A & B and don't forget C

by Jessiejellybean

A for Adam, B for Blake and C for the only other person who got close to the Adam Taurus's heart in love and emotions but also the aching scar on his back that being his sister who has a nightmarish semblance. This fic goes over Adam's upbringing and into the main story line eventually I hope people like the OC's also its jumpy and not really in order. Rated M just to be safe

1. Chapter 1

A & B and don't forget C

Part: A

Hello again, I begun this when volume 6 of RWBY came out, and I edited it according to that, anyway this is a cap on Adam's life and his siblings I hope yous enjoy, again sorry if there is any spelling mistakes, I seriously wrote this in three days but kept it on my laptop for a while. Also these are not in order of events and also its jumpy so keep that in mind when reading it, it also has many OC's all of which I really enjoyed creating, this was so much more fun then I thought it would be to write. Plus I own nothing.

Adam was left on the train, he had known something felt off about this mission, he had been extra focused and on guard however he had not known his partner in crime and love would be the one to abandon him let alone the White fang. He did not see this coming, she believed in the cause and him, she reassured him all the time, and so why then would she leave him like this? Adam thought back to the small argument on the roof top, she was getting soft and not wanting him to kill so much, he knew that, sure most were accidents him not holding back, but they were all SDC employees they deserved what they had coming for the way they treated all the faunus. So was he the problem or was she just scared and chose to run away?

Adam had walked back to the camp, it took him the remainder of the day along with him thinking over the reason why, if he could notice anything that would shed some insight, Adam thought he was a good partner and boyfriend they had spent most of their lives together, hell he would admit he fell in love at first sight. He trained her, took care of her and loved her and she did the same so the sudden abandonment hurt so deeply, he had to stop and breath, he had to focus and get his story straight. Those who abandoned the White Fang were dealt with as they could give away key information especially her; she was one of two Lieutenants and was privy to information. Even though she hurt him and left him and he wanted an explanation, he at least deserved that, he however was the commander for the Vale forces of the White Fang, and he had a job to do that being attacking SDC in this area along with those who continued to abuse and refuse the Faunus.

Seeing the trek to the campsite was a long one, he had time to think over things such as his and her past however his mind went back further to 'her' and he grimaced at the thought not because she was cringe or scary but because a lot of disturbing things happened in his younger life due to her, a scar on his back throbbed at just the thought.

Adam was not brought up in a family home, however the old dilapidated building he lived in was shared with many his age, older and younger, there were old mattresses, blankets and pillows strewn out on the open room wooden floors, it also had an old brick fireplace that was slowly corroding and losing its bricks one at a time.

Scar was the only adult and provided them with food and clothes when he could afford it, he was a Faunus and a hunter, he got the kids of the streets and put them in this place to give them shelter, Adam was one of the many. Most kids in the downtown Vale area that were abandoned or ran away from the foster care system ended up on the streets trying to steal and pillage what they could, most were faunus but one or two were humans too.

Adam and a few of the older kids and mainly the boys were taught how to fight and defend themselves, Scar would take them out into the Emerald forest and teach them how to use weapons and a few got their aura's unlocked. Adam was in the foster system and jumped through 30 odd homes before finally having enough and running off on his own, he had suffered abuse after abuse, some kids were nice to him but not many, he was picked up by Scar who found him starving and dumpster diving. Adam already growing up with his horns being pulled, being called a freak and punched, kicked and spat at learned fast on how to fight, block and defend himself and Scar was one who could see that in the young Faunus.

Adam had never met an Ape Faunus before, Scar being the first, he was very tall and wide he had black skin, gold eyes one with a scar on it and he had teeth and claws that protruded if needed. Adam had no choice but to go with him, the large hunter simply picked him up and carted him off, Adam was so tired and weak that he couldn't fight back or speak he simply fell asleep.

Bread and soup or pasta was made for the kids, there were a few older ones than him, being 8 years old he was considered one of the older kids of the group, there was Erza the oldest girl with cheap made glasses and the other human in the group, she ended up being the cook and took the most care of the youngest ones. She was also home schooled by Scar who gave her many books to learn from and then she would teach the others, that also included Adam. However there were others such as Brock who was great with his hands and from old furniture and pieces he would make items, toys and musical instruments. During the day the kids would play, learn and the older ones being Brock, Erza, Gray and Tomb would do small jobs on the streets such as shoe waxing, finding more discarded supplies they may need and playing their instruments for money. Every fortnight or so Scar would drop of more supplies for them all, he tried to get as much work within Vale or nearby just so he could keep an eye on them all.

"Say boy what's your name?" Scar looked scary and had a deep voice to match "I'm A-Adam Taurus," "humph a strong name, but you don't look like you are, how about we change that?" Adam had not expected the treatment from the others and this adult to be so nice and caring, but he was not going to spit on it, "yeah, I want to be strong," the older man chuckled "good, then get up when the sun rises and you can join me and a few others as we go to train in the forest." "W-Wait you mean the Emerald forest… but there are grim in there," "aww what happened to getting strong, besides I won't let any off you die from a grim, hence this training it will make you strong and able to fight of and kill grim yourself." Adam simply nodded his head in agreement, "so he let you join the big boys already, well that means we will be beginning with the basics again," the eldest boy stated.

Adam had been introduced to the bigger kids Erza had brown eyes and blood red hair, much like his own, she had terrible eye sight though was very smart and nice for a human. Gray had green eyes and black hair he had dog ears on top of his head, Tomb was a bird Faunus and had wings on his back making him wear a large coat over his back, he had brown hair and grey eyes, Brock was very kind and great with his hands he was a cheetah faunus and had retractable claws which he used to carve and make things with. There were also the four younger ones two girls and two boys Jimmy was the youngest at 2 years old, Julian was 5 years old and twin girls Becca and Bianca at 7 years old, Becca was a fox and Bianca a rabbit both with blond hair and ears on top of their head they had purple eyes each, Julian was a wolf faunus he had a long brown bushy tail that matched his brown hair but he had ice blue eyes and Jimmy had blue hair and eyes with Panther ears on top of his head, Erza took care of them all.

Adam learned that Erza had lost her memories at the age she and others suspected was 10 from their she wondered and eventually found the place they currently resided in called 'BrickTar' where Scar met her and provided for her and from their Scar brought more children home to this place. Grey was next, Scar knew Grey's father as he too was a hunter, Grey's mother died during child birth and when his dad passes Scar took Grey home to Erza, Tomb was found next his parents both faunus his mum an owl and his father a very rare type called a Phoenix faunus, they were chased from Mistral all the way to Vale, Tomb was hidden as his parents continued to run taking the focus of those who hunted them, Scar came and stopped them but not before they had killed Tomb's parents and from their Scar took Tomb home.

Brock's mother died from cancer and then went into foster care, seeing as his trait was fangs and claws he lasted longer in the foster system however all good things come to an end when he got put into a very bad abusive home and he ran away to the streets where he meet Erza who took him home. Becca and Bianca had a human father who killed their mother in a very abusive house hold, when their father left to 'dump' the body, they chose that time to run and eventually came upon Tomb playing a handmade guitar on the streets for money and he took them back to the BrickTar. Julian was a very different scenario, he was raised by a pack of wolves in the emerald forest eventually a pack of Beowolves killed his family and pack and chased him over turf, Scar came upon him and saved him, to this day Julian does not speak only making wolf like noises and Erza taught him sign language to help him communicate. Jimmy had been found by Erza when he was randomly wondering the streets he could only say 'Jimmy' so they guessed it was his name, nothing else was known about him and no one was searching for him, Scar checked but nothing showed up.

Adam enjoyed training, Grey, Erza and Brock were all 15 years old and Tomb was 14, Adam being 8 was the youngest to be trained as the twins were 7, Julian 5 and Jimmy 2, Grey having spent the most time with his hunter father and then Scar was the most combat experienced. His weapon of choice was a spear that could break down into a rifle and used dust in its cartridge, however Grey's semblance was ice, he could create and manipulate ice such as barriers, walls, weapons and so on, just not living things or creatures. Adam had noticed that it reminded him about the Schnee family semblance that they all shared and apparently he was not the only one. Grey got a lot of shit from people and also heard many rumours about the faunus with Schnee abilities, Grey was training hard to get into Beacon he wanted to be like Scar and his own father; a hunter.

Brock was not the best seeing as he was a Cheetah Faunus he was agile and fast his semblance allowed him to build up electric particles into his body and move at super-fast speeds. It also helped with him absorbing electricity making him faster with moving and keeping his aura reserves up by relying on it. Brock knew how to fight however it was obvious to those around him that he was a gentle soul with plants, kids and animals, he enjoyed teaching and relaxing, and his weapons were small throwing knives that he made the body design from iron and copper allowing him to use them as conductors as well.

Tomb had a bow and arrow that mounted to his gauntlet on his arm, it could also detach and become two daggers, it was light weight and even though he had an aura his semblance had not been discovered yet, but he was great at hand to hand combat. Meanwhile Scar had a large double headed axe that conducted fire through it and Scar was able to manipulate fire so long as he had a source to begin with and work with.

These were the people Adam trained and learned from and also lived with, he refined and cleaned up his fighting style, he was handed an old rusty red blade that looked more brown from rust, slowly he cleaned and tidied it up, it was long and straight with a slight curved tip to it, it was also light but balanced. It annoyed him that he couldn't throw it as he learned having a weapon that covered distance was also best to have available, but he also learned how to use a rifle and other guns, swords and throwing knives.

When not training in the forest Scar was off on missions given by his superiors and also hired by locals and covered the boundaries of Vale, however this mission was close and within Vale so the children knew he would not be gone for long.

The BrickTar had a closet, bathroom that was also a laundry room and the main room with a fireplace, up the only stairs led to Scars bedroom and bathroom, the kids were all on the first floor with the large kitchen and dining room that was across the small hall that led up the stairs and the front doors it was old and dusty, the boards creaked badly and the windows were boarded up, in the hallway was a high rise ceiling with glass roof, it was dusty and some glass windows were missing, which led to having buckets sitting against the walls and ready to be placed in the areas that leaked during rainy times. Erza taught them all how to read, write, speak properly and count up, some books were quite advanced into maths and some history. The others did not mind that Erza was a human it had been easily forgotten as she was the one to help raise them, Adam stayed away from her though he had never been shown love and care especially from human's, he knew not all were bad especially kids, he learned it was the adult humans that were the worse however some human children were mean and teased and hit him, so he tried to keep his distance.

