A/N: Warning, starred out swear word ahead!
Wolf's back-story ahead!
Cardin- wait. I won't spoil it for you. Read on, my lovelies! Read on. :D
POV of Lorry
Sent text message from Wolf
"Otto and I are on our way right now. We got sidetracked; sorry!"
I grinned. Flyder noticed.
He smirked and took another bite of his salad.
I frowned, looking at the piece of lettuce sticking to his right fang and noting how ironic that was.
"Something on my face?" Flyder asked, wiping his mouth self-consciously.
I chuckled and shook my head, too unstable to tell him why.
Yang, sitting next to him, laughed out loud and said, "Nope, nothings on your face…BUT you could say something's on your fang!"
She grinned; turning towards her table and a conversation going on there.
Flyder just turned as red as that girl Ruby's cloak and released the piece of lettuce from its impalement.
"You know, it's not that funny to see a bat Faunus to eat salad. We have the same taste as other humans…" He frowned slightly, and I immediately felt bad.
"Sorry Flyder, I meant no disrespect or racism. I just thought it funny, and my miscalculation will make me more aware of your feelings in the future."
He nodded slowly. "Okaay…I'll take that as an apology since I heard 'sorry' and that's good enough for me."
I smiled, but wondered where in the heck Wolf and Otto were.
Flyder obviously knew what I was thinking, and he said while pointing towards the door, "See, I told you she was…alright…?"
His grin faded some, and he had a very confused and concerned look on his face.
Wolf had entered the cafeteria.
But what was wrong was her whole clothes covered in burn marks, and her right cheek was obviously just healing from a nasty cut.
Her clothes looked dirty and she herself looked like she had taken a bath in ashes.
I vaguely heard the scary pink girl at my table say something loudly about breaking legs…
I then heard a girl behind me (obviously a Faunus by the ears and the pulling said ears were getting) shouting in pain.
I was still staring at Wolf, and her state. Wolf glared, and she stomped over to Cardin.
Cardin was the bully who had been pulling on the rabbit Faunus's ear, and judging by the look she was giving him…
He would be in serious trouble in…three…two…one.
"Mind telling me what the f*** is going on here?" Wolf asked.
She had walked right up to Cardin, and he stopped pulling on the girls ear; turning to look at Wolf.
I couldn't exactly condone swearing, but Wolf looked like crap and obviously her patience had worn out out already.
"Holy crap…will she break his legs?"
"Nora!"
"Sorry, Ren…"
Cardin tried to stand up, but Wolf clamped a hand on his shoulder, keeping him in place.
"Don't. Get up. I think your 'fun' has ended. It's time for some of my own…"
Cardin jerked at that, but Wolf just punched him in the face.
Cardin's Aura had protected him from most of the force, but he still would have a minor black eye judging on the power of the blow.
Cardin's team scrambled up to help him, and Cardin finally shook free of Wolf's grasp.
"No; now you get to see what we call FUN!" He slammed a fist into her stomach, but she just smiled.
"You call that 'fun'? That was a poke!"
Cardin roared and kicked her across the room.
Wolf landed and immediately picked herself up. "I think you need some more training! Was your leg wrapped up in a pillow?"
She got into a ready stance, but it wasn't needed:
Professor Goodwitch had entered the dining hall and looked VERY cross.
"Miss Wolf, would you mind telling me why you have assaulted this young man?"
Wolf looked ready to blow. "Oh, for no good reason I would attack someone?! What is your brain for? He was making fun and hurting someone! What am I for if I can't stop that?"
Goodwitch just glared and motioned towards the hallway. "Wolf, report to Professor Ozpin's office immediately!"
Cardin jeered at her retreating figure, but Professor Goodwitch turned towards him and if she was glaring at Wolf she was positively killing him with her eyes.
"And you! Don't think you get away from repeatedly harassing a student and bullying! Cardin Smith Winchester, you will be coming with me to my office where your 'reprimand papers' are."
Cardin lost some of his ego then, and if you looked closely you could see him gulp.
He quickly shoved that off with a smirk, and he walked down the hall
Goodwitch looked out over the crowd and stated: "If ANY of you are caught bullying or anything unethical…you WILL get either sent home or get so much Reprimand Papers that you will be cleaning the whole school until your children come here!"
That sent everybody into a scared silence, and Professor Goodwitch stalked after Cardin.
Wolf was long gone; probably getting a long, boring speech about word tactics and swearing in school from Ozpin…
POV of Wolf
"Miss Wolf…why are you so beat up?" Ozpin asked. He was sitting at his desk, and he was looking pointedly at me.
"Uh…cause Cardin started attacking me?"
Ozpin chuckled. "You know as well as I that is not the case. I am asking why you have decided to rob a dust shop."
I looked up in shock. "What?! I would never do anything like that! I wasn't there to rob the shop!"
Ozpin nodded. "I know that already. Now that you have confirmed why you weren't there, how about telling me why you were?"
I cringed. "How much do you know?"
Ozpin got a weird look to his eyes, and he simply sat back and asked "Know what?"
Okay. So he was watching me as I left. I had disabled the security cameras in the building so he wouldn't know about Cinder or what I was really there for.
"I was there because someone told me about a White Fang attack that was going to be there. Now before you ask why I didn't call the police; I thought if the police were around it then the White Fang wouldn't hit there and I wouldn't be able to stop them."
Ozpin frowned in thought. "You said 'stop them', but only one was stopped. He was killed. Rather brutally too, so unless there is something else…"
"There is! I wasn't expecting one of their higher-ups to come along too. She killed him because I was asking him questions: which he answered."
