"Did you have to kiss her?" May asks walking with Alfarr.

"Had to distract her somehow or she would have started throwing fire your way and look what I kept." Alfarr says smirking.

May grins as she sees the guns. "Not bad. Now then…" She said biting into her own chocolate bar and kisses him as well and pulls away just as quick. "Since you didn't enjoy it."

"Now that I did." Alfarr says giving her the guns and wraps an arm around her waist.

May hums as she leans against him. "So…want to keep doing this food thing with the others?" She asks as she kept eating.

"Maybe on a special occasion. By the way, that was their boss who kept me in the village for so long." Alfarr says.

May frowns. "Then she's a bitch."

"And dangerous. I watched her fight carefully. She took down the spider queen without much difficulty. I think she even was bored." Alfarr says.

May raises an eyebrow. "Maybe she hated being stuck alone."

"She is also infatuated with me and I think it got worse when I saved her from a very poisonous spider that day." Alfarr says.

May huffs. "She can never have you." She said leaning her on his chest.

"Easy there. She won't interfere with us personally this time, but her underlings, that is a different story." Alfarr says.

May smiles a bit. "You mean the boy toy?"

"And I stole the weapons of the other one. She is more dangerous with her illusions." Alfarr says.

May smiles up to him. "Am I an illusion?"

"No, but she will be coming for us and soon as she will be doubly pissed. I made two traps. The second one I side stepped out the door." Alfarr says.

May smiles and hugs him. "I knew there was a reason I love you. So…back to our team or give them a runaround?"

"Oh we will know when she is on our tails I bet." Alfarr says smirking.

May grins. "What do you want to do in the meantime? Kiss me until she falls into another trap and play around with this?" She asks holding up the chocolate bar.

"I have an idea if you let me have this." Alfarr says smirking, his ears twitching in the view of May from her angle.

May chuckles. "Whatever you want babe."

Alfarr takes the chocolate and walks over to the trash.

May tilts her head at that until he drops it in and a cry of pain came out of it as the trash disappeared and Emerald stood there with a broken bar over her head as she rubs at it. May frowns and points her rifle at her. "She caught up fast."

"Oh my Emerald, back to stalking me so soon?" Alfarr teases.

Emerald growls as she gets up and glares at him. "Shut up." She groans throwing the bar away.

"Coming back for your guns then?" Alfarr asks.

Emerald huffs. "What do you think?" She asks walking over to him menacingly.

"Check me. I don't have them." Alfarr says.

Emerald stops and looks him over before slowing glaring to the one pointing the barrel at her. "You! Give me my guns!" She yells pointing a finger at her.

May blinks once. "No." She said simply and loads a bullet in her rifle.

"Now, now girls, no fighting. Unless you want the four kingdoms to learn what you admitted to me. I bet you thought Cinder would kill me so you tried using that to distract me, right?" Alfarr asks.

Emerald turns her glare back at him. "You better shut your mou…put that chocolate bar down! I am not getting kissed by you again!" She yells as he had another bar. "Is there a sale going on?"

"Yes. Now behave you." Alfarr says.

Emerald growls before feeling a barrel up to her neck. "Try and use the illusion techniques and I will put a hole for you to breathe through." May warns.

Alfarr smirks as he starts eating. "So…here's what's going to happen. You will head back and finish your home. And we are going to find our investigation results. As for your guns, I'll leave them for you. A little gift." He said taking another bite and leans close to which Emerald backs off a bit.

May smiles a bit. "I'll even give you some bars to remember him by since you are so fond of him."

"You really want to give them away?" Alfarr jokes.

May chuckles. "Well…she did eat the piece you gave her. That tell you something and it's double the telling."

"So how are we giving her guns back to her?" Alfarr asks.

May smirks. "Present since she loves you. Might as well give it in a wrapped box."

"But we have no wrapping paper that size." Alfarr says.

"Then we will have to wrap her up." May says.

Emerald blinks. "Don't even." She said frowning.

May grins. "Look, she isn't into bondage."

"Cinder must be so disappointed." Alfarr jokes.

Emerald blushes heavily. "Shut up!"

May chuckles. "Look, even her shirt is loose for us."

"Ok we teased enough." Alfarr says.

Emerald growls. "Then give me back my guns."

"May, you heard her. The one that impersonated you." Alfarr says.

