AN: And here we go! The next chapter of Game on! Cinder finally has enough! Bleu has finally gone too far! She is going to be taught a very important lesson about who is boss! Also Amber gets her debut, Adam meet's up with Blake! Jaune goes on his first official Fang mission after the success of Adam and much, much more! All this and more in the next chapter of Game on! So without further delay thank you for reading and as always enjoy.
Beta by Zepeda.
"You are a dog, and I am going to put you down." Cinder said her voice burning with anger as she looked at the dog no, the stray mutt in front of her. Bleu Arc was no stranger to her much to her chagrin Cinder had many dealings with Bleu over the years. None pleasant and all leaving her the burning desire to put a knife in the back of her skull.
"Oh Cinder! Hey, could you be a dear and step away from Roman? He and I were about to have some private time and we don't like to be interrupted K?"
"You make me sick."
"AH! Mean words from a mean woman! Why are you such a spoilsport, Cindy?" Bleu asked her lips curled in a capricious smirk that sent Cinder teeth grating.
"Cinder-
"Roman." Cinder said sparing the bleeding out man a glance. Her orange eyes that usually held such anger and contempt now had an utterly unreadable expression on them as she stared at the downed man.
"Stay here. Don't move until I return." Cinder said looking back at Bleu and frowning.
"Why are you like this?"
"Like this? What do you mean Cindy fall?" Bleu asked in a mocking voice her blue eyes that looked precisely like Jaune's sparkling as Cinder narrowed her eyes.
"Why are you so petty?" Cinder asked her anger bleeding out as Bleu froze.
"Petty? Me? Are you feeling ok Cindy?"
"No. I am not feeling ok Bleu. And stop calling me Cindy. It's annoying."
"Cindy Fall! Cindy Fall!" Bleu parroted like some kind of broken record as Cinder sighed.
"That is what I mean, why are you so petty? You are like a child."
"Oh! Harsh words from the fake maiden! How hard is it to kill one person when you have the drop on them?"
"I was not in the position you think. Now-
"Aww, Cindy is making excused again!" Bleu said teasing as Cinder's eye twitched as an obsidian dagger appeared in her right hand.
"I told you to stop calling me Cindy." Cinder hissed her eyes beginning to flame, as burning yellow flames began to bleed out. "Oh? And what are you going to do about me if I do not stop calling you Cindy? Cindy-
Bleu froze the words freezing in her mouth as Cinder blurred, going from her position halfway across the room to in mid-air in front of her as-
"I'll cut your tongue out of your mouth." Cinder shouted before swinging her blade down. A burning blade surged down as Bleu ducked back. The blade barely missing her jugular, the woman barely avoiding death as she sprung back.
BANG!
Bleu fired her rifle as Cinder's inhuman reflexes forced her neck back at the last second. The bullet nearly tearing her head from her shoulders. Firing past her and making a watermelon-sized hole in the wall behind her. The bullet tearing clean past her head and the building, burrowing into the buildings behind her as it kept going.
"Gauss bullets, that explains it." Cinder though frowning. Bleu was no joke, her rifle fired gauss bullets, rounds meant to kill huntresses. That weapon could kill a building and if Cinder did not play her cards right she would be killed. "That's a nasty gun. You made it yourself?" "Of course! You never let someone else make your weapons, they might do it wrong!" Bleu said as she raised her weapons, Cinder paused. Twin weapons in her hands, one the sniper and the other a long and nasty assault rifle. Bleu fired at once, Cinder ducked the twin stream of bullets one coming in loud bangs! The other a steady stream of bullets.
Cinder frowned as the woman fired at her, "She's using twin guns? They most both be Gauss, no recoil explains how she can use them without blowing her arms off." Cinder thought running up the side of the warehouse. The bullets whizzed past her head as Cinder moved like liquid, flowing up the side of the wall of the warehouse.
Cinder ran up the walls forcing Bleu to track her before jumping off the side. A longbow appearing in her hand in a wave of fire. Three arrows appear as she launched them with a dull fitum! The arrows fired at once forcing Bleu to jump back. Her deadly fusillade stopped for a time as Cinder hit the ground and charged.
Bleu despite all hints to the contrary was a professional, she got her balance back quick raising her weapons but Cinder gave her nothing. Moving in a wicked serpentine pattern firing arrows as she came.
Bleu tried to hit her but was forced back, arrows whistling past her head as Cinder closed the gap, darting forward balling her fist as she frowned. Cinder let a small smile pass her face as her fist became engulfed with fire slamming forward into Bleu's gut with a satisfying thud!
Bleu lurched forward her blue eyes that reminded her so much of Jaune's bulging out of her skull as her light blue armor buckled as a large glob of blood left her mouth.
"Blehg!" Bleu coughed up a wad of blood as Cinder raised her left hand gripping a free hanging arrow and slicing it down onto Bleu's leg. The arrow wreathed in fire sliced past her aura and armor, cutting deep into her bone tearing her armor in two.
"AH!" Bleu screamed, blood flying from her leg and mouth as Cinder yanked! The bloody projectile out of her stabbing her right in her chest. Piercing a lung making Bleu scream. The woman pushed back with her twin weapons raised, both fired at once as Cinder slipped through with a dancer's grace. Years of learning from her mistress how to move on her feet added to more years practicing with Jaune made her move like a wraith.
Sliding into Bleu's guard, the woman had enough dropping her sniper, the weapon falling before a loud thump! Filled the air, a magnetic lock making it fall to her side and attach with a loud click! Bleu raised a pistol, a gauss variant as Cinder grunted. Twin bullet hitting her chest only to cause a ball of fire to flare up. Cinder shot froward her arrow sliding out of Bleu's lung before returning to her hand.
"Bitch!"
"I believe that is what people will call you." Cinder replied summoning another dagger tossing it forward Bleu blocked it with the barrel of her assault rifle letting Cinder slide forward stabbing Bleu in her gut.
"GAH!" Belu froze the blade forcing its way into her gut as-
"Fuck off," Bleu said her hand shooting up as a medium-sized barrel appeared on her armor. Cinder cocked her head as-
Thunk! Thunk! ThunK! Three small balls shot out as Cinder sighed. Jumping back as the balls reached mid-air before splitting into a series of smaller balls before falling down and exploding mid-air. The warehouse was filled with flame as Bleu's bombs covered the majority in a maelstrom of fire.
"How do you like that?! You can't take fire can-
"Do you ever shut up?" Cinder asked appearing behind Bleu, kicking her in the side. Bleu screamed her legs buckled as she fell to the ground, a blade appearing at her neck just as her sniper sprung out from her side, into her hand pressing into the base of Cinders skull.
"We are at a stalemate!" Blue hissed as Cinder rolled her eyes.
"I can dodge your bullet, Bleu."
"I don't know about that Cindy!" Bleu hissed as Cinder pressed her blade to her jugular.
"You will bleed out sooner than later. Do you want me to kill you with some dignity? Either one."
Cinder said her eyes glaring down at Bleu. No, Bleu's eyes did not look like Jaune's. Jaune's eyes had light in them. They had hope, passion, and empathy. Bleu's were cold, filled with nothing but cruelty and selfishness. Her gaze had nothing but a look of a spoiled brat as Cinder sighed.
"Don't make me make you die like the mutt you are. You are an Arc, at least have a bit of dignity before you die."
"Why!? Why are you doing this!? You don't give two shits about Roman! Why are you fighting me!?"
"Simple. Roman is mine. Roman. Belongs. To. Me. Not you. He is mine, and you do not touch what is mine. I can do whatever I want to Roman but you will not lay a hand on a single hair on his head."
"Tad late for that, you know?"
"Oh I do and your death will be more than enough payment for this insult."
"I can still fight you!"
"You are dying, I can wait for you to bleed out."
"But Roman can't," Bleu said as Cinder froze, her gaze becoming frigid as she let a growl leave her lips.
"What?"
"Roman. He's hurt. I can fight you for at least five more minutes. If you don't get him to a hospital and soon he will die. You won't let what is your's die will you?"
"You are less than a dog you know?" Cinder asked her fists tightening as she pressed her blade forward as Bleu put her rifle deep onto Cinder's chin. her smooth barrel pressing into the base of her skull as she growled.
"Bleu if you want your death to have a shred of dignity let me kill you now."
"I'd rather live."
"If you run now I can guarantee you what little is left of your life will be spent in unimaginable agony, and you will be begging me for death by the end."
"If you can catch me."
"If? Do not flatter yourself, you mean when I catch you for I will catch you." Cinder spat as Bleu let a low pain smile form on her lips as she held her bleeding stomach with one armored hand. Her crimson fluids painting her armor red as she coughed up more blood.
"Tick tock Cindy. Every second you spend in this stalemate means it is more likely Roman dies. You don't want him to die now do you?"
"Bleu, you attacked what was mine. You hurt what was mine twice!" Cinder shouted, flames burning from her eyes as she let an inhuman growl from her mouth that made Bleu gulp.
"First with Jaune, you didn't think I forgot about that did you girl?"
"I was hoping you did."
"Well, I did not. I used to think you the saner Arc. The one who did not beat him at home. But now? You are just as bad if not worse than your family. Your father would be disgusted."
"Shut up! You fucking bitch! You don't know anything about him!"
"I know more than you. If he could see you now? He would be more than disappointed, he would be disgusted with the thing you have become."
"Shut up! You don't know anything about him!"
"I know that if he saw you today? He would not even recognize his own daughter. If he even would still call you that."
"Shut your face!" "What's wrong Bleu? You don't like it when the shoe is on the other foot? You are so used to being the doctor you don't like being a frog on the table? The mouse with the cat?"
"I! This is bullshit. We can talk all night but I'm dying and he is not long for this world."
Bleu said as Cinder spared a quarter seconds glance to Roman's bleed form that had gone still. Neo had crawled over to him tears in her eyes as she fell in the puddle of her bosses blood.
"Bleu. As your sister-
"In law-
"Will you stop being such an ass?! As your sister in law! And more for Jaune's sake than yours, since he still loves you all for some asinine reason."
"He's pretty stupid-
Whack! Cinder slapped Bleu with her free hand making her spit up a wad of blood.
"One more word about Jaune and you die. Roman be damned."
"Ok! Ok! So what's it going to be? Me or Roman?"
"Bleu. Let me kill you now. I will make it quick for Jaune's sake."
"Nah. Fuck off."
"If you run, and you can run. When, not if I find you, you will spend the rest of your life wishing I killed you here."
"I. Will. Not. Die. Here. Cinder. Fall."
"So be it. On three. One, two-
"Three," Bleu said the two women pushed back jumping apart at once.
Both lowering their weapons as-
"Bleu let me say this as someone who once, had respect for you. Let me kill you now, I will make it quick. It's more than you deserve and-
FISHT!
