AN: Ok were finally back! Sorry it took so long for this chapter to come out but I have honestly been swamped. Not to mention Procrastination is a bitch. Its like one of those things where you feel like the time to write isn't then, and th==you boredly sit through an entire netflix series, and whoop-de-fucking-do, you killed a buncha hours you could've been working on this.

This probably isnt the most ideal time to post this either. Since I should be studying for Finals. But if your reading this around the same time I post this, i guess were in the same boat.

Procrastinators unite- later.

Anywho I know I promised Lycan action and shit and don't worry, honest to God It's the next chapter.

Bare with me ok. I can't just have a character pull one out his ass, there has to be a reason for one, ykno? That's just good plot build up.

And I'm pretty sure that you guys already know my intention on this Lycan fic, I mean i think I said so in a previous AN. As much Lycan action this will have, I also wanted to show a chiller side of them as well, I mean I've always wondered if they every just chill around the house shifted. Like I said, expect Mother Lycan and son fluff, to start off with.

It's a spoiler if you read these anyway, but who does?

Look at me writing about some Lycan just chilling around and cuddling her son and shit. Probably speaks volumes about my mental state on Lycans and the like.

Then again you people read this stuff so I'll see you all in the loony bin.

The duplicate of himself was unlike him. In every way. Currently.

The duplicate was everything he wasn't. And the only word that came to mind was accurate.

With black cargo pants and yet he had traded the combat boots for street shoes, the other Aurum was shirtless. The stripes that littered or used to litter his body covered the duplicates ribs, sides and back.. His Tiger identity, or spiral tattoo wrapped around duplicates arm where it should belong on his. His face and hair were accurate as well. Unlike his currently, it was over powered with the white hair, and not just black. His tiger ears also rested atop the duplicates head. The duplicates face was Aurum's with slitted cat eyes the gold separated the cerulean of his eyes from his pupils, and the whites of his eyes were black. His facial tiger marks were present as well the ones that ran from his eyes down to his cheeks, The Line that stopped at the tip of his nose, the line up his chin stopping under his lip and the ones that started from the corners of his chin and stopped at the ends of his lips. They were all there.

Normally only showing up in times of anger or when he allows his instincts to take over when hunting, it was sort of a shock. His duplicate looked like a true predator. He dare say an animal. This must be how the humans feel when they saw him when he got like that.

However, Frankly if he wasn't so freaked out he'd say that he looked awesome.

"Who are you?" He finally managed to ask.

With a flick of his tail, the duplicate leaned forwards in his chair and grinned showing of his pearly white fangs.

"Who do you think?"

"Umm…"

"Three guesses," the duplicate said giving three claw tipped fingers.

"But the other two don't count."

Aurum blinked. Unsure of what to do or say in this situation.

"Aww c'mon, don't tell me you forgot all about lil ole you?"

"... What?"

The duplicate sighed, obviously bored his little round and round game he was playing with him, stood from his chair, which dissolved back into a million mirror shards, and walked towards Aurum.

Placing a hand on the boys shoulder, his slitted eyes met pupils.

"It's me-you Aurum." The duplicate grinned, enjoying his doubles confusion, "And I need your help."

Sheera felt her heart pound in her chest as she held her breath. She hadn't counted on Yang telling the younger girl her and her cubs' secret, yet Yang had figured to get the news out so she herself could see how Ruby would react. None of them knew how corrupt the girl had become in her opinion about Faunus due to the people on the mainland, the news, even Yang's friends.

The room was silent as everyone held there breath as the girl who had seemingly forgotten all about it, sat up in Sheera's lap as the topic had been brought up.

Ruby stared at the woman, her silver eyes making Sheera feel uncomfortable.

The room was dead silent when she finally spoke.

"Everybody keeps saying that Faunus are dirty, mean, and that they are no better then animals." She began.

Sheera clenched her bandana tightly in her hand, her ears drooped slightly at the comment.

"I think that they just need to give them a chance. Like the one I got with Aurum."

The girl gave a big smile before wrapping her arms around the suprised tigress.

"And the one I got with you."

A collective sigh of relief was let out around the room as Sheera tightly embraced the cub.

"I hope you realize that I'm not actually speaking spanish, yes?"

"Really?"

Sheera rolled her eyes with a smile as she held the younger girl. So naive.

"But you didn't know that we were Faunus," Sheera began but was stopped by Yang.

"That doesn't change our opinion." She spoke up, warming the Faunus' heart.

"I don't care what they say," Ruby said against the tigress.

"Your good people."

Sheera's smile softened slightly as Ruby and Yang looked at her.

