Third Person POV

Team RWBY and _IAR is strolling through Vale with an awed Weiss in the front. A sign is being put up by the elderly Shopkeep that reads in bright red letters "WELCOME TO VALE!" for all the foreign newcomers from their respective kingdoms of Remnant.

Weiss: The Vytal Festival! Oh, this is absolutely wonderful!

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

She says as she holds Y/N's arm tightly.

Weiss: How could you not smile? A festival dedicated to the cultures of the world! There will be dances! Parades! A tournament! Oh, the amount of planning and organization that goes into this event is simply breathtaking!

Yang sighs.

Yang: You really know how to take a good thing and make it sound boring.

Weiss: Quiet, you!

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

Ruby: Ugh, they smell like fish!

Y/N: Really?!? I thought they would smell like cake!

Y/N says sarcastically as Yang and the rest of _IAR laugh.

Weiss: I've heard 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 them to this fine kingdom!

Blake: She wants to spy on them so she'll have the upper hand in the tournament.

Weiss: You can't prove that!

Ruby: Whoa.

Fhe team looks at a shattered window down the street and a door full of yellow caution tape of the Vale Police Force before walking over to the detective in front, who is writing on his pad.

Ruby: What happened here?"

Detective 1: Robbery. Second Dust shop to be hit this week. This place is turning into a jungle.

Yang: That's terrible.

Detective 2: They left all the money again.

Isabelle: Huh?

Detective 1: Yeah, just doesn't make a lick of sense. Who needs that much Dust?

Detective 2: I don't know, an army?

Detective 1: You thinking the White Fang?

Detective 2: Yeah, I'm thinking we don't get paid enough.

Raviera: Fucking corrupt cops.

Weiss: Hmph! The White Fang.

She crosses her arms and pointing her nose in the air with her eyes closed.

Weiss: What an awful bunch of degenerates!

Blake: What's your problem?

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

Raviera: The White Fang is hardly a bunch of psychopaths. They're a collection of misguided or mistreated Faunus.

Weiss: Misguided? They want to wipe Humanity off the face of the planet!

Y/N: No, Adam Taurus wants that. We don't know if there are faunus that are forced to do this.

Blake: Either way, it doesn't explain why they would rob a Dust shop in the middle of downtown Vale!

Ruby: Hmm... Blake's got a point. Besides, the police never caught that Torchwick guy I ran into a few months ago... Maybe it was him.

Weiss: 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!

They hear footsteps and see Amara running away in tears. Raviera looks like he could kill Weiss any second.

Raviera: Weiss...You better explain why you said that or I'll kill you where you stand...

Dragon fire surrounds his body as Weiss is sweating bullets.

Sailor 1: Hey, stop that Faunus!

As the team overhears the cry for help and rush over to investigate, a Faunus with a golden monkey tail named Sun is seen running down the length of the boat and leaping on to the edge as the two sailors are about to apprehend him.

Sun: Thanks for the ride, guys! Haha!

Sailor 2: You no-good stowaway!

Sun uses his tail to hang on a lamppost while he peels back a banana.

Sun: Hey! A no-good stowaway would've been caught! I'm a great stowaway!

Before he eats, one of the detectives down below throws a stone at him to get his attention.

Detective 1: Hey! Get down from there this instant!

Sun drops the banana peel on the detective's face, who growls in return. The monkey-like Faunus twirls up to crouch on the lamppost, laughs in amusement, and proceeds to leap off and run away from the detectives. As he runs past Team RWBY and _IAR, he winks at an astonished Blake and he continues to be chased by the officers.

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

Weiss: Quick! We have to observe him!

Raviera grabs Weiss by her collar and she yelps and gulps sees Raviera's murderous eyes.

Raviera: I will deal with you later.

Weiss, Yang, and Ruby give chase. Blake stands still, lost in thought, then comes back to reality and follows her friends. The team rounds the next corner, but then Weiss bumps into someone and trips. She looks up only to see Sun jump on to a building and disappear from her view.

