-The Cherry Tree-

Loki and Bean, the latter makeup is running off as Loki is tired as hell. Both are looking at a hallway with Kimura petting the Sanctum student leader, Ringo Minoru from a fight. 'What the hell happen here?' Bean ask.

'I'll take one guess; someone must had pissed off Black', Loki observes the damage.

'If the Faunus is name Black, then yes, it's that horned bastard', a smooth and handsome young man came up to Loki and Bean, 'Sabre Redlock. Second in command here in the Minoru-gun', Sabre offer his hand to both.

Loki didn't shake his hand but Bean accepted the offer, 'Bean Jackson. And this is my friend, Loki Flair. The Hel Fire'

'Pleasure to meet you both' Sabre nods. 'Animals, right?', looking back to his leader, 'One moment we were chilling in our rooms. And the next moment, they knock on their door and act like they own the place. This animal seems to act like he's the greatest man of all time because he could afford to go to Atlas Academy. Since he's a Bull Faunus, like Horses, Rabbits, I bet he's acting like he's some kind of a sex master, right?'

'Kind of racist since not all Horse and Bull Faunus are hung...' Bean spoke up for Adam.

Loki taps on her shoulders, 'Actually if I remember correctly from Faunus History and Biology, some Faunus genes do have actual animal traits that can be replicate to human organs, and personality traits'

'See, this Bull wants to act like he's the greatest thing but we told that catnip downstairs that he cause this. She told me that she'll filed a complaint to the group at the top suite in a few hours or so. Honestly, I doubt her but I guess for a village chief, she's not that useful' Sabre talk down about Kimura.

'Well I'll make sure that Black will get the message', Loki pulls out coal from his pocket, 'Hey, Black... I'll be heading upstairs that I've been told to go', both Loki and Bean walk upstairs

'Oh!' Sabre is shocked, 'So you're living with the rich brat, Officer Kiss Ass, and the other animals upstairs? God, I don't envy anyone who have to sleep with that wolf understairs'

Loki stop with an annoyed face. He walk back to Sabre. Bean stay with Loki who asked, 'What do you mean by the wolf?'

'Oh! Yeah, no man wouldn't date a tall, dark, got hands of a lumberjacker, but more scarier than is that she's a Wolf Faunus. She could eat anyone without a problem', Sabre talked down to Mary in front of Loki's face.

'It's a good thing you didn't say that in her face, because she could eat you. I've seen before', Loki casually talk to Sabre as equals.

'You get it!' Sabre pat on Loki's back.

'You should see her boyfriend', Loki placed his arm around Sabre as both seem to understand one another, 'Her boyfriend is a hot headed asshole. Always pick fights against people to show off', Loki created a horned crown afterwards.

'Damn, it'll be sad if it's one of those Furries', Sabre doesn't noticed Loki's horned crown.

'Furries? The term of Humans that are in a interspecies relationship with a Faunus?', Loki asks.

'Yeah. So any Human with any self-respect can do is just hang themselves or kill themselves for such action', Sabre smiling as he's feeling the heat. 'Where is this heat coming from...', Sabre finally noticed the blue fire horned crown. 'Crap'. Loki smiles as he stretches his arm out with an open palm.

-The Honeycomb Farmhouse-

Madison is using her Tech Bees is help her fly towards her old family farmhouse. Including the Tech Bees functions, she uses Water Dust with shampoo to help her to wash her hair quickly with using both one of the Bee Tech to blow dry her hair from the quick wash, which she was sweating from the furnace work, wiping her pits with tissue then swipe with deodorant. Quickly apply some perfume. 'Damn it! Why the hell did you had to make it sun-esqe in that place, Flair! One of these days, I'm gonna kill you if you ruin this night for me!', Madison angrily spoke out loud to herself.

-The Cherry Tree: Deluxe Suite-

Harriet is sitting alone out in the balcony, looking miserable as she keeps shifting her eyes till Mary, Winter and Autumn came to join her with a few cups of tea while there's some loud noise coming from downstairs. 'Care for a cup?', Mary suggest while holding it while activating her Cotton Hands.

