"All I'm saying is that there are better ways of using your last breaths then begging for mercy from those who clearly have none alright?" Mika asked as Kage and Jaune both agreed with her as they finished off their freshly stolen canned food meal as they took a small break from the tedium of being a group of wandering murders and thieves and looked up to the of red and orange making the entire sky looked like some type of cosmic crime scene as Kage sighed.

"They are probably not thinking straight. I mean most of them are just civilians. Many have never seen conflict let alone people with guns in their entire lives."

"That's exactly my point! They are rookies! They have no training no experience and then they have the gall to come here!? To the badlands and after all of that they still have the impudence to ask us for mercy!? What is wrong with them!?"

Mika asked shaking her fists angrily as she ranted to her friends.

"What do you think Zach?" Jaune asked the fourth member of their group who merely shrugged his arms as his light tanned ski popped out of his arms leather armor as he shrugged his shoulders at him.

"Don't matter to me. Whether they beg or not we will them, all the same, don't we? I don't see a real difference in how they spend their last moments. As long as they die."

"Jeez! Leave the philosophical stuff to Kage! You are starting to sound like him!" Mika shouted to the boy as he once again merely shrugged at her.

"Hey," Kage said half-heartedly making a questioning gesture at his friend.

"Oh stow it, Kage! We all know your an Oum damned philosopher!"

Mika chastized as Jaune looked up into the crime scene people called the sky as he spoke.

"I want to be a better person..."

"You got to be shitting me!" Jaune yelled at the top of his lungs as he was tossed through the air like a rag doll. How the hell do any of these students survive!? Jaune thought as he angled his descent drawing his sword in the hope of pinning himself to a tree and-

WHAP!
Whatever plans Jaune might have held were suddenly interrupted as a long bronze object slammed into his neck, and his entire world went sideways.

"Now I know I said I wanted to be a better person and I also said that I wanted to be a hero. But if my tuxedo has one scratch on it because of you your owner is dead! Do you hear me?" Jaune asked the long bronze projectile that was currently impaling him to the tree.

Jaune had no idea who the hell had decided that nearly impaling him with a bronze spear was an excellent way to help him but whoever it was was in for a rude most likely fatal awakening, and if his suit was in any way damaged when Jaune found him or her.

While Jaune never had a quote-unquote good relationship with the person who gave him his clothes it was a somewhat close pseudo father-son relationship with Roman.
The master thief was the closest thing he had to a father figure in his life, and the man had found it in his har to have imparted some words of wisdom the young man when not beating the shit out of him or letting his assistant do the same.

And Roman Torchwick rule number one clearly stated that you let nobody! And he meant nobody! Mess up your clothes! If somebody messes up your threads, you messed up their face. Simple as that.

Jaune took to the master thief's lesson like a fish to water as he prepared to extricate himself from his situation. Not wanting to say pinned to a tree for any amount of time really, Jaune had no interest in waiting around to be Grimm lunch so not wanting to end his career as dinner Jaune pulled the spear with one hand while using his sword using it as a fulcrum to force it out of the tree.

"Come on... Come on... Come on-
"There!" Jaune yelled as he finally unhinges himself for the tree and was sent flying out the ground as gravity ever the jealous thing one again reasserted itself into his life with double the force as Jaunrplummeted to the land.

Bend your knees, draw out your momentum, do not let yourself just stop. Jaune thought as he remembered Roman Torchwick survival tip number 33# When falling from tall objects, it is imperative to spread out your momentum for as long as humanly possible and to not under any circumstance come to a dead arrest.

As the boy ducked into a ball, he felt the force of the three-story stop as his aura infuse knees absorbed the massive shock form the fall as he tucked himself into a ball and rolled out of the drop holding the sword in one hand and the immaculate bronze spear in the other.

"There much better," Jaune said as he came out of his combat roll and inspected these surroundings. He was in the middle of the emerald forest alone. With nothing but his Sword, shotgun, the incredibly crafted master forged spear and his suit!

Jaune nearly had a panic attack as he instantly went for his tuxedos call desperately checking for damages and praying that there was none. After being inspected these worst of his fears were put to rest as the suit had nary a dent in it and somehow only his undershirt was snagged in the bronze projectiles flight path.

Speaking of a flight path, Jaune had learned that while you never let anyone mess with your clothes, from a common though to a literal god with flaming eyes. If they touch you thread they have to pay. Though any person who can chuck or shoot a spear over a mile in mid-air and hit him int he collars without harming him must either be incredibly skillful or one of them was inhumanly lucky, or some combination of them both.

