Jaune and Ruby sat down together on one side of the long table, a cup of tea served to each of the people in the room. Both looking around the room, seeing the file cabinets lined by the walls of the room. It was the blonde's first time to be in a student council room and all he can say is that its quite generic, nothing to note of except for the coffee/tea set atop a coffee table by the corner.

The student council president, Archibald, took a sip of his tea before speaking. "Ah, that's good tea. Mistralian is the go-to for tea indeed."

"So, you were the one who called for us?" Jaune asked.

"Yeah, we asked Ms. Goodwitch to have every team leader to have a meeting with us one by one so we can talk about their plans for the Festival."

"Why couldn't you have contacted us instead?" Ruby asked.

"Well, a few years back there were some… complications with the students' private information, mishandled by the student council of that time so now if we want to establish a meeting or access any information regarding the student populace it has to go through the head deputy or the headmaster themselves." The vice president, Feng casually explained. "It's a bit of a pain in the ass since we have to go through all the process but what can you do?" He shrugged with an exasperated face.

"And I'm pretty sure we have a tight schedule ahead of us so Archie, why not start already?" The secretary, Luna, said so as she put down her portable game console.

"Right, well sorry about that, I just can't not appreciate good drinks!" The lax president said. "But, yes, to get to the point we'll be discussing your plans for the festival and would be asking for you two to help with the festival as well by joining the festival committee." Archibald said.

"The Festival committee?" Ruby asked.

This time, it was the treasurer, Arcadia, who nodded at Ruby's question. "Right, because the teachers are going to be busy enough that we'll be needing volunteers and not-volunteers for this, which means you guys." She said before adjusting her glasses. "Of course, that won't be the only reason, we also need to talk about the funds allocation for your activity like everyone else's. Since the Vytal Festival is technically being held by the Academy it's only right that not everything you'd do will come from your pockets." She paused.

"But don't expect too much as we're already in a tight budget as it is." She sighed. "And its why we won't be hiring helpers as well since, well, our bodies are stronger than an average person. But if you can garner help from volunteers from others as well, then go ahead, we won't stop you." She smiled at them. "After all, charisma is also a skill in being a huntsman."

"Sure, wish I had it." Jaune joked.

"Same here." Ruby sighed.

"Well, that's not the only thing." The treasurer said.

"We'll also be asking you to at least have another team help you out with your play." Archibald explained. "It is a play, right?" He asked.

Jaune nodded in confirmation.

"Now, can you run it by me? The setting, plot, and everything that you've planned?"

"Well, there hasn't been any proper plans so far, we've only just finished the script after all. In fact, we were just about to plan to buy the materials for the props and such later today." Jaune explained. "I can also give the script later today if you want, I'll just print it in a bit at the library."

"Alright, see that you do also, if there are any updates it would help that you'd have a written report sent so we can be updated."

The blonde knight nodded and proceeded to explain their plot, the roles and the setting he had for each scenario.

"So, at least there would be four scenario changes, the lights and sounds can be provided by the academy since we already had one in hand." Archibald then looked to the secretary. "How about the schedule?"

"How long do you think the play would go?" Luna asked.

"An hour and a half at most, including the break between act 1 and 2." Jaune answered.

"Then we can squeeze you guys on two runs, one in the morning of the first day and the evening of the second day, two hours before the huge bonfire for the students." Luna said as she typed something on her scroll.

"There's a bonfire?" Ruby asked.

"Yep, and its where you get to have some group dance and such." Archibald said before sipping on his tea.

"But, don't we already have the Beacon dance for that?"

Archibald froze, mid-sipping, "Oh, seven hells I forgot about that."

"I knew you'd forget since you haven't picked on it for a while now so I've already asked Ms. Goodwitch to handle that. And to answer your question, Ms. Rose, the Vytal Festival bonfire dance is mostly a presentation of traditional dancing originating from Mistral, which us, the student council will teach the guests, students, and students from other schools as well."

"This is for formality only but its to somewhat create a connection for the future huntsmen and huntresses of Remnant with the civilians." Arcadia added.

Then Ruby raised her hand. "I have a question."

"Go ahead, red." Feng gave a single finger gun at her.

"Right, um, why all the details though? I mean, wouldn't it be fine by just telling you guys how it's going?"

"Yes, but we must have a written report for archive, the history of the Vytal Festival is to celebrate the long-perished kingdom of Vytal that brought the other major kingdoms together, right? Well it would only be appropriate that everything that the previous students has done should be recorded." The secretary explained. "Of course, there's also the fact that we have to keep up with appearances, so we make sure that the activities you plan would meet the quality that we can show the other guests."

