Hello my friends, I am back with a new chapter of Black Roses. I've been working pretty hard now to get these chapters posted. Starting another chapter literally right after I post. Now here's my goal for this year, I'm gonna try to complete this…heh Volume by the end of this year, but if all goes according to plan without any bumps along the road, I could finish this up by July. Just gotta dodge the bullshit bullets life keeps firing at me.

One other thing, a good portion of you guys have been wondering if Black will be able to achieve Rose again, to put you guys at ease, yes, he will be transforming back to Super Saiyan Rose and I'm going to try my hardest to make it the most badass return ever.

Now, let's get onto the story.

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Black walked through the forest with Ruby and Jaune following behind. The ex Kaioshin was looking for a good spot for them to train. Ruby leaned in towards Jaune, "What do you think he's going to teach us?" She quietly asked.

"I don't know, but I get the feeling that today is going to be an easy day for us." Jaune whispered,

"What, where's the fun in that?" Ruby whispered back.

"You…like the hard training?"

"Heck yea I do! If it means I'll get stronger then bring it on." Jaune was actually surprised by her response. He didn't hate the training either, his reasons were the same as Ruby's, if the training helped him get stronger then he's all up for it too. But the look in Ruby's eyes, it…it looked like she loved the training and couldn't wait until the next one. Black was right, she is a strange girl.

"We're here," Looking past their trainer the duo had to shield their eyes from the sunlight suddenly hitting their eyes. After a few moments of getting used to the sunlight, they were able to see their new training spot.

"Whoa," They were on the edge of a cliff. Peeking over the cliff Jaune noticed it was a long way down. The height getting the better of him Jaune gulped and slowly stepped back.

"Saved your life!" Ruby grabbed Jaune by the arms, causing him to scream like a girl. Ruby fell on to her back laughing her butt off. "Don't do that! You almost gave me a heart attack!" Jaune shouted, a hand over his chest trying to calm his breathing and rapidly beating heart.

Ruby continued to laugh, chortling as well. After a couple of seconds of laughing, Ruby managed to calm herself down a bit, wiping the tears away. Black looked at her with crossed arms, "Are you done?"

Seeing him upside down Ruby held up an okay sign. "Yup,"

Black backed away from the two. Ruby flipped back to her feet. Turning back to the duo, Black held his hands behind him. "Before we start I want to ask you two a question." Ruby and Jaune waited for him to continue. "How much do you know about Ki?"

"Ki…?" Ruby and Jaune looked at each other with confused looks. Jaune was the first to speak. "Never heard of it, but then again I never heard of Aura before till Pyrrha explained it to me."

Black turned his head to Ruby. "Actually Black, I've never heard of Ki before either."

"As I thought," That ex Kaioshin closed his eyes, taking a couple of seconds to think of his next few words. "Then I shall explain it to you. Ki is latent energy that resides in all living beings, from plants, animals, insect, and the sun." Pointing to the sun above them, "Ki is used for many feats, such as increasing one's speed, strength, and endurance."

Ruby raised her hand, gaining the ex Kaioshin's attention, "This Ki thing sounds a lot like Aura."

Black acknowledged her confusion. "Yes, I have noticed that the clarity of the two powers is quite similar in terms of uses, but while you need someone to unlock your Aura or the training and willpower to unlock it on your own. For Ki, it is different. All you need to do is concentrate the hidden reserve of power within your body and," Lifting his hand, "Slowly bring it out." Energy gathered around his hand, within a couple of seconds a small orb formed. The two trainees stared at the orb wide-eyed, immediately recognizing it.

"That's the same technique that Great Saiyaman and Dark Saiyaman use!" Ruby pointed out. Black flinched at his given villain name. Taking a breather before continue Black pulled the orb away from them. "Yes, both Saiyaman and…Dark Saiyaman," Oh how much he hates that name, "Have the ability to utilize Ki."

"Are you saying we'll be able to do all those awesome powerhouse moves they do?" Jaune asks, surprised that he'll be learning to wield power like Saiyaman.

Black was about to answer but was grabbed by the collar and brought down to Ruby's eye level, her eyes showing stars in them, "Are you going to teach us how to fly!" Their faces were so close to each other that Black could pick up a faint scent of strawberries coming off from her.

He calmly pried her hands off of him. "Unfortunately, I do not know how to fly, therefore I can not teach it to you." A disappointed look came across Ruby's face. "Saiyaman's knowledge of Ki far exceeds my own. So if you want to learn how to fly, ask him or Dark to teach you." Ruby groaned knowing full well that her chances of asking Saiyaman to teach her how to fly were extremely slim and she was defiantly not going to ask Dark Saiyaman.

Ruby hung her head down. "There goes my dream of flying." Black rolled his eyes. He couldn't teach them everything, one step at a time.

"Now if you don't mind, I would like to get back to your training." Regaining her composure Ruby stepped back next to Jaune. Black took a step back and sat down, Ruby and Jaune following suit. "Now, I want you clear your mind and concentrate on the energy within you." They held their hands in front of them.

