Presenting the longest chapter of the character chapters... TRUE JAUNE. More A/N at the end.
"I remember the day I had gain my consciousness, my birth. I remember the reason of the how my birth, from anger, saddest, and from being alone. I remember the day of my birth, from the feeling of pain and feeling of blood seeping out of the body. I remember the reason of why of my birth, is to serve, assist, and to protect the one responsible of my birth. And I remember the one responsible of my birth and the reason of my life, Jaune Arc…"
To me, my life is nothing...
To me, I'm meaningless...
To me, I thought I'll never seek joy and happy.
To me, I thought I'll never find my meaning to life...
But to me the day I came to be I found my meaning, my reason to life...
My meaning is to serve, assist, and to protect the one responsible...
The one responsible of my birth...
Jaune Arc
'For many years after the day I came to be…. I have assisted, I have protected, and I have served, the one who gave a me life and reason to live.
He was small and frail to other but seen as weak and pathetic to most.
He had many loses in his life and many sorrow momentis as well…. But he keep telling me "As long I keep my head up high and smile on my face, I'll be fine" but to me inspiring and somewhat a lie because I'm the only one can see the truth of him.
Sadness, sorrow, and doubt were the things I saw in his eyes.
And the same thing I see day to day, night to night, year to year.
But it does improve little by little, step by step.'
To me it was a life's duty to help him to succeed in life.
"Master, are you sure about this?" questioned a figure from the dark
"Yes, I'm positive about this and since when do my plans fail." Answered from a blond man
"While your plans have shown no failure in the past but….." The dark figure stopped to find the right word so he wasn't "questioning" his master.
"But what?" The blond man question his "partner"
"But these forces….. they've shown no visible weak spots and they have the strength and numbers to overwhelm the both of us" The dark figure answered
"And one single wrong move the whole thing will go down in flames and…." The dark figure continued but was cut off.
"True….. You remember why we are doing this." The blond figure asked
"Yes… because..." The dark figure now named True tried to answer
"Because we need to know what happened to Amber and the closest thing I've found about about her last whereabouts was said to be related to the White Fang and this opportunity is the only one we'll ever get." The blond man finished
"But-but master Jaune, what if this fails, what will happen next" True asked his master "Jaune" with scared tone in voice.
"If this fails…. we'll try to get to any other information so this isn't a waste." Jaune simply said
"And what about the others you're going to tell them about?" True asked
"No… they'll only try to stop me from this." Jaune said looking at his plans
"Then they have a good reason to do this master they don't hate you. You're their lover and friend, that's going on a mission...a dangerous one...that can possible end his life." True trying to reason with his master to not do this mission
"STOP IT TRUE!" Jaune shouted causing True to stop.
"I've already lost Dad right in front of me and I'm not going to lose Amber as well." Jaune said as he clenched his fist, re-playing the day of his Dad's death.
True looked down to see that fist was clenched, as he saw the day of "his" Dad's death as well.
"No...no you are not." True said as he loses his grip on his fist and puts his right hand on Jaune's left shoulder make Jaune look behind him and look at True.
"You're not going to lose Amber because I'm here...and I always will be, through hell and back" True said truthfully
"Hehe, I know you got my back but it was nice to hear." Jaune said and laughed a bit
"Hehe, I know, but it was embarrassing anda bit cheesy say but hey it helped you." True said "smiling"
"Yeah it did, now come on we need to go to the Pier, time's a wastin." Jaune said with a smile as he went out of the room to head to the Pier
'Hopefully everytime goes right…. Right?" True thought
Both Jaune and True began making their way further into the facility, they had already taken out two guards outside, along with a few stragglers. Both were now on top of a platform that held pipes in the ceiling.
However there had been no sign of Amber yet, in True's mind he believed that there might be a chance that the intel they picked up was nothing more than just a set up.
Jaune had picked up one of the communicators that one of the guards had and began listening to it. Hopefully, they'll hear something about Amber soon.
"Has that human girl talked yet, a voice came from the hallways
Jaune immediate shut off the communicator and put his attention towards the White Fang soldier with Dog ears below him.
"Nah, she's one tough bitch" replied the other White Fang that had wolf tail on him
At that comment, Jaune clenched his fist in anger. No one talked about Amber like that in front of him and sure as hell won't know.
True placed his hand on Jaune's shoulder and whispered, "Let's take em out Master"
Jaune nodded and both got into their positions
"Yeah, well if I had my way with her she'd be talking and scre-", before the Wolf faunus could finish what he was saying Jaune had impaled Crocea Mors on the faunus's head killing him instantly
The Dog faunus immediately pointed his rifle towards Jaune and was close to pulling the trigger. But before he could True had jumped from the platform and landed on the Faunus, True then brought out "Devil's Fang" and True was close to slitting the Faunus's throat
"Wait, hold him" said Jaune
True obeyed his master's words and grabbed the faunus by the throat and pushed him towards the wall's scared surface. True then placed his weapon's blade toward the dog faunus's throat.
