Authors note.

Yo I did another chapter so hopefully you all will enjoy it.

I hope you enjoyed your Summer and Prisma event. I somehow manged to get swimsuit Tamamo lancer on single roll when I just started just spamming singles as well as getting Kiyohime lancer in a ten spin. I didn't end getting swim suit Artorua but I needed a Tamamo final ascension art that wasn't sad like her caster one.

Plus, Tamamo is bae.

I didn't roll on the Prisma event since I already have too many casters and plus I finally got a gold single target Archer with Chloe. I just got to save for December now and hope I can complete my OP support casters by getting the meme lord Merlin and add him to my collection of Tamamo caster and Waver. Then brake everything with my Jalter and hopefully Merlin.

Anyway, here's the chapter.

Warning my spelling and grammar is possible bad.

"Talking"

'Thoughts'

Disclaimer I don't own RWBY or the fate series.


Chapter 2 - First time sparring match and unlocking potential.

Standing outside in the large backyard next to the Arc household were three individuals.

A now ten-year-old Jeanne was staring at the two-blonde idiot in front of her that was Arthur and Jaune. Jeanne had been lying blissfully in bed earlier today, enjoying the types of comforts she had never been able to experience back when she was truly alive in her simple life as a peasant girl but that sleep had been ruined when that brat of brother of hers had walked into her room unannounced waking her up saying that their father wanted them to meet outside.

Not great start to the day for her at all.

So, Jeanne was outside wearing a plain black shirt and shorts having to deal with the unforgiving heat of the summer sun which was making everyone feel uncomfortable. The Altered Jeanne could already tell that wasn't going to be a pleasant day for her at all with how things were shaping up.

"Why am I here?" She questioned out towards the two males in front of her in a dull and bored tone.

Oh yes, boredom!

It had become the blight of Jeanne's life ever since being reborn.

For ten years now, she had to find ways to entertain herself since sadly anything that might have brought her enjoyment before ending up in this world was out of the question. She couldn't burn alive the people of France anymore to get some satisfying revenge anymore, nor was she able to take to the skies and ride her own pet dragon.

How could she ever hope to call herself the dragon Witch if she didn't even have a dragon anymore?!

Jeanne couldn't enjoy herself with a simple fight to get her blood pumping as there was no one around for Jeanne to cross swords with satisfactorily.

The whole town was filled with nothing but weak civilians and the only real fighter around was her own new father but Jeanne couldn't fight Arthur as it would look very suspicious if a ten-year-old could keep up with a fully ledged huntsman.

Of course, that was assuming that Jeanne could win in her current form against her father but she was confident in her abilities...

Or it was just arrogance.

The idea of going out and slaying some of these Grimm that were meant to the enemies of mankind had crossed the Dragon-Witch's mind, just to see what all the fuss was about with them since they were something Jeanne had heard a lot about while growing up in this place could Remnant. For some wired reason though her new parents didn't like the idea of their youngest daughter going out into the forests to attempt to fight monsters that have been killing people for years.

Jeanne personally just thought that her parents were being pussies about it but whatever back to the matter at hand.

Finally acknowledging his daughter's question Arthur look at her that goofy smile that she had gotten used by now. "I got your brother to wake you up sweetheart-"

"Stop calling me that!" The girl yelled out angered but the man just continued on ignoring his daughter's embarrassment from the nickname.

"-because I wanted to start taking your training up to the next stage for the both of you."

Jaune looked absolutely ecstatic at the news of moving on with his training to get stronger while Jeanne looked at the older man with little to no interest at all at the idea of more training. She didn't care because pretty much most of the stuff their farther taught she already had knowledge on, Jeanne already had a lifetime of experience fighting and when she did listen to the stuff involving Aura the fallen maiden had just started to implements tricks she had done before with her magic as a servant.

The results had been very pleasing, to say the least.

While she definitely wasn't as powerfully as her servant form since becoming a reborn human and this 'Aura' stuff that she possessed didn't nearly have the same versatility that her old magic had, at least it looked like Jeanne was way more powerful than any normal human in this era. Maybe a few could come close but her pride would not allow Jeanne to think someone could actually match her when it came to strength.

'Between having to pick between being a powerful servant stuck being a slave to mage's bidding or having a slightly weaker body of flesh and blood but with the freedom to as I pleased it's obvious which option is more preferable.' She lectured to herself drowning out whatever Jaune and Arthur were talking about.

Still the Dragon Witch wasn't ecstatic that she was technically weaker than before and was spending most time in the last ten years waiting for her body to catch up so it could handle the strain Jeanne was putting on it to get stronger while at same time having to put up with the antics of the Arc family.

Which believe her was a real headache to deal with.

Realised that she should probably be paying attention to their father Jeanne listen in.

"Anyway, since now you both ten and have a really good grasp on your Aura as well as how to fight I thought that now would be a good time to see how the two of you do against real opponents."

That got the twins attention.

"A real opponent?" Jaune questioned, shocked since before now all he got to do so far was fight against multiple training dummies and quick one on one lessons with his dad. "Are we going to be fighting against you, dad?"

"No Jaune" Arthur chuckled shaking his head at the kid's enthusiasm. Only ten years old and his son already wanted to clash swords against his old man, the father of eight couldn't stop the pride he felt for the boy. Truly his son could make a fine huntsman one day if Jaune chose to pursue such a profession later in life given that his son had great potential with how fast the boy managed to learn how to fight when the two of them train together.

Most people would question why in the world the father was teaching his two youngest children how to fight in the first place. Since originally, he was only meant to be showing his kids how to control their Aura and use it without hurting others by mistake. The answer was that simply because this was really the only way Arthur knew effectively how to teach Aura control. By using what he had learned from his training as a Huntsman and applying that to Jeanne and Jaune's own training in the last ten years.

The father also thought that it didn't hurt to at least make sure that his children weren't completely incompetent when it came to fighting so that they wouldn't be defenceless in any possible dire situations in the future. Arthur knew that sadly despite the fact the kingdoms were in a time of peace didn't mean that everyone was safe, far from in fact with things such as bandits and Grimm getting more and more prevalent out in the wilds.

It was because of those dangers that Arthur had given his wife and oldest daughters the necessary amount of training so that they would be okay if he wasn't there to protect them. Today would mark the day when the two youngest kids in the Arc family would start to receive more serious training just like their siblings before them.

"No, no I'm not the one you two are going to spar with its..." He paused for a moment before pointing a single finger at his youngest daughter and son. "...actually, going to be the two of you squaring off against one another!"

Widening their eyes, the twins turn to each other.

Jaune was feeling both excitement and nervousness at the idea of fighting against his white-haired yellow-eyed twin. The excitement came from the fact he finally had a chance to go against Jeanne and see where he stacked up compared to his sister but felt uneasy at the fact that he already knew how much more powerful she was compared to him in terms of both Aura and fighting.

A tiny doubt in the back of his mind was that Jaune feared possibly hurting his beloved sister by mistake.

Jeanne's feeling on the matter were much more on display for people to see as a smile broke out on her face as her shoulders began to shake uncontrollably until she couldn't hold herself back anymore.

"~Hahahahahahah!"

A rare sight showed itself for both father and son as they witnessed Jeanne brake out into full-on laughter. Jaune found her laugh to be almost musical to ears if it wasn't for the chill he felt go down his spine as she continued to dissolve into laughter.

The girl tried to get her words out but found it hard as a chuckle escaped every time she spoke. "Hahaha! Y-You can't b-be serious? Me against him?" Pointing at him, Jaune was feeling a bit of annoyance at his sister for just brushing him like that. "It wouldn't even be a competition I mean come on! I'll destroy him."

Arthur didn't see the amusement in the situation. "You shouldn't be so arrogant Jeanne a lot of strong individuals have lost their lives thinking victory was already guaranteed."

Ceasing her laughter, the girl narrowed her eyes at the man. Who was he to tell her what to do? Jeanne already knew how to fight expertly and had performed feats that would make people tremble in fear of her in the hundreds. She knew that fighting Jaune would just end up the brat getting hurt, if anything she was trying to save him by saying this fight was pointless.

"what are you getting at." She snarled as the temperature around the girl started to heat up making Jaune take a small step back.

He knew what tended to happen when things started to get hot around his sister.

"That just because you have shown to be very skilled at combat you shouldn't go underestimating you brother like that." Taking a more serious posture as he spoke Arthur started to impart some important lessons he had learned in his time as a huntsman.

"Going into a fight with that kind of mentality is very dangerous because if you underestimate your opponent you will most likely expose yourself when you shouldn't and if you overestimate them you may miss vital opportunities to win."

Jaune soaked the information given to him like a sponge while Jeanne just scuffed. It was clear she wasn't going to be getting out of this one and choice to make this quick so that the brat wouldn't get himself killed.

"Whatever old man are we going to start this fight or not?"

Frowning at the dismissal from his daughter Arthur just sighed, he should have known that Jeanne wasn't going to take what he said to heart. The girl was always like this to everyone be it Arthur and his wife, Jeanne's six other sisters or her own twin brother Jaune.