Five minutes passed and Black continued to watch the two. He wasn't able to sense any spikes or change of flow in their energies. In other words, they weren't getting anywhere. He noticed Ruby's impatience becoming more visible. While Jaune, on the other hand, was still calm and collected…unless he's somehow sleeping in that position.

A couple more seconds passed and still no progress.

He gave his teachings some thought. Aura and Ki were similar, not just by their properties and uses but their feels as well. "Okay, timeout," Both teens stopped and looked at their teacher.

"I thought it would be a good idea to let you both try and figure out how to bring your Ki out, but nothing has happened so far and I doubt you'll make any progress if I were to wait five more minutes."

"Come on, give us another chance we'll be able to do it." Ruby pleaded.

Black stared at her expression; she defiantly didn't want to stop. Looking at the blond he also saw him with the same expression. With his arms still crossed Black let out a heavy sigh, "Very well, but since I'm not looking forward to waiting for another five more minutes with no results, I will be giving you a small piece of advice."

They both nodded their heads, "When you're searching for your Ki, it'll have a similar feel to that of your Aura, but different none the less. You'll know when you find it since your Ki reserves are much stronger than that of your Aura."

Attempting again to find their ki the duo dug deeper than before. Jaune remembered the feeling he would get whenever he trained his Aura with Pyrrha. After a moment or two he found his Aura, now he began to search past it.

Black's attention was caught when he was able to detect a spike in Jaune's Ki. The blond boy could feel it, a strong power deep inside him. Reaching towards it, he slowly brought it out. Jaune's hand began to glow, as ki was being redirected to his hands. After some more concentration, a faint light formed in between them. The power in his hands grew as did the light, till finally, a ki orb was made.

The sound of something humming brought Ruby out of her concentration. Looking over to her training partner, Ruby's eyes widen. "Jaune look,"

Hearing Ruby's voice, Jaune slowly opened his eyes, only to see in his hands an orb of light. "Whoa," Looking about to his teacher he asked, "I-Is this my…"

Black nodded his head, "Well done Jaune, you managed to complete the first step of ki control."

Jaune held a surprised look, turning his head to Ruby he saw her wear a proud smile. His eyes went back to the orb within his hands. This…this was his, his power. A smile formed on his lips as he continued to gaze at the orb. His joy was short lived as exhaustion suddenly took over. The orb disappeared as Jaune fell back.

"Jaune!" Ruby crawled towards him checking if he was okay. "There's no need to worry. He's just exhausted that's all." Black stated.

Jaune slowly lifted himself up while holding his head. "I feel really light headed."

"This was your first time controlling ki, and the amount of concentration to do that does take a toll on you at first." Jaune shook his head to rid the dizziness.

"So, what now?" Jaune asks.

"You keep practicing. Bring out your ki again, then dispel it back into your body and just repeat that process over and over again till it becomes second nature for you." Black said.

"And the dizziness?"

"They'll stop happening as the amount of effort to bring out your ki starts diminishing." Black responded.

"Alright…I'll keep practicing." Closing his eyes Jaune tried bringing his ki out again.

Ruby's eyes were still on Jaune. She was simply amazed that Jaune was able to do it that easily. "What are you looking at" Ruby attention was caught. Black harden gaze on her. "Don't get distracted. You still have to bring out your Ki."

"Oh, right." Sitting back down Ruby closed her eyes and once again searched for her Ki.

Back in Beacon, the gang were making their way back to their dorms, "Man, today was really fun." Lewis said with a smile.

"Says you, do you have any idea how many times we had to stop you two from causing a catastrophe?" Weiss argued,

"Oh you don't have to be so uptight about it Ice Queen. We were having fun." Nora said back.

"Uptight! You threw a dart so hard that it went through the board and almost hit someone, twice!" Weiss shouted, she then turned to Lewis, "And you pied three police officers!"

"I was aiming at Nora, not the officers." Lewis argued back.

Weiss looked like she was about to explode. Thankfully Ren took over. "While you didn't mean to hit the officers, you still got us all in trouble and kicked out of the festival."

"It was fun while it lasted." Alli commented.

"Agreed," Pyrrha said.

"Hey, I got my fair share of fun today." Yang said between munches of her popcorn. "Though I kinda wished the boys would stop asking for my number all the time."

"They were?" Gohan asked, nothing even realizing that Yang was constantly being bothered today.

"Yea, but I gave them someone else's number instead of mines. I already got someone in my line of sight and I don't need any distraction." Yang grinned and side glanced at the Saiyan hybrid. Gohan being Gohan didn't pick up the hint and stared at her confusingly.

Weiss, Nora, and Blake all sweat dropped at how dense Gohan was. Pyrrha gave a weak smile, Gohan was as dense as Jaune, maybe more. During the moment Weiss ears just realized something Yang said. "Wait, you said you've been giving them someone else's number."

