A/N: There is a bloody scene in the middle of this that was cut short because I feel like I would get nightmares if I continued to write it! I do not do scary, but for the sake of Natalie's character, it had to be done and for good reason! I left a warning before that scene, so if you guys don't do bloody torture, skip until you see another message that basically said it ended!

Oh! And here's the opening for this story. A certain writer thought the song would fit and I agreed 100%. Enjoy.

*OPENING*

(The shattered moon of Remnant shines in the sky as the view pans down to a cliffside, where the members of team RWBY stand behind a closed-eyed Natalie. Her eyes open, glaring at the camera.)

I… will change the world! Your tears will change real my soul!
(The title reveals itself one word at a time, while the background slowly goes from black to white as Beacon Academy is shown overhead.)

From out of the flowing air, it rocks the world-
(Natalie kneels in front of the grave of her family, standing up with a vengeful look on her face as she grasps her bow.)
The time limit is drawing near… What to do?
(She steps away from there to in front of the statue in Beacon Academy, looking up at it, and then hearing team Ruby calling out to her, and she turns to see her and the rest of team RWBY.)
Shout! Deep, jet-black eyes,
(Dark sits in a dark corner part of Vale's alleyway, standing up and placing his White Fang mask on.)
Ahh, bearing a lasting grudge.
(John taking off his White Fang mask to look up at the sky, seeing the ghostly images of his friends of team TROJ)
A soaring hero of darkness; Enkindled!
(Screen shows Cinder, Emerald and Mercury stand in front of a swarm of various Grimm, to Torchwick and Neo stand in front of a bunch of his subordinates, to Adam standing in front of the White Fang, his mask glowing red. Natalie's eyes appear, flaring up in hatred.)

Change the world, strong my heart! Whatever controls me, I'll pierce through it!
(Team RWBY display their skills with their weapon against members of the White Fang.)
Praise is our my reward, and set off my burning aesthetic!
(Team JNPR fight against a swarm of Grimm, displaying their strength in combat.)
Without showing my tears, I still swear to protect you.
(John and Dark square off against one another, glaring at each other as they readied their weapons. Natalie turns away from Professor Goodwitch and Ozpin, and walks towards Adam, with her sword ready. They then engage in combat.)
Now let loose and realize!
(She stands in the middle of Team RWBY, JNPR, and John, within a fiery field, readying bow, and she charges in with a angry battlecry.)

(Off in the distance, a figure watches the anger-induced battle go on, and a smile forms on the figure's face. Team RWBY prepares their weapons one at a time, followed by team JNPR, then Jackson, then team the list of enemies.)

Now we are!
(Natalie glares at the screen as it zooms quickly away from her, revealing herself and the heroes in front of Beacon Academy again.)

It was early in the afternoon. Natalie was walking through a trail, a traveler's bag over her shoulder. She breathed the air and couldn't help but feel a small wave of nostalgia flowing through her.

'Feels like I'm walking home,' she thought.

"Haven't seen you this calm in... well, forever," came John's voice from behind as he caught up to her.

"How can I not? The air here feels like home," Natalie said through her voice changer. "Although..."

Behind them, Weiss and Ruby were arguing about what would happen if one would mix two different Dust together. Yang was trying to get Blake to continue whatever conversation comes to mind, while said faunus was reading a book titled 'Ninjas of Love'.

"It would be much better if they didn't come along..." the secret wolf faunus grumbled, holding back the urge to snarl at the girls for silence.

"Tell me again why you brought them along then," her rabbit faunus friend asked.

Just the thought of the reason made Natalie want to wish for a Grimm, or a pack of them, to appear for her to kill, as she explained why she had to bring the team along with her.

*FLASHBACK*

Natalie was in Ozpin's office. The headmaster called her up for a mission, one that was near her home village, or what was left of it. "So my neighboring village, Kalas, is being raided by bandits?"

"That's right. I know this has nothing to do with what you want, but I assumed that considering its situation and status are similar to your home, maybe you'd like to help them," Ozpin said.

Natalie didn't waste a time to answer. "I'll take it. Besides, the mayor there is a family friend, unless they changed it that is."

"Well, there's only one way to find out, isn't there?" Natalie nodded at Ozpin's question and walked, when he then said, "Well, I guess Team RWBY will be having their guide with them after all."

The vigilante stood in her spot at his words. "Come again?"

"Oh yes. I may have told them about the mission and they accepted whole-heartedly."

