Chapter 2: Falling not Flying
Waking up early the next day I change into some gym clothes and head to the gym, this early there are almost no people there, makes sense considering it's six in the morning. Deciding to warm up I go through a litany of stretches getting my muscles (or rather lack of) ready to go through a forest full of grimm.
After stretching I do some basic calisthenics push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups, etc. just getting the blood pumping, once my muscles start to really burn I start trying to directly push my aura into the most painful areas and find them quickly healing and feeling better, once finished healing my whole body I find myself starving which makes sense aura may accelerate healing but you can't make muscle fiber from nothing.
Grabbing some protein bars from my gym bag I devour them and go through the same routine and find it the smallest bit easier, nothing drastic can't even do an extra push-up. But by the time breakfast starts I can do a few more reps. I get dressed in my combat gear, some sturdy jeans, a tank top, unzipped black jacket, and some tall boots with a metal toe of some kind. Wearing half-plate on top of an aura and a shield is just plain excessive, especially with an aura as disturbingly large as mine/Jaunes plus I always preferred the mobility of bloodborne to the weight of darksouls.
Heading to the dining room I pile my plate high with a high protein breakfast, lots of eggs, protein batter pancakes (makes sense this is a school for hunters), and bacon. Normally I would not eat this heavy stuff when I'm about to go fight but as I found in the gym after stuffing my face with protein bars, if I focus aura on my stomach it accelerates my digestion downside is I have to go to the bathroom immediately, that was very nearly a disaster in the gym.
Walking around I see ruby, yang, and surprisingly enough weiss all sitting together, moving over I sit next to ruby "Hey guys you all get a good night's rest?" Ruby is the first to respond "Yes, well no, I'm nervous about initiation and teams so I took a while to get to sleep and only got a few hours of sleep in." Yang speaks up rubbing Ruby's head "Yesh sis I know you aren't good at dealing with stress but you know you should get eight hours a night, plus you don't need to worry about your teammates, if they end up being bullies i'll take care of them." ruby lets out a sigh and whispers to herself "Thats what im worried about."
Weiss is the next to speak up. "Well I'm of a similar disposition as ruby, I don't want to get stuck with anyone unable to keep up with me and drag me down." Yang turns to me "Well I slept like a rock, but what about you Jaune I saw you in the gym when I walked in there did you get any sleep at all?"
"Ah well I got up at five thirtyish and went to the gym at six, so I got up pretty early but I went to sleep early as well so I got plenty of sleep." yang whistles at the time I got up "Geez man talk about dedication to the gain." weiss speaks up "Agreed, I only got up at six and you were already training, you must be quite strong" rubbing the back of my neck at the praise I give my decided upon excuse for this body's weakness "Not really I never went to an early training school like signal by the time I decided to be a huntsmen it was to late, so I had to practice by myself, I only got in thanks to my tactical skill and large aura, but if I can't bring my combat skill up to an acceptable level within the school year i'll be expelled so i'm sparing no effort."
Ruby looks awed "Wooow you must be really smart to get in without going to a combat school, do you think you'll be made a team leader?" nodding at her I say "That's the plan, if I can prove I deserve to be here I won't be kicked out after all." rubbing her neck she nods nervously "R-right, w-well if you need any help training i'll be glad to." Yang laughs petting ruby's head again "Ruby you would not be a good fit to train him, very few guys are designed for agility based combat like you and especially not him, I mean sure he's lanky but that's only cuz he's tall with no meat on his bones. Once his training starts to show he'll be a solid strength fighter, speaking of I can help you there whilst what you were doing earlier is fine its not going to get you to up to par fast enough, maybe if you started at the same age as us, but now we got to get you started on a real hard regiment."
Nodding at the two I say "Thanks, both of you but i'll train with both of you sparring and training with yang and just sparring with ruby. Learning to dodge the attacks of someone as fast as an agility based fighter would help any fighter greatly." I say the last part to yang as she looks ready to dismiss doing the same training as ruby as useless for a strength based fighter. Nodding she concedes "That's a fair point, just because you can take a hit doesn't mean you should.'' Before we can continue the pa system goes off with miss goodwitch's voice "All first year students report to the locker room and grab your equipment. "It would seem that's our que ladies." standing up I deposit my cleaned plate into the dishbin and grab a few bags of trail mix on my way out.