May nods and gives it back. "Don't make us regret it."

"Also ask the boytoy if he even has a pair." Alfarr says.

Emerald let's a snark through and stops and glares at him. "Do not say a word."

"Adorable." Alfarr says.

May snickers as she leads Alfarr away. "What do you think, a few months and you'll have her?" She asks him.

"Not interested as I have you." Alfarr whispers into her ear.

"Tease." May says.

"I try." Alfarr says.

Emerald huffs as she watches them leave and puts her weapons away. "He's something." She said to herself before taking out a bar and eating it. "Idiot." She said with her mouth full.

"Still…her ass is not bad." May says.

Alfarr raises an eyebrow to her. "You want her?"

"Well I will consider it." May says.

Alfarr shakes his head. "Now I know why I like you."

"Are you crazy?" Weiss asks after Alfarr and May came back. "You made a deal with them? How do you know if they will stick with it?"

"Well the fact I tell your sister something and the atlas military rain from the sky on them, but it is only for those two to stay out of our way this time." Alfarr says.

Weiss shakes her head. "Tell us before you do something crazy."

"To be fair, I was only going for a grunt." Alfarr says.

Blake sighs and closes the book. "Alfarr, please tell us what you are doing next that involves getting into danger."

"So when I go to the store?" Alfarr jokes to try and lighten the mood.

Ruby makes a book fly into his head. "Alfarr, please don't make us worry."

"Ok, ok. So any new info?" Alfarr asks.

"Nothing too much. Except there was a passage that read that the secrets lie with the creator." Weiss says.

"Could that mean his grave?" Alfarr asks.

Weiss shrugs. "No idea. It could be where he did all this stuff."

"Hum let's pay a visit to the grave for real just in case." Alfarr says thinking on it.

They all look to each other. "Does anyone know where it is?"

"I'll contact my sister and we will see." Weiss says.

"I'll go get my sister and the others." Ruby says.

Alfarr sighs as he looks over the books they left behind. "Huh. It's strange that I am in one of these places again. Last time was to read up on the many plants and creatures."

"So this is the grave huh?" Alfarr asks as the stood in the middle of the graveyard.

Weiss hums as she reads the tombstone. "Jodis Lore. Yep, this is him."

"The secret rest with him huh." Alfarr says thinking when something Weiss said earlier clicked in his mind. "Blood of the golem."

Weiss blinks and looks to him. "What?"

"Remember what you read in the library, blood of the golem?" Alfarr asks.

Weiss nods. "Yeah. The golem is activated by the blood. But you said he uses words and spells."

"But the golem didn't have blood. It was made of clay." Nadir says.

Alfarr hums. "Do you know the symbols then to make the name?" He asks Weiss.

"I think it's in your language." Weiss says before being struck by inspiration and gets some dirt and smears it over the tombstone.

"Talk about disrespecting the dead." Ruby quipped as Weiss writes in the dirt.

"Alfarr, is this how you write truth in the ancient tongue?" Weiss asks looking it over

Alfarr smiles as he looks closely at it. "Here. Missed a little swiped." He said grabbing her finger and makes a little swipe on one of the fingers. "There. That should do it."

"So did that…" Fox stopped when they felt rumbling before the lid slid off and revealed stairs.

"Huh, that did it and you can let go now." Weiss said smirking a bit.

"Clever. This isn't a grave, it's a hideout." Alfarr says.

Blake raises an eyebrow. "What makes you say that. You haven't even step on one step."

"Does this look like a grave?" Alfarr asks.

Yang rolls her eyes and looks away and whistles before pushing him down with her foot. "Yang!" Alfarr yells as he fell down the stairs.

Yang smirks before following him down with the rest. When they reached the bottom, they walked through a small hallway before they saw an empty roof with two different colored clay bricks on the floor. "Anyone else thinking a trap?"

Ruby kicks a loose rock and sends it toward the two different parts, but nothing happened.

"What do you think?" May asks.

"Step only on the lighter ones. The golems made from clay were made of Bortala river clay. It always dries light." The Minstrel instructor says.

Alfarr whistles as he watches as she fearlessly walks across the floor on the lighter ones. "She is smart. I didn't think of that." Alfarr admits.

Ruby smiles as she skips after her. "Come on guys."

The rest followed her as they walked through the doorway and came to another hallway, but shorter with a new door. "Can anyone pick a lock?" Alfarr asks.