Everyone in the family had gotten very accustomed to Jeanne's special way of treating her loved ones in the last ten years. Like how the girl was very prideful and would rarely apologise for anything she did wrong unless somehow Jaune managed to force it out of her which resulted in Jeanne getting all embarrassed and annoyed at her twin. Then for some wired reason, Jeanne's behavior would do a complete one-eighty at certain times where she would be more joyfully than usual, the first time everyone saw it happen they thought that the real Jeanne had taken and replaced with a fake.

Neither Arthur nor Caren knew where their youngest daughter had gotten such odd tendencies from. They both chose to believe that Jeanne was going through a weird phase even though the father of eight was sure that was meant to only happen when they went into their teenage years.

'At least she getting along better with everyone slowly each year.' The father told himself with a smile. 'Jaune managers to stay closes with her somehow... I wonder if it's because Jeanne just has a soft spot for her twin.'

He would never dare say that out loud though.

The white-haired girl would most likely try and burn him down along with the whole house if Arthur dared insinuated that she cared for her brother since she also insisted that she only found Jaune to be an annoying brat that wouldn't leave her side no matter what even after multiple attempts to make it him stop.

It was clear to Arthur that whether if Jeanne liked it or not Jaune wasn't going to be leaving her side anytime soon.

Having enough of standing around Arthur decided to move this whole thing along since he needed to prepare for a Huntsman mission starting in few days time that he had taken to keep a nice supply of money coming in.

"All right then you two!" The man clapped his hands to together bring their eyes over to him. "Let's see what you both can do."


Standing on side of the large grassy backyard Jaune was staring down his sister. Jeanne was all the way on the other end in a very lax position showing that she had no interest or concern that she was going to fight him.

They had both been given a simple weapon for their first spar, a simple two-handed metal sword. There was no huge worry on Jaune's part that they were going to be using real weapons for this fight since both he and Jeanne already had their Aura unlocked so there should be no danger of them accidentally dealing serious injuries to each other. Plus, if anything was to go wrong they had their father watching over them on the side-lines so that he could intervene if needed.

Holding the fairly heavy sword in both hands at the ready just like he had been taught by his father the blonde took note that his sister was just holding up the blade in one hand like it was nothing.

'Jeanne looks like she wishes she could be doing anything else right now.' The boy could tell that his sibling wasn't taking him at all seriously but Jaune hope that he might be able to show his sister what he could do and maybe impress her somehow.

Their father looked towards both of them from where he stood and shouted. "Alight are you both ready!?"

Jaune nodded in confirmation while Jeanne just shrugged her shoulders in indifference.

Arthur took a glance at the scroll he had in his hands that was monitoring the twin's Aura. They were both fully in the green the only difference between them was that Jaune's bar representing his Aura was significantly bigger then Jeanne already large Aura pool by a quarter.

Seeing nothing wrong the man checked once more that Jaune and Jeanne were indeed both ready before declaring. "Then begin!"

With the announcement given Jaune had shot forth with the speed that far outmatched that of a fully grown civilian. By Huntsman standards, the young boy would be considered somewhat fast compared to his peers with training but for a veteran like Arthur his son most likely reach just above average.

'Jaune needs more practice in controlling his large Aura especially when he's supplying it to his limbs to increase his performance.' The father took note of his son in action telling himself that was another thing he and Jaune could work on later down the line but the man was still impressed with how fast the ten-year-old boy was.

Meanwhile, Jeanne hadn't so much as moved a single muscle since the match had started and just watched on for the brat to make his way over to her. 'Hurry it up will you brat I haven't got all day.'

Jaune in a couple of seconds had closed the gap from one side of the yard to the other.

Jeanne was only a couple of feet away from him now and the blonde had yet to see his sister even move to take up a proper stance.

'What are you doing Jeanne? Are you even going to react?' He asked himself as he saw how Jeanne was treating this fight.

Clearing his head of any doubts Jaune took an overhead swing at the unmoving white-haired girl. The blade moved towards her exposed right shoulder and for Jaune, it seemed like time started to slow down for him seeing his sister making no attempt to move out of the way.

'What is she doing! Move out the way or try to block my attack, Jeanne! Don't just stand still.' As he continued on the attack his sister had yet to even react at all.

Blade inching closer and closer Jeanne just looked Jaune straight in the eye unflinchingly. Fear and dread filled the boy's chest as the strike was about to hit his sister who wasn't even moving to defend herself.

Just as the blade was about to make contact...

CLANG

A high pitch ringing metallic sound of metal bouncing off metal resonated irritating Jaune's hearing making him wince from the sudden unknown sound. In the second his was stunned a hard force hit him in the chest taking the wind out of his lungs and resulted in the blonde skidding back across the grass.

"Ow!"

Getting his bearings back to together Jaune tried to understand what had just happened as got himself off the ground.

A dumbfounded look made its way onto his face as saw that Jeanne was still standing where she was while Jaune had somehow ended up a couple of feet away from her.

'What just happened?' Jaune asked himself perplexed at what his sister had just done to stop his attack which was about to land or how he had ended up so far away from her again. Everything had happened so fast in just a short amount of time that the boy couldn't make sense of it all.


While the young knight didn't know what had just transpired Arthur did as he had been watching every move the twins made like a hawk. Jeanne had waited until the last possible second to redirect her brother's attack so that it completely missed her. After that, the girl followed up her counter by kicking her brother square in the chest sending him tumbling backwards and ended making Jaune's Aura dip a bit from the blow.

The whole series of moves had been so fast and fluid that if you weren't paying close attention you would have missed the white-haired girl counter.

'Impressive.' The older blonde was impressed with Jeanne's skill although he really shouldn't be after all this time.

If Arthur didn't know his little girl as well as he did in the last ten years the man would have thought that his daughter just had a death wish for taking such a risk. But he knew from the small amount of training that he had managed to get the girl to do with him in the past that it wasn't the case.

No, Jeanne wasn't being crazy by putting herself in danger to countered her brother's attack at the last second because the girl was already that confident in her abilities to pull such a stunt off. And then Jeanne used Jaune's daze and shock to her advantage by making some distance between them again.

Arthur would never say it out loud in fear of Jeanne's ego getting even bigger but she was more naturally skilled then Jaune and possibly could outshine many people her age or older.

'But on the other hand, Jaune puts way more effort and time into his training to catch up with Jeanne and it's clear she's underestimating him so maybe Jaune can surprise her and steal the victory out from under her.'


Jaune found himself hesitating to go in for another attack on his sister as Jeanne had barely moved a muscle to counter his first assault. The fact that he was already having doubts about wanting to continue wasn't helping either. That he had been so close to almost inflicting harm to his twin sister had the ten-year-old reluctant to keep going on.

The young boy didn't want to hurt anyone in his family in anyway especially not Jeanne.

His behavior made sense seeing as this was his first-time partaking in a proper fight with another person that wasn't just training with his father. The fact that he had to actually fight his own sister which meant inflicting harm towards her had only now really fully sunk into his young mind.

Even if it was only just a spar it was something Jaune was going to have to take time to fully accept that he would be inflicting real harm on others.

And right now, he had to beat up his twin that he cared deeply about if he wanted to win this fight and prove to himself that his own time spent training was worth it as well as showing Jeanne that he could stand on the same ground as her.

'I'm not too sure if I can do it.' The blonde spoke to himself feeling conflicted about this fight. 'I don't want to hurt her. Heck, I don't think I can even actually hit her.'

Sadly, for the boy, his white-haired sister didn't seem to have the same issues with fighting each other as he did. While Jaune had been just standing around not moving Jeanne had gotten fed up with the brat not continuing on so she took action to hurry this fight along.

Forming a simple black spear in her off hand the once one-time avenger threw the weapon as a projectile in an attempt to injure the annoying blonde so his Aura will fall down quicker and be done with this fight.

The purple-black projectile soared through the air homing in on Jaune where he stood with pinpoint accuracy.

Instincts kicking from having to avoid being rammed through with those spears in the past while growing up, Jaune naturally moved his body out the way by rolling. 'Crap!'

Boom!

Seconds later the Aura made spear blasted itself into the ground where Jaune had been, kicking up some dirt in the process. From where Arthur was he had to cover his head as chunks of earth rained down upon him getting some bits of dirt and grass in his hair.

Jeanne looked on in with a disappointed scowl on her pale face. 'Shit I missed! Maybe I should have used my semblance on the brat instead.'

Meanwhile, Jaune was staring at the small crater with his eye's wide open in shock. He never knew that Jeanne could make them spear things blow up! Taking his eyes off the small hole in the earth his head snapped over to Jeanne.

Pointing at his twin the blonde started shouting at the top his lungs. "WHAT THE HELL JEANNE YOU COULD HAVE ALMOST BLOWN ME UP!"

"That was the idea, you idiot!" Jeanne screamed back at him not willing to take being shouted at by anyone.

"Don't call me an idiot! You just tried to kill me."

"I'll call you whatever I want Idiot so stop being so over dramatic you wuss! You're fine, aren't you?"

"That's not the point Jeanne! You can't just attack me when I wasn't even ready."

That comment got the girl worked up as she glared at the stupid boy. Why would he say something so ridiculous like that during a fight? "Of course, I can! This is a fight, things such as honor or fairness have no place in battle! To think otherwise is naivety and will only get yourself killed if you not willing to do whatever it takes to achieve victory."

Jaune couldn't understand why his twin was all of the sudden taking things so seriously. She wasn't like how she usually acted. "But this is only meant to be a sparring match, not the real thing."

