This is it folks. The final chapter. And it's a doozy, I hope you enjoy it. Thanks so much for reading this and I hope you like it.
Ancestral Triumph
"Okay I'll admit it," Weiss said. "That was actually enjoyable."
"So you'd watch another Spruce Willis movie?"
"I said I like this one, not all of them."
"Well either way we're all going to enjoy this next one!" Yang held up the DVD and made a evil grin with Nora. The girls took this day to catch up and relax with a metric ton of snack food and movies they hadn't seen yet. Ruby herself had eaten her weight in cookies before Weiss took them away and they had finished six movies since the start in the wee hours of the morning.
"Yeah we will, I'm going to go check on Jaune then I'll be back for the next movie."
"Hurry back!" Ruby said. Pyrrha walked down the hall humming happily. Pyrrha knocked on the door a few times waiting for a response.
"Jaune?" she asked. Pyrrha used her key and walked in but she wasn't sure what she saw. Jaune was staring angrily at a man standing across the room from him. The man was taller than Jaune but looked strikingly like him. He had blonde hair like Jaune but his was tied up in a tight ponytail, he had Jaune's blue eyes but they were more aged. "Jaune?" she asked.
"Aren't you going to introduce us, Jaune?" the man asked.
Jaune didn't say anything, Pyrrha could see he was seething.
"Jaune what's going on?"
"Nothing, he was just leaving," Jaune said.
"We still have much to discuss."
"No we don't, I already told you I'm not playing this game."
"Jaune this is far from a game."
"Jaune who is this?"
"He was just leaving," Jaune repeated.
"Damn it Jaune, please listen to me!" he shouted.
"No! What are you doing here?" Jaune asked. "Where was this when I was dying?! Or going through hell with the damn memories?! What could be worse than any of that?!"
"Jaune there is a war coming to Beacon, you're all in danger!" the man said.
Pyrrha threw the two apart and held them away with her semblance.
"Will someone tell me what the hell is going on here? Jaune who is this?!" she asked angrily. Jaune picked himself up and sighed, staring back at the man across from him.
"That is my great-grandfather, Militis Arc."
XXX
Jaune snapped his eyes open and gasped. Ren looked over quickly out of concern but Jaune just shot up and grabbed his notepad.
"Another idea?" he asked.
"Heishi, this may make fighting Beowolves a little easier if it works."
"These memories don't scare you anymore?"
"A little but after a while I've started to see what they are, they're just memories."
"Well that's good," Ren pulled out his scroll and sighed. "I'll have to leave for a while, I need to get some shopping done while Nora isn't here."
"Special gifts?" Jaune asked with an eyebrow raised.
"Pancake mix, I'm lucky if I only need to by three boxes."
"Well best of luck, the girls are still having their night in."
"Hence my timing, try to rest," Ren said as he left. Jaune put his notepad away and laid back down for a moment. He was enjoying the quiet room for a few moments before something got his attention. A faint rustling in the corner that grew louder with each second. Jaune grabbed his sword and stood up quickly just to stare into his own eyes. Jaune moved to swing but the sword moved straight through the target and embedded itself in the bed post.
"It was a good strike to be sure," the man said. Jaune quickly turned on his lamp and saw who he was talking to.
"Am I dreaming again?"
"No, Jaune, this is my final ability as your ancestor," Militis said as he moved toward the sword in the bedpost and tried to run his fingers along it. "How bittersweet to see it again."
"What are you doing here?" he asked.
"Something is coming Jaune," he said in a whisper. He turned toward Jaune and walked toward him slowly. "It's something bigger than you've ever faced, and I came to warn you so that you could warn-."
Jaune dove to tackle Militis but simply passed through him, leaving a shocked and slightly confused Militis to watch.
"That wasn't the reaction I was expecting," he admitted. Jaune growled as he got up and tried to punch Militis but again only passed through him. "What are you doing?!" Militis asked.
"You've got to be kidding me!" Jaune shouted. "What is with you?!"
"What are you talking about?" Militis asked, still confused. "I've only just gotten here!"
"And already I want you to leave!"
"Is that a reference or something?" Militis asked.
"You haven't talked to me in six months, the school year's almost over, I had just gotten used to all of this again. I was starting to accept it and now you want to tell me there's more?! What next will I start having flashbacks too?!"
"My boy this isn't about your semblance, this isn't just about you!"
About that time there was a knock on the door and Jaune could hear Pyrrha's voice.
"Go away," he ordered.
"If you don't listen to me, she's in danger too!"
"Don't you dare bring her into this!" Jaune whispered harshly.
"I'm not, what's coming is not of my doing!"
Pyrrha opened the door just then and went wide-eyed at the scene before her, unsure of what to do.
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"What are you talking about?" Pyrrha asked breathlessly, she'd started to move back toward Jaune before he moved in front of her.
"I came to warn Jaune about what's coming, but we got into another argument."
Jaune didn't say anything, but stood in front of Pyrrha staring at Militis.
"Jaune, war is coming to Beacon. It's upon you."
"Why do I have a hard time believing you?"
"The woman you defeated six months ago, Cinder Fall? She has allies that are still active, they are planning to march on Beacon."
"You mean Torchwick?" Pyrrha asked.
"Who?" Militis asked.
"Probably not then, but then who? We knew that Torchwick was working with Cinder, but who else?" Jaune asked.
The door slammed open jarring all three in the room.
"Pyrrha what's taking so long?" Yang asked with Ruby and the others in tow. Militis sighed as they were once again interrupted. "Pyrrha why are there two Jaune's?" Yang asked.
As if she read his mind, Pyrrha took the girls out of the room and stood outside the room. The two argued in the room behind them.
"Can I repeat my question?" Yang asked with wide eyes.
"Was that who I think it was?!" Weiss asked suddenly.
Pyrrha could only nod, still lacking the energy to speak.
"Who was that?" Ruby asked.
"Militis the White Knight," Weiss said.
"Wait that guy that slayed all those dragons?" Yang asked.
"Yes but now the bigger question is why was he in the room with Jaune of all people?!"
"His r-real name was Militis Arc," Pyrrha managed to say. "H-he's Jaune's great-grandfather."
The girls were silent as Pyrrha kept trying to calm herself down.
XXX
"You call them the White Fang, those misguided souls," Militis lamented.
"Why would they attack Beacon?" Jaune asked.
