Arriving Blake could see that many of the bed's were full, walking down to the back end of the room she stopped in front of the bed Weiss occupied and started laughing, there was Weiss half asleep and stuck with Ruby curled up into her side.

"Morning you two" Blake taunted, getting Weiss to groan.

"If you're only going to mock me then stop; Ruby just fell asleep and she panics if someone's not next to her. It's annoying but at least she stays still."

"Yes but we still need to wake her up to see Yang and talk about some things that were found out yesterday."

Weiss hardened her stare at Blake "Like what?"

"Weiss it will be easier with both yourself and Yang present as will be explaining things once and not two times, alright?"

"Fine," Weiss huffed, "Now get the dolt off me."

Blake just shook her head before walking over to Ruby and pulling the girl out of bed dropping her to the floor.

"Ahhh." thunk "Owww. The heck?" Ruby asked rubbing sore spots from her landing.

"Yang's up we're going to go explain everything to the both of them now, just let me do the talking."

"Oh ok, um they stopped letting me see Yang is that going to be a problem?"

Blake let out a sigh "How often were you rushing back and forth between Weiss and Yang?"

"Um, a lot." Ruby answered.

Blake fought off the urge to face-palm, letting out a sigh instead. "No that shouldn't be a problem, Now go clean yourself up a bit you're still covered in grime from the forest."

Ruby looked at herself and blushed a bit seeing the dirt and blood still on her. "Yea I should get cleaned up some. Watch the weapons for me." With that Ruby stood and walked off to the washroom.

"I'm going to find out if you're clear to walk, I'll be back." The 'stay here' was left unsaid.

Weiss let out a breath of anger through clenched teeth, before calming herself down. Pushing herself up into a sitting position, Weiss swung her legs over the edge of the bed. With nothing else to do she began going over her motor control. Weiss checked everything as best she could, wiggling her toes, fingers and putting her joints through their full range of motion. Just as Weiss finished a smile on her face because everything was working well, no twinges of pain nothing that didn't moved wrong. She spotted Blake and Ruby making their way towards her, only to frown that Blake was pushing a wheelchair.

Stopping next to Weiss's bed Blake faced her. "I know you don't want to, but the doctors don't want you moving around too much yet. Now just bear with it."

Weiss huffed at this but allowed them to assist her to the wheelchair. As soon as Weiss was situated Ruby disappeared in a shower of rose petals, before appearing a short way in front of them with all the weapons she had been given, bouncing slightly with anticipation. "Come on come on let's go. Let's go."

Blake and Weiss couldn't help but smile at Ruby, despite everything she has been through she still maintained some level of her old self.

Pushing Weiss after the hyper girl they soon arrived at a sealed ward, Ruby already bugging the receptionist to let her through.

"Ruby settle down you'll see Yang when we do."

Ruby slumped at this nodding.

"Now then the three of us are here to see Yang."

"Last name?"

"Xiao Long"

"She's up and taking visitors, take the left, second hallway third to last room."

The three girls walked through the sealed doors as soon as the lock was released. Following the instructions they soon arrived at Yang's door a window was set into the wall letting them see inside a intercom was set on the windowsill. Through the window they could see Yang sitting up on her bed in a hospital gown, looking at her hand. What shocked them was the icicles hanging from the vents and the layer of frost that covered the floor and walls. Yang didn't seem to notice looking at the flames that covered her.

Eventually Ruby moved and hit the call button on the intercom.

"Yang you in there?"

This pulled Yang out of her thoughts as she stared at the window with her teammates in it. They waved looking for a response. Yang nearly burst out crying as she scrambled from her bed to the window. Placing a hand on the glass she stared at her friends as relief flooded her.

Ruby hit the intercom again. "So how are you feeling frosty?" Ruby asked with a smirk.

Yang leveled a glare at her sister, hitting the button to talk. "Want to say that without the wall between us?"

"Nope."

"Thought so Rubes"

"Now then, on to business you two." Blake cut in "You can talk latter. Yang, I assume you can grasp what is happening with your semblance continuing to pull in energy?"

