So here is the sequel to The Blackening Rose… I'm so excited about this story because I have a feeling that it'll be even better than the last one… enough wasting time! Here is Chapter 1…

(Disclaimer: Read The Blackening Rose before reading this story or else you will get CONFUSED)

I also like to say that I will have a co-author in this story, which will be weasel AKA boundedsumo…

The summer green leaves flew with the wind. It had been a while since that… nightmare happened. No… that's not how I should say it since it was all real. It's been a while since the day my world went upside down… a year to be exact. That was when Blake and I began dating and then I realized that I can turn into a beowolf. How crazy would that be for a person to turn into a creature that everyone despises in the world of Remnant? I would have never thought of such a thing until it happened to me. One of my teammates, Weiss Schnee, the heiress to the Schnee Dust Company… I have known her more than almost everyone else, except for my sister, Yang Xiao Long.

Her father had kidnapped me at a young age and conducted ruthless experiments on me, one was to splice my DNA or something like that with a Beowulf and be able to churn into the monster. It had worked, but I had escaped before he could finalize it, then everything became a living hell for me. I had murdered my mother because of him, all I could do was watch as my uncontrollable self in my beowulf form tear my mother apart. She knew that it was me and forgave me before she died… but after all of that has happened and a good talk with her spirit… I can finally forgive Myself, even if it wasn't my fault.

At the end of all of that, I have someone that I care for now, someone that I love with all my heart. Blake Belladonna… we got married a few months after those horrifying events, it would seem strange to some since we seemed to be too young to get married but we just went with it, love is like that. I would do anything to keep her happy and safe.

We were both resting in the place we had gotten married. the beautiful forest that she had led me to on our first date, the black-haired faunus told me it was known as the Blooming Forest, the flowers were just beginning to bloom and the scent of nature filled my lungs with each breath. "It's been a while." I said finally after a long, peaceful silence.

"Yeah… it has." she replied and lied her head down on my lap.

"Did you… tell her mother about what happened?" Blake took out a letter and gestured me to grab it. The letter belonged to someone that was with me when I was kidnapped for the second time. She worked at Beacon's infirmary and we became friends quickly. Her name was Serah Baker, and she died protecting Blake when Weiss's father almost had taken her life. We were finding our weapons and found them in a room that had personal things from people that got kidnapped, then Blake told Yang, Serah and I to leave the room. That was when the fighting began and Serah was the only one that heard it.

She rushed in which surprised us and we went after her, but it was too late as we ran in, she was on the ground, bleeding to death, a blade struck her chest and we wouldn't have enough time to save her. Instead, Serah gave us a letter that she wanted to send to her mother, and then she died. We learned that she was a fox faunus… well Blake and Yang learned that while I knew it the first night in the cold cell we were forced to live in. "We have to get it to her, Her mother's probably worried sick and it's been a year since Serah's death." I said.

"I know it's just that I don't want to give her a letter from her dead daughter." Blake replied and gave me a saddened expression.

I began to caress her beautiful, black hair. "We have to give it to her, Serah wanted us to do it and I don't break promises… we have to."

Silence filled the air, and then she sighed. "We'll go later… is the address on the letter?"

"Of course Blake, it's a letter." I said and smiled.

"I just need some rest." She said in a tired voice.

"Okay… go to sleep, I'll carry you back to our dorm and-"

She interrupted me. "No… please stay here, i enjoying the nature's quiet embrace." I can't blame her. My fire spirited sister, Yang can be a bit loud in our dorm and Blake sometimes will get rather annoyed of her. "I just want it to be the two of us, and not anyone else."

I nod, then I leaned down and kissed her forehead and said in a soft voice. "Okay Blake… we'll stay, just get some rest."

"Thank you…" With those words, she fell asleep. I looked up at the blue sky and smiled. The person that destroyed my life is gone, I can finally relax. But I had a strange feeling, surely news of my ability have spread since everyone at Beacon knows about it and gossiping can lead to the whole city knowing, but what if gets to more evil people? Now's not the time to indulge on that, I closed my eyes and went to sleep.

