Watcher Curse
Chapter :2
Artist : RachiePieUwU
"AHHHHHH" Jaune woke up screaming.
"Jaune are you ok?"
"Yeah Pyrrha, Just a nightmare"
"Are you sure, you've been having those for a while now, ever since the Initiation" Pyrrha held her partner from his shoulder, concern in her emerald eye. She always worried like that, I'm not worthy of her affection.
Jaune shook his head Violently, Pyrrha pulled back her hand in shock.
"No, that wasn't me, that wasn't something I thought dammit" Jaune thought to himself, wishing for no reply. Which he got.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be pushy, Ren and Nora already left for breakfast, I'll leave you to get ready" Pyrrha apologized and left the room. Jaune could only sigh.
Ever since the start of Beacon, he kept dreaming about weird things.
About the everafter from the 'girl who fell through the world', about the Rusted Knight, about how he was the Rusted knight, an older version of himself.
He was happy at first, the fact he was the Rusted knight meant he achieved his dream, he became a hero. Yet...
"Never meet your heroes huh" Jaune wondered that line while he dressed up and left the room.
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"Hey Jaune, over here." Ruby jumped from her seat, waving at him to come sit with everyone.
"Looks like I'm late, sorry".
"It's not like we were waiting for you to come, I mean look at Nora" Yang said.
he did look at Nora, she was devouring the pancakes in front of her, he chuckled at the sight.
But another feeling came along, nostalgia, regret. Jaune shook his head and looked at Ren beside her, he smiled back.
Yet again, the feeling returned.
"What the hell is happening to me" he thought and as he did, the voice commented.
Well, maybe if you let m-, the voice was forced to cut off when Jaune attempted to chat with the heiress. Which resulted in another rejection.
Dammit Jaune.
"Well damn you".
"What the fuck did you just say Jauny boy" a male voice replied, which for once, wasn't in his head.
"Nothing Cardin, I was just talking to myself, ha ha." Jaune laughed awkwardly, but strangely, Cardin smiled to him.
Jaune found it odd and looked behind him, both his team and team RWBY already left for class, leaving him alone.
"Well, let me help you with that little problem, I just need to punch your head multiple times, so the screw loss get back to it place" a punch reached Jaune face before he could active his aura, knocking him down.
The pain spread across his head, his brain bounding inside his skull, his vision got blurry and started to lose consciousness.
When he opened his eyes again he found team CRDL knocked out, beaten by someone, he looked around and found everyone in the cafeteria looking at him.
He looked down on his hand, his knuckles red, his hand hurting without any sign of injury.
He sighed when mis Goodwitch came in, anger on her face. Demanding what happened.
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"Let me get this straight Mr Arc, Mr Winchester punched you in the face and you blacked out, then when you woke up, you found yourself beaten them all" the headmaster gave him a deadpan stare.
"Yes sir, I don't remember fighting back at all, when I woke up mis goodwitch came in."
Jaune sat in front of the headmaster, sweating, and mis goodwitch stood besides the elevator, sighing.
"Well, looks like you been training hard Mr Arc, the only people who can defeat a first year team of huntsmen is third or fourth year students, and your partner" he added the latter after a second.
"Yeah haha, still, they didn't have their weapons so they were at a disadvantage" he tried to argue.
"Same as you, they didn't have their weapons, but they had numbers, the fact you did this alone as a first year is incredibly Mr Arc, I hope you keep up the training. The world need huntsmen like you".
Jaune couldn't form words so he just nodded along, oh this is bad.
"Not now voice" he thought to himself, sweating even more.
"You're dismissed Mr Arc, you won't get a detention for defending yourself, but be careful next time to avoid trouble.
Jaune nodded and quickly left the room.
The headmaster waiting for the elevator to reach down to speak.
"So, what do you think Glynda?"
She didn't turn to him, her eyes kept on the elevator.
"Well, unless he has been training in hand-to-hand combat for years, I don't see any problem. Only thing is how he looks down on himself with his skills."
She turned to face him.
"His self-esteem is low with someone so powerful, you saw the video, he almost predicted their moves, like he knew them by heart, I don't know why he picked a sword instead of going full on hand-to-hand like mis Xiao-Long."
"His moves do look like mis Xaio-Long doesn't it? Well, the Arc family came from the royal knights, as you could see with his armor, shield, and sword. He probably felt like he needed to carry on his family legacy, which is understandable, looking at how he's the only male of his family and the only huntsman. Other than his father."
"We'll see how he'll do, for now, I have a combat class, excuse me,"
"You're excused." Ozpin said, but his eyes were stuck to his monitor.
On it, the display showed the Arc kid transcript, he knew they were fake. He only accepted them for his potential, the Arc family potential.
But this wasn't it, the Arc family fell hard after the Monarchy, a lot of the family heads chased glory and fame which lead to their downfall.
Until it reached Mr Arc father, Nicholas Arc, when his sister died, he immediately cut off the family and built his own. He kept the word of the Arc from the Monarch era, which put him above almost all the current Arcs.
Ozpin smiled at the memory. He trained the young Arc, teached him about the way of the Arcs, after all, they did serve him well. But this…
"Did they change? Did she take them in and train them, sleeper agent of some kind?" Ozpin thought as he watched the recording.
