Glynda stood over the comatose form of Beacon's Headmaster. She had turned him over to his back, and was now considering what she was going to do to him. She was sure if she looked into a mirror, she would be finding grey hairs; and they would all be his fault. As she worked out her options in dealing with Ozpin, she thought to Qrow, and hoped that he would be able to help Jaune. She closed her eyes, and took a long, slow breath, before opening them and focusing on her target. Gently, she put her heeled boot onto the centre of Ozpin's chest, before casually starting to lean forward, letting the pressure build.
Ozpin groaned, and gasped at the steadily increasing pressure on his chest. He blinked his eyes as he reached up with both hands, and grabbed hold of… an ankle. His eyes were instantly wide, as he looked at the high-heeled black leather boot that was planted in the centre of his chest. Letting his gaze travel upwards, he soon found himself focused on Glynda's way to composed face. She smiled at him, and all Ozpin to equate the sight to was that of a shark closing on its prey.
"Glynda." Ozpin croaked out, as she continued to put even more force and weight on his chest.
"Ozpin."
"Wha… wha… what can I do for you?" he groaned out. Not only was his chest being compacted, but his head was thumping like a jackhammer on a steel I-beam.
"Have you had any success, with your research?"
"Maybe." he gasped.
"Really?" her grin didn't touch her eyes. "That's wonderful news. So when?"
"When?" he choked.
"When will you change Jaune back?" she leaned forward further, and if it wasn't for the creak of his ribs drawing his attention, he would probably be blushing about getting an eyeful of her cleavage. "Oh, wait! There's more, and I'm not sure if you know about the most recent developments. Would you like to hear them?"
"Yes?" he gasped.
"You see, somehow last night, Jaune was hit with a strange orb of green energy." Glynda ground her heel into Ozpin's chest, "Now you wouldn't know anything about that, would you?"
"I…" Ozpin choked out.
"What was that? I didn't hear y…" Glynda was cut off by the buzzing of her scroll. Stepping off Ozpin, she walked towards his desk while fishing out her scroll. "Give me a minute."
"Take your time." Ozpin wheezed as he rolled onto his side, and wrapped his arms about his sore chest.
Glynda frozen at seeing the caller ID. Her hands starting to shake and sweat forming on her brow. It was a call she was dreading to make, and had been putting off, and now that terrifying individual was calling her. The scroll keep buzzing, and Glynda bit her lip, wondering if the risk of letting it go to voicemail was worth the few hours stay of execution she would be getting.
"Jas!" Glynda tried to sound untroubled as she answered the call.
"Glyndie! How's my favourite big sister!"
"I'm your only big sister."
"Which means you're my favourite automatically."
"So why the call? Something happen back in Ansel?"
"Nope. Everything is good. Not many grimm around. My girls are all safe and healthy. Nate is being moody, he's not accepting that our bundles of joy need to spread their wings and live their lives." Glynda tried to plaster on a realistic smile, which instantly failed when Jasmine Arc, her younger sister by two hours, gave her the very same look Glynda was known to use when her students were being rowdy. "But I heard something very interesting in regard to Beacon, actually. It was actually Kat that brought it to my attention."
"And that would be?" Glynda bit her lip, she should have known their youngest sister Katherine, Coco's mother, would stir the pot. She was always the shit disturber of the three sisters. "As far as I know, Coco is doing well; in fact, she's near the top of her class."
"Good to hear that Coco-Puffs is doing well." Jasmine Arc's smile did not touch her eyes. "No, she sent me some pictures, that her little gem had posted."
"Pictures? Pictures of?"
"A darling, oh so precious blond girl."
"Why?"
"Well, she wanted to know if I KNEW who the adorable precious jewel was. You know, if we had a cousin or niece that we didn't know about."
"And?"
"Well, as I studied the pictures, I noticed how closely that young flower resembled Bleue and Rouge… which surprised me, as there is only one other person I know of that could, or used to be able to, be passed off as either of my two angels."
"Did you try talking with Coco? Maybe she could tell you who she is. The girl was her model, after all."
"No, I felt it better to speak with you, seeing as Kat is going to speak with Coco-Puffs, and…"
"And?" Glynda swallowed nervously as the smile vanished from Jasmine Arc's face.
"That I haven't been able to get hold of my precious baby. Do you know where Jaune is Glynda Marie Goodwitch?"
"I do." Glynda gasped, unable to resist the power of her full name uttered by a concerned mother.
"May I speak with HIM?"
"No."
"No." Jasmine's green eyes flashed. "No?"
"Sorry!" Glynda screeched as she hung up the call. She totally forgot about what she was going to do to Ozpin, as she raced over to the elevator. She frantically started poking the call button, as Ozpin slowly started to rise.
