AN: Alright! Another new story! This one the latest commission for me! Jaune's life was going well! He has graduated from Beacon and is a strong hunter with the best team that he could want! Then it all took one long dive downhill as Jaune did whatever he could to keep his family as improvised as it was together even when it seemed pointless.
Jaune Arc was great at giving a nice fuck you. Not that Jaune always did like giving someone a good fuck you but when he did oh he made sure that he got every last bit of his money's worth out of it.
"I quit," Jaune told Ozpin the veteran hunter had enough games, enough of being manipulated and at this point was just plain tired of it. Jaune for his best efforts did not get the reaction he expected from Ozpin. The elder man looked at him raising one eyebrow to the man as he took a single sip from his mug of coffee before sighing loudly.
"Are you sure?" Ozpin asked the old bastard gave the blandest uncaring and unresponsive answer as Jaune nodded.
"Yes, I am out of here," Jaune said growling he had already planned out this plan for more than half a year and he would be damned if he let Ozpin pull the rug out from under him. Jaune narrowed his eyes looking for any sign of anger or frustration on the immortal's face but the man gave him none. Just showing an uncaring no not uncaring a disappointed look as he sighed heavily and shook his head.
"Is there any particular reason that you are quitting? You are one of my best hunters. Not the best but you are one of the better ones." The man said as Jaune gripped his fists. His knuckles balled up as he glared at the man.
"Is there a solution? I don't know if I can list just one of them."
"Really? Am I that bad of an employer?"
"You are the worst employer that I have ever had. I don't even know how I can look at you anymore."
"Well besides the fact that you are looking at me right this very moment? For someone that can not bear the sight of me you are doing a remarkable job of doing it right now."
"Don't twist my words! You have liked to me abused my trust! Made me do things that I would never ever even consider doing and now!? Now, this!? Now my team is gone!" Jaune shouted the man slamming a fist down on the wooden table. Jaune saw Ozpin raise the eyebrow he had put back down as the l elder immortal looked at the now scattered pens and pencils that Jaune had succeeded in knocking over.
"Well, that is unfortunate. I don't remember doing any of those things but if you wish to have a selective memory? I can't stop you can I?"
"Selective memory!? You sent my team on a damn suicided mission!"
"That we needed to get done. And congratulations on the mission accomplishment by the way. I honestly did not see you or anyone else coming out of that operation alive. Tell me how is Roman?"
"How is he? He is gone Ozpin. After that fucking disaster at Mount Glen, he can't even look at me anymore!"
"Well, then you should give him some lessons. Since you are so good at looking at people that you can not stand to look at that is." Ozpin said his grey eyes flashing as a coy grin appeared over his face. Jaune's aura flashed as he pointed a warnign finger at the man.
"You watch your mouth! People are dead because of you!"
"And more people are alive because of me."
"That's not the point!"
"Then what is the point?"
"The point is if you told us what our mission was at Mount Glen we would have never had gone!"
"And this is precisely why I did not talk to you about it," Ozpin said as Jaune glared at him.
"You knew what was going to happen! You knew that the settlers were going to die!"
"And did they did. And as a result? The Vale population is stable now and we have some more information about the ways and habits of subterranean Grimm and how they would attack a settlement underground if we ever made the decision to build one there. So if you ask me? I-
"Don't. Don't finish that sentence." Jaune hissed his vents surged he felt his heart pumping in his chest. HE felt his blood go hot with rage. He ground his teeth as the thumping of his blood drowned out rational thought.
"You sent us to kill them. To trap them in that hell hole."
"I did. I do not lie to you."
"You knew that we would kill them if we left them!"
"And if they lived? How many would be alive in Vale if we did not have the food from them?"
"I! You know what I mean! Don't twist my words!"
"I am not I am simply stating the facts as they are, not just how I see them."
"You bastard, I am never going to work with you again!"
"Well that is unfortunate, you do know that this will force more work on Summer, Tai, Qrowe, and Raven, right? Do you really want to force them into such a schedule when they have retired to raise their children?"
