Wow. You guys are great. Nothing but positive reinforcement. I really want to take this far for you guys now.
But anyways, about the story, Chapter five will hopefully be following within a couple days. The chapters are starting to form into two part story arcs, so I will probably be keeping up the pattern.
IMPORTANT: I know the feeling of waiting and not knowing, so I have been trying to keep a progress report of when I think the next chapter will be done. It may not be 100% accurate, but it is something.
Keep feeding my ego and I'll keep feeding you chapters.
"Penny?" Yang could not believe the other blonde.
"Yeah, pretty name right?" Jaune responded excitedly.
"By chance, does she have orange hair, green eyes and wears a pink bow?" Blake asked.
Jaune cocked his head. "Do you know her?"
"Um… We've met," Yang laughed nervously.
"Well I guess that'll save some introductions. She left too quickly before I could talk much with her. Do you know what she's like?"
"I would say she's…" Blake looked back to the sorrow looking Pyrrha, "interesting."
"Cool." Jaune smiled to them before making his way down the street.
Pyrrha followed her leader with a slow trudge, staring at the sidewalk at her feet. "Heeey Pyrrha. How ya holding up?" Yang cautiously put her arm around her friend.
"I was too slow," Pyrrha muttered more to herself than to Yang.
"Don't be silly. There's still hope," Yang tried to cheer her up.
"And how's that?"
"Well if it's the Penny Blake and I know, this whole thing should resolve itself."
"What do you mean by that?"
"You'll see. Let's catch up to the others."
Pyrrha sighed. At least she means well.
Meanwhile, Ruby and Weiss were learning Penny's side of the story. "When did this happen?" Ruby asked.
"Only minutes ago," Penny cheerfully replied.
"How did this happen?" Weiss pressed.
"I was walking down the road when I passed by Jaune Arc. We exchanged the customary acknowledgement smiles and then he started to walk with me. After his attempt at what I presume was flirting, he asked me to join him for dinner at a local diner tomorrow evening. I agreed and we gave each other our names," Penny explained.
"That's… Great," Ruby forced her smile.
"I think we should find the others," Weiss whispered to her partner.
"Agreed," Ruby whispered back.
"So we're going to go look around town some more," Ruby said as she inched to the door.
"I would love to accompany you, friends," Penny's smile widened."
"Of course you would," Weiss sighed and left the café.
The trio made their way across town, Ruby and Weiss searching for the rest of their friends. "I hope Pyrrha doesn't take this too hard," Ruby muttered.
"The only thing we can do now is try to find her and let her know before she-"
"Hey guys!"
The three girls turned and saw Yang, Blake, Pyrrha and Jaune approaching them. Jaune waved enthusiastically, Blake and Yang's eyes widened at the sight of Penny. Pyrrha was still staring at the ground with a small raincloud over her head.
"Ruby! Weiss!" Jaune called.
"Jaune?" Ruby called back, closing the gap between them.
"Jaune?" Penny's head perked up.
"Ruby," Weiss tried to warn her partner.
"Penny?" Yang asked.
"Jaune!" Penny repeated.
"Penny?" Jaune showed surprise.
"Penny?" Pyrrha's head moved to find the girl.
"Ruby?" Yang asked, confused.
Ruby tried to explain. "Yang-"
"NORA!" Nora jumped into the group with her arms out wide.
"Where in the name of dust did you come from?" Weiss shouted at her.
"Ren and I saw you guys and I couldn't pass up the opportunity," Nora smiled.
"Sorry about that. She got away from me," Ren apologized as he approached.
"Who are you?" Nora asked Penny.
"Hello. My name is Penny. I assume you are friends with team RWBY?"
"Yep. We're also on the same team as Pyrrha and Jaune there is are leader," Nora replied.
"You didn't tell me you led your own team," Penny turned to the blonde boy.
"Well I didn't want to brag…" Jaune tried to brush it off coolly, "But yeah. I do."
"How do you know each other?" Ren inquired.
"Actually, we-" Jaune began, but was interrupted by Penny.
"I'm his new girlfriend."
"Yeah, I- Wait. What?" Jaune turned to the puppeteer.
"Here we go," Yang whispered to Pyrrha.
"What do you mean girlfriend? We haven't even been on a date yet." Jaune looked flabbergasted.
"Isn't that how dating goes? We go on a couple dates, then declare ourselves boyfriend/girlfriend, go out some more, become intimate, move into the same living arrangement, you'll purpose, I accept, we get successful jobs, move into a larger house for the seven children we will be having, live a happy life together, grow old and die," Penny explained, leaning in closer to Jaune, never letting her disturbing smile leave her face.
"You've… thought about this?" Jaune shrunk under the girl's gaze.
"Every single moment. I'd like our first daughters name to be Ella, but you may put in your opinion."
"I, uh, buh, um," Jaune stammered, "Wait. SEVEN! Why seven kids?!"
"I've always wanted a large family. Also, from what I understand, the process can be quite pleasurable," Penny replied, missing the vulgar meaning of her answer.
Jaune's face grew hot as he heard snickering from Yang behind him.
"What are you doing?" Blake whispered to Pyrrha. "Get in there."
"What?" Pyrrha, watching the entire scene, turned to the faunus, confused.
"Our leader's in trouble. Go help him!" Nora pushed the red head forward.
"Pyrrha?" Jaune turned to her with a pleading look.