Taiyang and Qrow exchanged looks before nodding.

"That doesn't mean that good people can't do bad things." She sighed, recieving questionable looks from the two cubs.

"That's…not possible," Aurum said gently batting away the duplicate's hand on his shoulder.

Unfazed, the duplicate smirked.

"You understand your in a dream, right?"

"Can I wake up then?" Aurum asked curtly, obviously a little freaked out about the situation he was in.

The double shrugged. "You can try I guess. But that doctor gave us some pretty strong shit to help us sleep off the worst of our- AHEM!" The double coughed before gesturing to his eye and ribs.

"Recent endeavors. Nice job by the way"

Aurum rubbed his bare chest in the area he got hurt during the evaluation. While he was dreaming, in the back of his mind he could feel his awake body, the throbbing of the injury remained, but it had been dulled.

"So I have me all to ourself." The double snorted at his own joke.

Aurum blinked. He remained silent, staring at the duplicate of himself; his true self. Unsure of what to do or say. He had never had a dream like this. The only sounds to pierce the silence were the soft humming that seemed to eminate from the millions of trianglular mirror shards, and the crunch of white gravel in the distance, as the silhouettes of great beasts, peering from behind the white trees, moved from one tree to another.

The duplicate flicked his tail and checked his claws.

"So like I was saying," the double began breaking the silence.

"I need your help."

"With what?"

"Us."

Aurum unsure of what the doppelgänger was going on about waited for him to continue.

The double took a deep breath before saying the next thing that left the boy speechless and confused.

"Your broken." The double said slowly circling the boy.

"What?"

"Well," the double second guessed,"You aren't broken, I mean besides a few bruised ribs a black eye, and some other unsightly injuries your fine."

The double stopped in front of him.

"Your mind," he said putting a claw to Aurum's forehead. "That's what's broken."

" I was a member of the White Fang."

Yang's eyes widened, and Ruby gasped on the tigresses' lap.

"You were! Why did!? Why didn't?! Wha?" Ruby sputtered only to be calmed by TaiYang.

"Ruby, it's ok. This happened a long time ago." Taiyang reassured her, and her sister who remained silent, waiting for her to continue, and probably unsure of what to think of the woman now.

"Yes," the tigress said," this happened before you three were even born. Back when the White Fang was just a civil rights organization. Before everything changed. Before…" She said slightly frowning.

"Before everything went wrong."

"What are you talking about?" Aurum questioned. How could his mind be broken? He felt fine.

"Of course you would feel fine. You wouldn't be able to stand if you didn't." The double said."and yet here I am, if that doesn't indicate that something is wrong, I don't know what will."

Aurum growled in frustration and ran his hands through his hair.

"Who the hell are you?"

"I'm me, and your me too!"

Aurum was and the doppelgänger had a stand of, slitted eyes locked with blue pupils. The double while enjoying himself, was trying to make him understand, and the real to confused or stubborn to listen.

The double took a breath, and shook his head and hands, "Alright alright alright alright, you obviously have no idea what I'm talking about. So let's take a step back shall we?"

The double said as he began to walk, looking at each shard of mirror that floated by, pushing some out of the way as he walked.

Aurum was getting frustrated. This guy talked and talked, calling him broken, toying with him, and had yet to answer any questions he asked, with a straight answer.

"Your just going to ignore me? Answer me damnit who are you!" He yelled at the calm Faunus version of himself. He was sick of playing these mind games.

"Sorry I can't answer your questions right away," the double said inspecting a mirror shard as it slowly floated by.

"I've never had this much control until now. Been meaning to talk to myself," the double chuckled, "and now I finally can."

"Where am I?" The now human boy asked.

"Your brain," the double answered simply, not even looking away from what he was doing.

"What?"

"Your mind," the double said. "The chrome dome, your thinker box. Seems a lot emptier than you thought right? Don't worry this is just a playground area."

Aurum could only stare at the Faunus him. Those drugs the nurse gave him must've been stronger than she thought.

"I'm not trying to confuse you," the double said looking at Aurum.

"Well… Maybe a little…" He chuckled again.

"But that's just our personality."

"But we haven't even started with the mind games," the double said, touching a claw to the mirror shard. The shard glowed bright white before dematerializing completely.

"Try this one on for size."

"When I first joined the White Fang, joined because it was an effective civil rights movement for Faunus." Sheera stated.

"Garrett, Qrow, your father and mothers supported me in my desire for equality. I told the Fang I was a freelancer of Vale, which they jumped at the idea that even a huntress, a freelancer no less, would join the fight for equality. However I never gave them my real name, and never showed my face to anyone but those closely trusted."

