Red like roses fills my dreams and brings me to the place you rest~
White is cold and always yearning, burdened by a royal test~
Black the beast descends from shadows~
Nope, no mention of the last line because last chapter was about her.
Edit: I'm really sick for two days and my head is killing me atm. I'm really sorry if there's any mistake in this chapter. I've tried my best to check it but if there's any please let me know okay?
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Chapter 4: Black, White and Red
Blake hummed happy tunes when she was walking back home, recalling that two hyperactive girls who bounced everywhere inside the cave yelling something that she couldn't understand.
And Weiss.
She liked all of them but…something about Weiss was different. Like…she felt something towards her, something special that was different from how she liked both Ruby and Yang. But she didn't know what this feeling was, so she had decided to just ignore it.
Her mood went down like a waterfall the moment she opened the gate to her house. She heard muffled voices coming from the inside and she was certain that her parents were fighting again.
Luckily there wasn't any sound of things clashing – meaning they were just fighting verbally so Blake had opened the door and stepped inside.
"I told you, I didn't do it!" Came her father's voice yelling.
"I didn't either! Why are you always accusing me whenever something's wrong?!" Her mother shouted back.
"Blake was out the whole day and you were the only one in the house! If it wasn't you then who did it? A ghost? Some kind of invisible aliens? Or a spider? It's all because of your stupid actions that Blake ran out of the house this morning!" Her father slammed the table, causing the cup to fall onto the ground and shattered.
The sound had startled Blake as she gasped sharply and hands held tight to her chest. Her parents saw her and immediately apologized while walking to her, checking to see if she was alright.
"Blake honey, are you alright?" Her father said gently, "Did you get hurt?"
"No…" Blake bit her lips, "Papa, mama, please stop…I…I'm scared…"
"I'm sorry." Her mother said, "Things just got heated when we're talking. Sorry honey."
"Why do you…why do you always fight?" Blake sobbed, stubbornly refusing her parents when they tried to hug her.
They looked at each other before sighing; her mother went to clean up the mess on the floor while her father suggested going to the living room to watch TV together. Blake followed her father and both settled on the couch.
"Umm…" Her father searched everywhere for the remote control but couldn't find it so he went yelling at her mother again, "Beatrix, where the hell did you put the remote control?!"
The loud volume of course had scared the poor girl as she shifted away from her father quickly, hugging a black kitty pillow tight.
"It's in the freaking drawer!" She shouted while stomping towards them, opening the drawer violently and threw the remote control to her father, "Can you stop freaking yelling over everything?! This is why when we talk it always turns into an argument!"
"Oh so it's my fault?!" Her father slammed the remote control on the couch and stood up in front of the woman, "As if you didn't shout. As if I'm the only one who does all the yelling and shouting!"
"Oh if it weren't for your stupid macho stuff thinking every woman on Remnant should listen to your orders like a dog I wouldn't have to shout back at you!"
"When the f- hell did I order you like a dog?!"
"When did you not?!"
Blake had the urge to run away again, like she always did.
And indeed she ran. When she saw her father started pointing at her mom with his index finger she knew it was going to turn bad. She knew they were about to throw things at each other again and she was scared. She clenched the pillow tight to her chest while running to her own room and slammed the door hard.
Why…why do they always fight?
She used her pillow to cover her head in hope to block out all the noises coming from downstairs. She cried silently, remembering the past where they weren't like this.
The Belladonna family was happy when Blake was first born. Her parents were caring and gentle – until the day she turned five, the family business had gone down and her father was facing difficulties with loans and stuffs. The pressure was then brought back into the household.
At first it was some little arguments which often ended with an apologetic kiss.
Then the pressure started to accumulate and things got a little heated up. A few years later when her father started drinking, things immediately escalated to 'worse'. And they never want to divorce because they knew it'd be hard for Blake, whether it was the fact that she had go to into foster care when they were fighting in court for custody or that each of them would take turn to take care of her if they lived separately. Either one would definitely break the girl's heart so they came to a mutual agreement to not get divorced – they loved their daughter no matter how much they argued with one another.