Cinder screamed in agony as a second sun was born. Bleu's armor flashed as a flash bang of some type was deployed. Cinder jumped back arms up expecting a bullet in her gut only for nothing... As her eyes recovered as the ringing in her ears stopped Cinder was alone in the room as she sighed.
"So be it. Your death will not be pleasant." Cinder said as she shook her head. Taking a moment to fall back running to Roman's downed bleeding body as she yanked out her scroll.
"Malroque, get a cot ready now!"
"Jaune. What a surprise, I did not think you would come here." Adam said as Jaune nodded. The boy looked wrong like he was in some type of great pain. That bothered Adam as Jaune was his brother and his pain was also his pain.
"Adam I need your help."
"Speak."
"I need you to rescue someone," Jaune said as Adam cocked his head, he did not expect these words from his brother, but they were spoken with such honesty that Adam froze.
"Rescue someone? Who?" "Her name is Amber. We need to save her." Jaune said noticing how Adam flinched at the word her.
"A woman needs our help? Jaune while I respect your decision I do not see who or why I would risk the lives of my brothers and sisters over one woman."
"She is not just an ordinary woman Adam, she is a maiden," Jaune said as the fang leader paused, her jaw-dropping as Adam nodded once.
"I see now that is someone worth the effort. Tell me Jaune where is this maiden and how sympathetic is she to our cause?"
Ironwood was not what you would call a timid man. He could not afford to be, he was a general a leader of men and woman. He inspired his men and he was a figure for all men in Atlas of what they could achieve! No Ironwood had stared down, Grimm, rough huntresses, bandits and irate council members on a day to day basis. He fought the worst of the world again before and he had done so without so much as batting an eye but now?
Now surrounded by his friends? Ironwood felt a rare trickle of fear run down his face as he swallowed loudly as Opal stared at him. Her eyes closed and her chin resting on her hands. Behind her Raven stood her blood eyes glaring murder as he sighed.
"James."
"Opal."
"James do you know what any good relationship is built on? Do you know what every good relationship has in common?"
"Trust?"
"Yes. Trust. Trust makes relationships work. It makes them work, it makes life work. It makes people want to work with you." Opal said her voice rising in tone as her fingers linked together. Her mug usually ever-present in her hands sat unused and chilled on her desk.
"I see... why are you telling me this?" James asked as he felt a trickle of sweat run down his neck. Opal was mad, no she was pissed. She was furious at him for some reason and-
"Do you know what else they say about trust James?" Opal asked her fingers interlocking as a low wave of green energy bleed out of her hands making James gulp.
"No... why do you ask?"
"James they say trust is like a piece of paper, once folded or been in any way-
"It is impossible to reform," Raven said finally speaking her voice holding the force of a rumbling thunderstorm as Ironwood gulped.
"I don't-
"Don't play games with me, James. Not now, not today." Opal said her eyes shooting open revealing stormcloud grey irises that pulsed with energy. Opal let her green energy pulse out of her eyes as she glared daggers at James.
"Opal what are-
"Qrow Branwen."
"What?"
"My brother! What did you do?!" Raven shouted stomping forward her eyes burning with fire.
"So you are the maiden?" Ironwood asked half in awe half terrified as-
"Yes James she is the Summer Maiden and you would do well to realize that not only is she the Summer Maiden she is one that is not only angry with you but in a small room with you as well."
"I didn't do anything!"
"Didn't do anything?! You stole my best agent!"
Opal shouted her fists slamming into her desk creating twin dents in her wood as her green energy flowed out. Striking Ironwood like a fist, blasting every last piece of paper off her desk as she growled.
"What did you do James!?"
"I didn't do anything!"
"Liar! One more lie and I slit your throat!" Raven moved faster than James could see. One second she was on the side of Opal the next her blade was at his neck, pressing her crimson blade right to his jugular.
"What are you doing Raven?!"
"I am looking at the man who stole my brother!"
"I did no such thing!"
"You kidnapped him," Opal said her voice growling shaking with power as James gulped.
"I didn't! I don't know what you are talking-
"One more lie and I slit your throat."
"Opal! She is threatening me! I am an Atlas General!" "And? All I see is a liar and a kidnapper. As far as I am concerned Atlas will be better off without you."
"That will be an international incident!"
"Not if they don't have a body to find," Raven added as James felt a cold hand of fear in his heart as he gripped his sides.
"I-
"James. I am going to be asking you several questions. Answer them all truthfully or else Raven might let her hand slip." Opal said as Raven pressed her blade into the man's neck as he gulped.
"I... what are you going to ask?"
"How did you find my brother?" Raven asked her eyes burning yellow as Ironwood nodded seeing no other out.
"I found him by arrest warrants."
"What?"
"He was raiding dust stores on the outlier of Atlas."
"Why? Why was he raiding dust? His weapon barely uses any."
"He was stealing it for his tribe. He was the leader."
"Qrow?! The leader!?"
"Yes. He was also a hunter- The blade pressed deeper into his neck making a thin line of blood leave his side as James gulped.
"Do not play games."
"I'm not. When I first met Qrow he was splitting his time between stealing dust and killing Grim. He was trying to be a hunter and a bandit at the same time."
"What? Why!? That doesn't make any sense!"
"That's what I said."
"Why was he doing that!?"
"To quote him? He felt like it." Ironwood deadpanned as Raven paused her blade stopping its advance on his neck as she cocked her head.
"He felt like it? No fucking way."
"Yes, fucking way Raven," James added using a rare sense of profanity as he sighed.
"Qrow said and I quote. I want to be a hunter to help people. I want to be a bandit cause I want to drink and help my own people's." James added as-
"That sounds like him," Raven said her blade halting as Opal sighed her green energy flowing out as she rolled her eyes. "James. Why didn't you tell me?"
"Tell you?"
"You knew without a shadow of a doubt that one of my best agents was Qrow Branwen. Why didn't you tell me when a Qrow Branwen that looked exactly like mine just fell into your lap?"
"I didn't know he was your's."
"Don't lie to me, James! You knew I lost Qrow! Do you know much effort I put into him!?"
"I know and I understand-
"Do you!? He was special! Not only a male hunter but a competent one! Men hunters rare as they are, rarely are any better than the average female one! But Qrow?! His skill and talents!? He was special and you kept him from me!"
"Also from me," Raven added her blade pressing back into Ironwoods neck as the man gulped.
"I can explain."
"I do hope so."
"For your sake," Raven added pressing her blade back into his neck.
"When I first met Qrow he had just saved the life of Weiss. It was after he gave up his life as a bandit."
"He quit? Why would he do that? They are his family!" "They are dead." James words hit Raven like a punch. "Dead..." "Yes, I am sorry. I was only able to get him to talk about them once."
"What- What did he say?" "He told me how he came to be with them," Ironwood said as both Raven and Opal glared at him with a renewed interest.
"Go on, James. Leave nothing out."
"It is in your best interest to speak true and clear."
"I will ok? Stop the threats-
"Keep. Talking."
"Fine Opal. When I asked Qrow he said the first thing he remembered was waking up in a field of snow on the Atlas border."
"The mission," Raven said her breath catching as James nodded.
"Yes. He said he was found by a woman named Vernal. She told him who he was, she said he was the leader of their tribe and then...
"Then what? Tell me about my brother!"
"She gave him his necklace. She told him, made him promise to never take it off his neck. Said it was important and then he began his stay as leader of the tribe."
"I... what? Why!? Why would she do that!? Vernal knew why Qrow and I left! She knew what we were doing! I told her myself! She knew! How dare she!" Raven shouted flames in her eyes, as she tore her blade from James' neck.
"I'm going to kill her!"
"She is dead," James said as Raven paused, the fire in her eyes dying as she paused.
"I... It happens." Raven said cold as ice as-
"That is tragic but it does not explain why you kept Qrow. I want to hear a reason, James. And I want to hear a good one that is honest."
"Do not make her ask again."
"Fine. One? Qrow did not want to leave. He was happy in Atlas."
"You don't know that!"
"Yes, I do Raven. I have seen him almost every day for the last seven odd years or so. He knows me and I know him. I know what he likes."
"You don't know him! I am his sister! I am blood!"
"He does not even remember your face, Raven. He has no knowledge of you, to him you are a stranger."
"Enough. James, why didn't you at least tell me you had a new agent with a similar name and appearance to my missing one?"
"Besides never seeing his face on your files? I thought your Qrow Branwen was dead."
"So when a Qrow Branwen in near identical appearance and description with his aura unlocked and the exact! Same weapon that was detailed in your reports! Do not even try to say you did not read them, you read every last line!"
"That is a good point, James. Qrow must have been eerily identical to the ones in your reports but you did nothing?" Raven asked the flames returning as James held her gaze, not budging.
"I did what was for the best. A talented man with his aura unlocked, who was not only trained and willing to help but was leagues above most women of similar age? He was exactly what I needed."
"Propaganda. You wanted more men with aura to join your school." Raven said her eyes not budging from James as he nodded.
"Yes. I want more men to improve their stations."
"So you used my brother!?"
"I did what I always do Raven. I gave him a choice. I did not force him."
"Not that you could. Not even Summer could tame him." Raven said with a small smirk replaced with grimace a moment later. "Go on, do not stop."
"Oh, I doubt you would let me."
"I would not."
"Fine. After Qrow's employment, he was soon courted rather successfully by Winter."
"I always knew she had mommy issues," Opal said offhandedly as Ironwood glared.
"What did you say?"
"I said she has mother issues."
"That is my specialist!"
"And she's dating a man almost nine years older than her?" "I... She..."
"That is strange... I never thought Qrow liked younger women, maybe that was why Summer had a hard time?" Raven asked off handily as-
"Enough. So Qrow was willing to stay in Atlas. Why not tell me about him? A new agent could mean boons for us both."
"Opal. You of all people are not asking me why I do not share my secrets." James deadpanned as Opal coughed her green energy failing as Raven paused.
"He does have a point."
"Raven! We are on the same team!"
"I don't like secrets Opal, from anyone."
"That is my point Opal. I have my secrets and you have yours. You don't share yours willingly and neither do I. I have done no wrong, committed no crime so can I go!?"
"Yes... I'm sorry for the inconvenience."
"I doubt it. But fine. I accept and won't make an incident of this. Raven."
"James." The two bid goodbye as Ironwood stormed off.
"I will remember this Opal!"
James shouted as he left the room as Opal sighed.
"That could have gone worse."
"It could have gone better."
"It can always go better, Raven. It can always go better."
"Before we attack Jaune."
"Yes, Adam?" Jaune asked sitting in the small room in the back of the warehouse, with Adam Taurus looking down as Ren rocked steady next to him singing a small tune on his lips. "Jaune, before I can allow you to go, there is something we must do."
