With the night sky overhead and stars speckled throughout the blackness, the broken and shattered moon lit up the dark half of Remnant with just enough light to see. This light shined through the trees of Forever Fall, making strange shapes appear on the forest ground. The leaves slowly descended in the darkness, the wind gently blowing them until the fell to the ground and disappeared underneath the many other leaves falling.

Kagami's green and black tennis shoe came crashing down onto of a leaf, it warping underneath the weight of her foot before it was thrown back up into the air and fell back down into its own way of death.

The jade hair girl panted as she as she came up to a tree trunk, resting a hand on it. Her chest was rapidly rising and falling, her knees feeling weak and fragile. She shook her head, turning around so her back was against the trunk. She slowly slid down until she was sitting and leaning against it.

She reached up, rubbing her eyes. "I-I..." She took a deep breath, her voice shaky. A cloud of air slowly came from her mouth as she exhaled. The cold night chilling every bone in her legs. Her shorts definitely needed to be changed out for pants at some point, sooner better than later.

She brought her knees close to her chest, staring at the white bandages wrapped around then. She could not help but to sniff softly as she pulled out her leather book. A shadow created by the tree above and the moon casting down upon the circular symbol on the front.

Her thumb slowly trailed across the indented symbol as she bit her lip. She was still for several long seconds before she opened the book, listening to the trees creak as well as the pages turning. She flipped through the pages with writing until she found the last page. There, she paused and opened it up, taking out a pencil.

Then, she proceed to do what she always did when her emotions became far to much for her to handle. She wrote down exactly what she was feeling since there was no one around her. She gulped, pressing the tip of the lead to the pencil as she began to write.

Ever since that night

I've tried to make things right

To renew my mistakes

No matter the stakes

I'll do whatever it takes

But now it seems all for naught

Even with all I've been taught

Have lost and have gained

I still feel so very chained

I've tried so very hard

To see the light of a star

In a cold and cloudy night

Yet it still doesn't feel right

There seems to be something missing

Something my broken heart is chasing

Something that makes all I've done

Worth something to someone

Because in the very end

What point to life is there without any

She stopped, her hand trembling before she could finish her poem, tears suddenly dropped down onto the paper, staining the page. She sniffed heavily, reaching up and rubbing her eyes with the sleeves of her hoodie. "Damn... damn all of you..." She muttered under her breath.

She looked up, her eyes beginning to turn red from her tears. She quickly shook her head, lowering it back down as she shut her eyes. "Damn all of you!" She snapped, several resting birds flying up and away from the tree Kagami was leaning on.

After well over an hour, an hour filled with crying, she slowly lifted her head back up. She couldn't even remember the last time she cried so hard. She shook her head, wiping away her tears with her sleeves before she grabbed her pencil.

There was no point in not finishing a poem. So she wrote down one last word before she shut her book and laid down on the ground. She curled up, letting the leaves fall down on top of her. Sleep didn't come soon to her though, her mind couldn't be quiet. Instead, it continued to think about the last word of her newly written poem.

Friends

At the same time, with puffy red eyes and messy red hair, Kris stumbled up to a door marked Eve. She reached up, her hand trembling as she knocked on the door. "Jess...?" She called out. "Are you awake? Jess?" She paused, waited a few seconds before she started to knock again. "Jess, please." She lowered her arm, sniffing some.

After half a minute, the door slowly opened up. "You know..." Jess yawned, her red hair a mess. She was in a pair of red athletic short shorts that had a golden trim on the bottom and a sleeveless white muscle tee. "It's... the middle of the night..." She opened her eyes and blinked. Her eyes immediately widened a bit. "Kris?" She blinked.

The younger sister sniffed, suddenly wrapping her arms around her older sister and hugging her tight. "I wanna go home..." She muttered in a half whimper. "I don't want to go to school here anymore... everyone... is stupid..."

"Alright, alright." Jess patted her back a bit before picking her up with ease. "Calm down, calm down. What's up? What happened?" She carried her little sister over to her bed and sat down, letting Kris sit down next to her. "Explain everything. You would never cry unless mom did something to you."

Kris sniffed, half curling up in her older sister's arms. "You never would let mother see you cry... no matter what... you'd never let me see you cry either... I... I never understood... how you could be that strong..."

She flashed a smile, leaning her forehead on top of her head. "Enough about me, I want to know what's or who hurt you. What happened?"

"My team..." Kris sniffed, rubbing her face into Jess' body. "I... I hate all of them... I trusted them... like I trust you... and... and it was a mistake... I messed up... and I... I regret it..."

Jess gave a very long sigh, rubbing her younger sister. She held in her growl of anger, keeping a calm and caring tone in her voice. "Kris. Please, just tell me what happened?"