"Okay so how is the room freezing, oh I'm just still pulling energy ...I'm not getting hit. Besides shouldn't I just leak it back into the room?"

"That's why they we're just as confused as you on this. But the doctor thinks that your semblance just fully activated or you weren't fully utilizing it. In short no one knows just what happened. They said they would let you out when you can keep from pulling all the heat out of the room."

Yang nodded. "That sounds reasonable, so what else is up?"

"That was the easy one." Blake let out a sigh "I'm not sure how to put this." Blake tilted her head back and crossed her arms. "I've been trying to figure out a way to say this to you but I could never figure out a way to say it...but now it's valid. I'm a Faunus and I thought I was the only one on this team."

At this everyone stared at her in shock before the rest of what she said sunk in. Yang blinked and looked at Weiss with Ruby, who after a moment of shock began sputtering out that it couldn't be her.

"Weiss it's you, I don't know the how or the why but they found ear canals on the top of your head." Blake pulled out her scroll before selecting a file and handing it to Weiss. "Someone tried to hide it by putting metal plates in your head, you're lucky that your ears didn't try to grow in inverted. I know that this is a big shock but it's the truth." Blake reached up and pulled her bow out of her hair revealing her cat ears. "I know you don't want this getting out, so I got you something to cover them" pulling out a red and white beanie she set it in the lap of the still shocked Weiss.

"I'm a Faunus..." Weiss finally let out dropping Blake's scroll into her lap on top of her new hat, despair showing on her face as tears started falling down her face, "I'm nothing more than a monster." Weiss broke down crying, before she could move she was pulled into a hug. Weiss attempted to pry herself loose only to be pulled back. Weiss gave up with getting away and just grabbed hold of Ruby before sobbing into her shoulder.

Yang just watched as her sister comforted her partner, she could relate to what Weiss was going through it had been awhile but she could still remember being told that her mother wouldn't be coming home again. she had cried for days after word. Right now the best thing Weiss could have would be support that nothing had changed for them and that she was still Weiss. Not some monster.

Blake sat back for a moment as Weiss broke down crying she hadn't expected her to have such a drastic reaction to learning she was a Faunus, denial and anger were expected but this left her shocked. Recovering from the shock of seeing the near unshakable Weiss break down Blake stepped forward pulling Weiss and Ruby into a hug, after a moment they both pulled her in.

They stayed like that till Weiss finally stopped crying, and then some. When they finally pulled apart Weiss was still red eyed and slightly teary.

"You're not a monster Weiss." Ruby spoke "You're my partner and nothing's changing that." she finished with a smile "Now cheer up, we will get through this just like everything else."

Weiss just nodded. "Thanks." she eventually got out causing Ruby to smile even brighter.

The group fell silent till Blake's scroll went off, "Its Jaune the rest of his team just got back everything's fine." They all nodded before Yang broke the silence.

"Hey do you guys know why I have stitches?" Yang asked while pulling up her hospital gown showing her the various lines of stitches that now crisscrossed her skin and her lack of decency. The reactions of the three were expected.

Ruby was unfazed being familiar with her sister's antics, only letting out a sigh. "Here we go again."

Blake just shook her head in miner disbelief at her partner.

Weiss was flabbergasted. It took her mind a moment to reboot from the second shock of the day. "Are you out of your mind Yang, cover yourself. And why the hell did you need to show us you brute, control yourself."

"Meh you just need to loosen up we're all girls here." Yang said nonchalantly dropping the gown. "But seriously, why the stitches? You said I overloaded my semblance nothing that turns me into a Frankenstein look alike."

"They said you ruptured your appendix from the hits the Grimm gave you and you had internal hemorrhaging."

"Internal bleeding, yeah got it, damn it must have been bad for them to cut me open like this, crap." Yang walked around a bit and stretched some trying to see just how bad off she was. Her team just watched.

"Well it feels like I'm all better for the most part so at least stealing all the energy had a purpose if I'm healed up."

"So now we get out and improve. Who's with me?" Ruby asked getting the rest of her team to grin at her.

"Finally an order I can agree with." Weiss chimed in

"I'm always up for improving; besides I hate hospitals."

