Hello guys, here is the latest chapter in the tale. I hope you enjoy it, it was a real difficult one to write. I want to take the opportunity to agree with you. It has been mostly too PG, that will change.

I would like to dedicate this chapter to ARKOS THEREFORE I WIN. A loyal supporter always giving me feedback and shooting ideas my way.

Jaune and Pyrrha sat alone in their dorm room, their eyes locked one one another. The game had been going in Jaune's favour, whether that was due to her going easy on him or the fact that he might have actually picked up on some things from his classes Jaune simply didn't know. He had managed to answer enough of her questions correctly that Pyrrha now sat in only her underwear. To Jaune's surprise it had matched her colour scheme almost perfectly. Her bra and panties a matching red and gold colour.

The Champion looked at him with a light smirk as she pondered what would be the next question she would pose to him. Her eyes brightened as an idea came to her. She leant forward, her assets on full show. Jaune fought to keep his eyes locked with hers, sweat beading on his forehead. Despite his efforts he couldn't help but flick his eyes down once in a while, each time sending more and more blood flooding to his cheeks.

"Where was dust first discovered and how?" She asked in a sultry voice that left Jaune hot under the collar. He scoured his brain for any trace of the answer, every time he thought he had it he would open his mouth to say it and Pyrrha would pull some move to distract him and he would lose it again. Frustration was not the word.

The blonde bit his tongue hard and focussed on the pain to drag him out of his stupor. Pyrrha was playing him, she couldn't be allowed to win. He clamped his eyes shut but the image of his scantily clad girlfriend was ingrained into his mind's eye and, whilst it was a pleasant image, it didn't help his situation any.

"Well?" She asked, an impatient smirk on her face. It seemed clear that she was enjoying tormenting the blonde.

"A-Atlas!" He blurted out in desperation. She looked at him in shock.

"T-that's...correct Jaune but you still haven't told me why."

"Uh, the first settlers found dust crystals in the deep natural caves of the Atlesian mountains, they discovered the unique properties and the very first Schnee sought to capitalise on them. She began researching the crystals until she worked out a method of refining them." The words flew from the blonde's mouth before he even knew that he was speaking.

Pyrrha's expression shifted from one of shock to one of horrific realisation as she nodded, her mouth hanging open. Now it was Jaune's turn to smirk, proud in his victory. The champion reached behind herself with her arms for the clasp on her bra, her face shifting quickly to bright red.

"Y'know Pyrrha, you don't have to do this if you're not comfortable with it..." He said, barely loud enough for him to hear over his own rapidly beating heart. To his surprise she shook her head and finished unclasping the garment. She held it in place.

"I-I hedged my bets and lost Jaune, I'll hold up my end of the bargain." She smiled warmly to her knight and removed her bra, holding it out and letting it fall, leaving her chest bare before him. She shivered as the cold air met with her newly exposed skin.

Jaune nearly suffered an aneurysm right there and then, the blood flow to his head was so intense. His head swam as he beheld the form of his partner, everything from her smooth curves to her supple breasts. His jaw hung slack as he tried to form words. His thoughts were muddled and his brain addled.

"P-Pyrrha... you...I... uh... You're beautiful." He stammered, his voice barely audible and his face an impressive shade of red, brighter even than that of his partner's hair. The champion blushed at his compliment and moved from her seat to sit next to him. She kissed his cheek and held him close.

Jaune's neck prickled as her felt her assets press against his body. He nervously wrapped an arm around her bare torso with a smile. Her skin soft and warm to the touch. He rested his head against hers, unsure what he was meant to do now.

"T-thanks Pyrrha, for helping me study I mean..." He sighed softly, gently running his hand across her arm, her skin smooth to the touch.

"It was my pleasure Jaune..." She looked down with a gentle sigh. "D-did you like what you saw?" Her cheeks once again shifted colour into the red. It took Jaune a little while for her question to sink in, and even longer for his head to form an answer.

