AN: Just an FYI, the reason there isn't going to be mass panic from the public or students at having Adam attend Beacon is that in this world, people don't know his bloody name. Seriously, the dude wears a mask and I doubt he was out giving interviews to the public, so they had a face to go with it. Without that mask, people wouldn't know him as that dangerous white fang agent. I'm also switching things, so he wore his past fall of Vale outfit when working with the fang and gets the seasons 1-3 outfit when he comes to Beacon as that design is a lot more interesting.

AN2: Still deciding on teammate four but here are some of the options I'm considering:

1. Vernal. We know Raven and Qrow were sent to Beacon to get stronger so Raven might try to do something similar with one of her bandits.

2. Ilia or one of the other Faunus from that group we saw in season 6 that serve Adam, the one with the flying Faunus, the one who made webbing, and other combat applicable Faunus traits

3. One of the Malachite twins, having it where Yang's attack on the Club left one too injured to fight anything more than random drunks at the bar who get too rowdy so the other one had to go to Beacon to get training to become strong enough to handle stronger threats that might come to attack the Club.

AN3: Just wanted to say, I'm kinda amused that most people were very understanding or supportive of my reasoning about the whole Adam thing except for one person who threw a tantrum on that and me doing any team set up besides RWBY and JNPR.

AN4: Last thing is I'm having a hard time thinking of a semblance for Amber so if anyone has any suggestions just let me know.

Second Coming of the Reaper

Chapter 4

-Ozpin-

Rubbing his temples, Ozpin worked to restrain his frustration at the young woman who was siting in front of him. Beside his troublesome Fall Maiden sat one of his new students, Jaune Arc, who's brain clearly needed more time to reboot from all the information that Amber had told him without permission. Glynda stood by the Elevator and Qrow by the window, neither of them doing much to help. If he didn't know better, Ozpin would have sworn that Glynda was enjoying his suffering and frustration. "Amber, you cannot just keep wandering around on your own now that we know there is someone after you."

"Don't care, I don't work for you." Amber leaned back in her chair, showing that despite her kind and generous nature, the Fall Maiden was still an adolescent and just as rebellious as any other. Especially if someone tried to tell her that she couldn't do something she wanted to.

"Amber, please be reasonable." Ozpin all but pleaded, having been having this rather circular discussion, again, for what felt like hours.

"I am." Amber looked rather smug, "You're asking me to give up my freedoms and do what you want because I inherited some mystical magical bullshit. I didn't agree to be the maiden, nor did I agree to work for you and be your fancy padlock for a tiara."

"Amber!" Ozpin gave a hard look at her and glanced over at Mr. Arc.

"Oh stuff it Ozpin." Amber rolled her eyes, unphased by his expression, "They saw his face, so they'll probably show up after him at some point. Better he learns from me than them and we both know you hate sharing information with people."

"Kid has a point Oz." Qrow grunted, the sound of sloshing liquid showing that the man was drinking again.

"If you have nothing helpful Qrow." Ozpin sighed, the man having been rather happy to help young Mr. Arc given that Qrow's childhood hero was the boy's mentor.

"Now I didn't say I'd never attend Beacon." Amber smirked at him dangerously, "But you're going to have to make it worth my while."

"Are you…extorting me?" Ozpin gaped at her.

"Yep." Amber smiled happily, "Requirement the first, I pick my team. Non-negotiable. You refuse and I walk right now."

"Amber, please see reason." Ozpin began only to see Amber standing up and pulling a very confused Mr. Arc with her, "Wait! Wait! Wait!" he belted out hurriedly as the childish Fall Maiden smirked victoriously. "Fine, you may select your team." He sighed, why oh why couldn't the powers of the maiden have gone to someone willing to listen to reason? "I assume you wish for Mr. Arc to be on that team?"

"His semblance amplifies my aura and even the maiden powers. Of fucking course I'm keeping him!" Amber looked at him like he was an idiot.

"Yeah Oz, what's the matter with you?" a drunk Qrow snickered while even the corners of Glynda's lips twitched amused at him being given the run around in a conversation for once.

"Anything else?" Ozpin grit his teeth and worked to keep his composure. He was thousands of years old, he would not throw a tantrum like an infant to his subordinates' childish actions.

"I want access to the faculty training facilities for me and my team." Amber at least looks somewhat serious as she lists more demands, "Along with a better room for us. I'm planning on getting people who can help if something like that ambush happens, so we need to be able to use the best resources to train."

"That, at least, I don't have any issue with granting." Ozpin sighed in genuine relief, having already planned to let her access those facilities so letting her team do the same wasn't all that big of an issue. "Anything else?" there was no way that his torment would be over already.

"One last thing." Amber smirked as she leaned forward, "I want you to find my horse and I'm keeping them on campus."

"Amber, I'm not sure Beacon is the best place for-" Ozpin began only for Amber to narrow her eyes. Brothers damnit that girl was attached to the creature, "Very well, we will recover your horse and let it stay on campus."