"There is always room for improvement." Blake finished "Now then Ruby go get some rest and clean yourself up you're still covered in stuff from yesterday."

At this Ruby looked down at herself finally seeing just how much stuff covered her. Mud caked her boots, blood dirt and leaves stuck in her hair and her dress was covered in much the same."

"I never noticed." She said looking down at herself and picking some dirt from her skirt.

"Shock will do that to a person, now go get cleaned up I'll see to it that Weiss gets back to her bed so they can see if she can leave."

At this Ruby nodded before bidding them goodbye and rushing off.

"So how bad am I really? Cause I way too stiff to have been just stitched up." Yang asked leveling a glare at Blake.

"I didn't want your sister to know or she'd never calm down," Blake let out a sigh, "Most of your internal organs had to be stitched back together in places and while you're still slated for a full recovery but you need to be very careful with not opening up any of them as you'll open them all up if you do. Weiss your ears should finish growing in, in a few weeks. It will be weird hearing things for a while but you'll have to get used to it unless you just keep cutting them off."

Weiss let out a sigh at this but just nodded "I knew things would get weird with this at least I have a warning."

"Well if that's all. Next time you stop by can you bring me my scroll or something it's boring just sitting in here." Yang asked.

"I'll see what I can do just focus on not freezing the place. Got it?" Blake said.

"No promises sister." Yang shot back with a smirk.

Blake let out a sigh "well I'm done here unless you have anything to say Weiss"

"Don't die Yang, Ruby would never stop crying and no one can deal with that."

"Don't fret it Ice Queen I got no plans to die anytime soon."

"Let's go Blake; the barbarian seems to have expended her mental capacities and been forced to resort to petty insults, besides you take that title now anyhow."

At this both Blake and Yang stood in shock at Weiss.

Yang recovered first, "Would you look at that Blake she's growing up, that come back was perfect."

At this Blake shook her head before saying goodbye to Yang. Exiting the isolation ward Blake starts pushing Weiss's wheelchair having been told not to let Weiss exert herself. Wheeling Weiss to her bed they found a nurse fretting over a chart looking around as if expecting someone to be there.

Seeing them she spoke up

"Ah there you are I was told to bring you to see the doctor once you got back, follow me if your friend will come with us."

Blake looked down at Weiss who nodded before Blake pushed Weiss after the nurse as she turned to walk away.

They followed the nurse to an examination room where they were told to wait for the doctor. After what felt like hours the doctor finally arrived Weiss was slightly taken aback when a bear Faunus walked in.

"Ah Miss Schnee I'm doctor Berlin, this should be short just a check for any nervous system damage and your balance. Then seeing how your ears are. Now then see if you can get up on the examination table."

Weiss shot Blake a glare before pushing herself out of her chair, she didn't wobble or fall. Taking the first steps with caution; Weiss made it to the table before pulling herself onto it, taking a seat on the edge.

"Okay wiggle your toes,"

Weiss moved them going as far as to flex

"Okay now your knees"

The process continued till they had gone through the movement of all of Weiss's joints followed by several tasks to test motor control and balance from standing on one foot, to moving her arms in circles. The doctor had her move just about everything taking notes on everything.

"Okay then, everything's fine. Just one last thing, I need to check on your ears and change the bandages."

Pulling out a pair of scissors Doctor Berlin soon began cutting away the bandages on Weiss's head. Throwing out the used bandages the doctor then began cleaning out her ear canals causing Weiss to wince at the unfamiliar sensation.

"Hold still for me, don't want to accidentally damage something."

Weiss held still grimacing whenever he hit a fresh nerve, Weiss was grateful when it finally ended letting a shiver run through her in an effort to shake off the feeling.

"Well miss your quite lucky we found out about this when we did one of your ears was closed up and was starting to grow down the other was just starting to close up, I'd say you would've had about a year before you died."

At this Weiss and Blake were taken aback shock evident on their faces.

"Don't worry about it we would have plenty of warning with you getting a constant headache and we would have found this soon enough and done the same. Now I need to check if your Faunus ears are working so please put these on." The doctor said handing Weiss a pair of earplugs and earmuffs.

