Beta read by: Crescent Sunrise

Reccomended story: "Blood and Ink" by ShowMeYourFury

~MZ~

The sniper groans coming out of her restful state with a fluttering of her eyes that leaves her hissing in pain as the blinding florescent lights above mercilessly assault her optic nerves. The scowl she retaliates with proves futile against her shining adversary as they taunt her from above with their continued brilliance.

Her hand reaches for Myrtles Bloom.

It grabs empty air.

Her mind scrambles for a moment trying to piece together why her trusty weapon isn't next to her before squinting her eyes to look around the room. Doing so a few things occur to her.

She's alone. That is odd since she has been sharing a dorm room with her team for the better part of two years now.

She's unarmed. That is very unusual, she hasn't slept without her rifle in arms reach more than a handful of times since making her precious weapon. She might not fawn over her rifle and treat it like a person, but it's still important to her. Myrtles Bloom is her rifle, there are no others like it and that one is hers. Having it out of sight with no idea where it is does not sit well with her.

She's naked. Well, sort of. She's in a hospital gown from what she can tell and nothing else. At least it's not one that will bare her ass to the world is she leaves the bed. Though on second thought, that might have given her the chance to 'accidentally' flash her girlfriend. Oh well.

There is an irritating beeping sound and an IV in her arm. Another point for her being in the infirmary. The Hunter academies come equipped with top of the line hospital equipment. Warriors are trained at this school and when accidents happen, which they do, they need to be able to treat the victim in a hurry.

The last thing she notices is that there is something bulky and heavy on her left leg. Looking down she grimaces at the machine wrapped around her upper thigh, the devices upper portion hidden under her gown while a window on the side of it allows her to see the leg underneath.

That is not a pretty scar. Her tanned skin marred in a large star made of scar tissue. She grimaces and grabs the bed controls, letting her sit up without having to hold herself in the position as her mind reconnects with why exactly she's here in the first place. The train, her loss, her torture, the Grimm, their extraction.

Next she looks around her room. Her clothes are missing, that's fine so long as she gets her hat, jacket and scarf back she'll manage. Not like she had been wearing her sexy underwear out in the field after all and the rest were replaceable.

She does her best to arrange her hair to cover her left eye. It's a habit and it makes her mother happy. The second being all she needs to try and keep doing so, not having anything around to wear over it her hair is the best she can manage.

She reaches over to the controls and hits the red "Nurse Call" button and within a minute a woman walks in wearing light blue scrubs under a white lab coat an ID card attached to the breast reading 'Dr. Madison Green'. Blonde hair, plain of face, and light brown eyes. She looks stern and her posture backs it up.

'Well she does deal with Hunters and Huntress's all day long. Even if it is mostly trainees. I bet most of us are a fussy bunch.' May thinks idly with amusement before speaking up.

"Wow, I press a button and get a quick response. And not just a nurse but a doctor. I didn't know I warranted such tender care. Or am I just a special case for you doc?" May asks the woman looking to be easily twenty years her senior with a wink. "Gotta warn you though. I have a girlfriend and she has a massive scythe so I'd think twice before trying to take advantage of me."

The stern look is only redoubled for a moment before the woman sighs, her hand coming up to palm her face with exasperation. "Heroes of the kingdom get preferred treatment." The doctor deadpans before giving an honest answer. "I was at the nurses' station when your call went through. Also, don't flirt with the nurses or you'll be getting your meals in dried nutrient bars." She orders stepping closer to look at May's wound through the window of the machine. Her eyes looking over a readout on the side. "Awake less than ten minutes and already causing trouble." She mutters to herself.

"Aw, don't be like that. I gotta ask though, Dr. Green? Isn't that a bit... on the nose? I mean, I know a lot of people started naming their children for colors after the Great War but... Wait... did you say hero?" May questions earning herself a sigh of long suffering from the Doctor.

