Arc: The Game Begin's

Chapter 7: Time to talk about 'Calls'!

A/N: You know the drill.

(At the bottom A/N I'll be answering to some of your lovely (and very helpful) reviews!)

So currently I'm working on a bit of sentence restructuring of the first six chapters. I'll have those done sometime and probably put it into the description for the fic when they're uploaded. I'm doing this because originally I'd already planned on doing some changes after I got review's on what needs work.

I've never done this sort of thing before so I was expecting people to help me improve with their reviews. That's part of the reason why I even wrote this fic in the first place.

About this chapter though:

I don't have much to say about it besides I'll FINALLY explain Calls and Voice Books. Leo has a little memory moment about his memories. Finally, Koko make's a breif appearance in Vale City to a recently destroyed club. That's all that will happen this chapter, but expect Cardin's bad humor next chapter...

Who would have thought it could be hard to make bad puns or even good ones.

WARNING: There will be cursing, sarcasim, Cardin Winchester, and Weiss Schnee.

Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY, it belongs to its respective owners and the same goes for all the things I reference.

My OC's are mine, but I could lend them out if you PM me about it.

"text" - quote/memory
'text' - thoughts
text - sound effect/Cardin yelling really loud
- text - Leo's messages/media(scroll's, TV's, etc.)


"Rule 1: Nothin's perfect!" - Koko


After the ceremony the band of misfit's ventured around the campus some more. Weiss had proven to be even better at learning on the move then they'd previously thought. Only in a few minutes she was able to find good places to hide and really nice escape routes. It was rather unsettling...

Okay, it's down right scary how quickly she could pick up on something that took them years of practice. But with her tendency to spend more time learning then anything else it's no wonder that she was able to pick it up that quickly. By the time they finished teaching her, Weiss was a master of Koko's rule number 4: know your exits.

Going through the regular motion's of mapping, the group of four wandered the grounds for a few hours till it was dark and time to go the ballroom. As soon as they arrived they found the most unpopulated part of the ballroom and set themselves up for the night in the provided sleeping bags. They planned to relax as much as they can tonight before initiation tomorrow.

After all, tomorrow is Thursday.


The ballroom...


"That insufferable little runt and her bimbo brute of a sister..." Weiss grumbled as the Heart of Will using trio watched her turn the immediate area around them visibly cold.

'If I didn't have a Heart of Will, I would have been frozen to death a long time ago.' Jaune thought while thanking Dust and the Divine Dragon's for his Heart of Will's natural warming ability.

'Schnee Ice Lord Magic at it's finest.' Cardin chuckled darkly while watching some student's shiver slightly in their sleep as frost appeared on the window's near them.

Apparently while Jaune and Cardin were changing into their night clothes, Weiss was dealing with a ruckus. She had been trying to sleep the moment they all arrived to the ballroom, but Cardin kept on getting into little fights with other boys. Most of which ended with the mace wielder Atleasian Suplexing the poor idiots that were trying to take Jaune and his sleeping spots. Somehow the barbaric knight can cause more trouble in a lax setting then in a dangerous one.

This innate ability pisses off the heiress and Jaune to no end.

"Ruby isn't that bad Weiss, just give her a chance." Jaune tried to get his dear icy friend to look at his new adorable friend in a new light.

Weiss just sent him a glare that could kill, forcing the poor boy to shrink away from her slightly.

'I like Ruby, she's nice and doesn't threaten me with eye contact.' Jaune chuckled nervously and looked to his 'wisest' friend for help.

- He's right Little Sparrow! Ruby is nice and kind of like Jaune! As long as you don't glare at her to much or try to freeze her to death, she could probably make a really good friend for you! - Leo wrote quickly on the dry erase board and showed it to her with a cheery grin.

Since the unfortunate ghost can't exactly TALK to the heiress, he was forced to write to her. For the last ten minute's that's what they have been doing. Weiss complains, Jaune try's reason, and then Leo gives a second opinion via his dry erase board. Surprisingly this system actually works to a certain extent when trying to persuade the ice princess.

Probably because Weiss is very conscious of other people's opinion's.

"Friends? As if she'd be friend's with me after I blew up on her for an accident. I'll be surprised if she even wants to stay in the same room as me." Weiss grumbled thinking that the blonde dunce and the ghost dunce might have a tiny, REALLY tiny, point on this matter.

'Doesn't change the fact I really don't like her.' The ice cold heiress thought while trying to come up with a way to NOT be Ruby's friend and just be 'pleasant' acquaintances to satisfy the dolts.

"Quit complaining, rule number 10 Weiss." Cardin grunted while going through a small little pocket sized book.

""You've only lost when you give up!"" Jaune and Leo said happily and Weiss rolled her eyes.

"If that rule actually applied to people who weren't crazy like you all, then life would be so much easier." Weiss sighed and looked at the strange leather bound book in Cardin's hands.

"What's that little book?" Weiss decided to ask in an attempt to get the conversation off the little red dunce named 'Ruby Rose'.

She's seen Cardin read books, but every last one of them was either on strange Dust altered plants or one of the books Koko would force him to read... like his school books. Cardin was never big on reading or studying unless it peaked his interest, and few things ever did that. So the barbaric dolt had often asked her to explain his homework the last two years they've known each other.

