Okay so apparently you guys liked my original idea of pairing him up with Ruby so we're going with that. Anyway lets get started. Enjoy.
"Ninety two years." Jac mumble from his chair in Ozpin's office. He'd been there for the past few hours talking to the man and exchanging questions. While he found that the world was now very different from the one he could only barely remember scraps of, he also found it to be a far better place in his eyes. In all honesty, he was suffering a bad case of culture shock.
Ozpin took a sip from his mug of coffee, which had mysteriously never run out in the whole time they'd been speaking. "Yes, I can understand how this mat be a bit overwhelming."
"No shit." Jac deadpanned.
"But I'm willing to lend you my assistance if you need it." Ozpin ignored the remark.
Jac leaned forward placing his face in his hands. "What good is a Hunter with no beasts to hunt?" Jac asked dejectedly.
Ozpin raised an eyebrow at this question. "What do you mean by that?"
"The plague of beasts has obviously been all but eradicated, that leaves me with no prey to hunt. After so much time, the hunt is all I know." Jac felt strange about being upset over the lack of beasts, for what felt like a life time he pray for the day he'd be free of the hunt. Now that he had his freedom he realized he had no purpose.
"Young man." Ozpin said getting the boys attention. Neither seem to be taking into account the Jac was technically over a hundred years old. "There is still much need for hunters of great skill. Mankind still faces the grimm threat after all." Hearing the word Grimm seemed to ring a bell somewhere in the very back of Jac's mind. It was a words that he could feel he'd heard before but could not remember its meaning.
Ozpin could see his confusion and was about to explain when chimes began to ring in the large clock they were located in. "Would you look at that, midnight already." He said taking another sip of his drink. "I can understand if you have more questions, however they will have to wait until tomorrow. For tonight you will be sleeping in one of our students dorm rooms. Normally we'd give you your own, but with other schools soon to be arriving for the Vital Festival we have none to spare."
Jac let out a sigh and stood up before grabbing his two blades from the desk and fastened them to his waist. He followed Ozpin to the elevator where the headmaster hit the button to go down. "I need you to promise me you will not harm my students while you stay here. If someone threatens you or causes you trouble you are to come to me or find the nearest staff member. I cannot allow open fighting within my schools grounds, am I clear?" He asked in a stern voice.
Jac merely grunted in response. He wasn't use to walking down a hallway and not being attack by something. Though if he had to be nice he would, so long as everyone else played nice as well.
After exiting the elevator they made the short walk to the dormitories where he would be spending the night. Luckily nobody was in the halls. "It's past curfew so most of the students are most likely asleep by now." Ozpin explained as they approach a specific door. Ozpin raised his hand and gave a firm three knocks to it. There was silence for a moment before they heard a voice.
"Who on earth could be bothering us at this hour?! I swear if its Juane again I'm gonna-" The door opened to reveal a white haired girl wearing a sleeping gown and an angry expression, though that changed the instant she saw Ozpin. "Professor Ozpin!" She shouted causing the other three girl to all look towards the door from their respective beds.
"Good evening Ms. Schnee, ladies." He nodded to the rest of the team as well. "I apologize for disturbing you at this hour but we have a guest at the school tonight and he needs a room to sleep in, and seeing as how two of your team members are already acquainted, I felt you would be the best suited." Ozpin explained before motioning Jac to step forward.
"What?!" The blonde shouted nearly falling out of her bunk. "Thats the creep who nearly took Ruby's head off!"
Ozpin fixed the girl with a firm look. "If I remember correctly from the report Ms. Xiao Long, you attacked Mr. Silver here first unprovoked and he proceeded to defend himself." Jac raised an eyebrow at 'Silver', but sense he could actually remember his real last name, he figured he'd roll with it. "Now I expect nothing but civility from you four. Our guest has not had the easiest time as of late and we stand to learn quiet a lot from him." Ozpin then turned to Jac. "And I expect you to treat these ladies with the respect they deserve."
Again Jac just grunted before entering the room and making his way to the nearest empty corner.
"Now good night children." Ozpin said before closing the door leaving four stunned girls and one indifferent hunter.
