Chapter 12

Month 6 Day 4
Blake was with the 101st legion, in a Karel with the rest of the group for her birthday.

Blake smiled. She was over the side of her ship. She loved the few times when everyone got together like this. It hasn't happened since the start of the war. Night had fallen on Blake.

She answered on of the questions she was asked.

Her eyes picked up. She heard a humming noise. She turned to where it was coming from, but it was too late. The deck was hit. She dropped her scroll immediately. She grabbed it and went to where they were hit.

The shell went threw the top layers. The ship shook.

"We've been hit! Torpedo!"

Blake looks out. She sees three imperial ships.

"It's a trap!" She yelled. More rounds lit up the sky, firing right at the ship. Blake got to one of the boats, along with three squads. Six boats were able to be launched before another massive blow. Each lifeboat had three squads on it. The battleship they were on was sinking, fast.

"So long to the Emerald Forest." One of the troops said

"We need to get to the islands. It's the only way were not going to be target practice."

"Do you see an island?"

"Yes, it's got forests. Just keep moving straight. It's the only way were going to survive." They listened to Blake. They got to the islands and got out of the ships. The island was covered with trees and placed to hide. They all went to some of the hiding places.


The imperials were cheering.

"Enemy taken down. Survivors stuck on the island."

The Admiral smiled when he heard this.

"Get a landing party ready. We're going to play the most dangerous game."

The Admiral and his men were outfitted with the best weapons and armor. They had the supplies, and if worst came to worst, they had the ship.

The men were the best trackers the empire had to offer.

"Fire a green firework." The Admiral smiled "We've going to put the fear of the empire into their souls!"

The empire sent its first boat out. Thirty troops landed on the island. They jumped off the boat and moved into the forest.


Blake was sitting by a tree, getting her breath when she heard footsteps. The troops were all scattered. Blake jumped up into the tree and watched as four imperial troops walked right under her. She held her breath. They passed her without them noticing her. She went to grab her flare gun but realized it would bring every imperial on the island to her.

One of the surviving troops fired a red flare, telling everyone imperials were here. Flashes of gunfire light up the area. Blake took her bullets out her weapon. She was going to have to become the animal humans always feared her to be.

She jumped from tree to tree, being as quite as she could be.

An imperial was walking by under her, alone. Blake jumped down, and as the Imperial turned around, she sliced his throat open. His blood splashed on her face.

She grabbed the body to avoid the noise of the body hitting the ground. She took his walkie talkie and knife. She dragged the body to a bush.

She heard more gunfire.

"Got another two." She heard. She turned the volume down.

Blake went back up in the trees. She waited for someone to come nearby. Blake watched. She heard more shots fired. She closely listened for a hint that someone was coming.

She sat in the tree for half an hour before she heard something that interested her. She heard an engine. She went to the top of the tree and saw another wave of imperials. If she could fire her flare away from here, she would do it.

She had an idea. She needed a second walkie talkie.

She waited for another single imperial to come in her way. She watched as duos walked passed her, but that was too dangerous for right now. She wanted to do something, but she needed a second Walkie Talkie.

Her patience was rewarded when a wounded Imperial was walking in her direction. She got out the knife and silently went down to the ground level. The imperial turned around, but she cut his throat before he could do anything. She took his walkie talkie and went to a tree farther from her position. She spent some time making a hole in the top of the tree. She turned the volume to full, then hid an ice dust mine in the ground.

She waited for the first fools to come. She didn't have to wait long. Two imperials went came to the tree. They looked around, but didn't find anything.

One of them took a step forward, and the ice mine went off. A large shard went up through his leg. Blake rushed out from her hiding spot and slammed the knife into the first imperial, the one who didn't have ice currently in him. She took his pistol and shot the imperial. He collapsed.

She dropped the pistol and grabbed their equipment. She was going to make the island much louder.

The imperials were walking around. Most of the Alliance troops didn't give them much trouble. Four of them were walking down one of the paths that were made. They were laughing about their last kill when they heard someone talking.

"Hello imperials. You have made a grave mistake."

The troops pointed in the four directions. The voice came from another place.

"You tried to kill me."

From another direction.

"But you forgot one big thing"

From right in front of them

"I'm a hunter." Blake threw her weapon from a tree, wrapping around the neck of one of the imperials. She jumped down from the branch and fired twice. She took out two throwing knives and tossed them. The last imperial shook. He fired at Blake, but her clone took the hit. She rushed forward and got him in a head lock. She snapped his neck.

She had to move fast. She took the equipment of the imperials and went to her next ambush site. She pulled her on her weapon, and the body fell to the ground.


The Admiral saw a flash, but his men didn't report back. He sent two of his men to go check up on it.

They got to the site and saw the bodies. They reported back but heard their voices surrounding them.

"What the?" One of them say. He takes a step back and trips a trap. A knife comes flying out, entering the first troop's chest.

