RWBY Re: Jaune Arc - Chapter 8

Ozpin smiled as Yang congratulated her stunned sister, and team JNPR cheered for them.

“It is my wish that you all continue to train and become the world’s shield and sword against the Grimm, you have proven your selves worthy and we welcome you to Beacon Academy as fellow Hunters and Huntresses.” Ozpin tied off his speech and heard a loud applause echo throughout the Auditorium.

Just as Ruby and Jaune were getting ready to leave Glynda stopped them and said, “You two teams follow me, we had to make some changes to your rooms.”

The two team leaders looked at each other with confused expressions, after being led to their room, they ended up at a similar hall, Jaune was very familiar with.

“Ozpin has decided to group you all together in the same team; when the time comes for you all to take missions, you can do so as Team Juniper-Ruby or even switch out teammates if you so choose,” Glynda explained as she opened the doors.

“The room has been renovated by removing the walls with the room next door and one of the kitchens have been dismantled, giving you more space. Bunk beds have also been installed to save more room, I hope you appreciate what Ozpin has done for you.” Glynda eyed Jaune as if she were singling him out.

“Bunk Beds! Awesome! Ruby jumped up onto one and said, “I call top Bunk!” After setting her stuff down, she ran back outside and stood next to Jaune.

Nora ran into the room and said, “I call top bunk as well! I’m Queen of the Castle in this room!”

“Why the special treatment for our teams?” Weiss asked with a confused but happy look as she once again was teamed up with Pyrrha.

“Ozpin was so impressed with your teamwork, he decided to stick the two teams together, however, this is still just a testing phase, it has always been 4 people to a team, we’ve never done anything like this before, however, even I can’t deny the benefits of grouping a team like this, you can train in team battles and swap out fighters to change up the flow of combat, gaining even more experience, if someone gets sick after accepting a mission, someone from the other team can fill in for them, and it raises the Hunter Team’s survival ratings,” Glynda answered.

“Yang! We have two bathrooms!” Nora shouted.

“No way, let me see!” Yang rushed inside the room.

“Nora quit bouncing on the bed,” Ren said shaking his head.

Blake quietly placed her stuff on the top Bunk of the bed that was in the corner of the wall, she then walked over to the empty bookshelf and started to put up her collection.

Jaune smiled, “I can’t disagree with you Gly…” Glynda gave him a cold stare, “Ahem, Headmistress Goodwitch, this will give us a lot of time to get stronger together as a team.”

Ruby’s head was beginning to show a bit of steam as she looked a Jaune, “Me…Jaune…room…share?” her thoughts were in disarray, and Pyrrha seemed to be happy daze as she walked into the room smiling, “So many new friends.”

Jaune smiled said quietly as he walked into the room, “Give Ozpin my thanks.”

Glynda nodded her head and turned back to Ruby, “Miss. Rose, are you planning on sleeping in the hallway.

Yang grinned, “Come on, Ruby!” she placed her arms underneath her little sister’s arms and started to pull her inside, “It’s just a couple of boys, we can do this, think of it like camping.”

Glynda smiled and shook her head, “I hope this Jaune boy is worth all the trouble.”

After entering the room and closing the door, Ruby shook off her nerves and went to unpacking like the rest.

Jaune’s stuff was from a couple of action heroes that had a picture of Hunter-Man and the Crimson Huntress. He also placed up a few pictures of his family, the last one contained a picture of when he was a kid, Jaune was surrounded by the rest of his family, with him being held by his parents in the center.

Nora was peaking over his shoulder, “Is that your family?”

Jaune smiled, “Yes my mother, father, myself, and my little sister are in the middle, the six others besides us are my older sisters.”

“Wait a minute, did you say seven sisters?!” Yang ran over and took the framed picture from him, Jaune turned around in a slight panic, “Oh, my god it’s true, hahaha, I guess your dad wasn’t going to give up until he got that Seventh Yang, get it? Ehh? E~hh?.” (Yang means sun.)

“Boo!” Nora shouted as she threw her pillow in Yang’s face.

Hearing something book related, Blake spoke up, “I think you’re referring to the tale of the seventh son, the character was born as the seventh son of a family of seven sons, Jaune’s position is a little different, but in a way, he is the Seventh Son.”

Ren nodded his head, “I remember that story, it’s about a boy who is destined to destroy evil, it’s a good one.”

Ruby snuck over, “I wanna see!” as she stared at the picture, Jaune began to sweat a little, “Aww, they’re adorable!”

Yang grinned and whispered, “All of them, or just Jaune.”

Ruby hid her face with her hood, “All of them, Yang.”

Even Weiss was intrigued by this and took a peak, “Prosperous, I refuse to believe that a woman could give birth to eight children and retain such a beautiful figure.”

“I guess that’s a compliment,” Ren said to Weiss’s statement while looking at Jaune’s family.

“What are their names?” Pyrrha asked.

“Saphron is the oldest, she’s a technician at the Argus relay tower, the next one is Rouge, she’s a Hunter like the rest of the family, this one’s Ashur, this one’s Saphir, the next one is Ameythia, Amy for short, then we have Clair, and the last one hugging me is Violet, she was born six minutes after me.”

