Well readers, it's time for some more Terror of Death.
As some may have noticed my Poll for having Yata return has been taken down.
Mainly because it's was basically unanimous for Yata to return, so he will... as soon as I figure out a place to put him, I have an idea, but I need to wait for Volume 4 to come out in case RT derails that idea.
Well anyway people it's time for the chapter so enjoy.
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[Chapter 12: Ambush]
[Blake's P.O.V.]
"So." I finally said to Sun, as I learn the name of my fellow Faunus, after 2 two days of relative silence, "What do you want to know?"
"Finally she speak!" Sun called, "For the past two days you've been giving me small talk and weird looks."
In turn I narrowed my gaze at Sun.
"Yeah, like that." Sun said leaning back a bit.
"Sun, are you familiar with the White Fang?" I asked, even though I already knew the answer.
"Of course, I don't think there's a Faunus on the planet who hasn't heard of them." Sun said, "Stupid holier than thou creeps who use force to get whatever they want. Bunch of freaks if you ask me." After finishing his sentence he used his tail to take a sip of the tea I got for him.
"I was once a member of the White Fang." I said, this caused Sun to nearly choke on his tea.
"You were a member of the White Fang!?" Sun exclaimed after he recovered from choking on his tea.
"That's right, I was a member for most of my life actually, you could say I was born into it. You can almost say I was born into it. Back then things were different, in the ashes of war the White Fang was meant to be a symbol of peace and unity between Humans and the Faunus, of course even when promised equality the Faunus were subjected to discrimination and hate, Humanity still thought of us as lesser beings, so the White Fang rose up as the voice of our people, and I was there. I was at the front of every rally, I took part in every boycott, I actually thought we were making a difference, but I was just a youthful optimist. Then five years ago our leader stepped down, and a new one took his place, a new leader with a new way of thinking. Suddenly our peaceful protesting were being replaced with organized attacks, we were setting fire to shops that refused to serve us, hijacking cargo that used Faunus labor, and the worst part was, it was working. We were being treated like equals, but not out of respect, out of fear. So I left, I decided I no longer wanted to use my skills to aid in their violence, instead I would dedicate my life to becoming a Huntress." I said, "So here I am, a criminal hiding in plain view, all with the help of a little black bow."
"So have you told your friends any of this?" Sun asked.
I looked down ashamed to answer.
"Why Blake, I think you forgot something." A very familiar female voice said.
"What?" I breathed turning around, but saw nothing.
Yet when I turned back, the familiar purple hair and abnormally tall ears of someone I haven't seen ever since the change of leadership happened sat at and open seat, when Sun noticed her he jump out of his seat in surprise.
"Whoa!" Sun shouted, "Who are you?"
"Mia." I answered for our new guest.
"Oh Blake, I would have thought you'd have a bigger introduction for your dear sister." Mia said.
"S-sister!?" Sun asked in surprise, "You guy's hardly look anything alike."
"Blake here took more after our old man while I took more after mom." Mia said casually.
"Why choose now to talk to me?" I asked carefully.
"Oh poor little Blake," Mia said pulling me into a tight hug, "Why wouldn't I come to my little sister when she's in such a state?"
I didn't reply for a while because to be honest, I missed my big sister's hugs.
"Uh... Am I missing something here?" Sun asked.
"Well Sun you are looking at the first deserter of the White Fang." Mia said proudly.
"What?" Sun asked shock, "And you didn't take your baby sister with you?"
"Well Sun, it was a bit complicated back then." I said remembering the day she left.
[[Flashback]]
I made my way back to my room after the change of leadership meeting in the White Fang.
The hotel we're staying in is Faunus friendly, but with the change to violent tactics I think we may be banned here soon. The White Fang I mean not Faunus in general.
I opened the door to my room to see something that surprised me.
Mia was jamming a large water bottle into her pack, the Mask given to us during the meeting was under her foot broken, and she had a sword I'd never seen strapped to her hip.
"Mia?" I asked stepping in causing my sister to slowly stop and sigh.
"I was hoping to be gone before you got here." Mia said zipping the pack up and slinging it onto her back, "Blake, I'm leaving."
"What? I know this new policy of violence is wrong but..." I started.
"It's not just the new policy Blake." Mia said looking away, "It's how everyone was so enthusiastic to follow through with it, didn't you see Adam's face?"
"I..." I said.
