Heretic notes:
Welcome, my dear readers, to the start of the first arc!
"... So, I took over the school?"
"Yep".
Ren was still confused, but didn't seem to bither about what happened. Jaune, on the other hand...
"You really don't remember anything?"
"Not a lot... Seemed more like one of those parallel worlds I see..."
Jaune sighed.
"Maybe you were right and your dreams are doors to the future".
Ren smirked quietly. At that moment...
"REEEEEEENNN!" A shouting voice surprised him. "JAAAAAUNNEEEEE!" It was clearly angry.
Both of the boys froze. But the golden girl didn't stop running while leaving a trail of flames behind. Yang seemed like a dragon.
"You bastaaaards! YANG DOUBLE CHOP!"
"Ugh!" Jaune held his head.
"Argh!" Ren was knocked on the ground after being hit on his wound.
"""LORD REN!""" And many boys in the cafeteria were surprised.
Sun and Neptune decided to NOT interfere, while Blake...
"Yang, what happene-"
"Shut it! You left me to die too" Yang looked at Jaune. "But YOU didn't seem to bother even after knowing we were in trouble" she then looked at Ren. "And YOU sent an army after us!"
"Ugh..." Ren was moaning on the ground. "My head..."
"""DON'T WORRY, LORD REN!"""
Half of the boys aproached, carried Ren, and...
"""WE SHALL TREAT YOU!"""
"Somebody help me! I'm being kidnapped!"
The boys took him away.
Just as Yang was about to laugh...
"She attacked the king of hearts!"
"""GET HER!"""
... the other boys decided to attack her.
"Not this again!" Yang ran away in panic.
Jaune recovered from his pain and widened his arms in front of the boys.
"Guys, guys, guys, guys! Look, there is no need to attack her, right? I mean, that wouldn't solve anything and you already have your love life and..."
But the boys...
"He is the one that rejected our king's generosity!"
"I heard our king offered him the secrets of harems!"
"That arrogant bastard!"
"""KILL HIM!"""
Jaune didn't need to think before running away.
RWBY: Against All Odds
"Ah... Ah... Ah..."
How long did he run for? An hour?
He was tired, sitting agains a wall outside the school while staring at the full moon.
"Last few days were crazy..." He muttered.
A tournament against a Mercenary School had been announced, he went on a hellish training, went out in a date with a girl way out of his league, fought against a friend that went 'evil', won and was just pursued by an army.
How could one describe such situations without the word 'crazy'?
However, as much as they were bizarre...
"It has been very fun" he said.
He could feel the results of his training and actually had fun like he never expected before. Everything seemed to be going very well. Except for...
"Pyrrha..." He said her name.
"You are unsure of your relation with her?" Asked a female voice".
"Yeah" he answered the truth. "Everything went very fast and great, but... Didn't seem right, you know?"
"How?"
"Well, I..." Jaune sighed. "I asked her out by accident... I only followed instrunctions the whole date... That wasn't me. I didn't plan any of that, but she seemed so happy... It feels as if I have been just messing up and someone is cleaning the mess for me... And yet, I get the prize in the end... It just doesn't feel right..."
"Because you weren't responsible for what happened?"
Jaune looked at the full moon again.
"Yeah... But I can't just go back and say 'it was all an accident'... And I can't go forward as if nothing happened. I'm stuck. Dating wasn't supposed to be like this".
"Jaune, I think you are taking relationships too serious".
"Blake, relationships have to be-" he stopped. "Wait... Blake?!"
Sitting right by his side against the wall on the grass, Blake smiled.
"Took you long enough to notice".
"I nearly thought my heart stopped!" Jaune calmed down. "What are you doing here?"
Blake looked at the full moon.
"I felt something like this would happen sooner or later. I know a bit about how you feel... About trust and truth, you know?"
"Really?"
"But, Jaune... You are having senseless worry."
"But, well... Dating is supposed to be..."
"You are confusing date with love, Jaune" Blake looked at him in the eyes. "Are you 100% sure you are in love with Pyrrha?"
"Well, I..." Jaune looked at his hands. "I... I guess I am not... But you know, it really is fun hanging out with her..."
"Then you have nothing to worry about".
"I don't?"
Blake smiled again.
"Jaune, I know you had a crush to Weiss and I know you are already over it, but you are mistaking a few things: the world isn't a fairytale."
"Yeah, I know..."
The biy already knew of such reality. If everything was as simple as that, people wouldn't walk everywhere with weappons bigger than them.
"And just like the world isn't a fairytale, love isn't something like that."
Jaune opened his eyes wide. Blake was smiling, but wasn't laughing.
She stretched herself.
"That's what dates are for, Jaune. It's for people to know each other. For the love of one to be confirmed or dispelled, that's why you don't have to worry about it. Continue dating and you and Pyrrha will be able to confirm if one is fit for the other. Who knows, maybe she really is your destined one? Or, if not, you will at least know about it".
