The Schnee Black Sheep

A/N Chapter 21: The Soldier, The Monster, The Child

The end of a two week break between semesters. Not only did it bring excitement to the students at Beacon because of the new classes and chances to best one another in combat, the ever sense of the Vital Festival just around the corner and the tournament at the end of the year, but it also had the majority of the teens somewhat down at the same time. The end of two weeks completely free of classes and responsibilities, being able to take advantage of the freedom had left teams RWBY and JNPR exhausted and bored. Some more than others…

"COAL WAKE UP!" Weiss screamed at her twin who was lying face down in his breakfast. Said teen blinked his eyes open and with a massive yawn, straightened up in his seat at the edge of the group. Blake glanced at his as she shut her book, one she had wrote herself about her time with the white fang, though she was adamant that it wasn't a diary, she was glad when no one asked what she was reading.

"I told you that researching all night was a bad idea." Blake reminded the boy as he pried a piece of bacon from his cheek and ate it.

"I'm fine, just sleepy…" Coal yawned again as he fell back down and started to snore lightly. Weiss rolled her eyes at her twin.

"Once more he is a huge embarrassment on me." She sighed. "Sometimes I question how we are related."

"It can't be that bad." Yang assured as she caught a berry in her mouth thrown by Nora from the table opposite. "I wonder what has him so fixated on researching this time."

"I don't know…" Weiss said sadly.

"Its fine." Yang waved off. "I'm sure Blake knows. Those two are always disappearing for hours at a time, not telling anyone where they go, who knows how many… intimate secrets they've shared." She teased her partner casting her a wink. Blake just scoffed and rolled her eyes not giving the blond any time of day as she cast another glance at the sleeping boy, once again regretting the fact that she read so much smut. More than once she had explained that she and Coal simply went fishing and only talked, sure they may have shared a few secrets that they would keep solely to themselves, but Yang didn't need to know that. Thankfully, Coal wasn't awake to see her cheeks redden slightly…

"19-19" Coal smirked at his eyes popped open and he sat up straight, stretching his arms high above his head. "All tied up Kitten." Yang smirked at the two as she cast her own opinion on the matter.

"Bet she wouldn't mind that." She slurred.

"OKAY!" Weiss said as she slammed her palms on the table and stood up, pulling on the back of Yang's collar she dragged the blond away from the table. "We need to have a little talk." Coal and Blake just watched the abduction with confused faces.

"What's up with them?" Coal asked as he pulled out a can of beer from thin air and pulled on the tab.

"Not a clue, will you not drink that right now. It's not even ten o'clock yet."

"And your point is?"

"You have a problem." Blake said with a gritty tone daring the boy do deny it. Though he did acknowledge internally that the Faunus wasn't wrong.

"Again, your point is?"

"Ugh. why can't you just quit." Blake scoffed with a tone that more told him to do so than to answer her back. Unfortunately, Coal didn't catch on.

"I can quit drinking any time I want." He assured.

"Again, why don't you?"

"Because I don't want to yet." Coal shrugged.

With Yang and Weiss, they were having an entirely different conversation. As soon as Weiss had pulled her teammate out of range, she pointed a perfectly manicured nail at the blond as she questioned her intentions.

"Okay Yang just what the hell are you implying here?" Weiss demanded. "You have been teasing them both for the entire break and now it's just getting weird." Yang only shrugged as she responded.

"Oh please, like you can't see it."

"See what?"

"That they are into each other."

"Well duh!" Weiss scoffed as she back off slightly. "Of course I can see it, hell even Ruby can probably see it…"

"Well…"

"Okay, maybe Ruby is to innocent to notice…" Weiss agreed. "But seriously Yang do you need to keep bringing it up? Especially with all those, details. I don't want those mental images!"

"Come on Weiss." Yang pleaded. "They need the push! The tension between them is enough for half the school to get off!"

"Don't remind me…"

"Exactly! so what do you say, wanna work together and help them out?" Yang smirked as she held out a hand for Weiss to shake. Weiss just eyed the hand as she contemplated accepting the deal. Sure she would finally get her twin in his first real relationship and true she could tell by the way he looked at the Faunus that there was something more going on than he was admitting to, but what did Yang stand to gain from getting them together.

