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Robbeeyy: Here's more!
Guest: Thank you for the support and I am glad you like the story
Fmjl101: thank you and I hope enjoy's today Chapter!
Benthino: Will we see Neo in this fight? Hmmm, I don't know~ You'll just have to read it~
Xerzo LotCN: Yes, it seems that Jaune and friends can't seem to find a break huh? And with things to come, it doesn't seem like they'll get a chance too.
0akarigan0: Gracias!
Guest #2: Oh yeah, things are gonna get more interesting with them~!
drannakka: That's an interesting Idea, thought I'd have to wait and see because the Arc where Jaune manages to pull in the Atlas girls (P.3.N.N.Y Arc) is still a bit far off and won't begin until like... Chapter 34) (yeah, I've planned that far ahead with my Google Doc)
Dragon Blaze-X: thank you, that's what I intended
X3runner: ... I didn't think about that, but if I had to say, then yeah, he would recognize Neo as Mint since he wouldn't be that oblivious to someone's fighting style (he's only dense romantic wise, like almost every shonen anime Protagonist)
AutohunterJ49: No Probs! It was a good idea after all!
Reader: We're about to find out!
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As the music began to die down, Jaune was feeling pretty hot as he and Reese were heading back to the booth. Reese sat next to Yatsuhashi and Jaune sat next to Arslan.
Arslan looked at him with a bit of a smile, "Well, how was dancing again, Jaune?" Arslan
Jaune took a few quick breaths before looking at her and smiled, "It was awesome" He said
Arslan chuckled, "I bet," She said
Jaune kept breathing as it was hot he got up from the booth and looked at them, "I'm gonna head out real quick to cool off" He said
Arslan nodded, "Alright, be careful out there," Arslan told him
"Will do," He said as he waved at them as he walked away.
As he walked away and left the building through the entrance letting the bouncer, who had a red machete on his hip, know he was just in so that he could get in, he gathered his breath and he felt the cool night air on his head, cooling him off. He sighed with a smile on his face.
Suddenly, he heard the screeching of a car and he looked down the street to see a speeding car. He felt that something and he just had a feeling that he needed to stop the car before it got away. So without thinking, he quickly raced back to the bouncer, grabbed his machete from the bouncer
"Hey!" The bouncer cried
"Offical huntsmen business!" Jaune cried to the bouncer
Jaune ran into the middle of the street and unsheathed the Machete and he quickly saw the car approaching him.
'I really hope I don't get ran over for this!' Jaune thought to himself, Jaune then pumped his aura into the machete and saw the car still approaching, 'I gotta wait till it is in range,' Jaune told himself.
Finally, when the car was in range, Jaune slashed sideways, and Jaune fired a slash of Arca Mortis at the car, hitting the bottom of it, slicing the wheels, causing it to hit the asphalt and skid across it as parks flew off the wheels. It stopped a few feet from Jaune who smiled, knowing that he successfully stopped the car.
"Damn kid, that was actually impressive"
Jaune heard the voice coming from the car, and then saw the passenger door open and stepping out of the decommissioned vehicle, was none other than the notorious criminal, Roman Torchwick.
Jaune's eyes went wide as he was shocked that he just stopped one of Vale's most wanted. 'Ah, shit,' Jaune said to himself
Roman pulled out a cigar and lit it and then let a puff of smoke out of his mouth as he looked at Jaune, and then seconds later, a bunch of thugs, who looked oddly similar to the bouncer of the club got out of the car as well. Jaune counted at least 7, which he didn't know that many people fit inside of that car, maybe it was like a clown thing or something.
"What's your name kid?" Roman asked
"Jaune Arc" Jaune replied "Huntsmen in training"
Roman sighed, "Not another one..." He muttered to himself, "Look kid, just walk away and no one has to get hurt" Roman said
Jaune shook his head, "Sorry, can't do that" Jaune said
Roman groaned, "You kids really have a death wish or something, don't you?" Roman said, "Get him, boys!" Roman told the thugs
One thug ran at Jaune with a similar Machete, ready to attack him, However, Jaune quickly moved out of the way and sidestepped the thug, Jaune then pumped aura into his machete and slashed at the thug, the thug was hit with Arca Mortis and instead of being cut in half, it only sent him flying into one of the club's windows.
Jaune then saw Roman raise his cane and aim at Jaune, and Roman fired at Jaune, only for the young teen to roll out of the way just as the shot hit the ground and exploded. Jaune then got up, the club now behind him, and he saw that the thugs now began to surround him.
'This is not good!' Jaune thought, 'Can I really take these many guys on?' He asked himself
"JAUNE!?"
Jaune turned to look behind him and that's when he saw Coco, Velvet, Arslan, and Reese staring at him through the broken window.
He looked at them with a nervous smile on his face, "A little help please!" He cried
"Get the others! I'll help Jaune!" Jaune heard Arslan cry
Arslan jumped out of the window to join Jaune in the fight, she jumped over a few of the thugs and she was back to back with Jaune, she took a fighting stance and prepared to fight as Jaune did the same.
