Alex took a look around his new home. It was a large three story house with a big yard and a pool. The floors were covered in a tan soft carpet and the kitchen was a decent size for their family. It wasn't too big, and wasn't too small.
The house had several rooms that the girls quickly got to decorating. It left him some time to relax and unpack...he kept looking at some of the picture they had of Jaune. He couldn't help but feel worried. He spent the better part of 17 years protecting and nurturing him, now he was out at Beacon becoming a man.
'Stop worrying.'
Alex wasn't frightened by the voice, he had long since accepted his guest and welcomed the company on long missions.
'easy for you to say your a God.' Alex thought back sarcastically.
'I'm his father just as much as you are. You do not see me worried, we taught him well.' The elder god said with pride. There was a pause between them before Alex sighed.
'...I don't trust Ozpin to not try anything.'
'We can't shield him forever. He chose this.'
'I know...it just makes me uneasy.'
'...Alex. Jaune is ready. We've trained him well...and when his powers mature I will help him control it.'
'...you know maybe we should have told him before he left. What if his powers mature prematurely?'
'They shouldn't. From what I gather, they won't mature fully until his 18th birthday. And that's still half a year away.'
'any idea what kind of powers he will have?'
For once in many years the elder god grew quiet. Alex walked up to the balcony on the second floor and leaned against the rail.
'...I don't know. The only other demigod was made by my brother. The powers Jaune gain may be entirely different or non existent. I may be a God, but I am not all knowing.'
'...if he chooses not to?'Alex asked.
'I'll accept it. Jaune is still human, he still has a choice.'
'heh, sounds like you took quite a gamble then.'
'hahaha I did indeed.'
Alex looked out towards Beacon just in time to see a group of bodies being flung off a cliff. They were just specks but with his well trained eyesight he could spot the outline of bodies.
'...are you sure I shouldn't worry?'
'….okay, maybe just a little.'
-More than Human.
Jaune stepped forward and stabbed a beowolf through its throat, before letting the body fall to the ground.
"My count's twenty-three, your's?" he asked, sheathing his sword.
"Twenty-two."Yang said, reloading her weapons.
"...I say we wait another half hour. If Ruby doesn't show up by then ,we head back to the cliffs." he said and Yang sighed.
"Fair enough, we've already been here for an hour." she said.
She wanted to help her sister out, but at the same time this test was to see if they were really ready for Beacon.
Jaune paused, hearing a girl screaming. It was getting louder.
"Do your hear tha-oof!" Jaune groaned as something slammed into his back. He fell to the ground when a red cloth fell over his head.
"Owww...sorry, Jaune." Ruby apologized and stood up.
"N-no problem Ruby. Just give me a minute." he groaned, rubbing his back and standing up slowly.
Jaune heard a growl and looked up as a Ursa charged into a clearing before it collapsed to the floor, dead, with an orange haired girl rolling onto the ground.
"Aw, it's broken." she whined poking the dead ursa in the face as it dissolved. A green clad boy caught up to her out of breath and leaned on his knees.
"Please *huff* don't ever do that again."
Jaune recognized the girls and stared at her.
"...Nora, Ren is that you?" he asked hopefully and the red haired girl froze.
Nora turned around and smiled brightly and charged at Jaune bringing him into a strong hug lifting him off his feet and cracking his back. Which oddly enough felt pretty good after he was tackled by Ruby.
"Jauney!"Nora cheered and Jaune laughed.
"Hey Nora, glad to see you too. Please put me down." he asked and Nora released him. Ren walked up and gave him a much gentler hug.
"Its good to see you again old friend." Ren said and Nora danced around the relics and picked up the rook peace
"Im Queen of the castle~"
"Yeah, same. Oh, this is Yang, my partner, and her sister Ruby." Jaune pointed at Yang and Ruby.
" Yo~" Yang waved and Ruby nodded before her eyes widened.
"Oh no, I forgot about Pyrrha!" she shouted running back the way she came from.
Jaune watched Ruby run and Yang looked over at him expectantly. He sighed before nodding, already knowing what she was going to ask.
"...Alright let's go after her." he said as they both began running towards the forest, only to see Ruby and the redheaded spartan burst through the clearing Ruby screaming.
"Run! Big scorpion, 6 o'clock!" Ruby yelled and not one moment later, a deathstalker burst into the clearing.
