The Fastest Man in the World:

Jaune Arc's semblance was always something people marveled at, well at first that is. Some are born with polarity or super strength, and then there are some gifted with advanced speed. Then, of course, there are some who gifted with advanced speed. Jaune just happened to be that person. Jaune also happens to be a sarcastic dick. Hard to love, harder to hate as they say.

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Jaune Arc was an interesting fellow.

Yes one could say that.

A predisposition for laziness, mild kleptomania, and an attention span shorter than Glynda's tolerance for stupid people, Jaune Arc was an interesting man.

Coming to Beacon was pretty boring, he arrived before the first shuttle to the place had even taken off so he just zoomed around the place. Nicking the occasional piece of food or lien and whatnot. After an eternity of fucking with the upperclassman the bullheads arrived, and with it a mild reprieve from his boredom.

Ruby Rose, from her ID that was her name atleast. Fifteen, that was pretty young for a squirt like her. Didn't people usually have to be like, 17 or something to get in here? Whatever, he turned his attention back to the falling dust crystal that seemed to move through the air as if in slow motion. Of course to the two idiots who were fighting, Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee apparently, this was all happening in about the span of a second.

Jaune walked over to the crystal and lazily plucked it out of the air as he resumed normal speed. Weiss was about to let loose what would be undoubtedly an ungodly shriek until she noticed that her precious dust crystal was safely in the hands of Jaune Arc. Of course she snatched it out of said hands with a sputter like he was holding her infant child, whatever it wasn't his problem.

"Weiss Schnee huh? I looked through your bags, gotta lot of stuff there." Jaune commented casually, Weiss's attention snapped to her luggage (which he had indeed gone through) before back to him.

"E-Excuse me? Did you just say your were pilfering my luggage?!" she screeched, Ruby slowly backing away from both of them.

"Yep." he yawned lazily, pulling out her ID from nowhere. "Got your ID too, didn't expect a Schnee to come here."

Weiss seemed content to just gape like a fish until she grabbed the card from his hand with wild tenacity. "Y-You thief! I should have you arrested!"

"Like you can catch me." Suddenly he was back to holding an ID, only this one from someone else. "Blake Belladonna huh? It's rude to spy on people."

Blake found herself taken aback for a moment, did this guy spot her somehow? She felt her pockets for her ID but was surprised to find it in the hand of this random guy. Utterly confused but also completely interested, Blake moved out of her hiding spot slowly, coming to face the group standing in the courtyard.

"That's quite impressive, what are you then a teleporter?" Blake asked, cocking her head at the uninterested boy in front of her.

"Who me?" he asked quickly, throwing a hand against his chest. "No, not me. I'm just fast, very fast."

The redheaded girl (Ruby was it?) suddenly gained a small gleam in her eyes for the first time since the whole debacle started. She bounced on the balls of her feet excitedly as Weiss Schnee, the only person Blake definitively knew, inched away.

"Ooh! I'm fast! That's like my semblance and stuff!" she said excitedly, looking up at the guy.

"Really? That's cool, doesn't matter though you're slower than me." he rushed out before rubbing a playful hand on her hair. "Although, I guess I do feel a bond with other speedsters like me."

Ruby growled rather cutely, matting down her hair before huffing at him. "Well then Jaune, let's see who's slower. How about we race to the end of the courtyard?"

Jaune, Blake supposed was his name, smiled devilishly before agreeing. "Fine, but if I win you owe me some food."

Ruby's smile mirrored his. "Ok, and if I win you do my homework for a month."

Weiss groaned at the whole spectacle as the two squared off against eachother. Ruby was in some sort of running stance with one leg slightly forward and the rest of her body leaned down while Jaune stood there with his hands in his pockets.

"Weiss give me a countdown." Jaune said to which Weiss grumbled something that didn't sound like a "yes". "Fine, I'll do it then..."

"3..."

Ruby leaned farther he cloak billowing out behind her.

"2..."

Blake could see some of Jaune's muscles tense beneath his T-shirt.

"1..."

The whole courtyard was nearly silent, even Weiss seemed to be intrigued.

"...Go!"

And with that Ruby sped off, true to her word her semblance allowed her body to move at lightning speed. The cloak billowing around her making her seem like a red torpedo as rose petals scattered from around her. Blake looked to see where Jaune was only to find him already at the finish line checking his watch like some bored chaperone to a kid's field trip.

