There is going to be a poll about what Jaune's devil fruit will be. I already have two choices, which are the Ryuu - Ryuu no Mi (lightning model), or the Oto - Oto no Mi. If you think that you have a better suggestion, then put it in the comments. Give a good description of the devil fruit. I want name, type, powers, weaknesses, and why I should pick this.

I don't know how regularly I am going to update, but I'll try to not space it out. I'm a first year in college, so like I said, I will TRY.

And one other thing. You don't have to, but I would like some feedback on what I could do better in my writing style so I can make the story much livelier and fun for you guys. I enjoy writing this and I want it to be good. So enough of my rambling and enjoy the story.

After eating what was in Jaune's opinion "a shitty fruit," he decided it was time to keep moving forward. Going back wasn't option unless he was tired of living. Jaune went to pick up his hoodie, until he realized he was grabbing nothing but air. He began to frantically search around to find his lost hoodie until it hit him.

"I left it back there with monkeys," said with a shaky voice. His favorite hoodie, his companion that has been with him through thick and thin was gone. It was comfortable, it was cool, it kept him warm.

"FFFFUUUUUUUUUU-," He screamed. A line of curses flew out of the Arc's mouth. Who knew that he had such a colorful vocabulary. He would have continued on his tirade, had he not been interrupted by the sound of loud stomps. It seems someone wasn't pleased with the yelling. The stomps got louder and the ground beneath began to vibrate. Jaune looked in the direction of the sound and saw the outline a giant creature. What was revealed was a giant buffalo as tall as the trees.

Jaune stared at the buffalo in both awe and fear. He was in awe because he has never seen a buffalo of that size, and fear because its anger and frustration seemed to be directed towards him. It blew a breath of hot air out of its mouth into the face of Jaune. Its left front hoof began to scrape at the ground, signifying that it was getting ready to charge.

Due to the immense rage he felt from the colossal beast, Jaune did the only thing that he could think of. And that was to scream and run.

A feminine scream erupted from the mouth of the blonde that could be heard for miles as he ran from the buffalo.

-2 miles from Jaune-

A purple haired woman was taking a stroll, until she stopped when she heard a shriek. She turned her head towards the source of the sound. Her face took on a frown and began to walk towards the source. As she began walking she sighed.

"Haven't even been here for a day and you're already causing trouble," She said in an exasperated voice.

-Back to Jaune-

Jaune was running for dear life weaving through the trees to slow down the buffalo in some way. He thought the trees would help, but it seems that the trees aren't doing anything to slow it down. The only reason that Jaune was alive was his constant turns he made. The buffalo showed no signs of stopping and kept crashing through tree after tree leaving only ruin in its path.

-5 minutes later-

'Why is every animal I've met so far, so set on trying to kill me?' he screamed in his head. While he was able to recover most of his aura, it still wasn't full and would soon to run out any second. This fact scared Jaune. As he kept running, ahead of his he sees a woman walking toward him at a slow pace.

"RUN!" he shouted at the woman. It seems that she didn't hear or didn't care to listen. He decided to take matters into his own hands and get her out of here. As he got closer, he could see that she was an older woman. Her hair was a luxurious lavender that was tied back into a pony tail. Her skin complexion was a lot darker than his. She wasn't tall, but she wasn't short either. Her face had an angular roundness that was nice to look at. All in all, she was definitely someone that could turn heads.

Once Jaune reached the woman he went to grab her hand and run, but she avoided his hand and knocked him out by striking him on the back of his neck. As the Jaune fell to the ground in an unconscious heap, the woman stood her ground and stared at the buffalo. The buffalo charged at the women in a blind rage, but suddenly it began to lose speed. It stopped in its tracks just inches from the women. Its once rage filled expression morphed into one of fear. The buffalo soon turned around and ran for its life in opposite direction.

As soon as it was out of sight, the woman turned towards the boy and picked him up. She put him over her shoulder like a sack of potatoes and began the long trek back to her home.

-A few hours later-

Our favorite blond began to wake up from his comatose state to see that he was in a totally different area. He felt comfortable, more comfortable than he has in a while. He sat up to look around the new environment that he was in. As he was trying to figure out where he was, his thoughts were interrupted by a voice that both rough and smooth at the same time.

