Jaune Arc: Weapon Whisperer

Chapter One: Talking Swords and Giant Burds

Jaune felt a bit of relief that he managed to get a partner in this forest and not get killed. He didn't actually think he would get this far what with him never having gone into one of the previous combat academies until now. While both of walked through this forest that was absolutely teaming with Grimm, Jaune stopped when he heard a few loud shots go off in the air.

"What was that?" He asked his red headed partner. Pyrrha stopped as well and turned her head in the direction of the noise.

"Gunshots, our comrades have encountered the enemy." She stated in a matter-of-fact tone before trudging once again through the forest. Jaune found no flaws with this logic and followed behind her as she lifted up a tree branch from out of her way. When she let the tree branch go, much to Jaune's displeasure, it smacked him in the face which knocked him onto the ground where he put his hand upon the stinging cut that was on his face.

"Jaune!" Pyrrha exclaimed as she turned to look at him, "Sorry," she apologized.

"It's okay, just a scratch." Jaune pushed himself off the ground while Pyrrha walked over to him.

"Why didn't you activate your aura?" She asked as she now stood in front of him. When Jaune heard this word he felt confused since he had never heard of it before.

"Huh?" He replied.

"Your aura," Pyrrha restated. Pyrrha's green eyes slightly narrowed as her mind began to process this. "Do you even know what aura is?" She asked. Jaune thought that all of what he did in trying to get into beacon would be destroyed by this little question, so he did what came naturally, he lied.

"Of course I do," Jaune replied with a false bravado while internally he was really thinking, 'The jig is up.' What Jaune did next, he realized was where he should have shut his big mouth, "Do you know what aura is?" He asked while pointing a finger at Pyrrha. Pyrrha had a small smile on her face when Jaune asked this question.

"Aura is the manifestation of our souls. It bears our burdens and shields our hearts. Have you ever felt like you were being watched without knowing that someone was there?" She asked. Now that Jaune thought about it, it was usually either his parents or sisters who were watching him but the same could probably be applied to this moment right now.

"Uhh, yeah." By then Jaune began to listen in on what Pyrrha was saying in some desperate attempt to still be able to not blow his cover in Beacon. If he couldn't show that he knew what he was doing, then he would get kicked out of this place and he didn't want to go back to his parent's house, where he would end up going to a normal school where he would leave to get a normal job and never have an exciting moment for the rest of his life. No, he wanted to be a hero like his grandfather, just like all the stories that he used to tell of his time fighting to help people.

"Now, close your eyes and concentrate." Pyrrha ordered as she walked up closer to Jaune. Jaune did as the young warrior asked with no objections as she put her hand on the side of his head. When he did this Pyrrha opened her eyes widely and began the process of awakening the latent aura within Jaune. Both teens began glowing, Pyrrha a red while Jaune's was white.

"For it is in passing that we achieve immortality. Through this we become a paragon of virtue and glory and rise above all, infinite in distance and unbound by death. Pyrrha then place a hand upon Jaune's armored chest. I release your soul, and by my shoulder protect thee." She stopped glowing and released Jaune before she felt the fatigue of unlocking Jaune's aura kick in. Jaune took the moment to enjoy this new found feeling of freedom with his aura unlocked. It felt like nothing he had ever felt before.

Jaune eventually looked at Pyrrha who was leaning in fatigue which managed to cut down his power high that he was feeling. "Pyrrha!"

"I'm alright," She replied as she pulled herself back up, "I used my aura to unlock yours, but the energy that protects you now is your own." As she said this Jaune felt the cut on his cheek instantly heal which Pyrrha noticed as well and let a smirk adorn her face, "You have a lot of it." She stated. "Eventually you'll be able to unlock your Semblance which is an ability you gain from the use of aura."

"Sweet." Jaune replied with genuine happiness. This was the first step in a long line of them that would eventually allow him to become a hero. He felt the sword attached to his hip that his grandfather had given him before he left for the academy and was reminded of why he was doing all of this. And even better, he would eventually gain a cool superpower from having his aura unlocked. What could possibly go wrong?

"Hey laddie!" A wizened voice shouted. Jaune looked up and around the area, much to the confusion of Pyrrha.

"What's wrong Jaune?" She asked. Jaune shook his head before looking at his partner.

"Nothing, I think I was just hearing things." He replied.

"Hearing what?" The wizened voice asked. Jaune looked around the area again in an effort to find this voice.

