The Evil Within - A, sort-of, Greyguard Love-ish Story

by Reiki27

Fallen Foes summoned, Possession-Grimm defeated, Destruction Manifest, Unborn with Aura - When Life and Destruction reach Harmony, Balance must be meet between the two sides. Warning: Bleiss, BashingFandom!ChaVer, [i]French[/i], Metric[b](SI)[/b], Handholding, SlowBurn (by Bleiss standards), SlowUpdates, High-er Fantasy, Greyguard ship (Jaune x Bleiss x Weiss).

2. Chapter 01 - Not-Weiss

Warning! This chapter posses Epithets. Like, a freaking lot.

(Funfact: Writing Bleiss POV makes me write cuss words for some time afterward, on the other Weiss POV makes me try to write in a polite speech – I have yet to learn Polite Cussing thought.)

Warning (1)! Remember, I use the Fandom!RWBY Characters Version; I love Cannon!Pyrrha, and I mean it, but I dislike most Fandom!Pyrrha, as they range from canonical to Mary Sue, to stalkers, to yandere levels, and this is a slight Yandere!Pyrrha, but worry not! All characters' faults will be amplified! Jaune will be depressed and having lots of Angst, cynical and sarcasm and lacking Self-esteem piece of shit… well, more than cannon, but not reaching the lengths some Fics go, Nora will cause a lot of trouble and be that annoying Hyper friend, Ren will be forgettable… erm, Dense to Nora's advances, and perhaps a bit too lazy, Ruby will be, as the RWBY-Chibi Wiki calls it 'an annoying little shit', Yang will be overprotective and quick to anger, acting like a Bully from time to time, Weiss will be Vol.1 enhanced, and Bleiss will be… Bleiss, Blake will be a hypocrite and cowardly. – Just slight! Since people aren't always at their worst, but hints of their true personality shows from time to time in stressful situations.

Warning (2)! There will be no Blackguard interaction-fluff in this chapter, and I am still developing Bleiss character in my fic. Due to how Bleiss was 'born' in this fic, I don't know if I should make her a crass-bitch or develop my version personality of Bleiss. You can say this is similar to 'Venomous Weiss' fic in which they talk to each other, unlike 'Black Mirror' fic where they are not aware when they switch and exist due to outside powers(Grimm/Dust) and Semblance things. Sadly, I cannot write crass as good as 'Lied der Schwarzen Schwäne' – best Bleiss – or write Bleiss interactions as good as dam1994s on his/her/it/apache Tumblr but I'll try.

In this story, Bleiss does things primarily due to spite of the world and all – because she never experienced love; while Weiss does things for recognition – in the hope be loved by her family.

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Chapter 01 – Not-Weiss.

Proofread: I read paragraph per paragraph while speaking out loud to see if sounds alright, I feel that my family thinks I am going crazy in the quarantine.

Edit: 24/10/2020 – This chapter was posted on this day.

Edit: 06/11/2020 – This chapter was rushed when I first posted, due to my goals of posting a chapter/week… and it sucked, even more since it was nine days later not seven, so this is a cleaner version. I read a video on Youtube on how to use Commas and then re-read this chapter. Yay. Also, I just found out you can 'Edit Chapters'! wow, I mean, I can now correct typos without alerting all poor souls that are following me, again and again, and see that no chapter has been posted… that was what was suppose to happen, I hope I didn't make people think chapter two was out if it was just some light 'rewrite this shit up' and making it readable without headaches.

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Silver-eyes, filled with warmth and worry, observed a blond not-so-noodle-but-still-noodle-ish boy, who was giggling due to the heavy dose of sedatives, analgesic, medicine, and what-knows what pumped into him; and because of such drugs effects, his torso was strapped on a wheelchair least he runs away or falls forward on a whim, with Pyrrha intending in pushing his wheelchair from Beacon's infirmary to their dormitory.

Not just any Pyrrha, nor anyone surnamed Nikos, but the girl with many aliases, with the most famous ones being: The Four-Times-Mistral-Tournament-Champion, The Red-Haired Amazoness, Pride of Mistral, The Goddess of Victory, The Invincible Girl, The Champion of Mistral, The Emerald-Eyed Spartan, The Pumpkin Pete's Cereal Mascot, and The Strongest Huntress of Beacon – and that's from Ruby's memory alone, because certainly, fans and people of Mistral would have several more nicknames on their mind for said idol – Not anyone, but The Pyrrha Nikos herself.

Looking at the girl pushing the wheelchair, Ruby couldn't help but think of the several times someone met a celebrity and discovered they had bad personalities in real life, and how Pyrrha actually was a nice girl. Through the Pyrrha Nikos was… unsettling, the girl was polite and nice, true, but felt fake and forced after several weeks with her doing the same polite smile to them, because being known as the Nice and Polite Girl felt flat, as if she was giving an unapproachable feeling and only talking to Ruby because she was being polite.

A feeling Ruby experienced a lot in the past when Yang's friends or other Signal students talked to her, but only because they wanted to appease 'Yang's annoying little sister' with second intentions.

Nice and Polite isn't a personality trait, after all, it's just good manners according to her Uncle Qrow, and she only knows that Pyrrha likes to compete in tournaments since… well, who would participate in four of them if they didn't like it? Through now that Ruby thinks about it, when asked what kind of weapons they used or asked more about the fights, Pyrrha became uncomfortable and deflected it.

Does Ruby even know anything about Pyrrha? Probably not, Pyrrha does not like talking about herself, so Ruby does not ask.

Anyway, it doesn't matter for Team JNPR nor Team RWBY now, because Ruby was glad Jaune was able to break part of the The Pyrrha Nikos shell, or maybe the girl broke her shell for Jaune, or Nora forced it open regardless. With Nora, everything is possible.

Instead of the polite smile the Pyrrha Nikos always wore like a second skin, Pyrrha now rants about teacher's expectations and snorts at jokes, even making jokes of others on rare occasions, even she was too nice and polite to do it behind people's back through she loosened her being too polite amongst friends, especially when they do their 'Girls' Night Out + Ren' – Ren is included since he is an honorable sister or something like that – Slowly, but surely, the Polite and Nice Pyrrha Nikos became simply Pyrrha, their friend, and companion.

The Xiphos-wielder took her job too seriously though, as if Jaune was made of glass, – not like Ruby could blame her, the meds Jaune took had serious aftereffects on his aura, and Pyrrha wasn't the only one worried about Jaune's safety because of that – she glared at any and all student and staff near enough to see the green in her ocular orbs, said glare was enough for anyone to give in a wide berth to the drugged Jaune… instead of normally rushing towards, and swarming, the famous girl with the intent of getting an autograph or photograph.

Those Fans didn't even pause to take photos of the Tournament Champion helping her injured partner, even if they were all whispering about it, while such photos and rumors would make the media and reporters smile widely for sure – something her Bestie#1 Weiss drilled on her head about how much Pyrrha was famous and how the media was some large evil people-eating fish – as they will certainly make several articles if and about being lacking a teammate would disrupt Pyrrha Niko's team – and now Ruby recalls how angry several people were for their Idol not being selected a leader, something Ruby felt personally hit by empathy, and several message boards asking if Beacon's headmaster was of anti-Mistralian sentiment or a chauvinist pig for choosing a male rather than the strongest Huntress(?) and yadda, yadda, yadda that Ruby was too bothered to understand even if Weiss was being…too Weissy trying to teach her everything – in her doubles and eventual (Ha! Team RWBY was armed and ready!) victory.

Well, not for lack of trying, sometimes people would pause and coincidently use their scroll with the camera's coincidently pointing towards the Champion and the injured Noodle-boy.

But coincidently, their scrolls would go puff and require some maintenance, something that the students of Beacon already knew after more than half-year living with the Champ on the dorms.

The students that came from other academies, Mistral specifically, would then discover that every time one wanted to take a photo of the Goddess of Victory, will find their scrolls' failing somehow, be it blurred images or electrical failure, as if fate and luck itself prevented someone from speaking badly about The Pyrrha Nikos, resulting in the perceived image of Pyrrha Nikos being an incarnation of the Goddess of Victory, even stronger.

"Jaune-Jaune is going to be alright, right?" the other Redhead of Team JNPR asked worriedly at her… hm, what was Ren to Nora again 'Together but not Together-Together'?… and was Nora's orange-hair even considered Redhead or it had its own hair-name-thingy? Was she a Ginger?

Well, Nora's hair was more 'Maple Leaves on Autumn' color so – No wait, this isn't important right now!

Because Nora was worried and serious, like, Ruby doesn't remember the last time she saw Nora serious… nope, she never saw Nora not being cheerful, let alone being serious, a face that the girl didn't make even when the scary-blond-teacher was giving her a sermon about not breaking legs every time she fought against Team CRDL.

The Hammer-Wielder is a mysterious mystery for Ruby, and probably for everyone else not named Lie Ren, what is under that ever-cheerful and always smiling face Ruby doesn't know. Still, Nora is a bundle of energy and joy prone to destruction and explosions, that loved pancakes and syrup as food, and personally liked Ren, sloths, and working out.

Nora was strong, crazy strong, she fought evenly with Yang, that was known as the Dragon of Signal – hands-down the best Primary Combat Academy of Vale – for being undefeatable there, and her sister was personally trained by their dad!

Their dad was a peak Rank-S7 Huntsmen on his prime! though lately he'd stopped taking missions and is only working out to maintain his rank.

Well, Ranks aren't everything, Uncle Qrow is also an Rank-S7 but unlike her dad, that stopped taking missions for a long time, Qrow goes on missions regularly, meaning! they have the same rank, but dad can only win in pure weaponless combat. But still! Dad was strong!

Anyway! Yang has a gift in boxing and was trained by an expert in close-quarters combat, yet, from what Nora and Ren told them, they grew outside the Kingdoms till they managed to gather enough money to travel to Vale, where they entered a small combat school under scholarship.

Nora was intelligent and used her own Dust mixtures recipes for her grenades, her explosives were surprisingly cheap to make since she used other propellants mixed with Dust – enough to even Weiss get interested in buying the receipt, not that Nora accepted since it carries a special meaning for her, like family recipe… for grenades instead of food but is a family recipe! – through very time-consuming and hard to craft, Nora even helped Ruby in developing her own explosive rounds… not that she did since Yang forbid it, err, and somehow Ren knew what Nora dreamed… maybe that is his semblance, Dream Reading? Since Ren never told them what it was.

"He will be alright even with lots and lots of medicine enough to put a Goliath to sleep, right?" Nora said again.

Ah, right, Nora tends to repeat things for some reason, Jaune says is because of Ren but Ruby doesn't understand why. The Pinky-Bomber girl does say Jaune-Jaune, Ren-Ren, Like-Like, and Together-Together for different meanings of the same word, such as Syrup for Pancakes and Syrup-Syrup for raw drinking.

"I am sure our leader will be fine… through I am more concerned about the… frankly terrifying dose amount, and the possible aftereffects of the Panacea he was given," Ren said as he wordlessly grabbed Nora's hand.

Some any other time Ruby would coo or go all 'Kyaa' in happiness, but clearly, Ren was doing it to reassure both Nora and him, from the way he was looking worriedly at Jaune, it was serious.

Ruby cocked her head at that, but an idea sparkled on her mind.

"I didn't know you know medicine? Oh! Can you heal Jaune!? And what is Panacea?" she asked the silent teen, more in hopes of shaking him from his… funky? – Is that how it is said? To dissipate the evil vibes cloud around him… – than to heal Jaune, since Ren would have already done something if he could.

Ren blinked and looked to her, before he did a small sad smile and said, "I am not a healer Ruby, but I do know my way around Medicinal Herbs and Internal Alchemy, mainly because such herbs are plenty on Mistral Wilderness and fetch a nice coin there, enough to pay for our expenses to travel Vale as I learned one thing or two from the buyers. I am specifically interested in learning more about the Mysteries of Aura and how they are a mixture of vitality and spirit of someone and-"

Probably seeing her look in confusion, Nora explained.

"Renny likes to meditate instead of working out, but I think he just likes to sleep."

"Thank you, Nora… but I do meditate, and use aura to stimulate my muscle-growth, while not as fast as working out, it is safe and is mainly used to train my Aura Manipulation skills." Ren sighed in exasperation, but he had a small yet happy smile now.

"As for your other questions, Ruby, I sadly cannot heal Jaune, my medicinal skills sum up to making healthy shakes," he ignored making a 'blergh!' face "and that I can tell if something is bad."

