[A/N:
Comet sighted!
Peasants are always superstitious, and the appearance of a comet in the sky has caused panic among our people. They are convinced that this is a sign that the end of times is near or that something bad is going to happen in the near future.
(It's an Omen)
(The end is nigh!)
-(The economy, fools!)- {Lose 1 Stability}]
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Yatsuhashi is walking home from a poetry slam. Which he won by the way.
This is never mentioned again. It's not even the team closeness stuff, which is deliberately minimized for plot, in both this and the remaster. I just threw that little nugget out there into the void. I could say at least I tried to give character backgrounding, but that would be like saying I tried to run a marathon by taking one step over the starting line and then just turning around and walking off to get some McDonald's or whatever. By the way, the beginning author's note up there is a reference to a famous event in Europa Universalis IV which makes you lose stability, no matter what.
A white comet appears in the sky. He sits down to watch it go, impressed by its beauty.
"Truly a blessed day."
And the comet grows brighter! Clearly the world agrees.
And then it keeps getting brighter. And larger.
His mouth droops open. Just what the fuck is going on?
The "comet" is taking up more and more of the sky with each passing second, blotting out even the streetlights of Vale!
He steps inside a nearby shop for safety. That was a good move as the comet lands merely 20 or so feet away from where he was standing, in a small park area.
He walks up to it. Is it an alien?
The white glow fades. Is that a… human?
"Hello?"
"ungh…."
Jaune can not respond right now for obvious reasons. His mind is only able to utter that one sound before crashing and rendering him knocked out.
Yatsu has no choice. He has to help this guy somehow…
He can't bring him back to the dorm today though.
It's "girls night" for Coco and Velvet, and god knows what could be going on over there… he remembers the last time girls night happened and he came to the dorm a little too early…
3 nights ago…
I was walking home from a nice night out in the Beacon Gardens, tending to some flowers.
The flowers were nice.
They shine like beautiful art.
These flowers of mine.
A random haiku
no matter how good it is
is just poor writing.
It was 11:30 PM. Coco and Velvet will definitely be asleep by now. Especially with Coco's bombastic personality…
My English teachers would scream at me if they saw the first of those three sentences. I'll let you figure out what is wrong with that.
I stroll up to the door and it is left ajar? Interesting…
Curiosity gets the best of me. I crack open the door just a bit more and…
HOLY TOLEDO! The clothes were piled multiple feet high. A polo shirt here, a wedding dress there, multiple suits on top, a frilly hat on the side…
The picture was impressive, yes, but that is a lot of clothes for just two women…
And to make things even better, a mirror was slotted over to the right.
Velvet was wearing a scantily-clad light yellow dress, with a perfectly flowing bottom half, and nicely fitting black heels…
"See! I told you they would make you look sexy!"
My cheeks went an unnatural shade of deep red and I had to go quickly.
I couldn't continue watching that!
Continuing to think like that would lead only to madness.
I need to go back to the flowers…
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He spent the night in the Gardens, without a single thought of a rabbit Faunus clouding his mind, or so he wished…
But Yatsu is not making that mistake again… he comes prepared with Lien to spend the night at a local hotel.
And now he has the new mysterious visitor…
He makes it to the "Mina and Joseph's Fantastical Faunus-Friendly Hotel" and checks him and a out-of-commision Jaune inside.
"Welcome to the hotel! Room for two?"
"Yes."
"What's the occasion?"
"Important huntsman business."
"Ok sir! Your total is 420 lien! Have a nice stay!"
He sets the money down and goes on in to the room, number 103.
"What do I do now?"
There are no books for this kind of situation.
Reread the start of this chapter up to now and drink (water!) every time Yatsu's intelligence and/or character changes. I got him pinned down eventually, though.
Yatsu tries the one thing that has worked countless times to make everyone happy; cooking!
He goes to the fridge, which thankfully has some eggs and milk among its few items. He puts the eggs on the skillet and lets the calming sizzle of the eggs reset his mind.
The smell of the omelette brings peace. Taking out some herbs that he conveniently keeps in his pocket, he tops off the dish with some masterfully placed herbs. Gordon Ramsay would be proud of this creation.
He sets it on the couch next to Jaune, and attempts to wake him up.
One nudge… two nudge… three nudge…
"Wake up!"
He doesn't. Yatsu remembers back to when he was just a baby, where his parents would put food in his mouth to wake him up. Why not try it here?
Uhhh…. What the hell? I'm not gonna try to figure out where this came from.
"Open wide!"
Still no movement. No matter! Drastic times call for drastic measures!
He shoves the omelette in his mouth.
He waits for a while and- there it is, there it is, Jaune's mouth is moving!
"mmmph…" A smile immediately appears on Jaune's face.
"Damn this omelette is good… who made this?"
"Hi."
Jaune almost chokes. Who the hell is this tall boy?
Yatsu looks a little scared.
"Am I really that intimidating?"
Jaune quickly shakes his head no and swallows the omelette.
In one bite? What the actual fuck? He would be choking in real life.
"No way. Not after dealing with seven sisters all my life."
Seven? This guy is very interesting…
"Do you know where you are?"
