Hearing the whole explanation, every Faunus knew Silva was right. As this was the main reason why even if they used force, they could not win, the difference of population and powerhouses were massive. Even the words Sienna said before, were not but a test to Silva. As just like Ghira, she t0oo noticed the meaning of his words. Even the ones that felt some hatred towards humans, knew that conflict could only end destroying both sides, so the only question left in their minds was, “What does he wants?”
It was none but Ghira, the one who asked “I understand, Young Man, to be sincere I’m eager to accept. But the only question left, is what do you gain of all of this? What do you want of us?”
Hearing him ask, Silva knew his words had reached him “What I want is a cooperation, Mr. Belladonna. I want to create a conjoined company. A part of the company will be in charge of the trait markings, the other one will be in charge of the weaponry markings. The sales of each side will be divided equally between both sides, just that special products won’t be divided”
“Special products?” Asked Ghira confused.
“While it’s true that by marking garment, you can grant it a special trait. Markings are not limited to clothing, for example lizard Faunus are known for being able to regrow small parts of their bodies, right?” At that moment Ghira mind suddenly cleared up, as many possibilities unveiled to his eyes. His eyes shined brightly, he then suddenly stood up and said “As the High Leader of the White Fang, I accept your offer”
Looking at Ghira with a relaxed smile on his face, Silva asked teasingly “Are you sure? Aren’t you supposed to deliberate with your group?”
“Hahaha! That won’t be necessary. After all you said, you have convinced every Faunus in this room. I’ll make a fool out of myself, if I were not to accept such proposal” Hearing Ghira, everyone looked at Silva with a small smile. Even Sienna looked at him and nodded gently, but what Silva didn’t noticed was that, two small gazes containing traces of worship appeared on the eyes of the other kids in the room.
“Well, since everything is now over” Ozpin interrupted with a small smile on his face “I want to place an order for my Academy” His tone caused the room to ring full of laughter, even the stern Glynda gave a small smile.
While everyone laughed, there was only one question stuck on Ghira’s mind “Brat, just how far you are seeing?” Ghira had a weird feeling. He felt that from the very beginning, they never stood a chance against the boy in front of him. Ghira knew that the boy was probably nervous, but that he was confident of success, that he was looking further away. While Ghira thought this, on Silva eyes a notification appeared.
HIDDEN QUEST:
GAINING GHIRA BELLADONNA FAVOR: (COMPLETED)
REWARDS: BODY STRENGTHENING CRYSTAL
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Finally for Silva, the day was over. After a few more small talks, such as naming the company and organizing the lessons Silva was going to give towards the staff chosen by the White Fang, everything was now done. Thankfully Ozpin had already helped him purchasing a spot in Vale, between the commercial and the industrial districts. Now the only thing left, was the training of the personnel. In the end the Company was named with the two parties in mind, as the Silver Fang. The only thing was that at the end of the meeting. Ozpin asked them to protect Silva identity as a secret, which all of them agreed easily.
Taking a deep breath, Silva stood from his bed as took his scroll from his pocket. Just like every day, he called back to his family. Answering the house phone, was none other than the small Ruby. Who started asking questions like crazy, finally Silva could heard every one of them from the other side. Giving a few small laughs, he talked to them for a few hours before taking a shower and falling to bed. Not before using the system reward, the last time he had gotten an aura refinement crystal, which had purified his aura enough for it to reach the level of a rank one huntsman. Now he was excited for the results of the body strengthening crystal.
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During the next months, after completing the contract with the White Fang. The outdoor protest the White Fang used to do stopped completely, stunning the population. Making them wonder what happened to White Fang. It must be known that for the people of Vale, it was normal to see a group of Faunus on the streets holding their panels high.
What they didn’t know, is that the White Fang members were receiving classes, of the basic markings techniques and inscription patterns, inside a company building in the commercial district. While Silva, together with a team of fifteen Atlas researchers, completed the basic designs of Faunus Markings. Using their talents they created a basic prototype of a marked uniform.
By the end of the third month, the best prototype had four different Faunus markings. The rabbit, the bull, the turtle and the monkey markings. Each markings were branded to work only when four pieces of the uniform was worn. The first prototype was made with all-rounder fighters in mind, it gave speed, strength, defense and dexterity respectively.
By the fifth month. There was a small group of elite Faunus, which could already work by themselves in the first prototypes made. While at the same time with the help of Ghira, Silva hired a group of weapon makers. Who he personally taught about weaponry enchantment, in order for them to design weapon merchandise.
It could be said, that during the first five months. There was almost no time for Silva to freely rest, as he not only taught the two groups of personnel. But he had to share his understanding of aura and markings, with the group of atlas researchers who crazily devoured information. As they were able to replicate 60% of the third tier energy gathering mark by the end of the fourth. The reason why he taught them so much was because, the system would only help him create up till third tier marks. After that, it was up to his own understanding.
Together with them, Silva was trying to create a continuous energy source. After all, what the mark created was pure dyeable crystal dust. If utilized with lighting dust, they would be able to produce a replacement for the current cities generators, but this could only happen when they understood more about aura technology.
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Thankfully Silva was able to handle everything perfectly. The main reason was that after utilizing the body strengthening crystal, Silva muscles had reached the first rank huntsmen class. Together with his aura, he was just as strong as Beacon first year students. Second to that, Silva had a pair of helpers, which followed him around almost everywhere, they were the two kids behind Ghira during the negotiation. Of course Silva noticed them, but he was more worried by the result, so he didn’t gave them too much attention.
Both of them were, Adam Taurus and Blake Belladonna. At difference from the series, Adam was not a Faunus supremacist, or maybe not yet. At this point of time Adam was a still a kid who detested Faunus discrimination, and after seeing a boy younger than himself do so much for the Faunus, he started to admire Silva.
