All right! New Chapter! Hope you enjoy this! Also, my beta also had a hand in writing this! More about it at the end of this chapter.

Also, I feel like many people got this confused. Raven is NOT part of the harem. I only portrayed her as somewhat seductive/flirty as to kinda match up with Yang's personality. Not to mention, she does follow the idea that the strong live, weak die. And she see's Jaune as strong.

Nor am I putting all the NDGO girls as part of his mate, just Dew. Yes, there are mistresses in harems, but I do not plan on putting that. The girls in Jaune's list are just team RWBY, Pyrrha, and Dew. Nobody else! Sorry if you're disappointed that this won't be every single women in the series is with Jaune, but I only have those in mind. Nor will it change. Some might be wondering, that's only 6 girls, there are 7 dragons. That will be explained later, in the next chapter.

Enough talk! On with the story!

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Jaune was now sixteen, soon to be seventeen, and had been meditating within the nesting grounds of the continent of Sanus. Most of his physical training was almost complete, now he was just maintaining it. Instead, most of his time went into training with his Aura and senses. He was able to link up with any of his dragons instantaneously now and was working on linking up with multiple of them at a time. Lung Wang was still working on muscles Jaune thought he'd never use, while Aryz and Alaerth were continuing his basic education. This time, Andusk and Othim were the ones who took charge of the majority of training. Andusk was guiding Jaune how to sense other people Aura levels. The Scroll might have a system where it can sync and read Aura levels, but the ability to sense it without having to peek back at the Scroll would be much easier to keep track of a fight. Not to mention since Huntsmen and Huntresses in training were in teams, this would allow Jaune to easily keep track of his own allies' aura level and the enemy. Othim taught Jaune how to keep his blend in with nature, or devious tactics that could disguise his intents.

Of course, Jaune was also getting a crash course on how to wield each element. To Jaune, it felt amazing being able to control the elements without the need to use Dust, though it still had its uses. Jaune had bought some to test out some techniques and found out he could combine it with his elemental techniques or empower it if needed, and even recharge empty Dust crystals with his elemental aura. He was able to learn the basics of Dust Manipulation, although it was easier just to link up with a dragon to use a specified element.

Jaune decided it was time to head to Vale when Autumn was about to end. After visiting the city, he would finally decide on which academy he would choose. Application to Academies would start soon, as they began the semester in February. Before he left, he took a bag of seeds that was in the cave. The dragons wouldn't tell him what it was, just that it was very valuable.

Deciding on a leisure flight, Jaune sprouted green feathery wings and flew up into the sky. As he was flying, he noticed a train in the distance. Getting closer, he saw it was carrying Schnee approved Dust cargo as well as civilians and crew members. And the White Fang had invaded it.

Sighing, Jaune took out a piece of cloth from his bag to and wrapped it carefully around his head, allowing only his eyes to be seen. He began his dive towards the train. Sensing distress at the front cart, he ignored all the fighting at the back and shot towards it. He figured it was where all the civilians were and wanted to make sure they were safe first.

Blake Belladonna was reconsidering her choices about the White Fang. When her father had been the leader, it had been peaceful protests, with a few riots breaking out. She was born into a legacy of trying to improve Faunus right, so when her father retired, she felt like it was her duty to uphold the legacy. She slightly felt like her father was running away from doing what he should be truly doing instead of becoming mayor of Menagerie. Not to mention she had been captivated by Adam Taurus and his passion for Faunus equality. This lead to an argument with her father, which lead to her running away with Adam to fight for equality. Adam trained her, became her friend, her partner, and later boyfriend. However, Blake failed to realize that Adam did not truly want equality. He wanted humans to fear the Faunus, and felt like they were the superior beings.

Still, she turned a blind eye to the superiority complex. Then, Adam was given the position of leader of the Vale branch when Blake was 14 while Adam was 18. Two years had passed, and Adam's viciousness towards all humans grew to the point Blake could no longer ignore it.

She had joined to Faunus to have equality, not to be feared! So, with a heavy heart, she would use the mission to rob the train to leave Adam and the White Fang for good. She would then devote her time to becoming a Huntress. With her combat skills, she was sure she could get in.

They ran down the hillside before jumping onto the back of the train. The train was carrying several tons of Dust, as well as having a few passengers in the front. Adam swore that they were only going for the dust, making Blake agree to it. After they stabilized themselves, they jumped into a cargo hold just to encounter a room full of security robots.

"Looks like we're doing this the hard way," said Adam.

"Don't be so dramatic," replied Blake as she got her weapon out.

As Adam and Blake hijacked the train from the back, causing most of the security droids to run towards them, in the front, White Fang members disguised as civilian members took the chance as soon as security was gone to hijack the engine room and civilian cart. The civilians and crew members had no choice but to obey and were herded all in the cart right behind the engine.

"Hehe, You humans are going to get what you deserve," sneered a White Fang member with fox ears.

"I can't wait to see the look at the SDC's face when they find out they're responsible for the death of 'innocent' lives while also having their cargo taken," said another member with a ferret tail.

