Completely skipping around stories for how I feel. Deal with it.

Start- Rose/Xiao Long residence- 10 years before Beacon Academy

Ruby, Yang, and their father, Taiyang, were sitting at their dining room table eating breakfast. All was peaceful, little small talk was passed around occasionally, until there was a noise outside. Glancing at each other they decided to go outside to investigate. What they found was completely unexpected, well some of it at least.

What was somewhat normal would be the grimm, as they passed through every now and again, even if this group was abnormally large. The surprising part would be that fighting the grimm was a boy about as old as Yang, 8 at the time, and fighting with a large 7 and a half foot tall war hammer.

The hammer had a silver handle with a black carbon fiber handle that covered about 1 foot of the handle from the bottom. The hammer head itself was 1 foot and a quarter tall in the middle, 7 inches wide, and 2 and a half feet long. It had a silver metal plate, presumably titanium, at the head of the hammer covering the entire head and stretching about 2 inches back. The rest of the head was crimson blood red.

The boy was swinging the hammer around like it was nothing, even though it looked to be at least 400 lbs. He swung the hammer over top his head and into the head of a Boarbatusk completely crushing its skull and splashing its brain bits, skull fragments, and lots of blood over the ground. He then stopped the hammer dead in its tracks, turned it around and smashed it into the head of an oncoming Beowulf, killing it instantly.

This went on for a while, including the decimation of some Ursa, the most impressive of which was smashing an Ursa in the stomach and sending it through a pack of Beowulfs. When there was only a few stragglers left, who were retreating, a strong gust of wind hit. Looking up everyone saw a fully grown and old Nevermore, it was titanic in size.

The Nevermore had bone plating everywhere but the joints, even the feathers were bone plated. This earned a scared look from Yang, a horrified look from Ruby, and a worried face from Taiyang. The only calm one would be the boy, who had a completely impassive face. The family started to slowly back up as the Nevermore pulled its wings back to fire feathers.

As soon as it fired the feathers the family stopped frozen in fear, not for themselves, but for the boy as that's where the Nevermore fired. When the feather were about to hit the boy he just caught them, and tossed them away. This surprised and comforted the family as they didn't have to see the death of such a young person.

The boy retaliated by spinning his hammer in the air, where the handle receded back into the hammer head and came out the back of the hammer head. He then put the blood soaked titanium plate to his shoulder and aimed the end of the handle at the bird. He pushed forward what looked to be a bolt to load some ammo, though the bolt didn't come out the back of the gun, it just slid a compartment open to put ammo in. The ammo he pulled out was massive, it looked more like it belonged in a tank than in a sniper rife like design.

He pushed the round in and pulled the bolt back, re-aiming at the Nevermore, and getting into a kneeling position. He stilled and slowly pulled the trigger back. When the gun fired it didn't sound like a normal loud bang, more like lightning just struck right next to you. There was a bright muzzle flash, but it looked like he kept the kickback to a minimum as it barely moved any. But when the round struck the Nevermore it just tore through the bone plating and ripped off one of the Nevermore's wings in the process.

The bird cawed in absolute terror and pain. But before anyone could notice, the boy had reloaded and fired again. There was the same flash and huge bang, then the Nevermore fell out of the sky with a hole through the side of its head. Silence reined over all, as the family just stared at the boy.

The boy slowly stood, ejected the round casing, and collapsed his sniper-hammer mix into a small case smaller then a brief case, and hooked it to the small of his back.

Taiyang was the first out of his shock and ran to the child to see if he was okay. When he arrived the boy just gave him a small bow and introduced himself.

"Dreadfully sorry for the disturbance to whatever you may have been doing, my name is Jaune." The boy- Jaune -said respectfully, and surprisingly with a British accent (Why the fuck not?).

"It's no problem, just wanted to make sure you're okay. Oh! My names Taiyang, just call me Tai, the blond over there is Yang, and the little girl in red is Ruby." Tai responded casually.

Jaune waved off his concern for his well being saying he was fine, though he outright refused to call Taiyang 'Tai'.

"How about you join us for lunch, as it is around that time." Tai offered.

"I would hate to intrude on your family, I will be just fine." He was going to walk away until he felt a slight tug on his shirt. When he looked back, it looked as if Yang was trying to drag him back to her house. Keyword being try, as she was getting nowhere but digging a small hole with her feet.

"May you kindly let go of my shirt, it is new." Jaune said as he softly detached Yang's hand from his shirt. She gave him a challenging look, trying to see if she could drag him to her house. Giving up Yang just said.

"Why not join us for lunch, you won't be a bother, come on." as she started to tug on his shirt again. Jaune just sent a questioning look to Tai, and Tai just shook his head and waved him over.

Sighing, Jaune walked over to Tai, on his way towards the house Yang had jumped on his back, although he didn't seem to notice or wasn't bothered.

When everyone was in the dining room Tai made to get up, but Jaune stopped him saying.

