Team RWBY and Penny decided to part ways from JNR and Velvet. As much as Jaune wanted to help protect Weiss, he or any of his teammates were in no mood to see the inside of prison right now. Besides, she already had Ruby, Blake, and Yang for emotional support. Weiss and he were never going to be a thing romantically. Not that that was all he was worried about.

The blonde warrior was brought out of his Mindscape when Velvet suddenly stopped in front of him. He was so caught up in his head he didn't even realize that he'd fallen behind the other three. Velvet's bunny ears were perked straight up, listening for something. She did her quite unnecessary shush noise before she walked on to whatever had her attention.

"Somebody's in trouble." The Faunus said before dashing off. Jaune followed her immediately. Ren and Nora waited another moment for an explanation before realizing it was not coming, causing Nora to be the one to fall behind a little before velvet stopped at the entrance to a dark alleyway. It was then that the three of them could hear a child crying, but it wasn't the type that you would expect from somebody that was hurt, it was like a helpless "I don't know what to do" type of crying.

Jaune didn't hesitate before heading into seeing what the matter was. Nora followed behind him with Ren and velvet taking up the rear. There they saw a tiny little girl, with what was possibly the start of horns or antlers budding from her head, trying to move another Faunus with an open wound on her head and more injuries on the rest of her body. Her large cat ears were drooped down; blood stains were all over her white jacket and brown pants, both of which were torn up. Her three colored hair was a total mess. She was barefoot, and she was totally silent, despite how badly hurt she looked. She wasn't moaning in pain or calling out for help, even her labored breathing was totally silent.

"What happened here?" Jaune asked the little girl.

She responded with "I don't know I found her out here. I don't know what to do."

Jaune looked down at her and smiled "it's okay, and is very lucky that I came along." He said before scooping up the battered woman before her. "I'll have her feeling good as new soon."

Before she left the alleyway the little girl spoke up again "Here I think this is, hers " and handed Nora a ripped and broken umbrella.

Jaune started pouring his healing energy into the mysterious woman. She opened one of her eyes but the other one seemed to give her trouble. It was dark brown, she looked confused and worried but still, she didn't say anything. She just kept looking around as Jaune continued to carry and heal her. After a few moments, she tried to escape from his arms.

"It's okay we're here to help," Nora said. "I'm Nora, this is Ren, Velvet, and Jaune."

The woman tried again to get out of his grasp. She opened her other eye briefly which seemed to be bubblegum pink for a moment but when she opened it again, they were matching brown.

Ren asked, "We're not going to hurt you, do you understand us?"

The strange girl nodded.

"Are you able to talk?" Jaune asked.

And she just shook her head no.

Jaune asked, "So your mute?"

And she nodded again and tried to get back down again. She seemed to be determined to not be with her rescuers. Jaune sat her down on a park bench nearby. He handed her his scroll. She tried to make him take it back.

Jaune insisted "It okay I just want to know what happened. "

This strange girl shook her head no very determinedly. Trying to force the device back into the owner's hands. She was going to get up again but she realized that in the first place she was surrounded, and in the second place she still wasn't up for walking.

With a compassionate voice, Nora asked: "could you please tell us what happened?"

She made a silent sigh before she started to say in sign language "you wouldn't understand."

Surprising everybody by signing as he spoke Jaune answered. "It's alright I understand sign language. I can translate it for Ren and Nora."

"I understand it also." Velvet said and she signed "But I haven't used it in a while.

She made another silent sigh before she started signing "I think what happened was that Jacques Schnee ruined pretending you're not a Faunus for everybody. A big guy was going around trying to see if people would pounce to his laser pointer. When my instincts took over he…" She couldn't bring herself to sign the rest.

"Before I forget, is this yours?" Nora asked handing her the badly damaged umbrella. The strange girl took the thing and started silently sobbing. Jaune moved her so she was crying onto his shoulder and started to hold on tight.

It was over an hour of silent crying before the girl looked up. The four former students were still gathered around her. She looked confused for a moment. She started to sign "Why are you all still here?"

Jaune answered her. "They're my friends. They wouldn't leave if they didn't have a good reason. Do you have any friends?"

The girl looked down and signed not "Not anymore. I lost him, during the fall of Beacon."

"We lost somebody that day too," Jaune answered.

Nora spoke up. "Do you want to talk about it?"

"Can we get Ice Cream first?" the mute singed.

"That won't be a problem." Jaune smiled.

Velvet spoke up. "I think we need to get you new shoes first."

The mute looked down and signed"They took my boots?" She gave a silent sigh. "They didn't take my money but I don't have much."

Ren put a hand on her. "It's alright."

"We can get you some good shoes no problem," Nora said with a smile.

"I'm guessing you take a size five," Jaune said with a smile.

The mute looked at the other two girls before asking "You can tell?"

"I have seven sisters," Jaune admitted with a blush. "Ohh you never gave us your name."

"Just call me N-E-O" She signed.