"And just what are you getting out of all this?" Weiss questioned waiting to hear an answer before she agreed. Yang looked to the sky for a few moments needing to think of exactly why she was willing to 'assist'.

"Entertainment." Yang shrugged. Weiss shook her head as she shook the blonds hand, wondering if she was really going to regret this decision…

"Damn it Blake that wasn't fair!"

"Then you should have just done as I said!"

Yang and Weiss looked back to where they left the two and instantly face palmed simultaneously. Blake had stolen the can of beer from Coals grip and when he had reached across to take the can back, she had used her semblance to blink out of the way causing him to fall forwards onto the bench with Blake now sitting on his back as he struggled to sit back up. Weiss sighed once more as she turned back to the blond as they walked back over to the table.

"Do they even need us to get involved?" Weiss asked just as Ruby appeared beside her carrying a rather thick binder.

"Get involved in what?" Ruby asked. Yang cupped her sister's cheeks so that she could turn Ruby's head towards the scene where Coal had managed to get his hands on a very sneakily and conveniently placed pie, curtesy of Jaune, and take aim at the Faunus who still had him pinned down. "Oh no…" Ruby huffed as she watched Coal throw the pastry at the Faunus who had seen it coming from the very start.

Outside the dining hall, Sun was walking alone side his best friend and one of his teammates, Neptune Vasilias. A talk handsome looking teen with bright blue hair and eyes, he also had a set of yellow tinted goggles strapped around his forehead.

"Man, that's scary…" Neptune whistled as he listened to his friend's story of how he came to meet team RWBY.

"I know right…" Sun exclaimed as he started to emphasise the point he was trying to make. "I mean it was nothing compared to the last time I saw him summoning but damn those things are way too powerful just to be regular Grimm! And that girl as well, the Faunus… But no one knows that so keep that part a secret yeah."

"Dude I got you." Neptune assured as he nodded in acceptance. "Was she hot?"

"I'd say at least a decent eight out of ten." Sun shrugged before getting back on track. "Anyway, she literally just went right up to him and slapped him right across the face, while he was still in rage mode!"

"She must have some balls."

"To slap an executioner while he is turning… Fuck yeah!"

"What happens when his eyes turn red anyway?" Neptune asked. "You never actually told us that story."

"Okay I'll tell you but only if you don't run off and tell Scarlet."

"Dude..."

"Okay, okay so I was pickpocketing this really rich looking dude when…"

Sun was cut short as the window to his right shattered and landing in front of him was a very excited white haired teen.

"Fuck me, that was the last thing I needed right now… Oh hey Sun!" Coal said as he lay flat down on the ground holding his sore head.

"Do I even want to know what's happening?" Sun chucked as he held out a hand to assist the downed soldier. Coal gratefully accepted the hand up and informed the Faunus of what happened.

"Have you ever wondered what happens when you throw a pie in a girls face before?"

"You didn't did you?" Sun asked hoping that the boy wasn't completely out of his mind.

"No I missed my real target…" Coal assured. "But I still hit my sis square in the jaw with it, technically it was Jaune's fault for giving me the ammo to begin with, but now there's a massive food fight going on." Sun could only laugh at the brief summary.

"Why does everything you do literally explode in your face?" Sun asked.

"Who knows…" Coal shrugged as he looked to the sky wondering which demonic overlord hated him. "I need more books so you guys are free to join in the theatrics if your bothered." Coal finished as he walked off from the two teens and headed for the city of Vale casting a wave over his shoulder out of politeness. Sun and Neptune proceeded into the dining hall, coming face to face with a standoff between teams RWBY and JNPR. Sun could only grin at the sight.

"Man, I love these guys!"

"Tukson!" Coal shouted as he walked into his typical book store looking for more research materials. "Yo Tukson, you got my order in yet?" Something wasn't right. Not only was the store meant to be closed at such an early hour but for some reason the door had been left unlocked. Coal was beyond baffled by the carelessness of a store owner in Vale who would leave his shop unoccupied and unlocked in a time where crime was spiking through the roof.

