I know it has been a while (over two years...) but here is chapter 4


"How do you know about these swords?" asked Jaune between heavy breaths as he was lying on the ground with various bruises visible on his body, his clothes were torn with spots of blood, blood that was his own. Even Though he did not look good if one would look closely they would see that the bruises had a very light white glow to them and were in fact slowly healing at a pace that was observable.

Shirou was standing not far away from where Jaune was lying on the ground his face scrunched up in contemplation. It did not appear as if he had been paying attention to what was happening around him, a few years ago Jaune would have called out his master for not paying attention. But now he knew that Shirou always was aware of what occured around him, the fact that he chose not to answer or provide any feedback to Jaune's question meant that he was coming up with an answer that would be both understandable and satisfactory to Jaune.

If there was one thing that Jaune had learned over the years is that the art of being a hunter was incredible complicated, from managing prana to organizing one's mental state to performing the necessary research to progress one's art. And so things of which one would think would be easy and straightforward were not always so and could even be at the border of the spectrum of human comprehension. It still baffled Jaune what was required of those that were on the path of becoming a hunter.

And so he patiently waited for an answer from his teacher. Lying on the ground he turned his head to the sky and closed his eyes. Going over his embedded mystic codes to make sure that were performing optimally and in sync as they were repairing his body. Most damage would have been fixed by now it was just that Jaune had used a great deal of prana and was running on fumes at the moment, now that the major organ damage had been repaired and only a few internal and external injuries were remaining he could alter the mystic codes so that they would work more efficiently for the simpler injuries.

Jaune had learned of various mystic codes from Shirou that could heal, he was required to always have a couple of them embedded inside of his body. Once embedded they required minimal prana to upkeep and could heal and restore his body when it was damaged very efficiently.

"I suppose it is not inaccurate to say that I have encountered every single sword that I can make at one point or another" said Shirou as he leaned back against a tree, causing Jaune to open his eyes and look over towards his teacher.

Speaking further Shirou said "I can assure you that you will have immense trouble finding similar swords if you were to look on your own, at least in this day and age."

A different person or perhaps more accurately a person with a state of mind that was closer to the norm would have frowned at such a statement and perhaps would have inquired what Shirou had meant with "this day and age". Somewhere in the depths of his mind Jaune was also aware of this but this was not what had intrigued him right now. Right now Jaune's state of mind was slightly more twisted than what was considered normal, more keen to certain aspects of what was happening in the world and at the same time less sensitive to some things that would be obvious to the vast majority of humans. Somewhere in the two statements Shirou had made Jaune had found a connection to a stray thought he had. An idea that had been floating around in his head for quite some time now. It had started as just a slight observation of fact. But overtime as Jaune's abilities grew so did that idea.

And so "Unaware of pain or loss" that his physical body was experiencing right now he could only ask a follow up question that would be considered strange by most and outrages by others. A question that seemingly had nothing to do with was being discussed right now. A question that if it had been heard by one that was privy to the more darker and mysterious side of the world and one that knew of the workings of the human mind and lastly one that knew about the life Jaune had lead the last couple of years and the state his current body was in right now would cause them to drop to their knees and cry, cry either in sadness, admeritation, jealousy or hatred for the boy.

Opening his mouth Jaune spoke "Did the girl attain her dream?".

And upon hearing that Shirou could only smirk as he himself looked up to the sky and the broken moon that hung there.


The first rays of sunlight shone upon Bianca arc as she walked outside of her house to the massive Arc backyard. Still a bit sleepy and tired combined with the confusion that was the result of yesterday's events it took her a couple of moments to realise something strange. Blinking she scrutinized the backyard looking for something. Frowning she walked forward to a particular spot. A spot she knew had to look different than how it looked right now.

Yesterday during the fight, the fight where her 17 year old untrained brother had somehow managed to beat her near invincible father….. Her train of thought suddenly halted as she remembered the fight, no surely she must have imagined some parts of it. Some of those moves Jaune had performed were simply too far out of the reach of an untrained individual. Even she the eldest of the Arc siblings could never have performed some of them, it was just how complex and situational they were.

Like that one where Jaune had performed a jump flipping and striking out with a spear at her father while using his other hand to make a hammer a throw it at her father's feet causing him to almost trip. That had caused her father to miss the spear and Jaune had scored a hit that probably had taken out a good schunk of aura.

Who would train for something like that, it was simply too unbelievable. No she must have been in shock by the fact that her brother even knew how wield any weapon and her mind had probably been too distracted by that weapon creation semblance of his and had filled in some blanks in her observations.

Yeah that semblance of Jaune was something else, she had yet to properly process just what her brother could do, something as versatile as what he had displayed yesterday was simply not possible…..

Shaking her head suddenly Bianca took in a deep breath. 'Now is not the time to think about something like that' She though, afterall she had come here for a reason, but first….

Blinking she looked down to the patch of earth beneath her feet, a patch of earth with grass growing of it. She distinctly remembered that this was the spot upon which Jaune had fired that massive projectile, at least she thought it had been a projectile.

Frankly it could have been a condensed aura blast, actually no that was not possible. Condensed aura blasts were only thought in the higher years of advanced combat schools like Haven or Beacon. There was no way in hell Jaune could do something like that, even she still had trouble with that. Of Course it could be possible with a semblance but Jaune had clearly demonstrated that his semblance had nothing to do with energy projection. So it had to have been a projectile that he had produced.

A semblance that can make weapons, any weapon in fact, there was no way….

Again thinking about that blasted semblance Bianca signed. Looking around she could see that there were remnants of yesterday's fight. Looking beneath her feet again the small crater that had been the result of that projectile was nowhere to be found.

'Maybe it had been a dream' she suddenly though, a thought that brought a smile to her face. Of Course it had not been a dream she suddenly released, that would have been too much to hope for. Looking again at her backyard she noticed that while there were no craters or burnt patches of grass some spots were visibly flatter than others. It was not something she would have noticed normally but now that she had been looking it was something that caught her eye.

There were indeed spots that seemed to have been visibly modified. The damage had been already fixed by someone. It was the only explanation that she could think of. Had her mother or one of her sisters perhaps had called a gardener? Had they fixed the damage already. Blinking she looked towards a tree that had been broken during the fight and even it appeared whole right now. Certainly it was not possible to fix a tree that had been chopped in two….. Or was it? She was definitely no plant expert, for all she knew it was possible to fix a death tree.

