I'm back everyone. This is a rather long chapter I know but bear with me. It is really good. Have a good read and a good day.

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*Pyrrha POV*

We were now sitting down with the woman we had actually wanted to talk to at one of the many lunch tables with food in front of us but to be honest we could've cared less about the food. It was all about the information Scarlet, the wife of Mr. Ceribri, could tell us about him and maybe, just maybe, give us the upper hand in interrogating him to tell us more about not only himself but about why exactly he was here.

"So what do you two want to know about my husband? I'm sure that if you're resorting to asking me then he must be running you up a wall," she says with a smile on her face telling us that he also sent her up a wall at times.

"Well, I'd like to talk a little to you first. I think it is a bit rude to jump to our wants firsts. We should get to know each other better," I say putting on my best political face I only ever used for interviews after tournaments but this seemed like a very good time to pull it out. Judging from her face though she wasn't too pleased with it.

"I get that you're trying to be polite….. What's your name?" she asked.

"Pyrrha Nikos Ma'am," I say with a shaky voice fearing what was to come. For some reason she was scarier than Mr. Ceribri.

"I get that you're trying to be polite Pyrrha but don't ever do that to me again. I don't ever want to see a face that isn't your own when you're around me. Also, don't do that when you're trying to get information from someone. They'll immediately stop answering as they'll know you're putting on a face to get information. Got it?" she says with a stern voice that I had only ever heard from my mom when she chastised me.

"Y-yes ma'am," I say struggling to get the words out as a result of her chastising me. I was utterly embarrassed too, thank god no one saw that.

"Scarlet, what did you do? She looks so down now," Mr. Ceribri says coming out of nowhere to give a peck on the cheek to his wife which she returned with a smile before he started to talk.

"Maybe I should bring Jaune over here? These two always seem to cheer up when he's around," Mr. Ceribri says looking at his wife who he now had his arm over her shoulders. It was almost comical though as even sitting down she was taller than him.

"I think you should. These two here were just about to ask me about you. I think they deserve a little bit of teasing don't you?" asked Scarlet to her husband who only smiled deviously at Yang and I. We both knew that this plan had ferociously backfired on us and the only way out would be to go nuclear but that wasn't an option as the last time that happened we got a month straight of detentions (It was the food fight). The only thing left for us to do was to sit there and take it.

"I agree. Now where is he?" the man says looking around the cafeteria looking for what surely was about to be our death caused by obliviousness from a certain blonde.

"There he is," Mr. Ceribri then said pointing towards Jaune as he was in the line to get the food.

It was at that point I realized I didn't even know what was on my plate but before I could find out Scarlet got up and walked over to Jaune. As she got up to him she immediately pointed a thumb over her shoulder towards us and Jaune looked past her to see us. We smiled and waved at him beckoning for him to come over but we both dreaded the prospect at the moment knowing what was to come when he came over. Yang looked especially frightened as she had always been the teaser, not the one being teased. Scarlet then came back to the table and sat down next to her husband with one of the brightest smiles I had ever seen on someone.

"When was the last time we got to do something like this?" Scarlet then asked her husband in a reminiscent tone telling us she wasn't they type of person to particularly enjoy this but that she was happy to enjoy doing it with him.

"If I remember correctly I think was when we set up Tyler and Elizabeth. God were those two awkward," he says with a happy expression on his face.

"But at least they weren't totally oblivious," she says. "From what you've told me this kid wouldn't take the hint even if they literally told him they wanted him to screw him senseless."

"You're not wrong there," Yang then says and my head immediately snaps towards her and I instantly gave her a look that would've killed a baby Ursa.

"Don't tell me you tried that? I thought we had a deal that he would choose," I say trying to keep it together but every bit of my being wanted to rip her to shreds at that very moment for trying to steal him.

"Of course I did but it was before we made the deal," she says sheepishly obviously scared of me as I was involuntarily making all the metal at the table float about an inch off the ground, including the table itself. I notice this though and quickly right it hoping the other two hadn't noticed. They had judging from their amused expressions but they said nothing.

