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THOR's coming back up from it's short break!

probably a few hours after all you blokes are done reading this.

Is it weird to say I feel like talking like a british gent right now?

Anyway, on with the show!


Glynda opened the book to see what was next.

[Chapter 11: Stray]

Blake blinked at the title, before realising what it was about "Oh, it's that day."

"Just like I said to Ruby earlier, I apologize for the things my other will most likely end up saying in advance." Weiss said.

Blake nodded "I know, and thank you Weiss."

[Haseo P.O.V.]

'Why did I agree to come with them?' I internally groaned as Weiss led Team RWBY and myself through Vale as she rambled on about the greatness of the Vytal Festival, seriously all I wanted was to grab a few parts so I could get some maintenance done on Canard.

"The Vytal festival, oh this is absolutely wonderful." Weiss said rather cheerily.

"I don't think I've ever seen you smile this much Weiss, it's kinda weirding me out." Ruby said, "And I've grown used to the creepy smiles Haseo gives when he's fighting Grimm."

"He got that from Raven, she does the same thing." Qrow said idly with a chuckle.

"Hey!" I called out jokingly.

"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.

"You really know how to take a good thing and make it sound boring." Yang said.

"I'm really glad we stayed at the school that day if that's how boring it was." Jaune said, with his team agreeing.

Pyrrha could also appreciate the planning, but even she thought Weiss made it sound a bit dull.

"Quiet you." Weiss said.

"Remind me again why we're spending our Friday afternoon visiting the stupid dock's?" Yang asked.

"Ugh, they smell like fish." Ruby said covering her nose.

"Well there are a lot of fishing boat's here Ruby, of course they'd smell like fish." I said.

"I think they should have had crates of maple syrup around, that would have smelled better." Nora said with a grin in a completely serious tone of once.

"For once, I'll actually agree that it could have been a nice idea." Ren said with a shrug, as even he had to admit maple syrup smelled better than fish.

"I've heard that students visiting from Vacuo will be arriving by ship today, and as a representative of Beacon I feel as if it my solemn duty to welcome them to this fine kingdom." Weiss said.

"Didn't Endrance specifically tell you not to spy on other students?" I reminded.

"That is not what I'm doing, besides it's not like you could prove it." Weiss retorted.

"To be fair little sister, your intentions are rather obvious." Winter said with a smile, while Weiss sighed.

That really hadn't been one of her best days.

"I can't, but a quick call to Endrance can clear up your intentions rather cleanly." I said, the threat being rather subtle.

"You wouldn't dare." Weiss said lowly.

I simply pulled out my scroll, "Try me." I challenged.

However Ruby managed to inadvertently save Weiss, "Whoa." Ruby said looking in another direction, I followed her eyes to see a crime scene around a Dust shop from the looks of it.

We approached the scene to get a better look and to figure out what happened, "What happened here?" Ruby asked.

"Torchwick happened." Swift said, and Ruby fist pumped.

"I knew it!" she said, glad to see she had called it back then.

"Robbery, second Dust shop to be hit this week." The investigator replied.

"That's terrible." Yang said.

"They left all the money again." A second Investigator noted.

"It doesn't make a lick of sense, who needs that much Dust?" The first Investigator asked.

"I don't know, an army?" the second Investigator said.

"You thinking it was the White Fang?" The first Investigator asked.

"I'm thinking we don't get paid enough." The second investigator said.

"Hmmp, the White Fang, what an awful bunch of degenerates." Weiss said.

"To be fair Weiss, that comment... isn't completely uncalled for, they have definetly gotten worse." Blake relunctantly said with a sigh.

"What's your problem?" Blake asked.

"My problem? I simply don't care for the criminally insane." Weiss retorted, "Besides didn't they kidnap you when they attacked my train?"

"The White Fang is hardly a group of psychopaths, they're a group of misguided Faunus." Blake replied, "And while they did that doesn't change what they are!"

"Misguided? The want to wipe humanity off the face of the planet." Weiss said.

"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 said.

"Except now we now they were helping Torchwick." Yang said, getting some nods.

"Blake has a point." I said, "This isn't to hurt the SDC, attacking a single Dust shop would do that. Besides, what about Roman and that girl who was with him?"

"Yeah, he was robbing a Dust shop when we first saw him." Ruby added.

"Well it doesn't change the fact that the White Fang are a bunch of scum, those Faunus only know how to lie, cheat, and steal." Weiss said.

"That's not necessarily true." Yang said.