Sheera reached and pet the puppy, that had taken the place of Ruby on her lap when the girl moved to the floor in front of Qrow, to look at the woman as she told her story.

She smiled thoughtfully.

"It's also where I met Aurum's father."

The four waited for the Tigress to continue, none spoke. THey knew this was hard for her and it was something she had to get off her chest. To figure out why they left had always been a question Ruby wanted to know, and now she could finally have her answers.

"The way the White Fang worked was there would be three or more leaders who suggested new ideas for protest." She told the humans.

"When an idea was working, that leader stayed in power, but when an idea was beginning to fail, it was find a way to improve it, or step down and let the next leader try his hand."

"And you were a leader?" Yang spoke up, more of a statement then a question.

Sheera smiled, and shook her head. "No, but I was the right hand to the third leader,"

"The heir to the name of the organization."

She smiled and put her hands up as if showing a plac.

"The Dragon of the West, the Benevolent Beast, as the humans knew him. But I knew him as Kronos WhitFong."

"And Aurum's father."

It was him as a little kid.

That was the only thing Aurum could register from what he saw.

The triangle the double touched had created a chain reaction: millions upon millions of triangles flew to the one location, each falling in line next to each other as if they belonged, forming objects. The first object to form in the center of his vision was a tiger. Not a real one, but a statue of the ferocious beast.

It was the statue from the courtyard of his house.

The mirror shards worked in a matter of seconds, putting themselves together. The child version of himself was wearing a simple pair of jeans, and a long sleeve shirt with a shark on it, a baseball cap donned his head to cover his ears and he could tell by the way he moved, that his mother had put his tail through the Jean loops like a belt. The 5 year old Aurum ran around the stature, and hopped across the pool of koi on the rocks laughing and looking behind himself as he did another lap around the statue.

"I… Remember this." Aurum said as he began to move slightly closer to the event taking place.

The mirror shards went to work once more, forming another figure. He remembered what the younger was running from. He was being chased. The shards formed a figure, chasing him round and round the statue. Another figure was made slightly smaller that the two of them, squatting on one of the pond rocks, watching the koi with its finger in the water.

Aurum smiled, he remembered this, the complete Immersion of happiness he felt watching himself have fun, remembering the time he- and… He and…

At this he frowned. He didn't understand this. He was drawing a blank on the two children in the memory. Not only that but the mirror shards had done nothing but for the shape, unlike his younger self putting in details. He couldn't quite process what he was seeing. The figures were faces were… Darkened. Shrouded in black mist that seemed to eminate from them, as if Oum himself, took an airbrush and covered their faces in shadow, so no one could truly look upon them.

"I love this memory" The duplicate told him, watching right along side of him. "What do you see?"

"What's wrong with them?" Aurum asked as he watched the trio play.

"So you can't see them?" the double asked looking at Aurum.

"...No,"

"Well, at least we know how far along we are ."

"And it doesn't look good so far…"

"The first leader, Kronos' father, was responsible for gaining the firsts rights we have today, but his methods were unheard of yet powerful and effective, and unfortunately he was assassinated by the humans. The second leader was responsible for gaining many rights for my people before he finally stepped down. It was Kronos who picked up where his father left off."

Sheera smiled remembering her days in the organization.

"We had accomplished so much, and we were about to accomplish even more. Everyone had loved the methods of Kronos' father because they showed the humans that we weren't afraid of them. And it showed the humans we were willing to fight for our equality."

"I read about Kronos WhitFong," Yang inquired from her seat. "How could you accomplish so much after so much bloodshed?"

Sheera simply smiled. "Because this time we spilled no blood ourselves, it was all the humans doing. Sit-ins, going to human restrooms, boycotts, it was peaceful protesting. When they asked for instructions, Kronos would always tell them 'Stronger men-"

"Know when to not fight back." Yang finished the leaders quote from the article she read.

Sheera nodded. "Humans began to see themselves as the animals and not us from the media, the news, all showing the brutal methods used and the savage beatings against the Faunician people who were not showing any signs of aggression."

"So what happened?" Ruby asked. "What went wrong?"

"The body count." Sheera answered stoically, her face hardened like stone as she studied the little golden dragon in the ball on top of the cane she held. "The humans were making martyrs of us, and that was the problem. Men. Women. Children. We were literally dying for what we believed in. The other leaders began speak out against Kronos' method of nonviolence. Many of them wanted to take revenge against the humans who killed their friends and family. They wanted blood. But Kronos denied them this. Many were angry enough to attack Kronos himself, but I would put them in their places, as he calmed them down. He had this way with people," she sighed thoughtfully.

