Getting Closer

A new chapter is released. Hope you enjoy it.

The next day went smoothly. It worked similar to the first day except for having 2 different classes, combat class, and the sparring class. However, a good thing about this day is that he found the gym and will start using it to regain a lot of his lost muscles. The next few weeks worked the same. Having the same classes, the same sparring class except for having Glynda choose who will fight who and yeah, it's the start of the same Jaune vs Cardin over and over until Jaune gets better.

Around that time, Ace used the weekend to be able to spend more time in the gym to get his muscles to a better state, his aura control started to get better whenever he uses the Emerald Forest for training, his hair began to be longer and his beard began to grow but he shaved it. With ACES, they began to come closer to team JNPR and became friends quickly, Ace's relationship with his teammates got better and they seemed to trust each other more.

Right now, in team ACES dorm, they're standing in the middle of the room.

"What?" Carl asked

"As I said, I will start fixing your problems." Ace responded.

On this day, Ace asked Carl, Violet, and Sky to start the train and fix their many problems and he will start with the most obvious ones.

"A-Are you sure you can do that?" Skyler asked.

"Yes." Ace pointed at Carl, "Carl, you need to work on your physical strength of yours, despite the training you had with Nevan giving you some muscle, you need to work more because your body is a bit thin."

He turned to Violet, "Violet, you need to work on your hand-to-hand combat. I know you didn't focus on it so much when you made your gauntlets but you had to improve it because if some skilled opponents closed the gap between you and him, he will put you down. This brain of your need some brawn to perfectly balance everything."

He finally turned to Skyler, "And Sky, your reaction time especially with a heavy weapon like Meta is problematic against faster opponents. You saw how hard Ruby was when she used her semblance. People who had fast movement if it was a semblance or as a natural ability will make it very hard."

The three thought for a bit, yeah, Ace was right in examining the problems they had, but is he serious to become their trainer?

"Are you sure you can do that?" Violet asked.

"Well, I gave the honor to my parents who helped me in my training with different weapons and combat styles. Another person I gave the honor is my former trainer, Master Fujin Takahashi, and his great training when I was at Signal. He helped me work on many things and one of them is my reaction time." Ace mentioned. "Besides, I had trained my older sister when she asked me to train her in my abilities and despite the short training she had, she was able to give me a good hit. When dad saw it, he even said you can become a great teacher, even you can ask him. So, training you won't be a problem for me. This is something, as a leader of team ACES, will work on making you the best of you."

CES looked at each other and looked back at Ace and nodded in response. If Ace wants to help his teammates because of, not just his role as a leader, but as a friend too.

"Oh, all of you will get the same training, no one will have a different training except when you need to work on a specific thing, we happy?" Ace said as he offered his fist.

"As you said, boss," Carl said as he fist-bumped.

"If this will get the 'perfectly balance', I'm in." Violet fist-bumped too.

"Y-You're the leader and the best one of us. I-I won't mind spending m-m-more time with you." Skyler also, fist-bumped.

The four now have their fists together. Ace said it, he's ready to train them on their needs, 'PERFECT!' Ace exclaimed happily in his mind. His training will begin earlier than last time, providing him more time to make them ready for their future mission, the VVT, the Fall of Beacon if things didn't go as planned, and their future fights they will have.

The day after, he started his team's training. And the thing about Ace's training, WHAT TYPE OF TRAINING HE USED TO HAVE? Ace was harsh in the training, he was the type of teacher that won't make it easy.

For Carl, Ace told him to have 5 out of 7 days in the gym and each day has 1 or 2 types of training while providing 2 days of the week for resting. His schedule is a day is focuses on the back, the next one focuses on the shoulders, other works on the legs, and it runs in a cycle. Every 2 or so weeks, Ace provides Carl with a new exercise or 2. It was hard but Carl began to get a grip on it and his muscles had good progress. Violet and Sky had similar training without any exceptions so the team can be close. One day, when ACES was together in the gym, Carl had enough muscles that made Violet blush, and I know what are you thinking, how a smart turtle Faunus fell in love with a guitarist? It's love, something hard to measure yet can be noticed. Ace knows about Vi's crush with our blonde guitarist in the old timeline and they were living together after they left to the point Carl was planning on marrying Violet before Salem ruined it.