"Trouble just seems to follow you, doesn't it?" Arslan asked him
Jaune just chuckled nervously, "My bad," he said
"Oh great, now there's two!" Roman said with a groan
"got a plan?" Arslan asked him,
Jaune nodded, "We split up and take on the thugs first, they don't seem to have any actual fighting experience, and once we take them out, we go for Torchwick" Jaune told her
Arslan smiled, "Sounds like a plan," Arslan said,
Arslan activated her semblance and in between her hands, a ball of fire began to form, and Jaune also pumped aura into the Machete and it glowed. the Guards were ready to charge at the two, but then Jaune and Arslan shared a look and then nodded.
Jaune turned around and unleashed an Arca Mortis at the thugs on Arlsan's side while Arslan also turned and shot a fireball at the thugs on Jaune's side. Jaune managed to take out two of the thugs on Arslan's side, leaving only one, while Arslan also managed to blow two of them away.
this left the remaining one thug on both sides stunned and the two Huntsmen in training used that to their advantage and they both charged at the remaining thug. Jaune slashed at the thug only for him to block it, but Jaune then quickly pushed the thug's Machete away and kicked him in the stomach hard sending him back and landing on the ground. Arslan attacked the other thug and delivered a fury of punches and kicks, sending him flying back.
"Oh for crying out loud!" Roman cried out
Roman took aim and fired at both of them and shot two shots. Arslan shot a fireball to stop the shot that was aimed at her, while Jaune activated Aura Sight and managed to move his head to the side and narrowly dodged the shot.
Arslan and Jaune charge at Roman and Roman prepared himself to fight close range. Arslan was the first to get in close and she swing at him but roman dodged that fist, only for Arslan to try and high kick him, but Roman used the cane and blocked the kick. Arslan then backed up ducked and that's when Jaune swung at Roman with the machete, who backed up in order to avoid the attack, and Roman stepped to his side and aimed his cane right at Jaune's face but Jaune leaned back as Roman fired the shot, and then Jaune came back into position and this time, he unleashed another Arca Mortis at Roman.
the criminal mastermind quickly raised his cane to block the attack and while it worked, it sent him flying backward. Roman landed hard on the ground and then looked at the two Huntsmen again with a glare.
"I just got this suit clean!" Roman cried
Arslan didn't give him the chance to fully regain his composure, as she unleashed two fireballs from each hand before putting her hands together and unleashing a much bigger fireball at Roman. Roman groaned and raised his cane quickly and unleashed four shots from his cane. the first three collided with the fireballs causing them to explode, but the fourth shot through the smoke and hit Arslan, sending her back.
Jaune turned around as he saw her hit the ground, "Arslan!" Jaune cried
Jaune turned back around quickly only to narrowly avoid another shot from Roman's cane.
"Eye's on the prize Romeo," Roman told Jaune
Jaune glared at Roman and felt anger rise up into him, Jaune kept Aura Sight activated and then activated Aura Step and he charged at Roman, his speed now doubled. Roman saw his speed increase and he shot at Jaune, but due to having Aura Sight, Jaune managed to see and dodge the shots.
after dodging the shots, Jaune unleashed Arcas Mortis at Roman, but the Criminal jumped to his side and avoided the attack.
Jaune cursed and prepared to send another Arca Mortis, however, he felt both of his eyes begin to pulse, as if he had a headache, except the pain that followed was immense. Jaune cried and fell to his knees.
"Damn it!" Jaune cried, 'I must have strained them too much during the fight with Mint and now!' Jaune thought to himself
Another pulse was felt and was once again followed by severe pain, and he groaned in pain. He then felt something drip from his eyes and onto his hand, he looked to see that it was blood. He was shocked but then quickly realized that this was the result of going past his limit with Aura Sight.
"Something wrong kid?" Roman asked with a sly smile
Jaune looked at Roman and Roman looked back at him and saw that Jaune was bleeding from both of his eyes, Roman was a bit shocked but smiled, knowing that whatever was happening with Jaune meant he probably couldn't fight anymore.
"See where playing Hero gets ya?" Roman said with a smile
Roman walked toward Jaune, and Jaune couldn't move because he still felt pain in his head and eyes.
"You got spirit, Jaune was it?" Roman began "But this is the real world! And let me tell you Jauney boy, but the real world doesn't care about spirit! This is a world of Bloody evolution, and you know what they say about Evolution, don't you?" Roman finished with a smile
He pointed his cane at Jaune and smiled as Jaune looked up at him with a glare as his eyes continued to bleed and pain still shot through his head.
"See you in the afterlife Jaune," Roman said
But before he could fire his cane, he saw something out of the corner of his eyes and dodge it. Roman then looked behind him to see what it was only to see... a Banana peel?
"What the-?"
However, he didn't get to finish as he was kicked in the back and sent flying forward. He got up and groaned as he turned around only to see Sun and the others defending Jaune.
