Dreams Of Gold(TheGoldenBoy2188’s Fanfic and Original One-Shot, Writing And Idea Thread)

[Cryso Agori]

I was gonna post a new one shot but that’s taking a long time so here’s an old one shot I made.

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This wasn't supposed to happen.

This wasn't what he imagined being a hero would be like.

He was supposed to learn how to fight! Create a harem of hot chicks! Become an awesome hero that would get all the girls!

He was not supposed to be here, drowning from a Villain's warp quirk.

Mineta frantically waved his tiny arms around to keep his nose above the water, the thick "diaper" he wore was now like a concrete block trying to drag him down.

He didn't want to die!

He didn't want to die!

Mineta's head sank back into the water, his limbs had lost the energy to keep him afloat.

He didn't want to die!

As the last bits of oxygen in his lungs were converted into energy he reached his arm out as if reaching out for a lifeline.

Black started to creep into the edges of his vision, his lungs lost the energy to hold the air in them.

'I... don't...want...to...die' he thought as his vision blurred.

Suddenly he felt something wrap around his arm.

With a hard jerk that felt like his arm was going to be pulled off, he was suddenly in the air, he no longer felt that heavyweight that dragged him down, he longer felt water pervading his lungs and deprived him of oxygen.

He was pulled through the air by the slimy rope.

'Wha-what's going on!?' Mineta thought dizzily.

Suddenly his momentum was stopped by something soft?

It felt as if he was sinking facefirst into the world's softest pillow!

Mineta's vision cleared and the first thing he saw was green, he looked up and saw the face of his green-haired froggy classmate.

Asui held his body to her chest with her left arm and in her right was Midoriya.

With her sticky and long tongue, she grabbed the railing of a ship pulled them towards it.

'This is amazing! I'm between the boobies of one of the hottest girls in our class!" Mineta thought euphorically.

'This must be my popular phase!' he said to himself and after Asui latched onto the side of the ship, he said "Your boobs are... pretty big" and stuffed his head deeper into Asui's chest.

"Ribbit" blushing deeply, smashed Mineta onto the ship as payback for the comment.

"Uuughhh" Mineta moaned from the force of the blow.

"Thank you Asui," Midoriya said.

"Ribbit, I told you to call me Tsu," she said.

"T-t-t-t-tha-thank you, T-T-T-Tsu" Midoriya stuttered his face beet red from calling a girl with her first name.

Mineta glared at the blushing boy in rage.

'Damn it! How the hell is taking all the girls!? First Uraraka and now Asui!? If he keeps wooing them then there won't be anyone left for me!?'

'I see now Midoriya Izuku! You must be my rival in love! Using the meek and pure approach, huh?'

'Don't worry. Soon I Mineta Minoru! Will capture the hearts of all the girls in UA and become the Harem King! I'll steal your harem right before your eyes!' He declared in his mind.

“Yeah. What the villain said earlier…” Midoriya said.

Mineta was broken from his thoughts as both Midoriya and Asui spoke about the villain's plans.

But, it’s not like they can kill All Might! Once All Might comes, he’ll pound those guys!” Mineta protested, punching the air.

They didn't need to fight! They just had to wait till All Might gets here and defeats them, he was the Ultimate Hero!

However, Asui protested saying they must have a way to defeat All Might if they're so confident.

Then things went bad to worse when the villains started to surround the ship they were on to get them.

"Y-you-you want to fight them!?!" Mineta yelled at Izuku pointing at the infested waters.

Izuku grit his teeth and his eyes lit up with determination.

"If the Villains have a way to defeat All Might... we need to stop them!" Midoriya yelled.

Asui ribbited in affirmation.

Mineta backed away from them in fear.

'Are they insane!?' He thought.

'They want to fight these guys!?'

'Why can't they just wait for All Might! They have to be bluffing about having a way to defeat All Might!'

Mineta backed himself into the rail, which was his mistake.

He felt something wet wrap around his leg, something that was definitely not Asui's tongue.

He looked down and saw a rope of water attached to his right leg.

Before he could react he was suddenly pulled up into the air and downward into the water.

"Mineta!" he could hear Midoriya's and Asui's yell of worry over his own screams as he was dragged back into the water.

"Hmrrph!" Mineta gargle as bubbles left his mouth with a gasp.

'Midoriya! Asui! Save me!'

The villain in front of him looked down on him.

"Sorry! I don’t have anything against you, but see ya!"

Mineta looked to his side and saw another villain with a shark mouth jet toward him with great speed.

Mineta tried to swim backward but the water around him seemed to trap him in place.

The shark villain opened his mouth wide enough for Mineta to see rows of his teeth.

'I...don't...want...to...die!'

Mineta felt a piercing pain in his neck, something dark passed in front of his vision.

He felt his body get lighter and expelled all the air in his lungs.

Mineta's heart stopped beating and his vision turned to black.

Mineta Minoru died.

He felt hands grab him and pull him out of the darkness.

"Ah! Ha"

Mineta Minoru was alive.

He coughed heavily as the phantom feeling of drowning tickled his lungs.

