F3: Hello and welcome to chapter 19 of Iona's story. We last left off where the house Blake was checking exploded and now she has been capture by the White Fang. For what purpose? RWBY is property of Rooster Teeth. Killa Belladonna is owned by me. With that said Let's Roll Out!
Volume 4-19 Purple: Spark of Revolution (Part 2)
Hours went by and their was no sign of Blake anywhere nor that anyone has seen her. Rieka and her men turned up nothing as they look around every nook and crany for Blake but still no sign of the cat faunus anywhere. Iona and the others haven't turned up anything either as it was almost like Blake vanished or something. No one has seen Blake which only made them worry. Right now everyone decided to return to the household.
The worst thing was telling her parents which they didn't react as well as they would've hoped.
"What do you mean that she's missing!?" Kali roared her ears straightened in anger.
"We are still looking everywhere for her. However given the sheer size of Menagerie it'll take some time to go over the whole island." Rieka explained.
"Well then go and look! Blake has been kidnapped and we're here sitting on our hands doing nothing!" Kali shouted back.
A gentle hand was felt on her shoulder as Ghira stepped "Dear, I understand your frustation but Rieka and her men are doing everything in their power to find her. But they cannot do so without rest. Otherwise they'll only run themselves ragged." Ghira said trying to calm his wife down.
Kali clenched her right hand into a fist as her nails dug into her skin almost threaten to break it. She tugged at her right sleeve almost like some invisible pain coming back to her that she had hope to have forgotten. Kali had to step away as she walked into the kitchen.
"We can do another sweep in the morning after we're all rested. I promise you we'll do everything in our power to find her." Rieka stated.
"And I trust that you will. For now get some rest." Ghira replied. With a small bow Rieka took her leave as the door closed. Deep down Ghira was just as worried as his wife was maybe even more but he didn't want to show it as it would only make his wife worry even more.
Meanwhile Summer, Iona, and Killa were going over everywhere they've looked on Menagerie thanks to the map that Ghira had provided them with.
"Me and Sun searched around this area here in the market district. We were able to snag one of them their. Afterwards we checked out more of the place and that's when we heard the explosion coming from here." Killa replied as she circled the area where the explosion was.
"Everyone more than likely heard that blast. Probably could hear it all the way to the pier." Summer replied.
"Yeah but Blake was taken from their after the explosion. So she could be anywhere right now." Iona said.
However Killa noticed a part of the map that wasn't explored.
"What about that part right their? I don't think none of us checked that place out before." Killa stated.
"Hm... I don't think I've been in that area around here. Something I guess we'll need to check on in the morning." Summer added.
"Can't we check on it now. It's not completely night yet so we should have time to-" Iona started but Summer stopped her.
"By the time we get their it'll be dark where our visibility will be limited at best. The best course of action is to explore when it is daylight. If we go too soon we could end up running into an ambush." Summer stated which made Iona stop and think.
"For now we are tired and ran ourselves ragged. So it is best that we rest for now." Summer stated.
Iona didn't like this having to wait till next morning "I know you don't like the idea of waiting but if we barge in without a plan of attack we'll more than likely be attacked and get ourselves killed." Summer added.
"I... understand." Iona replied.
With a frustrated sighed Iona got up from her seat and headed upstairs toward the bedroom. Killa had a rather worried look on her face as she also had the idea of going out to find her sister but she also knew that Summer was right as their wasn't much they could do.
"I... I think I'll turn in as well." Killa said as she got up and headed upstairs toward her own bedroom.
Summer sighed at this as she knew just how worried they were and to be quite honest she was worried as well. Not just because that Blake was more than likely kidnapped by the White Fang but as far as they know they haven't made any demands yet which meant one of two things.
One: They were more than likely beat her up and send her back home with a message.
Two: They had other things they were planning to do with Blake. Probably nothing good either.
Summer could only thought what Blake was going through right now as she got up and walked upstairs toward the guest bedroom hopefully she would have a better idea in the morning.
=RWBY=
The sun shined at the base as Blake barely slept due to how uncomfortable she was. However she was given an unwelcomed wake up call as she was splashed with water which woke her up immediately.
