Hey guys, WolfFaunas3 three here with a new chapter. Hope you enjoy.
-Vale docks-
Teams RWBY and TOTM walked down the street as people prepared for the Vytal Festival. A few men got up on some ladders to set up massive 'Welcome to Vale' signs.
"The Vytal Festival! Oh, this is absolutely wonderful!" Weiss said as she looked at the sign.
"Indeed. This event is a true testament to society as a whole." Tenya added on to Weiss's comment. He had removed several pieces of his armor so to walk around comfortably. The only pieces he had were the forearm guards and weaponized boots, Ingenium.
"I've never seen you smile this much, Weiss." Ruby said.
"It's kinda weird if you asked me." Tsuyu spoke her mind with her finger on her mouth.
"How could you not smile?" The heiress asked as she turned around. "A festival dedicated to the cultures of the world. There will be dances, parades, and a tournament! Oh, the amount of organization and planning that goes into something like this is truly breath taking!"
"Wow, you really know how to make something exciting sound really boring." Yang deadpanned.
"Quiet you." Weiss snapped.
"So, remind me why you dragged us on our Friday afternoon to visit the docks?" Ruby asked as the Teams were no longer on the road but the wooden planks of the docks.
"They smell like fish." Ochako complained holding her nose shut.
"Well, I've heard that students from Vacuo are arriving today." Weiss said before she turned around and gestured to the rest of the group. "So, as representatives of Beacon and our kingdom, I feel it is our solemn duty to welcome them into our fine kingdom."
"She wants to spy on them, so she'll have the upper hand in the tournament." Blake revealed Weiss' true intentions.
"That is the Weiss I have grown to know most of my life." Tenya said pushing up his glasses.
"You two can't prove that!" Weiss said back.
"Guys, we are here now, so let's do our best to welcome them." Izuku said.
"I still don't know why you wanted us here with you." Ochako added.
"Maybe because we have a better chance of winning than some of the other teams?" Tsuyu theorized.
"Besides Team SMKE was already gone so I guess she just settled for you guys." Blake guessed.
"Settled. Is too much to ask to be more noticed than we have been?" Izuku asked.
"Whoa... Look at that." Ruby said pointing behind the group, making everyone look over at a broken Dust shop, with police tape slalom of the door and access to it. Two cops studied the scene and wrote down details on their Scrolls. The group walked over, led by Ruby and Tenya. "What happened here?" She asked.
"Robbery." The officer said to himself which inadvertanly answered Ruby's question. "Second dust shop this week. I swear, this place is turning more and more into a jungle everyday..." He mumbled as he walked over to his partner.
"Ribbit. This is terrible..." Tsuyu said.
"They left all the money again." The second officer declared. That didn't make any sense. Why go through all the trouble to rob a place like this in plain sight of passerby's and just leave the money.
"I just don't get it." The first officer said. "Who needs that much Dust?"
"An army?" The second man asked.
"You think the uh... White Fang did it?" The first asked.
"I'm thinking we don't get payed enough." The other man said as he kept writing stuff down on his scroll. "And did you here what happened to that one huntsman in Vale's residential area, said he was found dead."
Okay, that caught everyone's attention more than the robbery.
"Yeah. Had two stab wounds. The body made it look like he didn't fight back at all. Doesn't that sound like those cases they've had in other kingdoms linked to that ah… Hunter Killer?" The first one said.
"Huntsman Killer. If this above our pay grade here," He gestured to the broken glass of the store. "than that guy is beyond it."
"That's awful." Ruby said. Everyone felt that way, but none of them noticed the look on Tenya's face except Izuku. It looked like he was drowning in resentment when he heard the killer's name. Didn't surprise him, the Huntsman Killer has been linked to the murders of over two hundred and fifty different killings. Either Huntsman or off the street criminals. No one was safe from him.
"Humph, the White Fang." Weiss huffed. "What a bunch of degenerates." Weiss saw the look on Tenya's face too and she was trying to get off the topic of the killer. Didn't mean she wouldn't have at the White Fang.
"What's your problem?" Blake asked.
"My problem?" Weiss asked back. "I merely don't care for the criminally insane."
"The White Fang is hardly just a bunch of sociopaths." Blake said. "They're a collection of misguided Faunus."
"Misguided?" Weiss asked. "They want to wipe humanity off the planet."
"Okay, so they're very misguided." Blake said.
"Even if this was the White Fang, it still doesn't explain why they would rob a Dust shop in the middle of downtown Vale." Izuku said as he walked to the front to look better into the store.
"He has a point." Ruby said. "Besides, the police haven't caught that Torchwick guy I ran into a few months ago. Maybe this was him."
"That doesn't change the fact that the White Fang are nothing but scum." Weiss huffed. "Those Faunus only know how to lie, cheat and steal." With every word she said, Blake got angrier and angrier. She was also ticking off both Tsuyu and Izuku, but the latter did better in hiding it.
"That's not necessarily true..." Yang said.
"Hey! Stop that Faunus!" A voice shouted from the docks. The group ran over to the railing and looked onto a ship as a Faunus with a monkey tail being chased by two sailors before he climbed onto the ships edge. He was a tan-skinned boy with short spiky light-blonde hair and blue eyes. He wears two red wrist bracers over black fingerless gloves and an open loose-collared white jacket with no shirt underneath, displaying his muscular physique. He also wears blue cargo pants tied up with a white belt. He wears white bandages on his legs and has a chain hanging from the belt loop on the right side of his pants. He sports black and yellow sneakers and wears a black cord around his neck. As a result of his Faunus lineage, he has a long prehensile monkey tail the same color as his hair.
