So just a filler chapter. Now to answer some questions about the last chapter.
Yes I realize Caliburn and Excalibur are different swords, Yes I realize Excalibur was the sword he received from the lady of the lake and Caliburn was the sword in the stone. But I'm mixing things up a bit. Which is why I had the lady of the lake trap the sword in the stone in hte first chapter. Hence why she appeared when he pulled it.
Also no this isn't based on Fate Stay/night in anyways. I'm not a big fan of that series. So Excalibur won't shoot lasers or anything, BUT that doesn't rule out any possible supernatural powers.
Like I said the main movies I am drawing influence from are Excalibur (1981), King Arthur (2004) a hint of BBC's Merlin. As well as some of the once and future king.
Like I said, its gonna take a bit for me to really build up on this.
This chapter is just for filler.
ALso, as for the pairing, yes there will be romance eventually, but I'm flirting with the idea of who it will be with. I'm a huge Arkos fan, but I may actually mix it up with some Knightshade. I'm still debating.
Jaune felt weird. Granted he was on an airship. But he wasn't expecting to feel so relaxed. He knew he had a problem with motion sickness. But it wasn't acting up. And he felt at peace. In fact he felt better than he had in a long time. It was almost as if something had changed within him, filling him with an even bigger fire than before. He couldn't even begin to describe what it felt like. But all he could say was that it felt amazing, like something buried deep within him had been freed from its prison.
That was another thing. Last night as he slept in preparation for the flight. He had a strange dream, he dreamed he was on a battlefield. It was dark, and there were bodies all around him. He saw a man in black armor holding a sword. Jaune held a lance in his hand, he thrusted it into the man. But it didn't matter, because the sword the man held was still thrusted into his chest. Jaune could feel the pain of it as if he was actually there. The last thing he saw in the dream when he woke up was being put in a boat and sent to some island.
"Man, that was a weird dream." He said as he held his chest.
He then looked down at Excalibur. The sword he had found in the stone. He had picked up a new sheath for it. Luckily sheaths were inexpensive and anyone could buy one. All he needed was that. He had a simple leather sheath for it. But he had to admit, there was something off about it. Almost as if the sword was supposed to be in something else. But that was just crazy talk.
As he got off the air ship, he looked over the grounds of Beacon. The place itself was pretty nice. The campus was clean and everyone was getting ready to go to initiation.
Except for one girl he saw laying on the ground.
"Uh…Hi…." He said as he held a hand out for her.
"….Hi…" She said awkwardly as she took the hand.
"I'm Jaune." He said as she nodded.
"Ruby."
"Nice to meet you Ruby." He said as she nodded back.
"Nice to meet you too, aren't you the guy who woke up from a nightmare gripping his sword?" She asked as Jaune rubbed the back of his head.
He had taken a small nap and had the dream of the man in black armor again, when that happened, he may have drew his sword when he woke up, which caused a few people to give him a few weird looks.
"Yeah…That was me."
"Do you mind if I see it?" She asked as he looked down at Excalibur.
"Uh, sure." He said as he drew it and held it out for her.
She grabbed it gently as she looked it over.
"Wow, this is a really good sword, did you forge this yourself." She said as she tested out the weight and everything.
"Uh no, I actually found it."
"Found it?" She was confused.
"Yeah, I pulled it out of a stone." He said as she giggled.
"That's silly! How would a sword get into a stone? Let me guess, you forged it yourself and just like to tell crazy stories." She giggled.
"No, I didn't forge it, I seriously found it in a stone." He was honestly telling the truth.
"Uh huh sure, does it change into anything?" She asked as she didn't see any shifting mechanism.
"Nope, its just a plain sword." For some reason however, that didn't even seem right to call it.
"Whats this? Pendragon? Is that its name?" She asked as she read the disc on the hilt.
"Uh, no, its name is Excalibur." Jaune said pointed to the inscription on the blade.
"Ooooh, fancy name! But what is Pendragon is that your name?"
"Jaune Pendragon? No my name is Jaune Arc." He said even though he had to admit, Pendragon did seem familiar to him.
"Well either way, despite just being a sword, its still remarkable, I don't know why, but I think this is a special sword." She said with a smile as he put it back in its sheath.
"Yeah, so what do you got?" He asked as he got his answer.
SCH CLUNK!
And a big ass mechanical scythe came out.
"Woah…" Suddenly he felt like Excalibur was a bit inadequate.
"Its also a sniper rifle!" She said as she cocked it.
"Wow." Jaune was honestly impressed.
But that was when something weird happened. He didn't see Ruby for a second. Instead he saw something else for a brief moment. Instead of a girl in a red hood with silver eyes, he saw a knight in armor with a blue tint holding a lance. But just as soon as it appeared, it disappeared again. He shook his head thinking nothing of it. But Ruby noticed the weird look on his face.