"Damm it" She suddenly said, she did not come outside this morning to scrutinize her backyard. It was probably some gardener that had come last minute and she had simply missed them.

Concluding her observation of the backyard Bianca set her eyes on the small forest that was part of the arc estate, she had woken up this early in the morning for a reason.

She was certain that today was going to be all about Jaune. They needed an answer to the many questions that had been raised yesterday. She personally wanted to know who it was that had unlocked her little brothers aura for him. Heck how did he even know about aura.

Yeah this was Jaune afterall, all he did was…...,. Well she did not actually know what her only brother was into. Video games probably, she could still vividly remember him begging their parents to take him to an arcade when he had been younger. Yeah that must be it, Jaune was wasting his time playing… No that was not possible, the skill that he had displayed yesterday….. The amount of training it would require.

She did not know why but suddenly she started to become angry, angry at Jaune. 'What was he thinking' fighting her father like that.

No indeed her brother had been over relying on his semblance. Yeah that was how he had beaten her father, he must have been in shock himself after seeing what Jaune was capable of. There was no other way a 17 year old without any formal training could defeat a full huntsman, particularly one like her father. Certainly her father had been holding back.

"Euh" suddenly came out of her mouth. Yeah she had come here for a reason, her morning exercises.

Something that had become a habit of her ever since she had enrolled at her primary hunter academy. She would wake up every morning and perform her stances. The thing was that her weapon was rather complex. Being a spear, shield and double sword combo with a mode where it would switch to an automatic assault rifle it was by far the most complex weapon that any of the arc siblings used.

Being such a complex weapon it had been very difficult to master and had a great deal of moves that were possible with it. And so she had to practise every morning to master it. Of course she had mastered it long ago and this morning routing was simply something to keep her in shape.

And so she began her trek deeper into the forest of the Arc estate, temporarily deciding to forget all about the events of yesterday.

As she walked deeper into the forest she suddenly started hearing strange sounds, frowning she turned towards the direction the sounds were coming from. There she could see that leaves on the trees were moving, asif being pushed by some force. Changing her direction she walked towards the strange sound which now started to sound like the sound a sword makes when it is swung through the air. Determined to find out what was going she increased her pace.

She wasn't worried about intruders as it was most likely that the cause of the slight disturbance was that someone else had already decided to do some training. It was the most likely cause as her house was currently filled with her family and some of their guests that had decided to stay over. All of which were hunters themselfs.

And so she came upon the sight of her little sisters friend whose name was Arslan who was leaning against a tree branch as she was looking upon …. Jaune.


The sound of her alarm was not unfamiliar to her, groaning Arslan slowly climbed out of bed and proceeded to walk towards the bathroom of her guest bedroom. After freshening up a bit and putting on some basic training clothes Arslan proceeded to make her way outside.

Arslan had always been a good student, always near the top of her class. Keyword "near". She never managed to reach the top something that frustrated and angered her to no end. In her hunter prep school she was the second best student after Olivia Arc. And during the Mistral regional tournament she came in second 2 years in a row after Pyrrha Nikos. Yep it was suffice to say she was sick of being second best.

Now next year would be different she would compete in the Vytal festival and win first place! No matter what it took, she would train every waking hour if she had to, she would train till her body gave out! Yeah that was the spirit.

Arslan already had received her admission letter to Haven Academy where she would start her advanced huntress studies. She had considered Atlas Academy and Beacon for her advanced studies but eventually she released she would prefer to stay closer to her family back in Mistral and so had chosen Haven.

Reaching the door to the backyard of the Arc estate she briefly looked through the window to see something strange. A figure was kneeling on the ground with their hand outstretched towards the ground a white glow emanating from the hand.

"What the hell" Arslan muttered as she approached the window to have a closer look. She could not make out what was happening. Suddenly the figure rose up and began walking before suddenly kneeling trusting their palm towards the ground and for the white glow once again to appear. The glow was dim and the sun was yet to appear so there was not enough light to make out who the figure was or what it was doing.

Arslan continued to look for a few moments questioning whether she should approach the figure or go wake someone up to go and see what was going on. Again the figure rose and this time she could see it looking around asif it was scanning the ground and then she could see it nod once before it set of towards the forest.

Making a split second decision Arslan opened the door and quietly started following the figure. As she passed the spot where the figure had kneeled she tried to make out what it had done to the ground but could not make out anything in the darkness. Was it stupid to follow an unknown and potentially dangerous entity in a dark forest … probably but Arslan was convinced she could take care of herself and if anything happens, which was unlikely, she had a house full of hunters to back her up.

Unfortunately she couldn't follow the figure for long as suddenly she had lost track of it completely, blinking she looked around trying to catch a glimpse of it but that was going to be difficult in this darkness. She should probably go tell someone about what she had just seen but considering it was still incredibly early and most people were probably still sleeping she decided against doing it right now. She would tell about what she had seen during breakfast. It was probably nothing major anyway and one of the Arc family probably knew what it had been. It was incredibly unlikely that it was something like a burglar because those did not dare come to the houses of the hunters in this part of town. That would be just beyond stupid. She had no time for something like this anyway, she had to train to become the best after all.

Noticing that she had followed the figure into a small clearing in the forest. A nice spot secluded by big trees out of sight from any windows of the massive Arc house, heck it was the perfect training spot. And so smiling Arslan took a stance and began her training routine.

She did not train for long, maybe 15 minutes before suddenly she heard a voice from behind her "Eum Hey there".

"Eh!" spinning around a surprised Arslan came face to face with the figure she had been following before only now it was standing a few meters in front of her.

Still a bit spooked by the sudden reappearance she raised her dagger into an attacking position and said in a loud yet firm voice, but still one in which a bit of panic could be heard "Who's there!".

Suddenly she saw a light appear above the figure's head. It died down quickly and she could make out some kind of object floating above the figure's head. She could not make out what the object was in the darkness, it was still too early for the sun afterall. As the object appeared it began making its way towards her, it was not a fast pace but she still became alarmed.

"What are you doing? Stop that!" she exclaimed and was about to make a fireball to make some light and potentially use as a weapon against the figure if it proved to be aggressive.

