AN: Fanfiction won't let me upload the next chapter of Jaune Torchwick for some reason so have a fic that I said I was going to drop!

Well, here we go! I really can't believe I'm actually publishing this fic. It only took FF not uploading my other fics for this to happen! I have had this one in a saved file with a literal mountain of other ideas for months now, and I am just now deciding to toss out the first chapter to see how it goes.

I'm going, to be honest. Before I started publishing fanfiction, I wrote it. A lot. I have a folder full of stories and ideas that I just never published yet. So during the new year, I got around in some potentially drunken influence to find some of the older files of actually finished chapters and publish them!

So here it is! One of my first stories ever. I have no idea how long I kept this thing was in the save file or how good it will be, but here it is!

Warming this is a harem story so expect harem shenanigans. It is going to be rated M for smut and death. This is the first story that has the writing style that I want to write with. Mainly lots of sex, calamity and a gratuitous amount of blood and death. It starts off slow but BOY. It'll get rough.

Until then?

Here it is my love letter to the gamer stories. It's not the best but it's mine, I got a lot of inspiration from other fics for this one so until then?

Game on.

Jaune was going to die...

As he took step after bleary step through the heavy shadows and the warm breeze of the Emerald Forest. Each footfall against the cold grass brought the snapping of twigs followed by fresh lances of pain that made it all the more evident that Jaune was indeed dying, and there was little he could do about it.

Now the fact that he was dying was not an unusual occurrence for the young man. Death had been a constant factor in his life for the last four years and to be fair the reality of his imminent death was not an unforeseen result nor was it one that he was in any way surprised by for the young man.

Now while the imminent death of him was not unusual in any way shape or form, it was the manner of death that had him grimacing. He was expecting to die bleeding out cold and alone on the broken uncaring ground of some battle gone wrong, after his immense supply of luck finally ran out, clutching his intestines to his insides while waiting for his death to come. It was the most common form of death and the type that had seemed most likely to find him.

It was by far the most common form of death and the type that had seen most likely to find him. He couldn't count the sheer number of times he had been bleeding out in the snow caps of Atlas hot blood pouring out onto the pure white snow of that hauntingly immaculate tundra staring the pure whiteness of it and painting it a bright, vivid crimson while he breathed out harsh bitter blood taint breath onto the hard snowy air.

Or failing that he would die due to exposure, most likely dying of dehydration int he Vacuo dunes. Baking alive in a desert hellhole while watching helplessly as the sun cooked his flesh off his body, or hallucinating to the point of madness and swallowed his tongue. And should that fail to get him getting stuck in the mire swamps of Vale as the toxic bogs pulled him in to fill his lungs with corrosive brackish sludge while their toxic air poisoned his lungs and rotted his exposed flesh.

And if all of those means of death failed to claim him then nature herself would do it. Be it random Grimm, stray bullet or whatever other hazard life on the road would throw at him but in the end? In the end, it all comes down to one thing. Hunger. Which was one of the worst in his opinion way to die...

While the other forms of death at least had the pretense of dignity. Bleeding out was usually the result of surviving some conflict that had come his way there was honor in that, and dead or alive he was ar Arc and an Arc had their honor dammit! He thought before coughing up a thin line of spit as the hunger pains set in.

And as for the others? While their was no real honor in dying of heat stroke or being suffocated by acidic sludge they at least killed relatively quickly. But hunger? That took time. It could take days, weeks maybe even months if he was unlucky. Months of watching helplessly as his body was pelled away as his flesh got thinner and thinner, as layers of musceles pelled off to reveal emaciated bones, all the while slowly getting weaker until you just fell down wherever you stood and waited for the end.

Either way, he was dying starving to death was more accurate as the boy barely managed to take another shaky step through the emerald forest.

"Just a little bit further..."

Jaune mumbled to himself it was oddly ironic that after everything he had been through. After everything, he had survived. Every wild Grimm, Every stray bullet. Every string of bad luck. Every close call. Every time he had fallen asleep in a pool of his own blood only to wake up a day later cold shaking and barely conscious only to stagger off to barely stay alive. Every time he had to fight his way out of a corner while hiding from Elder Grimm. After everything life sent his way, it was with a heavy irony that Jaune had to admit that a little thing like hunger would do him in.

Although things were bad, his death was not final, at least not yet as the tall inspiring sight of the Beacon tower came inot view. Briefly filling him with hope before his stomach spoke up attempted to shatter that hope and growling in defiance as it felt like hot white daggers where shot into his gut as he doubled over in pain.

"How long has it been since we ate?" He asked no one, in particular, as he briefly stumbled over a loss tree stump and crashed into the ground in a jumble of limbs and leaves staring into the light Vale sun as he groaned in pain. As he curled up in a ball on the damp forest floor.

Life was not going well for the young boy, though to be fair life had never gone well for Jaune Arc it was just only as of late it was becoming particularly unbearable.

He had not had a good meal in over three weeks and at this rate was sure to starve in a matter of days. Although death by starvation was by far one of his least favorite ways to die, not that he had actually died in his life for extended ant period that it.

It was just ironic to the boy that off all things starvation would kill him in then and not the hordes of Griim, terrorist, angered family members or exposure but simple hunger that would end Jaune Arc.

Although the hunger pangs were unbearable and Jaune's vision was beginning to fade and go misty it was not all bad. Although his death was nigh guaranteed and the last time he had a good meal was in a den of Ursa that had been pilfered from a still rotting cadaver there was still hope!

"But that all changes tomorrow! Tomorrow I go to Beacon! And then they will have food!" Jaune said as he forced himself back up ignoring the sharp lance of hunger pangs that entered his body as he reached into his chest as he felt the one thing that would save his life.

It was a small piece of paper in his right breast pocket under his exposed chest, and emaciated ribs were the sole test that would keep him alive. It was the reason he ran away from home. To become a hunter!

A profession his family had deemed unsuitable for a man. As his mother and sisters had so eloquently put it. Well, they had the last time he talked to them, though the last time he talked to his family he had just finished lighting his house on fire and he was running away from his own wedding so they might not be on speaking terms just yet so to speak..

Well, at least I stole my sword and shield before I left. He thought as he took another pain filed step forward ignoring the hot lance of agony that filled his bone as glare up to Beacon.

"I'll show them! I'll show them all! I'll be the greatest hunter there ever was!" Jaune yelled before stumbling forward winching in pain as he gripped his emaciated chest and began to walk again.

"Please gather all your belonging before exiting the bullhead. Welcome to Beacon."

A disembodied voice said as Jaune grinned at the top of his face. As he walked out of the bullhead preparing to lose the contents of his lunch before he realized that when you don't eat for a couple weeks it is significantly harder to vomit. As his odd starvation came with a silver lining as another round of hunger pangs hit him as he walked off the ship. As a wicked grin split his face.

I did it! I really did it! I Jaune Arc a man had not only gotten accepted into a hunter academy but! He had also successfully ran away from home managed to evade Grimm, Fang, and every other damned danger remnant threw his way from fierce monsters to stray bullets to sheer exposure and more recently the stalking threat of starvation.

But now he was here and now-

"Watch where you're going!"

A shrill voice said as Jaune turned to his left and grimaced.

It was an odd sight of two girls running into each other and having minor collisions spilling bags, clothes, and dust? Off all things throughout the air.

"I'm sorry!"

"Watch out you dolt! You are-

"ACHOO!

A voice said as the smaller girl sneezed sending them bout up into a ball fo fire.

Woman... Jaune grimaced internally as he saw the two girls both clearly older than him go up in a bright ball of flames.

Oh well. It's nothing their aura cant handle. No need for me too-

"What is wrong with you!? Why can't you walk in a straight line and not bump into people!?" A beautiful girl in a light blue dress with a pure white off-kilter ponytail yelled down toward her.

She's beautiful-

She's a woman Jaune. You know that. He thought coming down on any potential emotions before they could reach his surface. He knew what the score was in his life. Men don't get to be hunters. Men don't' go on adventures, don't go and fight, don't become hunters men really don't anything but stay indoors and raise kids. He didn't want that. He was going to be great he was going to be a legend! He-

"I'm sorry!" A pathetic voice yelled as Jaune felt his heart pull.

"Don't be sorry be better! Jeeze! What is wrong with you!?"

The girl in the pure white tiara yelled before storming off leaving the girl the rat to get tired as Jaune felt his legs move automatically.

"Guys? What are you doing? You know that's a woman right?" Jaune asked himself as his legs began moving on their own accord towards the downed girl. He knew it was stupid. He knew that associating himself with a woman any more than necessary was a bad idea. And would more than likely lead to his discovery by his own family and that-

And that no matter what. She was a person before her gender. And an Arc never ignores a person in need! He had not once abandoned somebody in the four years in the wilds regardless of them abandoning him and he would be damned if he started now. He thought tiredly as he was already regretting his decision as he walked up to the small girl in a red cape and offered her a hand.

"Do you need some help?" Jaune said grimacing internally as he held out a hand smiling as he began helping up a girl with silver eyes red-black hair with an adorable face up and out from a self-imposed crater.

"Thanks! I don't know what took a bite out of her." The girl said as she stood to her full height straightening out her bright red cape as she stood up she stood slightly over Jaune. She had bright silver eyes reddish black hair a red cape and adorable face.

As she stood up to her full height she was a good two inches above Jaune's height as her once tranquil turned into a horrid frown as she looked at him, and the girl mentally screamed...

Oh my god! His face! What happened to his face?! Ruby thought as she looked at the adorable boys desecrated face who had helped her out of the crater made by the mean rich girl.

"Um is something wrong miss? I hope I didn't startle you." The boy with the beautiful blue eyes and mauled face said as Ruby instantly waved him down.

"No! No! It's just me! I... I wasn't used to be slammed into cement you know?" Ruby asked trying her damnedest to play it cool while her crushing social anxiety did its damnedest to make her lose her cool making her sound awkward and confused as the boy blinked confusedly at her. He was short! Even for a boy the student? She guessed as she eyed the weaponry on his back, he was dressed in what could only be described as loosely stitched together rags covered by a light set of armor that was beyond dirty.

"That's ok. I didn't mean to interrupt. I just saw you in trouble, and I wanted to help you."

The boy said as he smiled brightly as the girl flushed brightly.

Oh, great Ruby! Less than two minutes in Beacon and you're getting rescued by a boy! Great start in Beacon! The reaper thought before bashing her head against a brick wall mentally. Bad Ruby! Do not belittle your first friend and possible boyfriend? Based on his gender!

"I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to space out! My name's Ruby! Ruby Rose! And you are?"

"Jaune Arc! Nice to meet you!"

The younger boy said sticking out an eager hand which Ruby took eagerly shaking it watching the boy wince? As their hands touched and fingers brushed.

"Nice to meet you too Jaune! Thanks for helping me back there if only all the boys who pulled me out of the ground where half as cute as you!"

Ruby said flashing him a cocky smile and a quick finger gun as she blatantly and easily stole her big sisters pick up lines as the boy blushed adorably at her.

"I'm not that cute... I'm tough..." He said adorably as Ruby giggled to him.

"You are cute to me Jaune," Ruby said stealing from Yang for the second time today and making the boy blush as they began walking through the lush Beacon courtyard before he raised her an eyebrow.

"Umm, Ruby?

"Yes, Jaune?'

"Why are you still holding my hand?"

Jaune asked as Ruby looked down where their hands were still connected and saw that she was indeed still holding his hand.

"I'm so sorry!" Ruby blurted at the top of her lungs as Jaune blinked at her.

"It's ok I was just wondering why you were holding it for so long."

"Because you fell warm! And I... I... I was... cold?"

Ruby asked bluntly already mentally berating herself for the worst response in the history of Remnant.

"You were cold?"

"Yes! I was cold! And you are warm! So...

"So you decided to hold onto my hand for warmth?"

"Yes?"

"But it's a sunny day?"

"I get cold easy?"

Stupid! Stupid! Stupid Ruby! Because you were cold!? Ther is no way that' going to work-

"Oh. Ok then. If you're cold why not hold my hand to keep warm?" Jaune asked holding out a hand at Ruby who stared dumbly at before common sense kicked in as she gripped he had cupped her fingers with his relishing the warmth of the appendage and smiling her brightest smile.

