CHAPTER X

A/N: Hello friends! Army of Grimm here, presenting the latest chapter yoooo! Thank you for waiting three days for this story :( I'm sorry it had to take that long to wait for a flash of inspiration at 2 in the morning... It's a miracle I'm up at this time and this is the first thing that came to mind! I hope you all enjoy this chapter I've been putting on hold as I was ending the story.

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"You think this is it?"

The Huntress duo plus their new friend Blake Belladonna found themselves in a maze of abandoned warehouses. Cardin and Russel agreed to just drop them off there because they "didn't even know where it was" which was a "COMPLETE LIE!" as Ruby exclaimed. By the time the three girls had stepped out of the run-down car owned by Cardin's mom, the boys had had broken noses, scratch marks on their arms, and maybe hair pulled out from their scalps thanks to Ruby's bugging them.

Among all those big warehouses, nothing shouted "SCHNEE DUST COMPANY" as much as that shiny building glinting in the sun. By now, the sun was on its way to set, and there was no way the trio was going to rest until Weiss and whoever's in that warehouse has been taken care of. Well, this shiny building had to mean something. It's shiny.

"It's shiny," Yang said as she took in all the cleanliness this building possessed. "It's like someone's been maintaining that."

"And shining it up and down all day long," Ruby added, looking sympathetic for the warehouse cleaner. "It seems tiring."

Blake, who had said nothing the entire trip, finally spoke.

"Look," she said as she tapped the sisters' shoulders and pointed to a door. "It's Schnee's, all right. See that snowflake?"

Ruby and Yang both squinted their eyes to look for any signs of a snowflake on the door Blake pointed out, but none of them could see it.

"You have good eyesight, Blake," the brunette sibling said. "I mean, I have good eyesight too, but maybe it's part of your Faunus thing?"

After a while, Yang gave up too. "Maybe that's it. Otherwise, the only obvious thing that signifies that this is the Dust Company's is the outrageous shiny-ness!"

The Faunus sighed. "Well, that gave it away. Not like this place was hard to find."

Ruby, Blake, and Yang walked towards the entrance. They were about to push the steel door open when Blake heard a whizzing sound getting louder and louder. It was very faint that only she could hear it, but it was unmistakably a rocket.

"Everyone, run!" she shouted as the whizzing got louder. Yang and Ruby did not hesitate to follow the Faunus' command as they all split up and ran to opposite sides of the warehouse.

It wasn't long before the three of them watched the rocket pass in front of them, past them, and hit another building a few seconds later. A loud explosion was seen and heard, and everyone felt it in their feet.

Once everyone had recovered from the attack, they joined together in front of the door.

"That was so close!" the scythe wielder exclaimed, still shocked. "Thanks for saving our lives, Blake!"

"We totally didn't see that coming," Yang added, bowing her head as a way of saying "thank you." "Nor did we hear it."

Blake nodded. "You're welcome," she said. "It was quite distant, but the distance from the front of this door gave us enough time to take cover."

"We'd be dead without you," Ruby said.

At this, the ninja gave a smile. "No, it seems you both will be hard to kill. You're Huntresses in training, after all."

Ruby and Yang nodded and smiled as well.

"There's no time to lose," Blake said, suddenly getting serious. "We need to find Weiss in this warehouse and get her out of here."

"Are there bad guys we get to beat up?" Ruby asked excitedly. "They must taste the fury of Crescent Rose!"

Yang shook her head and looked at Blake. "That's the name of her weapon, if you don't know yet."

Blake chuckled. "Sure, there will be bad guys. There are three of them… Or four…"

"Then we get to split among ourselves!" the blonde Junior Huntress exclaimed. "We'll choose them once we see them!"

"Adam is mine to deal with," Blake said, as if calling dibs. "We have an argument to settle."

Ruby and Yang nodded. "Of course, I mean, you're fellow Faunus and all that. We don't really stand a chance," Yang said.

"Ready to go in?" the dark-haired Faunus asked the sisters, who nodded in response.

"Heck yeah!" Yang said as her wrist guns came to life. "Ready to kick ass!"