"Admiral, Be on guard. The Alliance trapped the area."

The Admiral admired when the enemy was resourceful.

"It doesn't matter. We just need to hunt them down. Continue your mission."

Blake listened as she was setting up the next series of traps.

"We've got a confirmed eighty-seven dead." She heard.

That wasn't good. She did the math in her head, and that left, with her, 148 troops. That would be worrying if the trend kept up.

"Good, keep up with the mission. The hunt isn't done."

Blake was disgusted. She finished her section then waited again. She saw twelve people coming. They were Imperials. They started opening fire in her direction. She looked down and saw her troops being slaughtered. She felt rage, but knew if she acted on it, she would be killed like them. By the time they stopped firing, two dozen of her men were dead.

The imperials laughed. They kept walking. Her knuckles were turning white. She had one grenade on her, but she would ruin this spot. She had to be fast. She decided to take down the imperials

She jumped down, spinning. When she landed, her blade was in the body of an imperial. She spun around quickly, hitting two of them. She moved quickly and jumped behind an imperial. They shot him twice. She grabbed his knife and threw it. She knew she didn't have much time. She wrapped her weapon around two imperials, then jumped behind them. She turned her weapon to gun mode and killed them. She tugged on the weapon.

Blake slammed her blade into an imperial then fired at another. The one who she threw the knife into fired at her, but she turned into an ice clone. She jumped on the knife with all her weight. The knife pierced his lungs. Blake jumped on two of the imperials heads and used them to boost herself to the forth troop. She slammed the blade in him.

She turned around and fired her gun. Two of them were killed. The last imperial held his gun up.

"Don't take another step forward!" He said, with fear in his voice

"Or what? Your going to shoot me?"

He shook and threw his rifle on the ground. He pulled out a pistol.

"No. I can't kill you."

"Do it." Blake said coldly. She was bluffing, hoping he was to. She wanted him to take a few steps back.

The imperial pulled the trigger. Blake watched. She didn't want to. She's never going to forget that.

She heard footsteps coming to her location. She grabbed more equipment and ran, just in time for the imperials to find the bodies.


Blake went to a new location. She finally ran into some friendly faces.

"Captain, how many people are left?" Blake asked

"Not enough. The empire's going to be sending more reinforcement. Less than eighty of us are left."

"But less than an hour ago I heard it was only eighty that died." She said

"We've been losing so many. We can't keep up." The captain looked down.

"Here, I've been planting these radios around the island. I've set up a few dozen of them. Soon, no inch of the island will be quiet."

"How are we going to avoid exposing ourselves with the flashes?"

"I've been setting up traps. They've gotten a few. I have a few knifes left. Give them to everyone left."

"Will do. We're holding out as best we can, but something's different about these people. They can see us before we see them."

"Are you sure?"

"They've been taking us down before we can even see him. We have less than half the men we had when we got off the ship."

"Get ready."

Blake continues her hunt. She made her largest trap. She didn't want to waste it.

Twenty Imperials walked down the road. Once this trap was sprung, she would have to move quick.

The troops walked down the alley. The lead took a step, and an explosion came from under his feet. Guns fired from all directions. The audio played on all the radios Blake planted around the island. Ten flares were fired in the air from every section Blake had been to. All different colors.

The still living Imperials couldn't do anything. Some tripped over traps with knives. After everything happened, Blake shot the last surviving Imperial.

She disoriented the enemy for a few precious moments. The troops on the ships saw flares fired in the air. They assumed that it was from the Alliance, but some weren't standard Alliance flares. They sent more troops in.

Blake, unaware of what the flares brought in moved from where she was. She took everything from the imperials and went to set up more traps and radios. She was getting tired. She had been up for hours doing the same thing, and the adrenaline rush was gone hours ago. She pulled out rope and went to the top of a few trees, keeping herself safe.

She somehow was able to sleep even with gunfire and sprung traps all around her.

She didn't hear as her forces were dwindling. She was able to get an hour of sleep before her ears shot up. She woke up and heard something new. The sounds of heavy armor clunking around.


She listened to the walkie talkie she had on her.

She heard nothing.

"So, a new challenger arrives. I must tell you that sending armored troops won't help you"

"Come on out. You fought bravely, but you Alliance people are less than twenty." The Admiral said

"You think that a hunter just leaves when things seem gloomy?" Blake said

"You are not the hunter here, but the hunted."

"I'm a hunter. I'm the one who set up all the traps."

"I congratulate you on that, but I must inform you that your latest stunt with the flares only doomed you."

"I don't know what you mean?"

"You called for reinforcements. Now they're here to come hunt you."

"You will not kill me."

"I am a patient man. I can wait you out."

"You won't be saying that when I put my bullet in your head."

