AN. I'm back! Thanks for everyone who wrote a review! This story is a lot of work but I'm doing it with a possible editor! So until the kickback relax and enjoy Jaune Torchwick!

"Neo! Give it back!" Jaune asked petulantly as he walked after his new sister. Neo cocked her head backward at him and flashed him an beatific smile as flushed her brilliant mismatched eyes at him. In her hand were Jaune's most prized posses the first issue of X ray!

Jaune had spent all of his time and all of his allowance which was considerable seeing as who was giving it to him, on the issue. When he purchased months ago tears had come freely form his face as he wept pen in the dust and Comics store as the old man behind the desk tried to console him while his dad merely shook his head. He had loved the book instantly and had cherished ever since!

But now! Now his most prized possession was in the hands of the single most dangerous human on Remnant, the cruel, caniving, merciless girl how he had come to love! She was his sister of two years after all, and in that time he come to love and fear her in equal measure!

His baby sister Neo. Though baby was a technical term and one he would absolutely positively under no circumstances never say aloud seeing as how Neo got prickly when you mentioned her height,

Though Neo was far shorter than him being about half a foot beneath Jaune's collar she was still much stronger then him. Thanks for unlocking her aura dad! Jaune thought sarcastically as Neo bobbed her head suggestively at him. Her brilliant multi-colored eyes shone in anticipation as she smirked at him viciously.

"Neo..." Jaune said glaringly as his sister held up his favorite possession. " Neo put the comic down and no body has to get hurt ok?" Jaune asked as diplomatically as possible causing his sister to blink in confusion before grinning and pulling out her scroll. " Who says you can hurt me?" Neo asked Jaune as she used her go-to method of communication whit any one in or outside of her family.

As his sister eyed him in a open challenge Jaune took a deep breath. " Neo I don't want to do this." Jaune said with as much steal as a five year old could muster. " Do what? Are you going to cry until i give it back to you? Or are you going to beg you kind sister to give your silly comic back"

Jaune stared at his sister who still held his comic firmly in hand as she flashed him a beatific smile. " I didn't want to have to do this, but you leave me no choice!" Jaune said as Neo merely shrugged her shoulders, herform-fittingg white outfit wrapped snugly on her body, as if to say what are you going to do?

Neo was mute due to a long standing injury she had suffered from a past mission that his dad had been on. Jaune still felt bead he was not as supportive as he could have been when Neo was brought home. But he had to be strong if he was to secure his comic book! Feelings could not delay what was about to happen.

" You leave me no choice!" Jaune yelled as he pulled out the item behind his back and watched in delight as Neo's eyes widened in fear. " Not that! Anything but that!" Neo said as Jaune revealed the tub of Neopolitan ice cream he had hidden behind his back. the last tub of Neopolitan to be exact. " Put the comic book down or the ice cream gets it!" Jaune said firmly as he started to spill the ice cream on the floor.

Even if his dad would be mad it would be ok, Jaune's dad was awesome and he had never once hit or disciplined Jaune in any way! Usually because Jaune was actually a good child and needed little correction. Neo on the other hand however.. Neo was another story entirely.

" Please don't do anything hasty!" Neo said as her fingers worked blindingly fast over her scroll. The faint click! clack! of tiny fingers running over the keyboard filled the abandoned warehouse they called home. " Only if you put the comic down- Jaune never finished his sentence as Neo dropped his comic like a hot potato. Jaune flinched as his beloved comic hit the ground with a loud thud! Such a comic deserved better! But I just have it deal with Neo first, Jaune thought as he narrowed his eyes at his sister. A panicked look filling her eyes as he held her favorite treat in his palms.

Hah! She's not so tough after all! Jaune thought a he smiled triumphantly over his kid sister. Now maybe she'll start treating me with more respect and start- Jaune never finished his thoughts as his chest felt like it was exploding as Neo dive tackled him sending them both cascading to the floor in a tangle of limbs and yelps.

" Stop that!' Jaune yelled as Neo pushed her palms into his face desperately trying to get the ice cream from his hand. " Hand over the ice cream!" Neo shouted to Jaune over her scroll causing the boy to toss the tub of ice cream across the floor, causing a terrified gasp and a murderous glare from his sister, before he wrapped her in a bear hug sending them both tumbling across the floor in a sea of bites bruises kicks and other minor injuries. As the two siblings fought they squawked bit and pulled at each others hair rumbling through the warehouse and just making a general mess of things as they went along.

