Chapter 5- The Vytal Incident
The Vytal Festival has finally come to Vale. After much anticipation, everyone in Remnant heads out to enjoy the festivities, especially Teams RWBY, SMG and JNPR who are just enjoying their time in the festival, forgetting their worries and just trying to enjoy themselves and the various festivities that were offered. Everyone in RWBY just enjoyed the festival, except Weiss. Weiss was participating in the tournament today and she needed more extensive training than before. She decided that help would be appropriate so she asked Ruby for help. Normally, Weiss would ask Yang or Blake for help on this, but her friendship with her leader forced her to ask Ruby instead. They began their training a while ago and just continued on for about thirty minutes. Blake and Yang watched from over the audience stands, pondering over why Ruby was chosen instead of them to train the heiress.
"Why Ruby? Why didn't she just ask us instead?" Yang asked Blake.
"No clue, but, umm…" Blake said, pondering over something.
"What?" Yang asked.
"What if you know, Weiss has-"
"No," Yang said, cutting her off, "Besides, it would feel weird for her."
"Right…" Blake said slowly.
Shortly, SMG came into the arena. Stephen held a lot of snacks on both of his hands while Gavin and Marco just trailed behind him.
"Seriously, you need that much food?" Blake pointed out.
"It's gonna be a long tournament, Blake and you know that." Stephen told her. Blake just shrugged as Stephen took a bite out of a hotdog.
"Wait a sec, is Weiss sparring with Ruby?" Gavin asked.
"She is. Normally, she would've asked either of you two." Marco said, pointing at Yang and Blake.
"I'm just as confused as you are guys." Blake said.
"What's confusing is that you're still wearing your bow, Blake." A voice from behind said. Blake turns to see her old friend and fellow Faunus, Sun Wukong. The same Sun Wukong who was the first person Blake opened up to and the person who helped her stop that Torchwick creep weeks ago.
"Sun! What're you doing here?" Blake said, surprised by his appearance.
"Just stopping by. Nice to see that you haven't changed." Sun said, taking his seat behind Blake's.
"Nice to see you haven't changed either, Sun. How're you doing?" Blake asked.
"Not much. Still running from the cops though, but things have been good." He replied. He noticed Stephen who was eyeing on him since he got here. "Who's he?" Sun asked Blake.
"Stephen Constantine. You?" Stephen replied.
"Sun Wukong, Blake's friend." Sun replied cheerily.
"And how exactly did you two meet?" Stephen asked suspiciously.
"He was the person I first opened up to when the guys realized I was a Faunus." Blake answered, "He also helped me stop that Torchwick guy I saw before working with the White Fang."
"Roman Torchwick?" Stephen asked.
"Yeah. You know him?" Sun asked, slowly setting his hand on his Gunchaku.
"Yeah. Ran into him a couple of times when I was back in Sphere. He hates me because I turned him in after he tried to rob a Dust shop a couple years back." Stephen answered.
"I see. Well, nice to meet you Stephen." Sun said, removing his hand from his Gunchaku.
"Same here." Stephen replied.
Sun nodded and watched Ruby and Weiss spar. Yang looked at him and noticed a small rectangular shape in his pocket.
"What's in the pocket?" Yang asked, pointing at it.
"Oh, it's nothing." Sun replied, "It's just some candy. Want some?"
"No thanks, candy makes me hyper too much." Yang said.
Sun sighed in relief, thinking that Yang would get too suspicious. He continued to watch the two partners spar. Weiss had Ruby in a lock and they let go, their blades bouncing off each other. Before they could make another move, the loud speakers boomed.
"Alright, folks," the announcer said, "the 135th Vytal Festival tournament will begin shortly. Will all those training in the arena please step out and report to the armory to get ready."
Weiss and Ruby panted. They've been training for over an hour now and they left a lot of shell casings and Dust scattered around the arena, something that the janitor nearby was not pleased about.
"Thanks, Ruby." Weiss said in between pants.
"Again, why'd you choose me? Why not sis or Blake?" Ruby asked.
"I have my reasons, but for now, let's just say you're the only person I haven't sparred with yet." Weiss explained briefly.
