A/N

Sorry for the month wait, I promise to update at least once a week now.

Evaknight075 - Noctis doesn't find out until about Vol. 3 and the titans will show up mid Vol. 2

Thunder Dragon - I would accept a challenge if I know the series and sorry but I'm not a big Harry Potter fan (I've only seen about 2 movies) So I don't think I would really do it justice.

Chapter XX:

After the overly dramatized food fight that team RWBY, PING, and JNPR had caused in the cafeteria the three teams were forced to clean the whole cafeteria.

Noctis looked out of the highly placed window and let out a whistle "I can't believe this took the whole day."

"Yeah, but it was toooootally worth it." His older brother replied with a big smile on his face.

"It was quite enjoyable." Pyrrha said with her soft smile.

"LET'S DO IT AGAIN!" Nora shouted as she picked up a pie and was ready to throw it until her childhood friend stopped her from undoing the hard work they had just finished.

"No, Nora!"

"Awwwww." Nora replied as she hung her head low in disappointment.

"Looks like we finished just in time for dinner." Ignis said as he noticed a group of students walking into the cafeteria.

As the group of friends finished cleaning up their mess they all began to throw the equipment onto Noctis who began to struggle with all the buckets, mops, brooms, and dustpans suddenly blocking his view.

"Seriously?" Noctis said with an annoyed expression "You're all gonna make me return all this?"

"Don't worry, Noct. I'll grab you a plate." His girlfriend replied with a bright smile on her face.

Noctis sighed as his friends walked towards the food line, leaving him to carry all the cleaning supplies. He headed out the door of the cafeteria and began to make his way towards the supply closet. With all the supplies blocking his view he had accidently bumped into a student and fell with all the supplies toppling onto the young prince.

"Damn it." Noctis said with a deep sigh as he took off the mop bucket that landed on his head and soaked him.

"I'm really sorry about that." A feminine voice said as she offered the young prince a helping hand.

"No, it's my fau-" Noctis started but stopped as he stared in a trance at the female that had helped him up. She is wearing a Haven school uniform, and has long black hair.

"I-it was totally my fault." Noctis said with a blush on his face as he began picking up the supplies, the Haven student begins helping him and so do two other Haven students, both wearing Haven uniforms, one is a female with green hair and the other is a male with grey hair.

"Thanks." Noctis said as they handed him the supplies "I appreciate the help umm…"

"Cinder." The female replied with a seductive like smile "And you are?"

"U-Um… Noctis."

"I wonder if all Beacon boys are as cute as you, Noctis." Cinder said with a wink and a smile as she straddled past Noctis who was still entranced with her beauty.

"Hey, Noctis. I hope we see each other often." She said looking back at him with a smile on her face.

As soon as Cinder and the two other students who Noctis had assumed were her teammates Noctis shook himself to get him out of the trance and continued towards the supply closet. As soon as Noctis dropped off the supplies he made his way back to the cafeteria, the whole way back to the cafeteria he couldn't get Cinder out of his head, even though their meeting was a short one she had gotten to him and he couldn't get her out.

"Stop it, Noctis!" He thought to himself "You already have a girlfriend, and you love Ruby."

Even though he kept reminding himself of that fact he couldn't help it.

He got to the cafeteria and saw his friends at the usual table with an open seat for him next to Ruby. Noctis made his way to the open seat and sat down as Ruby slid him a plate of food.

"I already took the vegetables of your plate, Noctis." Ruby said to her boyfriend with a loving smile, but received no response from said guy as he looked to be daydreaming. Ruby shook him until he came back to remnant.

"Huh?" Noctis said as he noticed the odd looks he was getting from everyone at the table

"Are you okay, Noct?" Ruby questioned

"Y-Yeah, I'm fine. I'm just really hungry." With that said Noctis began to chow down on his food all the while he still had the image of Cinder in his mind.

"Hey, guys." A familiar faunus voice called out.

"Hey Velvet!" Everyone greeted the bunny faunus as she took a seat next to Gladiolus

"So I heard you guys had a pretty epic food fight today at lunch?"

"Oh yeah, it was tooootally epic!" Prompto replied with his mouth full of food in which he received a hit to the back of hte head from his blonde girlfriend

"Don't speak with your mouth full, Prompto. That's nasty!" She said with her mouth also full of food.

"You shouldn't be talking." Weiss said

"I'm so upset I missed it!"

"Don't worry, we'll make sure to have another one for you to participate in." Jaune said sarcastically

"How was the mission?" Velvet's towering boyfriend asked

"It was fine, just a simple recon mission for any white fang hangouts."

"Did your team find anything?" Ruby asked

"Not a single thing besides grimm."

"Well I'm glad you came back safe." Gladiolus said giving her a soft smile which made her smile.

The group of friends finished their meals and decided to call it a night with them returning to their rooms.

With Team RWBY

"Did you guys notice something wrong with Noctis?" Ruby asked as she hopped onto her bed in her pajamas.

"What do you mean?" Her older sister questioned as she played a game on her scroll.

"I mean when he came back from returning the supplies he just seemed…. Distant."

"I'm sure you're just overthinking it, Ruby." Blake said adding her two cents without looking up from her book that she had been reading.

"I don't know." Ruby said obviously bothered.

"Listen you dolt. I'm sure Noctis is still getting over the fact that he has lost his home and father. He's most likely still recovering from that." Weiss said

"You know what, you guys are right, I'm probably just overreacting."

With Team PING

"You can't be serious." Prompto said giving his little brother an almost angry look "How can you say you fell for some other girl when you're dating Ruby?!"

"I-I don't know…." Noctis said with his eyes glued to the dorm room floor "It's just that ever since I saw her I can't get her out of my mind no matter how hard I try."

"Well try harder!"

