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A/N: Aye! How do you do? I hope things are going well with all of y'all. Now, before I get to writing up this chapter. I wish to respond to some of those who have reviewed. Gonna be trying to do this more often. Alright, time to get to it.

Rwby1989: Yup, I was kind of saddened myself to have taken the Malachite twins and Team NDGO out of the story as well, but yeah, I did want to lessen the numbers just a wee bit. I will try not to disappoint! If I do, I apologize in advance. XD

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Helios61: As much as I hate to disappoint you about that. The idea of Ren having a harem will not come to fruition for this fic as he will eventually be transformed into a female through some crazy means and be involved in the harem. The idea of a dual harem does intrigue me though. I may write a story like that at some point, but not anytime soon.

Xerzo LotCN: Yeah, I will admit that making Ren a girl to begin with would've been a lot easier, but I'm looking to make the fic fun for me to write as well as trying to make it fun for the readers to.. well read. Haha! Not at all am I trying to make it easy, even it would be for myself. XD Like I said in the last chapter, I see a lot of fun to be had with the whole gender transformation of Ren route for this fic. So that's why I went with it.

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A/N: Alrighty! That's all the reviews I'm gonna reply to that were directed at the first chapter! With all of that said and done! I hope you enjoy the chapter! See ya at the end of it!

Chapter 2

"Mom? Mom! Hey Jaune, I think my mom is starting to wake up!" The muffled voice of Ruby loudly annouced.

'R.. Ruby..' Summer disorientedly thought as she was starting to regain consciousness.

"Really? Alright! There's one down and.. many.. others to go." The also muffled voice of Jaune uttered before he let out a deep sigh. "Ms. Rose? Are you alright?" He then proceeded to question the mother of Ruby in a concerned voice.

Summer quietly groaned as her eyes slowly opened up. The voices of her daughter and her close blonde friend quickly becoming more clear as she was returning to the land of the living.

She saw two figures watching over her with the sun shining down brightly over them, causing dark shadows to cast over their beings.

When Summer's sight had cleared up and adjusted to the current environment. Her eyes widened as her's and Ruby's silver eyes had locked on each other immediately upon the adjustment.

Ruby had a happy smile curved on her lips now that Summer was finally awake. "Hey Mom! Took you long enough to wake up." She joked before she weakly scoffed as tears started to roll down her pale cheeks. The relief of seeing her mother looking well forced her to express the emotions that were quick to consume her.

"Hey you.." Summer tiredly spoke as she weakly smiled while she reached up to gently cup her daughter's cheek and her thumb stroked it. Her eyes narrowed in concern when she had noticed the tears. "What's wrong, sweetheart?" Immediately after she had asked that, Summer sharply gasped as her eyes widened when the events before everything had went black on her had flashed into her mind in one instantaneous showing.

After it had all came back to her, Summer quickly moved to sit up on the sand before pulling Ruby into a tight, worry fueled hug; making Ruby squeak in surprise as she briefly tensed up by the sudden affectionate action. "Oh thank Oum, you're okay!" Summer uttered frantically as she hugged her daughter for only a couple of seconds before she had pulled back and started to scan the flustered Ruby while holding onto her shoulders. "You aren't injured anywhere, are you sweetie?! Oh god, please tell me you're not!" Summer cried in a panic as she started to pat down at the younger Rose to check for any sort of injuries that she may have gotten from the crash. Thankfully, she was not discovering anything of the sort.

Jaune grunted nervously as he watched the Rose Duo with a startled gaze and he took a step back when Summer had sat up.

"M-Mom! I'm fine! don't w-worry!" Ruby cutely exclaimed as she lightly swatted at her mother's anxiously wandering hands. Assuring her that she was injury-free.

Summer let out a relaxed sigh as she pressed a hand against her chest, a small glad smile curving on her lips. "Oh thank goodness.. Sorry sweetie, but I couldn't help it." She uttered before she took her hand away from her chest. "You can't blame a mother for worrying about her child Ruby. Especially this mother." She softly chuckled with a small smile.

Ruby scoffed in amusement at the comment, now wiping away the tears that had stopped forming. "Yeah, that sounds about right." She retorted as she smiled back. Ruby then quickly leaned in and gave Summer a tight hug of her own since she didn't get the chance to do it seconds earlier due to the frozen state she was in and her mother making her embrace on her rather short. Her face nestling into Summer's chest.

"Oh.." Summer quietly squeaked in surprise as she was caught off guard by the sudden action.

"You have no idea how scared I was.. I.. I-I thought I lost you.." Sadly spoke Ruby.