"They'll get what they deserve, just like the rest of humanity," snarled a member with whiskers like a rat.

"Please, spare my children at least!" begged a mother of two.

"Spare me your drivel," spat the fox member, "Your children are guilty already! In fact, they'll be the first to go!"

The rat member giggled as he dragged the two children away from the mother. Others tried to intervene, but they were beaten up. Even civilian Faunus that protested against this were branded as 'traitors'. The rat Faunus point his gun at the two children, a boy and a girl. The boy, who was older, hugged his younger sister as if to protect her. The man's finger twitched, ready to fire when...

*CRASH*

The ceiling of the cart caved in. Before the White Fang members knew what was happening, a shield came flying towards the rat member. It bounced off his face and into two others, knocking them unconscious before it came back to what seemed to be a man with green feathery wings with a cloth mask. The children gaped in awe at the man who had intervened and protected them.

"A Faunus?" gaped a female member, "But there hasn't been a report of any flying Faunus!"

"Doesn't matter," growled Jaune as he punched another White Fang member. Soon enough, the only conscious ones were in front of Jaune. This allowed Jaune to take off his worry about protecting the innocent. All he had to do was worry about what was in front of him.

"Who are you, traitor! Why do you not help your brothers-in-race!?' snarled the fox member.

"Who I am matters not," said Jaune, "You were about kill innocent people, especially children who have not even had a chance to shine. Your lack of respect for life disgusts me. I give you this warning once. Lay down your weapons and surrender yourselves to the proper authorities. If you do not comply... then your souls will most likely be taken to the afterlife."

"Ha, like I'm afraid," sneered a weasel member. "There's only one of you, ten of us, you can't fly, and you have to defend those sinners."

His words encouraged other members to cheer and take arms. However, two of them wisely put their weapon down and had their hands on their heads. They charged forward, but it was their last act. Jaune pointed his shield on his left arm and with a swift tap, a double-barreled shotgun appeared. The ones in the front widened their eyes in fear just as Jaune pulled the trigger. What was worse was the shotgun was an automatic shotgun, so 4 buckshot flew out at once. Jaune had loaded his shotgun with piercing bullets. With Jaune reinforcing himself with Aura to block out the recoil, they flew straight at the White Fang. Some of the White Fang had Aura to protect them, but the majority of them were now sporting injuries that would be fatal if not treated. Two of them were dead.

One of them rasped into a comm link, "Leader... We need help.. Several brothers and sisters dying."

Jaune smashed his foot into that one, knocking him unconscious. He turned around to the hostages, folding his wings into his back.

"Are you all alright? Do any of you need medical attention?" asked Jaune as he checked on the children who were almost killed. The mother of the children quickly ran to them, hugging hostages shook their head. Their wounds were superficial and would heal in time. However, they felt a bit queasy that the man was willing to kill. Still, it's not like the White Fang would have shown them mercy anyways. One of the crew members quickly grabbed some rope and tied up all the White Fang members. One of them was tempted to just throw them off the train, but the captain decided that they needed to report them to the proper authorities.

"Hmph. Lucky little bastards" cussed the rat member as he woke up. The mother immediately kicked the rat into the wall as revenge.

"Are you an angel, mister?" asked the young female child who was hugging her mother.

"He is, isn't he?" replied the older male child. The other adults were still in shock at being rescued.

Jaune smiled as he ruffled the two children's hair, "No, just a protector of life, a guardian against those who wish to unjustly extinguish other lights."

At that, he turned around to head towards the back of the train.

"Where are you going, mister angel?" Asked the younger child. The other adults asked the same thing.

"There are still two more White Fang members. Much stronger than the ones here. From what I can tell, they are heading here. I'm going to stop them from getting here," said Jaune as he ran through the door and flew out.

Blake and Adam were rushing towards the front of the train. They had just defeated a mecha spider, and Blake was about to enact her plan when they got an SOS. When Adam received the SOS message, he was furious and ran. Blake was also mad that some of her White Fang brothers and sisters were in danger, though she wondered why they were at the front of the train. The plan was only to hijack the Schnee's cargo, or at least that was what she had been told. That, and also when Adam told her he was planning to blow up the train without any care of the crew members, which was a surprise for her.

Suddenly, they saw a man with green feathery wings floating in front of them.

"Going somewhere?" asked the winged figure as he floated down to the floor, withdrawing his wings into his back.

Jaune observed the two who had been running towards the front. The red haired bull Faunus with the Grimm mask was definitely strong, and so was the pale girl with black hair. At this, Jaune was slightly confused. The girl didn't seem to be a Faunus, and yet she was running with the White Fang? That she seemed very familiar. Almost like someone he saw in Menagerie. Then, Jaune remembered Kali Belladonna. Grabbing the photo from his bag, he took a look and glanced at the female. Looked very similar. And the bow on the girl's hair was something Kali told him about too.

"Faunus brother. Why do you fight against us? I am Adam Taurus, leader of the Vale branch of the White Fang. This is my partner Blake Belladonna," said Adam.