"Why thank you, Jaune that sounds lovely," Ruby said remembering her mothers words on how to be polite to boy's before quietly thanking Oum for delivering to her what had to be one of in not the most earnest and gullible boy in Remnant a treat she found attractive in what was now officially her very first friend in Beacon as the two walked through the courtyard.

Ruby had bitten off far more than she could chew. As she felt the butterflies rupture from her stomach as the boy kept talking to her.

"And so that's why I decided to come to Beacon! What about you?" Jaune asked the girl who was currently blushing a scarlet shade so bright it was enough to match her cape ass he began to sweat.

What do I do!? Ruby thought to herself as her brain clocked into overdrive. It was supposed to be a mistake at worst a joke at best! But Jaune had actually taken her hand, and now they were actually holding them!

At first, it had been innocent enough! Jaune looked lonely covered in scars and dressed in tattered rags of what she guess of what was once a pure black wedding outfit? Then Ruby being well Ruby wanted to make him feel less lonely! So she did what she always wanted to do when she felt lonely and held his hand!

It was supposed to be a comforting thing! A temporary hand squeeze to reassure her new friend that it was going to be alright! Now it was at least seven minutes into the contact and the two looked like they were dating!

Ruby was near total panic mode as she realized this was the single longest she had been in contact with a male that was not a direct blood relative form her as she blushed vividly.

Keep it together Ruby! You got this! He's just a boy! A cute younger boy that had an amazing smile and a cute but! And why is he so skinny? Ruby thought as she saw that Jaune was oddly skinny even for a boy. When was the last time he ate? And- never mind that Ruby! Just play it cool stop sweating, so much and for the love of Oum don't look at his face! How the hell does that kind of injury even happen to somebody with their aura un-

"Ummm... Ruby?"

"Yes!? I wasn't looking at your face!" The reaper blurted out making Jaune frown."I never said you where. Is something wrong with my face?" Jaune asked innocently as Ruby felt her pulse quicken.

Did he not see it? Did he not know? There was no way he didn't notice his face! Not with injuries like that covering it! Was he playing dumb? Was he repressing past trauma?! Ruby panicked as she might have potentially brought up a traumatic memory for her new friend and hopeful! Boyfriend as she did the only thing she knew to do when panicked. She brought out her weapon...

"This is my baby!" Ruby yelled at the top of her lungs as she plunged her bright giant scythe into the ground making Jaune yelp in fear as he narrowly avoided being cut int two. Leaping back and gasping as the weapon split the ground making him lose his balance.

"Her name is Crescent Rose, and she is scythe crossed with a high impact sniper rifle! Isn't she cool!?"

"Yeah! She's cool!" Jaune said breathing through his mouth as the massive oversized gardening tool implanted itself into the ground mere inches from where he stood.

As he looked into the bright silver blade he got his first look on his face and nearly screamed.

What the hell happened to my face?! I thought the doctor said I would be fixed! Jaune thought as he saw his absolute mess of a face. One of his eyes was a dark purple and dotted with a long ugly orange scorch mark, and was swollen so tightly that it was a miracle that he could see out of it at all!

The rest of his face was an assortment of scars, cuts and stitched up wounds so recently heald and so haphazardly patched together that he looked like he had recently been through hell and back. All leading up to a long thin scar on his left eye that ran down the entirety of his face in a perfectly straight line.

"My face..." Jaune said sadly realizing that a key problem with living in the wilds was that you never got a chance to look in the mirror and check to see if the doctor you spent your last lien on actually fixed it and didn't take your money, as Ruby actually panicked and went into overdrive mode.

"So what about you!? What cool weapons do you have?!" Ruby asked desperately tossing a hail marry in hopes of not re-traumatizing her new friend.

"I... I have these. It's sword that can cut through anything given enough time and a shield that is nigh indestructible. It's called Crocea Mors."

Jaune said pulling out his twin weapons and showing them off tiredly to Ruby.

"That's so cool!" Ruby said laying on the compliments as Jaune grimaced at his visage.

"Not as cool as yours though."

"No way! Your weapon is amazing! Not enough people appreciate the classics!" Ruby said making Jaune blush brightly as she redoubled her grip on his hand.

"Hey, Jaune... So that you know. I know that we just met and all and that you do not know me but... I already think of you as a friend..."

"Me too!" The boy added happily as Ruby blushed and nodded her head.

"I just wanted to say if you ever. And I mean ever want to talk you just need to ask ok? It can be about anything! It doesn't have to be heavy or serious it can just be about comics or tv or anything! But just know that I'm always there ok?"

"Sure. Thanks, Ruby that means a lot to me." Jaune said as the two of them walked peacefully hand in hand.

Jaune liked Ruby. She was different than most of the girls he met. She seemed to honestly like him for who he was and had yet to try to cop a feel. Though her hand holding suggestions was incrimination, apparently there was nothing more than her wanting to comfort him.

A gesture he wholly appreciated and wanted to return in kind but before he could he asked a question."Ruby?"

"Yes, Jaune?'

"Where are we going?"

"I was following you."

"I was following you..."

"Oh crap!"

"We made it!" Jaune gasped as he and Ruby brushed into a large amphitheater that was packed to the brim with you woman attending Beacon. As the two of the enter more than a couple of heads turned their way as whispers began to spread.

"You see that?"

"It can't be!"

"Is that a boy!?"

"Oh my god!"

"He's cute!"

"I'm going to go ask him out!"

"No! Don't do that!"

Women, they never change, Jaune thought as a gaggle of voices and whispers entered Jaune's ear. Only to be drowned out as they were approached instantly by a knock out blonde girl in a pair of brown shorts and a tanned top who was grinning ear to ear as she swaggered her way over to them.

Although her girn stopped as she took one look at Jaunes face as her previous cocky grin was replace by a horrid frown before being replaced with a stony resolve she marched over to them

"Heya Rubes! Who's your new friend?" The blonde girl asked as Jaune walked forward Ruby still refusing to let go of his hand as he smiled at the girl.

"My name's Jaune Arc. Nice to meet you." He said the as girl grabbed his hand nearly making him wince with pain as her muscles nearly crushed it as she shot him an empathetic grin. "Nice to meet you too cutey," Yang said doing her best flirtatious wink while internally seething before dragging him into a tight embrace as she held the smaller boy.

"MPPPH!" Jaune muffled out in a grimace as he sighed internally as he was forced into the pillow chest of the fellow blonde. Jaune sighed heavily he was used to this treatment from a woman. They would always say they wanted to hug him because they like his face before forcing him to their chest.

Really it was not the most subtle way to flirt and often was boarding harassing, but like every other guy, Jaune learned to deal with this before the blonde released his body making him gak aloud as he could finally breathe again.

Sweet Oum, who beat the shit out of you? Yang thought darkly as she looked at the younger blondes badly scarred face. Aside from the black eyes, obvious knife wounds and badly stitched up scars it looked like the kid was put through a meat grinder and has seen the rough side of the tracks for the majority of his life.

And that was not even counting the dark burn mark on the right side of his face or the straight scar that went right down the left part of his making her see an eerie symmetry in his facial features.

He looked so sad so despondent that Yang had hugged him out of pure big sister instincts alone before realizing that he might not want a perfect stranger to hug him. Even if she was beautiful, Yang let him go as he gakked and looked like a kicked puppy.

The thought saddened Yang as she went to put a comforting hand on his shoulder not missing how he flinched as her gauntleted hand near his face and grimacing internally.

While she had no idea who the hell beat the crap out of Jaune Ac prince in the castle they were in for a world of hurt if she ever-

"Students." A loud female voice said as a tall older woman stepped onto the stage. She was tall covered in greed robes with long silver hair with an ornate cane and a mug of something steaming said as she stepped up onto the microphone and began to speak.

"You have all come here in search of knowledge, and this is but your first step. Tomorrow you will all be sorely tested on what it means to be a hunter. Most of you will not survive. Those who do... Welcome to your new home. I hope you prove worthwhile." The woman said as she sighed heavily and walked off of the stage leaving the room in disarray.

"Great going there, boss! Real inspirational!" Yang said sarcastically as Jaune finally extricated himself for the blondes gripe as the blonde brawler had been unintentionally smothering him in her cleavage giving him a first-person view of her breast while making him blush and Ruby glare at her.

"Yang!" Ruby whined who was only now noticing how her sister had been standing protectively offer the blonde making her sigh.

Yang knew Ruby was like this, she was shy and socially awkward and now not only was she in a brand new place with literally hundreds of people she had never meet or seen before.

She had somehow by all the luck in the world had found a boy who was not only younger than her but who appeared to genuinely like her as a person, and she was getting reasonably defensive about him. And not only that she had found him. Her literal childhood crush was standing within five feet of her and she had yet to realize the prince in the castle! Was right next to her!

"Calm down Rubes. I'm not going to steal your little boyfriend." Yang said half-jokingly as Ruby squeaked as she and Jaune blushed visibly as Ruby's death grip on his finger tightened inexorably.

"But I am going to beat the shit out whoever did this to you," Yang whispered quietly to her self as her eyes turned a brief shed of crimson as the three walked into the sleeping area.

"Well, I think that went well!"

Jaune said trying his best and failing spectacularly to lighten the damp mood of the sisters. Yang's disastrous attempt to get Ruby to socialize had failed miserably and landed the poor girl embarrassed and scolded as the amber-eyed beauty with creamy skin and a pink yukata had shut them both down and looked at Jaune like he was a broken puppy.

That was before some girl in white came hollering at the top of her lungs demanding that they be quiet and go to bed, well she yelled at Ruby and Yang when she saw Jaune she got all quiet and excused herself for her uncouth?

Behaviour in front of a gentleman before giving them a warning look and bowing slightly to Jaune before walking off into the room eyeing them warily.

"You don't have to try to make me feel better Jaune. I know that I failed." Ruby replied petulantly as she liked in her sleeping bag. Her new blonde potential boyfriend gripped her hand supportively making Ruby blush at how natural his hand felt on her own and the ease of which he gripped it as she blushed at his touch.

"I don't think you failed."

"Really? Would you call what I did a success?"

"Of course!" The boy said making Ruby grimace.

"Jaune... how in the world was that a success? I mean did you see the way she yelled at me?'

"Well, you were nervous about talking to her right?""Yes..."

"Well, then it was a success! You walked up to a stranger and talked to her! You conquered your fears and made the first impression! Good or bad it doesn't matter as long as you tried your best! That's what matters most! Right?"

Jaune asked making the girls face go crimson as her cape as Yang laughed at him.

"Wait to go lady killer! That's how you sweet talk a girl!"

Yang said giving him a light punch on the shoulder and regretting the action instantly as he flinched away making her smile dropped into a frown.

"You keep that up, and you just might get yourself surrounded by a gaffle of the beautiful woman you know?" she asked teasing trying to change the subject.

"Why would I need a gaggle? I mean I have you and you're already beautiful enough." Jaune said honestly making the older girl stutter and blush.

Yang coughed as she was struck by his words. Her? Beautiful? I mean sure she knew she was attractive only a fool could not see that but to have a boy say that to her? A boy that she hadn't spent the last half hour working on to make talk?

And that was only after she bought them dinner! The fact that Jaune just dropped a blatant compliment like that spoke volumes to her and was more a bit jarring to the young blonde as she blushed fiercely.

"You- You don't mean that do you?"

"Of course I do, your beautiful Yang. And I'm, not just talking about your looks." Jaune said making the girls heart race.

Holy hell... This could be my chance! Yang suddenly realized as the gears began turning in her head. Here he was Jaune Arc, the boy who had not only successfully befriended her baby sister of all people and bonded closely with her but was also blatantly complimenting her with real words? This was perfect!

Yang always wanted a steady boyfriend back home but with the lack of boys in Patch that were not under the strict and watchful eyes of their mothers or elder siblings, that and the stiff competition she faced from every other woman in the small island the odds of her getting herself a personal romantic partner that she didn't have to pay a good Lien for was going down every second. That was until he came in.

Jaune Arc. The literal Prince in the castle was sitting right next to her! And this was a perfect opportunity for the woman! You see Yang was a unique woman in Remnant. Just like any other aspiring huntress, she wanted to go into the world save lives, kick ass find a husband and have three beautiful children with!

