RWBY and friends watch Resident Huntsman

by Gravenimage

As Team RWBY and co are worried to what became of their friend Jaune Arc the God of Darkness intervenes and decides to tell them as a way to get even with his brother showing them the events of what Jaune's been through since he was sent to another world and the horror he has experienced. Collaboration project with warrior of six blades.

4. Family Matters, Studies of another world

RWBY AND FRIENDS REACT:
RESIDENT HUNTSMAN

By: Gravenimage

Beta: warrior of six blades

"God of Darkness speaking"
'God of Darkness thinking'

"Speaking"
'Thinking'

Flashback

"Speaking in Flashback"
'Thinking in Flashback'
*communications device/reading files*

Viewing portal of Resident Huntsman scenes

AN from warrior of six blades: Well I gave you all more than enough time to decide on arguments and while some of you offered some interesting substitute ideas like Penny or a character from Resident Evil, I decided to stop at Saphron and Mrs. Arc in the end. As much as I would LIKE to have some RE cast or Penny, let's be real here for a second.

The RE cast is not close to Jaune except for Claire or Leon, Claire already living it doesn't need the viewing and I will have the God of Darkness explain why he won't bring an RE cast member into this viewing. As for Penny, Cinder, and Raven who I have considered, but ultimately dropped the ideas of including. Here is my list of reasons why.

Penny: As much as I like her and would love for her to have a reunion with Ruby, she is not that close to Jaune at all. They don't really know each other honestly unless Ruby told Penny about him. Also, I'm holding on to hope that her father/creator will rebuild Penny who will be waiting in Atlas. So here is to hoping!

Cinder: As MUCH as I would LOVE to make Cinder pay and learn a lesson in humility and powerlessness. As well as frustration in seeing she could never break Jaune Arc. I decided there was really no true benefit in bringing her in this, beyond a possible scare tactic to make her doubt her alliance with Salem working out for the best. Which knowing Salem she would find some way to manipulate Cinder into working for her again or kill Cinder if deemed more trouble than worth.

Raven: Everyone knows Raven is a bitch of a mother to have with a hypocritical view of the strong lives and the weak die. Considering she is living among a bandit tribe who is using her to survive and would back stab her if they thought it would give them something greater than Raven's leadership. Yet, Yang easily trounces them and I have no doubt in my mind Tai would be able to kill a good majority of them, if not all of them. Considering it was Tai who trained Yang and we only got a glimpse of his skill. So why the fuck does she act like her "tribe" is so strong when they're just cowardly bullies picking on the weak to get ahead, when her husband and blood daughter are easily stronger?

Also, while Raven would be impressed with Jaune's resolve and inner strength. She would not see this as a reason to help Yang fight Salem because unlike Jaune's mission. Salem IS immortal and to her knowledge there is no way to kill permanently Salem. Oz killed her once, but we saw her body come back brand new and have enough power to kill the weakened Ozma. Yet, we ALL know Raven never saw that vision and STILL Raven insists Salem can't be beaten. It's my belief Raven tried and was horrified to find out how outmatched she was. OR perhaps she saw how Summer died as they fought side by side one last time. That despite how hard Raven fought at Summer's side, she is haunted by how Salem killed Summer and nearly killed her. So with this knowledge in mind, Raven tries to avoid Salem and the war Oz has with the witch.

In the end, Raven is as Yang said. Raven is powerful, but she is NOT strong. Yang is the strong one between them and I hope Raven eventually snaps out of this fear ruling her life. To get the redemption I am hoping she will take, to make up for failing her daughter and husband for years now. To know what it truly means to be strong and who is worth fighting for.

Graven: So yeah, warrior had his reasons for excluding them from the list. Which I actually approve as we don't need too many people here that it becomes hard to give equal attention to believably.

Warrior: I do apologize for how long this took, but as Graven has told you, I DO have a life of my own and it's not always easy to be thinking of writing when so much else is going on. Like work, depression, anxiety, wanting to check in on those I love and be there for them in hard times, and FINALLY getting to play RE 2 Remake that I've recently bought a copy of for myself! Started with Claire A and found out the hard way that killing every zombie leaves me with not enough ammo to deal with G-Birkin's fourth form before the damn timer running out. So I was forced to restart the Claire A Scenario and try to go through it again, but smarter this time. Not kill every zombie and B.O.W. I cross, excluding Trenchy who I actively run and hide from.

With this said, here is the Disclaimer: I own NOTHING of either RWBY or Resident Evil. So stop being dicks and bug actual criminals who commit crimes that actually cause harm to other people.

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Chapter 3: Family Matters, Studies of Another World, and Just a bad dream, a very bad dream.

Everyone was shocked to say the least, as the viewing ended for now. Silently absorbing all this information and worrying for what Jaune is about to face.

"I know this is a lot to take in, so please feel free to check the book I gave to Weiss or grab a bite to eat. I don't mind waiting a few minutes as you absorb all of this." The God of Darkness said, with Team RWBY, Ren, Nora, Qrow, Maria, Oscar, and Ozpin nodding in agreement on the fact they could use a brief break. Though not all of them wanted it just to read a book.

"Excuse me, God of Darkness? I have something I wish to ask." Summer stated getting up from her chair next to Ruby, who looked at her mom in worry. The God of Darkness tilted his head, slightly surprised she wished to speak with him and sounded so calm. He couldn't detect on trace of anger, hate, or fear from her right now.

"Very well, speak your mind, Summer Rose." The God of Darkness stated.

"I want to ask you to bring the Arc family into the viewing," Summer asks, making the God of Darkness feel a bit of surprise at the request, while everyone else is shocked.

"Mom, why you want to bring them into this?" Yang asks knowing by now how terrifying the viewing is and knew if Saphron saw her brother going through this, she would not be happy at all. That's not even considering they'd have to catch Saphron up on the truth if she starts demanding answers to what the mission Jaune was doing is really about.

"I too, am interested in this request. Please share with us why you ask this." The God of Darkness asks with some intrigue, he knew she didn't take well to what they were seeing. Why would the human wish to make the young man's family witness such horror?

"I ask because they deserve to know. They're Jaune's family after all and your brother caused this to happen. I think it's only fair they be allowed to see for themselves what has been done to him, than ask us to tell them some half baked story of how he fell to some Grimm." Summer told the God of Darkness with a stern glare.

"You could tell them the truth." The God of Darkness stated simply, already feeling he knew the answer he would get.

"Oh sure, without seeing it for themselves they'll likely believe us as we tell them Jaune got kidnapped by the God of Light to another world." Qrow cut in with a sarcasm heavy in the heavy in the air. "A world mind you, that has zombies trying to kill him and has to face the darker side of humanity as you claimed to us earlier."

"He will, you just haven't seen it YET, Qrow. Trust me when I say that time is approaching and you will understand what I mean in time. The humans that Jaune must face there would make Jacques Schnee look like a simple school yard bully, compared to those monsters wearing human skin." The God of Darkness stated with a tone that held some bitterness and venom, surprising everyone at how he spoke of them. Especially Blake, who was surprised to Jacques Schnee who oppressed and abused his faunus labor forces so heavily, was not that bad compared to who Jaune must face.

"No offense, God of Darkness, but I find that hard to believe." Blake spoke with venom thinking of the man and how much suffering he caused. Even from what Weiss told her of the man, she knew he was a horrible father who knew how to get away with abusing and mentally conditioning his own children in ways that would horrify anyone with morals.

The God of Darkness only shook his head before sighing.

"THIS is what I mean by seeing is believing, which you all will in time. Now back to the matter at hand." The God of Darkness stated looking at Summer once more. "I hope you know there is a reason I didn't call them here before your request Summer Rose."

Summer and the others looked confused at this as the God of Darkness decided to elaborate.

"I didn't call them here earlier because, while you are correct they are his family, telling them wouldn't grant me or you all much. Worse, some of them are too young to handle such horrors and while I may be pragmatic at heart, I'm not heartless. What would the Arc Family seeing this grant any of you? Hoping to earn the family's support in weapons and safe houses for rest?" The God of Darkness explains to them, making them bristle at the idea he is suggesting they use this to make the Arc family feel indebted to them, like a move to gain some ally in politics.

None more so than Summer, who only had pure intentions in wanting to let the family know what happened to their son, and Weiss, who knew this to be something her father would do.

"I would never do that!" Summer defended angrily before taking a calming breath, fighting to control her rage. "All I want...is to let them know. They deserve to know and out of everyone should be told of this above all others."

"Suppose I go along with this..." The God of Darkness began leaning down closer to Summer who nervously held her ground. Staring back determined on how she felt on this matter. Impressing the God of Darkness slightly she didn't flinch or back up. "Are you willing to let them bare the nightmares they will surely get if they see Jaune's struggles. To bare the fact they will probably battle with nightmares for years because of your request?"

Summer swallowed a bit at the heavy weight she felt on her shoulders, but refused to break eye contact. Refusing to withdraw something this personal to her.

"I'll accept it, so I ask you to please let them witness this." Summer Rose told the God of Darkness with resolve and determination in her eyes.

"Very well, but only two of them. I have no need to allow everyone of the Arc family here and honestly this is an exclusive. BUT after this, no more guests. I think we're got more than enough for my liking." The God of Darkness stated with a firm commanding tone, making it clear to them all he is not budging on this. Summer reluctantly nodded in agreement with this. At least two of the Arc family would get to see the truth.

"Awwww, that sucks. I was kinda hoping maybe we could maybe see Claire's brother, Chris I think it was?" Nora asks making the God of Darkness glare at her.

"Absolutely not, if the deity of that world finds out I took one of the humans from his world. Then he would surely try to kill me with his heavenly army on his side. That's assuming he doesn't rope my own brother into it as well. I pressed my luck as it is following Jaune through the darkened hallways, rooms, and even the shadows he or Claire had to follow them in secret." The God of Darkness turned his head looking into the distance, none could see or feel the frustrated scowl he had. An aura of Darkness surrounding him to reflect his building anger toward the deity in question.

"I could even feel the bastard watching me as I did this too, as if making sure I didn't do ANYTHING to Jaune or Claire in any shape or form. I'm confident in my power, but alone I don't think I could win against him. His little army of angels I can handle, those blind puppets of the light, but not a one on one fight with him." The God of Darkness said making everyone shocked that this deity could make even the God of Darkness hesitate to take action.

None more so than Ozpin who looked at the God of Darkness, the one who destroyed all of humanity once before, in total shock. What kind of power would one require to make another God hesitate?

"So...you'll summon two of the Arc family then? Who if I may ask?" Summer asks hoping to get him off the subject and preferably make him clam down. Seeing the aura fade away and the tension in the air die down, Summer breathes slightly easier.

"Why tell you, when you can see for yourself?" The God of Darkness said thrusting his hand forward in their direction and a purple aura surrounded his hand. Causing two portals to appear above them. Screams were soon heard as two females fell through. One being caught by Qrow and the other Summer barely managed to catch. Steadying them as they lowered the females in question to their feet on the ground.

One was a young woman with wavy, dirty blond hair and blue eyes. She wears an orange top with a beige vest, light brown trousers with orange stitches on each side, and dark brown boots. In addition to her wedding ring on her left hand ring finger and a bootlace necklace around her neck. Team RWBY, Ren, Nora, Qrow, Maria, and Oscar all recognized Saphron as she looked at Qrow who caught her in shock.

"Q-Qrow? What...where are we?" Saphron asks looking around the all dark dimension around them warily.

"I'd like to know that as well, sweetie. Are you alright? How do you know that man?" Questioned a woman who shared Saphron's dirty blond hair, but had brown eyes instead of her blue. Wearing a low cut white t-shirt with the Arc family emblem on it, a purple light jacket, and black sweatpants with a yellow stripe going down the sides of her pants legs.

"Mom?! You're here too?!" Saphron asks in shock and worry her mother is here, instantly rushing to her mother as Summer took a step back to let them converse in peace.

"I am sweetie, I'm here. But...who are these people?" the woman asks looking at them all warily, before gasping as she saw the God of Darkness watching them a bit away from the group. "AND WHAT IS THAT?!"

"Oh my Gods!" Saphron cried out in shock at how huge the being is.

"Relax, I'm one of the brother gods, The God of Darkness. This is my domain that you have been summoned to at the request of Summer Rose here." The God of Darkness told them pointing at Summer who glared at the being.

"I never said to drop them from above us. Why couldn't you summon them another way that wouldn't scare them?" Summer asks accusingly as the God of Darkness shrugged his shoulders.

"You never specified any methods or conditions for their summoning. You only said to bring them here to learn of what happened to Jaune." The God of Darkness told Summer, as if scolding a child. Ignoring the surprised gasps from both the Arcs at this and sensing their shared feelings of dread.

"Let this be a lesson in wording your requests and questions carefully with beings of great magic or power. For if you word your questions or requests in the wrong manner, you may find yourself with an answer or action that is undesirable." The God of Darkness stated, making Ozpin look at the God of Darkness in shock, while everyone else felt frustrated or confused at the being before them.

'Could he mean...what I think he's hinting at?' Ozpin thought in shock at the possibility, was the God of Darkness giving him a hint to defeating Salem? Or was it just wishful thinking?

"Back up! What do you mean what happened to Jaune?! Where is my son?! Did you hurt him?!" The woman demanded angrily. Feeling her protective instincts toward her children rise up as she heard this and unknowingly starting to annoy the deity before them.

"What did you do to my brother?!" Saphron quickly joined in, even though she was scared out of her mind and knew she wasn't a huntress like her sisters or her mother. She wouldn't take any knowledge of her brother being hurt or worse lying down.

The God of Darkness sighed in an aggravated manner that made everyone except the two Arc worried. 'Why did I agree to this again? Oh yeah, family. Thanks a lot, brother, Summer, for the headache you've given me.' The God of Darkness thought to himself as he rubbed the bridge of his nose in annoyance.

"It wasn't the God of Darkness who took him, he's trying to tell you why the God of Light took him to another world!" Ruby said rushing between him. Earning a surprised look from Saphron who recognized her and a confused one from, who Ruby felt was safe to assume to be, Jaune's mother.

"What do you mean by that, Ruby? He is the God of Darkness? Like from the Fairy Tales of the two brothers? And what do you mean the God of Light took my brother?!" Saphron started to shoot off her questions in rapid fire before Summer Rose placed a calming hand on both her and Mrs. Arc's shoulders.

Only for Mrs. Arc to try to throw Summer over her shoulder, but found Summer resisting and pulling her back with a quick application of aura to enhance her strength to hold Mrs. Arc in restraining hold.

"Mrs. Arc, please stop trying to fight me when we're trying to talk things out peacefully." Summer told the woman with a strong glare that the woman returned for a few seconds as they stared each other down.

"You speak of peacefully talking, when my son is taken by someone or worse. Said kidnapper or assailant could be this thing for all we know, and the crazy girl in the red hood to be actually telling the truth?" Mrs. Arc stated with a look that said how little she believed Summer. Who glared at her for the insult toward her youngest daughter.

"Don't make me regret asking the God of Darkness to let you in on what happened to your son, Mrs. Arc. I did that out of the kindness of my heart, because as his family, you deserve to know more than anyone what happened to him. Secondly, my daughter is NOT crazy or a liar, and I will thank you to never call her that again or there will be problems." Summer warned the older woman with a steel in her tone that spoke of the fury she is restraining.

"Leave my mother alone you bitch!" Saphron said marching toward them before Qrow got between them.

"Hey! You take that back!" Ruby demanded angrily as she rushed in front of Saphron.

"Bitch, you better watch your tone or you'll have ME to deal with." Yang growled out as her eyes flickered between red and lilac. Qrow seeing this tried to keep everyone from getting close enough to start a fight.

"Let's all just calm down okay? We know you ain't happy about this-" Qrow said trying to keep a fight from breaking out between the angry mother and daughter duo with Summer or his nieces. Not that he was too concerned as he could see Saphron had no training, but her mother definitely carried herself like a former huntress.

"Of course we ain't happy! You expect us to just comply to whatever you say, when you mention something has happened to my brother?! I thought he would be safe going with you on whatever mission you all was doing!" Saphron protested as the God of Darkness began to growl at the pointless bickering now happening among his guests.

"ENOUGH!" The God of Darkness snapped grabbing them both forcefully into his hands, causing Summer to stumble backwards as the sudden pull of Mrs. Arc from her arms made her lose her balance.

"He needs to learn to warn people before doing that..." Summer muttered angrily as she got up as Ruby quickly rushed to her side in concern. Both turning their attention to the God of Darkness holding them tightly in his fists.

CRUNCH

Only to feel dread wash over them all as he easily crushed them in his hands before dropping them in fleshy heaps on the ground.

Everyone was struck silent in horror as it clicked in their heads he killed them so quickly. Not even saying a word as he focused his power on their bodies and brought them back to life before their eyes.

"Aaagghhh! Ah...A-Am I...alive?" Saphron screamed as she awakened shortly after her body was revived and healed from all damage that caused her death.

"I...I can't believe this..." Mrs. Arc muttered as she shakily got up, only to tense as both she and her daughter caught sight of their killer standing before them as if bored of their presence.

"Let this be a lesson, anger me again in my own domain and I will kill you. Only next time, I won't revive you. Now are you ready to listen to what I have to inform you of your son or do you desire the afterlife that badly?" The God of Darkness told them with a commanding tone.

"W-We understand, God of Darkness, but...my son...what happened?" Mrs. Arc replied shakily, it was not every day you encounter a being who was so overpowering and would kill you without a second thought because you upset him in his domain. Seeing her daughter shake in distress, she silently pulled her daughter into her arms and tried to soothe the distraught young woman.

Summer looked on guiltily, as she knew this only happened because she asked the God of Darkness to bring them here. Knowing this was only the beginning of their rude awakening as they will learn the truth of Jaune's fate.

"My brother, the God of Light, has seen fit to take your son to another world as part of a deal with another deity. A deal I cannot influence or break at the risk of earning both my brother and the other deity's wrath on me. I have gathered everyone here for one reason. To let you all see Jaune rise up against not only one of humanity's worst creations, but the darker side of humanity itself in this new world. You'll see it through my memories during the viewing, as I watched him from the darkness and shadows in secret. All as my way of payback at my brother for going behind my back with this deal. As well as actually having the nerve to forbid ME of all beings, to do anything to him or in support of him. Without express permission from both my brother and the holy deity he struck the deal with." The God of Darkness quickly explains, making the mother and daughter duo concerned for Jaune. Why would the God of Light do this to their Jaune?

"If you want more details and trust me, I know you do. I suggest taking time to talk to Ozpin over there. If anyone knows how frustrating my brother is about assigning people missions with little information, it's him. In the meantime I will give you two thirty minutes to catch up and allow the rest of my guests to take time to absorb the last chapter they witnessed in my viewing. I have somewhere I need to be." The God of Darkness said vanishing, leaving everyone in the dimension alone as Saphron and Mrs. Arc both looked at the 'guests' The God of Darkness spoke of.

"I know this is a lot, but... we'll do our best to explain. Just please hear us out." Ruby asks, hoping they'll listen to her peacefully this time. Earning to reluctant nods from the mother and daughter duo.

