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The end for the Arc of some sort. To be simple, its called the A.F.O Arc.

Prologue

1,657 Faunus were killed.

3,127 A.F.O members were either killed or in incarcerated.

Adam and Glade were taken to a prison hospital where it was officially confirmed that Glade was dead.

Autopsy reported that it could have been a possibility that he could have died fron injuries, or extreme aura strain, or stress-induced cardiomyopathy.

Adam was in a coma for two whole days but later woken up.

Blake, Ilia, Sun, Ghira and many other Menagerie were taken in hospitals and were being treated for their battle wounds.

Corsac and Fennec retreated back to the White Fang base after the fight.

The very next day, the atmosphere was odd. Finding out that Adam assisted in the Fall of Beacon felt shocking yet not surprising, mainly for Ruby, Jaune, and definitely Weiss since he admitted that he was part of the White Fang.

Ruby was taking it hard though, she felt angry and played with. "Stupid jerk...! Why did I even defend him? Yang and everyone was telling me he was bad news and..." Her words trailed, she covered her eyes, trying to prevent herself from shedding any tears. "why am I crying? It was right there, in front of my face?"

The irrational attitude towards others.

The death of those cops.

His entire fight with the A.F.O.

Even though most of those bad highlights have reasons, she should've expected that he was a bad element.

She sighed and wiped those tears away, only for it to become a glare, "I'm so dumb..." She muttered to herself as she later looked over to see Yang entering the room.

"You okay Ruby? I didn't think you'll be so bent outta shape because of this. I mean..." She went over to sit beside her little sister, "last night was crazy, even for me."

"I'm just thinking about how stupid I look yesterday." Ruby replied.

"Well...I did told you so. And your sister doesn't lie!" Yang says in a goofy tone but that didn't make Ruby any happier. Yang felt like she was in an awkward position, she didn't think Ruby would randomly become friends with the person that slit her arm off. "Sorry if I'm actin like an asshole. I just...feel safe that he's gone. But unlike you guys, I only knew that scary part about him. Even if it was just a short time."

Ruby smiled a bit. "It's fine Yang, I deserve it. You were looking after me, like always. And besides, he did hurt you and Blake, so you have every right."

Yang hugged Ruby tightly, "thank you for understanding little sis."

She hugged back and giggled. Soon Qrow came, scratching his head. "Hey kiddo..."

"Hey...uncle." Ruby replied with a mumble.

"Sorry about what I did yesterday...it won't happen again." Qrow apologized. "And...I'm sorry that we kept your mother a secret. All we tried to do was prevent you from knowing about Salem."

She sighed, "It's fine uncle Qrow. I understand." She says, getting up to hug her uncle which he gladly accepted.

It's been a week later, Ghira took the remaining of his tribe back to Menagerie. Surprisingly their fight with the A.F.O had really brighten up Mistral. Come to surprised, people were force accept the A.F.O because of their power and it being known that the Hunters in Mistral were being killed.

Professor Leonardo Lionheart body was never found but was confirmed dead with the cause of death of being killed and eaten by a Grimm. It was the only way for Ozpin to keep both Leonardo reputation in tack and Karla out of prison for killing them.

"So Blake, how are you feelin?" Yang asked the cat Faunus. She and the rest of the gang were there, coming to pick her up.

"Good...surprisingly." She replied. "Can't wait to leave this place, I'm already tired of it."

"You can say that again." Oscar said while holding the relic.

Blake yawned and stretched while staring at both Ruby and Team JNR, "I still find it hard to believe that you guys were traveling and training with Adam."

"Well, he didn't seem like a bad guy. Arrogant for sure but he was very nice to hang out with. It really does sucks that he helped with the Fall of Beacon." Jaune said.

Ruby looked away, not wanting to say anything about that.

"I'm more surprised that he did hang out with you all." Blake says. "In a weird way, in kind of brings a smile to face. Even though he's going to prison, it kinda makes me happy that he did gave Humans a try."