"It's a family name. I didn't get to pick it. Not like your pink hair." The doctor fires back ignoring the 'hero' question and giving May a glare before going back to her work as the Huntress sputters and frowns.

"It's not pink! It's dusky rose, yes that's a real color, look it up. And it's also natural, thank you very much. In case you didn't notice a lot of people have odd colored hair." May replies with a huff as she tries to cross her arm only to wince as the IV tugs.

"Be careful." The doctor admonishes before pulling the folder from the foot of the bed and writing in it. "Okay, before I step out and let your team in I have some things to explain. Do you want the good news or the bad news first?" The doctor offers looking at May as if mentally willing the sniper to hurry up and decide.

"Let's get the bad news over with." She answers with a frown already trying to avoid looking at her leg.

"Bad news it is. Whoever did that to your leg was nasty about it. Wounds were jagged and went right through the other side. They cut through a lot of muscle and carved a chunk out of the bone. As you can probably tell, it's going to leave a scar. More immediately however." she states before moving forward. "While Aura application can knit the flesh up alright the damage to your muscle and bone will take longer. We will be giving it a boost but, we can't heal it too fast or the muscle will grow back weak and the bone brittle. You'll be in that bed the next few weeks and after that, physical therapy." The doctor explains slowly and carefully. Giving a pause between each bit of bad news and letting May absorb the information before continuing on.

"And the good news?" May requests already looking for any kind of hope to shine on the miserable situation.

"You should be up and ready in time for the tournament provided you don't push too hard too fast and re-injure yourself. Otherwise you'll make a full recovery. No loss of function or mobility." She replies getting a relieved sigh from her patient before heading toward the door. "One last thing, this is my ward and here I am god. Do not test me and we'll get along fine. So when I say, 'do not activate your Aura' you will obey or I will come down on you so hard your leg will be the least of your worries." She adds smiling to herself as May shudders, reconsidering her flirtatious attitude.

She left and her team came in right after, surrounding her bed. Eyes unable to avoid glancing at the machine wrapped around her thigh. Nolan offered her something and it took her a moment before she realized it's the eye patch Ruby made for her. She puts it on with a grateful smile before looking at her team.

"Well? How is it?" Roy asks, his patience reaching its end as she accepts her Scroll next, looking it over for messages.

"Oh, it's awful. Nothing to be done, they'll have to amputate." May replies before wincing at the light punch Brawnz gives her arm.

"Okay first of all, ow. Second, you shouldn't hit me, I'm in the infirmary already, stop trying to extend my visit. I can't even use Aura right now, doc's orders. And finally, I'll be here a few weeks. Then I'll have physical therapy but I should be fine for the tournament in a few months." She answers rubbing her shoulder and frowning at it. That's going to bruise.

'Missed call from Ruby, but I was in the tunnel then, so I doubt she could get through. And yep, there's the little flood of worried messages followed by relief after Velvet got hold of her.' May smiles at her Scroll as she reads each one before writing a response, asking Ruby to grab one of her teammates or Velvet once she gets back. Still hesitant to tell the younger girl she's hospitalized.

'We had plans for a date. She's going to be so disappointed. Sorry Ruby.'

Her mind grabs onto the present as a few of Roy's words pierce through her thoughts. "Repeat that last bit?" She asks, he doesn't even skip a beat in response.

"I said, our picture is all over Vale, we're big heroes May. That train we stopped would have punched through the seal on the tunnel and let Grimm out all over downtown in the middle of the day." He replies grinning ear to ear. Even as May groans.

"They do realize we were just doing our job right?" May asks looking around at her team. "You know, that thing we get paid to do? Heroes don't get paid for saving people." She adds before blinking and looking at Brawnz. "We did get paid right? I was planning on spoiling my girlfriend with that money."

Brawnz smirks in response. "Yup, full hazard pay, with a bonus for saving the city and another for capturing Torchwick." He replies getting a whistle from May. That's a hefty amount and with the numerous price cuts a lot of Hunters are afforded it would go a long way too.

