"That was so cool seeing Jaune as an old man, punching those things left and right!" Ruby said ecstatic from what they saw as she did random karate poses. Her sister laughed at her movements that were nothing similar to what they had seen.

"That's not what he was doing baby sis, but it was still pretty awesome." Yang smiled as she remembered some of the moves she saw, fast and quick while the slow yet powerful ones knocked them onto their backs. Then with her semblance that would just be destructive.

"Well there isn't much point in waiting around, let us toss the dice and see where our luck takes us." Velvet grabbed the dice and looked at them as they had the weird symbols on them and glowed.

"I just throw these right?" She asked as her response was nods and 'yes/yea' coming from some of them as they were waiting. Velvet shook the dice and threw them onto the table watching them roll around, they finally stopped and she saw what looked like a skull on one, then the symbol of fire on another. The dice then disappeared as the screen began to slowly start up.

"Tell me, do you know what we are, son?" A man of forty stood in a field holding a blade and shield, two crescent moons were on the face of the shield. He wore armor that was designed to protect against some blades and arrows, one his face he had a small beard and deep blue eyes that were looking down at a small boy who looked around twelve years old.

He stood there for a second thinking until he looked up at him with a nervous look.

"W-we are Arcs." He stuttered stating who they were as the man nodded and reached down to the ground and grabbed a sword. He picked it up and tossed it to the boy who looked down at it before he picked it up and held it looking up at the man.

"And what are the Arc's?"

"W-warriors." He said stuttering a bit as the man nodded his head and held up his blade

"Come, son. Let us begin your training." He held the blade up as his son held the blade looking at his own reflection.

"Huh, well that's different." Weiss watched as they were to begin training, but for some reason, it seemed weird. Especially their clothes for some reason.

"I wanna see some awesome stuff!" Nora said starting to like some of the things that she was seeing.

"Has anyone noticed their clothing?" Blake questioned as there was one who did, Oobleck sat silently in his seat as he looked up at their clothing and the armor and could tell that it was the same from over two hundred years ago. He hoped that it wasn't what he was thinking about.

The image in the metal began to change as he became older and his hair became longer, he looked up from the blade to see a village that was bustling with people. In his hands was an old blade that looked ready to break at any moment. He dropped the blade to the side as he sat in an ally up against a building. His attire was different as it was an old blue shirt as a thick jacket was resting on him. His legs were covered by old worn blue jeans that were ripped in some places and dirtied with different substances.

"What day is it?" He asked no one looking up at the sky seeing the bright blue that was barren of any clouds. He grunted as the sun began slowly coming into view telling him it was noon. He reached back and grabbed the hood of his jacket pulling it over his head, he kept his head down keeping it out of the light as he began to slowly push himself up from the wall. His hand gripping whatever it could find while his legs were shaky, he cursed almost falling before grabbing onto a trash can and finally pushing himself up from the ground.

He coughed into his hand while looking around at all the people walking around the village, most of them, human while there were a few faunus that kept to themselves.

"Even after all this time, nothing changes." He muttered to himself as he walked over to a bag that was on the ground and picked it up, something them fell out that he looked at as it stayed there. It was a small wooden coin that had the Arc crest on it. He picked it up and looked at the back that had writing carved into it.

'Return home my, son Jaune'

Jaune chucked at the words as he put it back into his bag, he put it deep at the bottom before walking over and grabbing the old sword.

"If only I could." He started walking deeper into the ally as he held his side.

"This reminds me of when I found you Emerald." Cinder remembered that from the ally as it randomly popped into her mind.

"Yea…" Emerald had stollen Cinder's wallet when they met.

"Jaune looks...different." Ruby saw his clothes were old and dirty and the weapon was in such poor condition. It was strange that he seemed in such a state that wasn't sadness, but something else.

"He looks more like a bum on the street," Roman commented as Neo rested her hand on her chin. She thought that he seemed more like a drifter.

"I can say that the lad has seen things. Those are the eyes of a man with regrets." Port had seen that look before on many hunters, himself included at times. There was always mistakes made that cost something, but you must never be held back by those mistakes.

