"..." : normal talk

"(...)" : individual thoughts

*(...)* : mind talk

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The shining bright sun enveloped the foreign world, the sun brought out its shine, warming the heart of the people from the darkness that was hidden in the dark.

Well, that was not the main focus anyway.

Rufus Fletcher was a poor soul from earth, which unknowingly, or unwillingly had been transferred into the body of Jaune Arc, as his aura.

That was right... aura.

Shiny, bubbly light that was like a shield enveloping the body, and Rufus Fletcher was that, got it?

Heck, how he got into this fantasy world was a big, big mystery... not that it bothered him.

Excited? A bit.

Afraid? Who doesn't?

The question was, how did he got here, into this place, which he knew shouldn't exist, logically... since this place was supposed to be a virtual, computer generated animation that served as an entertainment in the digital world at earth.

Died by a truck? Didn't remember. Portal out of nowhere? Nope! Abducted by an unidentified flying object, which had sent him to their home planet that looked the same like the RWBY franchise? Well... that was definitely illogical.

So many possibilities, but he did remember how he had got here, which was good, or so he thought it was good.

He remembered that he was watching the first season of RWBY, which he watched with his laptop, pretty convenient stuff.

But the thing was, RWBY had five volume, which he only had one in his laptop, and it was frustrating!

Watch a YouTube? He would... if he had a wifi, which he didn't by the way.

Since he had watched the latest episode of RWBY first season, his imagination was on fire, but not literally.

And with just a blink of an eye, here he was, at an unknown place, an unknown room, and face to face with an unknown... bunny doll?

"(My bear is more cute than this, though...)" Rufus thought.

But, the most shocking of all was... he could look 360 degrees, which was giving him a headache, since he was not used to this kind of perspective, and it was weird.

Then came the next surprised, as he realized that he didn't have a physical body, no hands, no legs, no nothing!!

And if that was not surprising enough, he knew the body that he was latching on, not that he knew him personally, but he knew that he was supposed to be... not real.

He thought that this was all just a dream, and he would dismissed it all, if not for the fact that he hadn't wake up from this dream for the past ten days.

Since it was like this, he might as well had a talk with Jaune, his host.

*(Jaune Arc... )* Rufus muttered as he looked at thr blonde haired boy.

"...who is it..." Jaune said weakly, still in his sleeping mode.

*(um... Rufus?)*

That was weird... did he just replied?

"...Rufus?..."

"(Who the hell is that?)" Jaune thought as he racked his brain for any oh his friends named Rufus.

There were none... weird...

It was really hard for Jaune to wake up, as his eyelids were still shut tight, just to show how much he was not a morning person.

With great (or lacked) effort, he sat up at the side of his bed, eyes still shut tight as he tried to wake up.

*(...you waking or not?)*

"...just... give me... zzzzz..."

Rufus looked at the lazy boy that had decided to continue his peaceful sleep.

It was not in his nature to disturb someone's sleep, but he needed Jaune's attention for something that he needed to discuss.

*(WAKE UP!!!)" Rufus screamed.

"Alright-alright! Geez..." Jaune said in annoyance.

He swore that he would beat the noisy man... if he could... depending on his body.

Slowly, his eyes were both opened as he tried to look around his room, trying to find Rufus, which he didn't know who he was, but there was not a figure in sight.

"...where are you?..."

*(here?)* Rufus answered.

"I can hear you-" Jaune looked under the bed, "-but I can't see you."

*(yeah... I don't have a body... that's why-hey? You okay?)*

It was priceless, the face that he made, as his mouth went wide, plus his eyes, just like he had saw a ghost, which he was not... maybe.

After the shocked, there was the screaming phase, as Jaune ran out of his room, door shut close with a *thud* as he woke up all of his family members.

"Jaune! What is it, my dear!?" Jaune's mom came out of her bedroom, followed by Jaune's dad, as they moved towards the shaken up boy downstairs.

Soon, the living room downstairs were filled up with Jaunes's sisters that tried to comfort him, as his mom and dad looked at the boy.

