A new chapter is here, but wait, it's the middle of the week. This here is the start of a set of side stories featuring the other members of team RWBY and what their up to while the main story is going on. I'll be working on this between each set of six I release. For now it's just Blake's story I'll be working on but I'll be getting to Weiss' and Yang's later on. For Yang's it's gonna be after she makes her appearance in the main story, not gonna say much but I will say she ends up in America and not Japan. For Weiss, I'm still unsure when I want to start releasing it other than it'll be after I start Yang's. Before the chapter there's one review to reply to.

PEJP BengtZone V2: To answer your question, that didn't even cross my mind when I decided to remove Aura from the story.

With that out of the way let's get on with the chapter.


Chapter 1: A New Adventure Begins

A young woman in her teenage years raced through an empty alleyway. Her figure was the perfect blend of femanine delicacy and raw muscular power accented by her tan skin. Her hair was a long, straight, golden blond that went down to her lower back. Her eyes were a piercing ruby red. She wore an ocean blue dress with bronze colored armor over top. She also wore bronze colored bracers and reddish-brown gloves. Rounding out her outfit was a pair of dark brown boots that go up to just above her knees. Over top of these was bronze colored greaves.

Following closely behind her was a young man of the same age. He was a well built man with a dark tan. He had messy brown hair done up in a ponytail. His eyes were a greyish-blue. He wore a ocean blue button up vest. Around his waist was a red belt with various compartments and bags attached to it. He wore slightly baggy brown pants and grey boots. Lastly he wore golden yellow gloves with a metal device around each of his wrists.

"Grrrrr… this is getting annoying. How have we not found them? Ooohhh… this is ruining my carefully laid out plan." The girl stated.

"You know Sof, our opponents, especially her, seem to be experts at the whole stealth game. Their not going to be easy to catch." The boy pointed out.

"Yes I know Ulisse, that doesn't make this any less annoying. The now named Sof, short for Sofia, replied.

"Just saying." The now named Ulisse responded.

"Yes well… keep it to yourself let's focus on finding them." Sofia ordered.

Easier said than done for meeeee! She mentally whined, her face bright red. Why'd I have to get paired with Ulisse's of all people. I know were best friends and all. But the thought of that crazily hot muscular hottie being near me make it so hard to think. God why do I get like this when dealing with boys I like. I hate having my thoughts all jumbled up. Suddenly she caught some movement out of the corner of her eye. She held up her hand to stop.

"Did you see that?" She asked.

"Yeah, they're close by." Ulisse noted.

Sofia summoned several ethereal blades and kept them close by. Sofia and Ulisse stood back to back. They steadied their breathing. The sound of dripping pipes were all that could be heard. Unknown to both of them, a shadow descended between them. She kicks them apart. Sofia quickly recovered and rolled up to face her attacker, only for a man to come up behind her and nail her in the back of the head with a kick. She was down for the count.

Ulisse recovered quickly and faced his attack. Said attacker charged at him. Ulisse throws a punch forward only to connected with a clone that dissipated. He elbows behind him, but hits another clone. He uppercuts and hits another clone. He catches a punch from his other attacker and blocks another attack from the first attacker. However two light clones from the second attacker came in and knocked him out.

"The heroes have been incapacitated, villain team wins." Their teacher announced.

"Yahooooo! We won, high five Blake." The second attacker cheered as he held out his hand.

"Yeah, couldn't have done it without you Sun." Blake replied as she gave him a high five.

The duo were dressed in there hero outfit. Blake wore black sleeveless crop top under a long dark grey lined white tailcoat. She also wore a white belt over black pants. She had on a pair of thigh-high black heel boots with gold-colored edging and her emblem on the side. Over her torso was a strap that held her Gambol Shroud. She doesn't have a bow on.

Sun wore a loose fitting white colored shirt that was opened. He also had on a pair of black fingerless gloves under red bracers. Around his waist was a white belt holding up a pair of blue jeans. Underneath his pants he has white bandages wrapped around his leg. He wore a pair of black and yellow sneakers. On his back was a clip to hold his Ruyi Bang and Jingu Bang. Their opponents groaned as they returned to their feet, rubbing the sore spot on the back of their heads.

"Welp, it was a valiant effort, I guess." Ulisse noted.

"My carefully laid plans were worthless." Sofia cried.

"Ah well there's always next time." Ulisse stated.

"I guess." Sofia admitted with a pout.

Blake chuckled lightly and rolled her eyes.

"Come one guys let's head back for our evaluation." Blake directed.

The group made their way to the rest of their class, chatting and bantering along the way. Through the whole thing Blake smiled. No matter the world, some things never change.


That evening…

Blake entered her room at the apartment she and Sun stayed in. She sat down and opened her diary.

'My dear friends,

I had an eventful day at school. We had a training exercise. One team had to play the heros and try to find and capture the villain. One team had to play the villains and try to hide from and defeat the heroes. It wasn't to eventful for our group but some teams got, creative to say the least. Really reminds me of our days at beacon.

