Ruby sat by Pyrrha's side and scratched the back of her Fox ears happily. That was both the cutest thing anyone inside that room ever saw and the most unexpected. After everyone taking at least a dozen pictures of the redheads, they now discussed everything that happened to the Spartan.

Ruby and Nora didn't care much. To them, Pyrrha was still Pyrrha, just cuter. Ren, Jaune and Yang didn't care if she had fox features or not, as long as she was healthy. Weiss made the biggest fuzz, offering all the resources of the Schnee family to return Pyrrha back to 'normal' as she put it, and while the way she talked annoyed most of them, they knew she was just worried and wanting to help. The one that had the most different reaction was Blake, which just listened to it in silent. When everyone calmed down a little though, she approached the redhead fox girl and stared for a second.

"Do you mind I touch them too?" Blake asked, surprising everyone, and Pyrrha nodded in affirmation. Blake gently touched both ears and the tail, and sighed, giving a concerned look at her friend. "Pyrrha, I am begging of you now, if you have any clue on what happened to you, please tell me."

"Blake, I have no idea what happened. I can only assure you that whatever happened to me was not of my own volition, and that I am not doing some type of sick joke over your Faunus heritage." Pyrrha stated, knowing exactly what concerned Blake.

The black haired girl nodded and sighed. Of course Pyrrha was not one of those weird people on the internet that believed they were Faunus 'in soul' and used plastic accessories to look like one, Pyrrha would never go to the extent of changing herself physically over some type of demented prank. She was above that type of thing, and Blake considered her a good friend.

"Pyrrha, I must warn you that to all Faunus haters out there, they won't care about how you changed from human to Faunus. The same type of prejudices we suffer, you will suffer from now on, and maybe even if that is a temporary thing, some will still treat you badly even after you change back, if you change back. Some doors that were always open to you will close. And that is just the humans. Some Faunus will assume you are doing a publicity stunt, or worse, mocking them. I even fear people like the White Fang might try something against you." Blake affirmed, and they all understood that she was concerned about a friend. Pyrrha didn't grow up as a Faunus, she had no experience in dealing with all the prejudices that would come against her. And she didn't have a community to fall back to.

"If anyone tries anything against our Pyrrha, they will have to answer to me." Jaune said as he put both his hands in Pyrrha's shoulders. She smiled at him and rested her head in his shoulder.

"Yeah! We will break their legses!" Nora happily said, Ren nodding in agreement. Everyone said something along those lines, making both Pyrrha and Blake smile.

"While our friends' enthusiasm is… nice, I want to tell you that you can count on me to help with any problem I can solve within my power… But… Blake has a point. You will get a lot of flak over something out of your control." Weiss said, surprising everyone, especially Blake. It seemed that despite Weiss harsh past with the Faunus, she was really trying to be a better person.

"I will do whatever I can to help you within the Faunus community. But… I can't guarantee anything." Blake finished, and Pyrrha just gave her usual confident smile.

"If this is what I am now, I will do my best to cope with it. I am happy that I can count with all my friends, the people that really matter, on this." Pyrrha said as she noticed Ozpin and Ms. Goodwitch entering. The blonde teacher gave Pyrrha a few new sets of uniforms that would accommodate her new tail.

"The staff of Beacon will give you full support, Ms. Nikos, for as long as you are a student here and for as long your predicament lasts." Ozpin said, reassuring her.

"And if any students give you a hard time because of your situation, don't hesitate to come to me. I will not accept or tolerate discrimination of any kind here." Ms. Goodwitch affirmed, and they all remembered the harsh punishment she gave Sky Lark when she got him bullying Velvet once. Sky still would steer clear of any Faunus except when with Cardin.

"Now, Ms. Nikos, I need to ask. Considering we have no idea what exactly happened with you, are you sure you don't want to take a leave for a while?" Ozpin asked and Pyrrha just hugged Jaune tight. Ozpin arched an eyebrow at the unusual act of affection.

"Doc already said it is not something contagious and that aside my new appendages I am perfectly healthy. I will not leave my team." She answered, hugging Jaune even more, making Ozpin smile a little.

"You mean you won't leave your Jaune." Yang teased and Jaune blushed hard on it, but Pyrrha made no movement of letting him go. Ozpin chuckled at that and smiled openly. He was one that was betting the duo would be together before the next semester and that development made it more likely.