"So in other words this is actually another babysitting mission?!" Natalie demanded with a growl.

"Not a babysitting mission; just that you'll guide them to Kalas and help them with the mission," he corrected without missing a beat.

"To sum it up, it is a babysitting mission!"

"Well, if you want to put it that way. But you're not going to turn down this mission after accepting it, are you? Especially since the mayor specifically asked for you. Which would bring us back to the wonder if he is the same one you know. I am to assume that he is."

*END OF FLASHBACK*

"Once this mission is over, I will kill him," Natalie swore. "While we're on the topic of uninvited guests, why are you here?"

"I'm bored," John simply answered.

"And the reason why you wouldn't bother to at least stay in class is because?"

"I practically know everything already."

"At least be a guardian for the other faunus there."

"You say that, but there's not much protecting to do there. Especially since, according to a fellow rabbit faunus, you scared the shit out of all the bullies there." He's not wrong. After what Natalie did to Cardin back in Forever Fall, word spread fast and no one dealt with the faunus or anyone they deemed lower than them ever again.

"I suppose that's true." Natalie was slowly losing her patience as she heard RWBY still arguing about whatever it was they were arguing. "HEY!" Her shout grabbed their attention. "Either you shut up and catch up or stay and be eaten by Grimm!" That got the four to be silent and catch up to the two faunus.

"I'd like to know why Ozpin set us up with you," Weiss asked.

Natalie growled as she answered, "Truthfully, I want to know that as well."

"Okay. Then how about you tell us why we're walking probably five-hundred feet to get to the village when we could've just used a bullhead and landed somewhere near there?"

"Weiss is right. Besides, we could've just jumped off and landed in the village," Yang agreed.

"Have you heard of Kalas Village?" John asked the girls.

"Not until Professor Ozpin told us about the mission," Blake answered.

"Then there you go." They looked at him confused. "The village's been a secret for many years. Truth be told, you girls weren't suppose to know about it, but desperate time calls for desperate measures."

"You said 'you girls'. Does that mean you and Nathan know about the village?" Ruby asked.

Before John could answer, Natalie said, "Enough questions. We're here." The group stopped and were face-to-face with a cliff.

"Um... This is a cliff," Ruby stated.

Natalie and John ignored her and approached the cliff. Both placed their palms on certain parts of the cliff. The solid surface was pushed in and the bottom of the cliff split, revealing it to be a secret door. Seeing this left Team RWBY in great shock.

"Hurry up," Natalie told them. The girls followed John in, as the vigilante looked behind her to look out for spies. As soon as the group went through the door, Natalie pressed something on the cave wall and closed the secret passage.

"What the-?! What happened to the light?!" Weiss asked. The moment she asked that, lights were turned on in the tunnel, revealing there to be lamps on the walls.

"It's this way," Natalie said as she and John went on ahead.

The group walked down the tunnel and found themselves at a dead end. Natalie knocked on the wall.

"Password," came a voice on the other side, surprising Team RWBY.

"Kalmarnia," the wolf faunus simply spoke. The wall rose, revealing it to be another secret passage. On the other side of the passage, surprising the girls even further, was a village. One... that was practically in ruins. Approaching them was a male beaver faunus with a beaver tail.

"Hey guys!" he greeted them, mainly John and Nathalie. "It's been a while." He looked to Team RWBY with looks of suspicions. "And who are they?"

"At ease, Bret. These lovely ladies are with us," John assured. "We're here for the message Anton sent Ozpin."

"Oh. Well, in that case, you all can go on ahead. Be warned; everyone is jumpy lately because of... Well, you can see why." They all nodded and walked to Kalas village.

As they walked to their client's home, they noticed everyone was giving them weird and scared looks, especially to Team RWBY.

"This place sure is isolated, isn't it?" Yang asked.

"Of course it is. This place is sacred and has a great secret, one that should not be known to anyone outside the village," Natalie said.

Weiss noticed something else about the people in Kalas village. "Are there... human and faunus couples?" The rest of her team looked around and found it to be true. Some of the faunus and humans were together, as either lovers or as family.

"That's another thing. Because of the discrimination of faunus, Kalas is one of the very few places that accepts faunus and allows the love between faunus and humans."

Blake looked at the village in shock and happiness. Shock because she didn't know there was a place that allowed humans and faunus to fall in love with each other. Happy, because she was proven right; there can be peace between her kind and humans.