As Jaune looked at the spear, it took less than a second for him to appreciate the master craftsmanship that went into it. Th thing was made of the most exquisite metal you could buy and was so well taken care of it made Jaune smile to see a fellow weapon lover out there. Roman Torchwick rule #23, take care of your weapon, and it will take care of you. It works in tandem with rule#16 don't take care of your gun, and you will die, simple as that.

As He stared at the spear it was lightweight and incredibly durable as he flipped it around in his finger, this bronze coating was coated in innumerable small inscription that was too small for Jaun'e naked eye to make out as he saw the deep, intricate carving that ran along the side of-
Danger.

June's innate sense of danger perked up as he realized he was not alone. As he put the spear on his back holding it by his sword not wanting and unwilling to let such an excellent weapon lay on the ground for even a moment. As he scanned the tree line look for the enemy; even if he couldn't see, then he knew they were there.

One does not live for over six years with Neo and not get a damned near preternatural sense of danger in the process.

Such intuition was rewarded as a large skinny black monstrosity emerged from the forest as a Beowulf appeared to form the clearing.

Jaune would admit that he felt an inkling of fear at the sight of the Grimm. It was an emotion that he long thought himself no longer capable of felling as he saw his first Beacon encounter with a denizen of the night. Usually, such creatures were kept at bay in his... earlier days, and he had little to no experience dealing with the monsters.

So he would confess to feeling an inkling of instinctual fear at seeing the creature for the first time. It was great better than a pony but smaller than a bear. As it clicked forward its menace red eyes glared balefully at him as it snapped its jaws manically at him.

Come on...

The thing advanced on him with a steady pace as a second Beowulf came from the other side of the clearing to join its fellow monster. This one also sported pitch black fur shining in the daylight as it joined its fellow.

Come on...

The shadowy things circled him snapping their jaws and growling loudly, but neither of them attacked as Jaune drew his shotgun.

Come on...

Jaune thought as one of the monsters decide enough was enough as it chose to rush in jaws snapping.
Come on!
Jaune thoughts it finally happened.
There! Jaune thought as a third Beowulf lunged at him from the bush only for him to pivot far too quickly for an average human on his feet turn the barrel of Shorty to its face and pulled the trigger.

BANG! The shotgun fired as magnetically accelerated shrapnel obliterated the Grimm's face, as it lost fully half of its body, as it's entire upper half was pulped into red mist. As its corpse carried pas them Jaune was no time planting his feet turning his full weight around and slamming the but of his gun backward.

He was rewarded with a loud yelping sound as his shotguns but broke into the Beowulf charge shattering its jaw and shattered its teeth. Sending the creature howling pain as it skidded to Jaune's side before he put shotgun run into its side. BANG!

The most was disintegrating before it his the ground as he eviscerates dit with one shot. The final Girmmwas were eying him cautiously as if not sure whether to attack or not as it growled at the human menacingly.

"Well? What are you waiting for?" Jaune asked as the Grimm apparent hear him and charge him jaws snapping. The most never got more than ten feet as he shot it in the head cutting it's not a skull in half a nearly decapitating it in the process.

As the monster died, Jaune felt a sense of pride in his study of Grimm over the years. Even if he rarely I ever saw them Jaune was well read on the creatures of the night. Roman had made damned sure Jaune was knowledge of the practical matter and kill Grimm was very practical added.

As Jaune reloaded his shotguns, six shell capacity he instantly felt like he was being watched as he swung both Shorty and the spear at the clearing as a calm melodic voice broke it.

"My, my my. That was impressive. I thought you were in trouble for a moment there, but you handled yourself well. Though I would like my weapon back if you don't mind, partner?" A drop dead figure said as a pair of beautiful emerald eye looked at Jaune hungrily.

"Of course partner," Jaune said as he flashed a feral smile as the real challenge of his life came to him.

"Pyrrha was it?" Jaune asked the drop dead gorgeous woman who now stood in front of him. She was just like when he first met her in the locker room. Strong, indomitable and confident. Her emerald eyes regarded him like a predator who had just found it's me as he swore she just liked her lips as she approached him.

"I am assuming this is yours?" Jaune said handing her backer spear which she took with a grateful bow and a slight giggle that sent Jaune's teeth at an edge.

"Why, yes, yes it is. Thank you for taking such good care of Milo. I thought you might scratch him."

