Chapter 8: Time in a Bottle

Disclaimer: *Hides under a cardboard box, approach the right to RWBY, but steps on a whoopee cushion, notifying Rooster Teeth he was here, and gets shot in the ass* Wanderer? Wanderer? WANDERER!

Moral of the story: Do not own RWBY. If I did I would have made the would be hit song parody, "Cold as Weiss" followed by the "House of the Rising Sun"

AN: Thank you all so much for your support. We are now in the top 6 of Ruby X Jaune fics in favs, and climbing still. I thank you all so much for taking time to read this. But damn, I cannot help but feel you guys have high expectations for Jaune's semblance. Here's to hoping I get it right!

Now onto your questions

"Will any of CFVY arrive to help at some point?" Well, I might be able to put Velvet in, but that's really all I can think of. Maybe have Caboose mistake Coco as hot chocolate? I really will just write it at as I go.

"What happened to Pyrrha's crush?" Well, It faded overtime to a more sisterly, motherly love. Pyrrha still loves Jaune, but as the brother she never had.

And yes. I have shitty grammar. I try to go back and fix it.

Also *Insert Schnee pun here*

Now for the votes.

One Child: 7
Twins: 21
Triplets (We gather here today in honor of Jaune Miles Arc. I'm to be told that's not his middle name): 25
Quadruplets (4 times the fucked):2

One thing people have pointed out to me is godparents. At the rate of triplets being in the lead, each child will have their own, but I've already picked them out. Now onto the chapter

"DODGE"
"Wait, wha-" Jaune was cut off a Sun's boot made contact with his jaw. The two had been training for about a month now, and Jaune still hadn't made any progress towards his semblance. Sun's "training" was basically hitting Jaune and waiting till something cool happened. Jaune himself had taken up reading up on semblances, and had been greeted with the textbook definition of it.

A semblance is an extension of a hunter's soul. Like aura, it is unique for the person, no two semblances are the same. In some cases, people close to one another can have similar semblances, like the Schnee family,have the ability to create ice glyphs that sure for a wide range of effects, but much like a snowflake, is slightly different the the others.

This lovely bit was nice, but it didn't help at all towards unlocking his semblance The book basically described how his semblance was focusing on the things that made him unique, and letting it take for. This served to be practically useless to him, and his large aura could only take so many kicks to the face.

Jaune had during the month go over the semblances he did know. Pyrrha had her powers of polarity, Nora had her ability to absorb electricity and her monster strength, Ren had his calculating aura pulses, Ruby had inhuman speed, Snow Angel had her glyphs, Blake had her shadow decoys, and Yang had her oh so lovely hit-me-I'll-hit-you-harder. Jaune saw them with their semblances and it fitted them to the point it would be wrong to see them without it. But what did Jaune have? A shit load of aura, mediocre combat readiness, and less social skills than a sloth.

On the bright side finals were nearing up and school would be over soon. Unfortunately so would his hiding place. Jaune had been keeping an eye on the news in Vale, stories of a blonde haired woman accompanied by a black haired woman rampaging on the city's nightclubs, destroying them all one by one. One owner even said she went as far as to crush his right testicle, and still demand whereabouts of a John Angle. Close calls, but Yang was still getting closer.

Getting up and rubbing his jaw, Jaune faced towards Sun, glaring daggers at the faunus. "Was that really necessary!?"

"Yes. Completely" Sun said with a serious face, helping Jaune up. "But seriously, are you okay?"

"Only thing hurt at this point is my pride. And that, my friend, has been beaten down so many times... so...so many times"

"Oh yeah, remember that dance where you had to wear a dress? Oh man, and the next year you had to dress as Glynda-"

"Alright I get it Sun. And the theme was Halloween! I honestly thought it was scary!"

"And the year after that you dressed as a stripper. A female stripper, hell I can still find pictures of it on my scroll-"

"I GET IT SUN!"

"Alright, geezs, no need to get your panties in a wad" Sun said, grinning at his joke while Jaune gave him the stink eye

"dodge." Jaune said.

"Wait wha-" Sun was cut off as Jaune punched him hard. "OW! Oh come on, that was funny and you know it!"