Harriet grabs the cup, 'Thanks, Mary'.

'So what got you beat up, Private Bree?', Autumn asks

'Well...', Harriets slurps her drink, 'It's about Moon'

'Was it about Worthy?', Mary wonders.

'Worthy... You mean Private Flair's weapon?', Autumn sips.

'Moon lift it up and Hare here was trying to lift it up', Mary quickly explain it to Autumn. 'I bet she's wondering on how she could be behind her, even all this time'

'Correct. Here I thought if I could slow down till we rescue Moon, we could restart from the beginning as proper rivals and a proper couple. But I was wrong. When I saw her lifting up Worthy, I've waited too long because she obviously got stronger while I was just waiting in the front of the finish line. But when I realize that she's already in the next lap and I mistaken that cross as the final lap. I don't know...', Harriet place her cup at the side to buried her face on her knees.

'If it makes you feel better, you're the fastest among us', Mary tries to cheer her up.

'Is that it?' Harriet asks while keeping her face buried.

'What else you want to hear?', Winter asks

'Um...', Harriet looks up to them, 'Prettiest. Strongest. Smartest. I would like to hear those too, please'

'You want the truth or do you want those with sugar coating?' Mary gives Harriet an option.

'Now come on, Private Wool. Isn't that a bit harsh? Because every women has a hidden beauty', Autumn also trying to bring Harriet spirits up.

'No sugar please', Harriet answered.

'Well first, you're no Winter when it comes to the prettiest and don't know if it's that God-awful hairdo there. But at least you got yourself a girlfriend that's a score point for you', Mary answered the first one.

'See!', Autumn clap her hands together, 'Every women has a hidden beauty'

'Strongest? Yeah right! You barely could lift up Worthy and you're an Enhancer-Based. And every time someone challenge you to an arm wrestling contest, you chicken out and keep claiming you're the strongest. As for smartest... you're a complete dumbass, and if Bean wasn't in class with us, you would be in last place. You even write a random answer trying to beat everyone in class by finishing up the exam the fastest', Mary answered the other two.

'Well at least you weren't too harsh on her', Autumn goes next to Harriet.

'If Bean catch up, then you'll finally be the dumbass of the class', Winter pokes at Harriet.

Mary continues, 'Plus personality wise, you're absolutely the worst. You post pictures of every girl underwear online. You send me away with fake gay ship baiting back at Mistral...'

Winter finished, 'You trash rooms. Speaking of which, you tend to clean your own room. You throw temper tantrums when you lose. You reek of sweat and body odor. You snore but pretty much you and Mary tend to snore but we got used to it. Still haven't forgiven you about posting my private underwear collection!'

'What about her actual positive things about Private Bree?' Autumn request.

'Well she got fighting spirit and sometimes her stubborness might be a good thing in some occassions. In fact, her here is showing how much she want to see this through the end' Winter walk up to pet Harriet's head.

'Hey!', embarrassed. Harriet tries to keep her hair up after Winter pets her, 'It take awhile to keep this hair up. I had to use hair gel for it'. The noise gets louder, 'What the hell is that noise?!', all the ladies decided to go downstairs to see what's causing the noise.

-The Honeycomb Farm-

Adam watches to see the cherry tree glows and blooms from the glow of the moon as the lake reflection to increase the glow. Adam's face is battered and bruised from his fight with Minoru-gun. 'Lump hill looks pretty at night'. Adam pulls out his folder for the Siege of the Menagerie Desert. 'We'll be located on Kuo Kuana as a stand-in', Adam is looking at the participants from Atlas Military School; Adam Black, Loki Flair, Madison Honeycomb, Mary Wool, Winter Schnee and Zozo Geel. 'Marq will be there, so I guess we can survive without Harriet for now. But sucks to see that Harriet isn't part of this unit'.

'Adam!' Madison calls out. Adam close his folder to see Madison breathing heavily. 'It's good that you...' Madison noticed Adam's face, 'What happen to your beautiful face!'

