After being cleared by Ana, Glynda Jasmine walked with Katherine towards Glynda's private room. Jaune held securely before the three women, while a slightly dejected Pyrrha followed closely behind, and just behind her Jaune's sisters Bleue and Rouge. Who were being moody due to their mother putting her foot down and declaring that neither girl could claim the "Snow Angel" as their own. Bringing up the rear was Coco, who was still on her scroll. A wicked grin plastered on her face. The only two missing from the original group that had been in the infirmary were Weiss and Nora. Weiss, currently under Ana's care for acute emotional shock, while Pyrrha had managed to convenience, or more appropriately bribed Nora to stay behind with Weiss.
Pyrrha knew she was going to take a little bit of a financial hit, for promising a year's supply of designer syrups, to the energetic bomber of JNPR, but it was for the best. Weiss needed someone neutral and safe to wake up to, and Nora was the only one available, as none of RWBY were answering their scrolls, nor was Ren. Pyrrha was worried about Ren. He wasn't being his usual Stoic but withdrawn self. His slamming the door in Nora's face, was very much out of character for him. Pyrrha shook her head, driving out the notion that he had been replaced by a pod-person. The very fact she had such a thought, made her smile. Team JNPR was rubbing off on her, and it made her feel even more connected to them.
Upon reaching their chosen destination, they all piled into the small two-bedroom apartment. Jasmine and Katherine each gave Glynda a look at the disorganized mess, a tell-tale sign that their sister had panicked. As if they would ever blame her for what was going on with Jaune, especially when there were far more convenient targets available, like Ozpin. The eight ladies spread out, finding places to sit. The Goodwitch sisters taking the couch after plopping Jaune into the single armchair; that they moved facing the couch. Coco and Jaune's sisters took chairs at the dining room table, while Pyrrha, giving everyone, especially Jaune's mother, an apologetic smile, sat her rear end down on the arm of the chair Jaune had been placed in.
Katherine cooed as Jaune reached up and took Pyrrha's hand in her own, while Jasmine gave the Mistralian champion a look that broached no room for disagreement… they would be having a talk. Pyrrha swallowed nervously while giving Jaune's hand a light squeeze and receiving one in response.
"So, baby… what happened?" Jasmine asked as she leaned forward, bracing her forearms against her thighs, with her hands clasped together before her. "Who did this…"
"Ozpin." Glynda answered, without letting her sister, finish her question.
"Glyndie!" Katherine giggled, as she slapped her sister's leg playfully, "You blame that old fart for everything. I bet if you ever had a late… visitor, he'd be to blame."
Glynda's eyes bulged in their sockets for two seconds before she rounded on her identical sister and hissed like a cat that was just dunked in water, her slim fingers actually curling into claws. Pyrrha blushed, while Jaune just tilted her head and looked at her two aunts with a small hint of confusion.
"Is Ozpin going to end up my uncle?" Jaune asked, causing Glynda to sputter and almost convulse as she turned her gaze upon her niece, only for Jaune's sisters to add their own two cents.
"We'll…"
"Babysit…"
"For…"
"Free!"
Glynda broke, and started to sob, while Katherine, seeing and feeling she had maybe pushed a little too far, pulled her into a hug, and softly started to rock her emotionally compromised older sister.
"Enough." Jasmine spoke in a flat, even tone. The tone of a mother of eight used when she demanded everyone's full attention. "Jaune… what happened?"
"Well…umm" Jaune squirmed as her mother turn on her 'You Did Something Now Fess Up' look. She felt Pyrrha gently squeeze her hand, offering comfort and support, giving Jaune the strength to speak. "Two days ago, I woke up in the bathroom, and discovered I was now a girl."
"Two days ago? What were you doing two days ago, before this…" as Jasmine Arc.
"I took a late night walk, after…"
"After?"
"Jaune had asked Weiss to the dance, and she was rebuffed rather rudely." Pyrrha piped up, relishing the fact she was basically putting a target on Weiss' back, if the scowls Jaune's twin sisters were any indication.
