I did as I set out to do. Complete a new chapter.
The battle had begun and yang launched herself towards jaune using ember celica. Jaune held his sword at the ready but yang had other plans as she fired another shot from her weapon that changed her trajectory towards the blue haired teen. Thanks to the jaunes early warning of how yang fought, neptune was better prepared for the blondes close combat fighting style.
Neptune thrusted his trident forward forcing yang to block it with her gauntlets before she impaled herself. Jaune moved to attack yang from behind but was stopped by a golden clone of sun. The clone wasn't anything special on it's own but when it was joined by two more, along with its original body it suddenly became a lot more difficult to try and help his partner.
Holding back wasn't an option anymore and jaune decided to really give it his all. Fighting four opponents at once was difficult so instead of trying to dodge every attack he could, jaune allowed some to land. Tanking some of the clones punches were better then getting hit by Sun's staff.
The clones had no weapons of their own so jaune aimed for counters and began slicing through their bodies as he dodged and ducked under Sun's attacks. The first two clones fell easily enough and gave jaune more room to maneuver away from sun so he could finish off the last clone. Jaune ducked under a right cross and sliced through the clones torso before spinning on the spot and swinging his blade towards sun's neck.
The monkey faunus leaned back and balanced on his tail to give enough room for the sword to miss it's mark. There was a click and jaunes blade shot out and nailed sun in the chin effectively knocking him off his tail to the ground. In the next moment jaune swung his whip blade towards yang when she wasn't looking.
Yang had continued her onslaught on the blue haired teen until she landed a liver blow that dropped the boy to his knee. Neptune lifted his trident to block another of yangs punches when her hand grabbed the center of his weapon. She smiled and winked at the boy as she pulled down his guard with more strength then neptune thought possible.
In his mind he couldn't help but scream "not the face" when the busty blonde aimed to smash his face in. Jaunes whip blade wrapped around yangs forearm before she could and pulled her away from the blue haired teen. Yang stumbled towards jaune but managed to use her free arm to guard against any attack jaune might have attempted.
That's what she thought until something hit the center of her back and then the back of her leg. Yangs head turned slightly and saw neptune with his trident in its gun form on one knee and realized he shot her. The electric dust bullets neptune used weakened yang enough that jaune smashed through her guard with a left punch that moved on to land on the right side of her face.
Yang was already on shaky legs when jaune struck her to the ground. When she tried to get up jaune rushed her before she could amount any type of meaningful defense. Neptune saw sun aiming to take advantage of jaunes back so he rushed forward and engaged his friend.
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In the stands ruby cheered for jaune and her cousin even though they were currently fighting each other. Nora cheered for her team leader and weiss gripped the edge of her combat skirt as she watched the fight with bated breath. Blake knew of yangs strength and skill and found her eye's glued to the fight the two blondes were engaged in, for worry her blonde may suffer as she did.
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Sun locked weapons with neptune and took the chance to see how his partner was doing. Poorly apparently. Yang was doing everything in her power to try and fight back but jaune made it his mission to keep his fellow blonde off balance as he slashed away at whatever he could. Sun's gazed back at his friend "sorry" he said before pulling back to create a single clone to take his place.
The clone reached out and grabbed neptunes trident to keep him from moving while sun jump over the clone to smash his staff on the blue teens head. Neptune fell to a knee while sun landed behind him before rushing off to give his teammate a much needed hand.
Yang blocked jaunes sword with her right gauntlet before she heard someone yell.
"Heads up"!
Sun baseball slid right into the back of jaunes legs and dropped him to the floor. Yang saw her chance and activated her semblance at full blast before firing herself at her target. Jaune had barely gotten to his feet when he came face to face with a burning goddess set on revenge.
Neptune spun his trident with the clone still holding on until he could flip the phantom person over his shoulder and slammed him on the ground. Before the clone could stand back up, neptunes trident stabbed into it's chest causing it to vanish. The sound of a miniature explosion drew the blue haired teens attention and what he saw clearly spelled trouble for his teammate.
Jaune had clearly tried to block yangs punch by catching it with his own hand but the force behind yangs punch carried jaunes hand back to it's owners face. Neptune watched his partners head rock to the side with enough force to give even a huntsmen whiplash. Jaunes eyes were glazed over from the first hit but yang knew one hit wasn't enough so she focused all her piled up energy and delved into a combination of left and right hooks that rocked her enemy from left to right.
Neptune watched in horror as jaune was beaten by his own friend like he was the greatest evil in the world until she finished of with a right straight that was obviously the finisher. The flames in yangs hair died out just as jaune was launched away from her thanks to her punch. She was so sure she had finally won that the fact jaune was caught by his current partner came as a shock.
