RWBY: Lost and Forgotten

Chapter 22

Chrome

"Damnit!" I paced back and forth. "I'm not related to my mother, I know that. But what about my father? Or Blake?" these thoughts all came at once. "I know I'm a Schnee now, but am I truly a Belladonna? I could be some bastard child my biological mother just gave away." fearing I might not even be related to Blake brought tears to my eyes. Sitting on my bed, I placed my head in my hands. I always looked up to Blake. Followed in her every footstep. And I didn't want our relationship to change because of this revelation.

Wiping the tears away, I heard a gentle knock at the door. "Hey, Chome!" Yang's voice came through the door. "You looked a bit strange when you ran off and I wanted to make sure you're alright. Can you open the door?"

"Yeah, I'm okay." I shouted to make sure she could hear me. "I just want to be alone for right now."

"Chrome, are you okay?" Yang asked.

"I'm fine!" I yelled. "Please, leave me alone!" there was a moment of silence. Realizing I had let some of my anger out on Yang, I slumped on the bed.

"Chrome. Please. Open the door." Yang told me.

Reluctantly, I got up and approached the door. Wrapping my hand around the knob, I opened the door and saw Yang standing in front of me. Once she saw me, her expression changed. "Chrome, what's wrong?"

Immediately, I pulled her into a hug and felt tears sting my eyes again. "I don't know who I am, Yang." I told her.

"What do you mean?"

I took a step back and gestured for her to walk in. She did so, and I closed the door behind her, locking it.

"What's wrong?" Yang asked again. Rubbing my arm, Yang slowly reached out and squeezed my hand, reassuringly. "You can talk to me."

"I might not be Blake's brother." I told Yang.

"What do you mean?"

"Yesterday, I overheard Weiss and her sister talking in the pavilion." I started. "Winter said that on Weiss' first birthday, their mother and father got into a pretty heated fight. She said their mother left and didn't get home until the next day." I took a breath before continuing. "She believes their mother had an affair."

"Why does she think that?" Yang asked.

"Because soon after, their mother left to go on some trip." I started pacing. "It lasted almost a year."

"That doesn't mean any-" I cut her off by holding out my palm and creating a glyph.

"This," I gestured to the glyph. "This is proof I'm a Schnee. This...glyph. The Schnee semblance is hereditary." I closed my fist and put my arm at my side. "I'm a bastard that was adopted by the Belladonnas. Blake isn't my sister."

Yang gently took both of my hands in hers. "You two may not be biologically related, but you two are brother and sister." she told me. "I heard somewhere that 'family doesn't end in blood'."

It took me a second to realize what she meant. "Thanks, Yang." I pulled her into a hug. "I needed to hear that."

"Of course." she hugged me back.

She pulled away and headed for the door. Leaving the room, I laid back in my bed and slowly let my eyes close.

Hours later

I stood in the middle of the arena with the other students that were chosen for the finals. "Now, for the moment you've all been waiting for! The one-on-one finals!" Port said. "Barty, why don't you explain the rules?"

"Ah, it's quite simple, Peter. Instead of a bracket system, each round of the finals will be randomly determined immediately before the match takes place!" Oobleck explained.

"Much like any good hunt, there will be zero time to prepare!"

"Ah, yes, yes! Now, let's see who our first match will be!"

Watching as the roulette started spinning, mine and some guy named Mercury appeared on the screen. "Chrome Belladonna and Mercury Black!" Port said. "Would all other combatants please leave the stage!"

As the others left, I looked to my opponent. He raised his fists as I drew my swords. Once all of the others got off the stage, me and Mercury slowly started approaching each other. "3! 2! 1! Begin!"

Slashing a blade at him, Mercury quickly countered by kicking at me. The force of his kick caused me to slide back a bit, but I managed to keep my balance. Watching Mercury, he began to sprint towards me in a straight line.

Pulling the handle on both of my hilts, I threw one at Mercury. Before it reached him, I called it back and watched as Mercury jumped to the side in an effort to dodge it. Quickly tossing my second blade, he spun over it.

Aiming my gun at him, I took three shots but each missed. Just as he reached me, I called my blade and watched as it hit his back, making him stumble. Coming over him, the blade reattached to the hilt.

Pulling my arm back, I slashed at Mercury who was knocked back by my attack. Not giving him a chance to recover, I rushed him.

Slashing at him again, I kicked him back before creating a row of glyphs in front of me. Shooting an icicle out of each one, Mercury managed to dodge them.

Once the glyphs faded, Mercury ran at me again. Just as he reached me, he kicked at me again and I tried to block it, but felt my sword fly out of my grasp as a shot from Mercury's boot rang out.

As I turned to him, Mercury kicked me back, using a shot from his boot to send me sliding. Stabbing my sword into the ground to stop myself, I glared at him as he smirked.

Raising a foot, he started shooting his foot out in every direction, each kick shot out a silvery blast. Turning my body as one whizzed passed, I looked back to see a volley of them circling above Mercury.

Not wanting to see what he was up to, I rushed him. Just as I reached him, he kicked me into the air before jumping up and kicking me back to the ground. Looking up, I saw the blasts quickly fall towards me.

Rolling out of the way, I was surrounded by smoke as the blasts landed directly where I was. Getting to my feet, I could hear footsteps walking away. Pulling the lever on the hilt of my blade, I smirked. "Hey!"

Hearing the footsteps stop, I threw my blade in the direction I heard them. Hearing a grunt, I rushed out of the smoke as I recalled my blade, quickly slashing at his chest.

Slashing again and again, I punched him with my free hand before slashing him one last time, completely breaking through his aura.

"What a way to kick off the finals!" Port shouted.

"Chrome Belladonna wins!" Oobleck announced.

Turning away from Mercury, I walked over to retrieve my second weapon. "Better luck next time." I told Mercury as I placed my weapons on my back.

"There's not going to be a next time, Faunus freak!" looking back, I saw Mercury lunge at me with a kick.

Quick to react, I created a glyph and shot an icicle into his shoulder, causing him to fall onto his back. Holding his shoulder and screaming in pain, I saw a small puddle of blood start to form under him. "My word!"

"Cut the cameras!"

Glaring at Mercury as he screamed in pain, I had my glyph vanish. "You shouldn't have tried to-" I stopped as I noticed a half dozen AK-200s surround me along with two soldiers.

"Chrome Belladonna, stand down!" one of the soldiers shouted at me.

"What?! Why?" I asked them.

"Mercury!" I looked over to see a girl with green hair rush over to aid Mercury. Seeing me, she gave me a death glare.

"Why'd he do that!?" Mercury shouted. "WHY'D HE ATTACK ME!?"

Confused, I looked up to the replay screen and watched as I walked passed a downed Mercury. Suddenly, I turned around and shot an icicle into his shoulder with no reason.

Seeing what I'd done, I looked around and saw Blake, Yang, Weiss and Ruby all staring at me in shock. Looking towards my team, they looked at me in the same way.

"Put 'im in cuffs." I heard a soldier growl.

Feeling someone grip my arms and pull them behind my back, I felt the cuffs tighten around my wrists. I didn't resist.

End of chapter 22