Alright, back with a new chapter and I wanted to bring something to your attention before we begin readers:

The fact that from now on I'll be trying out something with the chapter names. I'm sure you already know that the chapters are split into parts, but I wanted to make this more official and say that - yes - there will always be at least two parts each time. This isn't just to separate the chapters into different parts for pacing sake but also to help you interact.

I know that in my own personal time reading fics that sometimes you want to Review, maybe leave a message or ask a question or maybe something completely different, sometimes you feel like you can't because maybe you're catching up and it's not the most recent chapter you want to talk about.

So I'm trying this.

For example you could say 'Hey, I think that Unrest did really well at addressing _' or ' hey, can you tell me why in 'Trial By Fire they _'

That way I'll know exactly what you're talking about and gives you more clarity on just what you want to say.

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Eight students stood to attention in front of their Headmaster, much like when their teams were first formed a few days ago.

Last time they had been recovering from initiation, slightly sore and a little nervous. This time, they had just stepped out of a less than pleasant class had they were all slightly muted. Though, perhaps that was to be expected.

Although by the looks of it Nora at least was back to normal, hopping excitedly from one foot to the other with a massive smile on her face. She was the only one.

Ozpin was sat behind his desk, sending a scrutinizing gaze their way. It could have been for intimidation, though Ruby knew that wasn't the case. He was studying them – her included – to see how they reacted to his presence.

She didn't know why though… she didn't know most of the reasons Ozpin did things.

The man took a sip from his mug.

"I'm sure you all, already know why you have been called to my office but for formalities sake I will reiterate it anyway." His eyes roamed up and down the group of eight students. "After the events of initiation which are no doubt still fresh in your memory, the staff at Beacon along with myself had decided it ideal to further your growth in a… less orthodox way. As such while the other teams are on a field trip to Forever Fall team RWBY and JNPR will be on a mission instead." He added with a smile. "Don't worry though; I'll make sure to let you have your fun when you return."

He reached for a folder from somewhere underneath his desk and opened it in front of them. There was a letter in it as well as what looked like a detailed profile of a town.

"We received a contract from one of the closer frontier settlements; there have been a string of deaths there with evidence pointing towards animal or Grimm as the cause. Normally we would send an older team to deal with these, or a huntsman could take it for an extra payment, since there would be two teams undergoing this mission however I have decided to offer it to you. I believe it would be the perfect first attempt."

He glanced at them again. "Any questions so far?"

"Yes, Headmaster," Pyrrha said. She stood a little straighter as she spoke and kept her arms behind her back. "This… settlement, how long has it been around? I mean, surely people would notice if a Grimm was intruding in their village."

Ozpin smiled. "You want to judge how well defended it is by measuring how long it stood? Very well; most of what you'll need is already in the file, what I'll tell you now however is that the villages name is Grainsal. It specialises in producing wheat and bread to export to other such towns. I'd say it's been around for forty or so years now. As for why it hasn't been noticed… well, that's what you will have to find out."

The redhead nodded thankfully and allowed Ozpin to address them all again.

"Now, it goes without saying that you will not be forced to do this if you do not feel you are ready… you can refuse if you wish."

When no response came the Headmaster nodded. "Very well. There will be a member of staff shadowing you but unless it is absolutely necessary they will not intervene. If all goes well you will not even know who they are. If that is all then I suggest heading for cliffs so that a Bullhead can deliver you."

With that, they were dismissed and when the office was empty Ozpin opened his scroll, dialling a number.

"Glynda, I will be absent for the day… yes… Meanwhile, I would like you to send a team to investigate any leads at the ruins… someone sent those Grimm in excess, it is about time we looked into it… yes, inform James I am on my way with Amber.

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Weiss watched as her team leader hopped from one foot to the other excitedly. Well, this time she couldn't blame the girl for it. Even she felt a giddy sensation build in her chest at the thought of going on their first mission.

It was her first chance to prove herself fully! A way to hit the ground running as it were. Her sister would no doubt be pleased that she had been given a chance like this in the first place.

Which reminded Weiss, she would have to write Winter a letter when she got back to keep her up to date. The older Schnee had been eager to be in contact with her younger sister, since she barely got to come home, either due to her duties in Atlas or being outright barred because of their father.

It was… an unsteady relationship.

She shook her head, now was not the time for things like that.

"Weiss? Are you ok?"

The snow-haired girl blinked as she noticed her partner wave a hand in front of her face.

She scowled. "What is it?" she demanded coldly, making the shorter girl flinch slightly and shrink back.

