(A/N: So, I have word again, but I'm not going to immediately go back working on my other stories, if only because I need to get back into the swing of things. This story is me trying to get back into the mentality of a writer, and not that of a reader… so, let's give this a shot.)

I was walking through Downtown Vale with a travel cloak that came down to my calves, thrown on over my shoulders. The rain had stopped falling several hours ago, but I had little reason to take the thing off considering that I was walking through a part of Vale that was known for bar and gang fights, no need to stand out of the common rabble. I was on my way to a club that I went to every now and then owned by a man who goes by the name "Junior". I was just down the street when the man himself flew out of the front window of his establishment, followed by a young blonde following him, to continue whatever was started inside. I started to go stop the nonsense, but was beat to it by a girl that was dressed as little red riding hood.

"Yang? Is that you?" She asked as she tilted her head to the side.

"Oh! Hey sis!" said the one called Yang as she stood up.

"What are you doing here?!" said the girl as she put her hands on her hips.

"Huh… It's a long story." Yang told the girl, her sister I would assume.

"Please, enlighten us. I would like to know why Junior's club, and my night, was ruined." I asked butting into the conversation with an internal sigh at my inability to hold my tongue.

Yang turned to look at me and sized me up before saying "I would, if I knew who I was talking to."

I grinned before taking off the hood of my cloak and stuck out my hand. "Sapphire Orchid, pleasure to meet you Yang." She looked slightly off put by my knowing of her name, before remembering that the red rider gave her name out. She slowly shook my hand. "Now, while Junior isn't the most law abiding citizen, he doesn't pick strong enemies… so you started this, why?" I asked her while retracting my hand.

"I needed information and he wasn't giving it out, I thought I could make him talk… it didn't work out too well." Yang looked bashful if only for a second before bouncing back to a more cheerful look.

I turned to look at the sister of the reckless blonde and extended my hand again. "What's your name little one?" I ask.

She looked affronted but still shook my hand "Ruby Rose, isn't your name a bit… feminine?" she asked.

I was grinning till that last part "Yes and no, Sapphire is a more feminine name, but Orchid was named that because of a… similar look to something masculine." I paused for a second before grinning again, or at least attempting to trying to revive conversation, why was beyond me, but I felt the need to do so. "You know, are names are very similar Ruby."

"How?" she asked, tilting her head to the left.

"Simple, Rubies and Sapphires are the same gem, the only difference is the color, and then flowers are our last names, very similar if you ask me." I said. I stopped to glance over them and noticed that Yang had bracers that seem to be meca-shift, and Ruby seemed to have something that was attached to her back that looked meca-shift as well. "You two go to Signal?" I asked after a second.

"My little sister here does, but right now I'm waiting for the school year to start at Beacon." Yang said.

"Well then, we'll see more of one another in the future, but for now, I must be off, thanks for helping me turn the night back around." I pivoted around and started to walk away before pausing mid step. "Oh, and if you ever need help finding information Yang, don't hesitate to ask." I put the hood of my cloak back on and started to walk away.

"Wait!" she called out "You wouldn't know where this woman is?" She asked pulling out her scroll and showing me a picture of a woman that looked oddly familiar.

"No, I can't say that I do, but I'll keep an ear to the ground, night ladies." I turned the corner and turned into a mouse in a small burst of smoke. Both of them rounded the corner a second later and looked around for me for a minute.

"Wow, he's good." Said the little rose. "If a bit rude, I mean, I'm not that much younger than you guys."

I grimaced slightly as she said that, my people skills could use some work, guess those are the drawbacks of growing up outside the kingdoms. I turned and went about trying to get information on the woman Yang was looking for. I went back to the apartment I was renting while waiting for Beacon to kick off the year.

I entered the apartment before deactivating my semblance and turning into my natural form of a Worgen. I sighed as I ran a claw down my face before turning back into a human. After the quick painless shift I went about preparing my things to meditate to try and remember where I had seen the woman before. I kneeled down before slowing my breathing as I focused on the image of the woman and the smell of the incense in the air. I couldn't tell you for how long I was focused on these two things, but after some time I remembered something.

~Flash Back~

I had just turned four when this memory takes place. The wooden training long sword in my hand was testimony to that, so was the fact that I was being thrashed around by someone many times my size.

"Come on son, foot work." My father said after knocking me down. "You do know that if you want, we can delay this, most people don't start train until they're five."

I, the stubborn ass that I was and still am, shook my head and said "You trained young, so will I daddy."

"Okay kiddo, then let's work on your foot work then, if you're going-" He started to speak but was interrupted by a red portal opening up and a woman wearing a Grimm mask stepped out.