"Very well, Glynda and I will come with an excuse for your situation that we hope will cause the least of concerns among the students and the least of problems towards you." Ozpin said before sipping on his mug once again.

…

For all effects, what Ozpin told everyone was probably the best excuse they could use, yet it caused a big uproar. They told that during the last mission Pyrrha came in contact with an ancient Dust powered artifact that caused the 'mutation'. The machine was being analyzed to see if the effects could be reverted, but aside that there was no need to worry about the possibility of that happening to anyone else.

Most people reacted positively at it, though that depending on the angle it wasn't necessarily a good thing. Some thought that fox Pyrrha was hotter than normal Pyrrha, and that grossed her out. Others wished her to get well soon or return to 'normal', despite she not being sick and that being a Faunus was a normal thing, at least to her and her friends, even Weiss to an extent. Blake was very happy with that attitude, as she worried the Spartan could dislike being like that. Some few just shrugged it off as another weird thing that happens in a school where people are trained to fight monsters.

A few reacted poorly, especially the humans, but most were the open racists that everyone expected to. A few others that were closeted racists also showed their true colors after the fact. Pyrrha didn't bother with them. It was the Faunus that reacted the most surprising, as most just avoided her. They probably didn't know the proper way to react, and according to Blake they all decided to wait and see how Pyrrha herself would act.

And at that moment all she did was being way too affectionate with a certain blonde boy.

That was the only change they could saw on the Spartan, at least mentally, as she now sat with Jaune at their usual table, her tail curled in his back, her legs on his lap and her arms around his neck. The knight did his best to ignore it, but it was hard as Yang kept teasing them, and Pyrrha seemingly ignored it. Everyone else was more confused than anything, except Nora, that kept hitting Ren's ribs with her elbow.

"Pyrrha, I think your current behavior isn't proper." Weiss finally spouted, not being able to see the usual well behaved redhead being all clingy like that, especially with Jaune Arc, that the heiress considered undeserving of Pyrrha's affection.

"I have no idea what you are talking about. Jaune and I are partners, and he doesn't mind. Do you?" She asked, her eyes lovingly staring Jaune's own.

"Well, it is not bad per se, but people have being staring." He commented, and in fact many people stared both curious over the ways Pyrrha changed physically, and some really jealous about her being all over Jaune.

"Let them." Pyrrha just answered, leaving Weiss agape for a moment. Jaune just blushed and concentrated in his food. That is when Pyrrha felt someone giving her a harsh tug on her tail. "OUCH! What was that for!?"

They turned around to see, who else, Cardin Winchester laughing with his hand on Pyrrha's super fluffy tail. He and his team laughed at the pained expression Pyrrha gave, and they all were surprised the boy would risk angering Pyrrha. She wasn't undertrained as Jaune, or a pacifist as Velvet. She could take them all down in seconds.

"See guys, I told you it was real. But maybe she would like if we could pull it oUCH!" He got his hand off Pyrrha's tail as soon as Jaune slapped it with the handle of his fork.

"Cardin, I told you to not touch my friends!" Jaune growled, and Cardin laughed at his bravado.

"Friend? I think she is more like your pet right now. And I didn't know you were one of those sickos that love to do animals. THE HELL?!"

Cardin clenched his hand, the fork Jaune had in his hand was now hanging on the bully's hand, blood coming from it as he removed the fork. Jaune though didn't threw the fork, a skill he certainly didn't had, but he looked at Pyrrha's satisfied smile and new she used her Semblance, something unusual for her to do in public, or even she getting even with Cardin.

"I would much appreciate if you didn't bother us, Cardin. I am not feeling very lenient today." She said in her usual gentle tone, and she resumed snuggling Jaune.

"Pfft, now that you are a lowly animal my team could take you down, Nikos." Cardin challenged as he held a napkin to his hand. Pyrrha didn't bother to answer this time. "But maybe you need permission of your owner now. Better put a leash on your pet, Arc."

Jaune almost jumped on Cardin if Pyrrha didn't hold him. Ren and Ruby were also holding Nora down, a mission incredible difficult. Blake and Weiss were using all of their willpower to not jump at team CRDL themselves. The bullies laughed like they were clever before Jaune tossed his mashed potato at them. With that both teams RWBY and JNPR started tossing food against team CRDL, and that just didn't escalated to a full on food fight because Glynda Goodwitch stopped the three teams with a glyph.