He waved his hand to Jaune, making Ruby force a smile while Nora and Yang openly groaned at his attempt of a joke.

'I didn't know Ren liked Dark Humor…' Ruby weakly smiled at Ren, Nora, and Yang bantering about the art of telling jokes… something those three don't have. Nuh-uh.

Sighing, Ren continued "I recognize some of the Medicinal Herbs used on that Panacea… right, sorry, Panacea is what Mistralians call medicine made using plant life with Dust properties, Those are Herbs that require high-rank External Alchemist to effectively transform into a Panacea and possess plenty of connections" looking worriedly over Jaune he continued "After all, Herbs that affect the Mind are highly dangerous and restricted in usage."

"Jaune's brain in any danger?! And why the fluck Weapons is related to it?!" Ruby asked, at the same time Nora grasped while using now both hands to grasp Ren's hand.

And from the way he is wincing, is probably due to how hard Nora is holding his hands, Yang is wincing because she feels Ren's pain and Blake wincing because she needs to clean her ears more often. Really Blake? When was the last time you washed those ribbons? Tsk tsk.

"He will be fine, External Alchemists are a rare profession even on Mistral where they come from due to how difficult is to become one, mastering Aura Manipulation is the minimum requirement, these Herbs that affect the mind are probably being used as some kind of painkiller," Ren said as she massaged his ear, huh, Ren needs to clean his ears as well. "Though unlike the Dust Alchemists you probably know that use Dust and Aura to synthesize Gold and other Dust Alloys for Weapons. External Alchemists, on the other hand, focuses is using Aura to manipulate the Medicinal Herbs – also know as Dust-Variants of plants – to create Panacea."

"Dust-Variant? Like Fiery Oregano or Chilliest Powder?" Ruby asked.

"Fiery and Chilli? No Ruby, contrary to popular belief, there is no Fire Dust on spices, their spicy flavor is natural." Ren shook his head and Nora laughed.

"She is talking about explosives Renny! Fiery Oregano is great in enhancing explosions due to the stable Fire-Dust it has, good for making explosive bullets without making the bullet explode within the gun, but you can also add regular Oregano and Fire Dust Powder for similar weakened effects, and Chilliest Powder is basically Ice-Dust variant of Peppers, that is great in making explosives with Ice-Dust." Nora explained while patting Ren's shoulder, and Yang snorted as Blake sighed.

"Yes, of course…" Ren sighed, and Ruby wasn't even wondering why Nora would know about putting Oregano on explosives to make it better… wait, was this the reason why Nora was forbidden in the kitchens? Was she like Weiss that when she tries to cook something, everything goes wrong, but instead of creating poison Nora creates explosives…?

Huh, makes sense.

Nora uses her failed recipes to make her grenades, Weiss should do the same with her poisons!

"Ah, you did say you know something about herbs, and you like to cook from what Jaune told me, and Nora made sure that everyone knew as well, so, can you cook some health potion for Jaune to make him better?" Ruby asked with puppy eyes /ON.

"No, Dust-Variant Plants are rarely, if any, used on food recipes since only those with Aura will even be able to eat them, and require great specialized training to even use it…" Ren paused. "However, normal food is possible, and healthy ones are recommended, the nurse did tell us that Jaune requires to sleep his grogginess and hallucinations off, and when he wakes up his body will require plenty of nutrition due to healing. We need to get him a lot of food, but easy to digest… maybe fish… No, he would be too exhausted to remove or notice any fishbone and this could be dangerous… red meat is out, too heavy, maybe chicken… yes, a chicken soup is ideal and-"

Ren entered his own world, and Nora mouthed a 'Thank You' to Ruby, who nodded back.

Ruby looked at her first friend almost dozing off while muttering something about chess and paws, and this pained her, Jaune was strong, stronger than people thought, he was bad with a sword, but he was physically strong even when he was a noddle back in the initiation, and he managed to block a deathstalker attack, now with technique and more muscles, he could easily parry that attack.

'He is getting stronger, even if he doesn't see it…' Ruby though as she analyzed her friend, he did manage to beat up Neptune Vasilias, a third-year from Haven specialized in mid and long-range and uses Electric Dust, who was qualified enough to participate in the last Vytal Festival on Mistral as a first-year like them.

That's why Team SSSN was so famous, with fans from around Remnant knowing them before their first tournament fight, and some even carrying posters of them at the audience stands.

'Jaune probably outlasted Neptune in terms of stamina, and even if he doesn't have technique, Jaune has a quite strong punch… when he manages to hit his target.'

While it's commonly known amongst their friends that Jaune posse's great stamina, vitality, and aura, making him a natural tanker, few bother to realize he is also one of the rare that use armor of any kind. Jaune wasn't carrying Crocea Mors, so no shield or sword on his brawl, he still had gloves and was wearing plate armor.

Only someone like Yang can punch a metal plate and get away with it, others would simply injure their hands.

Neptune probably had more technique and fighting experience, but Jaune used his armor and aura to outlast him, and in a battle of pure endurance, Jaune would win.

Ruby would know since they spared, and Jaune's defense was quite an annoying time-consuming obstacle for anyone that can't go around his – although slow, weak, and small – guard. The Scary-Fighting-Instructor likes to partner Jaune with heavy hitters like Yang, Cardin, and Nora; or fast ones like the rest of their Teammates, since that's Jaune's main weakness.

That explained how Jaune managed to defeat Neptune in a brawl, even if he suffered the worst injuries. And even now she can see Jaune's bare chest filled with bruises.

'Hmm, he isn't so Scraggly, I wonder what Weiss would say?' Ruby thought as she looked at the rather filled body her friend had, wondering why he doesn't look like that when he puts clothes on.

'Eh, he appears scraggly because he is tall, so tall he is the first one to know when it's raining!' she concluded sagely. Jaune, while he appears tall and lanky like bamboo, the truth is, the baggy clothes he normally uses act like foulage, making him thinner than he appears.

'He is still a noodle thought… but not-so-noodle if what the nurse told us is real.'

The amount of medicine Jaune was made to ingest was three to four times larger than someone with the same body mass and aura size. The nurse complained that those with lots of vitality were harder to knock out, and cupped with a strong liver and genetics, Jaune is probably a good drinker due to how strong his foreign body defense is, – a commentary that Yang really, really, shouldn't have heard.

Ruby saw with her own silver eyes, how Jaune groaned in pain as the nurse put syringe after syringe to make him pass out, to no avail. Something about [Body Mass x (Aura Count)/10 = Medicine Dosage] or somewhat like that. Well, it had a lot of more variables than that, including their gender, what kind of Faunus they were, and even their origins and ethnicity… well, these aren't important to Ruby, the important thing is, the Nurse took some weird things from a heavily locked locker.

Greenstone bottles – that Ren called Jade Bottles – that smelled like herbs and gave Jaune some even stronger medication, Panacea if Ren is right, from the instant effects it had on his injuries and pale complexion… but also made Ren worried.

Well, even more worried, the Nurse did say it was a powerful medicine that would make his aura focus inside only and nock out him for a few hours. But she didn't mention anything about medicine that affects the mind, did Jaune had his head beaten that serious?

Well, not that powerful since Jaune woke up after few minutes anyway, much to the nurse great annoyance, thus she just pumped him with analgesics and something else making Jaune, as Yang called it, Tall… no, wait, Jaune was High, yep, High, as in dopped, drunk and sleepy. Not high-tall, since it's silly, because he is sitting in the wheelchair, meaning a standing Ruby is taller than a sitting Jaune!

But these aren't as important as the discovery they made about Jaune!

'His possible semblance.' Ruby excitedly thought.

Jaune has a lot of Aura, really, and because of how Aura works, its quite hard for Huntsmen to become drunk, or get sick or poisoned – something nice – however, since their aura fights any foreign bodies, they also require a lot of medicine to make them get better.

Meaning, when they get sick, is due to bedridden-level ones that require plenty of videogames and warm milk to heal! Not yucky medicine. Only weird people like Weiss would prefer medicine instead of Love, food, and videogames.

That's because Aura is that awesome, Ruby only knows about this because of her Uncle Qrow, after asking if him drinking too much won't put him in an early grave, said a bunch of interesting and advanced things to her about bio-Aura usage.

Since he is a solo-huntsman, he needs to know how to take care of himself, or so he said.

So, with all this knowledge, Ruby is curious about what made Jaune so resistant to medicine, since it's outside the equation.

It's not his body, nor his aura, that made him require so much medicine to affect him, it could only be either an Arc genetic trait or his Semblance. They needed to contact his family, but the number he gave Beacon didn't exist, so maybe he typed it wrong or his family changed numbers – Yep, knowing Jaune, he somehow mistyped the numbers.

Since the medicine only made him sleepy, and the nurse wasn't keen on finding out if he was just resisting the effects unconsciously or the medicine is not working.

If it was the latter, then they only needed to inject more medicine as it is usual for Huntsmen, if it was the former, then a large dose could prove fatal, making him relax so much that his heart and lungs stop working.

And people die if your heart stops beating!

Thus, the Nurse injected a lot of analgesics on him, since she could not make him fall unconscious, because she needed to make Jaune's shoulderblades heal correctly, and this required her to break his bones to cast it right – a scene that made the teams quite angry at the reason why it was required in the first place and caused in them not holding their emotions and resulted at them being expelled from the infirmary with Jaune included.

Thankfully, with the amount of Aura Jaune had and his natural healing factor, a few days would be enough for a complete recovery – through if their guesses about his semblance are right, then maybe tomorrow at the earliest he would be completely fine after he sleeps and his Aura does its job.

"Wow, I didn't know Vomit Boy had it with him – maybe I should try to teach some of my forms and stances… maybe even some grapples and submissions with plenty of skin-to-skin contacts," Yang did some small talk while crossing her arms, making her large blobs of fat she calls boobies to stand out, "with our hot and panting bodies colliding, pressing on the mat, as our sweet sweat mix, our limbs tangled together as one, with hormones raging and the flame of excitement ignited, as we try wrestling for dominance on the soft mattress –" her elder sister said in a very… hushy? Husky… why talking as if her throat is injured sexy Ruby doesn't know, but she can't deny the effects.

Her blood went to her ears because it's darn embarrassing and ridiculous!

"Yang!" Ruby said embarrassedly, and worriedly as she saw the Champion's eye twitching.

Ruby swears that the handle of the wheelchair wasn't curved this way and that she saw a flash of black glow envelop it momentarily – wasn't the Champion's Aura red to begin with?

"And since he is such a nice guy, treats my Rubaby well and respect boundaries… hell, he even wore a dress for Cereal Girl, making her the happiest girl on that night. He even laughed good naturally when the Media said that The Pyrrha Niko's partner was a Drag-Queen or Crossdresser and her virginity is safe, not like it seems to matter for our resident champion… he also selfless since he helped Nep- Vasilla-Whatever! Go and talk with Weiss-cream, but also protective enough to beat the said boy ahead of us…" Yang mused, and Ruby nodded. After the tournament, they helped Weiss in punishing her ex, in the form of freezing him to the ground while throwing Water Dust at him. As the Hydrophobic boy screamed like a girl as the water hit him in front of Team NDGO and some other Huntsmen-in-training no less.

Ruby felt a little guilty in using a phobia as a form of punishment, but thinking of her partner frail expression, she hardened her little heart and acted merciless and swift like reaping weeds from her garden, plus, Yang said that it would serve as a lesson to not break a girl's heart, and motivation for him to seek therapy – because as future Huntsmen there will be occasions where they will have to brave their fears, like jumping over a water puddle to save someone… pff, okay, that's ridiculous.

He totally deserved that.

Still, while Weiss was satisfied in humiliating him in public using his fears, the rest of Team RWBY wasn't convinced that the Blue haired boy learned his lessons.

Weiss thought that she was being covert, but her puffy red eyes and Blake's hearing showed that her partner cried in the bathroom, and who knows where else she cried in secret! How much pain was covered from her own team?

Enough was the answer, and Team R_BY decided that they would cover the boy that made her partner, their sister, cry, with lots of bruises and make him cry, a lot. And, and! they weren't the only ones, Jaune was already tracking when they left to the hunt, the Crocea Mors-Wielder was probably feeling guilty since he helped Neptune with Weiss at the dance. Jaune was just like that.

Sadly, they did not find the boy yesterday, and this morning was spend distracting Weiss, however, after the battle between Coco and Yatsuhashi vs Emerald and Mercury, Weiss said that she would spend the rest of the afternoon with her sister.

Meaning, both teams were free to beat up Neptune!