"Thanks for the ride, fellas." The teenage boy said before jumping off the ship onto the docks.
"Why you no-good stowaway!" The shouted as the Faunus climbed up a lamppost and hung from his tail.
"Hey, a no-good stowaway would have been caught!" He shouted back as he peeled a banana. "I'm a great stowaway."
"He does have a point." Ochako thought out loud.
"Hey!" The detectives from the robbed store shouted as he and his partner walked over. "Get down here right now!" The boy just finished his banana and tossed the peel and it fell on his face. The Faunus then jumped off the post onto the dock and ran up the stairs, with the two detectives in pursuit.
He ran up the stairs and passed the group, where he winked at Blake and Tsuyu before passing them with the officers close behind him.
"Well, Weiss, you wanted to see the competition. There it goes." Yang said.
"Quick! We need to observe him!" Weiss shouted before running after the detectives. The others ran after her. Blake stood still until Tsuyu tapped her on the shoulder.
"Ribbit. You okay, Blake?" He asked.
"Huh?" The girl shook her head. "Yeah, let's go."
The two teams ran after the detectives as they rounded a corner. Weiss reached it first and bumped into someone, sending them both to the ground. The other members caught up to the heiress, who looked up as the Faunus jumped up several walls onto the roof of an ally. "No! He got away!"
"Uh... Weiss..." Yang pointed underneath the heiress to the girl on the ground. Weiss yelped and jumped back to her feet.
The girl on the ground had short, rather curly orange hair with a small ahoge on top that came down to her chin, and she wore a pink bow on the back of her head. She also had bright green eyes, light skin and freckles like Izuku's. She wore a whitish-gray old-fashioned blouse with short gray feminine overalls, as well as a black and green collar with a matching pair of stockings.
"Salutations!" The girl said from her spot on the ground.
"Uh, hello." Ruby said back.
"Are you okay?" Yang asked.
"I'm wonderful. Thank you for asking." The new girl said. Everyone else stared at each other confused before they looked back to the girl.
"Don't you wanna get up?" Yang asked.
"Yes." The girl said. She did a hand spring from above her head and launched herself in the air before landing perfectly. The others took a step back. "My name is Penny! Penny Polendina! It's a pleasure to meet you!"
"Hello, Ms. Polendina! I am Tenya Iida of Team TOTM from Beacon Academy!" Said man introduced with his arms flailing robotically as he tried to respectfully introduce himself.
"I'm Ruby." Ruby said.
"I'm Tsuyu, call me Tsu. Ribbit." Tsuyu said.
"I'm Weiss." The heiress said.
"H-H-Hey, I'm Izuku." Izuku said bashfully talking to a stranger of the opposite sex.
"Blake." The bow wearing girl said.
"Ochako. Nice to meet you friend." Ochako said cheerfully.
"Are you positive you didn't hit your head?" Yang asked, making Blake elbow her in the side of her gut. "Oh, I'm Yang."
"It's a pleasure to meet you!" The girl repeated.
"You just said that." Tsuyu said.
Penny paused for a second. "So I did!" Penny realized.
"Well, sorry for running into you!" Weiss said as the group turned to leave.
"Take care, friend!" Ruby said as she walked away.
"She was... weird." Yang told the group as they walked around the corner and away from Penny.
"Now, where did that Simian riffraff run off to?" Weiss asked as she looked around. She looked ahead and stopped, making everyone else look forward at Penny who was now in front of them, staring intensely at them.
"What did you call me?" She asked the group.
"Oh, I'm so sorry." Yang said. Weiss just kept looking back and forth from where Penny was and is wondering how the hell she got in front of them. Izuku was guessing she had a speed semblance of some sort because there was no other reason she could have just ended in front of them like that. "I really didn't think you heard me."
"No, not you." Penny shook her head and walked into the group before she stopped in front of Ruby and Ochako. "You two."
"Us?" The leader asked looking at the other girl who shrugged.
"Uh, I don't know, I-" Ochako was trying to figure out what she meant.
"You two called me friend!" Penny interrupted the ramblings. "Are you both truly my friends?"
"Umm..." The girls looked over Penny's shoulder to the group. WBY was giving her signals to say 'no' while rapidly shaking their heads, while TTM were giving them signals to say 'yes' and nodding with smiles on their faces.
"Yeah, sure. Why not?" Ruby said.
"I would love to be your friend." Ochako said smiling.
Weiss, Blake and Yang just passed out on the ground out of exasperation other members of TOTM cheered and gave them several thumbs up.
Penny just cheered with her hands in the air. "Sensational!" Penny cheered. "We can paint our nails, and try on pretty clothes, and talk about cute boys. Oh, the things we can do together!"
"Is this what it was like when you meet me?" Ruby asked Weiss.
"No, she seems much more coordinated than you at that time." Weiss answered.
"Also, if what the others told me are true. There has been no explosion so far, so that's a good sign." Ochako whispered.
"So, what are you doing in Vale?" Yang asked.
"I'm here to participate in the tournament!" Penny answered as she turned to the blonde.
"You're fighting in the tournament." Tenya asked shocked.
"I'm combat ready!" Penny answered saluting.
"Forgive us for the assuming, but you hardly look the part." Weiss said.
"Coming from the girl wearing a dress." Blake muttered.
"It's a combat skirt!" Weiss defended herself with her arms crossed.
"Yeah!" Ruby added sliding over and the two girls exchanged high fives.
"Wait a minute..." Weiss walked over to Penny. "If you're here for the tournament, does that mean you know that monkey-tail rapscallion?" Her words infuriated Blake and Tsuyu.
"The who?" Penny asked.
"That filthy Faunus from the boat!" Weiss clarified and held a photo on her scroll.
