Okay, So I finally finished Season 1 of Daredevil, and about to move into Season 2, so I finally get to see the new Punisher. So that should help me write. Anyways, I think I'm going to quit drinking for awhile.
JAUNE
Another shot of bourbon down the hatch. And yet again he had hit another dead end. He did find a white fang base in the mountains, but it looked like it had been abandoned for years. In other words, the slimy little shit that he got that information out of technically told him the truth while telling a lie at the same time. Unfortunately he couldn't find the scroungy little fuck anywhere. He had fallen off the radar ever since Jaune had cut off seven of his fingers. And he better pray that Jaune never found him, because he would make what happened to him with that light torture seem like a day at daycare if he ever saw him again.
"And here we go, back to small time bandits." He said as for the past week he had been hunting down raiding parties.
Nothing big, just a bunch of people who had tried to take advantage of the weak. And it pissed him off enough, course he had help with them now with his new tool. Ever since he took down those white fang grunts and returned the supplies to the people of the city, things had been pretty stagnant. Also he may have stolen the All Terrain Vehicle from the white fang. After all, he needed to get to where he was going fast, and considering that the vehicle already had weapons equipped, it was all but perfect for his needs. Needless to say it had been his home away from home.
He sighed as he thought about home, he wondered how his family was doing. He sent them a letter explaining what he was doing, and that he wouldn't be home for awhile. He didn't know how they would react, but he wasn't thinking of that when he set off on this crusade. He knew he was going to be at this for a long time, he just hoped that he could actually put a dent into the plans of those damn terrorists.
"At least I know I don't have to waste bullets on these small fries, a blade will work just nice." He said as he stepped outside of the vehicle and looked through the town he had stopped in.
"Well, here goes nothing." He said as he took Pyrrha's sword from its perch in the vehicle, he really needed to come up with a name for it, what about Battle Van? Nah, that sounded a little weird, plus it wasn't a van.
He eyed the sword in his hand, it had taken him awhile to repair the sword, and even now you could still see the marks from when it had broke into three separate pieces. A flash of lightning shot across the sky, and for a brief moment he could see a set of green eyes staring back at him from the reflection off the blade. He shook his head, it must have been the bourbon messing with his head, even though he didn't drink that much.
As much as Jaune had grown fond for the drink, he knew not to drink too much before going to work, it wouldn't do him any good to drink himself into a stupor and then try to kill some criminals.
"HELP! SOMEONE HELP!" He heard a voice cry out in the distance as he heard the sounds of a woman's voice being muffled.
Possible thief? But from the way she screamed, probably a rapist. Jaune clenched his fist and walked towards the scream.
Pyrrha's old sword was going to be covered in blood by the end of the night.
RNR (Team Runner)
"How the hell can't we find him? Before Jaune was easy to track, but now its almost like he's a ghost." Ren said as his leader was not one for stealth.
Hell, one time he tried to sneak out in the middle of the night only to trip on his own shoelaces, the resulting crash made Pyrrha think someone had broken into the room. Ren cringed at her name. She was certain Pyrrha's death was the cause for Jaune's disappearance. Qrow had come by and assured them that Jaune was fine, but in a bad place. But when they went over to the cabin he was staying in, all they found was a note addressed to his remaining team mates and Ruby.
Yang was still recovering, as it turns out, Weiss had sent a prosthetic arm for Yang to use, and her recovery while slow, was steady. But it would still be awhile before she was in fighting shape, still it hurt Ruby to see her sister so defeated. To think that the bubbly party girl had a dark side was something she didn't want to imagine.
"I don't know, but I'm worried about him Ren, he...he took Pyrrha's death hard." Nora said in a surprisingly solemn tone.
She had never been as energetic since it happened, losing a friend and teammate, and then your former leader was currently MIA doing god knows what. It was enough to drive anyone into a depression, luckily Ren had helped her out of it, but Nora still wasn't as bubbly as she was before. Seemed like the whole chain of events that happened up to this point had really taken the happiness out of everyone's lives.