"U-um, you were staring off into space… you didn't even notice the bullhead dock so I tried to get your attention… sorry."

Instantly Weiss felt a stab of guilt in her gut. Great, she had overreacted when Ruby had just been attempting to help. What was she doing? She'd promised Yang that she would give her sister a chance and yet here she was brazenly scorning the younger girl.

Ugh… interacting with other people was more difficult than she had anticipated. She needed to remind herself that she wasn't in Atlas. Sometimes people were nice to you just for the sake of it.

Weiss tried to school her features into something softer, she wasn't sure if she was successful but she went ahead with it anyway as she looked to her Leader.

"I'm sorry," she began. "I shouldn't have snapped at you like that, I… was just in though and was not expecting you to concern yourself with me. Again, I'm sorry."

It was like a switch was flipped in Ruby, as her sullen face suddenly became bright and she smiled widely. "Nope, I get it, it fine. Come on," she said as she grasped Weiss' hand. "We should probably get on already so we don't keep them waiting."

The Heiress could only stare at the back of her teammate's head of a moment before a tiny smile snuck its way onto her face… Honestly, this girl.

The others were already on the bullhead as Ruby had said. With the two teams sitting neatly across from each other in order, Ruby and Jaune both had seats at the opening respectively.

As Weiss fastened herself Nora spoke up enthusiastically. "So whatcha think we're going to be doing? Maybe we'll get to lure the Grimm out before we crush it!"

Yang laughed. "I like your style, but I think we have to let the town know that we're workin for them before we go off and hunt the thing, right?"

Weiss nodded "Indeed, settlements like this usually have some kind of local law enforcement, perhaps a sheriff of sorts. We will probably have to talk with the Mayor first; of course not all of us, one or two would go while the rest find accommodations."

Ren looked impressed at her breakdown. "You sound like you have a good idea of how this will happen."

She puffed out her chest proudly. "My older sister spoke often about the proper etiquette when on a mission. I made sure to listen to and catalogue the details."

As they were talking the flying vessel lurched. It looked like they'd reached the minimum height needed to fly over Vale safely.

Now that Weiss thought about it. Arc looked a bit… pale.

The rest didn't seem to notice and Ruby smiled at the others.

"So how have you guys been doing for the first week? I hope it's been at least a little crazy like ours."

Nora grinned. "Oh yeah it's been awesome! We got our new room so that was cool, and me and Pyrrha get to sleep next to each other, we're like sleeping buddies!" the excitable girl seemed to deliberately ignore her partner as he muttered about the correct grammar being Pyrrha and I. "And guess what! I found out Pyrrha's a super famous fighter!"

The redhead blushed in embarrassment and covered a tiny smile with one hand. "Well, it was certainly a surprise to find out that my teammates had never heard of me… turned out Nora and Ren never really watched the championships in Mistral, not to mention Jaune not recognizing me."

Weiss felt confused at how pleased the champion sounded at that. Surely she would be irritated that her achievements were unrecognized.

Yang made a noise that sounded something between a laugh and a grunt before turning to the other blond. "So how's the team leader gig going for you?"

"O-oh… um, yeah it's uh… it's doing great..." Jaune really didn't look too good. Was there something wrong with –

"Ah…well," Ren said as he glanced at his leader. "It's not all good. It seems Cardin has a problem of sorts with Jaune. He's been very hostile towards him since the first day."

Weiss frowned. Was he referring to bullying? To think such a thing would go on at a Huntsman Academy, especially when they were becoming adults… well… Ruby didn't really count.

Blake finally decided to be a part of the conversation as she made a clicking sound with her tongue. "Winchester's just the type of person who picks of people he thinks are weaker than him, he's got some kind of complex to be sure, on top of clearly racist tendencies from the way he treated that rabbit Faunus.

Rabbit Faunus? As in Velvet Scarlatina? Weiss had noticed, had she not been paying attention or had the brute been discreet? No, Pyrrha was nodding along too so it was probably a public ordeal. How had the Heiress missed that?

Nora shrugged. "I said that if he caused any more problems for Jauney we could break his legs." She pouted. "Ren said no."

The boy rolled his eyes. "As much as he might deserve to be taught a lesson you can't do something commit assault and battery Nora, it's still a school, despite the fact that it involves its fair share of combat."

The ginger blew a raspberry at her friend but eventually gave in. "fine," she groused. "But if he does it again I'll be teachin' him a lesson."