Ruby grunted as she tried to finish tying her corset, but was struggling to get it down to the regular adjustments. Sure enough, her stomach was beginning to show sighs, it already becoming hard and slightly rounded. To anyone who wasn't that observant thought that all the cookies where finally catching up to the young huntress. Fortunately, nobody did speak out vocally of this theory, manly in fear of the big ass scythe sniper rifle. The one student who did ended up being shot out the window, landing on Nora's pancakes, then being used in some hellish version of ping-pong. Poor Tucker needed to know to shut up.

She grunted as she finally managed to get the corset tied, but at the cost of any large breaths. Oh well, Ozpin did have her schedule changed to involve less physical activities. Unfortunately, she was going to need a new uniform soon, and she was not looking forward to that. The month had gone well for her, the lessons with Pyrrha and Wiess, mainly Pyrrha proving to be very helpful. The fellow red head had been a godsend to Ruby, helping her stay on top of her homework, making sure to keep the rumor mill from getting out of control, and had regular meetings with Ren and Nora. It did get lonely in the RWBY dorm now that Wiess and Ruby had been the only people living in it, and Wiess actually had been a better partner then usual lately. Where she would normally snap at Ruby for screwing up, she seemed much more gentle when handling it. It almost seemed Weiss had taken up on Pyrrha's advice, but Ruby feared to tell her this in fear of Weiss going back to her old ways. She was happy, but also sad that Yang, Blake, and Jaune weren't here. Every time she tried to contact her family, all she would go straight to voicemail. Ruby knew it was bad, but damn it, They need to realize it was both there fault! I mean, it's not like Jaune's parents over reacted when they found out!

...

Oh crap baskets...

They still needed to tell Jaune's parents...

"OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD!" Ruby began to pace around the room, entering a full blown panic. Weiss bolted from the other side of the room, rushing to here partner

"Ruby, what is it? Is it the baby?" Weiss asked, worry in her eyes.

"No...I mean Yes...I don't know" Ruby said, distress clear

"Ruby, I need you to calm down and tell me what's wrong" Weiss stated firmly. She needed to know if she needed to rush her friend to the hospital, and someone always needed to remain calm, and since Blake wasn't here, She would have to step up.

"I... Me and Jaune I mean..."

"You and Jaune what?"

"WeKindaMaybeForgotToTellJaune'sParents"

Weiss looked at Ruby. Here she was, worried to death that Ruby had some problem physically in her pregnancy, but the only thing the bumbling leaders did was forget one of the most important steps. Letting out a sigh, Weiss looked towards Ruby "Look, I'm sure the two of you had been very busy, I mean, finales are next week, and graduation in 2. Weiss had personally planned to have her father overthrown from his position as CEO of Schnee Dust Corp, and already had most of the Board with her. Turns out faunus abuse and slave labor was REALLY bad for PR. Who knew what a little blackmail given to her from could have so much power?

She and Ruby began to head off to class. Weiss slightly envious of Ruby of missing out of gym. Mr...Sarge always seemed to put Weiss on the loser team in his favorite sport and the heiress did not enjoy it one bit. She did not like to be at the bottom of the barrel, much less a shotgun barrel. Shuddering Weiss prayed today was a running day. After all, all you had to do was run faster than the orange armored freshman who the teacher seemed to have a personal vendetta against.

Speaking of vendettas, Weiss was furious at Yang. She didn't need to be hunting the bumbling leader and dragging her poor partner with her, she needed to be here at Beacon helping Ruby. Weiss picked up her scroll. Time to bring Winter into this...

A scroll buzzed. Qrow looked up from the bed to see Winter's scroll light up, showing the mini ice queen trying to contact her.

"Who is it Qrow?" Winter asked pulling the covers over her naked form.

"No one that can't wait" The alcoholic replied, turning off the scroll

"Last time you said that it was Ironwood with a mission that was extremely important."

"Come on Ice Queen, unwind a little. It can wait" Qrow said as he begin to nibble at Winter's neck, getting a moan from the elder Schnee.

It probably could wait Winter thought as she turned off the lights, ready to start round...oh who was counting at this point?

