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Hello everyone, I would have had this up a day or two ago but my laptop had to go into the shop to have some repairs done. My apologises for the wait. I hope you all enjoy this chapter and I need to add this, one character will not be like they are in canon. If you can guess which character, cookie for you. But I won't reveal until later chapters.

I own nothing at all, except for a laptop to create stories for my readers to enjoy.

Also once again, I need a beta. I have had a couple of people tell me I need a beta to read through my stories and I fully acknowledge that. i know that I make mistakes, who doesn't, but I am once again asking if anyone would like to become the beta for this story, please P.M me and we can talk.

So without further to-do.

Chapter 7: Memories Shaken Loose.

It had been a couple of days since he borrowed Coco and Velvet's weapons, he was happy to say he had finished both. With Velvet's he added a simple duplication rune so it should solve the drawback Velvet was facing and as for Coco's… he may have gone overboard on it. He had both with him in a backpack as he walked to Team CFVY's dorm. He knocked on the door and waited until someone answered. Coco opened the door and she didn't look happy but she soon lost her anger when she saw Harry.

"Harry, I'm sorry but it's not the best time." She said.

"I have weapons." Harry said simply. Coco grabbed Harry and pulled him in the room, Harry saw Velvet and the two male teammates of Team CFVY. Velvet looked upset and he now knew why it was a bad idea. "I can come back later if you want." Harry said as he saw Velvet.

"No it's fine; Cardin was just bullying Velvet again." Coco said. Harry walked up to Velvet and laid a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"You need any help, just ask. I'm sure your team has already said they would help with anything, know that I would too." Harry said reassuringly. Velvet smiled and nodded. "Right, well I come bearing gifts." Harry added, Coco and Velvet looked as if Christmas had come early.

"Who first?" Coco asked.

"Defiantly Velvet, I may have gone slightly overboard on your gun and I need to explain more than Velvet's." Harry said as he pulled Velvet's box out of his backpack. "Now I placed a duplication rune on the projector that creates the holographic weapons so I will duplicate a photo when one is used so there will always be one. I also added a hardening rune so that it will never break, you could drop a building on it and it'll be fine." Harry said as he showed her the two runes. Velvet hugged Harry with a big smile.

"Thanks Harry, this defiantly made me happier." Velvet said as she let him go.

"No problem, Now Coco…" Harry said but was interrupted.

"What did you mean when you said you went overboard?" Coco asked.

"Well I added more than a triggered shrinking rune." Harry said as he pulled out a folded up black handbag. Coco's eyes went wide upon seeing it. Harry passed her the bag. "Alright I managed to incorporate a trigger rune into the transform switch so when you unfold it, all the little parts while resize so it's bigger." Coco hit the switch and everyone watched in amazement at how the gun grew as it unfolded. Coco had the biggest smile when she looked at it, but that immediately changed to confusion.

"Uhh… this normally weighs a lot. Why is it so light?" Coco asked looking at him.

"Alright here's all the runes I added. I added a weightless rune so it's no longer heavy, you may need to practice a lot so you can get used to the significate change. I also added a hardening rune to the outside covers so it's indestructible and can be used to as a melee weapon when it's not a machine gun. On the barrels I have added two runes, I added a high velocity rune to the six barrels so that the bullets fly much faster and a… special rune. I mixed a transferring rune and an armour piercing rune together, they are just inside each barrel so when a bullet flies out they will become armour piecing. And lastly in regard to the drum that holds the bullets I added a refilling rune so that when it runs out it will simply refill itself so you never need to change the drum again." Harry explained. Team CFVY looked at the gun and Harry in amazement no one saying a word until Coco broke the silence.

"Will you marry me?" She said not thinking straight, Harry had taken her already awesome weapons and essentially turned it into a weapon of mass destruction. Which is exactly what it was. Harry laughed at her response.

"Why you are indeed a beautiful women I am currently dating someone and have absolutely no intention of leaving her." Harry said with a smile, Coco realised what she had said and started blushing very badly.

"You know Harry, I'm sure you could open a store and essentially mod weapons, I'm sure you would make a killing." Fox said. Harry looked thoughtful for a moment.