As they were all leaving the hospital, Ilia came to Blake and Sun with her head hung low nervously. "B-blake, um...I think its my time for me to go." She said timidly.

Blake look a her a bit bewildered. Ever since they gotten here, Ilia has been acting strangely timid and anti-social as if she wanted to get away from Blake. Blake was aware of this too...and had a very strange suspicion that Ilia did something. "You're goin back to Menagerie, right?" Blake assumed, it was the most safest place for Ilia to go. She didn't need to worry about having a house or anything since Ghira had her covered.

Sun joined in, saying, "I'm sure Jamie misses you too!" He said in a jokingly manner. Jamie was a Human that happen to live on Menagerie with her dad and older brother. She and Jamie bonded during her time there.

Suddenly Blake's scroll rung, she quickly picked it up to find out it was father. He sounded like he was crying. "D-dad, you okay?"

"I-I just need to leave..." Ilia says, running away from the group.

And that's where Blake scroll dropped. Her eyes widened with her body whimpering.

"B-Blake? Blake-?"

Everybody else was confused as they saw Blake suddenly disappear, using her shadow semblance. Ilia was yanked by the back of her combat suit. The others came to her aid with Yang, picking up her scroll. "Blake, you okay?"

"Ilia, I remember you telling me that Keith was suppose to be here, during the White Fang attack on Haven." Blake voice, sounding eerily dark.

"Blake? You okay?" They others asked. This was a side they never seen of Blake. Blake had subconsciously activated her Beast Amplifier as she glared deeply into Ilia eyes.

"I-I did! I-I d-don't know why he didn't s-show."

"You're actin suspicious Ilia." She says, now dragging Ilia over to the Haven's dorm.

"Blake, what are you doin?" Sun asked as they kept following her.

"What's that training done to her." Weiss added in.

Ilia suddenly was thrown across the floor, startling both Qrow and Karla which who were talking about the past events. "Uh, you kids ready to roll out?" Qrow asked.

Blake look down upon Ilia with a single tear rolling down her face. "Blake, wha-"

"Two dead bodies were found." Blake says, interrupting Sun who was caught off guard. "One of them happen to be Jamie...do you know who the other one was?"

Ilia eyes were being filled with tears. "Y-your mother..."

Out of nowhere, Blake went down and started to wail onto Ilia. The chameleon, raised and tried shield herself from Blake's punches, knowing they can be painful once she's in her Beast Amplifier state.

Everybody was definitely caught off guard as Sun, Yang, Ruby and Nora pulled her off from Ilia, "You piece of fuckin shit!" Blake screamed off the top of her lungs, furious with tears flowing out her eyes. Ilia who was dazed from a direct blow to the nose, crawled away from Blake profusely.

Qrow quickly got in between the two, "woah, what's your problem, black cat?"

"She...she was working with Keith! She got my mother killed!" Blake shouted.

"Huh?"

"What?"

Everybody murmured with Sun being the most confused since he was there with Ilia and Blake. "B-blake, let me explained!" Ilia begged.

"One of the guys you tried killing survived. They said you lead my mother-"

They were losing grip, very surprised at how strong Blake was. She eventually broken free and ran past Qrow, "away!" Blake shouted. Ilia stumbled back as Blake was coming at her. Again, they tried breaking her up, after Blake pinned her against the wall and started getting more hits in outta her.

Yang used her Burn semblance to get a better grip onto Blake, holding her back single handedly. Everybody else decided to just get between them both. "Blake! Try to hear her out." Yang says.

Blake anger started to calm down and shift into sadness as her voice started to crack. "Ilia...why? W-why would you..."

"Keith found out that I was spying on him and later outnumbered me with the White Fang. He found out that I was friends with Jamie and used her to threatened me. He told me to convinced you that he was going to be at Haven and later...had me to lead your mom away." Ilia explained while wiping away the tears. "But even then...he had Jamie killed anyways...I just felt...extremely guilty."

Blake growled at that statement about her mother, "leave...just leave."

