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Chapter 21 what misfortune?
Jaune sat down at a little coffee shop with a cup of coffee in front him. He slowly lifted his drink and took a sip from it. He looked over the rim of his cup at Qrow who sat across from him playing a game on her scroll. 'Is she even taking this seriously?' Jaune thought before Qrow spoke up seeming to have been able to read his mind.
"You know if you think I'm just screwing around you're mistaken." Qrow said quickly giving herself a small cheer at having beaten her old high score on the game. "I need to act calm like I don't know someone is watching you or going to try and snatch you. If you're would be captors think you're on guard watching every little thing, then it would make it harder for them to catch you."
Qrow said huffing as her character died. She just shook her head at her scroll, quickly pocketing it. Jaune just nodded at her setting his coffee down.
"So, what are you planning on doing if nothing happens?"
Jaune asked leaning back in his seat looking off to the side down the road. Jaune watched people pass on by before turning back to Qrow.
"You're such a negative guy. Look something is going to happen, you can trust me on that."
Qrow said a little too happily making Jaune wonder if she planned on ditching him at some point. Really Jaune had no idea what to make of Qrow's plan. He thought it was good at first thinking that if he was the bait it would lore in the soldiers who tried to capture him quickly. That hadn't happened. Jaune and Qrow have been walking around the city for the past 3 hours, occasionally getting a call from Beatrice who was on the roofs watching from above. In the three hours, they walked around nothing happened, save for some idiot who tried hitting on Qrow who crashed his car. Other than that, nothing really happened in the city. They walked around heading from shop to shop looking at anything they liked.
Qrow had tried to force Jaune into a lingerie shop for her own entertainment. That was annoying but Jaune couldn't say anything about it. After some more of Qrow's bothersome actions Jaune and her had gone off to some other places throughout the city. They mainly passed through the main streets visiting dust shops along the way. Jaune felt like he was sort of on a date with Qrow… That thought had shocked Jaune at first before he realized that other people might come to the same conclusion seeing as the two of them were walking around like they were on a date. Still Jaune didn't think it mattered seeing as he was trying to get abducted at the moment.
Jaune just fell back in his seat and went on to finish up his coffee. Qrow found it fun to question him some. She asked about his family, if he had any siblings. You know the normal questions you ask a person. He told her some about his mother, and his sisters. Qrow had almost choked on her flask when he told her he had 7 sisters. It was always fun to see people freak out at how large his family was. The next few hours were spent with them walking around time square till something caught Jaune's eye. He turned just in time to see the man who had attacked him a week ago, turn into an alleyway. Jaune quickly reached out grabbing Qrow's wrist. She turned to him in surprise before seeing the serious stare he had.
"What is it?"
She asked slowly letting her gaze pass over the crowd in case she saw something out of place.
"The soldier who attacked me last week." Jaune said turning back to Qrow throwing a thumb to the alleyway he saw the soldier down. "I just saw him duck into the alleyway over there. If anything, he's going to try and lure me into a trap like he did last time I followed."
Jaune said only for Qrow to smile at him.
"Well than let's go get caught in a trap."
Qrow said only for Jaune to sigh holding a hand up stopping her.
"First let's get Beatrice to join us."
Jaune said only for Beatrice to speak up from behind him.
"But I'm already with you."
Beatrice said making Jaune jump and spin around to see her standing before him eating an ice cream sandwich. Jaune stared at her questionably before shaking his head.
"Well I guess it's a good thing you're here. Let's go and find our would-be captors."
Getting a nod from the two women before him they moved off towards the alleyway. The three entered the alley with no trouble and moved off down the turns and bends of the alleyway before coming to a stop at the sight of the soldier Jaune had fought. The soldier stood glaring at the three of them before rolling his eyes.
"Come on and follow me!" The soldier grumbled turning to leave only to stop when he saw Jaune and the others hadn't moved. The soldier groaned in frustration before glaring at Jaune again. "Don't you just stand there you idiot! If we wanted to try and trick you again we would've done it already!"
The soldier shouted only for Jaune to look at him questionably.
"Really, showing yourself and letting us follow you into this alleyway seems like a pretty good trick, especially with the twist of you waiting for us like a guide."
Jaune said waving a hand to the side only for the soldier to growl in frustration. He looked like he was going to reach for the twin swords of his again only for another man to speak up walking from behind the soldier. Jaune wasn't really surprised and neither was Beatrice or Qrow. The latter simply taking out her flask and downing some of it. The new man was tall standing a full head taller than Jaune with spiky blue hair. The man was dressed in a simple plain black t-shirt with some worn blue jeans and boots. He also had on the exo armor underneath his clothing only noticeable through the armor that covered his forearms.
"Don't force it Corporal. If they don't follow they don't follow. We have no reason to start a battle with the Huntress."
