The Dance Of Love (RWBY/FATE)

{THIRD PERSON POV}

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{2 MONTHS TIME SKIP}

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"Jaune! I need some help over here!" One of Mr.Rock's friends/employee/sailor/people who work at Mr.Rock's ship call out to Jaune as he picked up some of them boxes.... Jaune doesn't know what exactly is thier Job titles because Mr.Rock never did tell Jaune about what is their exact Job on the ship.

Mr.Rock introduce them to Jaune a long time ago as friends that worked on his ship.... all Jaune know is that Mr.Rock is the ship's captain.

"I'll be there Mr.Andrew!" Jaune quickly put some of the boxes he himself carries (which is not that big nor heavy, he have to hide his Aura enhanced strength and act as if he is struggling... fortunately he have a lot of practice with acting weak because of his family...) and put them on the deck.

Jaune then quickly get off the ship's deck by walking down the ramp before he grab a couple of Boxes stacked on each other. "You guys got a good haul this time, Mr.Andrew! Who even buy this many stuff to vacuo anyway? Is it a merchant? I thought you guys usual supply line to vacuo wasn't this many... its usually a lot less.."

Andrew Shakes his head no while he walk up beside Jaune and carried his own share of boxes.

"Nah, kid. It's just supplies that's all... there's been a sandstorm or something a month ago so our government thought it would be good if we strengthen our relationship with vacuo by sending them a bunch of supplies." Andrew then hummed. "Not that I am complaining, our government did pay us a butt load of money just to transfer this stuff... and considering that it also helped with the normal economy then that's good too."

'Something hit Vacuo? I didn't know that... hopefully everyone there is fine.. but I would be there in a few days if everything goes well tonight... hopefully....' Jaune thinks to himself and he isn't wrong, at the latest he would arrive at vacuo in a few days considering that they are using a huge ship and not a bullhead.

Oh yeah, He also doesn't exactly know where the ship is going to dock at in vacuo, but from what he gathered (eavesdrop more accurately) from Mr.Rock's conversation with his sailor, it would be close to the academy.

Which is good.. the closer to the academy the ship docked then the better it is for Jaune considering that he doesn't have enough money to travel to the academy if they docked at the other side of vacuo...

They then reach the deck and both Andrew and Jaune put the boxes on the deck's floor.

Andrew clap his hands and look at Jaune. "Well kid, why don't you go back home and rest.. you've been helping us the entire day, don't want Rock to scold me for taking advantage of your kindness, kid."

"It's alright Mr.Andrew! It's just a few more boxes left!" Jaune motion to the dock which only a couple of more boxes still hadn't been carried to the ship, the other sailors is busy preparing the ship for their Journey tomorrow Morning so the duty of Carrying the last batch of Boxes fell unto Andrew's and of his friends shoulders but sadly... one of his friend sprained his ankle cause he slipped on the ramp.... fortunately Jaune was there so he can help put the boxes inside.

Andrew felt bad for asking a 12 year old with the boxes.. that's why he made sure to ask Jaune to only carry the boxes without that much weight.. which is pretty much all of the boxes that they both had carried considering that the heavy crates/boxes had been stocked inside the ship since yesterday by a forklift.

"If you say so kid... why don't you carry those boxes here while I go put this boxes down in the storage?" Andrew offered Jaune.

Jaune shakes his head no because he had made a small enough space in the ship's storage by arranging the crates and boxes in a particular way, but it's still isn't complete yet! He only need a couple more boxes to Hide the space by making it act as a makeshift door.

"No worry Mr.Andrew! I'll put the boxes in storage and you can carry the boxes here! You are going to sail away right? I don't want you to get too tired! And if I'm tired I'll tell you!" Jaune really hope that he manage to convince Andrew to do this.. because if he didn't then it's game Over.. Andrew would find out Jaune's little hiding place!

After a few tense second (for Jaune That is.) Andrew let out a sigh and nodded. "Okay kid... but don't tell Rock about this.. I don't want to get beat up by him... that man has more muscle then brain sometimes." He shakes his head and go down the ramp to carry the boxes.

Jaune managed to stop himself from punching the air in victory by picking up a stack of boxes and carefully get inside the ship and into the storage space.

It took him a while to navigate through the crates and boxes before he reached his hiding place.

Basically made a 1.5 meter by 1.5 meter room by arranging the crates just enough to not arouse suspicion, all he need to do is put a stack of boxes on the entrance and that's it.. the entrance isn't that big anyway, he need time go sideways and slip into the crack....

