AN: So this is my first fanfic as I decided to try my hand at writing one. You might notice that I drew some inspiration from both other writers and outside media like Mass Effect and Monster Hunter.
I hope you enjoy the fic. Further notes at the end.
Disclaimer: Neither RWBY nor any other media shown in this fic is owned by me; all credit goes to their respective creators.
" speech
' Jaune's thoughts
^ announcement over speakers, radio, etc.
Odo speaking to Jaune
Thoughts of other characters
^Welcome to Beacon. You all have been chosen to attend this prestigious Academy for your skill and accomplishment. You should take pride in attending school where you will further your knowledge and train to be the protectors of humanity for the future generations. Once the airship arrives please head to the auditorium for orientation.^ Once the robotic announcement ended across the intercom, the future prospective students started to file towards the exit. Some still gawked at the sight from the windows, but as the ship docked even they moved to leave. Only one person lagged behind, preferring to stay behind the crowd and not get washed up in it. Once most of the teens got off the airship he made his way to the exit as well. As soon as he stepped out of the airship he took a big breath, glad to be off of it.
Stretching them to alleviate the tension and stiffness gained throughout the not too comfortable travel, the blonde boy took a few more deep breaths, appreciating the fresh air. The bright sun shining down did a good job to show off his attire. While a lot of Huntresses, and even Huntsman, worse their gear slightly to give off their fashion and show off, he preferred efficiency when it came to armour. If it looked good, then that was just a bonus, and in his not so humble opinion it did ok. Legs clad in synthetic black leather with black metal shin and knee guards; his arms were much the same except without a metal guard. Some light shoulder pauldron came around his shoulder and connected to the armour by his chest, which separated into smaller joined ones by his abs. There was a black sash connected from his left to right hip behind his back, falling down to his thigh. The whole black armour had some accents in gold, while there was some silver running up the back along the spine. Over his heart there were 2 golden arcs, akin to an emblem. But what stood out most of all was the red fox curled around his neck.
'Ah Beacon, the most prestigious school for up-and-coming Huntresses, and finally Huntsman.' Jaune said with a wide smile. And filled with roughly 80% women, and that's my low guess.
'I know, but I need to socialise with others besides, Opal gave me a great opportunity to further my knowledge in a relatively well controlled environment?' Jaune thought to Odo happy that he finally was able to get out a bit. 'Besides, this way I might be able to make some friends finally.'
Suddenly a loud explosion rocked the courtyard, causing Jaune's companion to be instantly on-guard. What were you saying about well controlled? Jaune just rolled his eyes at this. 'At ease, we're not in Mistral.'
Jaune looked on waiting for the dust to settle, while Odo, slowly started to lower his head. You can never be careful enough, especially with women, especially Huntresses. And no we're not and as long as I have a say in it we never will be. Finally he put his head down but kept one of his blue eyes open. He wasn't Jaune's guardian for nothing; he'll be damned before he let anyone hurt him.
'I know but still, they aren't all bad. Remember-' Odo suddenly started growling. I swear to Oum Jaune if you even say her name I'll bite you. There is only 1 woman outside of the family that I'm willing to tolerate and it's definitely not her. Jaune just sighed deeply, Odo really didn't seem to be letting go of that grudge.
Jaune proceeded to watch as a haughty looking girl dressed in all white yelled at a smaller girl dressed in black and mostly red. 'Wait, isn't that Weiss?' he asked her. Wasn't too hard with her distinct looks and dress; plus the suitcases with her emblem scattered around her helped. 'Reckon I should go help and diffuse the situation?'
Do you want her to start going on and on about engagement and how good the 2 of you would be together and...
'Ok, ok, I get it, point made and taken.' Jaune nearly put his hand up in mock surrender, but remembered that he was in public and would look a bit crazy, so he just continued to look at the scene that unfolded. Suddenly a raven haired girl with a bow interfered and seemed to piss Weiss off even more than she was already, causing her to storm off before she herself turned and walked away, leaving little red in a crater.
Jaune made his way over to her. 'Let's try and make at least 1 friend'. Odo just huffed at this. I know you have an open view but it doesn't really sound like you to be actively trying to befriend a girl. Especially after that-
'Don't call her anything, let's just move on. I came here to both study and have some real friends. Doesn't mean they have to be all male.' he finished communicating across before stopping and looking down at the girl. Who was just lying on the ground with eyes closed and groaning and muttering something.
"Rough first day?" he asked smiling down at her "or deciding to take a nap?" Jaune added while chuckling a bit. The girl just opened his eyes and looked up at him and her eyes suddenly went wide, before she jumped up.
"Y-y-you're a guy." She said in near disbelief looking at him. Jaune just started looking himself over before looking back her. "Yeah, last time I checked that was the case, unless something suddenly changed." His eyes suddenly hardened a bit. He might be more open to girls, but he was under no illusions about them. And how they could look at them.
"Or is that a problem?" hearing that the girl started to panic and wave her arms in front of in a comedic manner. "No, not at all, it's perfectly fine that you're here at BeaconIwasjustsurprisedthatIalreadyseeaguyhere." She fired off the end of the sentence so fast that Jaune was barely able to keep up and she ran out of breathe. I gotta say her social ineptitude is kind of endearing. Odo chuckled inwardly to which Jaune just rolled his eyes.
"Ok, first of calm down, second, don't forget to breathe, and thirdly, don't worry about." His look softened a bit. "As long as you meant nothing by it we're cool." He said while extending his hand. "the name's Jaune Arc." The girl seemed stunned for a bit before taking his hand and shaking it furiously like his life depended on it.
"Ruby Rose, it's a pleasure to meet you." She said beaming. 'Oh I bet it is, please let me be wrong and don't be in it for the name and my gender.' He thought hoping he could make an actual friend who was in it for more than just the aforementioned two. He really was tired of people coming after him like a piece of prime meat; doesn't matter how much his family vetted the candidates, every marriage interview sucked. At least they never forced him, he had it better than some, or rather most.
Ruby was the one who decided to break the short but awkward silence. "Sooo, I have this." She reached behind her back and took out what looked like a box but suddenly unfolded into a giant scythe. With a built-in sniper? Wow an oversized gardening tool for a weapon? She's ambitious I'll give her that.
"Scythe with built-in sniper?" Jaune asked, not noticing how Ruby's eyes widened. "Oh my God, you noticed!? Usually I have to explain it to everyone." She exclaimed a bit too excitedly, before hugging it. "She's called Crescent Rose and is my baby."
