An: Here we go another round of Jaune Torchwick! Let's see if our favorite cat makes it back! Or does she get declawed? Or will an ice cream wielder save the day? And what happened to Adam and Penny? Find out now!
Ps. Midterms are the devil. That is all. Enjoy.
"NEO!" Blake yelled as the tiger faunus put her spear through her chest, stabbing Neo right through the girls back and out of her front.
Her usually immaculate uniform was spilt in two as a crimson filled spear shot out of her flesh before being yanked back as the woman retracted her weapon letting Neo drop to her knees, her mouth coughing up small streams of blood as her eyes rolled to the top her head and she collapsed.
"Neo!"
Blake yelled already up and sprinting at full speed at the downed girl as the woman cleaned up her spear on her shirt as she sighed.
"Guards-
"No!"
Blake yelled, already running as she sprinted to the bleeding down girl as the woman sighed.
"Kill her!"
She yelled as the sound of gunfire filled the air as her men aimed and fired at the running girl. Sirhenna grimaced at the fact that she was committing violence to another faunus, but this one was a huntress in training, and as such had thrown her lot in with the humans, so her life was expendable.
The smaller faunus sprinted up to the downed girl sliding into her as she wrapped up the bleeding human in her arms as the first bullets found her.
Twin shots impacted her upper back right between her shoulder blades, making the girl wail in pain as three more round dug into her back. Causing great gouts of blood to spray out from her as she cried in pain before vanishing in a puff of purple smoke.
"A teleportation semblance? How troublesome. Find her! She has seen my face and cannot be allowed to leave."
Sirhenna ordered as her man broke formation as they all began shouting at one another as they fanned out.
"It hurts!"
Blake yelled as she crashed onto a nearby rooftop of Vale as her and the now horribly bleeding form of Neo collapsed onto it.
"HAH!"
Blake gasped as the first thing she felt was the cold night air hit her face, as the shock of the temperature change rocked her. The next thing she felt was the pain, as she slammed head first into concrete as she crashed to the ground still hugging Neo tightly in her arms.
Blake's mind flashed white with agony as she felt the bullets in her back digging into her skin. As she knocked the air out of her lungs with her own semblance.
"I'm shot! I got shot!"
Blake yelled as she felt the burning pain shoot through her body as hot bloodshot from her throat.
This isn't like the movies! It hurts!
Blake thought as her ears twitched violently as she began to convulse on the spot. She coughed three times vomiting small pools of blood, as she gags on the ground.
"It hurts! It hurts!"
Blake cried as she felt her body spasm. Her limbs jerked and shook violently as she began to go into shock.
The pain was too much; Blake was never used to pain in her life. And once again the sheer burning agony was far too great for the faunus to bear as she began to do the one thing she knew how to do when things got to that point.
She quit. She gave up fighting and closed her eyes shut tight! Forcing the pain and agony coursing through her body like she was being injected with fiberglass shards and curled up into a ball. Making herself as small a target as possible as tears fell from her face as she prepared to-
"NO!"
Blake suddenly yelled as memories of the alley fight at the docs filled her mind. Dark cramped quarters, pained screaming, gleaming eyes and the sound of slicing flesh filled her minds as she began to shake. She had failed then...
She let her own pain influence her, and she suffered for that. Blake would admit that she was no Jaune or Penny. But this was different!
Neo was dying, and she needed Blake's help. Even if she hated her, Blake was an Arc and she would be damned before she let a friend of hers die!
"Come on Blake! You can do this!"
She hissed at herself rolling over on the rooftop crying out in pain as fresh flashes of agony poured through her limbs as she rolled onto Neo.
The smaller girl was barely moving, as her chest came up and down in rapid shallow bursts that were slowly subsiding. She was bleeding profusely from the wound in her chest, as fresh blood stained her uniform the color of the hair of her leader as even with aura the wound was deep.
"Neo...
Blake said as the Faunus's own pain was put temporarily aside as she looks at her bleeding friend. The girl's face was twisted into an agonized grimace as Blake ran a hand another face.
"Cold...
Blake thought as the girl's skin had lost nearly all temperature, her breathing was heavy and shallow. And came out in dry ragged clumps as she fought to breathe. Blake was no medic, but she knew the basics. As she ripped open the girls uniform to inspect the wound.
Blake nearly vomited as fresh blood touched her hand staining it a bright crimson as she tore open her shirt getting a pained moan from Neo's tiny mouth.
"That had to happen."
Blake said as she got a closer look at the wound.
It started from her left back and went straight through her side emerge from the corresponding breast penetrating it through and leaving a gushing fountain of blood.
"I need to stop the bleeding."
Blake thought as she went to her own shirt and ripped it in two.
