It was late into the night when Jaune was finally able to talk to Blake, everyone else in the room already asleep. He sat down next to her in silence waiting for her to set her book down before he spoke.
"Why are you hiding your ears Blake?" Jaune looked over to his sister, watching as her head snapped back and forth to see if anyone was listening, before fixing him with a scathing look. "No heard and even if they did they wouldn't know about your past, it's just me and you right now and I want an answer." They looked each other in the eye through the blackness of the room, both being faunus the absence of light didn't bother them.
"I don't want to be judged on my appearance, I'd rather they get to know me as Blake not some animal." Blake looked away as if she should be ashamed of what she was before she looked at his scaled hands and forearms and gave him an apologetic look.
"Well I can understand being wary of new people, but you have to realize, you can't hide this forever someone well find out." He looked down at her, before gently resting his hand on her head and ruffled her hair, Blake immediately pulled away giving him a deadly glare, and hissing at him under her breath. "Find someone to trust Blake, it'll make life easier."
"I have someone to trust, I have you." Jaune chuckled quietly as he shook his head, she knew he meant make friends but after watching Adam's fall from grace it would be hard to trust again.
"Well, I'm going to hit the hay so I'm not too tired tomorrow." He slid down the wall to lay on his side and get comfortable. "Don't let your past obstruct your future Blake, bad stuff happens and life goes on. I know this better than most, you just need to stay positive and keep moving forward." Blake smiled down at him, he'd had a rough life before he found them, but he never let it get to him. "By the way, I let mom and dad know where we are, they want you to call soon." Her eyes immediately widened before they locked on him in annoyance. She would've commented on this if it weren't for the small puff of smoke coming from his nostrils, a clear sign he had already fallen asleep. Shaking her head she settled down on her side, their backs pressed together so she could stay warm using her brother as a heating pad. She would scold him in the morning.
Jaune could hear voices when he started to wake up, in a panic he sat up quickly reaching to the side to grab his weapon accidentally waking Blake, then he remembered where he was and calmed down.
"You okay Jaune?" Blake looked at him, hair messy with sleep.
"Yeah, just forgot where we were for a minute, better get ready for the day." Standing up he stretched out his back and helped Blake up off the floor. They seperated to get ready for the day, once they were dressed they headed to the locker room to get their equipment.
"So," Yang appeared behind Jaune wrapping an arm around his shoulders, "do you and your sister always cuddle up at night?" Her smirk showing her obvious joy in picking on him.
"Well, I've always put off a lot of body heat, so when we were younger she'd sleep next to me when we went camping. It made it easier when packing sleeping bags so it just became a habit." Yang's smirk died as he explained the practicality of it, ruining her joke. Continuing on Jaune came to his locker to find Weiss Schnee talking to a red headed girl who looked vaguely familiar. Once he approached them Weiss saw him out the corner of her eye.
"What do you want?" She turned on him and crossed her arms, the girl next to her sent him a pleading look that simply said, 'help me.'
"Well I was hoping to get to my locker, but it would appear that a sudden cold front moved in." He could hear Yang laughing in the background, and see the red head smile.
"Well then, I guess you should find it, and stop interrupting other people's conversations." The glare she sent his way was almost cold enough to make his breath visible. Shrugging he stepped forward between the girls, earning an indignant noise from the white themed girl. She looked ready to blow, until he opened the locker she had been standing in front of. "Oh, if you had said that was your locker, I would have moved."
"You did tell me to stop interrupting, I thought you would have liked the fact that I was listening." He smirked at Weiss as she turned her head away from him, trying to hide the embarrassed blush on her face. Turning his head to the other person at his locker after putting his weapon onto his back, "By the way I don't think we've been introduced, my name's Jaune, what's yours."
"Oh, hello my name is Pyrrha Nikos." She looked nervous, as if he might attack her.
"Nice to meet you, now if you ladies well excuse me, I'm gonna go find my sister and get ready for initiation." Pyrrha seemed relieved at this, and as he turned away he caught Weiss gawking at him like he'd missed something important.
