Blake did her best to hide what she was doing in her sketchpad, drawing sketches of former members of the White Fang, mainly Ilia and Adam.

She was in the cafeteria with her team, along with JNPR and the newly added CRDL. Which… honestly wasn't as bad as she'd thought it would have been. Jaune had somehow made peace with their leader, and Cardin had instantly gotten chummy with Ruby.

…Okay, maybe not chummy. Her leader didn't do chummy. Blake wasn't even sure the girl noticed it, but she gave off more emo vibes than Blake did sometimes.

And she was an ex-terrorist.

Well… still, they were at least a good attention to their little circle. They might have been a bit loud, but somehow, someway all traces of the bigots and bullies they were before had vanished.

Anyway, Cardin was practically a gentleman now. A little rough but still, compared to what he'd been like before it was a complete change…

Speaking of change.

Blake frowned behind her book as Yang snuck a glance at her for the twenties time since they woke up this morning.

Every so often the blonde's eyes would flit back and forth to Blake, and every time she did her eyes would flare red for just a second before she looked away again.

Had Blake done something wrong? She honestly had no clue. She'd been too focused on her own dilemma… or.. well, she wasn't sure what to call it.

Ilia was in Cale. So were the others in the White Fang and they were working with Torchwick. For what reason she didn't know but she could be certain it wasn't for any good reason. Blake… hadn't had doubts after their mission in Grainsal, but she'd hoped it was some rouge sector, especially after Sienna Khan's announcement on TV… but now she wasn't so sure. How many people had she called a friend who believed in those methods? Yuma, Ilia, Adam? How many more?

She bit her lip, her eyes roaming over her sketchbook. She kept it hidden, and no one batted an eye –probably because they knew what her taste in literature entailed – but in reality they were notes she'd made on White Fang activity so far.

Every dust robbery by Torchwick or claimed attacks by Faunus she'd jotted down, connecting the threads and possibilities… or… at least that was what she had been doing. But now she'd run into a wall. It came back to Torchwick again.

Why was the White Fang working with him? What were they trying to gain from this except negative notoriety?

She didn't know, and it was frustrating her to no end!

And Yang was still looking at her!

She was about to call her partner out on it when Nora practically dropped onto the table.

"So are we doing it tonight?" she grinned. "I heard from Yand that little old team RWBY was having a party in their room!"

Weiss rolled her eyes. "It's hardly a party and more of a team-building exercise.. I believe it was Ruby's idea." At that she nodded towards the younger girl, perhaps with a tone that hinted that she was impressed in some way.

The reaper shrugged. "It was just an idea. You guys are invited if you want, you guys in team CRDL too."

Russell gave a thumbs up! "Sweet! The Mohawk-sporting teen laughed. "We can sneak in a few drinks too."

"Please!" Ruby latched on, a little too quickly that it drew everyone's eyes.

"On second thought," Pyrrha giggled. "Maybe we should keep this a… clean type of get-together."

"Yeah alright," Russel gave in. "I'll bring something though. Hey Cardin, you got any ideas?"

The bigger man hummed, I've got one or two. We'll keep it PG of course."

Yang gave a thumbs up even as Ruby groaned in defeat and Nora giggled.

"Are we sure we are allowed to be doing this?" Weiss asked for what felt like just for the sake of it. "I don't know if the teachers condone… parties and the like."

Yang grinned. "Aw chill out Weiss-cream," she ignored the indignant spluttering. "AS long as we make sure to handle Nora we'll be fine."

"Hey!" the ginger huntress crowed. "I'll have you know that my behaviour is excellent." She emphasised the statement by slamming her fist onto the table. Unfortuanltyl it was just wood, and so snapped under her hand. A plank shot up.

Blake watched it in slow motion, as food was catapulted into the air, all eyes drawn to it as t complete an arc and descended again.

Right onto Weiss' head.

It was funny how such a simple action could spark complete warfare.

"Rrraaggh!" the food-covered Schnee screamed.

