I woke up late the next day hoping that the events of the night before were just a dream. Two things told me otherwise. The black and green ring contrasting on my belt of rings was one. The pounding head from Mana fatigue was the other. Fun fact while Aura DOES help in the healing process, you know soothing aches and pains, stopping bleeding, closing wounds. It DOES NOT help with certain side effects like exhaustion or hangovers.

What I was feeling was a bit of both. When I overuse my Mana and dip DEEP into my reserves I always feel it afterwards. I may not have drained it dry but I could feel now that I was starting to get close. Funny thing is that like exercising your muscles if you do dip deep into those reserves (and live) you can usually expect your reserves to do an immediate increase versus the gradual increase from just using a manageable amount of magic daily. Again think like weight training.

-So, what do you think Dragon? Will they get us back?-

*Knowing Beast and that giant cat are working on this? One of two things will happen. One, he'll dumb luck his way into it working. Or two, he'll come through himself, get stuck himself, then starve and die because there are no Phantoms for him to devour.*

-That's pretty harsh but you're right. He's kind of dumb. Like an idiot savant.-

After that I took his ring and placed it on my belt.

*Griffin, Please!*

With that a small green tray of translucent parts floated into existence in front of me. Parts of arms, legs, wings, a body and head separated from the tray and clicked together into a small creature. I then inserted the ring into a slot on the creature's back and it solidified. The arms, wings, and part of the head still see through but solid like gems. the rest had become solid gold colored. The small creature chirped to life and started to fly around the room

"Good to see you again Griffin. Its nice to see an old friend. You might want to stay by me, I don't want to lose you." The small creature just chirped in response and started to fly/orbit around me. Just then my scroll went off. A new message from Ozpin received. 'Report to my office immediately'. It read out.

"Well it looks like 'Uncle' wants a word. Lets go introduce you to him."

A few minutes later as we were climbing onto the elevator. Dragon roared to get my attention.

*Magnus do you feel that? There's a weird feeling coming from below...* I took a moment to focus with my senses and my Semblance.

-Yeah, I feel it. It's faint, and fading slightly? Feels a little familiar too...what is it?-

*It's someone I believe. Someone who possesses magic, like us. It's new though, it was not here the day before.*

Before we could dwell on it any longer, a ding alerted us that we had reached Ozpin's office. He sat there, with Qrow next to him drinking from his flask.

Magus, nice of you to join us. We need to talk. Does a night club named 'The Club' ring any bells?

* "Fuck" * Both Dragon and I harmonized

One verbal telling off later...

"I see, so you were just minding your business and then decided to try an stop a blonde on a rampage and revealed your transformed state to the public?"

"Kind of...? I did have my hoodie up and I don't think she saw my face"

"So you believe. May I see that jacket for a moment?"

"Umm sure?" I took of my jacket and had barely sat in my chair before the dinging of the elevator nearly made me jump back out of it. When I peeked around my chair my heart dropped at who I saw getting out of the elevator.

* "Double Fuck" *

"Hello Headmaster Ozpin? My pops said was called here regarding my application to Beacon?"

"Yes Miss Xaio Long, I was expecting you. Please take a seat. This is my nephew Magus Noir. We're just in the middle of a check-in, so feel free to disregard his presence here."

"Oooookay, so what's up teach? Gonna accept me without initiation because how bad-ass I am?" She said with a cocky smile. She barely took a look my way, so I was going to assume I was safe, well as safe as I can be watching what I can only guess was going to be a train wreck.

"Not quite. Miss Xaio Long, does the words responsibility or duty mean anything to you?"

"Huh?"

"Let me you them in a sentence for you. As Huntsman and Huntresses, in training or licensed, it is our duty to protect the citizens of vale, not brawl with multiple individuals that do NOT have aura and put them in the hospital. It is our responsibility to protect their lively hoods to the best of our ability, the homes that they live in or the businesses they run, NOT say rampage through nightclubs like a spoiled child for not getting what they want." As he said that last part I could see her start to sweat. I was starting to freak out with how level his voice was staying will still being able to drive home his message.

"Does a business called 'The Club' ring any bells? How about the name Hei 'Jounior' Xiong? You see when a Huntsman or HUNTRESS causes any destruction to public property a responsible business will file for insurance in this case they also report the offending individual to the Council of Vale. In this case since the active Huntsmen records showed no individuals matching the security footage..." He took a moment to press a button that clearly showed the blonde beating up on the guys in the club and continued to let it play.

"It was forwarded to the closest Huntsman academy to try to find this individual. She was not among our currently enrolled students. But..." He paused the video and pulled up a digital copy of what I assumed was a transcript. It was blanked out except her picture and descriptions of her semblance and weapons.
"Imagine my suprise when I found a matching student among the upcoming applicants." She just stood there, eyes wide in horror.