"Helloooo, earth to Jaune…" She said as she waved a handin front o fhis face.
"Huh, sorry I spaced out for a second there."
"Yeah, you looked at me like I was someone else."
"Yeah sorry, jut thought of something else, like something out of a dream, I don't really know how to describe it."
"Nah its okay, I have crazy dreams sometimes too, dreams of knights and princesses, but that's probably because of all the fairy tales I read when I was a kid."
"Yeah same here, my mom always told me to stop fantasizing about knights and battles." Jaune joked as she looked up.
"Really? Why?"
"She was always worried I would go and get into trouble, my parents didn't want me to become a huntsman, they wanted me to live a sheltered life, but that wasn't for me." Jaune was being truthful.
"Really? So what made them change their mind? Obviously they had to let you come here right?" Ruby was confused.
"Er, they don't really know."
"Uh oh, you in trouble." She joked with him.
"Yeah, lets just get to orientation."
"Where is it?"
"…..Crap…"
After searching for awhile
"Well, that took a long time just to find one big room." Jaune couldn't believe they actually missed it.
How do you miss a big auditorium he would never know considering how they walked past it the first time. Either way, Ruby had run off to meet her sister. And Jaune was alone. After the huge commencement speech, he realized that his bunny onesie had also been stolen during that ransack of his room.
So in other words, his sword and his favorite pyjamas were now gone. So he was stuck with wearing a wife beater and a pair of shorts for Pyjamas. As he looked over himself in the mirror, he realized that his muscles still needed a lot of work. He had tone from being a dancer back home. But there wasn't a lot of bulk, and something told him he would really need to train in order to get the fighters build in order for the upcoming war.
Wait….why did he think of an upcoming war? There wasn't a war coming up? He shook his head of the thoughts. He must have thought back to his grandpa's old stories. Of weak men being thrust into a world of violence and needing to train to survive out there in the harsh world. But this wasn't one of his grandfather's stories. And he wasn't being trained to fight in a war. He was here to kill Grimm and save lives. That was all.
He laid down on his sleeping mat ready to go to sleep. He couldn't help but look forward to tomorrow, that was when Initiation began and he could finally pursue his dream of being a huntsman. Don't get him wrong, he was still nervous because he knew next to nothing about being a huntsman, and he was even more confused on how to fight. But he knew with a bit of training he could catch up. He just needed to get through the next day. He needed to take it one day at a time and hopefully things would go according to plan.
He looked up at the ceiling. He made sure his sword was safe in his locker. But for some reason he felt paranoid when it wasn't by his side. Almost as if the sword was a part of him, and having it far away didn't feel right. Hell, even giving it to Ruby momentarily felt strange. But he knew she wouldn't try to steal it, he had learned the girl was far too innocent for her own good.
He heard voices being raised. And he looked up to see that Ruby was talking with some girl with black hair along with her sister. Jaune didn't have anything else to do so he walked over and tried to see what the commotion was about.
"Hey guys, whats up?" He asked as Yang spoke up.
"I'm trying to get Ruby to make more friends." Yang said as Jaune looked at the girl with Black hair.
"I just want to read my book." She mumbled under her breath.
"What's it about?" Ruby asked as that caught her by surprise.
"What?"
"Your book, what's it about?" Ruby asked again.
"its about a man with two souls, both fighting for control of his body." Jaune could tell that was probably the most words she had said this whole conversation.
"Like Hekyll and Jyde?" He asked as she nodded.
"Kind of. Except in this case, the man had two souls in his body before, versus the result of a scientific experiment." Blake was honestly surprised he knew about it.
"I love stories." Ruby said as Jaune nodded.
"Yeah, when I was a kid they were a great inspiration." Jaune said as Blake smiled a bit.
"Why was that?" She asked Jaune as she could figure out Ruby's reasons, but she didn't know Jaunes.
"Well, in my case, it was because I wanted to be just like the hero in the stories, hoping to help people." Ruby said as Jaune nodded.
"Agreed, in my case, its very similar, but also because I grew up feeling weak, and in the stories and legends that my grandfather told me, there was always one man who stood up for others, who protected the innocent and cared about people, there's already so much pain and hate in this world, I wanted to be one of those who was trying to get rid of as much of it as possible." Jaune admitted.
"Unforturnately life isn't like a fairy tale." Blake said as Ruby smiled.
"Well, that's why we're here right? To make it better?"
"With the world so set on tearing itself apart, it doesn't seem like a bad thing to want to put a bit of it back together." Jaune finished as Blake smiled.
Jaune didn't know why, but there was something about Blake that seemed familiar to him. Something he couldn't put his finger on. It was the same feeling he got with Ruby.
What was going on with him?
