A quick thanks to everyone who's read my story.
Seven years passed before jaune knew it and was quickly coming to his master's graduation test. "Son of a bitch" vernal yelled before she crashed face first into cinder. Alec had been overseeing there training again and was starting to feel slightly disappointed in vernal and cinders performance. Jaune had out lasted both his opponents again but this time he didn't move from the center of the ring.
Alec had trained jaune for most of his life but the rate at which his skills had improved was unbelievable. The skill with his semblance allowed jaune to train longer than anyone which gave him an overwhelming advantage over the other two who were currently on the ground. "Come on guys I thought we were supposed to be training" jaune yelled to the other two.
Cinder was the first to her feet "Vernal stay out of my way". Cinder ran at jaune ready to bring him down only for alec to step in front of her and halted her assault. "Alright that's enough for today, clearly any sort of team work is lost when your faced with a superior opponent" cinder turned away in anger. Vernal finally got off the ground and dusted herself off "we keep losing because you spend more time training jaune than any of us".
For once cinder agreed with vernal "if we are going to be risking are lives on these missions that Salem has planned for us we need to be at a higher level than this" said cinder. Alec nodded at her words before sighing loudly "I didn't want to do this until I was sure you could handle it but I suppose now is as good a time as any". Jaune, cinder, and vernal gathered around there master "I've been thinking about it for a while now but it's as you said cinder I have trained jaune more but not for the reason you think".
Alec turned to jaune "I've decided to grant you your graduation mission". Cinder and vernal were enraged beyond belief but alec continued "despite what you two think, jaune has more or less completed his training under me". Jaune was shocked at this revelation "master are you sure, I'm only twelve years old surly there is more you can teach me"? Alec shook his head "in truth there are already some aspects in which you exceed me at, the only reason you've never defeated me is because you lack the experience".
Alec placed his hand on jaunes shoulder "once you complete your mission you'll be ready to serve Salem, then you and I won't be master and student but equals". Jaune couldn't help but stand a little taller at his master's words "what's my mission master"? Alec's expression turned serious "your mission will be to eliminate a white fang base we located on the outskirts of atlas".
Jaune couldn't help but feel nervous at the idea that he was graduating. "You must be happy that even though your the youngest out of all of us, your the strongest" said vernal. Jaune wrapped his arm around vernals shoulder "Come on vernal, don't tell me your gonna be lonely when I'm not around to kick you butt" vernal scoffed at the idea before pushing him away.
Cinder didn't like the idea that jaune was graduating when she was the oldest out of all of them but even she had to admit that jaune was stronger than her. "Jaune" jaune turned to cinder "don't get ahead of yourself, it won't be long before I catch up" jaune nodded. Making it back to the castle, the four separated to get washed up before meeting in the dining hall for dinner.
Now cleaned and fully dressed jaune made a stop by his mother's room but made sure to knock first before entering. Salem watched jaune entering "it's been awhile since you've dropped by my room, is something wrong"? Jaune hugged Salem "no just a little nervous mom, apparently master has decided I'm ready to graduate and is sending me to atlas" Salem was surprised at this news. "Tell me the truth, do you feel ready for this" Salem asked? The determination in his eyes said it all "I trust master's intuition but more than that I've never felt more ready".
Dinner that night went by quicker than jaune would have liked but now he had packing to do. A knock on the door had jaune dropping his gear on the bed before answering the door. Opening his door revealed vernal with a bag and her gear at her side "what's going on vernal"? Vernal reached up and grabbed jaunes collar "I'm coming with you obviously and that's not up for negotiations" vernal pushed jaune back to make way into his room. Before jaune could close his door another figure pushed passed him "I guess I'm not the only one who thinks you going alone is stupid" said cinder.
"Look guys I'm grateful you want to help but this is something I need to do in order to prove I'm ready for the missions Salem has for me" said jaune. "Say what you want but I owe you my life and if you get killed, well how else am I suppose to get my freedom" jaune rolled his eyes "Vernal, you may as well be free since you never listen to any of my orders anyway". Vernal shrugged her shoulders "of course I'm not gonna follow orders otherwise I'd have a stick up my ass like cinder". Cinder ignored vernals comment "Look your gonna be in mantle for a few days, at least if you've got us with you we can watch your back until you finish your mission and we'll ask master just to make sure it's ok"
After asking master alec and getting the ok for cinder and vernal to join him, the bullhead was off with cinder as the pilot. Jaune had to ask "Cinder when did you learn to fly a bullhead"? Cinder clicked the auto pilot on before joining jaune and vernal in the back "while you've spent most of your time training to kill things, I've been learning to pilot air crafts and hack computers". Vernal and jaune were surprised "your not the only one learning new things cinder, I've been learning to pick locks, concoct various poisons as well as make explosives" vernal proudly stated.
Jaune shook his head "at this rate you guys are probably gonna be given your own graduation mission and then we'll be doing this all over again". After several hours of flying, cinder brought the bullhead low for landing. Slipping into his winter clothes jaune was the first outside "I don't see why anyone wants to live here, it's freaken cold" cinder came out with a small flame burning in her hand and vernal was shaking as she came down the ramp.
Jaune took command of the situation "we should cover the bullhead so it's not discovered and then we'll head to mantle" cinder raised a hand "how are we supposed to get in"? Jaune held up his scroll for the others to see "I've had watts make three ID registration for each of us before we left so I'll send them to your scrolls now, that should be enough to get us bye in the city". "Master has arranged for a room for us in a nearby motel so we'll head there first to put are things away" jaune sent the ID's to cinder and vernal before moving to cover the bullhead.
Once they had finished and entered mantle, jaune felt his nerves acting up. Making there way to the motel jaune couldn't help but look forward to his mission. "Welcome to mantle" jaune whispered as they arrived at the motel and his first mission.
Another one bites the dust. now we are in a new location for jaunes first mission. What can we expect? Who will we meet? Pfft I don't know, I don't plan these things