Chapter 17

Well it would have been one but Pyrrha had jumped into the way at the last moment with her shield raised. The shield did little to stop the attack as her arm gave under the force and the two-handed axe found itself going through her aura and splitting her in half to shock us into stillness.

I couldn`t believe this I had never seen anyone die since I lost them. Even now over seven years have passed since I lost my parents. But nothing had changed since then I was still so weak so useless. I look over to Ruby and Jaune hoping that they are okay.

Ruby had managed to compose herself with tears running down her face but jumping back into the fight with a new determination. And Jaune he was frozen still like he had forgotten the Draugr were there, and almost glowing in a bright white light.

But luckily gamers mind was quick to let me calm down. Her body had disappeared, and I remembered that her death wasn't real not like it had been then. I jump into action grabbing his shoulder as I shake him into focus "we will get her back at the end of the round" I remind him.

He quickly stands taller hardening his resolve as he wipes away his tears "then let's finish this quickly" he says and then the coolest thing happens.

His aura shines a bright white light, that is almost blinding, and he puts his hand on my shoulder and instantly I feel much stronger, so full of energy like I could do anything,

You Have been buffed

HP: 4,600/4600

SP: 4,600/4,600

MP: 4,600/4,600

AP:9,400/9,400

Lasts for a day

I grin at Jaune "I think we found your semblance you have just boosted my meters they are now ten times better"

"Me and Pyrrha spent a lot of time during my training to unlock my semblance" Jaune said becoming sad again. "but we couldn't find it till now"

"well when we finish here you can show her, I think she'll be proud" I said calmly putting a hand on his shoulder he nods but then I quickly push him away so he can avoid the next attack.

I teleport behind the Death lord hitting it with a massive amount of Ice spikes slowing it down the I summon a dozen Draugrs at once to take out the remaining normal Draugrs. "Ruby Jaune you two take out the other Death lord I got this one" I say to them pulling out my ebony Warhammer and slam it into the Death lords shoulder making it shatter I grin feeling powerful Jaune's semblance has not only upped my bars but it's also made feel stronger and faster than normal kind of like when I first unlocked my aura but better.

The Death lord had dropped its weapon since it's lost its arm which is I tries to shout again so I quickly teleport behind it and strike Its leg making it fall on one knee only to be finished off in final hit against its skull.

I look then look over to Ruby and Jaune to see that Jaune and Ruby have finished their fight and Ruby was now zipping around killing Draugrs at speeds that I could barely track having been boosted by Jaune's semblance too.

Wave 10 complete

Rewards: 20,000 XP, 10,000 liens, 10 ebony ingots, 10 gold ingots, restore Mana potion. Parkour skill book, Spectral arrow spell book

I grin at that looking over my stuff and learn my books being put down about how slowly I'm levelling up now. The next thing that happened was that Pyrrha had just appeared in front of us causing Jaune to let out a girly scream which I found funny.

"Pyrrha" Jaune exclaimed when his mind caught up to what had happened, he quickly pulled her into to a tight embrace much to her delight.

I walk over to Ruby to give the two love birds some privacy "told you I still can't believe how dense Jaune is" I say with a smirk.

"leave them alone" Ruby says giggling "Pyrrha just died in here you can't really blame them for being emotional" she then swats my arm playfully.

"ow" I say over playing as I grab my arm "It's going to be funny to see how my semblance punishes Pyrrha for her death" at least I wont be punished this time.

she grins back "and I doubt Nora will be able to keep it a secret"

"what secret are you talking about" Jaune asks as he and Pyrrha walked over to us.

"can't tell you it's a secret" I say deadpanning before softening "glad to see that you came back in one piece" I say only to flinch as Ruby elbowed my side giving me a pointed look as I realise my words "sorry poor choice of words but I'm glad to see you are all okay" I say giving Ruby a look that says are you happy now and she simply sticks her tongue out at me. I choose to be the bigger person and pretend that she isn't there. "Are you guys ready to go."

Everyone nods saying stuff like they want to eat and sleep. "okay let's head to my room I doubt any of you want to walk around dressed as that" I say motion their clothes as we head off.

