Things will get a little heated at the start of this.

Symbiote Knight

Chapter 30: Attraction?

Jaune was cleaning up after a hard day's work in the bathroom, he was enjoying the feel of the warm water as he contemplated what was next for the rest of the day. He was soaping himself up not noticing that the door was slowly opening. He was just humming to himself hence when suddenly the shower door opened up and someone was in the shower with him.

"What!?" Jaune turned around only to meet with Pyrrha wearing only a smile as she pressed up against him, her hands gently on his chest. "P-Pyrrha!?"

"Mind if we share? I need someone to help wash my back and I can return the favor, maybe a few other places too?" She told him pressing him against the wall.

"I-uh-I-I mean…" he was at a loss for words trying to focus but it was so difficult to do with her as the water kept hitting her, making her hair dampen and stick to her body like that.

"Is something the matter Jaune?" Pyrrha asked caressing his chest then she jumped as she looked down. "Oh, something is poking me."

Jaune's face went super red knowing exactly what was poking her. He was about to respond before the door opened against and this time it was Yang walking in.

"I see you got started without me," she got behind Pyrrha pressing up against Pyrrha's back as she started to lay light kisses on the taller girl's shoulder as her hands caressed her bare stomach. "So who gets to go first?"

"I think we should let him decide," Pyrrha looked at Jaune moaning from Yang's attentiveness. "So Jaune, whose first?"

The sound of an alarm was suddenly heard breaking the dream.

Pyrrha gasped as she looked around seeing everyone still in bed as she shut off the alarm. The others were moving as they were waking up, her eyes landed on Jaune as she blushed as red as her hair. She couldn't look at him at the moment as she rushed into the bathroom quickly grabbing her school uniform, she liked to leave on the desk the night before so it's easier to gather up in the morning.

She placed them on the edge of the sink as she looked at herself in the mirror. That dream had been way too vivid. She cast a glance over to the shower to the left as she gulped remembering bits and pieces still. The way she and Jaune had been tangled up but then why had Yang been there? It left her so confused and while she and Yang had started interacting a lot more since that day in the coffee shop as they bonded over their shared attraction to Jaune, she hadn't thought of the blonde in that way.

At least not until now.

She heard the others waking up and knew she couldn't hide as she quickly jumped into the shower, a colder shower than she would have liked, as she needed to get ready for the day. Her mind was busy with her thoughts, she knew she was in love with Jaune, it was more than infatuation. The way he treated her, the way he sometimes made her smile and laugh, all the little things he did only make her feelings for him grow.

So why was she thinking of Yang and Jaune with her like that?

The fact was she had told Yang once of her personal crush on her first instructor, but it just had been a silly crush. If she thought about it, Yang was an attractive woman but so were many of the students, why did she think of her in that scenario? Was it because of that joke on the scroll? The dream had seemed to be very reminiscent about that.

Pyrrha quickly finished as she dressed and told them she would meet them for breakfast. She needed a little alone time.

"Up early I see."

Pyrrha turned to see Yang of all people shutting the door to the dorm.

"Oh, hello Yang," She plastered on her usual smile but all the while she was screaming at her luck. Why did it have to be her she ran into? It was bad enough she couldn't look Jaune in the eyes after that dream but now the other player in the dream just had to show up?

"You're up a little early." Pyrrha stated.

"Yeah," Yang toyed with her hair a sigh Pyrrha had picked up with Yang was actually nervous or shy about a certain topic. It wasn't often you'd see her do that but that was why Pyrrha picked up on it, for someone trained to read people in combat little tells like that were obvious to the red head.

Yang glanced over at the taller girl and then smirked. "Let's just say I had a nice dream."

Pyrrha's face heated up as she felt her heart starting to pick up. There was no way she had the same dream, did she? She knew that Yang has once tried dating a girl in Signal but that hadn't worked out and hadn't tried since, switching to boys, but that didn't mean she couldn't be open to it again. Pyrrha didn't know how that made her feel, she felt flustered at the thought.