"And that is?" Jaune asked finally grateful that the pain stopped. It was hell in Beacon. The pain in his mind beating down on him like a drum as he panicked. Amber was in danger he needed to save her. One way or-
"We need to attack here," Adam said as he pointed to a small chalkboard behind him. Where a few small white circles were drawn on it.
"What is that?"
"That is a Valesian military base. We are going to attack and destroy it."
"Why!?"
"Simple. You asked me for a favor and I need one in return. I do not trust a woman called Cinder. You know her."
"She's my fiance."
"Unfortunate for you. But that is irrelevant. I need to destroy this compound to recover a vital piece of information taken from fang in the area. Assist me in this operation and I will take you and Ren personally to free Amber."
"I... fine ok. What do we need to do?"
"We get to kill people?!"
"You get to kill a lot of people, Ren. Don't you worry your blades will be drenched in blood by the end." "
Yay!"
"Ren, don't sound that happy."
"But Jaune I get to kill things!"
"Ren, that's not good."
"I disagree."
"As do I now us three will depart immediately via bullhead."
"Three is Roman coming?"
"No. Roman is... indisposed. So I will be calling in a replacement for him..."
Adam said with a small grimace.
"Indisposed? What does that mean?"
"It means he will no longer be joining us on this mission. His replacement is already on the way and I have even added a fourth member to go along with us to make this run smoothly.'
"A fourth member? Who is that?"
"People we don't know are likely to be a problem." The man said in a firm tone as Jaune nodded.
"I would like to know who-
"You have already met him if not briefly you and he have a working relationship now let's go. We need to be swift if you want Amber rescued by night's end." Adam said standing up as he Ren and Jaune left the small room and walked out.
"Jaune!" A cheerful voice called out as Mercury waved at him from the far end of the loading zone.
"Mercury? You got roped into this as well?" Jaune asked the sounds of moving machinery and the yelling of Faunus filled his ears. The fang hang located in the seedier parts of Vale was well hidden deep underground and Jaune was just glad he still had any hearing left.
"Sure did! You didn't think I would miss out on some fun right? Also, Cinder might kill me if anything happened to you so here I am!"
The boy said smiling as-
"Yo! Fuck face. Catch." A gruff voice said as bag slammed int Jaune knocking him off balance as-
"Zach?"
"You remember me. I'm so glad." The boy with black eyes said as Jaune blinked owlishly at him.
"You are coming with us?"
"Don't sound so happy. I might just leave." The boy said yawning his long green assault rifle that Jaune had never seen him use slung over his shoulder as he frowned.
"It looks like Roman's laid up in the hospital. I don't think he's coming out of that for a while."
"What!? Roman got hurt?" Ren asked coming up behind them as-
"Who the hell are you?"
"Lie Ren! Nice to meet you!"
"I.. ok you look like you cut people."
"I do!"
"Don't come close to me. I will shoot you."
"You will try to!"
"I will shoot."
"You would die-
"Enough. Both of you. Zach Ren, we are all brothers here, there will be no bloodshed between us on this night." Adam said striding into the loading dock as the man glared at his team.
Adam had his trademark black coat, and pants. His face hidden by a mask as Calm bled out from the man. Adam looked at his team with a small grin as he waved to the bullhead that was fueling up to take them to their destination.
"Ok, I want you all to not kill each other. There will be plenty others who will do that or if we are lucky, try to do that later on tonight. Now all of you on the Bullhead. We need to be quick, we have five hours to make this mission work or it will all be for naught." Adam said as the four others nodded as they made their way to the bullhead.
"Now listen here is the plan," Adam said his body tall and straight, walking up and down the bullhead corridor, looking at every man in his eyesight. Locking eyes with each of them as he moved with an easy gate. Like a man that was accustomed to leading men, Adam walked with his hands linked behind his back as he coughed.
"Our target is a rare Valesian military base on the outskirts of Vale. We are to go in, destroy the base. Kill as many personnel as we can then leave."
"Adam, why are we doing this?" Jaune asked not sure that this was something that he was ok with. Killing guards to bust Adam out of the base was one thing.
Jaune could justify that with freeing a freedom fighter, that was at least somewhat justified. This was just murder. Plain and simple. And Jaune would never abide by that.
"Simple. We are to rescue Amber later, the target of our mission is what is known as a maiden. Black since you know what these women are you can relax." Adam said as Mercury's face paled. His skin lost what little amount of color it had as Jaune felt Panic flood from him.
"I! What?! You are going to rescue her?!"
"Yes. And in case you were wondering no you do not get a choice, Black. You all are under my command and if you do think of betrayal... well Black you know how I handle things. And please, for both of our sakes don't try your semblance. You won't get far without your legs." Adam said as Jaune sensed Panic flood from Mercury as the boy gulped loudly.
"Adam! Cinder will not be happy!"
"Your point? Cinder is probably planning on betraying me and I don't like that. So I'm going to do her a favor. She wants Beacon to fall? Well, we are going to do just that."
"I don't like the sounds of this." The man said standing by Jaune with a firm grimace.
"Neither do I."
"Adam, what's the point of attacking the base?"
"Simple. We are going to go after the home of one of Vale's only military redoubts. Vale is not Atlas. They do not have a strong military or one to speak of really. They have three military bases spread throughout the entire kingdom and we are going to destroy one."
"But why? That doesn't help us save Amber does it?"
"No, not directly but it will make us able to save Amber and run out without losing our limbs."
"Run out?"
"Jaune do not think that we can simply walk in and out of Beacon with Amber and not be stopped? Jaune we will have to fight our way out of Beacon. And maybe even through some of your friends in the process." Adam said his voice still as death as Jaune gagged.
"We have to fight our way out?"
"YEAH! Bring them on! I want to take the cat!"
"Ren I thought you like Blake?"
"I do! That's why I want to kill her! You kill people you like, that's how you show your love! What better way than to say I like you then by stabbing them?"
"Then by not stabbing them?" Mercury asked apparently recovering enough from his shock as-
'If I don't stab her then she won't know I like her!"
"Kid, did you get dropped on your head in a glue factory as a kid?" Zach asked raising a black eyebrow at Ren who grinned.
"Nope! But I did watch all my family get eaten by some Grimm!"
"I see... that's unfortunate, I think?"
"Nah! I can kill people freely now! I didn't get to do that back home."
"You are one odd kid."
"Thanks?"
"It was not a compliment."
"I-
"Stop. Both of you. Now for the plan. Jaune if we destroy this base called Languine we will be destroying the nearest base to Beacon. If this is destroyed all military personnel and the majority of the Atlas fleet will be put on high alert and as Vale's ally come to investigate. And while they investigate we attack Beacon." "And we used the destruction as a smokescreen?"
"Not a bad plan really. A bit rough but a good base." The man said nodding his head. he approved of the plan but Jaune needed more. "So we destroy the base all of Vale goes on high alert."
"Yes. We do that, and that takes defenders from Beacon. Making our job easier. After we do that we can begin to infiltrate Beacon. We will rescue Amber and heal her for whatever injuries she might have.'
"Question!"
"Yes, Ren?"
"What's a maiden?"
"Ah, a fair question. A maiden is a woman gifted if you are naive or cursed if you are realistic, with incredible power. There are four of them all corresponding to one season. Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. We are going to rescue the Fall maiden."
"Why does she need rescuing?"
"Because she has been injured. Mercury knows all about that right Black?"
"She told me we were just going to knock her out! She never said we were going to kill her!"
"Cinder is a woman Black. Women lie, you will do good to remember that fact. Only Ren and Zach seem to know this fact outside of me."
"You can't trust them!"
"Look at that we agree on something, it's a damn miracle," Zach said rolling his eyes that shimmered with a mercurial black look that sent a chill down Jaune's spine. They were eyes of a murderer, the kind that looked fake. Almost as if they were painted on like that of a doll's and not a real person. There was no light in them, no compassion just cool indifference.
"He's a killer."
"I know."
"I don't trust him."
"He's our friend. For now."
"If you say so." The man said as-
"Alright, now here is the plan. When we attack we split up. Jaune."
"Yes?"
"You and Zach take the right walls. Kill whatever you can and maim the rest."
"Got it."
"Ok."
"Good. Ren, Mercury?"
"Yes!"
"Yeah?"
"You take the left. Ren do what you do best. Black, I will give you a set of directions. Find the item in the bottom box of their destination. Do that and retrieve that for us. You need not kill anyone in the process." "I... thank you."
"I know your personal philosophies, Black. I will not ask you to do more than you can. Jaune?"
"Yes?"
"You need only worry about staying alive and causing havoc."
"What will you be doing Adam?"
"Me? I do what I do best Jaune, I lead from the front."
Adam was going to have a good night.
"Adam Taurus! You are under arrest! Put your hands behind your head now!" The voice of a soldier said, her voice calling out over a loudspeaker of fort Languine. Adam smiled, he had literally jumped off the craft. The bullhead coming in so fast that its inbuilt stealth field allowed them to get in before anti-air fire could take them down from the sky.
Now Adam stood with over two hundred armed women and some men in front of him. All dressed in the dull green armor of the Vale armed forces. The soldiers surrounded him, the wall guards aiming down, heavy weapons teams setting up rocket weapons and several snipers set up in towers as-
"Adam Taurus!"
"You already said my name, Woman. Now let's see what you think when I listen?" Adam said raising his hands as a low peal sound filled the air as he began to whistle-
"Fire!"
The women never got a chance. In a moment there was a flash of red and the guards exploded. Their bodies popping into nasty red balls, like popped balloons. Their guts exploding as Adam whistles. A low pealing sound filled the air as his blade went to work.
His semblance a type of metal manipulation, allowed him to manipulate a certain type of metal and move it to his wishes. The type of metal his blade was made of and he butchered the enemy.
His sword moving at near supersonic speeds turning any guard it hit into red paste as it acted like a paintbrush turning the base into his macabre canvas as Adam grinned.
"Shit!" Jaune held his gun firing. The rifle his real weapon the gauss weapon blazing as low Vathum's! Filled the air, his twin red colored rounds firing out hitting the soldier in front of him. She had her aura unlocked and one bullet hit her in the chest, making it flash and pop! Before another slammed into her head turning it into a thin red paste and taking her off her feet.
"Up!" A voice called as Jaune ducked falling behind Zach his weapon in rifle form. The green rifle blazing as a stead low drum of weapons fire and blue flashed appeared out of the barrel. The weapon firing off its strange depleted uranium rounds, that tore open aura like it was paper.
Two more guards dropped like flies, their bodies breaking apart and bursting as Jaune shouted.
"Move!" Jaune shouted as he surged forward both boys making it to the tip of the watchtower. The sound of chaos filled the area, as rapid sporadic gunfire, the rough and sharp peal of a whistle and the sounds of flesh popping. Follow by human screaming filled the air as, Fear, Panic, Agony, and Anger filled his mind as he ran up to the wooden door that leads to one of the watchtowers.