Do you smell that? Cobalt asked from within him. Coal took a quick sniff to ensure that he was getting the correct scent before another voice called out from deeper within his soul.

Blood…

Coal drew his revolver and cocked the hammer ensuring that he was ready to fire if necessary. Slowly creeping through the shop in the direction he could smell the scent, he walked around the counter and stopped upon seeing the body of the store owner, lying dead in a pool of blood. Coal sighed as she slowly crouched down to the man and tried to find a pulse, to no avail.

"Damn Tukson… What happened?" He questioned the dead man as he rose from the floor and began to inspect the unlit bookstore. He remembered his training from Ironwood when confronted with a situation that left him with little information. Sometimes it was best for a second opinion. "Cobalt?"

What?

"What do you make of all this?"

I only know what you know dumbass

"That's why I'm asking, as far as we know Tukson didn't have any enemies right?"

None that we were aware of… Oi Crimson?

What?

Sniff around will you.

To hungry

"Just do it you damn animal before I let Cobalt kill you again." Coal placed his palm to the wooden floor of the store and channelled his energy through the glyph on his back, summoning a small frost white beowolf in front of him, a Grimm which had the same glowing red eyes, unlike the boy's obsidian black ones. "Get to work and I'll let you eat." The beast growled and licked its fangs before starting to sniff around the store. Coal went back to inspect the body in hopes of finding some form of clue.

Body still feels slightly warm, couldn't have been dead for too long. Maybe killed a few hours ago…

"Agreed…" Coal said quietly to his inner self. "But that doesn't give us much to go on. Lots of tourists have come to Vale and the streets are packed enough as it is."

So, asking if anyone seen anyone come in to this store will basically be a waste of time.

"Precisely." Coal hummed before getting closer to inspect the body or more specifically, Tukson's hands. "Claws…"

He's a Faunus.

"Appears so…" Coal hummed again as he tried to piece what he could find together. "He went down fighting." Coal summarised as he examined the state of the small defensive wounds on the man's claws. Having found that information and storing it away in his mind for later he then proceeded up the body to examine the man's head, where two bullet holes were situated in the middle of his fore head.

Two shots to the head…

"Executioner style… Your style." Coal identified as he flicked his right wrist and crafted a very small and fine blade. He took the knife and started to poke around inside one of the bullet holes hoping to find a bullet. "Damn it's been a while since we had to do anything like this." He complained as he continued to dig around the man's head.

Sometimes I'm glad we aren't going on missions with the military anymore.

"I never thought I'd hear that from you!" Coal laughed. Eventually he managed to pull out a bullet fragment from inside the man's skull and started to examine the metal object. "Similar calibre to what we use… What the fuck is going on here?"

Given the body alone, most people would think it was us that kill him.

"But why would someone frame us for the murder of a regular Faunus?" Coal was interrupted from his thoughts as he heard Crimson utter a rather loud growl from the back room of the store. Leaving the body for now he proceeded further into the store to where he heard the growling. He found his Grimm counterpart hunched over a trunk inside a room at the very back of the store which had its door pried off its hinges. Something he knew the Grimm wouldn't have done. Sure, he may have given the animal a loose chain while he searched, but it still knew better than that. "Someone was looking for something." Coal summarised once more as the pieces started to fit together. Crimson moved out the way so that his master could examine what he had found in the trunk. A White Fang uniform.

That bastard was White Fang! Cobalt yelled from inside. I'll kill the prick!

"He's already dead moron." Coal stated with his voice filled with hate. "But never the less… It's a damn good cover up. Someone thought they could frame us for killing a member of the white fang in cold blood while they ransacked the place and got whatever it was they needed. Regardless of the Faunus' connection to the terrorists, it would still be murder. One we would go down for if the right people connected the dots."

Then we need to get out of here now before shit gets serious

"Agreed." Coal smirked before he turned to look at the Grimm which sat on its hind legs, licking its fangs awaiting its treat. "Just don't leave anything behind okay. Nothing can come back to us." Coal ordered getting a very creepy grin form the beast before it padded off in search of the dead Faunus.