"One of my sisters is an engineer and is always working on different projects, including weapons. Spend enough time around her and she rubs off on you." He replied chuckling and rubbing the back of his head sheepishly. "Not as much of an expert as she is, but I have my moments."
"Really? You must have something really awesome as a weapon." Now this made him smirk. Jaune didn't think of himself as a vain, nor did he like to boast, but he did take pride in his weapons, for 2 reasons. 1 he thought it was awesome, and 2 it was a joint project with his genius of a sister; they had fun bonding while making it.
He pulled out a black hand gun or rather hand cannon from how it looked. Long, slick squared body with a similarly black handle and trigger; the only part not fully black was the revolving chamber which was silver but had bluish colour coming from it as did the end of the barrel a bit. He held it out to Ruby so she could take a closer look.
"This is my hand gun/cannon, called Re Ruptor (reality breaker). It's made of a reinforced titanium alloy to withstand even the strongest rounds. Except the chamber and barrel which has aurovnium laced in with it. It can fire nigh on any round, but my preference is high calibre, which is especially handy considering the recoil nullifier installed." Jaune looked up from his handgun to Ruby who was practically drooling.
Okay, that's a bit creepy. quipped Odo. 'Agreed' thought Jaune before he started to snap his fingers in front of Ruby. That was enough to snap her out of her stupor as she looked up from the gun to him before back to the gun, then back to him.
"D-did you say it has aurovnium?" she asked in disbelief. This just made Jaune smile, if just this was enough to overload her than wait till he shows her his other weapon. "Yep" he popped the p while beaming.
"B-b-but that's super rare, and hard to work with, and expensive, and, and..." Jaune decided to do her the courtesy of finishing her sentence. "and a super conductor for aura and the strongest known metal? Yes it is. Any other questions about it?"
"YEAH!" she practically screamed at him. "You mentioned a recoil negator! How? How!? How!? I've been working for ages to be able to find a way to accurately adjust Crescent Rose's recoil and you're saying you can negate it. How!?" she screamed and panted being out of breath again.
"Okay first off, calm down. Again. Second, it was my sister's invention." After holstering his weapon back Jaune decided not to show off his other one, he didn't exactly want to break the girl. Or be tackled and bombarded by more questions. After seeing her visibly calm down he decided to tackle another rather pressing issue.
"Hey Rubes, I think we should get going before we miss the assembly." He said before starting to move in the direction of the hall. The reminder was enough to bring Ruby back to her normal, well normal for Ruby state. "Oh my God, we can't be late. Which way Jaune? We have to hurry."
"That way." He said pointing towards a big building in the distance.
"Thanksletsgo!" she said before shooting off in a shower of rose petals leaving him dumbfounded. 'I assume that's her semblance. Still though, I'm better.'
Jaune suddenly saw Ruby enter the auditorium a bit out of breath, deciding to prank her a bit he casually strolled over. "Hey Ruby, what took you so long?" he asked with a grinning. The look on her face was priceless.
"But you, here, what? How?" she asked in disbelief. Tapping his chin with his finger Jaune looked up before meeting her gaze again. "Secret. Also I think someone is calling your name and waving for you." He said motioned to a muscular blonde in the distance.
"That's my sister Yang. I'm gonna go talk to her. See you later Jaune." Ruby said her goodbye before disappearing into the crowd. Jaune just let out a deep sigh. 'There, that wasn't too bad now was it? Told you they aren't all bad.'
No, you can never be too careful. And she actually wasn't trying to get together with you. Most likely she doesn't recognise your name, otherwise it might be different. This made him smile. 'I suppose you're right, but let's give her the benefit of doubt.'
Leaning against a pillar in the back Jaune waited for Opal to come on stage, he could practically feel people eyeing him. Didn't matter to him too much, it was already ingrained in him enough by his family, 'Don't trust women'. Something that his mother, grandmother, and even sisters told him; and after they explained everything he could understand why. Especially after the stunt 'she' pulled.
Jaune was pulled out of his musings when he heard Odo growl. 'what's wrong Odo?' he asked wondering what got his companion/guardian so worked up. Look on stage the fox replied not taking his eyes away. Following his instruction Jaune looked and was surprised for a moment before he felt a myriad of emotions grow within him.
There, right on stage, next to Opal herself, stood Glynda Goodwitch. 'Well I'll be, she really is here.' Feeling movement on his shoulder his hand shot up and he grabbed Odo just in time before he could jump off and do something that both of them would regret later. 'We'll take care of her later, but causing a commotion now would be bad.' This didn't seem to please the fox too much, but he settled down none the less.
Fine, better you solve it then I. I'd be much less diplomatic about it then you the fox said through their mental link before putting his head back down. It was going to be a long day tomorrow and with his nightly guard duty, getting some sleep would do him good. With that sound reasoning, the fox started to slowly nod off.
Jaune suddenly felt a tug on his arm, looking in its direction he noticed Ruby standing there with the blonde from earlier. She was clearly taller than Jaune even though he himself was no slouch, well considering he was a man, but what really stood out was her long and beautiful flowing hair. Sure she seemed to have a killer body, but Jaune was not one to objectify anyone. He sure as shit wasn't going to be like them.
"See something you like handsome? The name's Yang Xio Long, but just call me Yang." She introduced herself flirtatiously while giving a wink. Jaune just smiled and extended his hand, even though he was mentally rolling his eyes.
"Jaune Arc, nice to meet you. And yes, your hair is rather beautiful." He said still admiring it, and judging from the look on her face that wasn't the answer she expected, but the blush indicated she liked it none the less. "Well I do try to take care of it." Yang said suddenly bashful from the compliment. 'wow, that was easy, guess she expected me to fold like a lawn chair cause I'm a man'
At this point Ruby seemed to have had enough of being ignored the piped in. "what do you mean try!?" she asked flailing her hand about comically. "You spend about an hour on your hair. Every day!"
Yang just flipped her hair back dramatically "Well of course Rubes, gotta keep it nice and tidy so pretty boys like Blondie here will notice me." This just earned a cute pout from Ruby, which only intensified after Yang ruffled her hair. Suddenly they heard a small snoring sound, which caused the 2 to stop and look at the Jaune. As he was clearly awake they looked him over to see the fox's chest slowly rising and lowering while cute little snores came out.
"Umm, Jaune?" Yang asked tentatively while looking at the red scarf. "Yes Yang?" he asked raising his eyebrow wondering what caused their sudden change.
