Time Skip One Year

"So there I was surrounded by thirty Ursa Major

I'd have been done for had I not been the Master of Lightning

Using my power and my trusty Proelium ultimum, like its namesake,

That was the last fight those Ursa ever saw."

Joules Arc "The Book of Masters"

Jaune, now eleven, was sneaking into the training room to practice. No matter how often he asked, his father refused to train him, but that wouldn't stop him. It had been a year since the discovery of the room. Since then, the books had been moved into a proper place in the library.

The scrolls, however, had been hidden. Jaunes father had deemed them unsafe for anyone to read. He didn't know why. But he didn't care after reading most of the stories. Damn you, dialect and language changes. He was more than ever determined to be a hero like his ancestors. They were heroes performing incredible feats of bravery and heroism, saving people, killing monsters, and being badasses.

He wanted to live up to that. For months, he's been sneaking into his family's armory, grabbing a training sword and coping with the movements and stances of the Arcs in the stories. Training like how they would start small, but now he needed to train hard if he wanted to prove that he could.

Struggling to lift up the weights, "come on, just a bit more." he told himself, lifting it and putting it back down.

"Jaune! What are you doing?!" a voice boomed behind him.

"eep," Jaune turned to see his father standing behind him.

"Jaune, can you explain why you were sneaking into the training room in the middle of the night?" He asked, looking down at his son with an I'm not mad, just disappointed look.

"I-I couldn't sleep, so I was just walking around the house," Jaune responded, unable to look his father in the eye.

"Jaune, your mother and I have already told you that the life of a huntsman is not one we'll let you go down,"

"But why!?" Jaune asked, staring straight into his father's eyes. Not understanding why they wouldn't let him achieve his dreams.

"Because we said so!" the sudden scream. Made Jaune step back.

"Jaune, I'm sorry, but please understand being a huntsman isn't what you think it is. It isn't like the stories in those books you've read, I've been alive and a huntsman long enough to know the real life of a huntsman, so please understand this is for your safety when I say that you will not become a huntsman as long as I have a say in it now go back to sleep." John commanded, and Jaune, his head down and holding back his tears, walked out and returned to his room. 'I should have never let him read those books,' he solemnly thought at seeing his son's reaction.

Time Skip One Week

'Why did my son have to inherit both mine and his mother's stubbornness combined' John thought to himself, looking over his son "discreetly" training even after he was told not to. Despite his father telling him not to continue to go and train, he was doing it more sporadically.

He was now focusing on a concept in "The Origins and Workings of Spinjitzu." the concept of Balance. According to the books, Balance is a great power anybody can acquire. It needs a person to balance both their spiritual and physical aspects. When they are mastered, all is possible to a person. This is the fundamental of Spinjitzu, and this is what he wants to master to become a hero.

The only problem is that the books barely have reliable information on Balance. Most books were only full of stories of people who achieved Balance and used it to perform great acts of heroism and bravery. So he had to know what held him back and overcome it. He assumed it was the fact that he wasn't strong enough to do anything with his eleven-year-old body.

So he focused on the spiritual facet of Balance, but as an eleven-year-old, he didn't understand too much of the book's philosophy. But Jaune realized that if the books and scrolls were the same subjects, then why would the scrolls be considered dangerous unless they had helpful information. He knew that his father had a week-long mission coming up. He would attempt to locate the scrolls, learn what he could, and see if he could sneak a few back to his room.

"Son, I want you to know that I know you've still been training, so I will tell you a true story when I return of why being a huntsman isn't what you think it is," John told Jaune before leaving for his week-long mission.

"Ok, but I want to tell you why I will still become a hero," Jaune responded.

"Fine," and with that, John left for his mission. Jaune sighed. He hasn't been on the best terms with his dad, and the rest of his family knew, but they didn't interfere.

"Hey, honey, aren't you gonna say goodbye with the rest of us," Arturia asked Jaune in a soft voice.

"I already said goodbye," Jaune responded, looking down.

"Ok, if anything is bothering, please let me know," Arturia said as she left, leaving Jaune alone in his room.

The Next Day

Jaune awoke with only a single goal to find and take as many scrolls as he could. His mother had left a note downstairs saying she left with his sisters thinking he needed to be alone for a bit.

'Perfect with no one home, I can do this with no one to stop me,' Jaune thought, approaching his parent's room. Opening the door, the room was very mundane for someone who was a huntress and someone who is still a huntsman. Looking around, not finding anything in the main room, he went to look in the walk-in closet. Not finding anything, he realized the only place his father could have put them was the attic.

The attic was small, cramped, and hot, but it still had a lot of random objects from the generations of Arc who lived in the house. The attic only had one entrance at the back of the closet. Finding the trapdoor, he reached for the string to open it.

Sweating and tired, he looks around and sees them in the corner of the scrolls. Thinking quickly, he grabs the first one he can reach and rushes out of the attic. He hears his mother open the door and runs out of the room.

His mother and sisters greeted him and asked what he'd been up to while they were gone. He tells them he's just been running outside the house.

They believe him "alright, go shower. I'm gonna get dinner ready," his mother tells him, not noticing the scroll he's hiding behind his back.

"Ok," Jaune quickly responds, rushing toward his room to wipe off the sweat. Locking the door behind him, he places the scroll down and starts getting ready for a shower.

"So um, Jaune, we've noticed that you and dad aren't getting along lately. We wanted to say that we want to support you, but we agree with dad." This was the first thing Saphron told him when he got to the dining room.

Jaune was shocked that Saphron was the one he could always count on when he was starting to doubt his dream, and now to hear that she agrees with his dad that he shouldn't become a huntsman broke him. NO! He's gotten this far already. He has the books and one of the scrolls he can't stop now. He will become a hero.