Layfon woke up hours later, eyes opening slowly, only to become wider as he realized that he was in an unfamiliar environment, sun poking through the window into his room, casting an orange light into the room.

Getting up quickly, he sprung up, only to suddenly grasp his ribs, nails digging into his skin roughly, teeth clecnhed as he tried to stifle the sound of pain coming from his mouth.

Which was a horribly failed attempt.

"You're finally awake." The emotionless female voice said next to him.

Looking, Layfon could see a girl who looked no older than 12 with flowing silver hair and matching eyes looking at him, wearing the official military arts uniform for Zuellni.

"H..." Layfon tried to speak, but found it surprisingly hard to do so, chest hurting as he did this, "Hey there Felli." He finally managed to say weakly, forcing a smile onto his face.

He got a jab in the ribs in response.

"Ow!" He exclaimed, holding the place she'd hit him, voice coming out as hoarse, "What was that for?"

"For trying to make it seem like you're okay, when you're obviously not."

"I'm injured and in a hospital bed Felli," Layfon stressed, pain still in his expression, "Can't you be a bit more considerate for once?"

"If you'd be more "considerate" about how others feel about you, then yes." Felli responded.

He blinked at that, then realized what she meant.

"I made you worry again, didn't I?"

"It's not just me. Everyone on the platoon too."

"Sorry..."

"Apologizing can lose its meaning when you make the same mistake over and over again Layfon."

He sighed, "I know, it's just..."

"What were you thinking, doing that all by yourself?"

(A/N: If you chose the Fallen choice, here's what you would say if you were in Layfon's position. I'll put it in bold so you can differentiate between them.)

"I had to do something. I couldn't just stand by and let the Contaminoid start to destroy everything."

"Taking on that thing head on alone was something only a reckless idiot would do, you said that yourself once." Felli said, looking at him, eyes for once narrowed into what could be taken for as a scowl.

"I guess... I just didn't think there were many options there in that moment... I had to at least try to fight it. Buy some time for people to evacuate and for help to arrive..."

(A/N: And now the Savior's choice.)

"I didn't really have much choice. Lugging the Regios back into the ocean was a pretty difficult thing to do. The cities would've been damaged at a devastating level if I hadn't. I couldn't take the chance, what with you and everyone else on there.

Felli sighed, "I always thought you'd done idiotic things before, but this?" She shook her head lightly, "(Fighting a Contaminoid of that power/Trying to throw the Regios into the ocean) is something pretty incredible to do, especially in the condition you were in."

"Hey, I helped out at least, didn't I?" Layfon said, smile on his face again.

"That's true..." Felli jabbed him in the ribs again, "But it was still something someone either insane or just that stupid would do."

Layfon fought to hold in his moan of pain, Felli retracting her nails after a moment, "...please Felli... no more jabs... they hurt..." He said through clenched teeth.

"Too bad. This'll be your punishment then." Felli said, sitting back onto her chair.

"Where's the rest of the platoon anyways?" Layfon asked, rubbing his ribs delicately.

"They're all asleep right now." Was her only response.

"Speaking of which, how about you?"

"What do you mean?"

"Did you get any sleep? You look tired."

Felli looked at him for a moment, simply staring, and unbenknownst to the boy, Felli was hesitating to speak, though her position as a Nene Psychokinetic left this a secret from everyone but herself.

Then she sighed softly, "Yes, you're right. I didn't get any sleep yesterday."

"Wow, was I really THAT banged up?"

"Answer that question for yourself before you ask me." Felli said, her words probably meant to be something like someone giving a tone to someone who was stating the obvious, though her emotionless voice made it impossible to tell if this were the case or not.

Layfon looked over himself, and realized what she meant.

His entire stomach and half of his torso were wrapped in bandages, and as Layfon looked at the mirror, he saw there was yet another one wrapped tightly around his head, him not recognizing himself of course when he saw that he had coal black hair and golden eyes.

Not to mention some stitches he had on his face.

"...yeah, that should be pretty self explanitory." Layfon said in a sheepish tone, rubbing his head.

"Of course it is." Felli said.

"Why don't you get some rest then?"

"The waiting room is all full."

Oh.

"How about you try the bed over there?" Layfon pointed through the curtains with his thumb, the rest of his hand in a fist, right towards where the other bed should've been.

As though on cue, someone groaned, bed creaking as they turned over in their sleep.

Layfon didn't say anything for a moment, thumb still pointing at the bed, before slowly lowering his hand.

"It's alright Layfon, I've gone through just fine after going through all nighters in the past. This is no different."

"...come on, Felli." Layfon lifted his blanket up, scooting over slightly to make some room for her, "You can sleep with me."