Now, this is where the similarities end. You see unlike most woman while Yang did want a man Yang did not want to share him. Yand could not, no Yang would not share a man. She would go out find one man and be the sole wife of him and would enjoy a nice long happy life! She would not share him even if she knew that was a long shot. The sheer gender disparity between men and woman meant that any real hope of not sharing a man was just that, a pipe dream and nothing more. Well, that was until he came in.

Here he was the prince in the castle. She played dumb when she first met him but that was an act. She knew who Jaune Arc was and she was nearly drooling. Here was the runaway, the prodigal son who ran away from his own arranged marriage three years ago. A man who shared her views on monogamy and if judging from his scars all the rumors of domestic abuse of the Arc household rang true. And while that made her blood boil Yang could not doubt it's usefulness.

Here was a beaten scared boy looking to make his way in the world, alone and afraid all he needed was a strong guiding hand. A firm grip from a friendly blonde to keep him on his feet and he would be eating out of the palm of her hands! The same plan worked for her mother though, in the end, she ended up sharing her father mainly due to her being as Yang loved to call her an edgy bird and refused to communicate leading to the birth of Ruby! And while that was a good thing it was also a problem...

"So Jaune, you seem to like Ruby right? I mean what do you think of her as a person?"

"Yang!?"

Ruby balked as she instantly shot her elder half sibling a death glare while using her semblance to rapidly slice a finger over her throat.

"I think she' great. She was nice to me when we first met and seemed to be a kind person. She's also fun to be around, and I like talking with her." Jaune admitted making her sister blush as she caught Yang's eyes as a hidden message was beamed between them.

Share...

Though share was a strong word. For you see in reality Yang hated to share. Yang intended to keep Jaune to herself. She was just like every other woman on Remnant she wanted a man to call her own and to love. She was unlike every other woman in Remnant as in she did not want to be part of a harem. Oh no. Yang Xiao-long really Yang Brawnren as she was using her dad's last name just to piss off her mother would find and marry one man and be the only bride to him, who she would have three beautiful blonde children with!

Now Yang was not selfish. She knew Ruby's would fight for her prince in distress! Once she figured out who the hell he really was. I mean seriously Rubes! Your literal inspiration for being a huntress is right next to you and you don't even notice it? Really?

And while she did not want to steal away her sisters first love and literal inspiration for becoming a huntress she would not deny herself either. That being said she would still let Ruby borrow Jaune. Like every other weekend or month really would be more than enough to keep her satisfied! Yang thought as she licked her lips as she eyed her future husband with naked hunger.

"Hey, Jaune... I don't know if Ruby told you this, but she and I are close. Very close. We often go everywhere together, and we got along great. You also seem to get on great with us. So if you ever want to... you know hang out with us later on that would be nice..."

"Sure I'd love to!" Jaune said making Yang's jaw drop as Ruby nearly passed ... did he just say yes!? Yang thought as she threatened to pass out from the stress.

"So... you want to go out with us? Like with both of us me and Ruby nobody else?"

"Sure going out with you seems fun!"

Yang paused Ruby balked and shook as realization dawned on her they did it... They did it! They just got themselves a boyfriend to share and he was perfect! Cute, nice, shy, easy on the eyes slim body, everything aside from the scars on his face was ideal, and after some time, they would heal too!

As Yang and Ruby both shared an incredulous glance with each other not believing their luck, the two decided not to push themselves with any more questions s they wished Jaune good night shared a hope full glance with one another and went to sleep...

"Where am I?" Jaune asked groggily as he woke up surrounded by an empty void of pitch blackness. Where a familiar three-foot figure stood smoking a cigar and smirking at him.

"Hey, there lover boy! How's it going? You have a good nap?"

The creature. said as she sauntered over to him grinning maniacally as Jaune began to sweat.

The thing was a three-foot-tall human-like creature. She was three feet eight inches with light sun-kissed skin. She had long pure silver hair that flowed all the way down to her feet and beyond and flowed like long lines of silk.

She wore a hilariously oversized pair of pure white cowboy boots with spurs and all, and word some type of searing white blazer that covered her entire upper and mid body. Her eyes shone like pink diamonds as she glared at the blonde boy as a long sinewy purple tail stuck out from behind her gripping an ashtray with a heart-shaped tip.

"How's my favorite mortal doing? You enjoy your four-year nap? Catch up on your z's while you were out did you?"

The thing asked as Jaune began to panic.

"You!? You! I know you! Mink! Where am I!? What's happening!? Why am I in Beacon!? Why did I... Why was I somebody else?! Why am I somebody else!? What's going on!?" The human asked as panic gripped his body as he began to tremble as the years worth of memories filled his body. He convulsed into a ball on the cold black void that served as a floor.

He shook and rocked violently as memories that were not his forced their way into his head. He saw himself but it was not himself. He watched as he traveled through Remnant. He felt as he died, he felt himself bleeding out on the cold ice caps of Atla. He felt every blade, every claw mark every stray bit of shrapnel every pang of hunger hit his nerves all at once as began to go into violent convulsions.

"Whoa, there meat rag! Can't have you dying on me just yet! The gamer hasn't even started yet!"

The thing said as she snapped her fingers as Jaune froze stretched and shot straight up dry heaving violently as his mouth foamed and his eyes bulged.

"You! I remember you! You're the thing that took my soul!"

"Guilty as charged! But in my defense, you did sell it to me so... I guess where both at fault yes?"

"Mink! You said you would give me my soul back! Give it back now!"

"Whoa, there meat bag! I said you could earn your soul back! I never said I would just give it back to you! You gotta earn it back!"

The thing said taking a deep drag of her cigar before blowing a noxious cloud of purple smoke in his face as she tapped it against her ashtray grinning viciously.

"Gah!" The human gaked as he coughed out the noxious cloud of smoke as Mink grinned.

"Aw don't freak out flesh sack! You aren't dead! Yet."

"Mink! You told me I could get my soul back if I Played the Gamer! Whatever the hell that is! So what the hell is that and how do I get my soul back!"

The human said as Mink cocked her head curiously at him

"Well, that's the attitude that I like to see mortal! You keep that up and getting your soul back will be no problemo! Even if you did sell it to me in the first place."

"I didn't sell you it! "

"Yes, you did. I have your contract right here."

The demoness said snapping her finger as a bright plume of purple fire emerged from her hands as a long piece of ancient looking parchment appeared in her hands.

"You see? It says right here Jaune Arc. You sold your soul hook line and sinker."

"I called the wrong scroll number, and you stole it!"

"It's not my fault you dialed the interdimensional harem hotline by accident. How the hell did you get unlucky enough to dial us anyways? The chances of you dialing us must be astronomically low now that I think about it."

"I! Forget it! Just tell me what this Gamer is so I can get it back!'

"Ahh. Let me show you."

The demoness said waving a hand as a bright blue screen appeared projecting a holograph screen to him showing a picture of himself? With several stats next to it.

Name: Jaune Arc Level: 5/?

XP till next level 45/300

Title Prince in the Castle

Class Survivalist

Passive Last gasp

Skills: Do or die.

Health 80/160

Traits: Stubborn. Honest. Faster.

: Special abilities N/A?

Quirks. Paranoid, Stalwart, Gullible

Stat break down.

Str: 35

Wit.12

Charisma: 33

Charm25

Intellect:44

Vitality:71

Agility 47

Will: 80 base 60 20 due to stubborn trait

dexterity: 43

Deception 0 Can not tell a lie.

Luck 5

"What are theses my stats?" Jaune asked the thing nodded its head.

"Yes, these are your current statistics of your character, though this is really you in your awake state. Please allocate your remaining skill points as you deem necessary. "

The demoness said as Jaune once again began to panic.

"Mink! What the hell!? What happened to me!? Why was I watching some other version of me! Why was I like a passenger on a ship?!"

"Ah let me explain flesh rag. You are currently participating in the gamer. You sold your soul to me and me! Out of the goodness of my heart! Decided to instead of taking it and leaving you high and dry! Decided to give you a chance to earn it back!"

The demon said in a sweet tone as the boy glared at her.

"Mink. Why am I living another me's life! What is the gamer and how the hell do I get out and get my soul back!"

"Aren't you missing a please in there?"

'Mink!"

"Ok! Ok! Jeez! You don't have to be so pushy! Let me explain it to you since you seem so insistent on knowing things."

"Thank you! Finally!"

"Yeah yeah listen and listen good meat bag because I am only saying this once! You are currently participating in the gamer. This is allowed to happen because after selling your soul since you did technically sell it by accident and we do have a no refund policy I decided to give you the gamer option."

"Do you know of the multiverse theory?If you don't, it boils down to infinite realities of infinite possibilities. You agree to participate in the gamer, and I have taken you to one such alternate reality to play."

"I'm in an alternate reality?'

"Yup! You are in a world not that unlike your own but a bit different! Like you old world you did end up running away to Beacon except I hand-picked this world for you to inhabit. You have been living as the Jaune Arc of this world. You have been seeing feeling and guiding the him of this world for four years straight, and the allocated skill points are the result of years of training fighting and surviving."

"Wait, so I took over another version of myself?"

"Yup! You see since I could not just give you your soul back I decided to have you earn it! Hears the deal blondie! You will complete four years at Beacon Academy, and graduate! You will get and maintain a harem of beautiful woman! That I have ensured will find you attractive as a personal gift to you your welcome. And if you do this without dying and without admitting defeat your soul is yours."

"Sounds doable? What's the catch?"

"Your learning! Good! You see you signed the entertainment package mean I picked a world that will be well entertaining!"

"Entertaining? To who?"

"To us of course! You may not know this, but while you live in Remnant I live in the seventh realm of pleasure! And despite the name, it gets rather boring there. So! I picked you! To go to a world that is designed to be entertaining to us."

"I am not your entertainment!"

"Yeah, you are! Now listen up! This world is not your friend! If you can access the other you's memories, you will know that you are a run away from home with no friends, no family and are currently half starved to death. And the vast majority of the worlds people will be dismissive if not outright hostile towards a man such as yourself and your life here is not going to be an easy one."

"That seems... Unpleasant."

"It will be, luckily you can check out see if anyone you know is going to cause you problems by using the Bestiary. It checks and catalogs every person animal or Grimm you encounter keeping a detailed information slot about them."

"You must speak with them or be within five feet of them for longer than two minutes for them to gain an entry in the Bestiary. The longer you are around them, the more detailed their entries are. Take a look."

The demoness said as the Screen altered itself to show a sign that said Bestiary of Remnant 2/2 filled As Jaune touched a screen as the first contact showed up.

Name: Ruby Rose.

One year your senior Ruby is your fellow Beacon student.

: Social Status Best Friends, potentially more.

Title Dolt

Mood; Knight.

Traits.: Loyal, caring, determined, normal knees.

Relationship Rank 20/200 Status Major Crush.

Passive Red like roses

Alignment: progressive

Quest stared Lancaster, Claim the rose, completion ten percent.

Stat break down.

Str 40

Int 42

Charm 20

Wil 60

Chr 40

Vitality 60

Agility 45

dexterity 78

Wit 38

Deception 22

luck 44

"Wait, why are her stats so much better than mine?"

"Jaune. My friend. In this world, you are an anomaly. You are a man that not only wants to be a hunter! But can have his aura unlocked! A rarity in this place.Most men stay at home and raise kids while you said to hell with that! Burned down your own house on the day of your wedding mind you. And ran off to be a hunter!"

"That still doesn't explain why her stats are so much better than mine. And what does alignment mean?"

"Well to make this simple. Most hunter academies do not accept men. In this world, as a result, most you did not gain any formal training. That plus on unlocked aura is really hampering you. So instead you put most of your stats into the one thing to keep you alive. Vitality. Making you a fair bit harder to kill than most."

"As for their alignment. There are two types of people in this world If they are progressive they will most likely be your friend and comrade. If they are a traditionalist... You might not want to go anywhere near her."

"Noted," Jaune said dryly as he went to the next entry.

Name: Yang Xiao-long.

Two years your senior, Yang is your fellow student at Beacon and older sibling to Ruby.

