It was shortly after the breach invasion as the public had deemed it. It was the middle of the night and the only ones awake at the moment were the school guards, and a few teachers catching up on there work. Professor ozpin was one of those people as he sat at his desk the only sound being heard were the turning of the gears around his office and the scribbling of his pen.

That was when someone knocked on his door. Professor ozpin checked the camera and saw a tall blond boy he knew to be jaune arc. He knew the boy forged his transcripts. But the he showed potential and it wasn't because of his heritage or his family name. It was his character that caught ozpin's attention. Jaune embodied the core aspect of a huntsmen. Although the boy didn't see it in himself. He did wonder what brought jaune to his office at this hour.

" its open." He said as he held his mug.

Jaune walked into the room closing the door as he entered.

" hello sir. I know it's late but I wanted to confess something." Said jaune ozpin raised a eyebrow but he motioned for him to continue. For a living ng silent minute jaune just stood there his head held low and his blond hair shadowing his eyes. Until finally in all but just a whisper ozpin heard jaunes voice.

" I don't belong here...I forged my transcripts." He said

'Ah so that was the reason he came.' Thought ozpin

Ozpin took a long sip of his coffee and sat on the table. He folded his arms and leaned forward.

" I know." He said simply getting a look of surprise from the blond knight. And in his vast vocabulary of words the young knight responded.

"wah?"

" I know your transcripts were forged. mister arc do you truly believe that I wouldn't spot a fake, I run a school training the next generation of hunters. Give me more credit." He said the boy shoulders slumped depressed that the transcripts hadn't even work.

" then why did you let me in? I lied I cheated my way in I don't belong here." Said jaune ozpin motioned to the empty chair in front of his desk.

" mister arc, I let you into my academy because I saw potential. I saw a boy dreaming to become a huntsmen and all he needed was the proper guidance." He said the boy hung his head." and truthfully I think you are the most improved student I have, your grades have risen considerably your competent against the creatures of Grimm and even if you don't realise it you are a good negotiator."

" I don't deserve it though...I don't deserve to have this opportunity, I don't deserve to have these great friends, they deserve better then me." He said.

Professor ozpin eyed the blond boy before him before her pulled out another mug and pores some coffee into it. He handed it to jaune and he accepted it. Taking a sip of his coffee ozpin noticed the dark bags under his eyes. It would seem jaune wasn't sleeping well.

" why don't you tell me what this is really about." He said.

"...I'm afraid." said the young knight.

"of what?" Asked ozpin now it wasn't unusual for people to be afraid but the what was he afraid of? getting killed? Of what his peers would think of him? Was he afraid of getting caught?.no if he afraid of that he wouldn't have said ANYTHING.

"im afraid that I'll get my team killed because of my inexperience." He said as he stared at the mug in his hand." during the breach, I was useless...sure I killed a ursa but...that was one ursa. I'm afraid one day I'm going to need more then just wildly flailing to protect my team." He said." I'd rather go to prison then be responsible for there death."

Ozpin smiled at that. It was proof he made the right choice in giving jaune this chance in the first place not many people would have the courage to admit anything like this. This boy was more worried about his friends lives then his future.

However he knew that jaune wouldn't accept that he just let him return to his dorm like this never happened. That's when he thought about it. If jaune wanted to earn his place at beacon he would need experience. What better place to learn then out in the real world, it would be grueling dangerous and possibly dangerous but he had no doubt jaune would come back stronger and more confident then ever. It was dangerous but he trusted that jaune would know his limits and when to run if things ever got dangerous.

"mister arc I can tell you have a desire to earn your place here at beacon...so how about this...I'll give you one year to go out into the real world to train and when you return back I will test you. If you pass I will replace these forged transcripts with some more...legal documents." He said the blond teens head snapped up.

"What?" Asked jaune.

"you heard me arc one year that is all you'll get. When you return I will test you. If you pass charitable you made will disappear."

"...And if I fail?" He asked

" then I will do as you requested today. Ill send you back home." Said ozpin. For a few moments jaune thought about it before he nodded to ozpin.

"ok...can you return crocrea morse to my family for me...I don't deserve to wield it...at least not yet." He said as he presented his family sword to ozpin.

Ozpin nodded as he grabbed the sword. Jaune was about to leave the office.