Together with Blake, they had asked Ghira to let them stick around Silva, just like they were two small bodyguards. For Blake it was much simpler, seeing her people so happy had directly raised the importance of Silva in her heart. Every Faunus brought by Ghira moved around the building with a smile, something the White Fang organization in Vale hasn’t been known for. It looked like after Ghira explained the content of the meeting towards them, they all felt that things were about to change and were full of hope.
Finally after nearly sixth months of arduous preparations. The Company was scheduled to open after the end of the year, and the new Beacon School uniform preparations were completely made. After receiving reviews from his researchers about the power of the marked uniform, General Ironwood had placed an order for Atlas Academy too, so things were going pretty good for Silva. The only bad side to all of this, was that the atlas researchers leaved by the end of the year too. In order to start their own preparations and experiments, But because all of them were amazed by Silva talents, they had obtained a special permit from the General in order to maintain communication, after all Silva identity was still a secret to most of the Council.
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A few days before end of the year, using a small part of the advanced payment made for the uniforms, with Ozpin’s help, Silva bought an upper class property near Beacon academy, in order to welcome the Xiao Long-Rose Family who decided to pass the end of the year together with him in Vale, as he was so busy he could not go back.
Inside the property Silva had already decorated the mansion size house to fit the different tastes of all of them, as there were only three days left for the end of the year, Silva had already prepared five different presents, as in the world of Remnant they actually mixed Christmas with New year, the fifth was just in case Qrow decided to drop by, like most of the time he did, of course he had prepared some things for Zwei too.
While he was busy giving the final touches, outside the property, there was a car that had suspiciously parked in front of the mansion at least three times already, it leaved and returned as if looking for something that could not be found.
“Sum, are you sure this is the direction of the place?” Inside the car, Tai nervously asked “This is a fricking villa” he exclaimed, right to his side there was a beautiful woman that looked at her scroll, like Silva wanted it to be a surprise, he had only sent them the localization.
“I did not make a mistake, this is the place” Summer said quite surprised, at the back of the seat, there were two girls, who could no longer wait anymore. “Dad, he wouldn’t sent the wrong direction, let’s enter” Yang complained.
“Wait a minute, we cannot just call the wrong place… Wait Ruby where are you going” While Tai tried to explain, the most bored girl in the car quickly got out of it, and together with a small dog in her arms moved quickly to touch the outdoor gate caller “There, now we can see” ”Wan*” she complained.
Right after, the voice of Silva was heard from the speaker “Who is it?” only to be answered by the high pitched scream of Ruby “BROTHER! LET US IN! IM HUNGRY!” the moment she finished, a groan of pain was heard from the speaker as the gates opened stunning everyone.
Entering the car Ruby looked with a proud face at her speechless parents and laughing sister, who immediately hugged her after she came inside, “Good job, Sis!” Seeing the two girls, Tai had no choice but sigh and quickly drive the car inside.
Entering the terrain, they looked around, it seemed to be as the house was surrounded by many different trees with a big front garden, full of sunflowers, the house in front of them looked to be well maintained, though it style was a little old, it was painted in a cozy brown colors. In front of the house Silva waited them with a small smiled on his face.
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Coming out of the car, the two girls jumped into Silva arms hugging him tightly. In his arms Yang looked around and said “Wow Sil, this place looks Yangtastic”, Hearing her, Ruby complained “That was not funny, Yang” and started bickering one another. Listening to their chit chat, Silva couldn’t help but smile more, while he hugged them harder, making them struggle a bit. Finally as he saw the stunned face on Tai’s face, at his side Summer looked at them with a smile, he let them go as he moved to greet them.
“Hey uncle Tai, is something wrong?” he asked with a mischievous smile.
“Wrong? Silva, this place?” Tai asked a little stuttering, he still could not believe it completely. After all, even with his profession as huntsman, the place they had was still not as big as this one.
“Ohh! This, is something I bought for when any of you wished to find a place to stay at Vale. I know that during the Vytal Festival, you use to stay at the Academy, Ozpin told me”
“Isn’t that too extravagant?” Tai asked clearly stunned “Of course not! In fact the main reason I bought it, is too make myself a laboratory for when I stay at Vale. After all the company building is not a great place to experiment at the moment” Silva explained as he recalled the accidents they caused at Beacon Academy. Right now, the experiments Silva carried with the researchers were made at Beacon, and while it was safe at the moment. Silva knew that the Academy would be compromised later on, so he didn’t want his research falling in the wrong hands.
Hearing Silva explanation and remembering what he worked on, Tai finally relaxed a bit. Of course Tai was still shocked by the incredible amount of lien Silva obtained, but he knew the importance of his research. If not James wouldn’t had sent so many of his trusted scientists, so of course, there would be a big amount of funds involved. Finally after making sense of it, all of them entered the house.
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During the three days, Silva challenged the two girls too find where he hid the presents. As he knew they liked to take a peek at the stuff they were getting before time. He saw them doing this to Tai many times during the past years. After accepting, both ended exhausted in the futile intent to find them, Silva just laughed at their complains, as he only did it to mess with them.
Silva passed his entire time with the five of them, including Zwei. Making up for the time they weren’t together. They went to look around the city visiting many different places and many different stores, where they bought one thing or another, watching movies, or into a comic store, where they had to wait for Ruby for nearly an entire afternoon.
Finally during the end of the year, all of them simply stayed at the mansion playing Remnant Board Game, waiting for the dinner. When it was finally night, just like always, there was one drunkard who came late.
“Hey! Kiddos” Coming from the house backyards there was no other than Qrow.