"Rise and shine sweetheart. Last ever meal you'll ever get." The guard stated as he placed a plate of food right in front of her. Their was only a small handfull of food on the plate.
He then untied the rope that held her hands over her shoulder but didn't untie her wrists.
"Eat up. Don't waste anything." The guard said. Blake didn't know what they were planning but she just had to bide her time.
Blake had to eat with her hands since their wasn't any utensils for her to use as a weapon. After finishing the guard took the rope and retied the rope above her head so that she couldn't move.
"Their's some people that would like to talk to you." The guard stated as he walked out.
Then to her surprise Fennac and Corsac entered the tent as they had small grins on their faces.
Blake growled slightly at seeing them "So... my suspicions was right. You two are working with them." Blake said.
"This would've ended differently Miss Blake if you left things alone." Corsac stated in a rather calm yet mocking manner.
"Not when your planning on destroying another academy." Blake replied as the two of the them flinched slightly.
"Yeah I know about your little bomb distributor. Forcing her to give you materials to make your bombs. You're only added fuel to the fire. Making the humans fear us will only make them retaliate even more. What you're doing is wrong!" Blake shouted.
"Oh please don't give us that speel. It's time that we showed just how far we are willing to go to get what we want. Even if it means having to kill our own kind in the process." Fennac replied.
"But the only problem is the faunus here will respond not the way we would hope and try to fight us. Which is why we are sending a permanent warning to them to not get in our way. And you dear Blake are going to help us with that." Fennac added.
"Like I'll help you." Blake retorted.
The two of them simply chuckled at her remark "Oh my dear. I think you'll find that you don't have a choice in the matter." Corsac said which only made Blake worry about what he meant.
The two of the stepped aside as she saw outside the tent but her blood went cold when she saw something that she didn't want to see. It was rope but it was tied with a large loop in it just big enough to put someones head around. A noose which meant one thing they were going to hang her as not even her aura will be able to protect her from getting hanged.
"Enjoy what little time you have left. It ends this afternoon." Corsac stated as the two of them left the tent.
Now Blake was in real trouble. She needed to think of a plan and fast otherwise she'll be heading to an early grave.
=RWBY=
At the Belladonna household everyone was up and about as they had a mission on their minds and that was to find Blake and her would be kidnappers. Luckily thanks to last night they had an idea of where to look but it's searching their is the difficult part. So they first thought was to meet up with Rieka and tell her what they've found and see if it would be any use to them.
Summer, Killa, Iona and eventually Sun would go and speak with Rieka as they saw her speaking with her men before making a gesture to have them disperse as her men went in separate directions. Probably to locate more of White Fang supporters. Rieka noticed the four of them approach her with vigor as she suspected something was up.
"From how the four of you are walking I take it you have something on your mind." Rieka said.
"Actually we might have an idea as to where Blake was taken." Iona replied.
"Oh you do. Where would that be?" Rieka asked.
"It's on the corner of the island that is a dense forest area. Know anything about it?" Summer said.
"Hm... that place is rather dense due to the amount of trees that grow their. Other than that nothing else. Really never been over their myself." Rieka stated.
"Hm... not a rarely visited place. I would probably bet that would be a good place to hide." Summer added.
"Alright then let's not waste any more time. Let's go." Iona replied as the four of them made their way toward the dense forest. Hopefully they were right in the location of where Blake could be at.
It took them twenty minutes to get to the location as the four of the stood at the entrance of the forest.
Sun whistled at just how dense it is as he put his hand in her jacket "Wow. Did not see this coming. Can barely see in their." Sun replied.
"Everyone stay close. Sun, Killa you two need to be our eyes. Once we go in me and Iona will be pretty much blind in their." Summer stated.
"Got it." The two faunus stated as the four of them entered the forest. Killa stayed near Iona as Sun did the same thing with Summer as they navigated the forest very carefully.
"I feel like we're going in circles. I can't see a darn thing." Iona stated a little frustrated.
"Don't worry. I got you." Killa said holding onto Ionas' wrist. Sun was holding onto Summer just enough so he wasn't dragging her.
