Sorry about the long wait. Life has been a bit of an unkind force to me as of late. Worry not, I will have my revenge! When I get life, I am going to **censored because this isn't a story that is going to become a tale of a never-ending abyss of depravity and cruelty**
To whoever is plugging me without my knowledge: thank you. My fans are one of the things that keeps me coming back to this. It is also why I feel guilty when I step away from writing these to take care of life matters.
Anyway, I plan on writing my other fanfictions again soon, as well as some of my original stories I want to get published. I hope you enjoy the chapter!
Pyrrha had finally fallen asleep. Luckily, it was the weekend, so they could sleep in late. Her dreams that night were….. interesting, to say the least.
Some of her dreams were quite good. She confessed to Jaune, they went on dates. They got married. Ruby, Yang, and Blake were her bridesmaids. Nora, Ren and Sun were the groomsmen. Weiss was the officiating priestess (why, she didn't know). Jaune's parents were there, along with all his sisters (all of them with blonde hair). Her parents were there, along with Glenda, Ozpin; the Pumpkin Pete mascot made an appearance at the ceremony as well. The dream fast forwarded to her giving birth to their first kid. The kids grew in number of the years to 10 children, 8 girls, all with red hair, and 2 boys, both with blonde hair. She saw her children grow up, most of them becoming hunters and huntresses. She herself grow old with Jaune.
Then, there were the OTHER dreams she had. Those were not quite as good, such as the one she had before she woke up.
She and Jaune were out fighting hordes of Beowolves. They had defeated all of them, and were taking a break. Pyrrha was about to confess her feelings for Jaune when, suddenly, an incredibly fast Major Boarbatusk came crashing through the forest. Strangely, all the white parts of it were red, and every part of it that should have been red were a bright silver in color. It was traveling at her and Jaune at blistering speed. It stopped short of her, and she rushed forward to engage it.
She had started battle the creature of Grimm when a huge Greater-Nevermore came careening out of the sky. This one was normal, except that everywhere that should have been black were chocolate brown.
She was about to yell out to Jaune that she needed help, when a gigantic Ursa Major came crashing through the underbrush. This creature's eyes were purple instead of red. The oddest part about it was that it had golden yellow fur, that seem to be…. on fire? Yes, it looked on fire. Also, somehow it had really big boobs too.
She was again going to call out to Jaune to help when she fell. Suddenly, without any sort of warning, the Boarbatusk, Nevermore, and big boobied Ursa charged him. She grabbed her sword and shield and tried to use her polarity to pull him out of there. She turned her head down, to catch her breath, if only for a second. When she looked up, she couldn't believe what she saw.
Jaune was standing in front of her, impaled on Milo in its spear form.
Pyrrha woke up screaming. The room was empty, except for her teammate, Ren, who was studying at his desk.
"What's the matter, Pyrrha?" Ren asked, concern showing on his normally stoic face. "N-nothing" Pyrrha replied. "Bad dream about hurting Jaune?" Ren asked. "Well, um…. you see…." Pyrrha stuttered, looking for an answer.
"Listen, Pyrrha: it is perfectly fine to have bad dreams after what you both went through. I know Jaune holds no ill will towards you. In fact, you should ask him out sometime. Start as friends. Even though he may be a little bit oblivious to your advances, he will feel much more comfortable going steady with you if you ease into it" Ren replied to her.
"Thanks Ren. I heard there is a new restaurant and bar where you can sing karaoke every night that opened in Vale recently. Did you want to tag along with Jaune, myself, and bring Nora along? Maybe as a double date?" Pyrrha asked.
"Thank you for the offer. However, I don't see Nora like that. Maybe if she approached me first, I would think about dating her and seeing where it would go, but as things are right now, no" Ren replied.
That night, Pyrrha asked Jaune if he wanted to go with her to the new restaurant, bar, and karaoke joint, named "The Crowing Nevermore." He agreed, and they set a time to head out. When the time for them to leave came, they headed to the bullhead docks and went to town. As they made their way to the karaoke bar, however, they did not realize they were being followed by a few independent groups.
One group was comprised of Nora, Weiss, and Ruby. Nora had tried to rope Ren into spying on her team mates with her, but, for once, he didn't agree to go with her. The other group groups that were tailing Pyrrha and Jaune were made up of Yang and Blake, and the other was comprised of Velvet and Coco.
Nora was there to make sure Pyrrha did well hanging out with Jaune. Weiss wanted the same thing (as this would cause him to pay less attention to her). Ruby, Velvet, and Yang, however, wanted to see how well things went, to be able to counteract whatever advances the spartan may put on the blonde knight. Coco was there to support Velvet. The only reason Blake was there because she was promised a fish dinner by Yang.