Ok, no seriously, was nobody else seeing how green Arc looked? Weiss was staring at him now because if she didn't know better she would have thought he was a chameleon Faunus. That was it, she had to speak up.

"Jaune, is there something wrong?"

"Eh?" Yang said as she glanced in their direction before her face morphed into horror. "Aw crap! Crap, crap, crap Ruby open a window or something quick!"

Her sister seemed to recognize her panic because her answer was shot back just as quickly. "There are no windows! Only compartments for people to shoot from."

"Then open one of them!"

Ruby did what she was told; wanking down a sheet of metal on the wall beside her to the outside, when Yang leapt from her seat, yanking Jaune upwards as he finally lost control.

Weiss had to admit that she wasn't that good when it came to… ugh, the sound was awful. What was she thinking again? She couldn't hear it over the sound of Arc emptying his guts.

What was worse was the image of Ruby and Yang standing at either side him and high-fiving.

"Quick thinking Yang!" Ruby giggled.

The older girl grinned. "Not too bad yourself sis, nice reflexes by the way."

Weiss struck her face with her palm as she listened to them congratulate each other. "Would you two stop that? Honestly, you would think a huntsman in training would learn to get over motion sickness."

Pyrrha gazed at her partner sympathetically. "Ah… well, I suppose we all have our weaknesses."

She scowled. "Don't encourage this Pyrrha!"

"Well what am I supposed to do?" the Mistrialian asked as she raised her hands. "it's not exactly something I can prevent."

Weiss would have agreed, but right now the sound of Arc was making her a bit queasy, and that made her irrationally.

"Figure something out!"

Ruby laughed lightly at that, and Weiss crossed her arms, looking away and sinking into her seat. Fine, she would just have to endure it for a while. .fine!

Nora had other ideas.

"Aim for the people below Jauney!"

She hoped the trip as over fast, Weiss wasn't sure she could deal with someone like Nora for a long time.

Thankfully the ride was mercifully short – bullheads were excellent at travelling short distances quickly, Weiss knew they had something similar on atlas… but they were bigger and therefore slower – and so when they stepped off the vessel Weiss was able to marvel at the settlement in front of them:

They'd been dropped off right at its outskirts on an overlooking hill, so from where they stood they had a good view of the place; it was a rather average place size-wise, with about two, maybe three hundred buildings, the streets were wide and filled with people. Although from what she could see its most notable feature was its namesake: all along the settlement were fields upon fields of golden wheat as well as quaint little windmills at the corners.

The trees waved back and forth gently in the breeze, their green leaves a lovely contrast with golden earth and blue skies.

Yes, Weiss thought. It was nice to look at.

And then Arc fell off the bullhead, and ruined the moment with his wretching. Ren kneeled beside him, patting his back comfortably.

Well… it was nice while it lasted.

Yang stepped up beside her, surveying the people down below. "So," she chirped. "Where should we start? The Mayor's office like you said?"

She nodded. "Yes, I will volunteer myself to go. If someone can accompany me then the rest of you should be able to find us accommodations."

No one volunteered.

Weiss flushed, did they really not want to go off alone with her? Or was it something she said?

One of them made a noise and she immediately honed in on it.

"Alright," she said. "You and I will go."

"Really?" Jaune asked weakly.

Oh… maybe she'd been a bit hasty. No, it was fine, she could just pick someone –

"Welp you two have fun!" Nora cheered, already dragging her other two teammates along.

Weiss looked to her own team for help, a desperate look on her face. Wait, Ruby was already gone, a trail of rose petals as the only evidence she had been there in the first place. Not to mention Yang, was smiling and waving even as she walked backwards. The Schnee gave a final attempt at survival as she looked at the quiet Blake who stared back intensely…

And promptly left with the rest of the group.

Traitors, all of them.

She sighed in resignation as the blond male rose to his feet. At least he wasn;t throwing up anymore, that was a small victory at least. She sighed again.

"Alright Arc, let's go."

He nodded and followed as she set the pace forward into the streets. "R-right, you uh… know where we're going right?"

"Yes, for most towns outside main cities the biggest building is used as a town hall of sorts. We will head there and confirm the contract."

He hummed in acknowledgement. "SO, what do we know about the mission so far? I mean, did the file say anything important?"

Weiss put a hand to her chin. They had entered the busy street now, residents passing by them, so she made sure to keep her voice low. "From what I could gather, Grainsal had been around for a considerable amount of time compared to others of its kind. Its funding is mostly from outside sources; other towns and villages along with Vale that purchase its massive yield of wheat and grain. With the lien the people earn from that they have been able to employ largely successful defences such as outer wall, watchtowers and a local militia acting as a sort of reserve force for their police. Perhaps you could look at that as a downside, for us at least; they've had no need for Huntsmen the majority of their time here, and now that there have been Grimm attacks we have been called… you can imagine how they view us."

