IT'S THE CHAPTER YOU'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR! HERE IT IS!
SUGAR/CRASH CHAPTER 2!
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Jaune currently fought against a level-one training bot.
And it wiped the floor with him.
Jaune just thanked Oum that no one was around to witness that. His body hurt from being tackled to the floor by a training bot and bruises formed, he had a shortness of breath from the constant movement and the constant beating. He was just thankful that his aura fixed most of the injuries, minus his oh-so-damaged pride. Speaking of his aura... he never really got to say thank you to that Pyrrha girl for unlocking his Aura, did he?
'Next time' He told himself 'I owe her big time'
For now, Jaune pulled Crocea Mors up off of the floor, and he frowned at the level-one bot mocking him. To lose to the lowest settings hurt in more ways than one, and Jaune knew he lacked training, but seriously, the level-one?
'No! Stop thinking like that! We need to try again' He told himself
he raised his shield and held up Crocea Mors behind his defense and had the end pointed in the bot's direction. The Bot charged at him and he got ready for it to strike and to counter the attack with his own
"I've had enough of you do bucket of bolts!" Jaune cried
And another fight between the bot and the Arc boy began again and then-!
"Ah!"
Jaune woke up with a cry. He blinked once, then twice, and then a third time as he looked around at where he was. The Infirmary.
"Oh man, not again!" Jaune cried
"Oh yes again Jaune" came a voice
Jaune quickly froze and he could feel a cold gaze coming from his side and he turned only to see the angry and cold glare of Professor Peach Persina.
Peach was Beacons Dust Teacher, but she wasn't just that, she was also the school's doctor, which was kind of weird, but she wasn't the only doctor, there were a few other nurses who had healing semblances.
Peach herself was a young woman around age 24 and like her namesake, had peach-orange hair that was tied into a bun with front and side bangs, she also had fair brown skin and light red eyes which had a pair of clear white safety glasses protecting them, she wore a tight white pencil skirt jacket which just stopped just above her upper thighs, which showed off her long legs, she wore leather glove arm warmers and long leather high-heeled boots.
The reason she was giving the blonde teen such an ice-cold gaze was because he had been a constant patient this entire week, and it was all thanks to the training bot.
"Stupid kid!" She cried as she hammered her fist onto the top of Jaune's head
"Ow! Damn it! whatcha' do that for!?" Jaune cried as he held the top of his head in pain
"Because you're an idiot!" She cried "I told you before Jaune that I did not want to see you so soon again! I'm busy enough as it is!" She cried
Another thing about the good doctor, while she was young she didn't do formality's so she called every student by their first name, and while she was an adult, she still acted like she was a teen.
"Just what the hell were you thinking!?" Peach cried as she tugged on his ear
"AHHH! I said I was sorry! Please let go of my ear, Peach" Jaune said
"That's better, now your just lucky some student brought you here after you passed out on the floor of the training room," She told him
This was a bit of a surprise to Jaune. Why? Because ever since students heard that he was the only 1st year to pass, rumors started going around, some say he cheated, others say he was Ozpin and Goodwitches kid, which was just weird, and a few were just wild, some said he had slept with Goodwitch, other said he was some type of gangster who threatened the others to lose initiation. With all these rumors, Jaune was constantly stared at and talked about in hushed voices. Eyes were on him, like a worm in a pond of large fish. and not many students helped him out with anything, this might also be because Jaune was a bit socially awkward.
"She also wanted to know when you wake up, so I'll let her know that you're up," Peach said, "I'm sure she'll be very happy to see that you're ok"
Peach then left his bedside and headed to her phone as Jaune sat in the bed and looked over his hands and he clenched them into a fist before he closed his eyes and let out a sad sigh
'Oum Damn it!' Jaune cried to himself 'I swore I wouldn't lose again! I just can't! If I can't even beat a training bot how am I suppose to beat Grimm!?'
Meanwhile, across the other side of Beacon, one female Faunus was in her dorm room with her fellow team leader. These two were Velvet Scarletina and Coco Adel.
Velvet was sitting on the edge of her bed and trying to study, but her foot kept tapping on the ground. She was also waiting for a call from Professor Peach about the 1st year she had found knocked out in the training room. Velvet's team knew about this as well because Velvet had told them about it when she was late for class.
"Velv I'm sure he's fine," Coco said
Velvet turned to her leader and sighed, "I know, but still I'm just a little worried about him ya know" Velvet told Coco "I mean He's literally the only first-year which means he doesn't have a team or have any friends to help him out and I just kinda feel bad for him"
Coco nodded, she understood why Velvet had felt that way about the kid, due to being a Faunus, Velvet sometimes felt alienated by some of the students in Beacon, but with the help of her team and few other older Faunus students, she got better and became more social. Coco had also heard some of the Rumors surrounding the Only first year that passed and saw how some of the students and even some of the teachers looked at him and she couldn't help but feel sorry for the guy.
