Greetings, hunters and huntresses, welcome to the next chapter of Team ARCG: Wrath Of A Knight. I hope your going to enjoy it as much as I had writing it, and now on to the review.

kyrogue23: Well Jaune only is lucky with one girl (Pyrrha), and I like the idea that Remus is only lucky with girls if he actually has build a relationship with them (Neo and Ruby for example).

Now it's story time


Ciaran was walking out of his dorm room and was about to head to the courtyard to meet the rest of his team to scout out the arrivals from the other kingdoms for the festival.

At the end of the hall, he saw Velvet looking nervous and trying to decide something but she couldn't make up her mind.

"Hey, Velvet.", the silver haired young man said as he approached her, catching her off-guard making her nearly jump in the air from surprise.

"Oh, hi Ciaran... What are you doing here?", the bunny Faunus said.

"Uhm... My dorm is on this floor?", Ciaran pointed out before noticing the manga under the bunny girls arm, "I didn't picked you for a girl who liked manga."

At this Velvet seemed to relax, "What? Oh yes, I love them.", she said with a happy smile, "But I tend to get frustrated when the main character can't ask out the guy she likes, because I can relate to her."

Ciaran gave that a thoughtful nod, "So is there a reason why your here?"

"Oh, uhm... I was wondering if Avaro was in his dorm...", Velvet explained, a slight blush on her face, "But I-I just saw him walk past with Gabriel. So uhm... I will see you later. G-Goodbye...", she then walked off as he waved at her before continuing to the meeting point of his team.


Ciaran, Avaro, Remus and Gabriel walked through the streets of Vale, which is being decorated in time for the Vytal Festival. Red, yellow, and green streamers and balloons are proudly on display, the team is strolling through it all. A sign is being put up by an elderly Shopkeeper that reads in bright red letters "Welcome To Vale!" for all the foreign newcomers from their respective kingdoms of Remnant.

"So remind me again why we are spending our Friday afternoon here?", Remus asked, walking with his arms behind his head.

"Students visiting from Vacuo will be arriving by ship today. And, I want to spy on them so we will have the upper hand in the tournament.", Avaro said simply, "You see because I am insanely rich, I can never be too paranoid."

"Are all rich people as weird as you?", Gabriel.

"Not all. Take Schnee for exemple, or her asshole of a father.", Avaro said dryly, "Her sister is kinda hot though, ironically."

"Speaking of Schnee...", Ciaran said, pointing towards down the street, where team RWBY was standing.

Ciaran, Remus and Gabriel walked towards the girls, while Avaro followed after letting out a disgusted noise.

"...How could you not smile? A festival dedicated to the cultures of the world! There will be dances! Parades! A tournament! Oh, the amount of planning and organization that goes into this event is simply breathtaking!", Weiss said, raising her arms.

"Sweet merciful money, you really know how make anything sound boring, don't you Schnee?", Avaro interrupted her.

"I thought I smelled wet dog, and there is Avaro." Weiss shot back.

"Don't you mean, sweet merciful god?", Blake pointed out to the wolf Faunus about his earlier remark.

"Blake, I worship my think, you worship yours.", Avaro said dryly.

"So what are you guys doing here?", Ruby asked.

"Scouting for potential threats for the tournament.", Remus explained.

Weiss ripped her death glare away from Avaro as she let out a disgusted noise, "Of course, that is something a mongrel like Drayce would want to do. I for one, think it is my solemn duty to welcome the visiting students to this fine kingdom, as a representative of Beacon!", Weiss said proudly.

"Didn't you want to spy on them as well?" Yang pointed out, but Weiss said she couldn't prove that.

Letting out a light chuckle, Ciaran turned to see a shattered window down the street and a door full of yellow caution tape of the Vale Police Force before walking over to the detective in front, who is writing on his pad. "What happened here?", he asked.

"Robbery. Second Dust shop to be hit this week. This place is turning into a jungle.", the officer said before walking over to his partner, "They left all the money again."

"That's terrible.", Yang sighs sadly as team RWBY and the rest of team ARCG walked up to him.