"Might as well, it seems we're prisoners here now and I rather not piss off a god into killing us permanently." Mrs. Arc said before holding out a hand to them to shake. "Madonna Arc, nice to meet you...I suppose."

Ruby nervously smiled and shook it, understanding they got off on the wrong foot. "Ruby Rose and I'm sorry for earlier."

"It's not your fault, Ruby, it's just...difficult to accept all this." Madonna Arc told her with an understanding smile. One Ruby was happy to give in return.

"If I may, Ruby, I believe I owe these two ladies an explanation." Ozpin said earning Saphron's and Madonna's attention.

"Ozpin...I heard you died during Beacon's fall." Madonna said with narrowed eyes. "Did the God of Darkness revive you too?"

"No, that would be his brother...technically. There is a lot to go over and less than thirty minutes now to do it. So if you'll please take a seat." Ozpin said as a table with three chairs, a tea kettle, with two cups of tea and one cup of coffee on the table appeared before them. "We can begin with what I know to catch you two up on our situation."

The two Arcs shared a skeptical look, but seeing no better options took their seats as Team RWBY, Ren, Nora, Qrow, Oscar, Maria, and Summer watched from a short distance away.

"Do you think Ozpin will tell them about Salem?" Yang asks, unsure if he would try to give the two Arcs the edited truth he told to so many others in the past.

"Don't know and honestly... I'm not sure it would do any good to let them know. Our world is dangerous enough to them as it is and they're not part of our team. So really it's none of their concern." Qrow told them earning a glare from Blake.

"Do you need to say it like that? It's their son who was helping us after all." Blake asks not liking the way he said it, even if deep down she found it hard to argue.

"Would you tell your parents about this, Blake? That you're risking a fight with an immortal witch who we have no idea how to kill, just to get the relic to Atlas?" Qrow asks making Blake frown, unable to say anything at that.

"Qrow, be nice, it's not fair these kids had to pick up our fight in the first place." Summer admonished him gently with a frown on her face, earning her a sad smile.

"Yeah, it is, but it's the truth and they need to learn to accept it. Sometimes you can't tell everyone everything, you have to hide some things for their own good or your own. No matter how much we hate it..." Qrow said making Ruby and Yang look at Qrow in concern. How much had he been through as he was working under Ozpin?

"The idiot has a point, us silver eye warriors had to hide our gift to avoid being hunted down by Salem's forces." Maria spoke making Summer gasp at the woman in surprise. She had it too?!

"You're...like me? I'm sorry, where are my manners. I'm Summer Rose, nice to meet you." Summer began before apologizing quickly, making Maria laugh fondly at the woman. Easily reminding her of Ruby in her looks and the air around her.

"Yes, it's a pleasure to meet you too, I'm Maria Calavera and formerly the Grimm Reaper." Maria said making Summer gasp.

"Oh my gosh! It's really you! Qrow would NEVER shut up about you when we heard of your time as a huntress! Oh me and Raven wanted to be strong just like you in our younger days at Beacon!" Summer gushed making Maria sigh in shame. Strong? Her? It made her feel all the more guilty she ran and hide away like a coward after losing her eyes.

"Summer, I wasn't that bad." Qrow tried to defend himself against the accusation.

"Qrow, don't even get me started on how you collected every piece of data you could find on her and how she fought. You was always telling us how you wanted to be just like her and Raven would comment you couldn't without losing your manhood first." Summer deadpanned at her friend. Making Qrow grumble a few curse words at his sister under his breath.

"Hey Ren, was everyone that big of a fan of Maria's in their younger days?" Nora asks feeling both impressed and slightly concerned for the old woman as Summer and Qrow began conversing with the old reaper.

"Probably, legends do tend to inspire a great many people and from what little I know of her legend, she was definitely an inspiration to women everywhere as a huntress." Ren notes, not really too aware of her legend, but with what he was told...Maria was a big player in Remnant's past before she lost her eyes.

"I can't believe people would actually use these monstrosities of a...phone." Ren and Nora heard Weiss say as if shocked and disgusted. They both turn their attention to Team RWBY and Oscar looking at the book the God of Darkness gave them. Walking over to them, Weiss and Ruby gave them a little room to see it as well.

In the book was the picture of what they read to be a phone with a cord. There was a spin dial with symbols of numbers on the bottom and had a cord that would attach to a wall.

"Listen, according to this book. These phones would need to be plugged into an outlet on the wall in order to connect to the landlines in order to make phone calls over long distances." Weiss said going over the information and finding herself rather annoyed at how low tech it is.

"That cord is a bit short, it must be a pain to have to stay at home if you're expecting a call. Instead simply taking the phone with you when you have to go out, like we do with our scrolls." Yang said not liking the design to much. She likes doing something and going on wild adventures, sitting around at home would require waiting for something really important to get Yang's attention.

"If professor Oobleck saw this book, he would be excited at of all this past tech that he could use in his lessons." Blake said knowing the man's passion for the past and what they could learn from them.

"Still, it's not that bad for people first learning communication technology, right? I mean scrolls was like super new when it first came out right?" Ruby says trying to get them to understand not everyone is advanced as their world is.

"That is quite true, Ruby. Technology will always have a way of evolving with time as long as the civilization making them evolves too and the creators keep expanding their knowledge." Ren agreed with Ruby.

"Boring, can we see some cool technology they have? They must have something amazing!" Nora whined, pouting at Weiss like a child begging for candy, causing the heiress to roll her eyes.

"Fine, fine, I'll try to look but don't get your hopes up. I doubt they have any technology that would impress us..." Weiss said flipping through the pages before stopping again. "Well, this is kind of interesting. They have a...space shuttle that can actually leave the planet without losing power? It even reached their moon!" Weiss tells them in shock and surprise, earning wide eyed looks form the rest.

"Really?! How did they pull that off with such inferior tech?!" Yang asks looking at the picture in interest and curiosity. She would admit that while the picture didn't give the full impression how big it should be, there was a little size graph next to a teeny tiny human next to the rocket to let them have a fair guess of the size difference between a human and a rocket.

"Very interesting, it's a shame it doesn't have the blueprints to make a space shuttle of our own. I'm sure the people of Remnant would be interested in using travels to space to further human and faunus kind's understanding of what's out there." Ren said with some interest in this.

"Oh! Maybe fearless leader can take one of their space shuttles, bring Claire along, and make his way back to us!" Nora said with some hope and excitement at the idea of their leader taking their space shuttle to return to them.

"It's a nice thought Nora, but I doubt it'd be that easy. We don't even know where the world that Jaune is on is located in the universe. I doubt he knows where Remnant is either." Blake hated being the bearer of bad news, but someone had to say the obvious problem in Nora's plan.

"Boo..." Nora deflated at that as Ren held her close.

"It was a nice thought, Nora, but Blake is right. Jaune taking their ship and flying blind into space could be more dangerous than helpful." Ren softly tries comfort her as best he could, getting a slow nod from the Valkyrie.

"I'm still just amazed other worlds exist and that they have humans on it." Oscar chimed in, watching Weiss go through the pages of various inventions. With a look of slight interest and confusion.

"I wonder what their history is like...a world of only humans." Blake wondered, sounding sad at the thought faunus were only on Remnant so far, while the human race had two worlds that could exist on so far.

"Hard to say, but right now it's too soon to tell how the world at large is. We've only seen a handful of living people in the viewings so far. But I like to think that the majority of them are good." Ruby says with some hopeful optimism.

"Or you could ask the God of Darkness when he gets back from...wherever he is." Weiss stated, "I mean he did give us this book. Why not a history book to understand the world Jaune is on?"

"You do have a point," Blake trailed off thoughtfully, "alright, I'll ask when he gets back."

CRACK

Team RWBY, Ren, Nora, Oscar, Qrow, Summer, and Maria all winced at the sound of that slap. Turning to see Ozpin nursing his cheek from a furious looking Madonna Arc and Saphron.

"You had my son, who hasn't even finished his training in Beacon, risk his life in some secret war against a woman who controls the Grimm and to escort some magical relic the gods left you to combat Salem to Atlas?! Why didn't you get professional Huntsmen and Huntresses for this?! This was and IS NOT a job for children!" Madonna nearly screamed at him in protective fury. If she knew this was what her son was getting up to, she would've enlisted the whole family to get Jaune back home before he got himself killed!

"All this time...this is what he meant isn't it..." Saphron said containing her anger as best as she could, but her glare did make the old wizard wince. He knew a woman's fury was never to be underestimated.

"He looked so down and troubled about some "new information" that made his mission harder back in Argus. What did he learn, Ozpin? Did you know?" Saphron demanded, her worry for her brother going through the roof at what he might be mixed up in now.

"That isn't the time or-" Ozpin tried to say only for Saphron to stand from her chair quickly in fury. Not caring how it fell backwards from her sudden and forceful movement.

"NOT THE TIME?! This is my little brother you're talking about! So you better start making it "the time" and give me some answers for why I let you all take him away from us!" Saphron screamed, but was being held back by her mother from getting too close.

"Salem is immortal." Ruby spoke up, turning both Ozpin's and the Arc's attention to Ruby who was now in front of them. Red rose petals swirling around her from using her semblance to get there. Ruby couldn't stand the idea of Ozpin dancing around this subject with the Arcs. The world yes, she could agree the world at large might not be ready to learn this.

But this was Jaune's mother and sister. It was their job to look after him as a member of their team and they failed in a sense. Ruby felt this was her responsibility to make the truth known when Ozpin was hesitating to do so. Ozpin frowned at Ruby telling them this, while both the Arc women looked at her shocked and horrified at the implications Ruby is telling them.

"As in, she can't die no matter how badly injured she gets and she never seems to age. True immortality was placed on her by the brother gods, for trying to trick the God of Darkness into reviving her lover, Ozma, after the God of Light refused her request." Ruby told them truthfully with a heavy heart, it's not easy thinking they had to fight an immortal to keep their world safe.

"Immortal...an immortal woman controls the Grimm..."Madonna Arc said numbly, trying to process this as horror filled her heart. How could her baby have gotten mixed up in this?

"Why...why would they do this?" Saphron asks with dread in her heart at the answer.

"Because they wanted her to understand the balance of life and death, until she does, the curse will stay in effect and keep her from ever dying. It was meant to separate her from the one she loves...but the God of Light instead decided to make things harder on us all." Ruby said making Ozpin wince at the jab.

"Ruby, that's hardly fair-" Ozpin tried to defend the God of Light who was looking out for everyone as far as he could see.

"Is it, Ozpin? Is it? The God of Light forced you to keep reincarnating until you fulfilled your mission to unite humanity and never once told you of what they did to her. Of what she had done after you died." Ruby said with a stern glare that Ozpin met with a heavy heart of his own. He knew better than anyone how heartbreaking it was to see the woman he loved fall so far into spite and rage against their creators like she had.

Madonna and Saphron both watched silently, putting the pieces together in their heads as they watched Ruby and Ozpin argue with wide eyes.

"I know it's not ideal, Ruby, I hate that I have to fight Salem like this. I hate that I lost my children and so many people I considered friends or family, but the God of Light is doing what's best for us." Ozpin tried to reason with Ruby, who only clenches her fist in fury as she glares at the former headmaster.

"What's best for us?! How is THIS what's best for us?! Beacon has fallen, Pyrhha died and you was considering using her as your replacement Fall Maiden! The Grimm threaten us every day! The God of Light did NOTHING to stop the God of Darkness from wiping out humanity the first time around. Faunus and humans keep fighting each other! They left you alone with the mission to unite humanity with no help or advice whatsoever! And they left us with an immortal witch as our enemy who is trying to gather the relics! Why does she even want them?!" Ruby shouted as her team, Ren, Nora, Oscar, Maria, Qrow, and Summer walked up behind Ruby to support her.

Ozpin felt the guilt, shame, and frustration at the Gods in his heart increase evermore at this. Yes, he would play along as he knew he had no choice and fully believed in the God of Light's ways. But that didn't mean he wasn't frustrated with how little help he had on this mission.

"It's not our place to question our creators, Ruby. I once cursed it all myself when I fell into depression, but in the end the gods are the ones calling the shots, not us." Ozpin said tiredly, for once almost showing his true age in his eyes. Eyes of a tired man who was given a world on his shoulders and hating every second of it, yet keeps fighting on to do what he must because there was no other choice.

A prisoner of fate.

To the very gods he served that had abandoned Remnant and left him to clean it all up.

"Well, at least you know your place, Ozma." The God of Darkness stated as he appeared out of the ground, appearing in a burst of purple and black darkness. Making everyone glare at the deity before them, looking down on them from his height.

"You agree with this, God of Darkness?" Madonna barely managed to keep her voice calm and level, subtle tones of restrained anger hidden as best as she could. Not wanting to risk getting her or her daughter killed, despite how much she wants to tell the deity off.

"Of course, we're your creators. You beg us for many things and expect to be equal to us? Please, you're all just children in our eyes and personally, I think you're all rather spoiled." The God of Darkness said making every one of them silently restrain themselves from doing something they might regret.

"We tried giving you all guidance in person, living amongst you all. Something that Salem fucked up and we learned that being among you was a mistake. So we left Salem to her devices in solitude after I wiped out humanity as her punishment. Only for brother to bring humanity back and reincarnate Ozma behind my back. I was willing to ignore that back then, as your race still dies and keeps to our balance, as the first of humanity had. Then I found out about what he did with Jaune and the other deity he struck a deal with. Telling ME to not do anything to the Arc, as if I no longer had any right to a being I helped create, infuriated me. That's the worst part about this... I helped create the humanity of our world... AND NOW HE ACTS AS IF I DON'T GET A SAY IN WHAT HE DOES WITH ONE OF THEM?!" The God of Darkness's explanation went from a forced calm, to a building anger as his power grew more and more. Before forcing himself to calm down by taking some deep breaths.

"...That's not even considering you all seem to have it in your heads that everything is our fault. Anytime something bad happens, you curse us. Yes, the business with Salem was a mess, but she defied us and tried to trick me. She had to be punished, just as any parent would a child who did something wrong." The God of Darkness explains further after taking a few breaths to calm down, earning a quiet snort from Qrow.

"Raven is a better mother than your asses." Qrow grumbled under his breath and that was not something he would easily say, not after how she left Yang at such an early age for the damn tribe of bandits. Only to gasp in pain as he quickly found himself clenched in the God of Darkness's hand, having a hard time breathing as he felt almost as if his life was fading from his body. The God of Darkness glaring at the struggling man in his hand in restrained fury.

"Got something to say, crow of misfortune? Choose your next words carefully or I may decide to make you see your semblance isn't the worst curse that can be bestowed on you." The God of Darkness warned. Qrow heard Ruby, Yang, and Summer call out in worry, before seeing Summer barely restraining Ruby and Yang from charging in. Ozpin quickly helping to restrain them from attacking the God of Darkness.

"Let him go, you jerk!" Yang shouted trying to break free from Ozpin's grip, before feeling both Weiss and Blake restraining her as well, to her confusion. "Weiss? Blake? Get off! I have to save my uncle!"

"Mom! Let go! Uncle Qrow needs us!" Ruby cried out desperately as Summer used her aura to make sure she had a firm grip on her daughter.

"Yang, don't! He nearly killed you last time!" Blake retorted urgently with worry clear in her eyes. Struggling to maintain her hold on Yang, as she saw Yang's hair beginning to glow like golden fire. They needed to calm her down fast!

"Don't forget if you anger him, he'll kill Summer and not revive her." Weiss whispered sternly with a steel in her tone tone urgently into Yang's ear, making the brawler freeze in place at that. Growling in anger at how... powerless she felt. If she attacked, she risked Qrow's life, Summer's life, and her own life. If she does nothing...Qrow might get killed or cursed somehow. Watching Summer keep Ruby retrained, while having a look of conflicted look in her own eyes at this.

"Ruby, I want to save him too, but we can't anger him or he may kill you along with us, Ruby." Summer said making Ruby now freeze, remembering the deal she struck with the God of Darkness. Grinding her teeth as she now realized how damning accepting that deal is.

Was this how the gods truly are? Just cruel manipulators who play with the humans they create as if their lives and feelings don't matter?

Some parents they are to their creations...

"Can't...breathe..." Qrow tried to get out, finding it hard to speak with his lungs feeling so restricted. He could hear his bones protesting against the pressure and was worried they might snap like twigs at this rate.

"That's correct. Your life, as always, is in the hands of your creators. You're not equals to us and have no right to demand anything from us or have ANY right judge us. If anything, you owe your existence to US, that is the cold dark truth of creations and creators. If you rebel against us, expect us to punish you or even strike you down if you piss us off enough. You humans and faunus, regardless which deity creates your kind, do the same to your own creations when they rebel against you after all." The God of Darkness said with a tone of finality that made everyone silently rage at how helpless they felt. Realizing the brother gods they heard so much about in fairy tales, as well as the vision from Jinn for Team RWBY, Oscar, Maria, and the struggling Qrow, were just two powerful beings that didn't care for them.

"You're wrong...We're not like that!" Ruby protested, not believing humanity was that bad off. Yes, she was aware there are bad people like Roman Torchwick, Cinder Fall, and even Tyrian! Yes, the God of Darkness keeps stating she'd see the Darker side of humanity, but so far she has yet to see any such proof any humans had caused such a thing! Her protest earning the God of Darkness's attention to her now.

"You think that for now, but remember you've yet to see the darker side of humanity that will be revealed in the viewing. Just watch and see for yourself." The God of Darkness said with a knowing tone that caused dread to build in their hearts. Before the God of Darkness threw Qrow to Summer and Ruby, who pushed her daughter out of the way to keep her safe. Before doing a last minute focus of her aura through her body, creating a light sheen of white aura around her, as she caught Qrow. Tumbling backwards as she caught her old friend and held him close to keep him from further harm. Rolling on the ground before coming to a stop five feet back.

"Mom! Uncle Qrow!" Ruby and Yang called in worry rushing to kneel beside them. Qrow desperately breathing air back into his lungs and he felt his life return to his body again. As if a man who had been wondering the desert without water for days.

"I'm fine, Ruby, Yang. Really." Summer tried to assure her daughters before trying to help her old friend up to his feet. "How are you, Qrow?"

"Just peachy, short stack." Qrow said, trying to brave a smile that hid how he truly felt. Though Summer could see the anger and frustration in his eyes.

"Before we begin, I picked up a book I thought you'd all like to have on the world. So here you go, be sure to read it after the viewing of this chapter is done." The God of Darkness said snapping his fingers. Making a book appear out of a swirling portal of darkness in front of Blake who just barely caught it before it hit the ground. Looking it over carefully.

"Is this...a history book?" Blake asks looking at the title. 'History of the U.S.A.', from what she could tell this book had been updated recently.

"Indeed it is, I figured you and the Arcs would like a book explaining about the history of the world Jaune is on." The God of Darkness said snapping his fingers again and everyone watched as two more seats were added and the chairs all changing formation to now setting up in rows, with the rows behind the first row being slightly elevated compared to the ones down in front. Allowing everyone to see more easily despite the fact some people are taller than others. Two ramps going up the sides of these rows would allow easy access to any of the three rows now set up.

