Chap 28.... this one is kinda sad...
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{THIRD PERSON POV}
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Miles let out a sigh as he lean back his head on the seat of the bullhead.
"Orleans to Vale... a 3 hour journey at most... and it's not like the pilot is rushing..." he talks to himself before he looks out of the windows.
Usually a Journey from Orleans to Vale would take half a day, but that is only if they use a commercial public bullhead rather than Ozpin's personal bullhead.. well as personal as a vehicle owned by an institution of hunters could be.
The different in size between the two and weight also helps, with the smaller bullhead being able to fly faster and all that aerodynamic bullshit.
"Shit... do ozpin really need me to go do this mission? I.... I really hoped I could.... bond.. with Jaune today..." Miles let out a sighs again as he thinks of the chance he had missed to bond with Jaune.
He knows that he had done wrong to his boy.... he should had been smarter and thinks of better ways to stop his son from Training to become a hunter.
... he tried.. he really did tried to prepare Jaune to become a hunter but.. with the year passing and he didn't see any improvement from his son, he can't take it anymore.
The image of his father bloodied face while he is dying on his arm can't leave his mind, he saw pictures of his father while he's father was 10 years old at the time that he took the picture.. and his face looks so similar to Jaune that it hurts his heart.
whenever he look at his son, all he can see is his father born again just with different personality....
Jaune's personality is similar to Luna rather than Miles but his looks.. its all John Arc.... Give Jaune another decade or two then he would be the spitting image of John Arc...
Miles couldn't really ask for a better son... Jaune.. he.. he is so.... so... so loving... Jaune forgave him.. forgave his own father who had decides that he is not good enough for his dream!
Who would do that!? If John had decided to not let him become a hunter then Miles don't think that he could ever forgive his father...
Jaune deserve a better father... and Miles.. Miles want to be it... he wants to he a better Father to Jaune.. not only to Jaune.. to his other children too.. Mordred... Saphron... Artoria.. and the rest.. they deserve a better father..
Miles pinched his eyebrows and take a deep breath.
"Shit... why am I thinking about this... I got better things to think about.. like the.." 'Maiden.' The unspoken word is stuck to his throat as he remember about the last time he had seen her.
Miles press his forehead to the window and shut his eyes tight as he take a deep breath.. "Shit... fuck... dad... fuck...."
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{Line break? Well i don't know what to put here.. but enjoy the flashback i guess, and it have a fight scene.. i'm gonna stop yapping here and let you guys read....}
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"DAD!" Miles shout over a horde a grimm as he slice through it with his greatsword. "DAD!" Shit shit shit shit! All I wanted to do was grab a couple of beer from the bar! So how the fuck did this happened?! That was all Miles can think off before he got bombarded with even more number of grimms
A beowolf then tried to bite his head off but he quickly moves his head away before he grab its jaw and force it wide open and tear it apart. "RAAAAAAGH! Get out of my way!"
Miles then grab his greatsword and split an Ursa into two as it charged at him. "DAD!"
He can see that beyond this hordes upon hordes of grimm is a battle that only one word come to mind to describe it... 'catastrophic'...
He can see the Maiden's elemental magic raging about, hear the ringing sound of swords clashing against steels and the thudding sound of a shield defending what could only come from the sound of His father's shield!
'What the fuck is happening in VACUO!'
Miles then jump high up in the air in an effort to jump over the hordes of grimms but he got intercepted as a nevermore is trying to dive bomb on him "Fuck off!" He used the side of his greatsword as hammer to bat away the nevermore but unfortunately for him, another nevermore come diving down on him and bring him back down to the ground with a crash.
He tried to quickly get up but his is launched away as a boarbatusk smashed into him.
With a loud crash, Miles's body hit the side of an upturn Boulder from god knows where because of how chaotic the whole place had become.
'Probably from the Maiden....' in the back of his mind he thinks to himself.
When Miles managed to stand up again, he wiped away a sweat of his forehead because of the hit he took.. Aura maybe could make someone as close as they could get to being impenetrable, but with a strong enough impact it could leave bruises and minor Injuries.. why is he thinking about this? Well he very well can feel his body having bruises that wasn't there before.. and it hurt like absolute hell considering that Aura doesn't do shit with the sensation of the immediate pain that comes from whatever the fuck hit you.