'I just got onto another fight' Adam answered.

'With who? It can't be with Flair... did Mary trying to shove your face into another boy's face?' Madison asking for details.

'Just... some Humans', Adam look away embarrassed over it. 'You're looking ravishing tonight, Maddie', complimenting Madison's look.

'Oh!' Madison blushes rapidly, 'It's something I had to do on the last minute'. Madison uses her Bee Tech to fly up to the open to Adam's side, 'Let me help you clean you up'. Madison start to help cleaning Adam up.

Adam let Madison clean up his face with the usage of her Bee Tech. 'So...' Adam looks at Madison's gloves, 'How did you became neutered?' Adam worries.

'Here. During one summer, my family were simple bee farmers and made decent Lien making honey. We made a decent living but when met this Snake Faunus family. They were homeless and got the Anima treatment of Faunus, getting a beating. We welcome them home. At first, I was nervous and scare of them but after a week we got a long well. But it was during one day, when I came back from town, that's where I saw them. My entire family had been killed. I saw their bodies laying on the floor, covered in blood and honey. Eight years I had kept that memory. And every time I had to come here, all I see is their bodies, blood covering the entire farmhouse' Madison tell her story with an expressionless eyes.

Adam looks back and feel wrong, 'Perhaps a change a scenery would be wonderful? Because if this brings you all the trauma then maybe being here won't help'

'It's alright. Because I wanted to confront this with someone I deeply care about. I don't mind being here', Madison spoke calmly. 'As for years I continue living from either Vale or Mistral, I always wind-up back here. As a reminder of my starting line. Before I start going to combat school, I found them. During my time alone, I discovered my Semblance and I wanted to show them the same gratitude that they show to my parents. But when I got them alone, and since they're little devils, nobody won't miss them. When I got them alone, I injected my Venom and applify it to cause a negative reaction to them. Since they're a couple Vipers I wanted to see if it's true about them. I skin them alive'. Adam sees Madison eyes contraction with pure hatred and anger towards a certain species of Faunus. 'I made sure it's slow, and I inject a different kind of Venom into their brains so I can make sure everything they feel will hurt and ever lasting pain while I peel their skin. As for their son... I made sure he watches what I did to them. I made sure he'll feel what I had went through. Feel the tauma his family did to me. And I killed them' Madison expression went from hatred to remorse. 'Then when I saw him in fear, it reminds myself on how I felt. So I went into hiding and left to Atlas'

'But...' Adam trying to process the story, 'That doesn't explain how you became a neutered'

'Well when I first report it, nobody didn't want to do anything for an all Faunus crime. And when I'm tired of seeing my parents not getting the proper justice, and all the memories of me being bullied by other Faunus for being an Insect Faunus, my mind finally snap. I ripped my own stingers out of my fingers. I had cried and bleed everywhere. I succumb into a devil that the Humans say what we are. Being called a Devil and being what the Humans afraid the most, it broke me to join the Humans side by ripping away my stingers to join the... winning side of life', Madison looks at her gloves that have tiny tubes going into her stinger holes.

Adam holds her hand, gently remove her gloves. Adam sees her hands, 'Listen Maddie, I don't really condone what you did to the Viper Faunus but I'll continue to be at your side. Even when I get my Huntmen Lisence, maybe we all could open up a company or continue travelling with this group to make changes. We are having this Anima's Parade'

'What about White Fang duties?' Madison asls about Adam's job.

'Yeah, but our group of friends could be the first of unionization between Faunus and Humans. We are just a bunch of odd kids going to take on a notorious underground criminal organization that's consider as an urban myth. If Bean is here, she would be overjoy about this journey is like her manga stories. And knowing her, it would be like comparing herself as a main character and we're her side characters', Adam joke about the latter. 'You know... Before I join the Military School, I've spend five years, lost all over Remnant with no hope of a future. For five years... been running away as a coward. And to me, perhaps me abandoning my family haven't been the best thing from that riot. When I enroll into the Military School, I was a timid little boy, but after a year spending with you all, I found that courage. And my plan was always finding the Pound and rescue them all. When Mr. Belladonna tells me that sometimes a plan takes time, and as long they understand the rules of the Pound, they'll survive till us the Bullet Parade, the White Fang and a few selective to save them all. That was... until I saw Sable, that's where I became conflicted over it. I don't want to kill him but after a dream about him and his friends, something tells me that this story doesn't have a happy ending because we might end up fighting as a bunch of animals we truly are, because the only way to save them is to kill them', Adam looking sadly toward Cherry Tree Island.

