Dreaming of a better future
AN/ hello, read the bottom.
Chapter 14
Jaune entered the training hall with Aeron and Grace as the three looked around as they saw students moving off to other rings spread out through the hall, each taking a place to practice while several other training matches went on.
"What do you have planned for this training?"
The knight asked Aeron who turned and looked over his shoulder at him.
"I'm going to continue your basic training and help you build up some experience fighting stronger opponents."
The shadow user said as the knight just raised a brow, not sure what use that type of training would do for him. He let out a sigh though, not really caring for digging seeing as he would find out what the training could do soon enough. As he turned to his right to look at Grace who seemed content following the shadow user, walking beside him humming a light tune.
"So, if you are going to help me, how are you going to do that?"
The knight asked the young blonde who just turned to him with a smile as she put her hands behind her back.
"I am going to help you with your sword play, I have very intricate knowledge of swordsmanship so I will be able to assist in helping you make up for the mistakes you would normally make when fighting."
The young blonde said as she turned back to look ahead at Aeron who had entered one of the training rings and was typing into a control panel. The young blonde just walked over to him, no longer paying attention to her father who just sighed tiredly as he ran a hand through his hair. 'I guess I could live with learning swordsmanship from a 14-year-old.' The knight thought with a small chuckle as he walked into the ring as Aeron typed away.
As he walked in he could see students moving through the stands around the rings watching all the training matches they could. That included students moving to watch the ring he was in. 'They must be scouting all the students to see what they are capable of during the tournament when it comes around.' The knight though as he turned back to Aeron, who had finished up typing into the control panel, activating the rings safety measures.
"Alright, for now I just want to get a base understanding of your level of skill so we will have a standard match first." The shadow user said as he walked into the ring waiting for his father. "After I see what you are capable of I will decide the best course of action for your training from there."
He said as his father walked into the ring as it slowly began to ascend to two meters off the floor. The knight didn't feel all too comfortable with the small crowd of students watching but, he could get past that seeing it wasn't anything new to him after the times he was in combat class for Goodwitch.
"So it's just a normal match, I guess I can handle that."
The knight said as he drew his sword and extended his shield. The corners of Aeron's lips curled some at his father's words as he formed several shadows around him as he creates shadow claws over his hands. The two men stood before each other, ready to strike, as below Grace stood watching the two waiting for the battle to start. Both men focused completely on one another as time ticked by as they stared at each other waiting for the other to attack.
Jaune slowly inched his foot forward as he prepared to charge the shadow user only for as soon as his foot slid across the stone floor, the shadow user had vanished from before him in a flash. The knight's eyes widened as he dove to the side dodging the shadow user who crashed into the ground where he had just been standing. As he rolled across the stone floor he used his shield to push himself back up to his feet as he braced himself and then shot forward, slashing out at the shadow user who easily dodged the stroke with a turn of his body as the strike flew past him harmlessly.
The knight grits his teeth as he brought his shield up, blocking the shadow users clawed hand as he slashed out at him. The strike grinded across the knight's shield, pushing him back some as he slid his feet across the ground moving to the side as he thrust out at the shadow user who parried the strike with his left hand as he then pushed in, shifting the shadows on his left as they formed a short sword as he thrust out. The knight brought his shield in, blocking the strike as he shifted his feet as he moved to throw the shadow users balance off as he slid his left leg out between the shadow users.
As he did the shadow user grabbed hold of his shield, pulling the knight down as he jumped over him, twisting his body as he held onto the shield, slashing at the back on the knight's neck sending him flying into the ground. The shadow user landed just a few feet behind the knight as he crashed into the ground. The knight was going to lift himself back up to his feet only for pain to shoot through his side, he looked down to see the shadow user had created a scythe of shadows and had slashed out under him and was now lifting him up.
The knight bent along the blade of the shadow scythe as he was lifted into the air and thrown. The knight flew 20 feet into the air till he felt his body bend as he saw the shadows from the scythe had formed into a rope and he was pulled back to the ground crashing down with great force as outside of the ring. The knight crashed into the ground and rolled till he hit the force field that protected the stands as he crashed into the ground groaning. There was a ding that rang out signaling that the match was over.
