A/N: As the kingdom where Menagerie is was never named and going off the assumption it's not in Vale or Vytal, I've decided to give it the name of Themis, which several of the OC's in the story originate from. Got the idea of the name from a Greek Titan, just like Atlas is one so is Themis.

And goddamn are names hard to come up with, though actually somewhat trying to follow the naming 'rules' actually helped me a bit.

Chapter One: Job Offer

Schling!

Another Beowolf fell to Crocea Mors.

That was the seventeenth Beowolf he'd killed today.

His skills a come a fair way since being kicked out of Beacon last month, he had his father's training to thank for that.

He glanced towards his two unknown allies, they seemed to be faring more than alright.

No time to ponder who they were, another Beowolf made a swipe for him, he ducked quickly, slicing the beast across the abdomen.

That made eighteen.

With no more Beowolves trying to attack him he looked back over to the pair, there were Beowolf corpses scattered around them, the female of the two grinning maniacally, the male had a ghost of a smirk on his face.

Jaune figured they might just have enjoyed the fight a bit too much.

The female who wielded a katana and mounted gun on the left wrist, wore sleek silver armour, and black under-armour, that covered her entire entire body, it was like a feminized more spiky and less bulky version of Cardin's armour Jaune noted, though it lacked any sort of insignia on the chest plate, the gauntlets also covered the hands and fingers in armour making them seem claw like, the thighs were also more armoured and the boots had heels.

Physical appearance-wise the woman had black hair, red eyes, and dark skin.

He moved onto focusing on the male who had wielded a now sheathed cutlass, he appeared to be mainly unarmoured unlike the female, clad in black, he wore a military long-coat, leather gloves, amber jeweled ring on the right index finger, combat trousers with knee pads, and knee high military boots, Jaune suspected he probably had armour beneath the coat.

Physically, the man was likely fairly muscular judging on the build, he had black hair, pale skin, and fiery amber eyes.

"Not bad kid, not bad at all." The man says looking at the dead Beowolves around Jaune, a mildly impressed look on his face.

"Aha thanks." Jaune replied sheepishly, not all that used to being complimented on his combat skills. "Though I'm not sure I would have survived if you two hadn't of turned up."

The man quirked an eyebrow. "Ho? I doubt you'd come out of the fight as well as you are now but… I think you might have been able to pull it off."

"You really think that?" Jaune asks surprised.

The man shrugs. "Well yeah, you've got some real talent and potential there kid, I'll give you that. Tell me, what's your name?"

"Jaune Arc, short, sweet, rolls off the tongue, ladies love it." He grins.

The two strangers chuckle.

"Arc you say?" The woman finally speaks up, curiosity in her voice. "As in hero family Arc?"

"Yep, the one and only, well I think we're the only Arc's there are."

She nods. "Well since you've introduced yourself I'm Sari Argento, and this is my squadmate and General, Darius Fall."

Darius Fall? The name seemed familiar to him.

"So why is someone like you out here and not at a place like Beacon Academy or something?" Darius asked.

"Well I… Kinda got kicked out, my skills weren't up to scratch at the time and my transcripts were faked, I've been training with my father ever since I got booted." He says sheepishly again.

"Hm, they should have still seen the potential, their loss and my possible gain I suppose, I'm making you an offer, kid." He says handing Jaune a business card.

Jaune takes a look at the card, it read 'Wescott Security Consulting'.

"If you're interested in doing something else asides from training and protecting your village, give that number a call, if you're worried about missing out on training we also have several people, myself and Sari included, that I'd wager could teach you a lot."

Jaune nods. "Thanks, I'll certainly consider it."

"Well this is where we part ways I suppose, it's been a pleasure meeting you Jaune and we hope you take the offer." Sari says smiling. "Come on, General, I believe we're done here."

"Indeed, hope to hear from you soon, kid."

"Yeah, see you around maybe!" Jaune calls as they leave and begins heading back to the village.

Jaune lay awake on his bed, thinking back to last month when he got kicked out.

His team, bless them, had argued valiantly against Goodwitch but to no avail, it seemed she was set on getting rid of him.

He still kept in contact with them though, Pyrrha especially.

Due to the teams already being decided there was no replacement for him in the group so the NPR often ended up being sent to support their neighbors, team RWBY, on assignments.

He sighed, missing his friends.

He grabbed the business card and started at it.

Darius Fall…

There!

He remembered where he had heard the name, it was in one of the history classes on the Faunus Rights Revolution, or the Faunus War was its alternate name.