"Children, I will not clean up your mess again. Can I know what is happening here?"

"They attacked us for no reason!" Cardin lied through his teeth.

"You liar! You attacked Pyrrha!" Weiss promptly said, putting the very hard apple she was going to throw back on her plate.

"We were just curious to see if her tail was real! Besides, Arc attacked me with a fork!" Cardin showed the injury the fork caused.

"You started bullying my partner!" Jaune defended himself, taking the blame for the fork, causing the girls and Ren to smile at him, and Pyrrha to fell more in love for him.

"Yeah, defend your pet OUCH!" Glynda hit the back of Cardin's head with her whip.

"I am tired of your attitude Mr. Winchester. Prejudice will not be tolerated. And Mr. Arc, you should not resort to violence to solve conflicts." She said as they all protested, mostly defending Jaune. "Enough!"

"Yeah, side with them, you always was soft with Jauney boy anyway." Cardin accused, receiving a death glare from the teacher, which was always fair in how she dealt with her students. "Or are you sad your favorite student is now defective?"

"So, why not we discover how much 'defective' I am, in battle, Cardin? Me versus your whole team again. Tournament rules, of course." Pyrrha said, now annoyed over the constant stream of insults she was receiving.

"Fine by us. We will teach you a lesson." Cardin answered with a confident smile, something that bothered Jaune.

"Har, har, four big men defeating one girl. And that is if you are even able to touch her in battle." Jaune said, receiving approving looks from his friends, a hug from Pyrrha and a growl from team CRDL. Ms. Goodwitch just sighed.

"I don't know why you all like to give me so much trouble, but if this battle can end this issue I will allow it. You all have one hour to get ready." Ms. Goodwitch said as she made sure team CRDL left. Now the table was filled with happy talks about breaking legs and splitting skulls.

…

Jaune was blushing madly once again, as he fixed Pyrrha's battle attire to accommodate her tail, and that meant the boy had to touch her buttocks and waist to make sure the skirt was comfortable and holding in place after he used his sewing kit to fix it. Pyrrha didn't seem to mind it, but of course Yang was having a field day, while Weiss kept threatening the boy if he dared to use the 'opportunity' to grab a feel.

"And done!" He celebrated as Pyrrha walked around feeling very comfortable with her tail in the open. She smiled and gave Jaune a small peck in his cheeks.

"It is perfect." She said as she grabbed her weapons, Jaune gently held her shoulders for a moment.

"Be careful, OK? We didn't have time to see if those changes affected you negatively in combat, and I am pretty sure Cardin is planning something." Pyrrha smiled and bit her lips happily seeing her partner concerned over her.

"I am fine, Jaune. I am sure my tail will provide me improved balance and my fox ears will enhance my perception of the battlefield." She said gently touching the boy's forearms.

"And your tail is a new place they can grab or hit, and your enhanced hearing means more distracting sounds, aside making loud sounds hurting more. And I won't put beyond Cardin to cheat. So, promise you will be careful." Pyrrha smiled brightly at Jaune's concern. It was proof of how deeply he cared about her, despite her changes.

"Ms. Nikos, are you ready?" Ms. Goodwitch asked as she entered the locker room, ruining the moment. Pyrrha sighed and nodded, following the teacher towards the arena, as her friends got to the bleachers and sat down. Team CRDL was there, ready, though no one noticed anything unusual at first with their attire and weapons. Ms. Goodwitch was reminding both sides of the rules, and Pyrrha was already wearing her fighting face, while team CRDL had stupid smiles on their own.

"You gave some good pointers back there. Since when you become so knowledgeable about the Faunus?" Blake asked from behind to Jaune, which kept his eyes on team CRDL.

"When you told us about how you are a… fun loving person, I decided that knowing more about my friends was something I needed if I was to support them." Blake blushed a little at that. She knew he was good hearted, but going that extra mile was unexpected. "Besides, if I am going to be a Huntsman, I need to know about both my enemies and the people I am going to protect."

"Wow, vomit boy. That was nice of you. Should I be worried about you making moves on my partner now?" Yang said completely ruining the mood and receiving death glares from Blake, but Jaune was worried about the fight in the arena.

