Inside the showers of the male locker room, Ren is sits down on a bench, with just a towel on, and he checks his scroll.

  "Today was rough." Jaune walks over, in just a towel, and opens a locker up, pulling out his clothes. "At least I've been getting better."

  Ren nods. "Now that Cardin isn't always taking you somewhere, you have time to train."

  "Ugh, don't remind me of him."

  Byzan suddenly appears, wearing a towel around his waist and his hair. "You won't have to worry about him for a while, Jon Jon. He's been thoroughly dealt with."

  "You make it sound like you have a hand in him being at the hospital." Ren states.

  Byzan hops over to Ren. "Well, Emo, maybe I did and maybe I didn't~" He then squeezes his right arm. "Oh, nice muscles." He drools a little.

  Ren pulls his arm away from Byzan. "I might have to start showing at the dorm."

  Jaune walks over, his clothes on. "Well, if he doesn't cause any more trouble, I think we'll all be fine."

  Byzan opens his locker up. "I don't think he'll cause any trouble soon." He starts to put on his clothes as Ren goes over to his locker. "And if he does, I'll take care of it~"

  Byzan wiggles his tush and Jaune gives him a slightly scared look.

  "I don't know if I should be scared of you or not." Jaune states.

  Byzan gives him a cat-like smirk. "Maybe you should, Jon Jon~"

  Jaune shivers as he starts heading out of the locker room. "I'm heading to lunch, see you guys there."

  Ren clothes his locker as he finishes putting his clothes on. "So, did you do it?"

  Byzan, with his clothes on, fixes his hair as he holds a small mirror in front of him. "If one pushes my button, they will face the consequences." He puts the mirror in his locker and closes it, as he gives Ren a wink. "That's all I can say~"

  Byzan walks out of the room with a sway in his hips.

  "Byz, you are one strange person." Ren mutters.

  Several hours ter team AMBR is in Vale as they look at everyone setting up for the Vytal Festival.

  "Wow!" Rose smiles as she looks around. "I've never been to a festival before!"

  Ambré rubs her shorter sisters head. "We'll be able to share out first one together."

  Rose happily smiles up at her older sister. Byzan looks around with a smile, only to feel a tug on his shirt. He looks down to see Maize holding a hand out to him.

  "Hand. I request your hand." Maize states.

  "Why?" Byzan asks.

  "Is it not customary for a male to hold his female friends hand, so she doesn't get lost in the crowd?"

  Byzan looks down at her hand, before grabbing it. "Fine, can't argue with that."

  Maize smiles brightly, while Rose looks over with a slight frown.

  "Well, I think it's a good idea to check out Vale, before the festival. And maybe we'll see some of the students from the other kingdoms." Ambré speaks up.

  "Oh, maybe we can stop by an Ice Cream shop?" Rose asks. "I could really go for some mint ice cream."

  "Hmm, if we have time we can." Ambré looks over to Byzan and Mazie, seeing them holding hands, she raises an eyebrow, before speaking. "What do you two think?"

  "I could go for some ice cream. Nothing chocote." Byzan holds a hand over his stomach. "My stomach doesn't like chocote."

  Maize nods. "It seems like a good bonding experience."

  The team rounds a corner and they see a dust shop with yellow tape around it. Gss is everywhere as the windows are broken. Police and detectives are moving around the scene.

  "What happened?" Byzan questions as his cat ears flicker.

  "The White Fang." An old grandma states, as she's sitting on a nearby bench. "They've been breaking into Dust shops all over Vale, and they're not stealing money, but just the dust."

  Byzan growls a concerned look. "Just Dust?"

  The old dy nods. "Just Dust. I miss the old days when they were really peaceful, I had a few friends in that group, before they got excited when everything started turning violent."

  Rose grows sad. "Sorry for your lose."

  The old dy waves a hand. "I've gotten over it, but we can only hope they go back to their peaceful ways." She stands up and starts walking away. "You kids have a good day now."

  Ambré sighs. "We don't need the trouble of White Fang now, finals are next week!"

  "But why would they only steal Dust?" Rose asks as the group continues on down the street.

  Byzan hums in thought. "It's not normal, they shouldn't be doing that."

  "What do you mean?" Maize asks.

  "Well, I was once in the White Fang." Byzan informs and everyone looks intrigued. "Well, I was technically born into it, always at the front of the rally with my sister. "

  "You have a sister?" Ambré questions.