A ball was kicked to their way and stopped by Ruby's feet. The fifteen-year-old stopped and looked down to see a squirrel faunus running to pick up the ball, but stopped at the sight of her staring at the child. Ruby picked up the ball and approached her.

"Here. This is your's, right?" she asked.

The girl was about to take it when someone called, "Tristan, don't!" An older squirrel faunus came and snatched the child away from Ruby. From a distance, she heard, who she assumed is the mother, said, "You can't go near those people. They're from the outside."

"But they're with our heroes," the child, Tristan, reasoned.

"That may be, but you can't just trust them so easily."

Hearing those words hurt Ruby a bit as she just put the ball down and caught up with everyone else.

The group arrived at their client's home and either sat or stood in the living room on a sofa. Sitting across from them was a lion faunus in a business suit and a woman in a white dress, both few years older than them.

"We are pleased that you came," the guy said. "Your guests, on the other hand..."

"Don't worry, Pedro, Wanda. They're with us," Natalie assured. "Speaking of guests, everyone seemed more tense about having outsiders here, compared to when John first arrived. What happened? Is it because of the bandits?"

"That's right," the woman, Wanda, replied. "As you and John know, this village has been hidden for decades."

"That long?!" Yang gasped.

"Silence!" Natalie scolded. Team RWBY kept quiet.

"Go on," John insisted.

Pedro continued the story. "Then one day, bandits came and attacked us. There was no warning. They somehow knew our location and the password and just attacked us, made our home their's."

"Where are they now?" John asked.

"Yeah. If they declared this to be their home, where are they?" Weiss asked.

"That's what we all questioned, for they set up a base near the entrance, or so some of us heard," Wanda answered.

"A base? In the woods?" Ruby questioned.

"Now that I think about it, on our way here, I heard some chatter and assumed it was John and Nathan talking," Blake recalled.

Both adults widened their eyes for a second before covering it up with their neutral faces.

"I see. That might be them, preparing to raid our home once more," the male said.

"What are they looking for for them to be here and attack you guys though?" Ruby asked.

The two looked at each other unsure if they should answer the question.

"Pedro, Wanda," Natalie called. "These people can be trusted. I assure you."

Both knew Nathan for a while and nodded their heads, feeling assured.

"Hidden in this village, there's a special kind of treasure. It is a bow, one that is said to ensure victory to anyone who uses it. The Vijaya. Only we, the people in this village, know where it is. And because of that, every several days, the bandits would come back and demand to know where, or they would destroy our home, or kill a certain amount of people here. Our son got caught in the crossfire, heavily wounded... And he's just a little boy..." Wanda shed a tear as she thought of her boy, who would've been on death's door, had the doctors not saved his life.

Team RWBY felt sick to the stomach upon hearing that. John was just as sick. Natalie, on the other hand, "Before they arrived, did anything happen?" They all looked at her confused.

"Nathan. What do you mean?" Pedro asked.

"Exactly as I asked. Did anything happen before they arrived? No matter how big or small, did anything at all happen?"

Before anyone could say anything, a knock was heard at the front door. Wanda went to open it and revealed it to be a young man around Pedro and Wanda's age.

"Oh Morgan!" Wanda spoke in surprise.

"I hope I'm not interrupting anything," he said. "I brought some of my homemade lasagna."

"You're always so kind. Especially since you returned from your trip. Pedro and I will enjoy them."

"Yeah. By the way, it's tomorrow isn't it? When they will come again."

"I'm afraid so. I advise for you to stay safe."

"I'll try. Good night."

"Good night."

The guy called Morgan left the building. Wanda walked back to her spot next to Pedro.

"Who was it?" he asked.

"It was Morgan. As usual, he brought some of his lasagna over to us," she replied.

"I don't mean to eavesdrop on the conversation you had with him, but what do you mean 'trip'?" Natalie asked.

"A month after you last visited us, Morgan went away to learn more about the world. He came back last month."

'Last time I was here was a year and a half ago,' the wolf faunus thought.

"And when did the raid start again?" Everyone all looked at her confused.

"Around three weeks ago," the lion faunus replied.

"So after Morgan came... And did anything happen between Morgan's return and the start of the raid?"

John caught on to her suspicions. "Nathan. You can't be saying that you're suspecting Morgan to have something to do with how they got here." Everyone looked at him to the wolf vigilante in shock.

