"Scathing eyes ask that we be symmetrical, one sided and easily processed. Yet every misshapen spark's unseen beauty is greater than its would be judgement."

  Inside the cargo hold of a rge airship a certain cat Faunus is curled up on top of a rge wooden crate. His weapon and a rge pouch rest on the ground below him.

  A few soft purrs come from the feminine looking man as his ears twitch a few times. Suddenly the ship shakes, as it comes to a stop, and Byzan snorts awake. He sits up and his amber eyes look around in confusion.

  "Is it time for school already, mom?" Byzan asks as he blinks a few times, before realizing where he is. "Oh, right."

  The cat faunus lets out a rge yawn as he sits on the edge of the crate. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out his fsk and unscrews the cap and downs its purple contents. He then lowers his fsk after a few seconds and looks at it, before shaking it near his cat ears, not hearing anything.

  "Damn, need to make more."

  Byzan hops off the crate and puts his fsk away. He then grabs his weapon and sets it on his magnetic backpack, then puts on the rge pouch. He then kneels on the ground and stretches forward then arches his back as he lets out another yawn.

  The cargo door opens and a voice shouts. "Come on, Byzan, this is your stop."

  "We're already in Vale?" Byzan questions as he walks to the exit. "How long was I asleep?" He rolls his shoulders and puts his hands on his back and cracks it.

  He grabs the Byzantium colored ribbon on his waist and makes sure it's secure. Then adjusts his scarf and heads out of the air ship. He brings his hands up and covers his eyes as the sun shines down onto him.

  After a few seconds his eyes adjust to the sunlight and he lowers his hand. A few people walk past Byzan, without sparing a gnce, and head into the ship.

  Byzan looks around and sees a rge city in front of him with Beacon off into the distance. He then tugs at his shirt colr. "Man, it's kinda hot here. Didn't think being in Ats for three years would change me this much..."

  Byzan sighs as he puts his hands on the back of his head and walks towards Vale. People move about on the sidewalk and in their cars. Byzan smirks as he gnces around.

  "Never been in Vale before." Byzan says to himself, then hums. "We'll here Irondick can't get me, hehe..." A Cheshire grin grows on his face.

  His grin fades as he hears some cries of pain from a nearby alleyway.

  "Little shit!" A man yells.

  "Hmm?" Byzan peers into a nearby alleyway and he grunts in disgust.

  Two men stands over a child cat faunus. The faunus ys on the ground in the fetal position, covered in bruises, and they let out a few cries.

  One of the men put a foot on the faunus' head. "Damn thing managed to nab my wallet."

  The other man gnces at his friend. "Told you to keep it in your front pocket."

  Byzan smirks as he enters the alleyway. "Gentlemen, gentlemen, this must be a mistake here."

  The two men and the faunus all look over to see Byzan walking towards them.

  "Get outta here kid, this doesn't concern you."

  Byzan titles his head slightly and his ears drop in that direction. "Well, you happen to be hurting a fellow cat of mine, and that makes me a little angry."

  The man that had his foot on the faunus' head walks over to Byzan. "So what kid, what's a faunus like you gonna do?" He looks Byzan up and down, looking at his feminine features. "Well, girlie, why don't you come with me and we'll forget this entire thing ever happen."

  "Really man?" The other guy looks at his friend in disgust. "She can't be of age yet." He points at Byzan.

  The man in front of Byzan looks at his friend in anger. "Shut up!" He looks at the cat faunus. "So what do you think?"

  Byzan secretly smirks and rubs a hand in circles on the man's chest as he leans into him. The man smiles as Byzan leans up to the taller man.

  "But, I don't lke people like you." Byzan grabs the man's hand and swiftly gets behind him and pushes him to the ground.

  "Fuck!" The man yells in pain as Byzan forces his hand forward to put intense pressure onto the wrist. The cat faunus then kneels onto his back.

  "Dude!" The other man goes to run forward, but a clone Byzan appears behind him, and puts his sword to the man's throat.

  "Now, why don't we all calm down." Byzan's eyes gain a dangerous glint. "Or someone might get hurt." He looks to the other cat faunus. "Hey, get outta here kid."

  The faunus stands up and wipes tears from their eyes. "Thank you!" They run away.

