After Jaune got done with Mr. Jett, there was this massive relief off of his shoulders. Jaune could see why the students feared him, but liked him at the same time. In a way, he reminded Jaune of his father. He was strict and blunt, but when he praised you, it was as if you couldn't help but feel satisfaction from it.

Jaune sighed and took out his schedule. He still had three more classes to get to. He took a deep breath and went on to the next class, which was Grimm Studies.

Two hours later:

Jaune waved goodbye to his science teacher and let out a relieved sigh. He did it, he went through all of his teachers. It was just like at his last school, all of the teachers had their quirks.

His Grimm studies teacher was actually very nice. Her name was Mrs. Devana. She had a purple long sleeve shirt with a black vest with matching leggings and shoes to boot. She was a very excitable and bubbly person. She greeted Jaune with a smile and said that she was excited to have him in her class, despite the controversy surrounding him.

When she was discussing what was going to go on in class, Jaune heard a very… well creepy undertone when she said "Learning about a grimm's weakness." It was barely noticeable to any normal person, but Jaune grew up in a house of eight women, so he was able to sense that stuff. At least to a certain degree.

After they said goodbye, Jaune went to his next class which was Language with Mr. Ezra. While most people spoke the same language, there were people that only spoke certain dialects. Huntsmen have to be able to work with anyone, and that includes having to break the occasional language barrier.

When Jaune entered the room, he saw the teacher. He was a very short man with what looked to be a fox's tail waving behind him. Jaune greeted him and the man gave a curt nod. He noticed the man was reading a book but placed a bookmark and greeted Jaune with a language Jaune had not heard from before. His round spectacles shined in the room light and his entire look just screamed "scholar."

Mr. Ezra was actually glad that Jaune was coming in as he needed to ask Jaune which language he would be taking. While they would be learning simple phrases such as "I'm here to help" and "Hello" Shade students had to pick one language to learn to truly understand it. Jaune had a few choices but since he was going to be staying in Vacuo and didn't know anything about the dialect, he knew he would need to take that language. The little Valien he had learn from his sisters and Dad wouldn't work here.

After that was straightened out, he and Jaune actually got into a discussion about how the common language came to be yet the dialects were still somewhat popular. At least to a certain degree. After a while, Mr. Ezra noticed that he was keeping Jaune and apologized. The two parted ways and it was time to meet Jaune's final teacher.

The class was science and he was meeting with a Mr. Young. Jaune entered the room to be met with what Jaune presumed was a wolf when it pounced on him. It growled at Jaune, causing the boy to shake in fear. However when a voice called out the name Shadow, the canine's ears perked and turned his head to his master. His master told him that Jaune was friendly and the hostility in the dog's eyes were gone. It got off of Jaune and went back to his owner.

The owner helped Jaune up and apologized, saying "Shadow isn't used to new people and was only protecting me." Jaune asked if he was Mr. Young and the teacher nodded his head with a smile. The two shook hands and Jaune explained why he was there. Mr. Young seemed to be a little, ironically, young and perhaps a little unprofessional as he was wearing jogging pants and a white T-shirt with a design from an action movie. However Jaune did see he took his job seriously as he went through the many things that they would discuss in class. Not wanting to take up any more of his day than Jaune already had, he said goodbye to his teacher. When he left, he reached his hand out for the dog, which was a husky, hoping that there were no hard feelings. The dog rushed over and happily let Jaune pet him. With that, Jaune said goodbye to his science teacher and was now making his way to the workshop.

When he reached the workshop, he could still hear the sounds of construction going on. Every hammer hit, every drilling noise, every little pitter patter of work made Jaune a little self conscious. He was glad that his weapon didn't have to take a lot of maintenance. At the same time, the fact that his weapon was so simple, so easy and could only be used for close range and blocking was a little disheartening seeing as almost everyone had some sort of other weapon to help them while Jaune only had the one.

He shook his head. Now was not the time to feel sorry for himself. He walked past a couple of people, some of whom said hello, while others glared at him, and got to a tailoring station. He took off his backpack and took out the bunny sweatshirt that had wear and tear on it. Jaune looked at the Pumpkin Pete logo in the middle of it and sighed. It reminded him of his sisters. He took a deep breath and got to work.

