Obligatory Author note: Hello again! Welcome to a new chapter. I haven't uploaded anything recently, its been rough these past weeks, between school, chores and worrying about that one girl who I like (may or may not be sarcastic lolololol). Sorry for the hella late upload and I hope you still read this story. Enjoy!
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Back to status Quo!
Probably
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The mission was done and the three teams met back at the docking bay. Walking down the ramp, Jaune saw his friends. Team RWBY looked as if they'd seen better days. The had scratches, wounds, dirt and burn marks all over the place.
"This is why you don't wear heels while hunting, Ice queen" Percy told team RWBY while smiling.
Weiss looked furious, "HOW WERE WE SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT IT COULD BREATHE FIRE?" To which Percy replied with "You weren't " with a loud laugh.
Jaune and his team approached team RWBY, "Heya Ruby, you looked...better"
"Hey Jaune! Guess I did... but fighting that big monster was really fun, though...could've used a warning though" Ruby replied. According to Percy, they fought an Embermane, which was quite a feat considering they usually only fought Grimm.
Another Bullhead was bound, but before it landed a man crashed onto the platform first.
A true superhero landing Jaune smirked as he looked at his master, who landed on one knee and was now dusting himself off.
The bullhead landed and the boys of Sssn exited. They immediately fell to the ground, very tired.
"Woah, what did they fight?" Nora asked Jaune
"Hmmm, no clue"
Not knowing, Jaune went to Thorin and asked. Thorin looked at him and gave a smirk
"Hellion, the angry kind"
Jaune laughed, Hellions are very vicious. Just like that everyone went back to their dorms.
Percy and Thorin bid their farewells, as they headed for Gerard's Cafe. Team Sssn limped their way toward the exchange student dorms, Sun was even whining, which you don't see often.
Team Rwby and Jnpr headed to the dorms.
While on their way, Jaune saw something that caught his eye "You guys go ahead, I'll be with you in a sec" most of the girls, and Ren nodded and left.
Pyrrha was curious and followed his back. Jaune went through a bit of a trek into the woods. The setting sun gave everything a nice orange hue, however the more the sun sank the more she wondered what he was doing. She saw him walk out into the nearby woods. To see a red and shining banner, which he took and it broke into shards of aether.
She decided to follow him more as he picked up more of these strange banners. Until eventually she called out to him
"Jaune?"
"Oh, Hi Pyr" Jaune replied from on top of a tree to a confused Pyrrha. She asked "Jaune, what was that?"
Jaune thought of the situation and laughed "Well, its a slayer thing. Last year they were kunai stuck to trees"
Pyrrha just looked more confused "Well in any case, lets go back to the dorm room"
"Roger!" Jaune said as he gracefully flipped off the tree.
-oOoOoOo-
The night was chilly, the moon was shining its light upon the world at large. Jaune was walking with Pyrrha, in the empty halls of school, just the two of them.
"Hey Pyr..." Jaune half-nervously started
"Yes Jaune?"
"You know about the ball that Beacon is holding for the festival?"
Pyrrha looked at Jaune and smiled "Yes, what about it?"
They were approaching their dorm room's door, at this point you can already hear Nora's unbearably loud snoring. Jaune however, did not skip a beat.
"Do you...Uh, have anyone in mind for it?" Jaune asked
"Yes actually" Pyrrha replied
"O-oh..." Jaune felt sad about that, damn I'm too late. Jaune half-frowned for a split second but put his smile on once more.
"So, who's the lucky guy?" Jaune asked Pyrrha
"Well..." she started I don't think I can tell him that its him she thought.
Pyrrha was about to tell him anyway until they overheard RWBY...
"...So Weiss and I head to the CCT Tower in Vale?" Ruby asked her team.
Yang agreed "Me and Blakey can go over to...a friend of mine's... to ask around"
Blake however told Yang "Yang, the Fang holds a meeting for new members every month, I'll be heading there to spy on them. Nobody, probably, will suspect me if I take off my bow"
Yang reluctantly agreed to that. Jaune however knocked on their door.
"Heya Ruby" he said as Ruby poked her head out, Jaune told Pyrrha to head to the dorm room. He told her that he'll tell her what happened.
"Hey Jaune! What're you doin here at this time of night" Ruby nervously asked.
"Yeah, well I overheard you guys talking about a White Fang heist" Jaune guessed
Ruby's already pale face paled even more "N-no! Nah! Nope! Nada" She said backing away.
"Ruby, let my team help. We'll discuss this tomorrow and we'll back you up"
"Ruby-" Yang was cut off, what she was going to say was cut off from her tongue "Heya Vomit Boy!"
"Hi Yang, I was discussing things with your sister" Jaune said
"They...want to help out tomorrow"
Yang shrugged "Why not?" she said and Ruby informed the rest of the team, they were fine with it.
-oOoOoOo-
The morning was upon them, Jaune was stretching. Gotta warm up my body somehow
His team was still asleep bubut he was already outside, jogging. Since he had Aura and Aether to help him out he didn't really need more physical strengthening.