"Their leader, a man called Adam Taurus, would call it a strike on the decadence of mankind. Saying it would cripple them and administer justice to all of the Faunus' enemies."
"But what's the truth?"
"Cinder has had him under her thumb for a while, she'll most likely wish to eliminate her main enemies and give her a chance to escape all in one. They have Grimm on leash to bolster their ranks, and most likely can corral more of them to aid them."
"How do you know of them?"
"I was able to talk with one of our ancestors, Tempus, she was gifted with a foresight semblance. It was how she was able to understand our semblance and our destinies. She was the one who named it the Ancestor Semblance, she saw the visions of war. Beacon on fire and crashed down from the sky, these young ones dead and burning."
"I get it! How do we stop them then?"
"I was able to use my final gift as your ancestor to warn you, now you must warn your teachers."
"How will they believe me? To them I'm just one of those young ones, only Ozpin would even slightly believe me."
"Then go to him, talk to him, this is up to you now. You have the ability to act now and end this war before it starts!"
"They won't end it, they'll just bolster and prepare for it," Jaune said.
"They can't do that! If this war hits Beacon, millions will die! Cinder will escape and the kingdoms will fall! Jaune this all falls on you now!"
"Oh what a shock!" Jaune shouted. "It's all on me, let me guess this is my destiny?!" Jaune asked angrily, grabbing his sword again.
"Jaune if this was your destiny I wouldn't be allowed to interfere," Militis said. "But-."
"But you have no problem using me!"
"Jaune, what are you saying?"
"I'm sick of this! Ever since you showed up all that you've done is tell me that I need to step up and do this, do that, save the world again and again! I'm sick of it! I'm just a kid! I'm still in school!"
"Jaune this is what it means to be an Arc, Amicus and Praesidium need people who are willing to protect and willing to fight!"
"You still don't get it do you?! I'm not an Arc! Dad saw that and that's why I stole the sword and shield! I faked transcripts to get here and I ran away!" Jaune threw the weapons across the room and watched them land in a pile. "Don't throw that name around me like it's supposed to mean something to me."
Militis sighed and moved back towards the weapons and took hold of them to Jaune's surprise.
"Jaune I don't care who you are now, and I don't care who you've been. What I care about is seeing you live your life, you said yourself you'd figure a way out of this curse. I care about who you're going to be."
"I don't believe you."
"Jaune if this war comes to Beacon, you will die. This will claim your life and the lives of your friends. I told you this so you could avoid this!"
"So you're telling me that I die like you did? I die in war? That's my destiny?" Jaune asked bitterly. Militis didn't say anything, he just lowered his hands. "I don't want it, take it back."
"Take what back?"
"The semblance! You said that Amicus and Praesidium needed people who were willing right? Well I'm not playing your games anymore, so take it back."
His eyes were the same as hers. That look of betrayal and shock that bled through his tears. Militis dropped the sword and shield, staring back at Jaune.
"Jaune?" he asked.
"TAKE IT BACK!" Jaune shouted as he fell to his knees. By the time he looked back up Militis was gone and Pyrrha was knelt beside him. He felt it as he took deeper and deeper breaths.
They were gone.
"What did I miss?" Ren asked suddenly, holding the bags of groceries.
XXX
"They're gone sir," the Lieutenant said.
"Good, find her and bring her here," Adam ordered.
"How many of us should go sir?"
"As many of you that are needed to bring her here, but she needs to be alive. She will watch."
"With due respect sir, Miss Fall's orders-."
Adam drew his blade and rest it square on the lieutenant's throat.
"Miss Fall can argue with me when she's out of prison. Find Belladonna and bring her here."
"On your orders," the Lieutenant said with a salute.
XXX
"Man we just can't catch a break can we?" Ruby asked. Jaune chuckled a bit.
"Seems we can't," Jaune said.
"But with what Militis said, shouldn't we warn somebody?" Pyrrha asked.
"I don't know about it, Militis said one of our ancestors Tempus could see the future. But I don't know, future viewing never really works out."
"I still think we should at least tell Ozpin, he knew about all this before hand. He might believe us."
"But what would he do?" Jaune asked. "Militis was sure that he'd just use a miracle and stop it but what would he do really? He bolster down and defend, and according to Militis, we do that we die."
"Then what do we do?" Yang asked.
"I don't know," Jaune said.
"Well does Militis have any ideas?" Pyrrha asked.
"If he does he can't tell me."
"Why not?"
"He's gone, they're all gone. My semblance is gone."
The others went wide eyed and the table quieted.
"I got into an argument with Militis and I haven't heard from them since."
"So all that wicked sword and shield stuff is gone?" Yang asked.
"I still know some of it, but I can't call on them anymore. Silver lining is that the memories are gone, I got a full night of sleep last night," Jaune rubbed his eyes and leaned back just as Weiss came to the table with annoyed face.
"Where is Blake?" she asked.
"Why?" Yang asked.
"She left the room a wreck and even left her book out! She's usually so good about this," she ranted, swinging the book around her as she spoke.
"Wait that's one of her romance books, she never leaves those out!" Ruby said.
"Well where is she?" Weiss asked.
"I don't know I haven't seen her," Yang said.
"Well I'll just call her scroll then," Weiss dialed, still angry about the room. She held the phone to her ear and heard the ringing echo from the hallway behind them. They ran to find her scroll sitting in an empty hallway.
"Man we just can't catch a break can we?" Ruby asked.
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"Hey lookee what we caught," one of the grunts said. They led Blake blindfolded and bound through the camp to the cheers of the other White Fang, they'd already torn out her bow and most of her clothing in the scuffle so there was nothing to hide her shame other than the blindfold. The grunt picked her up and shoved her into the waiting hands of another soldier who shoved her back. They continued the game for a few more minutes, jeering at her and calling her names as they did.
"Enough!"
The entire camp went still and Blake's blood froze, the voice echoed and brought back legions of memories. She felt a cloth cover her body and the blindfold get thrown away at the same time, but she dare not open her eyes. She looked down to the ground as the voice moved closer.
"Such a warm reunion isn't it?" he asked.
Blake couldn't move even though everything in her body wanted her to. She wanted to run, she wanted to scream, she wanted to cry.
But she couldn't. She couldn't even breathe.
"Do we have her seat prepared?" Adam asked.
"Yes sir," the grunt said.