Darius Fall was known to those few that knew about him, as one of Themis's more brutal General's, and Themis had several of those, while the man held no prejudice towards the Faunus unlike many others at the time, he worked off the logic that if they were all dead there would no longer be a threat and so him and those under his command had killed hundreds of Faunus, that was up until General Lagune, who was viewed as one of the more reasonable General's, screwed up at Fort Castle and the Themesian government decided to work out a peace agreement with the Faunus and actually give them rights.

Due to his attitude and modus operandi, Darius had earned the nickname of 'Genocide General'.

Though despite it Darius Fall never gained much publicity or attention, the Themesian government went to lengths to suppress information like that and information on any other atrocities it was thought to have committed, though Beacon being as influential as it was, Jaune was not surprised to see it have access to such knowledge.

Sure Jaune could see the reasoning behind General Fall's actions, it was true that if all the revolutionaries were dead, there would be no revolution as there would obviously be no one left to cause one, but that didn't hide the fact that what he did was incredibly extreme.

Still he pondered, the man didn't seem all that bad he had to admit.

So much for his usual black and white thinking.

The General probably thought he was doing what was necessary for the nation's security.

He rubbed his eyes, tired, he'd maybe think on it more in the morning and do some research on Wescott Security Consulting too, and maybe call Pyrrha.

It was after lunch, Jaune was digging up information on WSC.

He'd found that the company was a subsidiary of Wescott Industries which was something of a competitor to the Schnee Dust Company.

While Wescott Industries owned the company, General Fall was responsible for running it having pitched the idea a while back to the CEO of Wescott Industries, Adrianna Wescott.

Most of its employees, like Darius, originated from the Themesian military, many of whom also like Darius were veterans of the Faunus War and were actually troops who were under his command during the war.

So it seemed the General could obviously inspire some degree of loyalty from those under his command, the fact that they were willing to leave their nation's military and join him and his company somewhat showed that.

The company did a variety of operations, dealing with Grimm, providing support to police, protecting VIP's, counter terror operations against organizations like the White Fang, protecting corporate and governmental facilities, the list went on.

All the research was good, however he had to weigh up the pros and cons, so what worked in the company's favour, and what worked against it, and was he willing to overlook the against it part.

So there was obviously a good opportunity for training, the General had offered to train him and he assumed the man had skill due to being able to easily kill large amounts of Beowolves with his squadmate.

He would unlikely be stuck in one place all the time, Wescott Industries was a large company and had influence up and down Remnant meaning he would probably be able to see the world a fair bit, while he liked his home the same place did get dull after a while and even if he didn't move around much just getting out of the village and back to Vale or something would be good enough for him.

The company only took contracts from governments and corporations, while he knew those things could still give questionable contracts at least the contracts wouldn't be coming from criminal or terrorist organizations.

Also, unlike if he was to reject the offer and eventually strike out into the world on his own as a lone wolf, he was guaranteed to have teammates in the company, people would have his back and he'd have theirs, there would always be someone looking out for him.

Finally, not a big deciding factor but it was certainly something to note, he would be getting paid.

So the cons.

Knowing what he knew about General Fall and while he didn't blame the troops who were under the General's command for following orders he knew they could carry out questionable orders and had done so, meaning that the company potentially had many morally questionable people in it, the General obviously included.

Now many of these people were likely just following orders and equally likely knew what they were doing was bad, hell the General probably knew what he was doing was bad but figured it was necessary, regardless of the reasons it still happened, now the real question was, was he willing to overlook it?

Next up was the prospect of killing, this was the big one in his opinion.

While the information he had gathered generally gave him the impression that unless explicitly ordered to, it was down to the contractor's discretion about what was to be done about potential threats and whatnot, this obviously meant that in a situation it was down to his judgement on how he dealt with someone, meaning he didn't have to kill people, he could knock them unconscious for instance.

Now he was fully aware that his teammates could resort to killing, and he figured he could handle that, no, what worried him was being potentially forced into a situation where he would have to kill.

He didn't doubt that training with members of the company and spending time with them would probably end up eventually desensitizing him in the long term, it was the short term he was worried about.

Ultimately, it came down to doing what was necessary, when pushed Jaune knew he could step up and ultimately do what had to be done, his interactions with Cardin back in Forever Falls while on a smaller level mirrored that.

At the end of the day Jaune believed he could do what was necessary and deal with the responsibility that came with it.

If there's one thing his time at Beacon had taught it him, it was taking responsibility and standing up and doing what you needed to do.

Well, this whole job offer thing had certainly done a good job at getting him thinking.

Screw it, he'd take the job, the call to adventure was well calling him.

At the end of the day it was a job, and if he didn't like the job, he could just quit.

He picked up his scroll, he had a call to make.