Hey guys, sorry about this. I had to make a slight change because I was writing myself into a wall. Overall plot hasn't changed, just a little something to keep it more in line with the Characters.

It had started small enough. It seems these things always start off small. Some name calling, some tripping, nothing major. It wasn't that Cardin particularly had anything against the rabbit girl, he just didn't like Faunus in general. At least…that's how things were.

Team CRDL were loafing around outside of the cafeteria, looking for a young kid to…borrow…some lunch money from. They had already had their fun with Jaune, or at least what they could before his partner rescued him. Now Cardin was on the hunt. He wanted someone who he could take his time with, whose team wouldn't show up and ruin the fun. Her.

Velvet Scarlatina timidly walked into the main lobby of the school, trying to blend in with the crowd. It didn't really work with the giant ears sprouting from her head. He knew that the second years had a major test coming up with Oobleck, and most had been sequestered in their respective rooms for the past several days. Meaning that the bunny girls' team wouldn't be making an appearance.

Whistling, he signaled Dove and Sky to steer the girl towards one of the empty classrooms. He beckoned Russel over before whispering something in the smaller boys' ear. Cackling, he ran into the cafeteria. Cardin glanced back up and broke out into a sneer. Sky and Dove had the Faunus in between them, leading her out of the flow of traffic. Oh yes, this would be all kinds of fun.

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Five minutes later…

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"You know, Yatsu is going to beat the pulp out of you, you do realize," Velvet scoffed at the two freshmen in front of her. They had grabbed her on her way to getting her team some lunch. Now they had her cornered by the chalk board. Seriously, the gall of these two. "But that's only if Coco doesn't get to you two first."

"I don't think they'll notice for a while," said a new figure sauntering into the room. He was a large kid, wearing plate armor with some kind of bird design on the breast plate. Behind him strode a smaller kid with a blonde Mohawk, trying to hide something behind his back. "After all, the lunch line tends to be really long this time of day."

"So what's this, you guys want to prove that you're the baddest boys here?" Velvet asked, hands on her hips, voice dripping with sarcasm. "You think that if you can mess with someone older than you that you're tough or something. Well, fine then. You guys are the toughest coolest guys here, you bullied a sophomore. Now, can I go get some food?"

"Oh, we're not trying to prove anything," smirked the large kid. He must have been their leader or something. "We're just looking to have a bit of fun. And we knew you must be hungry, so we decided to bring you something."

Puzzled, Velvet raised an eyebrow, challenging the boys to go on. Snickering, mohawk kid pulled out his arm from behind his back and threw something at her. Reflexes driven into her in her two years at Beacon took over, and she swatted it out of the air. The four boys erupted into roars of laughter. Perplexed, she glanced down at the thing. Really.

"Really boys, a carrot, because of my ears?" she asked. This only caused the boys to laugh louder.

"Oh, don't be like that bunny," the boy with the blue hair snickered. "You said you were hungry, so Russel over here did you a huge favor." Sighing, she turned and tried to push her way out of ring of freshmen. The one in the armor shoved her back against the wall.

"I wanna see her take a bite," added the fourth one. "Maybe she has buck teeth like a rabbit too." He kicked the orange stick towards her.

"Eat it, bunny bitch," said the armored one. For a moment she paused. She could give them what they wanted, and might leave her alone, or she could stand up for herself, but possibly make them angrier. Aw to hell with them.

"Fuck you guys," she yelled at them. "You just a bunch of overconfident meanies who-OW!" The big one had lashed out at her and slapped her ears, hard.

"Eat the damn vegetable, you stupid animal," the head boy barked at her. The other three boys weren't laughing anymore, their eyes just flickered between their leader and her. Resigned to her fate, she slowly squatted down and picked up the thing by the larger end. Standing back up, she held the thing in front of her lips for a moment. The boy started to raise his hand to slap her again, so she quickly took a nibble off the end, barely enough to be considered a bite. They had obviously hadn't even bothered to wash the vegetable beforehand; she could taste the dirt and grime on it. She nearly threw the small bite up right there.

"Good rabbit," the boy sneered at her. "It looks like the real people on your team haven't done a good enough job training you. Although, given rabbits' reputation, I'm surprised you didn't do something else with it." Rage. The fiery flood of it turned Velvet's vision red.

Throwing the vile orange thing at the armored boy, she snarled, "Shove it up yours, you prick." The carrot bounced off his breastplate with a small thunk. Before she knew it, she was reeling backwards, her Faunus eyes not being able to keep up with the lightning fast punch the boy threw at her. Her head cracked against the chalkboard behind her, and she crumpled to the floor.

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Cardin loomed over the creature on the floor. His rage, pent up over long years, was rising to the surface. Sure, he was mean to almost everyone, but he had a special, deep-rooted hatred for Faunus kind. No one knew his pain.

