I just want to warn you, this chapter does contain blood, but it's mostly like giving blood at a blood drive, not a gory mess. Also, blood types will be brought up, and no I don't believe blood types mean anything except what type one's parents had, and who you can give blood to. Anyway, let's begin.

Crystal had just finished dinner, and was walking to her team dorm room, when someone tapped on her shoulder. She turned around—even though she didn't need to in order to see who it was—and saw Solana behind her.

Solana Nuri had been one of the students that had come from Beacon after it had closed down. She was a tall woman with tan skin, red hair, and acted more like a commoner than her heritage would suggest. She was descended from the kings of Vale, similar to how Crystal was a descendant of the kings of Mistral. Her heritage was actually the only reason why Crystal interacted with her at all.

"Yes, what is it, Solana?" Crystal asked.

"I was just talking to that team JSPR, and I think you'd like 'em," Solana said. Since she'd lost her own team in the Grimm invasion, she'd been trying to find another team to accept her. So far, no one had been able to put up with her personality. "Though one thing I wonder is this one girl on their team has gloves with her uniform even though gloves are only part of the male uniform. What's with that?"

"I don't know," she said tiredly. She was getting a headache just from talking to her. "Why didn't you ask her?"

"I did, but she didn't want to talk about it. And up until the gloves thing she seemed really nice and forward. What do you think it is?"

She thought about it, and decided on something: she didn't care. Of course, she wasn't going to say that to Solana—that would be rude, and the one thing a Taryn wasn't is rude. "Perhaps she has something about dirt, or her hands get cold. Why else would one wear gloves?"

Solana wasn't satisfied with that, unfortunately. "But why wouldn't she tell me about it?"

"Perhaps you were being annoying and didn't realize it."

"Now how could that happen?" Solana said. Crystal sighed. She just couldn't take a hint.

Then Nixie rounded the corner, almost running. She was also a student originally from Beacon that had transferred to Haven, and Crystal liked her a lot more than Solana. Of course, she was somewhat crazy, but that could be ignored when she was the only one who didn't mind talking to Solana. She had a rather urgent look on her face though. "Nixie, what is it?" Crystal asked.

Panting, Nixie pushed a lock of silvery blue hair off her face, and said, "There was a White Fang... at the docks… Two students were… middle of it…"

"Nixie, take a breath," Solana said. As much as Crystal wanted to hear what it was that Nixie had to say, she had to agree that Nixie should catch her breath before she fainted.
After a minute of catching her breath, Nixie said, "The White Fang attack the ferry docks in the city. Two students were in the middle of it, and they're sending them and a few others that were injured here for medical attention." The White Fang had attacked so soon after Vale? When would they give it a rest?

But sending the injured to Haven made sense. The medical facilities at Haven were more geared towards wounds received in battle than the hospitals in the city. And while the entire staff had been removed from duty, the doctors were replaced immediately. They were the best for this situation.

But she had one question. "Who were the students?"

"I don't know," Nixie admitted. "But they're asking for blood donations of every type as soon as possible." Crystal nodded, and followed Nixie to the school infirmary.

There were lots of people there, some were there to get stitched up, and others were there to give blood. The two were easily distinguishable by who was lying down or standing up, and by their age usually. There were a lot of both.

One who was lying down was Rusti, though he didn't seem to have any injuries. "What happened to you?" Crystal asked.

"I think they took too much blood," Rusti said tiredly. "I feel woozy." The next generation of Huntsman: a sad sight. "But at least it'll help a little, right?"

Nearby, Azura was sitting in a chair with one sleeve rolled up and a tube in her arm that was taking out blood. "You're here, Azura?"

"Of course," Azura replied. "Might do some good."

"Do you even know what blood type you have?" Crystal asked. The science and medical communities weren't the best outside of the kingdoms, so with Azura being from one of those villages, it was a somewhat legitimate question. She hoped Azura wasn't offended though.

"No, but maybe they'll tell me." Azura turned to the doctor taking her blood. "What blood type do I have?"

"Your blood type is O-, Ms. Eastwood," the doctor replied, looking at a clipboard. "It's a good thing too. We always need donors with that type, especially in times like these."

"Why?" Azura asked.

"Well, they don't teach you this in combat school, but type O- actually can be given to almost anyone, so it's very useful when we don't know someone's blood type," the doctor explained, seemingly eager to pass on this knowledge. "Of course, it means you can only take O- blood, but as long as you don't need a transfusion you should be fine." Azura looked like she understood everything that was said, but she probably didn't.

Changing the subject, Crystal asked, "So, Azura, do you know who the students are who were in the battle?"

Before she could answer, there was a slight commotion in one part of the infirmary. Crystal checked the source with her semblance, and found Storm in the middle of it.

She walked to where Storm was, and she could hear him objecting to something. "Don't do that. I'm fine! Help Faye!" Had Storm and Faye been the ones in the attack?

As Storm got within sight of her eyes, she realized that he was practically fighting the doctors and nurses. She went up to them and asked, "What's going on?"

Storm looked at her and said, "Great, Crystal. Tell them I don't need a transfusion." She quickly looked him over—which was easy considering he had both sleeves rolled up, probably despite his objections—, and the only wounds he had were a few bruises and cuts on his arms. While she wasn't a doctor, he probably hadn't lost that much blood to warrant a transfusion.

Then again, best to air on the side of caution. "If he gives you too much trouble, maybe you should use a tranquilizer."

"We were about to administer one," noted a doctor. Crystal nodded and walked away from the battle, mostly so that she didn't get in the way.

She went over to a doctor who didn't seem to be doing anything other than looking at a clipboard, and asked, "I'd like to know the status of one of the patients: Feather Elric." While Faye probably didn't like people using her first name, the doctors would be working off of files that may or may not note her middle name. "She's a Faunus, white hair…"

The doctor stopped her there. That wasn't the most polite thing for him to do, especially to a lady. "Yes, I know. She's in surgery."

Crystal was shocked, but she tried not to let it show. "For what, exactly?"

"She took a bit of a tumble. I don't know how serious it is, but she should be fine." Lies.

"If you could kindly save the bedside manner for your patients, doctor, tell me how bad it is."

He sighed and said, "She was in a bus when it turned over. I'm honestly surprised she was in as good condition as she was though. She should pull through." He didn't even try to put on a fake smile. "Do you know her?"

She shrugged. "A little."

"Well, a little or a lot, I know that she'd be touched if she knew she had a friend like your concerned for her. But relax; she'll be fine." Changing the subject a lot he asked, "What blood type do you have?"

"A+."

"Well, we don't really need more of that type, so you can go." She looked unsurely at the doctor. "Go on."

She walked away, thinking to herself, "I hope Faye will be alright."

In case you were wondering, here's a list of character blood types:
Storm - AO+
Faye - AB+
Azura - OO+
Rusti - AB+
Crystal - AA+
Cirocco - BO-
Rayne - AO+
Ember - BB-
Jayana Sapphire - OO+
Lord Taryn - AA-

I have a few more, but that wouldn't be as interesting. Also, I did minor research on blood types and blood transfusions for this, so I know stuff about this stuff. Yeah, stuff. Anyway...