Ok, wow. This is really late, sorry about that. I was mostly doing work for my computer science class and gaming with my dad, so I kind of ran out of time for writing. But I at least got this one done :D Anyways this chapter is mostly based on the new student, and I think that you guys are going to like it. Oh by the way, I was thinking for any of you league of legends players out there. By all means please add me if you want, my summoner name is Fuaxis. Just message me and let me know that you're from fan fiction and we can have a game. Anyways, enjoy!
"Argh, why can't this just be like three thousand times easier?" Yang was puffing in frusteration. The three of them had spent all night looking through the blue prints, trying to find a way to bust Ruby out of the compound. But no matter how much they divided up each job, it seemed like it would be impossible with only the three of them.
"There's just too many things for us to deal with." Yang shot Weiss a dirty look, but said nothing. Instead she turned back to the paper lying before them and tried to focus. Blake stood for a moment, thinking to herself.
"What if we could get some people to help us?" Weiss rolled her eyes.
"And who do you think would help us, JNPR are our friends and all, but I doubt that they would support this. And everyone else at Beacon hates us." Blake shrugged.
"It was just an idea." They continued to stare at the print, but it seemed to bring no help for them. After a few minutes, they could hear a knock at the door. Neither Blake nor Weiss moved a muscle, so Yang huffed and walked towards the door.
"No that's ok, I'll get it." She turned back towards the door and rolled her eyes. The knock returned before she could even touch the handle. "Alright, alright, geez." Opening the door, Yang could see Ozpin and a small boy standing there.
"Hello Yang, mind if we come in?" Yang turned around and signaled to hide the blueprints, before opening the door wider and swinging her hand towards the beds. Ozpin stepped in confidently, but the boy seemed nervous, scared even.
"So who's that?" She nodded towards the boy. Ozpin smiled and turned to face him.
"This, is your new team mate, he will be joining you from here on in. His name is Jarrod." Being more forceful than anything else, Ozpin pushed the boy forward, who gave a small wave and looked away. Weiss was dumbfounded.
"Are you sure, I mean he doesn't look very fighting worthy. No offence." Blake coughed to herself.
"Cough, dress, cough." Weiss gave her a dirty look, but ignored it. Ozpin however arched his eyebrows curiously before answering.
"Yes, almost everyone is suprised at first. But I can garuntee that he can easily natch any one of you in the battle field." Yang looked angry. She had heard from Weiss the day before about the coming team member, but not only was he a scrawny, popsicle stick with skin. But also now Ozpin was insulting her fighting skills. Ozpin saw her flash of anger, so he decided to move things along.
"Anyways, Jarrod you will be replacing Ruby, your new bed is right-"
"There." Weiss quickly interupted him, while pointing to her own bed. He gave her a look that was almost a frown, but he continued.
"Uh, yes, that is your new bed." Weiss breathed a deep sigh of relief. She didn't want anyone to be sleeping in Ruby's bed, never mind a new team member. However she also wasn't too keen on sleeping there herself, for fear of death. But it was worth it to keep a part of Ruby with them.
As Ozpin left, Jarrod looked around nervously.
"So, uh, hi?" Yang tried to be angry with him, she wanted to not want to accept anybody as Ruby's replacement. But his uncertainty and quirkiness made her instantly think he was adorable. She bounced up to him and held out her hand.
"Hi, my name is Yang. Welcome to team RWBY!" Blake looked at her curiously, but smiled evily. As Yang made her way back, Blake leaned into her.
"So on a rating of one to ten, how much competition do I have here?" Yang smiled and leaned in as well.
"I can't count that high." Blake laughed at their teasing.
"So a four? I can deal with a four." She walked up and extended her own hand. "My name is Blake, but I should warn you that if you ever call me kitty like these two do, I will slit your throat. I would slit theirs too, but one of them is my girlfriend and the other was dating her sister." Jarrod nodded in a nervous understanding. That only left Weiss, seeing that she wasn't moving towards him, Jarrod raised his hand.
"H-hi, what's your name?" She made no move to grab his hand, only turning away to start grabbing her things from his bed.
"Weiss." He rubbed the back of his head and walked over to Yang.
"She does not like me, does she?" Yang shook her head.
"Coming off a REALLY bad break up, just give her some time." He nodded and leaned against a wall. Within a few moments he had taken in the room and became confused.
"So why didn't you want me to have Ruby's bed?" Weiss froze while carrying, she turned to him and gave him a hard glare.
"How did you know?" Jarrod shrugged.
"You all have your colors, yellow, black, white. But you're white and now you are setting up your things onto the red bed. I can only assume that means you didn't want to let go of something from your past by the way Ozpin looked when you pointed to your own bed. So anyways, why is it that you don't want me sleeping there?" Weiss looked angry, but continued her moving.
"Ruby and I were together. She made me feel more happy than you could imagine. The day that she was caught, Ruby sacrificed herself for the good of her team. She is the most special thing that has ever happened to our team, and I'm trying to preserve her."
"And Ozpin doesn't want you to because...?" Weiss sighed.
"He thinks that it would be easier for us to move on, hence why you're here." Jarrod nodded and looked back towards the other two, who had their heads down. After a few minutes of silence, Jarrod looked up at Weiss with a look of determination on his face.
"I will help you."
"Help with what Jarrod?" He beamed before answering.
"With breaking out Ruby, what else?" Blake was up and holding his collar before either Weiss or Yang could even let his words sink in. She pulled out her blade and held it to his throat, but he seemed anything but nervous. In fact he looked almost smug. "How about I explain before you ask." Blake nodded with a wild look in her eyes. "You haven't really let go of Ruby, or even tried. At all. You could have easily preserved Ruby without keeping her bed and risking your life when you obviously don't want to. All of you seem to have several looks of internal glances at one another each minute, and you're all really easy to read. None of you have any intention on being away from Ruby for long, if you did then you would at least try to let her go. The only option left is to either break her out or become arrested yourself. So unless you're getting arrested, I'm in."
