So hear it is, Moon's past is going to be revealed.
Just going to warn you thought, this chapter has a lot of line breaks.
Chapter 20
Jaune drove out of the arena and started to carry Moon to the sick bay, from what he gathered Seraph was being taken to hospital, Jaune gently placed Moon down on the sick bay beds and walked out to be greeted by Renegade, Thunder and Uang.
''what were you thinking!'' Thunder scolded ''now your gonna get disqualified!''
''I don't care for now the only thing that's my concern is Moon'' said Jaune hotly.
''and what about your friends?'' asked Thunder.
This hit Jaune and it made him realize he was so focused on Moon ''ok, I'll admit I didn't think of that'' said Jaune ''I didn't think at all, I just wanted to protect Moon that's all''
''look, its good to be protective, but you need to think sometimes Jaune'' said Thunder.
''listen I need to find answers guys, so listen Renegade look after Moon for me?'' he asked.
''of course I will'' said Renegade ''but where are you going to get information''
''right from the source, Caesar wanted Moon in this tournament for some reason and I'm going to find it'' said Jaune who then proceeded to run off.
Jaune quickly made his way to Caesar's observation tower that was in the middle of the duel arena, as Jaune ran there he heard that his duel and Grinder's duel was cancelled since the road had been busted up, Jaune just kept running though, he entered and ran up all the stairs and kept running.
He then ran down the long hall, where he was getting to the door, but two guards were stood there ''hey stop right there'' said one of them, Jaune jumped up punching him in the face.
The other one took out a walkie-talkie ''backup we need backup!'' Jaune then swiftly turned around and punched him twice in the face before kicking him in the ribs knocking him down.
Before Jaune could go in though he heard the sounds of shoes on the polished floor and turned to see 5 or 6 more guys
''man you guys got hear fast'' Jaune smirked as he cracked his knuckles.
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Moon opened her eyes and looked around, where was she? She remembered that she was in the duelling ring now she was in a ruined theatre?
''w-where am I?'' she asked.
''Kuri'' said a small voice, it was Kuribey.
''kuribey where are we?'' asked Moon.
Kuribey then started to float towards the door, Moon followed seeing that Kuribey clearly meant to show her, Moon exited and looked around, it was a huge barren wasteland, she turned to see that the building she was in was called 'the Moonlit Stage'
''wait'' said Moon taking out the card ''is this the spirit world?''
Kuribey once again chirped before floating off to somewhere else, Moon knew Kuribey wanted Moon to follow her so Moon happily obliged and started to run after Kuribey.
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meanwhile in the tower Jace and Caesar were arguing about the information on ''come on why did you let her in even though it's against the rules?'' Jace asked again.
''enough Makilla I am tired of this endless conversation would you and maybe Lenny escort him out please?'' asked Caesar.
''just a question is Lenny the guy at the door cause he's sorta napping right now'' said a familiar voice.
They all turned to see Jaune and unknown to the rest of the occupants in the room Bitron floated beside him, Caesar, Pierott and Makilla looked surprised but Jace didn't ''hey Jaune'' he said plainly.
''J-J-Jaune? W-what do you want?'' asked Caesar lost for words.
''Moon, I want to know what you know about Moon!'' said Jaune fiercely ripping his glove off and pulling his sleeve up showing his mark ''and I want everything including anything that might include Signers and before you try to deny it, don't I know about the Signers''
''I-I- Security!'' cried Caesar, but nobody showed up.
''yeah there all napping too'' said Jaune.
''hmm let him stay Caesar, cause I have the same question as him what's so special about that little girl?'' asked Jace.
Caesar took a deep breath and sighed he had no choice ''very well, sit down both of you'' ordered Caesar taking a seat on the couch, Jaune and Jace took seat on two leather chairs.
''alright I guess I might as well begin'' sighed Caesar ''currently she's 10 years old, now 5 years ago she was admitted to a very special hospital, saying that she could hear the voices of duel spirits''
''oh so she has a pretty big imagination'' said Jace mockingly.
''there's more than that, now she was born to one of the wealthiest family's in the tops'' stated Caesar ''she was a dueling protégée, she was defeating pro duelists at the age of 4, but then one day during a duel, she collapsed and fell into a coma, nobody not even the greatest doctors and nurses know why, she was unconscious for a month and when she woke up the next month''
''well Caesar that makes a grand drama story, but it does not answer the question on why we should care'' said Jace.