But then suddenly the object that had been floating in the air and was now positioned in the center between herself and the figure suddenly stopped moving and after a moment of just hanging there it suddenly erupted in light. Well it did not really erupted, it was just that Arslan had been focussing on the object, which in retrospect had been stupid as it could easily have been a distraction and the figure could have used the opportunity to attack her.

Quickly recovering she looked once again towards the object that was suspended in the air and noticed it was a …. glowing sword. Blinking she looked towards the figure she now could make out in the light provided by the glowing sword. Tall male with a rather impressive musculature, blond hair and blue eyes.

'He's hot!'Arslan thought as she looked over the male that was in front of her before some gears in her head finally clicked and she finally recognized the figure in front of her as Jaune Arc.

Even though Olivia Arc had outdone her consistently Arslan still considered her one of her closest friends. And thus when Olivia had invited her to yesterday's get together Arslan had happily accepted. It was a great idea, travel to Vale, somewhere where she had never been before and meet some interesting people at a get together for hunters. And it had been, Arslan had travelled to Vale and had met up with Olivia. She had come the day before the party and had spent the first day touring across Vale with Olivia and her two elder sisters Bianca and Sienna the second of which was being accompanied by her boyfriend William.

The next day had been the day of the party and it had been great. Arslan had talked to a lot of professional hunters that had been present. Being a high ranking contestant in the Mistral regional tournament she had some fame herself and managed to even talk to Winter Schnee, the famous Atlas specialist. It became even better when Ozpin himself showed up with Glynda Goodwitch, the former of which had basically legend status among hunters and was even considered somewhat of the hunter leader.

She had been chatting with an older huntress from Vale when suddenly Ozpin himself had announced that there would be a demonstrative match featuring Arthur Arc himself! Arthur Arc was considered a legendary hunter almost on the level of Ozpin himself. To see him in action, now that was an opportunity she could not miss. Quickly she had made her way towards the front of the crowd to have the best look upon the spectacle. Only to then be incredibly disappointed to find out that he would be fighting his son.

She had been surprised at first, she and Olivia had been close and Olivia had mentioned and talked a lot about her family and how she looked up towards her older sisters and parents. But she had never mentioned that she had a brother. At first she had thought that the boy would barely be able to keep up. She had assumed that he was probably one of those kids that was a failure and that had been the reason Olivia had never mentioned him. He had probably just nagged his father to fight him in front of all of these people so he could impress them. Of course he would be average at best and unable to give a good performance. His father was probably just amusing him by fighting him. She had hoped Arthur Arc would fight one of his colleagues who would be able to give him a challenge.

She had no intention to watch some basic fight featuring some amature. She was about to turn around and walk away when the fight had begun.

And boy had she been wrong. She had quickly forgotten the fact that Olivia had never mentioned her brother to her and became completely absorbed in the fight between Jaune Arc and his father.

Of course she released that Arthur Arc was holding back, there was otherwise no way that a student like Jaune probably could keep up but still. Jaune Arc was beyond impressive, heck she could barely follow him. The speed he was capable of attaining was immense, the guy was way faster than even Nikos could achieve at her best. And he was at that speed consistently. She would have assumed he had some kind of speed semblance if not for the fact that his semblance had something to do with sword creation. Now seriously that was one heck of a semblance, Jaune could even make swords that could track his opponent. Now she had never heard of something like that. But still it was impressive. He was moving too fast for her to make out any of the moves he was doing but they all looked incredibly complex.

She had watched them fight following every second of it. Arslan was proud of her fighting abilities but even she had to admit that fighting against Jaune Arc she would have problems. Heck if he would rain her with those swords like he did with his father she would have no choice but to tank them, which would cost her an immense amount of aura she would imagine. Why had she never heard about him, the guy was probably the best of his class at whatever hunter school he was going. And he could not have been much older than her.

After the abrupt end of the fight which had no winner, obviously a setup by the Arc family so that neither of the two family members would have been seen losing, she had gone upstairs to look through the hunter news sites for some info on Jaune Arc, she would have asked Olivia but she had disappeared with her family on what was clearly a private affair, probably discussing how successful they had been with impressing the guests. It was strange after all she had never heard about him before. Strangely enough she could find nothing about the guy. Later that evening she had approached Olivia to ask about Jaune but was turned down, Olivia had said she was tired and had gone to bed. Arslan had been tired too so she had just accepted that and went to bed herself.

And now here she was with Jaune Arc himself standing in front of her.

"Eum….. are you gonna fight me or…." he trailed of as he looked towards her.

"Fight? Oh!" Arslan exclaimed, she had in her surprise taken up a fighting stance and had still held it. Taking a normal stance she shot Jaune a grin.

"Hey sorry about that you just surprised me." She said before frowning and crossing her arms "Now tell what were young doing out here at this hour in the morning?".

"W Well I …." Jaune stammered, hmm interesting the guy clearly wasn't comfortable talking with her. Heck just look at how stiff his posture was right now. It was hard to believe the guy was actually a prodigal fighter as he had demonstrated yesterday. She supposed it wasn't that uncommon. A lot of amazing hunters were not he best with people. Heck even Nikos wasn't that well socially versed if the rumors were true.

Recovering from his stammer Jaune suddenly gained a more cautious expression and changed his stance slightly, he hadn't taken up a fighting stance but still, he stood less stiff now.

"First tell me who you are" he said in a surprisingly firm voice considering his previous stammer.

'That was a fast change from socially awkward to cautious.' she noted. Wel he had no reason to know her and he did live here "Name's Arslan Altan, I'm a friend of Olivia's" she said as she started walking up towards Jaune extending her hand towards him.

"I'm staying at you house for a couple of days".

Standing before him with her hand extended he blinked before grasping her hand and smiling at her.

"Ah that explains it" he said as he shook her hand.

"I'm Jaune, Jaune Arc Olivia's older brother" he added.

Grinning Arslan said "Oh I know who you are, after that fight yesterday I am sure everyone knows who you are. I must say you are amazing, I simply have no words for it.".

Jaune upon hearing this actually blushed and became flustered "Oh…. euh thanks euh.. You too ah! I mean….." he trailed of clearly at a loss for words.

