Najendas’ violet eyes were piercing into mine, “Naj, this is Kaido. I found him in the orchard, I asked where he was from and he said he lived in the forest, and he seemed strong so I invited him to stay with us.”

Naj looked at her, “So you thought it would be wise to bring an unknown person to our living space with no idea of his intentions?” Esdeath nodded, “Sounds right, but my gut tells me he’s a good guy.” Najenda sighs, “Fine, but I swear if you brought back a weak link you will be punished.”

I smirked, “Do I need to prove my strength? If so I’d be more than willing.” Naj raised an eyebrow, “I assume you think pretty highly of yourself, follow me. You too Esdeath, both of you shall fight and prove your strength.”

“Oh? Well I hope I don’t disappoint then.” Naj turned towards me, “I hope you don’t either. Then I’ll actually get you a shirt.” I had a deadpan look on my face, glancing down all I had on was some shorts made from wolf fur. “Alright then! Esdeath is going down!” I followed Naj to a staircase that decends to a spacious room

“This is the training room and battle arena. This is where we shall test you.” I had a grin on my face, ready to fight. “This fight will go till one of you have been knocked unconscious or gives up.”

Esdeath had changed into a tank top and shorts to be more comfortable while fighting. “I shall be refereeing this match. Aura and semblances are allowed to be used.” Now what was that, aura? Semblances? I’ll ask after this fight. “You may fight now.”

I observed her, paying attention to any movement. I feel a temperature drop, I swiftly move to the left and see an ice spike where I previously stood. “Oh? Interesting.” I said and quickly closed the distance.

I threw a jab towards her with my right hand and she blocked it, although she did take a lot of damage from that. I threw a kick immediately towards her knee and it connected, before she could counter I threw an elbow to the side of her head. She fell down and laid unconscious.

“Well you aren’t weak after all, and what is your semblance?” I tilted my head, “That’s the 2nd time I’ve heard that word, that and Aura. What are they?” Najenda looked suprised, “Oh well come here then.” I got up close and she put a hand on my shoulder

“For it is in passing that we achieve immortality. Through this we become a paragon of virtue and glory to rise above all, infinite in distance and unbound by death. I release your soul and by my shoulder protect thee." I felt something be unlocked, a red aura leaked out of my body in large amounts.

I felt something restore, something I was missing came back to me. “You have horns? Are you a faunus?” My horns! I felt my head and my horns were back, thank god. “Faunus? Oh yea, animal people, I guess I am. Anyway my dad was a dragon mom was a human.”

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Najenda had some curious eyes, “Dragons exist?” I nodded, “Everything that has a grimm form exists as a regular animal. Even dragons. Don’t ask how they reproduced, I have no idea either.” She looked as if she just discovered some life changing secret. “I’m going to sleep, is there anywhere I can?” Naj nodded, “Upstairs to the left, that’s our guest room.”

I nodded and walked up, “Alright, see you when I wake up.” I didn’t hear a reply and quickly headed to a bed so I could just fall and rest. I made it upstairs and opened the door. The room was kind of dusty but it was to be expected. I fell onto the bed and went to the dreamland.

I fell asleep and I started dreaming of weird things. ‘Are those this bodies memories?’ It flashed by quick but to me it was clear as day, when this body was young it was kidnapped due to how extremely rare his breed was.

His horns were cut off and sold by one Jacques Schnee for a considerable profit. It was held captive and used as a tool for fighting till he was ‘killed’ and thrown into the forest, where I eventually took over his body.

I woke up a bit shook, but not as bad as to what happened in my last life. ‘I guess I should tell Esdeath and Naj this, before they find out somehow and think I was lying.’

I sighed and stood up, looking out the window I saw a night sky with a shattered moon resting in the vacuum of space. ‘I wonder what happened, so much has changed. I wonder if Ozma got sent forward too.’

I stretched, hearing a satisfying pop from all my joint. I felt refreshed and went downstairs. As I opened my door I heard 2 voices talking back and forth.

“Are you sure he can be trusted? If he finds out what we do he could very well turn us in. He also managed to overpower you in hand to hand combat, thats not something many can do.”

I heard a scoff, “Are you insisting I’m a fool? I know he can be trusted, I think we should-“

I accidentally put too much weight on the floor board. It let out a creak, “Oh, Kaido is that you? Come down here.” I wanted to hit myself, “Yea, coming down now.”

With slow steps I made my way down to the kitchen area where they were discussing stuff, “I have something to tell you both.” They both kept their eyes on me, I let out a sigh and proceeded, “I remembered my past. I already knew my dad was a dragon and my mom was a human, but I didn’t know that when I was young, a man named Jacques Schnee kidnapped me and sold my horns after cutting them out of my head. Afterwards he used me as a tool to fight due to my faunus enhanced abilities until I escaped from them and found myself in the forest after running for a day straight. That’s where I woke up, fought an Ursa and then somehow found the orchard where Esdeath found me and brought me here.”

They digested the information, “That gives me another reason to hate that Jacques Schnee bastard.” Najenda says, anger in her eyes, she looked at her arm made of metal that I hadn’t noticed till now, “When I was young, I was adopted by faunus parents after the death of my birth parents. One day when I was 13, I was abducted from my home under the guise they would protect my village. It was the Atlas military who had taken me and made me their soldier.”

She clenched her fist and became rigid,showing her discomfort. “I trained there for 4 years straight. One afternoon, I was going to meet with Ironwood and I overheard something I shouldn’t have. It was Jacques saying he needed more faunus workers to be in his mines. I had heard rumors but I knew what he meant by workers. He wanted slaves.”

I grew angry as I heard this but let her continue, “I waited till they finished and then entered. I asked if I could visit my hometown in which I got permission to do so. I departed immediately and arrived home in less than 2 days by Bullhead. Nothing seemed out of place and everything was normal, until I saw my best friends back. It was a snowflake logo, branded onto her back. When I asked about it, she told me that the SDC kidnapped them and made them workers in their mines so I went rogue, left Atlas, and met Esdeath in which we became friends and formed an orginization together.”

I had been listening intently, “Organization? Is that what you were talking about inviting me too?” She nodded, “Yes it was, would you like to join us as a member of Night Raid?” I contemplated, “What do you do in Night Raid? If it goes against my morals than I deny your request.”

Instead of Naj, Esdeath explained it, “Night Raid is a group of assassins, we only go after the corrupted of society. No innocents are ever harmed in our line of work.” I nodded at that, “Than I accept your offer, I hope you I don’t disappoint.”

Naj threw a look at me, “I hope you don’t disappoint either.”

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