When Adam had first woke up in this place he was on guard and it took him realising they were Faunus for him to relax, many others there were also treated badly by humans and understood his reaction. They had all helped him understand that he was allowed to leave he was not captive but he had a better chance of survival with them and Scar, and so over the course of two weeks Adam trained with them, eat with them, learned with them, had fun with them and he grew accustomed to all of them calling each other siblings and friends they were a family of choosing, they chose each other and stayed together. Becca and Bianca were polar opposites one was a tom-boy and the other a princess, Bianca had a lovely pink dress that Erza specially made for her along with a dolly, meanwhile Becca always wore shorts and a top, she had a soccer ball she kicked around with Julian and sometimes Jimmy, Adam joined in every now and again. Adam had learned that Scar left every two weeks for bigger missions and could be gone for as long as a month or three, he made sure they had plenty of reserves and was also the reason why they went bargain hunting when they got enough money from the little jobs they did here and there.

It was only the bigger kids who were allowed out and about and to do jobs and chores while Scar was gone, Tomb was levelled headed and Brock the calm one, Erza was the mother hen but she had a real mean temper when it finally exploded however her heart was always in a good place so Adam learned over time that she was an exception, Adam was not the best when it came to waxing and cleaning shoes, he was actually really good at it, however he was teased and beat up by other kids who saw him, and in returned he bloodied their noses. But also some adults didn't pay him or refused to it was only 1 lien for a full shoe wax and clean, and still then they would use and abuse his services, it wasn't only him either many of the others had issues to, Julian managed to get a paper run going on where he delivered them all to the many warehouses, other studio homes and businesses in the district they lived in.

It was spag bowl Friday night, Erza had the ingredients to do a full amount which meant they earned enough for real tomatoes, onion, capsicum and mince to be in it with a lot of sauce and extra spaghetti and something they hadn't had since Adam joined them called parmesan cheese on top. As the kids shouted out and spooned up their food into a bowl and sat with their one spoon, knife and fork which it was up to them to keep clean all went silent as once they took their places around the old iron frame and broken wood table and all mix matched chairs, they joined hands "let's say our thanks." For ten seconds they sat in silence thinking what they were thankful for, there wasn't much in his life he was but his family he had now was definitely what he was thankful for, along with the food and Scar who was working hard for them. Most of the little kids had no idea what or why they done it but they peaked out of their eyelids seeing if it was time for them to dig in, "okay," Erza announced and the clatter of ceramic bowls and utensils filled the entire place which echoed through the old home.

"Why does Adam get so much?" Becca complained, "you can grab more, we had a large hull this time, and besides he has been working and training don't forget he has an aura like Grey, Brock and Tomb we don't require as much food as they do, instead of complaining grab some more." Adam just poked his tongue out at Becca as she huffed and got up noticeably pushing her chair back to scrape and picked up her bowl to re-fill, it was spag night when they got to fill up for the week seeing there was enough to feed a small army, Erza always filled the 'big man pot' to the limits with dinner when they could. Becca hated that Adam was considered and allowed to train meanwhile she was not she blamed it on Scar being sexist, but Adam was sure it was her attitude as she always had to have something to complain about and Adam loved to rile her up especially when he could beat her in a game of soccer. Becca very firmly placed her bowl down and scraped her chair back in to continue eating the whole time eyeing Adam in a challenging way but he was smart enough to not bite, however Grey rolled his eyes "do you have to be so loud, I swear your more boorish than us guys," Becca frowned at their eldest and Bianca chocked on a spaghetti ball from laughter, "serves you right for laughing at me," Erza spoke up acting as the mom "that's enough, sit, eat and be thankful then we go from youngest to oldest for baths."

It was decided that while the older ones needed more food as they procured the most money from working and had to eat more for their training they were always the last for a shower which was actually old pupped water that was luke-warm and then eventually went too cold for the older ones. Jimmy and Julian bathed together then the BB Twins and then he got to go with Brock, Tomb and Grey after Erza gets a shower, it was obvious they had to group to save water and keep it as warm as possible, and it was also decided that Erza got her own shower as she was a fully grown woman not like the young girls who wouldn't understand the differences it also didn't go unnoticed that Erza and Grey were always acting like the parents and decision makers for the family while Scar was away, Adam also thought he noticed certain pointed looks and blushes between them too, but he did not understand it.

All the bed rolls and blankets and pillows are fluffed and puffed out in the mornings and then folded up; every Saturday they are cleaned and every once in a blue moon when it is needed Scar will buy them bedding, most times it was food and some other times newer or second hand clothes and shoes especially those who grew faster. They were all setting up the bedding and Tomb began to light a fire in the fireplace, they had a little screen to prevent fires and keep the entire room warm, Jimmy and Julian always snuggled up to Erza close to the fire, the BB twins hated sharing it was something they had to do most their life so they were the same with the others in the house everything of theirs was of limits, Adam shared with Tomb seeing as Adam laid out extra pillows so when Tomb slept on his stomach his wings could flutter out to the side but be held up to the same height as his back and preventing kinks. Tomb was very grateful when Adam had thought up the idea to prevent his back pain and issues and the fact that Adam was used to sleeping with his arm as his pillow made it easy for him to give up the one he was given and Erza shared her one with the two youngest boys.

Everyone paused and went silent when they heard the tell-tale sound of the heavy creaking front doors open, they did not require locks as when they were shut heavily they naturally jarred and it took Scar or one of the older kids to open it up. Erza poked her head out through the large open doorway that joined onto the entryway and saw Scar was back, Erza had originally called him dad, and Grey uncle but most others called him Scar, "Dad, your home, oh-"the others paused lifting their heads when Erza spoke up, and made their way to the front to see what was going on. It was when Adam had met their newest and last family member she was not the youngest though, Scar had her up in his arms, and she held onto him as much as her little frame could.

She had on what looked like old pink pyjamas with little black bow designs on it but it was splotched in a deep burgundy red which Adam was sure was blood, but the girl didn't seemed fazed or upset or in pain anywhere. All the kids had their heads leaned out while Erza was standing in front of their guardian, "who is this dad?" "Our newest member, all I know is her last name is Lancaster, there is no one looking for her and she has not spoken, Erza can you get her some food and is there some clothes?" It was obvious to them Scar looked tired, Scar leaned down to allow Erza to take the little girl and the girl leaned forward stretching out her arms for Erza to take her, she seemed to be very accepting to what others wanted her to do. "Alright the lot of you get out here and introduce yourselves," all lined up and from oldest to youngest introduced themselves, "I'm Erza," "Grey" "Brock" "Tomb" "Adam" "Becca" "Bianca" "this is Julian and" "Jimmy!" Erza laughed after introducing Julian because she was sure the young girl would not have understood his howled name or sign language but Jimmy introduced himself no problem. "And what is your name," the girl looked at all of them one at a time she also waved to them and smiled but no sound came out of her, "are you hungry?" The girl nodded yes and had a very small portion of spag, the others watched and the younger ones joined her while the others swarmed Scar for answers, something Scar always did was tell them the truth; they were all to know where each came from in case someone came looking for them, they did not appreciate liars.

"Tell us where did you find this one," Grey asked "well I went on a mission, more like a call in, police arrived to a disturbance call in the high end living estate," the others rolled their eyes making specific sounds. "And something attacked them, killing those who entered the house, I was called in as they thought maybe it was a grim," "a grim in the city?" Brock exclaimed in worry. "It wasn't but I went in and I came upon something, it was humanoid and when I cut through it, it disappeared as if it was black smoke, the Lancaster's were torn to shreds much like the police who entered that home, however I found her." They all looked back at her slowly eating out of a bowl with her own new spoon as Erza told her the rules and what the routine was, to which she understood and nodded, it was obvious the kid was smart they could all see it in her eyes but she just had not spoken yet. "She was not crying, but she was afraid, she understood the situation though and has only nodded or shook her head to answer questions, she claims they were her parents but there was no record off her existing. She is human like they were but she also has an aura, that thing looked like it had a shrivelled up pumpkin head that the eyes and mouth were cut out of for Halloween but a tall lanky body with claw like hands and was dressed in a fairly nice suit." Scar looked to the others noticing either frightful, worried or confused expressions, "oh sorry, yous didn't need to know that," Grey had a considering look on his face "it sounds more like an ability or some kind of mutant grim," Scar nodded as the others listened in "I thought the same, especially when we realised she had an aura we thought it could possibly be her semblance but there is no way to tell seeing as she hasn't spoken yet, but why would your own semblance scare you?"

The little girl reminded them of a Schnee, while Grey could manipulate ice into items which reminded many of a Schnee this girl looked like one, she had white hair and blue eyes but they were closer to a turquoise colour rather than ice blue like the famous, rich and dirty-moneyed family. Erza had cleaned her up and found a large blue T-shirt which was a nightie to the little girl, they had continued to set up their bedroom as they listened to Erza ask the Lancaster girl questions, "Do you have a name?" she shook her head no, "do have a family, friends or someone looking for you?" again a no answer, "do you want us to give you a name, or you can chose one," the girl put her finger to her lip in a contemplative look upon her face, and again answered no. They all sighed as if annoyed with receiving the same answer, "alright, let's get to sleep, we have work tomorrow," Grey settled as did the rest of them, Erza went to wrap her arm around Lancaster but she instead skirted away and slept between Grey and Adam on a blanket that she curled up onto like a cat.

Adam kept his ears open and eyes on her until her breathing evened out, he had felt on guard with a new person in the house especially one who could not talk and not much was known about her making her a potential threat. Eventually he fell asleep, but woke up when he heard steps causing the floorboards to creak, it was from the entryway. Adam opened his eyes seeing Grey and Lancaster he rolled over and saw Tomb and Brock next to Becca and Bianca, and Erza with Julian and Jimmy, all were accounted for, Adam assumed it was Scar up getting food, but then why had he only heard him once he got downstairs.

This house was so loud and Adam was a light sleeper it was from all the other kids who would wait for him to drop his guard before launching an attack so he learned to sleep light. Adam sat up and looked over to the hallway, the doors had old window panes in them that had a rose design on them, and through them and the glass ceiling above the hallway allowing lots of light to came in from the moon and street lights, however the shadow casted was of a human, it was tall and skinny with a round dilapidated head the shadow casted on the floor showed that the eyes and freakishly smiling mouth had light pouring through it like it was a cut out figure from a book, as the shadow grew Adam noticed it move across the floor and a creaking sound like it just took a step. He noticed he could now see the shadows hands, they were sharp and long like daggers, when he saw them he gasped and a feeling like someone was breathing down his neck was present, he gulped not game to look away from the shadow, Adam recalled what Scar had told him of the creature inside the Lancaster's house, he was sure it was the girl causing it; bloody humans.