Vexing Weiss greatly but also giving her a welcome excuse to take a break from being an heiress to one of the largest companies in the world.

"Huh?" Cardin grunted as his thoughts were taken away from the book.

Looking up, he saw Weiss giving him an expectant look and her impatience showed in the form of her finger's dumbing on her crossed lithe arms. Jaune was sitting next to her and nodded to the larger knight before reaching into his own bag to pull out his own identical book. As this all was happening Leo was writing something down on his board quickly with a huge grin.

"Well, remember what Master said about..." Cardin drawled and looked around to see that most everyone was asleep beside them.

'No prying eyes, good. It would suck if someone heard this, tell Ozpin, and then we all get killed for being 'dragons'... plus Weiss since she knows what we are.' Cardin thought while scanning the area, inspecting each student's slight breath's that indicated deep sleep.

'I really don't want to be like Leo.' Cardin sighed a little at the thought of becoming like the restless ghost he calls friend.

"Said about?" Weiss leaned in close to the burnt orange haired knight.

"'Calls' and 'Voice Book' stuff as well as the other thing about what WE are." Cardin rumbled in a low tone just barely above a whisper.

Weiss nodded with a serious expression and took a look around herself. She knows it's supposed to be a secret and it could have dire repercussions so it's best to be careful. Leo tapped Weiss' shoulder while putting the dry erase board on the floor in front of them all.

'I'll never get used to the feeling of being touched but not SEEING anything touch me...' Weiss shivered slightly at the odd and cold feeling of Leo's not-really-existent-finger's on her bare shoulders.

- It's his magic book! - Leo proudly displayed the board on the floor where everyone in their little group could see.

They could also see Leo's little doodle of a book with 'Cardin's Magic Book!' on the cover of it.

Weiss looked up at the knight duo with a skewed expression that was somewhere between done-with-this and why-did-I-even-ask. Jaune laughed at the face she made a little which got him a slightly confused looking glare from the girl. Cardin even snorted in amusement at the face she made before looking at Leo and motioning to the dry erase board with his head.

Cardin had noticed someone staring at them from the corner of his eye, someone with very aggressive amber eyes.

'Well this will be fun, I barely noticed her attention on us. So that must mean she's good at this sort of thing. I wonder if she's a spy from Wise Owl? Nah, Oz probably doesn't even think of us as a threat yet.' Cardin thought while thanking Dust for how useful it is to be paranoid AND have a Heart of Will for situation's like this.

"You want me to explain?" The ghostly lion pointed at himself dumbly.

"It's safer if you explain Leo, someone with long black hair and a bow has been watching us rather closely." Cardin sneered while looking at the girl a few feet from them in the corner.

Her amber eyes that were peeking over the top of her book shined briefly with surprise till it turned to a forced calm. The black haired girl turned a page in her book nonchalantly as though she wasn't paying attention to anything but her own book. Interesting enough, the Heart of Will trio noticed that her bow twitched slightly as they watched her. They just chalked it up to a draft from the window next to the girl, but that didn't change the odd feeling they had.

It's like when Koko wear's a hat and it moves from the twitches of her bear ears.

'You can't hide your secret interest in our conversation from me, or ANYTHING really.' Cardin smirked mischievously at the girl who he could have sworn she was pursing her lips with frustration behind the cover of her book.

"I don't think she likes us..." Leo frowned at the young lady who was glaring in the most secretive way he's ever seen.

"Cardin..." Jaune warned his fight happy friend who relented his teasing and allowed them to return to the conversation from before.

"Alright Leo, explain it so I can understand." Weiss said promptly while staring at the dry erase board on the floor.

'I don't care if she listen's in. She'll only get fractured bits of our conversation that won't make any sense at all. But I don't like her, she seems to have a grudge with the Schnee company from our small exchange this afternoon.' Weiss thought while drumming her fingers on her thigh's as she waited for the ghost to hurry up.

In Jaune's peripheral vision he saw the black haired girl raise a brow at Weiss' actions. The girl lowered the book slightly to watch them again. As soon as Leo picked up the marker to write his explanation her eyes widened ever so slightly. While Leo wrote his message to the heiress, the girl then put her book down completely and focused on the moving marker with narrowed eyes.

'You can look all you like, but you'll never guess that a ghost is the one writing.' Jaune thought while looking at the girl directly who just rose a brow at him in confusion with a little worry. Flashing the bow wearing girl an apologetic smile he turned his full attention back to Leo's dry erase board.

While Jaune was watching the ease dropper, Cardin was watching Leo. The lion faunus had laid down next to Weiss on the floor and was writing everything so she could read it easily... with his tongue sticking out the side and eyes narrowed at the dry erase board. The mace user shook his head in amusement at the ghost's expression and the serious face Weiss was making just next to him.

'Dust I wish Weiss could see Leo sometimes.' The mace user thought while eyeing his two friends mischievously.

