The Stray

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It shows 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 RWBY along with Aiden are strolling through it all 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

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

Aiden: You're not the only one.

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

Weiss: Quiet you!

Aiden: Remind me again why we're spending our Friday afternoon visiting the stupid docks? We could be doing literally anything else.

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.

Aiden: That sounds like something she would do.

Weiss:*scoffs* You can't prove that!

Ruby: Whoa.

Ruby turns her head and sees shattered glass on the street with yellow caution tape and a team of Vale policemen. The group walk over to a detective who's writing something 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.

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.

As the detectives walk away, Aiden begins to think to himself about the dust store robberies. The robberies don't make sense to him. Why would someone rob someone only for their dust and nothing more? It all didn't add up to him.

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