Author thinking: (aura shield is a normal thing every one who unlocked and trained with aura has for rwby, and the increases by amplify is for strength and speed/agility or aura it self... by 1x and 2x....)
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dreams are something alright.... you sleep, you dream.... you wake up.
Others dreams of stories and tales of heros and villains... all end in one way or another... you win, or you lose In some dreams.
.....my dreams before me are all weird and different.
But the only one I'll remember most is this one....this dream unlocked my aura, and semblance, in it was a mountain that stretches across for miles and miles like a wall, with only one entrance that separates the two.
The dream starts as the sun rises to light the entrance, when that happens, like always, the man... my ancestor is standing still... watching the entrance with a longsword by his side.
I want to know why... why is he standing guard, why do I come here.
but this time i can move towards him, and when I do, I'll ask him why.
walking closer the man sighed and looked my way again, and this time he walked towards me.... with his sword.
he stands 6 ft tall, clad in lightweight steel armor, with a normal long sword with him, looking at me who stands 4 ft.
"...you should stand straight, even if you are at your smallest" he said.
'...this dream is as always, rude' I thought what he said about my height.
"...as this is what you call a dream, I call it unfinished business of my soul, and looking at you....*tsk* i think my soul chose poorly" he said without hesitation and with a tired voice.
'I might as well wake up, like always'
But his next words got my attention.
"....I have waited long, waited for my soul to choose a vessel for our power. And when I finally beheld its choice after decades of waiting, it was a child, lost and confused were he was, one that unlocked it young, but have not went through the process of refinement" his tired eyes looked at me waiting for me to say something.
" *sigh*...but....sence ancient times, we could not choose who would inherit our power in the Arcs..."
As he stabbed his blade with two of his hands into the ground.
and without knowing, I am kneeling.
"By the bond of blood and the sacred duty of our line, do you pledge to wield this power for the righteous cause, Will you shield the innocent and bring ruin upon all Grimm that threaten our world when needed, By the ancient oath of the Arcs, do you vow to rise from the ashes of our name, to shine as a beacon of hope when it is necessary to do so, whether solitary or in company, Will you bear this burden unto death and when your soul chooses, entrust it to another line of Arc... Speak now, so that I may find rest, to end my cycle of life and death."
then by my surprise, my mouth moved to say words not my own with other voices i hear saying the same:
""... I shall rise from dust and take my place amidst the Arcs. we swear as the oaths we have made, so shall we stand, till death, and let our name ring out to this world when we are needed most""
'...These aren't.... I'm not speaking...'
As I am kneeling I look beside me seeing hundreds if not thousands of women and men kneeling beside him also, with a thought those are his ancestors from long before.
...I look forward to see the same with a man in a helmet and beside him, other men and women who take their swords and finish the words as their voices merge together.
""then I grant you my trust with the power bestowed upon you until you do the same with what your soul chooses, like me and others before have done...stand and awaken your soul, Jaune Arc.""
*snap!*
....
*creaking bed*
a boy is seen sitting up from his bed as the sun is up for a new day with his breathing and sweating, it would look like he had a nightmare.
and with his loud bed noise, Tai opened his door and another blur passing and going towards him.
"JAAUNE!" A yellow ball was what he thought, as it jumped at his bed and latched on to him.
"I'm sorry!"said the crying yellow ball.
when I thought I was going to be released by the crying yellow, another red ball came to tackle me also.
"Jeene!" Said the red ball.
'it's jaune...*sigh* whatever'
When the two let go, I am hugged by the man who kept me for a year and 6 months.
"... I don't know what to say jaune... you going out to save my daughters or the fact you unlocked your aura and killed the grimm threatening my daughters... but more than that, thank you jaune" he said solemnly to him.
"..uh-" before I can say anything another person came through the door, with him bringing in a flask.
"if I got there just a bit late...you and my nieces would have died..."
*sip*
"...but... sence the worst hadn't happened, i like to thank you for protecting them, when your good to stand tomorrow, come outside and show how your semblance works"
The man said as he walked out with him taking another sip from his flask.
"...ok?" when I said that I was looking at the other man, he scratches his head thinking on what to say.
"um... that's ruby and yangs uncle, he brought you here last night, his names Qrow"
'that's right... wait, what does he mean show him?'
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a man with grayish black hair and a boy with black hair standing, with qrow holding his flask, as the boy just stayed still waiting for qrow.
but also Tai, ruby and yang watching them.
*haa*
"... now that we're here, show me how you protected my nieces." *sip*
"hey, give him some time qrow he just woke up" said Tai in the background.
"? my semblance is a body enhancing one but it also enhances aura..." Said jaune.
"I said show don't tell"
"...okay" *breaths in slowly*
'amplify'
As jaune amplified his aura, his small wounds began to heal at an accelerated rate, tiny bits of dust around him flew up around him.