"Breach!" Zach yelled kicking down the door as Jaune followed in his gun barked. Firing killing the soldiers in front of him. Jaune normally would have felt a wave of revulsion at killing good people but now? Now, Jaune had a purpose. He was driven. He raised his gun, the gauss pistol, and his rifle barking loudly. Sliding forward into the fight gun blazing. He killed the members in front of him sweeping to the left. Killing the few soldiers still able to resist. The gauss bullets finding eye sockets and skulls as Jaune finished them out.
"It's-
"DOWN!" Zach yelled tackling Jaune to the ground as a low Bang! Filled the air as a bullet tore apart the area where his head once laid.
"Sniper!" Zach said as both boys slammed back to the wall of the watchtower. Their weapons pulled up as a trio of more hard bangs! Filled the air, as parts of the room were blown out as supersonic rounds impacted them. Ripping up the floor and kicking up clouds of dull grey dust.
"Fuck! What now?!"
"I got this hold on." Zach said taking his gun and twisting it? He turned the gun upside down as it shifted. The short barrel sinking back into the gun as a long thin one appeared. A thin scope appeared popping over one of his eyes as-
Crack! He pulled the trigger once, a loud cracking sound filled the air as he fired three more times. Three more loud cracks! Filled the air again as-
"Clear! That's all the snipers!"
"Good now let's-
Jaune's words were interrupted as a low rumble filled the air as a massive explosion appeared in the middle of the base. Jaune and Zach winced as a massive plume of fire appeared in the air as the two felt their bodies heat up as a second son was born.
"IN! NOW! All of you!" Adam yelled yanking the boy Ren up. Tossing him in the bullhead as he looked back. The base was a mess. Torn apart, and burning, a massive fire bled out of the core of the base as the entire area groaned.
The walls and courtyard were filled with the dead bodies of the guards. The few living male members were rendered unconscious by the blunt part of his blade. The other females save for the one's Mercury encountered were all dead, blown apart by bullets or sliced to pieces by blades.
"Everyone on!" Adam yelled at the last of them Jaune and Zach, both boys leaping onto the ship entered it as he nodded.
"Pilot! Take us to Beacon, Jaune I hope this works out." Adam said as the ship's engine increased in pitch as the ship roared out of the base and into the night sky leaving a tattered burning shattered base in its wake as Vale suffered one of, if not the most catastrophic breaches of security in all its history.
"Alright! This is going to be a quick operation! Time is not on our side!" Adam yelled to be heard the special Bullhead the Vesperia roaring out over Vale. The ship's engines roaring as-
Adam's words were cut off as the sound of reality being ripped open filled the air. Twin massive Battleships with the Atlas symbol on them sailed past them as-
"Fuck me," Mercury said jaw-dropping as-
"Well, we pissed someone off. We got a plan for that?" Zach asked a twinge of worry on his face as the normally unflappable boy felt a twinge of fear pass through his face. "Adam?"
"Listen, everyone. We need to be fast. All of Vale is now on alert, as we speak the Atlas fleet is leaving Beacon to come here. We need to be fast! The target we are looking for is in the Beacon Vault."
"How do you know that?!"
"Cinder's firewalls are not as good as she would like them to be," Adam said with a thin smirk as Mercury gulped. "I... how..."
"It is not important. Now, here is the plan. We will be dropped off in the Beacon tower. The ship will drop us off at the base where we will take the elevator down to the vault."
"The vault?"
"Yes Jaune, that is where Amber is. We will take her out of her holding cell and to the doctor Malroque. He can heal her, once she is healed Jaune, I must ask you one question."
"Yes?"
"I need to know one thing before I go any further. I do not trust women. I will not lie to you, nor do I like maidens. The idea of walking talking human superweapons locked onto sex does not sit well with me. I want to know if you think you can bring Amber to our side." Adam asked as the ship rocked twin more massive Atlesian ships the size of apartment building lolled past them like massive glittering silver swords in the sky.
"To our side?"
"Yes. I will not allow such a dangerous person to simply walk free. I will not let her languish in her captivity, of that I assured you. But if you can not get her to be sympathetic to the Faunus side..."
"What will you do?"
"I will kill her," Adam said as a heavy silence filled the craft as more light form Atlas ships ran by them as-
"I can make her come over to us."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
"If you fail I kill her."
"Fine. But she will not stay where she is."
"No, she will not, of that we are in agreement," Adam said as the ship rumbled its lights flashing red, bathing the inside in crimson light and giving them the impression that they were in a sea of blood as Adam sighed.
"Get ready men, we are going in."
"Where are you?" Pyrrha asked her latest attempt to contact Jaune failing as she gave a low sigh. Nora was also irritated, Jaune and Ren had vanished sometime during the day, making Pyrrha a bit peeved. Jaune was recovering from the attack on the CCT and Ren was still hurt!
"They better not have gotten hurt," Nora growled as Pyrrha sighed, so far even with her, Nora, Penny, all of team RWBY, some of their parents, and to a much lesser degree Whitley. Who was still recovering in JNPR dorm from getting his face punched in a bar fight!? Of all things as-
Pyrrha froze as she saw it. A massive plume of fire appeared in the sky as the whole of VYTL stopped as a massive wall of flame appeared followed by a low shudder as-
Something happened, something terrible just happened as the wail of sirens and the sound of engines firing filled the air Pyrrha felt a well of fear crawl up in her heart.
"Please, both of you be safe."
"Out! All of you! Now!" Adam said as the ship's doors opened up as the four of them jumped out. Adam hit the ground first his mask covering his face, the rest of his team all covered in fang mask and armor. Completely hiding their identity. Ren and Jaune were agents of Adam's, they could not afford to be compromised. Zach and Mercury while not on Adam's side Mercury on Cinder's and Zach on Roman's both would rather not have their identities at risk as Adam called them forward.
"Move! Follow me and do not stop for anything!"
Adam said the ship roaring off the chaos from the attack on the Valesian military base far more than he expected. On the way back to Beacon Adam heard the military chatter and it was not good. Well not good for Vale but good for him. The entirety of Vale was now on red alert. The council was in full lockdown in some secret bunker, the entirety of the Valesian military forces and reserves were being mustered and the full might of the Atlas fleet was converging on the position of the former fort.
Leaving Beacon in the relatively well-defended hands of hunters both full and training. Adam smiled as he broke down the door into the base of the Beacon tower as he walked inside. The inside of the tower was much what Adam would come to expect. Bronze walls, made of stone and a thick crimson carpet. The five of them ran inside hellbent on reaching the elevator on the far end of the hallway.
"How do we get in?" Jaune asked his voice distorted through his mask as Adam grinned.
"Simple. I have through a mutual acquaintance of ours a virus that will get us access." The terrorist leader said as the group made their way to the elevator Adam yanked out his scroll and placing it to the elevator panel.
The scroll flashed red, as a large black pawn appeared on it, flashing for several seconds before a low ding! Filled the air as the doors slid open.
"Good. Roman is paying off. I'm glad Cinder has not killed him yet."
"She wants to kill him!?"
"She is not what you would call a people person," Mercury said as the group of them ran inside the elevator as-
"One sec!" Zach said tossing a small ball outside of the elevator that expanded into a medium sized ball and a low red light shooting out.
"There that will tell us if anyone tries to come our way," Zach said as Jaune nodded.
"How the hell will that help?"
"If anyone comes through this hall that is not us they will get a wave of shrapnel with a dose of uranium in their guts.'
"Good work, Zach. I'll make sure you get a bonus."
"You don't pay me."
"I can have Roman pay you when he is better."
"What the hell happened to him?"
"That is a long story," Adam said as the door dinged! As they stepped inside before Adam hit a number on his scroll as the door slid close and they began to fall.
The ride down was silent, none of the five wanting to talk or make any noise. The four dark clad members stay in steady silent as a mixed feeling of, anxiety and interest. Filled Jaune's mind his semblance working in overdrive as-
Ding! The door opened up revealing a massive room. The chamber as it was was the size of the cafeteria lighted by torches and filled with large marble masonry as-
"Move. We need to be fast."
Adam said as the five sprinted forward.
"Damn, what the hell is Opal doing under this damn school?" Zach asked whistling as he held his rifle up scanning for potential hostiles as they ran forward.
"More things than you would like to know," Mercury-added as he ran behind them. His timer for his semblance maxed out. He used too much in the base assault and was stuck to moving at non-incredible speeds.
"There, that is our goal," Adam said pointing to the end of the hallway was a massive wooden door was waiting for them.
"How the hell do we get inside?"
"Simple blondie, we blow it up," Zach said as-
"No. We do not blow it up. We will hack the door console."
"And if that fails?" Jaune asked as Adam paused.
"Then we blow it up," Adam said as Jaune saw a small grin on his face as he made it to the door.
"Taurus we have a problem," Zach said pressing a button on his mask as he froze.
"And that is? Also, it is Adam, not Taurus." The man said as the assassin sighed.
"I'm on radio chatter, the Atlas and Vale forces are at the base. They have not found anything and a quarter of the ships are on the way back."
"Then we better hurry," Adam said as the door cracked open. The virus opening the door as-
"In!" Adam yelled as Jaune and Ren ran forward, running into a death still room where Jaune felt it.
PAIN. AGONY. FEAR. Hit him like a punch to the gut as he grimaced. There in the center of the room in some kind of large metal coffin was her.. Amber... Jaune didn't need to know her name to know who she was. She was frozen, it looked like. Her skin was a healthy bronze color and her eyes closed. Her hair was a short brown thing and it looked as if she was sleeping.
"Amber," Jaune said his voice low and measured as-
"She looks like she's sleeping," Ren said walking up to the woman as-
"She is not sleeping, but she will soon be awake. Zach?"
"On it." The assassin said pulling out a thin syringe from somewhere as-
"Now," Adam said as he pressed a button on his scroll. Instantly there was a loud hiss! Of compressed air in the room. The woman stirred her pod opening as-
"AHH!" The woman screamed, as her amber eyes shooting open as she let out a scream. The woman fell her body wrapped in bandages. Her chest covered in a mass of white cloth and-
"Zach!"
"On it!" The boy said stabbing her in the neck with a needle as Jaune felt a tidal wave of relief hit him. He did it, Amber was safe. She was moaning in a low voice as-
"We have five minutes! We need to get her the hell out of here! That serum put her in a coma but she needs help!" Zach said slinging the woman over his shoulder like she was a sack of feathers.
"And she will get her help one way or another. In rescue or death." Adam said as Jaune nodded, feeling the Passion radiating from him as they began to run.
The five made good time running past the long marble hallway and out onto the tower, where Zach's bomb was still undetonated and blinked dangerously.