'Well, that answers my question if that was Blake,' thought Jaune mentally.

"Come with us. With your flying ability, we could show those humans what equality is," continued Adam, trying to work a silver tongue. Jaune saw right through it.

"Several problems with that," said Jaune, "I can tell you're not about equality. You're all about revenge and wanting to show who the superior race is. You're willing to kill other Faunus who don't follow your ways. You're willing to extinguish the lives of innocent civilians. Your members tried to shoot children in front of a mother."

Blake widened her eyes at that. She looked at Adam and was further shocked that Adam didn't even seem to care.

"And your point?" asked Adam, "Those filthy humans deserve what's coming to them. Them and their spawns. I was planning to plant some bombs anyways."

"Adam! You promised nobody would get hurt!" said Blake.

"Shut up! It's only a few people for the glory of all the Faunus race!" snarled Adam.

Jaune was convinced. Blake merely wanted equality but still had some morals. Adam just wanted to kill anyone in his way.

"I've heard enough," said Jaune as he drew out his blade and shield from his back.

"Hmph. Fine then, traitor," said Adam. The three of them stared off at each other for a bit. Suddenly, behind Adam and Blake, a mecha spider came out, guns blazing.

"I thought you destroyed it!" shouted Blake as she dodged the blasts.

"I did! This must be another one! I'll take care of this robot, go for the traitor!" shouted Adam as he charged towards the mech.

Blake charged towards Jaune, who had his weapon ready. He quickly flicked his shield to hand cannon mode and shot Blake's knee. It seemed to hit, but suddenly, Blake left a shadow in its place and dodged it, swinging her blade at Jaune. Jaune swung his blade at the sword, forcing her back up. She dashed forward, and the two clashed blades. Blake tried to use her agility, but was easily negated. Getting desperate, she jumped above Jaune. Jaune responded bydoing a vertical thrust kick with his left leg. Again, she used a shadow to take it and got behind Jaune when she landed.

"Interesting," said Othim, "This girl's semblance is Shadows. She makes solid shadow clones to aid her in taking hits, distracting, or propelling herself forward."

As Othim was saying it, Blake made another one and used it as a foothold to dash towards Jaune's open back. Jaune was still in his vertical thrust kick position, so he merely hopped with his right foot before performing a spin kick with his right leg right towards Blake's head. Blake gasped and blocked it with her sword. The impact forced her down to her knees.

"Blake!" shouted Adam as he dodged another shot from the mecha-droid. He needed time to channel some Aura into his blade and absorb some attacks if he wanted to use his Semblance Moonslice.

Blake gritted her teeth and pushed Jaune off before jumping back, collapsing her weapon into another mode and throwing her weapon Gambol Shroud at Jaune. He ducked under it before noticing there was a ribbon tied to it.

With a pull, the gunblade let out a firing noise and came flying back towards Jaune's head. Jaune quickly did a back flip to dodge it. Blake, figuring she had the advantage at range, started to swing it like a kusarigama. However, Jaune easily blocked or dodged them all before pointing his shield at Blake and fired his hand cannon. Blake paused her attack to dodge it, but it gave enough time for Jaune to close in bash her with his shield. Stunned, Blake couldn't' move in time before Jaune's sword slashed down. The attack drained her Aura to almost nothing. Before she could try to run, Jaune had sheathed his blade already, using the free hand to pin her down to the floor.

"Let me go!" shouted Blake, struggling as hard as she could.

"I'm here on behalf of your mother and father, Kali and Ghira Belladonna," whispered Jaune.

Blake instantly froze up at that. "How do I know you're telling the truth?" she whispered.

"I have a letter, a locket, and a picture of you in my bag that they gave me to give to you. But let's do that later. From what I can tell, you don't want to be in the White Fang anymore, right?" whispered Jaune. Blake nodded in reply.

"Just trust me," whispered Jaune.

Suddenly, he let go of Blake. Blake looked up to see Adam had run towards Jaune and tried to cut him in half. Jaune looked at Adam before saying, "Watch out behind you."

Adam looked back to see the mecha-droid kick him towards Jaune. Stumbling, Adam got back up to see Blake about to be stomped. Suddenly, Jaune dashed forward and repelled the offending leg with his sword before picking Blake up. He jumped back, growing his wings and flew towards the end of the cart they were on, setting her down at the next one.

"New intruder detected. Acquiring target," stated the robot before firing at Jaune.

"Oh CMON!" shouted Jaune as he blocked the attack with his shield. Fearing that Blake would get hurt, Jaune jumped forward besides Adam.

"Truce for now?" asked Jaune.

Adam gritted his teeth. He really wanted to hurt the masked man, but he wasn't strong enough to destroy a second spider droid by himself. "Fine," he spat out. "Buy me some time." Adam got into his Iaido stance.

