A/N: Not much to say, except for those who hate Cardin, you will love what Natalie will do to the foolish boy. I do not own RWBY. If I did, Pyrrha would've lived.

Days and weeks passed since the first day of school and so far... Natalie had made zero friends and some enemies. Everyone else were just scared of her. Weiss had told her teammates about what Ozpin told her about Natalie's condition, why she acted so cold to everyone around her. They, mainly Ruby and Yang, had devised plans in an attempt to befriend Natalie, all which had failed. The first was a hang out, after that was a study session, then it was training, and then it was Professor Glynda's sparring sessions. All of those plans, however, failed big time and only succeeded in annoying her.

Speaking of Glynda's class, Jaune was sparring with Cardin and was horrible losing to him.

"This is the part where you lose," Cardin mused, as they clashed their weapons.

"Over my dead-!" Jaune was cut off guard by Cardin kneeing him in the gut. He dropped his sword and fell to the floor in pain.

Cardin raised his mace to deal the finishing blow when a buzzer was heard.

"Cardin! That's enough!" Glynda told him. "Students, as you can see, Mr. Arc's aura has now dropped to the red. In a tournament-style duel, this would indicate that Jaune is no longer fit for battle and that the official may call off the match." She turned to the leader of Team JNPR. "Mr. Arc, it's been weeks now. Please try to refer to your scroll during combat. Gauging your aura will help you decide when it's appropriate to attack or when it is better to move to a more... defensive strategy. We wouldn't want you to get gobbled up by a Beowolf, now, would we?"

"Speak for yourself," Cardin muttered.

"Now, we have time for one more match. Would anyone like to spar against Mr. Winchester?"

"Can't I choose my opponent, Professor?"

"Very well then. Who would you like to spar?"

"I want to spar against him," he answered, looking at at Natalie.

"Nathan?" Glynda called.

The disguised girl simply got up and lazily walked down to the locker room. After she changed out of her uniform, she arrived at the arena.

"I'll show everyone that you're nothing but a fraud," Cardin said. "And while I'm at it, I will reveal your face to everyone here."

Many people were muttering among themselves, either wondering in Cardin had lose his mind or what Natalie looked like under the hood and mask

"If you're done talking, how about we get on with the action?" Natalie said through her voice changer.

Seeing that both contestants were ready, Glynda was just about to call it in, when Natalie called her to wait. To her and everyone's confusion, Natalie removed her quiver from her back, her pouch from her person and stabbed her sword on the ground.

"There. Now we should be even." At her words, everyone's eyes widened in shock. After seeing Cardin's performance against Jaune, they were wondering if she had gone crazy.

Glynda, on the other hand, knew Natalie longer than any of them and knew that the girl was speaking the truth. She had once fought hand-to-hand combat before against men older than her and there were times when she had to fight weaponless against the creatures of Grimm.

As for Cardin, he was enraged at being looked down upon. "Are you saying I'm not worth your energy?!"

"Would you like to prove me wrong then?" She brought her hand up in a 'come-at-me' motion, making Cardin even more enraged.

Glynda started to count down. "Three... two... one... Begin!"

At her go, Cardin instantly charged at Natalie. He swung his mace down, attempting to smash her head, when she sidestepped to her right. His swing caused him to be open for any attack as Natalie landed a punch right at his face. To everyone's surprise, that one punch was strong enough to bring Cardin's aura to more than half left.

"What happened to showing that I'm a fraud? Or are you nothing but talk?" Natalie demanded. The crowd heard her slightly raising her voice, which was never a good thing.

"I'll show you!" Cardin got up and started to swing wildly at Natalie, who kept avoiding his strikes so easily.

'About time I end this,' she thought.

As Cardin brought his mace down at her head once more, Natalie brought her left arm up and blocked the hit one-handed. To say that the students were shock would be an understatement.

