Hey guy's here yet another chapter. RWBY is owned by Rooster Teeth and Persona is owned by Atlus. Nothing really happens due to it becoming one giant conversation scene but if I wrote the rest of the episode into this chapter, then this would drag on and on and the flow would be atrocious.
Finally got 200 reviews so i'm feeling pretty good at the moment. So I gotta a quick question, do you want Minato to be a one man team in the Vytal Tournament? I was originally going to have him sit that arc out but enough regular viewers PM me with that idea. If I do it and it won't contradict what I had in mind for something plot related to happen.
Never done a poll before but I honestly thinking with the small fanbase this fic gets, I don't need to. generally when I ask a question, I just check the reviews to see the majority just like when I asked about other people having Personas or the Pairings. Not surprisingly, alot of you wanted either Weiss or harem. So just review or PM me if you want to include Minato in the tournament.
To Turg. I honestly get where you're coming from but out of the 180 plus Personas people ignore, how many of them have a strong enough presence to be included? Many of them are like Pixie or Jack Frost which are at this point in time obsolete. I do have Personas I'm going to use like Mot, Titania, Mother Harlot, the 4 horsemen, Ultimates, and higher leveled angels and maybe DLC/other persona games Personas but If there's a Persona you wish to see send me it and I'll include it. Except Incubus and Mara for obvious reasons. Black Frost is probably the lowest level Persona that will be summoned in this fic.
Also the new Laevateinn is the combination of swords of other media. The P3 Laevateinn, Magnus Chase SumarBrander/Jack, Fate Excalibur (MHX version), Fate Photon Ray, Code Geass Brake Sword Zangetsu version, and Red Queen from Devil May Cry 4.
"Hey guys," Minato greeted with a wave. Yang and Ruby waved back, Weiss grabbed the edges of her skirt and did an elegant bow, enough to show respect in the greeting but not low enough to show servitude. Blake simply looked to the side avoiding his gaze, their last conversation obviously weighing heavily in her mind but Minato disregarded it.
He was also very tired from working on modifying Laevateinn all night and choosing the appropriate Personas to the flaming sword. It took a while but he decided to keep with the Nordic theme of the Personas and found an appropriate match. Norn the Ultimate Persona of Fortune Arcana and Freyr a relatively new Persona he acquired since his inception as the Great Seal.
Freyr was chosen due to his relationship with Surtr or at least his sword's relationship with Surtr. Sumarbrander also known as the sword of Summer was widely considered the strongest and sharpest blade of Nordic mythology and when Freyr fell madly in love with the goddess Gerd, the Vanir god took his friend Skirnir's advice and gave his sword away in hopes of gaining the goddess for himself which would eventually come back to bite him.
The sword of Summer would eventually come into Surtr's hands and with it, the fire Jotunn would kill Freyr with it during the twilight of the gods Ragnarok.
Norn, the goddess of destiny and fate was chosen for a less grand of a reason but simply because of her wind affinity and the term fanning the flames exists for a reason. With Freyr being associated with the season of summer, Surtr being the lord of Muspellheim which is the world of fire, this new sword had quite an affinity with heat making this blade very effective in what it's meant to do.
Basically speaking, this sword when activated is a fusion spell without the Fool needing to switch his Personas in the middle of combat. That was simply the results of fusing a Persona into a blade and that didn't take into account the admittedly simple modification that Minato had done to increase the sword's efficiency and power.
The blade, guard, handle and even pommel was drastically different from the standard Laevateinn and Minato felt a certain amount of pride as all of his and his Persona's ideas came out marvelously like fitting pieces of a jug saw puzzle together.
Despite them being blacksmiths that only designed standard weapons during their time, they certainly helped him create a master piece that could fit in the design and aesthetic Remnant inhabitants value… minus the gun portion. Not only did Minato found it wholly unnecessary in this sword's construction, he himself wasn't the largest fan of firearms much to Ruby's dismay.
In fact, he found Jaune's weapon Crocea Mors to be a far more interesting weapon despite its simplicity. If that sword wasn't a family heirloom, Minato would have bribed the male armored blonde to sell it to him.