- It's called a 'Voice Book', it's the book that contains all a user's 'Calls' or spells. The book's are used more as a reference then an actual tool, but they're still needed because it's a good way to keep all the spells the spirit's teach them. Sometimes a spirit can build upon other spirit's Calls with their own to make one that's completely different or stronger. - Leo wrote out and Weiss watched on as the magic marker moved with a life of it's own.

'I really hate how I find this normal.' Weiss deadpanned while staring at the marker writing down the answer's she seeks.

"Don't they have set chants or something? That's usually the case from what I've read in books about things like this." Weiss asked towards the dry erase board and marker while Leo removed everything he wrote down with an old rag.

- No, every person can only work with certain types of spirits, two types to be exact. Every elemental spirit has a different Call, and each Call can only be used with that specific spirit. When asked using it's special verse, the spirit grants the user it's unique power. The elemental spirit's bound to a Heart of Will user will remain with them till the day they die and follow wherever they go. That's why there isn't a set of Calls that everyone can use indefinitely. Because there may be similar Calls, but each of them will have completely different wording and can only be used with a specific spirit. - Leo wrote out all of this just barely on the dry erase board and Weiss did her best to absorb the knowledge.

"So basically what your saying is that every 'elemental spirit' has a different 'Call' that can only be used by the person they chose to have their specific ability. And that every user of this 'magic' has the ability to only use two types of elements... how many types of element's are there exactly?" Weiss shortened Leo's explanation as the ghost erased his previous words.

"Water, Fire, Wind, Lightning, Earth, Wood, Light, and Dark are all the elements. Making that a total of eight elements." Jaune answered her while Leo was erasing his dialog and Weiss nodded to Jaune to continue while Cardin watched from the sidelines.

"Jeez, my hand hurts..." Leo shook out his hand theatrically, then stopped and blinked before a big smile spread across his face.

"But it doesn't exist! Death joke~!" Leo sang out and Cardin sighed heavily.

'I'll never understand that guy's horrible sense of humor.' Cardin thought to himself while Leo finished up with erasing the board with the rag.

"My main element is Lightning and my sub element is Dark. Meaning I can only use Call's from Lightning and Dark spirit's." Jaune said as Weiss looked up from the dry erase board at him curiously.

'That's surprising, I thought Dark would be the last thing he'd be aligned to.' Weiss stared at Jaune making him fidget from the attention.

Leo tapped the dry erase board with the marker to get the trio's attention, having already started writing something down.

- The element's of a person is like an Aura's Semblance, except they don't reflect the person's personality and instead reflect the strongest feeling's/desire's of their heart that MAKE UP their personality. Jaune's desire to reach his goals no matter the cost and his single minded attitude towards proving people wrong about him, make Jaune nearly the embodiment of Lightning that no one can control and will carve it's own path. - Leo had written out and Weiss rose a brow at Jaune.

"You're not wrong..." Jaune said with a sigh as he thought about desire to prove his old man and home village wrong about everything they ever said.

'And I WILL prove them wrong, even if it takes me my whole life.' Jaunt thought darkly as Leo set up the board for Weiss' next question.

"What part of his heart makes his sub element Dark?" Weiss asked with a straight face that didn't really hide her worry for the boy she's come to care for as a friend.

'She's getting better at hiding her feelings, but it still doesn't work on me.' Jaune smiled softly at Weiss in understating, making the ice cold heiress scoff at him while rolling her eyes.

'Must have realized I figured her out.' Jaune chuckled slightly while Weiss glared icy daggers at him.

- His acceptance of everything that is wrong with himself makes him Dark aligned. Jaune knows what he's horrible at and always looks at it head on, but he knows he will never improve at those things. He's unclouded by delusion's and falsehoods because he only seeks out the good things in the darkness that surrounds him. Just like the darkness itself that always seeks out light. - Leo wrote with a sad expression as everyone peered down at the board.

'The way Leo wrote that was like something you'd read in a book or see in an RGP. Maybe it could even be the inscription on an ancient stone tablet about the future destroyer of the world... I could see Jaune being that, although a horrible one.' Cardin thought sarcastically while reading Leo's message.

"That's rather depressing." Weiss said with a frown at Jaune who merely chuckled sadly.

"Well, after we figured out my element alignment Master and everyone agreed that it's a very important part of who I am. Without that kinda depressing part of me, I wouldn't be the lovable doofus Jaune Arc." The blonde knight said somberly while staring sadly at his own Voice Book.

Cardin punched his buddies shoulder roughly with his natural scowl, "You may be depressing, but you have more guts when your stuck in bad situation's then most people. You always find a way to get out of it somehow when all hope is lost."

"Thanks." Jaune smiled painfully while rubbing his slightly sore shoulder.

'Why does he have to hit so hard?' Jaune thought while waiting for Weiss' next question.

"What are Cardin's elements?" The white themed girl asked the boy in question.

"My main element is Fire and Wood is my sub." Cardin said with obvious annoyance.

"Your joking..." Weiss said with a deadpan pointed at the barbarian.

"That's what I said, then we checked three more times and it didn't change." Cardin rolled his eyes as he rested his head on the palm of his hand.

'The bastards all laughed for a solid five minutes...' Cardin pouted while glaring out the window towards the night sky.

Leo tapped on the dry erase board to get everyone's attention again.

