Originally this story wasn't supposed to be this long. When I first started I was more or less going for maybe ten chapters with a lot of time skips since it's my first story.
The equipment jaune had received from junior also came with new clothes that matched juniors gangs colors of black and red. Now suited up for the big day ahead, jaune strapped the pistol to his holster and placed the regular combat knife to his thigh before heading to juniors. The bouncer saw jaune approaching and directed him to the side entrance. Once inside, two of juniors men led him to the bosses office in the back of the night club where neo was waiting with junior and the malachite twins.
"Glad you could make it jaune" jaune gave a two fingered salute to junior "I thought Roman was supposed to be here"? Junior shook his head "Romans busy but that's why she's here" neo waved to jaune "Roman put her in charge of the initiation which means as of right now she's your boss". Some part of jaune was worried about taking orders from a girl who looked like she should still be in preschool but then again he was twelve and had already killed several people so maybe she was the same.
Neo hopped of the desk, waved good bye to junior and snapped her fingers at jaune letting him know to follow her as she left out the door. As they walked out the club jaune spoke first "so, what am I going to be doing" neo spun around and walked backwards. The little girl opened her mouth and pointed a finger at her throat, it took jaune a moment before he realized that neo was a mute and couldn't talk. "I'm so sorry, I didn't know I swear" neo just shrugged and waved it off like it was no big deal.
As they continued passed a few blocks neo made a few hand gestures to jaune which he really didn't understand. Neo let out a sigh and tried again but this time slower in the hopes he would understand but when he just stared at her like she was crazy she stomped one foot and puffed out her cheeks in anger. Jaune stuck up his hands in a mock surrender "I'm sorry I just don't get it" neo thought about it before pointing at him, then she pretended to be a old person before switching to a baby.
"Oh your wondering how old I am" neo gave him a thumbs up "I'm twelve, what about you" neo waved her finger at him like she was scolding him "yeah I forgot it's impolite to ask a lady that". Neo place a hand to her cheek and waved the other like she was given a complement that made her embarrassed. Arriving at their destination, jaune saw five other people, three women and two men waiting for them in a nearby alleyway.
Neo pulled out her scroll and clicked on the first contact in her list. The six including jaune looked at the small scroll neo held out until a face they all knew appeared. Roman took a few puffs from his cigar and let out a content sigh before turning to his audience "welcome to your initiation and let me tell you it's gonna be a spectacular event for you all". "The gist of the situation is this, I have a loyal friend who has a problem and I've decided that you all are the answer to this problem". A few puffs later "some upstarts have appeared and pushed out juniors men from a local warehouse and that's not good for business if people think they can walk in a take what they want".
Roman looked at a pocket watch "it's nine o'clock now, you got till eleven to clean the place out, oh I should tell you the new boss there was a beacon dropout so the person who brings him down has an automatic in to my crew". One of the women stepped forward quickly "some of us don't have aura, are you expecting us to fight them and win"? Roman chuckle lightly "I'm only accepting two so if you can't beat the boss then all you gotta do is impress neo and if you can't, well better luck next time". "Now if all parties are ready, neo be a dear and point them in the right direction" Romans face vanished as the scroll shut off.
Neo led the six out of the alleyway and down the street until they came to what appeared to be an abandoned warehouse. Jaune noticed as they made there way to the entrance that there were guards on the roof and in front of the doors but nobody seemed to notice their approach. Neo tapped his shoulder which caused him to turn to her, a quick wave and she vanished and that's when hell broke loose.
The Guard's that couldn't see them before did a double take in there directions before drawing their weapons. "Get down" jaune yelled but unfortunately some of there group didn't have time to move before they were shot down. Since they were out in the open, there was little else they could do except to charge the front entrance. Only two besides jaune had auras which meant the other three died before they even had a chance to defend themselves.
Jaune used his semblance to reinforce the other two with him as they bum rushed the Guard's at the entrance. The guards fell quickly but now that the alarm was rung, the three found themselves completely surrounded. "Doesn't Roman think this is a little too much for an initiation" the last girl in there group asked. Seeing people come out from the building meant there was a lot more then they were led to believe "guys I need your names so we can work together easier" jaune yelled. The guy and girl quickly replied "Rachel", "Dexter" jaune nodded in there directions "names jaune, stick close and I can boost your auras so you don't die" the two got ready to fight as did jaune.
