Hello everybody! I am the Burning Ruler and I am back with another chapter of RWBY: A Silent Temper! Alight, I hope you guys like this story, because I like writing it. Anyways, to the reviews!

Baconlord53: I agree personally.

Gwyn Walker: OK let's respond in sections. First, yeah I decided to try some new ships that I don't see any of to see if I could get them to work. Second, I know Ryan is a flat character, but I planned him to be. There is a reason for it. He will remain somewhat flat for a while, but I will make an effort to try and make him a bit less flat. Thirdly, you make a good point. Thank you for bringing this up as I probably wouldn't have noticed on my own. I will make an effort to make their quirks appear more often. Lastly, thanks for your feedback, and I hope you continue to read.

I only own Ryan, and if you read A Demon's Life you know who the other OC in this chapter belongs to. If not, he belongs to kannonballdude. Let's get it started!

Chapter 9: Regrets

Weiss spent the whole night looking out the window, thinking about Ryan.

Yang woke up first at noon. "Hey Weiss! What's up? You seem a bit upset. Worried about your boyfriend?" asked Yang, teasingly.

Weiss started blushing fiercely. "He's not my boyf- wait… yes he is. Yeah. I am." Responded Weiss.

"Relax Weiss. He'll be fine. He's been in prison twice before." Said Blake, waking up.

"Yeah, you are right. But I just get worried easily." Said Weiss.

"Maybe we could go visit him." Said Yang.

"Not a bad idea." Said Blake.

The four girls got dressed and left their room.

"Hey girls. Where are you going?" asked Team JNPR, seeing them in the hall.

"Going to visit Ryan in jail." Replied Ruby.

Jaune and Nora didn't react as they knew, but Pyrrha and Ren almost jumped.

"Why is he in jail?" asked Ren.

"Charged with murder, rightfully. But they have no evidence. His trial is at noon tomorrow. Wanna come along and visit Ryan?" asked Weiss.

"Why not? Let's go." Said Nora. The rest of Team JNPR agreed quickly.

The eight friends left for the airships and got on the first one to Vale. After it landed they realized they had no idea where the prison was.

"Probably should've found that out first." Said Weiss.

"No need. I know where it is." Said Blake, leading the way.

They group walked through the streets for half an hour before they came up to a prison. They went to get a visitor's card and told the warden who they were coming to visit.

"Of course. If you could have a seat in the visitor's room. We will send him in when he is back from the infirmary." Said the warden.

"Wait, infirmary? What happened?" asked Weiss.

"Riot earlier. He'll be fine." Said the warden.

After about ten minutes of waiting, Ryan walled in with hand cuffs and ankle cuffs. He was also wearing a patch over his left eye.

"Hey everybody. How are you?" Asked Ryan, smiling.

"What happened?" asked Weiss, worried.

"Oh, this?" asked Ryan, pointing to his patch. "Riot in the yard. Guy had a knife. I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time."

"What's it look like?" asked Pyrrha.

"It's uh, it's not a pretty sight." Said Ryan.

"It can't be that bad." said Yang.

"Are you sure about that?" asked Ryan.

"Of course." Said Yang.

"Alright, remember that statement." Said Ryan, lifting his patch. The cut looked as if it had cut his eye. There was blood filling the whites of his eye, dying it a deep blood red. The cut ran from his forehead down his cheek, stopping at his jawbone. It was stitched up, but it was still bloody.

Looking around the room, Ruby looked like she was about to vomit, Weiss, Blake and Pyrrha were disgusted, the rest looked worried.

"They say my eye will be fine, but it will take a while to recover." Said Ryan, putting his patch back down.

"Are you sure you're Ok?" asked Weiss.

"Yeah. I'm fine. In fact, that reminds me. Earlier today, before the riot, someone showed up. Now, I didn't have an attorney, but he introduced himself as an attorney who had been assigned to me. When I asked who assigned him, he said a very rich man, at the request of his daughter. Interesting isn't it Weiss? A rich man, at the request of his daughter. You're a daughter, and your father is the richest man in all of Remnant. I wonder…" said Ryan, trailing off.

