BOOM! Two chapters, 8 hour span! Because I can and because you are all amazing! This will go to the end.

To be honest, I'm a little nervous about this chapter because it's going to change the dynamics of the story a bit, so I do value any opinion, positive or negative, and more ideas on how it can proceed.

So anyways, here it is.

Breathing heavily and his vision blurring, Jaune ran through the forest as he has been for the past few hours. No matter how much each step pained him or how tired he was, he knew that he couldn't stop. Without his weapon or his armor and no idea of where he was, Jaune was at a serious disadvantage against the predator hunting him. He knew very little about it other than it was much more powerful than him and it was determined. Weaving through the trees, Jaune skidded to a stop and changed direction, hopefully trying to confuse his pursuer, but it was to no avail. He could hear another set of feet from behind and knew that he didn't have much more time. After another few turns, the young knight found himself at the base of a tall cliff. "Oh no," Jaune dropped to his knees in despair.

From the corner of his eye, Jaune could see his predator approaching. The blonde stood up and backed himself against the wall. The mysterious attacker walked slowly now, knowing its prey was trapped. Jaune knew he had to act quick and as quickly as he could, dashed to his left. However, his narrow escape route was cut off by a fast flying spear. He stopped himself short lest he be impaled. "Tsk, tsk, tsk," his predator taunted.

Jaune looked back to see red hair, green eyes and a malicious smile closing in until…

Jaune shot up in his bed, sweating from his nightmare. He calmed once he realized it was only a dream, but he was still shaken. He turned to his clock, which read 5:00AM. Groaning from exhaustion, Jaune lied back down and tried to return to sleep until he noticed something in team JNPR's room was amiss. Scanning the area, Jaune saw that Pyrrha's bed was empty. "Odd," Jaune muttered to himself, "I'd thought that she would be tired. We only got back from our mission yesterday."

Jaune shrugged and fell back asleep; hoping that the next dream wouldn't be another hazy nightmare.

Later that day, teams RWBY and JNPR as well as Velvet were sitting at their regular table, enjoying breakfast before classes started. Pyrrha sat at the end of the table as far away from Jaune as she could. This did not go unnoticed, but even Yang could see the Spartans sour mood and did not dare trifle with her. Ren sat in thought. His plan was to sit beside Pyrrha during Port's class to talk to her. It would be easier since she seemed to be avoiding Jaune. His thoughts were interrupted, although, when his tea leader tried to start a conversation with Pyrrha. "So, uh, Pyrrha…"

"Hmm?" Pyrrha didn't even look up from her cereal.

"I noticed you left the room really early."

"Mm-hmm," Pyrrha grunted.

"I was just wondering where you were."

"Training."

"Oh. Um, don't you think that you should get some more rest?"

Pyrrha sighed and looked up at Jaune with a weak smile. "I'm okay Jaune. Thank you for your concern."

Even though Jaune knew that Pyrrha was lying, he dropped the conversation for she clearly did not want to talk right now. Soon it was time for classes and the students made their way to Professor Port's room. Pyrrha sat at the back row and Ren slipped in beside her. "Um, Ren!?" Nora looked at her childhood friend with confusion.

"Just for today Nora. I need to talk to Pyrrha," Ren whispered back.

Nora's eyes began to water as she pouted. "But, but, but-"

Ren sighed, but then looked to the hammer wielder with a serious look. "Alright Nora, I'm going to need your help. Well I talk to Pyrrha, I need you to keep Jaune distracted. This is very important. Do you think you can handle it?"

Nora brightened at the thought of helping Ren. "OK! Whatever you say Ren!"

Nora skipped down the stairs and took a seat next to Jaune, who looked confused, but when he went to look at the rest of his team behind him, Nora grabbed his head and forced his eyes on hers. Ren thought he heard her say something about a staring contest and chuckled to himself. Now all he had to do was wait for Port to start another one of his rants. Once the old professor started one of his past stories, the class was free to talk amongst themselves without him noticing. It was no different for this class and as soon as he felt the time was right, Ren tried to get Pyrrha's attention.

"Pyrrha. Pyrrha!" Ren waved his hand in front of her face.

Pyrrha turned lazily to her normally quiet teammate. "Yes Ren?"

"I want to talk to you. About Jaune."

Pyrrha sighed. "I'm fine Ren. He's not interested and I'll get over it."

"You know, I never would of guessed that you would be the one to break first," Ren said off headedly.

Pyrrha raised her eyebrow. "Alright Ren, I'll bite. What is it?"

Ren smirked. "You know Jaune's not an idiot, right? He caught on to what you were doing pretty early on. He said it was around the time you started your damsel in distress act that he realized what was going on."

Pyrrha sunk deeper into her seat. "He knew? And he still ignored me? This isn't cheering me up Re- Wait! 'He said'?"

Ren leaned back into the seat with his arms behind his head. "Yep. We talked about why he was so oblivious to your advances while you were at that sleepover a little while ago. He had some interesting things to say."

Pyrrha now turned her body. "Why didn't you say anything before? If you were willing to talk to him, why wouldn't you tell me?"

