Dreaming of a better future
AN/ as always full AN at bottom.
BN/ And as always you mongrels may thank me for blessing you with my presence.
Chapter 5
Jaune stood staring at the monstrous humanoid Grimm before him as he drew his sword. Though while the knight was shocked by the beast he was also left worrying about the man standing next to him. The knight had to assume that the man was the son Blake had mentioned seeing as he was the only person fighting the monster at the moment. The thing that worried the knight about the man was the fact that he looked like he was a sculpture that was falling apart, something that isn't very normal.
The knight wanted to ask about it but decided against it, not really sure how he would go about that while also being more concerned with the monster before him. As the knight looked the beast over its red eyes burned bright with a hatred that screamed it wanted to rip his guts out and feed them back to him. The beast had very descriptive eyes. As the knight gulped the beast charged rushing forward like a bullet at the knight and shadow user.
The two dodged away as the beast lunged at them slamming its claws into the ground where they had stood. The knight quickly lifted his shield to block the beast as it spun towards him slashing out. The beast's claws crashed into the knight's shield causing him to bite back a growl as he tried to hold his ground against the beast only for the force of the strike to send him flying back, losing his shield. As the beast knocked Jaune away, Aeron quickly tried to slash at it with his shadow claws only to miss as the beast spun under the attack dodging it.
The beast ducked under the attack, coming up behind the shadow user and slamming the back of its hand into his head. The shadow user was sent flying towards Jaune, tumbling through the air.
"Ow, that thing has one hell of a swing…"
The knight mumbled to himself as he stood back up only to came up to the site of Aeron crashing into him as he was sent back to the ground with the shadow user on top of him groaning. The two quickly untangled themselves from one another standing up just in time to see the beast charging them again. This time though Jaune ducked under the beast as Aeron dodged to the side. As the beast dove over the knight he lifted his sword up holding his forearm against the back of the blade to brace it, allowing the blade to slide across the beast chest and gut as it flew overhead.
The beast let out a howl of pain as it came crashing back to the ground rolling to its feet clumsily only to be met with a shadow blade from Aeron as he slashed out at it. The beast barely dodged the slash as it slid along its mask leaving a small cut in it. The beast quickly began to parry and dodge strikes from the shadow user before dodging through his strikes coming into his guard slashing out at the shadow user only to miss as he jumped backwards, flipping in the air over Jaune who charged in behind him.
The beast growled as it brought up its left blocking the knight's first strike only to have his fist crash into its face knocking it back.
"Damn it that hurt!"
The knight groaned out as he held his left hand against his chest in pain having not expected it to hurt so much to punch a Grimm in the face. As the knight groaned the beast stumbled back disoriented having not expecting the strike. The beast shook its head to regain its baring's only to be met with Aeron again who brought his hand down with his claws out cutting down the beast's mask leaving four deep gashes down the mask. The beast growled as the shadow user cut its mask.
The beast kicked out landing a heavy strike into the shadow user's gut sending him flying back 20 feet. As Aeron flew back Jaune jumped behind him catching him as he slid back across the garden. The knight looked down as the shadow user as he groaned before standing up again.
"You good?"
The knight asked as the shadow user gave him a small thumbs up.
"I'm good, just a little shaken."
The shadow user said as he and the knight looked to the humanoid Grimm as it held its hands to its face, sliding its clawed fingers over the gashes Aeron had left in it. The beast turned towards Aeron and Jaune, glaring at them as it hissed. The knight and shadow user both sighed as the beast slowly began to move towards them. The knight moved back to the side rotating his sword in his hand while the shadow user did the same only creating two twin swords out of shadows as they both prepared for the beast.
The beast began to speed up as it got closer to the two slowly breaking into a sprint as it charged towards Aeron. The knight quickly moved to intercept it only for when the beast was in striking distance to dive over him flipping landing an ax kick on him sending him into the ground creating an explosion sending dust and flow pedal flying into the air. Aeron shot forward to try and help his father only for the beast to slash out of the dust cloud forcing him to block as it began to force him back.