“Twins! How cute! And they’re all Hunters?” Ruby said as she stared at the photo.

“The ones in the center are my dad, as you can see, I got my ruggedly handsome looks from my…mom.”

Ruby snorted, Yang gave his dad a look over, he did have Jaunes eyes, but a much broader chin and a bit of a beard growing, his mother looked like an angel, and the rest of his siblings looked like supermodels, “I think he looks pretty good, no wonder you Mom can’t keep her hands off of him.”

“Yang!” Ruby shouted.

“What? I call it; like I see it!” Yang shot back.

“Hmm!” Nora’s face got closer to the frame.

“What is it, Nora?” Ren asked.

“This photo is folded at the bottom,” Nora answered.

Jaune gulped and tried to take the photo back, “Okay, I think that’s enough.”

Yang grinned after seeing his nervous reaction, she lifted the frame away and opened it up, Jaune shouted, “Wait!”

Everyone paused for a moment, Jaune was sweating bullets as he stuttered out, “Um, please don’t do that.”

“Do it, Yang!” Nora shouted.

Yang laughed as she pulled out the picture to reveal his sister and him wearing a Pumpkin Pete Bunny onesie with the words, Momma’s Little Bunny written on his outfit, and Papa’s Darling Rabbit.”

The room burst into laughter, Jaune covered his face to hide his cherry red expression.

“I think they look adorable!” Pyrrha said as she covered her mouth and held tried her hardest to hold in her laughs.

“They really are cute though,” Ruby said as she held her stomach and let out a small burst of laughter.

“I’m a little jealous Jaune, you almost look as cute as me when I was around the same age,” Yang said slapping her knee.

“That onesie is so cute!” Nora said as she grinned at Jaune.

Ren sighed and placed a hand on Jaune’s shoulder, “It’s okay Jaune, I feel your pain, my parents used to give me animal onesies when I was young too, luckily, I put an end to all that when I was 4.”

Jaune started to sweet even more thinking of the fact he still had that same style onesie packed in his luggage must never be known about. “Yeah, stopped wearing them,” Jaune mumbled.

Ruby then asked, “So you come from a Hunter Family? Are they the ones who trained you?”

Jaune looked a little down and said, “Well actually, they didn’t train me much at all.”

In fact, the people that could be said to have trained him more than anyone else were all in this room. He fought alongside them, trained next to them, experienced countless trails and tribulations together with this group, and in the end, he became one of the strongest Hunter’s in history for being with them.

Everyone gave him a look of disbelief, “I’m serious, I was the youngest so they treated me with kid gloves; like I was made of glass; like I was fragile.”

“Then how did you get so strong!” Yang asked.

“I watched them copied them to the best of my abilities and trained in secret,” Jaune said scratching his chin, this wasn’t a lie, if he didn’t do this awkward training as it was, he would have been even weaker in his first timeline.

Jaune remembered the stuff he did in his first lifetime, training that consisted of childish thoughts, such as, lifting bags of rocks and running with them; or cutting logs that he tied to a tree every day to practice his swings, it’s why he took the Arc family’s heirlooms, it was the only thing he could practice without his parents noticing.

“Why didn’t you ask them again after you learned you had talent?” Pyrrha asked tilting her head.

Jaune tilted his head and thought about what he should say, “I didn’t want to hurt them, I mean they practically gave up on me, I wanted them to see me as a Hunter, and be proud that I made such achievements.”

“Didn’t you graduate from the top of your combat class?” Weiss had apparently used her contacts to take a look at Jaune’s transcripts after they fought alongside in the Emerald Forest.

She was especially interested in Jaune because of the amount of Aura he had, and to her, his character was well above suspicious.

“Jaune scratched his head, “How do you know about that?”

Weiss coughed a few time, “As a Schnee, it’s only right I look into those that I could potentially end up working with.”

Everyone gave her an awkward look, then turned back to Jaune.

Jaune smiled and scratched his nose while saying, “Well, about my transcripts…”

“What about your transcripts?” Weiss said frowning.

“I kind of ran away from home and joined Beacon by using fake Transcripts my sister forged, the stuff you saw on my paperwork, was actually Violet’s achievements,” Jaune answered while rubbing the back of his head.

Everyone in the room was shocked, and when Blake heard he ran away, her ears twitched slightly, “Is that why Ozpin singled you out earlier?” Ruby asked.

Jaune nodded his head, “Yeah, I fessed up before I took the examination in the woods, I told him that I faked it, and used that chance to prove to him that I belong here. He’s already agreed to let me in if I passed, and now I’m here.”

Jaune took the photo back and placed it near the window, he then slapped his head and said, “I’ll be right back, I left something important in my locker.”

Jaune then made a quick exit and ran off through the halls, Ruby was about to chase after him when Yang pulled her back and said, “Give him some space.”

“It’s just that, he worked really hard to get here, so that transcript stuff doesn’t matter,” Ruby said watching Jaune leave.

“Yes, I agree, Jaune performed admirably and his tactics helped us achieve victory, Jaune deserves to be here,” Pyrrha said nodded her head.

“He lied to get in here! Isn’t anyone bothered by this!?” Weiss shouted.