The Stray

I was in my room, listening to a song based on me somehow. Apparently, on of my fans, who is a singer, decide to give me one of the songs


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It was...surprisingly okay. I kept listening to the song. I don't know what else to say. Well...I would know what to say...but I feel it would be somewhat inappropriate of what it is that I would say.


As I kept listening to the music, my scroll was interrupted by a call. It was Weiss. I had given her my scroll number, after defeating her to get her out of the situation. I was glad to do so, because Yang would have done the same, when she forced Blake. I did give Yang a piece of my mind in the aftermath of the fight. I just can't believe she would go this low.


I answered and Weiss spoke out.


"Sans."


"Heya, Weiss. How's it going."


"The Vytal Festival has been opened. And I was wondering if you would like to be with my team."


"The Vytal Festival? I never actually went there. Okay, I'll be coming to there."


"Great!"


"See you later, Weiss."


I ended the call and I got ready to visit the Vytal Festival.


30 minutes later...


Me and Weiss, we're finally at the festival. It was so exciting to look at, as it is so fun to see people start going around in this thing. The downside...Ruby and Yang, they are suddenly invited to. This was terrible. I can't believe that it just happened. Luckily, Blake volunteered to make sure that they don't talk to me anymore, and she to gave Yang a beatdown. This forced her to apologize for a total of 100 times. Man, I like to see them pay the price. Another upside, Trifa than decide to come with me, so she could volunteer to web her mouth, if she spoke.


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


Sans: "Wow, Weiss. You are actually excited of the Vytal Festival."


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!"


Sans: "Well this is my first time here. I was so busy, I never had time to even have fun in this place. My other friends and my brother, they came to the Vytal Festival. I was so busy on dealing with a number of problems."


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


Ruby: (covering her nose) "Ugh, they smell like fish!"


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: (scoffs) "You can't prove that!"


Ruby than turns and sees that there is an investigation going on in a dust shop. All of us, obviously surprised, immediately ran to the shop. The windows are broken, yellow caution tape is around there.


Ruby: "Whoa. What happened there?"


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


Yang: (sighs sadly) "That's terrible."


Detective 2: "They left all the money again."


Ruby: "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."


Weiss was frustrated, while crossing her arms and pointing her nose in the air with her eyes closed.


Hmph! The White Fang. What an awful bunch of degenerates!"


Blake: "What's your problem?"


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


Blake: "The White Fang is hardly a bunch of psychopaths. They're a collection of misguided Faunus."


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


Trifa was getting immensely enraged, so I immediately had to interfere so she does not start attacking Weiss Schnee.


Sans: "I wouldn't exactly say that. They're more like Faunuses blinded by their desire for vengeance, and are immensely sick and tired of people always rejecting by the humans, who wanted to be treated only as equals."


Blake: "So then they're very misguided. 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."


Sailor 1: "Hey, stop that Faunus!"


We all immediately turned to see a blond monkey faunus 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!"


he later than jumps off and hits the dock running.




Sailor 2: "You no-good stowaway!"


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


The Faunus than used his tail to hang on a lamppost while he peels back a banana. 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!"


The Faunus than drops the banana peel on the detective's face, who growls in return. The monkey 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, Trifa, and me, he winks at both Blake and Trifa, who are both very astonished, before time speeds up again 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!"


Both me, Trifa, and Team RWBY chased the Faunus, who is surprisingly very fast. Weiss turned to a corner, but she was sent back. I guess she hit someone. The team caught up as they see the Faunus gone.


Weiss: "No, he got away!"


Yang: "Uhh... Weiss?"


Yang pointed down as they. girl underneath her teammate. Weiss finally sees that she fell on a smiling girl, which startles the heiress and she hastily gets up.


???:  "Sal-u-ta-tions!"


Ruby: "Um... hello."


Yang: "Are you... okay?"


???: "I'm wonderful! Thank you for asking."


The team, along with Sans and Trifa, than looks at each other in bewilderment before Yang speaks up again.


Yang: "Do you... wanna get up?"


The lady thinks about it for a bit, before finally shouting the answer


???:"Yes!"


(she leaps back on her feet while the team steps back a little)


"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, trying to get her to show some manners.