It began to go our way finally, we were breaking barriers all over Remnant, rights were being given to us and set in stone, while we were still a ways off from equality, Kronos and I were growing closer as well. But Kronos' luck as it seemed, ran out," she said collecting herself.

Every leader had a set and given date for when they are to step down, but what they are doing is working, their time as leader is extended. When the time came to decide the new leader, Kronos was chosen to renew his term, and the next leader was passed over in favor of him. She closed her eyes to ward away the tears, obviously a few people were not happy about the decision.

"It's okay Sheera," Yang said. The girl already knew what happened next. The documentaries and news articles every year on the date of The Benevolent Beast's death, was clue enough as to what happened next. The detectives, the few who cared anyway, were still trying to piece together who killed the dragon.

Something told her that Sheera may know more but wasn't planning on telling the police.

The tigress closed her eyes once more.

"I never got to tell him about our cub…" She whispered softly.

"So what does this have to do with Aurum?"

The Tigresse's ears twitched at the sound of her cubs name and she wiped her eyes and smiled.

"I'm getting to that little rose."

"After Kronos was killed, the new Leader came to power, and he wanted blood."

Taiyang remembered the backlash Kronos' death had on the Faunician people. The news of the Dragon's assassination spread like wildfire acrossed the Faunus world wide. Riots, murders, theft all broke out in full. Thankfully the huntsmen of Remnant had stopped the approaching waves of Grimm, and somehow managed to calm the rioting on both sides before any monumental damage happened. But something told him that new leader had something to do with starting the riots, using the Dragons passing as a spark for the backlash.

"The leader kept on about an eye for an eye, and how they were tired of begging, showing their bellies Everything Kronos had preached, but with a twist : Why have equality when they could rule?"

"I never wanted any of it, and I wanted no part of the White Fang after what he did." Sheera said.

"I had influence. Probably as much as a leader. So I asked anyone who felt the same way, come with me. Surprisingly I didn't expect most of organization to follow me, they didn't even know my true name, or what I looked like behind the mask." Sheera chuckled.

"Over two thirds of the organization left that day, and we went back to peaceful protests, all throughout Remnant. Of course, this wouldn't go over well with the new leader. Furious he enforced the new rule: No One Leaves The White Fang. Yet when people still left he decided to become active. Show his followers that his new rule was law" Sheera told the humans.

"It wasn't until you were born that he began making examples of those who defied his rule."

"What about this?" The double asked for the upteetnth time.

Aurum rubbed his face and ran his hands through his hair. This was the fifth memory the duplicate had subjected him too, and frankly he was tired of the same old thing. Young version of him, and people who he couldn't recognize.

This one however left him puzzled.

The memory was in a frozen state, nothing moved. Birds themselves were frozen mid flight around the memory.

He remembered this. This was when they left for Vacuo. He saw himself, Sheera, and Garrett getting into a truck and himself waving goodbye through a snotty nose and big tears.

The people on the curb infront of his house he once again didn't recognize.

Once again no detail had been added to them, two men, and two women holding the hands of the women were two children. One clinging on to another as they waved goodbye in their frozen states.

The double was walking round the truck, his claws running through his hair in frustration.

"Cmon you have to remember something!" The double continued ranting and raving about how he needed to remember.

Dick.

If I'm going to do something I had better know what it is.

He studied the darkened figures. The smallest on in particular to exact. The form of a little girl, probably 6 or 7.

He saw a something peculiar however.

While the girl was featureless like the rest of the family on yet there appeared to be something on her face.

It was a black ooze. A slimely looking mass that seemed to drape over her face and shoulders.

The double walked round the frozen truck still ranting about how their had to be something that Aurum remembered about these people.

The double didn't notice Aurum approaching the ooze covered girl until it was too late.

"There has to be something anything! It couldn't have just completely locked you out like this."

Aurum brought his hand closer to the black ooze, his curiousity getting the better of him, especially since he managed to make out glints of sliver underneath the ooze.

The ooze seemed to react to his hands proximity to the girls face as it began to flop on to his fingers, like an octopus over dry terrain.

The black ooze seemed to react rapidly to him as it began to crawl the length of his arm to his elbow.

"What the-"

"DON'T TOUCH THAT!" The duplicate screamed.

Too Late.

Aurum tried to turn from the frozen family, to face his double only that he couldn't turn completely around. The ooze seemed to be pulling him towards the girl.

The Double appeared behind him and grabbed him trying to pull him away from the family.

Aurum only truly panicked when the little girl he thought to be frozen in time looked at him. Her face slowly almost rigidly turned to face him, the sound of cracks and pops heard over the sound of the two trying to break free from the ooze.

