Hello everyone. I wanted to say sorry for being so long on my last chapter, so I made this one to make up for it. I hope you enjoy.
-A few weeks Later- Team JNPR's Room-
"Why is Jaune getting home so late?" Nora asked as she kept jumping up and down on her bed.
"He's become scarce ever since he began fraternizing with Cardin." Ren added as he was cleaning his weapons.
"That's weird." Nora said. "Doesn't he know we have a field trip tomorrow? We need our rest!" She flipped around a few times in the air and landed on her back on her bed.
"I'm sure our leader knows exactly what he's doing." Pyrrha said as she stared out the window. The other two looked at each other. "Hmmmmm, I guess so." Nora said.
They were all unaware that Jaune was about to walk in and heard everything through the crack in the door; he closed it after he heard Nora again. He felt awful for being untruthful with his team and not being there with them. He leaned against the wall and slid down to the floor with his arms on his knees and his head in his arms.
"Hey, Jaune." Ruby said, making him look up from his spot on the ground. "Long time, no see. You didn't lock yourself out again, did you?"
"No." Jaune answered immediately.
Izuku was walking down the hall to his dorm next to theirs, but then he saw Jaune with his face lost and sad and his posture depressed. Izuku knew that face well, because he was in that position well throughout his life. Ruby had probably seen it too and was there to cheer him up. He thought he should give her a hand.
"Hey Ruby. Hey, Jaune. Why are you just sitting here? Did you get locked out again? I mean your door seems open to me." Izuku tried breaking the tension.
"That's what I asked." Ruby clarified.
"N-nope! I got it!" Jaune pulled out his scroll, remembering one of his embarrassing moments since coming to this school. And the ones before that. And the days he failed his fathers training. And the time his older sisters used him for…
Ugh, he kept going deeper into the rabbit hole that was his depressing and embarrassing moments in life.
"So... where have you been lately?" Ruby asked.
"Yeah, your team misses their leader. And we miss our friend." Izuku said.
"I-" Jaune sighed as looked up at the silver eyed leader and green haired faunas. "I messed up. I did something I shouldn't have," He remembered the sad look on Pyrrha's face after he yelled at her "said somethings I shouldn't have, and now Cardin's got me on a leash and Pyrrha won't even talk to me. I'm starting to think coming to this school was a bad idea." He brought his face down into his arms again. "I'm a failure."
Izuku looked down at Jaune with a look of sympathy. He knew all about being labeled a failure and feeling worthless. Being mistreated by your peers. Never thinking things might get better.
"Nope." Ruby said.
Jaune brought his arms away from his face and looked up at Ruby. "What?" He asked back.
"Nope." She repeated and sat down next to him. "You and I are leaders now, Jaune. You and I are not allowed to be failures."
"Yeah Jaune. You made a mistake. So what?" Izuku sat down on his other side. "And if you need help with Cardin than you can ask your team. They are there for you and as their leader you need to be there for them."
"But what if I'm a failure at being a leader for them?" He asked.
"Nope. No can do there Jaune." Ruby said. "Maybe you were a failure when you were a kid. You might have even been a failure the first day we met." He slumped at both claims made by Ruby. "But you can't be one, now. You know why?"
"I don't know... why?" He asked.
"Because it's not just about you anymore." She explained. "You've got a team now, Jaune. We both do, and if we fail them, then we'll just be bringing them down with us."
"And if you think you're not good enough and if you are afraid you won't be enough, then work ten times harder than everyone else to be a better leader. Learn who they are. Put your trust in your team and they will put the same trust in you." Izuku threw in his words of comfort too.
"Put your teammates first and yourself second." Ruby said.
Jaune took all of this in. He had trusted his team, he would trust each one of them with his life, but he wasn't giving them any reason to trust him with theirs. He knew what he had to do, but he still needed to get past the whole ordeal with Cardin. He would confront him tomorrow he thought.
"I... think I get it now. Thanks' you guys. I got an idea of what I need to do to make things right." Jaune said as he stood up smiling.
"I'm just glad we could help. Just do what you know needs to be done. Good night you too." Izuku stood up and went to his dorm room.
"It's weird how he can go from shy to awesome in a few short moments isn't it?" Ruby said as she got up too.
