Hey guys nice to see you again... or about as close as I can get to seeing you through a typed up story chapter.

Anyway if you are reading this around posting time that means either

A). My friend has posted this for me (Thanks buddy)

B). It's somewhere around midnight for us Americans in which case I recommend getting some sleep buddy, this isn't helping.

C). It's Tuesday in which case, sorry for the delay.

Anyway it's time for me to get this chapter started as I relax from my return from Dragon*Con, enjoy people!

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I was with the whole team as we made our way through Vale, with Weiss leading, that meant only one thing.

'Vol 1 is coming to a close real quick.' I thought.

'It sure is.' Tamamo replied through my thoughts.

"The Vytal festival, Oh this is absolutely wonderful!" Weiss said cheerily.

"I don't think I've ever seen you smile this much Weiss, it's kinda weirding me out." Ruby said.

"The only time I've ever seen you smile so much before hand was..." I said, "... Actually Ruby's right."

"How could you not smile? A festival dedicated to the cultures of the world, there will be dances, parades, a tournament-" Tamamo and I flinched at the word '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.

"Next time Weiss, do not include 'The amount of planning and organizing' when you describe the Vytal festival." Tamamo said.

"Quiet you two." Weiss said.

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

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

"Ruby's the ocean is right over there, plus those guys over there are unloading fish from their boat." I said pointing at a boat.

"Oh..." Ruby said, I also noticed a bit of drool dripping from the corner of Blake's mouth.

"I've heard that student's from Vacuo will be arriving by ship today, and as a representative of Beacon I feel as if it is solem duty to welcome them to this fine Kingdom." Weiss said.

"She want's to spy on them so she'll have the upperhand in the tournament." Blake said.

"Ugh you can't prove that." Weiss retorted.

"Weiss, I got a text from Vie saying that you asked her if she could hack you some records of all the teams coming into Vale from the other three Kingdoms." I deadpanned holding up my scroll.

"Uhhh..." Weiss gaped.

"Whoa." Ruby said looking toward what I knew was the Dust shop robbery.

As my team approached the crime scene I stayed slightly behind to talk with Tamamo, 'Okay so we try our best to stop Weiss from scaring off Blake.' I started my though conversation.

'But the odds of that are high considering Weiss's current personality, so I'll go follow Blake and keep an eye on her.' Tamamo said.

'Meanwhile I will practically tear Weiss's ears of with the lecture I have prepared.' I finished.

"Hmp, The White Fang, what an awful bunch of degenerates." Weiss said.

"What's your problem?" Blake asked.

"My problem? I simply don't care for the criminally insane." Weiss said.

Blake was about to speak up but I cut her off. "Weiss The White Fang aren't a group of psychopaths, granted there might be one or two psycho's in there, but mainly The White Fang have simply gotten desperate for equality to the point they are doing so through misguided means." I said.

"Misguided? They want to wipe humanity off the face of the planet!" Weiss shouted.

"I never said how misguided, for all I know their new leader is a psychopath." I said, "Beside's why in the world would the White Fang rob a Dust shop in the middle of downtown Vale? It's not because they want to hurt the SDC's income rate, attacking one shop wouldn't do all that much, they would aim for shipments of Dust if they want to do that." I said.

"Maybe it was that Torchwick guy, the police haven't caught him yet." Ruby said.

"True, plus he was robbing a Dust store when you fought him so odds are it's him." Blake said remembering my story.

"Well that 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 shouted.

We all looked over to see the Monkey Faunus Sun Wukong being chased by a pair of crew members across the docks.

'Dammit Sun, did yo really have to time your reveal just perfectly to illustrate Weiss's point.' I thought as Sun ran past us, winking at Blake as he did.

"Nice timing jackass!" Tamamo shouted.

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

"Quick we have to observe him!" Weiss shouted running off with Ruby, Blake, and Yang.

"This isn't going to end well." Tamamo said.

"You know she could have just asked me to use a few paper golems to spy on them." I said as I started after the rest of my team.

"True, but we both know you wouldn't have." Tamamo said as we caught up with our team just in time to see Weiss crash into Penny.

I took this little moment to observe Penny.

Penny Poledina

Puppet with a Soul

Lvl 41

'Damn she's tough.' I thought as I noticed everyone was introducing themselves, "Wess Verdant, pleased to meet you Penny."

"Tamamo Verdant, a pleasure to make your acquaintance." Tamamo said with a bow.

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Penny said.

"You already said that." Weiss said.

Penny paused for a moment, "So I did." Penny said.

"Well sorry for running into you." Weiss said as our team turned away.

"Take care friend." Ruby said.

"Try not it get run into again pal." I said, knowing what I was getting into.

We turned a corner rather soon, "She was weird." Yang said.

"Not any weirder than Crazy Eddie though." I said

"Now where did that Faunus riffraff run off to?" Weiss asked, only to freeze upon seeing Penny right in front of us.

"What did you call me?" Penny asked.

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

"No not you." Penny said pushing past everyone and stepped in front if me and Ruby, "You two."

"U-Us?" Ruby stammered and began trying to collect your thoughts.

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

"Umm..." Ruby said looking toward the rest of our team, who was waving their hands in various 'no' fashion's while Tamamo was giving two thumbs up. "Yeah sure why not?" Ruby said, causing the others to fall over, save for Tamamo.