Miles used his greatsword to steady himself as he look at the once again, charging boarbatusk. "What... the... fuck... a boarbatusk? We're in Vacuo for fucks sake.. they're not supposed to be here!"
When the Boarbatusk is meters away from him, Miles quickly jump to the side and Stab the side of the Boarbatusk letting its own velocity to do its job as his sword glide through its body and killing it in the process.
Miles then look around to unfortunately see the hundreds of grimms infront of him but fortunately the grimms that is too close to the main battle is dying in the hands of the stray attacks from the Maiden, slowly lowering the number down because he don't think that he would survive fighting so many grimm.. he already lost 40 percent of his Aura which if you think about it is insane! Mile's aura is basically a 3 to 4 hunters worth of Aura... if he wasn't an Arc then he would already be dead by now from being unable to to shit without any Aura to protect him.
"How the fuck did all of this happen!?" Miles grit his teeth because he isn't wrong to complain or even question this situation, it all started like every average mission with his dad when it come to escorting or protecting the Maiden.
Miles is trusted enough courtesy of his father, to join the young headmaster Ozpin's inner circle.. it was a shock to him that Ozpin turn out that Ozpin isn't young by a mile... his body may be young but his soul isn't.... which made sense considering how the fuck he could become the youngest headmaster at the age of 29 Years old! John explain it to him in further details about how ozpin is cursed eith immortality and is reincarnated everytime he die, and how Ozpin previous reincarnation was John's professor in beacon too.
It took a lot of convincing from John for Miles to not tell Luna about the whole shit show, because considering that Luna was pregnant with Saphron at the time... he can't exactly give his wife more responsibility than necessary.. what is necessary you may ask? The fucking baby you stupood!!
But yeah.. usually when he and his father go on this type of missions, which ranges from protecting the Maiden (not that the Maiden really needs it.. but considering what's after them then.. yeah.. its better to be safe than sorry.) Or trying to find a new Maiden whenever Ozpin hear the news of a Maiden dying.. that type of Mission usually is handled by Qrow considering that Miles couldn't really go for that long with Luna being pregnant and all. But the first type of mission at most only goes on for a few days or a week..
But the secret that Miles is most scared of to tell to Luna is... is about the grimm queen.. Ozpin called her Salem.. a grimm queen that had 'lived' for as long as him.. Ozpin told them that he managed to almost Kill Salem a few times in the past so it gives him and probably the rest of the inner circle a few flames of hope...
Cause what else can they do if not hope? Considering that Ozpin or whatever his real name was, had been in the fight longer than all of their numbers of Years alive combined, so if Ozpin himself can hope to kill Salem then that meant they have a chance at winning this ungodly amount of years worth of battle.
The missions start as normal as it could be with him and his father flying on a bullhead to Vacuo, well not Vacuo per say.. but as close to Vacuo's border as they can get to not attract any.. unwanted eyes before they use an off road to drive to the Maiden's location.
A couple of years ago when Miles first met the fall Maiden, Anbar collins, he was a little shock to see just how... old she was.. she was only a year Younger than his father.. he expected someone younger but who could blame him? With title as Maiden, he expected to meet a fucking 14 years old.. not a 50 year old woman..
(AN: Anbar is the Arabian name for amber, In this Au Vacuo is the equivalent to Middle eastern/egypt/Arabic country here on earth.. I'll explain more in the AN at the end of the chapter.)
Well when they meet the Maiden she looks alright, no wounds or any visible injuries, and she alongside his dad starts to talk like they are an old friend or some shit.
Considering just about how long his father and her had known each other, he wouldn't be suprised if they are actually more than old friends... he actually feel a little happy for his father, his mother had died giving birth to him.. his father deserve to feel romantic love again after everything he had gone through, raising a child like Miles as a single father isn't... isn't an easy Job... take into consideration that John is also a full time hunter then.. yeah... Miles can still remember his early childhood being ontop of his father's shoulder as his father showed him how to hunt a grimm..
