{THIRD PERSON POV}
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Holy shit.. that was awesome!
That is the thought that is running through Hans mind because he is completely awestruck at Jaune's ability.
The way Jaune effortlessly deflect the deathstalkers stinger to the way he latched onto the deathstalker's stinger and let it pulled him so he can cut it in two.
'Who the fuck does that!?'' He think to himself as he walk behind Jaune and let him led the way. 'Why would Greta asked John to take it easy on us still doesn't make sense.. shouldn't training be hard?'
He glance at greta before he shakes his head. 'If John trained us in the way he was trained, we could be as strong as him... later when we got some alone time.. i'll asked him to train me harder.'
Hans clenched his fist and close his eyes. 'I would rather kill myself if i am in that situation again... i would not be a victim.. i can't be a victim... i must be strong.. no matter what fucking training i need to be strong.. i will do it.' He then unclench his fist and look at the back of Jaune.
'He is strong... and i will be as strong as him.... no... i will be stronger.. no matter what, i will refuse to be weak ever again..' a dark determination had ignited inside his eyes. 'I will kill anyone who would hurt anyone i call my friends..'
Hans jolted when a hand falls on his shoulder.
"Hans, you good?" Greta voice reverberate in his ears.
"Yeah... i'm good." Hans then take a deep breath before he give Greta a big smile. "I was just think of how cool John is you know? He moved all over the place so fast! The nightstalkers don't stand a chance!"
Greta look at him for a few second more as if she is trying to read him before she shake her head and give him a small smile. "Yeah... he was pretty cool.."
"Speaking of cool.." Hans look at Jaune before he jogged up to him and pat his shoulder. "How can you move that fast?"
Jaune raised an eyebrow at him. 'Does he not know about Aura?'
".... it is Aura.. i thought you guys knew about it.. considering that you guys also knows about hunter." Jaune scratched the back of his head feeling slightly confused.
"Well.. we thought that hunter become that strong because they train or some shit." Hans let out a laugh. "Don't know that they got this Aura bullshit. The fuck does Aura do?" He asked Jaune and Greta walk slightly faster to get to Jaune's other side.
"Yeah, what is Aura and what can it do?" Greta aksed Jaune.
Jaune tilt his head and let out a hummed as he continue to walk. "Aura is the manifestation of the soul, it what made a hunter.. a hunter.. without Aura, a hunter couldn't fight grimms in equal footing."
Jaune then glance at Greta first and sees her nodding along and it looks like she understand what he is saying before he turned to Hans and see him looking at him.
He got no problem with it except for the fact that he looked like he doesn't have a single thought on his brains, the light is on but nobody is home type beat.
"Let me explain it further, Aura basically makes you faster,stronger,more durable and can act as a shield for your body whenever you get hit." He told them and it looks like Hans finally get ehat he is saying. "My sister once told me in video games term, Aura is a buff in all stats except for the brains."
"So.. all i need is Aura and i can as strong as you?" Hans asked him and Jaune answered with a shake of his head.
"No, there are more to being a hunter than just Aura." Jaune look at Hans before he look infront of him and taking a deep breath.
'If having Aura makes me a hunter.. i wouldn't need to run away to Vacuo to join shade academy.' Jaune thinks to himself.
"There are many reason why we are going to Shade academy.. the biggest of them is studying how to be a proper hunter there." He explained to Hans.
"But you're strong, John.. you killed the nightstalker when a couple of hunters that tried to kill it had.. been missing." Greta chimed in and look at Jaune as if she didn't believe that he isn't a hunter already.
"Well, i may be strong.. but there is a lot of things i don't know about being a hunter, and thats why i am planning to join Shade." Jaune then let out a hummed. "By the way.. i forgot to asked you two this but.. what do you meant by nightstalker? Its a deathstalker, its the name of the grimm species."
Hans decided to answer first. "We called it the nightstalker because its has been killing people mysteriously for the past decades! The normal people in khaleed that tried to kill it had gone missing, the hunters that the people managdd to hire after saving up enough money also had gone missing with only some of their scraps of clothing being found."
Greta nodded in agreement. "Yeah, thats why the people of Khaleed called it the nighstalker, because it hunts in the night and stalked people."
'That is... logical i guess.. if a creature had been terrorizing a place for decades, they would have its pwn name given by the terrified people.' Jaune think to himself and sigh. 'Thankfully back in Orleans, theres not grimm that have that much notoriety because every time there are grimms sighting, the local hunter quickly assembled a team to hunt it down.'
He then look at his front and still see only sand for god knows how long. 'The people here.. there are not that lucky to have hunters hunting grimms without any payment needed...'
'Disgusting.' Jaune's eyes widen his eyes in shocked because he hear it again! That voice! Who is talking!?
Jaune discreetly look at Hans and Greta and see them acting normal and it only make Jaune more confused because can't they hear that voice?
Or.. is the voice inside his own head? Jaune refused to believe that.. he isn't crazy... he is mentally healthy and well..
Jaune held the urge to sigh as to not alert Hans and Greta who is walking at both of his sides.
'What is wrong with me.. i feel like a different person.. maybe its the stress taking a toll on my mind.. i wouldn't be surprised.' Jaune look at the sands underneath his feet and starts to think again. 'Its been like this since after i... i killed those two men.. no more beating around the bush. I killed those two men.. no matter how much i tried to reason with myself by thinking that they'll survive and be brain damage.. without any immediate medical treatment, they'll die... i killed two people.. they were rapist but i still killed them... fuck...'
As if they can feel Jaune's brain spiralling, Hans and Greta looked at each other before Hans nudged Jaune to grab his attention.
"John, how long do you reckon before we reached the next spot?" Hans asked him and it prompted Jaune to think for a second before he closed his eyes.
'....concetrate...make the pathways... pour a small amount of Aura into the pathways... acfivate the Circuits..' Jaune then open his eyes as he used a low level Reinforcement on his eyeballs.
Jaune then look infront of him for a few second and see what looks like a sttlement or something.. its looks smaller than khaleed, maybe only a little more than half of its size but there are still peoples there...
And Jaune can see a sign that reads "welcome to schist."
Jaune look at the sign for a few more second before he deactivate the reinforcement on his eyes.
"It looks like we're close.. we've been walking for.. i don't know.... the sun is high in the sky.. so yeah.. we'll stay there for a few hours so you two can rest after that we'll leave before night falls hopefully."
Jaune look at his two companion and see them nodded.
As they continue to walk Jaune remembered something.
'Oum dammit.. how do i train someone into becoming a hunter? Dammit... Mordred would laugh at me if she know about this.'
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