Alright, so i said the next chapter was almost done, and that was a month ago so for that i apologize. Lets just say my schedule was flipped upside down by both misfortune and me being busy, case and point i lost about a good month of files (including chapters) when my computer litterally crashed on me, and I recently had family move in with me, about a week earlier than i was,told meaning all my spare time was cleaning and preping the house, regaining files, Work, and other things... over-all I wasn't able to really write anything, more so when a good amount of my stuff was deleted on me. My life is still hectic so updates will be random until things settle down... again. Again, sorry for the major delay on my end.

That out of the way, like always i Do NOT own One Piece, RWBY, or any characters, references or other. All things belong to their original creators and owners. So like i said, i own nothing.

The room was filled with tension as the night echoed out from a bit of rain coming down on the island, several specters surrounding the three Remnant Pirates as all of them looked on in an emotion of fear, dread, shock and disbelief. How on earth did this happen, just what was going on here on this island? Jaune rested his hand on his blade, shaking in a bit of fear since he never had to deal with ghosts, or rather he never thought he'd have to deal with ghosts. Neo meanwhile narrowed her eyes, pulling out a weapon of her umbrella as she felt just as horrified, wondering if this was just a dream, hoping this was some kind of nightmare while Isaribi was terrified, unconsciously shifting into her Kaima form before the woman and the old man spoke up again.

"Forgive us, for our sudden reveal" he said as the three would have scolded him about it being too late if they weren't horrified, "But… we need your help, my villagers and I, we are trapped, unable to move on until our unfinished business is done and our souls are at peace." Jaune narrowed his eyes before taking over for the other two, Isaribi still unnerved to talk and Neo not risking putting on a ring to weaken her for communication, not trusting the ghosts that surrounded them.

"What exactly is going on here, who… what are you guys?" he asked out, finding a bit of bravado but no way in hell letting his guard down, Neo doing the same while Isaribi slowly calmed down from the shock, to their surprise, the woman from earlier spoke up.

"We… need you to save this island, save it from Releo and his men" she cried out, her voice filled with remorse and anger buried within it as Jaune was confused, Isaribi summing up their questions next.

"Releo, whose he?" she asked while at the same time trying to remember where she heard that name before. The chief merely nodded his head and decided to explain.

"Alan Releo, he is a monster that poses as a man, who came to this island a few days ago in hopes of locating our island's secret treasure" he said as he pointed to the Poneglyph that stood behind the Remnant Pirates as they all looked up to the large block of stone with confusion before turning back. "Releo sought out this island after hearing about a rumor of a treasure that rested here, but sadly we held no desire to acknowledge him or his demands of revealing it's location, it is protected by a fruit ability that young Grace held in her life but was undone after her parting."

"It was our duty to our ancestors to protect this Poneglyph with our lives, a fate we had served dutifully but now…" Grace said before looking away, sadness on her face as Jaune slowly grew more comfortable around the ghosts before deciding to address them fully and without any form of fear.

"Let's start from the beginning, who is Releo, the Panda Family here being here for the Poneglyph, just what is happening here?" he asked as the chief nodded.

"As I stated, it happened a few days ago, we were living peacefully and content, the Poneglyph protected and our village filled with life, thriving as any other. However, Alan Releo, an executive of the Panda Family, came to this island with his men in hopes of taking it for both himself and the Panda Family. We resisted, we lied about our treasure in hopes to persuade him to abandon the search for the Poneglyph, but he was not so easily dissuaded with our claims. Instead, he attacked us, aiming for the women and children first and demanded answers, we tried to beg for mercy, to let them go but without hesitation…" he trailed off as the three of them noticed that several of the ghosts were infact children, Jaune and the others feeling anger bubbling in them.

"He went after the children?" Jaune muttered as Isaribi spoke up in another outburst, one that if she or Neo hadn't done, he would have.