" Honey I'm home! And I come bearing gifts!" The energetic voice of Roman Torchwick said as he opened the door to his house with a bag full of groceries in hand. " Kids have you been playing- gah!" He said as he saw his two children in the process of biting each other's faces off. A cursory glance around the room told Roman all he needed to know, as he saw Jaune's prized comic book on one side of the warehouse floor and a pint of ice cream tossed across the room.

Children! Roman thought as he rubbed his head exasperatedly. " I came home after a long day of stealing things I didn't earn! Expecting to see my two kids lovingly getting along only to see them tearing each other's faces off!? "

"Dad!"

"Roman!" His two children called as they instantly forgot about whatever petty squabble they were having and rushed Roman instantly. " Did you bring us anything!?"

They both asked at once as they eyed grocery bags hungrily causing Roman to sigh bitterly. "You know I have half a mind to not give you two these chicken nuggets and ice cream that I actually bought for you, you know that?"

" No!" "Anything but that!" His two children begged as they huddle closely together giving him the combined forces of twin puppy eyes causing Roman's heart to melt. " Oh Alright!' the thief said with a false hint of reluctance as he tossed the treats to his children " Thanks, dad your the best!" Jaune said he grabbed his chicken nuggets out of mid air. " Thank you, Roman!"

Neo said as she picked up her tub of Neopolitan happily as the two siblings now bereft of whatever asinine and yes it was asinine for the two siblings who usually could not leave each other's side for more than enough time for one of them to use the bathroom alone, and that was because Roman was insisting that they do! These kids spent way too much time together, hell they had even been sharing the same bed for the past two years! So even when they fought they would soon forget whatever issues kid even hed these days as the two went to enjoy their favorite treats together.

Roman smiled happily at the scene of his two children eating and laughing together, it was a rare and if Roman was being completely honest a totally unexpected joy. Roman had never wanted to be a parent. that was real, he just never saw him as a parenting type. He especially did not see himself as the kind of parent who gave their kids everything they ever asked for. It was true Roman spoiled his kids, there was never a time when either of his children had asked for an item that he could retrieve that he had denied them.

Luckily for him, Jaune was too good of a kid to be spoiled and while his sister did not share her brother's humble outlook on life insisting on wearing the best designer clothes that he could find, she was never spoiled. Probably having to sue with how they first met. The Politan massacre as the news had called it as a touchy subject for the girl and both Jaune and Roman respected her privacy. " What am I going to do with them?" Roman asked aloud as he walked over to join his children for lunch.

"Give it back!" " Not yet! Jaune said as he held up the last cup of ice cream in front of Neo who was petulantly demanding for it. " Give it Jaune!" Neo said as Roman smiled at the current situation. In an odd reversal of roles, it was Jaune bullying Neo and not the other way around as his son waved the treat in front of her. It looked like Jaune had finally started using his head and was using his superior height to take advantage of his sister, knowing that as long as he held the treat she shouldn't risk an all out attack on him.

Usually, by this time Roman would have stepped in and put a stop to this nonsense if for nothing else to relieve himself of the headache it would surely cause him. But seeing as How Jaune never bullied Neo and she always teased him he felt this odd role reversal would be good for her. To see how the other side felt.

" Jaune give it!" New typed into her scroll frantically waving it in front of her brothers face. " Not yet!" Jaune replied as he took a scoop of the frozen treat and put it to his mouth threateningly close to it. "Don't!" Neo said as Jaune put his tongue ever so closer to the vulnerable treats, " I said don't!" Neo yelled as there was suddenly a blinding flash of pink and the sound of breaking glass filled the room as Neo suddenly disappeared from existence. " What the hell!?" Roman yelled leaping up from his chair Melodic Cudgel in hand. He just saw his own daughter disappear and he was far on the freaked the hell out side of the spectrum.

" Dad!?" Jaune asked as he stood horrified on the spot where did- Crash! The Sound of breaking glass once again filled the air as Neo came flying down from the ceiling drop kicking Jaune in the forehead sending him sailing across the room.

