Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy characters, or any Disney characters because they are owned by their perspective companies; Rooster Teeth (RWBY), Square Enix (KH and FF), and Disney (Disney Characters). The only characters I own are my OCs.
A/N: Hi there, first off I would like to calm some worries about Goofy and Donald roles in this fanfic and that is they are going to be joining Jaune on his adventures, it is just going to be a bigger party than the game. The second thing is that at the end I will explain why my Ace Attorney fanfic is getting 2 chapters at a time and for those who do not know my updating schedule will look like this pattern: Golden, Kingdom Hearts, Attorney, Attorney, Kingdom Hearts, and Golden. Third is at the end will be an announcement about the Detective Pikachu poll. Finally, this maybe short due to the fact it is an introductory chapter, but the other chapters will get longer from here.
That being said, let's get this show on the road.
Chapter 2: The Heart, Three Questions, and the Three Friends
The scene opens up with a close up on the right side of Jaune's face with his eyes blinking while looking up. He'd seemed to floating in an ocean of water while being underneath the water at the same time. Suddenly Jaune's voice can be heard saying "I've been having these weird thought lately, like is any of this real or not!" All of a sudden Jaune falls deeper into the water, only for him to find himself on a beach of an island near the shoreline. He then sees a boy his age in a yellow and blue outfit with his back towards Jaune. Jaune was about to go to the boy when the water moved backwards and started coming back as a tidal wave.
"Man this is getting intense right off the back" said Yang as she watches the events unfold right before her eyes.
"Indeed, yet this is like seeing a dream or a vision of this Jaune's future" said Yatsu which got nods of agreement all around.
"Though I think that those two should be more worried about that wave coming towards them" said a nervous Weiss as she saw the wave as was the rest of the group.
The grey haired boy then turned to Jaune while holding out his hand as if asking Jaune to come and join him. Jaune runs to take his hand, but it was too late as the wave hit the shore and took Jaune with it. Jaune open his eyes in the water and sees the boy again in front of him still holding his hand out to Jaune. Before Jaune could try and take the hand again a strong current came and pushed him to the surface of the water. He then heard his name being called which caused him to turn around and see all of his friends on the beach waving at him and he went to them without question. As he got there, Jaune was about to speak when Velvet notices something falling from the sky causing Jaune to turn around to see shooting stars and himself falling towards them.
"Hey, we are there too" said Ruby even though she was trying to comprehend what was happening to the sky.
"Yes, you are" said Gamer King before continuing with " and the reason for this is that even though Jaune is the main focus, you and your friends will help out in the long run along with others."
No one said a word as they turned back to the screen to see what is going to happen next.
As they were looking at the other Jaune falling from the sky, the tide comes in to the level of their ankles of the body. The Jaune on the beach began to lean back until he fell into the water which surprisingly deep when he fell in. His friends tried to reach him, but Jaune kept falling deeper and deeper into the water. When Jaune reached at what looked like to be the bottom, he stood up on it and looked around the area he was at. Suddenly the ground turned into doves flying away, revealing a green stain glass floor with Snow White on it while Jaune watched the last of the doves fly away.
"It seems that this might be a combination of a dream and a vision as Mr. Yatsu had stated before" said Ozpin which got nod from his colleagues and students.
Jaune looked around the area a bit when he heard a voice say "So much to do, so little time…" Jaune got a little bit nervous as the voice then said "Take your time and don't be afraid anymore." This statement actually made Jaune relax a little bit when the voice suddenly said "The door is still shut. Now, please step forward. Can you do it?" Jaune nodded and he began to walk to the middle of the stain glass floor. As he did, three podiums appears out of nowhere with a sword, a wand, and a shield on their respective podiums. While this was happening to Jaune, the voice said "Power sleeps within you. If you give it form…It will give you strength."
"These symbols of different powers might be something in order to get to know Mr. Arc" said Oobleck as he'd look at the artifacts.
"Indeed, the question is 'What is it trying to find out about him'" said Goodwitch, which got some members of the group to worry about the situation.
As Jaune walks around the area in order to get a good look at the objects, the voice said "Choose well." Jaune found out that the wand was 'the power of the mystic', the sword was 'the power of the warrior', and the shield was 'the power of the guardian'. When Jaune heard that the shield represented the willingness to aid friends at a moment's notice, he went straight towards it without a second thought. The voice then asked Jaune if this was the power that he seeks and Jaune replied strongly with "Yes!"
"Always caring about your friend, like always Jaune" said Blake with a soft smile on her face which was copied by everyone else in the room.
"Of course, he wouldn't be our fearless leader if he wasn't" said a much energized Nora, getting nods of agreement from Ren and Pyrrha.
Jaune became a little sheepish from the praise before turning back to the screen.