Tearing off a decent portion of her sleeves as she attempted to make a makeshift tourniquet.
"Why didn't I pay better attention to health!?"
Blake hissed to herself, as she tried and failed to stop the bleeding as her attempts to put pressure on the wound where all for not as Neo continued to lose blood. She was never the most studious of students, and now that lack of patience and practice was going to get Neo killed!
"Come on! Come on! Don't die on me! Please don't die!"
Blake though as she attempted to stop the bleeding she just needed to-
"Over there!"
A voice yelled as Blake's head snapped back at a breakneck speed as she saw two fang members pointing at her with rifles in hand.
"Neo! We need to go!"
Blake hissed as she gripped the smaller girl ignore the pain moans and whispered she gave her in return as she began to-
BANG!
"AH!"
Blake cried out a bullet struck the back of her leg going straight through it and petering out the other side in a puff of blood and making Blake howl in pain.
"My leg! It hurts!"
Balke cried out before a second shot came and penetrated her other leg making her collapse.
"It hurts! It hurts!"
Blake cried as the sound of twin footsteps approached
"We found them, mam. Proceeding to eliminate."
A man said as one drew a word and came behind Blake.
"Sorry about this. But orders are orders."
The man said drawing out his glittering silver short sword and-
FISHT!
The sound of tearing flesh filled the air as a sword appeared in his chest as Neo stuck him through one eye open in a pained grimace as she glared at the faunus.
What the hell-
It hurts!
Neo thought as she opened her eyes. The first thing she felt was the pain. Hot and vicious as she felt the burning agony in her chest. Like liquid torment was pumping in her hear making her scream a silent moan of agony as memories flooded back to her.
That bitch! When I get done with -
"Neo we have to go!"
A familiar voice sad as Neo noticed that the faunus Blake? Was holding her in her in her bloody arms as she picked her up making Neo moan in pain as he body protested the sudden movement.
Stupid faunus! What are you-
Two gunshots rang out as Neo, and Blake fell, as they crashed into the ground the faunus cried. As she began sweeping s two fang member came slowly from behind her.
"Proceeding to eliminate."
One of the said as Neo glared.
Blake was covering her body with her own like some kind of human well not human. Not even close but a living shield would be a better analogy. As She saw a man draw a sword.
Neo sighed taking a deep breath and accept the fact that this needed to happen as she found herself forced to save a faunus.
As the man swung, she used what little energy she could to stab him in his chest running him through as she penetrated his heart.
"Neo!?"
"Pery!?"
Two voice sais Neo glared at Blake and mouthed kill him.
Of course, she didn't do that as her voice opened to do something that was not killing and honest not even remotely useful.
"Neo are you ok!?"
Blake shouted as Neo killed one of the faunus guards. Running him through with her sword that seemed to radiate green energy as she killed him.
Damn animal. Neo thought before flashing open her parasol intercepting the first wave of gunfire from the man, as her shield protected them before he ran out.
"Son of a-
He never finished as Neo stabbed him in the gut leaping out of Blakes grip killing the man in a moment.
Now I-
Neo thought before her mind went blank as all motion left her limbs as she looked down.
I've lost blood. Too much blood.
Neo thought as her mind swam and she collapsed...
As Blake ran to her body hands moving over her bloodstained fading form she saw her scroll had been opened leaving a bloody message on it.
"Go to this address. Ask the man for help and show me to him. Hurry."
Neo had typed a lone message followed by an address on the west side of town, as Blake found herself moving as fast as her now badly damaged legs could carry her.
Blake was moving. She used her semblance to travel across the Vale rooftops with Neo in her arms. She picked up Neo's unconscious form and reported them across Vale. Evey jump had them both can crashing on some rooftop or always making Blake cry in pain. Neo was long blood, her area had replies some damage, but she was still dying.
And Blake was little better. Her wounds were mounting and every jump[e drained more and more blood as she approached her destination.
"Almost there...
Blake thought as she scaled the rooftops of Vale. The cool night ait bit inot her face and almost burned her lungs as she followed the address that Neo had given her. Luckily the navigation app on her scroll was on by some miracle so Blake was able to work out the directions to go to the doctor.
As Balke and Neo both landed outside what she prayed was his office, Blake began to pound the door.
"Help! Please! Let us in!"
Blake yelled slamming on the door with her bare fist. She had no idea how long she slammed the door; it felt like hours had gone by. Long pain filled hours of Blake banging her already weak arm against the door bloodying her fist onto it before it finally opened, and a man swabbed in green masks came out.
"Look you know the rules, either call first or don't-
The man began as he saw the sight in front of him.
"Miss Arc?"
The man asked genuinely surprised to see her. He had thought he had seen the last of the faunus as Blake looked to be close to death.