"He may have dropped something that gave away this village's secrecy, is all I'm saying," Natalie defended.

"You say that, but you know Morgan. He isn't that careless," Pedro laughed off.

"I suppose that's true." Natalie got up from her spot. "Well, I suppose this is where we take our leave. Is that apartment building still up?"

"Thankfully. I do hope you six can stop the bandits."

"Don't worry. We'll make quick work of them."

It was night time. Team RWBY, Natalie and John were in the wolf faunus' room for a meeting.

"Tell me again what was so important that you had to call all of us in here?" Weiss asked Natalie, for the latter was the one who called for the meet.

"We make our move tonight," she answered, surprising the group. "I don't doubt Wanda's words, however I have my suspicions about Morgan."

"Wait. You think he's working with them?" Ruby asked.

"Everything about this village was kept a secret for a long time. Now, unless if something else happened that led them here, Morgan is the most suspicious out of everyone else here."

"Then how are we going to get some information out of him?" Blake asked.

John flinched at the question, as though wishing the cat faunus never asked that.

"I'm glad you asked," Natalie said. If she didn't have the mask on, they would see an evil smile on her face.

Later, everyone in the village was asleep in their nice, comfy homes. Of course, said homes wouldn't be called that for long, for by morning, the bandits that raided them will return and do whatever it takes to get the secret treasure. Likewise, no one was having a peaceful sleep.

In one home, one villager was the only one having a peaceful sleep. That is, until he heard faint knocking. He slowly opened his eyes and rubbed sleep out of them.

"Who's here at this hour?" Morgan asked. He got out of bed and walked down to the front. The knocking was getting louder as he walked closer to the door.

"Okay! I'm coming!" he shouted. Morgan opened the door and, before he knew it, felt himself being dragged at high speed. All of a sudden, he found himself in the cave connecting the secret entrance to the village. "What the-?"

"MORGAN HARTINSON!" He jumped at the voice and turned to see Natalie standing before him, John and Team RWBY behind her. "You have failed this village!" Before anyone could react, she took an arrow and shot it at Morgan. The arrow split and bound him to the wall.

"What the-?! What is this?!" he demanded.

"Many years Kalas was never known from the outside world! There wasn't even a hint about its existence in any of the kingdoms! No one was suppose to know about it except for the people of Kalas and Harmonia! Until you traveled out of Kalas and returned," she said.

Morgan narrowed his eyes in a glare. "What makes you think it was me?! What about those allies of your's?!"

"DO NOT TEST ME!" Natalie shot out another arrow, one that pierced through his hand as he screamed in pain.

Team RWBY were shocked at the action and attempted to stop, when John got in the way.

"What are you doing?! He's going to kill him!" Weiss demanded.

"Torture? Yes. Kill?... That depends," John said.

"Well stop him! You're his friend, aren't you?!" Yang told him.

"Trust me, I want to. But when Nat get's like this... There's no stopping it."

Natalie continued her interrogation. "Who are the bandits?! Where are they hiding?! What do they plan to do with the treasure?! Why are you betraying your kin?!"

Morgan was trembling in fear of the girl. "I-I don't know! I've never interacted with them! I swear!" Natalie wasn't buying it and shot another arrow, this time at his forearm as he screamed painfully again.

"What are you doing?! He said he doesn't know!" Ruby defended him.

"He's lying!" the wolf faunus corrected. Turning back to Morgan, she warned, "I am going to shoot your upper arm. Then your shoulder. Then I have the choice of your head or your heart. So choose wisely. Where are the bandits?"

"I... I swear. I don't know," the male human said.

Natalie didn't buy it and shot another arrow where she said she would hit, causing the guy to scream. "Try again! Why did you betray the people in this village?!"

"I-I have nothing to do with them! Honest!" Another arrow was pierced through his shoulder. This time it left a burning sensation.

"One last chance. Where are they?!" Natalie prepared another arrow.

Yang's eyes turned red as she couldn't bear to watch anymore of the torture. "Okay that's it! You stop doing that right now or-!"

"T-They're in the woods!" She ceased her threat as they all heard words coming out of Morgan's mouth. "If you walk out of the cave and head northwest, you'll find their base, I swear!" Team RWBY widened their eyes in shock to hear him admit that he knew where the bandits were hiding.

"What's the name?" Natalie asked, arrow still ready to be fired.

"T-The White Fang!" Everyone's eyes widened at the three words. One certain wolf tightened her grip at the name and trembled slightly.

