Dreaming of a better future.
AN/ Hello people read the bottom as always.
Chapter 15
Jaune stood before Grace, sword drawn and shield extended ready to start the battle with his daughter. While in all honesty when he thought about it, he was confused, as if he did land a hit on her if this would be considered child abuse. Although he discarded that thought as he saw her slowly edging to the side to circle him. He followed her movements, keeping a close eye on her and her sword. As he watched her he took note of the way she held her sword.
She seemed to be in a similar stance to Weiss' though she did have her left hand ready to take hold of the grip if she wanted to two hand the blade. As the two moved, when they had finally reached the started points of the other, Grace shot forward, slashing out at her father. The knight blocked the strike with ease as he then thrust out with his sword only for her to slide to the side of the blade as she slide her feet over the stone roof.
As she moved to the knight's right he went to shield bash her only for her to jump back, dodging his strike as she then ducked under a slash he sent her way. As she stepped forward in a lunge and dodged the strike as she then came back up, slashing out to strike the knight's chest. Jaune was quick to block, sadly he was only able to push the strike to the side as it slashed across his shoulder. The knight then back handed with his shield, aiming to land a hit across Grace's face only for her to dodge as well.
As she jumped back, rolling across the roof as she came back to her feet, twisting the hilt of her sword as she pulled and out from the bottom of the hilt came a dagger that was hidden within. The dagger was the same length as the hilt with a blade around five inches long. Her long sword was now a one handed blade and she had a very good understanding of how to use it as she charged her father, slashing out with the long sword, thrusting at his legs, shoulders and head either landing a solid strike or grazing him.
The knight cursed as he went in pushing a thrust of her sword off to the side aiming to stab at her only for her to parry his strike with her dagger which she then used to stab into his chest. The knight was pushed back and cursed as he was ready to charge again only to see as his aura shattered. The knight just sighed tiredly as he lowered his sword and shield while Grace gave him a small bow before returning her dagger to its place in her long swords hilt.
"I will admit father you are far more skilled than I thought originally." The knight smiled lightly at the small complement only to lose his smile as his daughter continued. "But you still lack the basic level of skill to be seen as a proper Hunter, and that is a problem."
His daughter said as she sheathed her sword and turned to Aeron.
"Why don't you help inform him on what he did wrong in that fight?"
The young swordswoman asked the shadow user who dispelled his shadow fence for the roof and created two shadow figures obviously making one of Jaune and the other of Grace.
"For starters, he let you dictate the fight when he let you circle him." The shadow sermon began as the two shadow figures moved. "You see, what he could have done better was if he had struck first to gain the upper hand over wait as he had. While it is a good tactic when fighting a stronger opponent in this fight it was wrong, seeing as in all honesty dad is physically stronger meaning had he struck first he could have pushed you back and cornered you."
The shadow user said while his shadow figures moved fighting while the tiny shadow Jaune cornered the shadow Grace.
"That is true had you used his size and brute strength he could have gotten the upper hand, but that could have back fired on him as well."
Grace said as she let Aeron reset the shadow figures.
"See, had he charged me, if I had been expecting that I could have dodged off to the side and attacked him as he was recovering from his strike, giving me the perfect chance to have either disarmed him or weakened his aura greatly with strike to vital points that were no longer protected. Like his head or his stomach and side. While he could have blocked the strikes it still left him at a disadvantage to where he would need to change his plan and move to a different position to get away from my assault."
The young swordswoman informed as the shadow figures fought as she had described. The knight nodded as he watched the figures seeing what he could have done and how it could have either succeeded or back fired for him.
"This is true and either could have happened, so let's move on to his second mistake."
The shadow user said getting a nod from his father and Grace.
"Alright, when I had landed my first strike on him he had over extended his own strike in an attempt to hit me, leaving himself open, and while he did defend against the strike throwing it off course enough to reduce the damage he would have taken he still made the mistake of over extending."
The young swordswoman said as the figures acted out the fight showing Jaune where he had made his mistake.
"Alright, so seeing as I was being overly aggressive was what led to my mistake here."
The knight said as he looked for something in the replay of his battle kind of impressed at how well Aeron was reenacting it.
"Correct, had you aimed for a more precise strike over letting yourself be baited into her attack you could have had her."
The shadow user said as he let the replay continue.
"Your next mistake was after she drew her dagger where you let yourself get over powered by her continues assault. Had you taken to parrying with your sword as well as your shield you might have been able to knock her attacks off course sooner than you had and kept more aura."
The shadow user showed in the replay shifting the figures to do as he said.
"Yeah, but even if I did parry her strikes I still had to worry about her dagger which she had used on me."
