Fears for the Future

Pyrrha sat down at the cafeteria table with her team and team RWBY. Their usual happy demeanor was gone, replaced by a sullen silence that permeated the table. It had been six days since their fight with Jaune and half of them were still wearing bandages to remind them of it. Nora and Ren both needed crutches to walk and Weiss still had no use of her right arm. Yang could do little more than walk without causing her to double over in pain, Ruby had to take special pills so as to keep her body at the right temperature until it could do so on it's own and Blake would have back spasms if she over extended. The only one that was still in decent physical condition was Pyrrha, but she was so emotionally messed up that she was even worse than the rest of them.

They ignored all the looks that they got from the other groups. They'd been getting them since they got back. People wanted to ask questions on why two of the best teams at the school came back from a mission with some of them more dead than alive. At first some tried but after tears came and team LNCR stepped in, the attempts stopped.

Pyrrha glanced over at team LNCR who sat at the next table and her eyes connected with Lucifer's. She quickly looked away and picked at her food. Lucifer winced, she'd been avoiding him since she got back and he hadn't been able to find a chance to ask her what was going on.

To Pyrrha she couldn't look at Lucifer with seeing the cold hearted expression that Jaune had worn when he had said Lucifer's name. 'How had he known.' She had asked herself this every day since that moment but every time she did the only other thought that came was that she was the reason Jaune had never and would never come back. That thought always brought tears to her eye's and made her loose the strength to do anything.

The rest of day passed slowly for Pyrrha, it seemed longer than the others and when it was over Pyrrha went to the roof where she Jaune used to train. She hadn't been up here since Jaune had fallen, it brought back to many memories. Pyrrha could still hear the ringing of their weapons, she had always felt closest to Jaune when they were up here and when she had looked into his eyes she had always seen the potential he had to become the hero he always wanted to be. But that Jaune was gone, she had killed him, and the Jaune that she fought at the cliff had been someone else. It had been like her nightmares had come to life.

The wind rushed through Pyrrha's hair as she stared out from the roof's edge. It sounded like the world sighing and only made her own sorrow come out even more.

"Been awhile since you were up here," a voice said behind her making her jump.

Pyrrha turned to see Lucifer standing inside the doorway, his hands in his pockets. "Luke, what are you doing up here?"

Lucifer walked out onto the roof and up to her. The wind pulled at his hair making it slick back. "I want to know what happened." He said when he was less than arms length from her.

"What do you mean." Pyrrha asked trying to delay the inevitable question that was sure to come.

"Just an abnormally large grimm pack." He said and Pyrrha dropped her head. "Between your team and team RWBY, I doubt there's a pack large enough to do that kind of damage to the seven of you."

Pyrrha stared at her feet and said nothing, the a hand touched her chin gently and Lucifer pull her head up so she was looking into her piercing green eyes. "Come on, if nothing else I'm your friend right." He said, his voice was soft and kind.

A small blush appeared on Pyrrha's face and to her surprise, she smiled. "That's better." Lucifer said.

Pyrrha finally gave in, "you won't tell anyone right."

"Of course not."

"We found Jaune." Pyrrha said after a pause."

Lucifer froze. "And he did that to you."

Pyrrha nodded. "He was less than happy about us finding him. He was so angry, and so powerful." She shivered as she remembered watching cutdown her teammates one by one.

"That doesn't sound like Jaune." Lucifer said.

"I don't want to believe it, but it was him." Pyrrha said shaking her head. "But thats not all of it."

Lucifer raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean."

"Luke he knew, he knew about us. When we were together."

Lucifer let go of her and his eyes widened. "How..."

"I don't know Luke but he knew and when he looked at me, he was so cold." Pyrrha closed her eyes to try and hide her tears but some leaked out anyway.

Suddenly Lucifer pulled her chin back up so she looked at him again, but this time he didn't say a word, instead he pulled her close and kissed her. It was a gentle kiss, and Pyrrha hesitated at first but soon she gave in and kissed him back.

They stood there for a long time, how long neither of them could have guessed. When they finally broke they stood in silence with Lucifer holding Pyrrha with she pressing her head against his chest.

After a time Pyrrha let out a little chuckle which caused Lucifer to look at her, "what?"

Pyrrha smiled, it was small but it was a beginning. "Oh nothing." She said, but in her mind she thought. 'Maybe you were right Jaune.'

Jaune's Hotel Room

Jaune was pouring himself another glass of whiskey when he heard Raven enter the room. He looked over just in time to see the rest of her red portal dissipate. She was wearing a form fitting red dress with black accents near the bottom, her crimson eyes stared into his red and blue ones.

After a brief pause Jaune eyed her up and down and said. "Night on the town." He said taking a drink from his glass.

Raven looked down at her attire and shrugged. "I dress to impress." She took a few steps toward him, swaying her hips hypnotically as she did so. "What, you not like what you see."