"O-oh?" Pyrrha's voice trembled a little.

"Oh yeah," Yang looked down the corridor seeing some more students getting up. She linked her arm with Pyrrha as she started to lead the way to the cafeteria. "I'll tell you on the way."

Pyrrha really had no idea what to do here, she could feel how the other girl felt, and it let conflicting and confusing emotions, part of her wanted to say it was fine and quickly make an exit but some deep part of her was curious if she had the same dream. If she did, what did that mean?

"A-about this dream?" Pyrrha nervously asked.

"Oh right, well it started with me and Jaune," Yang smiled as she felt a bit of a blush forming, it had been a very nice dream. "I only remember bits and pieces now, you know how dreams are."

Pyrrha nodded her head while the shower dream had mostly faded there were just some parts that she couldn't forget.

"Well, we were in class but for some reason it was just the two of us, I don't remember what we were talking about but I do remember sitting on the teacher's desk with us very close," Yang's cheeks reddened as she grew a smile on her face. "Next thing you know we're making out I remember stripping off our jackets as my blouse was open. Next thing I know he's picking me up and I was against the wall with him attacking my neck."

Pyrrha imaged the scene, and she couldn't help but picture that was her in that position, then she thought of Yang back and her behind Jaune pressing up against him with them. Her throat felt so dry in that moment as again strange sensations flooded her.

Yang glanced over and mistook her look, "Yeah pretty hot huh? Although I don't think I'm brave enough to try something in the classroom, well maybe…"

She thought about it, maybe late at night when there was no one around? The thought of getting caught was both thrilling and terrifying, especially if Glynda caught them. That was a fate she didn't want to experience. There was also the fact that she and Jaune weren't even dating and already her mind was coming up with situations like this.

She looked over at the taller red head as they were walking down the stairs, she looked like she was lost in her own little world but the blush on her pale skin was easy enough to see.

"Well, it's just a dream, but as you see a very nice dream."

"Yes, a nice dream," Pyrrha said slightly absent minded.

Yang cocked an eyebrow, "I'm sure you must have some too, right?"

"What!?" That caught the other girl's attention as she immediately looked away nervously. "I…I mean…"

"Oh, so you have," Yang grinned at her. "Oh, come on, I shared, and we might be rivals for the dork's attention, but I like to think we got ourselves a nice dynamic going. I need the juicy details."

'I'm not sure you want all the details,' Pyrrha thought to herself. "It was like you said in the text message, Jaune was in the shower and I…joined him."

She felt so embarrassed to admit it but Yang had a point, she had shared so she felt she had to as well. Granted she did omit the final detail as she didn't want to give Yang any wrong ideas, especially when Pyrrha herself didn't know what those ideas were. She was so confused at the moment as she looked at the blonde, really looked.

She did admit that Yang was an attractive woman, strong, a nice figure, her outgoing and energetic personality she could see as something that attracted a lot of people. Her hair was lovely, Pyrrha had to keep hers in a ponytail or else it would just get in the way, but she just liked her hair long. Yang let hers be free and somehow it was never in the way like Pyrrha thought it would be.

'She's got lovely lavender eyes too,' Pyrrha mused as it was a rare color. She quickly thought of something else, she thought of Jaune's warm blue eyes, how she would love to run her hand through his golden hair and those abs of his.

'No, not again, why can't I just think of nice thoughts without them getting like that?' Pyrrha had always had to control herself, always had to mind what she said, and it ended up making her feel so constrained at times. Now at Beacon she was finding those bonds were slowly loosening and it was like she was finding out things about herself she didn't know where there.

It was kind of scary in a way, like she didn't even know her true self.

"Come on let's grab something to eat and wait for the others," Yang stated. "I had this idea of a training program but it's rough and I wanted your opinion on it since I bet you got put through lots of different types."

Pyrrha blinked, "Yes I was, I'll be glad to help."

'And give me something else to thankfully focus on,' She mentally added.