"Hey stop that Faunus!" A man called, we all looked over to the docks to observe the scene.

"Well... that's some rather poor timing." Ozpin said plainly.

"Why does the world have to do shit like this?" I groaned as we saw what was going on.

"That's what I want to know." Blake said with a groan.

Seriously, Sun chose the worst moment to show up.

A Faunus with a monkey tail was being chased by two crew members before he jumped off and onto the docks themselves and then he leapt onto a lamppost and hung upside down from it.

"You no good stowaway!" a crewman shouted.

"Hey a no good stowaway would have been caught, I'm a great stowaway!" The Monkey Faunus called back.

"He's not wrong." Qrow said with a laugh.

That's when the two investigator for the crime scene showed up, one of them threw a stone half hardheartedly to get the Faunus's attention.

"How did they get ahead of us?" Weiss asked.

"I haven't got a clue." I said.

"Hey, get down from there this instant." An Investigator said, only to receive a banana peel in his face. The monkey Faunus laughed as he ran off in our direction, winking at Blake as he passed us.

"Looks like someone's got a crush on the kitty cat~" Yang singsonged a bit teasingly, while Blake shrugged.

"He's not really my type though." Blake answered.

Yang actually stopped her teasing at that and looked at Blake "What's your type then?"

Blake smirked knowingly at Yang "That would be telling."

Yang grinned before leaning into her chair "I'll get it out of you one day."

"Well Weiss, you wanted to see the competition and there it goes." Yang said.

"Quick we have to observe him!" Weiss shouted as she ran off with us following.

We chased the Faunus until Weiss ended up running into an orange haired girl.

"Penny!" Ruby said happily at seeing her robotic friend.

Swift thankfully decided not to spill Penny's secret just yet.

"No he got away!" Weiss cried.

"Uhh, Weiss." Yang said pointing to the girl, causing Weiss to shout and jump off.

"Salutations!" The girl said way too cheerily.

"Umm, hello." Weiss said.

"Uh are you… okay?" Yang asked.

"I'm wonderful, thank you for asking." The girl said with an unchanged amount of cheer in her voice, we all glanced around at one another.

"Well... she's even weirder than me." Nora said in confusion, while the others stared at her for admiting she was weird.

"Do you... want to get up?" Yang asked.

"Yes." The girl said as she flipped herself upright, then she turned to us causing the girls to take a step back, "My name is Penny, it's a pleasure to meet you."

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

"I'm Weiss." Weiss said.

"Blake." Blake said.

"Haseo." I said, there was something... off about this girl, she moved so stiffly, yet still showed flexibility a little too smoothly, almost like it wasn't natural.

"Are you sure you didn't hit your head?" Yang asked, Blake proceeded to hit Yang, "Oh I'm Yang." She corrected.

"It's a pleasure to meet you!" Penny repeated.

"You already said that." Weiss said.

"So I did." Penny said.

"Well, sorry for running into you." Weiss said as we turned to leave.

"Take care friend." Ruby said as we left.

"Words have power Ruby." Swift said with a laugh, making Ruby chuckle sheepishly considering it was her way of talking that made Penny a friend.

"She was weird." Yang said.

"Yang!" I scolded, "Don't talk about someone behind their back. They could have very good hearing."

"Now where did that Faunus riffraff run off to." Weiss said only for all of us to freeze upon seeing Penny right in front of us.

"Or they could move really fast." I added blinking in surprise.

"What did you call me?" Penny asked.

"Told you." I said jabbing Yang in the side with my elbow.

"Oh I'm really sorry I definitely didn't think you heard me." Yang said as Weiss tried to figure out how Penny got in front of us.

"Yes, could somebody explain to me just HOW she did that?!" Weiss asked in exasperation.

As for Winter, she had a bit of an idea as to who Penny was, consideirng she knew the girl was from Atlas, but she didn't know the full story.

"No not you," Penny said moving past all of us and in front of Ruby, "You."

"Me?" Ruby asked in surprise, then she began to stammer trying to collect her thoughts.

"You called me friend, am I really your friend?" Penny asked.

"Umm." Ruby said glancing at us, Weiss, Blake, and Yang were waving the hands in a no fashion while I actually encouraged her.

"I get that Penny is socially awkward, but she wasn't that bad." Ruby said with a groan while her teammates simply looked away, refusing to comment.

"Yeah sure, why not?" Ruby said causing the girls to fall over.

"Sensational, we can paint our nails, and try on clothes, and talk about cute boys!" Penny said enthusiastically.

