Today we're starting at Beacon, something may change, some won't, it depends.
Also want to apologize for the grammar mistakes, I try my best to reread it and find the mistakes but it slips.
Anyway Enjoy.
Chapter 5
Initiation
It was Initiation day for the new comers to Beacon, which meant half of the students either were helping or took the day off.
Team STRQ with there super awesome Leader, took the wrong hint from her teammates and sign them up for it.
To say there weren't pleased was an understatement, giving her the cold shoulder.
The only one who didn't care was Raven, she enjoyed killing the extra grimm.
Team JNBR were in the combat ring sparing, with Roman information on there opponents from other academies, they took that chance and start training.
Roman always had his way with informations and trickery, he gathered information on all of them and team STRQ when they started.
Of course none of them were happy, and he Yield quickly, apologizing while saying it was good to know them before they do.
"Nicholas you need to push for the support, ignore the others, Roman Bart, make his way clear and I'll support everyone" Juniper explained her plan to them against a team built around there support teammate.
Even though team JNBR uses Nicholas and Juniper as the main attack while Roman and Bart either keep other distracted or protect Juniper from the enemies, doesn't mean she's weak, she is capable fighter, being on of top 10 fighters of there year.
There strategy Boil down to Nicholas hits hard and Juniper making sure his aura doesn't run out, while Bart and Roman beat the others up.
It was pretty good strategy, but Roman told them it won't work when your enemies have a support that can make 3 Nicholas fucking Arc.
That team from Atlas was scary, but other than them, they had the festival victory under there belt, of course other then there true rivals, team STRQ.
"and another plan, we'll have Nicholas act as bait to draw them in while Roman sneaks behind and deals with the support, me and Nicholas should hold them off long enough for you to rip there support off, then we beat them until they start crying for there mothers" Juniper said, surprisingly she was combative with stuff like that, which result in team fights quite often.
"What are you planning to do with "that" information" Nicholas whispered to Roman who went quite.
"Nothing, at less until we getting better understanding of what "that" information is, I mean a basement under the school that have no record of existing, and it's under the headmaster office" Roman said equally quite.
There trip to the CCT became a vist to the headmaster office without him knowing, and with Roman Curiosity he found basement under his office, which wasn't that suspension until they found no record of it.
"we'll tell the team if we actually found something, other than that, keep it quiet" Roman said to Nicholas who nodded in return.
"Hopefully this won't end up backfiring"
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The bullhead ride was to say the less, awful.
Motion sickness was bad, but this was worst, not just because he thrown out his breakfast, but also the last 3 nights with his sisters stuffing everything they could find as a punishment for what happened.
His mother was less on the sadistic side giving him "everything is fine" fake smile, which guilt him enough to promise not to do it again.
The going out pass 12 not the fight, he actually go compliment from his dad and mom, and surprisingly his sisters too, of course after they beaten him up for going without them.
Back to not so pleasant present, he had the Good idea to sit close to the bathroom because most of the flit he was there.
When his stomach finally decided to stop her torture and let him live, he found all of the students already left.
"great now I need to find my own way before I'm late" Jaune growled
He left the bullhead, apologize to the pilot on his way out, he saw an after explosion on the ground.
"At less I'm not the only one Miserable today, I should say hi, so we can be miserable together" jaune thought as he went to greet the figure who just Exploded.
Jaune wasn't the best at making conversations, mostly because of the lack of people his age and him nerding out about everything huntsmen.
He approached the girl who lied on the ground, she looked sad, so why not try to make conversation to lift her up.
"welcome to Beacon" she said, not to him but to the general situation she was in, at less it was the best opportunity to start talk.
"Hey there" he Said offering a hand to help her up, he realized it was the same girl that fought his uncle last week, ruby if he wasn't mistaken.
"hey haha" she said awkwardly talking his hand," you're the guy who helped me last week, with the robbery, right?" she said more of a question than a statement.
"hah yeah, the name is jaune arc, nice to meet you ruby xaio long" he said not noticing her face.
"actually it's Ruby Rose, I know, how can your sister have different family name, me and yang have different mothers so yeah" ruby said, like she always had this conversation before, can't blame her, they don't look like sister.