Adam knew a well-placed hit would make it disappear into smoke, Adam looked over and noticed that Lancaster was still asleep, he reached over her and tapped Grey, who did not move Adam rolled his eyes hearing another creaking step, and then Erza mumble asking who was up, Adam hit Grey now, when the foot falls were multiple all at once and came to a stop at what Adam thought would be the entryway to the open room. Grey grunted and rolled over facing Adam with confusion before he looked behind him and his eyes bulged and he physically had to cover his mouth with his hands and breathe carefully through his nose to not scream. Once he was relaxed and calm again he nodded to Adam to state he knew why he woke him up.

Adam slowly rolled over to face the entryway, it looked to him as if it was looking right at him but with nothing but big black gouges where eyes would be made it impossible to tell, he heard the clacking noise like ivory smacking against each other it turned out to be the large round dagger like claws tapping against each other, making a clacking solid sound. It even breathed as Adam noticed little puffs of breath exiting the non-stop smiling slit that was a mouth, but true to what Scar said it was very nicely dressed in a white and black tuxedo and even had a red rose pinned to its chest and a little handkerchief tucked into its breast pocket. Adam and Grey slowly motioned to each other to slowly get up to their feet, Adam and Grey moved but they heard a high pitch squeal from one of the kids, Adam guessed Jimmy must have woken up and seen it and screamed in freight.

Like a blood hound it snapped its head to Jimmy's direction and all the others in the place jumped and woke up making their own noises, the thing tensed up as if ready to spring forward and kill, with its hands and claws spread out to catch its target, and it used its extremely skinny long legs like a grasshopper would and pounced towards Erza, Julian and Jimmy who was still screaming. Adam used his aura to enhance his leap and instantly covered his body over the three of them, he was relying on his aura to enhance his strength and to pick them up and leap away to a safer distance, but he could not get a grip on them in time and the 'thing' was fast; very fast. Adam's aura automatically shielded his body, but he felt the sharpness and pressure behind the strike of those claws on his back as it managed to break his aura causing him to feel drained and exhausted as he felt sharp pain radiate across his back.

Meanwhile the others got to their feet and moved, Lancaster did not move she was in a very deep sleep, and Grey used his semblance to create ice between Adam and the thing and shoot sharp spears up out to the monster to pierce it but it just grabbed them and cracked them, but backed up a step for space as it then looked to Grey. They had all heard the shouts and strong and heavy footsteps from Scar who only then arrived and sliced through the thing, Erza touched Adam asking if he was fine, meanwhile hiding Jimmy into her chest as he was whimpering. Adam felt the warm wetness moving across his back along with a sharp pain. Scar came in with a frown on his face, all the others in the room were either looking over at a kneeled over Adam who had Ice still acting as a blockade to try keep him safe, or they were looking at Lancaster who had not moved an inch in her sleep. "Wake her up now, Adam come here," Scar barked out orders Grey physically shook Lancaster to wake her up, she did but looked tired "wake up," it was obvious the girl was panicked because he was panicked. All looked at the girl with accusing eyes meanwhile the ice dissipated away, the two younger boys and Erza moved away allowing Adam to be looked over by Scar, and many gasped at seeing the large rip in his top and blood smearing all over his back.

"The smiley-man" it was the first thing they had ever heard her say, and all looked to her and so did Adam and Scar however Adam had tears in his sky blue eyes along with a glare as he blamed her not this smiley-man. Erza went over to her "so you know who did this?" the girl nodded and out of frustration and anger Grey voiced for her to use her words, "he used to come up from the basement in my last house the adults died because they angered him," Scar had to take Adam away and went up to his room with him, he knew the kid was either going to leap over and kill the little girl or bleed to death, so to his room Scar took him. Adam had his cut cleaned up and stitched and was the first time he took a swig of brandy it was also his last time as it was disgusting, but it helped with the pain, "your aura will heal the rest up quickly once it replenishes, but man that is deep, well kid you have your very first scar," he slapped him on the back and immediately realised what he had done "whoops my bad."

It became obvious to them that Lancaster had a semblance that being able to bring her nightmares to reality while she slept, it seemed she had no control over it, but the nightmare called smiley-man was the thing to arrive, so long as no one made a sound or attacked it, it would not react. Scar took Lancaster with him to the police station once they contacted him stating they found something at the house, but also Scar had apparently contacted another hunter associate who may have been able to help out with the dilemma. It had only taken two days for Adam's wounds to fully heal and Erza cut his stitches and took them out, "I didn't thank you for taking the damage and help protect us, so thank you Adam." Adam grunted and nodded, he didn't want a thank-you, as family they were to protect each other, even if Erza was a human she was still their family member, so he moved trying to get them away but it was obvious to him he really need to build up his aura along with his strength and speed. It also seemed Grey took a blow to his pride as he too was off training twice as hard now.

Scar returned to the family later with a sleeping Lancaster which normally made them all tense and on guard which also meant many did not sleep as much as they wished especially Grey and Adam. "I'm calling a discussion," all in the house could hear and made their way to their seats in the dining room, after Scar laid Lancaster down on a random mattress that he pulled out on the spot for her. "So?" once the twins managed to take their seats, Scar spoke up, explaining the situation to the family, "well it turns out she is not part of the family, they had abducted her and Mr Lancaster would hurt her but he always wore a mask and because he wore nice suites the little girl made a metal block to help her cope with the abuse, and therefore the nightmare called the smiley-man came to be, it just so happened she unlocked her aura and semblance too. That nightmare is what keeps her safe, she just does not have a good grip on how to control or use her aura, so I was hoping that she could join us in training, I think it would be safer if she could call upon this nightmare when needed not just every time she sleeps." Adam realised that the girl had not understand what she had done and she lived a nightmare as reality that in turn created a nightmare to be her knight in shining armour. Adam truly hated humans they even stole and attacked human children, no wonder they were worse and lesser than Faunus, "what about that associate you reached out to, I thought you were going to go see them as well?"

"Yes, well he looked over the young one and used his power to help remove the metal coping mechanism she created, in doing so she is now aware of what is going on, that she created smiley-man and that she killed her tormentors. The police dropped the case seeing as they can't arrest a child and being a rich family it would just lead to more paperwork, and we all know how they like to slack off, so she is now aware, hopefully from here on out she will improve but either wake her or be submissive if you see her nightmare okay?" All around the table nodded but Jimmy looked scared and like he was going to burst into tears at the thought of the smiley-man arriving again in the future. "It's alright the smiley-man protects our sister so in return he will keep us safe the first night was an accident and miss-understanding." Erza tried to explain and help Jimmy not burst into tears, Adam had to try hard to not roll his eyes and scoff when Erza mentioned a miss-understanding, that would be the worse one if he had ever seen one before, "Dad, how does her semblance work," Erza spoke and Brock added, "yeah you said it turns to black smoke when created, but how does she create it?" Scar was happy he chose to see his old mentor for answers who apparently was just as interested in the girl and sternly told him to send her to a combat school pronto or train her himself. "Well she has the ability to absorb negative emotions and through that and shadows she can create the smiley-man with her aura, however we have no idea how long or powerful this semblance can get, being only 4 years old so I found out she has a lot of potential that she may one day be able to tap into." Erza perked up at that "so she's 4, wow I wonder if its only bad things she can bring to life or good things as well?"

The girl who all still referred to as Lancaster for the time being slept throughout the night and not one foot-fall or creak was heard through-out the old place, many were well rested when the sun rose the next morning that also included Lancaster. Adam was puffing out his mattress and Lancaster was doing her own out on the front steps of their home, but she was not strong enough and Adam found himself taking hers and puffing it out after commanding her to hold his after he dusted it. She waited and listened to his words, and followed him back into the house after he told her to. "I'm sorry Adam that my smiley-man hurt you, I didn't mean it," Adam had been folding over all the mattresses and placing them in the cupboard, when he looked sideways to her, "normally I would never believe a human when they say they didn't mean to hurt me…" he noticed she looked down at her bare feet in sadness, but he continued "but I know you were unaware, but you know now and have a better control, so I guess this once I can forgive you." And like a lightbulb she beamed a smile and continued to try and pass him mattresses, and managed to walk off before tripping over her long blue top acting as a nightie, Adam paused and helped her up, noting she didn't cry.

Porridge was always for breakfast, and if one was lucky it was baked beans or cereal with milk, however on this particular morning Erza had to head off to a job interview at a book store, something that Scar had set up for her seeing as she was within the hiring age. Tukson was an old friend of Scar's and so did a favour of getting the teen a job where she can help him out with sorting and selling his books. "Oh man Grey this is the worse porridge I have ever tasted, I honestly didn't think it could get this bad" Becca complained obviously enjoying annoying him, Adam smirked "now you know how people feel about you," "HEY!"

It was when the others noticed no bowl but a dirty spoon on the table where Lancaster sat but no Lancaster, "hey were is she, she better not be slacking," Adam looked around and even up in Scar's room, it was when he noticed the front door was open but only slightly ajar, he opened the door the rest of the way and on the steps he noticed her feeding the rest of her breakfast to three stray cats. Adam was behind her when he spoke making her jump and look up to him, "what are you doing, you shouldn't give your food away, and many of us work hard for it." Adam had to admit he was a little annoyed but she looked sad "but they are hungry too, plus I was done, it would go to waste unless they have it," Adam had to admit he believed this batch of food was not going to be left overs and he noticed the ribs of the little strays as she patted them, and he smirked when a thought came to his mind "maybe we should call you cat huh?"

Apparently Adam's little funny jab at her went over her head as she thought he was serious and she liked it, beaming a smile and announcing to the others that Adam named her Cat and that she loved it. Adam sighed and face-palmed that was the last time he jokes around with sarcasm, Adam and the others noticed that Cat Lancaster was his second shadow, she looked up to him in admiration and followed him all the time, and not just in direction but his orders, the others thought he might have been harsh but she simply smiled and followed him regardless, she was innocent and naive.