Afterward, Mineta took a look at himself then he started laughing.

"Ahahahahaha!"

'That's right! There's no way I could've died! Asui must've saved me!'

"Ribbit, Mineta you alright?" Asui asked while he was a notorious pervert he was still her classmate so she was worried when he just started laughing out of nowhere.

"Asui!" He yelled tears in his eyes, "You saved from those scary villains! Please marry me!" he babbled latching onto her breasts.

SLAP!

Mineta was sent to the ground with a wet tongue slap.

"Dude that was not manly," Kirishima said in a disappointed tone.

"Ribbit, what villains?" Asui asked.

"Huh, what villains?" Mineta repeated the question.

He could not understand.

He just couldn't understand.

"What are you talking about!? We were just on the ship and I was drowning because of the Villains!"

"Ribbit, I don't remember being on a ship or saving you from drowning."

"Wha, what?! This isn't a joke Asui! Where's Midoriya!?"

He looked around the class for his green-haired rival until someone interrupted him.

"Mineta."

He looked at the front of the class, Aizawa was there so to was Thirteen.

"There are no villains here. What are you talking about?" Aizawa asked harshly, angry that someone interrupted his lesson.

"Wha-but-but" Mineta babbled.

Suddenly behind Aizawa and black portal opened.

"Villains!" Mineta yelled instinctively pointing behind Aizawa.

Aizawa's turned, sensing something.

"Villains!?" he said in shock immediately getting into a stance.

“Eraser Head and Thirteen, huh? The teacher’s schedule we received the other day said that All Might was supposed to be here.” a voice hummed.

Voices started being raised and yelling increased, the tension in the area rose.

Mineta recognized the faces coming out of the portal.

He remembered drowning, he remembered the pain of the shark villain's bite.

His eyes widened.

Sweat poured from his brow.

He didn't want to die.

He didn't want to die again.

'I... don't...want...to...die!" he screamed fearfully in his mind.

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[A/N]: It’s pretty shit ngl, repeating sentences doesn’t give the effect I want it to, repeating lines just makes the characters seem dumb and there isn’t really any meat on the one-shot.

 

[Nevermind]

What is this a fanfiction of? Might want to indicate since it could confuse readers.

The start was good but the transitions made it hard to keep track of where it was going as it went on. It seems to start with some kind of daydream to transition into another daydream and then they're back in school?

 

[Cryso Agori]

What is this a fanfiction of? Might want to indicate since it could confuse readers.

Sure, though I did put it in the title.

Mha means My Hero Academia, which is a anime/manga about students learning to be heroes. Re: Zero is an isekai anime/manga series.

The start was good but the transitions made it hard to keep track of where it was going as it went on. It seems to start with some kind of daydream to transition into another daydream and then they're back in school?

I.e the premise here is that Mineta(the character we're following) had gained Return By Death, an ability from Re: Zero, which turns back time everytime he dies. It's very much like checkpoints and saves on a video game. Except Mineta doesn't get to decide when and where he goes back it time, and the activation condition is his death.


The arc this is taking place in the USJ Arc, where the hero students go on a field trip to the USJ (Unforseen Simulation Joint) a huge center where disasters are simulated so the students can learn how to save people and stuff.

However, villains appear in the USJ having taken control of it and one of the main honchos who had a teleportation quirk teleports the students to different areas of the USJ filled with villains.

In MHA canon Midoriya(the actual main character) saves both Tsuyu and Mineta, in this fanfic oneshot Mineta gets killed and goes back in time to the beginning of the field trip.

 

[Nevermind]

Well, I know nothing about that series. Maybe the transitions make sense in that context.

 

[Cryso Agori]

Well, I know nothing about that series. Maybe the transitions make sense in that context.

Well, this scene from Re: Zero fits the context and atmosphere I was going for.



Also if you have the time you should watch it, both anime seasons are incredibly well done, and the light novels are even better.

 

[Cryso Agori]

A small snippet of an idea for a Percy Jackson X F/GO idea.
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"Hm, okay so the formula would be... I = mv2 - mv1 = m(v2 - v1)."

"Hm-hm."

"So then v1=242m/s and... v2=258m/s equals... 720,000 kg m/s!"

"That's right!" A small clap resounded throughout the room in the small apartment.

Percy Jackson leaned back with a yawn, feeling his back crack comfortably as he rolled his head around.

"These physics problems are torture! What's the point of knowing these stuff when we break them anyway?"

On his bed was a girl with her golden-blonde hair in a ponytail. in her lap was an open textbook indistinguishable from all the other books that surrounded them, near him was a paper book titled "DSTOMP: The Demigod Standard Test of Mad Powers."

"Hey! Physics is an important subject, don't you remember when I saved your life with it!" Annabeth said in false anger smiling while clicking her pen.

"Wait, really?" Percy said tilting his head.

"Remember our first quest Seaweed Brain? I-"

Percy drank in the normalcy of this scene. Only a few months ago was he fighting a giant evil robot with the face of a Roman Emperor, now here he was studying for University.

