The Reviews!
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Xerzo LotCN: Penny's body is built like a real girl, (meaning she's built like a real girl... but there will be no lewdness... yet) and yes this will kick the girls into high gear. As for NDGO, in the novels, they're written as cowards and I wanted to keep that in my story but also have them change, while the other three realize it, Dew doesn't at the moment. It's not easy to stop being a coward, but I think you'll see that while the change won't be easy, there will be change within the group.
The Brotherhood 0f Steel: Thank you! I hope you enjoy this one! (also I know I wrote your name the wrong way but for some reason, FF wouldn't allow me to write it like its written)
Dragon Blaze-X: Thanks, and again, I wanted to keep to their original characters but again, have them change slowly.
Reader: Indeed, drama is always fun
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Anyway, back to the chapter!
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Jaune was armored and had Crocea Mors strapped to his belt and was on his way to the combat class to wait for the others for their sparring session and thinking about Penny and his dance with her later that night. As Jaune was walking down the hall and was turning the corner, he was nearly hit with a trident but thankfully dodged it and quickly looked for his attacker as he grabbed onto the hilt of Crocea Mors.
He looked to see that it was Dew, and she pointed her trident at him and glared at him.
"Dew? What the hell are-?"
However, before he could finish his sentence, she thrust her trident at him, but Jaune dodged it and he backed up, unsheathed his sword, and looked at her still with a confused look.
"Dew!" Jaune cried "What the hell has gotten into you!?" he asked
"What's gotten into me!?" Dew asked, "What have you done to my team!?" she asked
She thrust her Trident at him and He blocked it with his sword and pushed it back, causing her to stagger back. Dew growled at him and she turned her trident and she raised it in the air and threw it at him, but he moved his head to the left and the trident missed him. His eyes followed the trident and he saw it heading directly toward another student. Jaune quickly activated Aura Step and he appeared right in front of the student and raised his shield and blocked the Trident, however, the hit had shaken his arm.
Seeing him, the student was shocked but saw that he appeared to be in some sort of fight, Jaune turned back to the student and looked at them with a concerned look.
"You ok?" Jaune asked
They nodded and Jaune nodded back. The student then ran down the hall and away from the fight between the two. Jaune turned back to Dew who sucker-punched him backward and against the wall.
Jaune slid down the wall and looked at Dew with a glare, "What the hell is your problem!?" Jaune asked her as he got up.
Dew glared at her, "You turned my team into a bunch of babies who suddenly give a shit about weaklings!" Dew cried
"What the hell are you talking about!?" Jaune asked
Dew charged at him and thrust her trident at him but Jaune rolled to the side, and Dew's trident stabbed into the wall. Jaune got up and quickly took this opportunity to run to Combat class.
"I need to get out out of the hallways or else someone might get hurt and more property damage... which Professor Goodwitch will kill me for!" Jaune said to himself
Dew took her Trident out of the wall and chased after him. "Stop running ya, bastard!" Dew cried
"Like hell! You're trying to kill me!" Jaune cried
He continued racing down the hall with Dew behind him until he finally arrived at Combat class and entered through the door, Dew followed him inside and knew he was no doubt in the arena and that was fine with her, meant she could beat him to a pulp. Once she entered the arena she saw Jaune taking a stance ready to fight. Dew smiled wickedly and took her stance and prepared to fight the blonde knight.
"You ready to puke your guts up?" Dew asked with a glare
"We don't have to do this Dew!" Jaune said "Can't we just talk it out?" he asked her
"About how you made my team into a bunch of weaklings?" Dew asked, she then pressed a button on her trident and the prongs began to spring with electricity.
"Yes! What the hell do you mean I made them weak!?" Jaune cried "What the hell does that even mean!?"
Dew charged at him with her now electric trident but Jaune activated Aura Sight to dodge her attacks. Jaune decided to go on the offense and he swung at her but she blocked that with her trident, which sent a shock through Jaune, forcing him to back up, and Jaune charged up his sword ready to unleash an Arcus Mortis, but Dew kept thrusting her Trident at him relentlessly attacking him and not allowing him to charge up Arcus Mortis.
'Damn it! She's ruthless!' Jaune thought 'I need to get a hit before she begins to overpower me!'
Jaune activated Aura Step and vanish before reappearing on the other end of the Arena as Dew turned to him and glared at him.
'Damn those Aura Techniques of his!' Dew thought
Jaune's sword shined and he quickly slashed at her and unleashed an Arcus Mortis which hit her, and she flew back and hit the wall of the Arena, but she landed on her feet and looked at him.
"Tell me... do you know the one rule of Vacuo?" She asked
Jaune looked at her and shook his head, "No," He said
"If you can survive and you're strong enough to do it, then you're allowed to live in Vacuo, do you know what it means?"
Jaune once again shook his head.
Dew gritted her teeth and threw her Trident at him, this time hitting his sword out of his hand. Jaune was stunned but Dew took the opportunity to rush him and deliver a left hook to his face, causing him to stagger to the side.
