dirtrevor here. I know I haven't updated in a while because for two reasons, reason 1 is I'm having a huge writer's block. I just can't think of where to take the stories I typed next, I just need inspiration, which brings me to my next reason. My second reason is I just don't feel motivated. They were fun to write but if I do it now, it just feels like a chore, though that's probably thanks to my ADHD. Writing was something I enjoyed for a while but now it lost its luster. I'm sorry guys. Lets hope I can get out of my rut soon. I don't own RWBY in any way, shape or form.

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"Ugh. What happen? I don't feel so good." Ruby said as she laid on the ground with her hands on her stomach. She pulls herself into a sitting position and looks around to see she wasn't back in her dorm room. In fact, she doesn't look like she's on Remnent. All around was ever shifting fog with what looked like stars, from a white dwarf to a red giant, seen behind the fog. She would have been in awe. . . if it weren't for her half-sister.

"Now I know how Jaune feels when he's airsick.'' Yang moaned. Doing her best to keep the bile down. Ruby looked around to see the rest of her team and team JNPR was there as well, though for some reason, the blonde knight wasn't here. "Where's Jaune?" Ren asked, concern lacing his voice. When it comes to Jaune, he was like a brother. And Ren was not about to lose family.

"He is alright. I assure you." Said a strange voice. They all whirled around to see a man with a pure white robe on and nothing else. His hair was as white and had a beard that seemed to become part of the robe. His face has wrinkles that shows his age but the slight smile and sky blue eyes tells that has no ill intentions of any kind. "He is merely passed out on his bed. When you return, it will be like nothing had happened."

Weiss was straight to the point as usual "Who are you, where are we and why are we here?!" She demanded. Ruby was quick to intervene "Weiss, calm down! We don't have our weapons."

Blake decided to throw her two cents in "Besides, if he was going to kill us he would have done it by now."

The robed man nodded, as if he expected this. "There only one reason I brought you here. To observe."

Everyone in the group was confused but Nora was being strangely quiet. Blake asked the question that was on everyone's mind "Observe what?"

The man's smile widened, "Different realities.", then disappeared. Behind where the man once stood was a flat screen tv on a wooden block. A couch, long enough for seven people, was in front of the tv. The black screen came to life and showed-"Jaune?" Pyrrha exlaimed as she and the others took a seat.

Grimm were walking through what looked like some version of hell. There were no trees, instead grey, cone-like formations jutted out from the ground, the sky was dark with a thick layer of clouds blocking any sunlight. At the center of the pack is a blonde teenager with a black hoodie and jeans.

Jaune was being led somewhere, that much he knew but he didn't know where. He did a quick look around and saw that an ursa is flanking him on each side, four beowoles at the front and a deathstalker taking up the rear. He could take the beowolves and ursai but he had no chance against the deathstalker, besides he didn't have his armor, his sword and shield were in his team's room and he didn't have his scroll to call for help. Things are not looking good for him.

"Sheesh" Yang said "I knew Jaune had bad luck but that's just pushing it."

"What I want to know is why Jaune is being escorted by grimm of all things." Ruby asked. Everyone else agreed.

The convoy of grimm stopped. From what he could see past the beowolves was an army of grimm heading his way. From beowolves all the way to goliaths and every other type of grimm in between. He even saw what looked like a grimm version of a dragon.

Everyone paled at the sight of the massive army. Nora clung to Ren like a lifeline while Ruby did the same to Yang. Blake spoke "If such a large force were to attack, then there'd be no hope of survival."

One thing was certain, Jaune was terrified. In his fear induced coma, he saw something at the front, or someone. From what he could see, it's a woman with pale skin almost to the point of being white. Her hair is done up in a bun with three offshoots on each side. Her dress is black as the grimm with blood red trim. As she got closer, the blonde knight was able to see her eyes, which were black with red pupils.

"I'm going to have nightmares for a while." Ruby meekly said.

"Is she actually leading the grimm?" Pyrrha asked

"It certaintly seems that way" Ren stated

The beowolves stepped aside as the grimm army halted. She walked up to Jaune and speaks "So, You're the wielder of the fabled sword Crocea Mors. Not what I expected, but you'll do."

"W-what do you w-want with m-me?" Jaune stuttered out. Internally he cursed himself for stuttering at all.

The women smirked and said "For you to join my side."

"Why would anyone in their right mind work with grimm?!" Weiss exlaimed.

"And why does she want vomit boy?" Yang questioned

"There is a reason why." She gestured to the massive grimm hoard "I am Salem. I have this army ready to attack the day of the vytal fesival." Jaune's eyes widened at the amount of damage she could cause. She continued "However, if you were to join me, I'll cancel the attack. But if you were to join me you have to promise full loyalty and I know an Arc never goes back on a promise. If you refuse then I'll have to kill you and launch the attack."

"I'm gonna kill her." Ruby growled out. Yang's eyes were red, seething at the deal.