Yang froze, "Have you been giving them my number?!" Weiss shouted, her fists shaking at her sides. Yang took a step back with hands ups and a nervous smiling plastered on her face. "S-Sorry, I had to give them someone's number and yours just so happens to be the first to come to mind."

"That would explain why your scroll kept blowing up with messages." Blake said to Weiss.

Weiss took a deep breath and calmed herself. "What-What's done is done. But stop giving unwanted boys my number."

"O-Okay," Yang said, still a bit nervous of step on another landmine.

The group made it to their dorms, saying their goodbyes, they headed inside, "Hey Yang," Gohan called out.

The brawler stopped at the entrance of her dorm. "What's up?"

"You think you can come with me for a bit." The request surprised the brawler a bit, but none the less accepted it with a smile. "Sure."

The duo walked off. Nora peeked out of her dorm. "Go get him." She whispered to Yang. The brawler glanced over her shoulder and winked at her.

As they walked down the hall, Yang wondered where they were headed. Maybe somewhere private? Na, that's unlike Gohan. But what if he finally realized her hints? Is he going to confess?! She immediately shook the thought away. Yea there was no way of that happening, but still, there was still that small chance.

Her small hopes were washed away when they stopped by the Combat Arena. Gohan turned to her, "I asked Ms. Glynda if we could use the Arena for some sparring. She said it was okay as long as we don't make a mess." Seeing her confusion, Gohan reminded. "I said I would give you some pointers to improve your fighting style remember."

Now remembering his promise, Yang rubbed the back of her head. "Oh, right." Her eyes trailing off, Yang was a bit letdown that Gohan took her to the Arena to spar. But at least she was going to be spending time with him alone, just not the way she had hoped for.

Entering the arena Gohan and Yang took their respective spots of the stage. Yang stretched her arms and legs. "So you gonna move my body the way you want me to move?" She jokily teased.

"No, I want you to keep fighting the way you always fight. All I'm going to do is give you some pointers on where you can improve, and tell you where you are the most at a disadvantage." Gohan responded, not even noticing the tease Yang said to him. "But in order to do that, I need you to go all out."

Yang raised a brow, "All out? Are you sure about that? You saw my fight with Ruby, didn't you? I don't want to, you know, hurt you Gohan."

"Don't worry about me, I'll be fine." Gohan slipped into his father's stance. Yang took note of his stance; seeing the similarity between his and Ruby's, only that Gohan's had no openings, it was a perfect stance.

Yang knew it would be a waste of time to keep looking for any exploits in his stance. So taking the initiative Yang dashed forward. She threw her fist at him, Gohan responded by simply tilting his head to the side while pushing her fist away with his left hand. Yang followed her first attack with her other fist, aiming again at his face. Gohan saw this and brought his right hand up and caught the attack. Grabbing hold of her fist, he pulled her to the side and followed it up with a kick to her back.

Yang went flying forward for a moment, she caught herself with her hands and flipped back to her feet. She dashed at him again, fists pulled back. As the distance between them close, Yang let loose many punches, aiming her his head, chest, and abdomen. Unfortunately for her all her attacks were blocked or caught by Gohan.

She mixed up her attacks a bit by adding several kicks too, but none of her attacks seemed to hit him. Gohan skipped back as he dodged her attacks, forcing her to chase after him. His constant dodging and blocking were beginning to get on her nerves.

She was about to yell at him to fight back until Gohan caught her fist and pulled forward. He then gave a quick yet strong jab to her rib, he followed it up by kicking her off her feet. Yang winced in pain from the jab, but there was no time for that as her eyes widen when Gohan fist came hurling down. Rolling out of the way Yang flipped back to her feet, she was shocked to see Gohan's crack the floor beneath him.

Gohan looked up and skipped towards her. Yang quickly raised her arm and blocked Gohan's knee. She surprised by how fast he closed the distance. Seeing that she stunned by his speed, he brought his other leg up and kicked her under the chin. As Yang was sent flying back, Gohan reached over and caught her by the arm and pulled her back, he brought his other fist up and landed a heavy blow to her gut. Yang let out a cough, her eyes wide as the pain cruised throughout her body. This felt just as strong maybe even stronger when Ruby punched her.

Gohan followed up by raising his knee and hitting her under the chin again, Yang staggered back, unable to get her body to listen she wasn't able to block the next attack. Standing on one foot and the other pulled back Gohan drove his foot into Yang's gut. Her body was sent flying back and crashed into the floor, skidding a bit she flipped herself back to her feet just right at the edge. "W-Whoa." Her body tilted back and forward as she tried to regain her balance, frantically waving her arms to keep herself from falling off. Finally regaining her footing the stage, Yang whipped some sweat off her forehead. "Whew, that was close, now" Focusing back to her opponent, Yang's eyes widen as the incoming fist came straight at her. She tilted her head barely in time, Gohan's fist just nicking her Aura.

Gohan twisted around and sent his foot up. Yang raised her arms up and blocked the kick, just pushed back a bit, the power in his kick yet again surprising her. Recovering from her staggered state, she looked down and saw that her foot was literally on the edge. If she fought here any longer, Gohan will most likely knock her off.