The Blade portion of the Laevateinn was much more modern in design as it resembles a cross between a Kreigsmesser and GroBes messer, both Germanic blades which Nordic people have been known to live in. The blade disregarding the usual pure red flames, instead of inky murky black turned into a light shade of glowing light blue with a futuristic seafoam green circuit like designs alongside hundreds if not thousands of tiny golden and crimson runes forming line sequences like a program code.
The hilt was an even more complicated and vastly different compared to the blade. It had 4 dull red prongs facing upward forming a strange but functional guard that also fulfilled the purpose of being a turbine or drill that works in conjunction with Norn's wind spells to empower the flames. It also had 4 black prongs that seemed to fill the role of a basket hilt guard providing more protection to the hand. However, all 8 prongs had tiny thrusters that activated either manually or mentally should he contact the Personas within to do it for him allowing essentially a jet-blat of power releasing a burning propulsion to empower his blows.
Speaking of empowering his blows, Minato was inspired by playing this one game back in his old world with Junpei which for the life of him couldn't remember. But to be fair, he was in the Great Seal for centuries now. Somehow, someway… found a way to not only make enough room to fit a motorcycle esque gearshift and managed to empower Vermillion's old sword fragments into the blade even if it's only for decorative purposes. Minato had yet to test the new Laevateinn but he had a feeling that he would be satisfied with its performance. EMIYA's only price was the Excalibur fragments that Minato once used in Tartarus before he acquired superior swords like Masakados Katana, Deus Xiphos or Lucifer's Blade.
He had no idea what that Persona wanted with the remains of Excalibur but he himself had little purpose in keeping it. The Fool was going to plan on going to Periwinkle the best Blacksmith in Vale to do something with the shards but it was better to let his Persona have it as reward for his service.
Minato disregarded Blake's quite frankly rude behavior because they were in a public setting surrounded by mutual friends, and it wasn't the time to discuss such matters. "Heya Minato." The red leader greeted. "Glad you could make it." She then frowned. "Kinda sad that Jaune and the others couldn't make it but meh we could enjoy ourselves with just 5."
"Well, 9 is kinda a lot don'tcha think?" Yang replied. "Vomit boy might barf on our shoes or something like that time on the Bullhead." She frowned with her gagging on the memory alone.
Ruby turned green on the memory alone. Weiss simply took the blonde brawler's word at face value and agreed. Her shoes were custom made to perfection and while she might have the money to replace it, the quality and the fact that it was hand made from the most famous shoe maker in Atlas makes it rather hard to obtain a new one. She waited 2 years on the reservation just to have one and they were beyond comfortable, the heiress felt like she was on soft fluffy clouds instead of wearing heels.
Blake simply disregarded the conversation and had a lost look in her eyes thinking of something. All Minato knew was Laevateinn reminded her of something from her past an unpleasant memory if her reaction was anything to go by.
"…9 is a bit much." Ruby admitted. "Well at least we got Minato."
"Ugh, why bother with Jaune?" Weiss rolled her eyes. "All he ever does is make an utter fool of himself when he's in public."
"I find that offensive." Minato interjected.
"…Why?"
"…" Right… Remnant doesn't have the Arcana or Tarot, so what he just said wouldn't make much sense to natives of Remnant. Still, he felt obligated as the first Fool of the Velvet Room to defend the prestige of the Fool Arcana. More often than not, Minato had to double-check whether someone was insulting him or just calling him by his Arcana despite the fact that he associated himself with the Death Arcana. The Death Arcana was his natural birth Arcana after all, and represented his bond with… well Death.
"You sure it's not just because he hits on you all the time?" Yang asked. The Blonde made one of her trademark teasing faces that can really only be at home on her face. It would… be weird to see that expression on another beside Yang.
The heiress of the Schnee Dust company simply scoffed. "You think he would've gotten the hint after the first hundred rejection."
"…Perhaps it should be praised as a representation of his unyielding determination?" Minato offered hoping to paint it in a more positive light. Not that he was defending the male blonde seeing how Weiss wanted nothing to do with him. The Fool didn't want Jaune to be bashed when he wasn't here to hear it but he had to admit that despite the recent event in the library, he was still much closer to the white-haired girl than Jaune.
That was one of his flaws, he often preferred to hang around females rather than other males with exceptions but that general assumption was true to a certain degree. He barely hung out with the male SEES members outside of school or that final month before they made the decision to fight Nyx despite being far out classed. Then again Weiss would say the same criticism to Jaune if he was here to overhear as well making the girl rather honest and blunt if nothing else.