"Like for example the previous team we had a talk with, the ones who had chosen to have a weapon's exhibit with not much to show but simple weaponry." She sighed.

Feng gave a small chuckle. "You should've seen how angry Luna was."

"And which is why we decided on giving them the condition of having other teams join in their activity to at least expand their showcase." Archibald said.

"Which is going to be hard cause' I heard they weren't well-liked by the everyone." Feng gave a tired sigh instead.

"We're actually glad that you guys are well-planned already, just a few polishing and maybe a pilot show for us and the faculty staff to help you improve your play." Archibald said.

"I can also help out with the heavy lifting since the whole student council will be spread around the festival to assist with the whole student body." The Vice-president gave a confident smile that turned into a frown. "Ugh, I'll be needing coffee soon."

And the whole student council were suddenly filled with tired dread, sighing at the same time before the president called out to the two leaders. "So, we'll be asking for your help, okay?" He said.

Jaune nodded before taking a sip of his own tea, appreciating the goodness and of its herbal aftertaste that seemed to calm down his senses before taking his leave.

The two leaders did not forget to mentally note the eyebags that formed on the council's face before leaving.

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"And that's everything that happened." Ruby explained to both team JNPR and RWBY of what happened with the student council as they walked off the bullhead that brought them to the city of Vale.

"Didn't know we had a student council." Yang said with her hands behind her back, walking casually without a care in the world.

"It was in the pamphlet they sent, you dolt!" Weiss complained.

Yang gave a confident smirk at this. "Everyone who didn't read the pamphlet, raise their hands and say I!"

"I!" Everyone shouted with their hands up.

"Even you two!?" Weiss pointed at Ren and Pyrrha.

"I was too excited to see it and it was my agent who got the letter." The champion said with a flustered face.

"And Nora was too busy running around with the letter to even let me read it. She grabbed it five seconds after I opened it up." Ren gave a shrug.

"I am surrounded by irresponsible people." Weiss gave a facepalm.

"To be fair, no one reads a pamphlet. Not even me." Blake said.

"Hey, if its any consolation at least the president will appreciate what you did, Weiss." Jaune nudged the ice princess' shoulder and smiled.

"Did you even know that the whole student council is a team?" Weiss asked.

"Huh, guess that explains how close they are." Ruby said.

"Team ALFA (Alpha), led by whose members include Archibald Blanc, the leader, Luna Amami, Huang Feng, and Arcadia Leonhart. They were also the winners of the previous Vytal festival two years ago and have been known to hunt high-class Grimm ranking from class A to class S during their second year and for hunting an elder Grimm with the help of an experienced huntsman." Pyrrha said.

"You know of them?" Weiss asked until she saw the Pyrrha's scroll, which she was reading from. "Should've known better."

"Well, now I remember them from the Vytal festival tournament but other than that I don't really know of them much."

"Kinda' weird how they've done so much but is unknown to us?" Jaune said with a hand on his chin.

The pink hammer wielder gasped "Could this be a foreshadowing?"

"Pft, yeah right. Its probably because we were busy with our own stuff." The blonde knight casually denied Nora's question with a wave of a hand.

"Lets just focus on our own things for now." Ruby suggested.

Everyone agreed with her.

"Oh hey, we're here!" Yang announced.

Everyone looked up at the huge sign of the mall.

"So, we'll be canvassing for the prices of the supplies we'll be needing, correct?" Weiss asked Jaune.

The two already talked about this but this is probably for confirmation. Since the student council mentioned that they'd be receiving funds for their festival activity, they decided to check the estimates of everything that they might need, from equipments to the materials to be used by them for the play.

He nodded at her and took out his scroll for what they may need. "Here, its all here." He showed the list to everyone. It was all simple supplies like wood for the background, cloth, and some art materials as well.

"What about the costumes though?" Blake asked.

"Just leave that to me." Weiss answered with a proud grin. "I know some people who can help with it."

"I think it would be best if we split up and look around for the things we'd need." Pyrrha suggested.

"I call dibs on Jaune!" Yang said, grabbing the other blonde's arm.

Jaune gave a weird smile as it reminded her of his sisters whenever they needed someone to carry their shopping bags. "Sure, I don't mind." He said while scratching his cheeks to hide push back his face from being red, seeing as his arm was not used to feeling a woman's warmth, especially a woman's bossom.

Though Jaune has memories of being a woman, that doesn't excuse his own body to react psychologically, this meaning that he has never, ever, been this close to someone of opposite sex to him. Well, excluding his sisters, Nora, and Pyrrha, despite the skin ship, they were akin to family. Which is why any form of physical contact with his teammates were just received with nothing but a grain of salt to him.