Jaune ran forward, dodging the blasts the mech was firing before stopping right under it's face. With his left hand holding the shield was placed under the blade with Aura channeled into the sword, he leaped up, smashing his blade into where the computer's jaw would be. The mech stumbled back from the attack, and Jaune aimed his shield, switching it to a shotgun before firing all available bullets. The mech transformed to use it's big gun, sweeping it into Jaune to force him away. Jaune was already flying back thanks to his shotgun recoil, so it missed. As he landed, the mech was charging up it's attack.

"MOVE!" shouted Adam. Jaune acknowledged and jumped back behind Adam. The mech fired it's shot, in which Adam unsheathed some of his blade to absorb it. After the blast was done, he re sheathed it, his body starting to glow. Anything red on him glowed with power.

However, this spider mech had seen what Adam had done to the other mecha spider, and learned. Instead of jumping and charging at Adam, it charged up another shot.

'Shit!' thought Adam. He wasn't able to absorb another shot as his Aura levels were low, and he didn't have enough time to dash towards the robot to attack it. Suddenly Jaune appeared in front of him, shield raised up. Jaune focused as much Aura into his shield while linking up with Fafnir. The blast fired right at Jaune's shield. Jaune gritted his teeth, trying to stop himself from flying. He felt someone lean into his body, and looked over to see Adam trying to help stabilize him too.

"Don't get used to it," muttered Adam.

Soon enough, Jaune was able to repel the shot away. Taking this chance, Jaune grabbed Adam by his coat and threw him at the robot. Understanding what Jaune was trying to do, Adam let himself be thrown. While in midair, with momentum on his side, Adam activated his semblance. He put all his power into his sword and sliced the robot in half, causing it to wilt away into rose petals. Adam quickly pointed his shotgun sheath and fired into the ground to prevent him from crashing into the floor. Adam sheathed his blade before looking back to where Blake was and was surprised to see her standing at another cart. However, in her eyes, he could see what she was going to do. He raised his hand, but Blake had made her choice. She could no longer condone what Adam was doing, and was breaking up with him and the White Fang.

"Goodbye."

She sliced the connection, leaving Jaune and Adam behind. Adam got his goal of tons of Schnee dust, but lost his lover and the chance to kill humans. Growling, he turned to Jaune to take his anger out on him just to find out he had also disappeared. Adam looked up to the shattered moon and roared in anger.

Blake looked into the distance as the train pulled further away from Adam. She heard wings flapping, and soon Jaune was standing next to her.

"You've made up your mind?" he asked.

Blake nodded. She had been planning to break away from all this anyways.

"Cmon, we can't stay on this train for long," said Jaune. "I'll fly you to a village. You can walk to Vale from there."

As he spread his feathery wings again, a door opened, and a boy popped out from the door.

"Are you going now, mister faceless angel?" asked the boy. Jaune nodded, and the child bowed his head, "Thank you for saving us. I was terrified, but I wanted to protect my younger sister. And yet, I couldn't do anything."

Blake looked away in shame. She had never thought the White Fang would go so far to killing innocent children.

"Don't say that," said Jaune kneeling down to the boy, ""It took a lot of courage to try to protect your sister from threats. Cherish that feeling. Maybe you'll grow up to become a Huntsman someday."

The boy's eyes widened in amazement and awe, looking up to the man as an idol.

"Here," said Jaune, pulling from his bag a red Lien card. "Use this money to buy your sister a new toy. She'll have nightmares after this, but I'm sure with the right tools, you can help make it go away."

The child widened his eyes and thanked Jaune again before running into the cabin, "Mommy Mommy. The angel gave us money to help us!"

"Let's go," said Jaune. He picked Blake up bridal style and jumped off the train, flying away.

Moments later, the mother opened the door, wanting to give back the money as she felt like she couldn't take such a generosity from him, just to find herself looking at a platform with nobody on it. A feather floated down from the sky in front of them. The mother decided to keep it as a treasured memory of how she was saved from a horrible fate.

"Mom, will we see him again? And who was that?" asked the two children. The mother smiled as she hugged her children, "Who knows. But I have a feeling that was our guardian angel for the day."

Blake felt a little embarrassed. She had just broken up with Adam, and already she was in another man's arms. Granted, he felt warmer and kinder than Adam. While flying, she was suddenly reminded of a vivid scene from her... adult erotic fiction book. She cuddled closer to keep herself warm. Soon enough, Jaune was descending down towards land, just a mile from a village. Blake hopped off before turning around to Jaune, who was leaning on a tree.

"Who are you? And why does a winged Faunus like yourself exist? I don't think there are any Faunus that can fly like you," said Blake.

Jaune chuckled, "Jaune Ryu-Long. A traveler. And who said I'm a Faunus?"

Blake's eyes widened as Jaune took off the mask, revealing his face. "But, wings! Animal Part! Flying! Human can't fly!" stuttered Blake.

"Part of my Semblance," said Jaune. He just failed to mention he had other powers with it. He grabbed the letter, locket, and picture before tossing it to Blake. She looked down, opening the locket to see a picture of her family, all happy. She let a tear drop down at that.

"I should've listened," cried Blake, "They knew Adam was bad news, but I was too blinded by my crush, my adoration for him."

