Chapter 9:

October 5, 2012 – 22:48

Welp! 'tas been a few days… or weeks… or months… nevermind, it's been a while since I wrote in this and I'm just going to catch up! Okay. I got accepted into Beacon! Monty shines upon me! On the first day someone threw up on the airship and someone, a 15 year old girl called Ruby Rose, exploded on a Schnee! Genius! Then we had an introduction to Beacon and stuff then we slept in the ballroom. I got chased for looking at other girls. Seriously, what is up with Crimson? I NEED MY EYE-CANDY! She should know that... But anyway, that's beside the point, I met a few nice people, then I met Ice Queen. Ice Queen is a Schnee, more specifically, the one that got exploded on. 2+2 makes 4, I don't like her. I don't think Crim does either... Anyway, second day

Crimson barged into Omega half way through writing his entry, "Is that a diary?" She asked, stifling laughter, and completely failing. The question gained the attention of the rest of their team, who also chuckled at the discovery.

Omega's face flushed red at the mention of his possession, "No!" He yelled out, receiving louder laughs from his teammates, "It's a documentation of recent events! You know? For if someone needed to know what life was like now? What?!" He said, before questioning the unbelieving stare his friend was giving him.

"It's a diary" Crimson stated bluntly, continuing with her unbelieving tone.

"No! Maybe… Okay fine! It's a diary" Omega said, giving in to the continuous disbelieving stares of his friends, who went back to laughing at his expense. "Now please, can you at least let me finish one entry?!" he yelled, trying to get his friends off his back, quite literally, in one case.

As the sounds of pen on paper started back up again, the other team members went back to doing their own thing. Crimson went back to reading her book, Prost played games on his scroll and Rosa continued practising with her aura, the occasional pink bubble spreading out over her arms.

Rosa, once again, tried asking the question that has been bugging her for the past four days. "Omega? How ma-" she started, but she was cut off by a rapid knocking on the door. She slowly turned around to face the door. "God-fucking-damnit!" she yelled, as the others laughed at her third failure of the month. She stormed over to the door and pulled it open, almost wrenching it off its hinges. "What?!" she yelled at the figure standing there, who jumped out of shock at the sudden shouting.

At the door, not unlike a few days before, stood Ruby Rose again, slightly scared by the irate girl infront of her. "I just wanted to ask if you wanted to go into town..." She pouted.

Silence filled the room as all 4 members of team COPR took in the sight, blinking every half-second.

Then they all glomped Ruby, making her start to suffocate from the lack of oxygen.

Crimson was the first to release her. "Well, I did say I might at another time, didn't I?" She said, smirking slightly, "We'll go, so release her you fucktards" she then ordered, a smile spread across her face. No response as the other three continued to suffocate the girl.

"Guys… can't… breathe" Ruby said, her voice muffled by the three bodies piled ontop of her. None of them moved. Crimson sighed before walking over to her and, with great difficulty, pulled the other members of her team off of Ruby. "Thanks" she said weakly, thanking the older girl who just nodded in response. "Well… I gotta get ready now! See you all at the airships!" she called out to them, before running back to her dorm.

The eight of them walked down the street, watching as shop owners and event organisers put up decorations and banners. They all stop as they turn a corner. "The Vytal Festival! Oh, this is absolutely wonderful!" Weiss exclaimed, grinning widely.

Ruby turned to look at Weiss, a faint smile showing, "I don't think I've ever seen you smile this much, Weiss" she said, "It's kinda weirding me out..." She continued, frowning a little.

"Yeah! Who are you and what have you done with the real Ice Queen?" Omega said, a playful grin spread across his face. Weiss ignored him and turned to face Ruby.

"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!" She says, before continuing to walk, the rest of the group following behind her.

Crimson just gave a half-hearted glare, "Congratulations, you have succeeded in boring us" she deadpans, before slowing her pace to walk next to Blake.

"You really know how to take a good thing and make it sound boring" Yang sighed, her arms crossed over her chest.

Weiss glared at her, "Quiet, you!" she hissed, eliciting laughter from the team accompanying them.

The group kept on walking, Crimson talking to Blake like an old friend, Omega talking with Yang and Ruby and the rest simply enjoying the day. They continued like that until they reached the docks, stopping to observe one of the ships sailing in. "Remind me again why we're spending our Friday afternoon visiting the stupid docks?" Yang asked while a foghorn blared from the distant harbour entrance.

"Ugh, they smell like fish!" Ruby exclaimed, covering her nose as she spoke.

"Probably worse for Crim, Ruby" Omega said, chuckling slightly, as he put his hand on her shoulder.

Crimson shrugged, "It's not that bad" she said, breathing in the dock's air. Omega and Ruby shared a look, then shrugged.