"Blake, look on your bed." Mia said pointing to my bed.
On it was a black cleaver sitting next to a katana with a pistol grip and a black ribbon on the end. I walked over and picked the two weapon up.
"I made those for you because our rallies have already brought Grimm to us several times. I was going to give it to you on your birthday, but looks like plans have changed." Mia said.
"Please don't go sis." I said holding back my tears, and failing.
"Blake, you've got three choices right now." Mia said softly, "Move aside and let me leave peacefully, fight and try to stop me, of follow me and leave. What's your choice?"
I stood there for a moment, before raising my weapons, I didn't want Mia to leave and I thought that Adam couldn't have changed that much.
"To think I would have to cross blades with Gambol Shroud so soon, a weapon that you designed and I forged." Mia said drawing her weapon, the strange sword with the 'C' shaped curve.
"Mia." I sniffed, "I don't want you to leave, I don't want to leave everyone else either. You guy's are all I have right now." I sniffed.
"... I know sis." Mia said, "And that's why I'm sorry." Faster than I'd every seen her move she struck, and my vision turned black instantly.
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"Blake, Blake!" I heard Adam shout as he shook my shoulder, my vision returned, the sun had set and I was in the same place as I was when Mia swung at me.
"Blake, what happened? You were just standing there with a pink haze over you and a blank look in your eyes." Adam said worried.
"She's gone Adam." I said dropping Gambol Shroud, and falling to my knee's myself, "Mia's gone." I cried.
"Blake..." Adam said softly.
[[Flashback end]]
That was probably the first day of the last month Adam acted like our childhood friend before he became the monster he is now.
"Blake, we're gonna need to talk about what happened to Adam ever since I left." Mia said as I clung tighter to her.
"So... what now?" Sun asked.
"Tell you what, if you can find the next possible place the Dust Robbers will strike, you can meet me there." Mia said before giving me a kiss on the forehead and standing up.
"Please don't leave again sis." I said.
"Don't worry Blake, I'll always be close by, even if you can't see me." Mia said patting my shoulder, "As for you monkey boy." Mia then turned to face Sun while she pulled out a small purple box with a green ribbon on it, "This is for trying to help my sister after she ran from her team." Mia placed the box in front of Sun before walking off.
"Oh." Sun said getting excited, "Thank's." And with that Sun made the mistake of opening it.
"Sun Wait!" I shouted.
Too late, when the ribbon came off the box the lid burst off releasing a large cloud of pink smoke that surrounded Sun.
When the smoke cleared Sun was pink from head to toe, "This is embarrassing." Sun said.
"Sorry, I haven't been around my sister so long I forgot she's a bit of a prankster." I apologized.
"This stuff washes off right?" Sun asked
[Haseo P.O.V.]
"Blake!" Ruby called.
"Blaaaake!" Yang called.
"Weiss you're not helping!" Ruby accused.
"Well I'm sorry, but if she hears my voice she might get scared and run away again." Weiss said, "We didn't exactly part on god terms."
"She's got a point." Atoli said, she and I were the only member's of Team HAKE here right now, Kuhn and Endrance were on the other side of Vale.
"Okay that's fair enough." Yang said.
"Still I wonder where she could have gone?" Ruby said.
"And I think Weiss's hair looks wonderful today." Penny said.
Wait Penny?
This cause the five of us to jump and turn around, "Ahh! Penny where did you come from!?" Ruby exclaimed.
"Hey guys what are you up to?" Penny asked with a wave.
"Umm..." Ruby said.
"We're looking for our friend Blake, have you seen her at all today, or any time since we first met?" I asked
"Oh, you mean the Faunus girl." Penny said, causing all of us to freeze and stare.
'Something isn't right with this girl.' I thought giving Penny a critical eye.
"How did you know that?" Ruby asked.
"Uhh, the cat ears." Penny said.
"What cat ears she wears a… bow." Yang said. There was a rather large gap of silence and even a tumbleweed rolled by.
"I'm amazed that disguise held up so long." I muttered.
"The bow does make it look like cat ears now that I think about it." Atoli said.
"Now it kinda makes sense why she was always so nervous around Zwei." Ruby said.
"So where is she?" Penny asked.
"We don't know, that's why I asked you." I said, "She's been gone since Friday." I said.
"That's terrible, well don't you worry Ruby my friend, I won't rest until we find your teammate." Penny declared.