Weiss: No, he got away!

Yang: Uhh... Weiss?

She points strangely at the girl underneath her teammate. Weiss finally sees that she fell on a smiling girl, which startles the heiress and she hastily gets up. Th girl is still down on the ground, smiling widely.

Penny: Sal-u-ta-tions!

Ruby: Um... hello.

Yang: Are you... okay?

Penny: I'm wonderful! Thank you for asking.

Isabelle: Do you... wanna get up?

Penny thinks about this for a moment.

Penny: Yes!

She leaps back on her feet while the teams step back a little.

Penny: My name is Penny! It's a pleasure to meet you!

Ruby: Hi Penny. I'm Ruby.

Weiss: I'm Weiss.

Blake: Blake.

Yang: Are you sure you didn't hit your head?

Blake hits her side.

Yang: Oh, I'm Yang.

Y/N: Y/N.

Isabelle: Isabelle!

Raviera: Raviera.

Raviera still sounds really angry.

Penny: It's a pleasure to meet you!

Weiss: You already said that.

Penny: So I did!

Weiss: Well, sorry for running into you!

They turn around and start walking away.

Ruby: Take care, friend!

Yang: She was... weird...

Weiss: Now, where did that Faunus riff-raff run off to?

Raviera glares at Weiss and can only give a growl that's a mix of annoyed and angry.

Penny: What did you call me?

Yang: Oh, I'm really sorry, I definitely didn't think you heard me!

Penny: No, not you.

She walks through the group and leans her head down to Ruby.

Penny: You!

Ruby: Me? I-I don't know. I, what I, um, uh...

Penny: You called me 'friend'! Am I really your friend?

Ruby: Uuuum...

She looks over Penny's shoulder while her teammates motion to deny her.

Ruby: Y-Yeah, sure! Why not?

Ruby's teammates comically faint, but Penny looks overjoyed and laughs.

Penny: Sen-sational! We can paint our nails, and try on clothes, and talk about cute boys!

Ruby: Oh, is this what it was like when you met me?

Weiss: No - she seems far more coordinated.

Yang: So... what are you doing in Vale?

Penny: I'm here to fight in the tournament.

Weiss: Wait, you're fighting in the tournament?

Penny salutes

Penny: I'm combat ready!

Weiss: Forgive me, but you hardly look the part.

Y/N: Don't judge a fighter from the outside Weiss and besides, you're the one wearing a dress.

Weiss: It's a combat skirt!

Ruby, the skirt sister speeds over to Weiss' side

Ruby: Yeah!

Weiss holds out her hand and Ruby low-fives it

Weiss: Wait a minute.

She walks over to Penny and grabs her by the shoulders.

Weiss: If you're here for the tournament, does that mean you know that monkey-tailed... rapscallion?

Penny: The who...?

Weiss: The filthy Faunus from the boat!

Blake: Why do you keep saying that?!

Weiss: Huh?

Blake: Stop calling him a rapscallion! Stop calling him a degenerate! He's a person!

Weiss: Oh, I'm sorry.

She releases Penny and motions to objects around her.

Weiss: Would you like me to stop referring to the trash can as a trash can? Or this lamppost as a lamppost?

Blake: Stop it!

Weiss: Stop what? He clearly broke the law. Give him time; he'll probably join up with those other Faunus in the White Fang!

Blake and Raviera: You ignorant little brat!

Weiss: How dare you talk to me like that! I am your teammate amd friend!

Blake: You are a judgmental little girl.

Raviera: And spoiled, racist brat!

Weiss: What in the world makes you say that?

Blake: The mere fact that you would sort that Faunus boy with a terrorist group solely based on his species makes you just as much of a scoundrel as you believe him to be!

Yang: Um, I think we should probably go...

Penny: Where are we going?

Weiss: So you admit it! The White Fang is just a radical group of terrorists!

Raviera:'That's not what she meant, and you know it!