The second man said clapping a hand on the Corporal's shoulder. The Corporal just grumbled before turning and walking down the alleyway the second man came from.
"Find then you guide them!"
The Corporal shouted throwing a hand up over head in frustration. The new man simply shook his head at the Corporal before looking back to Jaune. The man slowly smiled at him, which was surprising to say the least.
"So, you're the boy with aura. My name is Charley. I didn't get to meet you last time seeing as the Corporal back there went in to try and bring you in." The man said before rubbing the back of his head. "I apologize for that, we had no intention of trying to harm you, it's just the Corporal, as you pointed out last week, is envious of you."
Charley said surprising Jaune making him wonder if he was telling the truth. It made sense with how everything went last week when he was attacked. It really did feel like the Corporal was acting on his own. Still Jaune wasn't going to believe the man's words just because he gave a polite smile and sweet words.
"Good to know, next time you want to meet me why don't you just go through the proper channels and ask the Headmistress of Beacon. Maybe then we wouldn't have to get into some stupid fight because of a grown man acting like a child."
Jaune said making Charley glare at him slightly before taking a deep breath.
"You're right, that might have been better than what happened. Still I would like for you to follow me." The man said about to move only to stop seeing Jaune hadn't moved yet. The man just sighed before running a hand through his hair. "You still doubt me but listen. You're very important I'll make sure nothing happens to you."
Charley said only for Jaune to turn around.
"Sorry but no, I think I'm going to leave now."
Jaune said waving a hand over his shoulder while Beatrice and Qrow moved to follow him. Charley snapped his fingers and a dust force field formed before Jaune cutting off the exit. Jaune simply looked over his shoulder at Charley knowing that something like this was going to happen. Charley just glared at him while several more soldiers came walking out form the alleyway behind him. There were at least 30 soldier's most wearing simple masks to hide their faces. Jaune looked to Beatrice and Qrow who both quickly drew their weapons ready for a fight.
"Sorry boy, but I can't let you leave. You need to understand, you're very important." Charley said removing his t-shirt revealing the rest of his exo armor on his chest and a sleeveless under armor. "You see you have the answers to unlocking all men's aura. Letting you go would be wrong, so I'm sorry but I'm going to take you in by force."
Charley said getting a sigh out of Jaune as he drew Crocea Mors from his hip extending his shield ready for a fight.
"Sorry but I'd rather not be turned into a guinea pig."
Jaune said only to watch Charley throw his hands forward letting the soldiers behind him charge. Beatrice and Qrow met them, easily taking out three men each. Jaune was about to move and help only to see Charley jumping over all his soldiers towards him. He quickly dove to the side rolling back to his feet just in time to dodge Charley who crashed down where Jaune had been standing. Qrow saw this and was about to move to help Jaune only for the soldiers she was fighting to cut her off. The same happened with Beatrice as they all got circled by the soldiers who were desperately trying to fight them. Jaune stared in surprise at Charley who just turned to him pulling what looked like a handle of a sword from behind him before it turned into a hard-light sword.
"Sorry kid, but I need to take you in. Don't hold this against me; I'm only trying to make a better world for men."
Charley said as if that justified his actions. Jaune shot forward towards him not wanting to get caught by the man. He quickly slashed out with his sword only for Charley to parry the attack away with his own. Jaune ducked lifting his shield up blocking a slash from Charley. The hard-light sword cut into his shield sending sparks flying. Charley just stared in shock have expected his sword to of cut through the shield. Jaune smiled at this before pushing the sword away and slashing back out with his own. His sword missed as Charley just back pedaled and turned his body with each of Jaune's strikes not even having to parry the.
He wanted to curse but didn't as he quickly jumped back with his shield up blocking Charley's slash. 'Damn, he is a lot stronger than that Corporal guy. If I want to beat him, I'll need a plan!' Jaune thought ducking under another slash from Charley and lifting his shield to slam into his wrist so he would drop his sword. It didn't work though as Charley simply shifted his sword in hand letting it disappear before taking the hit to his wrist as his dust force field shielded him. Jaune cursed going to move back only for Charley to turn his sword back on as it shot down slashing against his left arm. He cursed in pain trying to pull his shield back only for Charley to pull his shield from his arm chucking it behind him.
Jaune went to try and slash at Charley only for him to draw another hard-light sword from his waist. It stopped Jaune's strike long before it could hit him. Jaune cursed only for Charley to slide into his guard slamming his right, hard light sword into Jaune's chin knocking him back and up into the sky. Jaune got 8 feet off the ground before crashing back into the ground with a heavy thud. Jaune groan in pain before quickly rolling to the side dodging Charley's swords as the cut into the ground where he was laying. He quickly pushed himself back up to a crouch just in time to raise his sword blocking Charley's second attack. Both hard light swords crashed into own pushing him back in his crouch making him crane his back. Charley pushed down onto Jaune staring at him passively.