"T-that's really nice of you Penny but we're okay, right guys?" Ruby said, only to notice Yang and Weiss had ditched us, and again with the tumbleweed rolled by.
"It sure is windy today." Penny said.
"I can't believe those two." I grumbled facepalming.
[Blake's P.O.V.]
"So what's the plan now?" Sun asked as we walked along the empty road.
"I still don't believe the White Fang are the ones responsible for these robberies, They've never needed that much Dust before." I said.
"What if they did?" Sun asked suddenly, "I mean, the only way to prove that they didn't do it, is to go to the place they would most likely go to if they were to do it, and not find them there. Right?" Sun said.
"The only thing is, I have no idea where that place might be." I said.
"Well, while I was on the ship I overheard the guys talking about offloading a huge shipment of Dust coming from Atlas." Sun said.
"How huge?" I asked.
"Huge. Big Schnee company freighter." Sun replied.
"That might work, and Endrance might have the same idea." I said.
"Endrance?" Sun asked.
"Endrance Schnee, probably the only Faunus Friendly Schnee as of right now. Unless Weiss has been having her thoughts on us taken down and built back up." I said.
"Old man Schnee had a son?" Sun asked, causing me to facepalm at his question.
[Vale Docks]
"Glad you two could make it." Mia said as she perched on the edge of a crate.
"Good to know you had faith in us sis." I said lying next to her.
"You were always a smart girl Blake, even if you couldn't get your nose out of those smut novels." Mia said.
"It's art sis!" I called turning red.
"Whatever you say little sister." Mia said with a chuckle, "Did you notice the guards on the way in?"
"Yeah, they were knocked out." Sun said.
"Those weren't the actual guards." Mia said lowly, "The actual guards were are passed out in their homes after getting drugged. The guys out there are White Fang operatives."
"They didn't kill them?" I asked, Adam wouldn't care about killing humans normally.
"This operation is meant to be covert, not Adam's call, a dead guard could cause alarm and then too many people would be around." Mia said as a Bullhead passed over.
"Look's like they're here." I said, "Oh no" I added as I saw who stepped out.
"It's them." Mia said.
"You really didn't think they did it, did you?" Sun asked.
"No, deep down I think I knew, I just didn't want to believe it." Blake said.
"Hey! What's the hold up!" A voice shouted, we looked again to see Roman Torchwick stepping out of the Bullhead shouting to get the White Fang to hurry up.
"This isn't right, the White Fang would never work with a human, especially one like that." I said drawing Gambol Shroud and jumped down, Mia close behind.
"No that is not a leash." Roman said to a White Fang soldier, that's when I snuck up behind him and put the Katana of Gambol Shroud to his neck, "What the- Oh for f-" Roman started.
"Nobody move." I warned as several White Fang showed up.
I looked around for a moment before I undid and threw off my bow.
"Brothers of the White Fang, why are you aiding this scum?" I called out this caused them to hesitate
"Didn't you get the memo?" Roman said.
"What are you talking about?" I demanded.
"The White Fang and I are going in on a joint business venture together." Roman said.
"Tell me what it is or I'll put an end to your little operation." I said as more Bullheads arrived.
"Oh I wouldn't call it a little operation." Roman said then fired a shot from his cane that caused me to let go and stumble away.
"Keep you grimy hands off my sister!" Mia shouted almost immediately jumping in and kicked Roman in the head.
"OW!" Roman shouted stumbling away.
"It's the first deserter!" A White Fang shouted.
[Mia's P.O.V.]
I pulled Seductive Rose from it's sheathe, "Yes boys, it's me, I'm back." I said.
Several of the older members took a step back but the newer members looked at the older members in confusion.
"Maybe I should let you newbies know why not to mess with me." I said with an evil smile.
Faster than anyone could react I planted my boot into a WF woman's chest before slashing at another to knock him out.
Now the White Fang could react, and seeing as none of them had guns they all charged at me.
I smirked as I kicked off one of the Fang's to deliver a slash at a guy behind me, then I landed on a third guy causing him to collapse under my weight.
Three more lunged at me, but a wide slash put them under a pink haze, "Get them." I ordered, and the soldier unders the effect of Seductive Roses charm turned around and attack their allies.
"What the-!?" A newbie cried out.
"That's why everyone's afraid of her, she turns our own against us with that sword." One of the older White Fang shouted.
"Hey!" I heard a young girl shout.