"Why do you keep calling him that?!" Blake shouted before walking over.
"And when did you get the time to take that picture?" Izuku asked.
"That's what you are on right now." Tenya asked.
"Stop calling him a rapscallion! Stop calling him a degenerate! He's a person!" Blake said.
"Oh, I'm sorry." Weiss said sarcastically. "Would you like me to stop referring to the trash can as a trash can? Or this lamp post as a lamp post?"
"That's not the same thing, so stop it!" Tsuyu told her.
"Stop what?" Weiss asked annoyed. "He clearly broke the law. Given time, he'll probably join up with the other Faunus in the White Fang."
Tenya tried playing peacemaker. "Weiss that's too far of an assumption to ma-"
"You ignorant little brat!" Blake shouted as she clenched her fist before she turned and walked away in anger.
"How dare you talk to me like that!" Weiss said before walking after them. "I'm your teammate, Blake!"
"You're nothing but a judgmental little girl!" Blake said.
"Judgmental? What would make you think that?" The heiress asked.
"Uh... I think we should all go back to the dorms..." Yang whispered to Ruby while the two girls continued to argue.
"Where are we going to?" Penny asked.
"...solely based on someone's species, makes you just as much of a scoundrel you believe them to be!" Blake finished her argument.
"So you admit it!" Weiss said. "The White Fang is just a radical bunch of terrorists!"
"That's not the point and you know it!" Blake said back.
"Hey what's going on here." A familiar voice of a certain individual shouted out towards the girls.
The two teams and Penny eventually tilted their attention towards the source of the individuals, seeing them to be none other than Team SMKE made up of Shouto, Mina, Bakugo and Kirishima making their way towards them.
"So... wanna tell us what those two are arguing about?" Kirishima asked Yang before approaching beside her.
Yang turned her attention towards him with a blank look. "Well..." Before she had a chance to say anything, the heiress interrupted her with a sudden yell.
"YOU FOUR!" Wiess shouted towards the newcomers making their hairs standing upwards in surprisement, and an annoyed eye twitch from Bakugo as Weiss approached the four. "Have any of you four seen this Faunus!?" She demanded, showing them the photo she took of the stowaway.
"Fuck would I know about him." Bakugo angrily said.
"Never seen him." Shouto monotoned.
The two boys got pushed out the way by Mina who'd been behind them trying to see the picture. She looked at it curiously before her features morphed into one of recognition.
"Hey Eiji, look at this." She called over her friend.
Kirishima made his way over to her side. "What is it?"
"Doesn't this picture look like Sun?" Mina said as she looked closely.
"Yeah now that you mention, it kinda does." Kirishima said.
"Wait, wait, wait!? You two know him!?" Weiss yelled out with her arms flailing in the air.
"Sure do, the dudes name is Sun Wukong. Me and Eiji grew up with him in Vacuo and I gotta say. He's pretty awesome to hang around with." Mina voiced.
"He's a very manly friend of ours. Plus, his fighting style is pretty badass." Kirishima grinned with his arms crossed while staring down at the picture. "He a huntsman in training like us. We went to Beacon, but he wanted to go to Haven. Can't wait to fight him in the tournament. I get to show off all of my hard work this year." He grips his hand in anticipation.
Weiss just stood there. Blake was right about him, but she wasn't right about all faunas. She still didn't like the thought of being wrong in the first place. She just yelled angrily threw her hands up before walking away.
"The fucks up with Ice-Princess?" Bakugo said with a confused look on his face.
"I've known her since Soumei, but it beats me..." Shouto responded.
-Nighttime - Team RWBY's Room-
The arguing between the white heiress and the black-haired ninja hadn't died down when they got to the dorms. In fact, it seemed to only get worse considering this has gone on for hours on end. Ruby and Yang just sat there watching and not daring to get involved.
"I don't understand why this is causing such a problem between the two of us." Weiss said.
"That's exactly the problem!" Blake shouted back.
"You do realize that you're defending an organization that hates humanity, right?" Weiss asked as she stood up from the bed. "The Faunus of the White Fang are pure evil!"
"There's no such thing as pure evil!" Blake said back as she stood up. "Have you ever stopped to think about why they hate humanity so much? It's because of people like Cardin, people like you, that force the White Fang to take such drastic measures!"
"People like me?!" Weiss asked offended.
"You're discriminatory!" Blake shouted.
"I'm a victim!" Weiss said. She sighed before turning to the window and gripping its sill tightly. "You two want to know why I despise the White Fang? Why I don't particularly trust the Faunus?" She looked up and stared out into the night sky. "It's because they've been at war with my family for years. War - as in bloodshed."
The others stared at Weiss as she continued. "My grandfather's company has had a target on its back for as long as I can remember. And ever since I was a kid, I've seen family friends disappear, board members executed, a whole train of Dust, stolen. And every day, my father would come home furious. And that makes for a very difficult childhood." She looked down sadly but angry.
Ruby walked over to the window and put her hand on her partners shoulder "Weiss, I-"
"No!" The heiress turned around and walked back in front of the team's ninja. "You want to know why I despise the White Fang?! It's because they're nothing but a bunch of liars, thieves, and murderers!"
Blake hissed, I mean literally hissed back at Weiss. Clenching her hands, she yelled something she wished she could take back immediately. "Well maybe we were just tired of being pushed around!" Blake shouted back.
Everyone stared at Blake in shock as she processed what she just said. Weiss took a few steps back in shock.
Blake looked around at her teammates in fear. "I..." She turned and with her semblance sprinted out the open door as fast as she could.
