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'Thoughts'

"Speech"

Time*

Noise*

(Location)


Arc 1 - Chapter 1: The Inheritance

(Emerald Forest)

In a large forest, called the Emerald Forest, where it's being used as a location for the Beacon Academy Initiation. A process that all first-year students taking for this year, where new students arrive at Beacon Cliff for the first part of their test.

A test, where these students may or may not become Huntsmen and Huntresses, the elite warriors dedicated to slaying the creatures of Grimm and whose duty is to "uphold the peace" of their world.

And the Beacon Academy is one of the Huntsman academies, that's charged to train the next generation of Huntsmen and Huntresses.

Therefore, this is a test that could bring in new Huntsmen and Huntresses or failing to become one and a high chance of death if they're not prepared. As the Headmaster of Beacon Academy has mentioned the dangers and the possibility of death during the initiation, advising the students not to hesitate to destroy everything in their path to success.

Furthermore, it was stated that the students would be watched by staff members, but that those watching them would not help because their job is simply to observe.

Meaning, that the students that are about to be killed by these Grimm won't be saved unless they're lucky enough to be rescued by fellow students that may or may not become their partner. Therefore, if one isn't well trained or at least able to fight off a Grimm or two, then the most outcome would be one's death.

So, for the first of the test was to arrive the Beacon Cliff, where they were launched one at a time into the Emerald Forest, using their own landing strategy to land safely. Otherwise, death awaits those that don't have a way to land from free falling.

Upon landing in the forest, each student eventually found a partner either on purpose or by accident and the duos started making their way to the temple, to retrieve the relic and return to the Beacon Cliff, and pass the relic over to the Headmaster and they've passed the Beacon Academy Initiation. Allowing them to enter the Beacon Academy for the next four years, and if they graduate from Beacon Academy, then they shall become full-fledged Huntsmen and Huntresses.

And among the students, two have formed a partnership for the next four years in Beacon Academy.

Their names are Jaune Arc and Pyrrha Nikos, where the latter has unlocked the former's Aura.

And this is where the story begins.

"Wow, Jaune, for someone who just has their Aura unlocked. You have a massive one compared to our age group." Pyrrha wipes the sweat off her forehead, as she stares at her partner, who is currently out of it and staring off into space like he's in a trance or something.

"Uh, Jaune? You there? Uh, do you need help?" Pyrrha asks in concern as her partner, Jaune, hasn't made a sound since she unlocked his Aura and hasn't even opened his eyes at all.

And it looks like it's going to be a while before Jaune break out whatever trance he's in. Making it Pyrrha's duty as his partner to watch over him, in case of Grimm nearby, that may attack him when he's defenseless.

Currently, Jaune is going through a dreamlike memory lane and walking through what looks like someone's life.

A life of someone, who has walked throughout many lands. Be it the land of snow, grass, desert, and even walking on the land of the Grimm.

"Having roamed the world for more than 30 years, I have killed all my foes and defeated all champions."

Jaune heard a booming voice, narrating in a short summary as he watches in a first-person view of what looks like in ancient times, but what caused Jaune to be shocked was how these ancient people are moving so fast and fighting with mainly weapons that wouldn't be used in today modern days.

However, what caught Jaune's attention the most. Is that the person he living through is surviving and winning countless unbelievable battles. All with nothing but a simple sword, where this person has killed all foes and defeating people of an old era, where no one used Dust. But, that didn't stop Jaune to see how powerful these people are. But, the person, who Jaune is looking through their eyes has defeated all of them.

Then, what felt like going through someone's life for 30+ years, Jaune found himself staring at his partner, Pyrrha, who is about to draw out her weapons for some reason.

This caused an unknown natural response from his body, where he already has his sword, Crocea Mors. A simple longsword with a blue handle and a golden cross-guard. And the sheath can be transformed into a heater shield to go with it.

But, Jaune feels like he wields a sword like all his life, which made him look in disbelief to his sword already pointing directly at the throat of Pyrrha, who looking back at him with eyes widen in shock.

"Sorry!" Jaune jumps back, as he sheathed his sword back to the sheath/heater shield in one smooth motion, that made Jaune feel like he has done this action countless times before. Much to his confusion, but right now he has something more important to do.

Like apologizing to Pyrrha, who he just almost attacked with pure reflex alone, subconscious or not, it was done with his body and as for owning the said body. He needs to own up his responsibility and apology to the one he has wronged.

"Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!" Jaune continues to apologize while not noticing that he's releasing some negative emotion. Which draws in Grimm towards his and Pyrrha's location.

"It's okay, Jaune! Really! I shouldn't have pulled out my weapons like that when you were in some sort of trance." Pyrrha waves her hands in front of her, showing she unarmed and clearly realize she almost got stabbed in the throat if she so much as moved any further.

