Slowly looking around a corner, Kagami gripped the edge with her green hoodie sleeves covering her hands. She gulped slightly, peaking in a bit further. She knew this moment far to much but it still felt like it had never happened before. It was a strange feeling, not that of forgetfulness but of never happening. .

"She's a disgrace! Worthless! She was always a trouble maker since the day she was born!" She heard her father shouting. "Now the forsaken Atlas soldiers won't even let me tend to my field without questioning me or having me leave!" His voice only grew louder and louder. "She's brought dishonor upon us all! My father and his father before him for centuries have lived here with no such nonsense like this! And then that... that ungrateful child had to show up and bring all the negative attention straight towards us!"

"Aza... please." She heard her mother speaking softly. "She is your daughter. She-"

"She is NOT my daughter anymore!" He snapped back at her.

Kagami took a deep breath, gripping the corner of the wall tighter. Her father always had anger issues. They were just so compressed by tea and meditating that no one ever got to see him when he was angry. He was able to keep his life as normal as ever because of how caring and compassionate her mother was. Sure some yelling happened every now and then when he was stressed from work, but that was as far as it ever went. Well, up until Kagami decided to snap on the soldiers.

"You can't deny that she has your blood in her veins." Midori spoke with a calming voice. "No matter what she ever does, no matter how many traditions she breaks, she is your daughter. I know she is... different than other children around here, but please, understand she is trying to do better. The army around here is just making it difficult for here. Please understand, honey. Please. Please listen."

"No! You listen to me!" His voice roared through the air. There was then a loud smack that caused Kagami to jump, her fingers digging into the wall as she peaked around it a bit more. There, she saw her mother with her eyes shut a red handprint on the side of her face.

"That delinquent is NOT my daughter and does NOT have my blood!" Aza went on, his chest rapidly falling and rising as he pointed at his wife. "She is a mistake! I am not living with someone who can't even learn what it means to uphold traditional values!"

"Aza," She slowly looked opened her eyes, looking up. When she did, she spotted Kagami in the background. She blinked once, slowly shaking her head no before looking down. "Please. Don't be like this." She was speaking to Kagami more than her husband and her daughter knew that.

Kagami took a deep breath, her father going off again. He was such a hypocrite and was definitely one to talk. She wanted to walk up to him and punch him as hard as she could, even if she did love him more than anything. But the look in her mother's eyes made her do nothing of the sorts.

Instead, she turned around, wincing at the still sore scars across her back. As she did so, she found herself standing at the seashore with wide teary eyes as she held a beautiful crafted sword in her hands. In front of her, her mother was kneeling down and holding her shoulders tight.

"I... I don't understand..." She gulped, gripping the weapon in her hands extremely tight.

"Kagami..." Midori brushed her daughter's hair out of her face, quickly looking back to hear the sound of footsteps in the forest behind them. "I know it's difficult to take in all at once, just try to make sense of it. Try to make sense of the gift I have given you but also the terrible curse that it holds. You were born to fight, not sit around here like this all the time. I understand that now. I use to be someone called a Huntress. I had the best three friends in the world. We did everything together and I told them the legend of us, of our ancestors. But one of them got killed. I ran away here to get away from the violent world outside of this island. I came for peace and quiet." She sighed, lowering her head as the footsteps came closer. She quickly pulled her daughter into a hug. "This isn't the life for you though and if you stay, those soldiers or the people here will run you out. Times are changing, Kagami. This place isn't going to stay perfect forever."

"So why can't you come!?" Kagami snapped back, more tears swelling up in her eyes and blurring her vision.

"Because," Her mother looked up, giving a soft smile as she reached up, brushing her thumb across her daughter's face to wipe away tears. "As much as it pains me to say it..." She chuckled softly to herself. "I'd rather stay here. People are going to need help later on if Mantle keeps things up like this, then there is no denying an outbreak of something like war. People will need help."

"But... mom..." She sniffed, rubbing her right eye with her elbow. "Mom..."

"Kagami, please." She quickly stood up, pushing her forward as the foots came too close for comfort. "You need to go. Now. Before they come."

"Mom... I don't want to go..." Kagami munbled softly as she stumbled towards a small raft made of logs. "Mom..."

"I know you don't." She ruffled her hair softly, nudging her daughter onto the raft and sitting her down. "You'll be fine. I promise. Just remember, you're strong. You're a fighter. You're a warrior. And most importantly..." She gently shoved the raft, it gliding across the sand before it bounced in the water. "Remember you're my daughter." She reached out, gently holding her daughter's hand with a smile, choking back tears.

"Mom..." Kagami gripped her mother's hand as tight as she could before her grip started to loosen. Soon enough it was just their fingers interlocking. Then fingertips and then nothing but air. "Mom!" She shout, her vision too blurry from tears to see Midori's face. "Mom!"

"Be good... become someone who can change the world..." Midori mumbled, waving softly.

"Mooom!" Kagami cried out again, jerking a bit before freezing. She gulped as hard as she could, gripping the logs of the raft tight. She couldn't swim. She had never been able to swim. And at the moment, that was seriously coming back to bite her.