"That's a pretty neat trick, how long can you keep this up?"
"about... 10 minutes if I just use it for speed or strength separately..."
"so this is it huh?"
"...no"
'Amplify 2x'
Jaune's aura increased to a signal academy student, with this increase his body healed fully, with even qrow showing an interest with his semblance as he took a sip from his flask.
visible dust circled his body
" this is named, times 2... I can use it like a normal amplify, for either strength or speed, but it also increases my aura by 2x. but last for 5 minutes"
"Well, I be damned.... but what are the risks, jaune?"
"...risks involved are minimal strain and fatigue... for both"
"then, what's your highest that you can amplify?"
"um... right now times 3, it increases both my strength, speed, and aura simultaneously for a minute or 2..."
"But it produces more risks if you keep it up longer, yeah I get it, i get it"
they both stand still until qrow asked.
"Amplify to times 3, I'd want to see it, but don't do it if you think you can't now" he said with him taking another sip.
"I can do it... give me a second"
*breaths in, breathing out"
jaune took a stance to stabilize himself incase he falls.
"You know what, we can do this another time." Before qrow can tell him to stop jaunes aura went from signal student to signal graduate aura.
'amplify 3x!'
" *Hah* this is *heavy breathing* times 3 amplification,"
Qrow smirks as he tossed a wooden sword he got from Taiyang's garage.
"Hey! Who told you to dig in my stuff!" Said Taiyang in the background.
as jaune caught the training sword, he looks at qrow also holding a wooden sword.
"If what you say is true you can keep this up for 1 minute, then let's make this quick"
With a burst of speed qrow was much faster then he was, this will be his first real spar.
Qrow took the first swing of his sword, it looked like the wooden sword can cut through steal if it wanted to, *block!*
Blocking the strike jaune thought it was like getting hit by an Ursa's random strike.
'S-Strong!' the word strong was the only thing he can think of in this spar... no, this trial.
he doesn't stand a chance at a frontal assault, with speed compared to a student graduate of signal he's already outmatched.
.....
*clack!* wood against wood was all it sounded like for 1 minute with jaune being the defensive one, with him only striking if qrow gave him a chance.
"you could make use of your amplify if you use it in burst then letting it stay on, but that is if your fighting one thing at a time,"
The little bystanders already had stars in there eyes as they cheered their uncle...
As Tai looked a bit annoyed by this... in the background.
after the second minute was up, Jaune looked tired and his aura was showing signs of breaking and thus the end of this spar.
*heavy breathing* with his aura showing signs of breaking qrow picked up his sword and tossed it aside as he took another shot of his metal flask.
"you know a little around the sword, its sloppy and self taught, that can't always help you in a fight, if you were to train your semblance and swordsmanship... with me, i can train you to join beacon."
with my back on the ground I think about what he said.
'Beacon? does he intend to train me for 10 years? And try to put me in beacon?'
For the next couple days I would spar with qrow and lose, I was grateful for this at least, qrow didn't hold back his remarks, my aura would sometimes break when I tried to push it to times 4. qrow told me I shouldn't rush or even try, told me to wait.
'Beacon can be a good area for training... if I can learn more about the sword... then grimm would be more easier to kill. learning to shoot can also be an option...'
That was his thought that day, for the next 5 years he was training with qrow, every spar was his lost, he was told to keep using times 3 for every spar, until he was able to keep it on for at least 4 to 5 minutes.
when I turned 10 I was sent to a combat school with yang, it's name was signel, she made friends quickly, as for me? most avoided me, some talked once to me, others would say I'm quiet... if I had to say one thing, yang didn't really make it easier, she would want me to hang with her friends she made, I would decline, it just made it easier... but she's persistent, she would be the only one to sit with me at lunch or be my team member if groups are made for activities.
qrow taught me how to shoot a normal gun, Tai also gave some pointers for hand to hand combat... but the grimm are my target...
as for ruby?, she would try to get me to read her books I'm not interested in... but just this once I'll read her one more and I won't do it again... she always uses the tearing up method.
If I had to say what I'm most interested in, it would be to forge your own weapon at the age of 12... 2 years, crocea mors is good, but a weapon thats my own is better.
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<...4 years later, signal academy>
(yang pov)
'...why does he make this harder then it needs to be???'
it's lunch and jaune isn't here... he usually sits somewhere hidden and away from people now, but if she had to guess he's probably at the library reading about grimm.
'We cover that in class!, Jaune you better make it to lunch!'
As she was walking down the hall she was stopped by a boy her age.
"Um.. yang, I have something I wanted to tell you... but first, why do you hang out with that guy?" Said a guy she met a couple weeks ago who's friends with one of her friends.
