Here's chapter 99, everyone.

"Yang, what are you doing? You just told me a bit ago that we shouldn't need to worry about this woman…" Ruby reminded.

The blonde brawler backed up from Nel, looking away from her sister and Weiss as she glanced at Nel, seeing her smirk. "It's nothing, Ruby… Just got a little mad is all. My fault."

Weiss let go of Ruby's hand and walked over, since Nel was already someone that ticked her off. "What did you say to her?" Her question was directed at Nel, and the woman sighed, not saying a word. "I know for a fact that Yang wouldn't just get angry that easily." She said, knowing full well that her blonde friend was working on controlling her anger.

Yang didn't look at Weiss directly, since she felt ashamed for getting angry, and Nel shrugged. "I don't know any of you, but that girl clearly just got mad pretty damn easily. Besides, it doesn't matter what I said."

"And why is that?" Weiss questioned, while Ruby was standing behind her, looking annoyed with Nel.

"Because apparently I'm a liar." Nel answered as she glanced over at Yang, who was looking away. "Go on and tell her, kid. What am I lying about?"

Yang bit her lip and her eyes were red again. "Weiss, don't listen to this woman. And Ruby, I stand by what I said. Stay away from this woman." She walked past the group, but a glyph appeared in front of her, stopping the blonde, so she turned back as her eyes turned back to its lilac shade. "W-What are you doing, Weiss?"

"You're avoiding telling me what happened…" Weiss stated, so she turned to Blake. "You were here when Yang got angry… What happened, Blake?"

Blake's ears drooped, as she didn't know if she could get involved, since Yang clearly didn't want Weiss to hear what Nel had said. "I… What she's saying isn't making sense to any of us, Weiss, so honestly Yang's right. We should just stay out of her way."

Weiss didn't look convinced, and she decided to just speak to Nel directly. "Tell me what you said. Right now."

"No beating around the bushes, huh?" Weiss said nothing, and Nel sighed as she had a softer expression on her face. "Your friend is angry because I'm implying you're like me."

"Like you? In what way exactly?" Weiss questioned, and Yang walked over, trying to grab her arm, but Weiss moved away in time. "Yang! I am not in the mood for this… Let me hear what this woman has to say."

"You don't need to! She's lying…" Yang tried convincing her, as she remembered how in pain Weiss was when learning the truth about not being a Schnee.

In response, Ruby walked over. "Yang…"

"Ruby, this is the kind of stuff that'll hurt her more. You really want that?" Yang questioned, and Ruby tensed up, while Weiss stomped her foot.

"Enough! Don't talk like I'm not even here, Yang!" Weiss yelled, while Blake, Ren and Nora were awkwardly watching the whole exchange, and Nel shook her head.

"You kids need to calm down and relax with your negative emotions. If you're really from Beacon, you should know Grimm are attracted to that stuff." Nel reminded, as Weiss was still keeping her ground, and Yang was biting her lip again.

Ruby on the other hand couldn't stay quiet and got in front of Weiss. "We do know, but my sister just told me that you might say something to Weiss that'll hurt her." She grabbed Crescent Rose and had it changed into its scythe form.

Nel didn't flinch. "If you're trying to threaten me-."

"I'm not, I'm defending her. All you've done to us is distract us, hurt Weiss, and complain that we'd get in the way." Ruby recounted. "Nothing you've done makes me see you as an ally, or even a civilian, so either you tell us why you're here, or leave this place."

"I already told those four about what's really going on… Torn, get down here and get these kids off my back. My patience has run thin." Nel said and turned to walk back into the house she was sleeping in before.

One of Weiss' glyphs stopped her, and she groaned, tilting her head back as she lifted her left foot off the ground, only to turn and bring it back down. She lowered her head to meet Weiss' gaze. "Right, you still want me to talk… Can't settle for the old bird instead, huh?"

"You said no more beating around the bush… Tell me. Now." Weiss ordered, and Nel looked to Torn, who had no helpful words to give.

Nel closed her eyes for a moment, nodding a few times. "When I said you're like me, I mean that you can change into an animal. Or, the real thing you can do is change into a human." Weiss' hand lowered, and with it, her glyph dropped.

"Excuse me?" Weiss had no idea what that woman was telling her.

"You. And Me. We weren't born like the rest of these people," Nel glanced up at Torn. "Ya see him, the bird? He's like us too."

Weiss' heart started to race, as she glanced up at the hawk on one of the houses.

"We were born as animals, and we have the gift of becoming human… How else do you think you can use two… 'semblances'?" Nel questioned with air quotes, and nothing on her face was saying that she was lying or trying to trick her.

"T-That's not real… Animals can't transform into humans. What you're saying it basically magic, and magic isn't real." Weiss exclaimed.

Nel sighed again. "I wish I could show you the entire history of who we are, kid… I really do, but even I don't know why we can do this."

Yang spoke up. "Weiss, this woman is crazy. Just ignore her."

Ruby was taken aback by what Nel just told her girlfriend, and Weiss froze on the spot, as she was beginning to think about her 'semblance'. "Weiss, let's just go. Yang is right. We can't just believe everything this woman is telling us. We don't even know her."

Torn flew down at that point. And the two girls who knew nothing about his semblance was suddenly hearing a voice in their heads.

"I'm sorry for how Nel explains this to you all…"

Weiss and Ruby gasped, while the others were still slightly startled. "W-Who said that?"

Nel pointed at the bird. "That would be Torn. Now if you don't want to hear it from me, hear it from someone who knows even more."

Torn looked up at Weiss, and decided to fly up a bit, hovering a few feet in front of her.

"I can tell how confused you all are. It's obvious that what my friend here says sounds unbelievable to you all, but clearly, as you can see, I am using my semblance to speak with you all, and not only that, I use my shapeshifting ability to stay in this form. You have those same abilities."

