Welcome back for chapter 7 (Episodes 13-15 of the show) of the only reliably updating fan fiction that I have seen! Seriously! Some people post chapters smaller than mine a month at a time! You guys are being spoiled by me! You're welcome by the way. In only two days I already have a few more favorites and likes, thank you for the encouragement but where did this come from? Was it the new chapter? Did you guys tell your friends about this? Either way, welcome followers new and old, I hope you enjoy! Oh, and I haven't gotten a PM or review since ch2. Could you guys do some of those? Even if it's just to say you like the story, I wouldn't mind. The only sign you guys like this is my best friend personally telling me and the follows/favorites I get, which isn't bad or anything but I'm just giving things to a mute audience here! Am I doing good or bad? I don't know! It's like you all forgot how to words!

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IMPORTANT DETAIL THAT I MISSED UNTIL I WAS ALREADY DONE WITH THE CHAPTER AFTER THIS ONE: The cat ears and tail turn white when he fights. I didn't mention that very much and it's too late for my lazy butt to change so, sorry!

Ch.7 Can't think of good title for so many different scenes!

"Speech"

'Thought' Usually OC thoughts unless it says otherwise.

There was the debris of training bots everywhere in the training room AJ was currently in, blowing some steam and training at the same time. Now that he has calmed down he decided to head back to his room and sleep, seeing as it was late when he started cutting the bots, it's probably almost 2 in the morning now, which wasn't that late for him really.

A couple weeks later and it was pretty obvious AJ wanted little to do with Jaune, and Jaune wouldn't talk to any of them either, and he was always around Cardin of all people! Another day, more classes, talking at lunch, having fun, few more classes, just a bunch a friends getting along outside Jaune's behavior. Unless you were a part of the group, then you would see all that but you would also see AJ's dislike of Jaune, Pyrrha's concern of the blond, and the entire group really wondering what was going on. Yang decided to try and lighten the mood with her teasing, which doesn't exactly lighten it for the ones being teased. She started to recount an event that had happened the week before but AJ stopped her, which only meant that HE had to explain the whole thing now.

Last week

They do this at least once a week, go into town, go shopping getting what they need and maybe a few things that they want. Blake wanted to go to a book store and AJ went with her to see if there was anything interesting there. Yang teased them before following Ruby and Weiss to a Dust shop in another part of town. Team JNPR would initially go together but Ren would have to leave them to keep an eye on Nora. The two Faunus, only one of them showing it, arrived at Tukson's Book Trade and were welcomed by the owner, he would have welcomed them even if they were humans but he knew Blake as a regular customer and her friend was openly showing his Faunus heritage, so Tukson, the owner and secret Faunus welcomed them with open arms to say the least.

"Hey Blake! Good to see you again! This your boyfriend?" Tukson asked. They both blushed but while Blake momentarily glared at him the tall but thin boy came up to him and shook his hand.

"Hi, I go by AJ, and no." AJ finished with a slight glare as well, more of just a frown really.

Blake checked her usual spot for books and AJ looked all around for anything that seemed interesting and he actually stopped and looked at a lot of books. It was funny from Tukson's point of view to see Blake quickly check the more… private books that she likes and continue to look around in case AJ came around when AJ never got anywhere near her, he seemed interested in the area he was in, although it might have just been that he liked books of all kinds and just ended up over there for a long time. At one point AJ felt dizzy and said he was gonna step outside for a moment and he went outside and saw something that REALLY caught his eye, a video game store.

"Hey Blake I'm gonna go check a store down the road ok?" AJ asked from the door.

"Hang on a minute let me finish up and I'll go with you." Blake said while still looking at the shelves.

"I'm a big boy, I'll be fine."

"Just wait a few." She demanded. AJ sighed and walked back in and talked with Tukson for a bit until Blake came up and paid for a pair of books and handed one to AJ.

"Here, you might like this one." She said to him.

"Oh, thanks." AJ thanked with a smile.

"Alright now don't get in trouble you two." Tukson said teasingly, that was a real glare the boy gave him this time.

Oh but they would get in trouble.

They walked out and AJ started walking towards some store fairly quickly and Blake followed. Blake was about to ask what the store was when he walked in and she quickly followed and saw the video games in shelves everywhere. He walked towards the VERY large section of games that were split into more sections. This entire section had games AJ recognized all too well. The rest of the games in the other parts of the store had games with Grimm in them but all these were games from his world. 'Halo… COD…. Battlefield… Destiny… Gears of War and other games that I don't play but still. EVERYTHING IS HERE! YES! THIS WORLD COULDN'T GET ANY BETTER!' Blake couldn't help but notice how incredibly happy he looked and while it made her feel happy and kind of… odd at the same time, she also wondered what he was so happy about.

"What is it?" She asked.

"Nothing that I can really explain, what matters is that these are here. I am SO coming back here later!" He said with excitement evident in his voice.

"Alright gamer boy, well we got what we need so we could just explore until it's time to meet up with the others." She suggested and he hesitantly left the store.

They walked around for quite a while, looking at all the different shops, coffee shops, more Dust shops, Weapon stores, stores where you pay to have a custom weapon or armor piece made. There was a lot to see in Vale, they also were pretty sure they saw Nora go by riding a robotic dinosaur but as they were about to agree that they had to be seeing things they saw Ren run in the same direction so they had to concede they did in fact, just see Nora.

