Sorry this took so long to come out, college has started up again so I have hardly any time to write but I will try to do something, can't promise any steady updates though sorry.
But i do hope you enjoy this new chapter, I tried to make it a little longer then normal.
chapter 11: where's Garnet part 2
Jaune and Blake slammed the doors of the cafeteria open and quickly ran to the table where the other Arc siblings and teams where.
"Jaune, what's wrong?" Iris asked, seeing the panicked look on her brothers face.
"Garnet ran off, she's upset and angry so you know it won't end well" Jaune explained.
"WHAT!" Iris shouted, coursing Amber to jump and cover her ears which Iris apologised for before turning back to her brother "what happened? why is she angry?".
Blake looked nervous for a second -something that did not go unnoticed by her partner- before stepping forwards, ready to tell her the reason for why Garnet ran off... Until Jaune moved in front of her and cut her off.
"That doesn't matter right now Sis" Jaune said.
Iris looked at her brother suspiciously for a second, her eyes locked with Jaune's before signing and nodding agreement "okay, let's get searching".
Teams RWBY and JNPR all started to head for the the doors, the Arc siblings quickly following behind them. But all of that stopped when the doors opened before they got there, the group tried to stop but the two teams ended up crashing into each other and falling over.
"Owwie"
"Watch the hair!"
"Sorry!"
The one who had opened the door was Professor Goodwitch, raising an eyebrow as she stared at her students on the floor, who seemed to be in a pile of tangled limbs.
"Hey there Glyn!" Iris said with a bright smile, which only made the professor twitch in anger.
Glynda adjusted her glasses and cleared her throat, trying to tame her emotions "Miss Arc, I cam here to bring something to your attention".
"What's that?" the oldest Arc sibling asked.
"A student reported to me that they saw a young girl running on to one of the Airships to Vale, her description matched that of your younger sister Garnet" Glynda explained.
"WHAT!" Jaune shouted from the bottom of the pile and quickly stood up, nearly launching his team and team RWBY into the air "she's in Vale on her own! we have to find her fast!".
With that said Jaune ran off and headed for the docks, the two teams quickly getting up and following after him.
"Curse those metal beasts" Iris groaned out, falling on all fours as she got off the Airship while Jaune followed behind her, falling into the same position as his sister and moaned pitifully, coursing his sister to place her hand on his shoulder "Don't worry little brother, it's over now".
"Come on you two we need to find Garnet" Amber said with her hands on her hip, trying to look angry but just ended up giving them a cute pout.
Soon the group of team RWBY and JNPR, along with the two Arc siblings where all gathered near the Airship docks in Vale, Iris going through their plan to find Garnet "alright, we'll all spilt up into groups of three and search different parts of Vale. Ruby, Weiss and Yang will be one group while Pyrrha, Ren and Nora make a second and finally myself, Jaune, Blake and Amber will make the last group".
Ruby and Pyrrha wanted to say something about staying in there teams but when Iris looked to them they scrunch back, something about the woman was very imposing enough to make them not question her. With their plan made the now three groups all walked to different parts of Vale, as Iris's group walked deeper into Vale she suddenly stopped and stared directly at Blake, making the hidden cat Faunus freeze.
"Blake, do you mind if I ask you something?" the oldest Arc said, getting the attention of both Jaune and Amber "the reason Garnet ran off, it was because of something said between you and my brother correct".
Blake tried to say something but the way Iris was looking at her made her throat feel dry and unable to talk, it also might have been her imagination but it looked like Iris's eyes were glowing softly "wel... I-I me-". What ever Blake was trying to say was cut off as Iris continued "also, I know my sister has a short temper but even she won't run off unless it truly angers her. And to my knowledge there are only a few things that can do that, what's under you bow leads to one of them".
The hidden cat Faunus took a step back in shock, instinctively moving her hands to cover her bow and the ears underneath, a part in the back of her mind shouting at her ro run.
"Blake, do you have an involvement with the-" Iris was cut off when Jaune stepped in front of her, blocking her view of Blake.
"That's enough Sis, whats going on between garnet and Blake is their business" He said as Blake stood behind him, just as surprised as his sister.
"Jaune as the oldest I have to make sure my siblings are safe, if-"
"Iris!" the blonde knight said sharply, a firm look in his eyes.
