Beacon Infirmary
9:00 AM

-️-️-️-️Jaune POV️-️-️-️-

Ugh… my sleep was so comfortable…

My eyelids open against my will.

"Augh… What the hell is this!"

I've woken up in a small shack. Inside the shack is just me, some candlelight, and a mysterious weapon I can not place.

I look up and hear an alarm ringing. Great.

I smash that snooze button and the entire clock breaks.

"Good thing you're up!"

I look over and see… my father?

"Dad? What are you doing here?"

"To see you off on the start of your mission! You're killing some Grimm on the Northern edges of Sanus, remember?"

I look through my memories and somehow find something about Ozpin telling me I was going on a mission. Where did that even come from?!

"Oh yeah I remember. Thanks for coming here Dad, you don't know how happy this makes me."

I am feeling pretty happy now. I go and hug him, grateful that he has stuck around with me despite everything.

He hugs me back. The warm feeling gives me comfort. However it goes away after only a few seconds.

"No time for hugs, son. Go kill those Grimm!" He hands me the mystery weapon.

I feel a shove and out the door I go. Well, guess it's time to face the music…

I walk into the outside. What greets me is an unending void of black trees.

I guess this is why no one lives here…

I walk slowly to the edge of the tree line and stare. Yep, nothing but black.

"I guess it's just you and me, forest."

"Who said you were alone?"

Wait, I recognize those voices! It's Yatsu and Nora!

"Hey! Thank god you two are here."

"Why wouldn't we be? We were sent here with you after all!"

Yatsu simply smiles. Maybe this won't be so bad!

I get hit on the shoulder.

"Well, let's go! Time's a wastin! I can't cook any pancakes until we're done!"

Yatsu walks forward a few steps.

"Alright then! Let's go!" I decide to meet it head on with a sprint, Nora and Yatsu follow me.

It's pretty dark. There is barely enough light to see in front of you. But that doesn't stop us. We enter deeper into the forest, finding mostly skeletons, but also some fun stuff like fruit. I'm surprised it can grow this far up. But fruit is fruit, and damn is it good.

Mostly following the fruit, we come to a clearing. Here is a small opening with another shack, and beyond that, even more dense forest. I can see some Grimm scales peeking out of it.

"Alright Fearless Leader, whose legs do we break first!"

I look around that area, and at about 11 o'clock there is a fallen over tree that is a good hiding spot.

"Over here!" We run toward there and hide behind it. We look around. There's too many types of Grimm to count. I would study it more, but before I could think a small little Grimm comes up and attacks my leg. Easy pickings.

I stab it with my weapon and it lets out a cry before dying.


Wow! Amazing descriptiveness there.


Everyone has to cover their ears, but since I was closest mine are bleeding. That Grimm sure was loud…

Loud enough to get the attention of every other Grimm in the forest.

"Fuck."

They are about to ask what happened when they notice it too. Uncountable amounts of Grimm, all looking right at us.

Instantly we ready into attack positions. It takes no time at all before the Grimm charge us.

We all get tunnel vision as the Grimm begin to go down. It's useless to count, as one turns to ten turns to thirty thousand over the course of an hour.

Nora's strong hammer kills dozens of Grimm in one swing, Yatsuhashi's giant sword kills dozens that are close to him, and makes countless more stumble on the ground, and my… uh… ranged attack? ...creates straight lines of pure Grimm guts.

We've all killed thousands by this point. Nora's hammer is dented beyond belief, Yatsuhashi's sword has broke from stabbing the ground too many times, and I don't even have my weapon anymore. But still we press on.

My body just wants to shut down, too tired from all the Grimm killing. It seems that's about to happen too, at least my death will be-

"Boop!" Typical Nora. Somehow in between hammer swings she taps my nose and jolts me awake.

VWOOOM!

But even Nora's boops can only do so much. We are forced out of the forest, retreating into the shack as a last resort.

This is hopeless! There's still too many! How can there be this many!

"AHHHHHHHHHH-"

"Boop!"

Nora's not gonna let me succumb like that. The Grimm make short work of the shack and I can see their long, spiky teeth. Guess this is the end….

"Any last words?"

"Boop!"

"Boop!"

Even Yatsu? That's something. Then the first bite happens. I feel my aura leech out of me. Everything gets darker and darker, it's about to go black…

I spare one last thought to my dad before I go. I hope he survives this horde somehow.

But then, a blinding white light! Grimm screams penetrate the air. This is it! This is the-

"Boop!"

A shiver travels down my spine. Where am I?

Wait, why are my eyes opening, what even-

...They're here?