The once holy maiden could feel her face drop. 'err I forgot I'm talking to a ten-year-old and a stupid naïve one at that.' It was hard to keep reminding herself that she and the brat were meant to be the same age so of course, he would have moronic ideas of how his first real fight should go.

"Then take what just happen as a lesson then." Jeanne's voice took on lecturing tone as she looks down at the blonde. "Don't get lost inside your own head giving your opponent time to come up with a plan to counter attack you."

Moving her arm and pointing at him with her sword Jeanne continued. "You first run up attack was fine with your speed and how you put your weight into your swing but before you even landed the hit you started to hesitate giving me more than enough time to counter it. Then you just stopped after that and just stood there doing nothing looking unsure if you even wanted to keep on fighting me."

Getting seen through so easily by his twin the boy stuttered. "I j-just...don't want to hur-"

"Enough!"

Slamming her sword into the ground cutting him off Jeanne stated in a demanding no-nonsense type tone. "Either you come at me with everything without hesitation and stop holding back or just give up now runt and stop wasting my time with this shit!"

Jaune didn't say anything back for a moment after Jeanne had finished her speech. He didn't necessarily agree with everything she was saying but even he could see some merit in her words. If he wanted to catch up to where Jeanne stood he was going to have to have no doubts when fighting her.

He didn't feel comfortable with attacking his sister but Jaune needed to do so if he ever hoped of getting Jeanne to acknowledge him as equals.

Mind made up Jaune felt the loose grip on his sword tighten up and soon give his sister a huge grin showing off his white teeth as the sunlight bounced off them. Giving a thumbs up he said in sincere and reinvigorated voice. "Your right sis, thanks! I promise that I'll give you everything I've got to show you my strength."

Blinking in surprise at the sudden prise Jeanne tried to play it cool. "Humph of c-course I'm right It's me we're talking about after all."

Still smiling as his sister reverted to her usual cold self Jaune joked. "Yeah to think you would stop in a middle of a fight just to teach me shows that you must really have been concerned and wanted to help me get stronger."

And just like that Jeanne's mood did a complete one-eighty.

"What? That's not it!" She roared at him while Jaune just took enjoyment at seeing his twin's face go all red again. "Where do you even come up with such a ridiculous idea? I don't say any of that to help you I was just fed up with my time being wasted and..."

Drowning out his sister's words as she got worked up Jaune slowly got back into his stance from earlier.

'Let's try taking something from Jeanne's book then.' Was what he told himself before he used the same accelerated speed as before in an attempted to get the drop on the unprepared white-haired Arc.

He moved across the much shorter distance he had to travel and reached his twin sister within seconds.

Now that Jaune was within arm's reach he took another swing this time with little to no hesitation.

Jeanne who had been too busy distracted after her brother's comments was momentarily caught off guard. She would never have thought the brat would be so bold as to try attacking her unprepared as Jaune clearly showed too much chivalrous nature in him to ever do something so underhanded.

Jeanne would almost say she was proud that the brat was already taking something from her book so fast after one fight but would never say it. Still just because the brat might be willing to listen to Jeanne's advice and was apparently a fast learner from what the old man said anyway it still didn't mean much to the dragon-witch.

'After all,...'

The blade moved towards her for the second time and...

CLANG

Jeanne blocked it with her own without any effort.

'...I have a lifetime of experience in combat over the brat.'

The battle from the two twins started to finally pick up from there with Jaune performing dozens of slashes in multiple directions in an attempt to find an opening and hit her. Sadly, for the boy all his attacks for blocked by Jeanne who stood her ground calmly as sparks started to fly about from their swords clashing.

Sparks would continue to fly around the backyard for what seemed like hours for Jaune as he couldn't land a single shot on his sister. He knew she was strong but Jaune at least thought that after all the more time he spent training over Jeanne that he might of be able to compete with her for a while.

Now though even when Jaune was giving it his all, Jeanne's strength still seemed to be out of his reach.

More time past as they kept locking blades and It didn't take Jaune long to work out that Jeanne still wasn't taking him seriously as she blocked yet another strike from him aimed at her sides. For the whole fight now, Jeanne hadn't attempted to go the offensive and just seemed to be messing with him by perfectly blocking all his attacks.

The ten-year-old could feel his emotions getting the better of him as he struck with more fierceness as his aggression built up.

"Haa!" Jaune roared out as his arms started to glow in a white Aura.

Slamming his sword into Jeanne with all his might causing a mini shock wave to go off from the impacted with sparks igniting leading for Jaune to do the unthinkable to the shock of both Jeanne and secretly Arthur who was watching as well.

BOOM!

Thud!

"Ungh!"

Jaune somehow had pushed Jeanne back with a powerful Aura enhanced strike resulting in his sister getting blown backwards forcing her to move from her spot for the first time during the whole fight.


'No way!'

Jeanne wasn't sure how but the brat had actually overpowered her momentarily that she had been pushed back.

It was only a couple of feet but Jeanne had to dig her shoes into the ground to make she didn't end falling on her ass from the unexpected busted in strength Jaune got out of nowhere.

The very fact that Jaune of all people had managed to push her back even only just a few feet gave the altered maiden pause as she was unsure how to feel about it. Anger, humiliation and strangely enough excitement and pride were the emotions going off within her head.

The excitement could be felt especially as Jeanne started to lose her rational thought in a havoc haze.

That last attack from the brat had started to get Jeanne's blood flowing finally after so long and she couldn't stop the feeling giddiness going off inside her as the adrenaline started to kick in. It had been so long since Jeanne had ever felt the rush of adrenaline in her system after spending ten years doing nothing that could trigger the sensation while living a safe and easy life.

To think the annoying blonde of a brother was the one to do this to her. 'hahahaha I can't believe that the brat managed to make me feel this way with just one lucky hit! It really must have been far too long since I had a good fight if this is all it takes to get me going again.' Jeanne was lost in her own little world right now as her eye's glazed over.

Jaune was looking at Jeanne a bit wired out as she seemed to be in a moment of pure excitement which he had never seen before. He was starting to wonder what that one lucky hit had done to his sister to put her in such a state.

"Ha! Now that's more like it, brat!" She laughed out disturbingly. "For that, I am gonna to start to fight more seriousness now to see if you can handle me going at ya!"

Jeanne honestly hopes that Jaune didn't disappoint her now after getting her all worked. Surely, he would be able to keep up for a while at least enough to let her enjoy this fight for as long as she could.

After all, it wouldn't hurt for her to turn things up a notch would it?

'This would be the blonde idiot's reward for making me feel like this. It would be his responsibility to satisfy this itch I've been needing to scratch.' Jeanne had now completely lost herself with the idea of a good fight that nothing else seemed to matter to her now.

The glaze over look in her eye's vanished as her yellow orbs focused solely on Jaune like he was the only thing that matter in the world. It went without saying that the blonde kid felt a little freaked out right now with how his sister was staring so intently at him with such a sadistic look on her face.

'I messed up, somehow haven't I?' Jaune questioned in his mind.


The next thing both Jaune and Arthur saw Jeanne do was forming another one of her trusty Aura spears. Except this one was slightly different from the normal ones she made as the thing was about the twice the size of her regular spears.

To Arthur, the thing looked more like a massive flagpole then a polearm which would be used for fighting.

Jaune just watched on as Jeanne made the very large aura spear and was waiting for her to use the same trick, she did before with one. That didn't happen though as the white-haired girl seem to test the weight of the spear before looking satisfied with it.

Gripping the spear in her left-hand Jeanne started to twirl the pole around with such grace and speed that it would have mesmerised anyone watching.

While seeing the display of skill Arthur was struggling to work out how Jeanne was so proficient with such a large and near impractical spear as it certainly wasn't from him. The huntsman's skills where primarily with swords which he had been showing both Jaune and Jeanne how to use, the man was also good with shields but only Jaune was willing to accept any training with that since his daughter refused to use such as thing for some reason.

'Maybe she's just that good from all the time she's spent practising when making those Aura spears of hers.' Was the only explanation the father could come up with as he kept watching his children with a foreboding feeling settling into his gut.


Halting the practice swings to test out the long Aura spear Jeanne turned her attention back her opponent.

Then sent Jaune a sweet smile and then followed up slowly of Jeanne licked her lips weirding the boy out.

'This will be fun!'

Jeanne then burst forth and appeared in front of Jaune in an instant catching the boy off guard. It was like she had just disappeared and pop right back into existence right in front of him. The dragon Witch had no intention of letting the boy get the upper hand and so she attacked by simultaneously utilising both her sword and spear.

And then the sparks began to fly.

CLANG

THUD

CLANG

The speed at which the golden eye girl was attacking was so much more intense than previously that Jaune was barely able to even block the incoming attacks with his sword. Unfortunately, because of the increase in speed and the fact that Jaune had to now keep both his eyes on two weapons meant that he was unable to stop every hit aimed at him.

When he would block her sword Jeanne would punish him by slashing and stabbing at his chest with her new extra weapon forcing his large Aura tank all the abuse.


Their father kept watching with the two twins finally going at it giving the fight all they could as he saw both brother and sister trading blows with such power that was it giving the man flashbacks to his younger years as a huntsman in training when he would spar with his teammates.

It obvious to Arthur who the more aggressive one in the fight was.