He'd made the decision against his own better judgement, as he knew what having dealings with her older brother might lead up to if he got the wrong idea.

And from what Layfon was saying then, he almost would be asking for it, what with there being very little else to assume when a boy and a girl slept on a bed together. He considered getting off the bed at first, but knew just scooting over made his muscles ache horribly.

He'd probably fall hard on his face the moment he took his second step.

So, that was all he could come up with.

Felli stared at him for a good hard moment.

"Why? I said I'd be fine." She asked finally.

"You try saying that with the look on your face right now." Layfon said, smile somewhat teasing as he looked at Felli.

Though it was usually unlike him to tease, he did still have a point though.

Felli's posture, typically perfect, was slouched over somewhat, and her eyelids, still at about the usual distance from each other as not to express emotion, were even closer to each other than usual, threatening to close if she were to let them close even a few millimeters further.

She scowled at him, and he still lifted the cover up, beckoning her to come in.

"...You'd better not try anything, you pervert." She spoke after a moment, finally crawling into bed with him, Layfon covering her.

"I wasn't really thinking of doing anything Felli." Layfon said honestly, hugging her to him, her face in his chest.

"...why are you...?"

"It feels a bit cold in here, so I thought I'd warm you up." Layfon said, oblivious to the small blush creeping onto Felli's cheeks as she stared at his chest.

But she gave no response.

Layfon looked down at the top of her head after a moment, smiling as he felt her breathing relax after about half a minute, before he felt it come and go on his chest, at a regular, steady interval.

He smiled, then let his own exhaustion take him back into the dream world.

"Aw, would you look at those two?" A 17 year old girl spoke as she entered the room several hours later, blond curly hair and blue eyes still happy at the sight of them, "They look so cute together."

"You shouldn't be so happy Yang." Ruby said behind her, a vase filled with flowers in her hand, both she and her sister wearing their school uniform.

"I know sis, but just look at those two!" Yang said, and Ruby looked, smiling somewhat awkwardly.

"...they... do look cute together..." She said, looking at Layfon and Felli as Layfon held her snugly in his arms, though she was somewhat only saying that because that was what Yang had said.

She wasn't really much of an expert on things that were considered "cute".

"But we aren't here for them. We came to see Jaune didn't we?" Ruby said, walking to the other side of the room, pushing the curtain back as Jaune was revealed to her.

He actually only had a broken arm, which was wrapped securely in a cast.

That didn't stop him from looking rather miserable though.

"Don't look like that big guy." Yang said, prodding his forehead lightly with the bent part of her forefinger.

"How else am I supposed to look then?" Jaune looked up at her.

"Be happy. It could've been a whole lot worse than it was."

"I just wish I could use my Aura more." Jaune sighed, hitting the pillow he was resting his head on with his head.

"You've still got a long ways to go."

"She's right though Jaune," Ruby supported her sister, setting the flowers down next to him, "After all, you should be glad it didn't end in a much worse way."

"What way would that be?"

"Well... You being dead." Ruby responded bluntly, looking at the flowers she'd brought him.

"...yeah, that's true." Jaune said, thinking back.

He'd only been trying to get some civilians to safety.

But as he tried to do that, that Grimm ended up using some kind of eye beam on the general area where he was.

He got blown through the air immediately, and had to break the fall using his arm.

The end result was a dislocated shoulder and a somewhat fractured arm.

No one died in that explosion, thank God, but he still would've probably had an easier time if he could, oh he didn't know, actually use his freaking Aura when he most needed it.

If it weren't for the fact that Phyrra hadn't been running down with her fellow teammates Jaune would've felt sure that he'd probably be much worse off than he was now.

He sighed.

"You're right, I shouldn't complain." He admitted, opening his now closed eyes.

"Good." Ruby smiled, "You're important to us Jaune, don't try bringing us all down just because you feel down in the dumps."

"...thanks Ruby." Jaune tried to hide the deflatedness in his tone.

"No problem. Though... I guess it must kind of suck to have to spend your birthday in the hospital..."

"That's fine Ruby. I'm okay with that." Jaune said, lifting a thumb enthusiastically, "I can't let it bring me down."

"That's the spirit!" Ruby gave him a thumb up back.

Yang smiled at the scene before her, "Seems like you two have been getting closer and closer the more time goes by."

"Yeah, we'll always be siblings in arms. Won't we Jaune?"

"Of course we will."

"Alright. I just want to tell you... don't let yourselves get TOO close to each other..." Yang said, leaving her comment hanging, smile suggestive.

"Hm?" Jaune looked at the elder of the siblings.

"What do you mean by that Yang?" Ruby asked, giving her the same look.

