Authors Note: Hello readers! Zirconia here, to give you the latest chapter. First of all I would like to thank everyone who liked, followed and reviewed!, really guys its just means so much to me that you actually like this.

I have to ask what do you think of my battle scene, sorry guys its my second time making one and I want to be sure its good and not too bad. I'm a bit of a newb at this. Anyways onto the chapter!

Jeanne was a calm and laid back person most of the time, really she was. But right now she was full on panicking! She didn't know how to perform a landing strategy! And if she didn't perform one she would be falling to her doom, which is what she was doing right now. It was hard to think when your whole body was doing summersaults in the air.

Just then when she felt as if her life was flashing before her eyes, something snagged her hoodie and she was pinned to a tree. Realizing she was saved and didn't have to think of a landing strategy she sighed in relief "Thank you!" She yelled out to whoever saved her. She looked up and saw that what had snagged her was a some sort of javelin. "Huh, I wonder who this belongs to?" She thought out loud.

She tried pulling the object with all her might but it didn't budge. "Well, I guess I'll just have to wait until the owner comes and gets the weapon" She sighed in defeat. There was some rustling in the bushes and came an annoyed Eiss. Jeanne's mood brightened at the sight of the Schnee heir "Oh! Hey Eiss!" She greeted happily while waving at him.

Eiss looked up and saw the blonde, his eye twitched in irritation before turning away and leaving. "B-but, oh well . . ." Said in disappointment as she hung her head low once again. She perked up once she head the familiar sounds of rustling "Eiss? Is that you?" She asked.

Silence.

"R-Ruben?" She asked once again. The rustling was coming from all directions now, she felt a chill run up her spine. "Come guys, cut it out" She said trying to sound confident but was very scared.

She heard a growl and her suspicions were confirmed. A pack of Ursi and Beowolves emerged from the bushes. She tried to struggle free from the weapon that was lodge deep into the tree. But it was with no luck. She was stuck, surrounded by a pack of dangerous Grimm while stuck to a tree. With no way to fight or defend herself. Suddenly an idea came to mind, she grabbed the object that was restraining her and searched for the trigger desperately. When her fingers gently brushed against it she quickly hooked her fingers around it, she heard a clicking sound and before she knew it the weapon fired, the explosion was strong enough for the weapon the un-lodged itself from the tree and creating a large hole that almost blew the whole tree apart but at the same time the force sent Jeanne colliding with tree in front of her.

"Gaahh!" She groaned in pain after her back collided with the tree, getting to her feet, she rubbed her sore back. The Grimm were startled by the sudden explosion and were temporarily stunned, Jeanne took advantage of this and searched for the javelin. She saw it landed in the middle of two Beowolf's, she quickly lunged forward without thinking and snagged the javelin from under them. However she did not notice the 2nd Beowolf's attack, she had barely missed it. She fell out of balance and into to the ground.

She gripped her bleeding thigh, her jeans were ripped when the Beowolf clawed the fabric. She let out a cry of pain, she heard the Beowolf growl its claw was raised in the air ready to strike again. Realizing she had no way out she closed her eyes and waited for the attack that would end her life. But it never came.

She slowly raised her head and hesitantly opened her eyes to see a decapitated Beowolf loosing its balance and falling on top of her. "Kyaa!" She yelled scotching away in fear. She heard someone chuckle and saw Pyrrhus standing from after catching his shield which she suspected was the cause of the headless Grimm before her.

Jeanne watched in awe as he pushed passed the Grimm with his shield and over to her. "Are you alright?" He said offering his hand to her. Jeanne stared at him for awhile, amazed and grateful for what he did. Realizing she was starting to stare she fixed her composure. "Y-yeah, thanks" She managed to say.

She took his hand and used it to stand up smiling at him gratefully. "Oh!" She suddenly realized that Pyrrhus might have come for this weapon rather than to save her, her heart sunk at the thought. "Here, sorry for the trouble" She said giving him his weapon. "Thank you" He smiled gratefully at her. Jeanne winced in pain when her injury began to sting. Pyrrhuss smile turned into a frown when he saw her injury "What happened?" He asked.

"N-nothing, I just got a bit careless" She explained rubbing her neck.

"Why didn't you use your aura?" He asked.

"My what now?" Jeanne asked in confusion, she has heard of aura is a few times before from her brothers whenever they trained, but aside from that she didn't know the slightest about Aura.

