Blake remembers falling to her death in the infinite, dark, absolute void, she just didn't expect the void to be so... Tight... And damp... And smelling like a forest... And with the sounds of birds. Hooting... At least it was still dark.
The cat frowned, something said that she was still alive, but there was no way to be sure, well there was, she punched and opened a hole in the void that was apparently not that infinite, the sunlight entered through the hole in her prison, 'Yeah, I didn't die...', and with her strength she opened an even bigger hole and passed through, escaping her prison.
Only to discover that his cell was a normal, thick tree, about four meters tall, native to places far away from Atlas. And Blake was confused, one minute, she was falling to her death in the endless darkness, in a place that was so cold it snowed in the summer and here she was looking at a whole new environment, healthy green grass, average trees, birds flying and singing everywhere, naked bald men running around...
"Wait... What?!", she saw from afar, a bald man with a huge head, extremely muscular, completely naked, with a terrified look on his face and whimpering for his mother, normally she would interrogate the first person she saw for know how she went from Atlas to a forest incredibly see and alive, but the scene was so bizarre that she was transfixed watching the man disappear between the trees.
She let out a long breath, still not understanding her situation. She had woken up inside a tree trunk, her clothes were wet because of the molasses inside, the cat was in an unknown forest, in which she noticed huge buildings surrounding the said forest and to complete a naked bald man running around the place as if he had found something much scarier than a Grimm.
This sounded like one of Yang's jokes, on a day when the blonde was especially creative, Blake's face darkened as he remembered the situation she was in earlier, Yang, Ruby and she had supposedly fallen to their deaths, perhaps a miracle had happened.
*CRACK
Blake shivered at the noise, turning to see the tree slowly starting to fall towards him, 'um...' she dodged easily, but the tree fell and rolled down the hill, causing a little damage, "Oops".
She looked at the damage she had done, "I hope no one notices..." she muttered. Blake sighed and replayed the latest events in his head, apparently the black void ended up transporting them to another place, Ambrosius had implied that falling into darkness would kill them, but here she was, alive and well, that means Yang and Ruby would also be fine.
"Yang and Ruby must not have fallen very far", but she would have to keep her guard up, her two friends hadn't been the only ones to fall, Neopolitan could be nearby, just waiting for an opportunity.
Blake focused on his senses to the fullest, paying attention to his surroundings, looking for anything suspicious and preferably not so weird when a bald naked man running around screaming for his mother, Faun wouldn't be broaching the subject dead.
The cat noticed, little mutters, curses and groans of pain on a level humans couldn't hear. She slowly and silently approached the source of the noise, jumping from branch to branch without making a sound, she didn't mean to alert the other.
It didn't take long to reach the source of the sounds, a crouched woman leaning on a trunk, she was wearing an incredibly tight outfit that left only her head out, complemented with a purple scarf and metal ornaments on her clothes, there was also a broken katana with her, the girl looked like a ninja, like the books.
Blake blushed a little as he recalled his favorite book, maybe the girl was some kind of cosplayer? She looked a bit like one of the villains described in the book, she didn't seem like a threat, maybe the cat could ask her a few questions.
The mood changed, the girl who was previously moaning in pain was now on Blake's side with what was left of her katana at the hunter's throat, she was very fast in the same league of countenances as Ruby and Harriet's, 'I don't I should have let my guard down'.
Cold sweat trickled down the side of the cat's head, "You're very good at being sneaky, I almost didn't notice you, maybe you could have reacted if you hadn't let your guard down, not that it would help much", the woman said in a contemplative tone, as Blake was sweating, the cat knew the mystery woman was strong enough to decapitate her with a simple move, "Now tell me why you tried to spy on me."
"I-I, I was lost and... I heard you... I thought it might be an enemy, but I stopped when I realized that you didn't look like a threat", it was the truth and although hiding information was better, when confronted by opponents, Blake knew he was up against a complete professional like in his favorite book.
"Um... So you didn't come to try to capture or kill me?" she asked Blake carefully, "No, I'm just looking for my friends." It was ten long tense seconds with that broken katana around his neck.
"You're really telling the truth" she lowered the gun and jumped back to the ground, going back to crouching on the side of the tree where she was earlier and letting out little curses and Blake could clearly see the girl... girl, but rather an incredibly effeminate man, his legs were shaking as if someone had hit his balls.
Blake ventured, after all she needed information, "What happened to you?" ok, maybe she was a little curious about the effeminate ninja's plight, but who could blame her? He looked at her with a slight hint of anger on his face, which was quickly hidden.
"An egghead, that's what happened" he replied clearly embarrassed, "Have you not seen any bald men around?" Blake broke out in a sweat, the situation had gotten a little weirder.
"You mean a naked man about seven feet tall?" she asked, hoping he wasn't the reason, she didn't want to broach that strange happening even if they gave her a million great quality fanfics of her favorite works.
'Now that I think about it, it reminds me a bit of a fanfic I had read in the Beacon days', "No, his name is Saitama, he wears a white cape and he wears a ridiculous outfit", he described, leaving the situation even stranger to Blake.
