I just wanted to assure you guys that I am not vilifying Yatsuhashi in this story. His recent behavior is the overprotective nature he has for Velvet and his experience dealing with people who don't treat Faunus like people.

Here's chapter 13 everyone.


Yang walked over to Coco and Ruby when she finished up her boxing game with Fox. "Hey, guys. How much longer do you think you'll be on that game?"

Coco shot the last Grimm in the game she and Ruby were playing. "And that's game! Sorry little red, but you gotta have better aim if you're gonna win against me."

"These controls are awful! I should've been able to get at least ten of those other Beowolves!" Ruby whined. "And I'm not even used to a pistol."

Coco chuckled. "It's called being able to handle any type of weapon, but hey, you were close." She then turned to Yang. "So, did you want to play this game?"

"U-Um, no, I was just wondering if you wanted to try out this racing game with me…it has two players…so you know…what do you say?" Yang asked.

Coco tapped her finger on her chin and thought. "Hmm…Okay. I'm game."

Yang smiled. "Awesome. Are you good here by yourself, Rubes?" Ruby was too busy practicing at the shooting game she and Coco were playing to answer. "I guess that answers my question."

"Try not to go overboard there, Ruby." Coco warned as she and Yang walked off to the racing seats. "I swear, these seats never seem as clean as they should be." She said as she sat on one of the seats.

Yang sat on the one next to it. "If you're gonna be complaining about the seats, then I might just be able to win this race with ease. You'll be jumping out of it in five minutes flat." Yang chuckled.

"Oh don't think I'll let something like that stop me from winning a race." Coco grinned and they got the race set up. "Three laps?"

"Yup, but don't cry when you lose." Yang said with a smirk.

This might be easier said than done after all.


Velvet rolled the last ball into the one hundred point mark. It rolled right into its target and Velvet jumped in joy. "Yes! Well Weiss, you only have the one chance to outscore me here."

Weiss smirked and took the skee ball. "It's either that or we tie. Now let's see…" Weiss picked up the final ball and lined it up.

She closed her eyes took a breath and rolled the ball. Velvet watched in anticipation and watched as the ball hit its mark just like hers and went right into the one hundred point mark, winning the game for Weiss.

Velvet smiled and looked over at the heiress, who didn't seem to want to open her eyes. "Weiss, you can open your eyes now."

"I don't want to…I don't think I got it." Weiss said while keeping her eyes shut.

Velvet giggled. "Well, I guess that just means I win by default…And I don't think you'd want that."

Weiss immediately opened her eyes and looked at the score, with her winning by fifty points. "I…I won?"

"Yup! You were really good at this, Weiss. And to think this is your first time playing it too." Velvet hugged the heiress.

Weiss blushed at the hug and smiled. "Well, I should at least try to be good at one of these silly games." She felt Velvet pull away. "I had…A lot of fun, Velvet. Thank you for playing these games with me."

"I had fun too. In fact, we should come here more often. I know you said it's silly, but I think you need a little silly sometimes." Velvet said.

"Now you're sounding like Ruby." Weiss got her scroll out and looked at the time. "Wow, it's only been about an hour since we got to Vale."

"Did you want to take a break from the arcade?" Velvet inquired.

"While I did have fun, I was a little more…intrigued to see the sights like you mentioned. That is if you're okay with it of course." Weiss said.

Velvet nodded and they walked over to Coco, who was still racing against Yang. "Coco, are you able to-?"

"One second, Vel. I gotta kick Yang's ass at this race." Coco said while drifting with her car in the game.

"No way am I losing!" Yang exclaimed with a smirk.

Weiss rolled her eyes and whispered to Velvet. "Let's just go. We can message them on our scroll later anyway."

Velvet giggled and the two left the arcade. "So what would you like to see first?"

"Hmm, well I'm not sure. Is there anything you recommend?" Weiss inquired.

"There's a lovely café we could go to if you'd like, though that may be better after we look around Vale." Velvet suggested.

