Hah! I'm not dead yet! ;D Yeah yeah I know I haven't done crap for months, but like... yo, it's hard to do this sometimes. I am trying to improve my actual writing and what not. Longer chapters, more detail, etc. I am working on my other stories as well as a couple other things, thank you all for your reviews and consistent patience. Much love. ~Car~

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So… that had settled it, she was a member of team RWBY now.. or would it be like.. RWNBY or something? The feline had thought to herself, guess she'd figure out when she went back up to talk to Professor Ozpin, right now she had something far more important to focus on… FOOD! She was starving still, and breakfast sounded amazing to her. Turning her head to her new team leader she smiled a bit. "Thank you.. For like, inviting me to your team.. And stuff."

Ruby was more than happy to help the Faunus out, she'd feel terrible sending her back onto the streets, she also didn't really mind having her join the team, it could be fun! "Ohh, don't mention it, Let's just try make the best of it kay?" She said with a giggle, turning a corner towards the cafeteria. "Also, I'm gonna introduce you to our friends that live across the hall from us, they're team JNPR"

"Team JNPR.. got it! Can't wait to meet them." Neon said with a soft smile as they entered the noisy cafeteria, still incredibly grateful to all of her new teammates, even if the others weren't present when the decision was made. As Ruby led them to a table, she noticed what she assumed were the members of team JNPR, one of them being the famous Pyrrha Nikos, she hadn't even thought about meeting her!

As Ruby brought over her new teammate, she got a wave from Jaune and Yang, and waved back. "Hey everyone, sorry it took us so long!" She said, sitting next to Weiss and patting the seat beside her for Neon, who slowly took it.

"No prob sis, we were just telling them about our little stray" Yang chuckled a bit, before taking another bite of her chicken.

Neon blushed a bit as it appeared everyone was staring at her, she was always a social butterfly, so she figured she'd be able to get to know them easily, but she was a little embarrassed and nervous from all of the attention. "Hi everyone, I'm Neon, nice to uhh, meet y'all."

Jaune was about to speak up and greet himself, until he saw Nora lean practically all the way over the table and squint at the Faunus, just… staring her down, the entire table had gone silent at this point.

Neon gulped a bit, not sure if she should say something or not. Turning her eyes over to Ruby she got the same unsure look that she was sure she had. "Uhh"

"Nice to meet you too!" Nora yelled, sitting back down into her seat and smiling brightly. "I'm Nora, this is Ren, Jaune, and Pyrrha!" She said before returning her attention to her pancakes.

The entire table gave a confused glance, before slowly returning to their meals. Neon talked a bit with team JNPR, she was really shocked that Jaune was the leader, he seemed so… clumsy.. But, he must have been better in combat. Thinking about that made her remember that they hadn't told anyone about their conversation with Ozpin, nudging Ruby a bit she leaned over and whispered to her. "Hey.. We should like.. Tell them that I'm part of the team now right?"

Ruby blushed a bit and nodded, how could she have forgotten that. "Ohh yeah, good idea, I'll make the announcement if you want?" Ruby asked, earning a nod from the Kitten. "Hey everyone" Ruby called out loud enough to gain the table's attention. "Neon wants to tell you all something."

"Wait what!?" Neon yelped a bit, blushing as all eyes were on her once again. "Well.. uhh.. Ruby and I, talked to Professor Ozpin earlier about my situation.. And he offered for me to be a student here at Beacon.." Neon said, earning some smiles from and yays from the table, besides Weiss, who clearly was questioning it.

"Wait.. How are you suppose to train here without a team?" She curiously asked, as it made zero sense to her.

"Simple question Weiss, she's joining our team!" Ruby grinned, earning a glare from the heiress, as well as confused glances from the rest of her friends. "What?"

"Ruby… How is she joining our team?" Blake blunty asked, she didn't necessarily have a problem with it, but she wanted to know the logistics of it all.

"Well, Ozpin offered to put me in another team as a fifth.. Where I'd have special tasks and some different training, and Ruby umm.. Volunteered me to join you guys.." She giggled nervously, she could tell Weiss was annoyed, thankfully Yang didn't seem to care and Blake at least looked okay with it.

Weiss huffed a bit and stared at Ruby. "The least you could have done is check to make sure we were all okay with it first you dolt.. But.. I guess we can work with it if it'll help her."

Ruby and Neon both let an exhausted sigh of relief out, they were sure it'd be weird adjusting to this, but at least they got through breakfast.

Neon sat nervously just outside of Ozpin's office, remembering that he'd asked her to come back after she ate. Clicking her feet on the ground for what seemed like an eternity until finally she was called in, nervously walking in she smiled to Ozpin and the tall, blonde female standing near him. "H.. Hello professor.. And miss?"

"Professor Goodwitch, I'm a combat instructor here, nice to meet you Ms. Katt" Glynda said in a calm tone, observing the girl's… eccentric look, even in someone else's clothing.

"I hope breakfast tasted good today?" Ozpin asked, taking a sip of his coffee while Neon sat down in the chair in front of him.