"Why didn't you tell them then, I mean I know you said it was some duty but they were just kids!" she shouted before the elder stuck out his tongue, while Jaune and Isaribi narrowed their eyes further and shook in rage, Neo noticed something, pointing to the tongue and holding her hand out to prevent her crew from attacking. Looking back at the woman confused, Jaune looked at the tongue once more, or rather at a mark on it and was confused, a black lettering on it, something similar to the Poneglyphs, but at the same time, different.

"What the, there's a marking on your tongue" Jaune asked as the chief nodded his head as he looked down and sighed, it was clear he was regretful.

"That is a mark of silencing that our ancestors made to prevent us from ever speaking about it, so long as we lived. It is custom to brand anyone born on our island or village with such a mark to prevent the Poneglyph from being spoken, whether we wished to or not." He stated as Jaune frowned.

"So you had no choice, even if you wanted to" he said as several others nodded before the chief spoke up again, this time his voice lacking his sadness and regret to a more hostile tone.

"After that, Releo killed the children and ordered his men to attack and to interrogate us. I and the warriors of our village fought to our best abilities, but sadly…" he trailed off, they got the point before Jaune spoke up.

"So you want us to get rid of this Releo guy, that's it?" he asked as the chief nodded his head, Jaune smiled a bit at that as he let out a smile and shook his head amused. "How come we find ourselves in these situations?" he asked with a bit of humor. This would be the second round with the "Sea Mafia" and thinking about it, the past Jaune that went to Beacon would be shocked at the things he would consider normal.

Neo merely smiled, wanting to take down the heads of the Panda Family ever since Jaune and her fought them when they first arrived. Isaribi however voiced her own question.

"Does that mean we have to kill them all?" she asked, a bit unnerved as she became the center of attention. Between the confused expression from Neo, who wanted to say kill them all, the concerned expression of his realization that he probably was going to have to kill at least Releo and the ghosts looks of lament, the chief spoke up again to answer the pirate's concerns.

"Whether you seek to kill or seek to defeat, all I ask is that you drive them away" he said before Jaune spoke up.

"Israibi, I told you that I killed before, and I know you have to, but if you want me and Neo can handle this so you don't have to-"

"No" the other pirate stated, catching Jaune off guard as Isaribi smiled, her bandages having been ripped when she transformed, now returning to her human form but with a look of confidence and her scales that permanently scarred her figure showing brightly. "I, I don't want to kill them all but if this Releo guy is as bad as he is, then I can't sit and do nothing while you and Neo get your hands dirty. I'm a monster too, so let's tackle this together" she finished as Neo smirked. Jaune, however smiled as well, crossing his arms and nodding his head, seems like he was worried for nothing. Sure he didn't like the idea of killing but if he needed to, and considering how the last few fights ended, he's have to, then he'd do it to allow the ghosts to rest in peace.

"Alright then," Jaune said as he looked at Neo's giddy expression, nearly ecstatic to get back into the ring while Isaribi kept her confidence, he smiled and turned back to the chief and gave their overall reply. "We're in." Upon hearing that, the spirits of the villagers became much more cheerful, smiles forming on their faces before the Chief spoke up one last time.

"Then I think I should explain what we know about Releo and his two men that followed him" he said as the three pirates paid attention to the older man. "The first one is an assassin, known as Olsin, he is a skilled ninja, who tracked those that went into hiding. He is also an ability user" he said, catching the three off guard, guess it made sense since Boshu and that other guy… Zero were also devil fruit users, knowing their luck all of them were…

"We don't know what he did but his weapons seemed to change. They would extend, stretch and so many other things, some of us never saw it coming, please be careful of his abilities" one man said as another woman smiled sadly.

"From what we know, he's the strongest user of weapons, he was an assassin trained by the Panda Family's best, he won't be easy, but if you could see how to maneuver around them… you might have a chance" she said as Neo smiled, looking at her fellow crew and nodding, Jaune nodding in agreement.