'It must be trauma due of being a Recoil-Based Semblance. Your kind of Semblance Class are easy to suffer traumatic and psychological effect', Madison reminds him of the Semblance Classification.

Shay cry is heard from Hana with Adam start laughing. 'Oh! It hurts to laugh...', Adam hold his ribs, 'But it's worth it to hear Shay find out what he's dealing with', Adam continue to laugh.

Madison is confused over this development till Adam whisper in her ear. Madison started laughing, even laying on her back to laugh with the movements of a giggling schoolgirl, 'Really?! A Hyena Faunus?', Madison got up.

'Yeah!'. Adam is trying to stop to laugh, 'But at least Shay got some good taste since she's very foxy looking', Adam stop laughing and his happy expression turn scare due of Madison immediately sat up with a horrifying expression, glaring at Adam. 'Sorry'. Both teens are being awkward for a bit till Adam brought up a topic. 'So tell me about the lake around the hill lump'

'It's an island', Madison corrects him. 'There's an old story about this lake. A father who son got caught up in a storm, the father instructed the Huntsmen and Huntresses to save his son from the storm. The father caught in the storm and disappeared underwater. For nearly three days the storm rages till it finally went away. It was revealed when they found his body that he spend his three days fighting a serpent Grimm. It wasn't as big as the Sea Feilong but it was a worm Grimm called Nidhogg. It lives under the island till the father lure it away. Some say he lure it to the original cave that the Fenrir Beowulf that resides. The father had fought it and trap it into the cave where it dies. Multiple Huntsmen and Huntresses, being led by a man named Harper, went there to find the body of the father who fought it at the nearby beach. They killed it. But since the death of the Nidhogg Grimm, the Cherry Tree started to find new life since it was dying. The Huntsmen and Huntresses decided to give the father a proper Huntsmen burial as a hero. Hana has a history but Cherry Tree Island blooms over to show that no matter how much tragedy there are, it'll cast a light on them to show everyone there's goodness in people's hearts'

'So does both Nidhogg and Fenrir corelate to one another? Since they're located around that area?' Adam curious about Grimm

'Both Grimm did but since both are Alpha levels, they fought whoever the main Alpha' Madison answered.

'So I'm gonna say we're fighting Fenrir, right?' Adam wonders

'Correct. From my research, Fenrir is a powerful Beowulf', Madison pulls out the profile till she put it away. 'But aways, I'm not here for work, I'm here for fun and pleasure', Madison blushes heavily.

'Honestly, I would love that. Because I'm just tired of being overwork from both the White Fang and a Bandit life. Teaching Ghira's daughter on self-defense which...', Adam got up and grabs Wilt, 'Time to find your sword dance'

Madison got up, 'sword dance?'