''actually it does'' chuckled Pierott ''you see King when she woke up she said, she was never asleep and she just spent a month playing with duel spirits''
Jaune's mind started to race thinking about this, sure he had seen her talking with Kuribey, but could she really go to and from the spirit world at will? This just opened the question if talking with duel spirits was just the weakest extent of Moons power, was there more? And if so how much more?
''pff yeah right and I'm a Red-Eyes Black Dragon'' scoffed Jace, Jaune growled at Jace he wanted to deck him so badly and not with his card.
''funny King really it is'' chuckled Pierott ''but we have reason to believe she was telling the truth, she knew things, things even we don't know, she knew about the Marks, the Signers, the Dragons and the power of the Crimson Dragon''
''but after a few days after waking her memory started to fade and she completely forgot, like a dream'' said Caesar.
''yeah, I can remember all my dreams clearly'' scoffed Jaune ''I think a lot of people can''
''regardless she forgot, not at first, but a day or two after waking up she forgot everything, it went at a slow pace'' said Caesar.
''great now, I know you have more tell me'' said Jaune ''that guy Steven Seraph, you brough him into this tournament for a reason, that duel he had with Moon and everything he was talking about, taking her away back to this Arcana Movement, so come on what else do you know about Moon?''
''alright, I will'' said Caesar.
''Makilla get Jaune a cup of tea, he's going to get very angry, very fast me thinks'' said Pierott.
Makilla quickly rushed off to get Jaune some tea as Caesar continued the story ''now Moon's father, he was a business man, his wife was very frail and Moon's birth killed her, now Moon's father, he was a very- tough and stubborn individual to say the least, Moon was raised in the tops, as I said he was a tough individual and very closed minded, so when she said this he just waved it off as her imagination, like Jace''
''let me guess this guy had standards'' said Jaune.
''yes, absurdly high standards for a four year old, Moon had to meet them and if she didn't there would be consequences'' said Caesar ''now a day or two after Moon left the hospital her psychic powers started to show themselves, she couldn't control them, it started with little things, like being able to predict what card she could draw, then things started to explode when she was angry, then levitation and finally, making monsters come to life, he wouldn't allow it, so he threw her out onto the streets''
Everything was silent for a while, Makilla had come back in with a cup of tea which she set in front of Jaune, Jaune picked it up with shaky hands and took a gulp.
''s-so she's been living on the streets since she was four'' said Jaune a couple of tears rolling down his face, Jace looked like he was troubled too, Jaune quickly gathered himself ''now this Arcana Movement''
''well not much is known about the Arcana Movement, the most anyone knows about it is that it's an organization of psychics'' stated Caesar ''they've been suspects of many disappearances, but not enough evidence, I can't really tell you anything about them Jaune, though if you want more information about Moon's father, he died of high blood pressure too much stress''
''good for him'' growled Jaune taking a sip of his tea with pursed lips.
Pierott replied with ''well I don't think dying is really that-''
''GOOD FOR HIM CAUSE IF HE WAS ALIVE I'D KILL HIM MYSELF!'' roared Jaune throwing the mug of tea into a wall shattering it and then flipped the coffee table ''HE THREW HER OUT ONTO THE STREET WITH NOTHING, NOTHING JUST LIKE THAT, LIKE SHE MEANS NOTHING, SHE'S MORE THAN THAT, SHE'S MORE THAN NOTHING, HOW DARE HE, HOW DARE HE DO THAT TO MOON!''
''wow haven't seen you this pissed off since- well no this is the most pissed off I've seen you'' said Jace.
''thank you for this little talk, I'm sorry about the mess, tell Lenny and whoever that I am sorry for the assault, I'll let myself out'' said Jaune, walking out.
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Meanwhile Moon was still following Kuribey ''Kuribey can't you at least tell me where were going?'' asked Moon, to which Kuribey just said to her that it would be faster just to take her.
''Moon, Moon, you've come back'' said a gentle voice ''I knew you'd come back one day, I knew you'd fulfil your promise to protect us, you do remember your promise don't you?''
''I-I don't know'' said Moon shakily as she kept running, she now just couldn't stop running, she felt like she needed to get to this place Kuribey was taking her.
