Lunar Rose
By AnonymousPrick3 and Fate-117
Chapter One: The Seed
Revamped April 12th, 2016
Prick: Hello, returning and new readers alike! This here is the original author, AnonymousPrick3, but let's keep it lax, and go by Prick. Come now, who doesn't like some prick? And this here, is my little prick, Fate-117, co-author of Lunar Rose. Introduce yourself, Fate, don't be shy. The story has undergone a bit of a hiatus, but, as of December 9th of 2016, we're still active, and working on the story, don't worry. I'm personally rewrtiting the majority of the beginning of the story, as my skills have considerably improved over the course of the story.
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Jaune was at a loss. With his team all off on their own; Pyrrha giving some of the other first year students a bit of aid in the Emerald Forest, Nora and Ren had also taken off to the city, intent on getting some shopping done.
While many others would've assumed it weird how nonchalant Jaune and Pyrrha were about the duo heading off on their own, anyone who'd actually gotten to know Ren and Nora knew that there wasn't anything of that nature going on there, or, as Nora had so often put it, they're not "together-together."
Normally, Jaune would've found himself with Pyrrha for the day, as she was often apt to rearrange entire schedules to assure Jaune wouldn't spend the day by himself. At least, that was how the blonde had always felt it seemed, but today proved to be an exception, as she had already made plans with Ms. Goodwitch and couldn't back out. He knew Pyrrha probably tried her best to do so, and summed it off as her friendly nature, and most certainly would've done the same for any of her friends.
Deciding that now was a good as time as any to leave the dorm, Jaune checked over himself in the mirror and decided that his hoodie with the chest plate and scraggly blonde hair would make do, like always, before opening his door into the hallway and began making his way towards the exit to… wherever he decided to wander to.
Before Jaune could take another step though, the familiar whoosh of a door opening caught his attention. Faster than what most would've claimed possible, Jaune felt a small pair of hands give him a light hug from behind.
"Uhhh… lemme guess…. Ruby?" He half stated half asked.
"Yup."
Jaune felt the arms drop and turned around to the face the prodigy Ruby Rose herself. The Arc thought the hug itself was pretty strange coming from his equally socially awkward introvert friend, and apparently, so did she, as she seemed to be attempting to shrink into her hood.
"What's up, Vomit Boy?" The scythe-wielding teen asked, seemingly over her small fit of...whatever, now practically bouncing on the balls of her feet as she held her hands behind her back.
"You're the only one who calls me that now, not even Ice Queen does it." Jaune said with a grimace that didn't even make it to the end of his sentence before he was back to the grin that Ruby always seemed to bring out of him.
"Yeah, I know. It's just, it's one of the names I called you for awhile, before everyone else opened up to you! It's like, an inside joke. Between, you know...friends… but better. Like… Nora and Ren." Ruby said, her small speech ending with her caressing Crescent Rose in her sheathed form.
Jaune was a bit taken aback mentally, and literally reeling back from her in shock of the practical confession from his fellow leader. Dropping the suave smirk, he gave her a smaller, but infinitely more sincere smile.
"That's… well… that's great to hear, Ruby. Really, it means a lot!" The blonde said, awkwardly standing there as he thanked her, feeling like he should have been hugging her or something, but was far too shy to even attempt it.
"Yeah…" Ruby said, sheepishly scratching the back of her head, before realizing Jaune didn't seem to be going to say anything any time soon.
"So, where's your team?"
"Oh, uh, my team? Yeah… they're… places, ya know?" The Knight said, not quite certain why he didn't outright tell her they were off on their own, it's not like they had abandoned him or anything.
"Oh. So your team abandoned you, too, huh?" Ruby asked, not caring the least bit seeing as how sharing awkward stories was practically how her friendship with the older boy initially began.
"Er, yeah. You going anywhere?" The Knight said, now reverting back to the smirk as he internally chuckled at how much Ruby seemed to go with the flow, considering that was mostly what her sister was known for.
"Nope. Just hunkered down the dorm with a couple tons of cookies, a week's worth or so if Zwei stays out." Ruby said with a cheery laugh, failing to realize in her cookie driven rant that she had mentioned the not-so-legitimate mascot of Team RWBY, that was most certainly not regulation.
"Who's Zwei?" Jaune asked, curiosity sparking in his eyes at the possibility of a potential new friend.
Ruby gasped in shock before her eyes lit up mischievously, mostly from the sheer joy of getting to share a secret with whom she had practically declared as her best friend minutes ago.
"I'll introduce you, but you have to promise on your life that you'll keep the secret!" Ruby said, disappearing in bursts of petals to whisper parts of her statement from different angles.
"Yes…and, Ruby?" Jaune said, his head down, eyes covered by his hair in a despairing mood. Ruby tilted her head at him, confused as to why he went from such a joking mood to this in a matter of seconds.
"You can't abuse your Semblance like that. It's TOO COOL!" Jaune beamed at her, piercing blue eyes gazing into silver ones.
"Come on, then." Ruby said, quickly averting her eyes and turning around, thankful her cloak covered her up from behind.
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Prick: All right guys, that was the first chapter. While this is a revamp, I won't be changing anything ( that is minuscule) fundamental, besides some format. For starters, we'll now be using lines to signify a break or cut in the story, and the line of bolded X's to signify the start/end of Author's notes.
Fate: And since I feel that Prick never intended for the story to have a lot of action, we'll be re-touching a lot of the fight scenes (all of them, honestly), adding necessary details that'll enhance the overall experience.
Prick: We'll also be doing reviews that came after this chapter that were posted and we never got to.