" Neo!" Jaune yelled instantly leaping up from his downed position and wrapping his sister in a bear hug who look equally bewildered as to what had happened to her as she confusedly returned her brothers hug. A sinking fell cam to Roman's face as he knew that, from then on out his life as a parent would become much more difficult. For that was the day Neo found her semblance.

two years later...

"Stop that!" Whap! " Neo cut it out!" Whap! Neo i'm being serious here! Whap! " Neo!"

Jaune said petulantly as Neo giggled briefly before disappearing into thin air followed by the sound of breaking glass. Jaune grimaced as he attempted to track his sister as she indulged in her favorite past time. Making Jaune's life as irritating as possible. Whap! "Ouch!" Jaune cried as Neo blinked into reality only to deliver a shining dropkick to the top of his head, before skinning just off the top of his scalp, not doing any real damage but being incredibly annoying before disappointing to the sound of breaking glass.

" Neo- OWW!" Jaune yelled as another particularly brutal drop kick sent him flying across the warehouse floor making him growl at his sister who winked at him with one of her multi color eyes before vanishing into thin air. Out of all the semblances she could get she had to get a teleportation semblance!? Jaune thought angrily as he eyed his father's warehouse anticipating where Neo would reappear this time.

Jaune paced back into a circle as he eyed the extravagant but bare warehouse. It was a simple thing with dull grey aluminum walls and ceiling, with several rafters and catwalks allowing you to walk on the gantry's. Follow those where the few ceiling windows that let in a slight amount of ambient lighting. After that came the better parts of the warehouse.

Roman may have been many things but cheap was not one of them. He had sprung for a couch made of the finest Atlesian fabrics that were redder then fresh blood. In front of the couch was the large flat screen TV that served as the main entertainment for the three of them, there was also a smattering of other furniture including tables, two simple cots as despite all appearances Roman did not care where he slept and took a simple cot as a bed. The other cot was shared between Jaune and Neo mainly because, despite her daily assassination attempt on him, combined with her constant comic pilfering, the girl had refused to sleep alone after the first day she arrived insisting that his sleep with Jaune and Jaune had learned to not deny her.

A minor kitchen dominated the center of the warehouse looking pristine and sparkling as the day the had acquired it, some years ago and had since been almost never touched mainly because Roman hated cooking. Finally, there was the fridge, home to the most protected items in the house aside for Jaune's comics, Neo's ice cream. Although none of this really mattered when your opponent could literally appear anywhere at any time. Such a BS ability! Jaune thought as he eyed the air glaringly.

The attack came so quick that Jaune almost took a steel toed heel to his face. Neo came at him from a step left angel in a flying dragon kick. If there was any hesitation in his body Jaune would have been sprawled out on the floor with a boot mark larger then his fist on his face. Luckily Roman had practically purged any forms of hesitation from him and his sister. When the attack came Jaune didn't know if it was luck, skill or a combination of both that let him not only dodge the attack but from his sibling causing her, eyes to fly open in panic before he tossed her easily across the room.

"Hura!" Jaune yelled as he flung Neo effortlessly across the room causing her to crash loudly and violently into a table and sending her flailing across the ground. Jaune was at first worried that he had actually hurt his sister before she popped up pink energy flailing around her. Oh right aura!

Jaune thought in relief before he noticed the baleful glare in Neo's eyes as she narrowed them at his direction before disappearing again. Oh hell now she's pissed. Jaune thought as he knew that when Neo got mad people tended to get stabbed with whatever sharp object was in hand. And by people he meant himself. " Come on Neo it was all fun and games right!?" Jaune negotiated with his sister getting nothing but silence in response. " Oh come on!" Jaune thought as he waled in a tight circle eyeing each piece of air as a potential target he didn't wait long.

Crashing from above Neo appeared ready to deliver a furious kick of retribution to her foolish younger brother who thought he could defy her. Only for her aura to shine pink causing her to yelp before she dropped lick a rock...