"May, stop being a buzz kill. Brawnz stop encouraging her. You're forgetting the most important part. We are famous! Our names are everywhere right now." Roy cuts back in.

"Like I said Roy, we were just doing our job. Mission said 'go', we went, nothing heroic about it." May replies. Heroes don't get injured and end up in an infirmary for weeks.

"You know technically, the mission ended when we caught sight of them. We were just a scouting party remember?" Nolan adds chuckling at the look of betrayal she shoots his way. "Though I'm not saying 'no' to the money. I'm looking forward to my next conversation with my parents after they check their bank account."

"See, Nolan's got the right of it. Job was over when we found them, which means we weren't on mission when we stopped the train. So we're heroes." Roy says grinning again.

May gives him a long look before her eye moves to the wound he caught near the end. "Roy are you alright? That wound looked pretty nasty." She asks and his boastful grin softens as all three of them look at her warmly.

"Don't worry about that May. I'm all healed up. Mine wasn't nearly as bad as yours. All soft tissue you know? It'll sting a bit for a few days but I'm fine now." He assures even as Brawnz gets that glint in his eye.

"Yeah, you should have seen him. He was walking around the downtown area a few hours ago with bandages all over it fishing for sympathy dates. When he finally got one he forgot he was supposed to be wounded and she bailed!" Brawnz explains getting a laugh from May and Nolan.

"Oh please tell me you recorded it. I could always use another video in my collection." May gets out after she's done chuckling.

"I said it before and I'll say it again, you guys suck." Roy comments with a pout.

A few more minutes are spent in mindless chatter between the four of them before May looks up, spotting the Headmaster lingering just inside the room with a smile on his face as he watches the four of them interacting.

"Would you guys mind doing me a favor? Ruby should be coming in today. Could you meet her team at the southern gate? I'd really like to see her when she gets back in." May requests getting a round of nods from her team as they head off. Each eyeing Ozpin for a moment as they pass by.

"Your teammates are quite loyal Miss Zedong. I asked them to my office after your mission ended but only the Doctor showed up. They were quite insistent that they stick around the infirmary at least until your condition was confirmed. Since then, there has been at least one of them in the waiting area. I understand Mr. Stallion has managed to try the patience of half my medical staff." Ozpin comments taking a seat next to her bed, sipping at his coffee.

"Don't mind him Sir, Roy is a self-styled lothario but he's a decent guy at heart. One day he'll either figure out that he doesn't need to try so hard to charm a girl. That, or he'll find a girl who likes it. Oum have mercy on her." May replies with a grin. "Until then, I'm going to keep enjoying his bad luck."

The Headmaster smirks, shaking his head slowly. "In any case I decided to come down and speak to them here instead of my office. So, as I said to them. I wish to personally thank you for protecting the kingdom of Vale. I do not wish to imagine the loss of life that may have occurred had team BRNZ not managed to stop that train." He comments his face expressing clear gratitude making May shift a bit uncomfortably.

"Even now we have Huntsmen down there protecting workers as the holes are sealed back up and rubble cleared away. I understand a fair amount of Dust has also been recovered as they were forced to leave before they could load it all. I would say you all more than earned your accolades on this mission." He adds, smirking with a knowing look at her discomfort. "You don't enjoy the attention?"

May eyes him for a moment after the question before sighing and settling back in the bed. "Honestly Sir, I'm just not sure we deserve it. We had a mission, we did the mission. We got paid for it. Protecting people is a job we signed up for. Whatever altruistic reasons someone might have when training. It doesn't change the fact that at the end of the day we're still, essentially, mercenaries." She replies the visible eye closing.

"But that's where you're mistaken May. Your mission I believe was originally search and destroy. Clearing out any Grimm gathering in the area for a few days and coming back. Nothing to do with stopping criminals. When the mission changed your team could have turned it down and selected a new one. However, you did not. Resolving yourselves to continue on and aid in locating the White Fang an anonymous tip indicated was in the area." He replies winking when referencing the not very subtle tip off Ruby gave during their debriefing earning a snort of amusement from the sniper.