They spent about twenty minutes in the forest until they saw a light that should be the sign of an exit which was good news for them as they walked toward it. They arrived at the edge of the forest as they peeked out. It was the White Fang base however they noticed something was very wrong. Their wasn't anybody around almost like it was completely abandoned.
"Search around. They must've left a clue or something." Summer said. The four of them began looking around the area of the base. Though just by looking at it the Fang must've moved recently cause it looks like a rushed job as most of the items are scattered around. The tents are still intact as more than likely they would've taken them down and moved.
"Hey! Over here!" Killa called out getting everyones attention as they rushed toward a smaller tent as Killa stood outside it.
"They definately had Blake here. I can smell her scent." Killa replied. They looked inside and saw that it was mostly empty aside from the leftover food on the ground and small droplets of blood near the center of the tent.
Iona tapped a finger to the blood stain and felt that it was sticky in her fingers.
"It's a day old. They must've moved recently." Iona stated.
"I think we can figure that out from how this place looks." Sun added.
"Though where would they move her. They wouldn't be able to stroll through town with her." Killa stated.
Iona began to think of anything that would help them find Blake as their was nothing their big enough to load her. However she noticed that their was an outline of what looks like a container that would be big enough to fit a person.
"No. But a container would be another story. Look their." Iona pointed out the indent in the ground.
"Could that be big enough to fit her?" Summer asked.
"Well she's about my height so that could be possible if her legs were like folded inward and her hands tied behind her back." Iona stated.
"Okay so we know what we're looking for. We better get moving, we'll also tell Rieka about the base that is here. Though I doubt they'll be coming back here." Sun replied as it was best to head out and away from the place.
Meanwhile on another part of the island Ilia and her company arrived at another base that was set up but this time it was near a cliff overlooking a lake. Two of the men set a large container down as Ilia unlocked it and opened it revealing a tied up and gagged Blake who only stared at her with disgust.
"Oh don't give me that. Not like you're going to be alive long." Ilia said as they dragged her out of the container roughly.
"Now get her ready. Once you're gone the faunus will finally realize that your ideals of peace through compromise will be nothing but dust in the wind. Only through sheer force and show of power will the faunus get what we want. Who know's I might even send your parents to keep you company." Ilia said.
Blake's eyes widen as she let out an angry growl as Ilia removed her gag.
"If you touch my family you're going to regret it!" Blake shouted angrly but only recieved a punch to her skull as she grunted in pain.
"You won't be able to do anything when you're gone." Ilia said silencing her.
She was then picked up rather roughly as she was dragged toward a tree that was near the cliff as she was tied up to apparently wait till her hanging. She had a plan in mind but she had to wait until the right time to inact it.
=RWBY=
It was hours later after Iona and company arrived back at the house and now they were formulating a plan to locate Blake. Iona was still rather worried that they haven't found Blake yet more importantly they told Rieka about the base they found as she would send her men out and investigate it.
It was currently mid afternoon with Iona and Summer were still out in about trying to see if anyone saw anything suspicious that would be a clue to find. However Iona was getting rather anixous about find Blake.
"This is taking too long. We've searched almost everywhere. She has to be somewhere we haven't check." Iona said rubbing her right arm nervously.
"What if she's hurt? Or worse. Who knows what the White Fang could do to her? She's got to be-" Iona said but Summer stopped her as Iona sounded like she was panicking.
"Iona calm down. You're going to get yourself worked up. We'll find her." Summer said.
Iona turned to face the older woman "But what if we don't. What if we find her too late and she's... she's..." Iona paused trying to catch her breath hugging herself.
Summer put a hand on her shoulder "Calm down! You're not helping anyone if you put yourself under this much-" Summer began.
Iona shoved the hand away "Don't tell me to calm down okay!" Iona shouted tears forming from her eyes. Summer could tell the girl was getting rather worked up as her breathing was becoming rather fast and heavy.
Summer took action as she carefully guided Iona toward a bench to sit down.
"Breath Iona. Take in a breath, hold it in for five and then let out slowly." Summer said tenderly rubbing the girls back with her hand.
Iona followed what Summer said as she took in a breath, held it for five seconds, and then let out slowly.
"Again." Summer said tenderly. Iona repeated the same processes a couple times as her breathing slowed.