"Make sure your back doesn't get infect!" Midori shouted, her hands cupped around her mouth a towns people came out with farming equipment in their hands. She just glanced back at them, sighing softly.

Kagami's eyes went wide, moving to the edge as her heart started to pound inside her chest. "Mom! Stop it! Mom!" She shouted, watching the people she grew up with pull her mother to the ground. Her tears slowly trailed down her face, falling into the ocean and causing small ripples. She shut her eyes, inhaling deeply.

When her eyes opened, she was laying on the shoreline of another set of woods. She groaned softly, rolling onto her back with a grunt. She blinked a few times before her eyes once again went wide. She gulped, her body going stiff with fear.

Next to her, a small Ursa cub was curled up next to her and sleeping like a baby. It seemed peaceful. Nothing like the ones who attacked Atlas soldiers. This one was calm.

She gulped softly, glancing over at the sword her mother had given her before back at the Grimm. She slowly sat up, tilting her head. She glanced at her sword once more before sighing.

She couldn't do it. Not to something defenseless like that. It wasn't fair to it, even if it didn't have a soul.

So instead she slowly reached over, petting the head softly of the creature. Its eyes opened slowly, the red glowing orbs piercing into her soul. But instead of attacking, it just shut its eyes, yawning before drifting off again.

"Same here buddy..." She mumbled, leaning back before laying down. She yawned herself, wincing at her back just slightly before her eyes went wide once more. In front of her, stalking up towards her with a growl was a much larger Ursa, presumably the one in charge of the cub next to her. Her heart began to beat rapidly again as she glanced at the small Ursa to the bigger one and then her sword. She reached out for it, looking at the larger Ursa as it lunged at her. Her eyes widened more before she gave off a scream.

Kagami quickly sat up, gripping the blankets on a bed. Her breathing was rapid as sweat slowly trailed down the side of her face. She took several deep breaths before sighing deeply as her head lowered down.

"Are... you alright?" Elise asked.

Kagami quickly looked over, seeing her three teammates all standing and looking at her. She was on the bottom bed of their tower of beds at the moment. She just shook her head slowly, reaching up and rubbing her face softly. "I'm fine... I'm just fune..." She muttered before she froze. She quickly pulled the blanket off her with wide eyes.

She wasn't wearing her hoodie. She was wearing her usual green t-shirt.

Her head quickly snapped to her team. "Where's my hoodie!?"

"Um... here..." Cheyenne reached over, grabbing the green hoodie and tossing it to Kagami. In the blinked of an eye, Kagami had already slipped it back on and was laying down.

"I... have the worst headache ever." She mumbled, reaching up and rubbing her head.

"Well you were pelted by like a million shards of ice." Kris held out her arms as Cheyenne slowly pushed her down to the floor with one hand.

"You're lucky nothing cut you, aura or not." Said deer Fanus said, stepping a bit closer.

Before Cheyenne could continue, Kagami perked her head up. "Wait... you checked me for any wounds?" She raised an eyebrow, sitting up slowly. She pulled her sleeves down across her arms with a faint gulp. She felt her heart punding a bit, not from her dream.

"Well duh." Elise mumbled, slowly walking up next to the bed, leaning with her hands on the bed above. "Once that pruple haired dumb ass ran off and Kris unburried you from all that ice, you were out like a light."

"Or you know," Kris grinned, walking between Cheyenne and Elise. "We could say she was out cold." She smiled before yelping as both girls pushed her down onto the floor.

After that, Elise looked back at Kagami. There was a look of concern all over her face. "Those scars on your back... what are they from?" She leaned in a bit closer.

She looked down, letting her jade hair fall in front of her face with a gulp. Her hands immediately went to fiddling with each other. "They're nothing. They're just there..." She trailed off, taking a deep breath before feeling a hand being placed on her shoulder.

"Hey, it's alright." Cheyenne gave a small smile. "We all have things from our past that haunt us. I know I do."

"You do?" Kris looked over at her with a raised eyebrow.

"Y-Yea..." Cheyenne rubbed the back of her head a little shyly. "You see... a year ago... I may or may not have been... a part... of-the-White-Fang." She spoke the last part as quick as she could, looking down as she did so.

Elise just blinked a few times before giving a smile. "That's great!"

Both Kris and Cheyenne leaned over, staring at the brunet and blinking rapidly. "Huh?" They both said at the same time, completely lost.

"What?" Elise gave a shrug. "That means she knows a lot about the WF and could give us details on everything. We could use that information to take down more villains!"

Cheyenne just blinked a few times before looking over at Kris with a raised an eyebrow. "Did... she just called the White Fang the WF?"

"I think so..." The small red head had a raised eyebrow as well, looking back over at Elise. "She does have a good point though." She looked back up at Cheyenne. "I mean, how much do you know?"

She shrugged back at her. "A decent amount I guess." She didn't even know how much she knew really. She just knew a few things here and there.

"Can we get back to the point." Elise pointed over at Kagami.

"Right." Cheyenne looked over at said girl. "Where did those scars come from?"

