AN: Hey guys, and this is now the fourth chapter of my story! Now that I have uploaded four chapters to this story, I can finally add more chapters to my other stories.

Also, I am considering on making two more RWBY stories, one a full story, the other a short skit.

This chapter will mainly be about the Initiation, so it'll be pretty much the same, except Jaune would actually be useful in this chapter. Honestly, he would be somewhat ineffective against the Grimm, but can still fight better than his canon-self.

I don't have anything else to say, so time to continue the story.

HERE WE GO!

In the morning -

As Jaune woke, he was looking at the ceiling of the Ballroom, slowly getting up. He looked around him, and noticed that the people he talked to last night, Ren and Nora, were cuddling, with Nora having a small smile on her face, as did Ren. Slowly, Jaune himself felt a small smile on his face as well, actually hoping that the two would get, as Nora would say, 'together-together'. If the things he read about this planet was true, then it would be nice to be happy before things get worse. He noticed that everyone else was still asleep, remembering that he always woke up at the crack of dawn, mainly to check on his equipment, and to do a short workout session as well.

He went into the locker-room, noticing the girl from before, doing a work-out session as well. She was dressed in the sleep-wear she had last night, black pair of shorts and a red tank-top. Her hair was tied back into a ponytail, her eyes closed as she worked on her body. He looked at her for a few moments, until she realized that someone was watching her, she turned around and met Jaune, who simply told her,

"This seems oddly familiar..."

She realized who he was, and began to apologize,

"You're the...I'm sorry for - "

"It's alright, you were just curious after all."

He then started to do push-ups in the locker-room, removing his shirt as he did so. The girl blushed again after seeing his muscles and tattoos a second time. He began to do push-ups for a few minutes, with the girl doing her own thing as well. Jaune sighed, stopping what he was doing, and talked to the girl, introducing himself,

"Jaune Arc. It's nice to meet you...?"

"O-oh! M-my name is Pyrrha Nikos."

"It's a beautiful name."

The girl now named Pyrrha couldn't help but blush at the compliment, especially when it came from a teenage boy her age, that was also shirtless, with no one around them. Slowly, the two sat next each other, and began to have a conversation with one another.

"So where are you from, Pyrrha?"

"I came from Mistral. And you, Jaune?"

"You could say I lived somewhere in Mistral, but in the lower-class of society."

When Jaune looked at the map of Remnant, he found it bizarre that the continents were shaped as such. But, if he was to live in this world, he would need a backstory, and decided to originate from Mistral, due to how it's location was that of Europe. She asked,

"So...do you have any family back in Mistral?"

"Oh...I don't have family anymore..."

"Oh my - ! Jaune, I am so sorry, I - "

"Pyrrha. It's okay, they're dead for ten years or so. I had a lot of time to mourn for them."

"Still, I shouldn't have brought that up."

The two then talked about random things, things that were small facts about one another. The two seemed to be talking for a long time, but they didn't care for a bit, they were learning a lot about each other. But, it turns out that they were they talking to each other for nearly an hour or so, the time that people began to wake up, getting ready for the upcoming day. The two then stood up, walking away, getting ready themselves for Initiation.

Jaune was already dressed in his attire, all he needed was his weapons and he would be set for the Initiation. However, he was currently in the process of finding his locker full of weapons, walking around the room until he noticed that it was in between two girls talking to each other. He recognized the two as Weiss and Pyrrha, both already dressed in their combat gear, their weapons already by their sides. Jaune felt uncertainty when he saw the creepy smile on Weiss's face. But, if being an assassin for the criminal underworld taught him, it was how people like Weiss would usually go for befriend powerful allies, so that meant that Pyrrha was stronger than she looked.

How come she never mentioned that she was strong?

He strolled up to them, and said,

"Hey ladies, what are you talking about?"

"You again!"

"Hello, Jaune!"

"Hey, Pyrrha."

Weiss looked at the two, confused at how these two somehow knew each other. Then she realized something else, it was how they spoke to each other. They spoke as if they knew each other, like they were friends, but that was impossible. Pyrrha Nikos was Pyrrha Nikos, so how or why, would she know someone as like Jaune? She looked at the blonde, asking him,

"Do you have any idea who she is?"

