RWBY: Lost and Forgotten
Chapter 12
Chrome
The following day
Opening my eyes as I yawned, I sat up and noticed I was in an unfamiliar room. Getting to my feet, I made sure I had everything before heading for the door. Just as I reached for the doorknob, it opened and a girl walked in carrying a few sheets. "Oh, I didn't think you were still here."
"What time is it?" I asked.
"A little past noon." she replied.
I moved passed her and through the door. "Thanks for...letting me stay." as I took a step towards the exit, I realized I never paid. "Oh, how much do I owe for the room?"
The girl just smiled sweetly. "You don't have to worry about paying."
"Really? I, uh, thank you!" I returned the smile.
Leaving the building, I started exploring Vale again, mainly looking for my sister. Pulling out my scroll, I tried calling her number. "Come on, pick up..."
It rang a few times before I heard her pick up. "Chrome?"
"Blake!" I let out a sigh of relief. "Where are you? We need to talk."
"We're at some coffee shop in Vale." she replied.
"We?"
"I'm with the guy from guy from the docks." Blake said. "The monkey Faunus. Anyways, what'd you need to talk about?"
I took a deep breath. "When you ran out on your team, I was walking passed your dorm room." I told her. "Weiss spotted me and dragged me inside."
"Oh no..." Blake said softly. "What'd she say?"
"She accused us of being part of the White Fang, I mean, she wasn't wrong, but the way she said it made it seem like she knew we were part of it." I continued. "Like she knew you are a Faunus. How would she know that?"
Blake sighed. "After the four of us got back to our dorm, me and her couldn't stop arguing. She got mad, I got mad and I just...blurted it out."
I ran a hand through my hair. "So, what happens now? If all of Beacon finds out, we're-"
"I know." she said softly. "But the White Fang is somewhere here in Vale."
"How do you know?" I asked.
"It's more of a hunch." she replied. "Me and Sun are heading out to investigate."
"Sun?"
"Gotta go." she said.
"Wait."
"Bye." she hung up.
"Blake!" I looked at my scroll. "Damnit!" closing the small device, I put it back in my pocket. Continuing to walk around Vale, I kept an eye out for Blake.
Hours later
It was getting dark and I was still searching for my missing sister. I had searched just about everywhere in Vale, the docks, a couple stores, but there was no trace of her.
"Damnit, Blake. Where are you?!" as I said that, I heard a bullhead pass overhead. Looking up, I saw it was heading for the port. I pulled out my scroll to check the time and saw it was close to midnight. 'What bullhead arrives at the port this late?' Placing my scroll back in my pocket, I started running towards the port.
It didn't take me long to reach the port. Using my glyphs, I launched myself on top of one of the warehouses. Chrouching down and heading towards the edge of the warehouse, I saw the airship had landed and a dozen White Fang members were surrounding the wanted criminal, Roman Torchwick, their weapons pointed at him.
Getting a closer look, I noticed a blade was pressed against his throat. "Brothers of the White Fang! Why are you aiding this scum?" a voice shouted. A voice that sounded very familiar.
"Blake, what have you gotten yourself into?" placing my hand on the edge of the warehouse, I jumped down and rolled behind one of the dust crates. Placing my back against it, I peeked around the corner to see what was going on.
I couldn't hear what the two were saying, as two more bullheads came in for a landing. "I wouldn't exactly call it a little operation..." suddenly, Roman pointed his cane at the ground, shooting and creating an explosion that knocked Blake back.
"Blake!" running out from behind cover, most of the White Fang turned and pointed their weapons at me. Roman was busy trying to shoot my sister, which made him a top priority. Ducking and avoiding gunfire, I got closer to Roman and drew one of my swords, pulling the lever and throwing the blade at Roman's cane to throw off his aim. The blade hit the cane, causing Roman's aim to drop as he turned to glare at me.
Calling the blade back, it reattached to the hilt as I drew my second weapon. "Stay away from my sister!"
"Ooh, another stray." Roman chuckled. "Deal with him."
The White Fang opened fire as Roman turned to chase Blake. "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty..." Occupied with dodging and blocking bullets, I couldn't stop Roman.
