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Hi, I'm finally back again with another chapter and wow it's really crazy this story has now reached 650 followers and over 100 reviews which it is just unbelievable to me for my first try at a story so thank you all!

So, this one has taken me a while to do for different reasons such as I couldn't find the momentum to keep on writing at times and I could not seem to find myself satisfied with what I had already written. I even considered just giving up on this story but I didn't want it to die before it even had a chance. I kept seeing what I had written as too repetitive with the words I used or just not interesting to read. Maybe it was just me second guessing everything I did but I hope this chapter is at least okay with some of you.

Some things to address again

First is that yes, I messed up a bit in the last chapter when you guys pointed out about how Raven should not have broken Jaune's weapons so I'll own up to that. The only thing I can say is that it was my first real time writing a fight scene so I got so caught up on trying to make it exciting to read that I completely forgot that those type of swords should not break.

Anyway, I don't want to keep going on in the beginning Notes that what the bottom ones are for. So big thanks to Grim of Brennus Hopes and AlucardTheDragonicGod for going over this chapter for me.

In this chapter, it starts off before Jaune got to the part and so picks up from there and when he shows up. Sadly, there is no Jaune point of view on thing in this chapter it's more on some of his family and party guests. Plus, a thing of note is that this chapter is heavily inspired by the party scene from Fate Stay Arc so you will see similarities.

Warning my spelling and grammar is possible bad

'Thoughts'

"Talking"

Disclaimer I don't own RWBY or the Fate series

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Chapter 4 An unexpected surprise at the Party

Town of Dragontail, Arc household

It was another beautiful summer day in the town of Dragontail, there was not a cloud in the sky letting the sun shine down upon the nice large town.

Combat schools all over Remnant had let their students go home for a short two-week holiday letting them see their families and get a much-needed break from all the lessons and tests they had been forced to endure. The two-week long vacation had been exactly when Alexander Arc managed to secure himself some leisure time from his messy and demanding work schedule. With him wanting to be there at home when his kids got back from their schools to both welcome and surprise them.

The head of the Arc family had been so glad that he did because in doing so Alex had found out that his little girl Jeanne had shown such skill and promise that she been put forward for an early graduation.

At the age of sixteen a whole year ahead of the stranded time when everyone else graduated.

It was not uncommon for individuals in the combat schools or academies that displayed skill and worth beyond their peers to be pushed ahead. Age wasn't a huge factor for some people seeing it as if you had what it took to go out there and protected the kingdoms then it was fine by them. Of course, others would argue that the council should not be sending people of such a young age out to fight.

That was mostly spoken by concerned parents not wanting their children to get hurt which was something Alex himself could sympathize with since he was a father himself.

Now Alex would have had much preferred if Jeanne could have stayed at the school for her last year before she went off to pick her Academy like her sisters before her but the school had already had gone through with the transaction saying that Jeanne had nothing more to learn at their facility.

But just because they said she was ready did not mean Alex was going to allow his little girl to go off and fight out the in the big world just yet. No, he had made it clear that Jeanne would stay at home for next the year refining her craft so she would be more than prepared for what the harsh world throws at her. Jeanne will also be helping her younger sisters train and help where she could while Alex would be back out on his missions.

So, Jeanne won't be skipping ahead of the class. Alex would not have it. He didn't want this to be another Mordred incident.

Anyway, to celebrate his daughter's success and for being so proud of her Alex had decided to host a small party at the Arc household.

At least it was meant to be small as the veteran Huntsman turned his gaze to look out through the patio doors leading to the very spacious backyard and saw a fairly large gathering of party guests all mingling and having fun.

'Oops'

Alex chuckled to himself nervously while scratching the back of his head hoping that his wife wouldn't be upset with a large crowd of people in their backyard.

Thankfully June was somewhere else in the Arc household spending time catching up with Willow Schnee, the Schnee matriarch and wife married to the now current head of the Schnee dust company Jacques. who was thankfully too busy with running a company to attend the party much to Alex's relief.

It was no huge secret that Alex and Jacques didn't really get along and that they only tolerated each other out of courtesy but their wives on the other hand...

The two had both met at a social gathering in Atlas some years ago that Alex had been invited to and they had both become fast friends. A lot like how Arturia and Willow's eldest daughter had become close comrades with each other during their time at Atlas Academy.

So yeah it was a good thing June was busy at the moment or she would most likely have his hide for him turning their home into some kind of house party.

Ding.

Hearing the sound of the doorbell going off broke Alex from thinking any more on the matter of his wife.

He gradually made his way to the front door to greet the newly arrived guests passing a variety of pictures hanging on the wall. Some showed off the Arc family throughout the years each one displaying a new blonde-haired member of the family, others depicted special events like his daughter's graduations or a young smiling Alex and June on their wedding day.

Opening the door Alex was immediately meet with some very familiar faces.

There at his front step was Ozpin the headmaster of Beacon and Glynda Goodwitch the deputy headmistress. Behind the two was Bartholomew Oobleck the history teacher at Beacon with the Grimm studies professor Peter Port by his side.

Smiling Alex welcomed them in with a wave of his hand. "Oz I'm glad you all could make it." With the Beacon staff making their way into the house, Alex did pleasantries with them all.

Looking first to the headmistress, "Glynda, it's good to see you again. You're looking very lovely today." He complemented his fellow blonde.

The woman only pushed up her glasses and spoke back to him in a strict tone. "Alex, still the charmer I see... but never the less it's good to see you in good health."

Alex needed to suppress a sigh of disappointment from that reply.

The woman was always so strict and proper about everything that he really thought Glynda needed to learn to relax at times and just loosen up. He took his eyes away from her and moved onto the tall green haired man nearby who was looking very fidgety at the moment.

'He probably did not have any of his daily caffeine yet.'

"I hope your fine today... Professor Oobleck?" He asked the man with a slight amount of concern.

The green haired man, eyes snapped to his with a frown setting in on his face all the while his hands were twitching.

"It's Doctor!" He shouted back while eyes twitched whether from annoyance or lack caffeine Alex honestly could not tell. "But never mind that do you have any coff-"

Cutting him off Alex already knew what the man was after "YES Doctor we have some coffee out back..." As soon as he was done saying that the hyperactive huntsman had sped off leaving a small dust trail in his wake as the man went out searching for his favorite beverage.

The rest of them just stood there in the hallway looking at where the green haired man had once been with nothing but the dust now in his place.

Alex just blinked once or twice before moving on to his next colleague he had yet to greet. Taking his hand up for a handshake as he spoke jokingly "Peter great to see that you're looking spry for a man your age."

The older man just laughed wholeheartedly and pulled the offered hand into a tight grip before shaking. "Nonsense lad! I'm as good as ever, this body might be old but my fighting spirit is eternal!"

Alex could only chuckle at that, knowing it was true as, no matter how many years had passed, the long-time huntsman still had a lot of energy in him.

The two were just laughing lightly in amusement as they kept the handshake going for few more seconds before finally ending it.

Putting his hands on his hips Port looked around. "Now where is this celebration at? I have so many of my glorious adventures to speak of it would be a shame if they went untold!"

With that said, the old Professor walked past them all, making his way to the party intent on "entertaining" everyone with his stories. Glynda just sighed shaking her head before informing Alex that she would keep an eye on the two professors making sure they would not ruin what was supposed to be a nice small get together.

The only people left in the hallway by the front door was now Alex and the headmaster himself.

Speaking of Ozpin, the man was sprouting a small pleasant smile as he watched Alex speak with his cane ready at the side. Now that they were left alone, the headmaster chose this moment to speak with his old friend.

"Well that was certainly interesting would you not agree, Alex?" The response he gave back to the man was just a dry look.

Alex's stare did not seem to do anything to the man as Ozpin just stood there still smiling at him before taking a sip from his coffee mug that the man always seemed to have with him.

"It's good to see you as well Ozpin I honestly assumed you would be unable to make it. Seeing as you are almost always held up back at Beacon these days."

Still drinking from his mug, the man just hummed back at Alex to that statement seeing as it was true. Ozpin had been spending more time at Beacon in the recent years not leaving the place all that often and that made Alex a bit suspicious.

Why was Ozpin here? There were a few ideas that came to Alex's mind as to why the Beacon headmaster had taken the time to come for his daughter's celebration.

"Well I have finally managed to get some free time so I thought I would drop by and enjoy myself." Ozpin calmly informed Alex and then sat his coffee mug down on a nearby table before reaching into his coat to bring out a bottle.

"Seeing as this is my first time ever visiting your home, I thought it would be a good idea to bring a small gift with me." Ozpin told the man of the household as he admired the bottle before handing it over to Alex.

Examining it, Alex raised an eyebrow as he read the label. It was a fifty-year-old bottle of wine from Vale, not something that was exactly cheap.

"I hope this is not some way to bribe me into allowing Jeanne into going to beacon academy Ozpin? Because I have already said that she won't be starting there until she is Seventeen." Alex told the headmaster sternly.

Ozpin gave an innocent smile, "Come now Alex your daughter has already proven herself to be more than ready just like her sisters before her. It's only one year ahead that Jeanne has skipped; she can handle it."

Sighing, Alex said with a hint of frustration, "It's not going to happen Oz and that's final. You might be used to getting your way with things but when it comes to my family I decide what goes on, not you. Jeanne will go to her academy of choice when she is of age."

This was something that could not be negotiated with Alex

Frowning for a split-second before it vanished and was replaced with a small smile, Ozpin could only say, "Well one couldn't help but at least try now could they"

The two friends made their way to the gathering outside in silence and while on his way it got the senior Arc thinking.

Alex now knew why Ozpin was here, it was to see if he could convince him to send Jeanne a year ahead to beacon but Alex had told the man before many times, that his daughter will only be going when she was seventeen just like her older sisters did in the past. It was one of the things Alex was always set on which was trying to follow tradition.

