The first to recover was Weiss, who walked over towards her sister as she spoke up.
"Winter what is the meaning of this? What queen are you talking about? And why are you calling that dolt 'Lady Rose'?"
Not even turning away to look at her younger sibling, Winter addressed the half Grimm before her.
"Please excuse my younger sister's lack of manners your highness." Only after this did she turn towards Weiss and continued. "The meaning of this is simple. Like our grandfather and his father before him, I am upholding our family's duty to the order of the Silver Rose and the royal family of Vale and our rightful Queen Salem Valorious, who has been kept from her place on Vale's throne of Vale by the actions of her younger brother. As for your last question, despite the fact that she is the offspring of the self proclaimed 'last King of Vale', her Majesty has decreed that Lady Rose shall be as if she were the queen's own offspring as she does not want to blame the children for the sins of their forefather."
Hearing this, Yang stood up from her bed and moved closer to take part in the conversation.
"Wait my little sis is supposed to be some kind of princess then? How would you even know about that?" Yang demanded to know as she stepped behind her half sister, who was still very confused by what was going on around her, tail hanging limp from her behind.
"The most obvious giveaway are her silver eyes, as the only known people that had this trait before the last king went into hiding, were the Queen, her mother and her younger brother."
Winter replied before cutting of a sigh, she was already feeling frustrated with this conversation, but she would do her best not to show this before the young half Grimm.
As Ruby took in the woman kneeling before her, the redhead finally recovered enough from the surprise to speak once more.
"So that legend about the knights of the Silver Rose was really true?"
"Depending on what version you read, but yes most of them are true." Winter replied without hesitation.
"And Salem really is a half Grimm like me?" Ruby asked, sliding down from where she was sitting on her bed.
"Yes that is indeed true, although her traits are not as obvious as yours if she doesn't want them to be." The elder Schnee answered again, doing her best to sound friendly to the young royal before her.
"So, Penny how do you fit into all of this?" Ruby asked as she took a step closer to her mechanical friend, the confused expression not yet fully gone from the skin covered parts of her face.
Before she answered, Penny quickly glanced at Winter, who just gave the android a short nod.
"During my first year as a student at Atlas, Knight Schnee saw my prowess with blades and my quick mind and after she pulled some strings in the military to be assigned as the person in charge of my development, took me on as her squire. Since then I have been training under her and helped carry out her duties to the Order to the best of my abilities."
As Ruby finally managed to shake the rest of her confusion, she realized that the rest of her team might be lost because none of them had seen the video she had received on her scroll.
Sitting down next to Weiss on the white haired girls bed, the wolf eared girl waved Blake and Yang over and as they squeezed next to their teammates, Ruby brought up the video once more to show it to her team.
Once it was over, Blake began to speak, slightly unsure of herself, scratching the bow hiding her cat ears.
"I think we should inform Headmaster Ozpin about this."
When the rest of the team agreed with her suggestion, they moved to leave, nearly forgetting about the two other persons still in the room with them. Turning towards them Ruby, her tail swishing nervously from side to side, addressed the two Atlesians.
"You can just go and continue whatever you did before coming here."
"As you wish Lady Rose." Winter replied as she stood up and left the room, quickly followed by Penny. Leaving the room after them, team RWBY made their way towards the headmasters office.
Ozpin was sitting behind his desk, a cup of the strongest coffee you could get on Beacon's Campus sitting next to the, thankfully by now small, pile of paperwork he had yet to finish this evening. Laying down his pen, he picked up his drink and was just about to take a sip from his cup when Glynda's voice came over the intercom.
"Professor, team RWBY is here to see you, saying they have something important to share with you."
Setting down his cup without drinking from it, Ozpin pressed the button on the intercom so he could reply to Glynda.
"Very well, just send them up please."
As the elevator was taking the girls up towards him, the grey haired professor quickly stored the remaining paperwork in one of his desk's empty drawers. Looking up at the small sign above the elevator doors, he still had enough time to take a short drink from his coffee. Just as he put the cup back down, a soft *ding* announced the elevator car's arrival.
As the girls stepped into his office, Ozpin leaned slightly back into his chair as he greeted them.
"Hello girls, what brings you here this late?"
Stepping in front of the rest of her team, Ruby pulled out her scroll and placed it onto the headmasters desk as she began to share what had happened in their dorm room not long ago, while she played the video of Salem for him.
Once she had finished Ozpin stood up and began to pace behind his desk.
"What you have here is the first concrete evidence I saw in a long time that Salem is still alive and out there somewhere. And I have been suspecting that there might have been a connection between your mother and the last King of Vale."
As he paused shortly to drink from his coffee, the half grimm spoke up.
"Why?"
Setting his cup back down Ozpin replied carefully.
"Well for one when the king vanished after establishing the academies, it was assumed he lived out the rest of his live in some small village at the border of Vale, while your mother, who shared his silver eyes came from a small village somewhere in Vale."
After he finished, Yang stepped next to her younger sister as she asked her own question.
"Is there anything you can tell us about this 'Salem' and what she wants with my little sis?"
"Not much I am afraid. We only learned about her possible survival a few decades ago. And even then we were not sure if it was really her or someone using her name that started to work at bringing down the Huntsmen academies."
The professor replied truthfully with a frown on his face.
"So what can we do about her, now that we have more information?"
Weiss inquired, leaning slightly forward with her hands on Ozpin's desk.
"You should get ready for your match in the doubles round the day after tomorrow. With how she addressed Ruby in this video message, I believe she won't try anything big while Ruby is still at Beacon."
Silencing the girls upcoming protests with a simple raise of his hand, he continued.
"It is important that things like this do not reach the public, lest they cause a panic that draws in huge numbers of Grimm. Now I suggest you for go and head back to your beds, so you can spend tomorrow training."
He waited until team RWBY had said their goodbyes and left his office again, before he drained his still half full cup in a single sip as he fell into his chair. A moment later he leaned forward to activate the intercom.
"Glynda, please cancel all my appointments for tomorrow, I need to visit an old friend of mine who lives on the very border of the Kingdom."
"Very well sir, but might I ask who you need to visit so suddenly?"
"I promised not to tell anyone about him, but I am sure he needs to hear about this as soon as possible."
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