Well this is what the set up led to and frankly I'm ok with it.
"I might not be back tonight so don't stay up late".
Yang looked up from her scroll to her team leader "jaune I'm 17 not 5 and I'm a teenager so by all rights I'm going to what I want whether you like it or not". Jaune rolled his eyes before looking to his other teammate "weiss your the responsible one so you'll be in charge while I'm away". The white haired heiress couldn't help but smile proudly at the recognition "seeing as how you desperately need my help I'll gladly oblige".
Jaune raised a brow to the heiress "well I'm not desperate I mean there's always nora". Both of them looked to the pink bomber to see her bouncing on the bed like a 3 year old child. Weiss stood from the bed, walked over to jaune and forcefully pushed him out the door "no take backs" she said before slamming the door.
Blake was leaning against the wall with a large smirk on her face that said yeah I saw that. Jaune glared at the cat faunus before walking away to get to the bullheads landing pad where they would take a ride back to vale. The two were quiet for a while until they were sure they were alone "Blake are you-" the cat faunus cut him off "don't ask again you'll just make this harder for me".
The blonde understood and refrained from bringing it up again so it didn't hurt or confuse her. Once they made it to vale they headed for the warehouse that they had planned to target. Jaune and Blake made sure to change into their new gear before vanished into the night.
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Two faunus stood atop the old warehouses roof keeping guard of the only entrance inside. "This gig is a little too easy don't you think" the tallest faunus asked his partner. The short faunus let his rifle hang from it's strap while he opened a bag of gummy worms "yeah but you don't hear me complaining".
The taller faunus shook his head "that's because your ass is lazy...hey you gonna eat all those or are you gonna share"? The shorter faunus looked to his partner and chuckled "now why would I share with you when you just called my ass lazy"? The taller faunus shrugged "sharing is caring"?
"Whatever here" the shorter faunus said as he held out the bag of gummies. The taller faunus took a few and let his rifle hang from it's strap so he could munch out "we should've brought some cards or something". The smaller faunus let out a sigh before turning to his partner "yeah we probably should have".
The taller faunus looked over the roof but saw nothing which is why it was such a surprise when two hatchets found their way into the two faunus's heads. Two hooded figures climbed atop the roof each sporting suits like juniors gang only with a longer coat that had a hood attached to it with a red almost biker helmet covering their faces. On the red helmet of the males was the letter J for Jekyll and for the female was a B for Belle.
Belle watched as Jekyll walked up to the two dead faunus and ripped the two hatchets out of their heads. Behind the mask Blake gritted her teeth as she watch jaune carry on as if the two people he killed didn't matter. Her eye's looked back at the two men and she felt ashamed for what she was doing, these men had families and friends who would never see them smile or laugh again because of them.
After cleaning the hatchets off Jekyll stuck them on his belt to free his hands so he could pull out the large axe he carried with him. The axe was the same kind you would find when trying to cut down a tree and sported the same colors as their clothes.
Jekyll pushed the door open before turning to Belle "no going back now so be ready to fight like your life depends on it". Belle nodded before stretching her fingers out so two handguns fell free from her sleeves into her hands. She went to walk by when she felt Jekyll's hand on her shoulder stopping her from proceeding "for what it's worth I'm sorry".
The words came like a whisper on the wind and for a second she thought she had misheard him but before she could confirm his words Jekyll walked through the door. Belle followed close behind her partner as they moved through the staircase in silence until they came to a hallway with no more than four doors. Jekyll looked left and right taking in the fact that there was two doors on each side and that the hallway led to a door that most likely had more rooms on the other side.
Jekyll held his free hand up and motion for Belle to take position in front of the door on their right. She quickly did as he suggested and Jekyll himself moved to the door on the left. Belle kept her eyes on the door but her mind continued to question what she was doing and how she let it come to this.
Before her mind could continue to berate her with more questions a knock on a door broke her out of her daydream. Belle turned to see Jekyll hold the axe with one hand as he waited. There was a scramble going on behind the the door before someone managed to open it. A faunus man with most of his chest bare and the only clothes he had on were some blue jeans stood in the open doorway with a girl trying to tidy up in the back.
It took the male faunus a brief second to realize who was at the door and even less then that for Jekyll to split his skull with one swin of his axe. The man body fell back when Jekyll pulled the axe free and used his foot to push the body off the blade. The female faunus screamed in terror at the carnage so Jekyll moved to silence her.
