Hey Guys, RWBYBlackFlames here and this is Chapter 7. There will be some hints today at what the second secret is. So yeah. Go enjoy Jaune beat Cardin's ass. Or vice versa. Totally making this up as I go. Let's read!

Also, side note, if Jaune seems a bit off on what you would normally assume what Jaune would be like, there's three ways so far that I write him. Legacy Jaune, when discussing family or war, Macho Jaune, A.K.A The Jaune that would ask Weiss out, fake confidence, try to train on his own. That Jaune is less present, but is still there in some parts. Finally we have our Classic Jaune that we all know and love. Known for dresses, small confidence and making fun ways of asking out people who's names begin with W. So yeah... props to you if you read this. Enjoy!

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Chapter 7

The Light of Hate

"Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful." ~Hiromu Arakawa

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Jaune soon entered Combat Class, and when doing so went straight to Professor Goodwitch to set up the fight. After a minute of convincing before the class, they, with Cardin appearing to help convince Professor Goodwitch to allow him to bash Jaune's brains in, somehow convinced the blonde professor to set up the fight.

"Alright then, if you both want it that badly-" said Professor Goodwitch as the duo stood next to each other with a look of dislike in their eyes.

"We do!" said the duo at the same time.

"... then after this match, you shall fight. Now for the next match... Ms. Xiao Long vs Ms. Valkryie.

"Hell yeah!" said the duo, high-fiving each other, with Professor Goodwitch sighing. Three straight minute of explosions later the duo were stuck in their own craters laughing at their masterpieces of an arena, or what was left of it as craters were scattered across the combat arena, while Glynda sighed as she fixed the arena. There was a clear look on Professor Goodwitch's face as she fixed it. One of these days...

"...Alright then, Jaune Arc vs Cardin Winchester." said the professor as Cardin made his way to the arena, while Jaune was being held back by his friends.

"Jaune, you know you don't have to do this. You know that Cardin won't hold back." said Pyrrha, worried for Jaune. So far in his Beacon carrier, he's done nothing but lose in his battles. The only time he's won was during the Nevermore fight.

"I'm alright Pyr, I can handle myself." said Jaune with a smile.

"Unless you have a secret weapon that could floor him, I'm not sure that you can win..." said Yang as she rejoined the group.

"Oh I do. Want to know what it is? Wait, scratch that. It'll be a surprise." said Jaune as he walked off with curious looks staring at the back of his head. This was going to be fun.

"Good luck Jaune!" said Ruby, wishing her first friend at Beacon luck. Jaune smiled, before making his way to the arena. Cardin and Jaune were prepared, so they had already donned their armor and weapons.

"I hope you can back up your words Jaune or this'll be fast, even for your standards." said Cardin with a smirk.

"Oh don't worry about me Cardin, I'd worry about yourself if I were you. I'm not holding back, so I hope you don't either." retorted Jaune with a smile. After a second the starting bell sounded, and Cardin rushed Jaune, hoping to end the match early with a knock to the head, but Jaune was prepared and had his shield ready to block the attack, knocking him back a few inches but otherwise leaving him undamaged while Jaune muttered under his breath.

"What was that Jaune? I couldn't hear you. Was it the sound of you surrendering?" taunted Cardin.

"Sorry, I said 'Is that all?'. Cause if it is, then you're all talk. Hit me Cardin, and this time not like your grandma." retorted Jaune with a smile on his face, with the desired effect occuring as Cardin rushed Jaune with another attack, this one augmented with Aura. Jaune blocked again, with even a block taking a small chunk of his aura.

"Come on Cardin, if this is it then all the Faunus that you've unrightfully bullied among the years can sleep easy knowing you couldn't fight your way out of a paper bag." said Jaune, further provoking Cardin. He was met with another Aura enhanced hit to the shield, taking a slightly larger chunk of his aura out. Right now, the aura tracker said that he was at 70% going down slowly but surely while Cardin was at 60% with each hit taking a good chunk of his aura. This was going to be fun.

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"What's Jaune doing? He hasn't swung once and all he's done is provoke Cardin!" said Yang in disbelief as they watched the match.

"True, but he is winning. Sometimes the best offense is a great defence." said Pyrrha wisely as Jaune took another hit, with both aura pools lowering.

"I guess you're right, but why bother provoking Cardin?" asked Yang, with this time Ruby answering.

