Jaune Arc, a blonde haired, pale skinned thirteen year old boy with dark blue eyes and a slim, runners build, loved adventure! The teen, who stood at five foot and eight inches, loved hearing stories of The Arc legacy; Of brave men and women that bared his name and fought the monster's of the night!
It just sounded so cool! To take up the sword and 'HELP' people.
Who wouldn't want to do that?! Who doesn't want to be a Hero!
Jaune for as long as he could remember wanted to be like his ancestors, like his father and mother! The blonde knew if he was just given the chance he could save the world.
"HACK, HACK!!"
Jaune wiped the slight blood from the corner of his mouth, "JAUNE! did you take your medicine!" A loud feminine voice called out to him as he stared at his unusually pale, scowling face in his bathroom mirror.
Blue eyes looked at his reflection in disgust, "YEAH MOM! JUST TOOK THEM!" he yelled back.
After answering, Jaune pulled on the bathroom mirror which revealed itself to be a cabinet filled with five orange medicine bottles; each filled with different color pills.
Jaune sighed as he looked towards the bottles but after a moment he uncapped one and took a pill, tossing it into his mouth and swallowing it dry, after shaking off the bitter taste he repeated the process with the four other bottles.
"COME ON JAUNE! You need to hurry up or you'll be late for school." His mother, Jupiter, called to him.
Jaune sighed and quickly left the bathroom.
Jaune hated school with a passion.
He had no friends, everybody in this building hated him and not even his own sisters talked to him while they were in this Brothers Forsaken building.
Ok, he wasn't being fair to Saphron with that, she was a senior and had different lunch periods, so the Arc scion couldn't really say she avoided him on purpose.
Violette on the other hand threatened him with bodily harm if he came within a five foot radius of her while in the building.
"Agh." Jaune was on his ass in the school hallway gently rubbing his shoulder as the much taller green haired school bully, Derek Emerald, shoulder checked him with a lot of force as he and his gang looked at him with twisted glee, "Watch It Loser!" the green haired asshole yelled at the blonde as he walked away, laughing like an idiot with his friends.
He ignored the chuckles and giggles coming from all the other students and quickly stood up, getting to his next class not looking up from the ground, knowing exactly what he would see.
Jaune sat alone once more as he ate the horrible cafeteria food trying not to gag. 'Why couldn't they make this edible?' The dark blue eyed teen thought to himself.
'At least it's better than mom's horrible cooking.' It was that fact alone that kept Jaune didn't really complaining about it too much.
As the teen was eating the incredible dry burger he wasn't paying attention to his surroundings, Jaune didn't notice his worse tormentor, his lap dogs came up behind him and poured a smoothie all over his head laughing all the while.
"You looked like you needed a little, pick me up." Derek told the blonde teen with a small smile and a cheerful tone.
The bully then crumpled up the cup and threw it at the boy's head.
As greenette walked away he could hear Derek's pink haired girlfriend, Rebecca Salmon, who was always hanging off his bully's large, gorilla-like arms, snickering. "Brothers, he's such a fucking loser!" she exclaimed, causing the whole group to laugh in what he assumed was agreement.
Standing up from his seat and trying his hardest to not let the tears fall from his eyes, Jaune quickly walked out of the lunchroom trying his hardest to ignore the cruel laughter of his peers.
The blonde also tried very hard not to let Violette; his twin sister's laughing face get to him too hard.
It wasn't like today was different from all the other times, so why should he still care.
Jaune was rinsing out his t-shirt in the boy's bathroom wiping away tears from his eyes.
Jaune wasn't going to let their taunts, pranks and insults get to him.
it didn't matter in the long run anyway.
The doctor said in a few years he was going to be as healthy as a horse and when that happened, he was going to Beacon and become a full fledged Huntsman.
like his parents and grandfather and great grandfather and great great grandfather.
So, it really didn't matter what they did.
It doesn't matter that they laugh and make fun of him constantly.
It didn't matter that his twin sister was a bitch.
It 'doesn't' matter that no one believed in him because the only person that 'needed' to believe in him was himself.
All that mattered was that he was 'going' to be a Huntsman. Jaune Arc was going to be a Hero and all he had to do was not murder anyone or kill himself in the mean time.
"Hey there, Arc!" Jaune sighed and turned around to face Derek.
"what do you want..."
"AGH!!" Jaune yelled in pain as a bright orange basketball hit him in his nose, fracturing it.
Jaune's blood was gushing on the floor as he was on his knees holding it, tears leaking from his eyes in extreme pain.
