Penny's room was vibrant in colors and decorations. It was all happy, with toys neatly stacked and books put away in alphabetical order in the bookshelf. It was happy, but it was also orderly. It was lived in, but still had the foreign feeling when you move into a new house. Penny liked it that way, mainly because she didn't know any other way. Her day consisted of waking up, going to her classes for a few hours, and then going back to bed. She liked her life, mainly because she didn't know any other way.

She woke, hearing the bell go off for the first time that day. She got up and got dressed in her normal clothes, fixing her hair in a bright pink bow. Skipping down the long barren halls she makes it to the classroom. Since her family was rich, so she was homeschooled. Penny had her doubts about the logic, but she was happy anyways. Mrs. Goodwitch was a nice lady.

In the classroom were two desks instead of the normal one. In the one farthest from the door was a bored looking girl. Her hair was done up in an off center ponytail and her white dress was prim and proper. Eyes widening, Penny walks over, unsure of what to do. She had never met a girl her age before. "Hello there, my name is Penny!" she proclaimed loudly, startling the girl, her pale blue eyes containing a bit of fear in them.

"Oh. Hello, Penny. My name is Weiss." The girl's speech was chopped and practiced, as if she had said it many times over but never liked the sound of it. Smiling brightly, Penny sits down in the other desk just as Mrs. Goodwitch walks into the room.

"Hello, girls. Have you too introduced yourselves yet?" after receiving the affirmative, she continues. "Well, Penny, the Schnee family will be staying with us for a week or so. It's all business, you see. Something you wouldn't understand. Now then, are you two ready for class?" then Mrs. Goodwitch launched into a lecture about the history of dust and the Grimm.

After the class was over Penny had an hour break. Chasing after Weiss, she politely asked if she wanted to play. "Play? I'm not a child, I don't play. I read or I practice with Myrtenaster." Penny then stopped dead and walked away. There went a friend. Oh well, there would always be others.

Passing the kitchen, she hears a clamor. Peeking in, she sees that the cooks are chasing something. No, not something, someone. From what Penny could see, it was a small boy, no older than she herself was. He had wild blond hair, tanned skin, and a tail. Penny had never met a faunus before, so she motioned for him to come with her. Maybe she'd have more luck with this one.

Apparently desperate for an escape, the boy runs out the door, following Penny through the halls and to her room. There, she motioned him under the bed, whispering "Hide here." Just as he scrambled under, there was a knocking on her door. "Come in!" she chirruped happily.

In came her father, looking ruffled and frustrated. "Penny did you see a faunus run by here?"

"A faunus? No, I didn't know we had one living with us!"

There was a pause. "We don't. Just tell someone if you see him, ok?"

"Of course, father!" after he had left and trudged back down the hallway, there was a soft voice from under her bed.

"Can I come out now?" after answering in the affirmative, the faunus scrambled from under the bed, standing at least two inches below Penny. Like she had with Weiss, she stuck out her hand and introduced herself.

"Hello, I'm Penny!" The boy looked at the offered hand for a moment before he reached for it, dislodging a piece of bread from inside is shirt. Forgetting the hand, the boy hastily grabs for the bread, muttering something. "I'm sorry, I didn't hear you!"

"I said my name's Sun. Why'd you do that?" Penny paused for a minute, wondering what he meant.

"Did what?"

"You helped me. Why?"

"Because I had no reason not to." She replied simply.

"You had no reason to, either."

"Well, to make friends you have to take risks." Pointing to the bread, she asks, "Did you take that from the kitchen?"

"Yeah, I did. Sorry, do you want it back?" he held out the bread, hand shaking and thin.

"No, you can keep it as long as you tell me why you took it."

Looking at her with a surprised expression, Sun mutters, "I- well I don't have a family or a home. I need to get food somehow, so I have to steal it. Besides, I have some kids I take care of. I need the bread to feed them and me-"

"You don't have a home?" Penny interrupted.

"Um, no."

"Would you like one?" Sun stared at her for a minute.

"Yeah, I would." He finally said. Penny smiled brightly, knowing what to do. Walking over to her closet, she pulls out a big box. Then she purposefully walks out the door and down to the kitchen. There, she piled the box high with fruits and breads. If anyone asked what she was doing, she would tell them it was for a friend, and surprisingly enough they would back off. Making her way upstairs she stops at a closet in the hall, pulling out clothes, blankets, and shoes. When she got back to the room, Sun was still there. She handed him the box and he looked at it, puzzled.

"There, now you've got a home and supplies to live off of."

Looking at her with the same puzzled expression that she'd seen many times already, he muttered a faint "What?"

"Well, your home is where your heart is right?" She asked, poking him in the chest. "and your friends are where your heart is, so I guess I'm your home. I'll take care of you." There was his face again, confused by the innocent gestures of kindness from a child.

"Y-you think I'm your friend?" Penny viciously shook her head in the affirmative, pulling him into a tight hug. Hearing sniffling, she looks down and sees the boy is crying. Shaking him violently, Penny asks why he's crying. "I- I've never had any-anyone be so nice to me. I'm a f-faunus, and that means people hate me."

"Well you can consider me one less person that hates you!" Feeling the boy hug her back, Penny stays like that for a while, knowing that, no matter how small, she had made a difference in the world, and she liked it.

A knock came once again from her door, and she quickly shoved Sun over to the window, whispering, "Bye for now, friend. Come back if you need a reminder that you have a home now."

Once she was sure Sun was gone, Penny opened the door, revealing her father once more. Penny, you're late for your class, you have to get going." Nodding, she left the room, catching a glimpse of Sun, reluctantly leaving the room.

When Penny made it to the classroom Mrs. Goodwitch was already beginning a lecture about the war with the faunus. Sitting down, Penny patiently raises her hand. "Yes, Penny?"

"Why did humans fight the faunus?"

The question must have thrown Glinda for a loop, for it took her a while to answer. "Well, I guess it's because humans fear the things they don't understand."

"But why?"

"I- I don't know." Glinda answered uncertainly.

"Why do you even want to know?" Weiss butted in. "They are savages and don't belong in society."

The next thing Penny knew her swords were out and Weiss was on the floor, a look of horror in her wet eyes. A thin stream of blood ran down her face, and she burst into tears. Stumbling away, Penny runs back to her room, hearing Mrs. Goodwitch yelling after her.