Curious

Headmistress Minerva McGonagall took a bitter-tasting sweet into her mouth as she sighed in relief, she never thought that the job of school headmaster would be so hard, no longer she needs to just mind the children, no, now she needed to play in politics too, making deals with school providers, and finding sponsors for additional school founds, and worse than all, dealing with parents that always find something to complain about...

Maybe because of this Albus was so?

"No, no, Minerva, you don't want to go there..."

McGonagall said to herself as she sighed, the less she thought about Albus and the many things she needed to deal with after his demise the better for her and everybody else, as just after taking the job of the headmistress, Minerva could see just how many skeletons the person she idolized had in closet...

And it was a lot, at one time Minerva was ready to just resing, but fear of letting someone with worse ideals or mindset on such important job made her stop, Minerva wouldn't let any blood purist that could cloud children's minds into the position of such power, much less someone worse or idiotic...

For Magical Britain was now in a fragile state, from what Minerva knew Voldemort retreated into shadows, as there wasn't any word about his reappearance, as a new threat in Europe risen, a Dark Lord Marvelous he called himself, and after little looking, Minerva knew who he truly was, especially after finding out that most core Death Eater's were on the side of this Marvelous truly is...

Still, it did help that with Voldemort away, Magical Britain could somehow rebuild and weed out the more dangerous elements, as the threat of Solitas intervention on behalf of rightful rulers of these lands that belonged to Britain loomed over them like the Sword of Damocles, the Magical Ministry just didn't have a choice but to fall back under muggle rulers that were Britain government, but no matter how much grumbling or outright threats the wizards that hated very idea of coexisting with muggles said or made, the moment the white armored soldiers marched through wizard streets, was the moment they shut up, as nobody dared the provoke the Solitas soldier's as they proved to be mortally dangerous to wizards, with their accomplishments of killing wizards even before they could utter even one spell...

"Still, at least one good thing came out of it..."

Minerva said with a smile as she looked at the sheet of paper that showed a rise of numbers in each month...

After Magical Britain fallen under Britain muggle government, was the moment the Solitas could lawfully make deals with them, thus the new and most profitable deal came to Hogwarts, in exchange for renting the Forbbiden Forest to Solitas, the Solitas would give Hogwarts each month 30% of its profits from all materials that were taken from there, thus came the gold from growing magical herbs, hides of some beast's, and many more, especially the profits from Acromantula silk farms were enormous, as the Solitas seemed to be very proficient in fighting such magical beast, which wasn't strange as Minerva heard rumors that Solitas lands were in the past ravaged by magical beast's called Grimms...

Still, renting Forbidden Forest wasn't such a bad deal after most peaceful races left the forest to travel to Solitas, where they were transported to Remnant where the Gaia seemed to thrive, who could have thought that once they found out that Earth Gaia was slowly dying, and Remnant one was growing the most magical races would leave Earth to Remnant where they seemed to thrive, even unicorns left the Earth...

Minerva still didn't know if it was a little blessing or curse, for these beast's it was better to be in Solitas where Minerva heard were protected in Royal reserves, but for Magical communities there it was a curse as they were losing ingredients from all manners of magical beast's...

Still another plus for Hogwarts and Minerva was the fact that once Magical Britain fallen under the muggles, was that Solitas could finally and officially protect Hogwarts, as such children in the castle could every day see how these Solitas iron ships in the skies lazy flying above the castle, protecting it, as the Solitas soules golems from iron patroled the Hogwart's lands, Minerva let them, she wasn't Albus to reject such good deal just because she wanted to be in control, no if it meant that children were much safer, Minerva gladly let these Solitas things walk around...

Truly the times were changing, and as the world was ravaged by war, the Island kingdom found itself be at peace under an umbrella that bore the Snowflake as its symbol...

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"Jaune, next one!"

"Comming!"

Called a blonde-haired man with an athletic body and easy-going smile as he brought another order to the giggling girls who were throwing him winks and bashful smiles...

"There you have it."

"Oh thank you, dear! Tell me, do you see anybody?"

"Annet!"

"What? Don't act like you didn't want to ask the same."

Jaune didn't hear the next words of the middle-aged woman as she and her friend playfully argued as his mind traveled back to the day when he chose to just...

Let it go...

After Jaune found himself in Remnant, and not just in the past, but an entirely different one, where Salem didn't seem like a problem and Titan Grimms were slain, where the CINDER was Commander of police forces, and where Pyrrha was very much alive, Jaune thought that he could join his friends who he knew were there too as the articles and news about a clone of Weiss Schnee was seen, even if older the people could see that Weiss's looked too similar to by a sister, especially with their trademark scar...

Jaune spent an entire week reading the news after he calmed down his? Family, who with his younger self was too different...

One conversation came to Jaune's mind...

"Terra, you met Solitas King, right?"

"Oh yes, he was interested in my work."

