A/N: Only poll votes count in choosing who Jaunes dates next; votes cast in reviews and PMs DON'T COUNT and will be summarily ignored.
Chapter 4: Difficulty Spike
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"So then I rabble rabble rabble before the cake was rabble rabble as thirty of his fellows rabble rab-rabble rabble with my bear hands!"
Jaune groaned, his forehead making a "thunk!" sound as he let it fall onto the desk in front of him; it wasn't that he didn't want to pay attention to Professor Port, the man was arguably one of the more entertaining teachers at Beacon, but his long winded speeches tended to make it more difficult than normal to actually figure out what the points of his lessons were.
"Zeus' sexual appetites, I don't even think he's taken a breath since he started!"
Kyu's color commentary wasn't really helping matters either.
"I mean, I've known guys with stamina before, if you know what I mean, but this is just ridiculous!"
He glanced over at the Love Fairy sitting next to him (For crying out loud, did she really have to put her legs up like that?!) her expression one of utter disbelief. Given the way she was dressed and her need to use innuendos all the time, he'd assumed she wasn't someone who was shocked easily.
If the rest of her wasn't so...distracting, he might have reveled a bit at her discomfort for once.
However, it seemed that fate had other plans for him, because he suddenly felt something bounce off his head, landing on the desk next to his face: it was a crumpled up piece of paper, rather unremarkable in its own right.
After checking to make sure Port wasn't paying attention to him- he wasn't; he was in middle explaining something about "the one in the hole" -Jaune uncrumpled the paper, finding a note on the inside.
"OK, that's disturbing, and that's saying something coming from me!" Kyu proclaimed at the Professor's narrative. She glanced over at her "charge", "Ain't that right- ...hey, whatcha got there, a love letter?"
It took Jaune a moment register what the Love Fairy said, and once he did tried to hide it from her.
"N-n-no!" he stammered, "W-why would you ask th-that?"
"Um...because your stammering begs to differ," she pointed out. "That and the hiding it when I asked thing."
Jaune hoped he was only imagining his face turning the same color as Ruby's cape.
Kyu chuckled, "But for real, dude, I asked to get a reaction out of you, and let me tell you, you delivered in Spades!"
Now Jaune felt stupid; he hadn't even read the darn thing yet! Ignoring the snickering Fairy for the moment he turned his attention back to the paper and gave it a read.
The good news was that it wasn't a love letter!
The bad news, on the other hand….
"Meet me by the ferry dock after class, Vomit Boy," it read, "I've been hearing things about you that I don't think I like, and if you don't have a good explanation for them, I'll make the rest of your life a living hell!" Jaune gulped at that part. "And I'm pretty good at finding people, so don't even think about not showing." There wasn't a signature at the end; instead, it was signed with a cartoon dragon head that had angry eyes. There was also a postscript that said "I'm sure you're smart enough to come alone."
The bad news was that someone was already out for his blood.
Had he even been here long enough to make an arch enemy?
"'Vomit Boy'?" the fairy snorted, reading the note over his shoulder, "Oh, I bet there's a good story behind that!"
"...I get air sick, OK?" he shamefully admitted. Not wanting to further draw attention to that little flaw of his he asked "So what am I going to about this?", gesturing to the message.
Kyu squinted her eye at the note, staying that way for a solid minute before giving a shrug. "I guess you're just gonna have to deal with this; it'd kinda suck if you were out macking on a Honey and this douche came out of nowhere and clocked you right in the kisser. ...and stole your girl. ...and covered your face in pictures of di-"
"I get it!" Jaune shouted; he was more than familiar enough with the general practices of schoolyard bullies, he didn't need Kyu rubbing it in his face!
"Congratulations Mr. Arc!" Professor Port suddenly called out, "If you understand, then you can demonstrate the principle for the rest of the students; and lucky you, I just got a new Edgar for just this purpose!" The rotund man gestured to a shadowy cage that was grueling and shaking around.
Jaune gulped.
Why me?...
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By the time Jaune made it to the dock he nearly collapsed on the spot; fighting a single Boarbatusk was a lot harder than he thought it would be, especially considering he's went up against far tougher monsters before and won! Well...it was more like "survived", and his team did most of the fighting...the point was that he got bashed around a lot before he managed to flip the Grimm on its back and stab it to death.