"Yeah that would be a good idea. Only problem is at the moment I'm the only one capable of doing this." Harry said referring to the magic he imbued in each rune. "Right well I have to run, I've got some stuff to do and I wanted to give you back your weapons. Velvet, Coco I will collect my favours one day." Harry said as he walked out of the room. Velvet and Coco were still inspecting their weapons before Velvet looked at Coco.

"You own Harry the mother of all favours for that." Velvet said. Everyone agreed with her on that statement.

=-= L.O.A.H =-=

Weiss, Ruby, Yang and Blake were sitting on the floor of their dorm playing Remnant. Yang was once again destroying everyone, Ruby and Weiss were crying at their destroyed armies in Ruby's case and her failed attempt at world domination in Weiss's case.

"I'm really starting to hate this game." A crying Weiss said.

"You only hate it because you are losing badly." Yang said. Weiss was about to reply but was interrupted by a knock on their dorm's door. Blake stood to answer it and found General Ironwood with two Atlesian Knights behind him.

"General Ironwood, how can we help you?" Blake asked when she saw him.

"You can lead me to Mr. Potter; I need to talk with him." Ironwood said. Blake stood back to let him in. Ironwood looked around the room not seeing Harry. "Where is he?" He asked.

"In the trunk. Weiss, I propose a truce until Yang is defeated." Ruby said. Weiss agreed to the truce.

"In the what?" Ironwood asked. Blake led Ironwood over to the trunk, opened it and climbed down the ladder, Ironwood looked shocked but followed her and found himself in a… Library? He was speechless at the sight. The two started to walk down the rows of shelves and eventually found Harry up a ladder looking at books on the shelves. Dobby was at the bottom of the ladder catching books Harry passes down to him and placing the books in a bag.

"Potter!" Ironwood called out. Harry looked at them and smiled.

"General, welcome to my… why is that sentient garbage in my library?" Harry asked losing his smile. Ironwood looked behind him to find the Atlesian Knights.

"They are programed to follow me." Ironwood said. Harry rolled his eyes.

"God I hate robots." He said as he placed a foot on the edge of the shelf and pushed himself along to the other side. "What can I help you with General?" Harry said looking at more book titles. Ironwood looked at Blake.

"Would you excuse us?" He asked. Blake walked off and back out of the trunk. "Could you possibly get your… friend to leave us?" Ironwood asked.

"Dobby would never tell anyone what we talk about." Harry said as he passed another book down to Dobby.

"Dobby would take Harry Potter sir's secrets to his grave. If I did reveal secrets Dobby would iron his hands." Dobby said looking at the General. Ironwood just looked at Harry who sighed in response.

"Dobby I think I have enough books for now." Harry said, Dobby bowed before disappearing. Harry slid down the ladder and landed on his feet. "What is it you wanted to talk about?" Harry asked

"I'm not here to talk, Ozpin asked if I could bring you too him." Ironwood said, Harry grabbed his bag and followed Ironwood as he walked back to the ladder and out of the trunk. Harry took in the sight of the dorm room, Yang was dancing, Weiss and Ruby were holding each other crying and Blake was reading a book on her bed, well that is normal. Harry shook his head and followed Ironwood out of the room. They walked into the base of the clock tower and Ironwood dismissed the Knight's. They walked into the elevator that takes them to Ozpin office but Ironwood doesn't click the button. He pulls out his scroll and inserts it into a port in the wall. As he retrieved it the elevator started to descend. They both stood in silence until the doors opened. Harry found himself in a long hallway lit only been green fire. Ozpin and Glynda were waiting at the elevator door and looked up when they heard it open.

"Harry…" Ozpin said. Harry looked at him.

"Someone really did steal a maiden's power. I assumed those questions you asked me were hypothetical because from what I figured out, most people on Remnant knew nothing about magic let alone a way of stealing it." Harry said interrupting Ozpin. Ironwood looked at Harry.

"You are correct that we know next to nothing about your power, but you are wrong about one thing. Not all of the Maiden's power was stolen, only half was." Ironwood told him as he stood next to Ozpin so the three were looking at him.

"That's not possible, in cases like this, the saying 'All or Nothing' plays heavily. Either you steal their magic or you don't." Harry said.

"We'll let you see the maiden before we say anything." Ozpin said as he turned and started to lead the group down the hall. Harry soon found his gaze on a machine that had two pods; one was currently active and held a young woman that looked to be about Harry's age. Harry walked up and stood in front of the pod, he saw she had a massive scar on the right side of her face. Harry felt tingling within his body and realised his magic was communicating with the fall maidens, it felt… familiar. He had no idea how it felt familiar. Harry could confirm she only had half her original level of magic.