"Wow... That was deep..."
"Fufufu..."
"But... What if a perfect match doesn't exist?"
"It really doesn't" she said it flat out.
Jaune got a little far from Blake.
"Hey! There was no need for that!" Said her displeased. "Look, what I mean is: no one is perfect. A really perfect couple doesn't exist. Didn't you ever hear a tale from that man that could go back on time?"
"You mean that indie game you are addicted to?"
Blake blushed and replied:
"What I mean is: that man turned back time many times for his beloved. Everytime he did a mistake, he corrected it as if nothing happened. He was perfect".
"Then... they ended happily ever after?"
Blake looked at him with half-opened eyes.
"Play Braid, Jaune!"
"Sorry!"
She sighed.
"He was perfect, but such perfect being doesn't exist. By never making errors, he traded love for distrust. He could never accept his mistakes and learn from them. While his beloved couldn't help but fear such perfect man. In the end they broke up".
"How sad..." Said Jaune. "What kind of evil game is that?"
"So, Jaune" Blake looked at him in the eyes. "Don't worry about being perfect. Don't take things too serious. There is nothing wrong with what you did until now as long as you can learn from that".
"I see... I understand!"
"Really?"
"Pff, no!"
Jaune laughed as Blake go displeased, but he said:
"Just kidding. I guess I just took everything like that trying to be a hero... But you are right, a perfect hero doesn't exist. Flaws are there for a reason, right?"
Blake nodded.
"Then, what are you going to do now?"
"Now?" Jaune looked at the moon. "I will sleep. Tomorrow, I will ask Pyrrha out, by myself, just like I want it to be. And then... I guess I will ready myself for the tournament".
"Haha..." Blake got up. "Let's just call it a day. Vampires or werewolves, we can worry about them later".
She extended his hand and Jaune accepted it as she helped him get up.
Soon, Blake's scroll rung and she went back alone.
Jaune looked at the moon and the starry night sky.
"Still... I wouldn't mind..." He shook his head.
'No, never mind' he started walking back to Beacon alone.
However, he didn't know that fate took a different step on that moment.
On Jammer...
Merlina Lake, high ranking assassin and proud director of Jammer laid out cards on the table.
"Oh-ho!" She had a hollow smile.
The three cards were: 'Death', 'The Tower' and 'The Fool'.
She looked around and sat back on the chair.
"To think my predictions would go this far... Tepes, in what trouble are you getting yourself into? I told you many times to stop your arrogance".
The girl in witch clothes sighed.
"Maybe I should call Ozpin about that... He is, after all, one of the few that don't hold that hypocrisy against me. Otherwise, things will change pretty soon..." She dropped one of the cards on the ground. 'The Tower' fell upside down. "... for the worst, that is".
It didn't take five minutes before Jaune received a call.
It was from Pyrrha. However, it ended before he could answer.
"I have a bad feeling..."
Jaune started to run. There was only one place he could go.
It took him about 30 minutes to find an airship.
"Ah... Ah... Ah..." His breath was heavy. "First Ren's army, now this..."
"I don't have an army".
Jaune opened his eyes in surprise. In front of the airship...
"Sup, Jaune!" Nora waved to him.
"Nora? Ren? What are you?"
Ren had a tired expression.
"Many students, who called themselves my minions by the way, told me that you were running like a madman over here... I don't even need to hear a reason to know that it's important. Let's go".
"Yay!" Nora raised her fist to the sky.
However...
"Aren't you still hurt, Ren?"
Ren merely side-glanced to him before replying:
"Aren't you the guy that always puts his life on the line for someone in need of help?" Ren smiled. "Let's go, you can explain it in the way".
Chapter 5 - Turning Point
Getting the airship was more difficult than they expected.
Jaune was vomitting in a trash can while he occasionally explained the situation at the same time.
Ren, who was piloting the airship, accelerated it further.
"Then, you believe something may have happened to Pyrrha?"
Jaune nodded. Ren thought a bit.
"... White Fang? Or... Jammer?"
"Ah... Ah..." Jaune finally got rid of his motion sickness for a while. "Jammer... The White Fang doesn't seem to have Pyrrha as a target. At most, team RWBY would be due to the things they did. However, Jammer's students consider Pyrrha the best first year..."
Ren nodded. At that moment, Nora spread a map on the ground.
"Okay!" She circled a few spots. "I talked to Weiss and Ruby while you were chased by Ren's minions..."
"Hey!"
"... so, Pyrrha may have gone to places near these. If we go separate ways... Here, we can cover this much area".
Jaune looked at the map carefully.
"Got it".
Ren thought: 'Jaune must have not called team RWBY, since he went to the airship right away... If something really happened to her, we may need help, but... Even if we call them now, they wouldn't arrive on time'.
'Seems like it will be us three alone and separated there...'
