Chapter 3 everybody, nuff said. So I'm going to be picking things up a bit story-wise. We'll be getting to my spin of the cannon story in this chapter. I say my spin because I'm going to change a few things to make it fit Davian being there as well as my own little add-ins. I promise it won't mess with the overall story to much. Unless of course something in Season 3 messes that up. If that does happen, I may go back and change the story or I may change the cannon again, we'll see. Well, lets get rollen...

Another sleepless night. I sigh to myself as I look at the shattered moon outside my window, "At least I'm used to it. I wouldn't be able to function properly if I couldn't." Thinking about the day, I realize how much work I'm going to have to do to catch back up to Yang. To the average person I may be in great shape, but to a Hunter worth his title I was only acceptable, not good enough in my mind. I have many things I must accomplish if I am going to catch up. I need to study for the Beacon entrance exam, finish my weapon, get some form of Hunter clothes together with some armor in it, as well as get back into fighting shape.

Lots of work to do indeed. I may of done ok against Anderson, but he almost had me once or twice during that fight due to mistakes I made, mistakes I wouldn't of made three years ago. First things first, getting into shape. I need some place I can work where my scars won't get stared at. I'm not ashamed of them, but they are pretty attention grabbing, and I'm pretty sure Vale is aware that I'm back in town. Apparently my disappearance made it into the Vale Times and caused quite the commotion, and I'm sure my reappearance at Signal has caused quite the stir itself. I'm not famous, more like just something to be stared at, something I am very tired of.

Looking out into the forest behind my family's house, I make out the faint path that used to lead back into a clearing. A very private clearing. Getting up, I get dressed and walk into the forest to find how the clearing looks after all these years. After walking for three minutes, I emerge into the clearing that, for the most part, looks the same. Maybe a little overgrown, but nothing a few hours of labor wouldn't fix. Deciding to get a start on it, I go back to the garage and grab the tools I'll need to not only clean up, but to make my personal training equipment. Time to get to work.

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(Yang's POV)

Walking up to a familiar door, I knock and wait for someone to answer. Not having to wait to long, the door opens to Davin's mother.

Eyes lighting up in recognition, Mrs. Kadar swings the door open, "Yang, it's good to see you. If you're looking for Davian, I think he's been in the clearing since early morning working on something. When you see him, tell him I have food ready for him when he's hungry, and you may join to of course."

I smile at her kindness, "Thank you Sianna, I won't forget to tell him." Walking down the porch, I find the path to the clearing to be recently tended to. I walk back to find Davian finish putting on a sweaty shirt, standing next to two weird looking tree trunks sticking out of the ground. I walk over to say hi and to find out what he's doing. Turning towards me, he waves and I couldn't help myself with that sweaty shirt of his. "Dang it, if I'd been here a few minutes earlier, I wouldn't of missed the show" I say, a grin splitting my face.

(Davian POV)

Raising an amused eyebrow at her comment, I put a smile on my face. Completely forgetting how Yang not only made bad puns, but suggestive commits left and right as well. "Good to see you to Yang. What are you doing here?"

Finally reaching me, she puts and hand on her hip and gives me an exasperated look, "Do I need a reason to see my best friend on my day off."

I raise my hands in defense, "Didn't mean it that way, I just didn't know you had the day off."

She raises an eyebrow, "Mmhm," looking around the clearing, she finds a homemade exercise area, spotting two things she didn't recognize "what are those" she points? Walking over to the weird contraption, she finds the two tree trunks set firmly into the ground about three feet apart that have deep grooves carved into them set half a foot apart with a metal pole three feet long leaning against one of the trunks. Picking up the metal pool, she eyes the trunks, trying to figure out the odd device.