"What exactly happened? How exactly did she end up like this?" Harry asked looking at the group.

"We don't know all the details; Another Guardian by the name of Qrow was able to stop the group before they drained all of Amber's power." Ozpin explained.

"I want to speak with Qrow as soon as possible. Anything he can tell me would help me narrow down what ritual was used to steal Amber's magic and if there is a way… reverse it." Harry said as he conjured a table and started pulling books on magic transfer rituals out and placing them on the table.

"At the current moment Qrow has gone dark. We don't know if he is compromised but when we can reach him we'll tell him his presence is needed at Beacon." Ironwood said. Harry nodded.

"Harry can I borrow your scroll, I'm need to add a feature so you can get down here at any time." Glynda said. Harry handed over his scroll to her and she added the access feature to it before handing it back.

"What can you tell us about Amber's current state, every monitoring device we try to use either burns out or shuts down." Ironwood said.

"First thing you need to know is magic and technology rarely works together. I suspect Amber's magic is doing its best from destroying the life support but from what Amber's magic told mine… it's angry, very angry. Her magic is also raw, unrefined; as if she doesn't know how to truly use it which I can understand having no teachers in magic she would need to virtually train herself. Her magic is also trying to find the other half…" Harry said and was interrupted by Ironwood.

"To join it?" He asked. Harry looked at him and saw that Ironwood was paler then before, same with Ozpin and Glynda.

"No, her magic will only join the other half if Amber dies." Harry said. The four stood in silence for a couple of minutes.

"We'll leave you here Harry. Do what you can and if possible save her." Ozpin said. Harry looked at Ozpin.

"I'll do my best." Harry said, the three walked back to the elevator and left the Vault. Harry waited before once again walking up the pod holding Amber, he placed a chair in front of the pod and sat down. He closed his eyes and hit Amber with a legilimency attack. He needed to know what happened and until he did he wouldn't be able to start his search for the ritual used. He entered her mind and searched for the most recent memory. He found the memory of her being attacked by three people he watched threw until Amber was shot in the back with an arrow and one of her attackers used some sort of glove to steal her powers, he looked closely at what shot the tar like substance and found a small insect.

"Is that a magic leaching ritual?" Harry asked himself looking at the symbol on the back of the glove. He watched the rest of the memory but Amber must have lost consciousness as her memory stopped there. The last image he caught was that of a man running in and severing the link. Must have been Qrow, He would still need to speak with Qrow to see if there was anything afterwards. Harry pulled out of Amber's mind and moved over to the table. He grabbed a book on Black Magic that he retrieved from the Black Family Library and started looking through it. He had looked through four books before he found the Magic Leaching Ritual. It was immensely complex and the way of returning the magic looked hard. There was some good news; the attacker would receive a black tattoo on their backs. It would help identify the true magic thief. "Well, it's a start at least." Harry thought as he started reading more on the ritual.

=-= L.O.A.H =-=

Blake was the only one currently in the dorm. The others had moved to the library to play game of Remnant letting Blake read in peace… only she hadn't got much reading done, she kept thinking back to the night down at the docks when she, Sun and Harry fought Torchwick and how The White Fang were aiding Torchwick in his schemes. She also remembered the meeting she had with Ozpin when she made it back to Beacon. She kept thinking about this until she heard the door open and Harry stumbled in. After Ironwood had collected him yesterday morning no one had seen him, Pyrrha came by earlier to spend some time with Harry only to find him not there. Harry looked dead tired and crashed onto Weiss's bed and basically fall asleep. Yang, Ruby and Weiss walked in a couple of minutes later.

"Ugh, we should never have let him play." Yang said walking in. Ruby snickered at Yang.

"You're just made cause the new guy beat you." Ruby said. Weiss stopped at the door upon seeing Harry on her bed.

"Umm… two things. One why is he on my bed and Two why does he look half dead." Weiss said.

"I don't know, he stumbled in about five minutes and collapsed on your bed and was asleep less than thirty seconds later." Blake said from where she sit. Weiss shook Harry gently.

