Hey guys, sorry I've been busy, haven't had a lot of spare time to write, been dealing with work, the gym, and trying to pay off my student loans, which I'm almost done with. Also saving up to get a new tattoo which I've been trying to plan out for awhile, so I've been busy.

Anyways, this is just something short to say 'Hey, I'm still alive.'

"Well, I must say I kind of want to see more of that world we just saw." Ruby said as everyone else nodded.

"Why do I get the feeling we won't though?" Blake asked.

"Hey! At least we got his book here!" Weiss said as everyone nodded.

"True, but I will admit, its good, but hes very….verbose." Pyrrha noticed that the book that Jaune had written was very detailed in every regard.

"Oh hey, its starting up again!" Nora said.

DING!

"Bring out your dead!" Jaune said as he was rining a bell while a cart of dead people was being dragged behind him.

"Well….that got morbid quickly." Qrow said as he as looking at all the dead people on the cart.

"What the hell is he doing?" Weiss asked.

"I'm guessing he's a dead collector?" Yang said.

"What the hell is that?" Nora asked.

"Like a debt collector, just not as bad." Qrow said remembering the debts he owed to bars.

People were crawling in baskets, rolling around in the mud, sick with the plague and with no hope that things would get better.

"Bring out your dead!" Jaune said as he rung his bell again.

"Looks like a pandemic or something." Blake was familiar with the history of the kingdoms, and usually there had been pandemics that almost led to mass extinction.

"Great, so this is going to be one of those depressing realities isn't it?" Pyrrha didn't like the sound of that.

"Looks that way." Ren said as he wasn't too happy about it either.

"Bring out your dead!" Suddenly someone came up to Jaune.

"Here you go." He threw a body on the cart.

"Nine lien." He said as the man gave him the money.

"Bring out your dead!" He called out again.

"Okay, I think I get it, he's…a trash collector." That just sounded bad.

"You make it sound horrible when you do it like that." Ruby didn't like it.

"Ruby, you have to understand, this is probably a planet extinction level plague, for all we know, morals could be thrown out the window, and at some point, getting rid of the dead is like taking out the trash." Blake said as everyone looked at her.

"That's it Blake, no more apocalypse novels for you."

"Dammit."

Suddenly another man walked up, Jaune was familiar with him, his name was Qrow, the local brewer and bordello owner.

"Hehe, Titties and Beer." Qrow said to himself.

And over his shoulder was Ozpin.

"PROFESSOR NO!" Ruby yelled as everyone couldn't believe it.

"Well….." Ozpin was used to seeing dead forms of himself by now.

The guy was practically immortal, nothing that happened in these universes could surprise him.

"Here's one for you." Qrow said as Jaune stopped.

"Nine lien."

"I'm not dead!" Ozpin said.

Everyone froze at that.

"Wait, did I hear that right?" Goodwitch asked the group.

"Yeah, it sounded like Ozpin said something." Qrow said as he was suddenly suspicious.

"What?" Jaune asked as he looked at the body.

"I'm not dead!" Ozpin repeated in a slightly weak tone.

"He said he's not dead!" Jaune pointed out.

"He's lying." Qrow said as he held out the money.

"No I'm not!"

"Shut up."

"QROW!" Goodwitch turned to the alcoholic.

"Hey! Its not me!"

"Can someone explain to me what is happening?"

"Apparently Qrow is trying to sell Ozpin…." Yang honestly didn't understand.

"Well what do you say to that?" Jaune pointed at the fact the old man was still clearly alive.

"Well, he will be dead soon, plague is getting to him."

"I'm getting better!"

"No you're not, you'll be dead in a minute!"

"Why is Qrow doing this?" Goodwitch couldn't imagine why he was trying to sell Ozpin to a dead body collector.

"Well, to be honest, I do get quite irritated with Ozpin sometimes."

"Enough to do this?"

"Well no, but enough to pull pranks on him, but not try to sell him to someone."

"I can't take him like that! Its against the code!" Jaune said as he shook his head.

"I don't want to go on the cart!"

"Don't be such a baby!" Qrow said as he turned to look back at the old man.

"I can't take him Qrow, sorry."

"I feel fine!"

"He seems to be perfectly healthy, if a bit underfed." Pyrrha pointed out.

"You got to admire the fact that he seems to be getting better by the minute." Glynda was wondering if Aura had anything to do with that.

"Come on man, do me a favor!" Qrow asked his friend.

"I can't!"

"Well can you stick around for a bit, he'll be dead any minute now."

"Nope, sorry Qrow, I have to go to the Scarlatinas, they've lost nine this month."

"WHAT?!" Velvet shouted out.

"Nine?"

"I have a big family." She said.

"How many?" Ruby asked.

"Too many to count."

"Well when's your next run?"

"Thursday." Jaune said as Qrow grunted.

That was too far away.

"I think I'll go for a walk!" Ozpin said reaching for a cane hanging from Qrow's belt.

"You're not fooling anyone you old coot!" He said as he pulled the cane away from Ozpin's grasp.

"Well isn't there something you can do?" Qrow winked suggestively.

"Why did he wink?" Goodwitch asked not liking where this was going.

"I don't know, but I don't like it." Ruby had a bad feeling.

"You don't like it? I'm watching myself get sold for nine lien." Ozpin was awfully quiet this whole time.

"I feel happy!" Ozpin said with a smile as Jaune looked away.

"I feel-" And then he was cut off.

Because Jaune bashed his head in with his club.

"Ah, thanks bud."

"Anytime."

"See you on Thursday."

And at that, Ozpin dropped his coffee.

"ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!"