21 "Reunion awaits"
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Jaune waited in his bed alone in his room, He already visited Nora and Ren, they were happy to see him but Nora decided to hug him on purpose to feel her pain as she put it. Ren was understanding but swore if he did it again that Ren would make sure he was dead.
Blake still hadn't come to visit.
Jaune knew how she was feeling, he knew how much she must hate him right now, but Jaune didn't blame her. After all, he had hurt her. Jaune was about to lose hope about Blake coming to visit him but then the door opened to reveal the Cat Faunas herself. Blake stared at him for a little bit before pulling the chair next to him and sitting down.
"Blake I-" Jaune Began
"Don't" Blake cut off
Jaune looked at her and saw that tears began to form in her eyes. Jaune felt her emotions, there was no anger, only sadness. Blake looked to him with a smile
"I Understand," She told him "I understand why you did it. I don't hate you for it, I just hate what you did"
Jaune looked at her with shock, he was sure she would be angry at him, even a little, but there was no anger, just sadness, and joy...
"After the Breach, all I wished for was to see you one last time..." Blake told him
Jaune gulped, tears began to take form as she said, "I-"
"I didn't help you... I left you... but when I saw the changes that you were going through... I went to Xina for help, to understand what was going on with you and me... I... I-!"
Blake then burst into tears, "Jaune there's something you don't know... Something that involves you"
Jaune stopped her by grabbing her hand, Blake looked at him in surprise, "Blake... I know about Salem" Jaune told her "however... there's more do it then just me and Salem being similar" Jaune began
Blake wiped her tears away and looked at him with confusion, "what do you mean?"
"Blake... Salem is my ancestor, her blood runs through my veins" Jaune told her
Blake looked at him with shock. Jaune was Salems descendant!? but how!?
"How is that possible, the only person she was ever with was Ozpin," Blake told him
Jaune shook his head and began to tell her about what he saw with his mother, about the Arc Blood as well as Ruby's ancestors, however, he left out seeing a baby cat faunas as well as one of his ancestors pulling a sword out and trying to kill him. After the story, Blake was in shock, she had no idea what do think about the information just told too her.
"So if Salem gets the scale, what happens exactly?" Blake asked
"If Salem gets her hands on the scale then she can manipulate all life, in any way she wants," Jaune told her
"so we can't let her get them," Blake said "we need to make sure that she can't get all of them"
Jaune looked to her and sighed, "there's something else..." Jaune began
Blake looked at him, "what is it?" she asked
Jaune looked to her and shook her head, "I... I can't remember, I'm sorry" Jaune told her
Blake sighed but smiled, "it's fine," she told him "I'm gonna head back down to see if dinner will be ready, I'll bring some up to you," Blake told him
Jaune nodded and smiled as she left for downstairs. Jaune shook his head as he lied to Blake, he didn't want to lie to her but he needed to. He began to remember the conversation between him and Salem:
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Jaune stood and looked at Salem, the two facing off nit saying a word to the other.
"you look very much like my husband when he was young..." Salem said
Jaune sighed, "Are you trying to convince me? By telling me that you cared for your family? that I should work with you because of your family?" Jaune asked
"How dare you! I-"
"I know you care about your family" Jaune replied, "I know you care about all of your children and their children..." Jaune told her
Salem looked at him with a small hint of a sneer, "Then why kill my pawns? why stop me from doing what I want?" she asked him
"Because it means the end of the world!" Jaune yelled, "You mean to bring humanity to its knees by turning most of the population into Grimm!"
Salem nodded, "yes and no," she told him
"what do you mean?" Jaune asked
"you think I want an army that has the same abilities as us? as our family?" Salem asked "No, I wish to turn them into the Grimm you see in the world, I wish to show them that their "Hope" is meaningless when one has control of all life," Salem told him
"so that's it? just create more Grimm?" Jaune asked with a skeptical look
"oh no, that's not what I want at all" Salem told him "when I increase the Grimm population not only will humanity suffer and lose hope, but all Grimm will be under my control"
Jaune looked confused, "can't you already do that? control the Grimm that is?" Jaune asked
Salem scoffed, "only those that I create, and the ones that are made by random of a will of their own, I can't control them. But with the Scale, all Grimm Life will do every bidding and every order I so wish to give" Salem said
"You mean to end the world!? to wipe out all of human life!?" Jaune asked
Salem nodded "no, I only wish to destroy those that will not be happy with the world i wish to create" she replied
Jaune looked at her with anger, but Salem moved closer to him
"you think humanity is good... there is evil inside every one of them..." Salem began "but they will use you... and they will throw you to the fire," Salem said
She was now, face to face with Jaune and he looked at her with a straight face.
"why choose them?" She asked
Jaune looked away, but Salem could see it in his eyes, she could see that he was thinking the same.
"work with me as you should," Salem said "I want to rule this world and I would like to make you my heir," Salem said
Jaune looked at her in surprise
"I will spare those that you care for, and I will instead bring humanity to its knees but We shall rule over them as gods," Salem said with a smile "so what is your answer?" Salem said
Jaune looked at her and then took off his gloves, he looked to see the black veins slowly appearing on his wrists and he remembered that most of his back and part of his neck were showing signs of the Grimmification.
"Yes... I'll work with you" Jaune replied
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Cinder Fall was a woman who could be easily angered, while she appeared to be calm on the outside she was holding in a lot of rage.
You see she had just learned that a pawn was now being named her mistresses heir to the world! How could this be possible! it was absurd! she couldn't believe that a nobody with little power could outrank her! Watts and Hazel were also very confused and maybe a little outraged but they were accepting it, for now.
Cinder didn't like that, Tyrian, of course, was the only one who felt the same as her.
Cinder now had another mission, destroy Haven academy and retrieve the Relic of knowledge and come back, however, she needed to wait while Watts had to deal with the coward Lionheart and looking for the spring maiden.
Tyrian was hunting Ruby Rose. Cinder was training and she also needed to fix her voice, but for now, she was forming a plan on how to destroy Jaune Grimm. She needed to prove that he was nothing compared to her. She was the Fall Maiden and nothing in this world besides her mistress was stronger than the Maidens...
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So this was the end of the Knight of the Grimm Vol.2, but more action and more treachery will be seen in Vol.3 of this story! Also, I am gonna say that Jaune's decision to work with Salem is not what it seems, Trust me, I'm making sure you can't trust what anyone says in this story. The events to come will be different, certain events will be different and I Mean majorly different! Weiss and Yang's story will change drastically. So trust me, people in this story can't be trusted.
ANYWAY! in the next Volume! I got some Amazing fights lined up! And I'm hoping you can guess with who!