Dreaming of a better future

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Chapter 20

Jaune walked down the hall of the second year student dorm building walking up towards team CFVY's room as he walked through the broken hallway where the Nightmare the other day had attacked him. When he got to team CFVY's room he saw the team name had been reattached with a few nails. He felt bad for Velvet and Coco seeing as the Nightmare had most likely attacked because he was there. 'Guess I should offer to help fix up the door seeing as it is my fault it's like this.' Jaune thought as he reached up and knocked on the door only for the moment his knuckles hit the door for the it to creak and fall back into the room with a loud bang. Jaune winced at that as he looked inside to see Velvet and Coco sitting at a desk in the center of the room while Fox and Yatsuhashi sitting on their respected beds.

Jaune just chuckled at that as he rubbed the back of his head nervously.

"I can fix that."

He said only to get a chuckle out of Coco while the others just stayed quiet as they looked at Jaune only for Fox to shrug and turn away not really caring while Yatsu just went on with meditation. Jaune just chuckled nervously again till Jasmine walked out of the bathroom to see him, smiling brightly as she ran over to him jumping into his arms hugging him.

"Papa!"

She cheered as he caught her, doing a spin making her laugh as he did before setting her back down. As he sat Jasmine down she turned and ran over to Velvet grabbing her hand and pulling her up.

"Come on Mama, now that papa's here we can explore the school."

Jasmine said happily as Velvet quickly stood up with her letting her daughter lead her back to Jaune. Jasmine quickly came up taking Jaune's hand as she stood between him and Velvet as they stood in the doorway.

"Let's go exploring!"

Jasmine cheered as Jaune just smiled at her as he patted her on the head.

"Well you heard her, let's go."

Jaune said quickly reaching down and picked Jasmine up and sat her on his shoulders. He turned to see Coco just smiling cheekily at him while Fox and Yatsu just watched, not doing anything.

"Well would you look at that you are already acting like a real family."

Coco teased causing Velvet to blush at her words while Jaune did the same but quickly shook it off as he sighed.

"Let's get going."

Jaune said as he turned and waved Velvet forward while he walked with Jasmine on his shoulders humming happily. Velvet walked trying to keep her blush under control while Jaune talked to Jasmine explaining to her that she would have to keep from calling him or Velvet mama or papa, seeing as the Atlas soldiers were walking around and he didn't want them to know about her or the other kids. Jasmine seemed to understand saying he had told her to keep everything a secret save for the people she trusted the most. Jaune nodded at that, glad to see his daughter understood although Velvet did ask why they shouldn't let the Atlas soldiers know about them. Jaune went on to explain the risks of informing a military power of the future. After explaining everything Velvet understood but did look somewhat pale from everything she was told.

Jaune couldn't blame her for feeling the way she is about the whole ordeal, but he figured she would feel better later as they continued to walk the grounds exploring with Jasmine. They went to the gardens showing Jasmine all the sights. Velvet then had them head to the library, Jaune just began to complain along with Jasmine joking about how boring libraries were. Velvet got more than a little angry at them for that as she smacked Jaune in the arm telling him he should respect the library more seeing as it was a place of knowledge and knowledge was power. Jaune just pretended to snore at that getting smacked again while Jasmine just laughed at the display. After leaving the library the three went and picked up some lunch and sat down to eat. As they ate Jaune figured he would get to understand what Jasmine's life was like before coming back in time.

It was interesting to hear as Jasmine went on about telling him and Velvet about her brothers and how cool they were while she also went on to tell Jaune about how great of a Huntsman he was in the future and how he and Velvet were two of the greatest Hunters of their generation. Jaune was more than a little happy to hear that till a question came to mind.

"Hey Jasmine what about team RWBY or even my teammates, are they also great hunters?"

Jaune asked as Jasmine nodded.

"Yeah, while team RWBY is a team in the future choosing different paths they are still seen as some of the greatest Huntress' ever, while papa's teammates Nora and Ren are also some of the greatest."