Jaune let his smile return to his lips as he prepared to wipe one off Ozpin's.
"Well here is the thing Ozpin. I am not just quitting I am taking some people with me."
"What does that mean?"
"It means that Qrowe, Raven, Tai, and Summer are quitting as well." Jaune wished he could have taken a snapshot of Ozpin's face. He wished that he could have taken a photo of the old man's face as he realized that his chest board was now bereft of its most important pieces.
"What are you talking about?" Ozpin asked now not showing a bit of his earlier cockiness. Jaune grinned as he shook his head in a tutting gesture.
"Oh, Oz you didn't think I would just leave all alone did you?"
"Jaune this is not a joke!"
"I know I'm not laughing."
"You are purring the world in danger!"
"You say that but you know what Ozpin? I don't care."
"You are making a mistake!" The man shouted slammed his hand down green energy shot out of his eyes as he growled.
"You say that and it's really just making me want to do it all the more you know?"
"Jaune if you do this you are going to put the entire world in danger!"
"And? So what you put the people in Mount Gleen in danger."
"That was a necessary lost!"
"Who told you that you can decide?"
"No one!"
"Then I am leaving. Good boy Oz."
"You will regret this."
"I doubt it! In fact, this might be the only thing I never regret for a second!"
Jaune was regretting his life.
"Jaune! Please! My babies!" Summer gasped the once-powerful huntress fell on his chest her eyes rolled up into her head. Her hands holding in her guts the bleeding gutted woman fell over Jaune as he gripped her arms.
"Summer!? Please hang in there! I'm going to get help!"
"No! My girls! They are in danger you have to save them!" Summer hissed as Jaune heard the sounds of the attack. He heard Grimm roar the tearing of flesh, the sound of wildfires filled his ears. Jaune had no idea when or where the Grimm attack on Patch had come from but it was going to be an attack that he did not know if the island would ever recover from.
"Summer just wait here! I'll get help and save the girls! I-
"Just save Ruby and Yang, try to get Tai to tell them mommy loves them ok?" Summer asked before coughing once blood spurting out of her mouth as she fell fully onto him. "Summer? Don't worry I'll get you to them and you tell them you love them yourself!" Jaune stoped she was dead. Summer Rose best huntress of her generation besides maybe Raven or himself died in his arms. She died with a small smile on her face as her body went limp as she dropped her twin short blades with a clatter! Fang and Whip hit the wooden floor as-
"Summer... no..." Jaune gasped his fingers trembled as he felt a hand grip his chest and pull she was dead, his first friend in Beacon one of his best friends fellow leader was gone? Just gone, taken from him her children her team and husband?
"Just this morning you were making cookies for Ruby? You never got to finish them..." Jaune said as-
A scream filled the air as Jaune gently reverently put Summer to the floor.
"Help!" Jaune heard Yang scream as he ran he broke down the door to the outside the wooden barricade crumbling under him as he smashed through turning the door into splinters. Jaune saw them Yang and Ruby huddled behind their father Tai trying to hold off twin Ursa and a Deathstalker. Jaune let out a roar of anger as he drew Crocea Mors and charged into the fight.
"Get away from him!"
"Jaune?! That you! Where is Summer?!" Tai asked as Jaune slid next to them the two fighting the Grimm in front of the house.
"Daddy!?"
"Uncle Jaune!"
"Not now girls! Me and your uncle have to deal with theses monsters so we can get out of here! Go look for your mother!"
"No! Don't do that! She's... she's hurt inside! Let us kill these first!"
"Summer's hurt?" Tai asked blue eyes widening as Jaune saw the tremor flow down his spine his arms twitched as he fought the urge to rush back into the house.
"She's ok. She can't be hurt anymore." Jaune told the half-truth as Tai took a deep breath breathing a sigh of relief.
"That's good, I don't know what I would do if something happened to her."
You are going to half to find out soon enough. Jaune thought shaking his head he needed Tai focused in this fight. People fought better when they thought there was a reward at the end of the battle. And he knew that if he knew his wife was dead he might be lost to grief and cost not only his life but Jaune's and the girls.