"It is about time you woke up."

Another cold shiver travels down my spine.

"Yeah! I've been booping your nose for the past five minutes!"

"Why? I wanted to sleep!"

"Because you had some food to eat, Fearless Leader!"

She points down. I look that way and see… pancakes? Yep, a stack of four pancakes with some syrup on it, along with an omelette that looks like the most tasty thing that has ever been produced on Remnant.

"Well?! Eat it already! Before I eat it!"

I grab the fork and chow down. This little chow down quickly turns into a full on binge as I chew almost non-stop, taking in the pancakes and omelette like a vacuum cleaner stuck on high.

Yatsu pipes up with a "fun" fact halfway through;

"There was originally five pancakes there. But Nora ate one of them despite my attempts to stop her."

Nora slowly turns her head to look at him.

"Hey! It's your fault! You made them too good! Almost as good as the pancake company!"

"Pancake company?"

I gotta interrupt because this will take hours…

"Too complicated to explain right now. But trust me, that's a compliment."

Yatsu just returns to his normal expression.

I look back down to get some more food and- it's gone?!

I get a slightly depressed look on my face.

Yatsu notices first. "I can cook you more if you want to."

Depression cured! "That would be great, but not right now. I want to get out of here."


Depression cured! Mental health professionals hate him! See how one Arc cured his depression with just a stack of pancakes! It borders on offensive to mark it as depression when it barely counts as sadness.


Yatsu goes to get a nurse to take out the IV and set him free.

Shortly after he returns with one freshly minted nurse, ready to go!

"Yatsuhashi here said you were ready to leave?"

I nod. The nurse comes and takes a quick scan of vitals, making sure everything is alright. She puts up all the equipment without a single mark on the paper! YES!

"You are released!" The nurse leaves through the still broken doorway.

I bolt out of the infirmary into the main hall. Nora and Yatsuhashi follow behind at a more relaxed pace.

The first thing I do is properly test my movements. I move my arms, legs, chest… and only a very dull ache is there to greet me. Man Beacon's hospitals are good…

Now to get back to my dorm. I don't even break a sweat as I walk down there. People are pretty surprised as I make my way down, probably because of how fast I recovered.

I make it over. The door is closed. No matter, I'll just get out my scroll and unl-

It's not there. Where is it?!

I search my pockets and don't find it. I search them again, this time with more energy. Nope.

Dammit, where is it!

"You forgot this." Thank Oum for Yatsuhashi. He's helping me out once again by bringing me my… weapon? That's bent?

"Uhh… thanks."

Well, I got nothing left to try so..

I try hitting it with Crocea Mors (or at least, the corpse of it) in desperate hopes of it breaking and letting me through.

Predictably, it doesn't work.

"Ugggghhh…" What do I do now?

I think to myself about what's coming up today. There's a Dust class in about 10 minutes…

Do I want to go there? I mean, it was somewhat entertaining last time, even with all the distractions…

You know what? Since I don't have anything fun to do, and I can't train with no weapon, I'll go.

I head over back to the Dust class with paper and pencil in hand, this time more determined than ever to take some good notes and learn properly.

One extremely informative Dust Class later...

That class was very interesting to say the least. After she mixed the fire and air dust to create a fire tornado, I was just floored. Dust really is great! How have I missed out on it for so long?

But I only dwell on the many uses of Dust for a moment before I realize that I am back in the same situation as before; Nothing to do.

I can't even buy a new weapon without access to my dorm to grab the funds… *sigh*

Lunch is still an hour or so away… it's tacos this time. My stomach rumbles right at the end of that thought, even though I just had pancakes earlier, making me sigh once again in annoyance.

I remember back a few days ago. Maybe I can go to the gardens and get that nice dream again…

I go down there and sit down on an empty bench. The garden look as beautiful as ever. The first place my eyes check is the area where Yatsu's flowers were. And boy is it worth looking.

These flowers stand above all the rest, once crushed and nearly lifeless, now not only proudly standing, but leading the scenery with their bright colors. Yatsu is a really good grower.

But my mind still rests on one problem; how do I not miss lunch, and the rest of the classes, and everything else?

My mind quickly remembers one thing from those camping trips; keeping time without a clock.

I already know what time it is (about 11:00 AM) and at noon, the sun will be straight overhead, which means the shadow will be straight. With that in mind, I find a stick and stab it in the ground in an empty area.

With this problem solved, my mind finally, finally, finally, relaxes.

(A/N: Maybe it was a few too many Grimm that were killed. But it was his dream, so, you know, why not have a little over-exaggeration? ;)