Ruby skidded to halt at the finish line and proudly looked behind no doubt trying to see where her challenger was. Blake popped a small smirk at the bemused look on her face when she didn't find him only for Jaune to tap her on her shoulder. The smaller girl jumped before whirling around, mouth agape as she looked at the distance between she and Weiss and then back to Jaune.

"B-But, n-no one has ever beat me in a race before!" she sputtered out, completely stunned.

Jaune smiled that cocky smile of his and shrugged his shoulders. "Told you that you were slower, now you owe me food come on."

And with that they just disappeared. As if they were never there leaving Blake and Weiss to just gawk at the space they were just in before a thought finally hit Blake.

"Did he give me back my id?"

There was a gust of wind and Blake saw the last few seconds before her ID card hit the pavement.

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Ren was well, confused to put it simply.

Albeit that is normal when you're lifelong friends with Nora Valkyrie.

However, even her wildest exploits paled in comparison to initiation and the subsequent whirlwind that was Jaune Arc: his new team leader. To say initiation went by quick would be... well an understatement.

4 minutes and 59 seconds by the clock's count. A world record that has never been topped in all of recorded history of the huntsman academies, and that alone was enough to raise an eyebrow.

There he and Nora were, fighting a deathstalker that she had rattled from a cave, when all of the sudden they weren't. By that he meant they were suddenly at the relic place that Ozpin had set up, before them were one Pyrrha Nikos and Jaune Arc.

"Saw that you didn't have partner we need a team you're teaming up with us, ok?" he sped out in the span of a few seconds.

"W-What? How did you-?"

"Super speed, I pulled you guys from the deathstalker, not our problem let's go."

And with that Ren and Nora grabbed matching relics and then suddenly, with a familiar dragging sensation, they were at the finishing gates where a flabbergasted teaching staff stood there. By now they had moved into their rooms and had begun to unpack, Ren and Nora throwing glances at eachother to convey their thoughts. So far their leader didn't seem so bad, lazy, sarcastic, and impatient sure but not a jerk like that Carbon Winchcrest or whatever.

He was atleast able to pull them out of harm's way and made sure they were ok after they got back to Beacon, but then again it could have been because he needed 4 people for a team. Pyrrha Nikos was, well, rather charming and polite, a complete difference from how Ren imagined her (rather arrogant due to her champion status which he now felt slightly guilty for).

"Ren you good? Need help?" their leader asked in his usual rushed town of voice.

"No thank you, I'm fine."

"Cool, Pyrrha you good?" he asked, immediately shifting his attention away like some excited puppy.

"Y-Yes I'm fine."

"Nor-"

"All good glorious leader!"

"Coolio, I'm going to go steal some food from the cafeteria."

Pyrrha looked slightly shocked at that. "Food? But we just ate dinner not to mention that'd be stealing!"

Jaune just shrugged in a what-can-you-do manner. "Sorry, I got a very, very high metabolism thanks to my semblance and I'm also a pathological kleptomaniac."

Pyrrha faltered for a moment as did Ren at the tidbit of info. "I-I see then, well please be careful."

"Chill I won't bring drama back to the dorm, I don't steal shit from people I know." and with that he zipped out of the room, nary a sound saved for a small wisp of wind as he exited.

"Well, he certainly seems eccentric." Ren said, trying to make casual conversation.

"Yeah, eccentra-whatever and cool!" Nora cheered, bouncing on her bed.

"Yes well, maybe I can talk to him about stealing-"

"-Hey I'm back." Now Ren was usually a serene guy that required a lot to surprise him. He had trained in aura control until he could feel everything subtle movement around him with some meditation. But Jaune just showed up, by that he meant that the guy just appeared out of nowhere and managed to stop right behind you. So of course he jumped just a little.

"Sorry, didn't mean to scare I got Nora food." he explained casually, throwing a pink-frosted cupcake at said Nora who happily took 75% of it in one bite.

"Mmph! Fanks gworious reader!" she said with a full mouth, small crumbs spilling out.

"Nora, don't chew with your mouth full." Ren chastised motherly, wagging a finger. Nora, of course being Nora, swallowed and smiled looking not the least bit repentant.

Pyrrha giggled slightly, they certainly were a handful now that she thought about it. A kleptomaniac, a champion, a suger-addled Valkyrie, and a ninja did make for an interesting team dynamic.

However she couldn't help but think that it got along quite well.