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Sage of the Six Paths	By : HumpTheBump Category: +M through R > RWBY Views: 1052 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
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- 7
Chapter 6: Midnight Brawl.
Note: Alright my doods, here is another chapter for y'all and I won't say much since there isn't much to be said but I have the results of the summoning contract that I requested ideas from.
A lot of them were really good and I couldn't choose from them so I used a randomized pinwheel to pick one for me and this is the result.
Jaune Arc in a later chapter will gain the summoning contract to the mythical species of 'Fey' and when Jaune begins to learn sage mode, I have a general idea on what to do.
Forsaken Dragon of the Void is the one who requested the Fey Contract and I give a big shout out for his idea.
Thanks man! I appreciate you!
If anyone has a request for the story then don't hesitate, cause I'll take anything I can get within reason, anyone who's idea is taken will be given a big shout out.
So thanks guys! I really appreciate your help.
Also show this story some love, me and unlimited work hard to bring you guys content.
"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Bijuu Talking"
'Bijuu Thinking'
"Jutsu"
'Written Content'
"Video"
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Jaune stared at the magnificence of the red cloaked girl with a gaping jaw almost as if he was seeing a recreation of his own feat against the horned grimm almost a week prior.
'Is that what I looked like when I faced the nuckelavee?' Jaune thought which was directed to his inner demon then watched the four gang members scurry out of the store to charge at the girl.
"Yes, but back then, you were motivated by a desire for preservation which is a good thing, it means you have strong survival instincts. But this young woman...she is a trained warrior and she won't allow these pathetic creatures to defeat her." Juubi said as it did like the girl who didn't allow others to walk over her regardless of whom or their intent.
Jaune seemed to agree as he watched the girl twirled her blade and slammed the sharp end into one the goons who had their hand on a blaze coated sword, swiftly killing the man.
The two gunners shot towards the girl, unloading their clips towards the cloaked girl though she reacted much quicker then the blonde expected as she pulled the trigger of her red colored scythe which the tip of the shaft fired a powerful bullet that sent the young girl flying like a propelled missile.
"What the?...Is that scythe...a gun? What happened to the integrity of weapons nowadays? Back then shinobi didn't need these fancy mechanical shifting weapons, they can stab you in the back of the neck and not think twice about it" Juubi complained like an old man which would've been funny to Jaune if he wasn't raptured by the sight of the girl.
The girl shot through the air like a missile while twirling around her scythe to stab its edge into the ground that allowed her to stand on the shaft of it like some shift ground, she looked down to see that she stabbed around goon through the ground effectively killing them.
The red cloaked fighter gets off the weapon to grab it to twirl slash upwards hitting the fourth goon upwards cutting through a massive amount of organs and blood splurge outwards, when the Gunner goon hits the ground, so did the massive amount of blood that came out like a water balloon.
The girl looked around to see she had murdered the four goons in a spectacularly brutal fashion though she chuckled nervously while saying "Heh....Uncle Qrow isn't gonna like hearing this..."
Jaune had excellent hearing, even before getting empowered by Juubis Yang Release, he heard what the girl said 'Wait what? That old drunk is an uncle? He shouldn't be drinking like the village drunk when he has a family that looks up to him'.
"Maybe in your eyes but I looked at the man's soul long before you regained consciousness, you may not know but his soul aches with emotional pain so much that it can drive any human to madness, I was honestly surprised he hadn't committed atrocities from the amount of pain he held in his soul" the creature gave its thoughts on the man then returning to silence to keep a watchful gaze of the scene.
Jaune ignored half of that but felt it was an interesting note that the man who helped ensure his arrival into beacon was hurting that much, now his drinking had made incredible sense.
The hatted gentlemen puffed out a cloud of smoke from his cigar while walking outside from the store, this gave the blonde kid a chance so he silently tip toed over to the old man to silently speak to him "Run through the back, encase he tries to use you as a hostage"
The old man looked over at the young blonde boy who told him to run so he nodded, then started to run into the back room where the back exit was located with the desire to survive.
Jaune kneeled behind the counter while grabbing crystals of blaze dust and stuffing them into his hoodie pocket yet not in the attempt to steal them but to utilize their abilities, the crystals were still usable energy.
Juubi was curious as it wondered what it's host planned to do with the crystallized natural chakra, it would've read his mind yet Jaune who claimed to have been working on coding his mind from a numbers game had masterfully hid his true thoughts even from the likes of it 'Jaune is a lot more clever then he gives himself credit for, and whatever he plans with this diluted chakra will certainly be a spectacular show'
Jaune seemed to focus on grabbing more of the red colored crystals along with some of the bright green ones, Fire and Wind.
The jinchuriki smiled then got from his spot from behind the counter to vault over it jogging towards the entrance while he watched Roman Torchwick drop the cigar from his mouth to which he put out the lit end by smashing it gently with the bottom end of his red bottom cane.
"Sorry Little Red, it's time to end this show with a ba-" The red haired man monolog just as he raised his cane with the end popping up into a sight only to get startled when another voice calls out "Hey Red! Shoot this!"
Roman turned his head to look behind his right shoulder seeing a blonde haired kid in the most unfashionable black hoodie with a white bunny imprint but he wasn't concerned for blondies taste in hoodies, well the gentleman thief was DEEPLY concerned for the blonde kids taste in hoodies, but what worried the man even more was that the kid throw a semi large blaze crystal towards him.
