Hello everyone, I'm back with another update for The Lunar Lupine Blade!
So it's been awhile since I last updated this story. I feel like something major happened…oh yeah, Soulcalibur 6 got announced. Here's looking forward to the triumphant return of one of my favorite videogame franchises. In (a delayed) celebration, here's an update to help tide us over until we can return to the stage of history.
Disclaimer: I own nothing!
After the initiation, Teams RWBY and JNPR managed to quickly settle into their school lives. There was some initial tension between Weiss and Ruby with the former believing she would be a better than the latter, but after a talk with Professor Port, a boisterous but wise instructor, helped the Schnee ease up a bit and started the two girls on the path of being friends. The other two members of the all girl team didn't have much difficulty either, while both became friends with the rest of their team, and JNPR, Blake remained her bookworm self and Yang continued to tell her puns.
Meanwhile Team JNPR had an equally easy time adjusting to life at Beacon, for the most part. Ren and Nora didn't experience many changes from when their previous lives, mostly just better beds, more friends, and more pancakes for Nora. Pyrrha had the best transition as although her teammates were aware of her accomplishments, none sought to use their teammates celebrity to their advantage, leading to Pyrrha finding three true friends.
As for Jaune…
Currently the knight was in combat class, facing off against Cardin Winchester, a tall teen wore full armor with his family's bird crest on the chest plate. Currently, the taller teen was battling Jaune with a large mace. Unfortunately Jaune's lack of combat training was becoming painfully apparent. As with the current times he'd been chosen to fight during class, Jaune was loosing…badly.
As Jaune was bent over, catching his breath from the latest exchange, Cardin confidently strove forward. Almost lazily, the teen swung his mace, Jaune just barely able to catch the blow with the blade. As the two deadlocked once again, Cardin pressed his advantage, forcing Jaune to backpedal a bit. With a smirk, the orange haired boy stated, "This is the part where you fall down."
Through gritted teeth, Jaune managed, "Over my dead…" Jaune would have continued speaking, had Cardin not kneed the blond below the belt. With the deadlock broken, Cardin tried to capitalize by swinging, trying to hit Jaune but only catching the other teens shield, sending the equipment out of the arena.
"You see that Arc?" Cardin challenged, "That's the result of having superior equipment instead of random junk you find in the forest."
Hearing his family heirloom being called junk riled Jaune up a little, but the teen knew he had to keep a clear head. Cardin had the advantage, in height, training, and in weaponry. Sure Jaune could use Crocea Mors with a two handed grip, but the teen knew it would be a weak stance that would easily be broken. With no other choice Jaune drew his second weapon, Kreuzgriff, holding the blade parallel with his forearm. In response, Cardin sneered has he rested his mace across his shoulders, "And now we have the other piece of junk."
"You say that now," Jaune replied, "but just think how embarrassing it will be once this junk beats you."
Cardin took the bait, charging forward. Once more he swung his mace, Jaune intercepting the blow with Kreuzgriff, his arm tingling from the impact but his blade holding true and protecting him. With Caridn wide open, Jaune struck out with Corcea Mors, landing a heavy hit on Cardin's midsection, taking the teen's aura from 95% to 80%. Growing angrier, Cardin activated the dust gem in the center of his mace and launched a downward strike, hoping to catch Jaune with a heavy blow, however the attack was broadcast and Jaune could have easily dodged. Instead the teen did something risky.
Switching the grip on Kreuzgriff, Jaune held the blade straight, then brought both his swords up to form an x, catching the shaft of Cardin's mace. While the taller teen was shocked by the block, Jaune kept going. Putting as much strength as possible in his movements, the knight swung outward with both blades, cutting the mace in half. As the head fell behind him, Jaune attacked the still stunned Cardin. As an explosion went off behind him, Jaune focused on the fight in front of him. Striking out with both swords, Jaune landed blow after blow against his opponent, not stopping until he heard a buzzer.
Leaving Cardin on the ground, Jaune took a few steps back as the click clack of heels alerted him of Glynda Goodwitch walking behind him. "And that is the match." Goodwitch commented as she walked forward before addressing the rest of the class, "As you can see, Mr. Winchester's aura is in the red, indicating an end to a tournament style duel." The combat instructor then turned to Jaune and complimented the boy, "Good use of tactics and weaponry Mr. Arc, but perhaps you should start the battle as such." She then turned to Cardin and lectured, "As for you Mr. Winchester, I recommend using her head as much as your strength in battles from now on. We wouldn't want you to be gobbled up by a Beowolf now would we?" In response Cardin just growled. Glynda would have continue to reprimand the boy, had the bell for lunch not rung for lunch.
