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By: athrunzala

Chapter 2: Into the Rumor Mill

After their classes, both teams headed towards the agreed on meeting place. Jaune and Pyrrha were naturally apprehensive about this, as they knew what it was all about, and would have to explain it to their friends and teammates.

As they arrived, Ruby opened the door and let everybody come in. After Blake had made sure that the windows were closed and locked, they all sat down. To the outsider, it would have looked odd, as there was a grand mix of people in the room, all looking to the two beet-faced individuals for an answer.

"So that's all that happened."

Pyrrha's explanation had been infinitely tamer than the rumors going around campus. Which shocked everybody in the room. Yang and Nora were struggling to put it together in their heads, and Ren was holding his head in his hands.

"This isn't right. They are doing the same thing that the media does to the Faunus."

Everybody looked at Blake suddenly. It was Weiss who rushed to her defense.

"She's right. We know Sun and Blake aren't like the White Fang. The media likes a blanket picture. So they spread smear stories to make it seem like all of them are like that. So let's just try to get this to die down."

The ice queen then turned bright red as the outburst was the total opposite of what she had been saying before then.

"Weiss is right. And I think we all know who started this rumor."

Everybody looked to Jaune for an answer this time.

"What!? What did I d… Oh."

As the realization spread onto everybody's face, the answer was unanimous.

"CARDIN."

"But what I don't get is why he would do this."

Ruby was slightly confused by the whole thing, as she had been present the day Jaune made the threat.

"He's a bully, Ruby," Blake said. "He isn't about to change just because somebody told him to."

Jaune slammed his fist into the ground.

"And I told him! I told him not to mess with me, my friends, or my teammates ever again! That bastard!"

Pyrrha reached out a hand and placed it on Jaune's shoulder, causing the blonde to look over at her. She smirked at him and winked. Jaune's eyes grew wide at this.

"I've g… well, actually… Pyrrha's got a plan."

The red-haired woman stood up and looked around the room.

"Here's what we're going to do…"

After about 5 minutes of explanation, mostly for the benefit of Yang and to prevent Nora from threatening leg breaking, she finished delivering her idea.

"Any further questions?"

"Nope. You said it all."

Now, everybody in the room had a smirk.

Elsewhere on campus, Cardin was walking around with Sky.

"You think that they suspect?"

"Not. At. All. Jaune-y boy is over-due for some teasing anyways."

"But if they figure it out, then we…"

"Relax, Sky. Nothing is going to happen. Not if they value their privacy."

At this, Cardin pulled an envelope out and opened it. In it where various photos of Team JNPR, but mostly of Jaune and Pyrrha.

"Cardin, how the hell did you get those?"

Cardin chuckled.

"It wasn't hard. Not when they are always making fools of themselves."

As the two walked past an arch, they were so busy with laughing that they failed to notice Sun standing there with his teammate.

"Sun… You don't think…"

"You know exactly how I am thinking about this, Neptune. You got the camera?"

Neptune held up the device. As Sun snatched it, he leaped into the air.

"Be back in a flash!"

Neptune then headed off in the direction of the dorms. If Sun wasn't going to speak up, then he was. Just how he was going to tell them was beyond him. But he was going to bring it to their attention. Realizing he didn't know which room he was going to, he pulled out his Scroll and dialed Yang's number.

Back in the dorms, Yang's scroll began ringing. As the blonde brawler reached over to grab it, she accidentally hit the speaker button.

"'Oh please pick up…'"

"Neptune?"

"'Yes! Thank you!'"

Hearing an echo, Neptune posed a question.

"'Am I on speaker?'"

Yang looked down.

"Oops. Yeah. Sorry about…"

"'No! Don't be. Are Jaune and Pyrrha there?'"

The confused pair looked over at Yang and nodded.

"Eeyup. Wassup?"

"'It's Cardin. He has photos. Based on the description, embarrassing ones.'"

"And what are we supposed to do about that?"

Weiss was almost shouting.

"'I think Sun is… taking care of that. I hope.'"

"What is he planning," Blake asked.

"'Yo!'"

Suddenly, Sun's voice was heard over the speaker.

"Sun," Ruby asked, "What did you do?"

"'Easy! I just got us some counter ammunition!'"

Blake threw her hands into the air.

"That is sinking to their level! We'd be no better than them at that point!"

"'Relax! All I did was take photos of them with the evidence and an audio recording of the whole thing. They won't have a leg to stand on if these get to the administration!'"

A calm fell on the whole room.

"'Hello? You guys still there?'"

Ren broke the silence.

"Meet us by the fountain tomorrow. We'll see what you have and move from there."

"'Gotcha. Right after class then?'"

"Exactly. I'll have Nora being the lookout."

"Oooooh! I can make the Sloth noise!"

To Be Continued…

Like I said. This is going to be interesting for me to see how this turns out. This is only chapter 2, but I'll be editing these together for release on other sites. So you on are getting this first and are getting the first shots at it. Just understand that the other version will have missing scenes. I'll make it free to download and may potentially have cover art. It all depends on how much time I can devote to this.