Chapter 21
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Everyone's eyes shifted, "I didn't know it would become a magical item!" Jaune shook his hands, "It was an experiment! Here catch and use your Inventory to examine it!" Jaune tossed everyone their Moondust Pendants.
As they stared at the details, they felt their jaws open up out of sheer excitement.
[Moondust Pendant: Increases the Aura Growth of anyone wearing this magical equipment by 100%]
[Item Level: F Rank]
[Item Rarity:S Rank]
[Durability:100%]
[Creators: Weiss Schnee and Jaune Arc.]
Everyone put their pendants on and felt the item work its magic, their body's felt like it suddenly got slightly warmer, not uncomfortable, but, like taking a nap in the sun on a perfect day.
Jaune was shocked to discover that his boost was higher than everyone else's as when he looked at the effect on his status window, it showed his Bonus Aura Growth shot up to 200%, Jaune rubbed his chin and figured that it had something to do with his Arc bloodline.
After working out a deal with Weiss, things started to get back to normal, after almost 3 months in total, Jaune's Aura had already reached over 4,000, easily recovering the Aura he lost from Amping the Headmaster and Misstress.
Thanks to working 3 jobs, as a construction worker, a shipping hand, and a farm hand, Jaune saved up around 23 thousand Lien from hard labor, he never stopped working, even after had already started to make a bit of a fortune with Weiss, Jaune liked the work out, and he had made friends there too.
He sold tiny fragments of Enhanced Dust, and made a few million overnight, eventually he built up around 50 Million and used every bit of it to increase his Skill to as high as they could go.
The new Skill Levels were...
1.Climb: Lv-5
[Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.]
2.Craft: Lv-6
[Cost to Level Up 100,000,000 Lien.]
3.Diplomacy: Lv-5
[Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.]
4.Handle Animal: Lv-5
[Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.]
5.Intimidate: Lv-5
[Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.]
6.Knowledge: Lv-5
[Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.]
7.Perform: Lv-5
[Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.]
8.Profession: Lv-5
[Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.]
9.Drive: Lv-5
[Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.]
10.Ride: Lv-5
[Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.]
11.Swim: Lv-5
[Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.]
12.Stealth: Lv-6
[Cost to Level Up 100,000,000 Lien.]
13.Perception: Lv-6
[Cost to Level Up 100,000,000 Lien.]
"I can earn my own money." Jaune thought as he stored away the rest to build his Hunter Weapons, "Especially if I start really hunting." Jaune grinned, "Dragons, Nucklelavees, Giants, Death Knights, bring them all on."
He took a quick glance at his own status.
Name: Jaune Arc
Age: 17
Title: Wargod's Knight: +15 to Battle Power.
Class: Hunter Knight In Training - Level:04
Overall Level: 004
Experience: 7,985
Experience needed until the next level: 15,000
Condition: 100%
Constitution: 36
Defense: 36 (+10 Armor Bonus)
Intelligence: 14
Focus: 14
Mana: 0
Battle Power: 115
Aura: 4,288
Jaune flexed feeling his new strength, he still wasn't anywhere near Salems full power though, or his original power himself, it took everything they had to kill a mindless Grimm version of her, Jaune could only shake in fear as he remebered how much more terrifying she was when she had a mind to fight with.
The days past by pretty quick, With Jaune helping the slower ones of the party 'Nora' study, they didn't have many problems in class, Jaune was beginning to think Nora was actually a genius in disguise, as long as Pancakes and various other snacks were motivating her, she could do anything she put her mind to, anything.
Ren worked tirelessly on making a potion to drink, he even spent a few hundred thousand Lien of Jaune's on improving his Crafting Skill to help.
During the 3 months, Ren had managed to make a prototype to be tested on some poor lab mouse, even at 10 times diluted, the Serum caused small wounds to instantly close, however, he needed to test it on an animal that has developed Aura, animals like Zwei.
However, such awakened beasts are extremely rare, but, after exposing the lab mouse to the Moon Dust's radiation for a week, it managed to help them develop its soul to the point of manifesting Aura.