"i'm going to break her legs then her face!" Nora yelled out. Ren made no move to stop her.

"This is like some of the deals my father makes." Wiess said sadly.

"Either way, Jaune loses." Pyrrha concluded. Sad her crush has been forced into a corner.

Jaune asked "But what about my friends?"

Salem answered "They'll be spared. If you join."

"Everyone." They all looked at Ren "No matter what happens next, we can't blame Jaune for his choice." They all nodded in agreement.

"Do we have a deal" Salem asked as she offered her hand. She smirked, knowing she had him cornered.

Jaune stared at her outstreched hand. "I" was all that came out of his mouth. He looked down at his feet "I". Salem waited patiently, knowing this was a hard choice. His fist tightened then released. She smirked in victory as she knew that was a sign of surrender. However, she didn't expect what happend next. The knight looked up with a fire in his eyes as he shouted "I refuse!" He right hooked her in the cheek in her moment of surprise, sending her flying into a boulder.

"Holy crap!" Ruby shouted in surprise.

"Wha-I. HOW?!" Weiss exlaimed in utter shock.

Yang gave a long whistle and said "He has mean right hook."

Blake gave a small "whoa." Pyrrha had a pink tinge on her cheeks

"Destroy her Jaune-Jaune!" Nora exclaimed with her usual energy while Ren's eyes widened but his neutral mask was quickly put back on.

The grimm poised to attack the enraged knight but stopped. The grimm closest to him joined the horde. He looked over and saw that she was unscathed. His scowl only deepened "You're tough."

She smirked. "I have to be in order to control grimm. And while I commend you for your loyalty to your friends, it was a mistake to attack me." She launched a black ball of energy straight at Jaune. It was so fast, he didn't have time to even flinch. The impacted with a resounding boom, reating a massive smoke cloud. Nothing could be seen save for the edge of a crater.

"Jaune!" Nora, Ruby, Yang and Pyrrha shouted. The rest watched with bated breath.

The women huffed "Your attempt to kill me was admirable, but foolish. So long you followed my orders, you could've had whatever you wanted. What a waste"

"Don't start crying."

"He's alive!" Ruby shouted with tears in her eyes. The others breath a sigh of releaf

Her eyes widened as she looked at the crater. The smoke cleared and showed Jaune standing with his hoodie all but destroyed, showing off his muscular build with a few scars here and there.

All the girls, minus Nora, had blushes, while Blake, Pyrrha and Yang had nose bleeds for various reasons.

"I'm tired of people pitying me just because I'm weak. I'm tired of holding everyone else back from being the best. And I'm tired of holding myself back." Gone was the cowardly and humble hunstman-to-be. In his palce was a warrior, ready to die a thousend deaths for those he cares about. The fire in his eyes seemed to burn as bright as the sun.

Salem's eyes narrowed and asked "How did you survive that?"

Jaune's scowl never left his face "My semblance. I call it Asura's wrath because the angrier I get, the stronger I become. Because of this I have to keep my anger in check or I may hurt the ones I care about. But. . ." a smile appeared on his face "We're not near any human or faunus settlements. Which means I don't have to hold back. And you have earned my wrath!"

"Somebody get popcorn cause this is going to be good." Yang excitetly said. Suddenly a bag appeared right in front of her with a note. Yang quickly collected herself and the bag. She read the note aloud "Think of whatever food or beverage you would like and it will appear." Hearing this, Ruby, Blake and Nora thought of their favorite snacks.

Salem grit her teeth and stated "kill him." With that simple command, every single grimm surged forth to tear the angry blonde apart. But the thing about blue-eyed blondes is they're impossible to keep down. Two beowolves lunged at him but were punched in the face, breaking their skull and sending them flying. Jaune launched forward, getting a good 20 feet of air. He landed feet first on an ursa head, smashing it. He proceeded to punch any grimm that got in his range. beowolves, ursai and boarbatusks went down with a single blow as this went on for several minutes. As he threw a boarbatusk at a group of beowolves, two deathstalkers surrounded him. They launched their stingers toward the boy but he managed to manuver out of the way just in time. While both stingers were lodged into the ground, Jaune grabbed both then started spinning. At first, the two scorpian-like grimm were dragged along the ground while trying to get a grip. It was all for naught as a second later they were both airborne, hanging on by their tail in Jaune's grasp. Any grimm that got too close was knocked away from the force.

If there were walls then Nora and Ruby would be bouncing off of them as they shouted in excitement. Pyrrha, Blake and Weiss watched in awe of the power displayed while Yang glared at the screen with envy as she mumbled "I want to do that." Ren may have looked calm on the outside, but in his head he was going ballistic at the sight. He just had better control.

