Hello everyone!
It's here, the second chapter of Jaune of the faint smile is FINALLY here. I thank you all for you're patience on waiting for the new chapter of this story as it's been a tiring few weeks and the cogs' in my head have slow down a bit, but there working once again. Like i said before, not much of a change to the story itself other then the fact i'm making it a little longer and more in depth of both Teresa's past and Jaune's. You all know the Drill i don't own Rwby of Claymore.
So please read, leave me nice long reviews and "What the fuc-BOOM"
Chapter 1: One legend dies
Let it be known, Teresa of the Faint smile, the number 1 warrior and widely believe to be the strongest warrior to ever live, was a cold woman.
This wasn't a matter of opinion but rather a simple fact.
Anyone, be they human, yoma, awakened being, handlers, the elders and even her fellow warrior's, save for a select few, didn't believe she was a warrior. No, they believe the woman was death incarnate. An angel of death, sent by the twin goddess's of love to reap the wicked and protect the pure. She trained harder then any know warrior to date, to be the best.
Not one of the best.
THE best.
She didn't want to be one of the strongest warrior's to ever live, she wanted to be THE strongest warrior there ever was.
Even as a young trainee, she had monsters potential. Combining that with her rare and unique talent to of yoki sensing and her inhuman training regainment(Even to other warriors) and her determination to keep training till she puked up blood and broke every single bone in her body at least twice. Because of this, many had wondered why Teresa trained so hard, but not many had the guts or the spine to ask the blonde woman.
Infact, everything about the blonde herself till she joined up with the organization was a complete mystery. No one knew where she came form. Only she just showed up one day out of a destroyed village.
The only person who had the spine to ask her was her best friend, creator of the quicksword technique and the future number 2 warrior, Irene. Not only was she only one step behind Teresa(Despite how WIDE the gap between there skills and power has grown over the years) she had a more...
Intimate relationship between the two Irene had always wonder why her best friend joined the organization. For many warrior's, the story was the mostly the same. The family and or home, were killed by yoma and joining was there only chance at living in this ruthless world of there's. This one is the most common, as many do it for revenge and or simply had no were to go.
Another reason, though it's rare but not unheard of, is because they wanted to be the ones who kill yoma. They wanted to be the hero's and were more then likely unaware of the hard isolated lives they live, nor the hate and fear sent there way for being half monster.
Now back to the original point, Irene had asked where Teresa was originally form and what had happened to her. What she got as an answer was a little more complex:
"All i remember is a girl, with long black hair and eyes. A beautiful meadow and farm"
While this wasn't a lie, it wasn't the whole truth either. You see, Teresa had a deep, dark secret that she had told NO ONE. One that is the soul reason why she tarined so hard and help create and make her become the warrior she is today. Not even Irene was privy to such info, but well come back to that later. But the fact remains, Teresa really can't remember much of her life before she became a warrior.
Anyway the point is, the only person she has ever told this to is Irene. As no one else, had the spine to ask the woman that question, nor the reason WHY she trained so hard, she puked out blood. Not that the handler's or elder's cared about WHY she did, if it made her a stronger warrior they would't question it.
The woman had taken up the offensive style of fighting, her rare yoki sensing ability and combing this with her skill with a claymore, she quickly rose to the rank of number 1. Her power and skill grew and grew and GREW, to the point everyone began to believe Teresa had really truly become the strongest warrior to ever live.
For many years, Teresa had done the same thing. Day in and day out. She has killed yoma after yoma and her reasoning for it.
"Because it's my job."
Nothing more, nothing less.
However like all warrior's, Teresa lead a lonely isolated life. Like all her fellow warrior's, due to there nature as hybrids. Because of this the warrior's had adopted three distinct personalities.
The first being:
1.) Aggressive. A personality more or less, hot tempted woman that would rather charge head on in first and ask questions later. They don't take order's to well, often get into trouble and look down on other's, weaker then them. And they have no problem speaking what's on there mind.
The second:
2.) Stoicism. A personality, that Teresa herself has adopted to. Those that show little to no emotion at all. Warrior's who adopt this personality typical have a background so severe, they rather not feel anything at all then the pain of there past. The fact, those they save look at them with either hate, fear or both certainly doesn't help either.