"They... they just..." She held her closer, giving a small whimper. "I don't even know how to explain!" She shouted before she started to sob ever so slightly.

She shook her head, holding her sister tighter. "Alright... alright, then tell me exactly what happened. Don't explain it. Just tell me word for word what your remembered happening. Okay?"

Kris gave off a whimper, nodding with a mhmm. She slowly died down her sobbing and raised her head. Her green eyes were a deep shade of red and extremely puffy now. "It... it all started because Elise was stupid..."

The young red head they went onto the details of the previous hours before her sudden appearance in Jess' room. She went over everything from Elise secretly reading Kagami's book to Kagami accusing Cheyenne of being apart of the White Fang and Elise saying Kris herself was a criminal in action to Kagami losing all trust she had towards all of them.

When she finished, Jess sighed and rubbed her sister's head softly. "Listen, Kris, I know you're pretty different from the average person, but I know one thing is for ceetain." She pushed her younger sister back a bit, forcing Kris to lock eyes with her. "You are good. There will ALWAYS be good in you. You are not a bad person and you never will be. You are my younger sister, Kris." She smiled. "You are the most kindess and most caring person in the world. No matter how mean the rest of the world is to you, you always hold it all in and keep on doing your own thing. And no matter what that brunet and jadette say, you will never be a criminal."

"Did... you just say jadette?" Kris sniffed, looking up.

The older red head chuckled some, reaching up and rubbing the back of her head. "Y-Yeah? Is that not a real word or something?"

Kris rolled her eyes, sighing softly and leaning her head back onto her sister. "I guess if you want it to be..." She shut her eyes, clutching her sister a little tighter. "But... I don't want to go back to my dorm... not with those people... and I don't want to go to school with them anymore either..."

"It's alright, I promise." Jess yawned, pulling her sister down as she laid down. "Now you can stay, but I have to be up by sunrise to help with protection for the festival, alright?"

"I'll ne quiet..." She sniffed again, curling up next to her sister. "Promise..."

Jess sighed, giving a nod as she shut her eyes. She may have been calm on the outside, but on the inside, she was a raging ball of fury. She could handle and deal with anything her mother would throw at her, metaphorically and physically, and she could deal with all the harsh words against her and abuse, but there was one thing this master swordsman could deal with.

She could not handle it when someone made her baby sister cry. She was already preparing different ways to attack her sister's former teammates and how she would make them suffer. She was going to punch them as hard as she could the next she saw of them. That was for sure. No one got away with making her sister cry, not anymore at least. Especially with her around.

As the two sisters fell asleep, Elise was sitting on the roof of Beacon's dorm rooms, glaring off in the distance at the broken moon. Her legs were dangling off the ledge as she gently kicked them back at forth. She grinded her teeth a little, gulping heavily. Her eyes we still watery and she was doing her very best not to cry. Even though no one was around her, she didn't want to cry.

While growing up on the Spruce family farm, she never had once remembered crying. It was always fun and games there. Hard work followed by nature hikes and animals, that was her life. Of course she would get yelled at by her mother from time to time, but she never once cried about it all. She never cried in sadness. Never once.

She took a deep breath, slowly looking down below at the ground which was several meters below her feet. She couldn't help but give a faint smirk, reaching up to rub her eyes. "It's funny..." She spoke to herself, smiling a little more. "I move so much as an inch, I'd be falling to my death. Yet I'm perfectly fine." She chuckled, leaning backwards.

When she was laying down, she had to rub her eyes again to keep herself from crying. She stared up at the night sky and sighed. "I've been in a lot of situations like that... huh?" She grinned. "I've been hanging from tree limbs my whole life, free climbing mountains as high as buildings and who knows what else."

She shut her eyes, taking a deep breath to hold in her tears. "I've done so many insane things... been so close to killing myself so many times... hurt myself more than that... and..." She gritted her teeth, quickly sitting up. The palms of her hands quickly pressed against her eyes as a single tear came down the side of her cheek.

"I've always felt so invincible! I've always been focused on having fun and adventure!" She shook her head softly. "But out of all the stupid shit I've done, I never once thought about doing it with friends!" She lowered her head down, rubbing her eyes as hard as I could. "But now that I know what it's like to have people around with me... I hate the fact that I lost it!"

Elise gave off a scream, rage pouring out of her. The still air suddenly erupted, sleeping birds who were perched bolted upward and threw through the sky. Her own voice echoed in the distance. But once it was gone, silence fell again over the night.

She sniffed, bringing her knees up to her chest. She leaned on them, sniffing heavily as tears softly dripped down onto her camouflage jacket. "Mama always said I was crazy for talking to myself..." She took a deep breath, lowering her head down onto her knees. "Maybe I am crazy... I probably am crazy... probably need to be locked away in some insane asylum... or I'm just really lonely..." She shook her head, slowly laying back down onto her back.

