There isn't really much to say before I write this chapter, except for a few small things. First and foremost, testing is finished! (Well for the ELA at least) Although, I have another next week...ugh... Second, I has a question, should I focus all on this? Or make another one entirely, with Jaune of course but a whole different story line. Just a thought, I personally enjoy writing this story, and I probably won't but I just need ur suggestions.

Onwards to chapter 10!

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Chapter 10: Realization

Jaune was currently zoning out, trying his best to think oh so calm and happy thoughts. Thinking back to the planning they did, the bullhead was going to drop them near a suspected White Fang base. A ten mile radius is not what they would call near. Alas, they would have to take a 'short' walk to get as close as they can to scout out what they could find, and confirm that Roman is actually there, or at another location entirely. But...maybe he wasn't even here at all, they hadn't planned for that scenario in all honesty, but there wasn't really anything to plan, just a basic run and hope you don't get caught.

Their plans weren't the best if they had to say so, but in all technicality, an average plan is better than no plan, so they went with it. If Roman was there, they could choose one of two options, depending on which plan they decided on. Of course, Ruby had to come up with some 'serious' names for these plans, even if it wasn't necessary. Plan Kill everything in sight, and Plan hide in the shadows kill things. I know, they sucked, hard, very very hard. The former plan being pretty self explanatory. First, scout out and see just how many troops there actually were, if there weren't as much, they could rush and with the element of surprise and attack the fang members while Jaune got some 'personal' time with Roman.

The latter plan being as stealthy as possible, picking off as many members as they could, leaving Roman by himself, with the exception of a couple fang members that surrounded him. So, they were ready per se, just not as ready as they could be. His hand unconsciously was stroking something on his neck, it felt like a long jagged mark going down, probably, into his torso. He knew he never had this scar before, so he probably got it from the fight with Roman and the faunus. He was nervous, although showing no outward emotions, he most definitely nervous. Sure he beat both Roman and the Faunus last time, but that was only possible due to his gold armor, and hell if he knew how it was done.

His friends, of course, were all asleep, the trip was a long one, 9 hours, and they were only halfway through. Jaune never really took naps anytime, he just couldn't. He would just lay there closing his eyes, but not really be asleep, he didn't get why, he just went with it. While he was probably just gonna stare out the window for the next 4 and a half hours, that gave him plenty more than enough time to think about how he was going to handle the situation. He wasn't as angry as before, but still had that flame of pure hatred flowing through him whenever he thought of the murderer of his parents.

What does Roman have to gain from killing them? As far as he could tell he and the White Fang were after dust, and he remembered they were strictly dust free, though the reason he had no clue, this left him confused. There wasn't possibly anything he could gain out of this. But...what if he was looking at this wrong. I mean, think about it. Sure he commands the White Fang, but he's a human, and the founder sure as hell wouldn't have given leadership to a human. That leads on to his previous theory when he first saw the dust plane, a buisness deal. If this was a buisness deal, what would the White Fang have to gain? And more importantly, this leaves Roman without a reason to do the things he does again.

The only reason someone does things without reason...is because they're either being forced to, kind of like ransom. Or...if he's scared, scared of someone that was powerful enough to destory him in the blink of an eye. But even then it didn't explain what that person would want to do. Or...maybe it did. It did...if the person who planned the attacks...was her. That was all Raven wanted to refer to her as, Roman's partner, teammates of my parents. But...that still didn't...oh gods. The only reason they would do this, is to tie loose ends. To kill them off before they could share some sort of...secret to the world.

It finally made sense, they trusted my parents enough with their most deepest and darkest secrets. What if...my parents found out that Roman and I fought, and threatened to release that secret if he ever tried something like that again. They got scared, and decided it would be best to kill them off.

But...if there really was a secret, there were two questions in the back of everyone's minds.

What was this secret? And how much further were they willing to go to keep it?

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He spent the next 2 hours pondering on how he would find this secret. Sure he would get his revenge against Roman, but he had to find out who elese worked with him, and stop her before she did anything else. He figured, after this little 'mission' he would be able to search up leads on what this secret could be. The best place to search would probably be their house, while he didn't remember the excact directions to get back, he knew the general idea and could trudge off on foot from there.