"If I am to be here I can at least make food for everyone." Then made his way to the kitchen. Everyone glanced at each other for the second time that day.

Jaune returned about 5 minutes later with two plates full of sandwiches, each plate with about 10 sandwiches. When he set the plates down he gestured for them to grab some, which Yang did almost immediately.

When she took her first tentative bite her eyes widened and then she ate about 7 more sandwiches before Tai had stopped her, to which she pouted. Ruby had the same reaction until there was just 3 sandwiches left, to which Jaune only took one and pushed the rest to Tai. Jaune ate his rather quickly but he ate the entire thing silently and ate the entire thing with what looked like manners. Tai just inhaled his two sandwiches and smiled at Jaune.

"Where did you learn to cook like that Jaune?" Yang asked in awe at Jaune's cooking prowess.

At that question Jaune's eyes darkened a little and his face hardened. He just sighed and set his head in his hands. He looked to them with a somber look and started to speak in a slightly sad voice.

"I leaned to cook like that when I was working at some high class restaurants. After I had some money to make my weapon I left, fell of the grid, I was living in the forest between Vale and Vacuo," This earned gasps from everyone but Tai, "This was one of the few rare occasions I had needed to go into a kingdom to get some ammo, dust, and medical supplies that I can't gather in the forest." This pulled Yang to ask a question that was eating at everyone's minds.

"Why were you living in the Grimm infested forest?" This just caused Jaune to sigh again.

"Well I originally lived with my family on an island off Mantle." His expression darkened a bit more, but continued nonetheless, "I was on a hunting trip with my father on Menagerie, as it is an undeveloped continent there is older Grimm living there, so there is better hunting. But while I was tracking down a Nevermore I had shot down by a cliff, my father decided to push me into the ravine." More gasps form Ruby and Yang, and Tia's face darkened, "I only survived because of my Aura, which I had to force to unlock at the moment. When I landed at the bottom of the ravine, there was darkness, only the light of the sun that could pass through led me." Jaune sighed and seemed to age right in front of them, his eyes holding deep sorrow that no 8 year old should have to bear.

"It took me a week to get out of the ravine, as it led to a beach. I was on Menagerie for about 2 months, in the first 2 weeks I learned what happens when one eats Grimm meat.", this seemed to gross out Ruby and Yang but caught the attention of Tai,"Stomach acid is made mostly of hydrochloric acid, which naturally slows the rate at which Grimm meat dissolves. But it doesn't stop it from dissolving, and when there is enough gas from the dissolved Grimm it's molecules attach to the hydrochloric acid molecules and turn is gaseous. Your stomach lining is made to resist the acid, but esophagus not made for acid." This is when Tai also gasped with the girls.

"The hydrochloric gas will spread up your esophagus burning away whatever lining there was until it reaches your mouth. By this time your esophagus is already mostly gone, it will be about the thickness of paper. When it reaches your mouth it will burn away at your tongue, bottom and roof of your mouth. When you breath in it will travel down your trachea and into your lungs which is where it will condensate back into hydrochloric acid and be soaked into your bloodstream."More gasps "With it in your bloodstream it will burn all of your veins to paper consistency, completely disintegrate your capillaries, and expand your arteries, making you lose blood pressure. With an extreme loss of blood pressure there is also the acid that had burned away the muscle in your heart to almost nothing, most of your blood will travel to your legs or wherever the lowest part of your body is." Jaune sighed for his fourth/fifth time that day.

"What I did to survive was very ignorant of myself and any who try it, but desperation does many things to your thought processes." After a brief pause Jaune spoke again. "I was desperate so I decided to go for broke and injected some dust into my bloodstream, more specifically lightning, and water." Another brief pause. "I wouldn't recommend recreating what I did for safety's sake. The water dust cleansed my system of the acid as the lightning dust got some failing organs back to life, such as my heart. All of it was very excruciating to go through and had some unexpected effects."

"Such as?" Tai finally spoke.

"Such as my blood being 50 percent dust of all kinds, and as such my body naturally producing dust to fill my blood. I am resistant to burns, electrocutions, drowning, and am neutrally buoyant(Means you can't sink or float up, you just sit where you are in the water). I can also control electricity if it is introduced into my body." They just stare at him in shock, before Ruby speaks for the first time.

"How did you get back, or get to Vytal?"

"I swam home to see that my family was perfectly contempt without me so I left. I got a bullhead ride to Vacuo first but I didn't appreciate the culture so I just left and made a home in the forest." Was Jaune's simple answer.

"Do you have a family Jaune, such as anyone you keep in contact with or you hold close?" Tai asked seriously. At which Jaune just shook his head 'no'.

"What is or was your last name Jaune?" Tai asked again. Jaune just said one word that made Tai go into rage he hadn't felt for a very long time.

"Arc"

End Chapter 1

Well here you go, this should be posted a bit more than my other stories. Review to give me ideas for future chapters.

-Baothghalach