Is it the best place to hide? No... can he sleep comfortably? No.. he would need to curl Into a ball to sleep comfortably.. and even then it would still be a tight fit considering that he is going to bring his bag for supply and also his weapons..

He found out that Dad had stored Grandpa's John sword "croeca mors" alongside its shield/sheath mechashift weapon? Yeah weapon.. it could be considered a weapon because you could bash some grimm's skull with it.. well anyway, Jaune found it in the attic.. he planned to sneak into the attic late at night and quickly grab it... Jaune can only hope that it all would turn out well... Mordred is going to help him too, anyway...

After Jaune quickly put the boxes and stack them at just the right place, his hiding space is completely hidden now...

"Okay.. just get back up on the deck and finish putting the boxes away.. after that... I... I'll go home... this is it..."

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{THIRD PERSON POV}

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'ok... now where the fuck is Jaune?' Morded thinks to herself as she sits on her chair while the rest of the family is preparing their plates for dinner.

'Is something holding him up back at the docks? Shit, did Rock or his crew found out about Jaune little hidey hole? Shit!' Mordred is full on panic mode because shit.. if Jaune really get caught that it's over.. over for Jaune..

"Mordred..."

'Do I need to go to the docks and get Jaune? If I go there fast enough I could snatch Jaune away and we can hide at our spot for a couple of days before I can bring him on a runaway trip to vacuo myself! It would be a fuckton harder especially if there is a manhunt for us but I don't fucking care! I would get Jaune to Vacuo myself! He don't fucking need Rock's Ship to get there!' Mordred starts to think about how would she get Jaune to vacuo because there's no way in hell that she would let Jaune dream of becoming a hunter to stop just because he got caught by a group of fucking sailors... fuck them..

"Mordred...." a voice called out to her again but she is too into her planning to hear the voice calling out to her.

'If we go by land.. it would take a long while.... I don't exactly have a map nor do I memorize the map, but Jaune probably already have a plan either way for it... maybe it would take us almost a month if we include the time that we would get lost cause fuck me.. we would certainly get lost..' She then nodded to herself.

"Mordred..." the voice let out a sigh. "She's doing it again isn't she?"

"Yeah she is doing it again... but I didn't know that she could do it without Jaune here... that's new.." another voice chime in.

'And that if we go by foot... bullhead would be the best but shit... how the fuck are we supposed to steal a bullhead? Not that I won't cause please.. the great Mordred Arc could steal any bullhead she pleases... but a bullhead would be easy to track, I don't fucking know...' Mordred then put a fist under her chin and rest her head there. 'And driving a bullhead isn't that hard anyway.. just grab the wheel and drive it like the video games... but I think it would be for the best if I leave that up to Jaune... he probably would learn how to drive it faster than me.'

"....here... let me get her attention." The voice told the others before a hand reaches out and grab Mordred Shoulder which instantly snapped her out of her thoughts and slapped the hand off her shoulder and activate her Semblance on instinct because she thought that she was going to get attacked.

But when she looked at the whose hand it belongs too.. it turns out to be mile's.

"Don't fucking touch me..." Mordred glared at her father before she deactivate her Semblance off her body.

"Sorry... but the other was trying to get your attention and you were not answering them." Miles explained to Mordred which made her raised her eyebrows in suprise.

'Really?' She thinks to herself because she is sure that if somebody call out to her, she would know.

"Well who was it anyway?" Mordred asked and look around the table before she stopped as Saphron coughed into her fist.

"Well I was the one calling you, Mordred... but you were stuck inside your mind." Saphron then let out a soft Chuckle. "You're usually only like that if Jaune is around... so what we're you thinking about?"

'Shit.. ain't no way that I'm like that....' Mordred thinks to herself but she didn't plan to say it outlook because she knew that if she did... well her sisters would use it as ammunition to tease her.

Mordred then lean back on her seat and relax. "So what do you want?" She asked Saphron.

"Well I wanted to ask if you know where Jaune is..." Saphron told Mordred which only made Mordred look at Saphron weirdly.

"And how the fuck would I know where he is?" Mordred frowned her eyebrows at Saphron. "Do I look like I would always know where the fuck he is?"

"Yeah." Saphron answered Mordred

Jeanne then chime in before Mordred can reply to Saphron "Well... you are always with him....."

"Yeah! You and Jaune are like twin! Like me and Blancheur! Isn't that right Blancheur!?" Noir used her elbow to nudge Blancheur who nodded in agreement.

