The Dance Of Love (RWBY/FATE)

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Well... that was something....

Looking at them eating so happily, doesn't made me care at all at the fact that they had eaten 40 percent of the ration I still had left.

It's for a good cause.. justified even... they are just kids... they don't have to starve anymore even if it meant that they are eating my rations...

I could just fast anyway.. as long as I have water I think I would be fine if i don't eat for 3 to 4 days, they need the food more than I am.

Never expected that as soon as I step foot in vacuo, I killed 2 person and.... I think I adopted 2 kids? Is this an adoption? Their wellbeing would be my responsibility and I would protect them as much as I can on our Journey to Shade...

With them currently focused on eating, I can focus on something much more important..

the fact that I had killed 2 person... I.... what... what the fuck... genuinely... what is wrong with me..

I feel nothing... no guilt.. no sadness... not a single thing to the fact that I had killed those two men...

They had done and would had do some horrible thing but still... I had killed them...

I had felt how they skull crumbled under my feet.. I had seen the aftermath at how bloods start to pour out of every orifices on their faces..

And yet.. I felt nothing... NOTHING!

In fact, I had felt something... but that something is not good in the single least at all...

And what that 'something' is? I had felt the desire to finish the job... to unhealthy Crocea Mors and execute them properly...

What is wrong with me... why is this happening to me? I never intentionally harmed a person before with Ill intent nor do i ever wanted to do it... and yet my first time hurting a person with ill intent resulted in me giving them brain damaged to the point that its no different with me killing them..

And yet I feel nothing.... am I... am I a bad person?

Only bad people feel nothing at the fact that they killed a person right?

No... it can't be....

I did it to protect Hans and Greta, I can't be a bad person!

But I don't feel any guilt for killing them! And that surely meant that I am a bad person right? Right!?

Mordred..... if... if only you were here.. you would know how to help me... but.. but you're not here.. so I have to do this on my own.

I am Jaune Arc, The little brother of the great Mordred Arc.

I have my duty to protect and train Hans and Greta on our Journey to Shade academy.

And I will do it.

I will protect them and I will train them.

As for my... new found sociopathic behaviour? Can I even call it that? Sociopath don't feel anything when killing a person right? Or is it a physchopath? Saphron would know better than me.. but whatever-Pathic I have right now, I'll put it on the back burner for now.

I can't risk it.. I can't risk putting Hans and Greta in danger because I am having a moral dilemma, I will deal with my mind later...

For now.. I need to plan on our Journey to Shade Academy and sadly I don't think it will be easy.

I look back at the crudely drawn map courtesy of Greta and start to plan our route.

The exact geographical location wouldn't be an exact match to Greta's drawing because it is literally 'Vacuo' on top and 5 other blob/rectangle hybrid right underneath and then Khaleed.

This will be hard but at least I know that the general direction is North, which is both good and bad.

Why is it both good and bad you may ask? Well it's good that it is north.. and it's bad that 'Vacuo' Won't be exactly north of us.. it could lean more into Northeast or even Northwest and if we go exactly north we could missed Vacuo entirely and before we knew it we would arrive at Vacuo's north coastal settlement or some thing close to that.

It would be great if we have access to CCT tower but I think only 'Vacuo' have the CCT tower... well more accurately Shade Academy have it because of how much poverty Vacuo (the overall kingdom, not the city) has.. its not suprising to Jaune that they only have 1 CCT tower.. any other kingdom would have 3 or even 4 depending on how big it is.

from what I know, Atlas have the most CCT Tower while Vacuo have the least amount of it with it being 1.

Well I doesn't need the CCT tower in hindsight... just a scroll would do so I can look at the map and navigate... but unlike a CCT tower which is mostly free for the public (you only need to pay the entry fee) I don't have the money to buy a scroll.

And i know that a scroll is less effective if you wanna use it to communicate to someone outside of the continent, but I don't need to communicate to someone outside of the continent.. I just need the scroll to act as a GPS!

....why am I complaining anyway? It's not going to do anything... maybe I'm just... trying to distract myself... but I could distract myself by thinking about something more useful...

Shit.... wait... why am I cursing? I... something is wrong with me as soon as I step foot in Vacuo.. I was never like this...

Is this because of the killing? Or is it because of something else?

I don't know what it is but I know that I don't like it, Mordred would slap the back of my head if she heard me cursing.. even though it could be say that it is hypocritical of her to do that, but Mordred is more like a do as I say and not as I do kind of person.

And even then.. I would never stop loving her... she was with me when I was at my lowest... if she being a hypocrite managed to make me somehow unloved her? Well I don't deserve her in the first place anyway.