"Shut up you fucking animal," he roared down the dazed creature, his fury driving any reason from his mind. "You don't know a damn thing." He emphasized his sentence with a hard kick to her gut. Her hands scrambled to reach her camera bag. Rumor was that it was really her weapon. "No you don't" Cardin growled, ripping it from her. Unfortunately, as it was attached to her belt, it ripped her shorts off as well, leaving her in her tights. This detail went unnoticed by Cardin, his frenzy still controlling his mind.

"Dude, that's enough, you've made your point, let's scram," pleaded Russel, putting a hand on Cardin's shoulder to try to calm the boy. The next instant, he was flying through the air, knocked completely unconscious by a vicious blow from his friend and leader. Sky and Dove shared a brief look before the two of them scooped up their senseless teammate and fled the classroom.

"You need to know what you've done," screamed Cardin with a kick. "You need to know what pain your kind did to them. *kick* TO ME! *kick* YOUR KIND NEED TO BE PUT IN PENS! *kick* YOU NEED TO BE KEPT AWAY *kick* FROM *kick* REAL *kick* PEOPLE!" with that last word, he stomped down onto her knee, shattering the joint. Her blood curdling scream echoed around the room, freezing Cardin. As if emerging from a trance. He looked down in horror at what he had done. The girl was wheezing and gasping for breath, blood misted on her lips. Part of her femur broke through her skin at her destroyed knee.

Suddenly, suppressed memories flooded his mind. Another woman, clothing ripped, lying dead in a pool of her own blood. He stumbled back, but he couldn't escape the vision. A man was propped against pillar, his torso covered in horrific wounds, and his face…his eyes! Cardin tried to scream, but couldn't make a sound. Unfortunately for the big kid, someone else screamed.

"VELVET!"

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Team RWBY, as well as the girls from JNPR and Coco, had found Sky and Dove running through the halls not five minutes ago, sporting an unconscious Russel between them. The boys had pleaded with them to stop Cardin before they killed her. They didn't need to say who her was.

Coco screamed at the sight in the classroom. Velvet, her beloved partner, lay in a crumpled heap against a wall. Cardin, with Velvet's blood covering his boots and legs, was reeling away from her. He appeared in some kind of pain – from what she had no idea- but it didn't matter at this point. He crashed into the opposite wall, aura shattering from the blow, but stayed on his feet somehow. Weiss slipped past Coco and, with two quick slashes, froze the boy's – no, the monster's – hands to the wall.

"Ruby, grab Velvet and get her to the hospital," Yang barked. With a flurry of rose petals, the young girl and the rabbit Faunus disappeared.

"Good call, she doesn't need to see this," Pyrha seethed. With a flick of her wrist, Cardin's Armor was torn from his body. Nora stepped up to him first and, having drawn Magnhild and converted it to its hammer form, smashed his knees, one after the other. A small scream escaped Weiss before she fainted there, but the rest of the group hardly gave her any notice. Next Yang stepped up, eyes burning blood red, and began pummeling the poor boy. The blows began to land at an inhuman speed, thanks to Yang activating her aura, hitting his head, torso, groin, stomach.

After what seemed an eternity, the blonde brawler backed off, panting. Blake slowly strode up next, drawing Gambol Shroud in its katana form.

"I am not going to ask why you did it," she said, her flat monotone obscuring her ice cold fury. "I always knew you were a bad person, but I never thought you were a monster. I almost pity you, seeing you like this. But I've seen your kind before, real monsters, worse than any Grimm or criminal." She lashed out, two blindingly fast horizontal slashes followed by a vertical one. The others stared for a moment, thinking she had missed, but their faces transformed to expressions of awe upon seeing what happened. Blood wept out of the shallow wounds, looking like red tears. Blake had carved a capitol F onto the bigger boy's chest. She backed up, and the final girl approached.

"Any last words, monster?" Coco sneered at the miserable excuse for a human in front of her, leveling her mini-gun at him. By some miracle – or curse depending on your point of view – Cardin was still not only alive, but conscious. He coughed once, blood spurting from his mouth, before muttering two quite words.

"Kill me"

Coco froze, the two words hitting her like a slap. She looked down at herself, then at the others. Their expression mirrored her own; horror and disgust. In seeking to exact revenge for Velvet, they had done and become what they hated.

"What is this!" screeched a voice from the doorway. Glynda Goodwitch had arrived, along with the entire campus security force. "What have you girls done?! Look at him. I saw what he did, but…" she rattled on to the girls. Two of the security men broke Cardin out of his restraints and carted him to the campus hospital on a stretcher. The rest escorted the girls to the security office to be debriefed and, if needed, punished.

Glynda could do not but stare at the horror around her. Blood was everywhere, most of it Cardin's. What could cause people – Kids! – to do this? She wondered. Voices started to trickle into the room from the hallway, but with a flick of her crop she closed the door and locked it.

They didn't need to see the horrors that lay inside.

Hey guys, newwriter here. Thanks for reading my new story. I noticed that Cardin doesn't have much of a back story, or any story for that matter, so I'm making this. Leave a review to let me know what you think. Favorite if you like it. Follow to keep up to date with it. Thanks a lot to Writingwithgusto for the inspiration. Check out his profile for more great fanfics.

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