"Their you go." Summer added as Iona seemed to be much calmer now.
"Now would you mind telling me what that was?" Summer asked.
Iona sighed as she took in a breath again before she spoke.
"It's just... I feel like I'm losing people that are close to me everywhere I go. First was my real parents when I was five. They were supposedly killed by grimm. Then two years later after Sienna and Lucius took me in and moved to Argus... he got killed when he was going to Atlas." Iona paused as she tried to push back tears forming in her eyes.
"Then... during the attack on Beacon... I had to watch my best friend die in my arms. And now I'm... I'm just scared that I'll lose Blake too." Iona said.
Summer heard every word that Iona said as it ripped through her soul. While Summer could agree with her about losing someone that means the world to you but she knew that Iona couldn't focus on the past.
"I know that it's hard to push past the hurt of losing someone. But if they here right now they'd tell you that you must keep moving on. To not worry about them and worry about moving on." Summer said trying to comfort her which seemed to be working for a bit.
"Besides do you really think Blake would get herself killed by the White Fang." Summer said.
Iona only shook her head "Then we'll just have to keep on looking until we can find her." She added as the two of them got up from the bench as they continued looking for her.
=RWBY=
At that moment Ilia and her men had finished what looks like a platform with a deck that is built directly above the cliff and a post that has the noose tied to it. Ilia was rather happy about the progress and now it was finally time to do what she'd been wanting to do the whole time.
"Grab Blake. It's finally time for the execution." Ilia replied an evil smile on her face. The guard went over to the tree where Blake was and untied the rope holding her in place as he roughly drgged her to her feet shoved her to the platform.
Another man put her head through the loop of the noose before securing it rather tightly for maximum effect.
"Well Blake it's finally time. For betraying the White Fang. For siding with the humans instead of your kind. You're a disgrace to your parents. Nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. Today you face judgement by those that you've betrayed." Ilia replied.
"You could kill me but others will fight back. No matter what you do you'll lose. Without conviction you won't win and have your voices heard. You'll only shut out the ones that want to be heard." Blake said.
"Hm... you don't have the right to say anything to us now that you're about to die. May you find your own peace in the arms of the Dark One you traitor." Ilia stated as she looked to the man next to a lever meant to for the hatch underneath. Ilia gave a nod to pull the lever with the man pulled the lever causing the tied up Blake to fall through the hatch as the rope followed. In mere seconds the rope went taunt meaning the job was done.
"Bring her up." Ilia ordered as the guard grabbed the rope and pulled raising the body up. Once the body was in view Ilia got a good look at Blakes body seeing that her neck had snapped from the noose.
"Well Sister Ilia. Is Blake dead?" Corsac asked.
Ilia examined the body carefully making sure that it was the real Blake. Ilia smiled as she nodded.
"Yeah. She's good as dead. Send her body to that security women. Then tonight... Fennac, Corsac you two will lead a team and march on the Belladonna household. Kill them all and burn the home to the ground." Ilia ordered.
"Of course Sister Ilia but what will you do?" Corsac asked.
"I'll bring my group to the pier and head for the mainland. Our target will be Haven Academy. Once your done here meet us on the mainland." Ilia said as she ordered her group to head to the pier while Blake's body was wrapped in a brown sack. Unbeknownst to them that below the cliffs in the bushes the real Blake was hiding rubbing her neck making sure their were no marks on it.
Making sure she was out of sight she made a dash toward town but she had to be sure that they've killed her so she had to play dead for a while until she could show herself. Plus she would guess that her family has her weapons by now.
=RWBY=
At the household everyone was sitting down for dinner but it felt empty without having Blake their with them as Kali was quiet as she ate and everyone knew what was going through her mind and Killa was worried as well for her sister not sure what has happened to her.
"I know that it's quite but can someone at least talk." Iona said.
"I guess we're all still rather worked up trying to find Blake and not turning up anything. It's frustrating to say the least. No sign of Blake anywhere at the base but we do know that they've moved the base and her but to where we do not know. And with it getting late we don't have time to go searching again." Ghira added.
"Well we have to do something. Even if we have to do the same thing in the morning. We can't stop looking for-" Killa began but a knock came to the door.
