Hello everyone it's me! So this series is amazing and I have to thank all of you who read this for supporting me on FF like I want to write stories and this website provides me with the best form of practice, that's what I think anyways; anyways I think that this story is my second favorite so far, but Remnant Fantasy I is my first so far, it's fun and based off of my favorite genre of games and specifically one my dad and uncles played the most so go check that out. Anyways I wanted to talk about this one, I'm super proud of this one; it started out as shit but now it's progressed farther than I could've possibly imagined, and for that I thank all of you equally, so enjoy this wonderful chapter, also Jaune's sister in the volume 6 is so cute like oh my god I want to die. Okay I'm done with spoilers, here you go one new chapter of A Modern Knight and Spartan.
Jaune sat in his room in shock at the news of his fathers illness, it was most likely cancer; the worst part was that it was untreatable now and this left his father without any help or cure, modern medicine couldn't save him and he wouldn't see Sapphire his youngest daughter grow up and become an adult. Ringing could be heard coming from his bedside table and he saw that Yang was calling him, "Yes Yang." Jaune says picking up his scroll.
"Jaune were you crying" Yang says from the other side, Jaune ponders on her words and is about to answer but she talks first, "Jaune come quick something happened." This worried Jaune so he got into his normal clothes and ran to his van almost tripping on the stairs and got in, turned the key and began driving off while Yang was talking to him.
When he pulls up to Yang's place and she instantly runs out of her house and hops into his van, she has a smile on her face. "Jaune I saw my mother walking around Vale earlier, I want you to help me find her, I saw her in the Commercial District, near Ren and Nora's place!" She yells out while Jaune pulls out of her driveway and begins to head towards downtown Vale.
"Yang aren't you grounded?" She looks at him and smiles, he simply groans and heads towards the Commercial district.
Pyrrha's morning had been going great so far, she finally decided on a movie Jaune and her would watch this weekend and what restaurant they would go to before they saw it, of course she'd have to tell Jaune about this but that could come later; at the moment she was practicing her fencing with Weiss, the girl apparently decided to stay in Vale for a day or two to talk with Pyrrha, though she felt it was for another reason entirely, but Pyrrha wouldn't pry into the Schnee girl's personal business. Pyrrha backs up to avoid being hit by Weiss's foil, it barely misses and Pyrrha lunges forward and manages to land a hit on Weiss' chest and a buzzer goes off, Pyrrha takes her fencing mask off and Weiss does the same,
"What's the score so far?" Weiss asks.
"Four to zero." Pyrrha says and Weiss simply groans in annoyance.
"I thought I won at least once." Weiss groans in annoyance and Pyrrha is about to say something but Weiss interrupts her, "And I know that with a foil I have to hit the torso, not the arms, or the legs, or the head." Weiss says this a little annoyed... or very Pyrrha didn't care at the moment, the only thing on her mind was Jaune and why his van had suddenly passed by her house, he seemed to do that a lot lately; Pyrrha only wished that Jaune would come over more often, and not when she asked him to. No she wanted him to come over on his own terms and not on hers, it was interesting so far.
"Pyrrha, I wanted to ask about the guy who you brought as a date." Weiss says this snapping Pyrrha out of her thoughts in an instant, Weiss looked curios also a bit puzzled as to why she had brought Jaune to her father's party.
"Oh. Well his name is Jaune Arc, he lives a few blocks from he-" Pyrrha is soon interrupted by Weiss spitting out her water and looking at Pyrrha in surprise.
"Did you say Arc?" Weiss asks this with bewilderment and surprise about Pyrrha not realizing something about his family.
"Yeah, why Weiss? I've never really heard of that name before." Pyrrha states this and Weiss pulls out her scroll and shows Pyrrha pictures of Jaune's father, his sisters and him.
"Why hadn't I recognized his name when you told me." Weiss states Pyrrha just looks at her in confusion, "Oh well Jaune is the heir to the Arc business which is involved in, Wait a minute... Jaune isn't listed as the heir anymore and no one's gone to fix that." Weiss states with a little worry, "I think something might've happened."
Pyrrha looks at Weiss in shock and is about to call Jaune when knocking is heard on her door, she opens it and can see Ren and Nora with worried looks, "Pyrrha we need you to turn on the news; it's important." Pyrrha does and the headline just causes her shock.
With Yang going crazy on where to find her mother Jaune didn't have enough time to even process what she was saying, that's when he finally stopped and the two got out of his van and began to ask about Yang's mother and if anyone had seen a woman fitting her description yet they still hadn't found anything and it looked like they wouldn't, until Yang noticed the police tap around a certain building. One Jaune instantly recognized.