I blinked as I see Hans and Greta eat more and more of the ration.

Is it stupid of me to let the both of them eat through our ration? Yes... do I care? No.. It made them happy and I love seeing them happy... they reminded me of my... family....

I let out a sigh and it managed to take the attention of Hans.

"John." He called out to me while munching on the ration. "You good? You wanna have some?" He grabbed one of the calorie block and offer it to me.

I nodded at him and grab the offered food. "Yeah.. I'm good.." it would also be good for me to eat too, I need to calorie for the days to come.. should I tell them to stop now because by now they are eating more calorie then an average kid like us need in an entire day....

Nah.. I'll leave them be... they deserve to eat to their hearts content.. and I would feel... really really bad if I stopped this..

Considering that Hans said that they had eaten a rat before? This could very well be the closest thing they ever had to 'real food'... and I wouldn't deprived them of it.. by now I don't care if they finished the entire rations in the next hour or so..

Oh yeah.. I was planning on making the plan for our Journey to Shade Academy.. I got distracted by my thoughts..

So we need to pass through 5 settlements.. okay.. and hopefully we Won't come across any more... Red Cactus member...

God damn... Red Cactus.. almost forgot about them.

Considering that we are the furthest south of Vacuo and we are on the Edge of Red Cactus territory if what Greta said is true... then it wouldn't be wrong to say that the further north of Vacuo we go.. the deeper we get into Red Cactus's Territory.

I... I don't like it.. I don't like the fact that my instinct is telling me that it wouldn't be the last time I will fight against one of them.

My instinct is strong and had never led me astray.. except for that one time where I got ambushed by a grimm and almost die if not for the fact that I unlocked my Aura.

But could that meant that my instinct led me astray that night or my instinct led me to where I am supposed to be so I got stronger... the question of the century.

And thinking about Aura.. Hans and Greta would need to have both of their Aura unlocked.

But can I do it? Can I unlock their Aura? It's not.. life or death right now.. not urgent enough for me to unlock their Aura.

It's too.. intimate.. hopefully they would unlock their Aura on their own when we arrived at Shade Academy and if not then.. hopefully (again) the teachers there would unlock it for them.

I'm not close enough to them for me to unlock their Aura.. could I do it? Yes. Do I want to do it? No.

It would be a different story if they were Blancheur or Noir or even Saphron.. if they ever found out that I had unlocked my Aura and wanted to get theirs unlock too, then I will do it with no hesitation.

They are my family and unlocking a person Aura is usually reserve for really really close friends or family.. i only met Hans and Greta not even 1 and a half hour ago... we're frankly not close enough for that.

I hummed and look at my empty hand.

'Oh... I already finished my food.. I didn't even notice that I was still eating it... I guess I am too focused on my thoughts..' I thought to myself and look at Hans and Greta.

"So.. do you guys have anything to bring with you two when we go on our Journey?" I asked them.

Hans thinks for a second before he nodded. "Well I guess I got a couple of knives or two.. and that's it.. as for Greta?"

Hans look at Greta and she nodded. "Yeah I have a couple of things too.. some lien I managed to steal yesterday and... that's it I guess..."

That's it? Oh... "how about.. clothes?"

"Clothes? Well we are wearing our last change of clothes!" Hans told me with a smile on his face. "Our other changes of clothes are kinda.. repurposed to make out.. blankets..." he pointed to the blanket and yeah... I can see that it is made out of scraps of clothing..

"It.... it get colds at night.. and our last blanket was stolen when we were away trying to find food.. thankfully we hid most of our stuff but we forgot to hide the blanket." Greta explained while nibbling on the ration.

I... damn.. oum dammit... yeah, I'm adopting them... I can't very well leave them here by themselves..

I will protect them on our Journey to Shade Academy and that is an Arc Promise.

And an Arc never broke his promises!

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[AN: well.... this is kinda like a rant I guess.. but I always hated at the fact that the write of rwby only fucking put ONE CCT tower on each continent/kingdom... like WHAT THE FUCK!?!?! THATS FUCKING STUPID!? WHAT IF ONE OF THE TOWER GOT COMPRIMISED AND BASICALLY DESTROY THE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN ALL OF THE KINGDOMS?!... guess.. what.. it did happened... fuck me.. it is like.. stupid writing I would say.. like Atlas surely have enough budget to make 2 or 3 more CCT tower.... fuck me... its basically lazy writing that makes no fucking sense.... i don't care if its actually Ozpins like plan to make sure world peace or someshit but its stupid.. fucking really stupid..]