"Brace yourselves!" Ren readied the controls. "I'm going to land".
Nora nodded and Jaune said:
"Once we land, each one go in a different direction. Avoid battles if necessary, we need to focus on finding Pyrrha for now".
"Got it!" Nora raised her fist. "Mission: Finding Pyrrha - ON!"
They did as planned, each one in a separate way.
After twenty minutes, Nora covered her entire are with no results.
After thirty minutes, Ren reported the same to Jaune and told him they were going to help in his area.
"Ah... Ah... Ah..." Jaune was already tired.
He had been running without stop and spent the whole day running now that he remembered. It was no wonder that he was so tired.
Even so, he continued running and shouting Pyrrha's name.
However, soon he crossed a strange figure in the streets.
'What was that?!' Jaune felt an ominous feeling.
Upon looking back, the figure...
Had its left leg bent in a few places. Held the right arm as if it could drop from the body at any moment. Drops of blood were here and there as it walked.
Jaune would normally help such person, but...
Eyes red like a blood and the skin tone of the dead. He could barely see the other festures due to the distance and darkness of the night, but the first thing that came to his mind was only one word.
'Vampire...'
Many connections were made on his mind at the same time, but he ignored them and decided to follow the creature.
"Hey, you! Stop!"
Howver, the being seemed to react to his words and ran while turning right on the next street.
Jaune accelerated his feet and followed, but...
"What... The?"
The trail of blood was gone. The shadow with red eyes had disappeared.
Before Jaune could search more...
RIIINNNNGGGG
He answered his scroll.
"Jaune!"
"Nora?"
Nora's voice was one of worry in contrast to her usual happy voice.
"Jaune, I'm sending the coordinates, you have to come here now! I've found Pyrrha!"
"... I'm going!"
Meanwhile...
"... I'm going!" The shadow heard such words as a boy ran.
The red-eyed being calmly deduced a few things from little words.
"He said 'Nora'... If I am not mistaken, that's the name of one of her teammates... It seems my predictions came true before I expected'.
Suddenly his own scroll vibrated and he answered it.
"Yes?"
"Vlad, where are you?"
"That is not important right now. What about the target?"
"... Lost".
The boy, Vlad, looked at the full moon in the sky.
"... I understand. I am sending my coordinates. I need help, Luna".
The female voice that came was not one of surprise, but cold, calm and analytical.
"What kind of monster did you fight?"
Drops of blood dyed the ground red.
"The kind... Is something I wonder myself".
Jaune barely arrived on Nora's location and had a sudden fear permeating through his body.
"No..."
There were a few people there that didn't go any closer to the scene. The ambulance there was a sign of ill omen.
Blood was splashed everywhere. The ground had many cracks on it.
"No..." Jaune dropped to his knees on the ground.
And, being transported to the ambulance, he recognized the red hair and the greco-roman gear the girl had.
A sleeping beauty, but also...
"It's Pyrrha" said Ren by Jaune's side.
Nora averted her gaze from that scene, Jaune couldn't believe it, and Ren...
'It's clear now' he understood it bitterly. 'Jammer's students have finally made their move'.
Beacon Academy was prestigious school that trained students to become heroes.
'Just like the impaled grimm, they chose an enemy to attack. They are trained as assassins, and any assassin can take down a person who is unaware from them with a safe distance or with a few tricks'.
Such a school was famous for it's efficiency and the Hunters that graduated from it. The tests have a significant level of difficult, where young ones may die. As such, the school only accepts the best of the best.
'But this is not over yet... Beacon will strike back'.
Those who will become hunters, heroes and protectors of peace. Where they will either live a life of fame, or die as the heroes they became.
Ren's eyes pulsed with determination.
'Just you wait. Anybody who messes with one of us, messes with all of us... We are hunters, and we...
This is a tale about the students that live and study in Beacon. A tale about characters that seem to have come straight away from fairy tales, myths and history.
'... Shall hunt the ones responsible for this!'
A tale about heroes and villains and the dim line that separates them.
Arc 1 - Disillusioned Vampire
Heretic notes:
Damn, Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V is a fandom war...
Oh yeah, the fic! Nearly forgot, lol.
I actually rushed it a bit. I received news that Monty is in the hospital, so I decided to give it my all and make a start the first arc as soon as possible!
The first arc! Where the ones preyed upon become the predators! Where battles start and things go crazy!
Where the true meaning of belief and heart of the cards and stuff like that appears!
I mean, you people didn't really believe this was going to be just fun and games, right?
For a hero to shine, evil must be defeated. The greater the light, the bigger is the darkness around it.
So... Why not make a start with a BANG!
A small scale war between contrasting students. A Beacon of hope and a Jammer of despair!
Oh yes.
So, wait patiently, dear readers. I shall give you a story you will be impressed with.
A battle worthy of the title "Against All Odds"
Get better soon, Monty!
Heretic, out!