Jaune was about to follow his team to the cafeteria, but stopped when Cardin yelled out, "I demand Arc be punished!"
"And just why should a student be punished for beating you in a sparring session?" Glynda challenged.
In response Cardin held up the broken shaft of his mace and said, "For destruction of another student's personal property, a violation of the student handbook."
"It happened in combat." Jaune tried to defend himself before turning to the instructor and asking, "I honestly can't be punished for this, right?"
"Honestly, this is a complex situation. I believe it's best to go to Ozpin and settle this." Glynda stated as she guided the two boys to the headmaster's office.
It took twenty minutes for Glynda to recap the situation to her boss, the entire time Cardin spent glaring at Jaune. Once Glynda finished speaking, the Arc tried to appeal to everyone by saying, "If this about Cardin's mace, can't I just pay to have it replaced."
Before either adult could respond, Cardin sneered and stated, "My mace was a custom made, well outside the price range of someone who fights with random hunks of metal."
Jaune was about to launch into a tirade about Cardin calling his weapons junk once more, only to have to stop himself when Ozpin raised a hand. "Now, Mr. Winchester, rest assure that your mace will either be repaired or replaced, however do you acknowledge that this incident happened during a combat scenario?"
"If you could call it a fight." Cardin replied with a huff.
"Then you are perfectly aware such things as this may happen during a fight." At hearing this, Jaune smirked, believing he'd done nothing. That was until the headmaster spoke up again, "Now for you Mr. Arc. Could you say that you, perhaps, used a bit more force than necessary."
Immediately Jaune wanted to say he'd only used enough force as necessary for the spar, however the headmaster's words gave the teen pause. After a few seconds Jaune nodded his head and said, "I suppose it's a possibility."
"Good, now here's what's going to happen. Cardin, Beacon staff will get straight to work on fixing your mace. As for you Mr. Arc, there won't be a mark on your record. Instead you'll be Mr. Winchester's assistant for the next week. Now I believe you two are late for lunch, we don't want any up and coming hunters missing a meal now do we?"
The walk to the cafeteria was silent. Once in the building, Cardin gave Jaune his first order, "Go get my food and make sure it isn't crap." As he waited in line, Jaune was tempted to just grab Cardin a salad and be done with it, but knowing he'd already be in hell for the week Jaune wasn't jumping at the chance to make things worse. Ultimately Jaune grabbed Cardin one of Beacon's standard burgers, as for his own lunch all the cafeteria had left was a plate of chicken nuggets and French fries.
With a tray in each hand, Jaune now had the herculean task of finding not only Cardin, but also his friends inside the big building. Thankfully his own team was rather easy to spot, Nora's excited movements easily being caught out of the corner of Jaune's eye. Cardin and his team were a few tables away, harassing one of the Faunus students, a bunny girl named Velvet that Jaune had run into a few times at the library. Seeing how no one was going to intervene even when the teen began pulling on Velvet's rabbit ears, Jaune was about to start a fight, consequences be damned, that was until he got a better idea.
As he walked behind Cardin, Jaune seemingly tripped on his own feet, falling. By some "miracle" Jaune kept his own food tray stead as he hit the ground. The burger, however, flew from the plate, hitting Cardin in the back of the neck. The taller boy inadvertently let go of Velvet as he felt the patty, pickles, mustard and ketchup slid down his neck and into his shirt. Once freed, Velvet quickly ran away, the mohawked Russel Thrush did nothing to stop her, while Cardin quickly rounded on Jaune.
"What the hell was that Arc!" the taller teen yelled.
"Sorry, guess I tripped." Jaune weakly said.
Was it wrong that Jaune took a small bit of pleasure in seeing Cardin's face get so red? The blond honestly thought Cardin was going to start a fight, but perhaps sensing the crowd around him the boy instead said, "Whatever, just go get me another lunch."
"Actually," Jaune began, "that was the last one."
In response, Cardin enacted an old bully standby, he stole Jaune's chicken nuggets. Really the knight should have given a bigger protest to having his lunch stolen, but right now he was just glad nothing too embarrassing had happened. Luckily his team members and the girls of Team RWBY shared parts of their lunch with him once the teen explained how he was basically Cardin's servant for the next week.