"You should know Yang, when someone's angered to a point where they can't even think straight, they become that much weaker. Attacks become sloppy, more mistakes are made. But it makes me wonder what he's waiting for. He's had a lot of chances by now to take advantage of this, but all he's doing it further provoking him..." said Ruby as they continued to watch

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"Tell me Cardin, why do you bully? Why do you hate the faunus?" asked Jaune in a hushed voice where only Cardin could here.

"Who wouldn't hate those freaks? They don't-" said Cardin before Jaune cut him off.

"Don't give me that garbage. What happened? Did someone get hurt because of a faunus, or were you too weak to save someone and it was because of a faunus? Tell me." said Jaune with his voice hardened as he stared Cardin in the eyes. Hate stared back. It was at this point that Jaune knew he pushed the wrong buttons. Cardin swung hard, knocking him off balance with his shield flying out of his hand, before Cardin's mace made friends with Jaune's gut, knocking him to the ground and creating a crater. He heard voices for a moment as he tried to get up.

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Team RWBY and JNPR bar J were in disbelief as they saw Cardin hit Jaune into the ground, immediately taking Jaune down from 50% to 1%, deep into the red zone ending the match, while Cardin went from his 40% to 30%. They started to get up as Glynda called the match before they saw Jaune start to get up.

"Why are you calling the match, it's not over." said Jaune as he leaned on his sword, coughing up some blood from the hit.

"Mr. Arc you are clearly in the red, and by that standard this match is over!" said Professor Goodwitch as she rushed to the arena.

"Sorry Professor, but that's where your wrong." said Jaune as he released a wave of dark black aura with a shout, which returned him from 1% back to 100% very quickly. But that's not what shocked the people there. It was that Jaune's left eye had become black, while still retaining his blue iris.

"Now if play time is over, let's continue the match" said Jaune in a darker tone, not even bothering to pick up his shield that had been knocked away. In a flash, Jaune had sprinted to Cardin's side, hitting him in the gut which knocked him into the wall, creating a small crater.

"Cardin, before you go to sleep, do me a favor and remember to answer my question when you wake up." said Jaune dryly as he took a look at the aura reader, with Cardin at 11% and Jaune now at 75% and rapidly declining. Jaune lightly kicked Cardin and he entered the red, ending the match. Professor Goodwitch took Cardin and called the infirmary, while Jaune walked out of the arena, and was subsequently swarmed by his friends.

"Wow Jaune, how did you do that?" asked Yang.

"See, I told you guys that Jaune could win!" said Ruby with enthusiasm.

"You took quite a hit, are you sure your alright." said Pyrrha worryingly.

"Nah, I'm in immense pain right now. The Dark Aura didn't do anything in terms of healing that hit. In fact, I'm surprised that I'm even standing right n-" Jaune as he fainted onto the ground, with a small trickle of blood coming from his mouth, freaking out his friends.

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"Ugh... I feel like I was by a train... What did I do last night?" asked Jaune to himself as he opened his eyes, to where he has a sling on his right arm and a horrible feeling in the pit of his gut. Oh yeah... The Cardin fight... Jaune sighed as he remembered that he'd have to explain that to his friends later. It would take quite a lie to appease them...

"Jaune! You're awake!" said Pyrrha, who had been tiredly watching in the corner with a sleeping Ruby, who had woken up from Pyrrha's outburst.

"Good morning Pyrrha, so why am I in the infirmary?" asked Jaune tiredly, not remembering the match that he had just participated in.

"You were in a match against Cardin and you fainted after the battle. Turns out that the hit Cardin landed against you cracked a few ribs as well as you were nearing zero in terms of aura so they put you in here." explained Pyrrha.

"Oh yeah... That was a thing..." said Jaune, remembering the match.

"I'm going to go tell our friends!" said Ruby, who then ran out the room.

"Ruby wait- Damn... Pyrrha, I know you have questions but do me a favor. Make sure that they don't rush in, try to delay them. I'm still very low in terms of Aura and I'm not sure I can take an 'interrogation' from Yang." said Jaune, shuddering at the thought of what Yang can do when she's curious about something.

"I suppose your-" replied Pyrrha, getting up only to be knocked back down as the door was slammed open by their group of friends. Yang and Nora went straight to Jaune, with his secret move on their minds with the others being interested and the only one not caring was Blake, who was reading a book as Yang and Nora attempted to get information out of him.