"I got you!" Jaune yelled as he suddenly forgot about his impending death and sprinted to catch his falling sibling. Neo was still even after all these years trying to master her semblance, and while she had gotten fairly good she still would have hiccups with her teleportation and would sometimes fizzle out after a jump causing her to drop like a stone. " I got you!" Jaune yelled as he slid underneath his falling sister catching her in both arms before she could impact the ground. " Are yo ok!?" Jaune asked as her mismatched eyes were still widened in shock before they calmed down as she gave his arms a death grip.

Jaune noticed a light blush come to her face before a aura infused punched nearly sent him to the ground. "Off!' Jaune coughed as Neo punched his solar plexus nearly dropping her brother flat. Bright searing pain flashed into Jaune's mind as he struggled to keep his sister in his arm's and not drop to the floor. " But why?" Juane asked as he coughed up a fair amount of spittle as the aura infused attacks struck he had to squint his eyes to keep his vision fro flooding. As he held his sister he saw a flashing green light in front of his face as Neo's scroll gave a faint green light as she waved it in front of his face. " Thank you..." Neo flashed her scroll to him as she ducked her face away form her brothers...

Roman was on a job. His first real job in two years. "We all have to pay eventually don't we." Roman asked his employer as her golden eyes simmered in the dim glow of the white fang base. Normally Roman wouldn't have been caught dead any where near the white fang, unless it involved breaking a few of their heads that is. " Roman there is no need for such anxiety." His employer cooed at him as she seductively walked forward to him in a blatant display of seduction, her very movements reeked of unbidden lust and carnal cravings. She was a fairly tall woman with a perfect hourglass figure and hair as black as pitch. Her body was the definition of beauty itself and she radiated lust incarnate. There was no doubt that she was easily among top ten beauties in Vale maybe even Remnant as her golden eyes gazed balefully at him, Roman was not convinced.

Roman had survived for twenty six years by trusting his instincts, and right now they were screaming at him to either get the hell out of this room, as fast as humanly possible and run to the farthest corners of Remnant, after retrieving his kids of course. Or to kill her where she stood, but every shred of Roman's substantial reserves of self preservation screamed at him that any hostile actions he made against her would result in immediate and painful death something Roman wished very much to avoid.

" Yes Torchwick there is no need for us to be enemies." Another feminine voice called form his left as Roman's eyebrow raised, as he saw the same cow faunus that gave him the job that led him to meeting Jaune. " Is that you Bessie?" Roman asked the cow faunus taking a Grimm please as he watched the woman seethe at his easy remark.

" Now, now." His employer and current reason for his easy life chided playfully as she swayed her hips in way that would be lethal for lesser man as Roman fought to keep his eyes straight. " We are all friends here are we not?" The woman asked as she gave him a beatific mile. " I highly doubt that some of us would call the other friend "Cinder." Roman said staring her straight in the eyes refusing to let her intimidate him, or notice how close to knee shaking bowel loosening terror he was currently in.

This woman this Cinder was the one responsible for murdering his last big job employer and then for some miraculous an enigmatic decision of hiring Roman giving him a inhumanly large monthly salary and then vanishing form his life for the better part of two years. Roman had no idea why Cinder kept him on the payroll but he knew that he wouldn't like it.

" We have come to off you a olive branch Torchwick." The cow faunus whom he now called Bessie said as she stared at roam she still wore that same blank mask and dull uniform that gave Roman no clue to her actual looks or descriptions. " Excuse me if I don't have a over flowing trust for the white fang." Roman said sarcastically as he crossed his arms and stared at the faunus. " Last time i worked with you lot I distinctly recall you trying to kill me after I did our job to your exact specifications! So don't be surprised if I look at this deal with a bit of suspicion, especially after that crap you pulled at the manor."

" Ahh yes the Politan incident." The woman sad with a calm voice. " We apologize for that rather unfortunate incident and we assure you that it was the work of a fringe group of radicals and dose not in any way represent the white fang as a whole." " Yeah because that sounds convincing." Roman sneered as the faunus bristled briefly her cow tali switching in irritation before righting herself and speaking.

" We are well aware of you lack of trust in us but we are here to put that to rest." Roman did not believe a word out of the woman but let her talk regardless, Roman knew personally that people tended to let all kinds of information slip when you let them speak. He just had to wait for this mangy mutt to slip up. " Rest assured that we have raised and hounded these radical elements, successfully purging them form our ranks, ensuring our continued progress to our goals of equality between Humans and Faunus remains unopposed."