It's better like this. Some lies help- what the hell? I sound like Ozpin now. Jaune thought as he shook off the traitorous thoughts.
I will never be like Ozpin. Jaune thought as he charged.
"Come on then! Show me what you got!" Jaune shouted as he stabbed in. He wildly hacked as he chopped off the arm of one monster. The massive black bear-like Grimm roared in paid before he swung up and sliced it's neck clean off. Its head flew back in a fountain of blood as Jaune grunted.
Something went crunch behind him as-
"Hah! Take that you shit!"
"Daddy look out!" Yang shouted as Jaune pushed forward trusting Tai to handle himself in a fight.
"Fuck off!" Jaune yelled slamming his blade in charging straightforward as he slicked clean through the other monsters' hands.
Slicing off several paw tips something squashed by him as a massive thud! Filled the air as the Deathstalker was killed. Jaune let out a grim smile as he drove his blade clean into the Ursa's chest. Killing the beast as he ended the fight!
"Fuck off!" Jaune shouted as the monster gave out one last pitiful whimper. Its free paw swung out at Jaune lazily it's beady red eyes glared hate down at Jaune. Even in its death throw, the monster was able to communicate its hatred for the human that had killed it.
It glared up at Jaune as it began to fall apart. The monster disintegrated into a thick cloud of dust as Jaune sighed. He whipped his blade on his pants legs the thrill of the night wearing off his heart pounded deep in his heart filled them with a roaring drumbeat that went thud! Thud! The beat played down as Jaune took a deep breath, letting the adrenaline surge flow out of him as he turned around to get Tai and the girls out of here.
I just need to be honest. Tell Tai he is not going to see Summer again.
"Dad?" Jaune heard Yang asked as he turned back the Deathstalker was dead disintegrating but-
"Tai!" Jaune shouted the man had the stinger of the beast lodged in his chest.
Jaune saw Tai grunt he ripped off the tail end of the thing. Tai grinned looking down to Yang before he fell to one knee blood pouring out of his mouth-
"Daddy!?"
"Ruby! Go get a bandaid! Dad is hurt-
"I love you Sundragon, but you don't need to worry about me. Go look for your mother. She'll keep you safe! Listen to her and your uncle Jaune! Don't give them any trouble and... most of all look after Ruby ok?" Tai asked wincing in pain his eyes going hazy as Yang choked back tears the five-year-old nodded as she began to cry herself.
"I will! But you have to come with us!"
"I... I'm sorry Firecracker this isn't something that I can come with you on. I'm sorry."
"Dad! Dad!?"
"Heh... what do you know you do get flowers?" Tai asked before falling back and going limp. He died with an easy grin on his lips as he looked off into something that Jaune could not see-
"Dad!? Daddy!"
"Yang not now! Don't look." Jaune pulled the shaking balling child away. She gripped into his shirt fat ugly tears coming out of her lilac eyes as she choked on her own snot.
"Uncle Jaune! He's hurt! My dad's hurt! You got to save him!"
"I'll do what I can but you have to come with me ok?"
"What?! What about him! You have to take dad with us! I won't leave him behind!" Yang growled her eyes flashing red as Jaune felt her flams leak off of her.
Of all the time to unlock your aura, why the week before this? Jaune thought as he tried to calm down the quivering shaken child.
"Yang we can't bring your dad with us right now."
"What?! Why not?!"
"Because... "
I'm not Ozpin. I won't lie to you.
"Because of what!? Are you too weak to carry him!? We can do it together-
"Your dad is dead. He is not coming back." Jaune said as bluntly as possible.
"What!? No! Don't say that!"
"It's true I'm sorry he's gone."
"You are lying-" Yang passed out Jaune pushed on her neck pressing on a soft spot knocking her out. Jaune dragged Yang back as-
"TAI!?" Raven shouted a portal opened next to Jaune as Raven's eyes still a light with Maiden powers saw her dead lover.