Ruby clears her throat and takes out a hairpin before working on the lock. "Ruby…want to explain?" Yang asks frowning.

"I need cookies." Ruby said.

"Chocoate chip when we get done." Alfarr offered.

Ruby smiles greatly and unlocks the door. "Gimme my cookie." She cheers and goes over to Alfarr.

Alfarr smiles and rummages through his backpack for the cookies as the others go in.

Ruby cheers and takes the cookie and nibbles on it. "So good." She said muffled.

Alfarr chuckles as he pets her head. "Enjoy it my girl."

"I will if you are with me." Ruby says leaning against him.

Alfarr smiles and hugs her. "Good, but we better get going." He said rubbing her back.

"Alright." Ruby says as they walk in to see no materia, but papers and notes lots of them.

Alfarr hums as he looks around. "Anything?"

"I can't say. Can you read this?" Oobleck asks.

Alfarr walks over and shakes his head. "Nope. Can't read this."

"But, isn't it in your language?" Oobleck says.

"Yes, but it makes no sense." Alfarr says.

Blake leans over. "Maybe a slight mix up. Like a small jumble."

"No, I mean completely incoherently. Listen to this. Walk gorilla sun across the…" Alfarr takes a closer look. "Mustard?"

Reese blinks confused. "Um…"

"That is literally what this reads and that is with me trying to make sense of it." Alfarr says.

"Hum…code maybe?" Oobleck asks.

Alfarr sighs. "Let's grab what we can and we can figure it out later. This is not a good spot to stay in."

"Agreed." Winter says.

Alfarr raises an eyebrow at the old key sitting on the desk and takes it and looks it over. "Strange."

"What do you have there?" Sun asks.

Alfarr shrugs. "Just an old style key. Maybe it was to his lab since this is his study."

"Hum. You may be onto something as the materia are also not here." Qrow says before they heard a cry of pain.

"We got company it seems." Alfarr says.

Winter quickly peeks out. "Got some flashlights."

"I can guess who it is." Alfarr says unsheathing his swords and walking out. "I will deal with them. The papers and keys are the important things right now." Alfarr says.

"You heard him. Start packing." Winter calls as she gets an empty box.

"Who will be with him?" Coco asks.

"I will." Bake says walking out.

Alfarr sighs as he checks his blades. "Broke the promise, should have kept the guns."

"Come on, they have to be around here somewhere." A male voice says.

Alfarr shakes his head as he hides in the shadow and suddenly turns and holds a blade to someone's throat. "It's me." Blake whispered trying to push the blade away.

"Oh my neko, worried about me?" Alfarr whispers.

Blake frowns. "Alfarr, I just came to help. Now's not the time to flirt."

"Sorry, couldn't help it…so think any of them were killed by the trap?" Alfarr asks.

Blake shrugs. "Want to take a look?"

"It could be gruesome. You sure you want a look?" Alfarr asks.

Blake hums. "Maybe your choice then."

"I will spare you as some you might have known." Alfarr says reaching back to get a hold of her but missing.

Blake smirks. "Nope. Not happening here."

"I'm trying to find your hand." Alfarr says feeling around for it without taking his eyes off the door.

Blake rolls her eyes and grabs his hand. "There, happy?"

"Yes. I like holding your hand." Alfarr says as he sees movement.

Blake pushes him to the wall. "Let's just wait until they pass." She whispered.

"Oh my, it's boytoy." Alfarr says smirking as he lowers himself near his second sword which is laying on the ground.

They see Mercury frowns as he looks around. "I swear; someone is using my bad nickname."

Alfarr looks to Blake with a smirk his eyes asking. 'May I?'

Blake smiles and lets him go.

"Hey boy toy. Cinder called. She wants to know if you actually have a pair or if she should change the council to a female majority." Alfarr calls.

Mercury swings around and kicks in his general direction and fires a blast of air at him.

Alfarr laughs from the darkness. "I will take that as she needs to set the record straight as there are more females than males." Alfarr calls, letting the echoing confuse him.

"I thought it was always female. That girl is a guy?" Blake calls out with him.

Mercury yells out and starts kicking in every direction.

"Wouldn't that make his nickname Girltoy?" Alfarr asks generally unsure.

Blake hums. "I think that's doll."

Alfarr was silent for a while before a smile starts to form on his face as he tries to hold back laughter.

