Hey, guys. Sorry for not updating I this book often as you all thought. Anyways, here's the two month waited chapter..

[Y/n's POV]
The day went by like any normal day, me, Kara and the others went to next classes. Weiss did her best to get Ruby to pay attention though wound up missing just as much as her if not more, Yang slept through most of the periods and Blake read while taking notes down in the book next to her.

On team JNPR's side, Jaune was trying his best to keep up while Pyrrha was doing her best to make sure he didn't fall behind, Nora was building a random animal out of the various worksheets she got throughout her classes and Ren was sleeping.

Though now it was time for everyone's favorite part of the day.

Sparring class..

Well, everyone but Jaune that is. I wonder whats wrong with him. My thoughts we're cut off my Ms Goodwitch's voice..

"Hello. To all first years, my name is Glynda Goodwitch, and i will be your combat instructor throughout your time in beacon. As you all know, the Vytal festival is approaching, as well as the tournament that follows with the events." Glynda said, causing the students to murmur with excitement.

"Vytal Festival?" Kara wondered

"I will explain how the combat system will work, and two of you will be selected to demonstrate the procedure." She said.

"First thing you will need to know is that the team's selected will be representing the honor of Beacon academy. While this isn't a fight to the death, do not hold back while you are fighting in the tournament." Glynda said.

"As for the combat system, it's actually rather simple. Attack your opponent until his or her's aura has hit the red zone, or has been completely drained all together. Another way to defeat your opponent is to knock them out of the arena, disqualifying them. Keep in mind that you will all be selected a random environmental hazard during the tournament." She said.

"Now, I will select the two fighters that will demonstrate this processes." Glynda said, pushing a few buttons on her scroll.

Suddenly, a projection appeared on the screen above the arena.

"Our first two fighters will be..." Glynda began as the first slot on the screen went trough all of the students before landing on my friemd jaune and Cardin Winchester. I heard he's a damn bully.

"Mr Arc.. please go get yourself ready" Glynda said

Jaune and him got up and went to his locker to change in his own attire, whike Cardin does the same..

"Hey blake" I asked her

"Hmm" Blake looked at me

"Is it true that ginger idiot is a bully here?" I asked her

"Afraid so. So far, he's been bullying a rabbit faunus named Velvet." Blake mentioned

"Damn. I hope he gets what's coming" i said

Jaune and the bully came back on their combat outfit stood a few feet away from each other..

"Are the combantants ready?" Glynda asked

"Umm..ye-" Jaune spoke before Cardin yelled.

"Bring it!" He said

"Very well. Match starts in three..two one.. begin!" Glynda shouted

[No One's POV]
As the last 3 minutes passes onward in Combat Class, Jaune Arc was looking rather exhausted from the brawl between him and Team CRDL's leader Cardin Windchester, leaning on Crocea Mors with a few scratches on his attire. Cardin on the other hand looked rather fine aside from the few scratches on his person as well and held his mace over his shoulder. Irritated at Cardin's attitude, Jaune rushed at him and tried to slash him. Cardin managed to get out of the way, but noticed that the blonde somehow got another scratch on his armor. Irritated as well, the tall huntsman swung his mace at Jaune, who attempted to block it with his shield. Unfortunately, Jaune was too slow and Cardin struck the blonde hard, causing him to fly back a little and lose his shield. Jaune barely managed to pick himself up before he charged at Cardin again, who blocked the attack with his own weapon.

"This is the part where you lose." Cardin stated smugly as their weapons clashed, towering over the exhausted knight.

Jaune glared despite being overpowered. "Over my dead-OOF!"

He was cut short by a knee to the stomach courtesy of Cardin. The poor teen dropped his weapon and fall to the floor in pain, clutching his stomach. Cardin walked over to Jaune and was prepared to land the final blow on the downed teen, who still glared at the team leader defiantly when Glynda called the match.

"Cardin, that's enough!" Shouted the Huntress.

