chapter 1

It has been a week since he saved Cardin from the Ursa major. A week where everything was going good, he even told his friends of his secret , and all had accepted , well not weiss in the beginning not until Ruby had talked with her , but everything has turned to be great . He even got pyrrha to train him in his swordsmanship. but it looks like it's finally time for his lucky strike to stop.

"Ok then, I'm pretty sure I went to sleep in my bed last night, not somewhere in the wilds." Jaune told himself as he stared at where he just woke up.

He was in a vast expanse of short grass , surrounded by tall mountains, it was a place that would have been extremely enchanting were it not for the fact that he shouldn't have been here.

'Oh Dust ,where am I ? Was my semblance teleportation all along and I somehow managed to get myself somewhere in the wilds ?' said Jaune while checking himself and his surrounding.

' great , I'm on my onesie with no weapon or armor on my body In what could be grim territory , it can't get any worse'

TAP,TAP...

looking around he couldn't help but curse

'damn it , me and my big mouth' Before him stood a beowulf looking at him with those hate filled eyes. and by looking around he knows he has nowhere to hide , and he can't really run from the beowulf as it had more speed than him.

'I have to fight it, but fighting it empty handed is really a bad idea but I really have no other choice' Jaune thinks to himself as he got in a battle stance, trying hard to mimic yang stance before battles.

just as he got in his battle stance ready , the beowulf lunged at him ready to rip him to pieces. Thankfully, his training with pyrrha those last few days helped him dodge just in time, as the beowulf stuck the ground creating a feet long crater .

Jaune , with his instincts screaming at him to not let this chance go to waste as the beowulf just about to turn around for it's second lunge , he jumps at it and hit it with the strongest punch he can muster , hands glowing with white aura , the fist hit the beowulf clearly on its face destroying most of it.

Looking at the evaporating grimm corpse, Jaune couldn't help but thank his lucky star for his quick thinking. looks back at the great clearing , only to be struck down with horror, as he watch two more beowulf appear from thin air.

knowing that if he let them have the chance to strike first he may not be able to fight them back , he lunges at the closest beowulf hitting it with an aura empowered punche, disorienting the beast and sadly not killing it , while the other is running straight at him with the intent to kill. Jaune , knowing it's better to kill one and tank a hit from the other, is a better option than retreating seeing as he is not a skilled fighter to take the two of them on a fair fight , he strike again at the downed beowulf killing it, before getting hit with a claw strike from the other beowulf . throwing him tens of meters in the sky , before hitting the ground.

'auggh'" that hurts more than I expected " Jaune says as he get himself up while wincing in pain. Looking around he sees that the other beowulf is already on him , with no time dodge he goes for in for another aura strike killing the beowulf while he himself getting hit causing his aura to almost shatter.

'Huff, huff'"That was close, I'm so asking Ren and Yang for help in hand to hand in fighting as soon as I go back" said jaune to himself as he took deep breaths of air.

Just as he stood up once more , he become terrified as he notice four other beowulf appearing out of thin air again. Jaune's face turned completely white was struck with terror.

"I am dead there's no way I'm surviving this" said Jaune as he stared at the four new grimm, and even though he know he had no chance of surviving he still got in his combat stance.

"if I am to die anyway, might as well die fighting" Said Jaune to himself, his eyes showing only determination, gone was his fear and uncertainty, ' Guess what I read in the comic is true after all, only when facing death one can show his real worth, And now the true test... will I hold fast, or expire?" Facing what might be his death , Jaune felt strangely calm.

seeing the first beowulf running at him with the three others following soon after, Jaune too begun running straight at them , just as the first lunged straight at him , it was met with jaune aura empowered fist turning it's face into mush, just as he killed the first the second came straight after , with no time to waste he dodged it lunge only to be tackled to the ground by another one. Thankfully Jaune managed to catch it maws, however even seems not enough as the last beowulf came soon biting straight at his face.

"so this is it huh" said as he watched the beowulf maws come close to him ,jaune couldn't help but remember what Pyrrha when she told him he could become a great leader , or his beacon first friend ,Ruby , when she told him friends are always there for each other , and even if he faked his way in that doesn't mean they aren't friends anymore, it mean he just need to try harder to catch up.

"NOT THIS TIME" Jaune cried out as hard hard as he can as aura exploded out of his body throwing away the two grimms , feeling the power coursing through his body , jaune immediately sprung into action. hitting the grimm that was still running toward him with a kick killing it instantly , before jumping at the two downed grimms that almost killed him and disposing of them two.

"huff huff huff, what was that ? was that my semblance ? if it was, doesn't that mean that my semblance wasn't teleportation and I might have been kidnaped and thrown here ?" Said Jaune as he fell to the ground trying to catch his breath while thinking about his situation.

"Man things are turning from bad to worse, curse my luck" said Jaune between breaths as he laid down on the grass. However soon his musing was interrupted by a growling sound looking up Jaune's almost had a heart attack.

standing before him were 8 new beowulf with one of them even being an alpha, Jaune just laughed at the sight, he didn't have enough strange to even stand up let alone fight another bigger ,and stronger wave of grimm.

"I'm sorry" that's all Jaune managed to say before the grimms pounced on him tearing him limb to limb before finally finishing him off.