After a minute or so of spinning, Jaune let go of one of the deathstalkers, sending it flying toward a goliath, killing both and a few smaller grimm from the force of the impact. He sent the other flying toward Salem. She quickly disolved before it hit. She reformed behind the massive army on the edge of a cliff and watched with a glare as the blonde warrior tore through her forces. After an hour, there was nothing left of the army of darkness save for a few smarter grimm that retreated during the slaughter. At the center of it all was the blonde warrior, eyes closed with his head toward the sky while breathing heavily.

"Damn." Yang said, then got cheeky "That was pretty grimm. eh eh?" Everyone groaned

"DANG IT YANG!" Ruby exclaimed.

Jaune opened his eyes and looked to the only grimm left in the area and that was the dragon grimm. Salem managed to get on top of the dragon while Jaune was buisy. Both her and the dragon glared at the boy. Salem asked "How. That was half of the grimm population on this continent, and yet you slaughtered them all and here you are winded. How can you still stand?"

He smiled and said "There's one difference between you and me." Salem mearly raised an eyebrow.

Everyone leaned forward, curious about what he was going to say.

"I have people that care about me, and I care about them. Family, friends, even teachers. Their one of the reasons why I wanted to become a hunstman, so I can protect them.

The group smiled, some more than others, proud of Jaune's awnser

"You." he paused "You have no one. Everyone that works for you is just a buisness partner, someone that can be indisposed if they beome a problem. The only person you care about is yourself. So I ask you. Why do you hate humanity?"

Salem smiled evilly and said " Since you won't live to tell the tale, I might as well. Humanity is mortal. I was human, but I didn't want to die. So I studied, I hunted down the legends of what could've lead to eternal life," she frowned "but they were all dead ends. So I went into the field of scinece, and during one of my experiments I managed to create some kind of black glob, but it could regenerate any cell that died. When I injected wolf DNA into the black mess, it formed into something amasing."

Jaune's eyes widened because he knew what she was talking about "A beowolf."

"SHE CREATED THE GRIMM?!" Weiss shrieked, eye wide with terror. Everyone else had just as much disbelief as her.

"She made the grimm." Ruby said then gave a weak laugh "We made our own doom." Another weak laugh then her eyes rolled into her head as she promptly passed out. Yang moved Ruby's unconciuss form to her lap. Blake found a remote and paused the tv so everyone could recover, Ruby especially.

Ruby let out a groan as she woke up "Oh. Hey Yang. I had the wierdest dream where Jaune was talking to a woman and-" She saw the screen and groaned. "I really wish this was a dream."

"Ok Rubes. Can you get up now?" Yang asked. Her little sister righted herself and sat back down. Bake unpaused the tv.

Salem smirked "Precisely. I kept my work secret as I tried other DNA strands. Bear, snake, bird. Then I decided to experiment on human but I couldn't afford test subject so I used it on myself, and became this." She gestured to herself. Jaune having a hard time believing this. "But humans found out about my experiments and saw what I have become. When I and my experiements were cast out, it was then I realised that we're the next step in evolution. Humans are inferior. Once they have been wiped out, humanity shall be reborn as Grimm."

"I like being human." Nora said as she clung to Ren.

"At least we know her goal." Pyrrha nervously said.

"The offer is still open you know." She smiled again.

Jaune's eyes were narrow, mouth streched thin. He only had one thing to say "What was your name before the incindent?"

"I never did tell you." She hmphed "Be ready for a shock because my full name-" she paused "is Amelia Arc."

He recoiled in shock as he softly said "what?"

"WHAT!?" Everyone screamed out, even Ren over the fact that Jaune is related to the creator of Grimm.

"And here I thought nothing could surprise me anymore." Ren shakily said.

"Can we please be nice to Jaune from now on?" Ruby quietly asked but everyone still heard. They all nodded, still in shock.

Jaune's face quickly went from shock to not anger, but pure rage. The fire in his eyes burned even brighter. "No! The real Amelia Arc died as soon as she injected herself that black ooze! You're not an Arc. Not anymore! Arcs care about the people, yet you slaughtered us like we're cattle! You're as evil as the grimm! A grimm. . . THAT I WILL DESTROY!" At that declaration, Jaune charged headlong at the dragon full speed.

Salem scowled as she turned into shadow, knowing she'll be caught in the crossfire. The dragon roared and started stomping its way toward the warrior. Jaune Jumped as high as he could all pulled back a fist. just as the two titans of power were going to collide. . . The screen went black.

"Hey!" was Nora's cry of distress as the other exclaimed as well at the inerruption "I wanted to see Jaune beat up Salem and that dragon!"

"Yeah! what the hell happened?!" Yang yelled.

The white-haired man appeared again with a frown and spoke. "I am sorry but a view into another demension can ony be maintianed for so long, any longer and a tear into that reality could be opened. But the connection can be reestablished after some time."

A few sighed but didn't argue, not wanting to risk it.

The man continued "One more thing before I leave. You will have guests shortley" With that, a flash of white blinded everyone.