The scream permeated through the walls alerting every faunus within the warehouse that trouble had come. The door Belle had been standing next to opened and a faunus with glasses caught sight of the gun pointed at him. Belle turned to see the faunus pull out his own gun and instinct took over before she could stop herself.
There was a bang and the next thing she saw was the faunus gripping his throat as blood flowed between his fingers. He stumbled backwards and fell against the back wall all while struggling to breath but to no avail. Belle stood frozen in place as she watched the man's face that was visible without the mask go through a myriad of emotions before the end.
This was not what Belle wanted and yet here she was with one of her kind shot by her own hand. The gun trembled in her hand as she watched the faunus's face change from frantic from being shot to drowsy from the lack of oxygen and blood loss to finally going calm and still. Jekyll stepped out of the room once the female faunus was silenced and saw Belle, still with her arm stretched out as if she was going to shoot again.
The doors at the end of the hallway bersted open and more faunus than he could count appeared with firearms ready to fire at a moment's notice. Jekyll didn't have time to console his partner as he began to spin his axe in front of him with enough speed to deflect the bullets from hitting them both. Belle seemed to snap out of her stupor as the firing began and realized she could beat herself up later but for right now she needed to be more than dead weight to her partner.
Jekyll felt a foot on his shoulder and looked up to see Belle soar above him and land in the center of the crowd of faunus. "Don't think just do" Belle continued to say those words as she fired off one shot after another into the faunus's that surrounded her. She needed to survive and to do that she needed to keep fighting but she lacked the motivation which is why she surrounded herself with people who wanted her dead so she could do what needed to be done.
Instinct took hold and she fought with everything she had and killed without hesitation. While the faunus focused on the enemy in their ranks Jekyll rushed them from behind. Blood and bullets littered the floor, the walls and the very clothes they wore but they couldn't stop to clean up not while the job still needed to be done.
The more they fought the more the white fang realized just how out classed they really were. Belle shot three people one right after the other before her gun ran out of ammo so she chucked the gun at a faunus woman that ran at her and knocked her out. The gun bounced into the air and ejected the empty clip as it flew back to it's owner so Belle pulled out another clip and stuck it in the empty gun before firing off another volley of bullets.
Jekyll made sure to stay out of Belle's line of fire which wasn't exactly easy to do but he made do with what he had. Ducking under a man with a bat Jekyll sliced off the man's leg and stomped on his head when he fell to the floor before tossing his axe at the next person to come his way. A male faunus caught the worst of it as the flying axe stabbed into his chest and knocked him into the people behind him.
Jekyll reached behind him and pulled out the two hatchets for a little duel wielding action as he marched forward. The fighting moved from the first two rooms all the way downstairs until they reached the ground level. A mountain of corpses was forming and Jekyll knew some had grown a brain and ran away so he wouldn't add them to the pile.
In a way he was ok with that but when the final faunus was cut down he had to wonder how they were gonna spread their name without a witness who knew them.
He didn't notice at first but a few white fang members pretended to be dead so they wouldn't actually join their brothers and sisters in the afterlife. When one took a chance and tried to take him out while he wasn't looking he caught on to their scheme and caught the faunus with his hatchet.
The faunus dropped and the last few alive tried to make a run for it while two tried to hold him off. The first another male was grabbed by his throat by Jekyll and had his trachea crushed while the second faunus was tossed against the wall knocking her out.
Belle leaned against a wall and quickly discarded her helmet before puking on the floor. Jekyll watched her to make sure she was alright until he heard the unconscious faunus groan. He grabbed the faunus by her hair and pinned her to the wall before bringing up his last hatchet and placing it at her throat.
The girl finally coming to realize what was happening began to whimper when she felt the blade of the hatchet touch her skin. "Please please don't kill me" she begged and when Jekyll let go of her hair she thought she had gotten through to him but when he reached into his pocket and pulled out a envelop she realized he had other plans for her. Jekyll held the envelope out for her to take "take this to your boss and tell them we're coming" he said.
The girl nodded and went to leave when he let her go but stopped when he called out to her.
"Don't ever let me see you around again or next time you'll end up like them" he said before motioning to the bloody corpses that laid about. The faunus gave a single bow before running as fast as she could. Jekyll looked to his partner one last time "we're done here let's go home" he said as he moved to the exit and then back to juniors place.