"Oh Shi-!" The Thief could only say as the girl had her scythe compacted into a sniper mode that shot the dust crystal right out of the air, causing an explosion of fire to erupt from the tiny crystal, the explosion sent Jaune flying backwards through the stores main glass then rolling inside while grunting from the pain.
'Ughhhh, I wasn't expecting that kind of blow back...' Jaune thought to himself as he slowly got to his knees and looked down at his form, aside from soot from the fire crystal, the jinchuriki didn't suffer any damage.
"That would be the case, I seemed to have neglected to tell you the downside of diluted chakra. It's INCREDIBLY volatile, like that crystal, any damage upon its crystalline form that isn't properly handled to being grounded and used as powder, it will cause an explosion much like what just happened.
"Given the crystals size, color and diluted chakra density. The explosion of that size and pushback was expected" Juubi said, giving its thoughts on the dust explosion "So that was the reason for pocketing all those crystals, you're going to use them as tools, it seems you've taken my lessons well Child. Any respectable and competent shinobi must utilize any tool they have in their immediate arsenal or anything they find to help turn the tide of battle"
Jaune heard the one eyed creature's words while he got up onto his feet to stare at Roman who was on one of his knees while patting out an open fire that seemed to be feeding on his jacket.
Roman's right sleeve was completely burned away leaving a charred section of his shoulder jacket, his pants damaged but otherwise ok to be used though he had soot coating some parts of his body and his face but he had no hat meaning the hat was burned away.
Jaune grits his teeth as he had expected the dust explosion to do more damage to the man's body only to mutter "Fucking shield..." which was true, unlike grimm, humans were three times more difficult to kill.
Like cockroaches.
The blonde kid ran out of the window to glare down at the redhead while the red cloaked girl came to his side as well, keeping her rifle trained on the thief. "Good idea with the crystal! Names Ruby!" She said, turning her eyes towards the blonde man who produced a green crystal from his hoodie pocket.
"Jaune, we just need to keep him off his feet! I'll keep throwing crystals" Jaune said while giving a glance to her silver eyes with his active crimson red then returning his sharingan gaze back to the thief then throwing the green crystal towards Roman, who looked up after putting out the fire that was burning on his right sleeve only to see a green crystal "FUUU-" the thief could only draw when the red sniper shot the green crystal RIGHT in front of his face.
A massive explosion of wind conjured forth from the sudden collapse of the crystal with enough force that sent the red head skidding through the street with enough force to lacerate large sections of his skin which meant it had enough force to bust through his shield.
Roman rolled 30 feet away from the ground zero explosion then slowly got up as blood dripped from his many wounds and head onto the stone bricked road, the red head man looked like he got mauled by a nursery of raccoons which was a group name for the animal.
'Ugh, this was not how tonight was supposed to go, i was supposed to use Junior's men for a simple dust robbery because the fire bitch said we needed more even when he have numerous warehouses filled with it but now the men Junior gave me are dead which is not going to make him happy and not only that, blondie is some sort of dust wiz and just using that to really bust through my aura. Fuck, I hope I have some left to rebuild the shield' Roman was thinking to himself before growling out and getting onto his feet.
"God damn it! I'm not going to let two snot nosed brats get in the way of my robbery!" Roman shouted in anger as he grabbed the handle of his cane to point it at the two kids like a gun "DIE!" He shouted with a massive flare being shot out of the cane like a rocket.
Ruby had faster instincts which she mechashifted her weapon back into a scythe to which she fired towards the left sending her flying heavily to right from the immense power and recoil from the sniper.
This left Jaune alone as even with his knee eyes that made everything around him much slower, it allowed himself to think while staring deeply of the rotating ball of fire, explosion and possible death that was charging right at him 'Oh god, I'm gonna die! My pockets are filled with volatile material with enough power to turn me into chunks! Not even you can save me from that possibility!' Jaune was deeply concerned with his possible death.
"Ugh...boy think, the world around you is moving at a snail's pace. Want to remember your mangekyo?" The creature informed Jaune about his enhanced sharingan which he soon saw what it meant, even if the blonde man couldn't see his own eyes without a mirror, the mangekyo enhanced the sharingans base perception abilities.
'Wait what? I didn't feel my eyes shift like it did the first time' Jaune thought to himself as even if his body was as slow as the world now, it felt good for the extra time.
"That is when you subconsciously forced chakra into your eyes in response to your desire to survive, the original surge of chakra was the time you felt your eyes 'shift' into the Sharingan, but your desire to survive is what pushed your eyes to evolve into the mangekyo. However now that your eyes had grown used to the sharingan" Juubi began to explain why Jaune didn't feel his eyes morphed into the evolved state of the mangekyo.
Jaune if he could move his face at this point of slowed perceptive, he would've assumed a dumb look with a fly going in one ear and out of the other.
Juubi sighed to itself knowing it had to explain "You tend to be slow in the heat of battle, I'll just have to beat some battle sense into you. You can't freeze up during something like this! As a shinobi, you shouldn't fight on the same field as your opponent, your goal is to win.
"As a shinobi you must utilize every ability, item and tactics you have regardless of morality. Shinobi don't have honor!"
And with a rather questionable pep talk from a ten tailed hermit crab, Jaune seemed to have learned once again, what it meant to be a ninja.
