Chapter 3: A Loss And A Reunion

Elvira was watching white fang in a warehouse from the rafter's. "Who the hell are these dust suppliers of ours?" One of them asked as they moved boxes out of a storage container. "I hear they just show up out of nowhere with the dust. No one knows what kind of deal they made with our bosses. But I hear they knocked out the entire warehouse just to get a moment to speak with that human woman." Another said as they lifted a crate up onto a stack.

"This all comes from KEL shipments though right? Aint that dangerous?" Another asks as they continue moving the crates into neat stacks. Suddenly a handful of cloaked figures rushed in through windows and doors. They sprinted from white fang to white fang tearing through them. Except one who was throwing knives he personally took out at least 5 before they knew what was happening. Even the ones who got there aura up were beaten and battered before finally being torn apart.

Elvira groaned and dropped down next to the figure. "We are supposed to be investigating what happened. I learned more from skulking in the rafter's all day then you will from killing them all." Elvira said clearly irritated at Barton. "So you say but none of these men know much of anything. We need to force there higher ups into a confrontation. If we can 'speak' with them then we can get far more information." Barton says as he directs the other's with simple hand motions.


Late one night 4 figures slipped into the window of beacons small hospital. They quickly grabbed a girl from the only bed in the room. The girl was limp in one of there arms as the door opened. Only a moment after the door opened the figures were jumping out the window. Willow immediately pulled out a hefty revolver and broke into a sprint after them. The moment she get to the window she fired a few shots hitting aura shields. The figures just kept running till they managed to give Willow the slip.


The Raven haired woman stood next to a high tech cage. Ellie sat slumped in the center of the cage barely not touching the bars. "They will know soon enough for now we keep this quiet." She says as she stares at the girl wearing only a hospital gown. "And you put a blanket on her to cover her up properly. It makes me uncomfortable seeing her exposed like that..." She says to the pink and brown haired girl who nodded.

A white fang member came in and looked at the girl with a weird expression. "Why do you have a faunas girl in a cage?!" She nearly shouted as the Raven haired girl rubbed the bridge of her nose. "She is from KEL and our dust supplier's want her." She says as a red haired man stepped into the room. "So you made a deal to sell a faunas girl to a mysterious group in exchange for dust?!" He says clearly more then a bit angry.

"Look this one person is the only thing they wanted in return for as much dust as we could possibly need. And she is apparently in some kind of coma." She says clearly not in the mood to deal with people. The mans hand moved to the hilt of his blade. "Release her now." He says the threat clear in his voice. But before she could even flinch a large shadowy figure marched straight into the warehouse. White fang immediately surround it only to have smaller figures slip in the windows.

"You have done well to hold up your end of the bargain. The Order of Night are pleased. We will get you the rest of the dust-" Before it could finish what it was saying a dozen knives come flying in. Then more cloaked figures charged in and started to immediately battle it out with the other cloaked figures. In mere moments the white fang were brought into the middle of a fight between a dozen mysterious cloaked figures.

The knives exploded filling the room with smoke the figures barely seemed all that bothered. The white fang members were starting to take hits as they stumbled into the way of the fighting. The Raven haired woman heard a sound from behind her and immediately turned to see Ellie standing her hands on the bars. Ellie barely seemed bothered by the electricity coursing through the bars into her. She slowly started to bend the bars as the Raven haired woman and her allies backed away.

Ellie was starting to growl as she exerted herself. "Adam we need to get out of here now!" The woman said before the large figure punched Adam through the room into the back wall. "I shall be taking the girl now-" It started before it saw Ellie bending the bars. "Astonishing not even that containment unit can hold her." The mechanized figure said as it stood up straight. Ellie finally slipped out as a purple glow started to build up in her chest and move up to her fill her mouth as well.

Suddenly a beam of energy similar to certain types of grimm come spewing forth from her mouth. The robot attempted to brace but the beam propelled it back further and further till it slammed into a wall. The beam started to dissipate leaving the robot smoking and barely able to move. Ellie fell to her knee's seeming exhausted for a moment. Then she climbed to her feet and started knocking everyone who got close through walls.