Weiss smiled. "I like that idea." The heiress took a look around the area. "Well, the best thing to do may be to just walk around and hope we find something to do."

"I don't mind that." Velvet said and the two began to walk down the street.


Weiss looked over at the conversing Faunus and humans around Vale and thought about how much she's come to change in such a short time.

It's because of her…She saved me.

Weiss blushed suddenly when she saw a human and Faunus couple kissing at a café. Weiss had seen humans and Faunus together before, but for some reason, that time seeing it made her blush. Velvet wasn't paying attention to the blush the heiress had on, as she was looking around for something for them to do, though her heart was racing for some reason, ever since the two left the arcade together.

"Um, Velvet…Is there anything you've found yet?" Weiss asked and her blush went away.

"I haven't, but we've only walked about a block so far. We'll find something to do." Velvet assured.

"Shut up already!" The two suddenly heard a woman shout from across the street.

Velvet and Weiss looked over at the source of the shouting and saw a woman glaring at a deer Faunus. "What's going on?" Velvet asked aloud.

"You can't just kick me out of this place without a valid reason!" The deer Faunus shouted back.

"I have my reasons! Now stop complaining and find some other place to stink up!" The woman fired back.

"I demand to speak with the owner of this place right now!" The deer Faunus yelled.

The woman smirked. "Sorry to tell you this, but the owner isn't even in Vale, so I've been taking over for the past week. Now, get out right now!"

The deer Faunus clenched her fist and stormed off, but not before shouting. "I'll be back when the actual owner shows up! Then you'll be fired for your idiocy!"

"Have fun with that, you damn Faunus!" The woman shouted and walked back into her diner.

Velvet's ears drooped at hearing that. "I…I didn't think we'd run into something like this."

Weiss watched the deer Faunus storming off and then back at the diner. She thought about her father and held her breath as she looked to Velvet. "L-Let's go, Velvet. We don't need to stay around here."

"O-Okay." Velvet walked away from the area with Weiss and was frowning the whole way.

Weiss was very concerned about Velvet at the time, since she took note of the saddened expression on her face. "Velvet? A-Are you okay?"

"I'll be fine, Weiss. I was just…well it caught me off guard is all." Velvet said.

"I'm so sorry…If I didn't want to leave the arcade, we probably wouldn't have even run into that." Weiss frowned.

Velvet let out a small smile. "Come on, Weiss. You know that isn't your fault. And besides, I was the one who asked if you wanted to leave the arcade in the first place."

Weiss still wasn't happy with how everything went. "S-Should we just head back to the arcade?"

"No, we're gonna go sightseeing, Weiss. I promise that's behind us now. So long as we don't run into that sort of thing again, I'll be okay." Velvet assured.

Weiss took a breath and nodded. "Alright, but if we do run into something so…stupid again, we're heading back to Beacon."

"I understand…But let's not think about it right now." Velvet took Weiss' hand. "Come on. Let's go find something we can both enjoy."

Weiss didn't resist and hoped they wouldn't run into anything ridiculous like that again.


"Hey, where'd Weiss and Velvet go?" Nora asked.

Blake walked over and said. "I don't know. Did anyone see them leave?"

Ruby spoke up. "I didn't see them go anywhere. Weiss! Velvet! Are you guys still here?!"

Blake sighed. "Ruby, we would've seen them by now. And of course you didn't see them. You've been playing that shooting game all this time."

"W-Well I'm just trying to get better. Besides, maybe they just went to the bathroom or something." Ruby assumed.

"Nope!" Nora suddenly said. "I just got out of the bathroom and they weren't in there. Hey, Yatsuhashi, have you seen…Yatsuhashi, where'd you go?"

Yatsuhashi was nowhere in sight and Fox walked over. "I don't think he's here either." Fox suddenly looked a little worried from his previous talk with Yatsuhashi.

Ren sighed. "Yang, Coco, you do realize that Weiss, Velvet and Yatsuhashi are missing. Maybe it's time to take a little break from the racing."

