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Chapter 7: Meeting the thief
Jaune was sitting in the back of a caravan he had joined up with shortly after he left home. He could not help but shake his head thinking about how he had met the leader of the caravan.
Flashback time.
"Okay Jaune you can do this just have to get to town and I have no idea what to do after that," Jaune said to himself as he made his way towards town. Unfortunately his negative thoughts had attracted a small pack of Beowolves to his location. Upon hearing the howl Jaune turned around in shock s the pack of five charged at him. He quickly dived to the ground avoiding the two leading the charge and pulled out Corcea Mors as he got back up. He managed to land a killing blow on the third one but the remaining four started to surround him.
"Just great I just leave home to follow my dream and I become Grimm food not even an hour later," said Jaune in a negative tone. Suddenly the image of his sister's faces enter his mind filling him with new resolve. "No I won't fall here. I promised them I would return one day and I plan on keeping that promise." Suddenly the sword lit up with flame catching the interest of a person who was watching to see how this turned out. Jaune then charged at one of the Beowolves. The wolf tried to charge as well but felt a weight came down on it forcing it on all fours. With the opening created Jaune managed to kill the Beowolf. He turned to take on the other three only to see them killed by a person with long silver hair, "VOI that has to be the worst swordsmanship I have ever seen," he yelled at Jaune.
Flashback over
Thinking of that first meeting with Paul Superbi Jaune could not stop the shiver that ran down his spine thinking about the training he had forced to do to make his swordsmanship not pathetic in the silver haired swordsman's eyes. Taking advantage of one of his breaks from guard duty Jaune started to read the book that came with the rings. The book talked about the history of the Simon family and earth flames. As he read the book his eyes drift to the ring that he found. Paul had been helping him control the gravity manipulation of earth flames so he didn't throw it around like random. Paul acted like he thought it was Jaune's semblance and he never felt the desire to correct him. With Paul's help he even managed to kill and Ursa Major He had used the flames to pin down the ursa while he used his sword to decapitate it. Jaune still looks at that memory with a smile.
His eyes then drift down to the box he kept clipped to his waist. From what he had read it was one of seven made to be used by the earth flames. Apparently Tsuna had asked Verde to make them for his friend as a gift to show the trust and friendship between the Simon and Vongola family. He had opened the storage box and found the seven boxes of the earth flames but he was afraid to open the earth box. He had looked at it multiple times every night but can't bring himself to open it.
"Hey kid were nearly in town," Paul yelled at him. He was apparently a huntsman that chose to lead the caravan and protect it so villages outside the kingdoms could stay supplied and properly protected. He used dual wrist mounted blades and gave Jaune tips on swordsmanship. When he wasn't insulting Jaune's own skills.
A half hour later they had reached a village that was between the forest of vale and the desert of Vacuo. It was called border. Jaune had to resist laughing at the name. Paul told him to have some fun while he and the others unloaded the goods. Jaune tried to offer his help but when Paul threatened to stab him if he didn't leave. Jaune not wanting to get stabbed just turned around and decided to make his way into town. As he was window shopping he noticed a green haired girl bump into someone. Normally he would have thought nothing of it but with the training Paul had been giving him he noticed her pulling out the person's wallet. Seeing this he ran up to her yelling, "Stop thief." She turns around and he can see her red eyes widen when the person she just stole from hears him and checks for his wallet noticing that it was gone. She turns around and bolts out of their as quickly as possible. She managed to lose her target but Jaune kept up with her.
When they reached an alley she turned around and said, "What do you want?" she started to focus on him so she could use her semblance on him.
"I want you to return the wallet you stole," Jaune answered. He started to get a weird feeling that he shouldn't trust his eyes but he chose to ignore it. "Now are you going to give back that wallet and anything else you stolen or am I going to have to make you?"
She just let out a scoff and said, "I would like to see you try. Who are you anyway?" she was curious on who it was that managed to spot her. She wasn't the type to brag but she had perfected her skills to an art and no one till now had managed to spot her in the act.
"Jaune Arc. I came in with the traveling caravan and am training to become a huntsman. What is your name," he answered her.
"Emerald," Emerald answered. As she spoke she activated her semblance. She made it appear she was still in front of him. In reality she was walking past him while keeping her eyes on him. She noticed the fancy box clipped to his pants and decided to take it from him. She also reached into his pocket and took out several rings from his pocket. She then started to walk backwards away from him so she doesn't break her eyes away from him. When she stepped around the corner she took off in a full sprint and took a path she knew he couldn't follow her through without seeing her first.