That memories alongside the memories of how his father sometime bring him along to join him on some of his easier jobs had become Miles's fondest childhood memories....
After a few days of guarding the Fall Maiden, Miles thinks that its going to be another easy mission so he decided to get out of the inn where they are currently staying and grab a few beers for the three of them.. he didn't expect a big ass sand dune to explode and rain sands all over the small town and starts to spews out grimms like There's no end in sight.
Miles had fought at least for 30 minutes before he can feel the sands start to shake like crazy as the Fall Maiden starts to use her magic.
He knows that something is wrong because if Anbar is using her magic then something had gone absolutely wrong.
And now we are back to Miles as he is fighting the grimms as best as he can but he is losing slowly but surely because of the ungodly amount of grimm.
This isn't a battle he can win by attrition considering that the amount of grimms with eat him alive! He needs to get risky! Because if he didn't then he would die!
Miles bring up his greatsword as high as he can before he brings it down with a mighty swing! "AURA BURST!"
As Miles used his Semblance, he easily killed the grimm infront of him and the Aura crescent made out of Aura comes out of his sword and slices through multiple grimms as it fly through the air.
"You're all done now, you FUCKTARDS!" He put his sword at his side before he swing his body around to slice his sword around him in a circle. "AURA BURST!"
He used his Semblance again and the Aura crescents fly around him and slicing and dicing the grimms around him with ease.
Miles cannot do this forever because each this forever, each use of his Semblance takes about 5 percent out of his Aura with each use, there are 2 ways to use his Semblance, first is to activating his Semblance to make his body be infused with Aura and expelling it in an instant, basically giving him a huge physical boost for a few seconds.
The second way that he can use His Semblance is by infusing his weapon and only his weapon with his Aura and expelling it with an attack, it work best with a sword as it throw a crescent made out of his Aura into the air and slicing his targets with ease.
That is why he is called 'the Sword Of Orlean' when he was 19 Years old, he protected orleans a horde of grimm alone while his dad and the hunter's are away to help with the mountain Glenn incident. He had fought and killed so many grimm that day that he become one of the coastal Town most beloved people.
Luna who is in Also in Orlean at the time because she is Miles's teammate/girlfriend also played a huge roles in the fight by healing everyone she can with her Semblance, earning her the titles of 'the saint of Orleans'.
Without her that day, Miles would had died from his wounds.... a week later well... that is how Saphron came to be... what can he say? He must thank his savior in one way or another...
Enough about Miles having the horizontal tango with Luna, right now Miles is fighting for his life and spamming Aura BURST.
"AURA BURST!"
"AURA BURST!"
"AURA BURST!"
"AURA BURST!"
Miles starts to pants heavily because he doesn't need his scroll to see that his Aura is at its critical red limit.. he didn't notice it but Anbar's magic is nowhere insight anymore but thankfully he killed the majority of the Grimm making it so that he could finally see his dad and Anbar...
Anbar is lying down on the sand with blood all over her because of a wound straight down her chest..
How the fuck did someone defeat her! She used magic!
"Anba-" Miles got cut off as the dust fully cleared and he can see clearly....
What...
What the fuck is that....
What he sees is something that comes out straight out of his nightmare..
A knight... a Knight that wears a full armor made out of what could only be Shadow itself.. its armor emits a cloudy dark smoke.. and it's Sword is bone white with red running down its fuller...
And that sword.. IT IS STABBING THROUGH HIS FATHER'S CHEST!
"DAD! HOW DARE YOU! YOU FUCKING BASTARD!" Miles Rushed to what his mind could only think of as a grimm knight.
When he got close enough, Miles jump high up in the air with his greatsword above his head.
He concentrated his Semblance to both his body and sword and prepare to unleash the most powerful attack he had ever used, not caring how this will break his bones and shred his muscles because a human body isn't meant to handle this kind of power. "AURA BURST!!!"
A normal Aura Burst could cut through steel walls with ease.. this attack that Miles prepare to unleash on the grimm knight is unfathomable in power, an attack that rival the likes of a maiden's magic.
