All hail the conquering hero.

Let us remember him as our savior.

And not,

This.

-Agent Locke, Atlesian Mercenary

Halo Stone, Two Years Ago

"Ah, hello! You are awake. Welcome to Halo Stone!" A man in a black suit, handlebar mustache, and tophat announced.

"My name is Merian! Or, as most people and my wife call me, Mayor Mario!" He said proudly.

I take out my hand and he shakes it firmly with a white glove. "Jaune Arc." I greeted.

"Halo Stone? What happened?" I ask after parting hands.

"Well, your ship seemed to have been attacked by some sort of ne're-do-wells! Your pilot is dead, poor fellow. Impaled by a metal pipe."

"Ah. I see."

"Your stuff is over-there." He points to a familiar bag to the left of the room.

"Thank you."

"When you are done with this room, Messer Arc, please meet me in my office. It's quite urgent." He says before walking out of the room.

"Thanks again!" I call before he shuts the door.

I quickly check my stuff. My weapons were over by the bed. It seemed like I had everything inside.

I replace my patient gown which I was wearing, and it reveals a set of clean bandages underneath.

I get out a black jacket, a blue shirt and jeans, with red and white sneakers. As soon as I was done changing, I take Saint Protecteur (That's what I called my sword and shield now.) and got out of my room revealing a waiting centre and a desk with a secretary in it.

"Excuse me miss? Where is the Mayor Mario's office?" I ask.

"When you get out of the hospital, walk straight down the street. There you'll find Town Hall. Go there and ask the secretary where his office is." She says quickly before a phone rings and she answers it.

I walk out of the hospital, revealing a street with walls and buildings around it.

Straight down the street, the Town Hall looked almost like a castle, with a small spire and two officers patrolling around the structure.

There were shops and houses as I walked down the street. 'Lupin's pizzeria' and "Ye Olde Tavern'.

"Strange town." I muttered.

I enter the town hall. It looked much bigger on the inside, the ceiling was even painted with a sword and shield!

I walk up to the secretary and ask him where Mayor Mario's office is.

"Door to my left, straight down the hallway, then turn left again." He replied straightly.

I walk and open the door. The hallway was made of fine wood, and filled with various paintings of past mayors. I turn to the left, and Mayor Mario was sitting behind a desk typing to a computer.

"Ah! Jaune, take a seat." He points to the two chairs in front of him and I sat down.

"What is this about, Mayor Mario?" His name was getting a bit ridiculous now.

"I'll get to the point, straight as an arrow. Three of my townsfolk left the village two days ago. They were supposed to get here several hours before but we don't know where they went."

"Why did they leave?"

"They were the owners of a busniess here, perhaps you have seen "Ye Olde Tavern" while you were walking down the street?"

"Yes, I have. Let me guess, you want me to find them." I said.

"Exactly. As you can see, you-" He looks at Saint Protecteure. "-Seem to be the most capable person to do it."

"Why m-" He interrupts.

"Because my troops are spread thin, Mr. Arc. We know about Beacon, we contacted Ozpin"

I glared at him.

"I know you might no longer want to be the hero, Jaune, but please. You're all we've got." He begs.

I sigh and hesitate.

"Alright."

/

I began walking through the forest right now, when I spot a large looking obstacle blocking the dirt path.

It was a wagon, tipped over and ransacked. Horses were gone too, killed right away slowly decaying on the ground with claw marks. A trail of blood followed into the forest. It was still fresh.

I began trodding towards the trail for about several minutes, and that's when I saw it.

A dead corpse, male, lying on the ground, skull split and spine ripped out. I turned away and vomited.

Oh my god...Oh my god. I turn around, making sure to not look at the body and carefully walked around it.

There was still a trail of blood after the corpse, and I kept following it. Then, I saw another one.

Female, heart ripped out and eyes clawed.

I just closed my eyes and walked past it, and kept following the trail of blood.

Then, that's when I heard it, a loud scream, east. I turn to the right and started running that direction.

I came into a clearing. A man was fighting off several Beowolves in front of him with a shotgun, behind him was a little girl with torn clothes and a fox tail.

I didn't hesitate. I unsheathed Saint Protecteure and unloaded the tip of the blade. Channeling aura to the centre of the blade, it fired a blazing flare into the several Beowolves. It exploded, ripping apart Grimm.

Luckily, the man and the girl still standing. I ran to the two.

"What happened? Are you two hurt?"

"No, we're fine, thanks to you. I was sent by the Mayor to investigate the disapearance. This little girl has been running and hiding from the Grimm for several hours. Amazing, both of you."

I look at the quite girl. She had been sobbing, and had fox ears, blonde hair, and cuts on her ankles and legs.

"Thank you for protecting her. Let's get back to the town." I say.

/

"Thank you so much! You shall be rewarded greatly for your achievement!" Mayor Mario said.

"Ah. It was nothing really, if anything, you should be rewarding that guard you sent before me. Without him the girl would be dead." I replied.

"If that is what you wish, stay as long as you want, sir, and you will become a most-welcomed visitor everytime you visit!" He exclaimed.

"Well, I'd best be off, then." I say flatly.

"Wait. Jaune." He stops me.

"There's still the matter of Miss Levantine..."

"The fox-faunus I saved?"

"Yes. She no longer has any relatives left, and the guard that saved her has duty's to attend."

"Lemme' guess again. You want me, to take care of Levantine?"

"Listen, what else are you going to do for the next two years? Whatever it is, would it really be that bad to take care of a child who has just lost everything?"

I grumble. "Fine. But I'm doing this just for her."

"Great enough for me." He tosses me the keys to "Ye Olde Tavern."

/

"Hello Mister Arc!" Levantine runs up to me.

