(A/N: The narrator is a character in the story, not me.
In response to reviews from chapter 4:
Dark Durian: Okay I'm answer all three in one go. First off I'm confused why you think the narrator is unbeatable. I wouldn't make him the main antagonist if Jaune couldn't beat him. Secondly I'm pretty sure I mentioned Jaune was traveling to Vale at some point. And finally I glad you think the narrator's a dick that's how I wanted him to come across.
I eat ass thrice a month: Thanks for the advice on formatting, you've been pretty useful so far so thanks for that. I've been trying to find someone to pre-read the chapters but it ain't been going so well.
Narrator POV
Sigh* The Beowulf keeps trying to ask questions, constantly. I swear, it's been about four days and I already want to strangle it.
I even sent it outside and it just clambered back in, but it's necessary for my plans. You know I'm not gonna sit around right? Well right now I have to, but soon I'll send him out. Soon.
Well what to do while I wait? Kill time by watching Jaune stumble through a forest? Why the hell not?
Time to fight: 1y/356d/17h/42m
A RWBY Fanfiction: Singleplayer
Chapter 5: Jaune literally walks about 1 mile
To Jaune, he seemed to be dreaming. Why did he think that? Well that's because his luck had actually done something good for once. He had fallen asleep in the middle of a forest and somehow not got eaten.
The boy patted himself down checking he still had everything. Arms, check, Legs, check, Sword... not check.
'Well' the Arc thought 'I'm screwed. Even with my new STR and VIT I won't last a day out here without a weapon. I was almost having a good day for once" The blonde groaned as he clambered to his feet, trying to decide what he could possibly do. With his new INT skill it didn't take long at all.
'Right, I should make finding a town my top priority. Getting to Vale will take to long' Jaune thought as he began to run ,at top speed, through the woods. He ran past the trees with almost relative ease, having to occasionally dodge one of them or leap over a rock. He even was able to parkour a bit using tree trunks to jump off. This continued for several minutes until the boy suddenly emerged from the trees and almost fell right off a cliff.
Panic gripped before calm from gamers mind washed over him and he slid into the ground. He stopped just in time, all thanks to his new leg strength. But for Jaune, the view was far worth the nearly embarrassing death.
A sea of green stretched almost to the horizon only to seep into a fresh red colour. Forever Fall. The slight wind made the trees sway with almost a calming rocking feeling. It was a rare sight this, Remnant was never really calm but well at least it was exciting. 'Yep, and dangerous' Jaune added as he caught sight of something in the far distance. White smoke.
It fit the scene exactly ,why? Because it wasn't the type of smoke from fire or Grimm, that smoke only came from houses. That meant people and a place to get a new weapon! Only problem? Jaune was standing on top of a cliff, far above the ground below. 'Well there goes all my plans, it's not like I can climb down' Jaune mentally sighed to himself.
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About five minutes later Jaune was hanging off the side of a very tall cliff, his hands his only hold. Well, what did you expect? As he attempted to climb further down he realised that this would have been a lot easier with some type of sword to stick in the cliff face. Monty, damn it all.
So, right now Jaune was trying to guess if he could make it into the small body of water about thirty meters away from him with a good jump. "Why didn't I just look down before climbing down a cliff face?" Jaune muttered to himself, well he couldn't climb back up now. As he tried to get into a good jumping position, a single thought crossed his mind 'I've got a bad feeling about this... well atleast I finally made that reference'. But just as he was about to leap to his possible death he remembered something.
When he had fought the Alpha he had used his Power Punch to boost himself upwards, he might be able to do the same here...
Jaune, now holding on with one hand faced the cliff side ,almost crouching on it, before pulling back his closed fist. At once he pushed off with his feet and punched the cliff side cracking it. The result was him flying like a rocket straight into the small pond.
What Jaune forgot however, was that life was out to get him. So as he hit the pond something inside it surged right at him. The Arc felt a sharp pain in his back before being thrown right out of the pond again. "OUM!" Jaune screamed as he collided with a tree, right before a weird Grimm clambered out of the pond.