"Oh that's neat I guess, why are you here though, I thought you were 15, not saying you can't fight, I saw yours and it was awesome, how did you learn those moves, and you weapon is awesome, where did you get it, is it rifle or full out sniper" jaune started talking like a hyperactive 15 years old, which didn't help much.
"Shit I started mumbling again, now she'll think I'm wired and tell her sister and everyone going to think I'm strange" jaune started beating himself up, not noticing Ruby's eyes widening.
Ruby couldn't contain her excitement, she finally found something who can understand how awesome her baby is.
"Yup, I was super awesome back there, not to mention my baby took the bad guys with ease, I Introduce to you, my baby Crescent Rose" ruby said proudly, deployed her weapon to show it full size, jaune was too happy to complain, she didn't think he was wired!
" it looks awesome, where did you get it from?, how many forms does it have?,and can you use bullets recoil to give yourself more speed?, because with your small size… no offense, you could use speed to deal more damage" jaune said too happy to join on the weapon take.
"I made it myself, I'm kinda a genius when it's about making weapon, it has 4 forms, full Scythe, a sniper, the pocket one, and just shoot, the last one when I need a range option and don't have enough space, and YES the recoil helps with speed, and none taken, oh God, thank you for sending your nicest angel to be my friend" ruby said the last part as a whisper.
"so what's your weapon, if you know so much I bet you'll have awesome mach-shift weapon like mine" ruby waited for the grand reveal but it didn't come, instead he gestured to the weapon on his hip.
"I have this, Crocea Mors, it's been in my family for generations and was used in the great war" jaune said proudly, not noticing the somewhat disappointed look on ruby's face.
"Classics are cool too" she said but jaune noticed her tone, "Well I am all for Classic, but it won't work in this day and age, so I made some upgrades" and then he got ruby's attention again.
"The Sheath can turn to shield but also have a special features, like becoming a glider with hardlight dust, and I put a little secret weapon for big enemies just in case" jaune smiled and evil smile, which gave ruby the hint that whatever he put in the shield, it would be big.
"also because I can't modify everything I got some gadgets to help me" he gesture to his arm which had a gauntlet with rounds of dust on it, it looked similar to her sister weapon Ember celica, but short a gauntlet and the shotgun shells.
"That looks so cool, I can't wait to show everyone how badass our weapons are" ruby said, all tracks of awareness gone, after discovering that jaune was as much as a weapon nerd as her.
"Yeah, also aren't we suppose to arrive now, are you sure you know the way" jaune asked.
"what, I was following you…" ruby said as she stopped, jaune did the same, they looked around and then sprinted to the closest person to ask for directions.
fortunately they arrived in time, jaune excused himself to the bathroom after finding out the speech is in 5 minutes.
Ruby looked around, finding her sister, she use her semblance to tackle her to the ground, a payoff for leaving her alone the moment they landed.
"Ooof, what the Fu- ,Ruby?, hey how's your Socializing going for you?" yang asked ignoring the fact she was about to drop an F bomb, or the fact she ran away the moment they landed.
"it was half miserable half my dream come true" ruby said confusing yang.
"there was this white hair girl who started yelling at me, then I blow up, then the guy from last week came and help me and started talking about weapons and it was awesome, not the blowing up part" she add at the end.
"Don't exaggerate thing sis, you didn't blow anything up, it's the first day and-" yang was cut off by white hair girl, who was glaring at Ruby.
"yang the white demon is back again" Ruby looked scared and hiding behind her, yang looked at the while hair girl and realized.
"dammit Ruby I left you for 5 minutes, and you actually blow up" yang's hand found her face, the white hair girl looked unimpressed.
"Here, read this and don't ever talk to me ever again" white hair girl handed Ruby a book, it said dust for kids, which was ironic because her little sister was the one responsible for making her weapon along side the dust shells.
"can we start again, I think we started on the wrong foot, hey I'm Ruby Rose nice to meet you" Ruby extended a hand, to her surprise the girl took it.