"Glynda?"
"She's coming!" Glynda whined, started to bang on the elevator door, panic clearly rising. "She's coming!"
"Who's coming?" Ozpin groaned as he stumbled to his desk.
"Jas!"
"Jas?" Ozpin started to sober up that exact moment, all the colour draining from his face. "Jasmine Arc!?"
Glynda didn't reply, as the doors had finally opened, allowing her to stumbled inside, and instantly started hitting the down button.
"Glynda wait!" Ozpin yelled as he stumbled forward, trying to reach his Deputy Headmistress before the doors closed. He failed, his blood shot eyes catching the look of pure desperation and primal fear etched on the stern woman's face. "Shit."
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Qrow had been in tough spots before, on more than one occasion. He's been targeted by grimm and other animals while in his crow form. When he first was given the ability to shift forms, he had to fight instincts; like an almost unbearable attraction to shiny objects. It took time, but he soon managed to suppress those impulses, so he knew what Glynda's niece was going through, and there would be no way he would hold it against her; however, he could definitely say he was never in this time of situation before. Locked in a room, in his bird form, being chased by a young woman who had been changed into a vixen; as she tried to eat him. He wasn't sure if it counted as cannibalism, but he was sure some head-doctor somewhere could make a career out of this situation.
He landed on the end of one of the beds, trying to get a short breather, as she struggled to extract herself from the clothes hamper she had landed in after an impressive six-foot high leap at him; he had just barely kept his wings from getting clipped. Hearing her whining and barking, he cocked his head and blinked. Before launching himself back into the air as twelve pounds of fluffy fury lunged at him. Qrow cursed his luck, and banked just enough to avoid colliding with the wall, and getting caught in a set of very sharp teeth as she made another almost six-foot high jump, and managed to make a second leap when her paws touched the wall.
A startled yelp, combined with the crash of a desk, told Qrow he had a chance to take another breather. He knew he had to make a move, as this girl's apparent stamina levels were insane. Watching her extract herself from the broken remains of the desk, and scattered school paraphernalia, he made come mental calculations. This would either work, or he'd find out just how sharp her teeth were. Jaune shook her body, scattering the pencil shavings that dotted her fur, before she set her sights on the object of her obsession. Pressing her front half towards the floor, with her tail raised high, she panted as her instinct addled mind tried to work out how to catch her meal. With a yip, she shot forward like a blond bullet.
Jaune whined, and snarled and barked as Qrow now in human form held her five feet off the ground, by the scruff of her neck. She squirmed and tried nipping at his hand as he held her away from his body.
"Calm down." Qrow tried to talk calmly and clearly, but he was tired, and sober. "I'm here to help you change back. So can you please stop that!"
Jaune found herself back on the floor, as she finally had landed a bite. Qrow danced around swearing, while shaking his hand as Jaune started to back away, her ears and tail held low. She could still smell the chicken, but her mind was too jumbled to figure out where it went.
"Okay, okay, okay." Qrow spoke to himself, trying to focus on the job at hand, and not the nasty pinch that her jaws had inflicted. His aura prevented penetration, but it still hurt like a son of a bitch. "Now, I need you to listen. I know you're feeling confused. Your head is filled with impulses, and sensations you've never had before… and that is okay, but I need you to try and focus. Listen to my voice, and concentrate."
Jaune stopped backing away, and tilted her head to the side, going so far as to even close one of her eyes. His words made things less chaotic in her mind, so she sat down on her haunches. Her tail swished back and forth across the floor as she tried to focus.
"That's it." Qrow breathed a sigh of relief. He had been worried that the Glynda's niece had been in her fox form too long to fight her impulses. "Now, concentrate, thinking about how you used to be. Thinking, and focus on being human."
"That's it. You're doing it. Just focus on that thought. Fox to human." Qrow almost cheered as he saw the golden glow start to surround the vixen.
Neon Katt and Ivori were passing by JNPR's dorm when from inside came an unholy scream, followed by a muffled shout, a crash and then a slamming door. The pair looked at each other, and after a quick silent conversation, the pair moved towards the door. Neon reached up to knock, only to have the door get yanked open and a have a scruffy, dishevelled man stumble out holding his head. Ivori watched the man stumbled into the far wall, before staggering off, muttering about blonds.
While Ivori watched the strange man, Neon poked her head into the room, she took note of the utter mess inside and was about to step back into the hall; when she heard the crying.
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Jasmine Arc hummed a happy tune as she packed a small suitcase. She had already sent her youngest sister Katherine Adel a family summons, along with directing Jaune's twin sisters Bleue and Rouge to also pack a bag each. She knew something was up at Beacon. Her baby boy hadn't called, or responded to her messages. So she tried to reach out to her older sister, and of course Glyndie panicked.