Only follows orders when food is involved

"Well what do you expect." Coal shrugged, ignoring the horrifying sounds of the beast as it gorged itself while he crafted his swords, implanting them around the store. The mere thought of what the beast was eating made him want to physically vomit, but to avoid the backlash from the man's death, sometimes horrible things needed to be done. Something he had gotten used to long ago. "Humans are still animals just as much as the Faunus no matter how much they try and deny it, looks as though that nature gets embodied into him."

So, what does that make me?

"An annoyance."

Oh fuck off before I kill you!

Crimson padded back into the back room where Coal stood alone conversing with himself, with a creepily satisfied grin plastered on its face. Coal watched at the beast licked the blood from its lips and shook his head in disgust as the beast started to purr in its own pleasure at the feeling of a full stomach. Coals eyes dimmed down and returned to their normal hue as the Grimm dissolved into thin air without a trace. "I trust you left nothing that can bite us in the ass?"

Not a thing… Sleepy…

Yeah that's right, awake for the food and sleep till the next meal. Fucking animal.

"Both of you shut it!" Coal yelled before remembering that he was technically in an undiscovered crime scene. He walked back over to what remained of the mutilated corpse and placed his palm next to the remains, leaving a red glyph filled with fire dust. "We should head back to Beacon and find ourselves and alibi."

What about our books?

"Oh, shit yeah!"

Exiting through the back door, carrying several books under one arm, Coal walked into a back ally where even some of the more, 'unsavoury' criminal folk wouldn't even dare use. He back tracked all the way back to Beacon with the one question still plaguing his mind. Who was smart enough to try and frame him for the murder of a person connected to the one thing in the world he hated most?

Torchwick? Cobalt suggested.

"Not likely, the man may be a cunning bastard but he isn't behind this. The way he said that he was in business with the Fang made it seem as though they were level in the arrangement and that means one of two things… either the Faunus agree willing to work with a human and stand at the same height or they are being forced to work together from a higher third party."

Higher power then?

"Only obvious answer." Coal grinned. "Perhaps letting him live wasn't a mistake after all."

The living do tell better stories… I still wanted to kill him.

"You might still get your chance." Coal clicked his fingers. A fireball exploded out the window of the bookstore engulfing the flammable stock to ashes and everything else that was inside. A few of the passers by were thrown aside from the blast but other than a minor bruise or scrap they were otherwise unharmed. Coal however weaved through the disfigured and shocked crowd of bodies as he blended into his surroundings "This is going to eat up even more of our time isn't it?" Coal sighed. not only did he need to find out a way to get close enough to the White Fang to destroy them from the inside, he also needed to fabricate a means of increasing his survival rate for if he went under the knife to extract the dust and now, he needed to find out who was smart enough and had access to the correct equipment to fabricate rounds that were customised for his revolver and also murder a member of the White Fang that not even he himself had known about. He turned a corner and disappeared without a trace just as the sound of sirens arrived at the book store.

We should move onto phase 2 as soon as possible.

"Agreed. For now though, we head to the library at Beacon. They must have something we can use to research, otherwise we won't even get to complete this plan of yours."

Coal walked into the library hoping to find more research material. He smiled when he found his sister playing some sort of board game with the rest of her team and it appeared as though she was about to make a crushing move which was bound to ensure her victory by the sound of her maniacal laughter. Shrugging the research off for now, he started to walk over to where his twin was enjoying herself, hoping to make a few more happy memories with her and his friends… Just in case.

"Ha-ha Yes fear the almighty power of my forces, cower as they pillage you home and weep as they take your children from your very arms!" Weiss proclaimed standing over the board as though she were its dictator.

"Trap card." Yang countered before rearranging the board in her favour. "Your armies have been destroyed." Weiss collapsed in her chair in defeat.

"I hate this game of emotions we paly!" Weiss cried animatedly as ruby rushed in and hugged her for emotional support also crying animatedly herself.

"Stay strong Weiss." Ruby pleaded as she buried her head into Weiss' neck. "We will make it through this together!"