Weiss nodded taking the items and putting them on.

Once they were in place Weiss notice that she could still hear slightly, hearing a sound she turned to look at it, while feeling something move on her scalp.

Doctor Berlin seeing how Weiss reacted stepped forward and pulled off the ear muffs. "That's enough they seem to be working. No need to panic."

Weiss nodded slowly as Blake started calming down her teammate.

"I have one last thing you need to do, that's too see how far you can walk. This is largely unnecessary but I would still like to see once we bandage your ears lightly."

A short bit later Weiss was walking around after they had bandaged her ears.

When she walked back the doctor handed her the folded up wheelchair. "That will be all keep this for a while till we're certain that you won't have any issues." handing Weiss her release note. Weiss nodded taking the note and bidding the doctor farewell.

Weiss and Blake left the infirmary after finding Weiss some clothes. The walk through the school was quiet without any sign of other students, as they approached their dorm Weiss broached the subject.

"So where are all the students? Even during classes the school's never been this empty."

Blake shrugged "I didn't notice on my way out was more interested in seeing my friends. They may be out in the forests clearing out the remaining Grimm."

At this Weiss nodded, they continued to their room in silence.

Entering their room the two girls were greeted with a surprising sight. Spread out in corner of the room on sheets of cardboard was a mess of weapon parts from several weapons lay about on them in the center of the mess was Ruby, in her in her pajamas an oil rag still in one hand with an indistinguishable part in the other, passed out.

The two smiled slightly before setting aside the wheelchair walking through the maze of parts to Ruby, setting aside what she was holding and capping the bottles of oil and solvents she had been using to clean the parts before carrying her to her bed and tucking her in. After a few moments of silence Weiss went to the bathroom for a shower leaving them both alone to their thoughts, 'I need to get stronger'.

Yang sat on her bed the room still frozen around her, ice coated every surface around her yet she didn't feel a chill, her eyes were closed in meditation. Reaching down inside herself she attempted to find what brought about this change. At first she had tried flaring her Aura as before to coat herself in flames, and release the energy she was taking in, it had flooded the room with heat and steam until she pulled the heat back out of the room freezing the place again.

Yang was working on manipulating her semblance she knew this would take time but she had done this before. When she first unlocked her semblance she had no control over it leading to several accidents, and now she fell back to the old training to control her Aura she was getting out of here within the week the only thing stopping her was herself. Then she could really see just what her semblance could do.

Juane look around at his sleeping team. He knew he was the weakest of them, he had known that since team JNPR was formed. Tomorrow he would take Pyrrha up on her offer to train him. Looking down to the weapon and shield he was working on, his mind strayed back to the battle yesterday. He had done better than he had expected, he had been sure he was going to die more times than he had bothered count. His worst failure had been losing his sword in combat and being unable to even locate it until after the fighting was over. Even with his sword he was limited in combat.

However he had already figured out an easy solution, get a side arm.

He'd look up specs later or ask Ruby, but for now they all needed rest and nothing else mattered.

Once he was done cleaning Crona Mora he would send a letter to his family telling just what he had been up to the last few months, then he'd make his way down to the gym.

Three days later Ozpin looked up from the list of letters he needed to write. Over a dozen students had died since the ill-fated trip to forever fall and the following actions to thin out the Grimm, most were from the three Ursa colossi they found. He had already planned for a memorial in eighteen days to allow for the families to travel.

Setting down his scroll Ozpin let his thoughts go to the survivors, one full first year team had been killed, with three others losing at least half their members. Most shocking was the group of seniors that fell to one of the Colossus, they had killed it before succumbing to their wounds. They had been rushed to surgery only for them to die on the table.

At the same time the event, served as a wake-up call to many others and live combat experience for many others. The event was almost a blessing as many of his students saw just how harsh reality can be and those that rise above it would be ready for it next time. At the same time he wondered just how could get the others to keep fighting.

Team RWBY and JNPR sat around a table in the cafeteria none of them were eating, finally Nora broke the silence."We got our butts handed to us didn't we?"