"Bad dream?" Jaune's dad asked the boy.

"N-No! This house is haunted! I say, haunted! And his name is Rufus!!"

"So... let me get this straight? The ghost told you his name?"

Jaune nodded, while his dad looked at him.

"And you said, you want to be a huntsman? But you're scared of a ghost!" One of his sister pointed out, trying to deter the decision that he had made before, which all of the Arc family members had rejected.

"Jaune..." one of his sisters said.

*(sorry that I scared you.)* Rufus apologized.

"(even now... they still don't want me to be a huntsman...)" Jaune thought as he looked at his family surrounding him.

They seemed like a cage that allowed him to watch the outside world, while he was safe from the inside.

He knew that they were trying to protect him, but he want to achieve his dream... a huntsman.

Maybe due to his dream being denied by his family, it pained his heart, which managed to overcome the fear from the 'ghost'.

It was his dream to be a huntsman, and Jaune would do anything to be a huntsman, even if he must lied about it.

He didn't have any training, heck, he hadn't touched a weapon before, ever since he was born.

He wanted to be someone that could help the people, to be someone that would be remembered.

*(to be a hero...)*

*(you need training though...)* Rufus replied.

The voice still made him scared, but he managed to hide it, and beside, his family were with him right now.

Jaune looked at his family, and made his mind.

He would go out tonight, and left his home, a big decision, just for the sake of his dream.

Rufus was quiet, since he didn't want to disturb Jaune that was making a big decision, and beside, this was Jaune's family problem, and it would be rude for him to interfere.

And Rufus had his own share of problem.

--New Scene--

In a time lapse, the sun rose up, and then went down into the horizon, the stars filled up the sky, as all of it were protecting the lonely moon in the night.

The time showed it was 1.45 a.m passed

midnight, and Jaune had already packed up his bag.

Looking left to right, he saw that the coast was clear, and made his way towards a room to get his final item.

Since all were asleep, except for Jaune, the surrounding was very, very silent, making the atmosphere a bit... eerie.

Arriving at the destination, he swiftly entered the room, and saw a sword and a shield being put on a wall.

"Crescent Mors..."

Jaune approached the weapon and shield, "The family heirloom..."

He looked at it with pride, and amazement, knowing that his ancestor had contributed in the great war using this two things.

He took the sword, and the shield, which could retract itself into a sheath for the sword, which a "wow" had escaped from his mouth.

"(Okay... so Jaune is planning to go to... a school... why am I here again? And in Jaune's body... )" Rufus thought.

Jaune was now outside his home, and a look of sadness could be seen on his face, but he had decided.

With a one last look, he bid goodbye to his home, and his family.

"Sorry..."

--New Scene--

A day had passed by, since Jaune had left his home.

Jaune was struggling to keep himself sane, because...

*(Jaune!)*

"Why... why are you following me... go home, haunt my sisters or something!?" Jaune said to the voice.

*(I'm not a ghost, you know. Just... listen for a-)*

Jaune cupped both of his ears with his hands.

*(-second... and you think that'll stop me from talking?)*

"A-at least I tried... uh... *sigh*... so... what did you say again?" Jaune said, giving up.

If Rufus had a hand, he would definitely face palm himself, since he had talked to Jaune for so long, and Jaune just didn't try to hear him out.

He sighed, *(Firstly, we should introduce ourselves, since we'll be stuck together, I think... secondly, how about you try to speak with your mind, since you look like a crazy boy, talking to thin air.)*

"Well, thanks to you!"

*(mind talk, please)* Rufus reminded him.

*(like this)*

*(Better. So Jaune. I know this will sound crazy.)*

"(You're existence is kind of crazy enough.)" Jaune spoke his piece.

*(but... I am your aura...)*

And a few seconds silence had ensued before...

*(what's... an aura?)* Jaune questioned back.

Rufus had just realized that Jaune was completely clueless about aura and stuff.

Right..

And so, he decided to explain everything about aura, and who he was before, which took quite some time to explain.

*(...what? Say something will you?)*

Jaune pinched the bridge of his nose, while muttering something about "health issues" and "broken mind" or something.