It was a flurry of chaos in an instant; tables went flying, food went flying, people went flying!

Blake was dragged down behind a flipped table used for makeshift cover by her partner as several assortments of gravy flew overhead.

"Thanks." She gasped.

Yang gave her a thumbs up. "No problem kitten." Ruby and Weiss fell over the table and landed beside them at that moment, the white-haired girl looking considerably furious.

"How's it goin' Weiss?" Yang drawled.

"Fiends!" the heiress hissed. "They somehow managed to build a fort at the other end of the room."

"It's been less than thirty seconds." Blake pointed out from sheer incredulity.

"I know!" was the answer. "We need a plan! Ruby!"

"What do you want me to do?" their leader cried "They have us outnumbered!"

"What?" Weiss asked, foolishly sticking her head up to see if it was true. A pie splatted her in the face for her troubles/

"Suck it Schnee!" the green-haired teen yelled from their battlements.

Weiss fell back, scrambled up, and grabbed a baguette of the ground as she leapt over the table.

"Die!" she snarled.

"Weiss wait a minute!" Ruby begged, dashing after her.

Yang laughed. "Well crap, guess Weiss snapped. We're outnumbered here Kitten."

Blake groaned, and not just at the nickname this time. "What are we even meant to do then?"

"Maybe we could help?"

The two remaining members of team RWBY whipped around to face the new voice, and was met with a familiar face.

"Oh, Great!" Yang cheered sarcastically, hands thrown up to the heavens. What was with her now? Blake wondered.

"Sun," she greeted. "You've kind of caught us in the middle of something."

"I can see that." The monkey Faunus laughed as more food battered against their cover, and in the distance Weiss' furious screams could be heard.

"We thought we could jump into the fray a bit," Sun said, pointing a thumb at the teen beside him. "This is my buddy Neptune, my partner, he just got here."

"Hey." The newly introduced Neptune waved, flashing them a smile.

Right, well.

"So you can help?" Blake asked. Call her what you will, she wasn't one to lose out on a clear competition.

"Sure." They said at the same time and she nodded.

"Right, well then, you two help Yang push up while I sneak around the side, I'll flank and you guys help Ruby and Weiss. Is that fine Yang?" she asked, turning to her partner. She saw the tiniest flash of red.

"Yeah yeah." The blonde said. "I got it, just hurry so we can back up my sis." Blake nodded, and grabbed a stick of celery to defend herself as she dashed to the side.

She nearly tripped when she took in the scene in front of her however; there was a fort at the other end of the room, but it was more a mishmash of tables and chairs that in no way should have been possible to set up so in such little time.

Standing atop of it was Nora, cackling madly as she rained down watermelons of ridiculous fury.

In the middle of the cafeteria Weiss had made a stand, thrashing and roaring wildly as she beat Jaune with a baguette… that was something Blake didn't know she'd needed until it had happened. Ren, Russel and Dove were backing the blond up, and the heiress was only managing to hold them off thanks to her blood frenzy.

Further up Ruby was dealing with Carin and Sky. Her speed heling her with what looked like hit and run tactics; dashing in to splatter them with something before running away before anyone could catch her.

It was… actually going better than she thought it would be.

Or, that's what she would be saying, if Pyrrha hadn't suddenly entered the mix.

The champion was like a missile, barrelling into Weiss with a chicken wing in hand., sending the girl flying.

Weiss skid to a halt, and wielder her bread like a rapier, fending off the Mistralian's strikes frantically as she lost more and more ground.

It looked like Pyrrha was better in a fight even with food as her weapon, and as Ren, Jaune, Russel and Dove move in Blake thought her teammate was done for.

"Charge!"

Only to see her be saved by Sun, wailing strings of sausage as nun-chucks, knocked the members of team cardinal back, and they were quickly finished off but a pie-throwing Neptune.

"We're here!" The goggle-wearing teen yelled loudly, wiggling through Russel's bread stabbing.

