Chapter 20 - How to Wrangle a Bull

– Tuesday –

Jaune Gathered everyone once more except for Ozpin as he had to tackle paperwork to prepare an alibi for their up coming operation. Jaune agreed and opened up the training room for them once again. This time they prepared themselves with workout gear, hunter gear, raw ores for upgrades, and their notes from the day before. And this time they all worked together in each area to train and learn from each other and the libraries knowledge as well.

Jaune went back to diving through the A ranked gates, though this time thanks to him going without any guild members, or Ozpin he took around 30 minutes per gate with a 15 minute rest after each one. He panted hard after each gate and did his training between them to make sure he wasn't sent back to any Penalty Quest areas any time soon.

His friends pushed themselves hard with magic training for 2 hours, physical training for an hour, studying for an hour, a nap for an hour, forging and upgrades for another 2 hours then to their own sparring training and any skills they felt lacking in for the last 3 hours.

They did this and came out to find a slightly beaten up Jaune who had managed to clear another 7 A ranked gates mostly due to him needing a nap after all of those. He leveled up a solid 8 levels from all of those gates. He decided to check his stats while his friends were unwinding from the straining time they had and getting used to their new limits as they stretched and applied them in spars at Beacon. Jaune marveled at his stats and whistled quietly to himself at seeing his growth.

Level 192

Exp: 16%

HP: 284,000/284,000

AP: 96,000/ 96,000

Fatigue: 0/100%

Class: Master of Knights

Stats:

STR: 267 (+50) (+16 ally boost)

AGI: 267 (+25) (+16 ally boost)

VIT:267 (+40) (+16 ally boost)

INT: 347 (+16 ally boost)

SENSE: 267 (+15) (+16 ally boost)

Points available: 98

Current shop points: 681,010 points

Physical dmg resistance: +47%

Skills:

-???- : ?????

Inheritor: Access to system, over level 20 access to shop

Knight Master: +1 to all stats per ally under users command

Standing army II: Gain ability to summon an army of knights under the users command, points available 69/347, basic unit lvl 55: 12 (6 sword, 4 bow, 2 healer) (4 pts per), commander units lvl 52: 2 (1 Great knight, 1 Sniper) (25 pts per), heroic unit lvl 61: 2 (Iron, Baruka) (90 pts per)

Commander Units:

Great Knight (Passive: +5% to all ally melee units dmg, stacks with other commander abilities)

Sniper (Passive: +5% to all ally ranged units dmg, stacks with other commander abilities)

Heroic Unit Baruka Title Holder: Baruka Master of the North

Heroic Unit Iron title holder: Iron the Shield of the Light

Arc Bloodline: +400 to AP per level

Expert sword arts lvl 6: 13 times dmg with swords

Unarmed Combat Expert lvl 4: times 11 dmg with unarmed blows

True Warriors Aura lvl 9: +90 to Str, Agi, and Vit for however long this aura is active, heals 1700 HP per minute, cost: 1100 for activation, additional 110 per minute used.

Knights Rallying call lvl 9: +45 to all stats of every person you recognize as an ally within 200ft of user, Lower the physical abilities of foes by 45 points within the area of effect. Costs 1200 AP, lasts 5 minutes.

White Knight Body Armor Rank A:

+15 str

+15 vit

+11% physical dmg reduction

White Knight Gauntlets Rank A:

+10 str

+5 sense

+8% physical dmg reduction

White Knight Sabatons Rank A:

+10 vit

+5 agi

+8% physical dmg reduction

White Knight Basic Helm Rank A:

+10 sense

+10 agi

+5% physical dmg reduction

Rank S Crocea Mors (Seal level 4)

Bonuses: +320 to dmg

+25 str when equipped

+15 vit when equipped

+10 agi when equipped

+15% reduction to physical dmg when equipped

He nodded as he saw his stats rivaling most A ranked foes in the gates. He was approaching a position where he can fight them all without his boost skills active. But he had his stat points and it was now time to use them to make sure he can fight them off.

Stats:

STR: 287 (+50) (+16 ally boost)

AGI: 287 (+25) (+16 ally boost)

VIT:287 (+40) (+16 ally boost)

INT: 347 (+16 ally boost)

SENSE: 287 (+15) (+16 ally boost)

Points available: 18

With a grin Jaune nods to himself at a job well done for the sake of growing his stats for the upcoming fight against the White Fang Vale branch. If he kept up this pace of growth he will be able to fight off Adam and his entire faction… ideally. There are always unknowns so he had to make sure he tread carefully with this mission. After all his friends had finally all hit B rank minimum without any B- ranks among them now. They had more room to grow but they will gain that chance to reach those heights once they clear this obstacle.

They all head back to their dorms after the day and adjusting to their new found power.

– Wednesday –

Today they decided to maximize their training to the fullest they can manage. They had only 1 day left before they tackled the Vale branch of the White Fang to keep them from being a threat in the future. They decided to split their time training as such.

5 hours of magic, sparring, studying, and team work training, 1 hour rest, repeat twice, then finish their day resting and going over their plan with each other and one final nap in the gate before heading out to initiate the plan.

Jaune would be finishing off the final 8 A ranked gates he has to make sure he has as much leveling he can grab before he faces off against Adam. He wishes his friends good luck as he also gives his girlfriends hugs and kisses for good luck.