Social Rank. Beaten puppy. Yang is incredibly protective of you and views you as one in need of guarding.

Title: Firecracker

Mood. Protective lover. Knight

Traits. Strong, Emotional. Loyal. Wary.

Relationship Rank 22/200

Social Status possible husband?

Passive, Poke the dragon.

Quest started Dragonslayer. Three percent complete. Alignment progressive.

Stat break down

Str 88

Int 60

Charm 56

Chr 53

Wil 70

Agility 60

Vitality 68

Dexterity 60

Deception 30

Wit 69

luck 23

Sweet Oum. Everybody is levels above me! Jaune thought as he began to give a cold sweat as he looked at her stats and compared them to his own.

At least I can pick and choose what I need leveling up. That's good Jaune thought as he saw the last entry on the Bestiary as the last entry was his own.

: Name Jaune Arc.

Status Runaway, currently residing at Beacon for a safe harbor from his family after refusing to be part of an arranged marriage.

Status. Runaway, ward of Beacon.

Mood. Desperate.

Traits." Stubborn. Honest. Faster.

Quirks Stalwart. Gullible,

Rank?

Quests started:

Soul reclamation,

Ruby Rose Route. 10% completed

Yang Xiao-long Route. 3% completed

Beacon Route.2% completed

Quest completed: Escape the house.

"So how do I do a quest?"

"Live. You will pick up quests by doing any real action that has you do something for any type of reward gaining XP along the way and completing tasks to specifications requested by the giver of the quest."

" Assuming you do survive the day that is, you will return here and be able to level up."

"To survive the day? But I remember! I forget about this place everytime I wake up! I the waking mean does not know about the gamer!"

Exactly. The awake you is completely ignorant of everything that goes on here. While your actions here will have an instantaneous impact on your waking from and will determine how your every interaction the real world will play out."

" They will determine his effectiveness in combat, what skills and abilities he can and will use in the world. They will also determine how smart cunning, manipulative or downright charming he will be in conversations."

"So what I do here directly affects my interaction in the real world?"

"Yes and be careful! You have to spend your skill points before you leave or else they will be assigned at random. So be warned."

"I see... I want to have a three deception skill."

"Really now? I thought an Arc never tells a lie? Outstanding!"

"That was then this is now. He is dangerously under leveled and if any game if you can't be stronger you act smarter."

See I knew you could change! That will take all of your points though."

"What!? Why?"

"Skills that start at zero need two points to take them off zero. Is this what you want?"

"Fine. just do it," Jaune said as his skill rose to three as a new sign flashed above his screen.

: Skill gained Deflection. Can now deflect a conversation away from an uncomfortable topic.

Skills update. Skills acquired Do or die. Deflection.

"What's do or die?"

"Do or die! That means that if you fail a stat check I'll explain what those are once you have one! No need wasting my breath on a corpse right? If you fail any type of stat check you can use half of your will to buffer your representative score for a second chance of passing it."

"Remember Jaune just because you can something does not mean you will be any good at it. In example you and lying. While thinking smart will save you more times than not you need to know this. Currently, you have a three out a hundred deception score, and you will not make a good liar, and attempting to lie might lead to disastrous consequences for you."

"Keep this in mind deception is based on your relationship score with the person you are trying to deceive. For example, your relationship with Ruby is at roughly twenty. Your deception score is a three. That means if you merely try to deflect a conversations topic you will be putting a deception score of three times two for deflection is simpler than lying versus your relationship score of twenty."

"So that means I can't deflect very well then?"

"It means that you won't be very convincing if you do so. And if you try to outright lie to her? You would place a solid three against her twenty which would most likely fail and if she's determined enough might lead to a confrontation with you that will lead you to expose some guarded secrets to her or anyone else that you would rather not say."

"Wait! Before you go! You said wasting your breath on a corpse! What does that mean?"

"Jaune I will be honest with you. There is a good chance you are going to die tomorrow. You are hurt half dead and starved It will be a minor miracle if you survive tomorrow let alone beat this game. And as for that, you are not supposed to win this game. You are supposed to struggle, fight and suffer. Before you inevitably lose."

"This game is set up with you failure in mind. As you will learn later, it is actively conspiring against you, and you will be hard-pressed to actually triumph. Though it is not impossible to win it is unlikely."

"Demons," Jaune said dryly before the scroll piped up.

"Before you go because you are waking up remember you will remember none of this until I see you again until the be careful! This world is not your friend. And any woman or really anyone you meet may or may not be your friend and unless you see the word progressive on this screen is to be avoided or not even talked to! Not that it matters to you though. But if you want to graduate Beacon alive keep your head down and sword your up and remember. Don't make deals with demons."

Dear god! I'm in heaven! Jaune thought as he put hand over fist of food into his mouth. Bacon hash browns eggs. As he swallowed greedily the plethora of free food that Beacon offered him. All types of free food entered his mouth making his beyond empty stomach sing in praise. It was a near perfect morning of free food cool air and an oddly sharp voice in his ear courteous of one energetic student...

"Hello! You must be new here! My name is Ren! Lie Ren! And this is my bestest friend in the whole world! Nora Valkyrie! We are always together! But not together-together! Nora say high to our new friend!" A hyper-energetic boy with pink eyes said happily as he introduced Jaune to his friend. A tall girl in a white skirt jacket who was quietly eating a plate of pancakes.

"Sup."

The girl in white said lazily not even bothering to face him with her teal eyes as she slowly and methodically ate her ever-decreasing stack of pancakes.

"Oh, don't worry about her! Nora's always a spoilsport before her breakfast! Or after it, or in the morning evening and at night... she's just a grumpy person! Anyways! My name is Lie! Lie Ren, but I already told you that! So tell me, new friend, what is your name?"

The small boy with long black hair a green jacket beige pants and a long strand of pink? Hair in the middle of his otherwise, pure black head asked practically shaking with energy as Jaune regarded him quizzically.

"Jaune Arc. Nice to meet you, Ren." Jaune said to hold out his hand s the boy looked briefly shocked before he took the offer had and shook it vehemently.

"Outstanding! Look at that Nora! A new friend right off the bat! And you were worried about me! We are friends right Jaune?"

The boy in green asked with a questioning look that pulled at his heart's string and made him give him a grin.

"Sure. I can't see a reason not to be friends." Jaune said wryly as the boy gasped and began speaking at a rate of a thousand words per minute. Speaking on every conceivable topic about healthy eating dieting and algae? Of all things, while his friend merely sighed in the background as she continued to steadily yet efficiently eat her stack of pancakes.

After more than a half an hour of this, the boy finally calmed down and decided to go on a hunt for moss? Of all thing leaving Jaune and Nora alone at the table sitting in awkward silence before Nora spoke up.

"Thank you." She said simply as she finally looked up to Jaune her teal eyes piercing into his soul as Jaune gulped at her.

"For what?" He asked the tall girl who gave him a tired smile as he reached out his hand as she took it inside her iron grip.

"It isn't easy for Ren to make friends with people. Most people brush him off as annoying or weird. You stuck with him and gave him his first real friend in Beacon. Thak you for that." Nora said finally as she heard Ren call her as she got up tiredly.

"Sorry, Jaune I got go before he hurts himself. Which I know, he will if I leave him alone for more then five minutes. If we end up with a team together that would be nice." She said before standing up turning back to Jaune and grimacing.

"I know this sounds weird but... I know life can suck. Especially when you're starving to death. If you ever are starving again come find me or Ren, we'll help you out. We know what it's like to be hungry." The girl said calmly as Jaune nodded and watched her walk away.

"Don't be a stranger!" Nora said as she nodded to him once thanking him for being Ren's friend and walking away.

"Before I begin I simply must apologize to you Jaune! The sight you saw of me last night was most unbecoming of a young woman, and I apologize, that being said! Are you serious? You don't know who she is?"

The girl in blue Weiss asked as Jaune blinked once and nodded.

"Nope! No idea! Never seen her a day in my life!"

He nodded as he turned to the bright red head who smiled sweetly in response and shook his hand heavily. Jaune grimaced as he felt a bone creak in her vice-like grip.

"My name is Pyrrha Nikos, and it is a pleasure to meet you!" She said with a winning smile that seems oddly passionate as she eyed him like he was a piece of meat.

"It's nice to meet you," Jaune said in a honeyed voice to the girl who was only the most beautiful woman on Remnant smile warm to him. She was a natural seven feet tall and well over a foot taller than him. With blood red hair bronze plate armor and an odd smile as she walked over to him.

Placing his eyes in a direct line of her more than ample cleavage making him blush as her near seven-foot stature towered over his mere five foot six.

"I can't believe you don't know who she is!"

The blue girl said as her fist came up.

"Sorry. I just don't know who you are. Pyrrha was it?" Jaune asked as the redhead smiled at him making Jaune blushed at her beauty. Oum, she was a beauty! Tall with blood red hair that fell to her ankles. She had piercing green eyes and a predatory smile that made Jaune feel like she was eying him as part of the dinner menu and not as a new friend...

"I find I that rather hard to believe, mister.. what is your name?"

The girl asked making Jaune grimace as he prepared to say his name.

"Jaune. Jaune Arc!" He said as the girl's eyes shot open. And her mouth hung down.

A stutter ran down the blue one's mouth as her body began to twitch and shake as the read head paused as her mouth fell from her jaw as she eyed him like he was a raw piece of meat and she a tiger.

"Arc? As in the Arc clan!?"

Weiss asked her small body trembling in excitement. Well, small was a relative term as she was a good half foot taller than him.

"Uh... Yes?" He said as the girl's jaw dropped and hung before she fixed herself and offered him a warm smile.

"Please excuse me mister Arc! Not only was I rude to a man I was rude to one of your ranks, and I apologize profusely." Weiss said taking his hand to her own and kissing the top of it gently as Jaune blushed fiercely as Pyrrha? Growled at her.

"I had no idea that the sole male heir to the Arc clan was at Beacon! Should I have been notified of your presence I would have sought you out immediately for a personal greeting." Weiss said courtesying to Jaune making him blush.

"That's no big deal! I don't really need all that fanfare!" Jaune said making the girl pause and stutter before Pyrrha? Was it? Stepped in.

" I agree with Jaune, having people look at you as just fans is not fun." The girls said as Jaune nodded to her.

"Yeah, it's like they never know the real you. It's like they put you on some type of pedestal and make you this greater than life thing. I mean it feels great at first. But after a while? It gets lonely being up there, alone where nobody really knows the real you, you know?"

Jaune asked as the redhead's mouth dropped before a warm smile appeared on her face as she rested a hand on his shoulder.

"More than you know," Pyrrha said as she gripped Jaune's shoulder as Weiss began to hyperventilate.

This is too good! No this is perfect! Weiss thought as she saw the proverbial golden goose had just laid the equally proverbial golden eggs.

There in front of her was the sole male heir to one of the most powerful and influential families in Remnant! And he was not only attending Beacon he was in her year! If she could get in good with him befriend him to comfort him. Not only would she gain a powerful ally if she played her card right she might even get a marriage out of it?!

A marriage to the heir of the Arc clan? Weiss fought the urge to drool as her mind raced with possibilities. The possibilities were endless! Literally, the Schnee company would be given unparalleled access to an innumerable number of new events and resources, father would be ecstatic!

He might even be able to take a break for once and rest, Monty knows he needs it. She thought as she grimaced looking at the blondes face.

That aside the blonde may or may not be open to a relationship. And judging forms his bruises on his face life had not been kind to him Weiss thought darkly as she repressed her grimace at the Blonde's visage. Those are not the kind of injuries you got in a fight, and if she was to be a judge, they looked like someone had been beating him. Repeatedly and recently.

Weiss's mood darkened as she noticed the long straight scar that slid down the entirety of the right side of his face in an almost comical mirror of her own injury and started to piece together the dots.

Being as connected as she was and even if she wasn't it was hard to miss. Everyone had heard the rumors of reported domestic abuse in the Arc household but she never had anything concrete on that until maybe now.

Either way what happened to him in the past was just that the past. She could not hold it against him if he was hesitant to leap into a relationship with her right from the start, but what he wanted was overall irrelevant.