"Alright, so Neo's getting this ninja then" he said as Neo mentally cheered. This was going to be fun. She used similar abilities, unlike him however, she could create her weapons to his apparent changing them, it would come down to a means of tactical advantages, superiority over weaponry and manipulation of their abilities as well as hand to hand combat and a bit of slight-of-hand misdirection. Overall it seemed Neo was going to fight her own Neo and she was going to break him when this was over.

Isaribi seemed to sweat at the sight of her excitement, Jaune sweat-dropping as Neo was getting way to pumped up for this, looking at her, she seemed like a young kid who was given some candy or a new toy, Jaune somewhat pitied the poor bastard of an assassin now…

"Next would be a man known as Trenno" Grace said as she got their attention as the three pirates looked at her as she continued. "trenno is a gunman, he is a sharp-shooter and is able to take several hits, he was the one who took most of us out when we tried to fight back when Releo dealt with several of the others."

"Does he have any fruit ability?" Isaribi asked as Grace calmly shook her head as a no, her smile not leaving as it appeared there was a good thing to this battle after all.

"Trennor however is the one who commands the men in the area other than Releo himself, he's usually at the ship and acts as the guard" she finished as Jaune thought it over, while it was beneficial for Isaribi to fight Releo or Olsin for her advantage over their own abilities and more importantly, their drawbacks, she was more suited for the job, taking ships and striking others out of nowhere… as much as he hated to admit it, she was the best candidate for the job.

Isaribi said nothing but seeing Jaune look at her, the two had a silent conversation as the older pirate smiled as that left Jaune with Releo. Now he was thinking just going out and teaming up on Releo but if they were all going after someone then the others could try to blind-side them. Thinking about it, he soon thought of an idea, a risky and foolish one but one nonetheless. Memories of his time back on Dusk Island returned and a smile appeared on his face…

…

"Tell me Jaune, do you know the best way to fight a group with more men than yourself" Miles asked as both he and Jaune sat at a table, a chess board laid out as they took a break with Jaune looking at the board in thought while Miles smiled at the game, he would admit that even when Jaune was a weakling physically he was at the very least a tactical genius…though he needed to work on that and be a bit more creative, he could notice a small and obvious detail and act on it, he was going to need to expand on that though and judging by the way the board was currently set, his queen and rook were the only ones in danger while at the same time, his queen was at risk if he used it and his own king and rook were taken into the other pieces as a means of protection.

"What do you mean, don't you just divide and conquer?" he asked as Miles nodded, moving a pawn onto the board to better protect the queen at risk of being under attack.

"There are many ways of going about it, that's just one way kid. You could go after them all and damage them physically, you could outsmart them and overtake them with tactical exploits and make them move into the palm of your hand, such as what I can see you're trying to do here" he said as Jaune frowned, moving a knight up to go after the rook while the older man continued. "You could play their emotions or faith but I have a feeling you aren't interested in that kind of way of fighting… so we're going to move onto the first two."

"Is that why you wanted to play a game of chess?" Jaune asked as the older man laughed.

"Somewhat, really the reason was that why physically you're the runt of the litter, tactically you already have some potential, you're going to eventually learn Rokushiki, you agreed to that last week" he reminded as Jaune nodded, wanting to get stronger as Miles smiled at that. "Then for now, I want you to relax and to think. This game isn't going to just be some kind of over the top training that I'm going to put you through with the Rokushiki, this is a means of concentration, learning new tactics, brain-flexing and most importantly, I'm already kicking your ass physically, might as well make you my whipping boy mentally while I'm at it."

"Gee, thanks" came Jaune's reply as he continued to look at the board, getting an amused smirk from the former marine assassin. "Listen Jaune, there's something you need to know, there are people that are strong and lead and there are people that are weak and follow the strong. Now there are people that are strong but cowardly, losing faith when the odds are against them while the weak are even more so. There are people that will risk their life in a losing fight while being the weakest in the world while they could easily give in at the last minute. Do you know why that is?"