"I can tell you why he probably didn't believe you when you did that," Mr. Ceribri said towards Yang.

"Please. Do tell how someone can be that dense," Yang says harshly at him but he only shrugged it off before continuing.

"It's because you're a doll," he says and the three women at the table instantly snapped our heads towards him in both curiosity and anger.

"And what does that mean?" Yang asked through gritted teeth as she tried desperately to not burn both her food and the table from her semblance. She was failing though.

"I'm saying that you're one of those people who are super flirty and sexual but when it comes down to it everyone knows that that deep down you're deathly afraid of crossing over the line between not doing anything and doing something. Or more accurately the line between loving someone and not loving someone," he says with a serious tone.

He wasn't trying to tease her or make fun of her, he was giving her some god's honest advice. When he said this though Yang, for the first time ever, began to tear up but she didn't run. She put her head down on the table and let out a few whimpers for about thirty seconds before she stopped and raised her head revealing bloodshot eyes. This was the first time I think I've ever seen ever seen her even remotely close to this. It was scary seeing the usually cheery girl like that and I didn't know how to respond.

"You okay?" Scarlet says parting from Mr. Ceribri's touch and leaned over the table grabbing Yang's hands.

Yang could only nod head but it was obvious to everyone that she wasn't okay. Even Mr. Ceribri knew what he had done but he remained stoic and indifferent from the girl as his wife began to console her. It would be almost three minutes before she looked even reasonably okay and by this time Jaune was coming over to our table with his food. Thankfully though he didn't notice Scarlet consoling Yang as she was able to get back to her husband's side before he got there.

"You okay Yang? You don't look so good," Jaune says as he puts his plate down on the table.

At this Yang got up immediately and left the table, I know Jaune probably didn't notice but she had tears in her eyes again. She only got a couple of feet away from the table before she started to sprint out of the cafeteria and as she exited Jaune could only look in shock and in horror as she left.

"Did I do something wrong?" he asked looking around at the table. I didn't bother to answer him as I had decided to follow Yang but before I was out of earshot Mr. Ceribri did answer him.

"No, you didn't. Just the wrong question at the wrong time."

That was the last thing I heard before sprinting off after Yang to make sure she didn't do anything dumb. Even though she did have a head start on me and was one of the top in her class she still couldn't match me in running and it wasn't long before she was a couple hundred feet in front of me. She was running through the dorm buildings and she was closing in on her room. I had to get to her before she got into her room but she was now only feet away from her door.

Resorting to drastic measures I keep the door shut with my semblance and tackle her to the ground before she could force open the door. It was only then did I notice that she was crying as her whimpers were now audible as she cried almost silently into the ground.

Picking her up from the floor bridal style she latches her arms behind my neck and berries her head into my chest still sulking as I bring her into my room and slowly slide her into my bed. She wouldn't let go of me though and was still crying as I slid her into my bed so it turned into a cuddle session between us as she continued to cry until she fell asleep. Once she was out her whole body relaxed letting go of my neck and taking this opportunity I slid out of her arms and out of the bed throwing the sheets back over her as she lay in the bed alone.

She looked really beautiful while she slept but Jaune was still number one in my mind. People didn't give him enough credit, he was actually really hot, not to mention when he takes his shirt off. DAMN, it's a supermodels body. But that wasn't he reason I fell in love with the blind idiot. It was his undying loyalty to his friends, his drive and will to better himself for our sake and for the fact that he truly had a good heart. And that was something not many people possess.

~Two hours Later~

Yang was still snoozing on the bed as Jaune walked in looking completely exhausted but this time I knew it wasn't from the training. It had been from him studying with Weiss, he did it every Saturday afternoon. This fact used to bother me until he gave up on her after the dance so it doesn't bother me anymore, especially since Weiss has Neptune right now.

I was at the desk Nora and I shared working on some homework Prof. Port had assigned us as he came in. He came into the room normally and dropped his backpack at the foot of our bunk bed but before he did anything else he notice that Yang was sleeping in my bed. Jaune immediately turned to face me with an inquisitive stare and I motioned for him to come over so that I wouldn't have to talk to him in a normal voice. Thus letting Yang sleep peacefully.

