"You live here"?!

Blake stared, appalled at the rickety little shack in the centre of a ploughed up field full of turnips that apparently constituted a farm.

"Yup" said the old man simply. "It's been broken a lot though, so we needed to patch it up."

Ruby turned her head towards the old guys face, looking puzzled.

"We"?

The old man chuckled; clearly embarrassed that he had forgotten to mention he didn't necessarily live alone, though the old man didn't think that his friend would be home.

"Someone shares it with me, but he never stays for long" the old man explained. "He comes every now and then for some food and then goes back to training."

Crossing the turnip laden ground while carrying this old man wasn't easy, but the two girls managed to haul him to his front door and awkwardly lower him into a chair on the porch. He leaned back and exhaled deeply.

"Thank you, thank you both" the old man bowed his head to Ruby and Blake. "Please stay as long as ya like."

Blake had already turned to go, but Ruby stayed put, shuffling her feet. Her face looked nervous and kind of embarrassed.

"Um…can I ask you something mister..."?

"Goku, but some of my friends used to call me Son" the old man smiled, and Ruby was glad she could stop mentally referring to him as 'strong old guy.'

Blake was looking restless and eager to get back to civilization. She kept pacing and tapping her foot, her lips tight.

"Mr. Goku, I have a favour to ask"

"Shoot"

"Could you please show us how you-"

"KAKAROOOOT"!

Ruby was cut off by a booming voice coming from inside the house. It sounded sharp and irritable, and promptly scared the living hell out of Ruby, causing her to dash behind Blake. Blake simply stood fast, her hand on her weapon as the rugged old door exploded open. The short figure in the door frame was another old man with untidy black hair, but this one had a large widow's peak and a look on his face that could turn milk sour. A vein was throbbing unpleasantly in his temple, he was bearing his teeth and his fists were clenched.

"Oh, I guess he's home after all" said Goku calmly.

The angry shouting man stormed out onto the porch and walked furiously over to where Goku was sitting, completely ignoring the two strange girls. His anger didn't seem to worry Goku at all.

"I told you that pork was mine!" the angry man raged at Goku, who looked as though he was attempting to remember something. "You idiot, you brainless moron, yo-"!

The man halted his rant momentarily as he noticed the two bewildered young ladies, who had been slowly backing away as the angry little man had grown into a towering temper. His expression became slightly looser as his eyebrows raised.

His stare made Blake's sword had start to sweat, though she was hardly going to release it. Ruby was peering out from behind her, nervously.

"Who the hell are you supposed to be"!? He shot at the girls, who were rooted to the spot. The man wasn't making any kind of threatening gesture, he was standing quite stationary. But an intangible aura of power emanated from him as he yelled.

"Well, spit it out"! He rounded on Goku again, his voice a little angrier at addressing him again. "Hey- Kakarot"!

Goku looked up suddenly, an embarrassed look on his face. "Oh yeah, that pork was yours- sorry about that."

The short guys expression contorted even further at this dopey response, he was clearly at the end of his tether. Blake could literally feel Ruby shaking as she hid behind her, and Blake didn't blame her. There was an oddly powerful force in the air, something she had only felt once before, while fighting Ada-

"PAY ATTENTION CLOWN, WHO THE HELL ARE THESE INGRAITS"?!

"I owe these girls, Vegeta" Goku said happily, but a pained expression worked its way onto his face, as though he knew he was about to be told off by the teacher. "See this guy was trying to mug me in an ally, but these two jumped in and took care of him." Vegeta looked back at the two huntresses, sneered and looked slowly back at Goku with an expression of the deepest disgust.

"How in the hell did you get to be such a pathetic weakling"?! He spat, disapproval palpable in his voice.

"I told you last time" Goku said with a sad smile. "Chichi."

A long silence rang out over the porch. Ruby and Blake didn't know who Chichi was, but this was enough to make someone as bad tempered as this Vegeta guy look slightly guilty at his choice of words.

"You…y-you know that's not what I meant" Vegeta scowled as he turned away, his anger miraculously diffused. Instead he turned to the two huntresses and spoke, his anger mounting now that he wasn't looking at Goku. "You have no business here, so get lost"!

"We were just leaving"! Blake shot back angrily; she didn't like this guy's attitude but couldn't shake that palpable feeling of power he emitted. "Come on Ruby."

Blake had already turned to go, pulling Ruby by her cape, encouraging her to follow. This guy was clearly not in the mood for saying 'thank you'. Ruby may have objected if Goku had not done it first.

"Hey, hang on a second." Goku was on his feet again and walking forward with a courteous smile. "I think the least we could do is feed you both."

