I'm not going to ramble on the beginning notes, the ending notes though...
But I do need to say something.
I've never written fighting scenes. And I'm going insane because of this. I can't not write and rewrite this, and I've filled six pages, front and back, of this.
I'm going back to the rewrite insanity help.
Also hear me out until the end of the chapter, not any of the girls fall in love with him today. I'm saying this because of the Ruby dream scenes.
Pyrrha ran out of the cloud of dust that previously obscured her, along with Ruby in her arms. A Deathstalker followed them.
"My spear! And catch Ruby!" Between the passed out partner, lack of a weapon, and newly received trauma, she needed to get rid of at least some disadvantages.
And one of them could never leave her.
The choice was clear then. Chuck Ruby towards Jaune and hopes he can catch her.
He actually managed to catch his friend. He could also pull the spear from his hoodie without fumbling!
What he couldn't do was throw the spear correctly. It thankfully missed the redhead entirely. It hit the Deathstalker- on its hard shell, so it bounced away from Pyrrha.
"Sorry!" Jaune apologized.
Nora noticed things were speeding up. In all this mess, Jaune's friends wouldn't be able to grab the pieces and pass, which would be bad for them and Jaune. She can help! The bomber grabs the nearest pieces, two knights. She drops one on Ruby, unfolds Magnhild, and rushes forward to help Pyrrha fight the Deathstalker.
Jaune watches as Nora uses an explosion to propel herself towards the Grimm. She winds up her hammer and strikes it, and an explosion goes off with the hit, sending her back enough for her to spin her hammer around and attack the Deathstalker's right claw. It was stunned, enough for Pyrrha to use her semblance to pull her spear to her hands. Somehow. It just floated to her.
Jaune watched as the gingers partnered up to attack the Grimm. Poor guy. Actually, It tried hurting Ruby and Pyrrha, that was deserved.
He wanted to help, but Jaune knew that he would be nothing better than a distraction. The least he could do was to find a safe place for Ruby, or where the test ended.
Weiss and Ren came out of the forest like nothing was or did happen, casually walking into the temple and analyzing the relics.
"Oh, hey, Snow Angel, looking good. Hey, Ren. Ren, right? You were with Nora before, are youher friend that she talked about?" Weiss huffed in annoyance, and Ren nodded.
"Arc, please shut up."
"Noted, now uh, I'm gonna find a better place for Ruby to be, it's too dangerous here, so, yeah. And you two should grab the relics and all, so I'll just, yeah, leave." Jaune suggested, earning yet another annoyed glare from Weiss.
"If you acknowledged that I told you to shut up, then do it, you brain-dead brute. Hurry now, take your partner, and leave." She decided not to scold Jaune for saying the obvious, of course, she would grab them! She wasn't stupid, but he wasn't worth the effort. And he would leave sooner.
"Okay, but my partner's busy fighting? Oh, right, yeah, Ruby isn't my partner." She froze.
No
Nonononono, it can't be! This, idiot! This was not good. Judging that Jaune did have Pyrrha's weapon, something she should actually have considered, it meant that they had met before.
Pretty simple then, Arc was Pyrrha's partner, so the dead dolt in his arms was Nora's, most likely.
She just had to get rid of them.
"Jaune Arc, under the terms of the Schnee Dust Corporation, that you have violated, I have the right to get you executed . " Weiss brought out her rapier and pointed it to Jaune.
"Hey, wait nonono what!? What's a Schnee!?" He shielded Ruby's body, backing away from Weiss, who was now frozen.
There was no way, right? No, that can't be possible- Jaune- Jaune couldn't have possibly never bought from the SDC, right!?
That can't be the case! It's impossible! If that was true, it meant Jaune had not agreed with the SDC terms of condition for the consumption of dust, which meant Jaune couldn't be legally killed by her.
And he would protect that dolt! Along with a probable criminal as a sister, it meant that she couldn't kill anyone here.
Somewhere in the Emerald forest
Yang was running as fast as she could, now carrying Blake in her arms and totally not groping her ass. Yang would never.
She stopped and sneezed. Why was she thinking about that one bar she wrecked? The sneezing joke thing, done, leave me alone now, fanfiction cops.
"Yang! Stop fucking grabbing at my ass and move yours!" Blake yelled, bonking her in the head. The King Taijitu was PISSED.
The blonde went back to running for her life with the secret Faunus in her arms. Blake flipped the page on her book and continued reading.
She fell to her knees, pale. She was so pale, in fact, that the light shone off her and blinded anyone who looked in her direction, like it was a show with an animation budget of seven dollars, and the lighting was weird.
She dropped Myrnaster, her beloved rapier clattering to the ground as a light shone from above like she was performing on a stage.