The ooze seemed to shudder, to hiss in displeasure at its victim trying to get away, its reach almost up to his elbow with a more rapid pace.

Aurum could feel his heart in the reality, his real face beginning to sweat, his vision saw flashes of red like a shudder that went on and off. The girl face seemed to peer through the black ooze, the makings of a while, pale smooth, nose peering through the mask.

Aurum couldn't look away. He had stopped struggling, unlike his double who continued the desperate struggle for escape for both of them. But he couldn't look away.

His heart hammered in his aching ribcage as the smooth white nose, protruded further through the black ooze. Not to mention the ooze was starting to reach his elbow. The nose protruded until a half circle mouth, two crude half circles for eyes, with a shined forehead. His heart was like a gattling gun as his worst nightmare peered through the ooze.

The Porcelain Mask. And its smile was as malicious as that day.

His breath came fast and he began to panic as he can see brief blurs of red, and cracks in his vision made fragments of what looked like a ceiling.

The celing of his house.

He was waking up.

While he would like to leave this devil, this blurry memory, and this dream behind, and snap back to reality, apparently his faunus counterpart had other plans.

The porcelain mask, unlike in his previous nightmares, was cracked, like before in the extrance exam when he stood up to it. However that malicious smile still remained through its cracked exterior, and it was back for more. The mask began to gurgle and hiss as the girl he presumed to be frozen grabbed his arm like a vice. Trying to pull away was futile, the mask was finally going to get its due, as payback from the entrance exam.

It wasnt until he heard the distinct hiss of a sword being unsheathed that his hearing returned, picking up the distinct sounds of the doubles voice, instead of the general noise.

"Sorry about this!" The double said, over the noise of an object rapidly cutting through the air.

Aurum was to mesmerized with the horror of the mask, to break his gaze with it. Before he could ask what the double meant, he heard the sound of a swords swing and shattering glass. Aurum felt the full force of gravity pull him down onto the pavement of the houses courtyard. He could only make out shaky images, his first was the family and the mask the girl was wearing. To his horror they had all turned around, wearing the same each porecelain mask as the youngest of the group, free from frozen time, and moving stiffly, like zombies towards him. The next was the bright brown forearm the girl gripped tightly as she shuffled towards him. And the third was the doppelganger, with a dao sword with a ribben on the hilt, with a splatter of dripping black ooze on the curve of the blade.

Aurum would have looked down at his arm, if the double hadnt basically dragged him off the floor by it. Or what was left of it anyway.

"C'mon!" He screamed, his claws digging into his bicep as he forced the boy up.

"Run!"

Aurum finally realizing the danger he was in, scrambled to his feet just as the double passed him, so he could keep up with the dragging of his arm. The pair sprinted past the statue and its pond, Aurum's ears pounding, but not over the hungry creaks, cricks, slurps, snarls, and hisses of the mask donned family, making it clear they were still there. And they were still coming.

As they ran for the front doors of his house, he looked back to see the family, shuffling, one or two leaping over the statue to catch their targets and running in there own sick demented way, gaining on them. Aurum could feel himself run harder, his heart pounding with the ticlking feeling of adrenaline in his gut.

His Double all but ripped the left door open and slung the boy inside the house. Aurum fell on his back, and began to backpedal, watching the double take the ooze stained sword and shove it through one of the porcelain masks, ooze spurting from the cracked mask as the psycopathic smiling monster of his nightmares shrieked in pain. The double moved to close the door, pushing with all his might, before the tallest member of the masked family, managed to shove its arm in through the door, clicking and screeching, as it clawed at the door, leaving crude marks against the wood.

"Gaaaaaaaah!" The faunus version of himself snarled, straining against the door as the entire family began to bang against the barrier. "No! NO! Don't Mind Me!" The double bit as he put his back against the door, the claws in his feet digging into the wooden planks.

"Just trying to keep you alive is all!" The sarcasm dripping from his strained tone.

Aurum stumbled to his feet disoriented at how fast all this was happening, and found himself against the door pushing too. Aurum pushed with all his might with his faunus twin.

"No no," the double strained sarcastically," seriously I got this."

The banging on the door came louder and more ferocious, the claw marks on the right door more visible and more numerous.

Then he heard noises other than the monsters like cracking glass. Guttural growls and snarls from at least one member of the possessed family turned into shrieks and wails over the crackling noises.

Finally to the shattering of glass,did the doors give way, and slam shut with a heavy clang.

With a relieved sigh the double slide down the door, exhausted, However Aurum still remained standing, his heart still like a jackhammer.

