Moon light shines onto Ambré, as she sits on her bed as she gres at the dorm room door. Her arms are crossed as a frown adorns her face.

  Rose, sitting on the floor a few feet in front of the TV, she gnces away from her movie, about two colored armies fighting in a canyon.

  "Ma s?ur, ?a va?" Rose calls out.

  Ambré huffs in annoyance. "Where is he?" Her blue and gold eyes gncing at her younger sister. "It's nearly curfew, and there's still no sign of him."

  Maize, who's sitting at the desk with her scroll in hand. "If Byzan is te, we can report him to the staff in the morning."

  "No!" Rose shouts, only to shrink as she quiets down. "He'll be back, he knows the rules. You just have to have a little faith."

  They all hear a click from the door and it opens, revealing a smiling Byzan, with slightly messed up clothes, entering the room. He pushes a hand though his hair, putting it back.

  Ambré gets up and stomps towards Byzan. "Where were you?!" She the gains a look of disgust as she reaches him. "Have you been drinking and... Ugh!"

  Byzan smirks. "I had a long day today, so I thought I'd go out and party. And I may have met a handsome man and had... some fun."

  "Some fun?" Rose mutters in confusion. "What does he mean."

  Maize speaks up. "I believe he means he had se-"

  Ambré growls and loudly shouts. "Don't worry about it!" She pushes a finger onto Byzan's chest as he shuts the door. "You can't just go out without telling any of us! What if something happened to you?!"

  Bzyan smiles. "Don't worry, sweet cheeks. I was perfectly fine, no one can touch me~ Besides I did come back just a few minutes before Curfew, and-" He leans onto Ambré with a smirk. "I didn't know you were so worried about me~ Can it be that you fallen for my charms~" He shakes his hips slightly and wiggles his eyebrows.

  Ambré scoffs and grabs Byzan by the shoulders and pushes off. "No. I just want to make sure the team is full working condition. And if you mess this up for all of us, don't think for a second I won't talk to the Headmaster about removing out from our team."

  Byzan raises an eyebrow and slightly frowns. Before leaning towards Ambré and whispering. "Do trust me, Ambré, this team will be one of the top teams for the entire time were here. Don't don't think for a second you can treat me like we're back in the Ats military."

  Ambré gres down at Byzan as he continues.

  "And besides, Winter isn't here to order you around. So why not be a good girl, and let me do my own thing."

  Ambré gives Byzan a confused look and whispers. "How do you know about, Winter thing?"

  Byzan chuckles as he walks past Ambré as he stretches his arms behind himself. "I know a lot of things, Sweet cheeks. Now, I think it's for bed time."

  "Only after you bathe."

  Byzan goes stiff and he tenses up. "I-I can do that myself." He starts to lick the back of his hand.

  "No, with water and soap." Ambré smirks as she crosses her arms.

  Byzan swiftly turns around and goes for the door, only to see Rose lock it. "Sorry, Byzan." She apologizes.

  "Rosie, you betrayed me!" Byzan shouts in fear.

  "SORRY!"

  Maize suddenly picks up Byzan, as if he weighed nothing. "I got voted to do this, so let's go bathe you."

  Byzan kicks and screams. "NO! Please! ANYTHING BUT WAAAAATTTTTTEEEEERRRRRR!

  Maize enters the bathroom and shuts the door behind her. Rose shuffles back to her spot on the ground with a guilty look and goes back to watching her movie.

  Ambré sighs and pces a hand on her forehead. "He never makes things easy."

  In the bathroom Mazie swiftly takes off Byzan's clothes in one fell swoop, turns on the water and sms the cat into the tub. Byzan screams as the water hits him and he tries to get out of the tub, but Maize, hold him there.

  "Why is someone short like you, so strong?!" Byzan shouts.

  "I was made that way." Maize informs as she turns off the water as it reaches optimal height and temperature.

  Maize grabs some soap and starts to work it into Byzan's long hair.

  Byzan, stiff as a board, stares at the wall. "Why do I have to be bathed? Cat Faunus' can easily just lick themselves clean."

  "Hygiene, Byzan." Maize rubs circles into Byzan's cat ears, making him slightly blush and shiver. "As a student of Beacon, you need to be presentable at all times, and smell nice. And you also sleep with three girls in the room, who want you to be clean at all times."

  Byzan huffs. "I don't like water though!" Maize continues to rub soap into his hair. "And I can clean myself!"

  "You have yet to show that... Mr Nightshade."

