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Slow days like these always made Cinder happy, being able to work on another copy of her dress while Ruby was reading her comics in bed. It was like being at home the only thing missing was the shrill shriek of someone that demanded attention from them. And yet the one thing she could do without was the loud moaning coming from Eve in the currently covered bottom bunk, it was unsettling and as long as Ruby didn't ask any questions Cinder wasn't going to. That was until someone broke the musical grunting.

"We should go see the Vytal festival preparations." Weiss proclaimed while sitting at her desk. Ruby was wearing headphones to block all noise and Cinder was trying to ignore it, but Cinder did respond to the inquiry.

"We could but Eve will still be... grunting when we get back..." Cinder said as she tried to avert her eyes. Weiss was attempting to entertain her teammates but she had resulted to roundabout means to get them to do things with her.

"If I can get her to quit will you go?" Cinder gave a chuckle when Weiss asked.

"Sure if you can get her to quit, then we'll go do whatever you want."

"Good," Weiss then got up and knocked on the bed frame. Eve slid back the curtain to reveal her wearing her workout cloths while doing crunches, she was covered in sweat and had an intense look on her face.

"Yes?"

"Do you wanna go to the Vytal festival setup in town?"

"That could be fun," Eve then closed the curtain once again. Weiss just turned to Cinder with a smug look on her face that is typically reserved for Neo when she does something self satisfying. Cinder narrowed her eyes and shook her head as she walked over to Ruby's bed, in one quick motion she took Ruby's headphones off. When Ruby scowled at her sister Cinder lifted a small paper card that had several small holes punched into it.

"Come on, we're gonna go do something boring."

"You are really burning through these." Ruby took the card and punched a hole through a section of it. Ruby flung herself off the bed doing a small flip followed by landing with a flourish. Weiss and Cinder both gave a small clap as their leader embellished by giving a short bow. Eve exited her little hole fully dressed and asked.

"What are we doing?"

"We are heading to Vale to have an adventure!" Ruby declared like she thought up the idea. Weiss took some slight insult at having her idea stolen by Ruby but shook it off quickly when she looked at her phone.

"Well the next airship to Vale leaves in 30 minutes, so I guess we have some time..."

"Why wait?" Cinder asked with raised shoulders, "I can drive us there." Weiss and Eve both gave a quizzical look as they Cinder dangled some keys in front of them.

"You have a car?" Weiss questioned, Eve just shrugged as she accepted her fate.

"Yeah come on it'll be fine." Cinder said as Ruby was giving a look that was probably fear but was heavily muted so it was hard to tell. Cinder just dragged them through the halls until they reached a parking lot in front of the CCT tower. Sitting there in a spot marked reserved for faculty was what looked like a brand new crimson muscle car. The term brand new didn't really fit, as it was very clearly a very old car that would have had been put back together. It was a 2 door car that in Weiss' opinion looks like a brick. Cinder flocked to it as the rest of them with a more reserved pace followed her, each giving their own inspection.

"How did you afford this?" Eve asked as she looked at her reflection in the back window, she noted there was a sticker with a thin little blue chicken bird with a large beak in the corner.

"Well a woman ca-"

"Cinder robbed a bank." Ruby said already buckled up in the back seat. Cinder scowled as Weiss' eyes went wide at her teammates supposed crime.

"How heinous..." Weiss said covering her mouth with the forefingers on one of her hands, Eve just shook her head.

"What?! No?! I-" Cinder sputtered while Weiss climbed into the back of the car as well, Eve folded the seat back keeping room for Weiss before taking the front seat as well. Cinder just climbed into the driver seat before telling the truth, "I worked a part-time job for the last two years putting all the money into this thing."

"Suspicious..." Ruby only countered at the truth of the matter. Cinder just turned back to her and pulled one of her ears as her sister was trying to slander her sister.

"Come on you had to notice my absence even a little, or the donut pizza shop uniform I practically lived in." Cinder said as she tightened her grip only to loose it entirely.

"Oh right!" Ruby proclaimed as she slammed her hand into her palm, "You burned that place down."