"And dent a weapon that well cared for? I would rather shoot myself. Though speaking of denting, I'll have you know that I take the safety of my clothes incredibly seriously and I do not appreciate you almost denting them, though I will let this slide once since you are my partner, I must insist that you do not threaten my clothes again. Your javelin came awful close to making a dent in my tux and if that happened..."

"And if that happened?" She asked in a deceptively luring voice that Jaune loved to hear. It was like she was somehow tempting him, whispering into his ear even though she was nearly ten feet away as her piercing emerald eyes looked him up and down like he was a tasty piece of meat.

"If that happened this might be the last time the world see's the so-called Mistral champion. Which I have no idea what i is thought it must no be that hard. You won it four times after all."

"Oh really? You think you Jaune Arc? Could take down one of the greatest fighters in the world by himself without anyone noticing or finding out?"

"Definitely," Jaune said with his most piercing glare as he saw the champion flash him a smile that was completely at good with his glare. It was a smile that brought equal parts a challenge and a vindication as the girl looked ready to duel him on the spot.

He's perfect! Pyrrha thought as she looked at her partner Jaune Arc. At first, the boy had impressed her with his simple ignorance of the outside world and her role in said world. Then he had more than impressed her when he chased off that irritating even if she meant well heiress wh would not leave her alone.

It's not that she had anything against the heiress it was just that P year was sick and tired of people wanting to get to know her for her champion status is all. And this boy? This Jaune Arc with his odd weapons and burning white tux? The boy was different this boy was a threat.

Pyrra saw that in him the moment he locked eyes with her in the room. Not only did he not know who she was, but he also didn't care. At first, she thought it might be arrogance until she saw his stance slip into a defensive one as they talked. It resulted in almost unnoticeable stance change that most people would not even realize that they were doing subconsciously, but Pyrrha saw, and Pyrrha knew.

Even if he had no idea who she was and joked that the Mistral championship could not be that hard if you could win it so much, which wasn't entirely true but! There was a reason she was called the invincible girl after all. No one had been able to beat her.

In four years of tournament fighting, not a single opponent had been able to defeat her; some had come close! There was much time that Pyrrha was pushed to the edge only to have to rely on her semblance to pull through but this boy? Jaune? For the first time, he gave Pyrrha an emotion she long thought was gone from her, trepidation.

He made her worry; there was something about his cool icy stare that shook the invincible girls usually indomitable confidence. Ss she watched his guarded stance go lax as his cold dead eyes that sent shivers of both fear and hunger down her spine eyed her up and down before a small almost intangible smirk came to her face that anyone else would miss, but Pyrrha did not.

She did not miss the smirk because she used it herself on near day to day bases.

She used it in the opening rounds of the tournaments when she fought the bottom ladder; she used it when she saw an opponent and would not want to hurt their feelings when the battle was over. She used that smirk when she knew she could win. And that meant that his boy this Jaune knew or thought he knew that not only could he take Pyrrha in a fight, he knew we would beat Phyrra in a fight. And do so so handley he thought he needn't spare her a glance!

And the thought of someone with enough confidence and the skills to give her a real challenge sent electric tremors down the girl's spine as she licked her lips hungrily. It had been so long since she had a good honest fight, not those stiff arranged fighters were she would almost automatically win, but a real honest good one knockdown no holds brawl, the fight that was real and gritty, filled with angry do or die fighting where both sides gave it their all with no guarantee that one or either of them would survive the encounter!

It had been so long since she had a real threat and the thought of one flooded the champions veins with competitive fire as the two walked side by side.

"So tell me Jaune why did you come to Beacon? Was it to protect the world? To gain honor? Or did fame and fortune bring you here?"

Pyrrha asked her sharply dressed if poorly camouflaged, who try as she might and despite how good he looked Pyrrha still had to admit when in a forest of green and brown hot white was not the best camouflage to wear.

As she looked at her partner as he moved through the brush weapon out, Milo in rifle form and Jaune's shotgun now called Shorty scanning their frontlines for any activity.

"I need, no I want to help people. So I came to the place where I believed that I could do the most good." Jaune admitted keeping the other part of his backstory a secret for now. Honestly, a good partner or not Jaune had left that part of his life behind, and for better or worse he was stuck here in Beacon. Until he did or graduated and went on to become areal hunter where his road to redemption would truly begin.

"An admirable goal if they ever were one. You said you grew up outside the kingdoms? Where did you grow up exactly? In a small town? Or an island chain, a band of traders? Or some other enclave?"

