Jaune was bored. For the first time in his short but hectic five years on the planet, Jaune had nothing to do. His mother had been homeschooling them for as long as Jaune could remember but as the family grew his mother had less and less time to teach. So one by one she began sending them to the village school. His eldest sister Violet had been the first to go two years ago and Olivia his other older sister had just started this year. It left Jaune all alone well except for his mother but she was busy with the baby. So he sat lazily on the couch switching channels not bothering to look at what was on screen simply watching the numbers go up until he stopped at number 42. Now Jaune knew he wasn't supposed to watch this channel but the baby was asleep and that meant mom was asleep. What she didn't know wouldn't hurt her, or him. Jaune settled into the couch with a huge grin knowing he was doing something he wasn't supposed to made it exciting. Jaune had begun watching a very old martial arts movie that clearly hadn't aged well. Two men dressed in different colored uniforms were standing in an open field talking to one another. The one in white was obviously the hero, the one in black clearly the villain. Jaune had missed most of the movie and the fight leading up to what was the climax of the film. He sat through the stiff, and clunky dialogue waiting for something to happen. Until finally the man in white screamed in rage and rushed forward putting all his power into a single punch. What came next defined the young boy's life. The punch connected and the man in black's chest exploded into a horrifically beautiful display. Jaune was fascinated, the man in white must have been the strongest man in the history of Remnant, stronger than his older sisters, stronger than the superheroes from the cartoons he watched, and maybe even stronger than his dad.
"Jaune are you ok? I fell asleep when I put the baby down." He heard his mother yell, Jaune frantically changed the channel before his mother came into the room.
"I'm ok mom." He said as she entered the room.
"Have you been watching TV all day?" Jaune looked at her and nodded. "No more TV today go outside and find something to do I'll make you something to eat and play by the window where I can see you." He quickly ran to collect his shoes an idea of what he would do already forming in his mind. He raced out the door and out to the early autumn air, it was just the right temperature. Jaunes plan was simple. He had to get strong, as strong as the guy in the movie, but how did one get that strong? He had asked his dad how he got so strong once but all he did was turn to him and say.
"Push ups, sit ups, and plenty of juice." He thought it was as good a place as any to start.
Sofia Arc was a little surprised when from the window she saw Jaune drop and begin to do push ups. The little boy who the last time he was told to play outside ran back in after ten minutes to grab some bread and give it to the ants because he thought they needed help.
"They work so hard." He said looking up at her with his big blue eyes. "And go so far on their tiny legs for food." She decided to check on him, after all, it couldn't hurt just to check if anything was wrong.
"Jaune honey what are you doing?" Sofia asked as she came out of the door.
"Getting stronger." His reply was short as he continued to do push ups.
"Why?" Not that she minded her son trying to improve himself but she had never seen him so determined. He stopped at the top of his push up and looked her in the eye.
"I have to beat the bad guys." he replied
"What bad guys?" She asked. He looked out on the horizon.
"All of them." He answered as he got up. "And I'm going to beat them in one punch so I have to get really strong." He said throwing his hands in the air. She smiled and laughed at her son's antics.
"Well alright, then but a hero can't fight on an empty stomach so go inside I made you some lunch." Jaune quickly dashed inside intent on finishing his lunch as fast as possible to get back to getting stronger. Sofia had missed it. To be fair she didn't know what to look for but she had missed the way his words seemed to light a fire in his eyes. How his will to be the strongest had resonated with his soul. Unknown to both of them Jaune had unlocked his Aura all by himself.
Over the next year, Jaune cycled between learning from his mother, playing with his sisters, and training one of the new words he picked up from his father who would occasionally pop in but raising a family on an unreliable hunter wage was difficult so it ate up most of his time. All was well. Until his mother was expecting another child.
"Goodness me!" He heard his grandmother over the phone as she was told the news. "Don't tell me that good for nothing son of mine is running off to God knows where and leaving you pregnant again." His mother sighed before replying
"Julia, You know he has to take these jobs to support us."
"Oh I know, I know but that doesn't mean I have to like it." His grandmother said. "I suppose that means you'll need some help with the baby don't you worry I'll be right there." Sofia smiled she hadn't even needed to ask.
"Jaune you run along to bed now you have a big day tomorrow after all." His mother said as she hung up the phone. Tomorrow Jaune would start going to regular school he was very nervous but his older sisters had given him the rundown on what would happen. He was a little mad he would miss out on training time but no one seemed to listen to this concern. I'll just have to make up for it later he thought it would cut into his TV time, a necessary sacrifice. Jaune closed the door to his room and quickly changed into his onesie and hopped onto the bed, sleep came easily.
The walk to school had been simple, finding the classroom was simple, but making friends and talking to people during recess was an entirely different matter. Jaune was trying to pick out someone to talk to when out of the corner of his eye he saw a group of older kids harassing his classmate. They had taken something from him what they took wasn't Jaunes concern. What he saw were bad guys that had to be stopped. 'Ok Jaune this is it all your training it's time to put it to practice let's go and stop some bad guys, just like a superhero gotta think up a good line for this like X-ray.'
"Y-you guys should stop that." One awkward pause later. "Now." The bullies just laughed.
"Oh, that's good." The ring leader said in between laughs. "really funny kid, and just how are you gonna stop us." Jaune looked him in the eye.
"I." Jaune breathed in shakily. "Am going to punch you. Really really hard." His statement made them laugh even harder.
"You know what fine." The bully leaned down to eye level with Jaune. "I'll let you throw the first punch." He gestured towards himself. "Go ahead." Jaune clenched his fists.