Not wanting that to happen, Yang skipped further into the stage. Until she was sure that she was a safe distance away from the edge. She raised her arms up again when she saw Gohan coming straight at her. Blocking the first hit with her forearm she responded by throwing her own fist at him to which Gohan blocked with his palm. He raised his leg and aimed to hit her in the abdomen. Yang predicted this and jumped back after he missed Yang jumped straight at him again and let through two punches at him. Gohan tilted his head for the and leaned back for the next swing.

Gohan leaned forward and threw a punch of his own, Yang saw this and tilted her head. While she did dodge his fist, she wasn't fast enough to see the incoming knee to her gut. The hit was hard as all of his other attacks. Gohan followed up with the same arm he attacked and elbowed her in the temple.

Stagger to the side a bit, Yang caught herself, and with right arm out went for a right hook to Gohan's side. The half breed saw the incoming attack and raised his knee to blocked. Yang counted on this and quickly went for a jab to Gohan's cheek, her fist connected. As Gohan was falling back he placed wait on his left leg and twisted his body, raising his leg he swung it and aimed to hit Yang's side.

The brawler saw the attack and quickly turned towards it and brought both arms in front and blocked it, as expected the attack was strong and sent her up for a mere second before landing back to her feet.

Gohan shot back at her and aimed his fist to her face. Yang raised her hand and caught the punch, not being able to completely stop the attack she was forced to twist her body and maneuver the attack away from her. Unfortunately, this left her legs wide open. Gohan used this opening and swiped her off her feet, Yang gasped as she felt herself falling back. Gohan twisted back towards her and with his free hand, nailing her straight to the ground.

Yang's body bounced off the floor, Gohan's brought up his leg and kicked up. Her body landed a couple of feet away. The half breed stood there watching as Yang struggled to pick herself up. After a couple of moments of struggle Yang managed to finally get back on her feet. Her breathing was quite heavy, blood dripped down her lip. She raised her hand and whipped it off. She growled and gritted her teeth. She could feel it, her Aura giving out. This was just like when she fought Ruby, the sere power in his attacks, there's no doubt about it they're the same. Only his attacks are stronger and faster, but… she wasn't to give up that easily. Looking up back up Yang's eyes were beat red. Flames emanated from her hair. "RrrrAAAAGHH! A burst of flames erupted from her. No, she was going to give it her all!

Yang shot forward and unleashed a fury of attacks. Gohan blocked and dodged most of them but was surprised when some of them managed to land.

Gohan pulled his fist back as well did Yang and hurled it forward. Their fists clashed causing a brief explosion of wind around them. Yang went for a right cross but missed when Gohan tilted his head to the side. Yang wasted no time and spun around and tried to backhand him but Gohan merely leaned back. Face back at him Yang raised her leg and aimed at his side, Gohan used his arm to block the kick and raised it up when she aimed for his head next.

Gohan raised his other arm and aimed to land his fist to her face. Yang reacted in time and twisted her body out of the way, she then responded by delivering a nasty punch to his ribs. He was quite shocked by the power boost her semblance gave her. He was then punched across the face sending him flying back. Gohan flipped in the air so he would land on his feet.

Looking up he saw Yang in the air coming straight down at him with her flame covered fist pulled back. Raising his hand he caught the attack, cracks formed beneath him. Gohan used his free and slammed his palm to her chest. Yang gasped, eyes widening when she feel the air leave her body for a second. She landed on her feet and skidded back. Regaining her senses she's Gohan's presences getting closer. Looking back at him, he jumped and aimed a kick to her head. Fortunately for Yang, she blocked it in time, seeing an opportunity Yang grabbed his leg and slammed him down to the ground, the force caused more cracks to form. Still holding his leg now with one arm, Yang used her free fist and rammed it into his gut. A burst of flames exploded from the contact.

"Argh!" Gohan winced a bit. He narrowed his eyes and raised his other leg kicked her in the face, knocking her off of him.

In the air, Yang maneuvered herself and landed on her feet. She looked straight ahead ready to go at him again, to her utter shock, Gohan had already flipped himself back to his feet and skipped straight at her with insane speed. An incoming punch coming straight at her, raising both arms in an x and she took the blow. A small shockwave exploded around them and the ground beneath her sank down. But what shocked her the most was that her arms felt numb.

Gohan used her shock to his advantage followed up his attack with an elbow under her chin, snapping her head up. He then drove a heavy blow to her gut. Yang gasped and coughed up saliva. Finally, Gohan pulled his leg back and kicked her across the face.

Yang crashed and skidded across the floor until she stopped right at the edge. The top part of her body was hanging out of the arena. Yang heavily panted, she slowly to open one of her eyes only to see that her vision was blurry. After a couple of seconds, Yang tried to lift herself up. Only managing for a bit she quickly fell back, thankfully Gohan caught her hand. Weakley opened both eyes and stared up at half breed.