Jaune gave her a confused look. "What do you mean? Surely they'd be happy that we've come to help right?"

She shot him her own look of confusion. "You… don't know?"

The blond flushed. "Ah… well it's just that my home village was made up of a lot of retired Huntsman… it was kinda normal for them to settle down and well, it made me want to be one. I haven't really heard anything bad about Huntsmen in general. I mean they protect people from Grimm, what's not to like?"

Weiss was silent for a moment, her eyes scanning the marketplace they'd entered, being sure to ignore the looks they got from people. "I suppose when you look at it like that it almost sounds romantic, but the truth is that public opinions are… Unsteady. It's hard to place just what it is people dislike, it's different for everyone after all but as much as they have become a part of people's lives Huntsmen are still relatively new in the grand scheme of things;" she glanced a Jaune to see if he was paying attention, he was watching her, listening even as he kept one eye on the surrounding people. He wasn't an idiot at least, of this Weiss was sure. She continued when he nodded.

"The schools were founded after the Great War, about eighty years ago and with that a new breed of fighters… but, Huntsmen and Huntresses are mostly separate from their countries, they go off on their own and… well just think; a super-soldier with no true commander or leader to watch over their activities. The fact is that our profession however valued is less than a century old, and that uncertainty leaves most people who've never needed us before suspicious. It's a sad truth."

She paused when she noticed the way the taller boy was looking at her wide-eyed and she felt her cheeks heat up under his inspection.

"W-what? You don't need to stare at me like that."

It was his turn to go red. "U-um, no it's not that, just ah… you sound like you know a lot about this stuff. And here I am clueless."

The white hair girl relaxed. "You are not at fault, my family had me tutored in these aspects, even as a businesswoman, information like that would have been very useful."

There was a pause.

"Weiss… uh, thanks. You know… for, um, bothering to tell me all this."

She flicked her ponytail back proudly. "Well, if there is an opportunity to teach then I don't see why not. Besides," she said with a smile. "You seemed eager to learn, a surprise considering the first time we met the only thing you were interested in was flirting with me."

He flinched at that even as he blushed harder.

"Sorry," he said. "I was stupid. I didn't have much experience in the whole 'making friend' department back home. Everyone just sorta knew each other already and my dad always said that all I needed was confidence."

Weiss' smile was softer. "Perhaps a bit too much confidence in this case."

He caught her teasing tone and laughed.

"Yeah, maybe."

A few minutes later they entered the town hall, but upon entering were met by two men:

They were not short; however both still had to look up slightly to peer into Jaune's eyes. They wore plain clothing, it wasn't armoured, most likely they didn't need it all too much living in a relatively peaceful village. The men also had short swords at their right side and a pistol on their left.

The two students could tell the men were wary of them.

"You're the Huntsmen?" the first one asked gruffly. "You don't look like much."

Weiss bristled but controlled her voice as she answered. "We are two of them, yes. I believe we have a meeting scheduled with your mayor."

The men shared a look before shrugging, leading them down the hallway to a thick wooden door. Before either student could make a move to enter the guards glared. "Try anything in there and there'll be trouble, got it?"

Weiss gave the men an icy look even as Jaune nodded. These idiots thought they could threaten her? Ridiculous, not to mention insulting. It was an attack on her pride for them to even consider that they were in the same league as a Huntress, and no Huntsman would ever be cowed by something like this.

Despite her internal thoughts Weiss stayed silent as the door was opened.

The man behind the desk wasn't what she had expected: he was young, maybe five or six years older than her, with a professional but easy air around him. He had dark hair, eyes and wore a suit to match.

When he saw them he rose to his feet, smiled and extended his hand. "Ah! Hello, you must be the ones Beacon sent, correct?"

Weiss offered her own. "Yes, we have just arrived and there are others that arrived with us but right now we would appreciate it if you could explain to us full what it is that's happened."

"Ah yes, of course, please take a seat."

They did, both students taking seats across from the mayor.

"As you… probably know already Grainsal had been subject to a string of murders over the past four weeks. No one has seen the perpetrators but the sheriff believes that it's a Grimm. We were unable to catch it however, so asked Huntsman for help and… well, here you are."

They nodded.

