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Chapter 1: A new start

Jaune was nervous. He stood at a new start in his life. Here he was standing outside of one of the world's best academy's. If his mother and father was looking down at him from Heaven, he liked to think they would be proud, his sister were. He took a breath in and gazed a bit more at his surroundings.

Beacon Academy was more than just a hunter training school, it was a large fortress that protected the kingdom of Vale and sign of humanity's solidarity to never give in to the dark. The kingdom of Vale was for the most part surrounded by mountains and that the grimm never could climb. With the cities back protected its front was guarded by Beacon. The school, located on just the city outskirts allowed for easy travel for the students to go into town on their time off.

The front of the school itself was designed for war ironically after the great war ended over eighty years ago. Large gun platforms decorated the sided of the building. Smaller guns were placed by the roof for the annoying flying Grimm. These guns were not made to fight man but to fight the creatures of the darkness.

Outside the school, itself large forests were filled with such creatures. Since the kingdom and school were so cut off from the rest of the world ether by the mountains or seemingly unending hordes for Grimm, air travel was about the only way people came to and from the kingdom.

The school itself was large. Its halls were white, but looked rather ominous and bleak with the cloudy weather. A large fountain decorated the front yard along with short green grass.

Jaune looked up at the sky as rain started to hit his face. It was a soft gentle rain, but other students rushed to get inside. He liked the rain himself. Days like this made him think of his parents. They were staying in a village close to the kingdom of Mistral when bandits attacked, naturally people started to panic and that drew the Grimm into the conflict as well. Eventually the village known as Shion was lost along with his parents.

With no other family that he knew of to take Jaune in living alone with his seven older sisters. Fortunately, they were also badass hunters who kicked ass and took names. After the incident, his sisters helped train him until he got into Signal Academy. His sister became his world, despite how they were gone so often on missions.

Jaune himself was the youngest, the second youngest was Alice. She only a year older than him and she looked more like his twin than anything, except for her longer hair. She used a similar shield to Jaunes but instead of a crescent moon, there was a gold star on it. She had stayed with him the most until recently when she decided to go to Shade Academy and can help out one of their sisters on the side.

Then there was the twins Rosetta and Rose. Who were both in Atlas, not only did they graduate from Atlas Academy but they were now serving in the Atlesian military's Special Operatives unit

Aqua was the next sister in the pecking order. She was working in the kingdom of Vacuo with the part time help of Alice.

Next came Monica, followed by Sara, and then Alexis. Those three were currently in Mistral tracking down the bandits who killed their family, and dealing with the Grimm, whose presence had increased there as of late.

His mind started to shift to his time in Signal Academy. He had a lot of good times there, he had made a good friend named Ruby Rose. She was attending Beacon now too, but so far he hadn't seen her yet. Then there were the bad times… A lot of them. Ruby's cousin Yang hadn't made his life easy there. Yang herself had a very outgoing personality along with how attractive she was and how strong she was in combat, she was incredibly popular.

Yang's popular friends were not the best sort of crowed ether. While never bothering her dear cousin Ruby, she made it her goal to bug him. "Bug" was putting it lightly, depending on Yang's mood, it was light teasing at best and full on bullying at worst. Ruby of course stood up for him and thus, he could sense a growing rift between the two cousins.

As someone who had lost his parent's and loved his sister so dearly, he hated to see family drift apart, especially if it was because of him. So, he started to distance himself from Ruby. He did it subtly at first until he barely spoke to his former friend. Yang's torment didn't stop, but at least Ruby didn't have to see it and fight with her cousin.

As much as he missed Ruby, he figured this was for the best. It was sad since the two were like peas in a pot. They were both dorky and awkward at times and as such found comfort in one another presence. Ruby like Yang however, was incredibly powerful, where Yang had strength, Ruby was a speed demon. She also like her cousin wasn't lacking in the looks department by any means. He had seen more than his fair share of guys be politely shot down by the young Rose. Partly due to Ruby's social awkwardness and part because she knew they were just jerkoffs who wanted to get into her skirt.

After he and Ruby drifted apart for about a year, he noticed she wasn't in class one day. He had asked their teacher Qrow, who also happened to be Ruby's father what had happened. He found out that Ruby was in the hospital following an encounter with a pack of beowolf's had lost one of her eyes. She would pull through and survive but wouldn't be back in class for a while. After school, not caring about keep distance any longer rushed to see her.

When he got there, he had expected Ruby to ask him why he was there or to tell him to get out for not really being friends anymore. She did none of these things.