"Come on, champ! You can do that, a few more to finish!" Right now, Ace was encouraging Carl like a coach. Carl was resting on the bench for his chest exercise and his progress made him good to the point he's lifting 20KG. Carl took one more breath before he lifted it one more time before he finally put it in its place. "Awesome! You're getting good, Carl! That's the spirit!" Ace said happily and gave Carl his towel and water bottle.

"Thanks. breath I made a good progress breath in this breath goodness, I understand why are you that good in this." Carl said between his breaths before he dried himself and drank some water.

Ace smiled at his partner's progress, and the girls weren't half bad either. Yeah, they were carrying heavier weights in some, especially Sky who had a little bit more than he thought, like really, what type of stuff she used to do in her house? She was like doing a full-time carrying job unless her house was bigger than usual.

"Okay, guys, a few more, and we will end for the day. Now, let's check what you have left." Ace instructed as he saw the list of remaining exercises. "Okay, Carl, you will have a high bench. Violet, you will have the same training Carl had. And Sky, you will go with Cable cross-over." Ace said as his teammates nodded. Ace sat down as he already finished his training minutes earlier and unlike CES, he was having 2 different training and he was slowly yet surely was getting his old muscles.

Next to him were RWBY and JNPR having their training. Nora had the spotlight because she had her crazy weight lifting. There are SO MANY QUESTIONS about Nora and her weird body. She eats tons of pancakes yet she had muscles that put many to shame. Maybe the wildness and using Magnhild a lot was the key for her super strength or the number of times she got hit with electricity gave her hidden muscles. Who knows?

The others were here too. They didn't come to the gym very often except for Yang, who on several occasions had a conversation with Ace when there's little to nobody in the gym except for him. The big highlight is Jaune. Yeah, the guy still wants Weiss and still fails. The dork still trying to impress the SDC heiress and fails at it. Because she doesn't want him and the guy can't carry something heavy. And he tries to do it as he put a bit too much on him to carry. Standing next to Ace, Jaune took deep breathes and he will go and carry something that Violet reached today. As he bend himself down and went to carry it to impress Weiss instead of doing the thing gyms were born for.

He was struggling. His look is funny and Yang is recording it from away with a big smirk on her face while Pyrrha has her sad and facepalmed at him. Jaune, on the other hand, was barely an inch from the ground, making Ace roll his eyes and sigh. As Weiss got away, Ace took the chance and stood behind Jaune with the towel in his hand.

"GGGHHH," Jaune grunted as he was barely lifting the heavyweights. His hopeless hope to impress Weiss was just getting him hurt as he began to carry it more but at this point, his back was aching and- SPANK "EEEKKK!" Jaune squeaked from the sudden hit on his butt. As he rubbed his butt, he turned to see Ace with a blue towel in his hand and his face had the disappointed look.

"A-Ace?! W-What the heck was that for?" Jaune asked, embarrassed from the hit.

"What AM I doing? What THE HECK are you doing, idiot? Are you trying to hurt yourself?" Ace questioned back with an angry tone.

Jaune was nervous from answering because, in comparison, Jaune knew his muscles aren't as good as Ace's or the lack of them. "I-I-" Jaune stuttered in answering but it got interrupted.

"I know what are you trying to do, dumbass. Don't think I don't know." Ace said, pointing his finger at Jaune's face as the blonde knight had a small blush on his face. "Listen up, dumbass. Gyms were born to work on muscles, not impressing girls. If you want to work on these rubber muscles," Ace said as he pinched Jaune's arm and went to carry the weight Jaune put. And Ace was capable of carrying it like a small weight making Jaune's jaw drop. "You. Need. To work. From the bottom." Ace said between his lifts. Ace put the weight down and made a loud clang. "So, you either start from the bottom to have good muscles or put yourself in the bed for a few days." Ace went away but before he went away, he spanked Jaune again with the towel. Yang was laughing at Jaune's bad attempt and Ace's interruption, making Jaune looks like an idiot. Ruby was laughing lightly. Weiss facepalmed. Pyrrha was sad and disappointed. The others were busy with their training.

For Violet or Vi for short, she worked on her hand-to-hand combat training. She questioned herself 'How many styles Ace learned?'. Seriously, he was giving lessons on different fighting styles, techniques, submission, and wrestling moves. This is by itself is weird and the weirdest is how Ace can use them and change between them if he wanted. All of this makes Ace very unpredictable and hard to counter. He can use karate and change to kick-boxing and suddenly mix some dancing into it out of nowhere. The dancing is very odd and tried to figure out what's rolling in his mind but she didn't figure it out.