A little annoyed that he didn't exactly get the opportunity to finish off his broken down prey, Cardin reluctantly moved himself as far away from his down opponent as Huntress Glynda walked upon stage.

"Students, as you can see, Mr. Arc's aura has now dropped into the red." Glynda gestured to the monitors above her, which showed both Jaune's and Cardin's pictures and aura meters. Cardin's meter was three quarters full and green while Jaune's was one quarter full and red. "In a tournament-styled duel, this would indicate that Jaune is no longer fit for battle, and that the official may call the match."

Jaune sat on the floor still looking exhausted while Pyrrha and a certain salmon haired male looked at him, causing Kara to cock her head back to Pyrrha who seem to be somewhat worried for her fallen leader with her hands held together that seem to be resting on her chest. As though she was praying for some sort of miracle to happen.

Glynda also had similar thought and turned to Jaune, who was looking at his Scroll to see his aura gauge. "Mr. Arc, is there something wrong? I've notice you've been increasingly tired over the past week and while you did fine in this match in your exhausted state, I know you can do better."

Jaune looked up to the professor and gave her an apologetic smile. "Sorry Professor Goodwitch. I haven't been able to get much sleep lately. I'll be fine soon enough."

Glynda looked unsure but nodded nevertheless. "Alright Mr. Arc, if you say so. Also, please try to refer to your Scroll during combat. Gauging your aura will help you decide when it's appropriate to attack, or when it is better to move to a more…defensive strategy. We wouldn't want you to be gobbled up by a Beowolf, now, would we?" The professor finished in a light tone.

"Speak for yourself…" Cardin muttered to himself.

Glynda looked to the students, "Remember, everyone, the Vytal Festival is only a few months away! And before that is Beacon's own bi-annual Hunter's Fair towards the end of the semester! It won't be long before students from the other kingdoms start arriving in Vale for the Vytal Festival, so keep practicing! Those who choose to compete in the combat tournament will be representing all of Vale! Also, students from the minor combat schools such as Signal and Sanctum will be coming for our Hunter's Fair so be sure to be on your best behavior and set a good example to those who wish to attend here after graduating!" Seeing the excited looks on the students' faces made Glynda smile at their enthusiasm.

There were many excited students who couldn't wait for the festivals to arrive. Yang was punching the air in anticipation, Weiss had her fists shaking and wore and excited smile and Ruby was practically jumping in her seat with excitement and joy. Only a few were not as enthusiastic for the festivals. One of which was Pyrrha who continued to look at Jaune sadly, who had his head down to his knees. Whether it was because of shame or tiredness she wasn't sure, but the red head was worried nevertheless. Y/n and Kara shared looks of concern and floated down to the blonde knight to comfort him..

"You ok there Blondie?" Y/n said to him

"Yeah..i guess" Jaune said in deject

Cheer up Jaune, you gave it your all. And that's what counts." Y/n assured his comrade with a comforting grin.

"He's right, you did well against that guy" Kara said with a smile

"Thanks guys." Jaune whispered, but something else seem to have been troubling him dearly.

-Beacon Academies Cafeteria-

"So, there we were, in the middle of the night…" Came Nora's voice, who apparently was beginning a story of her own.

"It was day…" Correct Ren, now reading a book with his glasses on.

It was lunch time for everyone and  Teams RWBY, Team JNPR, Y/n and Kara were all sitting together in their normal outfits while listening to Nora telling everyone about her dream with Ren correcting her on many parts. Team JNPR sat on the left side of the table with Kara while RWBY sat on the right side with Y/n sitting beside Blake and Ruby while Sting sat with Yang and Weiss.

Everyone was too busy paying their attentions to Nora with varying amounts of interest, from Yang and Blake who apparently was too busy gawking at the lantern boy with excitement that made y/n somewhat uncomfortable as to why she was looking at him in that sort of way as Yang soon turned towards to Blake and Weiss as she was looking in a book. Little did any of the team know was the fact that a certain blonde hair knight was somewhat loss within his mind.