With slight annoyance the white haired girl walked back over to her bad and retook her place under it's covers while giving a suspicious glare at the stranger in the corner. Jac looked around the room at the four girls, they were all looking at him but one caught his eye. "Is there a problem?" He asked the one with black hair and a bow. She had been holding her nose since he entered the room.
"You reek of blood." She said clearly breathing through her mouth.
Jac paused for a moment before smelling himself and chuckling. "Sorry about that, after being drenched in the stuff as often as I am, you get use to it." This earned frightful looks from the four. "Don't worry, most of the time it was from rabid beasts." He said trying to calm them down.
"Most of the time?" The blonde asked.
"Well yeah, some it came from people but. Survival of the fittest." He said plainly.
"Well regardless, you need a shower! I refuse to sleep in a room with someone who smells." Weiss declared getting up and leading him to the bathroom where she pushed him in and closed the door.
Jac stared at the stall which she had indicated was the shower. "Okay Jac, you can do this."
The next day
Jac was walking down the hallway alongside team RWBY as they headed towards team RWBY's next class. Jac had wanted to talk further with Ozpin, however the professor apparently had special business to deal with. So now he was left following these four girls around school all day, which really wasn't all that bad. They had just left their history class and Jac found himself fascinated by everything that had happened since the fall of Yharnam.
The other classes he felt himself interested in were, Grimm studies, which had breathed new hope into his life and gave him back purpose. As well as Dust studies, there was know dust within the dream so the whole existence of the substance was new to him, the same could be said about the power of the blood to these people. He had mentioned the old blood in one of their classes that he sat in on and they all looked at him like he was crazy.
"So, what class do we have next?" Jac asked the four while he tugged at his shirt. Weiss had taken his clothes away the night before while he was enjoying the glorious invention known as the 'shower' and had sent them to something called the 'dry cleaners' which was located here in the academy. At the moment Jac was wearing some spare clothes that the girl who he'd cut earlier on named Ruby had gotten from a friend of theirs named Jaune.
So far the girls have had slightly mixed reactions to their newest tag along. Weiss had taken it upon herself to correct him every time he did or said something wrong, as well as answering any questions he had. She seemed to be taking the duty that Ozpin had given them very seriously. Blake had been mostly quiet and spent a lot of her time silently reading, though from what Jac had picked up on this was normal for her. Yang had so far been rather suspicious of him, never turning her back to him and not letting him be alone with anyone. While he found her attempts to do this subtly to be funny, it was also boarding on the annoying side. Jac had been hunting the beasts of Yharnam for a very long time and this had made it very difficult for anything to escape his notice.
Ruby was by far the most accepting of the four. After he apologized for nearly cutting her head off at breakfast, and promising to let her see his blades, she quickly warmed up to him.
"We have combat class next with Professor Goodwitch." Ruby answered his question with a bit of extra enthusiasm.
She didn't notice the scowl that appeared on his face at the mention of that name, that women terrified him more than any great one could. As the entered the arena room where said teacher waited they made their way to their seats, though Jac could feel the blonde teachers glare on his back the whole way which sent a shiver down his spine.
After a few minute class began and two students were selected to fight. "Hey Silver." Yang called his impromptu last name getting his attention.
"Yeah?"
"I've been wondering something about our fight." Yang asked getting the other three girls attention.
"And that would be?" Jac asked.
"When you cut Ruby you lifted your sword and smelled her blood, whats up with that? A fetish or something?" Yang asked the question that had been bothering her for a while. The other three turned to him with slightly grossed out looks.
"Not at all, I was just checking it. I was surprised to find that she was pure and untouched though." Saying this caused Ruby's face to turn bright red and a angry look to form on Yang's.
"You can tell she's a virgin just by smelling her blood?" Blake asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Virgin?" Jac asked confused for a moment before realizing what they were talking about. "Oh no, you misunderstand me. I was not speaking of that kind of purity, I meant she had not been touched by the plague. She is completely uncorrupted by the ashen blood." He explained getting Yang to calm down a bit however Ruby was still red in the face.
"Very well done miss Valkyrie, though next time please, if you could refrain from shouting 'For Gondor' before every attack, it would be most appreciated." Glynda said as the bubbly girl made her way back to the stands and a black haired boy with a single pink highlight stood up.