"Hold on! We're still on the fifth race! And I'm just about to-." Yang was cut off when Coco sped past her and crossed the finish line. "What?! No! How did you even catch up?!"

Coco smirked and jumped out of the seat. "It's called skill, Yang. While you were gloating about winning, you got slower. I just managed to catch up right at the end. So I win."

Yang groaned. "Ugh! This game sucks anyways." Yang turned to Ren. "Now what were you saying? I wasn't paying attention."

Ren shook his head. "Weiss, Velvet and Yatsuhashi aren't here. And no, they aren't in the bathrooms."

"Oh, is that all? Here, I'll just call them." Yang pulled out her scroll and dialed Weiss' number. "She probably just got bored or something. I'm not all that surprised."

Weiss answered the scroll and sighed. "Yes, Yang."

"Hey, where'd you, Velvet and Yatsuhashi go to?" Yang inquired.

"Huh? Yatsuhashi? Well I don't know about him, but Velvet and I left to walk around Vale." Weiss explained.

Yang nodded. "Right, well I guess someone else could call him. Are you guys coming back here at one point or what?"

"I don't think so, Yang. If anything, we'll meet you all back at the airship, or Beacon…It really just depends." Weiss said in an annoyed tone.

Yang caught onto that. "What's going on, Weiss?"

"Nothing, now sorry about cutting this call short, but Velvet and I are still trying to see what Vale has to offer." Weiss ended the call.

Yang looked to the others. "Well Weiss and Velvet are just walking around Vale, but it doesn't seem like Yatsuhashi is with them. Fox, can you give him a call?"

"I'd rather not." Fox responded and Coco raised an eyebrow.

"Uh, why not?" Coco asked.

"I don't need to talk about it, but it still would be a good idea if you called him." Fox said.

"Alright, but we're talking about this later, Fox." Coco grabbed her scroll from her bag and dialed Yatsuhashi's number, but she didn't get an answer. "Why the heck isn't Yatsu answering?"

"Maybe he's busy." Ruby guessed.

"He'd tell us if he was going out." Coco said. "Here, let me try again." She dialed his number again, but got nothing. "Ugh, okay, we need to head out and go look for him."

"Aw, but I wanted to play you in another round." Ruby whined.

"We'll play against each other another time, Ruby. Right now I need to go find Yatsu. I'm leader of CFVY for a reason, so I'm not gonna ignore this." Coco said as she walked over to the exit.

Ruby smiled at how Coco said that and the others followed her out of the arcade.


"Alright, how about we sit back on that bench over there and look out at the sea?" Velvet suggested.

"I just hope it doesn't reek of fish." Weiss said as they walked over. "Hmm…The smell doesn't seem bad so far."

Velvet sat down on the bench and felt a nice breeze pass by her. "And that breeze is just like the one we felt back at Beacon."

Weiss smiled when she felt the same breeze. "Yes, I'm glad that was able to continue. It just feels so much calmer than Atlas. Now do you still want to go to that café you mentioned earlier?"

"I would really like to, but of course after relaxing here for a bit." Velvet said as she looked out in the distance at the water.

"Um…So about earlier…I just wanted to say that…the person you saw yelling at the Faunus…I won't become that." Weiss promised.

Velvet was a little surprised hearing Weiss speak up in such a way. "What do you mean, Weiss? I would never think-."

"No, you saved me, Velvet. That day when you told me how you didn't want me to become a bully like that one boy you mentioned…I see now that if I didn't go to you that day, I could potentially become just like that woman." Weiss stated and looked to the ground. "I don't want to become that."

Velvet placed her hand on Weiss' hand. "You won't, Weiss…but not because of me."

"A-Are you kidding? Velvet, you saw how I was before." Weiss reminded.

"You were scared and…hurt because of the things the White Fang…and even Faunus outside the White Fang did to your family. I don't blame you for feeling the way you did." Velvet stated.

Weiss looked over at Velvet's hand on top of hers. "Do you…Do you think for someone to think negatively of something for…nine years, could be saved completely?"