"Who's there?" He asked loudly.

"Jaune, who are you talking to? There's no one here?" Pyrrha asked in worry for her partner's wellbeing.

"I keep hearing this old guy talking to me, and I don't know where he is." Jaune responded.

"Hey, I'm not old! I'm only eighty eight years old, boy!" The wizened voice responded with indignation. Jaune pulled his sword out of it's sheath and held it before himself to the woods where he expected the old man to pop out.

"Where are you?" Jaune asked as he held the slightly heavy blade.

"Alright, I need you to look at your hands." Jaune did so with some skepticism. "Now what is in your hands?"

"A sword."

"And there we go," Jaune freaked out and dropped his sword. "Hey, watch it! I hate getting dropped. Do you know how many times your grandfather dropped me before he could hold me, more than enough BLOODY TIMES!" The sword shouted.

"How can my sword talk?" Jaune asked. Internally Jaune felt this must be one giant joke, either that or a dream.

"Well, you did just activate your Semblance laddie. That probably did it. Then again, you probably shouldn't have expected anything different with your luck. I mean come on, you get accepted into an academy with fake transcripts, and then for you initiation, you get literally launched into a forest."

"This can't be real," Jaune said in an effort to keep calm.

"Oh it certainly is, unless the ability to use super speed isn't, then I think that being able to talk to weapons is a small rung on the totem pole if I do say so myself. Anyway laddie, name's Crocea Mors, and from now on we're gonna be partners, you got that?" Crocea asked.

"…Okay." Jaune replied nervously. Pyrrha on the other hand watched what appeared to be a one sided conversation with Jaune in slight fear that her partner may have gone insane.

"So, this is my partner's partner huh. I think that Pyrrha could do better." A young voice stated arrogantly. Jaune turned to look in Pyrrha's direction where he heard the voice originate.

"Who is that?"

"I'm on Pyrrha's back." When Jaune heard that he looked at the spear and shield combination that Pyrrha was carrying. "Yeah, so I guess he can hear us, right old timer?" The spear asked Crocea.

"Don't call me old you new scrap of metal!" Jaune could feel the anger boiling up in Crocea. "Now, we need to help the lad here because I think his partner is just about ready to ditch the boy, and I can't have that happen."

"Yeah, whatever old man." The spear replied before focusing it's attention on Jaune. "Alright waste of skin, tell my partner here that when she made me, she accidentally spilled coffee on my blade during the creation process."

"Why?" Jaune asked.

"Because, only she and I know about that. It'll also help prevent her from thinking that you're crazy. By the way, waste of skin, my name is Miló. You better remember it." With that, Miló stopped talking. Jaune looked at Pyrrha with as much confidence that he could muster, he decided to tell her.

"When you were making Miló, you spilled coffee on him during the creation process!" Jaune said quickly to his partner. Pyrrha's eyes widened when she heard this.

"How do you even know about that?" She asked.

"He just told me. Also I think I discovered my Semblance." Jaune replied. Pyrrha tried to process all of this much to her dismay as she stared at Jaune.

"Jaune, I think that I may just believe you." Pyrrha replied.

"Well at least you have that going for ya, laddie. Now we just need to complete this objective of yours and you can begin your new life at Beacon." Crocea stated with a excited tone.

"Alright. I guess now that we know what my Semblance is; we can get this test done with." Jaune began to walk past Pyrrha who took a moment to stare at her weapon before she looked up and caught up to Jaune.

As the duo walked around the forest they eventually came up to a cave where Jaune got an idea. "Hey Pyrrha," Pyrrha turned to look at Jaune.

"What is it?" She asked.

"Do you think our objective is in that cave over there?" Jaune asked. Pyrrha pulled out Miló and Akoúo.

"It might be." Pyrrha responded.

"Might not be the best idea laddie. I don't think that this artifact would be hidden in a random cave in the middle of nowhere." Crocea replied.

"But what if it is?" Jaune asked.

"Trust me, it's probably not." Jaune held his arm in front of Pyrrha who stopped next to him.

"What is it Jaune?" She asked.

"Crocea keeps telling us to not go into the cave. I think that I'm going to listen to him." Jaune let his arm fall to his side and then he began walking in the opposite direction. Pyrrha shrugged and walked with him away from the dark cave.

"So Jaune, could you tell me about yourself?" Pyrrha asked as they trudged through the woods.

"What do you want to know?"

"Do you have any family?"