Ruby groaned as she sheathed Crescent Rose. Ever since they formed their truce, Weiss has been kinder towards Ruby and more helpful and acted like a bitch less. Ruby was happy for that, but Weiss' kindness just kept her pondering. Why was Weiss so kind to her now? She shrugged it off and left the arena and made her way to the crowding bleachers. Weiss took one last look at Ruby and slightly blushed. There was a reason that she's been so kind to Ruby lately and she doesn't want to tell anyone why, but to some, it was obvious. She sighed and entered the armory where her opponents were gathering in. Blake noticed her blushing and threw a fist pump.
"I knew it." She said while Yang and Sun just stared.
"Blake, what're you thinking about?" Yang asked suspiciously.
"What? I was just thinking, you know-" Blake said but was cut off again.
"I didn't know you have such a sick mind, Blake." Yang said and Sun slightly chuckled.
"It could happen. Besides, it's pretty obvious." Blake said.
"Alright," Yang said, throwing her hands up in the air as her eyes slightly turned red, "So we can take it into consideration that my baby sister will start holding hands with Weiss and start, you know-"
"You know what?" Ruby asked, interrupting Yang's statement.
"Oh, hey… sis!" Yang said awkwardly.
"What's going on?" Ruby asked, eyeing on her big sister.
"Well, umm… how do I put this?" Yang said, scratching her head awkwardly.
"We were just having a friendly argument with Sun." Blake replied, saving Yang from any more awkward statements.
"What?" Sun asked, "I wasn't-" Before he could continue, Yang and Blake elbow him. "Oh, yeah. We did." Sun replied with a nervous smile.
"This just became awkward." Gavin whispered to Stephen. He nodded and placed his attention back to the tournament. Ruby took her seat next to her sister and JNPR just arrived in time before the crowd continues to form.
"Why so late?" Ruby asked Jaune.
"We had a lot to do, mostly Nora." Jaune told her.
"She wanted to buy a lot of candy, but luckily, Ren stopped her before she could go into a sugar rush." Pyrrha explained.
Ruby nodded and placed her attention back to the tournament. Weiss and the other contestants came into the arena. Ruby saw Penny and waved to her. Penny saw her and waved back.
"Alright, in a few minutes, we will begin the tournament. So get ready to cheer for your team!" the announcer said.
...
At a balcony given to the staff of Beacon Academy, Ozpin and Glynda watch the tournament on their bird's eye view of the arena. Ozpin took a sip of his coffee in a thermos while Glynda looked at her watch. It was 1 o'clock in the afternoon and Qrow would be arriving soon. Glynda didn't seem to be slightly amused that Qrow would be coming over, but she knew this visit was for important matters and not just to see Ozpin or something.
"Are you sure it was wise to ask Qrow to come here?" Glynda asked Ozpin.
"Of course," Ozpin told her, "We're dealing something very important here and Qrow is the best person for this kind of problem. He'll show up, he always does."
"I doubt he'll show up." Glynda said.
"Ozpin's right Glynda, I always show up." A voice from behind said.
Ozpin and Glynda turn to see a man wearing a grey hood, a grey trench coat with the Rose family symbol to the right of his coat and below it was his own symbol, he wore cargo pants that he fitted with knee guard and he carried a scythe which was folded on his back. He also wore bandages on both his arms and under those bandages contain some serious scars.
"Ah, Qrow." Ozpin said as he stood up and quickly hugged the man and pulled away, "So good to see you again old friend."
"Same here." Qrow replied briefly.
"I was starting to doubt you'd show up." Glynda told him, unamused by his coming.
"Glynda, you doubt too much." Qrow told her. Glynda rolled her eyes and returned her attention back to the tournament. "So Oz, what's the plan?" Qrow asked.
"Don't call me that." Ozpin told him, slightly annoyed, "Now, first things first, your nieces must never know you're here."
"How come?" Qrow asked, sitting on the edge of the balcony.
"Because, they might interfere," Ozpin answered, "Besides, they already fought Tyrant King and won, but they were almost killed during the fight. This is for their own safety." Qrow nodded at his answer, "Furthermore," Ozpin continued, "Tyrant King has obviously revealed himself and I'm sure the other two will follow. We are to hunt them down immediately. You're here because you're the best scythe wielder that I know apart from your niece and you have the skills to actually put down an Ancient Grimm even though we couldn't kill them back then. Speaking of scythes, how's yours?"