Pyrrha blinked, looking around in utter confusion.

"When did you-"

She didn't get to finish, as the yellow meteorite that was Yang smacked her with turkey cover fists.

"Back up is here!" she roared over the cries, suddenly in a tangle with the redhead.

Then there were two. A moment of silence passed between Weiss and Jaune as the last members. The team leader began to sweat nervously as it stretched on and, slowly, Weiss raised her weapon.

Jaune ran way with a scream, the murderous Schnee hot on his heels.

Right, that only left her, if she could sneak around then-

"Hey Blakey~" came a menacing voice.

Blake turned slowly as the dread took over, and rose to full force as she came face-to-face to the monster that was Nora.

"How did you even…" Blake gasped, eye wide.

"You didn't think I'd let you sneak around did you?" Nora giggled. "I have all the training I need thanks to Ren. He's basically a ninja already." Blake paled as Nora hefted her weapon over her shoulder. Where on Remnant did she get a melon hammer!

For the rest of the fight. Chaos reigned.

…

…

Ruby's eyes darted back and forth as the dangerous figure sped towards her. She raised Crescent Rose to block the jewelled staff as it crashed into her, and when she said crashed she meant crashed!

Her arms were rattled like the bars of a cage as she was thrown back. She gasped as she managed to land and was forced to the side as she blocked another strike. She ducked under a swipe that came far too fast for who the attacker was.

The reaper rolled, firing a few shots as she did to boost her momentum and managing to escape her opponents attempt to catch her.

Her curved blade came at the enemy's feet and Ruby prepared to let out a cry of victory as the attack connected.

Only for it to not.

Her eyes widened and snapped up to the girl who'd practically pole-vaulted over her attack.

She wasn't prepared for the galeforce wind that blasted into her chest and sent her to the ground again. She didn't get up this time, as the tip of a red gem was pointed at her face.

She sighed.

"Okay, I give up Amber."

The half-maiden chuckled as she strapped her staff to her back and offered the younger girl her hand. Ruby took it, but felt the need to glower at the other girl.

"I totally had you there, you shouldn't be that fast!"

"Ha! Sure Ruby, I'll let you believe that for now." Amber said, looking and feeling smug about her victory.

"Well miss Rose is correct." Ozpin said, as he stepped away from the wall where he'd been watching their secret sparring match. Secret as in hidden from the other students that is, it wouldn't do well for all of them to see Amber at her fullest.

Amber frowned. "What are you talking about? I had that fight under wraps the whole time."

The headmaster hummed as he took a sip of his coffee. "Yes, and yet you shouldn't have; forgive me for being blunt when I say that Miss Rose is far more skilled than you, not just with a weapon but with fighting in general. There is a reason she is able to manage here at her age."

The maiden rolled her eyes. "Yeah, I know Ruby's talented, but I won."

"Because you were faster and stronger than you should be," He countered. "and not to mention you don't have to worry about draining your aura when using your abilities."

Ruby nodded as she listened in. it was true, at least from what she knew, Arua wasn't just something you could use as a defensive measure. Yes, it did that, but it also had another use; fueling a person's semblance. People without aura's and training weren't as versed on the subject, but the unique powers and abilities that Huntsmen and Huntresses relied on weren't an infinite resource, else they'd be used constantly.

They didn't just make a person fatigued with use but sapped away at a person's aura in small measures. Without aura you couldn't summon the raw power to use it. that was why when people's aura was broken they were forced to fight with the basics, sometimes less if the fight had been particularly nasty.

"Aura and semblances are a part of the soul, they are linked to that defined substance," Ozpin told them both. "Magic is something else entirely: it is based in the body, the physical body and as such can be used even after one's aura is gone. There are also some very attractive side benefits, that being strength, speed and stamina enhanced well behind what the individual would otherwise be capable of."

That last line was delivered with a pointed look at Amber, how broke eye contact with a huff.