"And what, what do you think about him?"

Jaune watched how Terra seemed to drift as he wanted to know what kind of man-made his own sister in his lover, that Weiss there was someone's girlfriend still made Jaune feel confused as he knew Weiss...

"He is... Aegis Schnee is a complicated person to describe... In-person, you could feel what you didn't feel through Scrolls or TVs... His mere presence made me feel so small, so insignificant... And yet when he spoke to me and smiled at me, I couldn't feel more worthy, it was different from when my wife, your sister speaks to me, it wasn't an elated feeling of love, but it was as if I succeeded? As if I was worthy of being... I don't know? A Human? As if my life wasn't a mistake..."

Terra rambled off as her face became more and more confused...

"It was like if, if I knew that there would always be someone who would protect me from horrors of the universe, a pillar that would support skies themselves..."

After that, Jaune awakened Terra from her trance as her words made him think about his future plans, giving up Jaune chosen to plan after meeting RWBY, but before he could even go on a trip to Solitas, one of his younger sister's showed him something that made Jaune freeze on the spot, of course, he heard rumors, read numerous new articles, but what he saw still made Jaune stop, for he saw how King Aegis took young-looking Pyrrha on a date where some journalist was able to take a good image of them kissing...

That made Jaune heartthrob, but after day's of self-pity, Jaune finally could let go, as his family, even if alternate one said to him something that helped his recovery, that it was not his Pyrrha, and that what he felt seeing her being happy even if not with him or alternate him...

And what Jaune found out was that he felt good? That Pyrrha finally found out the happiness she so deserved? Jaune felt happy, happy that Cinder of this world wasn't such Bitch, well, at least not such as his, as he read on the net about her being very ruthless in dealing with criminals as she held order inside of Solitas with her Sentrie's...

Jaune felt happy that Vale stood, that Atlas, even if fallen to other hands, wasn't destroyed by ancient Grimm...

That there was no war, no White Fang that would terrorize the people...

True, there were these new monster's of flesh, but from what Jaune heard, after the fall of Patch, where fortunately Ruby and Yang weren't present and was even before falling was quickly evacuated, the Solitas took these monster's seriously as they started sending patrol's through all kingdoms, even though there were some grumbling's about letting other Kingdom managing their safety...

"Jaune?! Remnant to Jaune!"

"Ah! Sorry, sorry, I was a little out of it."

"I can see that, go, lad, we have a lot of work today!"

"Ok! Don't worry, boss!"

Jauna shouted with a grin as he saw some women look at him and then bashfully giggle, yes Jaune could wait before contacting his friends, he still needed to find his new purpose...

Maybe this time, he could just take it easy? After all...

Jaune Arc already knew that you didn't need to fight to be a Hero and that sometimes he could take the less risky path to support someone...

Still, Jaune thought that Aegis Schnee was a prick...

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"Who let that girl there?"

"Hm? Oh her? Nobody."

"So?"

"So what?"

"So why the fuck you don't you tell her to fuck off?"

Said one man as others looked at him.

"Hey, take it easy, he is a new one, he doesn't know."

Said another man...

"Don't know? Don't know what, fuck?"

"True... Look, newbie, that girl? She is Schnee, at least partly, she belongs to Schnee harem, and you don't want to fuck with Schnee harem."

Said another man as the thunderous expression on one mans face quickly fell as he looked back at the girl, but his previous sneer was away as it was replaced by fear.

"No shit..."

"Yea shit... I heard her name is Luna Lovegood, some girl from Wizard Earth, somehow that kid caught King's eyes..."

"Still... Why the fuck is she there? She doesn't work there, does she?!"

Said the man as the fear of being killed suddenly raised, as he imagined what the king would do to them if he found out that someone fucked his woman, after all, why would a woman go to a strip club if not to be fucked?

"This is a strip club, not a brothel, you idiot, and no, she always comes there, sits in the corner, orders some drink as milkshake, and then just watchmen how they howl and whistle on women..."

Said man, and finally, the newbie as they called him, could see some golden form's in the background, making him gulp as he saw these people in the news and on scroll...

"Fucking Royal Guard is there too?"

The man said tremblingly.

"Yea... They always follow her there, they just stood by the shadows where you don't see them if you don't look carefully enough..."

"Shit..."

"Yes, shit... Still, if you don't want to have a problem, just don't speak to her, and act normally, once some striper girl asked her why she was there, and the girl said she observed how the male's acted near sparsely clothed women, that she wanted to know what big brother could like in woman..."

"Big brother... You mean?"

"Yea, a motherfucking king, the girl seems to be curious how men think..."

"And she goes there?"

"Don't ask me, I don't want to know or even ask her and find the next day Sentrie's knocking on my door..."

"Ok..."

The man said as he returned to his drink but still frightfully looked at some of the golden forms in the shadows...

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*Author note*

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