Blake sometimes hated her father's family business. He ran a small shop selling carved goods from wood and it was being passed down through many generations of the Belladonna family. Her mother Beatrix had suggested many times for him to just give up that shop and do something more profitable as wood carving was pretty hard to get a lot of sales, but the man always shot her down by saying he couldn't let the business end at his generation.
That was the first issue that caused the arguments between them. Even until now her father was still stubbornly not willing to let go of the shop. Her mother had to work part time as a typist and a waitress at a cafe just to keep their stomach full.
Maybe she should really be like Ruby and Yang. Maybe she should become a huntress.
As Yang said the payment of a huntress was definitely higher than usual jobs and the huntsmen were the noblest warriors in the world whom people admired and respected. If she became a huntress, perhaps she could get money to let her father to continue running the shop and they would stop arguing with each other. She could make them proud and perhaps they would focus on her more instead of fighting one another.
She silently made her decision inside the dark room.
The next day she was woken up by a few gentle knocks on the door. Rubbing her eyes she sat up and the door opened, revealing her mother. The woman told her it was time to go to school and asked her to go brush her teeth and prepared everything before going downstairs for breakfast.
"I made tuna sandwich. Be quick alright honey? It's pretty late now." Beatrix said before closing the door, her black short hair moving out of Blake's sight.
Knowing the breakfast was her favorite food had made her mood better. Like, way better than yesterday night.
As she brushed her teeth her mind had wandered to her new friends and she couldn't wait to meet them at Secret Base after school. Sure, she was afraid of dogs but Topaz seemed pretty friendly and he respected her a lot. Even a dog like him knew the boundaries – better than most humans on the planet who didn't know how to respect other people.
Blake studied in a normal government elementary school and it was pretty near to her house so she walked there everyday. As she got out of the gate after waving her mother goodbye, a cheerful voice was heard behind her and she turned around only to be attacked by a hug.
"Blake!" Ruby greeted, "Good morning!"
"G…good morning Ruby."
This was the first time Ruby had done this to her. They were neighbors for years but Ruby was too scared to have any physical contact with Blake because she thought the black haired girl hated it. She mostly just kept to herself and was always alone and Ruby didn't want to annoy her. They talked occasionally and Ruby knew about her condition but other than some simple chat they weren't that close to each other.
But after what happened yesterday, she knew Blake was just a timid girl who longed for love and protection.
"Listen Blake! I told mommy and daddy that they don't need to accompany me to go to school anymore!" Ruby released the hug and said.
"Why?" Blake frowned.
"No, it's not a bad thing. You see, I study in the combat school just near your school, so we can walk together from now on!" Ruby grinned.
Blake couldn't help but smiled too; the younger girl's grin was infectious.
"Then we can go to Secret Base together! Oh boy I can't wait for school to finish!"
"Me too." Blake replied shyly.
They started walking together towards Blake's school and had parted at the front gate when they reached their destination. Ruby promised to come pick her up after school and they could go home together and then to Secret Base.
Blake somehow hated the school but also at the same time she loved it. She hated it because there were many people inside and most of them didn't have manners – they were very rude and loud. She never got picked on but she saw bullying happening and she absolutely despised it.
But school was the only placed for her to escape from the incessant argument of her parents. Here she didn't have to be scared by witnessing the two people she loved the most hurling bad things at one another. The library here was nice too and there was a variety of books she could read.
Normally after school she would stay and read here but after yesterday's happy meeting at Secret Base she had decided she would instead borrow a book to carry with her wherever she went and read it when she was free.
The first period was physical education.
She hated this subject.
First of all, physical education meant sweating and second of all, it meant she had to shower with the other girls together.
And she didn't like it.