"Hold on! Blake! Come back!" Ruby shouted as she went out the door, but it was too late. Blake was already gone. She turned back to Yang and shook her head sadly. She then turned to Weiss who was sitting on her bed still shocked to say anything.
-Courtyard-
Blake ran along the stone. She stopped and stared at the statue in front of the school. It showed a man and a woman standing on a cliff, both were clearly huntsman. Beneath them, there was a Beowolf with the cliff crushing it under the weight of the heroes on top of it. She never in her life thought she would compare herself to a Grimm, but she knew how it felt to be put under that weight.
Blake pulled the strings of her bow and held it in her hand, revealing a pair of cat ears. She wiped away the tears she didn't know she had and just stood there.
"I knew you'd look better without that bow." A voice said as the now black-haired faunas turned around on her heel to see who spoke.
-Team TOTM's room-
"Geez those two were still arguing even when we got back." Ochako said with her cheeks puffed out slightly in a frown as she laid down on her bed.
"I personally agree with Blake's side of the argument. Judging an entire part of the population based on the actions on a few radical members of it is just pure wrong." Tsuyu said as she undid her bow and let her long hair cascade down her back like the rain. "She made me pretty angry with her words on the subject."
"Yeah. I was pretty upset with what she said too. I wouldn't want anyone saying that about me." Izuku said.
"Give them time. Weiss has always been hard to approach on any topic or in general. She should make up things with her partner soon." Tenya said with shaky confidence in his childhood friend's ability to make things right.
Now that Izuku thought about it, Tenya had a pretty large reaction at the crime scene before Weiss changed the subject. Everyone who heard the killer's name associated it with anger and death and would all have a negative reaction. But Tenya's… Tenya's reaction seemed personal. Said man noticed his teammates staring and called him out on it. "Midoriya. Why are you staring?"
The girls turned to Izuku as he was called out and he shrunk back a little with his ears down before looking at the other male in the room. "Iida, when we were at the crime scene your face changed. You looked beyond upset, but it seemed you were taking it more personal than most would. Just an observation."
Tenya froze at this, someone had seen him before Weiss could change the subject. How could be so blind even with his glasses. He looked down at his feet with an unreadable expression. His teammate felt he crossed some line he wasn't supposed to.
"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to. Sorry!" Izuku wanted to fix the mistake he made.
"No, it's fine it's just I hoped that I wouldn't need to tell anyone this." Tenya said with a sigh and pinching the bridge of his nose. "My brother was a Huntsman who came before me. A great one. He was my idol. He helped so many people. And then..."
Ochako put a hand on his shoulder. "You don't have to share the rest if you don't want to. We understand."
Tenya shook his head as he continued. "There was a fight on one of my brother's patrols of his area. The damage was repaired, but my brother..." He clenched his eyes shut and took a deep breath in. "He received a stab injury to his lower spine. To this day he can't feel his legs and hasn't been able to walk."
He really struggled to get the next part out. "To this day I remember the look on his face when I came to see him in the hospital the next day. All his life, his ambition was to be a Huntsman and help others. When he learned that all that was token from him in a moment." Tenya just lowered his head. "I always had a wish, and it was to hunt down the monster that hurt my brother and avenge him."
Silence enveloped the room in its entirety.
"Tenya, this guy has been killing huntsmen before we even started training to become them, means he's not someone that anyone can take lightly. And like I said, we are still in training, we would be going against the rules, making us no better than the people we try to put behind bars." Tsuyu tried showing him the logic behind it.
"I already know the consequences that would come after my actions which is why if I do this, I'm doing it alone." Tenya said.
Izuku once more turned to his spectacled teammate, managed to say. "Don't be an idiot."
Everyone just looked at Izuku shocked at his words. "Wha- What?" Tenya managed to spit out.
Izuku took the cue to continue. "Iida, your brother may have lost something important, but he still lived, but you didn't lose him. Losing a family member is hard; believe me, I know the feeling all too well. My father died in action when I was only five when my mother was pregnant with another on the way. You hate this guy with a burning passion I get that, but you can't go running after this guy on your own. If something happened to you and I could've stopped it, Iwould never forgive myself." Tenya looked like he wanted to say something but Izuku continued.
"I also know even if I say this, you would still try to fight him, if that's the case then at least let us help you. You are our leader Tenya. And we are your team." Izuku finished.
Everything was silent in the room. With Izuku offering Tenya help and actually using his first name for once. Ochako hadn't known much about Izuku's past except maybe discrimination for being a faunas and his rocky relationship with Bakugo. She didn't know he had also lost his father at such a young age.
The silence was ended when a knock came from their door. Izuku looked over to Tenya. "You can do what you want, but you can't chose for us if we want to help."
Izuku walked over to the door, opening it to find Ruby, Yang, and Weiss standing in front of their doorway. The first two looking rather desperate while Weiss just looked angry.
"What is it? Is something wrong?" Tenya asked tabling the previous topic for now.
"And where's Blake?" Izuku asked.
Ruby stepped up. "Blake ran away. I tried going after her, but by the time I got to the courtyard, she was already gone. We have no idea where she is, and we're really worried about her."
"Well, most of us are at least." Yang commented pointing at Weiss. The heiress was looking down at the floor with a glare.
"Did this have anything to do with something Weiss said?" Tsuyu asked, angry that Weiss made her own teammate run away.
"Yeah." Ruby continued. "The fight got out of control, and the next thing we know, Blake's gone. We were planning on going into town tomorrow to look for her, but we're going to need some help to do that. Would you be willing?"
Izuku was the first to agree. "Of course, we'll help."
"Yeah." Ochako agreed.
"So, what did Weiss say now." Tsuyu asked perturbed.