They still had a lot of time actually since apparently Ruby kept getting distracted and delayed Yang and Weiss, at this rate they might walk through the entire shop district, Blake said she was thirsty a while ago but they had no money left to get anything and had forgotten to bring any water and at one point they noticed someone was giving free taste tests, of some sort of drink, they would agree it was reckless afterward but for now she needed something to drink so she jumped at the opportunity. She also may have had five of the small containers of clear liquid but she apologized saying she hadn't had anything to drink in a while and the man forgave them and they continued on their way.

"You know that was kind of a bad idea. He never actually said what you were drinking." AJ said to her as they walked side by side.

"I know but I was just so thirsty." Blake said with an expression that said she was sorry.

It would be awhile before AJ saw a message from Yang saying that they were done and that we all could head back to the docking station for the ships to take us to Beacon. But just as they started to head back he heard Blake giggle, a cute giggle but still why? He looked to his right and saw her look at him with a smile, he raised an eyebrow effectively saying "What's so funny?" and she just covered her mouth, blushed, and giggled again. AJ rolled his eyes and simply tried to ignore her odd behavior and immediately thought she shouldn't have had those free drinks. Then he felt her hug his arm and he blushed and looked down at her and saw she was leaning on him and hugging his arm.

"Blake… what are you doing?" He asked.

"What do you mean?" Blake said as she looked up at him and giggled again.

"Are you drunk?" he decided to get straight to the point, even though she might not be thinking straight anymore.

"What? Noooo!" She waved him off. AJ couldn't say he hated this but he worried about what Yang would say. He tried to walk faster but Blake wouldn't walk any faster.

"AJ, what's wrong? There's no need to run, we can just take our time." Blake suggested happily.

AJ thought about this and realized she wouldn't listen to reason right now, he needed a way to get her to hurry up, or maybe he could carry her… "Hey Blake?"

"Hmm?" She smiled cutely at him and he lost his focus for a moment.

"Um…"

She saw this and tried to keep the smile going so they could just walk quietly. He blushed and shook his head to get his focus back.

"Do you… want a piggy back ride?" He asked, hesitantly and not really sure why he thought she would believe this but found her acting just a bit like a child so maybe?

"OH! Can I!?" She yelled and he nodded, surprised this was working. Whatever she drank had her acting drunk in some ways and a child in other ways, and in love in a way… 'ya right, like that would happen'

Now Blake was squealing in delight and giggling as she had her arms around his neck and he held onto her legs at his sides, as he jumped across rooftops to beat the others and get on an early flight. They would, of course, get seen by police and chased. At one point AJ looked down at the police that were chasing him and missed a jump and fell into an alley. He turned one way and saw a dead end, the other way had two officers waiting for them.

"Just stop running and put the girl down!"

AJ walked up towards them. "Look officers I would like to say there is a perfectly good explanation for this but frankly I have no idea what's up with her." He said and then jumped at one of them and used his face as a stepping stone and jumped off the wall to get back on the roof.

"WHOOHOOO!" Blake cheered. "Do it again! Do it again!"

"Hell no!" He yelled.

They eventually got away and made it onto a different ship then they agreed to meet at and sat down. AJ now had to control her, keep her from being too loud or getting up to look at something. He imagined this was the very tame version of Ren and Nora. She was distracted with looking out the window while they were in the air but got bored of that half way through and was leaning on him asleep now. He ended up having to carry her while she slept all the way to their dorm, people looked at him as he walked wondering what happened but he had no time to answer questions. He set her down on her bed and Ozpin walked in.

"Why is Miss Belladonna asleep and why did I see police reports fitting the description of you two?" His voice was full of curiosity and he wasn't angry in the slightest. Instead he wondered what interesting things could have caused this. Once AJ explained everything they had some medical tests done and it seems she would be fine but they couldn't identify the substance. Of course when people were sent to arrest the man that was giving this out he was nowhere to be found. Blake eventually woke up and spent the rest of the day clinging to AJ and he blushed in embarrassment when people saw, especially when he had to explain it to the rest of RWBY.

"So you tried to get her drunk and take advantage of her?" Yang asked teasingly as he had never said anything like that during his explanation.

"No, Yang, of course not!" His glare was made a bit more threatening by his height but was lowered by his thinness and the fact that Blake was clinging to his arm and meowing and occasionally purring. Oh and giggling like she was drunk, she was also doing that. Blake would wake up the next day with no memory of what had happened since awhile after the drinks.

End flashback

"Well that explains a lot." Pyrrha said when the story was finished, "Yep, and it was pretty clear AJ enjoyed every second of Blake clinging to him!" Yang teased, and the two Faunus sank in their seats and blushed as they were teased almost endlessly, especially Blake with all her odd behavior while she was, for lack of a better description, 'drunk'. The rest of lunch went that way until the last classes started.

A field trip was coming in two days and everyone went to bed excited for the change of pace coming soon. AJ had somehow managed to get away with his room being next to his friends' dorms, they were gonna be in for a shock when they realize it after all this time, AJ smiled at the thought, before Neko cuddled up to him and he finally fell asleep.

He woke up in infinite white, he couldn't think straight for some reason, but he could tell that there was nothing here. His face suddenly filled with dread and recognition, he started crying, not just tears but sobbing as well, he couldn't stop crying and he just kept repeating in between sobs.

"Shut up… Shut up… shut up… shut up!.. Shut up! Not this again… SHUT UP!" He opened his eyes and saw he was on his bed and Neko was looking at him with concern, it was hard to see as tears blocked his vision and he was still sobbing.

