The night ticked by slowly as Amaru tossed and turned in his sleep, because of a horrible nightmare he was having; a nightmare where he was relieving a horrible moment from his past. In Amaru's dream he was a hatchling; slithering quickly through the forest in an attempt to escape from a much larger and more dangerous naga, his father. Most male nagas didn't harm their children but Amaru's father was a sick, sadistic creature, and to him hurting and torturing Amaru and his mother was amusing.

Amaru slithered through the woods quickly glancing behind him repeatedly hoping to avoid his father. Suddenly he slammed into something that caused him to fall flat on his back, when Amaru looked up he was horrified to see the very monster he was trying to escape from. Amaru's father towered over him like a skyscraper, his golden eyes were almost glowing in the darkness of the night and they sparkled with sadistic delight, moonlight hit his tanned skin and showed his charcoal black hair, his long arms were crossed, his mouth was curled in a horrifying grin, on his forehead were a pair of yellow horns that looked sharp enough to puncture flesh, from the waist down Amaru's father had a tail that was twelve feet of bone-crushing muscle; the scales on his tail were mostly black, with blue scales forming a diamond pattern, and those blue diamonds were surrounded by light green scales.

"Gotcha." Amaru's father said keeping that same grin. Amaru tried to get away but his father quickly grabbed him by his tail and lifted him up off the ground (at this time Amaru is small enough for someone to hold him in one hand), Amaru squirmed and writhed in his father's vice-like grip Amaru's father opened his mouth wide. Amaru's eyes widened as he quickly figured out what his father was planning to do "Papa! Don't please!!" Amaru begged. Amaru's father chuckled enjoying the sound of his son's pleas, Amaru's eyes shot open seconds later.

He breathed heavily and looked around, he was back in the RWBY dorm room. He looked at the clock which read five thirty AM, Amaru cupped his face in his hands. Seconds later he got up and quietly slithered his way into the bathroom, he turned the sink on and splashed some warm water on his face, seconds later he gripped the edge of the sink and sighed "He's gone now..."Amaru said looking at his reflection in the mirror. He sighed again, switched off the bathroom light and went over to where his blanket and pillow waited for him on the floor. He coiled his tail up under him and rested his head down on the pillow but he didn't get a wink of sleep for the rest of the night, suddenly the alarm clock went off the next morning to wake everyone up, startling Amaru quite a lot.

"Morning everyone." Ruby said as she stretched. Amaru groaned, suddenly someone knocked on the door "Who could that be?" Yang asked. "I'll get it." Ruby said before she walked to the door and opened it, when she opened the door there was a man standing there holding a box "This is for someone named Amaru." The man said before he handed Ruby the box and left. Ruby shrugged, closed the door, and went back to everyone "Hey, Amaru, you've got a package." Ruby said as she set the package down in front of him. Amaru opened the package slowly and inside was a black suit jacket lined with gold, accompanied by a blue vest and a white shirt with a red tie. Under all of these things was a note that read 'Amaru, here's the uniform we had custom made for you, we couldn't really get anything for your tail but I hope you can look passed that,'- Ozpin. Amaru shrugged slightly as he removed the shirt he was wearing and put the uniform on and it fit him easily.

One at a time the girls went into the bathroom where they changed from their pajamas into their school uniforms. Which was a red plaid skirt, stockings of various length, and a brown jacket with a tan vest and white shirt with a red ribbon tied at the collar. "Amaru, are you ready?" Ruby asked. "I guess." Amaru groaned. "Okay let's get to class then." Ruby said clapping her hands. Amaru stood up and stretched his arms "Alright then, I guess." Amaru said shrugging. They all left and proceeded to the first class of the day which was a class taught by an old grizzled man named Peter Port, he was supposed to be in charge of teaching the students about Grimm and how to fight them but he mainly told very exaggerated stories of what he had done in his past.

Right in the middle of another of these stories that nobody believed Amaru groaned loudly "Okay, aren't you supposed to be teaching us about the Grimm?" Amaru asked visibly annoyed. "Why yes of course." Port replied. "Well, I fail to see how these stories will serve any purpose besides stroking your ego." Amaru said. "Oh... uh well... I suppose you're right Mr..." Port trailed off as he didn't know Amaru's name. "My name is just Amaru." He replied. "Well then 'Amaru' why don't you show us all what you can do against a grimm then?" Port asked. "I figured I showed enough of that during my initiation but alright." Amaru replied as he moved from where he was sitting and slithered to the front of the room.

Port called for a caged Grimm to be brought in and moments later a cage that was about half Port's height was brought to the room, the Grimm inside snarled and slammed into the sides of the cage trying to escape. Port took an axe and cut the lock off the cage, releasing the Grimm. The Grimm inside was a Boarbatusk it was about the size of a normal boar, its back, sides and face were covered by bone-hard armor plating, it had four glowing red eyes, two four foot long tusks that curved out from its lower jaw, and the rest of its teeth looked reasonably sharp. Amaru wasn't worried; he'd seen these kind of grimm many times before and killed many of them. The boar charged forward at Amaru but he grabbed it by the tusk and held it back with ease. Suddenly he tightened his grip on the grimm's tusk and threw it across the room, it slammed into the wall with a loud thud and left a huge dent in the wall. "Incredible strength, very impressive." Port said clapping his hands.