'Join me down there, my darling', Adam jumps from the second floor and onto the grass. Madison uses her Bee Tech to glide down. 'To me, sword play is like a dance. An improvised dance where it depends on the partner and their weapon of choice. Since your Bee Tech can help you on the footing since you're more of an ariel assualt and tactics, learning sword play will be tough. Let me see what you can do', Adam draws Wilt and placed Blush down to the side. It's in an ready position. Madison pulls out two thin swords that ressembles bee stingers, trigger holes on the handles with two Bee Tech with triggers that stay near Madison. Madison stretch out one sword forward while reverse grip, pressed her hand onto chest. 'We're gonna do this slowly'. Adam walk up to Madison with an overhead swing, slowly. Blocks it with a her forward sword. Goes for a swing with a backhand. Turn Wilt to a down position to block the swing. Grab Madison free hand to swing around inwards to the other swords then softly lift Madison around that made her to left the Stingers down to the ground. Adam steps back, acting like he withdraw the sword. 'Okay... but use your Bee Tech to help you with your footing and air footing'. Madison grab the Stingers. They repeat the same actions, slowly but Madison decided to stand on her Stingers then use her Bee Tech to aid her to twirl in the air to stand behind Adam. Lift up both Stingers with an X cross. Adam continue to defend himself with Wilt. Quickly spins his body to his side to switch hands of Wilt, pushing himself inwards to force Madison to flip around him while using the blades as leverage and dedicating her movement with a push from the inside arm. Madison rolls but drop both Stingers. Adam hold one of the Stingers onto Madison's neck. 'Good try but you gotta be smarter here'. Adam passes a Stinger to Madison. 'Let's try again'. Adam and Madison gets into a ready position. They dance again.

-Pound Trap Location-

Sable are playing cards nearby Moon, then Charlotte gives the Lovehart sisters their meal. 'Thanks, Webster' Moon is grateful for the meal. Charlotte nodded. Misty start eating rapidly while Moon looks around to watch Sable playing cards as she eats. 'I can understand why Adam is the way he is, but I can't see why you lot tend to side with your captors. The abusement that you all had suffer. Your Faunus traits are gone, abandoning what made you... well... you', Moon is trying to ask for reasons.

Marlin spoke as he let Charlotte play his hand to allow him to talk to the Loveharts, 'You're a devil, right? You must understand why we must had done it. Because we're tired of losing. We're tired of being treated like we're garbage. We're tired of everything'

'Then have you ever thought of joining the White Fang if you're tired of losing? I don't advocate Khan's ideology of using fear to create their equality but I think they might fight a good fight as Mr. White had did once', Moon trying to convince Marlin to join the White Fang.

Marlin scoff it off. 'What they fight for is their own superiority. It will damage the word of Faunus. Wanna know why? Because they didn't fought for us. They didn't sacrifice their lives for us. When we were all dying. Crying in the dark. Each chain whip to remind us that we live under oppression. When me and my family found a Moonite Rock, we were treated such royalties, they believe we could find more but couldn't. Taurus and I took our younger brothers and sisters. When Taurus finally couldn't take more of it, during a small riot six years ago, Taurus took it'

'Six years ago?' Moon analyze the story, 'But what Adam told us and the Headmaster is that he left the Pound and went straight to Atlas'.

'He wasn't that great when it comes to directions at first, but knowing him, he must had gotten lost. Must had been a side effect to his Recoil-Based Semblance', Marlin answered.

'Trauma', Moon added.

Marlin nodded. 'Yes. So he had been spending five years alone in the woods and in cities, wondering. But I didn't tell the full story of his family at the Zodiac Orphanage. When we were lost in the wilderness, our brothers and sisters were complaining and trying start bickering. Their bickering and fighting with the mixtured of the abusement from either mentally or physically, cause my mind to snap. My Semblance woke up and it help me to butchered them all, spew them into a pot, and I start boiling them all under that juniper tree. I ate them all, and when I saw the water reflection on my action, all I saw is a Devil. I don't recall anyone in Human history that goes cannibal and seeing that much blood I covered myself, I came to accept death'. Marlin shows off his Pound citizenship as the letter P on his hand, 'As I try my best to find the Pound since the rule of going back to the Pound is sentence to death'. Marlin sat down while leaning on the wall. 'When I found Narren Gold and met Titaness, Thelma Dawn. Didn't know she was part of the Pound till she mentioned it. I told her that I want death but she convinced me to join the academy'

'And...' Misty walks up to the bars, 'Why join the academy?'