The door had closed on the possessed family, separating them from the danger. The arm that snapped off when the door shut, black ooze pouring from the break as it writhed on the ground next to the door.

Speaking of arms.

Aurum remembered the doppel's sword and how it was bloody before he stabbed the porcelain mask.

Looking down at his ar- HOLY SHIT!

Aurum shrieked at the jagged stump that used to be his forearm. "YOU FUCK!"

"Aurum I need you to calm dow-"

"Don't you dare tell me to calm down you furry piec-a shit!" Aurum screamed violently pointing at what used to be where his arm was.

"Ok I know your mad but-"

"Mad? MAD?! I'm fucking loosing my shit here you shithead mother fucker!"

The double sighed, sheathed his Dao sword and approached his counterpart as his panicked insults blurred from English to Faunician.

Aurum stopped his screaming as the double took his hands to his jawline just below his human ears and with a small pop! Had cleanly separated his head from his body. He closed his mouth as his Faunus counterpart stuck his head directly in front of his face.

"This is a dream dumbass." The head said calmly and sternly.

While this probably would have put anyone else off, Aurum actually found this comforting. He hadn't truly lost his arm. He just unwillingly dreamt he did.

What a relief.

Putting his head under his arm, the double silently pointed at his stump. Or used to be stump. What he was looking was another arm. Like the one he lost, but like exactly like the one he lost. Flexing the fingers and moving the wrist realizing he was whole again.

And that all the screaming and theatrics he just did were for nothing. Not to mention he insulted his only means of protection in this dream world.

The double was simply watching him, his head still under his arm like a football. Aurum found his hand to be more interesting then the double, especially due to the awkward silence after what just occurred.

"Huh." He said admiring his arm.

"Mmm," the double grunted in response.

"Sorry…"

"...yea"

"...We good?"

He timidly looked at the other version of himself, who with ease, took his severed head, placed it on his neck facing to the right and loudly snapped it back into place facing forward. Like snapping someone's neck in reverse. The double then helped Aurum up with their trademark fanged grin.

"How could I ever stay mad at me?"

They began to walk. Where, Aurum wasn't sure. Just more floating trianglular mirrors. Looking back he noticed that the door to his house disintegrated into triangles as well.

"Hey I have a question?"

"What are you doing here?" The double asked not breaking stride.

It was really freaky how this guy could do that.

"I'll try not to do it as often." The double smiled.

Really freaky.

"Well I guess you could call this a maintenance check." The double thought.

"To map out all our problems and then come back with the tools to fix them."

"So where are we headed?"

"The source of our problem." The double replied jerking a thumb backwards at where they had escaped the possessed mask family.

The pair Walked past a large cage, suspended in the air by heavy looking chains. Upon further notice Aurum could see that a large hulking monster resided in side the cage, half heartedly hitting its paw against the bars.

"What's that?"

"Who him?" The double asked looking at the cage.

The monster, looked like a large feline. It was probably the length of a truck and the size of a horse. The beast stopped its gentle beating against the cage when it noticed him. It rose quickly and with clang, slammed it's paws against the bars to get a better look. It's pupiless eyes were cerulean, like his. But it looked like a Grimm.

The monster stared at him, and he stared back. The black beast then did something creepy. It's fur turned from jet black to Snow White, like his hair normally was.

Then the beast pulled back its lips slowly, and unblinking gave a predatory grin that would put Freddy cruger to shame.

Creepier.

Then the monster reared back and slammed it's paws into the cage, redoubling it's efforts in escape. The cage chains that kept it suspended began to rattle loudly, and rust began to fall off of them, especially when one of them snapped.

"Ok nothing to stay around here for!" The double exclaimed, ushering Aurum in the direction of a new door that had formed.

The monster obviously didn't like that idea as it began to roar and snarl behind them. The clanging against the bars faster and ferocious in effort.

"What is that?" Aurum asked being forced through the door by the doppel.

"No one important." The double said over the clanging and roaring of the Grimm like beast.

"Uggh i hate that guy." He said closing the door quickly behind them.

"Either boring or angry, no silver lining with that guy."

"So they sent people after you." Yang pieced together. She remembered a sleepover they had with the Faunus, the three of them abruptly roused from their sleep, only to be pushed into a closet late at night and told stay quiet by TaiYang. She remembered hearing struggling, breaking furniture and clanging of metal, finally she remembered three gun shots that sounded like Qrow's sword, and the sound of liquid splattering on the floor, and then silence.

"They tried." Sheera responded darkly. Tai Yang and Qrow nodding with the same dark aura about them.

