Story Start

Jaune hated bullheads. Better said, Jaune hated the feeling he got while in a bullhead. Motion sickness was never fun, and it seemed that that only time it happened was when Jaune got on the flying hunk of metal. It was a good thing that he had a distraction in the form of his scroll, blasting music into his ears. This was sadly interrupted by the motion of someone sitting next to him. Looking up from his lap and opening his eyes, Jaune saw that a red headed girl had taken the seat next to his. Now, he was just going to ignore her, it was crowded after all, but the girl decided that bothering him was too good to pass up.

"Hey, uh, what are you listening to?" As far as opening a conversation went, Jaune had to give this one a seven out of ten. While not the best, he sure as hell has gotten a lot worse.

"Fivefold." There, that should stop this before it really got going. It seemed that whenever you listen to a band the other person doesn't know, especially while listening to it, the other person tended not to continue. By the looks of this girl she wouldn't know-

"Really?! I love Fivefold, what song?" Or maybe she would. Not often he meet someone that listened to the same music as him. This could be interesting, or just enough distraction to make it to Beacon.

"Lost Within."

"Mmm that's a good one, but I think that Fading Away is their best song." Jaune blinked at that. Sure that was an alright one, but really, to say that was their best song? It was about time to educate this girl, and he couldn't stop the grin the snaked across his face.

"Really? Then you obviously never heard their newest one, All of Me. Here, listen to this." Jaune said passing a headjack over to the girl as he pulled up the song. Well, he was going to, but the girl that was there had disappeared and he was left there feeling like an idiot. Scowling Jaune turned his attention back to his scroll, so much for making new friends.

It was only a couple minutes after that did the aircraft land onto a field, and everyone else had gotten off did he grab his own belongings and step onto the grounds did he see, rather hear, and explosion take place. Moving to investigate, he was rewarded with the sight of what he called a "My-dad-can-buy-you" girl storming off in a huff. Seeing that the girl that abandoned him on the bullhead lay in a ditch, Jaune seriously considered leaving her there. Yeah, curse his good natured heart. He got within distance to hear her mutter "Welcome to Beacon" and being the smartass he was, well, there was no pass up.

"Thank you. It really makes a guy feel at good to have a pretty girl welcome him anywhere." Jaune said, smirk on his lips. Inside he was nodding to himself, not bad Arc, not bad at all.

"Hey, your that guy from the bullhead." Jaune rolled his eyes, kind of stating the obvious this girl was.

"Nope, I'm the muffin man. Wanna muffin?" His smirk grew at the glare the girl was giving him. Honestly, it was more adorable than threatening with the way her cheeks puffed up.

"Hey, there is no need for the sass, sassypants." Sassypants, what was she, twelve?

"Oi, no need to be calling people names, CraterFace." Yeah, really should have chosen something else there. Way to set the bar Arc. He saw his newish companion look away huffing before looking back at him.

"Anyway, my name is Ruby, Ruby Rose. Nice to meet you." The now named Ruby said as she walked forward, and Jaune decided might as well follow along.

"Good meeting you too. Names Jaune Arc. Short, sweet, rolls off the tongue. Ladies love it." Ok now he cringed on the inside, that was really bad, even for him.

"Do they?" Ruby asked, and this time it as her with amusement in her eyes. He shrugged.

"Dunno, first time I've used that one. Do you?" Jaune asked back, eyebrow quirked. His response was a giggle. He was being serious here. There needed to be some merit if he was to be using that again sometime soon. After walking in silence for a bit it appeared that Ruby had felt the need to break it.

"So, I have this thing." That thing happened to be a massive scythe bigger than its wielder. It was so out of nowhere that he actually had nothing to say, only his wide eyes and dropped jaw. He vaguely heard her say something about a rifle and baby.

"Its also a gun?" He asked, that was just insane, why would someone do something that extreme.

"Yup. So I showed you mine, its your turn to show me yours." Ignoring the slight sexual wording, Jaune shook off his shock and decided that fair was indeed fair. Dropping his bag, he drew a revolver from underneath his hoodie and deployed a dagger from his sleeve.

"This is Bang and Buck. They may not be as impressive as what you got, but they get the job done. The coup de gras however is my beloved Crocea Mors." Jaune said displaying his armaments to the girl.

"Wow, you don't see many people favor the classics now a days. Oh by the way, you know where we're going right?" Ruby questioned.

"I was following you." It seemed that wasn't what she wanted to hear, as Ruby burst off in a bunch of rose petals. Jaune sighed and started to causally follow after her. What was worst that could happen for being late?

It turned out that missing half of the opening speech was the worst that could happen. The deputy head didn't take to kindly to his lateness either, if the glare on her face was any indication. Jaune scratched the back of his head, guess he'd just need to not get on her nerves anymore than he already had. Finding out that they all had to sleep in the same room was annoying, but manageable. He had set himself up in a corner away from everyone else in order to be alone, but it looked like he had the same idea as another. Contemplating, he settled a couple feet away, enough not to intrude on her area.