"All bark and no bite. You're just one of those humans," she growled. She landed another swift punch at Cardin's face, hard enough to break his nose, as his aura was brought down to almost a quarter. Her punch was powerful enough to force him to release his grip on his weapon. As Cardin was recovering from the punch, Natalie picked up his weapon and walked towards the boy. Just as he was about to get up, she forced him down by planting a foot on his back.

"This is the part where you lose," she said, raising his weapon. Just when she was about to bring it down, Glynda used her telekinetic semblance to knock the weapon out of her hand.

"Nathan! That's enough!" she shouted. "Students, as you may also have learned, you must never pick a fight against someone you have no chance against. This also goes if you ever are fighting against a powerful Grimm." The bell rung, signaling the end of class. "Class dismissed. Nathan, I'd like to speak with you."

The girl let Cardin get back on his feet as she went to pick up her weapons and approached the professor. "What?"

Glynda waited for the whole class to leave. "Natalie, this has gone on long enough. I would actually love it if you could make some friends."

Hearing those words made her irritated. "Really? That's all you're going to say? I think you should know by now that I'm not going to make friends with an enemy."

"What are you talking about?"

"You really don't know? We have a spy among us. I know because whoever they are, they have the faint scent of my brother's killer. I intend to find out who that is and force them to tell me where he is."

Glynda knew who she meant and sighed. "Natalie, that person is no longer of that group. If she is, Ozpin wouldn't let her in."

"So it is a female. Just as I thought." Natalie turned her back on Glynda. "I'm done with this conversation, Glynda. And don't think about changing my mind." With that, she left the room.

Glynda sighed as she watched her go. "Nathan... I'm afraid your and Nadia's death caused her to go too deep on a dark path," she muttered.

It was lunch time. Everyone was in the cafeteria, chatting with one another as they enjoyed their meal. At one certain, empty table, Natalie was eating her lunch by herself. After the many things that had happened since the day teams were made, no one would ever want to go near her, except for Team RWBY that is, and occasionally Team JNPR.

"Hey Nathan!" Speaking of... "How about you join us over here on this table?!" Ruby had offered.

Natalie simply ignored her, as if to say that she was turning down the offer. Despite that, this didn't stop Ruby from calling her, which did nothing but annoy her even more.

'Can she not take a hint?!' Natalie questioned.

"Ow! That hurts!" she then heard.

Natalie turned to the direction of the cry and saw Team CRDL bullying Velvet, a rabbit faunus and a second-year student. Imagine how angry she was to see one of her own kind be discriminated as so. She got up and head over to the table, growling.

"Please stop..." Velvet pleaded.

Cardin, pulling one of her ears, simply chuckled and said, "Told you they were real."

"What a freak!" one of his teammates, Russel, laughed.

Carding stopped pulling Velvet's ears when he felt someone gripping one of his own ears in a tight grip. "OW! OW! OW!" he screamed. He couldn't see who was holding his ears, but the expressions on his teammates' faces were enough hints to know who was grabbing his ear.

"Just what do you think you're doing?" came Natalie's fake voice. "I thought I made myself clear the night when teams were made."

"Let me go!" Cardin shouted. At his shout, his teammates all took out their weapons and made an attempt to attack Natalie.

She grabbed Sky's halberd, which was closer to her, with her free hand and tossed it and its owner to his two teammates, knocking them away. She then knocked Cardin to the floor, foot on his back and placed the blade right on Cardin's neck.

"I believe I warned you, Cardin Winchester. Not once, but twice. And there will not be a third warning," she told him. Natalie then turned to Velvet. "Just say the word, Velvet. And I will tear his ear clean off his head." To prove that she was serious, she gave Cardin's ear a little tug, making him yelp a bit in pain.

"N-No! Don't!" the rabbit faunus called.