"Shut up don't touch me!" Weiss cried, slightly contradicting herself as she hugged Ruby closer.

"This is why I always let you win Snow Angel." Coal laughed as he appeared behind Blake causing the Faunus to leap an inch out her seat. Weiss cast her twin a warm smile which he returned in earnest.

"Will you stop doing that." She growled through closed teeth as she turned to glare at the boy.

"Doing what?" Coal smirked down as he met the Faunus' gaze. They stared into each others eyes for a moment. A moment that Yang would tease the Faunus for later.

"Hey Blake, it's your turn you know." The blond said as she relaxed into her seat folding her arms behind her head.

"Huh?" Blake questioned as she broke eye contact with the boy.

"Stop wasting time and make a move already." Yang winked implying something else entirely. Something which went straight over the head of a certain white hair boy but not his black-haired friend.

"Ugh!" Blake scoffed rolling her eyes. "Yang there is nothing going on between us."

"So, what did I miss anyway? What happened after Weiss threw me through the window?" Coal asked as he was unsure about what was happening between the two partners, this wasn't the first time he had seen Blake get irritated at something the blond had said.

"Well… Ruby kicked ass in the food fight, Weiss had a little moment when she passed out…

"I'm fine Frosty so don't worry about it." Weiss assured when the boys eyes snapped towards his twin.

"Yang literally fell out the sky." Blake continued getting back the boy's attention rather quickly.

"Speaking of which I got an amazing view of Vale while I was up there." Yang shrugged.

"And now we are apparently trying to concur the kingdoms of Remnant or something." Blake stated as she looked at her cards confused by the game.

"Sweet!" Coal cheered as he motioned for Blake to move over on her seat. "Bunch up and let me play too!" Blake did make space for him on the small chair for him despite the fact that there was very little to begin with thus they ended up sitting shoulder to shoulder. Blake moved her hand so that Coal could also examine the cards she held, he made a face which said that he was deep in thought over a potential strategy. Yang rolled her eyes at the two. Every day they would do something like this, a little gesture or flirtatious quip that would go mostly unnoticed by either of them as that was how they were used to interacting with each other by now. Yang hated that fact, she could tell they were closer than either of them realised and would be damned if she didn't get the together in the end. Even if it took her last dying breath, she would get them together. Jaune decided to make his appearance having been sat at a table across the way where the rest of his team was 'studying'.

"Can I play too?" He asked with enthusiasm.

"Sorry Jaune" Ruby shut him out while trying to ignore the boy sat next to Blake. "We already got four people."

"Besides." Weiss continued, not missing the fact that her partner had just blanked her twin by not even acknowledging that he had approached the table. "This game requires a certain level of tactical cunning that I seriously doubt you possess." Yang looked at Weiss with a doubtful expression.

"You attacked your own naval fleet two turns ago."

Blake rolled her eyes as she felt movement around her hand, Coal was busy raising and lowering cards in her hand as if starting to implement a strategy. After setting aside the cards he needed he leant back in the chair smirking in victory as if he already won the game and whispered the order of which to use the card in to the girl.

"Bring it on ice queen." Jaune smirked at knowing he finally found a nick name for the girl that wouldn't get him floored. "I'll have you know that I'm a natural born leader."

"By who?" Weiss questioned. "Your mother?"

"And Pyrrha!" Jaune clarified rather proudly. Said Spartan waved a hello to the group before returning to her comic which she snatched from Jaune earlier. "Come on let me play your hand for a turn." Weiss back away clutching her hand closer to her chest, refusing to let the blond touch the cards. As Jaune continued to plead with his twin, Coal leaned over to whisper in Blake's ear one more.

"He would actually be pretty decent at this game."

"What makes you so sure?"

"Well I've trained with him a few times, he is very observant and a brilliant tactician when he gets serious."

"Why not?" Jaune argued as once more Weiss turned him down, breaking the opposite spectrums form their private conversation. "You've trusted me with way more important stuff before. I mean you told us all that Blake is secretly a Fau-"

"Fun loving person!" Pyrrha interrupted as she dashed beside her partner and smacked a hand over his mouth silencing the blond. "Whom we all admire and respect." Blake just glared at them while Coal just laughed.