"It's alright AJ, it was just a nightmare. You're ok." Neko meowed calmingly and AJ wiped away his tears.

"That hasn't happened to me in years, I thought I wouldn't have to deal with that ever again." AJ said.

"What? Deal with what?" Neko asked.

"Nothing important it's something really stupid that I can't explain but I'm ok now." He said to the cat. Neko wanted answers to what it was that had him in tears but if he didn't want to answer he wouldn't, so Neko stretched and was about to disappear back into AJ's mind when they heard a voice from the door along with knocking.

"AJ? Is that you?" A familiar voice asked.

"Is this seriously your private room!? Right next to us!?" A voice that was clearly Yang's yelled/asked. Great, now he had to talk to them when he had only just woke up, apparently he woke up late and RWBY walked by and heard his voice. AJ got up and opened the door.

"Hey guys." He said with a sheepish laugh and smile. "Plot twist, riiight?"

"You were right freaking next to us the whole time!?" Yang yelled again. AJ nodded hesitantly. Weiss face palmed.

"AJ, are you ok?" Blake asked with concern. Everyone looked at him closer and realized the signs that he had just been crying a lot.

"Yes guys, I'm fine. Now I still need to get ready so if you could just go cause I gotta change clothes and-" He was interrupted by Blake stepping into the room towards him.

"AJ, it's clear you are not ok, tell me what's wrong." Blake asked. Yang wanted to bring up the fact that she said 'me' not 'us' but decided against it.

"It's nothing, it was just a nightmare ok?" He pleaded, hoping she would leave it be.

She wouldn't. "AJ please, I know how bad a nightmare can be, you can talk to us about it, please." Blake pleaded. AJ found it hard to say no to her. The rest of RWBY was in the room now and AJ was sitting on his bed petting Neko.

"It's the only thing I will never be able to understand." He started. "Just me and infinite emptiness and there is this silence, but it's like I can feel the silence and the silence is deafening as well. For some reason this absolute lack of sound brings some feeling out and I just start crying and sobbing and I can't stop till I wake up and the feeling goes away. I have had this nightmare a few times before but that was years ago, I haven't had that nightmare in years but the feeling did actually come out once when I was awake, suddenly everything was quiet and I could feel that… feeling coming out and I started talking to my self loudly to make It go away. I don't know why this silence is something I can hear and I yell at it telling it to shut up but it feels like I can hear the silence and it is deafening. I just don't know why this nightmare ever happened in the first place." Blake had a hand on his back comforting him and they all looked very sorry that their friend had gone through this, Ruby of course hugged him again and Blake actually followed her leader and hugged him as well, AJ was now blushing slightly but continued. "Then there is another version of the dream. Where I'm walking through town and there are people everywhere and their all smiling and happy and yet despite the city being active I can't hear anything, the feeling comes back and I start crying again. People see me crying and they continue smiling and say cheer up and walk away and it pisses me off that they think it's a simple problem I can just think away. I only had that version of the dream once, its otherwise emptiness and silence, like now." Both girls tightened their hugs and he leaned on Blake's shoulders.

"Well we're here now and we can help you if it ever happens again. We'll wait outside for you to get ready and then we'll stay with you for the rest of the day, how's that?" Yang said honestly and AJ smiled greatly at the fact that these people weren't just 'friends' they really cared for him. "Or would you like to just have Blake around?" Yang said teasingly and the two Faunus blushed and glared at her giving Yang her reason to laugh again. Weiss dragged Yang out and Ruby let go.

"I had nightmares too when I was little. Yang would always be there for me and she would hold me till I felt better." Ruby said before leaving.

"Yang's right, we take care of our friends, that's what friends are for right? A shoulder to lean on." Blake said before letting go of him and walking towards the door.

"No." AJ said and she stopped at the door to look at him. "Friends are the people you get along with and hand out with. Best friends are the ones that really understand you and are there for you when you need them." He said with a smile as he looked at her and she smiled as well, nodded in agreement and left. AJ showered quickly, got ready, and went out his room to find they had actually waited. He smiled at them and they smiled back, even Weiss had the slight signs of a smile but masked it by rolling her eyes at all of them.

It was a nice day for him and his friends, another normal day but this time his friends stayed with him and were even nicer than usual. He was pretty much smiling and talking the entire day, as opposed to his normal staying in his own thoughts unless he had something to say. He would never take for granted this group of friends. Of course Yang wouldn't let him get through the day without being teased so she teased him about the story that was told yesterday and so he ended up falling asleep with that still in mind.

He was walking down a street that seemed familiar and he looked around in confusion as he walked, everything was hazy in his mind, and he couldn't remember why he was here or what he was doing. He heard giggling and saw Blake next to him. He raised a brow at her and she blushed, giggled again, and looked away from him. He decided to ignore her and figure things out while they walked but soon was pulled out of his thoughts by warmth on his right side.

"Ah!" He shouted and looked and saw her hugging his right arm with both of hers and was also holding his hand, for some reason he wasn't wearing his fingerless gloves and could feel her hand completely. "Blake?" He asked in disbelief.

"Hmm?" She asked and smiled cutely at him, he lost the ability to focus and just looked at her for a few seconds, "Um…" before she giggled in accomplishment and kissed him on the cheek. He went wide eyed and blushed heavily as he stared forward and continued to walk with her still hugging his arm and holding his hand, he couldn't get his ability to think back anymore so he simply enjoyed the moment.

