Gonna be honest rushed it so that I can take the story back to the present. Kinda like how shows skip over scenes that you never see so yea the next ch wont be so short.
(Kali and Ghira)
The two faunus just stood in complete shock as they looked at a blonde human babysitting in their cart while their daughter Blake just stared at him while she chewed on her favorite fish toy. They could tell he was human from his scent which was human, but mixed with a fresh scent like the forest. They also could have sworn that they smelled Grimm but there were none around them and he had no signs of harm.
"Where did he come from?" Kali asked as she watched him chew in his hand while Blake continued staring at him. Ghira was just as confused as he scratched his head looking at the infant boy. Especially here of all places since not many humans come to this place a lot. Kali got a bit closer as she began checking for a familiar scent through the others to see if she could find his family. She could smell so many on his that she couldn't get one.
"I can't tell where the poor things parents are." She said before a thought popped into her head. She turned towards Ghira speaking up.
"You don't think he was abandoned, do you?" She watched as her husband placed a hand on his chin thinking about the possibility of that happening. But he had other ideas since their scent would still be pretty strong.
"I wouldn't count it as a possibility, but he shows no signs of harm or time alone. He must have wandered off from his family." He said while watching his daughter start crawling over towards the boy before sitting back down and placing her hand on his head feeling his hair. She rubbed and patted his head while he continued chewing on her toy.
*Squeak*
*Squeak*
"Poor thing, how could he have wandered off?" Kali asked while the squeaking continued their conversation.
*Squeak*
"Well, what should we do with him?" Blake had stopped touching his hair as the boy began patting her hair like she did making her make purring sounds. It was an oddly cute scene as the two infants seemed to be playing and getting acquainted with each other. Ghira scratched his head while Kali watched them both interacting.
"Well, we could watch over him until his parents come looking. It wouldn't be too hard to hear about human parents looking for their missing child." It wouldn't take long to hear about such a thing especially since he was chieftain of Menagerie. He looked back at the cart with his wife watching the two infants just interact with each other while they stood on the side of the path allowing people to cross. Soon they began to continue their walk with the cart that held the supplies that they needed to repair one of their doors that Ghira accidentally broke down, he claimed that it was an accident and that the doors just broke down so easily. Kali knew it was that he wasn't used to the sliding doors that you push to the side, he would push the door open breaking it like he did with the one in his study that had a hole in it and was snapped in half.
"Well let's keep going," Kali said while placing a hand on her husband's shoulder smiling at him. "You still need to fix the two broken doors, dear." She smiled as he sighed and continued pulling the cart while she now sat on it with the kids watching them and making sure that they did not get into trouble or hurt with the stuff on the cart.
(Arc Family)
"So that's what's going on," Jonathan said as he laughed feeling better now all warmed up while the others were eating their food. June explained why his, only, grandson was not here with them. She made something up on the spot about how her own mother wanted to see Jaune very badly and had to let them care for him until they went back. Luckily he was an understanding man and brought her story as he stated that he understood how they must have felt since he loved seeing his grandbabies - what he liked to call them.
"Yea sorry pops. They really wanted to see him, but hey we can take him on our fishing trips!" He said patting his father on the shoulder before there was a sudden gong sound that made everyone around the Arc family stop doing what they were doing and look back to see as June had smashed a serving tray against the back of his head. He was face down against the table as she handed it back to the scared waitress who took a few steps back before rushing off into the kitchen. All of the girls were still eating unaffected by what their mother just did while their grandfather just shook his head at his son's misfortune.
"You are not taking my son on one of your 'fishing trips' up in Mantle." She knew that those two would go off and watch the tournaments there that ended up getting slightly out of hand. Her son could get hurt if he went.
"Yes...dear…" John said as his face was smashed against the table as he didn't want to get up in fear that she would hit him again.