"You know Mordred... sometimes I felt that you're more like Jaune's Mother than I am with how much you cared about him.." Her mother also decided to chime in with a soft smile on her face. "So Mordred.. you do know where Jaune is right?"

Mordred wanted to retort about how would she know where Jaune is or deny it but... she can't exactly deny it considering that she do know where Jaune is.. well where is supposed to be in.. which is on the docks.. hopefully he is just late cause there are more shit to store rather than he getting caught...

"Well... yeah I know where he is..." Mordred let our a sigh of defeat. "Fuck off....."

"So, where he is then? We are waiting for him before we can start dinner..." Saphron asked Mordred once again.

"He's at the dock's helping Rock carry some supplies.." Mordred answered her, should she answer that truthfully? They could put two and two together when Jaune is missing.. but she knows that Jaune would answered honestly about the fact that he was at the docks, and its not like it's a secret to whoever seen Jaune in the docks helping around.. so yeah.. she thinks that its safe to tell them this shit..

"Oh... that's good then..." Saphron then nodded to herself. "He'll probably come home soon..."

A few minutes had passed and Mordred once again is stuck inside her mind making Saphron chuckled.

"She's at it again...." Jeanne told her mother.

Luna nodded. "Yeah.... she must be thinking something important then, cause this is unusual... Jaune's not here and she's like this.."

Noir then stand perked up on her seat with a mischievous smile of my face. "Blancheur! Look at this!" She then take a deep breath before she shouted "Mordred!!!!!!!!!!"

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To the shock of the others, Mordred is still stuck inside her mind completely unbothered by Noir high pitched shout...

"Damn...." Saphron couldn't help but say to herself..

After that whole fiasco, they continue talked to themselves for a few minutes waiting for Jaune to come home and when he did, he nodded to them as a greeting and sit next to Mordred as usual and put a hand on her shoulder. "Mordred."

Mordred instantly look at Jaune and nodded at Him. "Jaune... what took you so long?"

Jaune hummed and prepare his own plate of food considering that Mordred's already prepare his plates before he came here. "Mrs.Nina needed some help with the pipes.. so I had to go to her house and quickly fixed it..."

"What? You're a plumber now?" Mordred shakes her head and let out a chuckle.

The others look at Mordred in suprise because how the fuck did Jaune managed to get her attention that easily... and when Miles put a hand on Mordred's shoulder, she instantly activated her Semblance... but not Jaune...

Jeanne was about to ask Jaune something but she stopped herself because she knows that it's a foolish endeavor considering that Jaune and Mordred is already stuck in their own world with how they talk to each other.

Saphron put a hand on Jeanne's shoulder and give her a soft smile. "Hey.. ask Jaune later... you know how those two are..."

"Yeah... I guess so..."

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{THIRD PERSON POV}

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"Okay, you already prepared all of your shit, Jaune?" Mordred asked Jaune as soon as she close the door to his room.

"Yeah... I did..." Jaune reached under his bed and pull out his bag that is filled with clothes, emergency ration calorie bars (which Mordred Bought from the town with the excuse of she wanting to buy it cause she want go go camping), a few stuff here and there his personal hygiene and most importanly a couple months worth of liens that Jaune had saved up and also from Mordred's savings too....

Mordred then stay silent before she sit of his bed. "Jaune... I really think that you should bring either my scroll or your scroll just in case..."

Jaune look at her join her on the bed. "Mordred.. we talked about this before....."

"I know... but still Jaune.. just for emergency..." Mordred Tried to convince Jaune even further but when she looks at Jaune face, she sigh in defeat.

"You know why I can't.... if I do bring either of our scroll... dad could easily track it with his connection with Headmaster Ozpin... and even if I bring your scroll, it would only give me at most 5 days worth of time before the other realize that you're using my scroll and dad decided to track down your scroll.."

"....but.. what if... what if I want to talk to you?...." Mordred asked Jaune softly because she really do want to talk to him... she doesn't want to have 0 communication from him for God knows how long....

Jaune look at her before he tell her something that absolutely break her heart into pieces.

"Mordred... just say the word and I'll scrap my whole plan to runaway to vacuo...." Jaune looked away from her. "Just tell me to stay and I'll stay...."

Does she want him to stay? Yes... yes she does.. she doesn't want to live without Jaune.. she doesn't want Jaune to leave her to fucking Vacuo of all places and not being able to see him for years!

But... but would she ask him to stay and destroy his dream? Fuck no... she won't... she's not like her father... she would rather jump of a cliff than force Jaune to stay...