Jaune didn't say anything at that, being just as confused as ever, seeing this, Miles moved another peace one that placed his king in check and seeing as the king was protected by only several pawns, the rook under attack on his opponents side was ready to strike, the moment he took the attacking peace, it was mate and Jaune knew it.

"Ugh, guess you won… again" Jaune muttered as Miles smirked, it was a good game, the last four or so were, tactics were their forte of sorts so he just needed to be more open minded and less predictable. "Kid, let me say that experience is key, you could know everything but unless you can act on it and act on it without hesitation or doubt then you will always be open" Miles said as Jaune nodded before the older man left one more question hang in the air.

"So… another round before I make you my pack mule?" he asked as Jaune slowly started to come up with another strategy. One more couldn't hurt too badly.

…

Back in reality, Jaune snapped out of his memory as the chief began to explain his opponent and the executive. "Finally, we have Alan Releo himself" he said as several others flinched at the name, having the more… unsettling deaths while he was around and for good reasons too. "Releo is the strongest, even if her didn't fight much, when he did he was able to take out our strongest without much effort, even without his ability" he stated as Isaribi perked up in interest.

"What is it anyways, a Paramecia class?" Isaribi as the chief looked at her and saw her return to her more human appearance and sighed.

"The same as yours I would assume" he said, making them confused, Isaribi didn't have a fruit ability, even if she did the only thing she had really that considered as one was-

"Zoan" they muttered, as they all realized what he was getting at, the old man nodding his head.

"Yes… while we don't know what ability he has, he was once a pirate of the South Blue, a man who ate the Zoan type that caught the eye of the Panda Family, from what some of us figured out about him from our time lingering in this island, he was once worth around Thirty Two-Million Belli before he joined.

Well… that made things a bit more difficult and intimidating, a Zoan with near-no morals that is a bit higher than Jaune was. Oh well, he knew that bounties were sometimes misleading, he'd have to just figure out what kind of threat he had to deal with while testing the waters. As the night moved on, Grace smiled sadly.

"Our time… is nearly up, please be careful… and don't let us down" she called out as she and several of the other spirits slowly began to vanish, leaving the three pirates alone in the cave. Before they could say anything about that, the voice of the chief spoke deep within the ears of the three.

"When you are successful… return here… and we will… reward you with… the knowledge of old…" and with that, the chief vanished from sight with the rest of the spirits, the pirates left in the silence and darkness, all but the small light that they had with them that Neo silently picked up as they all looked at each other, the silence and tension wrapping around them as they decided to talk more in the morning, hoping that things would be simpler then.

…

"And that's the report, sir" one man muttered as Releo stood and looked slightly irritated at the news, he was debating going out about finding the Huntsman and Harlequin himself, but Olsin had left earlier, the night was in full effect, they were either hiding out or left. But he'd give his assassin a little more time, after all, he could be paitent when it came to a worthy game.

"Heh, from what I was told, I thought that this so called Huntsman was a little punk that decided to stick his nose in the adults' business, still have to admit that if this is right then things should liven up a little." Looking at the three posters, he let out a toothy grin with his eyes narrowing on Jaune's poster. A man who beat an executive, the weakest an most recent that only "earned" his title on a whim, from what he was last told, before setting out, the higher ups made a little wager on when he would get cocky or defeated, guess he had to thank the Huntsman for dealing with the fool for him.

Rein Zero, he didn't like weakness, even with his fruit's ability, even with his men, only to be taken down by a pathetic guy like this upstart blond swordsman? Nearly seemed laughable… Going more into his apparent "associate", the Harlequin, a woman that ambushed Gina and her little trafficking and made her look bad.

Not to mention that traitor… He had to go rogue and kill off that annoying scientist they had, taking that woman with him, their former number three and the lab rat. There were old news that they found replacements recently, he was going to make it his mission to take the two traitors next. Until then however, he'd give them tonight, to say their prayers and to make the most of their situation, his form changed in the night, his blood lust was amplified as the men around him all ran to avoid his "Eagerness to fight" as a loud roar echoed from his camp among the burned down buildings and rubble of the former village.