He woke up and realized that was 1: A dream. 2: It was the same thing that had happened with him and Blake but it…changed. Well no time to think about that they have classes and a field trip to go through.


A red forest. Imagine that, a red forest, beautiful crimson red leaves falling and grass the same color, birds chirping to finish off the scene, it truly was beautiful and AJ wondered how this was possible, it sure didn't exist in his world. He looked forward for a moment and saw every other student was looking around as well. He couldn't help but stare at Blake a bit too long. 'It was just a dream you idiot!'

"Yes students, the forest of Forever Fall is indeed beautiful." Glynda said as she walked at the front of the group. "But, we are not here to sightsee. Professor Peach had asked all of you to collect sap from the trees deep within this forest. And I am to make sure none of you die while doing so." She said as she stopped and turned around, the entire group stopped except for Jaune who wasn't paying attention and bumped into Cardin. "Each of you are (She said 'is' but that doesn't sound right to me) to gather one jars worth of red sap. However, the forest is full of the creatures of Grimm, they are attracted to the sap, so stay by your teammates. We will rendezvous at four o'clock, have fun!" The teams split up with Cardin's team plus Jaune going elsewhere while RWBY plus AJ and NPR of JNPR went together.

Everyone stood or crouched near a few trees and soon had full jars of sap, AJ was taking longer than others to fill his and he decided to use his claws and poked one small hole in the tree which had the sap pouring out, he saw it on his finger and was about to wipe it off when he looked over his shoulder and saw Nora drink a whole jar of the sap and decided there was nothing wrong with licking the sap off. 'I hate new trying new things why am I doing this?' He licked it anyway and found it was actually kinda sugary and understood why Nora drank a whole jar of it. Things were largely uneventful and they all sat around having finished their jar filling a while ago, AJ would either look at Blake too long or avoid her entirely. Eventually AJ's ears turned in one direction and Blake noticed.

"AJ? What is it?" She asked. AJ decided to stop being secret about what he was sensing and actually looked in the direction his ears were turned towards. (Obviously I mean the cat ears)

"I just felt a strong pulse of Aura, don't know who but I think a student might be in danger."

"Can you normally sense Aura's?" Weiss asked.

"No but that was a strong enough pulse for me to feel it, it's nowhere near the Aura I have but it is quite a bit more that I would expect from any of you." There was a roar in the distance and everyone stood up.

"You guys heard that right?" Ruby asked and the three other members of Cardin's team came out and were running away yelling "Ursa! Ursa!" One ran into Yang and she held him by his collar.

"What? Where!?" Yang demanded.

"Back there! Its got Cardin!"

"Alright, let's go save the fool." AJ said with a sigh. Pyrrha's eyes went wide.

"Jaune!" She yelled.

AJ looked at her. "Jaune?" He remembered Jaune was always with Cardin and his eyes went wide. "Oh shit! We gotta hurry!" He yelled.

"Blake, Yang, go find professor Goodwitch!" Ruby's leadership role took over. Pyrrha pointed at Ren and Nora. "Go with them! There could be more." The four nodded and went to find Glynda.

"I'll go with you." AJ said to Ruby. "Me too." Weiss said and followed them towards the sound of an Ursa Major. They got to a clearing and saw a big Ursa fighting Cardin who had no weapon, he had red sap on his armor that was attracting the Grimm. It struck at him with its massive claws and it was blocked by Jaune's shield. He was struggling against the strength of the Grimm and AJ pulled out his bow while Weiss readied her rapier.

"Wait." Pyrrha said to them both and Weiss relaxed while AJ kept his bow aimed and ready if this went south.

Jaune pushed the Grimm off and struck it with his sword it leaned back from the blow and while still on its hind legs, lashed out at the blond who rolled out of the way. It swept its left claw along the ground and Jaune jumped over it but was hit midair by its right and he hit the ground, but got back up and charged again. He was hit midair again and sent past the Ursa Major. He stood up again and the Grimm took position before him, they both charged and Jaune was about to hit the Grimm but his shield was out of the way with his swing, the Grimm was gonna hit him hard if they didn't do something. Pyrrha but her hand out and it glowed with her Aura and so did Jaune's shield, the shield moved back into place and it redirected the blow, Jaune used the opening to swing up with his sword taking the Grimm's head off.

"Um….what?" Ruby asked.

"Whoa." AJ said not in awe, but in surprise clearly seeing the Spartans secret interference.

"How did you-?" Weiss asked.

"Well, Ruby has speed, Weiss had glyphs, and AJ hasn't shown us his yet, but my semblance, is Polarity." Pyrrha stated.

"Whoa… You can control poles." Ruby said astonished. AJ and Weiss face palmed but AJ laughed as he did it.

"No you dunce, it means she has control over magnetism." Weiss explained.

"Magnets are cool too." Ruby said to herself. Pyrrha turned and started to walk away.

"Hey, where are you going?" Weiss asked.

"Ya, we need to tell them what happened!" Ruby said.

"We could… or…" Pyrrha started.

"Let me guess, we could keep it our little secret?" AJ asked with a knowing smile. Pyrrha nodded in agreement.

Jaune sheathed his sword and helped up Cardin. "Holy crap, Jaune?" Cardin asked. Jaune glared at him.

"Don't ever mess with my team, my friends, ever, again… Got it?" Jaune said. He walked away from him and found his team congratulating him, all but AJ, who stood outside the group staring at him. He realized he messed up and left the group to talk to him.