" just a moment mister arc I can't have you waking out that door without some kind of weapon." He said he walked over to the bookshelf and pulled a random book revealing a secret compartment. Ozpin reached inside and pulled out a simple short sword he used to use back in his youth. It was no legendary blade or even the classiest but it would serve it's purpose. Ozpin discreetly placed a tracking chip inside the pomel. Before presenting it to the young knight.

" its dangerous to go alone take this." He said Jaune grabbed the sword and strapped it to his hip.

"thank you sir." Said jaune giving ozpin a small smile. He was about to walk out the door again.

" your not going to say goodbye?" Asked ozpin jaune looked over his shoulder. Jaune looked down at the floor before he sighed heavily.

"...I want to...but they'd probably convince me to stay...or Nora would break my legs so I couldn't leave." He said sweating nervously as he mentioned what nora would do to him, earning a small chuckle from ozpin.

" indeed...why don't you at least leave a note." He suggested jaune nodded and scribbled a note on ozpin desk. After a few minutes he left. But not before he thanked the old man with a kind smile.

The next morning.

Pyrrha pov

Pyrrha woke up bright and early to start some early morning exercises she sat up on her bed and stretched her arms while yawning silently.

She looked around her dorm room to make sure she did t wake any of her teammates. Nora was sprawled out across her bed snoring loudly one leg hanging of the side of the bed and her left arm twitching slightly.

Ren was peaceful sleeping not even making a sound as he slept it was actually really eriy because ren slept so peacefully to the point that he could be mistaken as dead.

And finally her eyes drifted to her partners bed only to find it empty and made. Pyrrha stood up and walked over to the bathroom knocking first to make sure jaune wasn't using it before she walked in.

She was about to start brushing her teeth when she noticed that jaunes toothbrush was missing.

Pyrrha mind was now fully awake, jaune liked to be very organized with his stuff. Pyrrha opened the pantry and found that all of jaunes toiletries were missing. Pyrrha rushed out of the bathroom and walked over to his dresser she opened every single one only to find them all completely empty. She checked under his bed as well only to find nothing there but the dust outline of where he kept his suitcase and bags.

Pyrrha eyes widened as she looked around the room for any sign jaune had even been living at there dorm only to find nothing. Pyrrha immediately woke the rest of her team up

Nora and ren both started to look around the dorm and were just as worried as pyrrha.

They went over to team RWBY dorms to see if they knew where jaune was.

But none of them knew either.

After searching other areas of the school jaune could be they all had the same question in there mind.

'...Jaune...we're are you?'

Two years later.

It's been two years since jaune left. And one year since he was supposed to return. Ozpin was actually very worried about the young man especially after they found both his ripped, bloody chest piece and the blade he had given jaune when he left broken in a ruined village that had been overrun by Grimm there was dried blood everywhere and there was no way of identifying if jaune had fallen at that village or not. He feared that the worst had befallen the boy. But he was relieved when he received reports from Qrow about a wanderer that fit jaunes description.

The Wanderer, the white knight, the arc Angel, the savior. These were the titles given to this wanderer.

He went from village to village helping in anyway he could. He had apparently killed legions of Grimm alone and he was even noted to play moderator between human and faunus.

He was even able to undermine the white fang in the faunus eyes. Completely by exposing there true purpose they wanted to kill humans and to do this they needed a army. The white fang had been breeding a army. Literally breeding they kidnapped and dehumanized there own kind to act as nothing but breeders in small facilities. That report was incredibly sickening and cruel as of now the white fang were being hunted by there own race for such barbaric acts. The inflow of volunteers they had a few years prior had stopped completely.

The white knight had also saved a number of villages from destruction at the hands of Grimm. The problem was not even Qrow could track him down. It was like the knight was lost. Not surprising if it was indeed jaune that boy had zero sense of direction. Everywhere he showed up somewhere he wound up in a different area on the map. And he had even ended up in atlas, mistrial even vacuo a few times.

But thankfully Qrow had gotten a good lead on jaunes current whereabouts. Apparently the white knight had taken a bounty to capture a group of bandits. The bandits were apparently hiding north of a small village named arcadia. So if he sent a team over there before the white knight arrived then maybe they could get some answers from mister arc.

"sir team RWBY and NPR have arrived." Said glynda.

Team RWBY and NPR had changed a bit over the years.