"Raven? What are you doing here? You went missing years ago, what happened?" asked my mother from behind me. So Raven was this woman's name, and she could open portals, tracking her down just got easier and loads harder.

"I need your help Geralt." She said simply to my Father.

~Flash Back End~

I opened my eyes to see that I had spent more than twelve hours meditating. I groaned as I stood and stretched the kinks out of my joints from being in that position for so long. My eyes felt heavy from lack of sleep, so I went to bed, sighing at the wasted day and promptly stripped down and slid into my bed.

~Line Break~

I guess sleeping all day made information gathering easier at night, when all the rats were out and about, the only problem was catching them. I was currently in the form of a cat giving chase to one of said rats.

"I just want to talk!" I shouted at him.

"That's what they all say, but I'm not dying this young!" He cried out, I was gaining on him, and fast, but this body of a cat was apparently more like a cheetah and built for short sprints because I was quickly losing steam. I pounced on him just as my energy was going to give out, pinning him to the concrete as I fought to catch my breath.

"Hey… I need… information, and I wa…was hoping you could answer some questions." I forced out through my heavy breathing. I slowly slacked off of him and let him stand up.

"You're not actually going to eat me?" He asked bewildered that I actually only wanted information.

"No, I wasn't planning on it, but if you want, I can kill you." I said with a nip to my voice that would be thought of as rude.

"No, no, that's fine, heheh." He chuckled nervously, "Now, what is it you wanted from me?"

"I need information on a woman, and for you keep an eye out for her. Her name is Raven and she is a Human that can make blood red portals." I said to him. "And if you can spread word around about this, that'd be really helpful, I'm trying to get this information for a friend." I turned around and slinked into the shadows to find more rats and critters to gather information for me.

The next thing I got to get information for me was a crow, and after that, a young mouse. I stayed in the form of a cat until I got all the way out of Vale and turned into a wolf to get the creatures in the surrounding forests to look for Raven. I got a pack of wolves, a herd of deer's, and a pair of Coyotes. Finally after being satisfied with the number of eyes I had looking for her, I turned into an eagle and flew home.

"School starts in a week, I doubt that I'll get anything of importance by then, so I'll not bother checking in on my eyes until a week after school starts." I said to myself as the sun started to rise. I sighed as I went to go take a shower to get ready for the long day ahead of me. As I was walking down the hall I started to undo some of the straps holding my armor and swords to my body. I was soon left in only my gambeson and leather pants as I walked into my bedroom to gather casual clothes.

After picking out some jeans and a shirt, I entirely stripped down and started to walk to the restroom down the hall. I felt eyes on me, but figured it was my paranoia and kept on walking to the shower. After turning the hot water I stepped into the shower and started to sing a song my father used to sing to me.

"Wolves asleep amidst the trees, Bats all a swaying in the breeze, But one sole lies anxious wide awake, Fearing all matter of ghouls, hags and wraiths."I got to about there before being stopped.

"Nice tune." I heard a voice say outside my shower, but in my restroom.

"And who might you be?" I ask after a second. I stared at the curtain separating me from whoever was in my restroom with me.

"My name is Summer Rose, or at least it was when I was alive." Said the voice, identifying the voice as Summer, and chilling my blood.

"And what might a ghost want with me?" I asked, cursing the fact that I had no silver on me.

"I have a favor I would like to ask for." She said.

I sighed before responding "Okay, give me a minute, go and wait in my living room." I heard nothing for a reply, so I assumed she went to wait for me. I rushed through the rest of my shower and dried off as fast as I could, slipping into some boxer briefs and taking my jeans and shirt with me to the living space. "So, Summer Rose, what would you like from me?" I asked as I walked into the room and stopped walking as I saw the phantom in question. For lack of a better comparison, she looked like an older Ruby, marking her as either Ruby's mother, or her older sister.

"Well, I would like ask something of you." She said.

"Yes," I said dryly "I gathered as much Summer."

She pouted slightly for a second before continuing "Well, my time is running out. If I can't find someone to bind with, my soul will be forcefully moved on to the next life, or I will become a wraith, and I'd rather not be a monster I trained to fight."

"And why not Ruby? I'm sure she would be ecstatic at talking with her mother once more." I said, not all too willing to bind myself to the ghost of someone I don't know.

"I can't, I would if I could, but I can't bind myself to anyone I have direct blood relations with." She said, once again I find myself hesitating.

"And her Father? I'm sure he'd be over the moon."

"When Ruby was first conceived, me and Tai become one in flesh and blood-" She started.

"And you can't bind yourself to those you share blood with." I said to the phantom in front of me.

"Not true, I can't with people I have direct blood relations with; otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation." Said Summer, confusing me. I looked at her wait for her to explain. "Your Father and I are cousins, nephew."

