(Blake, Ruby, Weiss, and Pyrrha)
"You think he's still there?" Ruby asked as she poked Sun's head as he stared blankly at nothing wide-eyed. After they explained what happened he shut down. He may have seen a lot of crazy things, and caused a lot of those things, he has never heard of someone being turned into a kid because of a dust incident. So now Sun's brain shut down so to protect itself just like when he first fell into the sewage.
Pyrrha just stood there almost asleep due to using too much aura while Weiss just stood there waiting for Ruby to stop poking him. As she waited she held her shopping bag by her side never putting it down. She didn't even let Ruby see what it was when she bought it back at the store. She looked over at Blake who was tying her bow back over her ears. She hoped Blake didn't get curious about what was inside because she could probably sneak a look at what was inside while she wasn't looking.
She looked down at the bag, she doesn't know what came over her when she saw it. The second she saw it back at the shop she had to buy it, but the worst thing about it was that it was for Jaune. She continued asking herself why and why over and over again of why she bought it, and all she could do now was wait and hope none of them see it.
"Hey Wiess, what's in the bag?"
(Arc women)
"We have arrived in Vale. Thank you for,"
Before the stewardess could finish speaking seven yellow blurs rushed out the doors before anyone else. Every other passenger stayed in their seats as a single woman sat up and calmly walked out carrying a bag and purse, while outside seven horrible sounds were heard at once as each blond woman was emptying the last of their stomach contents, either in a trash can or on the ground as they leaned on a lamppost.
June calmly walked past each of them heading towards the city.
"Hurry along girls." She simply said walking as they all responded.
"BLUUUHHHH!"
(Penny)
Penny sat atop the crane on the arm, hours after slipping her two guards again. She just walked around all day, hearing a woman scream at one moment of the day from the ocean. All that time she simply carried the small child as she also the whole time, she must have been very sleepy as she remained sleeping each time she ran or jumped high onto a building so she could get away. But the whole day as she walked around with the child she still couldn't understand what she was feeling, no matter how many times she did a system check or research her data and internet, she couldn't find out what it was. So she simply sat down at the pier on the arm of the crane after a long day and watched as the sun slowly set. It was one of her favorite things to see when she was out, before being taken back.
Suddenly she felt the child move in her arms, she looked down to see them waking up as she watched them open their eyes showing the deep blue color. They slowly sat up in her lap yawning rubbing the sleep out of his eyes, he then looked up at Penny and tilted his head.
"Hello small child, did you sleep well?"
He nodded at her before looking to see where they were, high up on the crane over the sea. But he wasn't scared, in fact, he was looking at the sunset in wonder and awe seeing the color in the water and clouds as it sat on the horizon. His hands holding onto her as he looked, the whole time Penny was watching him as the feeling grew more.
Meanwhile, as Penny was sitting at on the crane the two soldiers were in an ally arguing with each other that escalated into a fight. The one in red was punching the one in blue as he held him in a headlock.
"Stupid! Retarded! Fucking! Moron!" He yelled each time he punched him in the head, while his responses were.
"Ow! Fuck! Stop! Let me go! Ow!" He kept trying to get out of the hold each time as he was hit in his helmet, how it hurt...who knows. But he kept trying to get out of the hold none the less.
"I tell you to fucking watch her, while I take a leak, and you fuck it up!" He yelled punching him over and over until he managed to slip out holding his head, the hits on his helmet leaving a ringing sound as he tried to calm. But he was quickly tackled into a pile of trash and was then punched over and over again.
But as they did they didn't see the blond girl standing outside the ally on the sidewalk recording the two fighting.
"Joan, hurry up!"
She sighed stopping the recording and ran off leaving the two idiots to continue fighting in the trash. She wondered how many people would laugh at seeing two Atlas soldiers beating the crap out of each other.
(Nora and Ren)
"Renny why'd you just stop!" Nora cried out as she had woken up to see that she was sleeping in a chair at a cafe while Ren was drinking that disgusting drink. Ren simply sat there enjoying his third glass after sitting there for hours enjoying the peace and quiet as she was asleep. He rarely got this kind of time to himself, Nora may be up all night now, but that was a later problem.
"Ren! Stop ignoring me!" She cried out slumping down on the table. Until a glass was placed down in front of her. She looked up to see a glass of purple fizzing liquid. She looked up at the water.
"What's this?"
"Grape soda."