"What does he mean by 'all this time'?" Weiss questioned curious about his remark seeing the humans and faunus.

"He means that there is still hatred and fear among them." Blake started seeing what they were shown.

"He looks more tired than anything else," Glynda commented seeing the look in his eyes which reminded her of herself after a day of cleaning up messes and paperwork left to her by Ozpin.

"We can wait to see how this world is, and what Arc does." ozpin picked up a fresh mug of coffee.

Jaune stayed in the alleyways and empty streets staying away from heavily populated areas. He kept holding his side as he walked around trying to find somewhere he could just rest, he looked around until he found an old place that was pretty vacant. He walked over and finally collapsed to the ground as he dropped his things scattering it. He held the ground as he was on his hands and knees breathing heavily.

He gripped his jacket trying to calm himself down while the sky began to darken as clouds rolled in. He gasped and choked on his breath as a shadow began to slowly appear before him and he slowly looked up to see someone standing there looking at him. He looked up at the person and glared as he suddenly fell and caught himself as his head rested on the ground suffering in pain.

"It's been a bit hasn't it, Jaune?" The man said as he walked closer to the blonde as he stayed on the ground in pain sweating like crazy. He clenched his eyes shut trying to focus off the pain and ignore the man as he was coming closer. The man's cane tapped the ground as he walked closer until he stepped past Jaune and pushed him over with the cane making him whiter in pain lying on the ground. His hands moved and gripped the hood pulling it down tight over his face as he shook.

"B-Bastard! Ah! Ugh!" Juane yelled at him as he growled and curled up making the man smile as the shadows hid his face. His cane poked Jaune watching him suffer in pain.

"Leave Jaune alone you creep!" Nora yelled as she watched the man making her friend suffer in pain.

"Nora, there is nothing we can do. Please calm down." Ren wasn't liking this either but they could do nothing as they watched what was happening on screen.

"I agree there is nothing we can do," Weiss added in as Yang crossed her arms.

"I still don't like it." Yang hated watching her friends and family suffer, and being able to do nothing but watch made that feeling worse.

Cinder looked at the man as he stood there, his personality had shown slight sadistic characteristics maybe even more. But the way he was toying with the boy showed that he had some control over him. It made her very interested.

"Is that really the way to speak when I saved you?" he shoved him with the cane making him roll onto his back and yell covering his face as it had begun to rain. The water hit him and was steaming s it touched him with the light sprinkle that was starting up. To Jaune, it must have been like hot metal was being poured onto him with the way he was reacting.

"Fuck you! You didn't AAAAAAH!" Jaune yelled out as he couldn't even speak as he was steaming more and more as he was shaking. The rain started up more hitting him harder as he laid there on the ground suffering. The man just watched him as he pulled the cane away and reached down grabbing the back of his jacket lifting him up.

"I didn't what?" He shook him as Jaune was still shaking making grunts of pain as he kept pulling the hood tight.

"Answer me!" He yelled as he let the cane go and it stayed standing up, he reached and pulled the hood off of Jaune and making him yell out in complete agony as the light peaking through the clouds touched his skin touching him.

"AAAAAH! Cursed!" Jaune was dropped by the man as he began to slowly crawl towards a building that was abandoned. His hands slowly reached out and began to slowly pull himself towards the building to escape the pain he was suffering.

"You call what I gave you a curse? Heh, that's funny because about a century and a half ago you begged me to help you. Had a pretty different tune back then." He slowly walked next to Jaune watching him suffer.

Oobleck spit out his coffee as he heard what the man said.

"T-that's impossible! There is no way that he could survive that long and still retain such a youth full image!" Oobleck was skeptical of what he was hearing because that would mean that Jaune would have to be over a hundred years old and he looks no more than his early twenties.

"The lad said he was cursed, so maybe that has something to do with it." Port tried calming the green speeder down as he was rattling off things.

"Poor Juane, what's wrong with him?" Ruby was worried about Jaune and the way he was acting, he sounded in so much pain and misery as he crawled on the ground looking pathetic. She never wished to see something like this just like when they saw Jaune suffer as his family was killed before him.

