Chapter 1

Accidents Happen

A young man is currently setting up a ritual in the well-known and very much admired high school known as Beacon Academy.

The young man, who has blonde, messy hair, a pair of grey sweatpants, and a good old dark blue T-shirt, just so happens to go by the name of Jaune Miles Luna Arc.

Short, sweet, rolls off the tongue, ladies love it!

Well, not really, no one ever seemed interested in Jaune.

He was well-known as the main dork within the school, the type of person that everyone decides is somehow worse off than them.

The one girl that Jaune ever flirted with in his entire life, Yang Xiao Long, outright rejected him in front of their entire class, making sure everyone within hearing heard.

She laughed at him, with the kind of laugh that just oozed of mockery.

She gave him the one horrid thing that Jaune oh so desperately wanted to be rid of as it stuck to him like a leech.

The nickname vomit boy.

The nickname seems to have spread all around the school, but funnily enough, Jaune's actual bullies never call him that, they always call him Jauney, which gives a weird sense of familiarity.

Well, at least Cardin actually bothered to even learn his name.

This, of course, would have been in the middle of beating the crap out of Jaune using his bullcrap heavy armour magic, which shielded his body, another property of his magic is that it can hit pretty hard as hell.

Jaune should know, Cardin used him as practice for it.

Anyhow, Jaune was useless for most things, the only thing good about him was that he had a very large mana pool to use.

Too bad he was too crappy of a mage to use it for any complicated spells.

One good thing about it was that it made mages whose fighting styles focused on attrition have a hard time against him, so Jaune wasn't completely useless.

Just mostly useless.

Yeah, Jaune certainly doesn't have an inferiority complex or anything!

That would be absurd!

And true…

But anyway, Jaune is currently setting up a ritual.

What type of ritual, you ask?

Why, it is just a ritual to boost Jaune's control of his mana.

Is this a silly attempt at Jaune trying to rid himself of his inferiority?

Absolutely.

Is it totally warranted as Jaune simply wants people to stop treating him like crap?

Oh so definitely!

Jaune pressed his hands against the red circle that had been drawn onto the ground.

Jaune started saying the ritual cant, a mix of words and noises that vaguely sounded wolf-sounding.

It was then that Jaune noticed that what appeared to be a familiar came by and its paw pressed against the outline of the ritual circle.

This, in turn, caused the ritual to mess up.

"Oh f-"

That was when there was an explosion sound coming from the circle and a whitish light engulfed the room.

Meanwhile, with Jaune's roommate, Ren…

Ren was whimpering at the list of how much stock for items and furnishing his dorm had for the month.

With Nora eating way too many pancakes then will ever be healthy, that along with the constant orders of not-very-appropriate sennsual books that Blake kept ordering for, as she put it 'artful purposes', it was a wonder the dorm still had any money left.

In fact, Ren was worried if they would have any money left for the next week, after all, someone else in the dorm might get to their ravenous cravings, like Ruby's appetite for her many varieties of cookie for example, be it soft, hard or choclate-flavoured.

"Some things must never be taken as a joke" Ren said in his head, sighing out of stress and regret.

"Why did I decide that being the dorm leader was a good idea?"

Then Ren remembered Nora told it would have been a good idea in order to make everything run smoothly.

And as everyone knows, Ren couldn't say no to Nora of all people, everyone else under the sun?

Yes, very easy to say no to.

Nora?

Ren would rather get hit by a train then do something like that.

But Ren would never admit that he had a crush on her or anything, no way something like that would exist in this world.

Except everyone who wasn't blind or stupid could very obviously tell that he liked her.

Not that Ren believed that she liked him back anyway.

Nope, no way that Nora liked Ren of all people.

The two were far too different to ever work together is what Ren reasoned in his head.

Ren justified her closeness and clinginess to him when she was around as her simply showing appreciation to him for being her friend for so many years.

Yeah, that was it, at least in Ren's mind that was it.

It was just then that Ren had so happened to bump into someone when he had been reading through the list he had of the stock.

"Oomph!" Were the only words that came out of the person Ren had bumped into.

The person Ren had bumped into was a certain red-hooded girl that shared the dorm along with Nora, Blake and Jaune, and of course Ren.

The short and gothic-looking girl, Ruby Rose.

No matter how much school regulations went against wearing hoods, God help anyone who tried removing Ruby's hood.

As it was, the hood was something her mother had given her before Summer had been sent to the hospital due to illness.

Summer did not come home afterward, as she was pretty much guaranteed to stay in her hospital bed for the rest of her life.

Thus, the red hood Ruby wore had much sentimental value; as it showed Ruby's determination to find a way to cure her mother of that illness, magical or otherwise.