Neptune moved in the way of jaunes flying form to stop him from going out of bounds. Feet skidded across the floor as the blue haired teen used his body to bleed off the speed at which jaune flew until they stopped at the edge of the ring. "That wasn't so hard" neptune thought before he began to wheeze and coughed as he dropped to his knees with his teammate in his arms.
"Thanks for the save".
Neptune looked down to see jaune alert and awake which was even more surprising since he thought the teen was unconscious or probably dead in some capacity. The blonde struggled to get to his feet so neptune helped him but even then jaune felt like he was going to fall over if his partner let go. "Don't look so surprised yang I'm sure you already knew it would take more then that to keep me down" jaune said with a large grin.
Yangs hands clenched into fists as she got ready to charge once more "fine with me if you want more" she thought. Neptune glared at his partner "are you out of your mind?! You barely survived her last beating and now your goading her? Not to mention your barely on your feet as is"!
Yang rushed forward and used her gauntlets to close the distance between them. Neptune was ready to intervene but felt a hand on his shoulder before he was pushed to the ground. It didn't take a genius to figure out who pushed him but he had to wonder why?
The teens question was answered when jaune took yangs right fist to his face and fell back from the punch. Neptune watched the fate of the sacrificed, that was until jaunes hands wrapped around yangs forearm before his legs came up and did the same around yangs neck. The busty blonde looked just as shocked as he felt but there was nothing she could do as jaune pulled her over the edge of the ring for a double ring out.
Neptune looked over the edge to see yang pinned under his partner "smooth" he couldn't help but think. Yang on the other hand stared up at jaune "that...that was cheap" she growled. "Yeah well I took maybe one to many hits to the head cause I couldn't think of a better way for a comeback" he responded with a smirk.
Yang let out a sigh before her position under her crush actually registered in her mind. He was so close that she could practically feel his breath on her skin. Her lips went dry and she felt the desperate need to lick them but worried that might look too suggestive to her fellow blonde.
"I'm yang xiao long so why do I feel like a preschool girl with a crush" she thought but realized her answer was easily looming over her. Somewhere between that thought and her anger for falling for his trap made her move. Jaunes eye's widened as he felt yang mash her lips with his.
He couldn't tell if it was because of all the adrenaline in his system or because it was yang herself but the moment he met her passionate kiss with his own none of that seemed to matter. The kiss was far from chastised as tongues fought their own battle for supremacy. It lasted for barley a minute before jaune threw himself back and covered his mouth with his right hand. Yang sat up and looked over to her team leader with a shocked expression but before she could get a word out he quickly rushed off as fast as his body would allow.
It took a little longer for yang to return to her seat since she couldn't tell if she did something wrong or how awkward it was going to be to sit with her team with jaune there. Her fingers traced over her lips as she remembered his touch and how right it felt that he returned her feelings...at least for that moment. The match they were in continued until sun stood center stage as the last one standing with neptune grounded next to him.
The other students clapped and cheered for the monkey faunus while glynda announced the results of the fight. Yangs eyes looked to her crush but he seemed busy staring intensely at the part of the ring they fell off from. "No one can see from here" he whispered to himself before sighing.
He more then likely didn't know yang could hear him and how much that one comment hurt her.
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Once classes ended for the day Blake followed after jaune at his request for a private talk. The two ended up on the roof of the school where they would sometimes meet for conversations away from their teams. Blake knew something was wrong the moment jaune took one look at her and instantly turned away like he was ashamed of something.
"Jaune what's wrong"?
The blonde took a deep breath before turning to her "yang kissed me". Blake's eye twitched "I see" she couldn't help but feel like chasing down the busty blonde to put gambol shroud in her eye. This ugly feeling wasn't going to go away easily and from the way jaune looked there was probably more he hadn't said yet "well it's not like we're dating or anything" she said.
As soon as the words left her mouth she felt terrible about it because in a way it was her getting back at him for what yang did. "Oh" jaune looked a little shocked and saddened but he recovered quickly and cleard his throat "well then, never mind I guess". Blake clenched her fist before looking to the blonde "jaune I didn't-" she cut herself off and looked away "let's just focus on the task at hand and not, this".
Jaune watched the cat faunus for a moment before nodding "Yeah your probably right". The blonde walked past Blake without another word before the door to the roof slammed shut behind her. Blake for her part glared at the floor "damn it" she cursed in anger.
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Jaune was angry but also quite sad at how things ended before they started. "Why must relationships be so hard" he asked himself. The blonde walked around the school trying to blow off steam and found himself at the landing platforms for the bullheads. Jaune sighed in frustration "what else am I gonna do today" he grumbled as he headed for the closest transport to vale.
Straight to vale he went and actually believed the day just couldn't get any worse.
"Jaune"?!
"Cinder"?!
To bad he had to be wrong.
Yang causing trouble? Then again she had been waiting years and finally took her chance when it presented itself. Last but not least, hail sun the great.