Taking the pole from her hands, "Here I'll show you." I walk inbetween the trunks and set the pole in a grove just above my head. "It's an exercise I came up with that really works your chest and arms. You set in a groove above your head then you jump, using the lift to get you into the next groove. You then jerk yourself up to the next one and so on. (Look up the Salmon Ladder for visual, like in the TV show Arrow) I then proceed to show Yang what I meant. I lurch up to the third groove and continue up. Unknown to me, while I'm moving up the ladder, Yang is at the bottom fully knowing what the exercise was, she just wanted to see me do it. By the time I reach the sixth groove, the smirk on her face has disappeared to be replaced with concern as she squints her eyes to try and catch something she saw when my shirt rode up.

When I drop back down to the ground, I turn to Yang to see her in deep thought, starring at my chest, and not in the way she normally would. "Yang...what is it?" She looks at me in the eyes, then looks back down at my abdomen. Sighing, I put my hand on her shoulder, "Yang, I'm fine. Everything healed up and I've made a full recovery."

She looks back up and really looks up at me, and I mean really looks at me. "If you made a full recovery, then why haven't you smiled more than three times since you got back?"

Internally I flinch, outwardly I smirk, cocking my head to the side, "What do you mean? I've smiled plenty of times since coming back."

Shaking her head, we sit down on the ground. "Don't lie to me, the only times I've seen you really smile is when you got back and saw Ruby and I again, and again when you were fighting Anderson. You may be able to put a smile on your face and trick everyone else, but we ate together, fought together, hell, we inseparable for three years. So don't you think for a second that you can lie to me." Shaking her head, eyes misting, "Don't, we've been through to much."

She pulls me into a hug, crying into my shoulder. I hug her back, sighing as I realize that my act had been seen through by the one person in my life that could. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry I just...didn't want any of you to worry."

She looks up at up at me angrily, "I don't care if you didn't want us to worry you dumbass! We are going to worry-we have a right to worry after what you went through. We may not know know what happened to you and you don't have to tell us. Just-just tell me, tell me why you're going back into this life when you deserve to take it easy?"

I'm silent for a few seconds before I drop my head a bit, "Yang, I can't let you and Ruby go on without me. The life of a Hunter is not a safe one we both know that, and I'll be damned if I let you two go on alone. If either of you got hurt, or worse...killed, I-I wouldn't be able to live with myself." By now my head is bowed and I'm just starring at things that aren't there, "Along with my parents, you two are the most important people to me, and I'll fight hell itself to keep you two safe."

Yang just sits their with an unreadable expression. Then, as if the sun came out after a week of storms, a beautiful smile grows on her face. She hugs me again, her previous anger forgotten when she realizes my reason to fight. Pushing me to arms length, I see the old Yang sitting in front of me again. Not the sad, guilty one that tiptoed around me like I was a fragile piece of glass. The one that made those three years I was with her family some of the happiest of my life. The one who shone with the intensity of the sun, that changed my life from one of protests and frustration to one of happiness and adventure. Standing up, she pulls me with her smirking, "Well, lets whip you back into shape.

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Training, forging, and studying is all I did for the next couple months. Yang helped me with the first one, Ruby the with the second, and I handled the third. By July twenty-third, I was as ready as I was going to be for attempting the entrance exam to Beacon. Yang had gotten her acceptance letter three months prior, causing me to redouble my efforts to make it with her. Ruby would be fine at Signal and in two years she will go to Beacon where I can keep an eye on both of them. I had regained all of my lost reflexes and agility, I had learned all the information needed to make the grades I would need, and my weapon was finished as well as my armor.

My weapon, finally finished, was what it was meant to be three years ago. A twenty-eight inch blade sticks over my right shoulder, with the sheath sitting diagonal across my back. It can house my sword, but also has a twelve inch dagger sheathed that can me housed in the bottom of the sheath. When either one or both of the blades are in the sheath, I can use it as a quarterstaff, or have twenty-four inch blades extend out of the bottom of the handles of the dagger or sword to create either a naginata or a double bladed sword.

