The headmaster of Beacon Academy poured through the documents on his desk. It was routine work, actually quite boring if he was being honest, but he found that centuries of doing them has made the whole process practically automatic.

A blessing, considering that Ozpin's mind was focused on far more important matters.

A knock on his door prompted him to look up his desk.

"Come in."

As always, Glynda Goodwitch held herself with an air of severity and strictness that intimidated most people. A useful trait as a professor and disciplinarian, but sometimes he wondered if she simply did not know how to relax. In the long years he had known her, he had never seen her relax, even in the privacy of his office. Though considering recent circumstances, relaxing might be the furthest thing from her mind. It certainly was from his.

"We've received a message from the Queen," she said the word with a particularly sour look on her face. Understandable – for the longest time, 'The Queen' referred to someone entirely different, and someone they couldn't be sure wasn't behind the other person bearing the very same title. Not to mention that though they were still called Kingdoms, there hasn't been an actual monarch on Remnant for generations, the concept largely considered outdated – a process he had personally engineered during his tenure as the King of Vale and long afterwards.

"Wonderful. So Babel has finally answered our request to send a delegation to meet with us?"

Babel, the newly designated name of the settlement of Kuo Kuana, and if the request of its Queen were to be honored, the name of a new and rising fifth Kingdom.

"Yes they've agreed to all the terms, however, there's a… complication with who they've chosen as the delegates."

Ozpin raised a brow. "Did they decide to send Sienna Khan? If so, it might irritate James a tad, but we can easily-"

"Queen Amiya herself will be attending, accompanied by Adam Taurus and 'Operator' Rosmontis."

A moment of silence stretched uncomfortably between the two as Ozpin digested this new information. The white-haired man reached for his coffee mug, before chugging down its contents in seconds. As he set the mug back down, he wore a similarly strained expression as his associate.

"I see…"

That Queen Amiya herself would come was a surprise, but not wholly unexpected given the reports Qrow had sent him about her character. The true problem lay in the pair accompanying her.

"James is going to be livid."

Adam Taurus was a White Fang terrorist, and easily one of its most extreme. Violence was his first answer to most things, and he did so with a ruthless and cunning aggression that frustrated every Specialist Atlas sent after him. His escalating acts of violence had even began deliberately including civilian casualties as a part of his operations, rather than as collateral. Until of course, the White Fang was absorbed into Babel.

The fact that the former terrorist could walk around in public, unmolested and even revered sent nearly the entirety of the Schnee family into conniptions, but there was little they could do so long as they were under the sanctuary of the Queen.

The second person was known only by her title. 'Rosmontis' by all accounts given to him by his agents was a fairly reserved personality. Withdrawn and almost clinging to Queen Amiya, the girl would not take orders from anyone but her. In a way, it was almost unbelievable that such a young girl would be part of an important delegation – almost as unbelievable as the Queen she served.

Of course, that ignored the part where she was capable of singlehandedly repelling entire hordes of Grimm.

Indeed, her presence might even be seen as more concerning than Adam Taurus. Where the man was a proven threat to society, the greater threat with him was his influence and tactical acumen. With Rosmontis, the girl was frankly a walking army.

It had shocked the Kingdoms when the news reached them – a Grimm horde, attracted to the negativity caused by the Queens' usurpation of the Belladona chieftainship and subsequent crowning had advanced unto Kuo Kuana, threatening to decimate the burgeoning Kingdom before it had established itself.

Help was sent naturally, Ozpin could scarce allow such a brutal tragedy to occur, not after Mount Glenn, but there was no way they would have arrived in time.

What met them instead was a show of power that all but sealed Queen Amiya's status as the ruler of Menagerie.

Hordes of Grimm ground to dust or otherwise blasted into the sky by her Semblance. Hundreds of them rushing in every direction only for the giant slabs of steel she called her weapons to crash down on them, halting them in their tracks and obliterating the ones that didn't. Fast and small, big and armored, it quite frankly didn't matter, they crumpled all the same. The few strays that did escape her onslaught were dealt with easily by the positioned defenders of the settlement, with how few of them there were.

It was a show of force Ozpin hadn't seen in decades, and certainly not from anyone not a Maiden.

That level of destructive ability from a single entity was quite frankly unnerving. If the Queen was bringing her along, then it was obviously a show of force – which didn't bode well for the upcoming meeting between each Kingdom's delegates.

Inside the office of General James Ironwood, the mans' face was contorted in frustration as he read the letter Winter had handed him.

These delegates were both a slap in the face to Atlas, and an implicit threat. When Ghira Belladona was usurped as leader of Kuo Kuana they feared the worst, that the White Fang had finally decided that moving in the shadows wasn't enough. That fear solidified when Sienna Khan stepped forward to announce a change in leadership, only to become confusion as she introduced a Faunus child who couldn't have been older than sixteen.

Brown hare ears on top of head of equally brown hair, with bright, blue eyes that seemed to shine with a kind of purity, but with none of the childlike innocence seen in children her age. Rather, there was a conviction there that Ironwood felt wouldn't be out of place among seasoned Hunters. A conviction that had most certainly seen loss and bloodshed, given and taken in equal measure. A conviction he frequently had to muster up in front of the mirror every morning.

This did little to assure him – in fact, it only served to increase his suspicions. Who was that girl that she was given leadership not only over the White Fang, but over all the Faunus in Menagerie, if she even was their leader, and not simply a figure head? What could she have gone through to have eyes like she did? And now that she was in the position she was in, what was she planning?

So many questions and no answers.