Ilia tilted her head, leaving the Haven dorm. Blake broken down onto her knees and start crying hysterically as her team and Sun checked on her. "Why...?! Why...!? Why my mom?"

Adam POV

Adam was in a prison hospital. Why is he there? He was there for the War Crimes he committed during the Attack of Beacon, (attacking civilians, fighting students which who were unlicensed hunters) Surprisingly, the others left out about the death of those cops since it was justified after finding out footage from Lionheart's archives.

Either way, it was possibility he could be released but it would've been many years since then. "Ugh," he groaned, waking up to see that he was strapped down and surrounded by armed men and a nurse. He also had an aura suppressor bracelet around his leg to nullify his aura. "You're not my doctor?"

The nurse looked at him, "oh, you're awake. And yeah, Doctor Veranda called in sick. But how are you feeling, Mr.Taurus?"

"I feel like shit." He replied.

The nurse giggled at his response, "Well I was told you were in a coma for a few days. Still quite surprised you haven't died due to to your stress levels."

Adam sighed, "so what happens now?"

The doctor went over to a desk to pick up some documents. "The courts already found you guilty. Besides your crimes against Beacon, you're quite infamous in Atlas and Mantle. But it isn't a surprised, you are the son of a killer after all."

Adam's eye pupils suddenly shrunk as his furrowed his eyebrows.

"Son of a killer."

That reminded him back when he used to go to school in Atlas. When it was "known" that his mother killed her husband in a stabbing, he was bullied for it. "What the fuck are you talking about?" He said in an aggressive tone.

"We got a lot of info about you. First, following your mother footsteps by killing a S.D.C worker at the age of 10, almost killing the daughter of its CEO at 10, committing many robberies and murders in Mantle and Atlas. Which includes Schnee Dust Workers, Mantle and Atlas Hunters and possibly civilians."

"I don't hurt civilians unless they harm me or my people. And you do realize that most of those things stopped slavery in Mantle and Atlas?" Adam replied.

But the nurse already snickered, "Does it matter? And that's what you think."

"What in the hell are you going on about?!" Adam exclaimed, "and what is your game here? I know I'm a criminal so why the yelling these vague shit at me."

The nurse sat down Adam's documents, snickering rather coyly. Suddenly her expression was cracked with a very very crazy, sickening smirk. "Kill him." She ordered.

Both of the military guardsman pointed their assault rifles at Adam and fired. His eyes widened but reacted, using his Grimm powers to suddenly raise up a wall of black substance to block the bullets. Using his strength alone, he broken out of the straps and launch two Grimm hands at both the military guards, slamming them against the wall, hard enough to knock them out.

The nurse was quite surprised that he was able to do that since he has an aura lock bracelet. But she didn't look startle or anything but she did acted defensively, bringing out a power pistol (a gun similar to Ironwood.)

and fired it at Adam. Adam dodged it and leapt down at her. Surprisingly, the nurse was quite agile, grabbing Adam's by his wrists and flipping him on his back. She rolled and mounted on top of Adam, before pointing her gun right at Adam's face. Adam again, dodged the point-blank bullet by weaving his head out the way before grabbing the barrel of the gun and leading it away from his face.

Still with the gun in her hand, she quickly used her other to grabbed a scalpel from her nursey jacket and tried to stab down at Adam. He caught her hand but it quite a struggle since the nurse was strong and Adam was still weaken. "Argh...! What's your problem?" He asked.

"Nothing! I just want you dead, hehehe!" She giggled in a creepy tone.

Adam was confused, not remembering what history he had with her. Suddenly, the nurse was kicked right in the jaw, being flung right off of Adam. She quickly rolled on her feet to see Perry and Deery, confused how they got into the prison faculty very easily. She reacted offensively, shooting at them all but Perry had grabbed Adam while Deery grabbed a hold of Perry, lunging back at the wall, using her Intangibly semblance.

The bullets phased through them all as they all phased through the wall. Adam got back up. "Shit." She cursed. More military guardsman came into rooms, hearing the noise.