"Rose Scissors has never seen much better action, Ozpin." Qrow said as he unfolded his scythe. It was a simple double bladed scythe but he outfitted it with jagged edges, a spear tip and a function that allows the weapon's blades to extend, form into a pair of seemingly giant scissors and cut anything in it's path, thus giving it the name Rose Scissors.
"That's great." Ozpin said, "Now, hunting the other two Ancient Grimms won't be easy so we should at least start hunting them at night, where they'll least expect anyone to come."
"And what if the students get suspicious that we're not here?" Glynda challenged. Qrow and Ozpin exchanged a glance and looked back at Glynda. She sighed, "You two," Glynda said, pointing to her two friends, "are to give what I told you some thought. If the students ask, make your own alibi. I'm not pulling you two out of this one."
The three of them returned their attention back to the tournament, waiting to see how Weiss, who is the representative for Beacon this year, will pull it off this year to win the tournament.
...
At the arena, the representatives of the tournament stood proud in front of the audience. Weiss stood proud in front of her friends and smiled. Weiss looked at the other contestants. They were from different places and schools, most of which she didn't know. She only knew Penny amongst the contestants and that made her nervous for the upcoming fight. Weiss looked over to where Team RWBY was sitting and saw them cheering for her.
"Go Weiss!" Yang cheered, fist in the air.
"Fight well!" Blake cheered, waving a little flag that said "RWBY".
"Yeah! Represent teaaaam RWBY!" Ruby cheered. The three girls suddenly looked awkwardly at each other. "Whoa, Déjà vu huh?" Ruby said, realizing what she and her teammates just did.
"You can do it, Weiss!" Stephen cheered.
"Show them whose boss, Weiss!" Gavin yelled out.
"Kick their asses!" Marco yelled out.
Weiss looked over to her cheering friends and smiled. She could never have asked for better friends and she actually had someone to look out for during her time in Beacon. Thank you, guys, Weiss thought, Ruby, Blake, Yang, thank you, especially you, Ruby.
"Alright," the announcer said, everyone turned to a giant screen were the announcer was on, "the contestants have taken the oath to keep this tournament fun and fair and so, in the name of decency, let the tournament begin!" Everyone in the crowd cheered as fireworks were shot into the sky. "The first pairing has already been decided. The first match will be Beacon representative, Weiss Schnee, versus Sphere representative, Ryan Rhinocross."
"Oh, boy." Stephen said, leaning back as he heard Ryan's name. It was almost like he knew him.
"What is it?" Yang asked.
"Weiss is screwed." Stephen answered simply. His teammates nodded at what he said.
"What's your problem?" Ruby asked angrily, "I trained her for damn near an hour! Why do you have to be so pessimistic about this match?"
"Don't get me wrong, Ruby." Stephen explained, "But Weiss is up against the Guardian."
"Ryan has reputation back in Sphere as the Guardian or the Sentinel." Gavin explained, "Apart from his bulky and strong attacks, Ryan's armor has saved most of the students in Sphere in several occasions. He once defended me from a Nevermore's feather barrage."
"He saved me from an explosion in Sphere's laboratory." Marco added.
"And he saved me from a Dust crystal's explosion when I was testing out Vorpal." Stephen added.
Ruby, Yang and Blake gulped at the thought of it. Dust resistant and explosive resistant is the armor that Ryan fellow is wearing and the thought of that made them nervous. How'll Weiss deal with an opponent who's resistant to Dust, the one thing Weiss focused on in her combat style?
"I'm sure she'll be able pull through. Weiss is a tough nut to crack, you know." Ruby said, her faith in her partner stronger than before.
"Alright, we have a very important announcement before we start this match." The announcer told them. Some of the people began to wonder about this and began talking and whispering. Sun placed his hand on the pocket with candy and began to sweat. How the fuck did they find me? Sun thought. Blake looked at him curiously and wondered what's going on with him.
"Here's the announcement." The announcer said. He pressed a button and the screen began to flicker and switch to the image of a darkened person. No one could identify him because his face was darkened making him look like a silhouette, but Blake recognized him as the White Fang's new leader.
"Hello, maggots." The leader said in a menacing tone, "It seems that I've forgotten to introduce myself. For now, just call me the leader and I have something very important to tell you. But, just to make sure you won't escape."
He snapped his fingers and several White Fang troops stood up from around the audience and pointed their rifles at them. One tried to escape but was quickly cut off and killed by one of the troops. Everyone began to panic, but RWBY, JNPR and SMG kept calm and continued to look angrily at the leader.
