AN: Hello and welcome back to my rather mediocre story.

I was originally going to add the Emerald Forest Arc in but I ended up not doing so.

So it will definitely be in the next chapter. Sorry for those who were finally hoping for action.

Anyways, OC submissions are still open and don't worry the creators will be given credit for their work.

Pairings are still up in the air for me, it could be shipping it could be not. Right now they're just initial attractions no real affections yet, except for Ruby but that may change as they are not deeply rooted yet.

Anyways, on to the story hope you enjoy it.

Ch.4

Morning Greetings

"That's why we're here… to make things better." Ruby affirmed, optimism evident in her voice. This caused Ladon's smile to grow even more along with Gaia's, Nymph's and Odissia's, even if hers looked extremely lethargic.

Blake smiled a little 'Maybe she's right. I wonder if this is what Ryu sees in her.'

With the no forewarning Yang glomped a surprised Ruby and lifted her up, "Oh! I'm so proud of my baby sister!"

Ruby initial shock turned into one of embarrassment as she tried to wriggle out of Yang's arms which escalated into an anime dust cloud of flailing limbs and fighting.

Blake tried to get their attention but to no avail, Ladon and Blake sweat-dropped when Gaia and Odissia joined the fight after they got backhanded and punched in the boob, respectively, for trying to pull them apart. Nymph just stood off to the side laughing at them with a tear running down her left eye.

Ladon shook his head at the scene before turning his attention to Blake, "Aside from her rather childish antics she'd make a good leader, don't you think?" he said while leaning on the wall next to where Blake is sitting.

"Optimism on her level is hard to find these days, much-less someone who you think would make a great leader. I suppose I can't fault her when she hasn't witness the true harshness of reality."

Ladon nodded, "Your right, you can't." he said as he walked off to go break up the still fighting siblings, but he was stopped by Blake who pulled on his right arm.

"Ryu…" He looked back and saw her looking down with her book discarded on the stand.

"I wanted to say… sorry about what happen… it's just that you-I didn't-please forgive me…" she said looking into his eyes with a pleading and hopeful look.

Ladon rolled his eyes and turned back to her, "Please drop the puppies-err… kitten eyes? I think… Anyways, there is nothing to forgive for… we both chose a path one not as ideal as the other… taking into account the other person's perspective of course." He explained while Blake cutely giggled at the first comment.

"So you're not mad?" she asked quizzically with a hint of hope.

"No bu-mmph" he was shocked when he was interrupted by Blake crashing her lips into his savoring the taste she missed so long as she wrapped her arms around his neck trying to deepen her kiss she slid her tongue in to his mouth immediately winning dominance since he was still frozen from the unexpected kiss, she moaned into his mouth after being depraved of his taste for so long, but it was short lived as she was immediately shoved back into her seat as he gained his bearings back.

It was now Blake's turn to be shocked as she was pushed away with a glare, just like last time. Tears started to well up in her eyes, as she was about to get up and run, It was Ladon's turn to stop her from going as she pulled her into her hug.

"I though, maybe, we could…" she said as her voice was cracking trying to come up with a coherent sentence, Ladon sighed.

"As I was saying before I was interrupted in a… unexpected but pleasant form. I may not be mad anymore but, doesn't mean I've forgotten what happened, the distrust and hesitance you showed is what hurt me the most and for that reason I'm not sure I'll be able to trust you as much as I did back then." He explained in a soft tone.

"I-I understand…" she said dejected but accepting of his reason, although happy he was still holding her.

Ladon shook his head a little bit and thought with a groan, 'Even with that said I can't help but have a soft spot for her… ugh… What the hell… I'm just getting soft.'

Blake looked up from his chest, "You say something?" she asked as her head tilted in a cute manner with her bow twitching.

"Nope." He said a bit quickly looking away not being able to handle the level of cuteness Blake unknowingly created. She just nodded as she reluctantly wriggled out of his arm.

None of these proceedings went unnoticed as a pair of lilac eyes saw everything that went down between the two. Yang noticed the two after the group stopped fighting when Weiss came in shouting them for being to loud… actually that was still happening Yang just tuned her out and focused her attention to the Ladon and Blake trying to figure out what their relationship is or was, not too sure what to think at the moment but she shrugged. She'd ask Blake later… her thoughts were interrupted when she heard Weiss's rather sarcastic comment.

