Chapter 37: Trust

After that night the team was kind of on edge. Nora and Ren asked what had happend, but Pyrrha just told them it was nothing. When they turned to me, I just told them what had happened, not everything but the most important parts. At the expense of Pyrrha hitting me on the head.

"You think he will eventually accept you guy's offer?" Ren asked us.

"Maybe, but for right now. Let's not push the subject on him, he still needs to accept the info that we gave him. I'm sure he will come around." Might or might not that was the real question. And after what he told us. He is really going to need all the help he can get.

"Don't worry we won't bring it up then."

"Yeah! And if he doesn't accept, I just hit him a few times until he wants our help."

"Nora..."

I turned to face Pyrrha and saw her on her bed getting ready to sleep, she looked so down for trying to help him and yet he didn't want any help.

Jaune thinks he can do this all by himself with no experience and no knowledge of anything that he will face. At any point, he could die. The fact that he made it past initiation is no shot of a miracle and yet he still took on a few Grimm in the forest.

Dumb luck or some type of miracle. Whatever the case is for him, he is going to need a lot of help.

"So what will you guys do now?" Ren asked me.

"We will give him a few days to cool off, and ask him again."

"And if he declines?"

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"I'll make him see reason."


This was something I was never going to expect from him.

Across from me, I saw Jaune sitting next to Cardin and his team. They were all standing around him as Jaune was working on a paper on hand. I turned my head to see the others' reactions and saw Ren with wide eyes, Nora with an open mouth, and Pyrrha with an upset face. I also saw team RWBY reactions as well, let's just say two of them cared enough to worry but the other two really didn't bother to notice.

"Soooo, is Vomit boy alright?" Yang asked.

"At this point, I have no words for what I'm seeing." I said out loud.

"For the most part he is just sitting with them, I'm sure there is nothing going on." Ruby told the group.

"I'm going to go ask." Pyrrha said as she got up but I quickly grabbed her arm stopping her.

"And do what exactly. For what it's worth they are not toying with him or making fun of him, he is just sitting with them. And If you go there you might make things worse." I saw her look back at me and I stood my ground at her. She eventually nods and sits back down.

"What do you think happend?" Nora asked.

"Don't know, but." I looked back in Jaune's direction and saw him hand the paper he was working on to Cardin. "I just hope he doesn't do anything dumb."

As the day went on Jaune was stuck next to Cardin the whole day. As we got our assignments Cardin just gave his books to Jaune and he in return began what I was assuming was his and Cardin's work. I confirmed it once we got to Doctor Oobleck's class and saw Cardin gave a paper that Jaune gave him to the Professor. As the class continued we were all met with a project that made work with the person next to us. And low and behold Jaune's partner for that was Cardin. As Jaune work his ass off Cardin was mostly goofing off. Man, whatever he has on Jaune, is really doing a number on him.

"Seth?" I turned my head and saw the girl with rabbit ears looking at me with confusion.

"Sorry, Velvet just zoned out." I apologize to her as I continue to work.

"Is it about your teammate?" She asked as she pointed in the direction of Jaune and Cardin.

"Well... You can say that... I just don't get it." I said as I continued to look at my book.

"Well, I'm sure whatever he got himself in, he can get himself out of. All it takes is-."

"What? No, I mean the problem, I don't get it." I turned to her and showed her what I was struggling with.

"Oh, here." She begins to help me out and soon I begin to get it, after a few seconds I turn to her.

"I'm sure he can. So we just need to trust him for now. If he got himself into it. I'm sure he can't figure a way out."

"Hmm, thank you." Velvet told me but that just confused me more.

"For what? You're the one who is helping me here. I should be thanking you."

She shakes her head and smiles. "Don't mention it."

Huh? Well, whatever the reason is at least she's a very nice person. A second-year but still a nice person. Usually, all of the second years annoy the first years. But Velvet at least was nice enough.

As the class ended we all gave our assignments to Doctor Oobleck and there I saw Jaune tired from all of the work he did, while Cardin was just laughing with the rest of his team.

Sigh... God damn it Jaune.

As everyone went to their final class of the day. Jaune still continues to be next to Cardin. However, Cardin soon whispered into Jaune's ear and then began to walk next to us again.

"Anything you wish to say to the class Jaune?"

"Nothing at all. But hey Seth. You think you can be my partner today for Combat class?"