*(so... you're a human, from a different dimension, that had been put inside me...)* He said in disbelieve.

*(well... *sigh*... I don't know anymore. Let's just forget about the complicated stuff, and think about your admission to Beacon.)* Rufus said.

*(yeah, you're right.)*

*(and would you look at the time, 11.34... you better sleep.)*

*(huh, you too.)* Jaune said back.

Soon, the sound of Jaune snoring could be heard, which annoyed Rufus, and also the fact that he couldn't sleep added in the frustration.

Yes... he, an aura, could not sleep, since he didn't have the need or urged to sleep.

"(Great... now what do I do... in fact, what can I do? It's not like if I said status-)"

--Jaune.Arc--

Jaune's Aura: 500/500

Rufus Fletcher (aura manipulator)

Rufus's Aura: 0

--Jaune.Arc--

An "oh" had escaped from his... mind, since he had no mouth.

Looking at the status, the title 'aura manipulator' had intrigued him, and it sounded cool.

Since the time was there, he did a trial and error, as Jaune was sound asleep, and he did it discreetly.

The most important thing (for him) that he had found was that he could be in his physical form, but in the appearence of Jaune Arc, which was not bad.

At least, he had a physical body, and the process was by taking a bit of Jaune's aura so that he could manifest physically, but the urged to sleep was nil.

Next was the ability to create aura weapons, which was wicked, awesome, splendid, and magnificent.

Now, he was waiting, just sitting in the room in his Jaune's form, with nothing to do.

--New Scene--

Jaune was feeling groggy as he felt someone was shaking his body back and forward, to his annoyance.

Slowly, his eyes tried to adjust to the sunlight that was pouring in from the window, and then he eyed the figure that had woke him up.

And to his shocked, that figure was himself, mouth went agape as he registered the weird sight.

"Surprise? Hehe, what do you think? And look-" An aura sword had manifested onto Rufus hand.

Then Rufus beckoned Jaune to hit the aura blade with his sword, which shattered the aura blade in one hit.

"So... 1 hit destroy 1 aura, huh?" Rufus muttered.

Thinking about the mechanics of aura, Rufus noticed that Jaune was looking at him, obviously with a bunch of questions in hand.

--New Scene--

Jaune walked into a place that seemed very unwelcoming, with the eerie atmosphere it emitted, and also the appearance of a few unfriendly like people on the street.

He could only smile weakly, as he braved himself to meet Junior, a so called club manager.

*(I got your back. Trust me.)*

*(that didn't help...)* Jaune said.

Two large bodyguards were standing at each side of the door of a club, their eyes were looking at Jaune, intimidating him with their fierce gaze.

Jaune gulped, before he forced himself to enter the club.

Once inside, it felt like he had entered a different territory, as the surrounding seemed so... weird.

"(If I recall, from wiki... I forgot... damn... well-)" Rufus thought, but was cut off.

*thud*

Coming out of one of the many doors in the club were two beautiful ladies, a fact that Jaune and Rufus could agree on.

Their movement were swift as they stood at each side of Jaune, and wrapped their arms around each of Jaune's hand.

Humming while guiding Jaune towards a place, it made Jaune felt a bit... fearful, if not for the fact that Rufus was with him.

Soon, they reached the end of their destination, at a bar, countless brands of drinks could be seen on display.

At the end, there was a male cleaning a glass, while he looked at Jaune, the two girls stepped back, leaving Jaune with Junior.

"Um... h-hai." He squeaked, garnering a subtle laughter from Junior.

"Just relax, boy. So? What is your business here?" He said as he cleaned another glass.

"Aa.. I'm Jaune, the one that wanted a fake transcript.." Jaune replied.

"Oh, that's right. Your scroll." Junior asked as he extended his hand.

Hastily, Jaune took out his scroll, and gave it to Junior, which he took, and put it on a machine, which had a white rectangular shaped outline, which glowed a bit.

Meanwhile, Junior was typing in something complex, and with a *beep, he returned the scroll back to Jaune.