They all hug him tight and kiss him deeply before joining their guild for training. Jaune huffs to himself in satisfaction at his friends efforts to grow more than they are at the moment. Then smiles as he flicks his remaining 8 A ranked keys up and catching them mid air. He opens the first gate and summons his army before yelling out, "For the future of Remnant!"

The cheer is echoed by his soldiers and they all rush in.

– Thursday –

It was 9 am the next day, Jaunes friends had all been inside the gate for the full 24 hours they needed. They all came out with many breakthroughs to be felt form their presence alone. His friends all come out where all of RWBY, NR, CFV, and SLV are all now solidly B+ rank. Pyrrha, Yatsu, and Ragora had all managed to break through to a solid A ranked level of strength.

They all come out of the gate before it closes and they turn to see a fully rested Jaune who is coming out of a tent he set up for the night before recalling his troops that he sent to secure the perimeter from Grimm or spies in the area. He stands up and a fresh pulse of energy exudes from Jaune making his friends all grin as just being near him has him being more powerful than any of them. He was probably a solid A+ rank or even borderline S. Jaunes stats and near upgraded gear reflected this growth. Even his class has evolved allowing him to break through from his previous limits.

Jaune showed off his new armor, being more bulky but still steam lined, he seemed to have gone for strength and style in the form of pure white armor with a bluish tint to the metal as it gleamed in the early morning sun. It had an amazing design to it that made it feel like the legendary knights of old. With his sword having also gained an interesting pair of runes on each side of the blades middle area. The shield has not changed much except being made of the same metal as the armor now. Jaune also had a tall 9ft tall knight with a crimson plume forming from its head standing behind him and a large claymore. Its armor despite being tinted white from Jaunes summoning ability had a huge amount of red in the design showing that it had originally been crimson or some other version of red in the past when he was living.

Yatsu gasped as he recognizes the figure form some of the history books they had been studying in the gate. It was Igris, the Blood Red Commander of the original King of Vale, back to fight for humanity once more!

Everyone was in awe once they were told this and Jaune beamed proudly while Igris puffed his chest in pride at the recognition of his legends and stories being passed down to the current generation of warriors. Jaune then explained what happened last night after he cleared all the A ranked gates.

Level 200

Exp: 4%

HP: 300,000/300,000

AP: 100,000/ 100,000

Fatigue: 0/100%

Class: Champion of Light

Stats:

STR: 295 (+75) (+24 ally boost)

AGI: 295 (+50) (+24 ally boost)

VIT:295 (+65) (+24 ally boost)

INT: 355 (+10) (+24 ally boost)

SENSE: 295 (+35) (+24 ally boost)

Points available: 26

Current shop points: 131,410 points

Physical dmg resistance: +63%

Skills:

-The Next Monarch-: Break through the limits of normal humans and gain the potential to reach the ranks of a Monarchs strength, +10 to all stats

Inheritor: Access to system, over level 20 access to shop

Knight Master: +1 to all stats per ally under users command

Standing army III: Gain ability to summon an army of knights under the users command, points available 1/355, basic unit lvl 58: 18 (6 sword, 6 bow, 6 healer) (3 pts per), commander units lvl 54: 3 (1 Great knight, 1 Sniper, 1 Paladin) (20 pts per), heroic unit lvl 62: 3 (Iron, Baruka, Igris) (80 pts per)

Commander Units:

Great Knight (Passive: +5% to all ally melee units dmg, stacks with other commander abilities)

Sniper (Passive: +5% to all ally ranged units dmg, stacks with other commander abilities)

Paldin (Passive: +5% to all ally healer units support spells, stacks with other commander units)

Heroic Unit Baruka Title Holder: Baruka Master of the North, +15% to the stats of all archer units

Heroic Unit Iron title holder: Iron the Shield of the Light, +15% to the stats of all knight units

Heroic Unit Igris Title holder: The Crimson Sword of the Monarch, +15% to the stats of all knight units

Arc Bloodline: +400 to AP per level

Expert sword arts lvl 6: 13 times dmg with swords

Unarmed Combat Expert lvl 4: times 11 dmg with unarmed blows

True Warriors Aura lvl 9: +90 to Str, Agi, and Vit for however long this aura is active, heals 1700 HP per minute, cost: 1100 for activation, additional 110 per minute used.

Knights Rallying call lvl 9: +45 to all stats of every person you recognize as an ally within 200ft of user, Lower the physical abilities of foes by 45 points within the area of effect. Costs 1200 AP, lasts 5 minutes.

White Knight Body Armor Rank S:

+20 str

+20 vit

+13% physical dmg reduction

White Knight Gauntlets Rank S:

+15 str

+10 sense

+10% physical dmg reduction

White Knight Sabatons Rank S:

+15 vit

+10 agi

+10% physical dmg reduction

White Knight Basic Helm Rank S:

+15 sense

+15 agi

+10% physical dmg reduction

Rank SS Crocea Mors (Seal level 3)

Bonuses: +640 to dmg

+30 str when equipped

+20 vit when equipped

+15 agi when equipped

+20% reduction to physical dmg when equipped

Halves the cost of Aura usage techniques through the sword due to streamlining the process and becoming more accustomed to the users aura and needs.

Everyone was gaping at how he was essentially an S rank with his gear alone, but Jaune assured them that he needed to actually tackle an S ranked gate first before he even tries to do something so boned headed as assume he was untouchable just because he could solo A ranked gates with his army supporting him.