Thank goodness she knew when to stop and plan out her move instead of relying on pure instinct.

"Are you sure?! Because I would freak out if I had someone's pointing their weapon at my throat. So again, I'm sorry!" Jaune apology one last time.

"It's alright." Pyrrha gives her partner a gentle smile. "Plus, it's not like I haven't experienced the many times' someone aiming for my vital spots more than once before, just to win against me." Pyrrha continues off with a mumble at the end.

"What was that?" Jaune raises an eyebrow, as he moves closer to Pyrrha, who blushes a little for thinking out loud again.

"Nothing at all." Pyrrha replied with a calm voice, trying her best not let her partner notice how weird it is for her to think out loud, even if she mumbles them most of the time.

"Now, how about we go search for the relic? We got an initiation to do if we want to be students at the Beacon Academy." Pyrrha quickly changed the topic before things get awkward.

"Sure." Jaune didn't seem that eager to find out what his partner was mumbling about since it's her choice to want to tell him or not. "So, do you have any idea which direction to go?"

However, before Pyrrha could say anything. A wolf-like roar came behind them, causing the two future Beacon's students to turn around to find a pack of Beowolves charging right at them.

"What are those?!" Jaune cried out in shock at seeing such creature for the first time. Sure, he has seen a gray wolf back home, but that animal wasn't completely black and have bone-like armor and mask, and have the ability to stand on their hind legs. Though, Jaune got this weird feeling he has seen these creatures before. Which is weird, because this is the first time him seeing these wolf-like beasts.

"Beowolves. One of the many common werewolf-like Grimm. Depending on the age, Beowolves attack like a regular wolf would, with clawing and lunges, and no special skills are known yet." Pyrrha quickly informs her partner on the basis of the Grimm before her as if she was reciting an information that been drilled into her to respond right away, quick and simple.

Once finished, Pyrrha brings out her weapons: Milo and Akouo.

Milo is a mecha-shift weapon, that possesses three forms that can be transformed between those forms. Being a javelin, xiphos, and a rifle.

Akouo is a shield, that's a metal circle with sections missing on the sides; however, the Akouo also has a razor-sharp edge and could be used as a thrown weapon, like a large discus.

Pyrrha has trained with both all her life, where she able to judge when and where to throw her shield well enough to ensure that her shield returned to her upon its rebound.

Like shield throwing, which she did first right away, to either stun the closest Beowolves in front of her or slice through the Beowolves. But in this case, the shield just stuns the Beowolf for a moment, as the shield made a crack on the Beowolf's bone mask and bounce back to its owner's stretch hand, where Pyrrha reattach it back onto her left golden gauntlet.

Then, Pyrrha switches her Milo to rifle mode, and fire with precise accuracy at the most cracked part of the Beowolf's mask and shatter it with one hit and killing it instantly.

Pyrrha was so focused on killing the Grimm as fast and precise, that she didn't notice that Jaune was looking at the way she is fighting with critical eyes, as if he is analyzing her fighting style and picking out the weak points in them.

And not in after an entire minute; Pyrrha has easily killed off the pack of Grimm like nothing. As if she faced a group of Grimm often than most people at her age would.

Once Pyrrha finished off these Beowolves, Jaune snaps out of his little trance.

"Wow! That was amazing! You're really good! No wonder you were a four-year champion of... sorry, I forgot what it is." Jaune rubs the back of his head with a sheepish smile, causing Pyrrha to snort and smile at him.

"Thanks, and no problem of forgetting something unimportant." Pyrrha felt great that she finally found someone that doesn't know about her fame and treating her like an ordinary girl!

"Weird. Most girls I know would be mad for not remembering they're good at." Jaune mumbles to himself.

Pyrrha heard him but didn't comment about it.

"Come on, I think the temple we're looking for should be up north." Pyrrha point to her left, then start walking in that direction, with Jaune following right behind her.


30 minutes later*

During the walk for the search of the relic. Neither Jaune or Pyrrha said anything for the past 30 minutes, not that neither wanted to say anything, but that they don't anything to speak of at the moment. And just when one of them was about to say something, they arrived at the mouth of a dark cave, where they can see a drawing on the side of the cave wall. Involving armed men against a giant beast.

"Yeah, I got this gut feeling this isn't it." Jaune said to Pyrrha, as this instinct of his is screaming at him to avoid it while he still can or face a life-threatening battle.

"Hmm. Well, we need to check just in case. Who knows, maybe this is a shortcut to the temple we're supposed to head, for the relic." Pyrrha didn't seem to notice how the cave od filled with danger, that needs to be taken with caution due to the drawing on the wall, which seems to be very old.