"She's Pyrrha Nikos, right?"

"Hello again!"

"Of course she is! She graduated top of her class in Sanctum!"

"She must be smart."

"Thank you."

"She won the Mistral Region Tournament, four times in a row!"

"Impressive."

"Thank you again."

"She's on the cover of every Pumpkin Pete's Marshmallow Flakes!"

"That...sounds incredible unhealthy."

"It is."

Weiss sighed in exasperation, saying,

"Are you understanding what I'm saying?"

"Yeah. Pyrrha is practically famous, and I don't care."

"What?"

Both girls were shocked at how Jaune was taking in all this information. When people usually hear about the 'Invincible Girl' they would instantly become fans of her, but Jaune was something else. He really didn't care who she was, which was first, considering that he also 'lived' in the same Kingdom as herself. The blonde opened his locker, retrieving his guns and dagger, placing back on his body, the conversation the three had was still going. He stated,

"This is a school. So pretty much, who we are, what we have, and where come from all means nothing. I don't care if she is considered famous, she's just like everyone else in this school, like you and me, Schnee."

"We're nothing alike."

"Inside this school we are."

He closed his locker, leaving the two girls, but he looked back, and told Weiss,

"Also, if you can fight in heels, then I'm sure I can also fight in a suit."

Then he left the locker-room.

In the Cliff-side -

Jaune, alongside the other initiates, was standing outside the Emerald Forest, with Ozpin and Goodwitch in front of them. He noticed that they were all standing on some sort of platform, but the platform seemed to have a function to it, but he didn;t knew what it was. He was standing next to Ruby and Yang, the former looking nervous, while the latter was the complete opposite. Jaune himself was slightly nervous, but he needed to keep his mind focused on what was to come.

The Headmaster told them,

"For years, you have trained to become warriors, and today, your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest."

Jaune noticed that most of the people nodded their heads, but he was thinking of something different. He felt like he didn't belong with these people, but he promised his grandfather that he would leave the life of an assassin behind. He heard Goodwitch saying,

"Now, I'm sure many of you have heard rumors about the assignment of "teams." Well, allow us to put an end to your confusion. Each of you will be given teammates... today."

"What? Ohhh..."

"These teammates will be with you for the rest of your time here at Beacon. So it is in your best interest to be paired with someone with whom you can work well."

He heard Ruby whine a little about the partners. Now that he thought about it, he was never a 'team-player' when he was an assassin. He always did assignments by himself, even those that required more than one guy to do the job. But his reputation became bigger with every assignment he completed. So it was going to be hard adapting to be 'partners', let alone a 'team' with others. He then began to think up of the potential people he considered to be a 'partner'.

So far, he only had two people that came into mind; Pyrrha Nikos and Lie Ren.

Pyrrha was self-explanatory, for she was the only person that he seemed to be familiar with the most. Not only that, but if she was as skilled as people claim her to be, then it would useful to have her train him when dealing with Grimm. His second option was Ren, he seemed to be more of a 'calm and reasonable' person than Nora, so if he was to reveal everything about his former life, he would expect Ren to try and understand why he made such choices.

That, and out of every person he met, Ren was like the only other guy he befriended.

Anyways, he heard Ozpin saying,

"That being said, the first person you make eye contact with after landing will be your partner for the next four years."

"WHAAAT!?"

After hearing what was glass shattering, Jaune felt his jaw drop when he heard how partners were decided. If partners were going to be decided, then he was screwed if he was being paired up with someone that he doesn't know. It was completely bizarre way of paring people up, but if he had to look at it from the view of Ozpin, he could understand why he would do so. They would not get a choice in who they partner up with, so in order to survive this, they have to put away their differences and work together.

But people are hard to change who they are.

"After you've partnered up, make your way to the northern end of the forest. You will meet opposition along the way. Do not hesitate to destroy everything in your path... or you will die."

The blonde silently prayed, hoping that he won't die in this Initiation. As he did, he heard mechanical noises, as if something was happening next to him. He turned to his left, and noticed that people were literally being thrown in the Emerald Forest. He looked down on the platform below his feet, and realized that they were launch-pads. The blonde looked at Ozpin, who had a smirk, and told him,

"You mother - "

Finally, he was thrown into the air, swearing in every language he knew, not caring if anyone heard him.