"Harry." Weiss said as she shook him not getting a response. "HARRY!" Weiss said louder causing Harry to wake.

"Uh… what?" Harry said as he looked around. Harry closed his eyes as he flopped his head on Weiss's pillow. "I have got to stop pulling all-nighters." Harry said as he reached for something on his belt. He pulled up a vial and tipped the contents down his throat and everyone saw him go from incredibly sleepy to wide awake. Harry rubbed his eyes under his glasses. "Right, what's going on?" Harry said as he swung his legs around so he was sitting on the edge of Weiss's bed.

"Well Yang was beaten at Remnant by the new guy, Neptune I think his name is." Ruby said. Harry went wide eyed and started to smile.

"Really, you lost at your favourite game. Shocking." Harry said. Blake went to leave the room as everyone was talking but Weiss saw her and pointed at her.

"Stop, lately you have been quiet, anti-social and moody. You're like Harry on a bad day." Weiss said looking at Blake.

"Yea… HEY!" Harry said figuring out a bit too late what Weiss said.

"Which I admit is kind of your 'thing'. But you have been doing it more than usual, which quite frankly is unacceptable. You made a promise to me, to all of us that you would let us know if something was wrong." Weiss said ignoring Harry. "So Blake Belladonna, What! Is! Wrong!" Weiss said with a sort of white background with snowflakes.

"Did anyone else see a white background with snowflakes?" Harry asked. He received a nod from Ruby and Yang. "Ok good I thought I was still dreaming there. Next Question, where did she get a chair from?" Harry said after seeing their confirmation and seeing the chair Weiss was on leaning on one of the chair legs. No one replied to his second question.

"I just… I don't understand how everyone can be so calm." Blake said. Ruby moved closer to Blake.

"You're still thinking about Torchwick." She said.

"Torchwick, The White Fang, all of it! Something big is happening and no one is doing anything about it." Blake said trying to get a point across.

"Ozpin told us not to worry. Between the police and the huntsmen I'm sure they can handle it." Yang said.

"Well I'm not. They don't know the White Fang like I do." Blake said.

"Okay, between blowing up nightclubs, stopping thieves and fighting for freedom, I'm sure the three of you think, you're all ready to go out and apprehend these neer-do-wells…" Weiss said. Harry interrupted Weiss.

"Ok I just have a question I really need to ask, it's important." Harry said.

"What's that?" Weiss asked.

"Who blew up a nightclub?" Harry asked. Blake grabbed a book and hit Harry in the back of the head with it causing a groan of pain from the Wizard.

"This is serious Harry, grow up." Blake said as she put the book down. Harry couldn't help the smirk that grew on his face.

"Anyway, let me once again be the voice of reason… We're students; we're not ready to handle this sort of situation." Weiss said.

"Well yeah but…" Ruby started but was interrupted by Weiss.

"We're not ready!" Weiss said.

"And we may never be ready! Our enemies aren't just going to sit around and wait for graduation day. They're out there, somewhere planning their next move and none of us know what it is but it's coming. Whether we're ready or not." Blake said angrily.

"I have to agree with Blake on this one, our enemies don't care whether we are students or fully grown huntsmen and huntresses. They will make their plans and when they are ready, implement their plans and they will try their hardest to see them succeed, the best way of shutting down an enemies operation is from the start. You disrupt the planning phase, you will disrupt the entire operation." Harry told them thinking back to how Voldemort was given an entire year to plan and recruit and nothing was done and good men and women paid the ultimate price for that inactivity.

"Okay, all in favour of becoming the youngest huntsman and huntresses to single handedly to bring down a corrupt organisation conspiring against the kingdom of Vale… say 'Aye'." Ruby said in one breath.

"Yes, I love it when you're feisty." Yang said punching the air.

"Well, I suppose it could be fun." Weiss said with folded arms.

"None of you said 'Aye'." Ruby said dejectedly.

"What about you Harry, you in?" Yang asked looking at Harry.

"Hmm. High chance of failure, danger around every corner and with a small chance of death. How can I resist." Harry said with a smile.

"Alright then… we're in this together." Blake said.

"let's hatch a plan." Ruby said.

"Yeah." Yang said give Ruby a thumbs up. Ruby got a look of shock.

"Ahh… I left my board game in the library!" She said before sprinting out of the room.