"It means that we Vacuovians have to be ruthless!" She cried
A wounded boar lay on the ground, its blood stained the sand and 7-year-old Dew held a knife up to kill it. Her father stood over it watching her hesitate.
"Do it, Dew, finish it off!" Her father yelled
Dew hovered the knife over the boar's side and her hand shook, tears welled up in her eyes, "D-Dad I-I can't do it!" Dew cried
Dew's father grabbed her hands and pushed them into the boar's side and killed the boar. Which caused her to cry as she didn't want to kill the boar.
Jaune regained his footing only for Dew then to deliver a right hook to Jaune's face sending him staggering to the side again.
"It means we don't cry!"
A 9-year-old Dew fell to the ground and dropped her training staff, "Dad... it hurts..." She cried as tears fell from her eyes.
Her father delivered a hard kick to her side, causing her to vomit, and his anger grew. "We don't cry Dew, tears are for the weak!"
Dew then swept her leg under his, tripping him and causing him to fall on his back to the ground. Dew then jumped on top of him and began punching him repeatedly in the face.
"We care little for those who can't save themselves!" She cried
"Dad! Dad! Dad help me!" cried an 11-year-old Dew as she was struggling to hold on to the edge of the cliff
Dew's Father looked down at her and then walked away from the edge of the cliff, leaving her.
"Dad! DAAAAD!" Dew cried
"But now you changed everything!" Dew cried as she kept punching him in the face and Jaune just took it, "Your stupid, idiotic, damned heroics, made them weak! you the complete opposite of what we stood for! You care for some stupid reason!"
The Weaver charged at them and Nebula shot another bolt at the Grimm but missed, Dew and Jaune charged back at the Weaver and Jaune sliced right through one of its legs while Dew managed to stab the Weaver in the side before she was flung back by the Weaver's leg.
"Dew!" Jaune cried
"Your foolishly selfless!" Dew cried
Dew looked at him with a bewildered look, "Hold it, you wanna kill that thing?" Dew said, "Let's just get the hell out of here while we can!" Dew cried
"And what, let the others get hear and face this thing?" Jaune asked, "No, we need to kill this thing!" Jaune cried
"There is no way in Hell we are helping you kill that thing!" Dew cried
Gwen nodded as she looked at Jaune, "She's right, we should just get out of here!" Gwen said
Jaune looked at them and could tell they were afraid of that thing, but he wasn't, he needed to make sure that the others who returned to the location wouldn't have to face the Weaver, but now he was in a bit more of a pickle as his plan might not work without them, and so he began to think of how to alternate the plan without team NDGO.
"Take Professor Peach back to Port, I'll stay and kill it," Jaune said
Nebula looked at Jaune with a shocked look, "Jaune! You can't be serious!" She cried
Jaune looked at her, "I am serious," Jaune said
Dew raised her fist back and prepared to punch Jaune once again, but then Jaune caught it, shocking Dew as she looked up at him with a glare.
"That's what you call Strong!?" Jaune cried
He then punched her and caused her to fall to the side. Both of them quickly got up and Jaune dropped his shield and glared at her as Jaune Jaune put his fist up and Dew did the same.
"If that's what you define as being strong, then you're an idiot!" Jaune cried "Being strong isn't about being ruthless! Or not crying! Or the survival of the fittest!"
Jaune charged at her and threw a punch but Dew blocked the attack end and then kicked him in the side, causing him to wince, but he pushed through the pain and swung at Dew again, this time delivering a punch straight to her face.
"Being strong is about taking the pain and failures!"
Jaune is currently fighting against a level-one training bot.
And it wiped the floor with him.
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.
"It's about being angry about how weak you were and wanting to get stronger!"
Jaune looked at his hands and balled them into fists. He was angry, angry that he almost went blind because he overused Aura Sight. Angry that even with the Aura techniques he still couldn't beat Roman Torchwick. Angry that... he was still weak.
'I need to double my physical training and like Professor Peach said, I need to train my Aura techniques more, but take it slow, now that I know what could happen' Jaune told himself 'I can't let this happen again... I can't let what happened last night happen ever again' Jaune told himself again
Dew swung at him and he blocked it, and then he swung at her but she dodged it before trying to hit him but he blocked it and backed up.
"To feel fear and push past it!" Jaune told her
"What you don't need in battle is fear, Jaune, nothing will come of it," Ozpin told the young Arc, "When you counter an enemies attack, you don't let them cut, and you when you protect someone who you hold dear, you don't let them die, and when you attack your enemy, you kill... if you fear... you will be cut, you will let someone die, you will fail and you will be dead, do you understand?" Ozpin asked
Jaune lets Ozpin's words seep in as he regains his composure. Ozpin was right, he couldn't fear anymore in a fight. He couldn't let the fear control him and poison his fighting spirit when in a fight. In order to become stronger... he needed to stop fearing. Jaune stood up on his feet and steeled himself and looked to the Headmaster who looked at him.