Jaune walked over and saw news reporters and police officers around the building he remembered getting his first book at and where the man who wrote the play he was going to be in worked and owned. Tukson's Book Trade, the thing that caught his eye's was the body being brought out of the building and into an ambulance by the some emergency crews.
As soon as they left the camera man and the news anchor turned and saw Jaune Lisa Lavender, the woman who's life mission was to make his a living hell.
"Yang I think we should go." Jaune whispers and Yang is about to protest but when she turns the reporter is walking up to the two and the camera man is following so Yang grabs Jaune's hand and begins to speed walk towards another street but soon Lavender is goin faster and manages to catch up to Jaune Arc, he simply turns around and begins the interview with the woman who was going to misconstrue all his words and turn them against him.
Pyrrha watched the screen and saw Jaune and Yang walking away from the camera, the only problem was that they followed him; Pyrrha sympathized with Jaune, to have reporters follow you because of your fame, in his case it was because his families name, and so the interview began.
"Mr. Arc I'm Lisa Lavenders. What can you tell me about the scene you in which Owner of Tukson's Book Trade was found dead and killed in a most horrendous fashion by people who hate the faunus?" Jaune can be seen sighing before giving his response.
"Well it's terrible, some of my friends are fuanus and they've done nothing wrong and Tukson was no different, he helped so many people learn to read and helped expose them to so many new worlds." He says this with so much honesty you can almost see a tear in his eyes.
"Mr. Arc may I ask is the woman next you a lover?"
Jaune just looked at her in confusion, "Say what now?"
"Hahahaha!" Nora could be seen laughing at Jaune's response, "I'm sorry but that's so typical of him to say when he is confused." Nora is still laughing a little but Ren simply sighs and whispers something in her ear. "Oh never mind not the best moment to laugh. But I'm still going to break Lavenders legs for just making are Jaune-Jaune uncomfortable whenever they encounter each other." she says this while Lavenders asks the question again.
"No she isn't anything of the sort, just a child hood friend who I'm helping with shopping at the moment." Jaune states this before continuing his walk.
Lisa stands in front of the camera and begins to speak but is cut off by Nora turning the TV off and muttering something under her breath, Pyrrha watches as Weiss sneaks out of the house and heads to her shiny white car that's parked on front of her house, the girl enters and heads off.
Nora and Ren stay and talk with Pyrrha for about an hour or two, the conversations ranged from her and Jaune too ones about the history between Jaune and his history with Lisa Lavenders, these were one's that Pyrrha was happy to learn about though she was still afraid that Jaune would learn about her fencing career, but now she knew one of his secrets... Well it wasn't really a secret more like something Jaune didn't talk about and with that van he had it was hard to believe he was apart of one Vale's richest members.
It would be on her mind for a while not because Jaune's family name. No not that, she just felt a bigger connection to Jaune than before now that she knew of his situation, and more that could arise because of his name.
To say Yang's day was going great would be a false statement, it was becoming shit. Jaune and her spent about three hours trying to find her mother. Raven, but all they found were old trails, hell she was tempted to contact her Uncle Qrow just to ask for some help with this, but she wouldn't Qrow was probably drunk in a bar or doing something else, like using a drone to spy on her, right when Yang saw that a drone with a symbol Qrow drew while he lived with Yang and Ruby fell into a dumpster.
"What was that?!" Jaune yells out from the noise of the drone falling into the dumpster, Yang walks up to the dumpster and grabs the drone, she looks at it and holds it telling Jaune to wait, and she waited until Qrow popped around the corner, a red hood on his head walks into the alley and see's Yang, his red eye's that could see into a persons soul widened a bit at the sight of Yang, suddenly a glass bottle fell next to the man and he jumped back just in time and then he fell into a trash can.
Yang walks over to him and he finally looks up, his hood is now down and he is smiling a little, "Hey there firecracker, guess you found my drone huh; seems my luck is pretty bad still." Yang just laughs a little before helping him out of the trash can.
"Uncle Qrow why were you spying on us?" Yang asks him he simply chuckles a bit, looking away from her and then his face turns to one of guilt.
"Your mother wanted me to." Qrow looks ashamed still and dusts himself off and proceeds to drink from his flask, "She doesn't want you finding her," Qrow leans over towards Yangs ear and whispers, "But don't worry she's always watching you, just look hard enough and maybe you'll be able to find her." After he says this he walks away humming a little tune, sadly he only walked two steps forward and a cat fell on his head.