"I see." Jasmine responded, while in her mind, she didn't. It made no sense, that her baby boy, her precious son who was to carry on the fabled and venerated Arc name. Part of her mind was also considering unleashing Jaune's sisters on Weiss, but she suppressed the idea. The girl obviously hadn't seen the qualities in Jaune that made him the perfect house-husband. That was her loss, and letting Rouge and Bleue off their leash would be rather cruel to the poor, misguided girl. "Please continue."
"Well after Pyr had a breakdown stealing me from class, and Weiss tried to kill…" Jasmine changed her mind. The Schnee needed to be taught a lesson. "... me. I went for a check-up, and had a pregnancy test…"
"Why did you have a pregnancy test?" Katherine Adel asked, her eyes taking on a hard glare, as she continued to rub his hand in gentle circles on her older sister's back. "Did SOMEONE touch you inappropriately?"
"No, no. Um…"
"Her breasts grew, and she panicked." Pyrrha stepped in to assist her love interest. "So we thought it would be best to prove her concerns were unfounded. Plus, it allowed us to get her a complete check-up. She's perfectly healthy… though she wasn't happy with… you know, since she never had one before."
"Okay, that is a relief, thank you for looking out for her." Jasmine commented, while mentally sighing. This better be reversible, or she was going to have to several long talks with Jaune. Talks that she would never in her life thought she would need to do. "So what else?"
"Well, nothing much else happened until Coco…"
"What DID Coco-Puff," Pyrrha wanted to laugh, as Coco whined at her mom's pet name for her. "Do?"
"She kidnapped me."
"Coco?" Jasmine asked as she turned to give her niece a look.
"She's perfect! I had to have her model, and she's a star! Everyone wants to see her!" Coco tried to defend herself against the looks of displeasure coming not only from her Aunt Jasmine, but also her mother. "We created an OnlyFans page for her…"
"You what?" Jasmine's eyes narrowed. She had heard about the site, and had even checked it out, and was not pleased with the type of content on it.
"Currently she has just over Two-hundred thousand subscribers at a rate of thirty-four ninety-nine per month…" Coco, while talked was pulling up the administration portion of Jaune's page, moving to the estimated earns second. Before, dashing forward and thrusting the scroll between the two displeased adults. "Not including tips, her estimated earnings for the month are around five point five million lien!"
There was a thud, followed by a squeak of "Jaune!". Adjusting their attention from the profit projection to where Jaune had been sitting, they found her out on the floor, with Pyrrha moving her head to sit on her lap.
"I think she's a bit overwhelmed?" Pyrrha offered while mentally comparing her best sponsorship agreement, which was in the realm of one point two million over three years. It was mind-boggling just how desirable Jaune was. "Maybe we should take a break?"
"Yes, I think that would be for the best." Jasmine agreed, while rising from her seat. "Rouge, Bleue take your… ahem… sister into the spare room so she can rest."
"I can…" Pyrrha started to speak up, only to snap her mouth shut at a look from Jaune's mother, and Aunt Katherine.
"I know you COULD… but…" Jasmine gave Pyrrha a smile, that held little warmth, causing the Four Time Champion to swallow nervously, "I think WE should have a little discussion, wouldn't you agree?"
Pyrrha just nodded as Jaune's twin sisters gently lifted their still unconscious sister from Pyrrha's lap and carried her into Gylnda's spare room. Pyrrha swallowed again as the door was closed, and she noticed Coco slowly distancing herself.
"Take a seat, my dear… this might take a while." Jasmine's smile didn't inspire Pyrrha with any confidence, and when she let her eyes move to the now slightly recovered Glynda, and Jaune's other Aunt… fear, a primal fear welled up with in her.
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Cardin was sweating, and his eyes darted about the cafeteria, mentally marking the exits. Velvet, the rabbit faunus second year he often targeted, was making him more than slightly uncomfortable.
"You know, I noticed last night how Jaune is now a fox faunus…" Velvet titled her head to the right slightly, "... with TWO traits. Most have only one… and that makes me wonder."
