"You know, the fight is a whole lot better in person," Silver remarked with a giant grin on his face, watching closely as Teams RWBY and ABRN fought.

Jade's reply was lost in the roaring of the crowd, but Silver could clearly hear Professor Port say, "Hello! It seems that we have another astonishing bout ahead of us! Wouldn't you agree, Professor?"

Oobleck's annoyed voice carried over the intercom, "Doctor. And yes Peter, I think it's safe to say this match may be closest we've seen of the four-on-four round of the tournament!"

Silver tuned them out and yelled out in excitement as Ruby knocks down a portion of one of her opponents' Aura. Kira, from her seat, remarked amusedly, "You sure seem excited."

"Come on, it's the first fight that we haven't been in with the MCs, can I just enjoy it like any other person?"

Kira mock-considered it, "Mmmm, maybe."

Silver rolled his eyes and focused back onto the match. On the other side of the roaring crowd, in the student's section of the stadium, Mike leaned forward in his seat, putting his fairly useful acting skills to the test, and said, "They're quite good. Better than I expected, honestly."

"But of course," Cinder purred, "They have Ozpin's attention. They would be good."

"Yeah, I suppose so. You'd have to be amazing to get the attention of a Huntsman like him." Cinder didn't reply, so they fell quiet and continued watching the match.

They Vytal Festival was the biggest festival across the world. It was no boast, but a fact; there was no festival bigger than the Vytal. The Mistral Arts Festival nor the Atlas parades would match up to the sheer excitement that would build up in people just talking about it. There were literal thousands of people who would travel from their kingdoms just to arrive at the Vytal Festival, wherever it was being held that year.

While the most publicized portion of the Vytal Festival was the Four-on-Four team rounds, there was more to it than just that. Down in the fairgrounds, there arrived bands from all kingdoms to show off their respective musics and to jumpstart their careers if people liked them well enough. Artists and mechanics from Mistral and Atlas showed off their creations to the people there, also jumpstarting their careers, if they had just started.

While the Vacuoan citizens where there, they had very little or nothing to offer to the others, despite them also hosting the Vytal Festival in Vacuo. While the citizens of Vacuo were off-putting due to their rough and tumble nature due to the harsh conditions of their kingdom, they still have an artistic side, supplying the world with glassblowers, whose creations were only sold in Vacuo.

Even though there were hundreds of people in Amity Arena, there were still more down in the festival grounds, looking through the wares or eating at one of the many vendors; or all of them, if they were inclined to do that. While Amity Arena was up in the sky, the people down in the festival grounds could easily hear the roars of the crowds up there even above the hubbub of the people amongst the vendors.

One man, disguised, pushed through the crowds, following a little girl, also disguised. "Dammit, Neo, why do we have to do this again?" the man complained.

The little girl, Neo, scrunched up her nose, and signed him, "Because I want to, we've never been to a Vytal Festival and I want to see what they have."

"Really?" He asked, surprised.

"Yes, really,"She signed, "You've never taken me to one of these, even when we were in Vacuo when it was happening!"

"Wait, Vacuo hosted a Vytal Tournament? Why didn't I hear of it?"

Neo rolled her eyes, "You were nose deep in the criminal underground then." Neo scrunched up her nose again, thinking. "It had to do something with a kid who had walked across the desert without dying. I don't remember the specifics."

"Wait, isn't that kid the same one the lady recruited?" Neo nodded exasperatedly. "Huh, I knew he looked familiar."

Neo palmed her face. Grabbing the man's hand, she pulled him through the crowds once again.

To be perfectly honest, Ruby was quite excited. Actually, that was an understatement. She was ecstatic. No, that wasn't the right word either. Either way, she was really excited. That said, when they finally knocked all their opponents out of the ring, she couldn't help but yell out in glee, the whole crowd roaring along with her.

Moving into the dressing rooms, she quickly changed and cleaned herself, getting the grit and dirt off from the battle. Grabbing the new dress- combat outfit!- from her bag, she quickly outfitted herself into it. Twisting around in the mirror to see that it was all correct, she grabbed her things and headed out with the rest of her team, talking with them.