Jaune just laughed, he raised his glass to her and drained the rest of it. "I'll give it to you, you certainly know how to set a mans blood on fire, but I'm not looking for another bedroom sparring session with you."

One of Raven's black eyebrows slid up. "Really, but the last one was so much fun."

"I can't say, I was so drunk last time I don't remember most of it. Come to think of it so were you. How do you even remember it." Jaune said refilling his glass again.

"Eh. I guess my memory is slightly better than yours." Raven said as she went over and took a seat on the couch, crossing one leg over the other.

"That's not saying much." Jaune replied and drained his glass again. He stared out at the moon thought about what had happened.

Raven surveyed the room and her eyes fell on the three empty bottles of whiskey that were in the corner then up to the near empty one that rested on the desk. "You okay?" She asked and watched as Jaune's gaze hardened and his grip tightened on the glass.

"I'm fine." He said and Raven just raised an eyebrow.

"Bullshit." She said keeping her voice level.

Jaune sighed and glance out at her from his blue eye. "I saw team RWBY and the rest of team JNPR."

Raven nodded. "I know." She had watched the fight from a distance and was about to step in if it hadn't been for Glynda.

"I knew they were angry and sad. But when I saw them and when I tossed Milo to them, it was like looking at Shira all over again." Jaune drained his glass and after examining it for a second turned and hurled it against the wall where it shattered to pieces.

Raven said nothing for a long time, she had known Jaune for only three months and she new only a fraction of his story, but from what she did know, Jaune had a very complicated past and the majority of it was less than pleasant. The one time she had looked into his thoughts through his aura, she had nearly passed out from the flood of pain, anger, and sorrow that Jaune had bottled up inside him. Though despite all this he never pulled people into it his misery, he kept everyone he could out of it and faced it alone. It was admirable but saddening at times as it made working with him an aggravating. Finally she decided to speak. "Do you regret not telling them the truth."

Jaune leaned on his desk. "No." He said sat down in a chair and breathed in deeply. "I don't regret anything."

"Then what's tearing you up? The fact that you had to hurt them."

"That was necessary, they had to stop looking for me. They'd only get hurt."

Raven stood and walked to the window. "Are you concerned that you'd be the one who hurt them, or that he would."

Jaune's knuckles cracked as his hands turned to fists. "Either way, if they've stopped looking then they're out of harms way and that's enough for me." He said and when he looked up Raven was standing right in front of him with her hands on his shoulders.

"Then stop beating yourself up over it. Your just gonna get yourself killed. Especially with what I have to show you." Raven said and pressed something into his hands.

Jaune looked at it and saw it was an envelope. He opened it and saw inside the photograph of a man with brown hair and eyes, wearing very expensive clothing and talking on a scroll. "Who's the rich guy." He asked handing it back to Raven.

"Gregory Brown." Raven said taking the photo back. "He's a high standing stock holder who run's the Schnee branch in Vale."

Jaune raised an eyebrow. "Okay, this is relevant because..."

Raven smiled, just a little, but she was starting to get his attention. "Last night he met with one Neopolitan to discuss something."

Now Jaune was smiling. "He still at work?"

"He'll be there for another hour."

Raven was now smiling widely as she saw a grin spread across Jaune's face. "I'll meet you outside the building in three minutes." He said and Raven walked through a portal winking seductivly as she did so.

Outside Schnee Building

Jaune and Raven stood on the roof of a building across the street from the Schnee headquarters. They were both dressed for combat, Jaune in his black garb with aura armor gauntlet and shoulder guard on his left arm. His bow was in his left hand and a short, strait single edged blade attached to his hip, in his right hand he held a full face grimm mask. Raven was in her red and black attire with a her katana in it's sheath and her grimm mask already on.

"What's the plan?" Jaune asked putting his own mask on.

Raven thought for a moment before replying. "He's got thirteen men in the hallway that leads to his office and another four inside. In the floor below that he's got twenty."

Jaune nodded once. "Guy doesn't fuck around does he."

"I'll take the one's below and you clear out the office." Raven finished, the dust viles in her sheath spun and she created a portal next to her. " I'll meet you in his office in two minutes." She said before stepping through and disappearing.

Jaune smiled behind his mask and created a portal of his own, "challenge excepted."

Hallway

The guard yawned and stretched as he checked the time. He'd been standing in the hallway for nearly three hours and he was bored as hell. That rich bastard in there didn't pay them enough to have them stand around all day. He was thinking about just leaving when a light flashed off to his left and he turned to see a portal swirling at the beginning of the hallway and three arrows flew out followed shortly by a figure in black leaping out with a fourth arrow drawn.

Jaune released his fourth arrow while he was still in the air and rolled when he hit the ground. His first four shots each hit a guard, three were kill shots and the last took a man in the shoulder and made him stagger into the wall.

