MMMh, MMMh. (I hope you enjoy this chapter and send help.)
Chapter cover- The outlines of four girls.
Ch.8- Break you down
People are setting up things for the Vytal Festival with a Welcome to Vale to sign being put up and everyone is putting up decorations.
We're out with team RWBY, because Weiss wanted to check the competition, or as she said, "it's my solemn duty to welcome them to this fine kingdom!" Hard air quotes there.
Our attention is brought to a broken-in shop, where two detectives are currently investigating the crime scene.
"Second Dust shop to be hit this week. This place is turning into a jungle." The detective notes.
"That's terrible." Yang clicks her tongue.
"They left all the money again." The other detective mentions, weird. Isn't that the main reason someone would rob a place?
"If you're gonna rob a place, take everything that's nailed down," Ersa adds, getting a punch to the side by Medi.
"Yeah, just doesn't make a lick of sense. Who needs that much Dust?" The first detective asks.
"I don't know, an army?" The second detective replies.
"You thinking the White Fang?"
"Yeah, I'm thinking we don't get paid enough." The second detective removes his glasses.
"Hmph! The White Fang." Weiss crosses her arms and sticks her nose out, "What an awful bunch of degenerates!"
"What's your problem?" Blake asks.
"My problem? I simply don't care for the criminally insane."
"The White Fang is hardly a bunch of psychopaths." Blake retorts, crossing her arms. "They're a collection of misguided Faunus."
"Misguided? They want to wipe humanity off the face of the planet," Weiss says.
"That girl has a point though." Another girl replies. She has blonde hair and is wearing a yellow t-shirt with a pixel knight on the front, with brown pants and brown shoes.
I feel something bad about this girl, and my sisters feel the same way, "All creatures that call themselves humans are just monsters. They all need to die." The girl adds before staring at me.
"Wait, I didn't say commit mass genocide!" Weiss retorts.
"But you gave an excellent why. The Faunus want us dead, so we should kill them before that happens." The girl says with a smile on her face.
"No, you're wrong. Sure they're very misguided. Either way, that doesn't justify mass genocide!" Blake responses.
"Are you sure you aren't one of them, you sure are giving them quite a bit of slack." The girl asks before reaching for Blake's bow, Deandra stops her.
"I think you should leave now." Deandra gets in between the girl and states she is pushing her luck.
"I have to go anyway, good luck to scouting the competition." The girl finally leaves and almost exposed Blake, how did she know?
"Hey, stop that Faunus!" Someone yells.
We all run to the docks to see a Faunus boy on a docked ship, running from two crew members. The Faunus boy is a monkey Faunus, shown by the money tail. He has tan skin with short, spiky light-blonde hair, and dark grey eyes. He is wearing two red wrist bracers and an open loose collared white jacket with no shirt underneath, showing a muscular physique. He is also wearing blue cargo pants tied up with a white belt with white bandages on his legs and has a chain hanging from the belt loop on the right side of his pants. The Faunus boy gets up on the side of the boat.
"Thanks for the ride, guys. Haha," He laughs before jumping off the side of the ship and landing on the dock walkway below. He starts running before jumping up into the air.
"You no good stowaway!" One crew member shouts out. The Faunus boy is seen hanging on a lamp post upside down by his tail, unfolding a banana.
"Hey, a no-good stowaway would've been caught. I'm a great stowaway," he says before moving his head to avoid a rock being thrown at him and looking down to see the two detectives from earlier walking up to him.
"Hey! Get down from there this instant," one detective says, only to end up with a banana peel on his face and growling at the Faunus boy. The Faunus boy swings onto the top of the lamppost, laughing before he jumps over them and lands, rolling on the dock before he starts running away from them. He races up the stairs to the street and runs over to where we are. As he passes by, everything slows down as he turns to Blake and winks at her, before the slow-motion stops and he runs past them with the detectives in tow.
"Well, Weiss, you wanted to see the competition, and there it goes," Yang points out.
