Chapter 4 - Resistance

Ezeckiel's POV

I was awoken by Silver rushing up in the middle of the night. Silver's wolf ears pointed up, and faced the door. I shuffled upward, looking at the door, attempting to listen to what was Silver was listening to. A couple muffled shouts we're what I heard, then a door burst open, with a collage of footsteps down the hallway. A voice shouted to wait, but It was apparently too late.

Silver glanced at Alice, then walked up to the door, still in his clothes.

I lifted myself up. "Where are you-" *SLAM* I sighed, because it's impossible to stop a wolf from resisting. Although, I was still tired, I can use for some sleep.

I slipped back into bed, hoping for Silver the best.

Silver's POV

Gotta follow Blake. Gotta follow Blake. Gotta follow Blake.

I traced her footsteps to the front court yard, where she stood in front of a statue. Suddenly, she stalled. She slowly lifted her hands up to her head, untying her bow. There, lied two perked up ears.

"I knew you'd look better without the bow!" A guy said from above. He jumped down from the tree from the right. It was the guy who was running, the faunus at the Vale festival.

Blake suddenly glanced at me, gasping in shock. She looked startled, probably because she couldn't hear me. "Uh…"

"W-Who are you?" The monkey faunus stepped forward.

"I uh… overheard your argument Blake." I admitted. Blake sighed in frustration.

"Eavesdropping? Really?" Blake spat, stepping forward in disgust.

I started to shake in fear, "A-actually… No." In a hurry, but slowly, I lifted my arctic hat up. Lifting my head up, the two were stunned. "I picked your argument up on an accident."

Blake calmed, but still cautious, she whispered into the faunus's ear.

"We're borrowing you for a couple nights." Blake said. "Tag along with us, you'll be interested."

"A-Alright." I hesitantly said, trailing them.

4:00 PM, On top of a Cafe.

The hours ticked on, small talk about life, what food we ate, and basic favorites. It twisted once Blake brought up the conversation I overheard in the dorm room a couple rooms down.

"D-Do you know the white fang?" Blake asked.

"Pfff, Of course every faunus know's about the white fang!" Sun, the monkey faunus, replied fashionably. He was using his tail as a tea-cup holder, casually sipping away.

"You, Silver?" Blake asked.

I nodded softly.

"They're a bunch of scumbags who use force to get whatever the hell they'd like. A bunch of freaks if you'd ask me." Sun commented, sipping away.

Blake took a sip, "I was once a part of the white fang."

"W-What?!" Sun spat out his tea while I jumped out of my seat.

Blake continued, "Well, You could almost say I was born into it." Sun and I looked at each other, then sat down slowly. "Back then, the white fang was a civil union between faunus and humans. Being promised with equality, the faunus were still subjected to discrimination and hate. Humans still thought of us as the lesser ones, so the white fang rose up as the voice of our people."

I nodded, letting Blake continue.

"Of course, being born into the white fang, I was there at every rally. I took part in every boycott, and of course, I thought we were all making a difference. In other people's eyes, I was a youthful optimist. Then, five years ago, our leader stepped down, and a new leader, with an aggressive personality, took his place. He had a different way of thinking, and because of that, we're now going to more civilized attacks. Anything that the humans discriminated, we objected from it, using violence. The worst part was, we were suddenly being treated like equals. The plan was working, not from respect, but from fear."

"I'm guessing you left because of that." Sun implied, sitting himself up.

"Exactly. Now, I'm dedicating myself to become a huntress." Blake stated, taking another sip. "Just a criminal hiding in plain view."

"All within, a black bow." I eye'd her bow. She started to twitch it, letting it shuffle around. "Wow."

A moment of silence went over us as we started to think deeply on who we were dealing with. We were dealing with the raw form of illegal, but yet, she took the right way and left.

"So, have you told your friends this?" Sun asked.

She bowed her head in for a long story. "Silver, I'm not good at one sided arguments. Tell the story from your perspective."

I took a deep inhale, "I was ready to go to sleep, when I was awoken by shuffling within the dorm room next door…"

6:00 PM, Streets of the Vale Festival

We trotted out of the Cafe, and Sun held himself up. "What's the plan now?"

"I still don't believe the white fang was behind all of these robberies." Blake implied. "They've never needed that much dust before."

"You're right, they just took the dust and left the money." I said. "I asked a nearby police officer of a robbery near by us."

"The one down the street, right?" Blake asked.

"Mmhmm." I nodded.

Sun stalled, "What if they did?" Blake and I looked at each other, noticing Sun's offset behavior. "I mean… The only way to prove that they didn't do it… Is to go to the place they'd most likely go to… If they were to do it… And not find them there! Right?"

"Sporadic explanation Sun…" I sighed.

Blake sighed too, "The only thing is, I have no idea where that would be."