Now that was strange, a guy like him becoming flustered like that at some praise. He must be praised all the time by his teachers and family. Even if he was socially awkward he must be used to that at least. Still not uncommon with awkward types she supposed.

"Now tell me what are you doing out here at this hour." Arslan said before adding "I myself came out here to do some training".

At the mention of training Jaune suddenly seemed to recover a bit out of his fluster at her praise. "Yeah I saw that" he said as he shot a look towards her dagger.

"I came out here to do some training myself" he added and after a moment with a slight frown of contemplation on his face he added "You a hobby practionary?".

She a hobby practitioner! A hobby practitioner! For some reason she became angry at that comment, was he mocking her.

"I am huntress in training and not some hobbyist, why would you even think that" she said in a slightly heated voice before pointing towards her dagger "why would a hobbyist use a real hunter weapon".

Holding up his hands Jaune clearly not expecting her sudden anger said "Ah euh Sorry euh, it's just that I don't meet a lot of other hunters in training…. besides the ones in my family…. kinda".

Arslan's anger deflated at that comment but still it was strange "You don't meet a lot of other hunters, how is that possible? Don't you go to some school?".

Shaking his head Jaune spoke "No, I have a teacher….. Kinda, no I mean yeah I have a teacher.".

Private teacher. Made sense if he really was that good as he had appeared to be yesterday it was not that surprising that the Arc family had hired some teacher. It was not uncommon for retired top hunters spend their later days as private instructors, particularly if the student was really promising. It would also explain why Jaune did not show up on any of the hunter school sites.

"Guess that makes sense" Arslan said with slight bit of suspicion in her voice. For some reason she felt like there was something off about the entire situation here. She still did not know why Olivia had never mentioned her genius brother to her. Had Olivia been jealous of him because of his seemingly preferential treatment. It was obvious that the Arc parents preferred their son, he had received some fancy private teacher and had been showed off in the present of such prestigious company. Still Arslan knew Olivia for a while now and she knew that the Arc girl was not the jealous type.

Motioning towards the source of light she said "Fancy semblance you have there". She had been meaning to ask about it, creating swords like it was nothing was truly impressive.

"Can't imagine it is easy though, especially making many of them on the fly like you do" she added.

Jaune grinned clearly a little more comfortable with her now. "Heh, not at first but I got the hang of it eventually." and after a moment he added "Don't really have to think about it now."

"Really damm I know of some people that have a creation type semblance and none of them can make stuff on the fly like you do, heck their stuff doesn't even look real." and again motioning towards the glowing blade she said "All the blades that you had made yesterday seemed very real to me.". And then suddenly a grin appeared on her face and she added "Hey man could you show me, I would like to see on of those blades up close.".

Being distracted by the glowing blade that was still acting as their only source of light she had not noticed the slight frown that had appeared on Jaune's face at the mention of "creation semblance".

Perking up at her request Jaune said "Euh sure ummm Trace on!".

'Trace on?' what had he meant with ….. At least 30 blades had appeared and were now floating above their heads. Damn those things did look real. Suddenly one of the blades started lowering itself before coming to rest right in front of her. Now Arslan did wonder what the concrete workings of this semblance were. Could he just make any blade or did he have to mentally prepare himself or something. But it would be impolite to ask the concrete details, they were strangers after all.

"That is amazing! You can even make them fly!" she exclaimed.

"Well levitation is not really hard as ..." she stopped listening to what he was saying.

Instead she was looking upon the blade in front of her examining the blade from every angle she could see no evidence that it was not real but in fact a product of a semblance.

"Euh you can hold it you know" Jaune said having noticed that Arslan hadn't been paying attention towards his explanation about basic levitation of tracing produced projections.

Smiling Arslan took hold of the blade. Yeah the think was real. Performing a few practise swings she nodded.

Looking towards Jaune she said "Mann your lucky this is the best semblance I have ever seen...".

"Euh thanks….. I guess" Jaune said with a slight look of confusion. Before suddenly he blinked as if he had remembered something and then looking upon her, not at her face but at her chest a frown appeared on his face.

Ok, Jaune was now blatantly staring at her chest. This would not be the first time a boy looked at that particular area of her body. Being a huntress in training she had after all the body of an athlete that garnered quite a lot of attention from boys. Now they usually didn't look confused when they stared at her.

"Eyes up here Jaune" she said drawing his attention towards her.

"Oh.. sorry…. It's just your circuits…..." shaking his head he trailed off his expression still being one of confusion.

"My what now" she said with a questioning look. 'Circuits, what the hell were circuits?'

"Euh never mind" he said before suddenly perking up as if he remembered something, he added "so….. I was actually planning on training this morning so euh…..".

Suddenly all the blades minus the one that was currently illuminating the grounds disappeared into white particles.

Disappointed that the show had ended Arslan spoke "Ah ok then...". She did not want to part with Jaune just yet. But she understood that being as good as he was he probably was the studious type and was probably used to do his training every morning.

Suddenly she gained an idea "Mind if I watch?" she said with a hopeful tone before adding in a slightly more suggestive tone "You did just give yourself private look at my body.".

"Euh sure" he said with a questioning look before suddenly his eyes lit up in realization and a slight blush appeared on his face "Ah no it was not like that I told you I was checking your prana ….".

Having no interest in hearing his silly excuses she interrupted his explanation "That's great". Walking over to the side of the clearing they were in she said "How about you begin, I am very excited at seeing your techniques up close.".

She really was, yesterday he had been too fast and too far away for her to make out anything but now that she could have a look from up close she might gain some insight into his amazing fighting style. Afterall it's not every day you met a hunter that could change his weapons on the fly like it was nothing. This was a great opportunity for her, especially because Jaune was clearly a prodigy and a weapons expert. She might event convince him to spar with her a few times.

Now she was a high ranking tournament contender but it was clear from yesterday's fight that Jaune was probably better than her. Though she was sure that once she had gotten used to his weapon changing style and speed she would be able to score a few victories against him. Afterall the fight against his father yesterday was clearly a setup.

"Well then" Jaune said still standing in the center of the clearing before suddenly his face took on a strange cold expression.

That look actually was slightly disturbing Arslan and she would have contemplated it a bit further if not for what happened next.