That got me to raise my eyebrow at that. Usually on Fridays now, we all do team fights and Jaune always partners up with Pyrrha. But now he is asking me to be his partner. I turned my head to see Pyrrha's reaction and saw her nod her head and mouth 'Talk to him.' From what I could tell.

I turn back to Jaune and nod. "Sure man, no problem."

"Thanks," He tells me without looking at me.

Yeah, something was wrong about this... And I did not feel happy about it.

As we took our seats Miss Goodwitch began her class. "Now students today is Friday and as always we will be participating in team fights, will anyone like to go first?" The whole class we saw teams fight against eachother, we did see Ruby and Weiss work together to get their win and we also saw Ren and Nora fight. It was getting to the end of class and I wondered if Juane wanted to even fight today.

"Now class we have enough time for one more match. Would anyone like to partake?"

I saw in the corner of my eyes Jaune raised his hand up. "I would like to fight."

"Very well Mister Arc, now I believe your partner will be-"

"Seth. My partner will be Seth this time."

To Miss Goodwitch's surprise, she looked at me and I just shrugged my shoulders. "Very well. Now who would like to be their opponents?"

"We will."

And like that, I just knew this was not going to be a good time.


Putting my combat gear on I turn to See Jaune taking his time putting his on.

"So, You and Cardin huh? Honestly never saw this one coming."

"We had a talk and I'm getting to know him."

"Does that include you doing his work? Jaune what's up?"

"Nothing it just... I'm, trying to get on his good side, that's all."

The amount of BS that was coming out of his mouth was really making me uneasy.

"Dude if you need help, we can-."

"Seth... Just drop it. I got this. I need to do this on my own."

"I get that, but if you can't do it. Then we will all suffer for it." I grab my weapon from my locker and place it on my back. I close the door and begin to walk outside. "You got friends, man. Don't start pushing them away." With those final words, I leave.

Meanwhile, Jaune just puts on his armor, grabs his sword, and places it on his side. Sigh..." I know." Jaune mouth to himself.

"Hey, Buddy!" Cardin slaps Jaune back making him stumble a bit. " So this is how it's going to work."

Jaune gulps at hearing Cardin's plan.

Back in the ring, Seth began to stretch his body while waiting for his teammate and opponent.

'Okay so let me think here. Cardin is the heavy hitter of the team, but he's slow in those regards. Dodging him will be easy enough. Russel on the other hand has speed on his side, but he doesn't look like he can hit hard. So speed and strength. Feels like I'm going to do double duty for this but if Jaune can at least hold one-off, I can deal with my opponent fast.'

As I finish my stretching I see Cardin and Russel walk out and enter the ring. Soon Jaune follows behind them and begins to stand next to me.

"You ready?"

He nods his head but doesn't say anything.

"Okay, so who do you want? Russel or Cardin?"

"I'll take Russel, you get Cardin."

I nod my head and turn to face our opponents. Miss Goodwitch steps inside the ring and tells us the rules. "Now remember students. As a team, you must always have each other's backs and the moment one of your Aura drops to fifteen percent then that person is out and the remaining fighter can continue or surrender. Are we clear?" We all nod our heads. "Very well, get into positions."

I take my weapon off my back and take aim, while Jaune takes his sword out and raises his shield. Meanwhile Cardin and Russel both stand there smirking at us as they also take out their weapons and prepare for the fight.

The buzzer rang and the fight was on.

Opening Fire at the two, Russel quickly tries to flank while Cardin begins to move forward towards us. "Deal with Russle, I got this." I flip my weapon and rush him.

Meanwhile, Jaune just looked at Russel seeing him get close and raise his shield. As both weapons clash with each other, Russel begins to speak to Jaune.

As Cardin tried to land a solid hit on me. I was able to get behind him and send a kick to his back making him stumble a bit. Turning his body he takes another swing at me and I dodge right in time. Only for his mace to crack the floor of where I was standing.

Turning my head to look at Jaune, I see him getting pushed to the edge of the ring by Russel.

'He's going to get sent out.' Dodging once again Cardin's swing I kicked him on his legs making him take a knee, I then aimed Favillae at Russel and took the shot, while also blocking Cardin's follow-up attack. Russel a pound hearing the gunshot turned and quickly dodged the shot. While Jaune's shield took the impact of the fire making him stumble down to the ground. As Jaune looked back up he saw Russel running at him and with a kick, sent Jaune out of the ring eliminating him from the match.