Blake grins. "Oh let it out. He doesn't care."

Alfarr burst out laughing as he fell over and kept roaring in laughter.

Mercury yells out and kicking around. "Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!"

"I can't breathe." Alfarr says wheezing.

Blake giggles to herself. "Man is he such a toy."

Alfarr continued till he got a good look at the ceiling. "Um…I think he might bring the whole thing down." Alfarr says.

"Yeah, let's go. I think he's angry enough." Blake said walking away.

"I think the ones that he brought with him also retreated so not to be hit." Alfarr says before they snuck away or more like Alfarr followed Blake.

"You dumb bastards!" Mercury keeps yelling as he tries to hit them in the darkness.

"So we get everything?" Alfarr asks.

Winter nods as she looks over a book. "Yes. We got mostly everything. Just the furniture that we can't carry."

"Well those wouldn't be too important." Alfarr says looking over the key they found.

Ruby leans on his shoulder. "So…what's the plan now?"

"If those notes are in code, then where to even start to find the cypher." Alfarr says thinking.

Yang leans her arm on his other shoulder. "Maybe his last diary entry."

"Well the dairy isn't in code. In fact, I think you can read it." Alfarr says handing her a pack of papers that are in an old fashioned bind.

Yang hums as she starts to read it a bit. "Yep. Might take a while. So you might as well look over your own language and try to figure it out for us." Yang says causing Alfarr to chuckle nervously. "You can do it…right?"

"Um…" Alfarr says stopping.

Coco bonks him on the head. "Get a grip. Start grabbing a dictionary and get to work."

"I can't. It's beyond me." Alfarr says lowering his head in defeat.

Coco sighs and starts petting his head. "I'll help. Now get moving boy."

"It's fine. We will send them along with the rest of what we find to the labs to be examined later." Winter says.

"That's right. I just thought of something. Is there any building from Lore's time still around?" Alfarr asks.

Winter hums as she flips through the travel book. "Strange. There is the capital building."

"Then I think we found the place this goes to if I am correct." Alfarr says smirking.

"Oh, that sounds like investigating." May says.

"Alright, I'll head out then. I'll take a few with me to investigate." Alfarr says.

The girls smile before Winter spoke up. "Separation makes the heart grow fonder. None of the girls go with you. But Velvet is allowed since it seems she is like a sister to you and that makes it better." She said smirking a bit.

"Right, Bolin, Pyrrha, and Ren should do as well." Alfarr says.

Pyrrha smiles as the girls become disappointed. "Great, we'll get ready and meet you at the door."

"Just walk with me." Alfarr says.

"Bolin, you know what I will do to you if my man gets hurt right?" Reese asks.

Bolin gulps and nods nervously.

"Behave while I am out Nora." Ren says.

Nora chuckles. "Sure. Just make sure to wear that dress. It looks cool."

"I don't wear a dress." Ren says as he and the rest of the group leave.

Nora tilts her head. "Then what was that Christmas present?" She calls.

"Nora!" Ren yells.

"So according to the staff and records, the attic hasn't been opened in centuries and also they never managed to break down the door." Alfarr says.

Ren hums. "Then I guess they never bothered with the wall."

"No, they tried that too, but nothing. Makes me wonder if it wasn't reinforced with the same energy used with the guardians and their powers." Alfarr says.

Phyrra smiles. "Then it's time to open a few hundred-year-old door."

"Yeah, and I think I have the key." Alfarr says holding it up.

Bolin sighs. "Please hide that. I don't think Reese would like it if you come back with a cut."

"Let's head there now." Alfarr says as they travel upstairs upon reaching the door, Alfarr stops. "Just to be sure, can one of you shoot the wall beside the door and see what happens?"

Bolin hums as he gets out his staff and carefully throws it before it bounced off and straight back at him and pins him to the wall with his shirt. "Ow." He groans.

"Ren, you mind showing us what your automatics can do?" Pyrrha asks as Alfarr and Velvet help Bolin.

Ren shakes his head and takes out his guns and fire at the wall to which it holds the bullets before he stops and the remaining shells drop to the ground. "That's one tough wall."

"More like a barrier." Alfarr says tossing Ren the key.

Ren catches it and goes to the door and looks at them. "If this throws me away, don't catch me." He said before unlocking the door and they heard some glass smashing before he opens it and a gust of wind rushes inside with the smell of stale wood coming out. "Stinks. Same effect."