Jasmine said making Jaune smile till he realized something.

"What about Pyrrha, my partner you didn't say anything about her."

Jaune said for Jasmine to pause as she turned away not looking at him. Confusion was all he felt as he turned to Velvet to see if she knew what was going on only to get a shrug as he turned to look at Jasmine.

"Hey Jasmine what is it, why aren't you saying anything about Pyrrha?"

Jaune asked worried by her silence till she spoke up.

"Your partner stopped being a Huntress."

Jasmine said surprising Jaune.

"W-wha, really she isn't a Huntress, did something happen?"

Jaune asked shocked by the news only for Jasmine to shrug.

"I don't know, papa never talked about it and neither did mama. I didn't really know about her so I don't know anything."

Jasmine said finishing up her lunch and getting up to throw it away. Jaune wanted to go with her but Velvet stopped him as she took his lunch tray and went after Jasmine. Afterwards Jaune just sat alone for a bit as the two went off down the mess hall throwing out the trays as he just thought about what Jasmine said. 'Pyrrha stopped being a Huntress. That is just insane. I thought she would be a career huntress.' Jaune thought as he waited for Velvet and Jasmine quickly throw away their garbage and set up the trays as he just sighed as he figured he would at least go off and grab something for Jasmine.

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Jaune walked with Jasmine as he pointed out the fairgrounds where the Vytal festival is being held as he pointed out stands he would love to take Jasmine to when the fair starts. As they did they walked past the statue in the front of the school where Jaune stopped the girls.

"Why don't you girls wait here while I go and grab you a crêpe?"

Jaune said as Jasmine just bounced happily at the idea of getting a crepe.

"Why don't I go with you?"

Velvet offered as Jaune nodded looking too Jasmine.

"You wait here got ite me and Velvet will be back with the crepes ok."

Jaune said getting a nod from Jasmine as he and Velvet turned and went to grab the girl a sweet treat. As the two walked away though they missed one coppered hair brute over hearing them as Jasmine sat down on the bench in front of the statue they left her at. Jasmine just happily sat waving her legs back and forth watching people as they passed by as the occasional student came up asking if she was lost as she just waved them off saying she was waiting for someone. She waited for just a few minutes till a shadow passed over her as she looked behind her expecting to see her father only to see a large boy with copper hair and heavy knight armor standing over her.

"You were waiting for Arc right?"

The boy asked as Jasmine nodded, her hand slowly falling to the metal rod on her waist as she looked at the man suspiciously as he just smiled. Jasmine didn't like the smile as she went to jump away only for the brutish boy to reach out grabbing hold of her ears as he pulled her towards him, lifting her with her ears. Jasmine let out a scream of pain drawing the attention of many students around only for them to just turn away giving a sad look not even caring to try and help her.

"You must be Arc's pet project now that he is trying to get with that rabbit bitch. I wonder what he would think if I took one of your ears off!"

The brute growled as he shook Jasmine by her ears as she screamed in pain again only for the students to just stand by the sidelines doing nothing but look on in disgust at the brute. Jasmine quickly grabbed the rod on her hip and twisted it as a hard light sword formed as she swung slashing at the brute forcing him to let her go as she fell to the ground holding her ears as she jumped away.

"You little Shit!"

The brute snarled as Jasmine quickly gave the handle of her hard light sword two more twists as it formed into a bow with an arrow at the ready as she pulled back and shot the air out at the brute only for him to deflect it with a mace he drew from his back. Jasmine was going to jump back only to stop as she saw a crepe hit the brute in the face blinding him.

"Jasmine!"