They were arguing about the white fang when Blake said something like 'Maybe we were just tired of being ridiculed' after that she looked scared and ran off." Yang said.
"So, she inadvertently told you guys she is a faunas and she ran after that. Not the way I saw her telling you guys." Izuku said with his arms crossed.
The others just looked at him shocked. "Wait! You knew!?" Ruby shouted.
"Yes, I did." Izuku said nervous that all eyes except Tsuyu's were on him. She knew too, and so did Mina and Kirishima.
"Why didn't you tell us!?" Yang shouted with her eyes turning red. Izuku backed up in fear of the fiery blonde.
"Because Blake chose to hide her heritage. We didn't have the right to tell others if she didn't want us to." Tsuyu bluntly stated.
"Tsu, you knew too!?" Ochako asked hurt that her friend didn't trust her with this.
"Like she said, it wasn't our choice to tell you guys this. It was hers and I'm sorry we didn't say anything, but we didn't want to hurt Blake." Izuku reasoned.
"It's fine you two. While it is disappointing that we've kept secrets from each other, there is a good reason for them." Tenya said, trying not to be a hypocrite for having his own secrets.
"Yeah, I guess." Ruby said.
Yang's eyes were still red, but she took a deep breath closed her eyes and they were back to there natural lilac. "Fine."
"So tomorrow. Ribbit." Tsuyu said.
"Yeah. We'll see if Shouto and his team can help us." Ruby suggested.
Tenya just sighed and took a deep breath.
What a night.
-Downtown Vale-
Teams SMKE and TOTM were walking with Team RWBY, minus the missing member, down the street hoping to find a trace of their friend.
"Just wait for the crazy cat girl to come back. She knows how to handle herself." Bakugo just said wanting to do anything else than to help their stupid team that lost their stupid teammate because she was a damn coward.
"Yeah, but she's been gone the whole weekend." Ruby said as she leads the pack. "Aren't you at least a little worried?
"Barely know her. Barely know my own team." Bakugo shrugged.
"Not helping. Ribbit." Tsuyu said.
"I just hope she's okay..." said Mina as they kept walking.
-With Blake and Sun -Unknown Cafè-
Blake lifted her teacup and took a sip. In front of her was the Faunus from the boat, drinking his tea with his tail. Sun took a sip from his cup when Blake put hers down. "So, you two wanna know more about me?"
"Finally, she speaks!" The Faunus declared. "Two days of giving us nothing but small talk and weird looks." Blake glared at him and he just pointed at her with his tail. "Yeah! Like that."
"Sun, are you familiar with the White Fang?" Blake nervously asked.
"You kidding?" The monkey tailed man asked. "I don't think there's a Faunus on this planet that hasn't heard of them. Stupid creeps with a holier-than-thou attitude who use force to get what they want. Bunch of freaks, in my opinion."
Blake raised her cup and took another sip as he also took a sip of his own cup. "I was... once a member of the White Fang."
Sun coughed upon hearing that and wiped his mouth before speaking. "Wait a minute! You were a part of the White Fang!?"
"That's right." Blake answered. "I was a member for most of my life, you could almost say I was born into it. Back then, things were different. In the aftermath of the Great War, the White Fang was meant to be a symbol of peace and harmony between humans and the Faunus. But despite being promised equality, many Faunus were still subject to hatred and discrimination. Humanity still thought of us as lesser beings, so the White Fang rose up as a voice for our people. I was there, at the front of every rally, a part of every boycott. And I actually thought we were making a difference. But then, it all changed. Five years ago, our old leader stepped down and a new one took his place, and with him, came a different way of thinking. Suddenly, our peaceful protests were replaced with organized attacks. We set fire to shops that refused to serve us, hijacked cargo from companies that misused their Faunus work force, and the worst part that it was working. We were being treated as equals, but it was not out of respect. It was out of fear."
Sun stared at her as Blake finished her tale. "So, I left them. I decided I no longer wanted to use my talents to assist in their crimes. Instead, I would dedicate my life to being a huntress. So, here I am; a criminal hiding in plain sight, all with the help of a little black bow." Her bow twitched as she looked up at it.
"So, have you told any of your friends this?" Sun asked.
"Right now, just my team knows, but it was a spur of the moment thing and I wished I hadn't." She sighed and looked at her reflection in her tea. "How will the trust me now?"
-With the Teams-
"Blake!" Ruby called out with her hands cupped in a microphone.
"Blake!" Yang shouted.
"Blake!" Kirishima shouted.
"Blake!/Blake! Where are you!?" Izuku and Ochako shouted together.
"Weiss, you're not helping!" Tenya scolded the heiress for her lack of trying to help find their friend.
"Oh, you know who might be able to help? The police." The heiress suggested, making the other shake their heads.
"Ugh. Weiss." Shouto sighed.
"What? It was just an idea!" Weiss huffed.
"Yeah, a bad one." Ruby said as she continued walking.
"Weiss, there's two sides to every story." Tenya was being the voice of reason.
"Yeah. I think we should hear hers before we jump to conclusions." Yang said.
"Well, I think when we hear it, you'll see that I was right." Weiss said from the back.
"And I think Weiss' hair looks fabulous today!" A new voice said, causing them all to turn around to find Penny standing there looking at them.
"Agh, Penny, where did you come from?!" Ruby asked.
"Hey guys! What are you up to?" Penny ignored the question.
"We're looking for our friend, Blake." Yang answered.
"Oh, you mean the Faunus girl." Penny said nodding her head in recognition.
That make them all stare at her in shock.
"Okay, how did you know Blake is a Faunus?" Ruby asked.
"The cat ears." Penny answered pointing to her head.
"What cat ears?" Yang asked. "She wears a... Bow." She said that last part slowly as it dawned on the rest of them that Penny was right.