"We're doomed." Weiss said as Ruby tore out of the room. Harry suddenly became alert and stood and looked around.

"What is it?" Yang asked seeing him like this.

"A feeling… and a familiar presence that I can't quite place." Harry said. Harry felt the presence disappear after a few seconds but he stay alert until he was sure it was gone. He didn't know fully but he thought he just felt a magical presence.

=-= L.O.A.H =-=

After sitting and listening to another one of Professor Port… fascinating stories, Team RWBY got dressed for their little mission and gathered their weapons. Harry was sitting in one of the girl's desk chairs drinking a hot chocolate. He would be joining Blake as she tried to find a White Fang meeting, he would be in his Eagle Animagus form and would keep an eye on Blake in the meeting. While in his Animagus form he would be vertically undetectable.

"I thought that class would never end, I will never understand why Harry listens so intently to those stories." Blake said as she placed Gamble Shroud on her back. Blake was dressed in black jeans and a white jacket with an undershirt.

"Because my dear Blake, there is useful information in Port's stories. Not the useless crap but the oh so sublet hints about various Grimm." Harry said as he finished his Hot chocolate and put the cup down. Harry was dressed in a battle robe he bought before he came to Remnant, he would be only taking his wand and one of his pistols for the night and the battle robes were very good in a duel, even against someone who is using other weapons.

"Alright guys, today's the day our investigation begins." Ruby said as she jumped off her bed.

"I'm glad to see we are taking this so seriously." Weiss said.

"Hey, we have a plan. That's… moderately serious." Yang said as she feed shotgun shells into her gauntlets.

"Right, everyone remember their roles?" Ruby asked the group. Weiss stood up from her bed and gestured to Ruby and herself.

"You and I'll head to the CCT and check Schnee records for any other dust robberies or inconsistences. Seeing as I'm in the family, it shouldn't be a problem." Weiss said.

"The White Fang has regular faction meetings to hand out orders and recruit new members. If I can get in, I can hopefully find out what they're planning." Blake said.

"I'm flying overwatch for Blake to keep an eye on the meeting and to make sure she can get out easily. Hope you like apparating." Harry said. Weiss looked at Blake sympathetically remembering her brief journey when Harry apparated the both of them.

"I have an old friend on the shady side of town that typically knows everything going on in Vale. Getting information out of him shouldn't be too difficult." Yang said as she folded her arms looking smug.

"Great, we'll meet up tonight near Yang to go over what we found. Let's do this!" Ruby said enthusiastically.

"Yeah!" they heard someone yell from the window and found Sun hanging upside down in a tree hanging by his tail. Sun found himself looking down the business end of Harry's pistol.

"SUN!" Everyone minus Harry yelled.

"How did you get up there?" Yang asked looking at him. Harry had yet to lower the gun.

"Ah it's easy, I do it all the time." Sun said. Weiss looked at him in shock.

"You do WHAT?!" She said thinking he looked in through their window all the time.

"I climb trees all the time!" Sun said back. Sun let's go of the tree and jumps in through the window. "So are we finally getting back at that Torchwick guy?" Sun asked.

"We are going to investigate the situation… as a team." Blake said to Sun. Sun was about to say something but Ruby cut him off.

"Sorry Sun, but we don't want to get Friends involved if we don't have to." Ruby said. Yang noticed Harry was still pointing his pistol at Sun and pushed the gun down. Harry looked at Yang and glared.

"That's dumb, you should always get friends involved. That's why I brought Neptune." Sun said. All five members of Team RWBY looked out the window and found Neptune standing on the ledge.

"Sup." Neptune said upon seeing Team RWBY.

"How did you even get up here?" Ruby asked.

"I have my ways… Seriously though, can I come in? We are like, really high up right now." Neptune asked as he looked down.

"Rule number one when you are very high up Neptune, never… ever look down." Harry said as the team stood back so Neptune could climb in.

"Alright, I'll go with Weiss. Sun, you go with Blake and Harry. And Neptune, you can go with Yang since she doesn't have a partner. Everyone good?" Ruby said as she pushed Neptune to stand next to Yang. Neptune winked at Weiss as he passed.

"Actually Ruby, why don't you go with Yang? She is after all your sister." Weiss said with a nervous laugh. Harry looked between the two and gave Weiss a knowingly smirk.

"But Weiss, who would go with you then?" Ruby asked as she let go of Neptune.