Ruby had injured her right eye on a mission and now had a shallow scar matching her partner. Her choice of clothing hadn't changed much except that now the hood of her red cloak had some white whoop showed in and her crescent rose was modified to turn Into a sword as well. She had gotten taller reaching the same height as yang. And growing in the right places.

Yang still wore her usual attire but but she also added a cowboy hat. her weapons now guarded her entire arm when activated and housed a variety of different dust rounds. She was a few inches taller then ruby but she honestly still looked the same.

Blake had gotten taller as well by a few inches. She stopped wearing her bow this year and now wore a black kimono with a purple flower petals decorating her left shoulders with purple leggings. She had a scare on her cheek from when she met...him again.

Weiss had gotten taller. She no longer wore her heels in combat after she tripped during a mission. Instead she wore white combat boots with glyphs engraved in the soles to increase her speed.

Pyrha had gotten stronger and even more beautiful she grew out her hair allowing it to flow freely. She had more armor on her body but even then it left nothing to the imagination.

Nora and ren hadn't changed much except they now wore matching pink and black striped bracelets to let people know they were together-together. As Nora would call it.

They were all heavily affected by jaunes absence. Ruby and pryha blamed themselves thinking they had done something to push jaune away. Ruby and pryha both had a crush on the resident blond knight although ruby didn't realise this until he was gone. Jaune had written a note but all it said was that he needed to leave and that he was sorry.

Nora was crushed for a few days she was the first.

to realize jaune was gone. Jaune was like a nice older brother to Nora someone that she could rely on besides ren. He was always really nice to her when everyone else besides ren was hesitant to even approach her. when she read the note...she just stopped for a while she stopped being the happy Nora every one loved...that was until she started dating ren. Then she started to go back to normal.

Weiss at first was glad he left but after a few days she started to miss his attempts at flirting...And a few days turned into a few weeks, that turned into months and now years. And over time she found herself missing the awkward knight more then shed care to admit. She would never admit to anyone that she missed the blond oaf...but she would admit that she felt guilty. When she and Neptune had broken up he had shouted that only reason he danced with her was because jaune asked him to. When she heard that jaune was considerate enough to give her a chance at being happy with someone else...She felt guilty for not at least being more civil with the blond knight...especially since she fell for the wrong guy. Neptune was a player and was always flirting with girls it's one of the reasons that lead to there violent break up. Neptune had try'd to apologies to Weiss a few times but each time she brushed him off.

Blake was the least affected by his absence since she hardly interacted with even she missed him. It was very odd to her. When he left at first she had been mildly concerned but hadn't been completely shaken like everyone else. that was until he didn't come back. She did worry about jaune but she had assumed that he had settled down somewhere at a farm or a store heck maybe he became a teacher or doctor. She thought he would have given up and taken a safer career.

Yang was saddened that her fellow blond had left. She missed messing with jaune every now and then but he was the only one that had laughed at one of her jokes that alone bought him some points in her book. And after a while she found her self missing the dork of a knight. She missed hanging out with him, teasing him with her girls, and watching pyrha awkwardly trying t get closer to jaune. but that sadness was replaced with rage when her sister started crying.

Ren was also really mad at jaune when he read the note he lost his cool. Something no one had ever seen or wanted to see again. He went to the training ground and destroy any robot he could get his hands on. He felt betrayed in a since jaune was like a pillar for ren he was a constant source of some normality in his crazy school life. He enjoyed talking with jaune and even shared some secrets he hadn't even told Nora before. He though jaune and he were close considering jaune always came t him for counsel. He felt like his brother had abandon him. And it hurt.

After that he comforted Nora. The two of them starting to date soon after.

He, nora and yang were in the similar mindset when they found jaune they were going to hurt him then they would consider welcoming him back.

Team NPR refused to take any new leader. Going so far as to barricade there dorm for a two months when glynda tried to force the matter. Eventually ozpin interjected and assigned them to be a reinforcement team providing aid to different teams when required.

" you wanted to see us sir?" Asked ruby as she smiled. Ruby had gotten more mature and professional over the last two years. Team Rwby held the record for molest completed and successful missions.

" yes I have some good news for all of you we have a lead on mister arc." He said the two teams immediately perked up at that news.

" you will travel to arcadia look for a man named the white knight." He said Blake literally jumped.

"THE WHITE KNIGHT!" She shouted in a mixture of shock awe and joy.