She was literally bouncing in excitement, so she almost missed it when she heard a familiar voice call out, "Good job, Team RWBY, you did Beacon proud!"

Looking up, Ruby saw Jade, Silver, and the girl that helped Silver at the Dust booth yesterday standing there. Giving them a giant smile- she was already smiling, note- she called back to them, "Thanks! It really seemed like they had us in the beginning!" She saw Silver suddenly grin and start chuckling to himself.

Jade elbowed him, and yelled back to Ruby, "Me 'n Silver will meet you down in the festival grounds so we can talk easier!"

"Okay! See you there!" Ruby called back, then looked around for her team. Noticing that they were waiting for her at the docks, she rushed to catch up with them and boarded an airship that had other students boarding it. The other students congratulated them on their fight well done, and she responded the way her dad taught her to, with a 'thanks' and a smile. She was already smiling- she doubted that was going away any time soon.

They landed onto the fairgrounds without much fanfare, then started making their way through the tents and booths. As Ruby walked, she felt increasingly tired, before her stomach rumbled at her. Clutching it, she asked, "Is anyone else hungry?"

Blake nodded, "I may have worked up an appetite." Suddenly, her stomach growled loudly, and she grabbed it, a blush creeping onto her face.

Weiss shrugged, holding her arms up in the air, "Gee, if there was only somewhere on campus we could get food at." she paused. "Oh, wait."

Ruby patted her shoulder, "It's okay, Weiss, I forget about the fairgrounds, too."

Weiss shrugged off her shoulder, "I was being facetious!"

"Gah! If you were hungry why didn't you just say so!?"

A new voice spoke up, "Weiss doesn't know how to be blunt, Miss Rose. I think it has to do with being around so many politicians in her youth."

Ruby's head poked up towards them, "Silver! Jade! Unknown Girl!"

"Heya, Ruby. Weiss, Blake, Yang. By the way, the Unknown Girl's name is Kira."

Kira didn't say anything, only staring at Blake, while Weiss was sputtering protests, and Yang asked, "How'd you know our names? Wait- lemme guess, it was Jade?"

Silver looked at Jade, "Sure, let's go with that."

Weiss' stomach took that time to suddenly grumble, and everybody looked at her, much to her embarrassment. Grinning, Silver took it in stride, "You were talking about getting food before we arrived, weren't you? C'mon, I know just the place." He started walking away with Team RWBY and Jade and Kira following him. "Stephen's a pretty vulgar guy, but he does his job well."

A voice piped up from behind them, "Hey! Might be a little hard to eat without this!"

They all looked behind them to see Emerald Sustrai holding up a red wallet. Ruby's eyes widened and she frantically searched her pockets. "No, no, no, no!" Not finding what she was looking for, Ruby moved over to Emerald to take her wallet back. "Thanks, Emerald. Girl pockets are the worst!"

Weiss heard her Scroll ring, and she pulled it out and looked at the caller ID. Scowling, she was about to put it back in her pocket, before Silver's quiet voice intruded upon her, "Answer it, Weiss, you never know what he might want." Looking up at him startled, she answered it anyway, excusing herself from the group.

Silver tuned back into the discussion with Emerald, having tuned it out while speaking to Weiss. "Really well," Emerald answered an earlier question.

"Oh! How would you like to get victory food with us?" Ruby asked suddenly.

Emerald grimaced, "I would love to, but, my teammates are," she glanced behind her, looking at Mercury, who was sniffing a leather boot. "Socially awkward. Like, totally introverted."

A familiar voice piped up from behind Emerald, "Except for me!" Mike moved from behind Emerald, waving happily.

Jade deadpanned. "That's a lie. You are extremely introverted."

"Hey, I'm getting better at it!" he argued.

Jade just gave him an extremely doubtful look. "Oh yeah, me and Merc are heading towards the doubles round, who'd you pick?" Emerald asked them.

Ruby puffed up, "Well, as team leader, I thought long and hard about this decision!"

"We put it to a vote," Weiss reminded her, coming back.

"I- uh- I decided to put it to a vote!" Ruby said quickly.

"We chose Yang and Weiss," Blake put in, breaking from staring at an uncomfortable Kira.