She moved her arms, resting them over her eyes as she shut them. She gritted her teeth, an image of her teammates appearing. She quickly threw her arms down, glaring up at the sky. "Insane or not..." She groaned. "I'm probably just lonely too... I'll admit I loved growing up on the farm... but there was never anybody else around... I love Jelly Bean and all but..." She deeply sighed and shook her head. "It's just not the same at all..."

She reached up and rubbed her eyes and face dry with her sleeves, licking her lips as she lowered her arms down. "I guess you're just not good with people, Elise." She sighed again. "Maybe you just weren't meant to have friends... you weren't born for it... and you clearly weren't raised for it... and it doesn't seem like anyone can handle you either..."

Elise rubbed her eyes again, sniffing as she slowly looked back up at the sky. She stared at the stars, gulping some. She then lifted an arm, pointing at a single star. "One." She muttered, taking a deep breath. She then pointed at another. "Two. Three. Four." She yawned. Crying had made her body feel weird. She now had a headache and felt completely exhausted. She pointed at yet another star. "Five..." She muttered, trailing off a bit.

She use to count pigs outside her window when their pen was next to her window back at her home. It always helped her fall asleep. Since there was definitely no pigs around her, aside from those giant Varken brothers, Elise's next idea was to count the stars. There was plenty and there was no way she could ever count them all. Call it redundant to even try to count them, but she didn't want to count them all. She wanted to fall asleep and forget all that had happened tonight. She didn't want to remember today. She especially didn't want to remember how her teammates had looked at her. She didn't want to remember the hate and distrust in their eyes.

While the three girls were all off on their own, Cheyenne had been sobbing into her knees while sitting on the floor of MACE's dorm room the enture time. Only recently had she quiet down and finished crying. She very slowly stood up, rubbing her eyes. The dead silence of the room was finally getting to her, so she did the only thing she could.

After going to the bathroom and throwing cold water overher face several times, she dried her skin off and opened the door quietly. She instinctively turned off the lights to the dorm, shutting the door behind her with a sigh. Though her face was no longer red, her eyes were still red from crying so much and so hard. But she did all she could, and right now, there was only one place she could think of going.

Inside MVVV's dorm room, the three boys were currently out at the moment, leaving Maya alone. She was sitting on her bed, playing with a deck of cards while playing some music from her scroll. Her hair was up in a ponytail, she put it up at night to help keep the tangles out of it. Just as she set a few cards down, she lifted her head to a knock on the door. She set the rest of her cards down, turning off her music as her eyebrows raised. "Come on in." She called out. She definitely knew it wasn't her teammates, they wouldn't knock.

Slowly, the door opened up to reveal Cheyenne. "H-Hey..." She muttered quietly, walking in slowly and shutting the door.

"Hey." Maya muttered, looking at her Faunus sister. "What's going on?"

The Faunus sighed softly, walking over. They two made eye contact and with unspoken words, she sat down next to her twin sister. "I... really have no clue."

She gave a nod back, sitting up straight. "Well, if you want to start somewhere, you should start at the beginning."

"Well," Cheyenne slowly looked over at her. "Our team... we sorta had this falling out. I'm still not sure..."

Maya blinked, noticing her twin's red eyes. "Well, what happened?"

She sighed again, looking back down. "Well... first Elise read this really personal thing of Kagami's... and Kagami got upset... then Elise started going off on Kris saying she was some criminal working with the White Fang... but then out of no where... Kagami started saying I was the actual traitor in our team..." She looked over at Maya, tears swelling up again.

She blinked a few times, her eyebrows raising as high as ever. "Why would she even think something like that?"

Cheyenne shrugged softly with a sniff. "She says when she was caught that someone with my voice talked to her... she said she was absolutely positive it was my voice... a voice doesn't like... I am the only person... with..." She trailed off, looking over at her identical twin sister. "...with...my...voice..."

The two made eye contact, a moment of silence overwhelming the two. Everything went still until the wind blew and made a whistling noise against the windows.

"Cheyenne..." Maya slowly stood to which the Faunus quickly shot to her feet.

Cheyenne quickly stepped away, her eyes slowly widening. "I'm not the only one with my voice..."

Maya gritted her teeth a little as the room fell to silence again. This was never suppose to happen. She wasn't even suppose to have a twin sister. Though, she didn't mind having one though. She had stayed awake several nights thinking of what would have happened if her parents didn't have her put up for adoption.

They did though. That was the thing. She was adopted and give a new mother by the name Valentine and that pink haired demon's orders had to be followed. There was no way in a million years Maya could get the courage to stand uo to her, at least not alone.