"Excuse me." Roman said as he rubbed his ears in a exaggerated display for the faunus benefit. " I had something in my ears because it almost sounded like you said equality and not subjugation at best and out right genocide at worst. My mistake really." Roman said as he scratched his ears and the cow growled at him.

" Enough, we are all on the same side here." Cinder sad as she walked in between the two, she was still wearing that same red satin dress that seamed to mold to her skin simultaneously leaving nothing to the imagination, while somehow paradoxically hiding everything you would want to see. How the hell The dress managed that Roman had no idea but he wasn't complaining abut the view..

" I know you have issues with the fang Roman but we have a very tempting offer for you." Tempting ? It had better be lot to make me want to work for these mongrels." The faunus looked ready to leap at him but a casual glance form Cinder kept her firmly in her seat. " First of all you do not work for them you work for me let's make that clear Roman. You will do as I say, when I say it, how I say it, for as long as i say it do I make myself clear?"

She asked as she took a step towards Roman as he fought the urge to whimper. " Very." He replied not dropping the poker face he wore for over two decades for a second. "Excellent, now we have a operation planned and organized by the Vale branch of the white fang that I am particularly invested in." " You do realize that these are the same people who assassinated their own king on accident right? Do you really think we can trust them with anything beyond sit or stay?"

" You know nothing human!"

"Oh back to calling me a human again huh? You know we are all still criminals here and I think personally that we should treat each other as such. You know maybe drop the blatant racism and the holier than thou attitude and treat me whit a little professional courtesy? If you even know the meaning of the word that is."

"Why you-

"Enough." Cinder said as Roman swore he saw the air burn around her lips as she spoke. " While incredibly rude Roman is not wrong, you did kill you own ruler seven yeas ago and his distrust is well placed however! We have come here with an offer that you not only cannot refuse, but one that you wouldn't want to refuse. " "And what would that offer be?' Roman asked her warily as she flared him another beatific smile. " We come to offer you revenge."

Roman had to admit revenge felt good. SRKSH! " That's for my daughter!" Roman snarled as he bashed the head of a white fang member open in in dazzling display of blood and bone. Before he could even finish his swing two more fang operatives, were sprinting at him swords in hand yelling some type of war cry of all things.

" Bloody amateurs." Roman sighed tiredly as he calmly without any real effort shot one of them in the chest reducing him to a messy stain on the ground of old ware house. Before turning his attention to the other stunned faunus who look nothing more then he wanted to go home and be in bed. Too bad he was going to die tonight, one of of many white fang to die really. Not that that mattered to the group really. If there was one thing the white fang always seemed to have on their side, it was numbers.

True to her word Cinder had taken him to the last warehouse of the rouge fang who had attacked the Politan estate. It turns out there really were a radical group of faunus acting in separately from the core of the white fang. Who knew? Roman though as he ducked low taking the second mans legs out at the knees. The man a bird faunus of some type yelped before crashing into the ground. before Roman could finish him off thought he noticed two other fang soldiers ruining at him with assault rifles in hand.

" Is this actually their version of amateur hour?" Roman asked aloud as he hooked the leg of the down man with his cane tossing him into air just as his comrades raised their weapons. BANG! The sound of assault rifles firing filled the air causing Roman to grin viciously.

As the formerly winded man on the floor had been tossed into the air ala one Melodic Cudgel and was now acting as a temporary but effective bullet shield. "Bloody animals didn't even bother to shoot around him." Roman snarled as he braced his impromptu shied as it jerked and sputtered as the man was filled with bullets form his comrades guns. It took the fang members three whole seconds to figure out a, that they were shooting an ally, and by, that they were not hitting Roman at all. " Three second to late boys!" Roman yelled as he lept out of the now bullet filled bloodied shield of the fauns before firing twice at the men killing them both instantly.

Roman would have relaxed but for some fool who had watched far to many action movies and was currently doing the worst impression of Spruce Willis that Roman had ever seen. As he attempted to sneak up on him. I mean honestly! Who stomps their feet when they're trying to sneak anywhere!?

It was sad really! Watching the out of shape twenty something attempting to sneak up on him. Roman felt bad for him. As the man finally decided sneaking was for cowards and decided to rush him blade in hand.