  Byzan leans down to the man he's kneeling on. "Also, just to say, I'm a man so." The human below him grows a pale face as he looks disgusted. "Hehe... So, I'm gonna leave now, if I find out you went to the police and reported me. I'll hunt down you and your friend and show you one of the 108 ways I know to kill a man." He leans down to his ear and whispers. "And trust me, I'll use some of the most painful ones."

  "O-Okay..." The man whispers in fear and Byzan chuckles and climbs off him.

  Byzan walks towards the alleyway entrance with his hips swaying. He looks back and blows a kiss to the two men as he grows a cute look. "Stay out of trouble now~" He snaps his fingers and clone Byzan disappear.

  The two men stare at Byzan in fear and he ughs as he leaves.

  Byzan smiles to himself as his hips sway back and fourth. "Ahhh, that felt good... Now... where's the nearest hotel?"

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  Night shines as Byzan rubs his tired eyes as he walks through the near empty streets.

  "How does one spend the whole day looking for a hotel?" Byzan questions. "I have like two days before Beacon starts, I'd rather not have to sleep in the streets for those two days..."

  He stops walking and yells in frustration as only to stop as he looks up and spots a hotel right in front of him.

  "You've gotta be kidding me."

  Byzan sighs and walks into the hotel. The receptionist spots him and smiles.

  "Hello, welcome to the Tried Cat hotel" The receptionist greets.

  'That's kinda ironic...' Byzan says in thought and walks up to the counter and sps some Lien onto it. "Just a room for two night please."

  The receptionist nods and grabs the Lien before handing a key to Byzan.

  "Enjoy your stay~"

  Byzan begins to head off, before he stops and looks at the receptionist. "Hey, where's the nearest bar."

  The receptionist puts a finger on their chin and thinks for a few seconds. "I believe it would be Juniors bar just a few blocks west. Not hard to miss."

  Byzan nods and gives a small bow to them. "Thank you."

  "Anytime~"

  Byzan heads up stairs and swiftly finds his room. He slowly enters it and his ears swivel around as he heads for the bed. He narrows his eyes as he gnces around, before sighing and sitting on the bed.

  He takes off the rge pouch on his left hip and sets it beside him. He takes his fsk out of his pocket and looks at it.

  "I guess I could do this after the bar." Byzan sets the fsk onto the pouch and stands up. He puts a hand on his weapon, but then lowers it. "Something's telling me that it's not gonna be an easy night."

  Byzan heads out of the room and outside the hotel. He takes a deep breath of the cool night air. He brings a hand through his bck hair and rubs his cat ears.

  He heads down the street and several minutes ter he arrives at a club with music bring on the inside. A rge Cheshire smile forms on face as he heads inside.

  Byzan spots the dance floor full of people as lights flicker along with the music. He calmly heads down the stairs and passes a pair of twins, one wearing white and another wearing red.

  "Menie, I can't tell if they're a boy or girl." The red twin states.

  "Same, Miltia, but which ever, they're kinda cute." Menie states as she looks at Byzan up and down.

  The smile never leaves Byzan's face as he sits down at the bar. "Bacardi 151, please." He orders.

  The Bartender nods and starts to make said drink. "You sure kid. That's a pretty toxic drink."

  "I'm sure."

  "Aren't you a little young to be here, kid." Junior leans on the counter next to Byzan.

  "You sure it's a good idea to ask questions like that to paying customers?" Byzan asks as he gnces at Junior.

  Junior shrugs. "Good point."

  "Ahh, Junior!" A new voice calls out to him, a familiar one to Byzan.

  "Roman." Junior nods to the man approaching him.

  "Roman?" Byzan quickly looks over.

  "Ahh, if it isn't Nightshade." Roman chuckles as he pats the cat on the shoulder. "I thought you were in Ats?"

  "Wait, that's Nightshade?" Junior asks. "I thought he'd be older, and you know... more manly."

  A drink is pce in front of Byzan and he grabs it. "I was, but now I'm here." He sips his drink and grits his teeth as it goes down. Then he looks at Roman. "What are you doing here, in Vale?"

  Roman waves a finger. "That's a secret, Kitty. Now, don't mind me, I just need to do some business with Junior here." Roman walks over to said man, and they begin to talk in hushed tones.

  Byzan narrows his eyes at Roman as he sips on his drink. "What are you up to, Roman..." Byzan coughs a little and sets his drink down. "Oh, that's strong..." His eyes light up. "I like it."