But he ran anyway, it was boring. The morning dew in the grass shining ever so softly like little stars in a green sky. The Sun, it was shining its orange light upon the world. Jaune loved watching the dawn.
He ran back to his dorm room, the hallways were now starting to get a bit more lit due to sunlight. People were walking out of their rooms for their mornig excercise.
Jaune opened the door to see Pyrrha, already half-awake staring into the blank wall infront of her. Nora was also awake but trying to wake Ren up, who was telling Nora "Five more minutes..."
"Mornin team!" Jaune said
Pyrrha looked at him "G'mornin Jaune"
Her eyes widened and she clasped her hand on her mouth. She addressed him so informally, she thought it would come across as disrespectful.
Jaune however laughed "Mornin, come on. Everyone get ready, we'll be meetin with team RWBY later. Right now though, we'll be shopping for clothes!"
"Clothes?" Ren asked already sitting up
"Yeah, you can't expect people to not notice you when you wear your normal clothes right?"
"Hmm, sure" Ren said as they eventually started to ready up for their day.
-oOoOoOo-
Teams Rwby and Jnpr were having a meeting in team Rwby's dorm room.
Jaune was wearing a black coat with a white button-up shirt underneath, he wore slacks and black shoes. On his side he carried Crocea Mors and his Aether lamp.
Everyone wore the same colour palette of black and white. Pyrrha wore something like what Jaune normally wears to keep a low profile. She wore a black hoodie and she wore glasses which didn't do anything to affect her eyesight and a skirt with boots. When compared to Yang's audacious choice in clothing, it makes her seem like a teen who doesn't exactly know what she's doing there.
Jaune however didn't see this as a problem, he thought she looked hella beautiful Dang, I wanna go with them now...
"Ok, so plan is Ruby and I will go over to the cct" Weiss started
Ruby smiled "Yep, next up Yang, Nora and Pyrrha will be going to Yang's friend"
Jaune, was bothered by this. So he looked at Pyrrha "Pyr, don't drink anything or take anything they give you ok?" Really, they type of men there usually stoop so low
Pyrrha was happy Jaune was worrying for her "Yes Jaune, I know"
"Lastly we have Jaune, Ren and Blake to the White Fang meeting" Ruby finished
"Don't you mean 'Jaune, Ren, Blake and Sun'?" Sun Wukong poked his head through the team's window.
"S-Sun?! What are you doing here?" Blake asked
"I couldn't help but overhear you guys talking about a cool, secret plan"
"From outside the window"
"Errrr Yeah, I even brought Nep"
Both teams poked their head out the window to see a trembling Neptune hanging on for dear life. However, he smirked and said "Hey" in a really cool manner.
They took him in and the planned what to do.
"Ok, so Sun will be coming with us" Jaune said
Sun agreed "Yep"
"Neptune... Where should he go?" Jaune looked over at Ruby who was considering letting him go with them.
"He can go with Yang, Pyrrha and Nora. Is that good?"
"No" Jaune immediately answered I don't trust him around Pyr at all
"Ok, he's coming with me and Weiss then" Ruby answered.
"So, everyone knows what they'll do?" Jaune asked.
"Me, Ruby and Neptune will go over to the CCT to get information on recent White Fang robberies" Weiss stated
Jaune nodded and looked over to Yang "We'll head over to Junior's to ask around if they know anything"
"Great, operation...uhhhh" Jaune started
"Paint the town Red?" Ruby suggested
Screw it "Operation Paint the Town Red is a go!" Jaune stated as everyone started leaving.
Jaune prepped his sword and they were on their way.
-oOoOoOo-
On their way to the docks Jaune bumped into someone. She had short dark hair, amber eyes and WOW shes hot...
This gir- no woman was about as tall as Jaune. She could be a model...then again anyone in Beacon could be a model.
"Oh, I'm sorry for running into you" Jaune said as he picked up some papers that she dropped.
"It's fine" she said as she watched Jaune pick up what she dropped.
"You're a exchange student right?" Jaune said as he finished picking up papers and handing them to her.
"Why, yes I am" she replied
Jaune smiled "Where were you from?"
"Mistral's Haven Academy, though it is quite a nice change of pace to be in Vale" thei woman said
"May I have your name?" Jaune asked
"Cinder Fall of team Cinnamon" as he took her hand it felt warm...like nor normal warm
"Are you sic-"
"Jaune come on!" Blake shouted
"Okay! Well, nice to meet you Cinder" Jaune said as he ran over to Blake.
To Jaune she looked like a nice gal, however... theres just something in him that tells him to avoid her at all costs.
Jaune thought probably cuz she was hot, or... just anxiety meeting new people
Jaune shrugged and left on the Bullhead with Blake, Ren and Sun
Author note: Again I'm sorry for the late upload, things just hit the fan these past few days. Like Tryouts for our Vball team and quizzes and girls and whatever. I'll continue writing if this story is still interesting to people. So...see you in the next one I guess