Distortion

Jaune walked through the portal and was now in a back alley in Mistral. He took a deep breath of the air and sighed. Out of the four Kingdoms, he preferred Mistral. Jaune pulled out his black scroll before going through his short list of contacts and selecting the name he wanted. He quickly sent them a message to meet in their usual location as soon as possible. He pocketed his scroll before going through the door to his left.

He found himself in a small bar he knew very well. There were a few grunts dressed in suits, as soon as they saw Jaune they lowered their heads and stopped looking in his direction. Jaune smirked before walking to the bar. The first time he was here, the grunts thought of him as nothing more than a kid, he proved them very wrong. That's why the current workers were now barely half of what they used to be. He walked to the bar and the man behind it turned to him before freezing. He was a tall and built man, wearing a black vest, white long sleeve shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, red tie and black dress pants. He had grey eyes and short black hair that was now grey on the sides. He had a beard and mustache with grey in it, similar to his hair. His skin was tanned as well. He was just staring at him. Jaune smiled before removing his mask and pulling off his hood. "Been a while, Senior."

Senior Xiong. He had some connection to Junior in Vale, but whether he was his father, uncle, grandfather or something else was unknown to Jaune. Mostly because he didn't care. He worked for him and Raven, that was enough. Senior shook himself of his shock, "Mr. Branwen, it's a pleasure to see you again, sir. I didn't know you were stopping by though." He said nervously.

Jaune just smiled at him, "I prefer it that way. Keeps you on your toes."

Senior chuckled nervously, "Will Mrs. Branwen, be arriving too, sir?"

Jaune shook his head, "Afraid not. She has business in Vacuo at the moment."

Senior relaxed slightly, "So, is this meeting for business or pleasure?"

"Bit of both." Jaune laid some Lien on the table and Senior went to work on his usual drink. He presented it to Jaune and he took a sip. He sighed, "As perfect as ever, Senior." Senior smiled in gratitude before Jaune continued. "Now onto the business part of this meeting. An associate of mine will be coming in to meet with me. So, I'll be taking the private booth."

Senior nodded, "Of course. Would you like me escort him to you when he arrives?"

Jaune shook his head, "No need. He knows where to find me." He started to walk to the back of the bar. "I'll message you if I need anything." Senior nodded to him as Jaune kept walking. He sat down at the booth in the back of the bar. He sat with his back to the wall, so no one would sneak up on him. He laid his mask on the table in front of him before placing Tourmentage Tordu on his right by the wall for easy access. Jaune took another sip of his drink as he waited for his informant. He knew that even if he had nothing going on, it would take him an hour at the least to get here.

To pass the time, he used the Semblance he stole from Goodwitch to levitate two coins on the table before having them revolve around the other. He could feel it weakening slightly. He guessed he had only two battle uses of Telekinesis left, maybe three if he pushed it, before he lost her powers. He didn't fully absorb her Semblance, so he knew her powers were temporary but he was hoping it would've lasted longer. Since her Semblance was affecting him directly, he just absorbed the aura that surrounded him along with her Semblance. But that was nowhere close for him to claim it as his completely. He stopped and set the coins back down on the table. He too another sip before thinking, 'Luckily, they have barely any ideas on my abilities. They probably think my Semblance has something to do with Siphoning Aura or Stealing Semblances. They are so wrong.' He chuckled to himself before finishing his drink and sending a message to Senior for another.

Shortly after, one of the workers came with his new drink and took his empty glass before leaving quickly. Jaune sipped his drink again before he started to sense all of the aura signatures around him. He could only sense, Seniors and his workers, no one else was around. He smiled at this. He had abilities his former self wouldn't have ever thought were possible for him. That brought him to the decision that, in essence, made him who he is now.

It had been two weeks since he had decided to take Raven's offer to train him and she wasn't kidding, it was hell. Everyday Raven had him doing strength training followed by hand-to -hand sparring and sword fighting with random bandits in the tribe. It was always someone different to keep him on his toes and for him to learn how to adapt to anything and rely on his instincts. Along with him starting to learn several different styles of fighting instead of only one. He was making progress but Jaune knew that the people he was fighting were the weakest of the tribe. He was nowhere close to fighting anyone else yet and he was still wounded. For some reason, his aura was not returning to him which was holding him back. That was the most frustrating to Jaune.

He was doing well when it came to him using his head. Raven had him solve multiple puzzles to work on his problem solving. If he solved them too slowly, Raven would up his training for the next day. Luckily for him, that hasn't happened after the fourth day of intensified training. He wasn't going to fail at everything, he refused to. The only part of his training that was completely failing at was his aura and Semblance training. For some reason, he could not bring his aura to his surface and it was frustrating Jaune and Raven. With him not being able to call on or even feel his aura, he had little chance of using his Semblance. Plus, it was hindering his training in the long run.