Jaune had to help Yang pull the cat off of Qrow's head so now Jaune was driving Yang home Qrow passed out drunk in the back and his flask somehow still in his hand, the worst part was Jaune had to take the long way around so that he didn't get a fine or something because Qrow had refused to put on a seatbelt saying that he almost got strangled by one when he was in college.
Right when they arrived Jaune had to open the door and help Yang put Qrow on the couch, proceed upstairs grab band-aids for him and then try and keep his face still for Yang.
"What happened to him?" Tai said entering the house with a cup of coffee in hand, his face was one of amusement as he watched Yang and Jaune disinfecting the wounds and applying band-aids to the mans face.
"A cat fell on his head and freaked out when we tried to pull it off of him." Yang states as if it was a common occurrence, Tai simply laughs and sits down on a sofa near them and begins to watch some kind of documentary on corgis; ironically Zwei had come in at that moment and decided to jump onto Tai's lap. It took about two hours and pulling Zwei off of Qrow's face as he sat at it sometimes, but they had finished and so Jaune decided to bid Yang and Tai farewell.
Jaune gets into his van and see's a note on the seat Qrow had slept near, he picked it up and it read, Jaune, don't tell anyone this; I was following you not Yang... sort of I was asked to follow her, but apparently someone has noticed your skill academically, your incredible with literature and history; you've peaked a few heads of people who normally don't notice such talent. Maybe it's because you were doing so poorly when you first started attending Signal, that's my guess; so here's my opinion go to Beacon, it's not as good as Haven academy's acting program, but I think you'd do better there. Plus your little girlfriend has shown interest in that school specifically. You'll have my highest recommendation as well. So what do you say? Do you want to go there after graduation? Tell me your answer next week once we got off this "accidental" break. Qrow Branwen. P.S. let Yang down easily okay. I don't want to see you two split apart just because you don't return her feelings. After reading it Jaune was stunned Ozpin of Beacon academy was interested in him so was the headmaster of Haven, but Ozpin. Beacon was a better school, it balanced everything. The arts, Sciences, Literature, History, and so much more. Jaune already knew his answer. His father went there and his mother did as well, that's how the two met. Now Jaune was getting the op- Wait did he say little girlfriend in his letter, Jaune didn't know who he was talking about, it clearly wasn't Yang since Qrow knew that Jaune was aware of girls crush on him, who was it? The thought didn't linger in his head for long and he soon decided to head home so that he could practice for that play, but Jaune's guess was that the play was either going to be canceled or put on hold due to an investigation, or it was because Tukson was actually the director. This revelation came as soon as Jaune was about to pull out of the Xiao-Long families home, his scroll went off and he saw it was a message saying that since Tukson died the play was canceled and would have to find a new director and cast.
Jaune just sighs in sorrow, a play he was interested in and casted into was done now, before it could even hit the stage and this just shut down his world first the writer died, but also the director who was secretly the writer, today was a mess.
As Jaune arrived at his house he noticed a van that a soccer mom would have was parked outside it and Jaune, only one other family member of his had that kind of van.
Jaune burst into his home and saw Terra Cotta-Arc, his sister in law stood there talking on the phone and he could see Adrian his nephew sitting on the rug in the living room playing with toys, Sapphire who was now playing with him, the child just started making noises and soon his older sister walked into the living room, Saphron Cotta-Arc just smiled at Jaune and hugged him.
"Jaune where were you?" She asks laughing a little while picking up Adrian.
"I was with a friend, but what are you doing here? I thought you weren't going to visit for two months." Jaune states to her as they walk into the kitchen and sit at the table and asks Terra to take Adrian.
Soon the two are talking about how Jaune was catching the eyes of Yang and another girl who he still wasn't aware of, though Jaune thought he could see Saphron processing this in her head and trying to think about which girls Jaune had talked about and soon she spoke up.
"I think I know who likes you, other than Yang!" Saphron says to him loudly.
"Really! Can you tell me?" Jaune asks this with some hope but the look on her face was saying. No.
"Jaune, it's up to you to figure out who likes you as more than a friend; after all as an Arc we're kind of oblivious." She states and Jaune nods.
"Don't I know it!" Jaune's mother yells from another room.
The two simply laugh at their mother's response and wait for dinner, after the Arc family is gathered the eating begins and Jaune's father asks how Terra Cotta's job is going and asks about their relationship and why they came so early this year, the conversations continue on like this for the rest of the night and soon everyone heads to bed, Saphron and her wife take the guest room, Adrian also does but he is sleeping in a portable crib.