"This is how we'll repay your betrayal Blake," Adam whispered in a growl. They threw Blake into the chair and cuffed her hands and feet, Adam forced her eyes open and she saw Beacon, shining in the sky. Below she saw what awaited. Thousands, tens of thousands gathering at the base. Grimm in cages and airships ready to be unleashed upon the school and her friends.
War was coming to Beacon.
"No, please," Blake pleaded.
"This could have been our day! Our glory! Our revolution!" Adam finished the sentence with a strike to her face. "But you were a coward and you ran, like you always did. You can't run this time Blake, you just get to watch."
"Adam, stop!"
Adam tossed the knife to one of his grunts. "Silence her."
Blake's eyes went wide and she struggled to free herself as the man drew closer. She turned her head away but another soldier grabbed her head and forced her mouth open. Blake waited patiently as Adam turned his back. The second the knife touched her tongue the clone melted and she ran.
"Get her!" the grunt yelled. But Blake just left a trail of clones as she ran, they couldn't catch her. She had to warn them.
She had to warn them.
XXX
"Warn me of what?" Ozpin asked as he sat down.
"Militis was in my room the other night," Jaune started. "He told me war was coming to Beacon."
"War?" Goodwitch asked. "That's a bit extreme isn't it?"
"Those were his words, Tempus told him that the White Fang were coming to march. It's a distraction ploy to let Cinder escape in the chaos, but Militis was adamant that we'd all die if we tried to survive this. That we needed to avoid this, not fight it."
"And he specifically said the White Fang we're responsible?"
"He called out Adam Taurus by name, that's not a name he would know otherwise."
"I see." Ozpin stayed silent for a few more moments. "I have a meeting with General Ironwood from Atlas later today, if you'd like you could come with and explain to him."
"Yes sir," Jaune nodded and made his way toward the elevator.
"Jaune, if Militis is correct about this, you may be in danger."
"What else is new?" Jaune asked.
XXX
"That's new," Yang said as she looked out the window. The ships flying by had circled already, she recognized the numbers.
"Yang, come on we have to find her!" Ruby shouted. She'd been worried sick for all her friends for months, it felt like she was never going to be happy again with all this chaos.
"We will Rubes, I'm sure she's fine, Blake's a big girl," Yang assured. Ruby gave a half-hearted smile and kept walking. In truth Yang was worried sick, but she knew that expressing it would only make it worse. So she kept her smile and kept her head up.
They walked out into the courtyard just as the sun started to sink below the horizon and the shattered moon began shining.
"BLAKE!" Ruby called out into the empty courtyard yet again, in vain hope of a response.
"RUBY!" Blake shouted back. Ruby and the others went wide eyed with smiles until they saw Blake turn the corner, in tattered clothes and bloody fingers.
"Blake?!" Weiss asked. "What happened to you?"
"Wh-." Blake clutched her arms around her tightly, sending blood cascading down her arms and to the ground. "White Fang!" she shouted. JNPR had just joined them as she struggled to speak. "They're here! Th-they want t-to," she broke down and fell to her knees unable to speak. Jaune ran out to the edge of Beacon and looked out upon the hills below. The thundering march echoed up to Beacon and Jaune couldn't count the number of airships flying their way. The students gathered behind him in shock and awe as they watched.
Militis was right. And Jaune couldn't do anything about it.
"Jaune, what do we do?" Pyrrha asked.
No. Jaune had already played the damsel in distress once, he'd put all his friends in too much danger before. He would not do it again. Destiny be damned, he would do this.
Jaune unsheathed his sword and readied his shield and turned back towards the students amassing with them.
"Our job."
XXX
"Do your job! You see this yourself Ozpin!" Ironwood said as he paced around. Ozpin had simply stared out of the window as he watched the students gather in the front of the school. "Call for help!"
"Our communication lines were cut hours ago, shortly before you arrived. If you want to flex your army's muscles then you must make the call. Right now all we can do is give our students the support they need," he said. Professor Oobleck and Port were staring out as well as Glynda, staring at the growing army.
"What can they do?" Ironwood asked, pulling out his scroll.
"They can protect, they can defend, and they can win."
XXX
"LISTEN!" Jaune shouted. Some students gathered around them as the ships neared, others too lost in their fear. "I know you're scared! Believe me I get it!"
The students looked around at the army bearing down on them in obvious fear. Some had already fled towards the school.
"But before you give in to this fear, ask yourself who you are! Who are you?!" he asked.
The school muttered among themselves in response.
"I've spent enough time with some of you to know that you're waiting! You're waiting for the day when you'll make your impact, or waiting for the day you find out what you're meant to do! Today is that day! We all have people that we want to protect! Some of them are here in this school, some of them are back where you live! And right now those people need you!"
More and more students lined up before him as he marched in front of them, drawing their weapons and pumping themselves up.
"This is the day we prove who we are to the Grimm and to the White Fang! This is how you'll make your impact, how you'll have your Day! When you lay down everything you've got to protect what you love! That's how you achieve destiny! So if you're looking for the day that you change history, congratulations." Jaune looked down at the army and back to the ships drawing ever nearer. "You just found that day!"
The students gave a cheer as they armed themselves. Every student stood before them not as soldiers, but as but as friends and protectors.
"Pyrrha, gather every swordsmen, soldier, martial artist and make ranks to defend!"
"Got it!"
"Ruby, you take everyone with a long range firearm up to the top of Beacon, I want you to call out what you see and take down Grimm. If it flies, it dies."
"Aye-Aye sir!" Ruby dashed off with a few more students.
"Weiss gather everyone who can help you make defenses, make as many walls as you can and prepare to hold them."
"Yes sir!"
"Blake?" Jaune looked over at her as she composed herself. "I need your intel, right now you know the most about them."
Blake shook her head. "I c-can't!" she said softly.
"Blake I don't care who you were, I don't care you are now, right now all I care about is what you are going to be. And that starts now, you have a clean slate. Make the best of it."
Blake just nodded.
"So what are we fighting?"
"The majority of the White Fang isn't an army, it's more like a militia. These guys don't fight unless it's absolutely unavoidable. That's why they'll be using the Grimm for most of it."
"What kind of Grimm do they have?"
"The better questions is what don't they have, if it exists they can use it."
"What kind of soldiers are we expecting?"
"The real fighting soldiers are mostly big guys with big guns, so they should be easy to isolate."
"Thanks Blake, now you take any rouges and get information scout ahead and take out the forerunners if you can but don't take too many risks!" he told her. Blake nodded and moved to her post. "Ruby what's it look like up there?" Jaune asked through his earpiece.