Roman groaned, "Good gods they're multiplying," Roman said muttered to himself
"Surrender now, dude, or else prepare to get you ass whooped!" Sun said
Roman rolled his eyes, and reached into his pocket, "Sorry kids, hate to tell you, but play time's over!" he said as he pulled out a large crystal of gravity dust.
He then threw it at the teens before taking aim with his cane, and when it was right in between him and the teens, he fired and the shot hit the dust crystal, sending a shock wave of gravity at them, sending them backward and Roman used this to run away.
When Jaune hit the ground he felt the pain begin to worsen once he fell back to the ground and due to it, he began to blackout...
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Slowly, Jaune opened his eyes only to be hit with the blinding light of a ceiling light, he closed his eyes quickly and then tried to open again, and this time, the light didn't hurt as much.
"DAMN BRAT!"
Jaune then was hit over the head and he cried in pain. He turned to see Professor Peach glaring at him as she radiated a dark aura off of her.
"I can not believe you're already back in here so soon! And worse, after fighting an Infamous Criminal!" Peach cried
"I'm sorry professor," Jaune said "But I couldn't just let him get away," Jaune told her
"Of course, you couldn't..." She said with a grumble and then she let out a sigh, "Tell me, Jaune, have you been training and using advanced Aura techniques?" She asked
Jaune looked at and nodded, "Yes Professor" Jaune replied
"That explains why your eyes were bleeding, I believe you were overusing one, correct?" Professor Peach asked
Jaune remembered that his eyes had been bleeding due to him overusing Aura Sight, thus straining his eyes way too much. Jaune sighed, "Yes Professor," He said
"You are aware that overusing certain Aura techniques will have a toll on your body correct?" Peach asked
Jaune nodded,
"that's good to know that you're smart enough to know the cost of overusing Aura techniques, but I hope you know that if you overuse them way too much it can cause permanent damage," Peach said "If you used Aura Sight longer then you did then it's no doubt you would have gone blind"
Jaune was shocked to hear this, he knew that he would strain his muscles or his eyes but he didn't know it could go that far.
"train it more, Jaune, and go past your limit little by little, and the same can be said for the rest of Your Aura techniques that you are trying to use, until you mater them, be very careful, Mr. Arc," Professor Peach told him
Jaune nodded and she left him. Jaune looked at his hands and balled them into fists. He was angry, angry that he almost went blind because he was overused Aura Sight. Angry that even with the Aura techniques he still couldn't beat Roman Torchwick. Angry that... he was still weak.
'I need to double my physical training and like Professor Peach said, I need to train my Aura techniques more, but take it slow, now that I know what could happen' Jaune told himself 'I can't let this happen again... I can't let what happened last night happen ever again' Jaune told himself again
"Ah, Mr. Arc, it seems that you are awake" came a familiar voice
Jaune looked away from his hands and looked up to his left side only to Headmaster Ozpin. Jaune was a bit shocked to see him here. "Headmaster? What are you doing here?" Jaune asked
"Please, you've beaten me enough time in chess Jaune, you may call me Ozpin," Ozpin told Jaune,
Jaune nodded, no matter how many times Ozpin insisted, even when they played chess, it felt weird calling Headmaster Ozpin, just Ozpin, but he went with it.
"I understand that you are training to use Aura Techniques, is that correct?" Ozpin asked
Jaune nodded, "Yeah, that's right" Jaune replied "Why?"
Ozpin took a drink from his mug before answering Jaune, "Well I thought that since you were wanting to learn Aura techniques, I considered helping you" Ozpin told him
Jaune was utterly stunned, did he just hear Ozpin correctly, "Um... Ozpin, a-are you serious?"
"Very, But after the weekend and after you have fully rested," Ozpin said with a smile "Come to combat class after school has finished next week on Monday,"
Jaune was shocked but he smiled and nodded, "I-I really don't know what to say... Thank you Ozpin" Jaune said
Ozpin smiled at the boy and gave him a nod, "Thank me later, when you come and meet me at class, I will need to evaluate and see if I need to train you personally now, or if I need to send you to an old friend first before you actually begin to train with me" Ozpin told him "Well, that is all for now, Mr. Arc, I shall see you Monday"
And with that, Ozpin left the infirmary and Jaune watched him leave. Jaune felt happy, he was going to be training under Ozpin, he was going to learn from the headmaster himself! Jaune knew that this wasn't going to be easy, but nothing was. In order to get stronger, he couldn't take the easy way out.
'This is it... this is the next step to getting stronger... I can't fail this!' Jaune cried to himself 'ARC'S WORD! I WON'T FAIL!'
And with that declaration to himself, Jaune Arc truly was on the path to becoming the Huntsmen he always wanted to be...
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Will Jaune become stronger with the help of Headmaster and grow to newer heights!? Will Jaune be able to beat Roman the next time they cross paths!? Will one of the best girls Neo ever make another appearance!? What is Next for our Hero and his friends!?
Find out next time on the next chapter of SUGAR CRASH!