Pyrrha Nikos was surprised to say the least when she saw Ren had called her and asked if she would like a job. Then after she got to Valkyrie Pancakes Nora came speeding out with Jaune running behind her as Ren dove out the kitchen doors and she heard an explosion Nora was covered in flour and so was Jaune, Ren got it a bit worse, his clothes were basically all white and his hair was covered in flour.
"That... was awesome! Jaune-Jaune we should do that again!" Nora yells out and Jaune just sighs as Ren coughs and spreads more flour.
"Nora, why did you do that? And Jaune did she force or did you tell her willingly how to make a flour bomb?" Ren asks this with a slight smile on his face, he watches as the two stutter trying to give an answer until he notices Pyrrha, "Why hello Pyrrha, are you here for the interview?" He asks and she simply nods.
Jaune still has a large amount flour on his face and Nora is laughing, "Nora forced me to tell her how to make a flour bomb." Jaune states and there is a small look of betrayal on her face and Ren simply smiles before giving Jaune and Nora a pair of mops and other cleaning supplies and the two begin to clean the place.
Ren leads Pyrrha to a back room and the two begin to discuss her being hired, "Sorry about that, Jaune and Nora sometimes do this though; anyways I was wondering if you'd like to work for us, you'd be getting a good pay... well good enough for working for a local business; since you've taken a liking Jaune and he has taken a liking to you I was wondering would you like to work the same hours as him?" Ren asks this and Pyrrha nods; Ren begins to pull out a stack of papers and pushes them in front of Pyrrha who begins to sign them.
After that is all over Ren bids her goodbye and she stays and watches Jaune clean and serve people for the hours he is on. She waits for him to get off of work, this was totally to watch how to act and how to clean, and totally not to stare at Jaune the whole time.
As soon as Jaune finishes Pyrrha follows him out and asks if Jaune would drive her home, Jaune of course accepted and asked if she would like to come to his house and meet his older sister and her family, Pyrrha of course accepted the offer and the two went to his home.
As Pyrrha entered she noticed a tan woman and a blonde woman who she assumed was Jaune's sister, she is holding a child who looked very content chewing on a stuffed bear.
"Oh who is this Jaune?" The blonde woman asks as she looks up and walks over to the two and hugs Jaune; Pyrrha can see the resemblance between Jaune and his sister, she could see it in all of his siblings the blonde hair and blue eyes, those eyes were the most handsome feature on Jaune and they were the most beautiful on his sister's features, "Jaune, are you paying attention?" The woman says getting Pyrrha out of her thoughts and Jaune as well.
"Oh Pyrrha this is my oldest sister Saphron," Jaune says pointing to Saphron, "Saphron, this is Pyrrha Nikos." Jaune states and Pyrrha shakes Saphron's hand.
"Hello Pyrrha, as Jaune said I'm his older sister." she says this while pinching Jaune's cheek; Jaune is struggling to push her hand away and Pyrrha laughs a little, "The woman over there is my wife Terra Cotta and this little guy is my son Adrian." Saphron cooed and pulled Adrian closer the baby tried to push himself away from his mother but is met with failure.
"Pyrrha I didn't realize you were here." Pyrrha looks up at the stairs and can see Mrs. Arc at the top coming down, Jaune's father is next to her and looks at Jaune and Pyrrha, he simply smiles and the two head into the kitchen and begin talking with Terra Cotta.
Jaune watches as his parents begin talking to Terra Cotta and soon Jaune notices his mother signal for Saphron to come over. Suddenly there is a loud knock on the door and Jaune opens it to see Fleur standing there, she smiles at Jaune and looks over his shoulder to see Pyrrha, she smiles at her and she begins to get an evil look on her face, "Jaune I wasn't aware you got a girlfriend." Fleur says making Jaune blush madly.
"We aren't like that!" Jaune and Pyrrha say repeatedly, Fleur simply gives them a 'I don't believe that' look and walked past Jaune and into the kitchen, "Father, you asked for me to come here for a family meeting. I'm assuming it's important." Fleur say's with a smile on her face.
"Indeed it is my daughter, a meeting that is most important for our future, now that you have arrived it is time to start." Gerard says this with some remorse, "Everyone it is time, Jaune come here, Pyrrha you may stay here as well if you wish." Gerard states and the Arc house hold enters the living room, Aurore is the last to enter the room, Pyrrha takes a seat next to Jaune and waits to hear what the Arc patriarch has to say, Jaune can only think of what his father was going to say; he knew what it was, he heard it himself last night , Jaune knew his father was sick and he would die to this sickness.
