Vyr’s Journey Through The Multiverse - Chapter 28

(A/N so schools got me fuċkėd seven ways from sunday. Now I wanna say this ain’t got nothing to do with the story but that be a lie. Normally I don’t have time to write all at the same time so I can never write a full scene with the same feelings all the way through. I’m not happy personally with how the last chapter was. I know I’m not the best writer and I normally cram about two different thoughts into a chapter, but that last one wasn’t that good. I wrote filler, no more, no less. It was a needless and weird scene that didn’t fit, hell it didn’t even progress the story or provide depth to any characters. I’m disappointed with myself, because of that so I’m gonna try not to do that kind of shit again. I hope you all can forgive me.

The second part of this is like i said before i write this for fun. No I’m not droppin’ I am havin’ fun writing this, and it means a lot to have so many people read and support me. What I wanted to say is like when Ghost of Tsushima(great game btw. If you haven played it I fully recommend it.) came out, I’m gonna take some time in November when cyberpunk 2077 and ȧssassin’s Creed Valhalla drops to play them. I’m hoping (if school allows it) to be able to stock up some chaps now so the releases don’t get fuċkėd then. It won’t affect normal updates. I’m just gonna try to build them up on the side. But I’m honest to god horrible at time management so I don’t expect that to go as planned. So if it does get fuċkėd in November, just remember( ha that rhyme) that I warned y’all.

Now I’ll shut mah trap and write this chap (ha ‘nother rhyme))

*A few days later/*

Ruby stood in the hallway looking at Jaune as he closed the door to his room. Ruby was currently dressed in her pajamas. She was wearing more or less the same outfit as the show but now instead of a tank top she wore one of Vyr’s hoodies.

“Hey Jaune.”

(Jaune)”guh!”

“Long time no see. Did you lock yourself out again?”

“Oh! Uh, nope! Got it!” Jaune says nervously while holding up his scroll.

“So where have you been lately?”

“I uh… *sigh* I messed up. I did something I shouldn’t have, and now Cardin’s got me on a leash and Pyrrha won’t even talk to me… *sigh* I’m starting to think coming to this school was a bad idea.” Jaune says sadly while leaning against the door of his room before sliding to the floor. “I’m a failure.”

Ruby sees all of this and simply says “Nope” in a cheerful tone.

Jaune looks at her confused and askes “Nope?”

“Nope. you’re a leader now Jaune. You’re not allowed to be a failure.”

“But what if I’m a failure at being a leader?”

“Mmm.. Nope.”

Jaune gives a small laugh and says ‘you know you’re not the easiest person to talk to about this kind of stuff.”

“Nope” ruby repeats once more as she sits down next to Jaune.

“Jaune, maybe you were a failure when you were a kid,” Jaune sighs at this “you might’ve even been a failure the first day we met,” Jaune gives another sadder sigh “But you can’t be one now. You know why?”

“Uhhh, because-”

“Because it’s not just about you anymore. You’ve got a team now Jaune. We both do, and if we fail, then we’ll just be bringing them down with us. We have to put our teammates first and ourselves second. Your team deserves a great leader Jaune. And I think that can be you.” Ruby says standing up and opening the door to her team’s room.

Ruby waves and enters her room saying “have a good night Jaune.”

(A/n before yall start spoutin’ off. No this ain’t filler. This is a MFn’ character building moment. It is also one of my favorite ruby scenes. Not including the fights.)

*Vyr’s POV the next day/*

The class was walking through the forest of Forever Fall, as Glenda Goodwitch said something about the area.

‘Honestly why take a bunch of students into a Grimm infested forest to collect Grimm bait. Wait, this might actually be a good class. I mean we are fully kitted, and this lesson is basically a practical 101 class on how to make Ursa lures. Guess I can’t really fault this class then.’

(Glenda)”Miss BloodLotus! Please pay attention to class. Or do you think you’re already good enough to graduate?”

Glenda was one of the few teachers that would actually reprimand Vyr even though her grades were top of the class.

Seeing me get told off, more than a few students made the usual snickering and giggling noises. My team wasn’t the exception to the noise either. Even my two “sisters” were laughing and making fun of me.

(Vyr)”Nah I think I’ll stick around and annoy you a bit longer.”

“Thank you so much for that.” she said in a flat monotone. “Alright class join together with your teams and collect one jar of red sap from the trees for each team member.”

As everyone started walking off Jaune left with Cardin. Leaving his team to collect the sap by themselves.

Seeing Pyrrha’s face I walked over and said “don’t worry about it. Everyone has a path to take and lessons to learn. I’m sure he will be better for it when it’s over.”

“I know i just wish he would share his problems.”

“Don’t worry about it. Just help where you can, when you can.”

“Will that be enough?”

“As someone who has been teammates with two boys for years, trust me. I don’t see Jaune as the type to fall too far from the path. Sometimes we stray, but it’s the people around us who show us where to go.”

Pyrrha smiled and said “thanks.”

“Don’t mention it. Now! Let’s catch up to the rest of the group. I have a feeling Ruby and Nora are gonna make this longer than it needs to be.”

*Not long later/*

“Ruby! No! Bad! You can’t eat the tree goop!” Vyr yelled as she chased Ruby, tring to get the jar of tree sap out of her hands.

“But it’s tasty!” Ruby said, running away with a smile on her face. “Besides, Nora is eating it too!”

“I don’t care what Nora is eating. That’s Ren’s problem. Now give me that jar!”