"I need your help! Please!"
She yelled at the man cover in surgical garb as he sighed.
"Look I don't' work for free I know-
"My friend is hurt too!"
She yelled as the man's mouth fell down as he saw the rapidly exsanguinating form of Neopolitan in her arms.
'"Come in. Now!"
He yelled as he rushed the girls into the office...
"As you can see after we breach the town here. Our foray to the mountain will all be proved successful."
Cinder's calm beatific tone said as she finished explaining the final parts of the mount Gleen operations to Roman and the faunus Sirhenna nodded.
"Sounds good Cindy. I'll get on it."
Roman nodded as he tipped his hat to his lover as she returned his nod.
"I concur. I will gather my forces. We have just one minor problem to attend to that is all."
She said as Cinder cocked her head.
"Problem? What kind of problem do you have? I hope it's not something serious."
Cinder said as her palms flashed oranged as a sudden fire broke from them.
"Clam yourself human."
The faunus said as she snarled the last word like it was a curse.
"We just had a minor security breach is all."
"Minor? I don't know about you, but in our way or work minor is never minor."
Roman said tipping his cane to her in a smooth practice motion as Cinder nodded.
"I agree with Roman. What kind of security breach?"
"Simple. One of our warehouses was apparent fon by a pair of hunters in training from Beacon."
She said in a natural tone as if nothing was the matter, and she did not have a potentially severe breach of security.
As the faces of her erstwhile comrades if you could call them that balked as Cinder eys exploded n flame as the faunus waved her down.
"Calm yourselves. They were both dying, and I had the pleasure to stab one through my self. They are surely dead-
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! You are talking about my warehouse's lady. And I take security very seriously. No way two huntresses in training form Beacon? I assume snuck in without me knowing."
Roman said as the woman glared at him.
"Then your security is lacking. They were little more than teenagers. And both badly injured when I left."
She said Roman felt a cold hand grip his heart. Neo is in Beacon; someone goes into his warehouse without breaking in or using a key? Badly hurt it can't be...
"Roman it is fine. I'm sure it's not her."
Cinder said putting a hand on his shoulder with a neutral smile that Roman knew to mean worried sick. As despite their rocky relationship Cinder did love Neo. And Neo her. In her own unique and decisively Neo like way.
As the woman glared at the faunus.
"What happened to them? How do you know they are dead?"
Cinder said refusing to let a hint of her true emotions show in her voice as the faunus nodded.
"Simple. I stabbed on through her chest, and the other was shot multiple times. Though they did escape-
Roman was not listening to her. A million thoughts per second entered his head as he began os what. No way! No way! NO Way!
Roman's thoughts exploded out as his mind raced with possibilities. When did I last see Neo? Hell, when did I last hear from her? It had been weeks since she went to Beacon to see Jaune.
Roman was okay with that. Neo could take care of herself, and Jaune was a big boy. Besides! Neo was a minimalist at heart! Just because she didn't text or call you didn't mean she was hurt! she probably forgot! Her attention span was near non-existent for anything that was not Jaune or ice cream so she was fine! Probably...
But if she got out, went out by herself inot a warehouse, and met a woman that she did not know. A faunus woman at that, and one who had a chip on her shoulder for humanity?
And mainly if Neo acted like Neo. Then things could have gone wrong, very very bad indeed and-
"I am sorry, but I must go. I have matters to attend to."
The tiger woman said as she called for her guards to open the door. As she began to walk out, Roman lept to his feet as he was about to yell to demand what the girls looked like before a faint whistling sound was heard through the air.
"AH!
A scream came from the outside as the sound of tearing flesh filled the air.
The faunus stooped as blood splattered her face, as she gaged as red word penetrated her gut. Impaling her through her gut and popping for form her back making her vomit up blood before lifting her in mid-air before running into the side of the warehouse. Dragging, the woman along in a violent shower of blood and sparks.
As she was smeared across the walls drawn a long crimson stain on the before she stopped as the sword flashed out and ripped her in two.
"Adam!?"
The voices of the two still living faunus guards rang out as the tossed their weapons to the floor.
"Sir! We didn't mean-
Whistling came again as the men exploded in puffs of red as Wilt ripped them to pieces. As Adam walked claiming into the match chamber still class in his pristine black jacket pants, and combat boots. As he sat down at the table and gave his cohorts a nod.
"It's good to have you back Adam," Cinder said as the man nodded.
"Good to be back. Sorry for being late. I had some managerial issues."
This was troubling...
The doctor thought as the looked over his two patients. Both of them second timers of his actually as he looked down. Despite being of similar ages, similar weaponry, and same gender the two girls soul not be more different.