"Wow Jaune, how did you do that cool aura move! You went so fast and hit Cardin so hard!" said Nora as Yang started to shake Jaune.

"How did you do that? Tell me your secret!" said Yang with hunger in her eyes, a hunger for power.

"If. You. Will. Stop. Shaking. Me. I. Will!" said Jaune, getting a word in between shakes before Yang realized what she was doing.

"Sorry..." said Yang, scratching the back of her head in embarrassment. The others gathered around, prepared to listen to Jaune's story of his technique.

"Alright, now that I'm not being throttled I can tell you about my technique, however you'll need to recall Professor Stein or whichever Aura Professor you had's lesson on the types of Aura." said Jaune as they remembered.

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"Alright class, let's get down to the truth of aura and it's many types. There are many variations of Aura, but if you had to count exactly how many types there are in general, there would be exactly 9 types that you can have, but truthfully there are 11. We will get to that later. Now, can anyone tell me the first type group of Aura?" asked Professor Stein, with Ren raising his hand and answering.

"It is known as the Basic Group, and it consists of the Red Aura, Blue Aura and Yellow Aura." said Ren.

"Excellent, now the Basic Group is generally what you would think. It's fairly basic and it is the least advanced aura group you can have." said the teacher, earning some groans from some of the students, who had likely been in that group.

"As I was saying, it is the least advanced Aura group. But there are some benefits in this group. Most people in this can easily unlock their semblance and further develop it much faster, but we will talk about semblances later. Also, generally speaking these group tend to have more simple effects that can easily be trained, such as going faster, hitting stronger, etc. Think of it as this. It's generally weaker to everything else initially, but you can train it much faster and easier so if you work hard enough it can surpass other semblances much easier. Now, does anyone know the next group?" asked the Professor with a person in the back raising their hand.

"I think it's called the Combination Group, and it consists of purple, orange and green." said the student.

"Good, now the advanced group is also how it would seem. It is generally more advanced as you can get stronger effects from the aura itself, but generally speaking most people with this type of aura have less of it than others. For example, people in the Purple Group are generally known to have a glyph-like semblance but it's not always guarantee. The Orange Group is known for fire manipulation and effects that are fire-like. Finally, The Green Group is not generally known for it's semblance, but rather it's ability to use aura in outwards strikes, sending aura in attacks towards opponents from their body and it is very effective in terms of damage. But, you are generally limited in the amount of aura you have to begin with. However, I'm know that Madame Goodwitch, who has a purple types aura has a method to increase how much aura you have, and this applies to all aura types so go see her if you want to know, but I think that she will be teaching that to you soon anyway. So now, who knows the final group of Aura?" asked the teacher, with Blake raising her hand.

"It is known as the Advanced Group and it houses Pink, Brown and Silver." said Blake.

"Excellent Ms. Belladonna, however there is a small fun fact about this group. It used to hold Pink, Brown, Silver and Gray, but the Aura researchers decided to include Gray and Silver into the same type, not that I agree. Anyways... these are the most advanced groups that normal people can have, with Silver always guaranteeing a Glyph Semblance, Gray generally having a Semblance relating to deception, Pink generally relating to Lightning or other explosion-like effects, and Brown having a unique effect. Brown has the ability to, and I quote, do what ever it wants. It can use any of the effects of the prementioned colors as a semblance, minus gray and silver, making it a great ability. The only downside is that it requires a lot of focus and energy to use these effects, but if you use them they can be the most deadly ones mentioned so far. Now, does anyone know of the last two types?" asked the Professor, to which after a minute of mumbling from the students trying to find the answer Jaune rose his hand.

"I believe it is White and Black sir." said Jaune.

"Excellent Mr. Arc, excellent. Now, these two types are in a unique category. These are known as the Holy Group. Generally speaking, this group is almost unique to one family in history and it is the Arc family. There have been cases of non-Arc's having this semblance but it is not my place to say. Now, these are officially known as Holy White and Devil Black. Both of these can result in Aura Creation semblances, but so far it has only been shown to be in the Arc families. Both of these groups can also use any of the prementioned semblances as their own, but again it is only one and they generally cannot choose. There are also some effects from simply having these types of Aura. The Holy White type is unique as it has an increased regeneration factor and the ability to heal others, which is why it is often referred to as holy. Now, the Devil Black Aura type is also unique as it is the only type of aura that cannot shield or heal damage done to the body, but it can easily destroy other aura as well as make the person wielding this ability stronger in nearly all aspects. So far, in recorded history, only Noir Arc has been shown to wield this, but I doubt that she is the only one. Now, are there any questions?" asked the teacher, looking around before spotting a lone hand.