"Are you going to get that?"
"What? Hell no, let whoever steps on it feel a bit of pain."
"He is not fit for a soldier." The man who had been strangely quiet said as Jaune frowned.
"No arguing, move!" Adam said as the five of them ran out of the area, the night air hitting their suits as the mad a mad dash-
"HEY!" A far too familiar voice said as Jaune froze. The five of them freezing weapons raised as Jaune wanted to scream.
"No, no, no, NO!" Jaune thought as he turned his head to see them...
Team RWBY, stood in their path, along with Pyrrha, Nora, Coco, and Winter. The women froze staring at them as-
"Move aside, all of you. If you value your lives step away now." Adam said stepping forward as-
"No way! You are a terrorist-
"Yang, back off!" Blake shouted stepping in front of her partner as she glared.
"Blake."
"Adam." The two said without any emotion, passing in thier words, the two Faunus staring at one another and-
"Blake? You know him?"
"We used to date."
"Emphasis on the used," Adam said spitting on the ground as Blake growled.
"What?!" Yang shouted as Incredulity bled out from her as-
"You look well Adam," Blake said in an odd burst of diplomacy making Adam pause.
"You too."
"Why are you here?"
"What does a traitor want from me?" Adam asked as Blake froze and growled.
"I am no traitor."
"So you say."
"So I do."
"Traitor? Blake?"
"Not now Ruby. Adam who is that girl-
"Amber!" Nora shouted as Jaune froze. How the hell did Nora know who Amber was?! That was-
"Move aside all of you. Move or I kill you."
"Fuck off! I-
"Yang, that is Adam Taurus."
"Winter," Adam said nodding to the specialist as he nodded once.
"I as a specialist of Atlas am allowed to make deals with foreign powers," Winter said her eyes locked onto Adam's mask, her hands balled up but far away from her swords. She did not want to give Adam any reason to use his semblance and kill them all.
"And? Are your recognizing the Fang as a foreign power?"
"No. I am asking that if you let us go without harm we will not impede your journey. We just ask you cause no more bloodshed today."
"Fine. Let us go, our ride is here." Adam said as a bullhead roared behind them. The Vesperia coming in hot and fast as several ropes fell out of it.
"What are you doing!? He is a terrorist!"
"Yang! He would kill us all and make our heads into totems!" Winter shouted as the craft drifted behind the girls as Adam coughed.
"Do we have your word that you will let us go?"
"You have my word. All of you stand down, now." Winter said as for one horrible moment Jaune thought Yang and Pyrrha would make a fight out of it as-
"Fine. I don't like it!"
"You don't have to like it girl. Just don't bite off more than you can chew." Adam said as Yang's eyes burned.
"Come on men. We are leaving." Adam said as he waved them forward. Jaune ducked his head moving past his friend Ruby held her gun to Zach who lazily waved his custom rifle at them. He swore, Pyrrha saw through his mask as a gasp left her face. Blake and Adam glared at each other but thankfully no one came to blows. The five of them made it to the bullhead getting Amber on board as-
BANG! Of course, Yang had to ruin it. She fired, hitting Adam on his face, blowing off a quarter of his mask as-
"Fuck! I missed him!"
"Yang?! What are you doing-
"Woman. Left or right?" Adam hissed as RAGE boiled from him as-
"What? Say that again punk!"
"I said left. Or right?" Adam hissed his sword vibrating.
"Left?" Yang asked as a low peal filled the air followed by the sound of tearing flesh.
FISHT!
"AHHH!" Yang screamed as a flash of red blurred out as Adam's sword shot out of its case and easily cut off her left arm.
"Yang?! NO!" Ruby screamed as the truce fell apart the girl fired on the craft as it pulled away. Adam sitting on the ground as they left.
"Women. How predictable." The man snarled as the six of them left Beacon to disappear into the sky.
"Medic! Fucking medic!" Zach said putting Amber on a gurney as-
"What happened here!?" The man Malroque yelled, tearing out of a door as-
"She needs a doctor! Now!" Zach said as the Faunus with blue eyes glared at the woman.
"Goop! Now!" The man yelled as Jaune and Ren ran to him. Giving him two canisters of the substance as he nodded.
"Fuck, I can save her, what the hell happened to her?!"
"She got an arrow to the chest." Adam deadpanned without a trace of humor as the faunus balked.
"Who the hell shot an arrow into her?!"
"Black?"
"Mercury? I thought you hated violence?"
"I do! Cinder did it-
"I don't care anymore! I need to operate!" The man said putting the miracle liquid on her body as Jaune gasped. For the second time in his life, he saw the miracle of the goop. The woman's wounds vanished. Her perfect amber skin that looked like cocoa reforming on her body. Her wounds vanishing under their very eyes. The woman literally being healed before their very eyes as-
Jaune froze his reality freezing as it happened. A rush of satisfaction filled his skin as he knew then and there that he had somehow completed a quest. Amber was healed her body restitching itself as-
"Vesparax, Ren, Black, Zach. You have all done well today. Our victory today was great but not free. As of right now I Adam Taurus am no longer part of the White Fang and am banishing you all from the organization."
"What? Why?"
"By attacking that base, we stole a powerful tool from Opal and more importantly the Council. Neither will let that slide. The maiden will be an aide to the Faunus or a tool kept from those who may oppress us. But I had to spill innocent blood. I tarnished the Fangs reputation and for that, I must resign."
Adam said shocking the group as he bowed as a wave of Incredulity irradiated around Jaune.
"But you killed before! What's the difference?"
"Let me ask you all this, have you ever heard of the word sacrifice? If so then this will be easier to explain. Ren, I killed for self-defense or for justice. By attacking that base I have acted rouge and I must be punished. This is not bad however it is quite good. A high ranking member is coming to Vale soon. She will publicly ban me from the Fang, denouncing me and casting me out. That will show the world we are not a violent and mindless brute of an organization."
"But what about you?"
"Jaune I will be fine. The fang can, the Fang will live without me. I will simply help from the shadows as a third party of sorts. Until then? All of you get some sleep. You have all earned it."
"I don't believe it! JAUNE! You did it!"
"Bella! I saved-
"You saved Amber! I love you!" The reaper said hugging Jaune as-
"Bella! Too tight!"
"Oh! I'm sorry! But you need to go!"
"Go!? I just got here!" Jaune yelled barley getting rest as-
"Jaune, I can't keep you. This dream is going to be bad."
"Bad?"
"This will be the most intricate dream yet. You need to get a head start!"
"I-
"No buts! Get moving!" Bell said not giving him time to speak opening a portal before kicking Jaune into making him scream as the human left her realm and vanished...
Jaune was warm. His body wrapped in a ball of warmth and comfort as he moved in his sleep. Twin arms wrapped around his body as he felt a voice call into his ear.
"Stay in bed." A warm soft voice said into Jaune's ear as he smiled.
"I have to get up babe," Jaune said keeping his eyes shut as he felt twin soft mounds press into his back. The warm feeling of his wife forming on him as Yang pulled Jaune deep into her waist. Her head nuzzling Jaune as she whined. "Nah, you don't have to do anything today."
"If I don't get up who makes breakfast?"
"Raven does."
"You would let your own children eat Raven's cooking?"
"She can cook!"
"You mean she can grill. She cannot cook."
"She's fine," Yang said as Jaune sighed opening his eyes to the wooden walls of his home. The same home Yang and Ruby had grown up in on the island of Patch. Jaune sighed as he tried to get out of Yang's grip his wife holding him close to her chest, making Jaune sigh.
"Yang."
"Stay in bed! I want to cuddle more!" Yang said her superior strength pulling Jaune closer as he rolled his eyes. Yang was not one to let things she likes out of arm's reach. Her arms, both the real and the bionic one gripping him and pulling him close.
"Yang."
"Don't want to." His wife chided not letting him go as Jaune sighed.
"Yang it's my turn to hunt this month."
"No fair! I just got home! I didn't even get any quality time with my man!"
"Yang we will have plenty of time to fuck all over the house later."
"I want to fuck now though!"
"Do you want me to roll on my back? Or do you want to do this side by side?"
"I want to cuff you to the bed and make you scream." Yang hissed as-
"Not during the day and not with the kids at home. Remember the last time we tired? We had to talk Sheng De out of crying for a month."
"She's fine! She's our girl after all!"
"Yes she is, she also needed therapy."
"She did not!"
"You put me in a Grimm mask to hunt me remember that?"
"How could I forget? You screamed my name so loud I thought I would go deaf."
'And you might go mute.' Yang's thoughts entered Jaune's head as he sighed.
"Tell me why I said yes to marrying you again?" He asked a smile already on his lips as Yang laughed. A long and full sound that put his heart at ease.
"Because I'm awesome? Duh.' Yang said as if he just asked what color the sky was or if she wanted him to put on his maid outfit again that he kept in the closet for her birthday and anniversary.
"Really? And just what part about you is so awesome?"
"Besides my looks, personality, kick-ass fighting style, great jokes, and beautiful eyes? Well just about everything."
"I see I didn't marry you for your humility."
"Quit being a dick."
"You want my dick."
"Is that an offer?"
"It might be if you play your cards right that is."
"Oh I like the sound of that, how about I take my mouth to pull down your boxers and-
"Mom! Dad! Food!" A voice yelled as Jaune sighed.
"After breakfast."
"What? Come on, don't you know I need my protein shake?" Yang asked her beautiful lilac eyes that Jaune had fallen for all those years ago that had not aged so much as a second blinking rapidly as he sighed.
"After. Breakfast. Now come on your kids want to see their mother ok?" Jaune asked sliding out of bed as Yang sighed.
"Fine! Fine! But don't get pissed when I'm moody. I don't do good without cumming in the morning."
"You don't good without cumming period. Now cum on we have to at least look like good parents." Jaune said as Yang sighed, his wife standing up and revealing her beautiful body. Jaune smiled Yang was just as beautiful as the day he met her. Yang had grown since Beacon. Now almost seven feet tall, her hair now almost at her ankles, the long blonde locks flowing freely, as she yawned.
Her chest that had somehow grown ever larger reaching near E cup level hung freely, once again spitting in the face of physics. Her breasts had somehow not shown a sign of age or wear and made Jaune stare.
"Jaune you are staring."
"I know."
"Jaune. Love. Husband my eyes are up here you know?" Yang asked as-
"I've made my choice oof!" Jaune gagged as Yang tossed a pillow at his face laughing freely as she did.
"You have seen these puppies a thousand times how do they not get old to you?"
"I've seen the sunrise a thousand times and it still takes my breath away."
"You just want me to blow you."
"I do. But I can wait, let's see what our kids made for breakfast." Jaune said as Yang grinned tossing on a short top that fought to keep her breasts contained as she pulled up a pair of shorts as Jaune did the same. Dressing in a shot blue shirt and brown shorts as the two walked out of the room and went to start their day.
