No Disclaimers, because I'm a rebel, but I will say that at some point, I will continue the Pheremone arc, but know that it's a side arc that I will randomly have in between chapters depending on the feedback and if I feel like it.
Heck, I might parody other fanfictions too for the lulz.
Jaune yawned loudly as he looked over in the arena.
Cardin was obviously waiting for the chance to beat him up in a very public and humiliating way.
Jaune has been there before.
The moment Cardin didn't try to beat him up right there on the spot, he knew that Cardin was planning on something.
It didn't take long for him to realize that Cardin wanted to fight him without getting in trouble, while at the same time crippling his reputation.
Now if only Jaune actually had a reputation worth mentioning.
He wasn't really that knowledgeable about how people see him currently, but he will say that it probably wasn't that good to begin with.
As Miss Goodwitch called him down, Jaune stretched and slowly made his way to where Cardin was standing.
"Alright you 2, you know how this works, first one to get the other's aura to reach red, wins." She announced before stepping aside.
"Begin!" She said.
"Alright, blondie, time to get you back for what you did to my team and for being a faunus supporter." Cardin said as he got into stance with his mace.
"Yeah, yeah yeah, I get it. You're self-conscious and insecure about yourself while needing some sort of outlet to vent your frustration on. So what better source then a race that everyone else is already hating?" Jaune said as he opened up his shield.
Cardin growled, not sparing him another chance to speak as he rushed forward with a straightforward attack.
Jaune simply moved out of the way, easily sidestepping this simple attack, something that Cardin expected.
Despite how he may act and how he looks, Cardin was at least competent enough to not believe that going straight in with no strategy would be a good idea, showing as how the moment he swung down, he slammed the mace into the ground and used the momentum to use it as a threshold to swing him forward with the mace in his hand for yet another attack.
Jaune kept his distance, observing Cardin's movements as he kept up his relentless attack.
Jaune was surprised by how Cardin made sure to cover up any openings by merely attacking fast enough for an average person to not be able to react.
Thankfully, he wasn't an average person.
Jaune's options weren't limited.
His options were to either:
1:Block with his shield since he was sure he could counter Cardin's force with his own to get him unbalanced a bit and launch his own counter attack.
2:Keep dodging until Cardin was out of energy to keep up his relentless assault.
3:Take a chance and go for one of the many openings that Cardin left open, only to risk getting hurt himself.
Or 4:Repeatedly clash against his attacks with his own, matching blow for blow for style points until Cardin runs out of energy.
As Jaune mused over his options, Cardin realized he wasn't getting anywhere with his attacks either.
In doing so, Cardin started adding his own body into the attacks, not relying only on his mace, as he mixed in any chance to try and kick, elbow or head-butt Jaune.
This caught the blonde off guard for a bit, but in the end, Cardin was still too slow compared to him, so he was still able to stay out of reach.
"Stay. Still. You. Little. Bastard!" Cardin said in between each unsuccessful hit.
"Yes, because on the battlefield, people ask the enemy side to stand in front of their guns." Jaune said dryly, before he had enough and decided on option 1. Moving his shield to meet with Cardin's mace hard enough to stagger the brute enough for Jaune to sweep at his legs to trip him.
Cardin fell on his back with a thud, while Jaune whistled lowly.
"I think this fight is a bit too cliché, don't you think? Small guy constantly dodging, until he's able to trip the big guy and have him fall." Jaune asked his opponent as Cardin growled, getting up slowly.
"You were just lucky, now I won't make the same mistake again." Cardin said as he got himself back up.
Jaune merely stared at him with a deadpan face.
"Yeah, even that line right there was probably expected." He said before moving his head to the side as a mace flew right past him.
Jaune looked back at the weapon that was thrown before looking back at the larger boy.
"Did you just throw your wea-" Jaune was about to ask before he was met with a fist to his face, hitting him cleanly and hard enough for him to be sent flying a bit onto his back.
Cardin grinned as he walked over to where Jaune was, who was conveniently laying near where he threw his mace, picking up his weapon he sneered at Jaune.
"How was that for cliché, blondie?" He said as Jaune slowly got up, glaring at the bully, before smirking.
"Got another one in you?" He said with a wide grin that promised pain.
Cardin was oblivious towards this as he grinned back.
"Let's go, blondie." He said, not knowing what he was getting himself into.
Meanwhile with Jaune's "friends"
"Woo… That Winchester guy is pretty good if he's able to hit Sunshine like that, even if he was caught off guard." Yang said out loud after watching the match.