"Yeah. But I needed it. Thanks again." Jaune looked from Izuku's back to Ruby.
Ruby smiled back at him. "No problem. Your team deserves a great leader, Jaune. And I have doubt in my mind when I say I think that can be you." Ruby walked to her room and opened the door before stepping while looking at him. "Good night."
He turned around to head to his door and his Scroll beeped. He opened it and it showed a picture of Cardin and notified he got a message from him. He was about to press a button to listen to it when he thought about the conversation he just had. He closed his scroll and smiled as he headed in to his room with his team.
-TOTM's room-
Izuku walked into his team's room and his teammates were already in their pajamas. "Midoriya, what are you doing so late. Curfew past three minutes." Tenya chastised his teammates lateness.
"Sorry. I saw Ruby and Jaune in the hallway and it looked like he could use he could use some encouragement." Izuku apologized and explained where he'd been.
"Well, I'm glad you did. He has been looking awful ever since hanging with Cardin and his lackeys." Tsuyu said underneath her covers in her frog onesie.
"Yeah. Should we tell a teacher." Ochako asked worried for her friend.
"We should, but right now we need to get some sleep. We have an important field trip tomorrow with a graded assignment." Tenya said getting into bed, taking off his glasses and turning off the light next to his bed. "Good night everyone."
"Good night, ribbit." Tsuyu croaked.
"Good night." Ochako was again out like a light with the ever-same bubble expanding from her nose.
Izuku just smiled at his teammates before grabbing his own PJs and changing in the shared bathroom. He tucked himself in and again smiled. "Good night." And with that he was carried into the soothing arms and hands of unconsciousness and dreams.
-The Next Day - Forest of Forever Fall-
The Forest of Forever fall was a forest that embodied the color red. The leaves were red, the grass was red, if they dug in the ground it would probably be red. The whole point of being here was to get red tree sap. Glynda lead teams RWBY, JNPR, TOTM, SMKE, and CRDL through the red leafed woods and they were clearly enjoying the view. "Yes, the Forest of Forever Fall is quite beautiful, but we aren't here for sightseeing. Professor Peach has asked all of you to collect her samples from the trees deep in the forest, and I'm here to make sure none of you die while doing so."
Jaune was carrying the collecting equipment and jars and he bumped into Cardin. Cardin turned around and growled at him and Jaune avoided eye contact. "Each of you will gather one jar's worth of red sap." The teacher continued, holding an example up for all to see. "However, this forest is full of the creatures of Grimm, so be sure to stay by your teammates. No isolation allowed. We will rendezvous back here at four o'clock."
"Come on, buddy. Let's go." Cardin said as he grabbed Jaune. Jaune took one last look at his team walking into the forest, Pyrrha meeting his gaze while Ren and Nora opted to instead go into the forest early and get the assignment done ahead of time. Jaune hung his head a bit low while following Cardin and the others on his team into a different part of the forest. Pyrrha sighed as she followed Ren and Nora.
Izuku saw it too and he was hoping Jaune remembered the talk from last night. "Deku?" He turned around and faced Ochako. "Are you okay?"
"Yea, I'm fine. Just a little worried for Jaune. Wish I could do more for him." He said looking to the spot Jaune and Team CRDL disappeared. Ochako saw where he was looking and turned to tell Ms. Goodwitch, but she was gone. She wanted to say something to cheer him up.
"Well, I've never tried using my semblance to send someone into space before. Maybe Jaune can give me permission to throw Cardin into a galaxy far, far away." She tried the first time to cheer him up.
Izuku thought it was pretty morbid of his friend to say that, but he couldn't help the small chuckle that climbed itself out his throat.
"I think he might not want to go that far." Izuku said.
"Ribbit. Guys come on. We are getting a grade for this." Tsuyu bluntly joined in the conversation before walking off.
"Indeed, we will tell Ms. Goodwitch of Jaune's condition by the end of this fieldtrip." Tenya assured them and beckoned to get a move on.
Izuku and Ochako smiled at each other and went off after Tenya and Tsuyu.
-With Jaune and CRDL-
Cardin's team just laid down and around the ground and trees lazily as Jaune collected the sap seven times. He brought the jars over and put them down before dropping to the ground.
