Got The Life III
Pyrrha
I open my eyes and see the sunlight come in through the window and give the room a nice glow. Rubbing my eyes, I stand up and walk over to Jaune's bed as get ready to wake him up.
"Jaune, it's time to..." I begin until I put my hands down from my eyes and see Jaune's bed was empty. Was he in the bathroom?
"Jaune?" I call out tentatively as I open the bathroom door, only to find it empty as well. Where did he go?
"It's morning, it's morning, it mooooooorning!~" I heard Nora sing happily as she got up from her bed. She then noticed our leader missing from his bed and tilted her head in confusion. "Heeeeey, where's Jaune-Jaune?"
"Im not sure, Nora."I tell her truthfully as I tap my chin in thought. If he's not here, then where could he be? Could he have possibly went to the dining hall and gotten an early breakfast? As I continue to think of places he could have gone, I grab my school uniform from the closet before turning back to the hammer wielder. "I'll get dressed and go look for him."
"Oh, i'll help too!" She suggested as she grabbed a pillow and threw it at her childhood friend "Wake up, lazy butt! We have to go find Jauney!"
"I'm already up, Nora."Ren reassured her as he skillfully dodged the pillow while buttoning up his uniform undershirt. At that, I turn into the bathroom and close it's door behind me for some privacy as I get ready for the day.
*15 minutes later*
We now walked down the pathway towards the dining hall in search of our blonde leader. Well, Ren and I walked, Nora checked behind every bush and under every rock she saw on our way to the lunch hall.
"Jaaaaaaune?" She called out as she checked under a stone no bigger than my fist. "You there, Jauney?"
"Nora, I don't think Jaune could fit under a rock that small." Ren told his friend blankly. Nora simply popped up next to him with her usual happy grin.
"If you say so, Renny-bear!" She told him in her singsong voice. I simply smiled at her, having grown use to her antics by now. I then spot our destination, the dining hall, up ahead with a few students going in and out as well.
We all walk through the doors into the hall to see students in varying states of being awake making their way to tables with trays of food in their hands, chatting with their teammates or remaining silent. We all scan the crowd until I spot a familiar mop of blonde hair sitting at a table in the corner of the room. I am about to speak up about my find, until I hear Nora gasp dramatically and then dart towards Jaune, suddenly appearing next to him.
"Found him!"She yelled out towards us, catching Jaune by surprise and causing him to jump back a bit in his seat as his head whipped around to the sudden source of loud noise that was Nora Valkyrie.
"The hell?!" He yelped out before seemingly recognizing Nora and calming down a bit. He then turned back to an egg he was almost finished with before answering. "Oh. Morning, Nora."
"Why were you up so early, Jaune-Jaune?" She asked him as Ren and reached the table. "We looked everywhere for you!" Jaune returned it with a sheepish smile as he chuckled nervously.
"Eh heh, sorry about that guys. Didn't mean to worry you." He apologized. " I just woke up earlier than usual is all. I didn't think I would fall back asleep, So I decided to head here. Probably should have left a note or something, now that I think about it."
"That's alright Jaune." I reassure him as we took a seat down next to him. It was then I noticed his attire before pointing it out. "Jaune, you may want to get changed into your uniform soon, though. Classes start in about an hour."
He then looks down at his scroll and sees that it is indeed eight o'clock. He then grabs his tray and stands up before turning his head back while walking away. "I'll be back in a sec." And with that, he was gone.
"I'll grab you two some breakfast." Ren offered as he stood up and walked over to the line with food. I spot Jaune walking away out one of the windows and felt a sigh escape my lips.
"Oh Pyyyyyrrha~." hear Nora chirp and turn to see her giving me a cheshire grin. "Soooo~, when you gonna tell 'em?" I tilt my head in confusion at her, until I realize just WHAT she was talking about. I felt a small blush creep up on my face as I look away.
"I-I don't know what your talking about." I state as I cross my arms defensively. Nora slightly leans forward before poking me playfully on the shoulder.
"When are you going to tell him that you LIKE him, silly?" She asked me. I think about denying her profusely, but end up slumping my shoulders slightly as I hang my head in defeat.
"I don't know."I told her truthfully." I don't even know if he likes me like that Nora. What if he says no, and then he doesn't want to talk to me anymore afterwards? I don't want to risk that."
"Of course he'll say yes!" Nora responds like it's the simplest thing in the world. "You guys are so cute together already, you would be super cute if you were a couple! I think Remnant would literally just explode from the cuteness overload!" She then mimed an explosion with her hands while adding sound effects. I just smile lightly at her as I see Ren walking back with two trays in his hands, followed by team RWBY dressed in their school uniforms as well.
"Hey guys!" Ruby greets us with a smile as she and her team sit across from us at the table. She then notices a missing person from our group before continuing " Where's Jaune at?"
"He went back to our dorm to get changed very quickly." I answer her as I accept my plate from Ren with a small 'thank you'. She merely 'ahh's as she digs into a bowl of chocolate cookie cereal.