…

It didn't take long for the sun to rise, a few hours later, the cave entrance was exposed as Jaune, Neo and Isaribi popped out after having to camp in the hidden underground chamber with a set look of consideration on their faces, their plans made as Jaune crossed his arms, looking down and silently thinking with Neo inspecting her weapon, Isaribi glancing at her hand with a clenched fist, mentally preparing themselves for their fight. Eventually, the silence of the morning was broken by the captain. "You know the plan then?" he asked, knowing the answer but felt more comfortable in hearing it himself.

Neo silently nodded, a small grin forming on her face as she rested her weapon on her shoulder, a clear idea of her means to attract the assassin towards her, she needed to be loud and have him come to her. Meanwhile the older of the two women nodded herself, her skin slowly taking on her Kaima form as she approached a small river that lead to the waters the ship was in, her task was the hardest one, taking down both a man that was skilled with a gun and a good eye to use them with, but any and most of the men with the ship needing to be left in good condition and able to be taken for their own means. Mostly it was just agreed that they wanted elbow room and a bigger ship, they… or more to the point, Neo, was going to kill someone if it meant getting a bigger ship.

Better the Pandas to suffer than her and Jaune...

As Jaune sighed, he initiated his Kenbunshoku Haki, trying to sense where he could potentially locate anyone before he felt something approach him, and something fast, thinking fast, he pulled out his blade with narrowed eyes and prepared to face whoever was approaching him. Seconds later, both Neo and Isaribi noticed something as well, Neo falling in a stance as Isaribi narrowed her eyes and prepared to move if attacked.

The next thing they knew, Jaune weaved aside with Kami-E, a blade shooting forward with the means of trying to pierce him. Seeing the holder in the trees, Neo observed the blade with a bit of excitement and interest, seems that her opponent found her instead.

As the blade extended, the man spoke up, his identity hidden behind a mask that hugged his face that resembled a clay-like version of a bear, small holes for eyes and two more where his nose most likely was. "So, you aren't just another fool playing the hero" he said, mocking him as the three frowned. "I suppose I should thank you for being generous enough for coming out to face your inevitable fate and not trying to run."

"And you are?" Jaune asked as the man smiled behind his mask, brown cloak with what looked like a alligator face stitched to the front as his blade slowly returned to normal and a faint purple glow covered the steel until it returned to a knife shaped kunai. Neo smirked, ready to fight as the assassin decided to at least answer the question, secrets are crucial, but to the people about to die, a last courtesy is to give the name of the predator to its helpless prey.

"I am the man known as Olsin: the Ninja of Forging, former pirate worth Twenty-Seven Million Belli before being recruited by both Master Releo and the esteemed Panda Family as… a bargainer of sorts" he said as he addressed them with a bit of passion in his voice's deep tones. "I was originally out to hunt down the remaining vermin on this measly rock of sand and trees, but when word of your presence caught wind to us from that squad you attacked, I was sent to eliminate you three."

'…This is why I don't like sparing others that could be a threat' Neo muttered in her head with annoyance, honestly what was so wrong with killing some grunts and throwing them in the ocean to prevent others from finding out about them. Jaune however glanced at Neo, getting a nod, albeit an annoyed one before he decided to bring in a retort.

"As much as I would like to stay here and talk… I have some business with that boss of yours, hope you understand" he said as the assassin merely narrowed his eyes behind his mask and went for a strike, a small blade in hand as Jaune stayed still, Neo smirking before blocking the blow as Jaune jumped back and gave off a small laugh. "I'll leave you to my partner, Neo… have fun" he said as Neo's smirk grew.