"You've known she is a faunas for two days and didn't try and guess what type of faunas she was." Tsuyu asked.
"Guess it's a faunas thing." Mina said.
A tumbleweed passed by as silence rested for a few seconds.
"She does like tuna a lot..." Ruby whispered to her sister.
"So, where is she?" Penny asked as she looked around.
"We don't know." Ruby confessed. "She's been missing since Friday."
"That's horrible." Penny said as she walked over to Ruby. "Don't worry, Ruby and Ochako are my friends. I won't rest until I help you both find her."
"You will!?" Ochako replied happily. She wrapped her arms around Penny in a hug that pulled her off the ground. "Oh, Thank you Penny."
Ruby looked less enthusiastic. "Thanks, Penny, but I think we've got it. Right, guys?" Ruby looked over her shoulder for backup from the others. Only to have found nothing but air where everyone else was supposed to be.
She sighed and started walking. "Let's go." Just then another tumbleweed rolled by.
"It sure is windy today, isn't it?" Penny asked while walking.
"Yeah. It is." Ochako said next to her.
-With Blake and Sun-
"So, what's the plan now?" Sun asked as the two walked on the sidewalk.
"I'm still not convinced that the White Fang is behind these robberies." Blake said. "They've never needed that much Dust before."
"What if they did?" Sun hypothesized, jumping in front of her. "I mean, the only way to prove that they didn't do it would be to go to the place they'd most likely go to if they were to do it, and not find them there. Right?"
"True. The only thing is, I have no idea where that would be." Blake said shrugging.
"Well, when I was on the ship, I heard some guys talking about offloading a huge shipment of Dust coming from Atlas." Sun said cupping his chin with his hand.
"How huge are we talking?" Blake asked.
Sun spread his arms wide for emphasis. "HUGE." Sun said. "Big Schnee Company freighter."
"You're sure?" Blake asked.
He gave her the 'Really?' look.
She sighed. "Best thing we got right now. Lead the way."
-With Weiss and Yang-
"Thanks anyways." Yang waved goodbye as she and Weiss stepped out of the store. Everyone decided it would be best if they split up into teams to find Blake. "This is hopeless." She noticed Weiss looking uninterested. "You really don't care if we find her, do you?"
"Don't be stupid. Of course I do." Weiss said back. "I'm just afraid of what Blake will say when we find them." She walked down the street a bit before turning around. "The innocent never run, Yang."
With Ruby and Co
"So, Blake is your friend?" Penny asked the three as they walked down the street.
"Yes, Penny." Ruby sighed.
"But, you're mad at her?" Penny asked.
"We're not, but Weiss sure is." Ochako tried to explain.
"Is she friends with her too?" Penny asked.
"That's kinda up in the air right now." The scythe wielder confessed.
"Why?" The new girl asked.
"Because Blake might not be who we thought she was." Ochako explained again.
Penny gasped loudly as she had an idea of what they meant. "Is she a man!?" She whispered seriously. Only it wasn't at all close to what it really was.
Ochako was hysterically giggling because Penny said it so seriously while Ruby settled things. "No, no Penny she's… haaah I don't know exactly what she is. She didn't really stay to explain things and just ran off." Ruby said.
Ochako had stopped her giggles and joined back into the conversation. "Well, it does sound like Weiss had pushed her over the edge."
"I don't have a lot of friends, you two make the most of them, but if I did I would want them to talk to me about things." Penny said.
"Me two." Ruby agreed before the three walked forward.
-Nighttime - Docks-
Blake laid on her front on top of a nearby office building, staking out the shipping crates with the Schnee dust company symbol on the side. She looked with a pair of binoculars when she heard footsteps behind her.
"I miss anything?" She looked over at Sun arriving with a few apples in his arms.
"No." Blake answered before turning back. "They've offloaded all the crates from the boat, and now they're just sitting there."
"Cool. You getting hungry? I stole some food for us." Sun asked offering an apple.
"Do you always break the law without a second thought?" Blake asked with an eyebrow raised.
"Hey, weren't you in a cult or something?" Sun asked jokingly, making Blake glare at him.
"Okay, that was too soon. Shutting up now." Wind started kicking up from behind them. They looked up as a Bullhead shined its lights. The aircraft did a half loop before it landed, and the hatch opened, and a track came out of it. A man in black suit and white vest walked out. His face was covered by a hood and his eyes with a Grimm mask. On the back of his outfit was a wolfs head with three claw marks in red ink.
"Oh no." Blake mumbled, shaking her head ever so slightly.
"Is that them?" Sun asked looking at her for confirmation.
"Yes, it's them." Blake said, eyeing the mark. More men walked off the ship looking at the crates. One with a gun in the ship ordered them to grab some tow cables for the crates.
Blake just looked disappointed and… betrayed?
"You really didn't think they were behind it, did you?" Sun asked, noticing the look on Blake's face.
"No." Blake answered. "I think deep down, I knew they were behind it. I just didn't want to be right!"
"Come on, come on! Pick up the pace!" The two looked forward as a man walked down the ramp. The man had slanted, green eyes and bright, orange hair with long bangs covering his right eye with black eyeliner tracing his left one. He was wearing a red-lined white suit with long black pants and black shoes. He also wears a small gray scarf, black gloves with buckled sleeves and a black bowler hat with a feather in its red band. To complete his ensemble, he had a cane in his right hand. This was Roman Torchwick, a criminal wanted across all four kingdoms for his crimes. "We aren't exactly what you'd call inconspicuous here. So, why don't you animals try to go a little faster, hmm?"
"I thought you said the White Fang hated humans." Sun whispered.