"Great work, Jaune-y boy." Cardin said. "Now that wasn't too hard, was it?"
"I think I'm allergic to this stuff." Jaune said. Looking ready to throw up with his eyes crossed.
"Great, great, great." Cardin said as he stood over him. "So, Jaune, I bet you're wondering why your buddy asked you to collect seven jars of the sap when there's only five of us here?"
"That is one of the many questions I've asked myself today, yes." Jaune answered.
"Well, come with me and I'll show you." Cardin smirked as he and his team walked over to a hill. Jaune followed and looked over. Ren was filling up a jar when he turned around and saw Nora burping after drinking a whole jar. He gave her a disappointed glare and she gave a nervous laugh. Tenya and his team were closer by working on two trees across from Pyrrha and the members of team SMKE. Tsuyu was having a nice conversation with Ochako and Izuku while Tenya was dutifully filling up several jars of the tree sap. Bakugo was angrily stabbing into the tree with a spout and his team just sweatdropped at his antics.
"Cardin, what's going on?" The blonde asked.
"Payback." The bully answered as he eyed the redhead and the Heir as they gathered sap.
"Pyrrha? Iida?" Jaune asked. "What are-
"There they are." Cardin interrupted. "Little miss Know-It-All, and Mister Goody-Two-Shoes. Alright boys, last night, I managed to round up an entire box fill of Rapier wasps because Jaune was to cool to do it." He said as he pulled a box out of his bag. "And now we're going to put them to work."
"Now, according to one of the essays you wrote for me last week, these nasty things love sweets. I'm thinking it's time we teach them a thing or two." His team stood up before he pulled Jaune up and shoved one of the two jars of the sap into his hands. "And you're the one who's gonna do it."
"Do what?" Jaune asked.
"Hit them both with the sap!" Cardin ordered. "Either that, or I'll have a little chat with Professor Goodwitch, and you'll be on the first airship out of Beacon."
Jaune looked down at the jars in his hands before looking up at Cardin and his team. He turned and prepared to throw the sap.
You and I are not allowed to be failures anymore. Jaune's body froze.
Put your trust in your team and they will put the same trust in you. Jaune lowered his arm and it was shaking violently.
Put your teammates first and yourself second. His friend's words turning themselves into courage. "No." He said eerily calm.
"What was that?" Cardin asked dangerously.
"I..." Jaune hand glowed white as he gripped the jar with such force that it began to crack all along the surface.
"said... NO!" Jaune spun around and threw the jar at Cardin, somehow sending him back a good distance back. Jaune just saw this and was backing at the sight of Cardin's angry face.
"Ha ha, oh now you've done it." Cardin said as his teammates grabbed Jaune. Cardin walked and threw a heavy punch to Jaune's face. And another. And another. And another. And the last one for good measure.
Jaune landed on the ground with his face carrying multiple bruises and looked up as Cardin grabbed his collar and lifted him off the ground before punching him again. "You know that wasn't very smart, Jauney boy." He said before raising the blonde off the ground. "I'm gonna make sure you get sent back home to mommy in tiny little pieces."
"I don't care what you do to me, but you're not messing with my team, or my friends." Jaune said back.
"What? You think talk like that makes you tough?" Cardin asked, annoyed. "You think that you're a big, strong man now?" He pulled his fist back and threw another punch, only to have the blinding white light from Jaune's hand earlier blind him and a searing pain pulse through his hand. Jaune's bruised face was completely normal again which made it easier to see the pure amount of shock on his face.
Jaune looked at his hands before Lark kicked him from behind. "Let's see how much of a man you really are." Cardin said as Jaune stared up at him raising his fist for another session.
A roar made itself clear as the group turned them all around to find it was an Ursa Major stepping out of the woods into the clearing. The spiked bone armor beast sniffed the air before rising up on its hind legs and sniffed again, this time looking straight at Cardin. Cardin remembered the sap on his chestplate as it was probably the source of why the Grimm had locked onto him. The beast got back on all fours and roared again.
"That's a big Ursa!" Russel shouted before he, Dove, and Lark ran like the cowards they were.
"Oh crap." That was all Cardin got out before the beast swung its claw and knocked Cardin away further.