Her usual plan was to simply toss the ball and pretended like she was tired then the teacher would allow her to sit at the side of the field to rest. As she tossed the ball to a tall girl she saw another group of people walking towards their P.E. teacher.
Blake knew that group of people; they were from Class B (judging from the color of the P.E shirt they were wearing) which was another building far from her class which was class C. Class B was specialized more on physical related subjects, meaning most periods in their schedule required the use of the field. However, as far as Blake could recall their periods never clashed and this was the first time Class B was with her class on the field.
She couldn't help but noticed something catching her eyes from that group of people who were now getting ready to run laps as they were stretching. Those golden pigtails were pretty obvious among the other students from the same class and the owner of it certainly had noticed Blake too as she was waving her hand, running towards her.
"Hiya Blake." Yang said as she approached, "Didn't know we were in the same school."
"Me neither." She said while slowly walking to the side of the field and the blonde following beside her.
"White shirt…you're from Class C?" Yang asked and the black haired girl nodded, "Well, that's far."
White…it reminded the both of them of someone.
They simultaneously blushed and had quickly said something together to cover it.
"Ahh…the weather sure is nice today!"
"Y…yeah…"
Silence.
"Uh well…I better go back before the teacher finds me. See ya in Secret Base later Blake!"
"Okay. Bye, Yang." She waved her hand as the blonde jogged back to join her classmates.
And she was left alone again, just like always.
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It was about one in the afternoon and the school bell finally rang, children were eager to be released back to freedom – and so was a certain little girl.
Black hair danced with the wind as she made her way out of the school, taking an unusual path to avoid crowds. She hated crowds.
Before she reached the gate though, she accidentally bumped into a big tall boy. She quickly whispered sorry and wanted to get away from him as fast as possible, but a strong grip on her shoulder had stopped her from doing so.
"Hey, it's wrong to just walk away from people you just hit." The boy said.
Blake turned around and had to lift her head in order to meet the boy's eyes. He was really tall for an elementary student; he had orange hair and was wearing a red colored shirt along with a pair of sports pants.
"I'm really sorry…" She whispered; eyes shifting away from looking at him.
"Hey, aren't you that nerd who visits the library everyday?" The boy smirked, "You know, the one with no friends."
Blake flinched and tried to move away but the boy had grabbed both her shoulders and his grips were firm.
"Hey, it's rude to ignore people you little bitch." The boy scowled.
"No…please let me go…I'm really sorry…" Blake said, trying hard not to cry; she didn't want to appear weak in front of a bully. She tried to look around but it seemed like no one had the will to save her – no one wanted to get on the nerve of a boy this big.
Just when she was about to give up, someone actually did come and helped her.
Two, actually, both coming from opposite directions.
One put her hand on Blake's shoulder and the other one on the boy's.
Annoyed, he turned around only to meet with a pair of lilac eyes.
"Hey friend, stop bein' an asshole will ya?" The blonde scowled.
"It's not nice to bully people." Ruby said, pulling Blake close to her while glaring at the boy who was about a feet taller than her, silver eyes fearless.
"What, you girls wanna pick a fight? Everyone knows Cardin - the best fighter in school." He crossed his arms and smiled in confidence, "If you don't want me to beat you up, I suggest you apologize, now."
Both Ruby and Yang laughed loudly upon hearing that statement. Blake was extremely panic and started pulling Ruby's hand, signaling her to run. However the younger girl just shook her head and turned to face the boy who was about to explode judging from his tomato red face.
"Well." The blonde shrugged, "That little red over there could probably take you by herself."
"Oh really? Why don't you try huh? I'm gonna beat your ass for being so cocky you bitches." Cardin said, posing a battle stance with both his arms in front of his chest like a boxer.
To answer him Ruby simply unzipped her bag and took a red object out. She pressed a button and the object transformed into a red-colored scythe – a mini sized one to match her own height. Both were small but deadly.
"Just so you know, that little girl you just called a bitch over there," Yang motioned her head, "Is attending a combat school."
