So I've been pretty busy, and I've been trying to work on my fics as well as a new fic where Jaune is like Dracula from Dracula Untold. But its all coming along slow. Add that on to my motivation and morale being at shit tier level right now. I haven't been writing a lot lately.
But here we go. Something short.
"So what comes next?" Pyrrha asked.
"This." Ruby said as the scene switched.
Jaune was dressed in some armor. The armor itself looked medieval and had a red and black color scheme. Where it was mostly black, but the dragon on it was painted a dark red. He was holding a child close to him as he was surrounded by people. People who looked awfully hungry.
"Damn, Vomit boy looks good in that armor." Yang was giving him an honest compliment.
"They're all our enemies now." Ozpin one of his old friends said as he glared at the boy in his arms.
"Once we get rid of him, nothing will stand in our way."
Ozpin made a leap towards the boy, only to be stabbed through the heart with a wooden spike.
"OH MY GOD!" Ruby couldn't believe she just saw the professor get skewered.
"…" Ozpin himself couldn't believe he just saw himself get impaled.
"Sick." Glynda only had one thing to say about it.
But why did Jaune kill Ozpin?
Soon they saw Ozpin's body start to turn to ash as the stake went further and further into his body.
Jaune was holding his daughter close to him making sure that none of his former subjects would harm her. They were too far gone. He had to stop them, but he couldn't fight them off with Ruby so close to him.
"Wait?! Ruby is his daughter in this?!" Yang couldn't believe it.
"Wow, they really do mean different realities…" Blake had trouble believing it.
"Why did Ozpin turn to ash?"
"Wait, what turns into ash when you stab it through the heart with a wooden stake?" Weiss asked.
"Vampire?" Ruby asked.
"Apparently its an alternate universe where Jaune must be a vampire hunter!"
Jaune bared his fangs at his fromer subjects, trying to assert dominance in hope they would back down.
"…Never mind, apparently Jaune is a vampire."
"But Ruby looks human, look she even has a silver ring on." Yang pointed out.
"So Jaune is a vampire but has a human daughter?"
"How?"
Suddenly the hordes started to hiss in pain. Jaune looked behind him to see the source. And even he felt a bit of stinging in his eyes as he realized he was looking at a silver cross.
He saw the Priestess Yang Xiao Long reaching out for Ruby.
"Come Ruby! You have to come with me!" Yang begged for the girl who she thought of as a sister.
Jaune's face lit up with understanding. Yang was trying to help. Yang knew how to ward off vampires. After all, she had tried to do the same with him earlier. But now here she was, offering a safe retreat for his daughter.
"Please…Lord Impaler….let her go with me." Yang begged again as she was trying to save Ruby's life.
Jaune looked down at his daughter.
"I don't want to leave you." Ruby said in tears.
"You have to go with Yang now." He said softly as he cupped her face with his hands.
"NO!" Ruby didn't want to go.
"Oh god no, please don't be sad!" Ruby didn't want to see something sad.
"….Damn its going to be sad." Yang had to admit, she may be tough, but she always hated watching sad scenes in movies because they got to her.
"….I already got the tissues ready." Blake even had a hard time with sad movies.
"As soon as I saw Jaune contemplating sending his daughter with Yang, I immediately broke out the tub of ice cream." Pyrrha said as she handed everyone a bowl.
Ozpin and the rest of the guys rolled their eyes. Women could be so emotional.
"Do not leave her side." Jaune ordered his daughter as she was in tears.
"Ruby…I will always love you! Always…" He said as he kissed her forehead and gave her one last hug.
"Go!" He yelled as he pushed Ruby into Yang, who immediately took hold of the young girl.
"NO!" Ruby yelled as Yang had her by the chest and was pulling her away.
"Go…" Jaune said in a quieter voice as he saw his daughter being led away.
"You take care of her…" At that, Yang just gave a simple nod, knowing what Lord Arc was planning to do.
"PAPA! NO LET ME GO!" Ruby begged the prietess as Yang continued to pull her away.
The resulting scene was causing sniffles. Ruby was thinking about not just Jaune as his father, but also what would happen If she had to go through this in real life with Taiyang or even her Uncle Qrow.
Yang was thinking about the time where she and Ruby were surrounded by Beowolves, because the vampires had that same predatory grin in mind.
Blake was thinking about when she and her family had to deal with the fallout of the more violent groups in the white fang.
Weiss was thinking about if she had to leave Winter to suffer at the hands of the white fang.
Nobody was having a good time.
Jaune watched as his daughter was taken further and further away from him. The holy power of the silver cross protecting his daughter from any harm. Her screams of sadness and anger at being taken away forever etched into his brain.
He looked up to the sky as the horde surrounded him.
"She's safe now Blake…." He said to the heavens, hoping his wife could hear him.
"Oh gods….and he was married to Blake…" Yang said as she felt the sniffles coming.
"…Not gonna cry….not gonna cry." Blake said as she REALLy didn't want to cry.
Jaune knowing what he had to do, closed his eyes and let his magic go. The clouds he had conjured over the sun started to part. And from there on, there was no turning back. He wouldn't be getting out of this one. Not this time.
"NOOOOO!" Ruby cried out as she saw what her father was doing.
The sun peaked through the clouds as multiple vampires started to burst into flames and turn to Ash right before her eyes.
Some of his former priests were slowly disintegrating right before his eyes. Some of the former chamber maidens were already dying on the ground. And it was only then did he see what had been brought on by his own actions.
He heard Ruby scream out again. This time in horror.
From Ruby's point of view, she saw her father standing there alone. His armor and his skin in horrible condition. As soon as the sunlight hit him, she saw his hair and his skin start to change. His hair seemed to dissipate, and his skin took on a sickly pale color that was being burned more and more as he stood in the sunlight longer.
She saw her father turn to look at her one last time. He gave her a small reassuring smile before he turned back around.
"NO! PAPA! DON'T GO!" She cried out begging him one last time to use his powers to block out the sun, hopefully to save his own life.
But it was too late.
There was no turning back.
"Damn it…." Blake said as she felt a tear fall.
Ruby at this point had been crying for a bit. Yang wasn't even looking at the screen. Weiss was lightly dabbing her eyes. Pyrrha was chowing down on the ice cream bucket. Nora was bawling into Ren's shirt. Glynda even felt herself struggling with the imagery.
Jaune looked up towards the sky at the sun. Something that he used to love to see, now the source of his demise.
"GAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" He cried out in pain as he fell to his knees.
Jaune Arc, Heir to the throne of Atlas, Lord Impaler, Dracula, now laid down on the ground.
"….." There was no one in the room who had wanted to see this.
They hated seeing their friends die in front of them. And yet they had seen it. And there was nothing they could do.
"Jaune Arc was a hero, the savior of Atlas, but there were no statues of him, no records that he even existed…" Ruby's voice narrated as the scene switched to her on the throne.
As well as priests burning and destroying any evidence that Jaune existed.
"What?! After everything he did, they erase him from history?!"
"Probably didn't want people to know they had a vampire as a ruler…" Ozpin knew that's what he would have done.
"But he saved them!"
"You will find that sometimes to save a people, you pay a price far worse than death." Being dead wasn't a problem, but being forgotten, that was an awful thing.
"I am his only legacy, I am the legacy of Dracula." Ruby would never recover from her parent's death completely.
But with her adoptive big sister by her side, She would lead Atlas into a new golden age.