His first three kids had all gone to their academy at seventeen no younger and that was how Alex wanted it to be for Jeanne. But he guessed he couldn't blame Ozpin too much, the man always wanted all the best students for himself.

It must have frustrated the man knowing that all three of Alex's oldest children had not picked Beacon as their choice of school.

Olivia and Arturia had chosen to enrol at Atlas when they became of age. Oliver had graduated at age twenty while at the top of her class and when Arturia had gone to Atlas following behind Olivia she too had left at the top her class as well as winning the Vytal Festival when she participated.

Thankfully, neither of them had been drafted into the Atlesian military and were now just full-time Huntresses.

Alex couldn't have been anymore prouder of both of them for living up to the Arc name even if he tried.

Then... there was Mordred

Alex had to suppress another sigh just thinking about his third eldest.

He and Mordred had not seen eye to eye on a lot of things, with Alex wanting her to follow and stick to the family's traditions. Whereas Mordred wanted to be free and do as she pleased which seemed to be breaking some of those traditions.

It had not started off so bad, to begin with, Mordred had just wanted to go to Shade Academy most likely to avoid going to the same School with Arturia and he had no issue with that, his children were free to choose which Academy they wanted to enroll in. But more things started to occur, with Alex and June getting calls from the head saying that their daughter was constantly getting into fights with other students and skipping classes.

Alex had been very disappointed with Mordred's behavior finding it that brought shame on the family and June felt sad as well as disappointed at her daughter but to a much lesser extent.

The only reason Mordred had not been expelled was probably because of her immensely high combat scores and the fact she had won the school second place in the Vytal festival. The one thing that had gotten most of Alex's disapproval on Mordred's recently was that his daughter had dropped out of the Academy.

Well...

He said dropped out but in actuality, Mordred had been offered a one-year early graduation kind of like Jeanne but this was most likely by the school's head to just get rid of her and to not deal with all the trouble his daughter caused.

Mordred had taken the offer without hesitation saying she felt like she was not getting any stronger and that school was not pushing her hard enough.

So, Mordred had graduated at the age of nineteen completely skipping her one last year of education which had led the both of them having an argument with Alex not agreeing with what she just did and broke part of the family tradition by not fully completing her education to be a Huntress. While Mordred had shouted back at him saying he had no right deciding what she could do with her life.

It might have gotten out of hand if June had not put a stop to both of them with her not wanting her family to be at odds with one another. Alex had backed down since when it came to this sort of thing his wife was the one in charge and Alex would not dare fight her on it.

So yeah, Alex's three oldest children have shown themselves to quite the prodigies with two of them finishing at the top of their class and one graduated a whole year ahead so it came as no surprise that people were trying to get Jeanne to pick their schools to enrol into next.

That's what Alex bet Ozpin was also here for because if the man could not convince him to let Jeanne go a year early than the silver-haired old man would do his damnedest to make a good impression today to influence his daughter into picking Beacon.

Silently talking to himself Alex shook his head. 'it's really not easy being an Arc'

To the masses, it would look like the Arc family was some kind of poster image for Hunters everywhere with so many of them excelling in the profession and a few may even call them the perfect family of Huntsman and Huntresses.

Alex wanted to scoff when he heard that one.

The Arc family was not some perfect happy little family.

It was a normal family with its own problems and issues just like any other. An example being the fact that because of Alex being so close to Ozpin it had set him up for going on long and dangerous missions which meant that his wife had to stay at home alone to look after the kids.

All the while June had to just wait until he got back not knowing if her husband would ever make it home alive or in a box.

Alex hated himself because he could not always be there for his family and him being absent a lot meant that he missed a birthday once or twice or one of his daughter's graduations. Another issue that was going on in the family right now was the tension between Mordred and him which did not look to be getting any better any time soon.

Then... there was the subject of his son

"Alex are you alright?"

"Huh?" He responded not paying attention to what was going on so Alex looked up to see Ozpin giving a slightly concerned look in front of the door leading to the backyard.

"You looked unsettled there for a moment... if it's about what I said about Jeanne I didn't mean any harm by it I promise to respect your decision and leave it at that." The headmaster informed one of his old friends believing he had upset Alex about the subject of his daughter's education earlier.

Getting his senses back Alex shook his head side to side burying the unpleasant thoughts and put on a fake smile to show to Ozpin.

"No... everything is fine" He spoke before stopping few brief moments to think and then went on. "Come on let me show you to the party."

They left the house and entered the backyard hearing the music playing with the sounds of people laughing and having fun reach their ears. Alex went to try and enjoy himself not wanting to get depressed today of all days.

This was supposed to be a celebration after all.

When Glynda had stepped into the backyard to keep an eye on both Peter and Bart, she quickly found out that the task was easier said than done. She had been met with a huge group of people everywhere which made finding someone quite the challenge.

All around there were tables set up with food and drinks for everyone to try as they all talked and chatted with one another.

Not seeing her two colleagues, Glynda made her way deeper into the crowd of guests looking left and right for any sign of them. She must have gone on for at least five minutes before Glynda just gave up and sighed to herself.

She had been told by Ozpin that Alex said he was supposed to be having a small celebration but it seemed that it had not gone as planned. It didn't come too much as a surprise to Glynda that the Arc family was well known and it was currently made up of ten members which meant that if everyone in the family invited a few friends then before you knew it things would get blown out of proportion.

There truly were a lot of people here and Glynda would admit it freely that this was not her type of scene. She would much prefer to be relaxing at home with a good book or a nice relieving bath.

She saw Ozpin and Alex leave the house and enter the backyard not too long after her but Alex looked to be straining a smile.

'That's odd' She told herself as she watched the two of them walk over to some old school buddies of Alex. Glynda was now wondering what had been said after she had left for Alex to not be his joyful self.

'Did Ozpin say something to upset him?' She found that hard to believe the two men had been close ever since Alex had graduated from Beacon. They were always speaking of things that even she was not privy to knowing even if she was one of the few within Ozpin's circle. Hell, the only person that might be even more tightly knitted with Ozpin was Qrow himself and that was because the drunk was his right-hand man.

Forgetting about all that and moving on Glynda supposed that if she was going to stay here in this party she might as well as make it somewhat enjoyable. So, looking around to see if she could find anyone that would make for a good conversationalist.

It was much harder then she thought.

There were only a few people she recognised and there were people she really didn't want to socialise with. She also did spot one or two of Alex's daughters when she scouted around. In the far-off corner almost hidden from viewing was a blonde girl in her late teens or early twenties covered in a monstrous amount of steel armor that protected her body only leaving her head exposed. The girl had the Arc golden blonde hair in a ponytail and a pair of emerald eyes was looking to be showboating off to some other Hunters.

Glynda was not familiar with this member of the Arc family but she could guess that the girl was a younger sister of Arturia given how they looked near identical when it came to the face. The other child of Alex was one Glynda was much more familiar with which was Olivia Arc who looked to be at this moment in time turning down someone who attempted at hitting on her.

Glynda would have most likely gone to Olivia for a decent conversation if not for the voice that stopped her before she could.

"Miss Goodwitch? What a surprise to see you here of all places." Glynda pivoted around to come face to face with a woman in an Atlas uniform with a brief spark of shock on her face.

Glynda wanted to sigh was it really such a shock for her to be at a party? "Hello to you as well Winter."

It didn't at all surprise Glynda that Winter was here at the celebration she was good friends with Arturia Arc after all.

Winter had regained her composure very quickly as she coughed into her fist. "Yes...hello good to see you as well..." She hesitated slightly before going on.

"It's just the last time I saw you, was at Beacon when General Ironwood had a meeting set up with professor Ozpin before I was... dismissed and well... a party was the last place I thought I would meet you again."

The deputy headmistress was able to pick up a hint of anger, when it came to the part of the Schnee's dismissal. It probably had to do with things being kept from her when Winter was sent away from those meetings but it had to be done there was no way to tell if Winter could be trusted. So, James needed her gone when he and the rest of them needed to report back to Ozpin.

Ignoring the bit of hostility Glynda simple spoke back. "While I will admit that a party is not at the top of my list of things that I would want to be doing right now, it doesn't mean I have anything against these social gatherings."

Winter only raised an eyebrow at spoke back in a smooth voice "I was not trying to suggest such a thing only that you might just be here to...watch over things for Ozpin instead of to enjoy yourself."

Glynda could feel her eye twitch at that comment but she kept herself calm. "What do you mean by watch over 'things'?"

The only response Winter gave back was a tilt of her head to the left of her. Following the direction Glynda's gaze soon came upon something she wishes she hadn't. There across from them was Oobleck zipping around with two cups of coffee in his hands as he sped around the place while somehow drinking both of them simultaneously.

Then next to the green haired blur was Port laughing with a drink in his right hand that Glynda was really hoping was not alcoholic.

No one wanted to hear one of Port's stories especially if he's drunk.

"And then I wrapped my arms around the Ursa and shouted at the top my lungs 'have at you foul beast!' while I suplexed it!" Port finished telling one of his tales and started to laugh hysterically.

'It's already too late, he's wasted... why would Alex even allow alcohol to be served at a celebration for his daughter in the first place!' Glynda screamed internally to herself as she began to rub her brow in frustration.

It did not help the fact that she could feel Winter enjoying every moment of this as the woman currently was giving her a smug smile.

Today was really not her day.

For the people at the party who weren't with Glynda, everything was going pretty well, the weather was nice, the food and drinks were enjoyable while the music was entertaining.

Olivia Arc would even be tempted to say that she was having fun visiting her family home again after so long and was happy on getting to congratulate her baby sister Jeanne on her recent achievements as well as speaking with all her sisters.

Nowadays Olivia didn't have any chance to visit her family at home that much, not after she had moved out of the Arc household two years ago. She had been twenty-three at the time and being the oldest, Olivia had wanted to have a place of her own where she wouldn't have to share a fridge with ten other damn people.

