A Twist in Fate
Chapter 4
Jaune fell to the ground panting as a bead of sweat ran down his face. The sun shone down atop him almost taunting him with its heat.
"Get up Jaune, you're not done! You must move this block another 100 feet before you've finished this set!" Ozymandias shouted from the shade of a nearby tree. Jaune turned to try and glare at her but couldn't muster the strength to even scowl. His body hurt and he needed to catch his breath but he wasn't going to give up. He pushed himself to his feet and turned to look at a giant stone block that was 4 by 3 feet with a rope tied around it. The ropes other end was at Jaune's feet. He scooped it up with a groan and began to pull the insanely heavy block of stone. Under the stone block was a wooden sled that made it easier to move but didn't help much. Jaune planted his feet into the ground and pulled the rope towards him one hand over the other making the block get closer and closer.
Jaune hated doing this, but he knew he had to because it was, as Ozymandias put it, training. It's been little more than 3 months since Ozymandias and Gilgamesh began living with Jaune and his family. His mother and sisters had gotten pretty used to having the two women around, not bothered by their presence like they had been originally. Though his sisters and mother constantly tried to get Ozymandias to put a shirt on. They failed every time as Ozymandias argued that to completely cover her body would be bad for both the clothing that would hold in the heat and that a king such as herself should never hide her body. She would say a king's body is to be presented to all as something to be admired and worshiped. Jaune knew more than a few men in the village who would agree with that sentiment for all the wrong reasons.
Ozymandias had fought back against any sort of clothing Jaune's family tried to give her. Gilgamesh was different, she would often look at any clothing provided for her as gifts, if only bad gifts. She accepted them only to constantly remark about how bad they were. It made him mad but when Gilgamesh would show off the clothing she had and how soft and well-made it was he could understand why she didn't hold normal clothing in high regard. Still made him upset when she insulted his sister's 'gifts' as she called them. He had actually snapped at her about that, something he regretted immediately. The training Gilgamesh had originally started him on was simply practicing his sword play with her. She was surprisingly good. He had thought she wouldn't be a good swordswoman but he was so wrong. She was probably able to beat his father in a straight duel, which wasn't a small feat.
After he snapped at her, she ended up doing two things that made him regret his words. First, she took back the amazing pillow she had let him use when she first arrived. Jaune had come to love that pillow and didn't think he could sleep without it. Sadly, he was forced to do so for a week after snapping at Gil, and she turned the level of her training up a notch. She ended up shooting at him with her weird golden portal things which ended with Jaune almost losing an arm, leg and eye once or twice during the training. Had it not been for that weird medicine she gave him he might've died. Still that sucked and he was certain he could still fill the sting in his arms and legs from where the different weapons cut him. He quickly realized he shouldn't talk back to Gilgamesh or Ozymandias for fear of what she may do.
He didn't want her to get angry and change her training as well. Her training had already been bad enough. She had made him carry logs, which was hard seeing as a single long had to weigh 60 pounds and she made him carry it on his shoulders walking in a circle for hours on end. After that she made him do squats with the logs before moving on to having him build her actual pyramids. He has only just finished one which had to be 8 feet tall and 20 feet all around. So, he didn't want to make her mad either. Now while some bad things had happened in the last few months some good things came out of it. He got his pillow back after Gilgamesh got tired of punishing him, he'd gotten better at sword play, and he slowly began to gain muscle. His sword play was really getting so good that even his father remarked on him improving, which made him happy.
Now the other thing that made him happy were the muscles he had. As he pulled the stone block towards him he could feel the muscles in his arms, back, and chest all flex. Something he never felt before. He had already been well built for a healthy teenage boy, but now he was stronger. Not in an over muscular kind of way, but a more proper athletic sort of form. Gilgamesh remarked that she would train his body till he had the muscles of a god. Ozymandias agreed with that, which sounded weird but didn't truly bother him. He liked the fact that he was finally strong, but that still left him bothered. So what if he had muscles? He didn't have the skill or experience of a Huntsman so that left him next to useless. He still had ways to go, and with the new-found strength he just might be able to get into Beacon next year.
Another odd benefit was that he was slowly controlling his hormones when he was forced to bath with Ozymandias and Gilgamesh, but only a little. He was worried he was getting blue balls since he didn't have any time to be alone. He didn't want to think about that though seeing as each time he was in the bath he just had to focus on not getting an erection.
He continued to pull the stone block along more than content with building another Pyramid for Ozymandias if it kept his physique up. He wondered what sort of muscle training Gilgamesh had in store for him as well. He pushed the thoughts aside and went on with his training.