The knight said getting a nod from his son.
"That is correct, but you see had you remembered it you could have easily knocked it aside and taken the win."
The shadow user said while the figures did as he described as the Jaune shadow knocked the dagger out of the shadow Grace's hand and slashed out knocking it way.
"Alright I get it; I have a long way to go before I am anywhere near your guy's level."
The knight said as he waved a hand through the shadow figures dispelling them as he sighed tiredly.
"It's alright father, you don't have to worry about it, you need not worry about lacking power all you have to do now is train and you will reach the level of skill needed in no time."
The young swordswoman said, smiling at her father.
"Sorry, but I doubt he will reach the level he needs to be soon enough, if he grows at the rate he is he would need 12 more years before he could even stand a chance to even kill a Nightmare and that is if he killed himself with it."
Aeron said brutally getting a sharp glare from Grace only to get a chuckle from Jaune. The two looked to him as he smiled at them.
"Aeron is right, I can't do shit against a Nightmare, you saw what happened to me when I tried."
The knight said as his daughter just looked down sadly.
"Either way I will learn from my mistakes so I won't fight a Nightmare alone again, nor will I die trying to kill one."
The knight said as his son just looked at him with a small smile.
"Alright I guess I can live with that."
The shadow user said as the knight looked to his daughter for her answer as she nodded in agreement. The three began to talk more on what they could do the improve Jaune's skills as they planned out what would be best for him to work on. As they did that down in the dorms below Weiss and Angela were leaving their room to talk alone.
"So Angela; tell me about yourself?"
The heiress asked her daughter as the two walked down the hall to head to the dorms kitchen to cook something to eat. As they walked Angela went about telling her mother about the things she liked. She told her of how she loved to listen to her mother play the piano and sing. She told her of how she taught her sing while her father had taught her to dance. She loved to read and had a fondness for art being it musical or paint.
The heiress smiled at this as she felt happy to see her daughter had some many things she was fond of.
"You know I remember father taking me into the city once to see a movie. It was fun, I remember him running through the house carrying me on his shoulders as he sang about going to the movies."
The silver haired girl said as her mother just shook her head out how much of a goof Jaune was.
"I remember I was only 6 years old and he was taking me to watch a movie about a little girl visiting her grandmother in the woods. It was nice; I remember when we got home after the movie we walked in to see you sitting in the living room in front of the fire place glaring at father."
The silver hair girl said as her mother knew the story of the movie she had seen remembering how bad her own reenactment of it was for the school not too long ago. Although when she heard she was angry at Jaune her interests were peaked.
"Why was I angry at Jaune?"
The Heiress asked as her daughter just smiled awkwardly as she turned away.
"You see, he had forgotten your anniversary was that day."
The silver hair girl said getting a shocked look from her mother.
"That and you had made reservations to a very fancy restraint for the two of you to go to, only Father had instead taken me to the movies when he was supposed to be with you."
The silver hair girl said as her mother face palmed as she groaned at how stupid Jaune was. 'Why would I marry him?' The heiress was mortified at the thought as she looked up when she heard her daughter snickering.
"You know, it was funny, I remember you being ready to freeze him solid and sink him in the ocean, only when you were about to end him he shouted. 'Wait, Weiss I am sorry I forgot our anniversary I just thought it was tomorrow so when I was out to day I bought you this!'" The silver hair girl said making a fake man's voice to mimic Jaune's. "He shouted as he held up his hands holding up a necklace case. Inside was a beautifully crafted diamond snowflake necklace he had made just for you with a silver chain."
The silver hair girl said as her mother just stared surprised at how the story shifted while also disappointed that the fool of a knight had gotten the date of their anniversary wrong. Although the last thought brought a slight blush to her face as she found it odd that she was thinking about something that hadn't happened yet.
"So he is a dork no matter what time it is."
The heiress whispered to herself getting a chuckle from her daughter.
"Dork or not, he is still my father, and the man you love."
The silver hair girl said as her mother blushed again.
"I-I do not love him!"
The heiress stuttered out, getting another chuckle form her daughter who just came up and hugged her.
"It's ok, you will."
The girl said as Weiss just sputtered trying to break free of the hug embarrassed. As this was happening in the dorm kitchens, Pyrrha sat with Helen talking while still cooking was Ren and as Nora ate pancake after pancake.
"Alright so what are your older sisters like?'
The Spartan asked her daughter who smiled.
"Well my oldest sister, who is trying to be a teacher, is Athena. She is very kind and great with dealing with kids. She loves to help people, always the first to volunteer for work to help. At times she was like a second mom to me when you were gone on missions with papa."