Pyrrha looked between the two before taking a deep breath. "I am afraid Jaune will not be able two accompany you tomorrow or any other time for a date."
"Why not?" Penny asked, but without any anger in her voice.
"Well, um… You see, Jaune can't go on a date with you because…," Pyrrha looked back at Jaune one final time before steeling herself, "I am deeply in love him."
Everyone gasped. Yang's jaw nearly dropped to the ground. "You have a mistress?" Penny accused Jaune.
"I-I-I," Jaune was truly at a loss for words at this point.
"Wow. I've never been in a domestic dispute before. How exhilarating," Penny cheerfully thought out loud. "Well then you have to choose. It is either I or your… hmm. I suppose I'm supposed to call her a 'hussy'?"
Pyrrha growled at Penny, but Jaune answered quickly. "I think I'll have to go with Pyrrha. She's done so much for me."
Penny looked thoughtful for a moment before replying. "Alright. Your choice is your own." Then her eyes widened as her smile grew bigger. "Sensational! Now I have an ex I can always complain about! Today has been a most progressive one. I have so many new experiences to learn from."
"Um, well, it was nice seeing you again, Pens, but we have to get going," Yang tried to wave her away.
"Ok. Hopefully, I will you all again soon," Penny tried to hide the disappointment in her voice.
Ruby noticed her saddened expression. "Penny, wait. We're having a slumber party next Friday in our dorm. If you want, we can fill out some permission slips to get you into beacon for the night."
"What are you doing?" Weiss pulled asked sternly after pulling Ruby aside.
"C'mon Weiss. We're her only friends. No one deserves to be lonely." Ruby gave her puppy dog eyes to sway the heiress.
"Oh fine," Weiss huffed. "Penny, would you like to come to our slumber party?"
"I would love to!" Penny exclaimed.
Blake and Yang sighed, knowing that refusal just meant dealing with Ruby's quivering lip.
"Be there by six O'clock, alright," Blake told her.
"I will be!"
Everyone said their goodbye's to Penny before they began towards their ride home.
Before Jaune could leave, however, Penny grabbed him and leaned right into his face. "And just so you know Jaune," she smiled, "I'll always love you."
Jaune gulped and laughed nervously before sprinting to catch up to the others.
"So Jaune, how you gonna show your appreciation to your new girlfriend for getting you out of that mess?" Yang asked with her knowing smirk.
Pyrrha kept starring forward. She has been unable to make eye contact with Jaune since her confession for fear of what his true reaction might be. "Cut it out, Yang," Jaune replied seriously. "Pyrrha put herself in a difficult position for me and she doesn't need any of that."
Pyrrha finally turned to her leader. "Difficult?"
"Don't get me wrong, I'm seriously in your debt for your help back there, but you went a little overboard with the lie."
Pyrrha couldn't believe what she was hearing. "What do you mean?"
"I mean that now we have to pretend to be in a relationship around Penny and that'll be awkward for the both of us."
"Oh right, of course, "Pyrrha responded quietly.
Her eye twitched. Her hands trembled a little. Seriously? Is there some cruel force out there that hates me? Everyone, save Jaune, could see the anger pouring out if the Spartan. "I'm still willing to talk to him about-" Ren started to whisper to the other girls.
"Please Ren, now is not the time," Blake interrupted, looking at Pyrrha with concern.
During the walk, the ride back to Beacon, and the trip to their dorms, Pyrrha had not said another word.
"Pyrrha, is everything ok?" Jaune asked when JNPR got back to their room.
"Just peachy," Pyrrha replied through her teeth.
"Um, if you want, that is if you're ok with it, we can my training session for the night," Jaune stammered.
Pyrrha perked up this. "Of course! How could I forget." She began to smile sweetly. "Let's start right now. We have to make up for yesterday."
"Great," Jaune happily replied as he left with his teammate.
"She's totally going to kill him," Ren chuckled to himself.
"Aww, but then will never get to see what their babies are gonna look like," Nora whined.
Three hours later, the two returned to their room. Jaune flopped onto his bed, moaning about his tiredness and pain. Pyrrha sat at her desk, much more relaxed after releasing all that stress.
"What happened?" Ren asked.
"Oh just the usual training regiment, but only with the quadrupled amount of exercises," Pyrrha answered with a sweet, yet sadistic tone.
Jaune only gave a small sob as his answer and almost fell asleep right after.
"Holy grape-flavored pancakes, you were mad," Nora laughed.
"No, we needed to make up for last night," Pyrrha said with false innocence.
Pyrrha worked on some of her homework before going to bed herself. So my first plan failed. But I'm not going to give up hope! I still have a few more ideas and the next four years, although I really hope it doesn't take that long. I'll need to watch out for more girls like Penny. Seriously though, seven kids? Jaune and I would be happy with three. And we would live on a beachfront property. Probably shouldn't tell him that though. At that moment, Pyrrha's thoughts were interrupted by a screech from across the hall. "There is no way that I will ever allow that… that thing on my body!" She could hear Weiss yell.
It was followed by the sounds of a door opening and the ice queen stomping down the hall. "C'mon snow angel," She now heard Yang, "Pyrrha at least tried on the one we got for her."
Pyrrha blushed fiercely and wished sleep would come faster.
Yes, the sleepover will be it's own thing. Velvet will return in the next chapter.
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