RE: ARC

AN: So my first fan fic and it's not really very original, but that's probably for the best. The person that actually thought of this concept originally is Kegi Springfield, The GrimmKing Jaune (just search for it on fanfic and you should find it). This is only the prologue explaining how he died, you are free to skip it if you so wish.

Day 0:

Let me tell you a little about myself… Better yet give me a second to remember a little about myself…

Let's see my name is Jaune, Jaune Arc, I have seven sisters, my mom and dad got bored easily. Speaking about the 2 of them, they were both very loving and caring. Always supporting us in whatever we decided to do, just take any advice my father gives about women with a pinch of salt, honestly I have no idea how he got my mother to marry him or stay married for that matter. Ok that covers the basics of child hood, but what about recently?

I believe I cheated my way into Beacon? Yeah that sounds about right, I am probably the only person in the world who would think going to a school that trains elite monster killers even though I have no combat experience, is a good idea. Well good idea or not it worked… somewhat.

I had survived the first year, no scratch that, I had THRIVED in the first year. Despite a shaky start I quickly learned, thanks to my awesome friends and team mates, how to fight and fend for myself. So much so that, by the middle of our second year, I had gone from being in the 10 lowest ranking combatants, to the top 20. Sure I was still a long way away from most of my friends, but I was catching up slowly but surely.

Ok that's all well and good, but I need to focus more on what got me to where I am right now. There was a mission, a simple mission, or at least it was suppose to be…

Teams RWBY and JNPR sat in the bullhead, bored and just wanting to get to their destination as quickly as possible. But none of them more so than the (J) of team JNPR, as he was in the on-board bathroom busy purging every last morsel of whatever it was he ate last from his stomach.

"I really hate motion sickness." I managed to say before my body started convulsing attempting to through up my now empty stomach.

"Jaune," I heard the worried voice of my partner Pyrrha on the other side of the door "We're about to land."

"Thank Oum" I exclaimed as I felt the airship descending. After we had landed and I had cleaned myself up, we got of the ship. We all stepped out on too long, lush grass, the noises and smell of the surrounding forest subtle but ever present. The weather was very cheerful, with the sun shining, the sky a light blue and a few scattered white clouds. "You ok now Vomit-Boy?" Yang mockingly asked me, "Hahaha, you're comedic genius knows no bounds." I sarcastically said before meeting her frown with my lopsided grin. The reason it had taken so long to reach our destination was that it was a village far detached from any of the kingdoms; it was in fact the village I had grown up in.

"Ok" Ruby started, "The scanners in the area are telling us the Grimm activity in the area has been increasing, nothing to serious, but it has been decided best to evacuate the towns' people." She read off, of the mission statements she and I had been given, "Since this is sure to cause an influx in negative emotions we have been assigned to secure the perimeter since the reading of Grimm is still pretty low the mission is suited to a second year team." She finished reading the statement in the document. "The evacuation will only start tomorrow," I said in a good mood now that all the symptoms of my motion sickness was gone, "sooooo, how about I give you guys a tour of this fair little village?" I asked, adding a fake posh accent to the last part of the sentence.

The day was spent showing them around, regaling them with old stories from when I was growing up (most of them very embarrassing) and introducing them to my old friends. Finally we ended up at my home, which was quite large to accommodate 8 children and our parents. There we spent the night talking with my parents and sisters and just some general bonding. It was extremely pleasant, so much so that I could say it made a very good last day… Or second last day if you want to get technical.

We woke up early that morning ready to go on patrol and kill a few Grimm, not expecting anything extreme, boy were we wrong. I could try and tell you about the fight the next day, but most of it is just a blur of black and steel in my mind. The just of it is that the scanners were wrong there was not a slight increase of Grimm, rather a massive increase!

It boils down to this, us having to fight horde, upon horde of Grimm for what felt like an eternity. The panic of the villagers, increasing when they saw how many Grimm now surrounded them, the increase in panic and fear attracting more Grimm. Causing what I referred to as the bullshit chain. Finally when we were given the signal that the town had been safely evacuated me and Pyrrha using our shields to bash a path for our teams to get to the bullhead. We all calmed at the idea of finally returning to Beacon that was the greatest mistake we could have made. Now we were not only exhausted, but also distracted this meant we all missed a Beowolf breaking through the defensive line formed by Yang, Nora and Weiss. Until it had almost reached the ranged attackers, formed by Ruby, Ren and Blake. The final mistake was when Ruby turned away from the charging Grimm to smile at us. I saw it all unfold in seeming slow motion, I saw her smile and it broke my heart. I have thought of our teams as family for a long time, but ever since I had met Ruby I had thought of her as a younger sister. So that is how, in my battered and bruised body, I found myself running to try and save her. I had used up almost all my aura in that final push and was damn near passing out from exhaustion, but I pushed as hard as I could to get there as fast as I could. I did not get there quick enough to raise my shield and get into a defensive stance, I was too tired to do that anyway. Instead all I could do was use my body to block the blow from hitting her.

I felt a sharp pain across my back, before I saw the soft, red stained grass suddenly rushing to my face. I heard screams that sounded like I was under water and they were somewhere far away. Someone was dragging me, I think, it was hard to tell. Everything had gone kind of… numb at this point. I tried to heal my wounds using my aura, but that was just about depleted anyway. Then it all just went dark.

That brings me to now. I was just… there in pitch darkness. None of my senses seemed to even exist. I heard nothing, saw nothing, smelt nothing, felt nothing and saw only darkness. Do I regret my choices? Not in the slightest, I would do it all exactly the same if given another try.

AN: There it is the Prologue; I procrastinated writing this for so long. If you are wandering, no I will not be avoiding or skipping fight scenes in the future, I just didn't want to make the prologue to overly long. (Probably failed at that anyway). Any review, positive or negative is greatly appreciated. Tell me what I did wrong, or what I can improve and I will try to fix it.

Lastly thank you very much for clicking on this story and reading it through to the end :D