A/N: Now before people say I just reuploaded the chapter again, I want to let everyone know that I made some changes in this. I'll explain in the end, but basically I changed Jaune's semblance from ancestors to something more… in character. For people that have read the chapter just go to the chained up part to see the difference.
"Jaune!"
Jaune opened his eyes and looked up. He saw that it was night out and that Dew was shaking him awake.
"Get up dummy," She said. Jaune sits up and clutches his side a bit, still sore from the fight with the Charger. "You'll be fine."
"Yeah yeah," Jaune moaned. He looked up and noticed the stars were still up. "We're moving out already?"
"You're the one who wanted us to." Dew offers a hand to Jaune. "Need help?"
Jaune shakes his head. "I think I got it." He groans as he gets up, other than a little stiffness he was fine.
"Well then, shall we?" Dew asked with a little sarcastic curtsy.
"Ladies first." Jaune motioned for her to go and she rolled her eyes. The two of them go back to the campsite. There was still a tiny fire but it so dim that it barely lit anyone's faces. They hear the movement of Jaune and Dew and turn to them, most of them surprised to see jaune standing.
"Well I'll be damned…" Brawnz said. "Figured we'd have to carry you Gimpy."
"I highly doubt any of you would," Jaune joked. This earned a chuckle from Brawnz and Dew, and a little air breath from Nebula and Roy, the others ignored him. "All right, did you guys figure out anything?"
"Yes," Octavia said. "No thanks to you." If Jaune was hurt by that then he showed no signs of it.
"What'd you guys find out?" Jaune asked as he reached down to grab the supply bag. However Dew grabbed his arm. He looked up at her and she shook her head. She then grabbed the Supply bag and strapped it to herself.
"Well," Brawnz said picking up the other supply bags. "We're in Picaro mining camp. Everyone was in the process of packing up and moving to another location, due to how some of supplies were already in backpacks."
"And then Grimm?"
"Yep, but the good news is that we're only about fifty miles away from the school."
"We're that close?" Brawnz nodded his head.
"Yeah, we should be able to get there by the afternoon," Dew said.
"And when we're there we won't ever have to deal with him again," Nolan said to May, causing the girl to giggle.
"All right, grab everything and let's get moving," Jaune said. Everyone gave various responses from yeses to grunts, they made sure they grabbed all of the food, all of Gwen's knives, any dust, anything that made their survival easier. Once they had everything, they head out.
A few hours later:
"Let's rest here for a little bit!" Jaune called out. Sighs of relief could be heard from all around. All of them were sweating buckets from all of the walking. Dawn was upon them, with a tiny bit of the sun shining down.
Brawnz drops the supply bag and hands everyone water. It was a good thing they found Picaro, otherwise they'd have to be rationing the water a little more harshly. Brawnz walked up to Jaune and gave him a pat on the shoulder.
"How are you holding up?" he asked. Jaune took a swig of the water bottle before answering.
"Well, still feels like I got kicked by a mule in certain places," Jaune answered. "Not to mention tired from all the walking. Other than that I'm good." Jaune hands back the water bottle to Brawnz who takes a drink from it.
"Yeah it sucks," He said wiping his mouth. "I mean how did they expect to move all of the equipment without any vehicles?" Jaune was about to quip with Brawnz but realized what he said. Why weren't there any vehicles?
"You telling me you didn't find any vehicles?" Jaune asked.
"You didn't either?"
Jaune shook his head. This was weird. "I'll be right back." Jaune went up to Nebula and Gwen who were talking about Gwen's knives.
"Are you sure you got all of them?" Nebula asked her teammate.
"I'm positive Neb," the black haired girl said. "I double checked before we left."
"Good, 'cause replacing them isn't exactly cheap." The two girls laughed. Jaune decided now would be a good as time as any.
"Hey Nebula, hey Gwen," He said as he walked up to them.
"Oh, Hey Jaune," Nebula said. Gwen just responded with a nod. She couldn't look Jaune in the eye, but at the same time it wasn't with disgust, it was something else.
"Mind if I ask you girls a question?" Gwen again just nods while avoiding eye contact.
"Go ahead," Nebula said.
"Did you girls find any signs of vehicles?" Gwen her bit her lip and Nebula put her hand to her mouth.
"Now that you mention it, no."
"No," Gwen answered.
