A/N: Time skipped, all the way to Forever Fall. Again, not much to say here. But enjoy.

Days passed since the incident in the cafeteria. Everyone was more scared of Natalie than ever before. Her own presence alone was enough to send them on edge and away from her as she walked pass. Even Team RWBY were a bit frightened of her. Well, most of them that is.

"Hey, Nathan!" Ruby called.

Natalie was annoyed of the young girl, irritated that she didn't get the message that Natalie would rather go solo. "What?"

Either Ruby ignored the irritated tone or didn't notice it, for she was still quite peppy. "Tomorrow we have that trip to Forever Fall to collect some saps! I was wondering if-!"

"No," she instantly replied.

"You didn't give me the chance to finish!"

"You want me to join you and your friends in sap collecting. I refuse." Natalie walked away.

Ruby just stood in slight shock. "Okay, so you knew what I was going to say." She then followed Nathan. "And why don't you want to come along with us? Why be alone?"

The archer was getting even more annoyed by the second. "Why are you asking me these questions?"

"Because I want to get to know the real you." Natalie stopped in her tracks at the answer. "Nathan?"

"They told you, didn't they?" Ruby was taken aback by the question. "What else did they tell you?"

"They who?" she dared ask back. Suddenly, she was pushed to a wall, Natalie choking her.

"You know who I mean! What else did they tell you?! Do any of your friends know?! Are any of you one of them?! Answer me!"

"Hey!" The two of them looked to the source of the shout. All of a sudden, Natalie was punched in the face by Yang and was sent away a couple of feet. "I don't care if you're the world's number one murderer. No one lays a hand on my sister like that!"

As much as Natalie would like to shout back, she knew that her voice changer was damaged by that punch. She just settled ending the conversation with a glare and a growl and just walked back to her quarters.

"Ruby!" Ruby looked and saw the rest of her team running to her side.

"Are you okay? What happened?" Weiss asked.

"Oh... Let's just say I tried to talk hhim into being friends with us," she replied.

"Again? Ruby, you know that he will never say 'yes'," Blake pointed out.

"I know. But I got something else out of him, at least." They all looked at her in confusion.

"What do you mean?" her sister asked.

As Ruby explained to her team what exactly happened, Natalie was in her room, fixing her voice changer. The mask was obviously done for, so until she got a new one, she had to settle with her scarf.

"Damn, that hurts though," she winced as she rubbed her slightly bruised cheek. "It's time like this that I hate my semblance."

Ah yes, we've yet to explain Natalie's semblance. Natalie's semblance is Aura Breaker. Whenever she fights, her opponent and herself are unable to use their aura, making it easier and faster to defeat each other, unless if they were skilled that is. Thought due to her prosthetics and how durable they are, it makes it harder for Natalie to be defeated.

"This should do it." Natalie put her scarf on over her lower half of her face and stuck her voice changer in it. "Testing. Testing one, two three." She sighed in relief, satisfied with the repair and removed her improvised mask. "Good. I fixed it." She lied on her bed, thinking over the incident earlier. Now that she had the time to think it over, she had to admit it may be good if she did join Ruby and her team. Doing so, she'll find the White Fang spy. "Looks like I have a slight change of plan for tomorrow."

Tomorrow had arrived. All the first year teams were in Forever Fall, Glynda leading the group.

"Yes, students. The forest of Forever Fall is indeed beautiful. But we are not were for sight-seeing," she spoke. "Professor Peach has asked all of you to collect samples from trees deep inside this forest. I'm here to make sure you don't die doing so."

As she explains their tasks, Natalie looks over to the side and saw Jaune holding a box and six empty jars on top. He accidentally bumped into Cardin, who glared at him. Jaune tried to fake innocence by whistling. One look at that, and it took all of Natalie's willpower to not snarl at the bully.

'He will die,' she promised.

"Each of you is to gather one jar's worth of red sap," Glynda continued to instruct. "However, this forest is full of creatures of Grimm, so be sure to stay by your teammates. We will rendezvous back here at 4 o'clock. Have fun."

As she said that, Natalie noticed Jaune trying to sneak away to his team. Cardin then dragged him to his own group, which only disgusts her even further.

'I suppose he's not meant to be a hero after all,' she thought. She already knew about Jaune's transcript being fake, as did Ozpin. But they let it slide, thinking that Jaune would gain some experience, especially since he was somewhat similar to Natalie. Said Huntress saw she was a fool to think that as she walked deep into the forest of Forever Fall.

Few minutes later, after collecting her sap, Natalie went to spy on Team CRDL, plus Jaune. She saw that they, minus Jaune, seemed to be looking for someone.

"Where is he?" Cardin wondered.

