Here I am with a new story, this is my first RWBY story but this idea has been floating around my head for some time now. I must get it out and share it with the rest of the world, I was hoping for the chance that Monty Oum would read it but now that is impossible. So I will write this in dedication to the great dancing genius, may he be happy in Heaven playing DDR.
Disclaimer: RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth and Monty Oum (1981 – 2015).
Jaune Arc has had a rough start at Beacon Academy, considering he used fake transcripts to get into Beacon and that douchebag Cardin Winchester used this information to blackmail Jaune into doing Cardin's homework for him. But things are starting to look up for the blonde knight. He stood up to Cardin and saved him from an Ursa at Forever Fall Forest, making Cardin owe Jaune his life (even though he and his team are still overall douchebags). He has made friends among his team, teams RWBY and CFVY, as well as Sun Wukong and Neptune Vasilias. Best of all, he is currently being trained by his teammate and friend Pyrrha Nikos.
The two of them are currently having their usual training session on the roof of the dormitory at night. Jaune's combat skills have greatly improved ever since Forever Fall and he is showing himself to be a quick learner. They decided to finish their session with a quick sparring match.
Both of them assumed their battle stances, each waiting for the other to make the first move. Jaune starts to charge forward at Pyrrha to strike her with his sword in a well-experienced attack. Pyrrha raises her shield to block the attack and quickly pushes it to the side. Jaune proceeds to use the momentum from Pyrrha's block to use his shield to attack her. But Pyrrha sees this and ducks before his shield hits her head. She then puts her weight on her left leg and lunges herself towards Jaune, hitting him in the chest with her right shoulder, which causes him to land on his back. He quickly jumps back onto his feet and sees her going on the offensive. Jaune manages to block her quick attacks and dodge her strong attacks. Seeing an opening, Jaune thrusts his sword forward at Pyrrha. However, she anticipates this and takes a side step at the last second, causing him to miss. Then Pyrrha bonks Jaune on the head with the hilt of her sword and he falls face flat on the floor in a cartoonish manner. As usual, Pyrrha is victorious, but she is still very impressed at how far Jaune has come in his training. Jaune gets up, rubbing the back of his head.
"Was that necessary Pyrrha?" Jaune asked.
Pyrrha giggled, "Sorry, I couldn't help myself."
Jaune chuckled, "You know Pyrrha, you sound cute when you giggle."
The complement made Pyrrha blush a little, "Thank you…"
"No problem," Jaune checks his scroll for the time, it was 9:23 p.m., "we should probably head back to our dorm room now, and we should also make sure that Nora isn't annoying Ren with some Pinkie Pie songs." Jaune shudders at the fact that their teammate Nora Valkyrie has recently become obsessed with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and that her favorite character is Pinkie Pie.
The two swordfighters started to walk back down the stairs to their dorm room. Pyrrha was following Jaune, internally sighing and thinking, "I know that you see the two of us as friends, but…" she stares at him with a little sadness on her face, "I just hope you'll come to realize that, I want us to be… more than friends…"
Meanwhile, at a house in downtown Vale…
A middle-aged doctor with glasses, gray hair, and a mustache is sitting at desk, finishing the last of today's medical reports for the hospital he currently works at. He files the reports into his filing cabinet and looks at the clock to see that it was already 9:36 p.m., "all right Gregor," he says to himself, "time for bed." Dr. Gregor Mendel goes up to his room to get some sleep while the fire in the fireplace is still burning. As he goes up the stair to his room, he fails to notice that someone, probably around his teens, is emerging from the doorway of the darker part of the house. This figure silently moves toward the fireplace and grabs the fire poker. He proceeds to move up the stairs, taking care not to step on any creaking steps that could give him away. He silently enters Dr. Mendel's room and sees him preparing to change into his nightgown.
This mysterious man moves closer to the unsuspecting doctor and then speaks to him in a soft, calm voice, "Hello Doctor."
A surprised Dr. Mendel turns around and is hit in the head with the fire poker; he falls down on the floor with a bloody wound on his head and looks at his assailant. He gasps as he recognizes him, "IT'S YOU!"
"Yes, me, it's been two years since I escaped the facility, do you know how Jaune is doing nowadays?" The unidentified man remains calm as he speaks, almost as if he has done something like this many times before.
Dr. Mendel's eyes widen, "Leave him alone, he doesn't know about you! He just wants to live his life as a normal person!"
The man chuckles, "Normal? You of all people should know that both he and I are not normal, all because of the project YOU were a part of."
"What do you want with him anyway? He's practically useless to you." Dr. Mendel tries to get up, but is again struck on the head.
"He's not entirely useless, not if one knows the proper," the man pauses, "application…"
The doctor gasps, "You mean to say that, you…"
The man nods his head, "That's right, but before that, I have some, unfinished business with everyone involved in the project," he raises the poker with two hands, "starting with you…"
A few minutes later…
The unknown man was whistling as he finished wiping the blood off his hands and his face, which is still not seen, onto one of the shirts inside the doctor's closet, whose body was now lying lifeless on the floor. The murderer then walked towards a portrait of the doctor and moved it off the wall, revealing a safe with a dial.
"Really doctor, this is your security? Child's play…"
The murderer managed to crack open the safe without difficulty and took out a file with the words "PROJECT: SHADOWHUNTER" stamped on it.
He looks through the file with a blank look, "So the doctor only has one file on the project, oh well."
He leaves the file on the nightstand closest to the doctor's body and then starts to dial on the doctor's home phone.
The other end of the phone responds, "You have dialed 911, what is your emergency?"
The man doesn't speak; he simply leaves the receiver on the nightstand and leaves the room.
"Hello, is anyone there? What is your emergency?"
The man walks downstairs and exits the front door. He walks a safety distance away from the house as he can sirens in the distance. He looks up toward the direction of Beacon Academy. "One down, four to go. The time has is near, prepare yourself, Jaune Arc…"
Wow, out of all the stories I've written, this has to the darkest start of story I've ever came up with. But still, there were some lighter parts to this opening, such as Nora being obsessed with My Little Pony and stuff like that. Could take some time before I come up with another chapter. Later.