- Cardin's main element is Fire because he is very impulsive and unpredictable. Fire is a force of destruction that grants new life from death. Cardin has resolved himself to make up for his families past, just like you Little Sparrow, bringing new life to it through destruction. His other element is Wood because he's solid in his belief's and won't change them easily like how a tree won't move if the roots are deep and strong. -

"So basically he's hot-headed and stubborn?" Weiss said with a smirk at the aforementioned stubborn hot-head.

Crossing his arm's and glaring at the heiress Cardin growled, "Watch it 'princess'."

"I'm not a princess." Weiss glared back coldly.

"Psst! Leo do something!" Jaune whispered desperately as Weiss and Cardin glared daggers at each other.

Looking up at Jaune, Leo gave the distressed blonde a mock salute before getting to work. Jaune mean while watched with a bit of fear as the glaring of his friends only seemed to intensify by the second. From the corner of his eye he could see the black haired girl reaching towards her own bag, possibly for a weapon.

Then Leo's words and dry erase board saved the day.

"Done~!" Sang the cheery ghost as he tapped the board on the floor to get everyone's attention.

Jaune let out a sigh of relief and the black haired girl returned to observing them, but kept her bag close just in case.

'I really hope she wasn't planning on shooting either of them. Cardin would be dead in a second without an Aura and Weiss would freeze the building solid with us all inside.' Jaune thanked 'Sirah, Dragon of Sun and Luck, for his great luck tonight.

Soon the group looked down at Leo's dry erase board to see what it is he had to tell them now.

But this time there were a bunch of little drawings that were arranged in a circle. It started with an ocean wave at the top that looked more like a swirl, then a small flame with a smiley face, a breezy squiggle, a little lighting bolt, a haphazardly drawn leaf, a dorky looking sun, and finally a solid black and completely perfect circle.

'How the hell can he only doodle the other things, but make a PERFECT circle!?' Jaune looked at the board with a slack jaw and wonder.

Leo then took out two different colored markers from Cardin's bag, one red and the other green. Leo connected the pictures with the different markers starting at the top. Red was the first marker he picked up and he connected the water symbol to the fire. Then the wind to the lightning, and so on all around the circle.

Making a red line between water and fire, wind and lightning, earth and wood, and finally light and dark.

After he finished with that he picked up the green marker. The ghost made little loops between the elements he'd put on the board. Water was connected to wind, fire to lightning, earth to light, and finally wood to dark. Thus the ghost finished his representation and advised Cardin and Jaune to help explain in a very professional manner.

"Your turn lazy butts!" Leo said proudly after capping his colored markers and folding his arms with a big grin.

"One of you better explain this..." The very annoyed ice princess said while staring at the dry erase board covered in doodles and color coded lines.

"Alright..." Cardin smirked at Jaune, "Jaune will do it."

Sighing at what he was expecting, Jaune reluctantly nodded and pointed at the water symbol and traced the red line with his finger to the fire symbol, "Water and Fire are opposing elements."

Then he moved his finger following the green line from fire to lightning, "Fire and Lightning are complementing, meaning they have a connection to each other."

"So the red lines mean they're 'conflicting' and the green lines mean they're 'complementing'?" Weiss asked Jaune who nodded to the heiress as she returned her focus to the board for the rest of the explanation.

"Conflicting means they are weak against each other. So if Cardin uses a fire Call it's best to counter it with water, that would cancel out most of the Calls power if not all. Also the Call's are usually a mouth full to say, but the effect's of some last a while. This is why we have Metal Heads to protect us while we say them." Jaune explained and looked at Cardin expectantly, making the larger knight groan.

"Alright I'll help... complementing Calls mean that if two elements that complement each other are used together they can meld into a different attack. Making a stronger Call and thus kicking major ass. Jaune and me complement each other in that I'm fire and he's lightning as well as our sub element's also being complementing."

"Are these Calls as strong as Dust?" Weiss asked with a little worry, these Call's seem like they'd be very powerful.

"No..." The three boy's sighed in synch.

Tapping the board again the brown haired and orange eyed ghost answered the question more thoroughly.

- Dust is more of a pure, raw energy and it's WAY stronger. If you used a water Dust crystal against a fire Call the Dust would obliterate the Call completely. Though the strength of a Call all depends on the user's ability to understand the meaning behind elemental spirit's words. If they can understand what those words mean the Call could become closer to matching a Dust attack, but it would still fail 6-10 times. -

"That seems rather under powered." Weiss rose a brow at the explanation.

"It's more versatile then Dust though. A Call can do almost anything, it's magic after all." Cardin rolled his eyes and opened up his Voice Book to show Weiss.

"I only have two Calls. It takes forever for a spirit to decide if they want to stay with someone. The Calls I do have are really useful if used correctly and I've already figured out the meaning behind one of them." Cardin said as Weiss inspected the book with a blank stare.

'I had to sit in front of Master's fireplace for nearly three week's before a damn spirit decided to even give me a chance.' Cardin grumbled at the thought of all the trouble he went through for ONE fire aligned Call.

"I take it the words below the strange ones are a translation..." Weiss said while reading the very badly written poem like verse's of words below the weirdly written English.