"Hey, it's okay. From what I could tell, they miss you just as much as you miss them, and are willing to forgive you," said Jaune.

Blake nodded before opening the letter. She read it through 4 times before putting it down. She was just not prepared for this day. She blinked a few times before reading it again.

"You donated 15,000 Lien for my home village!?" Blake asked in amazement.

"Yea. Felt it was the right thing to do. Your mom and dad helped me a lot," answered Jaune. Before he knew it, Blake had done what her mother done before and leaped onto him, purring. The ribbon on her head fell off from the impact, revealing her cat ears.

'Well, she definitely is her mother's daughter,' thought Jaune when he saw the cat ears before noticing a slight smell. He looked down to see Blake was a bit aroused, her eyes gone into slits. It was like she was looking at a tasty fish she wanted, and Jaune was the fish.

"Umm, Blake? Can you stop that?" asked Jaune fearfully.

"Buhahaha! She likes you. Take her as a mate, I'll use my power. Her Semblance matches mine perfectly!" shouted Othim. Jaune couldn't really disagree, as he did think Blake was quite beautiful, and it was a perfect match for Othim's powers. However, his pride and morals wouldn't let him take the girl, as he would end up being at the bottom, and this really wasn't the place to even do it. Not that Jaune wanted to do it anyways.

"Mmmm why should I?" purred Blake,rubbing her cheeks on his, "My mother and father have given their blessings for me to date you. You know how hard it is to impress them, especially my father? The fact you did it makes you so much more desirable. I can smell you're very strong while also being kind and generous. We can recreate one of the scenes from my book right here."

Sighing, Jaune linked up with Ryo-Wo before manipulating some water out of the tree with a wave of his hand, causing it to dry up. Blake didn't notice it at first, but when Jaune let the water fall down onto her, she jumped back in surprise. Blinking a few times while still wearing a wet t-shirt, she suddenly had arm covering her breasts while the other covering her mouth, blushing heavily.

Blake was usually stoic, but she certainly was breaking her record of being embarrassed. She couldn't believed she had just pounced him, basically demanding his seed. She had just broken up with Adam! Was she that affected by finding a rebound man? She shook her head at that. She knew she had already been falling out of love with Adam, and that act back there merely concluded it, although she couldn't deny that some part of it was to blame, as well as the emotion of finding her family was still accepting of her and all that Lien Jaune had just selflessly donated for the village. She looked down to see her shirt was wet and clinging onto her skin, showing her assets more prominently. Before she could do anything, she felt something land on her. She looked to see it was a hoodie.

"Sorry about that. Wear my extra hoodie for now," said Jaune.

Blake nodded and quickly wore it. It felt warm, and she could smell his natural scent on it. It was like he was hugging her, whispering into her ears. Blake quickly shook those thoughts out. She had been reading Ninjas of Love too much. She quickly found a ribbon and tied it into a bow to hide her cat ears.

They quickly arrived to town, where Jaune found an inn where they could stay. Grabbing two rooms, much to Blake's complaint, they retired for the night.

Blake found herself awake much later than usual. Yawning and stretching like a cat, she walked out the room, intending on apologizing to Jaune for her actions. Knocking on his door, she waited for a few minutes before going into the room just to find it empty. Quickly dashing towards the innkeeper, she asked where Jaune went. The owner said Jaune had left at the break of dawn, but had paid for breakfast for her. Blake felt saddened that she may had just scared away a potential suitor when the owner gave her a letter, saying it was from Jaune. She opened it to see four 100 Lien white cards fall out and a letter. Quickly grabbing it all, she sat on the table to read it. She sighed in relief when it was Jaune merely saying that he had business, and that he couldn't afford to stay. He promised that they would meet sometime in the future, and to use the money to buy some clothes. As breakfast came, she looked out the window.

"We'll definitely meet again, Jaune Ryu-Long. It's a promise."

This time, Jaune was running, linking himself to Fafnir. By manipulating the earth to his will, he was able to cover great distances, although not as fast as flying. Still, Fafnir wanted to have some fun once just running on the ground. Suddenly, Andusk spoke up.

"Stop. I sense something. Something with great potential and containing some of my power."

"Your power?" asked Jaune.

"Yes. During the time when the Dragon Clan was still alive, there were a select few people with my blessings. They were able to strike fear into the Grimm, similar to how the Grimm do not try to provoke a dragon. They were the people with silver eyes. If used to it's fullest potential, then it can strike down Grimm with a mere glance. This power was a way to combat Grimms. Although the stronger and older the Grimm, the harder it is to kill it."

"Making a mark?" smirked Othim, "And you call me shameless."

"Still, we should check it out," said Lung Wang, "We should still have time before it's time to apply to becoming a Huntsmen. Have you decided on which school?"

"Almost. I'm not going to Shade for obvious reasons. I read up on Atlas, and didn't like how the military plays a hand into its academy. Most likely they would forcibly enlist me if they found about you guys. The only two are Haven Academy and Beacon Academy, at Mistral and Vale. I think Beacon might be the best. It's said be a beacon of light for all to gather. That, and I'm still a little angry about the rich district incident," explained Jaune.