As the two began moving away Jaune slowly lifted himself off the ground groaning as he held his head as something warm began to slowly flow down it. The knight lifted his hand up sliding it over his forehead to find blood seeping down his face flowing down over his left eye forcing him to close it. He cursed as he turned to look at Aeron and the humanoid Grimm going at it while the shadow user was forced on the defensive.
The knight lifted himself up desperately trying to make a plan. 'Damn it, if things keep going at this rate we are going to die!' The knight thought bitterly as he tightened his grip on his sword. As the knight was about to charge in to try and help the shadow user he paused as he saw the direction the shadow user and beast were heading. They were slowly getting closer to the building Aeron had crashed into earlier when Jaune saved him.
The knight began looking over the building as he followed the cracks that ran up its wall making it unstable on that side. He looked back to Aeron and the beast and then charged in. The knight came in as fast as he could come up behind the beast, slashing out to try and get its attention. As the knight slashed out his strike missed as the beast jumped up and flipped backwards over him landing behind him.
The knight quickly spun around ducking as the shadow user slashed out with a shadow sword which flew over his head parrying the beast slash that it had planned to use it to take the knights head off. The knight jumped back to his right past the shadow user, he thrusted forward with his left sword stepping past the knight as he did. The shadow users strike was easily blocked, forcing him back as he jumped up flipping backwards just as Jaune slashed out at the beast as Aeron left his attacks path.
The beast blocked his strike just as easily as it had Aeron's only this time it kicked out landing a solid blow to the knight's chest sending him back into the shadow user behind him. The knight felt a sharp snap as some of his ribs broke as his chest piece caved in. The shadow use wrapped one arm around his father jumping back with him about ten feet only to feel his back crash into the building he had crashed into earlier.
The shadow user stared up behind him in shock as he looked to the beast as it laughed and reeled back its arm to attack them.
"Use your shadows to bring the wall down on it!"
Jaune shouted as he brought his sword up blocking the beasts attack as Aeron stared at him in shock for a second before realizing what he had planned. The shadow user quickly slammed one of his swords into the wall expanding the shadows that made it into the cracks that ran up the wall as he used it to rip the wall from the building as he jumped away from it. The knight quickly broke the block he had on the humanoid Grimm, slashing its left thigh quickly as he dove to the side away from falling wall and beast.
The knight rolled away narrowly dodging the falling wall and rubble as he rolled away just in time to watch as the wall crashed onto the beast as it howled out before being silenced by the wall. As the wall crashed down it created a hug blast of dust sending it flying into the air as a cloud. The knight covered his face as the dust cloud exploded out while he could hear shouts from the students who were in the building as they tried to look out at the destruction.
As the dust started to settle and Jaune could see again, he saw Aeron standing off on the other side of the rubble staring in surprise. He looked to Jaune and smiled.
"I can't believe that work!"
He shouted out cheerfully as the knight started to chuckle. 'Me either.' The knight thought to himself as he stood up looking over the rubble. He couldn't tell were the beast was anymore seeing as the stone wall was collapsed in chunks making it hard to tell which pile the beast was under which left the knight unnerved. The knight felt a sharp pain in his chest as he removed his chest piece reaching up holding his chest lightly.
"Are you ok?"
The shadow user called out as he slowly began to make his way over the rubble to the knight.
"Careful we don't know if that killed it, we…"
The knight stopped mid-sentence as he watched the rubble explode as the beast came flying up out of it right under Aeron. The beast had jumped right up, biting into the shadow user, ripping his left arm off as it did. The beast was covered in its own blood as its bone armor was broken as well as it right arm. The shadow users arm was ripped off exploding into shadows as the beast then slammed its hand into his right side sending him flying off 20 feet to the side.
"NO!"