"It was delicious sir, thank you again for this opportunity you're giving me." Neon tried to look as mature as she could, not wanting to leave a bad impression on the headmaster or professor.

"Wonderful, I've taken the liberty of getting you a uniform sent to your room, as well as a class schedule, feel free to skip classes today though and rest, explore the academy if you'd like."

Neon blushed and nodded a bit, very happy she was being given some rest time. "Ohh really, that's wonderful, thank you sir!" She nodded once more, giving a bright smile.

"Now.. let's go over how things will be a bit different for you, being a fifth member to a team does change some things." Ozpin said, before taking another sip of his drink while Glynda laid down some papers in front of the Faunus.

"Firstly, you will be participating in regular team courses and classes with the rest of your team, obviously we want you to be able to do everything they can do, however, you'll also be asked to float to other missions that may prove difficult for teams to handle by themselves, essentially acting as a backup to help them, so you'll need to learn how to adapt to working with multiple partners, but also be careful to not interfere with their training as a team." Glynda rambled off.

Neon stayed as focused as she could, taking in all the info she could that the professor rattled off, basically she was going to be a cushion to help teams in most cases, but also they wanted her to learn how to replace teammates in case of an emergency, it'd be tricky for sure, but she'd try her hardest. As the teacher finally ended her flurry, she sighed and nodded. "I think I understand, I'll make sure to read this over again tonight, and I'll try my hardest."

Ozpin smiled and nodded. "We expect some great things from you, and I'm once again sorry that you're going to be in such a tough position, feel free to take the rest of the day to yourself Miss Katt."

While Neon was happy Ruby let her borrow the clothes, she couldn't have done her laundry quicker when she got back to her dorm, it wasn't like… Yang bad, but still, the girl needed fashion lessons. Finally in her nice cute attire after a few hours, Neon laid back on a bed and began to read through the papers again, sighing and yawning madly.

Weiss and Ruby chit chatted about how perfect combat skirts really were as they headed back to their room, man was today long! Plenty of extra training, Neon's news, and Nora nearly blew up the school at lunch. "I'm so happy today's over, Have you got all your stuff?" Weiss asked, wanting to make sure Ruby wasn't slacking again.

"Yeah totally, got it allllll covered this time, and als-... Weiss.. Look" Ruby whispered while they entered their dorm, blushing and smiling a bit as she saw Neon curled up in bed and snoring.

Weiss turned her head and pouted a bit, before sighing and smiling, she wished it wasn't on her bed, but Neon needed the rest, she could live with stealing Yang's bed. "Poor thing… she's been trying really hard.. Wanna tuck her in?"

"Of course.. Don't want her getting a cold." Ruby softly said, walking with her friend over to the bed and helping her to cover the Faunus in a blanket before moving over to sit on Blake's bed and pulling out their scrolls, they'd stay silent for a few.

Neon felt herself rumbling, there were some noises, but her half asleep mind couldn't even begin to process, yawning a bit she slowly but surely fell back into her sleep.

When the Faunus finally did awake, the room around her was pitch black save the light from team RWBY's alarm clock and the moon. Turning her head she saw that it was 1:00 A.M., and Weiss was…. On a cott on the floor in between all of the beds!? 'Ohh no I fell asleep on her bed…' Neon thought to herself, feeling incredibly grateful of the heiress's actions and guilty of her own. She quickly got off the bed and dusted herself off, moving over to Weiss and giving her a light nudge.

"MMmmm just a few more minutes…" The snow angel waved, not wanting to be awoken. However after another nudge she slowly opened her eyes and looked up, barely making out Neon's shape in the darkness. "Morning.." She whispered, rubbing her eyes.

"Weiss.. I'm so sorry about sleeping on your bed.. Here.. it's all yours now.. Thank you.." Neon quickly and softly said, smiling as Weiss slowly lifted herself up and fell over on her bed with a thud, instantly falling back asleep. She sighed and laid down on the cott, it wasn't great to sleep on.. But it was more than enough.

LINE BREAK

The next morning had gone by fairly simple for Neon, finding herself quickly getting into the shower and breakfast routine of team RWBY, and after introducing herself in Professor Ports class, they went through a lesson of what 5 student teams were like. She found it interesting.. Until he went on.. And on… and on… Eventually she realized that he could ramble, so she decided to zone that one out. But now here she was in combat class, this could be fun!

Glynda watched on as Yang won her match against Ren, her offense proving to be enough to overwhelm him in this one, nodding to the two she looked at her list and smiled a bit, she'd finally get to test the new girl out. "Hmmm Miss Katt.. versus…" Pausing she looked up to the class and examined her options, before finally sighing. "Mr Arc.. you two are up."

Neon, full of energy at this point couldn't wait to have a sparring match, and with the leader of the team that won the Vytal Festival, this would be a great way to get her rust off. Looking over she saw Jaune didn't look quite as happy, maybe he was one of those 'I don't like to hurt girls types'

Jaune sighed as the two got down in the arena, he'd seen her fight, how was he suppose to keep up!? "Good luck Neon.." he chuckled nervously, raising his shield in a defensive position as Ms. Goodwitch stepped back.

