Jaune walked out of the elevator, rolling his shoulders. He exerted a little aura, albeit with some effort, causing his chest piece to disappear. Ozpin showed him that little trick after Jaune had tried on his armor. Since the armor was so light weight, it felt as though he was wearing a light jacket. The melding technique allowed Jaune to meld his armor with his cloths, allowing him to wear the armor without looking out of place. He fished out a slip of paper to check his room number.
"Room 636, oh joy,"
After an uneventful trip including getting lost several times, getting trapped in the elevator for a little, and accidently walking into a shooting range, Jaune finally found his room. He sighed in relief, "Here we go….I wonder if I have roommates."
That question was shortly answered when he opened the door and promptly got kicked in the chest. He was sent flying back into the hallway, slamming into the wall. The last thing he remembered was some person with blue hair of all things yelling "ADAM! THAT WAS THE THIRD TIME THIS WEEK!" before passing out.
He woke up to see Ozpin, the blue haired person from earlier, and a red-haired dude with red hair. What was up with that?
They looked at him expectantly. Not knowing what to say Jaune just went "Oh. Give me a sec." He activated his aura causing it to shine around him, as well as causing the two new guys to back up a good meter. "Umm, why did you guys step back? Do I smell?"
The two looked at Jaune, flabbergasted, before red-hair yelled "DO YOU SMELL!? ARE YOU AWARE THAT YOUR AURA TORE OUR ENTIRE WALL OUT!?" He started to glow a little red, and Jaune instinctively brought up his arms.
After not feeling a punch, he lowered his arms before saying, "I'm sorry one of you kicked me hard enough to shatter my aura."
"ARE YOU KIDD-"
"Adam, he does have a point." Blue hair now decided to intervene.
Adam growled and left. Ozpin had also disappeared at some point.
"Sorry, he has always been uptight. You have no idea how many people he has kicked into a wall."Blue hair rubbed the back of his head as he talked, laughing nervously.
"…Did I really…?"
"Umm….yeah."
"That was supposed to be my new room, and I already broke it." Jaune said solemnly as he fell onto his hospital bed.
"Hey don't worry about it man, Adam is just a little…high strung."Blue hair laughed nervously.
"You seem scared."
"Hehe, scared? I'm not scared!...ok I'm scared but that's only because you kinda destroyed our wall."
"…"
"Anyways, I'm-"
"Neptune, who is the new guy? I hope he realizes a wall is not a cheap novelty. I also hope he doesn't realize that my father's company has to pay for the reconstruction. Because if he does know, I'm going to skewer him." A new voice spoke up. Jaune looked up and saw three girls walk in.
The one in the middle was dressed in a mix between a skirt and a dress, all white and containing black frills. Over top the dress was a pale blue jacket with black edging that stopped at that beginning of the skirt. It was currently buttoned, revealing two columns of four black buttons on the abdomen. She wore a pair of white high-heel boots, based on the clicking on the floor, and her strangely white hair was in an off-side ponytail. To her right was a red-haired girl with green eyes. She was wearing a copper colored strapless top split divided vertically with some bronze patterns. The sides had some sort of embroidery. Beneath was a low bronze colored v-neck. She also was wearing an elastic, red, A-line miniskirt that ends mid-thigh and brown cut-off sleeves on both arms. She had a circlet headpiece and her hair tied in a ponytail. Finally, she wore a pair of brown high-heeled boots that reached her mid-calf and long brown stockings. The girl to their left was slightly behind the two, walking at a more leisurely pace. She was wearing a white v-neck zip-up shirt that is black along the bottom and had mid-length sleeves. A belladonna flower emblem is printed in off-white on the left side of the shirt. She wore black pants that have a vertical gray stripe on the outer side of each leg and a black belt with them. She also had black high-heel boots that came halfway up her calves and had a pair of belted straps across them. She wore black ribbons on her arms and a black bow on top of her head. They all strode with confidence, and Jaune was 100% sure that they could kill him very easily if they wanted to.
And the one in the middle looked like she wanted to.