I miss you guys, Ruby with her obsessive love of cookies, Weiss with her ice queen antics, Yang with her fun loving attitude, and all of our other friends as well. I'd love to tell you all about my new classmates but school's only started recently so theirs not much to say yet. All I'll say is that they are an interesting bunch.

Anyways life in Italy's going pretty well, I can't wait to hear about where all of you guys ended up at. Me and Sun are living in the same apartment. No, nothing has happened between us, we're just dating. Anyways we both do the best to help and support one another, honestly it's like being married without having gone through the ceremony. Moving on, lifes looking pretty good right now. It's hard to believe we only just arrived three months ago.'

As Blake wrote in her diary, she stopped to reminisce on the day she and Sun first arrived.


Three months ago…

Splash! Blake's eyes snap open. She's sinking slowly to the ocean depths. What… how did I get here? I was on the cliffs near Beacon. She tries to move but a sharp pain in her stomach causes her to gasp. Water rushed into her mouth and down her lung. No… can't… breath. She curled up and held her stomach in pain from the still present stab wound. She tries to activate her aura to heal it but nothing happens. I can't activate my aura? Why, it should have at least recovered somewhat by now. Her grip on her stomach tightened even further. My stomach… it burns. It's hard to move and the salt water is causing it to burn even more. Got, to, move. She forced herself past the pain in her stomach and swam up to the surface.

Upon breaking the surface she gasped for air and began to cough up seawater. She looks around to try and get her bearings. She looked all around but saw nothing but ocean. Despair set in and she began frantically searching around for any sign of land. Eventually in the east she noticed signs of land but far off.

"Thank gods." She breathed out in relief.

Suddenly there was a splash next to her startling her. After a few seconds a familiar blond surfaced.

"Sun?" She questioned.

Said boy looked to her.

"Blake?" He questioned.

"What are you doing here?" She asked.

"How am I supposed to know I just fell in here." He answered. "And the better question is where is here?"

"I don't know?" Blake pondered.

"OOOOOY YOU TWO!" They heard someone shout.

They looked to see someone on a small sailboat. Sailing up to them. On the vessel was Ulisse, who was captaining it, and Sofia. Ulisse wore a blue tank top with brown shorts and grey sandals. Sofia wore a blue sundress.

"HERE!" Ulisse shouted as he threw out the lifebuoy.

"Thanks!" Blake and Sun replied as they grabbed onto the lifebuoy.

The duo on the boat worked together to pull them to the boat. Once they were by the side of the boat the young man reached over the side.

"Gimme your hand we'll pull you in one at a time." He stated.

"Alright, Blake you go first your injured." Sun ordered.

"Kay." Blake replied she reached up.

"Injured?" Ulisse expressed in surprise as he grabbed onto her hand. "Hey Sof get the first aid kit!"

"Already on it!" Sofia replied as she rushed to grab the first aid kit.

Ulisse pulled Blake up onto the boat as gently as he could, which did little to relieve the pain in the cat faunus' stomach. Gently laying her on the deck, He moved to quickly pull Sun up. In that time Sofia returned and began treating Blake.

"Thanks," Sun expressed as he was pulled up onto the boat.

"No problem, what the hell you guys doing out here anyways?" Ulisse questioned.

"Ain't got a clue. One second we were on the cliffs near Beacon waiting to be evacuated, the next a bright light and then we fell right into the middle of the ocean." Sun explained. "Speaking of which, where are we anyways?"

"About a little ways off the coast of Italy." Sofia answered.

"Italy… Gahh…" Blake expressed.

"Don't move too much, Ulisse where are the antibiotics?" Sofia asked as she fished through the first aid kit.

"Wait wait what's this Italy you speak of?" Sun asked.

"They should be in there." Ulisse replied. "And does she really need it the saltwater should have done a good enough job."

"Can you please tell us what an It…" Blake began.

"I don't want to take the chance of her getting an infection." Sofia interrupted.

"HEY!" Sun shouted.

"What?!" Their rescuers replied.

"Can you tell us what the hell Italy is?" Blake pushed.

"It's a country." Sofia answered as if it was obvious.

"A country where?" Sun asked.

"Aaaahhh… in Europe." Ulisse answered as if it was obvious.

Blake and Sun looked to each other than back to their rescuers. Ulisse looked between them with a confused look.

"What?" He questioned.


Present…

Glad we were eventually able to get them to believe us. Thank gods for Giulio being the President's son. She resumed her writing.

'There's no telling what the future will hold, but I look forward to the day we can see each other again and I can have you read all of this in person.

Your dear friend, Blake Belladonna.'

She placed her pen down and closed her diary. With a small smile she looked out onto the city of Naples, where she now lives. It was getting late into the evening. The sun had almost entirely set, with the last rays of light slowly fading into night. As she looked out something caught her eyes. A figure moving along the rooftops. While she could not make out what it was, the figure seemed familiar.

"Hey Blake! Dinner's almost ready!" Sun suddenly called out.

Blake didn't respond as her eyes focused in on the figure.

"Blake?!" Sun called again.