Summer frowned as she felt her heart ache at her poor daughter's tone. Her left arm coming up to gently wrap around Ruby's lower back while her right hand had came up to gently pat down at the back of her head. "Oh sweetheart.." Summer whispered as she then held her daughter's head close to her bosom while she rested one side of her head on top of the younger Rose's. "As you can see, I am still alive and kicking my girl, and I don't plan to leave you alone anytime soon, I promise. So you don't have to worry about that anymore." She assured Ruby before planting a gentle kiss on top of her head, nuzzling the area now as she held her close and ever so lovingly. The two of them comforting each other in silence now as the both of them have tightened their holds on each other just a tad bit.

"Good.. I don't know what I would do without you.." Said Ruby as she started to feel more calm now that her mother's arms were wrapped around her.

Jaune smiled at the mother-daughter scene playing out in front of him. He did not want to disrupt such a tender moment, so he kept his tongue silent for now and allowed them to indulge in their warm embrace.

When they were finished hugging after almost half a minute later, Ruby and Summer seperated their upper bodies from each other, but still having their arms slightly around each other as they did and Summer started to look around them. "Now that I'm up, where are w-?" She suddenly gasped.

Summer's heart stopped when she saw that their friends and family were all in the same state that she was just in over a minute ago. "A-Are they..?" She could not bring herself to dare speak of the worst possible outcome that could have happened from what she was seeing. 'Pl-Please no.. Please don't be so..' She thought in sorrow. Thankfully, Jaune had spoke up, catching her attention as she looked up at him, with words that she was hoping to hear and had relieved her of her present fears.

Jaune hummed in denial as he shook his head. "You don't need to worry, Ms Rose. I assure you that they're fine. They're breathing and I checked them for an active pulse just to make sure. They will live." He assured her with a confident voice.

Once again, Summer was expressing immense relief as she deeply sighed. "I'm so glad to hear that." She could not have expressed that enough. "Okay, well back to my earlier question.." The mother of Ruby, as well as Ruby herself, started get back on their feet before quickly dusting themselves off of any sand that was sticking to them. "Where.. in the world are we?" Summer questioned as she was now once again taking a look at their surroundings. Only to see nothing but ocean, sand, bushes and trees all around them.

"An island from the looks of it." Jaune answered. "I'm not sure if this is a named island that is on the map or something. So I can't really point out those specifics." He released a low spirited sigh as he weakly shrugged, raising hand up to his forehead to wipe some sweat off that the heat was causing to accumulate.

"It's a miracle that us and all of our friends and family were lucky enough to have survived the crash. Oh, and also those other people that we don't know." Ruby with a shrug at the last bit of her sentence.

Jaune frowned as his eyes briefly shut while lowering his head, saddened about the fact that the other passengers and staff have not shared the same fate as them. Instead, they all have suffered a horrible one that had most likely ended their lives. At least, that is what he could determine from who he can see, or rather who he cannot see, in this dire case. "Yeah.. Too bad the same can't be said about the other people that were on the plane.." He said with a pained tone.

Immediately after he said that, Ruby and Summer's mood switched from a happy to be alive one, to a rather depressing one. The blonde having opened their eyes about something that had gone right over their heads.

"Oh.. R.. Right.. Didn't think of that.." Ruby muttered as she lightly bit at her bottom lip and lowered her head in a downcast manner. Now feeling guilty as she realized now that what she said was far from respectful and considerate of those who had perished.

"May they.. rest in peace.." Said Summer, suddenly desiring to pay those that have lost their lives in the crash some form of respect. It's a shame that they couldn't have any sort of funeral for them, but this was the best she could do.. It was the best any of them could do really.

The three of them were now silent for the next minute. Though they had not suggested it or communicated it to each other. They knew that it was only right that they have a minute of silence as another way of paying respect to those who have most likely died. Yes, they may not have known who any of them were.. But they didn't let that fact stop them.

While they were doing that midway through, they all simultaneously perked up when they started to hear another waking groan coming from one of the unconscious people lying on the sand. Then whoever was waking up suddenly spoke, sounding in pain, and they swiftly turned their heads to look towards the direction of the new female voice.

"Fucking hell.. Why does my head hurt so damn much..?" Roma groaned in complaint as she was the first one of the unknown group to wake up. She struggled to push herself up on all fours before she weakly brought her right hand up to lightly hold her head when she finally did. It currently felt as if she was just getting over a rather painful concussion while also feeling a bit nauseous.

Jaune, Ruby and Summer blinked a few times while in a frozen stupor, as not one of them had any idea on how to greet the person since they didn't know who she was. Especially when knowing what had happened however long ago the plane had crashed. So it was safe to say that it was an awkward experience for the three of them.

"The plane..!" Roma said breathlessly as her eyes shot open wide and she was now staring down at the beach's sand in horror, as that was when everything had started to return to her piece by piece.

'Flashback: On the plane, moments before the crash..'