"I... I grew up with traveling group. It was... different. I'm sorry but I'd rather no to about it. Bad memories you know?" Jaune said with a grimace as Pyrrha nodded while kicking herself internally.

Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Pyrrha thought internal as she kicked her self. As she saw the uncomfortable smile on his face. The same fack smile she hated being forced to wear and vowed never to make another living being on the earth do the same was now plaster on her partners as he grimaced, it was a plastic forced smile that made Pyrrha worry for him.

"I'm sorry! I just..." Pyrrha began not being the best at social norm as the best of times and mainly when she fell the might have just insulted her partner slash potential crush slash first friend? As the two walked forward onto the forest.

"It's fine if my life was not sunshine and rainbows it's ok. I go through it in one piece you know?" Jaune said as his partner nodded her head but still insisted on making thing right. "Still I'm sorry! I shouldn't have made you feel uncomfortable!" Pyrrha admitted as Jaune shook his head.

"Pyrrha I just met you, but I can already tell that you apologize too much. If you are going to be my partner for four years, you need to learn to let things go. You're human after all you are going to insult me in four year time it just happens ok?"

Jaune said with a wry grin as the two mad their way pas the woods passing large trees and low branches as the scanned for Grimm.

"I know! It's just-

"Pyrrha. Look you are a great partner, honestly. You are easily the strongest person I have seen here or most of my life which is saying something mid you, so just take it easy ok? I mean your beautiful and I'd hate to see you frown."

Jaune said tuning Romans golden rule for dealing with women and people who would potentially be able to kill you. Always, Always, Always, flatter them. Make people like you more then your self, and you will do fine. Or you'll just die slower than you would others, maybe more comfortably? Either or really, we all die anyway. Roma had said as Jaune and Pyrrha made their way out of the forest and saw a large cave opening.

"Wanna check it out?" Jaune asked as his new partner nodded still fighting the massive blush that appeared on her face, as her cheeks turned the color of her hair as he called her beautiful. Pyrrha was weak to flattery apparently a weakness he would be sure to exploit to its fullest during their time at Beacon...

"So! You seem to know Jaune! How so?" Yang asked her new partner and potential? Friend as she walked with Blake through the emerald forest. Blake had met Yang fighting a group of Ursa, and after a brief introductory line, the girl had been mainly silent as they walked through the forest.

"We used to travel together. For a time." Blake added in a calm cove as the ravenette walked by the boy brawler who hung on her every word.

"Travel together? Like together? Or just together?"

Blake raised an eyebrow at Yang's wording as the two girls found their way into a large clearing with a large stone structure in the middle of it.

"We traveled together. What else would you mean?"

"I meant like... together! You know?"

"No..."
"I mean were you just traveling or were you traveling."

"Yang using the same word to describe something but just changing the tone does not make it any easier for me to understand."

"Gah! I mean were you and him together!"

"Yes. We traveled together."

"That's not what I meant!"

"Then what did you mean? I am not a mind reader Yang if you do not tell me what you want how can I help you?"

"AH! I meant where you and him together!"
"Yes, we travel-

"NO! That's not what I met!"
"Then what do you mean?"

"Where you two dating!"
Yang finally shouted making Blake stop cause and stuttered s a bright blush came to her face as the usually claim girl started to stutter and flush.

"What?! No! We just traveled together! We were never dating!" Blake said blushing madly as she thought of her time with Jaune, though it was rather brief it would not due to tell Yang the whole story. Mainly because most of it was very, very much illegal... And the other part...

A bright blush came to the cat's face before a shriek filled the air as they saw a rapidly falling red dot approaching them.

"This is bad!" Jaune yeeld as he fired History again not the massive deathstalker who merely ignored the sharpen as it's caprice dissipated the attacks with contemptuous ease as the monster charged them.

The tow hunters in training had accidentally awoken the monster as Jaune and Pyrrha fired into the ting as the dodged and ducked the massive pincers and stinger of the creature as they bullets did little damage to the things it forced them into a clearing.

"Jaune we need a plan-
"AH!" Pyrrha gasped as massive stinger smashed into her while throwing her sideways into the forest and out of Jaune's sight.

"Pyrrha!" Jaune yelled before being knocked backward by a massive stinger and sent flying backward.

"Yang! Catch m-
"BLAH!" Ruby gasped as her rapid descent into the ground was interrupted as a blonde meteor slammed into her as she was rocked former path and slammed into a tree.