"I would kill you...but I need some info off of you"
"Go to hell" said the Faunus
True revved the chainsaw blade on his weapon, "Hell...we've already been there...we ain't afraid to go back and heck we might just take you with us", said True with a very menacing tone that would send shivers to any one
Jaune the placed his sword over the faunus's leg, "Tell me….where's Amber"
"W-who?"
Crocea Mors then impaled the Faunus's leg, but before he could scream Jaune covered his mouth. "Let me ask again….where's the woman you're holding...Amber"
"My master is going to take his hand off your mouth and you better answer, no tricks...or else" said True as he revved his chainsaw to drive his point across. Jaune took his hand off its mouth and waited for his response
"S-S-She's in t-the cells in the next hallway" replied the Dog faunus
"How do we get there" asked True
The dog faunus pointed at the door just down the hall they were in, but Jaune wasn't buying it
"How do we know you aren't lying…", Jaune said as he began driving his sword inch by inch into the Faunus's leg as ir whimpered in pain and fear
"It's true she's in there, down into that hall take two lefts and a right", True looked into the Faunus's eyes and saw that he was telling the truth. He looked back at Jaune and nodded, signaling that he was telling the truth
"Alright...he's no longer needed"
"W-wait…", True slit the dog faunus's and throat and let it's body hit the hard floor. Both him and Jaune made there way down the hall, towards the door the faunus talked about.
"You sure he's telling the truth True?"
"Yes, I saw it in his eyes...no lies...only fear, plus when have I ever let you down master"
"Not once…" replied Jaune as he let a bit of a smile, before he turned back towards the door and opened it. He sighed and hoped it was true….that Amber was here.
Gah!" Amber recoiled as a sword impaled her torso, and she felt her teeth cut into her lip as she was then flung against a hard concrete wall of her holding cell by the other Faunus's punch. A rabbit and horse faunus were brutally torturing her.
The horse faunus spat on her after making sure to kick her away from the door, "Stubborn bitch" said the horse faunus as he left.
Amber laid in the middle of the cell and as the metal door was snapped shut, she was left bleeding and shivering on the cold concrete floor. She felt tears stream down her face as she remembered earlier how one of the faunus had used her as a punching bag while two female faunus held her in place.
Amber tried to move, but the pain in her body prevented her from doing so. As time passed and the cells started to get colder and colder as the days of her capture and torture continued. One of them even
They cut off the heating to her room, she wasn't aware of where they had plan to take her. But the fear in her ever so deepend
'They're going to ship me off to who knows where… No-one is going to be able to save me…' she felt sick as she managed to sit herself and pull her legs close to her chest. I'll never see Jaune again…'
She tried to rub her arms to lessen the pain, and doing so she missed the commotion that happened outside the door of her cell… until she saw the metal door open.
Two men stood in front of her, Amber closed her eyes in fear as she expected them to be faunus and she waited for what they had planned next.
Before she got a chance to cry, she felt two hands on her shoulder. She opened her eyes to see a familiar face and to her relief it was Jaune with True
"Amber!"
She felt tears streaking down her face as she picked herself up the floor on shaky legs and hugged the teenager.
"Oh my god, what did those bastards do to you" said Jaune in horror as he looked at his best friend. "Come On let's get out of her Amb"
"I c-can't…" Amber said weakly
"What do you mean you can't Amber?, just let me carry you out" Jaune asked
True stood at the cell's entrance with "Devil's Fang" out in it's gun form , "Master we gotta hurry, they could back any minute now"
His master turned to look at him, "Just wait True", Jaune then placed his attention to his friend
"Amber just let me carry you I'm not leaving you here"
"I'm sorry Jaune but It's too late for m-me" Amber lifted her hand to reveal the injury from one of the White Fang's sword. Jaune's eyes widened in horror, but in his mind he wasn't going to accept it...he lost her once he wasn't going to lose her again
"N-No No I'm not going to lose you agai-" he was interrupted as Amber placed her hand on his mouth and looked at him reassuringly
"It's going to be okay Jaune…" Amber felt her legs give out and started descending to the ground, but Jaune managed to catch her before she could hit the cold ground. He knelt down and pulled Amber into his arms.
"Amber, please, be okay. Don't leave me again."
Her eyes slowly opened again and she looked into Jaune's eyes, before a weak smile came across her face.
Her breathing was nothing but labored she continued to speak with all power in her body. "Jaune….It was nice to see you one last time."
She weakly reached up and cupped his cheek. "Remember, I believe in you...you'll be a great Huntsman" Her eyes started to slowly fog over. "Don't let my death destroy you. Do that for me….please?"