"Ahhh, Is the little baby crying?" The greenette asked the boy, crouching slightly with a pout on his face.
"Hey, um, I think that's enough man." One of his goons that had bright blue hair and crimson eyes told the gorilla-like Derek, who rolled his hazel brown eyes.
"Fine." The teen stood up and walked past the kneeling and crying Jaune.
"Ah...I am sorry about him." the blue haired boy muttered as he walked past the blonde, not making any effort to help the kneeling teen on the ground.
Jaune could say a lot of things about his homelife.
It was lonely or maybe a better word would be freeing, because no one really got in each other's way.
His parents were part-time Huntsmen, slaying evil wherever it was lurking which didn't leave them a lot of time at home with him or his sisters.
Of course even if they were stay at home parents or retired, it wasn't like any of his sisters would have time for them besides the youngest ones.
Rouge, his twenty three year old sister, worked a full time job as a Deputy Sheriff and frequently did over-time, only coming home when she had to sleep or eat.
Bleue, his twenty year old sister, worked as a doctor finishing highschool at thirteen and medical school at seventeen. She was the one who helped take care of their younger siblings when mom and dad were away.
Saphron was only three years younger than Bleue and four years older than him and Violette and was a very social girl.
She loved making friends and even got herself a girlfriend last year but like all social butterflies she didn't have much time outside of her friends and girlfriend.
Violette was a lot like Saphron but more bitchy and evil.
She didn't want friends for friends' sake, Violette was obsessed with being popular and was very mean spirited about it, willing to do anything to keep her highschool fame.
After her and Jaune, they're parents had Blanche who was four years younger than him and his twin.
She was a lot like Saphron and Bleue; a perfect blend really. It was actually a bit frightening.
Jaune was pretty sure she was going to rule the world one day.
The nine year old girl was mostly in her room doing experiments or had her nose deep in a textbook. His little sister read so much she had caused damage to her eyesight and had to start wearing glasses.
Verte was his second youngest sister who was only seven years old and was a lot like him when he was younger but with 'a lot' more energy for obvious reasons.
She was always running around the place screaming about how amazing the Arcs were and how she was going to a Hero greater than all before her.
And finally his youngest sister, Noire who was just four years old and the baby of the family.
The little girl didn't really have much of a personality yet but she was one cute kid.
So in short; they weren't really siblings most of the time despite how similar they all looked to each other.
In the end they were more like roommates living together.
As Jaune entered the house he quickly walked up the stairs with his hood drawn up."Hey there Sport." Nicholas Arc, his burly father greeted his son from the kitchen table.
"Hey dad." he greeted without slowing his pace. "Tired, I need a nap. love you." he quickly told the man not letting his father get a word in edgewise to stop or slow down his pace.
"No problem kiddo!" he exclaimed with the signature Arc smile. "Get some rest and don't forget to take your afternoon medication!" he told the boy who yelled in affirmation.
"Teenagers." he muttered to himself as his wife, the mother of his children, nodded in agreement.
Jaune quickly walked into the bathroom and checked his nose.
It was swollen beyond belief and pulsating heavily.
"How am I going to explain this to mom and dad?" The blonde muttered to himself poking at his nose slightly and immediately flinched in pain.
The dark blue eyed teen sighed and exited his bathroom, entering his room and sat on the edge of his bed with his head in his hands.
He took a deep breath,not through his nose, he wasn't even sure he would ever be able to breathe through that thing properly again, and let it go as he looked out of his bedroom window.
He saw the amazing forest a few miles out, he always thought it looked so beautiful.
He loved the forest, loved nature in general and was glad whoever built the wall surrounding the village decided to include the forest.
After a minute of enjoying the view Jaune made up his mind that after his family went to sleep, he would 'borrow' Saphron's motorcycle and take a stroll to clear his muddled mind.
Jaune truly wished he could smell right now, smell all the trees and flowers but he guessed just looking was enough.
As Jaune waved to a few animals and examined a few cool plants, he checked his scroll and knew it was about time to head back, having been walking for almost two hours.
Jaune chuckled as the few animals he just walked by looked at him with a tilt of their heads, probably wondering why he was back so soon but he grew slightly worried as they began running away.
After thirty minutes of walking he tripped over something and landed in dirt, causing the boy to curse in pain and annoyance. "Of fucking coruse." he muttered to himself.
Looking back onto what he tripped on he saw it was half a person; the lower half to be exact, rotting away.
Needless to say Jaune began running in terror holding the vomit in his mouth from the stench.