"You alright?" He asked,

"K-Kind of, never expected you to fight so well." Yang said, now in a sitting position. Even with her Aura up, she felt those hits hard. She felt them worse when her Aura shattered, when did he shatter her Aura? She couldn't tell, she was too concentrated in the fight to even notice. "Now that we've fought, I can clearly confirm something." Gohan said.

"What that you can kick my ass without the use of your weapons?" Yang jokily said. Yea she didn't have her weapons either, but something was telling that it would not have made any difference.

"No, the swings in your attacks are too wide, leaving openings for your opponent to exploit. Plus you're wasting stamina with those swings." Gohan explained.

"Too wide?" Yang looked down at her hands.

"You're an excellent fighter Yang, this fight proves it. That's why you probably never noticed this before, you've never faced someone that was on your level, but when you did fight someone on par with you like Ruby or myself, these mistakes are quite noticeable."

"…I guess I never really have notice up until now." Yang was kinda disappointed at herself for not realizing these mistakes. She training to be a Huntress, she can't have these mistakes clear in view for bad guys to take advantage of.

"Don't worry, that's why we're here. To you help you fix these mistakes." Yang smiled, she was lucky to have someone like Gohan to help her improve. "Oh, there's something else I wanted to mention."

"Shoot away,"

"Those kicks you sneaked in your attacks, they were pretty weak and to be blunt, pretty pathetic."

Yang grimaced at his observation. "Yea, well kicking isn't my specialty."

"No, that's alright, in fact, that's something else I want us to work on." Yang raised a brow. "Don't get me wrong, I don't want to change your fighting style, you've fought that way for years and changing that will most likely do more harm than good. But adding some different moves to your style of fighting could give you the upper hand in a fight, giving you more options for successful combinations."

"Well, I don't like getting my butt handed to me, so, I'll take whatever help I can get." Yang grinned.

"That's the spirit," He reached out and pulled her up. "Now," Skipping back, Gohan slipped into his stance again. "Let's get started." He saw hesitation on Yang's face. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, it's just," She rubbed the back of her head. "Well, do you realize how hard you fight? I mean this is supposed to be a spar, right?"

The question surprised Gohan. He scratched his cheek with his finger, "Well my mentor once told me that the best way to help someone get better is to go all out." He said with a smile.

Yang deadpanned with a nervous smile. "Right," Damn, whoever this mentor of Gohan was, she really hates him now. Letting out a sigh, her expression quickly formed into a challenging grin. If this helps her, then so be it, all she needs to do is dodge, shouldn't be too hard now she's got the gist of his moves. She just hopes that her body can endure. Yang shot forward, ready to reengage in their fight.

Ruby sat there, eyes twitching, murmuring things behind her sealed lips. Her left eye peer opened glanced over to the left.

"There, now I want you to guide that orb around you and increase the speed bit by bit." Black instructed.

Jaune hesitantly nodded, he slowly guided the orb around him, speeding up the orbs speed circling around him. After a short moment, Jaune began to feel more confident in this Ki thing and increased the speed a lot more. "Careful Jaune, if you go too fast you're gonna end up-," Black tilted his head to the side as the Jaune's ki orb shot straight past him. The orb hit several trees before blowing up.

The wind from the explosion blew through Black's hair. His scowl expression still plastered, though it felt like his eyes drilling holes into him. Jaune sweat nervously thinking to that he was a dead man. To his surprise, Black didn't jump after and give him a beating. Instead, he closed his eyes and sighed.

"This is why I told you to go at this bit by bit. You're still getting used to ki control." Black's expression didn't help Jaune.

"S-Sorry, I thought I could've…you know, go ahead of myself." Jaune explained.

"Practice takes patients. If you keep viewing our training sessions as a race, I will remove from them, do you understand?"

Jaune stood straight up as if he was a solider. "Y-Yes, sir."

"Don't call me that." Black said, not liking being called sir one bit. He felt an eye on him and Jaune. Turning to Ruby he saw her quickly shut her left eye and going back to meditation.

It's been nearly 3 hours already and she hasn't brought out any Ki out. Nor did he sense anything abnormal from her. He had high expectations for her when they start training, but now those expectations are falling faster than a rock.

The sun was setting, leaving a bright and beautiful scenery before them. Crossing his arms Black spoke up. "I think that's enough for today."

Ruby's eyes shot open and jumped up to her feet. "What! What'd you mean that we're done?! I haven't been able to bring out my Ki! Can't you give me a bit more time?" She begged.

"Even if I gave you another whole hour I doubt you'll male any progress." Black said. Ruby was taken aback by his words. Her eyes cast down, a sad frown on her face. Black stared at her before looking away. "As I explained to Jaune, this is isn't a race. You have to take this part of your training with some patience."

Still seeing that Ruby was a bit down, Black walked up to her and crouched down. "You have nothing to worry about. Finding one's Ki is quite difficult at first. I'm confident you'll be able to find yours within time."