"I'll have to agree with that, but you need to remember that Jaune was holding himself back the entire time too, so it was hard for him to expect something like that from him." Blake said, watching the match intently.
"Well, looks like Sunshine's about to get a little serious." Yang said, grinning widely.
"Oooo, it's fun to watch Jaune get serious. When he gets encouraged he does the weirdest attacks with a really weird smile when he fights against me." Ruby said with a cheerful smile.
This caught Yang's attention, prompting her to nearly yell.
"WHAT?! WHAT WEIRD ATTACKS?! WHAT DID HE DO TO YOU?!" Yang asked, with a sudden flare surrounding her.
"O-oh! He has this really weird smile and he tries really hard to get a hold of m-" Ruby began, but before she knew it, Yang was already seething with fury.
"HOW DARE HE DO THAT SORT OF THING TOWARDS MY INNOCENT SISTER!" Yang yelled.
Weiss and Blake remained silent, not wanting to be involved any further as they watched the match.
Team JNPR also remained silent, deciding to let their leader get whatever he deserves.
Back with Jaune…
"Huh… What is this strange sensation of being burned that I'm feeling?" Jaune thought to himself as Yang glared at him from far away.
"Ah well, time to return the favor… over and over and over and over…" Jaune said to himself as he stared at Cardin with a sadistic grin.
"Ready for some more, blondie?" Cardin said smugly as Jaune merely laughed.
"Oh, I'm ready to have what you did replicated over and over and over again, buddy." Jaune said with a large amount of enthusiasm. This sent a chill down Cardin's back as he held up his weapon.
This momentary stance change was his undoing as Jaune immediately sent a kick his way, which Cardin automatically tried to block with his weapon out of reflex.
However, Jaune wasn't aiming for his body, but instead he sent a heavy kick towards his hand.
A large crack can be heard as Cardin dropped his weapon with a loud yelp.
He didn't scream or yell though, keeping his pride intact as he held the hand of which Jaune kicked.
"W-what the hell?" He asked before Jaune was sent another kick towards him while he was down, sending him flying into a wall for him to slide down.
Cardin coughed as Jaune laughed maniacally.
He looked up to see Jaune with a smile of a serial killer. One that took great pleasure in slow and painful processes.
"Hey, buddy, get back up! There's no breaks when you play a game with me! After all, I need to return the favor…" Jaune said in a low voice.
Back with Jaune's "Friends"
Everyone was surprised to see such brutality coming from Jaune.
They knew he was capable of it, but they did not ever think that he'd actually have the mentality to do such a thing.
"Y-yang, I'm scared!" Ruby yelled tearfully as she hugged her sister.
Yang stayed quiet as she narrowed her eyes at Jaune as she held her younger sister close.
Blake remained silent as she watched her "friend" laugh maniacally, scaring the poor larger boy.
Weiss however was surprisingly more verbal.
"Hmph, what did the idiot expect when he decided to try and fight someone?" She said a bit coldly.
Pyrrha, deciding to finally speak up, said in a quiet voice.
"Oh Monty… That's my partner?" She asked herself.
"Yes, that's YOUR partner." Ren said with a bit of a smirk, having already guessed that Jaune would be the type to have a berserk button like that.
"Aw, Renny! Jaune gets to break legs, but when I try to do so, I get scolded?" Nora asked her partner as Ren merely shook his head.
"Nora, you break people's legs for no reasons, Jaune on the otherhand is merely returning the favor, after all, this was Cardin's idea to fight here.
Back with Jaune.
"Come on, buddy! You were talking all that good stuff earlier, but then I broke your hand! What's up with that?" Jaune said cheerfully as he continued walking towards Cardin.
"G-get away from me, you're a monster just like them!" Cardin said fearfully.
"Monster like them? Whatever could you mean?" Jaune said with a tilt of his head.
"Like those dirty animals! They only know how to hurt people and cause them pain! You're just like them! Get away from me!" Cardin said as he cowered.
"Ah, I see. That's why you dislike Faunus. Something must have happened in the past. It almost makes me feel bad…" Jaune said in a low voice and mock sadness, before his expression instantly brightened up.
"That's why I'll make sure that you know that anything they can do, someone like me can do much worse!" Jaune gleefully said as he finally had his sword up, collapsing his shield.
"After all, humans are just as capable as Faunus are in causing pain. Look at us! We do nothing, but make weapons to kill eachother, rather than the grimm knocking on our doors. We do nothing but lie and tell people that we want to help, but would be the first to leave someone behind for our own skin. We do nothing but eat and eat and eat, while ignoring our own people who are starving. Even now, we're killing eachother more than the Grimm can ever do." Jaune said as everyone listened.