A million thoughts went through the Arc scions head; who was that? What happened? What could do something like that? Was it a Grimm? How did Grimm get within the Village walls?!
"RAAAGHHHH!!" Jaune eyes widen in terror and the noise and pushed his body to the limit, at least what he thought was his limit until he heard the thumping of..of...OF SOMETHING BEHIND HIM!
But he didn't look behind him, if he looked he was dead! he could feel it in his soul!
So he ran faster than he ever thought possible and for a moment he thought he did it!
He; Jaune Arc cheated death!!
But he should have known better.
No one cheats death because a second later he was tackled to the ground and agony filled his body originating from his side where… WHERE THE MONSTER WAS BITTING HIM!
"AGHHHHH!!" A agony filled screamed echoed through the woods.
Jaune thought he died for a moment, feeling his vision go dark. He didn't want to die like this. The blonde didn't accomplish anything with his life! He didn't become a Hero!
A moment later Jaune passed out.
"AGHH!" Jaune screamed and wildly looked around breathing heavily.
'I'm in my room?' A confused expression soon found it's self home on Jaune's face but soon melted away into a sigh realizing what had happened.
"It..it was just a dream." The blonde muttered in relief with his head in his hands crying tears of joy until he saw the blood soaked sheets, causing his dark blue eyes to widen in horror and throw himself off his bed making a slight thud in the process.
"Wh..what?" Jaune looked at his bed and then at his blood covered waist and torso.
He soon got up and rushed into the bathroom and looked himself over but didn't find any wound that should warrant that much blood.
After taking a moment Jaune sighed to himself shaking his head and looking at himself in the mirror, his eyes widened when he saw his nose looked completely fine… like… like it was never broken at all.
"What. The. Fuck."
"Jauney~!!" A light voice spoke behind his bedroom door.
"Mommy said you need to get ready for school and to take your medication!!" Verte told her older brother by six years.
"Um...Okay!" The only male Arc yelled back trying to regain his wits.
After staring at himself for a moment he sighed and closed his eyes taking a deep breath.
"OH MY GOD SOMEONE STOLE MY FUCKING BIKE!!" He heard Saphron yell from downstairs.
'Ah shit!' Jaune thought to himself.
How the fuck did he get home if it wasn't on Saphron's bike.
...AND WHY COULDN'T HE REMEMBER IT AT ALL!
Jaune decided to skip school for today and decided to get the bike back, not wanting his sister to lose something precious to her because of his idiocy.
As Jaune walked to the forest he began to wonder how his sister would react once he brought it back.
"Jaune where did you find my bike?" Imaginary Saphron asked with thankful tears in her eyes.
"Oh well I saw it outside a store and decided...'LIKE THE GOOD BROTHER I AM' To take it back." Jaune told the imaginary Saphron with the Arc signature smile.
"Oh Jaune!" Imaginary Saphron hugged Jaune tightly as he patted her back with a gentle smile on his face.
'Oh yeah right!' Jaune scoffed knowing how screwed he was once he got home and if not from Saphron for calling him out on his bullshit than definitely from his mother!
It was around lunch time when the only son of the Arc family finally reached the woods and soon reached the place he parked the bike without the fucking keys to start it with.
"Fucking Hell!" He cursed loudy and started to walk into the woods yesterday, trying to follow the same path he took last nig- earlier today.
After walking for twenty minutes, looking straight at the forest floor, Jaune didn't have the chance to notice the tree he walked straight into.
"Agh." Jaune grunted in pain rubbing his forehead and shook his head trying to relieve the pain.
"Hey." He heard a masculine voice call out from the side which Jaune followed.
"You're on private property." A man, Preto Hele-Nuo, who had a pale complexion, dark black hair and silver eyes, told him as he sood about twenty feet away from him.
"I..I am?" Jaune questioned looking around. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to trespass. I.. w..was um here yesterday night and lost my keys to my bike." he told the six foot tall man with lean build, who raised an eyebrow and tossed something to him with incredible speed.
Jaune immediately caught it without looking."Wh..what?" he muttered to himself and looked at his hands in silent disbelief.
"Found them yesterday." The ravenette said to the boy casually, "So, why were you here last night kid."
"..Um wanted to get fresh air and I always liked the woods." The Arc scion told the stranger, seeing no reason to lie.
"Hmmm." Preto hummed in understanding and the space between them was filled with silence.
"Um… ah… I am going to go. I hope you have a good day." Jaune told the silver eyed stranger, trying to leave as fast as he could to escape the awkwardness.
