The next day, with Jaune:

It was not a peaceful night's rest. Jaune woke up with a yell and with sweat beading down him. He looks around and at his hands and then lets out a sigh. "Just a dream…" He said. He should've known that a dream like this would happen. The bandits were the first people he killed. It shouldn't be a surprise that he has a nightmare about it. He decides to talk to Leonardo about it later.

The nightmare was just like the last one, but this one was scarier. The reason being was Jaune heard nothing and said nothing. Even if he could the sound never escaped from his mouth. All he saw was the bloody bodies that were caused because of him. He could see every second of the girl choking on her own blood from her tongue being chewed out.

He could also see every punch he was making on the other girl. How her face went from clean and smooth, to nothing but a big lump of black and blue bruising. After that it was the burning corpses. The explosions he and Nolan set off caused a quite a few bandits to die, either from being crushed or from burning due to the fires. Jaune wanted to help them. All of them. He wanted to stop himself but all he could do is watch as the life slowly drifted from his victims eyes.

Jaune shakes his head. The nightmare was over, he needed to keep his mind of it. He gets off the mattress and stretches a little bit. He unplugs his scroll from the charging station and looks to see its 7:00, and pockets it. It was still a couple of days until classes started again despite the few days Jaune had for initiation so he decided he would try to get used to the school as fast as he could.

Jaune wanted to grab his sweatshirt that he and his sisters ate 50 boxes of cereal for, but it had a bunch of burn holes in it. Jaune sighed. He didn't want to disrespect his family but at the same time he wasn't going to wear a sweatshirt with holes in them.

Jaune decided to wear a regular black t-shirt for today. He would ask around see if he could find something help sew it up or maybe ask for another one online.

Once Jaune was dressed, he grabbed his key and his scroll and exited the room. He locked his door and took a deep breath. He had no idea where the cafeteria was, but he was sure if he walked long enough he would find it.

After a few minutes of walking he starts to notice some signs around the school. He was thankful for that because he was soon able to find the cafeteria. When he entered the cafeteria, the smell of many breakfast items filled his nostrils, and caused his stomach to growl in response.

Jaune grabbed a plate and decided to grab his usual breakfast. Toast, eggs, and a couple strips of bacon. He was actually surprised that Shade had some of this stuff, due to it being in the middle of a giant desert. But he realized that Shade could be trading with some of the other kingdoms.

Once Jaune grabbed his food he looked around to try and find a place to eat. He found a spot at the end of a table that was half full with Shade students. When he first sat down, they of course noticed him but just shrugged it off. Which was weird since Jaune was expecting a lot of hate being thrown his way. He just shrugged and ate his breakfast.

As he ate his breakfast he remembered something that happened during the breakout. It was what Roy called his semblance. Could the eye changing colors and the headache actually be his semblance? He would probably ask the others about it later. Maybe he could get some help from one of them. He doesn't really know any of their semblances, maybe someone has something similar to his.

About halfway through his thinking and breakfast, the students that sat at the other end of the table called to Jaune.

"Hey," One of them called. Jaune thought they were talking to someone else and ignored them. "Blonde dude!"

Jaune looked over to the students. There were four students, all of whom looked older than Jaune. Jaune noticed one of them was panda faunus with panda ears. He had dark skin with dark hair that went down to his shoulder, the black panda ears almost impossible to see. He wore a black t-shit with a grey vest.

"Yes?" Jaune responded.

"You're the new guy right? From Beacon?" The panda faunus asked. Jaune swallowed.

"Yeah…"

"You adjusting well yet?" One of the other's said. He was a tan skinned person with a slim build. He had blonde hair that was up in a fauxhawk. He wore a blue unzipped hoodie and had a black t-shirt underneath. Jaune saw he had a scar on his right cheek.

"Well I'm still getting used to being in a new school and all. Seeing as how I quit Beacon."

"Yeah we heard," Another one said. This was a pale skinned guy with the same slim build. He had long hair that was dyed halfway down the color green. He had a white T-shirt that had a picture of a hooded figure with a bow standing on a rock. "Want some help?"

Jaune looked at them with a confused look on his face. "Not to sound ungrateful, but why help me?"

"Well there's a catch," the final one said. This man had dark skin, a slightly muscular build and was twirling a knife between his hands. He had buzzcut hair with three lines shaved on the sides. The four of them walk over to Jaune and the one with the knife stabbed it into the table. This startled Jaune a little bit. He didn't want to know this catch. "The catch," he said. "Is to beat me in a game."

"What's the game?" Jaune asked.

"The knife game." The teen grabs the knife again. "You familiar with it?"

"A little."

"All right, you beat me, and we'll show you around."

"If I lose?"

"Nothing. No bad side," the panda faunus said.

"Oh yeah and uh," the pale teen said. "No aura. If you get stabbed, you feel it full force."

"Any questions?" The teen with the knife asked.

