A/N: Hey guys! Time for today's chapter of team JPLL! So far, the teams seem to come together quite nicely, wouldn't you say? Regardless, don't forget to follow, favorite and review, and most importantly, enjoy.

"Next! Pyrrha Nikos Vs. Cardin Winchester!"

Glynda's voice echoed throughout the combat arena, as the two participants stepped down to the bottom floor, each brandishing their own weapon and skills, as part of Glynda's combat lesson. The rest of the students, between them teams JPLL and ACMM, watched with glee as the fabled Pyrrha Nikos proceeded to effortlessly beat Cardin without too much of a scratch, earning a few cheers and claps from amongst her peers, making Pyrrha blush lightly as she stepped back up to the seats.

As she walked up, Leila couldn't help but gaze at her with a hint of admiration, for her skill if nothing else. Soon, she felt the tap on her shoulder, Perci giving her a coy grin, who noticed her staring.

"So. Got a crush on Ms. High an' Mighty over there?" She cackled, and Leila, slightly used to her japes and cynicism at this point, simply waved her head, looking at her partner instead.

"Not affection, but admiration. One can't ignore such a blessed individual when she walks amongst us. I am sure the Lord has chosen her for great things." She spun her head in place again, fidgeting slightly as Pyrrha walked past them, pretending to fix her glasses to avoid her direct line of sight.

"So, gonna go and say hello?" Perci suggested, and Leila waved her head, blushing.

"O-Oh, I couldn't! One does not disturb others like that for no reason." She admitted, causing Perci to cackle again.

"Oh, one of these days..." She implied at the unseen schemes forming in her mind, Leila shuddering at the thought of a plan Perci formulated of all people, just imagining the various ways she finds to insult the Lord as an example.

All the while, from the moment the fight began to the moment it was finished, Jin was sitting next to Hue, clutching her hand tightly, a look of dread on her face. For some odd reason that Hue couldn't fathom, Jin always seemed to hate combat class. However, despite that, for some reason she always wore her cheerful grin before walking into it and sitting down.

"Jin..." Hue looked at her partner and team leader, sighing. "Jin, they're alright. No one got hurt. See?" She pointed to the defeated Cardin, who, as Hue said, was just as lively as ever, even after the public display of his ineptitude and lack of skill compared to someone as graceful as Pyrrha. As she took a look, Jin's expression changed quite rapidly, shifting moods as quickly like she usually did during combat lessons, plastering a pleasant smile upon her face.

"Okay!" She cuddled against Hue, even purring lightly. While at first Hue tried to push her away every time she did that, she couldn't help but grow accustomed to having Jin's massive weight lean on her adorably, running a hand through her crystal filled hair to ease the giant's nerves.

After that, the students calmed down, and Glynda looked back at her scroll, as a holographic roulette with the student's names on it spun to determine the next match to happen. As the names dropped, Glynda raised her voice, calling out the next two contestants.

"Next! Jin VS. Sky Lark!"

A moment of silence ran throughout the students. So far, Jin was a side distraction at best or a minor nuisance at worst. Many of the people around her seemed to have this distinct feeling towards her, but Jin didn't matter. To her, everyone was a friend, and she loved all of them just as much. She looked back at her partner, the girl having some doubt visible on her, but overall, she was just as pleasant and tall as ever,

"Well... Go ahead Jin. We'll root for you." She heard another's voice, turning her head to see the girl in the robes sitting next to her other end, nodding. She smiled.

"Okay!" She got up, walking down, as the boy mentioned walked alongside her.

"I still can't believe Ozpin let a freak like you into Beacon..." He muttered to himself, shaking his head and giving her a look.

"Thanks!" She cheered, beaming happily, making him groan as his only response.

"W-What?" He sounded confused, but shook his head regardless, stepping down to the combat arena and walking to the other end, Jin standing at the other end, facing him.

"I hope she'd be fine... You've seen how she reacts to the other fights before..." Leila voiced her concern.

"I am sure Jin would be able to handle it, considering her natural instinct and raw physical prowess," Hue responded, explaining with her own reasoning. "In fact, I would go as far to say Jin is a powerhouse amongst the student base, when taking into account her infused state and speed, despite her size."

