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Just outside of El Paso, Texas there was a ranch house that look like it belong to one of those people who could completely live off the land as there was no other house for miles.
Nothing really stood out as there was really no defining details on the ranch house as there was a windmill nearby and a barn but nothing else besides a huge fence...but that was the one thing of the ranch house that did stand out.
The fence was high and it look like it was made out of a strong metal with razor wire on the top which was confusing seeing as how there was no cattle or anything that looked like it was valuable enough to protect besides the house.
The reason for all of this security was because of the owner of the ranch house...
Deep in his study was a blonde male that look like he was in his early twenties. He was deep blue eyes and blonde hair and based on his five o'clock shadow he hasn't shaved in quite some time.
His attire consisted of a black leather trench coat over a blue button-up shirt with a black vest over it with with what look like a white muscle shirt underneath. His pants were sturdy dress pants but instead of fancy dress shoes he wore what look like black cowboy boots with steel toes with his pants covering most of the boots.
While his hands were covered by black gloves with hard plastic on the knuckle areas.
This was no ordinary man...
This man was none other than Jaune Arc the adopted son of the prestigious Miller family, one of the most powerful families in all of Texas and even in the United States.
How Jaune Arc came to be a member of the Miller family was quite an interesting tale.
[Flashback]
It all started about twenty four years ago when Eliza Miller, the only daughter of Wayne Miller, the current patriarch of the family decided to run away after her father decided to arrange a political marriage.
Eliza believed that marriage should only be with someone you loved and the person her father her father was trying to force her to marry was known to be a notorious Playboy who had many different girlfriends and side chicks that he threw away like garbage when he was done with them.
Or course Eliza had no interest in marrying such a scumbag so without a moment of hesitation she packed up what she could and ran off from the family ranch house.
Now Eliza was a sheltered girl so she didn't know much of the outside world because as soon as she got to El Paso she somehow ended up in the bad part of town and soon found herself being looked at with lecherous eyes by a bunch of homeless people and people she suspected were gang members.
Eliza tried to play it easy but soon she began noticing that she was being tailed by a particularly crazy looking homeless man so she began to move faster but so did the homeless man.
Soon Eliza began running but the homeless man ran after her in pursuit pulling out what look like a shiv from his coat pocket and began to chase after her!
Eliza ran as hard as she could but the homeless man was persistent and she appeared she was going to be put into a tight corner when out of nowhere a homeless woman wearing a cloak holding a wooden two by four fought the homeless man and struck him on the head causing him to flee in terror.
"Thank you."said Eliza before the woman collapsed to the floor. Eliza rushed over to see if she was okay only to see that the shiv the homeless man was holding was now in the homeless woman's chest.
Eliza wanted to help but you didn't know what to do as she didn't have her phone on her to call for help as she didn't want her father tracking her down that way.
She soon turn her attention back at the homeless woman she began noticing that she was wearing what looked like a maid outfit underneath her cloak but it was extremely dirty.
"Take care... of him..."said go homeless woman that she pointed at a certain direction with her finger shaking, indicating she was in critical condition.
Eliza looked around and noticed that nearby where the homeless woman had been pointing at there was a basket that she assumed had a dog or cat or something.
But when she went over to the basket Eliza was shocked to see what it was as in that basket wasn't a cat or a dog or an animal at all. It was a little baby that looked like he was barely a few months old.
"His...name is Jaune Arc... I vowed to protect him... as his family had done so much for me... but now they're not around... I'm not going to make it."said the woman that Eliza quickly realized that the homeless woman who had saved her life must have been the baby's caregiver.
"Hang on! I'll go get help!"said Eliza before the woman grabbed her arm shaking her head.
"Don't... bother by the time you get back I will be dead anyway...Get Jaune out of here. Please... this is my last request..."said the woman as tears fell down her face.
Eliza looked at her with shock as despite the child not belonging to this woman she clearly cared about him. She then turned her attention towards the baby who was looking at Eliza and the woman but despite everything that was going on he was not crying as he looked... sad...
Eliza could never live with herself if she left the child here so after taking a deep breath she answered the woman.
"I'll take care of him."
"Thank.. you."said the woman as she let go of Eliza with her hand hitting the ground hard indicating that she had passed with the smile on her face being all Eliza needed to know that she was no longer in this world.
Eliza wanted to cry but now she knew wasn't a moment for that as she was still in danger and so was the baby!
So Eliza didn't waste a moment as she figured the homeless man might come back so without a moment of hesitation she grabbed Jaune and ran towards the nearest hospital to see if he needed any medical care.
-=O
Later at the hospital Eliza's parents Wayne and Jenny Miller arrived at the hospital to see their daughter holding a baby. Eliza told them what had happened and told them that the police had already arrested the homeless man who killed the woman who had saved her life and this was the child that the woman was taking care of.
Wayne wanted to put the child in an orphanage but Eliza told him that she would raise him as her own as the woman had sacrificed her life to save hers and the least she could do was honor her final request.
Jenny agreed with her daughter and Wayne reluctantly agreed as he knew he couldn't go against his wife as he had married into the Miller family.
Soon Jaune Miller Arc became a member of the Miller family under his new mother Eliza.
Years went by and despite many struggles Eliza managed to raise Jaune into a decent hard-working man..
He did well in school as he got A's and B's and never so much as got a C. Jaune soon became captain of all the martial arts teams of his middle and high school where he was the captain of the boxing, wrestling, judo, karate, and kendo teams.
Jaune spent many summers in Japan as Eliza's grandmother was Japanese her name being Haruka Miller.Jaune loved his grandmother greatly and he also loved his great uncle Kenji Sugimoto, Haruka's brother.