"Um… wonder what?" Cardin valiantly held his voice steady even though alarms were going off in his head.
"Well, you are now suddenly a donkey faunus, but the look of your ears…" Cardin would swear she just licked her lips. "And I wonder if you have two traits as well. Maybe a trait you're hiding… or…"
"Or?" Cardin felt the need to swallow, his throat suddenly dry.
"One that you are unable to show… in public." Velvet rose from her seat, her arms pressing against the table-top. "Do you? I won't be embarrassed to see it… it would help me…evaluate your situation."
"I don't." Cardin stammered, failing miserably to keep his voice steady and calm sounding.
"I think… you do." Velvet again licked her lips. The rabbit fanus didn't know completely WHY she was suddenly being so aggressive, or why she was suddenly targeting her bully. But seeing that Jaune was suddenly faunus with two traits, and apparently the same impossible change had happened to Cardin… she had to wonder, and seeing no tail, her mind, quickly jumped to another conclusion. A conclusion that would alleviate the problem of her hidden aids not doing the job they should be. "If I'm going to… help you, I need you to be completely honest with me."
"I need an adult!" Cardin screeched in a very unmanly manner as he bolted for the nearest exit.
"Get back here, you DONKEY-DICKED BASTARD!" Velvet yelled as she vaulted the table and picked up the chase. The remainder of the cafeteria grew quiet for a moment, and once Cardin and Velvet had vanished from the expansive room, there was a collective shrug of shoulders and people return to what they were doing before the interruption.
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Ozpin was shaking as he used a hair dryer in an attempt to remove the moisture from the thin, fragile pages of the tome he was reading before he had dumped a full cup of coffee on to it by accident. In the back of his mind, he still considered surrendering to Salem. She would of course torture him, and eventually kill him, but he figured maybe with their past relationship it would be more merciful than what ever the Goodwitch sisters would do to him once they discovered that Jaune's changes were not going to get reversed.
Ozpin also wondered if Qrow was nearby, mainly because he wanted to blame the drunkard's semblance on… well, everything that has happened over the last few days. He had like six or seven more pages to work on, each one currently separated from the others by a towel, but his hope was dwindling. While the current page was drying, he could still see the stains the coffee had left behind. Stains that even now were starting to obscure portions of the magical formula. Ozpin wanted to say it. He oh so desperately wanted you scream it at the top of his lungs, but he held back. Doing so would most certainly without a shadow of a doubt bring something else disastrous down on his head.
But then again… if the happenstance was something physical like a portion of the ceiling falling down on him, and crushing his head… then maybe he should. It would solve his problems for a few years at least, and depending on where and who he reincarnated as… he could theoretically stretch that time out. He bit his lip, while seriously considering fate, and hoping the next disaster would end him, or at least this version of him.
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While everyone was talking, recovering, running away, or considering drastic action. Ruby was laying on her bunk; scroll in hand. She had, after a significant effort put into searching OnlyFans, had located Weiss' page. Ruby was a fan of her handle PERFECTIONisSNOWANGEL. It actually irked her, made Weiss sound more uppity than she really was, not to mention that Jaune used to call Weiss 'Snow Angel' which made her wonder if her first friend of Beacon was a subscriber. Weiss' page was filled with rather tasteful thumbnails. Most showing her with various instruments. Ruby figured Weiss' family used the platform to push Weiss' former singing career; but everything was locked behind a paywall. A paywall that Ruby couldn't climb, seeing as LittleRedReaper had used the remainder of her monthly stipend to subscribe and tip Jaune.
"Yang" Blake whined as she danced lightly on her feet, while banging on the bathroom door. "Open up! I NEED to GO!"
"No!" was Yang's muffled reply.
"I already checked the hall… there's no one out there!" Blake slammed the flat of her hand against the flimsy wooden door. "I REALLY need to use the bathroom!"