She headed for the main room grabbing the raven haired woman on her way. She slammed her around a few times before just dragging her. When Adam approached her she looked over then threw the woman into him sending him into the wall. The purple energy started to build up again as Ellie walked into the center of the warehouse. Suddenly she was blasting anything that moved causing the already chaotic room to get even worse. Before long things were on fire and the building was becoming unstable.


'Ellie awoke in a empty white abyss. She climbed to her feet and started to wonder around the endless white. After an indeterminable amount of time she suddenly heard roaring from behind her. She spun around to see herself sitting at a small table sipping tea. With a more monstrous version of herself chained to the floor. "Oh hush you." The one at the table said to the beastly one. "So the three of us finally meet. At least in a manner of speaking." She says again as Ellie was suddenly sitting across from herself.

"Please help yourself to the tea if you wish. We have much to talk about." She said as Ellie slowly reached for the tea pot. "I am you from before this was done to you. Back when you loved to play with that ratty old guitar. The you from the nights you would receive beatings from your fellow orphans. And even the you from before you were a orphan." She said as Ellie tilted her head slightly. "Well all that aside you are at a cross roads. That version of you is growing more powerful by the second. The version of you that loses control to the monster dwelling inside of you. Your time is running out. The question is can you regain control of that monster." She says as the beastly version is suddenly free and slowly moving towards Ellie. It roared in her face before the sound of the beam suddenly cut through her world.


"What the hell am I supposed to do now?" Elvira asked as she stared up into the night sky. "I couldn't even protect my little sister..." She says to no one in particular. Suddenly a group of people come rushing over to her. "Elvira something serious is happening in the warehouse district!" Willow shouted as she came to a stop about 10 feet away. "Barton sent a emergency message to your communicator. He found the people who took Ellie. But Ellie has gone berserk and is tearing through his men!" She shouts to Elvira who jumps to her feet when she hears Ellie's name. "Then we must hurry!" She shouts back running with them towards the waiting bullheads.


Barton barely dodged a blast from Ellie. All of those who survived her first round of blasts stopped fighting each other. They were now focused on surviving. One of the cloaked figures rushed Ellie from behind but she slammed them into the ground with her tail. Then she spun around and slammed her claws through there aura and into there chest. The energy resonated with a strange humming sound that seemed to cut through the world.

The warehouse was ablaze and starting to fall apart around them. A single bullhead flew over the scene before 4 people dropped down from it. They immediately started to take stock of the destruction. "What the hell happened here?" One of them asked as Ellie suddenly blasted the bullhead out of the sky with a beam. It blew up before plummeting into the street's below. "What the hell was that?!" Another of the 4 asked panic in her voice.

Barton jumped up and threw a few dagger's into Ellie's back. After they became embedded they exploded. Ellie just turned to him and shot the beam through his chest. What remained of his aura shredded like paper. The 4 newcomer's immediately take cover as Ellie tackles a white fang member to the ground. "Wait a second... I think I recognize her. Yeah she is that girl who works with that Paladin lady. She is part of team NIBL her name is Ellie! But how is she doing this? Why is she even here?" One of them asks sounding confused. "You sure Velvet?" Her team leader asked sounding skeptical.

"Yes I am certain that is her. I met her a few times. She is the reason Cardin and his friends stopped messing with me." She said peaking out slightly. Ellie was still in the center of the building. But before she could say anything the building finally started to collapse right on top of Ellie. Velvet gasped as they all watched the burning building crumble. As the rubble continued to burn a couple more bullheads showed up over head and people started dropping down from them.

Elvira rushed over staring into the blaze. "What the hell happened... where is Ellie?" She asked before catching sight of the team who were now staring into the blaze. "She was in there when it collapsed." Velvet said shakily as Willow came up alongside her. But before anyone could say anything else a strange humming sound could be heard from inside the blaze. Moments later the sound became more intense until it suddenly stopped.

"What the hell was that?" Willow asked before Elvira had a sudden realization. "That sound is almost identical to the sound produced by a certain type of grimm. And since that grimm would not be found in a place like this it could only be one person. We need this rubble cleared now." Elvira said as Ozpin walked up alongside her. "Alright we will get the fire put out and clear the rubble." He said as he pulled out his scroll.