My armor is made out of a material that is as tough as metal, but as flexible as leather and as black as the creatures I'm training to hunt. It provides a pretty good amount of protection without sacrificing flexibility, covering my entire torso along with my arms and legs. I wear fingerless gloves and boots, as well as a hood all made of the same material. The finishing touch being a tattered cape that makes up the hood as well. (If you want a awesome visual, go to art/Nightingale-Armor-311099729 )

I stand starring at a manikin and weapon stand in the shelter/forge I built in the clearing behind my home, admiring my work. "Almost finished," I say turning around. I walk outside and close the door behind me, the armor disappearing from sight as shadows engulf it. Walking back to the house, I think of the final thing I need to do. While infusing dust into a weapon is difficult, it's far from impossible. Especially when you have an expert forger like Ruby not far away. "Need to buy the dust though, after that, one more night of forging and everything will be complete."

Walking over to the house phone once I get inside, I call Yang's house. After ringing for a few seconds, Tiayang picks up, "Hello?"

"Hey Tai, it's Davian. Is Ruby free for the next couple hours, I need her impute on the final touches on my weapon?"

Practically hearing him smirk he replies, "Yeah, she's been really excited about something these last two or so hours. Come on over and you two can get going. Sorry Yang can't go, but she's still finalizing things for Beacon, so she's busy at the moment."

"That's fine, I'll be over soon," hanging up the phone, I grab my shoes and head out to pick Ruby up.

I'm hadn't even reached their driveway before I'm bulldozed over by five foot ball of red. Ruby starts dragging me towards Vale, excited to see the final product we had been working on for months. "Come on lets go lets go lets go lets go! I want to get the dust and you said that you would get me the new issue of Vale Weapons Monthly!" As we're walking in downtown Vale, Ruby stops babbling long enough to ask me what type of dust I was going to infuse into my weapon.

"Well, I was thinking ice dust for the sword and lightning for the dagger." She thinks about this for a few seconds before going off on another tangent about the pros and cons of my choices. A tiny smile unconsciously grows on my face as we walk into a store called "From Dust Till Dawn". I walk over to the dust and begin to pick out what I needed. Practically feeling the air vibrate form her excitement, I say to her without turning, "Go ahead."

"Ohmygoshthankyou!" She gives me a quick hug around my waist before disappearing to the otherside of the store in a rush of rose petals to where the magazine rack was. I shake my head at her antics with that small grin on my face as I walk over to the cashier to buy what I needed. As I'm pulling out my wallet to buy the dust, I hear the front door chime. Thinking it's another customer, I continue with what I'm doing, completely missing the fear rolling of the old man running the store. As I'm passing over the amount I owe, I feel the barrel of a gun tap against the back of my neck.

"Hands on your head kid" the robber says, voice very cocky. "Don't want to hurt ya. Shut up, turn around and don't try nothen." When I turn around, I see five thugs and a man in a white coat with cane standing in front of me with one more moving back towards the area Ruby was in.

Without meaning to, a chuckle escapes my mouth, knowing full well that someone was about to go flying because of Ruby. Suddenly I feel myself being pistol whipped and fall to the ground, the side of my face in pain. "I said shut up, what's so funny?"

Holding my face, I raise an eyebrow at the guy, "Do you want me to answer or to shut up? You got to speak clearly man." As he's about to kick me in the face, I hear a "HIIIIIIYA" and see one of the thugs go flying by and crashing through the window with Ruby right behind him. Taking that as my queue, I spun, knocking my attacker off his feet and teleport behind the counter and push the old man below, instructing him to stay down.

I teleport outside as Ruby spins her scythe into the ground, preparing for the charge. The guys with the cane looks at us then glances at his thugs, "Oookay, get them". Six thugs charge us in groups of three, trying to overwhelm us. Two thugs rush at me, throwing punches, trying to keep me from using my semblance. I grab one the the punches and pull the thug by me right into his friend, knocking both of them over. I hear a swoosh and duck as a sword pass right over my head. I spin around, kicking the guy off his feet, grab him as he's falling, and drove my knee into his back just like I did with Anderson. The only difference was that this guy had no Aura to protect him. As a result, I hear a small pop as he falls to the ground in extreme pain, out for the fight.