"you mean jaune?, he's my childhood friend, why?, do you have a problem?"
"I mean yeah?, he hasn't shown much with his time here, he's someone that's a nobody? . If I had to say, that weirdo is just weighing you down, I'm someone whos a somebody, my names ma ling Shu, and my family are pretty famous hunters, if you can leave him alone during groups and join me instead, i won't let you down, what do you say?... and also, I want to be your-" the boy Said with a smile and a hint of narcissism.
it ticked her that he called him weird.
'Weirdo? This boy is calling him a weirdo behind his back.... sorry jaune, i can't hold myself back now.'
as she finished her thoughts she readied her arm back with a straight face, as her eyes turned the tiniest bit red and threw a punch at the guy who at this moment had a question at to way her arm is readied up to....
*jab!*
"Yang"
*flinch* she flinched at the voice as her fist was inches away from this guy's nose who also fell on his ass.
'...damn it jaune!'
"come on, I have my lunch...."
jaune was walking towards her with two trays of food with his unbothered look on his face that says, 'do I have to?' Or his stupid face that makes me want to punch him.
"What took you so long! Lunch started 30 minutes ago!" I say to him as he walked to hand me my tray, with him being trained by uncle qrow he's already has his hands full, I just want him to have fun.
"no reason really, just had to figure something out, so are you going to just stand there? or are we going?" He said as he walked past me, with him heading to the roofs were he usually eats.
"Come on my dear sister yang!" said ruby going after him and Using her semblance to make her way to the roof.
"Jeez I'm coming!" I say, following both of them to the stairs.
making it halfway up he remarks.
"...so who's the guy you were about to send to the infirmary?" he said with a question and with a blank look on his face.
"Just a guy who's dumb enough to tell me what to do, that's about it... anyways come on! this foods going to be cold!" As she went past jaune, making it to the roof top balcony were ruby is already eating.
"lunch will be ending soon *yawn*" Said jaune as he makes it up by walking, and coming through the door.
"..." looking at her food was healthy foods and some normally cold salad.
*twitch* "hey... jaune, what is this...." seeing food that she normally doesn't eat unless she is forced to...
"food" *chews* Jaune eating, with his look that he didn't care in the slightest.
*tch* 'food my ass, this is just small meats and leaves....'
"jaune has a weird sense of food..." ruby remarks with a more appealing lunch...
...
Days went by like this with nothing else worth noting, thus ending another month of signal, learning about grimm and their habitats, in one other day spars took place. learning what jaune was figuring out for himself was should he use his Amplify against humans, pretty weird question, I told him it's his decision if the teachers are alright with it. But seeing him wipe the floor with his opponent was not what i was expecting, the guy looked familiar... maybe someone I bumped into...
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A few months later on the balcony of Signal, Yang questioned Jaune as they sat down eating lunch on the roof.
"Jaune, what are you thinking about?"
Jaune didn't eat his lunch as he usually did. He was deep in thought.
Yang wanted to know what he was thinking about. She looked into his normally careless blue eyes, the ones that pierced through the fear she felt that day.
"I don't like relying on others. I appreciate what you guys have done for me, but I feel I should be doing things on my own... Does this make sense?" he answered.
"Jeez, Jaune, you're 14. Why do you think about stuff like this? Can't you enjoy being safely kept alive by others without needing to do it yourself?" Yang didn't want to see Jaune hurting himself with his training, he never seems to stop until he's passed out, hungry, and tired.
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A boy at the age of 14 who's standing with both a sword and shield, breathing slowly, nothing can stop him from training unless his mentor or his stomach says otherwise.
he's wearing a normal black hoodie with a white shirt underneath, tan cargo pants, and some hiking boots.
*sigh*
Jaune took a step forward with shield up and with his right foot swinging his sword to the left, taking another step forward with his left foot, swinging his sword to the right, all swings of his sword have power in them that can create small breezes of wind moving any leaves and dust off the ground. this marks his 1000th swing of the day.
bringing his sword to the shield, he pressed a button on the shield making it compressed to his scabbard and clipping it on his thigh.
Jaume looked to his other side, unclipping a small cylinder like object, something he forged 2 years ago, it was 2 feet in length, made with the metals he got from signal, some materials were from qrow with his recommendation.
*click*
Pressing around the end is a small switch which extended the blade with it's metal crossguard and the handle also extended out making it 6 feet in length.
...
what he made was a spear and sniper hybrid, wrapped in leather grips, pressing a button near the grip can split the spearhead and crossguard showing the barrel of his sniper thats made of Aurite
(Aurite is best for shooting dust and has conductive properties, to enhance weapon capabilities....),
there is an area for dust on the back end of the staff.
The color scheme was Yangs and Ruby's ideas, with whited mysol and moonsilver body and blade,
(Moonsilver best for mechanical stress of transformations)
and yellowed mysol (the mysium is used for its durability and resilience) for his crossguard creating another emblem of the Arc.