'Ellie was chasing the monster around the abyss as it blasted bleeding tears into the abyss. She was forced to chase the monster through a foot of blood. But finally she managed to grab it by the tail. The moment she caught hold of it it was suddenly chained again. And she was again sitting at the table. The only sign of the blood was the fact she was covered in it. "So you caught your monster. Are you gonna just leave me to suppress it? Because I don't think that will work anymore." She says to herself as the world seems to fade away.'

Ellie found herself laying under a pile of burning rubble. She started to struggle but her entire body felt like lead. After what felt like an eternity of struggling she focused on the monster inside of her. Energy started to build up along with a strange humming. Then a beam came spewing forth from her mouth. Since she was facing down she attempted to make a small cubby hole.

After a few moments she finished and struggled into it. She then proceeded to pass out in the cubbyhole as she was bleeding profusely from where her right arm and leg used to be. She was also covered in burns and other injuries.


With the fire put out Elvira and the other's were helping to clear the rubble. Eventually they found a cubbyhole under some of the metal that made up the rafter's. Inside the hole was a lot of blood and a unmoving Ellie missing her right arm and leg. Her body still covered with injuries.

Elvira used her aura to blast most of the debris off of the metal beams. "Come on I need help moving the rest of this! Ellie is down there!" She shouts getting every ones attention. Once they clear it all away Ozpin has some of his people carefully move Ellie into a bullhead to take her immediately to beacons medical facility. Elvira and Ozpin ride with her as the rest climb onto other bullheads as that come.


"Her condition seems to be slowly deteriorating. She is not healing like she should be. Which can happen when humunculus become unstable..." Elvira said as she sat in Ozpin's office with him, Glynda and James Ironwood. "Perhaps there is something I can do to help. You said her soul is removed correct? What if this is a result fo that? The body giving up. Does there healing ability slow as time goes on?" James asked as he looked to her.

"I see... that does make sense. So the lack of a soul eventually become to much for there healing ability to overcome." She says looking hopeful for a moment before frowning. "But we don't have a way to put her soul back in her body..." Elvira says her face in her hands. "That is not entirely true..." James said as he pulled out his scroll. "You see we have discovered a way to transfer someones aura to another person. And as we all know the soul and aura are linked. We may be able to transfer her aura from the blade back into her body. Which may save her." James said as he sent a quick message on his scroll.

They all headed to Ellie's medical room where her teammates and friends were all gathered. "We are gonna need the room." Elvira said getting nods from most of those gathered. Except Willow who sat glued to Ellie's side holding her left hand. "I am not leaving her side." She said earning a nod from Elvira. "Well we are moving her into a operation room. You can come with us I guess." Elvira said as she moved Ellie over to a bed with wheels.

Once in the room they moved her into a pod with her sword in the other pod. "Alright I am gonna start the machine." James said as he turned it on. The blade started to glow a soft purple. The glow moved up through the connector and over to Ellie. Ellie started to thrash around a bit as she glowed purple.


'Ellie was again in the white void. But after a bit it started to turn purple. Images started to swirl about as the other her took in a deep breath. "How does it feel becoming almost entirely whole again? The void where you soul should have been is finally filled. I suppose it makes for a strange reunion. Why do you suppose there are three of us here?" She asks as she watches all of the memories fly by. Ellie tilted her head for a moment before suddenly it was just her and the beast.

She walked over to the monster version of her and seemed to contemplate what to do. After a bit she embraced it finally standing alone in the purple void filled with memories. She wandered the void looking at memories. Eventually the world began to fade though.'

Ellie awoke facing a smoking hole through whatever she was in. The hole continued up through the roof of the building she was in. She attempted to move her right arm but found nothing moved. She started to panic as she looked down. She was missing her right arm and leg. In her panic she punched the door to the pod open with her left hand. Elvira and Willow quickly came into view as she fell out of the pod into there arms.

"It is okay Ellie we have you. Let us get you into bed." Willow said nodded to Elvira who picked Ellie up and placed her onto the bed she came there in. Ellie laid in the bed slowly closing her eyes. "She has to be exhausted." Ozpin said as he stepped up to the two. "Let us speak while she rests. We have some stuff to discuss." Ozpin said to Elvira who reluctantly nodded.