Cardin crawled away before pulling out his mace, only to have it swatted out of his hand. The weapon rolled on the ground until it stopped at Jaune's feet. He glanced around looking for help before the beast roared again and he let out a terrified scream.
-With the other students-
"Did everyone else hear that?" Izuku asked with his ears twitching before the other three members of Team CRDL ran by.
"Ursa! Ursa!" Russel shouted before he bumped into Yang and promptly fell on his ass. He got up and started to run when Yang grabbed and hoisted him by his collar.
"Where?" She asked.
"Back there!" He pointed back to where they came from. "It got to Cardin and Jaune!" He was let go and fell on his ass again before stumbling as he ran away.
Immediately everyone felt a pang of fear. None greater than Pyrrha's though. "Jaune!"
"Iida!" Ruby spoke up causing the other leader to look at her. "You're the fastest one here. You take Tsuyu and get Ms. Goodwitch over here to help." Ruby ordered.
"Understood." The two nodded. Tsuyu hopped on his back and they sprinted away.
"You four follow them, go with them." Pyrrha told Ren, Blake, Yang and Nora as she and Ruby unsheathed their weapons, while Izuku and Ochako had their weapons out in both hands. "There could be more."
"You guys too." Shouto said to his team and they took the message with their weapons drawn and ready as they all followed after the first two. Everyone else had started running in the direction the cowardly birds had come from.
-Back to Jaune and Cardin-
Cardin ran away as the Grimm followed him before it jumped ahead and knocked him back. "Crap! Crap! Crap!" He said as Weiss, Pyrrha, Ruby, Izuku, Shouto and Ochako arrived.
Cardin rolled onto his back as the beast raised its claws and swung. Before it hit him, Jaune got in between and blocked the claws using his sheild, surprising everyone. Weiss readied herself along with Shouto unsheathing his blade to join when Pyrrha raised her hand. "Wait."
Jaune pushed the claw away and swung his sword, slicing the beast along its body and leaving a large bleeding cut. The beast recovered and swung again, but Jaune rolled out of the way. It swung again, making Jaune jump up. It took this as an opputunity and swung its other claw higher. Jaune braced behind his shield again and let it hit. When he landed he charged and jumped, only to be swatted away.
Jaune stood up and looked at his Scroll on the inside of the shield, showing his aura in the red. The beast approached him again and Jaune sprinted forward as the beast did the same and swung its claws.
Pyrrha saw Jaune's shield was too low and raised her hand and it glowed in a black aura. Jaune's shield glowed black and it moved, blocking the claws. But what happened next was not because of her. Jaune's sword arm glowed white again and he swung it much faster and stronger than before. With a mighty roar he decapitated the bear like Grimm and let its body fall to the ground where it was already turning into ash.
"What?" Ruby asked as Pyrrha lowered her hand shocked at Jaune's new power as well.
"How did you-? How did he" Weiss started to ask.
"W-Well, Ruby has her speed, you have your glyphs, and Shouto his ice. I have no clue what Jaune has." Pyrrha said. "But my Semblance is polarity."
"What?" Ochako seemed confused.
"Wow, so you can control poles..." Ruby guessed impressed.
"No, you dolt!" Weiss said. "It means she has control over magnetism!"
"Oh. That makes sense. She was able to make Jaune's shield move because it was made of metal." Ochako said.
"Magnets are cool, too..." Ruby added.
The infamous amount of mumbling found it's long lost host in the form of Izuku.
"Controlling metals is an incredible advantage for any fighter. You would have to have an entirely different material to use against her safely. Does it have limitations to different kinds of metals? You might have to drop your weapons to let yourself in close enough. But not only would leave you defenseless against her own weapons, but she could also control the metal on different places on the body. My shoes have steel toes and heels and that would be my disadvantage… MMMMMMrg." Izuku was furiously writing notes into his notebook that he didn't notice Pyrrha starting to leave.
"Wait, where are you going?" Weiss asked.
"Yeah, we gotta tell them what happened." Ruby said.
"We could, or we could keep it our little secret." Pyrrha smiled.
"We understand." Shouto said.