"Who needs that much Dust?", Ruby wondered out loud.

Yang shrug her shoulder's, "I don't know, an army? The White Fang?" she suggested.

"Hmph! The White Fang.", Weiss scoffed, crossing her arms and pointing her nose in the air with her eyes closed, "What an awful bunch of degenerates!"

"What's your problem?", Blake said suddenly, they turn to look at her.

"There we go... Oh wait, its not Avaro.", Remus said a little surprsied at Blake's sudden reaction.

Weiss looked a little surprised at this, "My problem? I simply don't care for the criminally insane.", she said back much to the irritation of Blake.

"The White Fang is hardly a bunch of psychopaths.", Blake said crossing her arms, getting serious, "They're a collection of misguided Faunus."

"Misguided? Please, Blake. They want to wipe Humanity off the face of the planet.", Avaro said, crossing his arms, "There has to be some sort of believe in that, being misguided isn't an excuse."

"So you look down on your own kind as well, even those who where not as fortunate as you?", Blake said angrily, turning to the taller Faunus.

"You have no idea what I have done or where I came from, Blake.", Avaro said, his voice dripping with anger.

"Uhm Blake? This is Avaro Drayce your talking about. He looks down on everybody.", Gabriel pointed out.

"I do not look down on everybody. For one I have a lot of respect for Ciaran. If I hadn't I wouldn't follow him as our leader.", the CEO pointed out, getting a goofy smile from his team leader, "And for you, Ruby, Blake, Yang, Pyrrha, Ren, Nora and Jaune."

"Aren't you forgetting someone?", Remus asked.

The Faunus thought about it for a few seconds, before shaking his head, "No, can't think of anyone."

"Either way, it doesn't explain why they would rob a Dust shop in the middle of downtown Vale.", Yang said, as the group made their way to the docks.

"Hmm... Yang's got a point. Besides, the police never caught that Torchwick guy... Maybe it was him.", Ruby pondered.

"He has a name, you know. Its Roman.", Remus pointed out.

"So what if it was your criminal older brother. That still doesn't change the fact that the White Fang are a bunch of scum.", Weiss said as Blake's growing anger, "Those Faunus only know how to lie, cheat, and steal."

"Listen snow queen. You have no idea what my brother had to do when we grew up, so shut your pie hole of things you know nothing about!", Remus shouted suddenly, his asy going attitude breaking for the first time since they arrived at Beacon.

Suddenly they heard someone shout and the group rush over to investigate, a Faunus with a golden monkey tail is seen running down the length of the boat and leaping on to the edge as the two sailors are about to apprehend him. "Thanks for the ride, guys! Haha!", the monkey Faunus said as he looking back at his pursuers before jumping off and hit the dock running away.

"You no-good stowaway!", one of the sailors shouted to him.

"Hey! A no-good stowaway would've been caught!", the monkey Faunus protested as he use his tail to hang on a lamppost while he peels back a banana, "I'm a great stowaway!", one of the detectives down below throws a stone at him to get his attention.

"Hey! Get down from there this instant!", one of the cops said, in response the monkey Faunus drops the banana peel on the officer's face, who growls in return.

The monkey Faunus twirls up to crouch on the lamppost, laughs in amusement, and proceeds to leap off and run away from the officer.

"Well... Avaro, Weiss, you wanted to see the competition, and there it goes...", Ciaran said as they watch the Faunus get farther and farther away.

"Quick! We have to observe him!", Weiss said holding up a finger.

The teams rounds the next corner, but then Weiss bumps into someone and trips. She looks up only to see the monkey Faunus jump on to a building and disappear from her view. "No, he got away!", Weiss complained.

"Uhh... Weiss?" Yang said as she points strangely at the girl underneath her teammate.

Weiss finally sees that she fell on a smiling girl, which startles the heiress and she hastily gets up. "Sal-u-ta-tions!", the girl said still down on the ground, smiling widely.

"Um... hello.", Ruby said uncertain, "Are you... okay?"