He was beginning to wonder if his fight(/massacre) with Ruby had depleted more of his Aura than he thought….
"Well, this looks like the place," Kyu said from next to him, "Not nearly as nice as the one in Sky Garden, though." She looked over at Jaune, frowning. "Something on your mind there, dude?"
He narrowed his eyes at her, "...I can't help but feel that you're mocking me, floating like that."
Kyu grinned smugly, "Hey, I can't help it if using my wings is second nature to me! All fairies learn how to fly at a young age, and some go their whole lives without standing on the ground."
It of course got Jaune curious about his...well, "guardian angel" sounded too flattering. "Do you ever use your legs?" he asked.
She waggled her eyebrows in response. "Well, that depends on what you mean by 'using them'...~" she said, grinning smugly at the blush on Jaune's face, "But yeah, I can walk just fine; it's just easier to use my wings."
Jaune nodded, trying to NOT think about what she meant about "using her legs" and not really succeeding.
Before any of the more lurid scenarios in his mind could play out someone shouted "Yo, Vomit Boy!" from behind him, causing both he and his Fairy companion to turn and face the speaker.
Needless to say, Jaune was surprised when he saw Yang Xiao-Long, the blonde haired member of Team RWBY striding towards him, a dangerous look in her eyes. He'd honestly been expecting someone like Cardin to get behind the note, given that the bully often made Jaune's life slightly less enjoyable...but the primal instinct deep inside him that was screaming at him to flee made him think that this person was the greater of two evils
"Wow, she looks pissed," Kyu helpfully supplied. "ProTip: tread carefully."
"What, no innuendo?" he couldn't help asking out of the side of his mouth.
"Dude, she's scaring me right now, and I've brushed elbows with people whose anger could rip the planet a new one if they so wanted," she whispered, "I'll come up with something later, once Blonde McG-cups cools off."
If she cools off, he thought sardonically.
Then he immediately regretted thinking that as Yang came to a stop right in front of him, looking him right in the eye.
Kyu began not so subtly inching away from Jaune, "Yeah, I'm just gonna...Good luck!"
"So," Yang said, tapping her foot, "I hear you and Ruby were hanging out earlier."
"Uh, yeah," he answered, trying to hold his meager composure together, "we were sparring earlier. ...why?"
"Because I have a very vested interest in her wellbeing, seeing as she's my sister and all."
Jaune gulped. This was Ruby's sister? The two of them were so different that he never would have made the connection in his own!
Though that would explain why they were always together during the Initiation….
"And," Yang continued, "since she's only fifteen, it's my job to make sure she doesn't get hurt before she's ready to deal with it on her own."
Jaune gulped again. She's fifteen?! he fretted, I just thought she was short for her age!
"Which, since our dad's not here, means I have the pleasure of screening her boyfriends."
...well Life, we've had a good run, haven't we? We've always been close, so I'll miss you once you're gone.
"So…." She brought up her fist and pounded into her other hand, still glaring at him as she repeated the process a couple more times for good measure. "What are you intentions towards my baby sister?"
Jaune thought he felt his pants getting a little damp, but he was too afraid to check, fearing she would turn into a monster and devour him if he broke eye contact.
"N-n-nothing!" he stammered, "I-I don't have any intentions towards Ruby!" (It was technically a lie, but living was slightly more important at the moment than being 100% truthful.) "We just sparred and talked for a bit between classes, that's all!" When Yang didn't make a move to knock his lights out he asked, against his better judgment, "Um...how did you hear about that?"
"A little bird in a red hood told me. Which would have been fine, except that she mentioned how weird your butt looked."
There was silence for a moment.
"...I can honestly say that it's not as bad as you're thinking."
The fact that Yang was still glaring at him suspiciously didn't bolster his confidence levels any.
"I don't know if I believe you yet," she said, "but you've got until we reach our destination to convince me." She suddenly grabbed his arm and dragged him towards an airship that was boarding passengers.
...Life? Will you hold me one more time before you leave?