"So you're finally awake," said the voice as more of a statement than a question. Jaune's head quickly snapped to the direction of the voice, only to see the woman that had knocked him out sitting down across from him. Now that he got a better look at her, he could see that her eyes were like shimmering amethyst. He wardrobe seemed to be simple only consisting of a blue t-shirt and jean shorts. What caught his attention was the maroon sash that she wore around her waist that seemed to go down to her mid-calf. It bore an intricate pattern painted in a blue that seemed contrast well with the maroon.

"Are you going to say something or are you going to just keep staring at me?" She asked. The Arc sputtered and blushed in embarrassment and began to awkwardly apologize.

"I-I'm sorry…I didn't mean to look at you like that. I just thought that you were pretty…wait I didn't mean that. N-not that you're not pretty, you actually beautiful and that's why I was staring," realizing what he just said. Jaune buried his hands in his face due to total embarrassment.

The still unknown woman didn't think nothing of it and grabbed a tall ceramic bottle with a cork covering it. She pulled the cork from the bottle and took a long drink from the bottle. After 10 seconds of drinking, she took a sharp breath to get air back in her lungs.

"It's no problem," she said simply. She seems like a nice person in Jaune's book. "What I do have a problem with is that you haven't even been on this island for a day, but you've stirred all kinds of trouble by disturbing the animals" She finished. Okay maybe not a nice, as he thought although, she did have a point in that he did cause some trouble since the time he has been here.

'Who is she and how did she know how long I have been here?" He thought.

"Who are you and How did you know I how long I have been here?" He said voicing his thoughts.

The woman looked at him with the same dull and lifeless look that she has had since he first met her.

"My name is Artelier D. Mana, and how I knew you were here, was because I sensed your presence the moment that you washed ashore," She answered. She took another long drink from bottle.

"You knew that I was here and you didn't come to help me?!" He yelled. If she knew he was here the whole time, why didn't she come to help at all. What kind of person would do that? Jaune was beginning to think that she wasn't as nice of a person that he once thought she was.

"What obligation did I have to help you? You washed up on MY island, and stirred up a lot of trouble with the animals here," she stated. Good job Jaune, you have probably ruined the relationship of the only source of aid you probably have on this island.

"I'm sorry about the trouble I caused, but that doesn't you give you a good reason to not try to help," he said.

"I do what I want, and I didn't feel like helping you. Besides, you made it this far, so you didn't much help in the first place," she calmly said. She now started to take swigs from the bottle instead of long drinks. It seems that he wasn't going to get any sympathy whatsoever from her.

Jaune has had a long and shitty day. A crab put a vice grip on his ear, he got chased for 3 miles by monkeys due to a misunderstanding purposely created by that brat, he got chased by a giant buffalo that tried to kill him just because he disturbed him, and now he is being talked down by this possibly alcoholic woman. While he is thankful to her for saving his life, he was hoping to get some form of sympathy from her. He balled his hands into fist, gripping them to the point that you could see the bone.

"Look, I have had a really shit week. My dreams were crushed, I got shot out of the sky by lightning, I had to hold on for dear life on a piece of metal as I got knocked around by waves, I have been beaten, bitten, and scratched by monkeys, I lost my favorite hoody, I got chased by a giant buffalo, and now I'm getting shit from you," He said with some pent up aggression in his voice.

"Artelier-" he started.

"Mana," She corrected.

"What?" The Arc said surprised.

"Artelier is my last name, my first name is Mana," She said with finality.

"Well…Mana, can you at least give me some form of sympathy," He pleaded. He looked at her with some hope, but all that he saw was the same dull look that she has had from the beginning. She took another swig from the bottle. She really likes to drink?

"How do your problems concern me?" She asked.

The hopeful look that Jaune had was replaced by an expression of despair. He hung his head low and went silent. The woman looked at him, expecting him to say something, but he just stayed silent. She stood up from the chair in the room and walked out. At she was at the threshold of the door she stopped.

"You are welcome to stay here, but you will have to work to earn your keep. You will begin tomorrow," she said. She closed the door and left Jaune to wallow in his sadness. Moments after the door closed, tears began to fall from his eyes.

"Why am I so weak?" he sobbed.

-A week later-

Jaune has gotten somewhat used to life on this island. Although it was hard at first due not having of the technology that he was used to. Mana has a nice collection of books that he would read when he was done with chores for the day. The only thing is that he doesn't know much about Mana. All that he knows is that she is an alcoholic. He sees her with a new bottle every day. Where she gets it, even he doesn't know. She usually tells him where she is going, so if he needs anything, he knows where to find her.