This man this Jaune had something Weiss wanted and he would give it to her hopefully he would do so willingly but if he resisted she would be forced to use less than pleasant methods of interactions with him.

Weiss knew how to work with a man and would get what she wanted from him whether he wanted to give it to her or not.

She hoped it would not come to that unfortunate outcome but if it did she was prepared. She could do this with him easily but if not? It was of no consequence, either way, she would wear him down and take what she wanted. She was a Schnee after all and a Schnee always gets their way.

Speaking of her way she saw her other golden geese the champion of mistral! the fact that two titans were not only in her same year but the same room?! The possibilities for them forming a power team that just needed one more rouned member where endless!

Although her plans were shot down comically fast when Pyrrha said she had no interest in the forming of teams on the spot. Saying she planned to let chips fall where they may.

Even if those plans were shot down, Weiss was far from deterred a the Spartan could be won at a later date but the Arc? That would need a more proactive approach as Weiss cleared her throat.

"Jaune?"

"Yes, Weiss?"

"About earlier when I was rude to you and I simply must make that up to you!"

"Weiss you don't need to do anything. You were probably in a bad mood or-

"Nonsense! I was rude, and as a Schnee, I simply must make it up to you!

"Weiss you really don't have-

"Next Thursday!"

Weiss blurted refusing to give the boy time to recover as she continued her assault on him.

"What?"

"What are you doing the Thursday after this one?"

"I don't have any plans. Why?'

"Then it's settled! I Weiss Schnee will escort you to lunch to make up for my boorish behavior!" Weiss said with a grin ignoring the sheer venomous glare that Pyrrha sent her as Jaune blinked owlishly at her.

"You want to take me out to dinner?"

"Yes, I do. Unless you don't want to go?"

Weiss asked in a worried tone bat her eyes at him as Jaune opened his mouth only to reply only to close it instantly.

"No, I'd love to go with you," Jaune said as he felt as if some unseen hand was manipulating his mouth as he felt cold chains wrap around his legs. Weiss squealed as her mood went through the roof as Pyrrha scowled at her as the teens made their way out into the platforms of Beacon.

"You will need work on your landing strategy on the fly." The headmistress said before sending a screaming Jaune Arc into the air as the boy screamed at the top of his lungs as was sent flying off like a rag doll into the Emerald forest.

"Is something the matter Glynda?" she asked already sensing her dean's frustration.

"Opal I still do not approve of this."

"Of what? Men being hunters? Or my choice of in ways of initiation?'

"Both but that's not why I am speaking. It's about-

"The Arc?"

"Yes, Opal if word gets out that sole male Arc is here it may cause him problems. Problems that we can not protect him from."

"Glynda you know he is a runaway correct? And you saw his face. Those bruises and that scar do not simply appear overnight. I'm sure if he ran away from the Arc household he was a good reason to."

Opal said to her second as she sighed heavily.

"I know Opal. And I have nothing against the new laws it' just... Look at him! It's obvious he is suffering, he's already been through hell and back, and I hate to think of what the stress of hunter might do to him!"

"Be patient Miss GoodWitch. He might be an anomaly, but he is still my student."

"Meaning?"

"He will either excel and become a great hunter or...

The headmistress trailed off leaving her dean to raise an eyebrow."Or?"

"Or he will die. Simple as that." Opal said smiling enigmatically to her second as she did the feeling young man.

"But we can save him! Opal, please-

'All men die Glynda. It matters not that you are here or whether he dies today to in ten years is of no real importance to me. Only that he picks his own path in life." Opal said smiling enigmatically as her second scowled at her.

"I expect great things from you Jaune of Arc," Opal said as she smiled brightly at the boy.

Ready player one?

"AHHH!" Jaune screamed as the wind rushed to his face as he was flung through the air.

"Who the hell does this to people?!" Jaune screamed as he was sent flying through the Beacon forest. Though the fact that, he was hurling at what had to be over fifty miles an hour was terrifying. Jaune was more worried about his landing strategy or his complete lack thereof.

As he was literally armed with a sword a shield. Which might save his life versus a Grimm or two were both decisively less useful at making sure Jaune was not reduced to a nasty crimson stain on the side of whatever tree he just happened to crash into. And the chances of him being just that a nasty crimson stain where going up by the second as the Emerald forest drew closer and closer.

"Ok, Jaune! You got this! You just need to be calm. Think rationally and-

Whatever thoughts Jaune was having were torn from his head as a long object slammed into his hoodie and sent him flying sideways into the forest as he gave a long scream that was followed by a long "I'm sorry!" Filled the air as Jaune was sent flying through the forest.

"A little help. Please?" Jaune asked as the towering form of Pyrrha? Was it walked into view of him from under him giggling slightly as she saw him impaled by his hoodie to the large tree he was currently pinned to.

"I'm sorry!" The girl said before the spear he was hanging on glowed black as he was yanked free from the tree and sent him plummeting downwards screaming like a banshee the entire way down.

"GAH!" Jaune said as he smacked into something hard yet soft. As he found himself staring at a pair of bright emerald eyes as the girl Pyrrha had caught him in a bridal carry as she grinned at him. " Hello, partner."

This. Was. A. Disaster.

And when Weiss used the word disaster she did not use it haphazardly. Oh no when she said a disaster she meant a travesty. A crime against humanity! The type of insidious hateful, vengeful action taken upon her by an angry god that-

"Weiss! Wait for me! You are leaving me behind!"

A sharp irritating voice called from behind causing Weiss to bristle and freeze.

Ignore her Weiss just stay still... She can't see you if you don't move.

"Weiss, why did you stop walking?"

Her vision is based on movement...

"Weiss!"

"Vision-based on movement...

"I'm not a velociraptor!"

The girl in red yelled as the heiress sighed heavily as she rolled her eyes. Why me Oum? Why did I have to get her to all people? Wiess lamented as she looked to her partner for the next four years and sighed heavily. Out of all the people to get she had to get her.

There where literally the two most ideal partners in the world who were less than two feet from her less than an hour ago and now she had..this?

This hyperactive gothic girl who seemed to move like a hummingbird and talked like one to boot. As the girl, small dressed in a gothic lolita outfit of all thing asked as she zipped in and around her Weiss sighed again bemoaning the gods that decided that Ruby Rose would be her partner and if she were to quote the smaller girl best friends...

"I free your soul, and by my shoulder I protect thee." Pyrrha said finishing the chant and gasping at the amount of aura this boy had before glaring at him harshly.

"Thanks, Pyr! That was gr-

"Why don't you have your aura unlocked already!?" Pyrrha demanded of Jaune grabbing his shoulder roughly making him blush and stutter as he was backpedaled into a tree by the older girl.

"I never had time to!"

"How can you not have time to get your basic training!? Did you even go to a combat academy!?"

"No... I was trained on the road..."

"On the road? By the maidens! What kind of irresponsible mother let you go all this time without-

"I wasn't trained by my mom."

Jaune said making Pyrrha blink at him owlishly.

"Then... Your sisters? Aunt? Cousins...? Surely not... your Father?" Pyrrha asked questioningly as her partner sighed heavily.

"I... I ran away from home a while ago. I didn't have much time for training in the traditional sense... I'm sorry..."

Jaune admitted making the spartan bite her tongue.

Dammit! Pyrrha thought mentally berating her self as just kicked up what was undoubtedly some unpleasant memories for the blonde boy who she desperately wanted to get to know better.

The horrible scars on his face where already horrid enough to look at that combine with his filthy clothing that spoke of weeks if not years on the road where all telltale signs of a road well traveled. But it was his face that broke the spartan's heart, that defeated expression he now wore? That was too much girl kicked herself. Why am I so bad at this!? Why can't I just be normal? I just want to help him! Pyrrha thought as she began to apologize profusely.

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to pry it just I was; I am worried about you is all."

Pyyrha said as she sighed slightly loosening her grip on the blonde's shoulder as she smiled up at her.

"It's fine Pyrrha. If you'd like you can hold my hand. Most girls like it when I do this-

"Yes," Pyrrha said too quickly as Jaune sighed and held out his hand.

"Thank you, Jaune. I didn't mean to frighten you I just-

"Want to pin you to the tree and fuck the brains out of your skull!"

Jaune gaked. As spit flew from his mouth as Pyrrha smiled innocently at him innocently as he heard her voice.

"I'm sorry Pyrrha but could you repeat that?" Jaune asked heart hammering out of his chest as he was now sure he was losing his mind. As he gawked at his partner still not believing the words that came out of her mouth? As Pyrrha blinked smugly at him.

I said that-

"I said I was going to pin you to a tree and fuck your brains out!"

Pyrrha said as Jaune blushed like a schoolboy stuttering violently and looking like he had just seen a ghost as the Spartan cocked her head at her blushing partner.

"Is something wrong Jaune?"

"NO! I'm fine! Just a little nervous is all! This is my first time in a Grimm forest! Well, not my first time but you know?"

Jaune asked as Pyrrha giggled at him and nodded her head approvingly.

"Sweet Oum he is cute! Those thin pouty lips! That stong core? That jiggling but? Deer Oum If we weren't surrounded by Grimm I would pin you to that tree and take you! Right here! Right now! In fact, I think I can still take you! I just-

"So Pyrrha! What's going on with you! Why did you come to Beacon!" Jaune asked now firmly believing he was losing his mind as his partner smiled at him.

"Becuase I wanted to be a huntress Jaune. The same as You?"

"I also came because I was tired of being surrounded by yes men and sycophants all damn day! The fact that my partner is as cute as you are a plus."

Pyrrha thought as reality dawned on Jaune. I can read her mind?! Jaune thought as he fought to keep his blushing face down.

"Where you some type of celebrity or something? People seem to recognize you for something." Jaune asked as Pyrrha beamed at him grip his hand tighter making the boy blush as place her fingers on his.

"I was a tournament fighter. Have you never heard of the name Pyrrha Nikos?"

"No, I haven't..."

"Jackpot! Not only is he adorable he's ignorant of who I am! I Just need to run over and-

"Calm down Pyrrha! He is a human being! He is not a piece of meat! Just because he is cute does not mean you can just grab him!"

"He's your partner, and he should be your friend! Just play it cool. You have four years to make him moan your name and call you mistress. You can afford to take it slow. Like mother always says! Baby steps! Hand holding today. Kissing tomorrow handcuffs after that, I'll introduce him to light bondage the next day and sex by Saturday-

That's not taking it slow!" Jaune accidentally blurted out making Pyrrha cock her head at him.

"What's not taking it slow?" Pyrrha asked as Jaune flushed.

"I mean... Us! Let's not be late! I see a cave over then let's check it out ok!?" Jaune asked as Pyrrha nodded at him with an off-kilter grin.

"Did he read my mind? No way. That would be impossible. Though if he did, there's no way I would resist tease him about it every day and night. Also... Why is he so skinny? He his far to thin for a boy his age. I hope he's eating well. He did claim he lived in the wilds..."

His partner thought as she and Jaune made their way to with a surprisingly large have with a variety of strange markings around it.

"So do you like to watch tv?"

"No, not really."

"Do you like to go out?"

"I prefer to stay inside."

"Do you like motorcycles?"

"Not particularly."

"Do you like to do anything that is fun?" Yang asked her new partner. A raven-haired girl named Blake who appeared to have the partying level of a lazy lawn gnome as she shrugged her shoulders in an uncaring manner as the two slowly walked through the emerald forest exiting out of the thick trees and entering a vast green meadow as they approached a group of stone pillars.

"I like to read." The slim girl said making her partner moan in defeat.

"I said do you like to do anything that is fun. Reading is the opposite of that."

"Reading is fun," Balke replied calmly making Yang moan aloud.

"Why do I even bother?" The brawler asked rolling her eyes as her partner cocked her head.

"You should try reading a good book. It might do you some good."

The mysterious raven-haired girl said before stopping suddenly and twitching her head before speaking up.

"Do you hear that?" Blake asked as she cocked her head up to the sky as her bow twitched.

"Hear what?" Yang asked ignoring the physical anomaly on top of her partners head as she followed her new partners gaze as she looked up into the clear sky.

"It sounds like a boy is in distress."

"What? I don't hear anything-

"Help me!" A voice screamed as blonde rocket flew out of the forest and fell right into Yang's waiting arms...