We pass the time for a bit with small chit chat until I see Jaune walking back over to our table, now dressed in his uniform while reading from some book in one hand as he weaved effortlessly between the students walking around. I found it odd, seeing as how he has only ever read those X-Ray and Vav comics since we've arrived. He then sits down between Ren and I without a word as he continues to read from the book, which I can now see is called 'Cool Gardens'.
"Sup, Vomit-Boy?" Yang greets him as she swallows a mouthful of toast. Jaune just simply shrugs responding.
"The roof." He says as he sticks a headphone in his ear and starts playing some music. That's odd, i never thought he was much into music. Yang gives a quick snort before going back to eating. We continue with our conversation, Jaune all the while reading from his book while seemingly nodding along with the conversation whenever need be, fully engrossed by the book. Eventually, everyone else notices how focused he is on it, and Ruby eventually speaks up.
"What you reading there, Jaune?" She asks him as he turns another page. He then looks up at her before noticing all eyes on him. i try looking over his shoulder, and get a glimpse of what looks like a illustration of a man in red walking, before he just shrugs and pockets the book.
"Nothing much. Just a bit of poetry." He answers her before checking his scroll. I hear Weiss scoff at him before speaking up.
" You? Reading poetry? I have a hard time believing that." The heiress told him snottily. I was about to speak up, say how people can have different tastes, when we all heard someone yelp behind us.
" Ow! Please stop, that hurts!"
I see Jaune tense up as we all turn to see the source of the commotion was from a bunny eared girl named Velvet Scarlatina. The reason why she was crying out in pain, though, was from a certain Cardin Winchester pulling on her ears.
"I told you guys they were real." He laughed as he continued to tug on the poor girls ears. His team laughs along with him at her pain as I see tears begin to well up in her eyes. i consider stopping him until i hear an unexpected voice speak up.
"Hey, Dickchester!"
Everyone looks over to the source of the angry voice to see Jaune of all people standing up and walking over to the poor Faunus girl.
'Let. Her. GO." He commanded Cardin as all eyes in the dining hall fell on him. If he noticed, he sure didn't show it in his expression. Cardin complied and allowed the rabbit girl to get away from him, but stood up from his seat at his team's table and walked over to Jaune, his lackeys following close behind as he got close enough to force Jaune to look up due to their difference in height. Jaune still had an angered expression on his face, not backing down even a bit.
"Jeez, Jauney boy. Didn't know you were into that sort of thing. Isn't bestiality illegal?" He asked smugly, gaining a few laughs from his cronies as he looked at Velvet. I spared a glance at her to see her nursing her ears as a few tears slipped down her cheeks. I consider getting up and going to console the girl, but stopped moving as I along with everyone else at our table hear Jaune say something in a voice that almost sounded like it came from someone else.
"Y'know Cardin, I wonder just how much shit you can talk when I slit your Jugular open with this knife."
I turn back just in time to see A steak knife from the table slip out of Jaune's sleeve into his hand before pressing it against Cardin's throat in an ice pick grip. Cardin's eyes widen slightly in fear from the blade's close proximity, knowing his Aura wouldn't be able to help him here.
"Care to find out?" Jaune said as everything went quiet. All remained silent until Cardin slowly backed away with his hands up before getting an angry snarl on his lips as he turned away, seemingly forgetting the fea he was experiencing just a few seconds ago.
"Whatever. Come on, guys. Let Arc go play with his pet rabbit." He said as he tried to save face. I noticed the fearful looks the rest of his team were giving Jaune as they followed closely behind. Once they left, everyone slowly turned back to their tables and began whispering about the events that transpired. Everyone except for Our team and Team RWBY.
I try my best to process what just transpired. Jaune just threatened to kill Cardin! In front of the whole student body, no less! Was he insane! I may have told him before to stand up for himself, but killing another human being?! I am about to question him, but am interrupted again as the bell rings and all the students present get up to leave, And disappearing in the sea of bodies. I try pushing through to find him, but when got to the spot where he was before, he was no longer there.
What was going on?
Dalton
I walk through the hallways as my head whips left and right as I search for a familiar pair of bunnies ears in the dwindling crowd of students. Come on, Velvet, where the hell are you? I need to find that girl. Or more importantly, I need to keep my mind occupied on finding that girl. And not on the massive screw up I just did.
Okay, I don't regret helping Velvet. That poor girl gets a lot of shit from Cardin and his gang of little pricks, so she shouldn't have to face that alone. No, what I regret was BLOWING MY COVER ON THE FIRST FUCKNG DAY.
"Dumbass." I chastise myself as I smack myself in the forehead at my stupidity. One moment i'm all regular Jaune, and then i go murderous psycho on Cardin. How in the holy hell am I supposed to explain that? What if Ozpin, or Serj forbid Glynda get word about this? What are NPR going to day? And team RWBY? That's not so hard to guess, probably questioning as to why did that, followed by being disgusted and/or angry with me at my actions, before ultimately ending with them disowning me. Serj dammit, I thought I would have more time than this, This is all just moving too fast. I need time to think this out.
I sigh out loud as the second bell rings and I am currently the last one outside in the hallways. I'll focus on how im going to handle this later, right now I just need to get back to looking for Velvet.
