Sono Chino Sadame, JOOOOOOOJO!
Been a while, yeah? Real life ya know? Well here's chapter 2 for ya! Hope you enjoy!
For the most part, it was just another day in Professor Port's classroom. He would monologue about his time doing this and that with snippets relating to learning in between while the students either slepts, talked, played around, took some notes, or somehow manged to do at least two of those said activities at once.
Teams RWBY and JNPR were among the groups that did such activities during class and today was definitely a great day for discussion. "Why are you so... calm about what's happening?" Pyrrha finally decided to ask Jaune on his current mood and the rest of the group's eyes shifted towards him, eager to see his reaction.
He stopped scribbling and noticed how all of his friends were all staring at him. "Uh... calm about what?" Jaune asked back, not quite sure what she meant.
"You know. The marriage contract?" His partner stressed. When he texted them about it, they expected Jaune to be a mess. Yet here he was, relatively normal.
He sighed in relief now that he understood the conversation topic. "Oh that, huh? Guys, don't worry about it. Stuff like this has happened before."
"IT HAS!" RWYPN all yelled. Blake also said that, but she was too stoic to scream. Ren just kept on listening, unfazed by Jaune's coolness on his situation. The rest of the class continued on normally, not minding the outburst of five girls.
"Well no. This time, my mom was the one who arranged this, which is pretty odd." Jaune continued, talking as if he was discussing odd weather.
"That's it... that's the odd thing about all of this?!" Weiss' tone grew more exasperated with each word, "this whole situation is perplexing to put it lightly!"
"Not for me and my family." Jaune sat back and sighed before deciding to elaborate. "Dad likes to 'give me some advertisement' for the ladies and so he usually sets stuff like this up. Every year since I was ten, he would set me up with at least a dozen every year."
"Wha - how - who?" Weiss continued to sputter until she was a bit of a gibbering mess.
"Right, while Weiss-cream wraps her poor little head around your daddy dynamics, I gotta ask: why haven't you been taken yet?" Yang asked as she walked over to Jaune and leaned forward a bit. He never failed to maintain eye contact much to her delight.
"I have an overprotective mother, a goofball father, and seven overprotective sisters. Enough said." He dryly answered and everyone nodded, "plus, most women, who are usually hunter affiliated at least, run off when they hear the name of Jannet "Heart Eater" Arc."
Pyrrha nearly stopped breathing and Weiss looked like she somehow became more pale, like her blood froze in fright. Everyone else had a look of mild confusion and Ruby tactfully asked, "Who now?"
"The most overprotective of my sisters and a very seasoned huntress so, let's just leave it at that." Jaune rubbed the back of neck, remembering how she evaluated some girls when they came to meet the family... if they weren't already fleeing town after she personally chatted with them before.
Ren decided to voice a few questions, taking a particular interest in the subject of Jaune's wacky life. "You certainly had a peculiar family growing up. If I may ask, were you able to have female friends? Or friends in general?"
Jaune nodded, figuring this question would pop up, "Yeah dude. My family was certianly diffrent from most, definitely, but I could make a few friends here and there in school despite the oddity of my home life and myself." He hummed, making little doodles on his paper, "Sadly I always lost touch with them. In fact, two of my best friends I knew since I was four eventually had to move for business reasons. A pair of twin girls, the malachites. But hey, I'm just happy I got to make friends at all and that's what's important."
"Lucky." Pyrrha muttered. Whether she was talking about the girls or Jaune being able to make normal friends was left to interpretation. Okay, it was a mixture of both but more focused on the former.
"Ack!" Yang coughed, choking on some water she was drinking by the time Jaune finished speaking.
Ruby gave her sister a glance and gave her a few quick back pats until she stopped coughing. "You alright?"
"Of course, Rubes." Yang chuckled, trying to hide her nervousness. Hopefully, a certain mishap wouldn't come to bite her in the ass later on.
"Amazing, Weiss whispered, "despite your lack of normality and lack of social graces, you were somewhat able to function with your peers, including those of the opposite sex. I'm impressed."
Jaune smiled and rubbed the back of his head. "Well, yeah. I do that now don't I?"
"Hardly." Weiss said aloud before looking away and speaking with a barely audible volume, "but enough to get some positive results."
"But yeah, it-oh, hold. Got a message." Juane whipped out his scroll. He only read a few select words alou and those words were "a parent teacher conference today? I guess their here to speak with Ozpin today."
Everyone did a double take and Blake had to ask. "You're parents are here?"
Jaune nodded and five females had the words 'Chance?!' echo in their minds as they believed they were indeed ready. Just in time for the bell to ring too, signaling the end of class but not Port's lecture. Oof, that poor set of randy background characters.
"Welp!" Jaune slowly exclaimed as he stretched and lifted from his seat, "I'm gonna go brush up on some new sword techniques. I'll see you guys later."
