Pyrrha smiled as Weiss brushed her fox tail.

Two months have passed since the Spartan and Jaune started dating, and everything seemed to finally get in its tracks again. Certainly nothing was back as it was before. Mostly changes were for positive, as the hate aimed at the redhead by racists and people thinking her transformation was some form of affront subdued into easy to ignore levels. Pyrrha still had to deal with racism, both subtle and not, but with her friends and lover support it all seemed manageable.

The girl's only regret is that she still couldn't fix the situation with her mother. They barely talked, and most of the times her mother kept talking to her about changing her condition, and that always made them argue, though everything was going more civil recently. Weiss ended assuming the position of manager for the redhead, and did a good job on that. It was the heiress idea to kept Pyrrha's looks top notch. She defined well to Pyrrha that while appearance don't matter in battle, this was her first tournament as a fox girl, and both winning and looking good while winning would have positive repercussions.

"So, it was true. The Invincible Girl turned into a fox."

Pyrrha opened her eyes and saw her opponent in the finals standing at the door. It was a taller girl than Pyrrha, but slender in body, carrying a trident and similar armor to Pyrrha's, just black and with silver details. She had grey eyes and black hair, and gave her opponent a curious look.

"Hello again, Lita. I am eager to fight against you." The redhead voice carried determination but gentleness.

"So do I. I just came here to tell you that I don't care about tails and ears. This time I will win, so I hope you to not hold back too." The girl Pyrrha called Lita answered, and it was clear that a rivalry existed between them.

"I will, because I can't win against you otherwise." Lita gave a smirk and left, and Weiss looked curiously at that exchange.

"That girl was surprisingly… pleasant in her challenge."

"Hippolyta Glaucus, three times second place in the Mistral tournament, former classmate from combat school. She is a nice girl, but very competitive. I am glad she still sees me as an equal." Pyrrha stretched and checked her equipment once again. "Better not leave her waiting.

…

The battle was fierce, as Lita clearly trained hard specifically to fight against Pyrrha, even her weapons, a trident that turned into a flamethrower and a net seemed to be designed to take down the redhead. Each blow and parry seemed that they were indeed in equal footing.

Jaune observed from the bleachers, and there was great support for Pyrrha. It was good that the tournament organizers kicked out of the premises anyone that tried to verbally abuse the fox girl, because Nora would certainly break some legs if they allowed it. He was sure that his girlfriend would win, even if she couldn't trigger superfox mode as they dubbed it, unless if her feelings was in a heightened state.

The battle at the arena took several minutes to get to a conclusion, and indeed wit was very close result, Pyrrha barely above the red zone as she launched Lita in the air with her spear and then against the floor, helped by her Semblance. Both warrior girls panted hard after the judge ended the match, and Pyrrha helped her rival up.

"You certainly got tougher, Lita. You almost had me there in many moments." Pyrrha said as her rival shook her head.

"You got better too, despite all my training. But I will win next time, Nikos. And it will be you chasing me then." Lita smiled at her rival and they both shared a laugh.

"I will be even harder to defeat, Lita. I will eagerly await our next match."

…

The after party was what Pyrrha wanted most. Hugging and kissing Jaune was something she still was more than eager to do, and being with her friends also made any victory so much more worth. She really didn't care much about fans and sponsors, but seeing the proud faces of their friends and especially of him, was reason enough to keep competing.

"Congrats, Pyrrha!" Ruby shouted as she hovered the fox girl, before Yang pulled her back from her cloak.

"Yep, congrats P-money. Now that you are a champion, again, what you say we go celebrate by eating the cheesiest pizza we can grab?" Pyrrha laughed and found it would be way better than giving interviews or dealing with fans.

"That would be grand." She answered with a smile as she snuggled Jaune's arms.

"Pyrrha…"

They turned around to see Thea Nikos standing there. Different from the first time they saw her, Pyrrha's mother wore a very calm expression, if a bit sad. Even so, Pyrrha's first instinct was to hold tighter on Jaune, and her friends got closer to her too. Memories of how things had gone the first time still fresh in their memories. Thea noticed that.

"Don't worry; I am not here to try to take you back. I just want to talk, really talk, if possible."

