20 "Memories"

"what do you think we can do?" Jaune asked

"there's nothing we can do... Salem will use the war to get one of the relics" a man replied

'wait... this isn't me...'

"We have to stop her Oliver! there has to be someway!" said a woman. she had red hair with orange highlights.

"Amilia is right, there has to be some way to stop her from getting one of the relic" Jaune said again

'no... this isn't me' Jaune though

Jaune was then in the middle of the room looking at the five people in the room. he looked to see a man with Blonde hair he had red eyes though, this was one of Jaune's ancestors but he didn't know which one, to his right was Amilia, and of course Oliver was sitting at the desk. If Jaune had to guess this was one of Ozpin's many reincarnations. there was also an older man with a strong build and had yellow fur around his neck, another woman had cat-like eyes and a pink tail.

Suddenly Jaune saw a blade pointing at him

"who are you!? how did you get here!?" asked Jaune's ancestor

the others looked at him with confusion

"Michael who are talking to?" asked the man with the man

"Don't you see him!? he-"

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Jaune then woke up with a scream. He looked around to see Arslan, Neo, and Ruby on the floor as they got up and looked readied to fight, but then they saw that Jaune was awake Ruby, and Neo rushed to him to see if he was ok.

"Jaune are you alright!? what happened!?" Ruby asked

Jaune looked to the Reaper with surprise, "Ruby? you're here? what about Blake? and Ren and Nora?" Jaune asked

"Ren and Nora went to see if we could stay a couple of more weeks here while you heal" Ruby replied

"While I heal? I feel-" but he then felt a quick stabbing sensation in his hand. Jaune looked to see that his hand was in a cast, but he looked to see that one of his legs was in bandages as well.

"Jaune" Ruby said, "Are you sure your ok?"

Jaune looked to her and slowly nodded, "I'm fine... I just felt like I woke up from the longest dream..." Jaune said as he moved his back to sit against the bed.

Jaune looked to Ruby and saw her with a smile, but he felt anger as well as sadness in her. "Ruby can you please express your feelings to me... I can sense them" Jaune told her

Ruby took a deep breath in before smacking him back and forth many times with quick speed. and Jaune then realized that she made busted his lip.

Ruby looked at him with tears in her eyes, "WE THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD! DEAD! DO YOU KNOW HOW THAT MADE ME FEEL! YOU WERE ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS! I THOUGHT WE LOST YOU FOREVER! I TRIED TO HELP YOUR TEAM TO COPE! WE ALL DID! BUT DO YOU KNOW WHO TOOK IT THE HARDEST!?" Ruby cried "BLAKE! SHE WOULDN'T SLEEP WITHOUT CRYING! SHE WAS WORKING NON STOP TO LOOK FOR ROMAN AND THE OTHERS! SHE TRAINED DAY AND NIGHT TO GET STRONGER TO GET VENGEANCE FOR YOU!" Ruby yelled

Jaune looked at her and Ruby still had anger on her face as tears rolled down. Jaune looked to her and then looked away, but Ruby grabbed him by the head so he could look her in her eyes. her Silver eyes.

"I-I searched through the rubble to look for you... I cut my hands looking for you..." Ruby said, "but I understand why you did it... we weren't really good friends to you, even me, I couldn't stand up for you..." Ruby sobbed

Jaune shook his head, "No! It's my fault! I ran from my problems... I didn't think about how it would affect you guys! I though of myself! I just thought I would get you all hurt..." Jaune said a tear rolled down his eye "I'M A FUCKING IDIOT!" Jaune cried

Ruby nodded with a sad smile, "y-you are..." she said with a chuckle.

Jaune then looked to Arslan, "what about Reese, Nadir, and Bolen? where are they?" Jaune asked

They all froze and looked down to the floor, Jaune began to sense sadness from them

"Are t-they de-dead?" Jaune asked

Arslan shook her head, "No, Reese and Bolen went ahead of us and decided to head back to mistral... along with Nadir's body" Arslan told him

Jaune looked in shock.

Nadir was dead.

Jaune gripped his sheets and he felt more sad and angry. angry at himself for allowing himself to go alone and fight Ravenna, and to talk with Salem. Wait! the talk! Jaune began to remember the conversation that He and Salem had, but he would have to wait to tell them, right now he was more concerned for Arslan.

"Why didn't you go back with them?" Jaune asked her

"I want to see this through, besides Ruby and them are heading for mistral as soon as you heal up. Nadir died for the cult, and from what Ruby told me they were working for a that Cinder Fall woman" Arslan said

'how wrong you are Arslan... how wrong you all are' Jaune thought

Jaune then looked to Ruby, "When Blake gets back... I need to talk with her... and then I'll tell you what I've found out about Cinder... and the real enemy" Jaune told them

They nodded and Ruby began to tell Jaune about what he missed while he was "dead" as well as still hitting him sometimes.

It would take a while for his four old friends to accept his apologies as well as forgive him.

Jaune still felt as though he was in that room, first some baby calling him dad and now one of his ancestors pointing a sword at him? where these just dreams? or were they memories?

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Salem smiled as she walked into her Council Room, in there was an Obsidian table, with three chairs on each side of it and her own obsidian chair in the front of the table. Sitting by the Table we're a huge and muscular man, his name is Hazel Reinhart, he sat to Salem's right in the chair closest to her, in the third seat on the end of her right sat Arthur Watts, He was a genius man and was the one who created the virus that hacked Beacon's system. On Salem's left were Tyrian Callows and Cinder Fall herself, with Mercury and Emerald standing next to her. Tyrian Callows was a psychopath, he was devoted to Salem and would do whatever she wished.

"I'm glad you all could come... I have big news for all of you" Salem told them "As you know when I am done with doing what our goal is I wish to rule this world, Of course, I would soon want to settle down and live a peaceful life with the world I created"

"What are you saying, Mistress?" Tyrian asked

"What I am saying is that I would want an Heir to my Throne," Salem said "And I have already Choose my Heir as well as the fifth Member of our Fraction"

"and who would this be?" Watts asked

"He is someone born of my blood... His name is Jaune Grimm" Salem said "and he will be the Heir to my throne"