  Byzan gives everyone a confused look. "Yeah, it's Bke."

  Ambré's and Rose's eyes widen. "Really?" They asks.

  Byzan just grows extremely confused. "We have the same st name, and nearly look exactly the same."

  "Did you guys not know this?" Maize asks.

  "No!" They nearly shout.

  "Bke's a Faunus?" Rose asks.

  Byzan points to his cat ears. "The bow?"

  "The boooohhhhh." The sisters realize as Byzan shakes his head.

  "We literally have nearly the same shaped ass. How could none of you notice we were reted."

  Rose looks away while Ambré rolls her eyes. "I have no such time for things." The muscle mommy states.

  Byzan dead pans. "That's your excuse?"

  "Oh, look!" Rose points to the side. "An ice cream shop, lets use it as an excuse to not talk about this!"

  Rose drags her sister over to it while Byzan stares at the two.

  "Seriously, how did they not know?" Byzan asks.

  Maize leads Byzan across the street and into the ice cream parlor with the sisters. Everyone starts ordering, Bell getting some mint ice cream, Ambré getting framboise sorbet, Maize getting a really small helping of vanil while Byzan gets some Neapolitan.

  The group sits down and starts enjoying their ice cream.

  "Oh, it's been so long since I've had ice cream." Rose squeal happily as she eats her ice cream.

  "This is really good." Ambré mutters as she eats her.

  "Oh, so this is ice cream." Maize puts a spoonful in her mouth.

  Byzan hums happily as he eats his, but his eyes catch something pink and brown outside the windows. He gnces over and spots some pink and brown hair moving past the window. His amber eyes widen as he swiftly stands up.

  "I-... I'll be right back." Byzan says to the group. "It'll be real quick, so don't worry about me."

  Byzan swiftly leaves the parlor.

  "Byz?" Rose calls out.

  "The hell's his problem?" Ambré questions.

  Mazine questioning looks at Byzan's back as he walks past the parlor window.

  Outside, Byzan walks into an alleyway and he looks around.

  "I swear I saw-" Byzan's suddenly pushes into a wall by a short figure, he growls in anger, only to stop as he sees who did it. "Neo?"

  Neo wears a white cropped wide, broad tailed jacket with a pink interior, colr, a single pink button and rge pink cuffs. She wore skintight brown leather pants with a dark belt that had a gray buckle and an additional narrow belt under it.

  Under her jacket was a brown over bust whalebone corset, curved in the middle and at the bottom, which exposed her hips. She also wore a multitude of bck beaded neckces, which hung haphazardly around her neck. Neo also wore bck and white spat styled under the knee boots alongside bck gloves.

  Neo smirks as she leans onto Byzan, her different colored eyes look up into his amber.

  "What are you doing here?" Byzan asks as he narrows his eyes at her.

  Neo pulls out her scroll and swiftly types a message. Byzan's scroll vibrates and he quickly pulls it out to see a message from someone he called "Lovely Ice Cream."

  [Can't I come see my favorite friend?]

  Byzan looks down at Neo as she licks her lips. He slightly pushes her off, much to her dismay.

  "I know you're here with Roman, now tell me, why are you here?"

  Neo huffs in annoyance and types a message.

  [Well, I did come here to see you, but I am currently working with Roman.But what it is, I can't tell you.]

  Byzan growls in anger. "Why not?!"

  Neo deadpans at Byzan as she taps a message.

  [You know how we work, Byzz, so don't get angry.]

  Byzan runs a hand through his hair as he grunts in stress. Neo taps another message, before running a hand down his chest.

  [Why don't we blow this popsicle stand and go have some fun~]

  "No." Byzan gres down at Neo, who becomes baffled at his response. She gives him a questioning look. "As of now, Roman's technical, my enemy. You know I'm a student at Beacon, and as my friend Neo, I'm giving you this one chance to leave Vale."

  Neo pouts and crosses her arms.

  "Neo, please, I don't want to hurt you, but if you work with Roman, you will become my enemy."

  Neo sighs and looks down in sadness before walking away. Byzan sighs and rolls his eyes and he hugs her from behind.

  "Well, thank you for at least checking in." Byzan smiles as he rests his chin on the top of her head. "I really don't want to hurt you, Neo, but times are a changing."

  Neo wraps a hand around one of Byzan's arms and leans into his touch.