"Pyr, talk to her. She is her mother, after all." Jaune was the first to speak, and gave her a reassuring smile and a kiss on the forehead. Pyrrha smiled back at him and after a few moments let go of his arm, and approached her mother.

"Let's go to the locker rooms. Nobody should be there right now." Pyrrha walked and her mother followed, concerned stares laid on them from the group.

…

"Your boyfriend seems to really love you…" Thea was the first to speak after a few minutes of silence between them. Pyrrha gave a small smile at it.

"He has being nothing but perfect to me."

"So, he really is more than I gave for him. I am… sorry…" Pyrrha just stared at her mother, waiting her to continue. "He was right, you know? You were passing through a difficult time in your life and he stood by your side, supported you. It wasn't supposed to be your boyfriend to be the safe net for you to fall back into; it was supposed to be me. But he was right, I let my worries about your career take over my worries about my daughter…"

Pyrrha was a bit shocked about it. After so many months of her and her mother barely talking with each other, she was expecting another shouting contest before they finally were able to make amends. But there was her mother seemingly truly regretting her actions. Pyrrha was unsure what to do now.

"I just… Remember, probably better than you, all the hardships that we had to endure after your father passed away. I don't want you to suffer what we suffered, but I was so scared that I could only see one option, instead of giving you the support you needed." Tears dripped from Thea's eyes, and Pyrrha finally let her emotions take over, hugging her mother.

"Mom, I was so scared that I might have lost you…"

"And I, you. Can you forgive me, Pyrrha?"

"Of course I can, mom…"

They cried out for a little while, hugging each other. They just stopped when Pyrrha's mother started to pet her daughter's fox ears, making Pyrrha feel finally safe in her mother's company again. They resumed talking after a few minutes.

"I need to say sorry to the boy too…"

"Jaune will probably shrug it off as it never happened." Pyrrha smirked as she said that because that was certainly what would happen. Jaune's mind probably had no capacity of understanding the concept of holding a grudge.

"And he took care of you, so I think he deserve a sorry and a thank you. I hope he don't swear though. Or that you start to do like him." Thea smiled at the commented, and Pyrrha could only laugh heartily.

…

As expected, Jaune shrugged all the tensions off and finally had a proper meeting with Thea, the older woman surprised how he could be like that, but seeing how happy her daughter was made her accept that this was the kind of person the knight was. Tensions still existed between Thea and the others, except maybe Nora that seemed more confused than anything. Pyrrha on the other hand was happy one of the things she most feared, not being able to have a normal relationship with her mother, was finally fixed.

"So, mom, we were about to eat pizza… I wonder if you want to come with us?" Pyrrha asked when everyone stopped talking.

"I don't want to intrude, hun." Thea knew some of the girls were still wary of her.

"Nonsense. It is your daughter's victory party, and you should be here too." Jaune stated, somewhat removing the rest of the tension still present.

"Does this includes the sister of the champion's boyfriend?"

They turned around to see Chia Arc, one of the many sisters Jaune had approaching the group. She was wearing a business suit with leather gloves; a usual look for her as she worked as administrator for the Arc's business. She was twins with Micaela, but wore her blonde hair short. Jaune was the first to speak with her.

"Sis? What are you doing here?"

"Can't I visit my lil bro and her gorgeous girlfriend and friends?" She smiled and chuckled. "Since we are all going to eat a nice pizza anyway, I wanted to use this opportunity to talk business with the champion."

"Business?" Both Thea and Pyrrha wondered.

…

"Red wine?" Pyrrha wondered as she sipped a bit of the beverage Chia bring with her to the pizza parlor, causing casual onlookers to wonder what a bunch of teenagers and two older women were doing while eating pizza and drinking wine.

"Yes. You know how our family owns a vineyard and we produce the finest white wine in Remnant? For some time we have being wanting to diversify our line of products, and we finally developed a perfect red wine after all those years." Chia explained to them, and Pyrrha tasted the wine one more time. Surely it was a great one; she just failed to see what she had to do with all that.

"So, red wine, redhead, do you catch my drift?" Chia said, confusing everyone. It was Thea that understood it first.

"You want my daughter to promote your wine?"

"Actually, I want your daughter to be on the label itself." Chia put on the table the final draft of the label that would adorn the bottles. It was clear Pyrrha in her fox form, walking between the grapevines in a tunic. It was a very beautiful drawing, for sure. "Our marketing strategy is to associate a victorious person like Pyrrha to the wine, basically stating that our wine is the chosen one by successful people. We even choose its name based on Pyrrha, Renard Rouge.