Cat was very slow with learning with them in training, Adam continued to progress with leaps and bounds especially when he thought it would be cool to be able to shoot his sword out of a rifle that acted as a sheath. He decided to name his now nice knew clean sword that Brock helped him with; Wilt he got the design and idea from the wilting rose design on the glass of the old wooden front doors. Brock and Tomb helped Adam with trying to plan and build a rifle gun sheath, but it just wasn't coming together so he guessed he would have to speak to Scar about it. Cat was to practice and focus on her aura and semblance, she learned on how to call upon the smiley-man and then later how to get it to do what she wanted, it was pretty strong and fast, Adam had noted, but it sometimes just withered away when she was too bored or not paying attention.

It happened a little while later when they had come across a group of grim that instead of Cat using smiley-man, she had created a nightmare of the same grim they were faced with, Adam and the others got their answer for if she will be able to create other things. Adam had actually wondered how her aura worked and just how powerful she could become as he noticed that she didn't eat much for one with unlocked aura, Grey theorized that because her creations were made from negativity it must be what she has been using, not technically her aura.

Time passed and when Grey and Brock turned 17 they applied and entered Beacon academy, Adam was a little envious but apparently he was not the only one as Cat too wanted to go to a school rather than following Erza to Tukson's bookstore and sit there reading as an education. It had made all in the house freeze when Cat spoke up one day "what's a Faunus?" she asked "we are," she tilted her head not understanding "I don't see the difference," Brock smiled at her innocence but Erza explained the difference for her and ever since she was taken to Erza's work place to learn meanwhile Jimmy and Julian were left with Becca and Bianca while Erza was gone and the others worked or trained.

Adam was 12 when he finally had the opportunity to go to Signal academy, he was happy to finally put his practice and knowledge to classes, his favourite class was weapons and aura also history; which was a class that just showed the wrong doings of the humans through-out time. Adam had a very uncaring weapons teacher, his name being Qrow Branwen, he was a pro-huntsman and had a short broad sword that extended out and into a large scythe, he did it as a demonstration to show and explain that all were expected to learn and build their own weapons to suit their fighting style.

Adam had cleaned up the Wilt Blade but had not been able to make his vision for a rifle sheath, so this was his favourite class. Adam had found his semblance a year ago, during training Cat accidentally shot of a round and Adam being four years older than her automatically dodged using his sword and through that he felt something inside him power up taking the power from the bullet and absorbed it into himself, and quickly released it into a slice and bisected a tree. Adam noticed using it, slowed down time and his senses boosted astronomically, it allowed him to collect the energy and power he accumulated in that time to collect it and pull it together and release it.

Adam aimed high at Signal, second best was not an option for him, after all Scar pulled some strings like he did for the others and got him into the school, he was adamant he would graduate middle high with the highest scores ever. He also wanted to show up Grey a little, who was older and always boasted about how good he was, and Adam didn't doubt but he found himself wanting to get better then the oldest in their family. Brock had decided to not go to Beacon once he had his weapons, basic training and knew how to use his semblance and aura he was good, instead he continued to find old broken toys and instruments and put them back together. He was good at what he liked to do and it became apparent just how good he was, that being when he and Cat went out to see if they could find things that were useful, sure they had a better income with Erza having a full time job at that point in time however more the merrier, and so they came home with an old piano that sat up against the wall. Slowly Brock put it back together and he changed the keys so that they were not ivory, they were most likely from a faunus who once had tusks or horns, so they removed them and made them out or a cookery ceramic with protection coating. Cat enjoyed helping him out especially with replacing the strings and tuning it; she specially hired out all of the books on pianos and learnt how to play it. It was easy considering she learned the guitar and ukulele and since she had also learned to play the violin between training and reading, she went on to start cleaning shoes and even found a job in a café as a little goffer.

Adam walked up to Mr Branwen with his idea on the sheath, they were to begin idea's but Adam already knew what he wanted he had for a long time, especially when he read up on a fighting style he liked call Iaido which allowed one to unsheathe and re-sheath, Adam had begun learning and training in it and had to use a normal sheath to do so, however he thought it a great way for him to hold extra reserved energy in his sheath instead of all in his body hence why he liked the fighting style; sure he enjoyed the others he knew but it was something that felt natural, and hence why he really wanted to get this made and in the best quality items. Adam walked up to the relaxing teacher who had his legs up on the desk and leaned back in his chair, "yeah, you already finished your weapon design?" Adam being young nodded and handed out the paper to his teacher, someone Adam admired with his white, black and red casual attire but also passed as upper class with a vest, dress pants and shoes. "Hmmm, just the sheath, I take it you then have the sword already done?"

"Yeah I have it at home, not allowed to walk around with weapons unless you have a pass or are a hunter or high school hunter…" "why don't you have a pass?" his teacher looked confused Adam scratched the back of his neck, "well um you see the pass for the three years cost's 500 lien and my family doesn't have the money right now so we had to put it off, I figured that I could work on this part, but I have an image of it, if you need to see it." Mr Branwen showed no look of pity or sympathy just understanding "alright then kid, show the pic, do you know what it's made out of?" "Scar told me that it was made out of a metal called Inston very absorbent and strong but also flexible, the blade was rust covered when we came upon it, so I cleaned it up as much as I could using metoletic fluid and coated it in a very refined red dust for protection."

"Wow kid, gotta say it looks good, did you know though that Inston is a fantastic metal for a conductor of energies, it's got a great synergy but not so great as a mecha-shifter, so good decision to have a sheath and a sword nothing too over the top." Adam nodded his head, "that's why I wanted the inside of my sheath coated in the same stuff," Qrow nodded "I see, but why, what's the purpose, it does have a purpose right?" Adam nodded giving the look stating 'really you think I would do it for no reason at all,' "yeah it's my semblance specifically, I can take the energy store it and release when I want in a strike however I need to use my own body for it, and it is taxing I thought if I could use the sheath and sword to help direct it and to hold some of the energy when needed." "Gotta say kid doing that all the time with take away from your speed and reflexes unless your good with that…" "I'm practicing Iaido for that reason it feels natural to me, but I wanted to make sure it will still be able to shoot out Wilt without damaging it but also can be used as a rifle all on its own," "do you want it to do dust rounds too…" "No!" Adam obviously shocked his teacher with his outburst, but cleared his throat "hmm, I mean no sir, sorry…" "It's okay kid, I don't fancy the stuff either, not to mention the price and some of those Schnee's are too stuck up for my liking to buy their crap, but hey at the positive it opens up a range of outer casing materials you can have, and you will be able to carry double the amount of ammo if it's not dust plus no extra inner casing and coating for it…" Adam listened as his teacher prattled on, "alright, seeing the others are way behind I think it's time for you to look over what we can start doing with this sheath of yours…" Qrow looked at the name of it in the top right hand corner of the designs "Blush, hmm that's a pretty name, so Wilt is the sword and Blush the sheath that fires and releases and stores energy, that's interesting, come on kid."

Qrow got up and walked over to the side of the academy styled class room, Adam had noticed the giant metal high security roller door, and when the passcode is entered it opened to a large material warehouse with a working station and forge. Adam smiled, oh yeah he will be getting the best sheath and most possibly doing up Wilt too, he had noticed that many of his peers were nowhere near his level of combat prowess however that did not mean he held back with them.

Cat tried to make as much money as possible she knew Adam needed a pass to be able to take his weapon wherever he went, and part of the pass was a scroll, she had taken up the max amount of hours in the café and then on top of that she also had been cleaning as many shoes, but the people were just not into letting pretty little girls do that and instead gave her money so she could get something to eat, much to her annoyance, but they gave her more than what she charged to clean shoes so she couldn't be that angry. Cat spent most of her time saving and storing her money, she had managed 150 lien, Erza scraped away another 250 lien, and Julian had 80 lien, the rest of the money went to food, clothes and school necessities and seeing as both Grey and Tomb were at Beacon they did not have a job, as that was taking all of their focus however Bianca had a job at a local dust warehouse but she was very greedy and selfish with her money and did not share a cent, meanwhile Becca was attending a normal school and on the soccer team, she worked at a fast food takeout to afford things she needed, but if she had the extra 20 lien that they needed then Adam would have his pass.

Signal was a while away from home, same with Beacon and due to the dormitories Tomb and Grey never came home until it was holiday time and then the house felt full again, Scar became less present and more active on missions. Erza took on a full time position at a large company becoming an office manager after she learned all her skills from Tukson on how to run and manage a business, and she learned her own administrative skills, however she mentioned that she only got the job because she was human, and stating that if she had been a Faunus it would not have happened as she felt very under skilled for it. When Cat got home she was ran smack bang into Scar who was in the entryway, he must have just gotten home himself, Jimmy and Cat both called him dad along with Erza but Grey called him uncle and the others simply called him Da or Scar, Bianca was a little bit of a stuck up selfish brat however she always sucked up to 'da' when he came home, by getting him food and letting all know to keep it down as he was most likely trying to sleep. When Cat got home she had realised that it was late, many people learned over time where they lived and that was possibly because of the school Adam went to plus Becca going to a normal school, Grey and Tomb only went to Beacon all the rest are working their own jobs and using training and home schooling.

"Hey dad your home, are you going to sleep or to stay up for dinner?" The entryway was packed up with his weapon and bag along with his discarded cloak, he had been gone longer this time as a lot of activity had been going on in Mistral's boarders, and so three months this time instead of the typical one but that meant he was staying home longer to do training. "Ah I think I might go to sleep for a while, this was a big one," Erza, Bianca, Jimmy, Julian and Cat watched as he took off at a very slow pace up the stairs with a slight limp he didn't have last time. "He is getting old, we should give him more time to rest," the others nodded solemnly agreeing with the cook, Erza had Thursday nights off early from her job, it was now their Spag night as she had the time to cook it. Over the years and seeing as Brock and Erza worked, the house got done up a little bit over the course of time, such as the bathroom, it was what was fixed up first allowing them to shower in hot water and clean up, other than that the front doors and new floor boards and roof, most was all DIY stuff that they all pitched in to fix.

The front door opened quickly as Brock came in and hung up his own coat, "who's that?" Erza called out, Bianca sat on the staircase looking at the front doors, "Brock, still no Adam or Becca…" Cat noticed the small frown to Bianca's face which was unlike her because she would never pull an ugly face. "What's wrong Bianca?" "I have a bad feeling, I know that Becca had soccer training tonight, but I don't know just a feeling," Cat had learned over the years that they were not called the BB twins for no reason, they both seemed to share the same wave length, so if one was worried it was normally for a good reason. "I'll go out and check maybe meet up with her and walk home together, I'll be back with Becca soon Erza," "you're leaving! People are meant to be returning home not going out…" Erza heard the door close knowing her words were brushed off yet again. Cat leaped down the broken concrete steps and smacked right into Adam's chest, "whoa Cat what's got you fluffed up?" "I'm going to find Becca; Bianca was worried over her," Cat didn't need to say anymore as Adam joined her.