The ball of explosions collided against the blonde man only for a white energy constructed rib cage to appear at a split second tanking the blast of the canes explosive flare, the force of the blast sent Jaune skidding backwards as his feet broke through the stone floor underneath.
Roman starred in both amazement and fear of such a power in front of him took the form of a white colored rib cage, then he stared at the boy inside the cage.
The blonde man seemed to fish out another red colored crystal before their eyes connected. Roman saw the kids eyes before which was crimson with an odd three dots encircling the pupil.
But this time, Roman didn't see three dots but a six bladed spiral whirlpool with the pupil but instead a circle of crimson red 'W-what is with kids eyes? Is it his semblance? Then what do I call that aura construct? There is no possible way some no name kid would have the power of two semblances. It just doesn't happen! Could he be like the fire bitch? Is that even possible!?' As Roman was having an internal crisis at the blonde kid surrounded by a white energy ribcage.
Ruby was also staring deeply at the blonde kids ability with wide eyes and a slack jawed as she was often told by her father that semblances in recent years were used as an enhancement, like her speed but he never said there was any instances where a semblance can be weaponized as their main form of combat without the use of a weapon.
Yet, she is witnessing someone construct a ribcage of pure aura and it looks real, it certainly has to be if it can repel the force of the thief's explosive flare.
"What...the fuck!?" Torchwick shouted as lowered his cane.
Jaune raised the dust crystal in his hand while his eyes looked downwards towards it as if he was thinking 'Hey Juubi, in the Shinobi Era...was it possible for a Susanoo wielder to envelop their Susanoo with an element?'
"To the Susanoo itself? Improbable but not impossible. Sasuke Uchiha enveloped his arrows with the Amaterasu, the fire variant of your Suijin, so it's possible you can envelop weapons with your mangekyo abilities but there isn't any known memory I can recall that allowed a mangekyo user to empower their Susanoo form with an element. You can certainly try and the most likely thing that will happen is that you'll lose your hand" the one eyed creature responded to the hosts question with full honesty.
'Why do I feel like that ever since I met you, I'm always getting threats that I'm gonna somehow end up damaging my hands like some pseudo Darth Vader' Jaune thought highly annoyed for the threat before looking back up to the red haired male, glaring down at him 'Doesn't matter, the overall objective of today...Roman Torchwick's capture'
"SUSANOO!" With a sudden shout from the blonde man and his red crimson eyes seemed to glow in the dark, the rib cage disappeared but the white energy remained, reconstructing itself into the upper half of a humanoid skeleton with glowing red eyes much like Jaunes.
The construct opened its jaw to give a hearty roar like some massive beast before extending itself towards the red headed man, Roman gasped and tossed himself to the left as a massive left white bone fist smashed into his previous location then it pulled it out leaving behind a fist shaped crater then extending its right hand towards it in an effort to grab him.
'Shit! That thing may look like it's a few meters tall but it can extend itself even longer while remaining extremely scary!' Roman thought as he rolled backwards escaping the energy constructs' grip when it slammed its palm into the ground in a grabbing motion 'Ok, this kid needs to figure out what he wants to do to me! First he could've molded my flesh into the ground with that punch but now he's trying to grab me.' Roman spoke internally before raising his cane to fire another explosive flare which connected the blonde man.
If not for the stream of white chakra encircling him, the force of the blast forced the blonde man to skid backwards heavily 'Oh, so his aura isn't anchored into the ground. That's good to know, at least now I can keep that kid away and force him back but that's gonna be more difficult than it looks'
Jaune looks up to see Roman starting to run towards the building on the right which had a ladder heading up to the roof "Not happening, Red! Try to stop him!" Jaune shouted towards the red cloaked girl who was fixated on the glowing white upper skeleton though she got out of her stupor then raised her rifle to start shooting at the thief.
The Red Haired Man groaned as he got pelted with a high caliber bullet that almost felt like he was hit with a truck but luckily he was strong enough to withstand bullets with ease, The Maimed Thief raised his cane to fire another blast of dust towards the girl who stared and was ready to fire to the ground to send her upwards to dodge only to see a white bone hand intercepting the blast.
Ruby looked over towards Jaune and nodded at him to signal her appreciation of the save, he seemed to nod back only to return his gaze to Roman who began to climb upwards quite fast 'Shit! He's already almost up and the pain from the Susanoo is starting to accumulate, God it hurts. Why would anyone suffer just for a technique like this?' Jaune thought then spoke out loud "Hurry up there! Try and stop him from escaping"
"Right!" Ruby shouted moving the top of her scythe downwards to trigger another bullet to fire that sent her upwards towards the roof.
She lands on the roof with ease and starts running after the dust thief with haste leaving the blonde man on the street alone.
Jaune is breathing sporadically in pain as the Susanoo dissolved and disappeared while leaving the blonde kids mangekyo active, He pushes chakra onto the soles of his feet to jump upwards sending himself flying into the air and landing on the roof to start following behind Ruby.
Roman stopped at the edge of the roof as he had fished out a scroll from his pocket which had numerous 'new messages' on it, tapping into the messaging app on his scroll to send a message to the contact 'Fire Bitch'
'Need Pickup, the robbery had a complication' Roman Sent before feeling shivers down his spine, his instincts telling him that he was followed "You damn kids, didn't you parents tell you not to interfere with a crime and keep your heads down?" He turns his head to stare at them.
