Chapter 1 the Arc clan, the first beast and a massive info dump
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opening my eyes to start my new life as little Jaune I awaken to see a large white room with gold trimming on everything with a tiny desk meant for my small body with a closet near my bed, viewing the room I see a large treasure chest styled draws filled with various art supplies and knight figurines, what surprises me is the set of sculpting tools and various kinds of hobby paints, seems this Jaune loved to craft tiny things besides cooking wonder why never mentioned in canon or was my personality mixed into his from the get-go, when was younger loved making model kits and painting tabletop game pieces hell just before my accident almost made my very own bolter with working ammunition thanks to my best friend Cindy, another reason disliked Cinder in early RWBY since she looked like my BFF but was a giant bitch with a power fetish sure she was a crazy hedonist with a cosplay fetishe but loved her like a sibling all the same even if she drove me up the wall, but did learn to tolerate and appreciate her when her backstory was revealed if only the bloody show had dates could just go screw it and go save her. still, plan to screw canon so badly Zarbon would be impressed.

hearing a rapid knocking on the door I open it to reveal an adorable blond child about 3 years older than me, feeling a name coming to mind I feel a spike of energy in my brain showing my family and all the memories of them,

Artoria Pendragon Arc, god damn sabres my mom, she appears to be a balanced combination of her Saber and Lancer/goddess combo. standing at 6ft 5, with a C cup chest a lean figure that screams power and demands respect, with a mix of Emerald green and sapphire blue eyes that change slightly in the light in a strange and mythical way leaving an impression of otherworldly powers. and long golden hair. preferring to wear a long blue dress similar to sabres but looser to give more room for movement.

my father Augustus Regulus Arc makes ironwood seem small and frail, standing at a solid 7ft 5 with a strong muscular build, golden hair styled looking like Tony Starks from marvel and a golden beard that shines as the light hits it, god damn my parents are majestic as fuck. typically wearing blue jeans and a short-sleeved white shirt when home showing various small scars from his battles with strong Grimm around our home.

both of them patrol our home of Orleans, wow I know I am supposed to be some reference to Joan of arc but come on really?, as fully licensed hunters and have trained in the old ways of both of their Clans before meeting at Beacon, becoming partners and marrying, so far they have 6 out of the 8 kids

firstborn Rouge le fay Arc age 10, a long-haired fashionista and currently studying biology at the university level, a genius that wants to tame as many species of insects as she can to explore the different kinds of silks and materials she could use for her fashion line she hopes to start by 22, and the one who installed as many fashion and health-related tips into me as she could, hell could probably duel the teenaged Coco to the death with my fashion knowledge and come out victorious with ammo to spare.

Bleu Morgana Arc, age 10, the twin sister of Rouge and lover of all aquatic marine life and aspiring doctor/biologist with a minor interest in mechanical engineering to create drones to explore the deep seas, virtually identical to rouge but prefers to wear tracksuits in blue or  overalls when in work mode with the arc clans emblems on the chest while pendragons on her hard hat drone tend to view function over form leaving most of her inventions far from impressive by looks and some times not made with the user in mind leaving lots of room for improvements

Ember Arc, age 9 the strong tomboy of the family and aspiring captain of the Dragoon core of our towns huntsmen defence, a master strategist and lover of all machines, starting to study animal care to raise more farm animals to improve life in town, so far learning all she can from Bleu in order to make her masterpiece to lead her comrades into battle on, a brave and strong girl. has short hair and loves wearing customised goggles she and the twins whipped up together, she acts as the balancer to their fashion and function debates when I am not around pointing out that they both have a point, tends to carry a large backpack full of blueprints and ideas so far she loves a few drawings I made from before memory came back and especially loves Kiryu from Godzilla and so far has most of its structure mapped out and hoping to make a working non-dust powered reactor for him