The suggestive smile faltered for a split second, but returned as though there had been nothing happening to make that happen to begin with.

"I'm saying, that if you two start to become too close to each other..." Yang looked down, long hair hiding her look, then ran up to Ruby and hugged her sister, "I'm scared you'll snatch her up away from me Jaune." She said, feigning a cry into Ruby's shoulder.

"...!" Ruby's eyes widened when she realized what her sister was suggesting.

Jaune had the same reaction, and he immediately tried to deny it.

"There wouldn't be any way that I'd..." He began to speak, only trailing off after a moment.

Ruby pushed her sister away, waving her hands frantically in front of herself, "No way we'd ever do that!"

"I'm just messing with you two." Yang brought her hands to the back of her head, looking at them, "But really Jaune, Ruby cares a lot about you. It's obvious from how much she wanted to try and visit you."

"Really?" He looked at Ruby, and she looked down sheepishly.

"I just wanted to make sure a fellow team leader was alright." She said.

"Liar~." Yang chimed, turning to her, "Admit it, you were worried sick about the guy."

"Okay fine, so I was. Jaune's my friend, that's how I'm supposed to feel, isn't it?"

"Yeah. I bet he'd do the same thing if your roles were switched." Yang leaned down so she and Jaune met eye to eye, "Isn't that right Jauney boy?"

"Yeah, that's what I'm supposed to do after all." Jaune smiled.

"Well, I'm sure that we should get going now. Our next class starts in a couple of minutes, so... see ya!" Yang ran away then, pushing past the curtain and leaving.

Ruby looked at the clock, eyes widening when she saw that they did in fact have less than ten minutes, and was about to run with Yang until she paused, taking the flowers she'd brought Jaune and setting them on the side where his arm was usable.

"Get well soon Jaune." Was all she said in a hurry, her using her semblance to catch up to Yang, as she herself had a head start on her.

In the hall, she ran with Yang, and looked at her as she ran.

"What's wrong sis?"

"Do you always have to do that whenever I have a guy who's a friend?!" Ruby said loudly, the duo soon making their shoes squeal as they came to a sudden stop.

"It's my sisterly duty; get used to it." Yang replied, running out the automatic entrance to the hospital.

Ruby groaned.

Yang would never stop doing it, would she?

She could only thank God that they were at the hospital near Beacon; they ran as fast as they possibly could to their next class.

Meanwhile, Jaune was looking at the flowers Ruby had given him.

He pulled one of the vase and stared at it, looking as it seemed very familiar to him...

He shrugged the feeling off, bringing it to his nose and sniffing somewhat.

Almost instantly, the boy sneezed violently, before looking at the flower again.

Now he remembered it.

They were flowers that were only found in Forever Fall...

He sneezed violently again, and put the flower back in its vase.

He should probably see the doctor to make sure of whether he was allergic to that stuff or not...

Another sneeze made Layfon wake up, and as did Felli, looking around as the sneezing continued.

Felli looked up at Layfon, then retracted herself from him, getting back onto her feet and immediately walking towards Jaune's side of the room, moving the curtain out of the way and looking inside, "Excuse me, are you alright?"

"I... I'm fi-" Jaune sneezed violently again.

"Do you have a cold perhaps?" She asked, and Jaune shook his head.

"I think I'm allergic to these flowers..."

Felli looked at the vase filled with the flowers in question, then walked to it, picking it up and placing it on the dresser on the other side of the room.

"Do you feel better now?" Felli turned back to Jaune.

He nodded after a moment, rubbing his nose, "Yeah, thanks." He said in a nasally different voice.

"No problem." Felli responded, and was just about to leave the room when Jaune called out to her.

"Wait, are you wearing a uniform?"

"Yes." She stopped.

"Are you here for the tournament that's taking place soon?"

"No, I'm not. I'm not even sure why I'm here actually." Felli spoke, her honesty marred by her emotionless voice.

"Where do you go to school then?"

"I'm in the Military Arts program at the academic city Zuellni." If possible, there would've been a bit of scorn in her voice if Felli could let it happen, but it never did.

"An academic city?"

"Yes."

"Are you saying that the city you come from is filled with academies then?"

Felli looked at him, reading his expression to see if he was being serious or not.

Seeing that he was, she mentally raised an eyebrow in question.

The boy looked to be about 17, just around her age, and yet she'd known the term "academic city" and all the things it implied by the time she was 3 from what Kalian, her older brother, and their parents had told her.

So why was it that he didn't know...?

She turned away, "You could say that in a way." Was all she said before leaving him.

As she passed Layfon, she turned to him, "It's time for me to go now. I'll see you later Layfon."