"And those, ahem..." Perci faked a cough. "Assets."

The rest of the group could only sigh, with Melody in particular puffing her own chest. "T-They're not that big..." She muttered to herself, blushing, Perci winking in her direction.

"Don't worry Love, you're still an absolute smash." She put on her dashing, suave voice, making Melody's blush grew in hue before Ash tapped her shoulder, as Melody shook her head and snapped herself out of that small jealousy fit.

"Begin!" Glynda finally called out, starting the match. Sky readied his axe, expecting Jin to get into position, though the girl oddly enough remained as calm as ever, staring at him with a smile and not raising her hands, or drawing out any sort of weapon.

"Too easy!" He called out, running at her, and at the moment he swung his axe close to her head, Jin's eyes narrowed in shock, and she dashed away, running on all fours to the other end of the arena.

"W-Why?..." She kept repeating, shaking in place a bit, Sky giving her a gruff look.

"Look, GENIOUS, this is a combat lesson! We're supposed to fight! Now get over here so I can beat you down!" He ran at her again, Jin keeping her distance, moving out of his range every time he even got close.

"B-But we shouldn't fight! Mama told be fighting was bad!" She called out, dodging another blow of his weapon, as it hit the ground, causing it to crack.

"We fight grimm all the time! What the fuck is your DEAL!?" He stopped in place, lunging at her direction, aiming his axe at her one last time, as Jin raised her arms, catching the powerful weapon. She held it in place, him included, looking Sky in the eyes, tearing up a bit.

"I don't wanna fight! Your aura would get hurt!" She shouted, and the crowd stopped in place. Not a single voice was heard or uttered, as Jin put him down, running away again. She pitted herself at the edge of the arena, shaking in place, as Sky walked towards her, radiating intimidation, though a hint of fear of her.

"So what! Auras get hurt all the time!" He shouted, raising his axe at her one last time. "Now fight me or YOU'LL be the one that gets her aura hurt!" He yelled, letting his weapon fall.

"Enough!" Glynda called, using her semblance to halt his weapon mid-air, and toss it out, Sky being knocked back as Glynda hurried down, kneeling before the gentle giant.

"Jin? Are you oka-" Before she could finish her question, Jin jumped her, wrapping her arms around Glynda and the kindness she showed her, hugging her tightly, sobbing.

"I-I don't wanna fight him... M-Mama told me fighting other auras was bad..." She tried to explain, though to Glynda half of what she said was an utter enigma. She did, however, have an inkling as to what was going on, but she had to confirm it first, trying to get Jin to look at her directly.

"Jin..." She raised her voice a bit, to catch her attention. "What's the color of my aura?"

Jin only needed a brief glance at the woman in front of her to be able to tell. "P-Purple?"

Glynda, slightly shocked, stepped back a bit. She could hardly believe what she just heard, as Jin was, without a second doubt completely right.

"Class dismissed!" She called out, taking Jin's hand. "Jin, please, come with me. I promise you won't have to fight anyone today." She spoke, and Jin's golden eyes shimmered with hope.

"Y-You promise?" She sounded a bit desperate, and as Glynda nodded in agreement, she slowly got up, holding the nice woman's hand, as she was led towards the entrance, and the three auras of her friends stood in front of the two of them.

"Hold it. Where are you taking her?" Leila asked first, Hue nodding second and Perci keeping her gaze directly at the headmistress, distrust in her eyes.

"Worry not, children." Glynda beckoned them. "I won't do anything to Jin. I'm just taking her to see Ozpin, so we could make better sense of this predicament. If this is as I think it to be... Then perhaps Jin shouldn't be here at all." She explained, and after a minute or so, Leila finally eased up, stepping out of her way.

"Very well. We'll see you later then, Jin." She grinned at the giant's direction, Jin smiling back happily, her mood having improved by a large margin since her so called fight with the boy with the menacing aura.