Jaune remembered something about confidence from his father, but he thought that it would be of better use on a later date.
The girl noticed Jaune's scared expression and smirked. "Well? Are you deaf, or just stupid?"
The girl on her right interjected, "Weiss, that's rude. I'm sorry about her behavior; she can sometimes be a little…" She noticed the white-haired girl's glare, "uh…anyways, I'm Pyrrha, this is Weiss-"Weiss promptly scoffed and looked the other way "and that is Blake." "Hello." The girl in black said before pulling out a book.
Jaune looked at the book with interest. "Is that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?"
Blake looked up in surprise, before smiling slightly. "Yes, it is good eye." She closed her book and walked out.
"Huh, well that is a first."
"Indeed."
"Huh. Whatever." Weiss dramatically turned and walked out.
Pyrrha sighed, "I guess that is my cue to leave. Nice to meet you…"
"Jaune."
"Well Jaune, it's been a pleasure. Hope to see you around. I'll be taking my leave now."
After Pyrrha walked out, Neptune looked back at Jaune. "Oh, these next few years are going to be interesting."
"…."
"…."
"….You tried to flirt with Weiss didn't you?"
"…Yup."
"And you expected her to say yes?"
"No, but I didn't expect her to freeze me to the ceiling."Jaune replied, looking down from the roof of the hall.
"Huhhhh. They had to get the last guy two weeks late. Ok, let me help you out." Neptune sighed before getting to work.
He pulled out his gun and let loose a shot, but it just bounced off and hit the floor.
"Wow, she must have been really mad. What did you say?"
"'Hey Snow Angel.' Then she got angry and froze me to the ceiling." Jaune replied.
"Hmmm…snow angel…"Neptune thought before pulling out a notepad.
"Don't you dare. Since I know that she hates me calling her that, I'm gonna keep calling her that. I don't want you saying it and she liking it all a sudden."
"Fine,fine, let's just get you down."
Two weeks later
Jaune, Neptune, Adam, Blake, Weiss, and Pyrrha walked in to a classroom. They see a green-haired man, who was currently staring at a map with red marker everywhere on it.
"Conspiracy map….fascinating."Jaune said, trying to see what places were connected to what.
"Yes, it is isn't it?" The man turned around, revealing a coffee cup, a pair of round glasses, and a sloppy tie. "Hello, I am Bartholomew Oobleck, or Dr. Oobleck, as you will refer to me as. I will be your professor for Current History and Battle Strategy. But you won't be having class today. Instead, I will be assigning your Guardian call signs today. The Traveler decided to have some fun, so you will be referred to by your most prominent sin."
Weiss didn't sit well with this, "What's the point of that? Wouldn't it be better to assign us a generic call sign, or maybe our best trait?"
"Then people would be calling you 'Rich' and him-" Points at Neptune, "'Blue-hair'"
"HEY!" Both yell, causing Jaune to snicker, before stopping when Weiss tried to murder him with her eyes.
"Jokes aside, I agreed to this idea because it follows the first rule of history: those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it. If you don't understand yourself, how can you fight others? How will you ever be sure you are, in simple terms, the good guy? I'll let you six ponder this for the next few years. You can give me your answer after you have put some thought in it."
Neptune and Adam looked at each other and shrugged, Pyrrha nodded, Blake kept reading her book, and Weiss looked infuriated, but said nothing.
Jaune stood there, pondering the question, as the professor continued to.
The first one Oobleck called was Neptune.
"Good morning Mr. Vasilias, have you thought about what your sin is?"
"Yes sir, I believe it is Lust. I'm a player sir. I always try to charm the prettiest girl, and I always succed. But then I leave, nothing said. My sin is the hollow, intense desire of humankind."
Next was Adam.
"Wrath." Then he got up and left.
Dr. Oobleck fiddled with his glasses. "Very well then, NEXT!"
Blake.
"I suppose it would be Gluttony, in terms of selfishness. I always run when push comes to shove. I hide from my past. Even my semblance is selfishness, leaving an empty copy while I run away. I seem to put my safety before others.
"Thank you Miss Belladonna, you may take your leave."