"Why do you ask?"
"Well…" Jaune said. "Don't you think it's weird? I mean, if they were trying to move, wouldn't they need trucks? Something to haul all of the equipment?"
The two of them actually thought about it. However they didn't get a long time to. Everyone heard an explosion and took out their weapons and looked around.
"What the hell?" Roy said aloud.
"What was that?" Jaune asked.
"Whatever it was, it didn't sound good…" Octavia said. The two teams and Jaune looked around and waited. Waited for something to happen.
They soon got their wish as another explosion was heard. They all looked around trying to find whatever it was causing all of this. Jaune looked up and saw something flying toward him. He ducks down and the object hits the sand. Everyone heard him yelp and turned toward him. They then saw the little cylander that landed in the sand.
Everyone slowly approached it. They had no idea what it was. However as soon as they were close the object sprung up and exploded, and a blinding flash and rining could be heard.
Jaune falls to the ground, rubbing his eyes and trying to stop the ringing in his head. However just as it looks like the blinding light was out of his eyes, another grenade landed near all of them.
The grenade exploded causing a suspicious gas to form around the students. As they inhaled it it was very obvious that it wasn't the type of gas that needed to be inhaled. It caused the students eyesight to become blurry, and it made them feel weak.
As they all slowly fell to the ground, Jaune could have sworn he heard a vehicle or something approach them. However he soon passed out before he could really tell.
One hour later:
Jaune feels someone putting their hand on his mouth and moving his head around. He groans and slowly opens his eyes to reveal a shirtless man with a hockey mask staring at him. He also felt as if he was hanging from something. He feels handcuffs or something wrapped around his wrists and they are digging deep into his skin. Jaune groans as he looks down to noticed his legs were hanging, but also had chains around them. He was basically bonded.
"Oi, Jamison, the blonde guy's awake!" the shirtless man said. He lets go of Jaune and clears the way for who Jaune assumed was Jamison. Jamison had a very pointed face, a wicked smile on his face, and his hair was point upward and… had flames ablaze on top of it. He also seemed to have a mechanical arm and peg leg. Jamison had a harness as a shirt that had a lot of bombs on it, with a tire with spikes strapped to his back.
"Wakey wakey!" Jamison said. "G'day cobber, how ya feeling?" Jaune just groans at him. "Yeah I remember when I got hit with those gas grenades before. Get groggier than an addict without his poison." The man named Jamison gets a closer look at Jaune. "Oi, you don't look Vacuan mate, and you don't exactly strike me as Mistralian either. You Atlas?"
Jaune had no idea what to do. Does he respond? Does he act tough? Silent treatment? The man didn't exactly look stable so he had no idea how to react. Luckily someone, or something distracted Jamison.
A grunt could be heard and Jaune looked to see a very fat man, with a tattoo of a pig on his belly with an engine and flames behind the pig, and he was wearing a mask that was shaped like pig noise. He had a hook connected to a chain at his side, and was dressed up as if he was in an apocalypse. Jaune noticed that's how all of them dressed.
"Well unlike you Roadie, I like to know why our stuff was stolen by these brats," Jamison said. Another grunt from the fat man. "I do ya big lug!" As the two continued arguing, Jaune looked around the room he was in. It looked like a poorly made shack, but there were chains all around with blood, both dried and fresh, on them and on the walls and floor.
He then notices Roy on the right side of the room. He was hung the same way Jaune was. When Jaune looked to his left he saw Nolan in the same predicament they were in. He then saw Brawnz right across from him. All four of the guys were hanging on all four sides of the room.
Jaune hears Jamison groan. "All right all right," Jamison said. He goes over to Jaune and waves to him. "You still conscious?" Jaune groans. "Jesus man, can you even speak?"
"Go fuck yourself Junkrat," Roy said. Jaune and Jamison look over to the dark skin boy. Jamison/Junkrat got a big smile on his face.
"Well well, look who's awake." Jamison walks over to Roy and grabs his hair. he forces Roy to look him in his maniac like eyes. "SO, who hired ya?" Roy spits in Jamison's face. Jamison wipes away the spit and then punches Roy in the gut with his mechanical arm. The saw blade user would keel over if he could. "I'll ask you again, mate. Who hired you? Or are just bounty hunters?"