The voice responded to Jaune's decision with "Your path has been set for you." Jaune nodded as the voice then said "Now, what will you give in exchange for this power?" Jaune knew it was talking about the wand and the sword which made understand that he would have to give of the ability access to them right of the back. Jaune went to the wand because at least for now he did not need those powers and the voice asked him if this is the power he wishes to give up and he said yes. The voice then reviewed with "You choose the power of the guardian. You gave up the power of the mystic. Is this the form that you choose?" Jaune nodded and loudly said "This is my choice." Suddenly the sword and shield found its way onto Jaune and the three podiums crumbled to the ground.
"Very interesting choices I have to say Mr. Arc, but they do sound like you" said Professor Port which got from his fellow professors.
"Though I have to wonder if the power of the mystic is gone forever and I also wonder why he has to give up something in the first place" asked Velvet as she was very confused by all this.
"It is only gone temporary as he only gave up immediate access to it" said Gamer King getting everyone's attention as he continues with "as for the giving up something in return it is only a matter of principle in that universe."
"I guess that makes some sense" said Ruby with an understanding nod.
When the voice told Jaune that his path was set for him, the ground underneath where Jaune was standing began to break apart and he started to fall again. Jaune landed on his feet on a purple stain glass floor with Cinderella on it this time around. The voice then said "Sometimes, there are times that you need to fight." As this was being said, strange all black bug like creatures with yellow eyes started to come out of the ground near Jaune. The voice then asked Jaune if he could keep his light burning, which caused the boy to get ready for a fight.
"What in the world are those things" asked Sun in panic at the sight he was currently seeing.
"I don't know, but they are ugly looking" said Coco as she has a disgusted look on her face at the creatures.
"They are known as heartless and you could think of it as that universe's Grimm" said Gamer King as decided to at least answer that question before continuing with "a more detailed summary will come on later."
The first two heartless came at Jaune from the front wanting to take him down as quickly as possible. Jaune blocked the attacks with the shield and then slashes one with the sword before stabbing the other to destroy them. The last one decided to try a sneak away as it disappeared into the ground. This made Jaune very cautious of his surroundings for the heartless to come out. The heartless reappeared behind him and the voice decided to help Jaune out by telling him about the heartless. After hearing this, Jaune turned around and quickly did an upward slash to destroy the heartless. Suddenly the ground turned into darkness around him and pulled him down into it. He closed his eyes expecting the worst, but he opens them to see he was ok.
"It seems that Jaune's fighting on very good" said Ren getting nods from his teammates.
"It is just like our Jaune as his own skills greatly improved" said Pyrrha as she praises her partner on his improvement on his skills.
"I am wondering where this darkness took him" said Neptune out of concern for his friend.
Jaune looked around the area and saw that he was standing on a pink stain glass floor with no one on it this time, but three large hearts with their pointed ends going towards each other. He also saw a transparent door near the top and goes towards it. "Hmm…I can't open this door" said Jaune and all of a sudden a chest appears behind him and he sees it. Jaune saw no lock, so he tries to tap it with the sword and to his surprise it worked, but nothing was inside.
"Got to say, that is a pretty weird way to open a chest" said Sage as he wondered how that even worked.
"I am more curious about that door "said Jaune while trying to think of a way for his other to open it while getting nods of agreement.
Suddenly a large wooden crate appears in the middle of the area and sensing something inside of it Jaune destroyed it with the sword. As Jaune did this, a small bottle of green liquid fells from it and the outer rim of the door appeared. Jaune heard the voice say the bottle was a minor health potion and all of a sudden a barrel appeared next. Seeing how destroying the crate made the outer rim of the door appear, Jaune concluded that if he destroyed the barrel the rest of the door would appear. So, that is what he did by hitting the barrel a couple of times with the sword in order to destroy it. It made the rest of the door appear like Jaune had thought. Jaune went to the door and decided to open it.
"Looks like that what some way of saying that it sometimes takes more than one hit to destroy something" said Scarlett with his arm crossed.
"But, now is the time to see what is behind that door" said Jaune with his eyes narrowed wanting to see what was on the other side.
As he did this a blinding flash of whit light came out of the door and he couldn't see for a moment. As the flash died down, Jaune found himself on a wooden boat like structure on the island that he and his friends lived on. Jaune saw a girl in front of him and two boys with one on his left and the other on his right. Jaune recognizes them as three of his friends Selfie, Tidus, and Wonka. Jaune hears the voice then say "Hold on, the door won't open just yet. First, tell me about yourself."
"I thought he already learn about Jaune" said Velvet, who cutely tilted her head while looking at the screen.
"That was to set up his path" said Gamer King as he crossed his arms before continuing with "this is to see what type a path it will be based on his character."
"I do have say that our others do live in a nice island though" said Weiss as took in the beautiful scenery before her.
