Cardin's Morning

The alarm next to Cardin's bed begins to sound and instantly gets silenced by Cardin as he shuffles out of his bed. Cardin rubs the sand out of his eyes and glances around the room. Cardin sees that the rest of his team is still sound-asleep. Normally he would be annoyed by his team's laziness but couldn't really blame them today. Despite how they look none of them are really the type to stay up late and they stayed up almost all night waiting on him. He felt bad for blowing them off after coming home last night but. His mind was in chaos after everything that happened.

Cardin has never been much of a morning person himself but he has always made it a point to get up early. He had grown up with several rowdy brothers none of which were early risers' ether. So the morning was the only time he could count on getting anything done. In this case it would be finding out what Cail has been hiding from him. She pulled an unexpected or should I say a few unexpected moves last night but. He was not going to let her get the better of him again.

Cardin cleaned himself up before slipping on his uniform and slipping out of his dorm room. He glanced back at his sleeping teammates one last time. "I will be sure to tell you guys everything as soon as I can." He then closed the door and made his way out of the first year dorms.

Cardin soon found himself at the entrance to the second year dorms. He felt strange just going inside like this. After all even though the second year dorms were right next door he never had a reason to venture inside before. As he walked in calmed down slightly as he realized it wasn't much different then their own dorms. About the only noticeable difference was the mission boards set up around the dorm. These boards had open missions that the students could take on at their own discursion for extra credit. The boards here had a lot more types of missions than in the first year dorm and the difficulty of the missions was far greater.

Cardin stepped away from the board shaking his head. "What am I doing? Get focused Cardin, you have to go see Cail." Cardin began walking down the hallway until he reached a set of rooms and he realized one little problem. He had no idea which room belonged to team CRUS. All the doors looked the same with no indication which team had which room. He remembered there being some kind of charter in the first year wing that had that information but he never bothered to read it and couldn't remember where they kept theirs. "I guess I will just have to try and find the second year charter." Cardin said with a shrug.

Cardin walked the halls of the dorm for awhile without finding anything resembling what he was looking for. "Dang it! Isn't this sort of stuff supposed to be in an easy to spot location? I guess I will just have to fight my male instincts and ask for directions." He then scans around the halls and indeed a few early risers were now swarming the halls. "Alright all I have to do is ask one of these guys, surely with how infamous Cail is somebody will know where her nest is."

After a few minutes it was clear it was going to be harder than he thought. The second your students were all ether in a half asleep daze or too wired on caffeine to pay him any mind. When he did manage to get some of their attention he would often be hit with a glare that told him they were in no mood to talk to him. He couldn't image why they were looking at him like that but, most of them were faunus. "I don't think I will ever understand how those animals think. I guess I am one to talk though, I don't understand what I am thinking anymore ether." Cardin thought to himself.

Cardin now slugs his way down the hallway feeling defeated. "I can't believe nobody will tell me where their room is. It's like they think I am up to something wicked. I am not saying I am above going on a panty raid in a girls dorm room but. What would even be the point if the girl in question would probably just give me some if I asked? Come to think of it, I have heard rumors of her going commando. So does she even wear underwear? I wouldn't put it past that pervert to walk around all day without any.." Cardin stopped for a moment realizing the direction his thoughts were going and promptly smashed his head against the nearest wall to quell them. "Ok Cardin, I need you to focus! Since it has come to this I will just have to find somebody who looks weak and force them to spill the beans!"

Then Cardin heard a familiar voice. The voice was quite almost frightened and had a slight accent to it. He new this voice all too well though he had not heard it in some time. "Cardin? Are you ok?"

Cardin turned around to see a brown haired rabbit faunus standing behind him. The girl looked very uneasy with her eyes darting back and forth refusing to make contact with this own. "Hello Velvet it's been awhile hasn't it?"

"Ya." She said weakly. "What are you doing here in the second year dorm Cardin?"

"I am looking for the dorm room of Team CRUS. You wouldn't happen to know how to find it would you?"

"Team CRUS?" Velvet shouted. "Why? What business do you have with them so early in the morning?"

"Well I don't really think it's any of your business but. I just need to have a talk with their leader Cail."

Velvet raised an eyebrow at the mention of Cail's name. Of course Velvet has heard the rumors that two infamous team leaders had become an item but. To Velvet, Cardin has always been your typical racist bully. The idea that him of all people could be dating a faunus and Cail the Snail no less made no since to her. She was happy to have had Cardin off of her ass for a few weeks but. It still kind of annoyed her that its he has the nerve to date a faunus despite all the crap he has put her and other members of her kind through.

"Alright Cardin I will tell you where Cail's dorm is." Velvet said while crossing her arms.

"Really? That's great! So where is it!?"

"First you need to apologize!" Velvet said while huffing.

"I'm sorry?" Cardin said more in confusion then as an apology. "Wait a minute. Why do I have to apologize to you!? This makes no since!"

Velvet's annoyance quickly became apparent on her face. "Oh like you don't know! For months you have been messing with me because I am a faunus and now that you have a faunus girlfriend you think were cool!? I don't even know why I am bothering to talk to you, I am leaving!" Velvet said as she turned to walk away.