Jasmine was not stupid. She had sat through way too many a wine fuelled bitch sessions with her oldest sister, to know that everything that went wrong at Beacon was the Headmaster's fault. The Gods knew that without Glynda there, that place would have imploded years ago. So Jasmine was more than confident that her sister was doing her best to keep Jaune safe, plus there was always Kathy's little girl Coco there to help out.
But enough was enough. The pictures were very eerie. Reminding her of the dress up games, older sisters and cousins played with the Arc triplets. With her bag packed, she gathered it up and headed to the main floor. Setting it down on the kitchen table, she moved to her husband Nathaniel's study. Her loving but dense husband was out doing a patrol, which meant he couldn't interfere with her taking her huntress weapon. Moving to the far wall, she reached up and picked up the black leather riding crop from its perch.
"Now, another quick note to Kat," Jasmine hummed as she slid the crop into the holster on her right leg. "Just to make sure she's coming prepared, and will be picking us up at the terminal."
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Cinder Fall, returning from an appointment in Vale, was a little taken aback when she saw Glynda Goodwitch, exit the tower elevator. A woman she had always thought as completely unflappable, a complete wreck. She moved as if expecting something or someone was going to just jump out of the shadows at her. Cinder watched out of curiosity, trying to fathom what a woman, who was known to face legions of grimm solo, was afraid of.
"Maybe I can switch sides." Glynda muttered a little louder than she thought she was, as she moved past Cinder. "Salem could protect me… there was no way Jas or Kat would take her on to get to me… I could take Jaune and Coco with me. We'd all be safe that way…"
Cinder's jaw dropped, and she stood there looking like she was trying to catch flies. There was no way she heard what she thought she just heard. Cinder blinked several times, trying to restart her shorted out thought processes, as Glynda shuffled off. Cinder shook her head rather violently, and then took a long slow breath, before clearing her thoughts and deciding that she had definitely heard wrong. There was no way Ozpin's right-hand woman would defect… or was there? Opportunities slowly began to filter into Cinder's mind. Cinder shook those thoughts from her mind. There was no chance, it was a flash of fancy, and a figment of the four glasses of wine she had had when she was confirming final preparations with Roman.
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Qrow was sure his semblance had activated. Not only had he glimpsed Glynda's niece in the buff, and then taken a desk chair to the head, been jumped from behind, and now was trussed up like a turkey, with a what he was sure was a dirty sock duct taped over his mouth. At least Glynda's niece and the two students that had acted on her behalf, were nice enough to at least place him on a bed; so he would be comfortable while he waited for the authorities. Of course, he was not going to do that, and while they were all distracted, he shifted forms.
Glynda's niece and a pink haired cat faunus sat chatting, while the other student had been dispatched to get a spare uniform that could accommodate the fluffy fox tail that pocked out from under the blanket that was wrapped around her. So, his bindings and gag fell away. Taking a quick look to make sure the coast was still clear, Qrow hopped along the bed and out a luckily open window.
Once he was airborne, Qrow made the sound decision of heading for Patch. There was no way he wanted to be in the blast zone when Glynda's niece told the Deputy Headmistress what happened.
"He got away!" Neon whined, as she had finally noticed, the pile of ropes and ties that had once restrained Jaune's molester.
"It's okay." Jaune commented.
"But he…"
"I'm glad he's gone, and after I tell my Aunt and mom what happened…" Jaune didn't finish her statement and only laughed darkly.
"Well, Ivori should be back soon with one of my uniforms. Though it is strange that as a faunus with a tail, you don't have any clothes made to accommodate a tail."
"Well, um… I just woke up with it?"
"That's not possible, Next you'll try and tell me you used to be a guy." Neon laughed and then sputtered to a stop as she saw the bright red blush on Jaune's cheeks. "Seriously? How?"
"I don't know, it just keeps happening."
Ivori returned at that point, and after handing over the skirt of an Atlas uniform and a set of Neon's panties; he took his leave; letting Jaune and Neon know he'd be going for something to eat, and would see them in the cafeteria. With a fair bit of blushing and stammering, Jaune was assisted by Neon to get her new appendage situated. Dressed and accompanied by her new friend, Jaune headed to the cafeteria. She was starving and wanted some chicken.
Neon was really enjoying her light-hearted conversation with Jaune, but she could see the looks other students were giving them. She always tried to ignore the sideways looks people gave her for being a faunus, and if Jaune's story was true, she was going to be in a world of emotional pain, considering not only did she have a fluffy golden fox tail, but also a set of oh so irresistible ears poking through her silken waterfall of golden hair.