I looked behind me to see a young girl in a red hood standing up on a roof holding a large red scythe in her hand.
"Oh hello Red, isn't it past your bedtime?" Torchwick asked sarcastically, as Penny approached her.
Penny Polendina, the world first synthetic being capable of generating an Aura, a fascinating project, her only issue is she tries too hard to blend in and ultimately fails to do so and stick's out among others.
The girl in red turned her head to Penny, giving Roman ample opportunity to fire at her.
However that shot was blocked, by a large metal chainsaw sword.
[Haseo P.O.V.]
After blocking Roman's shot I looked back at the growing group of Atoli, Ruby, Penny, Kuhn, and Endrance, "You okay Ruby?" I asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Ruby said.
"They won't get away with trying to hurt you Ruby." Penny said jumping down.
"Something's not right with her." Kuhn said loading his weapon.
That proved completely unnecessary as Penny completely decimated the opposing White Fang with a multitude of swords held aloft by thin metal wires.
When more Bullheads came in Penny created a massive green laser that cleaved two of the Bullheads in half, then tore one more down with a pair of her swords.
"And she's going to be in the tournament?" Kuhn asked as the rest of us jumped down.
"We're going to need to put in a lot of thought in who she's gonna fight." Endrance said.
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Soon enough Weiss and Yang joined us and Ruby got up and walked over to Weiss.
"Weiss it's not what you think see she explained the whole thing and she doesn't have a bow she has kitty ears and they're really cute." Ruby said quickly, but Weiss didn't seem to fully care.
"Weiss I want you to know that I'm no longer associated with the White Fang. Back when I was with-" Blake said only to be cut off by Weiss holding up her hand.
"Stop, do you have any idea how long we've been searching for you? Twelve hours, that means I've had twelve hours to think about this, and in those twelve hours I've decided... I don't care." Weiss said.
"You don't care?" Blake asked.
"You said you're not one of them anymore right?" Weiss asked.
"No I haven't been one since I was-" Blake started but Weiss cut her off again.
"I don't want to know, all I want to know is when something this big comes up you come to us, and not some… someone else." Weiss said looking at Sun, who smiled sheepishly.
Blake looked over at all of us before turning back to Weiss, "Of course." Blake said.
"Yeah! Team RWBY is back together!" Ruby cheered.
"I still don't know how I feel about you." Weiss said to Sun, who chuckled nervously.
"Hey where's Penny?" Ruby asked, we all looked around and couldn't find her anywhere.
"And where'd my sister go?" Blake asked.
"Wait, you have a sister?" Yang asked.
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Me and my Team returned to our dorm shortly after those events and we made out way to the restroom to change one at a time.
"Hey Endrance, what's that in you pocket?" Atoli asked.
"Huh?" Endrance said reaching to his back pocket pulled out a letter that read, 'From Mia to Elk'
"Who's Elk?" I asked.
"It's from... her." Endrance sigh in... pleasure? Is Mia this 'She' and 'Her' he always talked about?
"Endrance." I urged.
"Huh? Oh, sorry, Elk was the name I went by in the first version of 'The World', back then I was a Wavemaster, which was the only magic based class back then." Endrance, "And right now my full name is Endrance Elk Schnee."
"So Mia is this 'Her' you've always talked about right?" Kuhn asked.
"Yes, now... I need a minute." Endrance said leaving the room with the letter still in front of him.
[Endrance P.O.V.]
I walked up to the roof before I opened the letter.
Dear Elk.
Well Elk, I bet it's nice for you to know I'm here too doesn't it?
And even though I know you're name is Endance Schnee, you will always be my little Elk, no matter what your name is.
I'm sorry I haven't met you in person yet, I've been busy sabotaging the White Fang as often as possible, who do you think left you that tip about the train robbery?
Elk I promise you, I'll talk to you after the Vytal Festival before the end of the year, I still have a few things I need to take care of, until then left this keep you company.
Love, Mia Belladonna.
With the letter was a picture of Mia, albeit she was a Faunus rather than an anthro cat woman, but she's still beautiful in my eyes.
"I'll see you soon, Mia." I said softly hugging the picture to my heart.
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Alright Everyone that's the chapter.
You know, it's kinda fun saying Mia Belladonna in a Mario Underground level rhythm
Mia Bella-Donna
Heh heh, it's so fun XD
Any way next chapter is something... special.