"Why is she sleeping on your bed?" he whispered as he got to the desk.

"She got a bit overwhelmed at lunch today by Mr. Ceribri," I said hoping to keep Jaune far away from the truth.

"Oh, okay. Well, Professor Ozpin wants to see us in his office in about two hours. I'm going to take a nap," he says before patting my shoulder with his hand and walking towards his bead. He then jumps onto the top bed, put his head on the pillow and was out like a light.

~2 and a half hours later~

We left Yang sleeping on my bed as the time to meet Professor Ozpin approached and we went to meet him. She was in our room, away from prying eyes, she'll be fine for a while. That being said I don't think we'll be okay.

The reason for this being that Professor Ozpin had just given us a simple recon mission into the Emerald Forest. It wasn't the fact that the mission was dangerous as we had done this hundreds of times but it was the fact that both Nora and Ren were not going to be there for us. This was because Nora had apparently done something horrific in the school kitchen trying to make pancakes and of course Ren was there but this time he wasn't able to stop the overly hyper girl from destroying something. Needless to say they both got detention and left us in the wind with this assignment.

Both Jaune and I were now heading towards the Bullheads at the landing dock prepping ourselves for the mission. It was routine, as we were just going to take a couple of laps around the Emerald Forest which should be easy enough and the worst Grimm we'll face will probably only be beowolves but I couldn't shake the uneasy feeling that was in the pit of my stomach. Something was going to go wrong.

"Pyrrha, you okay? This is only a recon mission. Even if we do come across any Grimm we don't particularly have to fight them. The mission is just to collect information on the area, not clear it. It'll be okay," Jaune says breaking me out of the trance I was in and I could only smile and nod my head in assurance.

His kindness and concern about this and me shocked me and made me blush a little but he didn't notice at all so it was all good. That blonde idiot couldn't notice anything that remotely involved feelings. It was actually astounding how oblivious he was to that kind of stuff when he could notice the most minute of details on any plan or anyone when they weren't in a good place.

We then entered the bullhead and sped off towards the Emerald forest and jumped out near the center of the forest. Both of us landed right next to each other and we then began to recon the forest checking for signs of Grimm and any other changes. What we didn't know was that hundreds of red eyes were already on us.

*Bryce POV: Cliff looking out into the Emerald Forest*

"You think Ozpin knows about the abundance of creatures that are in the area he just dropped two students?" I say to Wick as we sat with our feet over the edge quickly watching the power of Jaune and Pyrrha move around in the forest as they were being followed by about three hundred of the creatures they called Grimm.

"Normally I would say no but there's something about that man. He's like me, he seems to know everything before it happens like your grandma was able to," he says to me.

"Wait can't you do that too?" I ask.

"Not anymore. I can really only see what's going to happen next in a fight. Anyways, don't you think we should help them? They're probably going to need some help, Jaune's nowhere near that level yet," he says.

"No, not yet. You'll help them if they need it but don't interfere if you can. At most kill off some of the creatures before they get to them," I say.

"You do realize he might break if we let this happen right?" he says to me with a curios gaze but he already knew my answer.

"I know. This is necessary though as nothing gets accomplished through just training. Sometimes you need a sudden violent burst to the next level with a new determination which will happen after tonight," I say.

"Pray to god she doesn't die though or we'll lose him," Wick says before disappearing.

"That's what you're there for buddy. And I'm here for this," I say getting up away from the edge of the cliff and turning around to see Mr. Nikos, Mr. Xiao Long and Mr. Arc along with Team RWBY and Mrs. Goodwitch who all had their weapons ready and aimed at me.

"I'm not going to let you pass. You do realize that right? No matter what you do you will not get passed me to help your friends. Besides if I thought that he was going to die I would be helping him myself," I say to them but they didn't even budge.

That had to be expect though. They were not only his family but also his friends by no others choice than their own. They were even stubborn enough to go up against someone when the odds of them actually winning were basically zero just for their friends. They reminded me of not only myself but also all my friends, it actually warmed my heart seeing them so willing to do this for their friend.

