The Golden Trail (RWBY X JJBA)

Beholden Tale

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Edited: 7/13/24
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Three days would pass after that climactic battle with Jaune and Yang, and the young man would spend his Thursday evening walking around the streets of Vale.

Since classes had ended he thought it right to understand his strange abilities. "Golden Experience." While walking past a store with a dying flower bed he would call out to his power and suddenly what was once a barren garden became a beautiful assortment of flowers.

After walking a fair bit away Jaune would be turning a street corner with only the flowerbed in his mind. Meanwhile, the store owner would run out in surprise, seeing this random and unexplainable phenomenon that was the dying flowerbed, he and his wife were excited at the prospect.

With their coffee shop unable to get the business it needed, the lively flowerbed was a great prospect to attract customers.

As for Jaune, he continued on his way through the streets, growing flowers from nothing, bringing life to dying trees, and most of all turning trash into flies that would suddenly find their way to the local trash can.

To Jaune, it was nothing more than an experiment to truly understand his ability, or as he liked to call it, his semblance.

Yet it was that day, where the people of Vale truly found themselves in a joyous time. Especially in the Italia District where Jaune made his evening stroll.

Flowers and life bloomed across the neighborhood, the streets were cleaner devoid of trash and the like.

While the neighborhood looked nicer the one thing that truly gave its people worry was the gang violence that would no doubt target their home.

Due to Junior's gang being out of commission for so long, many gangs thought to take advantage of the chance which caused a huge power vacuum.

The only gang good enough to take Italia would be The Men in Blue, an infamous group who wore all but blue suits with white accents, a major difference from Junior's men who wore black suits with red accents.

A major difference between the two was that Junior's men had red hats, their competition forgoing it. Little did Jaune know in his little commute that he would be in the middle of this turf war, and a major player in Junior's gang.

Fiery Passion.

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Jaune continued to think about Golden Experience's power, and eventually, a name would come to him that would fully describe it, [Life Giver].

There was no way to fully explain how or the why when breaking physics itself, but as he thought about his past test scores, it wasn't the best of subjects he was knowledgeable in.

With a sigh he continued on, placing his hand on a tree he was passing making a certain sunflower appear on it, the tree's leaves multiplying with a healthy green color. With this strange power he found that Golden Experience's abilities were all based on touch.

Jaune continued on his walk.

Then there were the bits of trash that would turn into flies or bugs when he touched them, there was a part of him that knew he could do this. It was unexplainable how he knew, but as he had a feeling he could do more as well, he shook his head. "I don't want to draw too much attention." He would say to himself. Planning on figuring out  the knowledge that came with [Life Giver] at a later date.

Not realizing he unknowingly made Italia the most beautiful neighborhood in Vale.

After walking a bit further into town he decided that it was time to finally head back to Beacon, while he hated the airship due to his airsickness he hated the possibility of staying out too late in Vale more.