Yang had finally understood what those noises were after all those years. The White Fang wanted to make and Example. Who better than the one who took over half the organization? And the three of them could have been prime those who piece together who she was, never made it back to tell the others.

"I decided it was not safe there. For you or us. So we left for Vacuo. Until I was sure I had thrown them off our tail."

Ruby finally spoke up. "Sp you said that nice people do bad things. What did you mean?"

Sheera's face turned into one of sorrow.

"It's all my fault." She said putting her face in her hands.

The girls sat on either side of the woman. Comforting her just by being in her precense. Her breathing seemed to slow, but didn't loose it's choppyness as she put her arms around her cubs pulling them close.

"What those Purists did to my babosa. My baby…" Sheera said as she let the tears fall freely. It was like nothing she ever thought was capable by anyone.

"That's it!" Aurum yelled.

All this guy had been doing was pushing him through one memory through another asking him if he remembered.

Remembered what?

He could probably help more if this bastard ever explained, what he needed help with! Instead he was kept in the dark.

"Look I know your upset-"

"I'm past upset!" Aurum exclaimed.

"Everything where we go in this," he flailed his hands about to make a point. "This! It's pointless!"

"Dude I can assure you-"

"What?! As long as I blindly follow you through this shit everything will be Peaches and Cream? Mother fucker I don't know where I am, what I'm doing here , what the FUCK that thing was," he exclaimed pointing to where the caged Beowulf like monster had been suspended by the chains.

The double sighed and slowly approached with his hands up to show he came In peace.

"Look-"

"No you look here Furry!" Furry. A derogatory term the humans used for Faunician people. On the bad word scale, it was as good as calling a Faunus and animal. The doubles slitted eyes widened, truly hurt. But then they relaxed, as if glazed over, like whatever the double was thinking, playtime was over and what he was going to do had been set in stone.

The human Aurum had called the Faunus double a Furry. Play time was over.

"I want to know what I'm doing here and more importantly," he snapped jabbing a finger in the doubles chest, "Who the fuck are you?"

The doubles expression didn't change, the stoic face and glazed over eyes were even phased.

He took his hand and pushed back the hair to reveal the x shaped scar Aurum had on his forehead.

Aurum hated that scar. He hated that he had it, and he hated how he got it. His frustration slowly died as he saw the scar , taking steps back in confusion and - fear.

Instead of just a regular jagged scar like normal, the double had a triangular mirror shard embedded in the center of the scar.

Blood began to run from the shard, and spiderweb down the face of the double. Either he didn't notice or didn't care about the blood pouring from the scar. Not even when he, stoic and quietly slowly pulled the shard out of his forehead.

Aurum felt his fear grow in his stomach. The double had been able to show him snips and bits of memories using the mirror shards around them. If that one was embedded there then… Oh no.

He felt his actual heart begin to pound. He wanted to wake up but his outer body would not respond.

The double let the blood soaked shard float above his hand before touching a claw to it, causing to to glow red. Then disappear.

Aurum heart was a Gatling gun hammering against his ribs as he found himself back in that alley.

"No…"

To the left, that alley and exit was blocked by a hoodie donned human, his face enshrouded in the shadow of the hood. The figure was calmly yet determinedly walking- towards him.

"No…no no please." Aurum whispered.

On the right the other exit was blocked as a similar figure slowly approached, his features obscured by a hood.

The triangles weren't done with him as they quickly formed - him. 10 year old Aurum. Just a kid.

"Stop…" He turned to the double as tears streamed down his face. He didn't want to see this. He didn't want to relive this. The doubles face was hardened yet hurt.

"You wanted to know why your here." He said as if the memory disgusted him. Aurum fell to his knees as a third hood came behind him and shoved him. He covered his ears but he could still hear the sick laughter, the cries of his younger self begging for them to stop, ringing through his head. He squeezed his eyes shut as the shoves became punches, and the pushes became kicks.

"STOP IT! STOP IT!" he screamed at the humans. At the double. Anyone who would listen or put an end to this nightmare. He felt the double swiftly come behind him and put him in a full Nelson hold, forcing him to look at his worst nightmare.

Aurum kicked and screamed, his ribs crying out for him to cease his efforts. He begged and cried for the double to let him go as the humans held down the younger Aurum. He remembered the knee pressed hard into the back of his elbow as a shoe stomped on his tail.

He pleaded and begged the double apologizing repeatedly, he just wanted this nightmare to end. But somehow, he knew even though he couldn't see behind him.

The double was crying too.

And he felt him cry harder along with him, when the ringleader clad in a porcelain mask, pulled out a large metal bat.

…..

Ruby cried.

