Chapter 02 : Stolen Knight.

As time passed, Weiss was proven that her first impression of Jaune was correct. Jaune, as big of a goof he is, only wanted to be her friend and she was thankful that she had given him the opportunity to do just that. Now after five years had passed since the two first met, Weiss had become rather fond with the blonde, she had even taken her own time to help with his studies… unfortunately Jaune have the special ability to immediately knock himself out the moment the two began studying like what he's doing right now.

"Oh for the love of Oum! Jaune, wake up! You need to focus on your studies if you ever want to replace your mother someday!" She said after pouring a glass of cold water on his head.

Glaring at the girl, Jaune went to his closet to change his now soaked hoodie. "Damn it, Weiss. I've already told you about this, Lyra is the one who'll replace mom not me."

Weiss immediately looked the other way when Jaune pulled off his hoodie. "And she'd already told me that she'll decline it and that made you the one who'll inherit your mother's position or do you want the triples to be the one to replace your mother instead?" She sighed when she sees that instead of rejoining her, Jaune instead choose to lay down on his bed with his eyes covered using his right hand while mumbling something low enough that Weiss couldn't heard it.

Seeing this, Weiss moved from her spot and sit down next to Jaune then gently stroke his hair. "What's wrong Jaune?" She asked.

"I wanted to become a huntsman, you know? Just like my dad and grandpa or my ancestors." He said. "To go out to the world and protect people with my own two hands, not sit down behind a desk or listening on boring meetings."

"Jaune you can still do that even if you're just sitting down behind a desk, you can send huntsman and huntress to villages or cities in need of protection. If you're the head of your family's company you could protect more people with the help of the huntsman and huntress under your command than doing it on your own, Jaune." She said. "Surely you want that right? Protecting as many people as you possibly could."

Jaune slowly uncovered his eyes and letting his sapphire orbs to gaze upon Weiss's light-blue orbs. "I-I guess… when you put it that way, i could protect more people…BUT! I would still have to attend those boring meetings and i would REALLY appreciate it if i don't have to do that." He said with eyes full of hope.

Weiss simply giggled at her friend's antics. "We all have to make sacrifice in our life Jaune, i guess going on those meetings will be yours to make in the future." She said.

Jaune immediately sit up and now was face to face with Weiss. "Then i want you to work for me." He said while pointing a finger at her then to himself. "I'll make you my right hand man-er… i mean right hand woman, then i'll make you the one who'll go to the meetings in my place!"

A vein popped on Weiss's forehead thanks to what Jaune just said. "Jaune, must i remind you that i am the Heiress of the Schnee Dust Company and such i won't be working for your company. If anything it would be you who works for me."

"Nope, you said that you wanted to become a huntress right? After you graduate and get your huntress license, i'll make you an offer you can't refuse. Well what do you think?" He asked with a smug grin on his face.

"You would have to make me an incredible offer if you want me to become your employee, Jaune."

Jaune went to grabbed both of Weiss's hands and in doing so caught the girl off guard by his sudden action. "Easy, i'll just make you the co-owner of the company along with me, that way we'll work as a team instead of one working for the other."

"What about your family? Won't they mind if you made me a co-owner?" She asked.

Jaune simply smiled at her. "My family loved you Weiss and like what my grandpa said, you're already an honorary Arc."

Weiss didn't quite understand why being called an honorary Arc made her feel happier than before, she tried to think of a reason as to why she felt that way but unfortunately the answers always seems to eludes her. Putting that particular question on the back of her mind, Weiss chose to gaze upon Jaune's sapphire eyes as another question popped into her mind. "Had Jaune's eyes always looked so radiant before?" She asked to herself as a small blush appeared on her cheeks.

Seeing his friend went completely quiet made Jaune a little bit worried, his mind started to raced on the thought of her hating the very idea of the two of them working on his family's company that much. Having enough of the awkward silence that appeared between them, Jaune decided to call out to the girl. "H-hey Weiss, if you're not okay with the idea you could always say no, you know?" He said, waving his right arm in front of her face.

