The next day went on as usual until after training Weiss wanted everyone to go into town for some reason. She was smiling a lot more than she usually does. The town gained more decorations after the last night. Balloons and signs were hung all around and many new faces were walking the streets. When they came to a certain part of town Weiss began to speak.

"The Vytal festival, oh this is absolutely wonderful!"

"I don't think I've ever seen you smile this much Weiss, it's kinda weirding me out" Ruby said.

"How could you not smile, a festival dedicated to the cultures of the world, there will be dances, parades, music, a tournament, oh the amount of planning and organization that goes into this event is simply breath taking."

Yang sighed and said "you really know how to take a good thing and make it sound boring"

"Quiet you"

"Remind me again why we're spending our Friday afternoon visiting the stupid docks?"

"uhh they smell like fish" Ruby said holding her nose, Ricky gave a slight chuckle.

Weiss then answered Yang "I've herd that students visiting from Vacuo will be arriving by ship today, and as a representative of Beacon I feel as though it is my solemn duty to welcome then to this fine kingdom."

"She wants to spy on them so she'll have an upper hand in the tournament" Blake also seemed to answer for Weiss.

Weiss gave a short pout and said "you can't prove that."

Ricky looked down a street to see a crime scene in front of the dust shop he went with Ruby to yesterday. He pat her arm and moved his head to signal 'look' at the dust shop. "Whoa" she said and the other saw the dust shop with broken glass windows and yellow tape all around. They all walked over and saw two cops taking notes and inspecting the scene.

Ruby asked "what happened here?"

"Robbery," one of the cops taking notes said "second dust shop to be hit this week, this place is turning into a jungle" and walked over to his partner.

"uh that's terrible" Yang said.

Ricky overheard the two cops conversing:

"they left all the money again"

"naa just doesn't make a lick of sense, who needs that much dust?"

"I don't know, an army?"

"You thinking the uh, white fang?"

"Yea I don't think we get paid enough"

Everyone seemed to hear them as well, Weiss began "humph, the white fang what an awful bunch of degenerates."

"What's your problem?" Blake asked.

"My problem? I simply don't care for the criminally insane" Weiss answered.

"The white fang is hardly a bunch of psychopaths, there a collection of misguided Faunus."

"Misguided? They want to wipe humanity off of the face of the planet."

"So then their very misguided, either way it doesn't explain why they would rob a dust shop in the middle of downtown Vale, hmm."

"Blake's got a point, besides the police never caught that Torchwick me and Ricky ran into a few moths ago, maybe it was him?" Ruby pointed out.

"That still doesn't change the fact that the white fang are a bunch of scum, those Faunus only know how to lie, cheat, and steal."

"That's not necessarily true" Yang said.

"Hey stop that Faunus!" Someone called out from the docks. They all ran back to see a blonde Faunus with a tail jump off the boat and begin to run across the docks. He jumped on a light post and hung upside down from his tail. He called back "hey a no-good stow away would have been caught, I'ma great stow away!" as he peeled a banana. Two other cops came and ordered "get down from there this instant!" he received a banana peel to the face. The Faunus then got on top of the lamp post and jump away, continuing his run. He ran across the docks, up the stairs and past team RWBY.

"Well Weiss you wanted to see the competition, and there it goes" Yang said.

"Quick we have to observe him!" she called and began to chase the Faunus.

Yang and Ruby followed behind but Blake hesitated a little.

"You okay?" Ricky asked her.

"Ya" and she began to run following the others and Ricky right behind her.

They all ran down a block and turned a corner before stopping. Weiss was on the floor with another girl, the Faunus could be seen jumping away onto of a building.

"No! He goy away!" Weiss called.

"Uh Weiss" Yang said pointing to the other girl.

Weiss got up and stepped back from the girl.

"Salutations!" she said to all of them.

"Um hello" Ruby said, "are you okay?" Yang asked.

"I'm wonderful, thank you for asking" she said still lying on the floor.

"Do you want to get up?" Ricky asked.

she thought for a moment and said "yes" and jumped to her feet causing all of them to step back.

"My name is Penny, it's a pleasure to meet you" she said.

"Hi Penny, I'm Ruby"

"Richard"

"I'm Weiss"

"Blake"

"Are you sure you didn't hit your head?" Blake gave yang a nudge and Yang said "oh I'm Yang."

"It's a pleasure to meet you" Penny repeated.

"You already said that" Weiss pointed out.

"So I did."

"Well sorry for running into you" Weiss apologized and they began to walk away.