The man scratched the back of his head. "I will be honest with you, I haven't had this position for long; it was my fathers up until three years ago and when I inherited eyes were suddenly on me, I will admit that I have selfish reasons for wanting you to succeed, so you will have my full support should you need it."

Weiss paused. "Actually," she said. "I think there is something you can do for us."

Fantastically, the event was a rather quick transition of information with Weiss using her knowledge to navigate a situation that could only be described as politics.

A few minutes later Jaune and Weiss stepped out of the town hall, walking down the streets. They'd been sent the location of the rest of their teammates, so they were heading there.

"Hey," Jaune said. "What's with that face?"

The Schnee blinked. "Oh? My apologies, I was in thought, the mayor is clever I will give him that, he put us in a corner."

Jaune blinked in return. "What are you talking about? He sounded nice enough to me."

She shook her head. "No, I suppose I only recognised it because I've been taught to spot such things but he was moving us to a spot where if we fail he won't take the fall: by offering us resources like this he ensures that in the eyes of the townspeople he did everything he could to help, and it will put more strain on us to get results faster with such pressure on our backs. If anything, it probably would have been easier if he was hostile."

The blond sighed. "Life as a Huntsman sounds a lot different from what I expected."

Weiss could only agree.

"I suppose you're right."

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"Come again?"

"I said we should split the teams up into two groups." Ruby repeated to Weiss. They had met back up with the group a few minutes ago and now sat around one of the tables in an inn, their rooms had already been rented out so they would only be killing time by staying here.

Ruby continued. "You said the Mayor gave you permission to visit the morgue to inspect the bodies right? I think we should go, but I don't think there's much point in all of us going."

Weiss sighed. "Very well," she relented. "what teams would you suggest then?"

The younger girl nodded to her. "You, Ren, Blake and I can go to the morgue, while Jaune, Nora, Yang and Pyrrha can ask around. I'm pretty sure they'd do better with people than us anyway because… well, there's me to begin with, and I don't think Blake or Ren are cut out for the type of information gathering Yang has in mind."

Yang could be heard holding back a snort of laughter even as the two quietest members of their group shrugged.

"It works fine for me," the dark-haired girl said, while Ren nodded his head in agreement.

"Alright, I see your point with them," Weiss allowed. "But what about you? We would have to inspect the bodies closely, would you be able to stomach that?"

Ruby smiled softly. "I'll be fine Weiss, don't worry about me."

She hesitated. "R-right, anyway, what about the rest of you? Xiao-Long? I already know you have something planned."

The Blonde grinned widely. "Ah y'know, I was thinking of asking some of the boys around here if they've seen anything suspicious, see if I can't squeeze some info out of em'" The way she suggested it had Ren and Jaune suddenly feeling a little uncomfortable, thankfully Pyrrha came to the rescue.

"We will also be asking if about recent attacks in the area, see if you can't find the source of the killing, or see where exactly in town they're occurring. There might be a pattern to them that we can't see just yet."

Weiss nodded, it sounded like a solid plan.

"Well then, should we go?"

"Yeah, yeah," Yang groused "Just let me finish my drink."

What felt like hours later due to blonde huntresses complaining but was only a few minutes in reality they arrived at the morgue.

Ruby knocked the front door and the sound of scuffling was heard through it as someone approached.

"Coming, coming."

When it opened, Ruby, Weiss Ren and Blake came face to face with a tiny, balding, old man. He blinked at them owlishly. "Oh right, you must be the Huntsmen the Mayor messaged me about. Alright, come in already."

"Thank you," Ruby said as she entered. Weiss stepped in behind her team leader and looked around.

It was a relatively small building; focused more on length than height. It was dimly lit but clean at least. Spotless even, while not exactly the nicest of jobs it seemed that the old man took some semblance of pride in it.

"The bodies are in there," he said, pointing to a door to the right. "I'd ask for you to be quick, they've been out long enough already. I'd say it's about time for them to be buried before they start to rot."

… What Weiss had been expecting was a corpse with a few gashes on it. Maybe a bite or slash or some other injury that caused the victims to bleed out.

What she saw was much, much worse.

The first body was laid out on the table with a sheet over its lower half. The human had been male… that was the only recognizable thing Weiss could see.

"Oh God!" she croaked, even as she felt the bile build up in the back of her throat.

The body of the man had been brutalised: his torso marred with slashed and cuts that dug all the way to the bone, some dragging down the length of his body while others went in between the ribs. His arm and leg weren't much better.

Yes, arm and leg as in the singular.

