Hi everyone! I finally came back from my trip and I'm ready to write more! Sorry to those who wanted the rewrite of To Him & To Her, but I just couldn't think up anything for that. Plus I really did want to write this. But don't worry! I will be rewriting that soon. As for this story, I always thought that Jaune and Link were similar in a way and I just replayed Breath of the Wild on master mode, so I have a lot of ideas for this one! By the way, lots of spoilers on Breath of the Wild, so if you want to avoid spoilers, (even though the game's been out for a year) play the game first and then come back. See ya! (^3^)/
It had been clear to Zelda that Link was going to survive. Why else would the Master Sword glow that way if not for his revival? She had been full of anxiety ever since he had collapsed, but the Deku Tree had calmed her heart of worry and promised that, since they put him in the Shrine of Resurrection, he would make it out eventually. Being given that confidence, Zelda steeled herself and went off to face Ganon.
But Link never did wake up 100 years later to the future of Hyrule. After a couple of days, the walls of the tub had cracked of old age, and the healing gel had slowly leaked out. Link died 3 days after they sealed the Shrine of Resurrection. With no hero to come, Hyrule would be faced with eternal darkness as soon as Zelda ran out of energy to fight it back. Luckily, the universe sent another broken, blond haired, blue eyed swordsman in his place.
Jaune didn't know if he could hold his breath any longer. He had just admitted to cheating into one of the four most prestigious academies in all of Remnant to his partner, and she hadn't responded yet. If her face could be described in two words, it would be confusion and shock. She opened her mouth to speak, a beat passed, and she closed her mouth. Jaune couldn't tell if it had been 15 seconds or a full minute yet, but either way, the tension was killing him. Eventually, she spoke up.
"I... I... Jaune…" She stopped. It terrified him to no end that he couldn't figure out the tone of her voice. "J... Jaune… I'm... I'm sorry but... I-I need to think about this." She said as she slowly walked past him and walked to the door. She glanced back at him before leaving the roof. Jaune's eyes stayed where Pyrrha last stood as he listened to her heels crunch against the gravel as it slowly faded away. His knees felt weak and his stomach was in chaos. He slowly walked backwards until he hit the wall, then he slid down and sat with his head in his hands.
"Wh... I... What did I just do?" The night was cold but quiet, no wind and a clear sky. The only sounds he could hear were the soft chirps of distant crickets. What was he to do now? Could he even go back to his dorm? And what did Pyrrha think? She could actually could be thinking about it, but all signs in Jaune's head pointed towards her being super pissed off right now. 'Would she keep it to herself or would she tell the team? No, forget the team, she'll probably tell the whole school!' All thoughts in Jaune's head were thinking about the negative consequences of his actions. But little did he know, a certain bully had been listening to all of their conversation and had been silently recording it. Once Cardin determined that Pyrrha had left, he carefully stepped away from the window and got on to his bed. He took out his phone and uploaded the video onto his social account, silently laughing to himself. 'Man oh man Jauney-Boy! I'm sorry to do this, but I'm just being a good student and reporting crimes!'
The whole school got a notification that night. Some opened it, many didn't and kept sleeping. But the effects of that notification would be there the next morning.
Jaune wasn't that much of a social media guy. He would rather meet up and hang around with his friends rather than staying up all night and sharing memes in a group chat. Sure, he used DustTube but he didn't use Clicktalk or Quickpics. So when he woke up to his phone screaming at him, he was very confused. He checked it and saw that he had a bunch of messages. He was about to look into one but he realized that he was still on the roof and pocketed his scroll. 'Wait, did I fall asleep up here?' He got up and dusted himself off. 'Why did... I... Oh.' He looked up to see the sun was rising and people were starting to get up. 'Shit, what do I do now?' He debated going back to his dorm, but quickly rejected that idea when he realized that Ren and Nora must've asked Pyrrha where he had gone. 'Well, I guess I could go down to the cafeteria to get some breakfast...' He walked through the door of the roof. 'How am I going to explain this to them?'
Jaune wouldn't call himself a popular guy, but he noticed many stares and glares from the people he passed on his way to the cafeteria. Many glared, some whispered to their friends, but either way, Jaune couldn't handle all of the negative attention and decided to pull out his scroll. 'Oh yeah. a bunch of people messaged me overnight. I wonder what's that about?' He opened the messaging app and saw the list of people who texted him. 'What the? Why are a bunch of random people messaging me?' He opened up the first on the list. He stopped dead in his tracks as he began to read it.
"What the actual FUCK dude? You think you can just sneak in here while we worked our asses off to get here?! If I see you, you better get your ass prepared for the worst ass kicking of your life!" What. No... Nonono! How? When? Why? He checked all of the texts below. All of them where either death threats, threats to kick him out, or disappointed texts. 'Fuck! What do I do?' His nervous expression had caught some stares as groups of people started moving towards him. He quickly snuck into a crowd of tired students, who were heading to the cafeteria to get their morning coffee. From there he moved out of the crowd and jumped into a janitors closet. Hyped up on adrenalin and all the negative emotions under the sun, he paced around the closet and thought of any way to save himself from the situation he created.
