Chapter 1: The Longest Time
A/N: So recently this has been a really interesting rollercoaster of a life I've recently had, RWBY Chapter 3 kills my feels by having Team RWBY being split, and other stuff…. Besides that, kind of lost track and got stuck of not writing, although I do aim to get back into it again. Enjoy this anyways, I hope to get a schedule going.
To think this mask is what kept me going… I looked at the artistically-designed mask I made to hide my identity, I was a rouge element. Being chased by old flames and maybe even new, I'm sorry Yang… I just couldn't allow him to get anywhere close to you… Taking a look around my run-down rented apartment, I couldn't help but laugh at the irony of how well off I was actually compared to what I'm living in, "Jeez Blake, can't make it far into the world without at least being stingy on something I'd assume…"
Even so, I looked back down at the black and white mask, with a scratch going from the upper-right across the right eye-hole towards the bottom-left, it felt like I was just lucky to still have this apartment and the cash I had stashed away, "Funny how I'd end up here again after I promised myself for the longest time not to even bother with the old ways… But I guess once a vigilante, always a vigilante…" I tallied up the amount and took a peak at my bounty board and map of Remnant filled with pictures of key figures in the White Fang, lines connecting them but to the central power, I know nothing about. Only the ones who lead the local country sects. Although with Cinder and her two lackeys offering the White Fang help… It seems the leader isn't exclusively denying help from humans now… Unless she somehow coaxed him into it…
I tacked on Cinder's picture along with her two followers next to the central hub, "Hey Blake, thought you wouldn't return…. Honestly, ever since I got the call from you about Beacon I thought I'd be alone in the apartment again…" I looked at her solemnly as she entered the room, "Yoko… Thanks for still being alive and keeping the apartment in livable condition while I was gone…" She dropped off her hunting pack and laid her precious bow next to the coffee table, "Well, what else can I do since you gave me a home to come to ever since I helped you escape the White Fang in exchange for the location of all that dust you and Adam- I mean…"
I knew what she meant but I didn't want to hear it, "Look, just remember that we're both going to be taking her down. Also ever since you left for Beacon I've been doing some digging, turns out I may have discovered who one of the central ringleaders are but, I need to know one thing… How are my kids..?" Damnit…. Damn it all to hell I was hoping she wouldn't bring it up… "T-they're doing fine…" I gulped, expecting the hell to release from her, I could already feel Yoko's body heat rising and I almost felt like if I said anything else it'd only be more hell for me to pay, "I know what happened Blake…. Now you better tell me now…. How are they..?"
I felt her stalk towards me, fuck it… May as well say it… "Yang lost her arm and Ruby is doing oka-". I felt her wrap her arms around me as I felt her chest press up against my face, wait what..? Where's the 'I'm going to kill the White Fang anger' I felt just moments before? "I'm sorry I wasn't there to help… It's just hard trying to be considered dead by your own two daughters while your husband is going off spewing lies about how he had married two women instead of one… I swear to god…. I want to go back and help them but I'm too much of a god damn target!" She let go of me as I felt the tears fall from her fall onto my head, "Yoko, I just hope you understand that you will need to face them someday… I mean I had to face you about this!" I started to tear up as I couldn't stop thinking about Yang and her arm, "I… I suffered too!" I couldn't stand it anymore, I just felt my legs collapse under me as I began to allow the tears to fall from my eyes, "I-I can't see Yang anymore… I love her Yoko, I love your daughter! I-I I just want to go back! And, and, help her but Adam! H-He just sliced it off! I mean god! She was fucking lucky enough to survive! That sword kills things more than it does in-injure!"
"I'm sorry Blake… I'm truly sorry…" those were the words I last heard before I fell asleep due to exhaustion…
Ending note: Hey, just wanted to put something out, I felt like I've probably forgotten about some of my other stories but I am currently working on them as we speak I should have the next chapter of my current running stories up soon. Thanks to all of my followers for trying to be patient with me. Anyways, this is Fearmortali signing off. Peace out!