"Well I guess Neptune could come with me." Weiss said. Ruby started to laugh; she grabbed Weiss and started to pull her from the room soon followed by Yang and Neptune leaving Harry, Sun and Blake.

"Alright where are we going first?" Harry asked when the others had left.

"The White Fang use to meet in the industrial section, there are a bunch of abandoned warehouses that are used, the only problem is that the meetings keep moving and there are a lot of warehouses." Blake told the two.

"That complicates matters. It's the best lead we have so we should have a look around there first. There is no guarantee that the White Fang even meet there anymore but you never know." Harry said thinking it over.

"How are we going in? Blake and I should be fine but what about you?" Sun asked.

"I'm going to stay in my Eagle form and hide somewhere I can see, but the downside is if you are found I can't do much. I can't use magic while I'm an Eagle." Harry told them.

"Alright, are you going to apparate us there?" Blake asked. Harry shook his head.

"No in order for me to apparate somewhere I need to have been there first or I could end up in a wall or a hundred metres in the air." Harry explained remembering the stories of how people have ended up in some weird places because of Apparation.

"How are we getting there then?" Sun asked not wanting to walk for miles. A smile grew on Harry's face that made the two uneasy.

"I hope you don't mind flying." Harry said confusing the two.

=-= L.O.A.H =-=

Traveling to the warehouses Blake had her eyes shut tightly while Sun was screaming. They were currently hanging onto the back of a Dragon Harry many many miles in the air, although Sun and Blake had seen the dragon before and Blake had been on its back for a few minutes to get to the top of the cliff at the end of the initiation, she had not been this high and going this fast. If she didn't trust her teammate she would be fearing for her life greatly, unfortunately Sun didn't know Harry well enough hence the screaming like a girl. Eventually Harry took a nose dive and landed letting the two climb off and hug the ground. Harry transformed back and looked at the two.

"That wasn't that bad." Harry said.

"My whole life flashed before my eyes. It was kinda boring really." Sun said. Harry rolled his eyes at the two before looking around at the warehouses.

"You can stop worshipping the ground, we have work to do." Harry said as Blake and Sun picked themselves up off the ground. "Alright so what are we looking for?" Harry added.

"The White Fang leave their symbol on nearby objects for their members and new recruits to find the area. When the meeting is done, every symbol is removed." Blake explained. Harry nodded in understanding.

"Well we have a few hours until the meeting, but every minute counts." Harry said as they started to look through around the area.

=-= L.O.A.H =-=

Harry was making his way between two of the warehouses when something on a dumpster caught his attention. The three had split up after about an hour of searching, it had been about three hours since Harry last saw Blake and Sun. He looked closer at what caught his attention and found The White Fang's symbol, a Beowolves head with claw marks behind it. Harry stood back and pulled his wand from its holster. He cast two Patronus Charms. Two Stags emerged from the tip of the wand and looked around for danger before looking at Harry.

"Blake, Sun. I found a symbol. Follow the Stag back to me." Harry said while mentally instructing the stags to find the two and lead them back. The two ran off and Harry sat down; leaning against a wall of the warehouse. While he waited he pulled his scroll from his pocket and messaged the others to find out how they're going. Ruby and Weiss had split up, Ruby had gone after Penny while Weiss had the shipping info and was going through it. Yang and Neptune were talking with a friend of Yang's. Harry smiled at that text. Yang had told him that her 'friend' was a nightclub owner named Junior, she had destroyed his nightclub one night while trying to get information out of Junior to find someone. After about ten minutes two patronuses ran around a corner followed closely by Blake and Sun. Harry stood upon seeing them.

"Where did you find the Symbol?" Blake asked upon seeing him. Harry pointed to the dumpster and Blake went to make sure it was recent. "This is recent, we just need to find the meeting." Blake said looking at the two. Harry pulled his wand back out and cast 'Homenum Revelio'.

"What did that do?" Sun asked seeing nothing happen.

"That told me a lot of people are in the warehouse about fifty metres from here." Harry said, putting his wand away.

"You had a way of seeing if people were nearby, why didn't you do that hours ago?" Sun asked.

"Because, it only revels about a hundred metres around you. This place goes on for kilometres." Harry said.