"What happen Doctor...Vendetta..." They noticed the other guardsmen knocked unconscious and two large bullets holes within the wall and floor.

She let out a disgruntled groan but stayed stoic. "The Faunus who fought Glade has escaped." She said.

Farah Vendetta was a 34 year old nurse who had a very dark past. At 18 years old, she was all over the news when law enforce had found her 19 year old boyfriend dead with the cause of death being multiple stabbings. Even though it was a good amount of circumstantial evidence pinned against her, she somehow manage to get off scott free with the case eventually going cold.

Her semblance is Blood Nutrients. Depending what Blood type she drinks, she gets a specific boost.

Blood Type A: Boosts up her Intelligence, highest being 300 iq.

Blood Type B: Boosts up Precision.

Blood Type AB: Does both.

Blood Type O: Boosts strength and speed.

"Should we go after him?" The Guardsmen asked.

"No." Farah replied, taking out her scroll to contact somebody. "We already got cameras on us due to the... losses of other doctors in this faculty, especially our most recent lost. Besides, you all would just die in vain anyways. I'll just contact some people and report this to lovely dear. I hope he wouldn't be angry with me though for letting him escape."

Perry and Deery were hauling ass with Adam eventually dropping down and running himself. "You guys are crazy." Adam said.

"Your the one to talk!" Deery says, jumping within in a passenger seat of a car while Perry got in the driver's.

Adam got in the backseat as Perry immediately drove away from the prison faculty.

After a long drive, Perry huffed, "Woo, we got far away there..."

Adam let out a sigh of relief. "That felt...easy, ya know. I seen everyday cops give more of a challenge than that prison faculty, well besides that nurse. Thanks though, I owe you both."

"It is quite strange." Deery replied. "Maybe we're getting into something bigger."

"That lady did tried to get me kill." Adam stated. "And she knows a lot of things about me. Not that I'm surprised but she did spoken about the Schnee Dust Company a lot. Which again, I'm not surprised but maybe now, they want me dead more than they want me in prison."

"Jacques Schnee..." Perry growled, "ya know with all the money those Schnee's have, I wouldn't be surprised they're still abusing Faunus's while keeping it out of the public eye."

"Those Schnee's are screwed regardless. With all the positive reactions that the Happy Huntresses are gettin in their campaign, Jacques Schnee is definitely bein thrown out of office." Deery added in.

Adam snapped off the aura locked, regaining his aura almost immediately. The car eventually ran out of gas after a long ride but they were already nearby into a village called Eden. "This village looks pretty nice." Adam says.

"It looks nice but we kind had a fight with bandits." She states.

"I hope it isn't the Bradwen family." Adam says. The grunts are easy to dispose, so easy that Deery and Peery could handle them but he does know about Raven Bradwen which who would be a deadly opponent for him, especially right now.

"Nope but they are some stubborn folk with basic combat." Deery says. "They been kind of terrorizing this village for awhile."

"Well then. Hope they don't cause any problems for us, otherwise..." Adam muttered, insinuating about killing and when it came to his mind, it gave him an headache.

"You okay?" Perry asked.

"Yes...I just don't know what to do." Adam replied. "After that huge fight with the A.F.O, I feel achieved."

"Well what about the White Fang? Do you still want to know why they exiled you?" Perry asked.

Adam stretched his arms, yawning. "Yup, I do. Where are we goin anyways?"

"Well..."

They stopped in front of a nice-looking house with a young lady, sitting on a bench swinging that was attached to the roof, her name was Crystal. She looked over to the three Faunus, only being familiar with Perry and Deery but was quite flustered when glancing at ominous Adam. "Perry and Deery...you're back, who's your friend?" The young lady asked.

"He's..." Deery was about to say his name, wondering if he wanted his name out.

Adam noticed the hesitation, "It's Adam. Just a friend of theirs."

"Oh okay." She replied.

The three were let in the house with Adam sitting between Perry and Deery, he glance at them both, "so what are we doin in someone's house?"