Ellie awoke sometime the next day with Willow and Elvira in chairs next to her bed. She just glanced around and stared at them randomly. But she was squirming some seeming uncomfortable. "Hey it is okay we have a prosthetic specialist coming. You don't have to worry you will be okay." Willow said brushing some hair from Ellie's face. "I am sorry I couldn't keep you safe..." Elvira said looking at her feet.

Ellie just stares at Elvira for a moment before laying her head back down. "I don't think she is gonna hold it against you." Willow said nodding to Elvira before she left to get some drinks and food. "I need to know if you remember how you became like this..." Elvira asked making Ellie sit up instantly staring straight at Elvira with her one eye. They stared at each other for what felt like ages. Eventually Willow returned and found them like that.

She seemed to scan there faces for a few moment's then she quickly stepped over to them. "Okay time for food!" She said loudly drawing there attention to her and the food she had. She handed some food to Elvira and grabbed a bowl of meat stew. "This is mostly meat. So it should be fine for you." Willow said as she leaned Ellie back and started to feed her. "Whatever you two were talking about I don't think she liked the topic." Willow said as she kept feeding Ellie. Who just sat there eating as they all settled into silence.


Ellie was sitting in a wheel chair wearing a long black dress. Willow was pushing her along as people kept staring at her. When Willow got them to a corner relatively free of people she sat in a chair next to Ellie. Willow was wearing a nice red dress. Of course one of the thing's that was drawing people's attention was Ellie's uncovered clawed hand. And the other thing was her missing limb's. She had a purple scarf wrapped around her neck as she usually did.

After a bit Ruby came over and sat down looking at Ellie's arm frequently. "Yes that is really her arm. It has to do with that thing we talked about in Ozpin's office. You know after the incident at the docks." Willow said getting an 'Ohhh' from Ruby. "Yeah it was covered before anyone could really see anything." Willow said as she glared at anyone who stared to much. As the dance went on Willow would occasionally get some kinda snack or drink.

Ellie had a few visitor's in the corner and Willow randomly had fans come up to her. But Ellie pretty much spent the night eating bits of meat and stuff and drinking whatever beverage Willow brought her. Though at one point Ozpin came over and sat next to them. "Hello Ellie, Willow. So tell me how are you two doing?" He asked as he seemed to be searching Ellie's face for any kind of response. "She seem's to be doing alright considering what has happened." Willow said getting a nod from Ozpin.

"Of course she still wont communicate. And she seems agitated and uncomfortable." Willow said as Ellie started to wheel herself away using her one leg. She quickly found herself before a black haired woman a silver haired boy and a green haired girl. They looked at her in shock as Ellie stared straight at them. Before long Blake came over. "Hey what are you doing over here Ellie?" She said as she started to wheel her over to the confused looking Willow and Ozpin.

"Uh and she has been doing strange thing's like that. I also got her watching a cartoon. Before she seemed to lack an interest in basically everything. But uh I guess that makes sense." Willow said shrugging as Ellie started tugging on her arm. Ellie's claws scraped the metal a bit before Willow pulled out her scroll and opened it. Then after a few clicks she held it out for Ellie to watch the screen. "So her claws can damage your prosthetic's that easily?" Ozpin asked getting a nod from Willow.

"But she is getting better about not damaging thing's with her claws. She can hold cups and such without issue most of the time. Though I am referring to cups made of sturdy material." Willow said tapping the thick ceramic cup she was holding. "I see. Well she is much stronger then any human so it should not be to surprising that normal cups and such would seem incredibly flimsy to her. And as such require a lot of self restraint for her." Ozpin said as Ellie was watching something on the scroll.

"What I wonder is why she went over to those three. She seemed to be eyeing them." Blake said as she looked at Ellie. Pyrrha came over as they all set there. "Hey everyone. Whats going on in this corner?" She asked as Ozpin got up. "Well I must be going but it is good to know Ellie is doing reasonably well." Ozpin said as he left the 4 girls to hang out.

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