Weiss couldn't believe her luck, first she was launched off a cliff, then as soon as she'd found Pyrrha it was to realize she had already been partnered with the red hooded girl who had run into her the day before.
"Hey it's not so bad, maybe we could be on a team together." Pyrrha hesitantly said as she followed Weiss, Ruby walking beside her.
"Yeah Weiss, we just need to find you a partner and then find the relics." Ruby's chipper voice added to the conversation hoping to cheer the heiress up. Just as Weiss was about to turn and speak a roar sounded behind them, a group of beowolfs burst from the brush charging straight for them. Jumping into action they seperated to deal with the threat, they were so busy dealing with the grimm behind them they didn't notice another group coming from the opposite direction. Just as the second group was about to pounce on an unaware Weiss a blade flew through the brush, impaling one of the grimm to a tree and alerting the girls to their presence. Jumping out of the foliage Jaune swung his claws across a beowolf's chest, cleaving a large amount of meat from the grimm's torso. Turning to the rest of the second group he inhaled deeply before letting loose a torrent of flames, burning most of them before they could react. "Jaune!"
"Hey Ruby, Pyrrha, Weiss, these guys bothering you?" He smirked Weiss only huffed in annoyance at his joke, while Ruby and Pyrrha chuckled.
"You dunce, is now really the best time to make jokes?" Weiss scolded him, the entire group were talking failing to notice the last remaining grimm sneaking up on them. Weiss screamed as it bit down on her arm, going through her skin since she didn't have time to put up her aura, jumping into action Jaune grabbed its jaws and pried them apart before giving a quick jerk to snap the grimm's neck.
"Oh my god, Weiss are you okay?" Ruby rushed to her side to see how bad the damage was.
"Do I look okay!" She snapped, glaring at the younger girl. Walking up to them but not saying a word, Jaune gently took her arm in his hands and cover the wound. Before Weiss could yell at him, his hands started to glow and the pain faded from her arm. After he removed his hands, she looked at her arm to see not even a scar remained of the wound. "Thank yo-" her voice was cut off as she watched him reach into his pocket and pulled bandages to wrap around the wound on his own arm, her wound.
"Don't mention it, I couldn't forgive myself if you got hurt because I distracted you." He talked as if he wasn't currently bandaging a gaping hole in his arm.
"How? How did you take my wound?" Weiss asked as she pushed his hand away and started working the bandages herself, he really couldn't really do this too well with one hand.
"It's my semblance, I can heal others with my touch but it puts the damage on me. I've had a lot experience using it." The girls looked at him waiting for him to explain, but when he didn't they let it go.
"Well then," Weiss said as she stood up and offered him her hand, "I should've guessed I'd end up with a partner with an extremely useful semblance." Jaune smiled as he took her hand and stood up.
"I'll take that as a thank you, so you're welcome." Walking over to the tree where the grimm once hung before dissolving, and retrieving his weapon. "Let's go find us some relics shall we."
"And finally, Jaune Arc, Weiss Schnee, Pyrrha Nikos, and Ruby Rose. You will now be now as team JSPR, or team Jasper, led by Jaune Arc." Jaune looked at his team, Ruby and Pyrrha seemed happy for him, Weiss on the other hand seemed irritated. Looking into the crowd he saw team RBYN or Ribbon, made up of Blake, Yang, and two other students. One was a hyperactive redhead, and the other a guy with eastern features and a streak of pink in his hair. This was going to be interesting.
AN: So it looks like I'll start updating this, as for the quick pace of the first chapter I felt that the arrival at beacon has already been done to death within other fics, it was more to establish the premise of the story to see if there would be any interest. For future reference if it's months or even a year between updates don't think I've abandon the story, I well post that to the description if that's the case, I'm just at a hectic point in my life and maybe to caught up in some shit, but I well try to update. Depending on how I feel when it comes to this story, it might go through a name change to reflect my idea for a pairing. You may have also noticed that Jaune's semblance in this story is different from canon, that is because I came up with this idea before his semblance was revealed and I decided to keep this one anyway.