Jaune's P.O.V -

I began to regret accepting the deal Ozpin gave me, because I would've been fine with what other alternatives I had. How was throwing minors considered legal in this planet, I mean, true it's to train people to kill Grimm and all, but this is ridiculous! I was still screaming in every language, all I can see before my death was the shit-eating grin that was on his face. As I was about to hit the trees, and probably die upon contact, I felt something hit the back of my collar.

I looked up, and saw a red-and-gold spear lodged deep into the wood. As I tried to remove the spear, I realized that there were footsteps coming closer to me, and I began to shout to gain their attention.

Then I saw Weiss Schnee herself walking out of some bushes, I stopped shouting. The two of us looked at each other for a few moments, before I swore once again, this time Weiss heard me clearly, knowing what I was exactly saying. She then said,

"I'm actually glad that the dolt found me first."

"Oh thank you Lord, you didn't partner me up with Weiss."

As she then walked back into the bushes she came out of, I heard the distinct voice of Ruby, who I then felt sorry for. I went back to trying to removing the spear, until I hear footsteps coming near me again, I looked down, and I see Pyrrha. When I realized that she was there, my brain began to slowly connect the pieces together. She was one who threw the spear, and that meant she was also my partner, I was mentally celebrating that I could actually work with someone I like.

She then asked me, a playful smirk on her face,

"Do you need a hand?"

"Does it look like I need one, partner?"

Third P.O.V -

The two partners, both equipped with their respective weapons, were walking through the bushes when Jaune heard something. He turned his head to the direction of the sounds, and turned to his partner. He said to her,

"Gunfire. The others are fighting."

"Then let's find them and help."

As the two continued their walk, Jaune couldn't help but feel concerned. True that the gunfire meant that the other initiates are facing Grimm, but just because they're capable doesn't mean they can handle whatever this forest throws at them. Especially when both Ruby and Weiss are currently partnered with each other. The two are polar-opposites, so there will be friction between the two, and they would probably be too busy fighting each other rather than the Grimm. As he was busy in his thoughts, he didn't notice the branch that was about to hit him in the face.

It hit him in the face. He felt a cut across his cheek, and swore,

"Son of a bitch!"

"Jaune! I'm sorry!"

"It's alright, it's just a scratch."

"Why didn't you use your Aura?"

Shit. Jaune mentally berated himself, forgetting to remember to get his Aura unlocked. As he read more about the term, he couldn't help but wonder how such a thing was possible. While every living thing, except Grimm, had a soul, how was the soul also able to protect them. It was a concept that made him skeptical, but it was still essential when becoming a Huntsman, and he was immediately called out by it, and by his own partner no less.

"You see...my Aura was never unlocked."

"What? Why?"

"I'm the last of my family, remember?"

This time, he wasn't acting or anything, he literally told her the actual truth about his family. He said it with a sad smile, which made Pyrrha widen her eyes, remembering that Jaune did tell her that his family was no longer with them. She said,

"I'm sorry, Jaune...but, if you want, I can unlock it for you."

"Really?"

She simply nodded, and placed both hands on his head, making blush slightly at the sudden action, but thought of it as some sort of ritual. She then spoke, or chanted,

"For it is in passing that we achieve immortality. Through this, we become a paragon of virtue and glory to rise above all, infinite in distance and unbound by death. I release your soul, and by my shoulder protect thee. "

Jaune felt the cut on his cheek disappear, and felt some sort of warmth surrounding him. White light was surrounding his entire body, and he noticed that Pyrrha was stumbling slightly, which made him ask her in a concerned tone,

"Are you okay? What's wrong?"

"I'm fine, it's just I used my Aura to unlock yours. In all honesty, you have a lot of Aura."

While the initiates were doing their thing in the Emerald Forest, the teachers were on the cliff, watching their progress. So far most of them were doing good, some fairing better than others, but it was the partners that interested them the most. It wasn't odd for opposites to be partnered up, it was just odd for them when they noticed both Jaune and Pyrrha partnering up together. Goodwitch looked at the two on her tablet, saying,

"It's odd, how a young lady as Ms. Nikos has partnered up with Mr. Arc."