Ruby looked up at him, "You haven't disappointed me so far. As a matter, in fact, you've impressed me more times than I can count. I highly doubt you'll start disappointing me now." A small smile formed on her lips. As the two stared at one another a faint snap of a twig was heard behind them. Black looked over his shoulder and Ruby leaned to the side.

"Jaune, where are you going?" Ruby asked, seeing her blond friend trying to sneak away.

Jaune slowly turned around, with a nervous smile. "Well, it looked like you two were having a moment…and I didn't want to intrude."

"A moment?" Black questioningly thought, unknown to the term. Ruby, on the other hand, went beet red and quickly hid her face with her hoodie. Black surprised by her actions. He looked between the two teens. "Am I missing something here?"

"N-No, it's nothing." Ruby quickly answered, still hiding her face.

Raising a brow Black stood back up. "…Very well. We should head back now." Jaune nodded his head. With that said the trio made their way back to Beacon.

Raven walked down the street of a village her tribe was raiding. Her cold eyes scanning burning houses. People running scared as her tribe rounded them up and plundered them of their goods.

The cries and pleas of the villager fell to deaf ears. Raven didn't care how much they plead, their homes were going to be pillaged, and they were going to be killed. Nothing was going to change that.

A hand gripped her ankle. Looking down, Raven saw a man on his stomach. The man painful raised his head, he eyes full of weakness. "Why-why are…you doing this…" Raven stared at the man. Using her foot she turned the man over. She noticed the attire he was wearing looked pretty unique compared to the villagers. She looked ahead and saw a broken sword in its mid-transformation, as well as another sword stabbed into the ground. The design of the weapons was odd, and one of them was in the middle of turning into something before it was damaged by something.

There was only one type of people that use weapon types like these…Huntsmen. She looked back to the dying Huntsman who weakly stared at her. Raven crouched down and lifted her helmet off. "Why not, people like them," Glancing at the villagers. "Who needs someone to defend them doesn't deserve to live in this world."

The man barely managed to form a glare, his fists gripping the dirt. Raven grabbed him by the collar and lifted him up to her face, "The weak die, the strong live."

"T-Those people…are innocent."

"Innocence is just another excuse for the weak to live." Raven dropped him back to the ground. "…Kill him." She walked away from the huntsman view while placing her mask back on. Someone new then came to view. The person now standing over him was Vernal. She placed a foot on a wound he had on his stomach an applied pressure on it. The huntsman groaned in pain. Vernal grinned at the man while she aimed her gun blade at him, "Sorry bud, nothing personal."

The sound of Vernal weapon being fired echoed in the village. Raven paid no attention to the fire. She kept cold eyes on her men making sure they were squeezing every bit or resources out of this village. "So this is what your raids look like…" The new voice caught Raven by surprise for a second before she morphed her features back to cold stoic one. She turned to the source of the voice and rested a hand on the hilt of her sword. "Adam…I didn't expect you to be here." Her tribe all approached from behind her, remembering what this Faunas did to their brethren they were prepared to fight him again. Vernal slowly approached Adam from behind her weapons out.

The bull faunas was not bothered to say the least. He calmly stood there, his eyes on Raven only, and that's what unnerved Raven's men. Vernal has faced her share of Huntsmen and Huntresses. She knows from experience that Adam was not all that relaxed. In fact, she could see that this man was ready to cut down every single one of them if it came down to it. It didn't help that she could feel a powerful Aura radiating off of him.

Raven raised her hand, halting her men. "Leave us," Her tribe were a bit hesitant but complied with their boss's order. Vernal was last to leave, she gave a quick glance to Raven before heading back to manage to resource loads.

"So, what brings you here, to my workplace?" Raven asked.

"I was in the neighborhood, thought I should stop by and say hi." Adam sarcastically said glancing away from Branwen.

Raven cocked her head to the side, her face showing that she could clearly hear the sarcasm.

"Two of my men were sent out to scout ahead of a base we just recently set up. They came back; informing me that they made a discovery, a cave, what they saw in there was something that frightened them to a point where they would not talk about." Adam said.

"Congratulations, your men discovered some haunted ruins." Raven said, completely uninterested by anything he was saying. "If you want, I could give you the name of someone that would love to explore those ruins. You'll just have to keep up with him."

Adam ignored her joke and pressed on, "Curiosity got the better of me, and so I explored this cave."

"Did you find the ghost that spooked them?" Raven again joked, her eyes moving away from the faunas.

"I found carcasses of Grimm." Raven's eyes widen for a moment before regressing back to mid glare. "Most likely caused by the Grimm we fought a couple of days ago. I noticed there more to the cave than where the dead bodies were so I went up ahead. That's where I found something...ominous."

Raven crossed her arms, she narrowed eyes still on him. "Shouldn't you be informing this to Black?"

"I should be yes, and I will but, I think telling you this first was a better choice." Adam said,

"Why is that?" Raven asks.

"Call it a gut feeling but I think you may know more about Salem then you're letting on. Or at least withholding information of someone that does." Raven kept her cold eyes on him, "None the less, I want your insight of what I found."

