CHAPTER II
A/N: Well, well, well, what do we have here? Chapter 2, that's what! Yay! I hope this turns out well for a first full story. Please leave reviews, they are greatly appreciated! And I hope you enjoy the story too.
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"Waaaa!" Weiss let out a shout of surprise at the sight of two yellow eyes watching her from across the bookshelf.
"Shh!" a voice said. It came from in front of her, meaning the voice was that of the mysterious figure's. "You'll alert them!"
"They already know I'm in here anyway!" the heiress exclaimed while trying to keep her voice to a whisper. "Can't you hear the banging on the door?"
"Of course, I can!" the voice replied. "I'm not deaf!"
"Then why were you telling me to be quiet?"
"Because it will alert them!" the voice said, as if in a matter-of-fact tone. "And if you're trying to hide, then we should keep moving and you should just keep your voice down!"
"We?"
"Yes, we. I'm hiding too."
"You're not the one they want!"
"Maybe you wouldn't like what you see!"
This caught Weiss by surprise. "What do you mean?"
She could see the yellow eyes roll even if the room was pretty dim. "I'm not a human."
"You're a Faunus?!"
"… I shouldn't have brought it up."
Weiss was now in conflict with herself. She didn't know who she wanted to be with anymore. The people outside her door who were attempting to get in and this Faunus girl were both enemies to her. Well, she was sure about the Faunus thing because her father told her that all they were ever good at were lying, cheating, stealing, and killing. The human thugs who wanted to kidnap her were full of malice, definitely, but this… Faunus…she felt had good intentions.
So she did the better thing and started to cry softly.
"W-wait! What are you doing?!" she heard the voice again as it stuttered and was clearly surprised at Weiss' actions. "Now's not the time to cry!"
"I don't know what to do!" Weiss wailed. "D-Daddy said th-that you were… the b-bad guys… and those m-m-men outside are bad too…"
"Hey!" the voice cried out in a whisper. "I'm not bad!"
Weiss continued to sob and stay in place, not making any move to get up and move just as the voice told her to. She heard shuffling in front of her and felt thumbs wipe away at her tear-stained cheeks. She was silenced by what she saw when she opened her sky-blue eyes.
A girl around her age with the mysterious yellow eyes was crouched in front of her. She had short, black hair that reached down to her shoulders, and ears that looked like a cat's were perched on top of her head. She was wearing a purple shirt, dark shorts, and a dark cloth tied to her left arm. Weiss noticed that attached to her shorts was a belt that held some daggers and other sharp objects she knew not the names of, but she knew those weapons looked like they belonged to a ninja rather than a little girl. Attached to her back was a sheathed sword that looked almost twice her size.
"Um, hi." The dark-haired stranger spoke. She was about to introduce herself when the white-haired girl in front of her got a heavy book and shielded her body. It seemed she was trying to hide from the new girl, or she was defending herself against possible attacks.
"I'm not gonna hurt you!" the Faunus told her. "I'm going to help you get rid of these guys!"
"D-Don't touch me!" she heard Weiss say. "You're just here to kill me like those men would!"
"I don't want to do that!"
"Prove it!"
The ninja sighed. Convincing her to hide and that she was a good girl who had no intentions of hurting her would take a while.
"Look," she started. "Do you want them to break the door, find you here, kidnap you, and take you to a land far, far away where even your father won't be able to rescue you?"
She saw the heiress shake her head numerous times. At least she was getting somewhere.
"I know you probably think of me as a dirty person because I'm a Faunus with cat ears. I want to help you, and you know I can!"
Weiss looked up from her book. Could the girl standing in front of her really do that? If so, how?
"How can you help me?" she asked, her voice a bit cracked from all the sobbing. "Help me find a hiding place, or could you actually kill them with that sword?"
"I think I can hold them off," the girl in front of her said, and she saw a smirk on her face. "I've trained with this before I got here, you know."
Weiss backed off into the shelf again, raising her book and attempting to hide behind it. The Faunus just sighed again, and said, "I'm not going to kill you with these weapons! And besides, I know a lot more hiding places around your house than you could ever imagine."
The heiress stared at this mysterious girl in disbelief. This was her own house, which she had lived in for the longest time, and yet here this stranger was, telling her that she knew more secret places to hide in than "she could ever imagine!" What kind of nonsense was that?
"I don't believe you." She defiantly said. "Tell me where."
"Well, there's one in your father's office, ten in here, maybe five in the kitchen… your bathrooms are large and there's a secret passageway that leads to some abandoned part of your house…"
"TAKE ME THERE."'
A smirk appeared on the stranger's face. "Where, exactly?" she asked.
Weiss sighed. "You win, I get it. Just take me anywhere you think is safe!"
In her eagerness to stand, Weiss hit her head on the top part of the shelf she was hiding in. The Faunus girl instinctively shielded her head when she was making a second attempt to crawl out of the bookshelf. Weiss took the stranger's outstretched hand and stood up, noticing that the other girl was taller than her by a few inches. Damn her height.
"Say, I never really got your name," she said as she rubbed her forehead and followed the girl who was leading her to one of the other hiding places. "I'm Weiss."
"I know your name," her companion said. "I'm Blake. Nice to meet you for the first time face to face."
I'll upload another chapter next week! Stay tuned! :-)