As we were walking, they had all given meet their equipment back since they didn't need it their own equipment was better and most of it turned into guns. Although we decided that Jaune should keep the bow since He was skilled with it and he would do better with a ranged option in fights so I gave him an extra 90 ebony arrows promising to keep him stocked as long as he doesn't go through it too quickly.

I also gave them their share of the Lien. Everyone reacted differently Pyrrha while being thankful I could tell that the money wasn't much for her which wasn't very surprising since I'm pretty sure that her sponsorships has made her quite wealthy but still, she was happy to be included.

Jaune was happy at getting the money saying about how with having such a big family was expensive and quickly thanked me. But Ruby's reaction certainly

Ruby was talking lighting fast about how many cookies she could buy with this making me face palm are cookies really that important to her before suddenly I felt myself being pulled almost falling over as Ruby forgets all knowledge of the concept personal space. "can we do this more often" she says almost pleading, all I could do was nod as I blushed at our sudden closeness. Which she quickly notices as she zips away with an "eep" as we fall into a silence.

When we reach my room end the ID world causing everyone to flinch as sound seems to suddenly turn back on as we become able to hear animals and people again. I then give the girls a one of my hoodies and everyone's clothes back which I found in my inventory which was pretty awkward, but we quickly say goodbye.

When I was left alone, I choose to have a shower then flop down on my bed to go to sleep even though it was still pretty early in the day around 2pm

I was asleep for a couple hours until I was woken up by someone knocking the door making me grumble as I sigh just because I don't need to sleep that much anymore doesn't mean that I don't like to sleep. "coming" I shout equipping a pair of joggers and a hoodie so that whoever it is that`s knocking will stop.

I open the door to my surprise to see Ruby "hi" she said awkwardly standing at my door

"Hey" I say back just as awkward and an awkward silence overcomes us "no offense but why are you here" I say smiling at her checking the time it was 5pm did I really sleep that long.

"oh, we are getting lunch in Vale then we`re going to watch a movie you want to join us" Ruby asked.

My smile then becomes wider as I ruffle her hair avoiding the attempted bite "sounds fun let me just get ready" I say equipping some clothes that I can go outside in just a pair of blue jeans, black trainers, a zip up hoodie with a mayday parade shirt "dressed" I say a couple seconds after.

"show off" she says rolling her eyes.

"what you jealous" I joke.

I then sort out my hygiene quickly brushing my teeth then spraying myself with some deodorant. "of course I am do you know how useful it is to be able to get ready that quickly most people have to get dressed the normal way yours takes seconds and it becomes custom fitted" she says as we start walking to the air ship.

"your right I am awesome" I joke flexing my arms.

she just rolls her eyes "so what's mayday parade" she asks after silence fills us a bit.

"oh" I start "they're a band if you want, I can show you them when we get on the airship" I finish she just nods as I comfortable silence envelops us. Until we reach the air ship.

When we had reached the air ship, I realised there was only around 12 people already on thee airship we quickly say hi to Jaune and Pyrrha as I sit between Jaune and Ruby.

"hey Jaune, I got this for you" I say motioning towards a pack of pills getting everyone's attention.

"thanks what is it" he says wearily taking them.

"anti-motion sickness pills" I answer "I got them after you joined my party you should take one before every ride" I say making him happy.

"thank you" he says quickly.

"don't worry about it I really don't like sick and when you need more tell me and I can get you some" I answer back honestly. He nods and goes back to talking to Pyrrha.

"are you sure it's safe to be giving him pills that you got from your semblance" Ruby asks me quietly.

I nod "there just sugar pills" I say honestly to her, putting in headphones into the ear opposite her as I explain to her what the placebo effect is.

I ended up skipping all the songs that weren't mayday parade so I could show her the song it took a while but the song anywhere but here came in eventually so I paused it and gave here one of the wireless headphones.

"this song is called anywhere but here" I say to her and she quickly takes the headphone offered and I press play.

We be quite so we can listen to it for a bit but when she starts talking again "It's good I tend to listen to more up beat rock music" she says smiling

"same" I say back "but it's mostly alternative rock have you heard of skillet" I ask curiously.

"yeah they're good" she answers back continuing to listen.

We be silent until the song finishes and then my eyes widen when I realise what the next song is something that I shouldn't show Ruby.

"I should skip this song it's kind of graphic" I say as I pause it.