This time all of them got up from the table and headed toward the door as Ghira opened it. On the other side of the door was Rieka but she had a rather sorrow look in her eyes.
"Ms. Orion. Is something the matter?" Ghira asked.
"Yes. Actually their is something that I think everyone will want to see. I... couldn't believe it myself." Rieka said as she motioned one of her guards to come forward. When he stepped forward he was carrying a rather large brown sack and placed it gently in front of them.
He looked at Rieka for a moment as she nodded signaling him to open the sack well knowing who was inside.
The guard grabbed the zipper and carefully unzipped the sack revealing who was inside. Kalis legs lost their strength to keep herself up as she saw that it was Blake inside the sack as tears came to her eyes. Ghira closed his eyes and looked away from Blakes body, Killa pretty much dropped to her knees next to her mother tears coming down her face seeing her sisters body.
"Someone... dropped her off... we have a good feeling who." Rieka said.
Iona paused seeing Blakes body almost like it she was reliving the same event that happened at Beacon with Pyrrha. However she noticed something that was rather off as she stepped toward the body as she put her hand on Blakes cheek. That was when she felt that it was rather rough like it was toughing the ground.
That was when Iona got an idea as she looked toward the guards weapon.
"Excuse me but can I borrow that for a moment?" Iona asked.
The guard looked confused for a moment "Why?" He asked back.
"Just want to confirm something." Iona said. The guard took his gun out of the holster and handed it to Iona. Iona examining the weapon for a moment.
"Yeah this'll work." Iona said and before anyone had a chance to speak she point the gun at the body and fired a single shot dead on to the side of the head.
Killa got up and glared at Iona "What the hell are you doing?! Don't you know not to shoot someone when their already dead!?" Killa shouted in anger.
"No... but look." Iona pointed toward Blakes body, more importantly at the hole she made in the skull. It was dripping sand.
Even Rieka looked at the body with a strange look.
"Hold on... why is the body dripping sand? What's going on?" She asked.
"Because... this isn't the real Blake. It's a clone." Iona confirmed.
"A... clone." Kali said with much relieve in her voice.
"But last I recall she could only make shadows of herself. This is completely different." Ghira stated.
"Her semblance evolved allowing to create almost realistic clones of herself that are made out of the dust she uses." Summer added.
"So... does this mean..." Killa began as Iona nodded.
"Blake is still alive. From the looks of it the White Fang tried to hang her. Must've used her semblance at the last second to make it look like it's the real her." Iona said as the clone Blake evaporated from the sack as Iona handed back the gun to the guard.
Killa ears flicked as she heard someone was coming and coming up the steps it was Sun and he seemed to be in a hurry as he was tuckered out.
"Sun what's the emergency?" Iona asked.
"It's Fennac and Corsac. They're coming this way and they have about twenty men with them." Sun stated trying to catch his breath.
"So they're making their move. They believe they've killed Blake and are now moving onto trying to get rid of the entire family. We will not let that happen." Summer stated.
"I take it that you have a plan then." Ghira added.
"If it's a fight they want then it's a fight they'll get." Summer added before turning to Rieka.
"Get whatever men you have to defend the house. If any White Fang get through me and Iona will be the second line of defense." She added.
"I'll join them to help keep them back." Sun said but Summer shook her head.
"No. I need you with the family. No one gets in." Summer added as Sun nodded.
"How long till they get here?" Killa asked.
"Maybe ten minutes at best." Sun answered.
"Not a lot of time but just enough to get things done. Let's move it people." Summer stated as Rieka got on her scroll to call up the guards to have them meet her at the Belladonna house.
Ghira, Kali, Killa and Sun headed inside the house while Iona and Summer waited outside as they were ready for the attack on the household. Though they hope that if Blake had a better plan and that she'd show up in time to help them out cause they'll more than likely going to need it.
F3: And that is chapter 19 of this story. Looks like we're reaching the big battle with the White Fang. Though will it be enough to turn the tide. Let me know in the comments of how this story is going. Don't forget to follow and/or favorite this story as well for future updates. With that said this is Fireuser3 and I'm Out.