"Let me see my granddaughter June," Jonathan asked as she handed Joan over to him over the still hurting father who swore that he could hear ringing in his ears. He hoped that his son can find a nice normal girl that wasn't a hunter or like every other woman who can kick a man's ass three times her size.
(Port and Ozpin)
"I am telling you it is not that hard to find a small human infant here," Port stated while sitting inside of a barrel along with Ozpin who was in hiding behind it as humans were not as welcomed here as faunus. Many were fine but then there were the few who hated humans. The last thing they needed was being called faunus hating humans for protecting or fighting. So now they were both reduced to hiding making sure none of them found them or saw.
"Well, it would be easier if we did not have to hide from the general populace," Ozpin said as he looked around for a small 12 ball of drool and ball of hair. This made his point of never having kids even better as they cause too much trouble, he didn't have the time and patience for that kind of a headache. While he was doing that Port was scratching his leg as he could feel something poking him over and over again. But then he heard the sound of death and disease itself. His breath was frozen while he dared not look down at the creature worse than the creatures of Grimm.
He began to feel the demon begin to crawl up his pants using its disgusting hands to grip the fabric while that unnatural tail swished around until he saw the red eyes look back at him from his knee.
*Squeak*
(Glynda)
It was almost midnight as Glynda sat down on a tree stump holding her head, how could she have lost Jaune" Granted it was Port and Ozpin's fault, but she couldn't excuse herself for such a thing. He was a small baby boy all alone somewhere in the forest where there were still a few Grimm roaming around. Anyone of them that came across him could attack.
The thought of such a thing happening was making her heart rate skyrocket along with her already high stress from the day. She didn't know where to look or even what to do next. She only really had a few options that she could do, one of which that she didn't like.
Yes, go and call your friend and tell them that their one-year-old baby was somewhere lost and alone on the island of Patch and could be attacked by Grimm. Yea that wasn't going to work. Maybe she should call Port and Ozpin to see if they found him or even have anything about where he could be.
She pulled out her scroll and press the image of Port in her work contacts and waited as the scroll rang. As she waited she began thinking maybe Port found him and is currently torturing the poor infant with stories and tales about his grand 'Adventures' all across Remnant with a beast that he called Edgar. What was Edgar?
'Hello!' The scroll blared as the picture of Port sat on her screen. She was about to talk but then he continued talking.
'Sorry for not answering your call - but rest assure that when I am done doing whatever it is that is keeping me from taking your call I shall call you back post haste!' The voicemail ended with a beep that she quickly hung up on. Why was she not surprised that an idiot like him would ever make such a voice mail. Maybe Ozpin - in some universe - found Jaune, but she held very little hope for him being of any help.
She went to her contacts and called him waiting.
'...'
'...'
'...'
*Beep*
Glynda placed her scroll down into her pocket before she instantly used her semblance to rip a tree out of the ground and fling it into another knocking it over. She put her hands down and placed her riding crop down in her lap as she looked off into the forest calming herself down while a killing intent surrounded her as she began planning to file the request to be placed in Beacon so to ensure that he did not screw anything up with his antics. But first, she needed to calm down and figure something out and find Jaune soon.
(Kali)
Aw, he was such an adorable baby boy! Who could lose such a sweetheart like him? She watched as both her daughter and the baby boy were playing. When she and Ghira had brought both of them home they had been nothing but adorable. Blake had seemed to take a liking to him getting along with him, she had even given him her favorite toy which was the tuna that she would play with and chew on.
Blake had been the happiest and most energetic she's ever seen making sounds and crawling around. Even her ears wiggled more which didn't happen unless she was really happy or excited.
"You two are just so precious!" Kali said as she laid down on the ground and watched them while she could hear Ghira upstairs fixing the door grumbling and getting frustrated with how long it was taking him. That man had no patience when it came to such things. She laughed a bit knowing how stubborn that man was and would not let her help him fix the doors. But that's one reason why she loved him, he never did give up anything no matter how frustrating it was. Suddenly she smelled the scent of coffee that made her cover her nose.