He had a problem, somehow some way he found himself surrounded by estrogen. It was like he naturally gravitated to women if he could help it and so did Yu. They theorized that it was the influence of the Wildcard beckoning them to 'Social link' females but the other male members of SEES and Investigation Team called them no good man-whores. Junpei suddenly gotten times more confident whe he and Chidori started to hang out more even if it's contained in a hospital.
"Don't mistake idiocy as something noble as determination, Minato." The heiress chided. Minato decided to change the subject, seeing that Weiss had nothing positive to say about Jaune. The blonde reminded him of Junpei in a very loose sense at least in some ways. Junpei and Jaune were about the same in determination and in the way that they interact with girls.
Yang actually reminded him of Junpei in terms of attitude, they both managed to brighten up the situation with their humor and silliness. That was a quality that even he couldn't acquire but it that was fine, that quality made Junpei absolutely irreplaceable for SEES even if he or Koromaru can take his place in battle. Yang also reminded him of Shinjiro and Akihiko too, she was basically a combination of all 3 and to be completely honest, the fool didn't know how to think about it.
"…Still, the Vytal tournament. What an interesting festival, besides the obvious matches and competition, this is an opportunity for me to observe the other kingdom's cultures besides simply reading text." Minato looked around. "The way of life of others admittedly actually interests me greatly."
"It would seem there is another who appreciates the higher things in life," Weiss nodded to herself. "As expected from one distantly related to my family." Weiss started to go back and forth with Minato on the qualities that the Vytal Tournament brings. It was in his opinion a rather interesting discussion and he certainly changed his opinion on certain events.
Food was always rather high on his list but he was willing to check out the dancing portion of the events. He had a bad experience with dancing before but at the time he really needed the money. He wasn't that big of a fan of parades due to how loud they could get but Weiss seemed really excited for them and he didn't have the heart to mention that he and parades don't usually get along.
Besides the firework parades, Minato really didn't like the noisy events but he would endure it if only to not ruin Weiss' or the rest of Team RWBY's enjoyment of it. The Vytal festival was the only event of celebration on Remnant compared to the more culturally diverse world that he came from. It made sense, considering Humanity's constant battling with the Grimm since they first came into existence.
"Ugh, not this again." Yang groaned. "Weiss gave us that whole shtick about the pros of the Vytal festival not even 10 minutes ago."
"Oh? How about you look at it this way?" Minato offered. "You wish to have a great time as well, right?"
"Yeah? Obviously," Yang raised an eyebrow.
"Perhaps enjoyment and other ways of thinking that comes from other culture that is here for the festival can enrich your life, but it can only do so if enough people participate and bring multiple platforms and entertainment here," The Fool explained. "What Weiss was trying to say is to truly appreciate the qualities of the festival by careful analyzation of how everything was set up and the preparation that came along with it."
"That sounds boring." The blond frowned. "Why think deeply while trying to have a good time. Dunno where you two come from but back in Patch, enjoyment comes from not working so hard and being lazy as hell."
Ruby reluctantly nodded. He could see why, a person with a Speed Semblance in a generally mellow town can incompatible at times.
"Hard to enjoy the moment when everything smells like fish." The red hooded leader grumbled. "…Ruby?" The Wildcard asked.
"Yes?" She tilted her head slightly in confusion.
"We're in the docks." He bluntly explained. "Which is beside the ocean."
She widened her eyes. "Oh… still sucks though." It seemed that she didn't take the fact that the docks were next to the sea into consideration when she said that.
"I take it you guys are here to check out the competitors then?" The Death of the mortal world asked. "I'm here for all the interesting items from the stalls people are setting up."
"Yes, I have heard the students of Vacuo will be arriving today and I as a representative of Vale, I wish to welcome them to this glorious kingdom."
"But you're from Atlas and only stayed in Vale for roughly 5 months." Blake questioned. "I think others would be more qualified for representing Vale and I know you well enough that you simply wish to spy on the other competitors."
"Quiet you," Weiss hmphed. "So. What do you wish to purchase?"
"Hmm, most likely come uncommon alloys from the other kingdoms and perhaps some books on technology."
"Oh? Then you would best check out the Atlas stalls for such information… though it won't be military grade."