"Hey, AJ, I'm sorry, I get it, I messed up and I'm sorry, I shouldn't have yelled at you I-" Jaune stared.

"No, Jaune, there are times when you need to raise your voice to make a point, it showed you felt strongly about it and I left you alone with that. I really don't care that you yelled, but after seeing how you barely made it through that fight, do you see now that you need your team's help?" AJ had yet to smile so far.

Jaune thought about it for a few seconds. "Yes, I see now that I can't do everything by myself, I'll take up Pyrrha's offer." The moment Jaune finished talking AJ smiled.

"Good! I hoped you would come to your senses eventually!" AJ said as he patted Jaune on the back. Jaune smiled in relief.


Later that day, when everyone was getting ready to go to sleep, AJ walked by the door to the roof he would always hang out at and he heard voices from the door to another roof.

"Your team really misses their leader you know." It was Pyrrha talking to Jaune. "You should come down, Ren made pancakes! No syrup though, you can thank Nora for that."

"Wait!" Jaune called to her. "I know I don't deserve it after all that happened, but…would you, still be willing to help me? To help me become a better fighter?" AJ saw through the crack of the door being open that Pyrrha turned away from him to hide a smile before walking up to him and pushing him down. "Hey!" Jaune whined.

"Your stance is all wrong. You need to be wider and lower to the ground." Pyrrha said and helped him up. "Let's try that again." They trained for about half an hour since it was already dark and Pyrrha lagged behind Jaune as they went back to their dorm but she was grabbed by the arm and she turned and saw AJ.

"If I ever fall in love, I hope I'm not as hopelessly love-struck as you are now." AJ said with a smile and Pyrrha blushed and glared at him.

"Don't you have a thing for Blake?" She tried to get him back.

"You're just saying that cause we're both Faunus huh?" AJ said.

"No, but you're both cat Faunus, and you both glance at each other all the time, and today I noticed you staring at her more than usual and blushing, or avoiding her entirely. You both smile when you talk to each other, and she gives you her undivided attention if you speak to her, even if she was reading, so… if not you, then she definitely has a thing for you." She teased, understanding why Yang always did this to the two Faunus.

"Ya right, like that would happen." AJ tried to shrug the accusations off.

"AJ, you both clearly like each other don't even try to say that you aren't good enough for her or that you will never find love because I'm telling you she likes you, and you like her." AJ simply walked away from her after stuttering a response and giving up.


Two weeks later and it was another day in Goodwitch's class, RWBY hadn't fought in a while assuming it was bad luck with the randomizer, it wasn't a small class so it isn't a guarantee they would fight on any given day but this was a new record of days that they didn't fight. So it was certainly a twist when the two that were called up were both members of team RWBY, AJ and Weiss. They nodded at each other when they got to the stage and readied their swords.

"Begin."

Weiss immediately put a glyph at her feet and shot towards him, he didn't move but instead but a glyph in front of him to block her. She used another glyph to get to his right but he used his sword to block just in time. She repeated this a few times until a sudden attack knocked her away and took a bit of her Aura, he had that damn smile again. She switched to ice Dust with her rapier and stabbed the ground creating a trail of ice that would have trapped him if he hadn't jumped out of the way and suddenly shot toward her without using a glyph, she parried and struck back and got a few hits before he parried her attack and punched her in the chest knocking her down. She jumped up angry at him and switched to fire dust but he dodged the trail of fire as well.

"I need to figure out how to use Dust. I wanna be able to do that." AJ said before pointing a bow at her. She prepared to block or dodge the arrow but instead he disappeared and she was hit in the back, she turned around and was sliced two more times before being kicked away. She stood up and saw she had less than half Aura and he had most of his Aura. AJ prepared to attack her but saw her focus and a clock appeared on the ground and sped up rapidly before disappearing and leaving her glowing green. She surrounded him with glyphs and went from one to the other and hit him again and again as she dashed around. He had little Aura to keep him above red and she knocked his sword away, 'He should be down after that many hits, how much Aura does he really have?' She thought, but before she could make more glyphs and attack again he released his Aura and charged, she still had her speed and damage boost and was confident in her skills so she charged as well. Even without his sword he had guards he could use to block her sword and it was a flurry of blocks and punches from him, and lunges and slashes from her, she had to dodge the punches. He kept up well and eventually managed to hit her again and continued with his claws easily putting her on the defensive and he kept sneaking in a hit until he went to punch her in the face and stopped just before he hit her and she froze. She looked at her Aura and saw she was in the red already.

"It's not fair! You did that to the others you fought as well! You would just unleash your Aura if you were about to lose!" Weiss complained.

"Hey, you did good Weiss. And, I'm sorry that I have a backup plan." He said sarcastically, before helping her over to their friends who congratulated them on their match, and Yang complained that she didn't get to go.

"You are rapidly improving AJ." Pyrrha pointed out, Ren nodded in agreement. AJ as usual brushed it off and shied away from anyone's praise.


It was another week later and team RWBY was walking through the city of Vale, there were balloons and decorations everywhere in green, red, and yellow. A 'Welcome To Vale!' sign was being raised.

"The Vytal Festival! Oh this is absolutely wonderful!"

"I've never seen you smile so much Weiss." Ruby said.

"Ya, it's almost kinda creepy." AJ said.