Ozpin pressed a button on his desk and the air above the top of it showed many screens.
He turned one towards me. It showed a picture of Cinder entering the building. "I assume this is the woman you are talking about?"
"Yes! Her name is Cinder Fall and she is BAD news. I'm afraid I wasn't good enough to beat her…"
Ozpin pressed another button, and all the screens disappeared.
He folded his hands and rested them on the desk.
He looked at me, and for once I felt like I was actually seen.
"I don't suppose you know our methods of operation before admitting anyone into Beacon, do you?"
I shook my head, not sure where he was going in the sudden change in conversation.
"Before a student is allowed to even get on the Bullheads their background is looked at. I can tell you that every single one of our students have some kind of background to look at.
You…you had nothing. Not one single thing popped up on you, Wolf. But then I thought, "What if Wolf is not Wolf…what if she is someone else?""
I visibly started in my chair. Ozpin noticed.
"Ah, you get where I'm going with this. I have my own sources of information 'Wolf'. I know you used to live with your whole family and every other one of your relatives in a forest. I know that the White Fang killed everyone but one. I know that that one they 'saved' they turned into their own weapon. I also know that that one went by the alias, ShadowFang."
By now I felt like he was dragging my past and plopping it onto the desk in front of me…and I didn't like what I saw.
"ShadowFang no longer applies to me. I am myself again…" I said.
Ozpin smiled. "So you are. But your name is not. Don't you think it's time you went by your own name, Jaden?"
I jerked up and slammed a hand down on the desk.
How the hell he got my name is beyond me, but I didn't care anymore. He knew everything.
It's about time he knew something else no 'source' could tell him.
Okay Mr. Hot-shot. You win. You know most of it all…but you're forgetting one minor detail…
"Do you know WHY the White Fang would kill their own race? Wipe them all out and save only one? Make sure that one was on their side? And that that one is me?"
It was Ozpin's turn to look intrigued. "Why?"
I laughed darkly. "I'll tell you why. It's because of my last name; Conri."
Ozpin frowned thoughtfully. "Conri…? Does that have some importance in the Faunus world that I am missing?"
I nodded. "Conri…wolf king. All of the wolf Faunus's with that name as their last name are virtually kings, queens, princes and princesses. That was the reason the White Fang came and attacked.
Cinder and Roman knew with the only living heir to the Faunus throne on their side; they could get the White Fang to do whatever they wanted. Get them to join in a war with the humans."
Ozpin shook his head. "But in order to have them under their control, wouldn't they have to already have an heir before attacking your village?"
I nodded. "Good question. See, Roman and Cinder fed the White Fang with false Intel of a supposed 'Faunus concentration camp' of sorts.
Obviously, they came without question to save their brethren. Roman and Cinder had already made it look like a fight broke out between the Faunus and the guards; with no survivors but me.
When the White Fang arrived, they were met with a burning village with a hastily set 'fence' and stuff to make it look like their (Cinders) story was real.
Then the White Fang 'found' me underneath some burning house beams.
My family died in that house. I was seven when they took me.…"
I paused and tried to keep myself from losing it.
Ozpin pulled out a cup of tea from his cupboard and offered the steaming cup to me.
I took it and continued after taking a sip.
"I had some serious burns and was put in their own hospital for a couple weeks. After I was done healing, they started 'teaching' me.
I went to Cinders own little private school, along with some others.
VERY long story short, we were all brainwashed.
The others took to it quite well, but I was not 'learning' correctly.
So Cinder had Roman steal some Manipulation Dust from one of the Schnee trains. He continued stealing until there was no more left.
As you can imagine, that was a lot.
They used it on me, but one day I must have forgot to take it because I was suddenly in the middle of a warehouse and taking orders from the head leader of the White Fang.
I was called 'ShadowFang', and had high status in the group.
I used my semblance and disappeared, learning enough to know where the stash of Manip-Dust was kept.
I set bombs all around the stash and blew the whole dang things up.
I was standing too close, and was injured."
I pulled my sleeves back and showed Ozpin all sorts of cuts from the shrapnel.
"I escaped and ended up living in the streets as a normal wolf Faunus named 'Wolf'. I was thirteen at the time."
I felt completely exhausted after telling him the whole thing.
It was weird…I had never told anyone about my past. Now that I had…it felt like a thousand-pound bag was lifted from my shoulders.
I felt like I could breathe again!
I smiled despite myself, and Ozpin returned my smile.
"Jade- is it all right if I call you Jade?"
I nodded, feeling so childlike. "Call me Jade or Jaden or just 'Conri' if you must. You teachers love calling us students by our last names…"
Ozpin nodded. "Then…Miss Jaden Conri…I hereby declare you dismissed. You are free to go."
I smiled and stood up, stretching my legs.
I set the tea mug down on the desk and sighed with happiness.
"Thanks so much for this Professor Ozpin. I think I needed to get this off my chest."
Ozpin smiled. "It's my pleasure. I am here for whenever you need to talk about something."
I headed towards the door, but I thought of something.
"Uh…could you please call me Wolf in front of everybody else? I don't think I want them to know…"
Ozpin nodded seriously. "I will refrain from using your name when you are with somebody else, but you must be sure to tell your teammates. They deserve to know your name. Flyder and Lorry already know Wolf is a fake name…"
I left his office and tried (and failed) to come up with some circumstances that would be right to tell them who I was…
A/N: WOOHOO! Finally you all know a LOT more about Wolf's past. IMPORTANT! (She will be called Jade from now on!)
Note: When in someone else's pov she will be called Wolf like normal. (They obviously weren't there when Jade was talking about her past, so they don't know…yet.)
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