Before he could finish his sentence, or even start it. The second he said grape the glass was empty as the ice clinked at the bottom of the glass. He looked back at Nora as she smiled burping, luckily it was caffeine free. So he grabbed the glass and walked away slowly from the girl. As Nora scared the waiter Ren was checking his scroll to see if any of them had seen Jaune, but nothing came up. Maybe he should just go looking himself and have a better chance at finding him.
(Yang)
She had been stomping around Vale after dropping Neptune off the crane. She was close to snapping again as she looked around, her eyes red as flames licked off her hair. Anyone on the sidewalk quickly moved seeing her as she walked, not wanting to be burned or beaten by her as she walked down the street looking for Jaune. But she mostly she needed to blow off a lot of steam, she needed to hit something anything. Maybe she should go blow off some steam at the pier, Neptune better be there when she arrives.
(Arc women)
"Mom where are we even going?" Ellen asked as she dragged her feet walking like her sister. It was now dark as they walked around Vale. They had split up to search, but June was more on looking now that her mother-in-law was coming. How or why she was coming only oum knows.
"Will you stop complaining. You're huntress for oum sake." She said as she was walking with the two. They'd just been walking around looking trying to find Jaune. But it was dark now so they'd have to go and find someplace, or June can go and threaten Ozpin. Suddenly Ellen spoke up.
"Hey, look who it is."
(Glynda)
Glynda walked the streets, almost staggering, as she searched for Jaune. She held her heels in her hand as they were becoming too much for her feet after an entire day of wearing them and running around. Especially the running, she may be used to wearing them but she rarely runs in them. But she didn't focus on that.
She was more worried about where Jaune was. She was worried now that he was all alone in Vale as the sun had set an hour ago, and she knew how this city could get late at night, especially with the large criminal activity lately.
"I'm a terrible person." She sulked at losing the one person she's watched for a long time. If she hadn't taken her eyes off of him she would be out here searching for him.
"How could I have been so careless." She said as she felt a hand on her shoulder. She stopped walking but didn't react as she remembered that grip. She knew exactly who that hand and grip belonged to.
"Glynda! It's been so long."
(Penny and Jaune)
Penny walked down the street after jumping down from the crane that only made Jaune laugh. She had decided that it was time to take him and find his family or guardian, she knew that she would be taken back once they found her so she needed to find them fast. But where could she look first?
She the first android that could generate a soul and had access to the entire internet in her head honestly had no clue what to do in this situation. So he just walked around and would ask him questions to try and help her find them, while still mistaking him for a girl.
"Do you know their names?" She asked him seeing he had stopped playing with the hair clip in his hair. He looked up at her thinking of an answer for her, but he couldn't think of anything. He was struggling for some reason.
Penny just kept walking letting him think knowing that, after some research, young children struggled remembering names but knew faces very well. So if she could find someone he remembered then this would be much easier for her in her search for his family or guardian. So all she would have to do is walk around until she found someone. Which shouldn't be too hard since Vale was usually empty at night?
But, she stopped as she saw someone far down the street. She smiled before running towards the person.
(Ruby, Wiess, Blake, and Pyrrha)
"You guys think it was a good idea to leave Sun there?" Ruby asked as she walked around trying to take her mind off of Jaune for a moment and try and bring up how they let Sun go but all he did was curled up and hug his knees as he mumbled nothing but nonsense. So they just left him there lying in the ally and left, but she felt like they should have brought him along, but the others were too tired to care while saying that he was a big boy who could handle himself as a hunter in training. She agreed also very tired so the feeling didn't last long.
Weiss walked with her bag clung tightly to her after the little event in the ally when Blake asked what was in the bag, so she made something up say it was makeup and perfume. She bought it but Weiss felt like Blake didn't believe her, so she just kept the bag clung close to her so no one could see what was inside. When the found Jaune and went back to Beacon she was hiding this thing very far from their room.
Blake herself was tired enough as it was after running around more than she's ever had to. Even more than that time they had to fight that giant robot or even during initiation when the Nevermore and Deathstalker attacked them. Again, even if they were hunters in training that didn't mean they could keep going like a machine. They did need some rest and food. The hunger hitting her, and her team, since they instantly started their search for Jaune so she was starving.
'Mmm, tuna.' Blake thought as some drool came out of her mouth.
Pyrrha was...she was somewhere between asleep and awake. Turns out after blowing all your aura and running around can even drain the four-time champion who was having to be pulled out of her path by one of them or else she would walk into a pole.