"How could you not smile though? It's a festival dedicated to the cultures of the world! There will be parades, dances, a tournament! Oh the amount of planning and organization that goes into all this is simply breathtaking!" Weiss said smiling and excited to a level they had never seen before. They began walking down the street.

"Wow, you really know how to take a great thing and make it sound boring." Yang said and was apparently serious, not just teasing.

"No really if you think about it it looks cool on the outside but it took a lot to make it all happen." AJ said in one of his rare moments where he agrees with Weiss. Weiss smiled at him and inwardly thought just a bit better of him.

"I'm pretty sure I wasn't listening, again, so remind me, why are we at the docks?" AJ asked.

Ruby plugged her nose. "It smells like fish." 'It is the docks.'

"I've heard that students from Vacuo will be arriving by ship here today," Weiss said before turning towards them and adopting her noble posture and speaking. "and as a representative of Beacon, I feel as though it is my solemn duty to welcome them to this fine kingdom." They started walking towards the walkway that passengers of the boat would go through to leave the docks.

"She wants to spy on them so she'll have the upper hand in the tournament." Blake said to the rest of them and Weiss turned around towards them.

"You can't prove that." Weiss stated.

"And you won't deny it completely." AJ said to Weiss who glared at him.

"Whoa." Ruby said and they all stopped to look at her and then what she was looking at. A shop with broken windows and yellow police tape around the area. To detectives we at the scene and the team approached them.

"What happened here?" Ruby asked and AJ was looking past the tape and investigating the scene the best he could without going past the tape.

"Robbery, second Dust shop this week, place is turning into a jungle." The detective on the left, with a beard and glasses said.

"That's terrible." Yang said saddened by the news.

"They left all the money again." The other detective said, he had glasses as well but no beard.

"Oh really?" AJ asked curious.

"It just doesn't make a lick of sense. Who needs that much Dust?" The bearded one asked his partner.

"I don't know, an army?"

"You thinking the uh, White Fang?"

"I'm thinking we don't get paid enough." The beardless one said taking off his glasses.

"All I see is a shop striped off all things Dust related. Money left alone means this isn't for normal profit." AJ said and the detectives would normally keep civilians out of this but these were clearly Huntsman school students and the kid sounded like someone who wasn't incompetent so they didn't shut him up immediately. "Maybe they want to sell the Dust. But in that case you would have taken the money as well. If they are stealing Dust from stores then it would be in preparation for something. I understand someone stocking up for winter but this is way more than that. It would have to be a group, the White Fang for instance, preparing for war, but then with who? If it was said group the target is obvious but if it was some other group then we have no idea who could be the target. Regardless this lack of Dust means it will be used elsewhere and likely put innocent lives in danger. These people are smart then." The detectives were officially impressed, AJ turned to his friends. "Ozpin should probably hear about this." All but Weiss nodded in agreement. Weiss was to busy in her own thoughts.

"It's got to be the White Fang. A bunch of degenerates all of them." Weiss said.

"Geez, what's your problem?" Blake asked.

"My problem? I simply don't care for the criminally insane." 'And the bias thoughts are back.'

"The White Fang are hardly a bunch of psychopaths. They are a collection of misguided Faunus." Blake said.

"Misguided? They want to wipe humanity of the face of the planet!" Weiss said angrily.

AJ jumped in. "Still qualifies as misguided no matter how major."

"Either way it doesn't explain why they would rob a Dust shop in the middle of downtown Vale." Blake said.

"Don't jump to conclusion anyway Weiss. It could be Torchwich, that criminal Ruby fought." AJ explained noticing how tense Blake was.

"That doesn't change the fact that the White Fang are scum. Those Faunus only know how to lie cheat and steal." Weiss stated.

"Filthy animal."

"Damn Faunus!"

"Hold him down!"

"Hey! Watch it Weiss! I'm right here, and I do NOT, lie, cheat, or STEAL!" AJ barely managed not to yell. "And neither does Blake." He said quietly so others wouldn't hear. "And would you just drop it instead of continuing your clearly biased rant." He demanded.

"Ya Weiss, Faunus aren't like that." Yang said before hearing someone yell "Stop that Faunus!" 'Great, not helping our point here.' AJ sighed and the team ran back to the docks and saw a blond boy with a monkey tail running and jumping off of a ship.

"Thanks for the ride guys!" he yelled as he jumped.

"No good stowaway!" The men yelled.

"Hey! A no good stowaway would have been caught, I'm a great stowaway!" The boy said and AJ laughed a little. The detectives from earlier approached the monkey boy who was now hanging from a light post with his tail and eating a banana.

"Get down from there!" The bearded one demanded and was met with a banana peel in the face. The Faunus ran away and they gave chase. As he ran by team RWBY he turned to Blake and AJ pointed at them with two finger pistols without losing momentum and said "Sup." before continuing running.

"Well Weiss, you wanted to see the competition? Well theeeere it goes." Yang pointed out.

"Quick! We have to observe him!" Weiss yelled before racing after the detectives and the Faunus. AJ and Blake looked at each other, AJ rolled his eyes at Weiss' blatant observing before they both started to follow their team.

Weiss would eventually turn a corner while running and hit someone directly but instead of getting up she looked and saw the blond boy get away. "No! He got away!" She whined.

"Weiss pay attention!" AJ yelled like he was her father and before reprimanding him she looked down and saw the girl she had hit was still under her and had a creepy smile.

"Salutations!" The ginger girl said without getting up even though Weiss was off her now.

"Um… hi?" Ruby said awkwardly.

"Are you ok?" AJ asked honestly.