Pyrrha.
"Pride, that has become my life. I hate it, but it's true. In Mistral, I'm admired for my achievements, not for who I am. As far as they know, I'm the proud champion of the Mistral Ring, the star student of Mistral's best academy. But that's all they know. They only know the pride I'm forced behind."
Weiss.
"I envy. I envy those who are better than me, those who don't have to live up to the Schnee title; I even envy that idiot who thinks he can flirt with me. All of them have easier lives. And I envy that."
And then there was one.
When walked out to get Jaune, he saw him in the now empty classroom, head in his arms, intently staring at the "Conspiracy" board.
"Jaune, would you please come with me." Jaune's head snapped away, before nodding and getting up. He walked into the room, and sat in the chair.
"Jaune, I have asked the others what they believed their sin was. This is because we had plenty of past information on them, as well as two weeks in their presence. They knew what we were expecting as their answer, and they answered appropriately. You however, you are different. To put it simply, we don't know you. All we know is that you have seven sisters that you show a great deal of care for, and that you were willing to sacrifice yourself to help someone you just met. So, based on what we know, we can't even guess your sin. What you say next, we'll believe. But do remember what I told you six at the beginning of this, and choose carefully."
Jaune nodded. As one by one his friends went in to choose their sin, Jaune had in fact been thinking about the professor's quote. On the surface, it was quite straight-forward. But Jaune tried to look deeper into its meaning. And he didn't have the answer he was looking for, but he did at least have an answer for the professor's question.
"I remember reading a story a long time ago. It was a nice series, but it never seemed to end. Anyways, its main character was extremely loyal to his friends, to the point where the villains constantly exploited it to try and kill him. It became his fatal flaw, for obvious reasons. I understood why it was his flaw, but like the character, I found it weird. How could loyalty be a bad thing? But eventually, I came to understand why. And I think the same applies for me. I can't let go of those I love. Even the five, who I have only known for a few weeks, I would give my life so that they can live. I suppose that could also be called stubbornness or hard-headedness, so I suppose it's justifiable as a sin. And my sisters, I love them with all my heart, if one of them were to die, or disappear, or be taken advantage of, I don't know how I would react. I would kill the perpetrator, that's for sure. But I would probably also break inside. I suppose it is a flaw when you think about it. And in a way, loyalty is greed. The inability to allow someone to leave you is as self-indulging as caring only to make money, I….I'm not quite sure sir, but…I still believe that it is a form of greed. I guess I still don't quite know what you meant earlier sir, but I can say with confidence that my sin is greed. Whether that is a bad thing or not, I don't know….."
Both the professor and Jaune sat there, both thinking, for a while before the Professor said, "Thank you, you may go."
Jaune left the Professor's room, who promptly pulled out his scroll before telling Ozpin, "I think the Traveler chose right sir."
"Indeed he did. He lacks combat experience, but his heart is true. Whether he knows it or not, he will be invaluable on this team. He will be its moral compass."
Meanwhile, at the team's dorm, the other five were lounging, waiting for Jaune to come back.
Weiss impatiently sighed, "Where is that idiot?"
Blake was currently her book, Pyrrha was polishing her Scout Rifle Milo, and Adam, who grunted in response to the Weiss's question, was flicking through channels
Neptune was a little worried for his new friend, and replied, "Maybe he got lost again. I'll go search for him, you guys go get some rest. "
Weiss huffed and walked to the female dorm and shut the door. Slowly, the rest followed, going to their respective dorms.
Neptune closed the door, "I hope you didn't end up somewhere embarrassing again."
Neptune sighed in relief; Jaune was sitting in one of the benches in the park, which overlooked the glowing lights of the city below. His head down with the tell-tale glow of the scroll. Neptune thought he heard voices; and walked over to see what Jaune was doing so far away from their dorms.
Jaune was currently talking to his sisters and enjoying the calm breeze in the small park.
"What is it like?"
"How high up are you?"
"Have you found Saber, Juliet, or Calypso yet?"
"Did you meet any cute girls yet?