The young Spartan said with a smile as her mother smiled happily, glad she had such great kids.
"My second sister, Hemera, is a warm hearted person who likes to take care of people, she loved it whenever I asked her to help me with something and if anyone was sick she was always the first to be by their side to help them."
The young Spartan said getting a nod from her mother. This went on for a few more minutes till Pyrrha thought she could ask about her son.
"And Marcus, what was he like?"
The Spartan asked her daughter knowing that it was a touchy subject but felt she should at least know about him. She could see her daughter hesitate at that as she looked down at the table.
"Well, he was strong; really strong, I don't think anyone was as strong as he was." The young Spartan began. "I remember how he always trained with papa, never missing a day, always doing his best. He was why I wanted to be a Huntress, I wanted to be like him. I remember once when papa had been out on a mission and a few Grimm had gotten into town and Marcus cut them down with such ease it was like he was dancing."
The young Spartan said, a fond smile on her lips as Pyrrha felt some relief at the sight of her daughter doing better. 'It's good she remembers the good things.' The Spartan thought as she reached out patting her on the head.
"That's good, let's stop for now, it would be a good idea to head back to the room now so let's go."
The Spartan said as she stood up and called Ren and Nora over getting a nod from Ren while Nora just gave her a thumb up as she had pancakes stuffed in her mouth. The four slowly began to leave the kitchen, cleaning up before moving out only to stop as they run into Weiss and Angela as they did chatting with them for a minute before leaving letting the heiress and her daughter to be on their way.
While this happened back on the roof of the dorms Jaune, Aeron and Grace had just finished their planning for the next practice match and the knight bid his kids farewell saying they should return to their mothers.
"Aeron you have been out for a while now, how much time you got left?"
The knight asked his son as he smiled.
"I got about three more hours but I am going to return to Bell and save up my time so that way I can watch over everyone tonight just in case a Nightmare comes around."
The shadow user said as he walked to the door waving as he left. Grace just walked up and hugged Jaune bidding farewell as she ran off to find her mother. The knight just sighed as he sat down on the roof and fell back staring up at the sky as clouds passed over head. 'Well that was informative.' The knight thought as he thought about all the things Aeron and Grace had told him and what he could improve.
There was a lot but it was good to know, seeing as if it helped him improve in fighting and let him at least stand a better chance against a Nightmare if he was forced to fight one alone again he would at least be able to survive. The knight thought as he closed his eyes ready to rest up figuring he would think more on everything Aeron had told him later after he rested some. As the knight laid basking in the sun as he rested a shadow fell over him blocking the sun.
He groaned at that, thinking Aeron had come back up.
"What is it, do you need s…"
The knight began only to stop as he opened his eyes to be met with the sight of a young multi colored hair girl. Her hair was Blonde on one side white on the other. The girl's eyes were two different colors, her left green and her right blue. The girl's hair was shoulder length, split over her right eye as she smiled down at him. She had on black formfitting pants with blue and green sneakers on. She wore a blue short coat similar to Weiss' only the girls had a hood on the back.
Under the coat she had a green formfitting shirt on that hugged her form. The knight felt nothing but confusion as he worried that the girl was going to say she was his daughter from a new mother. Only the girl didn't say anything as she sat down next to him, lying back next to him staring at the sky with a smile. The knight was confused at what was happening but wasn't sure if he should say anything as he just sighed, not really caring as he looked back up at the sky. 'This is weird?'
The knight thought as he looked at the sky still debating whether he should ask the girl who she was. With a frustrated sigh he spoke up.
"Excuse me but who…."
The knight began as he sat up and turned to the girl only to find her gone as a small little note sat where she had been. The knight looked around confused beyond belief as he slowly reaches down picking up the note and opening it. He opened up the note and began to read it.
"Hello, my name is Lilith Arc; I am your daughter from the future. So sorry but I couldn't stay long; but I wanted to see you. I know you may have questions but please don't ask, I can't tell you who my mom is but I do want you to know she isn't bad; she just needs help so when you meet her please help her. So thank you also it was nice to see you.
Bye, love your daughter Lilith Arc."
The knight sat staring at the note confused to no end at what had happened only for the note to shatter in his hands as he looked around trying to do his best to see if he could spot Lilith. 'Ok, that was weird.' He thought as he stood up ready to leave as he began to wonder what he would do now with the knowledge of a new daughter roaming around unsupervised. He wasn't sure what was going to happen now but he knew he was in a very odd position at the moment.