"That is… nice… But…" Thea started talking, but Chia cut her, understanding her worries.

"We were going to ask your daughter anyway, basically we had chose her to be our poster girl since Jaune here told us she was his partner. The four time Mistral champion was too good to pass, but then, she turned into a cute fox, forcing us to rework our project to accommodate the change. Believe me when I tell you this, Mrs. Nikos, I am not asking of your daughter this because my brother is in love with her. I am a business woman, and I believe having her in the labels will be a smart business move."

"You can trust my sister on this, Mrs. Nikos. She is a bit too attached to money, and she will not do anything out of the good of her heart if it includes losing it." Jaune commented, and Chia made a fake indignant gesture.

"You hurt me, brother! I will let you all know that I am a very generous person. It is a great marketing strategy." She said with a wink, and general laughter filled the table.

"What you say Pyrrha?" Thea asked her daughter, which was lost in thought for a moment.

"That sounds grand, but how many is there for us." Pyrrha asked, and everyone was a bit shocked she could go in full business mode like that. The only one that knew of that streak was Thea.

…

"I will send the first draft of the contract by next week. I might say, Jauney, your girlfriend knows how to do business." Chia said as they walked to the airship docks.

"It was a pleasure doing business with you, Chia." Pyrrha said as she walked hand in hand with Jaune. "A shame you can't stay longer."

"Next time we meet I will make sure to properly tease you two." Chia winked to Pyrrha, creating more laugh.

"You should stay longer, Mrs. Nikos." Jaune said to Pyrrha's mother.

"I want to, but like Chia I have business to attend to. I really just came here to reconcile with my daughter. A trip worth taking."

Pyrrha and her mother hugged each other tight before the older Nikos had to take the airship back to Mistral, while Chia returned home soon after. The group felt lighter hearted as they walked back to Beacon. Pyrrha entered their room with a smile across her face as her life seemed to return as close as how it was before. She sat on her bed (well, Jaune's bed, but she simple refused to sleep alone nowadays) and relaxed as her teammates started to get ready to sleep.

"Pyr, catch!" Jaune threw a package he hid under her bed to Pyrrha. She opened and saw a beautiful purple kimono-like sleep wear like the one Blake used. "Once you said you thought one of those were cute, so I GAH!"

Jaune couldn't keep talking with Pyrrha as she glomped him and smothered him on kisses. The girl couldn't be happier with her boyfriend, and many times she would give him clearly demonstrations of affection. It was usually up to Ren, Weiss or Ms. Goodwitch to make them behave.

…

Jaune woke up without the now familiar presence of his girlfriend on top of him. He looked around and couldn't find Pyrrha anywhere. He saw the window open, and saw the girl walking towards one of the many gardens Beacon had. He wondered why she did that but decided to get dressed and followed her as fast as possible.

He followed her through the eastern gardens of Beacon, which ended in a big pond, where he found Pyrrha. She was in her super fox mode, her nine white tails glowing under the full moon light. She turned around and Jaune noticed that now even her ears were white, and her eyes had a golden glow on them. He carefully approached her.

"You... aren't Pyrrha…"

"So you could tell. I am not actually surprised though. You love her after all." She answered, and smiled at the confused look the boy gave. "You can call me Kitsune, if you wish. I am the spirit residing on this girl's body at the moment."

"I thought your soul merged with Pyrrha's…"

"Right now, our souls are more like when you mix chocolate syrup in milk and start to spin it, yet you still can see the milk and chocolate separated at first. But indeed, who I am and who she is will get mixed more and more, until only her remain, with a little flavor of me, of course." She had a sweet smile in her face, and Jaune looked even more confused.

"But, why now you decided to talk to me?"

"Because… When you helped me back in the forest close to the magenta eyed boy's village, I was curious about you. Someone that put my offertory back, left an offer, and even helped a little fox out of goodness of your heart; you aren't someone you can find every day." Kitsune approached Jaune and gentle touched his cheek with her fingertips. "I wanted to know you more, and this girl shared the same wishes and hopes for you I held, so she became a perfect vessel for me."