"come on I'm not a child I want to hear it" she said pouting giving me a pleading look.

"I don't think you would like it besides Yang would kill me if I show you it" I say trying to persuade her, but she doesn't relent.

"we won't know until I listen to it and I promise I won't tell Yang" she says pulling out puppy dog eyes.

Dammit Jane always does that you would think that I would build up immunity but I can never refuse her, so I press play on the song.

We listen to as I feel awkward, but I can't help but hum from it. As the song has played, she had turned redder and redder as we listen to the party song.

When the song was over neither of us seemed to want to talk about the song, so I just stayed silent and tried to forget about it. I should probably make a playlist so I can avoid stuff like this.

"It`s good" she said surprising me.

"what" I was surprised at this the song is super crass and the chorus is a guy saying the word vagina repeatedly I didn't think that she would like it.

"I mean I don't want to look too deep into the lyrics" she then goes an even darker shade of red probably thinking about one of the lines "but they sound pretty good I probably wouldn't listen to that song who is the band and do they have any more normal songs."

"yep" I say "It`s mostly just there old music that`s like that but they`re newer stuff tends to be more safe I would recommend avoiding Enema of the state and dude ranch the rest of their stuff before that is pretty tame in comparison." luckily she chooses not to mention the weird names and just nods.

We then spend most of the airship ride in a more comfortable silence just listening to music and being thankful that Jaune wasn't sick again. and when I got bored, I played around with one of my knifes.

When the airship had landed, we started to walk through town until we came across a takeout out place. We had quickly ordered from there promising to get Ruby cookies and then we left to eat our food while walking to a shop.

"I still can`t believe you ordered so much Jack" Ruby says a bit grossed out, which I didn't blame her, I had probably ordered enough to feed a family of people but since with my semblance calorie intake or even eating healthy didn't affect me anymore and I had a steady supply of money due to my semblance what`s wrong with indulging yourself.

"I`m a growing teenage boy besides you can`t talk when your around cookies you turn into a black hole" I then pull out another cheeseburger from my inventory so I could eat that too there just that good.

Ruby just pouted about that saying something about how good cookies were but It`s Pyrrha who speaks next surprising me she had taken a backseat in the conversation, "don't you not have to eat isn't that part of your semblance"

I scratch the back off my head she had me there "well yeah as long as I keep my meters up I don't need to eat or sleep really but where is the fun in that I still like to sleep it helps to keep the days separate it and it`s the same with eating I still enjoy food.".

"hey Jack does your semblance affect drinking" Jaune asked when I had finished talking.

I blink a couple times before I released that he meant alcohol "I don't think so I mean I haven't really had the chance to test it" It was true the majority of my time was spent training and it`s not like anyone in beacon has been throwing any parties or maybe they did and I just haven't been invited to any I kind of want to correct that soon.

"oh yeah when we first met Ruby had called you a drunk and she`s done that a couple times since then why is that" Jaune asked causing us all to think back to the day before initiation it`s weird it hasn't been that long but it feels like it is from ages ago.

"well for starters Ruby is about as good at coming up with nicknames as Jaune is at flirting with girls" I say getting a jab at the two of them ignoring the two sets of complaints before I continue "and it`s because me and Ruby met after I had left a party shitfaced and she was fighting off that Roman Torchwick guy and his goons while they were trying to rob a dust store." There sound of Ruby shaking the swear jar ends up making Pyrrha laugh as I pay it without saying anything.

"wow you two really took down that Torchwick guy by yourselves" Jaune said impressed.

"all I did really was knock out one of the goons Ruby did most of the fighting" I say passing it off and it was true I think I can`t really remember what happened all too well my memory of that day was pretty fuzzy.

"It was nothing besides Mrs Goodwitch had to save us at the end" she said awkwardly I forget how much she hated that kind of attention since she wanted to seem normal and fit in although so far I don't think I`ve met anyone normal at beacon. She then turns to me seemingly annoyed "and besides I`m not that bad at nicknames" she said pointing at Jaune.

We both ignore his annoyance "I`m sorry but you are what kind of nickname is drunk" I say rolling my eyes I mean Yang was the one who came up with Vomit boy even Jaune's nick name for Weiss is more imaginative.