"But they were no match...and in the end, Ren and I took them down and made a boatload of lien selling Ursa skin rugs!" Nora finished her dream retelling excitedly.

"She's been having this recurring dream for nearly a month now." Ren sighed as he put his coffee cup on his palm.

Pyrrha, wanting to know what was wrong with her leader, poked him to get his attention. "Jaune? Are you ok?"

Jaune snapped out of his thoughts and looked over to Pyrrha. "Huh? Oh, yeah! Why?"

"It's just that you seemed a little…not ok…" Kara pointed out.

The blonde leader looked at the kryptonian girl in curiously before noticing that most of his friends were listening in on the conversation. "Oh. I'm fine guys. I'm just tired, that's all..."

Ruby nodded in understanding, yet Pyrrha didn't believe him. "Jaune…"

"I'm not lying, Pyrrha, I swear." Jaune said back to her.

She was about to ask again when she noticed Jaune's attention was elsewhere. Following his gaze, she saw that he was looking at team CRDL harassing Velvet Scarlatina, a brown eyed, brown haired Rabbit Faunus with large rabbit ears who was wearing her uniform. Pyrrha shook her head at the sight before turning to y/n, who had an irritated look on his face and was clenching his fist, while his rings are turning red..

"Jaune, Cardin's been picking on you since the first week of school." Pyrrha said worriedly.

Jaune looked at his teammate in slight confusion, not paying much attention to she said. "Huh? What about Cardin?"

"He's a bully." Ruby pointed out, annoyed by the mace user's attitude.

Jaune gave Cardin a quick glance once more before replying. "Yeah, he's a bully, but it's not that bad. He could be worse."

"He made you drop your books on multiple occasions." Ren said.

"And?" Jaune asked.

"He activated your shield while you were trying to get in class two weeks ago and trapped you in the door." Blake stated.

"And if i can recall from earlier, he shoved you in your locker and sent you somewhere far in the Emerald Forest" y/n pointed out

"I didn't land that far.." Jaune tried to back up

"Jaune, you know that if you ever need help, you can just ask." Pyrrha said in a soft tone.

"Ohhh! We'll break his legs!" Nora voiced out with a manic grin on her face.

"I'm in!" Yang cheered with a vicious grin as well.

"Ill break more than his legs" y/n said

The three teams admit that Cardin was indeed a jerk to almost everyone he meet, especially the Faunus. As if proving his point, the group heard more laughter from CRDL's table and turned to see Cardin himself was pulling Velvet's ears as she was trying to escape. Seeing as silent tears had began to flow down on her cheeks due to feeling being so helpless under the bullying game of Team CRDL.

"Atrocious. I can't stand people like him." Pyrrha growled.

"He's not the only one." Blake said venomously, glaring daggers at the team of bullies.

"It must be hard being a Faunus…" Kara said quietly, upset with how the Faunus are treated in their world

."Come on guys, he's a jerk to everyone." Jaune said.

"Jaune, you can't just let him do what he wants, it will only get worse if you just let it happen." Y/n said.

"He'll get bored eventually." He said.

"No, he'll see you as an easy target. If he knows that you're not going to do anything about his actions, it'll get worse and worse." Y/n said.

"Like I said, he's a jerk to everyon-" Jaune was cut off by the sound of Velvet crying out in pain.

"Ow! That hurts!" They heard Velvet cry.

"See! I told you they were real!" Cardin said in between laughs.

"What a freak!" One of the members of his team said.

[Y/n's POV]

"Excuse me." I said, grabbing everyone's attention "I'll be back in a bit." I started to walk over to the table where Velvet was.

"W-wait a minute!" Jaune said hastily as i stopped.

"What?" Y/n said with malice
"W-what are you going to do, Y/n?" Jaune asked.

"Helping a girl in need" I said, continuing my march over towards Team CRDL's table, despite the protests of Jaune.

"Well~! This should be good, who brought the popcorn?" Yang asked.

"Ow! Stop it! That really hurts!" Velvet cried out as Cardin pulled even harder.

