Chapter 5: Blake Belladonna

A RWBY Fanfic

The fanus of Remnant where a looked down upon race and it wasn't right. So were the thoughts of the Belladonna Family. This was so much the thought that the head of the family Ghira started an organization called the White Fang, for the purpose of helping fanus to gain the equality the so rightly deserved. And one of the prominent people within the Fang was none other than Ghira's own daughter, Blake.

Blake grew up hearing all the fairy tales that every child ever heard. Many of her favorite stories were about how the hunters and huntresses helped ALL of Remnant's people, including the fanus. These stories also had all the races living in peace and harmony, not at all like the real world. As she grew she realized that what her family was trying to do was based on what was real and not based on fairy tales. So she too worked from her earliest recollections to help bring equality.

Blake being very impressionable thought that somehow she and the others were going to make the world the place that was in the fairy tales. But what she didn't realize was that there was a shift in the beliefs of the Fang. Her family tried to explain what the changes were to her when they left the organization, but she felt that they were giving up.

"I don't understand dad," she asked. "If you believe that we are equal to the rest of the races on Remnant. Why would you leave?"

"Blake, please understand," he started calmly and slightly dejected, "There are those that want to change how we should do that. Ways that I cannot stand behind."

"But what are they doing? They want us to push back just a little." Blake was trying to understand.

"What they want is to cause violence to make the other races fear us." Ghira continued, "They want to make others respect us out of fear."

"But, there is nothing wrong with them fearing us a little," Blake tried to explain her view of the change. "Fear will make them respect us and force them to respect the fanus as the same as them!"

"I'm afraid it won't, honey." Ghira felt down hearted because he knew that he was not getting anywhere with Blake. But, he had to let her know the reason he and her mother were leaving. "All fear will do is bring distrust and more hatred. It gives those who want to hate more reason to do so. We will never be able to achieve equality through violence. And because of this change your mother and I have stepped down and are leaving."

"Then you don't believe in the cause anymore!" She yelled at her father as she got up. "You cannot do what is needed! You're cowards!" She stormed out of the room and ran away from the house and went to the Fang's headquarters.

As she left her parents behind she remembered all the stories she had heard them tell her. The stories were wrong there was no happily ever after. Kindness and love would never overturn hate. Hunters and huntresses couldn't achieve peace over violence. Then she came to a conclusion that she missed before. They had to have used violence if they did overcome the Grimm and brought about peace. So she came to peace with the idea that what she was doing was the right way to move forward.

As time moved on Blake became friends with Adam Taurus. She learned from him that there was more to making violence work. You need to overcome the opposition meet force with force. Cause fear to take hold in them. Be willing to do whatever was needed to make someone fear you. This would be the way to get the races to respect the fanus, this is how the fanus would take their rightful place in the world.

Blake believed what he was teaching. She believed so much that she became one of his followers. He became a friend, a mentor and possibly she even had feelings for him. She followed faithfully as they raided dust trains and caused general disorder around the countries they were in.

As time went on and she continued to follow Adam, Blake noticed that their raids were getting bolder and bolder. Along with this boldness came more extreme kinds of violence. She was hearing stories of people being kidnapped, tortured and even killed. Adam was also changing and his ideas were also beginning to change. They were become harsher.

"Adam why are we doing these acts of such violence?" She asked inquisitively. She wanted Adam to explain the changes.

"Blake, we need to make humans fear us." He said with such hatred in his voice. "They must be made to realize that we are superior to them!"

"But our goal is to be equal to them. Not superior to them." She said surprise in her tone.

"We are superior though. We have all the traits they have. And we have our animal traits as well that makes us better. That makes us the superior race."

"But, that's not what we were originally trying to achieve."

"Things change over time dear Blake. And those that are not willing to do what is needed or are not going to follow….. Well they're traitors and will be dealt with accordingly!"

Blake began to realize that what her parents had told her were true. She had been a fool. She was taken advantage of because of her feelings and beliefs. Adam had become power hungry and deranged. He would just as soon as kill anyone, fanus or human, that would stand in the way of his achieving his goal. And his goal was the total domination of the world.

She decided that she had to leave. She could do hurtful things to nameless corporations and property. She could hurt other people that were trying to hurt her. BUT….she drew the line in hurting people that had nothing to do with anything. Hurting people just to bring notice to a cause was wrong. And then she started to remember the stories from her childhood. The hunters and the huntresses. They only used violence when it was necessary, and then it was only when they were protecting the innocent! She had been a fool! The stories were true after all! How could she have been so blind or forgotten all the basic truths that her parents had taught her through these stories.

One night she and Adam were going to raid a dust supply train. It was to be a simple raid, jump on the train steal the dust and damage any property that would be used in the dust mines. That was something Blake would have been able to do. But, Adam had other plans. They were going to take over the train. This meant killing the crew and destroying the entire train. Blake was horrified and decided that this was her chance to leave.

As they got on the train they ran into problems. Atlesian knight were on the train and activated as soon as they were detected. Blake and Adam fought their way out of that car only to run into the largest paladin styled robot protecting the train. They fought this one off as well, but Adam had to use his semblance to destroy it. While he was distracted with that Blake was able to get to the next car and slashed the coupling and disconnected the cars. By doing this she was able to keep the crew protected and alive. At least this would be a start for her redemption.

"Good bye Adam. We can get what we dream of another way. No more death or wanton destruction." She said with a tear coming to her eyes.

As she ran away from the White Fang she decided to find a way to ease her mind. She began to read. And read she did. She reread all the stories from her childhood and started to see that there could be a way to bring about the things that she and her parents had wanted.

She started to believe that there could be a happily ever after. She desired that happy ending to the stories. So she decided that she would follow the heroes of her stories and work to achieve what she wanted… Happily ever after!

A/N Thanks go out to Bomberguy789 for giving me a push with some ideas on how to approach this. Hope it is up to your standard and interest.

And thanks to everyone else (DeviCoro) for helping me keep up good spirits to keep going forward. PTSD and depression are the worst. So thanks again and I hope you like.