Weiss looked at her scroll. Winter did not pick up which only happened when she was on very important missions. Oh well, she could wait, her sister was probably off saving foreign people and bringing justice in her wake. Weiss wanted to be just like her sister, calm, composed, and true to her job. Winter was the best older sister., unlike a certain blonde brawler. But hey, at least she knew for a fact Winter wasn't didn't do anything crazy with the opposite sex. Weiss shuddered at the thought

Her sister? Never.

"Come on Blake, we need to find him!" Yang said with vigor, cracking her knuckles.

"We've been searching all month, surely there are more, sisterly, things we have to do than go on a manhunt?" Blake said as the two stood outside the small town outside Haven. A month they've been on the road, hitting club after club for the whereabouts of Jaune Arc, all ending with Yang exploding and beating up the bouncer, bartender, and owner all at once while Blake silently contacted Sun for checkups on the Arc, who had been trying to unlock his semblance. However, as much stalling as Blake made, Yang was making progress, and not to mention Yang's father would be joining them soon. Mr Xiao Long said he had to settle some..."unfinished business" before they could join, and dear god Blake did not want to even know. She had enough headaches with one Xiao Long, another would shave of 5 of her 9 lives. And as many subtle jabs Blake made to Yang about that she should be caring for Ruby, instead of killing the father, nothing seemed to set Yang off her murder campaign. Blake truly felt sorry for Jaune, because Yang was going to kill him when she found him when she found him. And at the rate Yang was going, it was going to be soon. She hoped that this would end soon, because god damn she wanted to just go to her precious little corner, and read her book, and Yang had made it nearly impossible to get any peace and quite.

Was it so much to ask for some quite time?

The twilight was now blanketing the day, and Jaune and Sun still continued to train, or more accurately, Sun beat the crap out of him. The day led as the same before, little results, but Sun refused to end today on a without any progress. The day left Jaune tired, beaten, bruised, and feeling down. He hadn't made any progress today, he wasn't going to make any progress tomorrow, and he sure as hell wouldn't have it unlocked by the time Yang got here. Jaune might as well just bury his own grave at this point.

"Get up" Sun said, standing over Jaune

Jaune was done "No."

"I said get up"

"What's the point? Yang will kill me anyway, I'm useless to Ruby, and I ruined her career. At this point, it would be best if I just-"

"Don't you dare finish that sentence" Sun barked out, cutting Jaune off "You ruined no one's career, you're a better leader than me, and Yang won't kill you..I think.."

"Oh, that's so reassuring" Jaune said, his voice dripping with sarcasm. He just wanted to be done with this.

"Look, maybe the problem with your semblance is your view of yourself. From what I can see, you still see yourself as the same wimpy kid who snuck his way into a school meant for heroes. You moved past that. You earned your place among us time and time again. You disarmed me! No one's ever done that before! You became one of the most brilliant strategist there is! Now get up, and focus your aura, imagine one of the warmest thoughts you can think of, any will do" Sun said as he held his hand out to Jaune, helping him up.

Jaune thought back. The one thing that came to mind was the end of his first year at Beacon. WBY and NPR threw a conjoined surprise party for their fearless leaders as a thank you for all their work that year. Nora and Ren made Pancakes with a side of cookies, Pyrrha and Weiss had gotten some sweet deals for some party stuff, and Yang and Blake put it all together the whole thing. It was one of the happiest moments of his life, his team, his friends, all with him. Hell he even got to spend some time alone with Ruby, thanking her personal for the advice she gave him that helped him with the whole Cardin problem. Ruby blushed at his thank you, and gave Jaune a hug, and Jaune stood there awkwardly, not knowing what to do. The party always had a place in his heart, regardless that in the end it got taken down because of an arm wrestling match between Yang and Nora. It was the first time he truly felt he belonged at Beacon.

Channeling his aura, Jaune led it build up, the pressure visibly making him sweat

"Now hold on to that memory. Now allow your aura to be released, it taking form!" Sun called out.

Jaune let his aura out grunting with the effort. It felt like he was trying to change the course of a river. However, he opened his eyes and was shocked to see a solid white light form around him, but fade instantly.