Ruby had her scythe back in its sniper mode to point it at him "Just surrender quietly and we won't have to hurt you anymore" she said as while she has no qualms of hurting the man, she'd prefer to take the higher route
"I don't mind hurting you some more" Jaune said, causing the red highlight girl to look over with a surprised fish face only to shake her head to glare back at the thief.
"Heh...Two Sides huh, kids these days watch too many movies on heroism" Roman said under his breath as he felt amused though his eyes are extremely focused on them in case he had to call upon his training to stall for as much time as he can until his ride gets here.
Which didn't take long as a small industrial bullhead descends from the sky which it's engines picks up a hell of a lot of wind, Jaune grits his teeth as he pulled out another blaze crystal from his hoodie and was about to call out to Ruby just as he wound up to throw the crystal only to see Roman had beat him to the punch "I DON'T THINK SO!" He raised his cane to fire it, a flare of dust was shot towards Jaune who's eyes widened as he couldn't stop the attack nor did he have enough physical fortitude to call on the Susanoo again.
The flare hits Jaune causing him to gasp in pain and sent flying backwards, causing the jinchuriki to land on his side gasping in pain 'Holy FUCK! That hurt!'.
Ruby looked over in obvious worry of the man, especially since she saw blood starting to pool in the impacted area of jaunes chest "Jaune! Why didn't you activate your auras shield or that awesome construct!?" The red cloaked girl shouted at him though Jaune had the impulse to shout back that he didn't have the shield but held his tongue as the thief was still there.
The Gentleman Thief stares in surprise as he half expected the blondie to call forth the energy construct to defend himself like he had done so before, though he made a mental connection for a possible theory of this new foe of his.
'Ok, what could be the reason why he didn't call that defensive ribcage..Does it have a time or use limit? Like a few minutes or once a day? Or since it's an aura construct made into physical form so does it force pain to accumulate since the kid is forcing aura out of his body or something? Semblances are a relatively new field of research recently so anything could be possible' Roman thought to himself without himself realizing that his second theory was hitting the nail on the head.
The red head man turned around to step into the opened bullhead that reached down to his level which it then raised so the man can have the last word, Roman reveals a blaze dust crystal from his pants pocket that he took from the dust store much like Jaune had done recently "Hey blondie! Remember this trick?! It's the same one you used against me!" The Thief then tossed the crystal towards Ruby who stepped back from the crystal, she looked up as fear became clear as the man shot his cane's final explosive flare towards her.
Ruby closed her eyes as if waiting for the blast to hit, only her eyes to open wide when she felt herself pulled into a warm embrace, the young girl saw Jaune pulled her close to him while enveloping them both in the bone white rib cage.
She caught his words when Jaune spoke under his breath "God it hurts even more with this damn thing, but I'll endure such pain to protect her" Ruby blushed at the insinuation as the man was willing to undergo some downside of his semblance just to protect her.
Well it didn't matter as when the flare connected with the dust, a blonde woman jumped from the sky to downgrade the power of the fiery explosion.
The woman reached her full height, she had blonde hair tied into a bun while her glasses gave a professional look though adding more menace to her steely cold green eyes.
Her outfit consisted of a work appropriate white blouse with a black outer tattered looking cape and a purple interior, she had a pencil skirt that seemed more flexible than one would expect for such an article of clothing.
Jaune stared in wonder of the woman would tank a blast like that with no pushback whatsoever, unlike him, the jinchurki dispelled his Susanoo as the pain became too much 'Woah'
"Take note child, if you believed this Ruby-Child was skilled then this WOMAN is someone both of you should inspire to be. A true warrior" Juubi spoke up for in the past half hour since the altercation between Jaune Arc and Roman Torchwick 'Yep...I have a lot to do before I can think of reaching a slim point of her skill, not even counting experience...' Jaune thought to himself as he stared in wonder.
The glasses woman pushed her optical wear further up the bridge of her nose before swinging her weapon choice, a horse riding crop, which sent beams of purple energy flying and hitting the bullhead.
Roman grunted as he was too injured at this point so he didn't have the patience or strength to fight against a fully trained huntress so he hastily ran to the cockpit of the ship "We got a huntress! Deal with her!" The woman had a red dress with wavy black hair and red colored high class gloves.
She tsked in annoyance and ordered the man "We will discuss your failure later, take the reigns" she said in a commanding tone before leaving the pilot's seat to which the redhead quickly got into, to make sure the bullhead remains floating.
The blonde woman stared upwards to see a new person, the woman's glowing orange eyes glared downwards to the huntress and the two kids staring with wide eyes 'Those kids are the ones who gave Roman such trouble, pathetic...a trained huntsmen yet he gets his ass handed to him by children...' The mysterious woman thought to herself before fire started to glow from her gloves and the tattoo from her back.
The fiery eyed woman shot a fireball towards the huntress who effortlessly weaved her body to telekinetically control the two kids to push them to the side while front flipping past the attack that caused an explosion and damaged the roof.
The Blonde Huntress utilized her telekinesis to control all the fallen stone debris into an earth spear which she shot towards the bullhead, the fire woman narrowed her eyes then throws another fireball at the spear causing it to burn out and scatter but the spear reformed near instantly, hitting the underside of the bullhead.
The woman sneered while trying hard to keep her balance which wasn't hard due to the fact that she was wearing heels on a non-stable surface "Shit!' Fire soon gathered around and exuded it in an AoE effect burning all of the pieces that got scattered after hitting the bullhead. Turning all the stone pieces into melted slag.