-Later, Combat Arena-

It was combat class time and Jaune was actually nervous, mainly because there was no way to hide his 'semblance' now that team RWBY had seen Valor as had team CRDL. If he didn't use it, there would be questions. Oh, sure he could just say that he was holding it back until he got a hold of it, but how long could he use that excuse for?

While he was sure Team RWBY wouldn't say anything he wasn't so sure that team CRDL would keep quiet about it as they would most likely openly talk about it.

~We can hold things back, make it seem like we're just learning or something~ Valor offered.

'Yeah, makes sense to me,' Jaune didn't want to go all out like he had with that spar against Pyrrha. Glynda would notice that for someone that just 'unlocked his semblance' he was too used to it. At least that's what he thought, she was teaching these classes for a reason after all.

Then again maybe he wouldn't be called up? There were a lot of students and not everyone got time in the ring.

"Jaune Arc, you'll be up in round 3." Glynda said.

~You totally jinxed yourself there~

'I know,' Jaune sighed.

"So, you're going to use that semblance we saw right?" Yang asked him as Team RWBY was sitting in front of his team.

"I guess so," he replied.

"Cool, should be interesting to see," Yang turned back around.

"It will be interesting," Weiss nodded as she looked at him. "I've never heard of a semblance like yours so it should be very educational on what it can do, have you been practicing with it long?"

"A bit," he hated lying about it but again, it's not easy to say it's actually an alien bonded to him.

"You're going to be okay right?" Ruby asked him with a slightly worried look. As far as she knew his 'suit' made him angry and more violent.

"I think I got it under control for this," He assured her. Jaune got up to change and get his weapons along with everyone else that was called up for the day. He was contemplating how much of Valor's abilities to use, he figured to keep it simple. No shifting the suit, forming tendrils or anything like that, just the suit and the enhancements it gave him should be enough for that.

He adjusted the new armor he bought with the girls awhile ago, he was glad that it fit so well, and it looked much better than his old cheap armor he bought. It had been used armor he got for cheap since he had felt he needed something to protect himself.

~I thought you got it because it made you look like a knight?~

Jaune blushed at the comment, okay so maybe that was also a big reason he had bought the armor too other than it being the cheapest he could afford. His sword and shield were still just like how they always were, Ruby said that the new designs she was working on would be ready soon for him to look over. While it felt a little sacrilegious to alter the family heirloom, he had to admit it could use an upgrade.

It might have been good for his great-great-grandfather but the weapon was seriously out of date.

Coming into the arena he could see the first match ending as Glynda gave her pointers to both of them, the next was with Nora and another first year he couldn't remember. Nora came out on top since the other student apparently used lightning dust with his weapon. Nora didn't use her semblance often because of the specific way it triggered so this was the worst outcome for him as Nora after powering up thrashed him.

Then it was his turn as he got into the ring, it was against a female student named Greenleaf, he didn't know much about her or her team, there were a lot of students to keep track of after all. Apparently, she fought with some kind of warclub that turned into a kind of blunderbuss. When Glynda started the match Jaune didn't waste any time.

All that training he got from Pyrrha, Valor, Yang and Weiss were pulled into one, and with the combat he had against an actual Grimm, well things weren't so bad since the days he first started out and had no clue what he was doing.

Greenleaf was surprised by the sudden aggressive posture, most of the time Jaune tried to tank blows. She lifted up her weapon to intercept his sword and the impact she felt throughout her entire arms right down to the bones.

'When the hell did, he hit like that!?" She hadn't felt impacts that hard since she went up against Cardin or Yang.

She tried to counter but his shield took the blow as he thrust his arm to the side making her nearly lose her weapon from the force of it. She felt the sting of his sword hitting her side as her aura flared green. She jumped back transforming her weapon and firing off a salvo, the wide range of the attack hit Jaune's shield but other parts hit his body.