As for the training itself, Ace knew how to improve her hand-to-hand skills. And she was able to make great progress out of it. Now, she easily needs a few to no shots to win most of her fights in the sparring class. While she isn't any near Ace's level, at least she can become a hard person to beat.

Carl and Sky were also there and they can defend themselves without their weapons.

For Skyler, she worked on her reaction time and she made good progress at the beginning, but when she tried to fight Ace, she saw how pathetic she was thinking she's good at it. Because Ace's reaction is very strong and she saw that when one time, she was very fast on Ace and got behind him, but to her surprise, Ace turned his head like it was at a normal speed. The look of those red eyes was amazing and very scary to her. You can't understand how scared Skyler was when she saw Ace's eyes to her. After that horror, she worked more and the more she trained, the more she was able to hand a good portion of his speed.

The aura control, sensing, and manipulation also got better. She understood how Ace reacted to her more as he sensed her too. The more training, the better her aura sensing became.

Ace said that 'Not every time someone can react to multiple shits at once. Sometimes, a focus on 1 target will make you a bit vulnerable against two skilled and team-working opponents. Despite my experience, I find myself eating good hits from behind whenever my focus lowers or emotions control me. But hey, you're like the student that makes his master proud and I'm very proud of you three for your progress. But remember, there's more and more to come in the future but right now, we will put this training aside for some time.'

What he said was very true. Whenever there was a 2v1 and she get to fight opponents that know each other very well can was a bit annoying yet manageable.

Carl became lighter and more annoying in longer ranges in 1v1. Violet, despite her heaviness, had some level of faster movements that made her able to avoid hits or coming shots.

It was very great progress, to say the least. While it was kinda weird to start on all of these before the VVT, Ace made sure his team is ready for many things. It was also earlier than before because this training started around the beginning of the second semester but this started at the first semester and Ace was proud of his results. Yes, it was tiring for them, but no pain no gain.

For other things than training. Ace started his Port's stories debunk in the weekend. The way it worked is listening carefully to Port's stories and revealing the weird shit it contains. That was very funny when you try to listen to them laughably. The sheer ridiculousness in these stories is massive. The things that either seemed impossible or Ace was capable of doing it using his stuff made so many question marks on Port's career. Was he capable of doing this stuff but he tried to make it something that made his students interested? (Which's not.) Or he was making some of them so people think he's great? (Which will put more question marks on his huntsman career) Either way, it was a nice way to relax and spend the weekend whenever there wasn't any training or assignments to make.

There was more stuff happening with ACES. They were playing games, learned more about each other, watched TV, etc. Everything was going in the right direction. Now ACES have a great friendship together and it's getting better and better with the semester moving on.

Okay, getting back at their normal days, another school day that had the Port's boring class, Oobleck's fast-talking, Glynda's combat class, and the sparring class. Nothing new was added to the school schedule.

At the moment, they were having the sparring class and everything was normal as usual. Until the next fight was worrying. The next fight was: Ace Storm vs Nora Valkyrie. Well shit, this fight might get a little wild.

Both combatants went to the arena and stood for their 'big' battle. Nora might use this opportunity as payback because Ace fought Ren weeks ago and Ace kicked Ren's ass.

'Are you sure that this not love, Nora? Because this seems like it.' Ace said in his thought as he stood with the Dust Decoded.

"I'm sorry, Ace, but I might break a bone in this fight. No hard feelings, okay?" Nora exclaimed loudly.

"Non-taken if you break or not." Ace responded.

While Nora and Ace were standing in the arena, RWBY, JPR, and CES are waiting for their fight. Ruby seemed to be a bit excited and the others more worried.

"Guys! I'm sorry for what Nora will gonna do with Ace. She had been waiting for the moment she will fight Ace as a payback from the last time." Ren apologized.

"Come on, Ren, you didn't get that much...you know what? Yeah, you got some serious beatdown from Ace last time." Ruby said, trying to make it sound okay but failing.

"D-Don't judge too quick. A-A-Ace isn't that type of guy that will lose that easy. I still remember those red eyes when I fought him. It was a-a-amazing and very s-scary." Skyler said while hugging her arms tightly, remembering Ace's training.

Back to the arena, both combatants are ready to fight. 3…2…1…FIGHT!

Nora went to attack Ace with a mighty war cry but Ace ducked under it easily. Ace swung his sword at Nora who was able to block it in time. Ace continued to swing more and Nora parried some of them before she got a slash from that staggered her.