"Can you bring us to the City some time?"
"When can you come back and dance with us?"
"Um, Jaune, who is behind you?" The oldest of Jaune's younger sisters, Jasmine, asked.
Jaune answered, "It's been really great here, and I am very high up, I can see the entire city from where I am. I haven't found them yet, but there are a lot of stories about them. Mostly guys who are afraid of them. I did in fact meet three beautiful girls, and they are going to be my teammates for however long I stay here. And before you guys get any ideas, they are WAY out of my league so…anyways I'll try to either bring you guys or visit soon so- WAIT WHAT!?" Jaune whirled around to see Neptune trying to run away. "NEPTUNE GET BACK HERE!" Jaune yelled as his sisters laughed.
By the time they got back to the dorm, they were laughing so hard they fell on the floor, and a similar thing was happening on the other side of the video.
"I'M GONNA SKEWER THOSE IDIOTS!" Weiss yelled marching out.
"Hush Snow Angel, people are sleeping." Jaune replied while laughing.
"Arc, I'll skewer you first!"
The next morning, the rest of the team found the living room covered in frost, and Neptune, Jaune, and surprisingly Weiss all laughing with frost all over their bodies.
Weiss would later deny laughing with those "imbeciles".
One week later
"Monsters! Demons! Prowlers of the night. Yes, the Grimm have gone by many names, but I prefer to call them….prey!"
…
And that is where professor Port lost Jaune. He tried to focus, but the Professor preferred to talk more about himself than about the actual Grimm that the six would be fighting.. Jaune's brain couldn't handle the pure boredom that came from having to listen about the "handsome, young man" that Port described himself as. To be fair, he had lasted longer than either Neptune or Adam, who were both asleep. Somehow, the girls could stay focused during the Profesor's speeches, or they were excellent actors. Both were plausible explanations to why they all seemed so focused.
So, instead of listening, Jaune decided to study the detailed diagrams of the different types of Grimm. He started to subconsciously copying down the pictures on his note sheet.
When he had just finished sketching the Boarbatusk and Beowulf to the best of his ability, he noticed out of the corner of his eye that Weiss had raised her hand for some reason. She then proceeded to step onto the lecture floor, somehow having changed back into her combat armor. It consisted of mid-length coat with a reinforced chest piece under. She wore a pair of cybernetic gloves with an armband that projected a snowflake on her upper left arm. She wore a pair of tight stockings, with smooth white greaves over them. She wore a pair of high-heeled boots, causing Jaune to wonder how she fought in those. Finally, her helmet formed around her face. It was all white, and followed the curve of her head, with the front depressed in, which flickered on and glowing dimly, her sideways ponytail hanged outside the helmet freely. Jaune guessed that the suit was both protective and nimble, probably allowing her to have greater ease dodging and rolling. She drew out a gleaming white sniper rifle, containing a rotating chamber with four dust capsules. She then flicked it gently, causing it to unfold into a rapier. She took a ready position and stared at the cage in front of her.
It opened to reveal a Boarbatusk. Jaune subconsciously highlighted the boarbatusk's weakness: its underbelly. He also noticed that the back bone was more segmented, meaning that there might be more weakness on the creature's spine.
The boarbatusk charged at Weiss, who jumped over, transforming her Rapier back into a sniper and taking a shot while falling. The bullet bounced off the backbone and hit the wall close to Jaune's face.
"That can't be on accident."Jaune thought.
The grimm turned to face Weiss, then did something Jaune didn't expect: it jumped, curled into ball, and rolled towards Weiss at an incredible speed.
"Ok, Grimm don't follow the laws of physics. Got it" Jaune once again thought while staring dumbfounded at the physics that was being destroyed.
Weiss once again hopped over the Boarbatusk and tried to slice it with her rapier. It didn't seem to have any affect though. It did hit the wall and collapsed out of form. Weiss summoned a glyph and bounced off it to hit the Boarbatusk, which dazed it, but it quickly recovered and knocked Weiss back.
Jaune couldn't take it and yelled out, "You need to freeze it and then hit its belly! Cut off its mobility! You can use a gravity glyph to help!"