"I understand, Ozpin" Jaune said
Dew tried to kick Jaune but he blocked it and swung a left hook hitting her and causing her to stagger back. She regained her footing and swung upward, uppercutting him. Jaune regained his senses and then jabbed at her but she caught his fist and then delivered a headbutt, causing him to stagger back. She staggered back and felt a little dizzy but he shook his head and looked at her.
"It's about fighting and protecting those you care for!"
"I'm gonna leave you here for now with my scroll, call for backup, while you're doing that, I'll distract the Goliath and try to take him down just until backup arrives," Jaune said
"Are you insane!?" Marceline asked "That thing will kill you with ease! No way you can hold it off, long enough for backup to arrive! Just leave me here and save yourself!"
"No way! I'm not letting you die! Not here! Not while I can do something!" Jaune cried
"Why!? Why try to protect someone like me!? I don't matter!" Marceline asked Jaune
Jaune looked at her, "You Do Matter Marceline! Just like everyone else matters!" He cried
"No buts! We're helping you because we also want to bring him to justice," Reese said
"We're your friends Jaune, we want to help you, no matter what it is," Arslan said
Nebula looked at him with a worried look but she took out her crossbow and shifted it into its blade form and handed it to Jaune and looked at him, "I want that back, Jaune," Nebula told him
"Arc's word," Jaune said with a smile
"THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE STRONG!" Jaune cried
Jaune reeled his fist back and Dew did the same and they both swung at the same time and punched each other in the face.
Both fell to the ground after the punch, both were breathing heavily, and Jaune slowly sat up as Dew still lay down on the floor. Jaune looked over to her while still breathing heavily, "Sun always told me about the harsh conditions of Vacuo, how he knew some people who shared the same ideals as you... and how some of them lead harsh lives, and if I had to guess... you're one of those people, right?" Jaune asked
Dew sat up and looked at him, "So what if I am?" Dew asked him
"Then I want to help you," Jaune told her "I want to show you that there's a different way of being "Strong" than the Vacovian way,"
Dew looked at him, "You think you can show me another way? Change my ideals and my view on life with a few heartfelt words?"
Jaune chuckled and shook his head, "No, I mean this isn't a comic book or some Shonen Anime," Jaune said "It will take time and a lot of effort, but I'm willing to try if you're ok with that..." He said
Dew looked at him and her eyes met his cobalt blue ones and she saw that he was being honest, there was a part of her that didn't want to believe him, after all, no one ever helped her, but knowing Jaune's reputation, he would do as he promised...
But was she willing to accept his help?
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NGO rushed down the hall to find Dew and as they were running down the hall, they saw Dew herself slowly walking down the hall, looking a little beat up.
"Dew! What the hell happened!" Nebula cried
Dew looked to see her team leader and smiled at her, "Oh, this... just had a little sparring session," she said
"With who?"
"Arc," Dew said
"WHAT!?" Nebula cried
Dew just kept smiling and rolled her eyes, "Take it easy Neb, he's alright," Dew said
Nebula sighed, while Octavia shook her head and smiled, and Gwen just looked disappointed. Dew looked at her team and put her head down and breathed in deeply before letting it out.
"I'm sorry," Dew said
Nebula looked at her partner and raised a brow, "Huh?" Nebula asked
"I'm sorry for how I acted earlier... I should have realized that maybe... maybe you guys had a point," Dew said, "I've come to realize that it might be time to change our ways..."
Nebula placed her hand on her partner's shoulders and smiled at her, "I know it's not gonna be easy Dew but-"
"I know, it's not gonna be easy," Dew replied with a slight chuckle, "But that's why I got someone to help me out to try and change,"
"Really?" Nebula asked with a raised brow, "Who?"
Dew smiled at her team leader, "Let's just say... I think I see why you're so interested in a certain Knight," Dew said
Nebula blushed and then shook her head and waved the notion off, "Knock it off," She said with a roll of her eyes
Dew chuckled, "Well girls, we best get ready for the dance tonight," She said "I wanna see if a certain blonde wants to dance with me tonight,"
With that, the four girls went back to their dorm to get ready for the dance. Many would do so as they thought that the night was going to be one of fun, relaxation, and partying...
But how wrong they were... as a certain woman looked at her scroll to see that the virus was uploaded onto her phone, and she smiled as she saw the black queen chess piece on her screen.
'With this, I can gain full access to Ironwood's network and files and any little secrets he may have... And I can finally plan out phase 3 of my plan' She thought with a sinister smile.
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A/N: I will be trying to focus on this story a lot more because I feel way behind on this. I mean, I'm finally planning out the entire "Volume 3" Arc but I'm still lagging on where I want and feel the need to be.
However, this doesn't mean I will be rushing Chapters, no, I will still take my time with this and make sure it hits the standards of your Readers, but try to get it further into the storyline as there are a lot of interesting concepts that I want to touch on for the lore of this story.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the chapter and are prepared for the next!