"Raven I'm sorry."
"No... I couldn't open a portal to him but... not like this." Raven said her voice breaking her eyes flashed back to ren as she fell on her feet.
"Mommy?" Yang popped back into the world Jaune's pressure point move must have not worked as well as he wanted due to her aura being unlocked.
Or she's just too damn stubborn for her own good. Probably a mix of both really.
"Yang... come here Sundragon..." Raven said Jauen slowly put her to her quaking daughter's arms Ravne wrapped Yang up in a quick and tight hug-
"Fuck me..." Qrowe said the crow turning into the shapely young woman that normally would have been blackout drunk right now ranting on how no man was man enough for her. Now looked at the dead once lover of hers as she gulped. "Jaune where's Ruby?" Qrowe asked as Jaune felt a shiver run down his back.
Jaune turned Ruby was gone the girl was nowhere to be seen. Jaune was up before he could count.
"Jaune!?" He heard Qrowe shout as he burst into the house. There was Ruby looking down at the dead body of her mother. Ruby looked down with wide-open eyes her small hands reaching for her mother's face as she pushed deep into them.
"Mommy? Mommy, you need to get up. You are hurt... I can get you some cloth for it but you need to get up!" Ruby said pushing into Summer Jaune felt something odd snap! In him, Jaune felt something snap in his heart Ruby was pushing on Summer her mom's still warm blood pooling on her small knees staking her red skirt a dark and ugly crimson color as she pushed on the corpse of her mother.
"Mom? You need to get up, you are so cold! I can get you a blanket."
"Oh, Ruby," Qrowe said walking over to the small girl the woman sheathed her weapon bending down and wrapping her arms around Ruby in one swift motion pulling her away from her mother's dead body.
"Aunt Qrowe? What are you doing?"
"I am getting you out of here little Rose there is nothing left here for us."
"But mom! You can't leave without her!" Ruby pouted her hands standing Qrowe's face with warm blood. Qrowe winced before she smiled even with a sea of emotions running in her body she refused to let Ruby see her weak even for a second.
"We'll come back for her Ruby ok? We'll come back for your mom later one. She's just... she's just sleeping ok? She'll be back soon enough. And when she wakes up she'll be in a better place ok?" Qrowe said as Ruby nodded once her eyes hazy as Qrowe bent back down closing Summer's eyes.
"There you go just take a nap Sum... I'll see you on the other side ok?"
"Other side of what? Where is mom going?"
"Somewhere nice Ruby now let's go," Qrowe said quickly walking away from the corpse of her best friend. Clutching Ruby tightly as she fast-walked out of the room.
"Come on Jaune."
"But-
"I said come on Jaune." Qrowe hissed a steel in her voice that made Jaune shiver s she carried the small exhausted weeping child out into the night.
"We are leaving."
"Uncle Jaune? How long do we have to stay here? It's hot." Yang complained as Jaune sighed.
"Not long Firecracker just until we can get out of here and back on our feet ok?" Jaune asked as the clouds broke and the began to fall. The world rocked once before comign to a sudden stop as Jaune sighed.
Please hold onto the rails when exiting the bullhead. Welcome to Menagerie. A voice said as Jaune nodded.
"Ruby?"
"I'm ok." The small girl said she had not gotten past saying two words of speech after the assault on Patch. After the freak Grimm attack that stole hundreds of lives two of them Ruby and Yang's parents Jaune was forced to look after them. Qrowe and Raven on thier own decision decided that they were no longer fit to look after the children. And Raven despite being Yang's biological mother left her daughter at the single worst time in her life. Her and her sister Qrowe disappearing into the night vanishing! Into the ether as Jaune was left to care for two orphaned kids.
If you had just been closer to me I would have warned you of the attack. Jaune felt a fire burn in his chest hot fat and ugly tears threatened to stream down his face as he balled his fist. Ozpin that old bastard had actually done it. He knew the Grimm attack was coming. He knew that Ozpin had called him. Ozpin to his immense credit had tried to warn Jaune about the attack coming.
