4Takes place the night Jaune is training to the video Pyrrha had left for him and after Ruby returns and goes to sleep after she found Jaune doing said training,Jaune monologues the words to a song he's been listening to since the day Beacon fell but the appearance of the spirit of a certain red headed Guardian angel gives him new hope for life as well as strength to go on which greatly empowers him.
Jaune kneels down by his scroll and stops the video taking a deep breath while looking at the frozen image of Pyrrha Nikos,his late partner on the scroll screen and sighs,he knew Ruby had discovered his mental self torture he calls training,he can't help but feel like a jerk for this secret nightly ritual when Ren,Nora and Ruby are grieving too,he misses her,tears sting his eyes and then cascade down his face.
Monologue starts
(Safe In Numbers - Clear The Sky)
Staring back at my own life
Is making memories come to
life
Its hopeless and i wanna
give up
But there's a part of me i
cant trust.
I'm lying here all alone
And i'm bleeding but you
wouldn't know
You left me completely used
A part of me hopeless and a
part of me still confused.
Its been raining inside of my
head so long
And i'm breaking down but
you don't know
And i hope that one day we'll
find
A way to clear the sky
So the sun can shine.
Let me live or let me go
I'm searching for answers
unknown to us all
So faithful yet so full of pain
A part of me greatful for seeing another day.
Cuz i've found now a million ways to fall
I just hope that i can learn from them all and grow
But there's something steadily pulling me down
Its time to give up and drown
Or bring some motion to the sound.
I'm clearing and washing away.
Monologue ends
"You know I never really left you."
The sudden sound of the voice he's only heard on his scroll ever since Beacon fell startles him and it's not on the screen.
"What the hell?!"
He asks abruptly as he whirls around in shock only to meet the gently smiling face of Pyrrha nikos staring right back at him softly in all her ghostly glory wearing a fluffy white robe that went down to her feet,Jaune gives pause with his eyes wide feeling goosebumps crawl up his skin,his arm,leg and neck hairs standing on end,his heart clenches tightly at seeing her again and he whispers her name.
"I may be dead but that did not mean I would go on ahead into the afterlife without saying goodbye to you properly."
She says walking forward calmly towards him and proceeds to softly place her ghostly hand right onto his right shoulder.
"Pyrrha,is that you for real? Or am I hallucinating? A ghost of someone being grieved only appears in fiction."
He asks hesitantly placing his hand atop her ghostly hand that is resting on his shoulder,his eyes blur with tears again.
"Yeah it's me,I couldn't rest in peace knowing that you torture yourself every night with this video I recorded for you."
She says,she pulls him into a tight hug despite it logically being that ghosts can't hug any person who is fully alive.
"I miss you so much tho,I freaking love you and it hurts so much knowing that no matter what I do you're dead!"
He says loudly through his tears as he's gasping for air and he follows it up with involuntary sobs ripping into his body.
"I know,I am sorry,I love you too,as dead though I may be,you gotta stop hurting yourself like this,our team needs you."
She says to make sure that he survived and the only way that she could do so is to let him know her death isn't his fault.
"Alright then Pyrrha,I promise I will pull myself together and keep them all safe and an Arc never goes back on his word."
He says feeling powerful resolve burning straight into his being and making him want to try much harder.
"Good now I suggest you sit down I will sit next to you because for some reason even though I'm a ghost I can sit too."
She says softly guiding Jaune to sit on the tree stump and making sure to keep on hugging him.
"I realised Ruby was watching me train just now,she must have heard your voice instructions on my scroll."
Jaune said feeling annoyed at himself for having acted as if he hadn't noticed Ruby watching as he tortured himself.
"I may or may not have been calling your name in her sleep to get her to look for you,I wanted her to come comfort you."
Pyrrha could tell that Jaune would be surprised at her reply when she thought of what she just said before she said it.
"Heh,guess even in death you continue to help this guy,still,I am sorry for not being able to prevent the end of your life"
Jaune said chuckling at the first part of his sentence and choking a sorrowful sob back trying to escape at the second part.
"You didn't know that you were giving me advice that'd lead me to perish,I forgive you and I will always watch over you."
She said while pulling him deeper into her heavenly(literally) embrace feeling glad she could hug the knight despite it all.
"Thank you Pyrrha but I hate myself for continually chasing after Weiss when you were all I ever needed,you'd be alive if..."
He admitted easily and was about to finish the sentence when he was cut off quickly by Pyrrha interuppting him.
"Jaune don't you dare finish that sentence,even if you returned my feelings and actually confessed I'd still die."
She said not willing to let Jaune feel as if he was responsible for her death when she'd still have sacrificed herself anyway.
"Alright,it will take a while before I forgive myself but I will get better to honor the life that you have lived"
Jaune said relieved that he is being visited by Pyrrha's very soul so that he can pour his whole heart out to her.
"I can tell you what everyone is up to but I also want to tell you that someone among the "good" guys is actually bad."
Pyrrha said wanting to just give Jaune a heads up so that he can know what to expect at Haven Academy.
"Well,I know about Yang being in a seriously depressed state of mind at the unexpected loss of one of her arms."
He replied remembering that Yang looked very out of it doing the brief stay he had on patch.
"That too yeah,Blake has run away feeling extremely guilty at her past biting both herself and Yang in the back"
She felt sympathy for Yang with her strong abandonment issues and Blake with all her mistakes haunting her.
"I can imagen how much that must seriously suck,they are such really great girls yet life ragdolls them at every turn."
He answers knowing how he himself is always just being shook every day by life even as he tries his very best not to.
"Weiss as you already know is being forced by her father to stay in their mansion,she has changed a lot tho."
She said understanding better why the girl was always so harsh,Pyrrha knew the feeling of expectance on her shoulders.
"I can't imagen how it must feel like basically being under house arrest,by the why how'd you know about all this."
Jaune asked curiously,he did understand that nothing was impossible but still he could not understand how Pyrrha knew.
"I am able to check in on the lives of people that I cared about,anyway let's get you to sleep,you'll see me again soon."
Pyrrha answered him but then thought she actually wanted to try something so she placed her ghost lips over his.
Jaune was surprised when he felt Pyrrha's ghostly lips actually press to his gently despite her being only a spirit
Unlike last time tho Jaune pressed his dry lips to her own not refusing as she led him back to the camp and his bed roll.
Cliffhanger unfortunately but hey I will be also writing a second chapter tho for this fanfiction,so stay tuned,later alligators