Next week is my semester finals, I have to prepare for this weekend for a lot of tests. There will be no update until the week after.

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Blake woke to the sound of knocking on her bedroom door.

"Who is it?" She asked.

"Saber, you've got a... um... thing. Someone dropped off a thing."

Stepping out of bed she made her way to the door.

"What is it?"

Saber didn't answer and instead handed her a large straw basket.

"Someone just dropped this off, okay... bye now."

Saber reached out and closed the door himself. While Blake caught a whiff of something, she placed it on her desk and pulled off the white cloth covering the top.

"Ooh!" She lifted up a plate and pulled off the thin plastic wrapping. "Salmon!" Light glistened off the smoked fish.

Digging back into the basket she noticed a can and mini carton and lifted both items up. "Oh, Tuna! Ooh! Cream milk!"

Wasting no time now, Blake searched the rest of the basket for more goods. "Hey, some yarn! Neat!"

She reached down to pull the final item out, her head cocked to the side as she looked at a... toy mouse? There was a piece of paper at the bottom.

"To my sexiest Kitty Waifu?" Blake stared still looking at the sentence until she turned to the mouse toy then took a better looked at the can's label, it was tuna for an actual cat.

"What the fuck?"

Blake jumped a little when someone suddenly knocked at the door.

"Who is it?!" She shouted.

"Kitty Waifu! Open the door I want pet yoooou!~" A condescending voice replied.

Gabol Shroud's katana form left the cleaver sheath a second later and Blake rushed to and threw the door open.

"What?" Blake cried katana in hand.

She witness Yang leaning against the wall laughing and Jaune with a grin so wide he could take in a whole sewage worth of shit. Her eyes darted between the two.

"Did you like your basket?" He laughed.

"...I loved that stuff... Thanks."

"Hey Yang?"

"Yeah?" His fellow Blonde replied.

"Wanna do something funny to Blake?"

"Oh, well I'm down for a prank." Yang rubbed her hands mischievously. "What did you have in mind?"

"I'm thinking we should get a gift basket for her."

"What's so funny about that?"

I chuckled, "It'll be filled with things that a stereotypical feline faunus might like."

Blake shook her head. "You guys just went out and made a racist gift basket."

Jaune chuckled. "Oh, that's not even the best part!"

Blake tapped her finger on her chair. "Do tell?"

"So, we decide to go over to the market by the pier and look for stuff, there are few places opened, the army being made you know. We go to the market and grab the biggest basket we could find next, we get a big ball of yarn. Here's where it gets interesting. This one lady, a dog faunus, looks up and asks 'What'd ya need?' 'Okay, we're trying to make this messed up racist gift basket for our friend Blake, a feline faunus.' Without missing a beat, she tells us, 'Well you got to have some cream milk, there's a shop opened just over there. I gotta special on smoked salmon just off the grill'"

Blake felt her eye twitch. "You can't be serious."

"We make our way over to get the cream milk and the guy tells us where we can get a can of cat tuna, we get it the mouse toy and a packet of catnip."

Blake looked back into the basket and notices a small bag. "Your both going straight to hell."

This got snickers from both her blonde friends.

"If we gave it to you everything would've been ruined. So when we walked into the manor we saw Saber and..."

"Let me explain, as a practical joke, we went to the store and made this messed up racist gift basket for her." Jaune chuckled.

Saber stared for a moment before studdering out. "Wha-at?"

"We think it would be hysterical if you delivered the basket to her."

"Oh, hell you didn't… You did not just ask me to deliver that to-"

"I'll give you this gold coin." He held it up between his fingers.

Saber snatched the basket. "She's in her room, follow me."

"Wait!" Yang said rushing into a room and returning with a scrap of paper. "Look at this." Jaune snickered with Yang and she placed it at the bottom of the basket.

They continued following him down the hall and watched as he gave the basket to Blake.

Jaune passed Saber the coin. "This better be real gold or I'll make the boat ride as miserable as possible for you both."

Both blondes were too busy chuckling to cared as they ran up to the door and heard her going through the basket.

"Ooh! Salmon!" They could hear Blake rather well as she said that.

"Oh, Tuna! Ooh! Cream milk!" She sounded overly excited on everything in the basket.

"Hey, some yarn! Neat!"

They knew Blake got to the scrap of paper when they heard a change in her voice.

"To my sexiest Kitty Waifu? What the fuck?!"

Yang was the first to lose it, she burst out laughing while Jaune knocked on the door and heard her shouting again.

"Who is it?!"