"Then we should head to Beacon after this side trip. Give your recommendation letters to the headmaster of the place, and see if he'll allow you in with a test," said Ryo-Wo.

"You should have nothing to worry about," soothed Aryz, "You were able to impress two combat school teachers into giving you those recommendations."

"Not only that, but your skills have improved vastly," said Alaerth.

Jaune smiled as his dragons complimented him on his growth. Lung Wang reluctantly complimented him, but also told him he could still improve himself.

Soon, they saw an island in the distance north of him. Jaune was prepared to fly, but Ryo-Wo told Jaune to link up with him and swim to the island. This was a perfect chance to get used to his power and swimming. Jaune complained about how it would be cold, as winter was setting it, but Lung Wang told Jaune to just man up and do it. Sighing in defeat, he put his weapons into the his bag before making sure it was tied up. The dragonskin bag would prevent water from coming, in, but only if the top was tied.

Jaune swam all the way to the island, actually enjoying himself. Due to Ryo-Wo, he didn't feel cold in the water at all. After an hour of swimming, he finally arrived at the island. Getting on shore, he quickly switched to Ryo-Wo and used some fire to warm himself up and evaporate the water on his skin and clothes. It was snowing on the island, but Jaune didn't feel cold thanks to his dragons

"Gotta love being able to do that," said Jaune as he whistled a song, walking to what seemed to be the what seemed to be the source of the Aura of the person with silver eyes.

Ruby Rose was a young teenager with black hair with a tint of red in it wearing a red cloak with a gothic dress with red frills. She had just turned 15 and was looking over a grave. More specifically, her mother's grave. She always made sure she had time to visit the grave. Ruby Rose sighed as she tried to picture her mother. She had been too young to remember and understand that Summer Rose was dead. Sure, she had her half-sister Yang Xiao Long tell her all about how awesome she was, but it still ached in her heart.

Ruby turned around to go home. Her father and sister would be worried if she stayed out too long. Even if she could take care of herself. She was a growing girl! After all, she drank milk!

As she cleared through the forest and into the open plains, she saw Beowolves gathering. Smirking, she prepared herself. As three Beowolves charged at her, she jumped into the air. Spinning gracefully, she took out her weapon in it's collapsed form, making it extend a bit at the pole, and shot a Beowolf in the head. When she landed on the ground two more charged at her.

Leaping over one she put a bullet in the back of its skull and used the recoil to increase the distance of her jump. The next shot tore most of a Beowolf's chest from its body. Once she was back on the ground she fired point-blank into the next Beowolf to attack her and rolled back with the recoil and activated her weapon's shift into scythe mode.

One Beowolf was braver, or was dumber, then the rest and charged head on. Ruby pinned it to the ground with a downward strike. It leaned forward to bite at her only for her to fire once more and cleave the creature in two. With that the rest of the pack charged as Ruby planted the scythe's blade in the ground. The Grimm were soon meet with a volley of gunfire that mowed down their numbers.

The fastest Beowolf reached Ruby and swung at her only for her to jump over its claws and shoot it point-blank in the face, actually helping it in the looks department. As she was shot back from the recoil Ruby pushed the blade into the ground again and slowed herself to a stop, landing in a crouch on the handle of her weapon.

More Beowolves came running from the woods, Ruby ducked under the first assault, spinning on her side and pressing her feet against the underside of the hook on the back of her scythe. With a pull of the trigger another Grimm bit the dust and she was sent flying back in a spiral, hitting the Beowolf that had just failed in attacking her moments earlier. Swinging her blade around she cut into the chest of one Beowolf before spinning it around her head in a deadly circle that cut both the Beowolf in front of her and the one that she had previously knocked down into pieces.

Using the momentum of her attack Ruby caught another Beowolf on the neck before pulling the trigger to shoot another bullet with the recoil decapitating the Grimm caught in the scythe's deadly bite. Dancing around another assault Ruby dug her scythe into her next opponent and fired, bisecting the first Grimm and shooting the one coming from behind her victim.

Using an incredible display of acrobatics Ruby dodged her next two attackers before rushing at the first once more and dismembering it. The force of the last attack being used to propel her into the air and onto the back of the next casualty. Another shot saw one more Beowolf a head shorter and Ruby flying into the air. Beowolves leapt after her only to be caught in a game of leapfrog with Ruby bouncing off their corpses after she killed them to reach her next target. A swing from one Beowolf came at her and she blocked with her scythe but was sent sliding back in the snow.

Taking note of how more reinforcements had arrived Ruby replaced her bullets for those with more power and shot herself forth activating her semblance. Rose petals flew through the air as she began a dance of death. Each twirl claiming at least one victim, body parts soon joined the bullet casings and petals flying through the air.