WITH A TITANIC SWING OF THE GREATSWORD, THE SWORD COME DOW WITH SUCH FORCE THAT ITS MIGHT COULD FLATTEN HILLS!
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Miles eyes widen in horror as his sword is stopped by the knight with a simple block with the Gauntlet on it's free arm, shattering his greatsword in two.
"What?" The word comes out of Miles mouth out of horror and confusion because how.... that blow left miles with only 2% of Aura left... he used 23% of his Aura on the attack! He could feel his bones screaming in pain from the repercussion of overdriving his semblance to the point of breaking his bones.
JUST HOW COULD THIS THING STOPPED IT WITH SUCH EASE?!? That what is screaming inside of His head.
The grimm knight didn't even acknowledge Miles as it continue to stare at John who is impaled by his sword.
"Ÿœ'řə ŋøţ ĥịm, Přēțĕñðęŕ." The grimm knight then swing his sword that is still impaling John and launch John's body away, the wind force from it's swing also Launched Miles away.
Miles landed with a roll before he come to a stopped.
"Fuckers...." he glared at the Grimm Knight and he Tried to stand up as he watched the Grimm Knight walks away into the distance.
"You... BASTARD! DON'T YOU RUN AWAY YOU STUPID FUCK!" Whatever happen, Miles promised to himself that The Grimm Knight will die! No matter what! "I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!"
Just as Miles is about to chase after the Grimm Knight, he is stopped as he hear the sound of His father's voice. "My.... boy...."
Miles quickly turn around and and stagger to his father. "DAD!" Please don't do this to him.. please don't let his father die!
'Not him! Please! Not my father!' Miles then crumpled to the ground.
with his fading strength, Miles start to crawl on all four to his father until he reaches him.
"DAD! Please! Don't leave me!" He gently grab his father's head and put it on his knees.
"M....miles...." Miles then put his ears as close to his father's mouth to listen to what he wished to be a word of reassurance that his father won't die and they would come back home.
"Miles... promise.. me... that... you.... you'll live...." miles's eyes widen before he turn his head to look at his father's face.
"Please.. dad.. don't leave me... you told me that you want to see Artoria... please!" He starts to plead to his dad but with each word that comes out of his mouth
"Please! I Promise to be a better son! Please! DON'T LEAVE ME, DAD!" Miles hugged his father's body that is slowly going colder and colder in an effort to magically bring him to life by giving him some heat.... but.... its... but its already over...
John had died at the age of 54 Years old, in the embrace of his only child.
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[AN: well this chapter is a woozy.. I wrote this from 6:30 pm to 9:16 pm... almost 3 hours of writing..
Oh yeah, I gotta have some explaining to do about the geographical shit thingy.
Let me put this as simple as this.
Vacuo: middle eastern/egyptian/Arabic equivalent to earth.
Sanus/Vale: European/American.
Anima/mistral:Chinese/Asian.
Solitas/Atlas: Germany/Russian and a little European too I guess.
Menagerie: basically island Japan, that's the vibe I am getting from the clothes and weapons.
And let me remind you that this is an AU!!!! NONE OF THIS SHIT IS CANON!!!!!!
Also before anyone of you ask about how the fuck does Miles know about the reincarnation thingy!
I did my research from watching rwby and Google as a whole, and I found a post from reddit that sum it up pretty good:
{What Ozpin told the inner circle
Salem
The Maidens
The Relics and how Salem can't get a hold of them.
His reincarnation system.
What Ozpin DIDN'T tell them
The relics being Grimm magnets.
His romantic relationship with Salem.
Being the second round of humanity.
His mission from the gods to unite humanity and how they'll all die if he fails.
Salem being immortal and how there's no stopping her (he led everyone to believe that they had a chance).
How he has no plan to stop Salem other than keep things at an eternal stalemate.}
That sums it up pretty well... well other than that! THANK YOU FOR READING!!!! WOOOOO!!!!
AN2: forgot to tell y'all this but Miles is 21 years old in the flashback, just writing it here for y'all who don't want to do the math.
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