"But why would he leave like that? I tried to ask Uncle Qrow about him, but all he did was look away and said that Jaune knew what he was getting into, but even he seemed to have a hard time believing that." Ruby said as she took that as a sign that Jaune needed help.
"So far the only lead we have on him was that he was in a city not too long ago, apparently helped some kid survive." He said as they remembered the tiger faunus they met not too long ago.
The kid had been fighting off small time criminals using a few throwing and fighting knives that apparently Jaune had given him. The kid wouldn't give them any information since he wasn't sure if they were spies. But after Ren had showed them a group picture of their Teams at Beacon, the kid had been happy to speak with them. But even then, he didn't know much, all he could do was point them in the direction Jaune went, and hope they could catch up to him.
"It's just, those things that kid told us, they can't be true can they? Jaune killing white fang members? I mean, I'm not supporting the fang, but I can't picture Jaune actually killing anyone." Ruby said as Ren spoke up.
"I think he may be working with someone, Jaune may have been hurt by Pyrrha's death, but I just can't see him going down that road." Ren said as he had a hard time believing his leader was capable of that.
He knew he was now a capable fighter, but a cold blooded killer? He just couldn't believe it. Nora just shook her head vehemently at the thought of Jaune being a murderer. The leader who used to sleep in bunny pyjamas was going around killing people? It just didn't compute. And if it was true, could he have been that broken up about Pyrrha that he did fall into darkness?
They didn't know, and at times they were not sure if they wanted to find out.
"We should keep moving, it will be night soon, and we want to cover as much ground as we can." Ruby said as she fingered a note in her pocket.
She remembered when she found the note and read it for the first time. She still didn't understand it completely, but she knew enough that Jaune was going off alone. But she knew at this time, that the last thing Jaune needed was to be alone. No matter what he said, he needed friends, maybe not to keep him from going on whatever crazy crusade he was talking about, but he needed them to make sure that he didn't die alone in a gutter. That's not what Pyrrha sacrificed herself for.
Come to think of it, Ruby still didn't know why, from what Qrow told her, Pyrrha went off to fight Cinder all alone, knowing that she wouldn't survive. So why? Why did she go? She could have ran with Jaune, why did she die? What was the point?
She shook her head, No! She couldn't let that distract her from the mission at hand.
But she couldn't help but feel afraid of what she was going to discover.
JAUNE
"PLEASE! HAVE SOME MERCY!" The bear faunus/would be rapist yelled as a woman was trembling against the wall as Jaune was holding a smoking gun.
"Mercy? I could have sworn I heard her crying out for mercy." He said as he shot the Bear's other knee out.
"GAAAAHHH!" He yelled out as now he was trying to crawl away on his hands.
"How does it feel? You feel like you're at the bottom of the food chain don't you." Jaune said as he stomped on the man's left hand.
"It's because you are, you know what you are? You're nothing, just a lowly bottom feeder trying to force his way up." He said as he held the gun to the man's head.
"Not anymore though, I'm putting you out of your misery." He said as he pulled the trigger and the faunus's brain splattered over a nearby dumpster.
Overkill? Maybe, but at this point Jaune didn't care. The man was a rapist who was caught in the act? What was he supposed to do? Turn him into the authorities. This wasn't one of his X ray and Vav comics, this was real life. And in real life, it didn't turn out like a comic book.
"Y-You killed him." The woman said as Jaune looked back at her.
"S-Stay away from me!" She yelled as she ran away.
"You're welcome." Jaune said as he walked away wiping off some of the blood that had sprayed onto his face.
He looked into a piece of broken glass, and he saw a pair of dull blue eyes staring back at him, the blood smeared across his face after he tried to clean it off. What was his reaction? Nothing, he never claimed to be a saint. Hell, he knew he was no hero. He knew that as soon as he let his partner die. He saw the monsters that inhabited this world, and he didn't mean the Grimm.
He meant the monsters that lived inside every human and faunus alike. The darkest part of our souls that we try to keep locked up, that we try to contain. However, all it takes is one bad day for you to let the monster in, to surrender to the darkness in your soul. And that point, you make friends with it, and you see what you have to become to rid the world of filth, sometimes you can't be the angel. Sometimes you have to be the demon.
