For this one I would recommend checking out either my Tumblr or my Ao3 account, as there is a fantastic piece of art to go along with it. Commissioned by the wonderful MRK50, the accounts are under the same name, thought my tumblr has two x's.
Jaune had experienced a lot of things in his short life, getting new siblings, having the girl he was in love with step all over his heart, having his eldest sister knock him around like a rag doll. Each of those times had stolen his breath away, only one of those had given him a good feeling afterwards. However, for the first time since he'd been alive, he REALLY felt his breath stolen. HIs heartbeat slowed as the vision of the goddess or near goddess in front of him took all of his attention, his peripheral vision blurring out everything else. "Wow…" Truly he was a poet.
Still, he found himself nearly unable to speak or move, despite the distance he felt her gazing into his soul, much like he was doing with her. His stomach flipped, he felt butterflies swarming around his gut, his heart flipped as his breath became ragged. He'd never experienced feelings like this before, and despite how embarrassed he was. He still found himself unable to look away, he half expected her to do the same, but she simply watched him, watched him with an increased amount of interest.
She was absolutely stunning, in a lot of ways she reminded him of, "FLANNA!" her, ya her. Jaune's attention snapped to Nora, who was practically fuming. Before he could stop his exuberant sister she darted off.
"This appears to be bad." Jaune turned his attention to his brother, an exasperated look on his face. Lie simply shrugged as he began to walk after Nora.
"You! What are you doing here?!" Nora was practically steaming, how dare this harlot show her face here! She thought they'd left her behind back home, but no here she was! Though… she looked a little different, possibly going for a new look, well she'd have none of that.
"I… I'm sorry?" Pyrrha was incredibly confused, and a little scared. She'd been watching the newcomers with piqued interest, well she'd been staring at the blonde boy possibly a little too much if she was actually being honest. Then all of a sudden the orange girl made her way towards her, calling her Flanna? She'd never heard that name before, how peculiar. Right back to the girl in front of her.
"You'd better be sorry! What did I tell you about staying away from us?!" Oh this was bad, Nora was angry, and when she was angry bad things happened. Jaune hurried forward, Lie on following along in pace.
"Nora!" Both boys grabbed a side of their smaller sister. "Nora!"
"What?!" She struggled against the two boys, pulling them along with her.
If there was one thing Pyrrha understood from this strange encounter, it was that the smaller girl was strong, strong enough to drag her two male friends along with her. She herself hadn't realized she'd sensed the danger till she noticed that she'd already taken a defensive stance just in case an altercation happened. She just hoped they wouldn't bother the other students too much.
"Nora that's not her!" Jaune was doing his best to calm his little sister, hopefully she'd listen to reason.
"What?! What do you mean it's not her! They look exactly the same!" Thankfully Nora had stopped, her attention now fully on Jaune.
"What? No they don't! Flanna's hair is nowhere near as gorgeous, and her eyes aren't even close to how shining hers are!" And like that, Jaune realized he was talking aloud, his mouth snapping shut shortly after.
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Nora paused, turning towards the girl she started to see it too, "Oh…" That's really all she could say on the matter, she hadn't meant to scare anyone! She just thought it was that harlot who broke Jaune's heart, and she'd be damned if she let her or anyone else do it again!
Still, she wasn't sure she could trust this newcomer, she saw the way her big brother looked at her, even more so she saw the way she looked back! That was just asking for bad news, he'd been burned before, and again she'd be damned if she let anyone else hurt him. "Sorry…" It was a half hearted apology, but it was the best the girl in front of her was going to get. Still, she silently fumed, at least till she felt Lie's hand on her shoulder. Turning towards her other brother she calmed down as they met eye contact. "I'm sorry… I thought you were… someone else."
"I apologize on her behalf as well." Lie simply smiled, choosing to keep his apology for Nora on the short side.
Pyrrha simply nodded, she was feeling many things right now, confused, a little exhausted, and a little scared. But, at the very least it didn't seem that the orange haired girl… or Nora as they'd called her, well it didn't seem like her anger was actually directed at her. She was curious, but it was impolite to ask these things of people she'd just met. "I uhm… that's alright, apology accepted." She finally relaxed, lowering her guard.
