"Okay guys why have you dragged me here?" I asked generally confused about what happened. I was in my room writing stuff down when both Team RWBY and JNPR grabbed me and put a bag over my head. I was now tied to a chair. Someone took the bag of my head.

"Surprize!" They all yelled.

"Um, What?" I asked. They all just smiled and laughed. "It's your birthday silly! We planned this for weeks once we learned the date," Yang admitted. "We would of had a present for you if Nora wasn't eating it." Turning to the girl in question she was eating a cake shaped like a heart. We all gave a good laugh at that.

"You see Silver, I baked that cake for you because you were awesome!" Weiss said. "I also think that if your detective work was a weapon, we would rejoice in it's awesomeness."

"Oh Weiss, saying crazy things," Phyrra laughed. "You, baking. You probably had someone do it for you while reading the Shnee Handbook for Them."

"Are you all okay?" I asked.

"Well why wouldn't they be? They are always like this since you started dating all of us," Blake stated.

"What?"

"Yes, I have to admit, sharing you with everyone made me mad at first, but then you added the fun factor," Ren said while Jaune nodded his head in agreement.

"What?"

Everyone started to laugh at me. Jaune looked at the ground nervously. "Well we didn't get you much, but we DID get you something cool!"

A curtain opened up to reveal my family. All of them with happy faces smiling at me.

"Mom? Dad? Sister?" I asked in mild shock.

"Happy birthday son."

"It's been awhile hasn't it?"

I shook my head in denial. "This can't be! You guys are dead!"

"Oh don't you see?" Ruby started to say. "You're dead to us."

They all transformed at that moment, faces elongated and white eyes. The room turned cold and damp. Paint peeling off the walls as they slowly walked towards me.

"Dead to us."

"Dead to us."

"Gasp!" I woke up to the sound of my alarm.

"Ha ha! Dreams can't haunt me in the real world!" I pointed to my head. "You're in there, I'm out here! Can't hurt me silly dreams!" I stood up to continue my dance. "Inner turmoil is stupid!"

City streets

"The Vytal Festival! Oh this is absolutely wonderful!" Weiss held both her arms up to her chest.

"I don't think I've ever seen you smile this much Weiss." Ruby put a hand to her hip and raised an eyebrow to the girl. "It's kinda weirding me out." Weiss then went on how the culture is practically engraved into us and other stuff I wasn't really paying attention to the girl. I had other pressing matters in my head. Like what was this yellow girl's name?

"That reminds me, Silver, why did you decide to come with us?"

"Umm…"

Flashback

"If you let one of our students get hurt, I will turn you over to Glynda."

Now

"I needed the exercise."

"Oh okay that makes sense." Ruby said.

Before the conversation could derail anymore, a broken Dust shop caught our attention.

"What happened here?" Ruby asked.

"Robbery. Second Dust shop to be hit this week. This place is turning into a jungle," one detective said.

"They left the money again," another stated.

"Yeah this doesn't make a lick o' sense. Who needs that much Dust?"

"I donno. Ya know what I mean?"

"You thinking uh, White Fang?"

"Ya I'm thinking we don't get paid enough."

"Hmph. The White Fang. What an awful bunch of degenerates," Weiss decided to add her two cents.

"What's your problem?" Blake decided to ask.

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

I could see that two women were arguing in front of me so I decided to leave. I already knew why the White Fang wanted the Dust. They wanted to invade on the. The… What major event did they want to invade on again? My thoughts were interrupted as a man yelled, "Hey stop that Faunus!"

I turned to see Sun running towards us, banana in hand. 'Sun you horrible person! I was trying to remember a major plot point!' I thought as I ran after him. When I was yards away from Team RWBY Weiss shouted, "Quick we must observe him!" I heard them yell.

'Oh yeah, that protecting thing.' When the team caught up with me Ruby slammed into Penny.

"Salutations!"

"Aw man! he' s getting away!" I yelled and ran off. "Hey you! With the face!" I would have caught up with Sun, if it weren't for him climbing buildings and doing the Par-kours. People my age these days. 'I better go see how metal cinnamon bun is doing.'

Turns out when I got there that Blake and Weiss started to yell at each other again. I went the other direction. I decided to go see an old friend on my detour back to Vale. Young Tommy. He was running a kind of like a charity business by himself last time I saw him. The conditions when I last saw him was also when my sister was around. Oh look, I just depressed myself. Again. I entered the hotel he was running for orphaned kids and animals. Nice place if you didn't mind the sounds. I walked up to him as he was working the front desk. Something about hiding in plain sight.

"Hey Young Tommy! Long time no see!" He looked up at me and looked terrified.

"Oh no not you!"

"Come on man, you still can't be mad at the cookie jar incident." He narrowed his eyes.

"No, but I AM mad that the last time I saw you, your sister broke my legs."

"Alright, that's fair. But I wanted to ask you about these Dust robberies around town," I started to say before I was cut off.

"I buy all my Dust legally."

"This is true, but you do have connections in the underground."

"You did too. You and your sister i mean. Which reminds me, how is the girl?"

"Alive."

"Thats cool. But answer me this, why should I answer your questions?"

"Come On Young Tommy, we have done this song and dance every time we meet. It's starting to get old. Making you sound like a bad villain."

"What? No! Come to my office, my big swivel chair and cat are waiting for us." He was not joking. The office was darkly lit with a wooden feel to it with one large window and a desk in between the swivel chair and small wooden chair. We sat in our respective places.

"Well well well Mr. Silver," Young Tommy said as he turned to face me petting his cat. "We meet again."

"You dragged us in here so you could do an evil entrance?" He snickered then looked serious.

"Well yes, and this room is completely soundproof. What I am about to tell you is very secretive. I sent one of my men to Junior's bar to… investigate him. Turns out he was recruited by Roman Torchwick along with a few other of his men. They have been working together with the Fang and another partner. Robbing shops for an army."

"I know. Can't you feel it Tommy. There is a war coming. I came to ask what side you are on," I told the man. He looked at me with tired eyes. "My men are thinning out. Some are getting recruted by Torchwick and others by the White Fang. I only have enough to protect the city block here in Vale. My other sites are still growing strong but they have their other problems to deal with.

I know there is a war on the way, and I will be right here, protecting my castle." I looked him dead in his eyes. "Just remember, when the first spark falls…"

"You and your family are always welcomed here."

Beacon Academy

"Silver!" Ruby said as she ran towards me. "Did you see Blake run this way?"

"Why? What's wrong?"

"She ran away!"

"She does that alot," I say to myself.

"What?"

"I said we will look for her in the morning just tell me what happened."

One Story later

"Well that was weird." We were sitting in the girl's room as Ruby explained the story to the best of her ability with slight interjections from Yang and Weiss from time to time. They did all this without explaining she was a Faunus.

"All this time she was a-" Weiss looked at me for a minute.

"A what?" I asked.

"That's not important what is important is that we find her."