"I think there would be better methods to get to know me better. You could have paid me lunch or something." The comment made Kitsune laugh and set her golden eyes on Jaune's blue ones.

"I am sorry I cause your beloved grief. It was unexpected and not my intention. But that made me, one who have lived for millennia, fall in love for you, a gentle boy whose heart is pure. That is why I am talking with you, because your next words will decide my destiny, as this girl's." Jaune was completely lost at her words. That spirit fox was telling him, a common guy, she loved him, while possessing the body of his girlfriend. "If you wish, I will leave her body, and only a little bit of me will be left behind. She will be human again. But if you so wish, I will complete the fusion, and Pyrrha will be the only one left, and through her I will be able to live this love I feel for you, yet she will forever be a fox woman."

Jaune spent a few moments processing those words. He really didn't care if Pyrrha was a Faunus or not, and the few changes in personality she had were, indeed, quite endearing. On the other hand, he also liked the more serious Pyrrha, and in the end, to him, that was indifferent. But if Pyrrha became human again, she would have her normal life back. In the end, there was only one decision he could make.

"It is her life, and yours. Only the two of you could make this decision." He stated, and Kitsune laughed.

"She chose well. I wish… No, let's not talk about it. Can you make a promise with me?"

"A promise?"

"That if Pyrrha chooses to let go of me, you will come once a year to my offertory and pay me a visit?"

"Certainly I can, more than once if possible." He said with a smile, and Kitsune replied with one of her own.

"You won't remember this talk, except for your promise, Jaune Arc. But know I feel happy for meeting you."

Kitsune gently kissed Jaune on his lips, and sleepiness took over his body. She used her powers to levitate him towards a tree, and then turned around. She looked towards the pond, to the fractured moon reflected on the water. As she walked further, an image of Pyrrha was left behind, and Kitsune assumed the form of a dark haired girl as she turned towards the Spartan.

"Hello, Pyrrha, this is the first time we actually meet."

"You are the spirit." Pyrrha simple said, more amused than surprised. She turned around to see Jaune's sleeping at the tree.

"I am in love with him too." The phrase made Pyrrha want to dart towards the boy and hug him, afraid the fox spirit was there to take him from her, but yet she remained. "He loves you. You love him. Only through you I can live this love. But if so you want, I will leave."

"What that means?" Pyrrha asked the girl in front of her. She had a very sad expression in her face.

"I never wanted to cause you problems. I offer you a chance to return to the form you had before, while I return to the woods far away from here. But I am in love with him, and I wish to live this love, through you."

Pyrrha could tell somehow that those were words from the heart. If that offer was made before, she probably would have taken it. Certainly Jaune and her friends wouldn't mind either way, yet she would have the life she was used too. But after so long, she just came to accept her new life, and not everything was problems. Besides, it was thanks to Kitsune she and Jaune were together.

But there was one thing; one thought that crossed Pyrrha's minds.

What I would do if I was in her place? What I would want, and what would I feel…

"I came to a decision…" Pyrrha finally spoke, and Kitsune smiled back.

…

Once again Jaune woke up with an unfamiliar feeling. He wasn't in his bed, but in one of Beacon's gardens, his back resting against a tree. But this time, he had the familiar feeling of Pyrrha hugging him, and he looked down to see the familiar form of his girlfriend cuddling him. He petted her fox ears and she waggled her tail happily at it. He noticed her ears had white tips, and wondered if he never noticed it before.

"Pyrrha, better he return to our room. Ms. Goodwitch does night rounds sometimes and I am damn sure she will not accept we were just taking a walk and slept outside." Pyrrha answered by kissing him deeply.

"So, why not do it?" She winked at Jaune, his face redder than her hair.

"Pyr!"

"Just kidding! Come on! Get me!"

Pyrrha got up and rushed back towards the dorm building. Jaune soon was running after her, and she giggled happily. She didn't know why, but she felt a sudden happiness she couldn't explain, but she didn't care. She was happy, incredible so. It didn't matter her life changed in a heartbeat, she was in love. Everyone important to her was there for her.

As she ran under the moonlight, she let that happiness fill her soul.

…

A.N. And that concludes this story. It was a nice one to write, but I probably will make the next one lighter in tone, maybe an AU thing involving more of both team RWBY and JNPR. See you next time. :3