As Jaune headed out, Isaribi ran to the ocean, jumping in the water below her and swimming to the ship, not knowing where it was but circling the island until she found it. As the two assassins were alone, Olsin merely sighed. "Why must you run and hide, at least you have the instinct to skip the tracking you down, very brave… but foolish"

Neo just rolled her eyes, not like she heard this before, typically when she heard this kind of shit from her opponents, she gained a little extra giddiness when she heard their bones break… so, how many bones would she break this time.

She was hoping at the very least four-

"Well then, I hope you said goodbye to your little boyfriend and that fish-woman" Olsin said as Neo and him both jumped away as Neo still had a look of excitement and cockiness. Scratch what she said...

She was breaking at least ten.

With that, Neo returned her aura enhanced umbrella back to her side while creating two small swords, Olsin doing something similar as the Panda Family's assassin pulled out another blade. As Neo eyed her opponent, she noticed the small kunai beginning to glow in a vivid purple, perhaps better of a plum-colored aura as the masked assassin brought his arm up and held the kunai as a sword to be swung. Instead of letting her confidence get the better of her and trying to take the blow or block it, she jumped away and landed on a nearby branch with grace as the kunai extended and reached her previous spot.

'So that's what they meant…' Neo thought, seeing the sword extend and slowly return to normal as Olsin followed up with a stab, the blade extending once more before she blocked it with her own invisible blades. However, Neo was pushed out from her spot in the tree, the blade propelling her to a nearby cliff before Neo spun in the air, avoiding the collision and having to dispel her weapons to do so as she smiled and ran at the assassin with her eyes changing and her hands gripping two newly conceived blades enhanced with her aura.

This was going to be fun...

And Cut, now I know this isn't much but the last few days... well the last month has been me trying to catch up and clean the house for my uncle to move in so I'm sorry this is all I really have, also I should have informed you all earlier but I wanted to get a new chapter out with the news so it was at least something other than an Author's Note... Also I decided to add in Omakes once again... so...

Omake: Motion-Sickness Cure

As Jaune was laying down on a small raft, Miles had a generally kind-hearted smile plastered on his face as Jaune had one of clear fear and pleading for him to reconsider, or he would if it wasn't for the gag in his mouth, a gag he would have removed if his arms weren't tied to the raft, or his legs, in fact he was tied down so his body spread out on the small raft as Miles had decided to conquer the knight's known greatest weakness...

Other than his swordsmanship... or his strength, or endurance... or honestly his fighting skills in general... no, he would be working on his motion-sickness. While Jaune had stated it was merely air-sickness, he wanted to make sure, and what better way to do that was there other than sailing...

Straight into a thunder storm

Yup, a honest to goodness thunder storm. strong winds that would tear you to shreds, fierce waves of water that would swallow you up within seconds... just another great night to set sail, and what was better was the sounds of thunder and... wait, did that bolt of lightning strike the sea? Perfect!

"Alright, Jaune. Are you ready for your first journey on the S.S Sol" Miles asked excitedly as Jaune tried to escape from his teacher's newest torture method before the former assassin continued, seemingly ignoring the younger man. "Great, let's head off, the S.S Shit out of Luck has left the sands... you have my support, and if it looks like you'll die, then I'll intervene" he finished, making Jaune freeze, what did he mean by that-

and with that, Mez D. Miles jumped off, sending his student, who was currently swearing and in a panic, off to the stormy sea, waving and smiling like it was a cruise ship or something. As Jaune was slowly heading to what could have been his doom, Miles gave a shake of his head, his arms now crossed as he hoped to see how well it would go for him... and as predicted, the raft broke within a minute or two, resulting in dear Jaune having to swim the rest of the way. Not his original intention but great survival training.

After the blond was carried back to land after ten minutes, he could only give a glare as Miles crossed his arms once more and with a smile, asked, "So, how was the swim?" he asked cockily as Jaune just kept glaring before muttering something and passing out, much to Mile's clear amusement, they would try again tomorrow when it was supposed to be a bit worse.