Weiss snapped, "I KNOW YOU MORON!"
"Then do it already!"
Weiss fumed but obliged. She jumped and placed a glyph to step on. She then spun a cartridge to ice dust, and then fired a shot, forming an ice wall, which the Grimm promptly crashed into and fell over, revealing its underbelly. Weiss then fired another shot, freezing the upside down Boarbatusk, before switching back to a rapier, forming another glyph, and pushed off it, stabbing through the Boarbatusk's stomach and killing it instantly. She real eased a sigh before standing up.
Professor Port laughed before saying, "I see we are in the midst of a true Guardian! That is it for class today! Dismissed!"
Weiss all but stomped out, followed by the rest, with Neptune and Jaune bringing up the rear.
Neptune chuckled, "She totally didn't think of that plan." Jaune shrugged before Neptune slung an arm over his shoulder and the two walked out.
Professor Port waited for the two to leave before pulling out a scroll and tapping a coffee icon, "That boy is quite the tactician. I would nominate him as the Fireteam's captain if I were you sir."
The next day
"Good morning students! Welcome to your first day of Combat Training. I will be your instructor, Summer Rose. Today, you will be fighting Grimm opponents, and we will be identifying your aura type, Semblance, and, as the public lovingly dubbed, your 'super'" She put up her fingers and made air quotes at the mention of "supers". "Your practice will be Beowulves, I expect to see you to attempt to use your semblance at the end. Don't disappoint me." She then made a big smile, "Good luck!"
The first to go was Adam. His armor consisted of a black full body reinforced suit, with a red chest piece over it. He wore substantial leg armor with Greaves and heavy looking boots, all black. He had slim gauntlets and shoulder armor. Strangely enough, the only helmet he wore was a visor that covered his eyes and had red grooves on it. He did however see the telltale flicker of an invisible, hard light shield go up. Adam stepped out on the arena and a Beowulf pounced into view as well. It charged Adam, who dodged and fired a shot gun shell into its back, causing it to stumble. He fired three more shells before turning the shotgun into a katana and slashed the Grimm several times. He then jumped back and stood ready. The Grimm, noticing that there was no way to escape, charged Adam and slashed downwards at Adam. He parried the slash, knocking the Beowulf back, and then but his Katana back into its sheaf before swinging the blade back out. It made contact with the creature, sending it into the air before it disintegrated. Adam then walked off the stage calmly.
Blake went next. Her armor was minimal, really only being her normal clothing with reinforced plates over her shoulders, elbow, and kneecaps. Her mask was a full face mask that jutted out over her mouth, and had a visor where her eyes were. Jaune also noticed ribbon wrapped around her left arm. When the Grimm attacked, all it hit was an afterimage of Blake before she put a few bullets into its back from her pistol. The Grimm shrugged it off and charged at Blake. She jumped over it and made a few slashes with her Katana, which was slightly shorter than Adams, before landing on the ground and back flipping twice out of the Grimm's reach. She turned the Katana in to a Variant Ballistic Chain Scythe (Jaune wondered who came up with that name) throwing it, holding onto the ribbon part, wrapping the blade around the Grimm and pulling the Grimm towards her, she then disappeared from her spot, reappearing behind the Grimm and stabbing the Grimm in the back. It fell limply on the ground, and Blake pulled her katana out of its chest.
Pyrrha followed. Her armor made her resemble an ancient Spartan warrior, complete with greaves, gauntlets, a chest piece, and flexible armor that covered the rest of her body. Her red sash hanged off her armor's belt. Her circlet expanded down to cover her face and the middle of her mask glowed softly. Like Adam's mask, a hard light shield formed around the mask. Her shield was still on her back. She pulled out her scout rifle and stood waiting. Suddenly, the Beowulf pounced out at her, put it was shot back by five well placed bullets. Pyrrha transformed the rifle into a sword and took out her shield, and attacked the Grimm, becoming a whirlwind of death, slashing, shooting, shield bashing with no stop. Jaune then noticed what seemed to be metal dust falling out around her. He was confused, but then Pyrrha stopped. Her hands flowed with a black light, and the metal dust and leftover bullets started to levitate. The bullets began moving towards the Beowulf, flying in and out of its body. The metal dust then compacted to a large metal spear, which promptly imbedded itself in the Beowulf's chest. Its body crumbled into darkness and the dust flew back under Pyrrha's sash. Jaune noticed that he had inched significantly back from the stage, the others besides Adam doing the same.