The first row had five chairs down in front, while the second row had four chairs each. Each of these chairs had a pull out tray they can pull out of the chair's arm rest and move it over their lap so it can hold their food and drinks. As an added feature he added cup holders for their drinks. What drew everyone's attention though was how the chairs had skull mask like designs of Beowolves on the arm rests as a decorative feature with glowing red eyes.

Looking it over for a few seconds, he eventually nodded his head in satisfaction with his work.

"Choose the seats you wish to have before we begin. But first I must let Mrs. Arc and Saphron know of the basics. If any of you want food or drinks in this dimension, merely think it and it will appear before you. For anyone who needs the rest room. The girls side is through the door on the left and the boys side is through the door on the right. So get to choosing your seats so we can begin." The God of Darkness stated without a care, infuriating his guests a bit at his attitude toward them, but keeping it to themselves seeing no other option available right now.

"I vote Team RWBY sits together with Summer in the front." Ruby quickly voted, making Yang and Summer giggle at how much she wanted this. Not that either could blame her.

"I see no problem with it. How are we going to be seated this time?" Blake asks, curious what her leader, Mrs. Rose, and teammates would think.

"I suggest we switch around this time. You sit close to Ruby and I'll sit next to Yang. Summer stays in the middle so she can sit close to her daughters." Weiss reasons, earning smiles from the daughters, before Ruby tackle hugged her.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you! You're the best partner ever, Weiss!" Ruby cheered making Weiss stutter as she tried to pry Ruby off her. Why was her leader so overly friendly?!

"Get off me you dolt!" Weiss protested finally as Summer gently tickles Ruby's sides, making the girl giggle before falling off Weiss and into Summer's arms. Looking at her daughter mischievously.

"So you're still ticklish, my little rose~" Summer teased continuing to tickle Ruby, who squirm in Summer's graps.

"Hehehe-Mom! Hahahaha~ Stop! Not in-hehehe-front of my friends!" Ruby protested in between her giggling and laughing with how Summer moved her fingers deftly over Ruby's sides. Before finally stopping as she believes Ruby had enough.

"Ahhh~ I missed doing that. You two make the cutest giggles." Summer said with a wistful smile that Madonna couldn't help sharing as she recalled doing so to her daughters and son when they were little. Much to Ruby and Yang's horror as they blushed hard in embarrassment.

"MOM!" They cried out making the God of Darkness chuckle quietly at the sight before him. While everyone else gave some chuckles or teasing smiles at the daughters. The once heavy tension in the air being lifted briefly.

"Come on, let's take our seats before Summer decides to tickle torture her little dragon some more." Blake teases making Yang groan in embarrassment. Great, she just knew Blake was never going to let this go after all the cat puns she used on her in the past.

"It's not torture, it's love and I shower my little angels in it!" Summer protested playfully making Ruby cover her face with her hood and Yang to hide her blushing face in her hands.

"Please stop..." Yang begged, she couldn't believe her mom was doing this in front of Blake and Weiss!

"Not in front of our friends, mom!" Ruby joined in, trying her best not to see Weiss or Blake's smirks right now. She knew they meant no harm, but it was so embarrassing!

Soon they was nicely seated with Blake on the far left, Ruby on her left, Summer in the middle of the five seats, Yang on Summer's right, and Weiss on the far right.

"We got the second row!" Nora cheered pulling Ren along with her, a small smile on his face that showed how use to this he is.

"Qrow, mind if I sit with you in the second row. It's pretty clear the Arcs don't want to be near me right now and...I want to apologize." Ozpin asks his old friend who looked at Ozpin for a few tense seconds. Wrestling with his anger toward Oz and the guilt he feels for judging a man who really was more screwed over than any of them in this mess.

"Fine, but don't think I'm over your secrets just yet." Qrow began, before raising a hand to cut off Oz's attempt to reply. "I get you had your reasons now, I do, but this will take time for me to trust you again. Just so we're clear though, I want to keep Ruby and Yang safe from this war as much as possible. I'm not going to let her be another casualty in this mess those three caused." Qrow said with a tone of finality, making Oz nod in understanding.

"That is agreeable, Qrow, believe me when I say I wish things had been different. That Ruby and Yang never needed to learn of this mess so soon." Ozpin tried to assure him, making Qrow roll his eyes as he walked to his seat next to Ren who was on Nora's left.

'Yet you still planned to bring them into it eventually, didn't you, Oz?' Qrow bitterly thought, not liking Ozpin seemed dead set on somehow involving his nieces in this. Ruby specifically for her silver eyes. Thoughts that stayed silently in Qrow's head as Ozpin sat next to him.

"Come on, Saphron, we'll take the back row." Madonna told her daughter as they both took the left side of the seats, with Oscar helping Maria to her seat.

"Thanks, Oscar, got to admit this makes it feel more like a movie theater." Maria said as she sat next to Saphron on her left, while Madonna was on Saphron's right. Oscar sitting on Maria's left completed the seating, as the God of Darkness created a giant throne to sit on behind them all. Waving his hand as it glowed with power to view his next set of memories of Jaune's experience.

"Let's begin the next chapter of what I witness Jaune face on that fateful night." The God of Darkness stated as everyone paid attention to what the portal revealed.

Chapter 3 Just a bad dream, a very bad dream

(Location: Raccoon City Police Station, West Hallway, Third Floor. Raccoon City, Arklay Country, Midwestern USA.)

"Is that a location? That wasn't in your previous memory viewings." Weiss asks in confusion, earning a shrug from the God of Darkness.

"I didn't feel like explaining where Jaune and Claire are, so I figured this would save us some time to add it in. Plus I'm sure you're wondering what part of the world he is at, right?" The God of Darkness stated making everyone nod their heads in agreement and understanding. Especially Madonna and Saphron Arc, who was happy to at least know WHERE Jaune is right now. Even though they didn't know how to get him back yet, they wasn't giving up on him by a long shot.

Jaune stood rooted to the ground. Just like that time at the gas station when he first saw a zombie.

"A zombie...you mean those creatures from Jaune's comics? They're real?" Madonna Arc asks the God of Darkness skeptically.

"We can hear Jaune's thoughts?" Saphron also questions in confusion.

"One, you have no idea what truly exists out in the universe or the multiverse. So don't go on a rant about how it's impossible. Your world has semblances and magic, I know plenty of worlds that would question how what you can do is even possible or real." The God of Darkness stated both to the Arcs and indirectly at Weiss who also has skeptical moments so far.

"Two, I felt it'd help you understand his struggles better if you could hear the thoughts of Jaune and others who play key roles in his trial this night." The God of Darkness answered Saphron's question next. Making both Arcs feel conflicted between grateful to know what he's thinking and partially angered his personal thoughts were being eavesdropped on like this.

He couldn't stop thinking about the thing that just crossed the window. It moved fast and seemed to be on four legs. It wasn't a dog or the undead. What could it be?

"A question we all dread the answer to." Ozpin noted that everyone internally agreed with. Even the skeptical mother and the nervous sister of Jaune Arc.

"Why of all worlds he could be taken to, did it have to be one with zombies?" Saphron groaned quietly in worry for Jaune and fear of the zombies. She hated the movies he used to watch of those, while some of their siblings seemed to enjoy more than others.

Jaune was definitely a fan though, much to her dismay. Though right now she severely doubted he was enjoying this judging by how he is feeling.

Turning to Claire, the brunette seemed to be thinking the same thing. But she calmed down and decided to move on. The Arc nodded as he resumed to lead the way, holding his shield, sword, and flashlight.

"At least Jaune's not alone, but what's her story?" Saphron asks curious of the woman with her little brother.

"She's Claire Redfield, Jaune was helping her look for her brother, now they're trying to escape together because her brother isn't even there. Unlike us the people of that world don't seem to have aura or semblances." Ruby spoke up, an eye twitching as she tried to avoid mentioning how Claire stared at Jaune's butt earlier.

She didn't know why, but seeing Claire near Jaune still irked her.

Straight ahead there was a door and a dead end. The bond huntsman realized the Police Station was big. It could take them hours to find the two medallions they need to open the secret passage of the Goddess statue. Who knows how many zombies were here? Not to mention they still needed to find Leon. At least they knew Chris, Claire's brother, was alright. He was out of town, so he wasn't in any danger.

"Who decided to scatter the medallions? Some guy with a thing for scavenger hunts?" Saphron asks, questioning the sanity of the cops in the police station to have a secret passage to need multiple medallions as keys and scatter them.

"That we don't know..." Oscar shyly admits, not sure how to answer that despite feeling the same way.

The two were about to head to the door, since there was nothing but a barricade of chairs and desks blocking the path. Jaune was about to follow Claire until something caught his attention. A piece of paper with what looked like writing on top of a box. The Arc learned anything on paper had useful information that can help them in the future.

"Jaune, not all paper has useful information." Madonna scolded her son's way of thinking. Yes notes left behind COULD be useful, but sadly it wasn't always useful to you or at all in worse cases. It varies depending on whoever left the note and what was written down.

"To be fair, Madonna, Jaune has had some pretty good luck finding notes that were useful so far. There is no harm in being thorough when checking a place out that you are scouting anyway." Maria told the Arc Matriarch, making the woman sigh in reluctant agreement. The old woman had a point there.

"Are you a former huntress by chance? You don't act or look like someone from the military." Madonna asks the former legend who gave a self loathing smile back.

"Former being the keyword I'm afraid, but yes I did happen to be quite the huntress once." Maria said earning a nod of understanding from Madonna, deciding not to pry on the elderly woman's business of what happened. More focused on learning what happened to her son.

He picked it up and showed it to his brunette companion.

*Consider this a gift for anyone unfortunate enough to still be alive.

Keep your eyes peeled for those creepy fucks that look like they were skinned alive-"Lickers" we call 'em. They're blind as bats, but their hearing more than makes up for that. So long as you don't run like a total idiot, guns a-blazing, you should be able to slip by them...Probably. Either way, make like my grandma and creep around as slow as possible around 'em, yeah? Anyway, not that I wanna go, but duty calls. That, and I've got a friend to avenge.

David*

The audience seeing the note as Jaune mentally read it felt sorry for the guy losing his friend. A somber air hung over them.

"He needs to respect his grandma more, we're not that slow!" Maria scolded, feeling a bit of her pride was stung. Stupid youngsters, at least she could run...for a short distance...with help from her cane. But she could run!

That made everyone chuckle a bit, silently glad for Maria's outburst as they watched the viewing again.

"Not everyone is like you, Maria, at least you don't take shit from anyone." Yang said with some respect for the old legend.

"You got that right, blonde!" Maria agreed with a smile of her own.

"Lickers?" Questioned the blond huntsman.

Seriously, that was a weird name. It sounded "kinky". Like it belonged in a porn movie. He didn't blush, so what if he has seen movies and magazines? It was perfect to be doing such at his age. Of course his parents never found out where he hid his porn stash. It was a very secretive place.

"Why would he need to hide it? Surely he knows if he wanted some I would've let him read some of my work." Madonna asks, curious why her son was like this.

"Mom, I don't think he wanted to risk you giving him talks about sexual stuff if you caught him reading it." Saphron said having sympathy for her poor brother.

"But it's important to know how to have sex right. Sure you can learn together, but there is no shame in learning some stuff ahead of time through some good books or maybe asking me for-"

"NOPE! Not happening, we're good, mom! Really! I want to learn with my wife thank you very much!" Saphron quickly cut her mother off, waving her hands quickly in front of her with a red blush making her match Ruby's cloak.

Madonna pouted, but respected her daughter's wishes. Why was her children all prudes when it came to asking their mother for tips on how to have sex in certain ways? At the very least she would've given them her books if they were that adamant about not taking her advice. You would think being a writer for certain books with erotic scenes would make her more trusted for advice on how to spice up the bedroom...

Everyone else wisely tried to pretend they did not just hear that. Though Blake was a little curious if Madonna had written any good books she might have read in the past.

Now for the Licker. Apparently zombies and the infected dogs aren't the only things in this city. Just reading the description again, this creature must be ugly as hell. They were blind, but have super hearing. So even the faintest sound will catch their attention. That was something he definitely didn't want to see, or fight. Blue eyes widen in realization. What if the thing they just saw passing through the window was a Licker? That means it could be nearby...

"I hope that thing is not like those hentai monsters or Jaune and Claire is NOT going to be happy." Blake commented with a pale face. She read one of those kind of stories once...never again. She made it her mission to kill all sorts of tentacle using Grimm on sight after that.

"What do you know, smut even Blake won't read." Yang said before wincing as her partner glared at her.

"Be grateful we have a bunch of seats separating us and a god in this dimension I don't want to piss off, Yang." Blake says making Yang gulp at the glare on her partner's face. Guess she wasn't in the mood for those jokes right now...

'Note to self, apologize to Blake later...with lots of tuna sandwiches.' Yang thought knowing how much Blake loves tuna or other fish based meals.

The Arc put the piece of paper away as he and Claire resumed their journey. The Redfield was a bit panicked after hearing about the new creature.

"I certainly don't blame her, that creature sounds like a horror show just to look at." Summer said not wanting to try imagining how such a creature would look like.

"Claire, I think we should check the second floor, first. Just in case this "Licker" is what we saw pass the window." Jaune whispers quietly as possible, not wanting to recklessly endanger Claire's life against a foe they don't know yet. Granted, he knew they couldn't leave the creature here unchecked, but knowing when to choose your fights would be best.

He rarely had that option with the Grimm, but he damn well had it with these zombies. His comic always detailed the survivors either meeting their end or living to see another depending on which fights they risked to take.

"Boo! He should go in and show it who's boss! Come on Fearless Leader!" Nora tried to encourage her friend.

"Nora, Jaune may have a point in wanting to ensure Claire's safety. She doesn't have aura like us." Ren defends his leader's decision.

"Indeed, too many hunters often lose their team or die because they jumped head first into danger without thinking of the threat ahead of them." Maria brought up, earning a nod of agreement from Summer, Qrow, Ozpin, and Madonna. All of them remembering too well how they seen other huntsmen or huntresses had fallen due to such mistakes.

"Some times you need to know when to run and when to fight." Blake advised, feeling she personally had too much experience in this subject, but was glad Jaune was being careful for Claire's life. Ozpin chose a good man to lead Team JNPR, despite how weak and inexperienced Jaune was at first.

Claire appeared to think it over for a moment before nodding in agreement. Looking at the door warily as she quietly walked down the hall with Jaune.

"Right, any chance to find extra ammo wouldn't hurt either." Claire whispers as they passed the desk where they got the key and then the locker. Back at the staircase they made their way down to the second floor where they saw yet another dead end before them and a door on their right. Entering it, they found themselves in the men's shower room. The sound of steam caught their attention as they saw a pipe leaking in the entrance to the showers.

"The police station has really fallen apart to this zombie outbreak..." Saphron said fearing how bad the rest of it must look like, making everyone feel dread clench their hearts at the thought.

"Wait till you see the East and West Hallways, those seem to be hit the hardest so far." Qrow said feeling bad for the cops who died there. Especially for the one corpse hung from the ceiling by a piece of metal holding it up like a hook until Jaune accidentally made it fall. Not a way he or anyone would ever want to die.

Saphron and Madonna both held hands as they heard his warning, mentally preparing themselves for how the rest of the police station must look.

Something was missing in the middle, like a valve handle. It was the only way to turn it off and remove the hot steam. Claire opened one of the lockers, only to gasp seeing a zombie falling out. Reacting on instinct she quickly stabbed it's head before it fell on her.

"GET OFF!" Claire screamed as she back steps quickly, pushing the zombie away. Causing it to fall limply on the floor, while Claire pulled her gun expecting it to get up and Jaune was by her side, ready to stab it if the knife wasn't enough. They waited seven tense seconds, before Claire hesitantly grabbed the knife and took it back. Making the head bleed out a bit from the forceful removal of the knife.

Ruby, Weiss, and Oscar all felt their appetite lessen at the sight, but made no vocal complaints just yet at the sight. Already learning to get use to this, despite how much they hated seeing Jaune and Claire go through this or having to kill so many zombies who once were innocent people of Raccoon City.

Cleaning it off on the parts of the zombie's clothing that wasn't drenched in blood. Jaune could see some wear and tear was forming on the knife, before she put it away.

"You okay?" Jaune asks, Claire, placing a hand on her shoulder both to help her calm down and to comfort her. Internally cursing himself for not thinking to check the lockers, if that zombie had bitten Claire she would've been a goner.

"Don't blame yourself, Jaune..." Ruby said with sympathy, wishing she could comfort her best friend and get him out of that mess. Two things she knew she couldn't do much to her shame.

"Who is the moron that left a possibly dead zombie in a locker?" Oscar asks in confusion, finding it weird the zombie was in there. Earning some looks from the others making Oscar feel self conscious. "What? You saw the way it fell on Claire. It was like the zombie was already dead!"

"Maybe it was a corpse of someone hiding away after he got bit, thinking he's safe inside the locker until the infection killed him?" Blake ventured, desperate people did do desperate things.

"But how long would it take after being bitten to die and how long after that before they fully become a zombie?" Weiss asks, rather curious what the time frame of infection is. Know it had to be quick to spread in such a way that the entire city had fallen before the law enforcement could stop them.

"Let's keep watching and try to find out, students. I'm rather curious myself and the God of Darkness did say we'd find our answers this way." Ozpin stated earning a grateful nod from the God of Darkness as everyone turned their attention to the viewing portal again.

"I...I'm fine, just scared me for a second there. That was too close..." Claire said with a hand over her heart, trying to calm down from the jump scare she just had. A locker. That was an improvement of a hiding spot. Neither of them could imagine WHY a zombie was in there in the first place. Readying her gun and Jaune keeping his sword drawn, they opened another locker. It wasn't empty, no zombies this time, but something better. Red ammo, they were flame rounds. The Arc realized that was ammunition for the grenade launcher. Which, they still needed to find that locker key card in order to get it. Still the brunette took the flame ammo without argument.

"Nice! Now they can burn zombies with the grenade launcher once they find the keycard!" Yang said loving the idea of seeing some fiery explosions. Not that it could compare to her Ember Celica, but there is a reason she uses fire dust rounds as her ammunition.

This earned a scoff from the heiress, who looked at Yang with exasperation "You are such a pyro, Yang..."

"What can I say? When you're hotter than the sun in the middle of July, why not embrace it?" Yang bragged with a smirk making Ruby, Blake, Weiss, and even Summer shake their heads. Her teammates and sister out of being used to Yang's confidence in her looks, something they find hard to argue, and Summer because she could tell Taiyang's confidence influenced her daughter's own.

'Tai, when I get home, we are going to have a long talk.' Summer mentally swore to herself.

They checked all the lockers, finding another set of flame rounds, but that was it. Then, he saw a piece of paper stuck to a wall by some tape.

*Portable Safe Instructions

Press a button to light up it's corresponding lamp. Light them all to open the safe.

The buttons must be pressed in a certain order. Pressing a single button out of order will cause all of the lights to go out and you will need to start the sequence again.*

"That sounds like an annoying safe to memorize..." Yang said making Weiss roll her eyes.

"Not as long as you remember the code, but I suppose it's not for everyone." Weiss admits knowing a lot of people preferred much more simple locks that only require a key or a short code of four or three numbers being put into a device.

Jaune saw the portable safe in a corner, grabbing it, he looked it over. It was smaller than he thought for a safe. Of course it had the RPD initials, a circle surrounded by eight lights.

