Chapter 3
Standing within the airship to Beacon, Zecromac looked among the future students he took notice to a pair of girls to the right, frowning at the two he thought
'Red and Yellow do not fit well together' Zecromac thought with a raised eyebrow before looking to his host and his girlfriend, the two sleeping peacefully, but to him, thanks to his ability to mind link, the two were having a friendly spar within Jaune's mind, hence why he was standing outside of the kids mind.
Turning to the new students, Zecromac sensed an aura of arrogance in the back of the ship.
Making him turn with a raised eyebrow before hearing an excited voice.
"Oooh I'm so proud of you!"
"Please, stop"
Looking to the owners of the voices, Zecromac had a genuine smile at sensing the younger girls innocents, looking away for the two to have some privacy, the window before him blinked to life with a news report.
"The robbery was led by nefarious criminal Roman Torchwick who continues to evade authorities. If you have any information of his whereabouts, please contact the Vale police department. Back to you, Lisa" looking away from the news report, Zecromac looked to his host with another smile as the two yawned themselves from a sleep like trance, with Jaune rubbing his eyes as Emerald scratched her head, blinking with a sigh the two looked around with Zecromac returning to Jaune's mind.
"Sooooo how was the spar?" Zecromac questioned with Emerald shuddered at his voice within her mind, making Jaune place a reassuring hand on her back, making her smile softly to him before leaning to him with a kiss, just as a hologram of the academies headmistress appeared where the news report had been.
"Hello and welcome to beacon. My name is Glynda Goodwitch. You are among a privileged few who have received the honor of-" the hologram said with Zecromac's head appearing beside Jaune upside down.
"Damn, now that's a milf if I've ever seen one" Zecromac said with Jaune's eyes lingering over the woman's form until much to his dismay the hologram shut off after the announcement, allowing the both Jaune and Emerald to explore the scenery of the approaching academy grounds, with Emerald curling her fingers between Jaune's whose smile was bright.
"I guess Beacon is our temporary home then" Jaune said as he wrapped an arm around Emerald's shoulder, making her smile as the two shared a kiss, before it was ruined by a future student holding his mouth to barf, making the two plus spirit look at him with Zecromac frowning.
"I have the feeling that might've been you at one point" Zecromac said with Jaune shuddering in disgust as the two followed the students out of the airship.
touching the solid ground, Jaune looked around in awe beside Emerald who grabbed his hand as an after thought, making Jaune look to their hands before yanking his hand out of hers to wrap his right arm around her with a kiss, making the two laugh as they walked forward, with Jaune having a sympathetic look to the teen dropping his breakfast the two looked ahead to see a dizzy girl trip over a cart of luggage, with Jaune recognising the family logo of the Schnee family, with his eyes narrowing as he approached the girl to help her up, just as said Schnee appeared.
"What're you doing!?" the girl said with Jaune sparing the girl in white a glance before stepping back with Emerald.
"Sorry…"
"Sorry. Do you have any idea of the damage you could've caused!?" the Schnee said with Jaune's eyes narrowing as Zecromac appeared between the two, with him pulling faces at the Schnee.
Before seeing the girl pull out a loose vial, with small particles of red floating out with Zecromac moving aside to look at the dust.
"… Are you even listening to me!?" the Schnee said with both jaune and Zecromac looking to the red hooded girl with wide eyes.
Followed by a small scale explosion of the elements, with a cloud surrounding the duo with Zecromac standing in the middle.
"Unbelievable. This is exactly what I was talking about!" the Schnee said with Zecromac giving her a deadpan look, moving to Jaune's side he failed to notice the clouds parting after him.
Turning to them Zecromac finally took notice to the trail he left unknowingly.
"Hey, I said I was sorry, Princess!" the red hooded girl said with a bit of anger with Jaune crossing his arms.
"She's not a princess…" Jaune said with the two turning to him and Emerald, his red eye glaring into hers the heiress took a step back startled.
"Her name is Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee dust company" Jaune said with the girl looking smug until he continued.
"The same company I don't trust due to Faunus labor working hours and greedy pocket pickers, the same company that forced one of my friends to move out of my town" Jaune said with his brow furrowing in anger, stepping to the girl she was stuck in place as he stood face to face with her.
"Now you listen and listen well, here, your status of being in a rich family mean nothing to the students or the teachers, and with that attitude you won't go very far, now you either get that stick out of your ass or the Grimm will do it for you while tearing your guts out" Jaune said with a glare before walking off, leaving the stunned Schnee in place before Emerald returned to grab the red hooded girl and pull her after Jaune.
With Zecromac looking at his host in worry before seeing a girl in black staring at him with a furrowed brow, making him tilt his head before returning to Jaune's mind, making the girl in black blink while looking around, it was this moment Weiss schnee snapped out of her trance and looked in Jaune's direction, just as her handlers reloaded the dust onto the cart.