"You are not as skilled as the students here Amber, you could not be with the minuscule amount of training you have, but that is the issue whether it is your fault or not. You rely so heavily on the power of the maiden without even realising it, and such lack of experience nearly lead to your downfall once."

Amber's hand came up to her face, trailing over the scars on her face.

Ruby frowned. There was no need to take the jab at her, even if it was true.

"The fact you could not hold off three attackers with the full power at your disposal is telling of this," he pressed. "Not to mention the fact that neither you, Miss Rose or even Qrow can seem to recall their faces puts you at a disadvantage." Ozpin Paused to let that sink in. "These sparring matches are not to show off your make you feel powerful, they are to teach you how to fight, and to ideally help Miss Rose too."

He checked his watch. "However that seems to be all the time we have. Miss Rose it looks like your next class is about to start, you should be there."

Ruby looked between them for a moment, hesitation clear before she sighed and nodded, waving goodbye to Amber as she left. As the doors of the room closed behind her she heard the headmaster call out.

"Oh yes, and come see me later tomorrow. There is something very important that we all must attend to."

Well, that didn't sound like an ominous promise at all did it?

She shook her head, she could think on it later. Right now, Ruby had a much bigger problem to deal with, and as she came to the door to her room she felt her stomach churn with nervousness.

A scowl crossed her face. What was she doing? She was supposed to be a huntress, not some coward who couldn't even confront her teammates. With a final breath to ready herself Ruby knocked once and opened the door.

She was greeted by the three teams of RWBY, JNPR and CRDL all sat in a circle on the floor. There was music in the background from someones scroll and the TV was on.

Ruby took another second to take it all in:

Russel had come through and brought something for them all to drink, some kind of sweet of fizzy drink, Ruby couldn't be sure, and the all-male team sat next to Jaune as Cardin teased the blond lightly. Pyrrha was in on it by the looks of it, going by the amused smile on her face as Jaune blushed.

Next was Nora and Ren, of course beside each other, and it looked like Nora had brought plenty of snacks for them to gorge themselves on all night. Blake was next with book in hand, although from the looks of it, it was just for show as she watched Nora be her usually bubbly self with a smirk gracing her there were the two new additions; Sun and Neptune laughed at the banter on team CRDL with drinks in hand and Yang sandwiched between them.

Her sister looked… a little uncomfortable by it but not too much, so Ruby guessed it was alright, and finally there was Weiss, sitting on the floor daintily, with back straight and an air of elegance around her, or, as much as someone could have sat as she was.

Weiss saw her partner and nodded. "There you are, we were waiting." She patted the empty space next to her.

"Yay!" Nora cheered. "We can get this party started then!"

"What are we doing anyway?" Ruby asked as she sat down, cross-legged and as relaxed as she could be.

"Anything!" The hammer-wielding huntress said. "Sky bought a movie down in Vale for us to watch, and we can play video games or do something afterwards. There there's all the food we can eat and-"

Ren shrugged as Nora rambled on, getting more excited as she did so.

Neptune grinned. "Wow, you've really planned this out huh?"

"Nora's always wanted to have a party," Ren informed. "We never really had the chance before we came to Beacon so we're both very excited."

"Yep!" Nora giggled.

"Alright then, I'll bite. What kind of movie is it?" Yang asked as she took a sip of juice from one of the open cans.

"Horror," he said, holding up the box as a few people cheered. "It's one of the new ones that've come out. I haven't seen it yet but I hear it was really scary."

"To regular people maybe," Blake said with a roll of her eyes. "I'm pretty sure Huntsmen and Huntresses aren't going to be affected."

"Then explain why blue-boy is already shaking." He pointed out, and all eyes turned to Neptune, who was indeed shaking.

"W-what?" he gasped. "I don't know what you're talking about! Who'd be scared of a little old horror movie, I'm not scared you are!"

Sun's forehead met his palm as he sighed. "Way to play it smooth Nep."

After that they all they dimmed the lights and put the movie on, huddling together sort of as a joke, but also because it looked like Neptune was a scaredy-cat.