Later that night Jaune was alone in the dorm room working on Cardin's homework, apparently the other teen took "assistant" to mean "do everything for me or face my wrath." After finishing the paper that was assigned by Dr. Oobleck for Cardin's less than intelligent remarks in class. As he finished the last page, the pent up rage and frustration Jaune was feeling about Cardin, about his performance in Beacon, about his life in general finally released itself in a loud scream in the empty room, or so Jaune thought.
"Jaune?" Pyrrha asked as she entered the room, "Are you okay? I know that you've got a hard week ahead, but I'm sure you can do it. You didn't get into Beacon for nothing." Pyrrha tried to help out.
"But I didn't." Jaune said in a voice his partner barely heard. "You, Ruby, hell practically everyone here are amazing fighters, but not me. I never had any training, I had to lie to get here." The teen then got up and walked past his stunned partner to the closet, grabbing his clothes as he said, "I'm tired of being the weakest and not improving, I tired of being the one who needs saving. I don't know why I didn't see it earlier but I don't deserve to be here. I can get a hotel room tonight, then go home tomorrow. I'm sure Ozpin will give you a new partner, one who is actually as skilled as you."
As he went to leave the room, Jaune felt Pyrrha grab his shoulder very roughly. "You're wrong. Maybe you aren't the strongest now, but that doesn't mean you can't be better. You beat Cardin today, over half the class can't do that. You might now see it, but you are improving, so stay and let us help you."
"If I can't do this on my own, then what's the point in even trying?" Jaune challenged, only to be slapped to the floor by Pyrrha. While Jaune rubbed his cheek, he looked up to see a frowning red head.
"Do you honestly believe all of us were born as good as we are?" Pyrrha challenged back. "Ren and Nora have been training together for years, Weiss had military grade training from her sister, Ruby's been learning from her uncle since she was six, Yang's dad has been teaching her how to fight since she could walk."
"And you?" Jaune questioned.
Pyrrha looked down as she said, "Yes I'm a prodigy, but I wouldn't be one if my teachers didn't encourage my growth." She then tried to appeal to Jaune's sense of reason once more, "Maybe you got into Beacon via less than ethical means, but that doesn't change the fact you are here, and learning three combat styles no less! So for the last time, let your friends help you. I can show you some better stances for your sword and shield, Blake can give you some pointers for duel wielding, and I'm sure Weiss has read about something similar to Kreuzgriff before."
As Jaune sat on the floor processing everything Pyrrha had said to him, the teen realized how much of an idiot he was being. "Hey Pyrrha, thanks."
Pyrrha's smile returned, just as the door opened again. At seeing Jaune on the floor and the still fresh hand print on the blond's cheek, Nora instantly began crying, "Ren, the team mom and dad are fighting!"
It took a full ten minutes, and the promise of ice cream, to get Nora to calm down. By then the freshmen curfew had begun. With nothing else left to do, Team JNPR began getting ready for bed. As he began falling asleep, Jaune could have sworn he heard a voice say, "Still not ready, but close."
As predicted, the next week proved to be hell for Jaune. Cardin had the boy doing the most degrading of tasks, ranging from fetching his food to polishing his armor. To add insult, Cardin even had Jaune start doing his teammate's homework as well, reasoning it was the team leader's responsibility to make sure no one failed. Although in a surprise turn of events Russel refused all of Jaune's services. When the knight asked why, the dagger wielder shrugged before saying he came to Beacon to learn so why rob himself of the knowledge.
Thankfully it was the final day of Jaune's punishment, unfortunately it involved going to the Forever Fall forest, so named since all the tree leaves stayed red. The trip was a field trip for Professor Peach's class, although since the notoriously reclusive professor had yet to leave their, the students were unsure if Peach was a man or woman, office the trip was led by Professor Goodwitch.
"Now students, Professor Peach requires a large amount of sap for sampling. Therefore each of you is responsible for collecting one jar's worth." The woman explained as she used her semblance to unload the glass jars from the Bullhead. As the students collected their supplies they naturally began to partner off. Pyrrha was about to walk up to Jaune, only for Cardin to grab the boy by the collar as he said, "Sorry, but Arc is going to be working with us today."
After about an hour and a half Jaune stumbled into the clearing where Team CRDL was relaxing. After falling to the ground, the teen thought aloud, "I think I'm allergic to this stuff." Jaune's voice sounded a bit different due to his nose being clogged.
"Well done Jonny boy." Cardin commented as he got up. "Now seeing as this is your last day as my assistant, I figured we'd celebrate. Now, I'm sure you're wondering why I had you fill up six jars when you only needed five."
"Among other things, yes I've been curious about that." Jaune bit back.