"How so, Glynda?"

"Apart from the fact that the two came from different planets, there is also their backgrounds."

"A girl taught to protect, a boy taught to kill. She has family, while he does not. But, there is one thing that makes them similar."

"How so, Headmaster?"

"They both worked hard to get where they are now. More so than the others this year."

"True, anyways, at their current pace, they will be heading temple in a few minutes."

But before she could change the subject, heading back into her work, she realized something. She turned to her boss, and asked him,

"By the way, what are the relics for this year?"

The white-haired huntsman stayed silent, watching as a certain pair caught his interest.

Both Jaune and Pyrrha were currently standing outside of a cave, one with drawings of men fighting what could only be giant Grimm. The two looked at each other, before Jaune walked into the cave, only to be stopped by his partner. She asked him,

"What are you doing?"

"I'm getting whatever is inside this cave out of there."

"Why? Don't you know that's dangerous?"

"True. Which why I'm making sure that it's killed, it might get stronger and kill us, or whoever's unlucky to enter the cave."

He checked his HK416, making sure that it was loaded, before waling inside the cave, only to feel Pyrrha hold onto his arm. He turned around and noticed that she had her weapons out as well, motioning him to continue walking inside the cave. As the cave got deeper, Jaune told himself that he should've made a torch or something when everything was pitch black. That was when he heard Pyrrha ask him,

"Jaune?"

"Yes, Pyrrha?"

"Have you...always been by yourself? I know how it sounds, but, I was curious, wondering if you were - "

"I know, and no, I had my grandfather, who died recently. Then there's..."

"And who?"

"Well...she's a friend, from my past."

"That doesn't sound so bad."

"She was a 'friend-with-benefits'."

"Ohhh...Oh. OH."

Jaune regretted to tell his partner, his female partner, about one of the few people he considered a 'friend' back on Earth. As they walked, they both noticed something was glowing gold. The two looked at it, before a glowing-red outline of a giant scorpion appeared. Pyrrha had a deadpan expression, saying,

"I am pretty sure we found what's inside this cave."

"That we did."

"I am sure it sees us."

"That it did. And now we run."

Outside the Cave -

After a few moments, both Jaune and Pyrrha ran out of the cave, which was destroyed as a giant Death-Stalker erupted out of the hole. It was following the two at an alarming rate, with the two shooting at the thing with their weapons. Jaune, who was trying to shoot at the eyes, looked at Pyrrha, who was also trying to shoot it's eyes out, and shouted,

"Stop firing! We need to get to the temple, there's probably other people there!"

"Got it!"

Ruby's P.O.V -

After I jumped off of the Nevermore, I began to panic, not thinking out this idea all the way. I was right above the temple, and as I was getting closer to the ground, I saw my sister and Blake, so I began to shout, trying to gain their attention. Luckily, my shouting got the attention of Yang, as she suddenly ran underneath me, and caught me as I was about to hit the ground. She then began to smother me, with Blake looking at me with a look of disbelief. She said,

"Did your sister fall out of the sky?"

Yes I did.

As I finally got out of Yang's hold, we heard explosions coming from the Forest. As the explosions got closer, we saw a girl with orange hair and turquoise eyes riding in on top of an Ursa. She had a grenade-launcher in her hands, and she was screaming in joy. The girl then aimed her weapon at the back of the Ursa she was on, and an explosion went off, killing it as it fell to the ground. She pouted in disappointed,

"Awww...it's broken."

A few seconds later, a guy with magenta eyes came up from behind, panting as he was leaning on the Grimm's carcass. He panted,

"Nora! Please...don't ever do that again."

However, she ran off again, this time grabbing a rook piece, placing it on her head as she began to dance. She chanted,

"I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!"

"NORA!"

"Coming Ren!"

As she walked back to her partner, Blake asked to no one,

"Did she came in, riding on top of an Ursa?"

But before we could even acknowledge that, Jaune and his partner came out of the Forest as well, this time a Death-Stalker was right on their tail. They were dodging it's claws, continuing to run towards us, and Blake just deadpanned,

"Did they just ran here with a Death-Stalker on their tails?"

Then Yang finally snapped,

"I can't take it anymore! Can everybody just chill out for two seconds before something crazy happens again!?"