Her eyes starts to water but she quickly blink her tears away and hugged Jaune.. "Jaune.. God fuck I want you to stay with me Jaune.. I want to... but I won't.. I also want you to he a hunter Jaune..."

She can feel Jaune begin to shake in her hold and she hold him even tighter to her body. "So no... I won't ask you to stay... but please Jaune.. don't ever forget about me! Please!"

She then feel Jaune's arm start to wrap around her as he return her hug. "I won't even forgot about You Mordred, and when I finally got into Shade, I'll use the cct tower and call you okay?"

Mordred nodded. "Okay I'll believe you...."

After a few moments, Mordred tighten her hold on Jaune. "Jaune... can we cuddle for a while?..... please..."

Jaune nodded and they then lay down on the bed and start to cuddle for what would be the last chance they could before they would separate for years to come..

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It has been close to 5 hours after dinner before Jaune and Mordred wake up from their cuddle session.

"What time is it?" Mordred asked Jaune which prompt him to look at his bedside clock and read the time.

"It's 12:30 in the night now... the others are probably asleep." Jaune tell Mordred before he get off the bed and out on his shoes.

"You're about to get Grandpa John's sword?" Mordred asked Jaune as she grab his bag and sling it over her shoulder.

"Yeah... I need a weapon to fight the grimm's and we did checked a week ago to confirmed that Grandpa John's sword and sheath is in the attic." Jaune then go to his door.

"True.. true..." Mordred then open the window and perch on it. "I'll wait for you outside... you'll know where to find me."

Jaune nodded and he sees Mordred Jumped off the window and land silently.

"Okay Jaune.. here goes nothing..." Jaune psyche himself up before he sneak out of his own room into the hallway before he stop and used low level reinforcement on his ears and eardrum to listen closely and check if anyone is awake or not.

He can hear the soft snore of all of his siblings and his parents too.. but he also heard the sound of Pen gliding on paper which could only meant that Saphron is still awake.

That is bad... but Jaune can work with this... All he need to do is make as little noise as he can and not alert Saphron.

He then look at the ceiling and see the pull for the Attic's ceiling ladder and he then jump as silently as he can and pull it down.

Thankfully the ladder is a simple wooden folding ladder rather than the more modern metal folding ladder which would make too much sound especially at night.

Jaune then climbed up the ladder as silently as he can he slowly and surely pull the ladder and ceiling door close.

"...." Jaune stays silent and used reinforcement on his ears again to check if Saphron notice anything or not but thankfully it looks like Saphron is still writing without being alerted by the noise of the ladders.

"Good..." Jaune then walk to the pile of boxes in the attic before he slowly push the boxes to the side until he finally reach where his father stored Crocea Mors on a metal case.

Jaune grab the case and open it before he grabbed the family's heirloom...

Crocea Mors... the family's heirloom that is passed down from Arc to Arc.. from Father to Son... for generations, Crocea Mors had been passed down from the patriach to his heir until Miles stopped it by not accepting Crocea Mors when his father offered it to him... Miles reasoning was that Crocea Mors isn't suited for him because he is more comfortable with a greatsword rather than a Bastard sword.. and also the fact that his own father still used it as his main weapon.

Jaune pull Crocea Mors out of its mechashift sheath and start to examine it. "Its.... its perfect for my current size.. but I think I would need to upgrade the blade when I'm older..."

The blade is the usual size of a bastard sword and currently when Jaune holds it it feels much longer and bigger than a bastard sword considering that Jaune is only 12 years old and not an adult.. but when Jaune grows older, the sword will not be long enough for Jaune liking and need to be upgrade to make it slightly longer than a long sword..

Jaune then grab the sheath and see a belt for his arm to go through, and so he did, he equip the sheath on his arm.

"So... how do I turn this into a shield? I know it can turn into one.." Jaune ponder to himself before he shake the shield quickly and it unfurled into a kite shield.

"Oh... that... that's stupid... what if I accidentally shake it and it unfurled while on my waist?" Jaune look at the shield a little bit disappointed before he shakes it again and it turn back into a sheath. "It does need a little force to shake it activate the mechashift sequence... but still.. its dangerous.."

Jaune then then put the sheath on his waist by slipping it in between his belt before he sheath his sword... the sheath is pretty heavy even without the sword inside of it, but Jaune decided to just get used to the weight because he will use this weapon for the next few years.