"Oh really? Then let's just rip em off, maybe people will finally treat you better than trash." Cardin mocked as he pulled harder.

"No..no please!!" Velvet cried

I went up and grabbed the bully's wrist and before he can speak, i applied pressure, while hearing a few pops in his hand only enough to let her go and go behind me..

"AARRGGH!! What the hell, you punk?!" Cardin yelled.

"What gives you the damn right to hurt a sweet rabbit girl who never did anything to you?" I yelled at his face.

"He..he thinks im sweet??" Velvet thought while blushing

"Girl..all i see is an animal who deserves to be in a cage" Cardin retorted

"The only thing that needs to be caged is four loud mouthed bitches like you" i talked.

".. this isn't over" Cardin growled

"Wow.. first smart thing you said through that punk-ass skull our yours" i laughed

Cardin and his goons than took their leave, not before giving me death glares and i gave them the middle finger..

"Shitheads.." i muttered

[No One's POV]
It was then y/n to moved towards a certain Faunus who was already shaking very lightly on her legs due to the approach of the lantern wielder while seeing his hand make its way towards, she held her eyes shut as she was uncertain as to what he was about to do to her.

However instead of feeling her ears being gripped tightly or being pulled hard, his hand was placed gently on her head. Feeling his hand continuing to ruffle it softly with utmost care, his once stern and mad look was now replaced with that of a kind smile. 

Turns to the girl.."You alright, those jerks didn't hurt you right?" Y/n asked wih slight concern on his face.

"N-No...I'm okay..." The Faunus girl replied with a sudden hue of red glowing on her cheek while tilting her head down, feeling the hand of y/n retracting away from her head.

"That's good to hear."Y/n said

"Thank you... for standing up for me..." The bunny girl thanked softly, gazing at y/n very softly. "M-My name is Velvet...Velvet Scarlatina." She greeted herself to the others.

"No problem. Im y/n, if you ever have problems like these on any sort of occasion just feel free to ask me or my friend's out. We'd be glad on helping a friend out." Y/n grinned once more, causing her eyes to grow wide at the sudden word of 'friend'.

"Y-You called me...friend. Do you really mean it?" Velvet said quietly while asking, her ears twitching once.

"Of course I mean it, your our friend." Y/n assured her with a kind smile."And friends look out for one another." He added

This eventually caused Velvet to shake quietly as her eyes were hidden under the bangs of her brown hair, tears slowly beginning to stream down from her cheeks once more with all of the pain she held in her heart slowly being scorched away by the warmth of their smiles and the kindness they've began to offer to her. Y/n felt a little off after seeing the tears streaming down from her eyes with him preparing himself as Velvet shot herself towards him and wrapped her arms around his waist and pressing her head against his chest. Her cries slowly becoming into soft sobs, while y/n grinned nervously and ruffled her hair once more in a comforting state.

"Hey come on Velvet, you don't have to cry." He calmed her down, her face now facing his. "At least keep a smile on, and save the tears when you've finally gained lots of friends who care for ya. Can you do that for me?" Y/n asked of her politely as he wiped away her tears before grinning softly.

"O-Okay...I will..." She smiled before sniffing once or twice, looking at Y/n and other as she stood tall and held onto a smile.

"Why dont you come sit with me and my friends? They wont hurt you" y/n said.

"Y-you sure??" Velvet asked him with

"Yep" y/n said with a smile

Velvet couldn't be happier and hugged him again, as y/n got up from his seat and went back to the group. Upon return, y/n got mixed emotions: Ruby was astonished, Weiss was surpirised, blake felt happy of someone defending faunus. Yang looked like she had a lustful look from his display of dominance, Jaune was shocked, Nora felt overjoyed, pyrrha felt proud of someonr actually doing something, Ren nooded in approval and Kara had a dreamy look..

"Whats with the looks?" Y/n asked them

"The way you handle them with violence." Pyrrha told me

"It took an enormous power of willpower to not break his legs" y/n said

"Be cool though" Nora said

"Anyways, this is velvet. Velvet, mert my friends" Y/n introduced.