"Umm. Yeah, that's a pretty big coincidence." Said Weiss, hiding it terribly.

Ryan just shook his head. He kissed Weiss and said "Thank you Weiss."

"Alright, time. Time for you to go back to your cell." Said the guard.

"Alright, hope I see you guys at my trial at noon tomorrow. Won't take too long. Probably be out by one." Said Ryan.

"We will try to be there." Said Weiss, kissing Ryan.

"See you." Said Ryan, getting led back to his cell.

They all left the prison and went back to beacon. When they got back Yang went to the training room, Blake and Ruby wandered around, Team JNPR went back to their room, and Weiss went to the roof.

When she got to the roof, she sat down. She couldn't stop worrying about Ryan.

"Don't worry Weiss. He'll be fine. He's been through this twice before." Weiss told herself, calming herself down.

"Yeah. He has." Said Sun, showing up on the roof as well.

"Hm. Oh. Hello Sun. How are you?" asked Weiss.

"I'm alright. How are you doing?" asked Sun.

"I am a little worried about Ryan, but otherwise I'm Ok." Replied Weiss.

"Anyways, to why I came up here. I saw something… interesting in the training room and wanted to know if you wanted to see it too." Said Sun.

"Sure." said Weiss, getting up and following Sun to the training room.

Sun led Weiss to the training room. Looking inside she saw Yang and Neo sparring, but wasn't sure what Sun was talking about.

"What did you want to show me?" asked Weiss, confused.

"Just wait for a sec." said Sun.

Yang and Neo continued sparring for a few minutes. After they had finished, Weiss saw them kiss.

Smiling, Weiss walked in, followed by Sun.

"Hey you two." Said Weiss, causing Yang and Neo to look up and stop kissing. After realizing that they had already seen, they just shrugged and kissed again.

"Alright then." Said Weiss after Yang and Neo broke apart again.

"Never would've guessed you went that way Yang." Said Sun.

"Well, I only realized today." Said Yang.

"Alright. Seems like it's getting a little late. I'm gonna head back to the dorm. See you tomorrow." Said Weiss.

"I should probably get back too. Bye sweetie." said Yang.

"Bye gorgeous." Said Neo.

Yang and Weiss walked back to the dorm. As they walked in, they saw Ruby and Blake, asleep on Blake's bed. Weiss smiled and layed down on her bed as Yang stayed up.

The next day

Weiss woke up first and yawned. "Good morning Yang." She said, sitting up. However, no response came.

"Yang?" asked Weiss, looking up to Yang's bunk. Looking at her, she saw that Yang was asleep.

Looking to the side quickly, she saw Blake and Ruby were still fast asleep.

"At least there wasn't a consequence." Said Weiss, smiling, but that was when she realized something.

She looked to the clock. It read 12:30. "WAKE UP! RYAN'S TRIAL WILL BE OVER SOON!" said Weiss, waking everyone else up.

"What?" asked Yang, looking at the clock.

"We overslept!" yelled Yang, getting ready as fast as possible, along with Weiss. Blake and Ruby however, were too tired, so they decided to stay in bed for a bit.

They were ready in ten minutes and they ran to the airships. The trip to Vale took about ten minutes.

"Come on, come on, come on!" said Weiss, upon landing.

As they walked into the courthouse, there was only about three minutes left in the trial.

Looking around they found the court room that Ryan's trial was in. The entered as quietly as possible, seeing that the jury was already deliberating. Seeing Team JNPR was there, they sat beside them.

"About time you got here. Where are Ruby and Blake?" asked Jaune, visibly irritated.

"They stayed back to get some more sleep. By the way, it's not our fault Yang fell asleep and didn't wake us up in time." Said Weiss.

"Sorry. By the way, could we not tell Ryan about that?" asked Yang.

"Sure, Blake wasn't taken, so I see no need for him to know." Said Weiss.

"Thanks." Said Yang. "So, what did we miss?" asked Yang.

"Not much, the prosecutions whole case rested on Ryan's sais being the murder weapons." Said Jaune.