"Wait?" Nora grabbed him by the shoulder and had an eerily serious look on her face. "I have but one question... Are you royalty?"
Everyone, except Ren and Jaune, nearly had a face fault while Ren merely looked at Jaune with a raised eyebrow. "I don't think so." Jaune answered with a straight face, though he has sometimes wondered this himself. He's asked his parents before and they have always said he was royalty to the family. His grandmama just smiled and said "it's only a matter of time". The answers were never really clear. "Anyway, see ya guys." He said as he headed for the exit.
Salem was standing on her large balcony and looking over her lands of chaotic creation. She was in deep contemplation over plots and the lot until she felt the presence of powerful entities that made the queen of darkness' black little heart giddy. She turned to see before her six mighty grimms queens, freshly fed and having shaken off the effects of their long torpor.
They all kneeled, or in the case of the nuckelavee queen and taijito queen their equivalent of kneeling, before the mighty daughter of the all father. "Rise my mighty warriors." They all obeyed and stood at full attention. "Centuries you have slumbered and much of the world has changed during your stasis. Though given how your awakening no doubt occurred, I'm sure you came to this conclusion by now." Salem smiled and so did the queens. Salem suddenly stopped smiling and the queens mimicked her facial expression once more. "While the forces of the light brother have grown stronger since your time, you have awakened with a purpose diffrent from your old tasks of expansion and warfare."
If they were disappointed, they didn't show it or probably never felt it to begin with. They followed their leaders will without question and thus gained satisfaction from seeing her will carried out alone. "My queens... my time of rule is coming to an end and soon my heir, my grandson Jaune Arc, will take his place on the throne," Salem raised her hands in the air as beam of moonlight hit her like a spotlight from the heavens, "you, my most loyal servants, warriors of the black father, beings of raw emotion given shapely forms, shall become his mates and provide grimm kind with future beings of unmatched raw power! You will bear the scions of revolution!"
By the the time Salem had finished her little speech, the grimm queens were snarling and barely restrained. They were more than ready to go and claim Salem's progeny for themselves, to give life to what could, no, would be the ultimate beings. All they needed was the scent and the go signal from their mighty alpha.
"However, I must be clear on one thing," Salem's foreboding tone quickly made them snap themselves back into their stoic mindsets, "you must work to gain his affections. Under no circumstances are you to forcibly try and breed with him if he does not want it. If that were to occur and he were to be violated..." Salem unleashed a tiny bit of dark aura to get the message across. Judging from the way the queens shrank back down, it more than got the message across. It probably wasn't needed since her words alone were usually enough and she doubted they would do anything like that to him, even if they could, but Salem was a being who liked to be thorough. That and she was still his grandma, and threatening potiential love interests for her little ones was just a natural thing.
Besides, even as the overlord of grimm, Jaune would always be one of her precious little grimmlings.
"Now then." Salem pulled out a vile of blood and tossed it to the beowulf queen. Yes, it was Jaune's blood and yes, she had Hazel procure it from one of Jaune's physicals. The queen cracked the vile open in her hands and took a big whiff of it along with her sisters. Once again they looked on the verge of frenzying and running off to find their target. They looked towards Salem, who nodded, "you may go about your goal." In a split second, the queens had all left the castle and set about on their "hunt".
Salem glanced at her throne and sighed, "they're gone now, Watts. You may come out now." Said doctor moved from behind the throne in a nonchalant fashion and adjusted his collar. "You know they could smell and feel you. The parasite I gave you only keeps the more absent of mind grimm off of you." Watts *didn't* choke up and nearly trip on himself when Salem said and *wasn't* sweating nervously.
He was fine, really. He *wasn't* frightened by the queens at all.
"Woah." Jaune suddenly froze mid swing, a shiver having went up his spine, which he found odd since was actually getting hot during his training. "That's weird. I guess I won't be taking off my shirt then."
"Awe, but I wanted to get a taste of the future, dear."
"Eep!" Jaune turned to the source of the voice and sitting upon one of the seats in the spectator area was none other than the woman from the picture Jaune's mother had sent him. "Ci-Cinder?! You're here?!"
"Mhm. Are you as happy to me as I am you?" She asked, acting coyly for the young knight. He immediately put down his sword and fixed his hair, no doubt trying play himself out as cool, 'The wannabe ladies man,' Cinder mentally mused as she smiled more brightly for him.
Jaune cleared his throat and looked towards Cinder with a face of calm and collected cool. "So, what are you doing here?"
"I simply wanted to see you is all. Perhaps you could even show me around since I'll officially be a student in a day or two." Cinder said as she sauntered over to the easily flustered young man. 'He's too easy.'