"Agreed" said all of the students as the teachers shook their heads with smiles.
Jaune went to Selfie first and Selfie looked at Jaune and asked "What' most important to you?" To this Jaune replied with the answer of "Friendship is most important to me." Selfie acted like it wasn't a big deal before Jaune went to Wonka to talk to him. As Jaune made to him, Wonka asked Jaune "What do you want out of life?" Jaune pondered a bit before answering the question with "To be strong for my friends and family." Wonka nodded at this before sending Jaune over to Tidus for the last question. Tidus saw Jaune coming to him and as Jaune got there, he asked "What are you afraid of?" Jaune looked at Tidus and said "Being indecisive is what I am afraid of." Tidus nodded at Jaune's answer to the question.
"Well that was very informative makes me wonder if that's how our Jaune will answer" said Yatsu while looking at Jaune
"I will be happy to talk about it when we get our first break" said Jaune with a determined look on his face.
Jaune then heard the voice again as it reviewed his choices with "You want friendship. You want to be strong. You are afraid of being indecisive." Jaune listen as the voice continued with "Your adventure begins at the dead of night. Your road won't be easy, but a rising sun waits at your journey's end." Jaune said that sounded good to him as the voice then cryptically said "The day you open the door I both far off and very near."
"That was very foreboding" said Blake whose mind was trying to figure out what the last line meant.
"Something tells me that Jaune is going to have a difficult journey ahead of him" said Ren as he was able to figure out the first part which got many to agree.
All of a sudden Jaune finds himself surrounded by a bright flash of white light once again and feel it take him somewhere else. Jaune sees he is standing on a re stain glass flor with Sleeping Beauty surrounded by green thorns on it. Jaune walks towards the middle, only to finds him to be surrounded by six heartless.
"How dare they get the drop on our fearless leader like that" said Nora while shaking her fist at the screen.
Seeing as the other students were worried for Jaune, Ozpin said "Relax my students; let us see how Mr. Arc can handle the situation before him."
Jaune quickly slashed the two heartless on his left side before they could do anything to him and destroyed them. The one heartless in front of him attacked, but Jaune blocked it with the shield before stabbing the heartless to destroy that one. He quickly stabbed the two on his right multiple times in order to only one opponent left. The last heartless attacked him from behind and caused Jaune to hit the ground. Jaune quickly got out of the way of its next attack before slashing it with the sword to destroy it.
"Alright he made it out a live" said Sun as jumped out of his seat at the end of the fight.
The seven girls who have a thing for Jaune gave a sigh of relief that the other Jaune was alright.
Suddenly a bright green circle appeared in the middle of the area and Jaune went to it as it seemed important. When Jaune made it to the green circle and stepped inside it, his body began to feel better and his injuries began to heal. Though in the back of Jaune's mind he had a feeling that this green circle he was in probably has more uses for the near future. Just as he finished up healing a path shows up out of nowhere and leads to a yellow cathedral like column in the distance. Jaune decided to follow the path figuring out it might lead to his last destination.
"Good thing that circle was there to heal him" said Ruby which got nods of agreement from her friends.
"I have to say Mr. Arc might be on to something about it being more useful in the future" said Oobleck while looking at the circle with a critical eye.
Jaune was walking up the path that was made for him, when he saw that the same path was disappearing behind him as well. This let him to believe that he had made the right decision to follow it to its destination. As Jaune got to the top, he sees a light coming down onto a yellow stain glass floor with Belle and the Beast on it. As Jaune walked to the light he heard the voice say "The closer you get to the light, the greater your shadow becomes." When Jaune heard this he turned around to see his shadow come to live and stared to grow. The voice then told him not to be afraid as the shadow becomes more monster-like. Jaune, seeing no place to run, got ready to for a fight.
"What in the world happen to his shadow?" said Professor Port who had a very shocked expression on his face.
"It became a heartless for him to fight and for Jaune to see how he holds up against an opponent that size" said Gamer King in response to Port.
"And like his other saw there is no place to run, so he has no choice but to fight" said Yang as she was worried for Jaune.
Jaune decided to go for the legs first to see if he can make it go down so he can attack the upper body easier. This attack did only a small amount of damage to the giant heartless that stood before him. Suddenly the giant heartless hit the ground with its fist and the shock wave caused Jaune to fall onto the ground. Jaune quickly got back up and went for the arm and that caused more damage to the heartless. The giant heartless then hit Jaune with an electric attack from it chest. As Jaune got up from this attack he could see that the giant heartless had summon some little heartless to help it out.
"Now that is not fair for it to summon help" said Coco with her arms crossed in anger at the heartless.
Many nodded in agreement with her but some knew sometime that is how a real fight works in the world.