The shadow user walked over to the edge of the ring as it slowly descended back to level footing as he saw his father lift himself back to his feet.
"I know you were lacking in power but I didn't know you were this lacking."
The shadow user said as Jaune stood back up rubbing his head as he looked back to him.
"Yeah well sorry if I am not a crazy monster like you." The knight said as he held his head trying to regain his baring. "If you are this strong why did you have so much trouble fighting the Nightmare two days ago?"
He asked confused as he looked back to his son who just sighed as he formed two balls of shadows.
"It's simple really, as I said before Nightmares have their own aura that they make from the souls of the humans they kill. While their aura is made from the humans they kill they still need to feed off aura constantly to keep the aura of theirs active, so when fighting their bodies absorb the aura of the humans they fight."
The shadow user said as the two balls in his hand took the form of two men. One was slowly taking shadow from the other in a display that represented what he was describing.
"So basically because your body is made out of aura you lose a lot of you combat power when fighting Nightmares."
The knight answered as he understood the shadow user who nodded.
"Correct, so basically my power when fighting a Nightmare is cut in half when I face them."
The knight just sighed as he saw Grace making her way towards him and Aeron as he waved to her.
"I take it you are going to analyze my fight?"
The knight asked only for the young blonde to shake her head as she came up to the two men.
"I didn't get to see much of what you were capable of in that fight, so over fighting with Aeron you will fight me, that way I can evaluate your capacities myself."
The young blonde said with a smile.
"But first let's wait till your aura is back to a hundred percent, I wouldn't want to hurt you."
The young girl teased as she poked the knight in the chest as she turned away.
"I will get some drinks and food for you."
The girl said as she ran off to one of the vending machines in the training hall. Aeron just chuckled at her as he looked back to his father.
"You know it might not be a good idea to fight her here in front of everyone."
The shadow user said as he points to the small audience that had formed in the stands. The knight understood what his son was saying as he realized that while losing a fight against a man both older and more experienced than himself is fine it's to be expected, but to lose to a girl three years younger in front of an audience, would be humiliating. Even if the knight didn't really care for that he rather not be spoken of as the guy who lost to a tiny young girl. With that thought though the knight turned back to his son.
"Hey I have question for you."
The shadow user looked him over and waved him on to continue.
"So I have been wondering, each of my kids from the future, are well girls. So I started to wonder, was one of the requirements to be sent back in time for the people being sent back, do they have to be oddly adorable little girls who just happen to be my daughters?"
The knight quipped as he dusted himself off, getting a chuckle form Aeron as he just patted him on the shoulder.
"No, that was not a requirement to be sent back but it certainly feels like it."
The shadow user said as he and Jaune moved on after Grace to tell her they were changing locations. As they walked on thought the knight began to wonder what the others were all up to.
Dorm kitchen
Pyrrha sat with Helen as the two watched Ren cook some pancakes for Nora as he threw pancakes over his shoulder like a pro as they landed on Nora's plate as she stuffed them down. The two just chuckled at the sight as they sat talking.
"So do you have any idea of what we can do for Papa?"
Helen asked as she leaned forward over the table as she looked up at her mother who just smiled at her.
"Well I had hoped to take him into town as a 'glad you are better' gift." The Spartan said as she reached out and patted her daughter's head lightly. "Although I am beginning to wonder if that's a good idea."
The Spartan said sadly as she thought about what could happen if a Nightmare showed up in the city when they were there. She didn't want to risk any innocent people's lives or Jaune's again if that happened.
"It's ok mama, you won't have to take him places to show him how glad you are, he's ok and all you need to do is tell him."
The young Spartan said with a smile as her mother just nodded as she turned back to Ren and Nora to see the latter of the two continued to cook for the Valkyrie. As the four sat in the kitchen several floors up team RWBY sat in their room with their daughters chatting.
"Alright, we are going to need a plan for how we are going to handle this situation with Jaune and how we are going to tell him how glad we are he is out of the hospital, or as Weiss keeps correcting me to say, Medical bay."
Yang said while staring begrudgingly at the heiress who just crossed her arms at the brawler.
"Hey it is called the Medical bay, not the Beacon hospital, so you have to call it what it is."
The heiress said while behind her on her bed her daughter Angela just shook her head at her mother's behavior.