Velvet shouted as she ran over to her daughter as the young rabbit just stared at Cardin who whipped the crepe from his face only for a shield to slam into his face as Jaune stood before him. Jaune quickly reaching out grabbing Cardin by the chest piece lifting him over head slamming him head first into the ground as he then stomped onto his wrist forcing him to let go of his mace. Cardin let out a groan only to stare up at Jaune just in time to watch as his sword came crashing down no more than an inch from his throat as Jaune glared down at him. Cardin just stared up in shock at Jaune as he stared down at him, his eyes cold and empty as he slowly knelt down his foot still crushing Cardin's wrist.

"What were you doing?"

Jaune asked him softly as Cardin just stared frozen in fear as the empty look in Jaune's eyes bore down on him, making it impossible for him to think of something to say.

"I asked you, what were you doing?"

Jaune said again slowly tilting his sword onto Cardin's throat. The brute just gulped as everyone around watched as he pissed his pants. Jaune didn't say anything as he stood up just shaking his head as he turned away from Cardin and walked over to Velvet and Jasmine. Jasmine quickly came up to him, pulling him into a hug while Jaune looked back to Velvet. The two shared a silent understanding as Jaune turned to look back at Cardin who was still cowering on the floor as Jaune just shook his head at the man as he turned back to Velvet.

"Why don't you to go back to your room and get some rest, I will deal with this."

Jaune said, pointing to the Atlas soldiers coming in breaking up the crowd as they looked to the cowering Cardin then to Jaune. Jasmine and Velvet looked ready to argue that they would stay but Jaune fixed them a look saying they wouldn't change his mind. Velvet just nodded at him and quickly took Jasmine back to the room.

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Jaune sat in Ozpin's office looking at his scroll as he read the message he just got from Velvet asking if he was ok. He quickly messaged back that everything was fine and he would come by to apologize to her for the day later. It really didn't take long to deal with the soldiers when they questioned Jaune as he just explained the matter to them about how Cardin attacked Jasmine who he said was Velvet's younger sister while he also went on to explain what he did to Cardin. After that the soldiers had asked the bystanders, all of whom Jaune wanted to beat the shit out of for just standing back and watching Jasmine get abused like she was, the soldiers all let Jaune go only for him to get a message telling him to report to the headmaster's office which led to his current state.

Jaune quickly pocketed his scroll after sending the message as he looked up waiting for Ozpin and General Ironwood to complete their dick measuring contest. Seems that while Jaune had expected to be called up to be punished for his actions against Cardin it seems that a more pressing matter had come to light. It seems that there was a murder in the city last night which left a dead dock worker. While murders weren't surprising they were rare seeing as people knew that if a murder was around that it would cause panic and panic led to fear and fear led to the Grimm. The thing though that was the real problem was that the way the victim was killed. Turns out the poor dock worker was eaten.

While Jaune wasn't really sure how to take the news seeing as he could imagine a cannibal murder was lose on the streets of Vale as the thought that came to mind was that the murder was a Nightmare. A thought that made Jaune's blood freeze as he truly hoped it wasn't a Nightmare committing murders in the city. If that was the case the death count would only rise and it would rise fast. Jaune just sighed as he watched as Ozpin did he best to calm Ironwood down to stop him from sending every soldier he had into the city on a man hunt. Jaune had to assume Ozpin came to the same conclusion as him on the thought of it being a Nightmare. The situation was a dire one if it was a Nightmare causing the killings but Jaune still didn't know why he was called in to the office.

"Ozpin a man is dead and more will die if we sit here and do nothing!"

Ironwood shouted as Ozpin shook his head.

"I understand that but you must understand sending in your army will only make the murderer more cautious and they might just slip from your grasp seeing as you know nothing about them."

Ozpin reasoned only for the general to throw his hands in the air in frustration. Though the general didn't argue as he seemed to see the reasoning as he reached into his coat and pulled out a flask and took a drink from the flask. Jaune just watched still confused on his presence being required but figured he would talk unless someone talked to him first.

"James you need to understand shows of force do not always work and at times they will even back fire on you, you need to understand I don't want to sit here doing nothing either but you have to remember this kind of thing takes time."