"Ow, goddamnit! What the shi- What in the hell is going on?!" Roma growled in irritation as she was rubbing her forehead after she had suddenly just launched forward and roughly bumped her head on the seat in front of her, causing her and her adoptive daughter to wake up from what was supposed to be a peaceful nap. Her precious bowler hat having been forced to get off her head and fall down to her feet before sliding away, but Roma had failed to notice it as she had a much bigger concern to stress about.

Her daughter Neo, who was sitting directly to her left, was rubbing her own head in silence since the same painful accident had happened to her as well. Neo was in fact mute. So she was unable to speak out her own agitation on the matter, but instead she looked around the plane anxiously after she had recovered. When she had quickly noticed that every other passenger was presently looking fearful and frantically questioning what in the hell just happened with the aircraft a moment ago.

When Roma had recovered well enough, she was also starting to notice the same thing. When looking more down the row that she was in to see the rest of her travelling companions. She noticed Salem, Cinder and Emerald sharing the same frightened expressions on their faces as they were looking around in a startled manner.

Emerald gulped as her face was already heavily sweating as the aching feeling of dread and hopelessness was swift to overcome her. The force of the initial violent rocking having flung her headphones right off her head and slid across the floor below under the seats. But right now, she didn't care about them, as she was more in fear for her life than anything else. 'Th-that can't be a good sign at all!' She internally cried as she didn't like what the harsh motion of the plane had meant for them.

'Oh, this cannot be fucking happening!' Frantically thought the sweating Cinder. The headphones that she had recently borrowed from Emerald having fallen off her head and onto the floor along with her sister's own.

"Well that was far from pleasant." Salem said with a hint of fear in her voice, attempting to sound composed as she did. Her sleep mask was once again lifted up to her forehead.

"Salem? What just happened?" Roma asked as she was on edge and looking directly at Salem, wanting the situation to be made clear to her as she had no clue what was going on since she had just woke up right when the rocking happened. So she was unable to process it because of that.

"I-I don't know what to tell you Roma.. but whatever is going on, it isn't good. That much I can say with certainty." Salem replied in a rush as she tried to look over on the other side of the plane from where she knew she had heard the muffled, but loud, boom come from. 'That sounded very much like an explosion. No doubt about it.' She thought confidentally, as much as she really hated to admit it. It was unmistakable to her.

"This can't be h-happening.. right M-Mother?"

Salem gasped as Cinder had grabbed her attention when she had asked her question, quickly looking down at her eldest daughter with a petrified expression when she had seen just how equally petrified Cinder was. This was the first time that she had ever seen fear being presented on Cinder's face, as she was always the most fearless one out of her two children. Emerald was as well to a certain extent, but Cinder was more likely to not be affected by fear so easily. Today had finally broken that long-lasting streak.

Salem stammered in response as she was unable to bring herself to say something that could possibly comfort her child.

The entirety of Neo's small frame quivered as her own fear was evident on her face and in the current erratic motions of her body. She prayed desperately to Oum that this whole dire event was to be nothing but one of her terrible and vivid nightmares that she could just wake up from and she would find herself waking up in the safety of her bed back home afterwards. Sadly, that was not the case. She tightly shut her eyes as she quickly lifted her legs up off the plane's ground to curl up on her seat again and she reached for her adoptive mother's left arm and tightly held onto it for dear life while burying her face in the elbow of the limb. The action forcing Roma to look down at Neo now that she had touched her.

Roma's heart wrenched when seeing Neo's present condition. Like Salem, or any other dedicated mother for that matter, she couldn't bear to see her child like this. "It's okay honey. E-Everything is gonna be alright. Don't you worry." She said in a forced tone of calm and comfort as she reached to wrap her arms around Neo's small figure and held her. Pulling her head into her chest, to which Neo instantly nestled into without hesitation, and she started to shakily brush her fingers through Neo's long pink and brown, with some streaks of white, hair. "We'll be fine.. W-We'll be fine.. We'll b-" Everyone then screamed in panic again as finally, after one more very rough shake of the plane and another explosion, the aircraft was now rapidly descending to whatever was awaiting them down below. The last thing Roma remembered before she had passed out was her still embracing Neo as tears were rolling down her adoptive child's pale cheeks and looking like she wanted to scream her lungs out.. but no sound whatsoever would even come out.

Then darkness came..

'End of flashback'

"Neo!" Roma cried out as she quickly pushed herself off of the ground to stand up. She was panting as her heart was racing a thousand beats per minute out of anxiety. All that was of concern to her now was finding her daughter and making sure that she was okay.

The first person she had noticed upon looking around from where she stood was Jaune. Her sights were now too fixated on the boy to have noticed the other females that were right by him.