Jaune took a breath, at least Nora's little rampage had done something good. He felt his heart calm, and a new found amount of courage entered his chest. "I'm sorry too, please forgive us, well… I mean you already did… but still! Uhm… sorry…" Wow he was finding it rather hard to talk. "Nora's… she's just an overprotective sister"
"Sister?" Oh! She hadn't meant to say that outloud, but the two didn't look anything alike. Though if she squinted she could sort of make it out. Nora did have turquoise eyes, and the boy had, well he had the most stunning clear sapphire colored eyes, Pyrrha had never seen eyes like his before. "I'm sorry!" Her face flushed in embarrassment, perhaps this wasn't something she should be asking aloud, or at all.
The trio simply chuckled in response, "It's okay, we get that a lot. Oh uhm… I'm Jaune, Jaune Arc. Short, Sweet, Rolls off the tongue lad… OUCH!" Jaune jolted up as Nora slammed her heel into his foot.
"Jaune! What did I tell you about that terrible line?!" Nora obviously didn't want to hear it, neither did Lie apparently, he simply rolled his eyes at his siblings antics.
"But! Dad said…"
"Jaune… dad's advice isn't meant to be taken literally. Like, when he says all you need is confidence, he means confidence in yourself, not to fake it. You should listen to mom's instead." Lie's words caused him to pause, right Lie was right…
"Right I'm sorry… I'm just a bit nervous." He didn't really want to expand on why he was so nervous, not when the reason he was nervous was the incredibly gorgeous girl in front of him. "I uhm… I'm Jaune Arc, third child and first son of the Arc family."
As Jaune reached his hand out, Pyrrha found herself a little flustered, and a little lost. People rarely approached her, she'd always come off as intimidating, and scary. She couldn't even remember the last time someone had gone out of their way to introduce themselves first. As she took his hand she felt her heart flip in her chest. This was a nice feeling, hopefully her parents were right, maybe she'd be able to make friends after all. "I'm Pyrrha… Pyrrha Nikos." She smiled, and for the first time in a long time her smile reached all the way. "It's a pleasure to meet you Jaune Arc…" She paused, "and for what it's worth I quite like the name." Crimson began to spread across her cheeks as she realized she'd just flirted.
Crimson also began to spread across Jaune's face, he hadn't expected that to work, his track record with flirting was non existent, mostly cause he hadn't bothered in a long time. "I… thank you… Pyrrha's also an incredibly gorgeous name." Oh… "I… uhm… u… I meant pretty…"
Both of them stood there, frozen as to what to do next, till Nora spoke up instead. SNAP Both statues turned towards the sound of a scroll taking a picture. Nora stood there with a massive grin on her face. "Heheheh~ Wait till mom sees this!"
If their faces had been simply crimson before, they were now an intense and dark scarlet.
"Good job Jauney~!" Nora was obviously happy for her brother, though she was over exaggerating at the moment, but this was nice! Jaune never talked with other people, well people that weren't family. Heck, he did so less than herself or Lie! Stuffing her scroll in her pocket she stepped forward. "Howdy Pyrrha! Again sorry for threatening ya like that before! Though if you break Jauney's heart I break your legs!"
"I… uh… uhm…." Pyrrha felt like she was a deer lost in the headlights. She didn't even know if she liked Jaune yet! Though he was quite dashing, and appeared to be rather kind, if not a little dorky. Though, that wasn't a bad thing, not in the slightest.
"Alright Nora that's enough." Jaune had finally snapped out of his stupor. Withdrawing his hand, regrettably, from Pyrrha's grasp. "UHm… right, well the short orange haired tiny person you've been speaking to is Nora Valkyrie Arc, my younger sister."
"OH! Getting brave in front of your new girlfriend are you? You're in kneecap popping distance Jauney~!" Though she spoke, her voice was far from threatening, more jubilant than anything else.
Jaune simply rolled his eyes, "And the silent one over here is our brother Lie Ren Arc."
"It's a pleasure to meet you Pyrrha. I apologize for our sister's… behavior." Lie simply eyed Nora who shrugged in response.
"It's alright. It is a pleasure to meet you three~" Despite everything that happened, Pyrrha was happy! People were talking to her, though she was curious, none of them looked even closely related but they all had the same last name and had introduced themselves as siblings. For now she'd stow that away for later, she was just happy she'd gotten to meet new people.
The lights began to dim as the headmaster made his way out to introduce himself. Jaune paid no heed to the dimming lights or the headmaster, instead he continued to watch Pyrrha. She was really pretty… and she seemed really nice. Though, even as his hopes grew he still heard the little bit in the back of his head. You're going to fail, don't bother, she'll just leave you too~ He bit his lip as he turned his attention towards the front. His heartbeat slowing to a near stop, right he didn't have the best luck with these things, best not to try.
