Second chapter for the day.

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Chapter 5:

It was a beautiful morning as the hunter cadets woke up and got ready for the initiation. Cadets would first get dressed in their favorable clothing as they ate and take their time to finish whatever needs to be done. After breakfast was served, the cadets would head to the locker room to retrieve their weapons and armors before heading out to Beacon Cliff where they would be launched to Emerald Forest.

Yes. Launched to Emerald Forest.

Don't ask why, but apparently; it is a long-time tradition of Beacon Academy.

Anyway, back at the locker room; Yang, Ruby, and Jaune were conversing as they geared up for the initiation.

"So, your semblance..."

"Yes?" It's actually not a semblance, but Jaune didn't have much of a choice to go with it.

"It lets you hear a person's soul. Like a music player?"

"Pretty much." Jaune nodded as he tweaked his guitar.

He was internally lamenting over the fact that he couldn't bring his lute and harp with him to the initiation. There just wasn't any viable ways to carry all of his instruments. Yes, Jaune managed to bring most of his instrument to Beacon by himself, but the others were shipped by postal service.

Yang placed a hand on her hip with a smirk. "And you can imitate the music from their soul?"

"In a sense, yes. I can." The music of a soul is extremely complicated. Beautiful, but complicated. "Well, it's more like I can write a song that suits or describes them."

"Interesting. How about writing one that best describes me? Fellow blondie."

Meanwhile, Ruby was smiling as she cradled her weapon in her hand. She had missed her baby when she was forced to part with it last night. "Finally, my sweetheart will do all the talking today. No more awkward small talk, or 'getting to know you' stuff."

"Ruby, you're creeping me out here." Yang flatly eyed her sister as she hugged Crescent Rose tighter.

"Quiet, Yang. Don't you have a music boy to talk to? Let me enjoy my time with my sweetheart…"

Yang looked embarrassed at Ruby's affectionate display for her weapon as she rubbed the back of her head. "Did my sister tell you that she's a weapon dork?" Hoping that Jaune didn't assume she was anything like her little sister. "I think she got that from her mother."

"Yup. She did when we first met." Putting away his guitar and pulling up his specialized scroll, Jaune selected his desired instruments that he wants to synthesize.

The two sisters raised an eyebrow at the odd scroll.

"Never seen that kind of scroll before."

"This is my music synthesizer. I had it custom made in Atlas." He set the recording and stretched his fingers. "So… How should your song go?" Jaune asked himself as he looked at Yang in the eye.

"Wait, you're actually going to play one right now?"

"Yeah. It's easy, for me. You're very straightforward for the most part."

Ruby nodded in agreement, "Yeah, that's Yang for you."

"You're no different too, Rubes," Yang said as she rolled her eyes at her sister's hypocritical statement. Her sister is just as straightforward as she is when it comes to weapons. She turned her attention back to Jaune, curious to see what the boy has in store for her. "So, music boy. What're ya playing for me?"

Jaune grinned and snapped his finger at her as he started playing on his synthesizer, Ignite – Jeff Williams.

"Hello there my enemy

Welcome to my punching spree

This is where I lay waste and you

Go home bleeding.

Didn't have to be this way

Should have stayed out of the fray

Now you're heading for a beating!"

Jazz and rock filled the air as Jaune played on his synthesizer, catching the sisters off guard as his hands blurred across the screen, dropping and mixing the rhythms to his desires.

"Whoa, now this is something I can dance and fight to. Heck yeah, I'm digging it!" Yang pumped her fist in the air as she tapped her foot to the rhythm.

Ruby, on the other hand, was suddenly very well aware that they were getting stares from the rest of their peers, leaving her to conceal her head with her hood. Despite this, she was also tapping her foot to the rhythm as well.

"Didn't mother warn you?

Now she's gonna mourn you

Being damaged how you'll end this day

You're a big mess

Cause I'm relentless

I gotta tell you I'm on fire today!

Crash and burn (Crash and burn)

Some lessons are just hard to learn

Scathing eyes (Scathing eyes)

That only see things from only one side!"

As Jaune continued to play, Weiss and Pyrrha were off to the side observing the performance with curiosity. Though Weiss was slightly irritated that she was interrupted by Jaune's music number once more.

Weiss sighed, "There he goes again…" She closed her eyes and pinched her forehead. "I thought he mixed up music academy with Beacon."

"Someone, you know?" Pyrrha asked with a quizzical expression.

"Not really… So, Pyrrha, have you given any thought to whose team you would like to be on?" Weiss's question was drowned out by the music, distracting Pyrrha from the conversation as she listened in on the spectacle. "… I'll seek your answer in another time then."

"Hm? Oh, I'm sorry! What were you saying again?"


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