It was currently after his spars for the day but he had an hour or so before he had to do his mental training. He was now in a clearing, wearing a black t-shirt and pants with boots, trying his damnedest to get his aura to respond to him. He could feel it, it was just below the surface of his mind and body. But no matter what, it would not come forth. It was like it was too weak to surface. In frustration, he punched a nearby tree, "Damn it!" he shouted and he cut his knuckles open with that. He growled in pain and anger.

"That won't help you." He heard a voice and turned to see Raven walking towards him, removing her mask.

He scoffed, "Maybe but this is pointless. If I can't use my aura than I'm just going to keep failing. I need it to listen to me but its refusing to. Hell, I can barely feel it at this point!"

"Has this happened before?" Raven asked calmly, undeterred by Jaune's angry outburst.

Jaune let out an explosive sigh to calm down, "No. My aura has only ever been this low when I got my ass kicked at Beacon. But no matter what, it would always return in full by the next morning. Why is it not returning now?" he questioned himself.

Raven was just standing there and was thinking about everything she saw him do while he was fighting Grimm. Then something clicked, "What color is your aura?" she asked.

Jaune looked at her, "White. Why?"

"When you were fighting, your aura was indeed white but it was shattered towards the end of the fight. When you stood up, you had a black aura and that's when your hair turned black"

Jaune's eyes widened, "Can aura change like that?"

Raven shook her head, "I've seen it change on occasions but you had no aura left when that happened. Your aura changing when you had known is impossible. Also, I've never seen a change in aura be so drastic."

"So, what did I do back then?" he asked his curiosity peaked.

"Not sure, if I'm completely honest." Jaune's head fell with that. Raven was still thinking about everything she seen from him, "How would you describe the 'feel' of your aura before now?"

Jaune took a second to think about it, "Warm. Like I was always next to a heat source. It also felt light, as in bright and weightless. It made me feel secure." He said with a small smile.

"And what does your aura feel like now?" she continued.

"Cold." He said with little hesitation. "It feels dark and heavy, like I'm being suffocated. It's making me feel on edge all the time."

"So, your aura feels like the complete opposite as it did before." She stated. Jaune nodded. Raven thought a bit more before speaking, "Maybe this is another part of your aura?"

"What?" Jaune asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Everything has an opposite or a negative. Maybe somehow you tapped into another side of your soul and awakened this 'Negative Aura'." She hypothesized.

Jaune looked down at his hands. "That…. makes some sense. I was just so angry. With everything. I just let every negative emotion I had bottled up out. I didn't care anymore, I just wanted to destroy everything around me." A Black outline was soon surrounding him as his emotions were raising again. "I had everything taken from me and I was betrayed in the worse way by the people I cared for. I was tired of just accepting it and wanted to fight back!" With that his aura erupted around him like a black inferno. Raven jumped back from him and just stared at him in awe. It was like what she saw that night. Soon, Jaune calmed down and the black aura he was radiating was pulled back into his body.

Jaune look down at his body in disbelief. This aura was different to his original aura but not bad. It felt colder and darker but so much stronger. He saw that his cut knuckles were completely healed and he could feel that all of his wounds were the same. He couldn't celebrate for long, due to an Ursa Major coming at him. His anger spiked again. 'I'm not in the mood for this!' he thought angrily and his aura spiked again. The Ursa raised his claw to slash at him but Jaune raised his left forearm to block it. As it made contact with his aura, its arm was flung backwards with enough force to rip it off completely. It screamed in pain and Jaune quickly pushed forward with a right hook. His fist was covered in this black aura and as soon as he punched the Grimm's face, it's head was ripped from its body. The rest of the body fell and started to evaporate. Jaune just looked at his hands in shock before he smiled. He turned to Raven who was just staring at him, "I think I'm gonna like using this." Was all he said.

Jaune was brought out of his thoughts soon after that. He could sense another aura enter the bar and it was familiar. He smiled before he took a sip from his drink. He just waited and soon he saw something move near his booth. It was like a heat wave was distorting the space next him. He took a sip of his drink before he pulled Souffrance Eternelle from its holster on his left side and aimed it at the space next to him. He smirked at it, "Nice try, Onyx."

Right after that, the space was soon covered in a blue shading and soon the space was slowly being replaced with a person. Said person was Onyx Shade, third year student at Haven Academy. He stood at 6'2", he was wearing a black loose crew t-shirt, black cargo pants with a black belt around it, black running sneakers, black fingerless gloves and a sleeveless black hoodie with the hood up. He also had a black quiver of arrows over his right shoulder but no bow in sight, but Jaune knew where it was. He had his hands up in mock surrender. "Damn, thought I had you." He said with a small smile.