"Yeah, seven sisters, my mom and dad, and my grandpa." Jaune looked down at the sword in his hands, "My grandpa was the one who made me want to become a hunter in the first place." Jaune looked back up at Pyrrha, "So what about you? Got any family?"

"Just my mother."

"That's pretty cool. At least you don't have to fight over the bathroom in the morning." Jaune replied with a grin.

Now that Jaune thought about it, his grandpa was really supportive of his decision to go to Beacon unlike that of his parents. He could even remember the night before when he was packing…

As Jaune put his clothes into his suitcase, he could hear yelling from downstairs in the house. One of the voices was that of his grandpa who apparently was putting up quite a fight against his parents. When Jaune finished packing all of his clothes, he opened his bedroom door and slowly tiptoed over to the stairwell by his room. He noticed that two of his sisters were already there listening in on the argument. All of them had slightly frightened looks as they listened.

When his sisters noticed him they silently waved him over to where they were crouching. Jaune nodded and walked over and crouched where they were. Jaune then listened in on what was unfolding downstairs.

"Dad, you know that Jaune hasn't attended a combat school before, why did you even give him that hairbrained scheme in the first place!?" Jaune's father asked.

"I didn't attend a combat school when I first went to war. The boy will do fine."

"Those were different times Acier, its peaceful now!" Jaune's mother screamed.

"But you two are his parents; you should support your kids on whatever they want to do."

"I will support my son on most things, but going to a combat academy that he clearly isn't ready for is not one of them!"

"What, so he can just become a baker like you? The boy has potential that you keep squandering by ignoring what he wants to do. I remember when you first got into your combat school…"

"Yeah, but then I found out what it all leads to, and that is death and despair." Jaune's father said in a solemn voice.

"You need to let Jaune live his life and not just coddle him up in this town."

"If it means that he's safe, then yes. Send out the other parent's children to fight against the Grimm, but don't send my son to die out there!" Jaune could hear his mother clearly crying right now.

"It's alright Beatrice; it's what the boy wants to do. Let him live his life the way he wants and when he comes back home for his break, I'll teach him all I know so that he'll be even better when he goes back to school. Just give Jaune a chance." Jaune's father took a deep breath.

"Fine, I'll let Jaune go, but if he doesn't come back home in one piece, then I want you to never bother this family again. I want you gone!" Jaune could hear the table being slammed, "Do we have a deal, dad?"

"Yes. I'm willing to put my faith in the boy, are you?" With that Acier walked out of the kitchen and towards the stairs. All the siblings who had crowded the stairs a minute ago had begun their flight from the stairs and back into their rooms, Jaune included.

Jaune set about pretending to pack his bag when his grandpa came into his room. "Jaune, I know you heard all of that." He stated. Jaune stopped packing and turned to his grandfather.

"How did you know?"

"I could hear those floorboards creaking around upstairs." Acier then walked over to Jaune's bed and sat on it. The man had slightly tan skin but other than that, he looked like Jaune if Jaune had white hair and a beard. The older man had on a yellow shirt which was covered by a black leather jacket and a pair of black cargo pants with the pockets bulging with items. He wore a pair of sandals and on his hip was his sword in its sheath.

"So my parents really don't want me to go, huh?" Jaune asked with a depressed tone.

"Your parents are just scared. It's the right of any parent to be worried about their kid, especially if their kid is going off to learn how to kill Grimm."

"But what about my transcripts? The minute they see how I fight, they'll-" Jaune was interrupted by Acier's hand being held in his face.

"Don't worry about it kid, everything has been taken care of. I know the headmaster of the school. We're pretty good friends and I managed to convince him to let you in with a fake transcript." Acier said with a wide grin on his face.

"And I don't even have a weapon, how am I going to fight Grimm?" Jaune asked as he began looking at the floor.

"And that is why I'm up here right now," Acier replied. Jaune looked up at the man with a questioning look on his face.

"Wait, you have a weapon for me?" Jaune asked in disbelief. Acier nodded.

"Yep," Acier then pulled his sword's scabbard and blade from off his belt and handed it to Jaune. "This here is my trusty blade Crocea Mors. It has been with me since I first began my life as a warrior and I'm handing it over to you. It's seen many battles and I never wanted it to sit and collect dust, so it's your now." Acier finished with a smile as he patted Jaune's shoulder.