"Of course, My sister keeps sleeping with Cat Faunus every night, my half-sister is a Fox Faunus, and one of my best friends back home called himself Crazy Eddie. I can make friends with just about anyone." I said.

"Sensational! We can paint our nails, and try on clothes, and talk about cute boys Ruby. And Wes we can hang out and have so much fun!" Penny said enthusiastically.

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

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

I kinda zoned out the whole 'Reason for being at the tournament' thing with Penny to prepare my retorts to Weiss's racist comments.

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

"The who?" Penny asked.

"That filthy Faunus from the boat?" Weiss demanded as she held up a crud drawing of Sun.

"Weiss this is exactly why the White Fang hate humans so much!" I said.

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

"Oh I'm sorry, would you like me to stop reffering to the trash can as a trash can? Or this lamp post as a lamp post?" Weiss asked.

"You wanna go Schnee? Two can play at this game!" Tamamo growled flicking out the Okami brush, with a speedy brush stroke I never saw, a sudden burst of wind pushed Weiss's combat skirt up.

"AHH!" Weiss shrieked.

"Stop it Weiss!" Blake shouted.

Weiss quickly got her skirt back under control, "Stop what? He clearly broke the law, give him time and he'll probably join up with those other Faunus in the White Fang!"

This argument kept up and to be honest, because I was here in person I'm genuinely getting pissed off at Weiss.

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The argument was, not surprisingly, still going the dorm.

"I don't see why this is such a problem!" Weiss shouted

"That IS the problem!" Blake snapped.

"You realize you're defending an organization that hates humanity don't you? The White Fang are pure evil!" Weiss shouted.

"There's no such thing as pure evil!" Blake shouted, "It's because of people like Cardin, people like you that forces the White Fang to take such drastic measures!"

"People like me!?" Weiss shouted.

"You're discriminatory!" Blake shouted.

"I'm a victim!" Weiss shouted, "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, my grandfather's company has had a target painted on it's 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 difficult childhood." Weiss said.

"Weiss I-" Ruby started.

"Well maybe we were just tired of being pushed around!" Blake shouted, only to realize what she just said.

Blake ran out the door as fast as she could, "Blake wait! Come back!" Ruby cried.

"Tamamo." I said.

"On it!" Tamamo said turning into a fox and rushing faster than a fox should after Blake.

"Good riddance." Weiss said.

Faster than anyone could have seen I grabbed Weiss by the neck and dragged her into an empty I.D.

"W-what are doing Wes?" Weiss cried out in panic.

"We need to talk about your attitude." I said letting go of her

"What's there to talk about? You heard what she said, she's White Fang!" Weiss shouted.

"And what in the name of Oum thinks she still is?" I asked, "If she really was still White Fang why would she hide her Faunus traits? The White Fang look down on things like that. Why woulnd't she leave the room every night? I'm the last person to fall asleep in this place and she's sound asleep by the time I'm asleep. If Blake were still White Fang, what was stopping her from killing you midway through the semester!?" I shouted.

"Why are you defending her!?" Weiss demanded.

"Why? My sister Vie has dozens of connections in the underground, one of which is a member of the White Fang who has a bad habit of getting drunk very often, and when he's drunk Vie can easily pull a lot of information from him, including a list of White Fang deserters." I said holding up my scroll to show the list, Weiss took it and began scrolling through.

"Blake's on this list." Weiss said.

"Exactly. The White Fang has lost at least a third of it's members due to desertion." I said.

"But this still doesn't justify what the White Fang is doing, or what it's done to my family." Weiss said.

"I'll get to that, but first we need to talk about you reaction to... hold on can I see my scroll for a second?" I asked, Weiss nodded and handed it back, "Let's see... ah Sun Wukong, the Monkey Faunus from the boat." I finished.

"Yeah what about him?" Weiss asked.

"You said he is likely to join up with the White Fang just because he's a stowaway, right?" I asked.

"Yes." Weiss said.

"Well according to these notes here Sun Wukong goes to a Huntsman academy, even the leader of his team there, S-S-S-N. or Team Sun as it's pronounced. He's also got a bit of a record across both the campus and the locals as a bit of a prankster, always getting into trouble, yet never once did he ever go to a White Fang rally as a child." I said, "In fact there is even a report that he was once offered a position in the White Fang, but turned it down respectfully."

"Oh..." Weiss said.

"Further more on the White Fang, the reason they loathe the SDC so much is because of all that it's done to Faunus under your fathers control." I said holding out my scroll

Weiss took it and began to read it, "Where did you get these? These documents are for the C.E.O.'s eyes only!" Weiss snapped in shock.

"Again, my sister Vie. Snap at her." I said.

Weiss was silent for ten minutes as she read the documents, "My Oum..." Weiss said.

"Now do you see why the White Fang hate's the SDC so much?" I asked.

"Y-yes." Weiss said returning my scroll.

"Now let's get some sleep, we'll start looking for Blake tomorrow." I said.

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Alright people that's it for this chapter.

Next one I'll finish off Volume 1, an right after that will be a Verdant Chibi special.

And Next chapter will be mostly from Tamamo's P.O.V. until she and Wes meet's again.