"You can't prove that." Eve and Weiss just gave several looks as the sisters fought happily until their eyes met and they laughed at the sisters.

Vale was lively this time of year with plenty of people coming in to prepare for the Vytal festival, and for some reason Team RECW were going to watch them. Yet it was hectic and seemed like someone had forgotten to schedule everything properly months in advance, as the roads were packed to the brim with trunks and vendors fighting through the sea of traffic. The same could be said about team RECW sitting in the middle of the highway in complete silence having not moved for the last hour, it was up to Weiss to break the silence that her teammates were sitting in, "We probably could have made it there by-"

"SHHHHH-" Cinder said as she craned her neck like an owl turning it's head to spy it's prey. Cinder had the look of pure unfiltered rage having to waste her time like this while simultaneously praying that some comet would fall out of the sky killing them all at the same time.

"She is right," Ruby said as she was still reading her comics. Cinder just turned back to the road expecting to see even a little movement before slamming her head into the steering wheel.

"Remember what mom always says Ruby," she paused with her head still in place, "Just because you could."

"Does not mean you did." Ruby finished the morbid metaphor with the same bored expression she always had. Every time they talked about their mother it was always some grisly quote that made it sound like they were raised by some sort of grimm or bandit in a grimm mask. The conversation didn't have time to continue when Eve answered.

"I'm done with this," she opened the door and took a step before Weiss practically shrieked.

"IT'S ILLEGAL TO GET OUT OF A CAR IN TRAFFIC!" Eve just shrugged as she closed the door and replied.

"Don't worry what I'm about to do next is waaaay more illegal." They couldn't even wait for what happened next as the car suddenly began to rise up.

"WHAT'S HAPPENING!" Weiss cried already knowing what happened just wanting her team to confirm. Cinder was white knuckling it as the fire in her eyes roared with anger, she filtered this by calmly rolling down the window and shouting.

"DO YOU KNOW HOW BAD THIS IS FOR THE SUSPENSION?" There was no reply as she carried them over several cars to a surface road. When they reached a spot were there was no traffic did Eve set the car down. She didn't waste anytime climbing back in through the window not even opening the door, she was covered in sweat and grease and looked a little more than not winded. She while panting looked around the car, Ruby was nonplussed as she was still calmly reading her comic, Weiss was two steps from terror and even more terrifying Cinder was happily smiling like it was a calm and pleasant mid summer's day.

"Is everyone okay?" Eve asked as Weiss just shook her head at the question and Ruby didn't even acknowledge her. Cinder just smiled and placed a hand on her partners shoulder, gripping it firmly she spoke up in a sweet little tone.

"Don't ever do that again, cause if you break my car I will... break... you," she was heating her hand searing into the skin. Before Eve could fight back Ruby who finished her book rolled it up and hit her sister on the head. It didn't affect Cinder much but it made her turn to Ruby with a serene look that Weiss found somehow was both terrifying and calming in the same instant, "What, dear sister, is wrong?"

"Green light," Ruby said pointing the book at the light. She gently released Eve's shoulder leaving a hand print, the drive was still sluggish but they were off the highway so the change was better. Cinder did have to finally ask her teammate.

"Where are we going Weiss?"

"Well I assume we'd start at the docks and work our way into the city," Weiss said this while rubbing the back of her neck and avoiding eye contact. Cinder just narrowed her eyes as she found a parking spot relatively close to the docks giving them a little walk. When they finally made it there they were greeted with workers hanging balloon and steamers while team RECW walked under a banner that said 'WELCOME TO VALE!'

The crowd of people was massive most of them being workers, all working conflicting jobs that probably should be done at separate times. When they finally reached the docks Ruby remarked, "Ah Yes, the smell of gross fish guts... Why are we doing this?"

"Well as representatives of Vale, I believe it is our duty to greet and introduce ourselves to foreign students... And I heard students from Vacuo would be arriving today." Weiss pompously announced as Cinder slapped her forehead.

"Weiss... Did we come to spy on other students?"