" For the fang!" He yelled causing Roman to sigh heavily putting a gloved hand to his face, this man wasn't even wort killing, Roman thought as he prepared to knock him out the need was proven redundant as a dagger made of obsidian lodged it's way into the man's eye socket. The man dropped like a sack of bricks as his body tumbled to the ground before a mocking laughter filled Roman's ears.

" Playing with your food? How very unprofessional of you Roman." Cinder chided a she elegantly walked up to Roman blowing him a mock kiss before casually pausing briefly to remove the dagger form the mans face, A beatific smile broke her face causing Roman to shudder internally as she twirled the onyx blade in hand before stowing it somewhere in her dress. " Shouldn't you be killing them right away rater then enjoying pointless banter?"

"Out of all people I thought you would be then ones to most appreciate a little pointless banter Cinder." Roman added making sure to call her by name. Cinder's eyes widened at this, she was definitely not used to be called by her first name by any one without red eyes.

" My aren't you a bold man." She said as she took astride towards him and placed her knee in between his groin. She smells like sulfur and peaches... Roman thought as he smelt something between creamy peaches and burning ash, coming form her body making her seem paradoxically like the most unlikely type of fruit in all of existence and making her all the more tantalizing. Although the time to ponder such things soon passed as the remaining white fang rallied them selves and began to charge the two.

" OK let's do this." Roman said reluctantly as he twirled Melodic Cudgel in hand. He was getting bred honestly, at first slaughtering a bunch of faunus for murdering his adoptive daughters family had been the single most cathartic experience in the world, better than any liquor, bed or vice Roman had ever relied upon for relief. But like any other vice after a while it soon got tiresome.

After all you can only break so many heads and cave in so many chests before all things become tedious. " I have a better Idea.' Cinder sad as she stood by Roman's side with a growing grin on her face.

" Would you care to dance?" Cinder asked Roman as she stuck out hand revealing smooth perfect creamy skin under the red dress. " Dance? You do know we are in the middle of a fight right?" Roman asked as the surviving white fang rallied and charged them.

" I know that of course but I just feel like dancing! What do you say Torchwick? These mongrels are going to be dead in a matter of minutes no matter what, so shall we give these animals one last show?" Cinder asked as she flashed him that same beatific smile as before as Roman felt his heart thump in his chest.

" After you." He said as he bowed to her taking her naked hand into his gloved one. "Ladies first." Roman said with a cock-shire grin making Cinder smirk at him. " Oh my what a gentleman' She said as they both tuned to the encroaching white fang and they began to dance...

" Roman was always a firm believer that combat was just another type of dance. You moved with you enemies foot steps like they were that of your waltz partner, you acted based on their moments like vivid salsa as you both darted in and out of each other 's range as you performed the ever expanding tango of death. WHAP!

A fang members skull came apart like a rotten grape as Roman swung his cane downward on the man while spinning Cinder into himself her form fitting dress and inhumanly perfect figure almost melding with his own tuxedo. The woman seemed to be having the time of her life as her free hand glowed a bright red and shot out a lond tendril of flame at a charging line of faunus immolating them in one fell swoop.

Thank Oum the flames cooked their lungs out silence the voices. Roman thought as he watched the pathetic twitching forms of the dying faunus desperately trying to give voice to their pained existence as they clawed usefully at their throats before expiring into piles of dust their cries of pain forever silent. Good, now maybe you mangy lot know hoe Neo feels. Roman thought as he returned to his dance.

Speaking of forever silent Roman thanked his stars that he didn't attack Cinder before. One look as her power was all it took to convince Roman to stay on her good side as long as possible. Roman always saw Cinder was powerful, if she made him a harden criminal fell like tossing his hat to the ground and running for the hills, she had to be strong. But this!? Roman almost didn't want to believe his eyes when he first saw her hand glow and a tentacle of flame shot out form her palm, she can control fire!?

That's a helluva semblance! Roman thought as he pulled her close relishing the felling of her smooth creamy skin as he shot two fang member taking aim behind her. The two men exploded into withering pillars of smoke and bones as they fell to her knees in silence. Before he could relish his kills Cinder ducked him smashing a glowing palm into the chest of a charging bear faunus making the entirety of his upper torso glow bright yellow, before incinerating the upper half of his body making it glow gold before vanishing into chard smoke and vanishing into thin air.