The melee fighters soon learned why they shouldn't have charged in without thinking especially when they didn't have auras. Dexter blocked a straight before grabbing the random man and pulling him in to drive his knee into the guys crotch, once down Dexter drew a red machete and went to town chopping the guys head off executioner style before turning on the next victim. Rachel kept her back to Dexter so she could focus on shooting the people in front of her with double hand pistols, her shots landed on one of two targets and that was either the head or the heart. While they stood back to back, Jaune cut down the ones that got too close to Rachel when she had to reload.
A few minutes of hard combat, left the grounds of the warehouse littered with dead bodies and blood stains. Jaune pulled a handkerchief out of his pocket and began to rub the blood off his face when he heard a pained "GUHH". Turning to the source of the noise, jaune watched Dexter fly over him with blood spraying from his chest. Rachel ran passed Jaune to Dexter "no no" she cried as she tried to stop the bleeding "it's ok bae, your gonna be ok" the blood wasn't stopping and at the rate he was losing blood he wouldn't live for very long. Jaune turned to the woman who caused Dexters injury.
The woman had a double sided axe with a dust crystal in the center, the fact she took out Dexter so quickly meant one thing, this was the boss. Jaune backed up until he was next to Dexter but never turned away from his enemy. Using his semblance on Dexter caused the wound on his chest to close rapidly, Rachel stared at the closing wound until it was completely healed. Dexter sat up quickly and began to feel his chest "what the hell I thought I was dead" before he could think Rachel hugged him tightly and cried.
Jaune knew he'd have to ask how long they've been together but first they had to deal with this girl first "I don't mean to interrupt your moment but we're not done here yet". Rachel and Dexter got to there feet ready to fight. The axe lady charged at Jaune ready to cut him down when Dexter charged in and used his machete to redirect her attack to the right leaving her left side open. Jaune moved in quickly taking his combat knife and driving it into the axe ladies side before she could react.
The axe lady jumped back but before she could recuperate a bullet found it's way into her eye courtacy of Rachel's sharpshooting. As the axe lady reeled in pain the two males of the group rushed forward with Jaune aiming high while Dexter went low. Dexter slashed her kneecaps and jaune slashed her face causing the axe lady to fall to over in pain. The axe lady mecashifted her axe into a partisan and with it's new found reach she tried to push them back in one swipe but jaune dodged the attack and got in close.
The ladies weapon was good but it's biggest weakness was that it did poorly against someone who got in close. Jaunes attack mercilessly, cutting into every part of the axe lady that he could, as quickly as he could muster. The lady tried to put some distance between herself and jaune but as soon as she moved jaune followed up closely. Jaune kept her so occupied that she didn't notice when Dexter had circled around her. Rushing forward, Dexter shoved the machete through the axe ladies back, instead of backing away from the blood splattering towards him jaune rushed forward and shoved his combat knife through the axe ladies head delivering the final blow.
Watching the axe ladies body crumple to the floor had Jaune sighing in relief and Dexter falling on his ass from exhaustion. Rachel ran to Dexters side to make sure he was alright, now that the fighting was done Jaune had time to ask "so how long have you two been together"? Dexter looked to Rachel before answering "going on three years now and planning to get married soon". Jaune nodded to the man "so why take such a dangerous job and potentially ruin your plans"? Rachel answered quickly "working for Roman guarantees us more lien and if we really are going to start a family together there's no better opportunity than this one since we don't have the educational degrees to do anything else".
Money for a better life, it sounded exactly like what he was doing himself but he had to ask "why don't you have a better education"? Dexter let out a sigh cause clearly he didn't want to answer but did so anyways "we used to live in a frontier village outside the walls but ever since the bandits and the Grimm, all records of what we accomplished were lost". "Trying to get certified for anything in the city is next to impossible unless you've got the lien for it or any documents proving you could do the job".
Jaune could understand the decision but it was unfortunate that there was three people and only two job openings. As if by magic neo and Roman appeared before them out of thin air "I'm glad a kept the cops busy or this would be all over the evening news by tomorrow" Roman said happily. "Congratulations on passing the test Jaune and Rachel you've both been accepted for the big league" Roman turned to Dexter "better luck next time" before Roman could continued jaune cut in. "Thanks for the offer Roman but I think I'll look for a job a little less...bloody" Roman took a moment to allow the rejection to sink in.
Roman turned to jaune "I'd think carefully now if I was you, the world isn't filled with so much opportunity that you could find something as good as what I'm offering". Jaune smiled "I'm good but I appreciate the offer" Roman shrugged his shoulder before turning back to Dexter "looks like your in after all". Dexter and Rachel got to there feet and walked over to Roman "neo it's time to go" Roman looked back to jaune "see ya kid" with that the four of them vanished leaving jaune at the warehouse alone.
The end of a new chapter.