Jaune Arc the Key Barer

Arrival at Beacon (pt2)

*Jaune Pov* {Traverse Town by Project Destati}

After leaving the bullhead docks once Qrow and Amber were on their way to Beacon I took a walk around Vale to get familiar with the lay out and do a bit of shopping.

Vale by itself was an amazing city full of different people both human and Faunus alike although some were still pretty terrible to one another, but some actually got along. Entering a dust shop I can see the window was busted up with some pieced of glass still on the sidewalk looking up I read the sign. From Dust Till Dawn.

I give a small chuckle at the sign before walking in. "Um Excuse me are you open?" I ask seeing a familiar old man behind the counter.

"eh, oh uh yes were open. Sorry about the mess, some people tried to rob the place but some girl in red who was looking at the parts catalog on the back wall kicked one through the window before sending the rest packing then Roman Torchwick shattered like glass wether it was his semblance or someone else I don't know but the kid saved slot of my product from being taken." The man explained as I nodded.

'man wonder what else is happening around the city?' I asked myself. "Um you wouldn't happen to know where I got can get information on people in Vale would you?" I asked as the old man rubbed his chin.

"Hmmm not personally, but you can get alot of the rumor mill from The Club, young folk got there and say all kinds of stuff, sometimes I go there for a quick drink after closing and leave too much loud noises for these old ears." The old man said as I grabbed a pouch of earth and gravity dust since I can already do most of the elements with my keyblade.

"thanks for the info, and do you have any Gravity Crystals left?" I asked as I sat the two pouches of dust on the counter.

"As a matter of fact I have two left, I can cut them down to either Gravity Stones or Gravity Gems but anything smaller you'll need a special dust refiner for that." He said as I smiled.

"Stones please, small enough to conceal on hand but packs enough punch to get space." I replied earning a chuckle from the man.

"you know quite a bit about your dust kid, don't see that often, except maybe from a Pro or a fighter that relies of dust like the Snchee, or Cole family, shame what happened to them, one of the best distributor of a synthetic dust called Sound Dust but when snchee cought wind they made dust cheaper just to put them out of business, Synthetic Dust isn't easy to make and takes time and resources to craft. They just couldn't keep up." The man said shaking his head.

"Man, I heard about that, but I didn't know it was that bad." I winced hearing how rough dust production was.

"well give me a few minutes and I'll have your order ready." The man said grabbing one crystal of Gravity dust and heading to the back.

walking around the shop I noticed a small hatch on the floor deciding to wait on the owner I saw a bullet casing on the floor picking it up it had purple powder around the rim. "Gravity dust?" I asked aloud as I tried to find some kind of makers mark on it showing who made the bullet only to find someone's Emblem on it instead of a name. "*sigh* great, do you know how many people have a flower for an emblem!" I pocket the casing and head to the front where the old man was waiting.

"oh there you are, did you find something else you wanted?" He asked as i shook my head.

"no, but I did have a question, there's a hatch on the floor by the magazines and catalogs, what's under it?" I ask as the man raised an eyebrow.

"there isn't a hatch over there, this is a two story buliding, I have my shop here and my home upstairs, I don't have a celler or basement." The man said as I got really curious about it. "Where did you say it was?" He asked as I showed him the spot.