"Here's your transcript. Huuu... a huntsman, heh. So you want to fight monsters, huh. Not my cup of tea, but... goodluck anyway."

"Thanks. Here's the payment. 500 lien, right?" Jaune asked, trying to confirm it.

He looked at the man, fearful at what he would do if he didn't pay the right amount.

In fact, he wouldn't mind giving all his expenses.

Junior took the lien, and put it at somewhere safe. "So, you want to drink? You still have lot of time."

"Ah... I got to go, buy armor and stuff." Jaune replied, hoping to get away as fast as possible.

"Alright, kid." Junior patted Jaune's back.

Walking out of the club, Jaune tried to flirt with Melanie and Militia, which didn't go so well as Junior chuckled behind the bar.

With the transcript done, Jaune just needed to send it to the principal of Beacon Academy, and proceeded to a wait and see tactic.

--New Scene--

In a hotel...

"Uuuuu... I've been rejected..." Jaune looked at Rufus with sad eyes. "Why? I'm handsome and confident! Dad said girls like confident man!" And he put his face back into the pillow.

"How about you? If it was you, how do you approach girls?" Jaune continued.

Being questioned by Jaune about girls, Rufus didn't know what to say, since he was as clueless as Jaune, and beside, Rufus didn't have a dating experience, even though he had female friends.

All that he knew was to be open minded, kind, and just be yourself, and sometimes, he would make friends, and enemies at the same time.

"Well, just be yourself... it's not like every girl will like you, Jaune. Girls have their own preference to what type of man they like... maybe... I don't know..."

A few seconds was all that Jaune needed as he sat up, forgetting all of his worries.

Looking out the window, he could see where the light from the street entered, and a bullhead flying passed, as he was wondering, whether this was all just a dream.

"Finally... I can become a huntsman..."

"If they accepted your transcript..." Rufus replied, as he was creating different kind of weapon, probably out of boredom.

Jaune looked at Rufus in annoyance.

"Ugh... you had to ruin my happiness, did you..."

A few seconds silence had ensued, before Jaune continued.

"So... I still don't believe about you, from a different world-" Jaune said, but was cut off in the mid of his sentences.

"But you can trust me."

"Why?"

"We're bounded together, so if you die, I die kind of thing, I think. I'm your aura, an extension of your soul, which I shouldn't be, since I'm a different soul... ugh... so complicated..." Rufus grumbled as he pinched his forehead.

And the silence from Jaune was indicating how lost he was on the speech.

Rufus had already accepted the fact that he was... not on earth.

Away from his family, friends, neighbors, cats and other, it was a given that he would feel sad, but he accepted the fact.

"(Well, being here on remnant is like... a vacation? A very, very long vacation... but I can explore new things, met new friends, and fight grimm... and die...)"

Rufus looked at Jaune, "Hey, Jaune?"

"Hm?"

"So what's your plan, when you are in Beacon? By the way, you do know that in Beacon, students would need to be able to fight... so if you are to spar-"

"You'll help me... right? Since you're my aura." Jaune interjected.

"Well... I will help... but... I don't know how to fight." Rufus spoken the truth.

"Hey! Me too! Whew, we're the same-wait..."

Jaune looked at Rufus in surprised, "B-But at least you can make that weapon thing and-and... we're doom..." he slumped his shoulders.

Rufus sighed, "(At least Jaune will have friends in Beacon that will help him.)

And then, the words "butterfly effect" flashed in his mind, genuine worry filled up his mind, hoping that the event that he knew wouldn't change that much.

He was glad that he didn't tell Jaune that he knew about the RWBY animation, since that would definitely caused a significant changed in the future.

Beside, if he thought about it, knowing about the RWBY animation was just like watching one of the many possibilities of how RWBY should have happened.

No one could predict the future, since its nature was ever changing.

--New Scene--

Walking at the street, there was a girl with a red hood, headphones on both ears, and her eyes looked upon a shop, as she continued to walk, not noticing that there were someone in front of her.

*thud *

"Ah! S-sorry!" Ruby rubbed her nose as she seek apology from Roman that was in front of her.