It took a few hours after Weiss' left for Team R_BY to find Neptune to beat him up, Ruby could not even watch the other fights because they were busy looking for the Blue boy.

But they found him, found them when it was almost night as the sky was getting red.

Red like the state that both Jaune and Nep-snot-face-tune were found since the boys beat each other even after their aura broke – thankfully, a white bird guided Ruby to the fighting place, they were almost killing each other…

Wait, wasn't that bird like a white nevermore? Nevermind.

"-orst broke up I've seen – even when Jaune received the worse injuries between the two of them, through sheer aura tank size and willpower, he managed to defeat Vasi-ctomy in a brawl without any training!" Yang continued, and Ruby noticed that she lost part of the story, but she was probably comparing to that one time someone dared to break up with her through text… and this time the Champion was beaming with pride, and not trying to make the handles of the wheelchair into a crushed mess using her pole controlling skills!

'Good Job Yang!' Ruby though.

"And he broke his legs! That's our fearless leader!" Nora shouted, proudly raising her War Hammer to the ceiling because, while Jaune is badly beaten up, he was not hit on the face nor had any broken bones, unlike Neptune that had both knees broken and looks like a panda. Something that Nora grumbled, as she planned on breaking the blue-haired boy legs with her Magnhild like dried twigs under boots.

Still, fighting while his bones were dislocated, and not knowing proper form and stances, made Jaune tear his muscles and cartilage in painful and hard to heal ways, his fractures would heal easily enough, the problem was the fractures healing while the bones were dislocated it became a mess that required bone-breaking to heal. Ugh. The sounds still echo on her mind making Ruby shudder.

Even the Nurse was amazed at what Jaune did, really, who is insane enough to try healing himself while his bones are dislocated? Aura is a power that requires years of learning to use it right and not kill oneself, Jaune's dislocated and fracture shoulderblade healed as it was at the time, something that could only possibly happen because of how fast Aura healing works, enabling him to continue fighting at the time, but if not broken to heal right his posture would become crocked and he would be unable to lift his left arm above his head. That Jaune was using his Aura to heal it wrong, like, really wrong, as if he never learned how to use his aura in the first place and is just tanking it as he goes wrong.

Well, it was better than the 'N' from SSSN that will have to drop out of the tournament due to his injuries – together with Jaune that was expelled from the matches.

Thankfully, Team JNPR on the entirely wasn't expelled, and they can still compete without Jaune, but that's probably, nope, specifically because the Pyrrha-Four-Times-Mistral-Champion-at-the-age-of-seventeen-Nikos was in the team, and many, many people would be discontent if she didn't participate, and negative emotions attracted Grimm, something that was counterintuitive for the Vytal Festival goal's – this realization made Ruby happy and sad, happy for her sister-team not being disqualified even when the rules mandated them to, but sad because of the pragmatism and favoritism instead of Justice.

"Since he helped our teammate, we have to reward him! Like, a date, yeah…" Yang uselessly continued her rant – Ruby, that suffered the teasing most of her life with her sister knows that Yang is doing it purposefully. Her Big Sis likes to tease and flirt, but this time she is playing with fire! Or rather, poking on the comb of murderous-spartan-wasps with her bare finger!

'Bad Job, Yang!' Ruby internally cursed, then winced at the aluminum alloy handle of the wheelchair, twisted and broke like dry leaves, a scene that made Yang only smile wider.

"He has damn nice legs, knows how to dance, makes a mean Strawberry Sunrise, knows how to cook and sew, knows how to take care of my hair…oh, wait… hey Vomit-Boy!" Yang said to the boy muttering something about a Virus in the CCT, an impossible feat since it had state-of-the-art technology and security, meaning he is daydreaming alright.

"Why didn't Ice-Queen date you? Or better question, why aren't you dating me yet!?" Yang exclaimed with a shit-eating grin, as Ruby worriedly glanced to the Goddess of Victory incarnate. Worried that she may try to smite her big sister… and Ruby would have to step-in and protect Jaune while she is trying to headshot his partner.

Thankfully, Mistral's Pride and Joy seemed to take notice that Yang was teasing her, so the Champion just sighed and continued to push Jaune through his shoulders, since *Fake gasp* the handle unexpected broke away and is on the floor some meters behind them.

"Dunno… I- I think I was because I was a creep or stalker-ishhhh, or a wannabe laddi- lass-man, or because I ignored all the…all the little… all the big signs that Snoww, that Weiss wasn't interested… or that because I am weak… or because I am scraggly and ugly… or because I am a faker that -" Pyrrha covered Jaune's mouth as he brought his self-esteem even lower, and Ruby narrowed her eyes at this scene, even though her best friend tried to speak something that was clearly a secret, the fact that Nora and Ren also tried to change topics made a part of her sad.

She was her best friend, dung-mmit! And Jaune didn't share the secret with her… he was her first friend in Beacon and life, and first boy- male friend ever, truthfully Ruby felt a little hurt, but her desire to protect Jaune's secret was more important, thus she lashed on the rope in the form of Ren and Nora telling a story of how Nora ate so much syrup that she became sedated like Jaune is.

"- and then I fought a hundred pirates while wearing Ren's underwear on my head, a pair of stinky straw sneakers as a weapon while using toilet paper as clothes!" Nora told her tale with a flair of… Nora.

"It was a dozen drunk sailors…" Ren sighed, through Ruby swore she saw a small smile and… wait "Yes, Ruby, the rest is true… sadly."

Ren should've seen the confusion on her face because he had answered it with a defeated sigh.

"It must have been… hard," Blake said to Ren while glancing at Yang "Yang and Ruby already do some harebrained ideas, I don't know how you can… bear with her."

Blake spoke for the first time in a while, but Ruby didn't forget the quiet-bookworm girl was with them, nor did she mistake the Wielder of Gambol Shroud's silence for isolation.

Not like the beginning of the year anyway. Well, Blake was almost killed by Torchwick in the docks had Ruby and Penny not appeared, through after that event Team RWBY was back together, and the not-so-secret Faunus opened up for them, she was still a mysterious and secretive girl that liked to read smut and brood in the corner, but it was their smut-reader-emo!

But even if she was their smut-reader-pedo, doesn't mean Ruby would let such mutiny happen without punishment! Seems like Ruby will have to eat cookies above Blake's bed to show her who is the boss of Team RWBY!

""Hey!"" She and Yang complained at this clear injustice, her plans worked out fine in the initiation, but Blake and Ren shared a small, imperceptible smile, through Jaune loudly laughed – making the rest of the gang smirk or laugh as well.

"Um-bear-lieveble, Kitty, I thought you loved mew." Yang punned… or tried, and failed hard, making everyone groan.

"That. Was. Terrible Yang, a bullet between the eyes would hurt less… and Love is a strong word." Blake sighed, sharing a 'This what I have to deal with it' look to Ren.

Ruby swears that their lips just tugged upwards for a blink of an eye before their calm/brooding expression came back – why do Ren and Blake try their best to not appear happy or sad?

"Don't wor-ry Yang! I love you!" Jaune said unexpected, making Yang Xiao-Long blush for an instant before she cooed, while the Champion froze in place.

"Oh, Lover Boy! I love you too!" Yang said as she tried to hug him, only for the Champion to intercept with the pointed end of her bronze xiphos blade.

"Yang, careful, Jaune is injured and drugged, making him act delusional and speak hallucinations as you no doubt perceived." The Pyrrha Nikos said in the most gentle and polite tone Ruby heard, most to herself than to Yang, but it was all so wrong.

"I love Ruby too! And Weiss!" the sword pointed at Yang transformed into a javelin, making Yang yelp as she crouched under the pointy end of the now-polearm. "And Blake, and Pyrrha! And-"

"Ah, Jaune! I love you too!" Pyrrha said as she dropped Miló and hugged Jaune from behind and planted a loud and wet kiss on his cheek.

Yang grumbled something about hypocrite at the side, but Ruby just found it cute, really, it was rare for them to see their very polite friend as Pyrrha, the girl, instead of The Pyrrha Nikos mode she is always on.

"-hm, stop, mom!" Jaune said as she pushed a broken Pyrrha away, with his palm pushing her face away, as he cleaned his cheek using his the back of his other hand, like a child trying to remove the lipsticks their mothers put on them on the first day of school with his sleeves.

Or how her dad did it to her when she attended Signal…last year! Really! Her dad put red paint on his lips to leave a 'kiss mark' on her cheeks!

"Mother-zoned! Gods, that's a step bellow Sister-zoned and friend-zoned… don't worry Pyrrha! You can still be his sugar mommy!" Yang loudly laughed at the scene, in a really exaggerated fashion, with pointing fingers, cleaning tears, and holding the belly while almost falling to the floor.

The others were more discreet as Ren and Nora went to help their fallen teammate, after laughing their fill obviously.

"Hey, Jaune-Jaune, do you also love us?" Nora asked while kneeling in front of Jaune and holding his hands.

"Ob-viously!" Jaune said, "I Love you, Ren!"

"And me? Do you love me?" Nora almost cried since she was the only one not mentioned, and expression that was unmistakable genuine, Ruby's eyes widened of how… frail Nora, the strong hammer maiden, looked.

"Yes, I love you, Nora! Because, because…because…" Jaune dozed off again as Nora sighed in relief.

…

The group walked in silence again, mainly because they didn't want to wake up Jaune, till finally, they left the Beacon Hospital Building.

Looking at the sky, Ruby saw that night would soon cover them.

'Better prepare for a night battle,' Ruby thought as she exchanged the scope lenses for her Crescent Rose for one possessing night-vision capabilities.

Leaving the building and walking through the yellow light of the lampposts, the group of seven students automatically grouped around the sleeping Jaune as they now entered the Beacon Gardens.

During the day, patients would relax under the sun and walk through the calming fields of flowers, a garden that put her own personal garden back in Patch to shame, Ruby closed her eyes and deeply breathed the scents around her, easily recognizing the unmistakable smell of peace only Sweet Cupani provided, the odor of carefree and lazy Sundays only Morning Tricolor could give, and the powerful aroma Fragrant Heliotrope gave that made her remember of a night sky amidst fireflies.

Looking at the side, rows, and rows of colors and shapes, Ruby saw the Four Sunset's that could be easily mistaken as a Sunflower with a bad problem of Siameses-es, Larkspur Grey having the format of smalls grey nails-sized bells, and Poppies Heaven having a myriad of colors like a rainbow.

Ruby also saw the rare and frails Aphrodite Allspice and Hollyhock Blacknight flowers that require a delicate balance of pH and Dust in the soil to blossom, their shapes glowing slighting under the twilight, and at night, they would slightly illuminate the several fountains and its bronze statues around the Beacon Gardens, forming a small artificial river that provides for the entire Garden, and even goes to the Pavilion nearby that Weiss is with her sister.

Thinking of Weiss, Ruby hesitates in sending a message detailing what happened… then, in the end, she decides to procrastinate and wait till Weiss calls her.

Too much to explain! Weiss needs to relax with big-Weiss, else she will have a stroke if she learns that because of them, Jaune was expelled from the infirmary while having his Aura weak due to the meds, all because he is injured from beating Neptune for Weiss because of guilty and maybe crush.

…Yep, she will let Blake explain that in exchange for not using Blake's bed as a place to eat cookies as a punishment of mutiny. Yup!

Ignoring Blake's narrowed eyes, Ruby relaxed a breeze hit them, carrying with it the promise of a cold night and the scent of flowers, this made Ruby remember Patch for some reason, a certain tombstone to be specific; Jaune also woke again – and sadly his clothes were too soiled and bloodied to be worn, he only had his jeans and bandages on a bare-chest to protect him from the cold – muttering something about the Queen of Ashes waking up from a long slumber, and other weird things.

Seeing that they forgot to bring anything to cover Jaune, Ruby steeled her heart and put her most prized possession – even above her Crescent Rose – around Jaune.

Instantly, Ruby felt naked, vulnerable, and cold. Only Yang's warm embrace prevented her from taking the cloak back, only her Big Sis understood how much the Red Cloak meant to her.

"Heh, Nora is… Nora, she is family…" Jaune said while unconsciously hugging his new red-blanked closer, as Ren and Nora shared a glance. Ruby didn't know what their eyes were saying, must have been everything, and nothing at all.

"-mily…" Jaune muttered dazedly before falling asleep again.

"What did you say, Jaune." The Red-Haired Amazon Warrior asked softly as she pushes the wheelchair while using Jaune's shoulders as handles through the Beacon gardens, amusing Ruby since the girl could simply push through the remains of the handle… no, there was no handle anymore, but the chair itself was fine… maybe even with her semblance.