They all nodded before Jaune then asked, "Now are you all ready to take down the White Fang in Vale? And secure the underground of Vale from further corruption and harm against humanity?"

Everyone nods before yelling out "Yeah!"

Jaune grins before he calls Ozpin and says, "We got our cover story for the operation?"

Ozpin nods from the other side of the line and says, "Indeed, Tukson has given us the location of the Vale branch and has helped us coordinate with locals to evacuate the place from any innocents and dock workers. You'll be down at the docks in warehouse 15 that should have been decommissioned a while ago, but it has been secretly their lair for the last few months. Be wary as the White Fang has been recruiting new members for a while now and have reportedly, from Tukson anyway, grown to at least 200 in members in this branch. Will you be alright without my support for now?"

Jaune looks at his friends who all nod at him, before he turns his head to his summoned army, then back towards the phone and says, "We have a plan, we have this in the bag. Besides if there are any of Salem's agents among them, better not let them know how much of your strength has returned or you'll be facing assassins everyday."

Ozpin hums in agreement before saying, "Very well, Hunters Guild! This is your second official mission! Bring down the corrupt White Fang group in Vale and keep from from being a problem in the future!"

The entire guild yell out, "Understood!" Before the line goes dead from Ozpin hanging up.

They all head out to face this new threat before it becomes a thorn in their side.

– Warehouse 15 –

The White Fang were all focused on their preparations before moving to Mt. Glenn for their new base of operations and for their next special plan, the breach. They had one month to prepare themselves for it but they were moving fast and efficiently thanks to the help of the dynamic duo of Roman and Neo the two best thieves of Vale. And their leader Adam was currently over seeing the move as the soldiers were packing up their plans, the weapons, and their new suits of mechs they had… Appropriated from the Atlas military.

They had a few lieutenants in the base as well so they weren't completely alone with only the basic foot soldiers but they would do for their current needs.

As the foot soldiers were picking up the next few crates and using the moving trucks to prepare for departure, Adam grunts in annoyance at them asking if he could help watch over their move. If it wasn't for the fact that this is needed for him to gain that promised power from that Crimson dressed human, then he would have left this to his underlings and went off to hit a few more key targets before they left this prime base location. He snorted in annoyance at her haughty attitude but had to admit she had the power to back it up. If they fought he would land a lethal blow, but likely at the cost of his own life. He needed that promised power so he could finally shake off her shackles on his men and himself. Otherwise they will forever be stuck as her personal pet army. Something he was ready to stop being for this annoyance.

He sighs in irritation as his personal lieutenant Bonesaw comes over with his chainsaw rifle. He comes up and asks, "Master Adam, we have moved most of the dust, but we are having trouble moving the mechs. What should we do?"

Adam mulls it over before a tick mark appears over his head when he hears the most annoying voice in the world yell at him, "Hey hey hey! Time is money! Why have those mechs not budged an inch since we last checked?"

Adam turns to Roman with a sneer as he retorts, "I don't know! Why haven't you budged an inch since we last talked? Been too busy planing your next heist? We need direction here! We don't know how to carefully handle some of this tech! Guide us you idiotic thief! That's why we hired you!"

Roman snapped back at Adam with equal heat, "Idiotic?! If I may remind you pal! This 'idiotic' human has managed to get you guys this far! And I am not working for you! I work with you! But not for you! And you never hired me! You guys were forced to work with me by that crimson dressed bitch! So let's just both admit that we are stuck here or we both burn! Hmmm?"

Adam internally admits that they are indeed stuck together but he would never agree to that verbally. He snaps his fingers with anger clear on his masked face. While Roman answers in kind with his own snap.

Neo appears beside Roman and readies her parasol while Bonesaw revved up his chainsaw function as fists were about to fly. But right before things got too heated they suddenly heard a light tapping on the main warehouse door. Making everyone drop what they were doing and draw their swords, guns, rifles, and axes. The Lieutenants all ready their personal weapons at the front of the pack and flare up their auras before someone near the door has his gun out and asks, "Who is it?!"

They hear nothing in response, so the door faunus looks at his friends with a shrug before he goes to make sure the door is locked. Right as he reaches the handle he and the door go flying, slamming into another 10 members and smashing against the back wall. All the faunus behind the door slump to the floor unconscious as everyone refocuses their attention to the new hole in the wall.

They see a pair of heavily armored knights coming in with glowing white armor while one of them looks like a walking tank with a huge hammer and tower shield and another that is lean and wielding a huge claymore. The tank one rushes in taking on all the bullets flying at him while swinging his hammer left and right taking out one White Fang member after another. While Igris is rushing around and destroying numerous weapons and guns with his blade.

Adam and Roman forget their fight and head to fight off the creatures. Roman gives Neo a signal to head to the right while he heads to a Paladin mech. Adam motions towards a squad to aid Roman by getting into more mechs. They all nod and head towards them right as the wall to the mech docks is destroyed.

Coming through the hole is Baruka and his squad firing through the hole at a familiar group of people chasing after them. RWBY enters the fray as they are seen shooting and chasing after the creatures. Roman notices little Red from the dust store robbery.

He grits his teeth after remembering how she stopped him then but he wouldn't let her stop him now. He stops suddenly as the Great Knight appears in front of Roman with his sword ready to slash down at him. Neo barely stopped it in time as the sword comes down and gets Roman out of the way and at a mech, she motions to tell him to load up as she heads off to fight the Great Knight off.