Unfortunately, the moment it drank the potion, the Aura in its body expanded to the point of exploding, making Ruby cry out, "Mousie no!"
"Sorry Ruby, but better the mouse than us." The next mouse he purchased, Ren decided to let it acclimate to having an Aura for a longer period of time, future tests were still pending.
The days continued to pass by, and during that time when Jaune spent time Ruby, it was mostly about teaching her being a leader.
Whenever she had an issue with her team, Jaune would just drop a hint or two, maybe even some advice when she needed it, even classes got easier for her, only she listened to Jaune teach her more than the teachers.
For instance, whenever Port would begin one of his long-winded explanations about Grimm, which actually were pretty important, however, with less than ten minutes, Jaune explained every bit of information about the Grimm in a way Ruby could understand.
With Jaune's future teaching methods, Ruby into the swing of being a leader rather quickly, they even made up a few combined team attacks that could do some serious damage to Jaune going all out.
In fact, for the first two months into their training, Jaune and Ruby had forced their team to participate in mandatory training and matches for a week straight.
Jaune stood in the center of the battle room and had his team at his side, across from them was team RWBY, Glynda had been ordered by Ozpin to observe their match and judge their team techniques.
Ruby pointed her finger at Jaune, "I warn you Jaune, I won't lose this match again! Prepare to face the dreaded final boss!"
"Does that make me the Hero? Oh, Demon Lord Ruby! Have at thee!" Jaune drew his sword and was barely able to keep his face from cracking up with laughter.
"Demon Lord Ruby, surrender now, you are no match for my team, not while we have our Valkyrie," Jaune said showing off Nora. He then pointed to Pyrrha, "And with the Goddess of Victory's blessing, we shall overcome your vile army."
Pyrrha giggled and gave an awkward act, "My heroes, you must defeat the evil Demon Lord and return peace to Remnant once and for all."
"What happened Ruby, we were such good friends, why did it come to all of this?" Nora played along.
"It's too late for that Nora, you've chosen to walk along the side of the Hero, our fates were sealed the moment you did so," Ruby shot back with a sorrowful stare.
"Yang you too?" Nora asked with tears in her eyes.
"Sorry Nora, if my sister became the Demon Lord, then I will protect my sister regardless of the consequences, even if that means turning my back on Humanity," Yang said as she gazed back at Ruby.
Ruby looked back at Yang and said, "Big Sis!" as they hugged, seeing this caused Weiss to slap her forehead, "What are they doing? They're making fools out of themselves."
"I don't know, I think it's pretty good acting." Blake disagreed with Weiss.
Ren shook his head, he then gave out an embarrassed, "Nora, there's nothing more we can say. They've made their decision."
Nora jumped into his arms and said, "I know Renny, but, they were our friends." Ren patted Nora on the back and said, "There, there."
"Children! Please, just start the fight."Glynda shouted as she shook her head in annoyance.
Everyone laughed a bit before taking their fighting stances, Jaune jumped forward and held his shield out in front of him and his sword hand placed out of his opponent's range of vision.
While Jaune charged towards ahead of everyone else, he shouted, "Yo-Yo!"
Ruby clashed with Jaune, his shield created sparks of light as their steel met, Ruby then pointed the barrel of her rifle towards Jaune's face, but couldn't get a good shot because of his shield's placement, Jaune swung his blade out from behind his stance and was stopped by Yang.
Yang was about to hit Jaune, but was suddenly surprised by the fact Jaune's armor had a shade of black Aura around it, with a simple wave of her hand, Jaune's body had been pulled back by Pyrrha's Ferrokinesis, narrowly avoiding Yang's fist as swung his sword out towards her waist in retaliation.
Ruby's quick thinking and quicker feet, allowed her to block Jaune's sword with her scythe, "Hail Shotgun!" Ruby shouted.
