[Flashback]

Everyone hung on his every word, his every moment. No one in the White Fang would dare speak out against Adam Taurus, their leader. Every eye in the room watched as he paced back and forth, frustration evident in his every twitch and every move. "Brothers and Sisters...minus Blake. I do not believe I have to explain to you why we are meeting here today. Those of you who were involved in last weeks...debacle...will be punished accordingly." A series of gulps and nervous glances from many White Fang faunus could be heard after Adam's decree. "If it hadn't been for the fact that the 55 gallon drum of lube was late in delivery, this would have been a total disaster. None of you are in heat, and I expect you to act that way!"

There was more silence, everyone looking nervous as Adam continued. "I of course, speak of the attempted orgy, planned and almost set into motion by the subject of this meeting, Blake Belladonna."

Murmurs could be heard throughout the crowd. The name Blake Belladonna was so storied amongst White Fang, that no one could be sure what was true, and what was false. She was an accomplished infiltrator...and an incorrigible, legendary pervert. Rumor had it that she owned more sex toys than the biggest adult store on Remnant. A constant buzzing noise could be heard from her room, along with yowls and 'nya's' that set people on edge. No one attempted to approach her, surprisingly, mainly because they were terrified as to what Adam would do if they tried.

"We need to figure out how to solve this issue. Blake needs to be punished." Adam continued. "As an infiltrator, we need her at the top of her game, and not corrupting the minds of some of you weaker willed Faunus..."

"Um, sir?" A striped haired faunus with a pair of cat ears spoke up, his voice small and meek.

"Yes...?" Adam searched his mind for the man's name but came up blank.

"A thought occurs. Blake...hasn't actually gone into heat, has she?"

This statement was followed by the most thunderous and panic induced silence ever heard in Remnant. A silence so utterly devoid of sound, but so full of terror, that Grimm came in droves from all around like a flare went off. Faces paled, women fainted and men gripped their seats in pure fright. Adam's eyes actually widened for once, showing the most emotion he'd ever shown in the history of the White Fang...

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"...And you are forevermore banished from the White Fang!" Adam yelled, tossing Blake out onto the ground in front of the massive steel doors that made up the entrance to the White Fang's largest hideout.

"W-what?!" Blake's eyes widened. "Y-you can't!"

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"We can, and we will! Begone!" Adam shouted.

Blake gave a pout and nodded. "I...I understand." Adam and the unnamed minion (Who had been given a quick promotion to lieutenant and a raise after his wise words) watched as Blake started to unbutton her shirt.

"W-what?! What are you doing?!" Adam yelled, eyes widening again.

"I...I can convince you...with my body..." Blake murmured, hands reaching down to remove her skirt.

Adam gave a growl and from literally nowhere, whipped out a spray bottle, aiming it at Blake and pulling the trigger, spritzing her with water. The black haired cat faunus hissed in surprise and recoiled. "Get! Go! Shoo!" He continued to spritz her until she ran off, grabbing her bag and rushing off into the Forever Fall forest. When she was out of sight, Adam sighed and turned to the unnamed lieutenant. "She's someone else's problem now..."

The unnamed man watched as the leader turned away, almost sadly and frowned. "I feel like we're taking the easy way out..."

[End Flashback]

"So, has anyone seen Ruby?" Yang brought up again. She and Jaune had managed to get Blake to her feet, who'd simply said that she had low blood pressure, which was why she collapsed. Jaune, much to Yang's surprise, had been prepared and pulled out a homemade energy bar. Blake had devoured it, and seemed to actually enjoy it. Everyone was relieved that the buzzing had stopped though, so there was that.

"I'm afraid we haven't." Jaune replied, looking over his ruined hoodie. "Pyrrha and I haven't even run into any Grimm on the way here, much to my surprise."

"We ran into Grimm, right Renny? I rode a Grimm, have you ever rode a Grimm? It's fun! You should try it. The buzzing stopped, yay! Hey, is Blake okay? Can I have an energy bar? I'm bored. Hey Renny, do you want an energy bar? Did you make those yourself Jaune? I haven't seen a Ruby either. Ruby's a nice name. I like Nora more though, 'cause I'm Nora." Nora started to ramble on and on once more, everyone ignoring her as previously.