"Why did you betray this village?" she then asked.

"I couldn't take it anymore. The thought of humans and faunus living together made me sick! And yet, everyone else was okay with it! Even my first love, Wanda. She married a beast! An animal! I figured if something tragic had happened, I'd win her over and become her true love!"

"You did all this for your own selfish desires?"

"Yes. And only the mayor of Kalas Village would know where Vijaya is. If I had that, I would erase the faunus from this world; I would be a hero!"

Hearing all that was enough for Natalie, as she released the arrow and shot, unexpectedly, by her comrades' feet.

"Hey! What was-?!" Yang wasn't able to finish her question, as when she tried to take a step closer, she hit some kind of force field. "Huh?"

"A force field?" Blake assumed.

"You all go on ahead. I'll catch up after I teach him a lesson," Natalie told them.

Assuming that they would be stubborn enough to not go, John used his semblance and got Team RWBY out of the cavern.

"What was that for?!" Ruby asked.

"It's best if you don't see what will happen," the rabbit faunus answered. "Now come on. We have a mission to complete." Reluctantly, the four girls followed John to the White Fang's hideout.

(WARNING! WARNING! THIS CONTAINS A WHOLE BUNCH OF TORTURE AND BLOOD! IF YOU DON'T DO EITHER OF THOSE, SKIP THIS PART OF THE CHAPTER! YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!)

Back with Natalie, she changed her bow back to sword form and approached Morgan.

"W-What are you going to do to me?!" he demanded.

"A little thing called a punishment," she simply answered. Natalie jabbed her sword down at his leg, causing him to scream in pain. "Death is too merciful for a traitor like you. And I'd rather not waste any more arrows." She slowly took the blade out of his leg. Halfway out, she slowly dragged it down his leg to his foot, making the cut bigger than it should've. All the while, Morgan was screaming and begging for her to stop.

"Please stop! Stop! It hurts, goddammit!" he screamed.

"This compared to the hell you put your own people in. It doesn't even match one that a child felt," so Natalie said. "You've made them suffer; now take all of their sufferings." She took out a vial of Fire Dust and sprinkled some of it on the wound, leaving a hot, burning, fiery sensation that could kill.

"AAAAAAAAHHHHH! I-It hurts! Please stop!"

"You brought them here. And because of you, Wanda's son almost got killed. I assume that there are kids who actually died because of you!" She cut his uninjured arm and left a large gash on it, as well as freed it from the binds. Before Morgan knew it, Natalie took the arm and bent it how it shouldn't have ever been bent, destroying the joints as he cried bloody murder.

"HELP! SOMEONE HELP ME!"

"Unfortunately for you, no one can help you. Because of the force field I put up, no one can hear us. But we can hear them." Natalie then pushed his forearm down, revealing some of his bloody bone as he screamed louder, pleading her to stop.

Instead of stopping, Natalie continued the torture. She stabbed her sword down at Morgan's uninjured leg and dragged it down, making the cut bigger, and breaking more of his leg bones. She took the blade out and stabbed it down again, ripping out some flesh and bones as Morgan continued to scream bloody murder. She then took out the arrow on his hand and stabbed it... where men should never be even be hit, much to Morgan's great agony.

"W-Why...? Why... are you doing this?! For some animals?!" he dared ask and wheezed in pain.

"Well, considering John is, or should be, smart enough to keep those girls away from here at the moment." Natalie took off her mask and removed her hood, revealing her true self to Morgan.

"You're... You're a faunus?!" The only one who knew of her true identity in Kalas were Pedro and Wanda, so to know that Natalie was really a girl was an extreme shock to Morgan.

"There's this. And I hate traitors. Don't worry though; you won't die from this. Believe me, I've done torture before and none of my victims died from them. Traumatized? Very. Dead? Never. How about we see if you're the first?" She pressed something on her weapon and her blade was in flames as she moved it closer to his face.

"No. No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

(THE TORTURE ENDS HERE! YOU MAY KEEP READING FROM HERE!)

About half an hour later, Natalie, with her disguise back on, walked out of the cave, where John and Team RWBY waited.

"I thought you all went on ahead," she spoke in her fake voice.

Everyone turned and the girls all widened their eyes in shock at the amount of blood on her.

"What happened to you?! What happened to Morgan?!" Yang asked.