I looked at Summer as if she had grown a second head. "Whoa, I'm going to have to ask you to stop there, how come I've never heard of you, never went to your funeral, anything?!"

"Sometime around the same time you turned six, did your father change?" she asked me, and I had to think for a second, before I grimly nodded.

"Yeah, he became harder on me, trying to force me to be better than I was, not letting me stagnate, or grow slowly. Was that because he didn't want me to die like you?" I asked her.

"No parent should ever have to bury their child." Was her sad response to my query.

"But wait, if we are related, don't we have a direct blood relation?" I asked my newly discovered aunt.

She shook her head before saying "Nope. Last time we had truly share blood was with my grandparents, your great grandparents, we have enough of a separation for this to work."

I sighed before muttering "Damn my loyalty to my family." I spoke up "Okay, you can bind to me Summer." Summer nodded before glowing a bright, shining silver before I could feel her presence in the back of my head. "Did you even need to ask permission for this?"

"Yes, if I hadn't asked, the only way I could have done this was through possession, and I didn't feel like steeling your life from you." She said looking sincere about her statement.

"Well, thank you for asking me, but can we lay down some ground rules?" I asked her.

She looked at me and said "Sure, why not."

"Okay, I'm going to have to ask that, should I ask for privacy, I get it, no looking through walls or sifting through my memories of that time. I'd also like to ask that you ask permission before looking through my memories; you're free to do so, because you're in my head, but I'd like to know beforehand. And other than that, knock yourself out, do whatever you want whenever." I said to her as I got up to head out. She also stood up.

"I don't have any problems with your rules, I'd also like to make one okay?" she asked me, to which I nodded. "Please don't ignore me, it's been difficult not being able to talk to anyone for eleven years, please don't add to that."

It broke my heart to hear this, so I nodded with a warm smile. "So long as I live, you'll never have to worry about being lonely again." I walked to the door and opened it and held it open for Summer. "After you."

Summer smiled at me and walked out the door before me. "So, where are we going?" she asked from a head of me.

"Well, I need to get grocers to last for the next week before the school year at beacon, and then I need to get information on someone for someone else." I said as I checked to make sure I had my knife on me, and finding that I didn't. "Fuck, I need to go back and get something." I said to Summer before turning back and walking into my apartment to retrieve my knife. I walked into my apartment and got my hunting knife from the table and saw my swords by the door, so I grabbed them on the way out and strapped them too my back.

"What do we do after that?" Summer asked when I caught back up to her.

"After that? We wait." I said.

(A/N: Whelp, that didn't take too long to write. A few hours in between two or three days, and that was at a very slow pace, if I wasn't busy with church and yard work tomorrow I could crank out another chapter. Even though I don't think many will enjoy this story, I find it fun enough to write. Till I can get another chapter out, I'll be seeing you all.)

Sapphire Orchid

Gender: Male

Age: 17

Race: Worgen

Height: 6'5" Human form, 7' Worgen form.

Weight: 210 lbs

Build: A build similar to that of a lean athlete

Weapon(s): He carries two longswords, one with a plain T-shaped cross guard with a brown wire wrapped handle with a tear shaped pommel. The other with a V-shaped cross guard with a black wire wrapped handle, with two Jaguar heads crossed over one another for the pommel. He also carries a knife on him at almost all times as well as a crossbow.

Semblance: Sapphire's Semblance is that of a Skinwalker, he can turn into the natural creatures of the world

Birth Kingdom: Vale

Combat School: None, he was taught by his father.

Personality: quite around those he doesn't know, but can talk and joke around quite well with friends, the longer he has known them, the easier he finds it to talk. Dislikes fighting with other people and will try to find a peaceful solution before a violent one. He thinks that Humans, Faunus, and any other races should be equals, for they are all people. His sense of humor is a more inappropriate than most. He is quick to anger, but slow to respond on his anger, but will not tolerate jabs made at his friends or family.

Hair Color: Black.

Eye Color: Bright Sapphire.

Outfit: Black leather pants covered by brown leather boots that come halfway up his calves. He is wearing a white long-sleeved shirt (gambeson), covered by a leather shirt that has chainmail covering his stomach and back with a pair of leather belts that are crossing over his chest. Two pairs of studded leather shoulder pads that are two parts each. Black leather gloves that come up to his elbows with brown leather covering the palms of his hands. He also has a leather belt holding his swords on his back, as well as a pendent of a wolf with its jaws open hanging from his neck off a silver chain, and a leather belt around his waist holding a hook. He carries a cloak at all times to wear should it rain, or he if wants to go unrecognized. (Geralt's outfit from Witcher 3 at the beginning of the game)