After the fall of Beacon, Cardin was forced to stop being a huntsman in training and start being a huntsman. It didn't take long for him to drop his schoolboy demeanor. The situation wouldn't stand for it. After securing the area around the designated safe area of Vale, Cardin decided to go looking for the White Fang hideout. Those filty faunus had some explaining to do. He searched for weeks, and finally located an abandoned outpost. He quickly tracked the broken branches back to the main camp, but stayed hiding in the trees, scouting out the camp. After only a couple minutes he heard a rustling behind him. Thinking his cover was blown he drew his mace and turned around.
Standing before him was Blake. She quickly rushed over and put a hand over his mouth before he could yell. She whispered "what are you doing here!"
"I'm here for revenge." He harshly whispered back, "What are you here for?"
Blake ignored his question, instead asking him how he expected to get revenge by himself, against hundreds of armed faunus warriors.
He faltered, not having an answer.
She told him to follow her to somewhere they could talk without potentially alerting the White Fang to their presence. After about half an hour of twisting through the thick forest, they came upon an old, dilapidated cabin. Blake led him inside and asked him again how he planned to do any damage at all to the White Fang before dying. He replied that it would be relatively easy. After all, fanus weren't nearly as strong or smart as us humans, he said, "Right, Blake?"
Blake stood there, fuming at him for almost thirty seconds before he contined, saying that even an inexperienced hunter could take down such easy targets, or at least, he began to say that before getting pistol whipped so hard he fell down.
After recovering from the shock, he yelled "What the hell was that about?"
"Faunus are no different than humans. We simply have added traits!"
Cardin froze. What did she mean "We"?
"You can't be a faunus" He said, "you're one of the best huntresses in our entire class, and plus, you're way too sexy to" He broke off, blushing at the last part.
Blake was blushing too, but she was still furious.
"You never even gave faunus a chance! You just assumed they were below you!"
Cardin thought back to all the "despicable" faunus he had met over the years, and slowly began realizing she was right. None of their actions were worse than what he would have done in the same situation. He began regretting all the bullying he had done.
Blake realized the impact her words were having on the boy. He looked almost depressed. Blake didn't want to be responsible for that, so she dropped to her knees, kneeling next to Cardin, who had sat up from her hit. She cradled him, telling him that it's not the past that mattered, but the future. She decided then that the two of them could work together and slow down the White Fang significantly more than she could by herself. She stood him up and told him she had some plans that would help stop the White Fang from hurting more innocent people.
Over the following months, Cardin and Blake grew closer together, Cardin becoming more and more personable, Blake getting less and less shy and introverted. Then one night, Blake brought up their initial teamup, and asked if he really thought she was sexy. He replied that she was still one of the sexiest people in their class.