“Thanks,” Ren said blandly as Nora ate her second jar of the sweet red sap.

“Sorry man but i’ve …. got … my …. hands … FULL.!” Vyr said as she held Ruby in place and wrestled the jar away from her. Having finally gotten the jar Vyr quickly stored it in her inventory.

“Nooo! Why have you done this to me?” ruby yelled as she tried to free herself from Vyr’s arms.

“Because we need it for class! Yang helped me out here.”

(Yang)”you wanted her, she’s your problem now.”

While all of this was happening a ways away Jaune and team CRDL were lying behind a hill watching them.

(Jaune)”Cardin, what’s going on?”

“Payback.” Cardin said in a dark tone.

“Pyrrha?”

“No no no. Not this time. As much as i would like that, there is someone much more worth it.”

“What ar-”

“That freak with the creepy eyes. Bitch thinks she can get away with threatening me? She’s got another thing coming. Alright boys, last night ol’ Jaune here managed to round up an entire box of rapier wasps. And now we’re gonna put ’em to work. Now according to the essays he wrote for me last week, these nasty things looove sweets. I’m thinking it’s time we teach her a thing or two.” cardin stands up before pulling Jaune to his feet and giving him a jar of sap while saying “and you’re gonna do it.”

(Jaune)”do what?”

“Hit her with the sap! Either that or I’ll have a chat with Goodwitch, and you’ll be on the first airship out of beacon.”

Jaune seeing Cardin being serious stayed silent. He looked to the group of his friends and took a throwing position. As he went to throw the jar he caught sight of Pyrrha laughing at Vyr struggling to keep Ruby from suċkɨnġ the sap straight from the trees.

“No”

“What did you say?”

“I said… NO!” Jaune quickly spun around and threw the jar at Cardin, breaking the glass and covering cardin’s armor in sap.

Cardin looked down at his now sticky armor and said “oh-ho-ho you’ve done it now”

*Vyr POV/*

“Did you guys hear that?” Ruby asked as we lazed around under a tree together.

Before anyone could answer Cardin’s three lackeys ran past yelling “Ursa! Ursa!” in their haste Russel Thrush ran head first into Yang.

She quickly picked up the panicked boy and asked “What? Where?”

(Thrush)”Back there. It’s got Cardin!”

Hearing this Pyrrha dropped her jar of sap in shock and yelled “Jaune!” in shock.

Ruby quickly realized where Jaune was and ordered “Yang! You and Blake go get professor Goodwitch. Weiss, Vyr, we are going to help”

Pyrrha turned to Ren and Nora and said “You two go with them! There could be more.”

After that everyone broke off. Ren, Nora, Yang and Blake went to get the teacher. While Pyrrha, Weiss, Ruby and me went to save Jaune, and maybe if he was lucky Cardin.

When we got to the battle Jaune was defending Cardin pretty well actually. I mean sure he was getting smacked around like a ragdoll but hey no one was dead… Yet.

As we went to help Pyrrha stopped us by saying “wait.”

Looking back to the fight Jaune was trying to do some kind of jump slash only to get batted away. Things got really dumb as the idoit tried the same thing again. The result was surprising. At least i’m sure he thought so as the exact same thing happened once again, leaving him tumbling across the ground. He then proceeded to do something else stupid, looking away from your opponent in a fight. He went to check something on his scroll he put on the back of his shield. Luckily the Ursa he was fighting was not only bigger than normal. It was slower as well.

Then as if to really force the point that he was inexperienced he rushed head first into the Ursa he was fighting. As the two were about to clash, Jaune seemed to want to pierce the Ursa with his sword. While the large Ursa used one hand to try and smash it’s much smaller prey.

It would have won the confrontation as well if not for Pyrrha lifting her hand and forcing Jaune to use his shield properly for what was probably the first time since he got it. When the Ursa glanced off of Jaune’s shield, it also forced him into a stable stance. Jaune immediately launched out of his simi-crouched position and did a jumping slash taking off the Ursa’s head.

Ruby stood looking not at the Ursa’s beheading, but at Pyrrha who was obviously helping Jaune from a distance.

(Ruby)”Uh, What?”

(Weiss)”how did you-?

(Pyrrha)”Well, Ruby has her speed, you have your Glyphs, My semblance is Polarity.”

(Ruby)”Ah, you can control poles.”

Hearing what Ruby said I couldn’t help but pull her into a hug and pat her head.

(Vyr)”oh you precious thing. Polarity means she can control magnetism.”

Ruby quickly blushed and tried to hide herself from view while mumbling “magnets are cool too.”

Pyrrha shook her head seeing us and motioned for Weiss to follow her and leave.

(Weiss)”Wait. You’re not going to say anything?”

Pyrrha looked at her and said “We could. Or perhaps, we could just keep it our little secret.”

Vyr, understanding what she meant, picked up Ruby in a princess carry and walked off following Pyrrha. She thought ‘She’s right. As much as I want to chew him out for that pitiful display, I can do it later. He needs the confidence boost more. Now for the more important things in life. How to get a kiss from Ruby. I can’t do it now, it needs to be a better place than this. It will be the first, doesn’t that mean it should be special? hmmm this needs more thought, like Dad always says “don’t run in head first, if you can prepare”. I could show her the glowing forest I made back at Kaer morhen. That place is as awesome as awesome can get. Heh i can already see her running from place to place like it’s a light show. But then again didn’t i fill that place with dangerous bullshit? Plus i don’t want to wait that long.. Mabey a quick tp? Again needs more thought.’