His right arm and left leg had been torn off, nothing left from them but stumps that had long since dried. The limbs he had left though were crosshatched with cuts and busies that had severed several arteries.

And his face… it…

Weiss suppressed a shudder as she forced herself to look at it.

His features were indistinguishable, mauled, bloodied and beaten to the point of no return. His hair had been torn out in clumps, his jaw was missing, he had teeth ripped out from the top, half is nose was gone and both eyes had been plucked out.

Weiss couldn't speak, as they stood around the table she couldn't even utter a croak… but she couldn't look away either. It was like her mind was so fascinated by what she saw in front of her that it had glued her eyes to the scene.

She felt sick, her hands were clammy and her hair felt like it was clinging to her head.

She must have looked pale because suddenly Ruby was next to her.

"Are you alright Weiss? If it's too much you can step outside, you don't need to see it."

The snow-haired teen stared at her red leader. How could she not be paralyzed with the same feeling as her? Did it not faze her?

No, Weiss could see the discomfort in Ruby's eyes, she wanted to be anywhere else but here. She just had a better handle on it than herself, and as Weiss' eyes moved she could see that Ren and Blake were the same. They were disgusted, horrified… but they… they were used to it.

They were used to it!

Weiss' eyes whipped back to Ruby.

She was the same as them in this situation! Just what had this girl seen?

"I-" Weiss forced out. "I need to be here too. I'll… I'll be fine, just give me a moment."

After a moment's hesitation Ruby nodded. "Alright, if you're sure."

She was, and a few moments later she got her breathing under control, something she hadn't even realized had changed so erratically.

As she stepped back to the table the other three students examined the body.

"So," Weiss started. "Do you see anything that might tell us just what Grimm did this?"

Blake was the first to shake her head. "I don't know, this isn't like any Grimm I've seen. It so… violent. I know the Grimm are monsters but this is just…" she trailed off, but Ren shook his head.

"No," he said, reaching over his hands glided over the corpse's wounds. His fingers skimming across the exposed bone. "These aren't injuries from a Grimm, there's too many of them, and even though they can be this deep there's too many of them, spread out over too much."

Weiss froze. He couldn't be saying what she thought he was saying, could he? No, Ren must be wrong, maybe he made a mistake.

Ruby crushed those hopes when she nodded.

"I think so too," her voice was painfully wretched, even as she ran a finger over one of the cuts. "This wasn't made by a Grimm's claws or teeth… it's a blade's doing, a sword, maybe an axe or saw."

"But," Blake whispered. "What kind of monster would do something like this?"

The red hood hesitated. "This isn't just weapon damage… Some of it looks like it's been done by animal claws… That's why the townspeople thought it was Grimm, but it was done on purpose, with intent to maul the body even after they're dead." She stopped again, her eyes shifting between them. "This wasn't done by Grimm or wild animals… and humans don't have claws… and… regular people don't have access to weapons that can do this to a person."

She stopped there, not sure what else she could say.

The dots connected for Wiess even as Blakes' face took on a look of horror.

The Schnee's lips curled back into a snarl.

"The White Fang." She growled. "They're here? I should have known they'd d something this evil."

"N-no!" Blake gasped. "That's- you're wrong, there must be something we're missing."

Weiss snapped to the usually quiet girl, with her snarl still in place. "What else would it be?" she growled viciously. "It's obvious now that I know what to look for."

Blake still shook her head frantically. "The White Fang wouldn't do this, they aren't monster they- this can't be them. They're misguided I know but this is-"

"Misguided!" Weiss shrieked. "This isn't misguided. This is the work of insane terrorists. I know it is, I've seen what they've done in the past! They're worse than monsters, no, they're not just worse than them. Their demons in peoples skin!"

Blake recoiled as if physically struck and in her rage, Weiss couldn't force herself to care why.

"I…I… I don't-"

Weiss was about to interrupt her with something just as livid as before, but Ruby stepped between them.

"Listen, both of you just need to calm down. We're all on the same side. Look, there's still more bodies to look at. Listen Weiss; it's just an educated guess, we can't jump to conclusions without looking at the rest first. And Blake, even if it is just a guess, we still need to mention the chance that it could be the White Fang."

She sighed, suddenly sounding tired.

"Lets just… look over the rest. Ren, can you come with me?"

"Alright."

Weiss suppressed another growl when she realized Ruby had essentially left them to work together.

Fine, she'd cooperate, but she would be ready for the White Fang. She knew it was them and even if Blake somehow had a problem with it –

She would bring them to justice.

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