"The inn's are taken so a girl said we can stay here with her and her grandparents, that's if we help the townsfolk handle those bandits I was talking about earlier." Deery replied.

Adam groaned, wasn't really in the mood to fight some bandits, especially if they didn't serve any benefit for him. It was later, Crystal grandparents who were also familiar with Deery and Perry had cooked dinner.

Crystal grandparents noticed Adam, a bit startled by his appearance since he did look more like a young delinquent since he was shirtless and his eye looked more like tattoo and his figure screams that "I could spit in your face and I could back it up."

Crystal's grandfather leaned over to his granddaughter, "uhm, he isn't one of them Silver Dragon bandits? Right?" He whispered.

"He's friends with Deery and Perry so I don't think so..." Crystal replied.

Adam was overhearing them as he glared to them, causing them to flinch. He sighed as he stood up to leave the house. "Hey Perry and Deery, imma just sit outside for a bit." He said, closing the door and sat down onto into their porch swing.

Deery and Perry stood came out to check on him. "You good?" Perry asked

"I am. Just feel a lot of guilt and regret right now." Adam says.

"About what?" Perry questioned, "you destroyed the A.F.O and done many things for the Faunus. You're pretty much a hero to all of us."

"Yeah! What's so guilty feeling like a hero?" Deery piped in.

"Of course I don't feel guilty about that. But, I do wish things do change. It's kind of tiring." Adam admitted.

He was half lying to himself, he enjoyed doing things for the White Fang and the Faunus but on the other hand, he didn't think all Humans were bad and regretted for his brutality towards some. He sometimes wished he had joyful life with his mother.

"Well, I do agree with you right there." Deery said. "I no longer think all Humans are bad, and sometimes, I wished I did had different lifestyle."

The door opened. It was Crystal with a plate full of cooked food, a fork and a spoon. Holding the plate out to Adam, "here, Adam!"

"..." Adam took the plate. "Thanks."

"Sorry that me and my grandparents seem misjudging." Crystal says. She then glanced at Deery and Perry. "The food is done if you want to eat."

Perry furrowed his eyebrows as he and Deery got up to go back into the house, "wish I had a girl to serve me!" He muttered.

As Adam start eating his food, Crystal decided to sit beside him. "So, Adam Taurus, right? I hadn't properly introduce myself. It's Crystal. Your friends has been making the people here feel safe when they arrived some time ago."

"Oh, yeah. This village has a bandit problem. Don't you all got policemen or something?" He asked.

Crystal nodded, "we do but they're kind of afraid of the Silver Dragon leader. He's pretty strong and ruthless for them."

Adam rolled his eyes. It wasn't the first time he heard that before. "Yeah, yeah."

"So, what's with your appearance?" Crystal asked while checking out his entire body. "I didn't mean to misjudge you in the first place but you have to admit, you do look imitating. The crimson hair, shirtless, your eye...and you look very strong. It kind of screams I'm a delinquent."

"I been through a lot so that's why I look like shit and my hair is naturally red." He stated.

"Well..." Her words trailed off when she saw a small group of Silver Dragon bandits with their leader with various of weapons, mainly knives, machetes and everyday guns. Crystal and hurried and got up, "H-hey, Adam, let's go inside and get your friends." Crystal said, scared. The group was coming near her house.

Adam look over to her with a raised eyebrow. "Hm? What's wrong?"

"The Silver Dragons..."

Adam pointed at the group that was nearing their house. "Them?"

She immediately went behind the door, leaving it cracked so if Adam decided to come in at the at less the last second. Adam look over to them while sitting his plate aside. He walked off the front porch, quite stoic. He didn't take any of them seriously since they were just bandits. The leader of the Silver Dragons raised his fist, making them halt. "You're not those two dirty Faunus's that are working-" The leader of them immediately silence himself when taking a good look at Adam. Not out of fear but familiarity and shock

Same with Adam, his stoic stare suddenly became a confused with familiarity. It wasn't nostalgic, it was somewhat traumatizing which fueled an anger that he was currently trying to suppressed. "Are you Frances?" Adam asked.