"Yang..."

We all looked up, and saw Weiss, still holding onto the Nevermore.

"She's gonna fall."

"She'll be fine."

"She's falling."

Jaune sighed, and walked over to the spot that was directly above her, after a few moments, he held his hands out, and caught Weiss, holding her like a bride. Jaune looked at her, and said,

"Were you just dropping in?"

"...Thanks."

As Jaune let go of Weiss, we all noticed Pyrrha ran towards us, and Yang was no longer having any of this.

"Well, the gang's all here! Now we can die together!"

That one statement was enough to make me go into action. If I took care of the Death-Stalker, then I would prove myself to everyone, that way they won't see me as some sort of kid. So I pulled out my trusted Crescent-Rose, and charged at the Grimm. I shouted,

"Not if I can help it!"

Third P.O.V -

As Ruby suddenly charged at the heavily-armored Grimm, Jaune swore, as he ran after her as well. He couldn't believe how crazy she is, she charged at a Grimm that was the unholy personification of a tank. While everyone stared at the girl in shock, Jaune was running after her. He then called out,

"Pyrrha! I'm gonna a need a hand here!"

"I'm on it!"

The two were a few feet away from Ruby, taking potshots at the scorpion-Grimm, trying to shoot it as it smacked Ruby aside. As she got up, she realized that the Grimm was about to attack once more, so she used her weapon to get out of it's reach. But then the Nevermore was right on top of her, and somehow shot it's feathers at the girl, one of them hitting her cape, pinning her in one spot as the rest blocked the rest of the group from the other three.

Jaune ran in front of ruby, shooting at the eyes of the Death-Stalker, with Pyrrha trying to remove the feather off of Ruby's cape. The blonde was using his remaining shots carefully, trying to aim at the eyes, but with no prevail. As he ran out of bullets, he pulled out his pistols, and shouted at his partner,

"How're we doing!?"

"It's a work in progress!"

As the Death-Stalker closed the gap between the three, about to bring it's stinger down on them, Jaune reacted on instinct. He stood in front of it, arms spread horizontally, prepared to take the full force of it's stinger. He could hear both Pyrrha and Ruby shout out in shock and concern, but then he felt a gush of wind coming from behind him. He braced himself for the attack, but it never came. Jaune opened his eyes, and saw that the stinger was currently inches away from his chest. He looked around, and saw Weiss, her rapier was in her hand, signifying that she somehow froze the thing it's track. As the blonde looked at her in disbelief, the heiress scolded Ruby,

"You are SO childish! And dimwitted, and hyperactive, and don't get me started on your fighting-style..."

She then took a deep-breath, saying,

"But...I suppose can be 'difficult', so if you can stop trying to show-off, than I can be...nicer."

"I was only trying to prove myself."

"You're fine."

As the heiress walked away, Jaune swore he heard Ruby mutter something about 'knees'. He then noticed that Yang somehow came to them, tackling her sister into a hug. Then the Nevermore screeched, gaining the attention of them all. The blonde stated,

"Guys, we still have that to deal with."

"There's no point fighting it. Let's get the relics and leave."

"Weiss's right, our mission is to grab one, and then make it back to the cliffs. There's no point in fighting them."

As Ruby and Jaune grabbed a knight and rook respectively, the group began to run for the cliffs, with Ruby being the to usher them. In the back, Yang had to smile a bit, seeing her sister slowly growing up and becoming a leader.

The group hid themselves from the avian-Grimm with stone columns. Jaune looked at the others, taking in their appearances, what their weapons were, and how they could be useful. True that he always did things solo, he also took notes of everything he had at his disposal. Then he saw the Death-Stalker coming out of the forest, which caused him to swear, shooting at the Grimm,

"Aw fuck! RUN!"

As they ran from the scorpion, they now had to deal with the bird, but luckily some of them were prepared. Ren looked to his partner Nora, who then pulled out a grenade-launcher, shooting pink grenades at the bird, as everyone else managed to get across a stone bridge. But Pyrrha, Jaune, Blake and Ren stayed back, attacking the scorpion, all their attacks doing was just angering the ancient Grimm. Jaune dodged under a claw aimed at him, then told Ren,

"If we're going to have any chance of beating this thing, we're gonna need Nora on this!"

