So Baz wanted me to let you all know that his internet has been out for a while and will be for a few more days do to some remodeling being done to his house, he asks that you bare with him and that he'll be back as soon as possible.

Auron stood next to his partner as they made their way up to Ozpin's office, at the moment he was trying his hardest to get a read on the silver haired swordsmen and failing horribly. Auron was good at reading people, he could tell Sephiroth was a good guy, but no matter how hard he tried he couldn't kick his slight suspicion of the boy. Now there was a second person he had to worry about as well, who'd have ever guessed that the legendary 'Hell's Watchdog', Gabranth the Executioner, was just like them.

Auron sighed and pulled out a flask he'd kept hidden from Ozpin in his shirt, taking a nice long swig he nudged Sephiroth and offered him some. Sephiroth chuckled before taking it and taking a swig of his own and handing it back to Auron who drank a little more before storing it back in his shirt. "This story just keeps getting more twists doesn't it?"

Sephiroth nodded. "It certainly does, though did you expect anything less?" He asked the sunglasses wearing teen.

Auron laughed at that. "I'd have been disappointed if were anything less." He answered earning a grin from his partner.

The two heard a light ding and felt the elevator stop before the doors opened and the two stepped out into the clock themed office. "Ah good, I was just about to call for you two." Ozpin smiled at the two.

"We can tell when someone want to talk to us, nice speech by the way. Very uplifting." Sephiroth said turning to the armored man leaning against the wall. "So I'm guessing we're here to talk about our newest responsibility?" He asked while being cautious with his words just in case that on some off chance the armored man wasn't in the loop.

Ozpin nodded and gained a more serious look on his face. "Yes, this is about the fall maiden."

"Amber." Gabranth spoke cutting Ozpin off. "She has a name Cid."

Ozpin sighed. "I'm well aware my friend, these two were not informed of her name." He spoke with authority, it would seem there was some slight tension between the two. "Anyway back on topic. I have brought you two here to discuss the situation with Lady Amber as well as introduce you to your new squad leader." This actually surprise all three people in the room other than Ozpin.

"Now why would I ever agree to lead these two children around on missions, they'd only slow me down in finding the amber eyed woman." Gabranth pushed himself off the wall he was leaning on and walked over to Ozpin's desk.

"Because you know as well as I do that both of them have more combat experience than any hunter in the field, not to mention they both pack enough power within them to give you yourself a run for your money. With the three of you working together no one will be able to stand in your way. This is the best way to find the one who attacked your fiance." Ozpin spoke firmly.

Gabranth stood silently as he thought over his words. "Very well then, but I need to be sure of your combat abilities." He turned to the two who had been standing back listening all the while getting slightly annoyed by how the two older men kept talking about them as if they weren't present. "This Friday the three of of will head out into the wilderness outside the walls and have ourselves a test of skill, it would be to dangerous to have a battle here or in Vale. If you two really are as powerful as Cid claims then I dare say Beacon would be leveled by the time we finished."

Auron was quiet as he thought it over, he looked over to his partner and saw him in a similar position. After a few more moments of thought Auron spoke up. "While I can't speak for Sephy here, I'm willing to give this a shot. However if we prove ourselves I want you to get rid of the arrogant prick attitude, I refuse to tolerate someone talking down to me like I'm a child."

Sephiroth raised an eyebrow to his partner using his nickname, the only people who called him that were his mother and his sister and he preferred to keep it that way, though he figured he'd let it slide this time. "I agreed, my previous incarnation died at thirty years of age and twenty two of those years were spent on the battlefield, and because I have all of his memories and experience I would appreciate the respect I deserve." He informed the armored hunter who stood quietly.

"Huh, now that I think about it we both died relatively young. I died in my old world for good at thirty five, and nearly a decade of that was spent walking around as basically an undead specter." Both Ozpin and Gabranth looked over to Auron with questioning gazes. "It's a long story."

Sephiroth pulled out his scroll and checked the time seeing it was nearly nine in the evening. "Now that we have that taken care of, is there anything else you need of us professor? I have an appointment I need to meet." Sephiroth spoke putting his scroll away and looking to the spectacled man.

"No that is everything, you two may go." Both teens nodded and turned to leave. "Though Mr. Scarlatina, if you would leave that flask in your shirt here that would be great." He said earning a growl from the mentioned boy.

Later that night

Sephiroth stood at the center of the combat arena, he had his copy of LOVELESS in his hands reading it as he waited. He'd been there for around ten minute before he heard the sound of the doors to the room open up and for people enter. He closed the book and turned to the four boys of team CRDL. "Welcome, I was slightly worried you wouldn't show up."

Cardin was the first to speak up. "Yeah, so now that we're here, whats this about? You got some people hidden away to throw shit at us, or maybe some kinda prank?" He asked clearly suspicious, his teammates all seemed on high alert as well.

Sephiroth chuckled. "I assure you, there are only the five of us in the room and I have no intentions of committing any ill acts against any of you. There is also nothing stopping any of you from leaving right now, though I would hope you'd say and listen." Sephiroth's voice was clear and sincere, completely clean of any ill intent. After several seconds with nobody moving to leave he continued. "So far we've only been students of this school for a week and a half and you four have become quite notorious, your bullies, racists, and all around unpleasant human beings." He noticed the scowls he earned from the four boys with his words. "I've also taken the time to look into each of your student records from your previous schools and found your grades and combat skills relatively sub par at best. These are not insults or opinions, they are facts. However I didn't request you come here tonight to berate you or antagonize you, I am here because I want to offer you four a second chance."