"Why is your scarf snoring?" This just resulted in him blinking owlishly at them.
"What scarf? I don't have anything around my neck other than Odo here." The fox snored adorably again as Jaune scratched his head lightly. The 2 girls however just looked shocked. "Wait, you're telling me that that is an actual fox and not just a pelt or decoration on your armour?" Yang asked incredulously.
"Well yeah, why wouldn't it be?" he asked like having a fox around his neck is the most natural thing. The 2 girls just looked wide eyed before Ruby squealed excitedly jumping up and down. "oooh, can I please pet it, or play or-" Ruby was cut off as Yang placed a hand over her mouth.
"Or you can let it sleep sis. You know how Zwei can be if we wake him up at the wrong time." This seemed to calm Ruby down enough for Yang to remove her hand. "you're right" she said a bit deflated before looking back at Jaune. "But once he wakes up can I please play with it?" she asked making one of the best puppy dog eyes Jaune has ever seen. 'nice try Ruby, but growing up with 7 sisters kind of makes you immune.'
"If he is okay with it, Odo is a he not an it." Jaune clarified.
"Fair enough, come on Ruby, let's get cleaned up before setting up our things." Yang grabbed Ruby's hand and was about to start dragging her before Jaune remembered that he wasn't paying attention to the speech so he doesn't know where they'll be sleeping. "Yang, wait!" he rushed up to her. The blonde came to a stop and turned to Jaune smirking. "what's the matter, afraid you won't see me again?" this just earned a deadpan stare from Jaune.
"No, I just didn't hear where everyone will be sleeping. Could you please elaborate on the sleeping arrangements, if they were mentioned that is."
"Sure, we'll all be sleeping in the main hall." This just caused Ruby to throw her hands up excitedly. "It'll be like a big slumber party." Both Yang and Jaune looked at her and her touch childish behaviour. "A slumber party which you'll be brushing your teeth for, now come on sis, you need to considering how many cookies you eat." Without another word Yang dragged the flailing Ruby after her.
'So that was a thing, although I'm not sure I'm comfortable with having this many girls around me. Oh well, Odo will keep guard.' He thought moving through the crowd of girls many of whom eyed him. He just let out a deep sigh 'this is going to be a long 4 years.'
If he thought that he had eyes on him during the day than that was nothing compared to what happened when he entered the main hall after changing into his sleep wear, black shorts and blue and black sleeveless top. It showed off his body nicely, well that's what the girls thought, judging by the looks they gave him, someone even cat called to him. He might not have been as tall or muscular as Yang, but for a guy he was in damn good shape. Standing 5'8 with plenty of lean muscle on him, muscle that held more strength than the eyes originally let on. 'That'll be a surprise for them when they find out' he thought smiling.
Yeah, whatever, I know you're happy with how the enhancement turned out but we can worry about that later. For now look sharp, there are way more women around than is good for us. Jaune just rolled his eyes at his companions paranoia, though it's not as if it was not warranted. 'You do realise that we're in a school that is monitored. There are rules.'
And when have rules, laws, and treaties stopped women? And how would it stop hormonal teenagers. The fox cocked an eyebrow almost comically as he walked beside Jaune. 'Point taken, I'll stay on guard.'
Spotting a nice and quiet corner at the back of the room he went over and set down his sleeping bag. Odo just layed down next to him curling up and letting Jaune stroke his fur. 'By the way Ruby asked to play with you and pet you and what not.' This news just caused the red fox to growl, before huffing. Fine, she seems nice enough, and I can't make a commotion if I want to stay here.
Soft footsteps were heard making both Jaune and Odo look up. They saw the same raven haired girl from earlier today, she seemed to be wearing a yukata. Her figure was slim, but clearly muscular, as was pretty much the norm for Huntresses. Hell, even Ruby might have a four pack. Jaune was merely curious what she wanted while Odo was on guard.
"Excuse me, but is this spot taken? It seems to be the quietest over here." Jaune looked her over and tried to judge her tone and facial features before sighing. "It's free, hope you don't mind the fox though." This got a curious look from her before she looked next to Jaune and saw that there was a live fox next to him.
"Of course not, I like animals." Her reply was calm with a neutral tone as she sat her bag down. Of course she would, she's a Faunus. Jaune just looked at Odo with a raised eyebrow. It's the bow. They twitch, plus I can smell it. Something feline. It adds up.
'I'm not a racist Odo, you know that, nor a sexist. As long as she gives me my space we'll be fine.' He thought before taking out his Scroll. Out of the corner of his eye he noticed the Faunus girl taking out a book and immersing herself in it. Good he would have his peace. Looking over his Scroll he saw he had a couple of messages from his family, mostly wishing him luck and telling him to stay safe. Aren't you gonna watch that show that you always do? Something about gamers and what not?
'Not in the mood, maybe later. For now it seems I have a message from Saph, she says she could use my help with one of her projects. Needing my 'expertise' on it.' This just earned a huff from the fox. Yeah, she needs that a lot.
'Ease up on her will you, she means well and it's always fun to work with her. Besides I'm mostly the only one who she tolerates in her lab most of the time and talks with.' Jaune thought trying to reason, even though he knew full well what Odo's problem was. He still shivered when thinking back to that disastrous meeting.
Easy for you to say, you weren't the one she wanted to dissect when she met. the fox replied in a cynical manner. Even though he got on better with Jaune's sister recently, he wasn't overly fond of her, or the questions she raised about him. Odo head suddenly whipped around in a speed that would've probably snapped any lesser beings neck. Heads up, hostiles at 12 o'clock.
Jaune's head shot up at this, but as soon as he noticed who it was he just deadpanned almost wanting to smack his dear companion on the head. 'That's just Ruby and his sister Yang, who to be fair you haven't met. But you don't need to refer to them as hostiles.' He thought even though he himself didn't take his eyes off of them. 'and remember, be nice, Ruby probably wants to play with you.'
Fine, just tell her to be careful or I'll bite. the ever paranoid and on guard companion of his thought.
"Hey Jaune" chirped Ruby, ever happily, while Yang just held a broad smile and posture of confidence. "Hey Lady killer, missed me?" she asked cockily, albeit in a playful manner. That's her sister? I'm willing to give Ruby the benefit of doubt, but considering how Blondie is acting I'm classing her under 'stereotypical, be wary of'.