"So the mission changed. We still signed up for it." She replies skeptically.

"Be that as it may. Your mission was only to scout out the ruins and locate the terrorists. Not to engage. Your job was over but upon seeing a clear and present danger to the kingdom you and your team took action rather than simply turn around, report in and collect your pay." Ozpin counters with a smile still on his lips. "With the Grimm ever on our borders the people don't have much beyond their daily lives to lift their spirits. Actions like yours will spread far beyond just this kingdom. So rest, and let the people have their heroes." He says before standing and heading out. Cane in one hand, mug in the other.

~RR~

Ruby grins as she catches sight of the city growing closer. The trip from the final village lasting until early evening as the trucks rumble up to the gates. The young leader turning her attention back to the road to ensure no last minute surprises as they pass through. Waiting until the gates close and the trucks rumble to a stop before letting out a sigh of relief and dropping down to the ground, her weapon folding and held against her back as usual.

As she starts towards the front of the convoy she spots Yang at the cab of Ruby's escort truck opening the door to let Zwei hop out and grabbing Ruby's bag, slinging it on her own shoulder while the blonde thanks the driver for looking after the little guy.

As the team gathers up, Atonia smiles at all four, her weapon held balanced against a broad shoulder. "Good job out there girls. I understand that escorting the trucks isn't the most fun job but I'm sure you four can now understand just why it's so important. Settlements come and go all the time outside the four kingdoms but if they don't get the supplies they need then all we'll be doing is ensuring the end. I know two of you are from Patch but that doesn't count. That island is close enough you can see it from the airship port at Beacon. And surrounded on all sides by water. And still the woods on the island have a few Grimm lurking around." She mentions her eyes serious as she meets each of the students with her gaze.

"Living outside the kingdoms is dangerous and hard. But also sometimes necessary. Life inside the main cities would not be nearly as nice today if it weren't for the efforts of those out there." She pauses, letting her words sink in, and judging by the understanding looks she's getting they're having the desired effect. "Now then, I'm going to report the job complete. You four are dismissed. Good job, all of you." The tall woman mentions before turning away and heading back towards the vehicle at the front of the line, setting her axe in the back as it takes off into the city.

Ruby looks around at her team before they all start to smile, Ruby breaking out into an excited grin as energy seems to make her shake in exuberance before with one fist raised high she gives a loud cheer. "Team RWBY has completed their first mission! Let all be aware that the best super team of awesome huntresses Beacon has ever seen started their legend here!" She proclaims loudly drawing the attention of everyone nearby.

Her grin only widens more when her team echoes her statement with a loud 'Yeah!'. Weiss is the first to notice the people watching and blushes when the sound of people clapping fills the air, quickly echoed by the rest of the crowd. Cheers and whistles soon join as three trainee huntresses blush sheepishly while the blonde grins broadly soaking up the attention.

As the crowd dies down around them with people returning to their daily lives. The group that started the cheering remains in place all three grinning widely. "Welcome back ladies. May asked us to meet you when you finished your mission." Brawnz states as they draw close enough to be heard without having to shout. The seven of them turning towards the school with Zwei barking and tagging along at Ruby's side.

"She's not with you?" Ruby questions her brow rising. She looks at her Scroll and frowns. "It doesn't say anything here besides that you guys made it back and to grab one of you when I arrive. What's going on?" She inquires her team giving the guys questioning looks as they look at each other with grimaces.

They seem to have some kind of silent conversation before Nolan sighs and speaks up. "May was injured during the mission." He states hurrying to continue when Ruby gasps and bites her lip already fearing the worst. "She's fine now. She'll make a full recovery. But it was pretty bad at the time. If team CFVY hadn't shown up when they did I'm not sure it would have been as alright. She lost a lot of blood. There's going to be scarring and she's stuck in the infirmary for the next few weeks, then some physical therapy. Doc says she should be good to go in time for the tournament. Provided she doesn't mess anything up."