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Jaune woke to the sound of whispering. He cracked an eye open only to wince as sunlight struck him from the window. He rolled over and cracked his eye open again only to still wince as light shone through a small crack in his door as it was left slightly open. He sighed and pushed himself to his feet to look around. Ozymandias and Gilgamesh were both sleeping still and he wouldn't dare wake them. He silently made his way to the door of his room and slipped out only to hear and assortment of gasps before his little sister Lily spoke up.
"Jaune! You're awake! What are you doing up so early!?" Lily asked in a panicked whisper as Jaune turned around to look at her. He cocked a brow questionably before seeing each and every one of his sisters standing in the hall all looking like deer's in a headlight. He let his gaze pan over each of them before returning it to Lily.
"I woke up to whispering. I wanted to know what was going on. I can only assume now that you're scheming something." He took several steps forward as he spoke only for his sisters to all take a step back. That confused him as he let out a heavy sigh. "Whatever it is you have planned, get it over with. It's not much of a secret now that I've seen you all mid scheme."
Lily let out a hurt gasp and pointed a finger at him only for his older sister, Clarisse, to slap a hand over her mouth and chuckled as she pulled Lily into her chest. "What are you talking about Jaune? Don't be so suspicious of us. We weren't scheming anything. Now quick go down and get ready for breakfast. We'll all be down shortly. Don't forget to wake your masters."
Clarisse ran into her room carrying a squirming Lily while his other sisters chased after her. Jaune had no idea what was going on, but he didn't like it one bit. He sighed and went down to the kitchen to help his mother set up for breakfast. It didn't take long, though he did wonder why his mother didn't want his help. Normally she would jump at any help offered. It was weird, so he just ignored it, not wanting to over think things so early in the morning. Once the table was set and breakfast was close to being done, Jaune went up to wake the two kings. The two woke fairly easily, even if they didn't want to. He led them down to get breakfast just as his mother set out some fresh plates of food for them. The two kings were more than pleased to be served first and happily took their meals. He expected them to complain about the food being bad but they both said they wished they had Jaune's mother as a cook back when they lived.
He still didn't understand what they meant by that, but it wasn't important. The morning went by quickly and the young man set off to continue his training. Gilgamesh unveiled her special muscle training for him, which was basically a super gold exercise machine. He didn't understand what was so special about it, but he did as she told him and used the machine. As he used it, he found the machine to work practically every muscle in his body till they all screamed bloody murder for him to stop. When he finally got out of the machine he couldn't stand and had to lay face down in the dirt to catch his breath.
"You only used it for 20 minutes. If this is all you can muster than you'll never get stronger!" Gilgamesh snapped glaring at Jaune only for him to force himself into a seated position.
"Forgive me, but we need to remember I'm not a Huntsman or as strong as you. So can you maybe cut me the tinniest bit of slack. Please, if not this training will kill me before I can actually be of use to you." Jaune said doing his best to hide his pain. Gilgamesh huffed at his reply and let him rest before making him go at the machine again. This went on till sunset with him switching places between training with Gilgamesh to training with Ozymandias. The two would constantly shout at the other for not training him the right way, each trying to one up the other. It was really something else, but Jaune could care less seeing as their ire wasn't pointed at him so he could exercise in peace. Once they were done and everyone went inside Jaune found his entire family waiting for them with a giant cake and presents.
"Happy birthday Jaune!" They all shouted together as Jaune stared at them in slight confusion before turning to look at a calendar on the wall. He looked it over and noticed it was his birthday. He had completely forgotten about it with everything his two masters were putting him through. He didn't care though as he turned back to his family with a smile.
"Happy birthday me." He said and walked up to the cake to see what was on it. He deflated a little, but let out a small sad chuckle. The cake read, '#1 Deviant'. "You guys really won't let the BDSM thing go, will you?"
He turned to his mother who shrugged as he fathers sat on the coach snickering. He shook his head and flipped his dad off before letting his family get on with their dorky antics as they all sang the birthday song. It was beyond crazy, especially how Lily kept changing the lyrics and messing things up. A minute-long song ended up lasting for almost half an hour with Lily leading it. Jaune couldn't help laughing the whole time, even joining in as he picked Lily up and danced with her for a little. Once it was all done he finally blew out the candles and was presented his gifts. Lily's was first. It was a long rectangular box which he opened up to find a guitar inside. He smiled at it before plucking the strings a few times to hear if it was in tune. He gave Lily a hug and thanked her before all his other sisters came up to give him an assortment of boxes.
The boxes weren't big, in fact they looked like jewelry boxes. He took his twin sister Jeanne's box first, slowly opening it to find a collar inside. He stared for what felt like forever before he closed the box and looked over each one of his sisters save for Lily. "Did you all get fancy bejeweled collars?" He asked calmly, pushing some wrinkles out of his pants.