"I already have a design in mind but having an outside source to improve the design would be ideal. And as for the alloy, I would need to check out the Mistral stalls."
"And what are you going to do with all that stuff anyways?" Yang asked genuinely curious.
"A motorcycle." He responded.
Yang perked up noticeably. "Really?"
"Yes." Minato responded.
Weiss frowned. "I had hoped that you would have said something more respectable like creating a more efficient Scroll, Bullhead or android… to pick something as mundane as a pedestrian motorcycle,"
"Hey, watch Ice queen. Bikes are awesome." Yang protested lightly.
Weiss ignored her, it was simply the difference in class and taste. No point starting an argument that no one wins.
Ruby rubbed the back of her head thinking on how to respond. "…Well, when you said you were interested in that stuff… you made it sound very important so I guess I kinda figured it was like how you made the Dust Recrystalizer. Not making a bike so you could joy ride."
"So, you're saying, I can't create something for the sake of creating it?" Minato asked. "I already really have an interesting design for the motorcycle that surpasses any known model on Remnant." He was always had been interested in motorcycles… at least when Mitsuru introduced him to that world. But he intended to replicate the fastest bike on Earth and integrate the best technology of both Earth and Remnant to create an unrivaled mechanical beast.
Minato smiled inwardly as he imagined his motorcycle with an Orgia mode and the gyro stabilization features of Remnant designs. And maybe the Exceed features that was found in his newly enhanced Laevateinn. Minato by the end of the month if he started immediately would have the first self-driving Motorcycle in existence once he finds a way to convert airship technology into the bike. And perhaps add energy shield technology, artificial intelligence, and weaponry just for the sake of it. To Minato, there's no such thing as overkill. That and he wanted to see Yang's face when he far surpassed her Bumblebee.
Yang looked at him with a certain expectant look. "No shit?" the girl was lost in thought of her riding an insanely fast motorcycle but came out of it due to the fact that she had a special bond with her motorcycle. Bumble bee was a beast of her own creation… well it was at least had been heavily modified by her, hours upon hours days upon days was spent on it being the best as it could possibly be.
"Yes," Minato bluntly replied. "There are many things I excel at and if I'm not, give me some time and I will master it no matter how difficult it is."
"That is to be expected," Weiss placed her hands on her hips. "Greatness is a quality born with."
"That greatness can only be realized by hard work Weiss," The blue haired Fool frowned. "It isn't nearly as absolute as you think. There are things in this world talent alone can't handle and there are things in this world that can't be solved as an individual no matter how much you try. Remember that."
"…I don't understand what you're trying to teach me. A company needs its lower end workers to function and talent needs to be nurtured in order to blossom and bloom grandly. That is common sense."
Minato smiled like he just heard his younger sibling said something cute. He wondered if this is what teachers felt with their students getting the opportunity and blessing to see them grow and progress as a person. He is rather invested in Weiss due to the fact that his Counterpart shared distant blood ties to her and the fact that he's been coaching her on summoning. Weiss' struggle to awaken as opposed to her sister's natural ability to use that ability reminded him of something.
Her inability to summon reminded him of a Persona User's struggle than a person using Aura or Semblance. That was fine, that meant he had the experience to guide her as opposed to Winter. It was a shame that Persona was a power that was not natural in Remnant, in his opinion Persona and its ability while not as unique as Semblance, it had more abilities in it for each person as opposed to a Semblance which is only one ability perhaps 2 at most. Then again the only family that had a secondary ability was his Counterpart's family and the Schnee family and even then, the abilities are heavily connected to each other. The rest truly only had one.
"You'll soon understand my words. No need to force it, enrichment of the soul and life needs time as is anything worth doing." The sole male in the sea of females replied.
Weiss simply nodded, deep in thought regardless of Minato's advice to take things slow. It simply wasn't in her nature to take things slow as she always lived in a schedule that should never be allowed to take more time than absolutely necessary.
The group fell into a comfortable silence for a minute or 2 as they walked closer to the edge of the port where on the opposite side is all the shops that people would visit. "…Ruby?" Minato asked.
"Sup?"
"You remember my fire sword Laevateinn right?" Minato glanced at her without turning to face her. He got her full attention to say the least.
Yang grumbled under her breath but that was understandable considering a suppressed Laevateinn defeated her with ease. It wasn't even a fight once he brought out that sword.