"You're just repeating what Ryan's attorney said." Said Ren.

"What's your point?" asked Jaune.

"Nothing." said Ren, shaking his head.

"Anyways. Ryan's attorney used some solution called luminol to prove that Ryan's sais have never been in contact with blood. He took a clean knife, treated it with the luminol, and nothing happened. Then he took a knife from a stabbing, treated it with the luminol, and it glowed blue, showing that it came into contact with blood, even though it was twenty years ago. Then he treated Ryan's sais with it, but nothing happened, showing that Ryan's sais have never been in contact with blood, and since the prosecutions whole case relied on Ryan's sais being the murder weapon, their whole case was ruined. The jury went in a while ago, so they should be coming out soon." Said Jaune, explain what had happened.

After another nerve racking two minutes, the jury came out.

The lead jury member spoke. "Your honor, we have reached a verdict. We find the defendant… not guilty on all charges."

"Ryan Belladonna, you are hereby released of all charges. Court dismissed." Said the judge. Ryan stood up, was uncuffed and walked out of the court room, shooting a quick glance to Weiss and winking, before exiting.

Everyone cleared out of the courtroom and got into the halls. When Weiss and the others got out, they saw Ryan leaning up against the wall just outside of the courtroom.

"Your father hired a great lawyer Weiss." Said Ryan, smirking.

"The best one money could buy." Said Weiss.

"I understand why." said Ryan.

"I assume you want to head back and give Blake and Ruby the great news?" asked Weiss.

"Yeah. Why aren't they here again?" asked Ryan.

"They were still tired, so they decided to stay back and catch a few more winks." Said Yang.

"Got it." Said Ryan, leaving the courtroom with everyone. They got on the first airship and left for beacon. While on the way back, Ryan got a call.

When Ryan answered it, Weiss heard a man's voice on the other end.

"Hey man. Sorry, the law caught me. I just got out, but I'm on my way back." There was some chatter on the other end.

"Alright, so you're just waiting there?" asked Ryan. After a bit more chatter, Ryan spoke again. "Alright. I'll see you in a minute. Me and my friends are just about to land. Hey, is that you? HEY! KANNON!" yelled Ryan, waving into the distance.

A voice called back from the ground. "RYAN!" yelled the voice. Weiss looked to the ground and saw a man waving. Upon landing, she got a good look at him. He looked to be around seventeen years old. He was a snake-like faunus. His hair was long and in a ponytail, brown with dark-green lowlights. He also had a goatee. His eyes were bright green with slit pupils, and he had no eyelids but rather a large scale covered his eye. He had a large scar across his right eye. He was built very athletically and had large legs and hands. He looked to be around seven feet, eight inches tall.

"Hey Kannon. Been way too long man." Said Ryan.

"Nice to see you Ryan." said Kannon, before turning to Ryan's friends and narrowing his eyes.

"You can trust them Kannon. Jeez man." Said Ryan, before introducing everyone.

"Alright. But question, where is Blake?" asked Kannon.

"Oh, right. She's in our dorm with our last teammate. Just a sec, I'll go get them. Why don't you guys show Kannon around? I'll meet you at the training room." Said Ryan, leaving, but not before kissing Weiss.

"Alright. Bye sweetie." Said Weiss, kissing Ryan as he left before they started to show Kannon around.

Ryan made his way to the dorm room. He reached out to open the door, but it was locked.

"Weird. Whatever." Said Ryan, unlocking the door. He opened the door. "Hey guy- OK!" said Ryan, cutting himself off and immediately closing the door once he took a look inside.

"I immediately regret that decision." Said Ryan, walking away with his head in one of his hands.

He kept walking, his head still in his hand as he walked into the training room and sat in the bleachers between Weiss and Kannon. Yang was sitting in front of him and Team JNPR was in a free-for-all.

"What's up Ryan? Where are Blake and Ruby?" asked Yang.

"Still in the room." Said Ryan.

"What's wrong?" asked Weiss.

"Are Blake and Ruby together?" asked Ryan.

"Yeah, but that doesn't explain what's happened." Said Yang.