"Well you see, your partner has been getting on my nerves recently." Cardin began to explain. "Always having the correct answers and showing me up in combat class," he held up the extra jar as he finished, "so now I think it's time little miss invincible felt what it is to be knocked off her pedestal."
Jaune was horrified by that bully's plan. He was going to speak out against it when someone beat him to the punch. "Isn't that a bit far?" Russel asked. "I mean I get that you don't like that chick but come on. That sap is known to attract Grimm, and I don't think anyone is particularly ready to deal with an Ursa right now."
Jaune was relieved that CRDL had at least one rational member, although their leader seemed less so. A red faced Cardin stalked towards Russel as he stated, "I am the leader, that means my word is law. If I saw we prank the bitch, we prank the bitch. You got it?" The taller teen finished his statement by standing directly in front of his teammate.
Russel was silent for a moment before he came to a decision. Take a few steps backward before turning on his heel, Russel walked away as he called over his shoulder, "Do whatever you want, just leave me out of it."
Cardin would have gone after his wayward teammate until he noticed a tiny detail, one of the jars was missing.
Pyrrha was with the remainder of her team and Team RWBY collecting sap, save Nora who kept attempting to eat it, when she heard glass breaking. Going where she believed she heard the noise, the Spartan climbed a shot hill and came to a clearing to see an infuriating sight. Sky and Dove held her teammate's arms behind his back while Cardin stalked forward, his armor stained by the sap.
"Big mistake Arc." Cardin taunted as he stalked forward, however the blond wasn't ideal. Seeing how his arms were useless at the moment, the teen instead used his legs. Using one of his feet, Jaune slid his appendage around one of Sky's ankles, hooking the boy and pulling backwards. As all three fell into one giant lump, the other two lost their grip on Jaune's arms. Quickly taking hold of the situation, Jaune delivered a quick elbow to each boy's unprotected throat, nothing too serious but definitely enough to keep them out of the fight for a bit. The blond then turned his attention to Cardin.
Launching forward, Jaune brought the taller teen down with a fist to the face. Unlike his teammates, Cardin managed to keep his senses as he fell, grabbing Jaune's extended arm and pulling the Arc to the ground with him. From there the pair engaged in a heated fist fight, their Auras being the only thing keeping black eyes and broken noses from developing. Somehow Cardin managed to get his legs under Jaune's stomach and kicked the shorter boy away. Quickly standing up, Jaune stalked forward and gave the still down Cardin one good kick before saying, "Embarrass and humiliate me, fine I can handle that. But you do not go after my friends!" Jaune would have continued the verbal beat down, had a loud roar not interrupted him.
Entering the clearing was a large Ursa Major, covered in white bone spikes. The negativity of the brawl, and the scent of Cardin's stained chest plate, had attracted the Grimm. Now recovered and having their breath back, Sky and Dove did what was natural to them, they ran. Although it saw the two boys running, the Ursa turned its attention to the greatest source of negativity present, Jaune.
As the beast roared and charged, Jaune on instinct went to draw his sword, only to grasp thin air as Cardin had forced the knight to leave his weapons behind, saying if he was going unarmed so was his assistant. With everything spiraling out of control, Jaune held up a fist and got read to hit the Grimm and yelled, "Will you shut up!"
"Now you are ready." Jaune heard a voice say before a miracle happened. Jaune felt a small bit of his Aura vanish as what could only be described as a portal opened in front of him. Emerging from rift was a silver being with a wolf's head, its arms looking almost mechanical, in place of legs was a jet, and sticking out of its body was a large crescent moon-like object. The being wasn't ideal, charging forward to meet the Ursa. The Grimm, seeing a new enemy, reared up and attempted to swat the thing away, only to have its paw grabbed by the being. As the beast roared once more, the strange summon ended the fight, using a clawed hand to sink its fingers into the beast's throat before pulling upward, decapitating the Ursa.
As the summon hovered over its now dissolving enemy, it turned back to Jaune, who suddenly found his voice. "Thank you…E.I.N." Jaune said, suddenly knowing the name of his minion. In response E.I.N nodded before disappearing through another portal. The smile on Jaune's face fell when he turned back to Cardin, who was holding out a hand to be pulled up. In response, Jaune delivered a quick knuckle sandwich. "Get up yourself, we're done here." Jaune stated as he walked out of the clearing, passing by Pyrrha as he went.
Quickly Pyrrha caught up to her partner. "Jaune, what just happened back there?" she demanded.
"That," Jaune began, "was me probably getting a detention. On the bright side it appears I've finally found out what my semblance is."