"And...if I am?" Frances replied nervously, looking up his scroll with a picture of Adam being recently sent there.

"Well...I'll be happy. It's another one of my Atlas classmates." He says sarcastically as he cracked a chuckle. "A bandit? Seriously? And I thought I was a failure at life. How do you go from Atlas to here?"

Frances glared at him, putting his scroll away. "It's none of your business...anyways, if you value your safety, then you should come with us."

"My safety? I guess you haven't been keepin tabs on me-"

With quick movement, Adam shot one of the bandits right in the head with his Blush rifle. The others bandits, startled, started to shoot at Adam but he quickly disappeared.

The bandits dropped down like flies, not dead like the other one he just shot but were unconscious. "I'm not exactly a normal guy, Frances. But I'm not in the mood to kill anybody. So take-"

Quickly Frances swung a kunai at Adam's neck. Adam stepped back and dodged it before firing his rifle at Frances. Frances surprisingly side stepped out the way and threw smoke bombs onto the ground. Adam quickly backed out the smoke, jumping onto a random rooftop. He found Frances, running away. Adam chased after him but without Argus semblance.

Deery and Perry soon decided to check on the noise with Crystal looking out, astonished. "Where's Adam?" Perry asked Crystal.

Crystal was contacting the police while pointing at his direction. As Adam followed France to his hideout, he was greeted by more Silver Dragon bandits that he easily disposed of. "Geez, you guys are more weaker than the A.F.O..." He says.

Frances was suddenly a mini-gun and start unloading. Adam backed away while blocked the bullets and eventually dodging them. Using Argus speed semblance, he weaved quickly over to Frances so he can launch a fierce kick. Frances blocked the kick with his mini-gun which broken in two. Frances quickly backed away and start throwing shurikens at him. Still, Adam weaved past them before closing in to land a shot onto Frances's jaw. He then landed a couple of more blows before knocking Frances against the wall with a forward high-kick. Frances's grunted as Adam approached him with his Blush Rifle pointed right at his enemy.

"Great effort Frances but the Schnee's aren't here to recuse you." Adam stated.

Frances chuckled, "heh...that's funny..."

"Oh really?" Adam said, suddenly snapping with anger as he rammed his rifled across Frances head. "Fucking bitch."

"So...you're gonna kill me?" Frances says while looking a bit nervous.

"I would kill you but that seems unfair since I did spare Weiss." Adam stated.

Suddenly Frances face went red when hearing that name. "Weiss? You m-met with her? You didn't harm her, did you?!" He suddenly bursted with anger but Adam kept him silent by stopping onto his chest.

Adam did remember that Frances had a crush on Weiss. Many boys did at the time which he hated because they all came into defense for her. "I didn't do anything, yet."

"Good...otherwise, her father will would have you hunted."

Adam snickered, "what her pathetic father would do to me? I already killed many of his workers, I can't even count-" Adam muttered, hearing a large soaring sound outside.

Frances smirked and took that opportunity to press a button within his pocket. Suddenly a motorcycle came rushing straight at Adam. Adam immediately jumped back with Frances grabbing onto his motorcycle handle before flinging himself onto his seat and driving off. "This isn't the last time you see me Adam, but to be honest, I don't think you're gonna survive this."

Adam was about to chase him down but suddenly a person crashed through the building, landing right onto his feet. Adam look at them confusingly, "did that bitch send this?"

The person looks very cybernetic which isn't new since he fought mecha's and robots before.

I'm gonna end it off right here on a cliffhanger! Instead of going more further into the story, I might wanna work on backstories. At least later, so try to bare with the randomness in this chapter.

by the way, I'm gonna be responding to newer comments! down here, starting this one.

GNTR96

"Damn! What a chapter. Now what would happen to Adam ? If you have not decide a pairing. How about Adam x Ruby? Cliché i known but Wilted Rose is my favorite pairing. See ya."

Maybe? who knows? Anything can happen.