"I heard a couple of the ship employees talking about a load of dust being shipped from Atlas."

"Y-You're sure?" Blake asked.

He nodded, and our plan carried onto the docks, where we watched as crates and boxes of dust stacked up all over the place.

9:00 PM, The docks. Past sunset, nightfall.

"If the white fang come, they'd sure thought they hit the jackpot." I sighed.

Sun jumped in, "Did i miss anything?"

"Not much, they've unloaded the crates, and now they're sitting there." Blake pointed out.

"Want some food?" Sun asked, offering a green apple.

"Do you always break the law?" Blake sighed.

"Hey- weren't you in a cult or something?" Sun replied. Blake gave a deep dark stare. "Too soon." He said, startled.

"I hear them."

Fwoshing noises came evident from the East. I turned around to find two beams of light shining downward on the docks. The aircraft landed slowly, and quickly, a back gate flung out, and one guard came out.

"Oh no…" Blake kneeled up. "That's… them."

"Didn't know?" I asked.

She sighed, "Deep down, I knew."

A voice came down from the ramp. "HEY! What's the hold up? Grab the toe cables and loot the crates!" A man who wore a tophat with orange hair arose from the aircraft. "Pick up the pace you animals, it's time to stop bickering."

"A human?" I looked towards Blake, who's eyes were wide as a cat.

"T-This isn't right. The white fang don't work with humans, especially not one like that." She unsheithed her sword, and went for the human.

"Oh shit…" I peaked down to see her jump, roll down, and dart for cover. She hid from a couple crates, listening into their conversation as she then bolted up with her sword, pasting it onto his throat. She removed her bow, and arose to make a speech.

"Brothers of the white fang! Why are you listening to this scum?" Blake glanced at the four of them.

"Don't you get the memo?" The tophat man asked. "We're going on a joint buisness trip together."

"We need to move." I told Sun. "There's another one coming in fast, and it didn't sound like the other one.

"Huh?" He asked.

From the west, a couple more aircrafts blew in with ease overtop of the scene, Suddenly, and explosion.

"Son of a bitch…" I cursed, dropping down from the warehouse. I hesitated on putting my two knives, eventually putting both into a reverse grip. Trotting right, Sun and Blake were going after the tophat man. Sun was caught up in a scuffle with some members, but pulled up a couple of nunchuck… shotguns?

He eventually fended them off, darting for the top-hat man. Blake broke in, claiming her territory, and broke into fight with the top-hat man. She was going all out, inverting in and out with illusions and twisting her blade to confuse the man, but it wasn't enough, as she was pounded with his cane. As soon as I was about to break in, Sun jumped into the mix, forcing me into hiding. Turning the corner, a couple members spotted me.

I darted outward to grab their attention towards the edge of the dock. One had a sword while the other one had a gun. The man with the sword charged in, but i dodged his bat-styled swing to trip him off the ledge. Following, I threw the knife into the other's head, but sadly, the handle hit his head, knocking him out. Grabbing the blades, I darted back for the scene in time. The man was fallen, aiming for the hanging crate from above.

"Oh no YOU DON'T!" The trigger pulled on his cane and the bullet flew mid-way. Aiming at a 10:00 angle, I flung the blade up, Slicing the bullet in half, exploding it mid air. My blade ended up into the crane, as their heads yanked towards me.

I was a far from them, so I was caught up in more people's mess. The man aimed for the crane again, and he shot. The crate fell, but the pair separated in time to dodge it. I unslotted my blade from the crate in time to see a scene play from the rooftops. "HEY!"

Our heads turned to see Ruby spin her scythe into the rooftop. She was tagged with a person, a neon green themed person.

"Oh hi red! Isn't past your bedtime?" The man asked.

She was distracted, discussing with her partner when the man fired a bullet into her chest, blasting her a few feet back.

"DAMN YOU!" I cursed.

The neon girl jumped down in a hurry, shattering everyone in her path with a dance of blades. We watched in awe as the girl tore threw the path of at least twenty. As she backed up, she spun her blades to charge herself up for a blow to a couple airships that were coming in. Distracted, we didn't see the tophat man fly into another aircraft.

"He's getting away!" I cried out. He shut the door with his cane, and the aircraft lifted. The place was suddenly met with silence, and Ruby, Neon girl, Sun, and Blake were met in place.

"Well… Hi." Ruby squeaked.

1:00 AM, Docks.

"I must head out for the day, my team will be worried about me for two days." I told the officers and police. "If you need anymore information we got from them, please call us." I trotted next to Blake, and tapped her on the shoulder. "Tell Weiss I'm a faunus too. Good luck with getting to terms to her."

She smirked for what seemed like the first time. "Thanks."

Bolting upward, I headed up the ladder towards the beacon academy, where I was met with a lot of hate.

CHVRCHES - High Enough To Carry You Over