He sighed as he looked out over the school staring at the small little figures of the people down bellow surprised at how normal things are after the whole Nightmare fiasco yesterday. With a sigh he turned and stared out into the Emerald Forest wondering what had happened after he lost consciousness. As he looked into the forest he let out a tired sigh. 'I best go and check on the others.' He thought as he walked off back into the dorm room stretching his arms over his head.
He figured he should spend some quality time with his kids.
End.
Omake just for you. Idea was from my beta Maestro of Madness.
Jaune entered the headmaster's office after leaving the training hall.
"Hello Ozpin."
The knight greeted as the headmaster nodded to him before looking back at his terminal with a concerned stare. The knight was confused at that seeing as he wasn't all too sure why he was in called here.
"So~ what was it you needed me for?'
The knight asked as the headmaster just turned to him eyes full of worry.
"Jaune, the reason I call you here was so…"
The headmaster began only to stop as the elevator of the office dinged drawing the two men's attention as they turned around to see a young boy walk in. The boy had blond hair and magenta eyes. The boy had on a coat identical to Ren's only white, with grey pants. The boy walked up and nodded to the headmaster before turning to Jaune and smiling. The knight turned to look at Ozpin for answers as he just rubbed the side of his head.
"Well, Jaune this young boy is Shu Arc, he says he is yours and Lie Ren's son, from the future."
The headmaster said as the knight just stared at him slowly blinking as the headmaster and Shu could see the gears in his head turning. This went on for a good five minutes as the young boy pulled a chair up waving in front of Jaune's face.
"Sir, I think we broke him."
The young boy said as the headmaster just sighed and figured he could wait just a little longer. After another 5 minutes Jaune finally spoke up.
"I am sorry but can you repeat that?"
The knight asked as Ozpin repeated the exact same thing to him again. The knight stood there nodding as he listened not sure what to do. So after about a minute of awkward silence the knight began to laugh.
"Hahahahaha. That is funny Ozpin, I didn't know you had a sense of humor so you got me, that was good. But you and I both know time travel isn't possible and I have no feelings for Ren."
The knight said as the headmaster just shrugged, not caring to say anything till Shu spoke up.
"I am sorry dad but it's true, I have proof."
The young boy said as the knight raised a brow at him waving him to go on while Ozpin seemed to have his interest peaked as he leaned forward wanting to see the proof the boy was talking about. The boy pulled his scroll out of his pocket and sat it on the floor as it turned into a hologram projecting a screen for the knight and headmaster to see. The scream shifted as the picture of a man who looked like Jaune sat before on screen.
"Here you might want to skip through some of the video."
The boy said as he handed Jaune a small remote. The knight looked at it then back to the screen and shrugged as he started the video.
"Ok, hello past me, I am Jaune Arc of the future and yes I know this is weird but listen to what I have to say." The video began with the future Jaune waving at himself as he it reduced himself. "Alright so I understand your skeptical on the who situation with time travel and me and Ren having a son, but trust me it's all true. While I can understand why you wouldn't believe you would end up with Ren, but trust me you do. And boy do I have to say, I have never felt pleasure till Ren bends you over a…"
Jaune quickly clicked the fast forward on the remote as he stared wide eyed in shock at the video while Ozpin did the same. The two of them watched as the future Jaune did hand movement as he talked in fast forward him moving his hands as if he were describing sex. When it finally seemed to stop the knight started the video again.
"Now while that is pleasurable, you will have to get used to choking on Ren's giant co…"
Jaune fast forward again as he felt nothing but pure embarrassment and shock at what he was watching as he watched in fast forward his future self-doing hand movements explain how he obviously gave head. This went on for a few more seconds before the knight started the video again.
"Now while that explains why you end up with Ren that doesn't give you any proof about me being the future you. So I will just tell you a few things only you know, starting with you ran away from home four years before going to Beacon and that you met a man name Uther Pendragon two years before going to Beacon. Ok that's all I know that is enough for you to believe me seeing as you have never told anyone about that."
The video ended with the future Jaune smiling as Ozpin, Shu and Jaune stood staring at nothing while the knight turned to look at his son. The boy just smiled only for Jaune to faint and crashed to the ground. The headmaster just stared shocked scared from what he had seen and heard while only bits were heard he still heard far too much.
Omake End.
AN/ hurray I did a new chapter really fast and a Omake! So I hope you people like what I have given you I am not sure if my comedy in the Omake was all that good for you people but I laughed as I wrote it so I think it's funny if you don't well to each their own. Either way I did as I said and put more story to some of the kids as well as make the Omake like I said I would so hurray! Ok well that's all I have. Please leave a review so I can see what I did write and if you people like the story so leave me a review its easy.
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