As the couple walked downstairs the sight of their small family greeted them.
"Pops. Yang." The oldest daughter of the two Ming She said her blonde hair pulled into ponytails, the thirteen-year-old child already rebelling as Jaune sighed.
"First of all young lady, it's Mom, not Yang," Yang said her eyes already flaming as Jaune rolled his eyes. "Girls please it's too early for this," Jaune said already wishing that his two women would not fight. Yang and Ming, they had this love-hate relationship. Ming being like Yang was as a teenager and Yang being more Raven than she would ever care to admit.
"You tell her to call me Mom!"
"I called you Yang."
"I'm your mother! Call me Mom!"
"You don't call Grandma Raven Mom, you call her Raven. Why can't I call you Yang?" Ming asked raising her head from her burnt toast. Her light blue eyes locking onto Yang's as Jaune swore he saw sparks fly between the two of them.
"She has a point."
"Don't side with her!"
"Yang thought as Jaune sighed.
"We are a team Jaune! You can't show kids weakness! They feed on it!"
"Yang, she's out kid, not an animal."
"She acts like one!"
"What?! Say that again old lady!"
"Old lady!? Why you little brat! Shut up!"
"Telling our kid to shut up Yang? Really?"
"Make me!"
"I-
"Mom... Ming... can you two stop fighting... please...?"
They shy shaky voice of Jaune's oldest son Yin said as he looked up from his bowl of Pumpkin Pete's cereal. The boy no older than eight, just coming off a birthday as he looked up with a worried look on his blue eyes. The boy looked just like Jaune at his age and the pouty look on his face made Yang's heart melt as her son broke her will.
"Yin! My baby! How are you doing today?" Yang asked cooing to her son yanking him up out of his chair and smothering him in her breasts. "Mom!" Yin gagged trying to break free from Yang's impossible smother grip, a hold Yang often put Jaune in every night when they could spare, and making Jaune fell only jealous of his child as-
"Mom! Cut it out! You are embarrassing me!" Yin shinned as Yang rubbed his head.
"Oh, you know I can't resist my baby! How is my little man doing today? Yang asked rubbing his head making him blush furiously as-
"Jeez, Yang you could let him breathe."
"That's mom! To you, Ming and I don't see Yin complaining!"
"He just did!"
"No, he didn't! He just wants more love from his mamma! You love your momma right, Yin?"
"Yes! But I can't breathe!" Yin gagged as Jaune sighed.
"Yang."
"Ok! Ok! But you are too cute!" Yang said putting her son back in his chair who blushed but smiled widely as-
"We are back!" The sharp voice of his second daughter Sheng De said as she walked back in their home. Her hair done in long ponytails, like her sister. Her lilac eyes looking up to her parents. She was dressed in a light blue skirt and small top of a similar color with a shark on it.
Behind her a thud! Was heard as Raven walked in.
"Grandma Raven!"
"Ming! How is my favorite oldest grandchild doing?" Raven asked the woman well past forty looked no older than when Jaune had first seen her. Maybe a bit taller? Maybe but more tired, there was one lone crow's foot under her eye but besides that Raven look just as young as she ever did.
The woman walked in as Sheng stretched Jaune saw the twin gauntlets on her wrists. The result of Yang's influence on her own daughter. She was obviously out practicing with Raven for her huntress exams, it was her turn to train with Raven next was-
"She gets Grandma, but I get Yang!? What the hell is that about!?"
"Maybe it's because I know how to care for my grandchild, daughter," Raven added a sharp glare between the two matriarchs as Jaune sighed. The relationship between Yang and her mother was always strained, to say the least. The two had a tense but loving relationship that only grew stronger after the incident.
Jaune sighed looking to the right of him where a small shrine was fixed in the living room. In the center of the shrine was a photo surrounded by incense, and roses redder than blood.
The phot held the photo of a man, with blue eyes yellow hair and a happy smile that made anyone who looked at it feel their hearts melt.
Tai-yang's photo was framed in the middle of the altar. The death of the man hit the Rose Xiao-Long family particularly hard. The man's death was too much for some of the family and had even driven Raven and Summer to no longer live together. Mainly because Raven blamed Summer for their husband's death. And to be fair to Raven it was mainly Summer's fault.
Tai did not have to die that day. If he wanted to he could have jumped, but the man did not want to live. Tai wanted to die. Jaune shuddered the memory of a man's eye losing the life in them as a low broken smile grew on his face. Tai's arms falling back as the bullhead took off. Tai chose death over life, and Jaune did not blame him for a second.
And he was not the only one who didn't either. After Tai's video came out of him recording his last will the tenuous bonds of the Xiao-Long Rose house fell apart and the family split. Summer moved out, she did not feel welcome in the house and Jaune was confident if she and Raven met the meeting would end with another photo being put into the living room.
"G-Grandma Raven." The voice of Jaune's oldest son snapped him out of his thoughts as Yin looked up at Raven with a worried look. Yin out of all of Yang and his children had confidence issues. Severely and Jaune had no idea where get got the problems.
Yang and Jaune raised him well. Always encouraged him, almost never yelled at him, but the boy was timid. Jumping at his own shadow sometimes, not that anyone minded.
"Yes, Yin? What can I help you with?" Raven said her voice calm and controlled. Not raised a bit over a neutral tone for her grandson's sake.
"Can- Can I train with you after breakfast?"
"Is that ok with you?" Raven asked looking at Jaune with a knowing smirk. Yin might be afraid of things that went bump in the night but his desire to be a hunter was just as strong as his father's. The fact that his aura was unlocked only helped.
"Sure, if you don't mind training him again. You do, do it every morning."
"It is no problem to me. Would you like to try Crocea Mors again?"
"Yes!" The boy said raising his voice for the first time that month as his eyes shot open wide with panic.
"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to yell, I-
"So adorable!" Yang said smoothing her son again gaming more indignant squeaks come from him as his sisters rolled their eyes. Yang only stopped suffocating her child when Jaune hear a low whine come from behind Raven's back.
"Oh! There he is!" Yang said walking forward, as Raven turned around where a small child no more than eight months old was cradled in a small knapsack. The boy whined his short blonde hair ruffled as Yang picked up her youngest child Venor from his Grandma.
"There you are! Who's a good boy? Did you miss your mama?" Yang cooed the child named in honor of Raven's old tribe's member and Jaune's honorary mother. Jaune never got along with his mother.
Even after she tried to make amends he didn't find the heart to forgive her, he didn't hate her. He never hated any of his family even Bleu. Odd as she was, Jaune hoped she was safe. She was still being hunted by Blake after that debacle in Menagerie. He hoped they both would see the next sunrise. As Yang cooed to their child Jaune smiled as he saw his family begin to meld life was good.
"Fuck me!" Yang said tossing her head back in a howl as Jaune grunted.
"Yang! Cumming!" Jaune said the infernal insides of his wife finally winning out, Jaune grunted as he came. Yang's frantic thrusts finally paying off as Jaune felt his climax approach.
"Yang!" Jaune yelled, he saw white as his wife's lips crashed to his as they sealed themselves in a passionate embrace. Lips crashed into lips as Jaune moaned the two adults sharing a quick moment of relief before time pulled them apart.
"Fuck me I want to stay with you all week." Yang followed Lust flowing from her mind as Jaune sighed, his body still weak and hips sore from his wife's passionate embrace. "You know you can't, I have to work. The Grimm won't kill themselves you know?" Jaune asked taking one of Yang's nipples in his mouth biting down gently suckling it just how Yang liked. Yang grunted a low moan leaving her mouth as she gripped him, pushing back against the bedroom wall.
"I don't care about the Grimm. They can all go to hell!"
"I agree but before I can help send them there I need to go out, I can't just fight Grimm naked and balls deep in the most beautiful woman in Remnant can I?"
"So you do admit that I am better than her!"
"Yang please, I haven't seen Neo in over a decade, you don't have to compete with her you know?"
"What!? It's not a competition if you already have won you know right?"
"Yang. She beat you in one fight. That's not so bad right?"
"What?! I totally had her! Even at the end! Another minute and I would have had her!" Yang shouted her eyes burning as her passion made her walls clench on Jaune's dick making him moan loudly.
"Yang!"
"Oh, you do like it when I get rough? How about we-
"One. You know I like it rough. Two no. Down girl, I need to save the world."
"But I thought I was your world?"
"Yang I can beat Ruby's puppy dog eyes. What are you doing?" Jaune smirked as his wife sighed.
"Fine! Fine! Be that way! How is Ruby, is she still trying to date Weiss's brother?"
"Whitley? Yeah the two of them have an interesting relationship." Jaune said smiling as memories of Remnants most adorkable hunter and huntress pair entered his brain.
Ruby and Whitley was never a pair Jaune ever imagined but after he and Yang became exclusive Ruby was forced to move on, and Whitley after refusing both of his arranged marriages, and much to his sister's chagrin was kicked out of the Schnee house and disowned. This did not sit well with, well anyone really, not even his father. But his mother had recovered and after negotiating the SDC back from her husband and undoing more than a century of good will with the Faunus disowned her only son.
Luckily Whitley was not a weak man, and well even if he was not a man in the usual term, he made his life work. He graduated Beacon dated Ruby and now was living the life of a traveling hunter husband. He hoped they were happy they both deserved it.
"She's fine, her and Whitley are still living with Summer." ANGER.
Jaune felt the anger flow from Yang at their adoptive mother's name. Jaune never thought the day would come when Yang would come to blows with Summer but after Tai Yang changed...
"Oh... she's still in that picture?" Yang asked almost spitting out Summer's name as Jaune sighed.
"Yang she did not mean-
"She killed my dad Jaune. I don't care what she meant. Tai is dead, because of her. She's not my mom. Not anymore." Yang said a wave of SPITE flooding out of her as Jaune sighed.
"Yang, I'm sorry about Tai-
"Don't be. You did not kill him."
"Bye, dad!" Ming said hugging her father tight, both of his daughters did this. Running up and hugging their father tightly. Jaune rubbed both of their heads it was time for him to go.
"See you girls take care of your mother and Grandma ok? If you don't give them lots of attention they will get cranky.
"I heard that oh son of mine. Do not make me come over there and put you over my knee." Raven said a ghost of a smile on her lips as she joked.
Yes. Raven Branwen told a joke. Jaune still did not believe it but the death of her husband changed her. She lost her edge as Qrow put it not that he could talk. The father of four living in the lap of luxury in Atlas. Qrow might have said Raven lost her bite but Qrow lost his wings, his rich ass never left his mansion as Winter bought him all the accessories a general's aid could afford and that was a lot of liquor.
Jaune swore that man would drink himself to death before the end of the year but Qrow seemed almost inured to alcohol, maybe it was genetic. "Jaune, do not stay out long. Your family will miss you."