He wished for this to never end, no troubles, no saving the world just him and Annabeth together.

Which obviously meant things had to go wrong.

He immediately straightened up. Eyes dashing around the room as his senses scanned the room.

Annabeth held gave him a knowing look face filled with worry.

'You sense that too?'

He couldn't not sense it, it was like someone had shocked him with electricity, the back of his head buzzed.

He jumped off the bed and quickly exited his room in a run.

Entering the small living room he found... nothing out of the ordinary.

His stepfather Paul Blofis, was standing and rocking his baby sister Estelle while singing a small tune. His mom Sally Jackson was working on the couch, reading glasses on her face as her fingers moved across her laptop.

There was no worry on their faces, unlike the demigods, they couldn't sense whatever was worrying them.

"Percy, Annabeth what's wrong?" Paul asked.

Sally looked up from her laptop, noticing the pen in Percy's hand.

Percy himself was breathing heavily as running a marathon. Seeing his family fine didn't make him feel better, in fact, it made him feel worse. Knowing that his parents and baby sister could be in danger.

"I...Don't know."

He strode towards the window and opened it, peering out he saw people, no monsters, nothing. Just people walking around doing their things.

He lifted his head and stared at the sun, the light of Apollo's ride forcing him to squint.

'It's as if we're being watched.' Percy thought.

And then the world lit on fire.

It was in an instant.

Buildings or shelter provided no protection, they burned all the same.

Sally, Blofis, and Estelle didn't even have time to realize what was happening when they turned to ash, incinerated without pain.

"Per..cy."

Annabeth lasted longer, managing to stretch out her arm to him and say those final words before turning to dust.

Percy wasn't granted a painless death.

In the first second the flame didn't hurt, the power of his father Poseidon protected him.

But even the power of the Gods wasn't infallible.

He screamed as his skin melted, flame entering his lungs and roasting his voicebox.

His powers went wild, water appeared around him and disappeared just as quickly into steam.

Blood spurted out of his own vessels as they popped into steam.

Despite the pain as his nerves were charred he reached out a hand to where Annabeth once stood, in so much pain that he couldn't even think.

And then the floor burned away, and he fell into black, feeling nothing.

In that black, he saw.

A city just like Manhattan, covered in ever-burning flames.

A girl with white hair and in black who could only be described as a Witch, surrounded by dragons.

And the weirdest, a man in purple standing in front of the giant automaton that had attacked Camp Half-Blood. in front of him was a woman in red brandishing a weird zig-zaggy looking sword.

"Haaah!"

Percy jumped out of his bed hitting his head on the frame and landing on his nose.

"Haah...haah...hah."

Each breath came out heavy and labored.

It wasn't day, nor was everything on fire.

Before he could gather his thoughts his phone on his nightstand rang.

"Percy, we need to talk." Rachel's voice came through.

"Is it about the world suddenly turning on fire?" Percy asked.

"...Yes."
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Just to note, this isn't a prologue or whatever. This is just something to reign in and control my thoughts. I'm still deciding how I want to write the story. Which is why this is super unpolished.

But to explain, Percy's having a dream where he sees Goetia burn everything and he sees some of the singularities.

As for why he sees only three singularities. It's because I just finished Fuyuki and Orleans and Septem are based on what I read from Timeless Academia.

If, when I do write this crossover this probably won't actually have this happen, or if I do it will be way less explicit. Maybe have Goetia pull a Kronos and actually notice Percy spying and do something.

Also as the vision with Septem shows, I am thinking of adding more Percy Jackson elements than just Percy Jackson. Like Nero from TOA. Also trying to decide if I should try to fuse the world's more, like Magus's knowing about gods and shit and maybe Percy being chosen by Chaldea instead of being suddenly sent there like Ritsuka.

Still have a lot to think about. So just chew on this for now.

 

[Cryso Agori]

Subaru tried to breathe in but all that came was blood.

"Sh-shit, old man do you not know the meaning of holding back?" Subaru said with a dry chuckle.

Behind him, Rem slowly got on her feet stumbling like a drunk as blood poured down her head.

"How-how did you do that with your skin?" Rem slurred.

The man that looked so much like Subaru smiled.

"Nanomachines, girly. They harden in response to physical trauma."

"Subaru." Emilia came up to his side with a low whisper.

"Me and Puck will distract him with some ice, then you can go from behind-"

"That won't work." Subaru immediately shut it down.

"Besides, I don't want to win in such a underhanded manner."

Subaru looked forth, at the man he considered his idol, a living legend. His father, Natsuki Kenichi.

"Don't complain now, you guys wanted to fight me at full power," Kenichi spoke with a mischievous grin.

'That's right, the reason why I wanted to be a Monster Hunter since I was a kid, the reason why I'm fighting him right now is because!...'

The same mischievous grin appeared on Subaru's face, he wiped the blood from his mouth.

Despite the bruises and pain that racked his body, he lifted the katana's in his hands, one glassy white, made of quartz, the other midnight black of obsidian. He could feel them, the spirits of his soul pushing him on.