Jaune stares again in wonder but fear started to creep in his heart from the elemental discharge from the woman and unlike his power, she had masterful control though juubis sudden speech had caught the blonde jinchuriki off guard.
"Curious, this woman seems to have effortless use of Yin Release infused Fire Style" the creature said.
'Didn't you say to me a while ago that in order for ninjutsu to be used, you needed a verbal component and to weave hand signs to mix physical and spiritual chakra? But she isn't weaving hand signs nor is she utilizing the required verbal component' Jaune asked as what he was witnessing was in direct contradiction of what he was informed.
"Yes, that is true, however Hagoromo, his brother and I. We all can mix yin release into any elemental affinity which allows us to bypass the need for hand signs and the verbal component. Curious, she seems to be commanding natural elements with great control and ease...do not speak to me Child, I must think" Juubi said as it became silent again but this time, it needed to think of what had occurred.
The woman in glasses didn't seem fazed in the slightest of the attack, she swung her riding crop again sending out a blast of energy which bypassed the bullhead entirely, she had a tick mark when Jaune shouted "Get new glasses lady!" She would lecture the boy for distracting her after the whole incident gets resolved.
The blast of energy hits the sky causing a miniature storm to suddenly appear and ice cold spikes fall from the cloud to pelt and stab the topside flying of the bullhead, one of the spikes stabs through the window and nearly hits Roman who effectively dodged the spike that hits his seats headrest "Shit! Cinder! Hurry! I'm not in the mood for a fucking lobotomy today!" The thief shouted at the other occupant of the bullhead.
The woman now named as 'Cinder' tsked again as she began to grow more and more annoyed by the red heads' constant shouting, her gloves brightens again though instead of a fire pulse or a fireball, she causes fire energy to exude from under the huntress.
The woman backflips away from the exploding circle of fire and was about to utilize the earth spear technique again only to see the bullhead close its door and fly away.
The Glasses Woman didn't seem annoyed or angry from the experience as that was due to years of mental training for the job as a huntress but she could've done much more but she also had to defend two children who tried to do her job.
She looked over to the two kids to see if they were ok, the red cloaked girl was on her knees obviously worried for the blonde boy due to the massive pooling on his chest.
So the blonde woman runs over quickly and without any warning, she pushes the ruined hoodie upwards to get a better look of the wound and was surprised at what the woman saw.
Deep lacerations of the man's well toned chest and third degree burn wounds and while that looked back for surface damage and wounds of the muscles however, the wounds looked like they were beginning to heal with minor scarring left over from the healing process.
'What? How is this possible? Aura can't heal that fast especially for a wound like this...Could it be that this boy is actively forgoing the aura shield to enhance the passive healing effect? If that's the case then he must have a larger aura reservoir to call on then most his age' The woman thought as she pushed the hoodie back down then stared at the two with an unflinching gaze "You two are in trouble"
Ruby gulped down a lump of air then looked at Jaune who looked back as both were obviously concerned of what is going to happen to them.
An hour has passed and Ruby Rose looked around the room that she was led too which was a police interrogation room. She was worried that she was in deep trouble for trying to do what a normal huntress would.
She would've expected a tongue lashing from the deputy headmistress of beacon and expected her spot that she was offered when Ozpin had approached her at signal academy with a spot in Beacon would be revoked due to her act of vigilantism.
Ruby was deeply honored that she could enter her dream academy two years earlier than the rest of her peers.
"Hey Shortstack" a sudden deep voice called out causing the red highlight girl to look to find a man with red eyes in a grey shirt and red cape, almost like hers, enter the room.
"Uncle Qrow!" Ruby shouted with pure happiness that family came to visit her in the slammer "What are you doing here?"
The drunken man seemed to chuckle as he took a seat across from the young girl "I was called by Ozzy that you encountered Roman Torchwick. However, the sudden abilities of your new friend had needed his attention so you'll have to handle me for this. Just a few questions that I need you to answer then you can head back to your hotel room"
Ruby nodded at the drunken man as she was ready to answer anything he would ask given that if she knew the answers.
The red eyed man looked downwards as he pulled out a sheet of paper from his pants along with a flask, uncapping the flask to take a swig from the contents along with reading the paper.
The questioning goes by quicker than usual for the grizzled huntsmen since a lot of people aren't as keen to divulge needed information without threats and incentives.
The man puts the paper down seeming to nod at all the answers that he was given by his niece "Ok shortstack, that's all I officially needed to know but I wanted to ask you something"
The young girl clocked her head slightly curiously at the old man "What is it Uncle Qrow?"
"I wanted to ask why you agreed to Ozzy's offer to enter Beacon two years earlier than the rest of your year." The drunken huntsman asked since he was indeed curious about the young girl's reasoning for accepting a sort of shady deal.
Ruby seemed to think of the reason, well beyond the reason that she readily accepted the offer from Ozpin, she did find it odd that he would offer her a spot since she wasn't that great.
"Well, it's a one in a lifetime opportunity Uncle Qrow, though I did find it strange that I was given the option and no one else in my year. I mean, I'm good at the combat portion of signal since you helped train me but I'm not that exceptional nor are my grades good, Dad would have a heart attack if I dropped below C" Ruby explained her reason and her thoughts of the offer.
