A/N: Sorry for the long wait, but I had snow days and they made me think it's only been a week not two. But it's updated and I think my longest chapter if not my second so it makes up for it a bit, but I'll have the next one out in a few days.

Chapter 10

After combat training ended Max went back to his dorm and crashed. He slept to about 4:30 p.m., when Ashe woke him up and reminded him he had to go talk to Ozpin.

Max got up, pulled his cowl's hood up and left with Ashley and Sarah in tow. When they stepped outside and saw everyone Ashley almost instantly wrapped herself around Max's arm tightly.

"What's wrong Ash" Max said, voice full of worry, since he had never seen Ashley like that.

"Too many people" Ashley said.

A sudden realization hit Max. Ashley was scared of humans, aside from her friends, the parents, little kids, and the elderly. He couldn't blame Ashley for being scared of human. In the world they came grew up in humans attacked and killed faunus on sight, and vice versa. Hell Max and his friends are probably the only humans that won't attack a faunus without reason, and Yin and Ashley were the only faunus that would do the same to humans.

"Hey calm down Ash. No one is going to hurt you" Max said in a soft, calming voice.

Ashley took a deep breath and released it with a small smile. She always felt safe around Max no matter the situation. "Ok I'm better now" She said.

They continued walking with Ashley around Max's arm, but not as tight as before. They arrived at Ozpin's office and knocked on the door. "Come in" they heard Ozpin say. They entered and found Ozpin sitting at his desk doing paperwork.

"Hey Ozpin how's it going" Max asked.

"Fine, but I thought you had only one time travel friend coming with you" Ozpin replied.

"Time Travel Friend?" Sarah asked looking up at Max and Ashley confused.

Ozpin instantly realized his mistake, but before he could try and fix it Max said "Yeah, Ashley and me are from the future."

"Really" Sarah said voice full of wonder and curiosity.

"Yeah, but you have to keep it as secret. You can't tell anyone outside of this room about it ok?" Max whispered.

"So super-secret secret?" Sarah whispered.

"Yeah a super-secret secret. You can't tell anyone no matter what" Max whispered back.

"Ok got it. I won't tell anyone" Sarah whispered back.

"Then Sarah I entrust this secret to you" Max said seriously standing up straight and saults Sarah.

Sarah copies Max and said "You can count on me."

Max smiles widely. Ashley smiles softly and shakes her head; it always amazed her how good Max was with kids. Meanwhile Ozpin had an almost dumbfounded look on his face.

"Hey Ashley why don't you take Sarah out onto the balcony and see the amazing view." Max said looking at Ashley.

Ashley quickly picked up on what Max was going to talk about by the look in his eyes. "Come on Sarah let's see the pretty view." Ashley said and took Sarah's hand and walked her out onto the balcony.

"I'm assuming there is a reason you had Ashley take Sarah out onto the balcony" Ozpin said when the girls were outside.

"Her parents were killed by Grimm during the attack on Littleroot" Max replied.

Ozpin's face fell some and said "Littleroot was attacked by Grimm?"

"Yeah shortly after Ashley arrived, but we cleared it out" Max replied.

"That's good that we don't have to worry about Littleroot" Ozpin said.

"I know, but I need you to see if Sarah has any family" Max said.

"And if she doesn't" Ozpin asked.

"Joker wants to adopt her" Max answered.

"Ok and Ashley?" Ozpin asked.

"Same thing you gave me" Max replied. "Also for her last name put this." Max grabbed a pen and a piece of paper and wrote something down. "And it's all one word."

Ozpin looked at the piece of paper and raises an eyebrow at Max, who just smiled. Ozpin shook his head at it.

"Come on do it for me." Max said. "She can always change it later."

Ozpin sighed and said "Just be prepared to pay for it later."

"I always am" Max said. "We'll get out of your hair."

"Hey Ash, Sarah we're leaving" Max said to the girls on the balcony.

"Ok" They replied and they left.

They spent the rest of the day in the dorm messing around, telling joking, and funny stories.

The three of them woke up the next day. Max and Ashley got ready to get to class.

"Don't go" Sarah pleaded.

"Sarah we have classes to get to. We'll be back in about two hours" Max said.

""But it don't want you to go" Sarah pleaded some more.

Max put his hand on Sarah's shoulder and said "Sarah we are coming back, I promise."

"You promise" Sarah asked.

"Even if I have to more the earth itself we'll be back" Max said.

"Ok" Sarah replied.

Max took out his scroll and handed it to Sarah. "Here you can play the games on this. And if anything goes wrong just call Ashley and we'll both come running."

"Ok see you in a bit" Sarah said.

"Bye Sarah" Max said and pulled his cowl hood up.

"Bye" Ashley said.

Max and Ashley arrived at port's class a little before the bell rang. Port looked at them and said "Good morning Mister Twain and Miss Scarlatina." When Port looked close he asked "Miss Scarlatina did you dye your hair."

"Ah, Professor. Miss Scarlatina is over there" Max said pointing in the general direction of Velvet.

Everyone looked in the direction Max was pointing and when they did sure enough Velvet was there, sinking into her seat to appear smaller, and she waved meekly. Everyone then looked back to Ashley, who had grabbed onto Max's arm, and was trying to hide behind Max. Everyone looked between the two a couple more times before Yang asked "Is that your sister, Velvet?" Which was a reasonable question, the only real difference between Velvet and Ashley is their hair and height.

