I do not own DxD or RWBY
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"To the porfait!" A mini-Yang yelled to Ruby as she ran to the out worldly food.
As she dropped her friends to the cream, suddenly the entire plain shook!
Tremble!
Weiss, Blake, and Yang tripped while returning to their actual size, as another tremor struck the ground...
...and they found the source.
The Rusted Knight, armed what appears to be a heavy bat with obsedian blades strucked the dying Jabbawalker, finishing the monster as it "died" with motes of pink light. But in one motion, the knight ducked as another Jabbawalker lunged at him!
The Fabled Knight dodged it in time, before suddenly raising a clean and simple longsword, the previous weapon nowhere to be seen and chased after the second monster!
The monster roared in challenge, and bulled towards it's fabled nemisis.
Team RWBY was in complete disbelief as they are watching the Legendary Battle between the Inspiration of Huntsmen vs the First Grimm!
The combatants close in as the monster lunged forward!
The knight skid to the ground with a broken blade and swung at the under belly of the monster.
BURST!
Aura.
Aura in its purest form burst forth from comtact as the entire plain filled with white light.
They felt it on their skin, as a sudden peace and calm filed the area...
...that was snapped out by the roar of pure pain from the monster.
A massive gash appeared in the belly of the monster, as a shower of pink light pour out of him.
Team RWBY was in complete at the amount of Aura and "gore"their childhood hero inflicted, just as said Knight grabbed Ruby's arm.
"Let's go! There are more that one of them!"
Team RWBY followed the comand, as they march to a safer place, not far from the fighting.
Weiss, stopped for a moment, seeing the evacuating Afterans, left her heart dropped, as the screams of hundreds Atleans, both Humans and Faunus, rich or poor screams in fear as their home fell from the sky echoed in her head.
She felt a hand on her shoulder, and turned and saw the Legendary Rusted Knight looking at her with empathy, "come... "
Weiss slowly followed suit as they entered a cave. Team RWBY looked with a mixture of shock and awe as the Rusted Knight check the area once last time.
"I cannot believe it!" Blake fangirled, "The Rusted Knight!"
The Knight patted his steed, "you did good Juniper." Just in time to remove his helmet and reveal an aged Jaune Arc.
"Team RWBY, you finally made it." He chuckled gleefully "You guys have no idea how long I haven't seem you."
All of them shocked, but Yang had the courage to ask..."how long...?"
Jaune smiled, as he remembered his Second Life, in the Third World he visited.
Just as crazy as the Ever After...but might be more dark than Remnant.
"Well..."
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"It does not match anything!"
"None of the tests say anything... they just...glitch"
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"So we brand him a heretic? That's it? That quickly?"
" Considering this... "thing"... appeared when they were caught interacting with that devil. Yes!"
"He fought for his sister!"
"You Don't know That!"
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"Sister Gresilda! Please!"
"...I am, so sorry Jeanne, Jaune... I cannot do anything."
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"I know of a group who can help us, run away with me, Jeanne, Jaune."
"You are not excumminicated like us, Sieg."
"I know, I jusf had enough of the Supernatural's hubris...
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"Sister Gresilsa, Durandal didn't declare it demonic! Why are they excumunicated Jaune?!"
"Xenovia..."
"No...! No! Jaune, come back!"
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She breathed in heavily, as he tried to calm herself down. The air cold and the night dark as what only lit the place was... her brother.
Jeanne Arc looked at her twin, Jaune Arc, the Vatican Resident goofball with a heart of gold... and excummunicated.
And she is looking at one part of the reason why. His hand, it glowing in a brilliant gold light emmitting Ki like no other. Jaune for his part was looking at it with profound curiousity as he gripped his hand just to see how his new power.
Suddenly, the air shifted slightly as purple mist appeared out of nowhere. And there stood three figures with power and authority.
One was a huge man with greek armor, another with glasses and a red coat, and the last... the most head turning figure wore a chinese blue garbed with unmeassured confidence. But want stood out the most, is that long Blue Spear emitting power like no other.
Raised by the church, Jeanne, Sieg, and Jaune immediatly recognized the power.
"That has to be the True Longinus." Jaune said, then blushed for saying it outloud.
The Chinese smirked, "Yes. It is the Spear that Killed God."
Jaune was about to say something, but held his togue.
"I believe you are Siegfried of the Vatican and weilder of the Norse Demonic Swords, thank you for taking our invitation. But I am suprised you brought companions." The Chinese continued.
"Yes, but unlike me these two were toss into the wind after nearly two decades of service, someone has to take them in."
"But... we aren't even 20 yet."
"Shhhh Jaune."
The Chinese chuckled, "Very well. Introductions, I am Cao Cao! Leader of the Hero Faction and descendant of General Cao Cao, wielder of the True Longinus." He slightly lifted the powerful spear to show it of, "and you two are?"
Jeanne stepped forward with nervous confidence "I am Holy Maiden Jeanne d'Arc, wielder of Holy Blacksmith."
Her twin stepped forward, "Jaune Arc, sweet, short ladi-- oofff..." he stopped mid-sentence as he smiled nervously at Jeanne who elbowed his gut... "sorry odd habit. I am Jaune "Brain over Brawn" Arc...hehehehe oh and wielder of...this?"