"That should be good enough if I need to pull out the shield quickly.. but I don't think I'll use the shield function... I never used a shield before..." Jaune talks to himself before he walk to the attic's window and open the latch. "Well I guess I'll learn how to use a shield too I guess.... would be a waste to not know how to use it."

He then jumped off the window and land as silently as he can on the ground before he walk to where Mordred was... which is behind a tree about 200 meters down the road to the town.

"Took you long enough..." Mordred smirked and walk up to Jaune. "That look good on you..." she complimented Jaune before they walk side by side to the town.

"Thank you..." Jaune then offer his hand to Mordred so she can give him his bag back but Mordred shakes her head.

"No... let me just... carry this for you Jaune...." she then walk a bit faster which forced Jaune to catch up to her. "....please..."

Jaune look at her before he nodded. "Okay...."

The walk to the town was silent to say the least, Jaune have so much thing he wanted to talk about with Mordred but not enough time for it..

While Mordred stayed silent because she doesn"/ know if the next word that comes out of her mouth would be her sobbing or her crying... so she decided to be quiet as to not burden Jaune with more emotional baggage.

After a few minute of sneaking around the town through the alleys and what not, they finally arrived at the dock where the ship is.

"This is it then Jaune..." Mordred give the bag to Jaune which Jaune accepted and put it on.

"Yeah...." Jaune then look at Mordred and see her closing her eyes.

"The first step to becoming... a... a hunter..." Mordred's mouth trembled as she is holding herself back from crying.

"Yes....."

"And... and..." Mordred Tried to speak but the words won't come out of her mouth as tears starts to streams down her face.

"Mordred..." Jaune called out to her and hug her ad tight as he can.

"Fuck him Jaune.... f-f-fuck him... if.. of he didn't stopped you... you wouldn't need to do this...." Mordred starts to cry onto Jaune's shoulder as she hug him back

"I know...."

"Please Jaune... take care of yourself..." She pull Jaune closer to her as if she want to engulf him with her hug.

"I will..." Jaune replied to her as he pat her back trying to calm her down.

"And.. and... and Jaune.. I'll safe a spot for you okay? After I graduate, I'll work hard and rent an apartment for us two, and after you graduate, you can join me okay? We'll be the dream team! The best duo remnant had ever seen!" She hug Jaune even tighter and she can feel that Jaune had also start to cry too from the wet spot she can feel on her shirt.

They continue to be in each other embrace for the next 10 minutes or so on the docks before they pull away.

After wiping away the tears from their face, Mordred look at Jaune and kissed his forehead. "Stay safe okay Jaune? And kick everyone asses there... I expect no less from you."

Jaune chuckled and nodded. "I will, Mordred... I will... did you forgot that I'm the little brother of the great Mordred Arc?"

Mordred chuckled and ruffled his hair.

After a few moments, Jaune then walk closer to the ship stop before he look back at Mordred.

"See you later, Mordred..."

"See you later, Jaune.."

Jaune then used reinforcement on his legs before he jumped onto the ship's deck and when he landed, he quickly go to the railings and speak loud enough for Mordred to hear.

"I love you!"

"I love you too!" Jaune can see that Mordred starts to cry again, and before he can't handle it anymore, Jaune quickly enter the ship and go down to the storage space and walk until he reach his hidey hole even though his mind keep replaying the image of Mordred crying.

"Jaune.. this is it.. this is how you'll achieve your dream..." Jaune then push the boxes away before he take off his bag and slipped it through the entrance.

After the bag entered his hiding space, Jaune partially enter the entrance and slowly pull the boxes back in place to hide the entrance and after he finished doing that, he get inside his hiding space and sit down hugging his knees.

Jaune doesn't know how he would survive without the presence of his family...

He doesn't know if he would survive without Mordred being by his side everyday..

But he must push through... he is Jaune Arc.. the Brother of the great Mordred Arc and he will become a hunter!

No matter what.

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[AN: well.. this is the rewrite.. I only leave the kept the first scene from before the rewrite, but other than that? It's a complete rewrite... its.. its up to my standards again.. so I would like to apologize for the previous version of this chapter! I am sorry for putting you guys through that! By the way, this chapter is my longest chapter yet at 4.7k words.. the closest to 5k words.. only beating the previous personal best by about 100-50 words! Thank you for reading my story!!!! And sorry for the week long hiatus, if you had read the PUBLIC AND FREE news on my patreon, i wrote about how i fell down and spraid my right hand.. i thought it would only take a day or two before i can write again.. but it turns out that the injury is worse that i thought.. but i'm okay now!]