(Author's Note: Hello my readers and welcome to the newest installment of "Poly JNPR".

Not too much to say up here, except...hope you guys enjoy:)

"BANZAIIIIIIII!" Leaping through the air, Nora brought down Magnhild onto Jaune's shield, causing the blonde boy's bones to practically rattle in response. With his Aura-Enhanced strength, Jaune pushed Nora away from him. The moment her feet hit the ground, Jaune ran to meet her.

He was stopped, however, by Pyrrha, who shot forth from the side and deflected Jaune's sword with her own blade. The two shared a glare over their swords…but Pyrrha smirked, confusing Jaune. Just then, his eyes caught something that made the orbs in question widen.

Pyrrha's hand was glowing a dark black. Hearing a sound behind him, Jaune turned his head and saw Akoúo̱ shooting toward him…only for a green blur to suddenly knock it away.

Said blur was one Lie Ren, who had his feet against the wall before shooting toward Pyrrha like a bullet at the SAME moment that Jaune pushed her away (taking advantage of her moment of distraction). Pyrrha quickly blocked the blades from Ren's guns before falling back and kicking her legs into Ren's stomach as she shot herself back to her feet.

Just as Ren had "steadied" himself…he had to put his reflexes (easily the best of JNPR) to the test to avoid a hammer strike, courtesy of Nora. Ren jumped into the air as he fired shot after shot from StormFlower, prompting Nora to run across the battlefield to avoid them (a chaotic grin on her face).

Pyrrha had shifted Miló into its Javelin form and promptly pulled Jaune's legs out from under him with its end (trying not to laugh at the little yelp that slipped from his lips). Using her Semblance, she summoned Akoúo̱ back to her hand before throwing it down toward Jaune. Her leader was quick to deflect her shield with his own just before knocking it away and swinging his sword to gain ground. Pyrrha back flipped to put distance between the two of them before, with a simple flick of her wrist, shifting Miló into its rifle form. Jaune held his shield before him, running forward as bullets slammed against the metal. Pyrrha leaped over Jaune's sword slash before landing a kick against his back.

Nora spun through the air and brought Magnhild down on Ren, who promptly ducked to the side to avoid the attack. As he fired off StormFlower, Nora twirled her hammer as quickly as possible to deflect the bullets (actively succeeding in protecting herself from Ren's attack). With a maniac grin and a…psychotic look in her eyes, Nora promptly shifted Magnhild into its grenade form. So consumed was she by the battle that she didn't notice the way Ren's eyes widened as she pressed on the weapon's trigger. Ren flipped to the side to avoid the first grenade before ducking down from the second one. Pushing all of his Aura into his legs, Ren was little more than a green blur as he raced forward and knocked Magnhild from Nora's grip with a particularly powerful palm strike.

"Nora!" Ren called out, shocking Nora out of her "battle mind and gaining the attention of their teammates (who had looked over when they heard the explosions), "I THOUGHT that we had agreed to no grenades during this spar." Nora's eyes promptly widened before she dropped her head, pressing the tips of her index fingers together.

"Sorry?"

"You know-," Jaune spoke up as he and Pyrrha began walking toward them, "-simply being able to say "Sorry" doesn't justify you still doing the thing you weren't supposed to do."

"I KNOOOOOW!" Nora replied, moving to drape her arms around Jaune's shoulders as her legs went all but limp, "But…I just got REALLY into the spar! My bones shaking and my blood rushing…it's all so EXCITING!"

"That may be so-," Pyrrha spoke up, running a hand through Nora's hair, "-but there was a reason we said no grenades. This was supposed to be light spar, not one to go all-out on." Nora crossed her arms and puffed out her cheeks, slamming her head against Jaune.

"I said I was sorry," she spoke, her voice muffled by his chest.

"Well then-," Jaune clapped, "-regardless, you broke the rules of the spar. Meaning that Ren and I won."

"Excuse me?" Pyrrha responded, hand on her hip and an eyebrow raised, "That's going a bit far, I think."

"I don't think so," Jaune shrugged, "The spar had rules, which Nora broke. Therefore, you guys are disqualified from our competition."

"It kind of sounds like you're just QUITTING because you're afraid of a little extra challenge," Nora replied, quickly standing next to Pyrrha with a nod and crossed arms.

"Sounding more right to me by the minute." Jaune's eyebrow twitched at Pyrrha's words (and the smirk on her face).

"Oh? Is THAT what you two believe?" The only response that both girls gave was a pair of cocky smirks that got under his skin SO badly. "Alright then…you know what? Fine. If that's how you wanna play it, fine. We'll do an all-out spar, but it'll be double or nothing!"

Pyrrha raised an eyebrow, "Really?"

Nora giggled, "Well Pyrrha, I, for one, can't WAIT to spend the next TWO weeks having our every need taken care of by our boys!" The members of JNPR had decided on a "two v two" sparring session: boys against girls. And the losers had to wait on the winners' hand and foot for a week (to "spice things up", according to Nora).

Well…two weeks now.

"Don't get cocky," Jaune shot back, "You've still gotta beat us first!"

Ren grabbed ahold of Jaune's shoulder to pull him in, "You do realize that they were just manipulating you, right?" But Jaune just shook his head.

"Doesn't matter as long as we win." Ren couldn't help but sigh. How could someone be so smart, yet so gullible at the same time?

One thing that Ren knew for certain? Jaune was DEFINITELY going to be doing the Ursa's share of the work for the next two weeks when they lose (1).

(Author's Note: Annnnnnnnnnd scene!

(1): I believe that Pyrrha is the most skilled/experienced member of JNPR while Nora is the strongest. And I don't think it would be crazy for others in Beacon (i.e., Ren) would have similar beliefs.

I WILL say, however, that I do believe that Jaune would be the most powerful member of JNPR if he were allowed to achieve his full potential with his Semblance. CRWBY limiting him to just being "Support" SEVERELY undercuts his capabilities. His Semblance is specifically "Aura Amplification": meaning that he can enhance the effects of his Aura and others. CRWBY seems to have forgotten that Aura is the reason that people have superhuman speed, strength, durability, senses, and healing. And that Jaune can use his Semblance on himself when his Aura lowers, and his Aura should continue to feed into his Semblance and vice versa.

Full transparency? If they let Jaune reach his full potential, he'd be the most powerful main character by far:/

-So, yep…back to Poly JNPR! I'm not sure how much longer this series will be, but there are a few more ideas that I want to do.

A bit on the short side today. Interestingly enough, I didn't realize until I finished that this was the very first installment that didn't mention (either in character dialogue or the "Omnipresent POV") JNPR's relationship. This could probably exist as an entirely separate story where they're just friends.

Just to clarify, however, this installment DOES occur during their romantic relationship. If anything in this series is set before they became a polyamorous couple, I will make sure that it's clear.

Fun fact: originally, the next installment was going to be the series' first lemon. Why did I decide against it? Because I was writing the lemon scene out to be more of a "normal" scene, but I then thought that it wasn't as "emotional" as it should have been. Regular relationships can be complicated and emotional when it comes to "being together", so that should be even MORE intense when you literally double the number of people. I'm considering doing JNPR's first time together specifically, which would need a lot more time and planning to make it out to be as good as I can make it.

In the meantime, feel free to let me know if you have any ideas that you'd like to see in the series.

Constructive Criticism ONLY…no flames allowed.

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