'Because when I first our boss, Dr. Merlot, and back then before being the Admiral, the Commander told me that if I join, I'll help Faunus. I know living in the Pound is a lie but managed to convinced me that if we didn't go, we all would had live a life in there. During my first day, I met Oink... um... Rexe. So we set out on the mission of going through either capturing and killing Faunus. When we finally confront Belladonna, it turns out that they never fight for us. After that when we return to base, the Admiral, the Titans, even the Humans welcome us back and treated us like family. We felt accepted since the White Fang didn't want to save us'

'And your missing traits?' Misty looks at Marlin's head.

Marlin turns his head, 'Like the Admiral, we ate our traits to show our loyalty'.

-The Honeycomb Farm-

The sword dance ended with both sword users slide their blades upwards, both arms stretching upwads. Madison landing a kiss onto Adam. He been caught off guard and blushes. Madison side step to trip Adam back. Madison pierced the ground with an X across his neck. 'Good work, my darling'. Adam smiled as Madison removes her Stingers from his neck. Both of them play it off. 'But remember, your opponent won't give you a chance to let out'.

'But if I keep practicing this simple sword dance, I'll be a sword master as you', Madison smiled as she compliment Adam's sword skills.

'I'm no sword master. You should see Ms. Branwen, and I heard some girl at Argus is some kind of a prodigy as a sword user. I'm just decent on the sword', Adam downplay his own skills.

'But nobody isn't as skilled as you, Adam', Madison withdraw her swords. 'And as for the kiss...', Madison blushing heavily, 'There's something I wanted to tell you...', Madison struggle to find her words as she blushes rapidly and starting to stutter. 'But you get what I'm getting, right?'

'Nope', Adam answered which surprised Madison. 'But would you care to dumb it down for me?'

'Okay...' Madison trying to come up with the proper words till she spew it out, 'Do you want to be my boyfriend?'

Deadpan expression, 'Aren't we friends already? Because you're a girl and you're a friend, you're like a girl friend to me'. Madison is caught surprised till Adam start snickering, 'I'm joking! Of course I would love to be your boyfriend', Adam smiled. 'I can be dense at times but I'm not that dense'. Madison went from shocked to complete joy from Adam's answer. She tackle him down with a hug. 'Ouch!' Adam is hurt from Madison tackle.

-Jasmine-

Iris is looking over the barnyard window due of no Faunus accepting motels. Iris is keeping eye on both Jillian and Abigail activities, which is Jillian trying to force Abigial to strip and interact with some boys. The Fox waitress present her some food. 'Sorry for not being a lavish meal, hope you don't mind leftovers'. Iris didn't bother looking at the meal but grab some chop sticks and continue to watch them, without saying it. The Fox waitress trying to act like she's sweating, 'You know... here at Hana, it gets hot and sweaty, so I recommend on wearing something light'. The Fox waitress is trying to stir up a conversation. Iris gives her a thumbs up as way to reply to her. The Fox waitress goes downstairs while stripping. Iris didn't bother on that because she kept her eye onto the targets. Iris received a text from Khan, reading that a few White Fang agents are around Jasmine, keeping patrol. Iris quickly finished up her meal and start going downstairs to join the Fox waitress.

-Hana-

Adam and Madison return to Hana, holding hands. Both of them are seeing a huge fight is being cause by blue flames. Both Bullet Parade and Minoru-gun are fighting. Winter is running with Bean, 'Wint... I mean Noelle! What the hell happen?!'

Winter runs passed with her luggage while Bean stop, breathing heavily to explain it to Adam and Madison. 'First off... congratulations! Secondly... Loki just started a fight with a guy name Sabre over Mary and...' explosion is heard. Sabre is outmoving Zack. 'Thirdly... since Noelle transaction didn't went through, at least we won't be facing fees, but Noelle did sign a check for the cost though...'

Bean continue to talk till Adam look over her shoulder and sees Minoru, 'Hold that thought, Ms. Jackson...', grabs Bean's pick axe and turn it into a pistol, 'I got to beat some more respect to this one asshole. Maddie...', Adam turns to Madison, 'Take whoever to your barnhouse because Lokie and I will be coming home late'. Adam runs up to Minoru to get into a fight.

Madison and Bean are seeing both boys engage into a fight. Adam goes up to Minoru to fight.