  Byzan's eyes widen as he gnces at Maize. "... What did you say."

  "I know what you've done in Ats and Mantle. You have quiet a reputation with General Ironwood, I must say." The cat's eyes gre at Maize's bright pink ones. "Don't worry, I won't tell the others. You have your secrets and I have mine." She washes the soap out of Byzan's hair. "Besides, I don't want to cause more problems within the team."

  Byzan just remains quiet as he stares at the wall in front of him. His amber eyes seemingly lost in thought. But then he shivers as Maize rubs a hand over the fresh jagged scar on his left side.

  "How did you get this scar though?" Maize asks.

  "Had a bad run in with Professor Ash's sister." Byzan states as he looks down at the scar.

  "Ah, Miss Calico Ash. She's a... piece of work."

  Byzan chuckles. "That's putting it lightly. Her and her brother are both crazy."

  "Professor Ash does have a bit of a reputation within the Ats military."

  "Really?" Byzan looks at Maize with interest.

  "After a near fetal incident, that involved that scar on his face, he started acting crazy and psychotic. He has recently designed a... new weapon Ats is about to show off. But lets just say, not everyone that help designing it with him, left in one piece."

  Byzan smiles. "Huh... But how do you know all this?"

  Maize smiles and puts a finger up to her lips. "Cssified~"

  Byzan rolls his eyes. "Then can you tell me how you know Ironwood?"

  "...My father was once an important person in the Ats' science research group." Maize looks away. "He left me behind... I was staying with my Step-father and sister before coming here. I haven't heard from him nor meet him before."

  Byzan gives Maize a soft look. "Was für ein beschissener Vater."

  "Viele würden sagen: Es k?nnte schlimmer sein. Und ich stimme zu."

  Byzan chuckles as Maize finishes washing him.

  "There, now you're clean and able to be free from your punishment." Maize states.

  Byzan swiftly stands up. "Yes!"

  Miaze's eyes gnce down at Byzan's.... thing.... right in front of her face. A soft hint of red adorns her cheeks as she gnces away. She stands up and hands Byzan a towel.

  "Please dry yourself and change." Maize leaves the bathroom as Byzan watches her go with a smirk.

  Byzan dries himself as a pair of bitty shorts and a rge shirt get thrown into the bathroom, before the door is smmed shut again.

  Byzan looks at himself in the mirror and runs a hand through his hair, pulling it back and keeping it there. He smiles at himself and licks his lips.

  "I am such a snack~" Byzan chuckles as he pulls his hair into a small pony tail.

  He then runs his hands down his side, before touching his scar, which causes him to shiver. He looks down at it and rubs it.

  "I wonder if there's any way to get rid of this?"

  Byzan sighs as he looks at the big blemish on his beautiful body. He slips on the booty shorts, before giving his ass a hard sp. Then puts on the oversized shirt. He then grabs some purple eye shadow and adds a purple arrow under each eye.

  Byzan confidently walks out of the bathroom to see Ambré sitting on the floor, with Rose's head on her p. The two are watching a movie on the teams rge ft screen TV.

  Maize is ying on her bed, tapping away at her scroll, with a smile on her face.

  Ambré gnces over. "Wow, you look amazing for once."

  Byzan waves a hand. "Sweet cheeks, I look amazing all the time. You just don't see it."

  Byzan sways his hips as he walks over to his bed and flops onto it. He reaches onto his nightstand and grabs his fsk and sips from it. Be pulls out his scroll and looks through his messages, his most recent one was Yang flirting with him.

  He looks through them, several with threatening messages. A few with flirty messages, and a couple with images. There's on about him telling Ruby he knows a good cookie recipe and her being very excited to learn it. Then he reaches on and taps on it.

  It's a message between him and his sister. He looks through several days of messages of him telling her "Good Morning" and "Good Night". But Bke never responds, only leaving him on read. Byzan's smile slowly fades, before he shakes his head and smiles again.

  Byzan taps another Good Night massages and sends it off. He then exits the messages, and puts his scroll back onto his nightstand. He then takes a rge drink from his fsk, some purple liquid dribbling down his chin.

  The cat sets his fsk down as he coughs a couple times into his hand. He looks and sees a few red specks, before he wipes his hand on the red carpet below his bed. He ys back and rests his head on his rge fluffy pillow as he looks up to the ceiling.

  Byzan stares at the ceiling before he closes his eyes and lets out a breath.

  The noise of the TV fading away as he falls into slumber.