Yang began to pace back and forth, rubbing her arms nervously. "I hope she's okay..."

Jaune, in a surprisingly kind move, placed a hand on Yang's shoulder. "Ruby seems like a skilled girl, and if that weapon of hers is any sign, she'll do fine. She got accept into Beacon, didn't she?"

Yang gave him a small smile. "Y-yeah. You're right. I'm probably worrying over no-"

"AAAAAAAAHHHHH!" A scream cut Yang off and a shadow fell over the ruins on which they stood.

Yang's head snapped upwards, the scream sounding familiar. "Ruby!" Above them, as dark as night, a massive Nevermore could be seen flying high. To make matters even worse, once everyone was looking upwards in surprise, a figure could be seen falling from above. Jaune recognized the massive scythe immediately. "She's falling!" Yang screamed. The distance though, was too great, and even if Yang moved at her fastest, she wouldn't be there in time.

Shit! Ruby! I have to do something...crap, I'll have to use that! Oh who cares, it's to save Ruby! Jaune knelt down into a runner's starting position, and his body began to pulse with a pitch black aura. "Arc Family Blade Technique..." Everyone turned to Jaune, looking surprised. "Seven League Step!" With a sonorous cry, Jaune's figure suddenly phased out of existence, and reappeared much further down, directly underneath Ruby's trajectory.

Pyrrha looked the least impressed, simply standing there, arms folded with a smirk. Further proof of your divinity, my dear. You don't need to hide it from me.

Ren and Nora both stared in stunned silence, which was doubly surprising on Nora's end. Yang's jaw was on the floor, and Blake stood silent, yellow eyes wide for a few more moments, her hand reaching into her skirt for something.

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Luckily for our perverted catgirl, everyone was far too concerned with watching as Jaune managed to catch the falling Ruby to notice the renewed buzzing noise. Ruby fell right into Jaune's arms, the blond managing to catch her perfectly. "Jaune!" Ruby cried out happily, hugging him.

"Ruby, what's going on!?" Jaune asked, helping her to the ground.

"Um, Weiss and I accidentally ran into that giant Nevermore, and we kinda ended up on its back while we were fighting it and-" Ruby stopped in mid speech. "Weiss!" Ruby yelled in realization. "She's still up there!"

Jaune groaned. "Of course she is. Why wouldn't she be? Having her on solid ground would be too easy." Jaune crouched down and gave another shout. "Seven League Step!" With that, Jaune flickered out of existence once more, reappearing underneath the Nevermore that continued to circle overhead. He was just in time too, another scream of terror caught his attention and he gazed up to see Weiss plumetting down from above. Hey, is she wearing a thon- Jaune's train of thought was interrupted when he found that he'd mistimed Weiss' fall and instead of catching her, the heiress slammed right down atop him.

"AAAA-Oh. It looks like I'm fine. Ground's awfully soft thought." Weiss replied. She blinked, and looked down, eyes widening to see Jaune's body twitching beneath her. "AH! PERVERT!" Weiss jumped to her feet, stomping her foot. You should thank me for such a privilege!

"Hate...you...so...much..." Jaune groaned out, staggering to his feet. He clutched his head, groaning. Never again. Next time, she falls. God, I think I felt her ass. It was a nice ass-NO! BAD LIBIDO! Jaune shook his head and pinched the bridge of his nose. "I think I broke my nose."

"Nothing?! Excuse me, how dare you just stand there!" Weiss continued to complain. "Why aren't you thanking me for the privilege of saving me?!"

Jaune's eye twitched. "Thank you?!"

Weiss crossed her arms and humphed. "Indeed!"

Everyone managed to catch up to the two, Yang looking irritable again. "The buzzing is back!" She looked around, hands clenched into fists. "It's driving me crazy!"

Jaune waved his hand nonchalantly. "Just ignore it for now. We've got bigger fish to fry. Or in this case, bigger-" Jaune's voice was abruptly cut off with a gurgle. He looked down and noticed a very large black object sticking straight out from his chest. Slowly turning his head, he gazed over his shoulder to see a very big feather protruding from his back and put two and two together. "Oh for fuck's sake." He managed to spit out, coughing up blood onto a now utterly terrified Yang, collapsing to the ground.