"Of course." Jaune had a bright smile on his face before it lowered, "but before we walk and talk, I need to ask are you-"
"Okay with what I signed?" Cinder giggled, a pleasant sound that ringed through Jaune's ears. "Of course, I wouldn't have done so if I wasn't."
Jaune nodded, breathing out a nervous laugh, "I see. Did mom also ever tell you about what my dad did? The other women that had been introduced to his contracts?"
"She did. And from the looks of things, I doubt I have much to fear. Besides, I feel as though I've gotten her approval, even if she was intoxicated," Cinder muttered that last bit under her breath, "and I doubt your father will be that hard to win over."
While those answers provided Jaune with a little comfort, he had to probe further. "And my sisters?"
Cinder playfully rolled her eyes, "Oh, I've been told they can be a bit overprotective, but it's not like they're murderous or anything right?" She doubted siblings would be much of an obstacle for her, she's faced worse.
Jaune's eyes widened, a little bit frightened by his potiential fiancée's ignorance, "Oh boy, Cinder-" A loud bang was heard and both occupants of the training room turned the source of the sound.
"OH JAUNEY-BEAR!" That voice made Jaune's heart stop. A large balding man in an expensive suit and shades and short enchantress in a simple robe, lead by Glynda entered the room. Behind them were RWBY and NPR, looking oddly giddy for the most part. Ren was just smiling, clearly amused by what was happening and what might soon happen. Behind them, he could see... Velvet Scarlitina who semed to be on the verge of nearly bouncing in an "I'm Ready" fashion.
Without any heed to anything or anyone else, the short, robe wearing, woman rushed past Cinder and up to Jaune, pulling him into a tight embrace and kissing his cheek. He uttered a quick squeak, "Mom! Dad!"
"Heya, sport!" The big man hollard, "We decided to drop by in celebration and preperation," he chuckled and removed his shades, placing them in his pocket ss he looked at his son, a gleam in his eyes, "and look at the timing, everyone's here!"
"Can I get an explanation of what's happening, please?" Jaune gasped, sucking the air back into his lungs after his mother released him.
"Why of course." She said softly. She turned around and her face hardened into a fierce glare, a stark contrast over her previous demeanor, a faintly visible image of a dragon appearing around her, nearly making most the other's heart nearly jump from their bodies, save for the other two Arcs. Even Cinder and Glynda felt a little tremor of fear shake through her body upon looking at the Arc matriarch. "Your judgement begins now!" Her voice was like a thunder clap, blasting them from the shear authority and weight of her words. It was amazing how they didn't fall over.
Despite the coursing fear that went through their bodies from Mrs. Arc image and voice fueled by Killing Intent, they were also filled with various visions of something more, almost like near death experiences.
Ruby made installed giant dubstep laser canon into Crescent Rose!
Weiss was the head of her families corporation and genuinely worked for the betterment of everyone!
Blake had brought equality to her people and secretly discovered the famous writer of her Ninja's of Love and acquired the famous mint condition prototype too juicy for the public!
Yang had perfected her hair skills and stood among the highest peaks of Remnant like a golden warrior goddess of adventure!
Pyrrha had genuine friendship with the people of Remnant and they saw her for her, not a simple idol!
Velvet had captured and perfected her genuine fighting style she could call her own!
Cinder was a feared tyrant amongst the people of Remnant! Bit of a contrast from Pyrrha...
And Glynda was popstar with a wide as hell fanbase!
Throughout all of those visions, they pictured friends, family, and the adorkable little knight Jaune Arc by their side... or in Cinder's case, under her, licking her boots and worshipping her like a goddess of fire... yeah.
The point is, they were filled with...
DETERMINATION!
AN: REVIEW RESPONSES!
Guest: "A marriage contract!?" Weiss shouted from hearing such a thing. "Ugh, someone being forced to marry a dunce like him... I could only imagine their agony and/or possible disappointment." Weiss groaned as she face palmed.
Weiss I don't care if your being tsundere right now, don't make me slap a bitch.
Weiss slowly looks from her computer screen and to the "camera" before pulling out Myrtnaster to sharpen it, "I'm not even going to dignify that with a response. I just hope said guest gets a solid grasp on common sense really fast."
Guest: Hahahaha too true my comrade ALL HAIL OOBIDOOBI! Lol anyways great chapter so far I'm looking forward to how this goes. Quick question, will there be scenes similar to oobidoobis works in this? E.g. Where cinder kicks the wall behind Jaune with her dress up or barricading himself away from others?... the barricade might be from a different artist I'll have to check.
This is based on Oobidoobi's glorious works, lol.
Guest: Why not add more Grimm to be Queens to the story like the Boarbatusk. Beringel, Creep, Dragon, Geist, Goliath, Griffon, Lancer Queen, and Sea Feilong.
Initially, that would be a lot to add in the first part. Later down the road? Maybe. That's all I can say for now.