She flashed a hopeful smile as she didn't waste any time and with haste, bolted straight on over to him. She didn't even notice those who were lying on the ground and she was amazingly stepping over and around them without her being aware of it. "H-Hey you! Pl-Please, I need you to help me!" Roma pleaded as she was coming at Jaune.

"Uh.. Me?" Jaune replied in bewilderment as he pointed to himself.

"Well who else would I be talking to, you nimrod?!" Roma groaned as she tightly gripped onto the chest area of his tattered shirt and pulled it up to around his neck, exposing his stomach, when she stepped in front of him. The action caused Jaune to let out a startled grunt as he could feel himself being forced to stand on the tips of his toes.

"H-Hey! Don't hurt my fr-" Ruby was about to protest against Roma's actions, trying to take step forward to aid him. But she was instantly perplexed when she felt one of her mother's arms prevent her from taking a single step. She glanced at the limb before looking up at Summer, looking almost angry for a moment. "Mom, what are you doing?" She then softly gasped in surprise when she saw Summer gazing down at her intensily, shaking her head.

"Calm down Ruby. She is obviously really worried about someone who is close to her.. We can't be irrational. So let's just hear her out first and not jump to any conclusions so soon, or else we will really create conflict. Besides, I don't believe she will do anything that will harm Jaune. So let's just be quiet and listen for now.." Summer quietly, but firmly, instructed her daughter before she steered her sights back to Roma and Jaune. Watching intently with a cautious gaze.

"But mom.." Ruby was about to argue.. but when she thought more about what Summer had said. She understood what she was trying to tell her. So with high reluctance, Ruby sighed as she didn't try to interfere any further and watched on dubiously.

'We got you Jaune. Don't worry.' Thought Summer as she was on the ready to stop Roma, just in case she was to be proven wrong with her assumption.

"W-W-What can I do for y-you, ma'am?" Jaune stiffled a chuckle with a awkward grin before he gulped as he tried to keep himself together, not letting the anxiety he was receiving from his current predicament get to him.

Roma had surprisingly not heard Ruby's cry or the two speaking as her complete, undivided attention was focused solely on Jaune and she proceeded to question him in a frantic tone after he responded. "Neo! Have you seen my Neo anywhere?! Is she alive?! Please tell me she survivied too!" She screamed with tears starting to fall as she gritted her teeth in frustration. Staring intensily into Jaune's eyes as she impatiently waited for a response of good news.

'Shit! What do I tell her?! She's talking to me like I'm supposed to know who that is! I don't know anyone named Neo!' Jaune's eyes then widened with a hopeful gleam in them. He prayed that the idea he had wouldn't screw him over. 'Neo.. Neo.. Which one of them looks like she could be a Neo.' He thought as he was quickly looking around at the sleeping girls and women that weren't one of his travelling companions, and he held back a grin as he spotted a girl that he had a very good feeling was the person Roma was looking for.

"Well?!" Roma growled as the agony of waiting for him to answer was becoming too much for her to bear.

"Would that happen to be her?" He asked Roma as he pointed over at the girl who was indeed the knocked out Neo some distance away from them.

When following his finger, Roma smiled happily as Neo's unique hair was the immediate dead give away for her. "My baby!" She gleefully said as she released her strong grip on Jaune's shirt and dashed towards Neo.

"Ah!" Jaune exclaimed before he grunted in pain as he fell back onto the ground when she had let go of him. Having not been prepared for Roma to release him so suddenly like that, but he wouldn't hold it against her.

Seeing that they were free to do so, Summer and Ruby moved up to help Jaune as they knelt down beside him.

"Are you alright, Jaune?" Ruby asked in a worried voice.

"You're not too hurt, are you?" Summer asked, sounding just as worried as Ruby.

Jaune softly groaned as he pushed himself to sit up. His right arm coming behind him to rub at his lower back. "I'll live, if that's what you're hoping for mostly." He joked with a soft chuckle, Ruby gently rubbing his shoulder as she cracked a weak smile at the humorous response. 'I'm just glad to know I guessed the right person..' He internally sighed in relief as he rubbed the back of his head now, having hit it kind of hard on the ground when he was dropped. Thank Oum the ground was currently sand and not concrete, or else the now minor injury could have possibly been a major one instead.

"It seems that we have another mother and daughter pair amongst us now." Summer commented as her, Ruby and Jaune looked over and watched Roma kneel down next to Neo when she got to her and lifted her upper body up in her arms and pressed her against her stomach.

'And somehow I feel that they won't be the last we'll discover..' Jaune thought.