"Hey." Jaune flinched at the voice that was behind him and quickly turned around and tripped over his two feet when he realized the stranger was right behind him, without warning the Preto's eyes turned from a flat silver to a blinding bright, icy blue.
Jaune closed his eyes in pain, feeling like someone poured lava over them, "AGHH!" He began convulsing on the ground holding his eyes praying to the Brothers the agony would stop soon.
Which it did after a moment, causing Jaune to sigh in relief and sit up.
Looking up Jaune saw the man looking at him with an unreadable expression. "You're not going anywhere, Newborn." he said, causing Jaune's heart to be seized in a panic before the man punched his lights out.
Jaune woke up with a slight headache, severely confused and disoriented.
The blonde looked around his surroundings and saw he was laying down on a worn down couch, in a house that was literally falling apart by the seams.
"Hey there, Newborn." Jaune flinched at the sound of the smooth voice.
Jaune looked towards the man who kidnapped him in fright, "Listen man, my parents don't have a lot of money so if you're looking for a ransom you kidnapped the wrong kid." Jaune said, lying to the ravenette, hoping that without money the silver eyed psycho would let him go.
The raven haired stranger chuckled as he listened to the boy's heart beat, trying to tear it's way out of the kid's chest. "Calm down, I am not looking for any money, I just wanted to make sure you didn't kill anyone." Preto told the blonde who looked at him with insidious confusion.
"What?" The man rolled his eyes at the boy and in an instant transformed; His once smooth face hardened, becoming more rigid and hairy, his teeth and nails elongated and sharpened and once again his silver eyes turned into a glowing, icy blue.
"WHOA!" Jaune yelled in surprise and fear and tried kicking the beast-like man in front of him with all his thirteen year old might but the monster just caught his foot with his clawed hand.
"Nice try, Newborn." The monster complimented.
Jaune tried pulling his foot away but the beast kept a tight hold.
"Wh..WHY DO YOU KEEP CALLING ME NEWBORN!" Jaune screamed tears, traveling down his eyes, confusion clear in his voice as he felt his eyes burn again.
"Because that's what you are." Preto told the weeping boy. "A Newborn werewolf." Jaune freezed.
"Your fucking crazy, man!" Jaune immediately told the savage stranger who rolled his eyes.
"Really?" he shifted back into his normal form, "If you don't believe me that's on you." he told the boy, letting go of his foot and standing up.
"Go back to your family and rip them to shreds because you were too much of an 'idiot' to listen when someone was just trying to help."
Jaune began to hyperventilate slightly "Ho.. how do you know am… am.. a Newborn?" Jaune asked as the man smiled at him.
"Well, partly because you smell, don't worry we'll fix that and also because your eyes responded to mine when I showed them." The older werewolf answered the blonde teen who furrowed his eyebrows and smelled himself lightly but to Jaune he couldn't smell anything out of the ordinary, besides dirt.
"Not like that dumbass!" The ravenette told the teen who looked at him with a tilt to the head.
"We werewolves have a unique scent especially Newborns, making it alot easier to tell ourselves apart from humans and Faunus." Preto told the boy who nodded his head hesitantly.
"An..and the eyes?" Jaune questioned, causing the man to toss him a small circular object.
He looked towards the silver eyed man for a second and opened the object which revealed itself to be a mirror and Jaune saw his eyes that the entire Arc family possessed.
"Newborn." Jaune looked towards the man and as their eyes connected, the older of the duo flashed icy blue, suddenly the burning pain in the blonde's eyes returned once more but with a lot less intensity.
Jaune looked towards the mirror for a second and saw that his once blue eyes were now a glowing acid yellow.
Jaune stared in shocked at the sight but after a few moments the yellow faded and his dark blue eyes returned.
"So, you believe me now." The man asked with a slight sarcastic tone of voice.
Jaune nodded his head.
"Good," Preto said, smirking at the blonde, "the names Preto Hele-Nui." The six foot man finally introduced himself.
"...Jaune Arc." he responded after a moment.
"Okay, Newborn Jaune Arc listen carefully." The silver eyed Werewolf told the young teen with a serious tone and expression.
"You've been bitten by a rogue Alpha; the top of the food chain of our kind and they'll do everything in their power to get to you because you're their Beta." he told the blonde, causing Jaune's heart beat to increase to dangerous levels. "...but you don't have to worry because I found you first and am going to teach you everything I know."
"I'm going to help you control your abilities and together we're going to kill the Alpha." Jaune swallowed slightly and his heart beat increased to the rate where a normal person would have a heart attack already.