Suddenly, the ringing of Velvet's scroll was heard, causing both girls to be startled for a few seconds before Velvet grabbed her scroll, opened it up, and answered the call
"Hello?" Velvet asked
[Hello Ms. Scarletina, I just called to inform you that Jaune has woken up so if you still wish to come and see him, he is still here] Peach said on the other end
"O-Oh right! thank you, Professor Peach, I'll be right there" Velvet said
[I'll let him know] Peach responded
The call ended and Velvet got up pocketed her scroll and Coco saw her get up and got up as well. Velvet saw her leader stand up and looked at her with both a confused and suspicious look
"What are you doing?" Velvet asked
"I'm coming with, I wanna meet this guy as well," Coco said "See if he's good enough for you"
Velvet blushed, "Coco! It's not like that!"
Coco laughed and how easy it was to really tease Velvet. With that, the two left their dorm room and headed down to the Infirmary.
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Jaune was currently putting his armor back on and he strapped them tight. He put on his gloves and then looked at his right hand.
'I just wish I could win one time... I need to do it, I need to prove that I belong here!' Jaune thought to himself
"Nice Armor, blondie"
Jaune squealed and quickly turned around as fast as he could. Once he did, he saw two girls. Once was a rabbit Faunus and the other was a human girl.
The teenage girl had fair skin, short dark-brown hair, and he couldn't see her eyes thanks to a pair of black, wire-rimmed aviator sunglasses. She had wavy locks on one side of her face, dyed with a gradient that starts as dark brown and transitioned to caramel. Her clothes consisted of a long, cocoa-colored shirt with an upturned layered frill collar with a black single strapped waist cincher. She wears tight black leather trousers that have a golden lining around the pocket and ribbons attached to the back of a golden zipper seam around her knees. A black golden studded belt was seen but it was also hidden by a large cocoa-colored belt with gun cartridges on the left side and a large golden crosshair buckle. She wore a pair of dark black, high-heeled leather calf-high boots with golden buckles, and also had several accessories, such as a bracelet with black roses as decoration, accompanied by black gloves and three beaded necklaces alongside a black scarf tied around her collar. She wears a black beret with a cocoa brown trim.
The Faunus girl had long, brown hair, and brown eyes and her brown rabbit ears were visible on her head. She was currently wearing what Jaune assumed to be her combat gear, which was a cropped brown jacket over a thin black top and brown pants almost entirely covered up by thigh-high black boots, and accenting with her brown and black color scheme were gold pauldrons, cuffs, belt, and the trim of her boots.
"Um... hi, can I help you?" Jaune asked
"No, Bun-Bun here just wanted to check on you"
"COCO! Don't call me that in front of him!" the other girl cried
Coco smirked, Velvet was embarrassed and Jaune was just confused. Velvet regained herself and looked over to Jaune with an awkward smile.
"H-Hello, I'm Velvet, the upperclassman that found you in the training room," She said "It's um, nice to meet you"
Jaune blushed a little bit but recomposed himself and laughed awkwardly, "I-I'm Jaune! Jaune Arc, short, sweet, rolls off the tongue, Ladies love it" He said with a smile
"I bet they do Blondie" The girl, Coco, Said with a smirk. She walked over to Jaune and pulled down her glasses and looked him up and down and giving Jaune a good look at her dark-brown eyes, "Names Coco Adel and let me tell you Blondie, the Armor isn't really working for you, grey is such an ugly color, maybe make the armor white, little gold on the rim of it, lose the hoodie-"
"Not happening," Jaune said bluntly
Coco just laughed, "We'll see about that," She said
Jaune just sighed, he then turned to back to Velvet with a soft smile, "Um, thank you by the way, for helping me back there" He said "It uh, it means a lot"
Velvet just smiled, "It's no problem" She replied
"No, really it does mean a lot, not a lot of people have been willing to help me out recently..." Jaune said with a somber tone
Velvet saw the hurt in his eyes and could see it had been hard for him. After all, she was a Faunus, she had amazing hearing and she heard what people would sometimes say about Jaune when his back was turned, or when he sat alone in the cafeteria. He was alone and no doubt feeling confused and conflicted.
"Um, if it's alright, I noticed you're alone a lot, would you um... like to join me and my team for dinner?" Velvet asked
Coco was a little shocked that Velvet had asked him to join them for dinner, again, she was getting better socially but she was still nervous talking to people, especially new people. As for Jaune, he was stunned because he had only just met Velvet and she was already trying to make friends with him, for Jaune, this was a little weird, after all, no one really talked to him at all, so for someone like Velvet, his upperclassmen, to ask him to join her and mingle with her team and friends was giving him some bad feelings, but he was also desperate to talk to anyone at this point.
"I-I would like to if that's ok with your team as well," Jaune said with a soft smile
Velvet turned over to Coco, "Coco?"
"Hey, I'm fine with it, and I'm sure Yatsu and Fox will be as well," Coco said
Jaune smiled, and he felt like things were starting to look up. He was finally and hopefully making friends.