"I need more coffee."

He has been in this position for a while. Ozpin has been receiving nothing but call after call for the past few days. This all started after the sudden arrival of the Zarrans, or at least that's what they called themselves. Apparently, they came from some land far away from the other kingdoms. But that wasn't even the most interesting thing about them. The entirety of their populace is faunus. Granted they were a kind of faunus that has never been seen before, but they were faunus nonetheless.

Their appearance has shown a huge explosion within the media. It is pretty much the only thing on the news at the moment. One half of the media talking about how the discovery of this new faunus type raised large concerns regarding faunus rights seeing as the new nation was run by them, while the other half calling them a potential threat if and when they decided to pick up the White Fang's cause.

But this was of little concern to him right now seeing as this new nation would no doubt have a military that he could use to further his plans if he played his cards right, but first he had to get rid of the splinter in his side that went by the name of Ironwood. His calls from his long time friend were getting more frequent and repetitive. For all of the things Ironwood to be paranoid about, the discovery of this new faunus species had to the worst of them.

But his concerns raised legitimate questions. What are their intentions? How big is their nation? Why do they not have any Grimm in the country? This last question perturbed him the most. While speaking to the explorers that showed up on our shores, we discovered that grimm resembled nothing but ancient beasts from their past. For them to have no Grimm made no sense.

Why would 'She' leave them alone?

He decided to think further on the subject later. For now he had to make preparations. The king of their so called "Zarumb Republic" decided to send his son to Beacon to "learn" more about our way of life. How a nation that had royal families could be considered a republic made no sense to him, but he would leave those kind of questions to Oobleck.

He would usually just hand the paperwork off to Glynda to do, but she was already busy with keeping the press off their school. It would be nice if they could keep the news of a Zarran prince arriving from spreading too much.

So as of right now he was stuck with an intimidating amount of paper on his desk. As Ozpin was signing off on something, the man he had been avoiding for the past few days bursts through his office doors with Ironwood's usual calm facade gone replaced with one of annoyance.

"Since you've elected to ignore my calls I am forced to come and see you in person"

"Nice of you to drop in to visit an old friend," replied Ozpin nonchalantly.

"Don't give me the pleasantries, you know damn well why I'm here, we can-"

"And like I said over the first few calls we need to know more about them. For this new kingdom to have driven their grimm to extinction," sighs, "I need answers and I won't get them by giving into your paranoia." Ozpin said cutting off Ironwood, losing his trademark smile halfway through the small rant.

"But Ozpin we are talking about a race of beings that have been cut off from us, for what we could assume, since the beginning of time. I can't tell you the ramifications that entails. For them to not even to not have unlocked their auras or harnessed the power of dusts it's a miracle they survived this long."

Ironwood was making a good point. For them to survive without their aura or dust manipulation for this long was impressive and that is why Ozpin needed them. He needed to know what made them so special that 'She' would leave them alone.

"Ozpin why are you just letting them come here to this school, what is the plan here. We made a pact all those years ago to keep everyone in the loop and I feel you're not keeping your end of the deal," Ironwood said with concern evident in his voice, "What is it that you're so concerned about that you would let an unknown kingdom, that we know so little about enter your precious school?"

"That is the reason."

"What do you mean?"

Ozpin responded with his hands weaved together in front of his face, "For this new kingdom to have gone unnoticed by us to suddenly show up and send the only heir for the current king to a land that they know nothing about as a diplomat. They're either know more than they are letting on or they have ulterior motives for our kingdoms. Or they could very well be the most incompetent people to exist, but I do believe we can safely rule that out."

"That is the point I am trying to make!" Ironwood getting agitated at this point,"We have no ideas of their intentions and you're just going to-"

"That is exactly why I'm having them come to my school. With their diplomats here I can figure out their motives faster and safer if they went to somewhere else."

"Okay if that is what you believe then fine, but just keep me updated if anything changes. I don't want a repeat of what happened all those years ago." And with that Ironwood left looking like he wasn't fully satisfied.

"I don't want that either," Ozpin breathed out as he returned to his paperwork. This is going to be a long night Ozpin thought drinking the last sip of his coffee.

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AN: Sorry for the long wait a bunch of things hit me and my co-writer all at once from work to college, but the good news is that we took that time to streamline our thoughts and ideas for this story. Even though that may be the case our uploading of this story may be still be erratic as we still have busy jobs. e hoped you liked this small chapter of ours and please give us some feedback as to what you liked and didnt like to help with our characterizations of the characters and the story as large.