'She seemed nice enough earlier, but I see where you're coming from.' Suddenly Ruby leaned down and extended a hand towards Odo slowly. "Hey there little fella, can I play with you?" Panicking a bit at how he would react Jaune prepared to intervene, only hoping that Odo would stay true to his word. Which he apparently did, as was evident from leaning in to Ruby's hand and allowing her to stroke his fur. This just made Jaune smile, finally Odo might be a bit more open to women.
"Just be gentle with him and don't do any sudden movements. He needs to get used to you first." He put his scroll away and decided to pay full attention to the conversation.
"So Blondie aren't you going to introduce us to your mysterious friend over here?" Yang asked indicating to the raven haired beauty. Seeing how she looked over from her book to Jaune with a sideways glance, he just gave a shrug. "Didn't really introduce ourselves, and I didn't want to disturb her reading." Apparently she appreciated this if the smile on her face was anything to go by.
"Well I don't mind disturbing" Evidently came the flat reply from Odo who was still being played with by Ruby, although he didn't seem to mind too much, having gotten slightly more comfortable with her. "Name's Yang Xiao Long, and this little red head is my sister Ruby Rose. Say hi Ruby."
She just gave a weak wave and a hello in reply. "Also thanks for helping me out in the courtyard." The hidden cat Faunus just looked up for a minute before lowering her book. "Blake Belladonna, no problem." Suddenly a pregnant pause took hold, which Jaune decided to break by extending a hand to Blake. "Jaune Arc, it was rude of me not to introduce myself." After a slight moment of surprise upon hearing his name, which she didn't do quiet as good as when he heard hers, she took his hand and shook it.
"Seeing how we all know each other how about we call it a night? We need our rest." Odo hopped out of Ruby's arms at Jaune's suggestion seemingly agreeing with him. "Good point, I need my beauty sleep, come on Rubes, time to go to bed." She said grabbing Ruby by her collar and dragging her away to which she just pouted and flailed about. "I'm not a child Yang and I can walk."
"But you are my little sister, now come on. See ya later Jaune, Blake." The blonde waved goodbye while dragging Ruby off.
So that was a thing. Odo thought laying down and taking up his guard post next to Jaune. Blake switched off her lamp and turned away to sleep. Jaune just calmly turned towards Blake "I won't tell anyone, but know that I don't judge people on appearances. If you want to talk about it I'll listen. Goodnight."
With his peace said Jaune turned in to sleep hearing only a faint 'Thank you' from Blake.
Waking up early was a blessing, while everyone else still slept or was half asleep he was able to go about and get ready without being disturbed. Even if he hadn't woken up early by himself he did ask Odo to get him up for this very reason. After a quick shower he decided to grab a light breakfast and seeing as he already showered and only needed his weapon he decided to take his time.
'Hey Odo, did anything happen last night while I was asleep?' Jaune asked curiously while hoping no one tried anything. No, but I heard some bitches talking about how they look forward to 'making you theirs' while they ogled your body before they went to sleep. The red fox growled clearly irritated. 'I'd like to see them try.'
So would I. While Jaune was more dismissive and remained on-guard, Odo grinned disturbingly viciously at the thought, already imagining how he'd rip them apart. Noticing how students filed in slowly but steadily, including a very loud and very muscular and tall ginger, it was an obvious decision for Jaune to finish up and slowly make his way to the lockers.
Finding the locker room wasn't the problem nor was finding his locker. What however was the problem was 2 girls standing in front of it. One a tall, muscular red head; not as buff as Yang and definitely not as much as the ginger, but her muscle tone was obvious and with her height it gave her the very definition of an Amazon warrior, and Jaune had to admit that she was a beauty. While not being as foolish as to suddenly fall head over heels for her, he did admit that she was attractive in a way he might consider to pursue should she turn out nice enough. Nonetheless those were thoughts for another time.
Next to the Amazon beauty stood Weiss; who while definitely shorter than the red head, she had a decent enough muscle tone and her height was nearly that of Jaune. Only person he saw shorter was Ruby, but that could be chalked up to her obviously being younger.
Must we get the weapon, we could always just go in unarmed, given you always have your other weapon with you. Odo really didn't want to deal with Weiss or with the unknown red head, but if Weiss was talking to her that didn't bode well. She only tended to associate herself with the more 'upper class' people or famous/powerful ones, and those always meant trouble.
'I promised Jade to test out the new ammo for her as soon as I have the chance out in the field. Besides Weiss should have calmed down since the last time we met. I believe my sisters gave her a stern talking to, not to mention she's been raised well enough to know her boundaries.' He said remembering their last meeting and how afterwards his sister mentioned that they talked to her. Just be careful, I have a bad feeling about the red head.
Making his way to his locker Jaune decided to tackle this problem head on and try to just get through it as fast as possible. "Excuse me ladies." He said stepping between them to his locker. 'Please leave me alone, please leave me alone.' Jaune prayed while inputting the code to his locker.
"Jaune" 'Fuck!' he exclaimed mentally upon hearing his name from the heiress, whose voice seemed to be laced with happiness. "it's so good to see you!" choosing that the best option would be to quickly acknowledge Weiss and shut her down before she could go on any form of speech. Yeah, his sister's might have put the fear of Oum into her, but they weren't here now. Good luck, you'll need it.
"You too Weiss, it has been quite a while." Deciding to stay well mannered, as always, and be a gentleman Jaune bowed a bit to which Weiss performed a small, but formal curtsey. "I'm surprised to see you here Jaune, last time we met you never mentioned anything about coming to Beacon."
"Well some stuff happened and Opal invited me." He said nonchalantly, like getting personally invited by the Headmistress of Beacon was an everyday thing. Once he closed the locker door he mused at Weiss' expression. Oh my God, the look, that look on her face, it's priceless his red furred companion thought to him laughing. Weiss' eyes were wide and she was gaping like a fish.
Finally Weiss snapped out of it as Jaune finished adjusting his holster and ammos. "You got invited by the Headmistress personally?" she asked in disbelief. "Yep." He said popping the p at the end.
"That's very impressive" came a melodic voice from behind Jaune. Was wondering when she'd join in. Jaune stepped aside and turned to look at the beautiful red head, who now that he was up close easily showed that she was nearly a whole foot taller than him. '6'7 or 6'8 would be my guess. What do you think Odo?'