Oh great just what I needed! Pyrrha thought angrily as she ducked another talon strike before firing several rounds and getting a horrid screech in return as the deathstalker charged them. She had just gotten Jaune alone in a dark cave where she was this close to putting the moves on him before this damned elder Grimm attacked them!

Although this was not the ideal situation, it was far from fatal. In fact, things could go even better! All she needed to do was show off how good she was with her spear and shield and Jaune would be eating out of the palm of her hands!

As the redhead ducked another sweeping pincer swiped the cleared out a whole swath of trees the blond boy of her affections rushed in only to defy Pyrrha expectations of the boy and put her stuttering heart at ease as he sliced a deep ichor leaking wound in its talons with his long sword making it howl in anger before he deftly rolled out of a retaliatory talon strike and jumped backward as Pyrrha smiled at her future husband.

Good, he is strong. As much as I disprove of him being a hunter him being strong is a must. Now I just need to show him my strength and-

"Pyrrha! Look out!" Jaune yelled as he lept in front of a distracted Pyrrha at the last second taking a direct hit from talon onto his shield as he was sent flying through the air by a massive pincer.

"Whoa, there Goldilocks! You just decided to drop on by did you?" Yang asked as she held Jaune up effortlessly in her arms as the boy blushed in her grip.

"Yang?"

Jaune asked wearily as his vision ebbed and dimmed as he fought to recover from the devastiGrimmimm attack. He winced in pain as a sharp burning sensation filled his body as he frowned.

That's a broke rib Jaune thought before he snapped out of it.

"We need to go save Pyrrha! She's-

"You need to take off those clothes is what you need to do! I can't wait to get you alone back in Beacon! In the hallway in the closets on every desk and wall."

Jaune blushed heavily as his semblance kicked in. Making the blonde's face turn as red as Ruby's cape as his fellow blonde's thoughts entered his head. He could read the minds of people whom he held direct skin to skin contact with, and he was not coping with it well.

"Yang we-

AH! Jaune groaned in pleasure as Yang pinched his but making the blonde yelp as he involuntarily went into the crook of her neck making Yang purred in victory.

"You like that? I bet you did. Good Oum, you have a firm-

"What the hell? Why are you so thin?"

Yang thought as Jaune felt himself flush as she began to rub her hands over him.

"You're thin. You are way to thin. What the hell? Not even Ruby is this thin! And are those ribs!? The hell-

"Stop molesting him."

An amber eyed girl said as Yang glared at her as the blonde wriggled out of her arms.

"There's something wrong-

"Yang! we need to save Pyrrha I-

"Calm down. Tell us exactly what happened and how we can help." The mysterious amber eyed girl said putting a hand on his shoulder and smiling warmly at him.

"I'm sorry about her. She seems a little rough but she's a good person. I think. You are cute though. Even if you are starving. I don't know what's wrong with you besides yourbroken rib that is. Your aura will heal that though but you should really eat when we get back to Beacon."

The girl thought making Jaune blush as Yang laughed raucously at them. As she laughed even if it sounded plesant Jaune could fellan underlying tension in it.

"Yang he's scared of you. Just let him down and we can-

"Catch me, Yang!" A voice yelled as a red dot was seen falling to the ground.

Why me? Why me? Why me?! Ruby thought as she lept off the Nevermore. leaving the screaming rich girl behind her as she did. Why did she have to get teamed with the mean rich girl? Why did they have to get captured by a never more? Why did she jump off the bird when she saw her sister?!

"Catch me!" Ruby yelled out loud only for her fall to be interrupted as she felt strong pairs of arm lifting her up.

"Thanks, Yang! I really need-

"Ruby!? Are you ok?" A familiar pair of blue eyes asked Ruby as she wanted to faint.

"Jaune?!" Ruby asked as her mind began to race at a mile a second.

Why him!? Why him!? Why him?! Why did he of all people have to catch me!? Why are you so thin? Oh, Monty! This is so humiliating! Being rescued by a boy and not just any boy but the one I have a crush on!? Oh, Oum! This day just can't get any worse-

"You dolt! Why did you leave me!?"

"Yes, it can! Save me Jaune!"

Ruby thought as Weiss shrieked at the top of her lungs as she hurdles not he ground nearly being impaled by a rain of black feathers in the process.

Putting Ruby down for a moment Jaune took ten seconds to come up with a plan to catch the falling princess that would not only save her life but not threaten his one. After ten seconds he found one that followed half of the criteria.

"Yang!" Jaune shouted to the blonde catching her off guard and making her blink owlishly at him.

"Who me?"

"Yes, you! Come here I need you!"

"About time! I was wondering when you would stop playing coy an-

"Up there!" Jaune said pointing tot he flailing princess as Yang started.

"What about it?"

"I need you to throw me up there so I can catch her!"

"What!? So you are not here to confess your undying love for me?"

The girl asked sarcastically batting her eyebrows at him.

"Yang! This is serious! Do this and I'll take you on a date ok?"

"Works for me! Although I will be taking you out not the other way around."

"Sorry Weiss!"

Ruby yelled before Jaune put her down as he jumped into Yang's open arms who smiled viciously at him before looking up aiming cocking back her arm and throwing the boy at the princess in a perfect toss.

"I don't know what's wrong with you but I'm going to sort you out."

Yang thought as she tossed the blonde at the princess who impacted her mid-air in a harsh clash.

"Whaddya know? A perfect spiral." Yang said as Jaune went flying as her sister fainted and her partner gaked loudly.

"You threw him!?" Blake asked incredyously as she gawked at her partner.

"It was his idea!'

"What is wrong with you!?

"Sorry doesn't cut it! save me you, Buffon!" Weiss shouted only to find herself in the firm arms of a familiar blonde who gave her a small smile hovering in mid-air before they both crashed into the ground.

"Ow... That-

"Jaune?! Is that you!?" Wiess asked worriedly as she practically leaped off the downed boy who had caught her in his arms before they both plummeted to the earth.

"Hey, Weiss are you ok?" Jaune asked as the Heiress blushed.

"Of course I am your fool! Are you ok!? What were you thinking!? Jumping in the way like that!? You could have gotten hurt!"

" Technically I was thrown."

"Like that matters?! Why would you do something so stupid!"

"I saw you in danger, and I wanted to help," Jaune said with enough bluff honesty to make Weiss blush and stutter.

Stupid man! Thinks he's so cool saving my life! I wish I could be on the opposite end! Saving his life would have surely endeared me to him! Weiss thought as she rested a hand on the boy's shoulder.

"Weiss you were in-

"I bet you're not even a real blonde!"

"Hey!"

Being rescued a boy! If only Winter could see me now! She would have words to say to me! Let me tell you! Not only was I rescued by a man but-

"Out of the way please!" A frightened voice yelled as a familiar boy in green was brought through a series of trees riding an Ursa?! As the boy, Ren was apparently trying to steer it with twin hook scythes lodged into the top of its skull as the monster finally broke down collapsing from its injuries and died.

"Awww... I broke it." Ren said petulantly before leaping off the disintegrating monster as he eyed Jaune as his face lite up.

"Hey, Jaune! How are you?" Ren asked skipping over to his new friend before a haggard voice came yelling through the forest.

"Ren! Never do that again!" Nora yelled stomping out of the forest clearly out of breath with several grass stains and mud spots on her otherwise pristine pink and white skirt and blazer combo as she wielded a single massive Warhammer glaring daggers at Ren who blushed sheepishly and waved her off.

"It's fine Nora! I just found Jaune and-

"Ren it is not fine! You ran off without me, and you almost got hurt!" Nora yelled silencing the boy who ducked his head averting her gaze and looking crestfallen before the taller girl sighed heavily and put a gloved hand on his shoulder.

"Look I don't mean to be mean. I was just worried about you ok?"

"Ok," Ren admitted shyly not looking up to her as Nora sighed once again.

"Look at me, Ren."

"I am looking at you," Ren said looking dead tot he grass.

"Ren, you are not looking at my eyes. Is there a reason for that?"

"I don't want to," Ren said quickly as Nora rubbed a hand on her face.

"Ren it's not polite to not look somebody in the eye when they talk to you."

"You're mad at me."

Ren pouted petulantly as Nora sighed heavily at him.

"Will you look at me if I give you some coffee?"

Nora asked tiredly as if talking to an enraged toddler as Ren's head snapped up in a heartbeat.

"Regular!?"

"Decaff," Nora said flatly making Ren pout.

"Nora! That's not-

"I hate to interrupt this touching reunion but now that the gangs all here we kind of have to kill the giant flying thing you know!?" Yang asked as the previously ignored nevermore began launching another stream of feathers at them making the students run for cover.

Hate. Rage. Anger. Spite.

Clang! Fwang! Phwop!

Fear. Pain. lonelinesses. Disgust.

SKisht! Fisht! SLish!

Loss. Suffering, Pain. Wrath.

Those where the emotions warring in Pyrrha's head as she cut off the talon of the deathstalker bathing herself in a wave of foul smelling green offal before jabbing Milo through its' eyes in a fit of rage.

Pyrrha was beyond angry. She was furious, wrathful and so full of pure white-hot hatred that she couldn't even think straight.

As the Grimm raised its stinger, Pyrrha quickly ducked to the side slicing deeply into the appendage making the Grimm screech as she drew out a long stream of green ichor as her mind burned with rage.

Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! How could you!? Pyrrha thought to herself as she blinded half of the monster's eyes with well-placed shots before leaping back as she ducked it's one good talon as the monster attacked.

Phyyra was a living testament to wrath. A literal manifestation of hatred made flesh, and it was all directed at herself.

She had been replaying the same moment time and time again in her mind. As she saw the same terrified blonde eyes regarding with terror as they jumped in front of a blow that was meant for her.

"You idiot!" Pyrrha roared as she sliced into one of the things legs cutting off the appendage and making it give an undulating howl in pain as she peppered it with gunfire.

"Why did you have to be so stupid!" Pyrrha yelled aloud as she thought of her partner. Jaune was hurt. Gone sent flying by a strike meant for her! And the thought ate her alive.

It was all her fault. Completely and one hundred percent her fault that he was injured either badly damaged or worse...

If she had not just been so damned distracted with showing off or looking at his figure, she might have been able to save him or at least dodge the attack!

Pyrrha thought as her eyes glowed with hate only for the thing last remaining stinger to slam into her shield making her go flying backward.

"Pyrrha!?" Jaune said as he lifted his stunned partner up from the ground completely covered in foul-smelling fluids as her emerald eyes looked around in panic before locking onto his blue ones and gasping at the top of her lungs.

"Jaune!?" Pyrrha said before wrapping him in a tight bear hug smearing him in viscera and cutting off his air as he fought to breathe.

"Pyrrha! Air! Please!" Jaune said before Pyyrha put him onto the ground checking for any injuries on his body making him flush as she reassured herself that he was ok before reaching her arm back and bringing it forward with her entire strength as she slapped him across the face.

WHAP! The taller girl struck the boy with her full force as she lifted Jaune off his feet and the boy hit the ground like a sack of bricks...

"Ahhhh...

Jaune thought as his vision went bleary. He couldn't hear he couldn't see. His vision was a blur of yellows and greens as a sharp piercing ring entered his ears. His mouth felt dry and his tongue tasted blood as a red blur slammed into him.

"Jaune!? Jaune?! Talk to me are you ok!?"

A hyper voice asked as his vision came back to him as he saw a teary-eyed Ruby holding him in alap pillow as the girl cradled him in her lap.

"Ruby where-

"The fuck is wrong with you!?"

A furious voice yelled as a wall of fire emerged from the far side of Jaune's vision as he saw a flaming Yang stalking toward his partner. She looked like she was ready to come to blows but was beaten to the punch. Literally, as Nora cocked back a fist and sent Pyrrha sprawling to her ass. As the girl knocked his partner to the ground.

"Bitch," Nora said loudly as Pyrrha shot her a venomous glare before leaping up spear in hand and-

'Down!" Jaune yelled as he leaped up from Ruby's lap pillow tackling the Spartan down as a wall of feathers crashed into the ground.

FIT! FIT!

The two teens tumbled into the ground for a moment before Jaune spat out a bit of blood and glared at his friends.