"He who?" Jaune asked.

"That show-off, faunus-loving fraud! He has to pay for making a fool out of me! And you're going to do it."

"What?! Me?! Why?!"

"Because, Jauney, if you don't, I'll have a good chat with Goodwitch. And you'll be on the first airship out of Beacon. Now, if you don't want that to happen, throw this red sap on the guy when you see him. And then, we will use the Rapier Wasps to do the rest of the work."

It was here Natalie revealed herself to the group. "So you're bullying your way to the top, aren't you?" The guys all turned to her in shock.

"What the-?! Where'd you-?!"

"Well then, how about you give me your best shot then, Coward?"

Cardin fell for the taunt and snatched the jar out of Jaune's hands and tossed it at the secret faunus. Natalie cut the jar, splattered some of the sap on herself.

"Good enough! Let 'em rip!" At his orders, Cardin's teammates released the Rapier Wasps at Natalie.

The archer quickly put her sword in bow mode and shot an arrow at the horde. It hit one, and released an intense amount of electricity that fried them all.

"Is that all you got?" Natalie slowly and lazily walked closer to them. Scared out of their mind, they all ran away, except Cardin, who raised his mace and tried to attack her. She blocked the hit with her bow and grabbed the boy by his chest armor. "I was merciful back then to give you a third warning. But now, you're out of luck. Firstly, though, I'd like to enjoy myself for a bit. I've been feeling pissed for a while and a quick death won't satisfy me." As she returned her weapon back to its sword form, she quickly cut Cardin's arm, through his armor and kicked him to the ground. The bully held his wounded arm and felt something warm on his hand. He uncovered his hand and, much to his horror, saw blood on it.

"Wh-Why am I-?"

"Bleeding?" Natalie finished his question. "Let's just say, my semblance prevents aura from activating in combat." She slowly walked towards the down Hunter. "Semblance is okay, but aura... They're nothing to me." She swiped her blade across his chest armor, ripping it off him as well as leaving a cut on his chest. "Earlier you claimed I was a fraud. Let's me show you what this 'fraud' is made of." Just as she was about to stab her blade down, it was blocked by a white shield. She looked up in slight shock and saw Jaune protecting the bully. "You want to protect this man?"

"He may have bullied me behind your back, but that doesn't mean I'm going to just let him die!" he claimed, using all his strength to push Natalie away from her victim. After the push, Jaune went and attacked her. Due to his lack of skills and experience, Natalie was able to read him like a book and avoided and blocked every strike.

"Do you really want to leave yourself open all the time?" Natalie pushed Jaune back and palmed him in the stomach. "Stop swinging your sword so thoughtlessly like that! Or are both your left arm and shield just for show?" Her taunt was affecting him as he went back to attacking her once more. "Don't just use your blade to attack, fool! Your legs aren't made to just run," she then said as she swept her feet from under Jaune, causing him to trip and lie on his back. She then placed a foot on his chest armor. "You should've tried to trust your instincts, boy. You're still a long way to go, if you truly want to be a Hunter."

Jaune managed to placed his shield back to its sheath form and unexpectedly hit her left thigh, causing her to lose some balance, but enough for Jaune to roll out of his spot and to his sword.

Before they could continue their sword fight, they heard a pair of roars. They turned and saw a pair of big Ursas approaching them. Both were sniffing the air and looked at the fleeing, wounded Cardin, who wasn't making much progress with his escape.

Jaune, a bit frightful at the pair of creatures of Grimm before him, cowered a bit, while Natalie faced the two new opponents.

"Looks like we'll have to settle this some other time," she told him. Before the blonde boy could ask what she meant, the disguised Huntress already charged in headfirst and started to attack one of the Ursas.

Jaune looked back at the other Ursa and saw it moving towards Cardin. Said bully turned and saw the Grimm heading towards him. Seeing it head to him with the intention to kill, he let out a 'manly' scream. His scream was ceased when the Ursa's attack was blocked by none other than Jaune.

With Teams RWBY and JNPR, they were busy collecting their saps, when they heard a pair of roars.

"Did you guys hear that?" Ruby asked.

Suddenly, Cardin's teammates came by, running away from the direction of the roar.

"Run! Run! Run away!" the teammate with the mohawk, Russel, shouted.

He bumped into Yang, who was unfazed by the collision and picked him up by his shirt. "Run? From what?"

"What else?! It's got Cardin!"

"Jaune!" Pyrrha cried out, worried for her leader.

Ruby, going into leader mode, gave orders to her teammates. "Yang! You and Blake go get Professor Goodwitch!" The two girls nodded and, as Yang dropped Russel, ran to get their professor.