Heh, Pyrrha though she was being discreet like white petals buried on snow, but the light blush and the way her fingers roamed Jaune's shoulder like a snake climbing a lemon tree, fooled no one but herself. Ruby just hopes Pyrrha is careful in her touches since they had to break Jaune's left shoulder to heal it right, and is probably pretty sensitive, even with all the drugs and sedatives taken.

Hell, the reason Jaune is not in the infirmary safe and sound, is because they were all expelled… well, for breaking part of the infirmary, and with it, blue boy and his team that was on the bed next to Jaune.

The nurse had just pumped Jaune with medicine that acted as a poison before they were all expelled, while not dangerous to his health, or so the nurse promised, it appeared highly dangerous for Jaune's biological and metaphysical defense systems, it sends mixed signals to his brain and aura, making all newly produced aura focus in dealing with the 'internal threat' and in the process, his injuries, instead of protecting against any possible external threat, It also made his mind groggily and lower his inhibitions, the nurse told them to simply let him sleep as they walked him to his bed, and only wake him for a hearty yet light dinner. Whatever that means.

That's why they are guiding, rather, escorting him, since Jaune's Aura defense is basically at minimum capacity since everything else was being used to heal his insides, and he is not even sound of mind or able to even defend himself. Maybe his current Aura can protect against a bullet or two from a regular generic Grade-01 Generic-Class Handgun-bullet like the ones Blake and Ren use, but till the poison is cleansed his Aura Tank won't fill.

In truth, Jaune should have been in the infirmary since he took such dangerous medicine, but they were selfish and wanted to take Jaune with them, plus, letting Jaune alone with Team SSSN – a team they just beaten up and even knocked a member out – was dangerous… well, since Jaune would suffer the vengeance of their actions.

Not that they thought that Team SSSN would do something like that on Beacon's Grounds, Sun was a nice guy and Blake vouched for him, but… well, they were selfish, and it was just a short walk to Beacon's Dorms… with their friend that was injured and little to no Aura.

This thought terrified Ruby, no aura, a state where a mere stray bullet on the right place was enough to kill someone, something as simple as tripping from the stairs can break a neck, or blocking a hit of the weakest and youngest Grimm could leave someone with broken limbs, or being throw from the cliffs… was enough to wilt Jaune's life.

How are civilians able to live with this fear, this weakness, and fragility over their life?

Looking at poor Jaune, her friend, she verifies one more time that her baby, Crescent Rose, is with her and loaded with anti-Grimm-Armor ammo for maximum damage as they escort him like the Security classes they've taken.

Poor Jaune still has to show up there tomorrow at the infirmary, without Yang, Pyrrha Nikos, and Nora present since they caused the most damage to the place… thankfully the Mistral Champion had deep pockets. Ren, Blake, and Ruby still can't even enter the wing, so Weiss that was absent when the incident with Infirmary's destruction and SSSN beatdown happened – since she was still with her sister – was elected to go, much to Jaune's partner frustration.

*Mumbles* "… will you be my family?" Jaune suddenly mutters something incomprehensible but ends in a question that makes everyone still.

Everyone but the one with the greatest hearing present.

Blake narrows her eyes and starts to paint heavily, shocking Ruby from her stupor enough to notice that the Hardcore Smut Reader of her team has her nose bleeding in excitement… through from the perverted face she is making, the leader of Team RWBY sums 1+1 and concurs that the result is 'I don't want to know about that'.

"Yes! Jaune, Yes! I accept being your family! We will have ten kids, 8 girls and 2 boys beating your mother's record, the first boy will be called Pyrrhus in homage of my grandfather, the first girl will be called Juniper in homage of your Mother, then(…)" the Champion… no, Pyrrha, just Pyrrha the normal girl, continued listing the names of all the children she would have with Jaune and where they will get married while crying tears of joy.

Okay, not normal Girl, but she is finally acting like – no, rather, she finally dropped the act she puts on all the time.

Yep, that – because she is exactly acting like those girls Uncle Qrow is afraid of, something about not sticking on Crazies?

"- then after the Vytal Festival and I gain gold, I'll claim- kiss you in front of the whole world to ward off all ice-cold-bitches near you, making them finally see that you are solely mine, then make you visit your future parents-in-law on Mistral-"

"Ren… will you be my family?" sadly for Pyrrha, the question was not for her, and it literally broke her. stopped as her eyes died, through Ruby caught some black hues spark momentarily all around them as some of the classical bronze and brass statues of warriors became modern art pieces.

With a frown, Ruby enveloped her Crescent Rose with her aura

Also, it would explain why Blake was so interested on it.

After all, Ruby did read the 'The Man with Two Souls', at first she thought it was about fighting with Katanas, but it was another kind of 'Sword Fight' involved! – 'Blake should've hidden the books better from my innocent and curious self!' Or so Ruby will tell Yang if she discovers that her little sis is, was, reading smut.

"… Yes, brother… and as my brother, as family, I can finally have someone to call me by my first name… Liè." Ren said with a heavy intonation on 'brother', making them understand what kind of family he was talking about, but also clearly happy, making Ruby and Yang coo at the gesture.

Wait, Ruby thought that Ren's name was Ren and his surname was Lie… no, Liè, so Liè was his name and they pronounced wrong all this time?!

And they were calling him with his surname?! Even the teachers called him Mr. Lie!

Though, it made sense for Professor Ozpin to call Ren by Mr. Lie Ren.

"Nora… will you be my family too?"

"Of course, Fearless-!" suddenly she stopped her bubbly demeanor and continued calmly… a so not-Nora gesture that creepy-ed Ruby a little "Jaune, brother… I've always wanted a big brother to spoil me and Ren! Sometimes spoiling Ren gets tiring so all help is appreciated!" Nora says with a small and gentle smile, though it makes Ruby look at the scene in wonder.

Wasn't Ren the one that spoils Nora?

"Pyrrha… will you be my family?"

"Yes, Jaune." Pyrrha said the moment he finished. And while Ruby doesn't know how, but the period and finally in that sentence was clear to all.

"Oh, Cereal Girl laying it thick here!" Yang needlessly mentioned.

"Hehe… I did it… JNPR is family… I… I was afraid of you guys not accepting… then when I die…" Jaune muttered but Ruby was faster.

"If you die Jaune." She will not permit others to die on her. Not now, not ever, – a hand on her head, promises to make cookies when she came back, a gentle smile with Silverly eyes filled with laughter and joy, a white cape holding her entire world, the smell of the sun on the last day of summer… a grave build as the first snow fell – not again.

"Then JNPR will be together forever… then we can get buried together, in the Arc family Tomb… because we are family," Jaune said as tears leave his eyes.

Well, the previous joyful mood dropped. Truly, only Jaune to say something… weird like that, though Ren and Nora are orphans so…

"… having somewhere to rest is nice… when Nora and I applied to Beacon, we had to write our… return address as Beacon, it seems that orphans aren't uncommon on Beacon... I, We thank you, our brother from another mother." Ren says as he and Nora hug each other.

A warm scene, but Ruby is still confused about why, since their packages are sent to the Beacon Package Center automatically.

"Yeah… writing where we want our remains to be sent in case of death when in a mission wasn't the most exciting thing to write down… it made the dangers even more apparent," Yang said in a nervous tone, playing with her hair as her nervous tick.

Ah, that. Ruby's confusion was replaced by sadness… since the terms and conditions they signed explicitly told them that the chance of recovering something varies depending on the difficulty of the mission… they didn't even find any remains of her mother.

Through one day a casket with a bloodied and dirtied white cloak appeared in front of their house – the black feather that was above the casket and the white cloak became synonymous with the memory of their father gently caressing it as he looked to the sky empty-eyes and a drink on his hand, forcing Yang to grow up and take care of everyone.

"Yay… now Nora and Ren have a Home back on Home, 'cause Beacon isn't home Nora, Beacon is Home away from Home… hmmm I want homemade bacon…" Nora and Ren grabbed Jaune's hand, each with a warm smile on their faces, making Ruby smile as she remembered what Jaune told her a few weeks ago after the Breach incident.

While Team RWBY was sent to the infirmary after fighting the Grimm, Team JNPR volunteered to remain on stand-by – since in Jaune's words they were fresh – and… were self-tasked on finding survivors.

While Ruby knows that there were casualties, from the frown that Jaune had… well, acted after that mission, he and his team probably had to find the mortal remains for proper burial rites, but he didn't mention much of it so she didn't ask further, only hugged him and caressed his back as he tried to forget whatever he found on that day.

One thing he did tell her, was that some of the casualties didn't have a place to return, because no one knows who they are, and no one came to reclaim the bodies, they were all buried in the unmarked mass graves outside the Walls – something that made him worried about Ren and Nora's Place of Rest.

'So you've found your solution Jaune,… if there is no family to claim them after death's embrace, you made them family, this way, even if the end comes… your team will remain together, forever.'

Jaune also said that he didn't want to go home on the two-week break they had after the end of the first semester (she still find it confusing in calling it a semester because it means six months, but Beacon has 3 Semesters per academic year, and a year has 12 months…) because his parents didn't want him to attend Beacon and that Ren and Nora didn't have a place to go.

She and Yang also didn't go home, to Patch, on the first break as they planned, because Weiss and Blake choose to stay the two weeks at Beacon Academy, so they did several team-bonding activities, like inter-team-attacks, and nail-painting, and speaking about boys, and video-games, well, Yang did, Blake ignored everything, and Weiss made her nails and studied, but, well, the two teams did several activities together and trained-and-movies-night-and-truth-and-dare and they finished with the Best. Day. Ever marking the end of their first break! It had a food fight, and they didn't even have to clean it up, or pay, or detention!

"How cute! he is a truthful drunk… Hey, Jaune, what are my best ass-sets?" Yang asked while giving Jaune a very close view of her fat chest cleavage while making a disgusting pun. Ruby still doesn't know why boys like butt, poop comes from it!

Not like Jaune appeared to notice, muttering that the Wizard will soon make his choice of who will be the new Guardian, and everything will change.

Yep, he is daydreaming about the plot of a videogame… though she doesn't remember which one. That makes her slight mad that Jaune is playing a new game and not telling her!

"Yaaang!" Ruby complained, part in the embarrassment of her sister doing it to her friend and co-leader, and part because Pyrrha… no, that the Champion looks like she really wants to murder someone.

The same expression Yang does when a boy tries to talk with 'her little Rubaby' back on Signal or Beacon, that somehow ends with the boy in question matching with Yang in combat practice class even if though he is from another year or classroom, and their dad, the fighting class instructor, and mediator, 'is busy' and trust them to 'play by the rules'… then Yang beat the poor sob to submission since there is no adult authority.

And then Yang questions why she does not have friends. Hmph!

Ruby wonders if this is why Velvet – a nice Rabbit Faunus girl that came to thank Jaune, saying that he made Cardin stop Fanus-bullying – stopped having meals with them ever since The Pyrrha Nikos came back from Mistral this last break… Nah, Pyrrha Nikos is the nicest girl she knows, and it can't be jealously since Jaune told her that Pyrrha gave him tips and tricks with Yang on how to date Weiss… though Yang didn't do it with the best intentions since her encouragement of him was due to love of Weiss spluttering reactions.

Velvet's Team is probably training for the Festival and they don't want to be spied on by the competition, they are 2nd Years, and have more missions as well.

Thankfully, at the end of the 2nd Semester they had the short but deserved second-semester break just after The Breach incident, but long enough for them to prepare for the still going Vytal Festival, to a quick visit to Patch and their mother's grave, to make Weiss and Jaune becoming friends, and above all, having Team RWBY bonding once more with Team JNPR… except for Pyrrha because sadly, The Pyrrha Nikos had to go to Mistral for interviews about her participation on the tournament, contracts, and a bunch of other things in this second break.

And since The Pyrrha Nikos had to go, Pyrrha had to say farewell for the Break.

Pyrrha said that since she didn't go during the first-semester break, nor participated in any talk shows and interviews during the beginning of the year, she had to go back to Mistral and 'satiate' her fan's thirst for information about her personal life, and because she was sorry her fame started causing problems for her teammates, with the exchange students posting photos of her or releasing rumors that forced her to clean things up.

Since Pyrrha didn't appear on any media for a semester, her starved fans ate anything the exchange students posted and this caused several inconveniences, especially for Jaune.