The shadows around him coalesced and changed as his lifeforce, the Qi of his body and soul was released, wrapping around. In his mind's eye he could feel Satella and her shadow garden, amping his shadow control.

His hair turned white as the Authority of Pride strengthened him.

his arms and hands turned black as the Authority of Sloth flowed through them.

"Get ready Old Man! Here and now I'm going to surpass yoooooooouuuuuuuuu!!!!"

"Haha! Loud words! Subaru! But can you back them up!" Kenichi screamed.

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! COR LEONIS!" Subaru yelled. And the Authority of Greed activated.

The damaged landscape shifted. Space rippled as the cracks and craters disappeared, reversing, turning into a black darkness that was absorbed by his swords. And he slashed.

Shadow and black mixed together as the damage absorbed by Cor Leonis was transferred to his swords and transformed into a beam of pure force.

Despite that.

SMASH!

Kenichi punched right through it, his arm turned black with nanomachines.

But that wasn't all.

"AAAAAAAHHHHH!" A Morningstar grew in size and slammed into Kenichi like a boulder.

"If that's how you want to win! Then I'll help too!" Emilia slammed her hand into the ground building-sized daggers of ice grew forth.

"I have such a demanding Contractor, I suppose!" Giant blades of frozen time shot out from a tiny hand.

"Hmmmmm, weeeeeeell it's nooooot, right for a Maaaaaster tooo not heeelp his maid~," A sing-songy voice said as a clown flew into the sky and shot all manner of projectiles, Ice, Fire, Wind, Water. (edited)

"GRRRRAAAAAH, This Glorious Golden Battle Tiger will help too! I can't let Subaru have all the fun!" A boy with long blonde hair in a ponytail and an x-shaped scar on his head yelled before changing into a giant anthropomorphic tiger wearing Chinese armor and a floating ribbon on his back, his hands were armored with clawed gauntlets, as he released a godly technique, shooting out glowing palms of energy.

Despite that.

Kenichi easily lifted and threw back the giant morningstar. With one hand he deflected the attacks of the elements. He shattered the crystals of frozen time that tried to stop his movement. He simply let the golden palms of the tiger crash and disperse on his body.

Yet.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!" He lifted his arms to block the swords of his son.

Despite all of the other attacks not making him budge. This one crashed with enough force to move his feet.

"Wha?!" Kenichi yelped in shock at the strength behind the blow.

"I TOLD YOU DAD! I'M...GOING...TO...SURPASS...YYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUU!"

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Don't read too much into this, I just made it up on discord like 1 minute ago.

 

[Cryso Agori]

An idea I got on discord.
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"Ha...ha...ha."

She ran.

She ran. She ran. She ran. She ran. She ran. She ran.

"Why are you running?!" The voice of the Witch Of Envy resonated within her ears.

"Turn back! How could you leave him! He's our lover! He's Mine! He's Mine! He's Mine HE'S MINE!!!"

"WE CAN'T!!" Satella shouted back.

"He trusted us! He gave us a task! We have to trust and listen to him!"

"HE'S GONNA DIE! GO BACK! I'LL RIP THE SNAKES EYES OUT OF HIS SOCKETS!!!!"

The wrathful roars of the Witch Of Envy emanated from her mind through her body as she tried to take over Satella's body.

"NO!"

Satella pushed the Witch Of Envy back in her mind.

"YOU LISTEN!"

"SUBARU GAVE US A TASK!!! WE HAVE TO COMPLETE IT!!! OR ELSE! Or else..."

She couldn't finish her words, the air stuck in her throat.

Suddenly a great tremor resounded through the land.

Like a category 12 earthquake. The ground itself rose and fell like water.

The tremor passed through Lugunica, Vollachia, Gusteko, and Kararagi and further.

To the Great Waterfall and beyond.

"No."

Satella looked in complete shock.

She could see it.

In fact, everyone could see it.

The ground beneath them, the planet itself.

Was collapsing.

"NO!"

"IMPOSSIBLE! IMPOSSIBLE! IMPOSSIBLE! IMPOSSIBLE! IMPOSSIBLE!"

The Witch Of Envy was pulling her hair, not in rage but heartbreak.

Satella fell to her knees.

She could hear his words, the ones he told her before going to battle.

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"Satella, I think you already know this but I guess I should say it, so you don't blame yourself or let Envy get the best of you. But there's a chance I'll die in this battle, permanently."

"Subaru! Don't say that! I'm sure-"

He interrupted her.

"Please don't , ...Satella you may not want to believe it but its true, me, Reinhard, Julius, Garfield, Emilia, Ram, Rem, Meili, Frederica, Anastasia, Priscilla, ... Emilia."

He let out the last name with a long breath as if savoring the taste of it in his mouth.

"We all have a chance of dying against that Bastard, and this time my death will be permanent."

"Even if so, I'll be alright if I die with you." Satella said.

Suddenly Subaru grabbed her shoulders with a tight yet not painful grip.

"NO!" His voice was forceful yet tempered belaying no emotions. His eyes pierced through her.

"Satella, your not coming on the battlefield with us."