So with the money she saved up from working as a Huntress for three years after graduating from Atlas, The oldest child of Alex and June Arc had finally decided to fly out of the nest, as the saying goes and bought a nice little place on the island of Patch in Vale. Leaving the home she had grown up in wasn't easy, but Olivia didn't want to live with her parents for the rest of her life.

So after looking around for a bit, Olivia had ended up, on impulse, buying a place in Patch. Her parents had said she shouldn't have purchased the first property that stood out to her, but oh well she had wanted to live near the big city of Vale for a while now and being in Patch meant that Olivia was only a small journey away from the city and would not have to deal with all the hustle and bustle of living in a city. She also had the option, if it ever appealed to Olivia, of teaching at Signal since they were hiring and always on the hunt for new teachers.

So yeah back on topic, Olivia didn't get to see her family too much nowadays with living her own life as well as being a full-time Huntress meant she had little time to just come over and give a simple hello and chit chat.

The eldest daughter of the Arc family was going to get the most out of this little party by spending time with her family and enjoying herself... or at least she would have if there had been some way to put a stop to the number of people hitting on her at this party.

It wasn't so bad at the beginning but after the third or fourth guy that had tried to talk her up, Olivia was having to now keep herself in check as to not ruin her sister's party by castrating someone.

Was it too much to ask that Olivia could just spend time with family without people coming up to her and wanting to court her?

Olivia wasn't a vain person that was obsessed with their own appearance but she had been told by many that she had features which members of the opposite sex would find desirable. Now at the age of twenty-five, she had the trademark Arc blonde hair that went down her back stopping at the waist which seemed to have a golden glow to it. An hour-glass figure that, while slender, was still rather muscular from her years of training and she was fairly gifted in the chested area...

But sadly, nowhere near as much as her younger sister Arturia.

Just thinking about that made Olivia's eyebrow twitch uncontrollably. Like she said, she wasn't a vain person but it hurt her pride a bit and all the other girls in the Arc family as well, that Arturia's chest had suddenly grown very large very fast as the girl went into her twenties.

'I mean come on! How is that even possible she was flat as a board in her teens then out of nowhere the girl went up to like a D cup!' Olivia was crying internally to herself.

No one in the family knew how Arturia had gotten so blessed with her assets and the girl herself had said it had happened naturally in a slightly smug way much to the ire of Olivia and her sister as well as their mother securely.

Not that their mum would ever admit such a thing.

Olivia was contempt to keep going on silently cursing her younger sibling for her blessings if not for the fact that someone called out her name from behind her.

"Olivia" The deep sound of the voice already told her that the person speaking to her was male and Olivia could only roll her eyes with a sigh as she mentally prepared herself for yet another guy to attempt to woo her.

"Yes?" Spinning around at the heels of her feet Olivia came face to face with a pair of sapphire blue eyes that were shockingly strikingly similar to her own. Quickly looking up and down at the person in front of her, he was wearing some kind of black tight sleeveless shirt with steel plated boots and a red tattered cape on his waist that was moving back and forth from the gentle breezes in the wind that passed by.

The whole outfit itself just screamed Huntsman to Olivia making her believe that maybe one of them at the party had come to try their luck with her, at least the guy was fairly attractive.

That whole thought pretty much died as soon as it was conceived when her eye took in the man's face in more detail instead of the brief glance she had given it.

He looked like a younger version of her father!

Same facial features.

Same deep blue eyes.

Same kind of hairstyle and hell if not for the white patch at the front it would be the exact same type of golden colored blonde.

'He looks almost like-' Her mind instantly screeched to a halt as Olivia finally realised who she was talking to.

And she was ashamed it took her this long for her mind to work it out. Sure, to the rest of the world it had just taken a few more seconds nearing a minute but to Olivia, it might as well as been eternity for how long it had taken her to recognise her own baby brother!

Olivia's eye popped as she exclaimed "Jaune!"

Her shouting his name must have taken him by surprise as her brother recoiled from her shout with also gaining the attention from a few other part guests with them sending side glances there way but Olivia had other issues to deal with than worry about some strangers.

Like the fact with what the heck was going on with her little brother who was now wincing his eyes and looking at anything but her.

"Err...yeah that's me, jeez no need to yell when I'm right in front of you." He groaned out

Olivia didn't really pay any mind to what he said as her brain was trying to work everything out and ask questions to help fill the many holes that were desperately needed filling. Of course, she didn't have the patience for any of that and just blurted out "You've gotten tall?"

Jaune just raised an eyebrow at her as if to say "really?" and Olivia was starting to cringe on the inside.

Out of all the things she wanted to ask, she went with his height.

She didn't ask about the outfit, the hair or even the freaking muscles, no, she had to ask about the fact that her baby brother was now taller than her. Olivia knew that her younger siblings would be different when she came to meet them again and with her living on her own, partnered with being a Huntress, she knew that all her siblings would be growing up as well but she would think someone would have told her about the changes with Jaune.

'I mean all the time I called mom when she was at home and I asked if there was anything interesting going on, you would think that she would have at least maybe mention Jaune getting fucking ripped!'

Since when was Jaune this muscular and in shape! Oh no... did she just check out her own brother!?

Sadly, Olivia wasn't allowed time to keep ranting to herself with Jaune finally speaking back after what was for him a few seconds of awkward silence.

"Yeah, I guess I have gotten taller? That tends to happen when you know... grow up." Jaune told her flatly as he started to shift his body slightly like he was uncomfortable.

Olivia had no clue why he would be uncomfortable but she had too much on her mind right now to given thoughts on the matters. She needed to try and figure out what was going on with her brother and so she started rapidly firing questions at him.

"Where have you been? Why are you wearing a Huntsman outfit? What's going on with your ha-"

Before she could keep asking her spitfire of questions at him, Jaune raised his hands and spoke to her in slightly agitated and demanding voice. "Can you stop with all the questioning, please. I just got back from my trip and I only came by to ask you what this party is all about."

"…"

Silence.

"...well err... this whole celebration is kind of in Jeanne's honour, I guess with her graduating from combat School a year early. You...didn't know about this?" Olivia hesitantly explained to him still trying to get over the small shock of how Jaune just acted.

For a long time, Olivia would always remember her baby brother being the much more quiet and soft-spoken of her siblings when she saw them. When she came to Arc household be it back from Atlas or visiting from Patch Jaune would always give a small smile with a quick hello and goodbye before he either disappear into his room or go off to his apprenticeship.

In recent years their mom had become slightly concerned about Jaune, with how withdrawn he seemed to be getting. Mostly everyone was hoping that it would turn out to be some kind of moody teenage phase.

Currently though, Olivia was seeing Jaune in very different light for the first time with how he was presenting himself in front of her.

Right now, her brother appeared to be in distressed and awkward about his surroundings. He also seemed to be almost in a rush like he wanted to get away from this party as soon as possible.

"Oh," Jaune said after finally finding out what the big celebration was for before looking awkward and started shifting his feet about. "Well...that's great I guess. Good for Jeanne err... umm I'm going to head upstairs, I really need to take a shower."

Jaune turned away from Olivia and slowly walked to the house.

Seeing her little brother walk away Olivia reacted instinctively her hands shot out grabbing Jaune's left arm. When she made contact his whole body went rigid and stiffened up like a statue.

"Wait!" Olivia shouted out to him sounding almost desperate for not wanting to see her brother just walk away just yet when she still needed answers about so many things.

Jaune very slowly almost robotically twisted his body around to face his older sister again looking at her questioningly "Hmm"

Opening her mouth Olivia didn't even get to make a sound before a loud and clear voice reached them.

"Jaune!"

Alex had to admit that he had really outdone himself this time. The party was in full swing and everyone was having fun, most of his daughters were about somewhere enjoying themselves with their friends, hell even Mordred had a smile etched on her face as she impressed her old classmates with her skills showing off how she earned that early graduation.

He swore to himself that his rebellious daughter's confidence and prideful attitude was bordering on arrogance at times but oh well, she would grow out of it and if not, she would have to learn the hard way that pure strength can only get you so far in this world.

But yeah, Alex would call this party a success, he had managed to pull himself out of his little rut and was now laughing and joking with some old school friends of his, as they watched as a drunk Port attempted to recreate the finishing move that he claimed to had once used on an Ursa, and was using Oobleck to demonstrate how it worked. The little show between the two Professors got a good laugh out of everyone... well except Glynda who looked close to be blowing a gasket at the two.

Ozpin was even enjoying himself meeting up with old students that had once attended Beacon.

Alex was tempted to pat himself on the back for a job well done.

Looking around the party once more he spotted a few people snickering and looking at someone that Alex couldn't make out with the crowd being so dense. The only things he could see in the gaps between the crowd was that the person was a man and he appeared to be dressed with a tattered red cloak on waist who looked to be talking to his eldest daughter Olivia.

That sort of explained why the people were snickering at least.

They were most liking waiting to see his daughter turn down and humiliate another wannabe guy who wanted to hit on her. Alex didn't see a problem with it, Olivia could more than handle herself, the same goes for the rest of his older daughters.

Although Alex was wondering who the person was since they seemed to be clad in a hunter's outfit.

For a second with the red tattered cloak Alex thought that Qrow had somehow gotten into the party, but that was impossible, the man was in Patch visiting his nieces for the week.

Good thing as well because if Qrow was the one hitting on his daughter, Alex would have made it so the man would never walk again or use anything related to the lower half of his body again when he would be done with him.

About to turn back around and get back to mingling, but before he could, a few people moved to go and sit on a nearby table which ended up giving Alex the clear view he needed to see the man talking to Olivia.

And Alex had blink a few times to see if his eyes were failing him.

Because right now, they were seeing his only son Jaune, who was standing out like a sore thumb thanks to the eye-catching garb.

"Jaune?!"

He shouted questioningly, without even thinking, he began to make his way over to his son and Olivia. Too busy concentrated on getting over to them Alex hadn't noticed that his act had drawn the eyes of many from the celebration.