When the news of Jaune's being her partner appeared even on Beacon's News – something weird since, all of Beacon already knew, but this shows how big it was for foreign media, specially Mistral – people, well, The Goddess of Victory fan's didn't know she was partnered with a boy, let alone co-living with two. Something that her agents and parents didn't like but agreed to 'let her be', and that several fans sent, and are still sending, Jaune and Ren hate mails and death threats… that's it, till she went to Mistral on the entirety of the second break to 'explain her actions' and that she wasn't pregnant or in a relationship as her contract demands.

As if her life didn't belong to her and she had to appease her fans, agents, and family.

Speaking of which, this would explain why she is so touchy with Jaune recently, since she spent the entire break away from him… through now that Ruby is thinking, maybe Pyrrha likes Jaune? Oh my god, this makes so much sense… but… why did Pyrrha try to help Jaune confess to Weiss?

So all this Jealously Pyrrha was showing wasn't due to her desire to monopolize Jaune's because he was her first friend and partner, but because Pyrrha liked Jaune! Wow… this makes so much sense.

But is still confusing… why-

"Hehe, Ass-sets… nice pun Yang! You are funny!" Jaune giggled, while obviously drugged since the pun was extremely bad.

"See! Lover Boy here knows the truth, he finds me funny and sexy! Hah, you guys that are just all boring!" Yang bragged proudly, making Ruby sigh while putting her doubts aside.

"I am pretty sure he did not say the latter and is great to know that to laugh to your jokes one is required to have their cognitive process heavily impaired by drugs or have the mentality of a child," Blake said to the side, not even bothering in leave her eyes from the books she always read, leaving a Yang open-mouthed as the rest made small smiles to giggles to open laughs.

"Yeah… Yang is sexy…the sexiest girl in Beacon!" Jaune mumbled, and the Red-Haired Champion open laugh stop midway, settling instead for a polite smile that definitely not reaches her eyes, with the green eyes mechanically zeroed on Yang, And making Ruby freak out a little since Yang is basically doing it to the person Pyrrha likes.

"Oh, tell me more Lover Boy, say, what part of me is the best again? Hm?~ you still didn't answer me~~" Yang grinned as she practically shoved his heads on her breasts.

"Ah, Yang… I don't think this is a good idea…" Ruby said, also a bit curious but a bit angry in her sister taking advantage of her first friend incapability to lie in this state.

"Nonsense Ruby, don't you have a crush on him? Now you can ask the real questions." Yang waved her off while persisting in asking while she sputtered.

H-her and Jaune? No way! And Pyrrha stop looking in her direction this way! It's scary!

"Yang, remember that the nurse said to us! We should let him sleep till the effects end, and we also need a lot of food since he is healing." Ruby tried and failed to keep her sister from engaging in her curiosity while trying to parry the heavy gaze trying to pierce her at Yang's direction.

"I like your hair… but I also think your genuine smile is sunny and warm," Jaune answered after a long delay – turned out he was deeply in thought… or just drugged enough to be seeing sounds.

"Oh, wow… shit, now that he is too stoned to lie I think this is the first time someone complimented anything other than my girls and my booty with sincerity…" Yang – Yang Xiao-Long the girl that always teased others, blushed by the genuine compliment of Jaune! The last time she saw Yang blush was when their dad made the entire class sing happy birthday to 'his Little Sun Dragon'… as for blushing because of a boy? Nah, never.

"My turn Fearless Leader! Now, tell me who is the bestest girl in Beacon? Hint-Hint: The one that helps you in studying and fighting stuff the most, makes perfect Wifey material, is sexy and pretty, is rich, possess a powerful background, is one of the strongest of Beacon if not the strongest student, is always caring for you, it's not me, will accept if you ask for a date, and wants to have plenty of children!" Nora said and as each 'Hint' the Champion dropped her mask as 'Normal girl' Pyrrha appeared, and started to puff out her chest more, that is, till Pyrrha became too bashful as the hints continued on a weird direction – through she started to sneak even more glances to her leader and her hands roamed around his shoulders blades.

Ruby stood by the side, smiling at this development, while Yang had an amused grin, the blondie also gave thumbs up to Nora, who winked back.

Oh, so Yang was teasing Pyrrha to force her to act? Nice Job Yang! Through… isn't Jaune still crushing on Weiss?

Nah, Ruby remembered Jaune giving her his cup and marched to the boy that rejected Weiss.

She also remembered sipping on Jaune's cup, because Yang surely won't let her forget anytime soon!

Grumbling, Ruby shook her head and waited for Jaune to formulate his answer, at her side Yang and Nora put their hands on Pyrrha's shoulder, while Blake and Ren just watched with interest from the side.

"…Velvet?" He answered while tilting his head, unsure of his answer, and unaware that his response made the entire world stop as if someone pressed the pause button… till everything restarted with the sound of something cracking being followed by a grunt of pain.

"Oh my God!" "Pyrrha!" "What the fuck!" people screamed, and only then Pyrrha realized what she had done.

Ruby narrowed her eyes in an instant, she saw the unmistakable sight of the white Aura breaking, she didn't enter Beacon two years earlier without anything to back it up, she was a genius in weapon craft and kicking-Grimm butts, and this includes the ability to analyze targets at extremely fast speed – probably because of her speed semblance – together with the Team Leader instinct she is nurturing and the conversation about their team-members she shared with Jaune on the last break, she quickly identified the cause of the action and how to respond.

'That's one of Pyrrha's quirks, when stressed or emotional she uses either brute force or her semblance to end the source of her stress, according to Jaune, scaring her when she is washing the dishes can result in all pans flying towards the target, or if you compliment her she will hit you in embarrassment, Jaune theorizes that it must be because she wears a mask of a nice girl and the perfect girl at all times, in consequence when the mask cracks her response is extreme and violently, Weiss does something similar, though we managed to melt her persona a little.'

Ruby frowns as the realization of what Jaune had experienced when Pyrrha's bottled up emotions exploded in the form of physical assault, sunk in. Hearing that Jaune was attacked by several cans of Soda Cans making him go purple to class was funny at the time, such as the time when Weiss was still, as Yang called it, a stuck-up bitch and froze his legs when Yang convinced him that Weiss liked guys with courage and resulted in him reading a poem to her while they were matched in Goodwitch's class, or when she was sleepy and sat on Jaune's lap, causing Yang to go all overprotective on Jaune, punching his eye making him look like a panda for the entirety of the day, a funny scene…

Funny, like when she ate the strawberry pancakes at the table without thinking, and when an angry Nora appeared, Jaune said it was his fault, resulting in being sent flying by a giant hammer right under the scary deputy-headmistress skirt, causing a Jaune-shaped-hole on the cafeteria's wall.

… or when Ruby herself, after Jaune won his first victory against a random student, hit him with the entire speed of her semblance, and her hug was enough to finish breaking his aura, generating several laughs at the idea.

It was hilarious, it was amusing. After all, he had Aura, he was safe. So Jaune's reactions were always weird for them, he acted as if he would die for some simple thing like a bullet on the head. He acted surprised he was even alive like he sometimes forgot he had Aura.

Only, this time Jaune's Aura didn't protect much, and his shoulder was fragile still. It wasn't funny – Pyrrha forgot she wasn't using force on a chair handle, but on a Jaune that was without aura.

"Jaune!" Pyrrha gasped, she wanted to approach him, worried for her partner and teammate, worried for the damage and pain she caused.. but Ruby wouldn't let the clear unstable girl near her injured and Auraless friend, and with a burst of petals her silhouette appeared between Jaune and Pyrrha with her Crescent Rose armed and ready.

Granted, Ruby was overreacting… but seeing White Aura breaking… she remembered the only other person she knows that had a pure white Aura, even Mercury Black, the student from Mistral, had a greyish Aura color.

The only one that had as pure white color as Aura was… Summer Rose, and the realization that her mother's aura broke, like Jaune's aura now, before her death made Ruby uneasy, even more, when Jaune was using a cape as a blanket, that for a moment it was a white cape stained in blood.

"Yang, first-aid, Blake, standby." She gave orders without pause or hesitation, – hours of drilling exercises showing its worth – knowing that Yang selected First-Aid electives, and thus is required to carry a small first-aid kit, and Blake's is the best in the Stealth and Security curriculum.

They trained for that. And it was time to show JNPR that Team RWBY was the best team ever!

Even without looking she knows that Yang will take care of Jaune as if is her hair and that Blake is ready to grab her scroll and call for aid, or fight with Jaune's safety as a priority, or transport him to the closest safest location.

Pyrrha stepped back in surprise, as it's a common reaction after meeting the barrel's end of a sniper rifle loaded with Grimm-piercing rounds (made to break and pierce Bone Exoskeleton), back enough and sufficiently surprised to not notice Ren stepping in, Storm-Flower's wielder quickly grasped the girl's shoulders… and something happened.

The previous almost breaking down girl instantly calmed, too much to be natural.

'His semblance? Nora only showed her semblance at the tournament, and Pyrrha only because Jaune needed help… right? I swear I saw a black hue around's Jaune's shield, though no one seemed to see it, Well, she used to help Jaune and raise his shield, controlling poles or something, and Jaune's semblance is still unknown.'

"Okay, he didn't break or dislodge anything, the crack came from something like cracking-joints sounds with Aura-breaking sounds, not crushed-bones sounds, only, it caused pain … on someone filled with painkillers – Pyrrha, I know I am not the best person to say this to you, but girl, you need to mind your temper, you have so much bottled up that when it explodes, well, it could be dangerous… as someone whose semblance is the concept of Anger, take my advice that you need to control it, not hold it in." Yang sighed.

Ruby nodded, alongside everyone, Nora put a conforming arm around the girl, though it is probably to prevent her from running away.

"I… I am sorry…" Pyrrha said, in a calm voice… Ruby swears that for a moment Pyrrha lost her colors, but as she blinked Pyrrha was just eerie calm like Ren, and, her silver eyes were hurting a bit. Darn, she needs to buy more eye-drops. A blind sniper would be a cruel joke.

"We aren't the ones that you should say sorry too… and well, Jaune is indisposed, how about that, tomorrow, you will ask Jaune to be punished~~ or, you can service him to your best! You can finally use those nurse outfits we brought but you were too embarrassed to use!" Nora loudly proclaimed with the cheerful voice she always has… wait, she is clearly using fake cheeriness right now, no way she isn't worried about her Leader!

Ren on the other hand was the exact opposite of cheeriness, rather, he resembled her Dad when he talked about some of the hardest missions he did as Team STRQ… ah, a twitching eye, pale face, and trembling hands… a PTSD involving Nora on a Nurse's outfit? Nah, must be Ren being dramatic.

Pyrrha just smiled, not bashful like she was expected to do. And Ruby dropped the thoughts invading her head, for the new thoughts generated by this sight.

'Gosh, that stuff Ren is doing looks powerful! If I had it, I would never stutter or be embarrassed, or depressed, or sad! Or… wait, that's why Ren is always calm…? Now that I think about it… isn't this… unhealthy?'

Ruby smiled dropped a little at the same time as Pyrrha since Ren stopped touching her shoulder and using his possible semblance, through Nora's visibility hugged harder as the red-haired girl almost fled here and then.

Before anyone could do anything, Blake helped in a very Blake-ish way.

"Jaune, are you dating Velvet?" Blake asked as Pyrrha stopped struggling, the Red-haired girl's attention solely focused on the boy strapped on the wheelchair.

"Nah… I wish I had a cute girlfriend like that… I wish I had a girlfriend to hug and kiss…" he said in a comically very depressed manner, suddenly it was Ren and Nora that had to struggle to prevent Pyrrha from reaching Jaune, muttering something about not sexually assaults their honorary-brother while he is drugged.

"Through if he was awake then it's fair play!" Nora mentioned, loudly, making Pyrrha splutter and stop struggling enough to ask her own question.

"Then why Velvet?!" Pyrrha asked, with the hidden question of 'why not me!?' in the air.

Oh wow, now that Ruby knows that Pyrrha likes Jaune, in a like-like meaning, she is seeing Pyrrha's actions from a new perspective.

"Because she meets every category." Ruby blurted, making Pyrrha… no, making the Champion of Mistral set her sights on her.

Meeting the narrowed eyes, tensed shoulders, and enlarging pupils, Ruby eep-ed to behind Yang. Who after years of nurtured big-sister and brawler instincts she meets the gaze head-on, through Blake appeared to diffuse the situation.