Ruby shook her head, and returned her attention to Weiss' page. Maybe she could… and then a miraculous glint caught the corner of her silver eyes. Ignoring Blake's whining, and Yang's muffled refusals to open the door. Ruby smiled as she focused on Weiss' credit card laying out in the open on Blake's bed. Taking a look, to make sure Blake wasn't looking, nor that Yang was opening the door, Ruby made her move. In a burst of her semblance, she snatched the card and was back on her bed in the blink of an eye.
After another look towards Blake, who was now, on her knees, a look of almost pure agony etched on her face, Ruby returned to the subscription page, and started to enter the numbers off Weiss' card.
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Pyrrha was shaking. Arrayed before her were three women, all who shared the same stern look. All who shared the same sharp green eyes, and all who were related by blood to the single person she was becoming more, and more convinced was the love of her life. Pyrrha has watched nature documentaries, and fell for the hype of SharkWeek, each and every year, but right that instant she felt like a seal facing a swim through the ring of death surrounding Seal Island in False Bay of Southern Anima.
"So my dear," Jaune's mother Jasmine started the conversation. "What are your INTENTIONS with my son… er… daughter?"
"I want to make her as happy as she makes me." Pyrrha stammered out.
"How long have you had your eye on Jaune?" Katherine asked.
"Since initiation." was her honest answer.
"You've had an interest in Jaune since initiation, and you are ONLY now making a move on him?" Glynda shook her head as she spoke, her tone very disapproving. "Now I will admit Jaune is not the most observant when it comes to social cues, but still Ms Nikos, to let a candle burn this long? What would have happened if someone else had swooped in and claimed him… er… her?"
"I…"
"Would you have shanked the bitch?" Katherine asked with a wicked little grin.
"Kat!" Jasmine admonished her sister.
"What? You all would have done it, well except for Glyndie."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Glynda asked, her voice sounding more than a little insulted.
"Well, out of the THREE of us, only you are not hitched, or even in a relationship." Jasmine pointed out, "And being married to your job does not count."
"You know we would accept you, no matter who you chose to live your life with," Katherine commented with a smile that suddenly turned sour, "except Ironwood his a blowhard."
"Or Jacques Schnee." Jasmine added, "That man gives asshole bigots a bad name, though…"
"If our Glyndie is like Saph and Pyrrha, here… more interested in the fairer form." Katherine started to surmise.
"I actually had feelings for Jaune before he became a woman." Pyrrha piped up.
"Good for you, dear, but seeing as you only made your move after the switch… you can understand, not that there is anything wrong with that." Katherine gave Pyrrha a knowing look, that Pyrrha couldn't really refute. "Saph and Terra are very happily married, and Adrian is such a bundle of cuteness."
"I…" Glynda tried to speak.
"I think Willow would be the perfect partner for you, Gyndie!" Jasmine cut her off. "Heaven knows, the poor woman needs some proper love."
"She's married to Jacques!" Glynda stammered out in indignation.
"For now." Katherine gave Glynda a wink, "Make a move sis, and if that arse of a man tries to step in…"
"Accidents happen." Jasmine gave Glynda a reassuring smile. 'So what do you say?"
"About?"
"Having a date with Willow, what do you think we were talking about?" Katherine answered, while Pyrrha sat in her chair, kind of happy that the focus was not on her anymore.
"Why?"
"So you and her could both be happy." Jasmine replied, "We worry about you, all alone with no one keeping you warm and safe at night. So, will you? I can make some calls, arrange a little informal private meeting?"
"But… but…" Glynda once again stammered.
"Glyndie you have to strike while the iron is hot… and you are still hot. So?"
"Fine." Pyrrha's mouth dropped open in shock, at Professor Goodwitch's acceptance of the situation being forced on her. "Just tell me when, and it better be at a NICE place. I refuse to be seen as someone cheap."
"Don't worry, big sis. We'll make sure it is a night for you and Willow to remember. Trust us." Katherine spoke as she reached out and rubbed Glydna's back. "Now you, Ms Nikos."
"Me?" Pyrrha was a little shocked that all the attention turned back to her. "Ah, yes?"
