Lupis

He knocked on team Liberty's dorm room three times before stepping back to wait for a response. For a moment there was silence, and then he heard a voice call out, 'Just a second!'

'Oooh!' a second voice called out. 'Is that Lupis at the door Tris? I can only imagine what you will get up to tonight!'

The comment was followed by a couple of loud bangs and a few squeals. Lupis heard footsteps approaching the door, which was shortly opened by his date to the dance.

Tris had found herself a short orange dress, that reach to halfway down her thighs. Her hair was tied up, but it still couldn't hold it up, as the length of her hair still reached her waist. Her blue eyes seemed even more stunning than usual, or was that just his imagination?

She wore boots similar to the ones she normally wore, but they had higher heels and didn't go quite as high up her leg as her other ones. They were the same red as her other boots too.

Once she saw that it was him, she had a look of shock on her face. She obviously wasn't expecting him to have actually found himself a suit.

He too had managed to keep to his regular colour scheme. A dark black jacket was atop a navy blue shirt. The same blue trimmed the edges of the jacket and around the cuffs of the sleeves. Black pants and shoes matched the rest of his suit, navy blue soles matching the rest of his outfit.

'Wow,' Tris said, looking him up and down.' I didn't think that you would actually find yourself a suit.'

Lupis frowned in a mocking way. 'Are you saying that you didn't trust me?'

'Maybe,' Tris said with a smile. 'You are a bit difficult to trust sometimes.'

'Name one time that I've been untrustworthy.'

Tris thought for a second, but after a few moments, she realised that there were no such times, and instead, smiled at him, letting out a small laugh. 'Alright then. You are pretty trustworthy.'

'Yeah, that's right,' Lupis nodded.

Tris smiled again. 'Do you want to come in for a minute? Liam and Yasmine are both ready to go, but Bella is still waiting for Velvet to get here.'

'Sure,' Lupis replied instantly. 'The dance doesn't actually start for another half an hour or so. I'm sure we can kill some time until then.'

Tris stood to the side of the doorway and Lupis stepped through, ducking slightly as he was tall enough so that the top of his head would always brush the top of the doorframe. When he looked up, the first thing he noticed was how tidy their dorm room was in comparison to his own. There were no clothes on the ground, all of the beds were neat and tidy and all of the teams study books were piled up neatly on their bedside tables.

I guess that's what happens when you share a dorm room with three girls then, Lupis thought to himself.

Tris closed the door behind him and the other three members of Liberty looked up at him. Yasmine and Liam were both sitting on the same bed and from the way they were sitting, must have been talking before he walked in. Bella was over in the corner of the room, applying the rest of her makeup.

Bella Williams had come from a rich family, which helped to explain why she was so obsessed with her personal appearance. The reason that most people were surprised when she said that she came from a rich family, was the fact that she was a faunus.

Although most faunus would take that as an insult, making it seem as if a faunus could not be rich through legitimate business, Bella seemed used to it. Bella's parents were actually human, they had always been sympathetic towards the faunus. They had been offered vast amounts of Lien to become business partners with the Schnee Dust company, and every time they had refused because of their faunus work force.

Before Bella had been adopted, she had just been another faunus that was living on the streets. Her parents had never been successful in life and so they instead looked out for her on the streets. One night, there was a bombing at a faunus only restaurant and Bella's parents had been killed. They had been out the back, taking any leftovers from the bins outside when the bomb had gone off.

The Williams family had been nearby at the time, and once they heard the explosion, they made their way over to the sound. Once they had arrived, authorities were already at the site. They happened to see a small dog faunus girl, crying in the side alleyway of the restaurant over her dead parents. Feeling sorry for the girl, they went over to her and brought her back to their home. It had taken Bella a few months to accept her new life with the Williams, but she eventually became used to the Williams, and even took their last name as her own.

Most dog faunus would have extremely golden eyes at birth, which would then shift to a darker brown as they grew older. In Bella's case however, her eyes never changed colour, and doctors simply assumed that this was due to her no longer living with a faunus family. This was only an assumption however, and they never actually discovered the true reason for why her eyes never changed.