She frowned as she didn't see the telltale sign of his aura flaring. Looking closer her eyes widened as the suit or whatever it was had stopped the rounds. Those were lead balls and she watched as at first, they were sunk half in various part of his body and then the suit just pushed them out. They all fell to the floor each one making a sound as they bounced off the arena surface.

Greenleaf suddenly knew she was in a major disadvantage.

Everyone else watched with eager attention, especially his friends.

"Well, that's handy," Yang commented seeing the lead balls falling. "The suit seems to able to take an impact, wonder how my fists would do against it?

Although Yang couldn't help but reminded of the Vale Knight's suit and how it moved on it's own, she couldn't see very well from this far back but it kind of reminded her of it. She had talked with Ruby and learned how Jaune had been with Pyrrha most of the time that night they met him so of course it wasn't Jaune. Although Ruby had wondered if there was some kind of distant family relative or someone with a similar semblance.

Looking at it now she could see what her little sister meant.

"I have to admit he does seem faster with the suit on," Blake studied him as he did seem quicker now.

"It enhances all his physical abilities," Pyrrha explained hoping a simple explanation would be enough.

"Without drawbacks?" Yang asked. "That's cheating, I have to build up damage to use my semblance to get a power boost."

"Everyone's semblance works differently," Weiss stated as she continued to watch Jaune. She was sure he was holding back he had shown a lot more strength against that Grimm. Maybe it was because it was a Grimm, so he didn't feel the need to go all out? At any rate she was taking mental notes of all of this, the Vytal Festival would be held at Beacon this year and she was certain they would most likely have to face team JNPR at some point.

They already had Pyrrha on their team but now with Jaune no longer being dead weight but a rising star, their team would be a lot more difficult to deal with. She would have to talk to Ruby later about more training for the team, so they didn't lag behind.

Greenleaf knew she was not doing too well it was taking everything to just keep herself going. She cast a quick look to the boards and saw her aura was half gone already but Arc's was still going strong. She just couldn't believe that the worst student in their grade had gotten so much stronger so quickly. She knew that she couldn't keep going at this rate, so she pulled out her dust charger she kept on her combat belt and slipped it into her weapon.

Jaune saw this as her weapon took on an orange glow as she first again, he took the shot but this time something wasn't right.

~Damn it that's fire rounds!~ Valor yelled in his head as the pain from all the small lead balls which were now glowing hot sizzled into Valor's form. ~Of all the dust why did she have to start with that?!~

'Don't know, just try to bare with it buddy,' Jaune could feel his symbiote's pain from the rounds as the suit pulled back slightly from the spots it was hit leading small gaps as Valor tried to recover after sending the hot rounds to the ground once more.

'Huh…that's an odd reaction,' Greenleaf cocked an eyebrow, but she had run out of ammo. Jaune was charging forward so she didn't have time to reload so she transformed her weapon back into it's warclub mode with the fire dust still active giving it a super heated look as the spikes on the end that came out were glowing hot.

As she swung it, it left an arc of fire in the air as Jaune had to take a step back.

"What's going on?" Blake asked looking confused as the rest of team RWBY. She had better eyes and could see how the suit seemed to shy away from the heat. "Is there something wrong with fire?"

Pyrrha exchanged worried looks with her teammates they all knew that Valor had a weakness to fire.

"A semblance with an elemental weakness?" Yang cocked her head in thought. "Not sure I've head of that."

"Yeah, do semblances even have that kind of weakness?" Ruby was equally confused.

"I mean mine doesn't work unless I get electricity," Nora quickly added hoping to cover this up with her own semblance.

"I would consider that more of a short coming than a weakness," Weiss stated but she was already making plans for fire dust to be on her and her team if they had to go up against Jaune in the tournament. A part of her felt sorry about making said plans but she also didn't like to lose.

Jaune knew this couldn't last for long, Valor would not take those hits well, so he had to finish this with a big move.

~Wait I see what you're planning but that's risky~

'I know but if we hit then it should be okay, it took time for my aura to drain against Pyrrha and this is just for one large move.'

