Chapter 7: The Straw

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(The episode starts with an overview of the streets of Vale being decorated in time for the Vytal Festival. Red, yellow, and green streamers and balloons are proudly on display, and Team JNPR is strolling through it all with an awed Jaune Arc. 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.)

Jaune: So this is the Vytal Festival! Just as wonderful as Weiss described.

Nora: You said it, fearless leader.

Pyrrha: 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!

Jaune: Indeed. I wonder how's Team RWBY doing.

Ren: She said she heard that students visiting from Vacuo will be arriving by ship today. And, as a representative of Beacon, she feels it's her solemn duty to welcome them to this kingdom.

Nora: More like she wants to spy on them so she'll have the upper hand in the tournament.

Jaune: How would you know, Nora? We don't have any evidence.

Ren: Jaune has a point, you know.

(Then they see Team RWBY standing ahead as Ruby focuses 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. He approaches them as well.)

Jaune: What happened here?

Ruby: I'd be asking the same.

Detective 1: Robbery. Second Dust shop to be hit this week. This place is turning into a jungle. (walks over to his partner)

Jaune: Dude, that's terrible.

Detective 2: (off screen, to his partner) They left all the money again.

Ruby: (turning her head when she hears this) Huh?

Jaune: Okay, now it's getting weird.

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're thinking the White Fang is involved?

Jaune: (sighs) White Fang...

Weiss: I know, right? (crosses her arms) What an awful bunch of degenerates!

Blake: What's your problem?

Weiss: (turning to her) My problem? I simply don't care for the criminally insane.

Blake: The White Fang is hardly a bunch of psychopaths. (crossing her arms, getting serious) They're a collection of misguided Faunus.

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

Jaune: Well, the only one I know who would actually need that much Dust instead of money is currently in prison. (in mind) Or is he...

Weiss: See? That just proves that the White Fang are a bunch of scum. (to Blake's growing anger) Those Faunus only know how to lie, cheat, and steal.

Yang: That's not necessarily true..

Sailor 1: (off-screen) Hey, stop that Faunus!

(The huntsmen rush to help the sailor as they see a Faunus with a golden monkey tail named Sun Wukong running down the length of the boat and leaping on to the edge as the two sailors are about to apprehend him.)

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