He shook his head, he was getting too ahead of himself, he needed to focus on the matters at hand. Roman, he now served a purpose and he didn't have to kill him off just yet, he would try to get him to at least spill the name of his partner. It wouldn't be easy, but alas, things were never easy for him now were they? He checked his scroll, an hour and a half before the plane touched down and they were on their own, until they finished at least. He decided this was enough of his musings, let himself rest his head from these thoughts before focusing back to the mission.

He went back to just staring at the plain, open sky. It was so calm. Among other things, Raven had taught him to be calm under all his cheery and happy attitude. She taught him to look at even the simplest things in a different perspective, and it would help solve your problems, one way or another. The scenery around him, the quiet sounds of little breaths in and out, or even the sound of the dust plane engines. This indeed calmed him enough to let his mind rest, if this were any other person, it would be 'silent'.

His eye lids drooped, he was getting tired. He didn't know how, he never felt like this unless he had a big fight or stayed up for a long time. And of course it had to be when they were almost to their destination. That thought made him snap back awake, he had to stay awake to alert the others, ahead of time at least.

His thoughts were just about to go of back to his parents before he heard a quiet voice," Jaune...are you sure you'll be okay." It was the only other male in the clan than him, Ren. While they never talked a lot, you could tell their bond was definitely a brotherly one. They did practice on ki together from time to time, this helped him immensely if he did say so himself. Jaune nodded slowly, exhaling as he took his mind off of things to focus on the peopl around him.

Ren put a hand on his shoulder, while this may not seem like much, it held more emotions than 1000 words could ever give. He slowly got up and made way back to his seat with a sleeping Nora next to him, they're inseparable. He chuckled a little bit at that.

Yet another person made their way over to him but Jaune held his hand up, signaling her to stop," Don't ask if I'm fine. And also, please don't give me pity for my parents, Weiss." Weiss just shook her head and continued walking," I know you don't like it when people do that. So I'll do what I like people to do when I'm sad, I'll sit around you and comfort you." Weiss stated plainly. Jaune nodded his head in a 'thanks' and gestured for her to sit next to him. As she sat down, she yawned a bit, seemingly still a bit drowsy, and leaned her head on his shoulder.

They just, kind of sat there until it was 10 minites to land. "I'll wake up the others." Weiss called back. Jaune grabbed his stuff and stood up, stretching his limbs and cracking his neck. Weiss chose to wake up Nora first, seeing as she would almost always scream 'Pancakes' when she was woken up in any vehicle, don't ask. As his friends woke up he gestured to now opening door, they looked out and saw that it was a completely open forest, the perfect place for a secret lair.

They trudged onto the grassy soil and made their way north, Jaune knowing all this because he was taught to navigate through forests. They occasionally stopped to take quick water or snack breaks, before long they were at the treeline of the base. It was nothing but a simple warehouse in the middle of nowhere, but Jaune was smart enough to know it probably went underground from there. He sensed aura, a bunch of them, while not enough fang members to take down Jaune, it might give the other 7 a problem.

They charged in, Yang banging the doors out with her fists, crashing into the wall behind. Fang members looked up in surprise while the students cut them down, one, by one. Soon enough there were only a few left. "My, my, who knew you would be back so soon." a smug voice remarked. A scowl was already forming in Jaune's throat, there was only one person who knew has that voice.

He looked back to see Roman, and two Fang members standing by his side, they looked stronger than the others, though. One had a large claymore on his back, while the other held a futuristic lance in his right hand. While they didn't look like much, they were. Their auras were incredible, almost as much as two of his friends combined, and that in itself is a pretty good feat. "We got them." Ruby said. Jaune nodded as he began to circle around Roman.

"Now it's one against one." Roman snarled. Jaune really wanted him to stop talking, it was getting annoying as hell.

"How about 2 against one?" Jaune's eyes widened as he saw a figure walking towards Roman from behind. Roman turned around and his eyes widened in surprise.

There stood his Raven, her hand at the hilt of her sword as the dust capsules rotated. She unsheathed her sword and took a stance.

"Couldn't let you have all the fun now could I, Jaune?"

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AN: Man I dunno why but I personally loved that ending. It just seemed less...forced, as were some of my endings thus far. All the talk about secrets were kind of foreshadowing what would be of the next arc, maybe. Anyways, I'm kind of proud of this chapter if I have to be perfectly honest, it had a certain ring to it, I don't know how to explain it.

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