"Listen! We don't have time to fight each other! We have to kill theses things!" Jaune yelled pointing to the elder Grimm before Yang spoke up.

"Jaune! She just hit you an-

"Jaune's right! Yang, Weiss, other girl!"

"My name's Blake." Blake deadpanned as Ruby nodded.

"Yang, Weiss, Blake with me! Let's take the bird! We have the guns!"

"I'll take the scorpion! I already cut its talon I might as well finish the job!"

Jaune said fighting off fresh waves of nausea as he struggled to stand as the teens eyed him warily before the Nevermore cawed and the scorpion roared as the two groups temporarily put their differences aside and split up and engage their individual Grimm.

"Fine but later on we will discuss this," Pyrrha said as Jaune read her thoughts.

"IDIOT! Why did you take that attack!? What were you thinking!? Why are you so thin!? Do you know how worried I was about you!? I thought you were hurt! I thought you might be dead..."

Pyrrha's thoughts filled his head as Jaune felt his mood lift. She's just worried about you Jaune. You don't have to be angry Jaume thought as the Grimm attacked them.

"Is this really going to work!?"

Ren asked voice full of trepidation as he and his new best male friend Jaune ran towards the wounded deathstalker as the elder monstrosity screeched at them.

"Ren trust me. We'll be fine. Just keep running." Jaune said his vison still coming and going as his right ear had developed a sharp ringing noise that Jaune desperately hoped was not permanent as his new friend nodded in panic as he opened fire with a pair of green pistols onto the deathstalker peppering it with gunfire as it roared in defiance as Ren blinded several more of its eyes slowing its charge down as the two sides closed their distance.

"Just wait for it to make the first move, we only get one chance so let's not mess this up ok?" Jaune said as Ren nodded to him as the boys ran forward to the deathstalker. The groups had split into two Jaune Ren Nora and Pyrra fighting the scorpion abomination and the other girls fighting the avian monstrosity.

"Jaune about earlier... Are you.

"It's fine Ren just-

"NOW!"

Jaune yelled as the boys jumped apart as the stinger on the beast struck downward as they both sliced their blades into it drawing out long lines of a foul-smelling green offal form it as it screeched and reared backward.

"Pyrrha now!" Jaune yelled as a spear came flying out of the forest cutting the thing's stinger off only for Nora to leap up in a cloud of pink explosions silver Warhammer raised as she whispered the word boop lightly before slamming the stinger into its carapace killing it instantly.

"WHOA! GO, TEAM!" Ren shouted happily as the monster died as it disintegrated into black whispy mist only for the ground to shake as the figure of a decapitated nevermore crashed into it.

"It looks like our comrades where successful," Pyrrha said as she once again failed to meet Jaune's gaze as she stared heavily at her feet as Ren went to talk to her before Nora came from behind him.

"Jaune are you ok?" Nora asked earnestly putting a gloved hand on his shoulder. Making him turn to face her light teal eyes.

She also towered over him with a good foot in height difference as Jaune sighed to her.

"Nora I'm fine ok?"

Jaune said easily as Nora grimaced.

"Jaune she hit you."

"Nora' it's fi-

"No. No, it's not. If she does it again, we are going to have problems." Nora said as Jaune sighed heavily as they began the long walk back to Beacon.

"Team Juniper! Led by... Jaunce Arc!" Opal said as the crowd cheered wildly and Jaune blushed.

"Me leader?" Jaune asked before Ren tackled him from behind. Shaking hte boy and making Jaune taste copper in his mouth.

"Yay! My new friend is my new leader!" Ren said hugging Jaune from behind as the boy leaped onto his back laughing openly as Nora smiled at him.

"I think you'll be a grand leader!" Pyrrha said a bit too hamfistedly as she still refuses to make eye contact with Jaune as Nora eyed her warily.

"You'll do fine... As long as some people don't mind." She said eying Pyrrha who looked ready to strike her before Opal spoke.

"Team RWBY! Led by... Ruby Rose!" The woman said as the girl in red looked ready to have a heart attack as her team congratulated her, all except Weiss who also looked ready to have a heart attack. As the headmistress bid the goodbye and sent them to their rooms.

"So this is our room huh? It looks like our new lives have started right?" Jaune asked happily trying to liven up the dreadful temper in his team.

Ever since the leader ceremony where he was chosen to be a leader Jaune's team had not spoken a single word on their way back to their dorms and they were all refusing to make eye contact. Especially Pyrrha who was steadily refusing to look anywhere but the floor.

"Well this is our room," Jaune said as he opened the door revealing four wooded beds a crimson carpet and two closets. One for boys one for girls? He thought as his team entered the room and shut the door.

"loo-

"I'm so sorry!" Pyrrha suddenly blurted out dropping to her hands and knees and bowing in front of Jaune making him blush.

"Pyrrha?! What's wrong!?"

"I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to hit you! It was my fault! I shouldn't have done that! Please forgive me!" Pyrrha shouted on hands and knees making Jaune fell awkward as he put a lone hand on her shoulder.

"Pyr. It's ok."

"No, it's not."

Nora said as she crossed her arms and Jaune felt the tension of the room rise.

"I didn't mean to hit you-

"You still hit him. Intention or not you hit a boy Pyrrha, and that's no-

"So what if she hit a boy?" Jaune asked catching Nora off guard as he eyed her.

"So what If I'm a guy? What does that have to do with anything?'

Jaune asked as Nora looked like she was seeing two

"Jaune.. she's a woman. She can't just hit yo-

"Nora. If you and I are going to be on the same team, then you are going to have to be team player. On this team, we are all equals. Men woman or anything else. We will live together, fight together and if the time comes, we'll die together."

Jaune said causing the tall ginger to flush as she was at a sudden loss for words. As she balked Jaune felt an odd tingling sensation in him as he felt he just did something important...

"I won't let you die," Pyrrha said as she stood up eyeing Jaune fiercely before putting a hand on his shoulder making him blush.

"Look Pyr if this is about earlier I am fine. Let me assure you that you are not the first person to hit me! Man or woman! I very much doubt that you will be the last!"

Jaune said honestly chuckling slightly at his comment and completely missing the concerned looks his team was giving him. They looked like they were going to speak up before Pyrrha latched her arms to his shoulders making him cry out in pain.

"Jaune Arc I swear this to you. Form this day onward I will be your shield and spear. I swear to let no harm come to you for so long as I live."

"Pyr that's a lot. You really don't need to-

"My mind is made up. I will protect you whether you want to or not." Pyrrha said before calmly walking over to the second bed from the door.

As the team broke for bed Ren claimed the far bed and Nora went to the bed next to his own making Jaune sigh as got the bed closest to the door at least I have a bed. Jaune thought as he collapsed into the heavenly Beacon bed.

Jaune attacked the bed. He had long forgotten the feeling of a warm soft bed, with a nice pillow and soft heavenly blankets. He was in Beacon! Not the wilds! Here he would have food! Here he would have shelter and medicine and-

"Jaune? Is something wrong?" Pyrrha asked standing in front of Jaune with a pained grimace on her face as Jaune blinked at her.

"No. Why would you ask?'

"Because you're crying."

Nora said bluntly as Jaune realized he had indeed been crying.

"It's nothing! I just haven't been in a bed in a while! I forgot what pillows feel like!" Jaune said flopping into his bed and rolling around.

Pyrrha rais a hand but a head shake from Nora stopped her as the remainder of the team let their leader enjoy his bed as they all went to their beds with various levels of trepidation...

"Wakey, Wakey sunshine. We got things to discuss."

A familiar voice said as Jaune opened his eyes to see a familiar demoness smirking at him.

"You! What just happened I was in the forest and-

"Congratulations! You just delivered your very first speech to your team and completed your first quests and stat check! I knew you where the right mortal to trick!" The thing said dryly as Jaune looked into his home screen.

Name: Jaune Arc.

Level 5/?

Health 130/180

XP to next level 405/600

Skills Do or die. Deflection.

Title Prince in the castle

Quirks.

Paranoid.

Stalwart. Forgiving.

Forgiving.

Naive

Traits: Stubborn, Ennui, honest.

Passive Last gasp

Special skills. Semblance unlocked! Kinetic telepathy. Can read the minds of those you engage in direct physical contact with.

Mood: Desperate, exhausted.

Stat break down.

Str: 35

Wit.12

Charisma: 33

Charm 25

Agility 47

Intellect:44

Vitality:73

Will: 80 +20 due to stubborn trait

dexterity: 43

deception 3

Luck 5

Skill points available twenty

"Put ten into deception. Five to strength and five to charisma."

Jaune said as the scroll beeped before it began to speak.

"Jaune you have several new bestiary files that you should take a look at."

The thing said as Jaune nodded and went to his screen. Now the Bestiary had two folders. One for humans one for Grimm. and the human folder now had six contacts, not four plus it had updated the contacts of the ones he already knew as he opened up the first new contact.

Name Lie Ren.

Health 89/ 110

Passive disarm

Social Status. Your fellow Beacon student and best male friend, one year you senior.

Relationship Rank. 28/200

Mood: Friendly. Lonely.

Skills, fade away, shadow step.

Quirks. Eccentric, hyper, Shy. Insecure.

Stat beak down.

Str. 28

Vitality. 20

Chr.20

Charm22

Dexterity 58

Agility 68

Will 49

int. 68

Wit 71

Deception 33

Luck 9

Defining trait. Chameleon

"What the hell is a defining trait?" Jaune asked the scroll as it floated towards him.

"As you get to know people better the bestiary will get more and more defined information about them eventually leading to the discovery of their defining personality trait. It is basically a trait that defines them above all else. For him, chameleon means hides in plain sight."

"I see," Jaune said as he kept reading.

Name Nora Valkyrie.

Health 210/220

Two years you're senior she is your fellow Beacon student and teammate.

Social Rank 24/200

Relationship rank 30/200

Passive Sloth

Mood. Questioning.

Special Skills. Electric absorption. Kinetic dispersion.

Traits. Keen. Loyal. Sloth.

Quirks. Paranoid. Untrusting. Protective.

Stat Break down.

Str 90

Wil 80

Vitality 68

Charm 17

Int 60

Agility 71

Chr 20

Wit 49

Dexterity 70

Deception 39

Luck 4

Defining trait Protective.

Alignment progressive.

: Name Weiss Schnee.

Health?

fellow Beacon student two years your senior.

Social rank 38/200

Status Friend?

Mood eager.

Relationship Rank 39/200 Courting.

Passive Mirror Mirror

Traits Kind, cold. Shrewd.

Quirks. Paranoid. Desperate. Helpful.

Stat break down.

Str 40

Wit 98 20 due to shrewd trait

Charm 60

Int 80

Wil 78

Chr 40

Vitality 32

Agility 80

Dexterity 77

Deception 39

Luck 8

Defining trait loyal

Alignment Traditionalist.

"Is this one of the-

"Yup. You might want to keep a close eye on her. if you want to stay in Beacon and not end up as a house husband."

"I'm on it," Jaune said as he kept scrolling.

Name Pyrrha Nikos.

Health 340/370

Your partner and two almost three years your senior.

Social rank 50/200

Mood frantic.

Relationship Rank 49/200

Passive indomitable force

Title: Cereal girl.

Status Love interest.

Traits. Loyal. Honorable. Hunter.

Skills polarity, stalker, hound.

Quirks. Possessive, paranoid. Driven.

Stat breaks down.

Str 109

Wit 80

Chr40

Agility 92

Charm78

Dexterity 88

Int 90

Will 89

Vitality 87

Deception 20

Defining trait. Seeker

Alignment traditionalist.

"A traditionalist is my partner!?"

"Yup. Good luck with that."

But that's going to make my life a living hell right?!"

"Jaune her being a traditionalist is honestly the least of your worries."

"What do you mean?'

Jaune let me tell you something about defining traits. There are a plethora of defining traits in the world but there are only three that pose a significant threat to you and her being a seeker is the second worst one of them for you."

"What's so wrong with her being a seeker?"

"Jaune a seeker is like your worst nightmare made corporeal."

"I don't like where this is going...

"You shouldn't. "Jaune your partner having the seeker defining trait is quite possibly the single worst thing that could happen to you right now."