"Everyone I have something to tell you, I'm dying." Jaune looked to see his sisters react all of them were in shock some had tears beginning to flow down their faces, "Jaune, learned this yesterday; didn't you my son?" Gerard states.
"Yes father I woke up early last night and heard the conversation between you and mom, how did you know?" Jaune asks in confusion and guilt.
"Jaune, you aren't as clever as you may think my boy, after all me and your mother both knew about Reese; we just didn't say anything." His father chuckles a little bit before laughing, "Plus you left your door open so we knew you were out and about, like a vampire of sorts." Aurore simply elbows Gerard lightly, "Okay, okay dear I'll quit stalling; I have a tumor in my brain, it's small but it's in a place where it would be dangerous to remove, and even if I did live it would affect my mental health, negatively mainly and well I don't want to take the risk of hurting any of you just because a surgery that would most likely kill me." He states tears are now trailing down Gerard's face he walks up to Fleur and puts his hand on her shoulder the girl looks up tears are visible and Gerard simply smiles at her, "Fleur, I want you to inherit the company." Gerard states, "Jaune has shown he isn't interested in the company, so I've decided for you to become the heiress of the company, after all you've shown interest and it would be wrong to force Jaune to own a company that he never wanted to own, but Jaune knew this already; so will you accept you roll as heiress?"
"Yes father, I'll inherit the company and make you proud." Fleur says this with determination to make Gerard happy.
"And Jaune, I want you to do your best in life; whatever you do in life I will always accept, in life and in the grave; so Jaune I know your bet, and I'd rather you decide your own fate instead of going on your luck, there's a woman who cares about you, not Reese and Yang they care but I know you don't see Yang in that light, I also know that you already made your peace with Reese and you want to only see her as a friend." Gerard says this, Pyrrha is blushing a bit as Gerard looks at her as if he knows of Pyrrha's feelings for Jaune.
The hours tick on and Gerard goes to each of his children wishing them the best even though he isn't going to die yet, he wants them to know he cares for them now and not on his death bed.
Adam Taurus stood in front of a group of Faunus, hand picked by Adam for the coming storm that he would wrought on mankind, "My brothers and sisters of the white fang, we are here to plan out the attack on a member who betrayed us and the humans she so desperately clings to for protection; she is currently attending signal academy, we will attack there and make them pay for turning one of our own against us!" Adam yells out and the others yell with him. After the meeting is over Adam is walking with a Faunus with red hair and a ponytail, she has scales that could easily be mistaken for freckles, "Ilia I need you to scout out Signal high school for me, I wish to know about the one's who turned Blake against me and our cause." Adam states to her she looks at him and nods.
Ilia didn't like this, before Blake left she asked for her help, Ilia refused but now she was starting to see Blake's point; Adam was losing his mind, the man was once an amazing leader but now, now he was wanting to kill people who weren't involved and Ilia remembered a time when Adam would send people to simply talk and try to convince them that the Faunus were good and that they were equals, but now Adam had changed, maybe it was the abuse he received or his parents being lynched two years ago that changed him into a man fueled by bloodlust, a man who saw mankind as inferior now, as beasts; it seemed hate was all that fueled him now, Ilia was tempted to leave the fang and she secretly contacted Blake often since she left, but Blake's "betrayal" as Adam put it and Blake leaving was the tipping point for the man's insanity.
Ilia sighs and walks into a small area filled with recruits, she misses the days when the White Fang was an organization fueled by peace and equality; now it was just a terrorist group fueled not by peace but by anger and lashing out at innocent people and there fellow Faunus she would scout this place out and then attempt to leave, after all there was no way Adam would be getting out of this; his anger and hate assured his fall and Ilia wouldn't be caught in the crossfire.
Well I was going to release this chapter on Christmas, but... I got the new smash and spent the time trying to unlock Cloud Strife and it was super difficult, but I did it and now I'm back, this chapter is unique as it reveals that the storm is finally coming and it isn't going to be pretty also Ilia's going to be unique to write and see how her character is in such a different story and world, that includes my other story and a few I'm currently writing, also you should follow me on Instagram and support me on p/atreon, you don't have to do the p/atreon thing it's optional also I listened to Sacrifice a lot while writing this chapter, why just fit the dark yet hopeful mood of this chapter, so yeah also after I'm done with this story (which isn't going to be for a while) I'll be re-writing the first few chapters and improving them to the point that they're good compared to these other chapters and I'll be making sure to be doing a whole lot of improving on my skills *cough* what little skills I have, but hey most of you like them so it can't be that bad, anyways have a good day.