"Jeanne, Aura is-"

Pyrrhus was cut off when the Grimm began to stand up after being knocked out for short while and they seemed angry, the Grimm looked at the two before letting of anger howls. Jeanne slowly backed away while Pyrrhus transitioned Milo into its Xiphos form and readied his shield Akouo. "Jeanne, stay out of the crossfire, you can't fight with an injury. I'll deal with them for now" He said taking a fighting stance.

Jeanne was relieved when he said this but she also felt a pang of guilt when she realized he was going to do all the work while she sat there and watched. It just didn't feel right. "No. Pyrrhus I can- Gah!" She hissed in pain when she tried to moved her leg. Pyrrhus smiled at her willingness to help "Jeanne, I know it must be hard for you to sit back and watch while I do all the work, but please understand, you can't fight with an injury like that, the fact that you don't even know what an Aura is won't help you. If your not careful you might die" He explained, motioning her to sit down against a tree.

Jeanne complied and lowered her head in sadness. She couldn't stand it anymore! She didn't want to be helpless! She wanted to help! And gosh darn it she was going to do it one way or another or her name isn't, Jeanne Arc! "Pyrrhus I-"

Pyrrhus was already in combat by the time Jeanne managed to say something. She watched Pyrrhus exchanged precise strikes and accurate shots to the Grimm he was slowly taking them all out at an alarming rate. She tried to move but her injury stopped her from doing so, sighing in defeat Jeanne forced herself to sit back and watch with a look of shame on her face, what she was doing, wasn't at all worthy of being called a huntress, who was she looking out for other than herself? It made her feel bitter inside.

As she watched Pyrrhus finished off the last of them. He went over to Jeanne asking her if her injury was affecting her ability to walk. Jeanne turned her head away not wanting to face Pyrrhus after doing nothing to help him. "Jeanne" Pyrhuss started. "Whats wrong?" He asked.

"N-nothings wrong" Jeanne said.

Pyrrhus didn't believe her, but he knew it probably wasn't any of his business so he didn't ask her. "Lets fix up that wound of yours" He said gently helping her to her feet. "Did you bring a first-aid kit?" Jeanne asked. Pyrrhus lightly chuckled "No. We are going to heal you using your Aura" He explained. Though Jeanne still didn't understand what he meant.

"Do you know what Aura is?" He asked her noticing her confused expression.

". . . No. . ." Jeanne said quietly looking at the ground.

Pyrrhus gave her a considerate smile "Aura is the manifestation of our souls it bares our burdens and shields our hearts, have you ever felt like you were being watched without knowing someone is there?" He asked.

"Yeah, sometimes" Jeanne replied.

"With practice Aura can be our shield, everyone has it, even animals"

"What about the monsters we fight?" Jeanne asked.

Pyrrhus shook his head "No. The monsters we fight lack a soul, they are creatures of Grimm. The manifestation of anonymity, they are the darkness and we are the light"

Jeanne nodded in understanding "And that's why we fight them"

"Its not only about that, Jeanne, its also about knowing when we understand both dark and light helps us manifest our Aura everyone has some of both. By bearing your soul outwards as a force you can deflect harm, all of our tools and equipment are congruence for Aura, you project yourself and your soul when fighting"

"Sooo, its like a barrier? Or like a force field?" Jeanne asked.

"You can look at it that way of you wish" Pyrrhus said walking over to Jeanne. "Now close your eyes and focus" He instructed. Jeanne did as she was told she closed her eyes and Pyrrhus did so as well. His eyes widened and his whole body was covered in a red glowing light. "For its is in passing that we achieve immortality through this we become a paragon of virtue and glory to rise above all, infinite in distance and unbound by death, I release you soul and by my shoulder protect thee" Pyrrhus recited, after that he stopped glowing and he started panting.

"A-Are you okay?" Jeanne asked worriedly. Her body was still glowing a white aura that in an instant healed her wound on her thigh.

"Y-yes" Pyrrhus replied. "I used my Aura to unlock yours, the energy protecting you now is your own, though yours was considerably harder to unlock" He said. 'It was as if something had been guarding it for quite sometime' He thought at how strangely odd it was. He noticed her wound heal as soon as her aura was unlock and was amazed by it.

"You have a lot of it" He pointed out. 'For years her Aura had been dormant, I felt it wasn't like this before, she had to unlocked it at an early age, but for some reason its been locked before she could fully develop it' He thought. He had a growing suspicion she was not as she seemed to be, but at the same time she didn't know of it yet. Nonetheless he viewed her as a good person with a lot of capabilities, he was indeed curious to see what kind of person she will become once she had fully developed her Sembalance, but he knew better than to let his capabilities take control over him. After all a person like Jeanne only comes around once in awhile. He was snapped out of his thoughts when he had heard a sound that sounded like gunfire.