By know, the two I threw into each other had gotten up and were about to charge me again. Before they could react, I jumped at them and grabbed the arm of the guy on the right and twist behind him, put my foot on his back, and kick out hard. With a sickening pop, the thug fall to the ground screaming because his arm was savagely pulled out of its socket. I turn to the last thug who is hesitating from watching his friend roll around on the ground in agony. Making up his mind, he pulls out a red sword and rushes me swinging. I dodge a wild horizontal swing then grab is hand when he follows up with a punch. I spin around with his arm over my shoulder and pull down effectively snapping it in two. Looking up I see the guy in the white coat raise his cane to fire a shot at Ruby. I teleport and pull her out of the way and cover her to protect her from the blast. Once the smoke cleared, Ruby pulled away from me and looked around for the guy with the cane. Seeing him climbing a ladder to a roof, she turns to the shop owner, "Are you ok if we go after him?" Getting a nod, we speed after bowler hat guy. Ruby uses Crescent Rose's recoil to get her up to the roof as I just teleport to ledges that I can grab on to or jump off of.

I get to the roof soon after Ruby does, right as a bullhead appears out of nowhere to pick cane guy up, forcing us to cover our eyes. "End of the line kiddos!" Looking up, my eyes widen as I see him throw a burn crystal right at Ruby. With not enough time to pull her out of the way, I teleport in front and Ruby and wrap myself around her to protect her from the impending explosion...that never came. Looking behind me, I see a women wearing a white long-sleeved suit that exposed part of her chest, with puffy sleeves that tighten near the wrist before spreading back out near her hand. Her lower body has a black business skirt with buttons running vertically up the front of it with black-brown stockings. She is holding a riding crop that is being used as a stabilizer for a dust rune that is acting as a shield.

She "hms" as she pulls her arms before throwing them out, firing trails of purple energy at the bullhead. The guy with the cane rushes into the cockpit and switches out with a women whose face I can't see. As Ruby and I are standing their watching, the Huntress calls an ice storm to pelt the ship into submission. The mysterious women in the bullhead and the Huntress trade blows for a few minute before Ruby and I feel heat beneath our feet. Looking down, I found that the mysterious women had planted dust explosives with her magic during the attack. The Huntress pulls Ruby and I with her as she flips away from the explosion.

Ruby turn to the lady with a barley contained fan-girl squeal, "You're a Huntress? Can have you autograph!"

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Two hours. That's how long I've been sitting in an interrogation room for. Of course the one police station the Huntress takes us to is the one with the racist police chief. As a result, I'm being investigated for attempted robbery even though I have two eye witnesses that state that I was fighting the robbers...assholes. All the while, Ruby is in the room next door waiting to be talked to by the police. Or at least I thought she was before I heard her squeal in excitement about something. A few more minutes pass before a man that I was not expecting walked in. Headmaster Ozpin of Beacon Academy.

He sets down a bottle of water for me before looking at something on his scroll. "Davian Kadar. Quite the night you've had. I apologize on behalf of Ms. Goodwitch for bringing you and Ms. Rose to this station, she was unaware of the chiefs...moral views."

I sigh with an exasperated look, "Is Ruby going to be in trouble? She did nothing wrong."

Raising an eyebrow at my statement, he takes a sip of his coffee, "Why don't you put yourself in that column with her? Neither of you did anything wrong."

I raise my hands to show him the cuffs, "Do you know the history of this station. Even back when I first moved here, this place was notorious for finding, quote unquote, charges against any faunus that came through here. Of course they deny it and have the "charges" on file with the judge they always go to, not odd what-so-ever." I put my hand back down on the table. "Is Ruby ok?"