"Fifty Nevermores, at least thirty Griffons and dozens of airships within range, lots more out of range."
"How many can you guys take out?"
"All of them," she answered with a nasty giggle.
"Prove it."
"With gusto!"
"Weiss, how are we looking?" he asked as she jogged back to him.
"These glyphs can last for 12 hours under normal soldier fire, which these guys are not. But Velvet has been bolstering them with her own copies. We could last for at least a full day."
"Good don't take risks, keep them strong!"
"Yes sir!" She ran back as Jaune walked to the front of the ranks.
"Pyrrha how are we looking?"
"We have twelve full legions, and enough shields to make a full phalanx, we can hold. And with the soldiers fire, we can take them out before they ever get there."
"Good."
"Mr. Arc?"
"Director Ozpin?" he asked through his earpiece.
"Yes, I've just been informed that the first line of Atlas re-enforcement will land here at dawn. Can you survive until then?"
"Yes we can."
"Then do it, I believe in you boy. I don't need to tell you you're outnumbered."
"What else is new?" Jaune looked out as the first airships started to land. "Get ready," he shouted. "DRIVE THEM BACK!"
XXX
Adam looked out from his airship at the defenses they'd mounted. How they gathered their what meager strength they had in front of the school.
"Pitiful," he muttered.
The airships opened and Grimm launched from the holds barreling down toward the school.
"Orders sir?" the sergeant asked, cracking her knuckles.
"Bring them to their knees!"
XXX
"Now is when it begins," Ozpin whispered.
"That young man with the sword and shield is quite adamant about this, can he do it?" Ironwood asked.
"I wouldn't trust anyone else with this task."
XXX
Jaune ducked right as an Ursa swung it's claws at him and cut it's leg off entirely before decapitating it. He looked over as the ranks reformed and pushed the Beowolf pack away and off the cliff. The defenses were impenetrable, even the stray Ursa that got through couldn't break through the barriers. All the threats were taken care of. Jaune could watch the Grimm fall from the sky with rapid succession. They had turned the courtyard and the school into a choke point.
"Ruby how are we doing?"
"Thirty-five! Thirty-six! Thirty-seven!"
"This such crap she's winning!" he heard another kid shout.
"Good keep it up!" he looked over at Pyrrha giving her commands and watching the form and ranks isolating individual Ursas to deal with them. The rouges and speedsters took care of any strays or White Fang runners.
"Weiss how are you guys holding up?"
"The defenses are holding well, we've opened up small doors to let people through. We still have plenty of energy to keep this up. Sky Lark is also helping, turns out he can make force fields too."
"Good those defenses are our number one priority, if we need to retreat we need to survive anything."
"Yes sir."
"Jaune we've got a problem!" Ruby called out.
"What kind?"
"Huge airships! They're bigger than the others, they're carrying Goliaths!" Jaune ran over and saw the Goliaths flailing in the ships hold.
"How many?"
"Four airships, twelve Goliaths!"
"Can you take them out?"
"I've got ten bullets, so I can take out eleven Goliaths, but I cant dent those airships until I make an ammo run."
"Thanks, do what you can, we'll plan down here. Pyrrha! Ren! Weiss!" Jaune called.
"Do we have a problem?" Pyrrha asked.
"What else is new? We're going to have a Goliath land here soon."
"I don't know the glyphs can survive that," Weiss admitted.
"Well how can we stop it?" Ren asked. Jaune pulled out his notepad and skimmed through quickly.
"Heishi used their own momentum against them to defeat them. If we can match it's power while charging we could stop them, but what can we use?" Jaune shook his head and looked around until he saw the generator that helped power the school. Ren followed Jaune's line of vision as it traced to Nora who was in the midst of killing another Deathstalker.
"We will die," Ren warned.
"I'd rather die to Nora than die to them! Hey Nora, wanna do something fun?"
XXX
"Are they attaching Ms. Valkyrie to the generator?" Professor Port asked.
"It seems they are," Oobleck agreed. The silence built up as they watched.
"This could be interesting."
"Most certainly."
"Ten lien says she crushes it's head," Port wagered.
"I'd say she takes it's legs out."
"You're on, Doctor!"
"I think she does something stranger," Ozpin wagered with a smirk.
"Are you sure she can do this?" Ironwood asked, unsure of the plan.
"I'm not sure about anything anymore," Ozpin replied.
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"Are we sure about this?!" Ren asked as he hesitantly neared Nora with the last clamp.
"No, but what else is new? Are you ready Nora?"
"I WAS BORN READY!" she shouted.
"That scares me," Jaune muttered. "Give it to her!"
Ren threw the black clamp into her hands where the red clamp was waiting and they watched the electricity crackle along her skin as her resounding laughter pealed through the night sky. The Goliath was dropped and it charged straight for Nora down the funnel of barriers Weiss and Sky had made. Nora dropped the cord just as the Goliath's tusks reached her and she snapped them off with ease turning to slam the tusks into it's head. The tusks pierced through the soft part of it's skull and it lunged backwards in pain. The Goliath whimpered and fell with a tremendous crash as Nora's howling laughter echoed.
"That will haunt my nightmares," Jaune admitted. The silence fell on the battlefield for a few more moments.
"Mr. Arc, we have another problem!" Ozpin said.
"What now?" Jaune asked just as two huge airships roared into view.
"Those are Titan-class Airships, they have automatic countermeasures for any kind of missile or rocket strike. By the time you wore through it's countermeasures it will be at the school!" Ironwood shouted over the earpiece.
"Then how do we stop them?!" Jaune asked.
"I was hoping you knew!" Ironwood said.
Jaune shook his head in frustration until he saw Nora moving in the corner of his eye. He turned just to see something fly up in the sky.
"Was that the-?"
XXX
"Those airships will destroy us!" Ironwood said.
"Mr. Arc will figure something out."
"But they don't have enough-."
Both Ironwood and Ozpin tracked the flying object with great interest.
"Did she just throw the-?"
XXX
"You heard our leader!" the captain of the ship shouted with laughter. "Bring them to their knees!" The others cheered until the klaxon started blaring.
"Sir, we have an incoming projectile!" the sonar-man warned.
"Who cares, we have the countermeasures! Let them try!"
"Sir, the countermeasures aren't working!" he said worried.
"Why not?!" the captain asked. He ran over to the window just as it came into view. "Is that a Goliath?"