The Grimm scrambled to its feet and let out a roar that sounded much more like the squeal of a pig, then it rolled itself into a ball and began to roll toward Amaru. He wasn't scared when it got close enough Amaru punched the grim to the side causing it to smash into the wall right under the chalkboard, the Grimm got back up and charged at Amaru again. Amaru slithered forward and cut one of the boarbatusk's legs which weren't armored, it stopped suddenly and turned around it ran forward but more slowly this time. Amaru smirked he repeated the same move until the venom in his claws paralyzed the Grimm completely; once it was paralyzed Amaru grabbed it by its jaws and forced its mouth open, then he kept going until he tore the Grimm's head in half and it turned to dust.

"Very well done Amaru." Port said clapping his hands while everyone sat stunned. "Though it was clear that you were toying with that Grimm for most of the fight." Port added as the bell rang. And he was right, Amaru loved to toy with his prey "Oh it seems that's all we have time for today, you're dismissed." Port said waving his hand dismissively. Team RWBY all began to make their way to their next class: Dueling Class, which was taught by Glynda GoodWitch. When they got their Team CRDL stood up on the stage dressed in their battle gear.

The team consisted of the leader, Cardin; a boy about six feet tall, with burnt-orange hair that was combed backward with a slight peak at the front, indigo eyes. Who wore silver-gray armor with gold trim The chestplate had a symbol of a bird with its wings outstretched and he was armed with a large mace that took both hands for him to wield. Russel, a boy with a green Mohawk, who wore a hoodie with the sleeves cut off, and two bracers on his arms that extended from the wrist to just below the elbow, and a pair of gray pants. Who was armed with a small curved sword. Sky a boy with blue eyes and long, combed back, dark blue hair, he wore dark gray armor with light gray edges and was armed with a dark blue halberd (battle axe). And a boy named Dove he had light-brown hair that is combed to the left, he kept his eyes nearly closed, at a very noticeable squint, he wore tan-colored armor with a belt that bore a dove on its buckle. And was armed with a long sword. Amaru had heard a lot about those four from team RWBY, mostly that they were a group of discriminatory assholes who hated faunus.

"Alright students, who among you would like to go up against someone from team CRDL?" Glynda asked. There was silence until Amaru raised his hand, because even just by looking at them he could tell he hated Cardin and his team. "Very well, Amaru, come forward." Glynda ordered. Amaru slithered his way on to the stage "Oh that snake freak, this'll be easy." Cardin said. "Who among them would you like to go against?" Glynda asked. "I'll take on all four of them." Amaru said. Glynda looked at him surprised "Very well then, good luck." Glynda said as she stepped off the stage and two screens turned on one screen showed pictures of Cardin and his team with green bars next to them, which were their auras, the other was the same for Amaru.

"Let the match begin." Glynda said. Cardin and his team charged forward, Cardin raised his mace but Amaru slapped him aside using his tail. When Dove and Russel charged at Amaru from both left and right he smirked and when Russel lunged forward in an attempt to stab him and Dove swung his sword Amaru simply ducked causing Dove and Russel to hit each other, with Russel's lack of armor Doves sword hit him in the side of the chest caused his aura to drop into the red zone immediately while Dove only stumbled slightly. Amaru then grabbed Dove by the neck and lifted him up and when Sky ran at Amaru from behind Amaru waited for Sky to swing his halberd and when he did Amaru threw Dove at Sky with a very minimal amount of strength, still it was enough to send them both flying and nearly smash right through a brick wall. Causing their auras to also drop into the red zone on the screen. And when Cardin finally got back up he ran at Amaru again but Amaru grabbed him and wrapped his tail around Cardin's body, Amaru then began to constrict Cardin, the aura meter for Cardin on the screen began to drop quickly, once that reached the red zone Glynda called the duel off.

"As you can see Amaru has won this duel." Glynda said as Amaru dropped Cardin who fell onto his hands and knees gasping for breath. The bell went off signifying that it was time for lunch, everyone exited the dueling room, Cardin and his team leaving last because of their injuries, miraculously none of their injuries were very serious though. Amaru grabbed a tray that consisted of two chicken legs and wings, some blue berries, and a bottle of water. He sat down with team RWBY and JNPR, all of them talked amongst themselves and Amaru was about to start eating his food before he saw Cardin picking on some girl with rabbit ears.