Roy just stared into his eyes with no fear in them. Jamison backs off but takes another look at all of the guys. He then gets a look of realization and starts chuckling. It then slowly turns into a maniacal laugh. "Shade students?!" Jamison said. "How did I not see this before?"
Roadie grunts what sounded like a question. Jamison turns to him. "Of course I'm sure! Listen civies that know of us should be scared right?" Roadie nods. "Well these blokes seem to be a little young to be mercs or bounty hunters. At the same time, they were carrying Huntsman equipment. Doesn't take a genuis to put two and two together." Jamison goes to Roy and cups Roy's face with his robotic fingers. "So what's a Shady doing out here anyway?"
Roy just glares into Jamison's eyes. Jamison just shrugs and uncups Roy's face. "Whatever," he said with a shrug. "I'm sure our sweet little tarts want some alone time with you. Not to mention the mates with ya shiela's. Don't worry though I'm sure most of them will be quick when their done with you. Most of them anyway." Jamison lets out another maniacal chuckle as he and Roadie left the room.
As the door closed, the sound of it echoed a little bit, and then silence soon followed. Jaune looks over to Roy. "Roy, who was he?" Jaune asked hoarsely.
"Jamison Fawkes," Roy said. "Known as Junkrat in the criminal underbelly." Roy would explain more but they heard another groan. They turn to the noise and see Brawnz waking up. He blinks his eyes as Jaune and Roy try to get his attention.
"Brawnz!" The two hunters in training said in unison. As Brawnz slowly got over his fatigue he looked up.
"Jaune? Roy?" Brawnz said weakly. "Where are we?"
"We've been captured by Junkrat," Roy said. Brawnz's pupils shrunk. "And now he's letting his friends do whatever they want with us." Brawnz's starts struggling to get out of the chains. Jaune could see from the way he was struggling it was out of fear. Intense fear.
"We need to get out of here, now!" Brawnz cried. He started spazzing out trying to escape.
"Brawnz calm down!" Roy said. "We can't escape if―" Roy is cut off by the door opening again. In walks in four women dressed as if they were in the apocalypse. They had the same kind of clothes Junkrat and Roadie had.
"Mmm…" a girl with a tank top and jet black haired said. She licked her lips as she looked in the room. "They sure caught some good looking ones." The girl behind her, who wore leather armor, looked in. She had the same post-apocalyptic dress style.
"I call dibs on young blonde and handsome," She said as she looked directly at Jaune. The lecherous stare that she had on Jaune made him shudder.
The final girl, who had a scar over her left eye, looked at Nolan with a look of disapproval. "The bastard is still sleeping. It's no fun if they're unconscious." She then looks over to Brawnz and gets a big smile on her lip. "Aw well, I'm in the mood for some chocolate anyway." She walks over to Brawnz as the other two walk to Jaune and Roy. Brawnz growls at her.
"I swear to the gods if you put a finger on me," Brawnz said. Despite trying to keep the tough guy act, there was fear everywhere in his body. The scar bandit puts her finger to his lips and shushes him.
"Just enjoy it, it'll be your last," She said. She then begins licking Brawnz, much to his discomfort.
Once she did that the other girls began to do the same to Jaune and Roy. Jaune shifted uncomfortable as the tank top bandit's tongue traveled his neck. He feels her stroking his chest and trying to remove any armor he had on him. Jaune keeps struggling, as do Roy and Brawnz but to no avail.
Eventually she was able to strip Jaune of his torso armor and was stroking his bare chest as she continued to lick his neck. She even began biting on him. Despite struggling, Jaune had to admit it felt good, and he hated that fact. Jaune looked around the room and saw Brawnz and Roy in just as much displeasure as he was.
The three hunters in training squirmed as they continued to be harassed. Jaune wanted, no needed to get out, but with all of them chained up, he couldn't think of a way to get out. The girl stopped necking Jaune and moved away from him. She licked her lips and finally went to his mouth. Jaune moaned in shock as her tongue was stuffed down his throat. Despite that, Jaune was still trying to find a way out, but as the time seemed to grow longer and longer, Jaune was starting to accept that perhaps this was it. This is the end for him.
"Am I seriously letting this happen?" Jaune thought. As the girls tongue wriggled around in his mouth, Jaune grew disgusted with himself. He wasn't doing anything. He couldn't do anything. Jaune looked around for something, anything to help him. However there seemed to be nothing that could get them out.