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"Oh you are so DEAD, Vomit Boy!" Yang cried as she prepared to deliver Jaune the finishing blow.
"Just make it quick," he sighed, resigning himself to defeat. He'd done everything he could to keep this from happening, but the power of Yang Xiao-Long was just too much for him in the end.
"K.O.!" the game announced as Yang's character performed a flashy uppercut move on his, sending it into the top of the level. "Player 1 wins!"
"Yus!" the blonde girl cheered, doing a small fistpump. "Told you I was good at this game!" she boasted.
"Yeah," he admitted, "you are." After he gone through what happened on his "date" with Ruby (with many uncomfortably penetrating questions about his intentions at every point he detailed) and assured Yang that he simply wanted to be friends with the younger girl she'd lightened up immensely, much to his great relief. She was actually pretty cheerful and upbeat, if perhaps a tad blunt at times. When they arrived in Vale she'd lead (not dragged) him through the city until they'd reached a little arcade parlor, at which point he'd commented that that she didn't seem the type who enjoyed video games.
This was the sixth cabinet they'd played on, with the score 6-0 in Yang's favor.
This last loss was especially emasculating because Jaune was actually good at this particular game.
"So wadaya say," the blonde asked, "best 7 out of 13?"
Not surprisingly, Jaune didn't want to have his meager gamer cred crushed any further.
"Actually, could we take a break for a bit?" he asked. "I'm kinda feeling a little thirsty, to be honest."
Yang shrugged, "I guess. Hey, grab me something too, will ya?"
"Not to sound rude, but...why?"
"You lost," she said as though it were the most obvious thing in the world, "so you get the snacks. Besides, I paid for both our tickets over here."
He couldn't really argue with that.
She jerked her thumb behind her, "There's a couple vending machines over there; I'll take anything high in calories."
As Jaune trudged over to the vending machines he wondered why the universe went out of its way to make him of all people suffer. While he pondered this (and picked out the drinks) his Scroll buzzed on his pocket. He pulled it out and saw that he'd gotten a text message from one of his teammates: Pyrrha Nikos, to be precise.
Curious what she had to say to him, he opened it up.
#Hello Jaune,# it read, #I was surprised you didn't come watch my exhibition for Ms. Goodwitch's class.#
He mentally shot Kyu the bird for making him miss that.
#I'm not angry about it, I'm sure you must have had other obligations.#
He mentally flipped Kyu off harder.
#So in light of that, I attached a picture someone took during the match. I hope you like it.#
Jaune was about to mentally give Kyu the Finger as hard as he could before doing a double take at the last line of the text. He scanned to the bottom of the text and, sure enough, there was a tiny icon of a baby pin. He tapped it, his Scroll switching to its wide mode as the photo loaded.
He didn't know who the photographer was, but they definitely knew how to take a good picture; the image was of Pyrrha fighting against a quartet of opponents- he recognized them as Team CRDL -in the middle of pitched battle. CRDL's leader, Cardin, appeared to be swinging his mace right at Pyrrha's head, wholly two of the others (Jaune didn't remember their names) were attacking her from either side, the one using knives dealing with Pyrrha's shield. The fourth member of CRDL was in the middle of falling backwards, apparently having been kicked or something. Though she was facing away from the camera her head was turned to the side, and he could see a look of calm determination and focus on her face, like she had everything under control and she knew it.
This person's camera must have been pretty amazing too, because he was easily able to make out every bead of sweat on their bodies.
"Whatchya looking at?" Yang asked, suddenly appearing behind him. After [totally not] shrieking like a little girl he clumsily closed his Scroll, not missing how the chesty blonde girl was trying to sneak a peak at it.
"It's nothing," he said, pocketing the device, "One of my teammates texted me, something school related."
He hoped his sweat wasn't as noticeable as the stuff in the picture had been.
"...OK, whatever then. You get my drink yet?"
Jaune let out a mental sigh of relief; he'd been expecting her to press the issues, not accept it and move on.
"I was, uh, just about to." He dig out a Lien card from his pocket and slid it into the machine, hitting the button for People Like Grapes soda. There was a clunking noise as the offending drink fell into the receiver bucket. "Here," he said, handing the soda to Yang.