"We don't have to win against you. We just have to be able to get passed you," Yang said pointing to her sister who was already off the cliff.

It hadn't been that hard to notice her as before Yang even opened her mouth when I blinked Ruby and burst forward with great speed for such a little person. I could've done something about it but then I felt her presence at the base of the Cliff. She was going to fight them and she wasn't going to let me have any fun at all.

Just then there was a resounding crack behind me and about half a second later Ruby was sent flying back and landed right in front of their group. They were filled with shock at this as I hadn't moved but they realized it wasn't me as soon as my wife landed next to me surrounded in her pink aura. She then bent her head down a little and kissed me on the cheek and then she began to walk forward. Before I could hold myself back though I begin to ask if I could fight them instead of her but her head instantly whipped around and gave me a death glare. Damn.

"You're afraid of your wife?" Mr. Arc then said with surprise as he saw my face from when Scarlet gave me her death glare.

"Aren't you afraid of your wife?" I ask him and he shut up.

Scarlet then began to walk towards the group and they all readied their weapons preparing to attack. However, Scarlet took the initiative and didn't allow them to attack her first. In the blink of an eye she had appeared in front of Mr. Nikos, picked him up and slammed him into the ground instantly knocking him out and in the next instance she had sent Mr. Xiao Long flying into team RWBY but before she could do anything to Mr. Arc he was already slashing at her with his sword. She didn't even need to actively block his attack though as the shield around her stopped it (when surrounded by her pink aura she is essentially surrounded by an electromagnetic shield protecting her from all attacks).

His sword then violently ricocheted off of her and he stumbled back away from her. She took advantage of this and leapt at him and hit him with a spinning kick that connected with his shield. When her kick made contact it sent him into the air and spinning at a ferocious speed towards Mrs. Goodwitch who was able to catch him, although barely.

She then went to attack Team RWBY, more specifically Blake, but when she sped their Ruby hit Scarlet with her Scythe and fired the gun part of it at the same time sending my wife a couple of feet back. Scarlet knew form just this attack that the little redhead needed to be the next one out and attack accordingly sending a barrage of attacks towards the girl but she was able to dodge or deflect all of them and Scarlet became too focused on Ruby. Mrs. Goodwitch had set up several runes around my wife and as she stepped forward she activated them all sending beams of energy at her. Not only that but Blake was able to snag Scarlets feet with whatever her weapon was and make her fall over and was hit by both Yang and her father into the ground. They made a crucial mistake in this though as they didn't finish her off.

Scarlet got up and began to glow even brighter, she was finally starting to take this fight seriously; that has always been her problem, she always underestimated her opponents. None of them really realized their mistake though except for Mr. Arc whose face changed to that of one that knew what was going to happen next wasn't going to fun. Scarlet then proceeded with that and attacked Ruby at the speed of lightning and sent the little reaper straight into the ground, she was out cold. The next was Blake who threw her weapon at Scarlet when she wasn't looking hoping to entangle her gain but she caught it, ripped Blake towards her, grabbed her leg and sent her flying into Mrs. Goodwitch who couldn't react in time as Blake hit her in the head knocking her out. As Blake came spinning back down to the ground after hitting Mrs. Goodwitch she landed head first and was out instantly.

Next up was Weiss who attempted to freeze Scarlet in her place but she simply broke free of the ice as it held nothing on Annabeth's ice back home. She then broke off a piece of ice and slammed it into Mr. Xiao Long's head who got in front of Weiss and as he became unconscious Scarlet straight kicked him sending him into Weiss. She was out instantly, same for Mr. Xiao Long.

Yang then wasted no time in trying to avenge her father as she attacked Scarlet and at the same time so did Mr. Arc. They surprisingly worked well together and it almost looked like a fair fight for a couple of seconds before Yang got to close and Scarlet ducked under one of her attacks and it hit Mr. Arc dead in the chest. He stumbled back keeping himself up but Yang wasn't so lucky as she was distracted by her mistake which Scarlet took advantage of and sent a barrage of punches into her gut until she fainted.