"I can't accept this. It's your blade and I-"

"It's yours now. You have shown to be a capable young man filled with potential and that is why I'm leaving this sword to you. Make me proud kid." With that, Acier got up from the bed and walked out of the room leaving Jaune alone to ponder all that was happening.

[The next day]

Jaune stood before his parents as he was about to leave his home. Jaune's father looked like an older version of Jaune except for the scarring on the left side of his face and the robotic left hand. He wore a white shirt and brown pants. Jaune's mother had long brown hair that went down to her waist while her blue eyes were filled with tears. She wore a brown long sleeved dress and was holding her husband's arm.

Acier stood outside the house wearing a pair of sunglasses and a big grin. "Now Jaune, we just want to let you know that regardless of what we feel, we support your decision." Jaune's father said with as much pride as he could muster. His mother broke into tears as she gave Jaune a suffocation hug.

"Your room is still open to you if you fail at Beacon!" Jaune's mother stated hysterically. Jaune felt slightly saddened that his parents thought he would fail so easily, but he took it with stride and walked to the doorway of the house. 'Here it goes.' Jaune thought to himself. His foot crossed over the threshold of the house to leave behind his family.

Jaune walked up to his Acier with a nervous smile. "I'm ready to go." Acier nodded and the two set off for the airship that was leaving for Beacon.

[Cut]

Both Jaune and Acier stood before the airship to Beacon. Jaune looked at his grandfather who stared at the airship. "Gramps, I'm feeling slightly nervous. Maybe I should go back home…"

"Kid, everyone gets scared at some point in their lives," Acier turned and looked into Jaune's eyes, "It's up to you to conquer that fear and become stronger for it." Acier patted Jaune on the back encouragingly.

"But what about the other students? They'll see through my abilities easily enough…" Jaune trailed off in thought. Acier turned his body to Jaune and grinned.

"Kid, there is one ability that all Arc's have that is much stronger than anyone else's."

"What's that?" Acier grinned.

"The ability of bullshitting. So go out there, and kick some ass. Come back when you are done and we'll have a drink together." Jaune felt some confidence enter into himself from this and he began walking away from his grandfather.

As he stepped onto the ramp of the ship, he turned back to give his grandfather a wave which he received in kind as well as a massive grin. Jaune stayed where he was as the ramp pulled itself up and left him in the dark hull of the ship. Jaune walked away and up to the observation deck of the ship.

Jaune and Pyrrha were pulled out of their thoughts when they saw the great black form of a Nevermore fly above them. "Well laddie, we're probably gonna have to fight that." Crocea stated with a tone of excitement.

"Crocea, this battle would be a slaughter for me. I only have short ranged weapons." Jaune said as he continued looking at the sky.

"Jaune, we should move faster to find our objective. I don't wish to fight that creature if I don't have to." Pyrrha said as she scanned the sky for any more Nevermore's.

"Yeah, listen to my partner, waste-of-skin!" Miló shouted out which made Jaune jump slightly. Pyrrha noticed this reaction with a look of worry.

"Jaune, are you alright?" She asked.

"Yeah, I don't think your weapon likes me very much." Jaune replied as he walked forward. Pyrrha looked at her weapon with the revelation that her weapon was a thinking being in her mind.

"Pyrrha, you coming?" Jaune asked. Pyrrha looked up from her weapon and ran up to Jaune. Both continued walking through the woods until they reached a grassy clearing where they both saw the giant black crow form of the Nevermore flying around the area. Jaune also managed to notice that there were two specks hanging off of it, one was red while the other was white.

"Jaune, it's those two lasses from before!" Crocea announced, "And now the red one is falling…Oh shit." When Jaune heard this he sheathed Crocea and ran furiously towards Ruby.

"Not gonna make it." Crocea stated.

"Gonna make it!" Jaune shouted with his goal focused in his mind.

"You're not gonna make it." Crocea repeated which got on Jaune's nerves. This in turn made Jaune run faster as he got closer. Jaune gave one final push in speed and jumped in the air.

"I'm making it!" Jaune shouted as he pushed both himself and Ruby into a tree which knocked the breath out of him as he landed on the branch of the tree. He managed to push himself into a sitting position and lean against the tree for support. Below him Ruby was in a daze while a few feet away were two girls. First was the blonde girl named Yang who Jaune remembered was Ruby's sister. Next to her was a black haired girl who Jaune had no idea who she was.

Both girls were standing next to a ruin which held a bunch of large chess pieces. Jaune felt slightly happy that he was next to his objective at least. He looked below himself to see Ruby still dazed.