By some luck Jaune hadn't gotten another detention. Either Goodwitch had been alerted to Cardin's plans or Cardin didn't feel like admitting he'd lost another fight to the Arc. Either way by the time Team JNPR got back to Beacon all four members were tired, exhausted, and dirty. Each had one thing in mind, a hot shower. Unfortunately the dorm rooms didn't have attached bathrooms, meaning to get clean the team would have to venture to the communal showers.
After grabbing their shower supplies, Ren and Jaune stood waiting in the locker room until Nora called out, "Okay boys, you can come in now." As he walked to his shower stall, Jaune couldn't help but wonder why Ozpin made the showers co-ed. Maybe the old man was trying to get the students used to living so close together since privacy is so scarce on missions. Whatever the case the teen was just glad that most teams had already gotten a shower, even if each stall had a curtain for privacy.
Finishing rather quickly compared to his teammates, due in part to having shorter hair and perfecting the art of a quick shower due to having seven sisters, Jaune quickly dried off in his stall before putting the towel around his waist. After gathering his cleaning supplies, the blond opened the curtain as Ren did the same, an relatively common occurrence. What was uncommon was when Ren spoke up, "Jaune, when did you get a tattoo?"
"A what?" Jaune asked, not remembering ever getting one as his sisters and Grandma Viola would kill him if he ever did so. In response, Ren nodded to Jaune's chest. When Jaune looked down, his eyes widened in shock. There, sitting on almost the entirety of his chest as a black crescent moon with intricate line work in the interior.
While Jaune tried to piece together how and when he'd gotten such a thing, and how he didn't notice it while he was showering. Nora decided to peak over the shower curtain and added her lien to the conversation. "Fearless leader got some ink done? Cool! Hey, we should all go get tattoos!"
While Ren started trying to convince his long time friend to at least wait a few years, or at least have a good design instead of making such a snap decision, Pyrrha moved her shower curtain slightly to see what all the fuss was about. Admittedly the tattoo didn't seem to be completely in Jaune's character, although she couldn't deny it added a rouge-like quality to her crush.
As everything was happening Jaune just shook his head before heading back to the dorm room, he'd figure this out later, right now he wanted to sleep.
The members of Team CRDL wanted to sleep as well, however their leader had different plans.
"Why are we out here again?" the ever squinting Dove asked as the team wondered around a cave system in the Emerald Forest.
"Because I need a new weapon." Cardin simply stated. He was tired of not having a weapon anymore. From what rumors he'd heard, Arc had found one of his swords in the caves. The Winchester knew in his heart the other boy wasn't naturally talented, so there must be some trick or gimmick with that sword. Once Cardin found such a weapon himself he'd show Jonny boy just who is the boss. In his haste to achieve that goal, Cardin hadn't allowed his team any rest. After dropping off his stained chest plate, he'd recruited the other three boys to help him look.
"But do we have to do it at night?" Sky called out from somewhere to Cardin's left. "This place gives me the creeps."
"Can it." Cardin roughly ordered. "Arc needs to learn his lesson, and if Ozpin or Goodbitch aren't going to anything I'll do it myself." Once the words were said, Cardin expected Russel to speak up again. The mohawked teen had been rather mouth lately, suggesting Cardin easy up on everyone. Even now the boy wasn't contributing much, just standing behind the group. Once Cardin found his new weapon, he'd have to straighten him out as well.
The next ten minutes were silent, save for Dove and Sky's constant mentions of wanting to head back. Cardin was about ready to yell at the pair again, only for his eyes to catch just a hint of light ahead. Walking forward, the tall teen could just barely make out the shaft of the weapon leaning against the wall. Grabbing and hefting the weapon up, he was surprised to find he was holding an axe with an extremely large blade. Slowly a smile appeared on Cardin's lips, his mace wouldn't be ready for weeks, and beggars can't be choosers. If he couldn't crush his enemies, he'd settle for dismembering them.
"Good you found something." Dove called out. "Now let's get going."
Cardin was about to speak, when he heard a rough voice, 'Power, we need more power.' his team. Once more the voice called out, 'They have power. We must take it!'
"Cardin, are you alright buddy?" Dove asked as he walked forward. His answer was the axe's blade to his head. The attack was so sudden that the teen didn't even have time to activate his Aura. As his body feel, Cardin turned to his remaining shocked teammates.
