Chapter 1:
Jaune's Pineapple Jam
"Do you think I will win the tournament?"
Winner of Round One: Jaune Arc!
"Eat fish, its brain food. Fish has all the answers"
Winner of Round Two: Jaune Arc!
"I was wondering, is there still room for Team Jaune? "She flashed her Hello Again smile
"You're nothing more than a training bot."
Your winner! Jaune Arc!
"Welcome to Beacon Academy."
Jaune Arc, fearless leader of Team JNPR, savior of Cardin Winchester as of yesterday, disciple of Pyrrha Nikos as of last night, and finally Champion of the Vytal Tournament based on his dream wakes up and snaps back to reality.
Reality is a hyper-active, orange-haired woman named Nora Valkyrie about to land on him. He screams nothing like a champion.
"Nora NO!". He panics, trying to protect his family jewels from possible annihilation.
"Fearless Leader! Let's go! Pancakes await us!". Nora replies, like the devourer of pancakes she is.
"Nora, don't disturb Jaune, we can go first and save Pyrrha and Jaune some seats."
Lie Ren, his savior, his brother from another mother, and partner of Nora Valkyrie catches her mid-air and protects his family jewels appears on the edges of his view.
"AWWWW, RENNY! I wanted to spend time with fearless leader." Nora replied with a pout, remembering the time Jaune was sticking with Cardin.
"He's probably tired, he and Pyrrha came back late last night." Ren added with a straight face, putting Nora down.
"But Pyrrha's already awake and ready to go, fearless leader should be too." Nora whined.
Pyrrha Nikos, his partner, his mentor, and savior of his bacon from Initiation by pinning him to a tree and unlocking his aura, walks out of the shower already dressed in their school uniform while tying her ponytail.
"Good morning Jaune, its not everyday you wake up later than usual." Pyrrha greeted them with her beautiful smile, her Hello again smile.
Beautiful smile? Since when? Am I really just noticing she has a beautiful smile?
"Good morning everyone. Just had a nice dream I guess." He greets them with a yawn and proceeds to the the bathroom to get ready for the day
"Go on ahead to breakfast guys, I'll be right behind you" He adds before getting inside the bathroom. Not hearing any of their replies
Looking at the mirror, he looks nothing like that guy that won the Vytal Festival singlehandedly and makes a speech welcoming initiates to Beacon. Strong, confident, and a smile expressing "I got this". Everything he isn't.
"Damn it, Jaune. It's just a dream, don't be jealous of your dream self... But it's probably not a bad idea to be like your dream self. Fake it till you make it and all that." All you need is confidence, thanks Dad, real helpful. Enough moping, time to start the day.
Pyrrha Nikos had a problem.
A serious problem in fact. The media would probably go crazy if they found out what the problem is.
You see, Pyrrha Nikos, four-time champion of the Mistral Regional Tournament, the face of Pumpkin Pete Cereal, and overall prime model of the ideal huntress-in-training has a crush. A crush, on her leader and partner Jaune Arc. Jaune who forged his way into beacon, the guy ranked last in Combat Class, the guy who was also kind enough to see her for who she really is, smart enough to make a plan on the fly to defeat a deathstalker during Initiation with people he only met the same day, with a heart of a hero if you would use the instance of him saving his bully as evidence.
You see how this could be a problem? If the media ever heard of this, they wouldn't see all his potential and hidden talent. They would only see him as the weakest of Beacon Academy, and that would lead them to investigating his past and history and it wouldn't be long until they notice that Jaune Arc forged his transcripts to get into Beacon. They would eat him up, destroy his reputation, and probably land him in prison.
So Pyrrha Nikos did indeed have a serious problem. Luckily, a solution just popped up. Last night, Jaune asked her for training. The solution came to her then, if the media will eat him up for being the weakest, then she just has to build him up into becoming one of the strongest. Thank Oum, Jaune works hard on their training. Granted, they only started on stances and maintaining balance with her trying to push him down and him trying to stay upright, but everyone has to start somewhere. Plus the training doesn't only benefit Jaune, she gets her own benefits from it as well. She gets to put her hands on him after all.
Weiss said he was tall, blond, and scraggly... Jokes on her, more like tall, blond and muscly.
That's how her teammates and friends from their sister team find her in the Cafeteria during breakfast. Daydreaming and blushing about the boy she put her hands on last night.
"Hey P-money! You haven't touched your food for awhile. Anything you wanna share?" Yang, their ever lovable and energetic blond friend, asks her from her side.
"OOOOHHHH, she's probably thinking about fearless leader. They got back later than usual last night." Nora replies across from her, throwing her own brand of harmless chaos to the mix while building a tower from pancakes.
"What?! The dolt better not have done anything inappropriate to you Pyrrha!" Weiss, the pissy white-haired ice queen, shouts from across Yang, as usual putting her partner down.
"Relax partner, Jaune's not like that. They were probably just talking. Do you really think Jaune would do something bad to Pyrrha?" Ruby, their friendly and genius junior, answers from beside her sister Yang while gathering all the cookies she has into a tower competing with Nora.
"He probably wouldn't be able to even if he wanted." Blake, the quiet and mysterious ravenette that completes Team RWBY, quips from across Ruby while reading her book and holding a tuna sandwich.
What is this? Bring my partner down day? Well, time to start setting things right.
"To answer your question Weiss, Jaune and I were just talking about what happened at Forever Fall. The Ursa Major was one of his first kills by himself." She answers them, defending her crush.
"That's right! He cut the Ursa Major's head clean off with a single swing. How did he do that? I didn't know he could do that." Ruby replies with amazement.
Muscles Ruby, he did it with his hard, sweaty muscles. She blushes at the thought, remembering how firm they were last night.
"Regardless, he shouldn't be sleeping so late and being late to breakfast. It sets a bad example as a leader." Weiss sniffs.
If our friends already think of him this way, ready to put him down, I really need to take his training seriously.
"Don't worry Weiss-cream, VB's already on his way here, see?" Yang points out
Just like what Yang said, her partner is already entering the Cafeteria. With his back straight, stride constant, and smile radiant with a twinkle in his eyes. She is not the only one to notice. He greets them, not noticing that every one of their friend group has their attention on him, even Blake looks at him putting her book down.
He looks different today, confident and ready. Pyrrha thinks to herself. Smiling at her partner, deciding she can think of training regimens later and just enjoy his presence for now.