Well considering you're roughly 5'9, I'd say she's 6'8, so I'm thinking you should use 12'7 flag pole to stay away from her. The fox thought after thinking it over, this red head gave him a bad feeling and he was gonna let Jaune know whenever he could. Ignoring his companion's comment Jaune decided to continue the conversation with the red head. "Thank you although it wasn't much really."
"No need to be so humble, it's not every day someone gets invited by the Headmistress herself." She said calmly while giving Jaune a warm smile. This just got the blonde boy to blush a bit at being complimented which got a both angry and incredulous response from his trusted companion. Why the hell are you blushing!? You are NOT crushing on her, no way is that happening!
The red headed Amazon hid a small smile at having successfully flustered the handsome boy (or rather man with the physique she was looking at) who she eyed already yesterday. While this small smile might have escaped Jaune, it did not escape his Guard who was only going to be even more guarded around her. "Thank you. I'm Jaune Arc by the way." He replied still a bit flustered while extending a hand.
"Nice to meet you Jaune." She took his hand shaking it with a smile, but to her sudden surprise Jaune's grip was stronger than she thought it would be which earned a confused look. "May I ask for your name?" this earned him an even more confused look from the girl and a dumbstruck look from Weiss.
"J-Jaune, you can't seriously tell me that you don't know who she is." The heiress asked incredulously, while looking at him slightly comically. "Not really, I mean I spent most of my time at home studying or training or being with my family." While Jaune was confused by the turn of events and Weiss was in disbelief, the amazon warrior gained a dangerous glint in her eye which again was noticed by the ever vigilant fox guardian. If the look in her eye wasn't unnerving for the fox than the even bigger smile she now wore set the complete picture. Surely this can't get any worse.
"I suppose that's understandable then. Well let me introduce her, she's Pyrrha Nikos. 4 time Mistral Champion, often referred to as the Champion of Mistral, top of her class at Sanctum, and she even modelled for a couple of magazines." This only made Jaune whistle. "Wow, congratulations, those are quite a number of achievements."
Of fucking course she's from Mistral. Had to open my big mouth, and she's its 'Champion'. Odo was more worried than anything at this point, Mistrali were nearly always bad news; especially the upper-class. And you don't get much more upper-class than being its Champion.
"Well Jaune, Pyrrha and I were just talking about forming partners and teams. I think the 3 of us would be great on a team." Jaune just wondered at this, weren't pairings random cause that's what her sister said when she came here. And while he does know Weiss he doesn't know Pyrrha, although she does seem like a nice girl. Nope, don't even think about it, I know you were ignoring me before but I'll tell you now, this Pyrrha girl is bad news, just let the chips fall where they may.
"While I wasn't sure at first I'm starting to agree with Weiss, the 3 of us could make a good team. You already seem to know her and I'm sure the 2 of us would also get along grand." Pyrrha said with an overly happy smile, it was something akin to a kid getting their first puppy or someone having discovered the most important thing in their life. The last of which hit rather close for Pyrrha's happiness.
"Well I'm flattered, but I think selection is random and I think we should just let the chips fall where they may." Before either of the girls could reply the speaker turned on. ^Would all first years please report to the cliff side for initiation please.^ Saved by the bell.
"I guess that's our cue, well I suppose we should go." Without another word Jaune took off in the direction of the cliffs. If he would've turned back he could've seen the hungry look in the both girls eyes, however restrained they may have been. 'I don't know what the big problem with girls is elsewhere; so far Beacon was pretty nice.' He thought to know one while musing over his recent encounters. Damn it Jaune, don't let your guard down. An irate Odo said to him over their link.
Once reaching the cliffs Jaune stepped on a platform that was furthest from Opal and Goodwitch while sending a quick glare in their direction before looking out onto the forest. Alright Jaune, put your game face on. No distractions. The red fox curled tighter around his neck and gripping on better to his outfit. Out of the corner of his eye he could see Ruby, Yang, Weiss, Pyrrha, Blake, and a bunch of others take positions.
He listened to Opal's instructions about their objective and their partner selection, the latter which caused Ruby to panic. 'Search and retrieve, relics North wise in ruins, partner is first person you make eye contact with. Other than the stupid way to partner up it sounds simple enough.'
Don't get cocky nor overconfident, you've been trained and taught better. This just earned a sigh from the Jaune. 'I know, and if we're getting launched which I believe we are then I already have a landing strategy.' Feeling gear shift under him he focused and readied for the launch.
As soon as he was launched and felt the air rushing through his hair he started flaring his aura and moulding and willing it to take shape. At the apex of his arc he flashed white and suddenly a pair of white angelic wings of pure aura formed on his back. If he were to look back he would've seen the awed faces of the other initiates as they stared at what to them was effectively the birth of an angel. While one would consider this an exaggeration, the distance and flash gave of the image of such.
'Woo, I love this feeling, the rush, the air flowing through your hair. But onto the objective.' Taking out a compass, being ever prepared, Jaune looked in the northern direction and continued to glide that way. While occasionally beating his wings to keep himself airborne a bit longer he decided to land. After all he did have to get a partner.
Landing in a clearing purely for the sake of making it easier, not to say landing between trees was impossible, but landing in a open clearing was sure as hell easier that going through foliage and navigating to the ground while avoiding branches. As soon as he touched ground he dusted himself and stretched a bit. 'Another happy landing.'
I do have to say it went awfully well and easy, thought something might happen. As if on cue growling could be heard from the trees as several pairs of red eyes glowed from the foliage. 'You were saying.' Jaune only deadpanned at Odo.
Sorry, didn't mean to jinx it. Jaune just let out a deep sigh, as 5 Beowolves emerged from between the trees, 1 being an Alpha. 'Don't worry about it. They're just Beowolves.' After an intense stare down the alpha let out a great howl which prompted the other 4 to charge. Before they could move a foot however Jaune already let off 4 shots from Re Ruptor, each one being a perfect headshot.
The felling of its 4 pack members seemed to enrage the Alpha causing it to raise its head and let out another howl of rage only for it to be cut short by 2 shots tearing through its neck. As the Alpha dropped choking on its own blood Jaune started to reload his revolver. 'Dunno, but there was something satisfying about finally using it against something other than practice dummies and in spars with my family.'
Developing a slight bloodlust are we? This just earned a shrug from the blonde. Suddenly Odo perked up. Someone's here be on guard. The sound of clapping could be heard as the foliage ruffled and a smiling Pyrrha stepped out, locking eyes with Jaune. I re-iterate, be on-guard.
