-Yang-
Yang looked down on Kai's body, his chest rising and falling. Unexplainable joy surged through her. He was alive, alive! She didn't know what made her so attached to the man laying before her but all she knew was that he was hers and he hadn't been taken away from her. Suddenly a surge of guilt passed through her. She had been becoming overly protective of him, giving dirty looks to people who obviously wanted friendship and only that. like Blake. Coming to terms with what she did she vowed to stop doing that. Finally her mind settled and her shock was gone. Now all she wanted to do was curl up next to Kai and lay there with him for hours in front of the portal. 'Wait... where's the portal?' Yang thought looking to where the oval of purple used to be but it wasn't there.
"Uhhh guys... where's the portal?" She asked.
"It must have disappeared..." Ruby replied.
"Oh really? I didn't notice" Yang said sarcastically as the first grin in hours showed on her face making Ruby smirk slightly.
"It probably doesn't matter. We have him back right" Jaune said.
"Yeah we should get back to camp and celebrate!" Ruby suggested.
"Do we have enough food for that?" Blake asked.
"Does it really matter? I mean..." Yang began but was cut off by massive amounts of growling.
Black figures dashed around in the darkness, they reassembled a sort of large cat. Sharp white fangs dripping with saliva and red eyes dashing hungrily from side to side stood out among the darkness giving the group of 4 humans vision on their enemies and the 2 faunus better targets to hit. The pack of large cats moved forward. Yang saw they didn't really resemble grimm, their black pelts smooth instead of rugged tufts of fur. no jagged, eicked horns stuck out anywhere. These creatures were different but that didn't change the fact that they were obviously hostile. The largest cat moved forward with two more behind him. Three other pairs of eyes circled the group as they formed a circle around Kai through a unspoken agreement. The pride of cats continued to circle the would be prey, not attacking or advancing anymore. The group of people held their ground not able to move so they didn't have an opening to grab Kai. It was an agonizing hour. Finally Kai stired from his sleep, the sun was now on the verge of bringing entire light to the waterfall. No one seemed to notice Kai stand and then push between Yang and Pyrrha out of the circle.
"Kai what are you doing!" Yang yelled.
"Just trust me" he said stopping a respectful distance from the sleek creature.
"Greetings fair beast. What is it that angers you." Kai asked the creature.
"Has he gone insane? Yang asked Pyrrha who still stood next to her.
The alpha cat began circling Kai. Judging him.
"Kai! What are you doing!" Yang yelled anxiously.
"Stay where you are! Please just trust me" Kai replied.
After an agonizingly long ten minutes the Alpha pressed its massive head against the palm of Kai's hand. Much to the awe of his teammates Kai tackled the cat to the ground, putting it into a headlock and petting its head vigerously which was quite the task considering the creature was ridable by Kai.
"Haha! I missed you buddy!" Kai said to the cat as it licked his face.
"What!" The group said in unison except for Blake who walked over to the cat.
"Yes yes its good to see you too, Oscar." Blake said as the cat trotted over to her meeting the faunus halfway between the group and Kai. Giving Oscar a pet she looked at Kai.
"Kai I believe it's time we explain our history." Blake told Kai.
"Yeah what is going on Kai!" Yang said a quiver in her voice.
"Don't worry Yang its nothing that effects us." Kai explained.
"Explain then." Yang replied.
"Oh well everyone might as well take a seat its a long story." Kai advised as he walked over and sat down with his cat... maybe not a cat... Oscar resembled a puma or mountain lion but larger. Kai leaned on the pumas abdomen as it layed down behind him and began his long story.
"Ok so this is a trip down memory lane. I guess i'll start from the begining." Kai began rubbing his eyes. "So it all began with a night in the middle of winter. I was walking back towards my house, or well I had a place I slept on the roof. Eitherway I went home by roof. It was easier for me, no people, lots of space and all that. So as I'm on my way home I hear a scream. Its coming from an alleyway so I figure its not good. I peer over the edge and I see a girl just my age being dragged into the dark alleyway by a man who doesn't look very... kind. So I drop behind him and clock him with my staff and tell her to run. She ran all the way home." Kai finished the first part of his story.
"Blake you want to continue." Kai asked, gesturing towards Blake.
"I suppose." Blake agreed.
"So after this happens I feel obligated to thank my savior properly. I didn't know who it was because he wore his cloak but I figured he walked on the roof because he dropped behind the man who tried to... yeah... so I climbed the building near the alley and waited all day for him to show up. Finally at the same time I was almost taken he came around. We talked for some time, I expressed my thanks and he accepted them and then I asked him where he stayed... he took me there and he lead me to a lean-to with a hook for his cloak, a small basket of fruits and dried meats, a blanket, and a large black wild cat, or rather Oscar. Now knowing he had such horrible living arrangements I offered him a place to stay. We both didn't have any parents so we made due with what we had. We had a decent living, going to combat school and I would sneak out to do my White Fang duties until I stopped but me and Kai went through a period where we couldn't feed Oscar so we let him go and promised him that one day we'd find him again. We decided to go to Beacon and to keep our friendship a secret so we could live our own paths In life. But obviously that's not how things were ment to be." Blake finally finished.
"That's the short version. Not even including the ways we got by Blake? That's the best part!" Kai teased. "And Yang... Blakes like a sister to me nothing else." He ended getting a nod from Yang.
"Well thats... interesting. Why did you guys not tell us?" Ruby asked.
"We wanted love lifes and other things and having such strong ties with another of the opposite gender would block some options. Either way we're telling you now." Kai explained.
By now the sun was almost halfway through the sky.
"We should get going guys Nora, Ren, and Weiss are pribably getting worried." Jaune said. Knowing it was an order everyone got up to begin the 7-8 mile treck back.
