A Corrupted Arc

Chapter Two: Family and Suspicions.


Jaune woke up pleasantly enough to warrant a still sleeping Summer, the mom of two was a deep sleeper, ingrained from Ruby or Yang screaming in the most ungodly hours that made her sleep all day if needed. The hunter thought it would be a good idea to buy a net and some nails and make a small makeshift hammock so she can sleep above the blond to make her comfortable. It has been over a month working for Krew and they had a decent amount of lien saved up from their jobs ranging from courier work or odd jobs of getting coffee for the workers to keep them up or picking up liquor with the other guards.

"Sum. It's time to wake up and get ready for the day." The corrupted sleep schedule was varied due to seven sisters and a dad that loves to swim early in the morning. The huntress just swatted his hands away and mumbled something about 'a few more minutes Tai…'.

Jaune sighed, hating to do something terrible to the silver eyed mom.

"WAKE UP!" he then grabbed one side of the hammock and spun Summer around while she screams. The hammock stopped with her all tangled up then spun back and the mom of two straightened out as she fell on the bed. She slowly got up with her hair strangely sticking upright.

"Jaune…" the blond immediately recognized the tone of voice from seven older sisters being vengeful and decided to run away but forgot one thing… She was faster than he was and was suddenly on his face, scratching him. All Jaune could do was perform one of his younger sister's screams and run around trying to get her off. Currently the former huntress had the young boy's hair in her hands and pulled in certain directions, steering the tall boy.

"OKAY OKAY I'M SORRY!"

"SAY IT AGAIN!" The silver eyed mom pulled harder.

"I'm very sorry!" she let go of his hair and jumped off his head to his shoulder. The boy turned enforcer rubbed his hair to ease the pain and smiled nonetheless.

"Apology accepted. Now get ready for our day today, I saw Krew sent you another text probably about a mission. We need to head out past the walls of Vale and eradicate some Grimm near a pumping station."

Krew had a pumping station near the walls for his bar due to them needing really nice water to distill their alcoholic drinks to sell on the black market or under a pseudonym to earn more profits. Either that or gun running to arm his men better than Junior.

The duo left for the secret entrance nearby the wall and the As they were walking out, there was a box addressed to Jaune under the surname 'Jack Argent'. Summer used her claws to tear off the tape on the box as the blond opened it up to find more ammunition for his morph gun.

"Hey, there's a note inside as well." the huntress pointed out and grabbed it and read it out loud. The young hunter to be started to stock up on his ammo.

"I see ya are going out to the pumping station. If you guys can find it, find me a rare lightning dust crystal out there. It should be closer to the east part of the facility near some caves. I already put the coordinates on the note and the reason why I found out is a search party found it and is trying to call the SDC down here to look at it. One of my guys tapped the call and got us the info. Anyways, happy hunting and good luck." The duo nodded as the blond took the note and folded it and put it in his pocket. The huntress took out Jaune's scroll and input the coordinates for the cave that has the rare dust crystal.

"Thanks for inputting the coordinates in my scroll. Now let's head off to the pumping station." the blond closed and locked the door to prevent anyone from going ahead and sneaking in the room while on their tasks.


As the two were walking in downtown Vale with the huntress on his shoulder remembering all the landmarks and stores she used to go to. The Dust to Dawn store was a good place for cheap dust supply while there was a cafe not far from the airship docks for Beacon Academy. The door they were looking for was closer to Beacon but was hidden in the cliffside.

As they snuck around the cliffside to reach a large metal door with a gear in the middle of it. Jaune walked up to the left of the door and entered the four numbers provided on his scroll by the mob boss and the gear turned slowly and opened up to reveal a beautiful sandy beach but it was scarred by the massive metal structure that was the pumping station. There was a few packs of Beowulfs and a few Ursa Minors that were roaming around the site.

"Let's get to work." the corrupted had unsheathed Thornside and had charged the pack of twelve Beowulfs with a Alpha seeing the charging hunter and howled to alert the rest to charge the young hunter coming at them. The first of the pack reached him and received a missing arm as he dashed past it and engaged the next beowulf, instantly decapitating it. The next creature of darkness tried to take off the young boy's head but it's claw was deflected by Thornside and was swiftly bisected and started to disappear. He then started to duck and avoid all the claws after him until only the alpha and the one armed beowulf was left.

The alpha had charged and swiped at the young man but he ducked and handed Summer the morph gun to practice her shots on the one armed beowulf in her current form as the corrupted kept up blow for blow until the silver eyed mom killed her monster and shot his in the knee, making it kneel as the blond sliced him diagonally and rounded about to face the Ursa's. The corrupted rushed one of them and started to hack and slash the monster, before decapitating the head off.