Finally coming up towards his son Alex could only stare at Jaune.

His blue eyes took everything in since it had been quite a while when he had last seen his son.

As said before because of Alex's duties as a full-time Huntsman working under Ozpin, Alex had very little time to be at home and when he was, it usually involved him helping his daughters with their training getting them ready to become Huntress.

The last time he had been at home was a few months ago, helping out Lily and Lucy and apparently back then, according to his wife, Jaune had been on some type of excursion so because of that, Alex didn't see his son that time.

A few years ago, his son decided to take up the craft of making weapons in blacksmithing which had come as big surprise to everyone in the family, but Alex had been secretly glad that his son had found a different path to pursue in life after Jaune, for so long in his childhood, has wanted to be Huntsman like him and the rest of the family. Sadly, his son had shown no such skill in the profession much to Alex's dismay but he'll rather, in the end, have his son safe doing a less respectable occupation than end up dying out there all for nothing because of his son being too stubborn, not willing to accept his own limitations.

Not to mention that Jaune still had a big responsibility on his shoulders to stay alive for. With him being Alex's only son in the Arc family, it meant it fell on to Jaune to carry on the Arc legacy, traditions and name when his sisters all married.

Alex was kind of ashamed to admit that when it came to the subject of his son, that it was not a great one.

He was not blind, he could tell him and Jaune should be much closer than they were, but with how everything was with having eight kids and working as a Huntsman made it very hard to make sure that all his children got equal attention.

It especially didn't help that his son was coincidentally always away when Alex was home from work nowadays.

It did strike Alex a bit odd that Jaune would be away so much from home for just learning how to make weapons but he guessed that Jaune's teacher was a bit of a slave driver. Although Alex still had yet to meet the man that was allowing his son to learn from him.

Alex had been too busy to ask for a meet up with the man. All Alex know about Jaune's teacher was the few words that his son had used to describe him which were either "Asshole" or "Old bastard".

Looking at his son now though.

Suspicion, as well as questions, started to set into his mind. Since when had Jaune been in such good shape and what was up with his hair being white as snow?

June had said in passing about something to him about Jaune's hair changing color, but he just assumed that she meant that his son had dyed his hair or something along those lines.

But only Jaune's bangs were different and the rest of his hair looked blonde like the usual Arc's hair color that they were known for. Also, if you were going to dye your hair why do in such a way that made look like you were going grey with age?

'What was going on?'

Alex was having a hard time getting a read on his son with the way too many things were screaming out at him. Jaune's build, his outfit, the hair and then there was the way with how Jaune was presenting himself.

Something was obviously not right here.

It seemed like his son was trying to give nothing away but at the same time, it was obvious that the young male Arc was uncomfortable as more and more attention was being drawn to him.

"Dad? You there?" He heard the voice of Olivia calling out him. Alex blinked realising that he had just been standing still staring at his son for some time now.

"What? Oh, err... yes, I'm fine, just spaced out there for a second." The head of the Arc family could hear some of the partygoers hiding their laughter from his flimsy and swift recovery.

"So, um... Jaune, son your back from you're err little trip huh... well umm how was your day?" Well, that could have most certainly had been executed better.

Confusion flashed across Jaune's face before it settled into a small frown. "It's been alright I suppose..." His son paused before continuing on "I only just got back and was about to take a shower."

Back? Where had his son gone to again Alex didn't know of?

"Where did you get back from anyway? I didn't know you were gonna be gone again when I got back a week ago." Alex inquired

"I told mom in a message I was going to be on another trip that had me leaving town for a while didn't she tell you?"

Yes, Alex's wife had told him that Jaune had again been out another trip but she had no details on what his son's trip entailed.

His eyes narrowed as he looked at his son and his outfit. Alex spoke once again slowly. "Yes, your mother did say you were out on a... trip but she couldn't say where your destination was because you never give one in your message."

Alex's blue orbs scanned Jaune from head to toe. "So that doesn't answer where you were... or explain why you are wearing a Huntsman attire."

Olivia suddenly spoke up again "That's what I was trying to find out about before you came over dad."

Before Jaune was able to open his mouth, a slightly drunk voice that Alex recognised as Port came barging in.

"Because the boy is a Huntsman Alex!" Port shouted to them as the man stumbled towards them somehow gathering even more attention.

Alex could only watch on as the Port came over and then preceded to throw his left arm around his son's shoulder pulling Jaune into a very awkward looking type of side hug. All the while for Jaune was attempting to discreetly escape the larger man's hold on him with little to no success.

"But he isn't-" He tried to explain that his son was in no way a Huntsman but Port decided to talk over Alex and kept on exclaiming while in his drunk state.

"I mean just look at the lad! Those muscles are that of a true adventuring warrior!" Port looked over at the fidgeting boy in his grip and used his right hand to feel Jaune's biceps. "What strong arms the kid has Alex! What is your weapon of choice lad? Is it a Sword, Spear, or are you an Axeman like myself hahaha!"

Jaune was looking at the laughing mustache man like he was crazy "Err...who are you?"

As Alex saw Port laughing and feeling up his son's biceps while possible traumatizing Jaune in the process he was really now regretting agreeing on serving alcohol to the adult party guests.

'That's the last time I listen to Qrow on how to make a good party entertaining' He told himself.

Suddenly coming back to reality Alex tensed up and interrupted the laughing professor. "Go home port, your drunk."

Now looking towards his son with an intense stare "Jaune... I need to know why you have that outfit on."

Looking right back at him, Jaune answered with a bit hesitation "My normal clothes got... damaged on the trip so... this was a gift from someone..."

"Oh, okay so they just gave something to wear while you went home and changed, that makes sense." Alex relaxed letting the tension leave him.

His son's gaze narrowed into slits at that and Alex could have sworn he saw an inferno light up in those sapphire eyes of Jaune's. "NO, the clothes were a gift, but they belong to me."

'What?' Now Alex was confused.

He was unable to continue his line of question because of smooth voice that Alex immediately recognised as Ozpin spoke up behind him.

"Say Alex I had no idea that your son too was training to become a Huntsman why not let him and Jeanne give us a demonstration of their skill?"

Ozpin the mysterious headmaster of Beacon academy the man who influenced all the academies and help build some. He had connections with the vale city council and with one of the highest-ranking general's in the Atlas military.

All in all, he was a man of great importance more than most people would ever know.

Only a very few selected people that Ozpin himself had trusted which had not been many knew that Ozpin himself had been around for a long time longer maybe anyone else alive on Remnant.

How long you ask? How many years has the man known as Ozpin lived through?

Hundreds of years?

A thousand?

Maybe even a millennium.

Truth be told even Ozpin himself didn't know how long it had been since the day he had been cursed to keep on living.

He couldn't even recall his own true origins.

Oh, there were bit and pieces but as the years went on it only kept growing increasingly harder for Ozpin to tell the difference between his original self and the countless other souls that he had been forced to merge with within every reincarnation he had taken.

The small things he could recall was that...

A being?

A god?

An entity or something of immense power had given him his abilities and cursed him at the same time. For what else could you call it where you had to spend an eternity of never dying and be forced to watch as everyone around you withered away. Ozpin could remember giving away huge portions of his power to four individuals that would later become the story of the four maidens known today. He also knew that he always had felt a strong urge to stop the Queen no matter what and secure mankind's survival.

But they were really the only things of significance that Ozpin can recall from his early life nothing more. He couldn't even recall his real name and had just settled on the title of Ozpin.

A person who would live throughout history in one form or another.

Anyway, with Ozpin being around for so long he had come to be able to almost analyse a person's capabilities as soon as he saw them. Almost like a sixth sense if you will.

He was saying this because when Alex had shouted out his son's name for all to hear Ozpin had looked to see what all the commotion was about. When Ozpin had got a good look at Jaune Arc it had sent so many alarm bells ringing off in his head that he unconsciously strained his grip on his coffee mug handle.

There many things thing that were not right about the young Jaune Arc.

His stance for instance while the boy did look nervous, his stance told Ozpin that Jaune was more than ready if something were to happen. It was like the boy expected to be attacked, almost like he always had his guard up not wanting to give away any weaknesses.

Ozpin could easily tell the boy was trained in combat, you don't get a build like that without strict training but he was having trouble actually pinpointing where Jaune fell when it comes down to skill and power.

All of this was making Ozpin's senses scream at him that Jaune was dangerous but there was one more thing that Ozpin was picking up from within the boy but he could not for the life of him make it out.

Maybe he really had grown weaker in all these years his senses had dulled but Ozpin knew he needed to find out what it was that had made Jaune Arc put him so on edge.

If he remembered right Jaune was the twin brother of Jeanne so he was only sixteen years old and he did not ever recall Alex speak of his son's training to become a Huntsman. Then why was the boy clearly dressed as one? There was also the fact he didn't have any sort of weapon on him, and all huntsman carried a weapon so where was it?

All of this was starting to pile up more questions in his head.

What were Jaune's capabilities?

What weapon did he specialize with?

What was it that had Ozpin feeling that there was something definitely off about Jaune Arc?

He needed to do something.

Make a scenario that would make Jaune show off what he was capable of and would satisfy his own curiosity about the young man.

The answer that Ozpin had quickly came up with was a simple one.

A fight.

It shouldn't be too hard to get one set up, this party was filled with people related in some way to Huntsman and Huntress so he could set it as a show of skill as well as entertainment for the guests. Now all that was needed was for a person to have Jaune fight against and the stage could be set.

Looking around, Ozpin was finding it hard to find a picking to use. His brown eyes saw Winter Schnee next to Gylnda.

No, he couldn't have the boy fight a fully fledge Huntress who was also a high-ranking officer in the Atlas military, if Ozpin even suggested such a thing everyone would think he was trying to have the boy meet his end by Winter's saber.

'Oh, if only she brought her younger sister to this event, Weiss and Jaune were the same age, that would have played out well to manipulate the two into a dual.' The headmaster wished that the younger Schnee could be here but than a more obvious solution hit him.