"Ruby and Blake were alone in the room. Use your imagination." Said Ryan, with his head not leaving his hand.

Yang caught on quickly. Kannon not long after, but Weiss was still lost.

"They were alone?" asked Weiss.

"Yep." Replied Ryan.

Weiss still thought.

"Were they dres-" Weiss was cut off.

"Nope." Replied Ryan

"So they were nak-" She was cut off again.

"Yep." said Ryan.

Weiss then had a thought. "Were they having-" cut off once again.

"Yep." Answered Ryan.

"So you walked in on your sister and her girlfriend having…" Ryan glared at Weiss.

"Please stop mentioning it." Said Ryan.

"Alright." Said Weiss, not saying another word.

"So what'd you see Ryan?" asked Yang, smirking.

"Oh, bite me Yang." Said Ryan.

Yang shrugged. "If you insist." Said Yang, moving towards Ryan.

"You stay right fucking there." Said Ryan.

"Alright." Said Yang, smiling.

"That sucks Ryan." Said Kannon.

Ryan turned to Kannon.

"Wow you must be some sort of rocket scientist or something. I would've never guessed that on my own." Said Ryan, his voice dripping with sarcasm.

"Very funny Ryan." Said Kannon.

After this Team JNPR walked into the stands, but decided not to disturb Ryan once they saw the state he was in.

Kannon and Yang then went down to fight.

Not long after the fight started, Blake and Ruby walked in and instantly began looking for Ryan. Once they found him, Blake walked over and sat next to Ryan. Ruby sat next to her.

"Weiss, is it Ok if we talk to Ryan alone for a second?" asked Blake.

"Sure." Said Weiss, scooting away to talk to Team JNPR.

"Um, not sure how to bring that up." Said Blake.

"You know, it would be completely fine with me if you just don't bring it up. That would be the most preferable option." Said Ryan.

"Ryan, we need to talk about it." Said Blake.

"Actually, no we don't." said Ryan.

"We should though." Said Ruby.

"Why?" asked Ryan.

"We do." Said Blake.

"I know. I still don't want to though." Said Ryan.

"I just want to say this. Before you say anything, I just want to say me and Ruby put a lot of thought into making sure we wanted to before we did anything. I just don't want you thinking that we just did it because we were alone and we could." Explained Blake.

"Well I don't think that. Before today I never thought of you having sex at all. It was a simpler time. Either way, I would just like to not talk about it." Said Ryan.

"Look, me and Ruby are in love, so there are going to be times where we want to-" Ryan cut off Blake.

"This is talking about it." Said Ryan.

"Yeah. Come on Blake. He doesn't need to hear about that." Said Kannon, showing up on the bleachers in front of Blake.

"Kannon? You're here?" asked Blake happily.

"The Serpent of Eden is indeed here." Said Ryan.

"You're still calling me that?" asked Kannon.

"That's kind of the point of a nickname. A title to call a friend by." Said Ryan.

"Serpent of Eden? What does that mean?" asked Ruby.

"Well, Eden was said to be a perfect, sinless paradise. The Serpent of Eden was essentially the cause of the first sin, which ruined the paradise of Eden. Kannon is a bit of a sinner, whenever me and Blake found a nice place, one that was as close to paradise as possible, Kannon always seemed to show up and ruin our paradise." Explained Ryan.

"No need to be so specific." Said Kannon.

"It's true though." Said Blake.

"Yeah, I know." Said Kannon.

"Hey guys, I'm going to head back to the room, Ok." Said Weiss.

"See you Weiss." Said Blake.

"I think I'm going to start heading back as well." Said Ryan.

"Ok. Bye Ryan." Said Kannon, sitting down to talk to Blake.

Ryan walked through the halls of the dorm room until he got to the roof. He pulled out his cigarettes and sat down. Miraculously, no one came up to disturb him.

"That's a first. Guess I should head back down to the dorm now." Said Ryan.

Ryan went back to the room, just as he heard a gasp come from inside the room.