As Yang and Ruby continue to observe, the scene shifts from afternoon near the docks to nighttime in their dormroom.

Weiss: I don't understand why this is causing such a problem!

Blake: That is the problem!

Weiss: You realize you two are defending an organization that hates Humanity, don't you? The Faunus of the White Fang are pure evil!

Blake: There's no such thing as pure evil! Why do you think they hate Humanity so much?

Raviera: It's because of people like Cardin, people like you, that force the White Fang to take such drastic measures!

Weiss: People like me?

Blake: You're discriminatory!

Raviera: A racist bitch!

Weiss: I'm a victim!

As they stare each other down in silence, Weiss leans in close, leering as she speaks quietly.

Weiss: You want to know why I despise the White Fang? Why I don't particularly trust the Faunus?

She leans against the bookshelf by the window.

Weiss: It's because they've been at war with my family for years. War, as in actual bloodshed. My grandfather's company has had a target painted across its back for as long as I can remember. And ever since I was a child, I've watched family friends disappear; board members executed; an entire train car full of Dust, stolen. And every day, my father would come home, furious. And that made for a very difficult childhood.

Ruby: Weiss, I-

Weiss: No! You want to know why I despise the White Fang? It's because they're a bunch of liars, thieves, and murderers!

Blake and Raviera: WELL MAYBE WE WERE JUST TIRED OF BEING PUSHED AROUND?!?

Silence drops down on the scene again. A surprised Weiss backs away slowly, and Blake and Raviera realize their mistake as they look around at their teammates, excluding Amara since she didn't come back.

Blake: I... I...

She dashes out the door and Raviera flies out of the window, breaking the glass.

Ruby: Blake, Raviera wait! Come back!

She runs over to the door and calls to her down the hallway as Yang sits herself down and Weiss looks down. Blake runs outside and arrives at a statue of an armored man with a sword and a hooded woman wielding an axe on an outcropping, staring at the Beowolf under the stone heroes in particular. She closes her eyes and slowly lifts her arms up to her bow and pulls the string to release the bow from her hair. She wipes away a tear away as the camera pulls up to reveal her Faunus ears. On the verge of crying, she becomes startled when she hears a voice above her.

Raviera: So you're a faunus huh?

Blake: Why did you defend me?

Raviera sighs.

Raviera: My mother's a part of the White Fang. My father divorced her when he found out I was being bullied. He called me a weak and pathetic child and insulted Amara and my mother and then left. Me and Amara grew up with the White Fang. Adam was like a big brother to us. Of course we knew what he wanted was wrong, but my mom saw some good in him. She died during a mission and we were let loose and we ended up in Beacon. Amara is also a dragon faunus so...When Weiss said what she said about faunus...You know what happened?

Blake: I never saw any faunus parts on her.

Raviera: That's because she hides her wings in her jacket.

They see Sun and he says to Blake,

Sun: I knew you would look better without the bow.

The next morning at Beacon. Ruby wakes up from her beauty sleep, yawning in the process. She looks over at Blake's empty bunk, and groans sadly. The scene then shifts again to Ruby, Weiss, and Yang walking through the empty streets of Vale.

Ruby: She's been gone all weekend...Raviera and Amara too.

Weiss: They're hunters, I'm sure they can handle themselves.

Yang: Weiss, come on. Blake's one of our teammates and Raviera amd Amara are our friends.

Weiss: Are they? We all heard what they said!

Ruby: Weiss.

Yang: Maybe she is, maybe she isn't. Either way, she's missing, and we need to find her!

Weiss: A member of the White Fang! Right underneath our noses! TWO in fact!

Ruby: I just hope they're okay...

Elsewhere, Blake, Raviera and Amara sipping a cup of tea and sighing. Amara has her blue dragon wings exposed. They look up at Sun sitting across from them, who holds his drink with his tail as his hand props his head up. He takes a sip when Blake puts her cup down.

Blake: So, you guys want to know more about me...