"I won't say it was nice considering you blew me up, I'm Weiss schnee the heiress to the SDC" the girl, Weiss said proudly.
Ruby's eyes widen, " your family mines dust, awesome, thanks for your work in the mines" Ruby's genuine word left Weiss a little surprised.
"we don't actually go to the mines,we hire people to do that" Weiss look at ruby with confused look.
"You mean you hire underpaid faunus right" someone in the crowd said, Weiss looked left and right, but couldn't find anyone.
Before she could demand who said it the headmaster of Beacon walked on stage and started his speech.
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Jaune felt comfortable with his pajamas, but not so much with the looks everyone was giving him.
Jaune was in a large room with all the future first year students of Beacon , they didn't get there dorms yet, they'll get them after Initiation and team slections.
His parents didn't tell him how the teams get formed, saying something about tradition and stuff like that.
Jaune didn't care that much, the important think that he and his teammates got along well and became friends, like ruby and hopefully yang when I tell her how awesome her mom is.
Jaune looked for them, In a room full of boys and girl, spotting another blonde was easy with training finding his sisters in the mall.
Approaching yang and ruby, noticing Ruby's fail attempt at making friends which he felt sympathy for the poor girl.
But before her could reach them, orange hair girl knocked him to the ground.
"Nora" a black hair dude with little pink in his hair and pink eyes said, he looked at jaune with apologetic smile.
"I'm sorry for my partner, she got excited after seeing what you're wearing" the man said with a little chuckle and an amusing smile, jaune face went white.
"wait, partner?, where they already selecting, I didn't get one, I need to tell the teachers, I can't join a team alone, I got t-" the orange hair girl caught his arm with a smile.
"Relax a little bunny, they didn't Assignee partners yet, me and Renny are just BBF, we travel together which make us the best partners ever, I been telling him all day we need a secret way to find each other to get together in Initiation, not together together just together you know" she said so fast her barely understood the important part.
"thank God, I thought I missed it, thank you, now can I ask why you jumped me?" jaune asked the girl, she finally realized she been hugging him for the entirety of the conversation.
"Oops, sorry, right I was gonna ask you where did you get this awesome totally cute pajamas, I want one for me and Renny, and I want them to be matching pair" the girl demanded more than asked, he looked for the guy for explanation but he surrender her to him.
"W- Well, my sisters made it for me, as parting gift for coming to Beacon" he said a little embarrassed.
"Oh, it must be nice having siblings, but Renny is enough, also if we get on the same team you totally need to tell your sisters to make the whole team matching ones, it will be awesome" jaune decided that this girl was too much, and he loved her energy.
"I'm sorry for Nora, she gets excited meeting new people, I'm Lie Ren by the way, and she's Nora Valkyrie" the guy, Lie introduced himself and his partner, who was busy inspecting his pajamas.
"Nice to meet you Lie, I'm jaune Arc" jaune said with a smile.
" actually it just Re-" Ren was cutoff by Nora.
"Actually He prefer going with Ren, right Renny, anyway we should totally be one the same team, not because I want the pajamas but because you look like a cool guy, but I'm still partnering up with Renny" Nora said, Ren didn't bother saying anything, he just smiled his way.
"Well I have no problem with that, I'm sure we'll make a good team" jaune said giving Nora a smile, and Nora was just too happy to return it.
" How about we discuss this in the morning after breakfast, we need to get some sleep" Ren suggested, and it was a good one.
Jaune and Nora agreed and planned to meet up in the morning but now was the time for sleep.
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Jaune woke up with a sense of dread in the air, probably because everyone was worried about the exam, same as him.
he went to the cafeteria which let him meet 4 second year who unwillingly got assigned to show the first years where everything is, the faunus one looked nervous but friendly enough, I mean she was a rabbit, her ears looked cute.
Jaune sat down with his food, he woke up a little early because of the nervousness, and now he was sat alone.
About 5 minutes later a missile hit him in the left arm, the missile looked orange and the launcher was green and black.
Ren and Nora sat next to him eating pancakes, Nora was telling Ren how they could find each other using some wired sound, jaune found the idea interesting.