''you promised us that you would protect us all, that you would protect the realm of spirits'' said the voice.
''I-I-I think you might have the wrong person'' said Moon weakly as she started to run even faster and eventually tripped and fell ''who are you? What happened hear?''
''an evil force has attacked this world, this world is not gone yet, but it is dying'' said the voice, Moon gulped scared, but then looked up to a large stone that she had collapsed in front of and saw something in the stones ''I am hear Moon and I need your help, your help to escape to break free''
''I-I don't know you'' said Moon but then she started to look closer at the stones and saw there were fossilized bones in it, bones of… of dragons! ''wait I know you, it's you it's Moonlight Dragon, Tsukuyomi''
''we meet again and I need to call upon you for that promise or this world may die'' said Tsukuyomi.
''I-I remember now, I came her when I was four, I said I would protect you, but then something happened and I forgot'' said Moon.
''you were so brave, but you were forced out, by a great force of evil'' said Tsukuyomi.
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Jaune quickly went to Moons bedside to make sure she was alright, Renegade and Uang were there too, Thunder had went to get them drinks, Moon was alright, he sat next to Moon gently holding her hand ''so did you get answers?'' asked Renegade.
''yeah, yeah I did'' said Jaune.
He then started to explain everything to Renegade, when he was finished, he could see Renegade was shaking, she was doing everything to control her emotions, she was shaking visibly in rage, she took in a deep breath before letting it out.
''so now what are you going to do about her?'' asked Renegade.
''I've actually been thinking about it for a while believe it or not'' said Jaune.
''oh I believe it'' said Renegade.
''but I need to find out one more thing'' said Jaune ''do you have a laptop or anything like that on you?''
''yeah why?'' asked Renegade.
''oh no reason other than the fact that I just wanted to hack into the Arcana Movement'' said Jaune.
''oh just that eh, here you go'' she said handing him the laptop, which Jaune then opened and began work on, only for Bitron to appear near him.
'hey Jaune time to explain your Semblance and if you want to talk just think I can hear you' said Bitron.
'not now Bitron I'm trying to work on something' thought Jaune.
'oh well if your trying to hack into something guess what you don't need to your Semblance can do it for you' said Bitron.
'what do you mean?' asked jaune.
'simple your connected to the Cyberse, Cyberse is more than just a type of monster and in turn those monsters are connected to Cyberse, Cyberse is this sort of energy field that connects all of technology to one another in a field of information and stuff' explained bitron.
'so basically the force, but instead of living creatures its machines?' asked Jaune.
'yeah pretty much' said Bitron.
'ok how do I use it?' asked Jaune.
'just put your hand on the laptop and Cyberse will do the rest' said Bitron.
Jaune sighed and shrugged before he did what Bitron said and then it activated, his semblance and he started to access Cyberse and he not only started to access the information, but see it, he saw all the cruel experiments the Arcana Movement did to children, including Moon, electrocuting them to see how strong there field of telepathy was, Jaune then saw Seraph beating Moon in duels over and over, using his full power to hurt her to see if it would push her and the more he saw the more angry he became, he stpped and got up.
''Renegade I need to do something'' said Jaune.
''don't worry I'll watch Moon'' said Renegade, as she said this Uang woke up.
''oh sonny did you get answers?'' he asked.
''yeah and now I need to deal with something'' said Jaune.
''but you just got back, what do you need to deal with now?'' asked Uang.
''just watch this'' said Jaune, putting what he saw on the laptop.
Before he left Thunder entered ''oh Jaune good and bad news, good news, your still in the tournament, bad news, Moon's been disqualified''
''Thunder that's great, listen I gotta deal with something'' said Jaune ''you want to know what it's on the Laptop''
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''h-how do I help?'' asked Moon ''I don't even know how to help, do I just start planting trees or something?''
''my little Moon, you already are on the right path'' said Tsukuyomi ''you already have been on the right path, you already have been going down the right road and since you've met that man and lady you will fulfil your promise''
''you mean Jaune?'' asked Moon.
''yes for you see little Moon, you, him and her are more important than you think'' said Tsukuyomi ''as long as you keep going down the path your going down you will fulfil your promise and you will protect us, you do still intend to fulfil your promise don't you?''
