"So Ruby, mind telling me why we are here near the Portside on a nice Friday afternoon instead of somewhere else in the city where it, preferably, does not reek to the high heavens of fish?" Daniel first asked as he was accompanying Team RWBY for the day on another visit to the city. A decision he begin to regret as soon as he arrived her and done nothing but walk for several hours or so already with absolutely nothing to do but stare at various decorations here.

Ruby just shrugged and looked at him sympathetically as she too does not desire to be here spending her Friday afternoon just walking around. "Well to be fair none of us really cared to do it but Weiss wanted to go to the Portside to see the decorations for the upcoming Vytal Festival and what not." Which caused him to raise his eyebrows and gave her an exasperated look that all but shouted 'Are you telling me we are wasting our Friday afternoon looking at decorations?!'

It was at this point Weiss spoke up. "Oh hush you two. 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 said so happily that Daniel was taken aback by it and wondered if he somehow got drunk again when he wasn't looking.

Yang just sighed and huffed as she rolled her eyes and crossed her arms at what the Heiress said. "You really know how to take a good thing and make it sound boring." She commented off handily causing Ruby to stifle a snicker, Weiss to glare at her, and both him and Blake to smile a bit underneath but hid it underneath their neutral expression. As Weiss told her to shut up.

Then he spoke up again. "Okay nice to know all of that but considering that all of Vale is doing the decorations. Why are we here near the docks when we could be in the inner city part doing something fun Weiss?" Causing all the other girls to turn to her wonder for what possible reason would she go to the docks where it smells like crap and waste; causing her to get excited again.

"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!" She said rather impressively and as noble as she tried to make her sound. But I knew her a bit better than that. Most likely she just wanted to scout out the students with potential.

Blake then had the bluntness to put my thoughts into words. "In other words, she wants to spy on them so she'll have the upper hand in the tournament." That by itself caused both Ruby and Yang to gain 'Really?' looks on their faces as they thought this was a perfectly good waste of a Friday like I thought myself about Weiss spending her free time just doing this on a nice afternoon.

She scoffed at that and turned around. "You can't prove that." And just continued to walk on through. I then elbowed both Ruby and Yang causing them to turn their attention to me as we walked down the road still.

"Note how she did not really deny the accusation that she wanted to spy on them girls." I deadpan at Weiss's retort. Causing both girls to giggle a bit and Blake to gain a small smile on her face. Causing Weiss to turn around and look at us in confusion and suspicion at what was going on, I just shook my head. "Oh don't mind us Weiss just telling them a small joke that you probably won't care for is all." She still looked suspicious but then huffed and moved on.

Then Ruby stopped walking and looked to the right, and in confusion I also looked to the right as well and saw a crime scene being looked at. Wanting to know what was going I decided to walk there a bit to what were the cops thinking on this. To my surprise it was a local Dust store and the cops looked a bit confused at what was going on here.

One of the cops said to his partner. "Robbery. Second Dust shop to be hit this week. This place is turning into a jungle." He sighed in frustration as he ran his hands through his hair not knowing what to make of it. It was then that I noticed that Yang had sorrowful eyes at the scene. Can't really blame her, someone's livelihood was destroyed and now that person lost a lot of stuff.

Though what the second cop said grabbed my attention rather quickly. "They left all the money again." That was a major cause for concern. Dust is a majorly important resource that is used in just about everything in day to day usage. Robbery of Dust is both profitable and rather limited in resources it matter not what some people say, there is only so much Dust in the world now.

"Yeah, just doesn't make a lick of sense. Who needs that much Dust?" The first cop said in frustration. I narrowed my eyes at that. Most likely whoever needs that much Dust does not have the safety of the people's wellbeing at heart or desire a lot of cash in a quick amount of time.

"I don't know, an army?" the first cop guessed. And that only lead to him to one conclusion as to which army would need that much Dust in the first place.

"You thinking the White Fang?" Ding, ding, ding! Seems that the cops had their own suspicions and maybe they would do something about it. A terrorist group with possibly that much Dust cannot be good for the people. Especially if they have a kill all humans type of goal to do.

"Yeah, I'm thinking we don't get paid enough." He scoffed as he removed his glasses and just walked away with his partner in tow. Well never mind then, it seems these cops are lazy and are only in it for the cash. He just shook his head in disappointment, if Natasha was here she would kick all of their asses for being ineffective and lazy like that. He just palmed his face in anger.