"I Wonder what's in it?" Oscar asks, rather curious why such a small safe was used in a police station.

"Oh! It's probably a key! I mean it's small enough and light enough!" Ruby said optimistically for Jaune and Claire to access more doors.

"I find it unlikely someone would leave something important as a key in those things, but there is a chance." Blake said with some uncertainty, eying the small safe in Jaune's hand with curiosity.

He decided to give it a try, but failed, like five times. It's not his fault, he's not as smart as Weiss or Pyrrha would be for these things.

This earned a pleased smile from the heiress while Ruby felt her eye twitching at Weiss being complemented. Remembering all the times he practically threw himself at Weiss only to be rejected repeatedly. It was strange for her, in the past she only felt pity for Jaune being rejected like that, now it made her feel...annoyed? Why?

While Ren and Nora only gave sad smiles, she was the one to help Jaune during their studies and very smart. They could see Jaune believing Pyrrha could figure it out without much trouble.

The blond frowned and gave up for the time being, while Claire was smiling at him, not commenting on his lack of memorization. She will give it a try later, but now wasn't the right time. The medallions are their priority right now. There was nothing useful here until they do something about that pipe leaking hot steam. So aside the medallions, they will have to find a valve handle too. This was starting to sound like a headache. Who would think escaping this place would be so complicated? But then again, no one said this was going to be easy.

"I feel you Jaune, why would anyone design their police station like this?" Saphron questions as well.

"We're still not sure on that, but we're hoping to find out sooner than later." Ren said earning an understanding nod from Jaune's big sister and his mother.

Leaving the showers they climbed the stairs going back to the third floor of the station. The Duo went through the only door on the floor and the place was filled with broken concrete. Boxes, wooden planks, boards, items that can be used for storage. A zombie suddenly dropped from the ceiling slightly, still hanging on something he couldn't see.

"Fuck!" Claire shouted at it dropping slightly like that, aiming her gun at it as they watched it for any signs of coming to life. After a few tense seconds of it not doing anything, she warily walked around it, careful to stay out of arms reach as Jaune followed her without question. He didn't question her language or her reaction at that, he was close to doing something similar.

"He should! It's bad language!" Ruby scolded, not sure why, but the feeling was still there when he was around Claire.

"Ruby, I doubt anyone is really going to worry about a little bad language in a zombie outbreak." Qrow tries to calm his niece a bit, just like her mother, who he could feel glaring at him from her seat without even needing to look at her.

"She's right, Qrow, I hope for your sake you don't curse around my babies." Summer warned making Qrow hold his hands up in surrender.

"Don't worry, I always watched myself when around them. I even made sure to show up sober as possible when visiting them. At worst I'm usually only lightly buzzed around my nieces." Qrow tries to calm her down, though her narrowed eyes made him doubt she was letting it go.

"Qrow, when this is over, we are going to have a long talk about your drinking habit." Summer told her old friend who resigned to this with a heavy sigh and a nod. Making Summer glad he was going to listen for the most part, but she knew getting him off drinking was not going to be easy and would take time. It's how it usually is for those who use alcohol as a crutch to deal with the pain inside their hearts.

There were more bloodstained walls sending a chill down Jaune's spine. There stood a cell at the far end of the room, but was blocked by a wooden barricade. It had something attached to it. It was a black of some kind that said, "C4".

"Looks like someone left an explosive here...maybe they was trying to get in?" Claire mused to herself, wondering why it was left here like this.

"Do you think we should...remove it or use it ourselves?" Jaune asks the Redfield who appeared to think it over before shaking her head in negative. "Not really, it's useless without the detonator and we don't know where to find one. It'd be a waste of space for us to carry." She reasons making Jaune nod in agreement.

"A wise move, they need to save space for items they'll actually need and can use." Ozpin commended Claire for her clear thinking in this situation.

"But it would be nice to see how big an explosion those C4 thingies would create." Nora said before Ren pat her back with an understanding smile to his girlfriend.

"Maybe they will once they find the detonator, you never know. They haven't checked the entire police station yet." Ren assures, while mentally hoping Jaune won't have to use the device. With those "lickers" around, he had no doubt they'd be drawn in by the noise.

At least his assurance got him the desired results of Nora looking much happier.

Putting the matter to the side for the moment, Jaune saw a table not too far away from them with a piece of paper on it. Claire picked it up, showing it to her blond companion as they both started reading it silently.

"I hope Jaune forgives me for hearing his personal thoughts." Saphron says, knowing she'd be annoyed at least and enraged at worst if someone listened to her personal thoughts without her knowledge.

"I had to let you know as clear as possible how hard this is for him and they don't read every note or file they find aloud. So this method had to be done." The God of Darkness stated in a tone that showed he regretted none of this. Much to the ire of the others.

*Some Guy's Scribblings

Damn those corporate assholes! They cut me off! After all I've done for them! But if that's how it's going to be, so be it. I'm gonna have a little fun of my own as the world goes to shit. I boarded all those filthy pigs up in a steel pen, and set some C4. All I gotta do is detonate it and it's "sayonara suckers!". But it's not fun if it's over too soon. So maybe I'll give that raving loon something to really squeak about.

Yeah, maybe I'll give him a little toy and tell him, "Kill the guy next to you and I'll spare the others.". I wonder what he'll do? You yell about "justice" and "pride", but how many times did you against me, your own superior?

Yeah, you're such a good cop...so good you had to die.

Man this is fun. I needed some music for this.*

Everyone felt horror for the cops or enraged at the man who wrote this note and most lilely killed the cops somehow without using the C4.

"Bastard...this was an inside job." Qrow snarled in barely restrained anger as the pieces started to fit. His statement earning surprised looks from the others.

"Wait, what do you mean an inside job? Why would anyone do this, Uncle Qrow?" Ruby asks fearing the answer, could someone really do this to their own people?

Qrow sighed heavily as he decided to answer Ruby's question, knowing she won't like this with how much she wants to believe in the good of people.

"Ruby, think about it for five seconds. There is a hidden tunnel that allows one to access the garage, but we know it must go to somewhere else other than that. Secondly, this a police station. A place where the cops are all armed and have numbers on their side. They should have been able to handle a criminal breaking in and trying to overpower them. Zombie outbreak or not, plus remember that one guy on the metal hook before his head split open from falling down? A zombie didn't do that. No...they had someone on the inside who was connected to the bastards who started this outbreak. A traitor in plain sight just like Leo was." Qrow said drawing gasps from everyone as they started to see where he was going with this.

"But...that's...why would he do this?" Ruby asks, while she had been angry at Leo for nearly causing the fall of Haven to save his own skin. He at least made sure the incident was isolated and no students or teachers were around at the time, though if that was only to make things easier for himself and not because he cared was still in the air.

She couldn't figure out why anyone would help someone creating monsters like those zombies.

"That I don't know, but I do know that this guy got back stabbed and decided to go nuts on his own troops. Most likely giving them some command when everyone thought he was still on their side, only to reveal his true colors as he locked those cops in. Later on doing his little "fun" as he found the situation so hopeless, he might as well enjoy watching the world burn. Judging by note, I'd say this guy is most likely the police chief or some other higher form of command in their group. How else could the bastard get a bunch of cops in that steel pen in the first place? No way could some civilian or common criminal do it and no one in that world besides Jaune has aura." Qrow bitterly said as he clenched his hands in rage.

Everyone was struck silent in horror and shock that a police chief or some other authority figure would do this, but...it made sense. How else could one person possibly get a bunch of police in a steel pen in their own police station?

"As much as I wish otherwise...Qrow has a point." Ozpin stated with a tone of sorrow and rage about the situation. The wound Leo left wasn't really all that healed for him, another friend who had betrayed him, and now seeing this person do this to people under his command made his blood boil. The man had fallen to madness and most likely taken the police station down with him as the city was being overrun in zombies.

The God of Darkness looked at the Branwen with some respect for figuring it out so quickly there was a traitor involved, but knew someone as aware of the darker side of life as him had a good chance of figuring things out quickly.

"Guess zombies aren't the only crazy things in this city." Jaune said feeling mix between sorry for the cops and anger at the one who wrote this note. How could someone do this?

"This guy really had a grudge. He must have been serious, but the C4 is still placed." Claire agreed, before looking at the C4 charge block still on the wooden barricade.

"He didn't detonate it, which is good. An explosion is the last thing we need." Jaune said with a feeling of relief, not wanting to think how many zombies an explosion would attract to this room or worse...one of those "lickers" they read about.

"Jaune look," Claire pointed inside the cell.

Jaune did as told. The brunette was staring inside the steel pen. There was a statue of a woman colored in black with a shield next to her. They could barely see it, but behind it stood a familiar looking pedestal.

"So that's how he lured them in...most likely." Qrow said with suspicion in his eyes as everyone saw the statue.

"You think he told them about the medallion to make them come along before springing the trap on them?" Yang asks also coming to that conclusion.

"Most likely, firecracker. You have to admit a medallion that is one of three tickets to your way out would be good bait." Qrow informs her with a frown on his face. The poor cops never had a chance...

"Wait. Is that another statue, like the lion statue at the main hall?" Jaune asks with some hope in his voice. Have they found the second of three statues they was searching for?!

"Looks like it. You know what that means?" Claire asks the Arc.

"We found the second medallion." Jaune said relieved, before realization set in. "But we can't operate the statue with the barricade blocking the way..." Jaune trailed knowing where this was going.

"Meaning, we will have to find that detonator and fulfill that crazy bastard's wish." Claire finished for him, not liking it either, but what choice do they have?

"Why not just use his sword to cut himself a hole through the boards? He's strong enough to do it." Yang questions, wondering why Jaune isn't thinking of the obvious answer.

"He might be trying to avoid attracting the Licker that passed the window earlier." Ruby weakly reasons.

"Considering how she screamed when the zombie dropped slightly from the ceiling, I don't think it's too close right now." Yang retorts, finding the reasoning not good enough. If it was her she would've blasted the boards to pieces.

"It's never wrong to be cautious of attracting the attention of an unknown threat." Ozpin stated wisely, knowing from experience that recklessly attracting dangers you don't know of to yourself is only asking for trouble or in some cases your own death.

Seeing no way to argue that, especially since it was Jaune and not her, Yang let the matter drop for now.

"Detonate the explosives, perfect." The blond sighed in resignation and dread. He hoped the explosion wouldn't attract too much attention, but if these Lickers have as good hearing as he read about, then it would surely would.

"Can't forget this." Claire smiled picking up the other object on the table, a hip pouch. "More pouches mean I can carry more stuff."

"That will come in handy later on." Blake comments, knowing how much of a pain it can be on scavenging missions and not having enough room for the supplies you find.

They finally left the area, taking the door near the steel pen. Now, they were in a place that looked like a library. This caught Jaune by surprise, never knowing a police station would have such a thing in their base. They were on the second floor, while below them were a couple of zombies wondering around.

"I can't blame Jaune, I mean I get why the police station has the other rooms, by why a library?" Oscar asks in confusion, it's not like the police sit around and read books for hours on end with their job.

"Maybe it's to help them better investigate the crime scenes? Like look up books that have information on subjects they don't know about during their cases. No one knows everything after all and when on down time they can read a good book." Blake says defending what would be her favorite place in the police station...if not for the zombies.

"Blake, I doubt they spend that long on breaks, they have to be constantly ready to go at a moment's notice." Weiss says with a shake of her head, her teammate's love of books was something she could somewhat understand, but found the idea of a library in a police station too much of a waste of money.

"Never hurts to have it, maybe there would be less idiots in the police if they read more." Blake stubbornly defends her opinion on this as Weiss let's it drop. She knew Blake would not back down from her opinion on this and was not in the mood to get in an argument.

The Arc took a glance around the place. Part of the wooden railing was destroyed, preventing access to the other side. But they could go across the other walk way since it was fine. Suddenly the walky communicator beeped, receiving an incoming transmission.

*Claire, Jaune, it's Marvin. How fast can the two of you get here?*

"Why? What's up?" Replied the brunette.

*I've got something to show you two. It's important.*

"Alright, we're on our way." Claire told Marvin before putting away the walky communicator.

"I wonder what Marvin wants to show them?" Oscar wondered.

"Hopefully something useful, like the location of the third medallion." Madonna Arc said in worry for her son. The sooner he got out of that zombie infested station the better.

"I doubt it, if it was he would've said something. No if he's hiding it then it must be something he is unsure about." Qrow said skeptically, why hide something that important than just say 'Hey I found the third medallion's location?', to Qrow it just didn't make sense.

"There is only one way to find out, so let's wait and see. I doubt Jaune and Claire will leave Marvin waiting long." Maria said confident with that Jaune and Claire would hurry back.

Claire drew her gun, shooting at the zombie she saw eating a dead body.

Everyone felt a little sick, seeing the zombie practically eating the dead body like it was an animal eating it's prey, that it hunted down and killed out in the wild.

"I'm going to be sick, I'm glad she shot that damn thing." Weiss said, trying to keep her stomach's contents down.

Jaune jumps from the top floor, unsheathing his sword during the fall and aiming his blade for the zombie, before stabbing the head of the zombie. The brunette climbs down the ladder to join the blond, only to see another zombie heading their way. Claire is able to blow it's head up with one shot. Talk about perfect accuracy, the blond huntsman is impressed with her aiming. He knew she was good, but not that good. She reminded him of Ruby. The silver eyed huntress was a real force to be reckoned with, with her weapon Crescent Rose, especially when she uses it in sniper rifle mode.

Ruby blushed at this, feeling pride and something warm in her heart that he was impressed with her. Though she wasn't sure she could handle killing zombies like Jaune is and definitely not as well as Claire is, Ruby truly was touched he considered her skill worthy of praise.

Summer didn't miss this as she felt concern for Ruby, was she more connected to Jaune than Ruby realized? She'd need to talk to her daughter after this...

Another zombie lunges at Jaune as he smacks it with his shield, swiftly followed by a quick slash and a stab to the head, killing the creature. The two stood close without lowering their guard, waiting if there were more. Once the place was secure they took a look around, even if they should be heading back to Marvin.

"Looks like they will make him wait a bit." Blake said feeling conflicted. On one hand they did need to check the place over carefully and find what they can to better help themselves. Bullets for Claire's gun was obvious, but who knows what else they could find that they'd need?

On the other hand, Marvin was living on borrowed time and no one really knew how long he had. She doubts Marvin honestly knew, but who knows?

"Hopefully only a bit, they should hear what he has to say before he turns." Qrow stated somberly, feeling for the cop who was using his last moments human to help two more people who are total strangers. If he could, he'd give the man a bottle to enjoy before he had to put the zombie he turns into down.

Jaune saw something on a table near the door, a red book that looks familiar to him. He swore he saw it before. Blue eyes widen when he took commemorative photo, seeing the statue of the king holding the scepter and the red book. It was the same book as in the picture! This was a key item, they will be needing this in the long run. He asked Claire to put it in one of her pouches.

"Why would he ask her to do that, just because he found a photo of a statue with a red book in it's hand?" Madonna asks, surprised her son honestly believed such a thin was worth taking up space for as a "key item".

"Well it is strange the book was removed from the statue and left alone in the library. Maybe it's needed for something." Ruby tried to defend Jaune again, making Summer subtly look at her daughter, now realizing how many times it was Ruby who spoke in defense of Jaune first.

Apparently she may be right after all...Sadly.

"This isn't like some video game where you find a picture and it's always related to some important item that can help you." Madonna replied, not buying there was a reason to bother with the book.

"Well you didn't design the base, so how about trusting Jaune to have some good instincts and know what he's doing?" Nora told the matriarch of the Arc family, feeling the need to stand up for Jaune as well.

"I thought he had good judgment, until he sneaked out of our home and into Beacon." The mother said harshly glaring at the Valkyrie as Nora glared right back.

"Judging by how you couldn't see his potential as a huntsman, you clearly got no room to talk on what he can or can't handle. So maybe you should sit back and see how Jaune handles this situation before questioning his judgment." Ren told them with a calm tone that only parts of his anger managed to slip through into his tone and glare.

The air was tense in the stand off between them before Madonna huffed and left it be for now. But she knew she was right in the end, it's not that she had no faith in him, but she felt he wasn't fully ready for this because he started training so late. Though it didn't help matters on Jaune's case when he couldn't keep up to the training her husband set up for Jaune in hopes of getting him caught up to his elder sisters.

And now his life was on the line in a world beyond their reach because of two deities striking a deal. It wasn't fair, but at least she was allowed to see what happened to her son by the God of Darkness.

They went through a door on the left, where they found a small room with the statue of a unicorn with a shield next to it. They knew what that meant, another medallion, but unlike the woman's statue, this one had full access. The brunette takes out Elliot's notebook, seeing the drawings under the unicorn statue. The first image is the two fishes on opposite sides, the second was a lobster, and the third was a ram. The lid in the middle of the shield opened, revealing the unicorn medallion. That was two down and one more to go! Claire put it in her pouch. Before leaving the room, they found a map to the upper floors of the station.

"Good, now all they need is the last medallion and that map will make it easier to navigate the second and third floor." Summer said feeling relieved they won't get lost in the station anymore.

"Not like they need it, I mean they already know where the last medallion is." Weiss stated feeling they were pretty much almost done now.

"All Jaune has to do is use his sword and some muscle to destroy the boards, then grab the medallion before trouble comes for them." Yang stated still feeling annoyed Jaune was doing this the hard way.

"Wouldn't that take a few swings? The Licker might catch him before then." Ruby questions, knowing that the Licker might hear the ruckus before Jaune was finished cutting his way through those boards.

"I doubt it's anything vomit boy can't handle." Yang said dismissively. "Don't you have any faith in his abilities?" Yang questions Ruby.

"Of course I do! But I also know he does things for a reason and I trust his judgment." Ruby said in defense of Jaune, earning supporting nods from Ren and Nora. Yang seeing she was out numbered let the matter drop, but silently wanting to slap the back of Jaune's head for screwing around a simple problem with an easy solution.

There was another door in the room, but they found it to be locked from the other side as Claire tried to push it open.

"No good, according to the map, this could be another route to take us to the rooms we can't access because of that steam blocking our path in the shower room..." Claire said checking the map to see those were the only two ways to the other rooms on the second floor.

"You think they'll have a detonator in any of those rooms?" Jaune asks rather curious how badly they need to get in there.

"No way of knowing unless we keep looking, come on." Claire replies with a shrug of her shoulders. Walking out of the room and back into the library, heading to the door before them. Claire uses the spade key, releasing the lock and opening the door to reveal they're on the second floor of the Main Hall now. Looks like they were going to meet up with Marvin sooner than they thought. They climbed down the stairs, seeing the wounded cop was still himself, typing some keys on his laptop. Both Jaune and Claire were happy to see he is still hanging in there, even if there was nothing they could do to save him. If he was bitten and infected, he will become a zombie. Once that happened, they will be forced to put him down.

Ruby frowned at how...powerless and frustrating this felt. Marvin was a good man doing his job, he didn't deserve to die like this, but she had no idea how she or anyone could save him. Well maybe the God of Light, but given this is another world and even the God of Darkness doesn't want to affect people from that world by bringing them here, to avoid any retaliation from that world's deity...