"Oh now your on my side?"

"I've always been on your side!"

Yang was annoyed with being interrupted in her thought processes but was even more annoyed by the girls comment, "What's you problem with my sister?!" she shouted tired of the girl's hostile attitude towards her sister. She was just trying to be friendly and here she is acting like a total bitch.

Blake and Ladon at the Same Time

"Anyways, let's go see who won the catfight." He said in a joking manner as he began to walk away, Blake rolled her eyes but couldn't help let out a small smile and follow after him.

They arrived at a rather comical scene, Gaia was being held back by Odissia, who had bumps and bruises from Gaia trying to get out of Odissia's grip and attack the 'White Haired Bitch' in Gaia's words. Weiss was too enamored in her argument with Ruby and Yang to actually pay any attention to Gaia's K.I.

Nymph was just off to the side giggling and laughing at everyone, to her everyone was acting silly.

Ryu and Blake walked towards Nymph seeing as she was the only one who seemed neutral, all things considered.

"What's with Weiss and why is she arguing with Ruby and Yang?" he asked not looking away from the scene.

Giving no response as she turned around towards Ladon and, "BLAKE!" she shouted as she glomped her garnering the attention of Gaia and Odissia. Ladon chuckled while Blake gave a small smile towards her. Blake crouched a little and hugged her back. She was about to speak till they heard Yang shout in anger.

"What is your problem with my sister?"

"She's a hazard to my health!" Weiss shouted in annoyance.

Ruby recoiled at that, not really understanding how that explosion was her fault, she's the one who shook the vials of dust.

"That explosion was your fault! You shook the vial!" Ruby shouted back defending herself, she was not about to take the blame for the explosion.

"I'll have you kno-" she was interrupted by an oppressive aura.

"Enough! You're both are disturbing the other students by your incessant yelling." He said harshly in a powerful voice, one he hasn't used since his time leading in the White Fang. He hated using not just because of how harsh he sounded but the trickle of memories that started leaking to the front of his mind.

Blake froze at his tone she knew that tone very well it's the same tone he used to put the Alpha in check when ever he decided to try and to use his power to take advantage of the female members of the White Fang. The Alpha was even beaten down a few times in front of the entire organization when he got brave.

As per rules, when the leader is challenged or challenges a contender to a one on one duel the winner of said duel is made the new Alpha. Ladon won every single time, but allowed The Original Alpha to keep his title, but everyone in the organization knew who the real Alpha is and they never crossed him or went against his judgment.

Although, when they heard of his abandonment of the organization he took more then half of the entire organization with him, mostly all the females he defended from the Alpha, that knowledge irked her to no end though. The male population who looked at him in admiration left as well, thinking that if he left, then he left for a good reason… a good majority of the White Fang was loyal to him due to his more caring nature then the Alpha's extremist and abrasive nature.

The White Fang is still recovering from the major lost of member since then… which is why she was forced to hijack the Schnee Dust Companies trains three weeks later with Adam when he left. The mission itself was a high-A rank assignment, they both still struggled with mid-A ranks, but with a major hit to their forces it fell on them to complete the assignment they were almost killed if it wasn't for Adam's ability to endure pain and send back the damage when she-

Her trip down memory lane was interrupted by Yang's voice, " Bullsh-"

Ladon raised his hand in front of her, "Upupupup, I don't want to hear it. Take Ruby with you and go to bed. We have an initiation in the morning… I'll talk to Weiss."

Yang was about to object, but Ruby grabbed her arm and shook her head, "He's right we need the energy, come on." Yang stood for a moment before sighing and sending Weiss one last glare before she reluctantly agreed.

"Fine… lets go to sleep sis." Ruby smiled at that, happy she decided not to push the issue and walked away giving there good nights to everyone, bar Weiss.

"Girls, you to." Ladon told them without looking away from Weiss as the oppressive force was lifted.

Surprisingly, Weiss just stood there with an impressed look on her face. She was amazed at how much control he has over his peers, it was… attractive, for a Faunas. She blushed a little at the thought but managed to cover it up as quickly as it came, but still he was a Faunas and they were not to be trusted.