He looked down and saw the chains that held him together. All of a sudden his head felt a little funny and his vision changed for a split second. his vision then turns to a reddish tint. Jaune thought he was seeing things but when he looked down at his chains, he saw that there was a circle over the chain all of a sudden some text popped up next to it.
Chain strength: 32%
Suggested action: use strength to break out.
Jaune couldn't believe his eyes. He thought he was going insane. However he wouldn't have time as he felt the bandits hand lower slowly down from his torso to his… sword. Jaune knew if he used his aura he could probably break out but he needed a distraction. He actually had one come to mind as the bandit kept sticking her tongue down his throat, but he didn't like it.
Nolan woke up and looked around and saw the same thing the others saw when they woke up: All of them chained in a room. Only this time Nolan saw that there were bandit girls harassing them. The one messing with Brawnz turned and saw Nolan was awkae. She stops licking Brawnz and goes over to Nolan.
"Looks like the Redhead's awake," she said. She puts her hand on his face and smiles. "I'll be with you after I'm done with him." The bandit girl began walking over to Brawnz.
A second later, one of the girl began screaming in agony. She backed away from Jaune which caught the attention of the other two. They kneel down next to her to see her puking blood. They turn to Jaune, and beside the look of extreme anger on his face and the white glow, they could tell her had something in his mouth. He opens his mouth and lets the object drop from his mouth and to the ground. It didn't take long for everyone to realize what it was.
Jaune bit off the tank top girl's tongue.
This caused the bandit in leather armor to yell and grab a rock nearby and charge at Jaune. However, Jaune lifted his legs, as hard, fast and as high as he could. He had to do it a few times in order for it to finally break.
When the bandit girl was in range Jaune swung and kicked her square in the face, sending her flying. The scarred girl charged at Jaune and punched him in the stomach. This caused Jaune to gasp for air. She then punched Jaune square in the face three times. The bandit girl in leather armor came up to Jaune and began choking him.
"You piece of shit!" The scarred one yelled. "I'm gonna gut you and place your head on a pike!"
"Who the hell was in charge of chains?!" The leather armored bandit said. "They didn't replace the ones we use for civies!"
As the one girl choked him and the other girl beat him and the last girl was choking on her own blood, Nolan decided to take action. He concentrated his aura into his arms. Once he was ready, he pulled his arms apart fast and with intense strength.
The chains break apart and Nolan picks up a stone nearby. He throws it as hard as he could at the bandit choking Jaune. This caused the girl to let go of Jaune and be able to get air in his lungs, which was soon punched out by the scarred girl.
The bandit girl that Nolan hit gets up and tackles him to the ground. "I don't know how you got out but I'll make sure it was the last thing you ever do!"
Brawnz and Roy watch in horror as they see two bandits hitting their friends, while another was slowly dying. They were in so much shock that they couldn't move.
Jaune eventually kicks the bandit girl away from him, which caused her to trip over the other bandit that was beating up Nolan. As both of them fell, Nolan got an idea. Since his feet were still chained up he moved his legs across one of the bandit girls' throat. He then twisted his legs in a way where the chain was choking her.
Jaune took this as his chance to break his arm chains. He lifts his legs up to the roof of the shack and pushes downward to break the chains. It works but Jaune wasn't using his aura and when he landed, his back landed right on a sharp stone. This caused Jaune to yelp in pain.
As Nolan continued to strangle the one bandit girl, the scarred one got up and grabbed a nearby stone. She then bashed in Nolan's face with it. Nolan's chains loosened around the leather armored girl's neck. The bandit girl gasped for air and turned to Nolan, anger in her eyes.
Both of the bandit girls get up and begin attacking Nolan. Jaune slowly stood up and saw that they were double teaming Nolan. Jaune's leadership instinct kicked in and he charge and tackled the scarred bandit.
They both fall to the ground and Jaune then straddles the girl. He then raises his fist as high as he could and begins punching her. Hard. He hits her harder than he has ever hit someone. And he does it nonstop.
As that happens Nolan was able to counter the other bandit on top of him and pushes her off. He grab a stone nearby and then bashes hard against the chains around his legs a couple of times, causing them to break.
Nolan then goes over to the bandit girl and pins against the floor. "You're going to tell me what I want to know!"
"Fuck you!"