Jaune replied with his best feminine voice, "Kitty Waifu! Open the door I want pet yoooou!~"

"You didn't think there way anything off about it?" Yang asked.

Blake blushed a bit in embarrassment and tried to hide in her chair. "I'm going to be honest, I didn't think it was racist. I just thought someone sent me lunch."

Jaune finally burst into laughter hearing that.

"I thought it was lunch! Who smells Salmon and thinks racism?" To be fair, both Jaune and Yang would've probably thought the same thing.

"My blanket is ripped and the yarn is the same color, too! I just thought I could fix it without the need to go and buy some myself."

Yang joined Jaune and Blake smiled, she'd admit it was oddly convenient.

"Onto a more serious topic, how are you Yang?"

"Well, I should not have traveled, I needed more treatments that Menaguire doesn't have and you guys will have to deal with Haven without me."

Blake groaned. "Speaking of Haven, we still don't know how we're supposed to convince the council there to let three hundred armed Faunus dock there."

"I got that covered," Jaune assured. "Once we get in range of the CCT I'll take care of it." He looked to Yang. "So Sienna should be waiting with Khan's Claws when we get there right?"

"Yeah, they have a decent wad of Lien, they were supposed to take the train there. Probably kicking butt and taking names right now."

"Its been almost three months since we've arrived in Anima and we just got to Mistral." Ren said.

"I don't have Neptune's number and Yang isn't picking up on her scroll." Ruby said.

"Menagerie doesn't have any real CCT coverage she probably isn't even receiving it," Sienna picked up her pace, leaving the campus and getting to there new, comfortable home was priority one, two take a shower, and three is sleep.

"So we need to head down to lower levels later... how does that help us find Khan's Claws?" Nora asked.

"Mistral's lower levels have quite the notorious reputation for crime, they probably meant we should find and buy information on them but we have the headmaster of Haven on our side we could have access to resources with us both wanting to stabilize the kingdom by removing the White Fang-"

"We can't ask them for help," Ruby said. "I-I don't think can trust anyone who works for Ozpin."

Sienna looked puzzled at Ruby. "What do you mean we can't trust them?"

"Well... I haven't really thought what Raven told us until now, we just learned you were pregnant, my eyes had an assassin after us, and we still had ground to cover but... Ozpin has been fighting this Salem for years and has to know she'll do anything just to get the relic things. Raven said the attack on Vale and the fall of Beacon is to get the relic. The relic that's hidden under the school right?"

Sienna nodded.

"So... if he knew Salem would tear through anything for the relics... why hide them in the schools? Why build the schools in the cities surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people that don't know how Salem is?" Ruby asked. "Raven did say Ozpin was the King of Vale and he founded and had the schools build, the Hunters formed with it, and he just put the relics underneath them with the students there."

Now that Sienna was thinking about it did seem off. He'd put powerful relics of literal gods in the school for kids without them ever going to know about it. Hell, why put the vaults in the schools that are in the capital city of each Kingdom, that just puts even more people who aren't going to know anything right into the line of fire.

"A proxy war." Sienna said.

"What?"

"He put the relics into the schools and had them build in each Kingdom's capital because Salem would have to attack the Kingdom or the Kingdom's defenders creating a proxy war without them knowing what's going on or why it's happening. They just fight back as the attacks come and just assume it's acts of violence or a Grimm invasion that just happens."

"Yeah exactly like that! I-I don't like saying this but..." Ruby squirmed. "It kinda seems like he's been using people like shields."

"What about Qrow?" Nora asked. "He works for Ozpin, he's busy talking with him and Lionheart right now."

"Raven worked for Ozpin, y-yeah she's a bandit but why did she leave when knowing Salem is a threat to the world?"

Sienna stopped. "You think she left because she figured out all this about Ozpin?"

"Yeah, my Uncle probably doesn't realize any of this!"

Ozpin is here and I don't think we can just talk to your Uncle without him finding out about it."

"Hey aren't we just about to head to a house given to us by the headmaster of the school who's loyal to Ozpin?" Nora pointed out.

"Okay, yeah," Ruby looked around the school not sure what she was looking for but looking regardless. "We're serious far behind when we thought we'd get here, we should start look for Khan's Claws but now I don't think we should really be telling them anything else."

"I guess we can't catch a break can we?"Sienna sighed. "I guess my Claws and your three pals are the only asset we have left, " Sienna stretched. " We've already told Qrow about Khan's Claws and we don't want Ozpin to ask us about what our plan is. We should probably go down there now, it'll get late by the time we reach the lower levels and that's the perfect time to find the right people."