Saffron Arc, age 7 the calm and loveable member of our family that gives us a sense of normalcy, kind, sweet and a bit of a prankster she keeps the rest of our clan in line with cute little glare, from what my Dragon tendencies and Knight of owner skills are telling me if anything happened to her I would probably go on a large rampage and kill anything remotely similar to the one who hurt her, Excellent if its a grim and beyond disastrous if it was a human since to my senses Humans and Faunus are basically the same, just glad we're all kids but do worry in the future when she goes to highschool teenaged girls are a major pain to deal with, wonder if she has dragon tamer attribute similar to DXD since from the feel of it I have dragonic aura and heavenly aura so in spirit, I would count as a dragon in DXD terms which is both awesome and even more troublesome since did not play the tabletop game or look into it so would suck if Wave had Dragon-slayer weapons and even worse if a Milf had one to fight me with

then there's my little Sister Violate Arc age 2, a tiny little monster who I would murder the world for, so far she has mastered reading but not writing yet, short blonde hair with an emerald green left eye and sapphire blue right eye, to offset our siblings just blue eyes, look at her deep down bring up my feelings for my Tiny treasure back home, so small and easily hurt but full of so much potential.

"come on Jaune it's time for breakfast then Rouge and Bleu want your opinion on their latest projects" Saffron quickly grasps my tiny little hand and launches herself in the direction of the main kitchen,

we the Arc clan have various bases throughout the kingdoms and even around the borders with Orleans being the main HQ located on the borders of Vacuo and Vale, known through the Kingdoms as one of the greatest warrior clans before the Great war hit with us siding with Vale and Vacuo with most of our speedsters going off to rescue as many Faunus as they could and get back to friendly territory with quite a few choose to stay within Arc clan run cities as discrimination is looked down upon with racism being declared a mental illness, our main mottos being "united we live divided we die" for our outposts since it serves as a reminder that infighting makes you bait if only the rest of the kingdoms had this attitude there would be less Grimm running around killing everyone, but then they constantly respawn at those god damn Grimm pools and sent out again by mommy salami.

"come on Jaune pay attention we're almost there" Saffron verbally smacks me out of my thought process as we finally almost reach the small family kitchen, I mean small as in only meant for a hand full of people, our homes looks almost exactly like the hearth mansion from Danmachi, with 4 towers heavily reinforced and a large wall connect to the mansion added on to it, with even larger underground facilities heavily reinforced with enough room to fit our entire clan from other cities and even civilians from the town and still have lots of space left over, considering our house was once a big fortress used to house our armies of warriors before setting off to slaughter the Grimm in the thousands before the great war started and we mainly focused on rescue work during those times as no one thought about keeping Grimm in check during those times and too many lives were lost due to it, now most of us serve as guardians of our outposts, artists and doctors with most of the elder Arcs lately viewing the harsh training of the old ways as out of touch and wanting to leave it to hunstmen to save the day as it cost us dearly. still from my memories of younger life can see the pain in grandpa's eyes as he told his stories of our clan, but my desire to not lose my family to a god damn StarWars family fight outweighs the thought of death, as I ponder this a burning feeling in my chest tells me my sacred gears, Knight of owner and dragon tendencies are roaring in approval, giving a bright smile on my chubby cheeked face, its nice to feel approval

"Sister dear, not everything must be trendy and as you put it in style" an elegant voice loudly debates looks like Bleu and Rouge are at it

"sis ya gizmos need flare and at least a few coats of paint, it just seems so underdressed and could be made lovely with just a few additions, maybe an emblem or an engraving here and there, we got Atlas already popping out everything they make blander than water, besides a powerful tool should be a cool colour to inspire investors or make people feel its reliable there can just be so much white or steel grey in the world before someone snaps" a slightly higher pitched copy of the same voice answers back flaring her elder sister aura, her tone filled to the brim with determination.