Nolan headbutts her. "Where are the rest of us?"
"Burn in hell!"
Nolan punches her in the face.
"I'll ask again. Where are the girls?" The bandit girl spits in Nolan's face. Nolan wipes the blood from his face. He then placed his thumb right next to her eye. He then places pressure to make it very clear what he planned on doing. He slowly moved his thumb closer to the eye. Just as it was about to reach her eye, she sumbits.
"All right all right! I'll talk!"
"Good."
As Nolan continued interrogating, Jaune was still beating up the bandit girl. He was making sure she never hurt his friends again. However, Roy yelling was what caused Jaune to stop punching.
"Jaune!"
Jaune stopped and looked at Roy, his fist still in the air. However, he saw it in his peripheral vision and saw something red, wet and sticky on his knuckles. He then looked down at the bandit girl and saw her face, and he couldn't belive himself.
She was beaten to a pulp. More than that, she was beaten to death. Jaune then looked over at the girl whose tongue he bit off and saw her lying still. Jaune just looked in horror at what he did.
He gets up and walk over to the wall and then brings his legs close to his chest. Everything that just happened in the past five minutes replays in his head. It keeps replaying over and over, every gruesome detail.
It played so much in his head that he didn't realise a hand waving in front of his face. He looks up to see Brawnz was the one waving his hand in Jaune's face. Roy and Brawnz were now free of the chains as Nolan must have gotten them down.
"Jaune are you okay?" Brawnz said. Jaune looked over to the two bandits again and that's when the reality of what he did finally caught up to him. He felt his stomach churn and at this point he didn't care. He leaned over to the side and puked his guts out. He puked more than he ever did from motion sickness. After wards he just feints. The three others just stare at him confused by what happened.
"Is he okay?" Nolan asked.
"Jaune, wake up!" Brawnz said. The two of them sat Jaune up and tried to wake him up. Meanwhile, Roy looked around and thought for a second.
"Is it possible that he feinted from exhaustion?" Roy thought. "It didn't seem to be that much of a strain on him physically…" That was when it hit Roy. Physically Jaune was fine. Mentally, he wasn't.
"Guys," Roy said, getting the attention of his two teammates. "Jaune was from Vale, right?"
"Um… yeah why?" Brawnz asked. Roy motioned to the two now deceased bandits.
"You really think Jaune has the guts to stomach… that?"
That was when Nolan and Brawnz realized why Jaune was so distraught. Nolan killing the bandit girl was fairly easy. Sure he didn't like it, but it's not like he could keep her alive. She would eventually warn the others that they escaped if she was kept alive. The difference between Nolan and Jaune was that Nolan has killed bandits before. He had to for most of his missions. But Jaune? Jaune wasn't from Vacuo, he hasn't gotten used to its… livelihood.
"Well, now what do we do?" Nolan asked.
"I think it's best if you guys find the girls," Brawnz said. "I'll watch over Jaune."
"Are you sure?"
Brawnz nods. "You guys go, I think Jaune needs to see a friendly face when he wakes up." The two guys nod and begin to leave. "Don't get caught. We need to make sure that we get out of here without making it any harder on ourselves."
"Right," the two said in unison. With that they left Jaune and Brawn on their own. As Brawnz looked down at his passed out blonde friend, he couldn't help but blame himself. He was the one who brought Jaune to Shade, so he was the reason why Jaune had to kill the two bandits.
To be continued.
A/N: So for those of you who were wondering where Chapter 6 went, well I had some time to think and discuss with someone that my semblance I had for Jaune wasn't exactly the best fit for him. Which is why we both agreed that this new one was better suited for him. And that person I discussed with was my new Beta reader, TheShadowofZama. For those of you who read the reviews you will notice he reviewed very harsh and true criticisms about my story, which I appreciated. Hence why I decided to discuss some things with him and have him be my betareader.
Now before you guys say I only changed the chapter because of one review, I want to state that I didn't change just for him. You see, I like to keep my stories a few chapters ahead so I can review them from time to time and make sure I keep a weekly upload schedule. I've read them and thought about my plans with the previous semblance and came to the same conclusion that he did: I'm going nowhere with the semblance or the ancestors. Even without them my story would progress the same.
Anyway, that's why I deleted chapter six and replaced it. I hope you guys enjoyed and stay tuned for the next chapter.