What's goin' on, everyone? Yes, this story has been updated, but this one is made from scratch: an actual chapter to a story instead of a oneshot changed to a chapter in a bigger story. I planned this chapter! It was made from scratch! Anyways, when I looked at my story the day after I published it, there were two reviews that I am taking into account. Shoutouts to Mountains edge and ShadowGOUF! They have given me expectations that I have to meet! If you spot something that I could do better on, then either review on the chapter or PM me. Now, to the chapter! (By the way, I'm going to be making references to three or four of my favorite video game franchises, so if you see them, don't point them out. If you PM me, I'll tell you you have great taste in games, though!) (No, I won't give you money. I don't know how to set up a and I'm too broke to give money to people with good taste.) Also, thanks to ShadowGOUF for giving me an idea on the semblance. I will be using it! Thanks!
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He then opened his mouth to talk, then remembered something, so he closed his mouth into a smirk. He looked at Sadie and said to her, "Y'know, Sadie, you make very good pancakes." Sadie looked at him, puzzled, then realization dawned on her. She pouted, looked down while mumbling, "Stupid kid, eating my pancakes without sharing," and went to the kitchen to make more. Jaune burst out laughing, as did the other two guys in the room, while Julia cracked a smile.
Don't worry, Jaune. You're going to have a much better life now. I guarantee it.
About a week after Jaune told Team JRVS what happened, he got to know them better, so why was he here, in his bed, when he could be asking them to train him? That was when Mark walked in. Jaune felt closest to Mark besides Julia. He was someone he could look up to, a male he could finally ask questions without getting yelled at.
"What are you doing in here, Jaune?" Mark asked him, a smile on his face. Mark wasn't worried about Jaune, but he still wanted to know what he planned on doing with his life now that his parents weren't in the mix.
Jaune responded, "I don't know. I was just thinking about why I was still sitting here when I could be out there talking to you and the others. By the way, I have a little request to make."
"Oh? What sort of request?" Mark asked him, wondering what he would want.
"It's nothing important, I was just curious about what weapons the team uses. What do you use?" Jaune asked, a kind of analyzing glint in his eyes.
Mark looked at him, grinned, and told him, "My weapons are the most supreme of them all! They're gloves that can-" He cut himself off as looked for a way to describe it. He then shook his head and said, "You know what? Why don't I just show you? Come on, Jaune." Mark then left for the front door, Jaune following behind him.
When they walked outside, Mark went to a clearing a few meters away and turned to Jaune. He then said, gesturing to his hands, with a voice full of pride, "These are my gloves! They're made of leather and are very comfortable!" (A/N: I forgot to describe Mark's gloves in the last chapter. They're a pair of matching maroon fighting gloves. The cuffs(?) extend about halfway to his elbow. There we go!) Mark walked away from Jaune and punched a large rock, breaking it in half. He looked at Jaune and said, "If need be, I can use my aura to increase the power exponentially more than if I focused aura into just my hands." He grinned, a little wickedly, and continued, "And they catch fire." The gloves then lit up with fire. Jaune's eyes widened, but Mark didn't cry out or look like he was in pain, so he assumed that the fire couldn't hurt him.
Jaune couldn't help but ask, "What's your semblance?" He mentally kicked himself. It was rude to just ask what someone's semblance is when they were showing you their weapon! Mark just chuckled, however. Mark answered, "My semblance is actually inhuman strength. I can pick up things that are more than ten times my weight!"
Jaune was puzzled. His semblance was super strength, yet he wears gloves that increase the strength of his punch? Mark must've seen the confused look on his face, because he asked, "Why do I wear the gloves if I already have a super strength semblance?" Jaune had the decency to look sheepish, but Mark just told him, "Don't worry. Everyone I met other than the person who gave these to me asks that. As I said earlier: the gloves increase the power of my punch. I still haven't figured out how to implement my semblance into my attacks. I think it only works on lifting and holding things open, though. I don't know why, but that's the reason I got from it." Mark then sees the rest of his team approaching. He decides that since Jaune was introduced to his weapon that he should know Sadie and Saturn's weapons. "Guys! Over here! And bring your weapons!" The others look confused at the R of JRVS, but they bring their weapons anyways. When they see Jaune next to Mark, they realize what's going on and leave their puzzled faces behind in favor of excited faces.
Saturn beats Sadie to the punch with introducing Jaune to his weapon, taking his scythe out and showing it off to Jaune. It was just a plain scythe with a dark blue handle and light blue blade. (Just imagine a plain scythe, not Ruby's) "What's up, Jaune? Sorry if I'm coming off as tired, but this scythe is just so heavy! And cool!" Jaune just looked at him with a blank face, pushing Saturn to transform his scythe into an SMG. (Think a UMP-45) "It can use any type of dust so that's useful!" Saturn put on his winning smile and looked at Jaune, expecting an awestruck face, only for his happy expression to come crashing down when all he got was a raised eyebrow. He then whimpered and transformed it again into an oversized pistol, to which he got the same raised eyebrow. He then pointed it at Jaune and shot water at him. Jaune, not expecting this, let his other eyebrow join at his hairline while he adopted a dumbfounded expression.
Why does he have a water gun transformation on his hunting weapon? I mean… wha-... I don't-... I-... I don't understand!
While Jaune was trying to pick up the remaining pieces of his brain, Saturn was standing there with an evil grin, thinking, Ha! Take that! Now your mind is blown to pieces just like everyone else who doubted my scythe! Mwahahahahahaha!