Ruby had to admit though, it was actually a pretty scary movie, the effects were realistic, the music was eerie and there had already been one or two good jump scares.

Ruby was more interested in the effects than the story, but it was something about a group of serial killers in a frontier village, and the main characters were investigating the deaths. There was some kind of occult worshipping and sacrifices going on too.

Surprisingly Jaune didn't look scared., engrossed in the move that he didn't even seem to tice how close Pyrrha had gotten to him. Ren was of course as calm as always although he looked like he was enjoying it at least, and Nora was busy munching away on their food.

Russel, Sky and Dove were all enjoying it to different degrees while Cardin looked like he was comparing the effects to real life, which was honestly funny to Ruby.

Sun and Neptune were using each other as human shields to block out the worst of the scares, clutching each other desperately.

Blake being scared was a surprise though; it wasn't obvious but whenever the music kicked up for a tense scene she'd hid her face behind her book and pretend like she was reading.

Yang looked like she found the movie hilarious, or maybe she just like everyone reaction as she sat back against one of their beds casually and sipped a drink. She was grinning at it, and generally just enjoying everyone else's horror.

The grip that tightened on Ruby's arm reminded her of the final person in the room.

"I'd didn't think you'd be scared of something like this Weiss." Ruby whispered, unable to keep the amusement out of her voice.

It wasn't Weiss' usual look, eyes wide and alert as she practically forced herself to watch the movie, while both hands had a vice grip on Ruby's left arm. She scowled despite it.

" Don't be ridiculous you dolt. This isn't scary at-" she was cut off as a scream came from the TV asking her, and most of everyone else jump, and laugh at themselves and each other afterwards.

"Quiet you." The heiress warned her partner without even turning to glare. "It's not my fault that this is the first time I've seen a horror movie."

Ruby choked out a laugh. "Seriously?"

"Yes." Weiss frowned. "it isn't the sort of thing the Heiress of the Schnee dust company got to do in her free time."

"What did you do in your free time?" Ruby whispered.

"Study," she answered as she took a sip of the drink at her side, managing to free a hand from Ruby's arm as she did it. Weiss grimaced at the fizzy liquid. "Either that or being tutored on finances, management and anything else I might need to lead the company."

"Sounds… rough?" Ruby hedged. She really wasn't sure what else she could say to that, other than give her sympathies and she wasn't sure if Weiss would appreciate that.

"It sounds like that maybe, but, it wasn't." she said. "I never had any reason to think about it, and it wasn't like I had many people to spend time with if I had any free time."

"Weiss." Ruby whispered, but her partner waved her off.

"It doesn't matter, there's no need to think about that now. Let's just enjoy the rest of the movie."

Ruby wanted to say more, but she let it slide as the settle back into a lull, listening as the others tittered and chatted throughout the shows run time.

It was fun to just huddle around and enjoy a little bit of time-wasting, and that time flew by so fast.

When it was over though, it just meant Nora got to start off a little game she'd been planning… with a twist.

"The… secrets game?" Ruby asked in trepidation.

"Uh-huh." Nora nodded, before hesitating and rolling her eyes seemingly at herself. "Okay well, maybe not secret-secrets but stuff about you."

Yang looked especially interested. 'I wondered why.' Ruby thought sarcastically.

"So how do we play then sparks?" the blonde grinned.

Nora bounced up and down excitedly as she explained.

"We all sit in a circle and pick something to talk about, like, our favourite food or something that we can all answer, then we spin the bottle and whoever it lands on is the focus., then everybody guesses what it is. If someone gets it right they win the round, if they don't then the person picked wins.."

Pyrrha giggled. "Nora, I don't think this game actually exists."

"Of course it does silly, I just made it!"

"Nora's got it into her mind that she needs to know as much as possible to make a 'friend circle'." Ren explained with a sigh. "I don't know what she plans to do with that circle but…"

"Alright, I'm game." Sun chuckled, getting into position. Everyone else followed after then and albeit reluctantly Ruby joined too.