"Wait a minute!" Cardin said as he reached out and grabbed Velvets wrist.

Velvet swung around to glare at him. "What!" She shouted causing Cardin to stumble slightly at the sight of the normally timid rabbit girl hitting him with such a hateful expression. He couldn't help but wonder where this backbone had been hiding the last few months. If she had shown it sooner he probably would have left her alone.

"I am…*mumble*"

"You are what Cardin." Velvet said in an annoyed tone.

"I'm very sorry for how I treated you!" Cardin blurted out as he bowed his head slightly. Cardin noticed Velvets expression lift a bit. "So can you tell me where their dorm room is?"

"Hmm no."

"What why not!?"

"Well I am just not buying that you're really sorry."

"Why you little peace of…" Cardin was clearly bothered but managed to stop himself before he snapped at her. "What I mean is I am deeply sorry for everything that I have done and promise I won't do it ever again." He said as he got down on his needs and bowed drawing a couple of funny glances and giggles from passing students.

After a moment of hearing nothing but giggling he decided to lift his head to look at the rabbit faunus hovering above him. She had a hand over her mouth in what looked like an attempt to hold back laughter. "Hey I am being serious here!"

Velvet then completely lost it. She gripped her stomach and began to laugh hard. Causing Cardin to jump to his feet with his face painted red in embarrassment. He opened his mouth to shout at the girl who forced him into this situation but was interrupted as she began to speak through the laughter. "Sorry that's just the funniest thing I have seen in some time. Team CRUS's room is on the second floor room 202. Anyway tell Cail hi for me." Velvet said as she walked away while still chuckling.

Cardin let out a long sigh. "I will never understand faunus, or girls for that matter. They are all just seemed crazy at this point. Whatever lets just go see Cail, I have wasted too much time as it is."

Cardin then made his way up the stairs towards the Team CRUS dorms but on the way he notices a familiar red headed Amazon heading in the same direction ahead of him. "Is that Pyrrha Nikos? What is she doing in the second year dorm? Maybe she is making a booty call with some guy? If she can be into a guy like Jaune Ark she probably didn't have very high standards." Cardin thought to himself.

Cardin's eye brows lift when she sees her stop in front of his destination and knock on the door. "Huh, what does Pyrrha want with Team CRUS? They don't see like the type of girl's she would hang out with." Cardin wondered. He choose to stay behind the corner and find out. Pyrrha knocked a few more times finally gaining a response Cardin listened in to hear the conversation unfold.

"Can't a girl just sleep in on a weekend?! Who is there!?" Cardin heard the voice of Cail shout out.

"Cail is that you? It's me Pyrrha Nikos I want to talk to you about that sparing match we had the other day."

"Oh not this again I told you, you won that sparing match fair and square Miss Nikos now can't you just drop it."

"No I can't just drop it! Why did you hold back in that fight?! I know you weren't giving it your all!"

"Oh and how do you know that Miss Nikos? Have you ever seen me fight before that?"

"Yes I have!"

"What, when?"

"Four years ago during the junior huntsmen competition! Your Cail Pendragon right!? I thought you looked familiar but I couldn't remember until last night." Once Pyrrha finished she heard stomping and rumbling on the other side of the door coming towards her. Suddenly the door swung open and a panicked looking Cail emerged from inside.

"Pendragon!? Did I hear that right!?" Cardin thought to himself.

Cardin then heard stomping and rumbling coming from the other side of the door. The door suddenly swung open revealing a uncharacteristically panicked Cail. He then watched as Cail clamed a hand over Pyrrha's mouth and he noticed her begin to gaze back and forth through the hallway telling him that nobody was supposed to hear that. So he dunked behind the corner before she noticed him. He then heard Pyrrha being pulled into the room and the sound of the door locking behind her.

"Now this is interesting." Cardin thought so he made his way over to the door and listened as hard as her could.

Some time later and Cardin is sitting with his back turned to the door. He is lost in thought over everything that he has heard so far. He had no idea that Cail had such a past and he didn't expect it. And that semblance of hers, he couldn't believe that such abilities really exist but it would explain a lot of her odd behaviors. "She did always get annoyed when I would think bad things about her. Come to think of it, if she can read my mind she knows how much I hate faunus right? Why would she go after somebody like me then? Is she trying to prove a point or maybe she is just that big of a miscast? Ah this is making my head hurt." Cardin complained as he leaned back against the door.

He then refocused on the conversation at hand. "Ah how cute are we feeling all embarrassed now? Well this detail is important. It was the first time I realized the joy that comes with being a punching bag. The first time I found out about the pleasure that is pain. Speaking of which it was also about that time that I joined the white fa…"

"Wait is she about to talk about the White Fang? Why did she stop?! Come on I want to hear about that!" Cardin thought right before the door propping him up is pulled open sending him falling backward into the room. He is stunned for a moment and when he realizes what just happened his eyes are locked in contacted with Cail's. "Oh crap!" He thought.

"Hey dear, you hear everything that you needed to hear or shall I go on?" Cail said while giving him her usual wicked smile.