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After a few more classes, the whole crew just grabbed lunch and sat down. Kris was wagging her tail happily has they has her favorite: steak. "Yum!" She chimed as she dug into her food. Dev smiled and laughed as she others chucked along with him. An average height student walked behind Yang, who was sitting across Dev.

"Hey. Mind if I sit here guys? I need to talk to Deveraux." He asked. "Oh, hey Tazu, you said you had to tell me something?" Tazu motioned for Yang's seat, and she pouted, but noticed he was serious so her and a few others scooted over one seat to give him room. "Yes. You said your name was Mercer?" "Correct." Tazu's eyes widened in surprise as he finally met with him.

"This might be a touchy subject...but I know what happened to your parents." The whole table got quiet and fixated on Tazu and Dev. Dev's eyes opened up a bit. "Really?" He decided to listen. "Yeah...because the same man who killed your parents, was the same man who directed the attack against my family as well." Tazu looked down, recalling the harsh memories when he was a child. "I'm sorry." Dev apologized.

"You don't need to be. This man, his name is Elias Lykos," Kristine flinched at hearing his name, and stopped munching on her steak. "Lykos...Her father." He motion Kris. "Ah, your his daughter? I knew that Dev was in a relationship with her, heard many rumors about you." He said, smiling at her. She smiled back. "Yup! He and I are like two peas in a pod!" Pun, bad pun.

Tazu continued. "Elias was friends with your parents for a long time. But once your parents got into a disagreement with the White Fang, it started going downhill." "Disagreement?" "Yes, your parents were ambassadors for Vytal, and along with my parents, sought to keep humans as a superior race." He looked down and sighed. "Superior?!" Dev raised his voice. "You mean our parents actually fought against Faunus Rights?!" Tazu looked at him again. "Yes."

"But, Faunus are just like humans, they are people too, nothing should separate us just for having a pair of ears, or a tail. No offence." He motioned at Kris who was about to take another bite. "None taken." She smiled.

Blake was listening to this conversation very carefully...

"I can't believe it..." Dev said quietly. "I couldn't either...but what makes us the same, is that he murdered our families in cold blood!" He slammed his fists on the table. "I watched the whole thing...he killed each of them...one. By. One..." Tazu's voice started to shake. "Stupid, idiotic, White Fang!" He wished he was able to do something about it, but he wasn't able to.

"I just had to sit there and watch...I couldn't do anything." His voice was low, but he was not crying, as if he was no longer able to." Dev spoke up. "Elias left this mark on me." He traced his scar on his face. Tazu nodded. "I see."

"Dev. I've planned on this for a long time, but if I ever find that man, I want to take his place." "What?" The entire table said at once. "But, aren't you a human?" Blake asked. "Yes, but I know how to treat people, Faunus or humans, doesn't matter. He treats humans like how humans treat Faunus. It's sick." Tazu said while clutching onto his plate.

"I stand in the same boat with you. I cannot stand to see both races treating each other unequally." Dev said to him. "How are you going to do that? Take his place I mean." Kris asked. "Well, I am not sure yet...but I know I want to kill him." He said. She nodded. "I don't even care about that man anymore...what he does to people is too sick to even consider him to be a father." She said, growling.

Team JNPR and RWBY wanted to get their opinions in too. "Surely you aren't old enough to take such drastic measures...how old are you anyway?" Weiss asked. "Eighteen." Tazu replied to the Ice Princess. "That means he should be able to take control as group leader of the White Fang. Considering it's a political office, the youngest you have to be to run one is eighteen in this country." Blake said peering over one of her books.

"Right." Tazu said, looking over to Blake, and noticed her bow twitched. "So...she is a Faunus too." He thought.

After lunch, they all went to their classes to finish out the day. Team RWBY met with each other after classes ended outside of the school because they were supposed to go shopping for some more decorations for their room. Man, how many things did a girl need?

Dev denied their request for shopping but ended up getting dragged along anyway. As they approached the store, Dev's mind practically was exploding with screaming thoughts. A male in a female store, with a bunch of females? (Trust me, I've been in a store called Claire's and it was not a good time for me. D: ) It is an outrage.

Once they were in Dev literally stayed in the front of the feminine store almost the whole time. The store clerk happened to be a girl too, there was not a man in sight..."Are you okay over there?" She asked. "No." He said which it looked like he was shaking. "If my girlfriend saw me in here, she'd kill me." Shaking, Dev looked over to the clerk and shot her a look that only a man desperately asking for help would look like. She nervously smiled.

After a bit, they finally finished shopping and once Dev headed outside, Kris was waiting there, tapping her foot on the ground. Shit. "Devy? Why are you hear with these girls?" She said completely calm, but Dev knew that voice, he was royally screwed. "Uhh...they brought be here, I am on their team after all." He nervously scratched the back of his head and smiled.

"Hmm..." Kris looked at the four and narrowed her eyes at Yang. It appeared she was a bit jealous that she was placed on a team with Dev. "You are lucky, cause if you didn't say that." She got really close to Dev. "You'd die." Then she smiled. Dev nodded quickly and was picked up by the collar and practically was being dragged to Beacon. "Ow! Wait, stop, that hurts!" He complained. Kris was receiving looks from the other four.

"Hey, Kris, don't you think that hu-" Yang tried to talk her out of dragging him, but when Kris turned her head slowly, Yang saw a wolf right above Kris, peering down at her. She didn't know if she was going insane, but it looked scary as hell to her. "Never mind!" She blurted out.

Dev was rubbing his back once they got back. "Dammit, Kris, I told you never to do that!" Kris giggled as smiled at him. "Bad boy." "What?!" She continued to laugh as Ruby and Weiss looked at each other. "You know Dev, I think she got jealous." Weiss grinned as Kris fixated on her. "Oh please, I didn't get jealous." They laughed. "Sure." Dev said, Kris smacked Dev on the back of the head. "Ouch!"

As Kris was about to leave, she sat next to the window and was looking outside at the beautiful night sky. "Wow...the stars look so awesome tonight." She said. Blake joined her and was also looking outside. Dev was watching Kris, knowing that if a special something was outside, he'd have to do something he hates. "Oh look, there is a full moon!" Ruby yelled and the other two looked at it. Kris twitched.

"F-full moon?" She froze, staring at the moon. Dev's eyes widened and he stood up. "No, Kris!" It was too late. She was staring at the full moon, and Dev knew what was coming next. "Guys, get out of the room now!" All the girls but Kris looked at Dev. "Why?" Yang asked. "Just do it, get out, NOW!" Dev said trying to explain what was going to happen.

Kris's breathing became faster. "Just go!" He yelled, they finally listened to him and they ran out of the room and into Team JNPR's. Jaune jumped at the door suddenly blasting open. "Holy crap!" He yelled.

"Guys, where is Kris's stuff?!" Dev yelled at them. They pointed to a bed that had a suitcase on it. Dev quickly went over and looked inside the small pocket. "Dev, what's going on?" Weiss asked.

"You'll find out soon enough." He said, finding a syringe with red liquid in it. Glass could be heard breaking across the hall.

A/N: Ah ha! More plot progression! Well, it seems something has woken inside Kris...I wonder what it is? Heheh, see you next chapter!

"Kris...I hope to never see you like that again." Deveraux Mercer

"I know, but you know I can't make any promises like that." Kristine Lykos