"Okay how about whiskers" she said trying to prove me wrong. I just give her a deadpan look super overused besides that's what I used to call my fox teddy not that I am going to tell anyone that. "oh, wait was that insulting to fox Faunus I`m so sorry"

It`s not I mean it`s just a nickname no harm no foul, not that I was going to tell her that no she was going to have to work for my apparent forgiveness "yes" I say making my voice choke as I pull out a the gassy part of an onion from my inventory and then proceed to hold it above my eyes to make myself cry. The moment I do this I instantly regret it as my eyes fill with tears, it stings so much.

"I`m so sorry Jack I didn't mean to upset you" she said falling into my trap I can probably get a cookie off her with this and then as I eat it, I can tell the truth so I`ll be able to see her funny reaction well I would of if it weren't for Jaune.

"hey Jack, is that an onion in your hand" Jaune asked suspicious wiping his own eyes getting Ruby to glare at me.

"what no" I deny putting my hands behind my back and of course no one believed me I`m still a horrible liar. I sigh and Rub my eyes dry as I forget the fact that I forget that I had an onion in my hand. My screams got the attention of more then a few people

Everyone had then laughed at my misfortune as I clean out my eyes with some water and a towel. "you deserved that" Ruby said laughing.

"Your compassion knows no bounds" I say sarcastically as we reach the movie place and we end up buying tickets to an action comedy and then quickly find our seats.

We had watched the movie in silence the only noise was me giving them their snacks form my inventory since you weren't allowed to bring your own food into the cinema with you I had used my semblance to sneak the food in.

Nothing of importance had really happened when at the movies except the fact that due to the dark Instead of giving Jaune a chocolate I had accidently given him something else, something mortifying. But I had sworn him to secrecy quickly taking it back and telling him I was just a quest reward.

When the movie had finished Pyrrha and Jaune had gotten up quickly, feeling tired and not wanting to miss the last airship back to Beacon. I would've too but I realised that the weight on my shoulder hadn't moved.

"hey Ruby" say poking her arm but she was out cold, snoring slightly. I sigh but quickly decide what to do this isn't all that new. Jane used to do this all the time. I slowly put one arm under her knees and then use the other to support her back as I pull her towards me so that her head rests comfortably on my chest. I then stand up being incredibly careful not fall over as I try to ignore her smell.

She smelt nice like a mixture of roses and vanilla and with her hair so close to my face I couldn't stop smelling it. "Is she asleep" Jaune asks quietly seeming to not want to wake her. I try to ignore how different this feels to lifting Jane.

"yeah come on it`s pretty late we don't want to miss the airship and be stuck here till morning." After I said that they both nodded as we headed back. Walking while carrying something had always been difficult for me. While Ruby wasn't heavy far from it the added weight was enough to unbalance me a as I had to adjust to it quickly. But I`m glad that I had put Crescent Rose in my inventory before we had even gone into the movies that thing probably weighs more than her. How she was able to carry it with her wherever she goes was a mystery to me.

Luckily we had managed to reach the airship a couple minutes before it had departed so I sat down in a chair next to the one I had placed Ruby on then put some headphones listening to music as I relaxed trying to ignore that fact that Ruby was cuddling me in her sleep. The first song that came up was the song this is war by thirty seconds to Mar which was a song I had only recently found.

I had kind of spaced out and before I knew it, we were the airship had arrived back to beacon. Going back to the dorms was a mostly silent thing and soon I was doing what I had been a bit afraid of doing.

I quickly knocked on team RWBY`s dorm hoping that Yang will let me explain before she hits me. Her protectiveness of Ruby has become pretty famous in Beacon. The door was quickly opened by Yang.

"hey" I say awkwardly as I she takes Ruby from my arms.

"so did you two lovebirds have fun" she said pretty casually making me blush, but before I can say anything she becomes serious as her eyes turn a shade of red "you better not have done anything" I knew that making a joke here would be painful.

"no of course not I would never do anything like that especially not to her" well at least not without her consent, not that she would ever want something like me I pinch myself to stop the thoughts from going dark."sorry I got a bit lost in thought, you mind if I go I`m tired." She nodded seemingly realising that I wasn't in a good headspace,

When I got to my room, I quickly flopped to my bed out like a light.