"Yup." Jaune said to her with a nod.

"How do you even say half of this?" Weiss showed to them while pointing at the strange text.

"Well, we can read it naturally. Master say's that it's called Voi'Lie, which means Voice. That's why the book where we keep our Call's are called a 'Voice Book's', because that's the language of the spirits." Jaune explained and only got a confused looked from the girl.

"What do you mean by 'read it naturally'?" The heiress asked the boy's while trying to make sense of the strange text.

"Well, speaking and reading Voi'Lie is like second nature to us. Good news is that we don't actually have to speak it to use a Call. The spirit's can understand us just fine and all that, they just can't talk in anything BUT their own language." Cardin said with an annoyed glare at the book in Weiss' hands.

"It's basically English but with some different words for things and a few special case's. 'Li, is pronounced LIE and is a C in the language. Which means that Voi'Lie is literally Voice. Don't ask me why because I have no idea." Cardin said and Weiss nodded her head slowly.

"Let's NOT, talk about that part..." Weiss said tiredly while looking at the rather confusing book.

After hearing a really exaggerated yawn, the usually grumpy duo looked over at their blonde friend who was stretching out his arms. Giving a quick look to each other, they decided to pack up their belongings. Jaune and Cardin put their Voice Books into their bags along with Leo's dry erase board. Weiss gave one last look to the girl with the book that was STILL watching them, and then went to bed hesitantly.

"Time for bed, night you three." Cardin grunted while falling onto the bed roll next to Weiss'.

'To tired to think...' Cardin thought while turning on his side to face away from his friends.

"Night." Jaune said from the other side of the petite girl.

'I'm so glad I brought my onesie, it can even make these old sleeping bags comfy.' Jaune thought happily while making himself cozy.

"Goodnight." Weiss said softly while resting her tired body... and aching head.

'Today has been physically, emotionally, and mentally draining... please let tomorrow be a LITTLE better.' The heiress pleaded while shifting around a little in her sleeping bag.

"Leo, watch our stuff..." Cardin mumbled to the ghost who doesn't need sleep.

"Aye sir!" Leo whisper/shouted and watched the trio's bags with determination as his tail swayed a little behind him.


In the corner of the ballroom...


"Who is Leo even?" Blake murmured as she watched the group go to sleep.

Blake had moved her bedroll to the wall and she was half tempted to just wait till the trio fell asleep and check out the strange books they have. Something about what they were talking about was really bothering her. The thing's Blake could remember the most were the words Call, magic, Voice Book, and Leo. Though her knowledge of the conversation was limited to mere fractures because of the weird dry erase board and marker.

"A Schnee, Winchester, and Arc all being friends is dangerous. Schnee and their power as well as military connection's around the world, Winchester's cruelty with their own large sums of money and equally racist followers, and the Arc's connections to many Hunter groups around the world... I need to watch them." Blake narrowed her amber eyes and decided against looking through their bags.

The Winchester asked some 'Leo' person to watch them after all.


A while later with Leo...


"Hey, can you hear me?" Leo asked the sleeping girl.

He was sitting on the floor cross legged next to her bedroll. After the dangerous bow wearing girl went to bed, he came over to the girl he saw earlier today. Her bright red hair laid around her pillow and the scent of strawberries was strong. Leo doesn't really like strawberries...

They were his Jarl Mistreal's favorite.

"Guess not... but if you can, then please." Leo softly pleaded to the soundly sleeping girl.

"Don't listen to Mistreal if she whisper's to you, don't become a monster like her." Leo continued to plead even if she couldn't hear him.

"Hmm..." A sleepy voice groaned and he froze.

It wasn't coming from the red head, but a little way's down the line. Slowly standing and floating above the ground, Leo searched for the source. He quickly found it was actually coming from Ruby as she clutched onto her sister. The little red head had somehow made it into her sister's bedroll and was cuddling up to her with the blonde holding her lovingly.

"Yup, it should totally be illegal to act this adorable." Leo chuckled while watching them sleep with a bittersweet smile.

"Ruby's big sister reminds me a little of Koko, as well as Yin." Leo reminisced about the many battles that he'd fought along side the women Yin.

During Jaune and Cardin's Test of Mastery, Leo remembered a bit more of his past. Though he still doesn't remember the big detail's he remembers some of the people. One of the people in those memories had ashy tipped black hair, burning red eyes, and preferred to use two black short swords in combat that he had helped her forge.

Leo chuckled at the memory of Yin beating the crap out of him in less then two minutes when they first met. It was funny because she was also someone he trusted a lot when he was alive and would never abandon if she needed help. Yin always had his back and he had hers whenever their path's crossed during the war. Leo had saved her life many times since she always just ran head first into battle. Yin had always taken out more enemies then anyone would ever believe as well, she was a berserker in the purest sense.

But at the end of the war Leo had to betray Yin.

Not because he wanted to, but because Leo had to so she'd be safe like all the other people he befriended during those haunting years.

