Wanderer chapter 7, secret's of the past

[Beacon tower,7am,sunday]

It was the morning after Jager's survival class and the school was silent, as almost everyone was asleep.

Jager had decided he would lay on the window frame the circled Ozpins office at the top of the tower as he though about what his next move would be.

doctor Watts had died over the weekend from his wounds, probally for the best since Jager didnt knkw how much more torture he would last and for being inside Salams inner circle he didnt know alot about her current plans, it seams she only told him what he needed to know to accomplish his task which in this case was just to lie in wait so nothing there.

As Jager lay there his eyes closed thinking q certain tall white-haired man with a cane walked over to the window curious as to why Jager was there.

"Everything ok mister Blackclaw," Ozpin said after opening the window.

Without opening it eyes,"never better" he replied simply, not even startled by Ozpins sudden appearance.

"Ok let me reword that, do you want to tell me why you and professor port though it would be a good idea to drop the first years into the forest while you played cat and mouse" Ozpin asked politely but a hint of annoyance in his voice at Jagers blatant disregard for Ozpins authority.

This time he opened his eyes and look Ozpin in the eyes, "first off I'm a wolf not a cat, second, it was serving as both a lesson in survival and a selection progress,"

Hearing this peaked Ozpin's interest and rased his eye brow," selection process for what"

"For my appearance" Jager replied flatly

"Apprentice? I didn't know you were looking for one," Ozpin said as he sat on the edge of the open window.

"Well I wasn't when I first came here, but two of the first years have pecked my interest, so iv decided I'm going to train then personally into the elite of the elite hunters, " Jager replied sitting up with his legs dangling over the edge feeling the pull of gravity on them.

"Interesting, and just who have you selected anyway," Ozpin inquired with pure curiosity.

"The arc boys one, he's got huge potential and his willpower is one of the most dangerous things about him, which I like," Jager answered with a fanged smile.

"Interesting, he dose need the most amount of training out of all of the first years, and who was the other" Ozpin asked smoothly.

"The Faunus from team RWBY, little Belladonna," Jager answered.

"How did you know she was a Faunus, this isn't in her school records," Ozpin asked slightly taken back by his knowledge but didn't show it.

"Oh please I can smell the cat on her, plus I had a run in with her about 6 months before she came here while she was still part of the White Fang," Jager said before tossing his HellHound mask at Ozpin.

"Wait, you're the Hellhound?, that explains why we could never get solid information on you except that you would appear and disappear like a shadow and would wear this mask, hence the name HellHound," Ozpin marveled at the information Jager had just given him.

"Yer well it was a role I had to play and it's almost time for the HellHound to rest so keep the mask, just do me one thing keep it out of site of Glynda and don't tell her anything that iv told you, she doesn't need to know" Jager said sounding hollow.

"Don't worry I'll keep your secret," Ozpin said as Jager stood up.

"Thanks" Jager simply replied before stepping off the side of the ledge.

After waiting a few seconds and not hearing a thud Ozpin shut the window and went to get a cup of coffee.

[Beacon academy, 7.15am, sunday]

Blake was drawn from her sleep by the sound of her Scroll going off, rolling over to grab it and read the message.

"Come to the training room in 1 hour, bring your gear" it read but the sender was an unknown number, looking at the time she groaned and lay there for a few minutes before deciding to see what this was about, so like a cat she climbed out of her bed and went to the bathroom to shower and get ready for the day.

[Beacon academy, 8.15am,Sunday]

Jager stood in the center of the ring in the traning room, a wooden sword in his cybernetic arm, his torso was bare and his long black hair flowed down to his lower back, scattered around him were a pile of holographic bodys of Grimm, his ears twitched at the slight sound of the door to the traning room opening.

"At least your on time, blake," Jager said as he stood with his back to the door before turning round to greet her with a softer smile then she had seen on him before.

"How did you know it was mean, and I'm guessing your the one who messaged me to come here" she asked with her hands on her hips.

"Ha, yes I did send the message, and I can smell the feline in your blood so do us both a favor and lose the Bow we both know what you are," Jager laughed slightly as he pointed to the bow with the point of his sword.

"Ok so you know I'm a Faunus so what, that doesn't answer why you called me out here at 8 in the morning especially after the hell you just put us through," Blake retorted sass heavy in her voice and she undid the bow and let it fall to the floor.

"Seams the lost kitten has some claws after all...just like her mother," Jager said in a voice that sent a chill though her bones.

"M-my mother? You know my mother?" Blake stammered out looking all edge to her words.

"I know more about you then anyone in this academy, that includes Glynda and Ozpin, both of whom I went to beacon with, but all that well be Explained once the final member of our little group gets here," Jager answered while walking over and grabbing a bottle of water.

"Um right ok, what well be Explained?" Blake asked with a raised eye brow.

There were a few seconds of silence as Jager downed his whole bottle of water in one go.