Coming out of his roll Jaune threw a short dagger into a man who was leveling his gun, the dagger released an electric shock that fried the man's nervous system. Jaune blocked a swing from the short red sword that the guards had with his bow and punched the man in the gut before turning and blocking a strike from a guard behind him. He pushed the guard's sword aside then back handed him with the bow knocking him out. Whipping around he turned and fired an arrow into the guard he had fought first, it took him in the chest and he went down. Two more came in now and a flurry of blows were exchanged. Jaune blocked one sword and punched it's owner in the jaw, drawing his sword he ducked under another blade and stabbed the man in the gut then turned and slashed the others neck open.

Pulling the sword out Jaune rushed the next two, he side stepped the swing of one and shoved the man behind him, kicking the next in the chest Jaune brought his sword down and cleaved into the mans sternum and halfway down his chest. The guard behind him was charging now and Jaune let go of his sword and saw the two in front of him were readying their guns. Ducking the swing from the guard behind him and spun behind his back, the man let out a gurgle as the two other guards fired they're guns. Drawing another arrow Jaune aimed the bow over the guards shoulder and fired the left guards chest. After a second the arrow exploded took out the guard next to him.

Jaune took a deep breath as he let his anger drain out. He was about to head through the door when the sound of a gun cocking sounded behind him caused him to turn around. It was the guard who had been hit the shoulder in his first volley. The guard was raising a pistol with his uninjured arm and was attempting to hold it steady. Pulling out another shock dagger Jaune threw it at him, it took the guard in the eye and his body convulsed from the electricity that was going directly into his brain. After a final spasm the guard went limp and blood began to come out of his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears.

Turning back to the door Jaune knew that the guards on the other side were probably aiming their guns at the door, he'd have to be fast so they didn't get a shot off. He took a deep breath before kicking the door in and firing an arrow that released a bright flash when it hit the floor in the center of the room. Diving in Jaune fired two arrows from into the guards on his left then pulled out two more daggers and got the two by the desk. Jaune turned to the desk and walked up to Gregory who sat behind it and looked very scared. Grunts behind him made Jaune look over his shoulder to see a guard come sailing through a portal with Raven's katana sticking out of his chest. Raven stepped out less than a second later and pulled the blade from his chest.

"Your late." Jaune said turning back to Gregory. Raven said nothing and just walked up to the desk and looked at Gregory, who looked about ready to wet himself.

"Wha... What do you want." Gregory stuttered out.

"Yesterday a woman named Neopolitan met with you. What did she want."

Gregory shook his. "I don't know what your..." What he was going to say was cut off when Jaune stabbed a knife into his wrist.

"Think Greg, pink and brown hair, carries a parasol."

Gregory tried to shake his head again but Jaune twisted the knife and he gave in. "Okay, okay. She wants to break Torchwick out of prison and she paid me to get her in, and once he's out give them access to the dust stores, thats all there is I promise."

Jaune glared at him from behind his mask. "Thank you." He said before punching Gregory in the face and knocking him out. After grabbing his sword he and Raven teleported onto the roof of the building where they had met.

"What now?" Raven asked removing her mask.

Jaune pulled his own mask off and thought for a second. "Go to the dust stores for this branch of Schnee see if there's anyone who's shady."

Raven nodded. "And you?"

"I'm gonna go to the prison and try and figure out when it would possible to break Roman out."

"Okay." Raven walked up and kissed him on the cheek. "Have fun." With that she walked through a portal and vanished.

Jaune smiled and was about to go back to the hotel when a instinct that had been born after years of life or death combat screamed in his head and he rolled to his left. A lance struck the ground where he had been, to his shock he realized it was a Wind Lance, all black with silver markings on the blade. Turning Jaune saw a figure step back from the edge of a building three back from his. He raced over there, covering the distance in only a few seconds.

Jaune reached and looked around, a figure leapt from the shadows sword raised. He caught the man's wrist and flipped him onto his back. Then three more came out and surrounded him. They all wore long grey coats with hoods up. In their hands they held long curved scimitar.

Releasing the one on the ground Jaune's sword flashed from it's sheath as he drew it and clashed with the attackers. He blocked a swing with his bow, then parried another with his sword. Spinning he brought the bow in a back hand swing across one man's head knocking him out before ducking a swing and stabbing another. Turing Jaune threw his sword into one of the remaining two and shot the last one threw the foot with and arrow, pinning him in place.

Grabbing him by the collar Jaune pulled the man in close. "Why are you hear." He whispered, venom dripping from his voice.

"You know well enough." The man replied.

Jaune growled before smashing the man's face and knocking him unconscious. Then clapping rang out from the building and a man wearing a black version of the attackers cloths stepped out. "Bravo, bravo." He said still clapping. His hand went up and pulled off his hood. Jaune gasped in dismay as he saw the one man, he had least wanted to see. "I would expect nothing less from my heir." The man said smiling.


Who's this man who calls Jaune his heir, and what will come of all this. No one has guessed right on what Blake saw in Jaune's eye but some of the guesses are interesting. Please review as it really helps and thanks for reading.