Jaune shouted as he rushed forward slashing out as he shot forward not even thinking as he jumped at the beast as it turned around only for its head to be cleaved clean off by Jaune killing it. The knight didn't even wait for its body to hit the floor as he turned and rushed towards Aeron who had crashed off to the side. As Jaune rushed over to Aeron's side, not caring about the pain he had in his chest as he saw as Pyrrha, Weiss and Blake came rushing in, Blake holding a girl in her arms.
They all looked around to see the destruction quickly turning to Jaune who slid to the shadow wielders side.
"Get help know!"
The knight order shocking the three causing Pyrrha to quick pullout her scroll to start dialing for medical support. As the Spartan did that Blake and Weiss came rushing to them while the girl on Blake's arms called out.
"Aeron!"
The small girl shouted as the three closed in on the knight and shadow user. The knight was about to help Aeron only for the shadow user to lift himself up with a groan stopping him.
"That won't be necessary, I am fine."
The shadow user said as he sat up in front of Jaune shocking him. The shadow user easily sat up almost as if having his arm ripped off meant nothing. The knight stared shocked as he looked over the shadow user completely at a loss. The knight had expected to see blood spilling out of the shadow user's wounds and him to be screaming in pain.
Instead the knight saw no blood and heard no screaming as he stared at the shadow user who just sat before him as if the fact he was missing an arm and had shadows billowing out of him like smoke was ok. The shadow user looked like he was a sculpture that was broken and cracked, as where his arm had been ripped off, it was gagged like a broken stone while his face had cracks running up and down it while on the left side of his face he was missing a chunk under his left eye.
"W-what?"
The knight stared completely confused at the sight before him. The shadow user simply sighed as he turned as Blake and Weiss came up. The two gasped as they saw the state Aeron was in as the came to a stop in front of the knight and shadow user. The girl in Blake's arms jumping off her to the ground quickly coming up to the shadow user and holding her hands before her afraid of touching the shadow user who looked like he was about to fall apart.
"Y-you a-are falling apart."
The small girl said as her hoodie fell down as she looked over her brother teary eyed. Her ears were flat against her head as she stared up at her Aeron who just gave her a small smile peaching up with his right arm patting her on the head.
"It's ok Bell you know this is nothing to me."
The shadow user said as he patted his little sister on the head.
"What the hell do you mean this is nothing?"
The knight asked as he pointed at the shadow users missing arm and cracked body. The shadow user just gave a sad smile as he looked down to Bell. The small girl just sniffled as she then wrapped her brother in a hug.
"That is a long story."
The shadow user said just as Pyrrha came up.
"I called for a medical team, they will be here in a few minutes!"
She said worriedly as she saw Aeron's broken form and Jaune's bloodied face. The knight nodded before turning to Aeron. As he did he saw Yang, Ruby, Summer and Angela all come into the area behind Aeron. The knight smiled at the sight of them before looking over Aeron and his sister Bell.
"I am going to want to hear that story but first lets…"
The knight began only to stop as he felt a burning hot pain fill his chest and gave a small cough as blood spilled from his mouth slowly.
"Jaune!"
"Dad!"
Everyone shouted as they moved forward catching Jaune as he fell as his world turned black. The last thing Jaune saw was Aeron and Bell staring down at him shocked and worried while Pyrrha, Weiss and Blake were all calling to the others who had just shown up. After that the world turned to black.
Several hours later
Jaune's eyes slowly opened only for them to shut again as he was faced with a bright light. The knight groaned at the pain of the light hitting his eyes as he slowly brought his hand up, covering his eyes, shielding them from the light. The knight was about to sit up when a voice caught his attention.
"Good to see you're up."
The knight turned to his right, cracking an eye open to come to the sight of Aeron sitting next to him.
"What, where am I, how did…"
The knight began only to stop as it all came back to him and he went to sit up only to stop as he winced in pain causing him to clutch his chest. The knight started to look around to find he was in one of the rooms in Beacons medical wing.
"Easy now."
Aeron said as he came up resting his hand on Jaune's shoulder as he turned to look him over only for his eyes to widen as he did. The last time Jaune had seen Aeron he was missing an arm and falling apart only now he was ok almost like a new man.