"Blake Arc and Neopolitan."
He said out loud as the looked them over. He never expected to see either of the two again let alone seeing them again as they came as one.
Blake Arc. The adopted daughter of Juniper and Nicholas Arc. Of the legendary hunter family who was as of now enrolled in Beacon, along with their actual son who by some twist of fate was also attending Beacon after being raised as a thief by a thief.
As she breathed heavily, the faunus had several bullet wounds and was suffering from a severe case of aura depletion and blood loss. Besides that, she was stable more or less, and she was breathing evenly into her mask. She was more than likely to survive the night, without complications.
Now Neo on the other hand? That was something different entirely.
Neo was hurt. Badly. Her left lung was severely damaged, and he doubted it would ever recover in her life. He had already put a mental note to call Roman and suggest a prosthetic to help her out.
To add to complications her left breast was also heavily injured and was going to have a permanent scar on it. A nasty one at that.
She had suffered severe blood loss and was still in danger of dying from shock. As she breathed into her respirator.
He needed to think calmly about this. As perhaps the two most troublesome patients of his life arrived.
For one Neo. If anything and he meant anything happens to her on his watch, his life expectancy would drop so fast that he might as well commit suicide and ave himself the trouble of being immolated or worse. So she needed to stay alive, which meant calling people. And if he called certain people then that would mean Miss Arc would get involved, and there was a slight chance that the other party involved in this might just want to keep Blake's mouth shut. For good.
Cinder hated loose ends, and if Blake was asked how the hell the white fang where after her and why Neo was casually talking to them in one or Roman's warehouses? That was a disaster waiting to happen that he would have no part in if he could help it.
Then there was Blake. He knew that the Arc family was like. If he saved their daughter and brought her back alive, he would be showered with praise and attention That was unadaptable. He was trying to keep a low profile, and that kind of attention was decidedly not needed. In fact, it was tempting to kill Blake and be done with it.
She was just a huntress int ring Arc or not. No one knew that she was here. Not even Neo. If he just cut her jugular, or inject her with the right amount of Morphine? She would be out an into the ever after in a heartbeat. Now while this was tempting and would go well with what he though Cinder would ask of him this plan also had its fair share of complications.
Mainly a man in green with a love of riddles and a damned addiction to caffeine.
The problem with that was one Ozpin. If one of his students just went missing and was found to be killed with questions mean he was sure he would be getting a rather painful visit form a man in green that would be on par or worse then what Cinder could ever do to him. And while he could dispose of the body that left the other problem Jaune.
Jaune liked Blake. Enough to carry her there himself. If he did something to her Jaune might find out and be rather irked with him. And if you pissed Jaune Torchiwck, you pissed of Roman Torchwick. Which meant you pissed of Cinder.
And he was back to square one of committing suicide.
Now he could just keep them in a medically induced coma until they were healed then he could have it arranged for them to be dropped off at Beacon...
"That's brilliant!"
He said out loud as the plans formed in his head.
He would have them dropped off after healing.
Save their lives and his obfuscation in the process. He just neede them to heal, and then he would be scot-free.
He thought as he began making last-ditch suicidal alteration striking blood pressure and a plethora of other delicate actions as he worked with the girls.
"I just need you to live. Can you do that for me?"
He asked them before chuckling.
"Not that you have a choice that is. When you are my patient, you live, and that's that."
The man said as he grinned to himself as he once again began to earn his title of number one doctor in the vale underworld. As he went to work...
"Ouch... Where am I?"
Blake asked as she sat up. Groccily yawning heavily as she slowly blinked the sleep from her eyes. Warm sunlight hit her face as she saw that she was currently covered with a warm blanket and-
"NEO!"
Blake suddenly yelled sitting up only to grimace as the pain from the bullets as it did not wash over her?
What the?
Blake that as she looked down to see herself clad in her usual pink yukata as she looked up to a familiar bed and dorm.
"I... I'm back home?"
Blake asked herself as she looked around the team RWBY dorm. There she was, in her bed alone as the low afternoon light sunlight bled into the room.
"Was it all a dream?"
Blake asked her as mero to the fang, Adam Penny.
Blake almost vomited at the thought of the slaughter she witnesses entered her mind. Making her stomach churn as she fought back her bile.
"It's just a dream...
Blake said aloud as she laid back in bed.
"Just a long painful-
Click!
There was a clicking sound as the door opened as Blake looked over to see Ruby walking in the room with a tired look in her eyes as her silver eyes locked onto Blake.
"Hey, Blake! You enjoy your cat nap?"
Ruby asked with a small grin making Blake glare at her younger leader.
"Yes, I did thank you very much."
Blake said as Ruby giggled and walked into the room.
"Well, at least you are good at napping right?
