Okay so as a first time writer here, I'm told this is where I would normally write some authors notes explaining what the fic is about. This is going to be another one of those "Jaune Arc, but with X power" stories that we see quite a bit in the fandom, however, in designing the alterations to Jaune I needed to do, I also realized that I had to work this new Jaune into the world of Rwby with a bit more care than I first realized. So hopefully I don't bore the hell out of anyone reading this too badly as this first chapter basically covers the events of Season 1 Episode 2, and as we know, there was not a whole lot of action in that episode. Also feel free to speculate what Mr Arc's new "secret" is as it will come up allot sooner than later.

Jaune was not what you would call normal, oh sure on the outside he looked like a typical 17 year old young man who was currently puking into a trash can, but, looks, such as they are can be deceiving.

After cleaning himself up, noticing looks of two classmates, a talk blonde girl and a shorter girl with dark hair and wearing a red cloak, he checked his personal belongings, he didn't travel with much, just a couple extra sets of clothing, and his own personal weapons, a pair of collapsible katars with blades that curved inwards like the mandibles of a ant, great for stabbing, and great for tearing out Grimm guts when he pulled them out. He also checked on a box he needed more than anything, a small oak box that contained about a dozen yellow dust crystals, useful for empowering the secondary function of his weapon, but they had far more importance to the boy himself.

As he felt the final lurch of the airship come to a landing, he took a few moments to let his stomach settle, sent a silent prayer to the gods themselves and repacked his bag up as he stepped off the airship and out towards his future.

The first thing he would see stepping off the airship, was in his eyes breathtaking, a far cry from the small mining town he called home, Beacon was a truly amazing sight. Every aspect of the view he imagined, was designed to capture the awe and wonder of on boarding students such as himself, a truly massive school, almost city onto itself, surrounded by some of the greenest forests one would ever see. Jaune's mind raced with the possibilities he could find here, a chance to become a Huntsman, to be able to help support his family like his father and one of his many older sisters had already.

Jaune grimaced though, it wouldn't be easy to make it here, he didn't have a proper combat school education, only the training he gained from the older men in his village and his father, and his own natural talents, a larger than normal Aura pool, and his, well, other "special" talents that his kind had.

After taking a deep breath to push out his concerns for the time being, he started walking the path to the school, taking in the sights as he went, until he was startled by what sounded like a mining charge going off not to far from him. Knowing all to well what an explosion could do to miners who wore equipment to mitigate an accidental dust explosion he started to make his way there, fishing for his first aid kit in case someone needed help.

And that is when he saw Her, one of them, a member of that accursed family, a Schnee, oh was rather familiar with the Schnee Dust Company, and if a bitch from that house was going here, he was going to make it a personal mission statement to stay as far away from her as he could. He took a second to watch the altercation that was unfolding before him, it seems the girl with the red cloak must of knocked over some luggage. The Schnee girl was tearing into the younger girl over, well he didn't care, he figured this would be a good chance to rile up someone from that damn house and he was going to take it.

That plan made it about half a second before a young girl with black hair and wearing an equally black bow on top, walked over to the pair of girls, handing the Schnee girl back a vial of red dust. and said something he couldn't quite make out, but ending the altercation.

It was annoying that he couldn't get mixed in, but, Jaune decided that if he couldn't stir the pot with the Schnee girl, he'd at least help Red over there out.

He walked over to the Red hooded girl, offered a hand and said "Hey, I'm Jaune you okay?"

The young girl took Jaune's hand and let him pull her up with what he thought was a rather cute smile replying "Ruby"

The pair had a moment of silence while she dusted herself off "So anit you that guy that was throwing up on the airship?"

Jaune could only sigh internally, he was on campus for about 5 minutes and he already had an unflattering nickname.

A few moments of idle walking later Jaune and his new friend found themselves in a casual, but not unpleasant from Jaune's perspective

"Hey, all I'm saying, is that motion sickness is not all that uncommon of a problem" Jaune stammered attempting to defend himself

Ruby rubbed the back of her head sheepishly "Look I'm sorry, vomit boy was the first thing that came to mine"

Jaune smirked "Oh really, then maybe you wouldn't mind me calling you..." He thought for a moment "Crater face after tanking that dust fireball"

Ruby folded her arms while walking "Hey that explosion was an accident!"

Jaune smiled having her on the defensive for once in their chat "Well I'd prefer if you called me by my name, Jaune Arc, short, sweet, to the point, according to my dad women love it."

Ruby had to hold back a chuckle "Oh do they now?"

Jaune rubbed his neck "Well I haven't had to test that idea before..."

Ruby did find her self checking out the boys gear, he didn't seem to have any obvious weapons out on his person, and he was wearing only a light dull grey chest plate for body armor over a black hooded sweatshirt, he did have a pair of metal gauntlets that covered his forearms, but he didn't even seem to carry a sword on him, just his backpack, curious she pulled out her scythe and unfolded it.

"So I have this thing" as she rested it on her shoulder

Jaune's eyes went wide, he say the weapon folded up and strapped to her back, but he was legitimately impressed with the weapon completely folded out "I-Is that a scythe?"

Ruby's eyes lit up with a passion "Yeap! It's also a customize high impact sniper riffle!" As she held her precious weapon with pride

Jaune couldn't up but think 'Lovely the girl I befriended is some kind of weapon nut' before she looked at him asking "So Jaune, wheres your weapon?"

Jaune smile and flicked the wrists of the gauntlets he had on as the hooked blades of his Katar unfolded out of the sides of his gauntlets and faced forward "I got these bad boys right here"

Ruby's eyes lit up wide at the realization he was armed the whole time "That's cool.." she paused looking closely at them "Do they do anything else?"

Jaune held one up to her face so she could see them closer "Actually if you look closer, you can see on the tops of them these cartridges, there single use only but when I apply an electrical charge to them, they fire off a single burst of high velocity metallic flechette that could rip through at least a tree the size of the one over there. Trust me, they would ruin a Grim's day if I needed them too"

Ruby gawked "I have to introduce you to my sister then, she has a pair of weapons pretty close to this, do they have a name?"

Jaune looked puzzled for a few moments "Why would I... anyways where exactly are we going Red?"

Ruby's eyes went wide "I was following you..."|

Jaune sighed "Aw crap..."