"Yay!" Amber grinned as she got up, "In that case, Jaune and are going to go look through the files for the new students to decide our teammates, maybe kill some Grimm. Later Qrow, later Professor Goodwitch, bye immortal asshole." With that she walked to the elevator and departed. The moment the doors were closed, and she was gone, Qrow and Glynda burst out laughing at the whole mess, much to Ozpin's annoyance.

"That was not funny." He frowned at them, but they just kept laughing.

-Adam-

Coughing up a small patch of blood, Adam continued to work on pulling himself from the river in the Emerald Forest. Wilt and Blush were lost back in the Forever Fall and his clothes were tattered and stained. Getting as firm a grip as he could manage on a root along the shore, Adam pulled himself forward as he remembered how he got into this current situation.

-Flashback-

Exhausted, frustrated, and hungry, Adam stumbled into the White Fang camp of Forever Fall. After Blake betrayed him and left him for dead, he was forced to walk back to the camp. Without any signal that far out in the forest he couldn't call for an extraction and with just himself he couldn't carry any of the dust they had liberated, what little was left on the cars Blake had separated from the rest anyway. He had been walking for the past several days to get back to the camp and finally it was in sight but…where were the guards?

Wary, Adam put his hand on Wilt's handle and entered camp to see the Fang of the Vale Chapter surrounding what looked like a makeshift stage. He had only been with the Vale branch for a couple of weeks before the train heist, so he didn't know the camp like the back of his hand yet, but he was sure the camp had never been there, nor had the cloaked woman and what seemed to be a Scorpion Faunus who stood atop it. Perhaps Banesaw had been recruiting? Getting closer, Adam saw the same woman who had come to attempt to acquire the White Fang as her tools to destroy a Kingdom before the train heist.

"You." His shock and frustration carried as all heads turned towards him, Cinder smirking and seemed about to start talking, when the cloaked woman held her hand out to her for silence as Cinder looked furious but didn't fight.

"Adam." Banesaw stepped forward, getting off the stage where he stood beside Tyrian "Where is Blake?" Adam was on edge at the question, not just at the topic but at the definite hostile tone in the man's voice.

"Blake has betrayed us." Adam was tense, his every instinct screaming danger, "She separated the train cars and left me in the middle of the forest. I've had to walk back. Now, why are those humans back here? I already told them I would not waste Faunus lives for their human cause."

"Silence Heretic!" the scorpion Faunus cackled, "You dare to insult emissaries of the great goddess?" the deranged Faunus likely would have said more if the cloaked woman hadn't held up her hand for his silence.

"Goddess? What goddess? What are you talking about?" Adam demands, sensing that while he was gone, these Fang Agents had been swayed by this group, he didn't have their loyalty before that mission, and it was likely too late now.

"I suppose it isn't surprising that you are unaware of the truth of the matter, Cinder doubles stated that everything was her plan and that she would have been the one in command." The cloaked woman all but purred as she approached him, "But in truth, we both serve someone far great, far more powerful. The goddess Salem, the oldest being on Remnant, the first one to attempt to save the Faunus." The woman snapped her hands as the air began to fill with an intense gravity, then her hand was wreathed in flames, and then lightning struck from the sky but was redirected at her whims. A display of power and one that was done as diversely as possible to reveal that it wasn't a semblance. "My power is a gift through her, and she has need of stalwart blades to aide in the fall of the Kingdom of Vale."

"You pushed away emissaries of a goddess!" Banesaw growled out at him, "With these people, we could slaughter every human in Vale!"

"You're sounding like a Schnee." Adam gave him a hard look, he killed without remorse, but he didn't go looked for mindless slaughter, each death he dolled out served a purpose "And how do we know these people are even telling the truth?"

"Silence the heretic!" the scorpion yelled out, "He will betray you! He has already returned without the princess of our kind!" Fuck. Sensing the growing hostility, Adam turns tail to run, needing to get to a safe place he could contract help. Assuming this madness hadn't spread further within the fang.

"Kill him!" Cinder shouted out, her two peons charging along with the fang, the thunderous sound of footsteps drowning out any sound that might have come from the cloaked woman. Adam ran as fast as he could between the trees, pushing his exhausted body past any limits he had. Something flew overhead and bounced off a tree and he saw a grenade. Reacting quickly, Adam performed what little he could for moonslice, his energy all but spent and hoping it would shield him. The explosion was diverted but his blade was sent flying and he had no time to retrieve it.

"Kill the traitor!" a distorted voice he's positive came from one of Cinder's peons in the midst of the mob shouts, likely to further egg on the crazed Fang branch and without his blade he couldn't use his semblance, assuming he had enough energy left to try anyway. Up ahead, Adam could hear the sound of rushing water, was that a river? The sound of water was soon drowned out by the bang of a gunshot as he felt a burning pain in his side and stumbled, rolling down a hill to his body hit the river with a crash and the currents swept him away, the sound of the mob fading in the distance.

-End Flashback-

Pulling himself out of the memory just as he managed to pull most of his body to shore, Adam lay there panting. Cursing his own weakness, he felt his vision growing dark but as he lay there he swore he saw two figures approaching, one of them reaching out with a hand that glowed white.