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Junior finished cleaning a few glasses when a customer sat on the stool in front of him "what can I get" junior froze when he looked at the older man. "I take it you know why I'm here" the older man said, junior nodded "good, now tell me how my young pupil has been". Junior leaned against the bar "jaunes doing well for himself, plans to be a huntsmen but for what reason is still a mystery to me" the older man smiled at the news.
"Good to know" the older man placed a few lien on the table before getting up to leave when junior stopped him "hey you've been coming around a bit, the least you could do is give me your name". The older man regarded junior for a moment "it's better I don't tell you, that way jaune won't know I've been here" the old man turned and left the bar.
Outside the wall in the emerald forest two figures waited patiently for there third member to return. When the older man returned the two figures approached him "master is jaune doing as you instructed"? The older man shook his head "it appears I didn't even have to contact him since he's already trying to be a huntsmen". The old man patted one of the figures on the shoulder "cinder when the time comes jaune will return to us" cinder nodded "I guess you don't need to worry so much vernal".
Vernal gave cinder the finger before turning to their master "how long before we're able to take down Beacon"? Alec shook his head "not for a while but in the meantime we'll leave jaune to his studies while we handle are other objectives". Vernal and cinder looked kinda worried but Alec assured them that everything would be alright. "What are we going to tell salem? You know how she's been as of late" vernal shuddered at cinders words "I'll talk to her" Alec said as he boarded there bullhead.
The ride back to the castle was as quiet as a funeral and to Alec it felt quite fitting since he would have to explain to Salem why he didn't bring back jaune as ordered. Once the bullhead landed at the dock, Alec sped off through the castle to Salems room where watts stood outside of with a plate of empty dishes. "How is she" Alec asked as he came to a halt in front of the doors "about as well as you could expect unless you've brought the boy this time". Alec sighed loudly "you know why I didn't the first time" watts nodded "of course, but try explaining that to are mistress and see if you come out alive".
Alec took a deep breath and prepared himself as he knocked on the door "Salem I've returned". A few moments past before the doors opened to reveal a pitch black room filled with dark smoke "I don't see my son with you" the words came like a hiss from a snake. Alec gulped "we've yet to locate him in vale but a few informants have told us that he's enrolled at a school there" red eye's peered through the darkness. The sound of footsteps were heard before Salem walked out of the darkness, her body once pure white now had several black marks that seemed to grow with her anger.
"If your so sure that he's there then why did you come back without him" Salem asked as she placed a hand on Alec's chest. Fear flooded his body as black tentacles sprouted from the veins on Salems arms. "Are movements are limited because of where he is, if we moved recklessly it would only draw Ozpins gaze to jaune which would place him in even greater danger" Alec explained quickly. The tentacles receded as Salem thought on Alec's words "you could have at least had him contact us". Alec shook his head "right now there's no proof that he has anything to do with us but if he starts acting suspiciously it will only draw attention".
Salem stared at the ground for a long moment "I see" Alec took a stepped back "madam I swear you will see him again" Salem didn't respond instead she returned to her room and closed the door. Alec knew how special jaune was to his mistress after all she did refer to him as her son ever since his disappearance nearly a year ago. Alec headed to the dinning hall where cinder and vernal were waiting for his arrival "how'd it go" vernal asked as Alec walked through the door. "I'd say horribly but since I'm alive I'm gonna go with better than expected" cinder crossed her arms and glared at her master "we should have just brought him back with us".
Alec gave cinder a stern look "I know your worried about him but for are plan to succeed we need him to get into Beacon". "What if he decides not to go there" cinder asked "don't worry about that I've got a plan in place for that just in case" Alec assured her. "All we need now is to get Salem back to her old self and then are ambitions can be realized" Alec proudly proclaimed. Watts stepped forward "I know Salems priorities have changed as of late but are you certain this is for the best because I'm not sure we would survive the repercussions if this fails.
"It'll be fine as long as Salem never learns of why we are really doing this, not until the time is right" watts nodded at Alec's words. Despite the words their master gave, both cinder and vernal felt uneasy about the idea. "So what do we do now" vernal asked, Alec already knew what was next "we begin recruiting for the task ahead".
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Ozpin took a sip from his mug while waiting for summer to settle down "you can't tell Ironwood that he's here or he'd blow this whole thing out of proportion". Summer began to pace again for a few minutes before turning to Ozpin "do you think we should talk to him, I'm sure Saphron would want to meet her little brother". The fact that summer accidentally bumped into jaune out in the streets while she was on her way here, was an enormous stroke of good luck on there part.
"I think it's best if we don't interfere just yet" summer made to object but Ozpin spoke first "we don't know his true intentions yet which is why I'm worried if we approach him out of nowhere he might run". She didn't like it but the boy had done a lot in Atlas "what should we do then" summer asked. "He has a few years before he moves up to a huntsmen academy, in that time I'd like to monitor his daily life" summer nodded "just make sure you don't go as far as Ironwood".
"Have no fear, I'd rather have the boy act as natural as possible so I can get a better read on him" Ozpin said as he took another sip from his mug. "Come let's talk about less pressing issues, like how saphron enrolled in shade academy instead of Beacon" summer couldn't help but roll her eye's. "It was her choice" Ozpin still didn't like it "she said the harsh desert would be better for her training, I think she gets it from Raven personally" said summer, that was something they could all agree on.
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The day started out promising with no neo in site and meeting a very nice lady with a white cloak. He should have known it wouldn't last, the teacher introduced the new student who enrolled a day late for school "this is neo politan and she'll be joining us starting today". Neo looked around the room until she found jaune, a vicious grin spread across her face as she waved at him. Knowing there would be no escape from this situation, jaune did the only sensible thing to do and that was pretend he didn't see her.
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