JADE'D ROSES

CHAPTER THREE: THE YANG'S ALL HERE

Erin and Blake stood on opposite sides of the arena, preparing for battle. Blake prepared Gambol Shroud and assumed a fighting stance, while Erin unclipped the handle from her hip.

"What's that?" Ruby asked Joe. Joe smiled.

"That would be telling." He said cryptically. Doc gave an answer.

"It's a lot of things. A doorstop, a telescope, a baton-" Joe cut Doc off.

"Don't ruin my cryptic answer!" He reprimanded. Doc huffed.

"Fine, just wait and see." Doc amended. Ruby, Weiss, Yang and Team JNPR nodded.

Erin reached into her pouch and pulled out a red dust crystal, spun the point on her finger and put in into the handle.

Doc huffed again and muttered something that sounded like 'show off' and Weiss questioned again.

"What good will that do?" She asked. Joe smiled.

"Watch and learn." He said, pointing to the field.

Erin made a whip-like motion with the handle and fire came out, forming a flaming whip. Everybody let out their ooooh's and aaaaah's at once, except for rest of team JADE.

"Ready, begin!" Goodwitch called, stepping out from between the two girls.

Blake used the gun-function of Gambol Shroud and fired repeatedly at Erin, who simply spun the whip of fire circular shield that blocked all Blake's shots. Erin cracked the whip at the floor causing a surge of fire to rush towards the Faunus, who quickly rolled out of the way.

"So that's what it does." Ruby stated and Weiss and Yang nodded.

Erin made a circle of fire again, but this time shot it in funnel-form at Blake. Blake jumped over the flames and lunged at Erin, her sword in cleaver mode, and swung at Erin like an untrimmed hedge. Erin dodged and swung her whip so it wrapped around the Faunus' ankle.

She continued by rapidly thrashing Bake around the fighting arena. Erin threw Blake straight up into the air and forcefully slammed Blake into the ground.

Goodwitch shouted out across the arena and called the match. Erin helped Blake up to her feet and both girls walked back to their seats.

"Well done Miss Atkins, our next battle is Alex Chambers and Nora Valkyrie." Goodwitch called.

"Fine, whatever." Alex sighed as he hopped down into the arena. Ren turned to his left, where Nora was sitting.

"Good luck-" He started, before seeing there was nobody there. He looked out to the field, confused, until he saw Nora already standing out there, visibly vibrating with excitement. He sighed too. "Of course."

Alex made his way onto the field across from his opponent, who was grinning happily.

"Ready, begin!" Goodwitch called once again.

"Please, this will be child's play with my fool-proof strategy." Alex boasted. Nora rolled her eyes, deciding to humor him.

"Which is?" She asked. Alex smirked confidently.

"Judging on how much you talk to that Ren fellow, I assume your good friends." He said, still smirking when a purple light overtook him. When the light cleared, Alex was gone, and Ren was in his place. "You wouldn't dare hit a good friend, would you?"

Nora, however, wasn't fooled. She knew Ren was still up in the stands. Instead she smiled as she pulled out the Magnhild.

"He's not just a good friend. He's my best friend. I'd hit him even harder." Was all she said before the Ren-copy went flying into a wall.

In the stands, Yang was confused.

"Soo, why are there two Ren's?" She asked nobody in particular.

"Mitosis." Joe said simply. Doc elbowed his ribs in annoyance.

"That's his semblance. With it he can transform into anyone or anything that's even a little familiar to him." Erin explained for her. Yang smiled.

"Works great! The REN-semblance is uncanny!" She attempted with a wide grin. Only Joe broke down in laughter, which died off in the silence of others.

"Good one." Joe whispered to Yang, who was busy laughing at her own joke.

Meanwhile back in the arena…

Nora, who showed him no mercy, was still slamming Alex into walls. Professor Goodwitch decided to save the poor boy and called the match.

"Ms. Valkyrie is the winner! Albeit, overkill, but a win non-the-less."

Alex grudgingly made his way back to his seat, trying to hide his limp. Joe smirked at him.

"Well if that 'fool-proof' plan of yours involved getting smacked into walls, you did a grade-A job!" He encouraged.

Alex just glared.

"Is it time for lunch yet?" Doc blurted out. Goodwitch glared.

"No," She started, but was interrupted by the bell. She transitioned into a sigh. "Yes."

The whole class was gone in a few seconds flat, leaving only RWBY, JNPR and JADE in the arena.

"Mr. Wise, may I have a word with you?" Goodwitch asked the teen in yellow. Joe sighed and muttered something incoherent.

"To lunch!" Nora cried as she practically rocketed to the cafeteria. Her friends followed suit and JADE after that, but not before Doc grinned evilly at Joe.

Joe sighed, knowing that Doc would make sure there was almost no lunch left for him.

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Ruby had invited team JADE to sit with them at lunch, to which they accepted. Erin had gotten Joe a lunch, but if he didn't get there soon, it would've been Doc's second lunch.

"Ow." Doc said as Erin slapped his hand away from Joe's lunch. Undeterred, he tried again.

"Ow." He was met with the same result. Determined, but not really hungry, he went again.

"Ow." Again, his hand was forced away. He tried again, for a final time.

"Ow!" It was the same result, but by a different person. The table turned to see Joe standing behind Doc, who was holding his head.

"Thank you." Joe said to Erin as he took his lunch from Doc, who was busy rubbing his head.

"So what did Professor Goodwitch want?" Yang started the conversation. Joe rolled his eyes.

"It started with her telling me not to sass her in class again or I'd regret it." He started.

"Well that's not so bad." Ruby attempted to cheer him up.

"But it ended with her taking my ore." He said next, becoming depressed. "But I still have these!" He finished, cheering up again as he took out a gun-shaped yellow and black object.

"Whoa." Ruby admired. "What is it?"

"That's one of his Tasers that I was telling you about." Erin answered for Joe, who smiled.

"This is how they work." He said happily, jabbing the point into Doc's closest shoulder.

Doc's arm jolted in surprise, but it was the arm that wasn't tased that moved. Which coincidentally happened to be the hand that wore brass knuckles. Which coincidentally collided with Alex's face out of sheer shock.

"Ow." Alex muttered, holding his nose.

RWBY and JNPR sweat-dropped, Doc laughed, Erin shook her head and Joe went back to eating his lunch.

"Why would you tase your partner?" Weiss asked from next to Ruby. She stole a glance at the little red-hooded girl. She was a dunce and all, but she couldn't do anything like that to her. Again.

All of team JADE looked at Weiss confused.

"Because we're not partners?" Joe said, as if it were obvious. Everyone outside JADE looked almost amazed.

"…Are you sure?" Blake asked. They both nodded.

"He's actually my partner." Erin told them, pointing at Joe.

"And this anti-social little shit is my partner." Doc followed, indicating at Alex, who looked offended.

"I am NOT anti-social." He protested. The entire table looked unconvinced. Doc laughed.

"Really? Because that's the only sentence you've said since lunch started." Doc pointed out.

"… Shut up." Came the response.

"And you proved my point."

Aaaaand that's chapter three!

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