"Please be alive baby girl.. D-Don't be leaving Mama all a-alone now, you hear?" Roma pleaded with a breaking voice as she brushed some of Neo's hair out of her face before she quickly checked the small girl for a pulse. She released a trembled exhale as a huge, painful weight has been lifted off of her heart. Her baby girl was alive and didn't look to have suffered any major injuries to her cute, small frame. "Fucking hell.. You had me losing my shit for awhile there hun." She stiffled a chuckle as she flashed a weak grin. "Alright, wake up now. I think we both have been asleep for long enough after what happened." Roma said as she tried to wake Neo up by lightly shaking and nudging her body.

After a few minutes of repeated attempts, Roma managed to wake Neo up as she jolted and her eyelids started to flutter open, yawning as she did.

When seeing her adoptive mother, Neo's eyes lit up as she then launched herself to wrap her arms around Roma's neck and strongly embraced her.

"I'm glad to see you are alright too, baby girl." Roma smiled as she hugged Neo back and briefly brushed her hair.

Breaking their embrace, Neo then looked around them out of pure curiosity of where they had ended up. Her eyes widened as she was instantly petrified when she processed that they were on a deserted island. She swallowed the lump in her throat, looking to Roma as she frowned. Her hands coming up between them before she started to communicate with Roma through sign language; knowing full well that her mother would be able to understand her.

'Do you know where we are, Mama?'

Roma pursed her lips as she deeply sighed through her nose, shaking her head as she shrugged. "I ain't got a single clue hun. So... I'm afraid I can't give you an ideal answer." She regretfully replied, making Neo look more depressed about their pedicament. The young teen communicating with her hands once more.

'I see..' Her hands paused. 'Are we.. gonna die here?' Neo's questioned as tears were threatening to shed, desperately hoping that she and Roma would not die.. not now.. and most certainly not on this Oum forsaken island.

"Hey, don't you dare start thinking like that, Neo. Of course we're not gonna die! We are Torchwicks, and Torchwick's will not go down without a putting up a good fight. You should know that by now. In this case, we will not go down without struggling our hardest to survive." Roma scolded Neo firmly, her eyes narrowing as she lightly glared at her child. A sweating Neo quickly reacting as her hands moved together swiftly and fearfully to reply.

'No, you're right, I'm sorry! I promise I won't say anything like that ever again!' She hand signed while numerous sweat droplets were shooting off of her body.

Roma reeled herself in from her outburst. Taking a deep breath to simmer down her stress. It wouldn't be too far off to assume that she was a strong and prideful woman, and that she expected the young girl that she had raised all by herself since she was just an infant to be the same way. "I'm sorry for that.. That wasn't necessary of me to do. I just.. I don't want you to be thinking like that baby girl. Especially not at a time and place where we have to.. no, need to.. be at our strongest." She uttered as she cupped Neo's cheek. "So please, don't you go losing yourself on me, okay? Not now, not ever. Can you do that for me?" She asked with a slight frown.

'I understand.'

Neo looked at Roma anxiously, her forehead sweating as she was unnerved.. but only for the moment. She then closed her eyes as she looked down before taking a deep breath. Her mother was right, she had to be strong. She had to be brave..

They all had to be..

Neo looked back at Roma again, nodding confidently as she had on a serious expression.

'Yes, I know I can Mom. Like you said, we are Torchwicks. We also don't back down from any challenges, right?' Her hands responded as she smirked.

"That's my girl, and you're goddamn right, we don't." Roma smirked back, liking her daughter's new mindset and attitude.

After a short staredown of determination, they steered their heads to look at Jaune, Ruby and Summer approach them with the mother of Ruby walking up just a foot in front of her daughter and the only boy. Roma's eyes narrowed as she gazed warily at the three while she steadily got back up on her feet, urging Neo to do the same; to which she did and Roma was quick to step in front of Neo to shield her. Neo looked at her mother's back in confusion for a moment before deciding to peek around Roma's right side.

"Is your daughter alright?" Summer questioned as she stopped just a few feet away from them, giving the Torchwick duo a decent amount of space, Jaune and Ruby doing the same. "I believe it was Neo? you said her name was.." Summer added.

Roma took a few seconds to answer Summer as her gaze moved to the right of the mother Rose to see Ruby softly glaring at her while peeking around her mother's left arm. Then she looked to Summer's right side at Jaune; the blonde tensed under her gaze as he resisted the urge to gulp.

"H-Hello again.." Jaune greeted nervously as he gave the orangette a feeble wave of his right hand. Roma raised a brow at him for a brief moment before looking back at Summer.

While Roma was choosing her words, Ruby then caught side of Neo peeking around her own mother. Their gazes meeting and they stared at each other for a second before Ruby determined that she looked harmless enough. Without any hesitation, Ruby flashed Neo a closed smile as she slightly nodded.

For some weird reason, that made Neo timid as she stiffened and quickly went to hide behind Roma once again. The young Torchwick's response confusing Ruby as her eyes blinked a few times in a bewildered manner and her head tilted slightly. 'Did I.. do something to scare her? Or is she really just that shy? She looked so confident just a moment ago.' Ruby pondered.