It wasn't the first time one of their family members had been abused or attacked, but Becca had no training, no aura and no semblance and in that regard a soccer boot to her face caused her to get a broken jaw. It started off as training and the coach calling her off to the side mentioning scouts coming to the next game to see if they can pick up on early potential they could build off of, and for her to be at her best, he had high hopes for her as she was talented. However that went downhill as Becca left for home taking her usual route with her training duffle bag which Bianca had bought her as a congrats for getting on the soccer team, to say the family was shocked was an understatement as even Becca was that her twin would buy something for someone else. Three human girls on the same team as hers, the ones who passed her the ball and they did drills for hours and learned new techniques together to get better, yeah those girls jumped her and after three punches landed, one on her right rib, another on her stomach and the last on her jaw putting her down to her hands and knees. Becca had dropped her bag and only then did the three and herself heard someone yell out hey stop that, Becca was so sure the assault was done until she received a very powerful kick to her face, so strong she feel from all fours flipping onto her back as blood sprayed from her mouth.

Cat and Adam had jogged most of the way Becca took home, and noticed one person on the ground and up against a wall while three were over her all in soccer boots and the same uniform as Becca, showing it was her school mates. Cat could not see like Adam could in the dark so when his voice rose and he yelled "hey stop that," it was then that Cat ran with him knowing that it was Becca. However before running off one girl needed to get the last kick in and it was hard, Cat heard the resounding crack and the red spray from the minimal light from the street lamps. Cat made a worried sound and picked up her pace, she got that gut drop feeling like she just watched a death take place again. Cat dropped to her knees the second she was next to Becca her voice got watery, "Becca," there was no response and Cat panicked thinking the worse, as she placed her hands on the inside of Becca's arm hoping to feel a beating in her wrist. Adam ran off for the others but they had gotten a head start, once they were too far Adam chose to give up the chase to stick to his sisters, he was very worried after seeing the last blow.

Adam heard the cries off Cat calling him, no matter how much Cat checked she did not get a pulse and she panicked more, "Adam!" it was a desperate plea in her voice, and Adam's own stomach dropped when he heard it. He dropped to Becca's side and took up her wrist too not feeling a pulse either, he moved his hand to her neck, and then the other side he finally put his hand under her nose and above her mouth trying to feel wind passing, finally laying his head on her chest he heard no beating, "Cat move, we need to do CPR," His voice was worried but commanding as he begun palpitations and then cleared her airway and breathed in her mouth, Cat took over with the breathing so it would be smoother. Cat felt like they were on a mission trying to get their sister to breath once more, "come on dammit, Becca, breath" and as if his commanding tone made her do it, she took in a deep breath as her body arched and she began to cough up, Adam moved her into a side position for her to catch her breath.

"Oh my god" Becca groaned out in pain and began to cry she was only 11 and was not used to pain on this scale, her whole head and face felt like one big swore but it went deep seeping into the bones as she could taste blood in her mouth and feel it going down the back of her throat. Her eyes were so swollen she could not see through them and other than that her ribs and stomach were sore, "Adam…" Becca had never sounded so weak and defeated and it pissed him off greatly, "I'm gonna take you to the nearest hospital…" "No, we can't afford it…" it aggravated him that she was right, but she needed medical attention, Cat chose to speak up, "it's alright we have the money and we can do extra shifts…" "Just take me home, Erza will know what to do," "Dad's home too," Cat supplied, which prompted Adam to look to her "he is?" she nodded, "alright home it is, but if one of them says hospital or house doctor then we do that."

When Bianca randomly screeched out in pain holding her stomach and then her face, the family was very concerned, they knew they had a twin thing going on, it became obvious when one got hurt so did the other but only in feeling wise. Erza came rushing out, "what's wrong!?" "My face, I can't breathe…" Bianca was crying so hard she was hiccupping and making a choking sound, the loud noise and panicked sounds woke up Scar as he got up obviously on alert and rushed down the stairs pausing when he saw Bianca and asked the same question as Erza, "It's Becca!" was al Bianca yelled out and Scar bounded down pass her and grabbed his large axe and made his way out side and down the street, Brock grabbed ice in the freezer something they had begun doing when training got harder and Becca started soccer. He made his way back to Bianca putting it on her face, and holding her rocking her back and forth, "It will be alright Cat went to go look for her."

Adam had picked up Becca in his arms and with Cat at his side they rushed home even though Becca protested with every hit his foot made against the pavement, "it hurts" she whimpered to Cat as she said "I know Bec, Erza and dad will know what to do." Cat could hear the footsteps at the same time Adam announced who it was "its dad," his voice sounded panicked but also relieved and that was the first and only time he had called Scar dad and Cat was silent as she had noticed he didn't realise at all. "Becca, let me have a look, no this is really bad get her to the hospital now, Adam! Cat go home and tell the others we will be home later," Cat nodded and rushed off down the street Julian was waiting outside keeping a watch out for when someone would come home, once he could see Cat he made a loud howling allowing the others to know someone was back.

Cat followed right behind Julian into the house who continued to make dog sounds, and in an instant she was surrounded by the rest of the family all asking what was happening, it was now that Cat was in the light that she could see Becca's soccer bag that she carried had blood on it and she was sure she did too after doing CPR on her, and then Cat froze realising her sister died and she would need to tell them all that, she was stiff as a board. She looked over to Bianca on the stairs crying and holding ice to her face as she walked over and handed the bag to Bianca; who clutched it to her person and wept, "I should have mentioned something sooner." "She is alright I think, Adam came with me when I left the house, we came upon three girls attacking her they all looked to be in soccer gear and also with in the same uniform as her, Adam and I got her and met up with dad on the way home and he told me to say what happened, they took her to the hospital, Becca didn't want to go after we resuscitated her…" "RESUSCITATED!" they all screamed at once and ever Julian howled "yes, she kept saying we couldn't afford it, but dad and Adam are with her, Adam chased them but turned back to check on her and… well you know what we did then."

The house was dim after that, no one wanted spag and all sat on the stairs taking turns to go out and keep watch in the dark which was Jimmy, Julian and Brock while the three girls stayed inside trying to minimise the massive pain Bianca could still feel, Erza had gotten the cheap period pain relief tablets she normally took and had them ready for Bianca when or if she wanted them, her pain indication helped them know when she was getting treatment. It was late when Julian made a noise and Cat went out only to find it was for them to put Jimmy to bed as he was falling asleep on the front concrete steps, Cat picked him up and took him to the front room, and started the fireplace for warmth, not that they had been thinking about that the past few hours. It was when Bianca gasped out in pain again that she demanded the pain killers and downed them quickly, Erza theorised that maybe they were setting something, and at that moment Julian howled out again, and Brock stood up, "brother is Bec all right?"

When Adam arrived home it was obvious he was tired, he still had smears of brown blood on him; Cat had long since cleaned up herself and the bag that she brought home with her, to help calm the others especially Bianca. "They had to put her into surgery, she got a broken rib, broken jaw and nose, apparently when the girl hit her in the rib cracking it, it also punctured her lung and the hit to the stomach caused her spleen to rupture and fill with blood, so operation, Scar is staying to be by her side, and the police arrived and question us, so we had an official report." Once Adam arrived home the others came back in and Julian went to bed along with Bianca who was exhausted from pain, Cat sat down and had a drink of water with Adam, it was obvious that the two were shook up after what they saw and experienced having to bring their sister back to life. Cat thanked the gods that Adam had come with her, if not this could have been a totally different situation, and very sad news, Adam looked to her, "it's alright, she will be fine, everything will be fine." Adam was only 12 but he was still tall and strong, he had actually gotten taller than Grey and sometimes he held that above him, he was also looked up to by the others over Brock, as he was not great when it came to serious situations like this, the only person taller and stronger than Adam in the house hold was Scar their guardian.

Meanwhile Cat was only 8 but knew her way around the streets and usually walked with them to different places, she was small and quick, and she never thought she would feel so much negativity she honestly thought she was going to spew up from too much. "Adam I think I am going to be sick," Adam got up moving out of her way so she could rush to the bathroom and be sick, but it was a black sludge like negativity that she absorbed, it looked like what the grim bodies were made out off. "Are you right Cat?" Adam stood at the bathroom entryway, knowing she was going to be sick for a while as the family had not been this negative since she joined the family. "Want to go release it?" Cat nodded and like a zombie she followed Adam out to the front steps leaving the door open, it was a good thing that they lived in the slums and warehouse district, there was no one around for ages and also the reason why when they were loud and Julian howled no one yelled out or went off. They sat down "show me what else you've created," Cat closed her eyes thinking off a dream she had that gave her chills, it was a large black horse with bits of skeleton showing through and red eyes, it had eight legs and a rider on top in all black med-evil armour and a black cloak that looked like shadows. "And what's his name" "headless horseman," next to come up were the two grim Beowolves that she named "twiddle dumb and dee," next to show up was a of course the smiley-man and then the next was a white man with creepy eyes in a long grim reaper coat the man looked like he died of cancer seeing as he had no hair and was so sickly pail, however he had sharp nails, and a back and red fully spiked dog with yellow glowing eyes showed up next to him.

Adam lifted an eyebrow "the bye, bye man," and then the next was a human figure wrapped up in black bandages and long black hair that only revealed one eye however its arms were cut of short and replaced with swords, "the grim reaper." Adam had known about Twiddle dumb and dee as well as the smiley- man, but the others were new to him, "feeling better?" she shook her head no, Adam was surprised to see she had made so many all at once and they simply stood out on the street, as she continued to make more, he wondered if negativity was measured differently than aura as she never seemed to run out but also negativity seemed to be very powerful. "What else do you have then?" "The juganaught," and out of darkness shined two large lights, they were burning iron cage lanterns but they were very large, and attached to chains.