Minor Pond-dweller - Level 7
Health 300/300
Before Jaune stood an unholy amalgamation of a human and some sort of squid. It looked as if the squid had started eating the human but then just stopped eating deciding to just stay there instead. As it's head tentacles shot forward, Jaune dodged to the right using a tree to stop himself from flying far away. The boy reached out grabbing the tentacles and pulling the strange Grimm forward. It flew past his vision and right into a tree. A gurgled screech came from it's form but the blonde boy was already upon it, kicking it's squishy head into the tree.
The beast's health started to drop as Jaune crushed it's rubber like head against the rough bark. In a desperate act, the tentacles shot out again wrapping around Jaune's leg and twisting it. Arc fell to the ground in a tumble as the Grimm broke free before whipping Jaune across the face. The blond ,now pretty annoyed, jumped to his feet and super sprinted at the beast. With nearly no time to react, the Pond-Dweller tried to cover it's face but a Power Punch just went right through it.
Power Punch is now level 3
New quest unlocked: That would have gone much better with a sword
Quest: That would have gone much better with a sword
Description:
You seem to be having a bad time without a sword. Here's something to motivate you, kiddo.
Objectives:
Make it to the village: X
Get a new sword: X
Rewards:
400 Lien
100% quest generation
Random reward
'I can get money from quests!?' Jaune mentally screamed as the dead Grimm disintegrated off of his fist. 'Well it is only my 3rd quest, so I guess that makes sense. Hopefully I'll get more quests like this because I really don't wanna get a job' he sighed as he started to move in the direction he thought he saw the smoke from. The boy completely forgetting about the final reward as he closed all the windows.
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While Jaune ran through the trees he had his profile up. He had all apart from two of his stats to level 15 at this point, one of which he couldn't do anything about but WIS he could add points to. Earlier he had decided against it due to him not wanting to 'waste points' ,however, the only reason he was alive now was because he unlocked the INT skill. To do it it would only cost two points , which honestly wouldn't even put a dent in his points supply. Furthermore, he just... really wanted a new skill and what harm could it do? Knowing his LUK a lot.
Max MP Raised to 60
New Skill Acquired: The Weakest Link
Skill: The Weakest Link - Level 1
The ability to decide which enemy ,out of a group, is the weakest and easiest to defeat.
This skill levels with and is used with:
• Tactics 101
"So that's how I raise my MP!" Jaune shouted out, stopping in his tracks. "Well at least I now know and oh boy, could that skill be useful. I wonder how it works though? Maybe it highlights it? I'll just have to test it out.". Jaune waited for a unlucky growl but instead nothing came from the forest. "Huh"
And, with that Jaune closed the windows and decided to seek out some Grimm later. Yep that definitely sounds sane Jaune. Once he got a proper weapon of course, fighting them otherwise was a stupid thing to do. But then again he did just get a new skill...
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I'm the end Jaune had been weirdly unsuccessful in finding Grimm, which makes no sense with his LUK. Since that was a complete fail he had decided to push on. And, now...
!Quest objective complete!
The notification popped up briefly before disappearing again, but Jaune didn't seem to notice as he just stood at the gate of the seemingly large village. It technically had really only been a little over a week since he had last talked to people and he was perfectly calm. He always was these days. It's was the fact they felt kind of alien to him even after his short time in the woods. He thought he might feel better if he got a change of clothes, his were pretty ripped up and that made him stand out like a Grimm in the snow.
Maybe looking like he belonged would help him? But first things first he needed a weapon and a good one at that. Maybe it could also be a gun?
-End-
Well that wasn't all that fun. I mean he almost fell off a cliff, which was pretty funny, but he only killed like one thing. You know what annoys me though? I took all that time to kill his Dad, Mum and one of his sisters and guess what he does? Goes almost right back to civilisation.
Selfish fuck.
PROFILE
Name: Jaune Arc
Title: Enemy of the system
Level: 6 (702/7,587)
Health: 337/337
Aura: 1050/1050 (50%)
MP: 50/50
-Stats-
STR: 22
VIT: 23
DEX: 16
WIS: 15
INT: 15
LUK: 0
Points: 31
Age: 16
Race: Human