Disclaimer: First Chapter
Story Start!
"Hello?" Blake asked as she waved her hand in front of the face of the nearest person to her. She had found herself in a strange place that she had never been, with no memory of how she had gotten there. The last thing she remembered was the fact that she went to bed at Beacon the night before initiation... and now she was standing in an old looking town with what appeared to be Faunus dressed in clothes that went out of style almost hundreds of years ago.
She was confused.
Almost as confused as to why she had a small white mark on the palm of her right hand, a mark that shaped like the sun... but with the majority of the mark blank. As if the mark had not been colored all of the way. Only a sliver of the mark was actually the white color it was suppose to be.
She was also confused as to why everyone was ignoring her.
"Hey!"
"Ah!" Blake shouted with a shiver when a person walked through her body. As if, they phased right through her and continued to walk towards a different person. "Hey! How did you..." Blake stopped when she realized that maybe instead of everyone ignoring her... she was either dreaming, or having an out of body experience.
She hoped dreaming.
"Naruto, what brings you here?"
Blake didn't see who said that, but she could see who they were talking to. A Toad Faunus who was dressed in an orange and black kimono. His Faunus trait being his eyes, the orange rings around them and the yellow color, with the bar shaped pupils. He had very... attractive features all over his mostly exposed body actually.
"I'm actually looking for Yuki. She's been acting... strange lately, and I'm worried about her. She told me she was fine... but you know." Naruto spoke awkwardly, but he had a smile on his face that showed how worried he was.
Blake tilted her head.
What was this dream trying to tell her?
"Yuki... A friend of mine was actually talking to me about that. She and a few of her Cat Faunus friends were seen going towards the old ruins of that city that was destroyed a few decades ago."
"Oh, thanks. I'm go and see if I can find her. I've got a question to ask her." Naruto said as he started to walk on his way, towards the walls around the town that no doubt protected them from grimm in Blake's educated opinion. She decided it would be best to follow Naruto, since he was the only person who she could clearly see. She had noticed that not only did people not see her... but for most of the time, she couldn't see them clearly either.
Blake examined Naruto with a raised eyebrow.
"Yuki... as in Snow? I can't say I've seen a Toad Faunus before either." Blake spoke mostly to herself as Naruto hummed to himself.
He didn't see her either it would seem... which made sense.
He walked through her.
"Man, I hope she wasn't studying too hard. I wonder who she tricked into exploring ruins with her this time?" Naruto wondered out loud, and Blake watched as they passed by the gates. The guards were armored with simple leather armor, and each had primative bows and arrows for weapons. Naruto waved to them with a smile, and they smiled and waved back at him as well.
Blake noticed that everyone seemed to just be Faunus, with no other people inhabiting the village other than Faunus.
Seemed a lot like Menagerie... only with a very different climate.
"Everything seems... different somehow. I'm sure that you don't hear me though. It's pretty nice here." Blake spoke to break her own awkward silence, since he wasn't talking to her or anything. She was now 100% sure that she was dreaming all of this in her own head at this point. "You're attractive... I like your eyes." Blake spoke just to hear herself speak at this point, knowing that he wasn't paying attention.
"What?"
"Oh crap, I didn't mean for you to hear that!" Blake waved her hands in front of herself when she saw Naruto run at her with his fist extended already.
He faced through her and punched an Ursa in the face, destroying it with a single punch. Blake shivered at him phasing through her, before he sighed.
"Seriously, that was a horrible ambush." Naruto commented to himself when the Ursa finished disintegrating. He had heard that Ursa sneaking through the bushes from a mile a way it was so pathetic. When it had jumped out, he was simply surprised that it had decided to do it at that point, instead of the second it saw him.
Grimm were not graceful creatures.
Dumb brutes.
"... Right, you really can't see me." Blake pointed out to herself again when Naruto started to walk the way he started out walking. She palmed her own face, realizing that she was happy nobody could see her stupid mistake, as she started to walk after Naruto. "Gross... it smells." Blake covered her nose when she started to smell something... bad.
Kind of smelled like iron and death.