The male was pinching the bridge of his nose, as he was saying something, but she didn't hear anything, and she realized that she was still wearing her headphone on.

She took it of her ear, and let it dangled on her neck.

"I'm so, so sorry mister! I didn't mean to run into you, which I have, since I was not paying attention. My fault-"

Not wanting to hear anymore from girl, Roman put his hands up so that the girl would stop talking, "Kid, I forgive you. I'm a bit busy, so run along and do your business."

"Oh, thank you mister!" Ruby said.

With that, she was on her way to the store, when she was stopped by the man.

"Um, kid. My business is here so-"

"Oh! Me too! Are you here for the new edition of the latest guns and mods. I really-really-really love to see-"

"Wow-wow, slow down, okay?"

Ruby could hear the man muttered about "kids" and "troublesome", which she ignored.

Roman signaled his goons to enter the shop, while he tried to think of a way, so that the girl would go away.

He looked at Ruby, "So, what's your name?"

"Ruby, Ruby Rose."

"Okay, I'll just call you red. You can come tomorrow here, since I'm having some... business meeting with the store owner."

"Oh?" Ruby looked at the shop. "Well... I guess I'll come tomorrow... sigh..."

Knowing that the shop owner was busy with the man, she dejectedly walked away.

But then, she saw a few people that went out of the shop with lots of dust, and it got her attention.

"(They're sure ordered a lot of dust...)" she womdered.

Thinking that the business meeting had ended, she went back towards the man.

"Hey boss, we sweep clean all the dust in the shop." A male in black said to the guy in white.

Roman face palm, thinking that his goon was really stupid, saying that kind of thing in front of someone.

"(Oh, for goodness sake.)" Roman thought.

He looked at the little girl, seeing the changed in her expression that screamed justice.

"Are you stealing this shop?"

"(And here comes the question... well, I should just ignore her..)"

Suddenly, a bullhead was approaching, and landed at one of the building nearby, and surely, people could see the bullhead.

Roman ignored Ruby, as he ordered the goons to bring the dust to the bullhead.

Seeing this, Ruby unleashed her Crescent Rose, while she pointed it at Roman, since they were stealing the dust.

"Wow, kid. You shouldn't play with a weapon like that. And isn't it too big for you, red?"

Immediately, she lunged forward, as she slash at him, his cane move in front, blocking her slash.

Roman rotated his body, his left heel hit the girl's side, propelling her away, but she stopped her momentum using her scythe.

"Kids this day. You should respect your elder."

Ruby's weapon changed form, as she shoot at the man, which was blocked, as the man twirled his cane.

Seeing that, she changed her weapon, and ran towards him using her semblance, leaving petals of roses, as she tried to slash downward, left, right, and left again, but he managed to block it all, which surprised her, but not the man, since he looked pretty relaxed.

She stepped back a couple meters, and this gap in time had allowed Roman to aim his cane at her, as he pulled the trigger.

Then, an explosion had occured at Ruby's position, as cloud of smoke filled up the space, and Roman thought that she was a goner.

"Well, it was nice when it lasted." And to his frustation, someone was there with the girl at her back.

"Got to go lady." He said as he ran towards a ladder, where the bullhead was, since he felt that she, was not one to mess with.

Glynda tried to destroy the ladder, but halted her action as she tried to block the incoming fireballs from a figure at the top of the building, which was where the bullhead was.

It was a lady, but she had a mask covering her face.

Immediately, Glynda rolled away as she pushed Ruby with her semblance, just in time to escape the fires bursting up from the ground.

Finding a nearby object, she propelled two vehicles towards Roman, which was still climbing.

But a burst of flames had incinerated the vehicles as Roman had reached the end of the ladder.

He looked at his goons that were just standing. "Don't just watch!? Shoot!" He roared as he thought why they were just standing by, while letting Cinder handled the enemy.

"(So much for my recruitment. Not my problem.)" He commented in his mind, pretty sure that his goons would be dead in Cinder's hand.

"Roman, fly away."

