Hey guys A. here. So this chapter was probably the worst one yet and I apologise for that. By the way people have been requesting songs for Jaune to sing, they are all great songs but I just need to think about where to place them. So just be patient with me :)
ANYWAYS! Enjoy!
Jaune exited the Cafeteria and headed his way to Professor Ozpins office, but in a very slow pace, clearly not wanting to go see the two Professors. Glynda Goodwitch and Professor Ozpin can see him through the security cameras and they noticed Jaune was walking in a very slow pace, too slow for that matter. Ozpin just chuckled while Goodwitch was about to run out of patience, she grabbed the microphone and spoke through the intercoms.
"Jaune Arc, I would recommend you walk faster, slowing down time will just delay you the inevitable, and also a scolding will be held if you do not get here in the next 5 minutes" Jaune heard that and bolted to the headmasters office, clearly not wanting a scolding session from Professor Goodwitch.
Team RWBY and JNPR heard the intercoms and couldn't help but laugh, Yang was rolling on the floor while Ruby was cry laughing on the table. Weiss and Blake just giggled, Nora and Ren were struggling to breath, Velvet and Pyrrha was embarrassed but let out a few giggles out of their mouths.
Jaune arrived at the headmasters office just in time, he knocked on the door and Professor Goodwitch answered immediately and she ushered Jaune to come in. He found Glynda Goodwitch next to an uncontrollably-Laughing Ozpin sitting at his desk. Feeling embarrassed, he looked down at the floor trying to hide his blush that was forming on his cheeks.
"Mr Arc I will ask you to sit down please, Professor Ozpin will be with you shortly" She whispered something in Ozpin's ear and Professor Ozpin stopped his laughing instantly, his face turned into a look of horror and shock. Glynda just smirked and gestured Ozpin to talk to Jaune, he adjusted his glasses and continued.
"Hello Mr Arc, how are you today?" Asked Ozpin.
"Umm... I'm good sir, h-how about you?" Jaune asked, but was cautious about it.
"I'm good, you know, besides all the paperwork and students, life has been great hasn't it" Said Ozpin.
"Y-Yeah, paperwork and students... hard life, y'know... heh heh"
Ozpin chuckled "I agree, when I was younger I wanted to be popular with the ladies, although that was cut short because of... Y'know" Ozpin gestured to Glynda and professor Goodwitch just rolled her eyes, Jaune giggled at the professors antics.
"I tried finding ways to get a woman's attention, all of them of them ended up with hard slaps and bruised body parts. Oh how I loved the good old days, don't you remember Professor Goodwitch?" Asked Ozpin.
"Yes I remember... Can you just get straight to the point please, I have a couple of students that need detentions" Goodwitch said, clearly annoyed.
"Very well, So Jaune, It has come to my attention that you know are quite a musician yourself. Everyone heard it because Cardin Winchester so happened to record your singing and Guitar talent, not to mention he sent them to 99% of the school"
"Yeah uhh... If you must know, my friends knew my secret 10 mins after I finished singing, I guess you can't hide anything here in Beacon"
"That's very true Mr Arc, you can't hide anything in Beacon, so that's why I'm going to show you the music room"
Jaune perked up when he heard the words 'Music' and 'room'. He jumped excitedly on his seat like when a 6 year old just received his best birthday present yet. Ozpin chuckled at his funny excitement to see the music room. Glynda was surprised they even had a music room, she would tell Ozpin about this later. Ozpin got up from his seat and gestured Jaune to follow, Glynda Goodwitch also followed Ozpin to Beacon's secret Music room. Jaune wondered why the music room was kept a secret for a long time.
"Hey Professor Ozpin, how come I've never heard of a Music room being held in Beacon before?" Asked Jaune.
"Well Jaune the answer is right in front of you. You are a student of Beacon, A school that is teaching others like yourself to be Hunters and Huntresses against the Grimm threats, Grimm that would like to rip out your flesh for a delicacy" Jaune gulped.
"So Beacon never really had time to give students the opportunity or even teach them the meaning of musical instruments and singing. Everyone thought music didn't belong to a school of Huntsmen, others thought it was just a waste of time. But I think that music is the way of peace, A way to clear your mind, a place where you can belong and thrive. People spend days trying to clear their minds, but I think music help you clear it a lot quicker, well for me it is. So, tell me Jaune, What does it feel like when you sing and play the guitar at the same time?" Ozpin asked.
"Well I feel happy, like all my stresses of the world has just vanished and all that's left is a feeling of peace and joy" Said Jaune.
"You are correct Mr Arc, Do you think it's a bit strange that most people the same age as you listen to music, yet they have no interest in learning how to play it, kind of Odd if you ask me."
"Yeah you're right, I guess I never saw it like that Professor"
Ozpin chuckled "Well Mr Arc, perhaps you would remember these words and pass them down to your friends or descendants." Jaune smiled at Professor Ozpin's humor.
They arrived at the entrance of the Music room, but it didn't look like an entrance, more like a dead end of a corridor. Jaune was confused by this but Glynda seemed unfazed, she was used to Ozpin's surprises and tricks already and she remembered almost half of them.
"Umm sir... that's a... Wall"
"I know" Ozpin walked in front of the wall and put a bit of Aura into the wall, suddenly a button emerged out from the wall. He pressed it and the hidden entrance started to take form into a glass door. The knight was amazed at the secret entrance, he didn't know things like this could happen.