"I'll cut to the chase." The leader said, "Last night, some…valuable information was stolen from us and we've tracked his or her signal here to this arena. If whoever stole our data refuses to comply, we will kill the contestants as well as the audience. You have sixty seconds to comply."
Everyone began to panic again and look around for the thief. Sun began to breathe heavily as he sweat. Yang thought for some moment and realized what the leader was talking about. She looked at Sun and the "candy" in his pocket.
"That candy," Yang said, "isn't that-"
"Shhh!" Sun said, cutting Yang off.
"You did it, didn't you?" Blake said angrily.
"Okay, I did it." Sun admitted.
"Why?" Blake asked, getting more furious.
"You were a White Fang member, right?" Sun asked, shifting the topic.
"You know I was." Blake said furiously.
"Well, the data I stole was your file on the White Fang database." Sun explained, "I heard them that they were gonna use your file for something big, but I don't know what it was. Anyways, I snuck in, stole the data and left. So, simply saying, I foiled their plan to use your data for whatever it was they were planning and you no longer exist as a White Fang member."
"Really?" Blake said, happy about the risky deed Sun did in order to save her from a life of crime. If people raided their installation and found her file, they would've hunted her down and arrested her. Now that the deed was done, she move on with her life freely and not worry about that getting under her skin.
"Time's up!" the leader told them. The crowd began to panic as the White Fang soldiers continued to take aim at them.
"Adam," the leader said. Blake's skin grew cold on when the leader mentioned her former partner's name. From the contestants, one of them wore a black hood which he quickly took off and revealed himself to be Adam Taurus.
"Yes, sir?" he asked, turning to the screen.
"Make sure you kill all of them until you find it." The leader ordered.
"Yes, sir." Adam replied, drawing Wilt from Blush.
Adam rushes towards the frightened audience, but a glyph shield stood in his path and ran into it.
"Back off, bitch." Weiss said, her weapon raised. The leader spots her and gives off a grin.
"Well, well," the leader said, "Ms. Schnee, so good to see you."
"Shut up! I won't let you hurt these people!" Weiss yelled.
"It seems that an old enemy has returned," the leader said then turned to Adam, "Adam, dispose of her immediately."
"With pleasure, sir." He said. He then rushes forward to the heiress; Weiss' weapon was ready for the attack.
"Wait!" Sun said, standing up and putting himself into view of everyone in the audience. Adam turned away from the heiress and placed his attention on Sun. "It's me you want, not her!" Sun said, holding out the hard disk that contained the White Fang's info on Blake.
"Looks like some Faunus will never learn. Troops, kill him." The leader ordered.
"But," Sun said, his expression changed to his mischievous look, "if you want it, you gotta catch me first."
He then runs towards the wall, White Fang troops shooting at him, but he dodges every shot and jumps over the wall and lands safely outside the arena.
"Ha ha, so long suckers!" Sun yelled out to the White fang troops inside before he took off.
"Don't let him escape with that disk!" Adam ordered his troops. All the White Fang soldiers rushed out the entrance and Adam followed them afterwards. Hmm… Adam thought, if the heiress was there, that means Blake should've been nearby.
...
Back at the arena, the White Fang's leader's image has disappeared, but the audience still continues to panic. RWBY, SMG and JNPR stay calm and look over to the entrance.
"Should we go after him?" Ruby asked.
"We have to. He's my friend and I'm not gonna see him suffer." Blake said.
"Let's go then!" Stephen said.
"Let's go save a Faunus!" Nora said cheerfully.
They stood up and ran towards the exit. Ruby looked back and saw that the audience was still in panic. Maybe stopping that White Fang creep could bring the calm atmosphere back.
"Hey, wait up!" a voice from behind said. The guys see Weiss running up to them and looked surprised.
"Weiss, what're you doing here?" Ruby asked, surprised to see her partner, "Don't you have a tournament to compete in?"
"The official postponed the match until they've settled everything." Weiss briefly explained, "Besides, I have a score to settle with the White Fang for ruining my childhood."
They nod and dashed off, except Yang who hops on Bumblebee and revs it up. Ruby looks back at her sister and pouts. Yang sees her pouting and hands her a spare helmet.