  "You do mean a lot to me, so please, I'm giving you this one chance, leave Vale." Byzan lets go of her and the ice cream girl turns around and gives Byzan a quick kiss on the cheek.

  Neo then turns around and walks away, making sure to sway her hips as she looks back with a smirk. Byzan stares at her... rear... as she leaves. He smirks and heads back into the parlor, where his team is almost done with their treats.

  "Finally, you returned." Ambré compins. "Where did you go?"

  "Eh, don't worry about it." Byzan sits down and grabs a cheery off the top of his ice cream. "Hey, want to see a trick? What this!"

  Byzan tosses the cherry, stem and all. After a few seconds he sticks out his tongue to show the cherry steam tied into a heart.

  The three girls at the table look at him in surprise.

  "Wow, that's neat." Rose states.

  "What that tongue do?" Ambré whispers.

  "I've never seen someone do that before." Maize says. "It's pretty cool."

  Bzyan smiles in triumph as he takes the stem out of his mouth.

  A little while ter the team is walking back towards Beacon.

  "I still think season six is the best, the way they used the new engine is perfect." Rose states.

  "But what about seasons 11, when they switch engines again, I think that ones pretty good." Ambré says.

  "Hey." Byzan speaks up. "I think the original season one is the best. The engine may be old and basic, but can't beat the jokes from the first season."

  "I have never what that show." Maize speaks up.

  Rose looks at the Pinkette in shock. "You haven't?" Maize shakes her head. "Well, when we get back, we are bingeing the show."

  "...Okay."

  "Maize?" A new voice calls out.

  Everyone looks to the side and sees a girl that's light-skinned with rather curly short orange hair that came down to her chin with a small cowlick on top and she wore a pink bow on the back of her head, bright green eyes and freckles.

  She wears an off white old-fashioned styled off the shoulder blouse with frill detailed trim and frill fred cuffs that half covered her hands alongside copper button detailing on the lower parts of her sleeves.

  She also sported a short gray pinafore dress with golden trim on the hem alongside four light green stagmite styled stripes on the lower half of the dress, two on the front and two on the back, accompanied by two matching-colored circles above the tips that had a stripe that ran around her waistline, with golden outlines, and a detachable bck and light green colr.

  She also wore a pair of bck thigh-high leg pieces that seemingly were attached to bck shoes. The leg pieces had a single green stripe up the sides that appeared to light up.

  "Penny?" Maize questions.

  "Maize!" Penny runs towards Maize.

  "Penny!" Maize runs towards Penny.

  The two girls meet and they hug each other and spin around.

  "It's so good to see you!" The two girls say together. "How are you? I'm fine. That's good."

  Byzan, Ambré and Rose walk over.

  "Um, Maize, who's your friend?" Rose asks.

  "She seems... very cheerful." Byzan points out.

  "Oh, new friends!" Penny smiles as she turns to everyone with a rge smile.

  Maize motions to Penny. "This is my sister! Guys, meet Penny, Penny meet Rose, Ambré, and Byzan."

  Penny zooms over to them. "It's nice to meet each of you!" Penny zooms up to Byzan. "Have we meet before, you look familiar?"

  Byzan sweats slightly. "Um, nope, never meet you before!"

  Penny puts a hand on her chin as she narrows her eyes at the cat faunus. "Hmmm."

  Maize walks over and slightly pulls penny back. "You can figure that out ter. Anything interesting recently?"

  "OH, I made a new friend, her name is Ruby!"

  "Ruby?" Everyone questions.

  "Oh, do you all know her?" Penny asks.

  "She's a good friend of ours." Ambré states. "Her and her team."

  "It's so good that you making friends already!" Maize cheers.

  "Not as many as you it seems." Penny smiles. "You seem to have lots of friends."

  "You will to once the festival starts." Maize gives her sister a rge smile. "Trust me. But we have to go now, gotta get back to Beacon before nightfall."

  Team AMBR starts to walk away as Penny waves to them.

  "Have a goodnight!" Penny calls out.

  "Talk to you ter, Penny!" Maize waves.

  "She was... interesting." Ambré states.

  "I'd say so." Byzan agrees.

  As the team heads back to Beacon they pass by another robbed Dust shop, finding out it was the White Fang again.

  Byzan sighs and mutters. "This isn't good."

  "Anyone else have a bad feeling?" Rose asks.

  "Not just you." Ambré agrees.

  Byzan runs a hand through his hair. "Do you guys know why the White Fang was created?"