"…Very well, I tell Vernal to get the tribe moving. Then we can go check this…ominous cave out." Raven said, ready to turn back to her tribe.

"By the way," Raven stopped and looked back. "You missed one." Without looking Adam raised Blush to the side and fired, a scream of pain came from inside one of the homes before silence followed. Adam walked past Raven without sparing a glance. Raven moved her gaze to her tribe and glared at them for not getting all the Villagers.

Black, Ruby, and Jaune made it back to Beacon. The way to their dorms was quiet, and the nice quiet. More like the uncomfortable quiet. Usually when they headed back to their dorms, Ruby would talk about weapons designs she came up with, the new comic issues that were going to be released, or the types of sweets she would want to eat. She practically talked about everything, and Jaune liked their talks, sometimes she might lose him when she goes weapon nerd on him but other than that every other subject she brings up was an interesting one. Unlike Black thought would always ignore them, but recently he's been interacting with them a lot more, mostly with Ruby but still having a conversation with the guy that didn't involve training improvement was nice. He was cool.

Thought today was different, no one was saying anything. Only the sound of their footsteps echoing in the halls. The silence drove Jaune nuts. Looking to Ruby he saw that she was still hiding under her hoodie.

Finally having enough of the silence Jaune opened his mouth. "So…nice day were having…" Are you serious! That was the best he could come up with!

Black and Ruby looked at the blond boy with strange looks. "I guess…" Black said.

Jaune facepalmed himself, groaning at the embarrassing spotlight he just placed on himself. Ruby stared at Jaune for a second, she then finally understood what he was attempting to do. Moving her eyes to Black now, Ruby's cheeks became slightly red. Her eyes move back to the floor. Taking a deep breath she looked back up to her fellow team leader. "I think what he was trying to say is that today was pretty nice, with the professor not giving that much homework, to our afternoon at the Great Saiyaman Day festival, to our learning to Ki."

"I see… I guess today was a satisfying day."

Not want to go back to the silence Ruby brought something else up. "S-say Black, how did you find that spot we trained by today?"

Jaune also wanted to know that, the cliff was absolutely amazing, "I found it when I was out exploring the forest." He simply said.

"You go out there by yourself?" Ruby asked.

"Yes, whenever I'm not preoccupied with something else. Being out there away from the Kingdom helps me relax a bit."

"Huh…have you found any other nice spots besides the cliff," Ruby asks, her face now more visible than before.

"Yes, I have, and before you ask, no, I will not tell you where they are." Black replied.

"Huh, why not?!" Ruby whined.

"Because I rather not have people annoying me while I'm relaxing." Black lightly glared at Ruby.

Ruby was shocked by the accusation, removed her hoodie and sent her own glare. "I don't annoy you!"

"You do, whenever I'm reading a book you always happen to want to read with me."

"Well, I never heard you complain before." Ruby argued back.

"You also have zero patience when reading." Black said back.

"Well it's not my fault you read like an old man!" Ruby shouted. That made Black eye twitch a bit. "Well, maybe you should learn to enjoy a book then skimming through it!" He yelled back.

"Then don't choose books that are so boring!"

"Your chose of taste is too childish!"

"Don't call my comics childish, they're for teens too!"

Jaune sweatdropped, he's glad the silence was gone but this…was not what he had in mind. He watched and listened as the two leaders continued their arguments and insults towards one another. You know, they kind of remind him of Ren and Nora only a bit escalated in their arguments. Wait…has Ren and Nora ever argue before? That question was going have to be answered later as Jaune eyes caught sight of someone coming towards their way. "Oh hey Gohan." Jaune greeted.

Black and Ruby halted their arguing when they also noticed their friend. "Hey guys." The half breed waved,

"Gohan…hey, where you headed?" The redhead asked.

"Um…to my dorm." Gohan pointed to the door next to them.

With all the arguing they didn't even notice that they were already at their dorms. "Oh, r-right." Ruby scratched her head with a nervous smile.

"Gohan is that…" Jaune pointed at a person Gohan was carrying over his shoulder.

Gohan blinked a couple of times before realizing who he was pointing at. "Oh this, its Yang."

The brawler raised her head high enough to look over his shoulder. "Hey, Ruby." She weakly waved.

"Yang, are you alright?" Ruby asked, seeing the sweat and faint bruises on her arms and legs.

"Yea, she's just exhausted. I was kind of rough with her." Gohan causally said.

Yang's face went beet red when Gohan said that. "G-GOHAN!" Jaune face also turned red.

"W-what's wrong?" Gohan asked, completely surprised by her outburst.

Yang pushed herself off his shoulder and stood on her own two feet. "You-you can just say something like out in the open!"

"Huh?" Seeing that Gohan doesn't even realize how he worded that out, she quickly turned to Ruby and Black who wore confused looks. "We were sparring!"