The old bastard had called twice that night when the Grimm attacked them. Jaune had seen the calls before and had ignored them. Him and Summer both had calls from Ozpin but seeing that he had kicked the old bastard out of their lives neither Jaune nor Summer wanted anything to do with him. And as of right now the children had paid the price for their actions.
"Only until we get our feet off the ground Yang and Ruby come on let's find our hotel."
"How long are we going to be in a hotel this time?" Yang asked lugging her pink suitcase on the ship. Jaune felt onto both hands of his children. Literally, his Oz in either one last act of kindness or some odd revenge scheme had been able to schedule transfer custody of Ruby and Yang to him. As of right now, Jaune was their legal guardian and father figure.
"Just come on kids and if anyone asks? I'm uncle Jaune ok?" The last thing I need is them calling me papa.
"Do you see them?" A calm voice asked as a pair of amber eyes flashed.
"I do Eve what should I do?"
"Nothing. We watch."
"But Eve! That is the human that killed my father!"
"He did not kill Ghira Blake he was part of the unit in the fight where he lost his life trying to peacefully end a fight."
"He is a murderer."
"And we are going to investigate now come on follow me." Eve Tarua sadi as Blak nodded.
"Fine but I will have your head Jaune."
"So! This is our new home! For the next two weeks until we can get back to civilization!" Jaune said as he winced, money was tight after he left Patch. Jaune was really banking on being a bachelor for the entirety of his adult life. Jaune was never one for relationships he never did well with women in Beacon despite being a team leader and one of the best hunters of his generation able to go toe to toe with Summer Rose Jaune was still not able to get a single! Girlfriend in all of Beacon and honestly he was still a bit bent out of shape over it.
I mean Glynda did take me out to dinner once after I saved her life. But that was just to say thanks. And the hotel room she got us was nice a bit romantic for my taste. Jaune thought as Yang tossed her pink suitcase on the bed.
"Ok, so how long are we going to be staying in this hotel?" Yang asked already getting used to her new lifestyle.
I want my mom back. She thought as Jaune winced.
"Not that long I promise."
"You said that when we were in Vacuo for a month."
"And Argus."
"That was different! Vacuo was an unexpected circumstance! And Argus come on! You liked talking to your aunt's Saph and Terra right?!"
"Where's uncle?" Ruby asked not getting that there was not quite an uncle in the picture. Jaune coughed as he looked away the hotel room was not the best.
Two queen-sized beds with blankets that had seen better days. Straw mats on the floors. Wooden walls and ceiling with more than a healthy dose of mold on it.
There was a balcony with twin rickey folding chairs that looked as if they had not been brought in well ever. And were rusting with the thin plastic ticking off of them.
There was a tv on the center of the room that Yang was already taking the remote for."
"So two weeks? Max?"
"Yeah max, trust me. I'll be here do my hunting gig then we can get out of here." Jaune said as Yang plopped down on the bed the once five now six-year-old was still getting over the death of her parents or one of them.
At least she stopped crying for now. I don't know if I could take another night of her asking where her mom was. Or why she had left her.
"K. I'll watch tv."
"Me too," Ruby said putting her red suitcase next to Yang's the red ladybug suitcase was put next to her pink one as Ruby clung next to her sister as she cuddled to her.
"Ok. You two settle in I'm... I think I'm going to take a nap and if I'm not up in an hour splash water on my face ok?"
"K," Yang said as Jaune yawned.
"Ok. Time to go to sleep fuck I'm tired."
"Old man."
"Brat."
"So what do you know?" Kali asked as Eve coughed. The young cow faunus took a step to her leader as she paused.
"The man Jaune Arc has arrived with his daughters. Two of them."
"He has children? I do not remember him being married." Kali the head of Menagerie asked as Eve shook her head.
"No. He is not married, I did not find a single tint of romantic interest or history in his entire life."
"But you just said he is here with his daughters?"
"Yes. They are adopted."
"I see, and their parents?"
"Killed during a Grimm attack in Patch."
