"Ruby…" Jet said, before he paused. "We have a new enemy besides the White Fang."

"Who?" Ruby immediately pressed.

"Flux." Jet simply replied. As he said it, a familiar dark feeling spread throughout his body. The one that was always elicited by that name.

"Flux? I thought she was a part of you." Ruby said, looking confused. Jet sighed, holding his head in his hands.

"She was. But she escaped from my body into a Grimm, a Beowolf. I tried to kill it, but she got away." Jet explained. He remembered his frustration at not being able to end the threat before it grew into what it would become. "So I sought power, but not the kind of power that comes from training, Ruby. Tell me, have you ever heard of a deity called Asmodeus?"

"Asmo- what?" Ruby asked, still looking confused.

Ozpin grimaced as soon as he heard that name.

He sat at his desk alone. A small radio sat on his desk along with an assortment of paperwork, data scrolls and pens all neatly organised aside his mug of tea. The radio itself was linked to a bug he'd attached secretly to Ruby's cloak. He felt no remorse at the invasion of privacy, as he had to learn as much as possible about the hybrid he'd taken into his academy.

He knew about the legend of Asmodeus.

"Asmodeus." Jet answered.

"He is the god of this world. Before the creation of Remnant, he was the single being that existed as a bubble of order within the chaos of nothingness. But even he could not remain in that state forever. Asmodeus split into two separate half-gods, Asmo and Deus, and through the energy released from their separation, Remnant was born.

However, where Asmodeus was a perfect balance between good and evil, Asmo and Deus are complete opposites, light and dark locked in eternal battle. But they cannot harm each-other directly. So, they birthed the progenitors of their soldiers. The children of Asmo are you, the humans and the Faunus. The children of Deus, they are the Grimm."

"So Flux will go to Deus to gain power." Ruby spoke slowly. "But what about you? You're a human, right?" she asked, looking fully into his eyes now.

"I'm not." Jet replied, holding her gaze. "I fall into a third, rare category; the children of Asmodeus, someone who is a hybrid of Human and Grimm, better known as a Chaos Angel. As one who has the best of both worlds, I am one of the most powerful creatures here. But the problem is, so is Flux, having originated from me. She wants to let Deus win, to overrun humanity.

But I can stop her. There is a legend that states that the four powers of Asmo can stop someone like her. That is why I have been travelling a lot lately, to try and find the semblances."

Ozpin turned off the recording radio at this point. Finally, the code was cracked. He'd always known that Jet had some sort of mission, it was a matter of figuring it out.

As Jet finished, Ruby finally lowered her gaze. He watched as Ruby mulled it over, before troubling signs began to show. Her soft little hands were curling into fists, and she was emitting that growl again, the one that basically said 'Here comes a true sister of Yang' to Jet. She looked up, and the anger combined with the glare she gave was startling.

"You were doing something THIS important," she said slowly, her voice rising, "and didn't tell me ANYTHING AT ALL?!" she yelled the last part.

"Ruby, calm do-" Jet tried to say, doing his utmost to remain calm, but Ruby cut him off.

"I could have helped you! I- I could h-h-have…" Ruby tried to keep yelling but she burst into tears.

"Ruby, I just wanted to keep you safe!" Jet called, but Ruby was already starting to lope away, despite the fact that she was still in unknown territory.

"Just… just stay away from me." Ruby said, her voice crackly.

"Let me take you back, at least!" Jet yelled over the building distance between them, starting to summon his flight armour.

"I WILL FIND MY OWN WAY BACK!" Ruby practically deafened Jet with that shout, before disappearing and leaving nothing behind but a single rose petal.

Jet said nothing else, but completed his armour cycle before leaping into the air and resuming his journey back to Beacon. Inside himself, however, it felt like buzz saws were dancing the conga inside him while spinning faster than Ruby could run.

She was too trusting, too open with her secrets, and expected him to be the same. Jet knew in his heart that there was more to the story than just Asmodeus, and that part hurt him even more. But he also knew about the way he had to put distance between him and his companions.

Maybe it was for the best that Ruby dumped him.

"I wasn't worth it in the first place." Jet said to himself as he found the familiar outline of the Emerald Forest in the distance.