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  Team AMBR, RWBY, JNPR and several other teams walk through the Forever Fall forest, as they follow their teacher, Glynda Goodwitch.

  Ruby moves around in excitement, accidentally bumping into Byzan. He just chuckles as he lightly pushes her towards he team, with her also chuckling.

  He gnces over to Bke, hoping to catch her attention. But she just keeps staring ahead as she walks a little ways in front of him.

  Rose looks around in amazement as he holds onto her sister's hand. Ambré doesn't show much emotion as she stares ahead at Glynda. Maize's pink eyes gnces at everyone around with a small smile on her face.

  Glynda then speaks to her students. "Yes, students, the first of Forever Fall is indeed beautiful. But we are not here to sight-see. Professor Peach has asked all of you to collect samples from the tress deep inside this forest, and I'm here to make sure none of you die while doing so."

  Byzan scoffs as he puts his hands on the back of his head. Maize gnces at the cat faunus. He then looks back to see Jaune carrying a rge case with six empty jars. Jaune goes to catch up with his team, but ends up bumping into Cardin. The bully scowls at Jaune, who attempts to feign innocence by whistling tunelessly.

  Byzan narrows his eyes at Cardin. Byzan scowls as he thinks of ways to get rid of a body if he had to.

  Glynda then holds up a jar full of red sap. "Each of you is to gather one jar's worth of red sap. However, this forest is full of the creatures of Grimm. So be sure to stay by your teammates. We will rendezvous back here at four o'clock. Have fun!"

  Ambré gnces at her team and motions for them to follow. They all head deep within the forest.

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  Rose watches as sap fills up her jar.

  "It's weird to think this sap can attract Grimm." Rose states.

  "The Grimm are indeed a mystery." Ambré puts a cap on her full jar.

  Byzan gnces at Ambré as he starts filling up his jar. "I'm sure they are..."

  Ambré gnces at Byzan in confusion.

  Rose looks at their surroundings. "You know, for a forest full of Grimm, I haven't seen a single one yet."

  Ambré nods in agreement. "That is kinda weird."

  Maize looks at Byzan as he stares at the jar on the ground next to him. Then she looks off to the side where she sees a figure moving within the tree tops, a figure with cat ears.

  Byzan leans against the tree he tapped and starts to hum, the girls all gncing at him. He then starts to softly sing.

  "Once like a dreamYou looked at meeeee~And everythingFelt neeeew."

  Rose smiles as she listens on, Ambré just leans against her tree and closes her eyes. Mazie gnces back out to the forest, her eyes tracking something.

  Byzan continues to sing. "Some people fall in love for lifeOthers never get it rightLove's fickle when it calls~Once thing that I know for sureLonger than our lives endureYou're myForever Fall~"

  Byzan smiles as he closes his eyes and leans his head against the tree.

  "You have a really good singing voice, Byzan." Rose calls out.

  "Aww, thanks, Rosie. It's a gift from my mother." Byzan informs.

  "She must be a beautiful woman then." Ambré states as she opens her different colored eyes.

  Byzan nods. "Probably the most beautiful in the world. How do you think I got my looks?"

  "Luck?"

  Byzan lets out a hearty ugh. "Sweet checks, I have everything but lucky. You know what they say about Bck Cats."

  "That's just superstition." Maize looks over.

  Byzan shrugs his shoulders. "Eh, what every you believe."

  A loud roar echoes off in the distance, putting everyone on edge.

  "An Ursa?" Ambré questions.

  "That was pretty far off." Byzan's cat ears flicker.

  "Do you think one of the teams ran into it?" Rose asks in worry.

  "If they did, they better take care of it." Byzan says. "No one will come to help them."

  "Why are you always so pessimistic?" Ambré asks in annoyance.

  "You haven't truly seen the world for what it's worth." Byzan caps his full jar of red sap. "It's truly a dark pce and evil pce."

  Rose and Maize gnces at each other as Ambré gres at the cat.

  Time flies as the moon hangs over Beacon. Cardin cleaners his hand with a rag as he walks down the dorm hallways.

  "Damn that Jaune!" Cardin mutters. "Think he's better then me, I'll fucking show him. No one fucks with a Winchester." He enters his dorm.

  Around a nearby corner is a certain cat with a bnk look on his face.

  "... I warned him." Byzan sighs and shakes his head as he walks off. "Some people just don't learn."

  Byzan cracks his neck as he lightly chuckles and a smirk grows on his face.

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  05-30-2024

  2500 words