Jaune looked through the glass door but it was full of dust and dirt, when he took a look inside, the room was also filled with dusty particles and dirt but he can make out different shapes and sizes of the objects. There was a piano in the middle of the room, several guitars leaned nicely on the wall and drums could be seen by the top right corner. The room was quite big, probably half the size of a ballroom but it was a music room nonetheless, although he was quite disappointed at the state it's in now.
"So... This is the music room"
"You are correct..."
"And top quality instruments have been lying here for a long time now..."
"That is true..."
"But they are covered in dust..."
"Obviously Mr Arc..."
"..."
"..."
"So... who's gonna clean it up?"
"HA! Not me!" and with that professor Ozpin walked away with Glynda behind him.
"W-wait sir, you can't expect me clean this myself!"
"Hard work and dedication comes with a big reward Mr Arc" He said "Oh and By the way, my responsibility for this room has been passed down to you now Jaune, take care of it" He didn't even bother looking back to talk to Jaune and just continued walking down the hallway to his Office. He was glad the Janitors room was open but was a little frustrated that he had to clean the whole room.
"Well, I might as well get this over and done with, the room won't clean itself y'know"
Jaune Grabbed a couple of brooms, one small broom to clean the hard-to-reach parts and another broom to sweep the floors. He started cleaning the surfaces of the piano, then made his down to the legs of the piano and finally cleaned the piano keys. He smiled and pressed a key on the keyboard, only to hear a non audible sound. Jaune frowned and knew instantly why no sound came from the key, he prepared for the worst and lifted up the piano lid and what he saw shocked him. Dust covered EVERYTHING, dust got stuck between the tuning pins and soundboard, they even covered most of the strings and the once shiny pin block was now covered in thick gray.
Jaune cursed under his breath and started cleaning. Surprisingly it only took him about 10 minutes to completely clean everything, proud of himself he went straight back to the keyboard and pressed a key, this time the key made a sound. He felt happy he was getting somewhere.
Moving along and he found ten or so guitars sitting on guitar racks by the wall, he cleaned each one delicately and gracefully like a maid (...what?) Making sure he doesn't damage the surface or the strings. He even cleaned inside the guitar which considered to be quite a challenge. After his guitar cleaning he went to the drums, drums were easy to clean and cleaned all of it in under a minute.
He decided to clean the floor, Jaune grabbed the bigger broom and swept all the dust particles into one place so it would be easier to collect the dust afterwards, since it was quite a big room. Time seemed to speed up quite faster than normal but he was determined to clean all this by the end of the day.
Once he finished the floors he moved on to the curtains which was riddled with dust particles, he shook the curtains until everything came off but behind the curtains he found a glass door that leads to a balcony. He opened the door and was mesmerised at the view of Vale, he wondered how amazing it would look at night.
He also noticed that he was very high up from ground level, almost around 10 stories up. Jaune came back inside and continued with his cleaning.
After a couple of hours he finally managed to clean the instruments, the floor and the curtains. The floors had a nice shine to it, the curtains regained their natural dark red colour and the instruments were in mint condition.
Jaune was proud of himself, this definitely made him a lot happier than getting the highest grade in any test, but he just realized he needed to clean the walls and cei- is that a chandelier? he thought, he went over to the light switch and flicked them on. The chandelier turned on but most of the light was blocked because of the dust covering it, he turned them off and continued cleaning.
Jaune had no way of getting up there, it was probably about 10 meters high. Sighing in defeat he decided to clean the walls instead, he grabbed the ladder from the Janitors closet and cleaned the walls, rubbing off dirt and dust and giving it a shiny exterior. An hour passed by and Jaune cleaned the walls... Well, most of the dust was gone, some dust were up higher where he couldn't reach it.
Getting clearly frustrated he blew up some of his aura around the room and found out that his aura cleared most of the dust covering the ceilings, walls and chandelier. He had an idea in mind and blew some aura around the room again, this time the remaining dust from the walls had cleared completely and the walls had shined, thanks to his aura.
He blew up more and more of his aura around the room, trying to get the few spots of remaining dust in the ceiling. With one final explosion, white light exploded around him but making sure he doesn't damage any instruments. He stopped and admired his handy work, everything was clean and shiny. He turned on the light switch and the chandelier glowed white, illuminating the room in a very bright colour. Too bright he thought, so he pulled the brightness switch to a low level which caused the chandelier to fade down to a yellow light. Jaune felt a sense of accomplishment wash over him and placed the ladder and cleaning materials back in the Janitors closet, but before he was about to exit the music room his eyes glanced over to another door.
He walked over to it and opened it to see hundreds of instruments all lined up perfectly on the walls, ranging from trumpets, to Saxophones, Congo drums, Harp, Harmonica, Cello... and the Cursed triangle Who plays the triangle? I don't think it's even an instrument... Jaune had a look of disgust when he saw that blasted triangle. Jaune thought he has been here for an appropriate amount of time so he closed the 'extra-instruments-minus-the triangle' door and left. Once he left the Music room the walls started to change shape and it originated back to it's wall like state, but he made sure he remembered this place, so he stuck a guitar sticker on the wall.
Jaune walked back to his dorm room and was surprised how close he was to the music room, turn left at the hallway, turn to your first right and keep going straight until you see a corridor with a dead end. By now it was almost 9 o'clock and a hot shower would do nicely for him. He opened the door to his room and found Nora playing with his guitar while Ren and Pyrrha tried to get some shut eye. Jaune walked over to Nora and whispered something in her ear.
"Oh sorry, I never knew, I might go take a quick nap beside Ren" said Nora. Jaune smiled and took a shower. He then tucked the guitar under his bed and turned the lights off. He went to bed and hoped that the next 7 days would be better than today, but sadly, things don't work out like they're supposed to.