"So ya coming with us or going with your friends Ozzie?" Kai asked Oscar.
After a pause Oscar nudged Kai. "Alright lets go!" Kai said excitedly. The rest of Oscars pack rubbed against him giving a last goodbye. They left directly after.
The group of 8 walked back to camp. Conversing and discusing the confusion of Kai and Blake's story and also Kai's resurrection. Finally after a agonizingly long time Kai walked right next to Yang and put his arm around her.
"I missed you." Kai said leaning his head onto her's.
Letting out a sigh of relief Yang said "Don't ever do that to me again or you'll wish you were dead." Yang treatened as she punched him in the shoulder.
"Hey you know if my cloak is gone or not?" Kai asked eagerly.
"Yeah I have it surprisingly its the one thing that wasn't gone from your, what do you call that thing you did?" Yang asked
"An aura overflow." Kai answered.
"Yeah your cloak is the only thing that survived." Yang repeated.
"Ah well its time for another weapon anyway." Kai said.
"I was so distraught when you... overflowed." Yang said after a pause. "I cried for hours. I haven't cried for years and this made me do it for hours. I just didn't know what to do. I... I think I love you Kai." Yang finished, stopping Kai in his tracks. Thinking she said the wrong thing Yang began saying something but was cut off by lips pressing against hers. The answer was obvious.
The group had just began walking out of the forest onto the plains. The campsite was alight with a campfire but something blocked the light from shining exactly on them. Reaching the entrance of the campsite they where greated by Nora, Ren, and Weiss happy for their safe return until Oscar walked through.
"What is that!" Weiss shrieked grabbing her rapier.
"NO WAIT STOP!" Kai said jumping in front of Oscar.
"Oh your alive!" Weiss said happily. "Uh I mean oh your alive... good for you" Weiss said in a meaner tone as she retreated to her tent with rose red cheeks.
"Hey were did these walls come from?" Ruby asked.
"Well since we found some building materials in the supply crate we built these walls so we're more protected when we sleep." Ren replied "Had to do something productive while you all were gone." He added.
"Nice job." Jaune complimented.
"Thanks" Ren said back.
"Well we better get some rest, been a long few days." Jaune said walking to his tent.
-Kai-
Kai walked over to his sleeping area with Oscar who curled up into a ball, his head resting on Kais stomach after he layed down. Yang walked over and layed down with her head on his chest. Kais arm extended around her and slowly pat Oscars head making the huge cat purr.
"It's been a day huh." Kai said.
"Yeah..." Yang whispered.
"I'm sorry I put you through this but there was no other way we could have gotten out of that." Kai apologized.
"It's ok. your here now." Yang replied.
"So what do you think of Oscar?" Kai asked.
"I think he's already growing on me." Yang said as Oscar licked her hand. "Although he's really big." Yang complained
The couple conversed until sleep took them into their own dreams. Minds resting from the tension of two days without sleep.
-The Next Morning-
Kai woke up to the mid morning sun. He layed alone on his sleeping mat, his cloak layed on top of him. Getting up he put his cloak on and headed for the entrance of the camp. Hearing voices he turned the corner and the whole team was around a circular table. A map was in the middle and everyone was discusing with pencils in hand, drawing on the map and erasing mistakes.
"So the dead man lives" Blake said agnologing Kai's arrival.
"Yeah I'm alive... what's happening." Kai asked in a tired tone.
"Tactics... so we don't have to do this again." Jaune explained.
"Ooh really? I love tactics. What have you got so far?" Kai asked Jaune
"Well we have most of our area mapped out. And right now we're trying to come up with a plan to increase our chances of winning battles with the grimm. Any ideas?" Jaune replied.
"Well having the high ground is always a good thing so I say we make sure we are on some sort of incline. Also we don't want to waste our energy charging across the battle field so we should stay put of the highest point of the hill, then the grimm will be tired or atleast they'll be unbalanced." Kai preached to the team. "Then we need to figure out what possible formation we should have now that theirs 11 able fighters including Oscar. So what I propose is a circle but instead of everyone spread apart we can have two people who are next to eachother and then a space and then there is one person with a ranged weapon who will help the most troubled side. Then the person in the middle can make sure no grimm get behind a group. This would give us the best coverage, safety, and has a plan for mistakes." Kai continued "so who is in favor of this plan?" Kai asked the group. The decision was a unanimous.
"Ok so where is the highest point on the hill?" Kai asked.
"Right here" Velvet nearly whispered pointing to the direct middle of the hill.
"Wonderful, now Velvet what weapons do you use?" Kai questioned.
"I don't... I use hand to hand combat." Velvet answered shyly.
"Alright, that's good to know." Kai said as he started marking letters on the map. At the peak of the hill he put down a circle and began putting letters on certaint spots the letters had two grouped together and then a gap between the next two. Finally he finished. Now each letter coresponds to someones name. I've grouped who I've grouped because of their fighting styles. Remeber that we are west of the hill. Ok Nora and Weiss you will face the northeast, Ren and Ruby will take the southeast front, Jaune and Pyrrha you will face east, Velvet and Blake you will take the north west and me and oscar will take to south west. Yang my dear, you will be in the middle." Kai explained enthusiastically.
"Sounds good. Now lets get ready for tomarrow." Jaune said. Everyone hopped to it.
Hey readers! This chapter had a lot of backstory and explaining and all that jazz but It was fun to wright. Now I am taking In suggestions, one gave me one last night and its coming in the next chapter! Also I wright directly from my head. What ever I think of goes down on paper so if I get a bit jumpy between topics please tell me! Ill see you guys in the next chapter! -Symph