Yang jumped back by Weiss who had created a Glyph that was rotating in the air in front of her, Yang punched out dozens of times, each time her fists struck against the Glyph, fist-size blocks of ice charged out at Jaune's team.
Jaune then shouted, "Cover Fire! Around the World!"
Ren immediately started to fire off his Storm Flowers, each of his bullets was aimed with precision and maximum focus, using Fire Dust in his rounds, Ren's shots melted away the Hail that Yang and Weiss were dishing out.
Nora pulled him back as he lept with her Semblance and then landed on Nora's hammer.
"Get ready for lift off!" Nora shouted as she tossed Jaune forward as hard as she could, using the momentum of Nora's strength, Pyrrha only had to use a small amount of her Aura to direct Jaune's body in a circular pattern, he came in at their side and was seconds away from shield bashing Weiss and Yang.
Before he hit, Ruby shouted, "Shadow Swap!"
Blake's Semblance kicked it the moment Jaune smashed into his target, in the place of both Weiss and Yang, was a stone statue of the two that was torn apart by Jaune's blow.
"Freezer Burn! Shadow Tag!" Ruby shouted.
Weiss stabbed her Rapier into the ground and caused the entire floor to ice over, Yang then loaded a flame thrower round and punched at the ground causing the ice to melt.
Seconds away from the entire arena being covered in steam, Jaune reacted in time to shout, " Back to Back!"
The four of them placed their backs against each other and used their perception, and because the mist is so thick, their shadows had been enlarged and were even laying against the steam surface like it was a wall.
The anticipation of their attack only caused them to grow more aware of their surroundings, Jaune could even feel the sweat from his brow dropping on the ground.
Suddenly, one of Blake's wind clones shot out of their shadows and attacked team JNPR's leader.
Jaune raised his shield and surrounded it with his Aura, as soon as the wind clone hit, Jaune felt his shield raise up slightly as it shot back into another shadow, next was Ren, as soon as it got close to him, Ren raised his Storm Flower and chopped out.
The wind clone clashed with Ren only to be parried and sent flying back into another shadow.
Pyrrha was ready for the shadow that attacked her, the moment it came through her shadow, Pyrrha struck out with her blade and cleaved the wind clone in two.
"Stay alert, she has to be running out of ammo, a few more rounds until she has to reload, then we'll have our chance to attack! " Jaune shouted as Nora's shadow began to fluctuate.
From out of Nora's shadow, a giant fire copy of Blake sprung up, expecting it to be the wind Clone, Nora swung her hammer at it before she could see that it was a trap.
As her hammer smashed against the fire clone, it caused a large explosion that sent her flying upward.
"Weee!" Nora shouted as she fell into the distance, Ruby dashed in from the opening made, she swung her scythe at Jaune's back, only to see him dodge it by backflipping and punching down at her back with his shield arm.
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Everyone's eyes shifted, "I didn't know it would become a magical item!" Jaune shook his hands, "It was an experiment! Here catch and use your Inventory to examine it!" Jaune tossed everyone their Moondust Pendants.
As they stared at the details, they felt their jaws open up out of sheer excitement.
[Moondust Pendant: Increases the Aura Growth of anyone wearing this magical equipment by 100%]
[Item Level: F Rank]
[Item Rarity:S Rank]
[Durability:100%]
[Creators: Weiss Schnee and Jaune Arc.]
Everyone put their pendants on and felt the item work its magic, their body's felt like it suddenly got slightly warmer, not uncomfortable, but, like taking a nap in the sun on a perfect day.
Jaune was shocked to discover that his boost was higher than everyone else's as when he looked at the effect on his status window, it showed his Bonus Aura Growth shot up to 200%, Jaune rubbed his chin and figured that it had something to do with his Arc bloodline.
After working out a deal with Weiss, things started to get back to normal, after almost 3 months in total, Jaune's Aura had already reached over 4,000, easily recovering the Aura he lost from Amping the Headmaster and Misstress.