Roman nods and activates his mech, it goes dark inside the mech for a minute but once he had loaded it up his eyes go wide as he sees a bull head headed for him. He goes, "Shit!" And his mech is flung back from the force of the ship hitting him straight on. He falls to the side with a deep dent and mangled limbs of his mech now no longer working right. He sweeps his camera around and finds the one who threw the bullhead was that huge tank creature with its hammer currently trying to crush the busty blonde.

He also saw the hunters and huntresses seemed to have multiplied, no longer just little red and her team, now the Mistrali champion Pyrrha with her team, a silver dressed kid he had a report about in the past who had destroyed one of their warehouses about a month back. His eyes go wider as he sees a troublesome team known as team CFVY that he had seen in the past in the news. He grunts and escapes the mechs mangled body and sees that they are down to only 80 grunts still up with all those creatures fighting everyone.

He noticed that there were some interesting fights going on.

He saw the boy in green fighting Neo while also teaming up against her with a blind red haired boy with arm blades fighting her with very skilled movements and they seem to be able to track her even through her solid illusions.

Bonesaw is fighting who can only be a Schnee girl with that look and hair and the symbol on her back as well. And she was shocking both Roman and Bonesaw with her skill in dust magic, it was way more powerful than they were used to given how quickly she was using it up but it never seemed to run out as she summons ice attack after ice attack. Bonesaw was slowing down form frostbite, exhaustion, and aura depletion.

The others were all over fighting the other lieutenants all around the place and some of their commanders were being slowly defeated by those creatures that look like weird versions of Arma Gigas Grimm. But that is impossible due to their protection from that crazy bitch Cinder and whatever spell she showed them before that actually calmed down and made the ursas she showed them on leave them alone. So these creatures are something else. Suddenly he sees a purple dragon looking head in front of him making him gasp before his world turns dark after the head opens its mouth and lunges at him.

Meanwhile with Adam, he was being held back from the tall claymore using opponent. It was fast, efficient, and deadly. He was matching Adam cut for cut and parry to parry. Neither of them had managed to land a clean lasting blow against the other. Adam soon had to prepare to use his semblance as their continued clashes had helped to charge up his semblance over the course of their battle.

Igris noticed the now glowing blade and the wisps of energy coming off of Adams red highlights like his suit and hair. Igris prepared himself to endure the blow as part of the plan alongside Iron who comes to his side to help him endure the blow, soon they are followed by both Great Knights and all of the knights with their shields ready. Adam grinned at their willingness to die on his blade and swung the attack.

All the knights were cleaved in half, the Great Knights both burst into pieces from their efforts in holding out against the attack, while Igris and Iron both barely managed to keep themselves in one piece. They each had only about an inch of their bodies still connecting their top to the bottom of their bodies. They were regenerating as Adam grins before his smile fades at seeing the two biggest threats healing, he sees that their troops have dropped down to barely 30 White Fang grunts barely holding on against the other creatures and the hunters who are barely able to stop the creatures they are fighting. He growls in frustration and anger before he gasps in shock as he suddenly sees both of the remaining creatures he was fighting being back handed into opposite directions.

The one who walks from between them is none other than his former student. However the one who blasted the two creatures away seemed to be a human in full plate knight armor. He was walking towards him with only his eyes visible in the visor gleaming with white wisps of aura floating off of him.

Neo gets blasted back from Ren and Fox's combined attack when she sees the commotion from the two light knights being blasted past her fight. She turns to look as the two young men she was fighting turn to look as well. They all gasp to see the fully armored Knight next to Blake. Ren and Fox hadn't seen him in his full gear out in a while. And the upgraded gear made him look like a true knight.

Neo was stunned by the aura she felt and the sight he ignited in her. She was literally seeing him glow with his aura reaching the sky in her eyes. His body was powerful looking and had an ethereal glow to it as he walked towards Adam a few steps and hardened his aura to become a solid white around him. Neo was stunned and left blushing at it as she sensed his aura become to concentrated.

Ren was looking at Neo and noticed, he smirked at how he could use this against her in their fight, before realizing he better not mention it otherwise she may wind up dead by 4 protective girlfriends of Jaune. He will just need to bring it up tactfully to Jaune later. Maybe use it as a bargaining chip for her to join their members? Questions for later. He and Fox refocus on their fight and jump at her again. Making her refocus on them and leap to meet them midair.

Adam readied his sword but paused as he sees Blake sheathe her blade before walking a few steps closer to him.

Blake breathed in deeply, "Adam, I came back to talk with you."

Adam glanced around him seeing only about a dozen of their strongest members fighting against the Hunters and the Creatures who were seemingly on equal grounds. Before refocusing on Blake, "Blake! You came back to join your rightful brethren! Join us and we can crush those humans who would wrong us and our heritage!"

Blake shakes her head making Adam pause in his hate filled rant of equality blinded by rage, "No! Adam! You must understand how your actions have hurt our kind! We are more hated than ever! I have seen couples who are interracial! They have children together! They grow old together! And they did so without the aid of the White Fang helping them! We need to realize that our mission to 'equalize' the two races! Has lost its way! Now we are lashing out. We have no direction. And a cause with no direction? With no clear path to an end result? Is doomed to die flailing in the darkness trying to escape that endless void of hate and rage. Please! Adam! If you actually cared for us as Faunus you will listen to me and look around you! If you keep on this path of self destruction then you will lose way more than you ever dreamed of! If you don't change your views then we are all doomed to die alone! In the dark! Just like those who are suffering from oppression right now! Please change this way of thinking or we can't see a bright future with Faunus and Humans holding hands side by side with love filling us!"

