Chapter 2: Confrontation

Chapter 2: The Confrontation

Note: Alright you Beautiful Doods I'm always open for ocs and ideas of any kind, even open for story requests if your idea is compelling enough.

Now lastly I'm still looking for ideas on who jaune should be in a romantic relationship with so send ideas, outside of Pyrrha and Ruby everyone else is free game even genderbent characters...if y'all are into that.

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-Location: Mistral, Mistral City, Seniors Bar-

The entire bar is silent and tense as the S Ranked Mercenary 'Shinigami' is standing head held high to show that he wasn't intimidated by the arrivals of the hunters, The Merc stared at Ozpin calculating and analyzing the man himself while Ozpin did the exact same thing to Shinigami basically two Chess Masters examining what there opposition do first so they could counter act first.

Ozpin watched Shinigami almost waiting for the man to make a move only to wait for himself showing that the man was anything but rash and quick therefore a keen warrior "so your the Shinigami, I half expected you to hide from us" Ozpin exclaimed as that was what he really thought since most mercenaries while a legal Occupation tended to take more illegal jobs every so often.

Jaune had a twitch to his left eye which was unnoticed however a large burly man arose from his seat smashing a bottle of whiskey onto the table fashioning it as a weapon which caught the hunters off guard "are you calling Shinigami a coward!? Huh!? He's the toughest and bravest among us! ILL CUT YOU!!" He shouted and placed a foot onto the table ready to leap it only for Shinigami raise a hand chuckling "no need to do that Brick, I have it handled however no matter what they call me it won't change the fact that I'm the best among the best" he exclaimed which caused the mercenary brick to slowly nod and sat back down looking over at the puddle of whiskey wasted on the table.

Jaune just chuckled speaking "Senior, get brick another glass" "sure thing Shinigami" Senior spoke preparing another glass of whiskey though the masked man watched as Qrow took out a flask to take a sip of it watching as Senior walked over to the table where brick is at "Ozzy, this is a dangerous place to be in. I've worked with this crowd before and they can take arms in a moments notice especially to those they like" He exclaimed looking over towards Ozpin who also noticed that, especially considering the one called brick nearly attacked just for calling out the Masked Man.

"It doesn't changed the fact that they attempted to hinder our mission" James Exclaimed ready to call in the Ace Ops that James kept outside as a way to not scare Shinigami "Jimmy, even if there was a legal effort to apprehend Shinigami. As far as we know this man operates outside the kingdom therefore anything that happens outside the walls is completely beyond the justice system" Qrow exclaimed which James grits his teeth as he knew that was true, no matter how much Shinigami acted against Atlas he couldn't arrest the masked man as he showed no criminal effort against mistral or the kingdoms.

"Yes but with that mask shows he has ties to the white fang therefore we can bring him into questioning" Glynda exclaimed which was true as several days ago in vale, white fang attacked occurred along with increased attacks on dust shops "do I look faunus to you Sexy?" Jaune asked then complimented making Glynda blush slightly at the sudden flirt though Shinigami turned his head towards the back "no offense Cheesers!" Shinigami called towards the man named Cheesers who was a mouse grey haired Faunus in the back portion of the bar "it's cool my dude!"

Jaune returned his gaze back to the hunters taking them in one at a time before figuring out they would leave the rest alone if they were alone which can allow jaune the privacy of killing them if things get to dicey for his liking though that will be difficult considering the hunters are all extremely trained and extremely powerful not even jaune is confident that his semblance would get him out of that particular jam "Senior, I'll be using the conference room in the back" Shinigami exclaimed not letting his eyes stray away from the hunters which Glynda had her hand twitch, Qrow was tense but swift enough to grab the slight retracted great sword on his back belt while James was also tense and ready to charge.

The only one who wasn't fazed by the situation was Ozpin which made Jaune kept his gaze primarily on him much like the gaze between two Chess Masters "sure thing Shinigami, and take this to get the edge off" Senior asked pushed a large and wide glass filled to the brim with the scolding brown poison of Shinigamis favorite, Vacuo Bourbon.

Jaune swiftly turned on his heel to walk slow but brisk passing the bar just to swipe gratefully of the Bourbon "thanks Senior, hold all potential clients. This shouldn't take long" The Masked Merc walks towards the back of the bar which the hunters carefully followed while taking in furious, angry and full on murderous glances "Ozpin, shall I bring in the Ace Ops? If Shinigami refused to turn himself in then we can contain and capture him" James exclaimed flinching as he heard growling of a rabid dog, turning to look at one of the dog Faunus mercenaries who was growling with foam forming from the edges of his mouth.

James sweats nervously only for Cheesers aka the Mouse Faunus looked over with an indifferent look as jaune went into the back room "don't worry about Frothy, he was born with rabies. So long as you don't get near him when he's angry then you'll be good" James slowly nodded while 'Frothy' was given a cup of liquor who swigged it down as fast as it came.