"Ruby!" A voice called out to her making her stop, while everyone else kept walking. She looked back to see Penny running towards her holding something, so she stood there waiting until she got close. But she stared at the kid in Penny's arms.
'Where she get a kid?' She thought as Penny smiled at her.
"Salutations!"
"Hi, Penny um, who's that?" She asked her pointing at the kid who was looking at her holding up the flower clip. She looked at it pointing as if asking if she was supposed to take it. The kid just shook it at her. She smiled holding out her hand letting the kid place it down.
"Aw. aren't you a sweet girl." She said putting the kid who just smiled before watching a bird fly by. While he was distracted Ruby looked back at Penny.
"So Penny, uh, where'd you get the kid?"
"I found the small child at the park." She told her while petting the child. Penny's words slowly processed inside the tired reaper's mind.
The gears in her head slowly turning due to her fatigue until it finally clicked.
"Wait you kidnapped her!?" She yelled at Penny who was still petting the child.
"PENNY!"
"Yes?" She said looking up oblivious to what was happening as she continued to pet the child in her arm. She saw Ruby have a tired expression as she looked at her jaw dropped.
"Penny! You took her from the park!"
"Yes, I did."
"WHAT ABOUT HIS PARENTS!?"
"I am searching for them." She stated as Ruby pulled her hood over her head frustrated with this girl. She was about ready to call it quits until she felt something tug on her hood. She looked down to see the little girl pulling on the fabric, she took a breath putting her hood back and bending down.
"Sorry there. What is it?" She asked the kid who reached up taking the hair band off and messing up their hair. Once the hair was all messy they looked up at her while she was wide-eyed.
"Hey, what happened to Ruby?" Weiss asked making Blake and Pyrrha stop and look back after walking for a good 10 minutes since they heard some girl yelling.
"I think someone,"
"JAUNE!"
"..."
"..."
"Well, I think we found her," Blake said as they looked to see Pyrrha was gone. They then looked back to see her around a corner two blocks down,
"Who knew she was that fast."
"Wait, what did Ruby yell?" Weiss asked Blake who's bow twitched.
"Oh, she said Jaune." She said until it finally clicked in their heads and they ran back following the same path Pyrrha took and hopefully they'd find the same path she was taking and more importantly find Jaune
(2 hours later at the airships)
The bullheads were empty as the last round of ships were picking people up and dropping them off before the next ship wouldn't show up for hours. People were standing around waiting as they saw a blond girl walking towards the last ship to Beacon. None said anything as they saw what were weapons around her wrists as smoke slowly came out of what they probably thought was the barrels of her weapon.
"Yang!" A voice called out to her. She looked over at the voice to see her baby sister waving at her. She walked over until she saw Pyrrha walk into her view and show a small girl with her, wait, no she knew that dress.
She said nothing walking over before standing by Ruby and falling to her knees then face first on the floor.
They all watched her as she seemed to smoke as her hair tried to glow but nothing as only smoke came off her hair due to her wasting every single ounce of aura during one of her rage fits. They just dragged her over to their small group where they had found Ren who was carrying a sleeping Nora who was making the strange sounds of some animal.
Turns out Ren just waited here after leaving a cafe. They all were too tired to be mad so they decided to wait till tomorrow to be mad at him, or not. It all depends on how they feel really.
As they waited Pyrrha had Jaune in her arms hugging him tightly as she had the biggest smile on her face. It was like all the fatigue had left her body the second she touched Jaune, which was strange due to her wasting all her aura multiple times today. But again, they were all too tired.
(Glynda)
Glynda really didn't know what to do in her situation as she walked back to the airships with all the Arc women following her. Turns out they had all taken an airship, she knew that probably didn't end up well, to Vale after seeing the picture of Jaune. They knew he had only been gone for a few months so they knew wasn't his baby so it was Jaune or some kid that looked like him she tried to say but they didn't buy it. So now she was taking them to Beacon to prove that he was fine. But she just had one problem.
She didn't have him, and if they knew that he was lost in Vale then they would tear apart the whole city looking for him. So now she had to think of something before they got to Beacon and had to deal with them.
'I'm a terrible auntie,'She thought as she saw Athena stop and stare at something. She looked where Athena was looking to see Pyrrha holding the young Jaune in her arms happily. When she saw that she felt 7 cold auras around her as June walked over with a not so friendly aura around her. She looked calm but it was the one face that many feared when she got like this.
