Road to Redemption (Part IX):

Characters: Blake, Yang, Adam Taurus, Whitefang Soldiers, Sun, Night, Onyx, Weiss, Ruby, Jaune, Nora, Ren, Coco, Yatsuhashi, Velvet, Fox, Neptune, Sage, Scarlet, Tiayang

Pairings: Bumblebee, Whitrose

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters or settings, these belong to Rooserteeth and Monty Oum, may he rest in peace.

Summary:

Blake's dangerous past comes back to haunt her, can her new family hold up to the Whitefang's anger? (This is gonna be a short multi-shot story). This story is also within the same AU as the rest of my one-shots. [This story contains an OC for the Whitefang].

Mistral Kingdom, Whitefang Camp, Central Base

Adam stands shakily, that blast really got to me. His vision is blurred, but he can still make out the shapes of his defeated foes and allies, where is Athena? Blinking his eyes Adam clears his eyes out and looks about once more.

Blake is to his left, minor burns on her arms, and blood leaking from various cuts and bruises. Yang is next to her, similar in condition minus the burns. Night and Onyx are out cold, having landed on the tents set up by Adam's underlings. Maku's corpse is covered and dust and twisted about into a ridiculous position. Charic is nowhere to be seen, possibly having awakened and left already. Adam sees the scraps of Athena's collar drift out of the sky, a charred mess of another tent directly in front of the Bull Faunus. Serves the traitor right for doing what she did. Turning his head downwards Adam spits out blood, and feels a sharp pain in his stomach.

The man places his hand on his stomach only to recoil from it as pain shoots through his body. I'm injured… Adam looks at his hand, covered in blood. How… His eyes lose focus again and he stumbles to the ground using his left hand to steady himself as he grips Wilt tightly.

Yang's eyes crack open and she forces herself up. What happened? I feel like I got hit by a train. Getting into a standing position Yang surveys Blake beside her, and bleeding. Dropping back to her knees Yang places her fingers to Blake's neck, checking for a pulse. Please Dust don't be dead! *Ba-thump* *ba-thump* Yang releases a breath and checks, seeing Blake is for the most part fine. Her Aura must have protected her from most of whatever happened, and it looks like she protected you from Adam's Semblance as well. You got lucky Yang, you don't get to walk away from mistakes like that everyday. Starting to stand again Yang is stopped by a blade to her throat.

"I… I di-didn't give you… permission to… live…" Adam gasps out at Yang. Adam's other hand wraps around Yang's left arm, where Ember was. "Don-Don't try… anything… stu-stupid."

Adam's weight is shortly removed from Yang's body as she is flung to the ground. Instinct kicks in and the brawler rolls coming up with her left arm arming Ember. In front of her Athena stands in a combat position. Blood trails from her mouth and from her left eye. Her clothes are singed and burned, her neck piece is gone and the jacket along with it. Her arms are bare revealing burn scars and gunshot wounds, the missing neck piece shows off claw scars and another bullet wound. Her skirt was charred and still had embers burning on it. Beneath that her pants were burned into shorts, revealing the mechanical legs the Faunus has. Yang's eyes widen in surprise.

"I never said I was done with you, Adam."

The bull only glares in response, how could she have survived? Athena moves in, faster than Adam had ever seen, her claws sliding into place as she struck at Adam's face. He ducks the striking hand and slams the pommel of Wilt into her stomach. Athena shouts in pain, stumbling and struggling to stay on her feet. Adam sees his chance makes his move. He reverses his grip on Wilt and raises it above his head, but the woman he'd thought to be preoccupied was all but.

Athena slams her right leg and the metal slides apart an object shooting into her hand. The Puma Faunus catches the object and jerks her hand, a blade nearly a half a meter sliding out. Athena spins swiping the blade across Adam's midsection as she rolls out of the way of his strike. Slipping into a combat stance the once gleaming white blade is now drenched in red hot blood.

"You're mine Taurus!" Athena shouts. Her foot drives a divot into the ground as she pushes off into the air. Attacks, parries, and ripostes, the silence of the battlefield is once more alive with Adam and Athena's clashing blades. Despite their injured state the two warriours continue to trade blows, seeming to teleport across the central base. Yang watches in growing horror as Adam and Athena cut each other to pieces, until Adam catches Athena's sword arm.

"Do not make promises you cannot keep… Traitor!" Adam roars in Athena's ear as he draws back Wilt. "Please, say hello to our fallen brothers and sisters for me."

"Do it YOURSELF!" Yang shouts, no longer able to watch. The brawler launches herself into the air and brings a primed Ember directly onto Adam's unprotected chest. The shotgun round blows a hole right through his heart as Adam collapses in a heap. Athena falls to her knees, and only now does Yang notice the blood leaking through Athena's bandages.

Salem's Base

"Adam has failed us, gotten himself killed by the brawler no less. Team RWBY has been re-united, we should fall back and regroup."

"No. We cannot, our presence has been announced, and we can no longer hide in the shadows. They'll be looking for us now, we end this. Bring up the schedule, we strike Vacuo while the heroes are occupied with Mistral."

"Of course."

Epilogue

We're back together again… I don't know how to feel about that. I thought I had done the right thing running like I did, it seems I just made things worse. Blake turns and looks at Weiss, Ruby, Yang, and JNR talking animatedly about the many adventures and trials they had faced. Do I have a right to like her? Blake's eyes focus in on Yang, the only one who hadn't left her bedside in the med wing of Ironwood's dreadnought. Wait a sec she's looking at me! Oh Dust she's caught me staring! Oh Dust she's coming over here. Blake's thoughts are soon silenced as Yang grasps her hand tightly.

"You came for me… I told Athena to tell you not too."

"I'd always come for you… you're everything to me…" Blake whispers before realizing what she'd said. Yang smiles widely and places a quick kiss on Blake's forehead, making the Faunus blush.

"Same here…"

Author's Note:

This concludes the Road to Redemption series, as I've said I won't abandon either the OCs or this timeline and this AU. This is set in the same AU as my one-shots so please check those out if you haven't seen them and like this story. I'll take requests about storylines to run with for this AU and for a thing or two someone may be interested in. Please message with ideas, request, and so on. I'll do my best to answer timely, but will be working and going to school so you may have to wait. I apologize if for some reason you're kept waiting for a couple days, I try to check this once a day. Thanks for reading!