[X] Miltia had fallen out of contact after going off to talk to someone. Yang should make sure to find her.
-[X] She's probably in the building. Since someone wanted to talk, Yang should think of where someone might have taken her for a private conversation.
She had to find Miltia.
The mission was going to succeed. Otoko was heading for Four, if the information was right, which means that they'd be able to stop the Dust dealer from selling to the White Fang. Which was...
A minor possibility, true. But Four was smart enough to throw together a plan to make captures as well, after meeting with Otoko. She'd be able to capture a White Fang member easily enough, get to the lieutenant and work on figuring out why the White Fang wanted the Dust so much.
In the meantime, Miltia had dropped out of contact. After she'd bumped into who was the prime suspect of being a White Fang member, who was about to go into a fight with someone who was on the list for people with the biggest bets on them.
Was it possible that one of the White Fang members had taken Miltia aside and was doing something to her, right now?
Yang couldn't risk it. She refused to risk it. She'd gotten Miltia involved in this by going to Junior for help, she couldn't just let something bad happen to Miltia because of it.
Miltia was a friend, and Yang has done letting people close to her be hurt. Not just Ruby, she can't let anyone she cared about get hurt, if she could do anything abou-
No.
She could do something about it, no matter what it was. She was going to protect people, and not let anything stop her.
So she had to find Miltia. The question there was, where would she end up being?
...Well, for starters, there wasn't much time between Miltia leaving and now, so she had to be nearby. And the building did have some security to it, some cameras here and there, so if the person in question was trying something, then it'd be somewhere not being watched.
The building in question was a gambling centre. So, where would Yang be able to find an area that wasn't being monitored nearby? What wouldn't the gambling centre have put security cameras in?
...Bathrooms, Yang mused. There was too many privacy reasons behind putting security cameras in a bathroom, and there'd have to be one every few floors, so if there was one around here...
Yang wandered away from the stairs, momentarily looking back to confirm that nobody was going down it, and looked around a bit. If there was a bathroom on this floor, there'd be a sign somewhere pointing it out. Yang wandered around a corner, looking around in the process.
Bingo, there it was.
Turning to the stairs again, Yang confirmed that there was nobody she could see, and started heading towards the door leading to the bathroom. She made sure Ember Celica was loaded in the process, and went to push the door open.
It moved a fraction of an inch, before it got stuck against something. Yang jiggered around with the door for a moment, confirming it was stuck, and just to make sure, tried pulling the door open before confirming it was stuck.
Then she fired, blasting the door off of its hinges. It moved back slightly as it cracked open, but otherwise held in place. Pulling her fingers into the crack, Yang pried at the door, ripping it open and revealing a shadowy web behind it.
"Am I interrupting something?" Yang asked, as she looked at the blatant sign of Haseltii's Semblance.
There was a moment of silence, before the shadowy web disappeared, and a black spider limb shot out the door, slamming into Yang's stomach. It suddenly retracted, and Yang looked down to see the web appear where the limb had struck, before she was pulled inside and ended up slamming into a wall.
The shadow limb shot at Yang's face as she looked up, and she reached out to grab it before it reached her. As she put her hands around it, the shadow limb disappeared, leaving a shadow web behind that stuck Yang's hands together.
Ember Celica fired, jolting Yang's hands away enough that the web ripped apart, and she took a moment to evaluate the situation.
The room was covered in webs. It was nearly impossible to see through the room with how many webs there were. A few faded out of focus, but then faded back in, repeating constantly in what was probably an attempt to keep Yang guessing on what the safe moves were.
Well, that was hardly important. Punching her fists together, Yang let her Aura flare up explosively, burning away at the shadows around her. The closest ones were disrupted by the force, ripping apart before vanishing, clearing the room enough for Yang to look around.
In the centre of the bathroom, standing by a mirror, was Haseltii. The woman looked back at Yang in annoyance, the four shadow limbs on her back visible as three of them dashed around the room, making more web connections.
The fourth was over by a set of closed toilet stalls, where Miltia was resting against a door. Her figure seemed unfocused, and a collection of black webbing covered the lower half of her face. She saw Yang, and gave a muffled, barely audible noise, before the fourth limb struck her back. Miltia flipped around as the leg moved to the roof, pulling her upwards before Miltia's bladed heel cut down the connection.
"I don't suppose I can have a little context here?" Yang asked. "I mean, besides Haseltii probably being a member of the White Fang."
Haseltii glared at Yang. "You shut your mouth, or-"
All four limbs suddenly shot at Yang, as most of the shadow webs disappeared except for the ones around Miltia, and Yang ducked down as the four spider-like legs tried to converge on her mouth. Yang briefly realised she'd left her jacket behind and that she could have used it to pull over her mouth as an extra layer of protection, but well, mistakes were made.
Still, she had ideas.
Rolling away from the four limbs, Yang fired at them and watched them shrink rapidly before anything could hit them. Some webs darkened in front of her as she ran, tripping up her right leg, and Yang let her Semblance flare up again to burn it off.
"Can we talk at least?" Yang asked. "We could just talk this out."
"There's nothing to talk about." Haseltii responded. "You humans don't know how lucky you have things."
"Spare me the spiel." Yang asked, as she ducked under another shadow spider leg, as Miltia cut her way out of the shadow web around her.
"Spiel?" Haseltii asked. "Is that all this is to you?"
Yang shrugged. "I'm not the terrorist here."
Haseltii asked. "Is that all it is to you? Good and Evil, with the ones taking action being in the wrong? Is the status quo something that is all powerful, here?"