"Wow, that's strong smell." She kept her nose closed as there was knocking coming from the front door. She was confused about who that could be around this time? Usually, they don't show up until later to speak with her husband about whatever it was they needed to talk about.
She got up from the floor and picked up Blake who was crawling towards her toys and continued trying to crawl in the air as her arms and legs were moving around while she then picked up the blonde baby who was chewing on a toy platypus. He must have been teething badly. Once she had them she walked towards the door as the knocking continued.
'I'm coming, I'm coming. Geez never heard of patients?' She thought as she stopped at the front door and moved both of the infants into one arm so that she could open the door. Once her arm was free she unlocked it and began pulling it open to see a large man with a very thick mustache with his hands behind his back while there was another man who was leaning on his cane with his clothes torn up and burned as he also had stains of who knows what. Now that she looked both men were in a similar state as she raised a brow at them.
"Um, may I help you?" Kali asked the large man who moved his arm up and coughed into it clearing his throat.
"Yes, please forgive our intrusion. I am Peter Port and this gentleman here is Ozpin." He motioned towards the other man who began slowly tipping back and fell onto the ground as his cane clattered on the ground. He laid still while the man named Port continued speaking to her.
"We both were entrusted with the safety and wellbeing of that infant there in your arm." He pointed at the blond boy.
"I know you are wondering how all this may have happened but allow me to say that it was a long and time-consuming matter that caused us much trouble and pain." He said as Kali saw no deception within his voice as she opened the door.
"Please, come in."
"Please," He said walking in as they left Ozpin outside as she closed the door.
(Inside)
Kali sat the babies back on the floor to play as she went to go make tea and inform Ghira about their guest. As she did Port took a deep breath and looked down at Jaune.
"You, my young lad are the most slippery and cunning thing that I have ever had to track down and hunt in my entire career." Jaune looked up at him still chewing on the toy while it hissed every time he squeezed it. Port put his hands on his knees as he leaned forward looking into Jaune's eyes as he continued his talk.
"You have made me hunt you down longer than any Grimm or man has ever made me before. Even criminals took me less time than it took to find you, but you are the only one to have eluded me for so long." He had his face close to Jaune before smiling and leaning back as he laughed with gusto making Jaune watch the strange funny man laugh.
"Hahaha! I have been impressed young lad, for someone who has t=yet even gained the ability to walk or even form full sentences you have tricked me and pushed me to my very limit!" He picked Jaune up placing him on his knee.
"I'm expecting great things from you if you choose to take the path of becoming a hunter." Port patted Jaune on his back making him burp as the toy made a new sound,
*Quack*
(Hours later)
"Thank you very much. I was glad that the young lad was safe within your care while we searched for him. I was also glad to help explain any confusion." Port walked out the door as he grabbed Ozpin's leg as he was still unconscious and began dragging him.
"I'm just glad that he is safe now and can go home. I just don't understand how you all ended up here from Patch."
"I wish I wish I knew too." Port laughed walking down from the house heading for the boats so he could use his old connections and favors to get a ship ride. As he walked away Jaune waved bye to Kali making her smile as she waved back holding Blake on her shoulder while she was sleeping holding onto a stuffed bee. As she closed the door she looked back to see Ghira covered in paint and glue.
"Finally fix the door dear?
(Present)
Ozpin never learned what happened after he went unconscious when he was searching for Jaune. Especially after the incident with the mouse and Port then waking up back in Patch a few days later, but he never wanted anything to do with him as an infant ever again, especially after setting fire to his pants and making him get a major beating from June. He still has some trouble feeling things below his waist.
That was most of the reason why the Headmaster of Beacon and leader of many was currently curled up into a ball and demanding that the blonde demon be taken away from him.
"He is just a small child!" Glynda yelled as he had his barrier around him staying inside of it.
"KEEP HIM AWAY!"
