune who caught himself and her just in time to prevent the both of them from falling to the floor.
Blake's eyes widened in fear upon seeing Jaune.
"Blake? What's going on?" Jaune asked, without bothering to respond Blake pushed right by him and continued running as fast as she could. Jaune considered chasing her for a moment before Ruby's voice sounded out.
"Blake, wait! Come back!" Ruby appeared at the door to her bunk and looked down the hallway.
"Did something happen? Blake just ran down that way." Jaune jerked his thumb in the direction down the hall behind him.
"Oh yeah…err…well…" Ruby scratched her head and gave an awkward look as Jaune walked up to her and peered into the dorm, seeing Weiss looking down at the floor and Yang seated down.
"You gals have a fight or something?" He raised an eyebrow.
"Uh…Something like that…?" Ruby swallowed nervously, remembering Jaune's earlier reaction to learning about the White Fang.
Yang seemed to have the same realization when she saw Jaune at the doorway, "Yeah Jaune, just some girl stuff thing that's all, nothing for you to worry about." She did her best to smile and nod while making furtive glances at Weiss, "Right Weiss?" The heiress remained silent and continued staring at the floor.
"…Right…I see…well I'll leave you to sort it out then." Jaune made to leave when Weiss finally spoke.
"The nerve! Can you believe it? A White Fang member right here in Beacon?" Weiss growled out of the blue, Yang shot her a shocked look before looking at Jaune with a nervous expression.
"Weiss!" Ruby shouted, but it was too late for that, far too late.
The temperature verily dropped in the surrounding area.
"What…" Jaune turned to glare at Weiss, who took a step back uncertainly.
"Did…" He clenched his fists until his knuckles went white.
"You…" He took a step towards the rapidly shrinking heiress.
"Say…?" He hissed out every word, Ruby and Yang backed away. Weiss on the other hand was trapped by Jaune and was beginning to sweat with her knees knocking together.
Ho ho ho, Blake's sure going to be in hot water, Jaune's probably not going to handle learning that she was once a part of the White Fang well.
This omake is pretty dumb I admit, but I was struggling to think of anything remotely Blake related to use and this sorta just came up, so do enjoy.
Blake the mouser
One fine day, Weiss was just in her dorm, alone, sitting at her bedside and tending to her nails when she spotted movement out of the corner of her eye, she turned to face it out of curiosity...
Just in time to see a certain small, brown haired rodent dash across the room and under the opposite bed.
A brown note sounded that shook the whole of Beacon Academy to its core.
Ruby was closest and recognized the sound as her partner, with her semblance powered up she was at her dorm within seconds, she threw it open and found Weiss cowering beneath her sheets, staring pointedly across the room.
"Weiss?! What's wrong?! What's the matter?!"
"There's a mouse somewhere!" Weiss squeaked and wrapped the sheets
"...That's it...?" Ruby stared at her partner in disbelief, "You're a huntress Weiss! How on earth can you-" And then that same critter dashed out from underneath the bed.
Beacon was once again rocked by high-pitched scream that threatened to smash windows.
This time, Yang clearly recognized the sound of her own sister and was at the dormitory from the training area faster than you can say "Xiao Long have you been waiting for?"
"I"M HERE RUBY! WHAT IS IT?!" Yang literally exploded through the door.
"Help us sis!" Ruby cried out.
"There's a monster in this dorm!" Weiss nodded frantically, Yang cocked an eyebrow.
"What mons-" Something scurried right across her foot.
For the third time that day, Beacon was shaken by the unmistakable scream of a young woman.
Elsewhere, Jaune and Blake were in the library quietly reading, Jaune looked up from his book titled, Crowning Glory: A History of the House of Vale by Dr. B. Oobleck
"Your team seems rather lively today." He deadpanned, Blake sighed and stood up.
"I'll go see what's the problem." She growled out.
"Send me pictures!" Jaune called out behind her, she resisted flipping him off.
By this point, Blake had had enough of all the noises endlessly disturbing her peace, and recognizing the last cry as coming from her partner, she quickly made her way to her dorm.
To find all three of her team cowering beneath their sheets.
"...Wha...?" She gaped at all of them.
"Blake!" Yang called...no...yelled out.
"What's the matter with all of you now?" Blake asked, wondering if she wanted to know the answer.
"There's this big furry monster hiding beneath your bed!" Ruby called out.
"And I'm not afraid or anything, but I don't want to get dirty so would kindly help us out?" Weiss said quickly, Blake continued staring at all of them.
"Alright so what is this monster?" She pinched the bridge of her nose and shook her head.
"It's under your bed!...I think..." Yang cowered even deeper into her sheets.
"Right sure..." Blake got on her knees and peered under her bed, her eyes widened momentarily before she rolled them, brought her arm back, and with one well timed shot, snatched the critter up and stood up before the whole dorm.
"Is this the issue?" Blake held up the small, struggling mouse by its tail and gave the other three an unamused look.
"Well I guess I'll just dispose of this somewhere..." She turned and walked out of the dorm.
"Let's just agree that it was a big mouse." Weiss said quickly.
"Definitely." Yang agreed.
"SUPER-big mouse." Ruby nodded her head rapidly.
Yeah kinda dumb I know, still the FNDM harps on a lot about Blake's obsession with fish, reading smutty literature and doing all sorts of cat things.
Except hunting mice.
C'mon that's like the most obvious thing that cats do!
I appreciate all your reviews, faves and follows.
And on a completely different note, how would some of you feel if I tried to write a fanfic about Pyrrha's past featuring all sorts of Greco-roman mythological references? It would be styled like the flashback sequences of the first bunch of chapters as Pyrrha's old mentor -now a professor at Haven Academy- tells Team RNJR about her past. This fic would eschew any of the normal V4 prediction fics by being solely focused on this topic in particular, and would also focus a lot on the various people in Pyrrha's life before Vale. Meaning OCs up the wazoo of course.
Main characters would include Team ABRN (who rarely get mentioned in any of the V4 prediction fics going around) and a whole list of OCs based on Greco-roman mythology.