He laid his back against the wall and pulled out his scroll, before plugging in to sleep away listening to the tunes. That was the plan anyway, before a disturbance made him look up. It tunes out that Ruby and another girl had pulled up to speak to the girl when the whited haired girl that stomped off earlier reappeared. Seeing the uncomfortable look on Ruby's face, he was about to go onto his scroll, when she caught his eyes and mouthed for help. Well, looks like its time to save the day.

Pushing himself off the wall, he begrudgingly made his way towards to odd assemble before him. Upon getting closer it was just in time to hear white hair describe him so wonderfully as "tall, blonde, and scraggly." Jaune narrowed his eyes, that was just rude. Two could play at this game.

"Thanks for the description short, white and flat." He drawled, taking some mirth from the way her eyes narrowed, and yet didn't stop from covering her chest. Ruby seemed to be stuck between being appalled and laughing. The taller blonde on the other hand smirked at his words and made to say something but was cut off.

"How dare you! Do you know who I am?!" The white haired girl said through clenched teeth. Jaune took up a thinking stance before shaking his head at her, smirk still in place. Apparently, this made her even angrier, which further fuelled his amusement.

"I'm Weiss Schnee, heiress to the SDC." The tone of finality was not lost on him.

"Never heard of you." Jaune said. He really hadn't either. He had lived with his Uncle Max in the woods that surrounded Vale, only entering the city itself when they needed something that couldn't be made or found by themselves. Not that say that he was stunted socially, Max's teammates from his own time at Beacon often came to visit, often with their own children.

"Where did you grow up, under a rock?" Weiss asked, displeasure oozing from her person.

"In a cave actually, so your not to far off princess." That seemed to be the end of her patience as Weiss turned and stormed back towards where she had set up her own sleep area.

"Thanks for helping Jaune. This is my sister Yang. Yang this is Jaune, the guy that almost got me late to the speech." Ruby and the other girl had stayed silent up till this point. "Yang" studied him a bit more, so he spread his arms out and gave a twirl.

"If your done, its time for us to go to sleep." The black haired girl they had been in front of spoke up, blowing out her candle, and their only source of light. Getting a promise to be spoken with the next day, Jaune settled himself back against the wall and nodded off to sleep.

Awakening the next morning, Jaune made his way to gather his gear. Apparently he had not woken in time to get food, and so was forced to face the day without breakfast, which was a crime against nature in his mind. Passing by the varies number lockers in search of his own, it seemed that Weiss was busy talking animatedly to a different redhead, and behind them laid his prize.

"Mind if you have your little shtick somewhere else so I can get my stuff, princess?" Jaune asked. Immediately Weiss turned to give him the evil eye. Honestly, if you have to talk with someone, don't do it where others have to be.

"Don't you know who your talking to? Weiss questioned incredulously. Jaune rolled his eyes.

"Yeah. Your Weiss, and I'm Jaune. We kind of did this dance last night if you don't remember."

"No you dolt. This is Pyrrha Nikos."

"Hello." Jaune looked to the other girl. The newly introduced Pyrrha gave him a polite smile in return. Sure she was cute, but then again so was pretty much every other girl in the school.

"Cool. Nice to meet you. Can we get back to the part where you move so I can get my stuff." He needed to get his gear damn it. Why was Weiss making this so hard?

"She graduated top of her class at Sanctum." Jaune looked over at her again.

"Hello again." He looked back to Weiss.

"Never heard of it." He made sure to put extra deadpan into his voice.

"She has won the Mistral tournament four times in a row. A new record."

"Awesome. Congrats, really. Now can you move so I can get my stuff. Please." Jaune was honestly fed up with them at this point. What was even the point of making sure he didn't get his things? Annoy him? Cause they certainly were doing a good job of it. More Weiss was, actually, to fair to Pyrrha.

"Its hopeless. Come Pyrrha, let us go to the meeting point." Weiss said, walking off without looking back at either of them.

"It was nice meeting you." Pyrrha said as she too walked past him. Jaune shook his head, now since that was over, he could get his gear on . Opening his locker, he laced u his black boots, pulled on his jeans, and dragged his hoodie over his head, plus a grey trench coat on top made his combat outfit complete, with the coat being a gift from his uncle before he left. He attached Crocea Mors to his left hip, Buck up his left sleeve and Bang into the right thigh holster.

Jaune looked at himself in the mirror. He didn't mean to sound vain or anything, but damn did he look badass. It was as he finished getting admiring himself in the mirror did the loud speaker called for all new students to get to the cliff for initiation. Making his was there with all the other students, Jaune couldn't help but wonder, for all the stories his Uncle Max told him about his own initiation, what was the worst that could happen?

I know. "What are you doing writing another story?" your asking right now. Well, those that know A Small Change anyway. To answer that, I kind of hit a really hard roadblock with that one. Honestly I don't have a very good clue if I want to continue it, re-write it of just cancel it all together at this point. Anyway, this came to my mind while I was at work, and so I came back and wrote it down. Plus, I've read other fics where Jaune is just so out there, no matter what personality he has and I think the way I write makes the characters seem just a little more relatable, especially in certain scenes that differ from cannon. Other than that, feedback is always nice to get, if just to make myself a better writer and do better work on these. Thanks and I'll catch youguys in the next one.