Chapter 23 - 22.5 - The Other Side

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

Weiss: "Quick! We have to observe him!"

The group ran after him while Shallot was slightly ahead when they had rounded a corner and Weiss crashed into someone. Yang, Blake, and Weiss could see Shallot chasing closely behind the monkey Faunus by flying in the air.

Weiss: "No, he got away. Weiss was still lying on the ground on top of the person she had run over while Yang leaned towards her before talking.

Yang: " Uhh ... Weiss ...?" Yang was pointing at the person laying on the ground. Weiss hurriedly stood up.

Weiss: "Euh ...!"

???: Salutations!

Ruby was ċȯċking her head to the side finding this odd before replying.

Ruby: "Uhm .... hello?"

Ruby: 'She seems ... cheery.'

Yang: "Are ... you ... okay?"

The unknown girl was still lying on the ground completely straight not moving an inch while looking at them.

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

The Team RWBY looked at each other finding this day to be getting even weirder before Yang decided to reply.

Yang: "Do ... you want to get up?"

Yang was starting to think that this girl was incredibly weird.

The girl continued laying there for a couple more seconds before coming to her decision

???: "...Yes." She did a kick up and landed on her feet and then introduced herself.

???: "Hi, my name is Penny. It's a pŀėȧsurė to meet you."

Ruby: "Hi Penny, I'm Ruby."

Weiss: "I'm Weiss" Weiss introduced herself.

Blake: "Blake." She gave a curt reply.

Yang: "Are you sure you didn't hit your head."

Blake quickly hit her while keeping her strength low not wanting to make Yang lose her stomach.

Blake: 'Why did Shallot run off leaving us in this situation. The notes did say that we would meet a strange girl by the name of Penny so the rest of the things must be accurate also.'

Yang: "Oh, I'm Yang

Weiss: "And the one that ran past earlier after that monkey Faunus was our teammate Shallot."

Weiss was pointing in the direction of where Shallot, the cops, and Sun had run off to.

Penny had a confused look on her face before going back to having a cheerful smile again.

Penny: "It's a pŀėȧsurė to meet you."

Weiss: "You already said that."

Penny had a blank look on her face for a couple of seconds before replying.

Penny: "So I did!"

Yang: 'Definitely weird.'

Weiss: "Sorry for running into you."

Ruby: "Take care friend."

Ruby and the others started walking away after she said her farewell.

After only a couple of steps heading down the street where Sun and Shallot ran off to, Yang started speaking what she thought.

Yang: "She was ...weird."

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

Penny: "What did you call me?"

Yang started waving her hands around.

Yang: "I didn't think you could hear me, I'm sorry about that."

Penny was paying attention to Yang and was just looking at Ruby.

Penny: "No, Not you." She pointed at Ruby "You"

Ruby: "Uh, I don't know ... uh ... what ... hehe ... me?"

Blake: 'I just want to go look for Shallot.'

Penny: "You called me friend. Am I really your friend?"

Penny was leaning in Ruby's face give her no space.

Ruby: "Uhm." Ruby looked over to everyone else and they were shaking their hands in denial while Blake was just face-palming figuring out how this was going to go after seeing the rest of the things of the notebook.

Ruby: "Yeah, Sure! Why not?"

Yang and Weiss fell to the ground in a comedic fashion while Blake was just looking at them then took a picture with her scroll before putting it back in her pocket.

Penny: "Ahaha ... Sen-sational!We can paint our nails, and try on clothes, and talk about cute boys like the one you called Shallot!"

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

Ruby was feeling like she may have chosen the wrong answer but she has to deal with it now.

Weiss: "No, she is "Far" more coordinated"

Yang: "So, what are you doing in Vale."

Blake: "Probably hear for the Vytal festival considering we had just seen a boat of people coming for exactly that."

Blake was responding in a slightly sarcastic way.

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

Blake: 'I wonder if the knowledge Shallot has is the reason he acts like a know it all.'

Weiss: "Wait... "your" fighting in the tournament?"

Penny: "I'm combat-ready." She said while saluting.

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

Blake(mumbling): "Wait until you find out she's a synthetic person."

Ruby: "Hmm"

Ruby thought Blake was saying something but couldn't hear it.

Blake thought about Weiss's statement then looked her up and down.

Weiss: "What?"

Blake: "Says the girl wearing a dress."

Weiss: Hey... it's a 'combat skirt'

Ruby moved next to her before agreeing and slapping her hand.

Weiss: "Wait a minute. Does that mean that you know that monkey tail... rapscallion?"