"It was you..." Cheyenne spoke with a nearly trembling voice. Her mind shot back to the time she snuck into the White Fang base. The two Faunus on guard duty mentioned something about seeing her before. They had mistaken her for Maya. It all made sense now and she was silently cursing at herself for not noticing it sooner.

"Listen to me." Maya took a step forward, grinding hwr teeth as her sister took two steps away. She inhaled deeply before she heard the laughter of the Varken brothers coming towards the door. She quickly reached over, grabbing Cheyenne's wrist as hard as she could.

"H-Hey!" Cheyenne snapped, wincing slightly in pain.

Her twin ignored her, pulling her close with narrowed eyes. "Mention this to them and I will kill you." She spoke through clenched teeth. "Do you understand?"

"They don't know... do they..." She muttered back with a gulp.

The door swung open and Maya quickly released her grip. Almost having to bend down to get inside the door, the three brothers came in one by one.

"Oh. Cheyenne." Prac blinked a few times as he entered, tilting his head.

Fid's eyebrows slowly raised. "It's so late at night, why are you here?"

"Is something wrong?" Fif took a step towards her.

"I..." Cheyenne looked at then, glancing at Maya before shaking her head no with a gulp. "No, no, no, no. I'm fine boys. I just... wanted to say hello to my dear sister." She looked over at Maya. "Everything is fine, right?"

"Yep." Maya nodded, scooting over and drapping her left arm across Cheyenne's shoulders. Her right hand patted her chest. "We just needed a nice and friendly talk."

"Y-Yeah..." The Faunus nodded back, slipping out of her hold. She dodged between the three Varken brothers, ending up at the door. "Good night to all of you." She nodded, quickly waving before leaving the room.

"What..." Prac raused his eyebrows.

Fid slowly looked over at Maya. "...was that..."

"...about?" Fif seemed deeply confused.

Maya sighed, waving her teammates off as she crawled back into bed. "It's nothing boys. I promise. It's nothing you guys have to worry about. I promise."

They all slowly nodded, looking at each other before they each climbed into their own beds. Each wanted to ask more questions, but the final rounds were tomorrow and they needed rest.

Kagami had woken up later than she wished, as did the rest of her teammates though she didn't know. By the time she got to the battle grounds for the tournament, she immediately caught the jist of what had happened only a short time before.

One of the final competitors, after winning their latest match, had attacked their opponents and severely injured them. It was hard to believe something like that happened without any signs of warning, but it was the Vytal Festival and no one could predict what could happen.

When she made it to the stands and found herself a seat, she saw a red haired girl along with a girl with orange hair rising up on the arena floor. She leaned back with a sigh, slowly rubbing her face. She didn't fully want to be here, but it was better than being alone at least.

"And in three, two, one, begjn!" The announcer overhead shouted, the jade haired girl not taking note of who had said it. There was something else troubling her, and it wasn't just her friends.

This battle seemed off. Over the years she learned to trust what her eyes saw. It was an instinct burried deep within the Monomane clan. She leaned forward a bit, her eyes narrowing just slightly. To her eyes, she could tell the red head in golden armor was reacting to something that clearly wasn't there and the orange haired girl had no clue about it.

Her head shot up, looking all across the stands. Something was wrong. The stories of the previous competitor harming the other was bothering her now too. Her eyes then widened as she leaned back in her seat.

High up in the stands, she spotted Nihilus standing with crossed arms. The sleeves of his white hoodie were rolled up as he leaned against a wall. He was glaring at something. He was glaring at someone.

Kagami's eyes trailed his line of vision to a girl with darkened skin and green hair. Without even thinking, she shot to her feet and started to dodge her way between spectators.

Before she could reach her though, she stopped, her head snapping to the arena floor as the whole crowed gasped and let out a cry. Her eyes narrowed before widening at the sight. On the arena floor, the red head had her hands over her mouth while the girl with oragne hair, the machine with orange hair was cut into pieces.

She gulped, suddenly sprinting towards the girl with darkend skin. When she was only a few seconds away from her though, she blinked and suddenly, Nihilus was standing right in front of her. She gritted her teeth, her momentum sending her straight into him.

"You're too smart for your own good." Nihilus muttered, wrapping his arms around her and bearing hugging her tight. The two of them were suddenly standing on the outside of the coliseum. He stunbled a bit, not more than Kagami though.

As a bone chilling speach begin, one Kagami didn't even let herself take note of, she gulped heavily, the toes of her feet being the only thing standing on the edge of the floating battle arena. She gulped, her body leaning back extremely far. She was clutching onto Nihilus' wrist as he held onto the collar of her shirt.

"You have been a pest this entire time." His eyes narrowed, his fingers flexing. All he had to do was let go and Kagami would be sent plummeting to her death. "This is where I get rid of you once and for all."

Kagami gritted her teeth, eyes narrowing and locking with his. "Not this time." She muttered.