"You too Felli." Layfon said, smiling at her as he waved.

"Make sure not to do anything stupid while I'm gone." Felli ordered, then walked away.

"Come on Felli, at least have a little faith in me..." Layfon said, not expecting her to answer.

"There's no point in a person putting faith in someone else to not do something that they do regardless of circumstance unless said person is or wishes to become insane." She replied bluntly as she stopped at the door.

Then she looked away somewhat, "But thanks for letting me rest with you." Felli said, finally leaving again, Layfon once again oblivious to the blush on her face.

"It was no problem, Felli." Layfon said after her, holding a hand up to wave her goodbye, only to clench his eye shut tightly again, holding a hand over his ribs again, cursing inwardly to himself.

He needed to avoid moving around too much...

"Your friend seems... nice." His roommate's voice filled his ears, and Layfon looked at him through the curtain, only his silhuoette visible due to the light streaming in from his window.

"Yeah, she can be a bit brash sometimes though." Layfon responded, resting his head back onto the pillow.

"I understand what you're saying." A pause. "Hey, my name's Jaune Arc, what's your name?"

"My name's Layfon Alseif. It's nice to meet you Jaune."

"Same here." Jaune said, his voice carrying a smile of his own, "I'd shake your hand right now, but I can't exactly..."

"Don't feel too bad. I can barely move that much myself." Layfon said, and they shared a laugh.

Over time, the two conversed, their conversation extending for longer and longer periods of time.

It would be hard not to call the roommates friends after a few minutes passed by them.

Felli walked down the hall, only to stop when a woman wearing all white stopped her on her way to the waiting room, and it didn't take the young girl very long to realize that there were another several bunch of men and women with her as well.

"Excuse me, but do you know where Layfon Alseif's room is?" The tall, black haired woman asked, and after a moment, Felli pointed down the hall, right towards the room Layfon was in.

"Thank you very much." She said, and as the group passed her, Felli couldn't help but notice the girl walking at the very middle of them all.

A girl with light brown hair and green eyes, wearing a dress that had colors of light and dark brown as the main style of it.

It took Felli a split second to realize who it was.

Leerin Marfes.

She looked after the group as they went back to Layfon's room, and for a moment, she wondered why she was there.

And that was what made her restore her dite, a wand like rod that had several rows of flower petals curling around the top of it.

One flake moved behind them as they began to enter the room.

Layfon had been listening to Jaune talking about how he had become a team leader at his academy when he turned and saw, to his great surprise, all the Heaven's Blades entering.

"Queen Alsherya?" Layfon looked at the woman in the middle of the group.

When he was saying that, the queen herself had started to do a minute gesture for him not to call her by her name, but sighed when she realized it was too late.

"I guess she was bound to learn sooner or later." She sighed, turning back to Leerin, who's eyes widened.

"...you're...?" The girl asked, remembering several of the times that Alsherya had spent with her, all the times she'd protected her, all the times she had... "...don't tell me that you really are..."

Alsherya had groped her breasts incessantly from the very first moment they had met up with each other.

And to think, the breast groping, atmospherically oblivious woman... was the same queen of her home town of Glendan.

"I'm the real deal." Alsherya confessed, smiling with spread out hands.

"...hah..." Leerin looked at Alsherya for a very long time.

"Anyways," Alsherya wheeled herself around, "We all came because we needed to speak with you Layfon."

"What did you wish to speak with me about your highness?"

"Please, call me by my real name. It's not as though I'm your queen anymore."

"Ah, yes Qu-... Alsherya." Layfon corrected himself quickly.

He had already almost earned the wrath of Felli whenever he called her his senpai out of respect.

He didn't even want to imagine invoking the same wrath from the Queen of Glendan, a woman who could single handedly defeat any of the Heaven's Blades without even breaking a sweat.

Or getting a scratch even.

"What did you want to talk to me about?"

"It's about the Fallen One."

"Yes?"

"A recent investigation helps us to learn what happened to it."

"What happened then?"

"It seems the Fallen One has actually chosen a new host..."

"Savalis you mean?"

"No, that idiot is right here." She said with a rather forced smile, turning to see Lintence holding Savalis on his back, him unconscious and unmoving.

"Really, so who's the new host now?"

Alsherya looked at him, then she held her hip, her free hand reaching her head, "I actually thought that you would've realized it by now... but, it's you Layfon."

A/N: I thank Fireminer for reviewing.

But in response to what you've said, I'll simply say that Layfon'll have the same "Harem" (I say it like that as he's so dense about it), but will also add a few girls from RWBY as well.

If curious, then you'll simply have to wait and see who else will be added.