Adam could hear them clink as he looked up he saw a large creature with four legs two forwards and two on the other side, and it had four arms there was no real face as it had a large mouth that opened up to razor sharp pointed teeth, it also had no eyes or nose but the head went up into a Mohawk that was obviously sideways, made of hard sharp bone, when it turned Adam noticed the opposite side was the same and it was easily able to see over the other buildings and warehouses in the vicinity. Adam looked to Cat in surprise, "wow that is a big one, he's like your trump card or something," Adam kept a light voice trying to be happy, truly he was, he was proud of her, and to see just how many things she could make and hold was impressive especially this last one, it was just sad to think that she may have encountered these in her dreams first before being able to create them and make them her guards instead. "Wow so that's how many you have so far," Cat looked to Adam now looking tired and as her nightmare semblance faded away she said "no, those were just the ones I brought out to show you, you know my semblance is as powerful as my imagination," she yawned "Adam do you think that those girls who did that to Bec will be caught?" Adam was now negative again, "I don't know but I won't hold my breath Bec is a Faunus and those girls were human so possibly no, however she knew them by name and she told the officers that before going in to surgery."

Cat slept soundly after hearing Adam state that the girl's names were known and given to the authorities, and so from there they would hopefully be properly reprimanded. Everyone was slow and tired taking up shifts as their guardian came home to change clothes and had a piece of paper that held an amount that the hospital charged, "she's coming home tomorrow stable and will be on bed rest, she is to do nothing understand any injury to her spleen will be dangerous and land her back in hospital." It was without saying that they would do what they could for her, Erza grabbed the bill off of their dad and looked at it, her eyes bulged but she swallowed it down and nodded "that's including her medication," a few others looked over and noticed that it was 24,000 Lien, so much for saving up.

Adam had many run in's with the others at Signal Academy, many picked fights with him for being a Faunus while others did it because they were jealous he was top of the class, Mr Branwen and the other teachers did not take lightly to racist bulling, and soon Adam stopped having to heal his wounds before getting home so his family didn't panic at him being attacked. Again a sneaky over the back of the head smack with a lunch tray and then a quick knee to the face breaking his nose, before they could run off, Hider and his pal Tommo were grabbed by the scruffs of their neck as Mr Branwen said "yous are going the wrong way, detention is that way, till 4PM," he put them down and just as they were leaving one slipped over nothing and landed with a wet splatter sound as he nearly bit his tongue off and he tried to grab for his friend but ended up dacking him. "Tommo and Hider to the nurses office, your detention starts tomorrow," Qrow helped his best student up of three years, he took him to his class room, and passed him a tissue, "now seeing as they are in the nurses office let's set the break and you can heal it with your aura."

After a few tears sprung forth and a manly yelp rung out, Adam was activating his aura to heal, Qrow knew his best student to date had an awesome semblance and nice amount of aura to boot. "I normally state I a bringer of bad luck however you tend to get your fair share, tell me honestly do you actually hit them because they keep coming back at ya, like its gonna change somehow?" Qrow had noticed a few of the class men continued to beat on Adam and it never stopped after the first year, he knew it was racism but he wondered if maybe fights going on outside of school that no one was aware off. "No teach, I simply have one of those faces only humans want to punch," Qrow laughed "well don't worry kid I aint infected with the bug, but hey you can hit back, I honestly don't know how you've held back so long over the years," Adam shrugged looking over the long sword on the forge work bench as Qrow tinkered with it and it blew out a part and Qrow reefed his bloody hand back in pain. Adam had noticed a pattern with his teach and had guessed his semblance but never told anyone what it actually was, "hey teach, I know you don't like to tell people but honestly is your semblance bad luck or something because a lot of accidents happen to you or those around you." Adam only meant it as a joke but as Qrow cleaned up his hand in the sink he kept quiet, "that obvious huh?" Adam was surprised "wow, so then why do you activate it then?" Qrow sighed "mine doesn't come with an off or on switch it is always working in the background un-noticed by me, however sometimes I can see bad luck before it happens… yeah I know strange to learn there are semblances that are always active…" Adam nodded "honestly you're the second person I have met with a constant semblance my little sister has one always active too, she had to put in a lot of hours training to learn to control it, its mental so she can easily do that but a small slip up in mentality or such as dreams she can then become dangerous to live in a house with."

Adam laughed over the small close calls they had over the many years and how they all laughed it off the next morning to get over the negativity, Cat was always very appreciative of their understanding, especially when she pulled out 'the chewie's', those things terrified Jimmy, actually everything terrified Jimmy. "Seriously, wow is it dangerous?" Adam nodded "yeah, actually the first night we became aware of it…" Adam took of his jacket and then his shirt, Qrow was slightly weirded out until Adam turned and showed him the scar that was once very deep, "holly shit…yeah I'd say that's a little deadly, I still can't believe this is the first time your speaking of your family so open to me, is this the same sister that was attacked a few years back?" Adam had re-dressed when he listened to his teacher wrapping up his own hand and then begun to pick up the small bits from the damaged weapon. "No that was my other younger sister, I think I mentioned them but yeah, I think it's because none of us are blood related, but where still a family." Qrow smiled "that's good to hear, family is important, I even have my own nieces that I help take care of, and I honestly think I would have been six feet under years ago if it weren't for them… I also sometimes think I will be six feet under because of them one day." Adam chuckled with his teacher, "say Adam is your sister coming to Signal too, the one with the constant activated Semblance," Adam shrugged his shoulders "I honestly don't know, but she is keen in her training, so I guess it's a yes, however unlike me who was already on my way with my weapons, she has no clue what to get, she focuses on learning all individual weapons, along with her aura and obviously semblance but nothing that is hers, I don't think she knows how to maximise negativity or something to help store it for her that she can also fight with."

Qrow was intrigued he had seem millions of ideas for weapons and builds; he had many himself and not just scythes, "did you say negativity?" Adam nodded "yeah she takes negativity like a sponge it works like aura in her body, so in a chaotic situation her power is increased tenfold because she is always absorbing it and with her aura she manifests nightmares with it, but she can command them and they are so well thought up that they have their own positive's like abilities and strengths, the juganaught was the biggest I've seen so far, but she always is coming up with new things it's hard to say which has the best ability…maybe the bye, bye man." Adam leaned against the other bench as his teacher listened in obviously thinking up a way to allow her a weapon that could help her semblance or at the very least a fighting style weapon optimised to her person. "Well I hope I see her one year, she sounds like the sky is the limit kind of deal…" "Well if she does then it will be next year."

Becca ended up getting retribution on the three girls on her soccer team who attacked her so that she would not be scouted and they would have a better chance, they were kicked off the team and expelled by the school which had a 0 bulling tolerance. Becca ended up getting scouted the next year and was hired by a soccer team called the Jillaroos and from time to time she would send post cards of her training in soccer and her travelling the world. She was still only a teen but had been on the front cover of sports illustrated and top ten most famous and young achiever Faunus in remnant and that was before she had five sponsors for her and her team which she was captain off. From time to time she would send money home and that all went towards the giant loan the family took out to pay off her hospital bill; Becca also became an anti-bullying spokesperson speaking of her terrible ordeal and bring awareness to racism, bullying and Faunus rights needing a serious look at. Bianca had joined Becca in her trips all over the world and training, the incident had been a big scare for the twins and they stayed close after that, Bianca did everything Becca needed her too, and over a few short years Bianca was Becca's manager and setting up a lot of the on the side projects Becca did around her full time career as a pro soccer player; however they made dates and took time off to always come home twice a year when those in the hunter schools also were on holidays.

Adam was on his last year at Signal when Cat was joining in her first year and Julian was a year ahead of her, he was mercilessly teased due to using sign language, however now he lip synced at the same time as he signed. The family were so used to him lip syncing that he normally didn't sign and they all just spoke back to him like normal, Adam and Cat had to stick up for him, it wasn't that he couldn't but they feared he would snap and accidentally kill someone; his semblance was after all a crushing gravity ability that was limited by proximity. It was around this time of year when more talks on the news were showing up and Becca was doing talks and speaking up about the rights of the Faunus and even promoting a new peace organisation that promoted and spoke up as one voice called the White Fang they wanted better rights, so when one was hurt or killed they would be investigated just like a human case, and the same for better jobs and pay for them, and the list went on.

Adam, Julian and Cat watched the large holographic screen in the cafeteria as a Faunus named Ghira Belladonna and their sister Becca and many other famous and high ranking Faunus spoke on screen about the White Fang and what their goal is. It was very inspiring and a few Faunus and even humans in the lunch hall cheered, Cat smiled at them "it's so good to see how far one voice has gone and now an organisation standing up for the rights of Faunus, I am so proud of them all!" Cat noticed the admiration and happy look in her brothers eyes at that time, she saw something gleam in Adam's is showed hope. It had been a while since Cat had seen a smile on Adam's face, when she had come to signal she had learned that Adam was harshly bullied all the time he had come to Signal, and once they learned Cat was his sister but was a human it did not change a thing, she was bullied all the same.

Qrow Branwen was her weapons teacher and seemed to make a bee-line to her which made her think she was in trouble, "you must be Cat I heard so much about you from Adam, he said you may need help with a weapon choice, something about having a troublesome semblance?" Her new weapons teacher had taken a seat across from her as he laid an art book down in front of her, "your brother told me you are one of the best fighters in hand and all weapons, stating the problem isn't that but just something to balance you out… can you stand for me?" Cat had been surprised that Adam had gone ahead and told her weapons teacher about her and her weapon issue, and now she was getting the help she needed, but she noticed the teacher was a little enthusiastic about choosing a weapon for her. "I've doodled a ton of designs and ideas for you, in there are all the materials and items needed to make anything you want, so you can test it, he mentioned you called upon creations of your own, is there anything they are lacking…" When Cat gave him a questioning look Qrow elaborated "are none good at long range, or are not flexible or quick or not heavy hitters something they all don't have available that you may be able to pick up and capitalize on?"

Cat had thought over it a little, she had small and fast, air coverage, big hitters fast and nimble but distance was an issue, as they only lasted so long as they were within proximity to her, so she guest range was the one none of them had a lock on long range sight or attack, but she also wanted something for is someone breached her guard and got in too close, and something to help with aura or her semblance more would be useful. She told all of this to her teacher who leafed through his ideas, and took up a new page and wrote down what she wanted and was considering, he mentioned negativity was not like dust, but that in atlas they created something that could pick up on it and measure it as well as contain a small amount, and that made her hopeful.