It really makes clear he's not going to try saving them either, much to her sorrow.

"There you two are. Come here." The dark skinned man said as he saw them coming to him.

"What is it?" The brunette asks the injured cop.

"Take a look." Marvin said simply as they looked at the screen, seeing a live feed of a steel gate and a familiar face standing before it.

"It's Leon, he's alright!" The blond huntsman said smiling in relief their friend has made it safely to the police station.

"He made it too." The Redfield followed feeling the same relief the blond did.

"Awesome, now they just need to find him and team up to get out of the city!" Yang cheers, feeling happy for Jaune and Claire to find their last friend they was looking for, before leaving the city.

"I wonder where that gate is though, it's different from the one Claire and Jaune used to get in." Maria wondered, all this running around would've had her very irritated and hitting someone over the head with her cane for designing the police station the way they had.

"You know him?" Marvin asks, wondering who he is and why he looks familiar to him.

"Yeah, it's Leon...Leon Kennedy, I think?" Claire answers, feeling pretty sure she got his last name right. Marvin gained a look of recognition as he recalled the name himself.

"Ah, the rookie. Thought he looked familiar. You can make it to that courtyard through the second floor, east side." Said the officer as he gestured with his head where they needed to go.

"Okay, thank Marvin." Claire thanks the officer for the advice, now they knew where to go and find Leon.

"But before we go Marvin, we found another medallion." Jaune informs Marvin, making the man smile a small smile. Glad these two were one medallion away from this nightmare they was trapped in.

"Good work you two."

"Marvin?" Started the blond. "Do you know anything about the Lickers?"

"I do, why?" Marvin asks before his eyes widen in alarm and worry, forcing himself up on his feet and ignoring the pain from his wound as his full attention was on the two before him. "You didn't run into one on your way here did you?!"

"Looks like we'll finally learn how dangerous these Lickers really are." Ozpin said with narrowed eyes, feeling cautious and worried for Jaune by the cop's reaction to the name. A feeling shared by everyone watching the memories play out before their eyes.

"No, we didn't. I was just asking." Jaune replied, deciding not to bring up the one they saw passing the window earlier.

"Dammit, Jaune don't hide need to know information like that." Madonna scolded, not pleased he would keep something serious like that a secret.

"He didn't want to worry Marvin about it, plus they wasn't attacked, it only passed the window on the outside." Ruby defends him again, earning a raised eyebrow from the matriarch of the Arc household.

"And who is to say it didn't find a way inside the police station while they were gone? What if it's roaming the halls and could attack either Marvin while they're gone off somewhere or it attacks them later on? Doesn't he deserve to know such a threat is in his police station?" Madonna asks patiently with a look that demanded an answer.

"Well...kinda, but-" Ruby weakly tried to defend Jaune's noble intention to not worry the man.

"But nothing, they have a zombie outbreak and we don't even know how dangerous these Lickers are yet. Withholding information like that can cost lives, Ruby. As a huntress you best remember this, if you wish to keep those of your team or the innocents you need to protect safe." Madonna cut Ruby off, with a stern, but nostalgic and remorseful tone. Recalling her days as a huntress and she wasn't able to save all the civilians from the Grimm.

"You're only risking innocent lives and those you care for when you go off blindly playing hero, without letting those who support you know the risks of what you're facing. Especially the risks that could easily target them while you're gone or distracted." Madonna finished, making Ozpin wince at the subtle jab of his own secrecy. While Team RWBY, Nora, Ren, and Oscar felt mixed feelings toward her words.

"But we have to do something, if we don't then they'll win anyway because no one will trust us to handle it." Ruby defended her team's and friends actions. Making Madonna shake her head sadly, she didn't like the idea of children having to carry such burdens to save the world, especially her son, Jaune. Unlike most of his sisters he never had the training as long as they did and that made her worry he was getting in over his head back then at times.

This deal between deities dragging her son into this nightmare was not helping her at all. Feeling a hand on her shoulder, she looked to see Saphron giving her a sympathetic and supporting smile as she soon held her daughter's hand, giving a gentle squeeze in gratitude.

"She has a point, Ruby, while I understand not wanting to cause unneeded panic. There are times you need to let others know when something dangerous is going on for the sake of protecting those around you or under your protection." Summer stated comfortingly to her daughter who looked downcast at being scolded like that for defending Jaune, her team, and her friends actions. Yes, it was risky, but it had to be done. Even if it hurt her a bit to realize her mother didn't exactly approve of her way of doing things, she had no regrets in saving the people she did by going off with Jaune, Ren, and Nora.

She had no regrets in saving Haven or for their hard fought journey to Atlas. The only regret she has right now...is not being able to save Jaune from this deal.

"Good," the cop said breathing a sigh of relief. "Sorry, I forgot to tell you about them. Lickers, they're completely different from a zombie physically. They're stronger, faster, and more dangerous."

"We read in this note that they can't see, but have a sharp sense of hearing," said the brunette as she showed the injured cop the note. They noticed how his shoulders sagged as he read it silently. Sighing in what they guess was either lament or remorse, possibly both for all they knew.

"Rest in peace, David..." Marvin muttered for his fallen comrade, already figuring what has most likely happened to his fellow officer. Before turning his attention back to Jaune and Claire. "That's right. They're blind, but their hearing is far better than any man or dog. Any kind of sound will get their attention in a heartbeat."

The audience felt nervous for Jaune and Claire now, one of those things was around the station as far as they knew, who knew if there was more than one or if something worse was lurking around somewhere?

"Okay, that will make sneaking around them very tricky with hearing sharper than any dog." Blake says from experience in all the times she had to avoid Zwei.

"Please, I'm sure we could have taken them no sweat and Jaune is not a total weakling anymore. He'll be fine." Yang stated, trying to get rid of the bad feeling in her gut about Jaune's chances for survival.

"Be that as it may, Yang, we shouldn't dismiss these Lickers so suddenly. Marvin may have a good reason to be worried with what happened to his fellow officers." Weiss said feeling sorry for the man, she knew if Winter was here she'd probably understand better than anyone how the cop must feel right now as an Atlas Specialist.

"I hope Jaune will be okay..." Ruby muttered in worry for the blond, while Summer silently observed her daughter in worry for how Ruby is going to handle this.

The two looked at each other. They were lucky they didn't meet one directly from what they were hearing.

"Thanks for the advice." Jaune mentally gulped, so the Lickers are that big of a threat...

Claire seeing nothing else to say, takes the medallion from her pouch and walks to the Goddess statue, putting it in one of the slots. The two stone bars surrounding the statue separated. The final medallion should open the secret passage. Though in order to get it, they need to find the detonator to activate the C4 and get to the maiden statue inside the steel pen. Right now they needed to get to courtyard where Leon is.

"Come on, Jaune, we best not keep Leon waiting." Claire said walking up the stairs, earning Jaune's attention as he quickly made to follow her.

"Right, we can't leave him waiting with zombies and zombie dogs wandering around outside." Jaune said earning a nod from the brunette.

Following Marvin's instructions, they went to east side on the second floor and opening a door they see they've entered another office. Nothing out of the ordinary so they kept going to the door on the opposite side of the room. There was a door with a spade lock, so Claire uses her key to open it. Only to see they were now in another dark hallway, no surprise there. Jaune took the flashlight again to light up the path, seeing there was two pathways they could take.

"Right or left?" Claire asks her companion.

"Let's try left." Jaune responds earning a nod from the Redfield as she went left as he suggested, following his lead as he lit up the path for them. A dead end with a closed shutter, but a panel with a square hole like something was supposed to go there. A crank handle perhaps, but not something they had. So they went back taking the path to the right, only for Claire to stop at a door they passed earlier.

"Hey, let's check this room out real quick." Claire says turning the doorknob to see it was unlocked, thankfully.

"Shouldn't we hurry to get to Leon?" Jaune asks feeling curious about the room, but not wanting to leave Leon out there for too long.

"It'll only be for a few seconds, besides, what if we find something we need?" Claire responds making the Arc sigh, unable to argue with her logic. They wouldn't know if they don't check.

"Fine, but let's be quick about it." Jaune says making Claire smile, glad to have him go along with her as she opens the door and they go in. Jaune's eyes scan the room, before lighting up as they land on a card on a small round table. It read "weapons locker key card", this was it! This is exactly what they need to unlock the grenade launcher at the storage deposit room.

"Yes! Now they got the keycard to get the grenade launcher! I hope Jaune uses it, he needs to learn how awesome explosives are!" Nora cheered with an eager grin at the thought of Jaune using a grenade launcher to make many zombies explode into pieces.

Madonna only gave a nervous smile at this, while she wants to Jaune to make it out of this alive, she doesn't want him to become some explosive loving nut case or be mentally broken by his experiences. Fighting Grimm in Beacon was one thing she could learn to get use to, but this was something that honestly worried her for his mental state.

At least Jaune wasn't alone or she would not be as calm as she is now.

He gave it to Claire as she smiled at his good work, putting it in her pouch. Jaune and Claire took a small look around to realize there were some antiques in this room. Probably old stuff the police don't need anymore when they were remodeling the station. Before them stood the same statue of the king they have seen on that roll of film. It was holding a scepter with a red jewel in it's right hand, but it was missing it's left hand. The missing piece was next to the statue on a small table.

Seeing Claire nod at him, he knew she too knew what they had to do.

"Oh gods they're both thinking this? They're losing their minds if they think this will help them in anyway." Madonna groaned, feeling sad for her son and the woman he's working with.

"Now calm down, Madonna. You never know, maybe the scepter will give them what they need later on." Maria stated, feeling a bit annoyed the woman was so quick to write off the possibility the book going back on the statue might help. Given how strange the police station was designed so far and how they had to go out of their way to find things, namely the medallions and weapons locker key card, she wouldn't be surprised that was the case.

"We'll see, but I reserve rights to say "I told you so" once you see it was a waste of space all along." Madonna stated, not wanting to let go of her belief taking the book was a bad move. The God of Darkness had to resist the urge to chuckle at the woman. No reason to spoil the fun.

First, they place the red book on the left hand of the statue. Before carefully putting the hand piece back on the statue. The stone hand holding the book gave a small turn and laid against the statue's chest, before the hand holding the scepter gave a slow right turn. Opening up before Jaune and Claire as if being presented the scepter from a grateful king.

Madonna was at a loss for words the statue had that mechanism. Why would it give up the scepter for the book?

"Told ya Jaune has good instincts." Nora said smugly, her grin going slightly wider at the glare she got from the matriarch.

"It's only a scepter, what is he going to do with it? Bash a zombie or one of those Lickers over the head with it?" Madonna shot back, not liking the attitude of the Valkyrie.

"Wait and see, Mrs. Arc. We may just find out if we keep watching." Ozpin stated calmly, making the woman glare at him for apparently taking their side, before huffing silently.

Claire took the scepter and began to investigate it. Easily finding a switch on it and presses it, the jewel falls out of the scepter before Claire caught it on reflex. Both Jaune and Claire sigh in relief at the quick save as they examine it.

"What do you think the jewel goes to?" Jaune asks, rather curious what Claire thought.

"Not sure, but given how we need to find keys to unlock certain doors and how we had to find the weapons locker key card for the grenade launcher. I'm willing to bet this goes somewhere, could be useful." Claire stated as Jaune nodded in his agreement, it was a safe bet with how crazy this night is turning out for them both.

"I have to agree with Jaune and Claire on this one." Saphron said, earning a look of disbelief from her mother.

"What? I'm just saying that's how it looks. Why would the Weapons Locker Key Card be placed as somewhere random as the room with the king's statue? Why would the book be in the library if it can help someone get the jewel?" Saphron tried to defend her brother on this point. It was all weird and when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. It was best to roll with it in her mind and clearly Jaune was thinking the same.

"It's just like some of the books I would read about..." Madonna said with her face held in her hands. Reluctantly accepting the fact that they had to find key items, in order to find other objects or go to new places in the police station.

"At least Jaune's comic book knowledge has been helping him so far..." Blake tried to comfort the woman, only to wince at the deadpan look she got in return.

"I appreciate what you're trying to say, Blake, but please don't get me started on how much he likes to read those comics and collects the series." Madonna said flatly earning a slight nod from the faunus who turns to watch the viewing again.

After putting the jewel in her new hip pouch, they left the room and kept going down the right side of the hallway. Soon hearing a noise as they continued walking.

"Do you hear that?" Jaune asks, wondering what the sound was... it was getting closer?

"A helicopter, but where-" Claire asks feeling hope for a rescue, before to their horror they saw a helicopter pass their window, before slamming into the side of the building. Hearing and feeling the building shake a bit from the impact.

"Oh no..." Jaune said before rushing to where the helicopter crashed with Claire close behind him. Their eyes widen as they see the crashed helicopter, the pilot was obviously dead and not a pretty sight to see. Claire thought this must be the same helicopter that was communicating earlier, when they found that cop's dead body with half of his face missing.

"Looks like this route is cut off from us..." Claire noted, looking at the helicopter stuck tight in the passage way leading somewhere else in the building. Jaune looked at the sight with pity for the pilot.

"Poor guy, no one deserves to die like this." Jaune said with a shake of his head before Claire put a hand on his shoulder. Jaune turns to look at her as she gave a look of understanding and sympathy.

"Come on, we can't do anything here and we need to find Leon." Claire said earning a silent nod of agreement from Jaune before she led the way back through the hall to the door with the sign that said "exit".

"So much for being rescued..." Blake said feeling bad for them and the pilot. "That could have saved them a lot of trouble if they could be picked up safely out of there."

"Indeed, but Jaune and Claire still have the secret passage. So they're not without hope." Lie Ren said wisely, hoping to keep spirits up for his friends. Seeing a small smile on Ruby, Summer, Oscar, Yang, and a large encouraging smile from Nora's face made him feel pretty good about his effort. While Weiss, Blake, Madonna, Saphron, Oz, Qrow, and Maria all continued watching feeling worried for their odds of escaping in one piece.

Opening it they were now outside, feeling the rain falling on them from dark and stormy clouds above once more. They had a better view of the helicopter that crashed into the building from here, there was sparks flying now. It won't be long before the helicopter catches fire and explodes. So they will need to keep a safe distance from it, while their bodies were quickly getting soaking wet again because of the rain.

"HEY!" A familiar voice sounded from nearby. "CLAIRE! JAUNE!"

Everyone perked up at this, eyes full of hope and relief at the voice.

"Is that..." the blond huntsman was shocked, but smiled.

Both walked over to the metal railing and saw the rookie cop on the other side of a barbwire fence.

"Leon!" Claire shouts with a relieved smile.

"We're coming down!" Followed the Arc, literally, as Claire led the speed walk down the stairs. Not noticing the pilot and part of the helicopter was now on fire. Leon was trying to open the gate, but no luck so far. It was locked tight and Leon didn't appear to have a key for the gate.

"Key, shmey, I would blast the lock off!" Yang said wishing she could help them. They clearly needed it in her mind.

"And let any zombies within hearing distance be not only attracted to the noise you'll make, but leave a wide open door for them to come through." Summer stated, hoping to make Yang realize hasty decisions like that are dangerous.

"Well...I could barricade the hole with the remains of the door and some other stuff?" Yang asks, trying to defend her point.

"Assuming you can find heavy enough objects to bar their entry and set it up before any zombies wander in..." Summer told her patiently, earning a nod in agreement from Madonna, Maria, Qrow, and Ozpin.

"Unlike us, it would be too dangerous for Claire or Leon if Jaune acts without thinking. They're the ones without aura and a single bite seems to be all that is needed to infect someone." Ozpin brings up, making Yang huff in frustration. If it was her she could handle whatever those creatures threw at her, as long as the numbers game didn't get her that is...

"I'm glad that you're okay, Leon." Jaune told the rookie cop.

"Me too. Glad you both made it to the station." Leon said, relief clear on his face with a small smile.

"This is awkward, but we really need to stop meeting like this." Claire said with a small smile of her own.

"Yeah. Police chopper...It just, came out of nowhere." Leon said looking at the helicopter that had crashed into the building, before turning his attention back to Jaune and Claire.

"Yeah, we're fine." Claire assures the cop, easily guessing his concern.

"This gate is tightly shut. I don't think we'll be able to open it." Said the blond huntsman examining the door.

"I take it you don't have the key..." Leon said more than asked.

"We do have one, but it won't fit this lock." Jaune told Leon, looking at the lock to be sure and to his disappointment there was no spade symbol on the lock.

"Still, it's good to see your faces over all this mess. How are you two holding up?" Leon asks, wondering how things were going inside the police station.

"I am...Hanging in there." Claire answers, a wary smile on her lips as she thought of all they've seen and been through so far.

"Helluvah night, huh?" Leon asks, knowing the feeling.

"That's putting it lightly." Jaune said in deadpan, earning a smile of sympathy from the rookie cop.

"Understatement of the century..." Oscar said, feeling for Jaune right now. At least Claire and Leon are actually from the world, Jaune is a total outsider dragged into a zombie outbreak he only used to read in his comics.

This earned a snort and a wary grin from Qrow. Luck was clearly not on Jaune's side and for once he wasn't the blame for it. Made him both feel for the blond and yet feel some relief that it's not his fault Jaune is having such tough luck.

Then again, Claire's isn't much better given how she is with him. But at least it's better than Leon's. They have each other and from the look of it Leon has no one to help him, until he can reach Jaune and Claire pass the fence or meet them in the police station somewhere else that is.

"Yeah, just hang in there. I'll help you all I can once I find a way in there." Leon told Jaune making him smile slightly at the knowledge.

"For now, I'm curious if you found your brother yet." Leon asks Claire, hoping they are having better luck than he is. All he found so far were corpses trying to make him their next meal as he fought and sneaked his way here. They were all over the place out in the streets. He considered himself lucky to have made it here without being eaten alive.

"Not exactly, but I know-"

The brunette was interrupted by the explosion from the police chopper. They knew it was eventually going to blow up, but thought they had more time than this. The sound of the fire alarm rang clear through the night stormy sky as Jaune, Claire, and Leon heard groans starting to grow closer.

"Just when you think it can't get any worse...Leon, you should get going." Claire warns Leon, recognizing the groans as the zombies who are gathering because of the explosion.

"She's right. You're not safe out here in the open." Jaune said with worry as he saw the zombies on the other side of a large fence keeping them from Leon...for now. Sadly he wasn't sure how long the fence would hold and the zombies on the side of the fence with Leon were starting to get up.

"Jaune and Claire are right, he needs to get out of there, now." Saphron said in concern for the rookie cop.

"Don't worry about me, you two just get to safety." Leon said with resolve that Jaune recognized in his friends when defending the people from the Grimm, but mostly of Ruby in how selfless Leon appeared in Jaune's eyes.

'She and Leon would really get along in their shared desire to look after others before themselves. But he needs to start running while he has a chance!' Jaune thought to himself with mixed feelings. It was both nice to see and worrying as he didn't want his new friend dying on them here.

Ruby was both flattered that Jaune thought of her that way and a bit worried. It almost sounded like Jaune worried she would die saving someone's life. Not to say she wasn't prepared to give her all to save those close to her and the innocent, but...did he really count her out already?

