Twisted ~ So, problem. I have gotten many-a-message from certain people (you know who you are, I needn't name names) regarding lemons and the desire of said people for them to be a thing. Now, we have a problem. Because I am an asexual sociopathic twat, and Mika is a highly perverted bisexual virgin. What do you expect us to do, watch porn for two days and play guessing games? So, sorry, but we can't pull it off.

Mika~ I mean, I can BS my way through a lemon, but it'll probably be terrible.

Twisted~ I know any I tried to make would be.

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"How could this have happened?!" Weiss moaned, putting her head in her hands as her ears twitched cutely in irritation. "This… This is ludicrous! Scandalous! Unfair!" "A Schnee can never look like this… Never be seen this way… "

"Must've been that gas." Yang said, her own lioness ears twitching as she trailed her fingers through her tail, smiling slightly at the nice sensations from it. Blake half-heartedly moved to sit next to her, slapping her hand to stop her stroking her sensitive tail. "Aww. That felt fun."

"Well I like it! My tail is soft and cute, and I can hear so much stuff now! And things smell so nice!" Ruby said, her fluffy wolf tail wagging as she scratched behind her own ears. "It feels so gooddd~… I'm hungry!"

Blake was silent as she stroked her brand-new tail for a moment to acclimate to the new limb, her purple ears matching everyone else's in size and now nearly impossible to hide twitching on top of her head. "I can't hide anymore... Why do I feel so… happy?"

"I must concur. It does feel… Fitting in a way, I suppose." Pyrrha supplied helpfully, the size of her rabbit ears not matching her fist-sized cottonball of a tail, the former around Velvet's own size and the latter merely able to fit in a hand. "I… Think I'm a rabbit. How grand. I wonder if Jaune likes rabbits?" She raised an eyebrow at him primly, and he nodded ever so slightly. "Good…"

"We're fluffy, Ren! Look! I'm fluffy! I'm hungry, I want a carrot! Ooh! Can you make pancakes Ren-Ren?" Nora cheered, the size of her rabbit ears not matching her fist-sized cottonball of a tail, the former around Velvet's own size and the latter half the size of her hand. Experimentally, she twitched her tail and the small cotton ball wiggled slightly in response," It moves!" "Ren will definitely enjoy this."

"I noticed, Nora." Ren said, his own dog ears alert and tail still, if he looked aggravated and unamused. "Why did she have to be so adorable? Damn it… My weakness..."

Luna entered the room, looking at papers in her hands and looking herself slightly disheveled and worn out. "Alright boys and girls, I have good news and bad news. What do you want first?" "Well, good news from a certain point of view..."

"Let's have the good news first." Jaune spoke up helpfully, his fox ears twitching to greet Luna.

"Good news, we know what it is and it might be curable." The room gave a sigh as relief was generally felt by all. "Bad news… The traditional cure failed, so we have to study it. From scratch. We've got two months before a cure can be made. Six at the latest, and yes these are all estimates." And then it was smashed immediately, and most of their faces fell. "Sucks I have to do this..."

"You mean we…" Blake realized, wide eyed and anxiety filled. "I'm stuck like this?"

"Yeah. You're stuck like this until we can figure it out." Luna shrugged, frowning lightly. "Thankfully, we know that the base disease is curable."

"I know! I'll just cut them off! We can hire the best doctors to do it. Nobody will know!" Weiss said, an idea blooming in her head.

"I wouldn't recommend that, Miss Schnee." Luna said quickly, stopping her in her tracks. "Your genes themselves have triggered your faunus traits, so your Aura would just rebuild them over time. Add the fact that your blood identifies you as Faunus. In addition to that… five major blood vessels run through your tail and ears, two in your ears and three in your tail. You would bleed to death in less than two minutes if you severed them incorrectly. I am almost a hundred percent sure that a human doctor would not be aware of the requirements for a Faunus surgery. Mostly because they are not, according to themselves, 'Vets.' Leaving most Faunus doctors being paid far less for more advanced surgeries." Weiss blanched at that simple but effective answer, silent as she pondered that last line.

"So, how do we fix this, then." Jaune asked, leaning forwards slightly. "Honestly, I am perfectly okay with the new attachments. Was always jealous of you guys, felt like an outsider because I was different."

"Aww, that's sweet. Little browther wants to be like his sisters." Luna said teasingly, obviously a form of coping for her."Quite simply… we don't know, for now."

Those three words floored them. "So… What do we do now?" Yang asked forlornly, trying to stroke her tail once again and being thwacked by Blake. "Really? You're petting yours, I wanna pet mine!"