"Nah, they won't miss me, Rae. They have you to look out for them!" Jaune said as-
"Ow!"
"Don't stay that!"
"We miss you!" His daughters said as one anger in their small faces as Jaune sighed.
"Oh excuse me! I didn't mean to worry my princesses!" "Way to go, babe, you are already making the children angry." Yang laughed walked up to hug her husband and place a quick kiss on his cheeks. "Stay safe K?" Yang asked a rare amount of worry in her tone as Jaune grinned.
"Don't worry, if I did you won't let me hear the end of it."
"I'll bring your ass back to kill you again."
"Hey!"
"That's a curse!"
"And? You two curse all the damned time! Don't get snippy with me!" Yang said kissing Jaune on the lips as a chorus of eww, and gross went up as the two parted.
"Yin? Take care of your mom and Grandma ok?" Jaune asked as Yin nodded. The boy now holding Raven's blade in his hands. Jaune needed his sword to hunt as Yin had taken to using Raven's weapon in the meantime.
"Ok! I won't let you down! Dad!"
"I'm sure you won't, alright family that loves me and I back! I'm off to adventure!" Jaune said smiling as returned to his jeep and left. Jaune and Yang did this, they hunted in shifts. First Jaune would hunt, then Yang. They hunted in shifts of three months. Both taking a month break after each trip before the other went off. This was fair and allowed both of them to enjoy time with their family and still work.
"Time to work," Jaune said opening the door to his jeep as he got ready to go to work.
"You know you can always not, right?" Jaune asked sidestepping the Boarbatusk's wild roll stabbing it in its side killing it as he sighed.
"I'm not Weiss but I'll do," Jaune said offhandedly as he looked up. The Grimm were almost cleared out of the small forest he was in and none too soon.
He had been here for over a month and he was already tired of it. The eastern part of Vale had no scroll communication and he was missing his family.
"Come on, who wants to die first? Cinder's boss ain't going to help you, you know?" Jaune asked as the Grimm roared. Running at him two creeps and an Ursa ran to die. The Ursa was first, Jaune stabbing it through its chest making its limbs go slack as it gave one last futile roar. It's horrible breath slick with halitosis washing over his face as it fell back.
"That's one," Jaune said as the creeps came and died next. Jaune cut the arm off one making it howl before stabbing back gutting the other. The injured creep roared only for Jaune to slice off its head as he sighed. "You could try, you know?" Jaune asked slicing backward, split a Beowulf in two. The Grimm die without a sound as-
"You too," Jaune said ducking the other Grimm letting it land as it howled, running at him only to be run through on his blade making Jaune grunt as he kicked it off.
"Ok, now I can get the hell out of here," Jaune said wiping his blade, the extermination complete and an extra couple thousand lien in his pocket. Now all he had to do was go home, like the conquering hero that he was and be rewarded by smiling children, a very lonely Yang. Who would be itching to take him upstairs and tear off every last bit of his clothing with her teeth. An act that would horrify Coco if she ever knew. She still helped him out with his clothes.
He would much to his chagrin when on downtime and not killing monsters three times bigger than him he modeled for Adel fashions. Coco paid top money for male hunters to model their new huntsman catalog. And even if Coco could no longer sample Jaune she was more than happy to look at the boy that according to her had made into a man.
"Don't let Yang here you say that," Jaune said smiling as he walked back from the field hoping to see the rare faces of his smiling wife and even rarer a smiling Raven...
Rain. Jaune hated rain, years of living in the wilderness had ingrained a thick hatred for the water that fell from the sky and caused him to freeze. But Jaune hated it even more now as he sprinted through the woods.
"Ran away?! What do you mean he ran away!?" Jaune asked no one as the drops smacked into his face like minor fists.
"He ran away?! He ran away!?" Jaune thought the words of his wife still ringing in his ears. Yin ran away!? Ran away!? Yang had been panicking when she told him but the gist of it was clear.
Yin wanted to be a hunter, he was convinced that somehow the only way to become one was to run away like his dad did?! The fool had it in his head that it was Jaune's running away that made him into the hero that he was today. Not bothering to know that he only ran away to not be beaten within an inch of his life!
"Fucking idiot!" Jaune hissed as he ran through the woods of Patch. His child despite being dumb enough to run away for training was also smart enough to take Raven's sword. That way she could not portal to him and tin his hide till he could never sit down again! Jaune gritted his teeth he needed to think about this. Patch was not big, the woods were dense but relatively safe. Concentrated efforts had been made to clean out Grimm from the area mainly by Raven and Yang.
The idea of Grimm hurting their own family so close to where they slept did not go over well and now the woods, besides the odd wolf, were almost harmless. "Don't be hurt. Your mother will never forgive you if are." Jaune said as he ran through the rain into the forest…
Life had a funny sense of humor and one that Jaune often found more than a bit tasteless.
"NO!" Jaune yelled as a sun appeared in the forest. There they were, two of his children. Yin and Ming. Apparently, the eldest was for some reason out looking for her sibling, as she found him first. Yin had deep cuts on his hands, large pools of blood spilled from them as his sister made a large T pose in front of him.
Arms out to block the form of death. An Ursa loomed over them. A massive black shaped that threatens to rip them apart, to tear the humans in two loomed and well it never got close. A second sun appeared in the called as Yang appeared, Her eyes bleeding red as she punched the Grimm in the face. The monster exploded in a shower of blood and bones. Popping like a water balloon as Yang burned. The rain forming a massive mist around her as she fell to her child Screaming and yelled crying like a child as her son's unconscious body was gripped in her hands. Screaming at him shaking him for dear life the still body limp and unmoving as-
"Yang!" Raven yelled appearing behind her daughter eyes widening in panic at Yins still form as-
"He needs a doctor," Jaune said appearing by his wife's side as he touched his son's neck. He was alive but he needed help and he needed it now. Yang wasted no time cradling, Yin, as if he was going to vanish as Raven tore open a portal to a familiar doctor as Jaune picked up his crying eldest and took her to save her brother.
Life had a sense of humor and once again Jaune found it tasteless.
"You idiot! What the hell were you thinking!?" Yang shouted flames in her eyes as Ming balked, trying to look as small as possible in the hospital waiting room.
"I thought I was helping him..."
"By almost killing him!? I don't believe this!" Yang shouted as Jaune shook his head. As it turned out Yin did not run away he went training. Yin and Ming had been talking as siblings did and somehow got it in their heads that they both needed to train. To go away for three months like their parents and train in the wilds! Honing their skills and getting stronger, like a pair of idiots.
"I didn't mean to hurt him."
"Well, you did! Your brother almost died!" Yang shouted as Ming dropped her head, flinching under her and Ravens glare. The elder woman held no n kindness to her own as-
"Yang. Yin is ok-
"His arms Jaune! They almost had to amputate his arms! Why did you tell him to punch a tree until he broke his wrists!?"
"That's what you did! You told me that you punched trees until they broke!"
"And I am a damn huntress! I trained for that! And I never punched trees!"
"You told me Grandpa did that to get stronger! Yin wanted to be like him so he tried to..."
The mention of Tai made Yang freeze, her and Raven going quiet as-
"Ok. Enough. Yin is fine. They saved his hands and he will be ok in the morning. You did what you thought was right and... I think we all need some sleep ok?"
"What?! You don't want to punish her?!"
"I do. But not now. I'm tired, my son is alive I just want to go to sleep." Jaune said as Yang paused as relief washed over her.
"Ok. Fine. But don't ever! Ever! Do this again ok?"
"I won't... mom..." Ming said as Yang sighed her emotions leaving as soon as they came. Yang was scared she did not act well when she was scared. She got emotional reactive and now? Now that the danger was gone she was cooling off. Her emotions blurring as she let her air out.
"Fine... But I need to drink. Where the hell does Qrow keep his liquor for his visits?" Yang asked the danger passed as Jaune's life settled down.
Weeks passed after the incident. Long happy weeks with his family. Every day Jaune woke up, had sex with his wife who was extra clingy and if Jaune was any guess by the long talks she was having with Raven pregnant again. Yang did not believe in birth control and wanted as big a family as possible.
They already had five kids what did a few more hurt? Jaune thought as he smiled. Yin was fully healed and after a harsh tongue lashing from his mother and Raven they had a tearful reunion, Ming was lightly punished no tv for a week a punishment she accepted readily. As the other siblings calmed down Jaune smiled as the family ate breakfast together.
"Babe! We need some more syrup, can you get some from the pantry?" "Sure thing babe," Jaune said as he got up from the table.
"You want me to pour in on the pancakes or you?"
"Both," Yang said grinning ear to ear as-
"Mom! Dad! Ew!" Ming said balking at her parents as-
"Hey don't complain! It's how you ended up here you know?"
"I thought we used whipped cream for Ming?"
"What? Didn't we use chocolate syrup?"
"No that was for Yin!"
"MOM!" Yin said face read as his aunt's cape his hands still bandaged from his infection that almost claimed his limbs shook struggled to eat his perfect cut bacon. That Raven had sliced for him earlier, the Grandma smiling as she shook her head.
"You two stop teasing them, or I will say the story of how you came into this world, Yang. Let me say if Tai was not a more direct man I dare say you might be have been inhaled-
"Mom. EW. Gross. I don't want to hear about your sex life." "Why? It's how you came into this world." Raven said biting back a smile as Yang balked. Her and Ming making an identical disgusted face as Jaune.
"Don't fight girls. Yin, stay strong." Jaune said as-
"Yes, dad!" Yin sake still struggled to eat as Jaune left as Shen offered to help her brother eat.
As Jaune went to get the syrup that he was definitely pouring all over Yang later on-
"You have to leave." A voice said as all noise stopped. Jaune froze as time went still, noise left the area and the air went still as he sensed a vacuum.
"What?"
"You. Jaune Vesparax must leave."
"I don't want to."
"You must! This world is fake!"
"It's real."
"It is not your home,"
"To me it is close," Jaune said. He knew this world was not real, at least not technically speaking. This world was a possibility. One of many and he liked it. He was not leaving.
"You must leave!"
"And if I do not?"
"People will die."
"People always die."
"This is different! If you stay she will die." The voice said as Jaune sighed.
"I... I don't want to go back... I'm tired... I don't like the pain..." Jaune said tears in his eyes as-
"I know you don't. But you have to be strong."
"Why? Why do I have to be strong?"
"Because you wanted to be a hero. Now wake up Jaune."
"Fine. I'm doing this for you Amber." Jaune said as he walked into the glowing door that leads away from his family and he left the dream in a single motion.
"Jaune! Where is the syrup?" Yang called as the dream pulled him. Jaune bit back a smile and cross the threshold at once leaving the dream for good.
