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The Makings of a Hero

"Hey, Jaune?"

"Yeah, Ruby?"

"It's just... Back when you were fighting off those Jabberwalkers, your fighting style was kinda... different."

"I thought so, too." Weiss added. "In fact, it seems like your time here has changed you a lot more than any of us expected."

"Assuming any of us could have expected you'd be here with us." Blake amended.

"Or how some of us would think of you in a new way~." Yang teased.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Weiss replied, looking away from Yang.

"Well, I didn't exactly travel alone." Jaune answered. "I've been here a long time. So long that I had no choice to keep growing and learning. I owe a lot of it to my mentor."

"Your mentor?" Yang asked. "You had a mentor down here?"

"Was he another fairy tale character?" Blake asked with almost too much excitement.

"WAS HE?!" Weiss added with way too much excitement.

"Whoa! Whoa!" Jaune held up his hands defensively. "In order; yes, I did; I think so, but I don't remember which one; and Weiss, you need to calm down." Almost everyone laughed at this interaction. The only ones who didn't were Weiss, face flushed with embarrassment, and Ruby, who'd been mostly quiet the whole time.

"What was your mentor like?" Ruby spoke up.

"He was... quiet." Jaune said. "He wore golden armor and wielded a sword and a sort of magic marker."

"A magic marker?" Yang asked.

"I don't remember him."

"I do." Weiss answered. "He's not very well known, and most fairy tales don't feature him because he doesn't really do much as far as fairy tale characters go. He just sort of... fights people and doesn't say a word."

"That makes sense why he isn't popular, then." Blake surmised. "A lot of what makes fairy tales so memorable is their dialogue, and if there's no dialogue, it won't have memorable moments for people to latch onto an learn lessons from."

"Did he talk to you?" Yang asked Jaune.

"No, he didn't." He said. "Most of what he did was making hand gestures... That and grabbing his sword when it was time to spar." He chuckled. "And we sparred a lot."

"Did you see his memories, and he yours?"

"Yeah." Jaune answered, a little unnerved. "Was that in the fairy tales?"

"It was." Weiss nodded. "It was my grandfather's favorite story, but I never understood why. I only saw it as a person with a kind heart in armor."

"My guess was that he was just a guy who believed actions spoke louder than words and took that to heart." Jaune said.

"Maybe he got tired of talking." Ruby said softly. If anyone heard her, they didn't show it.

"We should stop here for the night." Jaune pulled back on Juniper's fur. With a grunt, she stopped in her tracks. Jaune hopped down. "Alright, I'll get some wood for the fire."

"What should we do?"

"There's some tent supplies under Juniper's saddle." He explained. "It makes the riding easier for her and for me."

"Riding, huh?" Yang smirked. "Maybe you could give Ice Queen a few pointers~?"

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