so tired!
The morning went by quickly after jaune went to work putting his master chief skills to the test in preparing breakfast for the hungry souls at juniors bar. The blonde leaned back and yelled out loudly so everyone could hear "I need a raise"! In the front of the bar junior rolled his eyes as the malachite twins hummed their agreement with their favorite blonde.
Blake had worked up the strength to force feed herself the food jaune had made for her and although her mind rejected it her stomach thanked her for the delicious meal. Once she was finished she put everything back on the tray and returned it to the kitchen so jaune wouldn't have to come back for it. Miltia watched Blake with a smirk on her face one that the cat faunus noticed and didn't like.
"What"?
"Nothing, just saw something really interesting last night" miltia said knowingly. Melanie grew interested enough to join the conversation "do tell sister".
Miltia smirked "Well last night I saw our dear kitten go into jaunes room".
"It wasn't like that" Blake argued "he was just helping me with stuff, important stuff". The slight tinge of red colored Blake cheeks making her an easier target then before. "Stuff huh? It must have been really important since you stayed the rest of the night in there" miltia said with a large smile. Melanie put a hand over her mouth in shock "how scandalous, Blake I never knew you had it in you".
Blake knew they were just trying to get under her skin but that still didn't stop the red that crept up her neck. Miltia nudged her sister with her elbow "Blake's rather lucky though to get someone who'd even cook breakfast and serve her in bed, talk about romantic". Jaune walked through the door and saw Blake glaring daggers at the red twin for something she probably said.
"Blake-" his words snapped her out of her murderous thoughts "let's go we're already late for classes". She nodded before heading back to her room to collect her weapon. On the way back to Beacon the two remained silent, Blake was now feeling embarrassed after thinking back on miltia's words.
This was so stupid, she'd done way more embarrassing things in life like sex with Adam or letting yang read one of her books. How could just sleeping next to a friend be any more embarrassing then that? Blake turned to the man in question and saw the blonde with his eyes closed obviously still tired from staying up last night. She wanted to ask why he stood up so late but a part of her already knew the answer to that.
Thinking about last night brought back the memories of this morning and the strong arms she woke up in. Blake's face turned red before she shook her head to clear the dangerous thoughts that were beginning to fill her head. She took a deep breath and mentally pushed the events of yesterday into a metal safe and sealed it forever.
When the bullhead landed the two ran through the school grounds to get to their next class. Jaune opened the door to the classroom they arrived at and hoped they wouldn't interrupt the lecture but when they entered the room and had all eye's on them he knew he did. Professor Oobleck waited for the two to find their seats before zipping around the room continuing his lecture from where he left off.
Jaune looked around and noticed his team wasn't present also equally suspicious was that Blake's team also wasn't present. The classroom door opened and Glynda goodwitch entered with a stern expression on her face. There was something radiating off the deputy headmistress that jaune noticed as pure anger.
The two teachers in the room quietly conversed before oobleck nodded in his and Blake's direction. A small sense of dread crept into mind as he watched the deputy headmaster walk his way. Glynda came to a stop in front of his desk and looked between him and Blake "mister Arc, miss belladonna I'm going to need you to follow me to the headmasters office...now".
Jaune wasn't going to argue so he quickly got to his feet and followed after goodwitch along with Blake. The walk to the central tower was awkward since any questions he posed to miss goodwitch went unanswered and ignored. They got into the elevator and headed straight to the top where the headmaster dwelled.
As soon as the door opened miss goodwitch moved to Ozpins side to await any orders he had for her. In the room the two teams jaune noticed that weren't in class stood next to each other with shame practically written on their faces. Ozpin sat behind his desk with a steaming mug in his hand "welcome mister Arc, miss belladonna".
Jaune nodded back to the headmasters before taking a spot next to his team "we're in trouble aren't we"? Ozpin chuckled "not you but the rest of your team" he corrected. Jaune opened his mouth to say something but quickly closed it and began to look around until his attention was drawn over to the balcony where a black crow stood on the railing.
Ozpin followed his line of site and looked to the balcony to see the black bird watching them without so much as moving a muscle. To say it was odd would be a understatement but there it was. Jaune leaned to the side and watched as the birds head followed him, it's eye's unblinking. "Excuse me for a moment headmaster" jaune bypassed Ozpin to reach the balcony where the crow stood and shooed the bird away.
