Hey guys. Glad to see you're all liking the story so far. There has be one guest reviewer who has been asking the same question repeatedly, but his review never shows up for some reason, so I'll answer it here. No, Jaune will not have the ability to command Beowolves, at least not in canon.

In this chapter, we see the end of the initiation arc, and little bits of Leman's personality and abilities come to the fore.

Wolves of Remnant

Chapter 3

Pyrrha squawked as she fell forward, her ankle blazing with pain.

"Pyr!" Jaune said, running up to and kneeling next to her. "You okay?"

"Yes, I'm fine," she assured him, picking up the torch she had dropped. She winced as he delicately handled her ankle. "It's just a sprain. Nothing I can't- " she looked up at him. "What did you just call me?"

"What, Pyr? I just figured it would be easier to call you that. Guessing it's too soon for nicknames?"

"No, no, it's fine." She said, shaking her head. Secretly, she was elated. They had known each other for all of ten minutes and they had already reached nicknames! This was going better than she had thought. "Give me a minute here. My Aura can take care of this no problem." She quickly flooded the injured body part with Aura and immediately felt the pain lessening.

"We might want to get you some boots for working in rough terrain." Jaune said, standing so that he could help her up. "Don't get me wrong, the heels really help bring the look together, but they aren't really practical for this. Maybe if we were still out in the forest, but not in a cave."

"Fair point." Pyrrha conceded. "I've spent most of my life in the flat stages of the arena, so it was never a problem I considered. And speaking of the cave," she took his hand and let him help her up, "How have you not tripped over anything? I have a torch and can't even see two feet in front of me, yet you have been leading us surefootedly since we found this place."

"Is it really that dark in here?" he asked, looking around in bewilderment, "It looks bright as day to me. In fact, I was wondering why you made a torch in the first place." Pyrrha looked at him in astonishment as he continued to lead on. "Maybe it was you unlocking my Aura? You did say it could be used to boost certain aspects of our bodies."

"No, it doesn't work like that." Pyrrha said, keeping her head facing down enough that she could avoid any further accidents, while also making sure she didn't run into Jaune, "Yes, you can use your Aura to increase the strength of your attacks or the durability of your body, but it doesn't automatically give you night vision." Though maybe it was possible she had accidentally unlocked some kind of passive Semblance that gave him night vision. Honestly, she wasn't sure.

"In any case, we should push forward." Jaune said, "I know it was my idea to come in here, but there's something about this place that I mislike." They continued for a few more minutes until they came across a glowing object in the darkness. "I think that's it!" Jaune said grabbing for what he assumed was the relic only for it to pull back out of his reach. "What the? C'mere you little- " Jaune leapt at the object, grabbing hold of it only to be lifted bodily off the ground.

"Jaune?" Pyrrha said.

Red glowing eyes appeared before him and Jaune summarized his thoughts quite succinctly. "Aw, crapbaskets."

A few seconds later, Pyrrha ran out of the cave, spear in hand and followed shortly thereafter by a massive Deathstalker that obliterated the cave entrance, Jaune hanging onto its' stinger for dear life.

"Pyrrha!" he cried, "This is not the relic! It's not! I think I done fucked uuuuuuuuu…" was all he could say before the Deathstalker threw him.

Pyrrha watched as he (quite literally) screamed through the air past her. She turned back to the massive Grimm. 'Nope!' she thought as she immediately embraced the phrase GTFO and ran in the direction Jaune had gone.

XX

"Head's uuuuuuu- !" Ruby cried as she fell only to be cut off when Jaune impacted into her and redirected her path into a tree. Her head spun once she ceased moving, seeing stars and little Zweis at the same time. "Ugh, what happened?" she groaned.