"I wouldn't ever want to see someone like that." Velvet said as her ears drooped down as she watched the blonde suffering as he dragged himself across the ground.

"That man is enjoying watching him in such a state," Glynda said as she felt pity watching her student pulling himself across the ground in such pain.

"We had a deal, so you are going to go ahead and act on that deal." He said as Jaune had dragged himself into the darkness feeling less pain as what water landed on him was evaporated and turned to steam. The man stood there with his cane smiling as Jaune was starting to smoke.

"I let you keep that thing hidden deep inside you, taking up that hollow space that once housed your soul, but now it's time for it to come out. It's awfully hungry." The man spoke as he lifted up his cane slowly, the handle was a skull made of glass. The eyes of the skull were filled with small flames. He slammed the cane against the ground as Jaune got onto his knees. He looked up at the ceiling yelling in complete agony.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

"Make it stop." Ruby covered her ears so to block out the scream that came from Jaune, Yang rubbed her back as she so wished that she couldn't hear him.

"He couldn't have done something like that." Ozpin shocked and horrified about what he heard, he no longer had his soul? Then something else was inside him? It was nothing he had ever heard of, or anyone really. The idea of living without a soul is completely unheard of.

"So he made a deal that backfired on him. Sounds about right." Roman had seen many deals go bad, but nothing like this.

"That man is a monster," Glynda said as she had no idea what kind of monster this man was or the one he had just let off the chain.

"Hurry up and get this done with, I don't want to be here longer than we need to be." A man wearing a mask spoke out as he stood with another, around them were others that were wearing armor and holding rifles or blades. There were large shipping containers around them as they were sitting around inside of a large mine that was abandoned. It was located far from the village that was nearby so there wouldn't be many people to bother them or cause problems.

"You think I don't fucking know that? Like I want to be standing around in here because the buyers are taking so damn long."

"Well, where the fuck are they!? They said they would be here when we showed up and guess what? They weren't fucking here!" The other man yelled as they then suddenly heard screams and gunshots coming from deeper in the mine. The men all looked around as they could hear the sounds coming from every direction through the tunnels. They looked around trying to find someone or something that could tell them what was happening.

"The fuck!? What's happening?" One of the men yelled as the sounds began to die down getting quieter and quieter until everything was silent. Suddenly they heard footsteps coming from somewhere and fast, they looked around until a wolf faunus heard the direction it was coming from and aimed down the tunnel as they all did the same. They all waited for whatever it was to kill until a man came running out wearing bandit gear as a chain suddenly came flying out of the darkness and wrap around his legs, yanking back they tripped him and he slammed hard into the ground as he was slowly pulled back into the dark tunnel screaming and begging until he disappeared and everything was silent.

"They didn't say anything about Grimm!" Men began to panic as they looked around fearful of what they just witnessed. Many of them began to run away in fear heading for the tunnel that they came from when entering the mine.

"No you idiots!" The leader yelled as they suddenly saw something inside the cave that began to burn. In its hands were two men similar to the first one they saw get dragged off, but they were silent and limp as they were dragged by their collars. The thing kept walking towards they showing more of itself to show a man standing there with his hood up covering himself as smoke rose from his body. He let go of the two and let them fall as they just laid there not moving as he began to slowly look around at each and every one of them.

"Well, what're you all standing around for!? Kill him!" The leader yelled as they aimed their guns and began to fire at the man as he stood there letting the bullets tear him apart. His body slightly flinching from the bullets hitting and leaving holes that leaked flames from inside before they closed up.

"What is that?" Weiss asked seeing that the person just stood there taking the pain without making any sound. Then the clothing closing up from the bullets it just seemed like it wasn't even noticing what was happening.

"You don't think it's Jaune do you?" Ruby asked as the clothing was similar to Jaune's but more burned up as smoke rose from him. It was scary to look at as it just stood there taking the hail of bullets.

"I believe that it is, there is no other possibility of who it could be," Pyrrha said finally getting the screams of pain from Jaune out of her mind.