"Well, perhaps you would be interested in the fact that modified it further and made it much more…interesting to say the least."
Ruby's silver eyes lit up in excitement, her trademark star shaped eyes appeared again. It was almost blinding but her child like characteristics was cute and charming so it kind of evens out. "TELLMEMOREE!" she nearly shouted.
"Well, I felt somewhat inadequate when you told me all Signal students designed their own weapons so I figured that I would give it a shot for once."
"…And?" Ruby prompted. Weapons was a topic that she could tala about all day. A shame that no one besides Minato would be willing to spend a moment or 2 listening to her tangents.
"I think it isn't on your level when it comes to design ingenuity and because of that I used 2 extra Personas and fused into the weapon gave it a certain amount of… dominance and abilities to compensate." The Fool admitted. This was his first weapon he designed after all, even if he built it on a preexisting weapon. Not to pat himself on the back but he truly believed that the modification and parts used enhanced the flame abilities on Laevateinn. He and his Personas believed the principle simple is best… at least simple in terms of Remnant not Earth where they came from.
"…Blue? That sword is already OP as fuck and your first thought was to make it even more broken?" Yang narrowed her eyes at him. "What the hell, man? What the Actual hell?"
"Language, Yang." Ruby lightly scolded. "There's no such thing as an too awesome weapon. At least me and Minato now have a lot more to talk about now. I'll teach you everything I know about weapon creation… after I'm done with modifying your Daos of course."
Minato paused a bit. "I've been meaning to ask, what sort of upgrades have you been doing on them?"
"Well it's quite simple really, more time consuming than anything else. Basically I've Improved it's clip capacity and gave it a larger caliber rounds so it does more damage. I changed its firing mechanism using Blake's Gambol Shroud as a reference so it could shoot faster."
Blake raised an eyebrow in surprise. "…Really?"
"Yup!" Ruby jabbed a thumb to herself almost like she was preening over that comment like it was a praise of some kind. "And I'm trying to do something with the sheathes so it wouldn't be as wortless and somehow make the bullets fly in the direction in its scythe form that resembles my baby Crescent Rose to empower its blows."
Minato frowned. "I thought I told you that I prefer to control my movement as much as possible. I don't know if I could get used to being dragged around by the recoil, I'm not that great with a scythe. I believe that we already had that conversation with Yang before the Forever Fall?"
"How would you know if you don't like it if you never tried it before?" Ruby countered with slight heat.
"…Touché." Minato acquiesced to the younger girl that was glaring at him. He accidently insulted her fighting style by saying that broad statement, Minato was right about his own personality in a way. He was a control freak when it came to matters of fighting and was very precise with his style preferring as much control as possible.
Then again, his improved Laevateinn worked on a similar principle but to be fair, he can control it with his Personas. He knew his mental defense against Ruby was kind of weak when he looked at his flaming sword in that light especially since all he need to do is to learn to judge distance and the recoil to his advantage and modify his style in response to it but to be completely honest, he was simply not a fan of fire arms.
Sure, he could use it well enough but he found them making his weapon maintenance much harder and troublesome than it has to be.
And not to mention this but… let's just say that what Ruby practices is the opposite of control. Her semblance was akin to wild beast that was dragging the wielder instead of the Wielder wielding it. Her style and weaponry was the same as it dragged Ruby around despite the surprising grace and finesse the red hooded girl showed. Or rather, to be more accurate, her style was… contradictory or perhaps emphasized 2 extremes, grace and a wild ferocity, control and chaos. It was really hard for the Fool to accurately categorize and perhaps that's why he was having a difficult time learning how to wield a scythe, it had to many factors involved and Ruby maximizes Crescent Rose to her style making it very hard for Minato to replicate. He had Weapon Master as a skill but that would require him to switch Personas when his current one might have an advantage to the foe he would be fighting.
Well… Ruby is incorporating that way of fighting into his Daos she was modifying… he just hoped that she doesn't mess up the other forms just to make the scythe form. In a sense, it was entirely his fault that this is currently happening, when he told Perwinkle to surprise him on what weapon to make… he should have expected a scythe form. Considering that his Daos were made from the chains of multiple Death based beings… Minato was surprised that a scythe was not the primary designed part of the weapon. That and the fact that he and Blake fell for Ruby's pleading eyes begging them to allow her to mess with their weapons in the first place. They couldn't say no without feeling bad, like they just kicked a 9 week old puppy.