Both of the girl's stomachs gave an ironically timed growl at this proposition. It was true that neither of them had eaten in a long time. The fall of beacon had robbed them of any kind of breakfast and they had been too worried for their lives to eat dinner the previous day. Due to these difficult circumstances, Blake and Ruby felt heavily inclined to take a free meal. But the looming threat of this Vegeta was still causing an involuntary trembling in the pit of their stomachs as well.

However, Vegeta did not yell or object in any way, he simply looked at Goku with a furious scowl and disappeared back into the house. I suppose that was his way of saying 'oh fine then'. Blake was still a little apprehensive but her stomach was really starting to hurt and she also had Ruby's wellbeing to worry about too. She decided she had to accept once Ruby had run up to Goku and grabbed his hand with a grateful glittery look in her hungry eyes.

"Oh my god thank you, it's been so long since we last had food". She then turned to Blake and started waving at her and shouting for her to come over. "Blake it's okay, THEY HAVE FOOD"!

With a slight smile at the absurdity of all this, Blake did follow Ruby and all three disappeared into the little house.

The Ursa had done pretty well in defending itself over the years; it had survived long enough to assist in taking down beacon. However, it didn't seem that all of those victories were going to help it, as it was held down by the boot of a very angry Adam Taurus. In a fit of rage, the Ursa was impaled through the chest and flung over the Cliffside of beacon academy.

Adam stood there for a moment, clutching his Katana and breathing heavily. He couldn't stand it, he had been so close and she had somehow escaped. He could remember exactly how it had happened, even though the whole thing probably only lasted for about 5 seconds. After her busty blonde friend had been…disarmed, his attention had fallen back on his beloved. But just before he could finish her off, a strange red mist appeared in front of her and a series of small red things hit him in the face, obstructing his view and caused his blade to cut a beam that was holding up part of the ceiling.

As the ceiling had started to crumble in on itself, he had seen two things, his beloved in the arms of some human in a red cloak, and that loudmouth bitch from before lying unconscious on the other side of the room…it the arms of someone he instantly recognised. White hair, dust weapon, blue eyes and a scowl that could make a lemon seem the sweetest thing in the world. It was a Schnee. Adam had not known what to do for a change. True his beloved Blake took priority, but he would've taken great satisfaction in gutting that other bitch as well.

Unfortunately, there was no time to make a choice, the ceiling had already fallen in and had created a great stone barrier that separated him from his prey. Once victory had been secured, He had ordered a full search of Beacon academy, trying to find either of the two pairs, but to no avail.

'It doesn't matter how far you run…I will always find you, my dear' Adam thought wolfishly to himself. His scouts had just arrived in the empty food court in which Adam had been venting his anger.

"Have you found anything" Adam demanded of his scout leader, who stood in crisp salute. He did have any news that his boss wanted to hear.

"Blake is gone, so is the red huntress. No sign of the other two eithe-"

The scouts report, as well as his torso was cut short by Adam's blade slicing through him. His expression did not have time to even change as his top half slid to the already bloodstained floor.

"Useless"! Adam spat as he walked away in search of something else to vent upon. He doubled back, intent on taking out his aggression on the other scout, who recoiled in fear as he belted out the only piece of information he had.

"I saw something weird in the sky as we swept the city."

Adam stopped his advance, but kept his hand on his blades hilt as he listened. The scout knew that his head would be rolling on the floor in mere seconds if he didn't get this information out quickly.

"I saw some old guy flying towards some grassland just outside of vale, in the direction of that old guy who's been giving us trouble."

While this information stayed Adams blade, it did nothing to improve his temper.

"How could a human be flying, you idiot"?!

"I don't know" The scout was starting to sweat, Adam tended to get a little overzealous when partaking in interrogations. "But that guy who lives over there has been resisting us for a while so…"

"SO WHAT"!

"So maybe… maybe she's gone to hide out with him."

The scout expected at best more verbal abuse at this theory, at worst a quick slice and a loss of life. However Adam responded to this information with that macho, gaze into the distance, introspective look that he often had when delivering propagandise speeches.

"So she hides with my enemies…how like you to break my heart again, my dear Blake…"

He then turned to his scout again, with a psychotic smile on his face. Clapping his hand on the scout shoulder, he sent him to make plans to storm the grass lands.

"We trample anything in our way until we find her. Bring her to me alive."

The scout bowed and sprinted from the room, almost tripping over his dead commanding officer in his haste. Adam walked over to the balcony and gazed into the distant horizon, looking existential again.

'I love you…but I cannot let a traitor live, every breath you took from the moment you ran has been an indictment on our cause. And now my darling, you pay for your ignorant sacrilege...with your pretty little neck.'