Jeanne

She had her brother on the defensive with her sword and spear combo pushing him back. To be fair to his son, Jaune was doing very well considering Arthur knew how brutal Jeanne can be when fighting and the boy had even snuck two or more successful hits back at her.

'Better Jaune fighting her than me.' Arthur shivered recalling how Jeanne had tried to attack him in the most sacred place for any man during one of their training sessions.

Looking at the scroll it was obvious who going to win if the fight kept on going the way that it was. Jaune large Aura bar was now reaching halfway as his sister had cut away at it extensively, while his daughter's smaller aura bar hadn't even lost a quarter yet.

The man was starting to think that instead of wanting to finish this fight as fast as possible like she claimed, Jeanne was purposely dragging it out so she could enjoy herself and toy with her brother as it was disturbingly clear how much fun the girl was now suddenly having in the fight.

'It's like how a cat plays with a mouse before finishing it off.' Arthur had already gotten more than enough information needed to help him with training his two youngest children in the future but saw no point in calling it off yet.

The man saw it as good practice for the both of them to finish off their first fight as it would only help the both of them get stronger with their Aura and endurance. 'Besides everything will be fine, they not taking things too far yet nor is Jaune looking to be giving up any time soon since he has always wanted to train with his twin in some way. He'll be upset if I stop the fight now and ruin this chance for him to test himself against Jeanne.'


Sweat forming on his brow Jaune blocked yet another powerful slash from aimed at his rib. Successfully stopping the sword, the young boy hastily ducked avoiding a horizontal swipe from the large range of the Aura spear.

While Jaune was happy that he had gotten his sister to take the fight somewhat seriously the gap between him and Jeanne had shown itself to be even bigger then he could have ever imagined. Even after all the work he had done to try and keep it with her, it seemed to be completely in vain as he witnessing for the first-time Jeanne show off what she was capable of.

How she matched him blow for blow even with him attempting to reinforce his swings with Aura was incredible. How she wielded two weapons at the same time making the sword and spear work in sync was graceful and gave Jeanne a type of elegance that Jaune hadn't seen before.

His sister was truly amazing and Jaune wanted nothing more than to be just like her one day so they would be strong together. Jaune wanted for him and Jeanne to stay together when they grew up and went out into the world to have their own adventures.

This fight right now showed him that he still had a long way to go before he could claim to have reached Jeanne's level.

But all that only fuelled the fire inside Jaune and he promised himself that would work even harder after today so that he could reach that dream.

Laughter brought the blonde back into reality as he saw Jeanne still seemed to be displaying a face full of pure joy as kept on her assault. Doing a quick slash with her sword and coupled with a fast jab from her spear he was too slow to stop it and had to result on relying on his Aura to withstand the damage done to him.

It was annoying for Jaune since he had never had any experience before now in fighting someone who dual wield weapons so he was having to learn on go while facing Jeanne.

"Man, I am really lucky that I have such an insane amount of Aura to absorb all her hits with." Jaune muttered as he found time to breathe for the moment to relax as his sister back off for some reason.

The answer why soon became apparent.

Jumping away from the blonde the Altered holy maiden threw out her right arm with her palm stretched out. "Take this!"

Nothing happened for a spilt-second.

Sizzzzzzzzz

Until Jaune felt the ground from under him heat up as his ears pick on the grass starting to sizzle from the heat.

"Crap!" The blonde's eyes widen in realisation in what Jeanne had done.

Panicking he dived away from where he was standing to avoid what was to come but...

BOOM!

Before he could fully get out of the way a single torrent of blazing flames erupted from where Jaune had been standing catching his left arm and leg as the fire spewed out. The heat burned at his skin painfully as his Aura field worked overtime to stop any real damage from being done but didn't prevent the pain from being felt as his arm and leg got cooked.

The pain was so bad that Jaune couldn't contain himself resulting in him letting loose a pained cry. "ARGH!" The new stress put on his body made his large Aura fluctuate out of control as it tried to work beyond its limits in order to protect him.

All the pressure over such a short period of time caused Jaune's Aura to react in a new way as it was finally pushed over the edge. Very soon all Jaune could see next was pure white obscure his vision followed with an unfamiliar sensation.

FLASH!


A few seconds earlier:

"ARGH!"

The screams of Jaune could be heard throughout the whole back-yard of the Arc estate. Upon hearing the scream of her brother Jeanne halted all movement as she watches the blonde kid get caught in her flames.

Rooted to the ground unable to move it was as if that one moment in time had paused for the dragon Witch allowing her to witness Jaune pained expression on his face as the fires ate away at him. The face reminded her an awful lot of hers when she too had felt flames burn away at her on the pyre.

The red haze began to lift itself off the unholy maiden as her battle trance had been broken upon having to hear Jaune's painful cries which for some reason caused her heart to stop and made her whole-body fill with dread.

'Wha- I...I didn't...W-What did I just do? This wasn't what was meant to happen!' She told herself.

This fight was nothing more than simple sparring match against someone who was far below her. She should have been able to beat up the annoying blonde without any trouble or effort and end the match swiftly.

But instead, the fallen savior of France had ended meeting a somewhat decent challenge at least more than what Jeanne Alter had anticipated from the ten-year-old boy. Before she even knew Jeanne had ended up losing herself in the moment and was reliving her times in battle when she showed her opponents no mercy what so ever.

This wasn't meant to happen, she had never intended to actually hurt Jaune.

She didn't want to hurt him.

'Damn it! Why the hell do I care anyway...I-I don't care! His j-just an annoying b-brat that won't leave me alone.' Her mind was in turmoil as she thought one thing but the horrible feeling that had made itself known in her chest seemed to disagree with what Jeanne told herself.

A whirlwind of emotions was bubbling up within her now. They were feelings that she hadn't felt in a long be it anxiety, guilt, and fear. It all wanted to make the once holy maiden to turn the other way and run away in a mad dash with no destination in mind.

'Shit, shit, shit, shit!' that one word kept repeating itself in her mind as Jeanne had no idea what to do. She had just possibly seriously injured someone dear to whole Arc family.

'This is bad.' Her subconscious told her as Jeanne's mind started playing out multiple scenarios and outcomes with the Arc family. The girl's mind couldn't think up a good end result for herself.

How would they all react to this?

Would they finally wash their hands with her?

Maybe they will fear her or just outright despise her from now on. A Shame, Jeanne had started to become accustomed and comfortable around the family. Strangle Jeanne feared the response she will get from Jaune more than the rest of the family. She wasn't scared of the blonde, Jeanne found it impossible for the boy to ever be intimidating, nor was she scared of the boy condemning her that wasn't it.

Worried was more like it but why?

Why would being condemned by an annoying blonde nobody make her heart hurt so much?

Growling. 'Grrrr how did I mess this all up?!' she wanted to yell out but couldn't.

How on earth had she ended getting herself so lost in the thrill of the fight to start taking this whole thing way too seriously? She never of had envisioned using her semblance on him at all during the fight but had found herself doing so anyway in the heat of everything.

The power that people in this world called semblances had made itself known to Jeanne when she was only of six years old. Her semblance gave the avenger the power of something she had assumed to have lost to her when she ended being reborn which was the ability to control and command fire. The semblance seemed to work almost the exactly the same as when she used her fire magic as a heroic spirit with them being just as deadly and scorching as her old ones though the dragon-Witch still was unsuccessful in recreating the most powerful attack she used to have in her arsenal.

Calling off her flames as quickly as possibly Jeanne could see Jaune falling to the ground. She went to check on him but that was stopped as something seemed to happen to the boy. His body was glowing in his white Aura forming a layer around every inch of him. Pulsing around his form uncontrollably. The Aura kept increasing in size as it got brighter and brighter, Jaune's whole body soon became like a human torch as Jeanne found it hard to keep staring at him with it hurting her eyes.

'What the fuck is going on with him? I haven't seen his Aura react like this before. Is this normal when your Aura takes too much damage?' She didn't have a clue what was going on with the blonde. She had never seen his Aura behave like this and she had only limited knowledge about the stuff, to begin with.

The intensity of the brightness kept on growing until the Aura surrounding Jaune exploded.

FLASH!

A massive white light enveloped the whole backyard.

'What the-'The Altered maiden shielded her eyes from the pure white light that threatened to blind her as she was bathed in Aura.

Then everything soon become an oddly silent and peaceful.

The feeling Jeanne felt while in the light was... difficult to put into words.

It gave off a presence of warmth and comfort so powerful that Jeanne actually felt overwhelmed, not only did the light make her feel oddly at ease but the more time Jeanne was in contact with it the more powerful she felt as well.

Every worry she had went numb and soon she lost herself in the light.

It was like the pure white Aura was invading her body and increasing her own Aura up to double what Jeanne could normally do. Her own dark Aura had started to appear over her form, making Jeanne stand out in the white light, as it seemed to eagerly welcome in the presence of the Jaune's Aura.

The light was...beautiful. If Jeanne Alter had still been a person of faith she would have speculated that the pure white light was a miracle from the Lord himself. It was like the things you hear in stories about God shining his light upon his children from the heavens to comfort and help them.

Only this wasn't God's doing but was the work of the blonde that was her brother.

"This light..." Jeanne muttered in a bliss that she was unbaled to stop from seeping into her voice. She just couldn't get enough of it as it shined onto her pale skin making her feel both powerful and invulnerable. So, she welcomed the white Aura in like an old friend as it kept empowering her.