Sadie, Mark, and Julia all just sat there, waiting for Jaune to come back to them. At this point they had seen the water gun transformation on Saturn's scythe 328 times. "Yes, we counted." They say, rolling their eyes. They look at each other and start taking bets. Before they finish taking bets they hear Jaune say, much to their disappointment, "Why?! I mean, what reason could you possibly have for making one of the transformations on your weapon a water gun?!" Saturn, being the guy that he is, responds with a cheeky smile and, "Reasons." Back to Jaune being flabbergasted.
About thirty minutes later, after Team JRVS finished a frustrating game of Uno, they hear Jaune hitting his head against a tree, much to their amusement. Sadie then grabs Jaune and tells him, "Now I know that your mind is pretty much paste right now, but my weapon is pretty simple. Now, it is quite literally just an oversized pistol that uses any type of dust and has an integrated suppressor." She pulls out her pistol and shows it to him. It's mostly black with a yellow trim on it. It was oversized because it was large and clunky and you couldn't really hide it if you were to carry it, no matter how hard you tried. "Also," she pressed a button, "the gun can camouflage!" Unless it had something like that, of course! "As I said: simple and it can't confuse someone unless they don't understand the concept of Dust and guns. Or camouflage. Other than that you can't get confused!"
Jaune was immensely thankful to Sadie. That helped heal his mind… a lot. Give him something he understands or a puzzle that he needs to solve and he's fine. Jaune sees something on her pistol and couldn't help but ask about it. "What's that?"
Sadie, who doesn't see anything wrong with her pistol, responds, "What's what?"
"That… thing, or picture, or whatever is on the side of the gun. What is it?"
A look of realization creeps up on Sadie's face. "Ooooohh. That's my family symbol. You like it? I wanted to have it on my pistol since my mom also had it on her weapon." (#10 on this link is the symbol since I can't describe for my life, as you can probably tell from my descriptions of Team JRVS's weapons. Fair warning: it probably won't get any better.) Jaune looked a little understanding, because if Julia had a symbol she held dear to her, he would want it engraved onto whatever weapon he'd use from now on. Alas, she doesn't, so he can't engrave a symbol onto whatever he uses. Maybe, just maybe, someone he meets in the future, someone who is dear to him or taught him, has a symbol, and they would give him the honor of engraving it on his weapons.
"Well, Jaune." Jaune hears, and turns to see that Julia was the one that spoke. "You already know my weapon since the… people… made sure to have me use it, but I don't think you've seen exactly how it looks." Jaune nodded. He actually never knew the specifics of her sword and shield. "Let me go get it real quick. I'll be back." She then walked off, leaving Jaune with Mark, Sadie, and Saturn.
He turned to the rest of Team JRVS and asked Sadie and Saturn, "So… what are your semblances? I know Mark's since he already told me, but I don't know the both of yours. Care to tell me?"
Sadie and Saturn looked at each other, knowing that Saturn was under orders from Julia to tell no one, and I mean no one, and looked back at Jaune. Saturn, actually looking a bit glum, for once, said, "I'm actually under orders from your sister to tell nobody my semblance. And yes, that includes you. I can't even use it unless it's our absolute last resort." Jaune nodded, knowing it must be a serious and big semblance if he wasn't allowed to tell anyone or use it unless he absolutely had to.
With the knowledge, or lack thereof, of Saturn's semblance, Jaune turned to Sadie, silently asking if she also wasn't allowed to tell anyone her semblance. She shook her head with a smile and told him, "Unlike Saturn, I can tell you my semblance, and I will, just later. Okay?" Jaune nodded, knowing he didn't actually have a right to know their semblances even if they were his sister's teammates. Actually, they were his sister's teammates, and he hadn't even trained his own semblance yet. Why should he know their semblances?
At that time, Julia came out, holding her sword and shield. It was pretty plain for a shield, and the sword was kind of plain too. The blade on the sword and the whole shield were all black. Plain, pitch black. The guard was a darkish orange and the handle was a darkish green. Julia, seeing his blank face, nodded while saying, "Yeah, yeah, I know. It's plain, but you can't deny that it works with stealth, right?" Jaune nodded, an action he was doing a lot of today, understanding that this team was stealth based. He also knew his sister's semblance: sensing people. When she uses her semblance, she can detect how many people are within a 50-meter radius of her.
"Now," Jaune heard his sister say, shaking him out of his thoughts to pay attention to what she had to say. "You know all of our weapons, and half of our semblances, so we're going to train you until we get you a weapon. Got that, cupcake?" Her voice changed at her last statement, confusing Jaune a little. What she said next cleared any confusions he had, however. "During your training, I am not your sister, my teammates are not your sister's friends, and you are not going to be getting any special treatment. At all. Are we clear?"
Jaune gulped, then, steeling his resolve, nodded, filled with the determination to get better through their training, maybe even surpassing them.
Julia smiled for a split second, then schooled her facial expression and said, "We start now. Give me 50 pushups then 50 situps. After that I want you to run around the house for 20 laps. Why are you still standing there? GET TO WORK!"
At her exclamation Jaune immediately got on the ground and started doing pushups, making sure to pace himself. He wasn't aware of what Team JRVS was thinking and he certainly didn't want to distract himself with it since he needed to get all of this done.
He's going to be the best.
Hey guys! Remember, review with helpful tips and how I could write this better! Again, thanks to ShadowGOUF and Mountains edge for leaving their helpful opinions. (By the way, Shadow, I will be certain to use your idea, but message me once you read this, okay? Thanks!)