"You want a ride, sis?" she asked.
Ruby smiles and nods. She put on the helmet and Yang revs up the engine again and drove off, leaving her team, SMG and JNPR to just run.
...
Sun continues to avoid every shot the White Fang soldiers are throwing at him. Adam took the lead and fired Blush at him. He simply moved to the right as he watched the bullet miss him directly.
"Give back the disk, monkey boy!" Adam yelled, taking aim again.
"Fat chance, bull head!" Sun yelled back.
Adam glares back at Sun and rushes towards him, unsheathing Wilt from Blush. He landed a strike, but Sun dodges and brings out his Gunchaku in staff form. He strikes Adam on the chest and fires off a round from the weapon. Adam moves out of the bullets way and the shot killed one of Adam's troops behind him. Adam tries again, but Sun parries it this time. The other troops fire at him and Sun continues to parry their attacks until Adam blocks Sun's attack.
"Give back Blake's data!" Adam yelled, striking Sun again.
"You'll have to pry it from my cold, dead hands!" Sun yelled back, blocking Adam's strike.
"That can be arranged." Adam said as he pulled out Blush and took a shot, but Sun parries it with his staff.
Sun collapsed the staff and it turned into two nunchuks. He made some strikes while running, but Adam counters them with strikes from Wilt. He throws another strike with Wilt, but Sun fires with his nunchuks causing Adam's sword to repulse. Sun fires off a shot, but Adam counters by striking Wilt before the shot could be fired off. Sun's weapon fires and hits one of Adam's troops in the chest. Sun hits Adam in the chest and takes off, leaving Adam to get up. Adam got up and looked around. Sun was no longer in his sights and that he just killed two of his troops. Before he could go after him again, he heard the faint sound of an approaching engine.
"Someone's coming." Adam said to his troops, "Kill them."
The soldiers nod and go off in the opposite direction while Adam continues to chase after Sun. Sun had already gotten a fair distance away from Adam and he felt exhausted. He looked around and knew he can't escape Adam if he just continued running. He then spotted a tall building to his left and smiled.
"He he, parkour time!" Sun said as he ran towards the building and enters it. Adam sees him go into the building and follows suit.
The three teams were still giving chase to Adam and Sun until their path was stopped by the White Fang soldiers. That didn't stop them and they just kept going. Ruby brought out Crescent Rose in rifle form and fired at some of the troops, caving their chests. Weiss used Myrtenaster's Dust abilities to burn, freeze, shock and slice every White Fang troop that rushed to her. Blake threw Gambol Shroud at a soldier which hit the troop in the head, allowing her to toss the body over at the other troops. Yang continued to drive Bumblebee as she punched a couple of White Fang troops in front of her with Ember Celica, running over one of them as well in the process.
Jaune strikes a soldier with his sword and knocked one out with shield before stabbing him in the chest. One soldier shot at him, but he blocked with his shield and Pyrrha helped Jaune by finishing off the guard, jabbing her spear into the soldier's head. Nora blew off majority of the guards with her grenade launcher and crushed the remainder with her hammer. Ren fired his StormFlowers at the guards in front of him, killing them with every head shot.
Stephen launched Crusher's spikes which automatically made their way to the chest of some of the soldiers and electrocuted them. Marco just rained lead on the troops with Edge Shadow's minigun form and burning some of them at the same time. Gavin shot a ray of lightning from Bakunawa and then embedded his trident in their chest and killed one with a shot from his rifle. As the last troop fell, the three looked back at the bodies that piled up. They sighed and turned to each other.
"Well, that was fun, right?" Yang asked. They gave some nods and slight laughs.
"Alright, let's find Sun." Ruby said, "Blake, can you do it?"
Blake nodded and she closed her eyes and sniffed the air around her. Ruby knew Blake's abilities as a Faunus very well ever since they figured out her true identity a week ago. Blake wasn't really happy opening up to Ruby about her abilities or about her Faunus heritage but her leader's innocence just forced her to tell them. She didn't seem happy at first when she told Ruby about her abilities, but after sometime, it helped her team in a lot of ways and that she was proud of. Blake opened her eyes and looked at Ruby.
"Found them." She told them and pointed to the top of a building and saw Sun jump to the next building and Adam trailing him after.
They take off and follow the two Faunus to the next building.
...