Regardless of polite he is, it could be a ruse to let her guard down, so he could kidnap her and ransom her away, not that they would get anything out of her father, he was a greedy bastard his daughter-no Heiress being kidnapped would barely make him consider paying him off to get his Heiress back. As depressing as the thought is it's true, her mother passed away a several years ago from an unexplained death, she was the only one who treated her like she was supposed to be, a daughter not an Heiress to her father's empire.

When she passed, he took that to his advantage and began to mold her into the Heiress he envisioned, he didn't even shed a tear when he found out she passed. He even had the gall to put her in arranged marriage her mother was fighting against when she was alive, though that ended in a failure. The only thing he thinks about is his business, everything else…. a means to an end. He's a cruel man, hence why she decided to become a Huntress and joined Beacon…

Of course, this initially wasn't her idea it was actually another boy's idea that inspired her to do so. She ran away from home after she found out her mother died by unknown means… and her Father tried to arrange the marriage again when she passed away seeing it as an,

'Opportunity, to build close ties with another company…'

Yeah right, he just wanted her to marry him so when he took over the company she could divorce him and gain half of his assets and any secrets from the company. She had to respect her Father's rather devious, underhanded and risky plan that could have easily backfired if anything went wrong.

Speaking of which, she never met the guy she was arranged to marry when the company was mysteriously burned down along with his house and everything in it… no trace was left to who the culprit was, oddly enough it was when the arrange marriage contract was brought up a second time in a meeting, which caused him to send a detective to find out what happen and to see if the man she was suppose to marry survived, obviously he didn't as they found no trace of him ever being alive, everything was gone, but I digress…

When she found out about everything, she ran away in an aimless direction which consequently led her outside the city limits into the many grim infested wilds where she was attacked by a C-ranked, Wolf class Grimm called Ahlf, male form but was saved by a mysterious man in a cloak that covered his entire body and face accept his eyes which were grey. She blinked, to her it felt like a blink, and the fight was over, afterwards he took her back to the city reprimanding her for being so irresponsible even after explaining her situation he still told her that wasn't a reason to act the way she did eventually taking her home and leaving her with a few parting words,

'If you don't like the way things are, do something about it, but don't runaway and cry.'

That's exactly what she did… she trained and studied and became a student at Beacon and got away from her father and his oh so precious company.

Ladon just watched as a string of emotions flow across her face; attraction, which he shook his head at then distrust, several emotions later and lastly determination.

He sighed and thought, 'This girl has a lot more issues then I thought when I first met her some years ago… I suppose I should take it easy on her."

"To be honest, I'm surprised you actually waited for me. I figured you would have walked away not giving me chance to speak to you, since you obviously dislike Faunus for one reason or another." He was right, why was she still here, why hadn't she left yet? She wanted to leave but something kept her there, something… familiar. She couldn't quite place a finger on it, but shrugged it off figuring it would come to her sooner or later.

"Don't flatter yourself… now hurry, there must be a reason you kept me here." She said hurriedly with a tinge of pink dusting her cheeks. She may not like Faunas, but she won't deny how attractive the one is in front of her.

He saw this, but rolled his eyes at the reaction before getting serious.

"Anyways… I don't know what your problem is nor do I care enough to ask. This attitude of yours is really getting on peoples nerves and not winning you any friends or team mates for that matter." Ladon said sharply, Weiss narrowed her eyes and fumed.

In truth, he does actually know her problem… She's the Heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, that part is obvious. What isn't obvious though, while that may not seem like a problem, which actually is the biggest problem. As an Heiress you're expected to act as such and such means strict etiquette and little to no freedom for yourself.

Another thing to take into account is the fact that The Schnee Dust Company was the biggest target for the White fang, due to its slave like labor to Faunas kind. The CEO of the company, Mr. Schnee himself holds an extreme dislike towards the Faunus race as a whole which leaked on to his council making them major Anti-Faunus supporters. Which lead to kidnapping Faunus from there homes or when they're alone to work at the warehouses as low budget workers, in simple terms, slaves.

Taking that into consideration, they are a giant bulls-eye on a blank white canvas… making them targets for hijacks, warehouse breaks, and the worst part Public Executions of Anti-Faunas Council members and supporters. Of course Weiss knows none of the shadier things her father has done. So she's only seen the public executions which most likely skewed her view on Faunas as a whole, seeing them as nothing but scum and murders.