The group let out chuckles "Hell I'm just glad we all made it out alive, we cut it close a few times." Jaune spoke up.

"It was too close for us, we need to get stronger, all of us." Ruby said.

"Ruby's right we were all pushed too far. Our strengths seem to have plateaued."Pyrrha chimed in, getting the rest of the group to agree.

"Hey, Ren how did you crack the Ursa's skull, was it your semblance or just Aura?" Ruby asked.

"Just plane Aura manipulation." Ren answered putting his elbow on the table "I can teach you if you want."

This took everyone by surprise having thought it was just his semblance, "Um can you teach me as well?" Yang asked.

At this everyone looked at the brawler in shock as one of the strongest in the group asked for help.

"Actually I wouldn't mind learning either." Everyone turned to look at Weiss.

"Count me in as well I need all the help I can get right now." Jaune said raising his hand "Also Ruby I want to pick up a side arm later and would like help."

"Yea no problem, does anyone else need help with a weapon?" Ruby asked

"oh oh, can I get a cannon or a flame thrower, oh no a" everyone soon stopped listening as Nora continued to list off even more outrageous add on's for her weapon.

"I need a way to reload Myrtenaster in the field I ran far too low on dust at the end." Weiss spoke up.

"I would like to look into acquiring a second weapon as well, I found myself limited at times when fighting." Pyrrha added "though I don't know just what I would go for."

"I'll see what I can do." Ruby said. "But I do need to train myself as well."

Both Weiss and Pyrrha nodded "yes you have several things to learn now don't you."

"Um I plan to give team CRDL their weapons back once they wake up, if they'll take them."

"That's good, I've been hearing some uncouth rumors about you because of them."

"I've heard several of them as well. " Weiss added. "None of them are putting you in a good light."

"I know," Ruby said sadly, "I've heard a few of the rumors there saying I tried to get team CRDL killed so I could steal their weapons. I didn't want anyone to die. Hell I couldn't even use anything besides my scythe right even with training until then, they just didn't ...um behave right?

"I know what you're talking about, I can't use a long sword to save my life but I learned the forms when I was younger." Pyrrha said.

They both nodded at her explanation.

The two teams kept talking and swapping ideas on how to improve their skills as the day wore on. Nora finally settled on a modification for magnhild with a jet engine flame thrower, that would need to be custom made and fitted to the hammer, allowing for faster swings and more close range work.

Pyrrha was looking at modifying Akouo into something akin to an old Lantern shield.

Three of them were going to be meeting with Ren at some point to work on their Arua. They would all be trying to train together later and had planned a trip to town to pick up weapons and supplies for the modifications that they couldn't acquire at Beacon.

The group split up after dinner, most of them went back to their rooms, Yang however was still confined to her isolation room in the hospital wing as she still collected energy as she slept freezing the room solid with ice.

Entering their room Weiss pulled off her hat immediately after the door closed, and began scratching at her Faunus ears. "RAH, by dust these itch." she let out while still scratching at them.

"What do you expect they're essentially just scabs at this point." Blake said

"I know that but why does it itch so much."

"Probably feels like sunburn." Ruby cut in.

"No one asked you." Weiss shot at her. "Just give me a minute." she said trying to calm down. "Dust this is annoying." she said trying to ease the sensation in her ears. "I shouldn't have snapped at you but this is driving me up a wall."

"It's no biggie you're fed up everything crashing around you. I guess you're panicking and you still have to call your family this weekend."

At this Weiss let out a groan, "Don't remind me I don't even know how to face that."

"I would suggest planning for the worst this is not something that your family will take overly well." Blake said from her bed.

"I know just I need to think about how to word what I'm going to say. I could get disowned for this. Dust, what just what am I going to do."

"Prepare for the worst and hope for the best." Blake supplied her panicking team mate.

"Yeah that will do." Weiss answered "that will do."

"Oh yeah can i see Myrtenaster for the measurements for the reloading device?"

"What oh yea, Do you want the schematics or Myrtenaster itself Ruby?"

"Either should work Weiss."

"Alright I'll just send you the blueprints."