From there, Jin was led by the nice, though strict aura all the way through Beacon, walking the many halls of the huge building, until reaching a small room that ascended all the way to the sky, opening the path for a larger room in tow. Jin looked inside, to see the old, ancient aura that resided there look at her, smiling at him and waving her arm.

"Hi!" She called out, and the old aura grinned back, nodding his head.

"Welcome, you two. Glynda, shouldn't this be the time for combat practice?" He asked her about the surprise visit, as she led Jin inside and pointing to one of the chairs. Jin sat down, cheerfully humming her old song to herself out of an old habit.

After sitting the girl down, Glynda approached Ozpin with a worried expression, making sure she couldn't hear them as she talked to him.

"Ozpin... She can see auras. I've confirmed it myself." She told him and explained the situation that led to this discovery. Ozpin's expression grew grave at the mere mention of the ability.

"Already? Dust infused people don't develop this ability so soon."

"But that's not all," She continued, and Ozpin leaned in, curious, yet worried at the same time. "I don't think she can control it. In fact, from the way she speaks... I feel that this is how she sees the world by default."

"Hmm... Hold on, please." Ozpin turned away from Glynda and walked over to Jin, who happily hummed to herself, even singing a bit here and there.

"Hello, Jin. Mind if I asked you a few questions?" He started, and Jin nodded energetically.

"Sure!" She smiled, and Ozpin, taking a sip of his mug of coffee, sat down in front of her, looking at her curiously.

"So, you can see auras, correct?" His first question was, to a certain degree, an obvious one. Jin only nodded again, smiling with her mouth open, showing that even her teeth had remnants of crystal around them.

"Yup! Mama told me I was born like this!" She cheered, staring at the two of them, Ozpin showing not a hint of external emotion, sipping his coffee like usual.

"Then, if that's the case, can you turn it off?" He asked, wanting to make sure. Jin only tilted her head in confusion.

"Turn... Off?" She looked at him confused, though at this point it was all Ozpin needed to confirm his suspicions.

"Alright, then." He nodded to himself, making a mental note of her response. "Glynda here told me that your mother told you that hurting auras was bad. When did she tell you that?"

"Oh! When I was smaller! And we were fighting grimm, and she told me that hurting auras was bad, and the grimm wanna hurt auras!" Her story, though brief and told through the lens of a very child-like mind, still managed to convey to Ozpin what he wanted to head, nodding in response and closing his eyes, pondering her words and actions carefully.

"Oz..." Glynda approached him, sitting on a chair next to his own, looking at Jin carefully as she started humming her little song to herself again.

"It's a nice song, Jin," Ozpin muttered, his train of thought cut slightly by her rather loud hums. "Did you mother teach it to you?" He voiced his interest, and Jin's face beamed up, lips stretching even more, reaching ear to ear.

"Yeah! She used to sing it to me all the time!" She replied, this time outright singing with her mouth open, a happy lullaby made of wordless voices filling the room.

"I see... And your mother... Who was she?" Ozpin asked her, and Jin turned stopped singing, trying to think.

"She... Was Mama! And she was big, and strong, and she had a whole ARM made of dust!" As she mentioned her mother's arm, Ozpin quickly closed his eyes, sipping again. He assumed what that meant, and while he was sure he knew how this story would end, he wanted to hear her say how she saw it regardless.

"And you lived with her, right?"

"Yeah! And as I grew older, she became even MORE dust!" Her voice contained not a hint of sadness, nor grief. "Then it was her shoulder... And chest... And belly... And..." She kept recounting the various parts of her mother that got slowly crystallized, and Ozpin raised his hand, to stop her.

"So tell me, Jin... How did you get to Beacon?" This, arguably, was the most important question. Jin, from what he saw and figured, clearly wasn't like other people.

"One day, she and I walked to the beach, where we had a raft, and she gave a biiiiiig hug, and told me to go, so I went, and now I'm here!" She said in one, short breath, and Glynda, being the far more emotionally impacted one, couldn't help but weep. Though, at the end of the day, she still couldn't believe Jin said all of this without even frowning. Ozpin, on the other hand, heard enough. He was certain a small raft wasn't really the instrument that helped her get all the way to the Emerald Forest, but by now the image ran quite vividly in his mind.