Kenji told Jaune that the Sugimoto's were a samurai family and even taught Jaune Kenjutsu from many various sword schools from all over Japan.
He even taught Jaune the famous technique by legendary samurai Sasaki Kojiro the reverse swallow strike or Tsubame Gaeshi as it was supposedly created when Kojiro cut a swallow bird in mid-air.
Jaune loved everything about Japan and loved his great uncle and his grandmother greatly so he wanted to make them proud.As soon as he was seventeen Jaune enlisted for the Navy. Although his mother Eliza was against it at first she eventually relented seeing the determined look in her son's eyes.
Jaune soon became a sailor in the US Navy soon after and not long after he joined up for a service he signed up for the Navy SEAL training course.
For the next twelve months he went through hell as his body and mind were pushed to the limit over and over again by the various physical training and psychological training the student SEAL's goes through in order to pass.
Underwater training was particularly hard as he had to do it without scuba gear at one point but Jaune was determined and managed to pass.
Soon he had to go through anti interrogation and was even waterboarded at one point but no matter what his instructors put him through he would not quit.
And twelve months later he was officially a Navy SEAL. Soon Jaune went on missions to Afghanistan, Iraq, and even some covert missions in South America and the Arctic.
Years went by and as soon as his service was done Jaune was honorably discharged from the US Navy.
He didn't want to leave the service but his mother begged him to leave the service that she did not want him putting his life in danger.
But soon Jaune was starting to miss the action and experience he felt when he was a Navy SEAL so soon he was planning to take the FBI exam to become an FBI agent.
Jaune really wanted to serve his country as he wanted to make the family who gave him so much proud..
[Flashback End]
Jaune had just finished the FBI training and it would be days before he would get the results. In the meantime he returned to his home outside of El Paso which he bought some time ago to get away when he wanted to be alone with his thoughts.
Jaune was busy opening up a package and soon after he finish opening it it was revealed to be a katana.
"The authentic Japanese katana I sent to Japan to get refurbished finally arrived."said Jaune who paid a lot of money to get this katana made.
Unlike most cheap katana this one was real made by a master sword maker.
The tsuba was a circular guard made of iron with a gold plating on both sides of the tsuba. The tsuka was a rap nicely in white wrapping with several grooves to help with grip with the kashira being made of gold-plated iron as well.
Finally the sword which was a bit dull when he first got it was now nicely sharpened and could easily cut through armor now especially since Jaune paid to have a new blade made with stronger material and even provided said metals to the swordsmith.
"This sword will look great with the other katana."said Jaune who pulled out a similar looking katana that have arrived earlier than the other one a few weeks as it too have been refurbished too similar specifications.
These two swords were heirlooms in the Sugimoto family that his great uncle Kenji passed on to him.
Jaune quickly put the swords on a frog belt that he had on him and admired himself at a nearby mirror.
"Man I look really good."said Jaune to himself before he heard the window behind him crack.
Quickly turning around Jaune sorry was a Molotov cocktail and it soon started to set the study ablaze in flames.
"Must be some enemy from my SEAL days! I knew this day would happen one day or another that's why I got the fence around my house in the first place!"said Jaune as he quickly initiated plan he had thought of long ago.
Acting quickly Jaune went to his gun safe and quickly opened it pulling out his arisaka type 99 rifle, Colt Python 357 Magnum, Mossberg shotgun, and the sig saucer p26 he got in the Navy.
Jaune quickly put these guns in a duffel bag with some clothes an ammunition he had prepared just in case of such a scenario and ran towards his garage where he plan to get out of there on his motorcycle.
As for the fire it quickly set a blaze the house faster than he anticipated and soon his whole house was starting to catch on fire.
As Jaune turned around cuz he heard a gunshot he failed to notice the door he was running to started to glow.
Before he could even look he quickly opened the door and made his way into the light disappearing as his garage and everything in his house set a blaze in intense flames.
-=O=-
"Where am I?"asked Jaune as he noticed he wasn't in his garage but instead he was in some long white hallway filled with many different doors of varying designs.
As Jaune walk through the hallway he noticed that he was not alone as standing just a few meters away from him was a large man who look like he was completely orange with horns on his head.
"Who are you?!"asked Jaune as he instantly grabbed one of his katanas.
"May you save the world of Remnant Drifter."said the mysterious man before some mysterious force picked up Jaune and threw him into one of the doors.
As soon as Jaune was gone some man wearing a Vietnam era GI uniform walked into the hallway with a shotgun in his hand.
"Where am I?"
-=O=-
Soon Jaune so like he had a major headache as he got up and looked around noticing he was no longer in the hallway but in some kind of woods he did not recognize.
"What the heck is going on here?!"asked Jaune as he heard rustling from the distance.
When he turned around he saw creatures that look like they were the stuff of nightmares as they look like wolves but they were completely black and they look like they had bones protruding from their bodies.
It also didn't help that their eyes were red as blood.
"What did I ever do to deserve this!"he exclaimed as he got ready for battle.
What he didn't know was that two individuals were looking at him from a nearby hill with interest.
Hey guys PrimusPilus here with some news.
I have decided to rewrite Remnant's Drifters which took me longer than I expected since I was so ashamed of the first version since I made so many mistakes and many of you called me out on them...
But after some soul searching and deep thinking I have decided to restart this story with a more improved version.
I hope those of you who read the original version come back and read this version as I'm truly sorry for my actions but I could not stand having wrote such a story with so many mistakes!
Anyway next chapter should be out soon so until then please enjoy the story and I hope I will see you guys next time as the story continues.
Until then PrimusPilus signing out.