Ruby said happily jumping up to Blake's bunk bed that was not meant to carry two people as the younger girl plopped herself down on top of it.
"I guess?"
Blake asked as Ruby's grin took an odd infliction as eh cocked her head.
" I mean it's not like you good at anything else you know Blake?"
Ruby said as Blake paused.
"What?"
Blake asked das shew as sure he heard Ruby wrong. Ruby? Insult her? No. Ruby would never insult anybody let alone a friend of hers and-
"Of course silly! I mean you cant' do anything right besides sleep and eat, right? I mean I'm surprised you can even walk and talk without falling over!"
Ruby said with her usual happy voice as Blake paused as she felt her hands tremble.
"Ruby... That's not very nice you know?"
Blake asked trying to get why Ruby was talking other like that. Maybe she was playing a joke?
Yeah, that's it! This is just some practical prank that Yang set up! Oh, when I find her-
"I mean it! Blake, you are the worst! You can't fight, you can't study! You can't lead I mean come on! What do you bring to his team!? I mean when you think about you bring nothing to this team! And well you are honestly well... you're just a burden."
Ruby said with a happy voice as Blake passed as her heart felt like it was being stabbed.
"Ruby that's not true I-
"What? Are you going to say that you actually do bring something to the team? That you bring some indescribably unique yet decisively important aspect to the team that is equal parts indispensable and essential to our group's cohesion with your natural Blake ness? Cause let me tell you if you do! You don't."
Ruby said Blake growled.
"You know Ruby, my mom told me that if you don't have anything nice to say-
"Don't say anything at all? Jeeze! And they call me a child! It's no wonder people me included don't like you!"
Ruby snarled as Blake felt her fangs bar.
"Well even if you don't like me Yang is my partner and she loves-
"Sorry, kitty kat I'm with Rubes on this one. You suck. Really. Like awful."
Her partner said leaning in the door frame with her usual uniform blowing a lock of blonde hair from her mouth as Blake paused. As her mouth fell from its hinges.
"Yang? You don't-
"Fraid I do kitty kat! You are the wors partner I could ever ask for. You can't fight, you can't dodge! The only thing you can do is draw the enemy attention away from more important people that are well literally anyone is more important that you to be honest."
"I mean seriously! How am I supposed to fight when I spend half my time watching your back? It's not fair! I get held back while you get a free pass? The hell is that about?"
Yang asked as Blake felt as a tear fell from her face as her partner, and best friend suddenly betrayed her.
"Yang... I'm your partner!-
"Don't remind me about it. Why didn't I get Jaune or something? He can fight at the very least he leads."
Yang said in a tired tone as Blake felt her heartbreak.
"I'm not useless...
"You kinda are! I mean you literally bring nothing to the team."
"That's not true!"
Blake yelled as Yang shrugged.
"Don't get pissy with me you damned cat. I'm just telling you how the whole team feels you know?"
"Weiss doesn't fell that way! I know that she likes me!"
"Like you? I tolerate you. At best."
Weiss said walking into the room her off-kilter ponytail boun as her immaculate white dress shone in the sunlight.
"Weiss? You-
"Don't you Weiss me! I already didn't trust you for being a faunus but now? Dear Oum, you are terrible! Not only do you not know how to fight well you can't even use your own weapon!"
Weiss shouted as Blake felt her tears dropped freely.
"Weiss...
"Oh what? are you going to cry again? Like the baby you really are? Hah! It's fitting really. All the time we had to babysit you? I can't believe that you had the gall to come to a hunter academy!"
"I-
"You should not have come. You bring nothing to our team and only serve to drag us down as a whole. If I had my way I would kick you out but that is not my place."
"Hey! You could always petition Oz to get ass out of here."
Yang said as Weis gasped.
"That's it! I'll just call Opzin and-
"Weiss! Yang! I'm your friend! We are friends! And friends don't-
"Friends?"
Yang said cocking her head as she blinked owlishly at her.
"When did you get that idea?"
Ruby asked eyes blink in fon as Yang coughed.
"Yeah, Blake. Me and you? Not friends. Partners barley but not friends."
"Y-
"Take a hint! She is not your friend! None of us are!"
Ruby said brushing her hair as jumped from her bed.
"In fact! I say let's get JNPR to sign the option to get Blake removed! We can get Coco and Vel to do it as well!"
Ruby said as Blake yelled.
"But you can't!"
"We can."
"We will."
"Ther is nothing you can do about it."
They said as Blake felt her heartbreak before a figure walked inside.
"What's all the yelling?"
Jaune asked he walked into the room in his usual white tux as Blake felt her heart swell.
"Jaune! Thank Oum you are here! You can talk some sense into my team! They have lost their minds!"