Naruto's brow furrowed, and he started to run instead of walk when spots of blood were seen on the ground. Blake ran after him, intent on seeing this dream through to the end, because something must be on her mind for her to be dreaming this crazy stuff.
"... He... help."
Naruto turned and ran toward a tree to the right, where a man was sitting. Blake couldn't see the man's features well, but she could see that he had black hair, and he seemed to have goat legs. He was also bleeding, holding a dagger wound in his gut, with blood dripping down his chin, looking pretty beat up as well.
"Billy? What happened to you? Was it the human village to the north... did they attack you?" Naruto asked as he looked over his seeming friend.
Billy coughed.
"... Yuki... trouble."
He spoke those words as he finally started to lose his focus. Naruto shook him a little to try and get him to wake up.
"Billy! Stay with me Billy, where is Yuki! What trouble is she in!?" Naruto asked urgently, looking to his friend with clear worry.
Billy managed to raise his hand to point in the direction Naruto had been heading.
Naruto started to run in the direction of the ruins, following the trail of blood that Billy had left. It started off smaller, before it got larger and larger... until the forest gave way to stone paved ruins that Blake was able to clearly see.
"Yuki! Where are you Yuki!?" Naruto screamed in worry as he amplified his voice with his hands, never stopping how fast he was running.
Naruto came to a screeching halt when he saw what lay ahead of him.
The mutiliated corpse of a young girl, no older than 6 years old. Blake gasped and covered he mouth, the urge to vomit not little. The girl had a long cat tail coming from the pase of her spine, and was wearing a simple brown dress. Her chest though, it was ripped open, her rips visible inside of it, with her heart missing between her lungs, signs of it having been ripped out. She also had her throat slit, showing that it wasn't a grimm that had done this to the little girl.
"... YUKI!" Naruto started to shout her name at the top of his lungs as he continued his path, more worried about his friend than ever now.
Blake could understand why.
Not to mention there was nothing he could do for the dead girl now, so might as well try to find the woman who he was looking for, where there was still some hope left.
They could both see a head of white hair peeking over the edge of a set of stone stairs covered in blood, leading up to the person standing at the top. Naruto ran up the steps, with Blake following after.
It was disaster.
7 more dead bodies.
"Oh my god." Blake would have thrown up if it weren't for the fact that she had nothing in her stomach, and it was a dream that wasn't letting her throw up.
There was an old woman, maybe 60 years old or older, laying nearby, with cat claws coming out of her fingernails. Her chest shredded open and her heart ripped out, the blood coming from her slit throat having been used to create symbols around her body leading towards the person standing in the center.
There was a four teenage girls, each of them having their chests ripped open, their hearts torn out, and their throats slit. All of them placed in a circle with their blood simples leading to the center. They had cat ears, cat eyes, fangs, and a cat tail as their faunus traits as well. Each of them all being cat faunus women.
Then there was an adult cat faunus woman, who had her arms ripped off, and her chest torn open with the heart gone. Her cat faunus trait being retractable claws on her feet, her toenails forming claws like the older woman.
Finally, and Blake wished she could throw up... but there was a girl no older than maybe 2 years old. She had a hole in her chest completely, the heart having just been torn out of her chest. She seemed to have suffered the least out of everyone present, but the pain she had to have gone through would have been unimaginable. Her one animal trait was the patches of cat fur that grew out of her wrists.
There there was thje living person in the center.
"... Yuki... What... what happened?" Naruto asked, shocked as he stared at the person who was staring back.
Blake saw a beautiful woman clearly.
She had soft smile on her face, a hauntingly beautiful smile. She had pale skin that looked like it reflected the moon itself. Her eyes were a cold green color, and she had white hair that went down to her waist. She was standing nearly nude, only wearing the most basic of scrapes for clothing. She had blood going down the back of her own legs and butt, and was holding a white tail in her hand.
"... I've did it Naruto... I completed my research. I've learned the secrets that were hidden from Faunus so long ago by our ancestors." Yuki spoke with an almost mad gleam in her eye as she spoke.
"She... she did this... she killed all these people..." Blake gasped in horror.
Who was this monster?