Jaune sheathed his weapon, then he walked over to Cardin and helped him up. Cardin's chest hurt like a bitch after being hit that claw, but the pain quickly went away when Jaune's hand glowed again and touched Cardin's aura with his own. Cardin felt his chest after it was done. "Holy crap, Jaune..." He stopped when Jaune pulled him by his collar to look him in the eye.
"Don't ever mess with my team or my friends, ever again." The blonde told his former tormentor. "Got it?" Cardin nodded furiously. "Y-Yeah. No problem." With that Jaune turned and walked away.
He was walking back to his team a new person. He walked back a huntsman.
-Late at Night – On the roof-
Jaune stood in his uniform as he looked out over the academy. "No Cardin tonight?" Pyrrha asked as she walked up to him. "I thought you two were best buds?"
"Pyrrha, I'm sorry." Jaune said as he turned to face her. "I was a jerk. You were only trying to be nice and I- I had all this stupid macho stuff in my head."
"Jaune." Pyrrha interrupted him. "It's okay." The two smiled at each other before she continued. "You're team really misses their leader, you know. You should come down." She turned and walked to the door. "Ren made pancakes! No syrup, though. You can thank Nora for that. And you could probably explain to Izuku what you did. He has been eager to write it down in his notebook."
Jaune looked at his hands. "I honestly don't know what I did. It felt… it felt like I was reinforcing my aura in one spot with a larger than normal amount. That's what gave me the strength and speed. But when I healed Cardin, it felt like I was using my aura to reinforce his and from there making his aura heal him faster." Jaune guessed.
Pyrrha was impressed at Jaune's deduction at his own semblance. "That sounds like a great power, but it could possibly drain your aura a lot faster."
Jaune just shrugged and gave a goofy smile. "You said I had a lot of it. And I trust you on that." Jaune said.
Pyrrha blushed slightly, but still smiled. "Well, we should go before Nora eats all the pancakes." She turned to the door.
"Wait!" Jaune shouted, making the red head turn around seeing his leader scratching his neck in embarrassment. "I know I don't deserve it after everything I said, but... Would you still be willing to help me? To you know; help me become a better fighter?"
Pyrrha turned around and smirked before walking over to Jaune. Any sense of a moment was abruptly cut off when she pushed him down. "Don't think that a new semblance is going to help your terrible footwork and stance." She told him offering a hand to him and he took it. "You have to be wider and lower to the ground." He did what she said, and she smiled at him. "Now, let's try that again."
And that is chapter 8 mis amigos. Now I haven't been udating character profiles for the last few chapters. So here you are with two. Shouto Todoroki and Jaune Arc.
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Name: Shouto Todoroki
Race: Human
B-day: Jan 11
Age: 17
Handedness: Ambidextrous, prefers right
Hair: Right side is white, left side is red
Eye color: Brown (right) Turquoise (left)
Blood type: O
Height: 5' 10"
Gender: M
Semblance: Frozen Hell: Can create large amounts of ice from his right side and fire from his left. Both sides have a percentage he can use for both, but he can not put all his power into one. Meaning he can only use 50% when only using one side.
Weapon: Jaeger: An elegant katana that changes color and properties dependant on which hand he uses dominately. His right makes the blade glow an icy blue with ice along the blade. His left left makes the blade glow a burning metal red with flames licking off the blade. It is unknown what would happen if imbued the blade with both powers.
Symbol: Fern of endurance symbol with ice on the right branches and fire on the left branches.
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Name: Jaune Arc
Race: Human
Age: 17
Handedness: Right
Hair: Blonde
Eye color: Blue
Blood type: A
Height: 6'1"
Gender: M
Semblance (description provided by Izuku's notebook): Gaurdian: A hereditary semblance passed down through the Arc family. It utilizes their much larger than normal quantities of aura to increase their overall abilities to a degree. Also can reinforce another person aura with their own, letting them recharge it faster and heal fatal wounds, but makes the user run out of aura faster and therefore they need to be careful with it.
Weapon: Crocea Mors: A basic sword and shield combination that is passed down through his family. The only special function it has is the shields ability to be his swords sheath.
Symbol: Double Crescent moon
I know that Aragon already used Frozen Hell to name Shouto's semblance, but it just fits so well. His life with his father was practically his own hell and it was frozen over after the incident with his mother. Anyway, leave questions, reviews, and as always, I hope you all enjoyed.