"And where did you and your mother live, Jin?" With this, he took a small map of Remnant, laying it on the table. Jin looked, and after some time thinking finally pointed to a rather specific section of the beach around the shores of Menagerie, seemingly recognizing the area.

"She came here all the way from Menagerie?" Glynda asked perplexed, and Ozpin nodded, folding back the map.

"It would seem so." He silently confirmed, Jin staring at the two of them with large, curiosity-filled eyes.

"And do you think her mother..."

"Indeed, Glynda. There is no doubt in my mind that she perished." He cut her, looking at the giant one more time. "Though, from the way she behaves, I am not sure Jin herself is aware of that." He turned to her, the need to know the truth on his mind. "Jin... Do you miss your mother?"

"Yeah, but that's okay! She's fine!" her childish tone being the final nail in the coffin that was her naiveté and simple-minded nature.

"Glynda, please set an appointment for Jin to visit Dr. Topaz. I want her to be psychologically evaluated by him as soon as he is available."

"Right away Ozpin." Glynda got up, looking at Jin one more time, walking out of Ozpin's office. Jin, for now, stayed there with him, Ozpin giving her a friendly look.

"So, Jin... How is your time in Beacon so far?" He decided that while she was there, to try and find out how she sees the school life in his academy.

"It's fun! I have lots of friends!" She exclaimed, and Ozpin grinned, pleased to see she was having fun, at the very least.

"And your teammates? How are they with you? I hope Perci isn't giving you too much of a hard time." He asked, and in Jin's mind, the auras of her friends popped into question. Perci's large, peach colored aura was by far the biggest she had ever seen, though Leila's aura, with her eyes as large as melons, came close to looking as such. Hue's aura was rather normal sized in her mind, though every time she looked at her, Jin would only see a white shadow stretching the sky, even taller than herself. But of course, at the end of the day, they were all her friends, precious, pretty auras that danced around her like flickering flames. "Yeah! We're all friends!"

Ozpin, of course, knew the truth behind the mindset of the delinquent. The reports from Beacon's psychologist were quite clear on how she sees her teammate, her team in general, as well as her life in Beacon. Though he wished he could do more to help ease her doubts about her stay in his school, for now, this would have to do. The Council was quite clear about the ins and outs of the parole program for delinquents that Perci was a part of.

"That sounds wonderful. Well, regardless, I believe that you should be going back to your friends now, alright?" He asked her, and Jin got up, waving her arm like she always did.

"Okay! Byeeeee!" She walked out, stopping before the elevator door, as if magically expecting it to open up for her, though at the end of the day she just had no idea how it worked, forcing Ozpin to walk up to the button and press it for her. Jin got in, and as the doors closed, the old aura got smaller and smaller, as she was lowered to the ground floor, where Leila, Hue, and Perci, as well as team ACMM, were all waiting for her.

The first to talk was Perci, of all people, taking a sigh of relief. "Good. You're alive. At least now no one can blame me for doing anything..." She rolled her eyes, and Leila nodded.

"Regardless, it is good to see you back, Jin." Leila spoke, her words greeted with a loving hug, just like Jin's Mama gave her with she was little.

"Yeah! I had lots of fun today!" She called out, Ash moving her hands up to her ears.

"You really oughta work on your indoor voice..." She mentioned, Leila nodding in agreement.

"She is right, Jin. Could you please lower your voice?" Leila asked, and Jin nodded.

"Yaaay..." She spoke again, this time in a lowered, more hushed tone, as the group went off, back to their dorms.

The next day, the two teams, sans Jin, sat down at the arena's stands, in yet another combat lesson. After the incident the day before, Jin got a permanent leave from combat training, seeing as her condition would not allow her to fight other students, much to Perci's jealousy. Instead, she was given time to roam around the Emerald Forest, to run wild and have some fun, before being called to return.

"Next! Hue Luminous VS. Sky Lark!" Glynda called. Usually, she wouldn't pick the same student two days in a row, but considering Sky never got a proper spar she reinputted his name into the roulette.