"... You did all of this... What... what did you do... Why!?" Naruto shouted near the end when all of it started to sink in. Yuki smiled and gestured to a bowl of blood that was sitting between her legs, her own blood dripping and filling it, as well as the blood of all of those she killed.
8 hearts were floating in the blood.
"... I've always wondered about why only we Faunus are born special... and I've discovered it. I've learned the ancient rituals that were created by our people... to give us power... eternal youth... immortality... special powers... a ritual that would let us abandon the human in our DNA." Yuki spoke with her eyes tearing up with joy. She had scrolls laying on the ground around her, each of them showing pictures of the ritual she was talking about.
Naruto looked at the horrors she committed.
"... These were our people Yuki... how could you kill them all. Why?" Naruto asked, and Blake's heart went out to the man.
He seemed about to cry.
"... I can only complete the ritual with the hearts of 8 Cat Faunus that share my gender... and if you tried the ritual it would take 8 Toad Faunus with your gender. I had to sacrifice them... otherwise I would never know if the secrets were true... You're going to try and stop me, aren't you my love?" Yuki asked with saddened eyes as she looked down towards her lover. She raised her hand up and tossed her own tail into the bowl of blood and hearts. She leaned down and picked the bowl up.
Naruto openly let his tears fall.
"... This perverse... this is why you've been acting... Why have you fallen so far? What happened to the Yuki that would never hurt another Faunus?" The depth of his despair hurt Blake, who knew she couldn't do anything to help.
Yuki frowned.
"... Humans are a plague. They take, and they take... and they take... and take... they destroy us, enslave us, rape us, murder us. I'm sick of living in fear of humans... I'm sick of not knowing if today is the day the humans destroy my village and destroy everything I love. I'm afraid that I'm going to become a slave to a human... I'm afraid I will lose you to them..." Yuki brought the bowl up closer to her lips. Naruto was stuck in place, the digesting her words, and seeing the tears forming in her eyes.
Too many of their race had met with horrible fates, simply because they were different than humans.
She was sick of living in fear because the humans were so afraid of them, that they would rather kill them all than try to live peacefully.
"Yuki... You killed our people." Naruto told her, and she nodded sadly.
"I had to... It was the only way to get the power I need... to wipe out all of humanity." Yuki spoke with her voice morphing into one filled with utter hate.
Blake could taste just how much hatred for humanity that Yuki had.
Yuki started to drink the blood from the bowl.
"Yuki!"
Blake saw the changes take place.
Yuki entire body was stained by blood that poured down her. She drew white cat ears out of the top of her head. Her canines turned into fangs, and the stump where her tail had been started to regrow. She grew two long tails, one from each of the girls that she had killed. Her nails turned into claws, the same with her toenails. Her eyes turned yellow, her pupils changing to slits.
She even ate the hearts as they got to her mouth.
Blake really wished she could throw up.
When Yuki was down, she threw her bowl on the ground and started to laugh, as if she had gone completely insane.
"... You didn't get rid of your humanity... you've just become more human than you've ever been... you've turned into a monster..." Naruto muttered under his breath as he got ready for a fight. "You're not the Yuki I know." Naruto spoke louder, and Yuki stopped laughing and looked around.
She had a cat-like smile on her face, playful and calculating.
"... Don't worry my love. I can change my name if I'm not the Yuki you know anymore... Oh... I'm covered in blood. That's it! That will be my name... Red Snow... You can call me Akayuki from now on." Yuki, now Akayuki, spoke as she bowed to Naruto. She smiled at him, her entire demeaner changing.
Naruto raised his fists.
"I hate humans too... but what you just did... I'm going to stop you, right here." Naruto told her as he got ready to fight her.
To the death if he had to.
Akayuki smiled at him... before she turned tail and started to run away. She was laughing the entire way as Naruto started to give chase.
(Blake Wakes Up)
"Haaaaaah!" Blake gasped as she jerked away, her heart racing as she grabbed her chest. She looked around, and saw that she was surrounded by other students that were waking up as well. Blake leaned forward, realizing that she was completely covered in a cold sweat, and she covered her mouth with her hands when she started to remember her dream.
Blake got up and ran.
She had to throw up.
Chapter End!
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