Nora tried to attack back but Ace smacked her face with the sword's handle. It made her angry and began swinging blindly at Ace. Ace smirked and started dodging and step-siding Nora's hammer attacks. Ace knew this won't work because Nora is a hyperactive girl that doesn't know when to stop so he tries to use any opening until Nora jumped and raised her hammer over her head and slammed it at Ace. Ace took a step back, making Nora's attack missing and giving him the opportunity. Unfortunately, Nora thought this time and pressed a button in Magnhild that made an explosion, making Ace fly away.

As Ace tried to get up, he saw a coming hammerhead to his face. Nora finally landed a hit at Ace and made a small crater. Nora did again and again and smiled at her thought victory. But to her surprise, Ace's hands gripped Magnhild's head and raised it from his face. Ace was angry and his face showed that very easily so he kicked Nora's face, to her surprise again, pushing her away from the blue-haired boy.

Ace rolled himself to the back while Nora turned Magnhild to its grenade launcher mode and shot a grenade at Ace. Ace dodged it and start running at Nora as she continued to shoot. Ace was dodging and sliding easily from the grenades until he got closer to Nora. He ducked and punched Nora in her stomach, making her gasp from the punch before Ace gave her an uppercut and a spinning kick at her face. Nora tried to smack Ace with the grenade launcher but he ducked easily from it and went behind her. Ace caught Nora from behind and processed to suplex her. Ace didn't stop as he rolled again and slammed Nora on her back, making a small hole in the ground.

Nora got angry with her opponent. How dare he stand face-to-face with thunder thighs and give her some good hits at her. The ginger head girl thought about how she can beat him. He has clearly shown how good he can handle her despite the hits she gave him earlier. She saw Ace's legs next to her and took the opportunity to throw him away. She caught Ace's leg and caught him off guard before she tripped him off and rolled him on his face. She eventually started to bend his ankles aka making an ankle lock.

"GAHH!" Ace grunted from the pain in his ankles. Nora's strength is making the pain more difficult as she feels like she's gonna break his ankle.

"HA! Do you think you can put THUNDER THIGHS down? Tap-out and I will make it easier." Nora said confidently.

Really? Did you say that to Ace Storm? You don't know who are you fighting against Nora. "HA! JOKES ON YOU! THIS IS BABY STUFF!" Ace exclaimed at Nora's offer and rolled himself to face Nora. Ace pulled his caught leg and Nora with it to punch Nora straight to the face and under her jaw. He was able to push Nora away with a pain in his ankle to Magnhild without seeing. Nora saw Magnhild next to her and smirk as she grabbed it and turned it to the hammer mode. Ace, on the other hand, tried to stand on his legs as the pain in his ankle started to go because of his healing factor and turned to Nora who was coming from behind, and slammed the hammer at Ace's right side.

CRACK "GAAAHHH!" Ace cried out loud from the pain as he felt the right side of his ribcage get broken from that hammer and he also landed at the edge of the arena, showing how strong Nora's attack was.

"Yes, that was for messing with Nora's old friend. I hope you had this delivered." Nora said proudly and aimed her hammer at Ace. She turned to the giant screen and saw that her aura was yellow while Ace was still green. Nora got shocked because, after all of these hits, Ace didn't lose that much of an aura?

"Is that your best, Nora?" Nora turned to see Ace trying to stand on his feet. "What a joke! And I thought you could be worse. Reinhardt was giving blows that stuck with me like a mix of dried painting and bubble gum on the hair and it kept me awake at night. You, on the other hand, don't even compare to a slime." Ace mocked.

Nora didn't know who or what Reinhardt is but when she hears someone who has the balls to compare her super-strong hammer hits to another one is insulting. Nora gritted her teeth at this comparison and gripped Magnhild tightly. "Oh, I will show that Reinhardt," Nora whispered and attacked Ace with a mighty roar. Ace chuckled, and pulled the Dust Decoded, and start clashing with Nora.

While sparks were flying from the combatants' weapons, RWBY and JPR were confused about Reinhardt.

"Okay, what the heck that was supposed to mean? And who's Reinhardt?" Weiss asked, confused about Ace's weird comparison and the name he said.