"No..." Weiss said while avoiding eye contact, "We're... meeting... new people?" She said not sure were the sentence was going when it started. Cinder groaned loudly as her teammate just touched the tips of her fingers together. Ruby and Eve failed to respond as they were distracted by a storefront covered in police tape. They both walked over to it without so much as a word. There were two police officers inspecting the store front like they were the stars of a mildly interesting cop show where one or both of them had some supernatural ability.

"What happened here?" Ruby questioned one of the men.

"Robbery, second dust shop to be hit this week," Ruby's eyes perked up as she heard this, before he walked away, "This place is turning into a jungle." Ruby felt this was somehow very familiar to her, almost as if something like this had happened to her before. The cop asked the other cop trying to figure out who was behind the crime "Who do you think did it? The White Fang?"

"I don't think we're paid enough for this." The other cop wondered. Weiss just shook her head as she heard about the White Fang, with plenty of displeasure on her face from hearing that name.

"What a bunch of filthy criminals..." she said under her voice expecting to no one to hear her. Eve turned to her teammate with a wide glare questioning the foundation of their relationship.

"What was that?" Eve basically growled out.

"Well I mean they commit crimes on a regular basis, acting like they are rebels fighting an unjust cause. All they are doing is setting back real talks of peace and equality acting like vigilantes." She said really proud of herself acting like what she just said was an ever important speech that could rally thousands. Eve was having none of that.

"You act like all people who support the white fang are criminals." Eve said through her teeth.

"Well they distract and detract from their peaceful counterparts, I mean the more they commit crimes-"

"HEY STOP THAT FAUNAS!" Someone shouted from a ship on the docks. They all ran towards the dock with this declaration, what they saw was a woman wearing a grayish blue skintight spandex suit with a web pattern going down either side of it, with knee pads and several flexible plates on the calf and feet respectively. The top was much baggier unzipped jacket leaving plenty of cleavage and faded blue veins, while the gloves were finger-less and heavily padded. Most peculiar of all she was wearing a mute grey mask with large silver eyes and a smaller set right above them while her grey hair was flowing out of a hole on the top of it. She rounded the corner of the ship and in one swift motion hopped up on the railing turned back to them and waved.

"Don't feel bad, most people say that I fight say I'm less of a spider and more of an eel. They're not very nice..." She said right before jumping off the boat landing on the dock.

"You no-good stowaway!"

"You say that like you caught me!" She shouted back to them as she ran backwards along the docks. They threw several rocks which she dodged effortlessly until she eventually backed into two men.

"Hey we're gonna have to ask you several questions." The eyes on the mask became huge as she just turned around and looked up to the two men.

"Ahhhh," with a few seconds of hesitation lifted both of her hands almost like she was ready to be handcuffed. They moved to take her before she folded her two middle fingers in on both hands and shot them both in the face with a sticky white substance, "Sorry officer but I'd rather you not know my secret identity!"

While the two officers were trying to get the web off their faces she extended her arm and fired a web at the pier. She violently pulled herself up launching over the pier comfortably on the other side. She looked over the men on the docks as they struggled to get the web off their faces, "Oof, Looks like I've overstayed my welcome."

"GET HER!" She took off running before any of them could catch her, as she passed Eve she sarcastically pointed finger gun and made a clicking noise. Yet she wasn't looking where she was stepping and tripped flipping several times before she landed perfectly on her feet arms extended. She turned back to the people she just passed giving a thumbs up like it was nothing at all. Eve extended a hand to the mysterious girl reaching out almost expecting a reply before the girl ran off.

"Well Weiss, there goes the competition. Did you have fun snooping? Can we go home yet?" Cinder asked rapidly as she leaned over the railing. Weiss did a double take before she perked up and pointed at the fleeing girl.

"Quick we have to inves- I mean meet her!" She immediately chased after the girl, Eve did as well yet Ruby and Cinder just stood there. Ruby shrugged as she took off running trying to catch up to the others while Cinder who had yet to move off of the railing pondered.