Sun stood exhausted on the top of the fifth building he just jumped to. He already jumped over five buildings and used up most of his energy to just to get to each building. He looked over to the next building and saw it was just a short distance away from the building he was on, but he still won't be able to make the jump due to his energy loss. Adam arrived at the building Sun was on and wasted no time to immediately draw Wilt from Blush.
"I have him cornered. Send the reinforcements." Adam said on an earpiece.
Suddenly, two Bullheads rise from below the building and drop off several White Fang soldiers as well as Adam's two bodyguards. All of them pointed their rifles at Adam while the bodyguards drew their swords.
"There's nowhere to run, monkey." Adam told him, "Now, give me the disk!"
"Alright," Sun said, holding up the hard disk from his pocket and stood up to the edge of the building.
Adam slowly moved towards the monkey Faunus, his hand slowly reached for the hard disk containing the White Fang's data on Blake. But, before he could grab it, Sun dropped the hard disk off the building and it shattered into a dozen pieces on the ground. Adam tried to reach for the disk but it was already destroyed by the time he reached the edge. He angrily grabbed Sun by the throat and began to choke him.
"Did you realize what you just did?!" Adam angrily asked the monkey Faunus.
"I…just…Blake's…life." He said in between breaths. Adam continued choking him and Sun kept a smug look on his face.
"Blake betrayed the White Fang and we were planning to use her data to make those pathetic humans believe she's a bigger Faunus criminal than the White Fang! And now you just ruined that chance!" Adam told him.
"So…that's…what you idiots…were planning." Sun managed.
Adam growled at Sun and rose up Wilt, ready to kill him. Suddenly, an explosion gets both Faunus' attention and they look back to see Gavin spraying a ray of lightning at one of the Bullheads and Yang bombarding the second one with shots from her weapon. Ruby, Blake, Weiss, JNPR and SMG appear, their weapons ready. Blake dashes forward, killing some of the troops in her way while the rest dealt with the three teams.
"Let him go, Adam!" Blake told him as she raised up Gambol Shroud.
Adam drops Sun and lowers Wilt. "Blake, you don't understand." He told her calmly.
"What was that hard disk for?" she asked angrily.
"Blake, dear-"
"Don't call me dear!" she yelled, irritated by her former partner's words.
"Blake," Adam said, clearing his throat, "the disk was for-"
"They were gonna convince the humans that you were a bigger Faunus criminal than the White Fang!" Sun told her as he struggled to get up.
"What?!" Blake asked angrily at her former partner, "You were going to mark me as a criminal?!"
"Don't listen to him!" Adam said.
"Blake, who're you really gonna listen to?" Sun asked.
"Blake, you know me, I'll never hurt you." Adam said.
"He's lying! Believe what I told you!" Sun contradicted.
"SHUT UP!" Blake shouted, silencing the two Faunus she so trusted clearly.
Blake couldn't think straight, her brain began to ache over the tension she placed herself in as well as the statements from Adam and Sun. She's been a friend to both of those Faunus for a long time and it became hard for her to trust one them, especially when one of them was at the other side of the argument. Blake had to make a choice; should she trust her former partner, the person who treated her like a brother and looked after her with his love or the person whom Blake first opened up to and the person who was able to understand the situation she was in. She snapped back to reality and after much thought, she knew what to do. She looked at her former partner and unsheathes Gambol Shroud.
"I'm sorry, Adam…" Blake said, shedding a tear.
Blake lunges forward and attacks Adam. She used both her sword and sheathe to strike her former partner. Adam tried to parry her attacks but they were too quick and too difficult to parry. Blake lands a blow on his chin and he stumbles back.
"How could you?" Adam asked sadly.
"How could I?" Blake asked angrily, "I left the White Fang because I didn't want to dedicate my life to killing innocent people! You tried to mark me as a criminal and you're asking me how could I!"
She attacks him again, but this time, Adam just danced out of her attack, the blade nearly touching his toe. She attacks again, but got her blade locked with Adam's.
"No, it's not that!" Adam yelled, breaking from the lock, "I mean how could you do this to me? We could've done so much more as a pair. You were like a sister to me, but there was more I could've wanted to do with you." He walked over to Blake and took of his mask, revealing his amber eyes, "I developed feelings for you, Blake. Please return them back to me." He told her.