Thanks to working 3 jobs, as a construction worker, a shipping hand, and a farm hand, Jaune saved up around 23 thousand Lien from hard labor, he never stopped working, even after had already started to make a bit of a fortune with Weiss, Jaune liked the work out, and he had made friends there too.
He sold tiny fragments of Enhanced Dust, and made a few million overnight, eventually he built up around 50 Million and used every bit of it to increase his Skill to as high as they could go.
The new Skill Levels were...
1.Climb: Lv-5
[Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.]
2.Craft: Lv-6
[Cost to Level Up 100,000,000 Lien.]
3.Diplomacy: Lv-5
[Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.]
4.Handle Animal: Lv-5
[Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.]
5.Intimidate: Lv-5
[Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.]
6.Knowledge: Lv-5
[Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.]
7.Perform: Lv-5
[Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.]
8.Profession: Lv-5
[Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.]
9.Drive: Lv-5
[Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.]
10.Ride: Lv-5
[Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.]
11.Swim: Lv-5
[Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.]
12.Stealth: Lv-6
[Cost to Level Up 100,000,000 Lien.]
13.Perception: Lv-6
[Cost to Level Up 100,000,000 Lien.]
"I can earn my own money." Jaune thought as he stored away the rest to build his Hunter Weapons, "Especially if I start really hunting." Jaune grinned, "Dragons, Nucklelavees, Giants, Death Knights, bring them all on."
He took a quick glance at his own status.
Name: Jaune Arc
Age: 17
Title: Wargod's Knight: +15 to Battle Power.
Class: Hunter Knight In Training - Level:04
Overall Level: 004
Experience: 7,985
Experience needed until the next level: 15,000
Condition: 100%
Constitution: 36
Defense: 36 (+10 Armor Bonus)
Intelligence: 14
Focus: 14
Mana: 0
Battle Power: 115
Aura: 4,288
Jaune flexed feeling his new strength, he still wasn't anywhere near Salems full power though, or his original power himself, it took everything they had to kill a mindless Grimm version of her, Jaune could only shake in fear as he remebered how much more terrifying she was when she had a mind to fight with.
The days past by pretty quick, With Jaune helping the slower ones of the party 'Nora' study, they didn't have many problems in class, Jaune was beginning to think Nora was actually a genius in disguise, as long as Pancakes and various other snacks were motivating her, she could do anything she put her mind to, anything.
Ren worked tirelessly on making a potion to drink, he even spent a few hundred thousand Lien of Jaune's on improving his Crafting Skill to help.
During the 3 months, Ren had managed to make a prototype to be tested on some poor lab mouse, even at 10 times diluted, the Serum caused small wounds to instantly close, however, he needed to test it on an animal that has developed Aura, animals like Zwei.
However, such awakened beasts are extremely rare, but, after exposing the lab mouse to the Moon Dust's radiation for a week, it managed to help them develop its soul to the point of manifesting Aura.
Unfortunately, the moment it drank the potion, the Aura in its body expanded to the point of exploding, making Ruby cry out, "Mousie no!"
"Sorry Ruby, but better the mouse than us." The next mouse he purchased, Ren decided to let it acclimate to having an Aura for a longer period of time, future tests were still pending.
The days continued to pass by, and during that time when Jaune spent time Ruby, it was mostly about teaching her being a leader.
Whenever she had an issue with her team, Jaune would just drop a hint or two, maybe even some advice when she needed it, even classes got easier for her, only she listened to Jaune teach her more than the teachers.
For instance, whenever Port would begin one of his long-winded explanations about Grimm, which actually were pretty important, however, with less than ten minutes, Jaune explained every bit of information about the Grimm in a way Ruby could understand.
With Jaune's future teaching methods, Ruby into the swing of being a leader rather quickly, they even made up a few combined team attacks that could do some serious damage to Jaune going all out.
In fact, for the first two months into their training, Jaune and Ruby had forced their team to participate in mandatory training and matches for a week straight.
Jaune stood in the center of the battle room and had his team at his side, across from them was team RWBY, Glynda had been ordered by Ozpin to observe their match and judge their team techniques.