A few hours later…

"Is this it?" I asked. Blake and I had stopped in front of a brick mansion, it alternated with black and blue and surrounding it was several kinds of plants and flowers like blue bonnets, roses, and lavender.

"There is a sign that says Baker Residence so that must be it." Blake replied.

"But what if it's not the family we are looking for?"

"We won't know unless we find out Ruby."

I walked behind Blake as she knocked on the shiny, black door, then it opened. The person that was there had brown hair like Serah's but it was longer and she had fox ears like her too. "Can I help you?" she asked, her voice was the normal pitch of a woman that had just reached her forties.

"Do you have a daughter named Serah Baker?" Blake asked.

The woman's eyes widened and nodded. "Yes… yes I do, are you friends of my daughter?" she asked.

"Yes…" Blake looked around for a few seconds and turned her attention back to Serah's mother. "Is it okay if we can step inside?"

"Sure, her friends are mine as well, come in." She stepped back and opened the door fully, then gestured us to do what she said. I gave Blake a nervous look but she just ignored it. The living room looked modern since there was paintings of modern buildings and a flat screen was hung on the wall, showing the news. "Now, surely if she didn't come, it must be important… the name's Claire." Claire said as we sat down on the white, rectangular couch while she sat in front of us on the same colored armchair. "Do you want me to prepare you two something to eat?"

"No ma'am, it's a generous offer but we came here to break some news to you." Blake said in a grim tone.

"What happened?" Claire asked, worry etched her older features as she looked at us.

Blake gave her the letter that Serah gave us and she began reading it aloud since we haven't read it either.

Dear Mother,

It's been a while since I went to see you but I've been busy at Beacon. A lot of things have happened here, I just, miss you and father… even if he isn't around anymore. You've been through so much and I wish I was there to comfort you. I made some new friends at my new job here at Beacon, a red-haired girl named Ruby Rose… she's a great kid mom. You would have loved her. This letter is being sent days, months, or even a year after it's made, and probably when it gets to you, I'll probably be dead. I've gotten kidnapped by some guy and I met Ruby here, she told me that she can turn into a beowolf and stuff like that because of the man. The man was so cruel, he put us through torture and we made it out, but after all of this, I saved Blake, her girlfriend by sacrificing myself. In the final moments of writing this, I want to say that I'm sorry… for everything that you had to do alone… for making you lose father, I never meant to do those things and you know that… I hope you can forgive me.

I love you mom, Serah

She finished the letter before she died?! But… how is that possible? I stopped thinking and went back to reality when I heard Claire crying. "She… died protecting us." Blake said in a saddened expression. I wonder if she was thinking about how she could finish the letter before dying… when I went in to see what happened, she just gave us the letter.

"I forgive you Serah… I shouldn't have been mad at you." she said softly, it was like she ignored us and began talking to her now dead daughter.

"I know how it feels like to lose someone you love… I lost my mother at a young age." I said softly.

"I did also when I was your age, I had to live alone, until I met my husband." she replied and looked up at me, her eyes were watery. "She was a great girl… she wanted to be a huntress despite being a faunus."

Blake stood up and took off her bow, showing her cat ears to the fox faunus. "I've been through those times, I'm a faunus also."

"Then you must know how it feels to be disgraced?" Blake nodded. "I'm glad she has friends like you two… it would have been great to see her happy."

"I'm glad I met someone like her, she's a great friend." I said and gave her a smile. We both got up and began walking to the front door. "It was nice meeting you."

"Wait!" she exclaimed in a worried voice. Blake and I stopped and stared at the fox faunus, she walked towards us and then she wrapped her arms around both of us. "Thank you, I wish she was here so I can forgive her in person."

"I'm sure she would have been happy to hear that." Blake said and smiled. Before we walked out, she put her bow back on and then we began walking in the direction of Beacon. It was dark out and we could only have our breath taken away by the stars. "I'm glad we told her." Blake said softly, looking down at the ground.

"I was the one that got you the courage to come here." I said and gave her a goofy grin, in an attempt to make her feel better.

"You're right on that, I admit it." We walked together, holding hands back to our home…

So that was chapter one, I feel like I am extremely rusty on my writing skills but I feel even better now so here is the story that people anticipated…