Upon seeing Pyrrha walking into the dark, creepy cave, that may contain some kind of monster.

Jaune draws out his sword from its sheath and ready to be used at any moment.

And once more, Jaune feels like he been carrying a sword for years and always prepare to counter any sneak attacks at any angles. Weirdly enough, but happy to have.

In fact, Jaune feels like he could see everything around him without having to use his eyes at all. Something that shouldn't be possible for him. After all, awareness... wasn't Jaune's best skill among the others, which wasn't much to speak of.

But, right now, Jaune could even feel his partner's movement, even when he couldn't see anything in this dark cave and wonder how his partner could see in the dark so well. While he just 'feeling' everything to 'see'.


A few minutes later*

At the cave entrance, both Jaune and Pyrrha are running away from the cave with all they have. Not a second later, a giant scorpion monster came out of the hole by brutally breaking the small cave entrance, sending stray rocks everywhere. As the monster let out a loud roar while waving its grass-encrusted pincers.

"What the heck is that thing?!" Jaune cried out in fear, as he tries his best to move away from getting caught by those deadly pincers. That's aiming to snap him in half.

"Death Stalker and an old one at that, with the size of that Grimm!" Pyrrha, once again, replied the name of the Grimm, but this time she didn't give out a small summary about it as she currently trying to take it down by shooting it at its many eyes, to either kill it with a shot through the brain or at least blind it, to make escaping easier.

"The heck is a Death Stalker?!" Jaune thought out loud, as he rolls to his right, to dodge the stinger from stabbing him in the head and through his entire body in the process.

With his sword glowing in a white mist briefly before Jaune swing his sword in a downward slash, slicing the stinger off the Death Stalker's tail, causing it to screech in pain.

"Wow, didn't know I could do that." Jaune whispers under his breath before jumping back, as the Death Stalker tried to grab him with its left pincer. Then, once more his sword covered in a white mist and he swings his sword upward left, where he cut through the left pincer like butter. No resistance at all.

Moving on instinct; Jaune move at the speed that beyond what he has done in his past and appear in front of the Death Stalker, then thrust his sword covered in white mist and pierce through the Death Stalker's bone covered face, instantly killing it before it could even do anything else as the white mist seemed to absorb into the Death Stalker before exploding into pieces.

Covering the area of black stuff that started disappearing into a black mist that floating toward the sky.

"That's amazing, Jaune! I see your great with using that sword of your without having to rely on any firearms." Pyrrha praises her partner, realizing that maybe her own partner may be a highly trained swordsman before coming here and must have trained without having to rely on Aura. "I must say, killing the Death Stalker single-handed isn't something a first-year student in beacon could do without back up." Pyrrha said in awe, as she looks around the area, where the leftover remaining of the Death Stalker, even the bone parts are scattered everywhere in broken pieces. "By the way, what was that white mist covering your sword?" Pyrrha looks back at her partner, who had a shocked look on his face as he looks at his own sword like it the first time holding it.

"I have no clue. Is this Aura? Because I would know for sure I could produce that white mist in the past." Jaune revealed he has no idea about the white mist.

"Hmm; well, your Aura was colored white when it was unlocked. So maybe that was your Semblance showing itself briefly?" Pyrrha thought about it, as it seems like this the only answer she could come up right now.

"Semblance? Is that another name for Aura?" Jaune asks in a curious tone, as he starts jogging along with Pyrrha in the opposite direction of the cave, in the hope they find the temple soon. Since they're kind of on a deadline and by sunset, the test may as well be over by then.

"Semblance is the manifestation of one's innate and personal power as an ability unique to each individual, with the effects varying greatly from user to user. The nature of one's Semblance representing an aspect of their character. However, a person's Semblance can be similar to the Semblances of their parents or other family members. So, in this case for you, I guess your Semblance is showing itself right now. Which is very rare as it takes most people a few hours or months or even years before discovering their Semblance." Pyrrha explained to her partner what a Semblance is.

"And you think this white mist is my Semblance? Wait, how do you turn it on? Because it just turns on its own." Jaune tried to summon the white mist again by waving his sword, but the familiar white mist didn't show up.

"Sorry, I'm not much help with this. I had to figure it out on my own as well until I found out how to activate my own Semblance. Also, there are cases, where people have some sort of limitations placed on them. So don't be alarmed if your Semblance has some kind of restrictions placed on it. Lots of people with powerful Semblance would have something like that while those that don't. Well, I don't think I know anyone with a powerful Semblance without any sort of restrictions, if they do, then they must have trained to the point of removing it. Otherwise, I got nothing." Pyrrha gave Jaune an apologetic smile, as she wasn't much help at this point.