"You think I want to be thinking like this? I love Ruby, it's just that…. I don't know."

"Listen, your highness. I'm not going to tell you what to do, but if you truly do feel like that you should be honest with Ruby, she deserves that."

Noctis let out a deep sigh as he flopped onto his bed "I never said I was going to break up with Ruby, I just don't know."

Ignis took off his glasses and set them onto the nightstand next to his bed and laid his head onto his pillow "Whatever you do I hope you don't hurt that girl." Ignis said as he turned off the lights

"Yeah, me too." Noctis said as he dove into thought until he was able to fall asleep.

The next morning

Teams PING, RWBY, and JNPR were all sitting in class as they waited for the rest of the students to walk in as they were miraculously the first students to arrive. Ruby looked at Noctis who hadn't spoken a word to her besides the usual "good morning." and she couldn't help but feel saddened.

"Hey, Noctis." She said in a shy soft voice as she did when they first met.

"What's up?"

"A-Are you mad at me or something?" She said afraid of the answer she might get.

"No, why? Should I be?"

"N-No, it's just that you haven't really spoken to me today and usually you would've at least gave me a good morning kiss, but you didn't."

"I'm sorry, Ruby. I'm just really tired, that's all."

"O-Oh, okay." Ruby said still saddened knowing that it wasn't just exhaustion that had taken her boyfriend.

"Good morning, class!" Prof. Port said with his thunderous voice that was enough to wake any sleeping students in his class "Before we get started I would like for you all to give a warm welcome to the transfer students from Haven academy that will be joining us this semester. As he finished his sentence a group of Haven students walked into the class and Noctis' eyes fell on a familiar black haired student who walked past him

"Hey, Noctis." Cinder said in a seductive tone and winked as she moved passed him and took a seat across from him, putting her in his view.

Ruby noticed Noctis' blush as she passed him and felt her heart immediately sink. "N-Noctis, who's that?"

"Huh? Oh she's just some student from Mistral that I met yesterday."

"Oh." Was all Ruby said as she looked down to the floor.

During most of the class Ruby couldn't help but notice all the looks Cinder had been giving Noctis, even though Noctis never returned the looks she knew that he never took his eyes off her. As soon as the bell rang Ruby rushed out of the classroom leaving nothing but rose petals behind.

"What's wrong with Ruby?" Yang asked Noctis

"I don't know, but I'll find out." Noctis rushed to follow his girlfriend but she was long gone before he could even exit the class, but he knew right away where she'd be. Noctis made his way to the school garden where he and Ruby had frequent on the weekends and their days off and there she was, sitting against the same tree they always sat at.

"Hey Rubes." Noctis said to the teen who had her face in her face in between her brought up knees "What's wrong?"

"That Haven student." She said with a muffled voice

"What about her?"

"You were looking at her."

"I-I'm sorry, Ruby." Noctis said almost choking on his words.

Ruby brought up her tear filled face and looked at Noctis "You were looking at her like you would look at me."

"N-No, Ruby."

"I know you were!" Ruby shouted as she tried to hold back more tears from coming out.

Noctis let out a deep sigh and took a seat next to Ruby, and the two of them sat in silence.

"I-" Noctis started but was interrupted by Ruby

"We should break up." She said in a soft tone.

This took Noctis by surprise and his heart felt as if it just shattered into pieces. "Wh-What?"

"We should break up." Ruby repeated with a saddened tone

"Y-You don't mean that, do you, Ruby? I-It was just a look, that's it. I swear Ruby."

"You don't get it, Noctis. That look you gave her, that look was always reserved for me, that told me that you would always love and care about me, and you gave it to someone else."

By this point Noctis had tried his best to hold back his tears that begun to swell up "R-Ruby, please. You don't mean this."

"I-I do, Noctis."

Before Noctis could get another word in Ruby used her semblance and dashed out of garden and left Noctis by himself.

"Damn it, Noctis." He thought to himself "You're such an idiot."

Just then Noctis' scroll began to vibrate, he took it out and read a message from Prompto

"Ozpin wants us to meet him in the medical bay, he says it's important."

Noctis did his best to hide the fact that he had been crying and made his way to the medical bay.

Noctis made it to the medical bay and saw his team, team RWBY and Ozpin standing in front of a closed off room. Ruby kept her distance from Noctis and didn't spare him a single glance.

"What's going on?" Noctis asked no one in particular

Ozpin let out a deep sigh and adjusted his glasses "I regret to inform you that Nyx and Qrow were found severely wounded from bullet wounds."

"Wait what?!" Gladiolus said

"Their aura should've stopped it." Weiss said

"Yes, it should've. But somehow these bullets were able to negate their aura."

"Are they going to be okay?" Ruby asked with her hands over her mouth

"Yes, that is the bit of good news I have. They both have made it past the hard parts."

"Can we see them?" Yang asked

"Of course, just keep your voices down, they need their rest."

The group made their way into the medical room and saw both Nyx and Qrow connected to machines that assisted their breathing.

"How long do they have to stay here, like this?"

"The doctors say they should be ready to go in a few days."

"It was Niflheim, wasn't it?" Noctis said with anger in his voice

"We don't know that for sure."

"Who else could it be?! Ozpin, we need to act!"

"No, we must keep a calm mind, Noctis."

"Screw that, Niflheim is behind this, there's no doubt about it."

"And if they were? Do you plan on taking on a whole army by yourself?"

"If that's what needs to be done, then yes."

"I have sent word to General Ironwood, he should be here in a few days."

So what are we supposed to do until then? SIt back and hope Niflheim doesn't try anything?"

"That's all we can do for the moment, Noctis."

Noctis left the medical bay with his team behind him.

"Please don't tell me you're planning to do something rather idiotic." Ignis said

"We're headed to Mistral."

To be continued...