  "To fight for Faunus rights?" Maize asks.

  "Well, yeah, but there is another reasons. My dad had to old brothers. Nicho and Bartolomeo. Before the White Fang was a thing those two would gather up groups of Faunus and holds peaceful rallys."

  Byzan rubs his cat ears as he continues.

  "But one day they get accused of robbery and murder, and we're swiftly executed without even a trail. My Father created the White Fang out of their memory, to hold up their tradition of fighting for Faunus Rights. We even created a song called 'Here's to You.'"

  The three girls look a little sad as the cat Faunus' ears droop.

  "But five years ago, my Father stepped down and a new leader took his pce, that's when things started to get violent. That's when I decided to leave, I didn't want to take part of that violence... that was so hypocritical of me though. But after I left, I traveled the world a little bit and learned of many, many things. Then I ended up in Ats for a while and then came here."

  Rose grabs onto Byzan's hand and smiles at him. "That's a sad story Byzan, but we're here for you if you ever need to talk."

  Byzan smirks. "Oh, really Rosie?"

  Rose blushes and swiftly steps back. "YUP!"

  Ambré gres at Byzan. "Let's just get back to Beacon." She grabs Rose's shoulder and starts to guide here away.

  Byzan and Mazie follow after them.

  "I am sorry you haven't really had a pce to call home for a while." Maize speaks up.

  "Eh, it's fine. I had a lot of fun traveling the world, still need to go to Vacou though, haven't been there."

  Night soon arrives as the team is back at their dorm watching TV, all in their pajamas.

  Byzan's scroll suddenly rings and he grabs it. The caller is "Rubes."

  "Rubes?" Byzan mutters and he accepts the call, putting the scroll to his human ears. "Yes, Rubes... Huh... Really? ... Wow... Yeah, um, I'll keep an eye out for her."

  Byzan puts the scroll down as the call ends.

  "What was that about?" Ambré asks.

  "Rubes said that Bke ran off after her and Weiss got into a spat." Byzan informs.

  "She ran off, should we go look for her?" Rose asks, she's sitting on Ambré's p.

  Byzan rubs his tired eyes. "I would, but she's already not happy with me, and it is really te."

  "Why is she angry at you?" Maize asks as she ys down beside Byzan on the floor.

  "I left her for five years." Byzan ys his head down on Maize's thighs. "We used to do nearly everything together, we hardly were inseparable. I can see why she's angry... I left her behind. I really regret it, but sometimes you just gotta do something for yourself. I think we should give it a couple days and if she's not back by Sunday, we'll go search for her in Vale."

  Ambré nods. "I can agree with that."

  "I hope she's alright." Rose says in worry.

  "Bke is a big girl... She should be." Byzan mutters as Maize starts to py with his hair.

  Byzan gnces up at Maize with a rge smirk, and she stops pying with his hair and gives him a dead look. Byzan rolls his eyes and everyone goes back to watching TV.

  The weekend soon comes and it's Saturday afternoon, and there's still no sign of Bke. Byzan sighs as he strolls through Beacon's courtyard with his hands behind his head, a slight sway in his hips.

  He looks around at the few students that stay in Beacon over the weekend. But his eyes nd on a red figure sitting under a tree. Byzan's slightly frowns as he walks over to Ruby, to see her hiding her face behind her knees.

  Byzan leans over Ruby. "Rubes?"

  Ruby slightly lifts her head up and looks up at him. "Byzz?" There's bags under her eyes. "What are you doing here?"

  Byzan sits down beside Ruby. "Well, I was gonna head to Vale, cause I heard of this rad party going on, but I saw you... looking all sad."

  Ruby sighs and wraps her arms around her legs, as she sets her chin on her knees.

  Baxterbro

  "I... I feel like I failed." Ruby quietly says.

  "Failed?" Byzan asks with a raised brow as his ears twitch. "What do you mean?"

  "I failed as a team leader. I failed to stop my friends from fighting, I failed to stop Bke from running off, and I've failed to find her so far." Ruby hides her face in her legs. "I've failed at everything. I'm just a big failure."

  Byzan gives Ruby a look of pity as he slides right up next to her. "You're not a complete failure Rubes. Life has a way of throwing obstacles at you and if you can't overcome them, then and only then have you failed. I have yet to see an obstacle you can't overcome, Rubes, you'll get over this one just like the rest."