Yang: "Oh, I'm Yang."


Trifa: "Trifa."


Sans: "Sans."


Penny: "It's a pleasure to meet you!"


Weiss: "You already said that."


Penny: "So I did!"


Weiss: "Well, sorry for running into you!"


We all turn around and start walking away, with Ruby waving her arm goodbye at Penny.


Ruby: "Take care, friend!"


when we all get far enough away from a startled Penny, I immediately released my breath. That was a rather strange encounter.


Yang: "She was... weird..."


Weiss than starts looking to her right, so show could get her sights on him


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


Penny suddenly is in front of a surprised Weiss.


Penny: "What did you call me?"


Weiss looks back and forth in shock and Yang looks apologetic.


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


Penny: "No, not you."


Penny walks through the group and leans her head down to Ruby


"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..."


Ruby looks over Penny's shoulder while her teammates motion to deny her, while me and Trifa did nothing.


"Y-Yeah, sure! Why not?"


Ruby's teammates comically faint, but Penny looks overjoyed and laughs. Me and Trifa, we just smiled that someone is excited to get a friend.



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


Ruby groans to Weiss as she brushes herself off.


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 than salutes to us all.


Penny: "I'm combat ready!"


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


Sans: "Really, and I am not?She could have some weapons of her own that is hidden wit her.


Blake: "Also, this is said to the girl wearing a dress."


Weiss than crossed crosses her arms with a rather annoyed expression


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.


Sans: "Wait a moment. If you are doing the tournament, does that mean you know that Moneky Faunus?"


Penny: "The who..?


Sans: "You wouldn't know of a golden-haired monkey Faunus running around, do you?"


Penny: "The who."


Weiss: "The filthy Faunus from the boat!"


Blake: (off-screen) "Why do you keep saying that?!"


Weiss: (turning her attention from Penny to Blake) "Huh?"


Blake: (walking over to Weiss, angry) "Stop calling him a rapscallion! Stop calling him a degenerate! He's a person!"


Weiss: "Oh, I'm sorry." (releases Penny and motions to objects around her) "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 growls, clenching her fist as she goes right up to her, very enraged


"You ignorant little brat!"


Weiss looks offended, but when Blake walks away, she follows suit.


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


Blake: "You are a judgmental little girl."


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 than slides up to Ruby, who is looking very uncomfortable.


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


Penny than pops up behind Ruby, smiling.


Penny: (popping up behind Ruby, smiling) "Where are we going?"


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


Blake: "That's not what I meant, and you know it!"


Sans: "BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP BEFORE I GET A MIGRAINE!!!! WHY DON'T YOU BOTH DISCUSS IT BACK AT BECAON ACADEMY IN YOUR DORMS??!!!"


Both Weiss and Blake jumped at the sudden outburst. Obviously they were a bit scared, but I calmed himself, as I finally spoke.


"Sorry. Didn't mean to burst out like that. I just can't stand my friends fighting amongst themselves like this."


Weiss and Blake looked down, understanding that i don't want them fighting. However, that was only the beginning.


Back in Beacon...Afternoon


I was looking through Team RWBY's keyhole. Obviously, things were getting very heated in there.


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


Blake: "That is the problem!"


Weiss: (getting up from her bed) "You realize you are defending an organization that hates Humanity, don't you? The Faunus of the White Fang are pure evil!"


Blake: (gets on her feet as well) "There's no such thing as pure evil! Why do you think they hate Humanity so much? 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!"


Weiss: "I'm a victim!"


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


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


Weiss is than leaning against the bookshelf by the window. I began to listen up very carefully.


"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."


Weiss than bangs her fist on the bookshelf, clearly enraged. Well that is her family's fault for always discriminating them.


Ruby than goes over to try comfort her


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: "WELL, MAYBE WE'RE JUST TIRED OF BEING PUSHED AROUND!!!"


This caught me by surprise. She used to be in the White Fang. But she doesn't seem that violent. In fact, I sense that she doesn't like taking innocent lives for her own selfish, pleasure, unlike Taurus. Everyone was surprised. Blake than runs out, and I got out of the way. This is going to be a long day tommorow.

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