"I see. Welp, not like I'll find out any time soon." Jaune shrugged his shoulders since he still new to this whole Aura thing. May as well learn it as he goes and hopes for the best.

"By the way, do you have any idea what kind of relic we're supposed to grab?" Jaune looks at his partner, who just shrugged her shoulders as well. Not knowing what to expect the relic to be.


A few hours later*

(Beacon Academy: Dormitory)

"Okay, the first thing I have to say. Why chess pieces?" Jaune asks his teammates, who are his partner, Pyrrha, and two others. Being Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie.

During the test; the relic happens to be chess pieces, where two people only require one chess piece and head back to the cliff, where they all gathered for the test.

It was during the announcement for the forming teams, where everyone, the first-year students that managed to pass the test, have learned that the chess piece they picked would be the deciding factor of how the team form. As in the chess piece of matching pair would be put together into a four-member team.

The one Jaune and Pyrrha picked happen to be a rook, where another pair picked up a rook chess piece as well. Leading to the team JNPR (Juniper) formed, with Jaune being the leader.

"I think it is supposed to represent something. By the way, do you mind, we unpack first?" Ren asks his leader, causing Jaune to blink from his spot, which he is lying on his bed tired from having to face another Death Stalker, that they chased after them and Jaune guessed this Death Stalker was maybe the mate of the previous Death Stalker that was killed by him at that dark cave.

"Why not? Save us some time to get ready in the morning." Jaune got off his bed and start unpacking as well, while he starts talking with his new two teammates, with Pyrrha giving some inputs every often.

Until it was midnight; where team JNPR finished unpacking, but Jaune continues to stare at Crocea Mars.

"Is there something special about his weapon?" Ren asks Pyrrha, who just finished changing out of her Huntress outfit into her sleeping clothes.

"Huh? I have no idea. Why do you ask?" Pyrrha blink at Ren, who just points at their team leader, who continues to stare at his own weapon for a while now. "Oh, Jaune is figuring out how to activate his Semblance and learn what it does besides cutting Grimm so easily." Pyrrha begins explaining how Jaune's sword would sometime cover in a white mist and would always cut the toughest Grimm's defense with ease.

"Interesting." Ren wanted to see this, but didn't see it at the time when their team, before forming into JNPR, was facing the Death Stalker and he didn't see his leader use this white mist before.

"Anyway, I think it's time for me to get Nora to bed. Wait, where Nora?" Ren quickly looks around the room and Nora is missing, who is his partner and childhood friend.

"I think she mentions something about having a late-night snack or something?" Pyrrha replied to Ren's question and found herself blinking when she found her other male team member had disappeared the moment she a sudden breeze hit her face, causing her to blink and the door to their room is open without making a single sound. 'Huh, that's kind of amazing.' Pyrrha thought to herself about how her fellow team member managed to run very fast and open the door without making any noise in a blink of an eye.

Jaune let a tired sigh that he couldn't figure out how to use this Semblance of his. Something that would help him become the Hero he dreams of.

"Night Jaune." Pyrrha said to Jaune, as she lay in her bed, which was next to Nora's. Where the male is sleeping on the left while the female on the right.

"Night, Pyrrha." Jaune replied, then place his weapon against the side of the bed before laying his head on the pillow to sleep.

Not before Ren came back inside the room, with Nora behind him.

"Aww, come on Ren! I need something to eat with all that fighting we did!" Nora tried to get her partner to agree to her demands of eating some snacks to fill herself up. As they didn't eat dinner today.

"Nora. You were planning to eat 20 pancakes if I haven't stopped you in time." Ren said to Nora, who just grins at him. Like it was normal for her to eat 20 pancakes in one serving.

"Did she say 20?" Jaune looks up from his bed, with Pyrrha doing the same as both of them stare at Nora in disbelief, then look at Ren to see if he was joking. Since he was the one that said it.

"Believe it or not, but 20 is the minimum amount Nora eats daily. I'm just limiting to a certain amount each meal, to keep it at 20 the very limit before she overeats." Ren said in a monotone, like this was normal, which it is for him.

"Okay. I'm going to sleep now. And hope the world makes sense again in the morning." Jaune didn't bother to continue this weird conversation and go to sleep. Not wanting to find out what the maximum amount of pancakes Nora would eat in a single day.

Too bad the others didn't notice that their leader actually fall asleep instantly the moment he closed his eyes again and won't open them until morning.

"Under the Heaven, no one can be my equal. Alas, all my life, I have sought a match, but in vain. Unbearable loneliness is my destiny."


Author Note: Changing my approach. So no making OCs and using existing characters, most of the time, with a few times of using OC that not the main characters.

Also, instead of 5k+ per chapter for this fanfic, it will be kind of random, but more than 3k+, I promise that.