"Congratulations that was rather impressive." The praise just caused Jaune to blush again. Oh for fuck's sake. Thought as exasperated Odo, not believing what was happening. "Thank you, I guess this means we're partners now."
"Indeed. Shall we proceed, I can take lead." Pyrrha just motioned forward. "Sure." Jaune didn't much mind the red head taking point, made sense, if they get into another skirmish she can be close range while he backs her up from the rear. This is a bad idea Jaune, you shouldn't let her take the lead. It'll give the wrong impression.
'It's strategically sound choice.' He tried to reason with his companion/guard without much success. Will she see it like that? Or will she see that she can just take charge over a man? This just caused the blonde to roll his eyes 'would you at least give her a chance?'
No came the curt reply from Odo, the fox didn't intend to let his guard down around the Mistrali Champion. She might have you deceived but not me, she's bad news, and the moment she tries something I'll act accordingly. Jaune could do nothing but sigh, Odo was his guardian here and he was only doing his duty, Jaune couldn't fault him for that.
"So Jaune, what made you want to become a huntsman?" Pyrrha asked in genuine curiosity wanting to know more about her partner and future husband. She wasn't eyeing him yesterday for nothing, he was easy on the eyes, hell, he was perfect on the eyes; he's an Arc as she found out, which speaks for itself, and from what she saw he ain't a weakling either. He's perfect.
"Oh, I have no intention of becoming a huntsman." Hearing this made Pyrrha freeze for a minute, not believing what she heard. 'He doesn't even want to become a huntsman? Even more perfect than I thought' Pyrrha thought before continuing on and thanking Oum for her luck. "So why are you here then?" while she was happy that her now definitely crush, and most definitely future husband, didn't want to pursue that dangerous line she got honestly curious.
Play your cards close Jaune, and that's not just to her that's in general. He could agree with Odo on this, not wanting to give away his real motives of being here. The deal he struck with Opal was sweet and he had no intention to reveal it. "Let's just say I have my own agenda."
If either Jaune or Odo could've seen her face they would've seen her irritation; Pyrrha didn't like having secrets kept from her by her partner 'I'll just be patient and get back to him about it'.
It didn't take long for either of them to arrive at the ruins where Jaune noticed Yang and Blake already waiting and waving to them. Well Yang was waving, Blake just smiled and nodded. Question does beg to be asked how they got here before us.
'We ran into Beowolves and did have a little idle chat with Pyr' this response did not seem to please the fox judging from the angry noise he made. For fuck's sake Jaune! Already giving her a nickname!?
"So Lady Killer, what was that trick you pulled with the wings? Cause it was awesome." The muscled and well endowed blonde asked leaning in. "I was curious about that myself." Came from Blake who apparently decided that now was a good time to join the conversation.
"Nothing special really, just aura control." Jaune shrugged it off nonchalantly, he controlled aura like this more times than he could count often even more complicated so this wasn't all that amazing to him. Sure flying was fun with his wings, but he did it enough to not make a big deal of it.
"I wouldn't say 'nothing special'. That level of control is extremely hard. Besides, those wings looked rather angelic." Jaune would've blushed, again, if Yang wouldn't have ruined the moment.
"You could say he looked like an Arc-angel, eh?" this just earned a groan from the other 3.
"You guys are no fun." The buxom blonde pouted at their reaction. This just earned a deadpan expression from Blake. "No Yang, you simply aren't funny."
They were interrupted by a loud growl as well as the sound of breaking trees as suddenly an Ursa broke out of the tree line before collapsing. "Aw, it's dead." Said the large, well muscled ginger jumping off its back and zipping to the ruins and grabbing a relic.
"Nora, please don't ever do that again." Panted a tall raven haired girl wearing green robes, doubling over for breath after rushing out after the Ursa, the magenta highlight in her hair accentuated her eyes perfectly. Unlike her partner Nora who was even more muscled than Yang, not to mention tall, this girl cut a leaner figure. Tall nonetheless, but leaner.
"Did that girl just ride in on an Ursa?" asked a baffled Yang, not exactly believing what she just saw. Meanwhile the ginger haired girl zipped over to the ruins, with a speed betraying her well muscled size and build. How much energy does she have to be able to rush about like that while being so 'bulky'? asked an equally baffled Odo from Jaune.
'I don't know but I don't want to find out.' He just shuddered at imaging getting a hit from her; he'd probably be okay, he and his family made sure of that but it would still hurt like hell. While the muscle bound ginger, who's apparently called Nora, was running about with the relic on her head singing the ground started shaking. Hearing the sound of trees falling over the girls started to tense up at imagining the size of the Grimm. They were brought out of their fright by the sound of screaming as what appeared to be Weiss flying through the air.
Looking around and seeing no one as Weiss flying through the air out of control, Jaune just let out a deep sigh. 'Guess I have to be a gentleman here.' He thought before picking up Odo from around his neck and setting him down on the ground. No, no you don't, besides usually it's the women who save the prince in distress, not the other way around.
'You just want to see her crash don't you?' Jaune asked while giving his companion a deadpan look as he materialised his wings. I'm not going to confirm nor deny that. After letting out another exasperated sigh, Jaune jumped up and spread his wings to steady himself mid-air. As if this was planned ahead he caught Weiss perfectly in a bridal carry before gently lowering themselves down and setting Weiss on her feet while dismissing his wings.
Odo didn't waste any time in running up Jaune's body and curling back around his neck, in response he simply scratched the fox's head. Hearing footsteps, he turned around to see the others running towards him. Well Yang, Pyrrha and Nora were running, Blake and Rin casually walked being in no hurry.
With a slight blush Weiss turned to him and cleared her throat to get his attention. "Thank you Jaune, for your help." Judging by the rosy tint of her cheeks it was easy to ascertain she was flustered about both the close contact and that she was rescued a male. "If I could repay you, perhaps with a dinner?"
Here we go, why am I not surprised, should've just let her fall. Came a deadpan reply from Odo that was mirrored by Jaune's expression. Before he could utter a reply however he was bombarded by a barrage of questions.
"How did you do that with the wings? Can I learn it? Are you actually an angel? And is that a real fox?" Jaune would've tried to answer any of those questions were it not for the fact that he couldn't get a word in edge wise. Does she have an off switch? Cause now would be a good time to hit it. 'Let's just get initiation over with.' Came an exasperated reply from the young Arc; he just wanted to get this done with, call his family, and he still needed to test the ammo.