Blak yelled as Jaune blinked owlishly at her.
"What do you mean lost their minds. Is it about the petition?"
Jaune asked as Blake balked.
"Sure is Goldilocks! We were just about to ask about you and wondering if you were in?"
Yang asked as Jaune nodded his head.
"Sure am. Put my name first."
"Jaune...
"Blake I know I've been training you but now? I'm sorry, but you're just not worth it."
"That's not true! You said I had potential!"
"Eh? I lied so what? It's what I do."
"But I have skills!"
"No. Blake you do not have skill. I have skills. Your team has skills. My team has skills. You? You Blake, you are worthless."
Jaune said as Ble felt her heartbreak-
"AHH!"
Blake cried as she felt her face hit the ground as it exploded in pain as she landed head first on the Beacon entrance.
"What? Where am I?"
Blake asked as she dumped unceremoniously out into the sun of Vale as her and Neo were left to he Beacon entrance, as the sound of screeching tires filled the air.
A moan expanded form Neo as-
"Neo!"
Blake yelled suddenly hugging the girl as Neo glared at her. Bringing her scroll up in the process.
"What the hell!? What are you doing?"
"Neo! You're safe! I'm so glad!"
Blake yelled hugging the smaller girl as Neo grimaced.
It was already bad enough that a faunus had stabbed her in the back and that the only reason she was currently alive right now was that of a faunus. The fact that she was loathed to admit. As the girl wrapped her in a spring strong hug.
"Stop it."
Neo typed on her scroll after freeing her hands from her grip as the girl cried on her shoulder wetting it with tears and to her great displeasure her snot.
She's crying!? Neo thought as the girl wept on her shoulder.
"I'm so glad you are safe! I thought you were going to die!" Blake yelled as Neo rolled her eyes.
"I'm fine Arc. Put me down. Now."
Neo typed as Blake released the smaller girl making her sigh before she grimaced in pain.
Her chest still hurt like hell. Not surprising seeing how she had just literally been stabbed right through it by some crazy ass faunus.
She would need to teach that woman a lesson. But that could wait. For now, both her and Blake needed to go back to Beacon. Where Neo would get a heroes welcome and-
The hell are you going!? Neo thought as she saw the faunus girl walking away from Beacon.
"Blake! The hell are you going?'
Neo asked as she appeared in front of Blake making the faunus glare at her.
"I'm not going back."
Blake said evenly as she walked past Neo whose mouth had fallen open.
"What do you mean you are not going back!?"
Neo typed walking informed of the badly limping girl who kept her gaze straight as she began walking to Vale.
"I said I'm not going back. They don't want me there."
Blake said in a sad voice as Neo fumed.
I do not have time to play babysitter! Neo thought as brought up her scroll.
"Why the hell not?!"
"Becuase I'm just not! Ok! Now leave me alone!"
Blake yelled at Neo for the first time as the girl glared.
"Watch your tone Arc! I don't care what's wrong with your head, but you are going back to Beacon one way or another!"
Neo typed as Blake actually hissed at her.
"No Neo! I'm not going back! "
"Why not!? What possible reason do you have for not going back to Beacon?! It's been over a week!"
"A week?"
Blake asked as Neo sighed.
"look at your scroll! We were out for days!"
Neo typed as Blake looked at her scroll that was somehow back in her possession, by some means. As she swore the fang took it as she found herself with a damn near identical one to the one she came to Beacon with. It even had her tuna sticker on it! If it was fake someone did an amazing job with it.
As she looked at it to show that the had indeed been missing for days, and almost a week had passed since she overheard her team's comment of her lack of skill and she ran. Like a coward. She ran away like the useless coward she really was. Undeserving to be at Beacon...
Blake though bitterly as Neo fumed.
"Cut the shit Arc! Come on back with me. Now."
"No Neo! I need to get better first!"
Blake yelled as Neo balked.
"Better? Why?"
"Becuase I'm not good enough. I need to try; I need to improve b before I can go back!"
"Well, yeah. You suck. But that's no reason not to go home! I mean you where terrible before you left and they still like you right?"
Neo's fingers flew over her school as the most unusual thing happened as Blake growled to her.
"The fuck is wrong with you!?"
Blake suddenly yelled at Neo for the second time as Blake might have said her first curse word as Neo blink owlishly at her.
"Wrong with me? Nothing's wrong with me. Why?"
"Then why are you so mean!? Why did I ever do to you? I didn't even know you before Beacon so why do you treat me like shit!?"
Blake yelled as Neo's glare hardened.
"I don't like you."
"Why!? What did I ever do to you?"
"Exist."
Neo typed as Blakes' anger dissipated as she frowned.