Weiss stepped onto the stage, her high heels clicking on the floor. She held her sniper rifle at the ready. The next Beowulf stalked in wearily. Weiss immediately began firing, with yellow, red, and blue dust flying nonstop at the creature, her dust cartridge continuously rolling as she flicked through different types of ammunition. The Grimm couldn't even get within 5 meters of her. Finally, two ice shots caught its head and feet, freezing it in place. Weiss crossed her arms before flicking them to either side of her. Snowflake glyphs materialized around the frozen Beowulf and Weiss promptly started bouncing off them slashing with her rapier. Finally, she jumped up and did a downward slash, materializing a gaunt ice cleaver, splitting the Grimm into two.
Neptune finally stepped onto the stage. He wore an extended version of his red jacket, this version extending down towards his feet. He wore the same attire he normally did, but now almost all of it was reinforced with plate armor. He wore a blue helmet with a large whit V visor overtop it, arching over where his nose would be. He pulled out his gun and aimed it in front of him. He held down the trigger and then let go. A large energy shot came out of the gun, and exploded, launching the hiding Beowulf forward. He then shifted the firing mechanism, letting the gun fire at a much faster rate, before unleashing a swarm of hard light shots rip through the Beowulf. He then shifted his gun into a giant glaive, and started slashing the Grimm, before having the glaive split into a trident and stabbing clean through the Grimm's chest.
Neptune rubbed his head, "Hehe, I still haven't found my semblance yet. Working on it."
After watching Neptune step off the stage, Jaune got up and faced his teammates, "Prepare to be heavily disappointed."
Weiss snorted, "I already have low expectations."
"They are probably not low enough."
"…."
"Yeah."
Jaune got up and willed his armor to appear. His chest piece was a polished white Titanium-Spin weave alloy armor piece that had twin crescent moons in the middle, with silver wolves on each side of the arc, along with other pieces of silver engraving coming from the wolves. It was connected by to thick, black straps. Underneath was a reinforced white bodysuit. He wore silver greaves, leg covers, gauntlets, and pauldrons. At his waist hung a long red ash with a shorter stash overtop it. Blue triangles were at the tops of the sashes, with white eagles. Three claw marks were on the longer piece. Finally, his helmet seemed generic enough, gold glass that connected to white armor that wrapped around his head, but when he wore, he felt …..empowered, like nothing in the world could stop him.
Jaune rolled his shoulders and pulled out Crocea Mors, when Weiss suddenly stood up and yelled, "Where did you get your hands on those? That chestpiece and helmet belonged to Arc, one of the two heroes that one day disappeared."
Jaune looked up in surprise, "Ozpin told me these belonged to my father, and I have his gun as well. Wait, did you say lost he-". Then Jaune was flung back when a claw slapped him in the chest. He tumbled across the floor before staggering back up; He looked up and saw a huge bear-like Grimm. "….that isn't a Beowulf." The Grimm swiped again. This time, Jaune ducked and opened fire on the Grimm's chest, pushing it back. Jaune ran forward and hit the Bear-grimm in the snout, dazing it and inadvertently activating Crocea Mor's sword form.
"What th-OOF!" Jaune was once again smacked across the stage. "Owww…"
The Grimm roared and charged, and Jaune followed suit. They hit each other at the same time, causing Jaune to once again tumble across the floor. This repeated another three times before Jaune decided against continuously throwing himself at a creature twice his size.
The Grimm once agin charged towards Jaune, but instead of trying to attack, Jaune started dodging its swipes. He formulated a plan while doing this, and finally decided to put it in action. He charged the bear-grimm once again, and tumbled onto the ground once more. However, he layed there instead of trying to get back up and the Grimm charged to deal the killing blow.