"Let's just say... You better hope Bret comes to pick up his body," she simply answered. "Now come on. We're wasting time when we shouldn't have. Especially since you five could've just went on ahead and take out the White Fang." Natalie walked ahead of them to the base, as they all followed her, Team RWBY reluctantly and several feet away from the vigilante and her rabbit faunus friend.

"Are we going to forget what happened?" Ruby asked.

"Of course not! He just tortured an innocent man to his possible death!" Weiss replied.

"Only not so innocent," Yang corrected.

"There could've been another way to do this, but I guess that was the most efficient and the fastest way to get something out of him before the village gets raided again," Blake pointed out.

"Yeah, except we already got information and he still tortured him!" the heiress added.

"If you girls have time to talk about me behind my back, you should have time to catch up," Natalie said.

"Nat, lighten up. It's not like they meant to," John defended. "Besides, you were going a bit too far, as per usual."

"Usual?! He does that all the time?!" Weiss demanded.

"Ah... I said that out loud, didn't I?"

"You're going to tell them anyway, whether or not it is by accident," Natalie pointed out.

John laughed nervously. "I guess so..."

She sighed at the confession. "In any case, I can tell none of you are going to help me. John, if you want to give them some history lesson, be my guest. I have some White Fang to kill." Natalie shot a grappling arrow at a tree and shot herself over to the base.

Team RWBY just watched in shock as Natalie made her leave.

Weiss, of course, was the first to break the silence. "Grrr... WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS?!"

"I agree! He doesn't have to act like a jerk all the time!" Yang said.

"He has his reasons for acting that way," John told them.

"What do you mean?" Ruby asked.

"I don't know if you heard, but Nathan had a tough past. If you had heard of that, what you don't know... is what exactly happened. The guy might not forgive me for telling you this, but it has to be known at some point. Come." John walked in a different direction and the girls, although reluctantly, followed him.

After an hour of walking, the group arrived at what seemed to be a cemetery.

"There sure are a lot of tombstones here," Yang stated.

"Are these deceased from Kalas?" Weiss asked.

"No. This place- this cemetery... This was Nat's home," John said.

"He lived in a cemetery?" Ruby asked.

"No Ruby; it means this wasn't a cemetery," Blake corrected. Out of the four RWBY members, she was the only one who knew what he meant.

"That's right Blake. This is, or was, Harmonia Village, Nat's home." The humans of RWBY all looked at John in shock. This cemetery was a village. "It was a lot like Kalas, only hidden in the woods, and the villagers were born fighters. Everyone got along. Faunus and humans alike were welcomed and treated as equal. Only those who lived in the village or were invited in knew its location. Nat's brother left the village just to study at Beacon to become a Huntsman. He returned one day with his teammates, introducing them to his home and his family. They all got along with everyone right off the bat. But then, one day... That all changed."

"It was five years ago, when the White Fang turned evil. One of those teammates turned out to be a member of the White Fang and led the group to this village, unexpectedly, with a horde of Grimm." The girls widened their eyes in shock. "No one was ready for the attack. They all tried to fight back, but were overwhelmed by the numbers of both Grimm and the White Fang members. You can just imagine how hurt Nat and her brother were when they found out that someone who was like family to them betrayed them. All because he believed that everything about this village was a lie and faunus and humans can never be in peace. Nat was the only survivor."

Although she heard of the story before, Blake couldn't help but be saddened at every detail. Especially after hearing that Adam was actually friend of Natalie's brother and was seen as a brother. She now understood why the last survivor of Harmonia had a huge grudge on her mentor.

"How do know this much about Nathan?" Yang asked.

"He told me, when I earned his trust," the rabbit faunus answered.

"Even so, that doesn't mean he has to torture Morgan like that!" Weiss still claimed.

"True as it is, Natalie couldn't handle traitors, especially if that person betrayed a family. Kalas, like Harmonia, treated everyone like family. And she would never forgive anyone who would sold out their family for their own selfish desires."

The four girls looked down, processing the information through their heads. After hearing so much of Natalie's past, they couldn't help but wonder if they should try opening up to her again, as Ruby had tried to do many times.

Determined, Ruby looked up and said, "Okay team! Let's not waste any more time! Nathan's going to need some back up going up against the White Fang! We should all go, help him out, and earn his trust!" Her teammates nodded in agreement, just as determined to get Natalie to open up to them.

John smiled, happy to hear and know that they would try and be Natalie's friend, even after hearing her past. Now, if only Natalie would feel the same way for them.