Weiss blinks after finally noticing Jaune calling out to her and she swatted his hand away as she realized how close it was with her face. "I'm sorry about that Jaune, i was lost in thought all alone. You were saying?"

"Err… if you don't want to work with me in my family's company you can just say no…"

Weiss rolled her eyes as she saw how sad Jaune looked. "I'm not entirely against the idea of working with you in the future Jaune but for now let's just focus on the present." She said before dragging Jaune back to his study.

As the two continue their activity, one of Jaune older sister was peeking through a crack at the door with a smile on her face. "Oh Jaune, if you play your cards right, Weiss might just be an official Arc in the future." She thought before carefully closing the door and leaving the two alone.

A month went by, as Weiss keeps visiting Jaune to help with his studies until one day she had to cancel her visit due to her father had arranged her to spend a day with one of the son of his business partner. So in her absence, Jaune decided to practice his swordsmanship in the nearby forest, completely oblivious to the two pair of eyes following his every move.

(White Fang hideout, a couple of weeks before)

In one of the dimly lit room stood five figures, two of them was a bald male snake faunus, one was a white haired female deer faunus, one was a blonde male dog faunus, and the last one was a red haired male faunus with a white mask.

"Brothers and sister, it's good that we are able to meet once more." Said the dog faunus. "Though, i would've preferred it under a much better circumstances than this." He said bitterly.

The female deer faunus smirked and she decided to taunt the dog faunus. "Leave it to a dog to fail on his simple task, guess you can't teach old dogs new tricks huh?" She said and her smirk only grew wider when she sees the dog faunus glaring at her.

"WHAT DID YOU JUST CALLED ME?!" He shouted while gritting his teeth.

"And looks like your hearing are going south as well." She said. "Pity really, but guess that what age does to you old man." She said as her hands went to her weapons seeing as the dog faunus was reaching for his own weapon.

"You ungrateful wench! Remember who took you off the streets and trained you!" He said with his sword fully unsheathed.

The deer faunus simply rolled her eyes at him. "Oh i do remember and i'm grateful for what you've did but it's high time you retired old man, let us newer generation to do all the work more efficiently than you could ever do." She taunted and she was ready for him leap at her but thankfully the two snake faunus moved in preventing him from doing just that.

"Now now, brother Mardock, you mustn't attack sister Bianca for what she'd spoken" Said one of the snake faunus.

"Yes yes, she's simply frustrated since she had also failed on her mission." Said the other snake faunus. "Now, if both you would kindly put our weapons away so we can continue with this meeting, shall we?"

Seeing the two faunus put their weapons away, the other snake faunus spoke up again. "As you may have known, ever since the SDC and the AWA have made an alliance with one of another, our successful raids have gone down and the numbers of our fallen brothers and sisters have increased ever since they introduced their Arc droids." He signed, remembering all of his dead brothers and sisters. "And that's where brother Adam's lieutenants comes to play." He said gesturing to the bull faunus who was silent from the start.

"Thank you, brother Gabriel." He said as walked closer to the four faunus. "Now, as you all know, the Arcs live in a large patch of land near mountain Glenn. The forests inside their lands are patrolled by either their Arc troopers or their droids and there are surveillance cameras littered in the forests as well." Adam said. "And if we're planning to infiltrate their land it would require a lot of preparations, thankfully one of my lieutenants have already scouted the area and found a hole in their security." He said before pulling out a map and laying it on the table. "In the most north east part of the forest there is a small window where no droids or troopers will be patrolling there for a few minutes a day." He said and before Adam was able to continue, Mardock interrupted him.

"Hold on a second there Taurus, where are you going with this? Are you actually saying that we're going to attack the Arcs? I don't know about you but i'm NOT sending my men to their death that easy." He said.