Adam remains silent for a good minute while the battle continues around them, Jaune keeps his eyes trained on the skilled swordsman, while Blake is hoping her speech got through that thick head of Adams for a moment.

Adam disappoints spectacularly with him beginning to chuckle, then out right laughing at them both as his laughter goes to the evil cackle of a classic show villain. He stops while sighing at then glares at Blake while smiling evilly at her, "You may be my former student Blake! But... Know. Your. Place! You're a traitor! And clearly a human lover now! You are corrupted by their ideals! 'Love one another'? 'Side by side'? 'Bright future together'? Don't make me sick with revulsion! I spit at that notion! I reject that notion! We are the superior race! And humans know and fear that! That's why they fear us! Put us down! We will rule this world without them! And I will use any advantage I can even if that means I work with the Grimm themselves!"

Blakes eyes shrink into pin pricks out of fear at his speech before she whispers, "No Adam… Tell me you didn't side with the Darkness… Please!"

Adam nods before readying his blade prompting Jaune to ready his weapons in response as he says, "Yes I did! Sienna Khan doesn't know a thing that is coming! She was a good stepping stone but I will progress past her shadow and fear of the future into a new world for us! I will gain power over the Grimm and do what the humans couldn't! Be ruler for the Faunus and the Grimm we fear!"

Blake is so stunned she can't even move as Adam rushes towards her with his hand on his blade ready to decapitate her right before Jaune appears between them and stops his blade cold on his shield. Adam struggles against Jaune who matches him push for push and struggle for struggle. They both grunt before they push away from each other. Jaune checks on Blake who is crying hard from failing to get through to her old friend and mentor, she looks up at Jaune before nodding while saying, "Go… He is too far gone and consumed in his hatred. We need to nip it in the bud before it becomes a problem."

Jaune gasps softly before looking away from Blake guiltily and then at Adam who is regaining his stance after retreating. He sneers at Jaune with pure hatred and fury rolling off of him in waves while Jaune nods, "Understood. Leave it to me Blake."

Velvet appears next to Blake and helps her jump away safely due to Blakes mental state. Velvet looks to Jaune to make sure he will be fine, Jaune glances back with a wink before quickly turning forward to block another slash at his neck from Adam and the two start shooting off a flurry of blade cuts and slashes. Velvet nods with a small smile before focusing on the final dozen White Fang members who were still fighting.

Neo was on the ground exhausted as a team up she wasn't ready for happened, Ren and Fox were joined by Ragora, Simin, and Pyrrha to take her down. Neo was out of aura, out of tricks, and her weapon was shattered. She looked up from her position on the floor as she sees an unconscious Roman halfway inside the floating dragon head that the purple witch girl summoned to half eat the thief. Neo chuckled quietly as her wounds and exhaustion hit her and made her black out. But not before she blushes as she feels the comforting presence of Jaunes aura envelop them all as he unleashed it to prepare for his fight against the major threat known as Adam. New falls to the realm of dreams with a small smile on her face promising herself that she would find a way to meet this guy in person and see if she could seduce him to be her guardian against the fire bitch Cinder.

Jaunes girlfriends all smile at his aura enveloping them but also shudder and frown at the strange feeling of a new rival appearing for Jaunes affections.

Bonesaw was completely frozen in an ice block with no way out of it. Weiss was panting lightly but simply hummed in glee and flicked her hair back while walking towards her friends.

The rest of their group were mopping of the rest of the White Fang members and the 'Creatures' in the area while the cops and atlas security agents were beginning to pour in through the ruined wall.

Jaune and Adam were matching each other blow for blow while the sparks were flying off their respective blades. Adam went for a high cut, Jaune blocked and countered, only to be interrupted by Adams kick. Then Jaune decided to break that movement with a kick of his own to the side of the knee, only for Adam to back flip, however he barely twists midair to avoid a stabbing thrust from Jaunes blade. It tears a hole in the side of his suit and nicks him in the side but he was otherwise okay. They rushed back at each other going their maximum speed, Jaune trying to whittle him down quickly while Adam was trying to outlast Jaune and recharge his trump card.

When they break apart again Adam noticed his blade was now about 80% charged. He was almost ready to cleave this human filth in half. He got ready to go back in to finish charging but noticed Jaune was charging his own blade. The blade pulsed with white energy and his eyes were glowing. Adam gulped as he saw Jaune had his own version of a trump card. He got into position and readied his partially charged Moon slicer, it would lack some bite but it would be enough to at least deal a crippling blow to this human!

He readied the technique, Jaune readied his. Both men looked like the positive and negative sides of a sword master who taught them both. But one student embraced light while the other fell to darkness. It was a fitting image as everyone who was on Jaunes side was watching while the White Fang were silent and hoping their leader could defeat this powerful Hunter and free them all.