"Miss Xaio Long you have caused thousands of lien in damage both to property and not to mention the thousands in hospital bills that Beacon would have normally covered had you been a student. Sadly you are not so the fines and fees will all be forwarded to your guardian. A retired Huntsman with a career as a teacher no doubt would not make enough to cover this, he may go destiture from all his funds being drained to cover your mistakes. And what of your sister? She may have to drop out of school to try and cover for you. As for yourself it is well within my right to decline your application to Beacon for life as well as forward your information to the other academies for similar lifetime bans. With this, Miss Xaio Long I'm sorry to say you might have ended three Huntsman carrers in one fell swoop. Two before they even really began. Well done." After that trirade he ended by taking a sip of whatever he had in his mug and watched the blonde.

The blonde was DEVISTATED. She was in tears and you could almost physically see her world crashing around her and bursting into flames.

"But" She broke out of her stupor

"You are young and it would be a shame to punish you for a stupid mistake so listen well becasue this will not happen a second time. Beacon will accept financial responsibility for your actions. You will still be allowed to take place in initiation, BUT if you are accepted you will be barred from vising Vale during the school week, also you will be imposed with a strict curfew. This curfew will extend to the weekend. You will also be assigned mandatory anger management courses as well as additional lessons in Huntsman ethics and morals. Let your first lesson be this, while certain dusty crows may regal you of tales of barfights, and brawls as legitimate ways to get information, they are sorely mistaken. You are dismissed Miss Xaio Long. Do NOT let this happen again." With that the blonde just nodded and wiped her tears and left.

* "Fuck" * Both Dragon and I harmonized once she was in the elevator and out of sight.

"Hmmm, Indeed. I try not to be at blunt with my students or possible students but that one needed a sterner hand to guide her. I'll say I still don't understand why she would be hunting down a parent that abandoned her to become a bandit queen. Oh well, such is the folly of youth. Now back to you dear nephew. This footage was more than informative of your magical abilites than just the description you provided. Sad to say my proto-ring explosively failed but I believe you may have more luck with these."

As he did before he first placed my jacket onto his desk but on top of that placed a wide jewlery case on top. After opening it I was suprised to find 3 new red stoned rings. One was another pseudo Flame Dragon ring the other two were new. One was almost all silver except for showing a bird outline in red stone, the other showed a white dragon on red stone expelling a breath from its mouth, the Special Ring that went with, well with all my Dragon Styles. "I'm interested in this one." He pointed to my Garuda Ring "As well as your little friend hiding in your hood."

Indeed while eveyting was happening Griffin had slipped into my hood to hide from Ozpin and the blonde. To be fair after that I wanted to hide too. "This is Griffin, a familiar of a friend of mine. They briefly made contact and sent him through with a note. They're trying to rescue me?" Ozpin just sipped more of his drink. "That one ring, if it works will summon a familar. A red Garuda, kinda like a small bird. Familiars act as extra eyes and ears for me but they work on a limited supply of magic energy, I have to top them off or they dissappear. They're smart enough to know when they're low and to return.

"Hmmm. These should be fine now. I used a different process to make them. Before I used my magic to imnue them with magic after the process of carving the stone. This time I used my magic throughout the whole process. It was quite facinating, like I could hear what shapes the dust wished to become. These were the end results. I'm afraid our time is up however. You're not grounded or anything. In fact, I'm quite proud you prioritized trying to minimize damage and stayed behind to help civilians. That's the right mindset for a Hunter, and thus I reward you with rings. Now be off with you. I have much to do and little time."

And with that I was dismissed. When I reached the ground level the blonde was no where to be seen. I felt a little bad for her. Only a little. I agreed with Ozpin about actions and consequences. Not so much threating her family just to drive a point home. With nothing else planned for the day I headed back to my room for a nap

Hey guys! How are your holidays treating you? So to summarize this chapter, Ozpin is making the rings from this point. I may leave some rings out of this story completely. Also keep that bit about Yang's curfew in mind. It's going to come into play later. I had some people PM me and review about Yang getting away with wrecking that club and I felt the same way. So one order of mental trauma for Yang as well as some basic punishment. I assume Ozpin kept track of Raven so of course he could have told her at any time where to find her. This chapter is a little longer than usual to get Ozpin's point across and to answer the main question of where the rings were going to come from. As for Yang recognizing Magus I feel like these events will make her want to forget that night ever happened. Anyways poll is still up. Cast your votes. Next chapter is going to be a time skip to an event I think took place a week before Beacon initiation. So only about 1 more chapter to decide! Next chapter is going to be a few days to give anyone a chance to vote or change their vote. I'm going to delete the JNPR option at this point. As always Review/Favorite/Follow!