All three of them stood still, in complete shock. There was no way that he could have figured that out. At least no way that they could comprehend. It was nearly a full minute of silence before Jarrod sighed, seeing that they were not speaking. "If you're not comfortable with it, I will not force it on you or rat you out. But I think that I might be an asset to your team." Weiss reacted immediately.
"We're not comfortable with it." Jarrod nodded, looking glum. But still he moved on and began to grab his things from the hallway. When he had finally finished, Jarrod lay on his bed, panting. Although he was a good fighter, he was not what some would call, muscular. Within minutes, he and the three girls had fallen into a deep slumber, where they stayed until morning.
"BZZZZZ...BZZZZZZ...BZZZZZZZ..." Yang sat up with eyes a blaze.
"How do you still have that stupid clock?!" She reached over and pulled it out of the socket before laying back down. Blake smiled and sat up, leaning over her stubborn girlfriend.
"Come on Yang, get up before we are late." She nudged Yang with her arm, but seeing that it made no difference, Blake heaved Yang off the bed entirely. "I said up." Yang stood up and glared at her with fury. She dove at Blake, but she simply moved out of the way for Yang to land onto the bed. "No attacking, or you get no shnuggles for a week."
Yang pouted, but admitted defeat. As the two of them got ready, they noticed Jarrod standing in the doorway, smiling.
"What are you staring at creepo?" His grin widened.
"Not staring, waiting. I have no idea where my classes are. But I will admit that watching the two of you is quite entertaining." Yang was unsure to take that as a compliment or an insult, so instead she decided to take it as neither. Walking into the bathroom with Blake in her arms, Yang merely ignored his comment and continued with her morning.
When the two of them finally emerged, Jarrod was waiting on bed, quietly sitting.
"You're one weird kid you know that?" He shrugged and grinned.
"Hey, weird is only a side effect of awesome." Yang couldn't help but giggle, Blake on the other hand thought about the statement.
'That would explain a LOT.'
"So what class do we have first?" Yang turned to Blake for help, who sighed.
"First we have fighting class, come on." They walked down the hall in relative silence, only pausing to wait for Jarrod to hurry up. As they finally reached the classroom, they could see that Weiss was already there. She was standing on the arena with another girl standing across from her. Jarrod watched closely as the battle began, Weiss used a glyph to propel herself forward and roll under the other girls legs. Now behind her, Weiss turned and sent spikes of ice flying into her back, before jumping forward in an attempt to hack at her.
Before the hit could land, a whistle blew, signaling to stop. Weiss' blade stuck to ground beside the other girls head. She got up and extended her hand, helping her up.
"Nice match." The girl looked away and quickly hurried off.
"Whatever freak." Weiss stood on the stage, alone. She raised her hand in a signal for the girl to stop, but lowered it quickly.
"Good job Weiss! That was a nice fight." Yang stood along the edge of the arena and cheered. Weiss gave a small smile and lowered herself to the ground. Where she was met by Jarrod.
"Good job, but you could increase your mobility by five percent by adjusting the way that you strike. Also your hits are coming from the bicep, where as if you used your elbow, you could get more power into it." Weiss became paled, no one in the past had been able to give judgements on her fighting style, not since she trained with her father.
"Jarrod, why don't you come over here so that we can evaluate your skill set?" He gave a small smile and walked away to go meet Goodwitch. The two of them spoke for a few minutes before he was set up in the arena, the other side being filled with Cardin Windchester. As Cardin prepared himself and attempted to intimidate him, Jarrod watched the larger boy with extreme care. The whistle was blown and Cardin sprinted at Jarrod, who didn't move at all.
As his mace was about to connect with head, Jarrod sidestepped underneath the swing, and continued to slam his leg into the handle as it fell. Cardin was dragged down and disarmed. He turned around and growled at Jarrod, who gave a cheeky smile. Cardin swung at his legs and tried to bring Jarrod down as well, but instead his hand passed through the air. Jarrod leapt up and brought his foot down onto the top of Cardin's head, crushing his head into the floor.
As his aura dropped into the red, Glynda blew her whistle.
"That's enough. Good job Jarrod, Cardin perhaps you should work on your fighting for a little while before entering the arena again." As Jarrod walked back into the group, each member of RWBY stood gaping.
"H-how did you do that? You didn't even take a hit!" Jarrod smiled and gave a small shrug.
"Brains beats bronze, plain and simple. But let me ask you a question. Is Cardin; a bully, self centered, pompous, and thinks he's all that?" Yang and Blake nodded. "Thought so, he tried to intimidate me with his larger muscles, rushed into the battle without considering me as a possible threat. And when he found that he was losing, he became desperate to keep a hold of whatever title he owns." They nodded again, connecting the dots as he explained them. Yang smiled.
"You know what Jarrod? I think that we can be friends."
I'm thinking that from now on I won't be posting during the weekends, mostly just to give myself time to do my personal stuff. But I will let you guys know. As for weapon, I will be posting a chapter on that either later today or tomorrow. See you all next time on, the Barney show! No but really that show can burn a miserable fate in hell. Anyways peace out, remember to review!
P.S. Oh yeah I forgot to mention the new story cover! I realize that you have seen it by now but it's a picture of Ruby that I drew myself, so I'm kind of proud. But I have an idea that will suit the series nicely. Let's just say that the next stories cover will be slightly different than this one.