"as all ways, you two must argue at breakfast every morning, Jaune your turn to talk sense into our knucklehead sisters I'll go check on dad since mom is still in the kitchen and from the smell just finished making blueberry pancakes" saffron quickly makes me solve this problem even though 9/10 times it's me who does it anyway, truly a fair society we live in.

taking a deep breath while facepalming I turn towards the table my twin elder sisters are duelling as usual before bringing down the metaphorical hammer on them

"Rouge while you are right about a bare tool would not inspire much confidence in, too many decorations could interfere with the use or make it a hazard in certain situations such as an ornament getting stuck on and tearing through clothing, while Bleu no one would really buy an ugly tool but you are right in function over form but a little bit of glamour can go a long way now let's get breakfast started" I carefully defuse my two siblings as they just stare at me than each other before offering apologies to each other in that weird eye to eye twin speak

"Thanks, little bro/ thank you, little brother," they tell me faces full of smiles they really remind me of Kudelia from Iron blooded orphans Gundam series and both are just as stubborn and only really listen to me or mom, Mom I can understand listening to since have heard from the townsfolk how she tends to use Grimm as pinatas for stress relief those poor goliaths never knew what hit them, but do wonder why they listen to me, sure our family is very weird with the girls being super intelligent and I seem oddly mature for my age before memories came flooding back wonder how much I screwed canon before got memories back from what I can recently remember Bleu and I were examining Fungus and using one of the underground medical facilities to test them and pretty sure we discovered penicillin and other molds/fungi before anyone else with her currently running tests online with Mistrilian branch of our clan as they are more advanced than us since larger amounts of mushroom species can be found there and they have large greenhouse project almost done that does not rely on any dust which is a big plus in my book since found it rather stupid to over rely on magic rocks that are more likely to get you killed than kill considering all the guns in RWBY are nerfed Nerf guns most of the time and only time are good is when plot armour card is activated on overdrive def going to do something about that since don't want a useless weapon to screw me over, do wonder if [Knight of owner] can help with it adding that to the list of things to do.

turning my head in hopes of seeing where the hell Ember is a loud explosion from the direction of her room answers my question

"looks like her alarm clock works like a charm hopefully she will be here soon," my mother says as she comes from the kitchen with a large food trolly she wheels in, large amounts of pancakes, bacon, toast and a large pitcher of freshly made orange juice with Ice dust chilling mechanism built into the bottom by Ember since she loves a nice glass of cold juice in the mornings

large stomping is heard from the direction of her room looks like dad has picked her up after giving violet her bath.

"good morning my family I have brought the stragglers with me" roars good old Papa Arc as he burst into the kitchen with the girls riding his shoulders, just glad our doors are extremely large due to some of our clan being giants cuz pretty sure would have done more than kicking his shins if my sisters got hurt and Mama Arc would leave him half dead due to our clans utterly ridiculous Aura amounts fixing him in a couple of hours

" Morning little Bro I am almost done finishing up ideas for Killgore destroyer of worlds and protector of cheesecake looky looky" Ember boasts as she unfolds her latest blueprints for Kiryu or again as she calls it/him/her Killgore, and dear god is it terrifying, dozens of optional weapons for the arms alone, ranging from large chainsaws to sonic cannons, least she took my advice to not give him laser eyes but high-powered LED searchlights that could blind anything it's facing, supersonic roar cannon for the throat with optional flame thrower replacement. and the only dust-powered weapon and possibly the most deadly one is a gravity beam that crushes anything it locks on to, Grimm, robots or people the things got enough force to flatten either of them in an instant, and all this with relying on modern Dust batteries, only downsides are it's just smaller than the leviathan Grimm that occasionally pop up near the seas of Argus and can only run for an hour at full power and 3 max at lower settings but considering how bloody overpowered it is don't really think its much of an issue, just really glad Ember never even thinks of joining Atlas, hell she has openly stated she despises the place due to Faunus treatment and has considered making a bunch of Killgore's to sick on them if they get any worse..... starting to think most of those weird fanfics about the arc sisters where right they are scary as hell when you learn more about them

"Hai hai, Janjan, Hai hai Big sisters" Violate decrees as dad hands her to me as she likes sitting on my lap for breakfast and then alternates with the rest of the family for other meals, I gentle give a kiss on her forehead as she nuzzles in for a quick cuddle before breakfast starts as mom and dad take in the cuteness of me and my sisters before digging in and laughing at me when have to remind Violate and Ember to chew and eat slowly, at least I am building up puppy eyes immunity even if it's super low.