It was so addicting.

If this kept up the avenger was sure she may even reach the power that she had possessed as a heroic spirit.

Then as if someone had just pulled a plug the light vanished along with the warmth and increased in power.

'No!' Jeanne instinctively wished for it to return but was met with no such luck as the feeling of what the white Aura had given her wore off.

"Jaune! Are you alright? Can you hear me?" Shouting reached her ears bringing the dragon Witch back to reality that she had left behind while enjoying the blissful feeling that the light had brought.

Jeanne could see her father kneeling down over Jaune. 'Had he got caught in the blast of Aura as well?' That wasn't important now she told herself and picked to force on the young blonde lying down on the ground.

Jaune looked to be unconscious and must have passed out though it was yet unclear if it was because of the pain of her flames or if it was from the explosion of Aura that erupted from his body. Jeanne steps closer but didn't dare go near the older Arc man in case it might cause problems. She could see some small red marks on the boy's skin but other than that there didn't seem to be any damage done to Jaune except for the tips of his clothes were burned.

Actually, it looked like Jaune was completely fine and seemed more like the kid had just passed out due to heavy exhaustion.

"How is he?" She didn't know why she asked but felt a need to.

The man sight and looked over to her, Arthur didn't look angry or hateful at Jeanne which confused her considering what had just happened to Jaune. If anything, the man looked to giving himself a hard time instead for what happened over his supervision.

"Jaune's fine he just passed out." The man went back to checking over his son. "I think I'm gonna have to get your sister Angela to take look at him to make sure that everything is fine...maybe she'll also be able to work what happened with his Aura just now."

Jeanne didn't say anything as Arthur pick up his son and rushed him back to the house. She didn't follow after them straight away choosing to stay put for a little while longer instead.

She needed to figure out her next course of actions as well as understand the pain in her chest.


4 day later

It had almost been a week now since the incident that happened with the Arc twins spearing match. The whole family had been shocked and worried for the youngest member of the family as both parents had Angela look over Jaune to see if he was okay.

The first two days were a bit worrisome for everyone as Jaune stayed in his bed and didn't wake up for the whole time. Jeanne had ended watching over the brat as he slept and had wanted for the inevitable to happen with the family fearing or hating her like the rest of the people in the town did. Maybe the Arc family would go so far as to disown her for the pain she had done to the only son of the family.

But to Jeanne's surprise and bewilderment that never happened.

Instead, the whole family didn't blame her for the horrible state Jaune had ended up in and most looked to it as Jeanne accidentally letting herself get carried away. The reborn Avenger had seen her father take the blame upon himself for pretty much everything saying that he was meant to the one refereeing them and it was his fault for not stepping in sooner.

Jeanne wasn't sure how to feel about the man taking all of the blame off her towards himself like that.

The older siblings that the dragon Witch had put up with for the last ten years didn't blame her either with one of the older girl's, Rossweisse, saying that all of them had hurt each other at least once when they did the same thing learning how to defend themselves years ago.

Caren had ended up giving an Arthur harsh scolding in front of all their daughters for the fact that he had allowed their son to be seriously hurt in what was meant to be a simple spare. The poor father of eight had ended up having to sleep on the couch for the past few days for his failure to call off the fight when he could have. The mother had also made sure that Jeanne didn't get off scot-free as well for her action but the punishment wasn't something the avenger would call fitting for what she had done since the only drawback was Caren restricting what she could do on which didn't really affect Jeanne all that much in the end.

When two days had passed an people were starting to worry about what happen to Jaune after his Aura had gone haywire. Arthur had also had to leave to go on his Huntsman mission but asked that his wife contact him when their son woke up or if any problems concerning his health showed themselves.

It was a good thing for everyone on the third day that Jaune managed to regain consciousness and showed no signs of permanent injuries from the fight but he was unable to leave his bed for the day by order of Angela to make sure he was fully healed. Everyone was relieved that Jaune was okay even Jeanne but she never said anything.

The young blonde seemed to be interested and pleased when his mother and older sisters mentioned Jeanne had been watching over him since he passed out but when asked about it Jeanne denied ever doing such a thing.

Now on the fourth day, Jaune was out of his bed inside his oldest sister's room sitting down on a chair hooked up to a bunch of complexes looking machines that beeping as they monitored the boy.

"Okay Jaune can you try now forcing your Aura out as much you can so I can measure it please?"

"Sure, Angela I'll give it a go." He told his big sister eagerly as he made the bright white Aura surface around his body. Angela soon started making notes of the results she got from the machine's readings.

Caren had been concerned about what effects could have happened to her son after his Aura had exploded and wanted to know if it meant anything. There was nothing anywhere to suggest that Jaune was suffering from anything negative at all and everyone in the family just thought that the mother of eight was just being overprotective of her children as usual but It didn't stop the mother from taking action.

Caren had demanded she wanted Angela to a do check-up on her younger brother since the woman was worried that the explosion might have something to do with Jaune's insanely large amount of Aura becoming too much for him.

The reason why Angela got brought into this all this when it came to Jaune's health was that the girl had finished her training of becoming a doctor a few years ago and everyone thought it would be better if she personally checks over her brother.

"How much longer is this going to take?!" A frustrated cry left Jeanne's lip.

Her face was set in an ugly frown which was still going strong after two hours of watching the older girl poke and prod at the brat trying to find anything unusual with him. The reborn dragon Witch hadn't given a reason why she wanted to be with Jaune as he got look at, maybe it was to see if she had actually permanently hurt him in a way.

Secretly Jeanne was here because she wanted to see if Angela might be able to work out what Jaune had done back then with his Aura. The feeling that it gave Jeanne still played in the back of her mind with how it made her feel so...complete.

The other reason might be because since waking back up the brat hadn't said a word to her about the fight. It had been driving Jeanne mad that Jaune hadn't brought it up to her yet after all these days with her being near him to see when the blonde would say how he felt about her now. The waiting was starting to become unbearable for Jeanne, trying to work if Jaune was scared her or felt any sort of resentment for the pain she had inflicted upon him by using her semblance.

"We should be done soon Jeanne it shouldn't be too much longer before you and Jaune can leave and go about your day." Angela softly told her younger sister who looked very annoyed having to sit and wait for them to be done with her tests on Jaune. 'Honestly, she doesn't have to stay and wait she could just go and do something else while me and Jaune do these tests. Maybe...Jeanne just worried about her twine but knowing her she would deny it profusely.'

"That's what you been saying for hours now!" Jeanne responded back glaring at Angela. The oldest child in the Arc family was currently sitting down in her own comfy chair next to her desk wearing some casual clothes instead of her typical doctor's outfit Angela would have to wear when at work. All she had on now was a tight-fitting black sweater on and some simple jeans with her white doctor's coat lazy draped over her shoulders.

"Would you quit it with all the yelling already Jeanne it's not gonna make Jaune's test go any faster." A female voice laced with frustration spoke out near the doorway of the room.

Looking over the three of them could see the second oldest chided in the family Leone Arc. She was a young woman and short blonde hair with two long tufts framing the side of her face. While she had her father's hair Leon had gotten her mother's golden eye's that often twinkled with a hint of mischief.

Jeanne felt her jaw clamping shut as she had to stop herself from unleashing her anger out on the person she found to be the second most annoying in the family.

Nodding her head Angle give her thanks to her younger sister. "Thank you, Leone, I'm glad someone understands that complaining isn't going to make this go any faster."

"Oh, don't sweat it, sis, we all know how much of a hand full our little baby sister can be, isn't that right Jeanne?"

"Shut up!"

This was why the white-haired avenger didn't enjoy the company of Leone because of her constant teasing.

Jaune just shook his head at his sister's banter with one another. 'why can't they just stop antagonising each other?' He wondered.

"Anyway," Angela looked over to Leone. "Is there something you need Leone or do you just wish to watch over Jaune because you are worried about him like Jeanne is."

"I'm not worried about him!" Appalled, Jeanne spoke out but was just ignored by the two.

Leone shrugged her shoulders. "Nah I only stopped by because mom waited to let you all know that food will be ready in a couple of hours at around eight so you should ideally finish this up before then."

At the mention of food, stars shined in Jaune's eyes and his mouth opened letting a bit of drool slip out. He could feel his stomach aching for the mouth-watering home cooked meal his mother was making which Jaune loved, the young knight hoped that his mom had made enough seconds just for him since it was well known that he was a bit of glutton when it came to food especially his mom's cooking.

Seeing the brat daydreaming Jeanne bonked him on the head causing him to grab his skull in slight pain.

Angela sighed as she kept ignoring her baby siblings. "Thank you for the heads-up Leone but don't worry I'll be finished with Jaune very shortly so these tests won't prevent anyone from missing dinner."

"Alright then" The second eldest nodded her head. "Guess I'll see you all later...also Jeanne I think it's very sweet that you're sitting here waiting for Jaune because you're worried about him." The short-haired blonde teased her baby sister before walking off down the hallway before Jeanne could get rebuttal in.

"Right then, where were we?" Angela questioned as she looked back at her tablet sized scroll in her hand.

On it displayed of Jaune's test results along with a 2D image of his body diagramming his Aura.