"P-Pyrrha, you look incredible, no wait better than that... Beautiful." He grinned as he gently turned her head and locked eyes with her. Nervously he leant in to kiss her, a hand sliding to her waist.

The champion shivered at the sensation of his hand sliding across her skin. She leant in and locked her lips around his in an act of timeless passion, the rest of the world had ceased to exist save for the two young lovers. Pyrrha nervously pushed him back onto the bed in a gentle but sure motion, not once breaking their kiss. She parted her lips slightly and Jaune took her invitation. Their two tongues met, dancing together.

Jaune felt her hands slide down his body and begin to unbuckle his belts and jeans. His face flushed brightly as he knew what was about to happen and, despite it all, he felt calm. If he was to do...that... with anyone, he would want it to be Pyrrha.

She finished with his jeans and began to kiss a trail down his body, she worked her way along his jawline, down his neck, across his chest, down to his waist. Jaune moaned softly at the feeling of her lips gradually working their away across his body. She pulled away his boxers away revealing his fully erect member. She looked at it curiously, her head tilted to one side in a manner that made Jaune even more nervous than he already was.

"P-Pyrrha?" He asked, his voice trembling. She looked him straight in the eyes, her own were sparkling brightly. She paused for a moment and leant forward wrapping her mouth around his head with a certain apprehensive nature.

A soft moan escaped Jaune as she slowly began to work on him, she was careful at first but soon grew in confidence. The knight cupped her cheek, unsure exactly what he was supposed to see. Waves of pleasure coursed through his body bringing him towards something mysterious and yet incredible. They would get there together.

A half hour later, the two lovers wrapped in each others arms. It had been incredible, given that it was his first he had always expected it to be nervous and awkward yet in his partner's presence he felt natural and so comfortable. It felt incredible to him, it seemed he wasn't the only one without 'experience'.

Neither of them wanted to move, the blonde knight questioning if he even could move without his legs giving out beneath him. He kissed his partner on the crown of her head.

"W-well that was... unexpected." Jaune whispered.

"Yeah..." She sighed reaching up to kiss his cheek.

"N-not that it's a bad thing!" He said quickly, hoping he hadn't caused offence nor seemed like he hadn't really wanted to. "I-I really enjoyed it, it was just such a surprise y'know..."

"Jaune relax, I enjoyed it too." She giggled at just how flustered Jaune was. She pecked him on the lips to calm his nerves.

The young couple were silent, content to hold one another in their arms. Perfectly happy to be so, yet it couldn't last forever of course. It was Pyrrha whom was the first to move, albeit grudgingly. With a sigh she pulled herself up onto her elbows and pecked him on the cheek. Hauling herself out of bed she sauntered over to the small bathroom, hips swaying in the most hypnotic and mesmerising manner.

"We should get dressed, our team will be returning shortly." She said with a sigh. The Spartan paused in the doorway and looked back over to her lover with a smirk. "Oh, and Jaune? Don't think that this lets you off the hook for our training tonight. I still expect you to give it your all." The redhead giggled and made her way in to shower.

Whilst she showered Jaune clambered out of bed and pulled his boxers on. He attacked the vast mound of clothes, folding them and tidying them away back in his closet. Before long he had finished and Pyrrha re-emerged from the bathroom accompanied by a cloud of steam. She looked around the now tidied room with a satisfied nod until her eyes landed on a small foil wrapper. With a bright blush she darted forward and snatched it up.

"You know what Nora's like..." She said with a shrug. Jaune nodded and grabbed a fresh pair of boxer shorts. He headed into the bathroom to hit the showers. Words couldn't express just how great the water felt as it soothed his aches and pains and washed away the grime. His muscles relaxed after what had been an entertaining couple of hours to say the least.

He stood under the jet of water and allowed his mind to wander. He thought about the rapidly approaching finals and whilst he was still nervous for them, the idea didn't instil the same biting fear that they had previously. A mixture of his chat with Ozpin as well as his friend's desire to help him, had taken the scare out of the exams.