"I've heard that students visiting from Vacuo will be arriving by ship today. And, as a representative of Beacon, I feel as though it is my solemn duty to welcome them to this fine kingdom!" Weiss stated, ignoring the three of them as she watched some of the ships near.

"She wants to spy on them so she'll have the upper hand in the tournament" Blake stated as they set off once more.

Weiss turns and glares at Blake, then scoffs, "You can't prove that!" she hissed, receiving seven disbelieving stares from the others.

Ruby turns and looks to her right, "Woah" she muttered, looking at the dust shop. It's windows were smashed in and the door was covered in layers of yellow Vale Police Dept. tape. She walked over to it while the rest of them followed her, "What happened here?" she asked the detectives.

"Robbery. Second Dust shop to be hit this week. This place is turning into a jungle" the detective states, before walking over to his partner behind him.

"That's terrible" Yang sighs, looking at the shop with saddened eyes.

"They left all the money again!" the second detective says, indirectly catching Ruby's attention.

"Yeah, just doesn't make a lick of sense. Who needs that much Dust?" the first detective asked as he looked for any clues in the shop.

"I don't know, an army?" Detective No. 2 suggests, while the other shakes his head.

"You thinking the White Fang?" Numero Uno suggests back, waving his gun in the direction of the shop.

Nombre Deux takes off his sunglasses, "Yeah, I'm thinking we don't get paid enough" he says, as he started to walk away.

"Hmph! The White Fang" Weiss started, her nose pointed in the air and her arms crossed, "What an awful bunch of degenerates" she exclaimed, receiving a… (wait for it) Weiss cold glare from Crimson.

"What's your problem?" Blake asked, a hint of venom in her tone. Crimson's glare intensifies.

Weiss turns to face the two, subtly shivering from the glare the girl was giving her, "My problem? I simply don't care for the criminally insane" she states as Omega walks over to his friend to calm her down.

"The White Fang is hardly a bunch of psychopaths" she says as she crosses her arms "They're a collection of misguided Faunus" she continues, getting a nod from the Crimson.

"Misguided? They want to wipe Humanity off the face of the planet!" Weiss half-shouts.

"So then they're very misguided. Either way, it doesn't explain why they would rob a Dust shop in the middle of downtown Vale!" Blake retorts, her voice rising aswell.

Ruby goes thoughtful for a second before seemingly remembering something, "Hmm... Blake's got a point. Besides, the police never caught that Torchwick guy I ran into a few months ago... Maybe it was him" she adds, trying to defuse the situation.

Weiss just snorts, "That still doesn't change the fact that the White Fang are a bunch of scum. Those Faunus only know how to lie, cheat, and steal" She states, receiving a wolf-like growl from Crimson who looked ready to attack her at any time.

"That's not necessarily true..." Yang says, trying to calm her friends down, she looks at Omega who's simply mouthing 'Not helping'.

They heard a commotion from the docks and ran their to see a monkey Faunus running from some sailors, "Hey, stop that Faunus!" One of the sailors yells, trying to get someone to help him. The monkey Faunus jumps onto the side of the boat and says something that none of them heard before laughing and jumping off, landing on the dock. He jumps again and hangs from a lamppost, his tail wrapped around the bar. "You no-good stowaway!" another sailor shouts.

"Hey! A no-good stowaway would've been caught! I'm a great stowaway!" The boy yells back, peeling a banana and taking a bite out of it.

One of the detectives walks up to him and throws a stone, "Hey! Get down from there this instant!" he orders. In response to it he gets a banana to the face. The detective growls as the boy laughs in amusement, swinging ontop of the lamppost before jumping down and running away from the two. He runs past the group of eight who watched all of this happening, winking at Blake and Crimson while doing so.

Yang watches as he runs further and further away from the group, "Well, Weiss, you wanted to see the competition, and there it goes..." She says, smirking as a face of realization rises onto the heiress' face.

Weiss' eyes widen before she holds up a finger, "Quick! We have to observe him!" she shouts, before giving chase to the monkey Faunus and two detectives.

Yang, Ruby, Prost and Rosa chase after her, Crimson and Blake still recovering from the surprise. Omega watched the two with a knowing smile, before running after the group that left. Crimson and Blake eventually ran after him.

The group of eight ran after the Faunus, running through several streets, past several shops until Weiss turned a corner, tripped and then fell. The Faunus they were chasing jumped on a building to the left of them. "No, He got away!" Weiss exclaimed, misery running through her words.

Omega snickered, "Don't worry, Ice Queen, we'll bump into another at some point" he said, a shit eating grin spreading across his face. Weiss just gave him a blank look, while Yang looked at him, full of pride. That is… before she noticed that her teammate had absolutely no idea what Omega was on about.

