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Jaune brought his shield up, catching the weak spear thrust and angling his shield to turn it aside, letting the small attacker stagger past and turning, touching the tip of his long blade against area between her shoulders and laughing, "Dead again, Cairi. You put too much weight into the thrust, and I put you off balance for it. In a real fight, you'd be dead. Let's take a break and get something to drink."
"Gods, Dad, how did you get so good at this?" The small girl complained, following behind him with her spear-tip dragging in the loose soil of Salem's continent and he turned to look at her. She was scrawny like all children, with mismatched eyes of blue and white and blonde hair lanced among black tresses. " Even my sister can't fight you, and she always beats me when we spar!"
"That would be because your mother taught her." Jaune pointed out, face still young thanks to Salem's parasite, even if his skin had paled and his eyes darkened already in such a short time. "All my life, I've never beaten Neo in a fair fight. And she has your mother's Semblance, so she is training her."
"I know, but it sucks, Dad!" The nine year old whined, and Jaune rolled her eyes at her for it, reaching down and plucking her from the dirt as they reached the castle, letting her ride on one of his shoulders. Even tired and trying to pout, she still played with his hair and mumbled, "Thanks, Daddy. Watch out!"
He raised his hands as Roma appeared above him, diving down, and turned with her fall to cradle her against his chest while she signed animatedly, a mirror image of Cairi smiling up at him with a pink eye instead of white and creme colored hair lanced with his blonde instead of the black, "Hi, Daddy! I missed you."
"I missed you too, Roma." He chuckled, leaning down to plant a kiss on her forehead, drawing a mute giggle from the girl before he pulled back and gave her a stern look, "Didn't I tell you not to jump on me like that? You could get hurt."
"Mommy said to." He sighed, looking up at the castle and seeing the woman laughing mutely with Pyrrha at her side, a small smile on her face as well.
As soon as he entered through the gate, part of a perimeter wall and extension they'd built to add buildings for staff and officials they needed to run the new empire, he dropped them both on the ground and rolled his shoulders, waving at the women and turning to head into the blocky managerial building to check on things.
"Yes, yes, I understand that the bandits are still hiding in the desert." He heard Weiss groan, pushing open a door and giving her a nod as he sat down, Ruby across from him and a half-dozen other people whose names he didn't know who worked for Weiss. "Jaune, good of you to join us."
"Is everything well in my kingdom?" He joked, chuckling at the woman's rolling eyes. "Sorry, I was-"
"Playing with your kids, yes. I am fully aware" Weiss nodded, tossing a folder in front of him with a deft hand and knowing smile, "Read that, it'll catch you up on happenings, while I manage your sodding empire for you."
It was more of the same, really, the world having settled into pleasant tedium after they calmed down. The empire was at peace finally, after everything and the few initial resistances that had formed - quickly resolved thanks to some influential people like a Headmaster in Mistral, and Winter and even, to his surprise, Goodwitch - seemingly under Ozpin's direction, though, and only once the way the wind blew was incredibly obvious.
A few circling dragons whenever someone got a bit too rough did much to help, though, of course. Sometimes, a few of them could prevent a battle outright. It was hard to convince people to let themselves be eaten for a losing battle, after all, and when word began to spread of how generally well things went for everyone… Well, resistance faded fast, people eager to just get on living.
He had brought tyranny to Remnant as a whole, true, and everyone knew it deep down. But with it he had brought peace, justice, equality, freedom and prosperity to all. A fair trade, he found, to many people's opinions.
His friends had left him, for a time, when he returned from his almost completely bloodless conquering. All save Pyrrha and Cinder, at least, and none had done so to start a war. They wanted to see what the world was like, now that things had been made to change under his strong hand and Salem's clawed one. Once they saw that he was honest when he said it would be better, and they saw the changes taking place, they began to trickle back one after another until they had all returned and began to work for him to make things even better.
The only exception was Yang, who stayed on Patch with her father, resting and unwilling to rise after news of Salem's rulership came down. Still, he'd had a cybernetic Atlesian arm sent to her, just in case…
Life was good, and when he saw Neo push into the office with a smile, he let her plop into his lap and curl up comfortably and sighed. Life just kept getting better, too.
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And that's the end. Alls well in the end, and for once in my story, a happy ending exists. I hope you all enjoyed.