"And that is the wonders of reverse psychology, lad." Crocea said with a happy tone. Jaune ignored Corcea and looked down at Ruby who was recovering below him.

"Ohh…What was that?" Ruby asked as she shook her head to remove the dizziness that came from impacting face first into a tree.

Jaune gave out a loud cough to attract Ruby's attention. She turned and looked up to Jaune who waved. "Hey, Ruby… How's it hanging?" He asked as he stared at Ruby's weapon.

"Wow that was exciting. It was a little nerve wracking though." A sultry voice said which was being emitted from Ruby's scythe.

"That was a bad pun Jaune." Ruby replied much to Jaune's disappointment. Jaune stopped looking at the scythe and turned his attention to Pyrrha who now stood below him with a smirk on her face.

"I see that you're doing well for yourself." Pyrrha remarked with a slight chuckle. Jaune grinned cheekily at this. Everyone heard trees cracking from the trees from which a large Ursa emerged swiping at the air. A second later and some pink blast hit it in the back.

"YEAH, TAKE MY PINK BLASTS LARGE BEAR! NO ONE CAN STOP MAGNHILD AND LITTLE GIRL FROM KILLING YOU!" A loud voice shouted out. The Ursa hit the ground and from it's back, a orange haired girl was deposited to the ground.

"Yee-haw!" She exclaimed as she pulled herself up from the ground and turned to look at the quite dead Ursa. A look of sadness appeared on her face. "Aww, it's broken."

"Is this girl crazy?" Jaune asked himself.

"Probably. I remember this one time when your grandfather met this girl at a bar and-" Crocea was stopped from finishing his sentence as Jaune smacked the sheath of his sword. "What?" Crocea asked. Jaune pointed at the orange haired girl who was now running at the ruins where upon she picked up a chess piece.

"I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!" She exclaimed while jumping around with the chess piece.

"YES LITTLE GIRL, WE ARE NOW QUEEN'S OF CASTLES!" Magnhild shouted in joy.

"Nora!" A voice exclaimed and the girl turned to look at a black haired boy who was walking towards her.

"Coming Ren!" Nora exclaimed as she skipped off to her partner. Jaune by now felt tired from all of this insanity. On the branch below him, Ruby jumped off and rolled on the ground before standing up and running to Yang.

"Yang!" She shouted as she wrapped Yang in a hug which was returned.

"Ruby!" Yang replied.

"Nora!" Nora said as she jumped between them. Jaune just sighed as he looked at the eccentric personalities below him. Ruby let go of Yang and pointed up above them.

"Umm…Yang?" Ruby said.

"How could you leave me?!" Weiss shouted out while hanging onto the talon of the Nevermore.

"I said "jump"!" Ruby replied back. Weiss' gripped finally began slipping until she was forced to let go and began her descent to the hard ground.

"You should probably try to catch her, lad." Jaune nodded before he stood up and jumped forward from the tree and caught her in both of his arms. He felt slightly happy as he caught Weiss, the girl who he had a crush on.

"Just…dropping in." Jaune said in as suave a voice as he could muster. Weiss was absolutely speechless but she also had a look of shock as she looked beneath both of them. Jaune didn't understand this at first until he looked down to see that they were still ten feet in the air. "Oh, God."

"You really should've thought this plan through, laddie." Jaune hit the ground on his stomach first which knocked the air out of him. He then felt Weiss land on his back which crushed him into the ground.

"My hero." Weiss said mockingly.

"My back." Jaune stated in pain.

"What a rapscallion. You sir are quite a failure at even helping my mistress." The sword that Weiss carried said in an arrogant tone.

"Oh quiet, brat. That's my partner you're talking to." Crocea said defensively.

"An old relic like you shouldn't be out here in the battlefield. You should be at a museum collecting dust." The rapier stated.

"Don't call me old ya damn brat!" Weiss got off of Jaune and walked over to her rapier and dusted it off.

"Oh Myrtenaster, you have a scratch." Weiss said as she inspected her blade.

"Thank you for caring for me my Mistress. Are you well? the useless blonde appeared to have failed in his pitiful rescue attempt." Myrtenaster asked with concern.

"Hey, I tried to help her!" Jaune shouted out. Weiss looked at Jaune with disdain.

"Who are you possibly talking to?" Weiss asked as she sheathed her rapier.