As soon as the battle started Pyrrha was all over team CRDL. It was true that they were fighting more coherently that time, more coordinated, but Pyrrha was faster and had a more develop technique. True to her word, her tail provided her even more accurate balance; and her movements were more fluid and precise, the enemy's weapons barely able to get close to her.

She quickly hit both Sky and Russell with her shield, sending them backwards, with Dove receiving several trusts from her spear. Cardin attacked with his mace, but Pyrrha easily blocked it and kicked his exposed belly. She did some back flips and changed her weapon into carbine mode, shooting the boys chest plates.

As they tried to dodge or block the bullets she jumped over them and using her weapon in sword mode she dealt a great amount of damage. As Jaune warned her Russell tried to grab her tail, but she was aware of that weak spot and spun before he could do that, and the only thing the boy had from her was two swift kicks to the face, what hurt more considering her shoes were covered in metal plates. She bashed Cardin with her shield and stabbed the other boys with her spear, in clear advantage in that battle, despite not using her Semblance yet.

"Yeah, I think that one is a given to our Invincible Girl." Yang said as she smiled seeing team CRDL at the end of a humiliating beating.

"Maybe now they will learn to leave us alone. Though considering those troglodytes small brains, I might be hoping too much." Weiss added, making Ruby giggle at the word 'troglodyte'.

"You are still worried?" Ren asked Jaune, which kept his eyes on team CRDL.

"They were really certain they had a chance. And I don't think this is about Pyrrha's fox thing." The knight answered while his friends cheered for Pyrrha.

As if on cue, something unexpected happened.

Pyrrha was in close combat with Dove and Russell when some type of liquid was flung from the boys' wrists towards her eyes. As she mentally thanked Jaune for the heads up, she closed her eyes before the mysterious liquid could hit them, but as she once again back flipped to a safer zone, she noticed the 'liquid' was some type of sticky goo. She tried to clean her eyes with her glove, but the goo didn't come out. She didn't dared to try to open her eyes in fear the liquid could damage them, and soon found Jaune was right in other aspects.

She trained blind fighting before, and so she tried to use her ears to locate and deal with her enemies, but the extra set of ears made difficulty for her to focus in the right sounds and clear her mind of the background noise. With difficulty to focus, soon she saw herself in the end of team CRDL unrelenting attack. She was surrounded and unable to block all the attacks thrown at her.

She noticed the desperate shouts of her friends from the bleachers, and the clicks and clacks of her enemies' weapons against her, forcing her to her knees. She couldn't use her semblance as too much metal was around her to focus properly. For the first time in a while Pyrrha felt she was at the brink of defeat, and realized she hated that feeling.

"Let's finish this, boys, and teach this animal her place."

The voice of Cardin filled with disdain and hate made Pyrrha's blood boil. She always found deplorable people that were prejudicial to Faunus, and now she knew a little how it felt to be on the short end of the stick. Letting Cardin and his team win was out of question. She couldn't allow this. She wouldn't be defeated by someone like that. She would win, no matter how.

Team CRDL jumped all at once towards Pyrrha. They were going to end that as painfully as possible.

But they stopped midair, somehow floating. In front of their armor was a blue and white flame, like holding them. That was when they looked at Pyrrha with her hand extended, the hand also covered in that blue and white flame. But that wasn't the only change they observed at her.

Her tail became all white, and somehow the same flames created eight other white tails. The flames removed the sticky goo from her eyes and she opened them as she slowly got up, her green eyes shining brightly with their own light. She grinned at team CRDL, which flailed around helpless. At the bleachers, everyone stood in silent surprise. Miss Goodwitch eyes were wide open, and she couldn't understand what was happening. Jaune just clenched his fists.

Pyrrha grinned and with a swift movement of her hand she made the four boys collide against each other, than with another movement she pushed them down against the hard floor, a painful sound echoing around. The boys weren't able to fight anymore as she walked slowly at them and sat at Cardin's back, since he was atop the pile, letting her weight all against him, the boy letting an 'oof' sound out. She crossed her legs and smiled at Ms. Goodwitch, as her eyes and tail returned to normal.

"Did I won, Ms. Goodwitch?" She asked, finally broken the teacher from her surprised state.

"Yes, Ms. Nikos, you definitely won." The teacher said as she checked her scroll. "But next time, avoid this unnecessary attitude. It does not fit you such show."