That got him angry, so he stood up and slithered over to Cardin and his team "Hey! Stop it! That hurts!" The girl said as Cardin pulled on one of her ears. "See? I told you they were real." Cardin said laughing. "What a freak." Sky said. "Hey!" Amaru shouted. "What do you want snake boy?" Cardin asked. "Leave her alone." Amaru ordered. "She's an animal, just like you, and belongs in a cage. I can pick on her if I want." Cardin said tugging on her ears again causing her to whimper. "Wrong." Amaru replied, his serpentine pupils narrowing to strait lines. "What are you gonna do to stop me?" Cardin asked as he stood up. "Probably this..." Amaru said before he tripped Cardin. Seconds later he grabbed Cardin's head and slammed it into the ground twice while his team watched scared. Cardin looked up at Amaru in pain and barely clinging to consciousness "The only reason you and your team are still alive after that duel is because I'm not allowed to kill while we're here." Amaru hissed before Cardin passed out. Dove, Sky, and Russel moved passed Amaru, grabbed Cardin and ran him to the infirmary as quickly as they could.

"You okay?" Amaru asked looking at the girl with the rabbit ears. "Y-yeah I'm okay, thanks." She said. "No problem, by the way if you want to eat with us you can." Amaru said pointing at the table where teams RWBY and JNPR were. "I'd like that. I'm Velvet by the way." She said as she picked up her tray and followed Amaru back to the table. Amaru sat down in front of his tray and Velvet sat next to him "Hey! Amaru, What was it like living in the Emerald Forest? Have you ever had pancakes before? Do you have a family?" Nora asked him quickly. "God, Nora calm down." Ren said as Amaru swallowed one of the chicken wings whole. "Well have you at least ever had pancakes?" Nora repeated. "What exactly are pancakes?" Nora asked leaning in close to Amaru. Amaru swallowed his other chicken leg "What are pancakes exactly?" Amaru replied. "Seriously do you ever chew anything?" Ren asked while Nora took a second to process the shock of what she had just heard. "Well I am a sn-" Amaru started. "Oh my gosh, Ren! He's never had pancakes before! We need to do something!" Nora shouted cutting Amaru off. "Ugh, Nora we can worry about it later." Ren said visibly annoyed. The remainder of the lunch period carried on without anything else really happening until the bell went off.

The next class they had was with a teacher named Oobleck with messy green hair, round glasses, a yellow tie, half of his shirt was untucked, and he always had a coffee cup with him. He zipped around the room like a lightning bolt that made it slightly hard to track his movements "Faunus have been treated horribly through out the history of the world, even to this day. Have any of you been mistreated because of your faunus heritage?" He asked sipping his coffee. Someone in the back of the room raised his hand and so did Velvet but she did rather reluctantly, Amaru didn't raise his hand at all because before now he was almost never near humans aside from the ones who got too close to his territory.

Suddenly Cardin, who now had bandages wrapped around the back of his head, flicked something at the back of Jaune's head "Hey!" Jayne exclaimed. "Mr. Arc, have you been listening to me?" Oobleck asks. "Uhhhh..." Jaune said darting his eyes from left to right. "What ability do faunus have that is superior to humans?" Oobleck asked. Jaune looked up at Pyrrha who cupped her hands around her eyes "Uhhh faunus have... binoculars?" Jaune said. Many students began to laugh except for team RWBY and the rest of Jaune's team "Cardin do you know the answer?" Oobleck asked. "Well I know it's a hell of a lot easier to train an animal than a person." Cardin replied. "Well you're not very open minded are you, Cardin?" Pyrrha asked. Cardin began to get angry "You got a problem?" Cardin demanded. "No I have the answer; it's night vision, many faunus are known to have almost-perfect sight in the dark." Pyrrha said. "General Lagune was inexperienced and tried to attack the faunus in their sleep. His army was outmatched and he was captured, maybe if he had paid more attention in class he wouldn't be remembered as such a failure." Blake said looking right at Cardin causing the entire class except Cardin to laugh.

Cardin stood up angrily but Amaru shot him a glare that probably would've sent a chill down an experienced huntsman's spine. "Cardin, sit down now!" Oobleck ordered before taking a sip of his coffee. Jaune laughed before Oobleck zipped over and stood in front of him "Both you and Mr. Arc can stay after class for extra readings." Oobleck said causing Jaune to groan.

All of the teams returned to their respective dorm rooms, when everyone got back it was already dark out. When Amaru was the first to enter the room. He slithered over to the window, opened it and stared out the window at the view of the night, he shivered slightly as the cold air touched his skin. He had never seen the forest like this before, it was incredible as the stars twinkled above and the crisp night time air flowing through the trees. As Amaru looked around he soon saw Jaune and Pyrrha standing on the roof of the building not far from them, he couldn't tell what they were saying though. But Amaru's blood started to boil when he saw Cardin climb up from his team's dorm and put Jaune in a headlock and started hitting him. Amaru just wished he could crush Cardin's windpipe. He clenched his fist as he watched this but soon the two of them left.

Amaru closed the window moments later, he took off his uniform and put on the shirt he had been given on the first day he started to attend Beacon. As the other girls walked in Amaru coiled his tail up under him again, laid his head down on his pillow and snuggled up with his blanket, the girls all prepared for bed seconds later.

A/N: so I'm thinking about pairing Amaru with someone, problem is I have no idea who I'm actually going to pair him with