Velvet shook her head and replied "I've never seen her before."

Everyone looked at Ashley for answers and Max said "This is Ashley. She is a childhood friend of mine."

Everyone goes "Oh." Port thought about the name Ashley for a second then remembered he got a notification about someone named Ashley. He checked his scroll quickly and said "Oh yes Miss Ashely Therabbit, I received ad notification you were coming earlier today."

Everyone thought about Ashley's fake last name for a second and some realized it spelled "the rabbit." Some started to laugh, but had suppressed them to snickers, including Max. When Ashley realized what her last name spelled. She twisted Max's arm behind his back painfully.

Max was laughing and going "ow ow ow", while Ashley looked at Port and said "Sir my last name is Jones. Mix must have got a hold o my papers and changed my last name."

"Mix?" Weiss asked.

"It ow was my ow nickname ow my parents ow gave me ow. Please let ow go Ashley." Max said.

Ashley let go of Max's arm pushing him forward a bit. She quickly drew ebony and shot Max's right butt cheek. Max's aura stopped the bullet from doing any real damage, but it still hurt. Max jumped a bit, grabbed his right butt check and shouted "OW MY ASS."

Ashley smirked and said "Serves you right."

Max turned around and said "No the arm twisting served me right, the shot was overboard." Slightly irritated. While rubbing his butt cheek.

"Quit complaining you've had worse" Ashley said crossing her arms.

"Doesn't mean it doesn't hurt" Max replied with a glare.

Port coughed, grabbing their attention, and said "I would like to begin class now."

"Sorry" Ashley and Max said and walked to their seats.

Max and Ashley spent the first five minutes of class passing notes to each other, so they wouldn't get in trouble for talking. Suddenly a piece of paper landed in front of Max. Max unfolded the piece of paper and it read "Is she one of your friends that you went outside the four kingdoms with? Ruby."

Max replied "Yes" and had Shadow take it back to Ruby. Max caught team CRDL looking at Ashley and him. Max then took out a piece of paper and wrote "Touch Ashley and I'll kill you!"

When Shadow came back with a note form Ruby he sent his note to team CRDL. Team CRDL read the note then looked back at Max, who had moved his hood up revealing his eyes and was giving them a death glare. Ashley saw Max's death glare from the side and shivered. She had seen that death glare before and was glad she wasn't on the receiving end of it. After team SRDL saw the death glare they quickly looked back at Port.

Max quit the death glare and readjusted his hood to cover his eyes, then opened Ruby's note. The note read "Wow she must be strong. Also Yang wants to know why your parents called you Mix."

Ashley saw the note and snatched it form Max's hand and wrote "It's because his right is a different color than his left and he has three natural hair colors. Ashley :)" Ashley gave the note to Shadow and he sends it back to Ruby.

Shadow comes back with a note that read "Really? That's so cool, I have two natural hair colors too, but one is only visible on the tips. Ruby. Are you related to Velvet? Blake."

Max takes the note first and wrote "One of my hair colors is on the tips too, the other two are alternating. Mark. No I just look like her. Ashley." Shadow delivered the note to Ruby.

When they get the note Blake gave a confused look at Max and Ashley before she wrote a note herself. Shadow came back to Max with the note. The note read "Really!? Can I see it? You haven't shown anyone your hair since you've been here. Ruby. Are you sure? Blake."

Ashley and Max wrote "No, not yet, but soon. Hopefully. Mark. Yes I'm sure, we've actually seen someone who looked like Mix in Littleroot, but he had both arms. Ashley." Then sent the note to Ruby again.

When Ruby read the "hopefully" she showed her team the note and asked "What do you think it means?" They just shrugged and looked at Max, who waved. Ruby and Blake wrote something down and sent it back to Ashley and Max.

The note read "What does that mean? Ruby. You did? What happened? Blake"

Ashley and Max wrote back "That's a topic for another time, sorry :(. Mark. We sat down and talked a bit. He was almost the exact opposite of Mix. Ashley." The note was then sent back again.

When Ruby and her team read the note, then whispered amongst themselves, but they forgot all about Shadow, who was relaying the whole conversation to Max.

"Do you think he's hiding something?" Yang asked.

"It seems like it, but what?" Blake said.

"Maybe he's a faunus" Yang asked looking at Blake.

Blake glared at Yang and asked "What? You expect me to know since I'm a faunus?"

"What? No no no, I just thought you might notice something we didn't" Yang said quickly and apologetically.

Blake sighed and said "Sorry about that I should have known you meant something like that. But no I haven't noticed anything to suggest he's a faunus."

"Maybe we should ask" Ruby suggested, and her whole team looked at her, "or not."

"It does seem kind of rude to just ask him" Yang said.

"Well let's do this then" Ruby said and wrote a note down and sent it to Max.

Max received the note and it read "Are you a faunus, you don't have to answer. Ruby."

Max replied "No I'm human." And sent it back.

Team RWBY read the note and Yang said "Well that answers that question."

"Well I don't trust him" Weiss stated. Max heard that because of Shadow and it hurt him a bit. But he couldn't blame her since he was trying to keep his identity a secret.

"Weiss he's a good guy, so what if he's a little secretive." Ruby defended.

"Ruby's right, Ice Queen he does seem like a nice guy. I mean he did help Velvet out." Yang said.

"True, but I still don't trust him when his obviously hiding something." Weiss said.

Before anyone could retort the bell to end class rang and they just decided to leave it alone for now.

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