The three groups tailing the couple eventually saw one another at a square near the street the karaoke bar was located. After a brief discussion, it was decided they would all go together, and that nobody was to interfere in the date.
They made sure to enter a few minutes after Pyrrha and Jaune paid their way in. This was so that they would not be spotted right away. Luckily, the room was dark, and the stage was at the back of the club, thus making it unlikely they would be seen even by those on stage.
Finding a table or booth for seven people was hard, but the club managed to do so. They fit them into the largest booth they could, which happened to be in a corner near the door. They decided to order food (for the stomachs of Nora, Yang, and Velvet were making unholy noises, which neither Jaune nor Pyrrha noticed, thankfully). They sat watching the spartan and the knight converse. They both seemed to be having a good time.
Pyrrha and Jaune's food arrived before theirs did. Jaune was having a cheeseburger and fries, and Pyrrha was having chicken cooked in mild spices and olive oil, with asparagus and herbed potatoes. The "Stalker Seven's" food arrived a bit later. They were starting to eat, trying to make out what was happening. Pyrrha was flirting in a much bolder way than she normally did. They were talking and laughing as they watched people get onto the stage and try singing karaoke.
Eventually, Pyrrha walked onto the stage and sang a song from one of her favorite Mistrali musicals "Les Grimm." It was called "I Once Dreamed a Dream." She looked longingly at Jaune the entire time. The crowd roared with applause. She was a pretty good singer, as it turned out. She returned to her seat and continued to converse with Jaune.
After a few minutes, Jaune got up on stage. You could tell that he wasn't very comfortable, but he still got the intestinal fortitude to head up there anyway.
As the song started, someone from the group of stalkers recognized it. A look of disgust and anger spread on Weiss Schnee's face as he started to sing her song. Surprisingly, he was also a good singer, now that he was giving it a proper try.
When he got back to his seat following thunderous applause (including from an overenthusiastic Nora) he started conversing with Pyrrha again. Eventually, the topic of Weiss and why he sang her song came up. While all members of the group tailing the couple listened in, an heiress of diminutive height was, in all likelihood, the one who was the most invested into listening intently to the conversation.
"That was a great job, Jaune! I never knew you could sing like that!" Pyrrha stated. "Yeah, thank you, Pyr" Jaune replied. "Out of curiosity, why did you pick one of Weiss' songs?" she inquired. "Well, I knew of Weiss from her time as a singer. I never knew she was an heiress of the SDC. Her music helped me get through some difficult times that I had before I got to Beacon. When I realized she wouldn't return my feelings, I stopped pursuing her. The funny thing is I never wanted to date her because of her name, wealth, or anything like that. I could tell that while she was tough on the outside, she was quite caring and sweet on the inside" Jaune stated.
"That's so sweet!" Pyrrha said with an obviously fake smile plastered on her face. Obvious to everyone but Jaune. "Well, even though she doesn't appreciate you, there must be some girl out there that would be more than happy to date you" Pyrrha replied.
This elicited a plethora of reactions for the girls in the corner. Disappointment and shock was what registered for Weiss. She had always assumed he wanted to date her because of her wealth, fame, surname, or looks. It had never occurred to her that he might have been interested in who she was as a person. This cause a lot of conflicting feelings to well up within the young heiress.
Meanwhile Yang, Velvet, and Ruby had developed angry glares that could vaporize the sun with their intensity as they looked at Pyrrha. "YES, THERE ARE GIRLS WHO WOULD LOVE TO DATE HIM! I AM ONE!" all three beautiful young huntresses thought simultaneously.
The night drew onward. As it looked like Pyrrha and Jaune would be getting done with their hang out session soon, the "Stalker Seven" decided to leave before they were able to be seen by the couple, in the event that Pyrrha and Jaune got up to leave the bar. They camped for a few minutes at the dust shop nearby (making sure to stay away from the windows, of course) and waited for Jaune and Pyrrha to exit the premise.
The Spartan and knight left and started walking back to the dock, tailed by the seven who had been checking in on their date. They reached the bullhead docks and embarked onto the airship. The seven who were watching them waited a couple of minutes before getting on the bullhead themselves. They didn't want to be too obvious, after all.
They all got back to Beacon, and the group of those tailing the young couple exited the bullhead before they could be noticed by Pyrrha and Jaune. The positioned watchers throughout the path they were most likely to take. They watched them the whole way. Pyrrha gave Jaune a good night kiss on the cheek after she thanked him for a good time. She then stepped into their room, a distinct crimson shade apparent as she headed inside their dorm.