Ruby smiled as she finished off the last of the Beowolves, with the sky raining empty sniper clips into the ground. She quickly collapsed her scythe before walking towards home again. Suddenly, one of the Beowolves that had been hiding burst out to take a bite out of Ruby. Ruby was prepared to dodge when she heard a sniper rifle go off, killing the Beowolf. She turned to see a teenager walking forward towards her, with the only visible weapons being the sword in his waist and the shield on his back.

'Where did the sniper come from?' thought Ruby, 'Is his sword able to transform into a sniper rifle? I WANNA SEE IT!'

Jaune got closer to Ruby to see that the girl did indeed have silver eyes.

"This girl does posses the blessings," mused Andusk, "However, it seems as thought she has not awakened it. Cause could be that there is nobody that can teach her and that she doesn't know about the legend herself."

"Hi. I'm Jaune Ryu-Long, a traveler. I saw you take out the group of Beowolves, and was impressed. I knew you could probably take out that last one, but I decided to help anyways. Didn't want to risk anything," said Jaune as he introduced himself.

"Ruby Rose," replied Ruby, "Can I see your weapon? I heard a sniper, but I don't see anything like one on you. Is it the sword? Or the shield? Oooh, ooh, maybe you combine them both!"

Jaune chuckled. He was going to like Ruby a lot. Her personality was something he could appreciate. "That'll be a surprise. I'm only here because I felt like it. Where am I anyways?"

"You're at Patch, west of Vale, where Signal Academy is. I go there with my sister, Yang. I just finished my second year while she's just graduated. Do you wanna meet them? My uncle might be visiting!" said Ruby. Excited about the last part she had just said, Ruby dashed towards her home, using her Semblance. Jaune looked impressed at the speed she was running, with rose petals flying about.

"She's fast," commented Jaune. Even with the speed techniques taught by the dragons, he didn't have the same speed or maneuverability as her with just his feet, though Jaune guessed it had to deal with her Semblance. Ruby suddenly stopped at shouted back, "Are you coming?"

Jaune shrugged, figuring he had nothing better to do for now and ran towards Ruby.

Taiyang and Yang were preparing a giant chocolate chip cookie birthday cake for Ruby, with strawberry frosting on it. Her birthday had been on a school day, so they didn't have time to celebrate. However, now that the weekend was here, they were planning on surprising her. It was unfortunate that Qrow was unable to come due to his work. He had been on the road tracking down the enemies who had been responsible for a few things, like a certain maiden. Just as they finished, Ruby burst through the door. She squealed as soon as she saw the cake, turning into her chibi mode jumped towards it. She was stopped in the air by Taiyang grabbing her cloak. Still, Ruby cutely struggled with flailing limbs, trying to grab the cookie.

"Not yet, Ruby. We eat dinner before desert," lectured Taiyang sternly.

Ruby pouted but obeyed when Taiyang place her on a chair.

"Oh yea! I invited someone over!" said Ruby, "Come on in Jaune!"

Jaune entered the wooden cabin and looked around. He saw Taiyang first and greeted him politely.

"Well, well, what's this? Did my baby sister find herself a boyfriend? Mmm he looks good," said another voice.

Jaune looked to the source and was shocked to see almost a clone of Raven Branwen. He jumped back, hand on his sword, ready to fight. Yang raised an eyebrow, put instantly put her fists up. Taiyang, who was very protective of her daughters, immediately stepped in front of both of them to face Jaune.

"Jaune," said Aryz, "It's not her. She looks very similar to Raven Branwen, but use your senses. She has bright-gold hair and lilac eye color. Raven had black with a red tint like Ruby with red eyes. This girl might be her daughter."

Jaune frowned, looking at Yang closely. He sighed as he relaxed, pulling his hand away from his sword.

"Apologies. her looks shocked me for a bit. She looked like the woman I met before in my travels. Some woman named Raven Branwen."

"You met my birth-mom?"

"You met my ex-wife?"

Jaune looked at Yang and Taiyang, his eyebrows raised in confusion. Based on their reaction, Raven had left this family a long time ago, possibly a few months after Yang was born.

"Raven Branwen is part of your family?" asked Jaune.

Taiyang looked uncomfortable discussing this topic in front of his children, so he grabbed Jaune's shoulder.

"Let's talk about this somewhere private. Yang, make sure Ruby isn't trying to eat her cake first."

Ruby stopped, looking guilty as she had been slowly walking towards the cake. Yang quickly puller her back as Taiyang brought Jaune to his private studies. Yang frowned at this. She wanted to know more about her mother! Taiyang and Qrow refused to talk more about her, and she let that go. Now, the perfect opportunity to learn more about her mom was here, and she wasn't going to let it escape. Gagging Ruby so she wouldn't make a sound, she brought her with her to eavesdrop on them. She was technically following orders, making sure Ruby wouldn't eat the cake. Slowly, she put a glass cup to the door.

"So, you met my ex-wife?" asked Taiyang as he poured a cup of water for himself and Jaune.

"Yea, and not in the most pleasant way," replied Jaune.

"How so?" asked Tiayang.

Jaune was about to reply when he stopped. Slowly he walked to the door silently before opening, forcing Yang to stumble in with his tied up sister.