"Ok that makes sense." Sun said as Blake undid the bow on her head to show her cat ears. Harry transformed into an eagle and flew after them as they walked up to the warehouse, the man standing at the door made sure they were Faunus and let them through, Harry flew over the guy's head and flew inside. Blake handed Sun a mask that was shaped after a Grimm. Sun and Blake walked into the meeting hall and Harry flew up to the roof and landed on one of the beams. Blake and Sun joined the mass of new recruits and waited for the meeting to start. Harry noted a large sheet covering something on the stage and dreaded to find out what it was.

"Thank you all for coming, for those of you who are joining us for the first time tonight, allow me to introduce a very special comrade of ours. I can assure you he is the key to obtaining what we have fought for, for so long." A White Fang Lieutenant said from the stage. Harry mentally groaned as he saw Roman Torchwick walk out from the shadows.

"Thank you, Thank you! Please, hold you applause." Roman said as he took the stage.

"What's a human doing here?" A new recruit called out from the masses. Roman smiled at the question.

"I'm glad you asked dearie, now I'll be the first to admit humans are the worst. Case in point." Roman said and gestured to himself. Harry rolled his eyes but caught the sight of something towards the back of the stage, or more like someone. He saw a small woman with pink and brown hair with white streaks in the pink side, but what caught Harry's attention more was the faint outline surrounding her, almost like an illusion. It baffled Harry, why would someone have an illusion up… unless they were hiding something. Harry attention was torn away from the woman as the sheet was removed showing a very large mech.

"Oh Hell, where did her get hardware like that?!" Harry thought.

"As some of you may have heard, this right here is Atlas' newest line of defence against all the scary things in the world, and thanks to my employer, we've managed to snag a few before they, uh, hit the shelves. Now many of your brothers have already moved down to our new operation in the southeast. If you'd rather stay within the city, that's fine. But if you're truly ready to fight for what you believe in, this is the arsenal I can provide. Any question?" Roman asked. The crowd started cheering.

"Ok, how badly can I screw with that mech?" Harry thought as he flew over to the mech and landed on the top. He started to look around for any weak spots he could eventually exploit.

"Would all new recruits, please come forward." Harry heard someone say. Harry looked up and spotted Blake and Sun in the crowd.

"Oh that's bad, very very bad." Harry thought as he tried to put a plan together. Harry saw Blake pull her pistol and fire at a wall panel and the whole room went dark. Harry wasn't a Faunus so couldn't see in the dark as well as Blake or Sun so had no idea what was going on. He suddenly felt the mech start to move and heard it power up, he was launched off as it started to sprint away and Harry reacted by shifting back to human, he hit a wall and fell to the ground. He heard everyone run out of the warehouse and someone got the lights. He saw an empty room so he pushed himself to his feet only to be hit by something and knocked back on his back. He looked up to see the duel haired girl he saw earlier holding an Umbrella. She went to hit him again but Harry rolled out of the way and jumped onto his feet and stood in a stance ready to fight. The girl swung and Harry ducked under it and Harry threw punch after punch only for the girl to dodge everyone with ease. Harry saw the faint outline of an illusion again and used his magic to try to break through it. The girl swung the umbrella again and Harry grabbed it and held it with two hands, the girl wrestled with Harry trying to break the umbrella out of his grasp but Harry was much stronger.

"Why do you have an illusion around you?" Harry asked making the girl stare in shock, she looked slightly scared. Her grip on her illusions slipped and Harry thought he saw scars and bruises littering her arms and face, Harry being distracted didn't react when the girl kicked his feet out from under him. Harry not being prepared landed on his back and watched as the girl teleported away. "That could have gone better." He said to himself as he pushed himself off the ground again and looked around. He quickly shifted to an eagle and flew off after Blake, Sun and the mech. He eventually found Team RWBY fighting the mech and Harry saw Yang smash the mech open and saw Torchwick go flying. Yang fired a shot at Torchwick only for it to be blocked by the girl Harry was fighting. He flew towards the group and shifted behind them. He saw straight through the illusion the girl left and saw them running off.

"GET DOWN!" Harry yelled as he pulled his pistol out and aimed at the two. Team RWBY turned to see him before dropping to the ground as Harry started to fire at the two. They managed to make it to an airship and get away. Harry lowered his smoking gun; thoughts racing through his head.