"I'm wonderful! Thank you for asking!" The girl said. The team all looked at each other and while RWBY had a face that said "What is wrong with this chic?" AJ simply had a lightly confused and concerned look.

"Do you… wanna get up?" Blake asked.

"Did you… hit your head or something?" Yang asked.

"I guess I would like to get up, and no, I did not hit my head." The girl said with a smile and finally stood up in one motion. The girls took a step back.

"My name is Penny!" The girl known as penny said.

"Hi Penny! I'm Ruby!"

"Weiss."

"I go by AJ."

"Blake."

"Are you sure you didn't hit your head?" *Nudge* "Oh! I'm Yang!"

"It's a pleasure to meet you!" Penny said.

"You said that already." Weiss pointed out.

Penny seemed to think for a second. "So I did!"

"Well, sorry for running into you!" Weiss said and they all took that as their cue and started walking away.

"Bye friend!" Ruby said as they left.

Once they turned a corner they finally spoke again.

"She was… weird." Yang said awkwardly.

"There was something up about her, that's for sure." AJ said looking at the ground in thought. He suddenly looked up and grabbed Blake's arm to get her attention and pointed forward. They were first to see Penny was now in front of them.

"What did you call me?" Penny said, and the group now realized she was there. Weiss kept looking between where she was and where she is now in disbelief.

"Huh? Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't think you heard me." Yang said apologetically.

"No not you." Penny walked by Yang and walked up to Ruby. "You." Ruby stuttered out an answer as she didn't know what she had done wrong.

"You called me friend! Am I really your friend?" Penny asked getting in the girl's face. Ruby looked over Penny's shoulder and saw the girls giving a very serious "no" and AJ did so hesitantly and less blatantly after some thought.

"Um… Ya! Sure! Why not?" Ruby said. The girls fell overdramatically at this and AJ just raised a brow and almost asked out loud "Why?" but settled for mouthing it out.

Penny seemed happy though. "Sensational! We can paint our nails, and try on clothes, and talk about cute boys like the Faunus boy there!" Penny said pointing at AJ and he tried to ignore the last part only blushing slightly and saying what he was going to say.

"Hey Weiss, doesn't that sound familiar?" He asked her.

"Yes but this girl seems far more coordinated." Weiss said and AJ rolled his eyes again, which he did a lot around her.

"So, what are you doing in Vale?" Yang asked.

"I'm here to fight in the tournament!" Penny said.

"You're fighting in the tournament?" Weiss asked in disbelief.

"I'm combat ready!" Penny said with a salute.

"You don't really look the part, then again, Weiss wears a dress." AJ pointed at Ice Queen.

"Hey! It's a combat skirt!" Weiss said proudly and Ruby jumped to her side.

"Ya!" They low-fived. AJ face palmed and laughed a little.

Weiss' eyes went wide from realizing something. "So if you aren't from here you might know that monkey-tailed… rapscallion!" Weiss suggested.

"The who?" Penny asked.

"The filthy Faunus from the boat!" Weiss said suddenly holding a crude drawing of said Faunus.

"Stop calling him a rapscallion! Stop calling him a degenerate! He's a person!" Blake yelled.

"Stop wording this like the Faunus are the problem I am RIGHT FUCKING HERE WEISS!" AJ yelled threatening to break the annoying chains in his head.

"Oh I'm sorry. Should I stop calling the trash can a trash can? Or this lamp post a lamp post?" Weiss said pointing at said objects.

"Stop it!" Blake demanded.

"Just drop it already!" AJ yelled, Aura actually leaking out a little.

"Why? He clearly broke the law." Weiss pointed out.

"He's a stowaway! It's not like he killed anyone! It's not like he is a member of the White Fang!" AJ reasoned.

"Give him time and he'll join just like all the other Faunus." Weiss said. 'It's like I'm not even here!'

"YOU IGNORANT LITTLE BRAT/BITCH!" Blake and AJ yelled respectively.

"Just when I started to respect you again you prove you are biased against Faunus!" AJ yelled. He and Blake both started walking away from the group.

"Hey! I am your teammate you two!" Weiss yelled and walked after them.

"Uh, we should probably go." Yang pointed out to her sister.

"Ya, this is getting out of hand." Ruby said.

"Where are we going?" Penny asked and they told her goodbye and went with their teammates to their dorm.

Jump Cut To RWBY Dorms

"I don't see how this is a problem." Weiss said, now sitting in her bed.

"That's a really big problem then." AJ said annoyed now, since this had gone on for so long and while AJ had mostly stopped the black and white of the team were still going at it full force.

"You realize you two are defending a Faunus group that hates humanity don't you?" Weiss asked.

"I'm defending the Faunus, not that group." AJ pointed out. "You have constantly made this sound like the Faunus are the problem and not that group."

"Because almost all Faunus are members-" Weiss started.

"I'M NOT A MEMBER! Blake isn't either, if she was, Ozpin would know." AJ pointed out. "I got made fun of, and yelled at, and beaten Weiss, BEATEN, for being a Faunus!" He said with tears forming. "And I still didn't join. I didn't get to have a single fucking friend until Yang and Ruby actually talked to me, I figured once they knew what I was that they would hate me as well and I was just not gonna tell them or anyone else but you guys and JNPR showed you weren't like all those other humans. You seemed like someone to share that bias and you never showed it till now, now I'll never be able to respect you! You haven't even said we are an exception to the Faunus! You just keep saying Faunus are terrible to our faces!" AJ yelled.