"I'm sorry professor, she recently watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy and is really into it." The boy said explaining to the teacher.
"Silence Legolas, do not speak for the queen!" She shouted before taking her seat next to him earning a tired sigh in response.
Goodwitch adjusted her glances. "Indeed." She then turned to the rest of the class. "Would anyone else like to fight?"
After a moments consideration Jac raised his hand surprising both the professor and the four girls he was with. "I wouldn't mind testing out this batch of trainees ma'am." He said with a bit of confidence.
Glynda was hesitant for a moment but then remembered he was a hunter trained by the legendary Gehrman, she was quite interested to see what a hunter of old was capable of. "Very well, your opponent will be..." She looked over the crowd before settling on one. "Ms. Nikos." The red headed girl smiled before standing up and making her way to the locker room to prepare. Jac just made his way down to the terrifying blonde.
"Is there anything special I need to know about this duel?" He asked.
"It will be fought tournament style until one of your aura bars fall into the red." She explained earning a confused look.
"Aura?" Jac asked confused before remembering a mention of such a thing in his journal. The journal was one of the few possessions re retained from the dream and he pulled it out of his shirt and began flipping through it. The journal was the collection of knowledge all hunters who pass through the dream have gathered and is stored within their own, as well as shared with all others. He kept searching until he came upon the mention he remembered.
Aura is the manifestation of ones own soul, this can be used as both a means of defense as well as offence. Hunters of the dream are incapable of tapping into this power do to their presence within the dream itself, it is not fully understood why this is. Hunters of the workshop can unlock their aura with anothers help by having them pour some of their own aura into the hunter while reciting a chant unique to each workshop.
After reading this Jac looked up toward the professor. "Would you be welling to unlock my aura for me very quickly?"
Glynda pause for a moment. "You've never unlocked your aura?"
"Hunters of the dream cannot while they remain trapped." He explained.
"Very well, do you know your cultures adage, or shall we use Beacon's?" She asked sitting her scroll aside for a moment.
Jac thought for a moment before nodding. "Yes I know it." Glynda stepped forward and placed her hand on his chest and the other on his cheek.
"Close your eyes and begin the adage." She directed.
Jac closed his eyes. "We are born of the blood, made men by the blood, undone by the blood. Our eyes are yet to open. Fear the old blood." As he spoke the last words he began to emit a sinister red aura from his body that vanished moments later. Glynda stumbled backwards slightly while raising her hand to her mouth, she then ran over to the nearest garbage can and emptied her stomach out into it. "Ms. Goodwitch, are you alright?" Jac asked walking up to her from behind causing her to jump and spin around and back away slightly.
"Yes, I'm fine. Just had some bad yogurt for breakfast. Please take your place in the ring." She said avoiding eye contact.
Jac thought this was a bit weird but ignored it and did as he was told. Glynda walked towards the door and exited into the hallway where she bumped into Professor Port. "Ms. Goodwitch, my apologies! How has your day been?"
Glynda didn't really pay much attention to the man. "Ah Peter, would you mind supervising my class for a bit, I need to go take care of something?" She asked hurriedly.
"Of course, go ahead. I'd love to watch our students duke it out for a while." With that the man entered the arena room and Glynda made a beeline for the nearest bathroom. Glynda entered the first stall and sat down before immediately breaking down into tears and sobs. She gripped the wall and leaned her head against it as her whole body was wracked with the sobs.
"That poor child." She choked out as the tears continued to fall.
When you unlock anothers aura, you momentarily connect your souls with theirs and can feel its condition, as well as some of what its felt. Glynda had unlocked dozens of students auras in her years of teaching, but nothing she had ever felt was even close to this. Jac's soul was by far the most damaged and tired soul she'd ever felt. The feeling of anguish, sorrow, and absolute despair was so overwhelming it was enough to cause her, a grown huntress, to have a breakdown like this.
She couldn't stop her sobbing. She could only imagine what could produce a soul like that. She sat there in that stall crying for another half hour before emerging.
Another chapter down. Next chapter we got Jac vs Pyrrha, place your bets because if you've read my other fanfics then you know that I don't play favorites when it comes to fight. There is a very good chance it could go either way, even I haven't decided yet. Leave a review and tell me what you all think. LATER.