From what I can tell, Jaune is the most used character in stories, so I decided to throw my hat in the ring and see how this story grows. Do not worry, this is the final idea I have for RWBY fics. There won't be anymore new stories
If you can't already tell, this is a small crossover with Fairy Tail. By small, I mean I will only borrow the Dragon Slayer power. You won't see stuff like other characters or locations from franchise. Hence why I didn't make this an actual crossover.
At the moment, Jaune hated being a Dragon Slayer.
Don't be mistaken, he liked his semblance, he really did, but in his current situation he hated his powers. Why? Because he was stuck on a flying vehicle.
It's such a weird and specific weakness. One he could have been warned before all of this.
'Oh yeah, you can be the master of poison and be immune to it. Oh FYI, you want to throw up anytime you enter something that can move.'
"Thanks a lot Mom…" He said to himself, his voice slightly echoing from the trash can he had grabbed and hugged on for dear life. He was dreading this part of his trip to Beacon, which was riding aboard a large Bullhead. As he lifted his head to look at the multitude of students around him, he saw each of them displaying a different expression and emotion. Some were quite excited, some were incredibly nervous, and a few just stared out of the windows with calm expressions. He heard a few comments of him vomiting with his enhanced hearing. They thought that they were being discrete, but Jaune could still hear them.
Gods, he hasn't even entered the damn school and he already has a reputation.
As soon as the ship had landed, he quickly stumbled his way to the nearest exit, nearly knocking everyone on the way and apologizing to every person he ran into. Once he was off of the plane he fell forward to be accepted once more to the ground's embrace. "Solid ground! Oh, how I've missed you!" He stayed there, not caring about the odd looks he was getting from other people.
After making out with the ground, he stood up and walked away from his location. As he did, he noticed a white haired girl complaining to a girl wearing a red hood about the usage of Dust. The girl in white was shaking a bottle of red Dust, which was leaking out of the bottle. Jaune could smell the Dust almost spicy scent.
"That's not good." He said hastily. Anyone with basic knowledge about dust knows how dangerous uncontained red dust was. He was about to intervene when the girl in red sneezed, causing the red dust to ignite. Jaune chuckled at the girl in white's reaction and her soot covered face. He also felt bad about the girl in red. Before their argument went on further, a third person joined the fray. She wore mostly black.
"It's like everyone has a freakin' color scheme..." Jaune whispered. Soon enough, the girl in white and the girl in black had left the girl in red to collapse on the ground in defeat.
"Well, that won't do." Jaune said with a slight frown before shifting his expression to what he hoped seemed like a welcoming grin.
He walked over to the girl and outstretched his hand. "Hey, I'm Jaune!" he said with his toothy smile, hoping to cheer her up.
She hesitantly responded and grabbed the offered hand.
"Ruby." She stated with a small smile. "Aren't you the guy who threw up on the ship?"
Jaune eyebrow twitched at this. "Yeah, well it's a sort of side effect that comes with my semblance. I have severe motion sickness because of it." He explained vaguely. He knew she would ask, and it would be easier just to say what he was, but Jaune liked to keep things a secret.
Things didn't work out so well last time someone found out about his past.
"How does that work?" Ruby asked. She'd never heard of a semblance with a drawback. Sure some semblances needed some sort of condition to work, but she was pretty sure motion sickness doesn't count as it.
Jaune shrugged and smiled. "Beats me, but as long as I'm not in a vehicle, I'm a force to be reckoned with!" He flexed, causing Ruby to laugh.
They began to walk silently when Ruby spoke up. "So I got this thing." She said offhandedly as she let her scythe completely form, causing Jaune to jump back in surprise.
"Brothers!" He shrieked not like a little girl as he had to dodge the blade. "So you have a scythe?"
"It's also a customizable, high impact sniper rifle." Ruby said proudly.
Jaune blinked.
"...it's also a gun." Ruby said with humor. She directed her attention back to Jaune. "So what do you have?" She said with surprisingly large interest.