"You all love running, dontcha." She barely said as she jogged after them slowly not trying to exercise in the slightest. Ruby, Weiss and Eve chased after the Spider-Girl until she launched a web out of her hand and pulled herself up to the rooftops. She began swinging with acrobatic grace that even Ruby had to admit was amazing... until she swung too low and hit a stop sign. She didn't let it stop her and with a quick motion she thwipped out a web sticking it to a roof top allowing her to swing around a turn getting just out of sight. Weiss rounded the corner without looking and ran face first into someone, knocking both of them to the ground.

"She got away!" Weiss said as she looked over the girl she just ran into. Ruby pointed at the girl that Weiss was sitting on while Eve was just shaking her head.

"Weiss..." Weiss turned back to her leader only noticing where she's pointing, "You should probably get off of her." Weiss turned back looking face to face with a one eyed girl, whose face was bright red from the blush. Weiss let out a squeak before she righted herself, leaving the helpless girl on her back. The girl was wearing a red and white hoodie with a black scarf, while her shorts were baggy and rolled up to the mid calf. While for some reason she was wearing a beanie over her left eye, it was either an ill advised eye patch or a stylized choice. Yet for some reason she sat there on the ground not even reacting to the people currently looking at her.

"Howdy," she said still laying on the ground with a single concerned stare while the other two had looks that shouted uninterested. Until Weiss snapped out of shock and darted down to help up the girl on the ground.

"I'm so sorry, here let me help you up." Weiss asked as she grabbed the her hand with a fervor that most of them had seen her only apply to tests and homework. Yet she struggled to even make the girl budge an inch as she pulled full force on her hand. Cinder caught up around then as she was clearly out of breathe so she took a few seconds to look at the girls while panting heavily.

"Why, thank you. It is so polite of you." She said as if she went limp, there were several seconds of silence before Eve walked up and grabbed Weiss's hand and with a little effort pulled the girl up. It was odd as the girl seemed heavier than she should actually weight, almost like she was made of metal. She dusted herself off and with a shockingly bright smile said, "My name is May, It's nice to meet y'all."

"Hi May," Ruby said keeping a safe distance from the strange girl, "I am Ruby."

"I'm Weiss," She said doing a little curtsy with her skirt.

"Eve." Said as she stood there motionless with no real thought to saying her name. Cinder still heavily breathing being not really capable of speaking was introduced by Ruby.

"And that is 'Ms. Needs to Work Out More'."

"Eat me," was all Cinder moaned out as she finally regained her composure. Eve tapped Cinder rousing her from her stupor to introduce herself, "Cinder."

"It's nice to meet y'all," May said once again unknowingly. Weiss looked like she was going to say something about that when Cinder stepped on her foot. Weiss chose to again instead.

"Sorry again for running into you." She said as they began to walk away, hoping for less or no more interactions with the girl.

"See you later friend." Ruby said as she walked away with them. A few moments they were silent as they went back the way they came. Until finally Cinder had to ask aloud to none of them in-particular.

"Ruby can you stop running into weird people?"

"No. I think I am cursed." Weiss was about to say something else when they turned and the girl was right in front of them. Eve did a double take as the woman managed to get around and in front of them with none of them noticing.

"What did you call me?" May inquired with a strong look that was tantamount to a glare, almost as strong as Ruby's puppy dog eyes.

"Uhhh... weird people." She said while leaning back hoping for no new response. But May just shook her said and while moving passed Cinder she pointed at Ruby and asked.

"Not you. Her." There was an awkward moment of silence between the two of them as they stared each other down with no real expressions on either of their faces. It lasted for minutes as Ruby was trying to rack her brain to figure out what she called the girl but no answer was presenting itself, but she sure wasn't going to let that fact slip. It lasted until Ruby answered the question.

"I have no recollection of ever directing calling you anything. If that answer is unsatisfactory then I present you to my lawyer." She said in an almost rehearsed fashion as she moved behind Cinder who was almost skeptical of what her sister had said.

"But, you called me friend." May said almost hurt that the girl had just denied. When this came to the forefront of the conversation you could almost hear the ding in Ruby's head as she remembered that.

"If you mean the niceties that I am contractually obligated to use," Ruby said almost like a machine, "It meant nothing to me, and I only said it to seem polite." With a quick slap to her forehead Cinder intervened with the two girls.

