Tales of The Wanderers (D.A.M. Adopted)

Chapter 01 A Sincere Soul

So this is to inform you that after reading your feedback I have decided to edit the first two chapter. I hope you enjoy them also I'm sorry for how long it took for me to do chapter 3 however it ended up exceeding 50 pages as such I have broken it down to 4 chapters which I will load as I finish editing each. Hope you like them and as always send me your opinions their greatly appreciated.

Hello I'm New to the whole Writing thing anyways this is my Fanfiction inspired by the Wanderer by both Masseffect-Txs and DD-Return101 Hope you enjoy and fill free to leave any input in the reviews. I do not own RWBY which is owned by Roosterteeth and Monty Oum.

"Insincerity is always weakness, sincerity even in error is strength."

George Lewis.

As the former headmaster sipped his tea in the rather spacious tent Glynda entered.

"Ozpin Mister Arc is here and he is rather insistent on seeing you."

Before he could give a response The blonde knight rushed in only to be froze in place at a mere flick of Glynda's wrist. Ozpin rose his hand and just as quickly the boy fell forward before lifting himself back up with a mixture of fear and rather obvious shame.

"M-Mister Ozpin I… I have to confess something, I- I."

Jaune's eye teared up as he lowered his head and clenched his fist with his lips quivering. Ozpin gave a soft smile and leaned forward.

"It's okay Jaune speak up and say whatever you have to."

"I Don't belong here!"

Glynda gripped the young Arc from behind and glared at him.

"I understand you were scared but plenty of people suffered much worse than you, so I don't want you to waste our time with this nonsense when your training to be a Huntsma-!"

Jaune glared at the women shoving her hand away as his aura begun to flare pale ivory waves around him.

"I'M NOT SCARED!"

The boy fell to his knee shaking and slammed his fist into the ground his aura flaring outwards. Its brilliant white light enveloping the room causing Glynda to close her eyes from the intense light. She raised her wand only to stop upon hearing the sobering as she saw the young blondes back raise against the ground and his fist turned white from gripping to tight. Before stopping and looking up into Ozpin's eyes.

"I'm not scared… But I'm not worthy of being a Huntsman."

Before Glynda could speak Jaune stood up his head ducked in shame while trembling with an obvious fear as if he was in front of a Goliath as he broke from Ozpins eye.

"I don't have the right to be leader of team JNPR Mr. Ozpin I didn't earn the right to be here Sir… I-I got into beacon using fake transcripts."

Ozpin just stared at Jaune as if waiting for him to continue and just as expected Jaune did.

"Not only did I not earn the right I was made leader and failed."

Ozpin eyebrow rose. "Oh and how did you fail sir Arc."

Jaune looked up at the silver fox of a man in confusion and an obvious rage under that that.

"H-how did I fail? ARE YOU KIDDING ME! How did I not I couldn't do a thing not during the breach, or even at Initiation Test. During The Breach I only took on a single Grimm, and then during The Fall I-I did nothing while Ren and Nora fought I did nothing. While Team RWBY tried faced unimaginable odds I did nothing. If Rwby's uncle had shown up even a few seconds later than Pyrrha, she would've died all while I did nothing. If Pyrrha had a different partner a better partner like Ruby, Wiess, Blake or Yang she'd be fine instead of in a comatose with a hole in her chest and a possibly permanently crippled foot!"

Ozpin looked at the boy raised his cup and took a sip and then spoke. "Oh is that all?"

Jaune stared dumbfounded at the headmaster's statement.

"Your joking right? What else is there. I don-. Ouch! Did you just hit me with your cane?"

"Indeed, and I will do so again is you don't stop to listen to what I have to say Sir Arc. Do I look like a fool to you? Of course I knew you gave us false transcripts however they were good enough to trick Miss Goodwitch.

The headmistress cheek brightened slightly as her eyes narrowed on Ozpin.

"Besides while you may believe you failed I must disagree."

Jaune looked up to speak again only to feel the end of the cane hit his head.

"With no Skill, Experience or even a Semblance much less Aura you came to beacon and why?"

Jaune opened his mouth only for Ozpin to raise his voice.

"To become a hero not a huntsman mind you, but a hero someone who's only goal is to protect other. Now just so you know I was expecting an Arc, but imagine my surprise when instead of your twin sisters I find you? Who to be quite honest I didn't even believe was truly an Arc as no previous academy had any record on you. You wish to know the reason I accepted you despite knowing about the fake transcripts? Hm."

"W-why?"

Ozpin smirked at the aspiring hunters question.

"Because I could."

"Allow me to expand upon that. While your sister Jen and Jenova choose to attend Shade and Haven Academy you choose Beacon I can only assume this was to avoid am I Ri-"

"No its because Beacon was the best! If anywhere could make me a Hero it would be Beacon!"

"And there it is Mr. Arc."

Jaune stood dumbs trucked.

"Huh?"