XXX
Jaune and the entire school watched as the Goliath that Nora threw crashed into the airship, taking out it's left engine and sending it spiraling into the other airship. Both of them crashed in the distance with a long series of huge explosions. Jaune just blinked in speechless awe.
"THAT WAS AWESOME!" Ruby shouted through the earpiece.
XXX
"That was definitely stranger," Port admitted as he handed the lien over to his boss.
"And efficient." Oobleck also handed his over.
"That young woman just took down two Titan-Class airships by throwing a Goliath," Ironwood said with amazement.
"I'd say the students are quickly coming into their own at this point."
"Something is coming!" a voice shouted from behind them. Ozpin turned just as Militis took a physical form. "There's something worse coming! But I can't get down to warn him about it!"
"Militis the White Knight?" Ironwood asked. "What is he doing here?"
"You have to warn Jaune, it's coming!"
"What is coming?" Ozpin asked.
Just then the ground shook with tremendous fury and the whole room went silent.
"I failed."
XXX
The students were still cheering as the airships pulled away, Jaune gave a smile and a shout as well until he felt it. The shaking.
"Jaune!" he heard Militis scream over the earpiece.
"Militis? Get down here and talk to me," Jaune ordered.
"I can't! I failed!"
"Why not?"
The ground continued to shake and the students looked around in panic. Even the Grimm looked around in worry.
"What did you fail?" Jaune asked.
"My destiny."
"Destiny be damned, what is going on?!"
"Jaune what was the one thing I had fame for? The one reason people even know my name?"
The ground stopped shaking, and the mountains crumbled, the sky grew dark as the beast emerged from the mountains and unfurled it's wings.
"I failed my boy," Militis lamented.
XXX
Militis stood beside Ozpin and lamented as the dragon flew toward the school. The faculty stood in horror as they armed themselves to try and help the students but Militis just wept.
"I'm sorry, Jaune."
XXX
"Pyrrha! Get everyone inside the school now!" Jaune called out. Pyrrha signaled the retreat and watched the students scramble back. "Ruby what is that?!"
"Um, a dragon!" she shouted back.
"Fair enough," he muttered. "Get everyone out of it's line of fire if you can!"
"Got it!"
"Weiss! Can this thing get through?!"
"At this point it could, but," she hesitated.
"But what?"
"But if I sealed everything off and upped the power it could last. But if we do that then we can't go back out. We're trapped in there."
"Ozpin! Is there a place the students can hide?!"
"Yes I'll have the faculty start leading people in."
"Good, Weiss go meet Pyrrha in the school and make sure she got everyone in, when you see her seal off everything. I'll be right behind you."
"Yes sir!" Weiss jogged off, leaving Jaune in the courtyard.
"Militis?" he asked. "Are you still there?"
"Yes, my boy," he said.
"If you see Pyrrha tell her I'm sorry."
XXX
"PYRRHA!" Weiss shouted. "Is everyone in?"
"Yes they are why?" Pyrrha asked.
"I'm sealing us off!"
"Do it!" Pyrrha said with a smile. A few more moments of concentration and all of Weiss' glyphs shone brighter and spun faster. The students cheered and sighed in relief.
"There, nothing's getting through there now!"
"Jaune will be happy, where is he?"
"He was right behind me," Weiss said. The two looked around until Pyrrha looked out of the windows. Her face went pale and she fell to her knees pleading that what she saw wasn't real.
XXX
"Jaune if you do this you will die!" Militis said.
"Says who?" he asked as he ran towards the edge of the courtyard.
"What could you possibly have planned?"
"Trust me I have a plan."
"But what could you hope to do to it?"
"We're knights aren't we?"
"Yes," he said hesitantly.
"Then it's our job to slay dragons!" Jaune held up his shield as high as he could, garnering the dragon's attention. "Besides if what you say is true, then that dragon should recognize this symbol!" The dragon flew past him in a great roar and floated above him letting drop small blobs of shadow that held more Grimm. Jaune dispatched them with ease, which only made the dragon angrier. With every roar it made more Grimm were attracted and charged at Jaune. But Jaune held his ground, finally the dragon landed in front of Jaune staring at his shield and sword.
"Jaune don't die for my failures!" Militis pleaded.
"Who said I was going to die?" Jaune asked.
XXX
Pyrrha beat against the glass trying desperately to escape.
"Sas parakalo, min to kanete afto gia mena!" (Please do not do this to me!) she shouted.
"Pyrrha we need to trust him!" Weiss tried to pull her back, but she herself was torn
"Se parakalo mi me afinies!" (Please do not leave me!) she screamed. Weiss and Blake finally peeled her away as she fell to her knees sobbing. "Se agapo."
"What's going on?" Ruby asked as she dashed in. Weiss just pointed out the window as Pyrrha wept. Ruby looked out and cheered.
"He cut off it's wings?!" she shouted. "That is awesome!"
XXX
Jaune landed with a roll as the dragon roared in pain.
"Gonna be honest, can't really believe that worked," he muttered. Jaune skated around the dragon keeping ahead enough to avoid all the attacks it made.
"Jaune what are you planning?!" Militis asked.
"This is my destiny, and if you want to help me, feel free."
"What is Jaune?"
"Like what I said in my speech, my destiny is to protect what I love. And everything I love is behind me. So I'm taking this thing down."
"Why?"
"If that thing is left alive then they'll never survive, the White Fang will come up behind it and storm. If they have any hope of living through this then this thing must die."
"How do you plan to do that?"
"By cutting it's head off," Jaune said simply.
"That's ludicrous!"
"Yeah but so are most of my plans, it's a running theme with me. It can't fly away now, so it's stationary for the most part. Now I just need to position myself so-."
Jaune moved to the right just as the Dragon unleashed a blast of fire.
"Wait, it actually breathes fire?!" he asked.
"It is a dragon, what did you expect?"
"Fair point."
Jaune rolled beneath another fireball and grabbed it's snout tightly. The dragon narrowed it's eyes and reared it's head back, flinging Jaune up into the air.
"What was that meant to accomplish?!" Militis asked. Jaune slammed his shield into his sword and watched it transform into the longer sword.
"Exactly what you'd think. Find rest, Militis." Jaune dove down and using the momentum of his fall sliced cleanly through the dragon's neck and slammed into the ground. A piercing silence echoed in the courtyard for a few moments as the dragon's body disintegrated.