There was one day where she was just gone the whole morning and she didn't come back until late at night. When Jaune saw her, he saw that the area around her eyes were puffed up and red.

'She was crying,' Jaune thought.

Being the person that he is, Jaune went to ask her what was wrong, but she glared at him and walked away. Seems that she is not much for conversations. Jaune wasn't someone that was willing to give up on helping someone. He was going have to be a little more careful about how he did it.

-3 weeks later-

For the three weeks that he has been here, he noticed that she seems to disappear only on Friday. In his observation, he found that she leaves at the break of dawn. It seems that she didn't want him to know where she was going.

He tried one morning to go follow her, but she must have known since she somehow disappeared into thin air when she made one turn. She must have been a hunter.

It seems that this was going to be a lot harder than he thought, but he was not someone to just give up so easily. Although Mana is pretty cold towards him, she is the reason that he has a roof under his head and can eat a decent meal. He was going to help her, whether she wanted his help or not. He just needed to be sneakier.

_-6 weeks later-

He finally did it. Although it took longer than he expected, he was finally able to find out where she was going. It was secret beach on the island. He expected to maybe see some grave of someone or people that she was mourning. He was right. What he didn't expect to see was a shipwrecked galleon washed ashore. The ship looked like it was worse for wear. In front of the ship, there were twenty wooden memorials made from the wood of the ship lined up horizontally along the beach. Each In front of the memorials, he saw Mana wailing. She was whispering things, but he couldn't make out what she was saying. This was a good chance as any to confront her. He walked from the foliage of the trees and began to walk towards her.

"So this is where you have been going to?" Jaune asked. Mana's head shot up. She turn her head towards him and looked at him with anger in her eyes. Seeing her this angry was a surprise for Jaune. He didn't have time to contemplate it because she suddenly disappeared and the next thing he knew, he was pinned to a tree by nothing but a foot.

"What are you doing here and how come I couldn't sense you?!" She shouted. She pressed her foot harder into his chest for emphasis that she was not looking for any stupid answers.

"I was following you-" Jaune started, but was interrupted.

"I know you were following, but I thought you would have given up seeing how much I didn't want you to know where I was going. I thought you would UNDERSTAND, that I do like my privacy being invaded!" She said raising her voice as she continued talking.

"I knew that, but I couldn't stand around to see someone in pain. I did it because I wanted to help you. I didn't like it that every week you would come back from crying. You need help," Jaune said.

"What if I don't want help?" She asked. Her glare was still just as strong, but she took some of the pressure of his chest.

"I would still try to help you even if you don't want it," he clearly stated. Right now, he was unusually calm. In a situation like this, where a someone has enough leg strength to crush your ribs, you should be pretty scared. He doesn't know why, but he doesn't feel scared of her at all.

"Now we can stay and you keep me pinned here, or you can let me go and we can talk because I'm not giving up anytime soon," he said with finality in his voice.

"I don't like being told what to do," she growled out.

"I'm not telling you what to do, I'm giving you options. So are we going to talk?" he smoothly replied.

Mana stared at him, for a few seconds until she finally released him from the prison that was her foot. Jaune fell forward, due to him unknowingly pushing back. Mana sat down in front of him waiting for him to catch his breath.

"I will talk, but you still haven't answer my other question. How was I not able to sense you?" the alcoholic asked. It's been a long time, since someone was able to evade her senses.

"I really don't know. All I was trying to do was be as sneaky and possible when trying to follow. It was really hard since you evaded me most of the time, but I kept trying at it until I succeeded," Jaune said hoping that, that would answer her question.

Her eyes widened for a second at his answer. Many thoughts began to rush through her head, but her thoughts were interrupted by the voice of her roommate/servant. She brought herself back to reality.

"I'm sorry, what did you say?" She asked.

"I was asking if you were ready or if you needed time?" He asked with genuine worry.

"Ask away," she simply said.

AAAAAND, this is where I am stopping this. I don't like cliffhangers either, but the next chapter is probably going to be a lot of them sharing their stories with each other. The next chapter is going to mostly going to be where they will begin to a closer relationship with each other. One more thing. Updates are not going to always be this fast. The only reason why it is this fast is because, I just finished a lot of work that I needed to do.

Well see you guys later in the next chapter.