'Not that I blame her for acting like she does, she has lived a harsh life for it being sheltered. I'm also pretty sure with all the attacks on the company Mr. Schnee would've been very pissed when he got home which probably made it even harder for her.' He sighed as he shook his head, 'Poor girl.'

"Is this all you wanted to do? Was scold me for being honest and-" she spoke heatedly, before being cut off by Ladon's scoff.

"Honest? There's a difference between being honest and being a bitch… You need to learn the difference. Anyways, that's not why I asked you stay." Her eyes widened and huffed but stood to listen to the actual reason why he wanted her to stay behind, why is she staying after he called her bitch, well he didn't call her bitch it was like her comments were bitchy, her train of thought was derailed by him speaking.

"Give the girl a chance, she may seem childish but I see she has at least some skill, if her walk was anything to go by and plus she wouldn't be here if Ozpin didn't see potential in her." Weiss thought for a moment looking to the side, he does have point.

'Maybe I should be a bit nicer to her.' She looked back to him as he continued.

"She just not used to dealing with people. Just like you're not used to people who come from less noble and strict families." He explained to her she nodded agreeing that he has a point again.

He decided to tease the girl a little, "Not everyone to can act as elegant and proper as you." He said in a flirtatious manner to mess with the girl, she did not disappoint when she started blushing furiously he just chuckled at her predicament.

"Don't judge someone before you get to know them, no matter who or what they are… good night Weiss." He smiled and winked at her one last time before walking off leaving a very red Weiss.

Weiss stood there trying get her blush under control simultaneously trying to comprehend what just happened. 'One second he's lecturing me the next he shamelessly flirts with me… not that I'm complaining he's quite attractive for a Faunas. I think I'll keep an eye on him for now and I suppose I'll take his advice as well, he's right though, maybe I'll be a bit nicer and not judge. Although, I don't think I'm judgmental in any shape or form…' She finished as she walked away to go to bed finally.

Ladon

'To think I did that to that to the Schnee Heiress… I wonder how she would act if I told her I was the one that saved her all those years ago… Probably be as red as a Ruby. Ha, the irony.' He mentally chuckled at himself as he walked back to his bedroll.

'She'll come around eventually… she's not necessarily a bad person, just… troubled. Yeah, troubled is the appropriate term for her." He thought as he strode towards his and the girl's area near the ballroom windows.

When he got there he noticed that everyone was asleep, 'Well now isn't that surprising? I guess it makes sense it was a full day after all. I guess it's time for me to go to sleep as well.' He walked to his bedroll, but not before kissing all the girls on the forehead. A barely noticeable smile graced the sleeping girls faces, Ladon couldn't help but smile at how peaceful they looked. That's when he noticed the extra bedroll in their group.

Ladon raised a brow as he walked over to the extra bed and crouch and moved his hand to the hem of the sheets and pulled it down slowly as to not disturb whoever was sleeping with them. He was surprised when he met the sleeping face of Blake.

Earlier with Blake and the girls

"Girls, you go to bed as well."

Odissia nodded walking off with the others prior to facing Blake.

"Blake where you sleeping at?" she inquired, she didn't see Blake near an open bedroll.

"I'm over there…" she uttered neutrally, pointing towards a random spot near a window. Everyone looked in the direction of her hand.

"I like looking at the moon before I go to sleep it… relaxes me and… reminds me of someone." She said the last part quietly to herself. Only Desiree heard being right next to her and all, but she paid no attention to it that's her business and she would respect her privacy… actually she just doesn't give a damn as it would be too much work to tease her.

"Bring your bedroll to us, there is an open spot next to Ladon, you can see the moon from there as well." Odissia said pointing to a spot right under the window not far from where Blake was originally going to lay.

"Oh no, I'm fine… plus, I don't think Ryu…" Blake said crestfallen, Gaia interrupted her as he waved off her concerns.

"Nonsense, we haven't seen you in what? Three and a half years? He wont mind, he'd actually encourage it, he knows us girls have quite a bit of catching up to do." She assured with a genuine smile as did the others Nymph's being the biggest and brightest.

Blake gave a small smile while she wiped her eye a bit since it was getting moist. She was happy they still accepted after he pain she undoubtedly caused Ladon when she refused to go with him… after all they looked up to that man like no other.