After introducing each other and chatting of random things, the group started heading for their next class..while Blake thought if something in her mind..

"You truly are an amazing person, Y/n. I wish we can know each other more" Blake thought as familiar redness had already began smothering on both of her cheeks.

/...Time Passes...\\

Everyone began to return back into their dorms after finishing the last semester of their classes. Members of Team JNPR with the exception of a certain redhead walked out of their class all together with Y/n and Kara linking arms with each other. when out of nowhere Pyrrha called out to Jaune, who was exiting the classroom from behind a corner.

"Hey Jaune?" Pyrrha asked. "Can I talk to for a minute? In private?"

Jaune looked at his teammate curiously before responding. "Um…sure Pyrrha. You know a place where we could talk?"

Pyrrha smiled and nodded. "I do. Come with me."

A few minutes later the two found themselves on the roof of their dorm, with the stars shining. Jaune was looking over the edge as Pyrrha closed the door behind them.

"Uh…Pyrrha? I said I was tired, not depressed." Jaune stated, gaining a confused look from his teammate. "Besides, even if I was, I don't think I'd be able to pull off something like this…unlike a couple people I know."

"What!? No!" Pyrrha shouted as she dragged her leader away from the ledge. After calming herself from that small fright, she spoke. "That's not why I brought you up here."

Both Jaune and Pyrrha remained silent for a brief moment of their timing as a student below them was sitting on the ledge of his window with a rather bored looking expression on students face while someone behind the student pulled the individual back into the room with the sound of laughter going on at the bottom. As the silence between two of the friends continued to grow, Pyrrha was the first to break the silence.

"Jaune, I know you having a difficult time in class and that your still not the strongest of fighters like Ruby or Y/n. So..." She took a moment to sigh to herself, until eventually keeping her emerald eyes focus on Jaune's azure eyes. "I wanna help you." Pyrrha said, giving Jaune a confident smile.

The young knight's eyes were slowly grown wide in shock, as well as baring a dissatisfying look on his face. "Wh-what?" Jaune inquired Pyrrha as he kept his eyes focused on her.

"We can train up here after class where no one can bother us!" Pyrrha assured Jaune with full confidence

"You think I need help?" Jaune looked at her with a nervous expression creeping on him once more.

"N-no! No, that's not what I meant." Pyrrha replied, trying to assure her leader with a concern face.

"But you just said it." Jaune muttered in defeat, seeing as though his face was suddenly giving out a hint of hurt within him.

"Jaune, everybody needs a little push from time to time. It doesn't make you any different from the rest of us. You made it to Beacon! That speaks volumes of what you're capable of!" Pyrrha said

However, the young knight simply turned away from her as he continued to lower his head in shame and could only speak back with an empty voice. "You're wrong. I-I don't belong here."

"That's a terrible thing to say!" She gasped in disbelief, frowning very softly while approaching Jaune. "Of course you do!"

Then that was the last of it that he was going to tolerate from his comrade, causing him to turn his back around just so he could face Pyrrha eye to eye while baring a stern angry look around "No, I don't!" The knight shouted, shocking Pyrrha as he eventually lets a sad sigh leave his mouth. "I wasn't really accepted into Beacon..."

Jaune soon turned his back away from her once more so she alone wouldn't have to gaze at him anymore of how pathetic he was becoming. "Wh-what do you mean?"

"I mean I didn't go to combat school, I didn't pass any tests. I didn't earn my spot at this Academy!" Jaune yelled again but much more louder than before as he once again face's her in person. "I lied! I got my hands on some fake transcripts, and I lied!"

"What? But... why?" She stuttered in her question, completely shocked that he had managed to get himself into Beacon Academy unnoticed.

"Cause this is always what I've wanted to be!" Jaune replied with a solemn look, turning his attention away from Pyrrha and gazing up in the night sky. "My father, my grandfather, and his father before him were all warriors! They were all heroes! I wanted to be one, too. I was just never good enough." He muttered with a sad look.