"WHAT!?"

Her voice changed growing more manic, the shadows beneath her feet moved like whips. Yet Subaru kept his calm disposition.

"Satella, Envy. I'm giving you a task. It's very very important, its the only thing that may save us if we fail."

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Satella forced herself up the planet was collapsing at an even faster rate, it would only take a few minutes for it to reach her.

"My task, I have to complete my task. I can't fail him."

Suddenly a presence appeared.

A billion miles away yet right next to her, something which should not exist in this world yet does.

"RAAAH"

With a cry of anger, the shadows beneath her feet jumped.

Suddenly becoming 3 dimensional and consuming her.

She appeared in a shadowy place, her garden.

A place not connected to normal time and space.

Her Domain.

And yet.

A growing crack of light appeared.

It grew infinitely bigger.

It got infinitely brighter.

It exploded.

Satella was sent flying through her own garden and the shadows disappeared in the light.

In the place of the crack was a being.

Its skin was tan. It wore no pants nor undergarments to hide it male genitals. It had no shirt to hide its womanly breasts. It had the heads of a buffalo, lion, and hawk on its stomach. Angelic wings folded on its back and hair made of flame.

The God looked down on her.

"He failed" was the only thing it said.

"You-you bastard!"

That was all Satella could say.

Anger, rage, heartbreak, love, and grief all flowed throughout her body and soul.

"I thought you would've been by his side fighting me."

The God looked at her with an impassioned look.

"It is of no matter anyway."

"The last obstacles in my path are gone."

"This place is awfully dark, but it would make a good starting point."

It lifted a hand.

Closed it.

And opened it.

"Πρωτογόνου βασιλέως αἰδοίου∙ τῶι δ' ἄρα πάντες ἀθάνατοι προσέφυν μάκαρες θεοὶ ἠδ̣ὲ θέαιναι καὶ ποταμοὶ καὶ κρῆναι ἐπήρατιο ἄλλα τε πάντα, ἅ̣σσα τότ' ἦγγεγαῶτ', αὐτὸς δ' ἄρα μοῦνος ἔγεντο."

"Of the First-born king, the neverend[10] one; and upon him all the immortals grew, blessed gods and goddesses and rivers and lovely springs and everything else that had then been born; and he himself became the sole one".[11]"- Derveni Papyrus

From his hand, a silver egg was born.

And in that instant hatched.

Reality was collapsed.

Her Shadow Garden ripped apart as a Big Bang spread throughout it.

And past it.

Through her own universe, destroying it.

Through her love's universe, tearing it apart.

Her shadows were banished by the infinite light of the Big Bang.

Her clothes burned away leaving her body bare.

Yet despite that.

Satella resisted, even as the God tore her apart.

She pulled on the one thing she had, the task Subaru gave her, the one thing the God couldn't control.

Time.

Using both herself and Envy's powers she reached through Creation and grasped the threads.

Even as her body was ripped apart.

Using the last of powers she looked through time, to the past.

"Please save him! Please help him!" Satella's pleas raced throughout time.

In an instant, the God reached forth for her.

"Please love him! If you don't... Our worlds will be destroyed! Our's and his."

Her voice reached the ears of Subaru's loved ones in the past.

Suddenly shadows swallowed them up, transporting them to Subaru's world.

"Please..."

Her voice became weakened as she slowly began to fade into unconsciousness.

The God grasped her.

However, she slipped by his fingers.

Turning into shadows. With the last of her power, her Authority she Rewinded.

Returning to the past, and transporting herself to her Love's world.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This is an older Oneshot idea I did also inspired by Discord. I lot of things I write are inspired from discord

 

[Cryso Agori]

“Hggrrh-a-graah.”

A ghoulish noise that he couldn’t recognize came from his own mouth. Jaune blearily blinked the dark spots in his sight away as he tried to figure out what was going on. The first thing he noticed was an acrid, smokey smell, burning his nostrils.

The second thing he noticed was that he was moving or more accurately, being moved, the surroundings blurring together till it was just a mess of colors, cold wind of fall burned against his face, his bangs forced flat against his eyes. His shoulders and legs were rested upon supports, lifting him up.

It took him a second to realize that he was being carried. And it was actually kinda comfortable.

But, by who?

His head rolled, however, his eyesight hadn’t recovered so all he saw was a blurry trail of red, like fire.

‘Pyrrha?’ he thought, quite uncertainly due to seeing three faces at once.

Unbeknown to him he had said her name out loud.

Jaune involuntarily jumped a bit as his momentum suddenly stopped.

“Jaune?”

Okay definitely Pyrrha, he recognized that voice. Why did she sound so worried?

“Uh, Pyrrha what’s going on? And why are you carrying me?”

A small blush colored his cheeks as he realized Pyrrha wasn’t just carrying him but princess-carrying him, with ease as well. His mind and pride started a war with each other with such thoughts as ‘Oh my god my favorite female idol is princess-carrying me!’ and ‘Oh my god my favorite female idol is princess-carrying me.’