"OWW!" Ruby yelled as she found her world spin before something rough yet soft gripped her on her wats and shoulder as her world came down to reveal a familiar pair of the cold blue eyes looking at her.

"Jaune?" Ruby asked the boy who as one hold her ina process carry as he coked an eyebrow at her.

"You looked like you need some help and since I just happen to be passing through-

"How could you leave me!?" A familiar voice said as a blue dot crashed through the air Ruby ought to back the firey blush at the intimate contact with the boy who she now may or may not have a crush on as she pointed to the dot.

"Jaune! You need to save my partner!" Ruby shouted as Jaune sighed and put down the blue repair and took off into a dash across the tree branch and lept out arms stretched wide catching the fallen princess in a bridal carry.

"YOU!?" Weiss shouted as Jaune sighed not even attempting to deliver a clever come back as he set for the simple "Me." As the two hover for the amount before once again gravity reasserted itself in their relationship and sent them sailing into the ground.

"OW!" Weiss said as She was smashed into the ground alongside the rude boy from earlier. As she glared up at her, she once again felt herself cowed by the boy's large admittedly beautiful blue eyes. That was a perfect shade of bright blue. And if not for the sharp end and dullness the radiated from them Weiss might have been almost captivated by them.

As she stated at he, she felt an odd pang of empathy for the boy as his eyes held a familiar hurt in them that she never saw in another human save for her family but that was another story as the blonde sighed once and put her down.

"You ok snow angel? You hurt?"
"Snow angel!? Who is that?!"

"Uh, you? I mean is there any other beautiful princess who I would call snow angel."

The boy asked as the heiress blushed visibly before a red comet struck before them as Pyrrha came out form the smoking crater swearing and moaning right before a literal Ursa came in with a girl riding it!?

As the month gave out as the small hyperactive girl jumped off before sighed loudly.

"AWWW! The Nora mobile broke!" The small girl said sadly as a panting boy came from behind her.
"Nora! Never! Do! That! Again!" The boy said as the two teens walked in together.

"Great now that the gangs all here we can all die together!"Yand said as two massive Grimm began to circle them. "No one's dying today. And they are it's going to be me." Jaune said, unfortunately, drawing the attention of the group of students as seven pairs of eyes looked at him with concern.

"Jaune?" Pyrrha sked in a concerned tone she just thought her partner had threatened to commit suicide.

"I have a plan, but I need some help."

"Just say the word captain! The hyperactive ginger sides she and Jaune ran forward of the movie death stalker.

"Ok Hammer girl!"
"That's me! But my name's Nora!"

"Ok, Nora."

"When the time comes I need you to act!" Jaune said as the hammer wielder enacted the first part of the plan. As the deathstalker charged them, Jaune sat the other member of the team Nora and Red coming at it from behinds the din. Jaun as his time.

"Nora now!" "Aye! Aye!" The girl said as fired a grenade at the monster distracting it before the monster screamed and lashed dit's tail forward before Jaune and Nora slashed ai with the hammer and sword.

The monster cried in pain as it wit drew it's wounded stinger and hissed at them. Before you do ayn are, Pyrrha launched Ren into mid-air Before he sliced off the tip of the trial as Jaune putt his hand forward and Nora used her prodigal strength tp leaps ahead and she the thing into them softer carapace killing it instantly.

As the first monster died the sound of a terrible shriek filled the air as and the answer was immediate as a partially decapitated never more crashed into the ground and roared. Not good. They were doing very not good.

"We have to go!" Jaune yelled as his new friends? Would be the optimal word for his new acquaintances current status as they nodded their heads and charged the thrashing beast.

The elder Grimm had struck the ground with the force of a meteorite and blast a small crater in the center of the field kicking up waves of dirt and rocks providing an exceptional screen for them and sending the remaining humans flying back in crumpled heaps, all except on that is.

"Help me!" Ruby yelled as the young girl's scythe was currently embedded into the monster's neck and she had somehow gotten her cape stuck in such a way that she was now held on its side as well.

Thankfully the Grimm could not as of yet reach her to eat her but that was only a matter of time away as Jaune grimaced.

"We have to save her!" Jaune yelled aloud before allowing himself a moment to be taken back by what he had just said.

Save?

Her?

We?

Jaune thought as he realized that for the first time since he could remember he was actually on his way to save somebody and not to kill them.