Qrow nodded at this information then started to think about the headmaster of beacon 'Ok, Ruby doesn't seem to know or believe Ozpin merely allowed her to skip half of signal to get under his thumb was because of her eyes, though she does find it odd so that means she doesn't entirely trust that snake. Which is good, hopefully Ruby can help Jaune knock that snake down a few pegs' he then spoke out loud "Ok then Shortstack, just be careful from here on out because the moment you get into beacon, I won't be able to help you out if you end up doing anything stupid"
"Awww! I knew you always cared about me, Drunkle Qrow!" Ruby exclaimed with a squeal, quite loud that the drunk had to cover his ears from the sheer noise of that squeal "Woah Ruby! Quiet down! I have a hangover right now!"
"Hehe...sorry Uncle Qrow.."
"It's fine Shorty, just be glad that it was me that came here and not Tai, Oum knows what he would try to do..." Qrow exclaimed knowing that his non-blood brother was more crazy about his young girl's safety, though luckily the ol drunk hadn't informed the retired huntsmen about his eldest daughter's attack on a local club.
During Ruby Rose's Interrogation of a separate room, Jaune was in another room with his arms spread so that two beautiful dog faunus women were tending to his injuries while getting some light medical information which is known allergies, blood type, medical record and so forth.
It was basic on hand knowledge that Jaune knew on hand so he had spent the past 30 minutes staring at the one way glass window to watch the two aura signatures that was located there as well as talking to the multi million year old chakra demon inside the blonde man's gut.
"They say, taking a picture makes the moment last longer" Juubi commented with a slight cheek only to be shot down by Jaune 'I said that to my ex-girlfriend last year and that was before we started to date. Think before you start quoting my own memories to me'
Juubi seemed to sigh then agreed as looking into the memories of his current host wouldn't bring him any amount of satisfaction nor amusement "Fine.. Anyway, do you wish to hear my thoughts of the fire bending woman from the bullhead?"
'Yeah, I want to know how she was able to effortlessly command an element without dust because I certainly didn't sense any diluted chakra from her gloves' Jaune response in his mind as he lets his arms down after the girls had wrapped his torso in bandages then left a basic gray t-shirt.
Jaune grabs the shirt and gets up from the chair as the police nurses leave the room so he can put the shirt on, while also listening to the one eyed hermits lecture "I have a theory, do you believe in magic?"
'I swear to the gods, both the old and the new, if you start quoting that cancerous show 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic' bullshit I will smack the ever living shit out of you. Isn't it enough that my younger sisters enjoy it so I don't have to?' Jaune thought as the night extended on long enough and it started to wear on him, along with the fact that he truly did hate that show and hoped it would die a horrible death.
"Touchy subject? Never mind you, very well, I suppose I should just bypass all the cheeky comments and proceed with the theory. Anyway, I believe that Yin Release never truly died. Remember that Yin Release is the exclusive use of spiritual chakra. And as I mentioned before, the key chakra needed to mold chakra without hand signs.
"I believe Yin Chakra had continued on in the world as did Yang chakra, I've been thinking about dust as well but later on for that, Yin Chakra since it was spiritual and didn't have a physical form. Any extinction level events couldn't fully wipe it out like it could for Yang Chakra so my theory is that Yin Release molded and evolved into 'Magic'
"Now think about this, that woman commanded fire with great control which is a required component for Yin Release and she didn't need to utilize any open sources of fire, no hand signs or verbal component"
Jaune sat down after putting on the shirt then kept listening to the creature's lecture and theory with his eyes closed to also think more clearly, and it did kind of make sense. Aura is incapable of wielding elemental properties unlike dust which was natural chakra that crystallized after thousands to millions of years.
'That kinda makes sense, from what you've told me about Yin Release. It would make sense that both it and Yang, both being the primary aspects of chakra, wouldn't just disappear especially given the amount of time, both of them would no doubt evolve along with the world. Yin Chakra would evolve into what this world sees as magic. The ability to command elemental powers without needing traditional chakra nor hand signs. Dust I can see being a mixture of natural chakra mixed with Yang Release to form crystalline bodies that can be mined and used as weapons' Jaune thought and added his own part on the idea.
Juubi was about to respond and continue on with the lecture but it's thought process and voice was cut off when the door to the room opened revealing two figures.
The same black caped woman with glasses stepped inside and stood beside the door like some sort of guard.
The second figure entered the room which both himself and the inner demon instantly got on edge as they both felt the man's inner aura was far less diluted than everyone else they had sensed.
The man had a two piece green suit with a black tie with a handle to a cane that seemed to hang off the man's black belt, his brown eyes radiating power and authority as they gazed upon the blonde man from above his unique looking black shades.
"Be EXTREMELY cautious around that man Jaune-Child, he has the presence similar to Madara Uchiha" 'Wait, isn't that the guy you claimed that murdered half an army when he just got back from the dead?' "Mmhmm" Jaune seemed to gulp as he got really tense in the green suited man's presence.
The black glasses man walked towards the table and sat at the seat just across from the younger blonde, the two remained silent for the time but gazed upon each other with no words spoken from either.