As he was working, some people saw what he was working on and he could hear the whispers and stifled giggles coming from them. It did anger him, but they didn't know how much sentimental value Jaune had to the sweatshirt, so he ignored any little comments or laughs he heard.

He was in the middle patching of a tiny cut that was made. He must have caught it when fighting Junkrat. As he continued to try and fix the sweatshirt, he caught someone coming up to him in his peripherals. Well it turned out to be two people as they sat on both sides of him. When he realized who they were he let out a breath he didn't realize he was holding. It was so small that even they didn't notice it.

"Hey Jaune," Roy said to his left. He appeared to have a bag of parts right next to him. Jaune gave a smile and a nod to Roy.

"Whatcha working on blondie?" Octavia said to his right.

"Give me a minute as I finish this part and I'll show you," Jaune said. As he continued to work he made small talk. "So why are you two here?"

"Well our weapons kind of give us limited choices in a fight right?" Roy said. Jaune nodded his head. "Well halfway through my first year I realized this and decided to take up a little bit of weapon engineering. I'll admit I liked it, but at the same time, I was horrible at coming up with designs. I often had to get help from an upperclassman named Hatsume to come up with the initial sketch. In a way she kind of took me under her wing with everything engineering wise."

"Then I came in," Octavia said. "Nebula said I couldn't just rely on my little dagger and fire for everything and instructed me to do the same thing Roy was doing. While I was good at the schematics, as I love drawing, I found the actual putting together part pretty boring. Luckily I found Roy and asked for help. He said he would as long as I gave him a schematic for his idea. After working together for a few days, we finally got both of our projects done. Of course us working together came with some extra aide effects."

Octavia continued adding some extra details to the grenade she was working on. She nudged Roy and pointed at the schematic. "What if we added this here to make a hybrid?"

Roy looked at the paper as he put a spoonful of pasta in his mouth. "You want to do a flashbang along with a Stink bomb?" he asked. As the two continued their discussion, their teammates looked at them with slight smiles on their faces.

"They've really been busy with this huh?" Brawnz asked.

"I'll say," Dew said. "Octavia's been tossing so many papers in our bin it's like we've become a recycle company." Team NDGO chuckled at the comment. The purple haired leader turned to the grey gradient haired leader.

"So, why'd you make him your weapon's dude?" Nebula asked.

"We didn't," May said. "He volunteered."

"How so?" Dew asked as she took a bite of pizza.

"I won't lie that he's the smartest of our team," Brawnz said. "How I got team leader I'll never know." He shrugged. "Still though, he thought his weapon was the weakest out of all of ours."

"Which isn't saying much," Nolan joked causing Brawnz and May to punch him in the arm. He let out a yelp and rubbed both spots.

"So he told me that he wanted to create some more tools to help us. He's been our weapons guy ever since."

"So uh… w-what do you think their final project will be?" Gwen muttered.

Brawnz, May, and Nolan all yawned as they waited around in the arena. It was 9:00 at night and the room was dark as a shadow. The arena door opened again to reveal team NDGO minus Octavia entering, just as tried as them.

"What are you guys doing here?" Dew asked, obviously annoyed she had to come to the arena in her sleepwear.

"Roy wanted us to meet here for some reason," Brawnz said with his arms crossed.

"Octavia called us here as well," Nebula said. "What for I wonder…"

All of a sudden all of them hear the sounds of things clunking against the ground. Then there was this really loud sound and a giant flash of light, blinding all of them. Along with that came this horrible stench. Their senses were so overwhelmed it took them a good minute to recover. When they did, they heard the laugh of Octavia and Roy nearby.

"Oh man," Octavia said. "That was too good."

"What the hell Oct?!" Dew yelled. "What was that for?!"

"To test our grenade," Roy said as he stifled a laugh. "Thanks for being our little test subjects guys."

"Hacks!" Nebula yelled. "I call hacks!"