"You wait for a cure to be discovered. Or you get used to your new bodies. Either way, it's your call." Luna shrugged, smiling half-heartedly," It's really not so bad, you get all the advantages a Faunus has. Because, congrats, all you have to do now to be considered Fauna is to change the registry." "Faunus lyfe, woot-woot."

"So… What is it?" Jaune asked, already developing a headache from the girls' antics and anxieties. He seriously needed to start predicting where the hell everyone would sit so he wasn't sitting across from most of them, aside from Pyrrha who always insisted on sitting beside him.

"The virus is called Faunus Retro-Morphus. It hijacks the Aura of a subject and subtly tricks the Aura into thinking that the victim's body is a Rouge's inflicted Faunus, like myself." Luna pointed at her ears and tail as she continued. "While the body is reconfiguring itself, the Aura is focused on building the new structures. The immune system is running at a lowered rate as well, adapting itself to accommodate three new limbs. Because of that, the virus can breed inside the body. Eventually, though, the newly-made Faunus's aura will finish the changes as the immune system fights the virus, leading to most of the virus dying by the Aura's now triggered defenses. However… The White Fang seem to have made it even more potent. Less of the virus is required, it's stronger, it is in the air, water, blood, and animal borne, and it is expelled through victims, leading to more infected... It's actually an ingenious design."

"What makes you say that? It made us Faunus! I look disgusting, damn it!" Weiss hissed in displeasure. Blake leveled a small glare at Weiss, who shrunk, ashamed. "I didn't mean it… Not that way, I just…"

"I never said it was good or even moral, just ingenious. Originally, all the White Fang wanted was Faunus Rights. With this, they would have gotten it. Without further blood being spilled, even." Luna explained, saving the heiress from the issue she'd blundered into. "Well, anyways, you are all dismissed. You aren't contagious, and you are all perfectly healthy Faunus. And besides, Miss Schnee- In my personal opinion, you look quite adorable." "Look at those little ears! You're like a kitten! A white, angsty kitten!" Weiss sputtered in indignation as she registered what Luna said, blushing brightly and glaring at her.

"Then I think we need to go and speak to Ozpin, see what he thinks we can do about classes. Maybe we could make an announcement about what happened or something." Jaune shook himself, hopping up from his seat on the bed on the large medical facilities of Beacon," So, anyone want to go grab food?"

"I would rather head back to our dorm and get some sleep. Frankly, I am exhausted and would very much like to sleep." Ren sighed, standing up, and Nora got up to follow behind him excitedly. Jaune, curious, turned to look at the back of Ren's head as he left, "So done. Gonna get some rabbit tail before they get back…"

Jaune snickered for a half-second after the door closed, and Pyrrha gave him an odd look that he waved off, watching Weiss stand up as well," I… Need to go, call my father. I'm going to see about getting him to devote SDC resources to this, I'm sure he'll do so… Blake, could you please come with me. I need… Advice." "Might as well learn how to live with this in the meantime..."

"Yeah, uh, sure. I guess. I know a way to get back to our dorm unseen, if you don't mind going across the roofs overmuch." "Don't want to be found like this just yet..." The two girls were the next to leave, with only Jaune, Ruby, Pyrrha - of course - Luna and Yang. They fell into a mildly awkward silence for several moments until Luna's Scroll beeped loudly and annoyingly and she had to depart.

"I'm hungry, Yang." Ruby whined quietly, and Jaune smiled warmly at her, before moving towards the door. "I want some pizza, can we go get some pizza?" He supposed her energy likely owed somewhat to her own nature, and the influence of her Faunus nature.

"Let's go grab some pizza, guys. No chocolate though, Ruby, it'll get you very, very sick now. Well, maybe, I dunno, depends on how much your canine half affects your dietary abilities." He sighed when the girl pouted, hearing her forlorn thoughts, "Cookies…" "You can have some cookies though, I'll ask my mom tonight about it and see what you can eat."

"Yay!"

Jaune smiled and watched her run out of the room, hanging a hard right to head towards the cafeteria to see if they still had anything to eat from earlier, and Yang was hot on her heels. He was about to follow them when he felt a hand on his shoulder, and turned to a grinning Pyrrha, "So you like bunny girls? I might just keep the changes then." "And make a few purchases..."

"I really do. They're cute and sexy at the same time. Always been a… thing with me. The tail especially. Heh, at least one faunus type is a thing for most guys." Jaune said honestly, comfortable enough with Pyrrha by now to talk about this. And still mildly out of his head from whatever the changes to his physiology had done to his psychology.

"So… Any advice from a newly fledged bunny? Or are you just going by theories?" "Good, be honest, I like it. Need the notes in any event." She smiled, ears twitching and tail shaking happily.