"And as for your supposed less than great scythe wielding… what happened to give me some time and I'll undoubtly master it?"
"I still stand by those words but wielding a scythe isn't that huge of a priority for me."
Ruby shakily stepped back, almost as if he spat on her face and then smacked her as hard as he possibly could. "N-no way,"
"…Are you alright dolt?" Weiss couldn't help but ask. She never saw this side of Ruby before… not even in their rough introduction back before the initiation. Quite frankly, it worried her… not that she'll ever admit it out loud of course.
"Yeah, you alright sis?" The blonde brawler asked worriedly as well. Blake looked at the scene and looked at Minato with a disapointed gaze. "Fix it somehow,"
"Y-you have enough time to learn from Yang of all people and not me?"
Yang narrowed her eyes at Ruby, her worried look suddenly vanishing. "What's that supposed to mean?" Despite asking, the blonde looked like she already had an idea. Clearly this wasn't the first time that this happened.
Ruby realized what slipped out of her tongue and started whistling awkwardly. Yang was not amused by this.
"W-well it's just that having a larger weapon is cooler and all… and its more graceful."
Yang frowned further. "I guess everyone thinks my fighting style is brutish then."
"…"
"…"
"…"
"Y'all are haters." Yang comforted herself.
Minato coughed into his palms awkwardly. "…It's effective if nothing else."
Yang straighten a bit, she was going to get all the praise you could get.
"Still didn't stop you from getting your butt kicked by Minatooo," Ruby sang out. It was karmic in a sense considering how teasing the blonde was to others. Revenge is a dish best served cold, even for family. "Whoa, what happened here?" Ruby asked as they passed by a Dust store with broken windows. This store, was never Ruby's go to place but seeing it in this state caught her attention nonetheless.
Minato frowned a bit. Was this the handiwork of Roman or the White Fang. He knew from his police connections that the ginger thief escaped a month or 2 ago but he had been silent during that time, most likely waiting for the right opportunity.
"Uhh, Hey detective guys," Ruby started as they walked closer to the crime scene closed off with black and yellow tape. "What happened here?"
"What does it look like to you?" The first guy with the beard asked sarcastically and rhetorically. "Just another robbery done by the White Fang, this is second Dust shop to be hit this week. This place is turning into a goddamn jungle for those animals."
Blake glared at him when he turned his head back to the scene of the crime.
"Geez, that sucks." Yang muttered.
"You don't even use Dust," Minato pointed out.
"Still sucks."
"How do you know it's the White Fang?" Minato asked trying to get more information from them. "Roman Torchwick had escaped a while back after all."
"Kid, there's a giant White Fang emblem carved in the inside." The first gruff detective replied. "How do you know Roman Torchwick escaped anyways? Thought that was classified information." Minato had the impression that the detective narrowed his eyes at him but the shades blocked his expression.
"Torchwick escaped?" Ruby mouthed silently, her eyes widening in surprise.
"Hmm, the cash is still here in the cash register. What kind of thief leaves cold hard cash?" The second one said a bit too loudly which caught Ruby's attention. "Huh?"
"Man this shit doesn't make a lick of sense, The White Fang aren't usually this bold. They usually steal larger shipments when they're transported between kingdoms. What do you think they gonna use this much Dust for?" The detective asked his colleague.
"Probably some terrorist stuff, Y'know like a TeRRORIST organization would? Come on, we don't get paid enough to think about this shit."
"You're right, Coffee?"
"Sure," Then those 2 walked away.
Weiss hmphed the moment those 2 walked away. "How barbaric, the White Fang are. They're nothing more than an awful bunch of degenerates."
That triggered Blake. "What's your problem?"
Minato narrowed his eyes on Blake. He already knew she was a Faunus but to actually defend the White Fang as an organization… could it be? It made a frightening amount of sense.
"My problem?" Weiss looked at Blake as if she was the slow and unintelligent one. "My problem is the fact that I simply could care less for the criminally insane."
"The White Fang is hardly a bunch of psychopaths. They're a collection of misguided Faunus." Blake countered with a bit more heat than before. She crossed her arms as if that gave her more support and her disapproval and displeasure was radiating off her in waves. This was a rather swift tone shift that even Minato had trouble adjusting to.