'This is reminding me more and more of that isekai fanfic I read...', Blake thought and then she froze, a thought occurring in her head, 'A ninja that looks like it came from a book, the fact that I woke up inside a tree and that bald head running through the forest... Could it be?! Could I be stuck in a damn ISEKAI!?' Blake wanted to scream.
"Are you done with your irritating drama?", the ninja asks with apathy in his voice, clearly annoyed by Blake's presence, "If you're done with this, go away", there was a slight hint of threat in his voice. .
The cat stared at him for a couple of moments, slowly coming to her senses, 'I had forgotten that this guy is a ninja...', she remembered that ninjas were in short, highly trained assassins to kill in cold blood, unlike the hyper romanticized books stories that Blake had read.
'Considering he can rip my aura apart in the blink of an eye... It would be smart to back off,' Blake mused, this man was clearly dangerous and fast enough to outrun his reflexes.
"Well, I have more important matters to attend to", 'like finding my friends... Even if I don't meet them today... It's never that easy'. The cat let out a long sigh and departed, leaving the ninja alone with his own problems.
She leapt from branch to branch, with professional mastery, continuing down the path until the scent of blood filled her nostrils. In an instant, her instincts were heightened to the max, the hunter followed that dangerous scent, what she was doing was a risk, especially considering the massive lack of information that surrounded that place, 'Now that I think about it, some god from another shouldn't the world welcome me, now that I'm in some kind of Isekai?', the cat shook her head, that was something to think about at another time.
And finally she reached the source of the scent, Blake's heart skipped a beat, his breath quickened, there were dozens of headless corpses all over the area, severed heads and men who were in black armor lay dead all over the area, a carnage. A true massacre.
The cat's stomach churned at the sight, it reminded her of White Fang attacks from when Adam was in control, humans killed without mercy, without remorse, but the most frightening thing was the professionalism of the kills, perfectly clean cuts, the expressions of The bald men's faces still frozen from the moment of their death, they didn't have time to react to the attacker, 'Only one person was responsible for this massacre, she alone managed to kill everyone in an instant', this was far beyond any professional Remnant hunter .
'But there are signs of battles, right there... stones thrown in a row, with a tree artificially placed in the way and the lack of a body in that area, shows that both survived... At least enough to flee the battle zone ', for a moment Blake remembered that ninja earlier, 'And to think I came so close to losing my head... Literally'.
Blake smiled bitterly, 'At least I know Yang is alive... Now I have to find my friends before... She finds them', the cat's determination intensified, she would find her team, 'I just hope no one else has fallen'.
The cat looked back to the slaughterhouse area, 'I better get out of here before someone shows up... It would be difficult to explain my situation to the authorities...', the hunter inhaled the air and left that place, launching a brief prayer for the souls of those men... Balds.
'How many bald people are there here?'
Meanwhile in another world...
The light turned to Remnant curiously, the planet that had been left to its own devices many ages ago, forgotten by the creators, who had promised to return to judge its inhabitants when the four relics were gathered.
"Um... This is weird...", the light muttered, it had kind of forgotten about that planet after a while. "What's up brother?" the darkness asked.
"I felt an unknown spike of energy for a moment," light replied contemplatively.
"What do you mean unknown? Is that something we should be worried about?" the darkness asked his brother, who was still focused on Remnant.
"Well, it doesn't look like anything from our universe, but maybe that was my mistake? I'm not sure..." the brother of light replied, still focused on identifying what had caught his attention on the abandoned planet.
"...If you want, I can destroy that planet...Revenant?" the brother of darkness suggested to the other.
"I don't think it's necessary... Besides, it's on that planet where that mortal who dared to disrespect us resides, it would be irritating to have to look for her in the wreckage to find another place to hold her... For space for eternity be a better punishment..." the light brother pondered carelessly, "No, not worth the effort, set them aside for now".
The brother of light stopped watching Remnant and went back to creating, using his divine power to make new worlds far more interesting than that failed project.
Moments passed, until the brother of darkness decided to manifest. "What's the matter brother? I thought you were busy creating black holes to interfere with my projects...", "Stop your wordplay, there was a problem with death".
The brother of light frowned non-existent "This is... Really a relevant problem, what happened to death?", that was a serious matter, if there was a serious problem with the end of life, it would take several thousand years to resolve and that would require both brothers to fix.
"Souls have disappeared, they have totally disappeared", the darkness replied the other, there was concern in his voice.
"Were they erased?", the erasure of souls, was a problem that only happened at the beginning of creation, a problem that had been fixed long ago, before the first star was created.
"No, they just disappeared, I looked for them everywhere but I couldn't find them anywhere", the brother of darkness replied.
"Have you searched the void? Sometimes living things stop there" the light brother suggested. "No, I've looked there too, souls are nowhere in the universe."
This was a worrying problem, especially considering that its origin was not known, "How many are missing?".
"A few dozen all at the same time, most of them were alive when this happened", the light brother would let out a sigh if he had lungs, "This is going to be an annoying problem...".