The rest of the Grimm stood no match against the duo of light and dark.

"So that takes care of the Grimm in the immediate area. Let's head up and towards the beach. That is where the coordinates are pointing us to." Jaune jumped onto one of the pistons and was launched a few feet in the air and came crashing down on his back, his companion landing square on his stomach, knocking the wind out of him. After a few seconds, he got up and started to follow the path that was shown on his scroll.

"Are you sure we are going the right way?"

"Yeah I'm sure. Unless you put them in wrong." The mom of two had a slightly offended visage as she slapped the back of his head.

"Oh ye of little faith, I made sure that the coordinates were put in properly. You need to have more trust in your elders." Summer quipped with her head raised high.

"If only my elder wasn't currently three feet tall and sheds a lot." The blond earned another smack on the back of his skull for the joke. "Okay I deserved that."

"That you did. Now c'mon, we are getting close to that cave with the crystal! I wonder if it's a new type of dust like I don't know… light?"

"Then there be no need for lightbulbs or torches. I wonder if its a element that's kind of corrupted or something. We have Grimm that are like corrupted animals so why not corrupted dust? Nature's wrath but twisted…" suddenly the blond tripped one a rock and fell face first into the ground but as he got up slowly, Summer saw the crystal in the back of the cave.

"I think that's it Jaune and it definitely doesn't look like any normal dust crystal."

As the duo came closer, it was obvious that it wasn't normal. It was about the size of his palm and looked like it was a mountain range with a giant mountain in the back, a smaller peak on the right of the mountain while on the left was the smallest mountain with cracks going all around it. It was purple color with dark purple electricity sparking every once in a while.

The mom tried to dislodge the weird crystal by jumping on it but slipped and fell on her back. She then tried by jumping on it and failing. Before the huntress could try another tactic, Jaune picked her up and placed her on his shoulder.

"Let me try this time." The corrupted pulled out the morph gun and equipped the yellow firing mod and fired six shots around the new crystal, knocking it loose.

"There. Now let's grab it and go pick up our reward from the boss man." as the blond picked up the object, a burst of light purple electricity had shot out and zapped him, causing a quick transformation but as soon as it happened, he changed back with a groan to voice his opinion. "That sucked."

"You alright there?" Summer had a hand on his back to ease him.

"Yeah I'm fine now. Let's get out of here." The duo left as soon as possible by the beach entrance.


As the couriers had arrived back, they saw Krew talking on the phone. The large man walking back and forth in slight anger but restrained enough to keep eavesdroppers from hearing anything. The two walked in and took a seat in a stall close enough to hide from his sight.

"What do you mean you won't send it until you get your damn proof?! I'm literally giving up one of the greatest things to you for this you bastard…! If you want proof, give me proof that it's real and operational or your 'proof' isn't gonna come to you and the damn deal is off…!"

Some garbled speaking was heard but none of them could pinpoint it. As soon as he was done speaking, a loud ping noise sounded out and the mobster stored and took a look.

"Hmm… looks fine enough for the job so fine. I'll send you your proof later down the week like you said, and you better keep your end or I'll end you myself you goddamned snake!" he hung up the call and the duo made it look like they just came in.

"Ah the conquering heroes finally return…! Now where's my rare crystal?" the mob boss saying it with a healthy dose of sarcasm. Jaune tossed the crystal to him with a unsure expression but Krew didn't care as he caught it and started examining it. "Can it be normally activated? Have you two done something to it to swap it!?"

"N-No we didn't do anything to it! We just retrieved it and that's it! We didn't use our aura on it either." they didn't mention the crystal causing a quick transformation but left that to themselves.

"Arghh… fine! 'ere's your damn payment and a mod will be waiting for ya in the new shooting range and training arena I just got built. It's there so get lost on a freeway or something." he waved them off to go away and left they did.


The weird duo was walking to the shooting range in downtown Vale that was nearby the dust shop, the old shopkeeper waving happily at the two.

"Wow I can't believe he still works there. Back at Beacon, every hunter and huntress had believed he worked every shop in Vale through a network or something." Summer regaled one of her tales from Beacon in the meanwhile like Tai telling Qrow that the skirt was a part of the uniform and he believed him and wore it while they were silently laughing at him. He found out later and got revenge but did get a few ladies numbers from how smooth his legs were.

"Wow. I hope to have a team like that honestly." Jaune did have stars in his eyes after the tale due to him remembering his dad's tale of his team at Beacon with his wife Yuna. How one of her friends decided to fight him because one, he didn't know him at all and two, he thought in his head that his father was a threat to his childhood friend and they pretty much had destroyed a few trees and a wall before his partner had stopped them both. Goodwitch had given them a lengthy detention for a unsupervised spar and destruction of school grounds.