As she grew older, she began to go to a combat school in Vale. Bella had her hair dyed purple so she would stand out in school, as many children would change their hair to their favourite colour so that the would have a certain colour scheme. It definitely worked, as she was one of the most popular people in school.

Her parents had sent her to Signal academy, where she had met Tris and Yasmine. The three of them had become great friends quickly and were even more happy when they had ended up on the same team at Beacon.

Yasmine and Tris were friends before they had gone to Beacon. They had grown up in the same apartment building, on the same floor, in the rooms next to each other. Yasmine was almost always at Tris' apartment however, as her parents were extremely abusive, and were very violent.

Yasmine's father was an alcoholic, and one night on one of his drunk rampages, he killed his wife with a knife from the kitchen. He had been taken to prison as soon as the police had arrived, and Tris' parents had legally made themselves her guardians.

Once Yasmine had joined team Liberty, she ended up becoming the partner of Liam McCall, and in the second year, had even started to date him too. The two had become inseparable since then, which to her teammates annoyance, because the two were always in each others arms.

Tris and Bella both assumed that the two got along so well because they had similar past experiences. Liam had rich parents, just like Bella, but they were the complete opposite of Bella's and hated the faunus with a passion. Liam never had that hatred, and so when his parents caught him sneaking out of the house late at night to meet a faunus girl, they forced him out of their house, saying he was a disgrace to their family. Strangely, he never found the faunus girl again.

Bella finished putting on her makeup and turned to face Lupis.

'Well, it's been a while since you were here hasn't it?'

Lupis was aware of Tris moving past him to sit down on her own bed and so he moved out of the way so that she could get through.

'Yes,' he replied. 'As I recall, it was your birthday. I left early because Ozpin wanted to speak with me and the entirety of my team proceeded to be gone for the next two months. Is that correct?'

Bella nodded. 'Tris may have been super welcoming when you got back, but don't forget that you did ditch without saying goodbye.'

'I'm sorry for that, truly, I am,' Lupis said, looking into her eyes. 'But when you are told that you are leaving immediately, there isn't much time to faff about with goodbyes.'

'One way to look at it,' Liam started. 'Is to think that if you never said goodbye, then you didn't really leave at all, right?'

Bella shrugged her shoulders. 'I guess.'

'Good,' Liam said, standing up from the bed and making his way over to Lupis. 'Because it's good that you're back.'

He stuck out his arm, and Lupis shook it instantly. He wasn't expecting Liam to pull him in for a hug however, and so when he was being embraced by his blond haired friend, he was a bit shocked, but eventually wrapped his spare arm around Liam, and patted him on the back.

'Alright, alright,' Tris said, standing up and tapping them both on the shoulders. 'Let's not forget who is taking who, OK? As much as I'm sure the both of you boys would be great dancing partners, let's just stick to who we were originally going with.'

Yasmine giggled quietly on the bed, and Lupis and Liam both blushed before unwrapping their arms from each other. Lupis tried to speak again, but was interrupted by three knocks at the door.

Tris opened it to find Velvet standing there in a light blue dress, similar to the one that Yasmine was wearing. Bella immediately stood up from the corner of the room and rushed over to the door, embracing her friend.

Velvet was obviously surprised, but replied quickly, 'That happy to see me are you?'

'Yes,' Bella said, her head still pressed against Velvet's. 'You were gone for a few weeks, and I wasn't sure if you were going to turn up at all. Your team looked so tired when you got back.'

Velvet pulled away, looking Bella in the eyes. 'Well, I'm here now. So, how about we get to this party?'

Bella nodded, looking back into the room and jerked her head, indicating that they should all go now. They all went in their pairs, Lupis and Tris following them, with Liam and Yasmine taking up the rear.

The dance was going very well, at least, for Lupis it was. He hadn't yet made a mistake on the floor, which he was extremely thankful for. He didn't want to ruin his suit with blood to make up for a mistake, and so instead, he just did his best to not screw up.

