I honestly thought I wouldn't finish this today.
Although their talk ended alright, jaune had vanished from that point on, always making excuses when they were getting together with everyone. Today was no different, only two more days and her little brother would leave back to vale and she'd have to return to shade academy to make up the days she missed. Coco, yang and velvet were talking about their weapons with ruby while neo watched Saphron pace back and forth for the tenth time.
Neo had enough of this, she was bored and jaune just kept leaving her with these people. She turned to walk away when Coco called out to her "hey, when you find him keep it PG 13 okay" neo stormed away but there was no hiding the blush that colored her cheeks. Coco and yang broke into laughter not noticing Saphron's shocked expression "are jaune and that girl really that close"?
Once the laughter finally died down and they got better control of themselves, Coco answered "honestly we're not sure, jaune acts like it's natural but neo's always hanging off him. As long as we've known those two and heard from their teacher, they're nearly inseparable". Saphron couldn't help but be surprised at this little revelation, yang couldn't help but grin "is it true their also sleeping together"?
Coco saw what yang was doing and followed along "yeah, neo was pretty eager about it" yang turned to Saphron "guess it won't be long before your calling her sister". Ruby and Coco exchanged confused looks "why would she call her sister" ruby asked and it took yang a minute to realize that they didn't know. Yangs hand collided with her forehead "oh that's right, I forgot to tell you that jaune and Saphron are actually siblings, pretty crazy huh"?
There were loud gasps, followed by a red blur that crashed into Saphron "oh my God I can't believe it, why didn't you tell us jaune was your brother? Wait what's that mean for us, does that mean he's like family now now or" Saphron pulled ruby's hood over her head to stop her rambling. "Don't worry so much about it ruby, despite the fact he's my brother, it's not like anything is really changing" Saphron assured her.
A little ways inside the forest on top of a large boulder sat jaune, being left alone with his thoughts had become the norm nowadays. The reason he wanted this alone time was because of what clicked in his mind the moment he left yang and Saphron. Looking at it reasonably, he, by all rights should be dead but he wasn't and that's only because of Salem.
He'd like to believe it was some incredible luck that brought them together but there was no reason she should have been there in the first place. The fact the Grimm arrived at Ansel in such numbers was unlikely to happen unless someone deliberately guided them and only Salem could do that. Despite how he wanted to dismiss the idea that Salem killed his family, it plagued his mind to no end and his doubts only grew stronger with each passing day.
His thoughts were soon interrupted by two hands that pushed down on his shoulders. Leaning his head back had blue eyes meeting a multicolored pair of pink and brown "what's up"? Neo's head tilted slightly as she considered her answer, a quick smirk before she front flipped over him. Jaune didn't quite get it but neo stuck the landing and held out both her arm's before doing a trust fall back on him.
As she predicted, jaune reached out and caught her "woah, you ok"? Neo ignored the question as she made herself comfortable on his lap, a few seconds later and she leaned back into him. It took him a few seconds to realise what was happening and when he finally understood he just let out a sigh before leaning forward. "It's things like this that give Coco a reason to tease you you know" neo leaned her head back to get a better look at him.
She pointed at him before pointing to herself and tilting her head once more "it doesn't really bother me much since I've had to deal with you for so long". Neo's cheeks puffed slightly as she started to jab her finger into the underside of jaunes chin "ok ok already, I didn't mean it like that". Reaching over he grabbed her right hand before her left shot up to take it's place but jaune stopped her with his left and pulled her hands down.
Neo stopped struggling after a few moments which gave jaune a chance to talk "I just meant that I've known you longer so this is normal, that's all". Neo seemed to freeze in his lap, he didn't understand why but she seemed a little more angry at him than normal so he did what he normally did in this situation and began rubbing her head and apologizing. She seemed reluctant to forgive him so he went for the killer move that always won out, his arms wrapped around her waist and he pulled her into him as he rested his chin on her head.
This was always so embarrassing but it worked like a charm, as it always did when she seemed to deflate. The moment was short lived as a small rustle of grass caught their attention before a loud crack rang out. Jaune pulled neo along as they rolled off the boulder in time to dodge a rifle bullet. The two separated and pushed themselves into opposite direction but jaune was cut off by two white fang goons who held him at gunpoint.