Said sister looked at her brother, eventually closing her eyes with a sigh and when she opened them the soft glow was gone "fine, me and Amber will go look from the roof tops while you two search from the ground". With that said Iris picked up Amber and turned to the nearest building, with a great show of both power and grace the oldest Arc jumped up to the side of one building and grabbed the edge of a window sill with one hand, then planted her feet on the side and kicked off into the air and over to the roof top of the opposite building while adding a back flip in the air for style, all while carrying Amber in her left arm.
"Weeeeeee~" Amber squealed happily.
Blake eyes widen in shock, she was sure she could jump to the top of the same building but not in two leaps and with only one arm, not to mention she was carrying another person while she did it. Jaune on the other hand was simply scowling at his sisters antics while talking to himself "she never misses an opportunity to show off, does she".
Garnet walked down one of the many streets of Vale, her mind still plagued with thoughts about Blake and the White Fang.
'I can't believe it, I trusted her, I actually started to like hanging out with her, and she... she!' Garnet released a growl of frustration and punch the closest wall to her, which in turn got her a few weird looks from passers-by, noticing this the red haired cat Faunus blushed in embarrassment and quickly ran into the near by alleyway.
In the alleyway Garnet leaned against the wall and slowly slid down to a sitting potion 'what am I doing, I promised Luna that wouldn't let my anger get the better of me, especially when it came to the White Fang'.
As Garnet was deep in her thoughts she didn't notice three figures slowly make their way towards her.
Quickly a hand grabbed Garnet from the front of her hoodie and pulled her off the ground, when she realised what was happening it was already to late for Garnet to do anything "what the hell!?".
"Long time no see brat".
Garnet's eyes widened when she saw who was holding her, three Faunus stood before her wearing the familiar mask of the White Fang.
Jaune and Blake had been searching the streets and back-alleys of Vale for the past few minutes, although they hadn't been able to find any clue of where Garnet is.
"This is all my fault" Blake said as she and Jaune walked out of a local cafe in the more secluded part of the city, hoping they would find the young cat Faunus inside "if I had been more careful Garnet never would have heard me and run off".
Jaune placed his hand on Blake's shoulder, stopping the two near a park "it's not your fault Bla-".
Unfortunately Jaune was cut when the upset Faunus throw his hand off her and turned to him with a heated glare "how is it not my fault! Garnet hates me because of my past with the White Fang, and..." Blake looked down as her voice got softer "and why don't you?".
Jaune stared at the saddened friend in front of him, before sighing "Garnet... has her own reason for hating the White Fang, a reason that is her own to tell. But Blake I'd like to think I know you well enough to trust you, so I want you and Garnet to sit down and talk".
"Really?" Blake asked, honestly surprised at the level of maturity Jaune is showing, she meant no offence but the bumbling knight never seemed all that confident in what he was doing at Beacon.
"Honestly, I think this will be good for Garnet" Jaune said with nod "she's always tried to bury away her feelings about the White Fang, never wanting to face it. But I think the only way she can move forwards, is if she faces a part of her past".
Blake stared at the blonde in front of her, not really sure what to say, she had always looked at her past as something horrible, something anyone around her would hate her for until she met her team but even then she was always worried how others would react if they found out. But here Jaune is not even showing the slightest signs of anger or disgust, in fact he was saying that it would be good for his sister to talk to her 'he's trusting a former criminal to be around his little sister'.
The ex-White Fang member laughed, which got her a strange look from Jaune, but how could she not with what he said, it was just so... odd "wow Jaune, I never expected you to say something so... grown up".
"Gee, thanks a lot Blake" Jaune said with noticeable pout, which only seem to Blake laugh harder.
"Thank you, Jaune" Blake said.
Jaune smiled to the hidden Faunus until they heard a familiar voice from the other side of the park, looking over they saw something that made both of their blood boil.
"Get off of me you bastards!" Garnet shouted as the snake Faunus White Fang member was carrying her like a sag of potatoes, the young girl was banging her fists against his back.
"Just throw her in Snake" the lion Faunus said from the drivers seat of a van, its back doors open.
Like the lion said Snake had thrown Garnet into the van and slammed the doors shut after getting in himself, while this was happening Jaune and Blake were trying to get to them as fast as they can but before they could the van quickly sped up and went down the road faster then they could catch them.
"Dammit" Jaune said in frustration.