"Velvet helped Jaune to study and fight during the recess between 2nd and 3rd Semester since he takes extra-classes and she is a teacher-assistant of Doctor Oobleck… so she's likely the one that helped him raise his grades in theory beyond the job-description, thus caring, … and well, she is pretty and Jaune doesn't discriminate Faunus," Blake explained, almost proud of her friend.

Which is kinda sad, being proud of not discriminating.

"Wait, this doesn't explain Wife Material, her Powerful Background, nor her Fighting Ability, while she is good at kicking Grimm from what we saw on the breach, she is not the best since as doesn't even use a weapon or semblance." Yang intervened.

"Velvet's mother owns a high-class coffee shop here on Vale, the 'Meg's Confectionery' That by way, Jaune had to pay you and Sun's order, Blake, since you guys dine-and-dashed!" Ruby glared at Blake, who had the decency to blush, probably recalling her rush towards the docks after hearing that the White Fang may attack it

"Well, it is similar to Jaune's mother that owns a restaurant, maybe he thinks that is enough to be considered a powerful and rich background?" Ruby answered from behind Yang, with Yang and Nora nodding in agreement.

"Wait, how do you know about Jaune's family?!" Pyrrha asked, almost hysterically – darn, the girl looks almost on the verge of breaking down.

"No, wait, how in the name of the Hight Spirits, why being the owner of a restaurant considered a powerful background?" Blake interceded.

"I asked, duh – and well, cooks are scary since they can fight using wooden spoons! The better the cook the better their skills using kitchen things as weapons! I was told that when mom was alive, she beat dad and uncle Qrow with a spatula when they tried to steal some food while she was cooking" Ruby easily answered, smiling at the pained and frightened faces they made when as they told stories about Summer.

"And the cafeteria ladies can and will beat you half-to-death if you are caught stealing food! Even when they don't have aura unlocked!" Nora happily said, making everyone to give her worried glances.

"She is exaggerating… the cooks do have aura unlocked," Ren said, making people worried for the wrong reasons, "most of the kitchen staff are retired Huntsmen if you didn't notice, and of those, most being Beacon alumni themselves…"

"How do you know that?"

"I asked… how they were able to subdue Nora after denying her pancakes."

Silence greeted them, that's it, till Jaune spoke.

"Vel's dad… Will, Willian? Willson…, discovered how to syn-the-something Hard-Light Dust so he is a big… big person in Atleasian Mili-soldiers, Vel is also crazy strong… like, her weapon and semblance are so strong that professor Goodwitch told her to focus on unarmed combat. And even then, she is great at that! Her kicks are so strong they can even… even… Wow, I didn't know that the color blue smelled like water…" Jaune muttered, his attention spawn becoming even smaller as the sleep-inducing drugs and his exhaustion are starting to win.

But his friends ignored the recent weird comments, through only Nora appeared to nod in understanding. Guess only the crazy can understand the mad.

"Whoa! Hard-Light Dust is flucking hard to find on nature, and synthetic Hard-Light is something crazy-new, though still in the experimental stages it is hard to use with aura… so that's what Velvet's weapon does… Anesidora – Sender of Gifts indeed… I thought it became a machine-gun or something like that, like Coco's Gianduja, but if uses Hard-Light… then her Aura Control and Dust Manipulation must be good to use that unstable Dust mixture, and since Hard-Light Dust is extremely expensive and generally only Military personnel can access it… ah, that explains her powerful background and being rich!" Ruby excitedly said before she started to mutter to herself what kind of weapon it was.

Indeed, from what Ruby had seen, only Weiss uses Hard-light Dust on her arsenal amongst their friends and students, maybe only the Scary Deputy Headmistress use the Hard-Light Dust as well, or the other students are keeping it secret for the tournament.

"What kind of weapon and semblance she has?" the Champion asked, with a touch of challenge on her voice, the only reason she wasn't armed is thanks to Nora and Ren holding Pyrrha's arms from reaching her back where she puts her weapons.

"Se~~cret! Velvet is a friend~ and she asked to remain a secret~~" Jaune giggled and almost fell forward if wasn't for the straps holding him in place.

"Not even to your partner? Didn't you say that I am family to you? Would you lie to your family Jaune?" Pyrrha… no, the Champion still said in an innocent tone, through Ruby found it weird her instant change.

"No… but… I promised her Pyr…" Jaune whined, now acting like a spoiled child.

"Jaune, she is not blackmailing you, right? and didn't you promise to stop keeping secrets? Aren't we partners?" the Pyrrha Nikos pressed now in a caring and worried tone, but the weird undertone on her voice made Ruby squeamish, but the Pyrrha Nikos was just worried, right? plus, scoping other's weapons and semblance is something all good Huntsmen do, Weiss said so, and the Mistral Champion is a good Huntress for winning four times in a roll, right?

"Whoa, she is crazy good in interrogations." Yang faux-whispered to Blake. Making Ruby frown.

"No! Vel wouldn't, but is a secret and I gave my word to keep it…"

"Jaune, please…" The Champion started, through Ren grabbed her shoulder.

"Your bitterness is showing Pyrrha, don't make our leader break his word, you know how important these are to him." Pyrrha pouted, her mask off.

"Sorry! I…I was just… for the first time I had someone that saw me for who I was, that I was comfortable with, and now some, some other bitch appears taking what is mine, what I have, making me lonely again, and I just… I just hate this feeling, and I hate that I can't just fight and punch to win my prize." Pyrrha sighed.

Ren nodded, as if he understood the feeling, he was looking at Nora who was worriedly caressing her teammate and friend's back, missing his look, Ruby questioned how Ren and Nora aren't a couple yet – the gaze he gave Nora, well, even her, socially-awkward Ruby Rose, understood the weight and the feelings it carried!

"Jaune… why didn't you choose Pyrrha?" Blake finally asked.

"Because… because Pyrrha doesn't know how to cook or clean or take care of children… like," he looked left and right, before making the motion to whisper to Blake, putting his hand near his mouth as if it would block the sound to go to that direction, only, he spoke on his normal voice rending all this whispering act… an act. "she managed to burn microwave popcorn and puts milk before cereal… and there is a reason why only me and Ren that clean the room, Pyrrha genuinely thought that putting dirt under the carpet is a cleaning technique... then there was that incident when a mother gave her baby to Pyrrha to carry and she-" suddenly Jaune covered his mouth, then muttered that he promised the keep a secret.

This made everyone quiet, giving weird looks to Pyrrha that had her face matching her hair, as she muttered that her childhood morning cartoons lied to her.

"Hoh, Vomit Boy, are you telling me that the job of a Woman is to cook and take care of the kids?" Yang said, and well, from the way he said it… everyone gave gazes of disappointment to the Jaune in a wheelchair.

"Nah, if I thought like that I would be beaten by all my sisters…" he nonchalantly waved his hand. "It's just that… well, parents, both parents, need to know how to take care of the house and children regardless… its not a one person's duty, it's not a gender thing, and is not something you can just tank it… else, when that one person that knows is… busy, and the one that remains is incapable… its the children that will have to raise themselves…"

Yang's fury disappeared, like a matchstick easy to ignite and easy to blow out, and with a sigh, her Big Sis exhaled all her fury – somewhat literally, since Yang's previously glowing hair and red eyes went away as her sigh carried literal heat haze – Yang then continued pushing Jaune forwards putting an end on the discussion while carrying with a gentle and sad visage.

"You are right, Jaune, you are right…" Yang said, more to herself than to anyone else.

…

The group walked in silence, finally leaving Beacon's Garden, and now a simple walk to the dorms, the group had a lot to think about from the truths that were said.

Well, silence apart from Jaune that muttered something about having a bad feeling, something about Beacon's falling to the Grimm, White Fang, and Dragons… the poor Jaune was having heavy hallucinations since, well, Dragon's Grimm does not exist.

She knows, she searched in hopes of one day killing one and become the best Huntress ever, not even Wyverns are recorded.

Plus, the White Fang plans were foiled at The Breach incident, Torchwick was captured, and… pfff, Beacon failing to the Grimm is impossible, there are hundreds of students that are training to become Huntsmen, plus the exchange students, the staff, Atlas Military, and the likes of General Ironwood, Uncle Qrow, Professor Goodwitch, and Professor Ozpin.

Heck, people on the top 10 strongest are on Beacon grounds! Impossible to fall, and while Ruby doesn't know about General Ironwood, she knows that Uncle Qrow is strong. And while she is a Scary-Instructor, Glynda Goodwitch is an Rank-S7 Huntress with specialization in Dust Manipulation, ideal for laying waste on armies of Grimm, and Ozpin is a genius, the youngest headmaster to ever be appointed, he is the youngest Rank-SS8 that appeared in a hundred years – Ozpin is the strongest Huntsmen on Remnant.

Beacon Failing means Ozpin failed, and that's impossible.

…

As they finally reached the dormitories from the short 15 min walk, the previous red sky was already night.

"So, how do we carry Jaune upstairs?" Yang asked what Ruby was thinking, while using her semblance to go from the entrance to her bed with a single breath is possible, carrying someone is… hard, and with Jaune injured, they must be really careful to not make his injuries go bad-er.

"There is an elevator on the other side of the building," Blake said from the side.

"What? How did I not know that?" Ruby protested; she must have visited all parts of Beacon already!

"That's because it's for visitors, staff, or people without aura… I mean, for us Huntsman-in-training that can literally jump over houses, Jumping from a window is easier than walking to the elevators and use it, then walk to the dorms. The elevators are mainly used to carry heavy and large things like furniture or restocking the shared kitchens." Ren explained to the group.

When they looked over him, he just pointed to Nora.

It explained everything even if it didn't make sense, for example, why Ren knows how to handcraft parachutes? – Nora – why does he know how to play a Pan-flutes with his nose – Nora – why he can write using his feet – Nora.

Then everything is explained… huh, Jaune also has a myriad of skills because of his sisters, he must have a lot of sisters to have such variety.

"Well, Teams RWBY and JNPR here is our mission! We will escort our VIP to the elevators on the end of this floor, then when we reach the first floor we will have to escort Jaune to his bedroom, remember that in Beacon's dorms is quite common for people to go running around using their semblances and hitting people… erm, not that it happened to me! But well, Peach's classes about Dust thingy, just before the Vytal Tournament, was about making firework using what Dust you had for signal flares, and she let us use the Dust Fireworks for cheering in the tournament… through Team CRDL saw fit in hitting people's and it became a fun prank to do till someone that isn't me accidentally hit Coco after she said that her weapon was better than Crescent Rose… and, err, the left-wing of the dorms need to be repaired, so we should make a detour, with Blake and Ren scouting ahead, Nora and Ya-Pyrrha will play enforcers and prevent anyone from getting near Jaune. Yang will carry Jaune and I'll play intelligence slash sniper slash leader."

Everyone nodded with various degrees of grumbles and threats to those that try to touch their loveable goof VIP.

"Any questions?" Ruby asked.

"Yes!" Nora raised her hand "We are already on the first floor!"

"Eh? No, we are on the Ground Floor!" Ruby denied.

"Ruby, Ground Floor doesn't exist," Pyrrha said with all the care as if telling her that the tooth fairy didn't exist.

"Indeed, the first time I heard of it…" Ren said at the side.

"Hmm, that's something Vacuo and Vale say for the floor at the same level as the ground, their first floor starts on the second floor for those at the Mistral and Atlas," Blake mentioned off-handed.

"People from Vale are weird…we should use 'First Floor' since most of Teams RWBY and JNPR use it instead of a weird thing like Ground Floor," Nora declared as Ruby pouted.

"We are on Vale, so you guys will have to deal with it! Plus, both leaders are from Vale so our jargon counts!" Yang put an end to the discussion as Ruby sighed but decided to finish this fight for another time by making the teams focus on the mission.

"And remember! – if Jaune is hit by either a student running at full speed, a stray bullet, or by handmade Dust firework, or if Cardin puts him into a rocket locker again, he will be gravely injured, and may die." This made everyone narrow their eyes, and Ruby is sure that they are realizing how dangerous for someone without Aura to enter a place filled with Huntsman-in-training with raging hormones that won't die from some standard field-mines.

'A shame Weiss and Jaune aren't available as well… to escort Jaune, huh, well, Jaune is the best protector as he can hold off anyone in close quarters, and great in compilating all intelligence and use it to the best, while Weiss plays support in all areas. – they receive the best scores in protecting and escorting mission parameters.'

"If Cardin dares to try something… I will so break his everything!" Nora helpfully said what was on the mind of everyone.

"Break…metal legs…Yang… be careful of metal legs," Jaune commented to the side, shattering the serious mood.