On the sidelines, the rest were watching uneasily at the seemingly one-sided the fight, but as Neptune and Pyrrha got up to help them, Summer stuck out her arm. "Don't." She said while shaking her head. When Neptune opened his mouth, she gave him a sharp look, scaring him back to his seat. Suddenly, Weiss gasped, causing the rest to turn their heads, having turned away to avoid seeing the slaughter. What they saw shocked them.
Jaune's aura was scattered across the arena floor from his many bouts with the bear-grimm. However, as the Grimm was about to slash the downed Arc, the aura shards flew back towards Jaune, shredding and breaking the Grimm's body and armor and reforming over Jaune's chest piece. The others also saw that his aura went from yellow all the way back to green. Jaune then launched into action, climbing hastily up the stunned Grimm. He switched the sword back into an auto rifle, switched its fireing mechanism, and opened fire on the Grimm, with the recoil sending him up. Most of the bullets didn't even touvh the Grimm, but the recoil got Jaune up a good seven meters. Jaune switched Crocea Mors back into a sword, and as gravity took back control, he started to spin. The Grimm finally recovered, but as it looked up, Jaune's circle of death made contact with the its neck, decapitating it and leaving a large mark in the floor. Jaune then landed on the ground and promptly collapsed, before he was picked up by Adam and Neptune.
"Hehe, you got me worried there for a second. I thought I was about to lose my friend after only a month of knowing him." Neptune chuckled as Jaune let out a groan.
After Jaune's vision finally cleared, he saw the leaderboard, which ranked the six based on fighting prowess. He was at the bottom and Pyrrha was at the top. Jaune shrugged and promptly blacked out.
Ozpin walked onto the stage and cleared his throat. The six recruits stared attentively.
"I realize that I haven't officially introduced you all to the Tower and the life of a Guardian. There are things that you all expect me to say, but I assume you know all ready. So I will leave you with one piece of wisdom that veteran Guardians all eventually learn: your team is your family. That is the one thing you should never take for granted. Many Guardians die because they don't learn that lesson. They never realize it until one of their teammates die in their arms. Then, they are consumed with grief and notions of revenge. They all eventually die," Ozpin's glasses flashed ", and the same fate will befall you if you don't learn to appreciate your new family. As Professor Ooblek says, those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. My advice, many guardians take years to learn it. Don't let it slip from your mind. Or you will face certain despair."Ozpin stepped off the stage.
There was a heavy silence, when Neptune finally spoke up, "That was very….cryptic. I am actually scared now." The others nodded slowly.
Gkynda stepped onto the stage and announced, "The leader of your fireteam shall be Greed, the second sin. Jaune Arc."
"WHAT!?"Weiss yelled in surprise.
"Oh boy." Jaune thought
Author's Note: I'mmmmmmmm Back!~
Yeah, I know I promised this next chapter to come out a month earlier, but I was having trouble finding time to update it. Sorry about that.
Anyways, Jaune is finally starting to get the hang of things, and that means that plot progression might happen soon! Yeah, Plot!
You might have noticed that Jaune is portrayed as slightly more mature and he is much more strategic than Canon Jaune. This is because in my AU, he had to take care of his other four sisters. You can't go around being immature when you have four little ones to look over. I managed, however, to bring over certain scenes in the anime over, with little adjustments here and there, like the Ursa fight (no Cardin because screw Cardin) and the Boarbatusk scene. I also managed to bring over the ever so infamous "snow angel" into play.
Now, I know there are a few problems. a) I feel as if I am not doing much in the character development department b) I had trouble describing the armor, so if you want a better look, tell me in a review and I will link pictures c) I have no experience writing fight scenes, and I feel like that leaked into the combat scenes in this chapter.
So, in conclusion:
I NEED REVIEWS TO TELL ME WHAT I AM DOING WRONG.
Seriously, I need reviews please. It will go a long way in making this fanfic not a steaming pile of shi-at.
I believe that is it so...
K out! Peace!