"I think that can go in my fails of the week montage." He chuckled to himself getting a glare from his best friend.

"Please don't make another one of those." Jaune begged remembering the humiliation that came with the last one that Coal had made and shown to the rest of Team JNPR.

"I won't J." Coal waved off while crossing his fingers behind his back. "Oh and before I forget to comment, I don't think that's the first time Pyrrha has left you speechless… Now if I recall it was Blake's turn." Blake flinched for a second before she remembered the order the boy had told her to use the cards that he pointed out to her. after completing her combo attack, she ended up completely annihilating Yang's army, inflicting a very devastating blow to Ruby's reinforcements and freezing Weiss preventing her from making any moves for two rounds.

"Why do I feel the need to make an obliterate reference right now…" Coal hummed.

"Well shit Blake…" Yang muttered. "Unless Ruby has a good move planned you basically got this in the bag."

"Um well…" Blake mumbled as Coal got up from the seat that they shared. "I had a little help." She finished smiling up at the boy who returned it with a smile of his own.

"Sup losers!" Sun announced as he walked up to the table with a blue haired boy wearing goggles standing right beside him.

"Trespassing on private property." Coal tutted. "I'm really going to have to arrest you this time Sun."

"Hey Sun!" Ruby called out.

"Ruby, Yang, Blake, Ice Queen, Flatfoot."

"Hey!" The twins cried in unison. "Why does everyone keep calling me that?" Weiss questioned.

"Because your bossy and act like you come from royalty with the amount that Winter and I spoil you!" Coal laughed as he ran around the table and ruffled his twin's hair.

"Quiet you!" Weiss pouted as she smacked his hand away and reset her appearance quickly.

"I never got a chance to formally introduce you to my old friend." Sun continued trying not to laugh at the child.

"Uh… Aren't libraries for reading?" The boy asked.

"THANK YOU!" Ren agreed rather loudly from over by the window.

"PANCAKES!" Nora exclaimed as she woke up startled by the noise. Sun ignored the two as he turned to his friend.

"Shut up. Don't be a nerd!" The boy made a silencing noise before correcting his friend.

"Intellectual! Okay thank you." Coal hummed at the correction thinking that maybe he could come to get along with the new boy. Technically he was an intellectual also. "I'm Neptune."

"So Neptune…" Weiss addressed the new boy in a tone Coal hadn't heard her use before. "Where are you from?"

"Haven." Neptune said as he started to slowly walk over to the girl. Upon reaching her he spoke in a very low and husky tone as he asked. "And I don't believe I've caught you name… Snow Angel."

*BANG*

Within the blink of an eye, Weiss had stood up and pushed Neptune up against a book case and held him in place with a strong palm resting on his chest. She inwardly cursed at having such a profound reaction to hearing anyone else but her twin call her by that name and she didn't want to leave a bad impression on such a hot guy. Coal on the other hand was thinking slightly differently…

'Go on Weiss…'

Kick his ass

Hungry

Weiss did neither of those things as she stood up on her tip toes and breathed seductively into Neptune's ear. "Don't. Ever. Call me Snow Angel." She backed off making sure to breathe one last time over the skin on his neck and turned away, slapping him with her pony tail as she walked away. Her boots clicked against the floor of the library as she swayed her hips for added effect on the boy, who could only gape at the sight of her exit as she disappeared from sight around the corner and out the library.

Coal stared dumbfoundedly at where his twin had just disappeared from sight and started to fumble around his mind looking for an answer for what he had just witnessed, until a sound forced him to snap his gaze toward Neptune… He was starting at the exact same spot with an allured expression.

"What a woman…" Neptune purred.

"THAT'S IT!" Coal yelled as he made to draw his revolver. Unfortunately, for Coal anyway, he was held back by not only Sun, who was now overly concerned for his friend's life, but also Yang, Jaune and Pyrrha. Even with all them trying to hold the boy back he was still proving to be too much for them to handle as he managed to raise his gun closer to his target.