"Ummmm hi?" said Yang, blushing that she had been caught so easily. Ruby came tumbling down next to her, all tied up.

"Yang!" scolded Taiyang.

"What? I did what you told me to. Plus, I wanna hear about my birth mom. You always avoided this topic, and now you're going to talk about her with him?" Yang asked, pointing a finger at Jaune.

"You're not ready to know everything about her yet," replied Taiyang.

"When will I be!?" shouted Yang, "When will you finally tell me about her! I've already graduated from Signal, and will be going to Beacon soon enough! I want to know why she left us!" At this, her eyes turned red, and her hair started to light up like flames.

Taiyang remained silent for a bit. Finally, he made a decision.

"We'll talk more after dinner. After Ruby is asleep."

"But I wanna hear this too!" shouted Ruby. Or what would've been what she shouted. Unfortunately, she was still gagged, so all they heard was a bunch of muffled noises.

Soon, dinner was under way, and they ate the cookie desert. Ruby had most of it, and fell asleep as soon as she was done, forgetting about the conversation Yang, Taiyang, and Jaune were about to have at the kitchen.

"So, about Raven. How did you meet her, and why wasn't it good?" asked Taiyang once more as once again poured water into cups for all of them.

"Yea, She tried to force me into her clan of bandits," replied Jaune. Taiyang almost dropped the glass at that point.

"Bandits?" asked Yang in shock, "Mom's a bandit? And she's the leader of them?"

"Yea," answered Taiyang, "She and Qrow grew up in a bandit clan when they were young. When they joined the Academy, they were part of team STRQ. I fell in love with her wild ways, and I thought she loved me in turn. When we graduated, she was already pregnant with you. However, when you were born, she tried to convince me to join her clan. After I refused, she left us. Qrow was furious, as the reason why he became a Huntsman was to not follow the path of the bandits. Raven felt she would be betraying her real 'family' and went back to lead them. She never looked back at me or you, Yang. I didn't want to tell you this, as I was heartbroken when I learned that she merely wanted my strength. I look to Summer more as my wife than your mom."

Yang sniffed her nose, "I look to Summer as my mom, too. I just wanted to know why my birth-mom left us."

"That's why I didn't want to tell you. I thought you would be ashamed that Raven was leader of a well-known bandit clan," explained Taiyang as he leaned back onto the counter-top.

"I almost led Ruby to her death for some sort of false hope," whispered Yang, reeling from the news, "Even if the location I went to had Raven, she wouldn't had cared for us at all." She felt extremely guilty about the time she took Ruby just to find her birth-mom. They had almost been killed by Beowolves if it wasn't for Qrow.

"Hey, it's okay. Remember, we all forgave you," said Taiyang as he hugged her.

Jaune remained silent as he continued to sip on his water.

"So, how'd you escape?" asked Taiyang, remembering about Jaune.

"She tried to corner me in Vacuo with some of my friends. Luckily, Qrow intervened and told her to leave, as other people were coming," replied Jaune, "She likes me because apparently I 'laid' my hands on her where few men has. A weird way to say I'm one of the few who punched her."

Taiyang, who had been drinking some water, did a spit take on that.

"You managed to punch her? She was known as one of the strongest Huntresses to graduate Beacon. The untouchable Huntress. The only people who could actually fight her and land a hit, I can count with my two hands and have leftovers."

"She really was that strong?" asked Yang.

"I caught her by surprise," replied Jaune, "After that, she started kicking my butt until Qrow came."

"Mmm, I haven't seen Qrow for a while now," said Taiyang, rubbing his chin, "He's busy with his missions usually now. He only takes some time to teach Ruby how to use her weapon every now and then."

"Wait, that means you've also met uncle Qrow?" asked Yang. Jaune nodded.

"Well, big boy, you're definitely on my approved list," said Yang seductively as she approached her, slightly bending down to let him catch a glimpse of her... sizable assets. Jaune quickly looked the other way.

"What's wrong? Cat got your tongue? Or in this case, Yang got your tongue?" laughed Yang.

"Yang, that's enough. Stop embarrassing him," said Taiyang. Yang pouted and retreated.

"I think it's time we all went to bed. Jaune, I have a guest room you can use for the night," announced Taiyang. Jaune agreed, and soon, the wooden cabin was full of sleeping people.

All right! Hope you've enjoyed this chapter. Beacon is coming next!

There's a reason I put February as start of the school year. In my opinion, I think they were trying to follow the Japanese school system, where they start at March. I just chose February so they have a longer training time. I think in the RWBY cannon in theory, it goes late Feb-mid June 1st semester, 2 week break, early July-early December 2nd semester. Vytal Festival takes place around early November. It's shown in canon that its clearly Autumn in volume 3 when the Festival starts. As for the two week break, in vol 2 ep 1, Ruby does mention a two week break that they had.

Thank to Jauneforever, my beta reader, for doing an amazing job writing out the Ruby fight scene. Originally, all I had was insert Ruby trailer. It starts right after the milk sentence and ends at the line break.