"I HAD IT!" Jaune cried out with joy. After a month of no results, this was a god send. White light being useful or any hint to what it was? No. But he now had a staring point. If Jaune could go from a little better than a citizen at combat to someone worthy of Beacon, he could get his semblance unlocked soon.

"Great work Jaune" Sun called out, a grin on his face. "You made the first crack in the wall. Now to move on to shattering it. Now give me all you got! We got to make sure you got that adrenaline flowing! Yang won't hold back!"

Jaune gripped his sword with new vigor. He would do this, for Ruby, for his kid.

Omake: The Adventures of Michael J. Caboose in Bacon...IT'S BEACON YOU IDIOT!

Ozpin was backed into a corner with this. He couldn't get rid of Mr. Caboose, no, he tried. He just kept showing up OVER AND OVER. He tried to get a restraining order but the court had turned against him and saw it as him refusing to accept a student out of pure spite. So Ozpin now had to decide what to do. For a student this late, and this...slow he was going to need a special team...or go with the tried and true method of shoving him where ever his initials allowed a cool name to form. God, he loved this job and it's sweet, caffeinated perks. Oh coffee...

Snapping his head back to focus and away for now from his love, Ozpin pulled up the chart of freshmen students. Scanning through, Ozpin saw one team of 3 who still needed a member. Alison Tex, Leonard Church, and Lavernious Tucker still needed a fourth member...Hmmm... Let's see...

ALLC...nope

CALC; who wanted to be a team named after math?

MALT: Tasty, but no. He did not want to betray his loyalty to the current team CFVY, who had successfully helped him in opening his side businesses of BeaconBucks

CLAM: ...close enough.

"Hey man, did you here? We're getting a new guy" Tucker said as Church stormed off from the shooting range, his score being...less than satisfactory.

"No, and I don't care. As long as this new guy is less annoying then you and less intimidating then Tex, I'll be fine." Church said as he slung his sniper rifle to his side.

"Dude, I don't know how you managed to get her to go to the dance with you this year. She's like, half shark, half tiger, part bear, part killer whale, part rattlesnake, and 100% pure bitch" Tucker said

However before he could continue, a black knife flew across and landed right below Tucker, dangerously close to his sword, and not the one that glowed.

"Oh haha Tex! Real funny!" Tucker said nervously as the red haired hunter came into the room.

"Nah, It would have been even more hilarious if I didn't miss" She said as she pulled the knife out and began to sharpen it. "and if you do want to know, Church got me roped into this dumb dance because 1. We where drunk as fuck from that party that bimbo blonde senior threw; and 2. I can still gut you and Church hands tied behind my back asleep"

"Oh come on, you couldn't take me, I'm a badass" Church boasted with false skill

"Oh, is that so? Why don't we test that theory in the sparring room" Tex said as she narrowed her eyes. She was not in a mood.

"Hello students"

The makeshift team was cut off to find Ozpin standing near the door to there dorm. "I'm here to bring you to our new student. Come with me"

The three followed Ozpin as he led them outside. However, Church seemed to have a bad feeling about this, a feeling he hadn't felt in years, a dreadful sense of fear of something that happened to him many years ago...But that was impossible, there was no way that idiot made it into Beacon, let alone into his own team.

Glynda stood by Caboose. Ozpin had her "watching over the student" in other words, babysitting the thick student so he wouldn't destroy anymore school property. As Glynda saw the rest of Mr Caboose's future team in the distance, she saw Caboose begin to squint.

"Is that... OH MY GOD CHURCH! IT'S ME CHURCH!" The Blue armored hunter in training hollered across the field.

BAMMM!

Glynda was caught off guard as she heard the familiar sound of a sniper being fired off. Who would fire a sniper this close and here? She needed to get the student to safety. "Mr Caboose, we are under fire! We need to get to cove-"

"CHURCH IT'S ME! YOUR BEST FRIEND!" Caboose said, his smile widening as he waved his hands around.

BAMM BAMM BAMMM!

"GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME!" The familiar voice of a Mr Leonard Church cried out across the field

"Wait, you know Mr Church?" Gylnda asked

"Yup" Caboose said with a smile "This is his special way of saying hello!"

Right when she thought Ozpin could pick no worse choice than making the obvious student who faked there way in leader, she was proved wrong.