"Well, can I at least know the names of you guys?" Jaune said. All four of them looked at each other and nodded their heads.

The panda Faunus went first. "I'm Jake."

Scar went next. "Walker."

"I'm Dez," the pale teen said.

"Wallace," The teen with the knife said. "And yours?"

"Jaune."

"Okay Jaune, ready?"

Jaune gulped, and grabbed the knife.

With Nolan, five minutes later:

Nolan told Brawnz that he would show Jaune around. Brawnz said he wanted to be the one to show him around but Nolan insisted. Since Brawnz knew that Nolan wasn't going to take no for answer he decided to let him go. However, when Jaune wasn't in his room, Nolan had to go searching.

He eventually went to the cafeteria. When he entered it he had to look around to find a crowd around a table. Nolan figured he did something stupid and was getting crap for it. However when he walked up to them he was shocked to see what was going on.

Wallace and Jaune both had knives and were playing the knife game together, with both of them increasingly getting faster. Nolan could see the intensity between the two of them, and the fact the crowd was egging them on didn't help.

The clink of both knives being stabbed between the fingers of the two can be heard over the crowd. Nolan just stared in awe to see how fast they were going. Nolan knew Wallace played this game a lot but to see Jaune move just as fast as Wallace was a sight to see. However Nolan found the courage to speak.

"Jaune?!" He called called. This caused the blonde to look up from the game. Despite looking away he was still stabbing the spaces between his fingers but they were inching ever so closly to Jaune's skin.

"Nolan?" Jaune said. Due to the distraction, Jaune eventually hit his thumb. Since Wallace said no aura, Jaune felt the sharp pain as the blade entered and left his skin. As he recoils back, the crowd all exclaim in disappointment and excitement. Jaune shakes his hand and blood drips from it. Jaune puts pressure on it and wraps his aura around it and Wallace throws his hands in the air.

"I win!" Wallace exclaimed.

"No fair!" A couple of students said.

"Yeah Nolan distracted the poor guy!"

As Jaune and Wallace tried to calm down the crowd, Nolan leaned over to Walker. "What was this about?" he asked.

"To be honest," Walker whispered. "We were just testing him. See if he had any stones. We weren't really expecting a crowd to form. We didn't realize the guy was almost as good as Wallace at the game."

Eventually both of them were able to disperse the crowd that gathered. Afterwards Jaune and Wallace looked at each other. Wallace stuck out his hand. "Good game Jaune," he said. Jaune shakes it.

"You too Wallace," Jaune said.

"Is your finger okay?"

Jaune chuckled. "I'll just rub some dirt in it and it'll be fine."

Wallace chuckled. "I like your moxie kid. I'll admit, I did not expect you to do as well as you did." Everyone sans Nolan let out a laugh.

"Well my sister and I used to do this with our pencils when we were studying. Guess I still have some skills from then huh?"

"Yeah you do," Jake said. "You really gave Wallace a bit of a challenge."

"Hey now," Wallace said. "I still won didn't I?"

"Only when he was distracted by Nolan here," Walker said.

"Speaking of," Jaune said. He turned to Nolan. "What's up?"

Nolan cleared his throat. "Well uh, someone needs to show you around right?" the third year team looked at each other and chuckled.

"Well even though you lost," Jake joked. "Everything worked out in the end huh?"

"I guess it did," Jaune said. He turned to the red haired teen. "All right, you lead the way." Nolan nods and leaves the cafeteria, with Jaune following him.

"So what kind of tour am I getting?" Jaune asked.

"Dispends," Nolan said in a snide tone. He turns around and faces Jaune but continues to walk backwards. "How much you willing to pay the tour guide?"

"I'm broke."

Nolan scowls. "In that case you get the 'get some money ya bum' tour."

Jaune puts on a fake surprised face and asks. "How's that work?"

Nolan chuckles and says "I kick you in the ass and yell 'Get some money ya bum!' and we go on our merry way."

"Sounds like discrimination, great for business."

"Well if you feel like our services are unfair, you can call us at 1-800-eat a dick." Jaune puts his hand on his chest and fakes resentment.

"How dare you! I am a student of one of the most prestigious combat schools out there!"

"So am I! I'm just here to pay off my student loans." Jaune gets a big grin as he comes up with his next line.

"Oh you poor thing you actually have to pay for those?" Nolan raises an eyebrow and smirks.

"Well not all of us coast on the name of our family."

"That's because your family has done nothing noteworthy."

"At least my family still accepts me as a son."

Jaune feigned a hurt tone. "Ouch, that stings man."

Nolan knew that it was all in great fun, but part of him actually did feel a little bad for bringing up Jaune's family, as he was unaware if Jaune would still be hurt by it. "Sorry man. that was probably a little too much."