"Been asking myself that all day." She heard a familiar voice say. She shook her head to clear the cobwebs, looked up and saw Jaune hanging upside down in front of her. "Hey, Ruby." He said weakly. Before she could respond to her first friend, an explosion came from their right and they saw an Ursa break the tree line and crumple over dead, a blur of pink and orange rolling off with it. The blur resolved into the form of an orange-haired girl in white and pink, followed closely behind by a raven-haired boy in green. In the blink of an eye, the pink girl was at the temple picking up a relic and singing a little song.

"NORA!" the boy in green yelled.

"Coming, Ren!" Nora called back with a giggle.

After that resolved, Pyrrha broke the tree line from the left with the Deathstalker hot on her tail.

"Jaune!" she yelled out desperately.

"Pyrrha!" Jaune said, trying to right himself without falling out of the tree.

"Woah!" Ruby exclaimed, jumping out of the tree.

As Jaune managed to free himself and land on the branch Ruby had just been standing on, the hot blonde he found out was her sister (and by bro-code law was thus off-limits until told otherwise) exploded, her hair catching fire and her eyes turning red.

"I can't take it anymore! Can everyone just chill out for two seconds before something crazy happens again?!" she yelled.

Jaune was about to jump down when he saw Weiss falling, this time without a landing strategy. His body moved before he could finish his plan, leaping out to catch the white-haired maiden.

"Just dropping in?" he said with what he called a winning smile as he caught her bridal style. Then he looked down. "Ah, shit." Weiss wrapped her arms around his neck while he tried to fold into the fetal position. Somehow, they managed to land with him face down in the dirt and her sitting on his back.

"My hero." She drawled.

"My back…" he groaned. As he picked himself up, he saw Ren and Nora helping up his partner. "Pyrrha!" he jumped up so quickly he accidentally hit Weiss's butt with his own. He didn't care, however. All his concern on Pyrrha. "Are you okay? I'm sorry, it was all my fault."

"Jaune, I'm okay. Just a little winded if anything." She assured him.

He stood and offered her a hand back to her feet. He looked to Ren and Nora. "Thank you for helping her."

"It was nothing." Ren said with a small bow.

"Us newbies gotta stick together, right?" Nora said with an infectious grin.

"You are so childish!" they heard Weiss say loudly. They turned around to find Ruby trapped in a veritable forest of black feathers, and the Deathstalker's stinger a mere foot from her face, trapped in ice.

"Wow, Weiss did that?" Jaune said, wide-eyed.

"Perfect Dust control. As expected of a Schnee." The raven-haired girl with the bow on her head said with not a little bit of venom. Jaune ignored it, questions for later. Instead, he looked around to get a better look at the situation. His eyes were immediately drawn to the Nevermore above.

"Guys, looks like Big Bird is circling back." He told them.

"Well, there's no sense in dilly-dallying." Weiss said, "Our objective is right in front of us."

"She's right." Ruby agreed. "Our mission is to grab an artifact and make it back to the cliffs. There's no point fighting these things."

"Alright. That's a plan I can get behind." He and Ruby stepped up to the relics and took different ones; him a golden rook, her a golden knight. They turned at the sound of the ice wall holding the Deathstalker beginning to crack. He frowned and put the relic in his back pocket. "Ruby, there's a ruined temple about half a mile to the northwest. You, Weiss, your sister and her partner draw the Nevermore there. We'll handle Bug Boy here."

"You sure?" Ruby asked, pocketing her own relic.

"Deadly." Jaune said, drawing his sword from its' shield-sheathe, "Besides, me and Pyrrha got a score to settle with this one."

"Alright, c'mon guys!" Ruby called.

"Pyr, can you fight?" Jaune asked his partner.

"They wouldn't call me the Invincible Girl if I couldn't get back up after being knocked down." She said, shifting Milo into sword mode.

"Oh, so you're that Pyrrha Nikos?" Nora asked innocently, "Neat."

"Do you really think we can take that thing?" Ren asked as Pyrrha looked at Nora bewildered.

"My grandpa had a saying." Jaune said, "He said, 'Everything has a weakness. Some bastards just make you work to find 'em first.' I'd say that applies in this case."