A buzzer was heard, and I turned to see Jaune out of the ring and down to the floor.

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"Fuck."

"Mister Arc is eliminated from the match. Mister Sapphire, do you wish to continue to fight?" I heard Miss Goodwitch's voice but all of my attention was on Jaune who was still on the ground not even looking at me.

"Mister Sapphire!" I turned to see my opponents and saw Cardin and Russel both with a smirk on their faces.

"I'll keep on fighting." I turned to face them as I began to split my weapon apart.

"Please there is no way you can beat us." Russel taunted me as he raised one of his daggers at me. "Just give up now and save the embarrassment."

"It's fine, I guess we just need to beat him, so he knows his place." Cardin soon said as he placed his mace around his shoulder. "Let's just take our time here."

I raise Favillae and aim it at them. "No more words, just shut the fuck up and hit me."

"Language, Mister Sapphire. Very well you may continue."

I tap my heart and begin to rush the two.

Endeverafter - No More Words

As I got close to both of them I began to open fire and saw Cardin block all of the shot with his Mace. Soon Russel charged at me and we both crashed weapons.

As Russel tried to attack me, I just blocked every attack he sent. After a few seconds, he backs away letting Cardin swing his Mace to my side. Seeing him get close to me I aim my weapon at him and shoot once making him block the shot and soon I deliver attacks with my sword. He began to block my strike and tried to throw a punch once he blocked another one.

As I saw the punch get close to me from my left side I saw Russel also charge at me and aimed his dagger to my side. With no way to block both attacks. I jump and fire my weapon. Giving me enough momentum to make Cardin miss his punch and let me kick him in his face. As for Russel, I blocked his attack with my sword and as I landed on the floor I swept his legs making him drop and send another kick to his face.

Kickflipping myself up I aimed Favillae at Russel's down body and was about to shoot. However, Cardin swung his Mace at me making me block with my sword and sending me away from them.

Landing on the ground I roll for a bit and get back up. Seeing Russel also get back up he charges at me, but this time he jumps and turns into a ball heading straigt my way. As I prepare for impact he delivers a kick toward me making me block with my weapons and soon we continue to clash with each other.

He tried his best to land hits on me but each time I was able to just block or parry his attacks. Soon he started to flip around me trying to distract me. However, I knew what he was planning, turning around I saw Cardin raise his Mace and swung down at me. I dove toward him, nearly missing his strike. It was a good thing because once his Mace made contact with the floor it exploded and made a huge crack on the ground.

As Cardin turned to face me I was already on him. Jumping at him and kneeing him on his chin making him stumble back from the impact. Turning my attention back to Russel, I see him swing his daggers at me and with some more blocks, I parry one of his strikes with my sword and knee him hard in the stomach, making him drop on his knees and was about to fall to the ground. However, I grab him by his mohawk and pick him back up while aiming Favillae at his stomach.

"Please don't." He begged.

"You'll live."

BANG!

The buzzer was heard and Russel was out of the match. I throw him to the side, away from Cardin and me.

Turning to face Cardin I see him angry and beginning to run at me, swinging his Mace around like a novice who knew, he was about to lose.

"Stay still you asshole!" He yells at me.

But I simply smile at him and raise my weapons to block his Mace. He looks at me with so much anger and I just look at him with disappointment, that I don't even joke.

I raise my knee to his stomach making him drop his Mace and take a step back to hold his stomach. Soon I drop my weapons, as he raises his head and is met with a punch to the face. He continued to back away as I kept walking toward him.

"Time has come and gone for words" I begin to speak as I get close to him.

He sees me walking toward him and throws another punch my way. With me avoiding it and sending a counterpunch toward his stomach.

"A thousand threats I've heard before" As I get close to him I feel the wind around me begin to pick up. Seeing this Cardin once again throws a punch and I spun around him making him miss and grab him by the back of his Armor.

"But words are cheap" I bring him close to me and elbow the back of his neck making him go down face-first to the ground.

"But lies are big to take" With those final words I slammed my foot on the back of his head with wind and made him create a new crater in the ring.

The buzzer rang and the match was over.


Looking down at the body, I tap my heart to stop the music and go to pick up my weapons. I looked around to see Jaune still standing where he was eliminated and began to walk toward him. I saw him gulp as he tried to speak to me but I was not hearing it, nor hearing what Miss Goodwitch was saying.