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That was his first death at this place. At first when he found himself back at where he begun after dying he thought it was some kind of vision or something, then after dying a second and still waking up at the same place again he omitted that . As everytime he died he went back at that same place again and again, and everytime he fought again he fought better and better, and everytime he killed a wave of grimm it doubled in the next one.

In the beginning he was excited, he tough to himself that this was his chance, a chance he can use so that he can come close to his friends in skill and experience, a chance to be a true huntsman. He didn't mind dying as he was getting used to the pain of being chewed or dismembered by the grimm. However after days and months and maybe even years with his Fight, Die, Repeat and no signs of it ever ending, he grow more and more afraid that he will be stuck here forever. He could only hope that the final wave is that of 1024, or he might really be stuck here fighting forever.

"If only I could get a moment between each wave to recuperate some of my aura" thought Jaune to himself.He once wanted to kill all the beowulf except one that he would cripple, however after only 20 secondes the next wave was sent , so he had to forgo that strategie.

After that Jaune didn't kill the grimm immediately. He'll first fight with them for practice and then take action! In here it matters not you kill the grimm or not as there's always more. training his skills was more important to him.

In the beginning, he always had trouble fighting grimm even while using his aura to boost his body. having all the time he needed for practice, Jaune begun using less and less aura in his fights till the point that hr doesn't even use it to shield himself when the the attack is not life threatening, and only use it when he want to kill the strongest Grimms ,as their plate armor protect them making it hard for him to kill empty handed.

"speaking of semblance, I guess I got pretty lucky on that part. huh" Jaune thought to himself. His semblance turned out to be Aura amplification, giving him the ability to amplify all of his aura abilities and even crazy control over his aura.

"At least it's only Beowulf and their alphas."

"Damn and I tought port was just bluffing when he told us about that Ice Beowulf he fought on Solitas, the next time I have class with him I'm definitely taking notes." said Jaune as he killed the final beowulf of the tenth wave, Aka the one with 400 beowulf and 32 normal Alpha, and some other types , like the elemental ones that shout their spikes at you any any given moment, or even those weird one that looks like they are on steroid, 'Man those last one are as creepy as they can get'.

"Let's just Hope I can get out after this one" Says Jaune as stare at the 'tide' of grimm that just appeared out of nowhere, the normal begun running towards him immediately while the alphas , elementals and mutants , just circled around him waiting for the moment he let his guard down to attack.

With just smale mouvement ,Jaune Just kept dodging, instantly moved his hand. In this instant, a few slight sounds could be heard. His hand drew across the neck of a beowulf and used him as a shield from the spike coming from the elemental grimms , while his other hand was used to slay the other grimm that charged at him with unrivaled accuracy. Combining that with his footwork causing the power to be amazing.

Even though there were many Grimm, only two or three could attack Jaune at the same time.

Every time he killed one or two, Jaune was always able to use the still evaporating corpses corpses of the Grimms to find some opening and avoid getting slammed by the Grimm horde.He was sure that even some huntsman can't handle their surroundings so accurately.

The moment an Alpha or Mutant come at him He augment his body with aura or even his semblance when it's a Mutant, and sway like a butterfly while his movements cause a few afterimages to appear.

The fresh blood of the evaporating grimm shot out like water from a fountain. In just minutes,hundreds of Grimms were killed.

Seeing the situation Getting 'Grimm' , ten alphas charged with some Mutants charged at him with great speed, seeing that , Jaune didn't panic, He know that the grimms like the alphas , elemental or mutants are more intelligent than the other grimms, and it's not like its the first time they use this strategy, Who know how many time they used their superior strength and numbers to bury him under big bodys, breaking all his bone and turning his body into paste . he still remember the pain he felt , from that one last time this strategy worked against him.

Looking at the approaching Alphas and Mutants , Jaune immediately used his semblance launching himself two big Mutants and decapitating the using his hands, before the other grimm even understand what happened he was already on them, making a quick work on them using his semblance before going to his dodge and kill stance as before.

After almost Three hours of constant fighting Jaune finally down to the last Ice beowulf. tired of the non stop fighting, Jaune , using all the what was left of his aura to empower his scared body before running towards it.

"Die!"

"ROAR~~" the Grimm turned its head and directed its horn towards Jaune before firing It's spikes at him.

At this moment, Jaune made a flexible turn like a butterfly and just barely evaded the spikes. While turning, Jaune's hand, with help from the rotational energy, went out instantly! even more speed during the punch !

"Puff!"

As fast as lightning, Jaunes hand stoke into the head of the Grimm. Jaune could clearly feel the breaking bones of the grim plate ,before his hand sunk into its head killing it instantly.

"Huff, huff,"Jaune tries to get his breath back before looking around for any grimm to appear again.

"YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS!, I JAUNE ARC , FINALLY DID IT, AFTER SLAYING WHO KNOWS HOW MANY THOUSANDS OF GRIMMS, I FINALLY ENDED WHATEVER THAT WAS!!" Said Jaune crying out in Joy seeing that even after minutes of waiting, no more grimms appeared, Jaune couldn't help but cry out of Joy ,before Finally dropping out sleeping from tiredness.