Kagami just sighed, glancing over at them. "It's a long story. And..." She sighed again. She had never told anyone anything, but some part of her told her that she could trust these people. She couldn't trust them all that much though. "Where I grew up..." She took a deep breath, looking up at the three of them. "Where I grew up, there was heavy oppression of Atlas soldiers. One day, I had enough of them and attacked one. It didn't end very well for me as you can see."

When she finished, the three girls were staring at her and blinking softly.

"You know, my parents never liked people like that anyway." Elise said with a faint smile. "We live out in the middle of nowhere on a farm so no taxes for us to pay." She chuckled softly. "Wait." She went serious, waving her hands around. "Don't tell anyone that! Mama will never shut up if we get thrown into the same jail cell!"

Kris just rolled her eyes, crossing her arms. "Authority is lame anyway. I use to spray paint Atlas' robot drones that keep watch. But then I had to get caught one stupid time." She kicked the floor with a pout. "Had to get Perrywinkle to smuggle me in CDs to listen to for three months."

"And I grew up in a small town filled with Faunus because we were pushed out of Vale by Atlas soldiers." Cheyenne pointed at herself. "I would prefer not to get anywhere around someone in a metal armor."

Kagami just blinled a few times at them before smiling ever so slightly. They weren't that bad. They really weren't. Unlike other people, they seemed to actually care about her and didn't judge. She just smiled a little more, laying back down on the bed. "So, I guess it is unanimously decided." She gave a yawn, leaning back before stretching her arms out. "We all don't like Atlas soldiers."

"Hey." Cheyenne smiled a bit and perked up. "I think we're all agreeing on something for once." She smiled a bit more. "All four of us agree. Me, Kagami, Elise, and Christmas. We all finally actually agree."

"Kris..." The small red head groaned out, her arms crossed as she narrowed her eyes at the Faunus.

"Oh boy." Kagami mumbled, rolling over onto her stomach and pulling her blanket over her head.

"Hey, don't act so snippy at Cheyenne." Elise took a step towards Kris with her finger out. "Christmas IS your name."

"So!?" The small girl snapped, jumping up to glare eyes to eyes with the farm girl. "I can call myself whatever I want!"

"And so can I!" Her eyes narrowed back. "So I'm going to call you a a tiny little midget bi-"

"Guys! Come on!" Cheyenne interrupted, pushing the two girls apart from each other. "How about we don't bicker anymore today? I'm tired."

"She started it!" Elise snapped, glaring at the red head.

Said girl growled a bit. "Did not!"

Kagami took a deep breath, pulling the pillow over her ears with a sigh. Even though she was greatly annoyed with it all, she couldn't help but smile at the three of them. They may be completely different, but they were her teammates. They were her friends.

Meanwhile, in a hidden and darken part of Vale, Dion was pacing back and forth in front of a an empty space which should have been full of crates of weapons.

"Those damn brats!" He snapped and even though he was shirtless, he was sweating all over. "I don't even know who the hell they are but damn them!" He turned to glare at a wall, bringing his bare foot back before kicking the wall with the ball of his foot. As he pulled his foot away, part of the wall cracked away and crumbled.

"Oh come now, Dion." A witch like voice muttered, sending a chill down his spine.

He quickly turned around on his heels, gulping a bit with his hands out. "Hey now, I thought you weren't going to come here until the Festival started." There was a clear sign of panic in his voice as he took a step back.

"I was... but then I was told how you were failing." A pink haired woman came out of the shadows, checking out her nails with a bow and quiver on her back. "You told Thanaton that you had everything under control."

"I-I did! I did have everything under control!" He quickly said back to the woman as a purple haired young lady stepped out of the shadows by the woman.

"He did say he had it all under control." Thanaton mumbled, her arms crossing. "Not so sure if he meant it."

"C-Come on!" Dion moved his hands back and forth. "V-Val...?" He trailed off, noticing the gold color in her eyes. His breath quickly hitched. "I-I mean Valentine! Valentine! I swear it was all under control until those stinking Faunus messed up and these little dweebs got in the way!"

"So you didn't have it under control?" A third voice said as a young man, the same exact age and twin of Thanaton stepped from the shadows, his shaggy blue hair hanging down over his face slightly as he held his hands in his pockets. "You were to confident in yourself and messed up when things went south."

"Nill has a point." Thanaton pointed over at her brother with the nickname she had given him years ago.

"C-Come on, Nihilus!" Dion took another step away as Valentine narrowed her golden eyes at him. He gulped, taking another step as his back pressed up against the wall.

"Dion, listen to me." Her eyes narrowed more as she reached up to cup his cheek.

He weakly chuckled, his hands up as he glanced at her hand. "Y-Yes?"

"Do not let it happen again." She trailed her finger arcoss his cheekbone before down his neck. "The three of us are going to stay here for a the rest of the time so nothing like this happens again." She pulled her hand down, stepping back towards the two twins. "Is that understood?" She tilted her head.

Dion quickly nodded, gulping ever so slightly. "Crystal clear. Crystal..." He gulped again.

"Good." Valentine smiled, her eyes gleaming in the light. "Because She will get very upset if both Cinder and I mess up. She's already annoyed enough that Cinder has had a few run ins."

He just quickly nodded back, licking his lips a little. "Got it."