"It's not who, it's what is Reinhardt?" Violet answered, making RWBY and JPR turn their attention at her. "Reinhardt is supposed to be Ace's mother's hammer. And the thing about the blows he got from it. Well, he told us about the hammer training and she used Reinhardt for training. Needless to say, the hits were quite painful even when it's told to you, but when we saw it from his scroll, gods, it's more like child abuse more than training." Violet explained, making them shocked and horrified faces except for Carl and Sky. "Those were the reaction of our faces when we saw it. He's not exaggerating when he said that those hits stay for a long time like a mix of dried painting and bubble gum on your hair."

Returning to the arena, Ace and Nora were having so much energy that will make the fight stay for so long. So, Ace started to think if he can stop the hyperactive pink bomb before she goes anywhere funny.

He dodged and countered her attacks and she did the same only she was taking so many hits while Ace barely got touched by her. Nora got tired and began to swing with all of her might, not knowing this strategy will cost her the fight. And after one last slam at the ground, Ace grabbed the head of the hammer and carried and flipped it to the other side with Nora getting slammed, disarming her completely. Nora tried to get up but her punishment was having her precious hammer get straight to the face in a very strong swing from Ace and made her fly outside of the arena and continue rolling until she stopped from the wall behind her.

As Nora got sent outside of the arena, it declares Ace Storm as the winner of the match.

"Ouch!" Nora grunted as she tried to get on her feet after that strong hit towards her face.

"Don't think I won't notice." Nora turned to the source of the voice which's Ace carrying Magnhild with his hands. "I know you want payback after the last time I fought Ren. Not on me, Nora." Ace commented as he flipped Magnhild.

"Ms. Valkyrie, you were very reckless. Your fight style for someone like Ace wasn't the most effective despite landing hits. I suggest you try to fix your swings for future fights." Glynda commented and turned to Ace, "As for you, Mr. Storm. While I like your way to handle Nora by dodging her swings and using mockery. Those weird words won't work on stronger opponents."

"Um, Ms. Goodwitch, I wasn't making things up, what I said was real and nobody will understand unless you saw or felt those hits." Ace said.

"Real or not, this cockiness might get you to doom, and don't forget to check the nurse for that hit you had. You're dismissed." Glynda said as Ace and Nora returned to their seats. "For the next battle, it will be Jaune Arc vs Cardin Winchester."

This announcement made everyone groan and many said things like 'Not that again' and 'Will it ever end?' and Jaune is one of them before he went to fight Cardin for whatever time. The fight ended the same as before. Jaune lost again like an idiot who don't know how to stand on his feet. Ace facepalmed and used the time to think over anything other than watching the same fight over and over.

Ace planned to tell Jaune except it will be in a different place than the roof next to Cardin's dorm not to have the same blackmail event and not upset Pyrrha. For whoever will train Jaune, that's might come to either Jaune's choice or Ace's and mostly it will be by Ace because he might refuse help and this stuff so he's prepared if Jaune tried to refuse.

As time moved on, Cardin beat Jaune and Glynda came and told Jaune her advice and told everyone about the tournament's rules and other combatants went for a fight. After Glynda's sparring class, everyone went to the cafeteria and had their lunches.

Ace suggested to have less heavy and so much salt or sugar and have healthier food and a little bit more if they felt like they will die from starvation or need so much energy after a long day. Ace eat so many fruits and vegetables or whatever is the healthiest the most on the list if he needed so much energy. He did it on several occasions and the fat that comes after will be gone when he goes for hard exercises or Iai-Jutsu aura control training (Which will he go for after the day ends). So far for CES, they didn't mind it and had a similar eating program.

As for the others, Nora was telling about the dream she had and Ren was correcting her.

"So! There we were, in the middle of the night..."

"It was a day."

"We were surrounded by Ursa..."

"They were Beowulves."

"Dozens of them!"

"Two of 'em."

"But they were no match... And in the end, Ren and I took them down and made a boatload of Lien selling Ursa skin rugs!"

"She's been having this recurring dream for nearly a month now."

"Yeah, nobody cares," Carl said. "Nora, I understand what are you trying to do but this level of storytelling won't keep us invested unless you had for something important." Carl was right RWBY and Pyrrha didn't care about her story, Jaune was in his thoughts about Cardin's problem, and Violet and Sky were talking about something else.

Anyways, Pyrrha looked concerned at her leader. "Jaune? Are you okay?" She asked concerned,

Her question made Jaune snap out of it, turning back toward them, "Huh? Oh, yeah! Why?"

"It's just that you seem a little... not okay..." Ruby said.