"Okay." She said simply, but anyone that knows Blake knew that there was unbridled joy in that single word.

"Yay! Blakey is sleeping with us tonight." Nymph spoke gleefully as she bounced up and down.

Present time

'Not surprising really… they haven't seen each other in a long time. Of course they would want her to sleep with them.' His eyes lingered a bit before he turned to his bedroll to lie down, but was stopped by a slight tug on the hem of his sweats.

He looked down and saw Blake's hand holding his sweats "Don't go…"

She had a single pleading amber eye open… he looked down at her for moment debating if he should or not. He blinked and with a reluctant sigh he pulled his bedroll directly next to hers, since it wasn't to far from hers and laid down. As his conscious slipped into the sweet bliss of sleep he felt something warm cuddle closer to him and that last thing he saw was a mop of black hair and a bow.

'Damn… I am getting too soft' was his last thought as he was completely overwhelmed by sweet unconsciousness and his arm instinctively wrapped around her waist and pulled her closer, a small unnoticeable smile was etched across her face as she snuggled even closer in to his chest.

'It feels good to be in his arms, this close again.' With that she fell asleep.

The Next Morning

Ladon eye's fluttered open, "Uhh… what time is it?' he asked no one in particular. He moved to get up but felt something weighing down, tilting his head to the right he noticed Blake and was confused for a moment, since his mind was still bit hazy, so he couldn't figure out why she was lying with him or when she got there.

A few moments passed before his head cleared and remembered the events that transpired last night.

"Oh… that's right." He said nonchalantly while looking around and noticed not many people were awake during this time; a red-headed girl and some guy eating an apple. After gaining his bearings he took a peek out the window noticing the sun was just rising over the horizon.

"I suppose that means it's time for me to rise as well…" he mumbled to himself, he slowly extracted his self from Blake's body. When he finished he stood up and stretched with a quiet yawn, he was satisfied when he heard the kinks pop.

He then moved over to his duffle bag and began rummaging through it looking for his morning utensils until he found them. His eyes brightened up as he pulled out the materials from his bag.

"Ah, there you are." He pulled out a red towel, white and Lavender toothbrush, Schnee brand Toothpaste, Schnee brand floss and finally Schnee brand toothpaste.

Yep, not only are the Schnees a major Dust company but also a hygiene company that uses Dust to enhance their product to make them even more efficient.

'For a corrupt business man he sure knows how to make quality products with Dust… how that's even possible I'll never know' Ladon mused as he took off to his locker to get his clothes, Then headed straight for the school's bathroom.

When he got there he noticed that the showers were separated but the sinks were co-ed. The bathroom's entrance is opposite of the sinks, on the left was the female showers while the right was the males… with his quick observations out of the way he went to the right towards the males.

Ballroom, Same time

Another Hunter trainee was awakened by a very hyperactive and bubbly orange haired girl.

"Wake up! Lazy bum!" she yelled much to the dismay of the hunter and the other people around them… particularly three huntresses.

"It's mor~ning! It's mor~ning! It's mor~gah!" as her singing got progressively louder until she was interrupted by a pillow to the face from an irate Desiree.

"SHUT UP! People are trying to sleep!" she shouted with a tic mark on her forehead. The hunter snickered a little while sending an apologetic glance to Desiree who just glared at him before laying back down to try and go back to sleep. The orange haired girl just pouted cutely at Ren for laughing at her.

"You were a bit loud Nora." The hunter said with mirth staining his voice to the now named Nora. She just stuck her tongue out.

"Whatever Ren!" she said loudly again but this time she got a rock thrown at her courtesy of Gaia's dust manipulation. This time Nora was rubbing the welt on her head from the dust rock and Ren couldn't even stifle his chuckle while concurrently rolling his eyes at his childhood friend's personality. His chuckle settled in to a small smile as he got up and walked away.

"Come on Nora lets go shower and wash up." Nora perked up as if a rock wasn't just thrown at her head as she ran to catch up with him.

"Coming Ren-EEP!" she jumped towards Ren as another rock hit her on the butt and fortunately or unfortunately depending on how you look at it, caught up to Ren while a victoriously smirking form of Gaia sat on her bedroll.

'I still got it.'