But that was quelled when he saw the look on her face. She didn’t just sound worried, she looked worried as well. With her emerald-like eyes filled with a deep sadness.

“Jaune… don’t you remember?”

Those words filled him with dread, he felt like there was something he should be remembering. Why was he out here being carried by Pyrrha anyway? Wasn’t he and Team JYPR(Jupiter) on a mission…

His thoughts stopped. He glanced out from Pyrrha’s arms.

That smokey smell was smoke.

A fire was raging in a square, rubble and rebar was strewn about, the front half of a train car stood out in the middle of it all coming out of the ground, leading to a hole.

And from that hole, creatures of Grimm crawled out.

“Damn it…Damn it!”

“Aw! Wait, Jaune!”

Jaune shook and struggled, forcing Pyrrha to drop him.

“I’m sorry!” she cried as he hit his forehead on brick.

He landed on the roof of a small shop only around 15 feet from ground level, with a tent coming out.

He tried getting up but could only manage to get on his knees and hands.

And then he looked.

“GRAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOO!”

Beowolves, Boarbatusks, Creeps, Ursa’s, Nevermores. At least a hundred of them were running around the streets and more were coming from the hole.

A giant King Taijitu slithered around with impossible speed, crushing a bakery with its weight.

Thankfully the bakery was already abandoned, so no one was hurt.

That wasn’t the same for the streets.

A Beowolf charged forward at a civilian who had tripped and was now unable to run away, its maw already gaping to take a bite out of her.

*BRRRHMPH*

Until that maw was suddenly closed by a pink and gray hammer. Smashing into the Beowolf’s lower jaw, the hammer was being wielded by a girl with short ginger hair.

“Hi-Yah!”

With a bombastic yell and an ear-to-ear smile, the bottom of the hammer suddenly lit up pink, a grenade exploded, the hammer shot up and the Beowolf was sent flying over buildings. Fading away even before hitting the ground.

‘Nora.’ Jaune thought mutedly.

*BANG*
*BANG*

She wasn’t the only one fighting. Yang was in the air wearing a much more serious expression, using her gauntlets to propel herself above the ground, with a well-placed punch she blasted a nevermore out of the sky and landed on top of an Ursa, punching a bullet into its back before it could get up.

His and Weiss’s teams were fighting, and they weren’t the only ones, he could see Sun and Neptune in the corner of his vision and a girl wielding a minigun in the other.

Everyone he knew in Vale was fighting, even people he didn't know were fighting.

The only people that weren’t were him, the team leader, and the Invincible Girl.

“Jaune come on, we can’t stay here.” Pyrrha spoke in a low yet urgent tone, kneeling and taking his arm, coaxing him up to his feet.

Shakily he stood up with her, his feet felt weak.

He was about to vomit, the endorphins in his brain were gone and he had a stinging headache.

“Pyrrha… why aren’t you fighting?”

“I’m sorry Jaune, but we need to get you to safety first… Ah, you’re bleeding!” She purposely ignored his question.

“Huh?”

He felt something wet on his forehead. Reaching up he found blood on his face.

‘Ah, so that’s where the pain was coming from.’

‘How did I get this wound?’


Pyrrha was approaching him, she had taken off her red sash and was now holding it up with two hands.

Just as she was about to use it as a tourniquet, he pushed her away.

“Jaune…why? I need to stop the bleeding!”

He studied her face. Tracing the lines of sadness. Trying to find a hidden meaning within that face, he didn’t.

‘Pathetic.’

She moved to him again. This time he let her wrap the sash around his head.

‘I really am pathetic.’

Why would Pyrrha be worried about his safety? Why would he be here? Instead of fighting with his team? Why would he be wounded?

It was… because he was weak wasn’t it?

He could remember it clearly now. Everything that had happened.

It all started when they agreed to join Team SNWB on a mission to Mt. Glenn to investigate Grimm and possible White Fang activity. Blake wanted to go, however, the mission was only for third-years.

Being first-years they weren’t allowed to go. Until Ozpin bent the rules and allowed Team SNWB to go with a Professor. Having overheard he asked Ozpin if Team JYPR could go as well, confident, too confident.

And so the Joint-Team Mission to Mt. Glenn with Professor Oobleck officially started.

After spending the day looking around Nora had managed to find a hole that led to a White Fang encampment. There they found an entire operation White Fang operation led by Roman Torchwick.

Using a workable train in the mountain, the plan was to rig each caboose with a bomb and release them from the train, blowing them up in order to make holes for Grimm to enter the tunnel. Then the train would follow tracks to the middle of Vale, where the train would blow through and make a hole for the Grimm to come out of.

Together they fought to… no. Not together, if they truly fought together this tragedy wouldn’t be happening right now.

While they were fighting the White Fang, Jaune saw Pyrrha was with him. Always keeping close to him, never leaving his sight.

Jaune realized recently, that it was because they had seen him as weak. Whenever he was in a battle, he never fought alone, not truly, his teammates were always close by. Ready to protect him at a moment’s notice.