After navigating the back streets to avoid the cops and citizens of vale they arrived at juniors bar. Slipping in through the back door they made their way to juniors main office and after a few knocks they entered the room. Junior took one look at them and let out a sigh "I went ahead and prepared two bedrooms for you guys to use since Beacons bullheads aren't taking passengers now".
The two nodded before heading to the door but came to a halt when junior called to them "make sure you take a shower and get something to eat. Also make sure to leave your gear out for my boys to clean since your gonna need it for your next mission". Jekyll and Belle did as they were told and dropped off their gear after taking a shower before they were shown to their bedrooms.
Now unmasked Blake left with jaune to get some food but as they sat at a table with their meals in front of them Blake couldn't muster the strength to eat. Her eye's looked up to see jaune munching away at his cheeseburger like he hadn't eaten in days. Blake's grimace grew with each passing second and she just couldn't understand how he could be ok after all that they did today.
After being fed they return to their bedrooms to rest but unlike all the students in Beacon sleeping soundly in their beds Blake continued to toss and turn in her sleep. Blake curled into a ball and covered her ears as best she could while Adam screamed and yelled about how she was a hypocrite and a murderer just like him.
When it wasn't Adam yelling at her it was the voices of the dead and the memories of all the people she killed that day. They cursed her for what she had done and at times it felt like the guilt alone would crush her and she just didn't know what to do. Blake sat up in her bed and felt her face the wet parts of her cheeks made her realize that she had been crying in her sleep and when she looked to the clock on the wall only an hour had passed since she went to bed.
"Was this how it was going to be from now on" she couldn't help but question. She pulled off the covers and pushed herself out of the bed before heading to the door. Only one person had the answers she was looking for and she would make him tell the truth or he'd know what a angry huntress was truly like.
Blake marched through the hallway of juniors place until she found jaunes room. She took a deep breath before knocking on the door half expecting he'd somehow know she was coming. When it was clear he didn't expect her and wasn't waiting for her to knock she knocked again. The sound of footsteps could be heard from inside before the door opened and a sleepy jaune greeted her.
He never even had a chance to ask if she wanted to come in when Blake pushed passed him and entered the room. Jaune closed the door and turned to his friend when Blake rounded on him with a fierce glare "when does it end"? Her voice cracked part way through and jaune noticed the tears that refused to fall lining her eye's.
The question that she asked was easily answered because he had been asked once before with that same expression by another "it doesn't". The answer didn't please the cat faunus at all and she began to pace back and forth "I can't do this, I won't" she whispered over and over again. A hand reached out and stopped her from pacing before jaunes voice pulled her out of her own mind.
At first she couldn't comprehend what he had said so jaune repeated his question "what's wrong"? Blake looked at him with disbelief "what's wrong?! What's wrong is that I can't sleep! What's wrong is that every time I close my eyes I see all those people I killed"!
Blake's tears ran free cause she didn't have the strength to hold them back anymore "I see it all the time, their deaths, what I did and they continue to blame me for it and worse I know their right". Jaune watched his friend slowly breakdown from the weight of the guilt she harbored. Her knees gave out and she would have dropped to the ground if not for jaune catching her.
He remained quite and held her close so Blake could use his shoulder to cry on and so he could give her comfort. Jaune didn't know how long they held each other but apparently it was long enough for Blake to cry herself to sleep. These things took their toll on people in different ways and unlike what happened with cinder, Blake seemed more fragile and in need of him.
Jaune brushed her hair away from her face before lifting her off the floor. Blake being as tired as she was didn't wake up even when jaune lifted her up in a bridal carry and moved her to his bed. He guessed sleeping on the floor would have to do but before he could go through with it he noticed Blake's fingers had a tight grip on his shirt almost like she was desperate to not let go.
Jaune knew he could have just slipped out of his shirt but what if not having him around was what brought back the nightmares? Could he be so thoughtless as to abandon his friend and partner in her time of need? Jaune didn't even need to think about it before slipping into the bed next to Blake. Sensing a closer heat source had Blake snuggling closer to his chest.
Hearing her steady breathing made jaune sleepy but he had resolved himself to stay by her side and watch over her so she could sleep. The night that day was long but after everything that had happened to them, to her, jaune did as he swore and made sure Blake had the rest she deserved.
This is most definitely my longest chapter but I felt I couldn't split this. On a side note I finally got a switch! I'd been waiting so long to get me that fire emblem three houses game. Dreams really do come true!