As the man burned to the floor the two partner looked into each other's eyes admiringly. Both sets sensing something familiar in the other pair. As green met gold they both realized that despite coming from different backgrounds they shared one thing in common. As they were swarmed by desperate fang a feral smirk came to their lips. Sensing the familiar longing, the burning need in one another the two partners finally understood what they had in common. It was an mutal and firm addiction to slaughter. Specifically Of those who were weaker than them. The desire head been so overlooked in both of them that it head taken this penal action for it to resurface an when it did the white fang learned the meaning of pain.

It was a charnel house. Roman thought as he kicked a downed member of the fang. His body still burning form where Roman had shot him. As he looked around the entire warehouse was full of burning bodies in similar condition. there was around forty dead fang total. All thought that number only accounts for bodies that were still recognizable and do not take into account the fang that head been burned into ash by cinder, or shot into barely recognizable oe of flesh and muscle by roman. As heaps of entangled and fused flesh lined the ware house surrounded by pools of ash, it real was a true slaughter.

The ones that were still identifiable as single bodies had either been shot, smashed, flayed, impale by knives, eviscerated by an high kick from Cinder, beaten to a pulp or incinerated into tidy piles of ash on the cold floor.

bodies line the ground, floors, and even the ceiling parts of flesh all the way from liberated limbs to falling ropes of intestines hung from rafters and gantry ways like an macabre Oum'smas decorations making the once dull warehouse into a newly minted charnel house.

As Roman walked around slowly admiring their work he head to admit it was a thing of beauty. Seeing the remnants of the radical faction that head attacked Neo so thoroughly devastated brought a smile to his face, and warmed his heart. Any other time he would have been jumping for joy at getting his revenge but instead his feeling of triumph felt hollow and mute.

As he stood over the desecrated corpse he knew that it was all pointless, that no matter how many of these bastards he killed it would never bring Neo's family back or give her her voice back. So despite his triumph the victory felt empty, like it was a Pyrrhic victory at best and a minor defeat at worst.

As Roman contemplate his apparent loss he looked to she his new partner cinder wave to him from across the room. Her immaculate red dress swayed in the dank blood soaked air as she flashed him a beautiful smile that made his heart hump in tune.

" For the fang!" A voice yelled as a not quite dead faunus lept form and pile of corpses barely holding his intestines in with one hand an covered in the blood and viscera of his friends. He cursed Cinder before tossing a small black canister at her, before Roman could do anything Cinder's body was engulfed in a pure white blaze.

Roman was conflicted... on one had his employer was dead, that meant no more easily living. On the other hand that also meant that his meant the his employer could no longer put a gun to his head. All in all it was a confusing situation. As Roman looked at the half dead dog faunus who was laughing manically as he held in his intestines. "I killed her! I killed the witch!"

He said as he punched the air shouting excitedly before stopping suddenly. The man look shocked no confused as he put his hands to his stomach where a long black blade was sticking out from the man's exposed intestines. The blade hovered for a moment before retreating back into his body giving an loud squelching noise as an thin line of blood left his mouth.

" Not bad for a first timer... I'd say four out of ten stars." Cinder said as she walked effortlessly out of the inferno looking as calm and as collected as when she head first been subjected to it. Everything from her form fitting dress, to her perfect raven hair looked absolutely immaculate showing absolutely no sign of damage or stress.

"But how!?" The fauns demanded barely holding in his guts. " That was white phosphorus! There's no way you could have survived that! " The man sad before coughing up a line of blood and making Cinder smile.

" White phosphors was it? You poor, poor misguided animal." Cinder said as she leaned in closer to the dying man's ear and whispered. " I use stronger stuff for hair conditioner." She said before the fang disintegrated none ot quickly screaming bloody murder as his body was slowly but surely burned from the inside out until he was nothing of what he used to be, an his body turned into ash..

"This is for you." Cinder said smugly as she handed roman a long black box with a gold trim lock on it. " What is it?" Roman asked as he opened the box to reveal a immaculate looking parasol with the word Politan written it bright pink letters it. " A heirloom from your daughter's family, I hope this will help bring her peace." Cinder sad as Roman picked up the parson in one hand. It felt like a weapon.