Weiss raises a finger in the air, "Quick! We have to observe him!" She says and they all start running after him, except for Blake and Ersa who remains spaced-out for a second before joining us. They chase after the three runners and begin to catch up as the Faunus boy and the detectives run around one corner on the street. We begin to make the turn as well, but Weiss accidentally runs into a person walking on the street and they both fall onto the ground. Everyone else stops and looks at the crash scene while Weiss raises her head to see the Faunus boy jump out of her sight as he evades the detectives.
"No, he got away!" Weiss shrieks.
"And onto more important business," Medi says, not caring about the Faunus boy.
"Uh, Weiss…" Yang points to the person underneath Weiss.
Weiss looks down at the person, a girl around their age, smiling at her. She flips out, quickly getting back on her feet.
The girl on the ground has short, rather curly orange hair coming down to her chin, and a pink bow on the back of her head. She has bright green eyes, light skin, and freckles. She is wearing an old-fashioned blouse with short feminine overalls, as well as a black and green collar with a matching pair of stockings. She also has on a small and thin backpack.
"Sal-u-tations," The girl says, waving her left hand at us while still on the ground.
"Um…hello," Ruby hesitantly replies.
"Are you…okay?" Yang hesitantly asks.
"I'm WONDERFUL. Thank you for asking," The girl replies, still not getting up as she continues to smile at us.
"That settles it, she's not a normal girl," Deandra blurts out as she peeks her hands out as everyone looks at each other for a moment before looking back at her, starting to get a little creeped out by her.
"Do you…wanna get up?" Yang nervously asks again.
The girl thinks for a moment, "Yes," she says before pushing off her hands, jumping, and landing on her feet. The action makes everyone take a step back from her.
"My name is Penny. It's a pleasure to meet you," The girl introduces herself as Penny.
"Hi, Penny. I'm Ruby," Ruby introduces herself.
"I'm Weiss," Weiss says.
"Blake," Blake adds.
"Team DEMI," Deandra says.
"Are you sure you didn't hit your head?" Yang asks, only to have Blake hit her in the gut.
"Oh, I'm Yang," she quickly corrects herself.
"It's a pleasure to meet you," Penny says again.
"You already said that," Weiss points out.
"…So I did," Penny replies.
"Well, sorry for running into you," Weiss apologizes as they all turn away from Penny and walk away.
"Take care, friend," Ruby says, waving at Penny as she walks away.
"She was…weird," Yang comments about Penny.
"Now, where did that Faunus riff-raff run off to?" Weiss questions as they continue their search for the Faunus boy from earlier…until they all look to see Penny standing right in front of them.
"What did you call me?" Penny asks.
"Oh, I'm really sorry! I definitely didn't think you heard me," Yang quickly apologizes while Me and Ersa look back, wondering how she got in front of us.
"No, not you," Penny says before walking past everyone and right up to Ruby, "You," she says.
"Me?! I-I don't know, I-," Ruby stutters.
"You called me 'friend'. Am I really your friend?" Penny hopefully asks.
"Um…" Ruby starts and looks behind Penny for help. Yang is crossing her arms in an "X" for no, Blake is waving her hands and shaking her head "no", Weiss is making a throat slicing motion with her hand for "no", and I'm just shaking my head "no."
"Y-yeah, sure. Why not?" Ruby says, making everyone behind Penny fall on the ground in disbelief.
Penny pumps her fists into the air, "Sen-sational! We can paint our nails, and try on clothes, and talk about cute boys!" she cheers.
Ruby groans as Weiss shakes the dust off her clothes, "Oh, is this what it was like when you met me?" Ruby barely asks in a whisper.
"No, she seems FAR more coordinated," Weiss replies.
"So, what are you doing in Vale?" Yang asks.
"I'm here to fight in the tournament," Penny answers.
"Wait, you're fighting in the tournament?" Weiss questions, unconvinced.
"I'm combat-ready," Penny says with a salute of her right arm.
