Another time skip and to a time we are most familiar with of course. Bacon...I mean Beacon.
Half a year and two months later, jaune sat at juniors bar waiting for the time that Beacons airship came to pick them up. It had been so many years since he came to vale that he couldn't believe how fast time had flown. Jaune found it funny how their supposed fourth year in pharos academy turned out to be nothing more than turning in applications and practice video's for headmasters to review.
Although he did understand the process of choosing which students would be allowed to whatever academy they wished it still bothered him. After all that's one full year of school they missed before going to a higher education level but then again it was still early in the year. At least it meant he'd meet new people and that their training and studies would be harder plus the talk about teams was interesting.
Jaune watched as Blake came around the bar dressed in the suit she was given when she started working except for the jacket and instead of red shirt she wore purple with her hair tied in a ponytail. As soon as her eye's landed on him, she received a salute from the bottle he held up "I take it junior cried his eye's out that your leaving"? Blake rolled her eyes "Actually he's pretty angry that I'm leaving, turns out I'm the only one he trusts to serve good drinks".
Jaune had to give her that, she was pretty quick on the uptake and junior treated her like the daughter he never had which caused a lot of problems with the twins. Blake sat on the stool next to his and let out a tired sigh "think junior gonna be mad at me for long"? Jaune shrugged his shoulders "hard to say but I think he'll get over it, just give it some time".
Blake pulled out her scroll and checked the time "we should get to the pickup point before Yang comes here to drag us there". Jaune gave a small nod before pushing himself up and off the stool "to the start of are new lives" he drank half of the contents of the bottle before handing it to her. She stared at it for a second before throwing caution to the wind "cheers" Blake took the bottle and polished off the rest before tossing it in the trash behind the bar.
Getting on the transport was easy and finding yang was easier because she and to his surprise ruby were making a bunch of noise that drew eye's. Jaune turned to Blake and saw her trying to hide her face while muttering how they weren't with her and how they were so embarrassing. Her moment was interrupted when jaune stepped behind her, took hold of her shoulders and pushed her forward towards the two girls.
Ruby was the first to notice their approach and moved past her cousin to greet them "jaune" she brushed passed Blake and jumped on his arm. "Hi" ruby said cutely which brought a chuckle from his lips before he ruffled her hair "Hi" he returned. Blake tried her best to get away but ultimately fell to Yangs unimaginable strength and the fact jaune had hold of her only helped seal her fate.
The moment Blake was pulled from his grip he knew he was going to have one large grumpy cat to deal with. Yangs arm was wrapped around the back of Blake's neck and just like he thought, there was a very large frown spread across her face. "Come on Blake you act like their trying to take you to a veterinarian" the comment wasn't appreciated when she started to stared daggers at him.
Yang pulled her slightly to catch her attention "don't sweat it Blake, I know you'll warm up to me soon". Blake disagreed greatly especially when yang started to pat the space between her cat ears causing her head to bounce slightly. Jaune crack a smile "who knows, maybe you two might become partners and get to spend the next four years together.
Instead of looking like the grumpy cat she was she gave him a mortified look and tried to reach out for him but ruby pulled him back slightly to keep him out of her reach. Jaune turned to the small girl in red to ask the question that had been bothering him since they got on the airship. "Ruby don't take this the wrong way but why exactly are you on the ship with us"?
Yang quickly let go of Blake and slide over to her younger cousin "I almost forgot, you won't believe what happened when she went to vale a few days ago". Ruby buried her face into his sleeve as yang continued "she ran into Torchwick and managed to fight him off, isn't that amazing"? Jaune's eye's widened as he stared at the tiny girl hanging off his arm.
Yang snapped her fingers bringing his attention back to her "turns out her little stunt impressed the headmaster at Beacon and as you can guess the rest is history".
Ruby felt jaunes arm tense under her hands which had her looking up to see his blue eye's watching her with a tinge of worry and disappointment. Jaunes eye's hardened as he sent a fierce glare towards yang "what part of what happened was amazing? The fact that she reckless fought a fully trained huntsmen or that fact that she's still alive?