I jump off the ring and get right on his face. He was expecting me to throw a punch at him, but I didn't. I just look at him straight in the eyes. "Never again."

With those words, I pushed past him and began to leave once the bell rang. I want to go to Vale.

I'm going for a walk.

Up in the stance the two teams looked at Seth began to walk out of class and all turned to the rest of team JNPRS.

"What was that all about?" Yang said as she turned to see team JNPRS begin to follow Pyrrha out.

"Don't know, but from what we saw. Seth is not happy with Jaune. Especially since he was forced to deal with those two." Blake said as she continued to watch the rest of team CRDL help their team up.

"Hmp, whatever the case is, it's not our problem." Weiss said as she got up and began to walk back to her room. While the rest of team RWBY follows suit. Ruby just kept staring at Jaune just having his head down.

As Seth continued to walk toward the docks to take an Airship to Vale he began to think of what might have happened. 'So Cardin must have told Jaune to have me as a partner to make the match a two-on-one. So whatever dirt Cardin has on Jaune is making him do shit that he doesn't want. God damn it Jaune. All you had to do is agree with us and you would not deal with any of this. And now you are getting dragged around by him and his team.'

"Ah, Mister Sapphire, just the person I wanted to see." I raised my head and saw the headmaster infront of me.

"Oh, hi sir. ugh, Do you need something?"

"Quite the different. I wish to have a word with you. If you can follow me we can have this discussion." The headmaster then turned and began to walk.

'Oh, great. I hope I didn't do something wrong.' I began to follow him but then I heard someone calling my name.

"Seth!" Turning my head I see Ren, Nora, and Pyrrha running towards me.

"Hey, guys."

"Are you alright?" "Is everything alright?" "Seth! That was awesome!"

I smile at this and begin to rub my neck. "Yeah, everything is alright. I just wanted to go for a walk. Down to Vale and clear my head, but.."

"Then let's go then!" "Yeah, we can all go."

"Actually guys-" I get cut off.

"I'm afraid Mister Sapphire has some business to attend to. My apologies, but I need to have a word with him." Behind me, I heard the headmaster tell the team and I just looked at them. "Yeah, I can't right now... If anything just go find Jaune. I feel like you guys left him behind." I told them and saw that they didn't feel comfortable about it.

Sigh..." Look guys it's fine, I might have a clue as to what is happening. So for now try to be there for him. He is going to need it." I tell them as I turn my back and begin to follow the headmaster again. "I'll see you guys later!" I waved to them and could hear them all say goodbye.

"Is there something wrong with your team?"

"Just team drama. I feel like everyone gets those moments."

"Hm. They do indeed." The headmaster agrees to this.

As I followed the headmaster to an unknown location I began to feel like someone was watching me. Don't know why but it felt like every time I turn my head I felt the wind change. Is that weird? Or am I weird to say this?

"Something wrong?" The headmaster asked.

"You ever get the feeling that you are being watched?" I asked him as we entered a new building.

"All the time, being the headmaster of this school, everyone tends to watch my every move. What about you? What makes you so special?"

I shrug my shoulders. "I'm just an average guy. With an average life." I wanted to continue but... Aw, fuck it. "I work from nine to five. Hey, hell I paid the price."

"Hmm, I wouldn't consider school to be a job." The headmaster said as he pressed a button and a door opened up.

'Is this an elevator?'

"To each their own." We enter it and the elevator begins to move up. Weird not gonna lie I zoned out when we entered. I have no idea where I'm at, but I could tell I was heading up to something.

As the elevator doors open, the headmaster looks at me. "Please. Go right ahead." He motions with his cup and I enter the room. I swear that cup of his, is like glue to him.

Entering the room I am greeted by...

A destroyed office... With the roof missing, gears everywhere, and a giant creature heading our way.

I back away and close my eyes while holding my head in pain.

"Is everything alright?" I open my eyes and see a normal office. Looking around I tried to control my breathing to keep it as calm as possible.

"Nothing... Just... Headaches." I tell him.

"Hmm, would you like something to drink?" The headmaster asked as he began to sit down in his chair.

"No, I'm alright." I walk toward him and see him gesture to a seat. I take a seat and look at him with confusion. "Soooo, why am I here again?"

"I wish to play a game."

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You can not be this lonely. To ask a student to play a game.

"Depending on your game, is going to depend on my reaction."