She then turned to an irate Desiree…

"You should been more qui-" he was cut off by a painful yelp from the form of Desiree.

"OW!" She screamed with a welt on here head.

"More qui-" he was cut off again

"Ow!" Desiree was now sporting two welts on her head.

"Like I said you should have been a bit more quiet." He finished while Nora crossed her arms with a huff and pout. He just smiled at her.

"Ow… what was that for?" Desiree asked while sporting a third bump and glaring daggers at Gaia.

"Don't give me that look… you're the one who decided to scream thinking it was a bright idea to yell at someone for being loud." She reprimanded, dismissing her glare and stretching a couple words to get her point across while she held her smoking fist in front of her.

"Eheh, sorry…?" she had the grace to say sheepishly while rubbing her pulsing welts, Gaia sighed and rolled her eyes at her sister. She did not like being rudely woken up especially… by loud noises.

"Well since we're awake we might as well go wash up. Ladon most likely is done, if not almost done." She said as her and Odissia stood up and began to walk to the restrooms.

"Alright." She said simply as they walked in silence… until a question made it to the forefront of her mind.

"What about Nymph and Blake?" She settled her gaze on the sleeping form of Nymph and, "Blake?" she noticed the dark haired girl was missing.

"Huh, I forgot about her… she's usually the loud one not you." She said carelessly while dismissing, Odissia who was trying to burn holes in Gaia's head with her glare, shrugging she broke her glare seeing as it was too much work to keep it up.

"I believe Blake went to go wash up as well."

At this point Nymph began to stir as her eyes snapped open and sat up, "Morning world!" she said chipperly.

She looked around their sleeping area and noticed no one was here, so she looked around the ballroom instead until her AquaMarine eyes landed on her sister's retreating form, a huge smile stretched across her face.

"Good Morning! Where are you two headed?" She asked tilting her head to the side in a manner that would make every girl and some boys swoon at how cute she is… yep… that's Nymph for you being ridiculously cute with no effort on her part.

"To wash up… since you're awake you are going to as well." Nymph nodded and stood to stretch before joining the duo.

"Okay! Lets go!" Nymph said cheerfully as they moved towards the showers.

Cafeteria

The Cafeteria has several dozen tables in rows of various colors, on a lone table sat our small group of Faunas having a conversation of their morning events.

Ladon and Gaia sat on one side while Odissia, Nymph and Blake sat on the opposite side. Ladon was leaning in to his hand which was propped up on the table, Gaia was focused on her food only half listening to the conversation. Odissia was playing with her food lazily albeit timidly due to her being the focus in the conversation, Nymph was making a hash brown snowman paying little attention to the conversation as she was lost in her own world and Blake was reading a book ignoring the current conversation in favor of her book. Although, she was sneaking glances at Ladon when he wasn't looking.

"So let me get this straight… you…" pointing towards Odissia with his fork, "…thought it would be a good idea to shout at this girl… Nora, for shouting…" she nodded, "Knowing that you, yourself was doing that exact same thing she was doing not even 2 seconds later… in which Gaia proceeded to hit you on the head forcing you to shout again." He summarized, Odissia shrunk in her seat at the embarrassing way he put it.

Ladon shook his head in amusement before looking at the final two.

"What were you two doing? Nymph? Blake?"

Nymph spoke first, "I was sleeping!" she said happily going back to her hash brown snowman.

"Only you would sleep through all that ruckus." He said plainly with a bit of amusement.

Nymph just giggled and "Yupped!"

Ladon drew his gaze towards, "Blake?"

His question went unanswered as Blake was to immersed in her book by her favorite author, coincidentally or not was, Tenno, Ladon's penname for his books.

Ladon took a quick notice of her unresponsive nature when she's reading her books, "Hey, Blake." He said as he reached across the table and tapped her book.

Blake snapped out of her trance like state, slowly brought down her book with slight irritation until she noticed Ladon smiling at her, any irritation that was there was washed away and replaced with a blush at his smile, "Y-yes?" she stuttered as her blush darkened and she quickly brought her book back up to cover it.

Ladon was unfazed by here reaction and decided to tease her a bit, his smile quickly turned into a frown of concern, "Are you okay? Are you sick? You look red." He put his hand on her forehead and moved a bit closer to her face as if checking her eyes to make sure she wasn't lying.