"You wish to show him mercy?" Velvet nervously nodded to her question. "Well, well, well. Isn't this your lucky day, Cardin Winchester? She's giving you mercy despite what you've done. For that, you keep your ear." To the bully's relief, she released his pain-throbbing ear. "Unluckily for you..." Natalie slammed the side of the blade on one of Cardin's legs, breaking his leg bones. Cardin let out a bloodcurdling scream, in which she slammed his head down in response. "I believe I warned you. Should you bully others, you will see yourself out of Beacon. And I made it clear that it wouldn't be through expulsion." Natalie placed the blade of the halberd on the back on Cardin's neck. "Cardin Winchester. You have failed our world!" She pulled the blade back and swung it down to behead him. Her attempt was ceased when the weapon broke and the blade landed away from them, much to everyone's relief.

"Again, Glynda?" Natalie demanded, as everyone turned to see the professor standing there with her crop in her hand.

"Nathan, you should know better than to kill one of your own!" Glynda said.

"'One of my own'?! You're just as stupid as Ozpin! I never consider his kind as an ally and I never will!" She slammed what's left of the Halberd on the floor right by Cardin's head, having it stick out. "You think that just because you took me under your wing, I'll be good for you? I never thought you were that naive." She then walked away. "Consider this as an act of mercy, Winchester. Next time I see you bully someone, I assure you. Nothing. Will. Stop. Me." With that final warning, Natalie left the room.

Everyone was speechless at what had just occurred. Not only did Natalie attempt to kill someone in cold blood, she also argued with a professor. And of all professors, it was Glynda. Rather than be furious, as they all laid their eyes on the female professor, they saw she had a sad, worried look on her face. She even released a sigh.

"You may all resume to your business. As for Team CRDL, I believe your leader is in need for medical attention." Without questioning her, the three boys carried their heavily injured leader to the nurse's office.

"He was... merciless..." Pyrrha spoke.

"He actually wanted to kill Cardin," Blake said in shock.

"I'm really starting to have second thoughts about making him like us now," Yang said.

"Like us?! Are you guys crazy or something?!" Jaune asked in great shock. "He's practically a monster!"

Although that statement was mostly a fact, Ruby and her team knew otherwise. If Natalie was a monster, she wouldn't have told them about Weiss wanting to make up to them.

"I'll go talk to him," Ruby insisted as she got up from her seat. Instantly, her team and Jaune's, with the male leader himself, piled themselves on her. "What the-?! What are you doing?!"

"Saving your life!" Nora answered. "Even I know better than to try and mess with him!"

"And that's a fact," Ren agreed.

Ruby tried to get out of their grip. "But I'm sure we can work something out! Besides, he's not as bad as you think!"

"I started to think that too, Ruby, but now I think that was a one-time thing!" Weiss told her partner.

"You don't know that!"

"We just saw what he did, sis! Stop being in denial about it!" Yang told her.

"Actually, Ruby's right," Glynda spoke as she approached them. The eight quickly stood before her.

"Um... What do you mean, Professor?" Pyrrha asked.

"Nathan isn't as bad as you think. He's just a difficult teenager with a horrible past. Because of it, he's had a hard time trusting people."

Hearing that, Ruby managed to get out of everyone's grip and used her semblance to catch up with Natalie.

"Ruby no!" they all cried out as they chased after her.

Glynda simply sighed, hoping that they could help bring back the girl that seemed to have died that night.

"Nathan! Wait" At Ruby's call, Natalie stopped walking.

"What do you want?" she asked through her voice changer.

"Well, I was wondering... Maybe you'd want to-"

"No." Natalie continued her walk.

Ruby followed her. "You don't even know what I was going to say!"

"You want me to hang out with you and your team. I refuse to do so." At those words, Ruby stopped in her tracks, shocked to know that Natalie already saw through her. "Let me make one thing clear; I'm better off alone than with others. Especially with someone like you."

The red-caped girl was taken aback from the last part. "What do you mean, 'someone like me'?"

Natalie carefully smelled the air around her and found no trace of the smell she despised. "I suppose you're right about that." Ruby got even more confused at those words, as she watched Natalie leave. As soon as she turned a corner, she ran to catch up. When she arrived at the corner she turned, she saw it was a dead end, Natalie nowhere to be seen.

"Huh? Gone?"