"Yeah, that's her name.. and she's fine; all things considered." Roma finally replied to Summer as she took a deep breath, maintaining her cautious gaze on them.

Summer sighed as she wasn't oblivious to the stare that she was receiving from the mother Torchwick. "I assure you, we mean you and your child absolutely no harm. Nor will our friends and family when they wake up. So you can relax. We're all facing the same situation here after all. So I think it would be best if we could come to be comfortable around one another. Preferably as soon as possible." She finished with a friendly smile. Of course, she was prepared to be patient for Roma and Neo to take their time believing in her, because in the end, the majority of the stranded survivors were nothing but strangers to the two person Torchwick family. So no one could really blame them for being as apprehensive as they were.

Taking the time to detect any sort of hint of deceit in Summer's words, she heard nor detected any. So with that being said, she allowed herself to relax a little bit more but still keeping a somewhat alert stare on them. She loosened up her body as she started to stand calmly, becoming less tense. She saw Summer's reasoning with her to be a valid arguement, as she did have a point. With how they were currently, and not knowing when a rescue group would come for them, whether it be the authorities or anyone else who was friendly enough to help when coming across them, they couldn't afford to worry about being wary of each other. Instead, their biggest worry should be about how they're all gonna survive the predicament. She may be somewhat of an aggressive woman, but she was a reasonable one as well when it was needed.

"I guess that makes sense.." Roma responded in a more relaxed voice. She took her sights off of them for a moment to look down under her right arm when lifting the limb up slightly to see Neo trying to peek out once more. "It's okay baby girl.. They won't hurt us. You can come out." She instructed her child as she moved her arm to bring her hand to Neo's back before gently pushing her out from behind her to stand beside her now. Neo silently protested as she lifted her toes and pressed her heels strongly against the sand to try and stop her forced movement, but to no luck whatsoever in doing so as Roma had moved her so effortlessly. Seeing as she didn't have a choice in the matter, she gave in and stood beside her mother nervously with hands together at her rear as she looked down with a faint blush dusted on her cheeks and her lips were pursed.

Jaune felt more at ease when he saw that Roma seemed to be giving them the chance to prove themselves to her and her bashful child. However, the same thing can't be said for the child of Summer, as even though Ruby's glare on Roma had softened, it was still very much apparent that she didn't trust her quite just yet.

"Well, if we're all gonna end up having to be all buddy-buddy on this place. We might as well will get the introductory stage over and done with." Roma spoke up with a sigh as she looked back to Summer, Jaune and Ruby. "I'm sure you all know my daughter's name by now if I haven't already made it pretty obvious." The orangette mother gestured to her anxious daughter.

Neo didn't need to see them to know that all eyes were on her now as she could feel them on her and she visibly quivered in response, her blush darkening a few shades.

Roma then pointed to herself for only a second before lowering her hand. "And my name is Roma. The last name's Torchwick." After she had finished with her and Neo's introduction to the trio, she managed to display a small grin to them.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Roma and Neo." Summer politedly replied as she slightly bowed her head and planted her right hand on her chest. "My name is Summer Rose." She then looked to her left and did what Roma had did with Neo to her own daughter, bringing her up to stand directly beside instead of letting her continue to stay behind her, much to Ruby's dismay.

"N-No, I don't wanna..!" Ruby tried to protest as she did what Neo had done when she was in that situation just a few moments ago.

"This is my daughter, Ruby." Summer ignored Ruby's protest as she stopped her gentle, yet easy even when Ruby tried to pull back with all of her might, push on her child's back when bringing her up. "Say hi sweetheart." Summer instructed as she looked to her daughter.

Ruby conceded as she huffed and looked up at the Torchwick duo with a slight frown. "H-Hi.." She dubiously greeted, Roma scoffing as she smirked in reaction.

Looking directly in front of herself to look at the shy Neo, Ruby couldn't help but notice just how much taller she was compared to the mute girl. That fact alone made a small smile crack on the young Rose's lips as she knew that she was the smallest out of her whole travelling group and frankly, she didn't quite like it. But something had suddenly deflated her short-lived sense of superiority when she noticed that Neo had rather.. exceptional curves to her short figure, especially in the... chest department. 'How.. How is this possible?!' Ruby inwardly cried as she glanced down at her own chest before looking back up at Neo's own to see that the young and small Torchwick daughter had the superior bust out of the two of them by just a cup size it seemed.

"I see, and how old is your daughter?" Roma asked Summer curiously as she sensed that Ruby could possibly be the same age as her daughter judging by the similar youthful looks and complexion the two teens shared.

"She is fifteen years old." Summer answered kindly with a pleasant smile, already appreciating the calm mood that the introductory conversation was having.