Sadly however, this can lead to the third and probably most dangerous personality warrior's can adopt, but thankful it's the least common of the three:
3.) Psychopath. A personality that should be pretty self-explanatory. Warrior's that find joy in killing things. Making things bleed, suffer and die. And not just yoma either. A prefect example of warrior's who adopt this personality would be another number one, known as Roxanne of love and hate.
It's an unspoken rule, but warrior's don't like to be copies. There unique techniques that separate them form other warriors. They don't like there techniques because of Roxanne. She was one of the most vile, cruel, warrior's to ever walk the earth, as she would "Be-friend" a a warrior, learn there technique and then have them killed.
Be it by her own hand, a yoma's hand or even awakened being, all of her "Friends" would die one way or another. The fact she showed no sadness or even feel a hint of regret only confirmed it for everyone, she was a monster. So when she died, no one shed a tear.
If nothing else they were happy she was dead.
Thus the unspoken rule of "Not liking to be copied" came to be. NO ONE, wanted another Roxanne running around after all.
Never the less, Teresa had adopted the second personality, with a hint of dark humor, but was stoic most of the time. She has killed and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of yoma, all without letting the dark power and influence of her yoma side ever appearing on her beautiful face. The only thing her enemies see before they die, was a small, faint smile upon her lips.
Thus, Teresa of the faint smile was born.
The only person who's actually pushed Teresa(Despite it being only a little) was Irene. She was only a single step behind Teresa and has seen Teresa use her yoki power, but was quickly beaten by the blonde, once she used 10% of her yoki. Irene was after all her rival and..."Close best friend".
Anyway, Teresa and Irene had stuck together during there trainee days. The only way to survive was by sticking together. The two were best friends and had caused quite a stir during there younger days. They were so bad at causing headaches for the elder's, they wished the yoma would get them, when they went out on there little "adventure's" so to speak.
Well, more like Teresa was the trouble maker and Irene got dragged into it.
It didn't help the fact, Teresa annoyed Irene just as much as she did the elders. She did this by calling the sliver haired girl things like "Elf lord", "knife ears" and even "Madam pointy ears". Irene would get so mad, her face would turn red. Though that could be simply because she was embarrassed. Teresa wasn't sure, all she knew was that it was funny as hell.
Till Irene learned how to suppress her emotions, which took all the fun of making fun of her ears for Teresa.
However, as they got older the gap between there powers became more and more obvious. Try as she might, Irene could never truly surpass Teresa. Years passed and Teresa did nothing more then grow stronger and stronger, till she had earned her title as number 1 and Teresa of the faint smile. She became a merciless killer, killing anything without complaint, without hesitation, without care, without feeling a thing.
Thus made her the prefect warrior in the eyes of the organization.
Throughout her long life as a warrior of the organization, she had many notable accomplishments. She is so powerful, many believed she could have taken on even the creatures of the abyss and win. If she were to fight all three then there was a good chance she die. But if she fought one at a time, then there is a good chance she could win.
Due to how awakened beings have no problem with releasing there yoki, Teresa combat skills, experience and technique made her the prefect fighter to fight them. Any other warrior would have been killed in seconds, but it's common belief, Teresa was the only one who could stand up to them. This was proven when she faced off against Hysteria, a former number 1 that awakened but never sent her black card in.
Teresa was immediately ranked as a single-digit warrior upon completing her training. She participated in the mission on Rockwell Hill to slay Hysteria, the No. 1 at the time who had reached her limits, but never sent her black card, likewise resisting execution. Hysteria, with her unmatched speed, slaughtered the many warriors sent to kill her. Teresa, however, managed to critically injure Hysteria, taking away her speed advantage. Hysteria was eventually slain by Rosemary, who was No. 4 of that time.
The event would forever be known as the Rockwell Hill Massacre.
But it didn't end there.
Sometime later, Teresa overtook Rosemary as Claymore No. 1. Since then, Rosemary held a grudge against Teresa and secretly plotted to kill her. Rosemary Awakened and then sent her black card to Teresa via Orsay in an attempt to lure her to a secluded location and then finish her off. Despite her initial confusion as to why the former No. 1 warrior would send her black card, Teresa went to Godahl Plateau to meet up with Rosemary. Rosemary's intentions immediately became clear to Teresa and the two engaged in battle, with Rosemary assuming her Awakened form and apparently gaining the upper hand. However, Teresa easily wrenched herself free from her grasp and proceeded to release 10% of her Yoki. Rosemary briefly faltered at the size of Teresa's Yoki, but she was unable to dwell on it as she was immediately slain.