Ruby pointed her finger at Jaune, "I warn you Jaune, I won't lose this match again! Prepare to face the dreaded final boss!"
"Does that make me the Hero? Oh, Demon Lord Ruby! Have at thee!" Jaune drew his sword and was barely able to keep his face from cracking up with laughter.
"Demon Lord Ruby, surrender now, you are no match for my team, not while we have our Valkyrie," Jaune said showing off Nora. He then pointed to Pyrrha, "And with the Goddess of Victory's blessing, we shall overcome your vile army."
Pyrrha giggled and gave an awkward act, "My heroes, you must defeat the evil Demon Lord and return peace to Remnant once and for all."
"What happened Ruby, we were such good friends, why did it come to all of this?" Nora played along.
"It's too late for that Nora, you've chosen to walk along the side of the Hero, our fates were sealed the moment you did so," Ruby shot back with a sorrowful stare.
"Yang you too?" Nora asked with tears in her eyes.
"Sorry Nora, if my sister became the Demon Lord, then I will protect my sister regardless of the consequences, even if that means turning my back on Humanity," Yang said as she gazed back at Ruby.
Ruby looked back at Yang and said, "Big Sis!" as they hugged, seeing this caused Weiss to slap her forehead, "What are they doing? They're making fools out of themselves."
"I don't know, I think it's pretty good acting." Blake disagreed with Weiss.
Ren shook his head, he then gave out an embarrassed, "Nora, there's nothing more we can say. They've made their decision."
Nora jumped into his arms and said, "I know Renny, but, they were our friends." Ren patted Nora on the back and said, "There, there."
"Children! Please, just start the fight."Glynda shouted as she shook her head in annoyance.
Everyone laughed a bit before taking their fighting stances, Jaune jumped forward and held his shield out in front of him and his sword hand placed out of his opponent's range of vision.
While Jaune charged towards ahead of everyone else, he shouted, "Yo-Yo!"
Ruby clashed with Jaune, his shield created sparks of light as their steel met, Ruby then pointed the barrel of her rifle towards Jaune's face, but couldn't get a good shot because of his shield's placement, Jaune swung his blade out from behind his stance and was stopped by Yang.
Yang was about to hit Jaune, but was suddenly surprised by the fact Jaune's armor had a shade of black Aura around it, with a simple wave of her hand, Jaune's body had been pulled back by Pyrrha's Ferrokinesis, narrowly avoiding Yang's fist as swung his sword out towards her waist in retaliation.
Ruby's quick thinking and quicker feet, allowed her to block Jaune's sword with her scythe, "Hail Shotgun!" Ruby shouted.
Yang jumped back by Weiss who had created a Glyph that was rotating in the air in front of her, Yang punched out dozens of times, each time her fists struck against the Glyph, fist-size blocks of ice charged out at Jaune's team.
Jaune then shouted, "Cover Fire! Around the World!"
Ren immediately started to fire off his Storm Flowers, each of his bullets was aimed with precision and maximum focus, using Fire Dust in his rounds, Ren's shots melted away the Hail that Yang and Weiss were dishing out.
Nora pulled him back as he lept with her Semblance and then landed on Nora's hammer.
"Get ready for lift off!" Nora shouted as she tossed Jaune forward as hard as she could, using the momentum of Nora's strength, Pyrrha only had to use a small amount of her Aura to direct Jaune's body in a circular pattern, he came in at their side and was seconds away from shield bashing Weiss and Yang.
Before he hit, Ruby shouted, "Shadow Swap!"
Blake's Semblance kicked it the moment Jaune smashed into his target, in the place of both Weiss and Yang, was a stone statue of the two that was torn apart by Jaune's blow.
"Freezer Burn! Shadow Tag!" Ruby shouted.
Weiss stabbed her Rapier into the ground and caused the entire floor to ice over, Yang then loaded a flame thrower round and punched at the ground causing the ice to melt.