"You were never saved, Weiss. Deep down you don't hate the Faunus, even back when we first met." Velvet said with complete honesty in her voice.

"Just wait, Velvet. She'll find a way to hurt you." A voice said, making the two stand up, and turn to see Yatsuhashi standing a few feet away from them.

"Yatsuhashi? What are you doing here?" Velvet inquired.

"I noticed you both had left, so I had to be sure…she wasn't doing anything to hurt you." Yatsuhashi explained.

"Hurt her?! Why in the world do you think I'd ever do that?!" Weiss shouted.

"I wasn't speaking with you." Yatsuhashi calmly replied.

Velvet's ears drooped. "Y-Yatsuhashi…"

"Velvet, do you honestly believe this girl is going to play nice forever? She's a Schnee." Yatsuhashi said with a calm face.

"W-What? Yatsuhashi, why are you saying that?" Velvet couldn't believe her friend was talking that way.

Weiss glared at the giant student. "Excuse me, but what is wrong with you? Earlier today you were rude to me, and now you come here and tell me that I'm trying to hurt Velvet!"

"I didn't say that in those words, Schnee." Yatsuhashi glared right back.

"Stop it!" Velvet shouted. "Yatsuhashi, please…tell me why you're acting like this."

"You know how the Schnee name works, Velvet. They seem like okay people, when it comes to providing help when need be, but deep down, all they really do is hurt people, especially the Faunus. And I refuse to let you be hurt by her." Yatsuhashi clenched his fist.

"Weiss is not like that! We've talked so many times, and I've learned so much about her. And if you truly believe that she's trying to hurt me…then I want you to stay out of my business." Velvet warned.

Yatsuhashi was taken aback by that. "But Velvet, she-."

"She's done nothing wrong. So stop thinking that way…Please…I don't want you to hate her." Velvet pleaded.

"I've seen too much pain because of her family, Velvet…If she were to hurt anyone of you guys…I just wouldn't know what I'd do." Yatsuhashi growled.

Weiss was angered at that point and walked over to the giant student. "Are you threatening me?"

"Nothing more than a Schnee could threaten." Yatsuhashi crossed his arms.

Velvet had enough and walked over to the two. "That's enough, we're leaving. Yatsuhashi, I don't want you to follow us, but you and I are going to talk about this later." The rabbit Faunus took Weiss' hand and they walked away from the boy.

Yatsuhashi spoke up. "This isn't me trying to cause you issues like she would."

Weiss clenched her fist and turned around, ready to use a glyph to send the boy away from them even further. "You need to stop! I have no intentions of ever hurting Velvet!"

Some people around them were staring and Yatsuhashi stepped forward. "I've seen your father say the same about Faunus in interviews…look how that went."

Weiss was about to use her glyphs, but she suddenly frowned at hearing her father again. "I…I don't need to listen to this right now." She pulled her hand away from Velvet and closed her eyes as she walked across the street in anger, though another feeling hit her, it was pain from the thought of being judged because of her family name.

"WEISS!" Velvet shouted, causing the heiress to open her eyes and turn to her.

Before Weiss could completely turn to the rabbit Faunus, she felt something push her away and she heard the sound of tires screeching against the ground. Weiss was on the ground and groaned, though she heard Yatsuhashi yelling for Velvet. The heiress felt her heart drop when she looked over at a car that was stopped in the middle of the street…and Velvet on the ground several feet from the car.

All Weiss could do was scream when she saw blood on the unmoving rabbit Faunus.


Yes, a cliffhanger. I'm sorry, but at the same time, it won't be long till I have the next chapter up anyways. Again, just clarifying, Yatsuhashi is not going to be vilified here. His behavior was only because of past experiences with how the Schnee family (namely Weiss' dad) caused problems for Faunus.

To JJ- I loved the idea of them going to an arcade, so I may have them go to it again one day. And yes, I tried bringing it like you said with this chapter.

I hoped you all enjoyed chapter 13. Remember, reviews are welcomed, but not required. See you all in chapter 14.