Soon red light was fluttering off Adam, it wasn't flowing off him like the usual full powered technique he would normally use, but it would have to do. Jaune charged up more power to be just above Adams energy output, he prepared his well honed technique from over 200 high level Grimm fights, the Crescent Aura Slash. Both men reached the end of their respective charge times and the warehouse fell silent with nothing but the breathing of all the spectators.

Jaune and Adam took a half step forward to pivot at the same time, then both drew their now brightly glowing blades at once and fired their attacks out. One was a deep crimson crescent, promising death and destruction to all who saw it. The other was a pure white crescent, promising life and protection to those it had vowed to protect.

The twin arcs clashed hard once they reached each other, their energy clashing, one filled with hope for the future, one stuck in the past and full of hatred. Both attacks clashed and sparked as energy waves came out from both of them with white and red energy shooting out from their efforts to overcome the other.

Until one finally gives, with a loud crack Jaunes slash was cracking, Adam saw this and grinned in triumph, I've won! That lowly human couldn't stand up to my technique! He was doomed to lose from the start! Nothing can defeat my ultimate tech- eh?!

Adams mouth nearly went slack as he saw Jaunes slash start to repair itself and even glow a bit brighter than before. Looking behind it at the one who shot out the crescent. Adam was in disbelief as he saw Jaune has a rope of aura tied to his crescent using his sword as a medium and was currently charging more aura into the technique making it gain strength and begin to crack his Moonslicer.

Adam was in awe and in fear, he began to run out of the way as his technique was finally shattered to pieces by the over powered knights attack. He heard a loud, BABOOOOOOM!!! Come from behind and he looked back only to see the place were he was standing was now a deep trench and the wall that was over 20ft behind him was cleanly carved away. As if the wall had always meant to have a giant hole in it.

Looking back and seeing Jaune walking through the settling dust with his blade still glowing white with his aura. Everyone had varying reactions. In his armies resting dimension the soldiers all cheer as their lord the Monarch of Light was returning. The White Fang were all scared of this human who was matching their most powerful member blow for blow. And Jaunes friends were all in awe of his growing power and were cheering loudly for him to defeat Adam.

Adam shakily stood to his feet. He gazed upon the figure of this human who was intimidating him. But such a thing should be impossible!

He was the most powerful Faunus ever to live! He was the prodigy! The Genius! The one who would be the next king of Vale! The one to rule over Faunus kind! The one to lead them to a bright and glorious future with the human filth eradicated! He refused to believe a mere human could take this future away from him!

He roared out halting Jaune who looked at him with shock at how Grimm like that roar filled with hatred and fury was towards him. Everyone both White Fang and Hunter alike all gasped in reaction to how much of a monster Adam sounded at that moment in time. Adam then bellowed out, "YOU ARE A MERE HUMAN WELP! I AM THE CHOSEN CHAMPION FOR FAUNUS KIND! YOU WON'T TAKE MY DESTINY FROM ME! I WILL BE THE ONE TO RULE AS THE NEXT KING OF VALE! THE ONE WHO CAN AND WILL BE THERE FOR OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS TO LOOK UP TO THROUGH THE DARKNESS! ESPECIALLY WITHOUT YOU HUMAN FILTH IN THAT FUTURE! MEN! WOMEN! ELDERLY! CHILDREN! ALL HUMAN MEMBERS WILL DIE BY MY BLADE!"

The White Fang members who were all awake at this moment were torn. A few of them supported this view and thought the humans should be wiped out. But at least 80% of their members were here for freedom and to equalize things! They never wanted a genocide! They then decided to rethink their lives as they heard the true aim of this crazed leader.

Velvet was saddened to hear how far Adam was willing to go to claim the dream of a true tyrant. Lycan spat on the ground embarrassed to be the same over all race as this crazed individual. Blake however was hit hard. She thought they could have locked Adam up to cure his hatred with therapy. But at this rate, he would just tear down anything they tried to build in the future. She yelled out with tear filled eyes full of anguish, but also with determination, "Jaune! Take him out! Make sure his ideals die here! We can't let such corruption leak into the kingdom!"

Jaune looked at Blake in shock, as did their friends. But they all agreed in their minds that this ideal would be a dangerous weapon to be manipulated by their foes should Adam live. Jaune nodded and shut off his more complex emotions using his int stat to go into full hunter mindset mode. He didn't need the guilt of killing a true living being slowing his blade when the chance came.

Jaune looked at him with an impassive look as he entered his hunter mode, pissing off the raging bull further as he charged his whole body with his bright crimson aura. Jaune readied his blade once more as Adam rushed him at almost double his normal speed thanks to his rage fueling his abilities and aura to beyond their limit. Jaune activated his two boosting skills to give him the edge he needed to hold Adam off in his berserk mindset and boost.

The two warriors met in with their blades clashing and shooting off sparks. The force of the blow made a gust of wind explode from them knocking everyone down to either their backs or to their knees to avoid being blasted away. Cracks also appeared in the ground going out at least 30ft from their struggle.

Soon both men are struggling, Adam is foaming while gritting his teeth in pure anger and hatred to this young man. But Jaune was stone faced and had a focused look to him. His aura was calm and unwavering while Adam was using every ounce of force he could muster.