"What was that?" Jeanne asked.

"Gunfire, it seems like our comrades have already encountered the enemy he said. We should find the relics as soon as we can" He advised as they started following the path to the north.

Jeanne's thoughts traveled to his first friend he made at Beacon 'I wonder what Ruben is doing?' She thought.

"I told you were lost" Ruben grumbled as Eiss kept telling him where the right path was but so far they had no luck in finding the relics and had been walking in circles for almost 15 minutes now.

"No were not, the headmistress told us to go North and there is where will find the relics inside an abandoned temple!" He explained clearly appalled that Ruben had belittled him. Though that was far from truth.

Inside, Ruben's patience was wearing thin, not only were they lost but HE refused to admit they were lost and kept insisting they were going the wrong way. That and he didn't stop yelling!

"We are supposed to work together you know" Ruben pointed out to Eiss who was pacing back and forth wondering where he had gone wrong. "What makes you think we aren't?" Eiss asked.

"Because if we were you would listen to what I actually had to say!" He shouted in anger. They had been bickering since they first-made eye contact. One would suggest this, then the other would suggest another idea and opinion until it turned into an argument which wouldn't stop until one of them were content. Sadly that has yet to happen. All this time Ruben was being patient, considerate, and reasonable to his partner, but now he couldn't take it anymore!

"Wha-" Eiss said shocked by Ruben's sudden outburst he quickly recovered from his shock and yelled at the boy "How dare you raise your voice at me! And what makes you think YOU, know the right way? The whole time the headmistress explained this to us at the cliff you were busy reacting like a child to what was supposed to be something that should be taken seriously!" Eiss yelled.

"I am taking this seriously! And why cant I raise my voice?! You've been doing it since day one!" Ruben replied with as much ferioscity as Eiss. "How dare you! You! You Insufferable little brat! Why I ought to leave you here this instant!" Eiss threatened.

"Oh I bet you would just love that wouldn't you?, besides, you'd probably have a much better time finding the temple by yourself!" Ruben said.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Eiss asked feeling insulted.

"I don't know? What do you think it means?" He retorted.

Neither of them couldn't take it anymore, they're faces were flushed in anger. It was only a matter of time before there was a full on brawl!

"Fine. Be a brat for all I care, after all you are just a trial" Eiss said before walking off in the other direction. That was it. Ruben snapped "Grrrraahhh!" He unleashed Crescent Rose and cut down the entire cluster off trees they were standing in. "Woah, chill out a bit little brother" Yin said appearing behind his younger brother.

"Y-Yin?" Ruben asked feeling all his anger slip away from his mind he went over to hug his older brother with incredible speed. "Its okay, the meanie is gone now. Nothing to worry about" Yin said patting Ruben on his head. "H-He didn't stop yelling at me! And then I yelled at him too! And now I feel really guilty about it!" Ruben said.

"Lets go find Eiss and sort things out before it gets here" Blaise advised looking up at the sky wearily.

"What gets here?" Yin asked.

"I think I see something up ahead, I think were almost at the temple" Pyrrhus said expecting a response from Jeanne. But there was nothing except silence "Jeanne?" He called out to her looking around for the blonde who mysteriously disappeared.

Near A Cave

"Think is this it?" Jeanne asked. "Eh? Pyrrhus?" She looked around and saw her partner wasn't there. "Guess he must have already went ahead" She thought out loud. Taking initiative she used some materials lying around and made a torch "Wow, never thought you'd find a piece of cloth lying around the entrance of a cave" She said entering the cave failing to notice that it was covering a pile of bones

She wandered around inside the cave calling out Pyrrhus's name. She saw a bright light up a head and went to towards it when she got close enough to see what it was she swallowed in fear and slowly took a step back for the huge Grimm that was in front of her. "N-Nice Grimm" The Grimm cocked its head to the side before letting out a cry and trying to attack her with one of its claws, fortunately it missed however she let go of her torch in the process and it went dark.

She did the first thing that came to mind "AAAAAAHHH!" She ran as fast as she her legs could out of the cave. Pyrrhus heard her cry "Jeanne!" He quickly ran towards the place where the screams came from. He saw Jeanne fighting off a barrage of attacks from the Deathstalker, he had to say it was impressive, but this was no time to stand around doing nothing.

Transitioning Milo into its rifle form and quickly diverted the beast attention with a few rounds near its eyes. The beast diverted its attention to Pyrrhus, but not before swinging its tail at Jeanne who shielded herself but unfortunately the force was too great for her to handle and she was knocked into a tree.