"Could you two please just calm down."
Blake spoke up from her bed as she held Bell in her arms, reading her a story.
"Come on Blake, Weiss is being so nitpicky with her words it's getting on my nerves."
The brawler said as she threw her arms up in the air while behind her Sara was copying every move she made as if a mime. Ruby and Summer where holding in their laughter at the sight as the others weren't saying anything while the two roses just continued to snicker at Yang. The girls continued on with their banter as they argued about whether they should do something for Jaune. As the girls went on Yang noticed Sara mimicking her and she then ended up grabbing her daughter, getting her in a choke hold.
As the girls all laughed at the display, even Weiss, the girls all got distracted from what they had been talking about before. As this went on off in the second year dorm's Velvet, Jasmine and Coco all were in their room.
"Alright, now we will begin to plan out how we get V here to make the dorky knight to fall in love with her."
Coco declared as she put her hands on her hips, puffing her chest. Although only Jasmine seemed to be happy to help as she pumped her fist in the air in agreement. Velvet though just sat at her desk shaking her head. 'This isn't going to end well.' The rabbit thought as she watched her team leader and daughter began to scheme.
"Alright shrimp, tell me what type of relationship does V and Jaune have?"
The fashionista asked as she pointed at the young rabbit.
"Hey, I am not a shrimp." The young rabbit said, crossing her arms. "Apologize or I will stop helping you!"
The young rabbit demanded getting a sigh from the fashionista.
"Right, sorry about that."
The young rabbit nodded, accepting the apology as she reached into one of the pouches on her belt and pulled out her scroll.
"Alright, so mama and papa are very close to each other. Papa always is acting like a shield for her, seeing as whenever we go out anywhere and if someone would try and be mean to mama or me he would always be there ready to protect us."
The young rabbit said, getting a nod from the fashionista as she cupped her chin.
"Alright we got a protective daddy, ok I can see that after what he did yesterday."
The fashionista said as she looked to the door of her room and saw how it was cracked and dented in as well as the cracks along the walls. 'He did put our safety first.' The fashionista thought as she looked back to the young rabbit.
"Alright, what else can you tell me about their relationship?"
The young rabbit looked up in thought as she tried to think of what she could say about her mother and father's relationship.
"Well, mama and papa really loved each other so they did always go at it, well like rabbits."
The young rabbit said, causing her mother to blush profusely while Coco bit back a laugh as she covered her mouth hiding her smile. The young rabbit just smiled as she looked between her mother and aunt.
"J-Jasmine w-why w-wou-would you say that?!"
The rabbit asked, completely shocked, stuttering embarrassedly as she blushed up a storm. Her daughter just smiled at her as she stared up happily at her. Velvet began to goof on her daughter, scolding her for saying such a thing while Coco laughed at the scene. While that happened, off outside the first year dorms Jaune, Aeron and Grace walked into the dorms.
"Come on Grace what is so wrong with changing location?"
Jaune asked as he walked in front of his daughter, looking back at her over his shoulder as she had her arms crossed over her chest glaring at him.
"What's wrong with changing locations is that we were all set up and ready to go once your aura was replenished and now because you were afraid of people teasing you for losing to me we had to waste time we could have spent training on finding a new training spot!"
The young blonde snapped at her father who just groaned as beside him Aeron chuckled at him.
"We are not wasting time, and of course I am afraid of losing to you in front of a group of a bunch of idiot teens who would all make fun of me because I was beat by a 14-year-old girl. While I know you are stronger than me in terms of skill, other people don't, so when they see you beat me I will be made fun of. I already have low self-esteem; I don't need it to be made fun of for my self-esteem to be lowered even more."
The knight said as he looked back at his daughter who huffed again as she turned away from him.
"Well that still isn't a good enough reason to be changing places."
The young blonde grumbled as her father sighed as they moved on heading up to the roof of the dorms.
"Let's just change topics now." The knight said as he turned to his son. "Let's talk about the Nightmares, seeing as knowing your enemy is very important."
The knight said as his son nodded while behind him Grace seemed to focus in on the topic.
"Alright than what do you want to know?"
The shadow user asked.
"Well you mentioned that Nightmares have an aura of their own, so that got me think does that mean they also have a semblance?"