Roman Torchwick was pacing back and forth, looking very angry it seems, at Junior Xiong.

"His aim was not right!" he exclaimed. "Now, there's a bunch of bothersome kids outside our door! What is so hard about guarding the entrance?!"

"If there's a Faunus with them, then they could've had a warning," Mercury suggested. "Rockets aren't quiet up close, but the sound they make even from far away will alert the Faunus, who have sharp hearing."

The orange-haired thief grunted. "He could've done a better job standing in front of the door."

"To get massacred by the time he realizes that his enemy is in front of him," Adam said bitterly. "He's injured, Roman. He won't make a good front-door guard."

Mercury nodded his head in agreement. "True, Adam."

Roman was thinking of other ways to defend the warehouse against the incoming threat when suddenly, he had a brilliant idea.

"Are you all in good condition?" he asked the two men. "If we bring the fight here, then it's all good if we can fight."

"I will take down Blake," the bull Faunus said. "No one else can."

"That settles things," Roman said. "If she has companions with her, then we will deal with them."

"What about the heiress?" the grey-haired man asked, gesturing to the little girl seated on a steel chair with her hands and ankles bound by rope and her mouth shut by tape. "Any one of them can free her."

Roman's emerald green eyes sparked with malice. He surely had a plan for Weiss.

"Attach the bomb, Mercury," he said. "Make sure she can't get out of that chair."

After several attempts to open the strong steel door with their weapons, the three girls gave up.

"Weiss is in there!" Blake exclaimed, banging her fists on the door. "There's got to be another way in!"

"We've used up half of our ammo," Ruby sighed as she examined Crescent Rose's magazine. "We have to save the rest for when we encounter the opponents inside."

Blake took out her katana and slashed at the door relentlessly. Unfortunately, the steel would not yield, as the material of the Faunus' weapon was not strong enough to cut through it. She was at the verge of crying now, of giving up, but she slashed at it anyway.

"I made a promise to her," she said softly. "I promised to protect her, but I've failed and continued to do so."

The sun was almost completely gone and it was steadily getting darker. They didn't have much time left before the night came in.

One more slash at the unrelenting door and Blake gave up. She leaned against the entrance and let her back slide until she sat on the floor. Her head was in her hands and she started sobbing, everything around her long forgotten.

"Weiss," she whispered. "I'm so sorry I couldn't save you."

Ruby and Yang watched as Blake cried and told herself that she was such a failure at saving people and how the only person who gave her company was now lost to the hands of the enemy.

"We might not be the same race," they heard her say. "But you accepted me for who I was. Not a lot of people do that. My first allied opposite, now gone…"

"Hey, Blake," Ruby said softly, slowly approaching the Faunus girl. "We're your allied opposites too? I mean, we're human too, and all that—"

"Weiss means a lot to her, Ruby," Yang said, putting a hand on her younger sister's cloaked shoulder. "Don't you question that."

"But we—"

"Holey smokes, a rocket!"

All three heads turned to the incoming missile, flying towards them at a very fast speed.

"Ruby, Blake, get out of there!" Yang ordered. "I'm gonna open this door!"

Ruby and Blake ran to the side of the warehouse and watched as Yang faced the rocket. Once it was a few meters away from her, the blonde girl jumped high and aimed her fist at the rocket.

"Hiii-yaaah!" she shouted as her yellow gauntlet met the rocket's metal. She punched the rocket towards the steel door and the extra shot from the back of her weapon gave it the power to reach the entrance strong and very fast. Once Yang's feet touched the ground, a loud explosion was heard and the entrance was up in flames.

"That was awesome!" she exclaimed as she stood up and looked around for her two companions. "Um… Guys?"

"We're in, Yang!" Ruby said as she stood beside Blake inside the new hole of the warehouse. "Care to join us?" Blake asked.

"Heck yeah," Yang replied, her eyes turning into a shade of bright red. "Let's do this!"

A/N: Remember how Yang was punching Junior's rockets in the trailer? I thought of that here :D I'll upload the new chapter this Thursday (Wednesday, for most of you) so please stay tuned! I love you all~

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