And he hated it. He already had a complex of being saved and protected by other people. He didn’t want to be the child that had to hide behind his sisters, he didn’t want to be the kid stuck in a tree while his friends fought anymore. He wanted the strength to fight himself, to protect himself, the strength of a Huntsman.

To know that his own teammates considered him weak enough that he had to be protected, despite being the leader, even after landing the final blow on the multi-headed Taijitu? And that his idol, the Invincible Girl he watched on his computer late at night, the same person that told him that he had the potential to be a great Huntsman agreed?

It hurt him and his pride, badly.

During a fight in one of the train cars, a bunch of White Fang members had ganged up on Pyrrha, perhaps hoping to beat her with numbers. It didn’t work, despite the fact that they had Aura, the members of the White Fang hadn’t trained their Aura’s nor unlocked semblances, against a Huntress-in-training all it could do was keep them alive.

Despite that though, the onslaught of members had managed to hold Pyrrha back for a second.

It was only for a second.

But it was enough time to escape Pyrrha’s sight and move up the train leaving her behind.

It was definitely a bad and asshole move, he’d of realized that if he was thinking with his head, but instead he ran forward with his pride and emotions.

As he ran through the unknown inside of the train he felt a misplaced sense of elation. Like a hero confronting a dragon in a deep cave, and winning by the skin of his teeth.

As he ran through the train he could hear sounds of blades clanging against each other and people being sent flying above him.

It didn’t take him long to meet his opponent.

A short woman with hair and style just like Neapolitan ice cream.

Jaune knew logically that she was out of his league. She was Torchwick’s partner, was an incredibly skilled fighter capable of taking on and even killing huntsmen and huntresses, and had an illusionary semblance, all of which he witnessed first-person.


Despite all this, his pride reared its head and he thought ‘I can take her.’

He got his ass beat. Hard.

With flexibility and acrobatics, she easily toyed with him, flipping and pirouetting around his sword.

The only advantage he had was his large Aura, even then, it only meant that she could beat him more. His him and his pride

Again, he had to be bailed out. Not even on purpose this time. It was only luck that Cardin decided to smash a Grimm through the roof of the train car he was in and that it’d distract her long enough to blow it up with a dust crystal.

His aura shot, body beaten, and confidence broken. He was grasping at straws in order to prove his worth.

So he did something dumb.

Something reaaaally dumb.

He jumped in front of the train.

He couldn’t exactly put down why, his own thoughts seemed unintelligible at that point.

But perhaps it was as simple as wanting to prove that he was strong and useful.


However, he didn’t manage to slow down and stop the train like some superhero. Instead, he was pressed into the window of the train as his feet were forced under the train. If he let go he would’ve been sucked underneath the train and run over.

His aura was drained away by the millisecond, his entire body felt like a balloon of pure pain that just kept expanding and was about to pop.

‘Ah.” Jaune thought.

‘I’m about to die.’

He was in a state of constant pain and yet his mind felt clear.

‘I’m going to die here.’ Ripped apart under the wheels of a train he failed to stop.

Had he managed to do anything with the meager time given to him…

No, nothing.

All he did was simply make things worse.

The grinding gears of the train got louder and louder, the sound starting to drown out everything in his mind.

‘I’m sorry.’

All he did was fuck everything up. And now he was going to die by his own folly.

A fitting end.

‘You guys have such a pathetic leader.’

His vision swam in darkness as he felt his muscles loosen. The pain suddenly shut off, and his soul was pulled upwards by the angels.

Well, probably not.

Drip. Drip.

He was kneeling here. Very clearly alive.

That pulling sensation. He very clearly knew what it was now.

“Damn it! Damn it! Daaaaamn iiiiiit!!!”

“Jaune! Stop!”

He smashed his fists and head into the brick. Punching and slamming himself into it His skin ripped without the protection of Aura.

Pyrrha’s hand wrapped around his wrists, despite his struggling he couldn’t break her grip.

“Jaune! What are doing!?”

“Damn it! Damnit!”

“Ah…ah…ah..ah.” The short burst of energy sputtered out leaving him as tired as he’s ever been.

Pyrrha didn’t yell or move. She didn’t try to move him or tell him anything. He could feel her heartbeat from her chest pushed up his back.

The grip on his wrists tightened as if he’d disappear if she let go.

“Pyrrha…” his voice came out hoarse.

“Hm?”

He turned around and saw tears at the corners of the Invincible Girl’s eyes. Despite being ‘invincible’ she had never been in this situation before, and she had no idea how to handle what was plaguing the person she cared about.

“...why did you save me?” the question came out in a whisper.

“Wha?” She reeled back in shock.

“Of course, I’d save you!” she yelled, tears starting to stream.

“WHY?!” Jaune yelled back his voice rose louder and louder.

He started crying too. Tears streaming down his face he cried.

“I’M PATHETIC! BECAUSE OF ME AND MY STUPID PRIDE, ALL THIS HAPPENED! IF I HAD STAYED WITH YOU WE COULD’VE STOPPED THE TRAIN! INSTEAD, I JUST RAN OFF AND YOU HAD TO FOLLOW! IT’S NOT JUST THIS TIME AS WELL, ORIENTATION, CARDIN, THE TAIJUTU, I HAD TO BE SAVED EVERY TIME CAUSE I’M SO WEAK!!! I DIDN’T EVEN DESERVE TO COME TO BEACON!!!”