Bianca Arc was staring at Jaune as he… once again, just like yesterday was attempting to alter her perception of what was possible. Standing in the middle of a clearing he was performing what she released were fighting stances only…..

'His speed…..' she thought. Yesterday she had seen the fight against her father but standing as far away as she had been and being distracted for the most part by her brother's semblance she could not truly appreciate what immense velocities her brother was capable of. Certainly this was much faster than he had been moving yesterday. Bianca shook her head, no, that would imply that he had been holding back against her father and that was simply ridiculous.

Standing as close as she was she also had a clear view of her brother's semblance. There were no words for it, it was simply too amazing. Every couple of swings he would change his weapons, sometimes he would even change weapons rapidly every swing. Other times she saw him switch his weapon mid swing.

'How many weapons did he have access to like this, there must be some kind of limit right?' Jaune was going through so many weapons, she had yet to see one repeat twice… well actually it did appear that he did return to those two twin swords occasionally. One was black and the other was white but that was the only real detail Bianca could make out now, Jaune was moving too fast.

The force Jaune generated every swing was causing the surrounding leaves to shake and the grass on the ground around him was now bend flat and pointing away from him. Jaune must be really good at aura enhancing himself to generate that amount of force and move with such speed. Damn he was much faster than her and she was a fully trained huntress…. no there was simply no way that was possible.

Frowning she attempted to examine the moves that Jaune was performing. She had to note that her brother did know every single weapon that he made. When ever he switched he would take on an appropriate weapon stance and execute the moves that corresponded to the weapon that he was holding. What was also notable that her brother did appear to have some rather more acrobatic moves at his disposal. Sometimes he would jump and perform slashes and weapon switches while he was midair. Other times he would lower himself to the ground and perform his techniques when he was nearly touching the ground.

Every single stance that Jaune was taking looked impressive and complex but every now and again her brother would take a stance that appeared useless? Like when he had made two blades, performed a spun around his axis, the force of which had almost ruined her hair, and then threw the to blades in front of him only for the two blades to disappear and then he strook at the exact same spot with a spear.

She simply could not think of a situation that something like that would be useful for besides a few very specific cases which were too uncommon, was Jaune simply practising it because it looked impressive? It was not uncommon for young hunters to have a more flashy fighting style so that they looked impressive to spectators. That must be it then Jaune was attempting to be impressive instead of performing something useful.

Blinking Bianca turned her head towards the probable culprit of her brother attempts.

'What are you doing here Arslan?' Bianca intoned in her usual big sister tone.

Arslan on her part completely ignored Bianca and continued to stare at Jaune with her arms crossed across her chest. The girls eyes were following every move her brother was making and her mouth would open up a bit every time Jaune performed something impressive. Well clearly the girl was falling for Jaune's attempts 'Teenagers…..'. Bianca would have to make sure that the two did not try anything when nobody was looking.

'She better keep her hands off my little brother!'

And so trying again "Arslan over here!" she said in a louder voice.

"Huh" Arslan said as she turned her head towards the eldest Arc sibling. "Biance?"

"One and only" and leaning against the same tree as Arslan she motioned towards her brother and speaking in an suggestive tone she said "Like what you see?".

Looking towards were Bianca was motionening Arslan grinned "Hell yeah, your brother is amazing, I …..." clearly catching on to Bianca's more suggestive tone Arslan started blushing, something that was difficult to see on the younger girl's tan skin "Ah no not like that!".

Shaking her head Bianca spoke again "What are you doing here?".

Recovering from her blush Arslan provided an answer "I went out to train but I ran into.." glancing at Jaune it was clear who she had ran into "And decided to watch him train instead."

Continue Arslan said "The guy's really impressive, I thought maybe….." she trailed of near the end before continuing with a slightly more disappointed look "I thought that I maybe could spar against him a couple of times but watching him now I would stand no chance..."

Frowning Arslan looked towards Jaune before nodding in understanding, seeing Jaune now must be incredible intimidating for any student. Well atleast Jaune's overly complex stile was proving to be intimidating, not that it would ever help him against the grim but still. And it was Jaune so….

Jaune who for his part had seemingly not noticed her arrival and just continued doing his exercises. Bianca wanted to interrupt him and question him about …. no now was not the time for that, especially not with Arslan being present. And so Bianca joined in with Arslan in watching Jaune as he performed his stances and swings. She had to admit that was quite interesting to watch her younger brother.

Occasionally they would exchange a comment to each other regarding a particular move that Jaune performed but for the most part they just remained quite as they watched Jaune.

After what must have been 20 minutes Bianca frowned and looking towards Arslan asked the girl "How long have you been standing here".

"Euh about two hours" Arslan answered after thinking for brief time. "Damn he must have amazing stamina….. Still he must be exhausted by this point." and frowning as she looked at Jaune she added "he does not appear to be slowing down or becoming more sloppy..."

'2 hours!' that was way too long. Turning towards her brother Bianca was about to interrupt his training. If he continued like this he could damage something when Jaune suddenly stopped.

Bianca watched as her brother suddenly walked over to the side and picked up a notebook that had been lying on the ground and began writing in it. She could only stare as Jaune was standing and writing for a good 10 minutes. She did note that he did not appear to be exhausted, sure he had a sweat but that was about it. He wasn't even breading that hard.

She would have called him out but she had been surprised when she saw how Jaune looked right now, she expected him to be collapsing after training for two hours straight. Sending a glare at Arslan, the girl had probably exaggerated the time Jaune had spend here.

Suddenly Jaune looked up from his notebook and looked straight at Bianca asif expecting something. He continued looking at her for a couple of seconds before shrugging and returning to his notebook.

"Jaune!" she exclaimed as he once again started writing. 'Is he ignoring me?'

"Huh" he said looking up.

"What are you doing right now?" she asked him motioning towards the notebook. Why would he decide to suddenly start writing in the middle of his stance training.

Blinking Jaune looked down towards the notebook and spoke "ah, I am writing down the optimal sword configurations and corresponding prana streams, I usually try to experiment with various sequences so that my ….." he continued to drone on.

Bianca on her part had no idea what he was talking about. And was about to interrupt Jaune to ask for clarification when she remembered the revelation her mother had made yesterday. That's right, Jaune did appeared to use a different set of terminology than what was usual among hunters.