"Doesn't help that I can sense your aura." Jaune replied with a smile as he holstered his gun. He motioned to the seat across from him. He sat down and removed his hood. Revealing his short black hair and cobalt blue eyes. "Want a drink? I'm buying."

Onyx just sighed, "Sure. Why not?" Jaune finished his before typing away on his scroll to tell Senior. A worker came by to take Jaune's empty glass and gave them their drinks. Onyx took a small sip, "So, what's going on? I'm not supposed to give you more info until next month."

"Raven and I have changed our plans. The info we are getting is either outdated or just useless. So, we are going to have you take a more active approach." He smirked at that.

"What do you mean by active?" Onyx asked.

"Simple. I'm going to give you a program we liberated from Atlas. When you get the chance, you'll upload it to any computer on campus. It'll bypass the firewalls and copy any files that I have specified. Top targets, people of interest and even the student rosters. Once it's done with that, you just have to link your scroll to another computer and it'll send them to your scroll. Once it does that, it'll release a virus to really screw with their systems and cover your tracks." Jaune finished and took a sip from his drink.

Onyx nodded slightly, "What do I do after that?"

"Leave Haven and come here. You or Senior will contact me and I'll come here asap. You'll give me the files and then you'll be officially a part of Knightingale." Jaune smiled at him.

Onyx thought it over before nodding, "Good. I want to get out of there soon anyways."

"Don't jump the gun." Jaune said sternly, "We don't need Lionheart getting suspicious before you can upload the program."

Onyx sighed, "I know. But things aren't going great with the team." He said as he slammed his drink.

Jaune nodded. He knew about Onyx's circumstances. He went to Signal with Ruby and Yang but opted to go to Haven rather than Beacon. He was then placed on a team with three stuck up brats that wanted their fourth buddy on their team rather than him. But, Lionheart kept refusing to change the teams. Onyx became an outcast with his so-called team. The fourth brat and other three started to hang out to figure out what to do. No one thought of anything until the leader of the fourth bastard's team was injured severely. Not long after that, the other two were harmed on a mission but the bastard was fine. The three injured students had no choice but drop out from their injuries and the bastard was assigned as a temporary member to Onyx's team.

Too suspicious to be a coincidence, Onyx looked into it and found out that the group of bastards were taking out the others so they could be on a team together. Onyx was the only one left but thanks to his Semblance, Camouflage, he was able to get out of the situations and 'accidents'. It was because of one of those 'accidents' that Jaune found him. He was luckily in the area and saw Onyx fighting a herd of Grimm. He was impressed by his speed and skill, so he helped him. Afterwards, Jaune gave him the option of helping him out and getting him away from his 'team'. He agreed and the two became close friends. Makes sense because they were betrayed by people they were supposed to trust.

"Think they'll pull anything?" Jaune asked.

Onyx shrugged, "I'm not sure but that asshole's time on our team is coming to an end soon. They'll have to try something soon to get their way." He looked at his drink before looking back at Jaune. "If that happens, what should I do?"

Jaune drank from his glass before looking him in the eyes, "You either let them have their way or you do what is necessary to survive. Can you do that?"

Onyx was quiet for a while but nodded, "Yeah. They're either gonna end my career as a Huntsmen or even kill me so I might as well. Besides, that asshole's team was more of a family to me than those bastards. So, I should avenge them."

Jaune nodded. "Maybe I should make good on my promise and give you a boost."

Onyx looked up to him expectantly, "You're finally going to teach me this whole other aura thing?"

"No." Jaune said with a tone full of finality.

"Come on. You said you'd help me get stronger, so why aren't you teaching me it?" he asked annoyed.

"Because everyone that has tried to learn it so far has ended up dead. And you're one of the few people I trust, so I don't need you ending up dead just yet." Jaune said seriously.

Onyx took a second before he sighed, "Alright, alright. So, how are you going to help me then?"

Jaune held out his right hand, "Give me your hand." Onyx hesitantly grabbed Jaune's hand with his right. As he did, Jaune's black aura started radiating from his body. Almost on instinct, Onyx's cobalt aura was acting the same way. Soon, Onyx's aura was being absorbed into Jaune. Onyx started to panic until he felt a colder force being pushed into his body in its place. After about a quarter of his aura was replaced by Jaune's darker aura, Jaune let go of his hand. "That should do it." Jaune said casually and drank the remainder of his drink.

Onyx looked down at himself before looking back to Jaune, "What did you do?" he asked cautiously.