"I'm wonderful! Thank you for asking.", the girl said still laying on the ground.

"Do you... need help getting up?", Gabriel asked extending his hand. The girl thinks for a moment before she grabs his hand and lifts herself up.

"My name is Penny! It's a pleasure to meet you!", the girl introduced herself.

"Greetings lady Penny. I'm Ciaran.", he introduced himself as the others followed.

"Are you sure you didn't hit your head?", Yang asked, but Blake hits her side, "Oh, I'm Yang."

"It's a pleasure to meet you!", the girl now named Penny said, again, something Weiss pointed out making Penny pause for a moment before saying, "So I did!"

"Well, sorry for running into you!", Weiss said as they turn around and start walking away.

"Take care, buddy.", Gabriel said, waving his arm.

"You called me... 'buddy'! Am I really your buddy?", Penny asked, much to the brunette's surprise.

"Sure why not, guy?"

For some reason Penny looks overjoyed and laughs, "Sen-sational! We can paint our nails, and try on clothes, and talk about cute boys!", she said gripping Gabriel's hands as his team mate laugh.

"Uhm, I don't talk about cute boys or paint my nails.", he said back.

"No, instead of cute boys, he talks about a certain cute rose.", Avaro pointed out, getting a shove from his brown haired teammate.

"So... Penny, what are you doing in Vale?", Remus asked, she told them she will be fighting in the tournament.

"Wait, you're fighting in the tournament?", Weiss asked and Penny saluted, "Forgive me, but you hardly look the part."

Suddenly a loud high pitched laugh was heard from and turning around they saw that it came from Avaro, who seemed to think what Weiss said to be very funny.

"Says the girl wearing a dress.", Blake commented but Weiss insisted she was wearing a combat skirt with her arms crossed, Ruby speeds over to Weiss' side, "Yeah!". Weiss holds out her hand and Ruby low-fives it.

"No, Ruby looks like she is ready for battle. You look like you should sit behind a desk anwsering calls.", Avaro said.

The white haired hairess turned to glare at him, her pale face becoming a few shades of red, "You dress like some ripped off OC from a bad fanfiction!", Weiss said.

"Yeah, nice comeback Schnee.", Avaro said dryly, crossing his arms as he rolled his blue eyes, "Very nice comeback."

Suddenly Weiss realized something, "Wait a minute.", she walks over to Penny and grabs her by the shoulders, "If you're here for the tournament, does that mean you know that monkey-tailed... rapscallion?"

"The who?...", Penny asked.

"The filthy monkey Faunus from the boat!", Weiss asked again.

"Why do you keep saying that!?", Blake asked, walking angrily over to Weiss, "Stop calling him a rapscallion! Stop calling him a degenerate! He's a person!"

"Oh, I'm sorry.", Weiss said as she releases Penny, "Would you like me to stop referring to the trash can as a trash can? Or this lamppost as a lamppost?", motions to objects around her, "He clearly broke the law. Give him time, he'll probably join up with those other Faunus in the White Fang!"

Blake growls and was about to speak up, but Avaro beat her to the punch, "You are a judgmental little girl!", Avaro said, they didn't know if it was the expression in his eyes or something else, but it felt like a strange cold was falling over them, "The mere fact that you would sort that Faunus boy with a terrorist group solely based on his species makes you just as much of a scoundrel as you believe him to be! Not every Faunus is like that! Most are just people like everyone else who wants to be treated normaly!"

With that the CEO left the group standing there, ignroing what they were saying to him.


An hour later, after everyone went their own way, Ciaran was waiting in their usual Ramen shop, waiting for his date. After a few minutes, the door opened and Cinder came strudding in.

When she noticed him, he waved her over, "Good afternoon, Cinder. Glad you made it.", he said as she walked over to him and sat down opposite of him.

"I have been wanting to come here for a while now. But it's a little embarrassing to show up alone.", Cinder said after a making their order.

"Why?", Ciaran asked taking a sip from his drink.

"Silly Ciaran, a girl shouldn't be eating by herself on, everyone would think I'm letting myself go.", Cinder answered with a amused smile.