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Heading into the locker room I quickly find my locker and grab my sword and shield. Walking around I find Weiss talking with Pyrrha, and her beginning to scheme being the power partners of beacon being the respectively smartest and strongest girls in school. Interrupting before she starts to laugh maniacally I walk over "Hey there Weiss we're apart for five minutes and already you replace me, that's harsh." blushing she stutters out "OH NO I-i-i was just talking to her about being on the same team, afterall who wouldn't want to be on her team?" laughing a bit at her "It's fine Weiss cream i'm just joking with you, why don't you introduce us?"
Looking rather confused she asked me "Well she's Phyraa Nikos "Hello!", champion of the mistral tournament four years in a row? How do you not know her?" letting out a small sigh I responded "Well I was asking you to introduce me to her as a person. After all it's wrong to think you know someone just off of reputation, like you for example if I had thought of you just from your reputation as a daughter of Jacques Schnee I would have just labeled you a prissy princess and would have avoided you at all cost, instead I approached you as a person and now I like to think we could be friends."
As she pauses to think on that I turn to pyrrha and see a happy smile on her face. "Nice to meet you, miss Nikos. I am jaune arc. It's a pleasure." holding my hand out she shakes it. "It's wonderful to meet you, I'm Pyrrha Nikos" "So miss Nikos would you like to try and team up?" smiling she nods "That sounds wonderful!" At that moment the pa goes off once more "Would all first year students report to Beacon cliff-side for initiation, Once more would all first year students report to Beacon cliff-side immediately."
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Reaching the cliff side with the launch pads, Miss Goodwitch directs each of us onto a pad before Ozpin speaks up. "For years, you have trained to become warriors. And today, your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest." As Ozpin trails off Glynda speaks up "Now, I'm sure many of you have heard rumors about the assignment of teams. Well, allow us to put an end to your confusion. Each of you will be given teammates and partners, today." Ruby whines at that.
Ozpin picks back up "These teammates will be with you for the rest of your time here at Beacon. So it is in your best interest to be paired with someone whom you can work well with. That being said, the first person you make eye contact with after landing will be your partner for the next four years." If before she looked dizzy, Ruby now looked ready to throw up. Nora whisper yells at Ren "I told you so!"
Once again Ozpin speaks up "Once you are partnered up, make your way to the northern end of the forest. You will meet opposition along the way from the grimm. Do not hesitate to destroy everything in your path or you will die. You will be monitored and graded for the duration of your initiation. But our instructors will not intervene if you are in danger. You will find an abandoned temple containing several relics. Each pair must choose One and return to the top of the cliff. Upon doing so you will have finished initiation. Are there any questions? No? Good, now take your positions."
As each student gets launched I look to pyrrha to get her attention and tell her to meet me where I land and she nods before getting launched. As ruby gets launched I turn to Ozpin, expand my shield and mouth one word "Reincarnation." smirking as I get launched I see his eyes widen as I am launched.
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Flying through the air I woop in excitement letting out a prolonged "HELL YEAAAAAAH" as I fall toward the canopy I pull out my sword placing it facing forward on top of my shield and brace my aura. Crashing through several branches my sword eventually pierces a tree trunk, ripping it out in a backflip. I land on my feet awkwardly and shake out my arms. Even with aura that hurt.
After a few seconds ruby and weiss walk into my little clearing on me giving my sword a few test swings. Ruby tackles into my stomach "JAUNE!" patting her head as she pouts, I respond "Hey ruby, weiss." Ruby bats away my hand "Hey jaune you want to join us?" shaking my head "Nah you girls go ahead i'm gonna look for a partner." nodding she grabs weiss and leaves "Alright then i'll see when you finish."
As those two leave pyrrha walks into the clearing from the other side "Hello again jaune, it seems we are to be partners." nodding at her "Indeed, we should probably head off if we want to stay ahead of the curve though." Once she nods we head off in a different direction then ruby and weiss.