Being someone with the heart and soul of a dragon makes him the worlds enemy. Leo knows that at least since in almost every fairy tale written since that war roughly 100 years ago, the hero always kills the dragon. But the dragon's in fairy tales were portrayed to look like the eight Divine Dragon's instead of like mortal dragon's like himself. Because there was no real difference between a mortal dragon and a human or faunus except the heart and soul.

But Leo's always thought of himself as a faunus instead of a dragon, Leo refuses to think he's that different from any other lion faunus.

But he's a dragon to everyone else and Yin was human. Since that war started between the humans and faunus against the dragon's, Leo always knew he could never be real friends with those people he fought beside. Even if he fought for the humans and faunus, he's still a dragon and all dragon's are the enemy.

He remembered the time he had to fight Yin and just barely beat her without either of them dying. He remembers the battle's he fought with friend's who's names he hasn't remembered just yet. He remembered the crushing pain and the weight of his sword Star's Legacy as he fought them with everything he had.

'It hurt so much.' Leo clutched at his chest while gritting his teeth.

Leo quickly pushed down the pain and just looked at the girl with golden blonde hair, "I wonder what Yin Fall's great-great-grand daughter is like? She's probably a lot like you ya know. Eye's of fire and passion that never cease in the pursuit of ideals."

"I wonder how they will grow?" Leo said while staring down at the sister's with a real smile.

"Ruby seems really tough for someone so young and her sister looks just as strong, probably stronger. I feel like they will do some really important things in their lives and help a lot of people. Haha! I hope Jaune and Cardin don't have to fight them!" Leo laughed as he continued to talk to himself, his lion's tail swishing around lazily.

The ghost soon stared out the window to see that the moon was just barley visible through the window. Looking at a clock on the wall he saw that everyone would be waking up in a little while and decided to return to his friends. Before leaving Leo reached down towards the girls and pulled Ruby's sleeping bag over them both to keep them warm till they wake up.

"Peace and no sorrow." Leo mumbled with a smile before floating back to his friends.


Vale City, Downtown...


"What the hell happened 'ere Black Bear?!" Koko looked at the scene in shock.

"A blonde bitch came here yesterday and destroyed the entire club, that's what happened..." Junior replied to his trigger happy friend while getting hammered at his own bar.

The black haired gangster was slouched over the counter with a glass of hard liquor. As Koko came further into the building she looked at all the damage with a frown. Several light's were shattered and the majority of the furnishing was in ruin's. Even the floor was scorched in a straight line towards the entrance where a window was nothing but the frame with all the glass missing.

And for some strange reason...

The bar was left completely intact and had no noticeable damage.

"Well damn... whoever did this totally out did me." Koko said while looking at the shattered and scorched dance floor.

'I wrecked the place before year's ago after Cardin got kidnapped by the White Fang... but at least I had the decency to NOT put the guy outta buisness.' The brown haired bear faunus thought to herself with a bit of anger while looking around.

"No kidding, it'll take forever for me to get shit back together. Most my boy's are in the hospital to and some of them are pretty broken about how badly we got wrecked. The entire Triad was destroyed by a single girl in one night." Junior lamented while tumping his forehead onto the bar counter.

"Don't even get me started on my boy's that wen't with Torchwick and never came back... I'm worried about those guy's, they're like brother's and that's making everything even sadder here." Junior said as he thought about how much he want's to beat the crap out of Trochwick AND the blonde chick, but mostly Trochwick.

'If I see either of them again, I'll show them what happen's when you piss off the Ursai Triad... no, the Ursai TRIBE.' The gangster boss thought darkly while keeping his head on the counter.

Raising the empty glass in his hand while shaking it, his bartender took it and to get his boss some more hard liquor. The thug had the same depressed expression as EVERYONE in the once popular club for the more 'questionable' people in Vale. Junior continued to groan as he waited for his next glass to help drown out the memory of the event's from the night before.

"Hei Xiong..." Koko called Junior's name while taking a seat next to the hulking and broken man.

"I got some cash saved back and I'd be willin' to make a donation." The eye path wearing faunus said and Junior's head flew up to look at her chacolate brown left eye.

"Really!?" He asked with glee.

Then quickly narrowed his eye's at the author and gun fanatic.

"What's the catch?" Junior glared at Koko who sighed.

"A job." Koko said simply as the bartender gave his boss the strong drink. Koko put five lien on the counter and the bartender got the message. Koko gave him a cheesy grin and a thumb's up that made the stoic bartender and the other goon's smile a little.

Koko alway's knew how to make them smile.

"Job? You want my men for something?" Junior asked while taking a drink.

"No, I want to work 'ere." Koko said and Junior did a spit take away from the bar and chocked a little.

'She did that on purpose!' Junior thought while coughing hard.

'That was PERFECT! Cardin would be proud~!' Koko mentally congratulated herself with a smirk.

Then they noticed that the younger twin, Miltiades, was in the room helping to clean up.

"You want to work here!? Oh. My. God! Melanie come down!" Miltia squealed to her sister that was snoozing in her room, Miltia darted to the stair's in behind the back door as fast as she could.

As Junior watched his niece run to the back room, he looked sadly at the black and red clad girl's back. Koko could see exactly what was going through his head, her Heart of Will's enhanced perception made it impossible not to. Junior knew exactly why Koko wanted a job in Vale City and came to HIM specifically.