Nora groaned. "We just got here can't we at least take a twenty-minute break at the house?"

"Nora, we are far behind Yang by now." Ren mentioned. "She could arrive any day and we don't even know what the White Fang is doing here."

"Ugh, can't we wait just one more day to-"

"Your Godchild needs a doctor to be born." Ren said.

"Let's go everybody!" Nora zipped away at Ruby speeds.

Sienna stared. "...She's not going to be a Godmother."

"Good luck telling her that."

"Man these streets look a little cramped." Nora said stopping to let everyone else catch up, well Sienna really, Ruby was fast and Ren learned to keep up her one the years.

"The city is built into the cliffs of the mountains, with the exception of the very top, there isn't much space around." Sienna explained. "The less expensive it gets and the more ne'er-do-wells willing to sell information for... thirty Lein. Well we're off to a good start."

"I'm sorry!"

Sienna sighed, back in Vale they knew who their enemy was and a decent idea what they were doing. Now they had to start from scratch with no help yet, Ruby's pals they were suppose to meet weren't there.

"We should look for a small gang they're information is more shotty but we can't afford any big time information brokers."

"Whoa!" Ruby said, startling some passers-by. "You mean talk to some crime guys?" She hissed, "Why would we do that!?"

"...You're kidding me," Sienna sighed. "Ruby, what did you think I meant when I said we needed to buy information?"

"I thought you meant, like old news papers!" She cried.

"Ruby back in Vale your sister went off and to a 'friend' that to quote knows everything going on in Vale, let me tell you, she went to the shadiest part of town and talked to an information broker in a gang."

"We can't get help from a gang that's illegal!"

Sienna rolled her eyes. "Nothing we're about to do or have done in the past fights at ist the Fang had been legal, we need to stop some terrible people and to do that we have to talk to terrible people. If everybody knew where Khan's Calws and the Fang is they wouldn't exist."

"Well... we found them before! Let's just look around maybe we can find them?"

"You think they're just going to conveniently come flying out of nowhere?"

A nearby window smashed as a figure was sent flying through it to slump at the groups feet. The Faunus groaned and looked up at him for a moment, before he collapsed with a grunt and lay still.

On him was the Fang insignia.

"That does not count."

Seinna peered into the window and saw what looked like a boar tusked Faunus holding a knife against a Fang trooper's throat.

"Why did need you paint?" He demanded.

"I-I don't I swear! Corsac just sent us out to these guys, we just needed the paint!"

He forces the knife hard against his throat.

"You could've gotten it at the store, keep talking or you're getting a new smile."

"Okay! Look we need a certain type of paints for armor and someone who would make it a specific way for us! Someone who wouldn't ask too many questions!"

"Is that all?"

"Yes! Yes, I swear that's everything Corsac told- urk!"

The blade flicked across his throat and the Fang grunt was dropped to the floor. Sienna looked to the insignia on his back.

A paw baring its claws.

"Wait here." Sienna handed Ruby back her cloak back then walked through the door.

They all reacted to the bell ringing and shifted their guns at her.

"Is this really how you're going to greet me?"

"High leader Kahn?" The interrogator approached her. "You're here... you're actually here!"

"Really so surprising?"

"We all thought you were dead."

"H-Hi! I'm Ruby Rose." His weapon snapped back up and to the broken window, Ruby ducked down and Ren dragged Nora away.

"Guns down." Sienna ordered. "They're with me."

"More humans... Okay that's fine the one was good but what's a few more?" He muttered.

Police sirens rang out in the distance. "I'm Edward Ma'am," The interrogator said. "All of you follow me."

The door to Ozpin's room opened and Oscar watched as the Qrow chugged the remaining liquor in the bottle and tossed it into the trash can.

"Man that hit the spot, thanks Oz you're a lifesaver."

"Should you really be feeding his addiction?"

Ozpin sighed internally. "Its either I do it or he does, Qrow will always get drunk. At least this way we can talk beforehand."

"Qrow, we need to talk about Khan's Claws."

Qrow looked annoyed. "Yeah, using them to get the Spring Maiden is a shit idea. No amount of booze you get me will change that."

Ozpin sighed. "I doubt Leo could get any sort of commitment from the council, resources maybe but not Huntsmen. We're undermanned Qrow."

"We can help them deal with the Fang is just as import. We shouldn't get those four more involved in the fight against Salem. Ruby maybe, but not the other three."

"You sound rather defensive for someone you barely know. Did one of your drunken nights land you in her bed?"

"Man that would be nice, she's pretty hot."

"Oscar I heard that."

"Eep!"

