Jaune Arc: Fate System

Chapter 9: Initiation

It was still dark out when the first student woke up.

Jaune was the first one to wake up, thanks to his personal alarm clock, Ananke.

[Good morning Jaune! It's already 5:00 am. Time for you to exercise.]

'Good morning to you too Ananke.' He thanked her quietly as he began to fold his sleeping bag and perform stretches. As he was doing this, he looked around the room and wasn't surprised to see everyone still sleeping soundly. He smiled slightly, seeing how peaceful all of them looked while sleeping. He attributed this due to them still being students and lacked experience when it came to the cruel reality of being a huntsman.

Although he did notice that Blake is more alert than the others. He summarised that she had seen and done things that weighed heavily on her mind. Though Jaune wouldn't dive into her secrets, as they were her own and he has his own that he will take to the grave.

Seeing that everyone is still sleeping, Jaune continued stretching, loosening and warming up his muscles. After doing his morning stretches, he went outside the ballroom and went directly to the locker room while using [Presence Concealment]. He wanted to take out both [Azrael] and [Caliburn] out of his [Interspacial Dimension]. After arriving at the locker room, he quickly took out both swords before putting them inside his locker and leaving. He went back inside of the ballroom, to a side that no one is sleeping on. Soon after he began to exercise, starting with push ups, squats and curl ups.

[1000/1000 Push Ups
1000/1000 Squats
1000/1000 Curl Ups]

Even after doing all of that, Jaune was barely sweating, so he repeated all of it again. Soon some of the students began to wake up and were amazed to see a shirtless Jaune doing some squats. If Jaune in a tank top was enough to shock them into silence, then a shirtless Jaune was enough to wake them up completely. With some of the girls and boys even taking pictures. Jaune didn't mind, as long as they don't antagonize him and continued on with his exercises.

After doing his excercises, Jaune went to the bathroom to brush his teeth and clean himself up.

After that, he went to the cafeteria and saw that there were already several students that were eating. Jaune even saw two interesting students, one was quietly eating his breakfast while the other one was talking about being on the same team and bribing the headmaster while having a pancake hanging from her mouth. Jaune smiled slightly, curious to see what kind of interesting people gathered at Beacon. Jaune looked over the counter to see what food there are was ecstatic when he saw dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets. He quickly grabbed a plate, taking a large amount of nuggets and dashing to a table. The students near him didn't even register what happened, and only saw a blur whip around them. They only saw Jaune sitting on a once empty table.

Jaune was about to throw a chicken nugget into his mouth when he saw Ruby, Weiss, Yang, and Pyrrha walk into the cafeteria.

Jaune looked behind them but saw that Blake was nowhere to be found. Jaune thought that she was still uncomfortable with new people, and he deduced that she was a loner, probably stemming from guilt or breach of trust. But Jaune wouldn't talk about it if she doesn't.

Jaune waved to the girls who walked over after getting their breakfast.

"Good morning!" Jaune greeted them with a smile, and he was greeted by several 'good mornings' as well.

The girls and several other students were gobsmacked by the amount of dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets on his tray. It was enough to form a small mountain of chicken nuggets.

"Hey Jaune, can you finish all of that chicken nuggets?" Asked Pyrrha slowly while eyeing the small mountain of food. With Yang and Weiss still surprised by the amount Jaune took with him. Ruby on the other hand was looking at Jaune like she found a kindred spirit. She was ecstatic to find out that Jaune was like her when it comes to their favorite food, with nuggets for Jaune and cookies for her.