"Chess."

'Fuck.' I am so screwed.

I then see this man reach under his desk and pull out a chessboard with everything set and place it on the table infront of us.

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How did he do that? And how did he pull it out from under the table? The table is GLASS! I didn't see anything down there!?

"So do you always keep a chessboard down there? Or..."

"I then too have one on hand for when I wish to talk to someone. Black or White?"

"It doesn't matter." Apparently, I was the White Piece and the game began.

"So tell me how has school been so far?" The headmaster tells me as he makes the first move.

"Well for the most part the classes have been okay, the teachers do tend to be nice, and my classmates are a mixed bag of everything." I tell him as I begin to move my own pieces.

"Hmm, that's good, any teachers that you are enjoying?"

"Well, Professor Peach is nice even though she tends to talk about her plants and try to experiment on them. Professor Heisenberg is good with Dust even when he blows himself up from time to time. Professor Port just talks a lot about himself, like he's the main character. And Professor Oobleck. (Doctor)

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"He tends to do that a lot." The headmaster told me as if he actually heard that.

"Oh, so I'm not crazy. That's good to know, well I like his class more than the rest."

"That's good, what about Glynda?"

"Professor Goodwitch? I mean she is nice and all. Her classes are just combat-related and many of us do then to like it a lot. I think she is a nice person." I finish as I move the horse piece and take a pawn from him.

"Well, I'm glad that you are at least been having a good time here. Now tell me about your team so far, how have they been?" The headmaster asked another question as he took my horse.

"Well, for the most part, we all have been good. Up until now."

"Why is that?"

What should I say? Should I tell him about Jaune? If I do will they look into it and figure out that he faked his way here? Will he get arrested? What about the team, what will happend to us?

"Meh, just some disagreements and trust issues. Teams do have a lot of those." I tell him as I move a different piece.

"They sure do, not so long ago team RWBY was having their own problems as well. And yet somehow were able to overcome them."

He must be referring to Weiss and Ruby, yeah they did have their problems but yet somehow Weiss put that focus on me. Man, she must really hate me after that loss, cause all her anger went straigh for me and not Ruby.

"I'm sure we will. It just takes time." I move another piece to protect my queen.

"If I'm not mistaken. You and Miss Nikos know each other well?"

"Yeah... We went to Sanctum. We are also childhood friends."

"Sanctum? That's a long way from here is it not?"

"Yeah, it is but it was the only close thing to go to. I mean I lived in Argus for a long time and to be fair this is the farthest I've been from home."

"So you were born in Argus. A nice place to live then. Why not go to Atlas? Surely that school is the closest right?" The headmaster chimes at that.

"Um, no I was born in Mantle. I moved to Argus when I was five with my Mom. Also, I heard that Atlas tends to be the most strict school out of all of them so I really didn't need that in my life right now."

"Just your Mom?"

"Yep, just my Mom."

"I see... Tell me about her."

Something was telling me not to do that. For some strange reason, something was off when he asked that.

"Oh... Well, she's a semi-retire Huntress."

"What school did she attend?"

"Haven." I quickly tried to lose on purpose to end the match fast.

"Interesting. Checkmate."

The game was over and I tried to act all down. "Damn, I was so close to winning as well." I slum down in my chair.

"Do you wish for another round?"

"Hmm," I pulled out my scroll and saw that it was getting late. "Maybe next time. It's getting late and I really want to get something to eat. Also, I have school tomorrow. So I think I might need to go now."

"Very well Mister Sapphire. Thank you for having a game with me."

I get up from my chair and head to the elevator.

"Oh, one more thing that I wish to ask you."

Oh great, "Yeah?"

"I saw on your report that you tried to apply to Haven, but you didn't get accepted. Any reason why that is?"

Huh, that's strange to ask. "Well, they say that this year's initiative was full, and with a shortage of staff many people were not allowed to go."

"Hmm. I see well thank you, Mister Sapphire. I hope you continue with your school work and please remember that whatever your team is dealing with I'm sure you can overcome it. All you need is to trust eachother." With those final words, I entered the elevator and left this place.

I had a really bad feeling about his office. I thought to myself as I removed my sunglasses and wiped away the tears that I had.

'I hope I never go up here again.'


Making it back to my room, I open the door and step inside. There I am met with the rest of my team except for one. They raised their heads to see who entered and looked down.

"Damn, who died?"