Jaune extended his aura around Valor as he braced his legs, he took the blow from the club on his shield feeling the heat, but his aura was protecting Valor. On the boar his aura was steadily draining but he had plenty for the moment. He took the impact, bending his knees with it and then with all his might be pushed back, hard.

Greenleaf felt the shield hit her like a runaway train as she was sent flying back, she bounced a few times before coming to a stop. The buzzer sounded as her aura hit the red.

"The winner is Jaune Arc, are you okay student?" she looked to Greenleaf who was struggling to get to her knees. She nodded but couldn't say anything at the moment, she had no idea that he could hit back that hard and it really was a surprising hit.

Glynda cast another look to make sure her student was okay and when she was able to get to her feet she started with her assessment. She started with Jaune as she looked him over as his suit seemed to meld back into himself.

"Mr. Arc, just what was that?"

"Oh uh, I unlocked my semblance?" He scratched the back of his head.

Glynda raised a single eyebrow at that, she never heard of a semblance that covered the body like a suit. It could be just something very unique so she might have to pay extra attention as for some reason it seemed to react poorly to heat.

She launched into her assessment on both of them before calling up the next batch.

-Later, Ozpin's Office-

It was after school hours as Ozpin was in his office with Glynda as she was going over the results of the combat class today, it was good to keep an eye on how the students were progressing. He had updates by the other department heads, normally they were very short meetings, the only time they went long was if there was a problem to work out. So far, the students were mostly doing well, a few were struggling in some areas in a few of the different years but nothing that was out of the ordinary.

He sipped his hot chocolate he knew most thought it was coffee but this body has a bit of a sweet tooth and he found it more calming than coffee. One of the many things you had to deal with when you constantly reincarnate into a random body, you had to relearn all the ins and outs of that body. Sometimes he would love certain foods and found the next body's taste buds made that food taste horrible.

Some could handle spicy foods and others couldn't, sometimes he found he had a surprising allergy he hadn't before. That death had been surprising, since he didn't know he was deadly allergic to bee stings and the medicine for that hadn't been invented yet.

His musing was cut short at Glynda's next words.

"Apparently Mr. Arc has unlocked his semblance."

That perked up Ozpin, "Oh? How wonderful, it's always good to see students flourish, what can you tell me about it?"

"It's…odd," Glynda made a face as she pulled out her scroll and sent him the video. They recorded that combat classes in case they needed help in instructing a student over issues they had in their combat abilities or styles. "I've never actually seeing something like this before."

Ozpin raised an eyebrow as he watched the spar on his scroll in his free hand as he sipped his drink. When the suit appeared over him Ozpin froze at first but when he saw how it reacted to fire, how it pulled back, how it moved out like a living skin, old memories surfaced.

He dropped his mug as it shattered on the floor. Glynda jumped at the noise and asked him if he was okay seeing the look on his face.

He barely noticed it staring at the image. He knew what that was, he knew that wasn't a semblance because he had fought that creature many times over the years. It was a special enforcer that Salem would bring out from time to time, he had even died twice to it.

Ozpin's face grew grim, he had been preparing for the next time he confronted the creature but he hadn't expected it to change color or try to slip into his school like this. What was the young Mr. Arc's link to Salem? Ozpin hadn't seen anything in his background even after he looked deeper seeing the obviously fake transcripts.

He leaned back as he looked to Glynda. "Glynda, I believe we are in trouble and the students might be in danger, we'll have to deal with his quickly, thankfully I have an idea."

TBC…

A little case of Mistaken Identity, I did say Salem had been using her Klyntar a few times over the centuries, so of course Ozpin would have run into it from time to time. Also, yes Pyrrha is having a bit of her own 'awakening' as well. People asked me how I'm going to get all three together in a natural way, well here is part of it.

Also, yes I made up the student he fought because while we see a lot of shadow people students we don't actually see anyone else in their year other than teams RWBY, JNPR and CRDL. So, I had to put in a filler character so it's just not the same people every time.