3 years have passed since I selected my weapons and my initial training began. Hunters normally begin teaching their children young to condition them for the life style it involves. Hunters are killers so they are indoctrinated in a way similar to ninja in naruto.
Classes teach about weapons, about the powers of the individuals they use (aura and semblances), the opponents (Grimm and bandits) and then other survival skills that a hunter needs such as survival training. Vale is the tamest in terms of teaching standards compared to the rest.
Vacuo is all about the harshness of life, they get tossed into the dessert and told to survive so they're Basically Bear Grylls. Atlas is so militaristic that they treat their students like robots, so they program them like robots. Menagerie is similar to Vacuo in nature but instead of a desert its jungles and the ocean.
Lastly their is mystral which varies in its educational standards. Haven is supposed to be a decent school but it gets the most self taught students. I still plan to go to beacon though~ however over the span of three years I encountered some issues.
My parents were shocked at my martial prowess, captain America mastered several types of martial arts so I only had to relearn them. The meditation sessions, consistent daily training and frequent spars with family members allowed me to relearn; boxing, muai Thai, Kali, Taekwondo, wushu, Krav Maga, Barjustu, wrestling, jiujitsu and even a little ninjitsu.
My mother was both over joyed and depressed, all she could teach me was utilising aura in a fight but with my talent it was easy enough to pick up. Nen principals such as Ryu and Ken helped me learn how to defend and attack with aura. It got to the point that my sisters badgered me for how I learned them.
Having to stop and teach them slowed down my progress. Another thing that slowed me down was weapon construction, implementing a mecha shift function into the shield was complicated but I managed to do after two years.
The results was a rotella shield that shifted into a compound bow. I based the design off of a manga I loved called toaru ossan no VRMMO katsudouki! The string of the bow was a modified version of the shields handle. It was made with shelob silk, this comes from the spider Grimm that only was shown in the manga. A large part of the education in remnant is the study of Grimm as there are dozens of species.
After making my shield compound bow combo I decided to name my weapon "Atreus". A shield like kratos and a bow like Atreus, I was also inspired to make arrows with elemental affinities which took some effort. Months of blacksmithing and weapon classes taught by my father helped me forge arrows capable of storing a dust pellet.
A minor mechanism in the arrow head will ignite the dust when it impacts something. I thought about installing a timer function like Hawkeye and batman with his explosive batarangs but that's requires further education to make. Arrows are more expensive than bullets after all, more metal needed for them and making the dust into pellets instead of bullets is more time consuming due to how volatile the dust is.
Another thing that stalled my progress was actually my combat outfit. I had to design the thing myself, my mother taught me to sew so decided to have me make my own. I decided to remake the captain America armour however failed to realise the difficulty of making something out of carbon polymers and duralumin! It'll take years to be ready but it'll be worth it.
My shield training progressed well as I got to spar with my sisters. Everyone here is a warrior, my dedication to training seems to have inspired my sisters a fair bit. So my parents thought it would be wise to have little battle royales. I would lose~ my two older sisters Bianca and Olivia already have their semblances.
The Arc family seems to have a theme when it relates to the semblance. My father had the ability to enhance density, my eldest sister enhanced durability, and the second eldest can enhance her speed. I learned that my semblance was still Aura Amp six months ago while i unlocked it in a spar against mom.
I amplify the properties of aura itself, not a concept like durability or speed. So my aura recovered faster, shielded me more, took more effort to control and was very broad. I'm trying to learn how to enhance one area of my body with my aura then apply amp to it. The results haven't been good, I can enhance one part of my body more with aura than the rest however when I try to use amp it either dispersed the gathered aura or it spread out across my entire body not really adding as much to the designated area.
Rome wasn't built in a day~ had become my favourite catchphrase when I felt depressed over how much effort all this is taking. Hours a day spent studying foreign topics, breaking my bodies limits through training, husbandry lessons with mom, trying to relearn martial arts, aura and semblance training, weapon handling which I have to teach myself how to handle the shield, the trigonometry lessons my father decided to enforce upon me. Then there is the doting sisters who like to appear when I get some minor down time.
An 8 year old shouldn't be so stressed! Though harsh it is all for my own good. The essential skills will literally save my life when the world goes to shit in a decade. I don't know what will happen when I fall off the ledge into the abyss but I'm gonna make sure I'm prepared. I thought to myself as I changed my clothes in my room. I was snapped from my thoughts when I heard "Jaune! Come on it's time to go to the capital!"
Ah yes, today is the day my parents have decided to take me to the capital. Seeing as my upbringing is different from the original my parents decided I needed friends. This I'm actually thankful for, the only man I've spoken too in three years is my father so I need bro time.
They decided that I would be able to socialise at a dojo considering my martial prowess, the dojo is actually a chain business named Altan Arts. My parents no the owner Aero Altan who is a Vacuo citizen. Their business has done very well and expanded into Mistral. Aero is in Mistral city inspecting the latest dojo so my parents are taking me to meet him.
Maybe he could teach me a thing or two? Is their train of thought. An issue with my martial arts is that they aren't designed to face an animal or a monster like the Grimm so I do need some help adjusting my style. The Altan dojo's train people in multiple styles with the owners specialising in Bajiquan. I was excited to learn that, Little did we know that I would meet my first rival there.