"What happened, how are you ok?"
The knight asked as he looked Aeron over, trying to find anything wrong with him. The shadow user simply chuckled at him.
"I will explain but first you need to slow down."
The shadow user said as his father gave him a skeptical look before nodding as he slowly threw his legs over the end of the bed. The knight then looked to Aeron who sat down before him bringing his hand together interlocking his fingers.
"Ok so what's the last thing you remember?"
The shadow user asked.
"The last thing I remember is talking to you when I felt a burning feeling shoot through my chest and then the next thing I know you and the others are over me calling out to someone and then nothing."
The shadow user nodded as he listened to the answer.
"Alright that's good." The shadow user said as Jaune gave him a confused stared before he continues. "You see some of your ribs were broken and some of them punctured your lung causing you to bleed out internally. The wound would have killed most but lucky for you, you heal quickly so the wound just rendered you unconscious, you were out for three hours."
The shadow user said, shocking Jaune as he looked to his chest which was bandaged around his ribs as he could see a large purple bruise peeking out from under the bandages. He also noticed he had some bandages wrapped around his head as well. He winced at that before looking back to the shadow user for him to continue explaining.
"When the medical team arrived they brought you here to be treated, thought it wasn't really needed but they still brought you just in case. After that you where than brought to this room for observation."
The shadow user explained as Jaune nodded.
"Ok that explains how I got here and what happened to me, but what about you, how are you ok after losing an arm?"
The knight asked completely confused by how Aeron was ok. The shadow user simply lowered his head with a sad smile.
"First let me ask. You know who I am right, you know where I come from?"
The shadow user asked, getting a nod from the knight.
"Yeah I take it you saw Summer and Angela so you already know you aren't the only future kid of mine."
The knight said as Aeron nodded. As Jaune said that though he realized something.
"Wait a minute. If you are also my future kid how are you here? From what the videos of my future self the others showed me, the future me said that the time machine or whatever they built wasn't able to send back adults because it had a weight, size capacity that it couldn't. So how are you here when you are basically an adult?"
The knight asked as the shadow user looked up to him sadly.
"You will understand when I explain my situation to you."
The shadow user said causing Jaune to looked to him confusedly before nodding, letting him explain.
"You see I am not a real person." Aeron said causing Jaune to look at him strangely. "You see I am an after image of Aeron Arc who died three years before the time machine was made, before everything in history was screwed up."
The shadow use said causing Jaune to stare at him shocked at what he was hearing. The knight was about to ask what he was talking about only for the shadow user to raise his hand stopping him as he continued.
"You see in my timeline your future three years before the time machine was built, Aeron Arc and Bell Arc, were attacked by the same type of Grimm that attacked us today." The shadow user said, causing Jaune to feel even more shocked as he stared at his future son or future sons after image. "You see in my timeline those humanoid Grimm are called nightmares and are the most dangerous Grimm to exist in our time."
"I was able to kill the nightmare at the time only I wasn't able to protect Bell who didn't have her aura yet. She was hurt badly because I couldn't protect her and at the time I had used all my aura to the point I almost had none left. So I wasn't able to use it to try and heal Bell and seeing as she didn't have any aura the wound she got was going to kill her if she didn't get help."
"I couldn't let her die so I used the tiny amount of aura I had left to give to Bell. In the process I used my life to make up for the aura I didn't have to unlock Bells aura. It killed me but saved her."
The shadow user paused as he looked down at his hands sadly while Jaune just stared at him shocked. The knight had no idea what to say as he just looked to Aeron sadly.
"Afterwards you showed up to find Bell crying over my dead body. You took her away and for a month she cried and cried while you and mom tried to comfort her. After she started to finally calm down mom and you decided it would be smart to start teaching her how to fight, for her to stay safe seeing as I was gone. You two started on just teaching her about her aura and how she could use it to protect herself. Luckily for her she took after you in the fact that she also had an extremely large pool of aura to use."