Seconds away from the entire arena being covered in steam, Jaune reacted in time to shout, " Back to Back!"
The four of them placed their backs against each other and used their perception, and because the mist is so thick, their shadows had been enlarged and were even laying against the steam surface like it was a wall.
The anticipation of their attack only caused them to grow more aware of their surroundings, Jaune could even feel the sweat from his brow dropping on the ground.
Suddenly, one of Blake's wind clones shot out of their shadows and attacked team JNPR's leader.
Jaune raised his shield and surrounded it with his Aura, as soon as the wind clone hit, Jaune felt his shield raise up slightly as it shot back into another shadow, next was Ren, as soon as it got close to him, Ren raised his Storm Flower and chopped out.
The wind clone clashed with Ren only to be parried and sent flying back into another shadow.
Pyrrha was ready for the shadow that attacked her, the moment it came through her shadow, Pyrrha struck out with her blade and cleaved the wind clone in two.
"Stay alert, she has to be running out of ammo, a few more rounds until she has to reload, then we'll have our chance to attack! " Jaune shouted as Nora's shadow began to fluctuate.
From out of Nora's shadow, a giant fire copy of Blake sprung up, expecting it to be the wind Clone, Nora swung her hammer at it before she could see that it was a trap.
As her hammer smashed against the fire clone, it caused a large explosion that sent her flying upward.
"Weee!" Nora shouted as she fell into the distance, Ruby dashed in from the opening made, she swung her scythe at Jaune's back, only to see him dodge it by backflipping and punching down at her back with his shield arm.
Everyone's eyes shifted, "I didn't know it would become a magical item!" Jaune shook his hands, "It was an experiment! Here catch and use your Inventory to examine it!" Jaune tossed everyone their Moondust Pendants.As they stared at the details, they felt their jaws open up out of sheer excitement.Moondust Pendant: Increases the Aura Growth of anyone wearing this magical equipment by 100%Item Level: F RankItem Rarity:S RankDurability:100%Creators: Weiss Schnee and Jaune Arc.Everyone put their pendants on and felt the item work its magic, their body's felt like it suddenly got slightly warmer, not uncomfortable, but, like taking a nap in the sun on a perfect day.Jaune was shocked to discover that his boost was higher than everyone else's as when he looked at the effect on his status window, it showed his Bonus Aura Growth shot up to 200%, Jaune rubbed his chin and figured that it had something to do with his Arc bloodline.After working out a deal with Weiss, things started to get back to normal, after almost 3 months in total, Jaune's Aura had already reached over 4,000, easily recovering the Aura he lost from Amping the Headmaster and Misstress.Thanks to working 3 jobs, as a construction worker, a shipping hand, and a farm hand, Jaune saved up around 23 thousand Lien from hard labor, he never stopped working, even after had already started to make a bit of a fortune with Weiss, Jaune liked the work out, and he had made friends there too.He sold tiny fragments of Enhanced Dust, and made a few million overnight, eventually he built up around 50 Million and used every bit of it to increase his Skill to as high as they could go.The new Skill Levels were...1.Climb: Lv-5Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.2.Craft: Lv-6Cost to Level Up 100,000,000 Lien.3.Diplomacy: Lv-5Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.4.Handle Animal: Lv-5Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.5.Intimidate: Lv-5Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.6.Knowledge: Lv-5Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.7.Perform: Lv-5Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.8.Profession: Lv-5Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.9.Drive: Lv-5Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.10.Ride: Lv-5Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.11.Swim: Lv-5Cost to Level Up 10,000,000 Lien.12.Stealth: Lv-6Cost to Level Up 100,000,000 Lien.13.Perception: Lv-6Cost to Level Up 100,000,000 Lien."I can earn my own money." Jaune thought as he stored away the rest to build his Hunter Weapons, "Especially if I start really hunting." Jaune