He thought at great length of Pyrrha, his fiery red-haired Mistralian Champion. His girlfriend, his...love?

'Yes.' He internally concluded. 'I do...love her, more than anything or anyone on this earth.'

With a grin he finished his shower, shut off the water, dressed and left the bathroom. He found their dorm still empty save for Pyrrha, whom was sat on their bed in her usual combat garb. The knight made his way over and sat beside her. He pressed his lips to hers in a move charged with fiery passion. When at last he pulled away, the two were left gasping for breath. She looked at him, her eyes still a little hazy from the kiss.

"Wha-what did I do to deserve that?" She asked, still panting a little.

"Pyrrha, I...I..." A lump formed in his throat as he fought to get the words out. "I love you." There it was, the 'L bomb'. The last step left for them to take in their relationship and he had been the one to take it. Boldly going where neither of them had ever gone before.

The Champion gasped slightly hearing those words, she had been expecting him to say them soon and yet here they were, wrapped in each other's arms while he confessed his love. She looked deep into his deep blue eyes whilst her own sparkled behind tears of joy. One of her tears fell and rolled its way down her cheek.

"Is everything OK Pyrrha? I haven't upset you have I?" He asked nervously. She wiped the tear away with the back of her hand in response and shook her head, struggling to form words.

"N-no Jaune. I'm just... Really happy. I-I love you too." She beamed hugging him so tightly she risked to squeeze the very life out of him. He gasped silently and patted her weakly on the back, the only thing he really could do in that situation.

They kissed one another again, pouring every bit of their newly confessed love into the contact. It was intense to say the least, the very air seemed to crackle with electricity as the two were absorbed into their own world. That world simply consisted of each other.

They remained in each other's arms until their teammates returned half an hour later. Nora burst into their dorm room trumpeting her own arrival with an off-key fanfare whilst Ren followed close behind. They found the two lovers laying on their bed, fully clothed, with their arms wrapped around one another.

The couple bolted upright looking over to their teammates whilst their teammates simply looked back. Ren raised an eyebrow knowingly but decided not to voice his thoughts, something with the Arkos pair were eternally grateful for.

"I'm hungry! Let's get some food!" Nora cried with her usual ear to ear grin. The remaining three agreed heartily and so they all made their way down to the school's cafeteria. Before long they sat eating their usual; Nora had her pancakes, Ren had his noodles, Pyrrha had a large chicken salad and Jaune had everything he could possibly fit on his plate. It was piled high with a mountain of food ranging from sausages to a 12oz steak with mashed potatoes and gravy.

His team watched with avid interest as he attacked his food, demolishing its mountainous form. He mined his way through the layers of mash potato until he discovered various deposits of meat, which he would spend a few minutes extracting from the surrounding potato bedrock.

At long last he finished his meal, placing his knife and fork down in triumph. Holding his hands up in triumph at having finally bested the Goliath meal. He grinned and leant back with a satisfied sigh, pushing away his plate.

Once he had given his food time to digest properly, he stood up excitedly with his team and together, they made their way back to their dorm room. Once there they split down into their various tasks. Nora and Ren sat and the desk whilst Ren fought to get Nora to do her homework whilst Pyrrha sat in Jaune's lap and read the latest issue of 'X-ray and Vav' together. Pyrrha enjoyed it more than she expected and although she may not have understood the whole of the undoubtedly complex plot, she did understand the important parts.

She understood that the main protagonists seemed to be a couple of completely hapless superheroes, fighting against some kind of pirate themed corporate leader. She couldn't help but laugh at how unrealistic all the fights were, nothing like that could ever happen in Remnant. Yet for all its flaws the voices Jaune put on as he read his way through kept her interested in the story, even if it was only because of the questionable voice acting.

Yet before long they had finished the graphic novel. The blonde carefully closed it ensuring that none of the pages were crinkled. With his free arm he reached under his bed pawing around until he felt what he was looking for. With a grin he pulled it out from under his bed and into the light revealing a large box.