"I have a question, is it possible to mix aura types or perhaps change?" asked the student.

"Oh, that's a fun question. Here's a fun answer. No and Yes. It is absolutely impossible for a man to have two or more different types of aura as that would hint of having two souls in one body as it is impossible for a man to have two types in one soul. Now, there is a way to change your aura type but I would never recommend it. This is extremely dangerous and is likely to kill you. If you go through a traumatizing event, enough so that you will be changed forever, your soul may change to reflect onto what had happened. However, it is deadly for the reason that your body may reject the new aura, and the old aura residing in your body will attempt to destroy the other aura and this can cause damage to your body until there is only one type left and generally after that the damage done to the inside of your body is usually enough to kill you. Isn't that fun? Now, class should be ending in a few seconds so have a good day and heed my warning!" said the teacher as the class ended and the students shuffled out quietly at the deathly news.

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"So what does that have to do with you?" asked Yang, getting out of the flashback.

"Well, us Arcs have a fun trick. This is a smaller part, so miniscule in comparison to the other, of the Third Trumpcard. All I can say is that once an Arc runs out of his or her aura, provided that they have a certain secret unlocked and used, they can use this neat trick. Once I run out of Aura, which mine is Holy White, I can call upon Devil Black to which I can use it as I wish. Unfortunately for me it doesn't heal my wounds so Cardin's hit to the stomach still applied and I only lasted long enough to finish the fight was because of adrenaline." said Jaune.

"That seems pretty powerful..." said Pyrrha.

"Oh, it has a drawback. Even if it was a life or death situation, right now I can't call upon this Aura, and it's unlikely I will be able to for quite some time, it could take a day for the smallest of functions and up to a week for it to be back to normal so in a fight it's a one time thing and it greatly exhausts me. Not that it would matter if it is a one time thing as generally if I'm using it I'm on the ropes." said Jaune, explaining it.

"That seems fair..." said Ruby.

"Now, I have a question for you, and it is of upmost importance." said Jaune seriously, shocking everyone in the room for a moment.

"What is it?" asked Pyrrha.

"How long was I out for?" asked Jaune, to which everyone facepalmed before releasing a few laughs at how funny the blond could be.

"You've been out for a day now, so you'll need to catch up. However, the field trip to Forever Falls is tomorrow and I don't think that the doctors will allow you to stay here when you're healthy again and at full aura." said Yang, pointing to the monitor showing that Jaune was healthy again.

"Oh yeah... I have a question. How did you guys get here so fast? I thought Ruby and Pyrrha were the only one here." said Jaune in wonder.

"Oh, we were coming to visit as classes had already ended but Pyrrha somehow convinced the doctors to allow her to stay here until you woke up. They allowed it, and earlier I snuck in here and I haven't been discovered yet." said Ruby happily.

"That's good to see I have such good friends. But speaking of visitors, did anyone visit me when I was out?" asked Jaune worriedly.

"Velvet came in here and did something with her aura on you before leaving and your sister Verta showed up for a few minutes, before typing something into her scroll and walking away. She told us that you need to catch up for your classes or she was going to call someone on you, I think she said it was Ange, but I'm not sure..." said Pyrrha, recounting the visits.

"Oh god... Hopefully she hasn't done anything rash yet, I don't want to unleash that storm yet..." said Jaune in fear, worrying his friends, before cheering up.

"It should be alright, now I'm going to go check up with the doctors but you guys should leave." said Jaune.

"Why?" asked Ruby.

"I'm going to need to change out of this gown and I can't do it with you guys here, can I?" said Jaune rhetorically, with a small blush from Pyrrha and Ruby, with Yang acting as if to say a perverted comment before Ruby rushed her out of the room with the rest following in toll. As Blake closed the door, Jaune pulled out a white feather, before smiling that his secret was safe for another day.

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Hey guys, RWBYBlackFlames here and I hope you enjoyed this chapter. It was a bit rushed so if there are any errors, forgive me. Also, 'The Misadventures of Roman and Neo' isn't a one-shot. It's just random stories I come up with involving the criminal gang, so yeah. Be prepared. Black Flames out!