Minutes passed as the Hunters entered the room where Shinigami sat at the table facing them "let the Master take the seat" Jaune exclaimed as his eyes landed on Ozpin who was no doubt recognized as the Leader of the group "what makes you believe that I'm the leader Shinigami? It could be Qrow" Ozpin exclaimed hoping to learn how the Masked Man was able to piece him apart from the others while subtly saying that Shinigami also knew about his companions "you hold the air and stance of a leader, I've seen your type many times and they all fell the same...believing you can fight something immensely greater then yourself thus dying due to your arrogance"

Ozpin slowly sat down in the seat after reaching the table but didn't allow that accusations get to him, in fact felt very impressed that such a mysterious man was able to partially exclaim the fact of Ozpin shadow war against his Former Lover "that may be the case Mr.Shinigami, I've been fighting for peace and unity for remnant against the Grimm Threat for many years" "your eyes may be young but they hold light that's beyond a single life" Ozpin when he attempted to take a drink from his cup of coffee nearly choked on it as one glance from Shinigami almost spilled Ozpin reincarnation curse.

The silver haired man placed his coffee on the table wiping his mouth from the brown brew "perceptive eyes" he commented watching as the masked mans eyes shifted slightly showing slight amusement "some has said that, others more. Now explain your business here" Jaune exclaimed as he watched James who stood by the door crossed his arms in a serious gesture while Glynda stood behind her boss with the same stance as James but her riding crop was resting on her arm with it grabbed by the left, Qrow was walking towards the back of the room just behind jaune though the masked warrior didn't care for the Branwen male as any sudden movement would have been felt by the blonde.

"Straight to business then? Very Well, it has come to my attention that you've been interfering in Hunter Related Missions" Ozpin said getting straight to the point as was requested by the blonde "You see it as Interference, I see it as a job a client pays me to do" Countered by the Shinigami causing Ozpin to nod at this, getting very curious about this mercenary "...I've also gotten a report that last week that you've eradicated a whole nest of Apathy Grimm-" "WHAT!?" James shouted as he couldn't believe that some nameless, faceless mercenary could destroy an apathy let alone a whole nest of S-Ranked Grimm.

Qrow was also shocked as several years back he was tasked on eliminating a wandering Apathy Grimm as it was killing bystanders by just standing therefore encountering the Grimm only to show Qrow couldn't destroy it before his Twin Sister as forced to join in the fray showing that even Qrow, one of the most decorated Huntsmen in Vale was no match without help.

Glynda was also shocked but not on the same degree as Qrow mainly because the Telekinetic Woman never encountered the beasts but heard tales from few surviving hunters exclaimed just how terrifying just fighting one apathy is.

James however was beyond shocked and pissed that mainly because apathy as exclaimed is known to be one of most tough Grimm to fight let alone kill especially since its ability to drain the will of its victims is what makes it tough to combat against, though even getting passed the Will Sapper Ability, Apathy has tough skin and immense strength that betrayed the looks of there skinny bodies. Not even Atlas's Ace Ops could take out that many Grimm since they could only handle a few at a time.

"Care to explain how you did what many huntsmen and huntresses had failed to do?" Ozpin asked hoping to delve in just how powerful Shinigami is "one only needs an indomitable will to counter act the beasts, then you'll fight without being restricted nor limited" The Masked Merc exclaimed while completely dodging the question of his power prompting James to seethe in anger that he's not getting the information that the Cyborg needed.

"....right...." Ozpin exclaimed unsure of what he's feeling as he was is getting the short end of his patience of not obtaining the information he sought, though impressed that the masked merc is swiftly dodging the questions that gave up more about his power and exploits "now then, lastly. Your attack on a Atlas Black Site. Care to explain why you decided to attack them" "they were operating in illegal terms, even if such actions is legal outside the walls but I didn't like what they were doing therefore I destroy what I don't like" "much like a white fang operative?" James exclaimed his voice for the first time in the meeting.

"Again, do I look faunus to you?" Shinigami exclaimed looking at each and every one of them giving them a good look of his illusion eyes aka Yellow on Black however Ozpin took out his scroll to take a picture of Shinigami causing the masked man to look over curiously before dawning on him almost instantly on why the Old Wizard did the picture "I've been curious on how you and you alone had yellow iris's on black but then this picture solidified my curiosity so Mr.Shinigami, care to explain why your semblance is active right now?" Ozpin asked flipping the scroll to show Shinigami his own picture but unlike Shinigamis illusion eyes, the one in the picture didn't show yellow on black but instead two different color eyes, Jaunes right eye showed a powerful deep blue while the left of Jaunes eye was a mysterious silver.

".....you discovered my Semblance doesn't have a place in the physical realm, My Semblance is known as Illusions and as the picture states it doesn't have molecules to bounce off the flash therefore can't be captured" Jaune exclaimed chuckling as he grazed a hand over his mask, feeling very amused that Head Master Ozpin isolated Shinigamis semblance downside in mere minutes "yet in my eyes it's different" "that's because my aura which is connected to my semblance changes and bends the light or darkness around me to reshape myself and other images, much like pictures and hypnosis. All connect to my mind while scrambling yours, it's as if you can't figure out what is real and what is fake" Jaune exclaimed as he raised up towards his mask to take it off.

Showing a very young face no later then 17 years old catching all the adults off guard while Jaunes eyes reverted back to there true form which is a blue right and a silver left "now, explain what you really what..."