Looking around again Ozpin found the one who he was looking for.

Jeanne Arc had appeared just a few moments ago. The young girl was wearing a white shirt with a black skirt looking very angelic to those who saw her.

Ozpin had seen the girl's face brighten up significantly at seeing her brother before it went into confusion.

She was perfect since the two were both twins meaning that everyone would want to see which sibling was the better in a show of skill.

Especially with people not having a clue that Alex's son was training to become a Huntsman so of course, they would want to see what the son of the famous Alexander Arc could do. Ozpin could already see many people examining Jaune with curiosity.

Clearing his throat Ozpin spoke up. "Say, Alex, I had no idea that your son too was training to become a Huntsman, why not him and Jeanne give us a demonstration of their skill?"

The results were what Ozpin had anticipated with people from the crowd murmuring such things as "Hell yeah! I want to see two Arc's go at each other!"

"Yeah, I haven't seen two of Alex's kids fight since that time Arturia and Mordred destroyed that arena ages ago."

"I would also like to see what the only son of Alex is capable of."

The only thing Ozpin had not foreseen was how Jeanne would react to his announcement. The young girl's face morphed into one of horror at the idea of fighting her twin. Which Ozpin found odd why would she be scared of sparing with her brother for?

Alex had paled at the headmaster's proposal as his face was set in shock and suddenly exclaimed. "What hell are you talking about Ozpin!? They can't fight each other!"

"Oh, come on now Alex I just thought that this party would be a great chance to showcase some more up and coming promising prodigies of the Arc family." He smoothly replied back before taking a quick sip from his mug.

"Umm..." Everyone looked to see Jeanne standing near the crowd shyly looking away as she spoke timidly. "I don't really want to fight, I err mean... I just want to umm spend the day having fun and not sparing."

"Oh, come on now you two, there is no need to be shy! I mean in my youth me and my siblings were always sparing with each other! It helps build character-! What Glynda! What are you doing!? Ow! Stop pulling o- Ow! My moustach- OW! that hurts!" Port was unable to say anymore as the deputy of Beacon came out and started dragging the man away by his facial hair.

Jaune looked at everyone "I don't want to fight either I just got home and I want to-"

"Oh, come, kid, everyone wants to see what the son of Alex can do this is your chance to show off right here." Someone nearby voiced out making Jaune have a conflicted look about the prospect of a spar taking place, no less with his twin sister of all people.

Alex having enough of this turned to Ozpin "Look Oz, Jaune in no way, can fight Jeanne."

Of course, because of Alex now facing Ozpin, it meant that he had his back to his son so the man didn't get to witness Jaune gaining a harsh frown as he said that.

Unaware of all that, Alex continued speaking to Ozpin "Besides Jeanne said she didn't wish to fight either, so there is no one... suitable enough to spar with."

Alex was now looking relieved with coming up with that flimsy excuse, while Ozpin was hiding his disappointment.

"Oi if you lot are looking for someone to fight then I'll do it, I've been itching to let loose ever since this party started." The two men as well as everyone else to turned their gaze to find...

Mordred Arc walking over.

"Mordred..." Alex called out to his daughter very sternly and narrowed his eyes already not liking where this was going. "What are you doing?"

Mordred appeared to not notice how her father had spoken or she just did not care as she went and made her way to her brother's side.

Gazing off to the side at her father "I heard you lot speaking about spar and I was thinking that sounds like fun so I want in."

"Mordred both Jeanne and Jaune had both said that they both aren't interested in a dual so there is not going to be any spar okay?" Alex spoke slowly as if to get across that he really didn't want Mordred to push on the matter any further.

"I don't know..." Mordred tailed off before looking at Jaune who had not moved since this whole thing had started and gave him feral smirk. "What do you say, Little bro? You think you're up for a quick spar or do you just want to...do as father says and walk away?" She whispered the last part so only Jaune would hear it.

Everyone could clearly see Jaune had frown at whatever it was that Mordred had said to him. Alex was silently cursing to himself. Mordred always had a way of getting under someone's skin and getting them riled up enough to fight her.

With all eyes on Jaune, he growled out "Fine let's make this quick and get it over with."

Alex dropped his head in defeat knowing that it be very hard to stop the fight now without questions being asked so he was now going to have to watch his son possibly get humiliated. Maybe he could talk to Mordred before the spar into going easy on her brother since Mordred was known for being very brutal when it came to a fight.

Ozpin was glad that he was going to get a chance to view the young man's capabilities even if it was not the fight he was hoping for it shouldn't matter in the grand scheme of things.

And so, everyone made their way to view at the sidelines as the two combatants stood opposite of each other on the big field behind the Arc household.

Glynda had somehow ended up as the judge for the showdown that was about to commence between Alex's son and daughter. She would like to know why the hell Ozpin was having her referee on what was meant to be a day off for her.

'So much for enjoying myself at a nice party.'

"Are the two combatants ready?" Glynda asked

The Arc's nodded their heads not saying a single thing.

"Then begin!" She declared

Giving off a toothy smirk that showed off her sharp canines, Mordred shouted "Good luck little bro, I'll try to take it easy on ya!" Then Mordred's armor shifted around with different mechanisms going off and before anyone knew it Mordred's face was now behind a menacing looking helmet.

Jaune didn't say anything only stood still unmoving, blocking out the rest of the world.

Alex and Ozpin stood by with the rest of the party goers at safe distance away from the fight. Both of their attention was entirely focused on the young man.

One out of worry for his son's safety, the other to figure out the mystery surrounding him.

Everyone could see that Mordred had taken up a very lax stance with her great sword. Ozpin noted that he saw Jaune look at his sister's stance in confusion then that look went into a frown before finally setting on emotionless.

Now that was certainly wasn't a look you would see normally on a sixteen-year olds face. No, it was a look much more suited for a person who had been forced do some harsh things in life, not on a boy who spent his entire life in the safety of a well-protected town.

It almost reminded Ozpin of when he had first met the Branwen twins.

Things just kept getting stranger when it came to Alex's son and it wasn't about to stop anytime soon, oh no everyone was in for an interesting ride.

It started off when Ozpin could almost feel something he didn't know what, build up from within the boy like a door had opened up allowing what it contained to slowly seep out and build up exponentially within him.

The headmaster immediately attempted to peer into the build-up coming from within Jaune.

But then...

Jaune's lips moved silently

"…"

Then the boy moved

BOOM!

Ozpin like many were left stunned as a loud bang ringed out hurting their ears. Anyone looking where Jaune had once been could only find nothing but an upturned dust cloud.

'What!'

Everyone snapped their heads across to the other side of the field just in time to see Jaune in front of his sister as said girl was clearly caught off guard from the speed by how desperately Mordred attempted to put up a flimsy defense up in time.

Fast!

That was the simplest word to describe Jaune just now.

The boy had accelerated himself forward at such a distance in such little time that it would put some speed semblances to shame. To nearly everyone, it was like Jaune had teleported with a loud bang and to a few other he was little more than a blur when he moved.

And now he was right in front of his sister going in to strike with a war hammer.

CLANG

'Wait what? Where did he get that weapon from?' Ozpin searched as to where Jaune could have pulled the war hammer out from, but he came up empty-handed. There didn't seem to be anywhere for the young man to conceal such a big weapon.

So how was it that he had a huge mighty hammer in the first place?

Mordred's slow reaction time coupled with the basic stance at the start had cost her dearly.

Taking a heavy blow from the blunt weapon to her left shoulder, the attack had been so powerful that it pushed her back several feet only stopping by digging her boots in the dirt.

The crowd could only behold the damage done by that single attack, and it had left a large ugly dent on the once flawless shiny armored plates.

While Mordred and everyone else was still taking in what had just happened, It would seem that Jaune had no intention of stopping there as he used his superior speed again to get behind his sister and...

CLANG

Delivering another successful hit to her back, sending Mordred tumbling forward only managing to prevent herself from falling over by stabbing the ground with her great sword holding onto for dear life.

It didn't take a genius to work out that Mordred must not have been pleased with her brother getting the first hit on her, it was well known about how prideful the third daughter of Alex could be. That theory was proved even further by the girl tightly gripping her sword and the animalistic growl she gave off scaring even few in the audience.

Mordred then threw herself in a reckless charge at her brother fuelled by anger.

CLANG THUNK CLANG

The crowd watched on the two danced around each other at insane speeds with spark flying left and right when their weapons clashed for dominance.

'It's looking like the fight was much more difficult than Mordred had expected' Ozpin deduced as two siblings fought on. Mordred was being pushed on to the defensive unable to keep up with the speed that Jaune could travel at and the only saving grace was her very heavy plated armor that kept absorbing most of the blows but the blunt damage from the hammer was denting and creaking away at the suit of heavy protected metal.

Things started picking up steam when everyone saw Mordred fight back with a successful block of an overhead swing from the hammer with her left arm guard. She then went to capitalise on the opening just made and thrust her sword at Jaune's exposed chest.

No one in the crowd was expecting Jaune to abandon his weapon just to evade the attack, surely that would put him at a disadvantage.

Then something happened that surprised Ozpin, stunned Alex, and mesmerized everyone else.

Blue energy erupted from Jaune's palms

It weaved and molded around and between his fingers before it soon formed into a jet black engraved Yari spear.

The young male Arc quickly did a fast piercing attack on the side of the armor near a joint that had been damaged from one his early strikes from the hammer. Many people's eyes widened in disbelief when they witnessed the straight-headed spear carve right through the reinforced steel with little to no resistance.

Ozpin too was in shock and disbelief but for a much different reason than the rest of them.

They all watched on as they saw an incredible battle go on with both fighters switching between offensive and defensive. Jaune throughout the fight had kept pulling out different weapons on the fly be it swords, spears, axes, halberds you name it the young Arc had shown off some skill with all of them.