"Odd." Said Ryan, confused before entering the door. As he entered the room, he knew what was going on. Weiss was on her bed, his backpack was open in front of it, and Weiss was holding an outfit he wished he hadn't held onto.

Weiss turned to look at him, and Ryan could swear she was looking right through him.

"I guess I have some explaining to do." Said Ryan.

"No. I think it's pretty clear. What other reason is there for you having a White Fang outfit in your backpack?" asked Weiss, furious.

"Would you believe me if I said it wasn't mine?" asked Ryan.

"If it isn't yours, whose is it?' asked Weiss.

"It's…" Ryan paused, "I can't say. I can't say whose it is."

"Of course not. You are the only faunus in this room, it was in your backpack. Unbelievable." Said Weiss.

"It isn't mine." Said Ryan.

"If you are just going to lie, maybe you should just leave." Said Weiss.

"I'm not lying." Said Ryan, his anger growing.

"Right. Just get out. Leave, and never come back." Said Weiss, angrily.

Ryan then seemed to snap. "FINE! I WILL!" snapped Ryan, grabbing his backpack, without the outfit, and storming out of the room, slamming the door.

Ryan stormed down the hall, meeting Yang on the way.

"Woah! What's up Ryan?" asked Yang.

Ryan turned to Yang. "Do me a favour. Take care of Blake while I'm in Atlas." Said Ryan.

"Ok. But also, um, Atlas?" asked Yang.

"Ask Weiss if you want to know." Said Ryan.

"Ok. But, you'll be coming back right?" asked Yang.

"Hmph. Don't hold your breath." Said Ryan, leaving.

Upon hearing this, Yang started storming towards the room, her eyes flashing between lilac and red.

She got to the dorm room, and didn't even bother unlocking it. She just kicked it open, her eyes staying on red. All the other team members were in the room. Blake and Ruby reading together, Weiss sitting on her bed, still fuming. However, when Yang entered, everyone turned to look at her. Yang locked eyes with Weiss and slammed the door. She grabbed Weiss and held her against the wall.

"You better have a DAMN good explanation for this Schnee!" yelled Yang.

"For what?" asked Blake, confused.

"Why is Ryan leaving?" asked Yang.

"What? Leaving?" asked Blake.

"Look under my bed." Said Weiss, equally angry.

Yang searched under Weiss' bed, and pulled out a White Fang uniform. When she pulled it out, she seemed even angrier, but it was directed at Weiss, not Ryan.

"What are you blind? How could Ryan have fit in that uniform? It's way too small!" yelled Yang.

"Well, if it isn't Ryan's, whose is it?" asked Weiss.

"I know whose it is." Said Blake.

"Whose?" asked Weiss.

"Everyone close your eyes." Said Blake. Everyone was confused but complied. After a few minutes Blake responded. "Ok. You can open now." Said Blake. Everyone opened their eyes to see Blake dressed in the uniform. "It's mine." Said Blake.

"Oh my god. But, I thought they only allowed faunus in the White Fang?" asked Weiss, confused.

Blake sighed. "They do." Said Blake, removing her bow, revealing her cat ears.

Weiss was shocked. Everything made sense. Ryan knew that Blake didn't want to reveal that she was a faunus. That's why he couldn't say whose outfit it was. He kept it so that Blake didn't have to. He wasn't lying.

"Oh no. Can I get to him in time?" asked Weiss, realizing her mistake.

Yang just shook her head. "His flight leaves in five minutes, it'd take ten to get to Vale."

"Sorry to say Weiss. But you fucked up. Sorry for my language Yang." Said Ruby.

"Only appropriate reaction Rubes. No problem." Said Yang.

Blake had changed back into her normal clothes as everyone got set up for bed. Blake was about to put her bow back on, but Ruby called out.

"Wait. Can you maybe leave the bow off? It makes you even cuter." Said Ruby.

Blake smiled back at her. "Sure. Goodnight Ruby." said Blake kissing her girlfriend just as Ruby fell asleep.

"Night girls." Said Yang, falling asleep.

"Goodnight." Said Weiss. 'Look like I'll start with my regrets tomorrow.' She thought, just as she fell asleep.