Before he could reply to any of the questions a giant Deathstalker burst through the trees, it's numerous eyes looking at the group with hate. 'Who was the genius that pissed that thing off' Odo was not impressed, not at all with how this day was turning out.
"Look Rin, it followed us." Came the excited voice of the over muscled ginger, who was smiling happily almost as if to think of this as an accomplishment. 'Of course, who else, why am I not surprised?' came Odo's ever so sarcastic comment, with an eye roll that would be rather uncharacteristic of a normal fox. Then again, he wasn't normal by any sense of the word.
"Yes Nora, yes it did; although I don't think we should be so enthusiastic about it." Came an all too even voice of her friend Rin, acting almost like this is a common occurrence. For all their sake hopefully it isn't. 'Hey, at least I can test out the ammo Jade gave me, I suppose there's that.' Jaune thought, trying to turn a negative into a positive; even if that negative had 6 legs, venom, pincer, and was a creature of pure darkness and hate.
Looking at everyone's faces it was obvious they were all uneasy about the fight, except for Nora and Rin; the first of whom looked positively thrilled while the latter seemed simply resigned to the situation. The situation would have been comical were it not for the fact that they could possibly die.
"Rin, look at all the legs we can break" the ginger grabbed her hammer in excitement, about to leap into the fray before suddenly, and thankfully, the green robed girl put a hand on her shoulder to stop her; earning a confused look from the hammer wielder.
"How about a plan first?" came her more than valid reasoning which simply seemed to make the excitable girl deflate a bit. Seems like she isn't used to planning and is more of a 'let's wing it' person. Came the rather obvious observation from Jaune's companion.
"That's all nice and well, but does anyone have a plan? Just asking cause I doubt it wait around much longer." Yang said while preparing her weapon and taking stance, prompting the others to do much the same; other than Jaune that is who was simply content on reloading his gun.
An eerie silence fell where one could hear crickets chirping. Seeing, or rather hearing, more specific not hearing there being a plan, it was Blake who decided to break the silence. "Great, guess we're dying here." She sounds so enthusiastic that I think I just got depression from hearing her.
Having had enough of waiting the Deathstalker, and their highly likely death, let out an ear piercing scream. This had the necessary effect of getting everyone to focus on the fight ahead as opposed to bickering. Pyrrha on the other hand change her position so she was standing much nearer to Jaune and ahead of him. "Stay behind me Jaune, I'll protect you." While she couldn't see it, this just earned a frown from the blonde boy. Still thinking so positively of her? Of course Odo jumped on the chance to comment. Jaune bit back his retort, no point in bickering.
Just as the Deathstalker was about to move causing everyone to tense, 6 shots were suddenly heard in quick succession. One last short screech was heard as the monster dropped with nearly it's whole face, at least for what accounted for it, missing. Everyone was shocked at what just happened and turned back towards the source of the sound just to see Jaune pointing his gun with a smoking barrel towards the now disappearing Deathstalker corpse.
Lowering the gun, Jaune reached into his small satchel by his side and started to reload the gun; all the while ignoring the stunned faces of his fellow students. 'I guess I can send back a positive review of the new ammo; maybe less shots would've been enough but I had to make sure.' Perhaps but if you would've kept a couple we could've used it later. 'Didn't want to chance it with the others around, they were in danger too not just me. If I was soloing this then I would've felt better and easier about experimenting with it.' Shrugging his shoulders Jaune finished reloading his weapon with the usual high calibre round he uses before he holstered it. 'I can always request more.'
Looking up at the others after holstering his gun he noticed that they were still a bit shocked. Slow on the uptake much? Odo ever so lovingly, and snidely, remarked earning a sigh from Jaune. "Guess we don't need a plan after huh?"
Hearing him speak finally snapped them out of their state, but before they could speak he raised a rather valid question: "Where is Ruby?"
His answer came soon enough when he heard trees crashing and familiar voice screaming. "Watch out!"he turned to its direction, just to be greeted by a red blur shooting out from between the trees and tackling him. Whatever it was came with enough speed that it sent him off his feet while knocking the air out of him.
Upon regaining his bearings, and breath, Jaune looked up wondering why he was feeling something heavy moving on top of him. Sure enough it was Ruby Rose still half dazed. Hearing a familiar growl he turned his head sideways to see Odo looking at Ruby, having been knocked of Jaune's shoulder when he was tackled. I suggest she gets off of you before I do it for her.
"Wow Rubes, didn't know you were this forward when claiming your man." came from a smirking Yang. "hope we can share."
This earned a multitude of responses from the girls around them, Blake simply rolled her eyes, while Pyrrha glared daggers and grit her teeth, Nora was holding back from laughing, while Rin just seemed exhausted already by the day, 'I can relate' was the only thing that came to Jaune's mind seeing her. "Get off of him you dolt!"
The screeching voice of the Schnee heiress was enough to snap Ruby out of her daze; upon seeing the 'compromising' position she was in she jumped off with a somewhat adorable 'eep'. Finally free of Ruby sitting on him Jaune was able to sit up while Odo got back around his neck. "okay Rubes, care to explain wh-" he was suddenly cut off as the trees crashed and a Beringel jumped out of the forest. If you were going to ask, why she was dashing like mad and ran into you I think that's your answer.
"I don't suppose you have any more of those wonder bullets of yours Lover boy." Asked Yang while readying her gauntlets and taking her stance, along with the others. It was clear that they were intending to take this thing head on, something that baffled Jaune to the extreme. "no but I have a plan."
"I'll shoot out its leg to set it off balance, when it falls forward to support itself Weiss you freeze it to the ground and once it's like that everyone empties everything they have into it." Seeing the the gorilla Grimm about to charge, Jaune decided not to wait for agreements and just put his plan into motion.
4 high calibre rounds shot precisely close together was enough to tear off it's right leg, with another 2 hitting the left setting it sufficiently tumbling forwards. Reflexively as Jaune predicted, it supported itself on its 2 muscular and rather oversized arms. "Weiss, now!" Not wasting anytime, she switch to ice dust and combining it with a glyph underneath the Grimm, froze it in place.
"Everyone fire before it breaks free!" that was the only order needed for everyone to unload into it. Everyone who had some form of ranged weapon shot into it until the clip was empty. After the dust settled, thanks to Nora's grenade's, the only left was a partially frozen and disintegrating Grimm corpse.
"Well that was easy enough." Came the rather monotone voice of Blake. Looking around Jaune could see that everyone was surprised. Why is this so surprising to them? With the amount of Dust and firepower shared between us 8 this was an obvious choice of action.