"JAUNE!" Yang screamed, getting to her knees as she tried to help him. "Oh god, oh god, Ruby, don't look!" Yang's hands moved over Jaune's body, unsure of what to do in case of Nevermore feather impalement.

"JAAAAUUUNNNEEE!" Ruby cried out, rushing over to Jaune despite Yang's warning, her eyes tearing up. "No, nonononono, you can't die! You can't!"

Weiss rushed to his side as well, eyes wide. "Y-y-you blond dunce! You can't die! Not here! Not like this!" Your queen demands you live!

Jaune gave a small cough, eliciting another fine mist of blood before his eyes slowly glazed over, Nora and Ren making their way next to him. Nora's eyes began to tear up. "No...poor Jauney..." Nora whispered as Ren hugged her tightly. Blake slowly approached, the buzzing now completely silent, looking just as upset as everyone else.

"He didn't deserve this..." Blake whispered.

Ruby began to bawl and Yang hugged her. "Shh, it's okay Ruby, it's okay..."

Ren spoke up, looking up into the sky with narrowed eyes. "Unfortunately, we'll have to mourn later, or we'll end up like Jaune." He whipped out his pistols, ready to take on the massive bird. Everyone else quickly followed suit, Ruby and Yang looking absolutely furious. Blake and Weiss were glaring at the Nevermore, and Pyrrha? Everyone suddenly stopped what they were doing to gaze over at Pyrrha who seemed...unnaturally relaxed and unconcerned with her partner dying.

"Er...Pyrrha?" Ren slowly asked.

"Yes?"

"Um...Jaune is...dead. How are you so..." He shook his head. "Never mind, you're probably used to this."

"Oh, he'll be fine. It's only temporary." Pyrrha explained with a warm, understanding smile.

Yang twitched. "Temporary?! Did you lose your mind?!" She snapped, practically screaming at the redhead. "He's dead! Your partner is dead! Don't you get it?!"

Pyrrha's smile continued, looking serene. "Of course he is, but it's only a minor inconvenience."

Yang eye twitched even harder, but her scathing reply was cut off by Ruby proceeding to chat with...something. "What's that Crescent? What did Crocea Mors say?"

Everyone split their attention between Ruby and the giant circling Nevermore as Yang spoke up with a groan. "Oh Ruby, not this again! You can't talk to your weapons!"

"Yes I can, Yang!" Ruby shouted. "And Crescent Rose says we should all turn around!"

"What on Remnant is that going to do?!" Yang shouted in confusion.

"I don't know, but we should do it anyway! Crescent has always been right, and she says that's what Crocea Mors says to do! Don't look at Jaune!"

"Crocea Mors?"

"Jaune's weapon!"

A scream up in the sky caught all their attention and another flurry of razor sharp feathers was launched in their direction, forcing everyone to dodge and block them, taking their attention away from Jaune's now cold form. "Crap, we need to kill this thing now!" Yang shouted.

"How?!" Weiss shouted back. "If you haven't figured it out, it's flying above us! Last I checked, none of us are capable of flight, so unless you happen to be carrying a canon in that cleave of yours, we need a better plan!"

"I'm working on it!" Yang looked up and glared at the Nevermore who was circling around again for another volley of feathers. "Ruby, see if you can-"

"You know, this is starting to become a disturbing trend of events." A voice spoke up. A familiar voice. A voice that shouldn't be speaking. Ever so slowly, Yang turned around, eyes wide, face going pale. Sure enough, sitting upright, pinching the bridge of his nose in annoyance, was Jaune Arc.

Evidently she wasn't the only one who had heard the previous dead man speak up, as Weiss turned around as well and gave a half-scream, half growl. "You! You're supposed to be dead!"

Jaune turned his head in Weiss' direction and deadpanned. Fucking wonderful. Now EVERYONE knows your little secret. This day sucks so much! Well, fuck it then. If I'm going to be found out, least I can do is have a little fun with it. "I got better."