Blake's blush went all over her body as she began to stutter so much worse then earlier, "Y-yes I-I-I'm f-fi-fine, th-tha-thanks f-f-for a-as-asking." Ladon was having trouble holding down his laughter, as the others who weren't paying attention were now paying attention and having trouble keeping their laughter under control due to how red Blake is. Ladon couldn't hold it anymore he fell back to his side and started laughing loudly and like a dam, laughter flooded the table. Blake just huffed in embarrassment before she started laughing to as a mischievous gleam entered her eyes.

"Oh I see how it is… I'm pretty sure your sisters here would like to know about… that." She whispered directly to Ladon and like a switch Ladon stopped laughing and his eyes widened, realizing what she was implying.

Blake smirked at her victory but that was short lived as Ladon had a full blown smirk, his voice turned in to a whisper, "Oh really now… I'm pretty sure everyone here would like to hear about your favorite guilty pleasure book…" Blake eyes widened even more so then Ladon's did earlier, but he continued before she could say anything, "…and where I got the material to make that book." Blakes eyes widened in horror and Ladon now sported the most evil smirk ever.

"Y-you wouldn't dare, you said you would never mention that night again." She whispered in horror, if possible Ladon's smirk was even more evil then the last one.

"And you said you'd never bring that up." He whispered back in a much calmer tone and held each others gaze until he started laughing again, but with so much more jovialness then earlier, Blake was shocked to say the least before she to started laughing with the others, there by play lasted 10 seconds.

Everyone calmed down and went back to what they were doing earlier albeit with a bit more liveliness since their laughing fit.

Gaia was doing the same thing she was earlier, Odissia was back to her usual lazy demeanor, Nymph was now creating the hash brown man's face with peas and carrots, and Blake was looking at Ladon awaiting his original question.

"So Blake where were you when Odissia was making a fool of herself?" he asked chuckling at Odissia offhanded shrug, everyone else shared a giggle as well at her response.

"Oh, that? I was already heading to the restroom sometime after you woke up." She said in her usual mellow tone.

Ladon nodded figuring as much, when they were still part of the White Fang they would sleep together they always got up around the same time Blake usually a little after he did… now is no different from back then… old habits die hard and no amount of time would change that.

"Seems like an eventful morni-."

"Hey Foxy/Ladon" Yang and Ruby shouted respectively, interrupting his sentence.

Yang rushed behind Ladon and leaned on him with both arms around his neck and her head right next to his as she pushed her chest against his back.

Ruby walked past her and sat next to Ladon irritated by Yang's obvious flirting/teasing with Ladon.

"So Foxy… How was your morning?" She asked in a flirtatious voice, much to the ire of Blake and Ruby.

Ladon just rolled his eyes and smirked, "Fine, until you got here."

Yang pouted, "Foxy doesn't like me." She mocked in a hurt voice, she smiled and punched him in the arm, "You love my company."

Ladon laughed and nodded, "As much as a dog loves a cat's company."

Yang laughed and punched him again in the same spot, "Ow! I actually felt that one."

He rubbed his arm, "I admit I deserved that one though." Yang stuck out her tongue and pulled down her eyelid and closed the other, he just chuckled at her and looked towards Ruby.

"How ya doing Ruby? Slept well I hope?"

Ruby looked up and nodded, "I'm fine thanks for asking." She smiled widely, happy to be finally noticed Ladon, her not so secret crush. If she was being honest, Ladon probably knows that already, but it case he doesn't she wont say anything. She's accepted it since last night after Yang talked to her, but enough of that.

"As well as one can sleeping on a cold floor." Ladon and Ruby chuckled.

"I suppose you're right." Ladon smiled a bit which made Ruby blush, Ladon thought she looked really cute with a blush on her face.

"You know you look really cu-"

"I thought the floor was quite comfortable!" Nymph said positively as she rocked back and forth in her seat. Ladon's eye twitched at the interruption while Ruby was, well, looking like a Ruby from his unfinished comment, but she knew exactly what he was about to say and to say she was surprised would be an understatement since that would be the first time he complimented her.