"Well then young man, I have a question for you… how do you plan on getting into Beacon? You didn't go to a secondary school before hand and you are marked missing by your family so using your name is a dead giveaway for them to find you and I can't endorse you since I'm considered dead!" her last words were heated due to that. The Silver eyed mom had lamented the fact that she couldn't use her scroll to contact any of her teammates to let them know she's alive or they'll believe a thief had stolen it and a few other mishaps could happen. She couldn't help but wonder what Ruby and Yang were up to.


On the island of Patch.


Ruby was currently putting out a fire that Yang had started from mixing fire dust in her food that had made it combust. Yang was currently getting scolded by their father about dust usages and how trying to 'breathe actual fire like a dragon was not one of the safer options'.

*sigh* "Now we have no dust until my paycheck from Signal comes in the next three weeks." Yang kept her face hidden in embarrassment while Ruby still had the ice dust to put out the fire but her hair had somehow became frozen and started to give her a brain freeze.

"Now would you be a dear and defrost your sister before she becomes a popsicle." The blond brawler hugged her little sister and activating her semblance, defrosting her and smother her in her chest, making the redhead to struggle and get out of her embrace.

After a few deep breaths of air and straightened out her back. "Thanks Yang."

"No problem little sis."

"Okay. I dug into a little bit of the cookie funds…" Ruby let out a distressed whine at that statement. "So that we can get some fire dust real quick until my check comes and Yang, since you're grounded for beating up your opponent to near death today for nicking your hair in combat, Ruby please go get us some. I already showed you what it looks like."

"On it!" the hooded student had zipped out in a flash of rose petals to reach the air stop to catch a bullhead to the main part of Vale.

Taiyang had let out a sigh as he hugged his eldest daughter but was confronted with memories of Summer once more. He would have moved on but somewhere in the back of his mind, it was telling him she was still alive somewhere. He knew of the Silver Eyes from his own wife of how they kill Grimm with a single look but she only heard that from her parents, she never did unlock their powers but made up for it with skill with a longsword. The official report from the council was bullcrap in its purest form due to them wanting to keep anything major hidden.

"Now since you're going to graduate from Signal soon and go to Beacon, you need to keep a cool head in combat. Alright?" the blonde brawler gave a slow nod and left for her room to relax or play games.

'Now to go ahead and clean, fix and get something done around this house. With Ruby gone and Yang in her room, I can get things done finally. I just hope Tidus can find his missing son soon.' with that final note, the father of two left to go do his chores for the day.


Beacon Academy


The headmaster of Beacon was sitting down with one of his old students and was currently listening to a plea of help from him. The man asking for help was no other than Tidus Arc, a semi-famous blitzball player and a father to surprisingly eight kids. But now his only son was missing and he was praying and hoping he was safe.

"Look. I know you're busy making the next generation of hunters and all that but I just need you to keep like an eye out for him okay? I already have Wakka keeping a eye out but he's going to be busy soon. Lulu is doing the same thing but in her own special way and no-one else has any time. Yuna is teaching the kids gardening while I'm being called back for the new season so… please. It would be appreciated that you'd help…" the old wizard had nodded and listen to his favorite student's plea and decided he'll keep a ear out.

"I understand fully Mister Arc. I'll do my best and keep an eye and ear out for your son but it will take a while for him to appear. But I do thank you for the visit. Have a wonderful day Tidus." The blond blitzball player left for home out in Vacuo. The headmaster just pulled up a screen on his scroll that had the title of 'Qrow' that showed that he was in Vale still and sent him a quick message.


On a island off the coast of Vacuo.


Yuna Arc was sitting on the third floor balcony watching the sunset, waiting for her husband Tidus to return with news about Jaune or about assistance with finding him. The day he was kidnapped, she wanted to stop her mission in Mistral but couldn't and was unable to summon any of her Aeons to help her track him down. Since then, she was depressed for a long time until her husband decided to get his ass in gear and gather a network of friends to search for him. She missed all the times Jaune and Blanc would get in trouble but the blond noodle would made up for in by working with them.

The Arc estate is a decent three story house to house eight troublemakers and a few blitzball enthusiasts. Hers and Tidus' room was ocean themed and she loved it. She got to love the ocean when they went on seaside dates and got to see the moonlight shine on the waters. She stopped her daydream and went to Jaune's empty room.