Weiss took a step back, and what he said was true. She could be a wolf, and use glyphs. "I-I wasn't born an animal. Maybe we have similar semblances, but-."

"Kid, he literally just explained that your shapeshifting ability is just that. An ability, not a semblance. Get that through your head, cause you ain't some special snowflake that can manifest two semblances." Nel said in an annoyed tone.

Ruby swung her scythe at her, but stopped short at her neck, actually getting a slight reaction from her, as Ruby glared. "Shut. Up."

Torn sighed as he watched Nel take a step back.

"Please forgive her… She's not very patient, but what she says is the truth. You aren't gifted with two semblances."

As he said that, Weiss' eyes widened. "L-Look, just because I can do two things with my aura, doesn't mean I was born as an animal. My mother-." She stopped herself. Everything froze for a moment around her, as she suddenly remembered what Willow told her.

"I'm not your birth Mother."

Weiss was beginning to shake, and she slowly started to take in what Nel and Torn were telling her.

"Your Mother, whoever she is… Could have lied to you."

After Torn said that, Weiss' world shattered, and she slowly turned to Nel, who had a somber look to her. "I'm sorry, kid… I guess you just never knew, but it's the truth."

"No… No…" Weiss started to tear up, more of her life was beginning to show, and she started to back away from the woman. Ruby quickly grabbed her arm, shocking Weiss as she wanted to leave.

"SHE ISN'T AN ANIMAL!" Ruby yelled. "Don't tell her what she is! Weiss is a human being, and not you or some stupid bird will tell her otherwise!"

Torn stayed silent, since accepting the truth was almost impossible for the group, While Nel slammed her fist back into a wall. "You want me to prove it?!" Suddenly her body was enveloped in light, and Torn gasped as he flew up on a roof.

The Beacon students shielded their eyes, while Weiss' heart raced even faster. It was the exact same light that enveloped her when she became a wolf. Not a moment later, the woman that was in front of them was a eight foot tall wolverine.

Weiss was shaking even more so. "You see this? This is what you are, kid… You are a Hidden."

The six students were in shock, as they had never seen a wolverine that size before. "H-Hidden?" Weiss repeated, and Nel rolled her eyes.

"Yes. It is who we are. Animals, given the gift of becoming humans… Now you know, and what else I will tell you is this, people out in the world, a certain group," Nel growled. "They will hunt you down and kill you."

Ruby's silver eyes were wider than ever, at the thought of someone trying to hunt Weiss down filled her mind. "W-What?"

Torn spoke up next.

"Nel speaks of The Relentless, a group of hunters who will stop at nothing to kill us Hidden. Sadly those who are marked by a special semblance they possess can do nothing but wait until they are killed… But you… You are from Beacon, someone who can pass your ability off as a semblance. You can live safely."

Weiss was tearing up, as everything they were saying wasn't a lie to her. The only reason she believed it, was because of Willow telling her that she wasn't her birth Mother, and that her birth Mother was the reason why she can be a wolf in the first place.

Ruby bit her lip. "H-How is what you're saying even possible?"

Torn had a somber look as he stared down at the group, choosing not to use his semblance. "It has always been a mystery… Animals have aura, and only a small percentage of us tapped into that aura. It didn't give us semblances, but the ability to transform into humans."

Weiss fell to her knees, and Ruby gasped as she caught her. "Weiss!"

"I… I'm… Just an animal?" Weiss' tears fell even more, and Ruby hugged her as hard as she could, while glaring at the bird.

"She's not like you… She is not…" Ruby refused to let them get to Weiss, but sadly nothing she could say would change Weiss' new knowledge on the fact.

"The kid doesn't need to be…" Nel suddenly said, and Weiss, with the tears still falling down her face looked up, seeing Nel looking at her with a smile. "You've lived a long time without knowing… So what does it matter now? Keep on living as a human. Forget us Hidden."

Blake and Yang got in front of their teammates, while Ren and Nora knelt down by Weiss and Ruby. "If you want her to forget you people, then leave. We don't want excuses why you can't." Yang's red eyes appeared as she had a death glare on the wolverine. "Just leave."

Nel thought about it for a moment, and when she looked to Torn, he simply nodded. "Alright… I'll guess we'll leave, but you're making it harder on us." She then focused on Weiss. "Kid, if you want even more proof, I can only guess you must know that you can change your size as an animal… And maybe at some point in your life you lost control of yourself…"

Weiss tensed up, since both things happened to her.

"Just from how you reacted, that's a yes… And I know one other thing, the senses you've gained." Nel said, and Weiss remembered that she could smell scents even stronger as a human, just like she could as a wolf. "Heightened senses have carried over into your human form, but again, it doesn't matter."

Ruby and Yang wanted to shut her up, but Weiss spoke up before either could. "The Relentless…" Torn and Nel were surprised she brought it up. "Were they the reason… Why my birth Mother had to give me up…"

Ren and Nora were shocked by that revelation, and the rest of Team RWBY froze on the spot, as Weiss stared directly at Nel, wanting the one answer she needed to know.

Why her birth Mother had to abandon her.

Some would say chapter 100 should be the one where she learns the truth, but think of this as part one of learning it, and chapter 100 is what comes next. So with that, it begins her views on herself and those around her beginning in chapter 100.

To JJ- While it would be nice for Weiss to not be told about her past, and be in pain because of it, the plot must move on, and seeing as chapter 100 is next, I can say comfortably that it's time. Now we wait and see just how she will handle knowing the truth, and what that means for the others too.

I hoped you all enjoyed chapter 99. Remember, reviews are welcomed, but not required. See you all in chapter 100!