"You took the risk of coming to my academy and being caught because that's how resolved you were to become a true huntsman. To save others something your sisters couldn't even do despite they're more than adequate experience and training. You abandoned everything for a chance to become strong enough to help others like your ancestors. Now tell me Mr. Arc How could I in good conscience not give someone a chance to being a Huntsman when they have the very core belief of a hero so firming imprinted into they're very being."

For the first time in a long while Jaune felt glad only for it to quickly give way to disappointment.

"And I failed didn't I."

Ozpin laid back into his chair.

"On the contrary Mr. Arc you Exceeded them."

Jaune looked at Ozpin in surprise.

"Your fierce determination is what allowed me to consider giving you a chance to be a student. Then during the Initiation Test Despite your fears you fought a Deathstalker alongside complete strangers and unlike each of them you had no previous experience to rely on. You didn't even have the slightest amount of confidence or faith in your ability. Yet despite being the only person there who had not heard of Pyrrah Nikos you had faith in the people around you and went forward instead of turning tail and running away. That is why I choose you as Leader alongside the whole occurrence with mister Winchester you only further proved yourself to be an aspiring hero. Even going so far as to save your very tormenter. Then not to mention in the span of a mere semester during the breach you decided to go assist team RWBY, losing credit in your own mission to help your comrades. You even managed to cut down a Ursa Major with nothing more than a plain sword a feat no person in even signal could hope to achieve without a few years of training. That's not even counting the fact that your aura hadn't even been unlocked until 17 when most aspiring hunter release they're aura in their preteens Around 9 Both were acts that gave me full confidence in my decision in making you both a student and leader. Finally during the Vytal Festival you showed your abilities as a leader getting into the semifinals even and most importantly during The Fall you stood by your partner despite everything and I'm sure that if Pyrrah hadn't sent you away. You would have fought and more than likely died beside her luckily thou you happened to call the partner of a certain niece of Qrow and who had quite the powerful elder sister herself."

Juanes eyes filled with tears as he once again fell down to his knees not knowing how to take such praise. Before he could speak a hand grasped him from behind he looked back expecting to see Glynda. Instead in her place stood a woman he didn't recognize but held a shocking resemblance to his crush. Thou much more intimidating. A man who gave an even more intimidating presence stood by her who he recognized from the docking bay of the Colosseum he was a very stern and powerful looking man.

"It is good to see you Ironwood I assume the proper arrangement have been met."

"Yes Ozpin Atlas will take in anyone who needs helps Haven and Shade have also extended they hands to the former headmaster of Beacon and its student."

Ozpin smiled.

"Thank you Ironwood."

"Of course."

Ironwood turned to regard Jaune.

"Now what this I hear of fake transcripts."

"Not to worry my friend."

Ironwoods eyes softened.

"Sigh, if you say so, if tragedy has taught me nothing else I have at least come to understand the importance of trusting in your decisions, may I assume this is the boy? "

"Yes, Although I was hoping to wait till Qrow was here but with the incident involving miss Xioa Long and Rose I guess he will be rather busy in Patch. It's quite fortunate miss rose only somewhat tapped into her powers we'll just move him to second instead of first in the rotation than can't be helped."

"Will that be fine Miss Schnee?"

The women looked straight to Ozpin before giving a slight smile.

"Yes general it would actually suite my needs better to be away from Atlas for a while. Specifically, the SDC."

Ozpin stood up and walked towards Jaune looking down upon the boy and placed his hand on his right shoulder and gave a rather serious look.

"Jaune Arc I have a rather serious mission for Qrow and the two beside you and if you are willing you as well. I can't tell you much besides that if done correctly it can help save a lot of people. I cannot ask you to do this nor should I however you've shown me you indeed have the potential to succeed in this and in turn take your first step into becoming a true Huntsm.. No Hero."

Jaune looked at Ozpin with awe.

"But why a liar like me… I'm nothing but a fake?"

Ozpin gave a calm but sure look, as if he had been waiting for this very moment.

"Thou it is my belief that victory can be achieved by a smaller more honest soul."

Ozpin stared intently at Jaune.

"I now find myself believing in the potential of a sincere soul as well. "

Ozpin put out his hand… And Jaune took it.

So I hope you enjoyed it so far sorry for only covering the beginning thou I promise to put out the next chapter as soon as possible warning it will be alternating from the path of the previous two stories from here also I have to say this will be more than likely taking a harem path just to warn those who are put off from that kind of thing. I imagine some of you are wonder what has changed between this universe and the canon and my answer would be Pyrrah's death in my mind it wouldn't have been unreasonable for Qrow to show up at the last second alongside Winter who I could totally see Wiess calling and stopped Cinder from burning away Pyrrah of course this changes two major event one being obviously Pyrrah being Alive thou in a near death coma state for a good while and Ruby using her Silver eye powers thou in my mind she'd still be going thru enough sorrow to trigger them but not a potently still enough to throw off the Dragon. Also not while I write this I will be working on writing a light novel series of my own still thou I hope to release these chapters weekly thou I hope you'll forgive me if sometimes it takes two weeks.

Thanks for reading see you Next Chapter 02 The Wanderer