Blake seeing this took out the katana of Gambol Shroud and transformed it to its chain scythe mode, with a strong throw Gambol Shroud was sent flying through the air and pierced the side of a near by building. Blake jumped and tugged onto her ribbon, allowing her to swing herself further down the road and land on top of the vehicle with a thud.
"What the hell was that?" the bear Faunus from before asked, sitting inside the van with Snake and Garnet.
Before either of them could move Blake had suddenly opened one of the back doors with her weapon drawn, Snake tried to unsheathe his own weapon but was kicked in the chest before he could and sent flying back into the wall of the van.
"Annoying brat!" the female bear Faunus growled as she swung her Kanabo.
Blake was able to dodge the attack by ducking down, although it still grazed her back and left a layer of ice covering her right shoulder. Something the White Fang member didn't notice was Blake sliding her Scroll across the floor to Garnet, the younger cat Faunus looking at it in confusion.
Blake tried to retaliate but her blade was shot and knocked away by Snake who had recovered from her first attack, with that small distraction Bear was able to land a solid kick to Blake stomach and send her flying out the doors.
"Blake!" Jaune shouted as he saw the ninja fall out of the van, he quickly sprinted and was able to catch Blake around the waist to cushion her fall "are you alright?".
Blake shook her head from the blow, before she noticed Jaune's arms around her and couldn't help but think they were very... warm.
A bright blush spread over Blake's cheeks and she quickly moved herself out of the blonde knights arms "I'm fine".
"What are we gonna do, there getting away" Jaune asked, as he could only watch as the van disappeared from their sights.
"Don't worry" Blake said, gaining Jaune's attention "I was able to leave my Scroll in the van, we can track it and find out where their going".
With a plan in motion the two Beacon students went off to follow them, Jaune also sending a quick message to his sister Iris 'we'll need all the help we can get'.
"You ok Snake" Bear asked as she looked over her fellow White Fang.
Snake simply nodded and replied with a soft voice "that girl can kick".
As the two Faunus were talking Garnet was sitting by with Blake's Scroll held in her hand behind her back, her other hand was blindly searching for any place to hide it so they won't find it, her hand found a dirty, old cloth and she was able to push the Scroll under it.
Garnet jumped when the van suddenly stopped and the voice of the lion Faunus called out to them.
"Alright get the brat inside, we still have work to do!".
With that Garnet was once again draped over Snake's shoulder like a sack of potatoes.
Iris stood atop one of the many higher building of Vale, Amber by her side looking through a small pair of orange binoculars -although because of her height she could only just get her eyes just over the stone railing- saying she wanted to help.
The oldest Arc sibling was looking at a message sent to her by her brother, and couldn't help but tighten her grip on her Scroll 'so the White Fang have taken my sister, well... they will pay for even looking at her'.
"Uh... Sis?"
"What is it Amber?" Iris asked, her anger completely hidden behind a kind smile, she doesn't want to worry her little sister by losing her temper
Amber looked down at her sister's hand "did you mean to brake that?".
Lifting an eyebrow, Iris looked down and noticed the Scroll in her hand was now crushed beyond recognition.
Iris eyes were now wide in shock, a small bit of sweat dripping down her face.
Garnet was once again thrown, this time against the wall of a warehouse.
"Watch it asshole!" Garnet yelled, completely ignoring what her family said about curse word and manners.
"Oh quiet down kid" Bear said with a sigh "we're not going to hurt".
"As long as you shut up, and help us leer in Belladonna" Lion explained, sitting down on an old wooden chair "I'm sure Adam would reword us handsomely if we were to bring her to him".
Garnet was silent, after finding out Blake was once part of the White Fang she wanted nothing to do with her, but... even then she hates the White Fang way more then Blake right now "like hell I'll ever help YOU!".
Lion sneered at the younger Faunus "come on kid, you should be honoured. Your helping the White Fang, the group that's going to make the Faunus rulers of this world and show those humans who's really in charge".
"I'll never let that happen" Garnet said, her eyes burning determination "I promise to destroy the White Fang, and an Arc never goes back on their word".
"Arc?" Snake spoke up curiously.
"You know something Snake?" Bear asked.
Snake nodded "yes, the Arc family are well known in the village I grew up in, although the last I checked, they were a family of humans".