"You are partly right Miss Nikos. That may be Mr. Arc, but that is something else currently." Ozpin said as he saw the eyes of the men that he had dragged into the cave. Empty and devoid of life, nothing but empty shells.

The bullets kept coming until they all began stopping as they ran empty on their clips. They all stood there looking at the man that stood there just smoking more as he slowly looked down at his body to see all the bullet holes slowly closing up until they were gone like nothing happen. He then looked up slowly as he looked around at each and every one of them, his glove slowly moving up as he pointed at one specifically that had his interest. A strange hissing sound that sounded like breathing could be heard making them frightened as he dropped his arm and reached behind grabbing something.

"Reload and blast him! Why are you all just standing there pissing yourselves!?" The man yelled as they all began to reload. Some loading dust rounds as the man pulled out chains that began to slowly heat up, the chains fell to the ground rattling as they were long. The metal glowing as he began to slowly laugh which was hollow and empty, filling them with only one thing that flooded them all. Fear.

"Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggrrrrrry…" He spoke out as he suddenly started running dragging the chains behind as the bullets began coming again hitting him. He shrugged them off as he swung the chains hitting a row of men that yelled out before becoming ash as the chain passed through their bodies. He made a sound of laughter as he turned around and swung the chain again taking out more men that became piles of ash around him. They all kept firing as the dust just activated all around him and did nothing, the ice melted as it formed and the fire was just burning around him doing nothing.

"So awesome!" Nora yelled as she watched the fight happening, even if they were dying it was slightly desensitizing as they were trained to kill monsters. She had also seen lots when she was younger, but these guys didn't seem like they were for good.

"All I can say is that at least it's painless." Velvet said hoping that it was painless since they were turned to ash almost instantly.

"The voice is the worst of it all, it's completely empty," Glynda said hearing the voice as it spoke.

"Whatever it is that he has become, it is something that has one thing on its mind," Oobleck commented as he watched the carnage unfolding before him.

"What would that be my friend?" Port asked curious about what he saw.

"I do not know yet," Oobleck admitted as he watched him.

"This is quite interesting." Cinder watched as the fires turned every one of them into ash not leaving them a second to run. It was interesting while also terrifying to see.

Most of the men were dead as their ashes were scattered all over the place. Jaune stood holding one up by his neck as he reached up and pulled the hood off his head and exposed what was underneath. They could see a skull that was scorched black as smoke came off of him. His eye sockets empty as they could only see black inside them while his hands choked the man keeping him on the ground on his knees.

"Let me go...you fucker…" The guy breathed out as he gripped the arms trying to get him to let go. He then reached down and pulled out a knife that he stabbed into his arm in an attempt to make him let go, but as he pulled the blade out the metal was glowing hot before dripping off the handle becoming molten metal. He had then realized that he had removed his hood showing his eyes as he looked into them unable to look away.

Jaune let go and then grabbed his face making sure that he couldn't look away before he began to open his mouth and flames ignited all over him making the smoke darker and thicker as he looked into the man's eyes through the mask. He made him look into his eyes as he began to see everything as his eyes were burning inside of the mask. He screamed out as he witnessed ever horrible things that he has ever done, murder all the way to theft. Many of the things that he has done were just completely horrible that he was yelling in fear as he was feeling the pain and guilt flow into him.

"Gods," Roman said as he looked at the screen witnessing everything that the guy had ever done, he was no different having done a few of those things himself. But he didn't care, he would lie, cheat, steal, and survive. The thing that made him uneasy was that if that thing got its hands on him. He would have a lot of pain coming his way.

"How can one man commit so much evil?" Weiss said astonished as she saw everything happen from the innocent people's begging to their final scream.

"That is just how the world is." Mercy muttered to himself remembering his father.