But, just like Beacon always did, strange things happened constantly throughout the night. First being the amount of students that tried to bring some form of weapon into the hall, who were all immediately thrown out by Yang, told that they were not allowed back in until they either put them back in their lockers, or their dorm rooms.

Second was when a team leader from a first year team came into the hall with a white dress on. Lupis was extremely surprised by this, but from the conversation that he and his teammate were having, he figured that it was some sort of bet that the two of them had made.

Hoping that nothing else would happen, he tried to lose himself in the dance. Tris wasn't as easily distracted as him, and she was over the strange events as soon as they happened.

'Lupis, it isn't much of a dance if you aren't focussed on the dance,' she said to him, saying it out loud as he was too tall for her to try and whisper it into his ear.

Lupis looked back at her. 'Sorry. I guess I just have a really strange feeling.'

Tris looked at him doubtfully, but he nodded at her, and she immediately believed him. For the last half hour, Lupis had started to grow an overwhelming sense of danger, but he wasn't sure why.

Ozpin

He was quite content with standing to the side and watching the rest of the students enjoy a night off of school work. He always enjoyed the dances that were thrown by the students, as it helped them to be teenagers again, and not warriors.

He was sure that Glynda was not enjoying herself as much as he was, seeing as she had been swept up by Ironwood as soon as he had walked through the door. He had already talked to other students who were not having as much fun as everybody else, including Ruby Rose.

Although he saw incredible potential in the girl, he also knew that she was extremely young in comparison to everybody else, and that because of that, she was not the same as everybody else in the school.

Seeing another student standing by themselves, he began to walk over to her, but stopped as his scroll starting to ring. Lifting it out of his pocket, he recognised the number as that of the police department. His pressed the answer button and held the scroll to his ear, walking outside to escape the noise of the hall.

'Ozpin speaking, how may I help you,' he spoke.

'Ah, good, I did get the correct number. I'm sorry to interrupt you Professor, I know that you must be a very busy man, but we have an issue down here at the station regarding one of your students,' the officer informed him.

Ozpin was surprised at the information. 'What do you mean by issue? What has the student done?'

There was a pause on the line before the officer spoke again. 'We caught them trying to steal from a dust shop. We have them in custody right now, but they won't say anything to any of us. We were wondering if you could come down to talk to him.'

'Of course,' Ozpin replied, watching Ironwood as he made his way out of the hall. 'Just let me get my assistant and I will be there as soon as possible.'

'Thank you professor,' the officer replied. 'Even student huntsmen are intimidating. My men were all starting to get a bit worried about why he was just sitting there doing nothing.'

'Of course officer. We will be there shortly,' Ozpin replied as he hung up on the officer. Turning around, her saw Glynda behind him. She had heard everything that had just been said and looked ready to leave.

'We should go Professor,' she said to him, already walking off towards the bulkheads. 'I'm sure they won't burn down the school in the time that we are gone.'

Ozpin froze at her words, a dark feeling passing over him, leaving as quickly as it arrived. 'I hope not.'

Rowan

He crouched on the rooftop, watching the headmaster and professor Goodwitch walk over towards the bulkheads. Even though they were now extremely far away from where he was, his faunus eyesight made it much easier for him to keep track of them both.

They made their way across the airfield, and into the waiting aircraft. It took a matter of minutes before it took off, making its way into Vale.

Rowan looked down at the device in his hands, waiting for the signature of the bulkhead to drop off of the range of the Beacon sensors. The red blip slowly moved further and further away, and once it did, he hit the red button on the bottom left of the panel. His faunus hearing allowed him to hear the sounds of all the defenses quickly shutting back down, and he began to work on reconfiguring the system.

Tapping on the scroll that sat on the roof next to him, he began to inform Roman of what was happening.

'The teachers are gone sir. Defenses are down. You have two minutes to get into the school grounds.'

'Hahaha, great news kiddo!' Roman laughed across the communicators. 'Now, let's really get this party started!'

This was my least favourite, I was kinda bored writing this one. But the next one is going to be much better. For me at least.

Prepare your butts people, cause we aren't in Kansas any more people.