Soon they both break apart and clash once again. And again. And once more. Then Adam kicks at Jaunes mid section only to stomp on something solid, he meets Jaunes shield instead of his abs. He grunts in frustration as Jaune simply lifts the shield up forcing Adam to take a few steadying backward steps. However as Adam backs up to steady and recover his stance, Jaune rushes in. Adam gasps and quickly turns his back step into a pivoting cut to try and slash out Jaunes eyes. The knight manages to duck under it and bring his sword up from underneath. Adam back flips however he suddenly coughs out as his back feels the armored boot of Jaune kicking him while he was mid air.

Jaune had changed his upward slash into a stab into the ground and used his now steady sword as a leverage point to jump kick into Adam using his sword as a jumping pole to steady his kick and generate as much force as possible.

Jaune then suddenly gripped his blade and while in mid air he brought it up and around to slam down into Adams now stopped form.

Adam crashes into the ground creating an indent of him into the concrete. He growls and bursts from it swinging his sword in a crazed dance shooting the various rocks and stones from his stone prison at Jaune in a hail of projectiles.

Jaune brings up his shield and using its new function pumps aura into it causing the shield to double in size as an aura construct while the metal part was the core of the now 10ft tall kite shield. Adam grunts as he starts to imbue each stone he shoots out with aura and increases his force, ignoring the pain in his hips, back, and arms from the force he is putting his body through to take down this upstart human.

Jaune was doing his best to keep the shield function active while he prepared his next plan. The stones had gained more force and as such Jaune was running out of spare aura for his plan to work. So he pumped as much aura as he could spare into his shield to keep the aura barrier running for another minute despite the stone onslaught. He leaped off the shield and came down behind Adam.

He readied his sword and pumped his remaining aura into his legs, in his hunter mindset he checked angles, trajectory, force of the blows, and how many times he could hit Adam with this before he either ran out of aura, or Adam finally fell.

Either way, Adam would fall today.

Jaune pushed off right as his shield ran out of juice. Adam grinned at it before seeing the shield fall. He expected the human to have run out of aura and be falling alongside the shield but he is shocked to see the shield fall without a human attached to it. Instead he feels a burning pain along his right side. A white blur also follows the sensation and goes to the far wall. It stops at it lands on the wall and reveals itself to be the human!

Adam readies his blade to counter despite his bodies urges to rest and recover right as Jaune leaps off the wall and shoots at Adam again.

Adam raises his blade and tries to bring it down on top of Jaune, but he misjudged the speed the human was shooting at him and missed. And for his failure a new pain erupts in his leg this time. Another blur as Adam tries to recover and a new pain this time along his back. His remaining aura was working over time to heal the wounds and recover his over taxed body at the same time. But his reserves were drying out quickly.

Four more hits came and four more injuries appeared. Jaune kept the combo he created from his class quest going until Adam was on his hands and knees covered all over by injuries.

Adams reserves had finally emptied from all of the hits. And Jaune looked at him passively while he approached with his sword ready and glowing with his final bit of aura on it.

Ada tried his best to raise himself off the ground as he brought up his blade. It was cracked and was threatening to break as he ground his teeth in anger and resentment at his coming defeat at this humans hands. He glares with so much hatred at Jaune that if looks could kill he would have been nothing but dust.

Jaune Raised his blade and asked Adam, "Do you have any final words? Betrayer of humanity?"

Adam sneered and spat out with a voice filled with venom, "Humanity?! Where was the humanity when I lost my parents?! When Blakes parents amounted to nothing!? When so many faunus were suffering abuse!? When we were placed under the heel of humans for their own self righteous call of justice?! When I was burned and made half blind!!"

His mask fell off at this point revealing his blind eye and his scarred face. Jaune looked at him sadly and with disappointment. And suddenly his eyes wisp with energy again and his aura shines with pure light. In a more ethereal voice Jaune speaks, "You have become half blind Adam Taurus. You have become so used to seeing with one eye you have failed to truly accept and see the hope and light around you. You lost an eye, and your light, so you fell to darkness. But you got so used to seeing darkness that you turned away from anything brighter than you were used to. You closed yourself off from everyone who cared about you. And you dragged so many into the darkness only to have them be ground up and spat out when they couldn't match your personal darkness. Do you wish for a chance to see that light or are you content with seeing only the darkness to the end?"

Adam went to stand on shaky feet as his whole world view was being challenged and his blade was creaking loudly as it gained even more cracks and was ready to snap into countless pieces. Adam roared out, "Then show me! What is this light you speak of!? The world it filled with nothing but darkness! I fail to see this 'true light' you speak of! We are corrupt! We are all filthy! Nothing is worth saving except those who are willing to snuff out those who oppose us!"

Suddenly both of Jaunes hands were on his head his palms covering both eyes and Jaune sent his aura into Adams mind while also healing Adams scar. Adam screamed as his mind was assaulted with images and views he had always seen as just and fair only to get a new perspective on them as he was forced to watch them again, this time through the light of Jaunes soul.

He sees his previously dyed red memories now dyed in pure blood. He sees the moment when he threatened a multiracial couple and cringed. He sees when he was ready to behead a child because her mother was a human and flinched hard. He also saw the time when he and Blake infiltrated the mansion with the faunus wet nurse feeding the human child and reflected on how quickly he jumped to killing her.

He saw all these moments that were part of his acceptance into what he needed to do for Faunus kind. And suddenly he asked himself, 'Was there… really… no light in my life? Or have I been snuffing it out with my own hands?'