"Why did he have to be a hormonal fifteen-year-old?" Ozpin groaned the moment he caught a good look at the girls Oscar had immediately gone silent with thought.

Thought's Ozpin wished he'd never seen, Oscar's legal age is over two thousand now.

"I met her husband Oz," Qrow said defensively. "I trust Ruby's judgment of character and Jaune's word."

Ozpin hummed. "Did you happen to meet Jaune Arc during your time away?"

"No."

"A lie."

"How can you tell?"

"I've been dealing with people for centuries and I can personally attest to expect signs of lying such as lack of eye contact, etc. Besides I know Qrow hadn't met Mr. Arc before and his time presumed dead is the only point can believe they could have met."

"You know Sienna Khan through Mr. Arc but not anything else that has happened in the world?"

"Well, I didn't exactly asked him what was going on."

"See Oscar?"

"When did you and Mr. Arc cross paths?"

"Uh... at some point."

Ozpin sighed and dropped the line of inquiry, for now, he'd learn more if- when Qrow was drunk. "The Fang and these Khan's Claws have been starting shoot outs with each other in the streets, mainly the lower levels. The negatively from Beacon and Argus has left the police with limited manpower to properly deal with either of them."

"Wouldn't the council be concerned about fire fights in the streets?" Qrow wondered.

"They are, Leo has told me about a raid to be conducted by the Mistral police sometime today to eliminate a Fang cell. Now if we have Khan's claws on our side with Haven resources behind it. Then striking back and making significant headway against the White Fang and even take back the spring maiden from Raven."

"Not every Hunter is owned by the Council Oz, I got some people I know in the city. I can compile a list later and look for them tomorrow."

"Why not Hunters with Khan's Claws?"

"They're terrorist Oz."

"I thought your niece said they broke off and formed into something better? Was that naivety or is Ruby now a Terrorist sympathizer."

"Ozpin, come on." Qrow groaned.

"Okay, we need a force to use Qrow. If these Hunters are as good as you think I'll trust your judgment, find them and we'll get the Spring Maiden."

Edward led them through an array of back alleys until they reached a warehouse.

He knocked on the side door and a slit opened."Password."

"There isn't one."

The door opened and the boar tusked Faunus wave them to follow.

Inside had to be at least several dozen Faunus, some were sharpening blades, others loading magazines, talking, sleeping on mats, or moving small crates of dust and ammunition.

"This is what we've got High leader."

"Where do your weapons and ammo come from?"

"Mostly we grave rob what we can and buy what we can't with the stuff we don't need."

"How do you even have a seller?" Sienna knew the city was right u der the Council's eye and selling weapons off to a war inside the city wasn't just going to be missed.

"He's a Faunus and has sympathy for us, but still wants to turn a profit. We lucked out with him and he even sold us this warehouse."

Sienna glared. "You shouldn't be putting too much trust into third party like this."

"We have few resources and a larger enemy, everyone we had within the traitor's ranks is dead." Edward yawned. "Were undermanned as it is, we have potential targets from the word around town. They may be larger than us but Lien helps us find out where they are and where they go to buy."

"How do you guys even earn Lien?"

Edward eyed Ruby then gave Sienna a questioning look, she nodded and gestured back to her.

"Mostly with grave robbing the dead, disrupting dealing the traitors have. There is also a occasion dust shops that gain us a hefty price."

"Your stealing dust, people need that."

"What do you know human?" Edward snarled. "We have a war to fight and it's expensive. We need Lien, dust prices have gone up these days since Mistral cut off trade to Atlas."

"We won't be stealing any more dust Edward."

"What..? High leader we need the Lein to-"

"You said on occasion so living without is possible, we will not be stealing any more dust," Sienna stated. "That is an order."

"...Yes, ma'am." He sighed.

"We'll find a better source of income. Now, do you have a doctor? Preferably one that knows anything about delivering a baby."

As Edward led Sienna away Ruby couldn't help but smile.

They found Kahn's Claws a lot faster then she thought, they weren't huge but mentioned they had a supply of weapons, knew where the White Fang was, loyal to Sienna. They still didn't know just how big the White Fang was or had any idea on what they were doing, yeah they had no money but when Yang and Blake got here they could fix that!

"Things are finally looking up for us!"

"Guard the door, and don't give me a chair or anything I could fall asleep." He thought.

It was important to watch the entrance into the Warehouse but standing there for hours until shift change would always get hard on the legs.

His ears twitched, it was hard to hear but there were heavy footsteps outside.

"Were the teams supposed to come back this early?"

"Prepare to breach."

"Prepare to what?"