"As much i hate to agree with the old man but he's right, i may hate the Arcs as much as i hate Schnees but going to their base could result in heavy loses for our side." Said Bianca while glaring at the bull faunus.

Before air around the three faunus turned hostile, the other snake faunus stepped in. "Now now, let brother Adam finish his explanation before jumping to conclusion."

Adam nodded at the snake faunus before resuming his explanation. "We aren't going to attack the Arcs but instead what we're after is one of them, mainly the one of the Arc's offspring." He said. "My lieutenants have managed to figure out that out of the seven of them, one frequently trained on this location alone." He said, pointing at a patch of land near a small pond. "We'll send a small team to retrieve the target and after they obtain him, we'll have a disguised merchant kart to retrieve them and the target. Once we have one of them under our control we'll send them a message."

"Hmm… a simple plan but sometimes the most simple plan can be unpredicted by the enemy." Said Mardock as he look up from the map towards Adam. "Very well then, you have my support Taurus." He then shifted his eyes towards Bianca seeing that she was still studying the map. "How about you Bianca? Got anything to say?"

The deer faunus looked trouble for a moment before sighing and looked up towards the other faunus in the room. "It's risky is what i think this plan of yours, if this fail we might be on the receiving end of a very angry beast. You must know how dangerous the Arcs are before, thousands of us died to them during the war and now that they have their own personal army, they could easily wipe out the White Fang branch here." She said. "But, if kidnapping a kid could lead to more successful raid on the SDC then i'll support you as well Adam. I'll have my men disguised as the merchants and stationed them at the randevu point with the carts, but who'll be the one to retrieve the target?"

"My lieutenants who scouted the area will be the one who'll take the job and you don't have to worry, they will not fail this mission." He said confidently.

"Very well then, looks like this meeting is over for now. We'll discuss the mission later, as for right now we must report back to High-Leader Sienna Khan first." Said Gabriel before leading the other four faunus out of the room.

(White Fang hideout, rooftop)

A female figure was standing alone while gazing towards the shattered moon above her. "Adam, you can come out now." She called out. "I can still feel your aura radiating from where you're hiding."

The bull faunus emerges from his hiding spot with a smile on his face. "As perceptive as ever Blake." He said. "I'm guessing Ilia already told you about your next assignment?" He asked as he sees the sadden expression.

"Adam… what you're suggesting isn't something that the White Fang should stand for, i can understand what happened at Vacuo since they were collateral damages but now we're going to kidnap someone who's innocent." Blake said as she looked away from Adam.

Adam moved his hand to Blake's chin and turned her face towards his. "Blake… I know what we're going to do is wrong but please remember that this is for the betterment for all faunus on Remnant." He said. "And he is hardly innocent since the day he was born, his hands is already stained by the blood of our kind."

Blake couldn't find the words to rebuke him as she stared at his sapphire eyes. "Adam, i-" She wanted to say something more but was unable to, since her lips was captures by Adam's in a heated kiss.

Releasing Blake's lips, Adam could see that the girl had a blush on her cheeks. "I-I'm sorry Blake, i-i didn't know what came over me." He apologized while trying to control his breathing.

"It-it's alright Adam." She said as she took a step back from her friend. "J-just warn me next time, alright?"

Adam nodded at her request but was happy that she mention about a next time. "About the mission, are you willing to do it or should i go instead?" He asked.

"I'll go but promise me that we won't do anything drastic to him."

"You have my word Blake." He said as he cupped her left cheek with one of his hand. "Thank you Blake, it's good to know that i still got you."

(Present day, North-east forest of the Arc's land)

"Are you ready Blake?" Asked Ilia before wearing her mask..

"As ready as i'll ever be." Blake answered her and she too puts on her mask.

So i'm changing the age of the cast, as of this chapter this is their current age :

Adam Taurus – 15 years old.

Blake Belladonna – 13 years old.

Weiss Schnee – 13 years old.

Jaune Arc – 13 years old.

Hope you all enjoy this chapter.

See you next time.