"Oh…okay…" Ruby said,

Yang turned back to Gohan to explain about being more specific of somethings. Ruby leaned towards Black and whispered to him. "What do you think Yang was so embarrassed about?"

"Don't ask me, she's your sister. I thought you would have clue." Black replied. Ruby gave a shrug.

Yang released a deep sigh when she was done explaining to Gohan. "Sorry Yang, I didn't know." Gohan apologized, still not fully understanding what was misinterpreted.

"It-it's alright," Rubbing her neck, Yang averted her eyes away from Gohan. Man if she didn't like the guy so much she would've socked him for saying that in front of her sister.

Ruby let out a yawn and stretched her arms out. "Hey Yang, I think I'm going to hit the hay early today."

"Alright little sis, just remember to brush your teeth." Yang jokingly reminded.

Ruby waved her off. "Night guys," She said before going inside her dorm.

"Night Ruby," Gohan and Jaune said. Black stared at Ruby's dorm door for a couple of seconds before heading to his own dorm. "So Yang same time tomorrow?" Gohan asked, referring to their sparring matches.

"Sure, just know that I'm going to lose tomorrow." She claimed with a grin.

"Whatever you say," Gohan cockily said before following Black inside.

"I think I'm going to head to my dorm too." As Jaune was walking past the brawler he was suddenly grabbed by the wrist. "Hey Jaune, do you remember what Gohan said, about being too rough with me."

Not liking Yang calm voice right, Arc hesitantly answered. "Um…maybe?"

Yang turned to him with a smile that caused him to turn blue. "No you didn't," Was all she said, then patted him on the shoulder. "Night Jaune,"

Hearing the door close Jaune groaned, why does he always have to be caught in the middle of these things?

Adam and Raven stopped at the entrance of the cave Adam's scouts discovered, it yielded quite the foul smell. Ignoring the smell the duo entered the cave with Adam taking the lead. Raven eyes scanned the cave side to side, up and down. It looked like any other cave on Remnant. That's if you can ignore the dark energy surrounding the place.

They walked deeper into the cave, reaching a point where there was a large drop. "Ladies first," Adam invited, which earned himself a glare from the Bandit leader. "You should know that last time someone tried to stab me in the back they ended up in pieces, food for the Grimm."

"It was worth a try." He causally admitted. He jumped down the drop with Raven following suit. The drop was deeper than expected, forcing Raven to brace herself a bit. Reaching the bottom her feet crashed into the ground creating small cracks around the area of where she landed. Looking up ahead, Adam was already waiting and staring at something.

Reaching to where he was standing she looked at what he was staring at. Her eyes widen when in front of her were two large doors, or at least they looked like door since they made out of stone. What caught her attention the most was the carvings surrounding the two doors. They looked like carvings of Grimm, types she has never seen before. A dripping sound echoed to her right, looking over she saw something dripping. Water? No, it sounded way to dense for it to be water.

She found the dripping substance and using her two fingers she collected some. A stinging feeling occurred on her fingers causing her to wipe the substance off. "Black tar," Adam said, "Most likely what the Grimm are made of." He walked up to the door and stood in front of it.

Raven followed her eyes on the carvings of the Grimm all around her. Her eyes then landed onto the doors, what she saw was a frightening carving of a Grimm heads, they resembled that of Sea Feilong or Wyvern. None the less the carvings of this Grimm seemed to have a large importance or higher power than the others in the cave. "What is this place?" Raven finally questioned.

"I don't know, but it defiantly relates to the Grimm we encountered." Adam pointed at a caring similar to that Grimm they all fought together. "Do you want to feel something frightening?" He asked.

Raven glanced at him. He nodded his head to the stone doors. "Place your hand on it."

Raven eyed him a bit, wondering if this was a trap or something. Her trust was something that wasn't easily gained. But she saw Adam's gaze return back to the door, she knew then that he was being serious. Her back on the doors, Raven raised her hand and slowly placed it on the doors. Not even a second, glimpses of Grimm and their roars invaded Raven's mind causing her eyes to widen and immediately pull her hand away. Faint pants of breath emanated from her. "Did you feel it too, all those negative emotions surging through you while sapping the life of you."

Raven stared at her hand, she indeed felt that. The glimpses she saw were the same ones carved into the walls. "You saw them as well didn't you?" Adam asked. He didn't need an answer since it was written on her face. "But…that's not what scared you didn't it," Raven's hand shook a bit, "It was overwhelming pressure of power you felt that frightened you." Gritting her teeth, she clenched her shaking hand.

"I felt it too." Finally managing to control that pathetic show of weakness from brewing out, Raven looked back up at Adam. "Makes you wonder. What the hell is behind those doors?" Their eyes returned back to the stone doors.

As the camera zooms into the door, an ominous purple and dark red aura emanated from the stones doors, as the eyes of the Grimm Dragon glow bright red.

And done, oh my heheheh. Don't really have anything to inform you guys except that the next chapter should take about the same time as this chapter, I already have part of it done, so you won't have to wait that long.

Well see you guys next time, PEACE!