"Power!" Cardin roared, "Need more power!" He then charged at his former teammates. Russel and Sky tried making a run for it, the latter tripping. Russel made an attempt to go back and help his friend up, only for Cardin to reach him first, forcing the dagger user to run ahead or suffer the same fate. Although extremely frightened by what was happening, one detail stood out to Russel. Cardin's eyes now lacked a pupil, they were completely white. No matter how interesting though, that was a detail for later, right now Russel needed to make it out of the cave and find some Scroll service, his former leader needed to be stopped.
"Play it again Glynda." Ozpin said as the recording stopped. It had been a few hours since Team CRDL's room was found empty after curfew, shortly after an emergency call was made by one of the missing teens.
"Yes sir." Glynda replied as she keyed up the recording again. It was shortly after the call had ended that a team of experienced Huntsmen and local police officers went into the Emerald Forest, easily finding the cave system and the bodies of Dove Bronzewing and Sky Lark. Cardin and Russel remained unaccounted for, and it the recording was any indicator neither would be found anytime soon.
"You've got to help," the recorded voice of Russel pleaded, "It's my team leader, Cardin Winchester. He's gone crazy, he just murd-" the rest of the word was cut off by a scream of pain. The remaining message was nothing but a few sounds of a Scroll hitting the ground before being crushed underfoot.
After hearing the message countless times, Glynda spoke up, "Just what are we dealing with Ozpin? Is this related to that sword we pulled from the cave?"
"For once Glynda, I don't know." Ozpin admitted. "It seems that whatever this is, it's older than I am, had long been forgotten even before I was a boy."
"Could this be one of her plans?" Glynda asked. "And what are we going to tell the parents? How can this school be safe when we have an axe murderer running around?"
"I don't think this is anything regarding Salem, which is just a troubling. A third party to this centuries old conflict with unclear motives save to kill, let us hope they never meet." Ozpin the glared as he said, "As for the parents, the Council has already told all four families their boys died during an unsupervised and unscheduled Grimm hunt. The Council doesn't think it would look good for Vale's image to have an unsolved murder so close to the Vytal Festival."
Glynda scoffed at that but said nothing. Every Huntsman and Huntress knew the councils were general useless to their line of work, filled with politicians that may do some good occasionally but are more interested in staying in power no matter the cost. All the woman could hope for was that Cardin would eventually be caught, and that his former teammates were enjoying a pleasant afterlife.
Russel awoke with a gasp. The first thing he noticed was that he was lying face down on the deck of a ship. He wasn't sure how this was possible. The last thing he remembered was running from his crazy ex-leader, of somehow Cardin catching up enough to slash him across the back, of his Aura breaking before Cardin snapped his neck and tossed him from the cliffs of the Emerald Forest into the river below.
"Good boy, you're awake." The teen thank whoever saved him, only to fall silent. Before him was a bearded old man with white hair wearing a ridiculous hat, but what stopped Russel's heart was the man's purple skin and white lifeless eyes, the same eyes Cardin had. "Boy, do you know how to sail?" Hesitantly Russel nodded, having learned a few summers back in Vacuo. "Good, if you had been dead weight I'd throw you back into the sea. Now get to work releaseing the sail."
"Aye captain." Russel said before rushing off to work, not knowing what was happening but knowing not to make the man mad.
The captain watched as his new charge got to work untying and retying various knots as he manipulated the rigging. It was tough work, but the teen seemed to manage just fine. Strolling forward, the man stopped at the edge of the bow as he looked to the horizon. 'Soon sword you shall return to your master, the immortal pirate Cervantes de León!'
So 11 pages, not my longest update but the chapters are slowly growing in length.
I'm surprised I was actually able to cover that much in so few words. As you can tell I skipped the first few episodes after the Emerald Forest just because they really don't pertain to this story, don't worry though Team RWBY isn't going to be excluded from this tale. Mainly I just wanted to get the Jaundice part of the story over with, introduce a few more Soulcalibur weapons/characters, and get the ball rolling on a certain relationship a bit earlier than cannon did.
A quick note about Jaune's future fighting styles, as Pyrrha said Jaune will have three. Right now my planning is that he'll switch between fighting styles as the situation demands it, much like how Blake will switch from wielding her bladed sheath solo to drawing her katana out of it and duel wielding. Hopefully as the story continues this will make more sense.
So with this chapter over, a few more questions appear, such as…
How will Jaune's training go?
What was up with Jaune's tattoo?
Who else will be getting a "special" weapon?
To find out the answers to these questions and more, stay tuned for future instalments of The Lunar Lupine Blade!
Until then, I'm acw28 saying, "until next update."