Ruby frowns. Looking down and back up with an unreadable expression on her face. "So she's in the infirmary?" She asks her feet already moving putting her ahead of the others. Not bothering to wait for the answer. After all, where else would she be?

Ruby arrives far ahead of the others. She was just taking longer strides, certainly not using her Semblance. 'Those petals could have come from anywhere. They disintegrate anyway, it's not like I left a mess for someone.'

At the nurses station she stops long enough to get the room number before heading off again. Making it to the room in no time at all she doesn't even pause to knock as she opens the door and blinks. Her eyes zero in on the bed and the form of her girlfriend. Sitting up, something yellow in one hand and a machine wrapped around her leg blinking back at her, but more importantly missing the essential things. Like her hat, her gun, and, the far more obvious and relevant to Ruby at the moment, her clothes. May blinks at her intruder for a moment before Ruby mentally saves the image for later and turns around heading back into the hall already feeling her cheeks lighting up.

"If you wanted to have a look Little Red all you have to do is ask!" The words are sung loudly with a teasing lilt that has Ruby blushing a dark shade as heads start turning in her direction. The attention causing her hand to reach for her hood pulling it down over her head.

"Stop teasing me, I'm trying to be mad at you!" Ruby shouts back at the door. Before another thought occurs. "And what were you doing?!" She adds wondering what exactly May had been doing. She remembered seeing the machine and the yellow thing but honestly there were far more important things for her to look at just then.

"I'm washing up. I'm stuck in bed and while I doubt you would mind a nurse washing my arms and legs I doubt you'd appreciate them getting under my clothes so I have to do it myself. Unless you want to help? There are some places that are hard to reach you know." May offers flirtatiously.

Ruby would be lying if she said she weren't tempted. And idly wonders if taking her up on the offer might shake up the older girl's confidence a little. That would be great fun.

'That, or it would make her flirt even harder. Better not risk it.'

"Ruby?" The girl in question asks from inside her room. It's softer now that she's not actively trying to get attention.

"I'm trying to decide if I want to help or not." Ruby answers back with sarcasm.

"Really?!" Apparently the sarcasm wasn't thick enough, definitely hopefully that time.

"No, now hurry up and put clothes on so I'm not making a scene." the girl responds with a huff, her hood still down to hide her face from the far to amused nursing staff.

"Fine, fine, it's safe to come in now. Spoilsport." May grumbles, her hospital gown back on as she leans back in to the raised portion of the bed.

As Ruby re-enters the room her eyes fall on May's tense form. Moving from the top of her head to the eye patch she's wearing and down the gown to the machine with its glowing window. The younger girl walks over, looking through the window at the scar on May's leg with a deep frown on her face.

"I'm sorry Ruby." May starts once the silence gets to be too much for her.

At this Ruby sighs and turns to her girlfriend lowering her hood so she can look directly into the one visible eye. "What are you sorry for?"

"For not telling you sooner about the injury. I know we had plans for when you got done with your mission, but I can't really go on a date with you from a hospital bed. Asked Velvet not to mention the details of everything because I wanted to tell you myself but well... You were on your mission and I didn't want to distract you from it so I ended up dumping it on the guys." May replies.

"You think I'm upset about our date?" Ruby asks more for confirmation than anything else.

"Um? Yes? And because I didn't tell you I was injured?" May responds. Very much not used to Ruby's current attitude and dreading the meaning of it.

"You're dumb." The red cloak girl says simply moving around the bed to sit on Mays uninjured side.

"Huh?"

"I said you're dumb. I'm not bothered about the date really... Okay that's wrong, I'm a little bummed but it just gives me more time to think up something to do when you can leave the infirmary. It's not a really big deal. And yeah I would have liked to know sooner that you were injured but I understand why you didn't tell me." Ruby explains with a sigh, pulling her boots up and onto the bed so she can lean back and against May enjoying half of a May hug.