"Guys, I'm fine. Seriously! Look!" He held up his thumb while laughing nervously until his attention is focused on the members of Team CRDL, standing around a girl with brown rabbit ears jutting from her hair as Cardin laughs at her and Sky Lark held up his hands to his head in a mock interpretation of her Faunus features.

"Yeah, that won't work, Jaune." Ace said.

"Jaune, Cardin's been picking on you since the first week of school!"Pyrrha reminded.

"Who? Cardin Winchester? Nah... He just likes to mess around! You know, practical jokes!"Jaune said as he tried to make himself look ignorant.

"He's a bully."Ruby corrected.

"Oh, please! Name one time he's 'bullied' me."

"Don't try to sound ignorant, Jaune! We all know that you know that he 'bullies' you!" Ace said as he hit the table.

As they had a flashback at Cardin's bullying, Jaune continued to make himself look 'fine' but he can't because he's isn't strong and doesn't let me start on the 101 problems he has.

After lunch, they headed to Oobleck's class and after a half boring half weird class, Oobleck's class ended and he was talking with Jaune and Cardin about the importance of history and focusing on the class and grades. Ace was waiting for Jaune to come out and take him outside of the building instead of the rooftop while convincing Pyrrha that he will take care of Jaune's problem. And she got convinced but he knew that she might come after them and watch from behind so her 'love' won't get hurt.

As both of them came out of the class, Ace took the blonde dork from the ground and headed outside from any cameras or people dropping their ears at them.

"H-Hey! What are you doing?!" Jaune asked worriedly.

"We need to talk away from here." Ace answered bluntly while going faster.

As they continued, they stood next to a lamppost on the campus of Beacon. Ace finally released his grip as Jaune fixed himself. "Ace? What the heck did you do that for?" Jaune asked waiting for an answer.

"Oh well, this day in Beacon is quite good and the breeze smells right except one thing that bothers it." Ace answered in a different direction.

"H-Huh?" Jaune got confused by this answer.

"The bothering thing in this nice breeze is you, Jaune." Ace pointed his finger at the blonde dork. "You know? When I looked at you, I thought you were a big idiot but I didn't want to judge quickly. Later, you proved how idiotic you are, Jaune. Tell me, what the heck is your problem?" Jaune's eyes wide opened. Ace was talking seriously and clearly, wanting to know the answers despite that Ace knows them. "It's been weeks since the start of the semester and you don't look like you're improving anything. If you need any help and are shy to ask, ask me instead, many people tend to ask me when there's a problem they need sometimes." Ace said.

Jaune lowered his head in sadness. Ace was offering his help but he wanted to be the hero and not someone that need to rely on his friends every single time. But even then, Ace needs people to improve himself.

"No, I don't belong here," Jaune said. Ace narrowed his eyes as he will start to make himself look like he heard the first time. "Explain yourself, Arc!" Ace ordered.

"Look, I didn't have any sort of training before I got to Beacon. My parents didn't allow me due to their overprotection and when I had any time to train, I didn't have enough time to be decent at least. I also found forged papers that able to apply me into Beacon, but I guess being a farmer won't be bad." Jaune told his story. Ace already knows about the story but he continued as he heard it for the first time.

Ace pinched his bridge and looked at Jaune, "Then, why didn't ask Pyrrha who knows how to use a sword and shield?"

"Because I don't want to be the damsel in distress, I want to be a hero but this looks so hard than I thought it would be." Jaune protested.

"A hero? A HERO?! Do you think heroes born this way dumbass? The real heroes don't experience hardships only, they need others to be able to go forward when they need a shoulder to cry on and your claim that you want to be 'a hero'." Ace exclaimed.

"But how can I suppose to become a good one with others? While yes, you need them but the Arcs didn't need others to become heroes and Crocea Mors is an example. It got used by many of my family before and if it weren't for my parents, I might have been good here." Jaune claimed.

"Shut the fuck up." Ace said in frustration.

"H-Hey! Lang-"

"Don't talk about how I talk, Idiot!" Ace interrupted Jaune. "Do you think really that you don't need someone to help you? Well, I will tell you my story. Do you know how many years I took to become in this form?" Ace asked Jaune while pointing his body. "I spent a decade of my life." Ace answered making Jaune's jaw drop.

"Yes, 10 fucking years of blood, sweat, and tears to become in this shape. Around that time, I learned so much about myself and improved so much. All of that wouldn't have happened if my parents and masters weren't there when I needed them." Ace told his story to Jaune, making him in disbelief.