  A new song pys over the clubs speakers and Byzan taps his finger to the beat. "Oh, I like this song."

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  At then entrance of the club a tall blonde walks in, here to do some business.

  She walks through the club and past Roman and Junior as they end their conversation. She sits down beside Byzan as he sips on his drink.

  "Strawyberry Sunrise." She says to the bartender. "No ice. Oh, and one of those little umbrels."

  The bartender nods and gets to work.

  The girl looks over to Byzan and smirks. "Why, hello there kitty cat."

  Byzan lightly smiles and gnces at the girl. "Hello, Goldie."

  "The names Yang, you?"

  "Byzan,but my friends call me Byzz."

  Yang leans over to Byzan. "Oh, then maybe I can call you Byzz."

  Byzan smirks and gets close to Yang. "Maybe you can, Goldie, if you py your cards right."

  Yang gives a cat call. "Oh, I like a challenge."

  Junior walks over. "Aren't you a little young to be in this club, Blondie?"

  Yang rolls her eyes and turns to Junior. "Aren't you a little old to have a name like Junior?"

  "So you know who I am. You got a name, sweatheart?"

  Yang stands up and faces Junior. Byzan watches with interest as he sips his drink. "Yes, Junior. I've got several. But instead of sweetheart, you can call me sir." She grabs his groin and squeezes it painfully, casing him to cry out in pain.

  Byzan's eyes widen as his ears fold back and he squeezes his thighs together.

  "People say you know everything." Yang brings up her scroll to Juniors face, showing him a picture. "Tell me where I can find her and I'll let you go."

  "I've never seen her before, I swear!" Junior says in a strained tone.

  "Excuse me?"

  "I swear, sir!"

  Junior's henchmen begin to gather around. Byzan grows an excited look.

  "Looks like you're getting a crowd of admirers, Goldie." Byzan calls out.

  "Oh, are you one of those admirers too~" Yang says in a flirtatious tone.

  "Maybe~"

  Yang looks at Junior. "This must be kind of embarrassing for you, huh? Awkward..."

  "Listen, Blondie sir." Junior says in a strained tone. "If you want to make it out of those club alive, I suggest you let me go. Now!" Yang lets him go and he sighs in relief. "You'll pay for that!" He puts on his sungsses and walks away.

  Byzan notices the bartender reaches below the counter as he gres at Yang. He also notices a couple henchmen sitting nearby putting their hands on their weapons. Byzan just smirks as he continues to lightly sip on his drink.

  Yang closely follows behind Junior. "Oh Junior, I was just pying with you! Don't be so sensitive! Come on, lets kiss and make up, okay?"

  Junior stops and turns around. "Huh? Uh, okay?"

  Byzan gces back at Junior with a look of disgust.

  As Junior leans in, Yang punches him in the face, sending him flying across the room. Breaking a gss pilr and sending everyone, but the henchmen, running out of the club.

  "Well, here comes the fun." Byzan grows a Cheshire smile.

  The bartender brings out a tommy gun from under the table, and aims it at Yang. But Byzan swiftly leans forward and grabs his tie and sms his head into the bar, heard. The bartender falls to the ground unconscious as a few henchmen turn to Byzan.

  Byzan stands up and cracks his neck, before downing his drink. "Well, come on, let's fight!"

  A couple Henchmen run towards Byzan and he ughs and tosses his empty drink into the face of one of the goons, shattering the gss across his face. Byzan's clone then appears above another goon and drop kicks him to the ground.

  The cat faunus swiftly takes out his sword, but keeps it in its sheath. His clone swiftly grabs his arm and tosses him towards Yang, where he Ace kicks a goon in the head about to hit Yang.

  "Nice of you to join." Yang ducks under a sword and rapidly punches a henchmen in the gun as she fires her shotgun gauntlets.

  "Nice of you to make the fun." Byzan turns to the side as a goon sms an axe in the ground where he was standing.

  Byzan and a clone, which appears on the other side of the goon, both punch the man in the face. Then they both kick him in the gut, sending the goon flying through a gss pilr. Byzan then ducks down as his clone blocks a sword coming for his head, and Byzan fires his flintlock into the man's chest, sending him crashing to the ground.

