RWBY - The madness of Lappland

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{ Three SDC employees were found dead in a bathroom at one of the dust stations in Mantle .}

Such a shocking headline should have been in the mainstream media of the Atlas kingdom . Especially when it could be blamed on the faunus , who led a protest nearby . However , such was never created . Despite the relevance of the case , nothing ever reached the ears of Mantle residents . In fact, the only ones who knew about the whole thing were the employees of the dust station, who found the crime scene and witnessed the van drive away from there with a squeal of tires .

Due to the store music and absorption in work they did not hear the initial commotion . Only the first distinct bang of a gunshot coming from the side of the store , from where the bathroom extension is located drew their attention . Obviously the manager immediately grabbed his private gun and rushed to the sliding door . He was in an obvious hurry , still remembering that the toilet should now be used only by a little girl .

Admittedly, the conversation with her was quite strange , her gaze was strange . And sure enough, her smile was rather unsettling . In the end , everything about her was quite strange . But she still seemed quite innocent , cheerful and clear-headed for her rather strange behavior , even more so when looking at how clearly she was a faunus . After all , it was not just a single pair of ears or horns , which stood out .

No , the girl had a wolf tail and ears . You could say she had the whole set on her . Snow white like her hair , not covered freely exposed to the wind . The white of her hair , ears and tail stood out even more against the black of her outfit . In a single word , this girl was an extraordinary sight . Which means that she was also difficult to forget .

And yet the girls was not interested in hiding it . Many faunus would hide ther animal trait. Especially those who walk alone . Yet the child with her tail waving slowly behind her and her ears twitching at the sounds and wind , walked openly without fear or vigilance . Perhaps this made the manager immediately have a bad feeling about the gun shot . Violence against fanus is not limited only to adults . A lone girl in an empty restroom is unfortunately an easy target .

The manager was not a hero , nor did he consider himself one . He was an ordinary store employee . Without anyone in his life , he lived for himself from day to day like many others . But come the fuck on . This was about a child . There are things that don't require people to wear a cape or have a badge . And saving someone helpless from a situation where you could have made a difference , is something you have to do . Otherwise you may never forgive yourself for it .

At that moment the menager couldn't help but think about the girl who was looking at the shelves of water , with those unique and equally hard-to-forget eyes , while counting those few Lien on her small hand . It was memory that he could not get out of his head , as It involved so many thoughts .

Was he supposed to help her then ? Did she get lost ? Where are her parents ? Are they at this protest nearby ? No matter if they did or not , why did they leave the child unattended ? One can understand doing something like that with a human child. This area is safe enough for children to play here without parents. So it was normal to encounter a child her age buying something there . But funus , with such a conspicuous appearance and behavior ?

When the Manager was on his way to ask if the girl needed any help , he came across a new employee , who was working today at the cash register . He was a recidivist fresh out of prison , and jet he was alredy causing problems for the girl . As for his motivation in causing her problem .

Of course the girl's race . This also emphasized his point . Faunus have a hard time , in particular in Mantle and Atlas . Of course that doesn't mean it was better elsewhere . The existence of stores and businesses denying their services to faunus was not an uncommon sight, and unfortunately this is just the tip of the iceberg .

After resolving the situation with between the new employee and the girl . Menager first allowed the girl to go to the restroom , to which she took the key after the purchase . He did not want to embarrass or stress a child who want to use the restroom , so he let her go there first . In the end , she would have returned here anyway to return the key , then he could talk to her . Unfortunately , the manager did not know that he would never speak to the girl again .

Back to the situation after the shot . Unfortunately when the Menager was already at the sliding door , whose sensors should already catch him and start opening the door , the door stopped working similar to everything in the store . A short circuit has occurred . Because of this , the Menager almost bumped into the glass door , which did not open .

The lights and air conditioning also no longer turned on . He remembered clearly to this day , how the younger concerned and frightened by the whole situation femail employee , who was then with them on the shift , said that the fuses must have switch over too off. Hearing this , manager immediately rushed to the employee's back door , upon opening which he realized that someone had used plastic handcuffs , to attach the handle of the door to a pipe on the wall just to the side of the door. Preventing the door from fully opening .

With no other way out , the manager had to open the sliding door by hand , smash it , turn on the fuses or cut the plastic handcuffs that lock the door . What he eventually did did not matter , what did matter was that once he got out it was too late . He could only see the back of that cursed van , to which he wanted to shoot but couldn't bring himself to do it , worrying that he might hurt the girl if she was locked in there .

As for shooting at the tires ? With his eyes and accuracy ? Even with his glasses he can barely see farther than five meters . His hands were sweaty and shaking because of the whole situation . He would not hit those damn tires . So he could only look for the girl in the bathroom hoping that she is there , still alive and nothing had happened to her .

Needless to say he did not find the girl but a bathroom covered with blood and bodies. The yung employee who followed him gave a terrified scream before running away with her mouth covered . However, he stood there looking at what was in front of him .Of course he called the police and said what he saw . The van that drove away , a description of the girl , which was recorded by a camera in the store too .