"You get any of that?" a confused Arslan said as she was standing next to Bianca listening to Jaune's explanation as he continued to drone on about what it was that he was writing down.

"He's been talking about weird stuff ever since I have found him here… do you know what a circuit is?" Arslan added.

"Circuit?" shaking her head Bianca spoke again "Anyway Jaune" and looking towards Arslan "you too, let's go back home, the others are probably starting to eat breakfast right about now".

Indeed it was right about time for breakfast, she frowned slightly as she released she had lost her chance do some morning exercises.

"It's ok I will eat later" Jaune said as he once again walked to the middle of the clearing and seemed about to start doing exercises again.

'Enough of those' "Jaune common the entire family will be there, when was the last time we all sat down together like that." Bianca spoke again. She wasn't about to allow him continuing over training himself like he clearly had been doing before she found him. She would force him to come with her if she had to.

"It's fine you can go on without me" Jaune said as he was about to begin training again.

Walking up to stand in front of him Bianca spoke in a final tone "I said you will be coming with us to eat breakfast".

Usually when Bianca took on this tone people tended to do what she asked of them, certainly her little brother was intimidated by now.

"I said it's fine." spoke a slightly more annoyed Jaune.

Ok, clearly he was not intimidated by her…. since when was he acting so…. He didn't even seem to care that she was starting to become angry instead he was annoyed at her persistence.

She was about to grab him so that she could educate him on how to properly talk to his older sister when Arslan spoke "C'mon Jaune you should come too, there are still some guests from yesterday and you wouldn't want to be rude by not showing up".

Clearly Arslan had not missed the slightly heated atmosphere between the two siblings and had made an attempt to diffuse the situation.

Jaune sighed before nodding and saying "Fine, I'll come.".

Shooting a look of thanks towards Arslan Bianca watched as Jaune walked over towards his notebook to pick it up before looking towards some trees and then shooting a questioning look towards Bianca. It looked as if he was about to ask her something before he seemingly decided against it and now with his notebook in hand started walking towards the house.

Glancing back towards the same trees that Jaune had shot a look at she could see nothing of note. So she just shrugged and continued walking.


Sienna had been the first of the Arc siblings to arrive at the breakfast table that morning. Her mother and father had woken up some time before and together with the help of Glynda who had stayed the night they had setup the breakfast table. Now the rest of her siblings and some of the other guests that had stayed the night were walking into the room and were taking a seat at the breakfast table. William too had arrived and found a seat next to her giving her a kiss as he sat next to her.

Ozpin had already somehow managed to find a coffee mug and was sitting across from her father talking about the recent increase in dust robories. The increase of criminal activity in the city of Vale was a hot topic among the hunters so she was not surprised that Ozpin was showing interest in it.

Looking around the table she noticed someone was missing, indeed her eldest sister Bianca was nowhere to be seen. Now that she thought about it Bianca was probably doing her morning training and would return in a few moments.

"Anyone seen Arslan?" asked Olivia as she was looking around the room.

Suddenly the door to the backyard opened and Bianca followed by Arslan walked in. "There you are!" said Olivia as she looked at Arslan and motioned to the empty seat next to her.

Bianca following Arslan's example too quickly chose to sit in the last remaining seat.

"Excellent everyone is here!" said Juniper Arc in a happy tone.

And then the door to the backyard opened once again and this time Jaune walked in holding what looked like a notebook. At her brother entering all conversation in the room seized and an awkward silence as the memories of yesterdays events started streaming in. When her little brother had somehow miraculously defeated her father.

Everyone turned their heads to look at Jaune some in shock, some in admiration and some in suspicion.

Suddenly her mother spoke up breaking the silence "Jaune! Euh take a seat…." she trailed of near the end as she released there were no longer any empty seats available.

Arthur Arc having realised the same thing suddenly stood up and said "Wait son I'll go grab a seat from a different room.".

"Euh it's ok I can just…..." said Jaune as he walked over towards an empty spot at a table before he extended his hand and muttered something. And then out of nothing white particles appeared to float around the empty spot.

That caught everyone's attention and some people even stood up to see what was happening. As quickly as the particles appeared they seemed to coalesce into a shape and in no time at all a chair had materialized.

Sitting on it Jaune seemed oblivious to her own and everyone else's looks of wonder. Looking in front of him he again muttered something as a plate with a fork and knife appeared in the same way as the chair.

Smiling he looked up from his creations only to freeze as he released everyone was looking at him now. Sienna nodded that Glynda was practically prepared to bounce from her seat.

A few moments of silence passed before he spoke "Euh something wrong?".

Breaking the silence Sienna spoke "It's just your semblance…. It's not limited to just swords?".

Still stiff from all the looks he was receiving Jaune answered "I can make other things too but it's much more difficult, the creation process requires me to sympathize with what I'm making and that is much harder with things that are not swords.".

He needed to sympathize with the things he made, that didn't make any sense. Heck it didn't even mean anything, it was not possible to sympathize with inanimate objects.

Looking around the room Sienna notices that she wasn't the only one that had been confused by that statement. She was about to ask for clarification when the youngest sibling of the Arc family, Lily Arc who had been sitting next to Jaune and thus had the best view of his semblance, spoke.

"That was awesome!" and looking towards her mother she added "Mom, do you think my semblance will be like that of Jaune.".

At a loss for words Juniper just said "There is no way to tell unfortunately." and as she noticed the disappointed look on her youngest daughters face she added "But everyone in our family is blessed with an amazing semblance so I am sure yours will be as well.".

Everyone seemed to calm down from the amazement they had gotten at seeing Jaune's power at work and were returning to their meal. Sienna was about to ask Jaune what he had been doing in backyard when he suddenly spoke up.

"Eum sorry but certainly you can tell what once orig… I meen semblance is if you really want to."

Again everyone stopped what they were doing and looked towards Jaune with an confused expression. Sienna herself was no better, certainly Jaune would know that that was simply not possible.

"Really? How! I want to know if can make swords too!" Lily happily exclaimed as she was practically bouncing on her seat.

Suddenly Ozpin spoke up "Perhaps in you case mister Arc it was incredibly easy because your semblance manifested immediately upon unlocking your aura but with most people it can take a couple of years before they learn what their semblance is.".

