The Quest for Greatness

by Reaverstar125d7

Many say that in the pursuit of greatness much is lost, it is true that in any pursuit something will be lost, however some things shall be gained alongside this loss, be it friends, lovers, enemies, or even what you were pursuing, this is a story about loss of much and the gain of little. (Re-doing the entire thing from the ground up due to being unsatisfied with it as a whole.)

1. Chapter 1

AN: First Terrible forray into fanfiction, as I pretty much only read, obviously this will be terrible. I will continue this story until I feel it's finished or until I have improved enough to rework it into something good.

Without further stalling here we go.

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This story begins on the day Jaune begins his fateful trip to Beacon, the premier school for huntsman and huntresses. A journey such as this would take preparation, planning, resources, and after many a year of painstaking effort, the journey begins, and finally a dream realized, whether it will be good or bad has yet to be seen.

The trip from Jaune's home village of Forsetholm was realitively peaceful, a few incidents here and there but such is the life of the traveler, arrival in settlements and finally Vale was met with mounting dread on his part, the settlements being less defended than his home and the city being bigger than what he expected, which brought thoughts of terrible consequences of lapses of control. Jaune was not like his family, not happy, not a hero, and held no aspiration for heroism, instead of going to Beacon for the chance to be a hero like his family believed, he instead is going to get a well paying job for someone with needed and necassary skills, which he had in spades.

For all of his life he had lived in the shadow of his older siblings, they were all great, they were all someone, he was seen as nought but the male heir, the boy to be protected and coddled, denied the chance for greatness, this has left him bitter, but the defining trait of this young man was simply that he was broken, not in the sense of pure insanity, rambling, mad voices in his head, no, this broken personality stems from lack of that something that makes you 'normal' in the eyes of all of humanity, a simply lack of care for the plight of others, but hidden under a 'loving' facade, his family were non the wiser and thus they still believe him to be 'Jaune the loving little brother'.

The arrival to Vale was fairly normal all things considered, a small wait at the gates and then passage in, what Jaune needed now was information, and thanks to a contact in Vale he knew just who to talk to, Hei 'Junior' Xiong owner of Vale's most prominent club, as well as information broker for seedier people, and thus with goal in mind and entrance gained, Jaune set out to begin his quest for greatness.

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AN: If ya like it tell me, if ya hate it tell me, all critizism is welcome.