Jaune didn't know what happened one second she was staring at him the next she had just disappeared. He looked around but couldn't see her. He spent the next few minutes looking for her but could not find anything. He let out a sigh and stuck his hands in his pockets when he did he noticed something that caused him to freak out. He pulled out his pockets and found only the earth ring and glacier ring the other rings were gone. He then looked where he kept the box animal and found that it was missing as well. "OH NO," he yelled. He started to freak out for a few minutes till he let out a tired sigh and decided to return to the others.
When Jaune returned Paul noticed that he was in a bad mood. After supper he decided to talk to Jaune about why he was in a bad mood. After Jaune finished his story Paul hit the kid on the back of the head. "So let me get this straight. First you ignored your intuition, next you let the Simon family rings get stolen and finally you let your box weapon get stolen," he said while face palming.
"Yes," Jaune answered. He then shot up and said, "Wait how do you know about the ring and box weapon? What do you mean by ignoring my intuition?"
Letting out a sigh Paul reached into his pocket and pulled out a ring and a blue box. The ring was shaped as a shield and was colored blue with the word Varia written on it. "This ring belonged to my ancestor Superbi Squalo. He was the rain guardian of the Varia unit. A branch of elite assassins under the Vongola family."
"Vongola," Jaune asked in shock. He had read about them in the book about the Simon family.
"Yes the Vongola family," he said. "My family has passed the ring and box down for generations. With the passing down we have also heard stories of what it was like before the fall of flame users and the mafia and the rise of the Grimm. When they finally got the vaccine to save the flame users only about 1% of the flame users remained. We went into hiding passing down the teaching from generation to generation. When I first saw you use the flames of yours I couldn't believe it. I had heard of the earth flames but as far I was aware only one family was able to use them and I thought they had been wiped out."
"Wait you said they originally went into hiding to keep yourselves safe so why are you still hiding, and you still haven't explained this intuition," Jaune said.
"I was getting to that part brat," he said. "The super intuition is something that many sky flames users had and from what I was told so did the earth flame user as well. It allowed them to sense when they were being caught in an illusion and predict how their opponent was going to attack them. It was considered one of the key factors to Vongola's strength. The boss's super intuition helped lead them to many victories. The one main thing is that they never ignored it like you did." He looks at the brat with a hint of rage.
Jaune looks down at this in disappointment. He should have listened to the voice. It was what told him to grab the rings originally and for the few times he heard it while fighting the Grimm it had never steered him wrong. "I am such an idiot," he finally said.
"Yes you are but we can discuss that later," he said. "As for the reason he we are still in hiding well that is a bit complicated. You see when the flame users started to die out the witch had started to hunt for the tri-ni-set as well as the Simon rings. In order to prevent that the rings were hidden away and became lost in time. Many of the current flame users are waiting for the rings to surface with their guardians to help lead us to getting payback against the bitch and finally end the Grimm."
"Why are you waiting for the rings to be found," Jaune asked. He tried not to think about the origin of the Grimm or the fact they have a queen out there.
"While other flame users are powerful there was always something special about the Tri-ni-set rings along with the Simon rings. The rings and the pacifiers were said to be able to make miracles happened and if you look at the strongest flame users of each generation they were either guardians of the rings or considered to be the guardians of the rings. There was just something about them that made everyone look up to them even if they were not sky flame users," he said. He then looks at Jaune and said, "So Jaune do you want help catching the thief?"
Jaune was about to say yes when the voice in the back of his head was saying no. he realized that this was his mistake and he had to clear it up on his own. So he said, "No this is something I have to do on my own."
This got a laugh out of Paul who then said, "Good answer kid. Truth be told even if you had said yes the only thing I would of given you would have been to use your head and find her yourself. You may have the flames but you have a lot to prove till you can be seen as a respected leader. That includes cleaning up your own messes. Good luck." He then got up and started to walk away from Jaune.
Jaune just watched him leave with new determination. He looks down at the earth ring and promises to get the other rings back as well as the earth box. He lets out a light yawn before he lays down in his tent thinking about how he will find Emerald tomorrow.
I know someone is going to mention that only Vongola head family had the super intuition but if you look back Reborn clearly states that Xanxus had super intuition as well and he was adopted into the Vongola family showing that those outside of Vongola can also have it.