They all look at me with upsetting looks, not liking what I just said. "My bad. Everyone looked so down when I entered. What happend."

Sigh..."Apparently, Jaune went with Cardin and his team again. We tried to talk to him, however, he just said that he was just hanging around them for the time being. Do you have any idea what he can mean by that?" Ren asked me.

"I do have a hypothesis. But I might need to check something tomorrow. It's Saturday so I'm guessing we might have the same thing that happend today, tomorrow. We should just get some rest." I said to them as I sat on my bed.

"Why did the Headmaster want to talk to you?"

"He just wanted to have a word with me, it's strange he made me play chess for some reason."

"Did you win?"

"Nah, I lost. Honestly, I knew I was going to lose, I like checkers better."

"Seth a word." I see Pyrrha stand up, walk toward the door of our room, and walk out. I turn to see the other's reaction and see them both confused as well.

"Welp... If I scream make sure to burn my scroll." I tell them as I stand up again.

"Wait why would we burn your-" Nora asked but Ren cuts her off.

"I understand." Ren nods at me and I nod back.

With that, I leave the room and see Pyrrha at the end of the hall. As I began to walk toward her, I saw a door open slightly and just let it be for now.

"What's up?" I asked.

"What happened back there?"

"Back where?"

"Combat class. I've seen you fight but this time... It was like you were..."

"Psychotic? Crazy? Angry? Insane, but not in a good way."

"Yes..."

It takes me a minute but eventually. "You ever feel like, you just want to punch something for no reason? Just straight out punch something."

"Sometimes, with fans and other stuff. Why?"

"Well... Okay, I'm going to be honest here. Cardin is an asshole, do I hate him? Yes. Do I wish him to suffer? Meh, kind of but I won't do it. So I just kind of didn't care. With what happend yesterday with Velvet-."

"Velvet? Our history classmate?"

"Yeah, her. Listen, I don't care if I get into trouble with the school or hell with everyone else. I'm used to it, always have been. But when I saw Cardin grab her by the ears. I just picture Marrow and what almost happend to him."

"You mean with his tail and the Dust?"

"Yeah, that. It didn't help that Jaune also went out fast. It kind of made me realize at that moment... I was alone again."

"But you are not alone here Seth."

"I know. I know that I have you, Ren, Nora, Yang, Ruby, hell even Blake."

"What about Weiss?"

"This ain't about her... Look the point is that I just let loose on some anger at them. But I feel better now."

"Hmm, okay. So what did you find out about Jaune then?"

"Well, I have a theory. That Cardin has some dirt on him and is using it to his advantage on Jaune."

"What do you think it is?"

"My guess, It's about what happend yesterday."

"You mean about his-" I cover her mouth fast and move my head toward team RWBY's room. She sees it slightly open and nods her head.

"Yeah, that. My guess is that somehow they must have overheard us talking."

"But how? We were on the roof. There was no way, unless..."

"Their room is right below the roof."

"Oh my god... This is my fault."

"It's not your fault. This was a group effort. This is my fault as well."

"So what should we do?"

"That is something that I don't know. Maybe get some dirt on him or his whole team. But whatever the case is, I know one thing."

"And that is?"

"They are going to gun for me now." Ahh, the memories. As I said that I could see behind Pyrrha someone else was eavesdropping on us.

With that, we both walk back to our room. As Pyrrha entered first I closed the door and turned to RWBY room. "You know it's bad to eavesdrop on people talking."

SLAM!

Tsk... What a shame. I turn back to the end of the hall. "That goes for you too Jaune."

At the end of the hall, Jaune turns the corner and begins to walk to the room. He doesn't look at me he just stops right next to me. "I'm sorry."

"Save it. Just be sure you know what you are doing, cause this is all on you now." I was about to open the door but stopped. "One more thing, make sure you don't drag our team down. You know why. Cause from now on, you don't have my trust." With that, I enter the room and close the door.

Leaving Jaune outside alone with his thoughts.


Omake: A Day in town

Today is a big day for us all! Today we are going down to Vale as a team. Just think of all the amazing things we can do here.

Like going to the arcades, seeing a movie, eating somewhere, or best of all learning more about each other. And what better way to start?

"Let's go get Pancakes!" Nora said as she dragged Ren to the nearest restaurant.

Leaving the three of us back all looking at where Nora went to. As we all follow Nora and enter the place We see them already sitting down and...

