Italics indicate thinking

Bold is for attacks

Leona's POV

The next time I came to I was in a different place, it was like a hospital…but not, the wall were blank, there were no cell bars only a door with about three mechanical locks and another electrical one. My weapons were gone, as were my clothes, instead I was in terrible white pants…and a straightjacket. Every time I woke up it would only be fore a few minutes then someone would rush in and jam some needle into me to knock me out again. The few times I was awake they tried to explain things to me, I was here because I was mad. In the attack I had attacked my friends, attacked everything while blinded by bloodlust. I started to wonder what I had really done or not done the memories were so blurry, had I really attacked Mercury like they said?

Eventually when I was allowed to stay awake for more then an hour a day they explained to me what had happened, The School had been attacked by Grimm, the White Fang and a group of other extremists, all in a plan to get something. Pyrrha was dead…Penny was dead…Yang was wounded and I was…locked away "For the safety of others.". I had gone on some sort of rampage when I broke out and only calmed down when a stranger forced some sort of medicine into my mouth.

That was a while ago, now I spend my days sitting, bound and tied in this safe box, my body on fire and craving blood, apparently nothing is keeping me here and I can go if I wanted but…maybe everyone is safe here after all not a single member of the team has come to see me.

"Miss Lionheart." A nurse with long black hair unlocked the cell "It lunch."

I just stared at the corner "I'll get to it later."

I looked back "You're new."

I noticed her voice had a strange timbre to it, like she was faking an accent.

"I just started today." She smiled "But…I don't know if I'll be staying this job is a lot of work."

"If your weak than quit now, dealing with the people in this place will drive you mad." I said.

"Oh don't worry." She walked over and whispered "I'm already a little mad, aren't all of us."

"You." I jumped back.

"I knew you'd figure it out." Her voice got raspy as parts of her hair turned pink.

"Neo!" I gasped.

"My you're looking rather dreary." She snickered "So you remember what happened?"

"Yeah…" I looked down "This power, everyone was right I'm just a bloodthirsty maniac."

"It not you, I experienced the same thing once." She clenched her fist "It's the drawback, we get stronger from ingesting others blood, but we also lose more of ourselves to the power."

"How have you stayed in control?" I asked.

"You remember that stuff I gave you on the train, that's how." She explained "It's a calming agent that will help to relax you."

She tucked a card into my straightjacket "That's the recepie to make it, I stashed a bottle of it with your stuff in the storage room, if you ever decide to get outta here, just take a drink if you feel like you're going to slip away, it'll reset your power boost but you won't have to worry about going on a rampage."

"Thanks Neo…where are you going now."

"I've still got work to do." She reassumed her nurse form "I'm sure we'll meet up again soon…May Mother Nature and the Sun Goddess guide you."

"Mother Nature Guide you." I lowered my head.

Even with Neo's medicine I couldn't bring myself to leave, I can't trust myself to not be too dangerous, not to mention I don't know what to say to Weiss, I remember that in my last rampage I nearly…

A While Later

"You have some visitors Miss Lionheart." A nurse unlocked my cell "You've got fifteen minutes."

"Hmm?" I looked back and wondered who would be coming to visit someone like me in an out of the way place like this.

The door opened and Ruby and Nora walked in, they had changed their outfits, Nora was in more of a puffy skirt with a jacket while Ruby had a corset like top on.

"Ruby!" I gasped.

"Leona!" she practically jumped me in a huge "I missed you."

"Yeah, me too." I said "What are you doing here?"

"I'm going on a journey with Nora, Ren and Jaune." She said "We're going to Haven and this place was on the way so I figured I'd stop and see…if you wanted to come with us."

"We could totally use your super strength." Nora smiled.

"Why, they have you." I said "You don't want a monster like me with you, I'd just be in the way."

"Leona…what's wrong?" Ruby asked "This isn't like you, normally you'd be jumping at the chance to get out there and stomp Grimm."

"Yeah well…I guess I just changed after what happened, we all did." I frowned "You should go Ruby, I'll stay here where I won't have to worry about losing control and nearly killing someone I care about."

"But-."

"I'm sorry Ruby but this is for the best." I said "But be careful, I sense a great darkness following you, there's a murderous aura after you."

Ruby closed her eyes and took a deep breath "It's probably these."

"You're eyes?" I asked.

"Uncle Qrow said they were special."

"Silver eyes." I hummed "I recall a saying among my people, red is the color of our people's willpower…but Silver is the color of our hope."

"Okay." Ruby smiled "I guess I'll go then."

"Nora." I sighed "Take care of her."

"Of course." She smiled "See ya!"

The two left and I wondered for a while if I had made the right choice, but then a day or so later I was looking out the window on my cell door and I heard it.

"Did a girl with short black hair and silver eyes pass through here a few days ago?" a man asked the front desk.

"Umm…yes I believe she stopped to see a patient before headed towards the outskirts of the ruined villages." She explained.

"I see…thank you." The man sulked out.

This…what is this bloodlust?

"RAAAH!" I pulled my arms and broke the locks and a few latches on my straight jacket "Let me out!"

Ruby's in serious danger! There's no way she can take a guy with that kind of murder aura…even with their help. The only person who can go toe to toe with a fighter like that…is me!

Of course, the nurses all thought I was having another episode and sedated me, but once night came I broke apart my bed and used the pieces to bust open the locks and sneak out the door. I quickly clambered into the storage room and found my weapons, Bloodsplitter, my White Fang short sword, my wrist mount crossbow and quiver and Neo's elixir.

"Alright." I strapped the swords to my back, the bow to my wrist and the bottle and quiver to my waist, there was no time to dig out my old fur clothes, I'd make due with a tattered straightjacket for a top and a pair of black medical pants and no shoes for now.

"Whoever you are." I jumped out the window, glass raining down "I won't let you touch Ruby!"

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