"Honestly it's your fault for falling for it guys" Octavia said. Roy and Octavia shared another laughing causing both of their teams to growl. The two teams look at each and shift their eyes toward the two pranksters. All of them could read one another and knew what they wanted to do. They grew smiles and all of them slowly approached their teammate, with revenge in their minds.

"Ever since that ass kicking our two teams have been on good terms," Roy said.

"I'm getting flashbacks of my sisters pranking me," Jaune muttered, causing everyone at the table to laugh. "That still didn't answer my question though. Why are you two here?"

"We're creating some of our gadgets so we can be prepared for combat class that starts up in a couple of days," Octavia said.

"Why didn't you have any during initiation?" Jaune asked.

"Because we'd thought that we'd have time to prepare," Roy said. "Not be plopped in the middle of the desert the minute we accepted a mission."

"Fair enough."

"So, what are you working on?" With the patch that Jaune was fixing now complete, he unfold the sweatshirt and reveals it to the two shade students. They both just stared at it for a second.

"Look the onesie I was okay with," Octavia stated. "Since most people won't see you sleep in it, but I will not let you wear that around here."

"Why what's wrong with it?" Jaune asked confused.

"Dude, it's a Pumpkin Pete sweatshirt…" Roy said. "You wear that and you'll get jumped every day."

"I don't care," Jaune said, smiling down at the sweatshirt. "I'll still wear it." Octavia and Roy looked at each other and nodded. Octavia grabbed the sweatshirt and held it away from Jaune.

"Sorry dude," Octavia said. "This is for your own good."

Having the sweatshirt that he and his sister worked so hard on triggered something in Jaune. Octavia held it away from Jaune but he reached over and grabbed her wrist. Octavia thought he was going to beg for it back, but is instead met with a vice grip, and a death glare.

"Give it back," Jaune said in a low voice. "Now."

"Jaune it's just a…" Roy was interrupted.

"Shut it!" Jaune turned back to Octavia, stood up, and increased his vice grip causing a slight squeal from Octavia. "Give it back."

Octavia dropped the sweatshirt back onto the table. Jaune let go of her wrist and sat back down. He let out a breath. He turns back to Octavia, but instead of the glare it was an apologetic look. "I-I'm sorry," he said. He then turns to Roy. "Both of you I… I just have a lot of sentimental value with this thing." Octavia could tell that Jaune was sorry as could Roy, but the fact that he still had that outbreak was slightly concerning. They shake it off and accept his apologies. "Look, I know you both are right but... it doesn't feel right to just toss this. So how about I just wear this during free time?" Octavia and Roy felt a little bad as Jaune was staring at the sweatshirt with a somber look on his face.

"All right Jaune," Octavia said. "You can wear it and fix it just... you know, be careful about how often you wear it, ya'know?

Jaune smiled at the red haired girl. "Thanks, I guess it doesn't help that I am still a little stressed and tired."

"Well then good news for you," Roy said. He slapped Jaune's back. "Brawnz got a text from Wallace about your meeting with Mr. Jett." Jaune was surprised to hear that Wallace was eavesdropping on him, but shrugged it off. The news was bound to come out eventually. "So as a reward Brawnz, Nolan, May and I are taking you out to celebrate."

Jaune gulped. He had no idea how they would celebrate. He was hoping it would be dinner some place. Nothing fancy but nothing cheap, just a place where they could eat, chat and just relax. For some reason Jaune doubted that. If anything, he was going to be with a team of Yang's.

Jaune wouldn't lie that the few times Yang took his team and her team out clubbing were pretty fun. Jaune wasn't much of a party guy, but she often found ways to make it fun. At the same time, she took things too far and often got them kicked out. That didn't stop her and it would be a vicious cycle of partying, getting kicked out, and partying again.

Jaune had enough trouble dealing with Yang, and now dealing with a team of them? Jaune didn't know whether to be happy or scared what the evening held for him.

"Man I wish we could join you guys," Octavia said. "Knowing Nebula she wouldn't let us since the last time you guys took us out partying."

"Hey you were cured from the hangovers… eventually," Roy argued.

Jaune sighed but smile. He thinks it will be a bit of both.

To be continued.

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