"COAL!" Came the worrying yell of his twin which snapped him out of it and sprung back into his normal stance. Weiss came running up to her twin, panting as she bent down to place her hands on her knees as she took heavy breathes to pump more oxygen around her body. "We have… A problem." She said in-between breathes.

"Damn right we do Baby Sis!" Coal started to scold his twin before she shut him up quickly by cutting him off.

"Escape plan… Whiskey…" She panted again. Coals eyes widened. Surely not… No way would they need to initiate such a plan here at Beacon.

"Come again?" He asked in shock. The tone of his voice caught everyone by surprise as they all looked at him confused. Never had they heard such fear in his voice.

"ESCAPE PLAN WHISKEY!" Weiss yelled as she grabbed him by the collar and told him exactly what he needed to know with her eyes. A tense moment passed between the twins before a high-pitched call came from the halls of the school.

"Yoo-hoo! Wry-Wry!"

RUN!

Fucking Run!

Make haste!

He did. And by hell did he run fast. Before the call had even finished, Weiss had moved over to the window where Ren had been sitting and opened it as wide a she could, about a foot by foot gap appeared in the glass which Coal sprinted at, reaching full speed and dived head first through the open space. He flipped a few times before he landed on his feet in a gymnast's stance and looked back up the three story drop that he had just made, to see Ren holding a plaque with the numbers '8.3' written on. "That's more like it!" Coal huffed as he dashed off in a full-on sprint and out of view.

Weiss closed the window immediate after her twin had dived through it. she snatched Ren's score away and threw it out of sight somewhere around the library, she could have sworn she hit someone as she heard a yelp come from the direction that she threw it in. she regained her composure just as from around the corner, stepped out a girl the same age as herself.

Instantly jaws dropped at the sight of the new female.

Standing in an elegant light pink silk summer dress that stopped just before her knees and showed off just the right amount of cleavage to still be modest yet capture almost every eye present, was the single most beautiful girl that any one of them had laid their eyes on. Her hourglass figure confidently strode towards the group of bewildered teens. her shiny, wavy purple hair followed behind her as her frost white heels clicked against the floor until they stopped just in front of Weiss who had somehow managed to make it back to her seat unnoticed. The new female locked her bright yellow eyes with the Schnee's and spoke in formal yet high spirited high pitched voice.

"Oh, Weiss darling, have you seen my Wrythe anywhere?" the girl asked tilting her head to the side. From just out of view, Pyrrha and Nora placed a hand under their respective partner's chins and reattached their jaws.

"Unfortunately, Orchid." Weiss sighed disappointedly. "I haven't seen him at all today, perhaps he is somewhere training or on a mission. As a huntsman, he is supposed to keep radio silence while on missions as to not cause any unwanted issues." Blake blinked at Weiss as she had to do a double take at what she had just witnessed. Weiss deserved an award for that performance. The girl she had lied to believed her whole story.

"Aw…" She sighed looking slightly hurt at the fact that she couldn't see the boy before she quickly grew back am exquisite smile. She hugged herself around her midsection which caused her already busty chest to appear even bigger as she leaned over slightly to converse further with Weiss. "Knowing that you are here will make things easier. He will be back eventually so I shall just grow accustom to this environment and await his return with you darling."

Out the corner of her eye Weiss could see that Sun and Neptune placed a hand under each other's jaws and reset them in their place. She huffed slightly at being completely overshadowed from the girl smiling at her but kept her composure as she spoke once more.

"Once more Orchid I'm sorry to say that I'm not sure when my brother will be returning…"

"That shall not matter." Orchid waved off as she took up a seat next to Weiss. "I will be here for a while regardless so I may as well get acquainted with your friends while I wait. Albeit if it is only for a short time."

"Pardon any rudeness…" Blake said with an emotionless tone as she reached across and reset her partners dropped jaw. "But who are you?"

"Oh, I do apologise!" The girl gasped. "I am Valentina Orchid Octavian." She announced as she stood up and did a quick twirl and curtsied to the teens, once more dropping jaws. She smiled at the group and tilted her head once more and finished her introduction.

"I am Coal Schnee's fiancée." Orchid giggled.