Yang flinched at each question jaune fired off but it was ruby who spoke up to defend her cousin "jaune it's ok I know how to defend myself". Apparently those were the wrong choice of words because the moment they passed her lips was the moment jaunes icy glare turned to her. "You, defend yourself against a fully trained huntsmen with years of experience? Ruby the only reason your even here is because Torchwick wasn't fighting you with everything he had.
"I won didn't I"?
"You got lucky"!
His words were like a sledgehammer to her pride as a huntress but more than that his anger and the disappointment in his voice had her taking a step back. Ruby's hands clenched together as she tried to regain her nerve "even if I-I got l-lucky I had to do something to protect the store owner". The more she spoke the braver she became "it's a huntresses job to protect the people from the bad guys".
"Your not a huntress".
Once again his words hurt more then any punch ever thrown her way but even then she remained defiant as she glared at him. Blake looked between the two teens wondering who would back down first and to her surprise it was jaune who turned away first with two final words "forget it". Jaune walked away from their group towards the window to silently fume while ruby pulled up her hood, crossed her arms and chose to ignore the world around her.
The mood now ruined left Blake and yang to stand in the center of the airship in complete silence for the remainder of the trip to Beacon. Once the airship docked at the school and allowed students to disembark, something caught jaunes eye's so he left without a word to the others. Yang and Blake joined up with ruby before following the rest of the students off the airship and towards the schools auditorium.
The last two students to walk down the ramp came to a halt as they came face to face with someone they met in mistral. The tall blonde had waited for them at the bottom "Lie Ren, Nora valkyrie" he called as he stepped towards the two "welcome to vale". Ren nodded towards the tall blonde "we appreciate the warm welcome Jaune Arc". Any tension that could have formed died instantly when Nora rushed over to the tall blonde and pulled him into a bone crushing hug.
Jaunes eye's bulged at the amount of force that crushed his ribs and forcibly caused him to release all the air in his lungs. As quickly as it started it ended just as abruptly when Nora released him and he fell to the floor trying his hardest to suck in any air available. The ginger bounced slightly with a wide grin spread across her face "oh it so great to see you again jauney".
In all honesty jaune hadn't expected such a warm welcome from the girl cause he knew they worked for Vernal and she wasn't one for letting people get that close. Jaune pushed himself back up and on to his feet trying to keep what little pride he had left in tact "it's good to see you too Nora". The ginger smiled happily at his response before elbowing Ren's side "see I told you we'd get along".
Ren sighed and shook his head gently before turning back to jaune "I know you have questions but I ask that you hold them for later or we'll miss the opening announcement from the headmaster". Jaune gave a nod to the two in front of him before turning towards Beacon "we'd better hurry so we aren't late".
Nora and Ren followed after the tall blonde until they were at the foot of Beacon academy. Before they could enter the building there was a loud crash as several vials were sent rolling across the floor. Jaune reached down and scooped up a vial with red Dust in it before turning it over to see the schnee dust company logo on the back.
Looking a little further from their location there was a few suitcases laying on the floor and a very angry woman yelling at two men in butler suits. Spending so much time with yang and ruby was starting to effect him, he turned to Ren and Nora "I'll catchup with you two later" he said before rushing off. Each step he took brought him closer to the group and while that was good the vials he picked up became numerous in his arms.
Jaune managed to collect all the dust vials before stopping behind the girl in white. A large grin spread across his face as he said the one thing he knew would upset the heiress of the schnee dust "hey snow angel". Weiss's reaction was on impulse as she spun around to face him "don't call me that" she screamed.
Getting the RWBY characters together like this is actually a lot harder than I originally thought. On a side note not relevant to this story, I've been hearing about a team called team orange which consists of Oscar, jaune, Ren and Nora and honestly I will never refer to them as team orange. Why you might ask well it's because jaunes the team leader not oscar and the fact they are trying to demote him from his spot is just another kick to an already great character. They should just keep the same name as JNPR since Oscars last name is Pine and honestly all I see in Oscars character is Ozpin and that annoys me to no end. In case your wondering if I hate Ozpins character than yes I do. I'll apologies for the rant it's just I watched RWBY over again and each time something with Ozpin or Oscar came up it really bothered me.