Both Cao Cao and the glasses wearing dude visibly frowned, but just for a brief moment that Jeanne and Sieg didn't notice as Jaune lifted a half snapped and chipped longsword of simple design.
"Bwhahahana a broken sword?" The greek mockely asked. Jaune eyebrow twitch for a moment which made him confuse on what that was about.. but before he can say anything, Jeanne spoke.
"While admittedly, he has no talent in anything supernatural... he is a fighter who riv..."
"I am aware, Maiden Jeanne." Cao Cao interupted, "his monster and stray hunting skills are well documented and acknowledge."
"They are?" Jaune asked dumbfounded..
"Considering that exorcists casualties dropped in the recent years, the Vatican is a fool to toss you aside due to their dogma. Fools of fools" Cao Cao didn't miss the opportunity to demonized his old home, "with that said, I promise that we the Hero Faction won't do the same."
"Very well." Jaune nodded as soon Georg activated his Longinus Dimension Lost.
Energy like no other was envoked as purple mist slowly consumed them, "Time to welcome to you new home..." Cao Cao said with a cool smirked, only to fade when something happened.
All of the mist suddenly froze, as if time stopped itself, before all of it snapped back right into Georg!
Snapped!
For the first time in their encounter, Georg lost his air my mystery and authority as he tripped backwards when the mist slammed back at him.
The air went silent as Georg picked himself up and glared at Jaune.
Jeanne went high alert, ready to fight but...
"that sword, what the hell is that?!" Georg demanded, but not out of anger nor embarassment, but out of fustration, "my gear..."
He summoned the mists again, but aimed it only at the broken sword of Jaune. But once it got an inch near it, the mists froze despite being in the state of a gas. Georg frowned, as sweat began to pour.
"C'mon already?" The greek said, but Georg ignored the brute and focused more of Dimention Lost to a single broken blade.
Then something unexpected happened.
Hiss!
The mist...hissed... as it quickly retreated back at Georg like a kitten scared of a huge dog.
"So even High-tier Longinuses, huh?" Jeanne said curiously.
"Didn't Zenith Tempest's reaction was null?" Siegfried said bewildered.
"...well, Sir Dulio said that he felt great symphathy." Jaune scratch the back of his head.
"What the blade called?" Cao Cao said with hazor sharp eyes full of curiousity.
Jaune looked at it, as a waves of complex emotions washed him, and blurred images of too many people flash before his eyes. The dull pain remained, like it has always been as long as he remembered.
But despite that, he smiled with innocence of a man who never felt lost and used his unknown and unacknowledge feelings as comfirmation on what the Blade's name should be.
For some reason, it felt right, despite how powerful or magical items should be called.
"It's called..."
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"The Sad Sword", Blake finished before Jaune can continue, as they all sat around the camp fire in the Ever After, "The Rusted Knight's form shifting Blade."
They all looked at a simple and clean longsword in Jaune's hand.
For the first time in days, a pure and joyful smile appeared in Ruby's face!
"The SAD SWORD!" Ruby zoomed in as she looked at the blade up close. "The weapon which inspired all mecha-shift weapons?" Ruby soul filled with pure delight as the sorrow which distracted and occupied her vanished. As the child in her bloomed once more!
"The weapon who protect Alex from the first Grimm." Weiss said shocked, "Jaune...does that mean?"
Jaune smiled said with quiet pride tempered by lifetimes of pain, "I am the Myth and inspiration of the Huntsmen and their Weapons." He then frowned, "just wondered why we don't have pet animals as our guardians, Juniped here protect Axel too... right buddy?"
Juniper cooed.
Yang then finally spoke, "but that other world?"
"Oh.." Jaune looked at the giant Tree behind him, "You can blame her for that."
Suddely, a root spruted near him and...
slapped
"Deny it all you want but its true!" Jaune yelled at the tree miles away.
Rain
a mini rain cloud appeared on his head as he got wet.
Days in the Ever After seems odd as everything around them has no logic at all, but Jaune's story takes the cake of out of this world...litteraly.
And unfortunately, the Tree or this world's reactions to his accusations means one thing.
It's True
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Authors notes
I. Am. Back. Again.
This is a sort of Second Life with my 8th Sister redux. But again i really want to avoid all typical shonen stuff.
So what do we have here? Sad Sword? What the hell is that? Later...
Just to make it clear, Jaune does not have his memories here in DxD, not yet so he has the Vol 1 personality in him.
This entirely shifts the dynamic between him and Jeanne.
Speaking about Jeanne, one of the reasons why i am writing this is to put more emphasis on Jeanne, but just a ealry heads up, this relationship can go anywhere. As you can see, Jeanne is more independent than in the other story, so anything can happened between the 2 of them (except incest. No incest or Sister Leveling).
The Sad Sword is also somewhat my tool to avoid duex machina bs DxD is known for since I want to keep this as grounded as possible like God of War and Witcher. So despite Jaune's Vol 1 personality, he fights like the Rusted Knight.
Will also tell ahead that Jaune retelling the story from now on will be shown in omakes. Not every chapter just to make the story more clean cut.
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