"Nope!"
"You are in a hotel. I had to take you in after you fell from the sky. Do you remember why you were falling from the sky?"
Jaune thinks for a while. Does he tell his story to someone he doesn't know? He decides to gain more information for now.
"Who are you?"
"I'm Yatsuhashi, the 4th member of team CFVY. Who are you?"
"I'm Jaune Arc, leader of team JNPR. Well, former leader I guess."
Jaune Arc? Yatsu's seen that one before…
He opens up his scroll and looks at his recent messages. Second from the top is the confirmation.
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To Team CFVY,
You are being put on a special mission starting tomorrow. At 8AM you will be reporting to the sparring arenas. Look for one blond-haired boy by the name of "Jaune Arc". He and Glynda will give you further instructions.
-Headmaster Ozpin
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"Nice to meet you Jaune! I was told that I would be training you tomorrow."
"Really?!"
"Yes." He turns the scroll toward Jaune and let him read the message.
A smile breaks out on his face. That's the first one in almost a full day.
"That sounds awesome! Now I just gotta know, how did you get this omelette to taste so good?!"
"I liked cooking when I was younger. Learned to make all kinds of things, including these omelettes. Oh and pancakes too."
Somewhere nearby a VWOOOOM! sound was heard inside a pancake factory.
"I had to cook a bunch too. No way of not learning it back at the house."
"I'm sure that's the case. You told me you had seven sisters earlier?"
"Yep. Taught me all about shopping, hair care, cooking, you name it, I was held against my will helping them."
Yatsu's curiosity peaks at that last one. Another cook-master in Beacon?
"How good can you cook?"
"Very. I had to make fucking everything for them. Have anything I can use?"
"I'll look in the fridge again."
Yatsu takes a closer look inside the kitchen this time. In the fridge there are some eggs, milk, butter, some carrots, block cheese, and finally a large ham at the bottom. In the cupboards, however, there are all manner of extras, including the normal salt/pepper/paprika, some materials to make various kinds of gravy, some breading, and even vanilla extract?! What is with this hotel?!
Under the oven are just 2 square pans, one skillet, a large baking sheet, and some cooking oil and aluminum foil. This could be very interesting…
"We have some ham and spices. And the basics, but not anything more."
"Good. I like those kind of challenges."
"Let's see what you can do then, chef Jaune."
"That's Chef Arc to you, Yatsuhashi." Jaune then goes to work on cooking something.
He first takes out the ham and cuts it into many small slices, about 3 inches long, and ½ inch wide and thick. They start sizzling on the skillet, releasing all kinds of good aromas.
Then he takes out one of the square pans and sets two pieces of bread in it before dropping it in the oven.
"What are you doing with the bread?"
"Toasting it. We got no toaster so we have to do it differently…"
While all that is happening, he boils some water in a pan that was taken from a cupboard that Yatsu forgot to look into, and then takes out a gravy packet, and puts it in, adding precise pinches of pepper into the pan when prompted.
Alliterations! Can't resist 'em. :)
It looks like he has eight arms doing this! This is insane!
As it Oum was intervening, everything gets done at the same time, and the final result, fried ham slices put into a "X" shape with two pieces of toast and some milk are placed on the table.
(insert microsoft paint drawing here) !WARNING! NOT SUITABLE FOR PEOPLE WITH APPETITES!
I will not repost this image. Rest assured, it was bad, as the warning states. My drawing skills are somewhere between a blind elephant and a toddler that accidentally ate some pot brownies.
The breakfast aromas from the dish fly through the room, into Yatsu's nostrils.
"That smells very pleasing. I will try it now."
He gets a fork and digs in.
"Truly exceptional cooking. You should be a chef somewhere! You would make lots of lien, that is for sure."
"Thanks Yatsu, I'm glad I can be of service." Jaune then digs in to the dish as well.
"Damn this is really good. I didn't think it would turn out THIS well."
Jaune eats almost all of it extremely fast, leaving Yatsu with just three measly bites. He isn't mad though.
Not after how he looked when he fell from the sky.
That drags Yatsu's mind away kicking and screaming from the food paradise, back to the reality of him and Jaune forced to spend the night in a hotel room thanks to an improbable string of events.
"That was an excellent meal, but I need you to answer my question from earlier. What is the last thing you remember?"
Jaune thinks back to the time before the breakfast food. He remembers most all of it, including the Game with Ren and, of course, what happened in the Emerald Forest. He tells the long story to Yatsu with an almost cartoonish level of activity, arms waving around and everything.
"...and that's basically all I remember before meeting you. Is that good?"
Yatsuhashi can't process everything, but he gets enough to know the basic plotline. This training is gonna be real damn grueling…
"That is… an experience. I'll tell you what's going to happen when we wake up for the training tomorrow. But now it is time for rest."
Jaune looks at the clock and HOLY SHIT! It's almost 1 AM!
"When did you pick me up exactly?"
"About 7:50 or so."
Holy hell, was he really flying for 20 minutes in the air?!
These thoughts and more plague Jaune as he goes to rest in the hotel bed. Tomorrow is going to be an interesting day to say the least...