Humming to herself the blonde older woman just kept looking at the results she was seeing in an amazement and with annoyance. Angela just couldn't understand how her younger brother had such a powerfully connections to his Aura and could only really come up with a theory for what had caused his Aura to reacted to the way that it did.

It always was odd to Angela that the twins had such powerful potential with their Aura.

Jaune's was strange in that his reserves were completely off the charts when came to how much Aura her brother had and from the tests she had done on him it looked like his Aura was still growing somehow with all the training Jaune was putting himself. Jaune had the potential to possibly to have the largest amount of aura ever recorded in a person if his reserves kept on growing like they were now into his late teens at this rate.

It was like her baby brother had an Ocean of Aura within him that never stopped wanting to grow and made the doctor in her wonder just how much aura could the body hold within itself without any negative consequences.

A tint of red made its way onto Angela's cheeks. 'If what they say about a man with large Aura is true then I guess Jaune's possible future partners are going to be very happy when he gets older.' She thought embarrassingly.

Jeanne wasn't much different when it came to oddness with her Aura given how she could somehow do things that even people who had dedicated their lives to couldn't achieve. Angela was, of course, referring to that the young girl could make soiled object out of her Aura which was something many couldn't do, Angela had heard of skilled people making barriers and protective domes out of Aura as well as using weapons to act as conduits before but Jeanne was the first person that Angela had ever seen use Aura to make weapons.

The medical professional in the family often wondered if the twin's unique ties with their Auras was because of the fact they had it unlocked from birth.

Angela was unable to ponder on it any longer sadly as Jaune's voice reached out to her.

"Angela...are you alright?"

"Huh, w-what sorry?"

"I was asking you if you managed to figure out what went wrong with me back in the fight with Jeanne."

"Oh? sorry, Jaune I got spaced out there for a second." Angela readjusted herself in her seat and looked into her brother's blue orbs. "Well to answer your question I don't think anything is wrong with you Jaune and you don't have to worry about your Aura."

"Really? How come?"

"Because I have checked over you and looked at the results for hours now and there is absolutely nothing wrong with your body or Aura. In fact, if anything It's actually gotten better and stronger since the incident." She informed him with a pleasant smile.

"W-What? How did that occur?" Jaune asked while Jeanne only raised a single eyebrow wanting to know as well but not show anyone that she was interested in the matter.

"Well I have a theory to what happened to you Jaune and that is I think you might have tapped into your semblance at the end of the fight." The older sister kept the smile as it turned into a grin as she witnessed her baby brother literally shake with excitement after getting over the initial shock of the news.

Jumping out of the chair Jaune shouted "WHAT! I finally unlocked my semblance. What is it? I need to know. Is it cool? Is it better than Jeanne's? Please tell me!"

"whoa just calm down Jaune and let me speak."

"S-Sorry" He apologised before sitting back down again.

Seeing the ten-year-old do so Angela kept explaining with Jaune paying close attention and with Jeanne listening in right next to them wanting to know as well. "Like I said before it's only a theory but I can't think of another explanation to explain this."

She then showed the Arc twins her scroll which was now showing Jaune and Jeanne's Aura bars with the blonde's being in the red while the golden-eyed girl's bar was around three-quarters full. "This is the recording of both your Auras during the fight that I copied from Dad's scroll before he went on his mission. Now, look what happened to both of your bars right when your Aura Jaune went out of control and resulted in that explosion you two got caught in."

Angela then pressed a button on the scroll and then Jaune and Jeanne could all of a sudden see Jaune's near-empty red bar shoot itself up back into the green along with Jeanne's as well becoming completely full.

"Errr, what does this tell us?" Jaune asked unsure how this related to his possible semblance while Jeanne muttered the words 'idiot' under her breath at him.

Sighting the older sister explained it to her baby brother. "This tells us that you Aura exploding into a bright light was more than likely your semblance forcing itself out to help you after getting injured. I think your semblance might have something to do with strengthening or amplifying a person's Aura."

"What makes you think that?" The altered Jeanne questioned finding this subject of a semblance making someone more powerful to be something of interested.

"Yeah." Jaune found himself agreeing with his twin. "How do you know that my possible semblance didn't just heal me or something like that?"

It was a good point since there have been semblance before that could heal people in many different ways in the past. Angela had seen a few when working in the medical profession such as a woman who could cure many illnesses and infections or a man who could use his semblance to accelerate a person's natural healing process making serious injuries heal up in days instead of weeks.

But Angela didn't think her brother's semblance was something just as simple as healing. "Jaune I have seen many types of healing and support type semblance before in the years but I do not think that yours is like any of them because whatever you did back in the spar only affected a person's Aura. We can only assume then that the semblance that you tapped into can strengthen Aura because that also explain how not only your Aura got a huge bust in power but so did Jeanne's as well according to the data from dad's scroll."

Frowning the once dragon Witch nodded her head as she pieced that her older sister had said to together while Jaune still unsure until his twin decided to speak up. "It possibly that could be the case since when I was in the blast for those few seconds I did feel my Aura become much stronger than usual but I would never have thought that this idiot right here would have such a... useful semblance."

It felt weird for Jeanne to actually compliment the brat and it didn't help with the dazzling smile he was sending her way because of it. 'Grrr don't look at me like that! How can he even look me in the eye after what I did to him?'

Unaware his twin's thoughts Jaune was too busy trying to understand that after so long he may have finally found out his semblance. He was silent for a minute before starting out loud. "Ha, I knew it! My semblance is awesome and way more cooler then yours's Jeanne."

"Ha! What you on about idiot my semblance is clearly superior!"

"No way your semblance just lets you make fire which way more boring and lame compare to mine."

"Are you stupid or something? All your semblance is good for is support with you boosting yours and other peoples Auras up. While my flames are perfect on their own so my semblance is obviously the better one."

"No that's where your wrong Jeanne because..."

Angela shook her head as she ended up having to drown out Jaune and Jeanne as the two ten-year-old bickered with one another childishly over who had the better semblance.


Finally done with all the tests Jaune and Jeanne left their oldest sister's room leaving Angela to look more deeply into the results she had gathered and would most likely show her findings to their parents when done. Jaune was still having a hard time containing his excitement that he may found out his semblance and couldn't wait to tell his dad when the man got back as well as the rest of the family but couldn't yet since it was still not clear if Angela's theory was hundred percent accurate at the moment but the ten-year-old Arc was already planning to attempt to try tapping into his semblance again when he would get back to training.

Standing in the empty hallway Jaune eventually looked over to his twin sister who was being oddly silent even for her. Jaune had noticed since the fight that his normally irritated and hostile sister was strangely quiet around him at times when they were alone like the girl didn't know how to act around him anymore.

His family had said that his white-haired twin had kept an eye on him after while he had been passed out but the girl said she did no such thing when Jaune asked. It was clear to him that his twin was lying when she said that and Jaune just assumed the girl was trying to save face like Jeanne always did whenever she did something she perceived as embarrassing or caring for anyone but herself.

Jaune never understood why Jeanne would act like that but his twin was a bit wired at times if the boy was being honest.

Like how Jeanne would be cold to him one minute then do a gesture that was completely kind and nice towards him the other minute. It never made any sense but Jaune had learned to deal with it after ten years of experiencing and learning his sister's attitude.

Looking over at the quiet girl Jaune asked in a relaxed tone. "Well now that's all over, is anything you want to do sis?"

He normally followed his twin's sister around and would do whatever she wanted which wasn't much but Jaune had always felt close to Jeanne ever since they were babies. His mom had told him that after he had been born that he never left his twin's side for more than a few moments. He guessed that stuck in a way since he did love spending time with his twin even if Jeanne complained about him annoying her.

The girl looked confused momentarily before her golden eyes glared back at him. "What are you on about?"

"Err um you know I was asking what you want to do next while we wait for food to be done."

"Why?" She pushed on and her eyes seemed to glow.

"S-So... we can hang out like we normally do?" Jaune said slowly confused why Jeanne seemed to be mad him. 'What did I do this time to get her so vexed?'

"Why are you acting like this?"

Her voiced raised itself as Jeanne like close to blowing up on him.

"Like what?" Seriously he had no clue what he was doing for her to act like this.

"Like nothing has happened!" Jeanne yelled.

"Huh?"

"How can you keep acting like you weren't just a few days ago passed out from being burned by my semblance. It's been days and you haven't said a thing about what happened in the fight." Jeanne took a step forward glaring at Jaune with a fire that could burn down a whole forest. "Why haven't you voiced your displeasure or your anger at me!?"

"Because..." Jaune hesitated. "...because it's no big deal." His eyes locked onto hers as they widen in shock at the response he gave.

"Wh-What? How is me seriously injuring you with my semblance, not a big deal?" Snapped the Avenger looking offended. How can he just shrug something like this off, if it had been her in his position Jeanne alter would have sworn hatred and vengeance upon whoever would have wounded her. "How stupid are you? Are you even more brain dead then I thought?"

"Hey, my brain is perfectly fine!" He countered.

"I seriously doubt that... maybe I need to crack open your head to look around to fix it." Quipped the Dragon Witch.

Sighting the blonde looked at his sister with great somber. "Look...Jeanne, I haven't said anything about what happened in the fight because I don't see a reason to. You didn't mean to hurt me it was an accident and you ended getting too carried away is all so don't worry about it."