One grip was all it took for Roman to see that this was no ordinary parasol. It was perfectly balanced from tip to end, it's weight impeccably calculated and measured to be at optimal fighting efficiency at all times. Although Roman could see no definite weaponry on the parasol beside the parasol itself being a blunt object, he just knew Not i the sense of that he was certain but more like he knew how to breathe, or that his legs would move when he wanted them. He could feel it! This thing was a weapon! As Roman eyed the parasol inquisitively as Cinder spoke up. " It's for your daughter, may she finally find some form of closure."

Neo did not know what to think. It had been busy week for the young girl. First of all Roman had left for four days straight leaving her and Jaune alone together, which was nothing new. Her adopted father often left on business trips as he had a very hectic job. Something Neo knew all too well. Roman kept his truly work hidden from his son an Neo head vowed to do the same. It wasn't that she thought Jaune couldn't handle his dad being criminal more so she didn't want him to change.

She didn't want him to lose that same caring and kind expression his blue eyes head head when they first met, or every day since then. Mainly she didn't want things to change. Neo had head enough change for one lifetime and she vowed to keep things as they were with her brother for as long as possible.

Speaking of Jaune and changing the boy had recently done something so bizarre so strange it baffled Neo's senses. As she looked dead ahead at Jaune's Corner of the ware house. Neo still had no idea what was going through her fool of a brother's mind when he bought the old bathtub. Even less when he lugged it there himself before strapping an old tacky yellow shower curtain around it and putting the sign Jaune's corner on it.

When she had confronted him about it he head used some ridiculous reason like privacy. Neo did not like that. She loved her brother more than life itself and the idea of him spending time witjout her both infuriated and terrified Neo half to death.

AN inkling of irritation came over Neo's mind as she used her newly minted weapon to prod open the tip of his corner as he so proudly called the out of place shower tub.

It's insides were a mess of loosely strewn comic books, action figures an half eaten snacks all topped upon three sets of messy blankets and an pillow. figures Neo thoughts she felt a warm smile come to her face as she saw the messy insides of her brothers corner much like the boy himself it was messy unkempt and in desperate need for guidance.

Sprawling over the majority of the trash heap or as he called it a corner was his favorite comic X ray and vav! Neo never really liked the comic but her brother did so made sure to read them as well. If nothing else they gave her something to talk to him about. As she eyed around the tub she saw at the foot of the basin was an small book shelf were Jaune's latest comic had come with a folded up pin up of some kind. Must be unopened, Neo though before doing the perfectly sibling action of looking into her brother's things sans his permission. As she reached for the unopened poster gasping loudly as she opened it revealing its contents.

Phyrra Nikos eats pumpkin Petes! A bright caption read as it showed an cute redheaded girl with emerald eyes eating a bowl of cereal that Juane liked. It's pin up poster? Neo thought as she looked to the girl who she begrudgingly admitted was attractive before a single thought came to her mind.

Jaune was going to pin this to his wall… Jaune was going to be looking at a girl.. A girl who was not herself… ..alone.. Jaune would be looking at another girl.. The thought repeated itself over and over in her mid and each time it did she felt her heart tighten as an sickly feeling entered her stomach as she stared at the picture.

It took her less than five seconds to effectively shred the poster with her parasols hidden sword, a feature that would only be unlocked if she was the one using it. As the falling poster pieces fell into unrecognizable pieces on the floor. Jaune doesn't need another girl in his life. Neo thought convincingly as she let the drifting sheets of former poster were now little more than scrap fall to the ground. I'm more than enough for him. He doesn't need another sister, he doesn't have to replace me… Neo thought darkly as she wandered off from his corner to untie her brother from wherever she had left him…

Done! This took longer then usual but here it is! Also I now have a better sleep schedule and possible editor! So expect more chapters and better writing soon! Until then Bastion is next followed by my latest new story until one of my current ones is done! I'm having some trouble making up chapters until Beacon starts which will be aorund chapter seven so until then minor spoiler expect chimichanga's! Count down till chimichanga's t minus 8 chapters