chapter 13

It's been a week since he got the blood origin fruit,his parents had decided to go back to vale, His mom to supervise the girls training ,while his father told him he got something to take care og and will come back shortly.

right now ,Jaune was training the second stage of his Nine Stage Thunder Blade in the mountain behind the mansion.

'If I master this stage I would have a force exertion of 210% of my original.'

While he was practicing his sword technique , he heard the sound of battle coming just some tens of meters of distance from him.

'I wonder if the blood origin fruit branch is hunting some grimm who got close to the mansion range again…' Jaune thought to himself.

Jaune still remember that day a week ago when he suggested to his parents to plant the branch in the garden of the mansion, his father was quick to refuse saying thing about he refuses letting some demonic plant close to his family members, while his mother wasn't exactly against it, in the end it was decided it would be planted in the mountain where Jaune train his Minor Illuminating Breathing Technique every morning.

things were going alright the first two days, till somehow his father stumbled upon the plant fasting on some unlucky grimm that was passing.His father was so frightened that he decided we should burn it right then and there it, all Jaune's mother and himself to get the man to stop.

After some monitoring, It turn out the plant was sucking all the blood from the local animales or grimm that came close, strangely enough it absorbed grimm completely and not just it's blood.

Jaune even tried using his semblance on the plant before, on to no one surprise the plant loved his semblance amplified aura, and it becoming more mild and temperate than before was an unexpected boon.

Going to see what's happening he begun hearing voice which made him speed up to to his destination.

"Out of the way Ren, let me kill it with fire"an excited voice ,which only made have a sinking feeling in his stomach ,was heard, now he was running with his semblance active.

"I can't Nora, It's branches are really strong , it's like they're made with iron" responded a male's voice.

"Hold'on Ren , I'm coming to save you"said another girl , as she tried to attack the plant with her sword , only to be cut off when an object slams in front of her, which made her jump away, waiting for the dust settle , while redying her weapon for a fight if it's necessary.

"STOOOP" Came Jaune Loud voice which made all the three occupant ,and the plant , look at him.Jaune immediately walked to the plant and started pouring his amplified aura on it , it immediatly let go of ren who went besides his two teammates who decided to watch the show , not even a minute latter , went back to it's place between some bushes and hide there.

Jaune could only think his lucky star that the plant decided to play with it food and didn't go for the kill, he still remember how It had killed a death stalker in front of him once , and all it took for it is seconds, it's branches moved with such speed that he couldn't even track them, and they were so hard and sharp that the death stalkers plate armor didn't even manage to slow it's strikes down.Letting out a breath Jaune finally stared at the three teenagers in front of him.

'They are too young to be huntsmans, Huntsman in training then'looking all over the three of them for a few seconds he finally decided to speak.

"You know it's clearly stated on the danger signs all over this that there is, 'a man eating plant here do not come close' , right ?"he asked the three of them , his father himself put the signs there, so that if any unlucky huntsman came close he or she should change they way.

The boy and the long red headed one seem blush in shame at that, while the last girl just laughed,before the long red haired one went in front of the group and begun talking.

"I'm sorry for the trouble we caused, Its just when we saw the sign we thought it was some kind of grimm that was endangering people , so we came to hunt it down"

'more like feed yourself to it ' Jaune taught to himself before looking at the three of them and saying.

"You know, I appreciate your courage, and will to help others, but you gotta understand , that if you see signs like this" Jaune said gesturing at a danger sign nearby, " ' THIS FAR ' in the grim territory , it means it's a danger to huntsman in general, let's not even begin talking about huntsman in training, comon guys these are the basics".He said looking at them, the long red headed one was looking more ashamed by the seconds ,her face was already the same colour as here head, this time even the other girl seemed sheepish , while the stoic boy expression seemed to break as well.

"Now now ,don't be too embarrassed about it all the people make mistakes, as my father always tells me 'A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.'( Author note :Read more: https://www.wiseoldsayings.com/learning-from-mistakes-quotes/#ixzz6Pv2dO8Rt). Anyway my names Jaune Arc , it's a pleasure meeting you." having had enough ,Jaune finally stopped talking about the plant accident and begun introducing himself.

"Nice to meet you too, I am Pyrrha Nikos ,and these two are my teammates Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie , It's nice meeting you too Jaune"Pyrrha said while seeing Jaune not recognizing her,she was quite happy to see the young man in front her not recognizing her as she didn't really have any friends aside from Ren and Nora, 'maybe this mission didn't turn so bad after all thought, Pyrrha to herself , while Ren and Nora were giving their own greeting.

" Wow that was amazing Jaune, you just came flying from space , and then saved Ren using that white aura thingy, Just like a superhero . Hey was that your semblance ? tell me , TELL ME."The bubbly girls , Nora, said as she all but throw herself at Jaune and begin asking question after question.

The stoic looking guy, Ren, came and get her of him while silently offering a silent apology to Jaune , who just nodded his to the teen while giving him a sympathetic look.

"So guys, what are you doing in a place as far as this" Asked Jaune , as they are really quite far from Vale.

"Well you see Jaune, We were doing our first Year mission to hunt some grimm some miles away from here, but somehow the bullhead hadn't come back for us , so after a day of waiting we decided to go back on our foots"Said pyrrha clearly displeased that the bullhead had left her and her teammates so far in grimm territories , they were lucky so far they didn't meet a lot of grimms on there way back or they would have died.

Jaune too frowned at that, He stared at them and they clearly looked tired and disheveled .His mind going back to what his father has told him that night when he met his family at Vale, 'It can't be.. ; or can it ?'.

"Well you don't have to think much about it now , you can come with me if you want , I know a place where you can stay for the night, and I'll help you back to going to vale , I'm used to going back and forth from there" Jaune offered them help seeing the situation they were in, ' There is nothing wrong in helping those in need after all'.

" Really Jaune ? thank you ,we're really tired of journey and a place to stay would be really nice" Said Pyrrha ,while Ren smiled and Nora cheered as he guided the to the mansion.

"No need to thank me Pyrrha, As mom always said ' Strangers are just friends you haven't met yet.', and I like to think of us as friends , that's if you didn't mind of course." said Jaune as he looked at them.

"Of course not Jaune , I would love to be friends""We can be best buds""the more the merrier"Said Pyrrha , Nora and Ren respectively, as they really want to have more friends seeing apart from their own teammates.

"That's great than, If you don't mind , can I ask why you guys have only three members at a team, I 'm pretty sure it was supposed to be four."asked Jaune , and he was happy to see none of them looked bothered by it , so it safe to say they didn't lose any teammates.

"Not really Jaune,it seems that they weren't many applicants this year at beacon so, We just weren't lucky enough to get a fourth member..""Unlucky ? I say we were pretty much lucky, I mean imagine being in a team with Cardin, I don't know if I could have had him as a teammate without breaking his legs"Responded Pyrrha only for Nora to cut her off with Ren nodding besides her. Jaune sweat dropped at that , It looks like Nora and Ren really hate this Carden dude.

"Anyway guys looks like we made it here"he says gesturing at the Mansion in front of him before going inside ,While he failed to see the nostalgic yet pained look that Ren had on his face, before Nora hugged him before following both Jaune and pyrrha.