Only to hear an argument about the White Fang between Blake and Weiss. He rolled his eyes at this. It would not be unusual to hear Blake defend the White Fang and while he does know that she used to sympathize with them back in the old days when they had peaceful intentions. It does get a little bit grating to hear her defend them so vehemently like that at times.

Just as he was about to go up and break up the fight he heard some screams coming from a boat and he and the girls ran to the boat only to see a blonde haired monkey Faunus running about. Judging from the comments it was most likely that the Faunus before him was just hiding on the ship to get here. Also might be a possible student as well from Vacuo.

Seeing him run away and dodging the cops as well as running past us, and I noticed for a brief second that he gave Blake a wink who was only taken aback by his actions. I raised my eyebrows at that, did he knew of Blake's heritage? Yang spoke up what we all thought at the moment. "Well, Weiss, you wanted to see the competition, and there it goes..." she pointed out.

That quickly knocked Weiss out of her stupor as she raised her finger in that direction. "Quick! We have to observe him!" she shouted as we all started running after that guy. Though to be fair I was only in it to discover whether or not he did knew that Blake is a Faunus. It seems like it was about to go well till Weiss bumped into someone and had laid on top of that person.

I also looked up and noticed that the Faunus and the cops were no longer in sight as well. Ah well Weiss was going to be annoyed for sure. Then I notice that Weiss has yet to get up from that girl. "Hey Weiss you know it is rather rude for you to be on top of someone and not get up from there you know?" I pointed out to her.

Weiss finally sees that she fell on a smiling girl, which startles the heiress and she hastily gets up. The girl who is still on the ground finally spoke up. "Salutations!" She said with a rather chipper tone that had me rather confused. Considering that she got knocked to the ground and was rather nonchalant about it.

"Are… you… okay?" Yang asked rather hesitantly, not surprising considering that the girl before us was still on the ground not getting up or whatever.

The girl, who was still on the ground, replied. "I am wonderful, thank you for asking!" in that same chipper tone for some reason had me on edge or what not. Not in the way that it just seems creepy or whatever, I could tell that the girl is being earnest. But she feels a bit…unnatural for lack of a better adjective to describe this sensation that I am feeling.

Then I spoke up. "Don't you want to get from the ground and stand instead of laying down there all day miss?" I pointed out the obvious to her, who only looked a bit contemplative before she had that same smile on her face again as she came to a decision.

"Yes!" she then leaped back up without any issue whatsoever and started patting herself of all the dust she may have collected. At the same time everyone else took a step back except for me and when I looked back I just gave them all a look that said 'Really?' Sure she may be a bit unnerving but that is still no excuse to act as rude as they did. "My name is Penny! It's a pleasure to meet you!" she introduced herself to all of us as I made way to shake her hand for a bit.

"Hello Penny, my name is Daniel. This Ruby." Pointing to her who only waved enthusiastically, "Weiss" who gave a bit of a bow, "Blake" who only nodded her head to our direction. "And Yang." Who replied with a rather rude question, causing me look at her scathingly as Blake hit her in the side causing her to be a bit quiet.

"It's a pleasure to meet you!" she said the same thing…again for some reason?

"But you already said that though." Weiss pointed out to the girl who only looked contemplative again.

"So I did." She said without any major issue and just looked oddly cheerful still. It was then I realized that I was reminded of the Laughing Dead for a very good reason. She seem to be a bit off in that line and I felt a cold chill going down my spine wonder what was this girl here for.

"Well anyways sorry for running into you." As they all started to leave as Ruby also had gave her own farewell to the…unique girl behind us.

Yang spoke about what every one of us thought about at the time. "Well she was…weird." Nice work in pointing out the obvious Yang. Really nice work in telling us what we all thought of her.

"Now, where did that Faunus riff-raff run off to?" Weiss pointed out back to their main objective causing me to sigh at her racism for the group to slip again. I know that you are not fond of them for multiple reasons Weiss but you should not descend to the judging the whole of the species for the actions of the few.

Only for Penny to appear out of literally nowhere startling all of us. "What did you call me?" As Weiss looks back and forth in shock and Yang looks apologetic. But I was more concerned at how quiet she was and how none of seemed to notice her sneaking in front of us. It takes quite the skills to sneak up on five hunters in training and not get noticed in the slightest at all.