  Ruby peeks out again and her silver eyes stare into Byzan's Amber. "Do you really think so?"

  Byzan gives her a soft smiles. "I know so, you're an excellent person Ruby. Your the like the person human being, I wish more people were like you. I'm really gd you have you as my friend."

  Ruby smiles at the cat. "Thank you, Byzz, that makes me feel better."

  Byzan lightly grabs Ruby's head and rests it on his shoulder. "I'll be your shoulder for a little bit okay. You seem like you need the rest, so close your eyes and let your worries wash away for a few minutes."

  Ruby's eyes slowly start to close. "...Okay..."

  Byzan smiles as he gnces down at Ruby as soft breaths come from her. Byzan brings a hand up to Ruby's head and softly pets it as he looks up to the sky.

  "You need to get stronger Ruby, the darkness outside the walls is only growing stronger by the day." Byzan whispers. "We don't have much time before she comes for you. Soon things like this will only seem trivial to what will come. I'll do my best to help you, but there is only so much I can do, so you... we must get strong in these next four years."

  Byzan closes his cat eyes and leans his head against the tree, basking in the sunlight, as Ruby naps on his shoulder.

  Sunday swiftly comes and team AMBR is getting ready in their dorm. Byzan sets Hellish Shroud on the magnetic backpack on his back. He adjusts his shirt slightly and looks to his team.

  "Alright." Ambré speaks up. "We'll all split up, search each and every corner of Vale for Bke. And once you spot her, give us all a call. And don't forget to let Ruby know. Break."

  "Break!" The rest of the team says.

  Hours and Hours go by as the team, all split up, and yet they don't find Bke. And before everyone knows it, night falls.

  But over at the docks in Vale a certain cat is.

  Amist the chirping of crickets and darkness of night, Bke ys ft on her stomach on the rooftop overlooking a shipment of Schnee Dust containers.

  "Did I miss anything?" Sun, a money Faunus Bke met a few days earlier, hops onto the roof next to her.

  Bke looks up at Sun. "Not really. They've offloaded the crates from the boat. Now they're just sitting there."

  "Cool." Sun holds out a green apple from a few in his arms. "I stole you some food!"

  Bke gives Sun questioning look. "Do you always break the w without giving a second though?"

  Sun gives a defensive counter. "Hey, weren't you in a cult or something?" Bke delivers an angry gre at him. "Okay, too soon."

  Suddenly Byzan appears beside Sun. "What we watching?"

  "Wah!" Sun throws all the apples into the air, with one nding on his head. "Who are you?!"

  "Byzan?" Bke narrows her eyes at Byzan.

  "Wait, is she your sister." Sun points at Byzan as he looks him up and down.

  "He's my younger brother."

  "...Brother?" Sun questions as he keeps looking the trap that is Byzan. "BROTHER?!"

  Byzan licks hips lips. "And who are you handsome~" Byzan leans onto Sun, only for Bke to push him away.

  "What are you doing here?" Bke gres at her brother.

  "You disappeared and Rubes is worried."

  Bke gnces away in guilt. "She's worried, huh?"

  Byzan goes to speak, but a strong wind blows around the three and they look up to see a Bullhead's searchlights fshing around for a nding spot.

  The Bullhead descends in the middle of the cargo contains and extending a ramp for a bck hooded individual with a metallic fanged mask to come out.

  "Oh no..." Bke mutters.

  "Welp." Byzan pops the P.

  "Is that them?" Sun asks.

  Bke stares at the bloody wold on the back of the man's outfit. "Yes... It's them."

  A white fang soldier yells to the other members coming out of the Bullhead. "All right, grab the tow cables!"

  "You really didn't think they were behind it, did you?" Sun asks Bke.

  Bke stares sadly at the scene. "No. I think deep down I knew. I just didn't want to be right." She closes her eyes in despair.

  "What are we talking about?" Byzan asks, only for his cat eyes to go slit as a new voice yells out.

  "Hey!" Roman walks out of the Bullhead. "What's the hold up?!" The soldiers look up at Roman gesturing widely as he walks down the ramp. "We're not exactly the most inconspicuous bunch of thieves at the moment, so why don';t you animals try to pick up the pace?"

  "Oh fuck..." Byzan mutters.

  "This isn't right." Bke stares. "The White Fang would never work with a Human. Especially not one like that."

  Bke stand up and unsheathes the Katana of Gambol Shroud before walking off the edge of the roof.