The police did their job . They took " evidence " , they took pictures , they asked a few things . After that they took the bodies and on the same day they cleaned the bathroom of the rest of the biological materials , leaving it with only a few damages after which they left as if nothing had happened .

There was no media or reporters . There were no questions except from a few neighbors who were curious about what happend. The case also went quiet , no one spoke back to the manager , no one asked him anything anymore . Leaving the man with only questions as to the fate of the girl and an obvious sense of guilt .

In the end he never found out what happened to the girl or to who the bodies belonged to . What happened in that restroom ? Why did it happen ? Was it his fault ? He gave her the key to that toilet , so was it because of him . No one in the police never answered , when he wanted to ask no one knew what he was talking about .

He himself also had no way to act , the CCTV footage was taken away so he had no picture of her . He did not know her name . The police themselves avoided the subject . He only had a verbal description of the events , which reporters who he wanted to interest in this case looked at with skepticism . All this even led him to a private investigator who agreed to his case .

Unfortunately, by then too much time had passed and there was not much evidence or clues. Finally even the detective suddenly dropped the case . There were no leads , no information , no news , nothing . This left this manager with only a sense of guilt that did not leave him for the rest of his life .

However, this situation did not only imprint on him . Sienna if not having the same problem as the manager , had her own problems . Of course, even if everything seemed to end happily , Sienna did not see it that way . Her positive feelings and thoughts about humanity , after this situation, were buried even more deeply in her sullen heart.

And this despite the fact that , Sienna knows that not everyone is guilty of persecuting faunus and not everyone has an obligation to help them . Sienna knows that , some people are afraid to stick their heads out , do not want to get involved in the affairs of others or simply have no way to help . In the end , the current main target of the white fang , is not so much as equality for faunus itself , but the fight with SDC's exploitation of the slave labor of faunus .

If the white fang had succeeded on this . If they forced SDC to change and pay for their crimes . Then because of the status of defeating the giant that is SDC . White fang could gain momentum , to start bringing down smaller companies using the same practices as SDC .

Defeating SDC would mean a lot . Their voice would have been heard and their success highlighted .This would obviously give confidence to other faunus and people to support the cause of white fang . And this would eventually lead to the main goal of white fang which is equality for faunus . Unfortunately SDC is a giant for a reason .

It would really take a lot of people for SDC or the authorities to feel the need to do something . And there would be no telling what they would do anyway . That's why surely if at least half of the world's human population and all the faunus would be willing to support the white fang , and for example make huge strikes that would paralyze the world , then maybe then SDC would have to do something .

Unfortunately this is not possible . Many people see faunus as inferior beings . Others know that improving working conditions for faunus , will give SDC an excuse to increase the price of dust . They would say that it is because of the increased cost of mining . Therefore they keep quiet to save their pockets or keep quiet because they can not afford to increase prices , which is understandable .

As the famous saying goes " people care as long as it doesn't mess with their wallets " . Then there are people who are afraid to speak out or take sides . How many people have been fired or beaten for their support for faunus ? How many have expressed their opposition to faunus being treated as inferior ? In the end as many people so many reasons and opinions .

That's why Sienna did not lump everyone in the same bag . But still , those racists and people exploiting faunus for their own benefit and pleasure . Sienna will never forget them the humiliation she suffered in life and the tragedy that almost befell her if not for Ghira . She will not forget them for the wrongs inflicted on her kind . She will not forgive them for what happened to her Lappland.

Lappland was her distraction from her worries and at the same time a reminder of how unfair and cruel this world was . Every time she looked at this crazy girl , who apparently from infancy was treated like trash . A girl so beautiful and lovely , so precious and yet abused . Sienna knew that she herself could have had it worse . That's why looking at the vibrant Lappland, she herself was able to gather the strength to go on even when it seemed that she could no longer . Sienna wished that every child could be as full of life as Lappland. Sienna wanted to save every child .

Sienna taking care of Lappland established with the wolf girl , a relationship closer than even the one she has with her own sister . Therefore the fact of what happened to Lappland that day . What Lappland had to do and how she was hurt in the process of protecting Blake and herself . It angered Sienne like nothing until now . Her heart so full of anger , malice and boiling flustration , caused by helplessness , was really close to stepping onto the path of no return . The path she walks today , as the leader of an organization seen by many as terrorist .

However, this was not the time yet. Young Sienna in her anxiety and anger for the first time , simply began to doubt Ghira's peaceful plan . In the end protests did not work . SDC doesn't care about them . People don't care about them . Not even all Faunus seem convinced by their cause . White fang .... Had no real force to support the cause . At most they could play the role of a martyr .

But that's not what she wanted . Not for Lappland, Blake or for her sister . They should not be the victims of this conflict . Sienna knew that if she had been there a minute later, Lappland or Blake could have been dead. That's why the fate of the missing woman, who was alive but taken away by Sienna along with the van, was rather dark. But before the woman met her fate , Sienna got as much as she could out of her . And well she learned enough .....