The knight asked as his son smiled.
"It's good you are so observant. You are right they do have semblances of their own." The shadow user said as he held one hand up creating two figures out of shadows. "You see while the Nightmares may use the aura of the human's they have killed to create the aura they use; the semblance isn't them simply taking the semblances form the humans they've killed but is a representation of what the Nightmare is."
The shadow user said, while the shadow figures in his hand took two different forms. On was like that of a man with bird wings and head, while the other was short and plump, like a tiny fat man only it had tusks.
"You see if you have a Nightmare made from a Nevermore, its semblance will be based around its origin. Meaning it would have a semblance similar to that, so say a wind semblance or air. But if you had a Nightmare made from a Boarbatusk, its semblance would be around its speed or strength being its origin."
The shadow user said as the Nevermore Nightmare figure he made was using the shadows to create a small tornado in front of it. The Boarbatusk Nightmare was either running in a circle really fast or lifting a shadow bolder over its head.
"Ok so that seems simple, I mean basically if I were to fight a Nevermore Nightmare I should worry about wind attacks."
Jaune said as he looked at the figures only for Aeron to shake his head.
"Sadly that isn't true, while their semblances will be based around their origin it doesn't mean their semblances will be so simple. See Nightmares get twisted Semblances, meaning even if you get a Nevermore Nightmare with a wind semblance, don't just expect wind, you would have to worry about things like poison or even ice if it is able to control the moisture in the air."
The shadow user said as Jaune gulped slightly at the thought of a Nevermore Nightmare sending a cloud of poison at him.
"Right so their semblances are more than simple semblances, good to know."
The knight said as he looked down in thought till something came to him.
"Hey what are the Nightmares semblances called?"
The knight asked as his son just turned to him confused.
"They are called semblances nothing else."
The shadow user said, not sure where his father was going with this.
"Well that shouldn't be, I mean a semblance is a human thing, so we should call the Nightmares semblance something else, same for their aura."
The knight said as his son understood and cupped his chin in thought wandering what the Nightmares aura could be called along with their semblance; behind them Grace spoke up.
"Why don't we call their aura, Void."
The young blonde said, drawing Aeron and Jaune's attention. The knight looked to his son who seemed impressed with how the young blond had described the Nightmares aura, or as it will now be called Void.
"I like it, their void, it definitely fits the Nightmares."
Jaune said as he reached out and patted Grace on the head as she smiled.
"Alright, the Nightmares aura will forever be dubbed Void, till someone makes a better name in the future."
The knight said getting smacked in the arm by his daughter as she gave a light glare to him as he chuckled. The three continued to think up a name for the Nightmares semblance as they walked till the knight seemed to have thought of something.
"I got it, we can call their semblance, Distortion."
The knight said as his two children could almost see the light bulb blink on above his head. Grace just smiled at her father while Aeron rolled his eyes but found the name fitting for the Nightmares semblance, or well Distortion. It certainly worked well for them. In all honesty that's what the Nightmares do to semblances, they distort them, twist it and form a new power all unique to them. Even if it is dark and twisted the way Nightmares evolve is at times quite admirable with how they truly act like humans, always trying to adapt to a situation.
"I like it, it has power."
The shadow user said as his father just smiled happily as he stretched his arms over his head. The rest of the walk the three went on talking about random things as they reached the roof to train.
"Alright, now that we are here let's get to work."
The knight said clapping his hands together getting nods from his kids while Aeron used his shadows to create a cage around the roof so if someone was thrown to the edge they didn't plummet to the ground and break the bones in their body.
"Alright Grace let's get started."
The knight said as his daughter just smiled drawing her sword as she took her position on one side of the roof.
"As you wish."
The young blonde said as she gave a curtsy as the two prepared to fight.
End
AN/ ok so I will put a omaku at the end of the next chapter for all you comedy starved readers! And I do hope you all like this chapter I figured I could use it to delve deeper into the Nightmares while next chapter expect some more characters to have their history revealed. Also please leave more Omaku ideas for me I won't be able to think of everything just give a small idea that I could use. I already have some from those kind enough to leave me any so please do follow in their footsteps if you do I will say you gave me the idea. You know giving credit where it's do or however the saying goes.
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