Pyrrha approached to him in an attempt to comfort the knight, placing a hand on his shoulder. "Then let me help you!"

However, this only caused his frustration to go way above their limits as he once again faced the famous athlete. "I don't want help! I don't want to be the damsel in distress! I want to be the hero!"

"Jaune, I-" But her words were cut off from the knight who continued to yell at her.

"I'm tired of being the lovable idiot, stuck in the tree while his friends fight for their lives!" He yelled right in front of her face, interrupting her sentence yet again. "Don't you understand? If I can't do this on my own... then what good am I?"

She remained quiet for a moment, once again trying to ease the frustration that was going on with his life as he tried to place her hand on his shoulder. However Jaune pulled himself away from her, causing Pyrrha to form an unfortunate hurtful look in her eyes as Jaune turned away from her with his arms crossed.

"Just leave me alone for a while, ok?" The knight muttered with before giving out another sight.

Pyrrha dropped her head and responded sadly. "If that's what you want…" She left Jaune alone on the roof with a depressed look on her face.

Jaune let out a sad sigh as Pyrrha left while gritting on his own teeth with a sudden pain throbbing in his chest while hearing her footsteps simply vanished, something he became to know as a case of regret for what he has done to her. He didn't want to make her upset, but he didn't want her to go through all the trouble in helping him while she's already has enough on her plate and has done so much for him already by just being there with him. However, Jaune would had not mistaken him to be alone were it not the approach of a certain bully who apparently climbed his way up onto the roof.

"Oh, Jaune..." A familiar face emerged, causing Jaune to jump slightly from the newcomer.

"Cardin!" Jaune yelped as he turned around to his Bully.

"I couldn't help but overhear you two from my dorm room." Said Cardin who held his arms in a crossed from, baring a cocky smirk on his face. "So you snuck into Beacon, huh? I gotta say, Jaune, I never expected you to be such a rebel!"

"Please, Cardin, please, don't tell anyone!" Jaune begged to his bully, not wanting anyone else to know of his true identity.

"Jaune, come on! I'd never rat on a friend like that!" Cardin Windchester corrected Jaune, secretly smirking rather devilishly behind Jaune's back.

"A... a friend?" Jaune whispered while beginning to form the look of disbelief, somewhat surprised and suspicious as to why his own bully would refer him as a friend.

"Of course!" Cardin smiled, slowly making his way towards the knight with unsuspecting look until suddenly trapping Jaune within a headlock under his arm despite the blondes struggle to break free. "We're friends now, Jauney boy! And the way I see it, as long as you're there for me when I need you, we'll be friends for a long time."

Then he finally releases Jaune, who gasps as he leans on the ground. And just when Jaune was about to lift himself off of the ground, he soon felt the end of Cardin's boot pressed right on his back that caused him to gasp for air once more. The tall teen keeping his foot very firm on his back while crossing his arms once more as he glared down at Jaune. Almost like he was letting out the anger within him of being easily beaten down by Natsu and the others, of how they've chosen to defend a Faunus that Cardin was disgusted of in his life.

"That being said, I really don't have time to do those extra readings Dr. Oobleck gave us today. Think you could take care of that for me, buddy?" Cardin leans down to rub Jaune's hair and gets up with a grin.

"That's what I thought." Cardin as he slowly makes his way back to his own room while jumping down on a ledge, but not after lifting his head up so that he would meet Jaune's gaze one last time."Don't worry Jaune, your secret's safe with me." He finished with yet another smirk til finally he was gone.

"Ohh..." Jaune limped to a nearby wall, knowing what the situation he's in. Little did he know, y/n lingered for a while longer, overhearing what happened behind the closed door to the roof. He sighed as he opened his eyes and silently walked down the steps leading back to the dorms.

"Poor guy. I wonder how he is gonna fix this" Y/n wondered.

Sorry for not posting like i said. Be sure to leave your reviews on what your opinions are about this chapter and I'll see ya'll around! Peace!