After a few minutes of walking we hear gunfire ring out from the ongoing fights in the woods. "It seems some of our friends are getting up to trouble huh." she nods to me "So it would seem" as we walk out of the brush we come upon a cave with drawings of a death stalker on the outside. "Sooo think this is it?" pyrrha ask after a while, sighing realizing this is the best way to show my potential to Ozpin I say "Sure"
A couple seconds later after making a torch and walking through the cave we come upon the death stalker, letting out another sigh I let out a quiet "Run." And run we did in the same direction the DeathStalker threw the og jaune. After a minutes we come upon Blake, yang, ruby, nora, and ren looking up towards a giant NeverMore that weiss has just been flung from, sprinting I climb a nearby tree and jump grabbing weiss canceling her momentum, having angled it before jumping we land on a branch I grab in one hand as it bends down letting go once we are on the ground.
As we hit solid ground pyrrha gets sent flying by the DS into the group. Yang pipes up "Great! The gang's all here! Now we can die together!" ruby tells her sister "Not if I can help it!" and runs towards the DS getting a "Ruby, wait!" from yang charging right at it she gets knocked on her ass... fuckin hell, I start running toward her, putting weiss down, as she runs from it yang starts running toward ruby as well. The NM sees an easy target and ends up pinning Ruby's cape with some feathers.
Feeling myself accelerate as Weiss boosts me with glyphs I arrive as the DS starts to thrust its tail towards ruby, pushing myself with weiss' glyph I shield bash the DS in it's face knocking it back by a fair distance. The rest of the group reach us as the DS shakes it's head from the stun. Looking up I see the NM circling back, and point to it "Guys! That thing's circling back! Ideas!?" as I say that Weiss speaks up "Look, there's no reason to waste time fighting these things. The relics are right there. I say we grab them and race for the cliff face."
Ruby nods along with her "She's right our mission was just to grab a relic and get back to the cliff." as everyone nods she walks to the altar and grabs a golden knight piece. I grab a golden rook piece. As the NM gets closer and the DS shakes off its concussion, Ren yells to us "Time to leave you two, we got company!" Nodding we look at each other and I look back "On me! To the cliffs!"
Running to the cliff ruby hops on a small rock waving for Yang and Blake to catch up. As we run the NM outpaces us landing on the top of the ruins letting loose a horrid screech as the DS crashes through the trees behind us. "Shit alright these guys aren't gonna give us a break, you four" I say pointing to ruby, yang, blake, and weiss "Take care of big bird, you three" I point to ren, nora, and pyrrha "On me we got the scorpion." Getting nods all around, team rwby heads toward the tower to take care of the NM.
Pointing to everyone I give out orders "Pyrrha you and me are tanking, ninja boy you run interference, grenadier girl you are dealing damage. Move!" pyrrha and I run in deflecting its pincers she stuns it with a shield bash and we each take out an eye, as I get close I notice it's armor cracked from my boosted shield bash from earlier getting pyrrha's attention I motion between the crack and her spear she nods "Ninja Interference, Grenadier prepare for launch."
As Ren runs between me and pyrrha getting its attention I get on one knee with my shield above my head and pyrrha runs up jumps over it launching her spear rifle into the crack widening it and lets out a shout "Execution set-up!" as she says that I feel nora land on my shield and as I hear her pull the trigger I push my aura to the limit jumping breaking the ground under me as nora goes flying she spins launching a grenade into the air propelling herself down and smashed directly into pyrrha's spear sending it through the things brain.
As it dissolves to dust Pyrrha grabs her spear, a bit blunt where Nora hit it but otherwise fine. Looking over the canyon we see team rwby executing there plan which basically happens exactly as in the anime yang knocks it into a canyon wall, weiss freezes it to the wall and runs back, blake and yang make a slingshot with blake's weapon, ruby gets in the sling shot with weiss using gravity glyphs to give it some real omph and she gets launched grabbing the nevermore's neck with her scythe running straight up the canyon wall with the help of glyphs and her sniper's recoil eventually decapitating the big bird killing it. She comes to a stop at the top of the cliff looking like the picture of heroism that goes with the definition in the dictionary.
"I hope I won't be expected to be able to do that anytime soon." After I say that Phyrra lets out a snort and Nora falls over laughing.
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Killa_Stats Yes I know the fight against the death stalker was basically exactly what happened in the anime but that fight was perfect and had no need of fixing so of course I wouldn't alter it.
But I hope you enjoyed this is my longest chapter yet i'm pretty sure.
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