"And thanks to my mother, she was able to put me back when I was mentally traumatized from my first kill and I had 8 years old and not like a few years ago." This statement made them shocked, someone so young killed at this young age wouldn't have been this strong or cocky sometimes. "It was accidental by the way, so don't put any funny ideas in your head. As I said, thanks to her, she was able to put me back in a week or so, which's something that will be hard to pay it back to her. Do you think I would have been here or the same person if I didn't get healed from that experience? HELL FUCKING NO! My father trained me on my weapon and hand-to-hand training. I wouldn't have been that good if my father didn't learn me or give me so much time when I needed him. And every other person that I knew didn't help me in my decade of different pieces of training." Ace finished his story.

Jaune didn't know what to say after Ace's reveal. Unlike him, he had people that supported him on his journey which made him jealous and sadder. "That's the difference. You had people that helped you while I didn't. That's a big difference between someone like you and me. Pyrrha had a similar thing that made her the top fighter in all of Mistral while I'm a complete joke that can't stand on his feet." Jaune exclaimed.

"Exactly, which's why I came to help you." Ace mentioned.

"But, how it's gonna happen? I'm here and clearly, they will notice my files." Jaune said.

"Really?" Ace chuckled, "Do you think Ozzy didn't notice?" Ace raised his eyebrows and smiled playfully.

"W-What?!"

"Please, HE noticed them. He was waiting to see the results." Ace waved his hand sheepishly, making Jaune terrified. "He's waiting to see if your dumb move will be a great decision or an idiot that tries to kill himself. I know that because my parents were here before. They know Ozpin a bit and told me about him. While they didn't become 'closer', but they know things that people don't know. I know things about Ozzy that people don't even know about him, not even my parents. I won't say who or how or why, but I want to let you know that Ozpin is waiting for the plant to grow and produce the good. Which's why I give you the chance to help yourself."

Jaune was surprised about Ace's statement. He doesn't know how he knows that Ozpin is waiting for the knight to see where he will go. If he's waiting until the second year to give a final rating of the experiment before he says pack your stuff and say goodbye, then it's a good chance to take.

"Okay, let us say that professor Ozpin is waiting to see me improve, are you sure you can help me? I don't want to be a burden or anything." Jaune said.

"Come on, I train my team in the past weeks. We go to the gym together, I put their skills to the test, I train them on different pieces of training, I fix the problems they need to fix. Which's easy can forge our bonds more. Right now, you need to know how to stand, how to use your Crocea Mors, how to control your aura, and other stuff that at least by the end of the year, you are decent." Ace counted.

This made Jaune beam in happiness, if he can become a hero, Ace will be a key to that. After the crazy story he told, Jaune is very convinced to start his training. Yes, Ace will give training that will make his body want to leave but no pain no gain.

"Let's keep this a secret for now. I will start to set when and how will we start. I will text to inform you but right now, finish Oobleck's work." Ace ordered.

Jaune nodded and went back to his team's dorm. Ace smiled, knowing that one thing is done on his list. Ace pulled his scroll and typed his results to Pyrrha.

Ace: "He's doing it."

Pyrrha: "WHAT?! How did you convince him?"

Ace: "I had my ways. Anyways, I need you to help Jaune whenever I'm busy or so. Can you do that?"

Pyrrha: "I will be happy to do it."

Ace chuckled because he knew that Pyrrha will use this chance to get closer to Jaune.

Ace: "By the way, I know."

Pyrrha got confused at Ace's message. What did he 'know', exactly? But the answer soon to appear in front of her.

Ace: "It's alright, Pyrrha. I understand your POV."

Pyrrha got shocked and blushed at this reveal. He knew about her crush on Jaune!

Pyrrha: "How?"

Ace: "Secret, Pyr. Anyway, see ya later!"

Pyrrha is so confused about how he knows. Did Ren and Nora tell him? Or did he see how she reacted when Jaune is close? She doesn't know but she knows that Jaune will be her.

Back at Ace, he laughed and imagined Pyrrha's look. "Oh, well. That's a thing off the list for now. I need to go to the Iai-Jutsu training."

Hey, guys! I know that I took long but I did it on purpose. I finished this chapter a long time ago but I didn't release it last week because I want to have a chapter whenever I become late so you can read it. Yeah, I won't have a specific schedule like my previous story but I will try to release more in the future. I hope so.

Sincerely, Eslam.