"A tragedy," Kali said taking a sip of tea the mistress of Menagerie sighed as she looked down into the warm green liquid as she glared harshly at Eve.
"Is he going to be a problem?"
"I don't know."
" You don't know?" Kali asked the warning tone clear in her voice as Even nodded."
"Yes. I don't know. From what I know? I doubt it. He is here to hunt Grimm. I don't think he will attack us. But..."
"But? Even if you think there is a problem then please tell me. You know that I trust your opinion."
"It's Blake ma'am. I don't think that your daughter is going to listen to me."
"What does that mean Eve?"
"It means I think that she is going to attack the human. She blames him personally for your husband's death. And as much as I have tried to assuage her fears she has not given an inch to the prospect that she might be wrong."
"I see... it is a shame that she can not move on but nonetheless. We can not have an incident on our island. As long as he breaks no laws you are to leave him alone."
"Is that an order?" Even asked as Sienna sighed.
"Yes. Yes, it is. See to it that everyone knows it and take extra steps to know that Blake knows that this is not what her father would have wanted.
"I do not think she will like that."
"She does not have to like it, she just has to do it. That is all."
"She's going to let him live!" Blake shouted as Sienna paused the militant leader of the Fang paused as she looked up from a map. The six-year-old heir to Menagerie was panting as she pushed her hands on the table. "Let who live Blake? What are you talking about?"
"I am talking about the man that killed my father!"
"You have the man that killed Ghira?" Sienna asked her blue eyes narrowing into slits the faunus reaching for a silver pistol as Blake nodded.
"Yes! I have the man that was in the unit that killed my father!" Blake said as Sienna paused.
"Wait do you have a name or just a soldier from a unit?"
"Just a soldier... ``why?"
"Oh, Blake I can't just kill a random human you know this right?"
"But look! Here he is! He was in the unit." Blake said shoeing Sienna a picture of the human.
"Is this him?" Sienna asked purring a bit her black panther ears rising up as Blake nodded.
"Yes! Yes, it is!"
"Very well I think I will looking him personally."
"Really!? You will!?"
"Of course he is a looker," Sienna said taking the picture of the so-called human target.
I have to say that he would definitely be on the list for one of my targets. Sienna thought purring as she licked her lips.
Strong upper body, a nice jaw bone, those baby blue eyes? I like what I see.
"Sienna! He's a human! How can you even think of him like that!?"
"Like what? Like the snack, he maybe?" She asked she loved teasing Blake especially when it was over something ridiculous as this. The death of Ghira was a tragedy of that she would not deny but this human held no part in it and as such warranted no retaliation on her part. Sienna smiled as she licked her lips. She put the photo down as Blake fumed.
"He is going to get away!"
"With what little kitten?"
"With killing my dad!"
"Jaune did not kill your dad Blake."
"But he knows who did! If we found him we can talk to him and figure out who did it!" Blake said as Sienna paused Blake did make an odd amount sense with that.
"That... that does make sense. Since he was on the unit maybe if we talked to him we can find out more about the fight and learn just who killed Ghira."
"Right!? I know that we can do this! We just go to him knock him out and tie him up! Then we ride him until he cries and begs for mercy!" Blake said as Sienna coughed she coughed roughly as she gagged on her own tongue.
"What!? Blake where did you hear that sentence!?"
"What? Riding him until he screams?"
"Yes! Who told you that!?"
"It was on Eve's scroll. She had a whole part of riding human's untill they scream."
"Remind me to tell that bull to get milked." Sienna groaned as she shook her head.
How hard is it to keep that away from the child Eve?! Really! Eve thought she knew that Eve had her interests in life but really Blake was a child and far too young for that!
"Ok... we will go to him and talk ok?"
"And then we knock him out with a rock!"
"A rock? Where did you get a rock from?"
"That's how you knock someone out right? You hit them with the back of a rock?" Blake asked blinking in confusion as Sienna groaned.
"No Blake, you can do that but you have to be very careful to not kill the person you want to capture. If you do use a rock one you will probably either A kill him or B break the rock as you hit his aura."