Jaune drew his sword from its sheath, then activated his sheath, turning it into a large shield.
"It's not much, but it gets the job done." He said. He obtained the sword and shield in his travels from a man named Nicholas Arc. He saved him from being devoured by the Grimm in a mission, though his injuries forced him into an early retirement. Rather than leaving the sword and shield to gather dust in an attic or above a fireplace like a decoration, he gave them to him, as thanks for letting him grow old with his wife and see his daughters grow up.
His seven daughters, by the way.
Sheesh, imagine having seven sisters… He thought, shivering.
Ruby was in awe even for a simplistic design. "That's so cool! There is nothing wrong with the classics!" she yelled with child-like glee, snapping him out of his thoughts. "Have you thought of upgrading and turning it into a gun?"
"...I don't think everything needs to be a gun." Jaune said with a raised eyebrow.
Ruby gasped, as if he said the most offensive thing in the world. "You don't like guns? Next thing you're going to tell me is that you don't like cookies…" She said as she sniffed with tears in her eyes and looked at him with a puppy-eyed look.
Suddenly he felt like an asshole. "Nononono! I love guns! And I love cookies! I love cakes, strawberries, snipers! Everything that is sweet and shoots bullets!" Jaune yelled, waving his arms, careful not to hit her with his sword. Please don't cry!
"Great!" Ruby quickly cheered up, wiping her face on her sleeve. "Well we better get to the main building or we'll miss the orientation."
They both retracted their weapons. "That sounds good, let's go!" Jaune said as he began to lead the way with Ruby close behind.
"How do you know where you're going?" Ruby asked curiously. Beacon was basically a maze to her, and they didn't even hand out maps!
"I can smell a large group of people over in this direction." He said, pointing his nose upwards.
"Huh?" Ruby tilted her head, confused.
Jaune chuckled. "Just kidding. I saw a bunch of people heading in this direction, so most likely I'm on the right track." He corrected himself. He learned pretty quickly that saying you can 'smell' something is somewhat creepy.
"Oh that makes sense." She said.
Once they entered the orientation room, Ruby was called over by a girl in yellow. The girl in yellow actually looked familiar. Jaune recognized her as one of the ones who commented on his air sickness.
Her hair is actually so bright it's giving me a migraine. He thought, rubbing his eyes.
Ruby looked back at Jaune. "Hey that's my sister, I gotta go. I'll talk to you after the orientation!"
Before he could respond, Ruby was gone. "Great. Now who am I going to talk to?" Jaune said with defeat in his voice. Jaune just stood awkwardly, waiting for something, ANYTHING to happen. Unfortunately nothing happened. He looked back at Ruby, only to see her talking to the girl in white again. He used his enhanced hearing to eavesdrop on their conversation, but he only caught the ending of the girl in white's sarcasm.
"Yeah, and we can paint our nails, and try on clothes, and talk about cute boys like tall, blonde and scraggly over there." She finished while pointing her thumb at Jaune, who was confused as to how their conversation had reached a topic like that.
Seriously, why does every girl I meet say that? Jaune thought. He then heard the sound of a microphone being turned on. He looked over to the stage only to see Professor Ozpin.
Hey it's Ozpin! Jaune mentally cheered. Finally, someone he actually knew! As the headmaster began his speech, Jaune just stared in deep thought.
He was probably the only headmaster Jaune liked. Two of them he was indifferent while one of them… He shook his head. Don't get worked up. You're in Vale. The only chance you would have running into him would be at the Vytal Festival and even then it's a small shot…
As he refocused, Ozpin finished his speech and the blonde woman next to him, Glynda, told everyone to prepare for the next day, Jaune looked at the girl in white again before thinking of a conversation starter. He walked over to her and said. "I'm a natural blonde you know!" She just sighed, clearly annoyed with Jaune's entrance. She walked off before he could say anything else.
Well that wasn't the reaction I was hoping for. He thought, and then shrugged. I'll just try again later.
Later that night, all of the students were gathered in one large room for the night. Jaune was slightly concerned by this. "Crap…" He whispered to himself.