"Look what I see." Alfarr says pointing out the three materia in the room.

Phyrra blinks. "Um…this is too easy. Just standing there in the room?"

"The barrier prevented anyone from going in without the key for centuries. I think that is enough of a defense don't you?" Alfarr asks.

Phyrra shrugs before carefully heading inside and looks around. "Just a big pedestal room. Nothing else."

"Who wants to try for them?" Alfarr asks.

Ren sighs and raises his hand before carefully walking in as he looks for tripwires or loose stone. "Who knew it was this much trouble for these creatures."

"They wouldn't be so protected if they were not powerful." Alfarr reminds.

Phyrra hums as she follows in his steps. "What about you? Are you not going to get another one?"

"Not everyone has one so I am going to let the others try and get one for themselves." Alfarr says.

Bolin sighs as he follows now as Ren reaches the first one. "What to expect with these?" He asks looking it over.

"You four did read up on the golems right?" Alfarr asks.

Phyrra shakes her head. "I think he means that of the test of the materia."

"Hard to say. For me it was blinding pain with Carby, but passing trails to get to the materia is how we got all those guardians including Chevalier. You are going to have to see." Alfarr says.

Bolin frowns as both him and Phyrra reach theirs. "Well…let's get this over with." Bolin said reaching out to his."

Ren also reaches his and the moment they touch them, the materia start to absorb into their hands. Soon all three fall to the ground yelling in pain from the materia fusing into them.

Alfarr sighs as he sits down and waits outside the door watching over them. "Just a few minutes."

"Reminds me of when you got Carby." Velvet says.

"You think this is the default test?" Alfarr asks.

Velvet shrugs. "Could be. Maybe not."

"You think they will pass?" Alfarr asks.

Velvet smiles as she leans her arm on his head. "Oh yeah. They have to since they are with us."

"Not necessarily. Every time you bond, you are rolling dice." Alfarr says.

"So what do you do when the odds are against you?" Velvet asks.

"Cheat." Alfarr says smirking.

Velvet bonks his head. "Alfarr."

"What? If you can't win a fight playing fair, you cheat." Alfarr says.

Velvet smiles and leans against him. "Then would you cheat with the girls?"

"No. I want to live." Alfarr jokes.

Velvet giggles. "Good. Because Coco would get you first and I'm sure you don't want that."

"No, Coco can be very sadistic." Alfarr says as the yelling started to quiet down.

Velvet sighs in relief as she lets her ears go back above her head. "That's better." She said messaging it.

"Want to check if they are breathing?" Alfarr asks.

Velvet peeks in a bit. "Sure, watch the hall." She said walking in.

Alfarr follows her in and starts looking around for anything of interest.

Velvet hums as she looks over everyone. "Looks like they are fine. Just need to wake them up." Velvet said slapping them slightly and makes them wake up a bit. "You okay guys?"

"Hum." Alfarr says thinking as he looks at a vase that was near a desk.

Ren groans as he sits up. "Hate it."

"Ah good, you're awake. I take it that means you now have a guardian of your own." Alfarr says.

Ren nods. "Guess so. So the others?" He asks looking around.

"Still out cold, but alive." Velvet says as Alfarr looks through the desk.

Ren sighs and looks to him. "What are you doing?"

"These are I think in the same code as those we took from the office." Alfarr says taking out some books.

Velvet walks over and looks at the contents. "Maybe this is the cipher."

"Possible, it will be for the researchers to figure out. Also, I like this vase. You think I can keep it?" Alfarr asks.

Velvet shakes her head. "He's dead. I don't think he would mind."

"Also what about the tool and workspace?" Alfarr says pointing them out.

Velvet sighs. "Let me call Winter and Oobleck." She said bringing out her scroll.

"I am so keeping this. I like it too much." Alfarr says.

Velvet shakes her head as she gets on the line. "Yeah, it's me. Alfarr here wants to take some things out."

Alfarr walks past with said vase.

"And he's already taking the vase." Velvet points out.

"We will be there soon." Winter says.

Velvet smiles as she grabs Alfarr's collar. "Good, because we need to study this place for the next one." She said making sure he didn't go anywhere.

"I am not going to start up the forge." Alfarr says.

Velvet just keeps up the grip. "He's getting antsy."