"How is she already eating? They just entered like twenty seconds ago?"

As we all sat down, we saw Nora devour her pancakes like they were running out of style while Ren just sat there eating his. We see him look at us and smile. "We come here a lot. So they already know her."

"They are the best!" Nora said as she kept on eating. Soon a lady walked to our table.

"Hello, you three are new here, What will you be having?" She asked nicely but I could tell she was dreading what we ordered.

"I'll have some eggs and bacon." Jaune said.

"I'll have the same." Pyrrha also said as I turned to her and saw her wearing her ridiculous disguise.

As the lady turned to me I said. "I'll take some Waffles."

Soon a knife gets sent flying my way that I had to dodge right on time. We all turned to the person who threw it and saw Nora's angry face.

"Heresy!" Nora said as she got up from her seat and dove towards me.

'What the hell!'

That was the worst breakfast I ever had.


After breakfast, we all decided to have some fun and go to the Arcade.

The moment we entered we saw all sorts of games and machines that we could play. Walking around I saw many games like, House of the Grimm, Fighters of Streets, Dance Dance Retribution, Dug Dig, and many crane machines.

The place wasn't as packed as we thought but we all still had an amazing time here.

However, I saw one game that really caught my eye. A game that was an all-time classic

"They have it here!" Seth rushed towards the game and put a quarter in the machine. The game starts and blocks begin to fall from the top of the screen.

"What game is this Seth?" Seth heard Pyrrha ask but I ignored her.

"Hello, Seth?" Pyrrha said but he kept ignoring her soon she waved a hand over my face but it didn't distract him. She moves to the side and reads the name.

"Tetris?" She watched the screen and saw me doing fairly well. That she rolls her eyes and leaves going to another machine.

After some time and everyone was ready to go They all looked at one another and wondered where was Seth. Pyrrha looking around saw Seth still on that machine playing.

"Seth it's time to go." Seth still ignored her and was getting upset. She soon grabbed his arm and dragged him from the game. With some restraint.

"NO! Please! I don't want to go!" Seth screamed as he was being dragged out.

"You played enough Seth, we need to go." Pyrrha said as she dragged Seth away with the help of the others.

"Noooooo! Let me Tetris some more!" No!" The team left the Arcade and promised each other that they would have to keep that game away from him in the future.


After a few hours of being in Vale, it was now getting dark out and as the team all left the store with the supplies in hand they all started to head back to Beacon. However, they were soon followed by a group and as they made it to a nice clearing the group made their move.

"Hey! You two! The redhead and the guy with sunglasses." We all heard someone yell behind us and as we turned we saw around ten guys all wearing the same suit and red tie.

"Aw shit these guys again."

"You know them?" Jaune asked.

"Pyrrha and I kind of did an oopsie daisy, the first day we were here in Vale."

"It's payback time for the mess you two created." One of the guys said as they began to walk towards us.

I looked at Pyrrha and smiled again as I pulled my weapon off my back. She rolled her eyes at me but still smiled as she pulled her weapon as well.

"Awesome we get to have fun today!" Nora said as she also brought out her weapon as well.

"Nora... Fire a warning shot at them." I say to her.

"You got it!" Nora cheerfully agrees and aims her weapon.

"Wait! Seth, you do know she has a grenade launcher right?" Ren said as he tried to stop the two.

"Ahh, Potato- Potato. Nora fire."

"WAIT!" Jaune soon steps in front of us and walks toward the group.

"I know you guys are mad at our friends and all but you really don't have to do this. We are just here to do some shopping and we are now on our way home. So let's not do anything drastic and we can all go home in peace." As he finished the group all looked at each other and looked back at Jaune.

"Nah!" They all went to attack Jaune but he raised his shield to block the attacks.

"Nora Fire!"

With no hesitation this time she sends out a few rounds of her launcher and catches Jaune in the process. As the pink smoke cleared, Jaune was still standing with his shield still up and looking at the group all on the ground in smoke.

"Woooo! Let's go! Fearless leader!" Nora said as she ran towards him and dragged him by his armor. We all began to run towards the airship to return to Beacon and ignore the rest of this crazy first trip to Vale.

But it was still a nice time.


A/N: Happy Turkey Day everyone I hope you have a wonderful day today.

If you don't celebrate it, then still hope you all have a wonderful day as well. See you all next week for a surprise guest making a return.

Bye!