"Everything" he simply replied, no emotion at all in his voice at he looked Blake dead in the eye.

"What do you mean everything," she asked again.

"Everything" was all he said, blake pinched the bridge of her nose in mild frustration as she accepted he wasn't going to answered properly till he chose to.

"Let me see Gimbel shroud please," Jager asked making her look at him with a raised eyebrow and a scowl.

"How do you know the name of my weapon"

"..."

"Right, everything" she mumbled sarcastically mimicking his voice as she drew her weapon from her back and passed it to him.

Taking it in his hand he swung it in a cross strick in front of him while it was in its clever form.

"Good, its balance is still perfect."

With a flip of the weapon Jager gripped the secondary handle in one hand and the pistol handle in his other hand, in a smooth motion, Jager drew the short sword from its sheath in the cleaver.

"Sheath well oiled, no catching"

Taking nothing parts in a light grip started to swing them with a masters ease, cross slashes in front, flourishes going into a reverse hold then carrying through with a 8 hit spinning strike.

Blake watched in awr as this man was using her own weapon better then she could and with an ease like it was an old friend, after a few more swings Jager stopped to take a quick breath before tossing the cleaver into the air , while the cleaver was spinning in the air Jager tossed the ribbon after it wrapping the end around the handle it the cleaver flawlessly before pulling on the ribbon to bring it down to him, taking a grip on the ribbon Jager started to swing the two blades simultaneously, speeding up they became a blur of motion, turning on his heels to rotate the spinning buzz saw, part way though the turn one of the blades shot out like a snake before returning to tthe buzz saw when the next blade shot out, Jager kept up his rotation as he lunched the blades one often the other in a 360 radius around him.

As she watched him Blake realised just how much he had been holding back over the weekend, if he had been an actual enemy they wouldn't have last more then 5 minutes and that's with them all fighting him at once, the sound of a blade sliding into a sheath brought her focus back to the real world and just in time for her to take back her weapon from him.

"You keep your weapon in perfect condition, that's refreshing to see" Jager commented before pulling his black singlet on but left his shoes off as he walked over and sat on one of the chairs around the room.

"Just who are you," she asked

Jager went to open his mouth but the sound of the training room door opening drew there attention and Juanes head picked round and he closed the door behind him.

"Hey Blake, when did you get the cat ears" hearing her name coursed her cat ears to twitch slightly but still enough for Juane to notice.

"Wait did they just... how did you get them to do that...wait are they real," the bombardment of questions coursed the ears to twitch again before falling flat on her head as she tried the hide them.

"Of course there real, haven't you seen a cat Faunus before?" Jager said a confused look on his face.

" your a Faunus?" Juane exclaimed looking at Blake then looking at Jager then back to Blake.

"Hold on, dont tell me you've been hiding your heritage?,"Jager Questioned, to which Blake just lowered her head.

Jager pinched the bridge of his nice before continuing.

"Ok, before we continue I need to make something clear, nothing that's said in this room is spoken of to anyone unless I say so, got it,"

Both teens nodded there head.

"I suppose a proper introduction is in order then, the names Jager Blackclaw," Jager started

"Wait I know that name, my father told me of a hunter team that was killed defending a village from a Grimm assault, one of the hunters had that name" Juane interrupted.

"I was that hunter your father mentioned, but it wasn't my team that defended that village, me and my team were on there our way to meet up with the team that was currently there, a team of 4th year students that was in the wrong place at the wrong time, my team and I were ambushed by a pack of Grimm and everyone in my team was killed besides me, I lost my arm in the ambush," sadness evident in this voice as he held up his cybernetic arm looking at it but also looking past it.

"But now that you know who I am I guess it well best to start at the beginning, I'm guessing you have heard the theory of the Grimm having a queen?"

The teens nodded as they pulled over chairs.

"Good well it's only come up recently and still very disbelieved that the Grimm follow instructions, I'm guessing for the most part they don't but I can 100% say there is a Queen and iv meet her, she goes by the name Salam and her and Ozpin have been at war longer than the knowen kingdoms have been around,"

A look of shock crossed there face at the mention of Ozpin but nither said anything because they could tell Jager still had more to his story.

"Well you see Ozpin is immortal, not in the sense that his body lives forever but his Soul jumps to a new host every time his old body has run its course, you see the gods cursed him with immortality due to him allowing the Dark Queen to amass such power and so can not pass on till she is dead."

Blake looked as if she was about to ask something but Jager held up his hand to stop the flow of questions before they started.

"Now I didnt know of the Queen till after the ambush for you see I never fully trusted Ozpin, even in my youth I trusted no one, for I was orphaned when a group of humans killed my pack when I was only 10, that was both when I unlocked my semblance and found the Branwen Tribe of bandits and became one of them, I grew up with a pair of twins and when we were 17 we went to Beacon to become hunters, unfortunately I didnt end up in there team, that didnt matter I ended up making a name for my self as the best marksman in the academy and soon me and my team left Beacon academy."