Pyrrha looked at her teammates. "You two go with them! There could be more!" With that, Ren and Nora followed Yang and Blake and Pyrrha followed Ruby and Weiss.

Back to the scene of the battles, Jaune was already having a bit of trouble with the Ursa. He saw the Ursa coming at him and raised his shield up to block the claw attack. He then quickly slashed its stomach and jumped back to get some distance. Jaune then charged ahead to attack, when he saw the Grimm raised an arm.

'Don't just use your blade to attack, fool,' came Natalie's words. He redirected his swipe and cut the Ursa's paw, causing it to reel back. He saw it going to swipe his open back with his other paw. 'Are both your left arm and shield just for show? Your legs aren't made to just run,' Jaune brought his shield behind him protect himself from the attack again, planting his feet on the ground. The block was a success, and Jaune slashed its chest once more.

It was here that Ruby, Weiss and Pyrrha arrived. All three were shocked to see Jaune fending off the Ursa on his own. What was more shocking was for someone who easily got his butt kicked during sparring sessions, he was doing good against an Ursa.

"When was Jaune that good?" Weiss asked.

"Maybe he was holding back this whole time?" Ruby guessed.

Jaune looked at the scroll in his shield and saw that his aura was close to red. He knew he had to end this fight sooner. Both he and the Ursa charged at each other, prepared to land the last hit. Pyrrha saw that Jaune left himself open for the Ursa's attack and raised her hand out, a black energy covering her arm. At the same time, Jaune realized that he won't be able to kill the Ursa in time, nor be able to block its attack in time. Dark energy surrounded his shield and forced it up to block the hit for him. Although surprised by the sudden defense, Jaune swung his sword and beheaded the Ursa.

Ruby and Weiss both saw what happened and couldn't help but be surprised and amazed.

"Uh... What?" the young teen spoke.

"How did you...?" the heiress tried to question.

"Well, Ruby has her speed, you have your glyphs. My semblance is polarity," the Invincible Girl explained.

"Whoa. You can control poles..." Ruby assumed.

"No, you dunce! It means she has control over magnetism," Weiss corrected.

"Magnets are cool too..."

To both their surprise, Pyrrha was walking away from the scene.

"Wait! Where are you going?!"

"Yeah! We gotta tell them what happened!"

Pyrrha turned to them. "We could. Or perhaps we could keep this our little secret." Ruby and Weiss knew what she meant and agreed to that idea.

Ruby looked back down and noticed a bleeding Cardin down below. "Wait! Cardin's hurt!"

Both Pyrrha and Weiss stopped walking, both in disgust. Weiss was the only one to show that disgust. "And why should we care about him?"

"He's bleeding! Literally bleeding!" At Ruby's reason, the two girls turned and looked back down. To their shock, Cardin, who was using Jaune as a support, was actually bleeding from both his arm and his chest.

"Okay, despite everything he did, I admit he doesn't deserve to die like this," the white-haired Huntress said. Pyrrha nodded in agreement, as they went down to help the two boys.

At a distance, Natalie stood watching as Cardin was being helped by Jaune, Pyrrha, Ruby and Weiss. This confused her, considering that the bully did nothing to deserve their kindness. Despite that, the four of them are helping the guy. Disgusted by the sight, Natalie just walked away.

"I still can't believe you held off that Grimm for so long," Weiss said to Jaune. "I'm actually quite impressed."

"Why thank you," Jaune thanked.

"Even though, I hoped you earned your lesson this time, Cardin," Pyrrha told the leader of CRDL. "That attitude of your's can only get you so far."

"S-s-shut up!" he shouted. "Besides, it wasn't a Grimm that did this to me!"

"Then what did?" Ruby asked.

"What do you think?! That sadistic, faunus-loving Hunter did this!" The girls' eyes' widened at the identity.

"You mean Nathan did this?"

"That guy's a monster! We just started, and he already broke through my aura!" Hearing that worried them.

"As true as that is, you deserved it," Jaune said, much to their shock.

"Since when did you start respecting Nathan?" Weiss asked.

"Since he gave me some advice on fighting." They were even more shocked to hear that. "Ruby, I think you were right about him; he was only being difficult. If he really does have problems with us, he wouldn't have given me some tips on fighting."

"When was this?"

"Just before the Ursas came and interrupted our fight."

"And you were fighting him because...?" Pyrrha questioned.

"He was actually going to kill Cardin! I can't just stand back and let him die, no matter what he did to me! So I fought him! And as we fought, I didn't realize it until later but, he was giving me advise on how to fight."

Hearing Jaune's side of the story made things even more confusing to them. The only thought that ran in their head was, 'Nathan... Just who are you?'