"Just as I thought," Roma chuckled.

"Hmm?" Summer slightly tilted her head as she remained smiling but shot Roma a soft, confused stare. "What was it you thought?" She asked.

After her expression of amusement, Roma answered the mother Rose. "I was just assuming that our kids were probably the same age, and it turns out that I was right." Roma grinned as she looked down to Neo beside her; who had managed to be courageous enough to look up at Ruby as well. "Neo here is fifteen, too." She revealed as she brought her hand up to gently plant it on Neo's left shoulder before looking back at Summer.

The moment the young Rose had heard that bit of information about Neo. Her eyes widened in a comical manner as the feeling of utter inferiority had completely settled within her now. 'You have gotta be kidding me! How could a girl so small and my own age be.. be.. b-be so big?!' She internally complained. 'Just how much milk does she drink?' She couldn't help but wonder.

Neo was unnerved by the shocked stare Ruby was sending her way. Her brow lifting in bewilderment and her hands gripped onto each other tightly as she bit on her bottom lip while her lips remained pursed. Why was this strange girl staring at her like that..? Did she think she was abnormal? She wondered as she narrowed her eyes slightly at Ruby. She wouldn't deny that she felt a little creeped out about it by now. She also wouldn't deny that Ruby would not have been the first one to make that opinion about her because of her.. disability. Little did she know that what the young Rose was thinking of her should be considered.. a compliment? Maybe?

"Is that so?" Summer responded with a soft grin. "I suppose now we can hope that they share more commonalities and can be good friends because of them."

"Yup, here's to hoping." Roma replied, the two mother's sharing a giggle as they glanced at their respective daughters.

"So who's the young man with you two?" Roma asked with an almost flirtacious tone as she now had her sights locked onto Jaune, looking him up from head to toe with a smirk on her lips now as she lifted a brow in an impressed manner. 'Boy definitely takes care of himself, I'll give him that.' She thought as she could tell the blonde had a worthy enough build to his figure underneath those tattered clothes of his. She didn't even try to hide the fact that she was checking him out, as it was blatantly obvious to the blonde teen himself. Hell, Jaune did look old enough to almost be legal; which he was. So she felt that it would be alright for her to go that far at the very least. It was just her giving an opinion of him in some form after all.

'Why is she looking at me like that?' Jaune asked himself as he leaned slightly back when he noticed how Roma was looking at all of his physical being, eyeing her suspiciously as his head slightly turned. Then the truth was starting to dawn on him a moment later. 'Is she.. checking me out?' He pondered as a light shade of red suddenly glowed on his cheek when the realization had struck him.

"Would you like to be the one to introduce yourself? or would you like me to do it?" Summer gave him the options as she looked over at one of her daughter's best friends to her right. The tone spoken behind Roma's question having gone way over her head, much to Jaune's surprise.

"Uh.." Jaune stammered for a moment. "I'll do it.. thanks." He anxiously answered the mother Rose. Despite how nervous he currently was because of the mother Torchwick's.. peculiar gaze. He wouldn't let that stop him from speaking up to introduce himself to her. The blonde was someone who would rather speak for himself than let anybody else do it. Not that he didn't appreciate, not in the slightest was that the case. He really did. He just wouldn't want to bother anyone by letting them do so because he would be afraid to talk. Which he never usually was as he was a confident and proud soul most of the time.

Locking his sights on the Torchwick mother once more after looking at Summer, the boy took a deep breath to ease himself before introducing himself. "My name is Jaune, Jaune Arc. It's uh.. it's a pleasure to meet you, ma'am." He finished as he flashed a small curve of smile to Roma.

Roma stiffled an amused laugh as she shook her head while waving her left hand by her chest and pressing her right palm against her now arched hip. "Yeah, no. None of the ma'am crap there buddy." She grinned, her small curse word surprising Summer and Jaune. "Oh come on, that isn't what friends should be calling each other, now is it?" She questioned with a playful tone when she noticed the stunned looks that were on their faces. "Don't friends usually refer to each other on a first name basis. I mean, you may be a teen and me an adult, but it's not like I'm your boss or your teacher, or anything like that." She giggled as she then crossed her arms under her gifted breasts.

"She.. does raise a good point." Summer agreed as she lightly bobbed her head side to side for a second and shrugged.

"See? There's no reason for us to be so formal with one another there blondie. Honestly, it would just get annoying pretty damn fast. Especially since we'll all be seeing a lot of each other for awhile as of now." Roma added while sighing at the last bit. The whole idea of how being called ma'am would make any woman feel old and bothered whoever was called it. Yeah, that very much applied to the orange haired mother herself, but she would not bother to point that out to her and her daughter's now survival companions.