"Little bit of both. Know how to be a faunus because of my sisters, but I have no idea how it's going to go myself. Anyways, our room's going to be...Indisposed for a while… Wanna go sneak out and grab some coffee? I know a nice place that serves Fauna. Owner's wife is one, so they don't discriminate." Jaune paused for a moment," Uh, don't eat anything with cinnamon in it. I think that's bad for rabbits."

"What do you mean, 'indisposed'? Are they alright or…?" Pyrrha asked curiously, tail continuing to shake in excitement. "We're going on a date... "

Jaune thought hard, trying to figure out some way to phrase it without sounding overly perverted, that was generally Pyrrha's job. "Ren's going to hunt a wabbit, that's all."

Pyrrha seemed to think, then blushed as she realized what Jaune was implying and smiled coyly. "Nora and Ren? They're..." "Fucking like rabbits, aren't they?"

"Yep. Well, if Ren has his way about it they are, at least. Nora's a bunny now and that's a thing for Ren, and his new instincts are probably messing with his head."

"Right now?"

"Close enough."

"I'd love to get some coffee." Pyrrha answered instantly before smiling. "Unless you have a thing for bunnies and new instincts…?" "Let's leave the lovebirds alone for a while, maybe Foxie wants to catch himself a red-haired hare?"

"Nope! Not right now, Pyr!" She sighed in an overly dramatic way and he marched right past her, out the door, and hung a sharp right to head toward the Bullhead launch areas.

The two had gotten their tables with little fuss once Jaune had explained what had happened to him, leading the owner, Oak, to grant him a discount. Pyrrha sipped her tea, savoring the surprisingly new and refreshing taste. Jaune was equally immersed in his coffee, drinking it dry. "Aqua. A refill and a question, please."

Aqua, a wolf faunus, head waitress, and the proud co-owner of this restaurant/bar, the Wolves' Den, smiled as she walked over to Jaune, filling up his coffee. "What is the question about?" Aqua said, focusing on his brand-new faunus features. "Fauna question?" "Must be asking for himself or a friend."

"Yeah, for a friend. Just a question- Can Wolf Faunus eat chocolate?" Jaune said simply. "I know Fox Faunus can."

"It varies. Some are allergic. Start out with a simple dark chocolate piece. If they can eat that without having any problems, give them a bigger and bigger peice. If they can eat an entire bar over time without hives, rashes, or an allergic reaction, yes. If they have an allergic reaction, no. Faunus are human enough that it is only fatal in the worst of cases, unlike dogs and wolves." Aqua answered with a smile. "That usually works. Hope Beacon has a infirmary if the Faunus is allergic..."

"The loss of the FRM virus is a minor setback. It can be replaced. Oroboros will continue as planned. They did not find the true prize."

"What about the humans and Faunus who destroyed it?"

"If they interfere, stop them. Otherwise, we do nothing."

"What about Lieutenant Arc?"

"The Lieutenant died during the Schnee assault. No more, no less. Reports of a lookalike in Vacuo is merely a coincidence and warrants no further investigation."

"Yes sir."

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Mika~ So, a guest left a review. The first part does not matter, the second does. "What bothers me though is Weiss becoming a Faunus. I understand the how it happened (bioweapon) and the why (it got onto the bullhead), but I dont understand the other why. Why Weiss? There were other characters that were human, including Yang that was actually there with Jaune. Why did you choose to end with Weiss?" Simple answer… The Luls and the character development. Her character arc has occurred offscreen, But the Docks have not happened yet. She was still just as prejudiced against faunus as before. Now? Canon has bent a few times. This is the point where it breaks. Canon's not going to be the exact same thing, but the Wheels of Fate keep turning and the Butterfly Effect is going strong…

Also- Yes. There will be a cure. Eventually.

Twisted~ But Mikaaaaaaa, I don't wanna cure them.

Mika~ Don't worry, Twist. I has a secret sheet of those who are gonna stay faunus/return to human!

Twisted~ Nora is staying bunny? I think Ren likes the little fluffy tail.

Mika~ No cheating.

Twisted~ B-But…..

Mika~ Shhh… Let the readers guess. And they will. Like puppets on a string, never realizing that the puppeteer is about to cut their- Owie…

Twisted~ That's why we don't be teases, Mika-chan-senpai-sama. We punish mad scientist girls~

Mika~ Was the newspaper necessary?

Twisted ~ You *are* a fox, so I thumped you. Is normal.

Mika~ Meanie. And aren't you older than me?

Twisted~ Yep. So what?

Mika~... Sempai! *glomps*

Twisted~ Hng!