Putting his coffee on the table, he looks down at his scroll again, "That is what I'm here to talk to you about." He turns the scroll towards me, showing me a security recording of my fight. Not very long, but by the end, two are on the ground with fucked up arms and another with possible spine damaged. "Very effective, painful but effective. Why did you give them those injuries when you could of just knocked them out just as easy."

As we continue to talk, Ms. Goodwitch walk into the room. I shake my head, "Doesn't matter, they were threatening Ruby's life as well as mine. They weren't pulling their punches and were aiming to maim. I'm not going to let them swing to kill while I'm standing there taking it. Put them in pain with an injury that may or may not fully heal, and they may not hurt other people again. And if they do, well...the arm is weaker for the next time they try to rob me."

Hearing Goodwitch scoff, I turn my head to her, "Am I wrong?" I turn back to Ozpin, "What is it you want Professor Ozpin, because if we're done, I got to get to the fines and community services as long if I'm not going jail first."

He leans back and has a silent conversation with Ms. Goodwitch before asking her, "Glynda, would you be so kind to go talk to the police chief about Mr. Kadar's situation here? I'm sure you can negotiate so he may go free without any trouble". She roles her eyes before walking out, as Ozpin leans back towards me "Why are you taking the entrance exam for my school? You've only been back for a few months, so why are you already going back to fighting?"

Narrowing my eyes, I put the pieces together. Ruby was squealing in the next room and the headmaster of Beacon is here with his assistant. "You offered Ruby a spot at Beacon, didn't you?" He just nods his head, taking another sip of his coffee. I look at him with a worried face, "I know she's good, I also know that being a Huntress is her dream, and maybe she's the best in her class. But we both also know that the lives of Hunters and Huntresses is not an easy one. She still has two years of childhood to enjoy before she's exposed to killing or anything else that Hunters have to deal with."

Looking at me in the eyes, he asks, "How do you know of the hardships? You're only a few years older than her, so why don't you get to enjoy what little time you have left as a child?"

Shaking my head, "I don't get that anymore. You know damn well where I learned those hardships. I fought through hell to get back here alive, and I'll damn myself back to that hell if I can't protect two of the most important people in my life."

Smirking, he pulls up an application on his scroll, "Well, if you're going to keep an eye on Ms. Rose and Ms. Xiao-Long, you going to need to be at Beacon to do so." He hands me the application and I find that everything is already filled out by my parents except for the one thing they can't without my approval, the medical file. "I will need access to your medical file if you want to attend. Of course only I and the head doctor at my school will be able to read it."

I stare at the scroll for a few seconds, "Are the cameras and microphones is this room listening in on us?" Getting a negative I continue, "You have no idea what they did to me." I lift my shirt up bit to show him my chest which is literally covered in scars. "Can you tell the difference between torture and medical scars? You can tell by how precise the medical ones are." Ozpin's face is completely blank as he puts together what was done to me. Not only were there burn scars, stab wounds, and cuts from blades and whips, he recognized the ones I was talking about. Three precise, clean cuts run from my collar-bone down to my waste with two more running across my waist and from shoulder to shoulder.

He looks back up at me, "You weren't only beaten and tortured, you were experimented on as well" he says as a statement, not a question.

Nodding my head, "Ya, and I was the success. I don't want to say what they did, but you should be able to piece together what they did based on the file." I took the scroll and signed off for Ozpin and the head doctor at Beacon to have access to my file. "I'll go...I have to."

Ozpin nods his head and walks out of the room as Goodwitch walks in with the key to my cuffs, "Your family as well as Ms. Rose's are if the front lobby, you may leave whenever you wish."

Thanking her, I walk to Ruby's room and pick her up before heading for the front of the building. As soon as Ruby sees her dad and Yang, she rushes over to them, exploding over them about her getting into Beacon. I walk over to mom and dad and hug them. "I'll be fine, but I have to keep an eye on them." Together again, we head home and I prepare myself for the next stage of my life.

Hey guys, so I have a few things I'd like to say.
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