Though I just realize that she walked up to Ruby and I tensed in the events that she may have any deigns to harm the little girl that I started to see as one of my first friend. Though what she asked Ruby caught me by surprise. "You called me 'friend'! Am I really your friend?"

She looked to us for help and support and I noticed immediately that all the girls were in complete disagreement and then she turned to me for support. I only raised my shoulders as if to say. 'Do whatever you want.' As she looked back at Penny who was quickly invading her personal space. "Y-Yeah, sure! Why not?" she said rather quickly to Penny who looked happy.

Meanwhile the other girls had a rather rare surprised and exasperated face together and all of them collapsed onto the ground. Again, all I could do was raise my eyebrows at them at how rude they were being to Penny, despite her…rather unique behavior.

Then Penny started cheering a bit excitedly and started talking about the girly stuff, which I promptly tuned out as it did not concern me. Then she said something that grabbed my interest rather quickly. "I'm here to fight in the tournament." Then I started to tune in what she said.

"Wait, you're fighting in the tournament?" Weiss said rather disbelieving, not thinking that she could possibly be a real fighter. 'Weiss you have forgotten that you must never judge a book by its cover after all.' I mentally thought to myself as appearances can be really deceiving at times.

Penny just saluted and said "I am combat ready!" Again, there was just something off about the way she said that. It's as though one would rate a machine or what not, it felt a bit weird for lack of a better term.

Weiss just scoffed at her. "Forgive me, but you hardly look the part." Again Weiss, you should never judge a book by its cover. The fact that she sneaked past all five of us and did not even alert us should clue you in to her skills. She's no ordinary girl, that's for sure. There is more to her than meets the eyes after all.

"Says the girl wearing a dress." Blake deadpanned to Weiss who only look appalled. Hate to say it Heiress but she did get you there.

"It's a combat skirt!" Weiss retorted with her arms crossed and Ruby came out of nowhere to support her. And imagine to my shock and surprise when Weiss gave Ruby a low five, considering that Weiss was not really fond of her leader last time I checked. Did something happen for them to start acting a bit friendlier to each other or something like that?

Then Weiss started asking Penny about the Faunus that pass by her possibly and of course insulting him in the process. That led to another major argument between the two about the White Fang and what not that it started to get on my nerves. I went up to the both of them and dope smack them into shutting up and glaring at me which wilted as they noticed my own glare.

"Girls." I hissed out causing them to wince a bit at my tone. "There is no need to disrupt the public peace of this part of town and showing your worst side to one of our new acquaintances." Motioning to Penny who only just waved her hand at them. "Nor is it necessary for you to yell about your beliefs." Weiss and Blake were about to protest till he sent them both a scathing look.

"And in my opinion as a neutral one here, your perspective both have their good points and their bad points. While it is important to know what is you believe in, it is also just as important if you know the flaws in your beliefs as well." he said ending their talk about the Faunus and White Fang before he decided to leave the girls to their own thing. This was possibly the worst way for him to spend his afternoon so far. And he spent a lot of his afternoons hunting down feral Grim.

Both Ruby and I released a sigh of relief as yet argument was avoided due to Daniel's rather blunt behavior and scariness this time. Though judging from the way that Bake and Weiss were glaring at each other, it may only be for a short while. And it only gotten shorter when Daniel just up right left them, she could understand why he just left without saying a word. This was one hell of a way to waste an afternoon and he most likely had no intention of wasting it any further.

Seriously though Daniel was the only one that was either brave enough or suicidal enough to interrupt the argument between Blake and Weiss. That take some serious guts to do so, and now without him to stop those two, Yang knew for certain that they were going to go back and argue again. And as soon as Daniel was out of range they went straight back to arguing, both she and Ruby feel rather uncomfortable by this and decided to let those two vent out all of their issues.

Hopefully it would end soon as she flinched a bit when Blake started insulting Weiss. "You ignorant little racist brat!" She all but screeched out at her.

"What did you call me?" Weiss snapped back at Blake.

"You heard me! You are a judgmental racist jerk!" Blake retorted back to Weiss as she looked absolutely furious.

"What in the world makes you day that? And how dare you talk to me like that! I am your teammate!" Weiss yelled back at her.

"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!" Blake said firmly to Weiss.

Yang was getting rather uncomfortable and said a quick farewell to Penny who then left without caring for the situation in front of her, which she is rather grateful for.

"So you admit it! The White Fang is just a radical group of terrorists! Have you forgotten what they planned to do to those kids back in the orphanage that Daniel rescued from? How could they be anything but Terrorists?" Weiss snapped back at Blake.