"Your weapon wasn't saying very nice things to me." Jaune responded with his face still planted on the floor. He eventually felt someone grab his arm and lift him off the ground. When he looked at his help he saw that Pyrrha was helping him up while looking at him with concern.

"Are you alright Jaune?" Pyrrha asked as she checked him over.

"Yeah, thanks for the help." Jaune replied as he looked at the white clad girl in front of him.

"What could you possibly be talking about? Weapons don't speak. Did you hit your head too hard on the ground or something?" Weiss asked sarcastically.

"No, it's just my Semblance to be able to talk to weapons." Jaune replied.

"Are you sure that you're not crazy. Because I think that you are. No one can talk to weapons. They don't think and they don't feel. Weapons are just tools to be used, nothing more." Weiss said condescendingly.

"Jaune is not crazy. He actually can talk to weapons." Pyrrha said in a serious tone to Weiss. Weiss' eyes widened slightly.

"Pyrrha, you can't be buying what this idiot is saying. He's…Him while you are a champion. He obviously is lying to you."

"This little bitch is starting to get on my nerves. Jaune, if it comes down to it then could you please chop the little missy down to size?" Crocea asked. Jaune looked down at his weapon in shock at what he was saying.

"I'm not going to kill Weiss." Jaune whispered.

"Don't talk about my Mistress like that you relic!" Myrtenaster shouted out. Jaune looked at Myrtenaster as he said this.

"Then help the lad convince the little missy to believe him."

"Fine." Myrtenaster replied before focusing his attention on Jaune. "Blonde boy, my Mistress got her scar on her face from a spar with a training robot." Jaune looked up to Weiss' scar.

'So that's how she got it.' Jaune thought to himself. "Weiss, you got your scar from a training robot." Jaune said calmly. Weiss looked at Jaune in shock.

"How did you know that?" She asked.

"The rapier told me. I told you earlier that I could talk to weapons, so please believe me." Jaune said as he and Pyrrha walked over to the ruins and took one of the chess pieces. Jaune grabbed a second piece and tossed it to her which Pyrrha caught. Ruby ran up to Jaune as he turned around with a look in her eye.

"Can you actually talk to weapons?" Ruby asked. Jaune nervously nodded. Ruby squeaked in happiness before talking her scythe out and holding it before her. "Can you tell me what Crescent Rose is saying?" She asked giddily.

"Ahh…I didn't think that I would be put on the spot. It really makes me nervous…" Crescent Rose stuttered out.

"Oh go on and tell your partner how ya feel. Do ya know how rare it is to be able to have an opportunity to talk to your partner?" Crocea asked.

"W-well when you put it that way…Tell Ruby that I am quite happy to have her as my partner." Jaune smiled at this.

"She said that she is happy to have you as a partner." Jaune received a hug in response as Ruby jumped up and down.

"This is the coolest day ever! I wished I had that Semblance." Ruby said with some jealousy. Jaune shrugged. All of them turned to look at the sky when they heard the Nevermore cry out once again.

Jaune unsheathed Crocea and held his shield while Pyrrha did the same. The other teens gathered up near the three and all of them looked at the circling Grimm above themselves.

"Guys, I have an idea." Jaune stated. Everyone looked at Jaune.

"Ruby, Nora, and Pyrrha." Jaune said while pointing to all three. "I want you guys to act as long range support and take shots at the Nevermore." The three teens nodded and transformed their weapons into their gun forms.

"LET'S KILL BIG BURD!"

"This better not get us killed, waste-of-skin."

"This is exciting!" The three teens took position around the ruins and took shots off at the bird. Jaune turned to look at Weiss.

"Weiss, I want you to act as support for the shooters. Your job is to use your glyphs to speed the others up to the Grimm when we bring it down." Weiss nodded and ran to take cover next to Ruby. Jaune turned to look at Ren, Yang, and the black haired girl.

"Ren, Yang, and whoever you are-"

"It's Blake…" The black haired girl stated.

"Blake," Jaune confirmed, "I need you three to be the initial close ranged fighters for when the Grimm lands." Jaune finished.

"What about you?" Yang asked as she punched her fist into her hand. Jaune smiled at Yang.

"I'm going to be the first to attack the Grimm when it lands. I don't have any ranged abilities so I'm only really useful by being up close and personal." Jaune replied with as much courage as he could muster. Internally he was freaking out.