"I simply must say thank you." The fall maiden said bowing to Jaune, Amber had for some reason not only healed but woken him up from his rest in Adam's base as Jaune yawned.
"Amber you don't need to thank me."
"I disagree. You saved my life. I am in your eternal debt." Amber said bowing to Jaune. The fall maiden fully healed and back to full. Amber stood tall in a low grey cloak and tight brown pants along with a bandaged chest. The maiden looked well even with the scar down half her face.
"I did what I had to. You spoke to me."
"I know I did. I felt you in the dark."
"Felt me?"
"Yes. You can feel emotions Jaune. I am glad that you saved me." Amber said hugging Jaune. Pressing his face into her chest making him blush.
"You don't need to thank me! Really!"
"Yes, I do. Jaune... I hope you don't mind me saying this but you are hurt." Amber said as Concern flowed from her chest as she held Jaune close.
"Hurt?"
"Yes. Someone or in your case... many people have hurt you in life. I wish to make this better for you." "Better? What do you mean better?" Jaune asked now confused as Amber tightened her grip on his shoulders to the point of pain.
"Amber? What are you doing? That hurts!" Jaune yelped as-
"Jaune something is wrong with you."
"What?! What are you talking about?"
"Something is changing you. Something not of the world has a grip on your soul. I wish to free you from that." Amber said as energy bled from her eyes.
"Amber?!"
"Jaune. You freed me so let me free you from that which restrains you."
"Amber I-
"Jaune! Let me free you!"
"Ok?! Just stop-
"As you say. This will help you." Amber said raising her hands as lighting spilled out!?
"That does not look healthy."
"You think?!"
"Amber!? What are you-
"You are possessed, let me exorcize you." The maiden said her voice low and undulating and-
"Amber!"
"This might hurt." Amber since as she pressed her hand to Jaune's face and he screamed.
"Roman." Cinder said the thief's sharp and if she was being honest pretty green eyes opened up as the man groaned.
"What the hell happened to me? The fuck is that bitch?" Roman grunted his body covered in bandages as-
"That bitch is Bleu Arc."
"Blondies sister?"
"His second eldest."
"Fuck me."
"She tried."
"You stopped her..."
"Yes... Roman, I will be honest I did not like you. I never did care for you but... you are mine. You are my property."
"Thanks. I fell so loved."
"You should be. You belong to me as such no one but me can lay a hand on you. And... And I have waited here to apologize." Cinder grunted as Roman balked.
"Apologize? You? Did you hit your head on something?" "No. I did not, I am here to make.. amends... I have treated your roughly for no good reason and..."
"And?"
"And that stops. From now on let us work as... associates. There is no need for animosity between us."
"I... thank you?"
"You are welcome... for the record what she did, what she tried to do to you was not called for. Maybe it is because of Jaune, maybe it is some semblance of moral but no man deserves that..."
"I... thank you."
"You are welcome, now get some rest. The short one wants to see you. She was quite worried about your health."
"You do know that I would be here right?" Adam asked sitting cross-legged as a twig cracked behind him. He sat in the middle of the Emerald forest surrounded by disintegrating Grimm as she came.
"Adam Taurus."
"Raven Branwen. A pleasure."
"You know why I am here."
"Does it have something to do with your daughter's arm?"
"You are damn right it does!" Raven yelled as Adam sighed getting up taking off his mask to face the woman. She stood sword drawn her red eyes locked onto him as he sighed.
"I gave her a fair warning."
"You cut off her arm!"
"She shot first."
"She is a child!"
"And she learned the hard way what happens to those who go back on their words. Funny isn't that what would happen to her in your own tribe? Is that not the Branwen way?"
"I left the tribe because of the way!"
"I see."
"No...l do not think you come close to!"
"I could have killed her you know? I could have butchered her and her friends in less time than it took for her to scream out but I did not. I showed her mercy." Adam growled as Raven paused. Her frown softening as she grunted.
"You did... so I will show you the same mercy. You could have killed her but you did not. So I will not kill you. So hold out your left arm."
"You must be joking."
"No. An eye for an eye-
"Makes the whole world blind."
"Only if I let you strike back."
"You really want me to let you cut off my arm?"
"Yes. That will make things painless as possible."
"You will forgive me if I say over my dead body will you not?"
" I thought you might say that."
"Thought or knew?"
"Knew. But I wanted to give diplomacy a try."
"Fine. But I won't die easy." Adam said as low whistle came out of his mouth.
"Oh, I won't kill you. I'll just take your arm." Raven said as lighting struck, flame bleed from her eyes as-
"So you are the spring maiden? Interesting."
"You are not scared? Most would run right now."
"Run? From a woman? Don't insult me."
"I like that spirit."
"I think you should be trying to kill me."
"As I said, Adam. I won't kill you but I will not walk out of here without your arm."
"Take your best shot."
"You will fall Taurus."
"I doubt it. You are not the first to say that nor the last. So come at me Raven, and try to take an ounce of my flesh, better men have tried." Adam said as his whistle broke out as Raven dashed forward as lightning fell and the fight began.
Bella was having a good day.
"Yes! Now that this is done it's all in the bag!" The reaper said as she grinned. Bella was not what you would call an average reaper. She was a rookie. Not used to her job and well she had hit a snag or a very bad situation.
She needed death. A lot of death. A few names popped up in her mind as she smiled. Jaune Arc, Pyrrha Nikos, Yang Xiao-long, Blake, and others came up. All people, all mortals, and all had to die. Not today, not right now and certainly no time soon but they needed to die.
This was where the problems came. Jaune was not this Jaune. A demon took him and made him her pawn. He was possessed by another Jaune and he was messing with the books!
Not only was he creating death, but unnecessary death, that was also not allowed. But! He was ensuring life. Bella needed RWBY, JNPR, and many others to be dead in three years. She had stretched the truth to Jaune saving his friends was a necessary evil but that was a desperate move.
She needed his trust, to get her work done. Jaune had to die, his friends had to die in a very! Specific time frame and at this rate only one was going to die. Pyrrha Nikos was the only one slotted for death before and now? None of them were going to die in the time frame in her most liberal predictions!
But! Every since Jaune had worked with her she was back on track! It would be close but she was going to make this work. So far all of RWBY and most of JNPR was slated to die in the third year of Beacon. Their deaths would be somewhat tragic but they would happen. Not that Bella cared for the cause. She needed to put them in the ground and Jaune was her tool.
Jaune the ignorant fool still though the dreams as mere dreams! But they were so much more!
"Everything that can happen will happen," Bella said as a small screen flashed in front of her showing several greyed out faces. Jaune thought that he was merely seeing the future but what he was doing was creating it. Each time he went into the dream he was altering the paths for this world. Every time he went in he changed the course of this reality. Now?
The death of Tai Yang was cemented, and with that death put into frim place the rest of them pawns would come falling down. Soon Jaune would cause not only his but all of his friend's death and he would be none the wiser. He just needed to escape the dreams. Each time he left the ripples it sent out altered this world and made the oh sweet chances of death ring out! All Bella needed was for Jaune to keep this up.
Sure manipulating him was not her first choice. She did not like manipulation that was a demons game not hers but now? Now things were going smooth, she could relax, cheek her computer see it smut4life would answer her damn posts! And just chill out and watch the chaos unfold. "Now I just have to wait. I hope you put on a good show for us." Bella said as she looked down to her hands. Jaune should have figured that making a deal with a literal incarnation of death to stop death was not a good idea. Especially when she liked to keep her fingers crossed as she spoke...
An: Well! There we go! Almost done! Two more chapters left till the season one finale! So! Amber is free! And she decides to reward Jaune by exorcizing him!? Adam quits the Fang, to me a martyr Yang is one again disarmed and has a very nice in my opinion future with Jaune and Bella! Bella shows her true colors! As honestly, making deals with death to keep yourself living was never a very good idea in the first place.
So! Bleu is gone for the moment, Cinder makes up with Roman. Jaune is getting a bit close with Amber and much, much more! Two chapters left in this season of Game on, then The Apprentice takes full steam until it's hiatus! So until then, Love Struck is next and until next time? Thanks.
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Name Jaune Arc.
Warning! Interference from a non-player character! An attempt at exorcizing mortal detected! Warning! All holds on mortal might he erased! Warning!
Omake. Darkest Remnant part 22, The final speech.
Victory was never what it seemed like. Oscar knew this, he knew it well. He had seen what victory looked like and it was not so different from defeat.
"Oscar, what's the plan? Are we going to strike?" Jaune asked his voice tired, his armor now upgraded to the maximum level covered in dirt and filth, his blade still coated in the guts of the damned Bless Champion. Oscar did not know what to tell Jaune not anymore.
"Tell him we are about to embark on the final run. Tell him victory is within our grasp." Ozpin whispered into his ear. The immortal relative of his still haunting him said. Oscar frowned he did not want to lie to Jaune, not to any of his men. The heroes that had come from all over Remnant to aide him on his journey were no longer the same upbeat gung-ho killers. Ready to risk life and limb for him. No, now they were bitter, cold, practical. The horror's of dungeon had dulled them to the pain of thier lives be it physical, mental or in the worst case spiritual.
"Oscar? What is the plan? The others need to know." Jaune said again, looks at the Noble in his private quarters in the inn. The boy was quiet ever since the banishment of Salem. The horribly vampiric queen was run through by his very own Croce Mors none too long ago. And while the town was safe from the incessant attacks from bloodsuckers, both of them still remember the massive unholy shape she took in the end...
"Oscar? What are you doing? Tell him we are about to win."
"No."
"No?"
"No?"
"Jaune. I must say something to you and only you. You are my friend. You were just a disgraced thief who stole and lied his way into the church when I first met you but now? You are brave. You have saved my life, you have saved all of our lives more than once. Your wife loves you, the men respect you. I respect you."
"Thank you but-
"So I will not lie. There are two more dungeons to do before this evil is put to rest. And I believe we will fail."
"Oscar!? What you are doing?!'
"I do not know if we can win. The evil is too strong, and we are weak. We are battered, the loss of Yatsuhashi, Fox, and Sun Wigh heavily on us all. I do not know if we can continue."
"Oscar!?"
"But we must. We must keep fighting. This is a task that must be carried out victory or death. There can be no stopping."
"I agree."
"You do?"
"Yes. I was a thief a coward unworthy of my name but now? Now I have a purpose. My wife believes in me, my friends believe in me. They believe in you. Tell them this. Tell everyone that this is a fight that we might not win but one that still must be fought! We must do this not for fame or glory or honor! But simply it is a fight that must be fought! Together! We can do this!"
"You believe so?"
"No. But I am willing to die to find out.' Jaune said smiling faintly as Oscar gave a low brittle laugh.
"That makes two of us now come on. I need you to say that same speech to the others."
"Of course, let's get them ready for the end."