"I.. I guess." Jaune replied unsurely as he scratched at his head.

"Now, let's try this again boy." Roma suggested as she took a step forward towards Jaune and stopped in front of him before extending her right hand in the gap between them. Everyone, excluding Roma, was blinking in a baffled state while staring down at her hand. "Name's Roma Torchwick! Nice to meet ya, Jauney boy." She locked eyes with the blonde when he had looked back up from staring at her hand. "Alright, your turn." She urged.

Jaune was flustered at first, but the more he thought about the logic Roma had pointed out to him. The more he was starting to agree with her and seeing sense behind it. Truth be told that having to be so formal with the mothers all of the time now that they were stranded on an island and they would have to stick together through thick and thin if they had any chance of surviving eventually would start to get frustrating for him. Yeah, he did not want to have to do that so often. Just thinking about it was kind of, how Roma had put it, annoying now. Don't get him wrong. He respected the mothers and aunts of his four friends with every fibre of his being. They are definitely influential mother figures to their children after all. But he had always felt the need to get closer to them in a way that they can be more.. casual with one another, not so much intimate just to clarify. So when seeing the opportunity that Roma had given him, he couldn't refuse it.

He took a short glance at Summer before looking back at Roma, a drop of sweat sliding down one side of his forehead. He skipped a breath as his own right hand raised up to get a light hold on Roma's own right hand. "I'm Jaune Arc. It's nice to meet you, R-Roma.." He awkwardly reintroduced himself. It was weird for him to have to do all of this again to say the least.

"Mmm, not the best second introduction, but it was kinda better than the first one I guess." Roma shrugged as she let go of the boy's hand after the handshake. Being somewhat content with how he gave his reintroduction now that he had used her first name instead of using that Oum forsaken word 'Ma'am'. She rolled her eyes when looking back at the initial introduction.

"Thank.. you?" Jaune responded dumbly as he narrowed his eyes in confusion, indecisive about whether he should be offended by that remark or not.

"Don't mention it, kid." She chuckled as she remained a couple feet in front of him and looked around at the sleeping individuals around them. She softly gasped when she had finally noticed that Salem, Cinder and Emerald were amongst them. "Oh shit, I can't believe I didn't notice them sooner." Roma said worriedly as she turned her body towards Salem's direction and started to move hastefully over to her long time friend/older sister figure, leaving her daughter with them.

Neo was startled when she suddenly saw her mother leave her side. Not wanting to be away from her side for too long though and still being very anxious in the presence of their three survival companions. She didn't hesitate to follow Roma after she had gathered her bearings back.

Jaune and Summer looked at each other as they were rendered baffled by what had just happened.

"Friends of theirs?" That was the only possiblity that came to mind for Jaune as he shrugged and looked at the mother Rose with uncertainty.

"That's what it looks like.." Summer uttered under her breath as she gazed curiously over at Roma and Neo who both had kneeled beside Salem when getting to her.

"H-Hey J-Jaune?" Ruby suddenly called out to Jaune with an uneasy tone, causing both him and her mother to look at her when she had captured their attention.

"What's up, Rubes?" Jaune responded.

What the young Rose said next immediately had the young Arc and mother Rose looking amongst the unconscious group frantically for a certain individual that was supposed to be apart of their travelling and now survival group. How come they didn't notice it earlier?! They would all curse themselves for being so ignorant and unfocused up until this point.

"Pl-Please tell me you see Ren somewhere.."

And done with the next chapter! I apologize for taking long to bring out the next chapter guys. This would've been out a few days earlier but my small town's internet was down for awhile. God, the torture we had to suffer through. It was goddamn horrifying. XD So I couldn't upload it when I wanted to, but I greatly appreciate you for being patient. So thank you so much for that! Now I don't really have much else to say at this time, so I'll leave you be to go on to read your other favourite stories! Thank you so much for reading and I hope you at least somewhat enjoyed this update!

The Harem

- Ruby Rose - 15

- Yang Xiao Long - 16

- Weiss Schnee - 16

- Blake Belladonna - 16

- Pyrrha Nikos - 16

- Nora Valkyrie - 16

- (Eventual) Female Lie Ren - 16

- Cinder Fall - 17

- Emerald Sustrai - 16

- Neo Torchwick - 15

- Salem Grimm - 40

- Roma Torchwick - 35 ( Female Roman )

- Glynda Goodwitch - 36

- Winter Schnee - 19

- Raven Branwen - 36

- Kali Belladonna - 36

- Summer Rose - 35

- Willow Schnee - 37

- Robyn Branwen - 36 ( Female Qrow )

- Vernal - 25

- Velvet Scarletina - 16

- Coco Adel - 17

- Penny Polendina - 15

- Sienna Khan - 30

- Amber - 23

- Reese Chloris - 17

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