"MY EYES!" Ren exclaimed, with Weiss's shininess going up by so much that she could only be seen as a shapeless blob, or the sun.
She clutched her heart!
Something... Something just went in a way she didn't want it to go.
Crap
"Well, uh, I'm gonna leave now. Bye. Geez, did I really flirt with her!?" He muttered under his breath, but Jaune Arc did not know how to mutter, apparently because everyone heard him, including the Deathstalker bullies.
"Jauney, I don't think you were supposed to say that out loud." Nora said. They had seemingly stopped fighting for a second.
"Oh, sorry, anyway, I'll take Ruby somewhere safe."
"Oh, thanks for helping my partner!"
Weiss collapsed to the floor, twitching. Her pride was shattered, and so she passed out.
She wasn't even right about that.
Ren looked to the ground. He awkwardly picked up Weiss and took her to the pedestals with relics, and then he grabbed what they needed to pass the test.
Then he got knocked down by a feather hitting the back of his head.
Yang was panting. Blake flipped to the next page of her book.
"We huff, lost them. I think."
"Cool. Sex scene's starting"
"Shit, for real?" Yang stood right up, brushing off her exhaustion and now having a slight tint of red on her cheeks.
"Yeah, wanna grab the relics and read it in a bush?" She points to the temple, and inside it, she could see Weiss and Ren getting pelted down by a rain of feathers. Also, Weiss was shrieking really loudly.
"Hell yeah, I do!" The blonde brawler, still carrying her partner, bolts into the temple and grabs two rooks.
"Okay, two towers, now we just need a bullhead."
"Yang shut the fuck up."
"Okay, yeah, sorry, too far." Yang puts the piece in her pocket and she hands one to Blake, who does the same.
"We should help them." Blake looked down. The Schnee, well, she didn't like, but there was a ninja boy.
Blake loves ninjas. Ninjas of love, that is. Oh god not the puns, help me.
"B-But the book!" She gave Blake her best rendition of Ruby's puppy-dog eyes. She would help them usually, but today wasn't a normal day, and they could probably handle it.
"No."
Yang pouted( what the hell? ) "Fine."
They were about to have the most epic fight in history! And-
"Aaaaaaaah!" Pyrrha comes flying into the temple, bouncing until she's on top of Weiss.
"Hm, okay, this day isn't that bad." Weiss blushes.
"HAHAHAHHAHAHA!" Ren, Weiss, Blake, and Yang watch as Nora grabs a taser from her pocket and stabs it into herself.
She then swings her hammer into the Deathstalker's claw, explodes it, and sends herself with a spin to the newly joined King Taijitu.
She slams her hammer into it, making the head she hit slam into the ground.
"Okay, so we didn't lose both of them. Not good."
In Ruby's Dreamland.
Ruby felt like she got flung. She just used her semblance to rush the newly smelted blade into some cool water. Instead, she messed up.
"Hey, are you okay?" Jaune reached his hand down to where Ruby had tumbled. Memories from the day before- the day before the test, that is! How did that go again? Eh, whatever. This moment reminded her of when Jaune helped her out of that crater when their friendship began.
And now she ruined it. She ruined it all! Just like she would do! The new Crocea Mors was turning out so well, they had spent the last hours working on it, and now she screwed it up! It was all misshaped now! It even damaged the floor! She would get in so much trouble!
She would get kicked out of the forge, and then she would be banned from making weaponsagainandJaunewouldgive-
"Ruby. Don't worry about it. We can make another one."
"B-but we spent so much effort on it! Do we even have the materials for another one!? Oh Brothers, I just dropped our dear baby and gave it brain damage, Jaune! I'm so sorry!" Something wet trailed down her face. Tears.
And now Jaune would worry about her. Maybe he wouldn't even come back to the forge, and then she would be all alone here in Beacon.
Her team, what matters about her team!? If they became friends, it would just be like Signal again! People become her friends to date Yang or because she can fix their weapons. They would just use her to get somewhere.
"Ruby."
Not only that. Crocea Mors, it was as important to Jaune as Crescent Rose was to her! It's an extension of the soul, and she ruined it!
"Ruby."
She wasted her time, and his, just to show what could have been and crush it in front of him. She was the worst!
"Ruby!" Jaune grabbed her face and looked deep into her eyes. She blushed.
"It's fine." Two words. Those two words calmed her down in an instant, though her heart kept beating strongly. She couldn't get enough of the stare of his deep blue eyes and his lips...
And his-
*SMOOCH*
Jaune pulled away when Ruby started to pass out from the lack of air. Wait, couldn't she breathe through her nose?