He wanted to reassure her but it didn't seem to work as Jeanne spat back. "You're an idiot why in the world are you so quick to absolve what I did?"

Jaune just ended up smiling at her. "Because you're my sister and you made a mistake just like everyone else. I told you before that I'm not gonna leave you alone, even if I get burned a little bit by being close to you since that's okay because I just prove that I can take it no problem so you shouldn't feel guilty about what happened Jeanne because I've already forgiven you."

He went in to give her a hug for comfort but found himself abruptly stopping as the slightly taller girl kept Jaune at arm's length by pushing his head back to keep him from getting close.

Jeanne kept looking into his ocean blue eyes hoping to something that proved he was lying, that he really did fear or despise her for what she did. That was some type of accusation behind all the sweet words she found sickly to listen to. The fallen savior of France just needed one tiny hint that said the blonde brat was trying to fool her so he could get her guard down to make her vulnerable for a strike.

Sadly, Jeanne could find a thing other than honesty while gazing into his eyes and she soon found herself feeling embarrassment and frustration. "W-Who said a-anything about me feeling guilty, don't flatter yourself brat I don't need something as trivial as your f-forgiveness anyway." She told him turning away from his gaze. Jeanne wouldn't mention that a weight which had been with her since the fight had been lifted somewhat from his words.

Smiling again the brother just told her softly. "Sure, sis whatever you say." He was happy to see her starting to behave like her usual self. Jaune was being honest he didn't see a big problem with him getting hurt, in his eyes, it was better for it to be him than someone he cared about.

Plus because of Jeanne using her semblance on him, it may have helped Jaune in finding his semblance. The blonde was tempted to thank his twin but knew that Jeanne would insult his intelligence for thanking the person who put in a two-day coma and plus Jeanne never did well with receiving gratitude.

The twins of the Arc family started making their way over to their rooms which were opposite each other.

"So, what do you want to do now then?" Jaune re-asked his original question seeing how they had got the drama out of the way now.

The whited haired girl stopped and pondered.

Usually, Jeanne would do her own thing that she thought might alleviate the boredom while she had been having to grow up all over again in the last ten years with the blonde moron always following her around like a lost puppy. At first, Jeanne had made a goal to learn where she had ended up but after a few years that gotten dull and then she moved onto experimenting with her Aura and semblance. The dragon Witch did spend a lot of time simply sleeping in or just enjoying the things in this life that she was unable to do from the memories from when she was a simple peasant girl.

Sneaking a glaze at the blonde who was waiting for her to tell him what they will be doing like they usually would do, Jeanne felt herself picking a different option that normal she would never consider a few days ago but she suspected that her mind wasn't truly over the fact at what she had done to the boy back in the fight.

So, what she was about to do could probably be seen as a way for her to make it up to the brat.

"I'm feeling generous today so for once I'll let you decide what we are going to do." She huffed out and crossed her arms.

"M-Me?" Jaune wanted to look out a window to see if it was raining cats and dogs. Never had Jeanne ever wanted to do anything that he would find interesting or fun before. Usually, most of his hobby would involve other members of the family getting involved with him.

Such as when he trained it was usual him and his dad spending time together practicing when the man was at home and wasn't busy out on a mission. Sadly, Jaune couldn't ask Jeanne to help him out with training since he had been told by Angela to wait a few days before taking up a sword again.

Then there was dancing which he would dabble in with some of his older siblings from time to time but the blonde guessed that Jeanne wasn't going to be willing to dance with him.

The other big hobby Jaune had that didn't involve fighting or dancing involved food, both making and eating it. He would help his mom in cooking by making some homemade food which he always found the process of making food to be relaxing. While the blonde was good at cooking Jaune would say he was much better at consuming it as the family soon found out that he seemed to have a black hole for a stomach and Jaune was sure he was the reason why his mom would always make such large portions when the family ate so that Jaune didn't end up eating all the food for himself.

'I can't do cooking with Jeanne either, we don't let her near the stove after she almost burned the house down and plus the kitchen will busy with mom already making dinner. Grrrrr! What else can me and Jeanne do to kill some time before food is ready? Come on Jaune think!' None of his major hobbies were viable so the young boy had to go with something he did more casually.

"Alright, I got something. Follow me." Jaune then entered his room with his sister following behind him.


Jaune's Room:

"Seriously...this is what you want us to do?" Jeanne deadpanned as she saw Jaune sitting down on one of the two pillows he had placed on the ground facing his TV.

"Yeah, I want us to do this together."

"I don't know."

"Come on Jeanne it could be fun and you might enjoy doing it."

The dragon Witch could only stare at the blonde as he held out a small scroll controller towards her. She didn't think that the brat was going to ask her to play a simple video game with him, Jeanne had thought that he would ask for her to show him how she made her Aura spears that he always gushed over but instead Jaune just wanted to pass the time with her over something so...normal which didn't involve how to hold a sword or what do you do to form object out of Aura.

"I doubt I'll have fun playing on this useless piece of junk." Begrudgingly she took the controller holding it oddly.

As his sister took her seat on the pillow next to him, Jaune jab jokingly. "Are you just scared that I'm going to humiliate you?"

"Ha! Fat chance of that brat I'm better than you at everything be it fighting, Aura control and now it will be at this game." The game booted up showing a character select screen and the two of them picked their characters to fight.

"I'll make you eat those words sis."

The match started.

Jeanne laughed and looked over at him. "Yeah right just wait until I-"

[Soaring ninja wins! Total Annihilation.]

"W-Wait what?!" When Jeanne snapped back over to the screen she saw Jaune's character standing triumphantly above hers.

"Sorry, sis, what were you saying again?" She could hear the smug tone in his voice.

But the face he was making was the worst as Jeanne saw the blonde moron doing a pretty good impression of her signature sadistic smile which may have been somewhat scary to anyone else if Jaune wasn't about as intimidating as a kitten. 'Maybe all that time he spent following me around rubbed off on him a bit.'

"I want a rematch right now!" She demanded.

They played again this time with Jeanne giving her full attention to the screen as she mashed her buttons in trying to kill Jaune's Ninja but ended up with the same outcome.

[Soaring ninja wins! Total Annihilation.]

But this defeat was even worse than the first simply because of what Jaune's character was doing to her down one. His was repeatedly crouching down on her killed character in a quick succession. "What are you doing?" She growled out.

"I'm tea bagging your dead character."

"What!?"

"Tea bagging. It's where you-"

Jeanne cut him off before he could even explain. "Just shut it and gave me another rematch so I can show you who the superior player is!" Her pride couldn't take that she had lost. It didn't help that her character was getting humiliated on.

This cannot stand!

So, they played again spending hours doing so.

"Impossible..." The alter Jeanne muttered as she looked at the screen with malice. The score was 20 to 1 in Jaune's win and that one victory Jeanne had claimed was from the blonde playing with just one hand. "How could I have been defeated. This isn't right you must be cheating!"

"What did you expect? To beat me on your first time touching a game controller?" Jaune was enjoying this a little too much since usually his sister was better than him in most things but this time he had something he could completely thrash her in.

"Shut your mouth! We'll play another round and keep going until your the one at my mercy."

"Alright calm down." He giggled. "Jeez sis I never knew you were so salty before, maybe I should give you a nickname and start calling you the queen of salt or something." Jaune laughed to himself but didn't get to do it long before Jeanne kicked him in the side knocking him off his pillow as she started the next match without him.

"Hey, that's cheating!"

Jeanne ignored his cries as she focused on playing the game something she would keep on doing with Jaune until they would be called downstairs by their mother to join the rest of the family for dinner.


Three days later.

The Altered Jeanne was sleeping blissfully in her comfy bed with her limbs sprawled all over the place, a bit of drool could be seen escaping her mouth dampening her pillow. It would have been a very odd sight for anyone that had passed knowledge of the Avenger who had once been terrorising France in a singularity was now snoring away into her pillow with a bad case of bed head.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Dull noises could hear coming from outside.

'W-What who...who fuck is m-making such a racket?' Her head was in jumbles from just waking up.

The noise kept going on and didn't seem to be stopping at all if anything they got louder. Jeanne unconsciously moved her pillow over her head in an attempt to drown the noise out.

Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!

"Grrrrrr! What the heck is that?!" Throwing the pillow off her head Jeanne looked around and saw that it was only half eight in the morning. It was too early for her to even consider getting out of bed normally but the sound kept going and it started to grind on Jeanne's nerves.

It sounded like something was getting smacked around from something made of metal with great force.

Getting out of bed she walked over to the window and pulled the curtain aside and was met with the blinding light from the morning sun greeting her eyes. When Jeanne's vision returned she had a view of the backyard and saw the source of the noise. It was Jaune already dressed holding a sword in his hand going all out on one of the many training dummies, Jeanne swore she could see the blonde also pumping a crapload of his Aura out of him as it glowed out around his body.

Why?

Jeanne had no idea and wouldn't normally care but because the brat was responsible for disturbing her sleep she planned to find out why and went to quickly get dressed.


It didn't take long and Jeanne was soon outside in the backyard with Jaune having no idea of his twin was observing. Now that she was closer Jeanne could see the sweat dripping off from the blonde's body as he kept on pushing himself harder and harder under the morning summer sun.

