Italics indicate thinking

Bold is for attacks

Leona's POV

"BLAKE!" Ruby called out "Where are you?!"

"Blake!" Yang yelled.

"Hello?" I yelled with them.

"Weiss come on you're not helping." Ruby pouted.

"Oh you know who might be able to help, the police." The girl said.

"Weiss…" Ruby glared.

"It was just an idea!"

"Yeah a bad one."

"We need to hear Blake's side of the story." Yang said.

"I think when you hear it you'll see I was right." Weiss said smugly.

"Who cares who was right or wrong." I groaned "It's so irrelevant it doesn't matter, Blake's never been bad to us so there's no reason to treat her poorly. I think this whole thing is stupid."

"And I think Weiss' hair looks wonderful today!"

"WAH Penny!" Ruby yelped when the girl appeared behind us "Where did you come from?"

"Hello, what are you up to?" she asked.

"We're looking for your friend Blake." Yang explained.

"Oh you mean that Faunus girl?" Penny asked.

"Wait how did you know that?" Ruby asked.

"The cat ears." Penny pointed to her head.

"That was just a ribbon." I sighed feeling a shiver on my spine "Well…I mean it's tied kinda like ears."

"And she does like tuna." Ruby hummed.

"I'm starting to think we were stupid…" Yang said.

"Well where is she?" Penny asked.

"We don't know, she's been missing since Friday afternoon." Ruby told her.

"Ha!" Penny gasped hugging Ruby "Well that's terrible, but don't you worry I won't rest till we find your teammate Ruby, my friend…my friend Ruby."

"That's nice of you but we're okay." Ruby laughed "Right guys?"

"They left." I pointed to where Weiss and Yang had been "Something about not dealing with…this."

I gestured to Penny.

"Right…" Ruby sighed as a bush blew buy.

"Boy it's sure windy today." Penny noted.

"Yup…" Ruby hummed "Ah well we'll cover more ground split up like this, let's go Leona."

"Right Captain!" I followed her.

"Search Party ready!" Penny walked after us.

We walked in relative silence for a bit, Ruby and I making casual conversation with Penny.

"So Blake is your friend?" Penny asked "But you're mad at her?"

"Yes-we are." Ruby started "Well actually just Weiss is mad."

"Is she friends with Blake?" Penny asked.

"As you people say, it's complain." I nodded.

"Complicated." Ruby corrected me.

"Sorry It's complicated." I fixed my phrasing.

"Why?" Penny asked.

"Blake just might not be who we thought she was." Ruby frowned.

"Is she a man?!" Penny gasped.

"She better not be." I grumbled scratching my side.

Not now…

"No she's not…or at least I don't think she is." Ruby hummed "I mean not that it's a problem if she wants to-you know I think I'll shut up now. We don't know what she is, we didn't get the chance to talk before she ran off."

"I see, I don't have a lot of friends but if I did I know I'd want them to talk to me." Penny smiled.

"Me too." Ruby sighed as we kept walking off.

We wandered around town for pretty much the whole day and got no sign of Blake, not even Weiss or Yang, but by nightfall we started to hear explosions at the docks and Ruby was convinced Blake had to be there.

"HMM." I coughed a bit "I think I'll sit this one out Ruby."

"What?" she asked "But you always love to fight, I'm sure they'll be one there."

"Normally but I'm sure you can handle this." I walked away "I need to check something myself.

I separated from Ruby and Penny and slipped into a back street.

"Not now." I coughed into my hand, my palm turning red "Shit, I thought I would have a few more days, the flare ups are getting more aggressive and frequent, they used to only come up a few times a year but now it hasn't even been two months."

I started scratching my arms.

"Itchy…Itchy…" I rubbed my neck, my nails digging in "I can't…do that here…"

I shoved my tongue into my mouth and bit down "So itchy…"

"Hmm?" I heard someone walking towards me "Hey are you."

YES!

"RAH!" I grabbed him by the neck and slammed him into the wall "Sorry…you've got some bad luck."

"I wonder…" I pulled an arrow off my crossbow "How will you taste?"

"AH!" I stabbed his arm a few times, my arrow tip turning red.

"YES." I smiled licking the tip "So good."

"HMM!" I licked it clean and dropped the man who had passed out from shock "Sorry about that."

I put the arrow back into the crossbow and walked off, leaving the bruised man in the dark alley.

I lied to the others, and kept an important secret about the Amazons, we all have a power called Bloodlust, it comes from the tattoos, the more we kill the stronger we get but there's another side of it. By Ingesting Human, Amazon or Faunus Blood we get even stronger, but…it can also drive you mad which is why the Matriarchs forbid us from consuming the blood of our tribe and I broke that taboo…it was an accident at first during a fight with an Ursa…but then a few months later the itching started…this addicting itch and now it's gotten to the point where if I don't get blood…I feel like I'll lose myself. I staged…accidents, or snuck into the burial area and drained a corpse, hiding the blood where I could drink it if I needed it.

But now there's this insolent itching, I know I'm stronger…but I can't the itching till I get more blood.

But for now, I'm calm.

I went to the docks and met up with the others, no one asked where I had been and that was dine with me, Blake was okay and ready to come home, she explained everything about herself and the Faunus…the White Fang. I didn't care, right now I needed to sleep.

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