"As she started learning more on aura she found that there was something left in her aura that wasn't hers." The shadow user paused as Jaune looked to him questionably. "You see when I gave her my aura and life to save her I ended up passing my aura into her, my soul I ended up leaving a piece of me."
The shadow user said as realization hit Jaune as he looked to him shocked.
"You mean, you and Bell share the same body."
The shadow user nodded.
"Yes, basically I am a part of Bell." The shadow user said as Jaune looked him over shocked by what he heard and amazed at what he was seeing. "You see Bell was not only lucky in getting your large pool of aura but she also ended up with a semblance that was a mix between yours and moms."
The shadow user said as Jaune looked to him amazed.
"So you are basically Bell's semblance."
The knight said getting a nod from Aeron who leaned back in his seat.
"You see it isn't that simple but basically yes. When Bell found the part of my aura inside of her she began to practice unlocking her semblance and using it. And after two years she was finally able to and when she did I came out as her semblance."
The shadow user said as he stood up spreading his arms wide as he spun around as if showing himself off. The knight just chuckled at that.
"So that is how you and Bell are both her in the past, you were inside of her when she went through so the time machine didn't register two people or someone over its weight size capacity problem."
The knight said getting a nod from the shadow user.
"Yep, though Bell may be able to summon me up I basically have to use her aura to stay in this from. While she has an extremely large pool of aura more than you even had, she can only keep me in a physical form for 6 hours every day as long as she has full aura or she starts to tax her body too much. My body is basically like moms shadow clones only made more solid by aura being constantly poured into my body making it solid."
The shadow user said as Jaune nodded understanding what he was saying.
"That explains why you weren't bleeding when your arm was ripped off. So basically what you are saying is if you are badly wounded Bell can just up and create a new body for you to switch to."
The knight said only for Aeron to shake his head.
"Not exactly you see it takes time for Bell to make me a new body so she can't just up and create one for me, she has to wait for me to… well, for lack of a better example heal before she can create a new body which takes some time. But when she does she can summon me whenever she needs me."
The shadow user explained to which Jaune nodded in understanding as he leaned forward looking to the ground.
"You know the other two only just showed up a little before you and Bell and while I got to see a little bit of them I thought that they seemed so calm about the whole time travel situation, not even thinking about what they might have done or been put through in the past; well future; before coming here."
The two were silent for a minute before Jaune sat up at his future son.
"I don't really know what to say about what you have been through but I know that Bell is lucky to have such a great brother." The knight paused as he smiled at Aeron, glad that such a man was his son.
"Did you tell the others this to?" The knight asked, getting a nod from his son. The knight smiled as he turned to look around the room again he noticed something.
"Hey were are the others?"
He asked looking back to his son confused.
"Oh, they are outside in the waiting area, come on I will show you."
The shadow user said as he stood up, moving over Jaune helping him stand as he then led him out of the room and down the hall towards the waiting area. The knight and shadow user slowly came up to a door leading to the waiting room the two could hear voices.
"Is Jaune ok, I mean the doctor said he wasn't in danger of dying by is he really ok?"
A voice asked as Jaune and Aeron come to the door looking in as all of team RWBY, Pyrrha, Nora, Ren, Angela and Summer all sat in the room. Ruby had been the one talking as she looked to the ground while holding Summer in her arms. The young rose was doing the same while she held her hands together in her lap.
"Yeah I am fine, though I might be bruised for a while."
The knight said as he and the shadow user came in, drawing everyone's attention to them.
"Jaune!"
Everyone shouted as they all shot to their feet moving to the knight as he stood in the doorway. They quickly closed in on him looking him over worriedly as they took in the sight of his bandaged chest and head. They all stared worriedly.
"What's with that look, I am fine don't worry about this."
The knight said waving offhanded while everyone just looked at him questionably.
"Are you sure?"
Pyrrha asked as she came to his side resting, a hand on his shoulder hesitantly. Behind her Ren and Nora coming up just as hesitantly, Nora being calmer than the knight ever thought she was capable of being.