Nora gasped. "I call dibs on Renny!" She shouted before jumping on the said ninja's back.

"Nora!" Ren warned before staggering from the amount of force she brought on his back.

"Then I'll go with Pyrrha." Weiss said. "I need her advice on some of the designs for the mistralian costumes.

"I guess this leaves you and me Blakey!" Ruby said.

The girl just nodded with a small smile on her face.

"We'll meet back here after an hour. Got it?" Jaune said.

"Got it!" Everyone replied.

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Jaune and Yang went straight to a hardware store in the mall's basement, they looked at the many different woods they had, including the sizes.

"Do you think we'd need an expert for this?" Jaune asked.

"Do we? I mean, dad and my uncle made our house by themselves so maybe we can make do with the sizes?" Yang replied.

"You think?"

She shrugged.

"Eh, we'll just make do with what we can take." Jaune listed out the prices before pulling a few planks of woods with different sizes, seeing the sizes and asking Yang to list out how many with need and the prices.

They also looked around for the many equipments they could need.

"Let's see… Nails, wood, paint, saws and hammers." Jaune listed out loud the things they canvassed for.

"Couldn't we just use Nora's hammer and some of our weapons for that?" Yang asked.

"We could, if we want to break everything." Jaune said with sass.

Yang gave Jaune a playful shove. "I didn't need the sarcasm, you ass. I was joking, just because I'm blonde doesn't mean I don't have brains."

The other blonde gave a shit-eating grin. "I know."

That earned Jaune a small kick to his rear. "Ow! Not even holding back?"

"Psh, with your aura I doubt you felt that."

"You do know that even with aura we can still feel the pain from our body being damaged, right?"

"Yeah, but your aura reserves are just so plenty that it feels like a cheat."

"You know what they say, guys with big aura has big…?" He paused asking Yang to continue.

"Oh, I will not be baited to saying it."

"Saying what?" He asked.

"Oh, you know what I mean!" She said, face almost getting flustered.

"What are you so defensive about?"

"Oh, you do not get to act all innocent on me Jaune Arc. You know what I mean."

"What's the problem? Having big aura means having great Deeeeeee – fenses against attacks." Jaune said with another shit-eating grin. "What did you expect?" He asked, with a grin that's asking to be punched, kicked, and other kinds of painful things to do to a face.

"Jaune Arc, I will kick your ass for this sexual harassment?"

The blonde knight put a hand to his chest in a dramatic fashion. "Me? Sexual harassment? Why, I never! Mine was only a rather innocent phrase. It was you who made it all perve-" he paused midway as he saw yang's eyes turning crimson red, as it screamed bloodshed at him. "Stopping now."

"You hear that? That's the sound of your life being saved." Yang said.

"But I just kept quiet."

"Exactly."

The two then exchanged looks and laughed.

"You're dumb." Yang said.

"Eh, it's a blonde thing." He shrugged.

"D-did you just – Touche, Jaune. Touche."

He chuckled. "There are some things that I will always strive to be on top of."

Yang decided to take advantage of him. "Oh? So, does that mean you want to be on top of me Jaune?" She leaned in to Jaune's space and stared at his eyes.

"Uh-uh, I- UH." He swallowed as Yang saw his ears turning red.

"Hah, in the end Yang Xiao-Long stays on top." She walked ahead of Jaune with an obvious sashay of her hips. Jaune covered his lower face and looked away.

"Dammit' Yang!"

Today is a great day. Yang thought to herself.

"Hey Yang. You're a pot and I'm a kettle, you know that, right?"

"Its good to be king." She smirked.

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The two teams decided to return to the academy after walking around the mall. Jaune went ahead to the student council and passed the list of things they would end up needing along with the script for the play. Only the treasurer and the secretary were in the room.

"Thanks. We'll see what we can do with the building tools and the materials as well." The treasurer smiled at him. "Just wait here for a bit, I'll send the list to Ms. Goodwitch and wait for her approval. Take a seat and have some tea or something."

"Where're the president and vice-president?" Jaune asked.

The two traded looks for a bit and nodded. "They were called earlier today by the faculty to help out with the Grimm Activity in Forever Fall." The secretary said

"It's that bad?"

"Not to the point to call in other huntsmen but other 3rd years are away on their own missions so we're really stretched thin right now." Luna answered.

"I see."

"Here, have a drink." The treasurer served him a cup of tea.

"Thank you." He accepted and took a sip. He enjoyed it as he thought about Forever Fall and the growing number of Grimm. Is it just a coincidence that the Vytal Festival is near? Jaune shook his head and dismissed it as a coincidence instead. Speculating can only take one so far after all.