" yes miss Belladonna now you will intercept him when he arrives or returns to the village. He may have more concrete evidence of jaunes whereabouts. if he does not show up within the next week return to beacon." He said the team leaders nodded in understanding they knew this was probably their most solid lead they had in months.

" now it will be a eight hour flight so I would suggest getting snacks if you want any." With that the teams quickly ran out of his office.

A few hours later in arcadia.

When they landed they all looked around the village. Arcadia wasn't a large village but it wasn't small either. Most of the buildings were made out of lumber and painted ren.

Pyrha was looking around the village when she bumped into something. She looked down to see a little girl wearing a blue hoodie. And on the floor was what left of a ice cream cone.

She heard sniffs coming from the little girl and

Pyrha immediately began to apologize to the little girl liked she always used to in her first year.

The little girl removed her hood to reveal dark brown hair and two small brown stripped cat ears. She looked up at pyrha a few tears threatening to fall.

" im so sorry I wasn't paying attention." Said pyrha the little faunus girl began to sniffle.

" my ice cream." She said her voice sounding completely destroyed. Pyrha felt like someone stabbed her on the heart.

" ill buy you another one I promise." Said pyrha

The little girl stoped sniffing.

"promise?" She asked tears threatening to break out.

"yes." She said

The girl smiled and wiped her eyes. She grabbed pryha by the hand and lead her to the ice cream parlor. Team rwby and the gang following.

" thank you." She said as she dug into her ice cream pryha felt so bad about what she accidentally did that she bought the girl a large bowl of ice cream.

" we're are your parents?" She asked

" my daddy is working right now...I don't have a mommy anymore." She said with sadness. Nora quickly acted though as she started to try and imittate a sloth getting the little girl to laugh.

" so what's your name?" Asked yang

" im Lilly it's nice to meet you." She said

"im yang that's pyrha and these are" yang began to introduce everyone.

"its nice to meet you." Said Lilly

"hey Lilly have you seen anyone called the white knight?"Asked ruby

" oh that's my daddy!" She said cheerfully.

" oh do you mind if we meet him?" Asked yang

Lilly nodded before she continued to eat her ice cream with a big smile on her face.

Lilly walked out of the parlor after finishing her ice cream. It was already night time so the gang decided to take Lilly back to the inn her father was staying at.

When they arrived at the inn they saw what remained of what looked like a fight and multiplayer or men beaten unconscious and tied up on the floor with a tall armoured figure in silver armor and a white cloak the man's helmet was white and had two small golden wings on the side of the helmet and strapped to his hip was a long sword he held a large shield (heathcliffs from sword art online) and was speaking to what was most likely the inn keeper.

" Daddy!" Cheered Lilly as she ran towards the white knight. The knight turned around and bent down on one knee and embraced the small girl.

" oh hello Lilly have you stayed out of trouble like I asked" He said in a muffled voice causing Lilly to giggle before she removed his helmet. Revealing a blond man with a long dark scar traveling down the left side of his face. He was sporting some blond stubble on his chin.

" What took you so long daddy?" Asked Lilly

"d-daddy!?" They all asked in shock.

" oh I was tracking these bad guys I found there base where a majority of there gang was having doing up. Then I followed their tracks here." He said not noticing anyone else in the room right now.

Pryha eyes widened at who she saw before anger flared through them as she reached for her spear.

" so sweety how was your day?" Said jaune arc not noticing the very familiar figures standing at the door.

Lilly was about to say something when her father was sent flying Into the wall by a red javelin.

Jaune looked at the javelin with a sense of dejavu. Until he recognized the weapon he hadn't seen in two long years. His head slowly turned towards the door.

His eyes locked with pyrha's before and then with the rest of his friends from beacon.

"...um...heeeeyyyyy guys...been a while huh hehe...ah...sooooo...im in trouble aren't I." He said awkwardly the only answer he received was the sound of weapons being loaded.

" ill take that as a yes." He said before Singh ng heavily

so lemme star by saying this was not my original idea I adopted this from another author masseffect-Txs. He put it up for adoption and I really liked the idea so I wanted to give it a try. I hope you guys enjoyed leave a review if you want to see more. This is not going to be my main focused on this sight but let me know if you guys want me to write more chapters of this. As always leave a review I hope you enjoyed.

~Later days

Wiseotaku