"Way ahead of you! Nora!"

Hearing her partner calling out, the hyperactive-ginger turned her launcher into a war-hammer, slamming it against a portion of the bridge. Then, as the head of the hammer was against her foot, she placed the other foot on the trigger of the launcher-portion, boosting her across the bridge. But as she slammed her weapon down on the Grimm, she accidentally knocked Blake over. Jaune turned to see her swinging on some sort ribbon that was attached to her own weapon, regrouping with her partner and the rest of the group.

Knowing that there was nothing left to worry about, the blonde reverted his attention back at the Death-Stalker, as he and Ren ran up on it's armored hide, and began to shoot at certain parts of it's body, such as the eyes and stinger. But, Ren was thrown off of it's tail, crashing into one of the stone columns, leaving the blonde on it's body.

Angered at the sight of Ren getting hurt, Nora charged at the beast, using her hammer to smash one of it's claws, not noticing that the other claw was aimed at her. Luckily, Pyrrha was next to her, deflecting the claw as she threw her javelin at one of it's eyes. Jaune then pulled out his dagger, stabbing it in one of it's other eyes as it began to thrash violently, finally slamming the blonde onto the ground very hard. As he slowly got up, he saw that the stinger hung limply when Ren shot at it. He turned to Pyrrha, who also noticed this.

She threw her shield as if it was a saw-blade, cutting the stinger from it's tail, which then stabbed the Grimm, but it wasn't enough to stop it. The blonde looked at Nora and Pyrrha, shouting,

"Hey Nora!"

"Yeah?"

"Nail it!"

Grinning at his orders, she looked at Pyrrha, who used her shield as a launch-pad for Nora. As she was high in the sky, she smiled as she used her hammer to literally nail the Death-Stalker, crushing the foundation of the bridge in the process as well. Nora then fired another grenade, launching herself away from the falling bridge, but landed on her rear end as she did. Both Jaune and Pyrrha ran towards the Grimm, jumping over it as the thing fell to it's demise.

The blonde curled himself into a ball, rolling on the ground as he landed. His partner managed to land gracefully, being in a crouching-position. Jaune stood up, noticing that Ren walked up to them, and was about to fall on his face, if not for the blonde to help him on his feet. He placed his hand around his shoulder, saying,

"I got you, Ren."

"Thanks, Jaune..."

The four looked down at where the bridge and Grimm used to be, then looked up to see something that was so bizarre. Ruby, who launched from a makeshift slingshot, was dragging the avian-Grimm against the cliff-side, and as she reached the end, she decapitated it with her scythe.

As rose petals fell from the sky, he only whistled,

"Talk about an intense game of Angry-Birds."

"What?"

"Ah forget it, you wouldn't understand the reference."

Back at Beacon -

Once the eight finally got back to the Academy, they were waiting for them to be called up, and to be actually called a team. Jaune was tugging at his tie, looking at the newly announced Team 'CRDL'. He noticed that they were the four, or three, that dressed in similar armor, the exception being Russel Thrush. Then he, Nora, Pyrrha and Ren were then called up onto the stage, where they all waited patiently for Ozpin to announce,

"You four have managed to retrieve the white rook pieces. From this day forward, you will be Team 'JNPR'..."

Jaune and Pyrrha smiled at each other, while Nora surprised Ren in a hug. Jaune felt glad that he was in a team with these guys, not just because they all fought together once. He talked with three of these people prior, and he managed to be on good-terms with each of them. The massive fight with the Grimm only strengthened their friendship, and even helped show that they were capable of working together.

Above them, four pictures of themselves were on the big-screen, the pictures being arranged as his was first.

"...led by Jaune Arc."

Fuck.

Jaune only looked surprise, his voice of concern being drowned out by applause. He had no experience leading a team, he was just lucky to be with people that were better-suited for fighting against the Death-Stalker. But, he looked at his new teammates, and mentally told himself that if he was going to lead them, he was going to become fully honest with them, even if it meant telling them he was an assassin. As Pyrrah was patting him on the shoulder, Ozpin looked at him, congratulating him,

"Congratulations, young man."

AN: And that was the fourth chapter of this story.

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