There was a ping on the secretary and Jaune's Scroll. Jaune opened his and saw that he was being called by the headmaster along with his team.

Then Luna spoke up. "Well, Ms. Goodwitch will note it for now and put it up as pending, we'll give you a week before we can adjust the funds. For now, just work on the play itself." She smiled. "Also, it seems that the headmaster is calling for you guys."

The blonde knight nodded and showed the message on his scroll. "Thanks for the tea." He said as he messaged his team to meet with him by the elevator going to the headmaster's room.

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"Weird, I mean, its already 5:40pm, you'd expect the headmaster to already be resting and stuff." Nora said with a confused tone.

The whole team JNPR is already in the elevator going to the headmaster's room as Nora started the conversation.

"Its probably because they're busy with the festival." Ren said

"Maybe, but its still weird. I mean we could already be sleeping by this time."

"I doubt there'd be anyone our age asleep by this time." Pyrrha said with a small chuckle.

"I know Ren does with his afternoon siestas." She pointed at her childhood friend.

"You know I only need an hour. And besides, I haven't done it unless it's the weekend since we have classes."

"You sleep in the afternoon?" Jaune asked.

"I need my rest Jaune." He replied as his eyes signaled to Nora.

"Oh, that's why Nora is so energetic." Jaune said, a fist hitting his open palm. "Nora must constantly take in Ren's energy."

"At this point I'm not even going to question that logic." Ren said with a small chuckle, unknown to him that he just took Jaune's bait.

"So, Ren is the giver and Nora is the receiver?" Jaune said with a huge grin on his face. "Nice going, man."

"Y-you know we're not together-together right?!" Nora said with an unusually nervous and high-pitched voice.

"Eh, could've fooled me, right Pyr?" Jaune shrugged.

"True, it's like you two are always newlyweds, especially when you're the only one who can wake Ren up." Pyrrha chuckled.

"Pyrrhaaaaaa! You traitor!" Nora said.

Ren coughed quietly as he moved to a corner. Just in time for the elevator bell to ring and open up towards the headmaster's office.

"Ah, good evening team JNPR. Thank you for answering my summons.

"Good evening headmaster." They all greeted.

"now, since its already this late I shall be cutting to the chase, if you won't mind?"

"Please go ahead, sir." Jaune answered.

The enigmatic headmaster nodded and stood up. "This weekend there shall be a representative from Atlas to oversee the development of the Vytal Festival and to have a talk with the Vale council." He walked took out a folder and put it on display to the students and proceeded to continue while walking to a coffee table by the side to pour himself a cup. "Now, She is a part of the Atlesian senate and I will be asking you to accompany the said representative along with her own retinue as she has requested the your team specifically."

"Us, sir? Why?" Pyrrha said.

The headmaster chuckled. "Open the folder to find out."

The whole team approached his table and opened the table.

Nora read it out loud. "Delilah A. Pleiades."

"Oh… That's why." Jaune gave a nervous gulp.

"Yes, quite." Ozpin took a sip of his coffee. "Quite the good coffee indeed." He smiled

"What's the matter? Jaune, you're sweating." Pyrrha said.

Ren took another look at the folder. "Delilah Arc Pleiades. Do you know her, Jaune?"

"Yeah, she's my sister. And – "

"And I would like to quote her words 'I need to speak with Jaune Arc for failing to inform me of his decisions' which is why I couldn't deny her request. Seeing as she is family and a government official." Another sip. "I need to ask Archibald where he gets his blend."

And Jaune's world just froze.

/Ch. 12 End/

Aye, so the reason why Jaune is scared will be revealed next chapter. Believe it or not, people can and will develop some form of trauma against family members due to reasons. I know I have a few.

Wanted to upload another chapter since my hands are on FIREEEEEEE! Anyway, not much action here and just to let you know, the weekend where this happens is also on time with a certain weekend that team RWBY also gets to experience. Which means this is a huge build up for something to come. And Gabriel H. Sapphire helped me in continuing my story with having a few OC here and there but there is one thing I would like you guys to note,

That some minor characters in canon may have a major role here, I want to use all of them as much as I could so there may be some nitty gritty shit regarding the relationships of people in this plot. But they aren't something that is needless and whatnot. I believe that people, even if they happen to pass by our lives, are still significant in their own right. Which is why the story may go off-canon in a few, but still mixed with the actual canon as well. So with that said, I have no idea when I'd post again but I hoped you enjoyed this chapter and if you have thoughts on it kindly leave a review so I can improve and polish up and such.

This is Shaniic bidding ya'll farewell. Love and peace!