Jaune stood there, shocked. He couldn't believe that his best friend and partner, Pyrrha Nikos, THE Pyrrha Nikos, kissed him on the cheek! As he stood there, trying to compute what just happened, he heard the din of a large kerfuffle going on in the dorm of team RWBY behind him.
It sounded to him like Ruby and Yang were fighting as he turned around. He was about to step over to their door and knock, with the intention of making sure everything was all right between them. He was surprised when it opened before he had a chance to knock. Perhaps most shocking, was that the person who had opened the barrier before he had a chance to seek entrance. The person who stood before him was a pale, petite heiress, with pale white hair, and clad in expensive white clothing.
"Hello, Jaune. How was your date with Pyrrha?" Weiss asked him. He then heard "IT WASN'T A DATE!" shouted by both Yang and Ruby simultaneously behind her.
"It was really good Weiss. Thank you for asking" Jaune replied cautiously. Weiss was giving him a stare that could freeze star systems, at the same time looked…. confused and conflicted.
"Before we turn in for the night, I need to ask you a favor: could you get Ruby and Yang to stop fighting? They are such close sisters, and I would hate for something to come between them" Jaune told her. He had started to turn around to head back to his own dorm when Weiss grabbed his sleeve.
"You know, how you like to listen to my music, Jaune? If you wanted to, we could go to a karaoke café sometime, if you want. It would be one of those ones with the private booths. It would be just the two of us there… as a couple of friends, of course!" Weiss told him.
"Sure. I would like that, Weiss" Jaune replied to her. As he left, Weiss felt two malicious auras behind her. "Oh, dear, sweet partner, would you like to tell your bestest friend in the whole world what that was about?" Ruby asked, gripping the Schnee heiresses arm with a vice like grip, venom dripping from each syllable. "Yeah, Weiss-cream, I would LOVE to hear why you wanted to hang with vomit boy as well" Yang asked, her eyes narrowed, and red.
Jaune had headed back to his room, and settled down for the night. He had trouble sleeping that night. First, Ruby and Yang were fighting for the first time ever, AND they had been acting odd as of late. He didn't know why, but he had a weird feeling it had something to do with him. Add to the fact Weiss was behaving oddly, and Pyrrha's behavior indicated she might like him romantically…. lead to him not getting a full night's rest.
The next day, a Sunday, Jaune was exiting team JNPR's dorm, and was travelling towards the cafeteria, with the intent of getting breakfast. On his way to there, he ran into Velvet's team leader, Coco Adele. "So, lady-killer, how are you on this fine day?" Coco teased the blond knight. "Eh!? Hi Coco. Things are pretty good, why do you ask?" Jaune inquired. "Oh, no reason. Just wanted to find out more about my teammate's new best friend" Coco replied.
The two continued to talk as the headed towards the cafeteria. Along the way, they learned a bit more about each other. Coco learned that Jaune had a creative side, and could sew. She also found out that he liked to be fashionable, but didn't have many changes in outfits due to the fact he didn't have any connections to his family to help him buy clothes, a way to make money, and that he wasn't able to bring very many changes of clothing when he arrived at Beacon.
Jaune learned that Coco LOVED learning about car repair and maintenance (even though a fashionista such as herself would NEVER be caught working on one), and that she liked painting. He also found out that despite her outwardly arrogant attitude, she was quite generous with her family's fortune towards the needy.
Coco asked if Jaune would like to sit with her team today, for a change. Jaune, being the friendly, outgoing person he was, felt that there was nothing wrong with the request, and so agreed. By now, they were about to reached their destination, and as they entered the dining hall, Jaune saw that Nora and Ren were sitting with team RWBY, as they normally did. He walked up to them, intent on letting them know that he would be sitting with some of their other friends that morning.
"Hey guys. Is Pyrrha training this morning?" Jaune asked them. "FEARLESS LEADER!" Nora shouted as she jumped up, and gave him a bone-crushing hug. Nora eventually let him go, and they continued their conversation. "She told us she was going to train a bit this morning, and left before you got up" Ren told him. "Thanks Ren. I just wanted to let you guys know that I was going to be sitting with team CFVY this morning. Coco wanted asked me to, so I figured it wouldn't cause to much problems" Jaune told them. "Ok, but you have to spend more time with us from now on. How are we going to crush our competition's legs if we don't work together more!?" Nora asked.