"Don't worry Jaune, I'll take real good care of you." Yang caressed his blond hair absently minded enough to not even use a nickname, that's it, till the doors of the dorm exploded inwards, with Pyrrha Nikos holding an unconscious poor slob through the back of the neck.

"Let's hurry and put Jaune on his bed, then I can take care of him with Love and Respect – and protect from any other dangers to him." Pyrrha Nikos said, smiling politely but her eyes were glued on the hand touching Jaune's hair.

This made Yang smirk as she now used both her hands to do that.

Ruby sighed. Pyrrha is a nice girl, helpful in homework and aiding her in fighting or even visiting Vale, she is friendly and always patient with her, but Jealous-Pyrrha is annoying, on the levels of Angry-Yang, Brooding-Blake, Caffeine-Nora, Sloth-Ren, Depressed-Jaune, and Bitchy-Weiss levels.

Thankfully, she, Ruby Rose extraordinary… with normal knees! is perfect always, her only real problem is being too cute, so Ruby must help her problematic friends!

"Okay, don't worry Vomit Boy, your mother will take care of you real soon~~"

Ruby sighed again.

Red Eyes observed the broken infirmary, the smell of blood, pain, and fear still lingering as its sole occupant was peacefully lying on the bed, sleeping as both its legs are resting on casts; Supposedly, He-who-loves-us broke the shit-with-blue-hair's legs.

'See, He-who-loves-us protected us, he fought and bleed for our happiness and honor, punishing the piece-of-shit-son-of-a-whore one that causes us pain.' she 'talked' to the lesser part of her.

'Excuse-me!? That- you are my Semblance! You are just an aberration, an evil spirit that needs to be abolished to the deeps of Tartarus you came from! And why are you even calling Jaune this way? It is creepy.' the annoying occupant replied.

'You are not excused, you have no right to call He-who-love-us by his name, you caused him pain, you do not deserve his love… but you are correct in your analysis of I using an unusual form of showing affection, 'He-who-love-us' is a title that may slow our process of producing offspring… darling, He-who-love-us is our Darling, My Darling.'

Ignoring the permanent headache in the form of a Prissy-Heiress – a side effect of being property summoned instead of breaking free on her own – she was glad she was summoned properly, as it granted her something beyond instincts, knowledge, and desires: she has a personality now.

Not-Weiss, as she called herself, locked her scarlet blood eyes on the injured creature in a cast.

Her darling was too kind, too gentle, like a divine light, like an angel - he only beat the shit-stain enough to break its legs… the punishment to break her heart, even if it was only the Prissy-Princess that suffered, was having the heart, broken literally.

If only Prissy-Princess was smarter, having such poor judgment of character… instead of judging everyone through first impressions.

'I am not a poor judge of character you barbarian!'

'Yes, you are. Tell me, who wanted to overthrow the leadership of her team? Who saw a Faunus and though they were White Fang? Who was the retarded spoiled princess that though My Darling was a gold digger even when he didn't even know our name? who was the one that lost the opportunity to not be alone and be loved, but instead selected the thing that gave the signs of being unfaithful?'

'I… I am not… I am not like that anymore! I respect Ruby and want to have more than mere friendship with Jaune. Also, please do not kill Vasilias, as much as I hate him, I do not desire his death, nor be the cause of it! Do you know how many problems this would bring?! Through denying he is even a person is…momentarily agreeable.'

'Tsk, how about just killing it a little?'

'No! Argh! We should see Jaune, he is not on the infirmary as Winter said – go find Jaune and forget about killing Vasilias! Rather, go to Winter and ask for help to get Jaune, I am sure she will want to help you.'

'Winter does not have a mate even when her physical appearance, background, and financial status are great – meaning, she sucks in getting laid, and not in the good way.'

'Why are you so… so crass?! Sometimes you are a robot without emotions, and the other you are a vulgar bitch! – Nevermind, Vasilias is not worth it, and as much as I will certainly regret in the future, go search for Jaune and declare your undying love or whatever. Jaune became injured because of us- me, because of me, so we need to say thanks… and I trust him, and I know of his personality enough to know that he won't take advantage of me…you, us! And he will surely call Winter for aid, yes, Jaune is safe, go find Jaune and try to not kill anyone while doing it! Nor try to seem as me!'

The Not-Weiss nodded, punishing the shit-stain is a lower priority than making sure her Darling is alright, that's the reason she came to the infirmary in the first place.

She also… rolled her eyes, yes, rolled her eyes when the Prissy-Princess though she couldn't see the plan to make Winter cancel the summoning. They were one, they had the same soul and memories, but their experiences were different, they even had different Aura colors – Not like what she had was Aura in the first place – it wasn't only their minds that became divided when her semblance awakened.

Not-Weiss' Blood-Red Eyes glowed in the dark, and without difficulty, she found the bed her darling was laying on. Even if the time he was laying there is short, she can sense his light, his warmth. His love.

'Why do you even know the smell of Jaune?! You've been given control for less than half-an-hour!'

Prissy-Princess is stupid, Not-Weiss can smell emotions, she can smell negative and positive emotions, she can smell love and affection. Always has been, even when she was it. She can smell the rage and anger emanating from the blue-shit-stain, that didn't come from blue-shit-stain.

Her Darling was angry for her, his anger was on the blue-shit-stain wounds. Anger generally disgust her, it makes her wild side rage in hopes of destroying the source… but this anger was righteous, it was negative but in a good way.

She loved it. Because it was for her.

Her Darling was on this bed, she could sense it, his pain, his love, his sweat, and blood.

After a quick look around she found the clipboard strapped on the bed her Darling was – Weiss taking several electives was worth it, it seems, for she read the list of injuries and medicine applied on her darling while understanding its contents.

'Opiate painkillers? Rapier-wasp venom extract?! And even the Sap from Forever Fall… the drugs the nurse makes is handcrafted! I know Beacon is eccentric, be the teachers or the students, but I did not know even the staff had this problem!'

'Not normal painkiller drug either, I smell Dust infused in the medicine… no, it seems more natural… as if… Dust-variant Opium? Fuck! This should make a hell of Morphine, this is Military level shit, not something a mere nurse should be able to access!'

'And the only active military in Remnant is… Atlas.'

'Nevermind that, we can't punish the nurse… but we can punish the source!'

The one that caused all this problem – alone, and defenseless. No eyewitness… fragile and its Aura should be low as the new aura generate goes to its injuries…

'You can't kill him!'

'It caused Darling pain.'

'We will get in trouble! We will go to prison!'

'They can fucking try.'

'Jaune will be sad! And stop being crass!'

This stopped Not-Weiss to press Myrtenaster in her target's neck. But if the idea of being crass angered Prissy-princess, then she will be as crass as fucking possible.

'Explain…' right, crass… 'Explain why the fuck I shouldn't ram Myrtenaster on its used asshole and freeze it from inside out.' Ah. Better, Prissy-Princess dislikes it. Good.

'Jaune is a good person, he will be sad if we get in trouble, and if we get in prison,' 'we won't' '-If we get expelled, then we cannot be huntress with Jaune… Jaune wants to be a huntsman, you will not do something that will make him sad, right?'

Not-Weiss grumbled.

'Vasilias is not worth it, there are hundreds of guys like him… plus, Pyrrha likes Jaune, and he requires medical assistance, and after getting to help him he will answer her feelings, the romance books mother reads say it!'

Not-Weiss agreed, they are just insects not worth their Darling's time and effort, they don't need to get in trouble because of mere insects. Rather, the Nikos girl is the dangerous one… no 'Nikos' is too… nice, she doesn't deserve 'nice' for trying to take her Darling away from her.

A Bitch, yes, but there are many bitches out there… the Blond-one-with-big-tits call her Cereal Girl.

Thus, the new moniker should be similar enough, but not nice. Crass.

Cereal Bitch – yes, perfect. Reflets what and how she feels about the girl and is also personal enough to know whom she is talking about.

'Jaune is not an object.'

This made the Not-Weiss pause, indeed, she was acting like Jacques – no, this doesn't show any hate or disgust… a nickname is needed again, Jacques is an ass, thus he is called Jacqu-ass, yes, treating people as disposable or objects, as prizes to be won.

She will not act like that, indeed, Prissy-Princess also likes her Darling.

'I do not!... Well, I don't know!'

She lies to herself, hypocrite, that's her Gelé side speaking. Fuck Gelé.

'Grr – fine! I am interested in Jaune, but several things hold me back in giving myself to him.'

Idiotic, Cereal Bitch feelings matter not, the White Fang will perish the moment they try to lay their hands on Her… Their Darling.

But understandable hesitation, still idiotic, since they could lose the one that loves them forever – she will simply give herself to him, and become a couple.

'Argh, don't you have my memories?! How in the name of Tartarus did you get this… this slutty idea! Instead of falling for us… you, Jaune will get worried and think we are sick or mental!'

Nodding to herself, and ignoring the one whose idea of love and date is to fall for the charms of something that cheats-on her, and even leave it alive, the girl with black hair and red eyes left the premisses… however, a wicked idea came to her.

'As long as we don't get in trouble, then there is no problem.'

'Argh! Stop, don't you like Jaune? We should get out of here and make sure he is safe, if not, Ruby will probably use her semblance to grab him and throw on his room, and without Aura, all damage may prove fatal or permanent.'

Not-Weiss grumbled again, removing blood stains, making an alibi, and removing all evidence will take a lot of time and effort… and the idea of dirtying her weapon is not nice, yes, her weapon is perfect and will always be, like her, however leaving someone that caused her Darling problems unpunished is… not nice.

With a wave of her hand, a Glyph appeared, and not a regular Glyph, only those with strong and pure Schnee blood could manifest it, in the times of old, this was what differentiated those that either went to the main family or the branch families.

A Summoning Glyph, the Third and Final Glyph a Schnee can cast.

The First being the Motion Glyph, white in color, can be used to give motion to objects, giving upward motion at a slow but steady rate can make things fluctuate, making pseudo telekinesis or air platform. Together with Dust, can be used to throw Dust Projectiles like icicles, ice swords, Hard-light Dust missiles, or barriers.

The second, Elemental Glyphs, changing colors and appearance depending on the Dust used, these require a Schnee to craft their personal glyph color, appearance, and effect. Prissy Princess made few elemental Glyphs, and apart of the Ice Glyph that all Schnee must learn, the rest are either hardest to make, or the ones that are the most expensive Dust-wise.

- Ice Dust – Pale-Blue Snowflake – Barrier Formation Concept.

- Gravity Dust – Black Glyph Schnee Glyph – Gravity Change Concept.

- Electric Dust – Pale-Yellow Clock – Time Dilatation Concept.

There are several other Dust with properties and potential concept effects, but nooo, Prissy Princess must make the hardest Glyphs recorded because of her useless Gelé pride.

Well, she, Not-Weiss, can't use Motion Glyphs or Dust, because she doesn't have Aura, she is a summon, after all, a powerful, physical, and sexy summon, but still, a summoned being.

It doesn't mean she has no power, oh, she has, and quite a lot, but it uses a resource that is a pain to replenish, she was always starved and hungry, but after entering this academy with hormonal teenagers with their souls free from their bodies, battling the creatures of pure energy – energy that she can feed on and use to increase her reserves.

Well, she is still not sated, her storage is gigantic unlike Prissy-Princess Aura Tank size, but enough to perform some minor feats – feats that Prissy Princess will never be able to accomplish, as much she would want to.

She drawled on her reserves, her essence, the energy her body is made off, a power that is Aura, but not Aura, that is Grimm, but not Grimm.

She felt herself diminish, however slightly, as she formed a Glyph, the Summoning Glyph.

Only, this one was pitch black instead of ice white.

From the glyph an armored arm came forth, black as night yet gently glowing as stars, translucent as ice and cold as snow, and slowly, the glyph enlarged and from it, a small Weiss-sized black knight came forth.

'Arma Gigas… You! That's my semblance! How can you use semblances if you are a Grimm!'

"Tsk, are you dumb or what? I am your semblance, you fucking know it as well as I know it, ice-cunt, stop denying yourself and acting like a retard just because you are too afraid and insecure to admit. I am your Summoning Glyph manifested and given form, so obviously, I can create the Summoning without Aura." Not-Weiss said out loud, unlike snow-white that is just a mental annoyance.