On her way back, Teresa encountered Orsay and lied about the events that took place, saying Rosemary did not Awaken and died a splendid death worthy of a former No. 1.
Form there Teresa would do her duty in slaying yoma and many still wondered if she would have had a chance against the creatures of the abyss. But they would never get the chance to find out, as Teresa had done something no one thought she do.
Teresa of the faint smile, the number 1 warrior and all around top notch warrior had defected form the organization.
By killing humans.
Like many groups, the organization had rules and killing humans was Iron-clad and not able to be flexed no matter what. If you kill a human, you would die for it. No "if's" or "But's" about it. But one might ask:
Why did she defect?
What could cause Teresa, the prefect warrior, to betray the organization?
The answer is really simple actually, as deep within a forest, Teresa of the faint smile and former number 1, stared at the sleeping form of a young child. Teresa herself was a very beautiful woman.
She is a very tall buxom woman standing about 180 cm tall, with long, wavy, pale blonde hair parted down the middle, which she wore loose. She had silver eyes like all other warriors, and wore the standard uniform of a gray body suit. She wore steel arm bracer's, steel shoulder guards, a black choke collar, a steel plated skirt thing and a sword sheath with a cape. In her dreams, Teresa remembered her once-black hair, which she had considered to be her best feature, and black eyes. She lost both as a side effect of the mutation into becoming a warrior.
The young girl, was very skinny and small. She had long light brown, reddish hair reaching her waist in a princess style, with lightly tan skin and green eyes. She wore a brown tunic, with padded pocket's and brown shoes. This little girl, is called Clare.
To many, this little girl would have been written off, as normal. Just another human, but she has done something no one has been able to do in the past few decades: She has made Teresa feel human again.
This little girl, this VERY stubborn girl, has suffered a fate that would break even veteran warrior's and keep moving forward despite all she had been through in her very short life. If Teresa didn't know any better, she believe Clare was a warrior in the making. This thought made Teresa frown.
Oh no, as long as breath draw in her body, she would NOT allow Clare to ever, EVER suffer the life that is's a warrior's. This little girl has done more for her, in the past few days then anyone else in her entire lifetime has ever done.
Not even Irene.
If Teresa had to chose between saving Clare or Irene, she save Clare without a second thought. At first, Teresa had no idea why this girl followed her and, much to her shame, thought of Clare as nothing more then a pest. Something she wanted gone. Even when those bandits came for them in the forest, Teresa instinctively protected Clare.
She hand't realized how much Clare meant to her till...
Her fist tighten, as she glared into the dimming fire.
Till, the village she left Clare in, so she can live a normal life, only to be torn away by those Twins forsaken bandits. They attacked the town and there was a good chance they would have killed Clare, or worse, had Teresa not killed them. As far as she was concerned, they were lower then yoma.
But even then, it wasn't good enough for the organization to give her a pass. The rule was Ironclad and not even there best was immune to it. In all honest, Teresa would have let them kill her, but Clare's voice had given Teresa both a new purpose and a new reason to live:
Live for her.
But now her time was limited, the organization would without a doubt be sending a hunter squad out for her blood and she knew, she didn't think, she KNEW Irene would be apart of that squad. And despite there past relationship, she would not hesitant in taking her head.
"And i can't either."
Teresa thought to herself, despite having a feeling of impending doom was fast approaching her. Even knowing the fact she was stronger and had a good chance at getting away, she could't help but shiver as a cold feeling ran up her spine.
What was it?
Why did she feel like something terrible was going to happen?
The last time she felt this, was when Rosemary ambushed her. But she won, so she should be able to beat the incoming hunters.
Right?
Sighing and shaking her head, Teresa glanced down at the sleeping Clare and smiled. Yeah, she had a damn good reason to live and she'd be damned to hell before she let the person she loved the most be alone again.
Teresa narrowed her eyes.