"So, what's it like having a freak in your team, eh?" He taunted her as the two of them went down to the arena, Hue shaking her head.

"If you think petty insults such as these are going to give you the advantage, then you have already lost." She concluded swiftly, taking her katana and drawing it, looking at him sternly. "And to answer your question... Jin is a fascinating person."

"More like a dumb as dirt person..." He joked. "Though who can blame her when her brain falls to those huge tits?!" He asked, and the rest of his team hollered at them, Hue remaining as silent as ever.

"Begin!" Glynda called, and Hue, not wasting a single second, dashed at him, aiming her weapon straight to his abdomen, Sky blocking her with his axe just as easily. She changed her approach, having dealt with his kind before, jumping back, using his axe as a contra to launch herself further away, giving him the illusion of an open window.

"Gotcha!" He called, dashing at her direction, swinging his weapon powerfully, yet sluggishly in her direction, Hue being quick on her feet and dodging it with ease. This went on for several minutes, Hue not attacking him per se and Sky trying to hit her with at least one blow, failing each time. By the five minute mark, he was already panting. By the time ten minutes passed, he was already breathing heavily, having exhausted himself almost entirely.

"Come on!... Y-You're almost as annoying at the dust girl!..." He wheezed, and Hue, finally seeing an easy opening in his movements, closed in, her semblance conjuring a swirling stream of light in her hand, getting close and preparing for a strike.

"And you are just as simple minded." She uttered, raising her hand, the light she created from her palm striking him like a whiplash, searing his aura and burning him out quite easily. It knocked him down, Sky falling to his back, as his aura quickly depleted from the direct attack, directly to the red line, the sound of the horn signifying that the match was over.

"Y-You faunus bitch!" He called at her, angry and humiliated. "I'll get you for that one!"

Hue just stared at him, pondering how to reply. In truth, she had to deal with plenty like him, her siblings in Vacuo being a prime example. Although, when she truly thought about it, she started to wonder who she took the time to tire him out like she did. Attacking him periodically and wearing him out would have been far more efficient. But, at the end of the day, when she thought about it some more, the answer became quite clear.

Jin.

The girl had a unique mood around her, to say the least. To hate Jin, once you got to know her, became virtually impossible, and watching her wince in fear in the arena wasn't that pleasant of a sight, to say the least. Hue, in a rare instance, let a small grin make its way to her face. She looked down at the hurt Sky, slowly getting up and walking back to his team, all of them glaring knives at her though Hue couldn't give a damn about any of them and their opinions about herself or her team leader.

She walked back to the stands, sitting next to Leila, Perci, Ash and her team, watching the fights slowly unfold as she took out her small notebook, with all of her notes and her research, opening it and rereading some sections. Here and there, at least in the later pages, alongside the many pages dedicated to the moon and the mysteries behind it, new types of pages started to pop up. Pictures of Jin, notes about dust infusion, and so on filled minor sections of the tome, and while Hue refused to admit it outright, the fact that Jin was like she was managed to fascinate her mind to no end.

"So... That's some book you got there." Ash finally uttered, peeking over her shoulder. "Didn't know the moon could be so interestin' for a person."

"It is a marvelous wonder." Hue's tone started to pick up, always being in the mood to share her passion with someone. "The way it's cracked, the myths around it... I always wondered what made it into what it is today."

"So you decided to look into it yourself, eh?..." Ash sighed, grinning, and Undine, who was listening to them talk, looking at Hue just as curiously.

"Hey, that's pretty cool! So, like, what do you know about it so far?" She asked, and Hue opened up her tone, revealing the data she has accumulated.

"So far, I can confirm the lunar breaking was something that historically happened in more recent history, at least dating back to before the great war, though not too far off." Hue started, sharing whatever she knew. Undine and Ash listened carefully, and once she was done, closing her book, Ash gave her a silent clap.

"That's impressive for someone our age to know so much... Kinda makes ya wonder, though. How much DO we know about the world out there?..."

"Well... I know one thing for certain." Hue continued, looking at Ash, determined.

"I will uncover those truths. And nothing will stop me."