'It's just not my day.' Glynda thought as she felt her headache coming back.
AN: Hello readers. Here is the chapter of Little Arc. I'm sorry for not touching the story for a few months due to school work that hit me hard when I started again. Then some issues that have happened in my household. I know this chapter isn't good due to me being a bit rusty from the time away from this for so long and struggling with writer's block. But don't worry I won't abandon this story, but updates will be whenever I have time to write. I would also like to thank RPGPersona for the wonderful review I see from them each and every chapter, but also thank you all for being here to read my story that I have created. I may not be talented like Monty himself or Miles and Karry but I'm just glad that all of you are enjoying this cute little story.
Also, I know that I'm a little late, but I would like to dedicate this small extra to the Dear Monty Oum who was tragically taken from his friends and family. He was a creative and hard-working man who didn't deserve to be taken from them so soon. So I hope that you enjoy this extra that I wrote into the story for a man that shouldn't have had his life taken, but may he be happy where he is now. And Im sorry if its no good I just felt like I had to do something in memory of him.
June walked through the cemetery as she held both Jaune and Joan by their hands. Both of them holding flowers that they were going to place on her parents grave. She thought it was good for them to visit their grandparents, even if they were never going to meet them in person. She really wished that they could have met her kids.
But this was still good though. This way they can both see them instead of never knowing who they were.
She looked down to see them looking around seeing all the graves and headstones not really sure of what they were. She hoped they weren't scared by them so she'd have to tell them what they were when she showed them their grandparents. She continued walking them through the cemetery until she stood at the two headstones side by side on the ground. She took a flower from both Jaune's and Joan's placing one on each of them before standing back.
"Go on." She said as they looked back at her confused. But she smiled and leaned down at them.
"Go and place them on the stone and say hello."
"How come?" Jaune asked her as Joan did as she had said, but she smiled at him.
"Because those are both your Gramma and Grandpa."
He looked at her confused as she continued to explain it to both him and Joan.
"Listen, sweetie, both of them got very tired and was placed here to rest."
"Will they ever wake up?" He asked her as Joan was looking at the picture and writing on the headstones.
"No, they won't."
"So...they're gone?" He asked her in a sad voice as she hugged him.
"No sweetie, they are never actually gone. Because they will always be here in your heart and in your memories. Even if you never met them know that they are always watching over you even if you can't see them." She said as he looked over at the graves sad. She knew it would be hard for him to understand but he will in time. She watched as he walked over and placed his hand on the stone and began to speak to them. She smiled seeing that he was handling it quite well.
Joan walked over asking the same question as Jaune so she began to explain it to her, but once she finished she saw Jaune was gone.
"Oh, no." She looked around worried about him getting lost in such a large place, but she quickly found him looking at a grave covered in grass and weeds. She walked over holding Joan to see him pulling the grass away from the grave.
"Sweetie, what are you doing?" She asked watching him move the grass until he had finally move it and saw the name.
"Mom, how come this one looks like this?" He asked her in a sad tone seeing the grave was like a few around it. She saw the condition of it and the others around it. She felt bad for these people who aren't visited or are forgotten. She looked back to see Jaune continuing to remove the grass and weeds around it until it was able to be seen again. He then ran back over to her parent's graves and grabbed two single red roses from both his and Joans. He then ran back placing them on the grave before wiping the rest of the dirt from the stone to show their name.
"She stood next to him and placed her hand on his head smiling as he smiled up at her.
"That was very kind of you Jaune." She said as Joan looked at the grave reading the name. She looked to see that it was getting late so she called for them to come with her. As she looked back at Jaune she saw he was looking at the grave but was looking above it like someone was standing there, but she didn't see anyone.
"Come on Jaune."
He looked back at her before saying something at the grave and running over to her.
"Sorry, mom."
"It's okay sweetie. But do you understand what I said?"
"Yeah, For it is in passing that we achieve immortality. From one journey to another towards your next great adventure. Remember, don't stop. Keep moving forward." He said as she smiled rubbing his head. She was surprised that he was able to say that whole thing on his own, but she was happy he understood.
"Yes, that's what it is Jaune. Let's get going." She said as Jaune looked back at the grave to see a man standing behind it waving his hand at him as white wings were spread behind his back. Jaune smiled looking back waving as the man disappeared as Jaune remembered his name and what he had told him.
'Monty oum. 1981 - 2015'