"The way she talks, the way she acts. Yep, she's…?" Deandra mutters.
"Forgive me, but, you hardly look the part," Weiss comments.
"This from the girl in the dress," Ersa points out.
"It's a combat skirt!" Weiss defends her attire.
Ruby immediately shoots over to Weiss' left, "Yeah!" she supports Weiss, and gives her a low high-five.
"Wait a minute," Weiss says and walks up to Penny, grabbing her shoulders.
"If you're here for the tournament, does that mean you know that monkey-tailed…rapscallion?" Weiss questions her, making Blake angry at her words.
"The who?" Penny asks.
Weiss pulls out a poorly drawn picture of the Faunus boy, "The filthy Faunus from the boat!" she says.
"Why do you keep saying that?" Blake angrily asks, her patience growing thin.
"When did she draw that?" Medi asks, "I never once saw Weiss with paper in her hand."
"Huh?" Weiss asks.
"Stop calling him a rapscallion! Stop calling him a degenerate! He's a person!" Blake defends the Faunus boy as she walks up to Weiss.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Would you like me to stop referring to the trash can as a trash can? Or this lamppost as a lamppost?!" Weiss taunts her as she gestures to the two inanimate objects.
"Stop it!" Blake yells at her, getting even angrier.
"Stop what?! He clearly broke the law. Give him time, he'll probably join up with those other Faunus in the White Fang," Weiss says.
Blake clenches her left fist, "Ugh, YOU IGNORANT LITTLE BRAT!" Blake screams and walks away, shocking Weiss.
"How DARE you talk to me like that! I am your teammate!" Weiss yells back as she walks up to Blake.
"You are a judgmental, little girl," Blake criticizes her.
"What in the world makes you say that?!" Weiss asks
"Let's go home," Deandra says.
Later in team DEMI's dorm
"I can't believe it, I didn't think a hero was here. How did she get here?" Ersa is talking about the girl we met earlier, we could sense her mana. She had mana equal to a hero.
"Relax Ersa, I don't think she will be dumb enough to attack us directly." Medi counters.
"Still, that girl is a hero, so don't fight her." Deandra orders, as we think of our plan of attack.
"Something is bothering me." Medi scratches her head.
"What?" Ersa asks.
"How did that hero know what we were doing at the docks?" This question stops us in our tracks, that girl is getting information from somewhere, we never told her what we were doing.
"Also we should keep an eye out for Penny, I sensed something was up with her before she ever spoke."
Before we can peer further into that girl and Penny, Ruby and Yang bust into our room looking panic'd, "Issia! Blake ran away!" Ruby rushes out while catching her breath.
"Why?!" Deandra ask, "Actually tells us later, she couldn't have gone too far, we may be able to find her."
The next day
Our teams split up in an attempt to find Blake, but so far no luck.
"BBBBBBBlake. Blake." Me and Ruby are calling out Blake in the hope that she talks to us.
"You should worry about yourself first." Someone says before slamming a book shut. A rune appears below Ruby, she's so worried about Blake that she doesn't notice it, but I do.
"Ruby, look out!" I push Ruby out of the way, but part of my face and arm are caught in the attack tearing away my design.
"Issia!" Ruby turns me to see my arm and part of my face blue with a horn peeking out from my head, "Issia." Ruby is shocked to see what happened to me, I can see her pull her hand away, she's disgusted by my form.
"No, No, NO!" I have to run, I can't let Ruby see me like this.
"Issia, wait, don't run away too." Ruby is about to chase me but-
"Chrono Break." I use my powers on her and stop her in place, it will only last until I'm far enough away.
"IM SORRY!" I yell to Ruby before running into an alley.
"That's my part done, sister." The girl says seeing everything unfold.
"Issia,"
?- It seems the girls are being chased. Will they survive or die alone? Find out next time.
Writer- MMMMH. (Someone get Thana or Delia! This girl-)
?- Shush you. See you all next time.