"Sure thing, Nora. I guess I have been neglecting you guys a bit" Jaune replied. "That right! You owe us some of your awesomest pancakes for this, buster!" the diminutive ginger replied. "Ok, you got it" Jaune said, chuckling as he headed over to team CVFY's table with Coco, who had waited for him while he went to talk with his team.
Coco quickly sat Jaune down between herself and Velvet. Velvet put up a small protest at first, but Coco quickly shot her a "Shut up, I am doing this for your own good" glare. As they all started to talk, Velvet quickly relaxed, and their interactions became more natural, more fluid.
Meanwhile at another table, a group of girls were talking amongst themselves. "Do you think Coco is interested in Jaune?" Ruby pondered. "I don't know. With the way he has been picking up girls as of late, I wouldn't be surprised" Yang replied, a small glare on her face as she looked at her little sister. "I don't think so. She seems to be acting friendly, but not in a fashion that indicates she fancies him" Weiss told them, a look of worry and embarrassment on her face.
Jaune had talked with team CFVY for a while, and had gotten to know all of them better. Coco kept teasing him and Velvet, and the young rabbit faunus eventually asked Jaune to hang out with her again, to which he agreed. Coco also got him to agree to help her pick out some new outfits. In return, she would buy him some new clothes, and some gift certificates to some restaurants for when he hung out with his friends. At first Jaune was hesitant, but with some persistent badgering (and a few threats of bodily harm as well), he agreed.
Meanwhile, in the headmaster's office…
Ozpin watched the cctv footage from the cafeteria. Yes, yes indeed. Things were coming along quite well. One did not live an eternity as a nigh immortal magical being without becoming wise as to the behavior of others, especially hormonal teenagers. The bets seemed to moving ever closer in his favor moment by moment.
Headmaster Ozpin, was not only a magical being, a nigh immortal character who would last until humanity itself ceased to exist, but he was someone who was excellent with figuring out pairings of students.
Never in all his years did he ever meet an individual quite like Mr. Jaune Arc. Ozpin had known that the young man had forged papers when he entered Beacon, but something about the young man had moved Ozpin accept him as a student. The lad in question had an air about him of someone who seemed quite capable of grand strategy, who was moral, and who could become a pillar of society. He WAS an Arc, but that was not the only thing.
Getting the young man combat capable wouldn't be hard. He just needed to have a good teacher, and the innate ability to learn that Ozpin sensed would help him with the rest.
Ozpin had been right, about the boy, of course. However, the gentleman in question also seemed to be the holy grail of relationship pairings. Why, Ozpin, the Wonderful Wizard of Ships, as he was called (if but to himself, for the other professors and colleagues of his would only agree to call him that, much to his dismay), was rarely wrong about such things.
Ozpin hypothesized that Jaune Arc could be paired with almost ANY girl he came across, the elder man reckoned. The multiverse of ships was LIMITLESS with him. In some alternate universe, he could even see the young man pairing with Glenda Goodwitch herself (a fact he informed the Ozpin's of other shipverses about using ancient magical ability, DON'T QUESTION IT), as well as the queen and her pieces.
He watched the monitor, and decided he needed an inside source. A spy, if you will. Preferably one with excellent hearing, smell, and eyesight. One he had dirt on…. one with a weakness for smut….. he had found his purrfect target for a spy.
As he watched the monitors, he saw Miss Valkyrie talking excitedly with her childhood friend, Lie Ren. While there was no sound, Ozpin could read lips. "Go and get me some more pancakes, Renny" the young lady spoke to the young man, most likely loud enough most around them could hear them. Mr. Ren replied that she should do it, to which she whispered that "She needed to keep an eye on their fearless leader to make sure nobody did anything to him that would make her need to 'break their legs" as she would put it. Mr. Ren rolled his eyes, but happily obliged. He got the young battle maiden her pancakes, when a young cat faunus from Atlas, here for the tournament, ran into him on her roller skates, knocking him down, and spilling the breakfast food.
The young lady in question had been distracted with talking to her team, and felt bad for what she had done. She quickly got Ren a stack of pancakes twice as large as he had originally gotten for his partner, and skated back with him to their seats. She quickly grabbed his scroll, got his number, and put in hers, promising to take him out to eat as an apology for knocking him down. Nora started to dig into the delicious breakfast food, so she was unaware of the slight blush on the young lady from Atlas' face as she headed back to her seat.
Yes, this would INDEED be an interesting year, Ozpin thought as he took a sip of coffee, and thought of how he would spend all the Lie he would make when the year was over.