They all came and disappeared the same way with a new weapon materialising in his hands while the forgotten ones dissolved into blue particles. Almost everyone watching was getting excited to see what other weapons the son of Alexander Arc would pull out next so far, the boy had shown himself to use a variety of different weapons and techniques some more better than others. But it was still impressive to them since it must have taken the kid a lot of time to learn how to utilise so many.

People could see Jaune making another weapon this time it looked to be two of them in each hand and so they all waited to see what it was this time. When the quick process of making the weapons was done all their eyes could do was be hypnotised by the two swords.

The swords that Jaune had made in his appeared in his hands right now were in everyone's opinion beautiful.

One was black that seemed to almost absorb any light that hit it with a red hexagon pattern while the other was white that resembled pureness with a shine to it when the light bounced off it both blades were like a mirror image of one another.

After watching the entire display at hand so far Ozpin was frozen still. His eyes were lost, looking out at the fight and jaw dropped down to the ground.

It was so bad his grip on his cup had gone and...

SMASH!

His favorite coffee mug fell to ground shattering into dozens of pieces and spilling the contents all over the place.

But he didn't have any time to dwell on that as one thing was going off in his head.

'Magic.'

Ozpin could not believe what he was seeing or how it was even possible, but Jaune Arc was somehow wielding some form of magic. It was a different type to the kind he was familiar with but Ozpin only knew the finer detail about the magic he had given out to the maidens or the Branwen twins.

From what the little Ozpin could sense was that he believed that there was something within Jaune that was allowing the young man to have access to this magic but that was the only speculation because of Ozpin giving his powers away, it left him much weaker as the years went on, so more research would be needed to truly know what was going on with Alex's son.

But now another question was on how in the world had Jaune gotten his hands-on this magic in the first place, it wasn't something people could easily come across or else dozens of people would have it right?

Had Jaune happened to have stumbled upon some kind of old magical artifact from legends?

Was it a possibility that the Arc family was related to some kind of old fairy tale like the Silver eyed warriors?

Was all this some ploy by the Queen in their little game?

Or was all this the effects of some outside force that Ozpin had no knowledge on?

So many questions that kept on piling up around him with none of them getting resolved but a thing that was now nagging at Ozpin's conscience was Alex.

Looking over to the father of eight he found that Alex was not having a good time.

The man was stood still like he was in as much shock as Ozpin had been or maybe even more.

But... could Alex be faking that surprise had the man been keeping his Son's magic a secret from him?

It would make sense to Ozpin and explain why he had not ever heard anything about Jaune, Alex's only son before any of this from all their time together.

Had Alex been keeping things from him to protect his family?

It would have been something to investigated later on but one thing was for sure, this simple party where Ozpin originally plan on attending was just for trying to secure Jeanne coming to Beacon next year had become very much more complicated.

This whole fight had not been what Mordred had envisioned it would be.

Not. at. all.

When she had first seen the huge crowd gathering around at the party the last thing Mordred had been expecting through it would be her bratty little brother at the center of it.

Seeing her brother always brought a bad taste in Mordred's mouth like she tasted something sour. It was no secret that She and Jaune never really got along when they were younger. Mordred never saw why Jaune wanted to be so much like their dad, with all that crap about what was best for the family name and the Arc legacy or any of that shit.

Mordred followed what she thought was right and best for herself not caring about if it upset her father or anyone else.

It was her life damn it! So, their father should not be making all her life choices on her behalf. Of course, with her fighting back on what Mordred would say was Alex being too controlling with his children had put her at odds with some people in the family, like obviously her father, her older sister, and some time ago Jaune.

When her little brother was still attempting to become a Huntsman like their father, the two siblings didn't get on well together with Jaune hating the fact that Mordred didn't care about family traditions and all that. While all Mordred could see was another version of her father in the making, always caring about tradition this and ancestor that. It made her sick to see Jaune acting like some type of drone doing whatever it was he told because it was for the best of the family and that became no truer the day when their father had told them that he would not be training Jaune anymore because the man deemed that her brother just didn't have what it takes.

And what did her brother do about that you ask?

Nothing!

He just sat there and accepted it! Jaune didn't try and fight back against it or anything just went along with whatever he believed their dad assumed was for the best. Sure, Jaune had been sad for a few weeks hold up in his room but after that, he acted like nothing was wrong and went on with life.

Mordred had lost what little respect she had for Jaune that day and it added more fuel to the fire that was disdain for the man she called father.

From then on Mordred paid little attention to her brother with her going off to Shade and him giving up on his dream choosing to be a blacksmith or something like that.

That was how it had been for years now with nothing really changing until today that is when Mordred saw her little brother in a what looked to a combat outfit.

She too had been shocked about his appearance only she had done a much better job at hiding it. Her older sister and Jackass of a father had just stood there looking at Jaune like he was some sort of alien.

Mordred had quietly watched on from afar as her father awkwardly tried to coax information out his son.

It had been so bad to see that Mordred had been tempted to just go out there and demand what the hell was going with her brother just get it all out of the way.

'It would be much better than all that tiptoeing around bullshit anyway.' was what she had told herself at the time but before she could do anything, that Ozpin dude her father was mates with spoke up.

Now Mordred didn't much care for the old headmaster being that he seemed to always speak like he knew more about a subject than he let on like some kind of smug prick. Plus, the man was friends with her dad and even went to the guy's school when her dad was younger which was all the more reason Mordred didn't like the guy and why she hadn't pick Beacon for her education.

But she would give the old man some props for getting a spar set up though. Mordred could tell that there was something going on with Jaune with how he stood and looked with those muscles she had maybe thought that her complacent little brother had not such been the pushover after all.

Maybe finally Jaune had pushed back and had been up to something behind everyone's backs.

Hey, she might not be the most intelligent person out there in the Arc family but Mordred would like to think she was somewhat perceptive enough to tell when something was staring her in the face.

So, with the headmaster proposing a fight she took her chance.

Getting her on brother temper was child's play just like for any other older sibling who wanted to piss off their little brothers and sisters. The plan had worked, Jaune had agreed and then she would have found out if her suspicions were right.

Much faster than sitting around and talking about it. Plus, hey if Mordred got a bit of chance to show off her skill to other hunters at the same time that was a win also.

But of course, things had not gone as expected.

Not. At. All.

Apparently, Mordred's suspicions were correct, there was something Jaune was hiding which was surprisingly the fact that her brother could fight and not just well but was able to keep a prodigy like herself at bay.

With Jaune's insane speed and somehow being able to make weapons out of nothing. Mordred had been so shocked under her helmet that it had already been too late to stop anything.

Jaune had hit her first which in turn had may have set off her short temper from being so easily trounced at the start.

So, the two had fought on but it soon became clear that Mordred was having issues against her brother and how he was fighting.

The constantly changing of different styles must have really started put a strain on her because it pushed Mordred to unleash her semblance as red lighting now began to course through her blade and armor. Her slashes now released waves of red lighting at Jaune making him have to dodge them which was not hard with his speed.

Mordred's semblance allowed her to produce destructive red lighting that was able to pass through her sword for extra attack, and the armor she wore to help prevent anyone from getting too close to her. The greatsword Mordred wielded was one she had custom made to be able to store in the electrical energy her semblance produced and to be released in arcs of lighting at her foes.

-Back to the fight-

The two combatants had dashed moving like a blur at each other.

When they got within striking range Mordred unleashed wild and frantic slashes while Jaune blocked and countered the lot of them.

Mordred's strikes were seemingly slightly stronger and more unpredictable like a wild animal, making her a very dangerous opponent to face off against. Although it would seem that Jaune was not having much if any trouble keeping up with his speed and razor-sharp reaction time being more than enough to hold his sister's blows at bay.

The two Arc ceased trading blows and ended it with their blades locked together. Jaune was pushing back with his two twin swords crossed in an X formation as Mordred's monstrous great sword was pushing down between them.

The siblings show to be at an impasse with neither one of the two being able to break through the lock meaning Mordred had to get creative.

Channelling her semblance crimson lighting sparked across her armor and with the two of them being so close it meant that Jaune got a tasted of what the red sparks can do.

The lightning jumped from the armor and zapped Jaune making the boy lose concentration on the sword lock giving Mordred to chance to push in with a downward slash.

SLASH

With a surprising show of response time, Jaune narrowly avoided the blade by rolling away and to stop Mordred from pursuing him threw the black sword from his left hand.

The blade spin in the air flying straight at Mordred's concealed head. She made to move out of the way but it was still too slow as the sword shot through the air tearing off the right horn of the helmet.

Mordred snarled.

She retaliated by firing a small blast of crimson energy from the tip of her sword pointed at Jaune.

No one saw Mordred's green eyes widen behind her helmet when a sword shot out from above her brother's head and collided with her energy blast creating a small explosion between them.

BOOM

'What the heck!? Since when can Jaune do any of this!'

Any further thinking was halted when her instincts screamed and felt the urge to move.

But she was too late when blades came flying at her.

CLANG CLANG CLANG

Her sword swung wildly attempting to block the projectiles but while partly successful more than a few of them made it past her guard and collided with her armor staggering her back.

Mordred glared daggers at Jaune beneath her helmet as she saw more of those swords materialize up in the air before they too shot off with insane speed right at her.

Thinking fast on her feet she charged up lighting in into her weapon and fired off a large wave of a crimson with the intent of destroying all of them before they got close to her.

Imagine Mordred's absolute bewilderment when the swords moved and weaved right around the attack before they continued back on course right at her.

With the blades coming right at her Mordred moved to evade sprinting off to side in an attempt of escaping but that turned out to be a fruitless endeavour as the swords bended on their flight path following Mordred wherever she went.

They very soon caught up with her and the swords that impacted exploded.

BOOM... BOOM... BOOM...BOOM

'Okay, now that's just taking the fucking piss!' This was getting ridiculous for Mordred now. First, her brother could somehow keep up with her.

A prodigy from Shade academy.