"No, some of us got you a leash and ball gag." His sister, Zoe, said with a snicker only for Jaune to explode, attacking each one of his sisters. They all screamed and ran around as he chased each one of them cursing like a sailor. His sisters all laughed not even caring that they pissed him off. While he chased them, Ozymandias and Gilgamesh picked up several of the gifts and looked inside seeing the collars. Gilgamesh chuckled at this, making the birthday boy freeze in place as he held his sister Clarisse to the ground. He had a long loogy hanging from his mouth threatening to touch her as she squirmed underneath.
"You call this a collar? I won't even put this on a dog." Gilgamesh said striding up to Jaune as he sucked the loogy away so Gilgamesh didn't see it. She reached down grabbing hold of Jaune and opened a golden portal over her off hand letting what looked like a collar fall out of it. The collar was black and gold, with a single loop on it for a leash or chain to be attacked. Jaune stared in surprise then shock as he realized what was going to happen next. "This is a proper collar, and it will show who Jaune belongs to."
Gilgamesh clipped the collar around Jaune's neck. It closed with a click and he felt it tighten around his neck seemingly adjusting to fit him. He yelped in shock and quickly tried to claw the collar off only to not find any latch to remove it. Gilgamesh snickered, smiling in both a sultry and cruel fashion at him. "Now this is the proof of who you belong to."
Ozymandias came up, pushing her away with a scoff.
"Please, do you really think that gives you owner ship of him!? You must brand him with your mark to prove a slave is yours!" Ozymandias shouted before throwing a hand out towards Jaune. "Like this!"
There was a golden glow as a type of glyph appeared before Ozymandias. It shot out hitting Jaune, specifically the collar, as the glyph burned into the collar. The subservient blonde stared before looking up to both kings. "What just happened?" He asked only for Gilgamesh to explode shouting about how Ozymandias ruined one of her treasures as golden portals opened all around her. Ozymandias simply shot back that she was marking Jaune as her slave as the two argued before Jaune's mother stopped both of them with a single word. Both kings stopped as Jaune's mother calmed them down and warned them of what would happen if they destroyed her house. Somehow the two kings listened, but refused to meet each other's gaze, both beyond pissed with the other. Jaune sat unsure of what was happening or how he would get the stupid collar off his neck. The rest of the night was spent with his sisters laughing at him for being stuck in a collar, saying he was just one step closer to being the perfect slave.
He wanted to shout at them but couldn't knowing full well they were right. He was a slave, and he was stuck in a damn golden collar to prove it. He would need to find a way to keep it hidden from other people. All that matters now though was that he went to sleep. He was way too tired from everything happening as well as his training earlier in the day. He fell onto the floor of his room, pulling his pillow that Gilgamesh gave him close to himself, beyond satisfied with how soft it was. The pillow was practically heaven and he was happy to have it. He soon passed out with a satisfied smile.
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After Jaune's birthday Gilgamesh and Ozymandias told him that his training would continue for another month before they test his skills and see if he truly is worth being their slave/property. Jaune didn't care about why they wanted to test him, he just cared about what the test was going to be. He hoped it wouldn't be too difficult or life threatening. His training continued and got harder each day till finally the day of his test came. Jaune stood within a small clearing in the forest dressed in a pair of blue jeans with a form fitting black under armor like shirt on that hugged his now muscular form very well. The soft humming of Gilgamesh's Vimana reached his ears from above. He looked up as Ozymandias and Gilgamesh stood at the front of their respective flying craft, Gilgamesh's beautiful golden space ship thing and Ozymandias' decorated boat.
"We arere about the same distance from your home that we were when you first met Ozymandias and I." Gilgamesh said casting a golden portal and giving Jaune a sword like she did each time they trained. "You must walk through the forest and return home on your own. We're no were near the village so no one will be around to help you. If you do not arrive by sunset you have failed the test and you're unworthy of being my property. But that doesn't mean I'll leave you to the slaughter. I'll collect you if you fail and you can go over to Ozymandias for I have no need for failures."
Gilgamesh's word struck hard, both because they scared him and they kind of hurt. He didn't like the fact he would be left in woods, or the fact that Gilgamesh would just discard him like that. He wasn't all too sure why that bother him so much though. Still, he had to survive and get home. If it was the same distance from his house to the bridge on the other side of the village was, then it shouldn't take him long. He even knew which direction the house was so he should survive just fine thanks to all the training Gilgamesh and Ozymandias put him through.