His sword, the symbol of his convictions and his hatred, finally cracks one final time. And shatters into dust as he reaches the conclusion he needed. He had been too blind to his own needs, and to the needs of his fellow Faunus. He sighed in relief as his eye was healed, his hatred was revealed to be misused, and he himself slumped to the ground at peace with this new view.

He knew he had a lot of growing to do, but he also knew he needed to first pay back to the society he almost destroyed. He was on the edge of blacking out from the mental feedback as he looks up at Jaune and says, "I… See now… The darkness in my life… was my own half blind hatred. I need to look… further than my own anger… and change the whole world… not destroy the one we have… Thank you… human."

And he finally slips into unconsciousness.

Everyone was stunned silent for a few minutes until they all cheered loudly at that. The White Fang members were all looking defeated, yet half of them looked down right remorseful to their actions after having some of that self reflection aura hit them. The more hard headed fanatics were now reconsidering their actions and doing some deep soul searching.

Roman was awake and happy that he was captured by these kids instead of the literal pillar of light standing over by the now defeated Adam. He liked his life and views as they were thank you very much!

Neo had awoken and was now blushing hard as she saw Jaunes well chiseled and defined manly face as he turns to them all while carrying the knocked out Adam over his shoulder. She was licking her lips at the powerful aura he exudes towards them all and grinding her legs together.

Pyrrha, Yang, Weiss, and Velvet were all in the same boat, but were also looking over the girls in the White Fang as they all instinctively felt someone eyeing their man. They might allow her into the group if they approved of her but that would take time. And they would need to get to know her first before they allowed her in.

And Neo was both impatient and not wanting to go through the proper channels. Call her a rebel, but to be fair, she is quite the thief.

Soon everyone was turned into the police and Atlas security agents, Jaune and the other guild members helped make sure they wouldn't make any wrong moves or do any kind of under handed actions during their vigil over the many arrests taking place.

Soon the evil organization branch was scooped up and taken away with Neo having a mischievous grin on her face that Roman was sweating nervously at. He gulps as she was put into her cell with a heavy blush and licking her lips in desire.

Roman was sweating hard in his cell as he thought, 'Oh great. One of those brats caught her attention. Now she will do absolutely anything to get in his pants. Or at the very least get a taste of his body. I just hope she doesn't have her sights set on the man who could literally back hand those creatures that were able to tear apart our mechs without too much trouble! That would be a disaster. Oh great gods above please let it be one of the more sane looking boys she has interest in! Please!!'

(Gods above and the writer of this story: No promises.)

Neo began to think up a good plan for her to escape this place and how to go about getting the clothes off of her new interest and see if she can handle all that manliness. She makes all kinds of fantasies of both escape and what she and Jaune can get up to in the bedroom as the prison transport takes off.

In the next cell over, there was a borderline comatose Adam who was doing a deep soul search in his mind. He was going through everything that he was and who he thought was the necessary man he needed to be. But he knew he was going to be lost in his thoughts for a long time. But anything worth doing takes time. With a smile on his face at that thought he didn't resist when he was taken to maximum security cells for himself, Neo, and Roman once they landed in an Atlas airship owned by General Ironwood himself to be sent to Atlas for the rest of their lives.

Meanwhile as the guild members headed home, and the prison transports were sent off. On a nearby roof under the protection of anti detection devices Cinder, Emerald, and Mercury were all stunned stiff at the development they just saw.

In a matter of hours the small Faunus army they had gathered for their breach plan was gone. They had lost contact with Salem for the last few days. And their attempts to sabotage the kingdoms defenses seemed to be blocked at every turn!

Cinder was so mad the concrete under her heels was actually burning a bit and had scorch marks appearing. This made both her subordinates take two steps back to avoid being in the blast radius.

Cinder bit her lips so hard in her anger she had her aura flash around them. She turns to Emerald and with a barely contained rage lacing her voice, she asks, "So… Now we have no White Fang fodder. Roman is captured. Adam is defeated in mind, body, and spirit. And that fourth member of our team for the infiltration is caught as well… Do we have any resources in back up for any of our first 3 plans any more?!"

She was right in Emeralds face at that last screaming out burst before Emerald tells her, "Welllll like you said, no troops, no Roman for supplies, no Adam for muscle, and no Neo for infiltration… Nope I have nothing."

Cinder whirls to Mercury and yells out, "Anything on your end?!"

Mercury thinks for all of two seconds before he shrugs helplessly.

Cinder reaches her boiling point and screams out loud with a small explosion of flames coming off the roof.

Jaune who was drinking an energy drink at the Bullhead depot felt the vibration then looked at his drink, "Wow!"

He gains his friends attention as he says, "This thing does pack a wallop! I felt that!"

He continues to drink as his friends all check the brand and chuckle of giggle as Pyrrha blushes. The Energy Drink Jaune is using is one of her companies personal brands that she made sure had her favorite flavor combination of mixed berry. It also so happened to have a picture of Pyrrha on the bottle giving a thumbs up with her huntress gear on. Ironically Pyrrha was blushing as one of Jaunes fingers was right on her breasts on the picture. It felt like he was literally drinking her.

Which she would deny was something that she wanted from him right now. (She totally wants it!)

The group head back to Beacon to debrief with Ozpin and plan for the next month or two of silence from Salem. Most plans involved training together and Jaunes plan involves the S ranked Tower dungeon with his friends and Ozpin once they are all solidly at S ranked strength.

He smiles as things are heating up for their future development.