The green man seemed to have had enough and spoke up first from the two silent gaze "Mr. Jaune Arc, it's a pleasure to finally meet you. Especially since you're the first person to have garnered the attention of one my finest huntsman and having reviewed the footage from the cameras around the establishment 'Dust Till Dawn' let's say, i am highly fascinated by your semblance and your strategic thinking, you managed to compile a plan, a tactic at least, and utilize the dust from the shop and managed to get to follow through with your orders...you have the makings of a leader"
Jaune raised an eyebrow as he didn't really view himself as a leader but someone who can put together a plan on the fly like he did with the dust, he didn't even know Ruby at all however he knew that she was a speedster given her previous encounter with the black suited goons, but with a gun that strong, the red cloaked girl must've been a good shot as well though that bit was actually a guess on jaunes part.
"Thanks, but I'm not that great of a leader. I merely used everything I had available to me" Jaune said to the man.
Ozpin didn't seem to respond to that but merely narrowed his eyes at him, however he decided to not continue that line of questioning "You don't give yourself enough credit for your strategic mind but you'll see yourself in a much brighter light once you participate in beacons initiation. However I wish to learn more of your semblance" Ozpin said then asked Jaune for more information.
Jaune narrowed his eyes even more to the silver fox of a man, thinking fast on what he should say to the man, obviously divulging the inner workings of his 'semblance' would prove bad in the coming days "I've read that you have the option to divulge information of your semblance to the faculty of beacon, due to it being optional, I do not believe I should give away the secrets of my personal power. The less people that know the downside to my semblance, the better off I am." Jaune said to the headmaster.
Jaune was trying to work smart with his new power however that soon will devolve very quickly especially since a well known thief and a mysterious woman capable of conjuring and controlling elemental fire were in the equation, one of which had seen his Susanoo and will doubt inform the mystery woman about it and possibly his discovered weakness.
Ozpin remained quiet some more before nodding as the option of not informing beacon of their special power was indeed an option that all beacon students are allowed to exercise, Vacuo and Atlas are the only academies that requires their student body to inform their respective faculty about any special abilities, skills etc.
"Very well , I do hope you'd trust me or any beacon staff member enough to divulge this information, though I must inform you that making allies and connections are an encouraged practice when you are a student in my school because they will be invaluable when you graduate." Ozpin informed the young blonde.
"I understand professor, so is that all?" Jaune said as he was growing tired and would no doubt be chewed out by his two roommates since this whole ordeal wasn't exactly quiet.
"...yes, that will be all. I merely wanted to meet the boy that managed to get Qrow's eye. I do hope to see you at Beacon Academy " Ozpin said, then leaving with the blonde woman following beyond the silver fox which left the jinchuriki in the interrogation room.
The two professors of the top huntsmen academy are walking through the halls with the intent to return to their academy "Sir, I must ask. Why did you let him off without so much as a minor punishment? You shouldn't be encouraging that type of behavior because once he begins taking missions in his second or third year, he will end up putting his nose where it doesn't belong and end up getting into heavy legal trouble."
Ozpin also wondered why he didn't do that, perhaps he saw a bit of himself in the young man and believed he could mold the boy into a powerful huntsmen with a slight hope to induct him into his inner circle against an immortal witch "This will sound corny to you but I saw a bit of myself in and with the right guidance and push, he will be a powerful huntsmen in the near future, his potential Glynda...I must say that it's limitless, such potential can't be tapped without a guiding hand."
Glynda had a tick mark on her forehead which she looked at the back of her boss's head with a heavily annoyed look "You let him off the legal hook on the off chance that he will join the inner circle against your fight with 'Her'?" She said in an irritated tone, no answer was given from the headmaster who simply sipped some coffee from a flask that the silver man produced from his jacket.
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*SLAP!*
"OW!"
Jaune Arc reached the door to his hotel room while attempting to fish a copy of the room key as he talked to the one eyed creature in his gut 'Ok, today has cemented the fact that I am helplessly weak, if I didn't awaken my mangekyo against the Nuckelavee then I would've died back then, I would've died today. Juubi, you need to start teaching me some ninjutsu, or a martial art, or something that I can use without having to use my strongest technique.' Even when having the clones, body replacement or camouflage.
None of those had any combat potential at all.
"Very well, we shall begin elemental ninjutsu training. We will begin the exercise for that tomorrow, however tonight, we can get some more seal training then tomorrow you can start building your own custom seals so after seal training, get some rest because I'm going to hammer down your training tomorrow" Juubi said as it began to mentally draw up plans for the blonde jinchuriki while said man opened the door to see the room as dark as it was when Jaune left.
Jaune sighed in relief as a combination of both his wounds healing and he finally returned to a temporary home, he flinched when he saw the room suddenly light up with Nora in her night gear which was basic pink shorts and a basic black t shirt, she was glaring at the jinchuriki like he did something wrong as was about to get scolded by a disapproving mother.
The blonde shinobi looked at the second occupant of the room, Ren was standing right behind Nora's chair while also glaring down at him "Jaune-Jaune...where have you been all night?" Nora said with a menacing sounding quiet tone, and that freaked Jaune out completely as Nora never sounded this calm unless someone REALLY screwed.
"Buh, hm, ah...I...was taking a walk?" The Blonde of the trio struggled out as he hoped that would calm everyone down, and the fact that Jaune was gone for an hour so it shouldn't be that much of a deal.
The Silent Man raised what looked like a scroll tv remote and the digital screen popped up exposing a paused picture of Jaune Arc encased in a white energy ribcage while holding a girl with a red cloak protectively, The Man in question gulped a lump of air as he knew he was screwed so might as well accept the destruction of his left knee cap with grace.