" Either that or he has a copy semblance like mis Scarlatina but haven't activated quite yet. nonetheless, I'll need to keep an eye on him."
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"Good job vomit boy." Yang punched his arm lightly.
His Team and team RWBY were waiting for him in the class, of course he didn't have a problem with professor, mis goodwitch already informed them.
"We heard of what happened, are you ok?" Pyrrha was considered about him again, which made him feel bad.
"Yeah I'm fine, you should have seen the other guy" he said faking his confident.
"We did, and if we didn't know better, we would have thought it was Yang's doing" Ruby giggled and Jaune laughed along.
They chatted for a bit before going for their next class, Weiss had strange expression on her face, which Blake noticed.
"What's bothering you?" she asked, voice low.
"You think this is weird too right?, he's the lowest in combat class, he always loses against Cardin, yet he has beaten the whole team by himself, none of us can do that, probably just Pyrrha" Blake hummed her agreement.
The rest of the day went normally, Yang and Nora challenged Jaune for a spar, he had the stamina for both, and he did lost both. then they went to Vale to buy equipment for their field trip.
"So, when were you going to tell me you were a hand-to-hand fighter" Pyrrha asked walking beside him.
"Well, I'm not technically, I just panicked and tried to do what Yang does. It took them by surprise, which worked to my advantage," he laughed awkwardly, scratching the back of his head.
"My training offer still stands you know, I mean it would help improve the whole team" specifically him, she didn't say but everyone knew, he was the weakest in class, he has been improving a lot since he joined, but not much to stand beside his friends.
"I'll think about it, maybe after the trip" Pyrrha's smile shined and she nodded.
"I need a way to get rid of the voice" jaune thought as he walked side by side with his partner.
He felt pain in his chest, he felt it for a while now, when he looks at Ren and Nora, nostalgia comes, along with sorrow.
But when he looks at his partner, when he trains with her, when he talks with her, he could feel pain in his heart, he could feel the tears bobbing in his eyes.
He shook those thoughts again, If what the Rusted Knight says is true, then he probably needed to do something.
Jaune tighten his fist, the Rusted Knight is a killer, he killed that girl, Jaune didn't know if she was innocent or not, if she was real or not, but the fact he killed someone left a bad taste in his mouth.
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Jaune opened his eyes, taking in his Surroundings.
Big tree, card castle, paper pleasers village.
He sighed and gripped the air on his left side, Crocea Mors came out of nowhere, yet felt like it was always there.
"Shield up and keep your grip tight, I'm not going easy on you" Jaune did as he was instructed.
A heavy blow struck the shield, making jaune step back. He took that opportunity to swing with his sword.
His enemy dodged and struck him again, Jaune fell to the ground, Crocea Mors Shattered to millions of pieces again.
"Dammit" he screamed.
"You're getting better, much faster than me anyway," the Rusted knight offered a hand, and Jaune took it.Jaune had complicated feelings for the Rusted Knight. On one hand, he respected him since he was young, always looking up to him, on the other hand.
he was a killer, he murdered an innocent girl, he admitted himself, yet he told him if he trained him, she would never die.
Jaune agreed, not everyday a fairy tail character offered you training, add to that the Rusted Knight might as well be his semblance, it was a good deal.
"So, when are you going to believe me?"
"I'm not, you're just the embodiment of my semblance, I read about it in a book."
"More like you went to doctor Oobleck and asked him if a semblance can be seen in your dreams" he laughed when he saw Jaune flinched.
"I can see what you can see, but I can't do anything, if I can, I would have already done SO much to prevent the future."
"A future that you bullshiting it, really, magic?, immortals?, I'm not seven, I mean look at you, you're the Rusted knight, a fairy tale character with my dad's face to look like older me."
"The sooner you believe me the sooner we can start changing thing, so listen up, on your trip to forever fall, Cardin will make you throw a red sap jar at Pyrrha for beating him in combat-".
"I'll never hurt my partner" Jaune glared at the Knight, and the Knight smiled.
"No, no you won't, Cardin doesn't know about the fake transcript, so he can't blackmail you to do anything, so he's probably going to do it by himself" he continued.
"The red sap attracts Ursa, so when the jar breaks, expect Ursa to come attack. Then you'll believe me and we can start changing thing."
The Knight glare at Jaune who only sighed.
"Fine, I mean who can predict this... I'm waking up now. time to go, goodbye Rusty."
Before he could complain, the dream ended.
"Who would have thought that training in here could actually improve on him in the real world".
The Rusted Knight turned and the world changed.
"So can I please get an explanation, Tree or Blacksmith or whatever you go by."
The tress stood in front of a fire, she was forging a figure that looked like Weiss, beside the Tree on the table, another two figures, one was him, and the other had no details, she didn't turn to him, still working on the details on the figure in her hands.
"You'll see, the Rusted Knight of the everafter"
Note: yeah, stuff happened, I'm just skipping to forever fall because Jaune was in denial, I'll explain more next chapter.
Oz definitely after jaune, not in a good way too, this story will continue till the end of V3 (hopefully) and my only regret that team RNJR won't exist anymore because jaune and rusty gonna change things.
Remember, Rusty is OG Jaune, which mean he wasn't on half of what team RWBY did and has second hand information on events.
I'm sure this would be fine… (maybe)