"When all you know is fight or flight, red flags and butterflies all feel the same."
Y/N P.O.V.
Enter the streets of Vale being decorated in time for the Vytal Festival.
Red, yellow, and green streamers and balloons are proudly on display. Team RWBY and I are strolling through it all with an awed Weiss in the front. I'm next to Blake and walking with her. She insisted I come with her.
A sign is being put up by the elderly shopkeeper that reads in bright red letters 'WELCOME TO VALE!' for all the newcomers from their respective kingdoms. Weiss breathes and stretches her arms out.
"The Vytal Festival! Oh, this is absolutely wonderful!"
Ruby just walks between Yang and I and speaks to Weiss, "I don't think I've seen you smile this much, Weiss. This is kinda weirding me out..."
Weiss turns to Ruby and rolls her eyes.
"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 and rolls her eyes.
"You really know how to take a good thing and make it sound boring."
Weiss points her finger accusingly at Yang.
"Quiet, you!"
Yang just looks to all of us.
"Remind me again why we're spending our Friday afternoon visiting the stupid docks?" Ruby covers her nose.
"Ugh, they smell like fish!" I just look to Ruby.
"It's by the sea, so it's going to smell like fish." Weiss looks to us.
"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 just says deadpan, "She wants to spy on them so she'll have the upper hand in the tournament." Weiss scoffs and crosses her arms.
"You can't prove that!"
Ruby gets our attention by pulling on my sleeve.
"Whoa."
We all turn to look 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 questions him, "What happened here?" The detective looks up from his notepad.
"Robbery. Second Dust shop to be hit this week. This place is turning into a jungle." The second detective adds onto this, "They left all the money again." Ruby lets out a huh.
The first detective asks his partner, "Yeah, just doesn't make a lick of sense. Who needs that much Dust?" The second detective looks to him and implies, "I don't know, an army?" The first detective asks a question, unsure, "You thinking the White Fang?" The second rolls his eyes and gets back to taking notes as he mumbles, "Yeah, I'm thinking we don't get paid enough."
Weiss scoffs and shoots her nose up.
"Hmph! The White Fang. What an awful bunch of degenerates!"
Blake looks to Weiss offended. Interesting.
"What's your problem?" Weiss turns to Blake.
"My problem? I simply don't care for the criminally insane."
"The White Fang is hardly a bunch of psychopaths. They're a collection of misguided Faunus."
"Misguided? They want to wipe Humanity off the face of the planet!"
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