Jaune had tears running down his face and he quickly nodded. Amber smiled at him before her head lent to the side and she gave her last breath
Her body soon went limp as her hand fell from his face and she turned into ashes flying into the wind. "Goodbye...Amber." Jaune said weakly before he shut his eyes and slammed his fist to the ground while shouting in anguish.
"M-master it's time to go, we can't stay here" True said as he put his hand on Jaune's shoulder
Jaune opened his eyes tears still visible, he got up and grabbed his sword. "Let's get out of here Tru-"
Jaune was cut off as he felt an arrow go into his arm, he yelped in pain and grabbed his arm.
True immediately turned and saw a deer faunus in the hallway with a crossbow gun, "No one hurts my MASTER!" yelled True in rage as he switched "Devil's Fang" into its chainsaw blade and revved it up
He charged at the deer faunus, his weapon sinking into the white fang's abdomen causing the faunus to fall on the ground and scream in agony
Just then, the alarms went off
"Intruder Alert, we have intruders on hallway X" a voice rang out through the intercoms
"Looks like we'll have to fight our way out, won't we Master?" asked True as he turned to look at his Master who was in the middle of pulling out the arrow in his upper arm
Jaune grabbed the arrow and pulled it out, "Yeah...looks like we will"
Jaune brought up Crocea Mors from the ground along with his shield that had rested on his back the whole way. He was gonna make the White Fang pay, he was gonna take as many out as he could...for Amber.
Both Jaune and True rushed down the hall, towards the way they came they had yet to run into any White Fang brutes. Until now…
Bullets started sounding off from the front of the hallway, Jaune quickly brought up his shield to block themselves from the storm of bullets.
"True I need you to-"
"I'm on it" replied True before his master could finish his sentence
True switched "Devil's Fang" into it's rifle mode, he pointed his gun outwards a began shooting at any White Fang soldiers. He managed to hit a few of them in vital places, before the ricochet of bullets had stopped.
Both quickly saw their chance and charged at the faunus, Jaune brought out his sword and impaled one of his sword before throwing him onto another White Fang soldier. True already had his weapon in chainsaw mode and started cutting down any one who got in his way.
True brought out his revolver from it's resting place and aimed for the head of any who got to close. One of the soldiers with a shotgun in hand managed to get True while he was distracted and shot him in the shoulder, True then looked over at the soldier and grabbed one of his sub-blade from where it was currently resting and threw it at the soldier who was currently reloading
The sub-blade met it's target and went through the faunus's eye, True quickly rushed over and grabbed the blade before bringing his revolver to the faunus's head and pulled the trigger killing it instantly.
Jaune on the other hand was blocking any attempted hits made by a Rabbit Faunus, which unknown to the faunus who was just making attempts of striking and hitting was letting themselves open for an attack. Jaune quickly seized the opportunity and used the point of his sword to stab the faunus
The faunus yelped in pain, before Jaune hit said faunus with his shield knocking them out before Jaune made the killing blow and stabbing the faunus in the chest.
"Master, we're being outnumbered"
"Yeah, tell me something I don't know"
True quickly reloaded his revolver and continued shooting at the faunus soldiers, before also turning "Devil's Fang" back into it's rifle mode.
Just then True was sent flying into a stack of crates. True shook his head to regain consciousness and looked back to see who had done it. A Bear Faunus brute had sent him flying and was getting ready to charge a Jaune before True could aim at the brute at shoot him with his revolver he saw a red flash charge toward Jaune and the next thing that was heard was nothing…..absolute silence
He looked back at at Jaune only for his eyes to widen in terror, a sword had impaled Jaune from behind. Jaune dropped his sword and shield from his hands as his eyes looked down to his abdomen only to widen in terror at seeing the end of a sword in him.
True in a fit of rage got up from the ground and was about to charge at the man in black suit with red hair and a Grimm mask, before he heard the sound of bullets round go off behind him. True felt excruciating pain as he fell back onto the cold concrete floor.
"I'm….." said by the shadowy version of Jaune, True, struggling on the ground to get close to what he failed to do, to protect Jaune.
"Sorry….." True slowly and cracking said as he slow decays like Grimms do
"I've…. " True trying to see if there was a way save him but that was a very slim and narrow chance of happening
"Failed….." True continued as half of his body had already decay.
"You….." Red tears started to fall from his one visible eye
"Master…." He stopped a quarter of the way as his upper chest, head, and arm were the only parts that haven't decayed yet but slowly started to do
"Good….." Seeing this was the end and this was the final time he might see he master
"Bye….." His arms started to decay as well as his upper chest
"Jaune…." As he got his final word it echoed. His upper chest and arms had already decayed. His head, starting from his right side, slowly and surely started to decayed. As it decayed, red tears still fell from is eye and as a red tear hit the ground, his head had finished decaying. The wind picked up the dust particles of his decayed swirl and going to the moon in its full state.