"Harry what was that?" Weiss asked picking herself up off the ground and brushing dirt off herself. Harry didn't reply, he only looked at the scars that littered his arms… the ones given by his uncle. Team RWBY saw he was thinking very hard and very fast until he looked up and started walking before disappearing from where he stood with a crack.

"What the hell was that?" Yang asked looking at where Harry disappeared.

"I don't know, he was fine before we went into the meeting, nothing happened to him from what we know of." Blake said.

"We should get back, I'm sure he would tell us in time." Ruby said and the group made their way back to Beacon.

=-= L.O.A.H =-=

Harry apparated to the top of Beacon tower, he could found sitting on the roof, listening to the gears in the clock was kinda soothing, must be why Ozpin made the clock tower his office. Harry used to frequent this spot during the days after he came to Remnant from his world. He could get away from everything and just think. It probably wasn't safe on the roof but him having two flying animagi made it safe for him… sorta. His current thoughts were on the girl he fought, her condition and his past. For all he knew she could have got the scars and bruises in fights, but it made him reminisce to his past. The abuse at the hands of his uncle. He had never told anyone exactly what happened at Privet Drive and he didn't think he would tell anyone. He alluded to Dumbledore how bad his home life was but he never did anything about it. So Harry took everything relating to the punishment he endured at the hands of the Dursleys and pushed it down as far as he could, but tonight, the fight he had caused all those memories to come to the surface.

"Lien for your thoughts?" He heard someone say behind him. He saw Ozpin standing in the hatch to the roof. He must have had some way of knowing Harry was up there.

"It's going to cost you much more than a single Lien, Ozpin." Harry said turning back to look over the grounds of Beacon and the city of Vale. Harry heard movement and found Ozpin had sat next to him.

"Well, I'm willing to pay if it means helping you out of the state you're in." He said as he sat next to Harry.

"Tonight, something reminded me of my past. Something I pushed down into my subconscious and hoped to forget." Harry said. Ozpin looked at Harry.

"The man trying to control you before you came?" Ozpin asked. Harry shook his head.

"No, that I have already acknowledge and put to the side. No, further than that into my past. The method the old man used to make me malleable." Harry said trying to be vague enough that Ozpin wouldn't question further. Ozpin may have become a friend to Harry but Harry still had trust issues when it came to this topic.

"When I first saw you, I knew you had a troubled past. The way you held yourself, the look in your eye. You were too mature for your age, you held yourself like a battle ready Hunter; something not seen until after years of training and many missions. You had to grow up fast or you would be destroyed." Ozpin said voicing his thoughts.

"I wasn't treated like a child, teen or a man. I wasn't even treated as a human, I was regarded as a weapon that only one man could control, order or remove from the equation. I never had a true life, I didn't experience the joys of childhood nor the life of a normal teenager." Harry said looking up at the broken moon. Ozpin sighed and decided to just ask.

"You were abused, weren't you?" Ozpin asked looking at his student.

"From the day my parents were murdered. My aunt and uncle had a fear of magic and tried to beat it out of me. I didn't even know my name until I was five; I always thought my name truly was freak." Harry said. He had no idea why he was telling Ozpin but he knew Ozpin would never repeat a word of what he said. "I was a slave to my relatives and when something went wrong or my cousin did something wrong, I was blamed and punished harshly. They didn't break me though." Harry said.

"I can tell, you have grown into a fine young man and I know you will do great things and if you ever pulled back into your old dimension I will be at the front of the group trying to bring you back. You have my word on that." Ozpin said. Harry looked at Ozpin and smiled.

"Thanks Oz." Harry said.

"Spend as much time up here as you need and know if you ever need to talk, you know where I am." Ozpin said as he passed something to Harry. Harry found Ozpin had passed him a thermos and opened it and smelled it was full of Hot Chocolate. Harry laughed at that as he took a drink. Harry let out a sigh as he thought of what Dumbledore would be trying to get Harry back.

"Dumbledore, if I ever see you again. You will die by my hand for what you have done to me." Harry said letting his words be taken by the wind.

In another world, within a dark wet chamber, surrounded by men and woman trying to study intricate runes carved into the floor, an old man felt a shiver go up his spine.

/AN

Oh, I like that ending. Half the time I don't even know what I'm writing until I have written it. I hope you liked it. If anyone has questions you can review or P.M me, I will try my best to answer.

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