"Do you understand?" Jaune's eyes began burning along with the rest of his body.
"AGHH!!" Jaune roared, having completely transformed into his very own werewolf form and jumped through the window escaping from the man.
Preto sighed, "...You came off too strong Preto." he muttered to himself and stood up, ready to chase after the boy.
Jaune was running as fast as he could, which was pretty damn fast now.
The blonde could feel the dirt beneath his palms and the wonderful smell of nature as he hightailed it away from the raven haired man.
Pretty soon the fire that burned through his veins receded transforming him back into a human and forcing the Arc back onto his feet.
Jaune began to breathe heavily taking as much air his lungs allowed and smiled from the exhilaration.
'Maybe this isn't so bad after all.' Jaune thought to himself.
As he looked towards his surrounding he noticed he didn't know where he was at all, "Fuck." Jaune cursed to himself.
"Hahaha, feels good doesn't it? To be free." He heard the raven haired man causing Jaune to spin around in surprise at his appearance.
Jaune's eyes widened, "ho..How?" he asked with awe in his voice not expecting to be found so quickly.
"Jaune, I've been a werewolf my entire life." The older werewolf told the blonde. "Someone who can't even transform at will could never lose me for long." he smirked as he walked towards the blue eyed boy who stepped away, fear rolling off the teen's form and the man sighed in response.
"Listen Jaune, I realize I came off too strong and that's on me," Preto tapped his chest in admittance. "But you do really need a teacher or you 'will' hurt someone." he told the blonde who looked down for a moment.
"I'm… I'm not a killer." Jaune told the man who shook his head.
"... Yeah you are." The ravenette told the blonde teen who looked at him in anger and fear.
"As soon as that Alpha bit you; your nature, your very soul changed." He said to the boy who swallowed thickly. "So trust me when I say this, you are a killer and don't you forget it." The two werewolves stared at each other for a long moment before the Arc scion looked away.
"... I… I don't want to be a monster." Jaune told the man who smiled with kindness.
"And you don't have to be." Preto told the blonde not wanting the teen to feel like his abilities were a burden for him to carry.
"I can teach you how to hone your new gifts. I can teach you how to be more than just your instincts. I can teach you to be a warrior, a Hero." Preto outstretched his hand towards the boy, "All you gotta do is take my hand."
Jaune looked at the man in front of me and for a second, he thought about walking the other way but he also thought about the stories of his ancestors and how all their journeys started out at accepting help; be it from a family member or a complete stranger.
The blonde also thought about his sisters and what would happen if he lost control and transformed in front of them or worse, hurt them. He slowly raised his arm and accepted the hand in front of him.
Preto smiled at the boy. "Ok. Let's get to work." Walking back to his run down house.
"Listen kid, before we can start anything you need to know a few things." Preto told the boy who nodded hesitantly.
"There are three types of werewolves; Omegas who are on the lowest on the supernatural totem and belong to no pack. They are usually the easiest to deal with and uncommon amongst werewolves."
"The next is Betas, their the most common type of werewolves and nine times out of ten can beat an omega with ease. Betas receive a portion of their powers from an Alpha and vice versa." Preto explained to the blonde who was trying to absorb the information.
"And that brings us to...Alphas; even more uncommon than Omegas. Alphas are werewolves who have obtained what we call The Alpha Spark."
"The Alpha Spark is a source of power that grant's a werewolf an increase of all their abilities and a whole host of new ones. There are only a few ways to obtain this power; Kill an alpha.." Jaune interrupted the man.
"is… is that why you want to kill the Alpha, to gain its power?" Jaune asked the man who immediately shook his head negatively.
"No. This alpha is a murderer and I want to bring it to justice." Preto told the boy whose eyes widened in remembrance.
"WAIT! I CAN'T BELIEVE I FORGOT!! THERE'S HALF A CORPSE OUT THERE WE NEED TO CALL THE POLICE!!" Jaune exclaimed in horror and started to fumble in his pockets for his scroll.
"Jaune! JAUNE!" Preto yelled, stopping the boy. "Calm down." The older werewolf told the blonde teen, "The cops already know, they found the upper half, you don't have to worry." Jaune sighed in relief but his breath froze in his throat.
"Are you saying th… the Alpha tore that body apart?" Jaune asked with fear laced in his tone.
Preto nodded in affirmation.
"Listen, Jaune, a lot of information has been dropped in your lap today so why don't you get home and tomorrow after school we'll start your training for real." Preto told the Newborn werewolf who nodded quickly in agreement.