"Why? What's so bad about her being a seeker?"

"You remember your plan to go all deception?'

"Yes... Why?'

"Well sit down Jauney boy because I'm about to give you the low down on how you play this game and how you will either win or lose."

"I'm listening."

"Currently you are awake while you are awake your other self the real you is asleep. Despite him being different than you he is for all intents and purposes you. When you are asleep you are charged with using spending and building your sleeping self into the best character that he can be. You must spend them wisely and make critical decisions that will allow him to play the game effectively."

"So I'm not in direct control of him?"

"No. You play this game indirectly. You will either build a character that will survive the day come back here go to bed where you can level him up and make him more fit for the next day."

"Ok. But what does that have to do with my partner being a Seeker?"

"AH! I almost forgot! The you of this world had plenty of secrets! And since he has been in the damned wilds for four years he has little in the way of deception. Make no mistake. The you of this world is not a good person and he has more than enough secrets for both of your teams."

"Ok. But what does that have to do with Pyrrha being a Seeker?"

"I'm getting to that! Seekers are people that hate liars! They spend all their time trying to find the truth in all things. And will automatically seek out lies and attempt to expose them When attempting to lie or deflect her all your scores are reduced significantly while the same occurs if she tries to get information out of you."

"Great. But one more thing. When she hit me Nora said she was a woman and could not hit a man... Why did she say that?"

"Sorry! That one's my bad! I got a little to carried away with the world selection of this gamer! I got into your head when you sold me your soul and you have to understand you are currently entertainment for the demons back in my realm. As such, I picked a world that would cater to it! You are in a Remnant that is like yours but very different. Specifically your gender."

"Explain."

"Well to be blunt this is a world of stark gender role reversal. Imagine the more conservative parts of Remnant around forty years ago and think about jobs associated with men and woman reverse them and you have this world!"

"Wait, so what am I supposed to do sit around cook food and raise kids?"

"More or less. Although you! You said to hell with that! On your wedding day, you burned down your family mansion and ran off into the wilds! With nothing but the clothes on your back and a sword and shield, and a puffin your chest as you started down your journey to be a hunter! Also, there is a lot more woman than men around here so don't worry about the harem. It's perfectly natural in this world for a guy to have multiple partners!"

"But-

"But you don't want a harem! You want to find one wife to have your seven beautiful children with right?"

"Yes, how did-

"Jaune I own your soul. I know everything about you! I know what you like what you don't like, all your hopes, fears, dreams! I know you better then you know you! I also know that you had quite the white knight fantasies always rescuing the princess in distress! And that's why I brought you here! Where you are the damsel in distress and everyone else the white knight!"

"Wait! What does that mean?"

"I'll tell you later, assuming you are alive, until then? Your Bestiary has a new folder for your personal developments this it the last thing before I let your rest, let me bring it up for you."

Mink said as Jaune saw a glowing blue tab with the word new on it as he clicked it and it shot open.

Ruby Rose. Health 149/ 160

Relationship rank 44/200

Twenty increase at days end

Relationship Rank Major Crush.

Mood hopeful. Territorial.

Passive Red like roses.

Ruby believes you want to be a couple. Will act based on this belief.

Fetishes-

"Wait! Why the hell does this have her fetishes on it!?"

"Jaune remember how I said the more you interact with people the more their bestiary will be updated? This is just like that."

"But her fetishes!? What does that have to do with anything!?'

"Jaune you are supposed to get a harem and knowing things about your future members is important. That plus humans and your fetishes go hand in hand so keep reading."

Fetishes, Hand holding. Biting. teasing.

Insight 20/10

Yang Xiao-long.

Health 240/248

Relationship rank 47/200

plus twenty increase due to a willingness to submit.

Mood territorial, longing.

Passive Poke the dragon

Fetishes. Wrestling, dominance, romance.

Yang considers you as good as hers. She will act accordingly and fight others who she deems as threats.

Insight 30/7

"What the hell is insight?"

"Insight is the most important thing in the game. The longer you know others the more they know about you granting them insight into your personal life and allowing the use of personal and person-specific dialogue options. It is directly affecting the deceit trait."

"The number on the right is your insight to them and the one on the left is their insight to you. If their number is bigger they can glean knowledge about you making them easily able to lie manipulate or otherwise make you do things for them and vice versa."

"Why is mine so low?"

"Because you have the Naive negative quirk."

"And quirks are?"

"Quirks are things gained from life experience and can be positive negative or both. You are currently naive. Meaning that others look down on you making it much easier for you to manipulate them in conversations."

"However! It also lowers your deception score against them when they try to deceive or manipulate you. Meaning that when they try to lie or deflect you their score is doubled while when you try to lie or deflect them your score is halved."

"What?! But if I can't beat people in combat and I can't lie my way out how the hell am I supposed to win this damned thing!"

"Read your last entry and I'll tell you."

The demon said as he pulled up his own file.

Name Jaune Arc.

New skills deflection, deceit, can now lie. Next rank manipulation.

Defining trait Prince in the castle

Affect quirks. Knight

"What does Prince in the castle mean?'

"Your family the Arc clan has a well... Bad reputation for everything. Your family is fraught with rumors of corruption, scandals, domestic abuse, neglect. Basically, you make the Schnee's look picture perfect by comparison and you, in particular, are of specific interest. You are the sole male of the clan. Making you a high-value target for many a political marriage like the one you escaped. Many people will see you as a potential marriage prospect to gain access to your house and your name. I'd keep my eye out for the Schnee."

"And Prince it the castle?"

"AH! That means that the majority of people especially if they gain the knight affect quirk. They will actively see themselves as a white knight and will try to rescue you form your alleged abusive household! They will be aggressive and direct in their dealings with you. They will find themselves enamored with you and their relationship rank will climb faster than normal."

"You are literally the stereotypical prince in the castle waiting for his dashing white knight to come and whisk him away! From all his troubles and take him to the easy life!"

" Is there anything else I need to know? Or are you done being a dick?"

"The casualty continuum."

"Gazuntite."

"I didn't sneeze."

"The hell is a casualty continuum."

"Consider it as a random number generator. It can be your friend or your enemy. It's a scale that starts at zero point three and maxes out at ninety-nine. It is the basically the chance of shit hitting the fan and mass casualties taking place on a day to day basis. It can go up and down. But for every multiple of five after one, the latest five becomes the lowest number. In example, it is currently resting at zero point three but if it gets to one then to five, five will be its lowest point to go and it will not go lower no matter what you do."

"What makes it go up and down?"

"Many things. Deviating from quests lines. People getting killed, your character not making the correct choices all make it go up. Tough failing any of your harem routes will make it skyrocket!"

"But wait! What if my waking self-decided that he does not want a harem? What if he doesn't make the right choices?! What then!?"

"Chaos."

"And I take it that's bad?"

"It really depends. You gain levels by completing quests but you gain them much faster by fighting and defeating enemies. And when the shit hits the fan the odds of you being surrounded by things that want to kill you goes up. And assuming you do survive that you will level up much foster so a controlled chaos approach might be viable for you."

"So If I'm at zero point three that's not that bad! I just have to keep it low right?"

"Jaune let me put it like this. It works almost just like a random number generator. Every day when you wake up you roll the dice on the chances of a mass casualty taking place. So let's say the lowest reasonable number is five because let's face it you will mess up that means that there is a five percent chance every day that things are going to go to hell. And while that may not seem like a lot over four years? And that's only if you are damn perfect."

"How do I make it go down?"

"It will go down naturally at the end of every week assuming that it was not hit a multiple of five it will reset to it's lowest possible number."

"You said this is being watched?"

"Sure is! The first episode was a hit back home! They love you kid! They really did the whole starving to death kid one the run angel. You keep this up and you'll have your soul back in no time. Now any more questions?"

"What does my passive do? I know what my semblance is and I more or less get my traits and quirks but what does Last gasp do?"

"Last gasp is a class unique perk! You can see one's class at getting a social rank to one hundred by the way. Yours is a survival one. It means that every day once a day. The strike that would send you to zero health will instead send you to point five. Basically, you can dodge a fatal blow from any source of damage once per day."

"Mink... I have memory gaps when he's awake. It's like I'm barely remembering things do you know why that is?"

'The logical reason is that you are half starved half dead wreck that can barely walk. The real reason is that I sealed most of him memories. The more you play the more is revealed and the better your reaction will be."

"Reaction? Can't you just tell me now so I can build him better?"

'Nope! That'd be spoilers and I don't do spoilers. I want you to give the best reaction for ratings after all!"

"Right... What's the difference between social rank and relationship rank?"

"One is Romance and one is friendship. At least for Harem members. For non harem members, social is simply the level of relationship that others perceive you to have."

Do stats ever end?

"No. They progress to two hundred before flipping with a plus. If you see a stat with a number by it their real stat is the number on the right plus the number on the plus times two hundred. It's a sliding scale."

"What if I try to get stronger? You know getting tougher than others?"

"You remember when I sad this was a polar role reversal world? I'm not just talking about jobs. You are literally physically weaker than most, and you will gain strength traits at half the rate of others. Meaning that trying to tough it out will most likely end poorly for you."most likely end poorly for you."

And by others, you just mean that the women here are naturally stronger than men right? And if I do try to increase my strength stat I will gain said strength at half the rate of those who will be trying the same or harder than me?"

"That is correct. They are stronger then you physically and most should have identical if not superior work out routines to you."

"Of course they are is there any way I can get through life without lying or being walked all over?"

"Yes. It's your agility stat. I won't tell you why but if you want to fight your way out of a problem leveling up your agility and dexterity stat after gaining the manipulation ability will be absolutely critical to your success."

"Good to here. Anything else before I wake up to my new life?"

"One more thing. Do be careful out there. I must warn you your life will only get worse after today. Until you beat the game there is no getting better. There is only the slowing down the process of getting worse."

"Well, that sounds terrible."

"Maybe. Either way, your first day as a hunter in training is coming to a close. It's time to wake up. You beat the first level but now the gamer really starts, so until next time. Let the games begin..."

An. Well, here it is. I've kept this thing bottled up so long but it's out. I always wanted to do a gamer fic that was a bit unique so I thought about this. Summary he's in a game where he plays the game indirectly. There's still the basis gamer trists questing XP and what not. But he's forced to play indirectly.

He is forced to play the game by building the best character possible at night arming them with the necessary skills and stats and sending out in the day without the knowledge that they are even part of the deal. Hoping that's he stays alive for the next day where he can repeat the process. I really like playing with gender roles and think it can lead to some great situation for the valiant knight! To fight his way out of!

Warning this is a harem and is rated M for a reason. Expect sex and death until then.

Expect irregular updates until next time thanks for reading.

Stat update

Jaune Arc.

Level 4/?

XP to next level 405/600

Skills Do or die. Can substitute will on failed stat checks.

Passive: Last gasp. Once per day fatal damage is mitigated from any source. Recharges at midnight not in twenty-four hours.

Deflection. Can turn a conversation to a new topic.

Semblance Unlocked! Kinetic telepathy! Can read the minds of those whom he can establish and maintain direct skin contact with.

Quirks.

Paranoid. Mixed. Gains increased defensive score when being manipulated/ Slower relationship gain on his end.

Stalwart. Positive. Will never act in a way that he deems contrary to his own honor code. And will always do what he believes too, be right no matter what. Will refuse any offers that do so.

Forgiving. Mixed. Quick to forgive transgressions made by others. /Dramatically increased rate of relationship gain.

Naive Mixed. Double manipulation score against others. Halves defensive scores for lying and deflection offensively or defensively.

Mood: Desperate, exhausted.

Traits.

Honest, People find you easier to believe making manipulation easier.

Stubborn. Will not back down from a challenge plus 20 will.

Faster, requires half the normal nourishment than a normal person to subsist. Warning if more then half of the normal nutrient uptake is broken you will take health damage.

End of the day Stat break down.

Str: 40 5 increase

Wit.12

Charisma: 38 5 increase

Charm25

Intellect:44

Vitality:36

Will: 80 20 due to stubborn trait

dexterity: 43

deception 13 10 increase

Luck 5

Casualty continuum rank 0.3 Status calm.