"I'm sorry, but you are the only hope for the men of this world. You need to understand if you let us test you and your aura we might just be able to finally learn how to unlock the rest of the men in the world's aura." Charley said quickly lifting his knee slamming it into Jaune's face making him grunt in pain before Charley turned off one of his swords and grabbed Jaune lifting him over head and throwing him into the far wall of the alleyway. "If you came with us you would be the hero of MAN-kind!"
Charley shouted at Jaune as he crumbled to the floor before pushing himself back to his feet. Jaune really was getting annoyed with his words. Charley was insane if he though cutting Jaune open and experimenting on him was the way to learn how to unlock every other men's aura in the world. Jaune came up leaning his back against the wall just in time to see Charley thrust his sword at him. Jaune just turned his body to the side letting the hard-light sword sink into the brick wall. Jaune reached out with his left hand grabbing hold of the back of Charley's head and slammed his face down into the pommel of his sword.
"You are fucking crazy if you actually believe that bullshit!"
Jaune shouted as he lifted his knee up slamming it into Charley's gut with enough force to send him flying back across the alleyway. Jaune moved to continue his assault only for pain to shoot through his left should as the sound of a gunshot rang out. Jaune was sent spinning from the force of the shot hitting him as he turned just in time to see the soldier who shot him. He cursed before making himself do a second spin and chucked his sword at the soldier. The soldier yelped diving to the side just as Jaune's sword came at him cutting through his rifle. Jaune turned back just in time to see Charley's knee slam into his face sending him crashing into the ground with Charley on top of him.
"You stupid brat! Why don't you understand that you're the answer to the one question every man has been dying to know?! Why wouldn't you sacrifice yourself for all those men!"
Charley shouted lifting one of his hard-light swords overhead about to bring it down on Jaune only for a ball of fire to crash into him. Jaune turned just to see Beatrice aiming her weapon at Charley having finish up the last soldier on her side while Qrow did the same. Charley stumbled back off Jaune just for him to slide out lifting his right foot and slamming it into Charley's gut lifting him up and kicking him back into the alley wall with all his might. Charley hit the way so hard a large spider web crack spread out from where he hit. Jaune got back to his feet alongside Charley who went to try and charge him again.
Jaune quickly moved forward holding his left up blocking a quick right hook. Jaune stepped forward into Charley's guard and lifted his elbow up slamming it into Charley's jaw sending his head snapping back. Jaune grabbed Charley's arm turning and lifted him overhead before slamming him into the ground with all his might. Jaune stood over Charley as his exo armor's dust field flickered around him before dying off. Jaune panted some before Qrow walked up to him clapping his shoulder.
"Nice one kid, you did good."
Qrow said before turning to Charley who just groaned on the ground. Beatrice walked up to Jaune looking to him worriedly.
"Are you alright?"
Beatrice asked getting a nod from Jaune who pulled his scroll from his pocket. He winced when he saw he only had a sliver of aura left before completely hitting the red.
"Let's be glad that you were able to beat this guy."
Qrow said before flipping Charley onto his stomach pulling his arms behind his back and tying him up with rope she took from one of the other soldiers. Jaune quickly moved to remove the dust power cell from the exo armor so Charley couldn't break free. Beatrice went about tying up the rest of the unconscious soldiers she and Qrow had beaten up. Jaune had to admit, he was surprised that he hadn't been capture. It seems Qrow was also surprised as she walked up towards him.
"I got to admit, I'm surprised they didn't capture you."
Qrow said getting a nod from Jaune.
"Yeah, I really thought I was a goner but luckily Beatrice had saved me at the last minute." Jaune said only for Qrow just mumble something about luck confusing Jaune. "Is something wrong?"
Jaune asked only for Qrow to wave her hand at him dismissively.
"Nothing don't worry about it."
Qrow said walking over to help Beatrice tie up the last of the soldiers. Jaune just stared at Qrow questionably not sure what she was thinking before shaking his head and looking back to Charley wondering who he might be working for. 'Well once he wakes back up I guess I will finally learn which kingdom sent him.' Jaune thought before moving off to retrieve his weapons that had been scattered.
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AN/well some people brought up this remark about the harem tones for the story so I have to say. This is very anime like idea of a harem so that should already explain what the tone of the story should have. But I do understand what you guys mean about going a little far with it. So I will take the information you shared and use it, or throw it in a trash can and say I don't care. All depends on how I feel. :) but jokes aside I understand what you reader people mean and I am listening. Also I will try and be more descriptive with my writing like one reader person mentioned I could do so there. Well nothing but the usual to say now.
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