Mr. Arc look liked he was going to make one last final stand but then he fell forward face first to reveal Kristina behind him with an amused look on her face.

"He was mine Kristina. You party pooper," Scarlet says before calming down and coming back to my side.

"You can feel it right Bryce?" Kristina then says behind me as I look out into the forest to see a white glow emanate from the middle.

"Yeah, and thank god he's just protecting and not avenging. I don't really feel like killing the kid," I say.

~Several Minutes Earlier~

*Jaune POV*

Where the hell did they come from!? Both Pyrrha and I were now surrounded by packs and packs of Grimm. Everything from beowolves to boarbatusks and Ursa all of them having their Major's with them towering over the rest. The chances of us surviving this were very slim, actually they were basically nonexistent.

"Jaune?" Pyrrha says to me in a shaky voice as our backs were together.

"Yeah, we'll be okay Pyr. Trust me on this, we'll make it out of here just fine," I say and as the words left me I knew they were absolute bull. I didn't even remotely believe my words but no hope at all would be really bad right now.

"Okay. I believe in you but can I tell you one thing," she says.

"Not now, save it for when we get out of here alive," I say with as much confidence as possible.

"Alright," she says in a sad voice. God I wish I knew what she wanted to say.

As she finished the beowolves on my side charged all 50 or more of them straight at me; at the same time the beowolves and boarbatusks on Pyrrha's side attacked. Most of them were pretty young but their sheer number was too much but I held firm. I then charged them leaving Pyrrha as she charged he attackers.

I slashed, bashed, kicked, punched and blocked with all of my might but it still wasn't enough as they just kept on coming. Even my aura was surrounding my blade and shield making them bigger and sharper as a result of my adrenaline but it still wasn't enough. There was just too many of them, plain and simple.

It wasn't even a minute into the fight when they got their first cut on me cutting through my aura and my leg creating a deep cut on my thigh, thankfully though it severed no arteries. The next cut was on my back, then my arm and then my other leg. Eventually most of my lower body was covered in blood and I could barely stand it hadn't even been five minutes. Looking over my shoulder was a terrible idea at this point but I had to see how Pyrrha was doing. She didn't look like she was fairing much better as most of her face was covered in blood from a cut above her eye and her shield arm didn't look good as it was limp and at her side.

Just then the beowolf Major from the pack I had been facing jumped at me and I was able to barely get my head in front of me to block its claws and jaw but it still sent me onto the ground as it towered above me. It continued to bite and claw at me scratching at my face and legs and actually getting the tip of my ear making me yell out in pain. As this happened the Major suddenly stopped and fell over and as its body dissipated I noticed Pyrrha's weapon embedded in its head. Looking over to her she only smiled as she was knocked aside by the Ursa Major and sent into a tree to only sit there staring up at the Ursa and me as the beast approached her and raised its paw to finish her off.

I don't know what happened next or how I moved so fast but it happened out of pure instinct. I got in front of the beast and raised my shield and began to glow a bright white.

The Ursa Major's paw evaporated when it touched my shield for reasons I didn't know and didn't care about as the only thing on my mind was protecting Pyrrha. I then turn around to make sure she's okay and she didn't look good at all. Her wounds were bleeding even more now and she was bleeding around her stomach were the Ursa Major had hit her. However, despite all this she looked up at me with a smile on her face and said.

"I love you. I always have," she says as she leans in and gives me a peck on my lips.

At that moment she could only smile and I could only stare back at her in shock but then my instincts kicked in. I was going to protect her here and now if it was the last thing I ever do. She will survive this hell that we've been put into even if I don't.

I then began to grow even brighter and all the Grimm around us easily numbering over 300 began to slowly back away from me. This then registered in my mind that they were trying to escape and I refuse to let the creatures that just tried to kill Pyrrha escape alive. They will not live past this night.

I then release a throaty but deafening battle cry causing all of the Grimm to cower in fear but it wasn't going to help them. Bursting forward at them faster than I had ever gone before I begin to attack faster and harder than ever before. The Grimm were falling at my feet like the leaves of autumn and evaporating before my eyes. Some of the less powerful Grimm actually did evaporate as they neared me too as they became enveloped by my bright white aura.