She knew she wasn't one to cry. She liked to show her sister and father and uncle, she was tough, so she didn't like to show them she cried that much. She was going to be a huntress after all.

But the news she was just given. What those Purists did to him. She didn't buried her face in Sheera's lap and cried.

Yang had covered her mouth as the tears threatened to fall from her eyes. And then proceeded to run down her face as she shook her head in disbelief.

TaiYang had put his face in his hand, while Qrow's grip tightened on his flask, his strenth threatening to crush it as easy as it would be to break a toothpick.

Purists. The human equivant of The White Fang. Only they had been around longer. They were human supremacists. Despising anything that had to do with Faunus, Faunician rights, or humans who supported the cause of equality. "Furry Lovers" they called them, received no quarter for being human either. There whole purpose: keep the humans "pure" and "purify the world of disappointments and abomination" - aka Anyone with a tail.

When they first began they struck fear into the heart of every Faunus. Not only due to them being utterly ruthless and remorseless in their endeavors, but how much support they received from the other humans, even the police who would turn a blind eye to hundreds of lynchings and murders. Hell some of the Police would join in.

It wasn't until the human body count the Purists had racked up was discovered that the world decided that this couldn't go on the way it was. Hundreds of humans lives compared to thousands of Faunus. That was when they finally stepped in. The practice of beatings and lynchings was outlawed- in public. Now small pockets of the once "great" organization remained in Remnant after the world finally saw what they were doing to humans and Faunus- but most importantly humans.

Now the Purists were about as good as White Fang to most police

They could hang up the Purist flag in their goddamned yard for all the cops cared, so long as no one was getting hurt. Publicly.

If you asked Qrow, the real animals were the Purists. At least the White Fang started out with the goal of equality, instead of trying to just raise hell.

"He was a mute for three years." Sheera sniffed collecting herself, as she calmed the crying cub in her lap with a hug.

"Purist bastards." Taiyang growled into his hand. His knuckles white from clenching his fist.

"The doctor said he had amnesia, so I thought it would be a good idea to remind him of things...before what happened." She began.

"But he got these awful headaches when I show him pictures; picture with you in them."

This caused Ruby to look up from Sheera's lap."Wh-What do you mean?"

The tigress took a deep breath and continued. "The attack had put him in a traumatic state of mind. He didn't think he could ever trust another human, and he began to resent them. Fear them even."

This caused Ruby to flinch at the comment. Her best friend, was afraid of her? She sniffled, a new wave of tears about to fall.

The tigress saw her distress and took her head in her gentle hands, so the cub could focus on what she had to say.

"Garrett came home from his missions and reminded him of how many humans were in his life, don't worry peqinuo." She said reassuring the cub with a peck on the forehead, bringing a small smile to her face.

But while he had at least forgave humanity as a whole, he still showed little to no mercy to the purists he and his friends came across throughout their exploring of Vacuo.

"Well," Yang said decidedly, "let's head over there. We can snap him out of it right? Just tell him who we are?"

"That brings me to our problem," Sheera began. "I tried to help his memory along, it turns out he has an amnesia form called a foog state."

"I think you mean a 'fugue state' Sher." Tai chuckled, making light of the situation. While her English was almost perfect, she still tended to miss pronounce and forget some words.

"That's how you say that?" She said before shaking her head, not dwelling on it.

"It's a type of amnesia that can cause serious damage to the brain, especially if something like recollection of memory is forced."

"Meaning…?"

"Force him to remember and his brain could reject the idea entirely."

This caused Yang to calm herself in her effort for the door, her brashness could actually make things worse. That would be a first. According to her book anyway.

"But recently he'd been talking in his sleep. Rose petals and yellow flashes and the like," Sheera inquired.

"So if we can't do anything why comeback?" Ruby asked timidly.

"Because I can't but you can." She said rubbing the girls head.

"True you cannot force memories, but you can ease them back in."

"But what can we do?"

Sheera bit her lip, a look of desperation on her face.

"You can bring my cub back."

God fucking damnit this chapter is finally finished.

Apologies in advance, I had been so busy.

Finals are this week and next week. Had my first this week, they end next week.

So better late than never to pump out this chapter.

I know I lied. Where is the lycan stuff, that's obviously what your here for, so I'm actually to the point where I can introduce it.

Had to build up to it ykno?

Anywho I guess I should say this, you guys know I'm always looking for OCs to stuff into the stories I write, so if your willing, shoot me a OC and I'll fit him/her in if I can.

I hope you guys enjoy this as much as I am. It really makes me feel hip. -I'm bringing that word back-

See you in the next chapter.

Take it easy. YautjaofEarth out.