Then he had some semblance of making weapons out of thin air while on the fly it, was mind-boggling.

And now Jaune could use FLYING FREAKING SWORDS that would seek her out like some kind of lock missile!?

What was next a gun!? Or a gun that can fire swords!?

When had Jaune even unlocked his aura anyway? It wasn't their dad, so did Jaune do all of this on his own? Had he been keeping this secret from everyone for years and if so why?

This all too much for Mordred to be thinking of while in the middle of a fight but it did raise an important question.

What the hell had her little brother been up all these years while she was away at Shade?

Suddenly Jaune moved again coming up on her once more but this time Mordred had her own little surprise for him.

With him still a few feet away Mordred charged her blade quickly before she discharged it behind her making her blast forward with a burst.

Jaune was clearly taken back her acceleration within to his space and had to block a swing from her and dig his feet into the ground stay put.

Pulling back Mordred went to repeat her strike but was surprised when iron chains erupted all around Jaune. The chain wrapped around her restraining her limbs halting Mordred from moving and Jaune capitalised on this as he moved back and then outstretched his arm.

There in front of her brother appeared in a flash lest then a second was the largest sword she had ever seen. It was so big that could not of possibly be used by anyone efficiently but it seemed that Jaune didn't need to as the giant sword was fired right at her.

While it was not moving anywhere nears as fast as the small swords earlier it still wouldn't matter much with Mordred unable to move as the chains were still holding her down.

Time seemed to slow down for her as Mordred fought tooth and nail attempting to break free from the chains.

The sword was getting closer and Mordred's aura enhanced strength was waning down the chains as she could feel her sword arm loosen from their hold and at the same time hear her own heartbeat in her chest.

BA-DUM

A few more feet and the sword would hit her.

BA-DUM

The chain on her right arm creaked showing it was nearly free.

BA-DUM

"Argh!" Mordred roared at top of her lungs as she gave one last pull to free her right arm and not a moment too soon as she hastily blocked the huge lump of metal that was the sword flying at her.

CLANG

Sparks roared to life as the two blades scraped against one another making an unpleasant metallic screeching resonate from it hurting anyone's ears that listened to it. But Mordred would endure the horrible sound because she had by some miracle and luck had hit the opposing sword at an angle pushing it to the left only just brushing her armor missing her.

THUNK

The sound of the huge sword smacking into the ground behind her reached Mordred's ears and she breathed a sigh of relief trying to calm her beating heart. Looking up she saw that her brother Jaune was just standing there looking at her in what she guessed might have been shocked and slightly at awe with the feat that she had just pulled off.

It made Mordred want to smile, this little fight had pushed her more than the last couple of months at Shade academy combined.

Of course, both of them quickly remembered that this was still a spar so Mordred acted first and with the only free limb at the time being her sword arm she slashed at him sending another large arc of lighting at him while she attempted to yank herself free from the rest of the chains.

Seeing the wave of energy coming at him Jaune tensed his legs and jump forward not just over the lighting but over Mordred as well. Many widened their eyes at the show of acrobatic maneuvers in the air as Jaune landed graciously on top of the handle of the huge sword planted in the ground that he fired at his sister a few seconds ago.

Mordred spun around as well as one could when still partially restricted by chains. Jaune had landed crouched down low on the handle of the sword with his white fringe shadowing his eyes making impossible to see them.

He slowly began to stand up while still balancing on the small handle.

Being on top of the far away sword had given Jaune more elevation making him look down on Mordred and coupled with his red cape slowly waving around because of the wind had given the young Arc boy a sort of menacing look.

Mordred looked on as Jaune slowly held out his left and made a... Bow?

Why would Jaune need a bow for he clearly didn't need one with already having flying swords at his disposal for ranged attacks but whatever it was for Mordred very much doubted it spelled out good news for her.

Mordred froze solid when she saw something take shape in Jaune's other hand.

She could only make out bits what it was and that appeared to be a sort of lance. It looked like a light grey lance wrapped in something that had beautiful light to it but before Mordred could admire the weapon any longer Jaune had already loaded it into the bow.

She watched on as the lance was twisted and coiled into a spiral of an arrow and then Jaune pulled the string back.

'RUN! FLEE! GET AWAY!'

Dozens of instincts were now screaming at Mordred to doge, block, run or just do anything but when she went to move she had completely forgotten.

The chains were still holding her in place.

Her eyes widened.

Mordred was stuck, trapped, nowhere to go and all she could now do was stay and witness as Jaune muttered something taking aim and then...

Released the string.

The lance? arrow thing upon release transformed into some kind of white-yellow energy bolt. Mordred stood rooted as the bolt traveled at immense speed twisting the air around it tearing everything up in its path as it continued on towards her.

All she could do was grit her teeth and close her eyes and brace for the impacted.

BOOM!

As the bolt hit its intended target it created a massive explosion so powerful that everyone nearby felt the ground shake from the blast. Many people had shield their heads as chunks of dirt rain down on them caused by the explosion. The crowd's vision of the two siblings was completely gone as large dust cloud covered the field.

"Huff... Huff...Huff..."

Concealed within the cloud Mordred was heavily breathing trying to get as much oxygen into lungs as humanly possible. That last attack had really done her in. It was only because of Mordred's heavy armor and the large pools of aura that the Arcs were known for, that had kept her from losing just now.

Speaking about her armor it was completely trashed as it taken the full brunt of the attack. Now Mordred's helmet was gone showing her face off to the world which was at this point in time looking very exhausted with sweat rolling down it and her hair being a mess all over the place. The chest plate was shattered into tiny pieces of metal lying at her feet and what was left of her armor was creaked or damaged so much that it would do little to protect her now.

Leaning on her sword to keep herself upright Mordred was on her last legs. She didn't know how he did it but Jaune had somehow completely outclassed her.

He was faster than her!

Stronger than her!

Maybe even more powerful than her!

The only real thing that had kept Mordred in the fight for so long was her armor, without it she would have been overwhelmed from the very start. She was going to lose and it hurt her pride as a warrior that her brother who had never even completed their father's training had somehow beaten her, Mordred Arc!

The girl who was at the top the class at fighting, the girl who secured second place at the Vytal festival, all on her own for Shade and she was the prodigy that graduated at nineteen, a whole year earlier than the others.

So how?

How was it that she was going to lose after everything she had achieved?

No!

Mordred won't lose now she refused to give in!

She was going to keep on fighting kicking and screaming she won't just back down!

Pulling herself up Mordred held out her sword in front of her with the blade pointed to the sky. Red lighting busted to life as it traveled up her arms to the sword. Mordred was pumping the largest amount of her semblance into the sword she had ever done before now.

The sides opened up to allow the full amount of power to go into the blade.

A burst of crimson energy poured out of the sword flowing like some had turned on a tap up to the max. A crimson spire shot out upwards making the blade appeared to have doubled maybe even tripled in length and in the process had caused all the dust to clear away.

The dust now gone Mordred could again see Jaune and paused at what was before her. While Mordred had been powering up an attack her brother had not been idle.

Jaune had taken the time make seemingly hundreds of swords, spears, axes and even those troublesome chains.

All ready and aimed towards Mordred.

She blinked fighting back a flinch as Jaune raised his hand and the floating weapons began almost to tremble readying to be fired.

Despite the opposing attack Mordred couldn't help feel a small grin etch its way onto her lips. She lifted her sword up preparing to release her ultimate attack as the anticipation of the blades seemed to grow begging to be unleashed.

"STOP!" A female voice screamed at them.

But before either of them to make the first move however they were interrupted.

The two Arc slowly turned their heads to the left to see their mother June running over from the house and she did not look happy.

"What are you two doing!? Look at what you've done!" She yelled with such fire that it made even Mordred shiver slightly.

Jaune and Mordred both looked around to see that the once nice and peaceful backyard of the Arc household was for lack of a better word ruined.

The grass and soil were up upturned from both Mordred's energy blasts and Jaune's swords that had impacted the ground ruining some of the nice flowers that were planted. There also was the small crater from the arrow Jaune fired early with the one or two bits of grass on fire.

Oops.

Jaune and Mordred both at the same time cease their attacks Mordred's red lighting dispersed and Jaune's hovering weapons dissolved both of them not wanting to piss off their mother any further.

You were signing your own death warrant if you did that.

Looking over at her brother Mordred could now see that Jaune didn't seem fazed too much by what had been for her an intense battle. His clothes were a bit dirty from the fighting and he was sweating, but other than his hair standing up from one or two shocks from her lighting Jaune was fine.

Whereas Mordred was drenched in sweat, exhausted and her armor laid in complete ruins. It should have been impossible, but Jaune had outdone her in the fight and still looking at her brother as he walked off to the house ignoring everyone.

Watching on with a sad frown on her face, she spoke softly mainly to herself. "Jaune... what the hell happened to you, little bro?"

Alex, who had just watched the fight, was having a hard time coming to terms with what he had witnessed and wasn't the only one, as his daughters were as well who had watched the fight. Their eyes wide like a fish with their mouths slightly parted as all trying to recover and get a hold of themselves.

Apparently, Jaune could fight and he was not just good, but was strong enough to keep up with or possibly outclass Mordred who was in no way a pushover in any sense or form of the word.

It was almost scary to see the most aggressive fighter in the family get overwhelmed so one-sidedly like that.

It was unreal.

It had to be some kind of joke pulled on him orchestrated by his friends or kids as a good harmless prank.

Alex was having to accept the reality of what he had just seen.

His son was powerful...but not just that, Jaune had gotten his aura unlocked and found his semblance.

'When?' Was the question that kept replaying over in Alex's mind.

When had his son learned how fight?

When had his son learned how to use aura and find out his semblance?

When had Jaune gone against his wishes and why had Jaune not said anything!?

When did Jaune even have the time to do any of this? Had Alex been so busy that he had not noticed that his own son had changed this much or... had he noticed but he had just chosen to ignore it, pushing it the side not wanting to acknowledge what had been going on right in front of him.