Wiping her eyes with a soft sniff she steeled herself before hesitantly following the students in silence.
"Thank you for sticking up for me?" the red hooded girl said with Jaune inhaling enough to calm himself down, showing a small smile at the girl he shrugged.
"No biggy, you look like you needed help anyway, Jaune Arc, this is Emerald Sustrai"
"Ruby Rose, and once again, thank you" Ruby said with a bow, making Jaune and Emerald softly laugh as they entered the amphitheatre, with Ruby called at
"Hey, Ruby. I saved you a spot!" the blonde from the airship said with a wave, making Ruby perk up.
"Oh that's my sister, it was nice meeting you two" Ruby said as she raced to her sister, leaving Jaune and Emerald in place with Jaune crossing his arms.
"Well, who will we meet next?"
"Let's find a place to go first, Em" Jaune said with a smile before they turned to a throat being cleared, turning they were met with a red haired girl in gladiator armor gesturing to a spot beside her.
"the spots here are free" the girl said with a slight blush as the two moved to her side.
"Pyrrah Nikos" the girl introduced herself with the three exchanging handshakes.
"Jaune Arc"
"Emerald Sustrai"
The sound of a microphone being prepped through the speakers got their attention, with Pyrrah sneaking a glance to Jaune before looking forward to see the headmaster stepping onto the stage, with Zecromac appearing beside Ozpin, only seen by Jaune.
"I'll... keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge - to hone your craft and acquire new skills, and when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose, direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step." Stepping away from the headmaster, Jaune was frowning at the lack of Zecromac's antics of doing stupid things, instead the spirit had a sad expression before vanishing.
"All first year students will gather in the Ballroom, your initiation will begin tomorrow" the headmistress said with Jaune feeling his eyes drawn to her legs as the students filed out of the building, with the woman catching Jaune's lingering eyes until he looked away at being caught, making the woman raise an eyebrow at seeing his miscoloured eyes.
"Hmm"
Upon leaving the unisex locker room in a pair of sleeping pants, he was followed by Emerald wearing her own pair of boxers with a black and white bra, both holding a pair sleeping bags of their own they found a corner of the ballroom to set up, with the two putting their sleeping rolls close to each other Emerald sat down on her roll with Jaune lying down, and Zecromac dancing around the many future students like a menacing ballerina, stopping at one point to flash his ass in an arseholes face before going on with his dancing, with Jaune trying not to laugh, seeing her boyfriends look, Emerad spoke.
"Did Zeke do something funny?"
"You have no idea" Jaune said with a soft chuckle as Zecromac continued dancing before stopping at seeing Pyrrah walking out of the locker room in a bright red sleeping gown with Jaune's attention also being caught by her figure being shown by her current clothing, with the red head seeing the two she moved to them with a kind smile.
"Is this spot taken?" Pyrrah questioned while gesturing to the empty spot to Jaune's right.
"No it's open" Emerald said with a mischievous smirk that made Zecromac smile at the girl, already seeing the perverted plan the mint green haired girl had Jaune gulped loudly.
Making Zecromac smile before leaving the ballroom, shedding his joking aura with a more serious one as his eyes gazed to the top of Beacon tower.
Walking towards it Zecromac's form took on a dark aspect with both his eyes glowing.
Walking into the building to the tower, the being pressed buttons to the vault of Beacon, lifting a hand up with a orb of light within his hand, clawing it calmly to keep it protected the being stepped through the opening doors to see the comatose form of a woman in Atlas' health monitors, looking to the orb in his hand, Zecromac leaned down to the comatose women's form Zecromac's gaze softened with a hand moving over the women's face lovingly.
"I may have failed to protect you when you needed me most Amber, but I chose someone to protect you when I leave this world" Zecromac said softly as he placed the orb over Amber's chest, stepping back with a watchful eye on the woman's chest the orb sunk into her chest with the wound on her delicate face fading away, followed by her eyes glowing as they snapped open before slowly falling down to sleep.
"He'll take better care of you than I ever could." Zecromac said before vanishing
The next day
Snorting himself awake Jaune went to rub his eyes to rid them of his sleep, only to feel both his arms trapped under a weight, looking to the left he saw Emerald hugging him in her sleep, a delicate smile on her lips, turning to his right Jaune blinked at seeing Pyrrah hugging him in her sleep as well, with Jaune finally taking notice to the weight on his chest he looked down to see a orange haired girl mumbling something in her sleep, making Jaune blink at the total stranger with Zecromac appearing in the air, upside down.
"Hmm, I'd say you definitely have my luck with women" Zecromac said before touching down to softly nudge the girl on Jaune's stomach away, making her mumble about pancakes and beauty sleep, making the two look to each other in confusion before Zecromac vanished, leaving Jaune to wake up Emerald with the girl moaning as his breath tickled her neck.