He obeyed her command, and took the pilot seat as he tried to start the engine.

Cinder and the goons forced Glynda to be on the defense.

It was hard on her as she needed to block the hail of bullets and fireballs, and behind her was a young girl.

She wanted to fight back, but the safety of the civilians came first.

The bullhead stirred into action as Cinder went inside the bullhead, while the goons were still shooting at at the huntress.

Roman shouted at his goons, "Go back-"

"Leave them. We don't have time." Cinder said, which sounded more like a threat.

Meanwhile, Glynda propelled the girl into a shop as she whipped her riding crop, stripping a metal ladder from the building, wrapped the goons shooting at her, and threw them away to the ground.

She whipped her weapon towards the bullhead, but was countered by Cinder that was on the ship as they exchanged multiple hits with each other.

Glynda saw there were other ladders from the nearby buildings, and stripped four of them as she tried to latch the four metal ladders towards the airborne bullhead, hoping to drag it to the ground.

But it was a wasted effort as Cinder destroyed the metal ladders with ease, grinning evilly at the huntress below.

But time was wasted, and the huntress didn't seem to keen on letting Cinder got away, and Cinder got a little bit annoyed.

"So persistent." She said in annoyance.

Three fire orbs floated slowly out of the bullhead, converging together into a larger fire orb, and it was evident that the toll was heavy as Cinder slumped against the wall inside of the bullhead.

"We're flying away now." Roman shouted at Cinder.

"A gift for the huntress." Cinder muttered.

Seeing the large fire orb, Glynda used her semblance to collect as many water as she could, from the drain, from the shop, and from any water source that was available nearby.

Countless water serpents collided with the fire orb, causing a massive steam burst.

While Glynda was busy putting out the fire orb, the bullhead had already flew away in the distance, out from her reach.

Ruby came out of the shop, just in time to see the last available water serpent vanished into the smaller fire orb, which was 15 centimeters in diameter.

The fire orb slowly descended down to the ground, followed by a small explosion.

Thankfully, the explosion had only broken the nearby windows of the surrounding buildings.

If Glynda didn't try to put out the fire orb, the casualties could have been a lot, and luckily, there were no casualties.

--New Scene--

"A robbery is it... and a female that controls fire... and Ruby Rose is with you right now?... hm... okay." He closed his scroll as he eyed his visitor.

Ozpin looked at Qrow that was indulging in his drinks, and told him about Ruby's encounter with Roman, which made Qrow drank more of his drinks.

"I'm going to pick up Ruby Rose, and sent her home... and try to calm Glynda down... if I can... so what are you going to do now, Qrow?"

Evidently, Qrow was drunk, and didn't register any of Ozpin's words.

Qrow took out his scroll as he tried to give a message to someone, "...Yang... go fetch Ruby... here's the address..." and he closed his scroll.

Qrow looked at Ozpin, and bid his goodbye.

--New Scene--

Riding a motorcycle, Yang pushed the throttle to the max as she navigated on the street.

Receiving a message from his uncle Qrow about a Ruby being at a place, which was being robbed, she was worried.

Soon, she arrived at the scene as the police had closed up the area.

Looking around, Yang saw Ruby with Glynda, and she could see Ruby was quite happy to see her... too happy.

"Yang!!!!" Ruby screamed.

If not for her tough nature, she might had been sent flying as Ruby had used her semblance unconsciously.

Yang looked down at Ruby that was hugging her, totally shaken up.

--New Scene--

"She was like, wham-wham pooshh, and the other was like pow-pow and boom!" Ruby finished with her hands extended outwards.

Then, she whispered at Yang, "...since I was involved, Miss Goodwitch got mad at me-" she drooped her head down. "-which was scary, but she's awesome! Scarily awesome!"

"Ha ha... and I thought you were scared because of the robbery."

"(Guess I don't need to see Junior.)" Yang thought.

And the two stopped their chat, as Ozpin and Glynda entered the room that resembled an interrogation room.

Yang looked at Ruby, and had this "you're on your own" kind of look on her face.

00000000

Hmm...

27/8/2018