"HA!" He let out a yell as he punched.
Back in the Arc household Sofia and the recently returned Joseph were having their first quiet morning in years. The baby was asleep, for now, and the kids were at school. Both of them just sat on the couch together enjoying each others company. So, of course, the phone had to ring. Joseph moved to get up but Sofia stopped him.
"We both know it isn't for you this will just make it so I don't have to delay getting up."
"Thank you," Joseph said. She walked over to the phone and sighed already recognizing the number.
"Hello?" She came off a little angrier than she would have liked. Her eyes widened as the voice on the other end told her what had transpired. "JAUNE DID WHAT?!"
Sofia had left the house rather frantically leaving Joseph in the dark of whatever had taken place on the school grounds. The sound of the front door opening brought him to attention.
"Joseph your son has come up with a ridiculous story that I am tired of hearing." She looked him in the eye. "Deal with him." Joseph quickly stepped outside to see his son staring at the ground.
"Jaune." He snapped to attention. "I want you to tell me what happened." On command, Jaune began recounting the tale.
"So I punched him and now he is in the hospital and I have to write an apology letter and I might have to go to juvy and-" Jaune finished.
"Once?" Joseph inquired cutting Jaune off from rambling. Jaune just nodded. "You punched him once and broke his rib cage." He nodded again. "Alright then fine I'll believe you." Jaune smiled. "If you can prove you're that strong." Jaune continued to smile and nodded. Leading his son behind the house he pointed towards a large tree looked over to his son and said. "I want you to punch it as hard as you can." Jaune looked at him about to protest but Joseph cut him off. "I guess you're just lying then." Jaune took his position and got ready to strike. 'Come on kid how far are you going to take this.' Jaune brought his fist back and threw his punch, Joseph saw the unmistakable flash of aura before his fist hit the tree. How? When? Were the prominent questions on his mind before Jaunes fist collided with the tree and it split and fell over. His son had cut down a tree in a single strike. With his fist.
"See I told you, I'm super strong." Jaune cried out in happiness lifting his arms up into the air. Joseph was dumbfounded.
"Jaune I want you to add that you didn't know your own strength to the apology letter and that your father is going to train you to help you control it."
"Alright, dad." Jaune ran back towards the house. Joseph took a seat on the stump
"And get your mom out here. I need to talk to her." Jaune gave him a thumbs up as he ran. It took a while before Sofia came around the corner carrying his two-year-old daughter.
"The sound of the tree falling over woke her up. Now she won't let me put her down." She sat next to him on the stump. They sat in silence for a few minutes while the baby fidgeted.
"So, when did his aura get unlocked?" Joseph broke the silence with his question.
"Your guess is as good as mine he has been at home with me this whole time.
"How did he get so strong?" Another question.
"Whenever he went outside he would just start doing pushups and situps and running I asked him why but his only reason was to get stronger." Sofia said turning to him." I didn't think much of it, figured the physical activity would be good for him I never thought he would get." She gestured to the tree. "That strong." Joseph laughed.
"Well, however it happened it did and moving forward I'll have to help him to make sure he doesn't send anyone else to the hospital." Joseph said. "We'll have to take him out of regular school to huh, I guess it was a good thing this happened early he didn't get too attached." Sofia just nodded knowing that this was the best course of action, but that didn't mean she had to like it. "Hell with him being as strong as he is I might take him on one of my missions." Sofia's eyes narrowed. "Once he gets older of course." Joseph quickly stated. They went back to sitting in silence for a few minutes. "Well, whatever happens, he is sure to lead one exciting life."
The next ten years were a blur. Jaune kept growing and growing, surpassing every expectation put on him. Until one day from out of what seemed like nowhere he announced he was leaving. "Beacon has an entrance exam you can take if you don't have an official transcript." He said at the dinner table after the surprise had worn off. "I want to become a hunter like you dad, I want to travel the world and help people." Joseph and Sofia just nodded in acceptance it wasn't like they could stop him after all.
"You'll come back and visit right?" His youngest sister Amber asked.
"As often as I can." He responded
"Pinky promise?" Jaune just reached over and hooked his pinky in hers. After a few more hugs and high fives he went and gathered his things and went towards the front door, only to be stopped by a tap on his shoulder. He turned to see his mother holding a tent.
"You probably need one of these." She handed it to him and gave him one last hug. "You be careful out there and make sure you don't hurt anyone I don't want to see you caught up in some international incident."
"I'll make sure to be extra careful and thanks mom for everything." She gave one final squeeze before letting him go. He began his long walk to Beacon humming a traveling tune his mother had taught him.
Blake had done it. She had cut ties with the White Fang and got away from Adam. She could start her path to redemption, become a huntress and make the world a better place. Of course first, she had to get there and then she had to pass the exam but she was confident she could. But before all of that she had to save the idiot who was walking unarmed in a Grimm infested forest unaware of the beowolf that was stalking him. 'Who walks through the grimm lands alone!' one side of her brain argued 'kinda calling the kettle black there aren't you' the other side fired back. The beowolf lept out at him Blake cursed and ran at the young man to help. Only for him to pivot on a dime and punch the beowolf so hard that it dissolved before it could even react to the hit. Blake stopped in a mixture of fear and shock with only one thought crossing her mind as he turned to her. 'What the hell did I just get myself into.'
End
So yeah just wrote out another idea that had been swimming in my head expect this to update more often than Hero of Tomorrow because this is going to be more comedy based and it just comes out faster
We'll see but definitely next Saturday will be Hero of Tomorrow
What did you guys think let me know if it's good or not
~ Cya next time I post
- Golath