Well, she didn't care. The forge was feeling hotter than ever. She barely had a taste of him, but she felt drunk on it. Even though she never drank beer, shut up!
She wanted something stronger.
Wait, wait, what happened after the kiss that was better!? Yang never let her see it! Not in any of those crappy romance movies that seemed weirdly like what was happening now!
"J-Jaune, I'm feeling funny."
"I know what to do." Shitshitshitshit, it was happening! She would finally figure it out! Suck it, Yang!
Her eyes snapped open.
Damn it! It was just getting to the good part!
Why did her dream have to end now!?
"Ugh. Whatever. I don't even care. Why was I having a dream with Jaune? We barely know each other yet?" Ruby stood up from her resting place and stretched.
'Where am I... again? What the hell even happened!?'
Jaune walked into the forest.
Maybe he shouldn't have chosen the forest as a place that could be potentially safe to let Ruby in?
And also, Vale was much damn hotter than he remembered! 'Oof, maybe I should take off the hoodie.'
Jaune, actually having a good idea for once, took off his chestplate, and then hoodie, revealing a red shirt underneath.
He wrapped the hoodie around his waste. Red was always his favorite color. No thanks to the seven redheads back home. Maybe he should call one of his sisters? He and his parents weren't on good terms.
He missed them. Sure, Saphron was the only other responsible one, Rouge was kind of insane, and Velvet was, well, something, allright-
Jaune's musings were interrupted by someone holding him up by the hem of his shirt. Not really someone, but two snake heads glaring into his soul.
Oh. Oh no, those were King Taijitu. Fuck.
"Uh, TACTICAL ESCAPE!" Jaune raised his arms, causing him to fall out of his shirt.
"Oh, phew, that actually-" The Grimm seemed to be hearing him talk, so obviously, Jaune tricked it.
He picked up Ruby and bolted.
He wouldn't get a friend hurt. Besides, Ruby, back home, would kill him if he "sacrificed a fellow gemstone yet again.".
Okay, but seriously, Jaune wasn't going to let Ruby get hurt. No matter what.
It was time. Time to have a kickass anime protagonist fight where he shows off the newly discovered and acquired skill, Aura, by absolutelly crushing his enemy and making the troubled maiden fall in love with him.
He gave a slight push to the power inside him, feeling the hot feeling above his skin as a white light shimmered around him.
Setting Ruby down, he turned around, unsheathing his sword and unfurling his shield.
Jaune glared at the following snake Grimm; he had some idea of what to do.
He stepped forward, raising his sword.
Slay Grimm
Another step. The King Taijitu followed his step with a slither, slowly approaching.
Protect Ruby
He took yet another step, and he tripped on a rock,
And not die.
The Grimm advanced, making Jaune stumble out of a headbutt just in time for it to hit the ground he once stood on. Its other head followed, looping in a way that trapped him within the snake's body.
It advanced again, and Jaune, in his hurry, used his sword like a gods damn metal bat, and sure as hell, his hit made the imposing head fly up.
Ruby flinched in her sleep. Such disrespect…
The second head joined the fray, making his trap tighter but not fast enough for Jaune to not see it coming, and so he replied.
He bashed his shield into its snout. If he had something on his side, that was strength! Working out, actually… worked out!
Ruby flinched again.
The Taijitu, stunned, didn't react fast enough to avoid Jaune's simple stab, making the sword impale its side.
And that was a mistake.
"AAAAHH!" He screamed, holding onto the blade as the Grimm thrashed around.
He held onto dear life but got flung off without his weapon into the sky.
He saw the other head position itself with it's mouth open under him.
It was over. Jaune saw his life flashing across his eyes.
Huh, slightly dull and, at the best, traumatic. He still had a shield, why was that happening?
He bashed the shield yet again, but with the force of gravity, the Aura, and a built body, Jaune protected himself.
*CRACK*
His arm stung, but it all felt great as the sickening crack of the Grimm's skull sounded through the forest.
He was panting from the struggle, but "I... I wo-"
A snake's head impacted him full force, launching him towards a tree.
His head hit it, making his Aura flicker across his skin.
The ringing in his ears felt horrible, and he tried to get up but only stumbled forward with his eyes closed.
A mistake. If Jaune saw the Taijitu's body coming at high speeds in his direction, maybe he could have reacted.
"AAAGH!" All the breath in his lungs escaped as the Grimm wrapped its body around the tree and him.
The knight felt like he was about to pop, the headache he had intensified, and he was quickly losing conscience.
Ruby shifted in her sleep. She was awakening.
Then she would save him. She, would save him.
Because he failed.
But then, one thing stood out.
The other half of the Grimm. The part he thought was gone.
Even with its shattered skull, it was still moving; it was still alive.