It was filled with hundreds if not thousands of 'X-ray and Vav' comics, each and every one preserved against the slow encroachment of time in its own cellophane pocket. It was clear to Pyrrha as she looked upon his collection that he had been collecting for a long time.

'So that's why he gets upset when Nora crinkles the pages.' Pyrrha chuckled as her boyfriends tendencies began to make more and more sense.

"You have quite the collection there." She giggled as he covered his latest comic in cellophane.

"Y-yeah, I've been collecting them since I was a kid. I have every single one after issue twenty six. But I'll get those ones too one day."

"Of course you will." She smiled, wrapping an arm around her.

It was late that night, around midnight perhaps, that team Juniper finally decided to settle in for the night. Jaune came back from the bathroom, his lips still clutching to the remnants of his toothpaste. He climbed into his bed, in the space his partner had left for him, and snuggled up to her. He wrapped his arms around her and kissed her on her head as she drew him in closer.

She kissed him on the tip of his nose affectionately, snuggling close and resting her head in its usual place on his chest whilst her hair cascaded down across hit upper body. She listened to the steady beat of his heart, its regular rhythm managing to lull her slowly and surely towards sleep.

"I love you Pyrrha." he smiled in the dark, glad that the gloom would conceal the bright red of his cheeks.

She nuzzled into him, loving the power that those words held over her. They held the ability to make her heart skip a beat, to turn her cheeks a bright red and to fill her with the warmest of feelings, ones that she never wanted to end. She hoped that one day he would understand that. Her eyes welled up and tears rolled their way down her cheeks and onto the thin layer of cloth covering his chest, dampening the cloth.

After a few moments the blonde looked down and saw her, she was crying. But why? He tightened his hold around her ever so slightly, hoping that the action would demonstrate to that he was there for her no matter what.

"I-Is everything alright Pyrrha?" he asked nervously. He kept his voice at a whisper to avoid waking the others.

"I'm fine Jaune. These are tears of joy." she explained with a wide smile.

"Oh..." he was a little taken aback by her response. His heart warmed as pride ran through him. Jaune Arc, Beacon's resident goof had brought Pyrrha Nikos, the 'Invincible Girl' to tears of joy. Such a thing was unprecedented. Unheard of.

"I love you too Jaune, I still can't believe that you and I ever got together. I keep thinking that maybe it's a dream and I'm going to wake up and everything will be back to how it was before."

"Pyrrha?" He tilted her chin up so she was looking him dead in the eyes, her bright emerald orbs reflecting the soft moonlight. "If it was a dream could I do this?" He kissed her, and for a long while all was silent, the only sounds were those of their rapidly beating hearts. The Champion's blushing face was rivalled only by that of her lover. Their auras flared up around them and mingled into one cohesive whole, just as they had during initiation. The two kissed until their lungs burned and cried out for oxygen.

"I...I guess...not." Pyrrha panted, a smile blooming across her face.

She rested her head back on his chest and closed her eyes drifting into the warming arms of sleep. He lay awake for a while, looking up to the ceiling and allowing his mind to wander. It had been an incredible day, one he would remember until the very end of his days.

All that remained now were his final exams, with his team behind him he had no doubts that he would get through it and together they could all keep moving forward together onward to bigger and better things.

Thank you for reading. Please bare in mind that this was the first attempt I've made to write this kind of thing so if you plan to critique please do take that into consideration. As always please follow favourite and most importantly review. Help me make this as good as it can possibly be.

Lastly but most certainly not least I wish to say this;

This chapter was going to be dedicated to Monty as my act of remembrance but I don't feel as though a single chapter would do him justice as the creative talent and inspiration he was. I thought about what my act of remembrance might be when it came to me. You have showed an interest in a sequel and I shall write one. It shall be written as my tribute to the Man that made this whole adventure possible. A whole fiction rather than just a chapter.

Thank you all for supporting this fic for as long as you have, and I hope that you will continue to read my work in the future.