"They do." Blake said back, her features were darker now. "This isn't right. The White Fang would never work with someone like him." She stood up and pulled out her sword.
"Hey, what are you-" Sun started before Blake jumped down and ran over to the crates and hid behind one. She looked around the corner to see Roman and a White Fang member holding a cable.
"No, you idiot. This isn't a leash." Roman scolded before he found a sword to his throat. "What?" He looked back to Blake with her sword holding him in place. "Oh. For fu- "
"Nobody move!" Blake commanded. The other members of the White Fang looked over to see what the commotion was and found their leader being held hostage. They ran over and drew their weapons.
"Whoa, easy there, little lady." Roman tried to play it cool.
Blake looked around at the masked Faunas and pulled her ribbon off, letting them all see her cat ears and telling them she was also of faunas heritage. "Brothers of the White Fang! Why are you aiding this scum!?" The members looked at each other and hesitating with their weapons faltering slightly.
"Okay, didn't you get the memo?" Roman chuckled out.
"What are you talking about?" Blake asked pressing the blade closer to his throat.
"The White Fang and I are going in on a joint business venture." He confessed.
"Tell me now, or I'll put an end to this little operation." Blake threatened.
"Well," He looked up as dust and wind started kicking up around them. "I wouldn't exactly call it a 'little' operation." Blake followed his eyes as two more Bullheads descended circling the group. Roman smiled before he pressed a button on his cane, opening the end of the secret weapon and pulling the trigger at the ground behind him, creating an explosion that knocked Blake back.
-With Ruby and co-
They were heading to a rendezvous they had set up to meet at if anyone had found anything on Blake when the three girls heard an explosion behind them and turned around to see a pillar of smoke coming from the nearby docks.
"Oh no!" Ruby said worried.
-With everyone else-
The others had just met and then the explosion happened with the smoke billowing in the distance.
"I think we found her." Kirishima said.
"What tipped you off. Ribbit." Tsuyu was once again bluntly stating the truth.
-Back to Blake-
Blake struggled to stand as Roman fired again.
She looked as the fire ball flew closer before rolling out of the way. Roman kept firing shots and Blake did her best to dodge them with a series of backflips. She barely got out of the way of the last one using her semblance before she ran around a corner of crates.
"Here kitty, kitty, kitty." Roman taunted before a banana peel landed on his hat. He grunted in frustration and threw it off and looked up and was shocked as Sun jumped down and planted his feet on Roman and knock him down to the ground before rolling combat style onto his hands and flip himself up in an expert show of acrobatics and his faunas genes.
"Leave her alone." He said as he turned around glaring at the man. The Bullheads that were circling them earlier opened their hatches and multiple White Fang members jumped out and landed surrounding Sun.
"You are not the brightest banana in the bunch, are you, kid?" Roman asked before the members charged. One swung his sword and Sun dodged before punching him in the face. He turned and flicked another with his tail before kicking him away. He kicked another away before rolling out of the way of another one's blade. As he got up he pulled out his weapon, a red and yellow collapsible staff.
He swung it and knocked another member down and hit another one in the face. More started surrounding him as he broke one's nose before slamming it to the ground knocking down three of them and spun his leg knocking down another one. Blake was behind the crate watching this and waiting for the time to catch Roman off guard.
Sun jumped over the last member before kicking him towards Roman. Roman raised his cane and fired, but Sun spun his staff and blocked the blast.
"He's mine!" Blake shouted as she charged the criminal and swung her blade. Roman blocked and the two traded blows with their weapons before Blake used her Semblance and gained the upper hand. Roman punched her and sent her back, allowing him to gain the advantage with cane strikes that sent her back.
Sun jumped over Blake and kicked Roman in the chest before separating his staff into… sawed off shotgun nunchucks!? (A/N: Just how awesome is that.) He swung them and fired with great skill as Roman tried to block with his cane. He was starting to get cocky and was laughing as he blocked everyone of Sun's shots, but that made him lose focus on Blake letting her swing her sword and send him to the ground.
Roman stared up a crane holding a freighter box before standing up and fired at it. Blake and Sun rolled out of the way. Sun turned around from his place on the ground to see Roman pointing his cane at him.
"Hey!" The three fighters looked over to a building as Ruby unfolded her Crescent Rose and Ochako with Broken Moon in both her hands
"Hello, Red. Isn't it passed your bedtime? And who's that with you, Round Face?" Roman mocked.
"Okay. Why does everyone keep calling me that." Ochako had a tick mark on her temple for the criminal's comment.
"Ruby, are these people you and Ochako's friends?" Penny asked as she walked up behind the scythe wielder and gravity manipulator.
"Penny, get back." Ruby looked back told her. Roman took offense to the action and fired a shot that hit Ruby and sent her back. Ochako caught her before she could hit the ground. "Ruby!" She exclaimed.
Roman just laughed at his straight shot. Penny glared at him before walking over to the edge of the building. "Penny! Stop!" Ochako warned her friend.
"Don't worry you two." She put on a really small backpack and turned back to the fight. "I'm combat ready." Penny said as her backpack opened up and ten pieces of metal with handles came out. The pieces unfolded themselves into swords and hovered around her. She jumped off the building and her swords crashed into two White Fang members. She landed and sent her swords against this guy to her right flying before stabbing the one on her right into the freighter. Two more came straight at her, she spun her blades in a circle acting as a shield, and knocking them away She threw the circle and took out a dozen more.