  "Hey, what are you doing?!" Sun calls out in arm.

  "That edgy bitch!" Byzan mutters.

  Byzan zooms towards the edge of the roof and watches Bke sneak her way towards Roman.

  "Fuuuck." Byzan mutters.

  "No, you idiot!" Roman yells. "This sin't a leash!" As he looks around, Balke suddenly appears behind him with her bde at his throat. "What the- Oh, for f-"

  Roman rolls his eyes when he's cut off by Bke mid-swear.

  "Nobody move!" Bke shouts as the White Fang close in on her, Bke uses her free hand to go for her bow and remove it, causing her ribbon to fall away as her Faunus ears are shown to the world. "Brothers of the White Fang! Why are you aiding this scum?"

  "Oh, kid, didn't you get the memo?" Roman asks.

  "What are you talking about?" Bke asks.

  "The White Fang and I are going in on a joint business venture together."

  "Tell me what it is or I'll put an end to your little operation."

  Byzan's ears twitch as he looks up as several more Bullheads fly above.

  Suddenly an explosion goes off down where Roman and Bke are. Byzan swiftly turns and sees Bke slide on her feet several meters away from Roman.

  Several missiles fly towards Bke, but she sues her sembnce to dodge them and retreats behind more containers.

  Roman starts walking towards Bke. "Here, Kitty, kitty, kitty..." His taunt is interrupted when a banana peel nds on his head, causing him to toss it aside then look up and growls at the assaint eyes widening.

  Roman and Byzan then meet eyes, Roman gains a smirk as Byzan frowns.

  Byzan and Sun lead down from the roof above and nd a little ways from Roman.

  Bzyan aims his katana at Roman. "Leave her alone."

  "Well, well, well, look at what the cat dragged in?" Roman smirks as the White Fang start to close in on Sun and Byzan.

  "Can you fight?" Byzan asks Sun.

  Sun ughs as he pulls out his colpsible staff. "Do you really need to ask?"

  Byzan gres at Roman, before charging at the White Fang members closing in on him.

  Baxterbro

  Byzan kicks a Member in the head, before swinging the blunt side of his sword into another's face. He then flips backwards as several bullets fly past him.

  A clone Byzan appears above the man that shot at him, and drop kicks him to the ground. The Real Byzan parries and attack from another Faunus and grabs him by the throat and uses him as a shield as several White Fang members stab at him.

  Their bdes pierce into their friends body as he fails to put up his aura in time. Byzan then kicks the body in his arms towards the two that tried to stab him, and he swiftly changes his katana into its flintlock form and fires.

  A bullet with a dark red tip flies out of the barrel and sms into the back of the dead White Fang member, and blows up, sending the two alive members flying into a container.

  Byzan flicks a bullet off a bullet, with a white tip, off the bandoleer on his right thigh. he ducks under a rocket that barely misses him. He then rolls to the side as he loads the bullet into his gun as a sword slices through the air.

  Byzan fires his gun into an approaching group of White Fang members. The bullet sms into the ground right in front of them, and it creates a rge smoke cloud. The faunus caught in the cloud start to cough and wheez.

  Byzan shoots forward, as he creates a clone beside him. Him and his clone swiftly beat down the White Fang members around them. Byzan huffs in disapproval as he loads another round into his flintlock.

  "I don't like this at all." Byzan mutters.

  "You're tell me." Clone Byzan agrees before disappearing in a purple cloud of smoke.

  "Hey!" Ruby's voice suddenly echoes out.

  Byzan's ears twitch as he looks slightly shock, and looks back up towards the roof he, Sun and Bke were on and spot Ruby.

  "Rubes?!" Byzan shouts.

  "Well, hello, Red!" Roman calls out. "Isn't it past your bedtime!"

  Byzan aims his flintlock at Roman, but jumps back as another White fang member brings an axe down where he was standing.

  "Shit!" Byzan shouts as he sees Roman bring up his cane and fires, unching the young Huntress-in-training back from the explosion force.

  Byzan growls in anger and unches forward, and wraps his rge thighs around the White Fang member that stopped him from shooting Roman.

  Byzan chokes the faunus out with his thighs, before charging at Roman. Byzan yells as he swings his sword at Roman's neck, only for said man to duck under the swing.

  Roman takes a few steps away from the angry cat. "Byzantine! My friend, how are you? It's been a while hasn't it. The st time I saw you was before you destroyed that club."