"Feel their pain…" Jaune spoke out as his voice was different slightly echoing, the man's screams getting louder as his legs kicked and failed until he began to suffer more pain as Jaune opened his jaw and the fire began to go in pulling something out of his eyes as his screams got louder. The fires clung to something bright as Jaune kept his jaw open, it kept going until it was ripped out and pulled into his mouth. The man turned to ash as Jaune looked up growling slightly as he looked around, his eyes landed on the truck they had to transport whatever supplies they had. He made a sound that was of pleased as he walked over, stepping on the ashes.

"D-did he just…" Blake was in shock of what she just witnessed. Her mouth slightly open as her eyes were wide, she had a feeling deep inside herself telling her to fear that thing. Velvet could feel the same thing that was telling her the thing was dangerous and should be avoided.

Ozpin had dropped his mug shattering it against the ground after watching as the man had his soul ripped out of his body. What had happened to it he couldn't imagine.

Cinder was surprised to see that happen, she had only seen that happen when she used the Grimm to tear away the maiden's power, granted she only had half of it, but that still made her wonder what he could do with this power and if the soul could do anything for him.

"H-he said he was hungry...you don't think…" Pyrrha said as she looked at the version if Jaune on screen, that things was him but somehow she didn't want to believe it.

"I think he did…" Ren said as he watched the screen.

Jaune looked at the truck, he reached up and opened the door looking at the interior before climbing in. He shut the door and looked at the wheel grabbing it as he chuckles a bit as he began to grip the wheel making the fire slowly spread off his boy and onto the wheel as the metal began to heat up an burn. The paint warped and bubble chipping away as smoke came off it. The engine roared to life as he leaned out the window and placed his fingers on his teeth.

He whistled and it echoed through the mine as there was the sound if another engine roaring as a light shined bright. The engine became louder as it was revving and began to get closer until a bike appeared from the darkness and jumped through the air landing right in the back if the truck making Jaune laugh a bit as he leaned back in an slammed his foot down on the gas flooring it. He drove through the tunnels as he was heading towards a dead end.

"He gonna crash!" Nora announced as she was still wearing the tiny nurse hat.

Jaune opened the door and began climbing to the back where the bike was sitting, he got on and revved the engine as he rolled back and got off the truck leaving it to barrel towards the dead end.

They saw outside of a mountain that suddenly exploded as the truck came through destroyed and burning as it began to return to normal. Not even seconds later they saw the bike come flying out if the smoke roaring his engines as he began to fall towards the ground which was very high. He reached out as a chain flew from his sleeve that he began to spin around tossing towards the side and then pulling himself towards it as he slammed down and began driving down the side as he sped up more and more making his smoke fill the air. He laughed as he turned the handle back going even faster as he sped down the mountainside driving over rocks and boulders that launched him into the air before crashing back onto the mountain as he stared out into the night sky as the clouds began to clear away.

(159 years ago)

"Just sign the parchment and we have a deal." The man said as he stood in the shadows looking down at a dying Jaune who looked down at the paper raising his hand up and placing it against the paper dragging it across as his blood stained the paper.

"J-just save…..my family…" Juane begged him as he smiles and raised his cane up and slowly pressed the end against Jaune's chest.

(Present)

"That's a good dog, now go fetch your master's deals." The old man smile as he stood at the hole Jaune create in the mountain, smiling as he slowly disappears chuckling as they suddenly saw the appearance of wings and a tail. The screen shut off.

"That was so awesome, I mean not awesome that Jaune became some kind of monster and lost his soul, but awesome that he could do all those things," Nora said excited before going off on her tangent until a pancake was shoved into her mouth. Ren pulled his hand away as he looked at the girl.

"We get it, Nora."

"Okie." She said sitting down as the nurse hat was gone from her head.

"Whatever he became it was completely frightening," Weiss said as the roars that he made where chilling and made her feel like death was hanging over her. She had never felt something like that and hoped to never feel anything like that ever again.

Ironwood had been silent as he watched what he could do, he was able to rip souls from a person's body and feast on it. The dust was unable to affect him as the fire seemed to just slide off him and his body melted the ice dust faster than it could form. He hoped that Penny record all of that so it could be analyzed later when her memories and records were searched during normal maintenance. The dice appeared on the table ready to be thrown and show them whatever they may land on.