After all the minor Grimm had been taken care of around us only the Major's and Alpha's of the packs remained. They were scared of me, I could see it in their red eyes as they began to back away but I was having none of that. I appear behind them after another burst of blinding speed and begin to attack them from behind. The three boarbatusk major's didn't even know what hit them until they evaporated, same went for one of the seven beowolf alpha's. The remaining six beowolf alpha's and 5 Ursa Majors were all that was left of the force now.

They were a piece of cake to me now as the beowolves evaporated in an instant after my power began to flash again. The Ursa Majors weren't much better either as they were too preoccupied in leaving than fighting and simple slashed to their backs cutting their spinal cords did the trick rather effectively and quickly.

Now the only two people left in the area was myself and Pyrrha. She was smiling from the tree in which she was leaning up against. Her face was ghostly white and she had a lot of bleeding around her but at least I knew that she was alive right now. Even so though I sprint over to her as fast as my body would allow and check her all over.

My previous assumption had been right as none of her wounds looked truly life threatening at the moment but if I didn't get her to a medic of some type soon she was going to be in trouble regardless. She was barely conscious too as she was still looking at me with a smile as I continued to check her.

After making sure she didn't have any other wounds anywhere else I pick her up bridal and begin to walk back to Beacon. At the pace I was going though we weren't going to make it but then he came. The man who was tutoring me in sword play alongside Mr. Ceribri. He put his hands on both of us and in a flash we were in the schools infirmary.

Needless to say the nurse was more than shocked to see us appear out of thin air in front of her but she recovered and acted quickly taking Pyrrha from my arms and putting her in a bed. The nurse then went to town on Pyrrha using every method under the sun to clean and bandage her wounds. I would've stayed by her side the whole time but my body collapsed only to be caught by the man who had saved us. He then guided me to a bed to the left of Pyrrha's and dropped me in it. Exhaustion and overexertion overwhelmed me and sleep took over.

~The next morning~

I woke up with Pyrrha and I's beds conjoining and the blockers down. We weren't cuddling or anything like that but we held each other's hands like our lives depended on it. Turning over to look at her with our hands still connected I see her looking back at me and a smile grew across her face as she saw me turn to her.

"You okay?" I ask breaking the silence I didn't know was there.

"Yeah, you?" she asked with a slight blush on her face.

"Good… Did you mean it when you said that last night?" I ask quickly hoping to get it over as quick as possible.

"Yes. All of it," she says inching forward towards me in an apparent determination to not let me go.

"Oh, okay. Then I can do this right?" I say leaning forward and kissing her. I had always liked her in every way possible for all that she was but I never imagined that she would feel the same way.

"Yes, you can," she says returning the kiss. It was hot, uncoordinated and a bit sloppy but it felt really good. She was the first to pull away from it though saying to me, "Do you realize how long I've waited for that?"

"No, I don't but I don't really care," I say going in for another kiss which she was leaning forward to accept if it hadn't been for an interruption in the form of our team and Team RWBY who were all staring at us.

Nora was the first to recover from this as she danced happily and then held out her hands to Ren. He responded by taking out his wallet and pulling out around 50 lien and giving it to the smiling Nora. Weiss did the same to Blake who was also holding out her hands waiting for payment. Ruby looked a bit shocked but after a couple of seconds she recovered fully and came out bubbly as ever congratulating us. Yang was the only one who was truly indifferent but I could've sworn her eyes lit up red when she first saw us and the room seemed to grow hotter for a hot second before it was gone.

~45 minutes later~

*Pyrrha POV*

Everyone else had left by now except for Yang who decided to stay to talk but before she could really say anything Jaune had fallen back asleep. Instead of leaving after this as I had hoped she only smiled and leaned close into me and whispered into my ear.

"Don't think this means I'm giving up. You better watch your boyfriend cereal girl," she says smiling as her eyes flashed red.

She then got up and left the room.

And that's all for now folks.

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