"Okay, so do you have a strategy beyond hit it 'till it dies?"

"Go for joints and any gaps between the plates."

"And don't die." Nora added with a grin.

"Yeah, that too." Jaune said. "Go!"

As one, they charged the Deathstalker head-on. It swung one claw, but Pyrrha parried it with her shield and quickly countered. It swung the other, but Jaune took it on his shield, holding it long enough for Pyrrha to land the counter. Seeing she had taken over this claw, Jaune turned to the other, thus clearing the way for Ren, who opened up on it with his machine pistols. The Deathstalker responded by thrusting its stinger at him, but Ren dodged and leapt onto the tail. He held tight as it pulled back and he opened up on the point where tail met stinger.

"Incoming!" Nora yelled as she brought her grenade launcher to bear, firing off two rounds. Jaune and Pyrrha jumped back, using the force of the small explosions to propel them farther. Jaune fell on his back, but Pyrrha rolled through, changing Milo to spear form and using the hidden rifle to drive it into one of the Deathstalker's eyes. It roared in pain and thrashed about. Ren was unprepared for the sudden movement, and was thrown from the tail into a tree.

Jaune groaned and he recovered to one knee and saw the stinger practically hanging from the tail.

"Pyrrha!" he ordered, an idea coming to him. "The stinger!"

"On it!" she said, throwing her shield and using her Semblance to subtly direct it to cut the stinger from the tail, which fell and drove into the thick armor plates on the beast's back.

"Nora, nail it!" he ordered again when Pyrrha's shield returned to her arm.

"Heads up!" the orangette said as she ran at Pyrrha, shifting her weapon to hammer mode and jumping on Pyrrha's shield. The redhead channeled her Aura into her arms and legs and jumped, pushing her shield upwards as Nora fired her hammer to gain additional height. The pink bomber laughed airily as she crested her jump and fired again, spinning vertically to gain extra momentum and power before hitting the stinger as though it were merely one huge nail and killing the gigantic scorpion Grimm.

"See? Told ya we could do it." Jaune said as Ren collapsed next to Nora.

"Should we assist Ruby's group?" Pyrrha asked.

"I think they're good." Nora said with a grin. Jaune and Pyrrha looked to her and saw she was staring past them. They followed her gaze to see a red streak leading a very unwilling Nevermore up a cliff only to be decapitated once it reached the top.

"Wow." Jaune said, honestly amazed.

XX

"- the four of you retrieved the black bishop pieces." Ozpin said to a group of four boys who stood proudly before him, "From this day forward, you shall work together as Team CRDL, led by… Cardin Winchester." The boys stepped off as Ozpin called up the next four names.

"Jaune Arc, Lie Ren, Pyrrha Nikos, Nora Valkyrie. The four of you retrieved the white rook pieces." He paused as chants of 'Nikos! Nikos! Nikos!' filled the auditorium, making Pyrrha wilt somewhat under the spotlight. "From this day forward, you will work together as Team JNPR, led by…" 'Nikos! Nikos! Nikos!' "Jaune Arc."

His very name stunned everyone in the auditorium to silence. It was so quiet that one could believe that time had stopped completely. That was until one brave soul decided to break the silence.

"Fucking what?!" they said loudly, angrily.

Jaune himself thought it was a different Jaune Arc, and checked behind himself, but there was no one there. And as chants of 'Bullshit! Bullshit! Bullshit!' filled the auditorium- only to be silenced by a fierce glare from Glynda- he looked back to Ozpin with a raised eyebrow "Seriously?"

"Congratulations, young man." Ozpin grinned before ushering them off the stage. As he announced the creation of Team RWBY- that was gonna be a headache for Ruby, he could tell already- Pyrrha laid a hand on his shoulder. He looked at her smiling face and felt something stir within him, and in the distance, he swore he could hear the howling of wolves.