This was a first time and If Jaune was complete honest a rather novel experience for the young boy so used to hunting people down to kill them in an incredibly brutal and increasingly elaborate ways that the act of going to actually help somebody was completely foreign to him.

"I agree!" His partner yelled as the four of them rushed the down monster.

"Strang how people change you," Jaune mumbled aloud to no one in particular as they ran forward.

Unfortunately for them the bird was down but not out. As it continually launched wave after wave of feathers at the humans taking down Weiss, Nora, and Pyrrha in one sweep leaving Jauneannoyinlg alone.

"Great. Now I have to kill you myself?" Jaune asked the most as duck and rolled under the feat assault before getting in under the beasts reach and firing a point-blank shot into its stomach.

Bang!

Shorty fired directly into the Nevermores exposed underbelly drawing a gout of blood and bones as the monster sounded a terrible roar that nearly made him deaf.

The monster then responded predictably by slamming a wing into the ground in an attempt to crush the pathetic creature that dared harm it under it's titanic appendage only to succeed in giving Jaune a foothold. As he dug his hand into the things wing span cursing silently and riding the wings pull back and leaping onto the things neck.

"Jaune?!" Ruby squeaked as Jaune nodded to her before unsheathing his sword and stabbing the things neck eliciting aloud FSHT! Noise as the things neck spilt apart and covering the two of them in blood and viscera and making it how in pain before he brought his shotgun into its mouth.

"Didn't you mother tell you? It's rude to peck?" Jaune asked before pulling the trigger of Shorty and blown the things head off int a shower f blood, and flesh as both had and Ruby fell to the ground where he caught her bridal style making the girl blush wildly as she waved her arms around frantically s Jaune smiled at her.

"You were my first time," Jaune said bluntly looked the small girl dead in her eyes as her mouth suddenly dropped open and hung as Ruby paused balked as her face lost all color and went as red as her cape. As she horribly misunderstood Jaune, as he was reminiscing about the first life he ever saved as he smiled brightly as he walked back to Beacon Ruby in arms...

"Team Juniper led by Jaune Arc!" Ozpin said as Jaune blinked once as he saw the old man smiled at him as Jaune blinked twice at giving a position of leadership. As his team congratulated him, Ozpin spoke again.

"Team RWBY! Led by... Ruby Rose!" Jaune matched with a happy expression as her team congratulated her. Well most of them anyways. Yang wrapped her in a bear hug while Blake merely nodded in approval before shooting him glance they both knew as talk later. Weiss seemed to disapprove of the appointment but held her tongue as the students walked off the stage.

"So this is our room huh?" Jaune asked as he stepped into the wide and honestly living Beacond dorms. Was it a vast room maybe eight feet total? With rich red carpeted floors four large beds and two dressers. One for boys one for girls?

"I'll take the far bed," Ren said as he moved to put his stuff at the end of the room. "I'll take the bed next to Ren!" The bubbly ginger announced as Jaune smiled at her.

"I'll take the second form the door," Jaune said remembering Roman Torchwick rule #68. When choosing sleeping arrangements, it is paramount to know what bed you will take. In the event of an ambush, the first bed is usually the first to get hit, and you should aim to take the middle bed in any given situation as that will give you not only time to prepare but time to flee or the option to fight back if possible.

"Then I will take the one next to you," Pyrrha said flashing Jaune a wolfish smile that he returned with equal force. As his partner walked in front of him swaying her hips in a way that would be fatal to mortal men and devilishly grinning at him.

One day Pyrrha I'm going to wipe that grin off your face with a shotgun but. Jaune thought firmly as he thewed his dusty green knapsack over his bed and checked the few contents that equaled the entirety of his material possessions.

The guitar that has been with me since I was two? Check. Extra tuxedo's and clothes that are worth more than every once of my blood? Check. Meger food rations that should no longer be an issue for me? Check.

Jaune thought before panicking briefly as his heart surged to his chest before calming down she found the most precious possession in his life. Lanyard? Check. Jaune thought as he held the small object that was his whole reason for existing.

It was a small white string, with nine small lettered white blacks running through it but it was a reminder, not of what he had done but of what he could become. And it was all that kept him sane. As he put it down reverently, he made one final looks as his body shuddered in fear as he saw the final object of his pack. Demon? Check.

Jaune thought as he confirmed the bane of his life was still firmly inside of the bag and had no way of escaping as he finished his supply check before taking a deep breath before settling down in his bed saying a quick goodnight to his teammates as he closed his eyes and went to sleep.