Now a normal girl wouldn't be too surprised by this or blush at a simple compliment, but Ruby was far from a normal girl… she was a socially awkward girl with little to absolutely no experience with boys. Yes, she has guy friends back at Signal, but that's simply all they are, friends, she holds no romantic interest with any of them. They're not the greatest of looking guys, they lack any defining features that make them stand out to her, no real charisma, no amazing skills, speaking of which she has not seen Ladon's abilities yet and haven't seen his weapons yet either, that thought was depressing,

Then she thought about her current object of affection, He's handsome, cute fox ears, extremely charismatic, He even attends Beacon that says volumes on his skill level, even his aura from last night was powerful, his very presence spoke power and respect. Her guy friends couldn't hold a candle to him, scratch that, to his presence. Even his personality is amazing.

Unaware to thoughts going through Ruby's head, Blake decided to throw her two cents in, "I don't know I was quite comfortable as well, Ryu is quite the heater." Blake said offhandedly not really seeing a problem with it, plus she staking her claim on Ladon still. Hey! She still has feelings for the guy… you can't blame her.

Even if she wasn't, it was perfectly normal for Faunas to do such, she's been sleeping with him before they got together and their subsequent break up. Faunas were… limited, due to their status as 'sub-human creatures' as painful as it might seem, it was true.

"You mean, you two slept with each other?" Yang said, a little shocked how close they actually were already, she saw them kissing yeah but that was one sided on Blake's part and Ladon even shoved her off even if he did pull her back to hug because she seemed hurt. Those times they didn't really have a choice, Blake was only able to initiate that kiss because she caught him by surprise and Ladon being the gentlemen he is couldn't let a girl walk away crying. The icing on the cake was the fact none of the girls in Ladon's group seem to care even Blake shrugged it off as a common occurrence, of course that could just stack up to her having an intimate past with the guy as she probably still has feelings for him.

Ruby looked at the scene a bit hurt by it but instantly covering it up and putting on a fake smile, but Yang instantly saw right through this being her big sister and all even Ladon saw this, he's a leader and as such you have to be able to read people under your command or it could come back and bite you in the ass and screw up the mission.

He wasn't too positive on why she was hurt but he had a good idea why though… he isn't some dense idiot obsessed with a single girl.

He should probably clarify any confusions before anyone gets a strange idea, he can tell Yang's mind was already going down the gutter even if she doesn't show it.

"Its how we grew up… using anything and anyone to stay warm and get by." He explained, Yang and Ruby just looked confused.

'I guess I would have to clarify it even more… oh I know!' He pointed towards his ears as they twitched, "Faunas" he stated simply.

This also had the effect of his fangirls swooning until Gaia released her Aura freezing them in their tracks making them retreat and mumbling profanities at being kept away from their object of obsession.

"Oh…" they said in unison.

Ruby just sighed in relief that nothing was going on between them… Yang just looked to the side in embarrassment with a blush her mind taking a dip in the gutter.

Ladon shook his head at Yang's facial expression, he looked around to everyone at the table more specifically Yang and Ruby, I hope this clears up any… assumptions." He said focusing more on Yang when he said the last word. Yang just looked away whistling, pretending she wasn't thinking in such a way, but the small grin on her face told otherwise.

Ladon couldn't help but smile at Yang's nature. "Alright, I think I'm gonna go gear up and get ready for the initiation test... anyone coming with?" He offered as he began to walk off with his hands in his pockets.

"Yeah, wait for us!" Gaia yelled to his retreating form to which she ran to catch up to him, the rest of his party following in suit.

Blake looked back, "How about you two?" she asked curiously, Ruby shrugged not really know what else to do since she doesn't really know anyone except for her sister Yang and a small group of people.

Yang didn't care either way.

"Sure, why not? It's not like I really know anyone else." Ruby stated and Yang just walked ahead of them towards family of Faunas.

"Well we better hurry then, we're losing them." Yang pointed out as she picked up her pace Ruby and Blake doing the same.

AN: There you have it...

Anyways, like I said action will without a doubt be the next chapter for those who are waiting for it. After that the action will coming more often.

Once again OC's are still being accepted I already have one squad from CactusMeister. You will see quick cameos of his character in the next chapter before you get a full introduction to their appearance and style.

Remember OC submissions must have;

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If your up to a the challenge You can create your entire Squad if you wish, but if you don't I will just combine them with other submissions.

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