"So?" Cardin tried to remain calm but he was obviously shaking.
"So, if I were you, I don't wanna mess with her." Yang shot Ruby a grin and the latter smirked back.
"You…you crazy bitches!" He shouted while taking off towards the school gate, "I will remember this! Watch your bac-"
He bumped into something and fell backwards onto the ground. He regained his balance and stood up, trying to scold whoever was in his way. However his voice was stuck in his throat when he saw a giant man standing in front of him with a little girl beside him.
The girl motioned her hand and the man stepped backwards, leaving the girl to face the bully.
"I saw everything." The girl said with a flat voice while crossing her arms.
Ruby, Blake and Yang had chased after him and all came to a halt looking at the newcomer.
"So what?" Cardin hissed.
"So, if you dare to do anything to hurt them to get your silly revenge, I will make sure to send you back to your mommy in teeny, tiny pieces."
"Oho, who do you think you are? Threatening me like that? You think I'll be scared of you? Have you ever heard of the Winchester family little girl?" Cardin said, obviously looking down on this short girl in front of her – he was pretty sure that she wasn't from a combat school like that girl in red hood back there.
Well at least she didn't carry a scythe with her.
"Winchester family?" The girl questioned.
"Yeah! My full name is Cardin Winchester and my family owned a famous weapon store! So don't freaking piss me off!" The bully shouted as his eyes moved around all of them.
"Oh I know, Winchester Armory?" The girl taunted.
"This ought to be good." Yang whispered to Ruby, both grinning secretly while Blake was just stunned there looking at the situation. She couldn't quite process what was going on.
"Hell yes. I owned a mace that's also a gun. I just didn't bring it with me today. If I had it, then you," He pointed at Ruby, "Won't even touch me. You'll just get your ass beaten up."
Ruby just folded back her scythe and put it back into her bag while looking at Yang, both amused that the boy didn't know what he just got himself into.
"And who does the Winchester family worked for?" The girl asked, her tone still flat.
"We worked for no…one…" He slowed down, "Wait, are you…"
"Yes." The girl tilted her head with an annoyed look on her face, "I'm your future boss. I can just make a phone call and your family's business will go down faster than a jet. I can also make sure your family never get any job anywhere in Remnant from now on. You don't want to starve to death, don't you?"
Cardin's face turned to horror as he began running away from the gang, mumbling something inaudible to the girls.
"Weiss!" Ruby shouted, "You're in the same school with Blake?"
"No." Weiss smiled, "I let George investigate which school you guys are studying at and I plan to come pick you up to the forest by our car."
The giant man, George stepped aside and revealed a fancy limo behind him, gaining a mixture of surprised gasps and awe from the three girls.
"Then I saw that Winchester started picking up on Blake." She turned to Blake and the latter nodded, silently telling them she was alright. Weiss smiled back, "Well, before I managed to get to him, you guys had already…saved Blake."
They all turned to Blake simultaneously and Ruby was the first one to hug her. Everyone then shared a big group hug.
"Y'know Blake, you can rely on us." Yang said.
"Yeah! We'll protect you Blake!" Ruby exclaimed.
Blake just smiled at them and thanked them. George then suggested sending them back to their house respectively to eat before heading to Dragon Tears Forest in which all of them happily agreed.
When they were walking towards the limo, Weiss had held Blake's hand and whispered to her.
"It's okay, we're friends."
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Thanks for reading!
I hate Cardin. I definitely hate him.
And I've always wanted a scene where Weiss threatens people using her family power – and ended up being successful.
Who dares to defy a Schnee?!
Anyway, last chapter was a lot about Yang and although I wanted this chapter to focus on Blake, it didn't work out well. I initially wanted to focus more on her uh…life before meeting the three of them but there wasn't much to write. So instead I put this little incident where the three of them protecting the vulnerable Blakey and deepening their friendship.
Also, I do not own RWBY.
Lastly, I freaking love RWBY.