Without warning cheers of Jaune's name roared to life from the school as Jaune stood again.
XXX
"He did it!" Militis said excitedly, he felt a peace flow through his spirit as he laughed jovially.
"Do you doubt him now, James?"
"Well you said yourself, I'm not sure of anything anymore."
XXX
"He did it!" Ruby shouted. The students cheered his name and grew more and more excited with each second. Pyrrha herself was overtaken with joyous laughter and cheered the loudest.
"Se empistevomai," (I trust you,) she whispered with a smile.
XXX
"Jaune, you did it."
"Told you I was going to do it," Jaune said.
"I'm sorry I didn't believe you,"
"Well I didn't get off scot-free," he said nursing his shoulder. "I think I broke my wrist and dislocated my shoulder."
"Well you'll have plenty of time to rest my boy, they'll be safe. Thank you Jaune."
"I did it as much for me as much as you."
"But they'll be safe, so-."
Jaune felt the air rush past him as he three carrier airships zoomed into view and started dropping soldiers. They landed and rushed towards Jaune with guns blazing.
"Arrogant little bastards!" Militis shouted.
"What he said," Jaune muttered.
XXX
"Man we just can't catch a break," Ruby sighed.
"Can we do anything to help him?" Yang asked.
"I can't take down the barriers, so the White Fang can't get in but neither can Jaune. We can't help him."
"There must be something we can do!" Blake argued.
"If I take down these glyphs then I can't put them back up again, Jaune wanted us safe."
"NO!" Pyrrha screamed suddenly. "Den eimai enas theatis!" (I'm not a spectator!) Pyrrha's arms turned black and she concentrated on the airships. The engines of the airships collapsed on themselves and began to descend rapidly, falling out of view and crashing in the distance. She turned and grabbed every single gun the soldiers had and threw them all over the edge of Beacon's courtyard. "If you've got something that can help him do it! We're safe in here but I'm not leaving him to die!" she shouted. "Fight with him!"
XXX
"That was," Jaune started.
"Interesting."
"What was that?"
"She's fighting with you my boy," Militis said happily. Jaune turned as Pyrrha used her semblance to even the odds for him. She grabbed his sword and threw it into his hand giving him a smiling nod. Jaune turned back to the soldiers and stared at them. "You're outnumbered and wounded Jaune."
"What else is new?" Jaune grabbed his right arm and forced his shoulder back in it's socket. He used a bit of his hoodie's shredded sleeve to strap the shield to his hand, saving his broken wrist. He looked back up as some of the soldiers looked around anxiously. "I owe you an apology Militis."
"For the argument?"
"That and it's because of you I know my destiny now. Even if it isn't what I thought it would be."
"Then you know what you need to do," Militis said somberly.
"Yeah I do." Jaune walked towards the army, sword and shield in hand and cracked his neck. "Next?"
XXX
"Anything you've got can help!" Pyrrha shouted. Students gathered and threw out what they could. Some used telekinesis to stop attacks on Jaune's flank, others put up barriers to make choke points. Pyrrha herself went on a rampage and destroyed every airship that came their way, flinging them like paper airplanes into the horizon.
Jaune kept up his assault, since guns weren't involved he was free to attack and take them out. He didn't kill when he could avoid it, choosing instead to knock unconscious or break limbs to stop the attacks. He wasn't as strong as he was before, but he had the support he needed. Soon the assaults stopped and the soldiers parted to make a path. Jaune looked up just as Adam marched toward him, the other White Fang cheered as he walked calmly toward Jaune. But soon a silence fell when he stopped before him and looked around to the school. He made eye contact with Blake behind one of the glyphs and froze her in fear.
"All of this," he said with disdain. "Was it worth it?"
"If you have to ask, then you don't get it."
"Perhaps," he admitted. "But tell me, when these children see their hero fall what will they do? What will their leaders do to stop them from fleeing in fear? What can they do?"
"You keep thinking that with every one of us you kill that you'll make us weaker, but that's not how this works. Taking away one of us doesn't make us weaker. It doesn't strike fear into our hearts, it just makes us fight harder. So I guarantee you, if you manage to kill me somehow, they'll tear down those barriers and march on you."
Adam's posture changed and he readied his sword. "I'm almost disappointed."
Adam lunged at Jaune in a thrust that Jaune parried to the side, opening Adam up. But Adam was faster than he'd thought and slammed the pommel of his katana into Jaune's ribs. Jaune moved to defend himself but Adam caught him off guard again and threw him down to the ground. Adam scoffed and slammed his boot down on Jaune's right hand to a symphony of sickening breaks.
"Is this truly the battle that decides my destiny? Not even worth the effort." Adam began to move away until he heard Jaune stand up. He turned just as Jaune ripped a part of his t-shirt and tied his sword to his broken hand.
"I never said it was over." Jaune spit a glob of blood from his mouth and took his stance again. Adam went again for the thrust but Jaune knew how to counter, he struck the blade with his and let Adam collide with the shield. Adam moved to slash at his shield arm but Jaune let the sword skid off of his shield and took Adam's legs out from under him. Adam recovered just as Jaune threw himself back, giving him ample room to recover. Adam held his sword and sheath in front of him and began charging his sword. The blade charged and started glowing a deep crimson red.
"NO!" Blake shouted in fear.
Adam quickly withdrew his sword and the energy followed the arc flying toward Jaune. Jaune pointed his sword down and hid it behind his shield as he knelt toward the blast. The energy gathered itself as it traveled and formed a large striking area. When it finally connected the resulting explosion sent smoke and flame in a cascading plume. Adam sheathed his sword quickly and turned back to the school until he heard Jaune stand again. Jaune's shield started glowing brightly now and he marched toward Adam.
Adam simply undid the top button of his shirt and met Jaune's march head on. "You're starting to motivate me."
"Yeah I might actually have to start trying now," Jaune shouted back.
Adam launched two more blasts of energy but Jaune was ready. He dragged his sword across his shield and took the energy head on, the energy was actually absorbed by the shield. Jaune dragged his sword across again and slashed the air twice. An X made of a shining white energy similar to Adam's flew from Jaune's sword.
Adam shot two bullets into the energy to dissipate the arms and dashed through. But he landed just as Jaune slammed his shield into his head. Adam slid back and held the pieces of his mask onto his face. Blake covered her face as Adam threw down the mask and made it shatter into oblivion. Jaune stared in shock as Adam regained his composure, staring into the bloodshot eyes, devoid of pupil, iris, and all color. Jaune's eyes traced the large horizontal line that moved through the pale white orbs and all the way across his face.