The crow cawed angrily before hopping off the railing to let gravity pull it down before spreading it's wings and flew away. Once the area was bird free jaune was about to go back inside but froze when the black crow returned to seek vengeance.
Ruby didn't see what the problem was in having a crow look at them but apparently it was enough to bother jaune to the point that he got rid of it. Her eye's widened as the crow returned with a angry caw and started attacking the blonde from behind. The two teams and their teachers watch as jaune tried to fend off his winged foe with little success until jaune got so fed up with the bird that he actually attacked in ernest.
The black crow cawed in surprise when jaune swatted it out of the air with a open hand palm strike that sent the winged beast over the edge. Ruby gasp "birdie no". There was a moment of silence with jaune waiting to see if the bird would return but as a minute passed he gave nod and returned to the inside of Ozpins office.
The headmaster cleared his throat and turned away from his balcony "Well now that distractions are out of the way we can decide on a suitable punishment for destroying your dorm rooms". Jaune let out a sigh as he covered his face with his palm "you guys destroyed our dorms"? There was so much disappointment in his voice that yang and the rest couldn't even muster up a response so they stared at the floor in shame.
"I'm afraid so" Ozpin answered since none of the students seemed willing to. "From the story I gathered so far it seems miss xiao long and miss schnee got into a altercation. Ruby happened to overhear the commotion and involved herself in your teams infighting. As for the rest it was more or less the fact they got dragged into the scuffle mostly to protect their partners".
Jaune could see that especially if ruby joined in then Nora would feel duty bound to help her partner. "I think I get the idea of what happened and as far as punishment goes I think they should help fix what they broke" jaune said while eyeing the two teams. Yang and weiss complained that it was each other's fault but Ozpin smiled at the suggestion "that sounds acceptable if miss belladonna agrees with your suggestion".
Blake nodded without so much as thinking about it "their all yours" she said to the dismay of her teammates. Ozpin made sure to write their punishment down so when the workers arrived to fix the damaged rooms he could call on his students to help. Once he had finished writing down the reminder he dismissed the kids so he could hear the report he asked for earlier.
As if on cue with the students departure the crow that attack jaune flew into the room and transformed the moment it reached the center of the office. Qrow's feet touched the floor and he took a moment to massage his neck before turning to Ozpin. He didn't know if he should punch the crap out of oz or not for letting the kid knock him off the tower but then again it wasn't like the blonde knew it was him.
Ozpin smiled and if Qrow didn't know better it was like the old man had read his thoughts with how accurate he spoke. "For what it's worth your daughter looked ready to give jaune a talking to for what he did to that poor bird" Ozpin said with a slight chuckle.
"Yeah those two have been like that for a while, first he'll do something wrong and then she'll set him straight" Qrow said nonchalantly.
Ozpin nodded at his words "it kinda reminds me of you and summer if I remember correctly". Qrow nodded with a smile for a second before it changed into a frown "I know what your planning and like I said before leave ruby out of it". The tone in his voice became threatening and Glynda's hand tightened on the horse crop at her side.
Ozpin didn't even blink as he sat back in his chair "I told you that I would not involve miss rose, you have my word on that". Glynda didn't quite know what was going on but ever since the day Nicolas passed their group seemed to have a great deal of distrust in Ozpins leadership. Qrow huffed before pulling out his hip flask to take a swig "but you'd involve every other girl in his life so long as you got what you wanted".
Although Glynda didn't like it she knew the importance of keeping the Arc bloodline alive and with Saphron revealing her sexuality their only hope was jaune. It was wrong to think like that but the need out weighed the guilt especially in their fight against Salem.
The silence between them all went on for a few seconds before Qrow took another drink. He slipped his flask into it's holder on his waist before pulling something out from behind his back. Qrow slid the object across the desk to Ozpin "I thought it a long shot but with my luck I can't tell if this is a good thing we know or a bad thing that now we know there's more going on with the sudden rise of faunus within the city".
Ozpin flipped the object over to see the red markings decorating the white Grimm mask "better we know but more importantly did you find who killed those people"? Qrow shook his head "not even a trace of evidence to be found but then again the cops are keeping this quiet for some reason".
Ozpin raised a brow "a cover up no doubt".
Qrow nodded "but what their covering up is the real question".
Well after nearly a whole week of nothing this chapter finally got out. Gotta say I miss my internet and my phone. Life just isn't the same without them but luckily I'll have them on by the end of the week.