His room was a nice deep blue like the darker depths of the sea with a few seashells he collected from their trips placed proudly on display on the walls with a few swimming trophies with them. They found out at a young age that he inherited his father's love of the sea and his natural talent for swimming. His bed was a queen size bed with blue sheets and a white blanket. He actually got permission to get Brotherhood hung on the wall above his bed.

She was them pulled out of her thoughts by a knock on the door, making her leave and answer the door.

"Hey there Yuna. How are ya feeling?" Wakka gave a heartwarming smile. He was one of her friends from childhood and was Tidus' first friend at Beacon. He was a accomplished blitzballer and a coach for the Vacuoan Aurochs with a wicked right arm. He uses a reinforced blitzball as a ranged weapon making him the sharpshooter of the group. His semblance is known as elemental reels. He can use dust with his weapon and empower it, making it deadlier. He only really wore long white cargo pants with orange and blue stripes that was waterproofed and a white and orange headband to keep his dark orange hair spiked up, with sandals.

"I'm doing fine. Tidus will be home soon, would you like to come inside?" the guardian nodded and walked in. Jaune was one of Wakka's favorite kids of Yuna's and gave him a signed blitzball and sparked his interest of the sport. All the kids had a uncle or aunt that doted on them but Jaune had them all. He had panicked when he heard the news of the kid's disappearance and tried to get some info but it was to late.

"Thanks. I really hope the little dude is okay." The mom of eight had nodded her agreement right when Tidus had arrived.

"Well we haven't found Jaune yet but Oz has agreed to keep an eye and a ear out for him out in Vale while the Nikos family do the same out in Mistral so that is decent progress. Oh and hey to you Wakka. Here to collect me for the tournament?"

"Ya. We got to practice or coach is gonna have our heads."

"Alright." Tidus had turned to his wife and gave her a quick kiss. "Love you and I'll be back. I'll write!" the two men left for their warm ups as Yuna decided to get a early attempt of sleep.


Currently Summer's daughter was running to the Dust to Dawn store to grab at least a burn crystal to help out until she activated her semblance and crashed into someone.

"Owie!" "Oof!" the red hooded student was currently laying against a body with swirls in her eyes. Her hood covering her head.

"You okay miss?" she felt something poking her head but was still out of it until she finally regained her sight and noticed her situation.

"Eep! Sorry! I wasn't looking so please forgive me!" the silver eyed kid had used her semblance again to stand and bow her head. Rose petals raining down on both of them.

She heard chuckling and a hand to suddenly press on her head gently.

"I forgive you. I wasn't looking all to well anyways so it both of our faults." she looked up and saw a blond guy wearing a suit with a blue dress shirt but her eyes closed on the creature on his shoulder. It had her hair color and all that and looked so…

"OhmygoshwhatisthatandwhyisitsocuteitcouldevenrivalZweiincuteness!" suddenly she was in the face of her mom (unknowingly) and was zipping around him to look at her with stars in her eyes. Her hood falling down to reveal her face to them. She suddenly zipped away as the blond was getting whispers from his furry companion out of her earshot.

"That's my daughter Ruby…" the man on the suit nodded as he called out the said daughter. She came back in a flash of rose petals, still rambling.

"Whoa whoa. Calm down and I'll talk to you about her." after he finished his sentence, the reaper in training stopped speaking and seemed to give him her full attention. "Thanks. And her name is Spring and she's an Ottsel."

"Oh wow… Can she fight?"

"Yes and can also talk." Summer had suddenly spoken causing the young huntress to ramble again about someone named Zwei and finally understanding him.

"Okay okay… now that we're done with my little friend here, why don't we introduce each other?" the young blond held out his hand. "Jack Argent."

And the hooded huntress shook his hand a smile that can blind anyone. "Ruby Rose."


A.N: Jesus Christ in a handbasket I screwed up royally by being so damn lazy and just… bad by kind of ignoring to write in a while… Shit… I'm very sorry about that and I just… UGH. Now apology aside the reason I kinda fell off the map is because I'm working as a security guard that works hours ranging from 8 to 11 or the dreaded 14 hour graveyard shifts that kind of require me to sleep all day to prepare. And if not sleeping, I'm relaxing or helping around the house I live at. So now I'm trying a new method of writing at work more often and it might help. So beside that, Ruby has her own friend outside of Signal and it's none other than Jaune himself! How will Beacon survive now? That's not until a few chapters away so once again, favorite, like and review if you loved it and I kinda want to see in the reviews should I go with the 'canon' teams or go with RNJR and whatever color I can make of the other's or go rogue and make up new teams? Now… This is Golden Kevin signing off to get gud at Siege and possibly not get knifed by Caviera. See ya! *Blows open a new hole with a breach charge and jumps out*