"Take care friend" Ruby called back to her.

"She was, weird" Yang said.

"Now were did that Faunus rift-raff run off to?" Weiss said.

Then Penny appeared before them and asked "what did you call me?"

Weiss was confused and surprised at how she got there while Yang said "oh I'm really sorry I defiantly didn't think you herd me."

"No not you" she walked up to Ruby "you."

Ricky activated his eagle vision but couldn't see her intentions, in fact it didn't deem like she was a person at all as she didn't glow red or blue.

"Me? I, I don't know I, what I uhh..." Ruby said confused and leaning back slightly.

"You called me friend, I'm I really your friend?" she asked.

"Uhh" Ruby looked over at the others all of them gave some sort of gesture signaling 'no.' She looked back at Penny and said "yeah sure, why not." Everyone else fell to the ground and Ricky simply put his palm on his face.

"Sensational, we can paint our nails, and try on closes, and talk about cute boys!"

"Oh is this what it was like when you met me?" Ruby asked Weiss.

"No she seems far more coordinated" Weiss answered.

"So, what are you doing in vale?" Yang asked.

"I'm here to fight in the tournament" Penny answered.

"Wait, your fighting in the tournament?" Weiss questioned.

"I'm combat ready" Penny said saluting.

"Forgive me, but you hardly look the part."

"Says the girl wearing a dress" Blake intervened.

"It's a combat skirt" she said, "yea!" Ruby said moving next to her and high-fiveing her, but down low.

"Wait a minute, if your here for the tournament does that mean you know that, monkey tailed,rapscallion?" She asked.

Ricky and Blake were tiered of hearing her refer to a Faunus as something else.

"The who?" Penny questioned.

"The filthy Faunus from the boat!"

"Why do you keep saying that!?" Blake said.

"huh?" Weiss questioned Blake.

"Stop calling him a rapscallion, stop calling him a degenerate, he's a person!"

"Oh I'm sorry would you like me to stop referring to the trash can as a trash can, or this lamp post as a lamp post?"

This angered Ricky and Blake more, but Ricky kept to himself As the two argued.

"Stop it!"

"Stop what? He clearly broke the law, give him time, he'll probably join up with those other Faunus in the white fang."

Then Blake said what she and Ricky were both thinking.

"Ugh your ignorant little brat!" and Blake walked away.

"How dare you talk to me like that! I am your team mate!" and Weiss went to Blake and the two continued their argument.

Ricky stood with his hood on standing next to Ruby. "Uhh I think we should probably go" Yang said. Ricky wanted the argument to end but it went on for the rest of the day even when they got back to the dorms. Ricky simply left to his room to try and forget about that day. The next Ricky found Blake missing from the others at breakfast. He sat next to Ruby and asked "where's Blake?"

"She ran away" Weiss said without a care in the world.

"We need to look for her" Ruby said.

They spent the entire weekend looking, but to no avail. All of that weekend Ricky had to keep himself from blasting out at Weiss as she continued to complain all during the search. Sunday was the breaking point as they were walking down the street.

"I can't believe she' seen gone the whole weekend" Ruby said.

"Blake's a big girl I'm sure she can handle herself."

"Weiss come on she's one our team mates."

"Is she, we all know what she said."

"Weiss!"

"Maybe she is, maybe she isn't either way she's missing and we need to find her."

"A member of the white fang, right underneath our noses."

That was it for Ricky as he let out "can you shut up." They all stopped to face him, in his hood.

"Excuse me!?" Weiss said.

"No, all you've been doing ever since Blake left is complain and I'm sick of it, you don't even know if she is part of the white fang."

"Don't tell me your defending them too."

"I'm not defending the white fang, I'm defending Blake our team mate."

"Well I'm sorry if I have trust issues with the Faunus, if I had to live through a war between them and my family!"

"I had to go through war too and guess what my family lost, and I'm a Faunus!"

Weiss stepped back and Ricky took his hood off and continued.

"Don't believe me, many don't because I'm different, because I'm not normal, do you know just how bad it is to not only be discriminated by others, but of you own kind as well! Do you know how hard it is to go every day with someone calling you weird, different, and unnatural! Because I do! and I have ever since I was born and I thought that going home would make it okay that I could live this life perfectly fine, but then home was lost all because my mom was human, and I was alone with no one! So complain all you want about your 'daddy issues' but just know there are people who have it worse, who don't have a dad at all, who don't have a family and they are also Faunus." With that Ricky walked into an ally way and grabbed on a pulley-system, cut the rope and went off to find Blake himself.