"Calm down, laddie. I'm gonna be with you the entire way. Now let's go kick some ass and eat that damn big bird!" Crocea said which bolstered Jaune's confidence. The three in front of him nodded and took cover while Jaune ran out of the ruins where upon the he heard the Nevermore cry out in pain as one of the shots managed to hit it in the wing.

The Nevermore crashed into the ground in front of him and began to pull itself off the ground in obvious pain. Jaune slashed his blade at the Grimm's side which made it devote it's attention to Jaune.

The Grimm flapped it's wing at Jaune which launched him into the air. As he flipped in the air, he saw that Yang, Blake, and Ren were already running at the Nevermore in order to take it down. Jaune flipped once more in the air before he was caught by Pyrrha who had jumped into the air.

Both landed on the ground together with Pyrrha sitting on the ground and Jaune with his head in her lap, much to Pyrrha's embarrassment and slight excitement. Nora and Ruby rushed past both of them while beneath themselves Weiss' glyphs appeared which gave them speed. Weiss ran past both on her glyphs.

"Well that was certainly convenient. Are you sure that luck isn't your Semblance because I think it might be." Crocea said in happiness.

Jaune looked at Pyrrha in the eyes and grinned. "I think that the plan is going well." Jaune stated. Pyrrha nodded in response and looked at everyone as they worked together to slice the Nevermore apart. Pyrrha propped Jaune's head up so that he could easily see the others taking down the Grimm.

The only annoying part of all of this was the fact that the bullets and hits on the Grimm only did so much as the Nevermore continued to fight back. Jaune pulled himself up and he and Pyrrha ran towards the others in order to press on with the attack.

Jaune noticed Ruby pull Weiss, Yang, and Blake to the trees while he, Pyrrha, Nora, and Ren kept fighting.

"Guys! Get out of the way!" Ruby screamed. The four teens heeded Ruby's advice and ran from the Nevermore just as Ruby slammed into it with glyphs trailing under her feet and rose petals flying behind her back. Ruby jumped and caught the Nevermore in the neck with the crook of her scythe before landing on the ground and dragging it behind her.

"I am EXCITED!" Crescent Rose exclaimed as both she and Ruby continued dragging the Nevermore behind themselves.

Ruby gave one final tug on Crescent Rose which decapitated the massive Grimm. Ruby stood breathing heavily as the Grimm behind her dispersed into black dust.

"Wow, I didn't think that my plan was going to do that well." Jaune stated much to the humor of Pyrrha.

"Well laddie, ya did pretty well for your first rodeo. We just gotta train you up a little bit and we'll make you hero material in no time." Jaune just smiled at his partner.

"Yup." Above the teens, they saw a Bullhead that was landing in the area. Jaune shrunk his shield back into its sheath form and put Crocea into it before he buckled it to his belt. "Well Pyrrha, time to go back to the academy."

"Alright Jaune." Pyrrha replied before playfully hitting him in the shoulder.

"Ow." Jaune mumbled as he rubbed his shoulder. It still hurt from being hit by the Nevermore.

"You alright, Jaune?" Pyrrha asked in worry.

"Yeah, I just am a little sore from being hit by that Grimm." Jaune replied as they continued walking towards the Bullhead.

Jaune, Pyrrha, Ren, and Nora stood with each other as the gray haired headmaster Ozpin called them up to the stage. "Jaune Arc. Lie Ren. Pyrrha Nikos. Nora Valkyrie. The four of you retrieved the white rook pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team JNPR." All of them looked at each other as the audience clapped. Nora grabbed Ren in a hug during this.

"YES! WE ARE TEAM OF BURD KILLERS!" Magnhild shouted which was starting to cause an impending headache for Jaune.

"Led by…Jaune Arc!" Ozpin exclaimed to the surprise of Jaune.

"Way to go, laddie! Your parents are gonna be so proud!" Crocea said in pride.

"How the hell did the waste-of-skin become our team leader?!" Miló shouted much to Jaune's annoyance. Pyrrha decided to give Jaune a friendly bump to his shoulder but it instead caused Jaune to topple onto his butt while all of the audience began laughing at him much to his embarrassment.

"Cheer up laddie, you'll show 'em one day!" Jaune smiled at his partner's encouragement as he stood up and walked with his team off the stage.

This was going to be the beginning of a very strange life for Jaune but at least he had some new friends from all of this. One day, he would definitely become a hero like the stories he was always told.

And here begins our tale of heroes, monsters…And talking weapons. I hope you guys enjoy this. Stay frosty my friends.