  Nearby Bke looks up in shock and gres at Byzan.

  "Why are you doing this Roman?" Byzan asks as he gets into a combat stance and aims his katana at Roman. "Why do you need this much Dust?!"

  Roman waves a finger at Byzan. "Ah, ah, ah. You're not part of the team anymore Byzan, so I have no reason to tell you. Besides, aren't you technically my enemy now? Isn't that what you said to dear Neo?"

  Byzan growls at Roman, but gets distracted by rge green beam of light flying above him, cutting through several Bullheads.

  "Woah... No!" Byzan shakes his head and looks back at Roman, only to find him gone. "Fuck!"

  Byzan looks around for Roman only to see a Bullhead take off into the sky with Roman in it. Byzan swiftly changes his sword into its gun form and aims it at Roman. Byzan goes to pull the trigger, but he stops... and just lowers his gun in defeat.

  Everything starts to quiet down as the rest of the White Fang members retreat.

  "...Fuck...." Byzan mutters as he runs a hand through his hair and grunts. He hears footsteps approaching and he turns to see an angry Bke walking towards him. "Hey, Bke, wha-?"

  Bke sms Byzan into a container and puts her bde to his throat and gres at him. "How does Roman know you?!"

  Byzan calmly stares at his angry sister. "You have done stuff you're not proud of Bke, and so have I. Now, if you're not gonna kill me, put down the weapon."

  Bke keeps gring at Byzan, before he lowers her weapon. "We'll talk more ter!" She stomps off.

  Byzan rubs his throat. "I need a drink."

  A little ter, a handful of police cars are at the docks, where Ruby, Bke, Sun, Byzan, and Penny are sitting on boxes in silence. Byzan lets out a yawn and ys down on his box.

  Suddenly Wiess, Yang and the rest of Team AMBR appear on the scene.

  Ruby stands up and speaks quickly to Weiss. "Look Weiss, it's not what you think, she expined the whole thing. See, she doesn't actually have a bow, she has kitty ears and they're actually kind of cute. And she and Byzan are actually brother and sister so that expins some things..."

  Weiss ignores Ruby and squeals off with Bke. Rose runs over to Byzan and hugs him.

  Bke calmly looks Weiss down. "Weiss, I want you to know that I'm no longer associated with the White Fang. Back when I was with the-"

  Weiss interrupts. "Stop! Do you have any idea of how long we've been searching for you?" She pauses. "Twelve hours. That means I've had twelve hours to think about this. And in those twelve hours, I've decided... I don't care."

  "You don't care?" Bke asks in surprise.

  "You said you're not one of them anymore, right?"

  "No, I-I haven't since I was younger-"

  Weiss silences Bke. "Ah-bahp-bahp-bahp! I don't want to hear it. All I wan to hear it. All I want to know is that the next time something this bit comes up... you'll come to you teammates. And not some..." She looks at Sun behind her as she catches herself. "Someone else."

  Bke looks at Ruby and Yang grinning at her, she wipes a tear from her eye. "Of course."

  Weiss then looks at Byzan and gives him a stern look. "And you have some stuff to expin as well!"

  Byzan shrugs his shoulders. "Eh, I saw this coming."

  Ruby waves her arms widly. "Yeah! Team RWBY is back together!"

  Ambré pats Byzan on the back. "You know how worrying it is to get a call about my teammate being held by the cops. I nearly had a heart attack!"

  Byzan smirks as raises his eyebrows up and down. "Wow, you really care for me, huh, Ambré?"

  Ambré lightly pushes Byzan. "Will you stop trying to flirt for once?"

  Byzan goes into a dramatic pose. "I think I'll die if I do."

  "But you did for me a week ago." Maize speaks up.

  Byzan puffs his cheeks out as he pouts. "Whatever!"

  "Hey, where's Penny?" Ruby asks.

  Maize gnces off to the side and sees a bck limo drive off.

  Byzan then gnces behind him and sees a camera looking at the group. A smirk forms on Byzan face as he stares into the camera.

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  Deep within Vale a female figure with Pink Hair and bright pink eyes stands on a roof.

  "My dear, Byzan." She looks towards Beacon and hearts appear in her eyes. "We'll reunite soon. heheheh ahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

  She starts to loudly ugh into the night sky as she cups the sides of her face.

  Baxterbro

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  06-01-2024

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