"Is that so" Lion said, before laughing "that makes so much sense, sorry kid but looks like your head been fill with a bunch of lies, that 'family' of your's probably sees you as nothing more then a little pet they took pity on and decided to take in".
"You don't know a damn thing about them, their better then you'll ever be!" Garnet replied in anger.
Lion slammed his fist onto the table near him, coursing his weapon that was on top of it to jump slightly in the air "SHUT UP!".
The warehouse was silent after that, everyone's attention drawn to the brown haired lion Faunus who growled out his words with clenched fists "humans have killed our kind for generations, and even in this supposed peace we now have our people are still treated like trash. This is our justices, our rebellion! AND THOSE BASTARDS DESERVE IT!".
Another silence washed over the warehouse.
Garnet quietly sat by the wall which coursed Lion to smirk, thinking he had finally gotten through to the kid, but before he could speak again a small chuckle broke the silence. Many of the White Fang looked between each other to see if it was one of them, but eventually most of them had their attention to where the source of the laughing was...
...Garnet.
"And what, prey tell is so funny" Lion asked.
Garnet stopped laughing, looking down at the floor "it's true that some humans are unjust, and cruel to Faunus..." the young Arc said, which coursed Lion's smirk to widen until she looked up and he saw the fire in her eyes.
"But what about you? the White Fang?" Garnet asked "do you really believe any of this is justice, that any of these attacks and murders will bring the Faunus piece, well let me tell you something, it won't!. All you'll do is bring war to the world again and have to watch as all the people you care for are broken or killed, all because you couldn't control your temper and forced the kingdoms to fight back".
"You know nothing-" Lion growled, before being cut off by Garnet.
"I now enough, you say your fighting for the Faunus but what about those who choose not to fight, those who just want to live a peaceful, quiet life. But you force yourself on them, demand that they do what you say... and if they don't, you kill them without a second of hesitation" Garnet said, her voice quivering softly but anger still laced her words "because that's all you are... people who can't face this world, so you throw tantrums like children".
"THAT'S ENOUGH YOU BRAT!" Lion roared.
He quickly grabbed his buzz-saw weapon and swung it vertically upwards, creating a large green aura blade that was sent flying towards Garnet.
Said cat Faunus refused to look away, even though she was scared she did not want to show in front of these people. But before the attack hit a figure jumped in front of her and took it head on, an explosion of green aura covering the two.
As the dust cleared Garnet was able to see the person who protected her, although her eyes widened when it wasn't her brother she saw in front of her...
"Blake".
Flashback
The two Beacon students were able to finally catch up to where the Scrolls tracker had lead them. They searched around the building to find a easy access point and in only a few seconds they came across a window that could open, it was easy for Blake to climb up near by crates although Jaune had a bit more trouble, but when they did they could hear voices from inside, one that was very familiar.
"Garnet" Jaune said in a panic, seeing and hearing his little sister almost losing her temper.
Blake on the other hand had her eyes widen in shock, she could see the anger in her eyes but also something else... pain, it was pain Blake could see in her eyes as Garnet talked about how the White Fang treats Faunus who don't do as they say 'is that why-'.
Blake's thoughts were cut off when the lion Faunus launched an aura blade attack, both teens reacted quickly and tried to intercept the attack, but Blake could tell that Jaune wouldn't make it in time to block it with his shield, so with her mind made up Blake used a combination of her Semblance and aura to launch herself in front of the younger cat Faunus.
The next thing she felt was a blade of aura hitting her back and blinding pain.
Flashback End
"Really... wish... I had Gambol Shroud" Blake panted as she held her back in pain, her aura visible weakening.
"Bla... Blake?" Garnet said in shock.
Before either of them could say anything, loud laughter filled the warehouse.
Everyone turned their attention to the lion Faunus who was billowing with laughter before looking to the two with a smug smirk "well isn't it the traitor. Man, taking this kid has really paid off".
Blake tried to stand up but the damage she took made her fall back to the ground. All she could do was glare at the people before her.
"Ha, you can't even stand" Lion said as he stated to slowly walk towards the two "you were one the White Fang's best, yet here you are now a disgrace to your kind".
"ENOUGH!"
The entirety of the room was drawn to the source of the voice and saw the blonde knight make his way between the White Fang, Blake and Garnet "your not going to lay a hand on my sister or my friend".
"And what could you do to all of us Human" Lion said as the Faunus around him started to draw their weapons.