"Misguided!? They wish to wipe humanity off the face of the planet."
"So, they're 'VERY' misguided," Blake brushed it off. "And it makes little no sense why they would rob a Dust shop in the middle pf Downtown Vale next to a port."
"Hm, Blake's got a point." Ruby played devil's advocate.
"The detectives said that the White Fang emblem on the inside of the shop." Weiss scoffed. "That's enough to make a believer out of me. Not that that group ever had a good side to it to begin with."
Blake's nails dug into her flesh as she made a fist, it was her only way to keep herself from exploding on Weiss exposing herself. "It could be that Torchwick individual."
"Which you didn't tell me about." Ruby glared at Minato. "Seriously, he been gone for months now and you didn't tell me!"
"To be fair, I was the one who knocked him out. You just kicked some of his hired muscle."
"I still helped." Ruby retorted.
"Oh? Why would Torchwick go out of his way to carve an emblem belonging to a bunch of murderous beasts?" Weiss demanded getting tired of Blake's stubbornness.
"Why would another criminal ever want a scapegoat to get blamed for their crimes?" Blake asked sarcastically.
"Hypothetically speaking, mind you it's hypothetical. Let's say it was that dastardly Roman Torchwick fellow was responsible for the robbery instead of those buffoons, the White Fang is still scum of the Remnant." Weiss crossed her arms and stated in a dismissive tone. "Those Faunus only know how to lie, cheat and steal."
"That's not necessarily true." Yang said. She only interacted with Velvet once or twice but from what Yang could tell, she was a sweetheart all around.
"Not going to lie Weiss, but that sounded scratch that, very racist." Minato added.
Before Weiss could even respond, a loud voice caught the 5's attention. "Hey stopped that Faunus!"
They yet again ran back to where they were a few minutes ago to see what all the commotion was all. When the detectives who went on their little coffee break confronted the blonde monkey Faunus, he threw his banana peel on one's face and casually flipped off the light pole and ran far faster than what the detectives could compete with.
Unfortunately, the monkey Faunus crashed into him hard but the blonde teen got up far faster than anticipated leaving Minato Arisato on the dock floor with a concussion. He groaned in pain slightly due to the fact that Aura didn't handle brunt force trauma as well as other physical damage especially on the temple. There was really no way the blue haired Fool could have reacted in time considering his tiredness carried over from working on his projects all night long.
"Shit! Minato, you alright?" Yang asked as she offered a hand which he gladly took without any hesitation. The blonde haired buxom girl easily hoisted him up and allowed him to rest his head on her shoulder as she guided him to a nearby bench.
"You're too kind on these beasts Minato, you just gave them the benefeit of a doubt and mere moments later that ape crashed into you without even looking back if you were okay." Weiss said with an disgusted tone. Not that it justified her views, but it was well-known that the Schnee Dust company lost many workers, family members, and executive share holder to the White Fang and enraged Faunus in the past. She was naturally wary towards the people who taken and continued to take from her and her family. It was her way of coping with the misfortune given to her by the world, to hate the ones who hated her when she was most likely nothing more than a child at the time. Even now, she wasn't even considered a full-fledged adult.
The white-haired heiress softened her feature as she took out a vial of Ice dust and wrapped it in a handkerchief and pressed it against the side of his forehead. "Does it help?"
He sighed at the coolness that was being buffered by the handkerchief making it soft and not too terribly cold to avoid getting frost bitten. "Thank you Weiss, I'm thankful for your consideration, you as well Yang."
"Geez, trying to add us to your harem Blue?"
"Way to ruin the moment brute," Weiss muttered.
"Still I thought you wanted to observe the contestants of the tournament Weiss cream and there he goes." Yang teased with yet another infuriating nick name that no one bothers to react to anymore. Going by experience, it only made the buxom blonde more motivated to use them.
"How callous do you think I am?" Weiss asked rhetorically. "Our perhaps only mutual friend has a terrible concussion due to that ape and you suggest I abandon him for measly observation in hopes of information."
Yang scratched the back of her head awkwardly for being called out.
"…My wallet is gone," Minato murmured as he reached into his pant pockets. He had just been pickpocketed and the only one that managed to bump into him was that blonde monkey Faunus.