"Then why dont you just order takeout?", Ciaran suggested, much to the young woman's amusement.

"How little you know, Ciaran. The meal itself isn't everything, it's the atmosphere that's important as well.", Cinder said, her voice is swelling with pride for some reason, "To tell you the truth, I have wanted to come here since I was a child. My parents were actually pretty strict."

"I am sorry, that sounds horrible...", Cairan said, sounding guininly sad for her.

"What about you, Ciaran? What were your parents like?", the amber eyed woman asked.

The white haired young man went suddenly silent, turning his red eyes away from her, "I... This might sound weird, and I would understand if you wouldn't believe me... But I have no memory of when I was little.", he admitted, "The first thing I remember is waking up in an forest with my sword. But I could fight, and it was then that Professor Ozpin found me, and with my talent he invited me to attend Beacon."

Suddenly Ciaran felt a soft, warm, slender hand grip his own, looking up he found Cinder looking at him, a sympathetic look in her amber eyes. "I believe you. I don't know if you could recover your memories, but I would gladly help you if I can.", she said with a smile before leaning in and whispering in his ear with a hot breath, "And even if we can't, atleast you have me as a friend... Maybe even more."

Ciaran smiled back at her, "I think I would like that.", he said just as the waitress came back with their bowls of ramen.


Late that evening, Ciaran walked into his dorm room to find the rest of his team and Team RWBY hanging out in it. As usual Avaro and Weiss seemed like they are about to rip each others head off, but that wasn't something out of the ordinary.

What was out of the ordinary was that Blake was also invovled in their usual discussion. Gabriel, Remus, Ruby and Yang were sitting on the couch observing, trying not to get involved.

"Look I like it that you girls hang out here, but why are you always here?", Ciaran whispered as he took a seat next to Yang.

"Have you seen the television you guys have?", the blonde answered before they returned their attention back to the debate.

"I don't understand why this is causing such a problem!", Weiss said, Blake pointing out that that was the problem, "You realize you are defending an organization that hates Humanity, don't you? The Faunus of the White Fang are pure evil!"

"There's no such thing as pure evil!", Blake said back, "Why do you think they hate Humanity so much? It's because of people like Cardin, people like you, that force the White Fang to take such drastic measures!"

"People like me? I'm a victim!", Weiss said back, they stare each other down in silence.

"Yes right. A few terrorist attack your company and you think you know about the ugly side of life, but you don't.", Avaro said, "You've never tasted desperate. You are Weiss Schnee, you have to go a thousand miles to meet someone who doesn't know your name. So don't come to me with your anger, trying to prove something to yourself. The real world is something you will never understand, and people like you always fear what you don't understand."

At this, Weiss looked down to the floor, as she spoke up quietly, "You want to know why I despise the White Fang? Why I don't particularly trust the Faunus? It's because they have been at war with my family for years. War, as in actual bloodshed.", she looked up, glaring at the other two, "My grandfather's company has had a target painted across its back for as long as I can remember. And ever since I was a child, I have watched family friends disappear, board members executed, entire train cars full of Dust, stolen. And every day, my father would come home, furious. And that made for a very difficult childhood.", she bangs her fist against the wall.

Everyone went silent after this, everyone giving the other an uneasy looks as Weiss walks walks back over to Avaro and Blake, "You want to know why I despise the White Fang? It's because they are a bunch of liars, thieves, and murderers!"

Avaro was about to speak up, but this time Blake spoke up before him, "Well maybe we were just tired of being pushed around!", the black haired girl shouted in anger, and another silence drops again.

A surprised Weiss backs away slowly, as Avaro raised an eyebrow at her while Blake realizes her mistake as she looks around at her teammates and friends.

"I... I...", Blake said before she dashes out the door, leaving her teammates and friends behind, none knew what to say or do.


There ya go, another chapter, hope you all enjoyed it. Many thanks to everyone who reads, reviews, favorite or follows this story, you beautiful bastards! For now I wish you all a fantastic day and I will see you ladies and gents, next time.