Opening his "eye" to see he was laying in a bed. Rising up from it, he saw that he was in a cabin.
'Where am I? Is this the "Gate" to the afterlife, or is this limbo, or is this a cozy hell? But why am I here?' True thought as he looked around. Then it hit him why he's here…
Because he failed to protect Jaune…
A red tear fell on his hand causing him to grip his left side of his head as his right hand clenched the blanket on his body as more red tears fell from his eye….
"Need a tissue?" A man said in a lotus sitting position next to the bed as he held a box of tissue in front of True.
"Thanks." Grabbing one to wipe the red tears off his face….Wait?
Quickly jumping out and stand on the bed to grabbing his scythe, in its chainsaw blade mode, and revolver out from chest and pointing them at the mysterious figure as two more arm formed out from his back and reform into two blade also pointing at the mysterious.
"WHO OR WHAT ARE YOU AND WHY AM I HERE?!" True shouted at the man, now getting a good look at him, a man with a dark blue monk outfit, a red cape, and a pale face with what seemed like gray tears under his eyes.
"Firstly please use your inside voice while we're in here and to answer your question about who am I, I'm Chronos" simply said by the man in the blue monk outfit.
"You better be telling the truth or I'll-"
"Yes, You'll blow my head straight clean off my neck" but I assure you my name is Chronos, but now please take a seat, you may have many questions. But they'll be answered in due time."
The monk pointed at the couch, True Jaune nodded then jumped off the bed and walked up to the couch to sit down. He closed his scythe into its compact mode, he still gripped the revolver in his hand and his two sub-blade out just in case.
"Would you like anything to eat pizza, sushi, chic-"
"No I'm good" True Jaune answered as Chronos just nodded
"You might be wondering where you are and who am I", True Jaune nodded at Chronos
"Well to get straight to the point: I am Chronos, the god of time and space and right now you're in a temporal room outside of time and space I-"
True Jaune just simply fell forward with his face…. Well his face show no emotion and remained neutral as it can be, but Chronos could tell he fell in shock and disbelief.
-(Time Skip: 1 hour)-
After a good long hour, True finally stood and sat down back into his seat.
"You good there Mr. Arc, but going back on topic: I brought you here and I ask a favor of you"
"First off it's True and second what's the favor?" True Jaune said while rubbing the back of his neck.
"Simple, I'll be sending you to a parallel world of yours that has been experiencing energy fluctuations or wormholes into other verses" , answered Chronos
True Jaune stopped rubbing the back of his neck, before looking back at Chronos, "Why me-"
Before he could ask Chronos interrupted by saying, "I chose you because of your knowledge of the battlefield and have the most excellent leadership skills, you're cunning, plus you're someone who wouldn't leave a man but instead sacrifice yourself into saving him...am I correct Sir True."
"That's correct, but-"
"Let me tell you something, I can make it so that you'll be able to save your Master Jaune's life from the incident and so the he live a happy and successful life as well." Chronos said
True Jaune was surprised and skeptical to hear that he can save his master's live and to have live the life of his master's dream. But before he could make his final choice he had to see his other option, but Chronos had already beat him to it.
"If you refuse, you'll be in a one way ticket to the "Gates" of Heaven or the Underworld."
"You really have to bait me into this like that", True Jaune looked up at the ceiling and sighed. What other choice did he have, he moved his head to look at Chronos and made his choice.
"I accept", replied True Jaune with a very serious tone.
"Excellent Sir True" said Chronos as he brought up a small wooden box and opened it. True Jaune looked inside the box and saw an amulet with his symbol on it. The Arc's crest but with a shadow behind the crest.
True Jaune grabbed the amulet and took it out of it's small box, there was a button on it. He pressed the button and the amulet opened to reveal stats and few other things.
"You'll need it, you'll have to report back to me at the end of every month to see how much closer you are to closing theml...I won't be there to answer all the time, but you could at least report back." Chronos said.
A door then appeared besides Chronos, "This door will lead you to the universe, Good luck"
True Jaune walked through the door and soon he was in a lush green forest. But, before he began he had at least one more question for Chronos.
"So how do I find the wormhole-"
True Jaune turned around to see the door was gone, no trace left of its existence just the lush forest behind him.
"Man, that guy just can't wait up."
He begun walking forward still wondering where he would find the wormholes and how he'd close them. His amulet began glowing, True pressed the button and it opened.
On the amulet's screen it showed True as a small red dot, and just a one and a half miles north west revealed a Wormhole. True Jaune sighed a bit and closed the amulet then letting it sink in, in the palm of his left hand.
"Well, time to go to work" said True as he went into the ground's surface and quickly moved.
'The quicker I close those wormholes, the quicker I can, the quicker I'm am to save Master from dying.' thought True as he quickly moved along the ground.
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