Well that was unlikely, most semblances that manifested immediately upon unlocking were simple ones like strength or maybe even speed, semblances that were more instinctual than requiring active thought like a creation semblance obviously would.

Jaune only looked more confused at that and muttered "Aura?", how could he not know this. With how complex his semblance must be certainly he must know every single thing about them.

Sienna was not the only one who was confused with Jaune's apparent lack of knowledge but most had just passed it of once they heard Ozpin's explanation.

"The guy is just that good he doesn't release how difficult some of us have it." one of their guests whispered to his neighbour.

Looking around once more that seemed to be the opinion of most people now. It was understandable, all they knew about Jaune was that he was incredible strong for his age and had great control over an amazing semblance.

'But it's Jaune he couldn't …..'

Looking at her father she could see how he was examining Jaune now before Ozpin said something to him and he turned his attention upon his former headmaster.

And so once again everyone returned to their food, it was still morning after all and people were hungry and still a little tired. And Sienna too left her thoughts about Jaune for another time.

Returning to her food she looked over to William who was now speaking to Glynda about her new essay on advanced dust manipulation. William himself was very knowledgeable about topics like dust and aura.

"So I have been attempting to combine multiple types of aura on the fly without preparation, but without proper equipment I just can't get my aura to properly mix them." he spoke to Glynda.

"I myself do have some success mixing dust on the fly, particularly earth and fire but it still takes quite some time for the process to be successful" Glynda said and after a moment added "It's all about how well your control over your aura is….. And I must admit that my semblance helps as well.".

Glynda did indeed have an amazing semblance, telekinesis was incredibly powerful.

Their conversation continued for a few minutes and even Azure asked Glynda a few questions about aura before suddenly William gaze became contemplating and he turned to Jaune who had been quietly eating his food occasional shooting a strange look at a random person.

"Hey eum Jaune..." looking up from his food Jaune eyes fell upon William. Sienna had noticed it yesterday but had forgotten it after witnessing the fight between her father and Jaune, her brother's gaze was so … She could not truly describe it, it was freezing yet hot at the same time, it was distant as if Jaune was not truly here but somewhere else. Something about it was incredibly disturbing but she could not put her finger on it.

Young hunters that had experienced something traumatic on the field might gain something similar to Jaune's gaze but certainly Jaune never had had the misfortune to experience something like that. He probably would have quite whatever training he had been doing ….

She had yet to let that fact fully sink in but now she remembered that her brother had been training all this time to become a hunter without any of their knowledge. She would have pondered some more about this but William was still talking to Jaune.

William too noticed Jaune's gaze but continued "You must know a lot about aura control yourself, care to share some insight?".

At that Glynda too turned her attention towards Jaune "Eum I am not sure what you mean….. Aura?".

William blinked questioningly "You know, how do you manage to control your aura, the power of our souls, precise enough for it work well with your semblance.".

"Power of the soul? Work well with my origin and element?" Jaune muttered saying nothing for a few moments as he seemingly contemplated something for a few moments.

Finally he answered "Are you asking me how I keep my prana streams optimal?".

"Prana?" William questioned before understanding flashed across his eyes and he added "That's right you use a different terminology for some reason. What you seem to call prana we call aura.". A lot of people seemed confused at the mention of "other terminology".

Sienna noticed that Ozpin had stopped listening to whatever her father was saying and was now solely focusing his attention on Jaune as was Glynda.

"Oh ok then…." suddenly Jaune started staring at Williams chest, he did this for a few moments. It's wasn't like he had been checking him out but it was incredibly weird. Finally he spoke "Euh, just wondering how are you generating pra.. aura when your circuits are ….." trailing of near the end Jaune again began contemplating something.

"Circuits?" William questioned but received no answer from Jaune who was still thinking.

"That was the same excuse he gave me?" Sienna heard Arslan mutter to Olivia.

"It's just your p... aura is so … messy. You don't seem to organize it in any way." Jaune finally said.

William frowned at that as did everyone else that had been paying attention at that moment "What do you mean with messy aura?" Glynda asked cutting of whatever response William was about to give.

"Well the way your aura travels through his body is incredibly wasteful." Jaune answered. Before glancing over at Glynda and gaining a look of confusion as he examined her and muttering "I though she at least…. ".

Noticing the look she was receiving Glynda was about to say something before William beat her to it.

"So you are saying I should concentrate on how my aura travels through my body?" William asked with uncertainty in his voice. Then he frowned and said "You can sense how my aura is organized inside of my own body? Is that even possible?".

Jaune just looked at him asif William had just said something incredibly stupid "Euh Yeah that's kinda the most basic concept of aura controle.".

'It's not….' Sienna thought as she continued to listen to the conversation. Well atleast no phrased like that….

"Ok, so how do I better organize my aura." William asked uncertainty.

Jaune just continued to look at William asif the former was saying the most outrageous things.

"Well for starters you should predefine the travel routes that it takes as it propagates through your body….." Jaune said before adding "Honestly this is a conversation that should not be held a dinner table….".

Upon hearing that William could be seen contemplating what had been said. 'Predefine the the travel routes' did that even make sense? It kinda made sense she supposed but she was no expert herself.

At least Olivia could agree that these things did not belong at a breakfast but should instead be discussed in a classroom. She was about to voice her agreement when suddenly…..

Glynda stood up from her chair letting it wall over behind her and looked at Jaune with an excited expression "Predefined the propagation routes… that's brilliant."

Walking over towards him she continued in an uncharacteristically excited tone "That's how you do it is it not? How you are able to make so incredible detailed constructs? Of Course that must be it!"

She was now walking back and forth in front of Jaune who on his part also had stood up from his chair and was shooting a confused look at Glynda who now continued to ramble.

"Yeah that must be it? If I …..." She continued to mutter various things about dust and aura.

"Well that's just the basics really….." Jaune said quietly as Glynda spun to face him. Glynda was about to say something before she suddenly blinked "There is more?!".

Composing herself from her sudden excited ramble Glynda spoke in a more 'Glynda' tone "Please excuse my sudden outburst mister Arc.".

Extending her hand towards Jaune she said "I am Glynda Goodwitch, professor at Beacon academy. I do quite some research regarding aura so someone like you has probably heard my name before.". Glynda wasn't bragging, she was incredible well known in the hunter communities for being an aura and dust expert… and for being an extraordinarily powerful huntress. There should be no way someone that was as proficient in aura manipulation as Jaune did not know about her.