'Ruby...' Yang thought, knowing why Jaune was concerned about this and honestly she worried about the same at times. Yes, nothing would stop her from being there for Ruby, but she couldn't watch her all the time. She hoped Ruby would be smart enough to not throw her life away trying to save others, not like their mom unknowingly or knowingly done in the past.

"Oh crap!" Jaune was shocked seeing the horde of undead getting closer to breaking through the fence. It was like trying to hold off a stampede and solid as the fence was, he doubts it's meant to hold off such a dedicated assault to break through for long.

"No, Leon seriously, they're getting through the fence! Please just go!" Claire warns Leon feeling more worried as she saw the zombies getting closer to overpowering the fence.

"Listen to them and run you idiot..." Summer muttered in worry, holding Ruby's and Yang's hands as the two gave her reassuring gentle squeezes to ease their worried mother. They knew Summer took things like innocent people in danger seriously and has a strong drive to save others in need.

The cop was about to leave, before turning to the two. "We're gonna make it, all of us." Leon swore to them, before running off to evade a zombie lunging for him.

"We should search for a way to get to the final medallion. It's not safe here for us either." Jaune said earning a nod of agreement from Claire, she reached for her walkie and pulled it out.

"Hey Marvin, this is bad! We got zombies everywhere!" Claire started trying to warn Marvin of the danger they're now facing. Only for silence to be the only response they got, much to their dread.

"Marvin...? Marvin, are you there?! Marvin?! Oh God, you got to be kidding me...!" Claire said fearing the worst.

"Damn..." Muttered Jaune angrily, knowing it was probably too late for the officer.

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"No..." Summer whispered, having the same bad feeling Claire and Jaune was.

"They really couldn't save him?" Ruby said, her spirits sinking at the implication Marvin might have turned.

"Looks that way, Ruby, we need to prepare for the worst." Blake said giving Ruby's hand a gentle squeeze to calm her young friend and leader. Ruby held her hand back, unable to meet her eyes right now and wanting the comfort. It wasn't easy to be so powerless to help her best friend, the woman who saved him, and the cop who was a good man doing his job.

Yang and Weiss gave small Blake thankful smiles silently at how she was trying to help Ruby adjust to this. Understanding how hard this must be for Ruby to watch.

No choice but to keep going. The gate will hold them off for a while. There was a door behind them and a tool box on top of a plastic trash bin. There was a pair of bolt cutters, perfect for cutting the chains locking the doors they couldn't access before. That was one problem solved.

"It would've been easier if he cut the damn chains with his sword..." Yang grumbled in annoyance.

"Yang, we can't control what Jaune does. We can only watch and hope he survives this." Summer told her eldest daughter, who only huffed and silently fumed at the situation.

'Though she does have a point, it's best she simmers down some. Not like we can do anything about this.' Summer thought to herself with resignation as a frown crossed her face, hoping for this Jaune to somehow pull through.

'Yang is right though, that was a bad lapse in judgment on Jaune's part to wait until he found bolt cutters to deal with those chains. If it was Blake, Weiss, or Qrow they would've used their blades to cut the chains as quick and quietly as possible.' The God of Darkness thought, finding Jaune's thinking a bit off that time. But no one can expect to always make the right decisions.

Claire spots some handgun ammo nearby and quickly takes it with a small smile. "Can never have too many bullets during the end of the world."

Jaune smiles warily at her comment. "Yeah, we'll need all the help and bullets we can get."

The brunette takes the Bolt Cutters and cuts the chains off the door next to the tool box. Jaune takes the lead and opens the door for them, only to see a zombie charging right for him.

"Shit!" Claire screamed, startled by how close this zombie was and how quickly it was approaching them. Jaune acting on instinct quickly draws the shield, holding off the charging zombie, before using his own superior strength to force it back stumbling until it fell on it's back.

Claire wasted no time firing a couple of shots at it's head while it was down, until it finally ceased movement.

Jaune sighs in relief as he saw it wasn't getting back up. Glad he has his family's shield and sword through this mess.

"You okay, Jaune?" Claire asks in concern, glad he didn't have any visible injuries, but she knew the way it lunged at them made her jump in fright as Jaune held it off with his shield. She hoped he was handling this better than she was.

"Yeah...I'm fine, we-wait...doesn't this look familiar to you?" Jaune says with a relieved smile, before he blinks, taking a second look at the part of the building they was in.

"Yeah... it does." Claire said as they both realized where they were, this is the east wing hallway where Elliot died. The door to the room Elliot's corpse was inside of was on their right. A painful reminder of their failure to save the poor cop who is the reason they have the note book to solve the medallion statue puzzles.

"Oh Jaune...you can't save everyone. No matter how many of us wish too." Madonna said with sympathy for her son.

"I'm sure he did what he could, I hope he learns to get pass this. Him and Claire both really." Saphron agreed in concern for her little brother.

"He will, it may take a while, but I feel Jaune will get past it eventually." Ozpin said, knowing from experience while such things would haunt people for years and possibly all their life in some cases. He had faith Jaune could handle this.

Bother remember there was another door with a chain locking it nearby. Killing two more zombies who lunges for them down the hall, with a quick couple of shots to the one on the right from Claire and a shield bash followed with a decapitating slash to the zombie on the left from Jaune, drops both zombies dead. Seeing no more zombies heading for them, they turn their attention to the door in front of them with a chain on it.

Claire cut it with the bolt cutters and pushed the door open, Jaune taking point with his shield up in front of him and his sword at his side as Claire follows behind him. Closing the door and turning to observe the room was office like in design. Having a row of desks, chairs, a few tables, everything really needed for a nice office for a team of police officers.

Sadly, it also had some zombies inside they needed to deal with too.

"This is what I mean about recklessly going into locked rooms. Sometimes they're meant to lock something in than keep others out." Summer said making Yang groan at reluctant understanding, but mentally staying on her opinion Jaune's sword cutting those chains earlier on would've allowed to investigate the earlier locked rooms they found the first time. Instead of having to come back later on with a bolt cutter.

The Arc took the lead, slashing through two undead that was closest in front of them. While Claire shoots three rounds at a third on the other side of the desks that was trying to walk around toward her. Looking to her left, she saw a flash grenade on a desk and went to pick it up. Spotting ammo near a dead body of a police officer as she put the flash grenade away in her pouch for now. She reaches down and picks up the ammo, only to jump as she hears a loud thump above her.

"Claire!" Jaune called out in concern for her, moving to his friend as he heard the thump too and saw her shoot back up to her feet. A small box of ammo in her hand as they look at the window to see a zombie trying to break through it.

"I'm fine...just hate these damn things." Claire said, a hand on her chest to steady her heartbeat from the jump scare she had, only to quickly put the box of ammo away in her pouch as cracks began to form on the window from the constant hits against the window.

"Shame we don't have any boards with us this time..." Jaune said thrusting his sword through the window just as the zombie broke it. It's head being impaled by his blade and falling limp outside the window. Seeing it was stirring or trying to rise, Jaune let out a sigh of relief. They was safe for now, but they would need to remember to board that window if they found a chance to later. Who knows how many zombies could come pouring in through there if given the chance?

"Yeah, but at least we got them all in this room. Let's check it before any of the ones we didn't kill here last time comes looking for us in here." Claire said earning a nod from Jaune. Hearing the groans and moans of the zombies in the hall outside the room. Looking across to see that the door was barricaded with a chair and some heavy looking books braced against the doors. Not bad for an improvised block, but it wouldn't work against a dedicated force forever. Evidenced by the banging on the doors now, thanks to the noise they made coming in.

"Let's be quick about it, at least however many is out there is not smart enough to realize to come around to the other door." Jaune said as they quickly went through the room looking for supplies. After a few minutes of checking the room and grabbing some gunpowder, along with a green herb. They find an electrical part on a table, must be the missing fuse to the box they saw near the entrance to the east hallway last time.

"Let's check here next." Claire said as they went into a separate office that the brunette believes to belong to the lieutenant or someone of a higher ranking, both immediately seeing the valve handle on the desk.

"That's a weird place to put a valve handle... what's it doing there?" Saphron said in confusion.

"That's a weird place to put a valve handle...what's it doing here?" Saphron blushes at her brother almost saying the same thing she did, making her mother smile in pride both her son and daughter were smart enough to question things like this.

"Who knows, but we need it and I'm just glad we found it." Claire told Jaune as she put the valve away in her pouch. They might not have found the detonator for the C4 yet, but they were advancing a lot. She was thankful to have someone reliable like Jaune around. Otherwise, it would be much harder on her to do this on her own.

"True, it looks like we're making progress." Jaune said in agreement, feeling relieved they was could at least check out more of the police station for the detonator they need for the last medallion.

"Jaune...?" Claire spoke softly, staring at her friend.

"What?" Jaune asks, feeling something wrong with the brunette.

"I know I shouldn't be prying, but...who are you? Really?" Claire asks, unable to keep her curiosity down any longer. He was... different and as long as she's known him she hasn't gotten any closer to understanding just who he is or where he's from. What his story is...

Team RWBY, Ren, Nora, Oscar, Qrow, Summer, Ozpin, Maria, Madonna, and Saphron all tense at this. Knowing full well why Claire was curious of Jaune, but was worried how she'd handle learning the truth he is from another world.

"That's not good, if Jaune isn't careful about how he answers her questions. He could unintentionally make her think he is too crazy to be around." Ozpin said, knowing all too well how dangerous explaining your past is to others. Too many times in his lives he had to worry about people losing heart in his fight against Salem when they learned his origins. Team RWBY more or less confirming his fears when they figured it out and had their drama during the Brunswick Farm incident.

"Well he can't just lie to her either, what if she finds out otherwise? What if he's stuck there for good after the deal is done?" Yang responds, unknowingly making Ruby frown as she felt her heart clench at the thought of Jaune being stuck there for good. To never see him again. They knew the God of Darkness can't reach him, but what is the terms of this deal they made for Jaune to be on that world anyway?

"Telling the truth is good and all, preferable really, but understand not everyone will be accepting of the truth before them. Even if you tell them as heartfelt as you could. Sometimes the truth is too hard for certain people to accept in certain situations. Take you all for example, when you first heard what happened to Jaune before the viewings began. You was slightly skeptical was you not?" The God of Darkness spoke up, making his guests only answer in silence, not wanting to admit he had a point there.

"Like it or not, you have to learn to edit the truth at times and keep certain things secret for the sake of cooperation with others or to protect what you care for. I seen many souls who did things they disliked for the sake of protecting those precious to them. Jaune is one such example, he doesn't like to kill much like you all, but yet here he is killing zombie after zombie for Claire's sake. And soon...you will see him face even more terrifying things and rise against the darker side of humanity in future viewings." The God of Darkness continued knowing sometimes you had to hide things to avoid conflict or any possible betrayals.

Blue eyes blinked, his tongue felt tied for a moment, unsure what to say to her.

"Where are you from?" Claire continued to ask, wanting to know her friend better. To understand Jaune a bit more, especially with how far he has gone to help her and protect her so far.

"Why are you asking me this now? This is hardly the time or place to talk about ourselves." Jaune tried to deflect her questions for later.

"And there will never be a time or place to talk about it. I'm glad I met you, we make a kick ass team together and I feel like I can trust you. But I'm just...Confused, about what you said." Claire said as any hope he had of deflecting the questions died.

"This is really not good, she's definitely not going to drop it. If he doesn't word his answer carefully, he may risk losing her trust and he can't afford that right now." Weiss said understanding where Claire is coming from, but not sure of a safe way for Jaune to answer her questions. He doesn't even fully realize he's on another world yet!

"To be fair, I don't think any of us would be different in her shoes." Blake says knowing if it was her, she would be more suspicious of Jaune than Claire is if she was in Claire's position.

No one could really argue against what Blake said either as they continued watching the memory play out with worry.

"I..." He paused, he really didn't want to bring this up.

"You said you don't know where here is. How can you possibly get lost? I know you have to be french because of your name." Claire presses on, much to Jaune's dread and confusion.

"What's French?" He asks before he could stop himself, feeling like he made a big mistake.

Loud resounding sounds of palms hitting the faces of everyone, even the God of Darkness himself despite seeing this all before, echoes in the realm.

"You idiot! You just gave away more reasoning for her to believe something is wrong with you!" Weiss scolds, despite knowing he couldn't hear her.

"It's not completely his fault he doesn't know..." Ruby said quietly, feeling like that was a mistake too, but at least he was being honest. Besides, Jaune never asked to be sent to that world for whatever deal those deities had involving him. They didn't even tell him why he's there or what to expect!

"What...?" The Brunette was speechless, had she heard him correctly? "You're joking...right?"

Jaune scratched his head in return, showing he seriously didn't know.

"What part of the US are you from?" Claire asks quickly, a bad feeling in her gut that there is more to Jaune than she first guessed. She didn't know why, but...there was a nagging feeling he was hiding something from her.

"US?" Jaune asks simply, blinking at Claire's face turned to one of shock and confusion.

Again, Claire stood speechless before Jaune, unable to comprehend how anyone in her country doesn't know where they are. "You don't know...what's the US? You gotta be shitting me. The United States of America, it's the country I was born in and...probably you."

"Looks like it's time for Jaune to realize he's not on his world anymore...and for Claire to realize her friend is not from her world at all." Oscar said, feeling pity for Claire right now. She came here to find her brother and now she gets all of this. He knew this was going to be a night she'll never forget for more than one reason now.

Now the Arc was getting nervous. His hands were shaking and he could feel behind his gloves they were sweating. "Claire...I need to ask you...what do you call this world?"

"Huh? This world, the planet we live on?" She was getting more confused by the minute.

"Yes, just tell me." The Arc said, hoping beyond all hope he was wrong on the sneaking suspicion forming in his mind.

"It's Earth. That's the name of this planet, our world...What is wrong with you, Jaune?" Claire asks feeling really confused and concerned for her friend now. Seeing him shaking was making her nervous.

'Earth...' The word kept repeating in his head over and over.

The Arc never thought his crazy idea would ever be true. The truth hit him so hard, like a ton of bricks falling on him. Somehow, someway, he was in another world. Not on Remnant anymore, how, he didn't have the slightest clue. He started hyperventilating, making the brunette in front of him even more worried.

"Jaune...are you alright?" Claire asks him in concern.

'I'm not on Remnant...another world...what is this world? My friends...Ren, Nora, Ruby, Weiss, Oscar...how?' Jaune thinks, unable to register what Claire is asking or anything else around him.

"Oh Jaune..." Saphron says in sympathy for her brother, understanding how he felt. If she was stuck in another world, one with a zombie outbreak no less, away from her wife and their little baby boy. She would not be much better off at such a revelation.

"Jaune, you need to calm down." Claire went closer to him, hoping to get his attention. "Breathe in and out or you might faint. Do you hear me?!" Claire asks louder, seeing to her ever increasing worry for Jaune that he is unresponsive to her.

'This can't be real...it's not real, this is... All of this is nothing but a dream. A city under a zombie outbreak, yeah right, a dream...a bad dream...I want to wake up please, let me open my eyes. I don't want this, my friends, my family, my home, my mission, the relics, Salem. Have to get to Atlas...' Jaune thought desperately as his mind began to spiral.

"Jaune...why did this happen to you?" Ruby asks in sorrow, understanding how much he must miss them all, she couldn't even describe how shocking it would be to be separated from all those you love and knew. She wasn't even sure how she'd handle it if she was in Jaune's shoes.

Jaune was slapped hard on his left cheek, as his eyes snapped wide open. "Ow! Claire, what the-"

"You was hyperventilating! If I hadn't slapped the shit out of you, who knows what would've happened? You might end up having a panic attack or an anxiety attack! I don't know, I'm no doctor." Claire explains with a shout, sighing after she finished. Trying to calm her own nerves from almost witnessing her friend nearly faint or who knows what else would happen if she hadn't snapped him out of it.

"I...Ow...I'd say that did it." He was rubbing his left cheek that was colored red from the slap.

"You had me worried..." Claire told him, sounding upset, much to Jaune's concern. "Don't ever do that again, I'm sorry for asking."

"No, no, it's not your fault. I needed that slap. Don't blame yourself. I'm feeling better now, thanks." The Arc tried to assure the Redfield, he didn't want to upset her or worry her about his troubles. They already had enough on their plates without her worrying about his own messes to deal with.

"I don't like how she did it, but I'm grateful to her for snapping my son out of it before he fainted." Madonna said with a relieved sigh, Saphron patting her mother on the shoulder in understanding.

It was at this moment the doors barricaded by the chair was burst open by a zombie charging through. Pinning Claire to the ground just as she turned around, trying to hold it off from biting into her neck.

"Agh! Help me!" Claire screamed in terror, as she desperately pushed against the zombie by the shoulders. Trying to keep it from tearing out her throat, while the zombie kept biting near her neck and trying to push it's body weight down to reach her flesh.

"Kill it before she dies, Jaune!" Maria shouts in concern for the young woman. That zombie was getting dangerously close to Claire's neck!

"Claire!" Jaune yells in concern, before quickly stabbing the head of the zombie with Crocea Mors. It went slump soon after and the brunette instantly pushed it off her.

'If he hadn't killed it...I could have been...oh god...' Claire thought in a mix of emotions as she tried to process what happened. She soon found Jaune helping her to her feet as blue eyes met blue. She could see clearly Jaune was worried for her as he stared at her.

"You okay?" Jaune asks her as he looks her over for any injuries.

"I am." Claire assures him, before averting her eyes in guilt. "I'm sorry, it was never my intention to upset you with my questions."

"I told you it's not your fault. We've been through enough as it is, and we still have a ways to go if we want to leave this place." Jaune assures her, hoping to relive her of any guilty conscience she may have about her questions.

"Right...but I meant what I said. I'm glad to have you here." Claire told him, a relieved smile on her face that showed how grateful she is.

"There's no "I" in team, right?" Jaune smiles back.

Ruby didn't know why, but she didn't like how...close they was getting again. Something about how they smiled at each other made her feel...angry? Concerned? What was going on with her? Why did her heart feel so weird about Jaune being nice to Claire?

Summer looked at Ruby worried as she noticed her daughter had a conflicted look on her face.

She nodded, happy to see him back to normal. But on the inside, she was still bothered. Jaune wasn't from around here, anyone can tell just by looking at him. What really shocked her is him not knowing about this country or even what French is! For crying out loud his name sounds French and he doesn't even know what that means! Something was really up with him. It wasn't amnesia, not since he clearly knows his name...Could it? She remembers when she was in high school she heard of different types of amnesia. There was no time to be pondering about that. The duo finally left the room heading to the fuse box. The brunette put the electrical part in the socket, making the red light turn green. The sound of a shutter was heard close by them, letting them know the way back to the main hall was now open again for the East Hallway. It was time to continue their search for a detonator to reach the last medallion.

"Hey, Jaune, let's use this on that chained door in that room where there was a broken window we had to jump through. You remember it?" Claire says as Jaune pulls out his map.

"Yeah, give me a second...that was in the west wing if I remember correctly and according to this...it's called the Operations Room." Jaune said glad the maps told him the name of all the rooms they showed. It would have been awkward to keep calling it this room or that room all the time.

"Plus we can finally get that grenade launcher with this keycard." The Redfield said with a small smile as she pulled out the keycard, admiring it for a second before putting it back in a pouch.