Jaune breathed in some air and prepared to say that he was ready for his punishment only to get tackled onto the ground by a pink bullet by the name of Nora "I was so worried about Jaune-Jaune! Are you ok!? Did they torture you!? Did they force feed you to talk!? Was that red cloaked bitch your type?! Did they take your hoodie!? Do I need to break kneecaps to get your hoodie!? TELL ME!" Nora shouted off without taking a breath of air.
Jaune was about to answer those questions if he managed to hear them properly only to shiver once he looked over to find the black haired ninja glare down at him with massive amount of killing intent 'What the fuck? Why is he doing that!?'
"You poor poor human, surely you must realize what Ren-Child is doing, it's sibling protection from a love interest"
'LOVE!?'
-Location: Unknown, Vale Kingdom-
"Are you fucking serious!? You got your ass handed to you by two fucking kids!? Ha! Hahahaha!" A silver haired man wearing combat pants with a gray and black shirt and strange metal looking boots, he started to laugh silly and nearly fell off the dust crate that he was sitting on.
A dark skinned woman with red eyes also began to giggle uncontrollably as the top notch thief who paraded around their safe house and storage facility and acted like he had the biggest dick in the team.
Roman was puffing his newly lit cigar, one of few that has been smoked on, the man smoked heavily from the pipe in a mixture of rage and pain "Laugh it up kiddos, just wait until my wounds heal and I'll shove my cane up your ass!" The red haired thief shouted while looking at them with deeply angry eyes, until pain filled him and flinched "Ow! Neo! Watch it with the needle!" The man shouted at the other member of the warehouse.
Neopoliton Torchwick was the darling gentleman's thief's little niece who had a very rough childhood before Roman became her legal guardian. The little minx with half pink half brown hair, held up the common stitching needle with a cheeky grin on her face.
Roman sighed as the young Torchwick continued with the stitching of his open wounds, The older Torchwick's upper body is incredibly toned and not what you would expect for a fashionable man like himself though it shows just how much training and conditioning he had spent years prior to the present.
"I'm not sure if I should give you another chance" a powerful voice cuts through the air which caused both the grey haired fighter to stop laughing as well as the mint haired girl, both say ridged as the woman in a short red dress walked into the room of the warehouse, the clicking of her heels sounded in the room, her beady orange eyes gazed down Roman as she walks close to the man, she would've expected the multi colored imp to be fidget in place but it seems that the dust thief's injuries takes a higher priority.
"Explain how you manage to screw up a relatively easy robbery" Cinder said as her tone will not accept anything but the truth from the red headed man.
"Not sure what you expect me to say, Cinder, I just grabbed those goons from Juniors place and I went to Dust Till Dawn. It was going relatively smooth for a good while but Little Red ended up killing the men and blondie, I didn't even know where that little shir popped up from, started throwing dust crystals at me. Took a lot of damage from those then he summoned an aura construct of an upper portion of a humanoid skeleton" Roman recounted his failed robbery with bitterness in his voice, flinching once again as he felt disinfectant fluid enter his open wounds which stung quite a lot.
"And?" Cinder said, sounding like she's losing quite a lot of patience with him.
"And the rest is history, you've already heard and seen what happened next, huntress shows up, we get our collective asses kicked in a few minutes and now here we are, your two rugrats are laughing themselves silly and I'm getting treated by my adorable niece" The red headed gentleman finished with another wince of incoming pain, raising his arms to allow the duel haired girl to wrap the white bandages around his torso.
Cinder groans lightly while pinching the bridge of her nose "Roman, must I remind you just how much dust is needed for us to enter phase 2 of the overall plan? If we don't meet our quota then the White Fang is going to be underprepared and unequipped to fight against the likes of Atlas's incompetent soldiers"
"I got it, no need to remind me. We just need to wait until the heat dies down and we can hit another dust shop as soon as I explain to Junior why he isn't going to be seeing Donny, Chase, Gem and Jet again. You best pray that he is willing to spare more men for another raid" The man said to the boss.
"Tell him that if he refuses to supply us with labor then I'll meet him personally to see the 'Issue'"
Roman just gave a shrug of the shoulders as both his body and mind were fatigued from the long night and the following days "Yeah Yeah, hurry up with the binding Neo then we can get some ice cream.." The multi-colored girl seemed to nod again and sped up her binding process with her mind filled with the sweet treat of ice cream.
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Alright my doods! Here is another chapter for y'all and I decided to add another tod bit to make things different from canon.
It's the Aura Shield that seemingly softens and protects the user from all hostile forces like massive punching and gunshots.
I decided to downgrade this ability.
Anyone with aura can concentrate to put up the auras 'passive defense into an active skill that requires training to utilize it like muscle memory and anyone who undergoes enough damage will have their shield broken down without the need to have someone's aura depleted.
It's to make things more interesting and some of these kids if stupid enough can actually get hurt for their idiocy.
Plus we can actually see and use more of the medbay of the school and other places of the story for wounds to be patched up
Anyway, the idea that Magic is really usable Yin Chakra is just another bit of information that connects the world of remnant to the ashes of the shinobi world. Isn't that bit of lore fun? Plus adds more lore to the world of remnant as well.
If anyone has ideas for more lore of the world then don't hesitate to tell me because I'm interested to know what you guys have in mind, you're certainly more creative then me.
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