Ren's eye twitched. "I have my reasons," he said through gritted teeth. "But anyways, you shouldn't give up. Not just for your sake, but also for his."

"Why?" Pyrrha had her full attention on Ren.

"Now, Jaune and I are good friends and he told me this in confidence…" Ren trailed off, but then was roughly grabbed by his collar.

"Don't toy with me Ren. You have no idea what I've had to go through. If you have answers, then start talking," Pyrrha stared at him with a murderous look.

Ren chuckled and brushed Pyrrha's hands off. "Alright, but don't tell Jaune you heard this from me, okay? In truth, Jaune is actually heads over heels for you. He could hardly believe it when he figured out that you wanted to be with him. He told me that all the bad luck that he's had over the course of his life was balanced by that one fact."

Pyrrha was shocked at this new information. "But then why doesn't he respond to me whenever I try to get close to him?"

Ren sighed. "That's part of his own insecurities. Even though he's aware of your feelings, he thinks that you deserve much better."

"What! That's ridiculous! He's an amazing leader, a great person and is becoming an amazing hunter as well. How is he not worthy of me?"

"He said that his success at Beacon was all due to your help. He's afraid that if he got together with you, he would drag you down and prevent you from becoming all that you could be because you'd spend all your time helping him. I told him that was stupid, but he was quite adamant about it. His plan was to keep acting oblivious until you found someone better than him."

"Why didn't you say anything sooner?" Pyrrha asked angrily.

"Because as I said, Jaune trusted me with this information. And to be honest, I thought he'd break and accept it before you gave up. That's why I'm telling you now." Ren replied.

"So what you're saying is that this entire time, Jaune has returned my feelings and the only thing keeping us apart was his stupid notion that he's not good enough?"

"You came close when you kissed him at that sleepover. He returned to the room all remorseful about how he wished he could be with you."

Pyrrha sat back in her seat. "Thank you Ren, this has been very enlightening."

"Um… Pyrrha?" Ren looked to his teammate with worry.

Pyrrha's demeanor changed. Her eyes went from despair to a mix between renewed hope and uncontrollable rage. "Yes Ren," Pyrrha responded with a monotone voice.

"Uh… Don't kill him, alright. We still need a leader and Nora will be upset."

"I won't kill him," Pyrrha smiled a sadistically sweet smile, "All I want is to see him happy."

Ren inched away from his ticking time bomb of a friend. "Ok then."

Pyrrha spent the rest of the class glaring at the back of the head of her object of desire.

Jaune was talking to Nora about various subjects when he felt a shiver go down his back. "Something wrong Jaune," Nora asked cheerily.

Jaune suddenly remembered his dream from the previous night, but shook it off. "Nothing, anyways, around the seventh or eighth season, they introduced this new animator who really buffed up the series. They had cool CG fights and everything. I heard that same animator is even going to make his own series. I can't wait to hear more about that. This guy is amazing!"

Nora nodded, making sure that she kept Jaune's attention.

The classes went by and it was soon lunch. Pyrrha grabbed her food and sat next Jaune, much to everyone's relief. Jaune smiled to her and she smiled back. He has no idea how much trouble he's in, Pyrrha thought and chuckled to herself. Yang made sure she sat across from the duo. "Now that Pyrrha is finally in a better mood, I can start teasing you two about your nakey cuddles up in the mountain cave. Blake and Weiss can only provide so much entertainment," Yang smirked.

Blake scowled at Weiss, who shrunk in her seat with a blush while Ruby tried to comfort her. Jaune blushed and coughed, bracing himself for the teasing to come. Pyrrha on the other hand only smiled to the blonde brawler. "Of course. Go right ahead," Pyrrha chirped.

Yang sneered. "Alright, so how was it spending the night to a barely clothed blonde blunder?"

Jaune blushed even deeper while Pyrrha responded happily. "Delightful. I wish we could've spent another night up there."

Jaune turned to face Pyrrha, shock sprawled across his face. The rest followed suit and Yang backed down. "S'no fun if she won't even get embarrassed."

The day passed by with Pyrrha acting in the same fashion. Most passed it off as her getting a second wind for the fight for Jaune's heart. Ren, however, was worried. Mostly for Jaune's health. After class, team JNPR spent the evening in their room doing homework. Pyrrha did not say one word until they went out and came back from dinner. "Alright Jaune. Let's do tonight's training!"

"Sure," Jaune replied, happy that his teammate recovered from her slump.

"Uh…" Ren began. But shut up when Pyrrha threw a glare his way.

The duo left the room and headed for the roof. Once there, they began to set up.

"So, um, nice going deflating Yang like that today," Jaune complimented.

"Oh, I was just saying the truth," Pyrrha cheerily responded.

Jaune blushed as he unsheathed his sword. "A-a little forward there, don't ya think?"

"Just making it harder for you to act oblivious. Wouldn't want someone better to show up and grab my attention, right?"

Jaune froze in place, his eyes wide in fear. Pyrrha extended her spear and slowly walked closer to him. "That's right, Jaune. I know everything and I'd like to discuss a few things with you."

Jaune gulped, his nightmare resurfacing again. "Oh… Crap."

Don't care if it was predictable! Thanks for reading!