Weiss twitched and began pulling at her hair. "You can't get better from being dead! It doesn't work that way!"

Jaune stared at Weiss for what seemed like an eternity before shrugging nonchalantly. "Well, not with that kind of attitude, you can't." Weiss began to emit a noise between a strangled gasp and a series of garbled gibberish, collapsing to the ground as she began to froth at the mouth and twitch. "Huh." Jaune got to his feet, fixing Weiss' form with indifference. "What's wrong with her?" Jaune quipped, motioning to Weiss with his thumb, grinning tiredly.

He was met with silence. Yang, Blake, Ruby, Nora and Ren were all staring at Jaune like they'd just seen a ghost. He sighed and smacked his face with the palm of his hand. "Okay, let's get this out of the way. I'm immortal. Don't make a big deal about it. Please. Let's just...get rid of the Nevermore before we start asking questions, please?"

Yang was the first to recover, swallowing hard, nodding. "God, do I have questions..."

Ruby tackled Jaune in a hug that drove the breath from his lungs a few moments later. "Jaune! You're alive! Crocea Mors was right!"

Jaune blinked. "How...how did you know the name of my weapon?"

"Wait," Yang replied, her face turning more incredulous, "You're telling me you never told her the name of your weapon, and she knew what it was?"

"Crescent Rose told me!" Ruby replied, hugging her scythe. "She talked with Crocea Mors when you were dead and it told us to turn around so we weren't looking at you!"

"Seriously?" Jaune replied, looking down at his sword. "Wow. Smart weapon."

Blake clutched her head, groaning. Between Jaune resurrecting, Ruby somehow talking to weapons, her not having had an orgasm in the past fifteen minutes and the fact that the Nevermore was now flying back towards them, she was seriously beginning to lose her mind. She unsheathed Gambol Shroud and cleared her throat. "Um, remember what you just said? We have Nevermore to kill."

"So," Jaune continued, still talking to Ruby, unaware of Blake's suggestion "You can talk to just your weapon, or other weapons?"

Ruby smiled. "Oh, I can talk to all weapons! Crocea Mors has an odd accent though, and it talks in a strange language."

"Oh, so you can hear it, just can't understand it?" Jaune asked, genuinely interested.

"Uh, guys?" Blake added again.

"Oh come on Jaune, you can't honestly believe that Ruby can talk to her weapon, or any other weapon, do you?!" Yang frowned, crossing her arms.

"I totally can, Yang!" Ruby shouted, stomping her foot.

"Seriously, I never told her the name of my weapon, and she got it right!" Jaune added.

"Are you sure you didn't tell her?" Yang raised an eyebrow.

"Yes, I know exactly what I told Ruby, and I never told her the name of my weapon Yang! She's got a gift!" Jaune explained.

"Guys?!" Blake added louder, watching as the Nevermore began to dive towards them, wings outstretched. Ren and Nora began to open fire upon it, Pyrrha getting into a combat position and Weiss began preparing a glyph. "You might want to turn around!"

"Yang, remember that time when I found out your secret stash of naked guy pictures?" Ruby asked innocently, causing the blond to sputter and blush.

"R-Ruby! You shouldn't have seen that! I don't know how you found it, but I'm certain Crescent Rose did not tell you!"

"Hey, everyone has different Semblances! Hell, I'm immortal! Who's to say Ruby can't speak to her own weapon?!" Jaune interjected.

"Guys!?" Blake tried to warn them once more, before a massive burst of feathers suddenly rained down upon the group once more. Feathers landed all about, most everyone dodging them, leaping out of the way or in Pyrrha and Weiss' case, blocking them with shield and glyph. The massive feathers slammed down inches from Yang, causing her to stop mid-sentence with a scream of shock. Ruby barely managed to not get hit, only receiving a graze to her combat skirt and-

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Jaune gave a gargling cry of surprise as he proceeded to sprout another massive black feather out his back and looked up to see Yang horrified once more. With a sigh, he managed to bring up enough breath to speak up once more, spouting his usual line. "Oh for fuck's sake." And died.

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