  Byzan then back flips as his clone gets shot several times in the chest, before disappearing in a poof of smoke. "That was rather mean." He looks to the side where he sees a Henchman pointing a pistol at him. The cat smirks and charges towards the goon.

  The goon open fires on Byzan as he runs towards him, but he bobs and weaves through the rounds and jumps into the air, kicking the goon in the chest, before using his sheathed sword as a baseball bat and hitting a home run with the goon.

  "Heads up!" Yang Yel as the DJ open fires onto the two.

  Byzan smiles as Yang runs towards and as a clone appears next to him. The two grab Yang by the arms as she reaches them, and they throw her up towards the DJ.

  Yang swiftly deals with the DJ, but also breaks the music board, cutting off the clubs music. She then throws the DJ down near Byzan, but the DJ sms into his clone, causing it to disappear as the DJ slides across the floor.

  "Man, you have bad luck." Byzan looks at the purple smoke that was his clone.

  Then the two Machite twins step into the room.

  "Menie, who is this girl?" Miltia asks.

  "I dunno Miltia but we should teach her a lesson." Menie responds. "Shame, I did find the other one pretty cute~"

  "Oh, same here~ But we need to tech them a lesson as well."

  Yang loads another belt of ammunition into Ember Celica.

  Yang jumps down beside Byzan as he spins his sword around.

  "So, which one do you want?" Yang asks as she brings up her fists.

  "Hmm?" Byzan tilts his head and puts a finger on his chin. "I think I'll take the red one, she's pretty cute."

  "Then I'll take the other one."

  "Okay~" Byzan readies his sword. "Fight!"

  Yang and Byzan shoot forward and charge at their targets. Miltia brings up her cws weapon and blocks Byzan's sword.

  "Come on cutie, help us take down this blonde bitch, and we'll happily reward you~" Miltia says as she and Byzan push on each other's weapons.

  "Hmmm?" A finger is put on Byzan's chin. "I don't think so~"

  Miltia realizes that the finger is from Byzan's clone, which punches the girl in the chest, sending her away Miltia back flips and nds on her fet and comes to a sliding stop.

  She looks up and sees Byzan and his clone bringing their foot down onto her. She swiftly swings her cws and destroys the clone, and throws Byzan away.

  Byzan nds on some gss as his aura covers him. "Oh, my back..."

  Byzan rolls to the side as Miltia sms her cw into the ground where the cat was. He swiftly pushes himself up and swipes the girls' legs causing her to fall.

  Byzan swings his bde up, hitting Miltia up into the air, then swiftly changes it into gun form. "Bang."

  Byzan fires his gun, striking the girl in the chest and sending her into the roof. She then falls down and sms into the ground. The holograms in the club cut off as the twins walk off in pain and Junior shows up as a spotlight shines down onto him.

  Junior walks towards the two with his bazooka. "You're gonna pay for this."

  "Is that a fucking rocket uncher?" Byzan asks as he tilts his head.

  Junior fires onto the two, and the rocket splits apart and releases several smaller rockets. Yang back flips as rockets explode near her, Byzan jumps up and his clone appears in front of him.

  "Waaah!" The clone screams as several rockets sm into it, blowing up. The clone disappears and Byzan nds on the ground and spins his sheathed sword around to parry the rockets away from him.

  Yang then jumps in front of the cat and fires her gauntlets, blowing up several rockets coming towards them. Then out of the smoke Junior appears with his rocket uncher turned into a rge bat. He swings it and sends Yang flying away and smashing into a rge gss table.

  Junior swings his bat at Byzan, but he parries the attack with his weapon and delivers several kicks into Junior's side, before punching him away.

  Junior flips in the air and changes his weapon back into gun form and fires several rockets at Byzan.

  "Well, shit..." Byzan mutters as summons a clone in front of him, and it swiftly takes the brunt of the attacks, but several blow up in front of the cat, sending him sliding back towards Yang.

  Yang catches Byzan and he smiles at her. "Thanks for the catch, but um... can you move your hand."

  Yang's right hand rests over Byzan's buttocks and she gives it a firm squeeze. "What if I don't want to?"

  Byzan rolls his eyes and kicks Yang to the side and back flips as rockets blow up where they were standing.

  "That makes us even." Yang calls out.

  Byzan spins his weapon around as he rubs his cat ears. "Hardly."