It had been an eventful full day for Cat as she enjoyed going to school for the first time in her life, and being in a classroom with teachers who were very involved with her studies. However she was not the only one to have a full day, Julian had already been going to Signal a year prior and knew all the spots that allowed him to hide, since Becca and the White Fang had been speaking up, those who bullied him just increased it and that was something he hid from. Julian knew if he didn't he may just get defensive and take a bite out of one of them, and then there was Adam, who ignored those who spoke spiteful words and tried to rile him up. It became obvious to Adam, his guardian and his siblings that he had a nasty temper so bad that he oozed negativity and spite and he just seemed to be unstoppable when his sights were on his target, he became evil in a way. So Scar spent extra time teaching Adam on how to keep his emotions under wraps and breathing exercises and mantras and such to keep him levelled headed and not snap. They were very handy and had kept him out of trouble many years that he was in Signal, but it only took one comment to unravel all that hard work and training. "I heard you have a little sister who's human," "did you have to brainwash her like how the white fang are doing it to try and get what they want by force," "nah who knows maybe they tie her up and abuse her…" "yeah sexually" the few went back and forth speaking up and finishing each other's sentences as Adam walked pass them when they mentioned Cat he tensed but breathed through it, it got harder when they suggested brain washing and then when they said they tied her up and abuse her but when the last guy said sexually, Adam literally saw red, and the red hit the floors and the walls and they stopped running their mouths when he was done.

Qrow had to get between fights and stop many in his days however this one was the hardest to stop not because he was sure they had this coming but because Adam Taurus was strong and near impossible to pull off of the three boys who were unconscious or groaning. Qrow actually panicked when he saw how much blood was drawn from the three as the school hall now looked like an apocalypse broke out and the teenagers were feeding on brains. Qrow called out "Tai a little help!" Cat looked shocked with wide eyes and held her hands to her mouth, she knew Adam was intense and his rationality became non-existent when his rage and wrath reared its ugly head, there was Mrs Kit trying to pull the three boys away from the angered teen, and two fully grown pro-huntsmen trying to pull one Adam Taurus away from those he was still reaching for even with his knuckles bloody and busted. Cat walked up and yelled "enough Adam!" and like a switch was flipped he stopped, blinked and his eyes were not a pure blackness anymore as he relaxed and frowned looking at his knuckles and both Tai and Qrow collapsed to the floor in absolute exhaustion. "Can you please take yourself to the principal's office," Adam didn't need to be told twice as he darted out of the hallway and Cat had accompanied him to make sure nothing triggered him, however his hand didn't stop bleeding and he was slightly shaken, he seemed to have no memory of what happened after those three spoke.

Adam and the others shared their life stories; no secrets was the rules and as all now knew she was abducted and abused and her attackers paid the price when her semblance came and saved her, as she got older and so did the others they were then let in on the abuse and memories that Cat had of her parent. Cat only had one parent that being her mum who had green eyes and white hair, she was beautiful and always called her Baby so much that it could have been her name, the problem was when she was trying to stop the abduction the Lancaster's killed her. Cat did not see it but she had heard it, like a fish being gutted and a chocking gasp sound and then nothing, she informed her siblings the abuse wasn't just mental and emotion or physical violence as it was sexual, and that was where the smiley-man came from, she said that as Mr. Lancaster held a smile that was evil and promised pain for her he however was always so happy with what he got out of it, and that he always took her to the basement where he had it set-up just the way he liked it. The mask he wore was a demonic pumpkin-peat Halloween mask and all of the events rolled into one which lasted a long time caused her to make a mental block just to deal with reality and then her aura and semblance became known.

It was due to knowing each other so well, caring for each other, growing with each other that Adam snapped, she had been brain washed, tied up, held against her will, abused and raped that he had snapped and attacked them, he feared what would happen if it had been her who heard that instead of him, but he was sick of feeling so weak not able to shut them up and for a second there he wanted to permanently. Adam had told Cat she was not allowed in with him and the principal as she was not to hear what they spoke off, the seriousness in his words made her pause, so she agreed and waited outside, both Mr Qrow and Mr Tai went in and spoke of what happened. Adam admitted to what he could remember and stated what they said that pushed him over the edge, "Adam just because kids say it does not make it true…" "But it is," everyone paused and then Adam picked up on what they jumped to "not us, but it had happened to her, you're lucky it was me that heard them and not her, at least they still have their lives intact." The principal was not happy in hearing that, but Professor Branwen stated that Cat had a dangerous semblance and even though Adam's actions were not condoned if it was Cat they would have a fatality, Adam agreed to whatever consequences came of his actions and also mentioned he was trained to not allow his anger to get the best of him, but some people were just good and being so horrible holding back was no longer an option.

The Principal had his head in his hands and groaned "and on the first day of classes, you know your our top student in all of Signal but that doesn't mean you should go unpunished…" the principal looked pained at what he had to deliver especially when he saw the damage to the three boys and the phone ringing about lawyers and the student better be expelled or else they would be suing the school, "I'm so sorry Adam, but you are expelled from Signal Academy effective immediately, please pack up your belongings and leave the premises Professor Branwen will see you to your things and then off the grounds, I hope you continue down the path of a hunter, you do have a good heart and there are other hunter schools available out there, so don't give up." It was while the principal was talking that Adam had remembered the White Fang and his little sister speaking on behalf of the Faunus and it made him feel light and happy and as if he had a place he could fit in and belong. "I think I might volunteer and do some good for a while," Adam stood and shook the hand of the principal, "thanks for all the opportunities and training," and with a real smile he turned and left with the two step brother teachers behind him with confused looks.

Cat had been shocked when she learned Adam was expelled from school only one year from graduation and then Beacon was next in line, "but that's not fair, they harassed you for years…" Adam turned to her "it's alright Cat I can get a job or travel but I think I may see why Becca is promoting this White Fang peace organisation so much, maybe do some good." Cat saw that look in his eyes again, hope, happiness, admiration and resolve, it was as Mr. Qrow followed them that he learned the family dynamic, not that he liked to get involved with drama or his students lives because his was enough drama for a soup opera but because he liked Adam, he already broke records on scores at Signal and he had good character and heart but he didn't get to complete it, it was such a shame to him. Cat was obviously attached to her older brother it reminded Qrow of how Ruby is with him, always sticking to him like a bad smell and wanting a cape just like his and to train and learn and hold his scythe. It had put a little smile on his face, he followed them around listening and then noticed Julian their brother joined them, the kid didn't speak only made sounds and lipped his words but they fully understood him, for others he used sign language which Qrow was terrible at and with a scroll had to ask him to type or write out his questions and answers, Qrow was too old to learn something knew like that.

"You're not leaving right away are you?" Cat looked and sounded panicked, and then Julian spoke up "are you going with Becca and Bianca or are you joining the White Fang all on your own?" While Cat didn't want him to leave Julian was just so excited to hear about it and looked like he was considering tagging along too. "Julian you cannot be serious, I know that look…" "Cat~ just leave him be, if he wants to go then let him, school will always be here not to mention Scar trained us enough to let us not even go to school, I get it you and Erza are the smart asses of the family…" "and not to mention Uber talented" Adam chuckled at his younger brothers words "you honestly should have skipped Signal and gone to Beacon but you're a little sponge and we all love you regardless, so while you flourish here we will do well in the White Fang, it's all right…" The kids had stopped and so did Qrow watching as the tough looking and acting prodigy student of his softened up and consoled his little human sister. "But I will only be left with Jimmy and all the others are dam adults!" she began to cry trying hard to wipe her tears away, Qrow was thrown a loop, he was confused as Julian and Adam shared knowing looks.

Cat had learned and thought differently growing up, she did not see her family as Faunus or human she saw them as family, like Brock was Brock not human or Faunus but Brock was nice and soft. Cat was very simplistic, black and white reality she liked to define into a category good or bad, and sometimes doing bad things for a good reason or good things for bad reasons. She was observant growing up even if she did not understand what she was seeing or hearing, like when Grey came home over break and Cat shook Adam awake, since the floors were fixed the sleep Adam got was blissful. "Adam wake up, I need to use the bathroom," she whispered Adam frowned "and why do you need to wake me up for that," he questioned "because Grey and Erza are in there…and being loud…" "hmmm" it took him a full five seconds for that to compute to him and then the last bit of her sentence as he thought on it harder and his brain now being in its puberty state knew what was going on behind closed doors. "Oh, so you want me too?" Adam trailed off, as he looked to Cat on her knees as she had her hands planted on her crotch and a look of uncomfortable pain on her face, "come on, I really need to go~" she whined "alright, just keep it down,"

Adam got up of his now better mattress and went out into the entry way he looked to the bathroom and then to the front doors, he figured even if he knocked and stopped them it would take too long for them to leave the room, so he moved to the front doors and opened them and walked out. "What are you doing, I said I wanted to pee not go on a midnight stroll," Cat complained doing a little shuffle and her hands still planted where they were, "do you want to pee or not?" Cat paused in thought but continued following him and only just making it down the small concrete steps without losing her bladder, Adam pointed to the alleyway next to their home "squat in there and I'll make sure no one comes and see's you, not that there is anyone at this end of town." Adam mumbled the last part, Cat was shocked "you can't be serious; what if someone steps in it or…well it's just embarrassing Adam, I don't want to…" In honesty Cat was also embarrassed at the tell-tale sign of hearing her pee out in the alley-way like a male cat marking its territory. Adam sighed in tiredness, "either go here, piss yourself and dirty your clothes or wait forever when those two to finally leave the bathroom," Cat made a whinny noise but finally went over to the wall pulled up her nightie and pulled her panties out of the way while she squatted, she was so relieved that she had to stop herself from making her own sigh, but she hatted the embarrassing echo sound of the liquid hitting the pavement and had to make sure none of it hit her feet, legs or her undies.

The next embarrassing thing was learning about becoming a woman from Erza turned out she could not teach everyone anything as she got terrible with her words and all the innuendoes that went over her head that were dished out by the BB twins about Erza and Grey. As they grew all got a scroll to help with communication and also many had an aura so that helped with keeping track of it all, Cat was also very hyper aware of adults after the way those two adults took her and then treated her it only made Adam hate them more, plus Cat noticed it wasn't Faunus or Humans that were bad but the adults from her point of view as they looked down on those younger than them, as if they were smarter, wiser and had everything in the palm of their hands while children were the dirt under their feet, and those that were nice she liked but she still thought they were weird but that was due to her naivety as Adam noticed they were not as shy and spoke of things she didn't understand, she also didn't like many she claimed that Scar their father was the only good one but that he did not act as an adult most of the time and that Erza did, from then on many poked fun at her and the things that went over her head. And from their she got the nick name squish as one night she got squished between Adam and Brock and the next morning some made a pun from a cartoon and the result of that lead to her being called Squish so that was her family nickname much like how the twins we called the BB's.