"So... it's going to be a war after all?" Junior asked somberly while taking another drink, still staring at the swinging door his niece ran through.

"Yeah, and it's gonna happen soon..." Koko glared at the counter as Junior swirled his drink.

"What about your boy's and the Schnee girl?" Junior asked the women who was just as protective as himself when it came to kinship and sworn sibling's.

"They're gonna be a big part of it..." Koko laughed bitterly as she looked into the reflective bar counter, absentmindedly running a hand over the scar on her right eye and down her eyepatch.

"What about you?" Junior knew the answer, but he still had to ask.

"I'm gonna lead the thing, more then sure shit's gonna be bad though." Koko looked at the man with resolve and he couldn't help but smile sadly.

"There really isn't a place for the Kilika or the Ursai tribe, is there?" Junior said and the bartender came back with a drink for Koko.

A strawberry sunrise with a little umbrella was placed infront of her, making the bear smile slightly at the corny drink.

"I thought it was 'Ursai Triad', what changed?" Koko chuckled lightly at the name Junior's father gave the group while taking a sip of her drink.

"Well... she has it, Melanie awoke and Miltia might to seeing as they ARE twin's. Now that we have a user it mean's we're a tribe again by the law of Divine Dragon Yark." Junior said while turning his gaze back to the door where Miltia disappeared behind to retrieve her sister.

"Fuckin' dammit... I thought the whole tribe's carnivore's were whiped out before they came into the wall's forty year's ago." Koko cursed under her breath and ran a hand through her short spiky hair.

"Well it look's like Dova chose Melanie to have it, nothing we can do if the Divine Dragon of the Heart of Will picked her. But why her? That's all I want to know and don't care for much else." Junior said tiredly while he continued to slouch on the bar counter.

"Fuckin' dragon's are startin' to piss me off. First they give me two lil' idiot's to train when I was only 18. Then I get my ass nearly killed doin' Ozpin's dirty work, endin' my Huntress career three year's ago." Koko glared at the little umbrella in her drink before taking another drink from it.

"Now I gotta train another Heart of Will user while leading a damn war agains' some new evil psycho's on the block goin' for world domination? Well color me fuckin' surprised that the damn Eight Divine Dragon's 'ave this much faith in a partly blind women with a limp." Koko groaned while finishing her drink and thumping her own head on the bar counter.

"I was going to call you soon, it manifested yesterday after the blonde wrecked the place... Melanie hasn't left her room since." Junior told Koko, getting her attention away from the war that's about to breakout in the shadow's.

'Uh-oh, wakin' up to that sort of thing is hard on most. Everythin' becomes so different from what other people see and all yer sense's get jacked up... poor girl is hyper sensitive and doesn't know how to adjust.' Koko frowned and asked a really good question.

"Do the girl's know what it is though? Or did ya keep it a secret to protect 'em?" The bear faunus asked as they saw the twin's come into the room.

"Kept it a secret, just knowing it exist get's you killed after all. All my boy's know what it is since some of their families had it before the Grimm attack forty years ago and have been heping her through it best they can... but none of us know how to deal with it since we don't have one ourselves." Junior sighed as they watched the girl's come over slowly through the wreckage of the club.

Miltia was holding her big sister Melanie's hand while talking to her tenderly. The elder twin flinched at the light's and sounds that bounced around from the glass and wood being cleaned up. She looked so scared to Koko it sent her big sister like heart into overdrive.

"How did she react?" Koko asked softly as the twin's drew nearer to the bar.

"Not well, she was bursting into flames for a solid hour before she finally figured out how to control it a little. Though the eerie calm effect of it was so intense it was obvious that Melanie was scared to death. She fainted as soon as the flames stopped pouring from her hands and feet..." Junior said with obvious worry as the twin's were only a few feet from them now and Melanie's eye's widened at the words her uncle just said.

"That's normal to 'appen, when my boy's awoke I was able to calm 'em quick enough... but she's gonna take some time since her second heart fully developed on it's own without someone else to unlock it." Koko explained.

Neither Junior or Koko took their gaze off the girl as she drew nearer at a quicker pace.

"How long?" Junior asked.

"'Bout a month, but I can prolly get her better in two week's if ya let me stay 'ere instead of makin' me live in a motel." Koko said and Junior nodded to her before the girl's finally stood near them.

"What are you two talking about?" Miltia tilted her head and her twin let go of her hand.

"Koko, do you know what a Heart of Will is?" Melanie asked and Miltia looked at the bear faunus in surprise.

Koko took the white and light blue themed girl's pale hand into her own with a small smile. After Koko held it for a few second's, the bear faunus took a deep breath and let the flames flow throughout her body. The brown bear paw of her Heart of Will appeared on her left eye and the twin's looked shocked.

"Yup, I'm a Heart of Will user and I'm gonna help ya out Melanie." Koko smiled as she flowed some of her flames into her hand clutching the girl's.

As the soft orange flames danced on their hands, Junior and his boy's thought about how thing's will be different from now on.

How no one would mess with them now that the Grizzly Gunner was on their side...

How they will finally be putting Koko's plan into motion against the White Fang nuisance...