"Are you disgusted?" Adam asked with a sneer. "Human justice has that effect on me as well." Jaune just retook his stance and watched as Adam ground the last bits of his mask into the dust. "You try my patience."
Jaune just stood his ground.
Adam sneered again and dashed towards him. Jaune held his shield up but Adam pulled the shield down and kicked Jaune in the jaw. Jaune fell on his back, scrambling madly to get up but Adam slammed his foot down on Jaune's bicep breaking his arm in two. He withdrew his sword and went to stab him but Pyrrha grabbed it first and threw both it and the sheath off the cliff. Adam growled and picked up Jaune by the throat.
"Why!"
He struck him in the stomach.
"Won't!"
A slap in the face.
"You!"
He threw him down into the ground face first.
"Just!"
He ground his heel on the back of Jaune's head.
"DIE!"
He picked Jaune up and carried him over to the cliff ready to end this. But Jaune escaped his grasp and punched him in the back.
"Because I'm not done yet," he said weakly. Jaune threw his sword and shield down to the ground and took a stance as best he could. Adam screamed in rage and tackled Jaune to the ground. Jaune used his training from Pyrrha to maneuver out of his grasp and pin him down. A few of the stray White Fang went to aid Jaune but Pyrrha kept them all at bay by manipulating their metal armor.
Adam freed himself and went to punch Jaune in the face. Since Jaune was so grievously wounded he couldn't get up in time and couldn't dodge it. Adam threw him to the side and grabbed Jaune's sword.
"I will not let you stand in the way!" he shouted.
"In the way of what?" Jaune asked. He slowly got up to one knee staring at Adam through his bloody wounds. "What could you gain from this? If Cinder escapes she'll just put you under her thumb again and you've gained nothing!"
"When all this is over I don't need her! She's used the White Fang for too long!"
"And you don't think she'll do it again?"
"I'll start a fire that will burn this world clean! This shining beacon will be the torch of revolution! We will rise up and claim our destiny!"
The White Fang shouted in triumph but Jaune just shook his head.
"You don't know the meaning of the word," Jaune said. "Destiny isn't what you get when you take from others, it's what you gain from giving all you are to protect those who matter." Adam struck him again and continued to beat him.
"Jaune's aura is depleting! He's almost done!" Blake said fearfully staring at her scroll.
"Can anyone help him?!" Ruby asked.
"We're exhausted, we've done all we can," the others argued.
"No we haven't," Pyrrha said. "Everyone follow my lead!" Pyrrha said. Jaune looked up into Pyrrha's smiling face as she started striking her sword into her shield.
At first it was just one noise, clanking harmlessly in the echoing silence.
But soon it was two.
Then four.
Then twenty.
Before Adam could silence them every student joined in the pounding sounds. A unified percussion that only spurred Jaune on, but drove fear into the White Fang's ranks. Jaune moved to stand again but Adam put the sword against his throat.
"I'll burn this place to the ground, and your little friends will be the embers in the flame!"
"Well that's all you had to say," Jaune said with a smile.
Adam swung Jaune's sword as hard as he could at Jaune's neck but Jaune just smiled.
The deafening clash of steel returned in a brilliant crash as the sword hovered uselessly above Jaune's head. Jaune kept laughing as he stood up and the same sword held itself in the air as someone appeared beside Jaune.
Militis took a deep inhale and felt the life in his body, happily feeling his sword and shield in his hand.
"How are the others doing?" Jaune asked.
"They'll be here shortly, I applaud your subtle hints, but I almost didn't realize what you meant."
"Well I took a leap of faith."
Adam growled again and moved to strike Militis but Militis just threw him aside easily. Adam scrambled up just as an army appeared behind Jaune.
"That's Wudao the Dancer!" Blake said with a smile. "And that's Heishi the Hunter."
"Over there is Polemos the Conqeror! And there's General Drakon!" Weiss marveled at the ones appearing, the other students watched as the army grew covering every spare spot in the courtyard and spilling into the hallways of the school.
Pyrrha simply smiled.
"You showed me your army, now see mine."
Militis flicked his sword against his shield and the sword burst into flames.
"Wait they can do that?!" Jaune asked.
"Well I could, I'm not sure you can."
"Damn, that's cool."
"What are you complaining about, you used the shield to absorb energy and rebound it. I couldn't do that."
"Once again, fair point."
"This isn't over! The White Fang will rise again, even if you kill me!" he screamed.
"I never said I was going to kill you, that was never the goal. In fact we never intended for this battle to go beyond the dawn."
"Then we'll end it before you ever see it!" Adam screamed.
"Too late." Jaune pointed as the sun rose above the mountains illuminating the hundreds of airships headed their way. Bearing down on them and aiming for the White Fang. One of them stopped above and dropped soldiers down right next to Adam.
"Adam Taurus! Drop to your knees and put your hands behind your head!" Adam could only kneel as they surrounded him.
"The dawn has come," Jaune said simply. "We won."
XXX
"Well we won, I mean," Yang said with a smirking shrug. "That's something."
"And with only injuries and no deaths it sends a clear message," Pyrrha said happily.
"A message that we know she received," Professor Ozpin said.
"Still no contact?" Jaune asked.
"Not since the first message to let us know she escaped," Ironwood explained.
"But it's been two months! She should have said something by now!" Ruby said in a huff.
"She's scared," Weiss surmised. "She's obviously needed time to plan."
"And Adam?" Blake asked hesitantly.
"He won't be going anywhere." Ironwood assured her. Blake gave a comforted sigh. "And if what he gave us is accurate it should work."
They waited in silence for moments longer until the familiar black queen popped up on the screen, signaling her call. Ozpin moved to answer but Jaune stopped him.
"Let me talk to her," he asked. Ozpin nodded and moved out of the seat. "Are you ready Weiss?"
"Yes I am, it'll start when you answer."
"Are you sure about this?" Ironwood asked.
"Positive."
Pyrrha helped him sit down and helped move his cast and sling around as he needed.
"S efcharisto agapi," (Thanks love) he said softly. Pyrrha just smiled and moved out of the way as Jaune pressed the button.
"Have you been waiting patiently, Ozp-." Cinder started but her eyes went wide and Jaune could see the rage in her eyes.