"Mister Mario said that you'd be looking after me for a while." She said.

"Yes, that's right. Come on Levantine. And call me Jaune." I say. I take her hand and walked down the street.

"Where are we going?" She asks.

"To your home. Where else?" I ask.

"I don't think I-I would really w-want to stay there, Mi- Jaune."

I look at her. She was nearly to tears and had gripped my hand tightly.

I lower down and give her a hug. "Don't worry. Everything's going to be alright."

She gives me a sad smile.

"Come on. We can stay in the hospital."

/

I was currently lied down on the floor, with a blanket and a sleeping bag. Levantine was sleeping on the bed, with small snores.

Believe it or not, I've actually taken care of a child before. Sometimes my parents would come home late and I would have to take care of my little sister. The eldest was a naval commander, two were huntresses, two were training to become a huntress, and the last one was a designer. I've even volunteered at day-cares and schools to sing songs on an instrument. Yes, I play instruments, piano, violin, and yes, I can actually play the acoustic guitar. I was hiding my skill (or skills) because I really didn't want to have a harem. Those things always end badly.

Also, that serenade with Weiss? Yeah, I already knew it wasn't going to work. Honestly, the only reason I even serenaded her with awesome fake guitar skills was because I told Ren I could play instruments, and that if I didn't serenade her, he would tell everyone.

I check my scroll. I couldn't contact anyone in the four kingdoms either. How did they even do that? Did they put a radio-jammer or something to my frequency?

I told her about myself. That I was once a hunter, and that we hunted the grimm. By the way, she's ten. She said that she wanted to help protect people. I just told her to go to sleep.

Tommorow, we're checking out the tavern.

/

"Come on, Levantine. Don't you need to check the house or something?" I was currently standing outside the tavern belonging to me now with Levantine.

"I d-don't really want to go there, Jaune."

"Levantine, there are things their valuable to you. We'll take them, eat, then leave Halo Stone on a wagon to travel arounf Remnant. Don't you want to remember your family?"

There was a silent moment, then she nodds. "Okay."

"Alright." I say as I open the door.

"Listen, Levi-" (As I had begun calling her) -Your friends and family will never be gone. They're just...not right here right now." I say as I checked the cupboards.

"Y-yeah. I guess that makes sense. Thank you, Jaune." She says. "Anytime." I said, flashing my grin.

She giggles, but then her face turned serious. "Did...Did you lose yours?" She asks.

"Well...Yes. We were a big happy family, but I..I lied to them, and the rulers decided that I couldn't stay with them anymore. So they sent me out here. They don't hate me or anything, they're all just quitely waiting for me to come back."

"When will you come back to them?"

"In two years."

"Will.." She looked hesitant to ask. "Will you leave me when you can come back to your friends?"

"What? Never! In fact, I hereby swear to myself and you that in two years I will take myself and you to meet all of my awesome friends!" I said with a salute.

She laughs. "You are different, Jaune. Most people don't like the Faunus. I also promise that I will make myself a Huntress in two years and protect everyone!" She swore with another salute.

We both laugh loudly. "Alright. Good, I'll train you by then, for now, let's get these stuff on the wagon Mayor Mario got us, alright?"

"Alright!" She says.

This...This is what I want to protect, I think, looking at her, then outside a window. I'm making my promise, are you?

/

Pyrhha P.O.V. Present Time

We all ran to team RWBY, making sure they were okay. The only real injuries were their knees, and Weiss's cheek had healed. Yang broke some of the leader's bones while he was injured then she hugged Ruby very, very tightly.

Then I saw the Ark-Angel about to leave and I ran to him. Ruby broke free of Yang's hug, and ran after the Ark-Angel too. The rest of RWBY and PNPL followed.

"Wait!" Me and Ruby both say at the same time. Wierd.

"Who are you?" Weiss asks for all of us.

He sat silent for a moment, then pressed a button on the side of his battle mask, it revealed...

A scarred, grinning face with messy blonde hair. He looked incredibly familiar. I wasn't quite sure who he was. He had cloudy blue eyes, with several scars all around his face, one which seemed to be a claw-mark down both of his eyes and in between them.

Everyone wasn't quite sure how to respond to who they saw. However, the Ark-Angel just grinned even bigger.

"Aw, I'm hurt, you know? Here's a hint:" He starts.

"An Arc never goes back on his word." He says flatly.

My eyes widened, tears started rolling out of my eyes. I pulled him in for a hug. "You promised..."

Then, a force pushed both of us to the ground. I saw every single one of PNPL and RWBY hugging Jaune with tears down their face.

"AGH! Okay guys! Ah- Okay, can't breathe! Ribs!" He says.

They all stop hugging Jaune. Ren pulled him up. "Good to see you Jaune."

Ozpin had walked over to us. "Well, mister Arc. You know how to pull of an entrance." He said grinning.

"That I do, Ozpin. That I do." He then turned to all of us. "Heh. Hey come on, let's get celebrate for graduation. I've got a promise to keep." He says, all of us following him.

/

After seeing Jaune and his reunited teammates, I walked over to Glynda.

She even had a smile.

"Glynda, would you care to accompany somewhere?" I say. A bit of a blush rose through my cheeks.

"Not unless it's a date." She says with a grin.

"I-It is." I said sheepishly.

She took hold of my coat and pulled me in for a kiss.

"Where to?" She asks.

"Ah. I know a place."

/

Arroyo simply grinned at the sight through his scope.

"Control, Mission success."

"Excellent, come back to base."

"Of course, Control."

I turn off the earpiece, then turned to the town.

"You know what? Let's hit the town. My treat, since Ark-Angel and his friends are going."

My team simply grinned at me.

"Alright, Operation: Get Drunk and Have Fun, commences!"

/

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