"Jeanne!" Pyrrhus exclaimed in concern he didn't notice the Deathstalker raise its tail in the air ready to strike him.

*KA-BOOM!*

The explosion hit the Deathstalker square in the face and pushed it back just enough to miss Pyrrhus. "Wahoo!" An energetic voice yelled in happiness. Out come from the bushes was a red-haired boy wielding a rather large hammer. Following behind him was An Asian girl with pink eyes huffing in exhaustion. "Nore, I don't think were going the right way" She huffed, her hands on her knees, she looked up and saw the whole scene before her. She brought it back down and sighed, her friend had managed to get himself into trouble yet again. Honestly she wanted to finish this whole thing and take a LONG nap.

Elsewhere (A few minutes ago)

Professor Goodwitch watched the surveilance videos with his scroll. "Well it seems like our final pair has been formed, Miss Lie Rei and Mr. Nore Valkyrie it seems" He said. An odd pair, but he's seen odder these past years. "Good" The headmistress nodded. He swiped his scroll to see the footage of Jeanne unlocking her Aura. "And its seems that she already unlocked her Aura" He added.

"Well at least we know she's in good hands" She commented with a smile.

"Still!" Glynn said. "Don't you think this was a bit too early too send her out in to this type of combat without even telling her?" He asked facing the headmistress. "Yes. I do think its a bit early" She replied.

"Then why?" Glynn asked.

"Because, I may have made countless mistakes in my entire lifetime, , but I know this is not one of those mistakes. Yes, she is indeed inexperienced in the field of combat, and she has no knowledge what so ever about neither Aura nor Dust. But with a sembalance like hers comes great responsibility and focus, people like her only come once in a lifetime. Her ability is something not to be taken lightly, and unfortunately is linked to her emotions" She explained with a heavy sigh.

"Tell me Mr. Goodwitch. What do you think would happen if she were to enter an emotionally unstable state of mind, for example, what if she was in a state of depression? Excitement? Or perhaps if she were to be consumed by rage? She asked him. Glynn then realized all the possibilities that could have happened within the period of time she was left untrained. He was thankful none of them happened. But he knew it was a possibility and that it could happen at any given time.

"All these emotions are greatly linked to her sembalance, all these emotions must be balanced, if one of them goes too far than the other then she would completely be a slave to her emotions just like the last time. She needs to learn how to control it, its time she finally steps out of the darkness she was forced into" She explained. She had been thinking of this matter over and over again for quite some time now. And she realized this was the perfect time to let her find out for herself.

"But what if it does happen? What will we do then?" He asked.

"Then. I'm afraid we'll just have to wait and see" She replied with an emotionless face. But in truth she was just as frightened as he was. There was no telling what would happen.

Jeanne opened her eyes and tried to stand up, she felt her head throb. "Ah! What happened?" She asked. The memory of her being flung into a tree flashed through her mind. "Oh. . ." She said feeling uselless yet again. She looked around expecting to see Pyrrhus saving her again. But she was greeted by darkness.

"What in the?"

She could hear voices from afar, she couldn't make them out but they sounded familiar for some odd reason. Suddenly a door appeared in front of her. "Ookaay" She said, she looked down and saw even more darkness. She was torn between pinching herself and opening the door, she then realized she was floating in a dark space. She pinched her cheek but she didn't wake up.

"Oww" She said rubbing her cheek. She had no choice but to open the door, she touched the doorknob and was surprised by how cold it was. She opened the door and snow began to fall out, she could see a figure standing between a group of hunters, the figure had blazing red hair that was flowing freely in the wind. Blood red eyes that were clouded with fury, small wings made of fire were attached to her feet. She had a cheeshire grin of her face that sent chills down Jeanne's spine.

'What is that?' Jeanne thought she didn't dare take a step into the area.

"What is that thing?" One of the hunters asked, alarmed.

"How should I know? That thing just came out from nowhere and killed all the Grimm!" Another one exclaimed in disbelief.

"Its not a thing. Its a little girl" Another one pointed out. He had a look of guilt on his face. His team looked at him with surprise. "Ronald, are you serious?" On of his team members asked.

"Yes, Miya, I'm sure" He nodded.

"But how is this even possible?"

"I'm not sure"

All of a sudden the girl rushed forward and attacked them. The hunters managed to dodge her attack but what they didn't expect was her having the ability to fly. The girl smirked and opened her palm which shot of fire ball at them, the impact was strong enough to create a small creater where it struck.