"Ok, hands up who wanted to face that thing head-on." To his utter shock everyone except Rin put their hand up. I take it back, apparently it's not so obvious. Jaune just hung his head at this while rubbing the bridge of his nose and letting out a sigh. "Words fail me. Let's just get back."
The walk back to the academy would have been a nice one were it not for the fact that half were ogling him, which contrary to what they thought he noticed, they kept asking him questions about his aura control and semblance, and they kept bothering Odo. To Jaune's greatest surprise though, his ever so lovely companion did not bite any of them, even when Nora tried to pet him without permission; opting to simply dodge her.
"Jaune-Jaune tell your pet to stop running, I want to cuddle it's cute face." Nora kept chasing the crimson fox while pouting, meanwhile Jaune just had a slight twitch at the nickname. 'Ignore it, she might not be on your team.'
"Come on Jaune, pleeeaase tell me how you beat me to the auditorium, it's been bugging me ever since yesterday. Was it your semblance?" and there was his second source of a headache, Ruby; she was nice, kind, and pretty cool to hang out with, but a kid, a kid who couldn't take no as an answer.
"Look Ruby, for the umpteenth time, my answer is no on all accounts." He didn't like the sad and dejected look on Ruby's face, but what he wouldn't like even more is telling them his semblance and then have all of them pester him about it. However seeing Ruby sad got Yang involved, cause of course it had to.
"Come on Blondie, don't be like that. It's just your semblance she's asking for. Everyone already knows hers, she has speed, Ice Queen over there has her glyphs, so come on." At least Yang seemed to come with a reasonable approach as opposed to Ruby constantly nagging him. Suddenly he felt an arm rest on his shoulder, turning towards it he saw it was his partner, Pyrrha.
"I agree with Yang, I'll tell you mine if it helps. I mean we are partners, we shouldn't have secrets from each other." Jaune already kept some things to himself, earlier she let it slide, but this time she was adamant on finding this out. We are partners and we should be open with each other and not have secrets. If I have to tell him my semblance as well then so be it. Pyrrha thought to herself.
This got Jaune more than irritated, but after taking a deep breath in and letting it out slowly he turned to face all of them, making them stop. He was going to address this issue for good. With Nora stopping as well, Odo had time to jump back around Jaune's neck.
"Ok, let me address this issue right here and right now. My semblance is something that I keep very secret. Outside my family 2 people know, and each of them knew me for over a year at least before I trusted them enough to reveal even part of how it works. It is not something that I share lightly. I like you girls, you seem nice." Emphasis on the 'seem' part. Quipped Odo, sometimes Jaune really wondered how people would react if Odo would actually voice his thoughts to them out loud. He was able to, it was just a case of rather keeping it quiet, people tend to ask questions when things that are supposed to be simple animals start talking. "But fact remains that my semblance is a closely guarded and important secret. I have my reasons for not sharing, and I ask that you respect that." Thinking that he explained things clearly and reasonably, he let his words hang in the air.
Ruby was the first to speak up, albeit it still a bit sad. "Well if it's that important to you I guess I understand, everyone should be allowed to have their secrets, you just as much as me and the rest of us." She finished smiling and surprising Jaune a lot with her answer, or rather how mature it was.
"Well, if you have your reasons I'll respect that." Yang said smiling now, probably because Ruby was as well, before she turned to said reaper and looking at her suspiciously. "and you. What is this about you keeping secrets?"
With Yang interrogating Ruby and Rin having calmed Nora down, something about promising pancakes, the group was content on moving forward. Well everyone bar one Spartan that is, who moved on with the others albeit with a frown. I guess I'll just have to play the long game.
While most of the group didn't notice this, Odo did, he might not be able to read the red head's mind, but her face said enough. You might be able to fool the others, but there is a reason I'm Jaune's Guardian, and you will not get past me.
"Jaune Arc, Nora Valkyrie, Pyrrha Nikos, Lie Rin, you recovered the white rook pieces, from here on you'll be team JNPR, lead by Jaune Arc." Opal turned to Jaune and smiled. "Congratulations young man."
While his friends and teammates were congratulating him, all he could do was grit his teeth. 'This is not how things were supposed to be; my time is better spent elsewhere and not planning fucking strategies, that's not why I'm here.' This was not part of their deal and Jaune was pissed, although he tried not to show it. Should've known better than to trust her, although to be fair one would imagine at least her being a fair one.
'I'd say I'll talk to her tomorrow, but I doubt she'll change it; although it wouldn't hurt to ask.' With that planned for later, he and his team set out to their dorms which they were pleasantly surprised was opposite Team RWBY's. So according to Ruby and Nora now they were sister teams. The room seemed normal and spacious enough for 4 people.
Having finally unpacked he heard someone cleared their throat trying to grab his attention. He turned to see his partner looking at him expectantly. This made him a bit confused, was she seriously asking for permission to speak?
"You may speak, although I don't quite understand why you'd ask permission for that."
"Actually I was wondering how you are intending to sort out the dressing and changing. You're the only guy here so-"Jaune cut her off before she could finish the thought, cause she better not want him to leave the room while they change.
"Sooo there's a bathroom over there, feel free to use it. If you want to get changed in front of all of us I don't care, I grew up with seven sisters, I won't see anything that I haven't seen before; and if you're bothered by me changing in front of you I'll do it in the bathroom." He has accidently opened in on his sisters enough and vice versa to not be bothered by the female body or be bashful about his own. That said he did respect people privacy.
"Oh, that's ok, I was actually about to say I'm not bothered by it, what about you girls?" Nora had a happy smile on her face while Rin was simply indifferent and shrugged. She wants a fucking show! That bi- 'I gathered as much, no need to swear, and I don't intend to give it to them.'
"That's okay Pyr, I'll change in the bathroom, it's best to respect ones privacy." This earned a sad face from Nora while Pyrrha just nodded, albeit slightly disheartened a bit at not getting some eye candy of her future husband.
With that out of the way Jaune went and got changed before flopping down on his bed and turning in for the night, soon followed by his teammates.
And that's the first chapter done. I always appreciate constructive feedback, and I hope you enjoyed it.
I can't promise regular updates, nor if they'll be this long.
A massive shout out to patattack750 who inspired me to write this fic and finally release it as well as for betaing this for me. He has great fics so check them out.
If you want an example of Jaune's armour try imagining (or googling) N7 slayer armour from Mass effect.