Going past the opened shutter and into the Main Hall, they decided to check on Marvin. The officer didn't when the brunette called him on her walkie, both feared the worst has happened as they slowly and quietly approach the couch he should be at.

"Please don't be a zombie, please don't be a zombie, please don't be a zombie." Ruby said as if praying to any and all higher beings could prevent this. Hands in held together as nervously before feeling Summer and Blake holding Ruby's hands. Giving her soft sympathetic smiles.

The God of Darkness snorted silently, clearly the girl has forgotten these are his memories of that night. Begging for some intervention for that cop's life now would be pointless. He never understood why some humans did that in situations like this, but he supposed it's due to being caught up in the moment. It was the most plausible reasoning in his mind.

"It'll be okay, Ruby, these are just memories." said Blake, unaware of the God of Darkness's line of thought earlier. "I'm sure...while some of this will be hard to watch for us, we can take comfort knowing whatever Jaune is facing. He won't let Claire or Leon die, and he WILL survive. We've been through too much for him to die in a place like that."

"She's right honey, while I feel for the officer, whatever happens we need to keep pressing on and believe in your friend." Summer chimed in, equally troubled at the thought of the good man dying, but handling it better due to seeing people die during missions before.

"Right...you're right..." Ruby said, despite the troubled look still being in her eyes as she turned to watch the viewing portal again.

Turning past the curtain that blocked him from view, they felt some relief to see the man lying on the couch, breathing. He must have gotten tired and needed the rest. It made Jaune and Claire silently wonder how long he has gone without a proper sleep.

'Probably since the outbreak started...' Both Jaune and Claire unknowingly think at the same time in sympathy and worry for the cop.

Neither of them wanted to wake him, so they let him have his rest and went back to the West Hallway on the First Floor. Only to discover to their worry that there was more zombies now and some were just outside the window, beginning to climb in.

"I was afraid this would happen, Jaune needs to board up those windows to prevent more from getting in or else the whole station could be overrun in a matter of time." Maria said as her upgraded eye gear narrowed.

"I'm afraid that will have to wait until Jaune kills the ones already there." Qrow spoke his two cents on the matter seeing the zombies approaching Jaune and Claire.

"Claire, give me some covering fire. We can't let these zombies gang up while I try to kill them off." Jaune said rushing forward to decapitate the first zombie as it turned around to face him. Raising his shield he blocked a second zombie from tackling him over. Another tried to rush him from his left, but was swiftly shot in the head three times making it fall over.

"I got your back!" Claire told him now shooting the zombie who was rising up from falling into the hall from the window it stumbled in from.

"We need to move, Claire, now!" the blond told his friend as she nodded, letting him lead the way as the pushed through the two zombies. Rushing down the hall without looking back as the zombies they charged were getting up. Down the hall they saw another zombie falling into the hall ahead of them, only for Jaune to rush forward and stab it in the head before it could get up.

"Look out!" Claire shouted firing two more bullets to stun the zombie before the gun made empty clicking noises. Silently cursing under her breath as she quickly reloaded as fast as she could into her revolver. Jaune didn't let the zombie recover, via a thrust to it's head from his sword. Making it drop dead as Jaune guided Claire to the Operations Room. Seeing movement outside the barred windows he pushes Claire in front of him, while shielding her with his back before zombie hands broke through. Scratching their bloodied fingers against his armor as they went inside.

"Well...that was fun." Jaune said with a sigh, before looking at her in concern as he heard her finish loading the gun.

"Yeah, sorry about that. This gun only has five shot, I forgot to reload it earlier. Are you okay?" Claire apologizes, feeling bad she wasn't of more help at that moment cause she happened to bring a gun meant for self defense against thugs or some stupid criminal. Worse that he used his body to protect her...again.

Who could have predicted she'd be fighting the undead?

"It's fine, Claire, I have armor, remember?" Jaune said turning to let her see the bloody finger trails on his armor. She was surprised how well the armor held up. The scratches were barely visible at all. At first she thought it was just a cosplay costume, but now she can't help wondering what his armor is made of.

"We best get a move on. I can hear our "friends" still wandering the halls." The blond assures her, before air quoting the word friends. Making her give a relieved smile at that, glad he wasn't holding her slip up against her and push away her train of thought for now.

"An honest mistake for a civilian, really, no way Jaune would be upset about that." Ren said with understanding for how she must feel.

"Agreed." Saphron softly spoke, unsure how she would handle the zombie incident compared to Claire. Though this did make her consider getting a gun and gun safe to lock it up in her own home...just in case some criminal tries to target them.

"Yeah, let's cut the chain on that door and see what's inside." Claire said pulling out the bolt cutters and walking to the door chained shut.

"Claire wait...maybe you should leave the bolt cutters here. I think I can cut those." Jaune said earning a raised eyebrow from Claire.

"FINALLY!" Yang shouts, glad Jaune was using his head now.

"Yang!" Ruby cried out in protest of her sister's behavior.

"What? You can't tell me you honestly think vomit boy would have a hard time cutting a simple chain. He's fought the Grimm with us every step of the way." Yang states wishing he gone with the easy route sooner.

"Girls, enough, let's watch and trust Jaune has his reasoning." Summer said making both daughters grumble under their breath, but nod regardless.

"Oh he has his reasons, but you fail to think if he has good reasoning..." Madonna whispers silently with a frown, not seeing Saphron's sadden expression at her mother's words. Jaune running off had hurt the family quite a bit, as well as worried their mother and his younger siblings a lot. The poor little dears were crying and blaming themselves for when they thought Jaune had run away from their home.

"Jaune, not to insult your strength, but cutting a chain with a sword is not something just anyone can do. Unlike the cartoons that kids like to watch or in the comics." Claire said wondering why he would make this claim. Sure, he was tough and pretty strong from what she has seen, but cutting a chain with a sword?

Okay, maybe he could eventually with a heavy enough blade, but that sword didn't look like it could do it in her mind.

"Just humor me one strike, if I cut it, we go in and you leave the bolt cutters. If not you can say "I told you so" for the rest of the night." Jaune offers drawing his sword as she shook her head, unable to believe he really wanted to do this, but stepping aside for him.

"Fine, but I will hold you to your word, my knight in shining armor." Claire playfully states with a grin that spoke of the teasing she had planned for him. Jaune took one look at the chain and gave her a mischievous smile in return.

While he could try to cut the chain with his Crocea Mors as it is, why not stack the odds to his favor? Sheathing his sword, she watched in shock and confusion as he pulled it out and the sheathe seemed to gain an edge to it. Turning Jaune's one handed sword into what could only be called a claymore or a bastard sword. Jaune raised his new blade and swung for the chain.

SNAP

CLATTER

Claire blinked in shock at how...easily Jaune's combined sword and sheathe cut the chain. Frowning as she saw the knowing smile on his face.

"Why didn't you tell me you could do that sooner? That could have saved us a lot of time looking for bolt cutters." Claire asks sharply, feeling a bit annoyed she was kept in the dark about that little trick with his weapon.

"Honestly, back then I was worried about two things. One, zombies hearing my sword hitting the chain if it takes more than one strike. Had to test it to be sure, but combined I was confident it has a strong chance of pulling it off." Jaune explains making Claire nod, she could understand him not wanting to attract attention from his sword trying and failing to cut the chains if it didn't work.

"And the second?" Claire asks with a raised eyebrow.

"The second is because I honestly didn't think of it until recently." Jaune said seeing her unimpressed look. "Look, I know it's wrong, but I was feeling a bit overwhelmed okay? I'm in a place I never heard of before in a zombie outbreak. I don't know what happened to my friends or even how this all happened... It's kind of hard to remember little things like that for me at the time and I know no amount of apologizing will make up for not telling you. But please know I am sorry and never meant to cause you any trouble by not telling you my sword can combine with my shield like that." Jaune sincerely told her, making Claire's gaze soften as she found it hard to stay mad at him. Knowing how true it is they are both trying to adapt to all this craziness as best as they could.

"See girls, I told you he had his reasons." Summer said making Yang roll her eyes, not wanting to admit she could see his point. While Ruby smiled in sympathy for her best friend/crush. She could understand full well when you feel overwhelmed you tend to overlook or forget things.

It also reminded her how little she knows of him, but let it go for now.

"Fine, but is there any other tricks your weapon can do I should know about? Is there some sort of gun hidden in the handle of your sword or something?" Claire asks sarcastically, but wanting to be sure it didn't have any more surprises that she should know.

"If Jaune let me add a gun into his sword I could do something like that or maybe along the blade...maybe in his sheathe?" Ruby grumbles, pondering ideas to help improve the sword.

Blake thinking of how Adam had a gun in his sheathe warily nods in agreement. "It... would help him, I'll admit."

"Nah, nothing like that. Just let's my sword combine with the shield to make a stronger, sharper, and more durable blade. Though it comes at the cost of sacrificing some defense via my shield." The blond states, earning an understanding nod from her.

"That explains why you didn't use it earlier..." The brunette mused to herself. Seeing how that would've made it dangerous for Jaune as that shield had saved them both during certain encounters with the zombies.

"Alright, apology accepted, let's check what's in the room." Claire said, dropping off the bolt cutters on a nearby desk. Before pushing the door open and stepping through as Jaune's sword transformed back ton a sheathed blade he placed on his hip, before drawing the sword and shield separately again. Following behind her to see a tiny...office? Supply room? He wasn't sure, there was a desk though that had an electronic device that caught their interest.

Claire picked up the electronic device, realizing soon after it was the detonator they need to activate the C4 in the room where the steel pen is and the maiden puzzle statue, on the third floor.

"Yes! Now they can get the last medallion and get out of there!" Nora cheered, happy for her leader to finally have caught a break.

"Well Jaune, looks like I got good news and bad news." Claire said making him tense at the look on her face as she looked at the electronic device on the backside.

"Let me guess...that is the detonator we need, but we can't use it." Jaune more says than asks, a bad feeling in his gut telling him he is right. Seeing her nod made the feeling get worse. "Why?"

"Why indeed? Does it lack some part they have to find now?" Weiss asks, wondering if the thing could still be useful to them.

"That's because while the device is useable, we need to find it a battery to power it. Maybe a type D I think..." Claire says pointing at the back of the device that had an empty space for the battery to go in.

"Batteries...of course, and I take it you don't have any or know of any in the previous rooms we searched?" Jaune asks earning a slow shake of her head that made him face palm. "Great, just...great. I'm starting to wonder if I'm cursed with bad luck or something right now."

Everyone groans at their bad luck, while Qrow flinches at this, knowing the feeling better than anyone. Even if his semblance affects others and not himself, it still sucks like no one would believe.

"You have got to be kidding me! What are the freaking odds they now have to search for a battery?!" Nora shouted in annoyance and anger. If it was her she would've smashed her way into the steel pen a LONG time ago with all the crap going on.

"Again, Jaune would be better off using his sword and shield combined form to force his way in than search for a stupid battery to a detonator." Yang said not liking how Jaune was screwing around when she prefers the direct route.

"Yang, if it takes more than one strike to cut through those bars, it will be only greater risk to attract something dangerous like those lickers to him and Claire." Weiss tries to calm her brute of a teammate.

"He can take them on, they can't be worse than the Grimm!" Yang said stubbornly.

"Considering he's never fought one yet, it's too soon to get cocky, Yang. Remember they tore the police apart and have become feared by them. Plus we have to consider the fact Claire would be in danger too. He might be able to protect himself and I trust his skill to a degree, but protecting Claire and fighting the creatures at the same time is risky." Weiss shot back making the blond brawler growl at the valid argument, but let the matter drop for now. Not wanting to admit Weiss was right about this, she felt Jaune could handle it.

"Trust me, I know the feeling, but nothing we can do about it now. We just need to keep an eye out for the battery we need for this." Claire says with a scowl of her own, before she took a deep breath and put the device away.

Looking around they spot two more doors inside the room and one of those doors had a heart shaped lock and symbol on the door. Easily telling them they couldn't go that way, they didn't have the heart key yet. The other one however had a lock on it that could be released from their side of the door, Claire released it to unlock the door. It led the two to the corridor next to the West Office and the Storage Deposit Room. Since they were already here they went to get the grenade launcher and used the keycard to release the lock. The protective glass sliding back as Claire grinned, picking up the GM 79 grenade launcher, along with some flame rounds. Oh yeah, she was gonna need this bad boy for future encounters. Especially if they have the bad luck to run into a Licker.

"Oh hell yeah! Now she's got a real gun! Bring on the Lickers!" Nora cheers in approval of Claire's new weapon and the grin Claire had. Clearly she too knew that grenade launchers are the best! What better way to kill a Licker than with explosives?!

Ren merely gave a polite and amused smile at his best friend's cheer. He knew how Nora loves grenade launchers and big explosions, as well as being a fierce defender of how they're "the best guns in the world" besides the rocket launchers...

"Trust me, you'll love the explosions that brunette will cause later...except for one, but you'll see later." The God of Darkness vaguely informs them, he loved the mayhem and destruction she brought on Remnant. Yes, she's perhaps a bit unique and much to handle for many mortals, but as a being of destruction compared to his brother's creation. He could respect Nora's skill and love for explosives.

His warning made some of them feel nervous, what did he mean by "except for one"? Seeing he was paying more attention to the viewing portal than them, they got the clue he was not in the mood to elaborate and turned their attention to it as well. Hoping for the safety of both Jaune and Claire.

Claire puts the grenade launcher away and pulls out the portable safe. Giving Jaune a friendly teasing smile as she waves it.

"Care to place a bet on how many tries it takes to open this?" Claire says making Jaune smile at the friendly challenge.

"Ten, I got a few lights, but it's hard to memorize what order they need to be in." Jaune replies, making Claire smile.

"Fine, if I do it before ten, you have to fulfill one request if it's within your power at a later date." The brunette said making Jaune widen his eyes.

Ruby didn't know why, but her heart twisted at the idea of Jaune owing her something at a later date. Especially the date part.

'You're over thinking it, Ruby, she probably means in a friendly way. Like help moving furniture or help cleaning her guns... yeah.' Ruby tried to assure herself, not sure why she felt annoyed at the idea of them being close.

"Wait...what?" The blond questioned, but his friend was already focusing on finding the code, he could see she already used up two times now.

"Relax, I won't ask something embarrassing or stupid of you. More like simple favors most likely, it'd be nice to have an extra pair of hands help me out." Claire said connecting some of the lights, before frowning as she messed up. That was five times now, five more to go...

"Oh...uh, yeah, I guess that's fine." Jaune said watching her connect more lights than he did. He didn't mind owing simple favors on one hand, but he had to find a way to his friends. Hopefully she can accept maybe a hug in exchange for that favor before he returns to his friends?

"I got it! Yes! Now you owe me, Jaune Arc!" The brunette cheers as the lights all showed she had successfully connected them and opened. Revealing a key pad.

"A...keypad?" Claire mutters in confusion, before her eyes light up. "The terminal with the missing key pads!"

"Right, that makes sense." Jaune agrees seeing Claire run to the terminal and place the spare keypad into the number 2 spot. Allowing them access to the lockers that they could now open with the number two. Swiftly grabbing more ammo from the lockers before heading out.

"Huh, so that's what was in those portable safes...I wonder why a spare key was in it?" Maria wondered, finding it strange something they needed was locked up in a portable safe. True, it could be to prevent them from losing track of something so small easily, but she felt it was stupid on the cop's part not to fix it sooner.

Entering the West Office, they quietly and carefully make their way to the private office in the room. Jaune not taking chances stabs the corpse in the head as Claire made her way to the safe. It was already opened to their surprise. Someone must have forgotten to lock it, their loss. Inside was another hip pouch and Claire took it without much thought. She was going to need it with all the ammo and supplies she was carrying so far. As they left the private office, they saw a folder on one of the officers desks. Jaune held a flash light above it so he could read it.

*Operation Report

September 28th 2:30 AM

It's just down to me and three others. No weapons...No ammo... And too many skirmishes have drained us mentally and physically. We're not gonna make it...Officer Philips once suggested we escape through the sewers. Apparently, there's a secret tunnel under this place left over from its museum days. I brushed her idea off before, but now, it's not sounding all that bad. Yeah, there's no proof there's even a tunnel or that the sewers aren't infested with zombies, but I don't want to sit here and die either.

It's a long shot, but I'm gonna try to find out what I can about that tunnel.

Elliot Edward*

"Eventually, he found out how to get to that secret tunnel." Said the Arc, remembering the police officer that got killed as he and Claire pulled the upper half of his body.

Everyone felt their stomachs protest at the memory of how that cop died, hoping to keep their food down the students and Saphron put their hands over their mouths. Breathing deep, calming breaths silently to collect themselves. While the adults all had grim expressions on their faces.

"I guess that explains why the Goddess Statue's secret passage is so unknown. It makes sense if it was secret even in the days it was a museum. A secret well kept in one generation can be completely unknown to the next." Maria stated earning a nod from Oz in silent agreement. His vault and order were both well kept secrets for many years from the public. And while he was forced to tell some of his students in hopes of gaining their help, it reduced the number of risks this way than telling everyone about Salem, the relics, or magic in general.

Sadly, it was not enough to stop Cinder Fall back then...

"The passageway under the statue that needs three medallions to open it. So it leads to the sewers." The Redfield didn't like the idea of going to a place where it stinks like crap.

"We can worry about the place filled with zombies later." Jaune replied, pushing any thoughts of zombies being there away for later. As they pass by the desks they spot one that was closed and locked shut. There was a note on it, Jaune picks it up and shows it to his companion as he reads it. Claire holding the flashlight to let him read it easier.

*Rookie's First Assignment

Leon S Kennedy we're putting you on a very special case for your first assignment.

Your mission is...to unlock your desk! The key to your success is in the initials of our first names. Input the letters in the order of our desks. There are two locks-one on each side of your desk. Make sure you get them both.

Basically, your first task is to remember your fellow officers names, but you figured that much out, right?

Good luck, Leon.

By the way, it might take a little work to get Scott to give you a straight answer.

Lieutenant Branagh.*

There was a corner on the note with drops of blood.

*Be glad you're not here, rookie

Everyone felt sympathy and sorrow for Leon and his fellow officers he was meant to work with.

"This...is horrible. I can't imagine how bad Leon will feel once he sees this." Summer said sorrowfully as Qrow looked at her in understanding and concern.

"First day on the job...and all his coworkers are found in a fate worse than death. Needless to say this will haunt him for life." Qrow said with sympathy for the cop, taking a swig of his alcohol. Infinitely glad this never happened on Remnant or to his team. He wouldn't wish that fate on any of them, not even Raven or her tribe.

"This is Leon's desk." Claire said.

"If it's his, I don't think we should try to open the locks." Jaune said feeling sympathy for the cop, the banner over their desks with the words 'Welcome Leon!' didn't help his mood either. He couldn't imagine how badly this might hurt Leon to see what was supposed to be a party has turned into a nightmare.

"I agree with Jaune, they should leave it alone." Summer said earning a nod of agreement from Ruby and Yang.

"I hate to be the one to play bad guy here, but what if it has something they need, like a battery for their detonator?" Maria said earning a hard stare from Summer.