Neon took a look, she was great at finding weaknesses, that was her specialty. Squinted she saw how… unnerved her appeared.. Then it hit her like a truck! He wasn't a fighter, that's why he was so uneasy being called out, and why he didn't volunteer. This was gonna be a fun one. "Ohhh thanks Jauney, I'll really need it against you probably, you are the leader of the strongest team in Vale after all.." She grinned, leaning forward a bit on her blades.

Jaune stood nervously as Glynda called the match, he may have been the leader, but really Pyrrha did the work an-" woah!" He yelped as he barely blocked a strike from her nunchaku. He had to focus! Turning to face her again he blinked as she jumped up and skating over his shield.

"Never miss a beat, never miss a beat" Neon repeated to herself silently as she dropping behind him, giving him a quick ruffle of the hair. Sure she could have hit him, but lowering his fighting confidence was more important now. "Ooops, tried to give you bed head, but that mop was already a disaster!" She taunted as she started to skate circles around him.

The blonde felt a bit more flustered at this point, that was rude! Charging forward with his shield in front of him he did a horizontal swing, only to gasp as she didn't try to block at all, instead completely parrying him by limboing under his sword. "W.. what?"

The kitten expertly ducked the swing, twirling behind Jaune and flipping his hood over his head before giving him two quick punches to the rips and sweeping his feet out from under him. Skating back to the center she gave as annoying of a laugh as she could out. "Ohh at least now I don't have to see you anymore!" She giggled, hoping he wouldn't take it too personally once she told him she was just trying to get into his head after the fight.

'I thought we were friends!' Jaune thought to himself, grunting as he stood up. This girl really was rude! "Try this!" He yelled, charging forward again, only to end up on his rear end once again through a series of parry's and taunts. After trying several more times, he panted, ready for his next charge.

"That's enough!" Glynda sighed, hoping Jaune would have caught onto what she was doing at some point, sure he still had some Aura left, but she was clearly toying with him. "Mr. Arc, try to control your emotions better in battle, some fighters will take advantage of hot headed fighting, Ms. Katt was able to read all of your frustrated attacks."

Jaune blinked, he hadn't even realized it. Nodding a bit he lowered his head down in embarrassment. "T.. Thank you Miss Goodwitch, I'll try and work on that."

"Good.. and Miss Katt… Try to take sparring a little more seriously next time." The teacher firmly said, earning a giggling nod from the Faunus.

As the two walked back up to their bleachers, Neon felt the need to clear the air, so she leaned forward and gave the blonde a quick slug on the shoulder. "Hey, just so ya know, I didn't mean all that, I just find it a lot easier to fight if my opponent is doubting themselves, and I'm good at picking out insecurities.. But I don't think you're like… repulsive or anything!" She giggled, earning a blush from Jaune.

"Ohh.. alright, I'm glad we're cool then.. So uhh.. If I'm not that repulsive.. Would you uhh.." He stuttered, walking back into the upper seats of the class.

Neon couldn't help but chuckle a bit. "Jaune.. I'm flattered, really, but I think their is someone else who has their eye on you." She winked, before walking off before Jaune could ask.

Sighing as she sat down, she was met with four large grins from her teammates. "W.. what?"

The whole team started laughing, loving the performance she had given, their laughter however was short lived thanks to a certain blonde teacher, who glared them all down.

Neon had taking the time after classes to set up a little corner for herself, her team kind enough to completely remove one of their two desks, allowing her enough room to lay her cott in the corner, keep her gear neatly tucked away, and give her an area for her clothes. Yawning as she began polishing her rollerblades, she couldn't help but notice a certain pair of silver eyes staring at her. "Sup?"

Ruby squeaked a bit and turned around, doing a double check to make sure her team was all gone. "Well umm.. I was wondering if I could ask you some stuff about like… Faunus..?"

Neon was pretty open about her heritage, so she didn't really mind. Shrugging she gave a quick nod. "Sure, shoot."

"Well… I was just like… Wondering if there are certain things you like.. Or don't like brought up, and if like.. Your animal parts feel good or bad if they are pet.. Or something.. I dunno.." Ruby blushed, clearly nervous about something.

Neon squinted at the girl, before giggled a bit and leaning back. "You have such a crush on someone don't you!" She cackled, eliciting another mouse like squeak from the teen.

"I.. I… How'd you know!" She hissed, turning her head from side to side again.

"I'm good at this.. As for your questions.. Just like.. Don't ask weird stuff like if we eat animal food or treats or whatever, don't degrade us… So… Who is it?" Neon curiously asked, leaning forward onto her cott and looking up at the rose.

"Nope nope nope nope!" Ruby yelled, quickly shaking her head before hiding under her blankets, completely ignoring the pleas from the Faunus from that point on.

I'll really really try to make you not have to wait for 3 months on this next one! Reviews always help motivate me, love y'all!