"And how the hell is some stuck up pretty boy like you gonna change anything, we could wreck yur shit right here if we wanted!" Russel Thrush shouted stepping forward, Dove and Sky both nodded as they went to follow there teammate.

"Wait." They stopped when they heard their leader speak up, they turned to him and saw he hadn't moved from his spot. "Don't attack him, as much as I want to, we don't stand a chance against him."

"What the hell are you talking about Cardin? It's four on one!" Sky responded pulling his halberd off his back.

Cardin continued to meet Sephiroth's gaze. "It's doesn't matter, this guy isn't normal. Even Nikos is afraid of him, and with good reason. Just trust me, don't fuck with him." The three boys were shocked to hear there extremely proud leader speak so highly of someone else in a tone that conveyed a sense of fear. "What is this about Schnee?"

Sephiroth smiled at the fact that Cardin was actually showing some real restraint in his actions, it showed he may actually have some worth as a leader. "Like I said, this is a second chance. While I can't do much to change your attitudes or views on faunus or your other classmates, I can help you four in the area of combat. I'm offering to give team CRDL private lessons free of charge, however I do have a few rules if you decided to agree."

To say Cardin was surprised by this would be a massive understatement, he came here half expecting to get his ass beat for pissing off Sephiroth some how. Now the boy who had appeared in his nightmares more than a few times over the passed few years was offering to give him and his team help. "What would these rules be exactly?"

"Cardin! You're not actually considering this snobs offe-"

"SHUT IT!" Cardin shouted cutting Russel off mid sentence. "As much as I want to vomit my own soul out for saying it, the last time I saw him fight he proved to be in a completely different league than we are right now, and that was three years ago. Chances are he's only gotten better since then, if he's offering to help us I'd be an absolute retard to not hear him out." He explained while doing his damnedest to exert as much authority as possible while he spoke. He turned back the the silver haired swordsman. "What are these rules?"

Sephiroth smiled wider as he heard the boy take charge and explain the situation to his subordinate. "They are three very simple and easy to follow rules. First, you all must maintain at least a B average in all your classes, which means you need to start hitting the books." He could already see the four faces start to drop slightly. "Second, you must show up to every one of our session if possible, meaning unless you have a very good reason you better be here. I'd rather not waste my time with someone who doesn't want to improve." Sephiroth let out a quick sigh knowing the next would cause issues most likely. "Finally, you four must cease all bullying of other student, this includes faunus students. Should accept these terms know that I will be keeping close tabs on you four and I will know if you break any of these rules."

All four boys had a scowl on their faces after hearing the last rule, while they did enjoy picking on other student they could easily give up their bullying. However to not be able to express their general distaste for faunus was something that didn't sit well with most of them, most being the operative word. Sephiroth actually noticed a small amount of relief appear on Dove's face when he heard, maybe the teams hate for faunus wasn't entirely unanimous after all.

After several minutes of silence Cardin let air out through his teeth in frustration. "Fine, I agree." His team looked like they were about to object when he raised his hand silencing them. "But I will need you to sweeten the deal, contact your father and have him contact my father about working out some new business contracts."

Sephiroth nodded his head understanding what Cardin was really after here, he didn't really care about the Schnee's and Winchester's doing business together, this was a way he could salvage some of his pride after agreeing. "Very well, I will call him first thing in the morning. I take it we have a deal then?" He asked gaining a nod in response to his question. "Good, now I assume you each know what this is?" He asked pulling a black orb the size of a baseball from his pocket.

"An aurameter, they use them to see if children have a strong enough soul to be a hunter." Dove spoke up.

"Correct, though this one has been modified to accurately gauge someones aura levels who are already well passed the level required to join a hunters academy. The ones used by most schools would likely overload if a full fledged huntsmen were to use it, this however was designed to measure well passed the point where most hunters auras reach." Sephiroth tossed the ball to Russel who caught it. "I need to know what each of your aura levels are before we can begin."

Russel didn't look all to happy about the situation but relented and went along with it, pulsing his aura into the orb it started to hum slightly. After a second the number one hundred and two appeared. "Not bad, the level required to join an academy is forty. Well within the average range for a Beacon student." Sephiroth spoke mainly to himself as Russel handed the orb to Dove who copied what Russel had done.

Several moments later the number ninety eight appeared. "Slightly lower than Russel's but still manageable, though I'd recommend working on strengthening it a bit." Next was Sky who pulsed his aura and got the number one hundred and twelve. "Very acceptable."

Finally Cardin took the orb and pulsed his aura into it, after a second the number one hundred and thirty six appeared. "Impressive, my sister has a level only slightly higher than that, though she's far above average in skill than most first year Beacon students. Well, now that I know roughly what I'm dealing with, shall we get started?"

"Hold up." He was stopped by Sky. "You know our aura levels now, I've got to say I'm curious of yours, especially after Cardin hyped you up with all his talk."

Sephiroth grinned before gesturing for the orb to be tossed back to him, after catching it he pulsed his aura into it. Eight hundred and twenty one, the four boys were speechless at the absurdly high number, the boy in front of the had almost more aura than all four of them put together doubled. Sephiroth chuckled at their looks. "Lets begin."

I always hate when I see team CRDL getting bashed like theres no tomorrow, sure they deserve it but it still gets annoying after a while. To fix this I decided to give them a second chance, I promise they won't take up a huge amount of time in the story but they appear more often than in most fics I've read. Anyway tell me what you think in the reviews, thank you all very much for reading, until the next chapter.