Dark Rose
Chapter 18: Pests Appear!
The sun outside started it's descent down as Jett led Ruby down the coridor to the Mess Hall. The two were silent for several minutes as Jett helped the young girl walk the way. Eventually, Jett broke the silence with a cough. "Yes?" Ruby said weakly. "Nothing. Just too quiet in this hallway." Jett remarked. Ruby giggled softly. She gripped tighter on to Jett's side as she tried to hug him. A brown blur flit from the corner of Jett's eye. His ears perked up as the sound of footsteps faded into the distance. Jett untensed his muscles. "You okay?" Ruby asked. "Yeah, I just thought I saw somethin-" Before he could finish, a figure appeared before him and flash of white light blinded him. "MY EYYYYYYYEES!" Jett cried out, accidentally dropping Ruby and shielding his bulbs.
"Oh gosh, I'm so sorry!" a femenine voice with an interesting lilt exclaimed. He felt an unfamiliar set of hands helping him up to his feet. Jett's vision started to clear, and he saw a brown-haired, brown-eyed rabbit faunus girl standing before him. "Velvet?" Jett asked, still dazed from the flash. "I am so sorry!" the faunus girl apologized again. "You already said that." Jett looked around to see Ruby standing over by the window, looking outside. He walked over to her side, and tapped her on the shoulder. "You okay?" he asked. Ruby whipped around, and bashed her forehead against shoudler. "Ow. Yeah, I'm fine. Still really hungry, but fine." she said, smiling slightly and rubbing her forehead with her palm.
"What'd you do with that flash?" Jett asked, focusing on the faunus girl. "I took your picture." Velvet stated simply. "You two looked so cute together that I just wanted to capture the moment!" Jett and Ruby simultaniously flushed deep red. Velvet smiled kindly. "Don't worry. It's not like it'll be in the yearbook, or anything." Jett gave a look of surprsie. "We have a yearbook?" he asked. The faunus girl laughed, and shook her head. "Let's go! Gotta make sure we don't miss dinner. Coco will have my ears if I miss it." The girl said, giving a wide smile. "Want to walk with us, Velvet?" Jett asked, extending a hand to her with a smile on his face. The faunus girl's face lit up, and smirked at Jett. "Sure." she replied. The three shared a smile, and continued to walk down the coridor towards their destination.
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The three let the mess hall's door close behind them as they entered into the room. "Wow, alot of people in one place." Jett remarked. "You get used to it. Have you not eaten here before?" Velvet asked, surprised. "For the past two weeks, I've been eating other places than Beacon." he scratched his head. Thing is, Qrow has been treating me everytime I do well in his training. And, apparently, I've been doing very well. Jett thought to himself. "Velvet!" a feminine voice exclaimed. Jett looked up, and saw a medium-height, well-dressed woman walking over towards us. To put it bluntly, she's everything Miranda is, with Matilda's good fasion sense. Dark sunglasses and a brown beret framed the upper part of her face, her brown hair trailed down the side of her face, the tips ending with a touch of blonde. The way she walked, the way she carried herself: this woman just oozed femininity.
"Coco! Sorry I was late!" Velvet explained, running over to her teammate. "I just passed by Ruby, and saw that she had a boyfriend. I just had to take their picture!" The appropriately named Coco pushed her sungalsses down her nose, and looked at Jett over the rim. After a minute of her uncomfortably analyzing him, she moved her glasses back up, and smirked. The woman confidentally strode over to Jett and Ruby, stopping before them. "Nice to meet you.." Coco said, extending her hand to Jett. He smiled and grabbed her hand to shake. As soon as Jett grabbed Coco's hands to shake, her hand went vicegrip. "Hey!" Jett exclaimed, trying to pull his hand away. The girl smiled, and pulled Jett closer to her, putting her mouth right next to his ear. "...Lover-Boy." she added in a whisper. Letting go of his hand, Coco strode past the dazzed boy, slapping his ass as she passed.
"Hey guys!" a voice on the other side of the hall exclaimed. Yang stood up from her seat and waved over her sister and Jett to their table. "So, I guess we should join them...?" Jett stated, looking back at Ruby, who was currently pouting. "Rubes, you okay?" She frowned, and shook her head. Walking fast past the confused boy, Ruby grabbed his hand and led him over to Yang's table.
"Hey Jett." Eccon said, smiling at the two of them. Jett saw that RWBY and JEMM were all sitting at the same table. The couple sat down on their respective sides with their teams. When Jett looked down the line, he noticed Matilda sitting there with her head down, eating her food in silence. Jett looked at his sister a few minutes longer, trying to figure out what went wrong earlier. The boy noticed several things about his sister that he didn't notice before. A long, jagged scar running along her jawbone, her silver hair was laced with streaks of pink, just like his hair was, and that she wore black-rimmed spectacles. Jett's sister was about 5'6", and petite, with silver and pink hair that reached down to the middle of her back. A green feather charm hung off the back of her left ear. She wore a muted green travelling cloak, over a grey, religious-looking tunic with a collar.