Adam hugged Squish and said "it's alright you can call us and face time us when you want and need too," Cat nodded and whipped her tears, "I just really wanted to graduate with you," Adam smiled "oh come now, if I graduated you would never be on my level your lucky I was expelled you need the time to catch up to me…" That helped to get Cat to see his challenge and stop the water works "oh yeah?" he nodded "yeah, I will test you when you're my age and see how you stack up…" Cat smiled and said "so long as you visit every holiday?" Julian raised a brow and lipped "we don't know how things will work in the White Fang but we will check in from time to time?" Adam nodded agreeing with his younger brother, Julian left to hand in the information that he was leaving Signal with only one yeah under his belt, meanwhile Cat stuck to Adam as he grabbed his belongings with Qrow being his shadow, he grabbed wilt and blush which was fully completed, "oh and professor, can you please make sure this one-"he pointed to Cat sitting on the desk in the class room as he grabbed his weapon. "Passes and gets a weapon that she can settle on, you only have four years before I test your combat skills," When Adam looked away Cat pulled one lower eye-lid down and poked out her tongue, and quickly stopped when he looked back to her as if nothing had happened. "I make no promises but like you she is smart and talented," Qrow had also shook Adam's hand "I'm gonna miss you kid, you were one of my best students…" "The other is me, by the way," Cat offered coming of sassy, Qrow actually laughed as Adam deadpanned "now do you see why I want to run away to the White Fang."

Julian and Adam promised to stick together but took off only once Scar arrived home, the house hold was doing much better with both Tomb and Grey hunters earning their income, Brock's small business getting reputation and happy clientele, Erza succeeding in her career, and the BB's living a life of travel and luxury and now Julian and Adam going off on their own adventure that only left Jimmy and Cat together at home, while Scar left on missions, Brock living in a studio above his shop so he could live and work together, and Erza getting her own place so that Grey could come home to her where they had their own privacy when he came off of missions, and Tomb moved to Mistral to work from his original home town, the twins and the others all promised they were going to stop in during holidays however some had already been missed. But that just meant that while a lot of money was being given to them it was just those two now and with Scar dropping in; it was obvious he wasn't getting any younger either.

It was only two years into Signal for Cat that Jimmy finally started his first year but he was uber talented like all their siblings were one way or another, Jimmy had the handsome striking looks and with blue hair and ears he flaunted it. But not just with flirting but with his smarts and his training, his aura was large and his semblance was time dilation and control to a certain degree, he was dangerous to go up against he could pause time and make as many hits on a target even kill them and then resumed time however it was area wise and took a massive toll on his body, he also had a bow and arrows that also separated into dual swords. And with credentials like those and way better scores than Cat and a weapon he perfected for his fighting style and semblance he flew up a few year levels and was Cat's peer in class.

Cat had eventually with A LOT of help from Mr. Qrow she was able to create a slimline Lance that had a capture filament lamp or lantern that hung of the end of it, it could be detached and placed on a belt that Cat wears that has many snipper rounds stocked on it, the lantern's core was a specific rare crystal and was every family members Christmas present to her, it pulled negative energy in the air to it and held it until Cat uses it, it was a large one too allowing it to hold higher amounts of negativity it worked a lot like gravity dust and spells. Cat had a black chrome lance with a jagged pointed top and end one smaller than the other and it allowed her to attach and detach her matching styled lantern, they had sharp edges and lines and the lantern' core glowed purple and smoking in look when it captured more negativity. The main lance could be popped into two main sections but still attached and by pulling the bottom end to be parallel with the top and clicking it into place a lens, trigger and ammo compartment pops out of the inner body making a high impact sniper rifle giving her the long range she wanted.

It had been difficult to decide on the materials and the way it would mecha-shift however Cat chose a manual release pin shift would be easiest and prevent faulty bits and pieces and save time. Her weapons class teacher had a lot of influence on her weapon and design especially when Cat chose to model the fashion she wore and the design of her weapon after her semblance and black aura, her semblance being called 'nightmare' and her symbol being a wickedly evil looking smiley-face on her belt and on the lantern face of her weapon. Normally the lance had the lantern attached and she carried it around, with her tight long black jeans, high heel knee high lace and leather boots, and a black lace blouse with a purple button- up vest and her symbol on the back of it in black too. All together Cat thought she looked like a bad ass, and had even named her lantern, lance sniper calling it "Polaris Lance" as polarity was the magnetism of an object but in her case negativity and it was a Lance so magnetic lance would be the best thing to call it however it didn't give it all away.

To be able to get this far Mr Qrow helped her a lot and she had even showed him her semblance by bring a nightmare to life this time it was 'the butcher' he had freaked and that filled up the lamp that was on her hip with her belt, it actually was very light and did not swing around as the bottom of the lantern had an anchor clip to keep it in place. Mr Qrow also got to see her fighting styles and other abilities, to say she won against her teacher was an understatement especially when his bad luck turned against him and made smiley-man go after him like Adam going berserk and Cat had to will it away. Cat's look was spunky enough but also very comfortable and clean, lancer fighters had very smooth slimline clothes that did not allow anything to get caught as they do a lot of intricate kicks, hits, twists and attacks with their weapon and body using one to propel the other, so clean, smooth and simple was why the bulkiest things on her are the lantern, which is not big at all and her belt of bullets with her symbol pin that was metal and black with a white infill for the eyes and mouth.

Jimmy was flirtatious but smart, as much as it annoyed her to deal with his annoying advances that he put on EVERY woman including the female staff of Signal and the students he was actually not a ladies man at all, and had never been kissed. Jimmy was a pretty done up unicorn however the unicorn was talented enough to fly and shit delicious eatable rainbows and fireworks, then there you go you got Jimmy down to pat. He actually gelled his hair back into short spikes and had a charming smile, your gonna die smile and a shit eaters smile, and then there was the one off frown, he had sharp white straight teeth, sharp nose and chiselled jaw, and he even had markings under his eyes which was not uncommon for Faunus born. Even though Jimmy was younger than Cat by two tears he shot straight up much like Adam did in his teenage years, and in doing so he also gained weight and muscle, and then he became a typical high school jerk that Cat couldn't stand as he joked around, flirted and showed off. The fact that it was only those two still living at home till Beacon started up, Cat was begging that they would not be on the same team as she couldn't stand him as he was now, let alone 24/7.

Adam was happy within the White Fang regardless of the hard and horrible missions and the pain that came with that; with that thought his left eye burned, there were different sections and areas, seeing as Julian was not great with communication but had advanced sensors from living in the wilds while he was young, he became a messenger as he too was extremely fast on his feet. Adam had proven to be a natural leader as he helped Sienna Kahn take care and protect Ghira Belladonna the leader of the White Fang. They had been simply touring through Remnant when they were passing through a small village, they were stopped and attacked and Sienna sent Adam in to stop them from killing one of their own, sadly it forced Adam's hand and he killed a human and he felt bad, he had siblings who were humans but they were nice unlike this one but he knew stooping to their level of killing was going to get them nowhere well he did until he was praised and Sienna agreed with his actions, that one of their lives was worth killing for. Things increased from there as they were actually doing good and changing the views humans had of them, no more signs of no Faunus allowed or will not be served and dust companies closed down due to strikes from their Faunus workers who were not even paid enough, but the big target was the SDC and was proving to be hard as they had lots of money and technology backing them.

It was during the time Adam had joined and he too met Ghira but also Blake, and Adam had trouble breathing, she had cute little cat ears on top of her head, and she was at every protest. It was when things turned to the members needing to know how to fight and defend themselves that Adam taught Blake how to fight and she unlocked her aura and semblance seeing as it was shadows it reminded him of Cat back home. Adam had been nervous meeting Blake, she was shy and read all the time, something the girls in his family too loved to do, so he was familiar and asked what she was reading, and it made it easier to approach conversation with her. When Adam saved Ghira Blake had been so thankful she hugged him and from then on Adam noticed admiration and pride within her eyes, when her parents dropped the white fang into Sienna's hands and scurried off home to their pathetic island Blake was angered and disappointed and she yelled at them and left. Adam took Blake on more seriously with her training and quickly she rose through the ranks with her natural talent and finesse like his own siblings.

Adam chose to keep the knowledge of his siblings and the fact he once went to a hunter school a secret, he learned that humans targeted his siblings when they knew they were family. It wasn't that he believed they would do that but the organisation was human hatred based and it made no point to bring up he had two human sisters, they would be confused and he didn't want them to know too much about him, hence why he wore a mask as well as it helped keep his anger in check but to cope with whatever he may do in these missions. Soon one death led to two then to three and then ten, it went up and Adam noticed the happy relish like drinking an ice-cold drink on a hot summers day after working out, it quenched his anger and a happiness exploded inside his chest something he hadn't felt since he was a kid in the BrickTar house playing one of the many board games Brock carved out of wood for them all. So the numbers never stopped gaining, Adam had fallen for Blake when he laid eyes on her, he didn't care about the age gap and neither did she, she actually was more frisky than he was and was into reading very pornographic books and beg him to act it out with her in a bed. Adam being the gentleman he was agreed to, he was her first and she his, Adam wasn't naive like his little Squish but he had never given his heart to someone, and he was so happy he had meet her, she was not only his partner but also her lover and he was her teacher too.

The deaths became a little issue she worried and complained not wanting them to kill the humans anymore. Adam stated they were accidents, then eventually he stopped with the excuses when it seemed she just agreed and accepted them, but he also noticed that there became a rift and she pulled away; less 'I love you' and more time spent with her as his lieutenant and him her commander and missions. Adam hated the humans so much but his anger had specifically been directed to the SDC and all those within it, his eye always burned when he thought about that dust company or went on missions pertaining to them, he had no sympathy for their workers as they stood by while he was branded like an animal. Other than that the time as boyfriend and girlfriend lessoned and she looked dull in the eyes, like there was no hope in the world.

And done, tell me if yous like it, I have two more parts to it which end up joining up with the story line and explains about Cat specifically but also more on the other siblings, I just am having a terrible time trying to end it. let me know if this is good, bad, any adjustments needed and what type of ending you want to see.