"Uhh… Weiss?" She said, pointing to somewhere just below the heiress.

Weiss looks at where the brawler was pointing, Below her was a girl who she supposed she had ran into. She quickly got up, almost too quickly. "Sal-u-ta-tions!" the girl greeted, looking at the group infront of her, all the while smiling like nothing out of the ordinary had happened.

Team COPR looked at eachother and shrugged. "Um… hello" Ruby greeted back, confused at the situation she had somehow become a part of.

"Are you… okay?" Yang asked, as confused as the rest of them.

The girl just continued to smile, "I'm wonderful! Thank you for asking" she said, still lying on the floor, making the situation all the more awkward by the second.

Team RWBY just looks at eachother in bewilderment, "Do you… wanna get up?" Yang asked, feeling even more awkward for having to ask the question.

The girl thought about it for a second, "Yes!" she exclaimed, before jumping onto her feet while everyone else took a step back, "My name is Penny! It's a pleasure to meet you!" she said, still smiling like nothing happened.

"Did she just have to think about standing up?!" Prost whispered to his sister, who just shrugged.

"Hi Penny. I'm Ruby" Ruby said, introducing herself.

"I'm Weiss"

"Blake"

"Are you sure you didn't hit your head?" Yang asked, before getting hit in the side by Blake, "Oh, I'm Yang"

"Crimson"

"Omega!"

"Name's Prost"

"And I'm Rosa" Rosa finished.

Penny just smiled at the eight of them, "It's a pleasure to meet you!" she said, receiving odd looks from five of them.

"You already said that" Weiss pointed out in a matter-of-fact voice.

Penny paused for a second, her smile faltering for a second before coming back like nothing happened, "So I did!" she exclaimed happily.

The eight of them turn around, "Well, sorry for running into you!" Weiss says as they walk away.

Ruby waves at the girl, "Take care, friend!" She says, following the rest of the group as they get further and further away from Penny. They walked in silence for a few minutes, thinking about what happened just then. None of them had a clue.

"She was… weird..." Yang stated, breaking the silence that had fallen between the eight of them as soon as they got far enough away from her to talk.

Weiss, once again, ignored her and turned to the right, "Now, where did that Faunus riff-raff run off to?" She asked, slight contempt audible in her voice. She very almost ran into someone again.

"What did you call me?" Penny asked. The girl had somehow seemingly appeared out of nowhere infront of them. Omega's eyes widened, Crimson jumped into Omega's arms in surprise, Prost was somehow unfazed, his sister started stuttering out incomprehensible words, Yang looked apologetic and Weiss just kept looking between Penny and where she was a minute ago.

"Oh, I'm really sorry, I definitely didn't think you heard me!" Yang apologised, thinking she'd insulted Penny in some way.

Penny waved it off, "No, not you..." She said, walking past everyone and leaning into Ruby's face "You!" she said, hope audible in her voice.

Ruby was startled by the unprecedented turn of events, "Me? I-I don't know. I, what I, um, uh..." she stammered.

Penny leaned in slightly further "You called me 'friend'! Am I really your friend?" she said, sounding slightly desperate.

Ruby thought for a minute. She looked over Penny at her friends and teammates, everyone apart from Omega was shaking their heads and making various 'no' gestures. "Y-Yeah, sure! Why not?" she says after a minute, making everyone else, sans Omega, comically freeze and fall over.

Penny meanwhile looked overjoyed. "Sen-sational!" she said happily, "We can paint our nails, and try on clothes, and talk about cute boys!" She continued, oblivious to the weird looks she was receiving from COPR and pedestrians.

Weiss slowly got up and walked over to Ruby, "Ohh, is this what it was like when you met me?" Ruby asked her, groaning in defeat at the revelation.

The heiress brushed herself off, "No – she seems far more coordinated" she stated bluntly.

"Shots fired" Omega said, smirking slightly, before getting slapped in the back of the head by Crimson.

"So… what are you doing in Vale?" Yang asked, deciding to change the subject.

Penny turned to her, "I'm here to fight in the tournament!" She stated, her voice level and determined.

Weiss looked surprised at this new fact, "Wait, you're fighting in the tournament?" She asked, receiving a smirk from the black haired boy.

The orange haired girl smiled and saluted at the heiress, "I'm combat ready!" She said, her determination unwavering.

Weiss just looked at her, "Forgive me, but you hardly look the part" she said in her usual condescending tone.

Blake snorts. "Says the girl wearing a dress" she mocked, a smirk creeping up her face.

The heiress crossed her arms and sent her an indignant look. "It's a combat skirt!" she stated, receiving a 'Yeah' from Ruby and a low-five. "Wait a second" she said, realising something, "If you're here for the tournament, does that mean you know that monkey-tailed rapscallion?" She asked, grabbing hold of the now confused girl infront of her, oblivious to the infuriated looks Blake and Crimson were giving her.