"This is insane! She isn't supposed to have this kind of power! She's just a kid!" On of them explained using her Aura to shield herself from the attack, she grabbed her sword she swung it in the air in the direction of the girl, the sword broke in several pieces connected to a wire inside making it function similar to a whip. The sword tried to wrap itself around the girl but she caught the tip of the sword she grinned, both her hands were surrounded by fire, she brought the sword up and she infused a bit of her fire with it, she brought it back down with great force, the fire started to travel down the sword, when it reached the hilt it released a burst of fire and exploded in the huntress's face.

"Paige!" One of them shouted running towards her.

Jeanne watched the scene unfold with her eyes wide in shock and fear, that girl, no, that monster had the same pendant she had when she was a kid, she remembered her mother giving her that pendant for christmas but she lost it the day after. And this place, this is the same place in her dream the same people, but where was she? Could it be? No. That was impossible. She would have remembered all of this.

As the little girl fought the two other hunters both her hands were restrained with some sort of bind. The two hunters looked at the person responsible for this, Glynn Goodwitch. He straightened his glasses and with a flick of his dust crop he lifted a few rocks in the air and merged them together creating a pair of makeshift chains, he sent the chains flying towards the little girl's arms and feet successfully binding her, he sent her towards a nearby tree and used the chains to tie her to it.

He turned towards the team "Is everyone alright?" He asked. "Were fine, but Paige is not doing so well" Miya explained with sadness, there clothes were burned, but they were otherwise fine. She looked over to a crying Gian who was holding Paige tightly in his arms.

"A Dust ship will be arriving shortly, in the meanwhile I'll guide you to a place where she can be treated" He explained. "But what about, it?" Ronald asked pointing to the girl who was chained to a tree, she was thrashing wildly in a desperate attempt at freedom. She was growling in anger, her eyes were clouded in nothing but anger. At him. He felt sad for her, he didn't know what happened when he had missed his aim and accidentally shot her. He felt responsible for what happened. He knew she had no control over herself. He couldn't blame her for wanting to attack him.

"She will be taken care of, rest assured" The headmistress said walking over to the little girl.

Ronald nodded in understanding, he along with his other teammates started to follow Professor Glynn to the Arc residence.

Ozzlyn looked at the wreckage that once was a forest but was now singed and covered in craters. She turned to look at the girl "Jeanne" She started. The girl ignored her and kept growling unable to form even a sentence.

Jeanne's eyes widened at her words. How was that even possible?! No. This was a nightmare, right? It had to be! There was no way she was ever that monster!

"But you were" A voice said.

Jeanne spun around and saw that the girl who was tied to the tree was now in front of her. She looked back at the scene and saw she was still there. "How are you doing that?" Jeanne asked alarmed by the girls prescence.

"And you still are" She continued looking Jeanne with her blazing eyes. "What?" Jeanne asked in confusion. "They didn't tell you yet, I see, don't worry everything will become clear. Just leave everything to me" She grinned.

"Wait! What do you mean by that?! Hey, Don't leave!" Jeanne exclaimed when the little girl vanished. "How can I get out?" She asked, her voice echoed through the empty space.

"Thank you" Pyrrhus said. "No biggie, come on Rei! Lets take him down!" He said before rushing off to fight. Rei was too busy catching her breath "H-Hold on, Nore" She said. When she had finally caught her breath she followed him "Take care of your friend, we'll stall him for awhile" She said to Pyrrhus who smiled in gratitude.

Pyrrhus rushed over to Jeanne who was unconscious. "Jeanne? Are you alright?" He asked gently shaking her. Jeanne opened her eyes, Pyrruhus gave a sigh of relief. "Thank goodness"

Jeanne got to her feet. And grinned at what she saw. 'Perfect' She thought. She activated her sembalance, and small glowing wings appeared on her feet and she rushed into combat with a strong thirst for blood. 'I hope your watching, Ozlyn, Goodwitch, I'll make you regret keeping me locked up all these years and hiding the truth!' She thought. Taking a great leap, she unsheathed Crocea Moors from her Kite Shield that served as a sheath and sliced its stinger off and landing with grace.

"Woah!" Nore said in awe. Pyrrhus eyes went wide. "Jeanne. . . . "

From atop the cliff's Ozlyn and Glynn were watching the whole scene from the scroll. "Well. It looks like things are starting to get interesting, don't you think?" She said.

Glynn looked concerned. He had a feeling things were going to go awry.

To Be Continued

Authors Note: Hello again, this has been chapter 3, Thanks for reading. I would like to say, THANK YOU SO MUCH! For the reviews! I appreciate them, it gives me purpose. I don't have much to say. So thanks again for reading!

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