"Why is that so bad? Is my literal existence that troubling for you?"
Blake asked as Neo sighed. She knew what this was. The reason why Neo did not like Blake was simpled. Blake was a faunus Neo did not like the faunus. Simple as that. They killed her family, and she hated every last one of them for it. It was an emotional hit and she never got over it.
Now to be fair! Neo was not stupid. She knew that Blake had quite literally nothing to do with the attack on her family. And she knew that most faunus did not have anything to do with the attacks.
She knew that it was the actions of a few angered faunus that lashed out at a society that the despised. But! It still hurt. Neo lost her family that night and even if she gained a new one, some wounds never healed.
"My family-
"I had nothing to do with it! I was a baby! A literal baby! How no why!? Could you hate me for that?! It doesn't make any sense!"
Blake yelled at the girl as Neo sighed.
Blake was right. Neo was not stupid. Her hatred for Blake was nothing more than misplaced aggression. Hate that nowhere to go and needed to be vented on the nearest most convent object.
Which in her case was usually Blakes' face. As Neo glared at her.
"I'm not stupid. I know you had nothing to do with it."
Neo typed as Blake fumed.
"Then why!? Why are you such an ass to me!? And me alone!?"
"Becuase Jaune!"
Neo suddenly typed as Blake blinked.
"Your brother?"
Blake asked bling owlishly at Neo who was now shooting daggers at her.
"Yes him. You are not good enough for him."
"I think Jaune knows who is or is not good for him."
Blake said in an icy for her tone as Neo sighed done again.
"Blake. I don't hate you. I just don't like you ok?"
"But why? What did I do to make you not like me?"
"You...
"I?"
"You want Jaune."
Neo typed as Blake's eye narrowed.
"Ther's more to it than that. I can tell." Blake said as Neo sighed.
"You like him."
"So do you?"
"Yes and-
She began to type as Blake gasped.
Everything seemed to stop and come to a screeching grinding halt. As Blakes' eye shot open as it all made sense. Neo's hatred of her. Her incessant desire to keep her and Jaune apart. It was not racism. Or well it was but that was only half of it!
Ther other reason Neo despised Blake was much more relatable. As Blake gained a knowing look in her eyes.
"You... you are jealous of me."
Blake said as Neo linked before her sword flashed out to Blakes jugular as she glared at her.
"I'm not jealous of an animal I-
"Yes. Yes, you are. You are jealous he thinks of you as nothing but a sister! You are jealous because he actually likes me and I like him back! You... you just don't want me to steal your brother. Is that it?"
Blake asked as Neo's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates.
'No! That' not it!"
She typed as Blake began to nod her hea.d
"I get it now. I really do."
"You don't know anything!"
"I know you are sad. I know you are angry. Jaune thinks of you as nothing but a sibling but you? You love him as something much, more. But that love is not returned. That must feel terrible."
"You don't know-
"I'm sorry Neo," Blake said hugging the girl who froze like she had been stabbed.
"I'm sorry, but I won't stop. I love Jaune, and I won't back down for you."
Blake said to the smaller multicolored girl as tears fell from her eyes.
"But why not? He's my brother... I've known him longer than anyone. He should be with me! Not some strangers he just met...
Neo typed despondantly as Blake nodded.
"Neo Jaune is his own person. You can't force him to love you. You need to let it happen."
Blake said as the tears truly began to fall from the girl.
"But it's not happening! He does even look at me like that! No matter what I do, he ignores me! What do I do about that?!"
Neo demanded as Blake nodded her head.
"Sometimes there is nothing you can do about it. Sometimes you just need to let go."
Blake advised as Neo sniffled.
"I don't want to...
"You might have to."
"It's hard...
"I know. So is what I am about to do."
"What you are about to do?"
"Neo I need to train. I need to get better! I'm not coming back to Beacon until I am worthy of it! You'll see! I'll train hard work every day and when I get back I'll be a real member of my team! Not just the sidekick the useless one...
Blake said as Neo gave her a long unreadable look as she began to type in her scroll.
"You aren't useless. Not at all. In fact, you are the opposite of it"
Neo typed as Blakes cat ears shot up.
"Neo?"
"You are not useless. You can't be useless."
Neo typed as Blake blinked wolfishly at her.'
"What do you mean?"
" I mean what I said. You want to improve yourself. My father once said that anyone who wants to improve themselves and has the will to do it is never useless. And is perhaps the most important person of them all."
"Blake if you want to change and the go through with acting on those changes you will never be useless."
Neo typed as Blake feat tear fall form her fac.e
"Thank you! Neo I-
"No hugging. We had a moment don't ruin it.'
The girl warned as Blake smiled wincing in pain as she nodded her head.
"Sorry... I'm still not there."