Russel fished out a beer bottle from god knows were and set it in the middle. Nora rubbed her hands together.

"Well we'll start with food first then, since Nora used that as the example." Ren chuckled, swiping at the bottle lazily. It did its rounds a few times before coming to a stop at Ruby as luck would have it.

'Well, she thought. 'At least it's not a personal one'

Weiss rolled her eyes. "Well this is an easy one. I'll go first; Ruby's favourite food is cookies."

The reaper couldn't help but giggle, just over the fact that Weiss looked so assured in her guess.

"Nope." She grinned.

Her partner blinked. "What?"

Nora gasped dramatically. "The turnaround! To think that Weissy would know so little about her partner! For shame. For Shame!"

Her outburst went mostly ignored.

"So it's something else then?" Pyrrha asked. "Chocolate maybe?"

"Nope." Ruby answered, smiling all the time.

"Ice-cream?"

"Nope."

"Cake?"

"Nope!"

"Cinnamon?"

"Nope!" Ruby snickered as they groaned. "Come on! I eat other stuff than just sweets."

"Well then what is it?" Weiss scowled.

She rolled her eyes. "Strawberries."

"Really?" Yang perked up. "That's it?"

"Yeah, I'd always choose strawberries over anything else no problem."

"Round one goes to Ruby!" Nora yelled, already reaching to spin the bottle again.

From there on the whole thing was hectic; the whole game was less organised and more of just a competition of who could find out the most interesting facts about the other. The innocence of it all was refreshing too., and eventually just devolved into talking

"So, you two are from Mistral right?" Yang asked, looking towards Pyrrha and Ren. "So, like, how's it that you act so differently, mean, aren't countries supposed to have like this, cultural flavour to them?"

The quiet boy raised an eyebrow. "You… don't know much about the other kingdoms do you? We're not that alien to Vale."

"Hey cut me some slack, I've never been outta Vale, and besides, Weiss seems plenty Alien."

"Hey!"

"Anyway, you're right that there is a 'cultural flavour' as you put it, but it varies depending on how far you go into the wilds. I lived in a frontier village so I suppose we'd be more… rural."

"Right," Pyrrha nodded. "I suppose I never really thought about it but the city is a lot different then. I mean, my armour's simply the classic Mistralian design for about the last hundred years."

"It's part of the lead up to the great war right?" Blake asked, "Hey Neptune, you lived in Mistral too right? Where did you live?"

"Eh, I was fairly average all in all. My family ran a small business back home. When I signed up to Haven I didn't know what to expect for the most part. I guess that kinda meant we didn't have so much of the warrior culture as Pyrrha did."

They nodded in understanding.

"Well I guess we would ask in class," Sun offered. "That History teacher of yours, professor Oobleck? He sounds like he'd know a lot." The suggestion was a good one all things considered, asking a history teacher about history made sense to any smart person. Which was why the monkey Faunus was shocked when the residents of Beacon groaned.

"Please no!" Jaune cried. "Don't ask Professor Oobleck, my brain can only take so much."

A chorus of 'same' echoed around the room.

"I don't get it," Sun frowned. "What's wrong with asking the teacher?"

Cardin barked out a laugh. "Oh buy, let me tell you about how Oobleck teaches then blondie. You're in for a ride."

About an hour later everyone was still enjoying themselves, kicking back and laughing at each other's expenses good-naturedly. The food was almost finished and the drinks had nearly run dry.

"Hey I've been meaning to ask," Sun began rather half-heartedly, pointing at both Yang and Ruby. "You two are sisters right? Why do you have different last names? And like, look nothing alike."

"Sun!" his partner hissed. "You can't just ask stuff like that! What's wrong with you?!"