"Y-yeah, hang on a sec." Blake replied as she rushed out of her room.

She rushed to put her boots on.

"Blake? Where are you going?" Sun questioned.

"I saw something outside, I think it's just some small time criminal, but she, I think it was a she, looked familiar." Blake stated. "I'll be right back."

"Wait shouldn't…" Sun began.

However Blake was already out the door. Sun sighed.

"She'll say I shouldn't, but I'm gonna follow anyways." He noted.

Meanwhile Blake was quick to get onto the roof. She spots the figure she saw earlier and gives chase. She does her best to avoid being detected. Deftly Blake leapt from roof to roof, silently following the mysterious individual. Suddenly the individual hopped down into an alleyway. Blake followed only to find the figure had vanished.

"Huh?" Blake questioned.

Suddenly Sun arrived next to her.

"Did you find out who ever it was?" He asked.

"No… but I feel like I know them from somewhere." Blake answered.

"Well no sense in worrying about it now. Without knowing what they looked like, we can't track find them." Sun pointed out. "Come on, let's head back before dinner gets cold."

Sun made his way back to their apartment.

"Yeah…" Blake replied as she slowly began to do the same.

She took a quick glance back before heading home.


Elsewhere, later that night…

The girl who Blake had been following entered an abandoned warehouse. She had light brown skin with darker spots scattered throughout her body. She had brown hair tied into a long ponytail. Her eyes were a bluish-grey. She wears a black and grey, with a darker grey on the sides, sleeveless stealth suit with short legs. Over her upper torso, she wears light grey belts with gold buckles. She wears simple black boots with and a black glove on her right hand.

"Well look who's late." A sultry voice stated.

The one who spoke was a beautiful woman with snakes for hair, which was about shoulder length. Her eyes were golden and reptilian in appearance. She wore a black form fitting Chiton style dress with a cord tied just below her bust. The dress was held up by two gold buttons on her shoulder. The skirt only went to just above her ankles with a slit on the right side that ran up to just below a little below her waist.

"I got held up by something. Nothing major, probably just some wannabe hero looking into why I was hoping across the roof. I lost them quick." The girl replied.

"Makes sense you'd be sighted your not me. Makes me wonder why the boss favors you over us." A male voice spoke up.

The male was a handsome man with a well built muscular body. His hair a short golden blond and his eyes were a sapphire blue. He had a white kilt tied around his waist with a gold cord. He wore no shirt exposing his bare chest. He had on roman style sandals and a pair of brass cuffs on his biceps. He wore a gold laurel wreath on his head

"If it had been me out there brother, you know no one would have spotted me." Another female spoke up.

The woman was beautiful with long flowing golden blond hair running down to her butt. Her eyes were a piercing sapphire blue. Her clothing only consisted of a purple bikini and a long see through purple half skirt, which leaves the front open. She also has on sandals and various thin gold bracelets, one on her thigh, and one on each bicep. She wore a gold laurel wreath on her head.

"Tch… can't you two morons think of anything but yourself it's annoying to have to hear you boost so much." Another woman declared.

The next woman to speak up had short blood red hair as well as blood red eyes. She had the fur of a lion growing on her cheeks and out lining her face. She also had them covering her whole forearms and calves. Her hands and feet retained a human appearance but had claws on them. She wore grey crop top and a short yellow jacket that exposed her midriff. Sh had on brown leather short shorts. Her jacket had no sleeves and was torn up were the seems would be. Her shorts were also torn up at the ends.

"It's a good thing she didn't get caught. We would have been caught for sure and that'd be bad." Another woman sorrowfully softly spoke up.

The woman was short and petite in stature. She wore and ornate gothic lolita style dress which was mainly black with accents of deep purple, dark blue, and white in it.

"I don't know what you guys are all upset about. She wasn't caught so no one can interrupt our business and that's what matters." A man spoke up.

The man was a fairly average looking individual in a business suit. He had slicked back black hair and brown eyes. He had many ornate gold rings on his fingers.

"Hahaha true true indeed, can't have someone interrupt my meals." A portly older man stated.

The man had short grey hair and dull green eyes. He wore glasses and was dressed in a fancy suit. One man merely snored as he slept while all of this was going on. He was oriental in appearance and had black hair tied in a long ponytail. He wore a blue changshan, black pants, and sandals.

"Quiet all of you!" A voice spoke up silencing everyone and waking up the man who was sleeping.

Stepping out of the shadows was a man with spiky messy red hair with streaks of brown in it. On his head are black horns which curve back. He wore a black and grey tunic like jacket with the interior lined red. He also had on a pair of grey pants with two maroon belts crisscrossed on her waist. Hook to one belt on his left side was a sheathed sword. On the right there was a black red lined drape. He wore black gloves and black boots. Lastly he wore a grimm mask.

"Ilia, you did well to lose your prescuer" The man stated.

"Thank you Adam." Ilia replied.

"Now then, let's get down to business." The man named Adam replied. "We've much to discuss."


And that brings the first chapter of Blake's story to a close. Hope you all enjoyed, til next time.