"Shit…" Mason breathed as he tried to take in the green shining scales that crawled up Nessa's fingers then slowly molded back into her skin. Jade turned over Nessa's hand carefully to examine it, running his fingers along the sharp tipped scales. Looking up to his teammates as if to ask if they had known but they all shook their heads.

"She didn't tell us…" August whispered, "Why didn't she tell us? We wouldn't judge her any differently."

"Lets ask her." Akita said blandly and went to shake her awake but the passed out girls teammates all shouted "No!" and pulled him back.

"She needs the sleep." Mason explained.

"I feel." Zelena muttered and fell to the ground next to Nessa.

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Everything seemed to go in slow motion; his exhaled breath becoming visible in the crisp, cold air. Bullets flew in every direction and crashed into tree trunks as they missed their targets. He stood completely still, too scared to move. Something warm seeped through his boots so he looked down and saw a severed arm lying over his feet, dying his boots and the snow surrounding him into a deep red. A tear fell down his face, the warmth of it burning his cold cheek.

The blood curdling scream of his sister dragged him back into reality. Panting hard now, he ran towards his sister and grabbed her hand, trying to find them some cover as they dodged dust explosions and bullets. A cousin of his slammed against a tree and fell to the ground, a final puff of air escaped the cousins lips, making his sister scream again. They turned around to run again but stopped short as a woman flipped a dagger in her hand and smirked, preparing to strike down the 12 year old boy and his older sister.

"No!" they heard their mother yell then saw her charge at the woman, her gun transforming into a baseball bat. Their mother hit the woman's legs making her fall to the ground. Blood dribbled onto the snow and they saw their mothers arm missing from its proper place.

"Run!" their mother yelled. It was his sister turn to grab her brothers hand and run away.

"Matilda!" they heard their father yelled and turned just in time to see him get stabbed through the neck; he used his body as a shield for his wife.

The boy shut his eyes tight and felt more hot tears slide down his cheeks. When he opened his eyes the world was being ripped into a bright light. Above him now was August.

"Mason are you okay?" August asked. Mason sat up and wiped his face, his heart was beating fast from his dream. It took him a minute to take in his surroundings; Mason was in his team's dorm room, Nessa was asleep on the floor, Jade had nodded off in a chair beside them, and some other team was there as well. AIZS was there, right.

"Fine." Mason said in a hoarse voice. Sunlight seeped through the curtains, had he been asleep the entire night?

"Nessa will probably be up soon." August said awkwardly.

"I'll wake her up now." Mason said as he plugged his scroll into a stereo and started to blast dubstep. Nessa jolted awake and put her hand to her heart. Feeling the scales against her skin she looked down at her hand and widened her eyes. She backed up to the wall and looked at her team then to the other team and began to breathe rapidly.

"Relax, none of us are mad. Why didn't you tell us?" Mason asked in a calm voice, turning down the dubstep. Nessa gulped then said in a shaky voice, "Tell no one." Her voice was soft calming but team AIZS, minus Zelena who was peacefully asleep, jumped back at the sound.

"She speaks?!" Ino exclaimed.

"I thought she signed like that other team!" Slyvia's jaw dropped.

"Of course she speaks." Mason rolled his eyes, "She just doesn't talk much."

"Well, you heard her AIZS, get out of here and tell no one. Not your place too." Jade opened the door and motioned for them to get out.

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"Yeah, I knew." Plum said, leaning in the doorway to his own room. Mason, August and Jade stood outside facing the blonde boy.

"Why did she tell you but not us?" Mason asked. Plum shrugged.

"I know a lot of Faunis." Plum started to move in closer to Mason and he put a hand on his cheek.

"You know, if you let me spend the night with you, I could tell you more." Plum whispered into Mason's ear. The leader's response was a punch in the gut. Literally.

"Not interested." Mason said back.

"Fuck man...Look, all you need to know is that she hates being a Faunis. That's all I'm willing to tell you." Plum grunted.

"Swear jar." A little tan boy with purple hair said, popping up from behind Plum.

"Oh fuck, looks like I fucking sweared again. Shit." Plum smiled down at the boy and ruffled his hair between his polar bear ears and put some money in a jar, adding more as he swore.

Team MAJN walked back to their room, trying to process everything that had happened. When they got back they saw Nessa on the ground, sitting still. She looked up at the boys who looked down at her in silence.

Nessa opened her mouth to talk but Mason put up a hand.

"Who wants pizza? I'm craving some pizza right now."

So now that everyone has been introduced I feel like it would be a good time to say that I will not be keeping the canon cast to the story for romantic subplot. However I will add small things, such as Goodwitch evaluating the students ect.