"I'll have to introduce you to my team." Jaune happily chatted as Neon continued to take note of the staring and often times lewd and longing looks her new friend was the focus of.
"Great, shall we get food first?"
"Food first." Jaune replied as she picked up a metal tray and stepped into the line behind Neon.
"A tail and ears?" came a snarky voice from behind Jaune. "You into some weird pet play or something?"
"Huh? Pet play?" Jaune asked as she turned her head to see an emerald haired girl giving her a look as she waited in line for lunch as well. "Why would you say that?"
"Because I know for a fact, you didn't have these yesterday, I watched your stream." the girl placed her right hand on her hip, "I saw your ass, you didn't have this."
Jaune yelped and Neon whipped about, hissing at the girl that just grabbed her tail and gave it a quick yank. For her part, Jaune's assailant looked utterly shocked and mortified at what she had discovered and did.
"They're real? How?"
"That was mean." Jaune whined, her eyes looking as if they were going to fill with tears as her lips quivered. As she held her tail to her chest.
"Listen, whomever you are…" Neon snarled as she moved around Jaune, her own cat tail lashing back and forth, an obvious show that she was agitated.
"Emerald, and I'm so sorry." Emerald sputtered out, totally unfazed by Neon's show of aggression, but totally defenseless to Jaune's pout.
"Are you? Cause this is the second time Jaune's almost been molested today." Neon snapped as she moved to put herself between Emerald and Jaune.
"What?" When? Who?" Emerald stammered.
"Some old scruffy dude that smelled of booze." Neon poked Emerald between her breasts, "And now you."
"I didn't…"
"I LOVE THIS SONG!" Jaune shouted, her fox ears perked and her head looking around, searching for the source, and finding it behind the service counter. "Can you turn it up and start it over? Please? Please? Please?"
Neon and Emerald looked at Jaune a little surprised at how quickly her mood could change, from being upset to absolutely ecstatic. They took a step back, as Jaune bounced on her feet as the servers behind the counter chatted for a second and then nodded to her.
"Thank You!" Jaune sang out, as she reached out and grabbed Neon and Emerald by the wrists. "This is going to be so fun!"
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Chatter died throughout the expansive room as the pa-system crackled to life with a hiss of static before the first beats of "Candy Shop" sounded. Whistles and cheers drew more and more eyes towards a clear spot on the floor as a fox tailed angel started to move in time to the beat. As more and more people started shouting and cheering her on, the other two with her started to follow her lead and soon, the trio was moving, in rather suggestive and provocative ways.
"Is that Fearless Leader?" Nora shouted from her place standing on JNPR and RWBY's traditional table.
"When did she get a fox tail and ears?" Ruby squeaked in pure excitement, as a thud was heard behind them.
"Pyrrha?" Weiss asked of her second female crush, who was currently laid out on the floor with a very dreamy look on her face.
A ding drew Yang from the dance routine, to her scroll that was sitting on the table beside her. Picking it up, she tapped the notification icon with her thumb.
"GoldenKitsunneGoddess?" Yang was confused, how so soon after everyone seeing Jaune with a tail and a set of ear, that her page would get name changed. Tapping the link, she was brought to the page, and shown a live video of Jaune and two other girls dancing in the cafeteria. "How?"
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Coco was almost cackling at the gold mine her cousin had just become. Without the hint of indecision, she had Velvet start streaming the dance as she used her page administrator rights to change the name. She could already see it. Fashion photoshoots. Teasing dance videos, maybe even a Q&A session… there was so much she could do with Jaune. Noticing that the song had ended, Coco dashed over the service counter.
"Keep the music going. Doesn't matter what it is, as long as she can move to it. Play it!" Coco pleaded with the safe while holding out a thousand lien chip.
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Things were starting to settle down, and while onlookers were clapping and cheering, Jaune, Neon and Emerald were sharing hugs. Jaune's utter joy, infecting her two companions. Jaune's hands grabbed hold of Emerald's and Neon's wrists as her ears perked up.
"I LOVE THIS SONG!" she shouted in absolute joy as "Milkshake" flowed out of the speakers.
More than one member of the student body suddenly lost consciousness as Jaune lead Neon and Emerald in a chest and hip popping body moving showcase. Jaune's silken hair, and plush tail, accentuating every motion of her body. Coco let her own body sway in tune to the music as she started planning out the next photoshoot. Knowing full well that this free show, was going to draw even more attention. Her once goofy cousin had become a bombshell of innocent sexiness yesterday, and was now she was a tactical nuke of pure oblivious seduction.
Coco couldn't wait to see what was going to happen next, even as her mind recalled the BeaconBook poll that was circulating, and plans with in schemes for promotion and exposure rolled about in her head.