"So... Wait, you aren't mad at me?" May asks uncertainly as she draws Ruby in closer.

"Oh I'm mad, I told you to be careful May. Getting hospitalized isn't careful." Ruby replies getting a chuckle from the older girl as she allows herself to be hugged tighter.

"I'm sorry Ruby, next time I'm fighting a crazy person I'll be sure to let them know not to hurt me so you won't get upset." May replies with a wry grin.

To that Ruby huffs turning her head to reply before the words are lost. Forgotten as a warm fuzzy feeling spreads under her skin from where it originates at her lips. The cause being the older girl pressing gently against her, eye closed as she steals a kiss from her younger girlfriend.

The thought comes to push away, reminding her that she's supposed to be mad right now and you don't kiss people when you're mad at them. But that thought is shoved aside when May gives a soft groan. Her mouth opening slightly as her tongue trails against Ruby's lips in silent question. Asking permission to move forward. Always keeping the ball in Ruby's side of the court.

After a moment the younger girl's lips part, letting May into her mouth as she tries to mimic her girlfriends movements to mask her own inexperience. It's an odd fumbling kiss, to be expected of Ruby's first time doing anything beyond the more chaste lip locks they indulged in previously. And it's not long before Ruby feels like she's melting against May's lips, a soft whimpering moan leaving her throat before the kiss is broken, leaving both panting for breath.

"So, we're okay. Right, Little Red?" May asks her eye opening to meet Ruby's.

"Yes May, we're okay. Just please try to be careful? I don't like seeing you like this." Ruby replies.

"That I can promise. I don't like being here either. Doc Green is okay and all, but also kind of scary." May replies in all seriousness getting a snort of amusement from Ruby.

"Yeah, okay. Now Velvet said you're a hero. So want to share the story?" Ruby asks.

"Okay, we all have our own little parts near the end so I'll wait for everyone else to get here and say it all at once. I assume they're right behind you?" May asks.

"Yeah, actually I wasn't running that fast they should have caught up by now. Hold on." She replies heading for the door and opening it, blinking as her sister, her partner, and Roy all spill into the room leaving the other three standing looking amused.

"Looks like they caught up." May replies, frowning at the now missing warmth from the right side of her bed. A frown that evaporates as Ruby takes the spot for herself again.

"Alright well, originally we were just going to look around while on the mission but the mission itself changed from search and destroy into scouting. Which was what we wanted anyway so we went along with it..." May starts, leaning back again as Ruby moves with her, enjoying the feeling of being close and held by the older sniper. Her attention split between her comfort and listening to the story being told.

~MZ~

As May finishes her story she looks at the members of team RWBY curiously. Three smiles, one frown. The last belonging to her girlfriend as Ruby comes to terms with just how dangerous the situation got for the older sniper.

'As much as I don't like seeing it. It does feel nice to know she cares enough to be bothered by it.' May admit to herself before tilting her head to kiss Ruby's forehead.

"Relax Little Red. Bad guy captured and dealt with. All that's left now is recovering and the tournament. There's so much for us to look forward to, don't let this get you down. Not only is there something wrong about you frowning. But you're doing it while cuddling with me, and that's especially wrong. I deserve a smile for my hard work don't I?" May teases gently, drawing Ruby's eyes while grinning wide. Slowly, Ruby starts to smile back.

"Yeah, alright just don't let your new claim to fame go to your head. And remember, I liked you before you were a hero." Ruby replies.

May opens her mouth to refute the hero claim yet again before pausing and recalling her conversation with Ozpin on the topic before letting it drop. "Yeah, okay Little Red."

That's when the two girls realize that they had forgotten the other people in the room as Yang of course opens her mouth to comment on the touching scene, thus shattering the soft moment with unabashed bluntness. "Awwwww! That's so cute! My lil' sis is growing up so fast! I should warn dad."