"Sorry about her she's just awkward and has trouble interacting with real people," Cinder said as she covered her sisters mouth while giving a strained smile, "She doesn't mean anything by it."

"Oh," May actually looked hurt from the comments from the sisters, "Very well. Sorry for wastin' y'all's time." She started walking away only for Ruby to tap her sister's hand several times to get her to let go. When she did they all looked away from the girl that they broke the heart of, yet Ruby did not. For some reason she stared at the girl, watching as she lazily walked away.

"We can be friends if you would like." Ruby said as her team turned back to her not expecting her to be so nice. When May heard she was almost immediately back to where Ruby was standing.

"That would be wonderful, we can talk about weapons or practice communicating or about boys and how little sense they make." She said all rapid fire, with Ruby noticing each part. Yet somehow each of them struck a cord and her eyes went from small dull orbs to large shining gemstones. Ruby grasped her new friends hands to say something else.

"I would like that very much." Cinder was almost surprised when she heard her sister actually succeed at making a friend. She just gave a warm smile as they began to walk away from the group talking about unimportant things. Ruby turned back to her friends only to see a bunch of warm smiles that nearly shouted pride. She glared at them before a ringing was heard coming from May. She quickly pulled out her scroll to see a message.

"I have to go, we can talk more later." She said before she left in a hurry. It was odd and they all looked a little confused, but that was stopped when Cinder grabbed onto her sister. She held her in a firm hug that Ruby tried to escape from.

"I'm so proud of you making friends all on you're own," She said while holding her sister tighter to keep her close. Ruby reached for Weiss to get herself free, but Weiss just smiled as her partner was growing up. When no one helped Ruby she placed her palms in between them and forced them apart. Cinder gave a coy grin before she ruffled her sister's hair creating a tangled mess similar to the thorns on a rose bush.

"Now where'd that faunas criminal run off to?" Weiss questioned as she thought aloud. Eve looked a little slighted at that, scowling some before replying to her compatriot.

"Just because you didn't like her doesn't mean she was a criminal." Eve stated dryly as if she was talking to the scum of Remnant or Jaune.

"Well she stowed away on a boat from gods know where, which is enough to call her a criminal." Weiss said as she had a look synonymous with Ruby's famous lack of care, "Give her enough time and she will no doubt turn to more crime. Worst case she will turn to the White Fang..."

"What's your problem? Just because she broke the law doesn't mean she would join." Eve said standing firm almost ready to fight her with a strong standing gaze. Weiss had a less than worried look as if she was already bored of the conversation and mildly irritated at her more silent friend.

"Well that is one perspective, and when she gets caught if she ever gets out she'll have to deal with a criminal record. And I don't think that many people would be willing to hire a faunas with a criminal record." She said as she held firm to her beliefs, "That suffering will no doubt lead to a life of crime which will eventually end with her joining the White Fang."

"You say that like it is a predetermined fact." Cinder and Ruby looked a little concerned as their friends where having a heated debate that could end violently.

"It basically is, the white fang prey on people like her. People who made a few mistakes or so down on their luck into monster's just for a few foot soldiers." Weiss said with tears in her eyes, "It's happened before it could happen again."

"The problem is you just assume that she will turn-" Eve said with an even stronger glare before she was interrupted halfway through.

"I know, because I witnessed it!" Weiss was crying at this point while Eve was taken aback. Eve recoiled as she heard this only for Weiss to continue, "A butler of my family was drawn in by their speeches and promises. They said that they could help his daughter get better or would pay for the treatment or something, and all he had to do was plant a bomb under a stage where my father was to give a speech." Weiss paused again seeing how this speech was affecting Eve only to finish it off, "What they weren't expecting was my entire family to be up there announcing the Faunas equality program. I wasn't more than 7 just having my aura unlocked. My mother was fine, my sister was fine, I was fine,my father and brother were not. My father lost his legs while my brother lost the ability to use his. All because they got to him before we even knew about his daughter."

"Weiss-" Eve didn't get to finish before Weiss retorted to her once more.

