Having Pyrrha over made Jaune a completely different person. Before, Jaune had been rather mopey and always had a pathetic look of defeat on his face. Now he couldn't stop smiling and energetically showing Pyrrha everything in Salem's castle. They even went into the room of forgotten waifus.

"Everybody," Jaune said with a beaming smile. "Meet Pyrrha!"

"Oh," said Amber glumly. "Aren't you the girl who failed to take my title as Fall maiden?"

"I didn't exactly fail," said Pyrrha. "You…uh….took an arrow to the chest."

"Did I?" asked Amber. "That explains the aggravating pain I've been feeling."

"These guys helped me out a lot when I was having a difficult time." Jaune said.

Pyrrha eyed Amber, Glynda, and a very pale boy wearing a wig resembling Weiss Schnee's hair.

"We didn't help you as much as we guided you," said Glynda. "Every decision you made ultimately happened as a result of your thinking."

"But…uh…isn't guiding me the same as helping?" asked Jaune.

"Don't argue semantics with me in the middle of an uplifting speech."

"Sorry."

"Now as I was saying. It's you who have made the most progress in this most unusual adventure," Glynda went on, "and you who will come up with the greatest solution to it. We all have faith in you."

"Even Whi—I mean…Weiss?"

"Sure," said the Weiss impersonator. "But remember to give me credit where credit is due."

"Uh….okay."

"What was the point of that speech?" asked Pyrrha once she and Jaune had left the room.

"I don't know," said Jaune. "Probably something that'll become relevant later on."

Pyrrha chuckled at Jaune's careless behavior and the two continued to joke around. Little did they know that someone had been eyeing them both. It was a certain someone with a long and pointed tail. He eyed them with a sadistic grin, just imaging the things Salem would do when she found out.

"Ohohohohohohoho!" Tyrian cackled. "Looks like Jauney boy is in trouble!"

Back in the main room, Salem had a recording playing on repeat. It sounded like Lionheart being killed by her Grimm. Salem normally watched such videos with a thoughtful smirk, but this time was different. Salem was slouching in her chair with a giant bag of Doritos next to her. The bag appeared to be almost empty.

"Why do I continue to fail?" Salem sulked. "I throw everything I have at these girls and they continue to make a mockery of me? Sometimes I wish I could just get up from this location and slaughter them all myself, but I'm unfortunately much too lazy to do such a thing."

"SAAAAALLLLEEEEEEM!" Came the shrieking voice of Tyrian.

Salem's eyes sunk deeper into her head at the sound of Tyrian. He was such a useless henchman. He had one mission to do and he came back with a new butthole after getting his other one ripped off by Ruby Rose. Any other villain would have ripped his esophagus out at the very least. Maybe this time he would have something useful to say, although he doubted it.

"What is it, Tyrian?" asked Salem. "Can't t you see that I'm busy groveling in a sea of self-pity and misery?"

"BUT IT'S IMPORTANT!" Tyrian shouted. He stopped right beside Salem and took several deep breaths.

"Well?" asked Salem. "What is it that you want to tell me?"

"Jaune has a friend with him," said Tyrian. "A…Pyrrha Nikos!"

Salem raised en eyebrow. "The invincible girl?" she asked.

Tyrian nodded.

Salem's smirk slowly transformed into a glare. She looked at her screen and waved her hand. The video of Lionheart being killed slowly changed to that of Jaune and Pyrrha laughing down the hallway. Salem felt her breathing shorten as her body clenched tightly. This was a feeling she hadn't felt before and it was maddening.

"Bring. Her. To. Me." Salem said through clenched teeth.

"As you wish," Tyrian said with a crazed smile. "As you wish."

Watts was walking down the hallway with his face covered in sweat.

"I really should lay off the tentacle genre," he sighed.

"OUT OF THE WAY, WATTSON!" Tyrian shouted as he shoved Watts out of the way.

Watts stood back up and stared at Tyrian running frantically to his destination. Seeing the scorpion Faunus that excited usually meant that something bad was about ot happen. Who knew that one boy could cause so much drama?