"Oh, Ruby, hey I wanted to ask you something."

Ruby's eyes focused on Ren as she got up from being knocked onto her butt.

"What is it?"

"Is your favourite food perhaps cookies?"

Ruby gave off a look of irritation.

"Why does everyone think that, my favourite food is strawberries…"

Ren didn't expect that.

"Well, see you later then."

"Okay!" Ruby said before cheerily running down the hall to her and Nora's room.

"Don't ru- oh what's the point in trying…" Ren remembered that it was pointless to try and stop Ruby, or Nora for that matter, from doing whatever antics they did every day, it was like trying to get the moon to regrow the broken half of itself, it's as pointless as it is stupid.

Suddenly, an explosion erupted, shaking the ground beneath him.

Ren decided that, as dorm leader, he needed to find out which member made that explosion.

Ren bent down, and then put his hand against the ground, pushing his mana out of his body and into the black-carpeted floor.

These small tendrils of mana would find out where the source of the explosion came from, as most explosions in Beacon Academy were usually of magical origins.

Ren became muttering under his breath.

"Please don't be Nora, please don't be Nora, please don't be Nora; ahah!"

Ren finally found the source, as it was indeed magical in origin.

But where he found it sent an icy dreaded chill down his spine.

It came from Ren and Jaune's room.

Ren's eyes widened in horror as a realisation crossed his mind.

"Wasn't Jaune casting a ritual to increase his control of his mana in our dorm room?"

Ren started running into a sprint.

He NEEDED to get to his and Jaune's room as fast as possible, hoping he wasn't too late to whatever happened.

Ren got to the door and slammed it open with haste.

He entered the room and saw three eye-catching things.

One, the room itself seemed to be completely fine, thank every god under the sun for that.

Two, there at worse seemed to be a mess of red on a small patch of the oak-wooden floor that was probably the former ritual circle Jaune had been using.

And three, a figure that was most likely Jaune was passed out on the floor, and judging from the weird shape of his body, something definitely happened involving that ritual circle.

Ren immediately made his way to Jaune.

Ren bent down and went to see what was wrong with his poor unconsious friend.

Ren's eyes widened in pure shock, a very rare sight.

"Oh my…"

Later, when Jaune wakes up…

There, on Jaune's bed, lay a slender frame, blonde locks drifting atop of the figures head as to shake off a deep rest.

'Uum-Immmoo…'

The occupant seemed to snap at the new-found sound.

The eyes of the occupant were searching for the source of the noise; as if the blue circles could discover where the source of the pleasant voice by mere sight alone.

The sound was high-pitched, which was very surprising, considering the room was owned by two male occupants.

"Who yawned?"

The figure looked around

"Hello?" Jaune was caught off guard, a voice that wasn't his own spoke before he did.

"Where is that voice coming from, there's only one person in the room and that's me!"

Jaune felt his heart start thumping in panic.

"Huh?" Jaune was shocked and surprised as a man struck by lighting magic, he was speechless at wondering why he was hearing such a girly voice in his and Ren's room.

"Did Ruby play a trick on me again while I was sleeping, is this just her using a communication spell and hiding the receiver somewhere in the room?"

The occupant of Jaune's bed tried getting up from it, but immediately felt a weight on their chest.

They looked down at their body.

They were immediately given a view of what were two moderately sized bulges on their slenderly thin chest, covered in a dark blue t-shirt that obviously didn't fit them at all.

"What's going on?!" The words just as abrupt as the high-pitched yawn, and having just as high a pitch, they went to eliciting an equally abrupt exit from the edge of the bed by new betraying proportions, twisted up in the soft brown blanket.

"Meep!" Another sound from Jaune's mouth that was undoubtedly feminine.

Cautiously they raised their head from the floor.

"What is going on, wait a minute, am I..."

After the figure got up, they quickly walked to the door that led to the small room's white tiled bathroom to confirm something.

Jaune looked into the mirror.

Soft sea blue eyes drifted among the myriad of features; as such of flowing blond hair, or high cheekbones that accented the sharp nose of the beautiful face.

Overall, this could have been a very pleasant surprise to the already confused teen, that is if he hadn't just remembered that HE was the only one in the room, or the very pressing fact that HE was facing a mirror.

"She's m-"

Jaune screamed out loud in despair at her reflection.

Hello there, To AL, who wrote that lengthy review for me, I agree with your sentiment and decided to add more to the chapter, and even incorporated some of what you wrote down.

Thank you for the feedback, AL, and I also wanna say that I wouldn't mind having you as a beta reader.