"Woah!" Sun said before turning to help Blake. Three more Bullheads flew over and opened fire on Penny, who spun her swords as a shield before launching two more back into the wall and pulled herself back by the invisible string attached to each blade. The other ten folded back in on themselves again taking the form of guns as they spun with their tips pointed at the aircraft as a green energy gathered in the center. She pulled back her arms and thrusted them forward and it fired a laser, cutting two of them in half and sending the people in them to the ground. How she didn't kill them is unknown.
The halves flew over Ruby and Ochako before they crashed into the water. They both looked back as one of the Bullheads had tried running off with one of the crates, but Penny sent six blades into the airship and stared pulling it down.
"Wow. How is she doing that?" Ruby asked amazed.
"I don't know but it's amazing." Ochako squealed.
Roman saw that and ran back to his Bullhead.
Penny had enough and slammed the aircraft into a pile of containers, creating an explosion. Roman mumbled to himself. "These kids just keep getting weirder and weirder." He closed the hatch and the Bullhead took off.
-Later-
The police soon arrived and arrested the White Fang members before holding the other five for questioning. The sound of footsteps caught their attention as the others walked over with Weiss in the lead and she didn't look so happy.
Ruby got up in front. "Look Weiss, it's not what you think." Ruby started.
Ochako helped her out. "See she explained the whole thing, she doesn't actually wear a bow, she has kitty ears and they're kinda cute." The heiress ignored the explanation and stared at Blake. Izuku made his way around them and looked at Ochako. "You okay?" He asked her and she nodded before Tsuyu walked around and gave her a hug. The three looked at the black and white duo.
"Weiss, I want you to know I'm no longer associated with the White Fang." Blake started. "Back when-"
"Stop." Weiss ordered. "Do you have any idea how long we've all been searching for you?" Blake shook her head no. "Twelve hours, meaning I've had twelve hours to think about all of this. And in that twelve hours, I've decided..." Everyone stared at the heiress, waiting for the answer. "I don't care."
That shocked them all, Blake especially. "You don't care?" Blake asked not convinced herself.
"You said you're no longer one of them, right?" The heiress asked.
"No, I haven't been since I-" Blake started to explain.
"Uhpbupupup..." Weiss interrupted. "I don't need to hear it. All I need to know is the next time something like this comes up, you'll come to your team and not some..." She looked over at Sun who smiled. "...one else."
Blake gave a soft smile before nodding. "I will."
"Yeah! Team RWBY is back together!" Ruby cheered.
"It's not like you were ever broken up." Shouto said.
"I told you she'd be fine you morons." Bakugo said.
"Oh, please. You were just as worried as the rest of us." Kirishima said back.
"Shut up." Bakugo looked off to the side.
The group of thirteen formed a circle as Weiss turned to Sun.
"I'm still not sure how I feel about you." She declared.
He just chuckled nervously while scratching his neck before a solid pair of arms lifted him up in a hug. "Hey, hey, hey Sun my man. Good to see you. Would have been nice to tell us you were coming to town." He put him back down on the ground.
"Great to see you too Kirishima. And you too Mina." He looked over Kirishima's shoulder to look at his favorite pink haired person giving him an angry pout.
"Mou, you didn't even bother saying hi earlier." Sun started sweating nervously. "Now why don't you come here and give me a hug." She opened her arms out to him for a hug, but they were dripping with a non-lethal stinging acid. Sun just started running with Mina chasing right after him with her skates.
"Haaah. We always did get into things back in Vacuo." Kirishima reminisced.
"Hey, wait. Where's Penny?" Ruby asked looking around.
"She was right here a second ago." Ochako said looking around with the others.
Penny looked out the window of a limo not too far away from the group. "You should know better than to go running around in a strange city." The driver said.
"I know sir." She said back.
"Your time will come, Penny." The driver turned the key and the car drove away.
-Ozpin's Office-
Ozpin stared at the live feed of the incident before a letter icon flashed. He pressed, and an email popped up from his contact named Qrow. His message: Queen has pawns.
"Hmm."
"What is it?" Toshinori and Aizawa were in the room with him.
"We may have a few new problems." Ozpin simply answered.
-Unknown Warehouse-
Roman walked into a warehouse and placed a box on the table before sighing in defeat.
"How disappointing, Roman." A female spoke from behind, scaring him.
"Woah! Haha." He turned around and nervously laughed at three hidden figures behind him. "Wasn't expecting to see you guys so soon."
"We were expecting... More from you." A woman with black hair swept over her left eye said.
"Hey, you were the ones who suggested working with those stupid mutts from the White Fang." He reminded her.
"And you will continue to do so." She held up her hand and flames danced above it as her eyes glowed. "We have big plans for you Roman, and all we ask for is a little cooperation." She walked forward as two more followed close behind. One a dark-skinned girl with green hair and red eyes, the other a man with silver hair and grey eyes.
And here we are with chapter nine. Yes, the title changed, because I thought Beacon's Greatest huntsmen was a little too corny. I know I covered two episodes in this chapter. That's because I really want to move on to volume 2 already. Also, here is the character profile.
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Name: Eijirou Kirishima
Race: Bull Faunas
B-day: October 16th
Age: 17
Handedness: Right
Hair: Red (Dyed), Black (Natural)
Eye color: Red
Blood type: O
Height: 5' 10"
Gender: M
Semblance: Harden: Kirishima can harden his skin to be harder than steel and be sharp enough to be used as blades. With his semblance, he is the strongest shield as well as the strongest spear. He cannot hold his hardened skin forever and it will drain his stamina the longer and more he uses it. Damage he takes also factors into it.
Weapon: Red Riot: A gauntlet in the form of a battering ram that has folded sides that come out as the top half of a riot shield. The muzzle for the gun mechanism is higher on the front. The ram pulls back and releases for a powerful blow.
Symbol: Iron bull head inside iron hexagon.