"Oh yeah he has an aura... do you have a roofie?" Blake asked like she just said the most normal thing in the world.
"What!? Where did you learn that word!?"
"With the shows Even watches about crime and police."
"Why do you have to watch trash TV when you are not training? But no Blake we will not do any of those things. We are going or I am going as I am not going to take you on this mission." Sienna said as Blake's eyes went wide in shock.
"What!? What do you mean you are not going to take me on the mission!?"
"I can't just take you on a mission Blake. I'm going to be talking to a dangerous human. Even if he is not going to or is not here to harm us that does not make him an ally. We have to treat this like a real threat and as such I the adult will go and you the child can listen in."
"But I want to be there with you!"
"And I want to talk to him without looking out for you ok?"
"But I can look out for my own self."
"Not yet little kit but soon. Now tell me everything that you know on this target."
"So you look new in town. You migrating here?" The Ox bartender with black eyes brown hair and freckles asked as Jaune shook his head.
"Nah I'm a hunter traveling around," Jaune said as he yawned a long hunt had taken the most out of him but in the end, he still had just enough energy for one drink before heading home.
"I figured the hunting part you got a nice blade and shield you here to kill some Grimm? Or people?" The man asked Jaune took the hint.
"Not people. I'm just here for the Grimm I don't have any bounties on anyone. And that does mean the Fang." Jaune said as the bar seemed to let out a deep breath. The bartender sighed wiping his forehead as if he had just avoided one helluva barfight.
"Well, that is the best news that I have heard all night. The first drink is on the house."
"Well then... shot of Rum. Make it dark." Jaune said cracking his fingers he did well today. Killed the heard of Beowful Grimm and the flock of happy types that where flying in the skies. After that Jaune had decided after putting Yang and RUby to bed and securing the hotel room with more traps and weapons that anyone that so much as breathed in it would not walk out he decided to have some time for himself.
"I need some time for me," Jaune said as he took the first shot downing it in a second. The liquor burned down his neck in a good way as he gasped.
"AH! Another!"
"I'll take the tab on him. This one belongs to me." A rich accented voice said as Jaune paused for a brief second he thought of going for his blade but if someone was going ot buy him a drink? Well, who was he to say no to free liquor?
"And who are you?" Jaune asked turning to see a stunning faunus woman. She was about his age so early thirties? Jaune guessed as he looked at a tall but slightly shorter than him faunus. She had rich roasted honey dark skin that looked like burned chocolate. Her eyes were a light blue and her hair black as ink. She had a pair of panter ears on her head and was wrapped up in a pair of loose beings pants and a tight top that showed off her chest as Jaune smiled.
"Thanks for the drink I could use something like that after this you know?" Jaune asked as she grinned she sat next to him ordering two cocktails as she held out a hand.
"Sienna Khan and you?"
"Jaune Arc nice to meet you," Jaune said shaking her hand.
"Good to know the handsome stranger has a name. So tell me Jaune you are a hunter? Did your mission go well?" She purred taking her hand and placing it on Jaune's. He paused blinking before a smile spread over his lips.
She wants to hold hands? Maybe she is feeling lonely I know Glynda liked to do this in Beacon. Maybe she is the same? Jaune thought as he gripped Sienna's hands tight.
"Well I killed all the Grimm and I only had a minor case of internal bleeding so I think it went well enough. If you ask me that is."
"So you are really just here to kill Grimm? Not pursuing any dangerous leads on a terrorist?" Sienna asked tightening her grip on Jaune's hand letting the left part of her top fall down showing off her braless chest-
"Ah! Your chest!" Jaune moved like water he shot out covering her chest again as Sienna balked.
"I... did you just cover me?"
"Your top was falling I didn't want you to have a malfunction," Jaune said the faunus blinked owlishly at him as-
"Um... your drinks?" The man said putting the twin fruity cocktails down each had an extra-strong amount of liquor in them as Jaune nodded.