"What are your career plans? Do you intend to be running off doing this huntress thing all over the world, leaving my poor Jaune all alone, and wondering if you are safe, or?" Jasmine asked her green eyes, making Pyrrha feel like her soul was being peered into.
"Or?" Pyrrha asked, her voice wavering slightly.
"Will you settle down and do your duty protecting hearth and home on a more modest scale?" Katherine gave Pyrrha a grin, that Pyrrha wasn't sure was a good thing.
"I guess, doing things on a more local level would be good. I would hate for Jaune to feel lonely or afraid because of me." Pyrrha admitted, while also hoping it was the proper choice.
"You know, Ansel is a GREAT place to raise a family." Jasmine smiled, "It's quiet, friendly, you would have lots of family around to help you."
"I…"
"Of course, as much as I love Saph and Terra, that Cotta-Arc name is hideous." Katherine gave Pyrrha another one of those confusing grins. "You would have no issue with taking Jaune's last name, would you? Pyrrha Arc has such a nice ring to it, don't you think?"
"Yes?"
"Good girl." Jasmine commented, giving Pyrrha a smile that was eerily similar to Katherine's. "How about family? Do you…"
"Yes," Pyrrha blurted out, her nerves finally giving out. "As many as Jaune wants!"
"Such a smart girl." Katherine stated, as Glynda just sat between her two sisters, looking beaten. Pyrrha was sympathetic, she was feeling the same way. "Very forward-thinking, but also has traditional values. You have my approval, my dear. I see no issue to stop you and Jaune from getting married, moving to Ansel and having a family."
"Er… what?" Pyrrha's mind blanked.
"I however, need to meet your parents, before I give my blessing. My baby boy… er… girl will not suffer miserable in-laws."
"It's only me and my mom." Pyrrha offered while still trying to process Jaune's Aunt Katherine's statement.
"Well, I would like to meet with her. Can you arrange for her to come to Vale, say tomorrow? We'll cover the flights and hotel."
"Tomorrow?"
"Yes, my dear."
"I can try. She's in Argus, so…"
"Argus? Maybe I should have Saph go and meet her instead?"
"No Jas." Katherine answered. "We will cover her expenses. Something as important as meeting your in-law must be done in person. Besides, if she's here, we might be able to swing a ceremony during the Vytal Festival."
Pyrrha finally succumbed, her mind breaking and just shutting down. Jasmine and Katherine didn't even notice.
"Glyndie do you think you could get Ozpin to help… authorize the use of Amity Colosseum, for the ceremony?" Jasmine asked.
"I can see." Glynda responded. Speaking for the first time in several minutes. "He does have reparations to make, for this nonsense."
"So it's settled." Katherine spoke as the trio returned their focus to the now fainted Pyrrha. "Poor thing. Must have been a tad too much excitement, for her."
"Shall we have some tea?" Jasmine asked.
"Glyndie?" Katherine asked.
"Yes, please."
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Coco had slithered out right after the firing squad focused on Pyrrha. As she walked the halls of Beacon, humming to herself, while checking her messages. She had a couple from Mercury, with attachments. His TD-1 was complete, and he had sent his banking information. Coco nodded as she filed that information away in her HR folder.
"Still need a GOOD name." Coco muttered to herself as she reviewed the documents for incorporation, and then flipped to the exclusive contract template she was going to send to a lawyer, as soon as she found one. Which reminded her, she would need to acquire the services of an accounting firm. With Jaune making that much lien, minus her management commission; it needed to be tracked and monitored professionally.
She looked up from her scroll as she heard screaming, and froze. She blinked her eyes repeatedly as Cardin Winchester, the douche of Beacon, raced past, with what looked like an extra set of ears poking through his ginger hair. As he flew past her, she realized it was Cardin who was screaming like a little girl in fear.
"Get back here and stretch me out!" Coco knew that voice rather well, and felt faint as Velvet came barrelling down the corridor, past Coco, and vanished around the corner Cardin had just turned.
"What the f…" Coco cut herself off, when her ass slammed into the floor.