“Jaune! What are you saying?!” Pyrrha replied incredulously, To her, it seemed like her team leader was losing his mind.

“I…I… faked my transcripts,” Jaune admitted.

He felt her grip on his wrists slacken from the shock of his words.

“I’m an Arc, we’re expected to be heroes, I grew up listening to awesome stories of my predecessors. Fighting monsters and killing Grimm. Yet, yet, I was weak. I always hid behind my sisters when conflict came, I was the kid who got stuck in a tree and was too scared to come down! I wanted to be like the heroes in my family despite that. So I took some transcripts I found and applied for Beacon!”

“Ahahaha, I didn’t think it would work but it did, I somehow got into Beacon, and thanks to you I got past Orientation.”

Jaune shivered and gasped, running his voice raw and he giggled insanely.

“I thought I was hot-shit! that I’d be some sort of prodigal badass with just my Aura! That I’d climb to the top by myself!”

“But I didn’t do anything! I only did the bare minimum of training! I didn’t pay attention to classes! All I did was laze around and read comics!”

“And look what happened! This entire mess in the city was cause I couldn’t keep my damn pride in check!”

“I needed you guys to pull the weight! You, Yang, Ren, you guys have to stay back and take care of me cause I’m so weak…Weiss was right. All I'm doing is pulling you guys down. I shouldn’t have come to Beacon, all I did was take the position of someone better than me.”

Jaune finally finished ranting his face was slick red with blood and blush.

Pyrrha had no words, how could she? Gears turned in her head as she realized why Jaune was so inexperienced, why he didn’t even have Aura.

But the time for reminiscing and sharing truths had ended.

“GGGGRRRRROOOOOOAAAAARRR!”

Jaune had been so caught up in his emotions against himself that he forgot that he was on a battlefield. Pyrrha had also been distracted by Jaune.

He stared forth, in front of him an Ursa met his gaze, the red glowing eyes promised only malice.

It reared up on its hind legs standing upright, ready to charge forth.

Swish.

Pyrrha appeared in front of him, her hands were already armed with Milo and Akouo. The tears were wiped away leaving only smudges of makeup as she gave the Grimm a glare.

Time seemed to slow down as his brain processed his thoughts.

‘Ah, I’m going to be saved again.’ He realized.

‘So what, I can’t defeat it anyway.’ He thought sullenly.

What was the point? After this, he wasn’t going to be a Huntsman anyway.

He believed that Pyrrha would tell Ozpin or Ms. Goodwitch the truth he just admitted. And if she didn’t, he’d do it himself.

After all, he didn’t deserve to be here, he was just hogging a spot someone else could do better, someone actually trained to fight and lead and just wasn’t some kid with a dream.

Yeah, this was the end.

He looked up at Pyrrha’s face, and an indescribable feeling welled up.

Despite that…

The faces of his teammates flickered through his mind, the group that made up team JYPR.

Despite this…

He remembered his grandfather, who told him hundreds of stories about his and his ancestor's past.

“Grh,Grrh!” He ground his teeth together.

Blood still flowed down his face, turning his vision red and making his eyes sting.

Time sped up.

“GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!”

He lashed out, reaching out for the sword hooked at Pyrrha’s waist.

“Hauh!?” Pushing Pyrrha his hands gripped around the hilt of Crocea Mors.

And he did the only thing he mastered.

He unsheathed it.

Pulling the sword out of the scabbard, Pyrrha fell on her butt from the momentary loss of balance.

“GRAAAAAAAAAH!”

Still yelling he charged forth. Falling off the rooftop with an ungraceful tumble, opening even more wounds and pain.

But he got off the ground and onto his feet. His body flashed white.

The cries of his teammates surrounded him. But at this moment he didn’t hear anything.

He simply ran toward the Grimm.

The Ursa still standing on its hind legs opened its arms wide like an anteater ready to eviscerate him as soon as he got close.

Despite it all…

“DDDDDDAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMNNNNNNNNNNNNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!”

Jaune still wanted to be a Huntsman.

His sword glowed, red hot like as if it was being melted in a furnace, the brightness simply kept increasing more and more, the light running from the hilt to the tip of the blade til it was only white.

An everbright white that blinded even the Grimm.

KSSSSWWHHH!

A white flash burst out from the sword, blinding everything in the vicinity. The sound of something being seared and sheared permeated throughout.

When the light receded, the Ursa fell in two pieces cut in half by Jaune’s sword. He stood above the disappearing body in triumph till he tipped over and collapsed.
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The quality suffers halfway through this one cause I actually lost motivation to continue this oneshot, and it was just sitting on my PC for months. I only decided to pick it up again cause I didn't want to leave it unfinished.

Jaune here is based on his V1 character cause V1 is the only season of RWBY I'm willingly watching, couldn't find any motivation to continue in the series.