"No kidding."
"Hey!"
"Don't worry about it."
"But really. Where how are you going to go train? I mean you are in a school for hunters after all."
"I don't know! But just like my dad always said! You just need confidence, and everything will work out!"
Blake said as Neo sighed as shook her head.
"Fine. You get three days. Come back by then, Or I come for you."
"Three?! Neo that not enough time! I need weeks! Months! Maybe even yea-
"Three. Days. That or I drag you there now. Which one?"
Neo asked as Blake sighed.
Blake had to admit as far as plans to improve herself went this was easily! By far and above margin one of her worse ones.
She went into Vale with nothing but confidence and a desire to train but that soon hit the backburner of objectives for the girl as she now was currently lost. She had gone into the seedier parts of town and was now covered under a dark coat as the sun had finally set and she walked past the near-dead always of downtown Vale looked for something. She didn't even know that when a door suddenly slammed open.
"To hell with the lot of you! I don't need no charity!"
A dry, raspy voice yelled as Blake turned to see a man being tossed out of a bar.
"And stay out! No good bum!"
A bouncer yelled as a man hissed.
"No good bum!? I was a leader dammit! I had a tribe!"
The man yelled at the bouncer who swore at him once as he went back inside the club. The man shouted several more unintelligible insults before he crashed into the pavement of Vale and laid still.
He was in trouble and clearly drunk. And Blake was a hunter and an Arc. And as much she went to go help the man who she sure smells like he spent the last day bathing in liquor.
As Blake approached him, he was apparently unconscious spout out and one in his sleep.
Something about edgy birds, silver eyes and a hatred for blondes of all things? He was a pale-skinned man with blood red eyes, and jet black hair. He wore an off-kilter cross and an open button up shirt that exposed a well-muscled chest and a patch of black hair making Blake blush.
As she looked down to his loose black pants that were now covered in trash, the girl gave a mental sigh as she went to go help him up she took one look at the bar he had gotten thrown out of. As she looked up to the name of the bar as it read Crow Bar...
AN. Dun. Dun. Dun! And with that, a wild bird enters the scene! What will Blake do when the mysterious stranger she finds outside a bar on her quest for training is a bit more than happy to train her for a price? What about Penny? With Adam back in black and the villains reunited where does the rouge android fit in? And what of the main cast at Beacon?! Sure Neo and Blake had a moment but what of their friends? Find out next time on Jaune Torchwick!
If you follow me endangered is next so until then?
Omake.
Omake Guardians of Remnant. Part six. Ren the destroyer.
"The Destroyer? Who the hell thought of that name?"
Jaune asked as he looked at the man in front of him. He was a tall pale man with a barreled chest covered in black and jade tattoos of dragons. As he meditated on a small bench. He wore a green pair of pants with what looked like a pair of SMG's on his lap, with a large green jacket draped over him as he sat.
"You don't know anything do you human! That's Ren the destroyer! The guy who's whole family wife and all were killed by Tai-Yang! And who went on such a rampage of death and destruction Vale had to put him away during the peace meeting!"
Blake said as Jaune shrugged.
"Nope! Doesn't ring a bell!"
Jaune said as Blake rolled her eyes.
"Good Oum how dense is your head?"
She asked as Jaune saw a blur of motion come down from up high.
"Down!"
Jaune yelled as he saw a figure drop on Pyrrha only for a blur of emerald to incept it as the sound of a breaking neck filled the air as Ren? Was it went from silently meditating but was now standing upright in the middle of the room as he looked down on a body that had recently had its neck snapped.
As light magenta eyes looked down to the dead faunus man Ren spoke.
"Her life is mine. No one else is to touch her. Do I make myself abundantly clear?"
Ren asked in a quiet voice almost a whisper as the leering eyes that watched thee back off as Ren turned tot he group.
"Pyrrha. You have assisted the monster that killed my family. For that, you will die. But for now, I have more important matters to discuss. You. Arc lord."
"Finally! Somebody knows my name! What can I do for you Ren the destroyer? That's a tongue twister."
Jaune said as Ren glared at him.
"Ok. So no jokes. Got it."
"I know you acquired a sphere recently. Do you still have it?"
Ren asked as Jaune grimaced.
"No. It's in the guard room right now. Why?"
"Yeah, why are you trying to get in on our bounty?"
Blake asked glaring at the man as Penny harumphed.
"I am Penny!"
"No. But I must say that if you ever turn Jaune in you will doom the entirety of Remnant."
Ren said in a calm voice as Blake glared at him.
"The hell are you talking about human?"
"You will see. Until then follow me. You will all have nothing to fear from me or the inmates so long as you stick by my side. Until we get back to my room where I have a story to tell...