Yes, she would live.
She would prove that she was strong!
She would live because Clare needed her!
She would prove HIS "family" and "Team" that HE wasn't worthless!
HE would prove THEM all wrong!
HE would prove HE was-
Blinking rapidly. Teresa shook her head. Who, where did that come form? Teresa began to feel old painful memorious form another life time where she was-
"Don't. Don't think about it. What's done is done, you can't change the past Teresa. That time of my life is over."
Teresa sighed, as she settled her back against the sword, trying to get some sleep. There was no point in thinking about it now, her time as HIM, was over. There was very little she could do about it now and more to the point, WHY, should she care? There was nothing more she could do in THAT world anyway.
Little did she know, how wrong she was about that.
One day later
"Please, make it quick."
Teresa could't help but heave out a sigh, as she deactivated her yoki, staring down at the deforming child before her, who was bowing down, so Teresa could have a clean swipe at her neck. Her skin was grayish, with her muscles growing and twisting and her body suit ripped and torn, with her armor all but destroyed during there battle.
The child has pushed herself to far and has almost completely awakened and she wants to die. Not that Teresa could blame her.
Awakening.
A fate worse then death for warrior's, as they lost control over there yoki and the yoma within them, would take over and became a being beyond both human and hybrid alike. They would lose what little humanity they had left and become the very thing they fight.
The price for power, she mused.
Teresa was right about Irene. She, Noel and Sophia had come to kill her. With the kid, who with time could surpass even HERSELF. The child, Priscilla if she heard right, was able to push her yoki down to the point of nonexistent and could have easily stabbed her in the back. But the child was far to naive in the ways of the world and wanted to face her in single combat.
It was then and there, Teresa knew she needed to kill Priscilla. Irene, Noel, Sophia and all the other warrior's could come at her again and again but it would due little good. Teresa was simply to strong for them, but Priscilla...
She had Potential.
Dangerous potential, that if allowed to grow, would undoubtedly surpass herself one day. Maybe become even stronger then Teresa thought possible and thus Teresa could not allow her to live. The child would hunt her down and quiet possible Clare herself and neither was an option for Teresa, so she dispatched the other three with ease and focused on the child.
Despite her young age and inexperience, the child was able to keep up with her, even if Teresa was STILL wasn't using 10% of her yoki aura, but they were pushing it. However, Teresa overpowered her and had move to kill her.
...Only she didn't.
Teresa knew she was growing soft and decide to let the child live. Never mind the fact, she sacred the hell out of her, Priscilla would live another day. So long as she didn't cross her or Clare again, that is.
Only for the child to come charging at her form the town, her yoki spiraling out of control and her body rapidly changing. Priscilla attacked like a wild animal and forced Teresa, for the first time in a long time, to use 10% of her yoki power. Naturally Teresa won and now she would be forced to kill the child anyway, due to her own mental trauma.
Teresa sighed as she raised her sword.
What a waste.
"Clung"
Teresa blinked, wha-
"SLENCH"
Teresa had no chance to react, as Priscilla cut off her hands and her head.
It was on this day, that Teresa of the faint smile, the number 1 and the strongest warrior to ever live died at the hands of someone who would someday be come to be called The One Horned Monster.
Teresa's legend would end there, but she herself, would not die. As her heart, her soul, her very existence itself, would not truly die. As she would take up her old name and change her true home world for the better.
For you see, when one legend dies.
Another is born.
And that legend, would be remember forever in remnant as:
Jaune of the faint smile.
Done.
Okay, betcha didn't expect this kind of chapter, as i decide to break the originally chapter into TWO parts and the second chapter will be a mixture of the second and third chapter in the original one. Also, i would like to point out, the trailer i made, does NOT have bearing on the story, as again, this story will remain mostly the same, including Jaune's ability to awaken.
I just thought the trailer and song went better with the way i wrote it. Really guys, the song itself is about not being able to hold back the monster within and as such wrote it like that.
Anyway, looks like Teresa has a little mental war with herself on who she is and has DIED. Also yes, i implied that Teresa and Irene had a flung and yes they did, deal with it. So stay frosty my pees!
Ps. I will write the next chapter next, after this one.
The name of the next chapter:
Another legend is born
Devil out.