"What have the faunus done, but react? Everything they do, they did because we were there first. Do you really think that one day the entire population of faunus decided "hey, let's go kill humans, bwahahaha!"?" Jaune asked rhetorically.
"No. They were attacked by us, because we can't stand the idea of another race being better than us. Because we were afraid of what they were capable of. Because we were afraid of something being different. All in all, us humans are a pretty terrible species… and I'm glad to be here to make sure you know that." Jaune finished with a sadistic smile as he moved in to slash at Cardin.
However, like any other cliché story, an instructor comes in to block the attack effortlessly.
Jaune blinked, as he realized that he was still in class and in public.
"Whoops, did I go overboard again?" Jaune said with a smile that seemed to say "Oh, gosh, silly me."
"I'm sorry, that only happens when something really sets me off." Jaune said in a low voice directed towards Cardin who whimpered.
Miss Goodwitch sighed, before she spoke.
"Mr. Arc, you have done more than enough to win your match. While I must say that your combat skills are exemplary, I will have to disagree with how you use them…" She said, with a light glare at the blonde.
"Haha, I'll be sure to be more gentle next time, maybe you should pair me off against a girl next time." Jaune said with a cheeky smile, before earning a more focused glare from her.
"Or, I will start becoming an outstanding member of society who will listen to his beautiful and lovely teacher who is so kind and nice!" Jaune immediately answered correctly.
"Good, now Mr. Winchester, I must say that how you managed to land your first strike against Jaune was clever, but I must say that you lack in foresight and tact. Had this been a real fight, you would have been at the mercy of Mr. Arc." Miss Goodwitch said as she looked down on the broken body of the person called Cardin Winchester.
"Y-yes, Miss Goodwitch, may I please go to the nurse?" Cardin asked, which was answered with a nod from the blonde.
"T-thank you…" He said as he slowly got up. His team came to help him as they supported and lead him to the nurse's office.
Miss Goodwitch then looked around at the rest of the class and spoke loudly.
"Everyone, class is done for the day. Please go to your next class or wherever it is you need to go to." She yelled before she exited the room.
The moment she left, Jaune yawned and looked over to where his "friends" where, and merely waved.
He was intantly bombarded with questions.
"Jaune are you okay?" The Little Red Riding Hood asked worriedly after seeing how he treated Cardin.
"What was that all about?" The Schnee Heiress asked.
"Do you want to do that again?" The orange haired Valkyrie asked.
"Did he hit you too hard?" The Red haired Spartan asked.
Jaune merely shrugged off the questions with an "I'm alright guys, I just really needed that therapy." He said with a smile, before he was suddenly held up by a Blonde bomber by his shirt.
"What did you do to my sister…?" She asked, seething with Tranquil Fury.
Jaune could only laugh nervously.
Omake: Jaune and Ruby spar
Jaune was getting annoyed.
Here he agreed to fight against Ruby in a sparring match, expecting to hone his skills a bit, but as luck would have it, he failed to remember that Ruby was extremely fast.
Said girl kept moving in and out of his attacks, dealing small amounts of damage while all he could do was tank them.
Thankfully, he had the reflexes to at least block and mitigate the damage he received, but still, he needed to get a hit in or he was going to blow up.
After 20 minutes of this mindset, he finally snapped and started laughing maniacally.
He broke.
He lost his rationality as he started trying to catch Ruby with his two hands instead of tactically trying to tire her out or keep her pinned.
Ruby, oblivious to this, merely smiled and kept up her pace with the dodging.
The innocent little girl merely giggled as the blonde kept trying to grab her.
What a fun day for Jaune.
Well there we go. Jaune vs Cardin.
I wanted Cardin to be a bit better and I wanted Jaune to show off that he is purely physical when it comes to any fighting.
Think of Cody Travers in Street Fighter. He's able to fight Akuma, even going so far to deem the match as boring, with only physical abilities while Akuma has ki, soul attacks and all that.
So will Jaune have a semblance? Yeah. I need to make it so that it fits with how he fights or at the very least give him some versatility to match with people with fire or magnetic powers.
Also, I am not really too keen on deciding the pairing, since I want to make everything realistic at the very least.
All in all, I'm building up Jaune to be a physical powerhouse, while making sure everyone around him will eventually be able to have their own niche in the RWBYverse.
I don't know what yet, but hey. Psychopathic Jaune is going to be a fun thing to mess with.
Why don't you guys decide on some things? Who will be the first girl that has a solid relationship with Jaune or what will Jaune's semblance be?
The Glitchy Red Fox of 1337ness out.