Jaune, being the awkward kid that he is, just chuckled at it. "It's fine, we were just messing around and it got out of hand." Jaune accepted that his family essentially kicked him out. Which is why he laughed it off. It still did sting a little bit though, hence the awkward laugh. "Besides you're not wrong."

"Maybe but I still feel bad," Nolan said. "But you have to admit it was good right?"

"I wouldn't have laughed at it if it wasn't." Nolan and Jaune let out a chuckle. Nolan shook his head.

"All right, well I'll give you the grand tour. Follow me O mystic blonde one!"

Jaune does a little bow. "As you command, yee of red headedness."

The two share another laugh and Nolan begins the tour.

One tour later:

Jaune actually likes Shade. Sure it was big but so was Beacon, and they had a lot of extra stuff too. Their gym was amazing, it had mats for sparring, some boxing rings, various forms of strength and cardio machines, various forms of dumbells and other weights, and they even had a pool.

They had a big workshop to work on weapons and other tech as well. Jaune probably wouldn't need to use it as often as others would, but he was glad to have it around just to be safe. He could also probably find a sewing machine or something in there to help with his sweatshirt. Jaune could hear the banging of hammers, the sound of drills and welding tools, and people talking with others about their designs.

The dorms were about what you would expect. There were a few common areas around the building with a bunch of activities like pool, table tennis, and a TV to watch. Each floor had a kitchen on it for anyone who wanted to use it so Jaune could make some of his own food is he wanted. He just needed a place to store the ingredients.

Lastly were the classrooms. All of them were a lot like Beacon's, and each hallway was for a specific subject. Of course Jaune didn't know his schedule so he had no idea which of the classes was his.

"So yeah, that's Shade," Nolan explained at the end of the tour. "What do you think?"

"It's pretty cool," Jaune said. "Although, I just wish I knew my schedule."

"I think you should go see miss Nyx about that as soon as possible," Nolan suggested.

Jaune put his hand to his chin and thought about it. It did seem the most logical thing to do. He could get the schedule today, and go meet his teachers tomorrow. He nods his head at Nolan. "Thanks for the suggestion Nolan," He said.

"No problem. You know the way right?"

Jaune shrugged. "I have to see if I do eventually, right? I'll find it."

"Cool. See you around Jaune." Jaune waved goodbye to Nolan and Nolan did the same. Jaune walked around the school, seeing if he can remember where the headmistress's office was from Nolan's tour.

After a few minutes he still hadn't found the elevator and was getting a little annoyed. So annoyed that he wasn't looking at where he was going which caused him to crash into a person. Both of them fall onto their butts and they both groan.

Jaune looked up to see Gwen from NDGO. He gets up and began apologizing. "I'm so sorry about that! I wasn't watching where I was going." He offered the black haired girl a hand but she looked away from him and got up on her own.

"It's my fault," She said meekly. She rubbed her arm. "I was texting my boyfriend and didn't see where I was going."

"Well at least you had a reason to be distracted. I just didn't see you." Jaune lets out a tiny chuckle expecting her to do the same. However she just looked at the floor as she continued to rub her arm. Jaune raised an eyebrow. "Is everything okay?"

"Yes."

"Are you sure? You won't even look at me. Am I that intolerable?"

Gwen looked at Jaune and her face grew a little pink. She puts her hands up. "No no!" she said. "It's not that! It's just… my boyfriend gets very jealous whenever I talk to another guy."

To Gwen's surprise, Jaune chuckles. "That's it? A little jealousy makes it so you can't talk to other guys?" Gwen nodded her head. "Well, think of it like this. If he gets jealous, it just means he still wants your attention right?" Gwen tilted her head to the side, not getting where Jaune was coming from. "If he didn't get jealous it means that he wouldn't care about your guys' relationship."

"Huh… I guess you're right." Gwen flashes a soft smile. "Thanks. I never thought of it like that."

"No problem." Jaune gave Gwen his normal goofy smile. Seeing the smile made Gwen feel warm inside for some reason.

She looks towards the ground and takes a breath. "Listen, I am sorry for how horrible we treated you during the initiation."

"You don't have to be, I understand where you all were coming from. Besides, you made it up by making sure I was okay! I appreciate it."

"Yeah, no problem." The two continued to talk a little bit. Jaune learned that Gwen was dating a second year for a few months, and she said he was helping her get out of her shell. He also learned that Gwen was a master at stealth as whenever she was in stealth situations in combat training she got the highest marks. Gwen learned a little bit about Jaune's sword and his life at Beacon.

After a while Jaune realized he needed to do something. "Hey, do you know how to get to Miss Nyx's Office?" Gwen tells Jaune the directions to get to the headmistress's office. "All right, thanks Gwen, I'll see you around. I got to see her about my shecdule."

"All right, bye Jaune," Gwen said softly. Jaune waved goodbye and Gwen did the same as they part ways.

What Jaune would experience on his way to the office he will not forget.

To be continued.