'But that is impossible, no Semblance is that strong, there are no metamorphic semblances recorded, and while side-effects like Yang's are rare it is mainly because she is storing Kinect energy in her hair, and her eyes become red due to the concept and manifestation of 'Anger' and 'Power' – even the Schnee Semblance does not possess such power, only making our hair white due to metaphysical-genetics… and even Summoning-specialized Semblances or even Familiar-Summoning semblances cannot do what you… what you are – no, you are not just a Semblance, you are the Grimm, the Chill that tried to possess me when I was a fetus!'

'Duh, what gave me away? Perhaps the Hair black as ebony or was my blood-red lips? Maybe… maybe it was the fact that I have fucking glowing Grimm-Red eyes? Unnatural Bone-white skin? … or Maybe the fact that I have a bigger rack and ass than you?!' She shouted mentally since if the nurse or someone comes and discover what she is doing, her encounter with her Darling would be delayed.

'Argh! You are so infuriating! And we are of the same size and height you dunce!'

'We are of the same height, yes. but you are wearing heels, and I, classy combat boots, meaning, my ass is this nice shapely naturally and not due to high-heels, it doesn't appear bigger, it is bigger, my tits are large enough for Darling to cup a feel, with his large, strong hands, but small enough to not be a problem in battle, nor, more importantly, make me lose the fey-like beauty Darling love on us.'

'You… you can change your form?! Not even the Grimm can do that!'

' 'Course they can, depending on their age power Grimm grow stronger – maybe if you paid attention to class instead of getting all-snoopy at other's you'd know, through I just changed your fat-ass into height, booty, and boobs.'

'I-I am not fat! I will have you know that my weight is perfectly balanced and ensured by the best chefs and doctors of Atlas!'

'Pfff, say that to the cake butler without blushing, damn hypocrite. – I am prettier than you, taller than you, sexier than you, plus, I am stronger than you as well, I beat the two Arma Gigas without Aura nor Dust!'

'W-Well, I was fighting the Three of them at the same time, and even managed to kill the sword-wielder – you just killed their weakened forms! And the mace wielder and the spearman were weaker! And, and… and Jaune finds me perfect! Not you, fake!'

'Yeah, right, whatever lets you sleep at night.' Not-Weiss growled at Weiss.

'I can feel it, you are afraid that Jaune will fear you, hate you; well, he should. You are a Monster, and he is a Huntsman that wants to be a hero. You forget that we share the same body, the same knowledge. You did manage to make me distraught, for a measly, inconsequential moment, but your increase in height and… embellishment came from the Grimm part of you, they are your black slime of a body, the ugly bone-mask, and disgusting exoskeleton changed forms. In truth, your true form is a 'me' with Grimm's eyes, black hair and pale skin, an ugly bone-mask with a gigantic horn on your forehead, and disgusting bone spikes coming from your spine and internal bones forming claws, like a monster, like a Grimm, like a FREAK.'

'Pff, I know what I am, ice-cunt, you mistake Memories for Experience if you think this bothers me; I am majestic enough to admit that Darling not loving me is distressing, but I do not fear, for I am perfection, and since Darling can even love an arrogant-prick, ice-cold bitchy, close-minded racist, superficial personality and ignorant fat, weak spoiled, and imperfect little-being like you, that treat him lower than dirt. Then, for him loving me, that is fucking perfection, and not afraid of showing how much I love him… well, it's obvious how this would end up. My Arc-angel… is too good-hearted to do something like you would. Darling is too good for you.'

With the annoyance silenced, she walked to the windows and looked at the results – all windows were open. If the nurse comes, she will only see the patient covered in the blanket, and the divisor between patients will prevent her from seeing the open windows, thus think that everything is in order and retreat to her room.

The current ambient temperature is ideal for the infirmary room, making one think that the air-conditioning is on – which is in the fan mode – but as night falls the temperature will drop sharply, a shame the patient is only covered with a single sheet for a blanket instead of the several he had earlier. Oops.

As her annoying headache started to pulse, she simply answered.

"Tsk, it's not even that cold, nothing compared to what we were made to endure as punishment for not being able to kill Jacqu-ass. Also, I am mainly doing it for the mosquitos, Beacon is around the Emerald Forest and there is a freaking Garden at the side, so obviously there is a fuck-ton of bloodsucking suckers, and if you paid attention to classes, you'd know that mosquitos and insects can bite through aura as long they stay on your skin for a long time without being noticed – if we are lucky, one will plant their eggs inside this thing's ears."

She felt it, Weiss wincing at the memories of the punishments, and she also cursed as the memories of several doctors and scientists making questions, and drawing samples of her body, and making invasive examinations without anesthesia since they don't want to spoil the results, flagged her mind.

"If he dies, he fucking dies! If the nurse gets fired, then it's not my fucking problem! And maybe they will contract someone that is not a fucking sadist."

Not-Weiss sighed, really, even if that Tanuki-Faunus is a good doctor with a Semblance that can be used for medical examinations, the headmaster obviously lets her and her fetish alone as long she accepts to work as a military doctor and accept nurse-wage;

'Stop adding 'fuck' between two words in hopes of making it bitchy or crass, or for the love of God, Edge, it simply makes you sound like a petulant child trying to imitate an adult, and falling terribly!'

"Fuck You!"

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Author's Notes.

Arkos and Pyrrha's fans, before cussing me openly or through PM, please read the notes. Then you can cuss me.

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My goal for character development is for them (my characters) to acknowledge their faults and growing from it. And suffering consequences for their action it's like some writers have a fetish for strong women with borderline-stalker levels of curiosity and interest over personal and private information, and find that girls that beat boys a running gag, and the main character forgives them even if he is innocent… but when he does something he needs an entire character art to be forgiven.

I mean:

'Her smile didn't reach her eyes, as the hand on Jaune's shoulder tightened and made cracking sounds,

- P-Pyrrha?! – He asks, wincing at the pain,

- Yes, Jaune – Pyrrha replies sweetly, but Jaune almost pisses himself in fear,

- A-are you angry? – He asks the dreaded question,

- No Jaune… but you wanted to learn how to fight Grimm, so today our training will be extra-hard – she replies, making Jaune whimper.'

That's a little scene that I just wrote from memory, but I swear I saw it plenty of times on Arko's fics, and maybe some of the Dragonslayer ones. and if you change their roles, then it's a tad creepy depending on how it was written.

And since I am using Fandom Characters… well, that's what a Jealous!Pyrrha based on Fandom!Pyrrha would do.

This appears on several fictions with StrongGirls+StrongPersonality and usually found on Harem animes with a clueless MC and a girl that likes him but is too shy to say it and she is a tsundere and hits the Mc from time to time because it's funny… not.

Yeah, I don't think it's funny. Scenes were the male lead open the door to his room, it's unlocked, and see a girl changing, and even if is her fault, he gets beaten up and labeled as a pervert.

If is the opposite, the girl opens the door, the guy is naked, the guy is a pervert.

Fuck, is like some guys have the fetish of getting treated like shit, or being beaten by girls, or physically or sexually assaulted by the opposite gender. This is not girls having an attitude or being confident; a poised girl, is a girl that asks a guy out or being the one that pushes him into the wall before making out or does the kabedon, this is hot, I admit, and like most of the things, the difference between sexual assault and flirting depends if the person is good looking or not. Sexual Attraction is part of it after all.

As a rule of thumb, if you change the genders and it becomes creepy, then the scene is creepy regardless, it is sexual assault, then is fucking sexual assault! Having someone masturbate as they smell the smelly smell of their crush, it is fucking weird, unless the other party finds if agreeable, then is weird fucking, and watching one changing clothes or showering, without consent, is a crime, and grabbing someone's balls is a sexual assault (hear that, Yang?).

I don't know why some think this is sexy, humorous, or endearing – will this happen on my fic? probably, will it have consequences, obviously. Jaune wasn't being sexy or flirt, he was being a creep to Weiss… depending on what you guessed he did off-screen, he did ask her out for two semesters, to a total of 3 times on-screen I think.

I'll try to break tropes like those, or make satire – one idea, for one-shoot, was Yang punching Jaune after Ruby kissed him, something that appeared on several Lancaster stories, and Yang threatening people with physical violence seems to be well used on the Fandom as some form of gag, even if is brutish and resembles a bully, however, in this one-shot, this happened after Jaune trained with Pyrrha and thus his aura was on the red after being broken.

The result: brain matter splashed on the walls. End.

But, this trope of Yang losing her senses and fucking-up due to her anger, appear in a lot of stories, 'One Night Brand', 'Shattered Dream, Broken Soul', 'Not This Time Fate (partially)', 'Service with a Smile', 'Jaune Xiong: Jaune vs Yang' by DAM1994's Tumblr post, 'Anger Management' and so on.

However, few people dare to make Pyrrha do it. On Vol.3 she sent Jaune flying with her semblance, making him crash against the wall, granted she was distressed in losing her life and identity and the love of her life just said to her to sacrifice herself and I am feeling like an ass now for making Pyrrha the target of the anger … but she still did it.

From memory, the only fic I saw that Pyrrha using physical violence had repercussions was 'A Man of No Tribe' and 'Tournament Arc'.

But Pyrrha, and to a lesser extend other girls, getting physical with others is a common troupe on the Jealous-Humor genre of and WritingPromptWednesday, things like beating girls that like Jaune/TheirOTP, sending death glares to competition, using her semblance to annoy/injury girls/guys that say they are interested. Well, I don't find it cute most of the time, some are endearing and I completely agree, but some are borderline creepy, like the idea that if someone dates Jaune they need to fight Jealous!Pyrrha as retaliation. As if Jaune belongs to her, something most Reaction's Fics with Harem!Jaune does.

Weiss doesn't belong to Jaune as the people that want him killed so kindly reminded us, Ruby is her own person, not Yang's, and Jaune doesn't belong to Pyrrha, this is a lesson she, and Bleiss, will have to learn.

My impression of Jaune is that he is more feminine than the girls of team RWBY and JNPR, something like a man with the spirit of a woman? Well, due to living with 7 sisters he was groomed into something like a feminine protagonist that isn't the protagonist, and the Fandom says that Jaune has a girlish scream and is the ideal housewife, so, I plan to make Pyrrha and Jaune interaction more like Male!Pyrrha trying to act like a girl, and Female!Jaune trying to act like a man or something like that.

Hell, my Headcannon is that on Team JNPR, Jaune and Ren are the only ones that don't snore, can do housework, and make edible food. They are like, the feminine stereotypes of the team, with glorious hair, a healthy diet, and knowing how to dance.

While Pyrrha and Nora are the stereotypes of guys of the team, loving workout, adrenaline, having a good brawl, eating red meat, and I can easily imagine Nora bragging that she can fart and burp the loudest, participating in eating competitions and whatnot.

Jaune trying, and failing, to act as a suave young man and alpha-Male was him trying to not be who he became, Source: Dudetrustme and Jaune Amity Arena card.

And I plan to focus on those on my fic.

Question: do people even read the Author's notes? I generally skip them if they are long-ass ones like mine are. (Edit: Yeah people read, guess I'll start to reward those that do it? Like… huh, inside info? Yeah, seems fair. So, secret! Chapter 02 is halfway done, but I'll only post it after I finish writing Chapter 03 and proofread everything)

Inside Info2! I put 'spoilers' below because I had no idea who to put as an example.

Rank doesn't involve things like Experience, Wisdom, Intelligence, Experience, Dust, Semblances, Plot-Armor, Real-Armor-Not-Bronze-Corset, Sex Appeal, Weapons, Rare/HighGrade Dust, Money, Influence, High-grade explosives, Magic, 'Magic', Divinity, Relics, Grimm, Mutations, Willpower, Luck, Genes, and Anatomy.

0. - - Recruit – Civilians – anyone without aura regardless of combat exp.

1. F - Grunt – Primary Combat School – Jaune's start here. Atlesian Knights.

2. E - Second Lieutenant – First Year Beacon

3. D - First Lieutenant – Second/Third Year Beacon. – Banesaw.

4. C - Captain – Fourth Year Beacon/Average Huntsmen.

5. B - Major – Veteran Huntsmen/Specialist – Adam/Winter/Neo

6. A - Lieutenant Colonel – Ace Ops/Watts/Cinder/

7. S - Colonel – Qrow/Glynda/Raven/Clover/Tyrian/Ironwood/Hazel.

8. SS - General – Summer Rose/Ozpin

9. SSS - Warlord – Spoilers

10. Omega – Wargod – Spoilers.

By the way, what I want and what I do are different things, if you guys think I am being too biased please tell, since I am a WhiteKnight fan there will be bias towards Weiss and Jaune, even if I try to make it neutral.