"I-I can't, you seemed more dedicated to your job than me…" Blake said sadly, "I felt the same, but what you've become has caused me to forget about them."
"Then, let me make it up to you." Adam said, holding Blake's hand, but she quickly backs away.
"I'm sorry Adam, but no." Blake said and in an instant, Adam's heart shattered, "Adam, I care for you, I really do," Blake continued, "but I have a team now and I have to look after them. I'm sorry…"
"Very well then." Adam said, his tone changing.
He shot Blake at her midriff, throwing her to the ground. Her aura manages to absorb the damage, but she received some damage. Adam stood on top of Blake, ready strike her down and kill her. She looked at his eyes, they were filled with rage. She knew she broke his heart by just saying no and now Adam was bent on killing her.
"Adam…" she said slowly, a tear running down her cheek, "Please don't…"
Adam didn't respond, he was more bent on killing Blake and he will do so until all of his anger has been taken out of him. He strikes as Blake closed her eyes. She was ready to die in the hands of her former partner. She still couldn't believe that the person she worked with and loved was about to kill her and now, all she could do was waiting for the sword to make contact with her body and it'll all be over, but that's what she gets for betraying the White Fang and him.
Suddenly, out of the blue, Sun stops the sword from touching Blake while Stephen's foot collides with Adam's face. Blake opens her eyes and sees her two saviors attacking Adam. Sun and Stephen ready stood ready in front of Adam, who was trying to get himself together after the hit Stephen gave him.
"Leave her alone." Sun told him, raising up his Gunchaku.
"What he said." Stephen added in, cocking Vorpal.
Adam looks behind the two and sees that his bodyguards as well as his other troops were still fighting Ruby, Weiss, Yang, JNPR and the remainder of SMG.
"Two versus one, huh? Not bad." Adam commented.
He attacks with both Wilt and Blush, but the two parried his attack. Sun fires with one of his nunchuks, countering the shot from Blush. Stephen assisted Sun by firing Vorpal along with Sun's weapon, causing Adam to stumble. Stephen swings around Crusher, but Adam parries with Wilt, leaving himself exposed to attack for Sun to hit him on the side with his staff. Adam fires Blush again only for Stephen to block it and Sun to strike his head. Meanwhile, Ruby helps Blake up after dealing with one of Adam's bodyguards. The two look at the battle at hand with Adam, Sun and Stephen.
"We have to stop him!" Ruby said. She aimed Crescent Rose at Adam, but Blake stopped her.
"We can't kill him." Blake told her.
"Why? Don't tell me you still care for him?" Ruby asked, baffled by Blake's previous statement.
"I-I think I still do." She replied.
"Well..." Ruby thought, "How about a just one hit? That way, you could stop him and he won't get hurt"
"Alright," Blake said. She took aim with Gambol Shroud and threw it at Adam. The attack wasn't meant to kill him, but only to just give him a hit so Stephen and Sun can finish him off. As Marco knocks out the last White fang soldier he was dealing with, he noticed Blake's attack and saw that she wasn't aiming at anything vital. Marco raised his hand and suddenly, Gambol Shroud lowered and was heading straight to Adam's chest. Blake noticed the change in trajectory and tried to pull back Gambol Shroud, but it was too late. The blade pierced through Adam's chest. Sun and Stephen backed away as Blake came over and removed her weapon from her former partner's chest. Marco grinned at what he did, but Gavin slapped him hard behind the head.
"What the fuck did you do?!" Gavin asked angrily.
"What do you mean?" Marco replied back, "I just helped Blake kill that White Fang Faunus!"
"Did you realize that that Faunus was her former partner," Gavin explained, "And that she didn't want to kill him!"
"Oh, shit" Marco cursed. He just helped kill someone he wasn't supposed to kill and now, he's lying on Blake's arms. Marco decided not to tell her otherwise, she'll kill him.
Blake's eyes watered as she held her dying lover in her arms. Adam was breathing heavily and Blake just tried to keep him alive. Adam's death was close, but Blake was trying to keep him alive. She didn't want to lose her former partner, but it was too late for that. Adam, Blake thought, please don't die.
End of Chapter 5
a/n: Yeah, early update, as in super early update! I'm actually happy that this chapter turned out well (even though I just killed Adam) and I actually made it longer for once, so I'm just happy and satisfied at the same time. Anyways, reviews and questions are appreciated, and as always, no spam.