Ozpin said as he turned to Jaune finally.

"Now Mr. Arc I can understand you may be confused as to why we called you here but the reason for this is because I want you and your team to help in the investigation alongside two of the general's students."

Ozpin said surprising Jaune.

"Wait you want a team of trainee Hunters to help in a murder investigation? That is insane."

Jaune said as Ironwood spoke up.

"As insane as it maybe the Vale police is busy dealing with keeping the murder quiet so to keep the city from panicking at the news. The reason for this is because of the tension left by the breach last month, we can't exactly let the city fall into chaos because of the murder."

The general explained as Jaune nodded.

"I can understand that by why my team, why not get real Hunters?"

Jaune asked and while he knew Ozpin's reason seeing as Jaune could have Aeron and him look into the matter if it was a Nightmare, but Jaune wanted to know Ironwoods reason.

"We feel sending in a team of trainee's in would make the murderer lower their guard. If he does, we want you to report back to us immediately so we can apprehend the suspect."

Ironwood said as Jaune just up and felt like he was basically making Jaune and his team bait to lore in the culprit. 'While Ozpin wants us to keep an eye out for a Nightmare, Ironwood is just using us.' Jaune thought as he looked to Ozpin hoping he would be a voice of reason so he could call him back again so that way he could talk about the murders in privet.

"Jaune, we won't force you or your team to do this but James wants to send his students in and I can't consciously allow him to do it alone."

Ozpin said as Jaune realized what he was doing. 'So the general is going to go through with this plan whether I agree or not.' Jaune thought as he sighed and rubbed the back of his head.

"I am sorry but I refuse to put my team at risk, either way Ironwood here has students trained to be Hunters and soldiers who's to say they can't handle the situation."

Jaune said as he looked to Ozpin and the general as he waved a hand to the elevator.

"Can I leave now?"

Jaune asked only for the general to move towards the elevator.

"Actually I will take me leave first, you still have to be sentenced a punishment for what you did before you came up here."

Ironwood said as he stepped into the elevator and let it close. Ozpin was about to speak up only for Jaune to raise a hand stopping him as he walked around Ozpin's desk as he looked it over reaching under it only to sigh as he reached out.

"I was really looking forward to finding a bug or something."

Jaune said disappointedly as Ozpin just shook his head at him.

"Did you really believe that James would bug my office?"

Ozpin asked as Jaune shrugged.

"I hoped he would bug the office, I mean it would be really cool, I always wanted to deal with spy stuff like that."

Jaune said somewhat disappointed as Ozpin shook his head at him.

"Well if you are done with your games can we get onto the real matter at hand?"

Ozpin asked as Jaune just shrugged.

"Not really much to talk about, I am going to go into Vale with Aeron, you are going to give us all the information we need and then we will begin to investigate the whole murder ordeal."

Jaune said as Ozpin opened his mouth to talk only to close it as he just shook his head.

"I guess that is one way of putting it."

Ozpin said as he typed into his scroll and quickly sent Jaune the file on the murder. Jaune quickly ran through it till he saw the photos as he paused looking to the picture of the corpse. Jaune sighed as he closed the scroll as he looked to Ozpin.

"Could have left out the photos."

Jaune said nauseously as he shook his head hoping to get rid of the images from his head. Ozpin just shrugged as the two talked about the murder as Jaune got the summery of the murder. Jaune took in all the information as he nodded and told Ozpin he would go and explain it in layman's terms for Aeron and would get to investigating. Jaune quickly ran into the elevator to get on with his investigation.

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AN/ look I did a new chapter for you readers. Now I know I didn't do any comedy in this chapter I just didn't feel I could make this chapter funny while I did laugh with my little spy moment with Jaune at the end. But don't worry I will bring back comedy and also apologies to those who want omaku's I just haven't gotten around to those yet which is a pain but again I just need ideas for the omaku's to do them. So I ask you reader people give me omaku ideas.

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