  Yang's hair burns brightly as she sms her hands together and activates her sembnce. Her lic eyes change to red. Byzan grabs a bottle off the ground and finds it unopened.

  "Eh, I think she's got this." Byzan opens the bottle and drinks it's contents.

  Yang rushes towards Junior as he fires several rockets towards her, but she ducks under them. And as she reaches the tall man he changes his bazooka into a bat and tries to sm it into her, twice but she side steps both attacks.

  Yang then delivers several blows to Juniors' chest, before blowing him across the room, where he stumbles and looks down at his broken bat, then to some golden strands of hair in his other hand.

  Yang then notices the hair in his hands and she grows pissed, sending fmes everywhere, and making Byzan use his aura to shield himself from the fmes.

  Yang then yells as she charges forward and delivers a final blow to Junior's face, sending him flying out a window and onto the streets outside.

  Police sirens wail in the distance and Byzan tosses the empty bottle in his hands to the side. He turns to Yang, who's still a little angry. "Hey, see ya ter Goldie. Maybe we'll meet again one day."

  Yang's eyes return to normal as her fire dies down. She smirks towards the cat. "See ya ter kitty. Make sure to keep that firm ass out of trouble."

  Byzan snorts as he sets his weapon on his back. "Sure, I'll try my best." He runs up and jumps out of a broken window and onto a fire exit.

  The cat swiftly climbs up and onto the roofs. Where he starts running. A tall figure, with white hair and golden eyes, watches from a distance.

  A smile forms on the figure. "Eh, so that's Byzan Beldonna, huh?"

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  Byzan shuffles into his room, dropping his equipment onto the ground and falling onto the bed.

  "I'm so fucking tired." His cat ears drop as he ys face down onto the pillow. "But eh, it was pretty fun."

  He rolls onto his back as he slowly takes off his waist coat, shirt, tie and scarf. He throws the clothes to the side, showing off his smooth chest and stomach that's still bandaged up.

  His feminine face stares up to the ceiling for a few moments, before turning off the mp on his desk and close his amber eyes.

  "Beacon, here I come."

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  Byzan stands at the window of an airship as he watches Vale move below. A smile forms on his face as he looks ahead and sees Beacon up ahead.

  "Ambré, I'm so nervous!" A female voice nervously says.

  "Oh, you'll be fine, s?ur." A more mature voice responds.

  "Oh, you don't know that!"

  Byzan's ears flicker as he gnces behind him and sees a rather short female with long white hair, a golden left eye and a blue right eye, and a rather rge bust. She stands next to a much taller female with short white hair, that barely reaches her chin, but is done up in a short pony tail. She has a golden right eye and a blue left eye. She does have a rather small bust.

  The taller female, which Byzan suspects to be Ambré, pats the shorter girl on the shoulder. "You'll be fine, Rose. Don't forget, I'm a first year as well."

  Rose looks slightly guilty. "I feel back for making you wait a year to register though."

  "Bah, it'll be fine! I'm just happy to be here with my sister."

  Rose gives her sister a bright smile.

  Byzan looks back at the window and looks at his reflection. 'Heh, Bke, I wonder how long it'll take for me to find you here.'

  Suddenly a hologram of Glynda Good witch appears around the airship.

  "Hello, and welcome to Beacon!" Glynda greets. "My name is Glynda Goodwitch."

  "Must be a professor of sorts." Byzan mutters to himself.

  "You are among a privileged few who have received the honor of being selected to attend this prestigious academy! Our world is experiencing an incredible time of peace, and as future Huntsmen and Huntresses, it is your duty to uphold it. You have demonstrated the courage needed for such a task, and now it is our turn to provide you with the knowledge and the training to protect our world."

  Glynda disappears and Byzan looks back outside.

  'I'm only doing this because of what I learned. The truth behind everything. If I don't stand up to it, who will?'

  Byzan sighs and takes out his fsk. "Well, I shouldn't have to worry about that for a good four years." He takes a rge drink from his fsk, a little purple liquid falls from the corner of his mouth.

  'But something tells me that the ones in the shadows won't stay silent for long.'

  Byzan stares out the window as the airship readies to nd at Beacon Academy. Then he tugs on his shirt colr.

  "But man, is it warm in Vale." The cat compins.

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