"Hi Cinder," Jaune said with a smile. "How's your arm?"
Cinder panted in poorly veiled rage and opened her mouth to speak.
"Before you start your whole 'I'll have revenge on you and see you burn' speech I want to tell you one thing: You have exactly one chance to surrender. If you do not we will hunt you down."
"You honestly think you can find me, or stop me?" she asked in a growl.
"It isn't my ability you should question, it's my willingness you should question. And considering after you attacked Beacon and threatened the lives of nearly 1,000 students you should be lucky we haven't done anything yet."
"Why would you ever assume I would do such a horrid thing?" She asked adopting her old tone of malice-laced saccharine. "Besides from what I heard it was those dreadful White Fang that attacked you."
"You know I'd be inclined to believe you if Adam hadn't thrown you under the bus," Jaune countered. His good arm moved around different files and usb drives as he spoke. Cinder's smile started to melt away. "Actually with all he gave us it looks like he threw you there, then backed it over you a couple of times for good measure."
"Why would he do that? I've never worked with him."
"He seems to disagree, did you know he recorded your conversations? I bet you didn't."
"None of that matters," she said with a growl. "I know what I want is in that trivial school. I will get it, and I will walk over the corpses of all of you and your friends if I need to." Cinder's eyes grew wide and her malice fueled smile was a sharp contrast to her angry demeanor.
Jaune simply smiled. "That's a dangerous confession to make."
"And why is that?" she asked.
"Because we've been broadcasting this conversation live to all four kingdoms, courtesy of the Schnee Dust Company and the ever-present Atlas Military."
Cinder's face fell and she lost the ability to breath.
"I gave you the chance to surrender. I gave you the chance for this to end without more bloodshed. But you refused. So we will hunt you down."
"You'll never find me," she said in a panic.
"That's true I might never see you again. But the whole of Remnant just got a face for all the horrible things that have been happening and threatening their children and loved ones, so someone's gonna find you. You're now the most wanted woman on the planet, and no one is going to help you." Jaune stood up and stared her down. "Those people you had with you are probably losing faith, and currently weighing their options. We know your people, we know your endgame, we know your game plan. We know your methods, we know your allies, but most importantly Cinder, we know you. There's nowhere to run."
Cinder panted in rage but was at a loss for words.
Jaune pulled a white knight from his pocket. "White knight takes Black Queen." Jaune set it down in front of her and smirked as she made eye contact again. "Checkmate."
Jaune left the screens view and left Cinder staring at the simple piece until the communication went out with a scream of static.
"That worked like a charm," Weiss said happily.
"Can I get a copy of that? I want to watch it anytime I need a laugh," Yang said with an ever-growing smirk.
"It's over," Jaune said with a smile.
"And we have you to thank my boy," Ozpin stood a moment later and shook his hand. The students left the faculty in the main room as they walked the empty hallways. Summer vacation was already in swing for most of the students.
"Speaking of 'boy' how is Milits?" Pyrrha asked.
"Resting, and happy. Happier than he's ever been."
"I don't doubt it."
"Well let's see: you raised an army in 20 minutes, you single-handedly slayed a dragon by decapitating it, took out the majority of a hostile terrorist militia by yourself and survived a half hour long beat down from the White Fang's leader. It was a full day," Blake said.
Pyrrha just smiled. "But Nora got the coolest moment of the night, we all know it."
"True," Yang admitted. "Where is she by the way?"
"She went with Ren back to see their parents."
"So where are you guys going for summer? Mistral or back to the Arcs?" Ruby asked.
"I was thinking both actually. It's two long months before the new year," Pyrrha said. "And besides I've always wanted to meet Jaune's sisters."
"Then we should pack for that, we're leaving tomorrow," Jaune said with some urgency.
"Same," Yang said. "Ruby and I are headed to Patch first thing tomorrow and we're bringing Weiss and Blake along for the ride!"
"It's gonna be awesome!" Ruby shouted happily.
"Well then, we'll see you at the first years initiation," Weiss said as she waved goodbye.
"See you then."
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"Come on slowpoke!" Yang shouted into the room. "Don't you wanna hear the headmasters speech to the first years?!"
"I'm coming Yang, I had to finish some business with my family first."
"Yeah yeah whatever heiress, come on, Ruby and Blake are already down there."
"Then let's go!" Weiss shouted excitedly.
The first years gathered in the ballroom just as they had before. The others sat on top of the balconies watching the stage waiting for the headmaster to appear.
"Attention students!" the assistant called out. Her boots clacking against the stage. "The Headmaster of Beacon Academy wishes to speak to you, to give a message for the coming year."
The headmaster strolled onto the stage almost in a whimsical fashion. Ruby and Blake waved to Pyrrha and Jaune who simply smiled back.
"I look into each of your eyes and I see something very familiar," he started, staring around at each of the students. "I see a hunger. A hunger for knowledge, a hunger for belonging, and a hunger for direction. A hunger that I have seen in the eyes of students, faculty, allies and friends for years. Do not lose that, it will be a guiding force for you in the years to come. There are two days that matter most to a person: the day they are born, and the day they find out why."
Jaune gave a sly smirk to RWBY.
"For some that day will come in a moment of valiant heroism, where you stand on the precipice of chaos and peace and give all you have to defend what you love."
The girls excitedly pointed at Jaune and laughed quietly.
"For some that day will be a moment of euphoric realization, that you were meant for something far greater than you had intended." Jaune gave a great big grin to Weiss and Yang who shared the high five in excitement.
"For others that day will be the moment you break the barriers and labels you created for yourself, or that others created for you, when you step in to who you were truly meant to be."
Blake felt her face warm with happiness and she too joined in the excitement.
"And for some it will be the subtle moment you meet the person that will change your life forever, be they friend," Jaune looked over to Pyrrha who smiled back. "Or more than a friend. But one thing they all have in common is that is the day you will step into your destiny and change Remant's history. And it is a day I sincerely hope I have a chance to witness."
The students cheered and it took a moment to calm everyone down again.
"These days will be a journey you will never forget, so take the time to learn the people you fight with. Those are the friends who will stand by your side. If you have any questions about Beacon or the journey you're about to undertake, please ask any of the faculty or my assistant Ms. Nikos." Jaune sighed happily. "This will be an exciting year."
"Well said, Headmaster Arc." Pyrrha stepped up to the mic and smiled. "Now then, let's begin."
The End.
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