The look of sadness on the teen's faces said everything.

"It was our first mission as full hunters when we were ambushed, I was captured by the Grimm and taken to a large black castle, I do not know the location yet but I well soon, I was held there for 2 years where I was tortured and experimented on to try and harness my semblance to try make a Grimm that could teleport, luckily I was able to escape using my semblance before they could complete there tests."

Once again the teens were speechless.

" once I was free I spent the next year practically in a permanent state of drunkenness as all I was doing was drinking in one bar or another around the world and killing Grimm to pay for more alchohol, that was when I meet Ghira Belladona, Blake's father,"

"Wait you knew my father, he never mentioned you before" Blake interrupted suddenly before receiving an annoyed look from Jager.

"Because I asked him long ago to keep my information a secret, but anyway about a year after Ghira found me and put me back on track and me telling him my past and about Salam we amen to the conclusion that the real threat was her and her Grimm but we also realised that without the combined might of the humans and the Faunus population fight side by side as brothers there would be no way to beat her, so with a few other select people we created the original white fang, not the terrorist organization its become to today, we used my old emblem and your fathers emblem which we both toke as our new ones,"

Jager paused for a bit as if remembering his past

"How did you become the hellhound," Blake asked quietly still trying it process everything Jager had told them so far.

"That came about a few weeks after Ghira was forced to step down from being leader of the fang, the new leader wanted to take the fang on a more aggressive path and even though she is a very good leader she is blinded by her hatred of the humans, especially those in Atlas, on some level I completely understand why shes doing it but because I know the truth of this world i know it's not the path that should be taken."

"I'm sure if you told her what you've told us she well change her view," Blake spoke out but Jager just lightly shook his head before speaking again.

"Both your father and I have tried to reason with her but she is to blinded, on the 3rd attempt she had us removed from the inner sanctum and even though it was never said we were banished from ever coming to the inner sanctum again, after that I decided to go off the grid once more and I delved into the wilderness as the hellhound, taking out as many of the Fangs raids and attacks as I could, that was till I came across a splinter group of the fang operating in Vale under the influence of one of Salams pawns, who there are I do not know but the leader of this splinter group is a Faunus knowen by Adam Torres."

At the mention of Adams name Blake when as stiff as a broad and eyes wide, Jager's wolf ears could also hear her heart rate increase in speed quite drastically.

"A-A-Adams in Vale" she managed to say, a whole knew the level of terror in her voice

"Do not worry, he doesn't know about you being here," Jager answered.

"You don't know that, he's relentless and well stop at nothing to compleat his goal" Blake shouted as she bolted upright like a startled cat.

It was Juane that spoke this time " I think you should trust Jager on this one, he's not someone that needs to lie" placing a hand on her visibly shaking shoulder

"Look I understand how you feel about him, he is a very dangerous person, to you more then most probably but there's one advantage you have over him, you have me,"

"Why would you fight for me" Blake accused

"Look I choose you two personally out of everyone in remnant to train into the best of the best, that means helping both of you through your problems because we are a team and if you don't have your teams back how can you expect them to cover yours,"

There was a long silence as no one said anything till Jager spoke up,"ok you two I think that's enough for today, you two know more about what's going on then almost the whole world, go relax and digest what iv told you ,but don't say anything to anyone, this is just between us," Jager said softly, with a nod of there heads they headed out, juane walked straight out the door but Blake lingers a few seconds like she wanted to ask him something but decided against it.

Leaning back in the chair he was in, Jager closed his eyes "well they toke that better then I expected them to, especially Juane, "

"There gone you know, you can come out now" Jager called out.

"How did you know I was there," Glynda asked as she stepped through a side door, she was in a purple singlet and white jeans, her hair was done in a simple plate ending at her lower back, on her feet were simple purple sneakers.

"Why is everyone surprised they can't sneak up on me, I did survive in the Wilderness at least 10 years alone, plus you still smell like the elderberry and lily perfume I got you back when we were younger," Jager said surprised at her accusation.

"Oh right, what are you doing here anyway this early on a Sunday," Glynda asked taking a seat next to him.

"I was just telling those two that they were now my apprentices and that I will be training them to become the best of the best, able to handle anything and anyone even when a normal hunter might fail they will not" The wolf replied with a predatory grin.

"I understand miss Belladonna, she is a very capable fighter already, but mister Arc? He can bearly swing a sword let alone control his aura" Glynda asked, curious as to his reasoning.

"Yes Blake is a very capable fighter but there's more then that, she wants to help people and she wants to prove to the world the faunus are equals, as for Juane I see massive potential in him, and anyone willing to take his transcripts to get in has the brains to be a leader and I want to help him grow to lead armys, that's why I choose them," Jager answered.

"Mmmmm ok," Glynda simply said.

"You never know he might surprise you" Jager laughed before getting up and walked off leaving Glynda alone with an annoyed look on her face from his cryptic comment.