"What!?" he shrugged, before it seemed to suddenly twig in his mind. "Oh crap! S-sorry! I didn't mean it like-"

"It's fine monkey boy." Yang laughed, rolling her eyes for the added effect of calming him down. "It's not a big deal… or… it is, but I'm not going to flip if someone asks."

There was a pause.

"So… why is it." The question surprised Yang, not because of what was said, but because it was Blake who did. The blonde hid a nervous swallow behind a laugh.

"What? Curious kitten? What's the saying again?"

"Ha ha." Blake deadpanned. "If you don't want to talk about it that's fine yang, I'm sure nobody would pry."

"They wouldn't." Weiss confirmed, sending a warning look at everybody else, who nodded in agreement. Yang felt a little bit of warmth at that, if not for them respecting her privacy then for Weiss being the one to enforce the idea. But…

"You okay with me talking about it?" Yang appealed to her sister. If Ruby didn't want to talk about it then she knew it would be a bad idea to ignore that in case she clammed up again. "We can just forget it if you want."

Ruby shrugged. "No, it's fine." That was all she said on it, and Yang hesitated a second longer before nodding.

"Well okay," she sighed. Turning back to the others, who looked particularly interested in the topic, especially their own team. "I guess the first thing to say is that our parents were Huntsmen. They studied here at Beacon way back. There was Summer Rose, Taiyang Xiao-Long, Raven Branwen and Qrow Branwen."

Yang looked towards the ceiling and closed her eyes to concentrate.

"A while after they graduated I guess it was about time for them to settle down a little, get married and stuff."

"Right," Pyrrha nodded. "So, Ruby took your mother's name and you took your fathers, did something happen to make it like that?"

She chuckled at that. "Kinda; for starters my dad married Raven Branwen first, not Summer." She gave a closed-eyed grinned. "I guess if I took my biological moms name I'd be Yang Branwen."

"Wait what?" Weiss squawked, it seemed like she wasn't ready to find out that there was some kind of family drama with the two sisters. Judging by her voice Yang knew that Weiss thought some amount of cheating had gone on, and that's why they were so tense with each other. Well, she was about to blow that out of the water.

"Yep, then right after I was born, I think… like, two, or three months Raven dumped me with my dad and ran away. No clue where or why but she was gone."

There was silence now, and Yang could feel the stares on her even without looking.

"So, a couple of years later my dad gets together with Summer, I don't know how or when exactly but she'd been helping to look after me for two years already so it was probably only natural they got closer. Ruby was born after that obviously. She got Summer's name and I got dad's. I didn't even wonder why. As far as I'd known Summer had always been my mom."

Ren nodded. "So you grew up with Summer Rose as your mother. Is that why the two of you decided to become huntresses?"

"I guess?" Yang shrugged.

Pyrrha smiled brightly. "She must be proud of you then."

"She might be." Ruby mumbled, finally entering the conversation. She winced though, when she realised the attention was on her and she coughed into her fist. "But we'll never really know… she died on a mission when I was five."

And just like that the champions smile was wiped clean off her face.

"I don't really remember much from back then," Ruby went on. "Mom went on a mission and never came back…" she frowned. "I can't… I can't remember her face. I can't remember her voice or really what she was like at all. My memories are all of really pointless moments… like, baking with her, or when she would read my stories at bedtime."

"Those aren't pointless Ruby." Yang whispered mournfully. There wasn't much she could do other than sigh. As she looked around there was a sombre mood. Her friends looked at her and Ruby like they'd been dealt a bad hand in life. They looked at them with pity, and her own teammates liked like they wanted to reassure them somehow.

Yang hated it.

"Anyway," Yang growled out, to get their attention and finish this damn story already. "I found out later that my mom wasn't actually my mom and I'd been left behind." She glanced at Ruby out of the corner of her eye. "Then five years later Ruby disappears."

"Yang."

"What?" she challenged. "I'm just trying to tell them the whole deal. I mean I guess I don't really know it, you won't tell me anything."

"You're right, you don't," her sister bit back. "And I won't, so leave it."