"Those monsters tried to kill my family under false pretenses and they masqueraded it as some act of rebellion. I despise them because that wasn't the last attempt either, they have been even more persistent than the grimm in attempts on my families lives. Those monsters are nothing but beasts." Weiss said fully crying as Eve had to reply.

"AT LEAST BEING A BEAST IS BETTER THAN BEING TREATED LIKE CATTLE!" Eve shouted it was all rage but it definitely had a larger affect on Weiss than intended. When Weiss heard it she recoiled and fell to the ground fully crying. Cinder and Ruby where just looking wide eyed with plenty of surprise on their faces. Eve looked to them then to Weiss on the ground before she said, "You only expect the worst of her because you don't even want to attempt to help her."

They all had looks of shock and plenty of tears but Eve just started walking to where the faunas had fled to earlier. Weiss was crying while Ruby and Cinder were trying to decide what to do, until they left it up to their leader who took the initiative and said, "It's time to go home."

Eve stalked through the streets having emptied out of people after the sun went down shortly ago. Eve was just wandering at this point head in a haze and heart on fire she had fully intended to find the faunas girl and help her evade the law like she once had. She gave up on that after about 3 hours of searching, she had hurt Weiss in an irreparable way and now she couldn't return. Even if Weiss was self righteous and basically made of napoleon syndrome she was still a friend and hurting friends was wrong.

The wandering eventually lead her to a large plaza with an almost beautiful fountain in the center of it. It was spewing water out of the mouth of a duck like that was what ducks actually did. She just looked at it for several seconds until she lifted that hat off her head, letting her hair fall into her face cascading around creating a flow like waves only to be disturbed by two small pointed stones. Two little black horns barely even 3 inches long disrupted the flow of her hair, yet their stagnancy sent ripple through her hair causing several other smaller spikes to form all throughout her hair. She sighed several times as she ruffled her hair in silence, "Whoo. I was not expecting that."

Eve turned to the voice when she heard the comment, only for there to be no one standing there. Eve reached for her sword as she found no one around her head on a swivel ready to fight. Until she heard the voice again, "Up here."

There hanging from a web was the spider woman from before. She slid down the web before touching the ground as seductively as a spider before she approached Eve. The eye-holes on her mask changed shape a few times as if they were her eyes. When she was within Eve's personal space her eyes narrowed as she said, "I like em'. They're much more you."

There was a pause as the two of them stared at each other for several seconds, until Eve quickly and firmly grasped her the girls head. With one swift motion Eve pulled off her mask causing the girl to proclaim, "NOOOOO!"

The girl underneath the mask was less than impressive with her hair swooping down to cover her right eye, which was a very simple trait that plenty of people have. While her hair looked almost the color as her hair, she was almost bland looking. Eve with her infinite wisdom looked her dead in the eyes and said, "We need to talk."

As Cinder dragged Weiss back into their room did she finally say to the catatonic girl, "Well that was a spectacular failure on your part Weiss. Next time lets not do the activity that tears apart the group."

Weiss for her part just climbed into bed and covered herself with the comforter ready to forget tonight. Cinder just watched her teammate lye there after a tense night, she looked like Zwei did when he was bit by that snake. While Ruby had the same expression as then with mild interest and slight curiosity, that was masked by her having made popcorn. She was eating it happily like it was nothing at all before she was greeted by the ever present concerning glare of her older sister, "What?"

"Shouldn't we... you know help her?"

"The only way to help her is to find Eve and have her explain," Ruby said as she ate her popcorn, "Or we can just let her sulk forever."

"Then lets go find her," Cinder said as she pointed back at the door.

"Well we can not right now," Ruby countered as she climbed up into her bed, "It is too late and I am tired." Cinder glowered at her sister at least expecting her to have a slight amount of empathy towards her friends.

Sorry this took so long, I've written sporadically for the past few weeks not really having the time. I had originally intended to do the entire stray arc, but I felt that would feel too clunky and in the end I just decided to split it up.

Trifa will be replacing Sun and she is definitely a Spider-Man clone. It was either her or Ilia and I will be bringing Ilia back later for another role, or maybe I'll forget entirely. Who knows?