Pant*.
His lungs were on fire and his muscles ached in ways he never imagined. When his mother said she was going to tell his master to up the ante of his training, she wasn't kidding. Jaune felt his muscles spasm as he relaxed on the hard ground. The days training had been especially brutal, with learning a new weapon - and getting pummeled by it - he came to appreciate the vast knowledge his master had in the fighting arts.
The weapon of the week was a chain with a knife at one of it's ends. He'd never seen it before but now he felt just how dangerous it could be when he tried to defend himself against it. Remembering how the chain wrapped around his leg and how before he knew it he'd become airborne before slamming into the dirt made him flinch.
While he continued to stare up at the night sky a figure blocked his line of sight. "You look like beowolf crap" said the resident brunette. Jaune rolled his eyes at the girl "vernal you know grimm don't defecate".
This time it was the brunettes turn to roll her eye's at the blonde "nice word" she commented before sitting down next to him. Without warning she fell over on her side and right on top of him with her elbow. Jaunes aura wasn't activated so he took the pain like any ordinary person would in his position.
After the elbow dug into his gut which forced a grunt from the blonde, vernal fell backwards and rested her head on his chest while she stared up into the night sky. They both laid there in silence for a few minutes before the brunette spoke "have you thought of a team name like salem asked"?
He had been thinking it over and he couldn't help but feel that this one name felt the most appropriate for them at the moment. "Avarice or team AVC sounds like a good one" he said casually. Vernal hummed her approval before asking "why that name"? Jaunes answer was simple "cause all three of us are greedy".
The brunette raised a brow "all of us are greedy huh"?
Jaune nodded "we all want power for our goals and we're willing to do anything to get it...even kill if necessary. I want it to protect my mother because even if she's immortal she can still feel pain just like the rest of us. Cinder wants power for recognition since she feels that everyone is just taking pity on her and doesn't believe she'll amount to much".
Vernal turned her head to look up at his face but only saw the under side of his chin. "And what am I greedy for" she asked since jaune seemed to have given this all a great amount of thought. The blonde was quite for a moment before he spoke "you want power so you can set out to recover the memories you lost".
Vernal stiffened at his side "how did you find out"?
"I didn't. I just guessed since it was something I would want if I lost my memories" he answered honestly.
They both went silent as they stared up at the sky, lost in thought. "If I do get my memories back, aren't you worried I might leave to be with my family"?
"I am" he answered "but does getting your memories back mean all that we've done together doesn't matter"? Vernal chuckled "I suppose not".
"What are you two doing out here? Salems summoning us for dinner already" .
Jaune and vernal looked over to see cinder with a hand on her hip and a frown on her face. The two wasted no time in pushing themselves up and on to there feet. "Keep you panties on we're going" vernal growled only for cinder to cut her path off. The raven haired girl leveled a finger at the brunette "first a shower and some clean clothes, you both are filthy".
Vernal looked down at the finger in front of her face before doing the only thing that came to mind...biting it. Cinder yelped before jumping back and pulling her finger free in the process. "We're going princess" vernal chuckled as she and jaune walked passed their third teammate. All cinder could do was glare at their retreating forms as she massaged her finger.