"Sorry, I think I let their attitude affect me." Pyrrha apologized as she got up, now back on her usual polite mode.

"Pyr!"

She had no time to react as Jaune hugged her tightly, and she didn't complain as she hugged him back. That was a better reward than any prize money or trophy she ever received. The boy just sighed relieved she was OK. When their eyes met Pyrrha felt happy, and gently touched his cheek. The mood was ruined when Nora barraged Pyrrha with questions.

"Pyrrha! That was AWESOME! How you did that? You were all flamey and had nine tails and your eyes where shining that incredible beauty green and…"

"Nora, calm down." Ren said as he dragged her back, Jaune and Pyrrha braking from their hug, both blushing in different ways.

"That was something." Yang said as she approached with the rest of team Ruby. "What exactly you did there, Super Pyrrha?"

"I just used my Semblance as always." Pyrrha shrugged, as she didn't notice anything unusual.

"That is not how it always goes." Blake showed footage of the battle she filmed with her scroll. Pyrrha looked honestly surprised at it, as she didn't noticed anything different on herself except her anger over team CRDL.

"Well, that was indeed something." Was all the Spartan could say.

"We will talk about Ms. Nikos abilities later. First, I want to know exactly what this is." Ms. Goodwitch said as she grabbed Dove and Russell wrists and exposed the containers of the mysterious liquid they used against Pyrrha. "I am pretty sure this is not allowed under tournament rules."

"And this freak magic is?" Cardin questioned before being whacked in the head by Ms. Goodwitch.

"I will also have a long talk with you about your prejudicial attitude against your classmates, Mr. Winchester." She threatened as she made the boys stand up. "Mr. Arc, take your partner to the training grounds, and make sure to test all of her abilities. I would prefer to not have any surprises further on."

"Sure thing, Ms. Goodwitch." He said as he was motioning to walk out.

"And Mr. Arc, better make sure her attitude today was just this one time."

Both he and his friends nodded before rushing out of the arena. Pyrrha had a childish smile as she noted Jaune was holding her hand.

…

"Aside the fact that her power manifest now as those blue flames, everything seems normal." Ren stated as both teams entered JNPR's room. "We couldn't make Pyrrha manifest her nine tailed mode, though."

"And your punches still hurt. Ouch." Ruby complained a she sat in Jaune's bed.

"Sorry." Pyrrha said as she sat on her bed. Actually, Jaune sat in her bed and she sat on Jaune, hugging his neck.

"And I still think you should stop being so… close, to Arc." Weiss complained with her arms crossed over her chest. "It is not proper, and beneath a champion like you."

"Weiss, are you jealous?" Ruby asked making Weiss blush madly and flail her arms.

"Why I would be jealous of that dork?"

"So, it is Pyrrha you are jealous of?" Blake deadpanned, making Weiss shake her arms harder.

"OF COURSE NOT!" She yelled and everyone laughed, and Jaune gently forced Pyrrha off his lap, making the redhead put a little.

"Prof. Port said that my physical abilities are just as 'impressive' as before, and aside the change in my Semblance's appearance, it is still polarity. So I think I am still OK." Pyrrha finished the discussion as she brushed her tail with her fingers. "I need new clothes…"

"Oh hoho! Tomorrow after class we will do a shopping trip!" Yang said; Ruby and Nora celebrating.

"I know some stores specialized in Faunus clothes. They will have clothes that will take your tail in consideration." Blake said and Pyrrha nodded in agreement. At that moment Jaune's scroll rang and he took the call. For his surprise it was his sister Mia.

"Sis? How are you?" He asked and gave his sister a curious look.

"Hey, little brother. Glad to see you are all right. I miss you! Oh crap, that is not why I am calling. I see Pyrrha is there, good, this make thing easier. I have some news for you, and you might dislike it…" Mia said as Jaune's scroll opened a screen, showing a few articles from the internet.

Everyone blushed there as Jaune started to shout some of the dirtiest profanities they ever heard.

…

A.N. I admit I kind of based Pyrrha's super fox mode in Ahri from League of Legends, I really dig her desigh. XD

This story will go to some dark places from now on, so be prepared. I think this one story will be longer than expected too, and I prepared some surprises down the road, hope you all enjoy it. :3