Izzet stared Lilac down in their hotel room, both holding gazes of intense concentration. Both pairs of eyes snapped to a card, one with a blue patterned symbol with a red gem in the center.

Nouvelle, at speeds comparable to Jet and Ruby, flicks a card at the table in-between them. It flips face-up, revealing a purple symbol and a green gem. Two hands flash towards the buttons at their owners' sides. Izzet thanked the stars above that she was a millisecond faster.

After a groan from Lilac, she checked her hand of five attack cards and showed one to Lilac. Four holographic fireballs, all rainbow coloured, flew from the card towards Lilac, who grunted in suppressed pain, and her HP went down from 28% to 13%, as indicated by the counter in front of her. Izzet's own HP was at 7%.

"My defence from the card I played earlier reduces that 30 damage attack by half." Lilac explained as she began to grin.

'Think you've won, have you?' Izzet thought to her, before drawing another attack card from a deck that Nouvelle handed to her with a smile, as if she'd heard Izzet's thought.

The next round of the game was interrupted by a series of lights shining through their minds. Jet was calling them. With a nod to her team, the three closed their eyes, and vanished from the hotel room in a series of flashing lights. Opening her eyes, she found herself in the dorm room, facing towards the door.

"Jet!" Nouvelle greeted from out of sight. "I was just 'aving a blast with zeeze… Jet?"

Now Izzet turned around, and saw a defeated looking Jet, with red eyes and swollen muscles. His wings were also limp by his side. This was probably the first time she'd ever seen Jet so… well, feeble.

'Bed. Now.' Izzet commanded, rushing to Jet's side and putting his arm around her. With Lilac's help, she put Jet onto his floating bed, and sat on it with him as it began to rise.

"Get to work on him Doc." Lilac said, now lacking her competitive tone from earlier. Izzet nodded, and focussed her telepathy on Jet.

'Jet? Can you hear me?' she asked. Jet gave a tight nod. 'Think something back to me. What's wrong?' she continued.

'I made a huge mistake. With Ruby. Now, she's probably-' Jet returned, but Izzet cut the connection and instead embraced him as he started to cry. Lilac and Nouvelle got the hint, and dissapeared, allowing her to comfort him alone.

Almost as if they were in a parallel universe, Ruby sat on her floating bunk with Blake and Yang, in almost exactly the same position. Ruby had just finished explaining what had happened when she'd encountered Jet, and was now crying into Blake's shoulder. She'd regretted leaving almost instantly after Jet had gone, but she couldn't take it back.

She didn't notice Yang leaving her bunk, nor the muttered conversation between her and Weiss, followed by the door opening and closing. All she felt like doing was submerging herself in sorrow, which wasn't difficult.

Yang knew what she had to do. So did Weiss. Jet had broken his promise to both of them. He'd broken Weiss' by causing even more distractions than before, and Yang's by hurting Ruby as he'd done the instant she'd found out (at least a part of) the truth.

Now both had a common goal: Give Jet a piece of their minds.

They were so focussed on their goal that they practically ran into the door that stood between them and Team LIJN's dorm room. Upon opening it, they found Izzet, who was sat atop Jet's bed, cuddling him. He looked more worse for wear than Weiss first expected. That didn't matter now. Lilac an Nouvelle were nowhere to be seen.

"We want to have a chat with Jet." Weiss told Izzet, who had looked up. She saw, probably for the first time, the silver haired girl scowl.

'Leave. Now!' she yelled from within Weiss mind, and she clutched her head. The volume was piercing.

"No chance." Yang said, crossing her arms.

'I WILL summon my team. Tell me, do you really want to face three of us?' Izzet warned.

"Bring it." Once again Yang spoke before Weiss had a chance. Raising a hand, Izzet shone a series of coloured lights from her palm. Nouvelle and Lilac appeared from thin air beside her teammate, facing towards her. Neither looked happy. It seemed as though they knew that their leader was in danger.

"Who dares threaten Jet?" Lilac asked theatrically, before Izzet pointed directly at Weiss and Yang.