"I'm proud to represent Team RWBY," Weiss curtsied gracefully.

Yang pounded her arms together, "We're gonna kick some butt!"

"Well, if we're going to see you in the matches, don't expect us to go easy on you."

Yang smirked, "Wouldn't have it any other way."

"Alright, well we're gonna go and catch some more fights. See ya!" Emerald turned and started walking away.

They said their goodbyes, waving her off. Silver smirked and called out, "See ya, Wallet Girl." his smirk turned into a full-blown grin when he saw her stiffen.

They gave him curious looks, but he waved them off, "C'mon, let's go."

Team RWBY and the should've been Team FSBT, Mike had gone with them, made their way through the crowds of people, passing the disguised duo, and arrived at A Simple Wok. Yang blinked as she recognized the place, "Huh, it seems you and I have similar tastes when it comes to food, Silver."

Silver shrugged, "Nah, it's only because I know Stephen and helped him set up shop over here."

"Wait, his name's Stephen?"

"Er, yeah? They all have names."

"Wait, there's more? I thought that there was only one!"

"What? Oh, no. There's like, fifteen? Of them. And that's only just in Vale. Their entire company's name is Old Man Enterprises."

"Yup! That's correct, Silver!" Stephen spoke up from where he was in the back.

"Oh, hey Stephen! Me 'n the rest of these gals will take the regular," Silver ordered. Looking at Blake and Kira, they both nodded at Stephen, who nodded back.

A new voice spoke up, "Oh? Are you paying for all of us?" Pyrrha grinned coyly.

Silver snorted, "Oh, hell no. I don't have enough money to pay for all of this- even with employee's discount!"

Weiss spoke up as the bowls of noodles started flinging towards them, "Then consider this my gift for sending me to the doubles." She handed the card over to Stephen, who scanned it. Handing it back to her, Teams JNPR, RWBY, and should've been FSBT dug in.

Minutes later everybody had eaten their fill, and were either slouching in their seats, leaning on the table or groaning in delight. Nora burped loudly from her seat, a contented grin on her face. Jaune groaned from where he was laying on the counter, "If I barf, I'm blaming you."

Silver, unperturbed, answered, "It's your fault for eating all of it. You didn't have to." Jaune just groaned in response.

"Oh! If you do, aim it at the enemy!" Nora exclaimed.

"Nora, that's disgusting," Ren admonished, "But if you feel the urge. . ." he left it hanging.

Jaune gave him a weak thumbs-up, "Got it."

Standing up from his seat, Silver stretched, saying, "Well, it was nice meeting you, Jaune, Pyrrha, Nora, Ren, but I'm afraid that Kira and I have to go work."

He started to walk away before Kira's voice spoke up, "Actually, Silver, I'm gonna stay here a while and talk to Blake."

Silver looked between the two of them, before nodding. "Okay, don't take too long though, Tom's expecting us."

"I won't."

Silver gave another small bow, before walking away. Just before he reached out of earshot, he heard Ren ask, "How does he know our names?" and Jade reply with, "It's a thing he does to freak people out."

Okay! As of yesterday I started Vaycation! so these are already uploaded onto FFN, so there won't be replies to Reviews much; unless I edit it on my phone- which is kinda hard to do. and annoying.

Gonna throw in the latest reviews here:

Guest 16.1: Uhh, no. Where'd you get that idea from? Blake and Kira are sisters, not lovers; and Jade and Kira are friends. There's not going to be any 'polyamory' or 'polygamy' going around in the fic; romance is just a side plot in here, not the main focus. If it was from where he was talking about his female self, then, well, you grossly misjudged the situation; Jade was simply curious about it and Silver explained it to her. Nothing else.

Okay. Well, an additional note: When I'm done with this fic- it'll be around 30 chapters- and I won't write the second book just yet (I was planning on making a second book, soo) I'll rewrite this one, fixing up a few things here and there. Mainly the first 10 chapters. those were a mess. I'm figuring that by the time I've actually uploaded all the chapters we'd be around 50,000 words. A good number in my opinion.

Welp, I'm done here.

-FreohrWK