Instead, she greeted him with joy and remarked, if getting sent to the hospital from losing an eye and a ton of blood she would have done it sooner if it meant they could spend time together again. That had been one of the saddest thing he had ever heard since he found out his parents had died.

He and Ruby had talked for what seemed like hours, catching up on the past year, and him apologizing for seemingly ditching her. He explained his reasoning about not wanting to cause conflict between her and her cousin. Ruby's only remark was about how she didn't care about that and just wanted to be best friends forever again. He obviously agreed.

After that incident, Yang, hadn't really bothered him as much if at all. He wasn't sure why, but he was glad for it. He just tried to stay out of the blonde girl's way as much as possible and planned to do the same here when he found out she was going to Beacon as well.

After a soft sigh, Jaune Arc made his way to the auditorium and the opening ceremony that was set to start any minute now. He knew a new chapter in his life had started, but was unsure if it would be a good or bad one.

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Somewhere in Mistral

The three Arc sisters were knee deep in rubble. Their blades bloodied from a skirmish with Grimm in some outlying village. They didn't make it right away when then they heard the village was under attack. But got there as quick as possible and attempted to save as many lives as possible. Thankfully the village militia could fend off most of the creatures, but shortly after they got there, things got out of control.

"Well, at least the Grimm have stopped for now." Monica remarked to her sisters. Her long blonde hair was in a mess. Her even longer sword was red with blood, not all of it the Grimm's. She looked like a knight without a shield. Her silver armor now worn out from the constant battles.

"I am glad most of the villagers are okay, but I want to get back to bandit killing." Sara, complained. Her hair was rather short compared to Monica's. Her blades were too. She wore leather instead of the plate and was more of a speedy assassin.

"As much as I want justice for mom and dad. We don't even know where any other bandit hideouts are in this region." Alexis stated. She had hair like Monica's but a katana was her tool for killing.

The three sighed. They hoped to hear from their sisters in Atlas soon. Rosetta and Rose were on an important mission for the Arc cause now and it would take even those two bookworms time. But if all went according to plan they would have the location of every bandit hideout the Atlesian records had to offer and more. Some might consider what they were doing wrong but, that didn't matter. It was all for the greater good of the world, and avenging mom and dad.

All the Arc's except Jaune were united. Sure, they were separated across the world, but they were some of the strongest huntsmen this world had to offer. They took comfort in knowing their baby brother was at Beacon training to become stronger under Ozpins guidance.

With Jaune safe, or at least safe as someone along with a bunch of other strong huntsmen fighting on the border against the Grimm could be, the girls were free to pursue their own agenda. Not even Salem, the kingdoms, or Ozpin would stand in their way.

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Beacon Academy

Jaune was standing alone in the large room waiting for the Headmaster's speech to begin. He saw tons of students in their own little groups chatting away, except for a few other lone wolfs lingering about. He even saw Yang, but made the effort to avoid her. He had given up on finding Ruby in the crowd so he just sat back and relaxed.

A pair of hands wrapped around his eyes, blackening his vision.

"What the hell?"

The blonde heard a soft giggle come from behind him and he turned to see his lost friend.

"Ruby?"

The girl in front of him was indeed her. Her little prank had caused his heart to beat a bit faster. He noticed she was as beautiful as he remembered her.

She was sporting a white high-neck décolletage blouse with an overbust corset and a black and red skirt. She wore thigh-high stockings reaching to a few inches below the hem of skirt having a few rips in them. They were decorated with an image of a long-stemmed rose. She also had on red-soled black boots and noticed how they had four straps and buckles each. Her cape also had tears in it from battle. Her hair black at the base, but was red at the tips.

"Ruby.." Jaune started." It's been a while."

Ruby smiled. "Ya it has. I missed you and am so glad we can study and fight together here."

Jaune had noticed something else. She was wearing a crimson red eyepatch where her left eye used to be. With the symbol of a black rose head engraved on it. She looked not only cute but like a bad ass in his eyes.

"Ya, I am excited too. I just I'm not put on the same team as your sister. No offense."

Ruby drifted her gaze. "Ya.. About that…" Before she could finish, the tapping of a microphone could be heard. The opening speech was about to start.

AN: Well, here is the start to my third story. In this AU Ruby is the daughter of Qrow and Summer who is still alive. Yang is still the daughter of Taiyang and Raven. Raven, however is still gone and missing being the excellent mother she is. Ruby and Yang are also the same age which is 19 in my older AU story.

I hope you enjoyed it and if you find any typos I may have missed, I appreciate anyone who points them out so I can correct them. Thank you!

Also an update for Inverted should be coming soon. Hopefully by the end of the week.