"That's not what I meant, and you know it! And yes I have not forgotten what some of them planned to do to the orphans, how could I forget that!?" Blake shouted back at her. As she still continued to walk back, she really hoped that they don't continue this argument later on tonight.

(Later that night)

She was wrong, she was so damned wrong and now she wished she stopped by Daniel's room now considering that their argument was escalating and her baby sis look just about as comfortable as she did at that moment now. If anything it has gotten much worse than it had before. She was seriously regretting not stopping by Daniel's room to make him stop them.

"You realize you are defending an organization that hates Humanity, don't you? The Faunus of the White Fang are pure evil! You remember exactly the kind of scum that they recruit to their organization and hire to make the common people's lives a living nightmare!" Weiss snapped back at Blake, who only glared back at her.

"There's no such thing as pure evil! Why do you think they hate Humanity so much? It's because of people like Cardin, people like you, which force the White Fang to take such drastic measures! Many of them have their own beef with humans that cause them so much pain in the past!" At this point Weiss looked completely enraged.

"And you think that justifies the amount of pain and suffering that they have caused over the years since they started their first bombing attack?! All because I don't hold any love for a group that is nothing more than a terrorist operation?!" she yelled back at her.

"You're discriminatory! Which in turn only births more people that don't hold any positive regard for people!" Blake uncharacteristically said glaring at Weiss who by that time had finally had enough and snapped.

"I'm a Victim here!" She all but shouted silencing the entire room before her as she looked outside as she looked outside to look in sorrow of bad memories.

"You want to know why I despise the White Fang. Why I don't particularly trust the Faunus? It's because they've been at war with my family for years. War, as in actual bloodshed." She said quite bitterly and painfully.

"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've watched family friends disappear, board members executed, an entire train car full of Dust, stolen. And every day, my father would come home, furious. And that made for a very difficult childhood." She said with a noticeable trembling in her fists.

"And do you want to know what the best part is?" She all but snarled at Blake who taken aback by her viciousness stepped back. "Because of all their attacks and what not, it made interaction with just about any Faunus I meet rather painful as they blamed me for all the problems they had with their lives. Not one person outside my family ever tried to help me or sympathize with what my family has lost over the years." Weiss's eyes then gained a rather cloudy look in them now.

"Only one person has ever bothered to listen to my side of the story and yet despite the fact that he does not agree with many of the views my father's company has. He took the time to hear me out, which is more than what I could say already for most people. He never made a single criticism about me nor did he just sneer at me and say that my family and friends deserve it."

Then the other girls noticed that there was unshed tears in her eyes. "Do you have any idea how hard it is to grow up with a very frustrated father, a bunch of people who do nothing but glare at you as they yell and call you murderers and monsters just because one group inspired others to do so? Do you have any idea just how hard it was to leave home and not worry about the hate I would get from all the other Faunus and Faunus sympathizers here with no one to support me?"

Ruby then walked up to her in an attempt to comfort her. "Weiss…I-"

Weiss turned back to her in rage "No!" As she started to walk towards Blake "You want to know why I despise the White Fang. It's because they're a bunch of liars, thieves, and murderers!"

"Well maybe we are just tired of being pushed around!" The room then went silent and Blake stopped glaring as she started to panic at the implications she just revealed to her teammates. Everyone was left in silence in surprise.

"I-I" was she could stammer out before she bolted out of there as Ruby tried to chase after her but to no avail leaving the three remaining girls by themselves in their dorm room now.

Blake just kept running and running, she just revealed her biggest secret and now she was on the run again. She did not stop to apologize to notice who it was she was bumping into and just kept running. That was all she was good at, running away from her problems time and time again regardless of what happens to the other party. It was always easier for her to deal with the pain.

She did not stop running till she was finally outside in front of the monument of the Huntsmen and Huntresses standing triumphant over the creatures of Grimm. She closed her eyes trying to hold back the pain and slowly undid her bow revealing her cat ears in public. Not that she cared anymore, for all the good that did her now that her team knows exactly what it was she is now.

"Blake!" A male voice calling out to her knocking her out of her thoughts as she quickly turned around to see Daniel looking at her in confusion. "Blake why did you knock me-"He started to speak only to notice that her bow was off and the implications behind it. He just sighed as he started to rub his forehead now. "Guess your team found out about your heritage and it wasn't the way you wanted it to be revealed huh?" Daniel said rather softly as she nodded in silence.