Ruby Rose woke up relatively early. Usually it was the music from her phone that was her alarm, but this time it was from the yelling and shouting from her partner. "What the hell! I knew it! I knew that blond nobody was nothing but a no good cheat!" Weiss yelled as she looked through her scroll. "Weiss, stop shouting... Go back to bed, the alarm didn't even go off..." Ruby mumbled through her pillow. "No Ruby! I am marching over to team JNPR's room and throwing that criminal out of here!" Weiss said before she stormed off towards the door. 'Wait... Team JNPR's room... Blond nobody...' Ruby thought before she threw the pillow off her face and grabbed Weiss's wrist. "Wait wait wait! What are you doing Weiss?!" Ruby quietly said as to not wake up her other teammates. "Here, just look!" Weiss handed her scroll over to Ruby and huffed. "See?! I knew he was just a no good liar!" Ruby read over the text that was on Weiss's phone. Then she did it again. There was no way this was true! It had to be a rumor or something! Ruby read it over one more time. "Weiss, this is probably a rumor or something. I know you don't like him but this is a little much." Ruby said as she gave back Weiss's scroll. "No! It's real! There's video proof of him admitting to it!" Ruby's mouth hung agape. 'No... No! There's no way he would ever do that!'
"D-Do you have it? I mean... maybe... maybe it's fake!" Ruby exclaimed. He was her best friend! There was no way! Someone had to have edited him talking into a fake confession! "Maybe someone edited it together and is trying to give him a bad reputation!" Ruby was confident about her theory. Why would he, if he did, admit his cheating out in the open like that! It'd make no sense!
"I don't think so Ruby. First of all it was a video, so if someone did edit it together it would have been obvious by the jump cuts. Secondly, even if someone were to edit this video together, Beacon has a bunch of security cameras around campus. They would have caught it as well. And finally, Jaune admitted it to Pyrrha! That's why I was going to their room in the first place! I wanted to ask her if he really said it." Weiss had calmed down a bit after her outburst. While the evidence was pretty solid, Ruby believed in her heart that there was no way in Remnant that it was true. "Well then, let's go ask her about it. If Jaune really did admit it, she'll be the only true source of information in the school." Ruby would bet a years worth of cookies on this. She couldn't wait to see Weiss's face when she found out it had all been a hoax.
"What the heck are you guys talking about that is so important that it had to wake us up before the alarm went off?!" Yang shouted at the two as she sat up and moved her hair out of her eyes. "Apparently, Weiss saw on Clicktalk that Jaune had admitted to cheating into Beacon to Pyrrha. She was about to go to JNPR's room to ask before Ruby stopped her." Blake said as she put down the book she had been reading and got up off of her bed. "Sorry to say Ruby, but I have to agree with Weiss on this one. The evidence is pretty solid. I overheard the audio and it sounded genuine."
"Sheesh Blake. I know Jaune isn't the toughest or smartest of guys, but seriously? Cheating into Beacon?" Yang said, curiosity overriding her anger of being woken up. "Cut Vomit-Boy some slack, will ya?"
"Well, lets go see for ourselves." Weiss said as she opened the door to the hallway. "Heh, you'll see Weiss. When Pyrrha says that she has no idea of what you're talking about, I command you as team leader to go apologize to Jaune!" Ruby said as she pointed up into the air. She could see it now. They open JNPR's door, all of them are sleeping, they'll wake them up and ask, they'll say no, and then Ruby can give a sarcastic lecture on the dangers of the internet and social media.
But when they opened the door, calm and peace where the two emotions not present in the dorm. The first thing they noticed was that the leader of the group wasn't with them. This instantly set off red flags in their minds. The second thing they noticed was the faces of the three present. Nora seemingly looked happy, until they saw her eyes. It was like she was taking a test and couldn't figure out the answer to the most important question. Ren's face looked calm, but they saw the twitch in his eye and his subtle glare at the floor. Pyrrha though, she looked straight up depressed. She was sitting in the fetal position on her bed with a thousand-yard stare directed at their leaders bed. All of them had bags under their eyes and all of them looked miserable.
Once Ruby took in the whole situation, her heart sank. 'No... No! He... No, may-maybe they saw all of the drama on social media and are just stressed about it all.' Ruby thought, trying to interpret a different meaning from the situation in front of her. Before she could voice these thoughts though, Weiss spoke up. "What... What happened in here?" They all flinched when they heard her voice, as they didn't notice their entrance. "O-Oh! G-Good morning Weiss!" Pyrrha said, her voice shaky. "Why... Oh! Team RWBY! Why... are you all here?" Pyrrha sounded like she had been yelling at the top of her lungs a couple hours ago, because her voice was awful.
"We came here... to ask you a question." Weiss said in as calm voice as she could manage. Though it seemed to have little effect as they all flinched at her statement. Their heads feel down as they seemed to already know what she was going to ask. "Ok... what... what is it?" Pyrrha managed to get out. "Well... I saw this video this morning and wanted to confirm." Weiss pulled out her scroll and opened the post with the video. "Did what happen in the video really happen? Did Jaune cheat his way into Beacon?"
This was it. The deciding moment. Even though everything seemed stacked against her, the evidence, the video, and the state of her sister team, Ruby hoped from the bottom of her heart that the words that would come out of Pyrrha's mouth would be anything but...
"Yes..."
Nothing happened. Time stopped. Not a breath of air was uttered. A beat passed...
... and everything fell into chaos.