grinned, "Dragons, Nucklelavees, Giants, Death Knights, bring them all on."He took a quick glance at his own status.Name: Jaune ArcAge: 17Title: Wargod's Knight: +15 to Battle Power.Class: Hunter Knight In Training - Level:04Overall Level: 004Experience: 7,985Experience needed until the next level: 15,000Condition: 100%Constitution: 36Defense: 36 +10 Armor BonusIntelligence: 14Focus: 14Mana: 0Battle Power: 115Aura: 4,288Jaune flexed feeling his new strength, he still wasn't anywhere near Salems full power though, or his original power himself, it took everything they had to kill a mindless Grimm version of her, Jaune could only shake in fear as he remebered how much more terrifying she was when she had a mind to fight with.The days past by pretty quick, With Jaune helping the slower ones of the party 'Nora' study, they didn't have many problems in class, Jaune was beginning to think Nora was actually a genius in disguise, as long as Pancakes and various other snacks were motivating her, she could do anything she put her mind to, anything.Ren worked tirelessly on making a potion to drink, he even spent a few hundred thousand Lien of Jaune's on improving his Crafting Skill to help.During the 3 months, Ren had managed to make a prototype to be tested on some poor lab mouse, even at 10 times diluted, the Serum caused small wounds to instantly close, however, he needed to test it on an animal that has developed Aura, animals like Zwei.However, such awakened beasts are extremely rare, but, after exposing the lab mouse to the Moon Dust's radiation for a week, it managed to help them develop its soul to the point of manifesting Aura.Unfortunately, the moment it drank the potion, the Aura in its body expanded to the point of exploding, making Ruby cry out, "Mousie no!""Sorry Ruby, but better the mouse than us." The next mouse he purchased, Ren decided to let it acclimate to having an Aura for a longer period of time, future tests were still pending.The days continued to pass by, and during that time when Jaune spent time Ruby, it was mostly about teaching her being a leader.Whenever she had an issue with her team, Jaune would just drop a hint or two, maybe even some advice when she needed it, even classes got easier for her, only she listened to Jaune teach her more than the teachers.For instance, whenever Port would begin one of his long-winded explanations about Grimm, which actually were pretty important, however, with less than ten minutes, Jaune explained every bit of information about the Grimm in a way Ruby could understand.With Jaune's future teaching methods, Ruby into the swing of being a leader rather quickly, they even made up a few combined team attacks that could do some serious damage to Jaune going all out.In fact, for the first two months into their training, Jaune and Ruby had forced their team to participate in mandatory training and matches for a week straight.Jaune stood in the center of the battle room and had his team at his side, across from them was team RWBY, Glynda had been ordered by Ozpin to observe their match and judge their team techniques.Ruby pointed her finger at Jaune, "I warn you Jaune, I won't lose this match again! Prepare to face the dreaded final boss!""Does that make me the Hero? Oh, Demon Lord Ruby! Have at thee!" Jaune drew his sword and was barely able to keep his face from cracking up with laughter."Demon Lord Ruby, surrender now, you are no match for my team, not while we have our Valkyrie," Jaune said showing off Nora. He then pointed to Pyrrha, "And with the Goddess of Victory's blessing, we shall overcome your vile army."Pyrrha giggled and gave an awkward act, "My heroes, you must defeat the evil Demon Lord and return peace to Remnant once and for all.""What happened Ruby, we were such good friends, why did it come to all of this?" Nora played along."It's too late for that Nora, you've chosen to walk along the side of the Hero, our fates were sealed the moment you did so," Ruby shot back with a sorrowful stare."Yang you too?" Nora asked with tears in her eyes."Sorry Nora, if my sister became the Demon Lord, then I will protect my sister regardless of the consequences, even if that means turning my back on Humanity," Yang said as she gazed back at Ruby.Ruby looked back at Yang and said, "Big Sis!" as they hugged, seeing this caused Weiss to slap her forehead, "What are they doing? They're making fools out of themselves.""I don't know, I