Yang felt one of the shadow legs stab into her arm, making her grit her teeth as her Aura took a hit, before she was slammed into the roof. A bunch of shadow webs quickly came into formation as Yang shut upwards through them, wrapping her up a bit and requiring her to blast her Aura again in order to properly break out of the restraint.
As she hit the ground, Haseltii continued.
"There's no point talking to you." She stated. "You wouldn't understand. You couldn't possibly comprehend our problems-"
"What problems?" Yang snarled. "What, you're discriminated against? People hate Faunus? Look down on your kind? I don't think this is helping!"
"Exactly what I mean." Haseltii sighed. "You know a lot less than you think you do."
"Funny." Yang snapped. "That's what happens when you don't talk!"
"Fine, then." Haseltii decided. "You want to talk? Why don't we start with you telling me how your friend over there knew about the deal in advance?"
Haseltii pointed towards where Miltia was, and realised a moment too late that Miltia had cut herself free. A bladed heel cut through Haseltii's Aura in her arm, and Haseltii cried out, the webs shimmering and weakening as the four spider limbs on her back retreated into close range.
"You're not the one who gets to ask question." Yang noted, as she ran at Haseltii and punched her in the stomach. Haseltii stumbled, before grabbing Yang's arm. A connection took form between Yang's arm and Miltia's bladed heel, pulling one into the other, and Yang stifled a cry of pain as the blade pierced into her Aura.
"I'm not?" Haseltii asked. "Perhaps. we'll see if you change your tune soon enough."
The four shadow limbs shot towards Miltia, restraining her for a second, while Haseltii leaned over Yang and barred her teeth as she approached the younger girl's neck.
The fang penetrated Yang's Aura, and she felt a brief feeling of numbness, before there was suddenly pain
It was like her blood was on fire and was burning up her insides, slowly spreading through her system, down her neck and through her shoulders and arm. Her chest tightened, and Yang felt her lungs forcibly expel all air. She breathed in, and started coughing as her lungs felt like they were burning up.
"Do you want to try talking?" Haseltii asked, as she moved a hand over Miltia's mouth, dismissing the webs over them. Miltia took in a gaspy breath, and Haseltii waited for a moment before pushing the issue.
"Who told you?" Haseltii asked. "Is there a traitor? How much do they know?"
Miltia spat at her, and Haseltii blocked the spit with one of her spider leg things.
"Not the answer I was looking for." Haseltii replied, before stepping in and biting Miltia's neck. The other teenager cried out for a moment before biting her tongue, and Haseltii picked Yang up by her neck.
"Can you still here me?" Haseltii asked, holding up left arm in a fist. "How many fingers am I holding up?"
Yang took a painful breath, trying to ignore the pain coursing through her veins.
"Not..." Yang groaned out, before slamming her head forward and hitting Haseltii in the nose. She stumbled back a step, and Yang closed her eyes to concentrate before letting her Aura explode outwards, forcing Haseltii to let her go.
Yang took a step forward and punched Haseltii again, letting off an explosive round of Ember Celica in the process, and knocked the spider Faunus back into Miltia.
The other girl, trying to concentrate, forced her leg out of the webbing, and slammed the bladed heel into Haseltii's neck.
There was a shattering sound, and Haseltii's Aura broke. All those remnants of her Semblance, the webs and the spider legs, vanished.
"...Damn." Haseltii swore.
"You done?" Yang asked. "You can't fight like this."
Haseltii laughed. "Oh, I don't need to."
She lunged at Yang, her teeth bared and ready to bite down again. Miltia reacted before Yang could, jamming the bladed heel into Haseltii's side, and making her stumble. Blood dripped from her side.
Yang shook her head to clear it, trying to force herself to concentrate on the important things. The poison was still in her, making her suffer,it felt like she was burning up-
Ignore it.
Yang stepped forward and punched Haseltii again. She groaned, as she looked up at Yang, and pulled Milti'a bladed heel out of her side.
Yang's hand reached around Haseltii's neck, and pushed her into the wall. Haseltii struggled, and the exertion of holding Haseltii in place caused Yang's muscles to scream, so much pain burning through them.
"How..." She groaned. "Fucking hurts. How do I make it..."
She groaned again, as her lungs started restricting on her again.
"It'll fade with time." Haseltii replied. "Maybe. Who knows?"
Yang punched her, and Haseltii cried out, before turning back at Yang with a bloodied nose.
"Start co-operating." Yang groaned. "You've lost. Otoko's with a friend of mine, we have more people than you, and since you're White Fang, that means our suspicions have been confirmed. We know who the rest of your team are. You're finished. So I'd suggest you start co-operating."
Haseltii laughed. "Co-operate? Why bother? This victory... Didn't buy you anything."
Yang slammed her back, into the wall. "What does that mean? Give me an answer, damn it!"
With a bit of a chuckle, Haseltii trailed off and went silent.
Unconscious. Damn it, Yang must've hit her too hard.
Dropping the Faunus, Yang clutched at her chest as the pain struck through her again.
Ugh. It was getting worse. For now, not by much, but if it gets much worse...
Looking up, Yang saw Miltia struggling to her feet. "Are we done here?"
Yang took a moment to nod. "Yeah. Done. With her, at least."
[X] ...And done for the night. She hadn't taken too much damage, but was in a lot of pain right now. Stay here and wait for Four.
[X] ...Four might appreciate some back-up, just in case. Miltia could watch Haseltii, Yang should make sure everything was fine for everyone.