The others watched the scene in a sudden tense silence, as silver bore into red and red glared back. Out of the corner of her eye the brawler could see Blake staring at her sadly.

Yang broke off first. "Well I guess that's it then." She spat out. "That's the whole deal, sorry if it wasn't as cheery as you wanted it Sun."

"N-no that's fine." The Faunus assured. "Sorry for bringing it up."

The blonde girl shrugged. "I'm gonna go get a little air, tell me some funny stories about your childhood when I get back alright guys?"

There were a few mumbles of yes as she got up. Sun got up with her.

"Hey can I come with? I need to talk to you for a sec."

"…Sure."

Sun nodded, and as he left he grabbed hold of Neptune, dragging him along too. They walked out the door a second later and left them in that stiff atmosphere. Jaune sighed. "That was uh… pretty heavy."

"Are you alright Ruby?" Weiss asked, turning to her partner in concern.

The younger girl just waved her off. "It's fine." She told them. "It'd probably help to distract us all with something though… does anyone have any video games they wanna play?"

Nora was the first to take up the offer.

…

…

"So?" Yang asked once they'd cleared enough distance in the hallway. They were at least far enough away that they wouldn't be overheard, so she was waiting for either of the boys to start talking. She crossed her arms and waited.

Honestly she didn't know what this was about, but considering the whole problem she was facing with Blake she didn't-

"Do you think we're friends Yang?"

She tilted her head. "Uh, I guess so? Kinda a weird question to ask all of a sudden but… yeah I think you're cool. I don't know much about you but you've got this bright and chill vibe going on all at once, not to mention you know how to hold your own in a fight, so yeah, I think we're friends.

Sun nodded, a contemplative look on his face. "Right, okay, so this is going to come outta left field a bit but… do you… like Blake?"

Yang choked on air.

"W-what?"

Sun didn' seem to notice her shock, or if he did he ignored it. "Well it's just that I keep seeing you give her these 'looks' you know? And like, after our detention together things have kind of been awkward so… I don't know, I wanted to ask."

Yang wanted to deny it instantly, to laugh in his face or tell him he was being ridiculous and imagining things, but maybe because this had come out of nowhere her mouth had suddenly stopped listening.

"I don't know alright," what was came out instead. "It's complicated. I don't want to get into it."

"No but this is great!" Sun insisted. Yang looked at him like he was insane.

"Why?"

"Cause this means I can be your wingman!" he cheered, and effectively shutting down her brain. "This'll be great! Yeah, I can help you get it right and Nep can help too. right?"

"Sure." The blue-haired teen laughed.

Yang was still in shock. "But… what? I thought – I thought you liked Blake too!" She was sure of it. what kind of guy helped someone get with the girl they liked? Was he an idiot?

"Well, yeah I do." He admitted. "But, I know it would suck to see someone you like end up with another person, and like, she's your partner so that would make it worse. Besides I think you're col yang, I wanna help you out, and Blake's awesome as a friend too."

He… he was serious. Yang stared at the Faunus boy in complete shock. He wasn't an idiot she realised; he was just a nice guy. Such a nice guy that he'd give up his own chance just so that someone he barely knew could have a chance.

She looked to Neptune for help.

"Don't look at me," he shrugged. "Sun's always had it in his head that he'd be the best Wingman. Now that it's in his head he's not going to let this go."

Yang slumped on defeat. This was actually happening wasn't it? she sighed heavily.

"Alright… so how are we going to do it?"

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So I'm actually back a lot sooner than I expected but there you have it, on to the second Volume and covering some of the lore to do with Magic. While I don't expect anyone to sing my praises on the small changes or specific definitions I thin what I've mentioned about magic and semblances is better than what Miles and Kerry give us on how they work.(For as much as I love them they aren't really that good and creating fleshed out and detailed worlds.) But really that's up to you. Next Chapter we get into some even heavier stuff so I hope you stick around.

Anyway, tell me what you liked about this chapter, or what you hated if that's your mood.

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