Piercing la Ciel, was the name he chose for it.
Qrow's training methods changed when he showed him the spear form and with it, more harsh training with using his new weapon, qrow showed me his fighting style with his scythe, said it would be good for his spear.
when he was done showing off, he told me to spar with wooden staffs and now 2 years later and a few bruises here and there.
...
*sigh*
'...i wander if ruby is done with her forging...'
jaune makes a stance that's not to rigid and to make a good grip for his spear, qrow said it's the basics of holding long weapons.
when the hours blurred, jaune made some basic thrusts and sweeps, taking account of mistakes, wrong footings, slip of the hand.
having already done this for 2 years his mastery is only the bare minimum, bit by bit though, he'll maybe be under the mastery of qrow.
...
his hands started to bleed, using his aura it will heal by itself, looking around and up the sky he sees it's almost afternoon, his stomach grumbled, signaling the end of training.
'not yet'
'Amplify 3x'
he upped his speed and strength doing the same movements with more speed and power behind every thrust and sweeps, each swing of his spear had force that blew away dust off the ground, after a few minutes he used another burst of speed and strength to thrust his spearhead into the woods blowing away leaves, and making a small round entrance.
*ha, ha, haah* his hard breathing was signs of fatigue, aura depletion.
transforming his spear back to its travel form, he made his way back inside, walking through the back hall was yang blocking his way to the kitchen...
"...what is she doing?" looking at her face for any abnormal signs was something I learned, what's telling me is she looked angry, annoyed?, sad?, with her fist clenched?.... did I do something?
oh, she's sprinting, and yelling my name... maybe I should ask her why?.
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(Yangs pov)
"What is she doing?" Said the boy who was going to leave without telling her or ruby...
'hey... why do you keep wanting to be alone... I wanted you to at least feel happy... now your trying to leave patch?'
All this left her conflicted of his choices and why he's the way he is...
why would he leave a perfect and safe place... just to train? to be alone? does he care for his only real friends who were with him sense childhood....
But...what she did know for why he's going to go... he doesn't want to be a burden to us, and he wants to find were his parents died.
'...just this once jaune, could you at least smile, even a small one... i am trying to protect you from that look on your face'
'...the look of a human emotion being lost'
Maybe because with his lost on his family, he wants to become stronger, to not experience that same lost, maybe it's why he doesn't make any more friends. he probably feared loosing anyone else close to him, was what yang thought about as she sprints across the hall.
*sprints*
yang pushed off the floor with her lilac eyes turning full red from her anger, as her hair looked like it was on fire.
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'Fire... her hair is on fire'
grabbing my scabbard and forming my shield I blocked her one punch.
*Clang!*
but as with the ursa from when I was 7, I get launched from out the hall through the back door...
"ooooch, i should have amplified..."
getting off my ass I looked at the raging yellow, I hold my shield out waiting for another hit.
'amplify 2x'
With jaune amplified he can at least take the hits without getting launched again,
as Yang pushed off the ground she aimed at my head, side stepping to the right he dodged the strike, but yang keeps up the speed aiming at other areas of jaunes body, blocking strikes he couldn't dodge was all he could do right now, until she eventually runs out of energy and gets fatigued.
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minutes have gone by, with yang already out of it, she keeps hitting my body, even if she doesn't have power in them, i let her, when she looked like she was about to fall I catch and carry her.
'...cool, you unlocked your semblance'
going inside the broken back door I head towards her room, placing her down on the bed, I go out her door, but before I did she said something.
"...r-ruby isn't going to like this... s-she wanted to show you, her weapon she made with all her h-heart, something she was w-waiting all year for..." she said with a trembling voice with some tears.
'...'
"...i'll see it, when I come back.... 3 years yang, keep ruby out of trouble..."
I said to her as she finally succumbed to sleep, going downstairs I head to the kitchen that had my pack on the table.
when jaune was ready and went to the front door he looked at the interior of the home... with a single thought in his mind.
'...I'll come back'
Closing the door he heads to were the air ships leave for the city of vale, later in vale, he will go to the airships going to the continent of Anima were his parents have gone and were they were last alive.
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Initial amplifications
'Times 1-2' Jaune can use his Amplify ability to boost a single attribute (example strength, agility or aura) for brief moments, experiencing minimal physical muscle strain. This stage is foundational, focusing on learning control....( I might need to edit stuff here or there in this story....)
Intermediate
'Times 3' Jaune advances to increasing multiple attributes simultaneously, such as strength and speed, for short bursts. He can sustain this boost for longer periods, but it still comes with moderate fatigue and aura depletion but when used for too long those effects Amplify.... (I also might make some changes to story for this...)