His eye's quickly moved to where his sword was leaning against the boulder they were on but before he could move more white fang surrounded him. Neo saw the dire situation he was in and moved to help when a flash of red energy cut the ground in front of her. A red haired bull faunus sheathed his sword "I'd watch your step human or the next time you'll lose a leg". Neo's hand shifted slightly as her parasol appeared in her hand but before she could attack jaune called out to her "neo get out of here, there's too many of them and that one seems different than the rest".
If she could argue than she would have but unfortunately jaune couldn't see passed the hoard of goons between them. The bull faunus chuckled "you heard him human, run along unless you want to die" neo's eye's and teeth clenched together before she jumped back and disappeared. The bull faunus stood upright and moved over to the group that surrounded jaune "we don't got time to waste so bring him down hard".
The goons snickered as they rushed there captive from every angle and began to beat him with the but of their guns. At first jaune tried to fight back but the moment he tried he received a bullet to his leg from a faunus who watched him from a tree. Adam tapped the hilt of his sword as he waited for them to finish up, it took longer than he expected but the end result was the same. Jaune laid sprawled out on the ground with bruises and cuts all over his body, Adam nudged him with his foot.
Blake and ilia watched in horror as Adam drew his sword and stabbed it into jaunes thigh, some of the other white fang members flinched as jaune cried out in pain. "Now we're even for what happened in Atlas" Adam turned to the group of white fang members "he won't be running away anytime soon, take him". The white fang members bound and tide there captive before dragging him away, although it was their orders, ilia and Blake couldn't help thinking this was too cruel a punishment.
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The shots of gun fire had drawn the attention of Saphron and the rest. Qrow and Raven led the way through the forest until neo appeared before for them, the panic on her face put everyone on edge. Although she couldn't speak, she got the message across through a mixture of hand motions and skillful acting. Qrow swore "fuck, what the hell are the white fang doing on patch of all places"? Raven rolled her eyes "does it really matter anyways, they got Saphron's brother and as far as I'm concerned that's the real problem we need to deal with".
Neo led the group to where jaune was last at, only to find that there was no one left except a small patch of grass dyed red with blood. Qrow and Raven had took one look at the scene before deciding to split up, they couldn't have gotten far and they needed air support. When Raven was out of site she changed into a bird and took to the sky but the forest trees blocked her view from finding the group that had the boy. Deciding on the next best thing led Raven to fly towards the coast in hopes of finding a boat that the white fang used to get on the island.
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Adam called a halt to the group "bandage his leg, I don't want him bleeding to death before we deliver him to sienna". Ilia nodded and moved to follow her orders, pulling out a first aid kit that she kept on her she disinfected the wound before applying the gauze and bandage wrap. "Thanks" jaune whispered to ilia, she watched him for several minutes "don't thank me for this human". Once she put away her first aid kit, they marched on again and dragged the boy every step of the way until they reached there destination.
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Raven looked up and down the coast line but there wasn't anything she could find that even resemble a boat "fuck". Qrow, Saphron, Coco, yang and neo followed the small trail of blood that was left behind until all of a sudden it ended. There were still tiny drag marks on the ground but because of all the foliage in the forest that trail was mostly covered up as well. Saphron and neo tried to find anything that could help but after ten to twenty minutes later only one word was uttered "fuck"!
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Once the white fang cleared the forest, they entered a small cove that kept anyone from finding there ship and protected it from nature's wrath.
Adam had jaune locked in a cell below the ships deck before returning to the rest of the group "alright everyone we leave at nightfall, make sure you leave nothing behind and don't step foot outside for anything". As everyone scattered to begin putting there camp up, Adam returned to the ship and made his way to jaunes cell. Although he was still tied up, jaune pushed himself until he was leaning against the wall. Adams arrival came as no surprise "get comfortable in there human, it's gonna be a long ride".
So much overtime! My bones are creaking from the strain of having to pick up so much cardboard paper.