He had enhanced hearing and it was a good thing, but he couldn't control it or tone it down in his sleep, meaning, in a place packed with multiple people, it just gave him a headache as he could hear multiple things at once.
He could always use earplugs, but he rather not risk getting attacked in his sleep. Chances of that happening in a situation like this are low, but never zero.
Jaune grabbed a sleeping bag and went to a corner, to try and distance himself as much as he could. He sighed. It's only one night… Jaune thought. He stood there awkwardly, fidgeting in his spot. Still, how is everyone comfortable with this?
He is seeing like, 3 different guys walking around shirtless, flexing and wrestling to impress the girls in the room, and he has had to look away 4 different times once he saw a girl take off her clothes. Mom always said to give a girl privacy. He thought
Maybe that's it? You won't exactly have the luxury of privacy out in the field, so maybe they want to drill that idea from the start?
He sighed. "Better get this over with…" He muttered as he took off his armor, his Pumpkin Pete hoodie he got from a nearby store and his pants since he might as well get comfortable. Immediately, he felt chills down his spine as he felt the volume quiet down ever so slightly a multiple pairs of eyes stare at him, and not for the right seasons.
"What the fuck?" Yang said.
"Language, Yang." Ruby said, still writing.
"Ruby, check out Vomit Boy over there." Yang said, ignoring Ruby.
Ruby sighed at Yang's nickname for Jaune. "Yang, I'm not about to look at Jaune like he is a piece of meat." She said.
"No, I'm serious. Look." She said, grabbing her sister's face and forcing her to look at Jaune.
Ruby eyes widened. His back was covered in scars. Actually... His back was nothing but scars. She could see the outlines of each of them, some looking new and some looking older, like he was covered in layers of scars.
It wasn't just his back though. His arms, his front from what she could see, and his legs were covered in scars. The only ones that seemed with less of them were legs, but that wasn't a comfort.
"What…happened to him?" Ruby asked, horrified. "That amount of scars isn't normal."
"Don't know, but Vomit Boy just went from a 6 to a 9." Yang said with a smirk, though on the inside she was worried as well.
"Should we go talk to him?" Ruby asked again.
"You can clearly see he was uncomfortable about it." Yang said as they watched Jaune quickly enter his sleeping bag and cover himself. "If he wants to, he will come to us."
"Okay…" Ruby said, looking away from Jaune to get the image of his scars out of her head before she stopped at someone. "Oh, that's her!"
"Who?" Yang asked, looking at where her sister was looking.
"The girl that helped me against Weiss!" Ruby said.
"Woah, she's cute." Yang said, before smirking. "Let's go say hi!"
"Wait what?" Was all Ruby said before Yang grabbed her and dragged her against her will.
Meanwhile Jaune was thankful nobody approached him. He was overjoyed by this. He got comfortable in his sleeping bag and began to focus on other conversations. He could hear the girl in yellow and the girl in black exchange names. '
So their names are Yang and Blake, cool.
He casually listened to their conversation, and learned a little bit about Blake and Ruby. He enjoyed hearing Ruby's inspiration to become a hunter, so innocent yet so… for the lack of a better word, inspiring. He found that he was about to fall asleep to their lovely conversation before Yang got Ruby worked up, which apparently pissed off the girl in white. She told them to be quiet, which somehow led to each of them telling each other to be quiet. Jaune inwardly groaned. Guess I can forget about peace and quiet…
Unknown to him, two sets of eyes were staring at Jaune, but for different reasons than you might think, a single thought going through both of their heads.
Those scars… Could he be like me?
So, as you can already guess, Jaune is the Poison Dragon Slayer. I thought of all Dragon Slayers Magic we know and out of the 7, Poison might be the most underused. So I decided to make Jaune one.
He is basically Cobra/Erik, but not at the same time. For instance, he can't hear people thoughts. He does have more enhanced hearing than a normal Dragon Slayer, though.
Speaking of which, any theories on who the other Dragon Slayers are? Or what the ship of this story is?