"Remember Jaune, there are Grimm in the forest. Be sure not to get eaten. I don't want to lose a slave so early into your servitude. What sort of master would I be if you died only 4 months in!"
Ozymandias shouted from her boat before waving goodbye leaving with Gilgamesh. Jaune rubbed the back of his head and turned to the forest. 'Well I best not disappoint my masters.' Jaune thought chuckling as he wondered why he actually considered them his masters. That was till he realized he had actually started considering them his masters. He groaned in frustration as he realized what that meant. 'Great. It's like Stockholm syndrome.' Jaune thought before thinking it wasn't that bad. He wasn't being tortured or treated too badly. He was just stuck in a tug of war with two super gorgeous kings, who were women. Yeah, his life was weird.
He shook the thoughts off and went on through with his test, ready to pass it with flying colors.
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"Ah!" Jaune shouted diving to the side as a Beowulf lunged at him. He rolled along the ground coming back to his feet, clumsily spinning and splitting the beast in two before ducking and jumping back as an Ursa struck the ground where he'd been. He skipped backwards and slashed up splitting the Ursa's head in two before spinning on his heels as another Beowulf lunged at him. He cursed and tried to run away only for more Grimm to surround him. 'Come on! Why are there so many Grimm!?' Jaune thought in frustration before side stepping a slash from another beast and bisecting it with his sword, more than happy to see the creature fly away in two pieces. He slashed, dodge, rolled and weaved his way through the stupidly large horde of Grimm till his back smacked into a tree. His eyes widened in shock before an Ursa came down on him.
He slid down the trunk of the tree bracing his swords pommel against it as the beast fell forward skewering itself on the blade. He kicked the beast's body back with all his might to keep from losing his sword only for a Beowulf to come up beside him slashing out. He brought his sword up blocking the strike only to get sent flying over the ground of Grimm before smashing into the ground with a heavy thud as the wind was knocked from his lungs. He gasped and pushed himself back to his feet. He looked back over what couldn't be more than 100 Grimm, far too many for him to fight and survive.
"I really do have some bad luck." He said softly before straightening himself and glaring at the beast before him. He knew he couldn't run home and let the beast follow him or his family would be killed. Gilgamesh and Ozymandias would save them, but if those two weren't at home and still flying in the sky somewhere he didn't want to risk them not being there to protect his family. He was left with one option. To fight and pray to whatever god was out there that he survived. He took a deep breath and prepared for the beasts to charge. "I won't let any of you get past me and harm my family."
The words were more to himself than the beasts as they charged towards him only for a soft, yet almost serine voice to reach his ears from behind. "Your resolve is strong, but don't throwing your life away pointlessly."
The Grimm all froze even taking a step back away. He spun to see who was behind him. He froze on the spot mesmerized by what he saw. Before him stood a woman with pale white skin, almost like it was milk white. Soft yet cold ice blue eyes and long silky white hair that fell down her back and over her shoulders. She had a light set of red eye shadow around her eyes along with a golden circle earring on her left ear. Over her shoulders was a puffy fur like red cloak which had these golden suns designed circles hanging from it. She was dressed in a very form fitting black jumpsuit that was left wide open over her chest showing off her ample assets as well as what looked like an ornate red jewel embedded in her chest with several golden pieces shining, almost like the light from a sun. Along her jumpsuit was golden lines of metal like armor.
In her right hand was a long golden spear set with a type of pin wheel at the end. The woman gave off the same presence Jaune felt from Ozymandias and Gilgamesh, yet there was a sad cold feel to her even as Jaune felt the air heat up around him. The woman glanced at him making him flinch as those beautiful cold blue eyes acknowledged him. "What is your name boy?"
Her voice was soft yet there was this tone that made Jaune shiver. "I-its Jaune. Jaune Arc." The woman who stepped before him raised her spear towards the Grimm.
"I commend you for choosing to fight, but stay your blade. I, Karna, the Hero of Charity, shall strike down these beasts in your stead." Her voice seemed to take a cruel edge as she smiled at the beasts, the sunlight shining off the gold of her armor and her spear before the Grimm all howled in defiance. Karna's smile just grew. "Good, march to your own slaughter!"
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AN/ Well looks like I went off and did another chapter for this story. Like I said before I have no idea what I am doing and this is just a fun story that I am going to be doing crazy stuff with to both gets laughs and show some sick action! But fear not I may just give this story a proper plot some day if my beta has his way with me! Innuendoes ahoy! But jokes aside I do hope to do more with this story but its just a side project I am doing to satiate my curiosity with a bunch of genderbent characters. but look a new hero takes to the field! How will this impact Jaune's life!
So do leave a review telling me what you happy little reader people think of the story so far.