As the other occupants of the room start laughing, Ruby lets out an embarrassed 'Yaaaaaaang!' before pulling up her hood and hiding in May's shoulder before realizing her girlfriend is also chuckling. "May, not you too!" She exclaims with betrayed eyes, only slightly mollified by the kiss that comes after.

"Sorry Ruby, but you are just to fun to tease." the older sniper replies, getting a huff from Ruby as she turns away yet makes no move to leave May's embrace.

~?~

A few days later, a girl can be seen walking alone through the corridors of Beacon. Determination in her eyes and gait as she moves towards her target.

'Now's the chance. No girlfriend or teammates to interrupt or get in the way. Now I can approach her without worry.'

A door opens and she walks through, her eyes zeroing in on her destination as she heads over ignoring the other people around. The room will be empty now and that's what the girl was waiting for.

A second door opens and closes behind the girl as she takes in the dark room. Illuminated by quietly beeping machinery and a machine with a glowing window connected to a girl with not-pink hair who lays sleeping in the bed. No weapons around her, clothed only in a hospital gown and the patch covering her left eye.

The girl walks closer grimacing at the ugly scar marring May's leg, before moving on to observe May's sleeping face closer. She never liked the way May covered that eye. It was a silly superstition, the sniper doesn't even believe in it herself. Seeing the eye patch sparked a pang of irritation from the girl that was quickly snuffed. Time for that later.

They needed to talk. But the girl didn't see any harm in indulging herself a little. Her hand reaching out to gently stroke the side of May's face, moving strands of hair out of the way as her fingers slide down towards the snipers chin. She grins seeing a smile form on May's lips as she presses into the hand before starting to open her eyes.

"Ruby?"

That name falls on the girl like a bucket of cold water dousing the elation at seeing May's response to her.

"She's in class. I just wanted to talk to you." The girl answers watching as May jerks away from her hand before turning to look at her intruder with a suspicious eye.

"Nebula, what do you want?" The wounded warrior asks getting a smile from her indigo haired and green eyed ex.

Beta Note: OOOOH SNAP! The Evil Ex is here! No Omake from me folks so sorry about that. My brain has been fried with school work. Be sure to drop a few words for our wonderful Blacsparrow!

AN: Thank you CS for getting to this chapter so quickly. There are a few things I want to mention that were asked about. and I also want to give a bit of a heads up. First of all. I don't mind questions. Just don't expect an answer if is directly about the plot because I'm stingy about what's going to happen. Even CS, my beta, whom I have discussed several parts of the story doesn't know everything that's going to happen.

Now, We've finished up volume 2 with this chapter. There will be a few chapters of a sort of "Filler arc" before I get into volume three. I planned for this story to go beyond volume three as well so don't worry. We're far from over.

I'm glad I got to mention this here. something I'm not sure I've seen brought up elsewhere but hunters are in fact. Mercenaries with a heroic title. They get a job, they do the job, they get paid. It usually involves being armed and being prepared to use that weapon at any moment. From Hunting Grimm to patrolling the Cities walls or aiding law enforcement.

Last thing I want to mention because I'm sure someone will notice it. Yes I'm aware Roy was only in the hospital a few days when his bone was broken. Here's the difference. Roy broke an arm. You don't need an arm to walk around and perform basic function. You just need it set properly and immobile. May has a chunk missing from a bone in her thigh. She can't use her aura without messing up the machine on her leg. Does she NEED to stay in the hospital? Not really but would you trust someone with a very expensive piece of medical equipment to roll around a school filled with teenagers armed with explosive Dust, guns and all manner of melee weapons? I wouldn't either. It's just better for all involved that May stay in bed.

This note is getting to long. Okay As always a special thanks to my wonderful reviewers. I'm so glad to see some new names among them. Fragger659, Neikey, Ninjapandas0010, and CinderBurn.

That's all for this time. Thank you for reading, I love you and I'll see you next time!