Menagerie
Blake sipped her tea as she looked at her family who were just glad to have their daughter back. Kali sipped her tea before placing her cup down "We were so scared when we saw Beacon just get attacked. Then that giant dragon attacking that Grimm, we were so worried that you were in the middle of all that." Ghira put a hand on his wife's shoulder and looked at Blake "We have questions but we're willing to wait until you're ready." Blake shook her head as she set down her cup. Sun looked at his friend whom responded "No no... It's OK. What do you want to know?"
Kali pressed her hands together and asked "What happened to your partner? Yang, I believe?" Blake looked down with her cat ears folded down. Sun put a hand on Blake's shoulder in reassurance to which Blake smiled and looked back to her parents and answered "Yang was... Hurt by Adam." Kali put her hands to her mouth and footsteps echoed in the house as the wood creaked closer. A female voice spoke out "Blake?" Blake looked behind to see Sienna Kahn holding a baby at her hip. Her hair was longer and some of her jewelry was gone. She stood up and asked with a raised voice at her godmother "High Leader Kahn!? What're you doing here!?"
Whimpering was heard before Sienna bounced and shushed Grover gently before turning her head back to her goddaughter. She answered "We were attacked from inside. Adam... He took over the headquarters. He... Left Grover here without his parents." Blake walked towards Sienna and looked at Grover who had curly brown hair and tiny stumps on his forehead. Blake looked heartbroken at what Adam has done. "He... He cut my girlfriend's arms off... As a statement that he'll kill everyone I love." Everyone except for Sun was shocked at what Blake said. Sienna wrapped an arm around Blake to comfort her who hugged her back as tears leaked. Ghira looked at his scroll before looking up at Blake "Blake... Have you seen the news lately?"
Blake let go of Sienna and looked at her father before shaking her head. He placed his scroll down to reveal a hologram of Dracula in a suit addressing his first order of business as head of the Schnee Dust Company. Blake noticed how tired he looked as he declared that the Schnee Dust Company will be rebranded as Tepes Industry. "He... Rebranded the company?" Blake questioned while staring at the hologram. When Vlad walked away, a reporter asked "Sir, what will be done about Weiss Schnee?" Blake's heart ached at the reminder that Weiss was taken by a mysterious group. Dracula froze then walked back to the microphone and answered "I am putting every ounce of myself into finding MY daughter. To the one who ordered this kidnapping, you better pray you die quickly because when I find you, I will make sure you experience Hell. No further questions."
Blake and everyone around her were intimidated by his display of aggression. She looked into his eyes and even through the holographic screen, she could see the burning rage that she has seen before. The rage that made Adam the monster he is. The difference was, Dracula's rage was for Weiss. Adam's rage was against everyone who hurt him, in turn hurting everyone. Even his own kind. Blake broke out of her thoughts when Lisa Lavender spoke on the news.
"Breaking news. Vlad Tepes, Head of Tepes Industries, has called a new conference to update us on the case of Weiss Schnee's disappearance. We go to Cyril to is at the entrance to Tepes Mansion." Cyril, a bear faunus with brown hair and yellow eyes speaks "Thank you, Lisa. We're here at Tepes Mansion where it appears to be that Mr. Tepes is arriving along with Willow Schnee and Specialist Winter Schnee."
Dracula walks to the podium where he speaks "Ladies and Gentlemen. I thank you for coming to witness this occasion. The update on Weiss Schnee is this." To which Dracula opens his left arm out to the entrance where Weiss Schnee walks outside. Blake put her hands to her mouth in shock. "She's alive!" She exclaims in relief which slowly dissolved when she got a clear look at Weiss. Weiss's outfit changed from her Atlesian aristocratic outfit to a more Gothic aristocrat outfit. Her usual white and blue outfit was changed with black instead of blue. Her outfit consisted of a sharp collar that stood up, showing red with white highlights. Her coat was long at the back while short at the front and connected by a zipper. She wore black fingerless gloves that showed her white insignia of a snowflake except now it contained a dragon wrapped around it. She had a short combat skirt below her coat and black leather knee high boots with three spikes at the the toes.
Her hair was the same with a side ponytail except it seemed sharper. Yet, the most startling difference Blake could recognize was her eyes. A mixture of white and blue with her pupils shining blue. Blake could only think of one thing at the sight of her teammate "She's a vampire..."
Ruby looked around as the group walked away from the spot where they spent the night at. The fire snuffed out with only remnants of smoke remaining. Ruby's new eye showed how far her and the group were from Haven Academy. Trevor gazed around at the forests surrounding them and placed a hand on his whip. Sypha looked at him and asked "Trevor? What's wrong?" Trevor took his hand off and shook his head "Nothing. Just have a bad feeling about this forest." Alucard spoke "I feel it too." Pyrrha looked at them and asked "What do you mean?"
Before more could be said, heavy breathing was heard to their right. Ruby swallowed before moving forward. She stepped through into the forest with Yang next to her. She activated her new weapons created by Dracula, Dragonfire, while Ruby pulled out Crescent Rose in its sniper form while the breathing got heavier before Ruby's foot kicked with a body. She looked down to see Mercury clutching his throat with dry blood around his jacket and hand. Ruby screamed as she fell on her butt and crawled away. Yang put a hand to her mouth and backed away. Mercury had extremely pale skin while it was covered in blood.
Nora and Pyrrha ran towards the sisters to see Mercury. Pyrrha looked at him and a sense of anger flooded her at the sight of one of the infiltrators that ruined her life. Soon Jaune, Ren, Trevor and his group ran to see Mercury.
Sypha put a hand to her mouth at the sight of him clutching his throat. Alucard grew a small hunger at the sight of blood. Ruby knelt down and made Mercury look at her and she asked "What did this to you?" He tried speaking as his throat was slowly closing up. "E... Mer... Ald." He passed out.
Mercury opened his eyes slowly to see everyone watch him. All their eyes held nothing but anger at the one that helped bring the Fall of Beacon. He rose his hand to his throat to see it bandaged up and he looked at them "Wha... What're you all doing here?" Jaune answered "We should be asking you that, Mercury." "You said Emerald. Why did she cut your throat?" Ruby pressed to which Mercury shuddered in fear. "She's gone insane. After your daddy Dracula killed Cinder, Emerald snapped. We were on our way to Haven to start our infiltration when... She started singing."
"Singing?" Pyrrha questioned to which Mercury nodded "I don't remember how long I was out here for before you picked me up." Yang cut in with a strained voice "Don't get appreciative of us yet, Black. You helped destroy one of our homes. We only saved you because we want to know what you're planning and who else you're working with. After that, your ass is in prison." Mercury sighed and leaned back against a tree "That's fair, I suppose. So what do you want to know?"