"Thanks." She took the can and popped the tab, guzzling it all down before he even had a chance to purchase his own beverage. "Ahhhh, that hit the spot!" she sighed, crushing the can flat and chucking it into s nearby trash can. "Now hurry up! Those zombies aren't going to headshot themselves for Round 7!"
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By the time he got back to Beacon Jaune was more than a little mentally exhausted. He and Yang had gone for twelve more rounds in arcade games, and he's lost every single time. Sure, it wasn't as bad as getting owned in mock combat by a fifteen year old, but at that pain would fade with time.
Hits to his pride? Not so much.
He was honestly a little surprised to find Kyu waiting for him as he stepped off the airship, given how quickly she ran away before.
"Well, you're still alive," she observed, "so I guess that means things went smoothly?"
Jaune nodded.
"Then you gotta tell me how things went with Blonde and Busty- Wait." The fairy looked around, "Where'd she go; I thought you two left together?"
"She told me she had something she needed to take care of in town and than I should just head back," he explained, "and she mentioned wanting to hang out like that again sometime."
Upon hearing this Kyu's face immediately lit up like a light; gone were any traces of fear she once had for Yang Xiao-Long.
"That's perfect!" she cried, I don't know what moves you pulled to quell her anger, but dude, I bow to your prowess!" She made a little curtsy with the hens of her [very] see through top. Then she grabbed him by the arms and dragged him back towards the school, "You have to tell me everything that happened, and don't skip on the deets!"
Hello Pain, my old friend….
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Kyu's Naughty Confessions blog })i({
Pound me not.
Hey sexy people, it's Kyu})i({ again! Sorry this update is a tad behind schedule |-D, but it took me a little while to weasel all the information out of the Playa.
So let's not waste any time and get right to it!
So Vomit Boy (*snerk*, I love that nickname!) was listening to the longest wind bag EVAR when out of nowhere he gets this note that tells him to meet the sender at a secluded spot and to not bring any witnesses all ominous like. (0o0) Sounds like something a serial would write, right?
Well (and this is the part I needed explained to me because I might have left Jauney Boy to the wolves to save own flawless skin… (-_-')) it turns out that the person he was meeting was the older sister of Ruby, the last Honey he took on a "date", though you couldn't tell just by looking at them. And let me tell you, she was not happy that Vomit Boy was macking on her little sister, that's for sure ( o ); I've known GODS who aren't as rage prone! But anyway, he explained the situation to Yang (you know, Miss G-cups?) and apparent she was alright with whatever he told her- I learned this part second hand, remember? -and they decided to hang around Vale city for a while.
And you guys wanna know something cool? She's a girl gamer! XD And a pretty good one too, judging by how dejected the Playa was when I asked him about it. (T^T) Which just goes to show you not to underestimate us girls!
Anyway, after a few rounds of pounding (...giggity.) they parted ways, with the promise to do this again some other time. And I don't know about the rest of you guys, but that sounds like a win to me! (Yang = Hearts x2.)
Also, Pyrrha sent him a really nice picture of her \(^o^)/ beating down some shmucks, and looking damn fine doing it!
But enough if that, let's look at the comments!
(not that)_blu_gurl34 says "badass Red Riding Hood is awesome! (Would cosplay.)" She is awesome, and now I want to see that cosplay; sent pics!
OG_cupid says "Leave my armpit hair out of this!" ….(O_O) Uh...no comment.
SpecialMonitor22 says "Huh...that interaction with Ruby actually went a TAD bit better than I thought it would go. But still, gotta give hime credit. He managed to stay there the while time and not chicken out, Progress son...progress. [...] Keep up the good work, Fairy Person!" Thanks dawg, I will keep up the good work! (And props to Vomit Boy for not being a pussy and surviving his second date as well!)
XBossLadyX says "Miss Rose seems quite skilled for one so young." Right? Especially since she's still younger than the rest of them here!
And that about wraps it up for this post. Got an idea who Vomit Boy (OK, OK, I'll give that a rest now. ...maybe. |-D) dates next? Vote on my poll! And if you have any comments or questions for lil' old Me, let me know and I'll address them next time!
And speaking of next time, see you sexy people later! })i({