think it's pretty good acting." Blake disagreed with Weiss.Ren shook his head, he then gave out an embarrassed, "Nora, there's nothing more we can say. They've made their decision."Nora jumped into his arms and said, "I know Renny, but, they were our friends." Ren patted Nora on the back and said, "There, there.""Children! Please, just start the fight."Glynda shouted as she shook her head in annoyance.Everyone laughed a bit before taking their fighting stances, Jaune jumped forward and held his shield out in front of him and his sword hand placed out of his opponent's range of vision.While Jaune charged towards ahead of everyone else, he shouted, "Yo-Yo!"Ruby clashed with Jaune, his shield created sparks of light as their steel met, Ruby then pointed the barrel of her rifle towards Jaune's face, but couldn't get a good shot because of his shield's placement, Jaune swung his blade out from behind his stance and was stopped by Yang.Yang was about to hit Jaune, but was suddenly surprised by the fact Jaune's armor had a shade of black Aura around it, with a simple wave of her hand, Jaune's body had been pulled back by Pyrrha's Ferrokinesis, narrowly avoiding Yang's fist as swung his sword out towards her waist in retaliation.Ruby's quick thinking and quicker feet, allowed her to block Jaune's sword with her scythe, "Hail Shotgun!" Ruby shouted.Yang jumped back by Weiss who had created a Glyph that was rotating in the air in front of her, Yang punched out dozens of times, each time her fists struck against the Glyph, fist-size blocks of ice charged out at Jaune's team.Jaune then shouted, "Cover Fire! Around the World!"Ren immediately started to fire off his Storm Flowers, each of his bullets was aimed with precision and maximum focus, using Fire Dust in his rounds, Ren's shots melted away the Hail that Yang and Weiss were dishing out.Nora pulled him back as he lept with her Semblance and then landed on Nora's hammer."Get ready for lift off!" Nora shouted as she tossed Jaune forward as hard as she could, using the momentum of Nora's strength, Pyrrha only had to use a small amount of her Aura to direct Jaune's body in a circular pattern, he came in at their side and was seconds away from shield bashing Weiss and Yang.Before he hit, Ruby shouted, "Shadow Swap!"Blake's Semblance kicked it the moment Jaune smashed into his target, in the place of both Weiss and Yang, was a stone statue of the two that was torn apart by Jaune's blow."Freezer Burn! Shadow Tag!" Ruby shouted.Weiss stabbed her Rapier into the ground and caused the entire floor to ice over, Yang then loaded a flame thrower round and punched at the ground causing the ice to melt.Seconds away from the entire arena being covered in steam, Jaune reacted in time to shout, " Back to Back!"The four of them placed their backs against each other and used their perception, and because the mist is so thick, their shadows had been enlarged and were even laying against the steam surface like it was a wall.The anticipation of their attack only caused them to grow more aware of their surroundings, Jaune could even feel the sweat from his brow dropping on the ground.Suddenly, one of Blake's wind clones shot out of their shadows and attacked team JNPR's leader.Jaune raised his shield and surrounded it with his Aura, as soon as the wind clone hit, Jaune felt his shield raise up slightly as it shot back into another shadow, next was Ren, as soon as it got close to him, Ren raised his Storm Flower and chopped out.The wind clone clashed with Ren only to be parried and sent flying back into another shadow.Pyrrha was ready for the shadow that attacked her, the moment it came through her shadow, Pyrrha struck out with her blade and cleaved the wind clone in two."Stay alert, she has to be running out of ammo, a few more rounds until she has to reload, then we'll have our chance to attack! " Jaune shouted as Nora's shadow began to fluctuate.From out of Nora's shadow, a giant fire copy of Blake sprung up, expecting it to be the wind Clone, Nora swung her hammer at it before she could see that it was a trap.As her hammer smashed against the fire clone, it caused a large explosion that sent her flying upward."Weee!" Nora shouted as she fell into the distance, Ruby dashed in from the opening made, she swung her scythe at Jaune's back, only to see him dodge it by backflipping and punching down at her back with his shield arm.