It was at this point Blake remembered what Weiss said about there being only one person to have ever listen to her side of the story. And there is only one person that she knew of that would have listen to her without any prejudice and listen to her. "Daniel." She called out causing him to stop rubbing his head at the moment. "After our escalating conflict, I heard from Weiss that there has only been one person to ever listen to her side of the story. Was, was it you who listened to her?"

Daniel did not seem really perturbed by it as he answered rather truthfully. "Well at first I wanted to ask her about Dust then it became a talk about her family, the poor girl never had anyone to really confide in over the many issues she had with her family and Faunus." Blake was shocked at the way he just seemed to not care about the SDC's treatment of Faunus like that.

"And before you get any ideas Blake, keep in mind that while I do agree with you on certain topics of how the Faunus are treated and disagree with how the SDC treats the Faunus. That does not mean it does not go vice versa as well." He said and despite how calm he looks Blake felt a shiver go down her spine as his oh so perceptive eyes seem to gaze into her very soul and being.

"And remember Blake, despite the fact that I can be considered to be among the humans that treats Faunus the same way I would to fellow humans. I do not support the way that the White Fang goes about their work." Now his eyes soften a bit. "But remember that both you and Weiss have points that you can both agree and disagree on, but that still gives you no right to lump her with the rest of her family Blake, otherwise you would be no better." He scolded lightly to her.

Now she started to feel a bit guilty at the way she insulted and scolded Weiss, she had her own perspective in this and now remember Weiss's words. She would have grown up in all of that and of course she would not feel so warmly about her kind after all they had done to her and her family and friends. Before she could say anything else Daniel spoke up. "By the way you can come out now. I heard you when you were sneaking in." that kind of confused her for a bit.

Till she saw the same monkey Faunus from the docks walk up to them a bit sheepishly. "So yeah, guess you already knew about her heritage then?" Daniel nodded. "Great! This makes it slightly less awkward then. Well then introductions!" He said quite flamboyantly "I am the one and only Son Wukong of Team Season with the initials of SSSN nice to meet you guys." He said with a rather happy grin. I just raised my eyebrows at him while Daniel looked very confused.

"…Right." About the only thing that all Daniel could say after a while in silence. "That said, would you mind putting on a shirt?" He asked a bit exasperatedly as he pointed to Son's bare chest that Blake was silently taking the time to look over and she approved of it. "I would rather not see you in jail for public indecency just yet, not to mention it is rather rude to the lady here." He pointed out pointing to me causing me to blush in embarrassment at being the center of focus.

Son just had the audacity to grin at me and shook his head. "Nope!" He said popping out the p in the word. "The ladies love what I display and it would be a crime against nature to not show the ladies all the love that I put into this." He said pointing to his abs as he looked incredibly smug. At the same time I also noticed that Daniel was silent and his expression was completely blank. But the intense twitching on his eyebrows gave way to what he really thought about Son's unusual explanation.

"…Right then." He said with a bit a hesitation as he then turned to me. "I'm assuming you want to be out of Beacon academy then for a little while to deal with your changing situation?" He motioned to my ears and to the exit of Beacon Academy where the Bullheads were. I quickly nodded and soon enough the three of us went to the Bullheads to head for Vale. I was silently glad for the support that both Daniel and Son were showing to me, even if Son had no reason to.

The next day back in Team RWBY's room the leader of said team woke and looked towards one bed and was saddened by the fact that the one who was supposed to sleep there is not there. She sighed sadly as she looked out to the window. She hoped that her missing teammate would be safe and okay. But then again she received a text from Daniel last night saying that he would watch over Blake for the time being and be with her till she is ready enough to meet them again.

For the time, she would place her faith and trust in the Minuteman from another world for now. The only real question is how she would convince Weiss to give Blake a chance to explain herself out of this issue. Weiss was rather upset that Blake did not trust with the secret of her heritage nor was she pleased to find out that Blake may have been a member of the White Fang. She groaned into her sheets, so many issues to work out and not enough skills to deal with it all.

In another location the trio of Blake, Son, and Daniel were quietly sipping their tea at a local café as the boys seemed patient in waiting for something to be said from the lone female of their group right about now. Then Blake put down her cup of tea as she looked at the boys firmly in the eyes and then finally spoke up.

"So, you two wish to know more about me then?"