"Oh, you've gotta be kidding me!" Jaune shouted "Everyone grab a relic and run!"
They heard a loud roar and several gun shots rang through the first before a black haired girl and Weiss ran into the clearing in the distance he could see trees shifting and falling. Jaune's blood ran cold as a armoured figure was tossed into the air only for a large talon to swipe up and stab into his chest pulling the definitely dead initiate into the foliage. A second later another boy was sent flying out of the forest. Another defining roar echoed through the forest and the gang immediately bolted.
All if their scrolls blared out and the headmistress ordered them to run. And to not engage the grimm in the forest. Just get out of the forest. Jaune drew his sword and unfolded his shield.
"Oh great, gang's all here. Now we can die together." Yang said sarcastically.
Nora and Ruby both grabbed a few chess pieces.
"Seriously, we just saw a two people die, now is not the time for jokes!" Jaune yelled before he looked over at Weiss and Blake both poking haggard and terrified.
"Snow angel we got a relic for you Run!" Jaune shouted at Weiss who was too busy running to bother yelling at the blonde idiot.
They ran through some plans and Jaune could hear the grimm behind them gaining. He looked over at the cliffs and clicked his teeth.
"We won't be able to outrun them!" Blake said and Jaune nodded.
Jaune pulled out one of his grenades. He only had so many on him. If he used all four he could make a decent bomb that could kill the death stalker the problem was getting under its belly and getting out safely.
"Does anyone have any string, tape, or, heck, I'll take even gum." he asked and Yang tossed him a pack of gum. "Alright, buy me time, I've gotta plan."
Jaune took out all the gum and started chewing like his life depended on it. He began to build his makeshift bomb sticking the grenades together with gum. It wasn't the most effective adhesive but it would keep them together long enough for his plane to work….hopefully.
"Quickly let's run towards those ruins we can use the bridge as a choke point." he said and They ran into the ruins Jaune stopped midway across the stone bridge and stared at the deathstalker charging at them. He pulled the pin from his bomb and tossed it a few feet Infront of him just in time for the deathstalker to storm over it.
The grenade detonated engulfing it's stomach in a powerful explosion and the death stalked staggered sideways and fell to the floor.
"Yeah!" he shouted happily only for the deathstalker to start getting back up with a feral screech. "Aw come on!"
As if his day couldn't get any worse the grimm that was chasing Weiss and Blake had caught up and Jaune's blood ran cold. He now understood why the headmistress had told them to run. The grimm he was facing now was something ripped out of your nightmare.
It was a large bipedal beast Easily reaching fifteen feet in height with black skin and a long bulky frame Covered in bone armour it's arms curved into sharp talons and a spiked tail swayed behind it. It had a thick and bone plated neck with several extended spines poking out. Its long snout gave way to a maw of razor sharp teeth blood still dripping from its maw and a purple tongue that tasted the vary air. It slightly resembled a Velociraptor, if they were the very incarnations of Hatred! He spotted another smaller one entering the clearing as well crunching down on a severed leg. His friends stopped and drew their weapons only for Jaune to snap his head back
"Run, everyone run now! It's an Attrex!" he yelled fear evident in his eyes. "We can't beat them! To the cliffs, now!"
A bullhead flew above them and the headmistress and two teachers dropped into the clearing cutting off the other Attrex. He would have sighed in relief if it weren't for the fact that the professors couldn't handle both at once not to mention the additional ancient deathstalker.
Jaune backed up as the spiked tail came down on the spot he once was and Nora shot a grenade at its face. Pyrrha and Ruby did their best to keep the deathstalker occupied as they tried to make their retreat. The Attrex snarled and picked up the deathstalker digging its talons into its bone hide and lifting it as if it weighed nothing and used it as a shield and started to stomp towards the Beacon initiates.
It looked like they were going to need to somehow survive long enough for the professors to help.
"What the hell?! It's using it as a shield!" Weiss screamed
"Yeah, those things are deadly. It'll take at least a well trained huntsmen team to take it down." Jaune said as they walked over ancient bridge. "Weiss, I need you to make a ice wall as thick a possible now!"
Weiss rushed forward and stabbed the floor creating a ten foot tall wall of ice between them and the Attrex. Jaune looked around the ancient altar and a plan began to form in his mind. There was no way they could actually kill it on their own...but maybe.