''I-I-I-'' Moon took in a deep breath and started to speak again ''I will protect this world, I will find out what I must do and I will do it, I will protect this world''
''very good, but for now, this is goodbye my little Moon'' said Tsukuyomi.
A bright light then enveloped Moon and she woke up in the real world to see Renegade, Thunder and Uang all crowded around a laptop, Renegades eyes narrowed in that way she did when something angered her, Thunder gritting his teeth and Uang turning very pale.
''guys?'' she asked causing attention to be drawn to her.
''oh sweetie your ok thank goodness'' said Renegade going over to Moon and hugging her.
''what happened? where am I?'' asked Moon.
''oh your in the infirmary, after you collapsed after you duel sweetie'' said Renegade cuddling her.
''bad news Moon you've been disqualified'' said Thunder.
''that's fine'' said Moon ''wait where's Jaune?''
Renegade took a deep breath and said ''you see Jaune sort of found everything out and has went to confront Seraph''
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Steven Seraph walked down a street still fuming, he had recently got out of hospital, it turned out to be nothing serious, he walked down the street, he would get Moon and nothing would stop him, suddenly he was grabbed from behind and dragged into an alleyway where he was slmmed into a wall, he looked to see his attack was Jaune.
''Lawbreak, how pleasant to see you again'' said Seraph.
''cut the shit Seraph, I know what you did and if you dare come near Moon again, I will kill you!'' growled Jaune.
''oh come on Lawbreaker be reasonable'' said Seraph trying to take over Jaune.
''if your trying to take me over it won't work'' growled Jaune.
''w-what h-how are you not effected, your not a psychic unlike Moon so how!'' cried Seraph.
Jaune then took out his sword and dragged it down Seraph's face harshly cutting into it ''heed my warning'' he growled before throwing Seraph to the ground, Seraph quickly got up and ran off.
''that make you feel better?'' asked a voice, turning around Jaune saw Grinder.
''Grinder'' said Jaune.
''Jaune would you please come with me?'' asked Grinder.
Jaune decided to follow him and Grinder took Jaune to a bar where he got Jaune a coke and himself a beer.
''don't drink?'' he asked ''that's fine, this is just a little tradition I have with opponent's before big matches and besides I thought you might need to talk''
''I learnt what the Arcana Movement did, what they did to Moon and it pissed me off so much'' growled Jaune.
''hmm I've heard rumours of what they've done so if it angers you I'm going to guess the rumours are true'' said Grinder taking a drink of his beer ''I heard Moon was disqualified and your still in''
''I don't understand, why are they disqualifying her and not me?'' asked Jaune.
''because believe it or not many people were actually rather touched that you used yourself to shield that little girl'' said Grinder ''and they did genuinely enjoy watching you get hurt''
''jerks'' muttered Jaune under his breath, as he took a gulp of coke.
''cheers'' said Grinder holding up his glass.
''cheers'' said Jaune clinking glasses.
They then started to drink before setting their drinks down, they steered in silence for a little until Grinder broke the silence by saying ''listen Jaune I do want you to know one thing, tomorrow your going down, I am a good guy when I'm off the track, but when I'm on the track, trust me it'll get ugly, there a lot riding on this for me and my people''
''like what?'' asked Jaune.
''let me tell you a little story, before my country was at constant war, nobody was spare, I went away, into the forest to escape the violence, there was peace there, but a friend of mine convinced me to join the pro duel circuit and when I duelled and won the more and more my countryside joined together, but then a massive fire started, unlike anything I've seen, I haven't seen my people since and if I win this then Caesar has promised me he will help me rebuild'' explained Grinder.
''you know you can't trust him right?'' asked Jaune.
Grinder just steered for a moment taking a drink of his beer ''easy for you to say, I need his help''
''you realize your being used right?'' asked Jaune.
''if that's what it takes then so be it'' said Jaune.
''so why are you duelling hear?''
''my friends'' said Jaune, just then his scroll started to vibrate ''oh excuse me I need to take this''
Grinder just raised his hand up to say it's fine ''hello?''
''Jaune it's me Blitzer'' said the other end of the line ''listen I went to all of your headquarters, backups and all, but the place has been ransacked''
''ransacked?!'' exclaimed Jaune ''a-are they ok?''