How they will once again be, the Ursai Tribe.


End of Chapter


A/N

Once again I did a LOT of things! And unfortunately that made a really long A/N...

Leo's Moment:

Looks like I'm giving Leo a pretty important role, even if he's still a sort of 'support character'. Along with Koko and Pyrrha just like I had originally planned before writing this fic.

Koko's Moment:

I know that in the show Junior isn't a good guy, but in this fic he'll be playing a supporting role in being Koko's 'employer'. More back story on the two of them will be done later on(maybe) and Junior's Club will be visited often by the knight duo till I find them a better meeting place. Melanie will be learning Heart of Will, but I don't think I'll be having the Ursai Triad playing a major role outside of supporting the main character's (Jaune and Cardin).

And if you remember in chapter 1 I mentioned 'Ursai Triad', well this is it and they're the one's buried into the White Fang's bizz as well as Torchy's group!

For those of you who don't know, a Triad is what they call Chinese mafia's. Junior, Hei Xiong, is a chinese mafia boss in this fic in other words.

Calls:

So I finally explained Calls, though I'm guessing some people might think I made them to weak. But Calls can be used more then Dust can and have more abilities that are similar to Semblances, it's magic after all.

As for the language the elemental spirit's use (Voi'Lie), I won't even be using it in this fic. That language was something that I made up with a friend who was stuck in the hospital and they wouldn't let us really do anything there. So we made a language and a couple short stories everytime I'd visit after school.

So no worries about me writing a bunch of weird gibberish!

As for the element's thing:

Complimenting - Water + Wind; Fire + Lightning; Wood + Dark; and Earth + Light.

Opposing - Water X Fire; Wind X Lightning; Wood X Earth; Dark X Light.

Why?

Complimenting - Wind moves the cloud's and the sea to move water through place's. Where lightning strikes fire is born. Tree's create shade or shadow's. Finally light makes thing's grow in the earth.

Opposing - Water put's out fire and fire evaporates water. Wind moves lightning cloud's and lighting cut's through wind. When a tree dies it become's soil and tree's gain nourishment from soil. Light banishes darkness and darkness engulf's light in a never ending cycle.

Hope that made sense of my odd element thingy.

Dargon's:

As for the Dragon's bit, I actually came up with that AFTER I started writing this fic.

Whenever I thought of the Heart of Will flame it made me think of dragon's. When I thought about how I was going to give the knight duo magic before I made this fic, it made me think dragon's and fairy tales. The story I wrote four year's ago with my friend in the hospital that's pretty much the back story of this fic had dragon's play a major role...

See where this is going?

In the end I decided that instead of making them from a rival sort of group with the rest of the world, I'd instead make them not even considered human because they have Heart of Will. It didn't really change much of the plot I'd originally planned, but it did give me a better reason then 'they can use a special/possibly dangerous power' for why they have to keep it a secret.

By making them the most common enemy in almost every fairy tale... Dragons. But they're the mortal human/faunus type I guess. Not the fire breathing lizards of destruction that can fly.

I thought it was a cool idea and I'm sticking with it.

REVIEWS!

Replies to the ones I should have replied to a LONG time ago that I didn't reply to via PM for further opinion and or me being weird:

Lazy Author with writer's block - I like your name as well as your sense of humor good sir/ma'am, I salute you.

Guest - I hope you like the other Weiss scene's I've made so far and continue to support Weiss being the mean-ish heiress.

hirshja - Your opinion on keeping Weiss is what helped me decide since it was an excellent point. Thank you and I hope you'll continue to read this fic.

Recent Reviews:

lordofthenight97 - If I were to pair Jaune, it would likely be with Pyrrha. I don't really know at the moment.

Theunknown4299 - I'm really going to enjoy teasing the Arkos ship. But like I said above I'll probaby do that ship if I do decide to ship anyone.

Comchamp1998 - Thank you! =D

glenloc - Teasing at a Ruby/Cardin ship was actually really fun to do. As for the title I gave Koko it was kind of on a whim. I can see where your coming from on it and when I was doing my restricting on chapter 3 I actually scrapped it the day BEFORE I got your review in my email.

So I gotta ask...

Are you psychic? And what would a Ruby/Cardin ship even be called?

Red Robin?

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Yuuum~!

(That joke was horrible and I'll admit it... as well as the fact that it made me laugh when I thought of it.)

Sound Effects!

I'd like some second opinion's on the sound effects I do. I have fun writing them(sometimes), but at the same time it's one of those thing's I don't really put much effort into. Removing that with my rework wouldn't be any real problem for me so I just want to know if anyone is attached to them before I go ahead and take 'em out.

Onto obvious questions!

What is Koko's plan for the White Fang? What is this 'new psychotic group' Koko mentioned to Junior? When is Leo going to tell his friends about Pyrrha? Is Weiss ever going to give up on her last bits of sanity? What is Blake going to do about the trio of Jaune, Cardin, and Weiss?

Most importantly...

What's going to happen at Beacon's Initiation that is on the day Jaune and his friend's dread... THURSDAY!

Sorry for the REALLY long A/N...

Thanks for reading! Laters!