"You see this Weiss?! It's a pretty common story for Faunus like us if you take out his happy ending. People like YOU cause this! People like you and Cardin make Faunus take drastic action!" Blake yelled.

"Like me?" Weiss asked in disbelief.

"YOU'RE DISCIMINATORY!" Blake yelled.

"I'm a victim!" Weiss said and turned to look out the window. "Do you know why I hate the Faunus and the White Fang so much?" she asked in a low tone.

"I can take a good fucking guess! It's a classic right?! Killed family members, maybe even in front of you? Friends went missing? Did they hurt you personally? Did they 'make your childhood difficult'?" AJ questioned.

"HOW DARE YO-" Weiss turned in tears about to yell at him.

"SILENCE!" AJ screamed in an evil low pitch voice putting Aura into his voice and his foot as he stomped the ground creating cracks. (Bold, italics, and all caps, get the point?) "I am fucking sorry that all happened to you! I really am! BUT BIASED IS THE STUPIDEST THING YOU COULD EVER POSSIBLY DO! I DON'T CARE HOW MANY MADE YOUR CHILDHOOD DIFFICULT BUT YOU NEVER HAVE THE RIGHT TO BLAME ALL OF THEM FOR IT!" AJ yelled, his voice cracking, shaking from adrenaline, and tears in his eyes.

The room was silent for awhile, everyone stunned at how angry he really was about this, it seemed for a while like Blake and Weiss were the ones really into this since AJ had stopped for awhile, but he must have lost his patience. Weiss eventually spoke up.

"Yes," She said quietly before returning to normal volume. "All of that and a little bit more. My dad always came home furiousand that did in fact lead to a very difficult child hood. So yes, that's why I hate the White Fang." AJ had been giving her a strong death stare as she spoke, he didn't care to wipe away his tears or to stop shaking. Blake had actually been giving an apologetic look until Weiss raised her voice again.

"I hate, the White Fang, because they are all LIARS! THEIVES! AND MURDERERS!" Weiss yelled again.

"WELL MAYBE WE WERE JUST TIRED OF BEING PUSHED AROUND! AFTER ALL YOU DID TO US!" Blake yelled. Everyone's look of shock was clear. AJ's was less than the others but it was there. In desperation Blake recovered from her own look of shock and regained a straight and slightly angry face. "Come on AJ, let's go." She said as she grabbed his arm and pulled him outside. Frankly he didn't care, he wanted to get away from Weiss as well.

But soon Blake broke into tears and was running from him, he chased her until she was in front of the statue in the front of the school. A Huntsman and a Huntress standing over a Beowolf. Blake took off her bow, she was tired of hiding and it didn't matter if she didn't have a team to be with.

"I shouldn't have done that… you need to go back." Blake said sobbing to AJ who was behind her.

"No, I don't want to be anywhere near Weiss."

"Those are you're only friends and I know how much friends mean to you! You need to go-"

"No, I have you still, and that many friends isn't worth being near Weiss. I'm used to having only one good friend anyway." He said with a smile and hugged her and pet her to get her to stop crying. This was his one friend and he would not stand and see her cry. She cried into his chest for awhile until they heard a voice.

"Aw, you guys make a nice couple." They look up and see the monkey Faunus from earlier today. "I knew it would happen since you guys are both cat Faunus but I didn't realize it hadn't already happened." he said with a teasing smile and for once they smiled back, it was good to see another Faunus.

"I guess I wouldn't mind two good friends." AJ said with a smile.

(One possibility early on in this story was AJ never showing his heritage. This whole scene would be different. AJ would stay there and yell at Weiss after Blake left. At least that's what I would have gone with.)

ALL RIGHTY THEN! I think this has gone long enough! I could be almost done with the next chapter by the time I have to post this one! I'm gonna end up further and further ahead of what I post at this rate! I almost kept this chapter going with the next episode but then I realized I should just start the next. So while you are reading this, I'm typing up the next chapter, the final (probably) Chapter for volume one of canon RWBY! Edit: Nope, I'm done with it already, in one day, actually in 5 hours I'm already done with the canon parts, I really wanna post early now but I will keep my schedule. Edit: see how that turned out?

So, thank you for favoriteing or following my fanfic. Do so if you haven't and you enjoy this so far. Leave PM's or reviews of what you think. Have a great week everyone! Edit: Ermahgerd so many likes and favorites thank you! Edit2.0: I have edited this chapter more than 3X more than any other chapter. I guess since I had to put in full scenes of my own, but I ended up changing a lot of things and I even deleted one whole section of a paragraph and didn't replace it with anything. I didn't initially put in the dream, not the nightmare, the dream, I added in the police after I finished writing that paragraph. All of it was pretty dang fun! WHAT IS EVERYONES PROBLEM WITH OC FANFICTIONS! So what if they are a bit OP, so what if they end up with their favorite character! IT'S THEIR FANFIC AND I PERSONALLY THINK THEY ARE THE BEST TYPE OF RWBY FANFICS! My favorite fan fiction ever (The BLAD of RWBY and JNPR by Black Fuego) is hilarious and yet it has LESS likes (but more favorites) last time I checked! How is mine better!? HOW!? I am NOT that awesome! Anyway…

Thank you Monty for making this possible. Hope you like all the fanfics being made for you! Some of them have great meaning and are changing lives, some like mine are just to make people laugh and get excited. Rest In Peace.

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