It was still trying to kill. And it was aiming for his friend.
'Fuck it. If I have to rely on the power of fucking friendship, then I'll rip this thing apart!'
Jaune's Aura shattered, making the snake slightly loosen its grip. He flexed his legs and jumped out of its grasp.
Jaune kicked off its body, grabbing on Crocea Mors, stuck on its side. He pulled with full strength.
It wasn't enough. It wouldn't budge.
So he'd roll with it. Jaune used his grip to spin himself to the tree, his feet planted on its surface.
"RAAAH!" He raised the sword with his full strength, and the snake went with it.
Its flesh started to rip, ash and tar spilling out of its insides.
The sword came out, making Jaune fall from his position.
He rolled back, grabbing his shield at the place it had fallen to.
He stood up, swaying a bit, but ran as fast as he could to King Taijitu's other head and stabbed his sword through its head.
He threw his shield at the Grimm and grabbed Ruby.
The other head uncoiled itself from the tree and rushed at him.
Ruby's eyes flickered open.
Jaune slashed.
*RIIIP!*
And Crocea Mors ripped through the Taijitu's head, not enough to cut it off, but it went deep enough to reach its brain.
With two of its heads defeated, the Grimm collapsed to the ground as Jaune let go of his sword and fell to his knees.
"J-Jaune!" Ruby studdered as he panted.
"That... was... awesome as hell LET'S FUCKING GOOOO! How's that for my first kill!? Yes!" He cheered, hugging Ruby out of instinct.
'What? What's going on, why was that hot!? Nononono, that's Vomit Boy, Ruby, he only looked cool once, and it doesn't matterthathehassomanymusclesstopAAAAHH!' Her face lit up in a blush, changing to the same color as her cape.
"Mycapeisnotthatred!" She quickly wispered.
"Oh man, that was actually kind of fun. Heh. Oh, sorry, Crater Face, I just got excited that I, actually did something useful. Heh." Jaune puts Ruby on the ground, and she lightly sways on her feet.
Jaune had a blush of embarrassment, too, but it didn't nearly reach Ruby's, and it paled in comparison when she also got an embarrassed blush. Didn't know they could stack, that's neat.
"Ruby, you okay?"
"Again." Ruby said, blood slowly trickling out of her nose.
"What? Ruby!"
"I-I mean a friend. It's fine you're my friend is allyep!" She quickly corrected herself, wiping away the blood.
"Uhm, maybe we should go back to the temple. Meet up with our partners." He said, putting his sword in its sheath and searching for his shirt.
His hoodie was thankfully still wrapped around his waist, and his chest plate was beside Ruby, but he couldn't find his red shirt.
"Right." Ruby had absolutely no idea what Jaune was talking about. Like she cared. She knew very well what place she wanted to stare when he bent down to pick up his gear. She gave a thumbs up to the camera for seemingly no reason.
Sorry that this chapter isn't that good. I'm trying to get out of this weird rabbit hole of not being able to write.
I decided to cut things a bit short. This chapter was meant to end when JNPR and RWBY try to kill their Grimm, but I don't think I can write something of quality right now, and my chapter word range is 3k-6k, so there's enough here.
And I need a beta reader, along with a better cover for the fic on . I'll uh, I'll write a fanfic for whoever draws something better than that thing I drew on paint without a mouse. Also, please tell me if I forget about Jaune and get too distracted with the girls. It might happen. I kinda got too distracted with making an arc to each girl that I kind of forgot about Jaune, and I don't want him to be a boring old harem protag with blue hair that got isekaid into a world with at least one cat girl.
Also, sorry for breaking the tension of the Ruby dream scene by making a brain-damaged baby joke, and the 9/11 joke, it was by accident, Bye bye. And also, what did you think? I don't write this for myself, I write it for whoever wants to read it, so I'd be nice to know what you think of it. and it gives me motivation.
COMMENT ANSWER TIME!
Mizugami18: Jealous Ren!?Confused Ren? Very sad Ren?Yes, all of them!
Alakado:Isn't pink kind of a red? Roman's about to get his ice-cream grill stolen.
Van the Rogue Soul Drinker: Yeah, it unfortunatelly just died after one smut scene. I don't think Ruby's going to have "milkshakes" on this one though. Not any time soon.
X3runner: As you can tell from this chapter, I might have gone too far. But yeah Weiss was kind of a bitch.
Al319 and BlueJack22: Nora x Jaune is a ship with a lot of missed potential, people don't try to make a relationship with Ren and her not really work out. Real shame.
And to all of my other reviewers, thank you all so much for the support. It helps out a lot. And it's part of why I make these and don't just keep them locked in my head for eternity. Thanks.