Later on the same day at 4 pm.

after spending time with the girls and begging dad to be let into the deeper sections of the arc library, which is ridiculously massive and contains pretty much all most every book to be written heck pretty sure there are journals on magic in the archives that no one could read since the writing system was weird, my ancestors kept it anyway thinking their descendants could learn about this mysterious culture later on, dad said no till I am at least 6 but its okay I am a patient person I instead chose to focus on my one of my Sacred gears [Annihilation maker] I begin to meditate while the girls are resting before dinner at 6, focusing my mind searching for what I could relate to the abilities of the gear inside of my self, searching for the energies that gave the feeling of imagination and life I suddenly feel a tingling sensation before entering a weird giant field with a massive tree in the dead centre that stretched endlessly in the sky with the branches forming off into little planets in the sky, walking in this massive land towards the base of the tree I cant help but marvel at the sky and large amounts of land, but felt deep sorrow at how empty this place felt and suddenly I realize this must be my interafce with my gear, remembering the explanation of sacred gears from DXD about them evolving and adapting to the users wishes and deepest desire, and me being a big nerd for Norse mythos when was early teen of course I would link this damn thing to the tree of life and probably the other gear is the tree of knowledge of something like that since can feel its influence here, as I finally reach the base I place my tiny hand on it an begin to imagine my first creature

unknowing at that time when I touched it and began to use my gears abilities that world lighted up with energy lines rushing from across the globe as various lights gathered and melted to the energy veins reaching the tree and it too glimmered as if rejoicing at the thought of filling the world of my soul or where ever the hell this place is.

eyes closed I began thinking what did I truly want of the first beast I would birth, a partner {the world hummed and across space and time a horse like diety chuckled as it sensed a great desire for knowledge of the life of its children and it gladly granted it with amusement and hope that variants of its children would prosper and find happiness in this alien world} someone who would protect my family and gladly join it, {energy formed in the tree as an egg apeared} one who would share my joy and suffering and battle alongside me to the end {the egged cracked of is answering the call of the soul that gave it life} one who would be wise and offer comfort in times of need {a four-legged silhouette emerged glowing from the egg as it took shape, large rabbit-like ears, a creme coloured tail looking like it belonged to a fox, brown fur similar to the colour of hazelnuts as a gem formed in its creme coloured chest fur, a while gem that shone in various colors as more energy entered it as if the world was clecbrating its first creation giving it various elements as the gem shined a rainbow light getting the boys attention} I gasp at seeing what my first beast was

"VEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" roared my new companion as my smile would not leave my face at my new friend

"Welcome to the world my first child, happy birthday Evee, no you need a name" I begin to ponder as the little furball leaps into my arms for a cuddle and petting

"Lucien, Lucien Quartz Arc that shall be your name, similar to the origin of my name in my world being french while mine means yellow yours my little friend means light, while your middle one is named after the pretty little gem in your chest that glimmers various colours in light its why shall be your middle name and of course Arc is your last since you are one of the first of my creations though you don't need to keep it if you don't like it" I smiled at the little beast as its eyes shinned telling me he loves his name and loved how much thought I put into it


[congratulations you have created your first life form based on a species from the multiverse]

prepare to reserve rewards on your first hidden mission


"well looks like today can get better" I smirked as random casino music plays as a prize slot appears, really hope this is the last slot and the damn buggy system just rolls for me

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