In return Jaune pulled his Scroll from his pocket "one of my sisters created a special app that makes a high pitched sound that no normal person can hear" from his Scroll Jaune turned down some kind of dial. With that a loud constant beep fills the warehouse which coursed some people to cover their ears.
Lion snarled at the blonde "you think some dog whistle will work on us, it's filthy humans like you-".
"Are you an idiot, I said I was playing this before we got here" Jaune said cutting the angered Faunus off.
"What"
"I'm not using this sound for you..."
Outside of the warehouse footsteps could be heard moving closer to one of the walls.
"So this is where the signal is coming from".
A fist was pulled back and then sent flying towards the wall.
"...but for someone else"
Soon after Jaune said that said, the wall near the White Fang members exploded into rubble.
"WHAT!" Lion yelled as some of the rubble flew towards them coursing Lion to jump away, a few unlucky White Fang were to slow and hit by the flying debris.
"Wow sis, a little overboard?" Jaune asked with a joking smile, which coursed both Blake and Garnet to stare at Jaune until they looked to the new formed hole in the wall.
Just like Jaune said, Iris walked through the wall with her black case in her left hand "sorry I took so long, I had to find some place to leave Amber".
The young Bear Faunus sat on one of the many stools of A Simple Wok, eating from a large bowl of Salmon Ramen, there was also a stack of five other bowls next to her with the old man who runs the place staring at the little girl in shock.
*Barp*
"Excuse me" Amber said as she moved her now sixth empty bowl next to the others "~another please~".
The owner of the shop simply stared at the young Faunus child.
"But there's no need to worry..." Iris said as she undid the two latches on her suitcase.
With a quick swing of her arm Iris threw the case to the side, coursing the lead to fly open and the continence of the case to spill into the air. What flew from the case coursed many of the people around to widen their eyes in shock, in the air were two large single edges swords of different colours -one red and the other blue- with the opposite sides being completely flat, Iris grabbed one of the sword by the hilt and then swung the flat side of it into the flat side of the other sword, a loud metallic click was heard and the two sword combined into one larger sword, a giant Gladius from the look of it, the colour of the two sword also seemed to merge, becoming a deep purple.
"...This will all be over in a second".
"Woah" Garnet said in awe, and Blake couldn't help but agree.
The White Fang were silent, completely disoriented by the arrival of this new opponent. The silence was broken when Lion decided to speak, his voice filled to the brim with anger "WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, IT'S JUST ONE- UGH!".
Before Lion could finish Iris had appeared in front of him, her fist planted squarely in his stomach which coursed him to double over and his Aura to visible shatter.
"That was for kidnapping my sister" Iris said coldly.
"You bastard!" Bear yelled, readying her Kanabo to crush Iris's head.
Iris on the other hand had other plans, she quickly pivoted on her foot with her left arm outstretched delivering a devastating blow with the back of her closed fist, connecting to Bear's jaw. As Bear was lifted off the ground from the hit Iris grabbed the Faunus by the ankle before she could get to far in the air.
"And this..." Iris exclaimed as she threw the White Fang member towards Snake, the force at which she was thrown gave him little time to react so the two ended up crashing together and flying back into a wall which kicked up a cloud of dust, the wall cracking under the force "was for HURT MY BROTHER'S FRIEND!".
The warehouse had gone deathly silent, all of the remaining White Fang stared in shock at the woman who had just taken down three of their strongest fighter in nothing but a few seconds. Iris pointed her sword towards the remaining terrorists, who either flinched back or drew their weapon but all of them were doing one thing the same, shaking in fear.
"So..."
"Ozpin, are you sure we should leave this to just the students" Gylnda asked, slightly worried for the young cat Faunus who has ran off.
"There's no need to worry, the students have Miss Arc with them if trouble were to arise" Ozpin said calmly, taking a sip from his mug of coffee "after all, one does not earn the title of Oni without being a force to be reckoned with"
"...who's next" Iris said, her tone cold as ice and hair shrouding her face in shadows, the only thing anyone could see was a purple light being generated from her pupils.
In that moment everyone in the warehouse had -besides Jaune- a a single thought...
'She's a demon'.
A/N: I actually thought of iris's title while writing this chapter, basically her two sword are based off of the red and blue oni.
I also didn't re-read through it for spelling mistakes so there might be more then usual.
Bye.