"If you don't wake up now I'll lose both my arms to blood loss" Jaune said with the girl sitting up wide eyed, allowing Jaune to free his left arm, softly nudging Pyrrah awake he felt the orange haired girl sit up with a yawn, making Jaune blush at her well developed assets before feeling Pyrrah sitting up with Emerald looking at the two in confusion, Pyrrah she could understand because she slept beside them last night, but the orange haired girl.
"Who are you?" Emerald questioned with the girl looking to her with wide eyes of awareness, blinking she looked to Jaune beneath her and then to Pyrrah.
"Sorry" the girl said before leaving in a flash of movement, leaving the three blinking the sleep from their eyes before Jaune sat up finally, with Zecromac appearing in the air with a violin in hand.
"So, when do we begin the slaughter of beasts my friends?" Zecromac questioned with Emerald shivering once more before steeling herself, getting up to change into her gear, leaving Zecromac, Jaune and Pyrrah to look after her swaying hips that made Jaune smile.
"What's wrong with her?" Pyrrah questioned with Jaune chuckling nervously, opening his mouth to answer slightly before an announcement was heard.
"May all first year students head to Beacon cliff for your initiation, repeat, may all first year-"
"Well, guess we better get ready then" Jaune said as he stood up, helping Pyrrah up, with Zecromac now in a drum set bashing a tune for a comedy show no one knew of.(I'm still trying to remember it myself so don't expect a name , sorry)
Standing up herself she followed Jaune and Emerald with Zecromac still drumming away at a soft pace before looking to other students, before seeing the orange haired girl from before waking her friend up, making Jaune raise an eyebrow before shrugging.
Walking to his locker within the unisex bathroom he took his shirt to instantly get the wolf whistle from the females with the locker room, making Zecromac pop up within the locker as a decapitated head, getting no reaction from Jaune as he took his sword and shield, placing them at his side he reached in to grab his armored jeans and boots, putting them on his person he followe dit with a tank top with a coat similar to Zecromac's, but with the Arc family crest on the back with a sun and moon below it with the two joining together with grins and eyes of madness.
Shrugging his coat for comfort, Jaune ran a hand through his hair to sleek it back with a few strands hanging over his eyes.
Cracking his neck the Arc placed his swords holster on his right side with his shield on his back, closing the locker Zecromac stepped out through the door with a shrug as the two went to find emerald, seeing her talking to Pyrrah and begrudgingly, Weiss Schnee, who upon seeing Jaune she had a look of apology, stepping to him she held her hands together in a worried manner, making Jaune's eyes soften.
Holding his hand up to silence her he spoke softly.
"I may have over reacted when we first met, but I just to let you know that instead of apologising, try to work on your people skills and see everyone equally, than you will be happy… like me" Jaune said with a wide smile that made the heiress blush before he was dragged away by Emerald, who waved to Pyrrah who waved back with her own blush.
"I swear to god you are a magnet to attractive women, Jaune" Emerald said with her boyfriend walking beside her with his hands behind his head, a look of thought as Zecromac walked beside the two, looking at the scenery of Beacon with a smile before vanishing into Jaune's mind as they approached the cliff where Goodwitch and Ozpin stood waiting.
Standing on a platform Zecromac spoke.
"So, in case shit hits the fan, what weapons you want, close and personal or long range and vengeful?"
'Hmm, give me close and personal' Jaune sent the mental message with a weight appearing beside his shoulder, looking over his shoulder he grinned at the sight of a chainsaw.
Not noticing the startled looks Ozpin gave him before regaining his composure by drinking his coffee.
Waiting for the rest of the future students to arrive, Jaune and Emerald stood in silence
"For years you have trained to become warriors, and today your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest" Ozpin said with Jaune Grinning widely.
"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" Goodwitch said with Jaune's eyes slowly drifting to her figure before snapping out of his trance at Ozpin talking.
"these teammates will with you for the rest of your time here at Beacon, so it is in your best interest to be paired with someone whom you can work well. That being said, the first person you make eye contact with after landing will be your partner for the next four years" ozpin said with Jaune and Emerald sharing a worried look.
"After you've paired up, make your way to the northern end of the forest. You will meet opposition along the way, do not hesitate to destroy anything in your path, or you will die…" Ozpin said with Zecromac appearing in front of Jaune with a shrug.
"So much joy is rising from him at this moment" Zecromac said with Jaune rolling his eyes
'Yeah, you can just see the wide smile on his lips' Jaune said with the two inwardly laughing as Ozpin ended his speech.
"You will be graded appropriately, any questions?"
"When do we start, sir?" Jaune questioned with a bored tone, with the two professors looking to him, making Ozpin raise an eyebrow before bringing up his scroll, sending Jaune flying ahead of the others.
Leaving Zecromac on the cliff before he turned to Ozpin and Glynd, with the Headmaster looking straight at him with a kind smile, making the spirit give him a salute which the headmaster returned as Glynda turned to the forest.
Mouthing the words
'Good to have you back… old friend'