"I absorbed a quarter of your aura and replaced it with my own Negative Aura. Over the next day or so, it'll bleed into your aura and increase your aura reserves and even strengthen it. Simply put, I augmented your aura with my own." He gave him a genuine smile with that.

Onyx just looked at him in disbelief, "You can do that?"

Jaune nodded, "I only do it with people I trust though. Alright, let's finish this up so you can head back to Haven. I have a few things to take care of. Put your scroll on the table." He did so before Jaune started to type into his own scroll. Soon the screen turned black with a Grimm skull in the center. The screen went back to normal before the same image flashed onto Onyx's scroll. "There you go."

They both stood up and shook hands, "Take care of yourself, Onyx, and don't hesitate to let me know if shit hits the fan."

He nodded to him, "I will, Jaune. I'll contact you when the job is done." With that he pulled up his hood and his aura covered him before he slowly blended into the background. Jaune could sense his aura leaving the bar. Jaune placed his sword on his back before he picked up his mask and walked back to Senior.

He turned to Jaune, "Your business is done, sir?" He asked.

Jaune nodded, "It is, Senior." He placed the Lien on the bar before he looked him in the eyes, "If Onyx Shade walks into this bar again, I want you to offer him a place to stay and inform me immediately."

He nodded, "Absolutely, sir." Jaune was about to leave but he was stopped. "Hold on, sir. I have something for you." He soon crouched behind the bar before standing up with a black suitcase. "This was finally finished and arrived while you were in the back." He placed it on the bar before he opened it and turned it around to him. Inside was a revolver exactly like Souffrance Eternelle, except it had a black handle and trim while the rest was blood red. Along with it was a new belt with two holsters.

Jaune smiled before he started to take his old belt off. "Finally, Sommeil Eternel, is done." He put on the new belt before putting Souffrance Eternelle in his left holster. He then loaded its twin before placing it into his right holster. He placed his old belt in the suitcase before closing it. "Give my regards to him and give him back the belt he loaned me." Jaune told him. Senior nodded at him before Jaune placed his mask back on and pulled up his hood. He sliced the air with his blade to form the black portal before he walked through it.

He was now back in the forest they originally started in. A few miles away from their original spot, of course. Jaune sat down on rock outcrop; he moved his mask to the top of his head and pulled out his scroll. He sent a message to Raven, telling her he was done and waiting at the rendezvous spot. Plus, he had his new gun as well. He pocketed his scroll and heard a sound come from his right. He turned to see five Beowolves growling at him. Jaune just smirked before he pulled out Sommeil Eternel and fired a single shot. It completely tore through the first Beowolf before it exploded and killed the other three while injuring the last. Jaune had a fire dust bullet loaded that was designed to explode on impact. The last Grimm barely made it to its feet before it ran for its life. Jaune just replaced the bullet he used before holstering it.

He sat in silence for a while before his scroll went off. He pulled it out to find it was a message from their informant in Vale. They were complaining that they were bored and wanted something to do. Jaune smiled before telling them to leave clues about Raven and his location for Ozpin or Qrow to find. He was curious on what they would do with that information. He got a reply from his informant of an image of ice cream and he laughed at their usual antics.

Afterwards, a red portal opened a few feet away from him. Raven stepped through it and he walked over to his wife. "So, how'd it go, Beloved."

Raven nodded and removed her mask, "Well enough. Things went good on your end?"

Jaune nodded, "Also, augmented Onyx as a precaution."

"Good. So, what should we do know?" she asked.

Jaune shrugged, "Wait until they get their jobs done? Also, I have our little friend leaving bread crumbs for Ozpin and Qrow."

Raven sighed, "Of course you did. Why did I marry you?' she asked in exasperation.

Jaune just held her close, "Because you love me too much and know that no one compares to me." He leant down and gently kissed her neck.

Raven hummed at this. "You certainly think highly of yourself." She said.

"If that wasn't true, I couldn't do this." He gently bit down to leave a mark on her pristine skin. She moaned at this and pulled him closer. Jaune then trailed kisses up her neck to her jaw then cheek and finally her lips. The two then had a very passionate kiss.

Raven pulled back from him slightly, "Maybe later I'll show you something else very few could do to me." She whispered in a sultry tone.

Jaune just gave her a predatory grin, "It would be my honor, Beloved." The two shared one last kiss before they separated. They pulled their masks onto their faces and started to walk away to find a suitable spot for their camp. And for their activities later.

A/N- Wow, this was early! Just felt inspired to but this out, so here it is. I would like to give a shout out to Shinigami-no-Kaze, Onyx Shade was their OC and I promised to put him in one of my stories. So, here he is and he'll definitely be back later on. Also, I'd like to thank Jauneforever for being the Beta Reader again. Hope you all enjoyed and I'll see you in the next chapter!