"I love a challenge. If you can kill me then you will win this hunt. If any of you are by then, you'll go down to the grave knowing you are truly wolves surrounded by sheep."


Blake but the radio down and cursed.

She had less than two squads left. They had who knows how many enemies left. At this point the people who are still alive are the best she has. It's not much, but it gave her hope.

She looked at the moon. It was one hour before the darkest hour of the day.

She went down to the bottom of the tree. Under her were two dead imperials, who were killed by her traps. Blake sighed. She was still tired. She grabbed the equipment she'd need. She was going to have to start it all over again.

She went to another section of the forest and placed the radios. One of her men came to that section.

He went to grab the equipment from one of the dead imperials, but when he went to grab the stuff, a grenade exploded.

Blake saw what they were going. They were trying to kill her. It's a good thing she was close to end of that part of her plan, but she was going to have to be more careful. Now she had at most eighteen others.

"I've seen what you tried to do, that's not going to happen. I'm not going to die like that. Instead of desecrating the dead, why don't you come find the living."

"We could say the same to you."

Blake knew she was fighting a losing battle. There had to be hundred of imperials left on the island, and she had a dozen and a half men left.

She tried to get to some place that was safe.

The imperials started to laugh over the radios. Blake was hearing the laughing all around her. She didn't know where it was coming from.

She wanted to make it all stop, but she knew she couldn't. The laughing wasn't going to stop any time soon.

She looked for something to cover her ears.

"End it. You can't win."

The voices she was hearing inside her head was breaking through outside.

She sat down in a tree and looked at her gun. It was looking very friendly to her.

She kept looking at it. This weapon was going to get only a little bit more blood on it.

"We're going to kill you anyways, so why not give us an easier time."

"It's hopeless."

Blake's hands started to shake. She placed the gun up to her head.

A bang was heard across the island.


Blake opened her eyes. On of her men had followed what the imperials said.

Blake quickly put her weapon away. She scolded herself. She was letting them win the war of the mind. She put her weapon away. She looked around, but she didn't see anything that would make her worried.

She took a single sigh. She knew she was going to have to keep fighting, but she had to have hope that her friends would come and help.

She pulled out a knife and slammed it into the tree she was on. She tried to put her rage into it. She didn't have any need for it anymore.

Blake jumped down from the tree and went to find the admiral. If she killed him, then maybe, just maybe, the enemy will leave. Blake went to the closest to the edge she could go and still be safe.

She saw imperials, but not any that looked like they would be the leader. She didn't know what she was looking for.

Blake placed the last of the radios that she had around the area.

She spoke again to the Admiral.

"What do you look like, so I know who to kill?"

"You want a hint? Well here's one. I'm the one who'll be ending your life."

That didn't help, but it did give her hope. He was trying to look for her. Of course, most of the imperials were trying to also.

"When I find you, I'll be the one to make it out of this."

"The cub thinks she has fangs."

She sat and saw two imperials walking towards her. Something was off about them.

One of them stopped. He pulled out his gun and fired near Blake. She froze up. The second one looked at where Blake was.

He lifted his gun, but Blake jumped away from the shots. She jumped down from the tree and started her attack.

The first imperial took most of the hits. His armor took a beating, but he didn't feel a thing, and the second was getting ready to fire at Blake.

Blake cut a small hole in the armor, but after she did, she jumped out of the way. A bullet from the other imperial entered the hole. She made the hole right above the imperial's heart. After he was shot, he fell to the ground. Blake jumped into the trees again, moving as fast as she could.

"Come out beast!"

He was looking where Blake was. She jumped behind him. He turned around, only to meet the sword. The sword was driven into the eye of the imperial. She pulled out the sword. She flicked the eye off the sword.

A man walked towards Blake.

"So, here's the cub. You took out some of my men. A lot of them in fact. I'm impressed but now, you are face to face with the Admiral who has been hunting your people down."

"If I kill you, will your men leave us alone?"

"I would like to think they are honorable."

Blake rushed as fast as she could. The Admiral grabbed Blake grabbed Blake's arm. He crushed it, then he brought out his knife, and drew it into Blake. She disappeared. She was behind the Admiral and attacked him. The sword didn't puncher the armor.

"You have to have strength to take a Wolf down." He said. He spun around, hitting Blake. She flew into a tree, breaking it. The Admiral started to walk forward, when a trap was sprung. The knife did nothing against his armor.

"It will take more than that to take me down." He walked over to where Blake was. He went to grab her, but she spun around, hitting his hand.

The blade bounced off the armor again.

"This armor is the strongest armor that has ever been made. Your pitiful attacks won't hurt me."

Blake ran. She needed something that could get though that armor. She ran into a squad of imperials after she went back on the road. She made quick work of them and hoped that she would find something.

They had explosives. That's just what she needed. The Admiral caught up with her. She threw a grenade at him. He caught it and held it. After it exploded, nothing changed with him.