"Yeah, I'm sure."
The knight smiled as he nodded to her before turning and looked down to Summer and Bell who were right behind their mother's legs looking up to him. The two were about the same height seeing as their heads both reached up to just half way up Jaune's stomach.
"Papa are you really sure?"
Summer asked while Bell nodded her head next to her. The knight smiled as he slowly knelt down to the two girls.
"I am really sure; you don't have to worry about me. I am a lot tougher than I look."
Jaune joked as he reached out patting both girls on the head getting a smile from them. The knight than looked up to Blake, still somewhat confused on how he ever ends up with her in the future while still thinking the same about Ruby till he noticed something. He turned to Weiss who was to his left with Angela beside her.
"That's good to hear father."
Angela said as the knight felt a small chill as he looked to Weiss, expecting her to freeze him in place wounded or not only to see her looking at Angela questionably.
"Wait, your one of his daughters to, who is your mother though."
The knight turned to the others for an answer only to get a mischievous smile from Yang while the others just looked to the side not saying anything while Nora and Ren stood in the back shrugging before Angela spoke up.
"I didn't want to tell her without you and seeing as you were wounded I didn't find the time."
The silver girl explained as Weiss looked to him and then back to her again.
"Tell me what?"
The heiress asked confused by the others not saying anything. Jaune simply gulped as he stepped back hiding behind Aeron who just looked to him questionably.
"W-well y-you see Weiss, Angela here is… um well she is…"
The knight began stuttering as he tried to explain who Angela was only for her to interrupt him before he could finish.
"I am Angela Schnee Arc, yours and Jaune's daughter from the future."
The silver girl said with a smile giving a curtsy to her mother. As she did Weiss, Blake and Pyrrha, the only three who didn't know who Angela was, eyes widened in shock at the revelations as they finally realized who she was. The three hadn't even thought about who she was, being more concerned with Jaune being hurt but now that they could see he was ok they finally saw who Angela was and with her interdiction they all saw exactly who she was.
Pyrrha stared for a few seconds before fainting as her mind crashed as she thought that she would never get the chance of having a future kid with Jaune. The others watched as she fell not really sure what happened but deciding to leave her be as they turned to look back at Weiss who was staring wide eyed at her daughter who just smiled. The knight gulped again behind Aeron who had a shit eating grin on his face.
"You know dad, I heard you joke about being a lady's man when you were younger but mom always said you were full of shit but now I guess she was wrong if you are able to have this many wives to choose from for your future."
The shadow user quipped to the knight's dismay as he watched as Weiss slowly turned to him. As she did the knight felt as the rooms temperature went down and he saw his breath.
"Jaune."
Weiss said as she gave him a cold empty smile.
"Y-yes Weiss?"
The knight asked sticking his head out from behind Aeron who just stood with his grin in place.
"You are going to explain everything to me or." The heiress paused as she walked up to him and whispered into his ear. "I will freeze your balls to the floor and shatter them with Nora's hammer."
As the knight heard this paling as all the blood in his body froze. Blake, Aeron and Bell being Faunus were the only ones that could hear her though Blake and Aeron covered Bells hears so she didn't. Everyone else save for one unconscious Pyrrha all stared confused while Yang though had a huge grin on her face obviously understanding what Weiss had said. The heiress walked back from Jaune and turned to Angela and looked her over.
"If you are my daughter than you and I best get to know each other."
The heiress said getting a nod from her daughter as the two then walked out of the room bidding their farewells. The rest stood in the waiting room, confused by what happened as they all turned to Jaune who had turned into a statue as he stared off in to space fearing for his family jewels.
End
AN/ new chapter yay! Ok so I did it I made the chapter for all you people! Ok so I explain things in this chapter that obviously people might have had questions about, well not big questions but small questions that I now someone noticed was there so woohoo! Chapter done. Please leave me your reviews I want to know what your mind says about my story so please leave a review. Also fav and follow if you wish.