That wasn't the only thing coming off of his body as Jaune was pouring out a large amount of his Aura, so much that Jeanne was sure that anyone else would have burned right through their reserves at this point. She could even feel his Aura radiating off him from where she stood which definitely wasn't possible a few days ago. The dragon Witch guessed that the rest of the Arc family weren't lying when said the blonde boy had way too much Aura then he knew what to do with.

Having enough of watching the young boy sweat Jeanne made herself known.

"Oi brat! What are doing?!"

"H-HUH! WHA-"

She took pleasure in seeing Jaune's skeleton nearly jumping out of his skin from the way his body want into shock from being startled like that. The blonde yelped in surprise dropping his sword in the process as he spun around to see his twin sister standing afar from him with her arms crossed.

The white-haired girl tried to keep down her amusement that wanted to escape her lips in watching the brat nearly dying from a heart attack.

Upon realising who it was Jaune calmed himself by taking a deep breath. "Err hey sis... it's nice to see you up so early."

"I wouldn't be up right now if it wasn't for all the noise you were making that woke me and answer my question, you idiot. What are doing?"

Jaune looked a bit guilty that he had disturbed Jeanne's sleep and looked away rubbing his forearm. "S-Sorry about waking you up sis, I didn't mean to I was just... errr w-well as you can see I was training like I normally do."

"Didn't Angela say you weren't meant to go back to training until she said so?" Jeanne asked a bit surprised in seeing the golden boy go against one of his older sister's orders.

"Yeah well...err...um... It's been a few days now since I woke back up from the incident and I feel great so I thought I could get right back into training again. Besides what Angela and the rest don't know won't hurt them." The ten-year-old tried to justify himself.

"Hmmm." Jeanne hummed as she thought about something she had never really bother to ask Jaune before since she saw no reason to care but her interest in the blonde had gone up a lot recently. Examining the boy up and down with her golden orbs she asked. "Why do you even bother putting in such an insane amount of time in training away?"

Seriously the amount of time Jaune put into training bordered on ridiculous at times. Jaune train when his father was at home and would still do the same routine by himself of going over what he had learned when the old man had to go out on a mission. It had seemed a bit odd to Jeanne since she rarely trained unless it was working to get her body to the standard it had been before.

Plus wasn't all the training for making sure they could control their Aura? Jaune was already going way beyond the time needed to put into learning self-control.

"What are you aiming for?"

Still not looking at his sister Jaune chuckled nervously. "The reason is kind of embarrassing." He admitted.

"Just spit it out already!"

Sighing Jaune answered "Alright fine... I train so much because I want to be strong just like you."

"What?"

Jaune looked at the ground. "I keep pushing myself because you're so far ahead of me Jeanne and I don't want you to end up leaving me behind so I'm putting in the work so that I can one day stand equal to you. In a few years' time we probably gonna leave home and do our own thing like our older sisters have already done and I want us to do that together but..." He started to fidget nervously as Jaune felt Jeanne staring at but he didn't look up to see how she was reacting to his words.

"... I'm worried that when we grow up I'm just gonna end up being dead weight to you and then you will go far away and we'll be separated. After our fight I know now that I need to work even harder If I want to reach you." Jaune finished his little speech but didn't bring his head up and just waited for Jeanne's reply.

….

….

….

Out all the thing the fallen saint was expecting for him to answer with that was most certainly hadn't been any of the outcomes. The brat was doing all this training just because he wanted to stay close with her!

It was ridiculous and idiotic and...

'Just what I should have expected from that stupid blonde.' Honestly why the hell was the brat going to so far for her? It was already annoying how he would stay by her side like he was joined to her hip and it was frustrating how he had easily forgiven her for injuring him. Now here Jaune was doing something completely unnecessary and yet Jeanne couldn't help but greatly appreciate the gesture.

….

….

After some time she finally spoke back with a simple word. "Idiot."

"what?" Jaune looked up to see Jeanne making her way towards him.

"You're an idiot. If you want to reach my level of strength you not going to get anywhere by just wailing away at some wooden dummy. First off you're not fast enough on your feet and the old man hasn't gotten around to teaching you how to parry a blow properly or how to consistently weave your aura into your limbs to help you perform beyond your natural limits." With each step, she listed off a dozen flaws that she could see in how he fought but it was understandable Jaune had only had few years of training so far.

It would be too much to expect him to flawless in such a short amount of time.

Jaune looked a bit put off with how Jeanne with ease just pointed out things he hadn't even known he was doing wrong and skills he hadn't even learned yet.

"Tch...it looks like I've got my work cut out for me when it comes to you."

'What!'Jaune snapped his eye over to Jeanne's as she finally reached him and just smirked.

"Don't look so shocked, if you're want to be somewhat useful to me and not get left behind I'm gonna have to fix you up to my standards." She stated like it was nothing.

"What! Hold on just a minute!" Jaune waved his arms around. "Are you saying you gonna help me train and get stronger?" He had the right to be shocked. In ten years, no matter what Jaune did he could never get his sister to help him out in training or give pointers.

What had changed now for Jeanne to decide to help him?

She rolled her eye and said. "Of course, you idiot I can't have my minion being weak, now can I?"

...

Jaune blinked and then blinked again to make sure he heard her right. "Wait, Jeanne who said anything about me being your minion!?"

Not bothered by his outburst she responded with a hint of red in her cheeks. "You did when you just so passionately proclaimed that you were going to stay by my side forever."

That's how she had perceived it anyway after all it did seem like a good idea to have a capable person to boss around. It would be like when she had Gilles de Rais, her ally who would assist the dragon Witch back in France and not to mention Jeanne might be able to make use of Jaune later down the line if she could get him to control that power he had unleashed before which had made Jeanne feel near unstoppable.

Deadpanning Jaune said back in a monotone voice. "I don't think I said EXACTLY that Jeanne."

"Silence! Do you want my help or not?"

Shutting his mouth Jaune nodded his head back and forth rapidly. He couldn't risk losing this chance to have Jeanne help him out in training...but they were gonna have to words about the whole minion thing.

Seeing him shut up Jeanne smiled. 'See I'm already domesticating him to my liking maybe there is hope for him after all.'

"Okay before anything happens next tell me what you were trying to active earlier by forcing you Aura out like that?"

Rubbing the back of his head Jaune give her an idiotic looking smile. "Well you see I was trying force my Aura to see I could recreate what happened in our fight since that might be the best way to see if I can trigger my semblance to go off again."

Jeanne nodded, it was smart that Jaune was trying to tap back into that power he had used in the fight since she can attest that something like that would indeed be very useful and definitely something to learn how to control with it being the sooner the better.

"Well don't worry I make damn sure that we get you to tap into your semblance again." A small flame appeared in Jeanne's palm but it looked to be made of her purple Aura then her using her semblance.

Jaune had a strange feeling that he wasn't going to enjoy and have as much fun training with his twin then he did with his dad. Gulping he asked. "I'm going to regret this aren't I?"

Grinning she answered sweetly. "Yes, you will when I'm done with you brat."

Puffing his cheeks at the overused nickname he asked politely. "Can't you call me by my name or better yet call me brother?"

"No."

"..."

"..."

"This is payback for me beating your ass on the game a few days ago isn't it?"

Jaune then had to dodge a warning shot from Jeanne's Aura Blast.

'I think I hit a nerve.' The male Arc thought as he picked up his dropped sword.

"Your training with me begins now!"

She then lunged at him and so started Jaune's first time training under his twin sister.


End

So that's it.

Jaune had his first real fight against Jeanne and found out how strong she is compared to him. I had Jeanne get too carried away in the fight and have her end up tapping Jaune to tap into his semblance. Like how he did in volume 1 when Cardin was beating on him and Jaune's Aura exploded in a flash of white when he first tapped into it.

Anyway, Jaune has found out about his semblance and he is going to need to train with it and see how it works. Jeanne is going to help since she found something interesting in what his semblance could possibly do since she was exposed to it for a few seconds.

This chapter ended up being longer then wanted it to be but I think that was because of the fight.

There a bit of fluff near the end where Jaune and Jeanne are playing a video game, I thought it would be nice to have them doing something which didn't just involve training or Aura and just have do something normal. The inspiration for that scene was from an art I saw showing Jeanne alter and Saber alter playing a fighting game in a living room being casual. Also, I added bits from the fighting game Qrow played with his nieces in volume 3.

I wrote most this before the FGO JP swimsuit Jeanne alter was shown. The good thing about that is it give me new idea of how Jeanne can use her Aura thanks to the Berserker Jeanne alter's move set. That's what that purple flames were meant to represent at the end there.

Some other sister where mentioned and shown which were Leone and Rosswiess so I got three older sisters left for Jaune and Jeanne if I can be bother to think who they could be.

Now some people have been asking if Jaune and Jeanne alter will be pared up and I don't know. I don't really have that worked out yet so I have no clue if I should make Jeanne and Jaune having a pairing since they are brother and sister. I have seen stories that have those types of paring before and I don't mind them personally but writing one is a lot different from that. Since a part of me is like it won't matter and people won't mind it while the other part is telling me I shouldn't write it.

I had anticipated people asking for them to be paired up but I didn't think so many people would want that in the reviews so I don't whether or not to go with it.

So, yeah no clue if I will go down that route but for now I am going to focus on other things with the story.

Anyway see you all next time, Peace.