She swore under her breath then ran away again. She had an idea, but she needed time.

"Alliance troops, I need you to help me." She called out. "The admiral is following me. Get ready."

Blake went to the base of the mountain. It had a large base. The top of it was long and narrow. Blake jumped up and went to the top of the mountain, which wasn't large. She placed explosives around the pillar on the top of the mountain.

The admiral must have made it to the base, since she heard gunfire. She cursed herself for bringing him to the last of the troops. After she got off the top of the mountain, she pressed the detonation button. The top of the mountain came falling. The Admiral was it and held his hands up. Tons of rock was right above him. He was trying to hold it up, but his arms weren't meant to do something like this. His armor couldn't withstand this.

"You win Owl. You beat the Ox. Brains beat brawns." The top of the mountain crushed the Admiral.

Blake stood next to the giant boulder.

She turned around and saw that two of the men were killed.

"Is this everyone?" She asked?

"Yes." One of the troops said. They numbered fourteen.

"Where's the captain?"

"He's dead." One of them said

"Now that he's dead, maybe the imperials will stop." Blake said

She took out the radio.

"Imperials, your admiral is dead. Let us leave in peace."

"The captain was honor bound. We weren't."

Blake's heart sank. The first ray of the morning sin came up over the horizon.

"We get one final sunrise." One of the troops said.

Something was moving in the sunlight. She looked at it.

"Am I the only one seeing that?" Blake asked.

The troops looked at the sun and saw the thing moving closer.

"What is that?"

It was an imperial ship. Blake lost all moral.


Then it as it moved to be right over the ships, it fired at them. The ships were sunk in less than a minute.

"What… It's the 122nd!" Blake shouted. Four snub fighters came out of the ship and bombed the island. The imperials on the beach head were all killed. She cheered.

"Alright men, to the Beach head!"

They shouted and ran forward. A transport ship came out of the main ship and landed on the beach. The troops came out and scattered.

"122nd legion, this is huntress Blake Belladonna with what remains with the 101st. We're moving to your location." Blake said

She saw as the troops gunned down any imperials that came to the beach. Blake and the 101st got to the beachhead waving their hands. As Blake made it to the beach she smiled, but then a bullet hit her. She fell to the ground. It exited right under her chest. She spat up blood but moved forward. She had to hold onto her wound. The troops helped her move forward. She was hit on more time in the body. More blood. She was brought on the transport, then everyone got back on. They flew back to the main ship, where Blake was immediately bought into the med bay. The fighters came back to the ship, then they left.


Month 6 Day 12

Blake was in critical condition when they brought her to the hospital. She was brought to the ER as soon as possible.

She was awake in her bed. She was still weak.

She didn't recognize it at the time, but it was Pyrrha that kept her alive. She acted quickly to save her life. Jaune tried to help best he could, but that ended up being just getting Pyrrha what she needed.

In her room now was Ruby, Sun, and her parents.

One of the bullets damaged her liver. She couldn't do much, and she was told that she would have to abstain from alcohol. Blake would also have to stay behind from fighting for a long time. She didn't know how long.

Right now, she was useless to the fight. She didn't like just sitting here.

"I was so close." She said

"That's why your alive. Its because you were so close." Ghira said.

"Blake looked at her hands."

"For a few seconds, I thought of ending it." Blake said. She still hadn't talked about it. "I placed a gun up to my head." Blake said

Kali hugged Blake. Blake felt her tears hitting her shoulder.

"We're do glad you're here." Kali said.

Blake didn't say anything.

She knew some part of her was still there on that island. She was stronger now. More cold

"I killed people." Blake said "I watched as they killed my people. I watched as one of them killed themselves."

Blake needed help, but not from the people with her right now. They don't know the horrors of war. Only three people knew on the planet.

"Mom, Dad, Sun, I need to talk to Ruby." She said. They looked at her then left.

"Blake, whatever you need…"

"I need to talk to Roni, Vuren, or Karel."

"I'll see what I can do. Is there anything else you need me to do?"

"No. Besides leaving me to sleep." Ruby smiled then left. Blake went to sleep.

Blake closed her eyes, but saw the imperial killing themselves Over and Over again. She wasn't going to get an ounce of sleep until she talked to one of the people.

Blake was sitting in her bed when she saw a darkness. She shook her head and it was gone.

Salem was watching as one of the people she would love to turn to her side. She had seen Ozpin's favoritism of this up and coming Team RWBY. She had lost a weak link in Lionheart, but she needed an eye in the world of the hunters.

She had found one of her top picks, but she needed to make her crack.

This was her favorite thing to do. She wants to remind Ozpin that she is still a threat. If she could corrupt this huntress, she'll have access to Ozpin once again.

Author's Notes: Now, Blake has seen some of the worst of war.

She's also on the radar of Salem now.

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