Jaune woke up with a terrible headache, he got up and looked around to see a vast desert, he couldn't see any nearby buildings or structures, he then turned around to see both teams BRNZ and NDGO, he walked to them to see if they were ok, he looked to see that none of them were hurt physically, Jaune woke up Nebula first, "Nebula wake up" Jaune said shaking her, she slowly woke up and looked at Jaune, "where are we?" She asked "in the middle of the desert. Wake the rest of your team up and I'll wake up BRNZ" he told her, she nodded and got up and went to wake her team and Jaune went to wake up BRNZ. Everyone was getting up and looking around, they saw the same thing as Jaune, nothing. "Great were stuck out here!" Dew yelled "well at least we have ten days worth of supplies! And all was have to do is head south and well be at Shade" Nolan told her "easy for you! I have sand in my hair!" "I got sand in my pants! Quit complaining!" Dew just gave him her middle finger and Nolan did the same, "both of you please shut up! I'm trying to look threw the Bags to see of there's a compass or not!" Jaune yelled "your the one who got us into this mess ya know!" Dew yelled "yeah well I would have been just fine without your help if all you can do is bitch and moan" Jaune told her, this surprised Brawnz because he had never heard Jaune swear, even when they called on the scrolls, "excuse me!? I know you didn't just say that to me!?" Dew yelled and Jaune just walked up to her "look, I know this fucking sucks ok? But pull the stick out of your ass and listen!" Jaune yelled "I found the compass. Were heading that way" Jaune said pointing to a rang of mountains that was a ways away but it was the closets mountain range, "were all carrying a bag, and we rest when we make it half way to the mountains. Any objections?" Jaune asked and no one speaked up so Jaune nodded and they headed out.
Jaune and the other were walking along for over at least an hour, Roy walked up to jaune and then walked next to him, "tell me Jaune Arc, why do you want to join us?" Roy asked the blonde headed boy, "may I ask why you care to know?" Jaune asked him "I want to know, why a man like you, who came from Vale, wanted to come to a shit hole of a city" Roy told Jaune. Roy did have a point, Vacuo was one of the most dangerous city's in all of Remnant, the city has its fair share of crime but outside of the walls of Vacuo, there are bandit tribes and even different types of Grimm, "I want to be free" Jaune told Roy, "but aren't you already free? Your 17 and can make any decision you want. Why do you want to be free from that?" Roy asked him "I want a different type of freedom...One I'll tell you of later" Jaune said continuing to walk, Roy stopped for a bit and looked at Jaune, "a strange man indeed" Roy said walking again.
Dew walked and she eventually managed to be walking next to Jaune, she looked at him and sighed "I'm sorry about earlier, I just hate when shit like this happens" Dew told Jaune, "its fine, I would be to if I got dragged into someone else's problem" Jaune told her, "so, why do you use a sword and shield?" "It's a family heirloom, I took it when I ran away from home to join beacon, and I've didn't know how to fight with one till later on, but I'm good at it now, but now its not much of a family heirloom anymore..." Jaune told her, "why's that?" Dew asked back "because of me...But that's another stories for later...If I'm willing to tell it" Jaune told her, Dew looked at both Nolan and Nebula, the reason was because their weapons were a bit similar to Jaune's, Nolan used a long metal rod with electrical Dust while Nebula used a Crossbow/sword hybrid, both didn't really swing well, they could block but not attack, "you could teach Nolan and Nebula to use a their weapons like yours, Oum knows they need it" Dew muttered the last part bit Jaune still heard it, "maybe if their willing to give it a go..." Jaune said. Jaune stopped and so did every one else, Jaune cheaked his scroll to see it was 3:20, Jaune also saw that they were indeed half way to the mountain range, "alright everyone! We rest here for the day, see if theirs tents or anything in the bag that we could use as shade" Jaune told them and they all nodded. Everyone looked threw the bags and found five tents, they were small but two people could fit in them, Jaune did the math in his head and knew that some one was going to sleep alone, he of course wanted to sleep alone, "alright guys here's how thus is going to go down, two people will have to sleep in one tent, so here's how that'll go, Nebula and Dew will share tent #1, Gwen and Octavia will tent #2, Brawnz and Roy will share tent #3, Nolan and May will share tent #4, and I will take tent #5. One of us is going to have to sleep alone and that'll be me..." Jaune said "everyone ok with that?" Jaune asked and they all agreed, so they unpacked and set up camp.
It was night, they set up a fire and everyone gathered around, they found a flat rock and pulped out a couple of steaks for them to eat, granted they had to cook one at a time. Jaune sat down and sharpened Croceas Mors, Gwen, Nolan, Brawnz, and Nebula watched him with curiousness, "so Jaune" Nolan began and catching Jaune's attention "why do you want to join Shade? I mean I'm sure you could have gone to beacon in Vale right? So why join us?" Nolan asked, Jaune looked at him and then the others, Jaune then stabbed his sword in the ground and looked at them, "cause I was kicked out of beacon" Jaune told him, this caught everyone's attention "why? What did you do?" Nolan asked Jaune "I'm not gonna tell you till this is done" Jaune said bluntly "when did you get kicked out?" Gwen asked him "a month ago" Jaune said "what did you do before coming here during that month?" Nebula asked him "I went back home but..." Jaune then hissed as he rubbed his back at that horrible memory "let's just say that didn't go so well, infact my family disowned me, left me with nothing, along with my friends back in beacon..." Jaune said, then he hissed again and rubbed his back, what his family did to him still stung and burned sometimes, "if I can ask again, why do you want to join us. You told me you want to be free, but free from what?" Roy asked, Jaune looked at him, and then to the others and he just looked at them, Gwen looked at his eyes again, they were dull and tired but that's when she saw what she had once saw before in herself, his eyes were dead. "I'm looking to die" Jaune told Roy, they all looked at him with sadness and a bit of understanding, "why do you want to die?" Nebula asked, Jaune chuckled at this, "why? You wanna know why?" Jaune asked while laughing "it because since I was born no one believed in me. I was sick when I was born and the doctors told my parents that I wouldn't survive a week, so my parents gave up on me, when I was 10 I wanted to train to be a huntsmen but when my father and older sister trained me I could barely fight back so they gave up on me, and when I left for beacon my family told me I could do it! But my parents told me that the cemetery was always open! When I attended beacon my own friends gave up on my my partner who I trusted with my life let me get beat up and hell even tried to kill me during practice!" Jaune yelled at them, they all froze in fear, "so I'm looking to die, I don't care how and I don't care why all I know is..." Jaune pulled out his sword and then threw it at the group but he missed, they looked to see that standing behind them was a Beowulf and Jaune's sword was stuck in its skull, "grab your weapons we have Grimm" Jaune told them and they ran and Jaune pulled his sword out of the Beowulf. 'He's gonna get us all killed!' Dew and May thought to themselves.