But honestly, though. Im surprised im not, like, freaking the hell out. After all, i did just wake up this morning in a fictional universe with fictional characters, as one of those characters. Im normally levelheaded, i guess, but this isn't some little situation, this is freaking huge. I could very well determine the plot of RWBY with my actions and how I go about this whole situation...
...
That's a whole lot of responsibility.
I could change the plot. How drastically, im not sure. But I know for a fact that things are going to be different this time around. I have knowledge about the enemy that no one else does, something that gives me a large advantage over most of the characters. It may not be all that much, but I most certainly could work with it. As long as I don't screw everything up, that is. I have to be sure to go about this carefully and with a level head.
I walk down the corridors for another five minutes until I hear some faint sobbing coming from a empty classroom with a slightly ajar door. I approach it before poking my head in and seeing my objective huddled in the corner of the room as she softly cries, and my heart just straight up dies and explodes in a bloody mess from the extremely sad scene. I quietly walk into the room before speaking up.
"Got room for one more?"
Velvet's head shoots up at the sudden sound of my voice, a bit of fear in her puffy red eyes as she looks over me. I have my hands up in a 'I surrender' Gesture to reassure her I mean no harm.
"Don't worry, i'm just here to check on you. Make sure you're okay." I say, not moving from my spot. Velvet's already drooped bunny ears seem to go lower at that statement as she looks down at the ground with sadness that absolutely crushes my soul.
"W-w-why would you c-care..." she said quietly, barely loud enough for me to hear her. "I-Im j-just *sniff* just a filthy animal..."
My face scrunches up when I hear her say those words. I understand Faunas are looked down upon here on Remnant, and since there's such a thing as the White Fang, it must have been worst than the show portrayed. Personally speaking,I just thought of the faunus as kinda the next stage in human evolution on Remnant, but unlike normal events of evolution when the previous Homo species would die out after the new ones adapted to their environment, they didn't wipe out humans yet, which would be the root of the mistreatment of the Faunus by the Humans due to them being scared of getting wiped out by the superior species. it actually reminded me alot of how African-americans were treated in the U.S. awhile back... ah hell, who am I kidding? We still look down upon them, just like we do everyone else who's different. Humans really are assholes.
"Velvet," I say as take one step closer to her "You and both know that's bullshit."
The rabbit girl gives me a odd look when I say that. Not really planning this out very well, I decide to just elaborate while telling her the truth. I give a sigh before continuing.
"Look, im not going to stand here and speak with my ass, acting like I know what you're going through. 'Cause the truth is, I don't. Not many people would. Faunus have to put up with a bunch of shit for their whole lives just because of some extra appendages? That's ridiculous."
"Humans are assholes. Hell, I should know, I am one after all." I take one more step and am glad to see she doesn't scoot away. "But that doesn't mean what they're saying is true Velvet. Fact of the matter is, their just jealous. They see the advantages you guys hood against us, coupled with the fact that you guys just look a little bit different from us... Well, we gotta go and get all racist and shit. We've always looked down upon those who have differences, whether it be big or small. Different skin color? Different ethnicity? Any excuse is good enough in our eyes, but it's not right."
I then give a nervous chuckle as I scratch the back of my head. "Eh heh... Im not very good at this, am I?"
Despite the situation, a small smile appears on velvet face as she shakes her head no lightly. "It's okay..."
I then slowly get closer to her before crouching down to her eye level. "The more important question is, are you okay? That looked like it hurt..."
She lightly massages one of her ears almost as if the pain comes back just from thinking about it. "They feel better now, thank you... Jaune, right?" She asks me. I nod my head in affirmative before she continues. "If I may ask... Why did you stand up for me like that? Y-you could have gotten in trouble for threatening another student. And you dont even know me..."
I rack my brain for the right thing to say, until I find the perfect thing and just shrug at her while trying to give the warmest smile I could. "Like my mum always said, Strangers are just friends you haven't met yet." I then stand up and hold out my hand towards Velvet. "Come on, we're already late to class as is, hopefully we can sneak in Port's without him breaking off from his stories."
Velvet just stares at my hand for a second before cautiously putting hers in mine, and I gently lift her to her feet. We then make our way out of the classroom and in the direction of (what I could only hope was)Professor Port's Grimm Studies. After a minute of walking, I finally spot the class ahead of us at the end of the hall. I continue to walk, but turn my head when I hear Velvet speak.
"Jaune..." She says with her eyes glued to the ground at her feet. "T-thank you. Aside from my team, not many people stand up for me..."
Again, I just shrug as we continue to walk. "It's no big deal, Velvet. You don't have to thank me." We finally reach the door, which I can look in and see Port rambling on, most likely about that amazing mustache of his. "You know, if you want, you can come sit with us at lunch. I'm sure the others won't mind."
Velvet just nods as she gives me a small smile that makes her look ABSOLUTELY MOE AS FUCK. "I would like that very much...again, Thank you, Jaune."
I just nod before answering. "Again, no need to thank me." And with that, I quietly open the door before we both sneak to our seats.