"Pyrrha, Ruby I need you two to move back and get on those pillars and aim for its eyes!" he ordered pointing down the bridge at two tall pillars.
"Got it!" Ruby said and Pyrrha nodded her head as they retreated back into the ruins.
"Uh...girl with the bow?"
"Blake."
"Got it, I need you and Ren to take some grenades from Nora and plant them on the support beams below us! Make sure she has at least two left over."
"On it." Ren said and Nora handed them a bunch of her grenades. Blake used her bow to reach the pillars below them and he heard a sickening couch ass the Attrex tried to bash it's way through the ice.
"Nora the minute it's on the bridge I want you to shoot at the pillars were going to sweep the rug from under it!"
Yang stood behind him and cracked her knuckles.
"My job?" she asked and Jaune shield folded and shifted into a mounted cannon on his arm. The barrel started to glow a light blue color and Jaune aimed at the Attrex and back up into the Altar.
"You're plan B."
A few moments later Ruby and Pyrrha began pelting the Attrex with well aimed bullets intent to try and shoot it's eyes.
Ren and Blake climbed back onto the bridge and ran back into the altar giving Jaune a thumbs up, Weiss made another wall of ice as she retreated back not wanting to be anywhere close when the ice wall broke. Nora climbed onto a pillar and and took aim at a pillar with a few of her grenades strapped to it.
"I'm ready when you guys are!" Nora yelled. The Attrex bashed the long dead deathstalker against the ice and destroyed the barrier as the scorpion grimm disappeared. It Roared And charged at Jaune.
"Now!" Jaune shouted and Nora shot the pillar.
Several explosions rang a crossed the canyon and the bridge collapsed taking the Attrex with it. Only for it to stab its talons into a more secured part of the bridged.
"Time for plan B! Yang, hold my back!"
Jaune took aim at the Attrex. And waited for his shot to fully charge.
His shield cannon started to hum and he finally released all the aura and dust he's been saving up for this one shot!
Jaune planted his feet and braced himself as a large crackling ball of energy dust and aura flew out and blew apart another segment of the bridged sending through Attrex plummeting into the canyon depths.
Jaunes armrest popped back and he groaned gripping his shoulder.
"Gah! Ow, yeah, need to work on the recoil!" he gasped and Yang helped him to his feet.
"Hold on, this is going to hurt." Yang said grabbing his shield arm and popping it back into place.
"GAH! Thank you!" he said.
Jaune looked over the edge just to be sure that thing wasn't climbing back up and was relieved to see that It was nowhere insight. The question on if it was dead or not was up for debate. But he wasn't about to climb down to find out. He looked across the gap to see The headmistress pinning the Annex to the ground and launch a large bellied professor into the air before he came crashing down cutting off the Grimm head using his Axe/Rifle.
The gang all kinda laughed nervously and Jaune sat back against a pillar his partner joining him.
Ozpin frowned at what he just witnessed those grimm shouldn't have been anywhere near the Emerald forest let alone the initiates. Attrex were pack hunters Which meant there was at least one more within the forest if not an additional 3.
But for a pack of them to not only enter the Emerald forest but go undetected was...frightening. the fact that two of them were constantly making a beeline for mister Arcs group was also noted.
Especially since the Alpha of the pack ignored it's pack mate in favor of trying to get to the group even though their was a greater risk behind it.
This behavior was just not normal, nor was the situation. Now 3 initiates were dead and one badly injured. The only conclusion he could come up with is that these grimm knew about the cameras and found blind spots to hide in. And for that kind of control and knowledge.
She must have been influencing them greater than usual.
"...what are you planning?" he asked aloud before walking briskly towards Beacon.
-MORE THAN HUMAN.
And here is the next chapter, I hope you all enjoyed.
Now onto a important matter.
LET ME HEAR IT FOR THE GRADUATING CLASS OF 2017!
man four years really went by fast huh? Hehe time flies I tell ya.
Well ill be graduating soon and I wanted to give a shout out to everyone on the same boat as me. Seriously we all came so far from little freshmen shit heads to big seniors! Only to become a lowly freshman in college in my case.
Lol but seriously my fellow graduates, Congratulations we all earned it.
Anyways I hope you all enjoyed and I'd appreciate any and all criticism. And Reviews.
So until next time.
~ later days
-Wiseotaku