"The who..?" Penny asked, slightly confused from the sudden change in attitude.

Weiss pulled up a crudely drawn image of the boy from earlier, "The filthy Faunus from the boat!" she shouted, frustrated at the lack of response.

Crimson growled at her, "What did you say?" She asked, her voice as venomous as a King Taijitu's fang while Omega held onto her.

"Why do you keep saying that?!" Blake asked, anger in her voice as she failed at keeping herself calm for any longer. Weiss just looked at her, surprised at the outburst from the usually quiet girl. "Stop calling him a rapscallion! Stop calling him a degenerate! He's a person!" She shouted at the heiress.

Weiss let go of Penny, glaring at her teammate. "Oh, I'm sorry. Would you like me to stop referring to the trash can as a trash can? Or this lamppost as a lamppost?" She said, the sarcasm evident in her voice.

Blake glared back at her, "Stop it!" She shouted at her, her anger rising as the heiress found no fault in her actions.

The heiress just looked at her in disbelief, "Stop what? He clearly broke the law. Give him time; he'll probably join up with those other Faunus in the White Fang!" She stated, crossing her arms as she continued her glare at the girl in black.

Crimson eventually broke out of her friend's grip, "Fucking Schnee!" She yelled, looking ready to kill the girl before her before turning and storming away.

Omega turned and glared at the heiress mentioned, "You forget that you're in the presence of a faunus, Schnee" he said, his voice as cold as the thin ice he imagined the girl to be standing on. Following his friend soon after. Weiss winced at the name.

"You ignorant little brat!" Blake shouted at Weiss, turning and walking in the opposite direction to the two.

Omega chased after his friend, the sounds of the argument slowly fading away behind him. He caught up with her a few streets away as she stopped and leaned on a wall, staring up at the sky in a way not unlike him when he was thinking. "Crim?" He asked, worrying about his friend. She sighed in response. Omega winced at her reaction, it was like she didn't care. So, naturally, he did the only think he thought would help. He ran up to her and hugged her. He stayed like that for a few minutes before separating, "You okay?" He questioned.

Crimson looked at him, a small smile slowly grew across her face. "I'm… a bit better… thanks" she said, grateful for his presence, before hugging him, surprising the boy. "Do you have a second semblance or something? Your hugs are far too addictive to be natural" She asked, looking up at him. Omega just stood there, shocked into silence. Crimson clicked her fingers infront of his face, "Om? Remnant to Om? I'm heading off to the airships, I'll leave you here if you're not going to move" she stated, releasing him from her hug and smacking him on the back of his head and walking away.

After a few seconds Omega regained consciousness. He shook his head to clear his head of all his… interesting thoughts, "Hey wait up!" He shouted after Crimson before running to catch up with his friend.

Okay! New chapter! Longest one too.

I would have done the rest of the argument, the bit back at the dorms, but ending this chapter here felt right, so I didn't write it out, sorry to anyone who wanted that.

Well, those who have actually watched all of season 1 (and remember it) should know what's going to happen next chapter but still, I ain't gonna spoil anything.

On a different note, my brother says I write like I talk… which is interesting, since I didn't really notice that.

-Preview-

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 heard the words. They were quiet… distant... as if I was listening to someone who was shouting from the other side of a valley. The words sounded familiar, though I couldn't remember where from. It was as if the shadows enveloping me was repressing my memories, shutting them away as I was sent through the tunnel of darkness that I had been thrown into. Then, all of a sudden, light filled my vision as I was launched into the red grass below me. A headache, stronger than I had ever experienced, pierced through my head as my memories returned to me. I looked up, holding my forehead with my right hand. Red leaves sheltered me from the sunlight above… No… Moonlight. I scratched my head as I tried to figure out why I could see so clearly, then it hit me as my hand touched something furry and a wave of pleasure soared through me, I was a Faunus. I retracted my hand then looked at the moon again to confirm my theory. Shattered. "Oh. My. God" I muttered, excitement and happiness bubbling up in my chest, "I'm in Remnant!" I yelled. Turning around I looked around the clearing, it was surprisingly familiar even if I'd never been there before. There was a boulder in the centre, with the trees of Forever Fall surrounding it.

Wait…

This is the area from the beginning on Blake's trailer…

"Oh shit." I muttered as a figure entered the clearing.

Yes, that is a preview for my next story, I will be working on it after I have completed the first semester for team COPR.

Yes, it is going to be a Self Insertion fic, I've wanted to do one for a while but I've been working on my current story and sticking to my 'one-story-at-a-time' policy.

Anyway, review and stay legendary!

-=[MysteriousBiscuit]=-