''they're missing, so I don't know, I hacked security's database and nothing, look I'm gonna keep digging already, theyr'e trying to track my signal so I need to hang up now and destroy this phone, but I'll tell you if I find anything'' said Blitzer before the line went dead.
Jaune put the scroll down and let out a small moan ''your friends?'' asked Grinder.
''yeah'' said Jaune.
''gone?'' asked Grinder.
''also yeah, a threat I guess'' said Jaune, Grinder nodded and took another drink.
''listen Jaune I think you're a pretty good kid all things considered, you being the Lawbreaker and all'' said Grinder.
''I'm a legal adult you know'' said Jaune.
''and it was so noble of you to take all those attacks for Moon, in a perfect world we both get what we want, but the worlds not perfect, somebody has to lose and it'll be you'' said Grinder and with that he finished his drink, got up and left.
Jaune took a big gulp of his drink as his Scroll started to vibrate again, Jaune took it out and listened in ''hey honey, just thought your should know Moon's recently woke up, just needed to tell you that'' said Renegade on the other end.
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''so you confronted Seraph right?'' asked Renegade as Jaune approached the room, Jaune nodded ''you didn't kill him did you?''
''no'' said Jaune ''I think he deserves it, but I'm not going to go that low for scum like him, but if he ever goes near Moon again, I am going to kill him''
''you may once I'm done torturing him'' said Renegade, she said this casually but you could feel the bite behind her words ''she's inside, look I'm going back to the apartment, the nurse said we could take her, she wants to see you''
''thank you Renegade I feel like I should say I owe you probably 5 by now'' said Jaune.
''you don't owe me anything'' said Renegade completely seriously ''I know you'd do anything to help me, same with you, that's why I am going to help you no matter what, Thunder and Uang are already back at the apartment, I'm going to go over and start cooking, get home soon''
''I will, thank you'' said Jaune.
with that Renegade turned around and left and Jaune went in and entered Moon's room ''hey Moon'' he said softly.
''hey Jaune'' she smiled, but looked a bit sad.
''you ok?'' asked Jaune.
''yeah I'm ok, I wanted to tell you about my past but Renegade told me you found out'' said Moon.
''I'm sorry'' said Jaune feeling ashamed.
''no it's fine, I don't mind'' said Moon ''I was just scared on how you'd think of me''
Jaune then hugged Moon ''I don't think any different of you Moon'' said Jaune softly ''I don't think anymore or any less of you, your you and I like you being you''
Moon hugged him back ''I like you for being who you are too'' she said softly hugging him ''I-I intruded on your life too, I had Kuribey tell me about you, your from another world, Remnant, but like you said it doesn't matter, I don't care where your from Jaune, because you are who you are, your Jaune and that all that matter's it doesn't matter where you come from or what you are all that matter's is who you choose to be and I like who you choose to be''
''your right Moon it doesn't matter, you and me are two of a kind and if you want to talk to me I am always open'' said Jaune ''in fact I want to talk to you about something, something I've been thinking of, what would you think if I adopted you?''
''y-you want to adopt me?'' asked Moon.
''yes I do'' said Jaune ''would you like me to adopt me?''
''yes, I want to stay with you'' said Moon hugging Jaune and crying.
Jaune just smiled and gently rubbed her back, Moon eventually cried herself to sleep and Jaune gently picked her up and drove back to the apartment, slowly as to not wake her, he was ready now, ready for his duel with Grinder.
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the next day, the group went to the arena, Jaune would take on Grinder and then the winner would duel Renegade and then the winner of that duel would get a chance to duel Jace Magnum, but before they duelled Jaune needed to do something.
''Grinder wait!'' called out Jaune, Grinder turned to face him.
''yes Jaune, what is it?'' asked Grinder.
Jaune held out his hand ''may the best man win''
Taking Jaune's hand in a shake he said ''I intend to Jaune'' to which Jaune just smirked.
They both squeezed and then let go and walked their separate ways to go to their Runner's.
So there, that's Moon's origin, I hope you liked it or could empisise with the character or whatever, I just hope you liked it in a way, next chapter were just going to get right into Jaune's duel with Grinder.
So tell me, do you like Moon's past or do you think I just went way too far with it? And do you think it ruins her character by having Jaune adopt her? Tell me.