Jaune took care of the little heartless very easily, but he still was feeling that he was being overwhelmed in this fight. All of a sudden, the shield and sword disappeared off of Jaune's person as the giant heartless hit the ground for another shock wave attack. As Jaune was down on the ground the darkness tried to swallow him up as he was struggling. The voice came back and reminded Jaune to not be afraid. The voice then said "You hold the mightiest weapon of all. So don't forget, you are the one who opens the door."
"Easier said than done, when you're not the one being swallowed up by darkness" said Neptune as he was worried for his friend.
"Relax buddy, remember this is dream as well as a vision, so I am sure my other is fine" said Jaune reminding his friends that his other was also dreaming.
This caused many to relax as many forgot about this important factor of what they witness. Once relaxed they turned back to the screen to see what happens next.
Jaune slowly opens his eyes to see that he was on the beach of his home island and relaxed a bit. He yawns and was about to lay back down when suddenly he sees Velvet looking at him, right in his face. Jaune jumps in fright as Velvet giggles at him and Jaune said "Give me a break here, Velvet." Velvet replied to him with "Jaune, you lazy bum. I knew that I'd find you snoozing down here." Jaune tried to defend himself by explaining the events that have happen to which she said that it was all a dream.
"Wow you two seem close in this" said Yang with a tinge of jealousy in her voice.
Jaune heard and replied with "Please, don't forget Yang that you and the others are on this island too and we also might be close as well."
Yang looked sheepish and said "Oh, I forgot about that."
Unknown to Jaune, his statement calmed down the other girls as well while Velvet was on cloud nine at Yang's statement.
Jaune wasn't sure whether to believe it was a dream or not as it was too real to be an actual dream yet somethings he saw was impossible to happen in real life. As he saw Velvet go to the shoreline he asked "Hey Velvet, what was your hometown like? You know the place where you grew up." Velvet giggled at him and said "I've told you before, I don't remember." The two went into a conversation about it and about wanting to go see other worlds together. They heard some say 'Hey' and turned to see the boy from the dream. The boy then said "Aren't you forgetting about somebody." Jaune recognized the boy as one his friends, Riku.
"So that is the child's name" said Goodwitch while trying to get a read on the boy on screen because for some reason she does not like what this means down the road.
"If he a friend to Jaune, then that must mean he is a friend to the rest of us as well" said Sage as he got nods from the other students about this.
"Yet I feel like he stuck in the middle of something and it has to do with Jaune's journey somehow" said Pyrrha which got people thinking and the four silently think about how right she was about Riku.
Riku then said "So, I guess that I am working on the raft alone then." He then tossed the log he was holding onto Jaune as Riku jokily said to Velvet with "And you are as lazy as he is." Velvet giggled at Riku's statement and suggested that they have a race to help out. The boys got confused looks on their faces as they look at Velvet for answers. Velvet started the race anyways and the two boys took off with smiles on their faces while Velvet was behind them and their other friends watching in the distance. These friends were none other than Team RWBY, the rest of Team JNPR, Team SSSN, and the rest of Team CVFY. The screen fades to black thus ending the scene.
"I have to say that was very fun to watch" said Jaune as he actually enjoyed himself and smiled at his other having fun with his friends.
"Agreed" said Blake as she nodded before continued with "though I get the feeling our other are going to drive head first into some action soon."
This statement got many nods understanding as they could not find a flaw in her logic.
Their host got their attention by saying "Glad you like it, but before we continue there are two things I like to first." Gamer King got up and went to the center of the room and said "First, I like FU, TU, and RE, to please bring some snacks and drinks for our guests."
"Sure thing, boss" said the trio with TU giving him a two finger salute as they left to get the snacks.
Gamer King nodded at before turning back to the group to say "The second thing is I am bringing five more guests on board with this adventure, so get ready." After he said this he snapped his finger and five flashes appear.
End Chapter 2
Next Time: Chapter 3: The Raft, The Fruit Race, and The Cave.
A/N: It might have been a short one but it took a while to make. Okay first, I went with one of my favorite combos with the sword and shield choice and I would like to know what your favorite combo of that choice from the game. Second is the reason I am updating my Ace Attorney fanfic twice is because it is a visual novel game series and wording is very important to get right at least that is my opinion. Lastly is that the Detective Pikachu poll didn't go so well, so I had to go with plan B and had my dad draw out 24 slips of paper in a bowl. 14 slips for Detective Pikachu and 10 slips for Tim Goodman, the extra 4 slips for Pikachu are in honor of the ones that have voted to which I thank you. Anyways my dad did the drawing and it came out Tim Goodman as the winner for Jaune's role and please, remembers I am doing the game not the movie. Now, Just a heads up this Fanfic won't get started until I finished one of the three that I have, so I ask of you to please wait for that Fanfic. Next update is Ace Attorney, so until then see you next time.