"Yo, Remnant to Jett. Wake up." a voice insisted. Jett snapped back into reality, and noticed that he'd be staring at Matilda unknowingly. The boy quickly looked away. "Sorry, lost in thought." Eccon, who was sitting next to Jett on his right, leaned in a whispered: "You sure you're alright. You were staring pretty hard at your sister there-" Jett shot the faunus boy a look of death. Eccon gave a sheepish grin, scratched his head and went back to eating his food.
Eccon has been by Jett's side since day one, but he never really paid attention to him before. To any of his teammates, really. So, Jett never noticed that Eccon has a scar across the bridge of his nose, or he has a facial tattoo on each of his cheekbones. Eccon is the youngest out of Team JEMM, enrolling at only 16. Jett didn't know anything about the faunus boy, except something tragic happened in his past-A common factor for JEMM, apparently. Eccon is almost as tall as Jett is, coming in at 5'9". Like Jett, he was also wiry. But, unlike Jett, Eccon always wore a smile on his face. His blonde hair only helped to compliment his tan skin and olive green eyes. He wore a brown hankerchief around his neck, and yellow outdoor's vest graced his chest, following a brown long sleeve shirt underneath. His deer antlers jutted proudly out the top of his skull, almost in defiance to gravity.
"Stop teasing him, Bambi." Miranda said coldly. Eccon gave the girl a dirty look, and continued eating. "Woah! Miranda acting as the voice of reason! Will wonders never cease?" Jett exclaimed sarcastically, laughing at his own joke. Shooting him a dirty look, she went back to eating her own food, as well.
Miranda. What is there to say about her? Jett has known the gruff girl since the first day of school, when they "met" at orientation. If by met, you mean a punch to the face with enough force to level a small building. For all her snide remarks and reserved attitude, Jett could tell that she cared somewhat for the team. Miranda is almost as tall as Jett is: 5'8", to be exact. This girl looks a bit wiry, but Jett had seen that she has quite a bit of power hidden in her body. Her tanned skin complimented the green in her eyes, and the green in her hair nicely. A tattooed diamond rested between her eyes, in the middle of her forehead. Silver studs rested in her earlobes, and a beauty mark resided just above her upper lip on the left side. Jett looked down, and looked over the girl's outfit. Miranda wore a muted green punk, army jacket, unzipped in the front, with pockets on either side of the opening. A muted green undershirt was exposed to the open air underneath. Around her neck, hung a silver chain, and green dog collar with a buckle in the front.
"So, you guys ready for Professor Peach's test tomorrow?" Ruby asked JEMM. Eccon looked up at the chipper Ruby, and smiled. "Hell yeah we are!" he exclaimed, making a fist. "Hmph. Speak for yourself. I hate Dust class." Miranda retorted. Weiss narrowed her eyes. "Professor Peach is such an inspiration, though?" the heiress blurted out. "Yeah.. Doesn't make the way she teaches any less boring, though." Weiss huffed, and gave up, pouting. "Hey, maybe the class isn't for everyone, Weiss Cream!" Yang beamed, giving the dismayed heiress a thumbs-up. "Let's just eat, and worry about the test later." Jett called, trying to focus the two teams. "No use worrying about it right now.." Blake said quietly. "Exactly! So let's dig in!"
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"Ahhhhhh. That was good.." Yang stated, satisfied. She patted her stomach, and belched loudly. "That was great. What are you talking about, Yang?" Jett saidly dreamily, so stuffed he couldn't move. "It was quite filling." Weiss said properly, wiping her mouth with a handkerchief. "Hey, that hurts!" a voice exclaimed from behind them. What he saw was Cardin Winchester, pulling on one of Velvet's ears, with his team snickering about it. "See? I told you they were real." Cardin remarked. "What a freak!" another one of his team commented. "Please stop." Velvet pleaded. Jett caught a redheaded girl to his right looking at the spectalce, shaking her head. "Atrocious." he heard her say. "I can't stand people like him."
Cardin let go of the faunus girl's ear, and she ran off back to her friends at another table. The bully directed his attention to Jett and smiled and evil smile. Cardin looked back at his team, and gestured for them to follow him. They collectively got up, and headed for the door, a bit of swagger in Cardin steps as he left. Ugh. I hate him. "Piece of work, isn't he?" Yang asked, smirking. "Yeah, a bit." Jett replied. He started picking up his plates up from the table. "Here, I'll take this up to the front. You guys start heading back." Ruby smiled. "Aw, aren't you nice?" she cooed. "You wouldn't be sucking face with him if he wasn't." Yang commented, giving a sly smile. "YANG!" Jett let out a chuckle, and turned to walk up to the front.