As he got closer to where Blake had run off, a banana peel hit his hat. Looking up, I saw the monkey Faunus from the docks jump down on top of him, rolling to his feet and turning to glare at him. "Leave her alone!"
The bullheads above us dropped more White Fang members around the Faunus and Roman. "You're not the brightest banana in the bunch, are you, kid?"
Feeling a shot hit my shoulder, I turned back to the White Fang that were surrounding me. Continuing to block the shots, a bullet hit one of my swords, knocking it from my grasp.
As the White Fang stepped closer, another bullet hit my other sword. Now defenseless, the White Fang ceased fire for a second as they continued to approach.
Out of options, I created a circle of glyphs around me and shot countless icicles out and towards the White Fang. Knocking most of them down, I took the chance to grab my weapons.
Looking back to Roman, I saw him shoot down a crate where Blake and the Faunus were standing. Quickly creating a glyph under Blake, I moved her out of the way just as my aura broke from overuse of my semblance.
Falling to one knee, I dropped my weapons and held my side. "Chrome!"
"I'm fine!" I told Blake. "Check on your friend!" Blake nodded before rushing to check on him.
Fighting to stand up, I heard another explosion. Stumbling to the crate, I peeked around it to see Roman laughing. Blake and her friend were both fine which made me wonder what he shot at.
Looking towards the warehouse in front of Roman, I saw a girl approach the edge. "Penny?"
Watching the girl, a sword floated behind her before splitting into a dozen swords. She jumped down from the warehouse and started taking out groups of White Fang with ease.
"Whoa!" two more bullheads flew over and started shooting at Penny. Using two of her swords to get away from the gunfire, she started spinning them in front of her.
A green orb appeared in the middle of the blades and started to grow before launching into a beam, cutting the two bullheads clean in half.
Another bullhead tried to fly off with a crate, but Penny used six of the swords to stab into it. Pulling the ship down, it collided with a few more crates and exploded.
Looking around at the remains, I noticed Roman rush into a bullhead and take off, with one other bullhead following his.
As the two bullheads flew off, I felt my legs suddenly get extremely tired. Leaning against the crate, I slid down to sit.
Minutes later
Cops arrived on the scene pretty quickly. Me, Blake, the Faunus who's name I learned was Sun, Penny and Ruby, who was apparently present during the fight, were all sitting on a few boxes, waiting for Ruby's other two team members to arrive. I didn't like the idea of waiting for someone who yelled at me, just to see if she would yell at me again, but Ruby insisted. Ruby also insisted Blake explain her side of things before they arrived, which she did.
Hearing footsteps approach, I looked over to see Weiss and Yang walking over to us. I stood up to leave but felt someone grab my arm. "Wait." Blake told me. "Hear her out first."
Looking back at Weiss, I sat down. Ruby got up to talk to her, but Weiss just walked passed her and over to me and Blake. "Weiss, I want you to know that we're no longer associated with the White Fang. Back when we were with the-"
"Stop!" Weiss interrupted my sister. "Do you have any idea of how long we've been searching for you?" she paused. "Twelve hours. That means I've had twelve hours to think about this. And in that twelve hours, I've decided...I don't care."
"You don't care?" Blake asked, just as surprised as I was.
"You said you're not one of them anymore, right?"
"No, w-we haven't been since we were younger-"
"Ah-bah-bah-bah-bah! I don't want to hear it." Weiss interrupted again. "All I want to know is that the next time something this big comes up... you'll come to your teammates. And not some..." she looked at Sun. "Someone else."
Blake wiped a tear from her eye. "Of course."
Weiss then turned to me. "I'm sorry I said those things back at the dorms. It wasn't fair to attack you without hearing your side of things."
I was a bit taken back. "Thank you...for apologizing." I then looked at the others. "Now, I'm going to head back to the dorms. Make sure my team hasn't worried too much about their missing leader."
"Right." Yang nodded. "They must be pretty worried."
Turning around, I pulled my hood over my head as I started heading for Beacon.
End of chapter 12