"Is this what it was like when you met me?" Ruby asked Weiss.

"No she seems far more coordinated." Weiss said.

"So what are you doing here in Vale?" Yang asked.

"I'm here to fight in the tournament." Penny said.

"Wait, you're fighting in the tournament?" Weiss asked.

"I'm combat ready." Penny said.

"Forgive me but you hardly look the part." Weiss said.

"Never judge a book by it's cover miss Schnee." Glynda said.

"Says the girl wearing a dress." Blake said.

"It's a combat skirt." Weiss retorted, Ruby sped right next to Weiss.

"Yeah." Ruby said as she gave Weiss a high five.

Ruby held her out to Weiss with a grin, the white themed girl highfiving Ruby again with an amused roll of her eyes.

"Wait a minute if you're fighting in the tournament then does that mean you know that monkey tailed rapscallion?" Weiss asked.

"Oh great I thought we had moved past this." I groaned.

"The who?" Penny asked.

"The monkey Faunus we we're following when Weiss ran into you." I said

"Oh, well then no I haven't." Penny said enthusiastically.

"Sun's from Haven, Penny's from Atlas." Swift added helpfully.

"Why do you keep saying that?" Blake asked.

"Huh?" Weiss asked.

"Stop calling him a rapscallion, stop calling him a degenerate, he's a person!" Blake said.

"Oh I'm sorry, would you like for me to stop referring to the trash can as a trash can, or this lamppost as a lamppost?" Weiss retorted.

"Jeez, that's pretty damn racist right there." Qrow muttered.

"Well, I've changed since then." Weiss said in shame as she saw the scene play out, remembering how she was before.

"And good on you for that kid. Don't ever be like your old man." Qrow said with an approving nod.

"You're really starting to piss me off Weiss." I warned.

"Stop it!" Blake shouted.

"Stop what, he clearly broke the law, give him time and he'll probably join up with those other Faunus in the White Fang." Weiss said.

"You ignorant little brat!" Blake shouted and walked off.

"I'm gonna go get those parts before I go off on Weiss." I said walking off.

[]

I returned to the hall and as passing Team RWBY's Dorm to wash off the grease and oil from working on Canard when I saw Endrance step out of our room.

"Ah Haseo, we were wondering where you were so I was about to go looking for you." Endrance said.

"Hey, Motorcycle maintenance isn't a quick and clean job." I said gesturing to myself.

"I can see that." Endrance said.

At that moment Blake burst out of Team RWBY's dorm running as fast as she could, "Blake! Wait!" I heard Ruby call as Blake knocked me over.

"Well, at least we didn't have to see me act like a bigot again." Weiss said with a sigh.

"What the hell?" I asked.

"Sorry Haseo, you see Blake and Weiss were still arguing about the Faunus and the White Fang and Blake started to get really angry and then eventually said that they were tired of being pushed around but he words made it seem like she was once a member of the White Fang but that can't be right bacuase she was a captive of the White Fang." Ruby said getting faster with each word.

"Ruby." Endrance said softly.

"Yes?" Ruby asked.

"Could you please take your sister to our room and wait there please, Haseo will explain after he showers." Endrance said unnaturally calmly.

"Yeah... but, what about Weiss?" Ruby asked.

"I'll talk with my sister." Endrance said coldly as he walked into Team RWBY's dorm, threw Yang out and slammed the door shut.

"Welp... you're screwed." Yang said planly as she looked at Weiss who was a bit afraid of Endrance's eary calmness.

[? P.O.V.]

I stood leaning against a pillar in Beacons courtyard with a sealed letter in my hand.

'How am I going to get this to Elk?' I asked myself.

My thought's were interrupted by the sound of clacking heels running across the courtyard, instinctively I silenced my breathing and crouched low, then I saw who was running.

'Blake?' I thought in confusion, I knew she as there but why was she running?

"Wait, this person knows me?" Blake asked in confusion.

"It would seem so. I wonder who they are?" Pyrrha said, just as confused as Blake was.

I saw Blake take the bow off her head and then we both noticed the blonde monkey Faunus from Vacuo perching on top of the fountain.

'Sorry Elk but this is going to have to wait.' I thought putting the letter away and following my fellow Faunus from a distance.

"Ok, so we know it's a faunus, maybe it's the traitor from last time?" yang said thoughtfully.

"Maybe." Blake said in thought.

"You'll see soon enough, next chapter even if I remember correctly." Swift said with a smile as Glynda handed the book over to Qrow.


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