Weiss heard the 'cha-ching' that meant Yang's weapons were out. Conflict was inevitable, it seemed.

Izzet leaned towards Jet and appeared to be whispering to him, even though her mouth didn't move. Jet looked up, and Weiss saw the tell-tale puffy eyes and rosy cheeks of someone that had been crying almost as hard as their leader. He took a deep breath.

"Ruby pushed me a little too far. Pushed me to reveal a truth that would only bring more pain and sorrow. We fought, and I was forced to use my full powers." Jet explained tearfully. "I told her what I could, but my honesty came too late. Now here you two stand."

"Lilac, stay with 'im." Nouvelle commanded, before she and Izzet leapt from the bed. "You 'ave heard ze story from our side. You can leave, but you must get through us first if you want to hurt Jet."

'Our allegiance is with our team, and our leader! Back off, or suffer our wrath!' Izzet hissed.

Weiss decided that it was better to leave now while they had the chance, and Yang seemed cowed by the fury displayed by the duo that stood between them and their target. This was furthered by their weapons, which had been drawn.

Before either party could move, or speak, there was a shattering sound. Jet had vanished from Lilac's side, and the smashed window didn't leave many mysteries as to how he had disappeared.

Ruby sat in the same park that she'd once hidden in, eavesdropping on a conversation between Jet and Yang. She sat on the same bench, in fact, that they'd been sitting on at the time. Ruby stared sadly out towards the dipping sunset, reminiscing about her time with him, and trying desperately to erase him from her memories. It wasn't working.

"Hey! Red!" a voice called out, and Ruby slowly looked to her left. It was Cardin, one of the bullies at Beacon. She gazed around and saw the rest of team CRDL, surrounding her, denying her escape. It was surprising that they were coming to her, as she has both a badass sister and a terrifyingly powerful boyfriend to protect her.

'I had the boyfriend.' an unpleasant voice in Ruby's head remarked, but she ignored it, focussing on the bullies in front of her. She cursed inwardly as she reached behind her back, only to find Crescent Rose was not there. With the men surrounding her, she was defenceless.

"Where's lover boy and strong sis'? They aren't here?" Cardin asked, roughly pulling her head up so that she locked eyes with the brute. Ruby didn't glorify him with a response, instead treating him to what she hoped was a withering snarl.

"Let's cut to the chase, Red." Cardin grunted as he held out his hand. "All of your lien. To me. Right now."

Ruby felt a harsh tug on her hair, and let out a sharp screech of pain.

Someone…

Anyone…

Her call was swiftly answered.

A dark streak, engulfed in bluish flames, barrelled from out of nowhere into the entire group. Ruby felt herself snatched in someone's arms. It took her a moment, after realising that she was on the ground, and not in the air, for her to notice that Cardin had grabbed her! She struggled against the beefy arms that held her, but it was no good.

Keeping her arms painfully twisted behind her back, Cardin spun with her to face a still flaming and fully enraged Jet, whose flames glowed a cold, dark blue in the darkness. He took two steps towards the gang that held her, and felt Cardin move a heavily muscled arm to her throat.

"Put her down. NOW." Jet hissed as his flames glowed brightly, flaring up as if to warn the bullies about his building levels of rage. If they were trying, they did a very poor job.

"You get any closer and I hurt your girl even more." Cardin warned as his cronies started to approach Jet. Ruby realised that Cardin didn't know about the many semblances that Jet had at his disposal. He was in for a nasty surprise, as Jet vanished from the spot. Ruby immediately turned her head to the right, and saw Jet winding up a very Yang-like punch. Cardin saw him only a split second later.

"Wrong choice." Jet stated, before nailing Cardin right in the face. Ruby felt herself hit the ground as her captor went flying from the force of the punch. Ruby looked up from the ground as Jet stared down Russel, Dove and Sky, all of whom drew their weapons. She saw Jet from behind as, still flaming blue, he slowly unfolded Midnight Rose and unfurled his wings, the flames growing brighter and hotter as his weapon finally transformed into scythe form with a resounding click, and his wings extended to their fullest.

He quite literally looked like an angel of death to Ruby, and she was behind him. She shuddered at the thought of what he looked like at the front.