"Jaune Arc…. eum I have never heard of you before." Said Jaune as he grasped her hand.

Ok so Jaune once again surprised her, he was either lying or… he truly has never heard about Glynda.

Biting her lip Glynda seemed to contemplate something before coming to a decision and saying "Mister Arc would you consider coming to Beacon with me so that we can discuss your findings in Aura control further? I am very interested learning about your techniques".

The room quieted down suddenly, Glynda Goodwitch had just invited a 17 year old boy to come and teach her about her own area of expertise.

"Sorry but I have no time for something like that…." Jaune said almost immediately, looking around he continued "Eum I probably should get going, I still have some training to do…."

Suddenly Ozpin's voice could be heard "Mister Arc this would be a great opportunity for you too. I would be even willing to accept you right away without initiation into Beacon if Glynda finds your contributions helpful.".

At that her father stood up from his chair and opened his mouth like he was about to say something but then quickly seemed to decide against it.

The headmaster of Beacon had just expressed willingness to let a student into his school without proper initiation. That was basically unheard of. Even the most prodigious of students were still required to complete initiation. Beacon was known to have a zero exception policy in that regard. Ozpin must have been really impressed with what he had seen yesterday.

A lot of excited muttering could be heard upon Ozpin's declaration and now all eyes were on Jaune.

"I….." Jaune trailed of before taking on a contempleting look that lasted for a few moments before he seemed to come to a decision and finally said "I'll come and see how I can help you.."

"Wonderful!" Glynda exclaimed with obvious excitement in her eyes.


'Pain'

On trembling hands Jaune rose up from the ground he had been laying on, looking down he could see a pool of his own blood, drops could still be seen falling into it. Standing on his feet and trying to get his back straight was proving to be an immense effort even with the reinforcement that he was applying to himself.

'I should stop….'

Looking over at Shirou who was standing a few meters away from him with both Kanshou and Bakuya Jaune felt the need to ready himself increase.

'Please stop….'

'No….'

'I'll never become a hero if I stop now.'

Standing straight Jaune actively analyzed his body and what he found was not good. He had multiple wounds both internal and external. If one were to come and take a look at Jaune's body they would wonder how he was even still alive, various pieces of flesh were straight up missing with most agregues wound being a hole in the side of Jaune's stomach, a visibly chunk was missing. If not for the various mystic codes that prevented such a thing and that were still embedded in his body Jaune would have long ago ran out of blood.

'Just a bit more….'

Every part of Jaune's body was by this point covered in his own blood and together with missing chunks of flesh it did not form a pretty scene, he was basically a walking corpse.

'Is this right?'

Looking over at Shirou Jaune felt renewed vigor and once again took a combat stance, although it couldn't have looked very impressive as his entire body was trembling.

Shirou on his part did not even look a bit tired as he stood there looking over at Jaune. Jaune fully expected Shirou to come and attack him like he always did, either rush straight at him or maybe rain down swords at him or even start sniping him from a distance.

'There is still hope!'

But instead of any of those things Shirou did something unexpected and dismissed the swords he had been holding and let one of his arms drop to his side while bringing the other one up and letting his palm face outwards towards Jaune.

Suddenly Jaune could feel the prana in Shirou's body increase in quantity and after but a moment Shirou held more prana in his body dan Jaune thought was possible. And then a massive tidal wave of energy crashed into Jaune passing straight through him covering the entire area they had been standing in. Never before had Jaune felt something like this, the wave of prana had clearly originated with Shirou.

Jaune could feel that something was happening he tried to analyze the prana that hung in the air but …

"Unlimited Blade Works"

Every single thing that made the world how it was was no more. Jaune was no longer standing in some forest clearing but….

'A boy walked into hell'

It was a landscape filled with swords. So many swords in every direction as far as the eye could see. All kinds of blades were sticking out of the ground.

'He kept walking knowing that he would never find anything'

The sky in this place was impossible, with not a cloud visible stars could be seen shining up above. But looking up Jaune could also see that it was both simultaneous night and day…

'But he had a dream and he had hope'

Suddenly a thought, an idea creped into Jaune's head….. And that idea grew… Something was lost. Jaune Arc had lost something, but what?

Yeah Jaune frowned something had gone missing but what. Maybe if he….. This place was so beautiful, the ideal, the very definition of sword was present here.

'And so the boy cept walking knowing that he wasn't alone.'

Shirou could be seen standing on top of hill a little bit further looking down onto Jaune. Suddenly he raised his arm. It can had been a simple movement, so incredibly simple that something about didn't seem to fit the image that Jaune had of Shirou.

"Huh"

Swords, so many swords now all pointed at Jaune.

'A king, an ancient king knew something of this place'

Trying to analyze the blades Jaune could not find an end to them.

'A princess, betrayed by the gods'

They were infinite. So beautiful, Jaune couldn't help but be mesmerized by them. And somehow he knew now that what he was doing was right. So right, so pure…..

'A girl pulling a sword out of the stone'

Yeah he would fulfill his dream. He would walk any hell if he had too. It was right. It was beautiful. His very own utopia.

Steeling himself Jaune began making his way over to Shirou two nameless blades appearing in his hands. And as Jaune was taking the first steps something happened. The blades that had been hanging in the air began descending, descending towards him.

Jaune did not stop up on seeing that, if anything he only increased his pace. Even when his body was broken he still walked forward.

'Like the boy'

'They all had something in common'

And the blades too fast and plentiful for Jaune to block or dodge now entered his body.

'They all died'.

And so with a smile on his face and with swords destroying his body Jaune Arc died.


I know it has been some time and I am sorry for that but after finishing the last chapter I had a very busy period with work and stuff and then I just had forgotten about this fic.

From time to time I would think back to it and so I finally decided to continue it.

Well anyway I hope you liked this chapter. Not a lot happened here but there is still some important pieces of information here. Various people are starting to notice that while Jaune is very powerful he seems to be a bit strange in some areas. Jaune himself is also starting to become suspicious of various people.

Also almost everyone seems to dismiss the fight as some kind of setup or luck on Jaune's part or they thank Jaune's apparent victory to Arthur holding back.

Anyway till next time.