Penny: "Who specifically?"

Blake's eye's widened for a moment before keeping quiet thinking about the notebook.

Weiss" The filthy Faunus from the boat!"

Blake: "You are only furthering our point earlier that you a racist and judge based on looks and appearances. So I guess that your just a superficial person that isn't even capable of looking at people's personalities."

Weiss turned to Blake feeling offended.

Weiss: "Why are you upset about me talking about a dirty Faunus?"

Blake: "Faunus are people also Weiss. You need to understand that they have feelings just like you do. You should stop calling out names so much for and generalizing an entire group."

Weiss: "Oh, I'm sorry. Would you like me to stop referring to the trashcan as a trashcan, or this lamppost as a lamppost?"

Blake: "Stop that."

Weiss: "Stop what. Being right. If you give him time I'm pretty sure he is going to go join up with those other Faunus in the White Fang."

Blake: "Shallot was wrong. I don't that you could ever change. Your so insufferable."

Blake started storming off.

Weiss: "Who's insufferable? How dare you talk to me like that. I'm your teammate."

Weiss went after Blake wanting to prove that she's right.

Blake: "You are a judgmental little girl."

Blake: 'I just need to keep calm and I won't reveal anything about me being a Faunus."

Weiss: "What in the world makes you say that."

Blake: "The mere fact that the first thing you think about when seeing a Faunus is that is will join a terrorist group shows that your judgemental. Judging him based on his species makes you as much a scoundrel you believe him to be."

Blake and Weiss argued all the way back to the dorm while Ruby and Yang were watching everything going on wondering where Shallot is since Blake is always really passive when he's around.

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[Back at Beacon academy in Team RWBYS room]

Weiss: "You realize that you are defending an organization that hates humanity, don't you? The Faunus of the White Fang is pure evil."

Blake: "There is 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 resort take such drastic measures!"

...

In a castle far away in a desolated area was a human woman sitting upon a throne with fair skin, pale platinum blonde hair, and light blue eyes. She wore most of her hair in a half up-done bun style, with a small, simple bun on the top, and the remainder of her long, straight hair hanging at the bottom. Most of her bangs were tied back, barring several large locks that framed her face to her left.

She wore a white, two-piece dress consisting of a sleeveless, diagonally overlapping white backless pleated top with a raised, pale blue halter-top square collar adorned with an aquamarine-colored rhombus-shaped crystal on the clavicle, surrounded by two smaller white rhombuses.

Her long, high-waisted skirt was white with a faint purple tint - adorned with white diamond emblems and white wavy lines near the bottom hem, ruffled around the waist and completed with a purple sash. For accessories, she wore gray, circular earrings and a pair of dull brown bracers, and her long fingernails were painted pale lilac.

She could feel her nose itching and started sneezing heavily and continued so for 5 minutes wondering if it was possible for her to catch a cold even though she is immortal.

...

Weiss: "People like me?"

Blake: "You're discriminatory."

Weiss: "I'm a victim."

Weiss went into a flashback telling why she doesn't like the Faunus and the White Fang in general and while they were arguing Ruby had noticed the notebook in Shallot's hammock and picked it up and had opened it started reading it.

When Weiss had made it to the end of her story Blake turned seeing Ruby and dropped her argument with Weiss. Ruby had just made it to number 15 but before she could finish reading she was tackled by Blake and the notebook was taken from her.

Blake hurriedly stood up and brought the notebook to her ċhėst.

Ruby: "What was that Blake and why does it seem to have all of the information about us. Why are you making sure that I don't read the rest."

Yang was also interested. Blake had dropped the argument with Weiss as soon as she had seen Ruby reading Shallot's notebook.

Blake: 'I've made sure not to reveal that I'm a Faunus thanks to Shallot's notebook but now I have to figure out how to get out of this situation.'

Weiss was also curious about what could make her act like that also. She had argued with her all the way here and then stopped as soon as what was in that notebook would have been seen.

Ruby: "I didn't get to read everything but it said something about Faunus in there."

Blake tightened her grip on the book and dashed out of the room hoping that they don't find out what's written on the inside. She did everything in a way not to reveal herself even though she was upset but still managed not to screw herself over.

Blake ran with her full capabilities and even used her ki to go faster just in case anyone tried to follow her but even slowed down once she made it to the front door.

She ran out into the front and made it to the statues in the front of the school when she took off her ribbon so her ears could stretch since they were tensing up from the situation she was in.

She then felt Shallot's ki for a split second before feeling her ears being rubbed and hearing Shallot speaking.