"Yeah, I did I know that you would not want me to see your breasts so I covered you. Your welcome." Jaune said taking a sip of his drink as Sienna blinked owlishly.
"I... I am glad that you are so generous! What a gentleman."
"My mom raised me to respect women."
"Oh, that is nice tell me Jaune you are a hunter so you must go on a variety of missions right? What are some of your stories? Anything juicy you like to talk about?"
"Not really? It's kind of boring I just kill Grimm get paid to try to pay for cookies with my daughters and that's it really."
"I see have you ever fought things, not Grimm? Like humans or faunus?"
"The last time I fought a faunus was near Clayton lake," Jaune said as every faunus paused Sienna raised a hand to calm them as she nodded.
"What happened there?" She asked as Jaune shook his head.
"Your guess is as good as mine. One thing everything is going according to plan and the next? Chaos fang and then the next thing the diplomat Ghira was dead."
"How did he die?" Sienna asked one hand slowly reaching below her belt for a pistol. The human's next words would decide his fate. If he did not give her an answer that she personally approved of? Jaune was going to be sleeping with the fishes or really feed to whatever Grimm lived in the woods of the area.
"I don't know. One second alive the next? Gunshot wound right between the eyes. Shame too. I only talked to him for a moment but he seemed like a good guy. Real into human faunus relationships."
"So you do not know who killed him?" Sienna asked almost disappointed as Jaune nodded.
"No by the time I got to him he was already dead and I didn't see anything that could link it."
"I see. A shame then." Sienna checked his pulse she could tell if a human was lying based on their pulse and breathing and so far? Jaune was telling the truth.
Or he is just really good at lying but judging from his looks? I don't think he is capable of telling a lie. He looks like the type to barely be able to tell his kids that someone brings them presents every year.
"Well now that this is over tell me Jaune what do you plan on doing later on?" Sienna purred as she licked her lips.
Well, we don't have to get into any business but that does not mean that we can not have a bit of pleasure now does it? So what he does not know who killed Ghira? That was a long shot and an excuse to get Blake off his back and from doing anything stupid now let's see what we can do with this stud. She thought licking her lips as Jaune paused.
"I don't have much planned I have to get back to my hotel to check on my girls. I can't leave them tonight."
Damn. I can't just ask him to leave his kids that would be too much. Ah well, maybe a scroll number?
"Well that is nice but since you are in town for?"
"About two weeks. The Grimm hunt went down easier than I thought so I think I'll look around the island with my kids. That and the fact that our return flight that I bought tickets in advance is not in till then so..."
"So you are stuck on the island? Like a stowaway?" She asked purring as Jaune nodded.
"More or less why? Did you want to meet up later one?"
More than that.
"Why yes what say you oh! I know I have a sister of sorts she's about six years old and she is looking for a playdate. What say you bring your kids and I bring mine and we all hang out?"
Sorry for that Blake but he's a good guy and you need to learn that not all humans are bad ok? She thought as Jaune smiled.
"That would be great! I can't tell you how much they need to find someone else to hand out with. It's not easy living on the road. The barley has time to settle in one place before traveling again. It is hard enough to never settle but to not have friends? I can't do that to them. They are good girls and deserve the best."
"Well, in that case, Blake is a good girl and she loves meeting new people." Sienna felt Blake tearing at the wall in her room. Probably no without a doubt hissing and berating her name as the one to betray her for her own needs.
You will understand one day. She thought as she grinned.
"But before you leave what say you and me take this upstairs? I think that we can have some fun before you go back to your daughters."
"You want to take this upstairs?" Jaune asked looking at her up and down as he frowned. "I don't think we can do that."
"Oh? Why not you are not afraid that I'll scratch you are you? I promise to be gentle at first." She purred as Jaune shook his head in confusion.
"What? I mean I don't think the bar is going to let us take our chairs upstairs just to talk." Jaune said as Sienna paused she blinked once twice as she coughed.
"Um, what?"
AN: And that's it! The first part of Papa Arc done! The next chapter if finished and just waiting to upload! And will be up in a few days!