There were too many questions to sort out and Alex had no time to process any of this because right now he was being stared down by his furious wife.

She wanted to know what the heck was had happened and what was going on

The head of the Arc family was not going to go anywhere until his wife got an explanation and it better be a good one too or Alex would suffer the consequences.

Cursing his luck Alex had a feeling that June would end up having him sleeping on the couch tonight. Of course, while trying to calm his wife down, it didn't halt the dread filling up in his chest about what had just gone down.

Alex needed answers fast, the only problem was what if he didn't like what he found and ended up wishing that he had just remained ignorant on the matter.

Earlier at Shirou's house

"Man, who would have thought that packing up boxes took this long." The white-haired Archer sighed to himself closing up another box and carrying it over to the others. Looking around he saw that he still had much more stuff to pack up before he would be ready to leave. It had been a few hours now since Jaune had left to his house and Shirou had been stuck bored out of his mind just moving around boxes.

Oh, why was fate such a cruel mistress to him?

The man did wonder what his apprentice was up to at the moment probably in his room packing things that Shirou would say weren't needed where they were going, but whatever, let the kid do what he wants. He was only gonna be at his home for a few hours before he left and then he and the kid would be off simple as that.

It will be fine.

'I mean it's not like the kid was going to blow something up in that time, right?' Shirou chuckled to himself at the thought of it.

BOOM!

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...

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"Spoke too soon..."

A loud bang reached Shirou's ears coming from the other side of town.

Quickly looking out the nearby window Shirou could already guesses who was responsible. Who else did he know that couldn't be left alone without messing up?

Still looking where, the sound of the explosion came from Shirou tiredly sighed out "God damn it, kid. You had one job, ONE JOB!"

What a troublesome student he had, always causing him problems all the time.

Still though...

Shirou could feel a big grin breaking out on his face. 'Then again clearly, the kid had learned from the best.'

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End

There done! I hope that it was okay, you guys don't know how close I was to just giving up on this story and not uploading this chapter since I don't know if i have what it takes for writing. I don't really think that this chapter was as good as the last one which I found kept playing on my mind. Please tell me if it was okay and if you would like to see more of it.

Again, I tried to show off different people's POV on things in this chapter but I didn't know how much I would really miss writing things from Jaune POV or him and Shirou just having some banter. Don't worry if I keep going it's gonna be back on Jaune next chapter and his family trying to get some answers.

Thanks to lord Rikudou for helping with this story as always.

A Waring that I need to let you all know is that if I keep on going with this story the next up date could be a short world building chapter not connected with what's going on right now. I feel I should warn you guys since I am not fan of when I get notification on a story i enjoy just to find out that the new update was not the continuation of the story it's so frustrating. So be cautious if you see another update to this.

Bit to explain in this chapter:

The bit about early graduations seems fine to me since Ruby had the same thing happen to her because of the skill she showed marking her as a prodigy as well. Also, by having prodigies move up in years it kind of explains why no one really makes a big deal that 15-year-old was at Beacon. Plus, it helps me with what I have planned for some of Jaune's sisters like Mordred if I don't have her in a school any more.

Jaune's family

Alright so right now I'll try and talk about the family members I have shown off so far. With Alex, I'm trying to show him to be on the one side sort of a caring person who wants his family to be safe and happy but struggles to do that with him being very narrow mind with tradition and wanting things to go his way. He knows that his job has also caused issues in the family which he hates to do such not being there with them as much as he wants. All this has put at odds with Mordred mostly when it comes to how he thinks she should do things and how Mordred wants to do it. I don't know if I can do a good job with Alex but I think it's better than just writing him straight off as some horrible father that does not care and just demonise him.

I kind of also wanted to show with this that the family has other things going on beyond what's going on with Jaune. I feel like in some stories where the Main character is distant or neglected by their kin is that the family is usually shown off to some kind perfect happy family where nothing is wrong in life until they finally are aware of how they have treated the MC and everything then falls apart. I don't know I always have a hard time buying that with the whole perfect family thing since it just feels too...unbelievable that everyone can just get along so well with no conflict until eventually, they remember the MC. Anyway, I found it more believable that would be more going on in the family outside Jaune like how Alex is away a lot on long missions put some strain on June who is a mother of 8 taking care of them and Alex locking horns with one of his daughters.

With Mordred, I tried to link in the bit about what I wrote in chapter 1 with Jaune and Mordred not getting along too much when they were young as well as giving us a bit of her view on how she saw things when it comes to her brother and family.

The fight

I wrote it a bit differently than how I approached the Raven fight but I don't think it was anywhere near as good as the one from the last chapter maybe because the circumstances were very different with this being a spar and the other was life and death. Anyway, with this one, I tried to boast a bit about what Jaune can do when came to his powers.

If any of you are wondering why Jaune seemed almost just jump right into the fight with Mordred it's kind because of what I have said in the other chapters which I'll say in a min. (That and I just need there to fight so have a conflict at the party.)

If you guy remember I have been trying to hint and say that Jaune has an issue of unconsciously wanting to prove himself because of how he couldn't prove he had what it took to be an Arc to his dad all those years ago. So, with Jaune seeing no way of getting out of the party with so many eyes on him, Jaune in a way decide to use this moment to finally prove himself in a way that he does have what it takes. Plus, the Mordred getting under his skin part didn't help he is only 16 remember and while Jaune can be considered more mature because of his time with Shirou it's still a bit different when it comes to his family.

I also had Jaune finally use a bow since I did mention that he practiced with one in chapter 2 while learning under Shirou. If you're thinking why didn't Jaune use it in the fight against Raven it's simple. She had a way to close the gap too fast for Jaune to take his time to aim it for a clear shot. (Plus, it also gave me something new have in this fight then throw everything in the last chapter.)

One thing to make clear was Jaune was holding back in the spar considering what some of those attacks did to Raven it's fair to say that Mordred would have been annihilated if he went in with the mindset he had when fighting Raven. Since he has the long-range advantage on Mordred and Jaune is not trying to kill his own sister.

Jaune saw that Mordred was not taking a fight with him seriously at the start so he did the same but I also don't want to just have Mordred get wiped out since that would be boring and would feel like an insult to her since like I stated before that Jaune's sisters are prodigies so having them get taken out like chumps would go against that.

Mordred did catch Jaune by surprise at times since he had never fought her before. (Plus, I like Mordred I couldn't have her be taken out like a little bitch.)

I hope that cleared some things up about this chapter but if not, you can try and PM me on other stuff.

I saw a review from Existential ERROR saying I should do Jaune's experience with Ozpin different from what happened at Fate Stay Arc and I do agree since I didn't like how that scene went down in that story but I'm not sure on what route I could take. I would like to hear from you guys since it might help me figure out what I want to do if the two of them have a confrontation. No guarantee I will go with them but I would appreciate the ideas.

Now I'll speak about the pairings since that seemed to be the most talk about thing in the reviews that kept popping up.

I knew as soon as I mentioned parings last chapter that I had opened the floodgates to every single ship out there. People were saying go with Scathach while others said Raven and some people said to go with both. Then I got swarmed with tons of suggestions seeing the seemingly favored Arkos and Lancaster out there a lot with the odd Yang and Blake here and there. Only one person asked for Weiss though as well as one person asking for Winter I don't know who was going to get suggested next?

Anyway, like I said last chapter I don't know what I'm going to do since I don't know if I can pull off a pairing so I'm gonna keep on going with the story for now and see what I want to do. I guess if you guys went you can keep up with the suggestions as long as your civil about it but if I go with a pairing don't think I'm not just gonna go with the most popular suggestion out there though but whatever you welcome to try and convince me I suppose. Be warned that you gonna have an uphill battle on your hands if your dead set on Arkos or Lancaster since I'm not a big fan of those two and I feel like that there are so many of them out there already anyway.

This is to all FGO players

I hope the Gatcha gods have been kind to you for this summing banner since the edgy goth Queen herself has arrived.

Jalter!

You guys... I wasn't ready for this banner I felt like it came out of nowhere! I was hoping that it would come out near the end of the month. I had been saving up for this for ages and had just over 360 quartz and 2 tickets for it.

That's 12 ten rolls!

The first day I roll once and get some of the event craft essences then I use a ticket that went rainbow on me and I got...

Helena Blavatsky, I got spooked -_-

I wait until tomorrow to try again in the morning. I roll to get my first copy of kaleidoscope and I roll again this time getting bloody Nightingale! (I didn't even know she wasn't limited) I keep on going for a while and get nothing until I got spooked by my second Emyia and my first chevalier.

I use my last ticket and get my second Carmilla. -_-

On my seventh roll now and I got my first copy of Fragments of 2030 and my first Frankenstein but still no Jeanne alter. I get desperate and burn my 4-star Stheno as a sacrifice to hopefully summon Jalter. My 8th and 9th Roll I get nothing and my phone is lagging cuz it sucks at running FGO on it.

10th roll I go and at the end I finally see a gold avenger card show up displaying Jeanne d'Arc alter! ….. and then my phone crashed while still on the roll.

I was freaking out pissed off that my shit phone may have fucked up my chance of getting her. Thankfully when I load it back up there she was in my servant's archives thank god! Jeanne alter ate up all the exp cards I had saved up to just get to her to max ascension and I now have someone to use my grails on so right now I have her at level 98.

So, I managed to somehow get her which is great since I only had two rolls left. I was thinking about maybe going for NP2 but screw that I rather save up for the next big servant I want even if I don't know who that is yet. I could wait for Minamoto no Yorimitsu or the summer servants but who knows. I really want to get my own Scathach since she my favourite that I'm even willing to spend like £20 (I'm not a whale.) which would be my first time buying anything from a mobile game but I don't think it will go well cuz for some reason lancers don't like me when comes to rolling :(

Anyway, good luck with the event and with rolling for Jalter if you still are. I wish you all the best see ya!