"It's his desk, he should find whatever they left him." Summer spoke with some steel in her tone, she wouldn't ever want to use something meant for someone else.

"He's not there right now and if need be they can give to him later, if it's still intact." Maria pressed on, not backing off on the fact it could hold something useful.

"Do you have no respect for others privacy?" Summer asks the old Reaper.

"Not when in a life or death situation like they are in. You want to protect those close to you? Then one does what they must to ensure their safety." Maria told her sternly.

"Ladies, please, let's watch and see what happens shall we?" Ozpin cuts in, trying to get them to put their opinions on hold for now. Watching the God of Darkness warily, glad to see for now he doesn't seem annoyed or angry.

"Fine." Both answer curtly, with Summer silently fuming while Maria shook her head at woman's stubbornness.

"Aren't you a bit curious what could be inside?" Claire asks him, making Jaune turn to face her fully.

It doesn't belong to us, so we shouldn't." Argued the Arc.

"Leon isn't here and we are. I'm sure if it was anyone else besides him, they will make the attempt to open them." Claire argues back.

"She can't be serious..." Ruby asks, feeling it was a breach of privacy and basic decency to take another's belongings.

"One does what they must to survive, Ruby." Blake said knowing of the times she helped steal supplies of dust for the White Fang to help the faunus in her past.

"It's wrong!" Ruby pressed.

"I don't like it either, Ruby, but Blake has a point." Weiss began seeing Ruby look at her with a betrayed look. "It's a zombie outbreak going on, Ruby, and the police are dead except for Leon, and Marvin for now. But at this rate I don't think they can afford to skip a chance to check a desk for any useful items."

"Those morals you all hold dear can be both your best friend or your worst enemy as a species. Depending on the situation you're dealing with." The God of Darkness chimes in earning frowns from most of the audience who don't dare turn to face him. Not wanting to risk earning his ire or admit he's right.

"You don't appreciate the value of private property." Deadpanned the blond huntsman.

"If there's anything that can help us, I will take it. The note says the locks can only be opened with the initials of the officer's first names." The brunette answers resolutely.

"Well, there's Marvin, Elliot...hmm...who else?" Jaune wonders, seeing he was not going to win Claire over to not check.

Ruby groaned in disappointment that Jaune gave up so easily. Summer patted her daughter on the back, understanding how disappointed she felt. Qrow rolled his eyes, glad Claire was willing to do it. Secretly he knew he would have done the same.

Claire gazed around the desks before smiling. "I got this."

The blond huntsman didn't know if it was true, as he watched her go around the desks. Nodding at each one as her smile grew more he began to understand her plan before she made it back to the first lock. With ease he saw her open the lock within seconds.

"You saw the names on their desks?" The blond stated more than asks, earning a nod and a smile from the brunette.

"I saw their name plates on their desks, but yes, I did." Claire responds as she swiftly undone the second lock with ease. The desk opened and inside there was a speed loader (SLS 60). A part needed for the model of the Redfield's gun. She quickly put it in and hoped it will make reloading easier.

"Oh..." Well that made sense, it was also a nice thing for a password. No one that isn't one of the police officers would have thought of it.

'It also shows Marvin is a good man. He wanted Leon to memorize the names of his fellow officers. Those that would have become his friends. And there's nothing any of us can do to save him from turning into a zombie. I doubt my semblance will work either.' Jaune thinks with sorrow for the cop who was truly an ideal cop to be respected.

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After the easy task was done, the duo went to the door that was locked. Another one that has the spade lock, so they used the spade key. They were back at the Main Hall where Marvin was resting. Jaune felt bad for the officer, with that wound it will be hard to get a good night's rest. Maybe he was so tired the wound didn't bother him for now. He wanted to try and use his semblance, see if he can amplify his aura to speed up the healing, but there was two problems with this theory. One, he doubted the cop had aura. Two, he didn't want to freak out Claire. She was already freaked out enough to learn he doesn't have any idea that the country of the United States of America exists, let alone that he was in said country with her and didn't realize it, or what the word French meant.

Did his name sound French? He didn't know honestly.

"You would be surprised how many died for ignorance..." The God of Darkness spoke up to his audience and partly referring to Jaune, knowing the young man had a lot to learn of the world he is stuck on. The audience couldn't find any reason to doubt that, especially as all the adults in the room nodded in agreement silently.

Their next destination was the men showers on the second floor, since they have the valve handle. So they went back through the door they came, went down the hall, relieved to see the boards was still holding up as another zombie was behind the boarded up window now. Turns out he was right on his idea to board up the windows. They made their way up stairs and into the shower room, thankfully without any trouble.

Entering the showers the pipe was still leaking hot steam. Jaune put the valve handle in place and turns it, the steam dying down shortly after a few good turns.

"Now they get to check what's on the second floor of the West Wing that was blocked off to them for so long now." Oscar said, feeling worried what may be lying in wait for them.

When the steam cleared Jaune and Claire were puzzled by what they saw. It wasn't as bloody as some of the places before, but... it looked like as if someone really tall and strong broke through multiple walls without stopping. Walking to the end Jaune saw a dead body on a bench fall over and swiftly stabbed it in the head. Not taking any chances of it getting up to lunge for them or reach to bite their ankles.

Opening the door, the duo were greeted with a dark hallway and the sound of rain coming from the outside coming in. Noticing a few broken windows in the dark hallway before them. They took a few steps in, Claire picking up some flame round ammo she found on a couch, much to Jaune's confusion. Before seeing the dead bodies on the ground near the couch, Jaune and Claire both sharing a silent nod as they locked eyes.

They were not alone in this hallway.

Everyone felt tense as dread raced up and down their spines.

"I hope there isn't too many zombies in the hallway." Saphron said with fear in her voice, as her mother held her daughter to comfort her.

"I hope the same dear..." Madonna says comfortingly to her daughter.

That's when the heard the inhuman screeching noise.

"That's not a zombie... Not even dog zombies sound like that." Blake said in terror, a bad feeling in her gut they might have found something worse.

"I think they finally ran into a Licker..." Qrow said with a grim tone, worried how Jaune and Claire would deal with this.

Blue eyes widen in shock and terror at what they were seeing before them. There was some sort of creature on the ceiling and it used it's tongue to decapitate the head of a dead body. Before the tongue wrapped around the body and yanked it up, the sounds of flesh being eaten met their ears as they silently cringed.

They wasn't the only ones as everyone watched in muted horror.

"It...It cut that guy's head of...with it's tongue." Yang finally broke the silence as she nervously rubbed her neck, assuring herself she is fine.

"I can see why Marvin is afraid of this creature...and to think...there is more of them out there." Weiss said, fearing the idea of facing one in a dark hallway like Claire and Jaune are. Sure, she is strong enough to defeat it head on, but if that thing had the element of surprise on it's side. That thing would be a nightmare for anyone without aura.

It's appearance was as if someone skinned it alive, revealing the brain, muscles, and the long thick razor sharp claws meant for tearing into it's victims. Both stood still for a moment, their luck truly does suck sometimes. No doubt in their mind this thing was a Licker.

"Oh my gods...who or what would create such a thing..." Summer asks in disgust and horror at the sight.

"I did warn you that Jaune would be facing the darkest side of humanity and one of humanity's worst creations. That creature is but one of the things their creations had created." The God of Darkness reminded them, making them turn to face the God of Darkness.

"What did they create? Can't you tell us?" Ozpin asks, knowing it was what was on their minds right now.

"Because you will all learn it in time, no reason to spoil a good story, right? Now watch and learn the truth yourself or live in ignorance. Your choice." The God of Darkness stated with absolute finality, seeing everyone turn to face the viewing portal.

"I think I speak for us all when I say we've given you our answer already. Forgive us, but we wanted to see if we could get you to tell us before, but we'll sit through your memories and learn for ourselves if you won't tell us." Ozpin stated and for once everyone gave a nod in determined agreement. Making the God of Darkness nod in acceptance.

"So be it." He spoke simply as he let the memories continue to play out before their eyes again.

Remembering the note and Marvin's words, they did as instructed. Very cautiously they moved slow without making any sound. If it was as strong and fast as Marvin said. Maybe it was in some way close or equal to the level of certain Grimm he fought before. Either way, he wasn't risking it. The wisest course of action is to take it out from a distance. He had no intention on using the handgun the officer gave him. And besides, they already had a strong weapon on them. The blond huntsman saw Claire slowly taking out the grenade launcher. She already loaded the weapon with a flame round when she got her hands on the weapon. So, he will stay still and let her take a shot at the creature. Hopefully one blast will be enough to take it out.

"Come on, Claire, you can do it. Blow that thing away." Nora whispered eagerly, bouncing her knees slightly in anticipation as her hands clenched her arm rests.

The Licker was moving slightly, it hasn't heard anything yet from the look of it. The creature was unaware of the presence of the two, so far. Jaune nodded to his companion, showing his support in her to aim right at it and fire away when she was ready. As long as it hasn't detected them, they will be alright.

After a tense three seconds, Claire finally fires the flame round. Hitting the Licker and setting it on fire all across it's body as it screeches in agony, falling to the floor. Writing on the ground, hoping that was the end of it, only to see it wasn't as it picked itself up on all four limbs. Screeching at them now that it was aware of their presence.

"The first one didn't kill it?!" Yang and Nora shouted in horror and shock.

"Don't give it time to counter, attack again!" Qrow shouted, getting caught up in the moment.

'Humans and Faunus never cease to amuse me with how they get caught up in the moments.' The God of Darkness thinks to himself silently, enjoying the reactions.

"Claire, reload and fire again, now!" Jaune said readying his shield and holding his sword close. A mistake as it quickly turned it's head toward Jaune now and screeches with fury, before jumping toward the blond at tremendous speed. Tackling and pinning the blond to the ground under it as he used his shield to hold off it's claws.

"No Jaune!" Ruby cried out in fear.

"Get it off and get some distance!" Madonna shouted in fear for her only son among her children.

"Save him, Claire!" Nora shouted.

"How?! She has a grenade launcher! She doesn't know he has aura to protect him from a blast!" Weiss shouts at Nora.

"She also has her five shot pistol." Ren supplied helpfully.

"Exactly!" Nora said supporting Ren's point.

"Get off him!" Claire shouted before firing her pistol five times into the creature rapidly. Three hitting the back and two hitting it's head as it crawled off Jaune to face the new threat behind it. Only to screech in pain as Jaune's sword thrust for the side of it's brain before it could fully turn around to face her. The Licker shuddered for a moment with a quiet growl before dropping limp to the ground as it died.

"Thanks...Claire...that was close." Jaune said breathing deeply in relief and trying to slow his heart rate. Claire walked up and kneeled down next to him in concern.

"You going to be okay, Jaune?" Claire asks in concern for her friend, discreetly looking for injuries and feeling some minor relief to see none on him.

"Yeah, thanks to you." Jaune said, with a small smile. Claire smiled back, relief filling her completely now to know she saved him after all. "As well as my trusty shield, I've lost count on how many times this saved my life."

Ruby felt confused on why despite being relieved Jaune was fine and thankful to Claire for saving him, that she wanted to make Claire stay away from Jaune now. Why was feelings so complicated? At least weapons were FAR simpler to understand.

"Well, at least now we know Marvin definitely wasn't kidding when he said this thing is fast. We'll have to be more careful from now on." The brunette said glancing at the dead creature on the ground while Jaune flicked the blood off his blade.

"Agreed, I just hope that these Lickers is the worst of what we'll run into. Can't believe it withstood a single head on round from your grenade launcher." The blond huntsman frowned as he looked at the burns on this creature.

"We can worry about it, later, for now let's check this office here. I don't want to risk running out of bullets again if we can help it. Plus we need to find a battery." The Redfield told him as she offered him a hand to pull him up. An offer he took as he pushed himself up with her helping him, before she went to the nearest door to see they walked into an office with multiple desks in front of them, as well as a private office to their left.

The desk on their left in a private office had a banner that said S.T.A.R.S. Raccoon City Police Dep. Maybe it was a special unit or something like that. Claire immediately went to the desk and grabbed a battery sitting on top of it.

"This is it," The brunette said smiling as she turns to face the blond. "With this we finally have a working detonator!"

"So all we need to do is take it to the third floor, where the steel pen is and blow open an entrance." Jaune said with a relieved smile things were going their way now.

"Yeah, but...let's check this place a bit more first before we go. I don't want to risk running out of ammo here or miss something we may need." Claire said looking around the room to see more desks outside the private office they was in.

The Arc gave a nod as he stood deep in thought. What was he going to do? He just found out he was indeed, in another world. How or why did this happen? More importantly, was there a way back to Remnant? Will he be able to get back to his world? Back to his friends? He didn't have the answers to those questions. The only thing he can do is help Claire. It was now his new mission.

TO BE CONTINUED

"Questions we all wonder on ourselves, Jaune..." Madonna said sorrowfully as Saphron held her mother's hand to comfort her.

"God of Darkness, if I may ask something?" Blake asks, earning the God of Darkness's attention to her.

"Yes, little Belladonna?" The God of Darkness asks, curious what was on the feline's mind.

"You mentioned you did all of this for us because your brother kept it secret he did this with Jaune from you. Yet earlier you told us sometimes secrets have to be kept. Not that I'm ungrateful, but I want to understand...have you considered he had his reasons?

"I considered that the previous times, both for bringing back humanity and for Ozma's reincarnations. But one can only be kept in the dark so many times, especially when it's your brother doing things behind your back no less, before you can't tolerate the secrets anymore!" The God of Darkness told her with restrained anger in his voice that made his guests shiver in fear.

"But enough of that, you surely understand how I feel given how YOU all," he points at Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Nora, Ren, and Qrow. "Know exactly how frustrating it is to learn something that was kept from you was a very serious matter. For you it was Ozma's past, for me it's striking a deal with another fucking deity from another world without telling me anything! Even worse is that the deity in question hates my guts purely for what I am. A God of Darkness, looking down on me like I'm all the bad in the universe. The holier than thou prick..." The God of Darkness ranted and raged as everyone tried to avoid angering him further.

"Way to go, Blake, you had to get him started again?" Weiss asks in fear.

"Sorry, I had to know!" Blake whispers back, hoping not to be noticed.

"Well now you know! Mentioning what his brother did or this deity is taboo!" Weiss whispered back as everyone gave fearful nods as they watched the God of Darkness breathe deeply as if to calm himself. His aura receding back into himself.

"I'm cool, I'm cool. Sorry you had to see that, now, how about I let you all have a thirty minute break before we start again? Maybe you can read that history book of their world, while I check up on Jaune. I refuse to be left in the dark on this deal or what exactly my brother's intentions are for making it in the first place..." The God of Darkness said as he vanished into wisps of shadows.

"Wait! Take us...to my son..." Madonna said desperately chasing toward him, only to find the shadows she tried to grab slipping through her fingers. Falling to her knees and hit the ground in fury and sorrow.

"Dammit...I want to see my boy, I need to know he's okay..." Madonna said as Saphron held her mother as the woman cried on her shoulder.

"I know, mom, I know..." Saphron said feeling much the same way as her mother does.

"We can try, but from the way he spoke I'm not sure if he'd take us to him." Summer told them as they looked up at her, seeing her apologetic frown and remorse in her eyes. "The way he spoke of bringing anyone from this world to here or taking Jaune out there wasn't even an idea he was willing to entertain. The other deity is that powerful and the God of Darkness doesn't want to risk the god's fury being directed at him. We may need to wait and see if Jaune can find a way back to us."

"Still, I have to try. He's my son, Summer, I can't give up on him." Madonna said earning a sympathetic smile from the huntress.

"I know and we'll be here for you when you ask, but remember not to anger this being. We don't want you to die on us." Summer said making the woman smile in gratitude along with Saphron.

"Thank you, truly." Saphron said, glad she and her mother have their support.

"It's nothing, now, how about we listen in on Blake's little study of that book? I'm rather curious what's in it." Summer said as she guided them to the seats around Blake as she opened the book.

"Let's see what the God of Darkness wanted us to see in here about this...U.S.A." Blake told them, willing to read to them to pass the time and learn more of the country Jaune is at.

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TO BE CONTINUED

AN From Warrior: HOLY SHIT this one is really long compared to the others, but as you might have noticed there is alterations here too. As well as add ins that I felt needed to be put in, I'm sorry for the long wait, but I finally got chapter three done! I know some of you may be ticked at me, but I'm not some machine. I have times when I am in the mood to write and times I'm not in the mood to write or too busy because of work or events in my life that is a higher priority.

Regardless, I finished it before THIS month was up and I feel really freaking proud of that. So please, don't give Gravenimage or myself any trouble about this. The story may not show up every week, but dammit it's NOT dead. I'm just dealing with work, managing ideas that pop up, trying to get in the mood to write, and personal stuff I don't feel like talking about.

Now some of you may be curious what happens when he left both times in this chapter and trust me when I say, you will be pleased to learn of the events later in either next chapter or some time in the future. For now I ask you all to please Review and NO FLAMES! Gravenimage is doing me a HUGE solid by putting this up in my place to avoid any possible legal trouble. Have a good day/afternoon/evening/night everyone!

AN from me- it's finally here hope you folks enjoy the new chapter and please try not to ask when will the next chapter be release. As I said before it will depend of warrior of six blades when he has free time on his hands.

Replying to reviews:

*dandyrrr043- don't worry this story hasn't been forgotten. Rest assure warrior of six blades will do his best to continue it.

*Jack Lycan- I'm pretty sure all the fans of this story feels the same way.

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*Batman1998- I don't know what you're talking about but I will take it as a positive comment.

*Abyss Watchers Favorite Cook- honestly I don't know. I still haven't ask warrior what will he do when he gets to the lemon chapter. But we're still far away from that.

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*ENDDRAGON369- well I don't mind and I'm sure warrior feels the same way. However, please don't try to upload the story as it belongs to you. You know, copy paste. Remember that's against site rules.

*Guest- I'm doing this for warrior of six blades he didn't deserve to deal with the copy right crap. I love this story and I will continue to support him. And I hope you continue to support him too.

*Spartan Warlord- I don't know though it's a good idea I'm already full with updating other crossovers sorry.

*thereichfulgeman- it's alive and still kicking but I can't guarantee on quick updates.

*Guest- don't know I will have to ask warrior of six blades. Though I don't mind if he wants to show canon events of Sherry's short playthrough in the orphanage I'm sure Ruby and co won't mind seeing it. It's my opinion but warrior is the one who has the last word.

*Chibi-Juubi- don't know about Taiyang being included warrior has already decided who will be in the story.

*Guest- like I said it will depend on warrior if he wants to add Sherry's time on the orphanage and he reading the diary and the notes while Ruby and everyone watches. I don't have a problem with any choice he makes.

*X3runner- agreed I think deep inside Ruby has a thing for Jaune but she's still young. I really hope RT makes another time skip when she's a little older and she has had time to think about her feelings for the blond. But I hope they don't ruin the Lancaster ship by making Rose Garden canon or force like they did with Bumblebee because that's what CRWBY and the fandom wants.

*snow in the darkness- as I said warrior has already decided who will be in his story.

*Guest- I think Nora will like the idea. And yeah I can see the seeing those kind of rounds to have dust like in their world.

*Guest- I don't know I don't think Jaune's whole family will be involve in the story.

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