"so you have anyone in mine as a partner?" Nora asked jaune, as she devoured the pancakes.
"Not really, I made a friend on the first day so she'll be nice, other than that I have no idea" which was bad, his uncles and father stressed to him the importance of informations, but he had no idea what personality everyone here had.
Ren and Nora where good, Carefree, and easy to talk to, it would be great to be on the same team as them.
"you don't need to worry to much, i'm sure you find a good partner" Ran said with a smile, the man looked calm, someone had to with someone like Nora around.
After they finshed eating, they went to the lockers where jaune stayed behind looking for his.
"I just had to lost the number of My locker" Jaune was trying his new scroll on each locker to see which one was his.
When he finally found it, he saw two girls, one took "white is my personality" too seriously and the other was a beautiful girl with red hair and green eyes just like his mother.
Jaune took a long breath and walked towards them to make friendly conversation, they were talking about teams.
"Hello ladies, could but overhear you two talking about teams, I wanted to come over and give one of you an Opportunity to team up with the future top student of Beacon" jaune said, bluffing almost half of what he said.
He was strong but not that strong, he was sure people have advantages over him, like Weiss schnee, the girl in white.
With her money, she could get anyone to train her, and the schnne semblance is one of the most versatile semblance out there, he didn't know the other girl, but the fact Weiss schnee went to talk to her spoke value of her strength.
" excuse me, do you know who you're talking to?" she asked with a mocking tone.
"I have no clue white angel, but I would love to know" jaune said, his father always said the most important thing was confident, and he was, on his fighting skills not flirting.
"W- What, do you live under a rock or something" Weiss huffed, " you're in front of the Heiress to the biggest dust company on Remnant Weiss schnee , and this here is Mistral 4 times wining champion Pyrrha Nikos" Weiss explained.
Jaune nodded in agreement, the Pyrrha girl gave him a polite smile, but her expiration changed when he didn't recognize the name.
"Oh cool, so your family company is in competition with the SDC, although the SDC are reliable, I can try smaller companies" he told Weiss and turned to pyrrha extending a hand, "nice to meet you Pyrrha, winning 4 tournament is a sign that you're capable fighter I would love to have a spar with you later after this" Pyrrha looked shocked and relieved, but Weiss was the opposite.
"I am the SDC, it's in the name, Schnee Dust Company" she waited for jaune reaction and he gave her an Exaggerated shocked face.
Unfortunately that left him frozen in place with her rapier, he wasn't the type to bite people or do something like that, but he had to test what Qrow told him.
Unlike aunt Raven, who show up anytime she want and too often, Qrow, her brother, rarely show if ever, last time he saw him he was drunk with Aunt Raven.
And when saw jaune he started throwing stories about his adventures and about meeting one of the schnee family members.
Jaune was shocked, the SDC is a big thing, and to meet someone who owned it was a big thing.
Not for Qrow though, he told him that schnees give the best reaction, just pretend you didn't know them and they'll go in fire, somehow his words got him the opposite reaction.
"Hopefully i can team up with Pyrrha at less, she looked polite enough, but I won't mind Weiss too, she's beautiful, and i can clear the air after my bad joke" jaune thought while his cheeks heating up.
Removing the ice, or more like yang and ruby who been absorbing his interaction with the two girls, helped melt/break him out.
"Way to go lover boy, I think your word had the opposite effect" yang said with a teasing smile, "yeah I figured, thanks for un-icing me" .
"No problem, but we need hurry because they start without us" ruby said, they all hurried out to where miss goodwitch was waiting for them.
"Alright let's go" jaune said giving himself more confident for what to come.
Well that's the end of this chapter, next one is gonna be about the launch until the team naming, I may or may jot change the teams.
About the grammar mistakes, I'll try my best to limit them because I have no clue what beta reader is.
On a different note, jaune calls Bart Roman and Raven uncles and aunt, while Qrow is just that, he barely even knows him, he's just Raven brother.
And he doesn't know about Tai and Summer, the same way Ruby and Yang don't know about team JNBR, although if they look at who was the best men in there father wedding they'll be surprised.
Anyway see you next time