A/N: I know it took me a while, but I made this chapter longer, as promised. This chapter has multiple parts because I feel like it, so get ready for some action.
Chapter 9: Capture - Part One
"Yang? Are you, are you alright?" Blake coughed the smoke out of her lungs. "Yang?"
"I- I think I'm ok." The tall blonde girl tried to pick herself up off the floor, but the blast had knocked her down hard, on top of that her leg was already immobile, disabling her temporarily back down.
"C'mon, we have to get out of here." The Faunus placed her best friend's arm over her shoulder and stood her up.
"What was that?"
"One of Adam's new toys."
"Do you think he's here for you?"
"Definitely, but to attack a hospital just to get to me..." Blake's voice trailed off. They were almost to the stairs when another rocket screeched towards them, exploding about a meter away. Once they picked themselves up again, the shorter girl kicked open the door to the stairwell, they were going to get down to the street, but the last explosion had knocked out three stories worth of steps. "What do we do?"
"Go up." Blake wanted to say that that was a terrible idea, but she couldn't think of anything better. He young huntresses' made their way up four flights of stairs to the roof, where the White Fang's new weaponized airship was waiting. "Shit."
A third blast sent both girls in opposite directions, Blake smacking hard into an air duct hatch, Yang was hit completely off the roof, she was barely holding on with one hand.
"Blake!" The blonde pulled herself up onto the tarred surface and crawled to her friend. "Get up! We'll jump to the next rooftop." No response. "Get up!" The Faunus was unconscious. "Blake, get on your fucking feet or we're toast!"
"R-run, get outta here."
"I'm not leaving you."
"They're here for me, if you go now, you'll make it out of this."
"Shut up! If I say you're coming with me, you're coming with me. Now let's get the hell off of this roof before that thing can load another rocket." The only problem with Yang's plan was that the airship didn't plan on shooting another rocket. The ship hovered right above the huntresses so four men could repel down and restrain the taller girl. "Let go of me you chickenshits!" The blonde struggled but she wasn't stronger than all four men holding her down together. Yang tried to activate her gauntlets, but the White Fang members handcuffed her high on the wrists, preventing the weapons from extending. The masked men each grabbed ahold of the cables and climbed back up to the airship, one of them holding yang tightly.
"No!" Blake cried. She so desperately wanted to get up and get her friend back but she couldn't move her body. No matter how hard she tried, her limbs refused to respond. "Bring her back! Bring her the hell back!" The explosion and impact on the metal vent had knocked her spine in such a way that she was paralyzed until the blood loss caused her to pass out.
Blake woke up in her bed at Beacon, she was screaming.
"Where is she?!" She sat up and reached for Gambol Shroud, but no such weapon was on her back.
"Blake, it's ok. You're safe." It was Ruby's voice.
"Where's Yang?"
"We were hoping you knew."
"Oh." Blake sighed. "The White Fang took her, I thought she might have gotten away."
"The White Fang has my sister?"
"I'm sorry Ruby, I couldn't stop them." Ruby's eyes began to tear up. "I'm so sorry."
"It- it isn't your fault." The redheaded girl began to cry, but all the Faunus felt was anger, partially at Adam and his terrorist organization, but mostly at herself for not saving Yang. "She's probably locked up in a cell somewhere, horrified." Blake knew that Yang was most likely being tortured rather than receiving the luxury of being alone, but she decided to keep that part to herself. "Do you think-"
"No." Blake read her friend's mind, "they wouldn't kill her, they want some kind of leverage."
"Over who?" Now it was the Faunus' turn to shed tears.
"This is all my fault. I should have never gotten her involved in this." Tears rolled down Blake's cheeks as Weiss tried to comfort her. "Yang is in so much pain because of me."
"Blake, it isn't your-"
"Shut up!" The dark haired girl felt so much rage, so much hate, and so much self-loathing. After a minute, Blake realized what she had said. "I'm sorry, Ruby. I just... need to think." Blake stood up and walked out of the small room. She made her way to the cliff at the edge of the university, overlooking the kingdom of Vale, unlike Blake's mind it was peaceful and serene.
"I am such a fucking idiot." The huntress plopped down, legs dangling over the cliff's edge. "I should have never fallen for her." She so bed for several minutes before pulling the little white box out of her pocket, and staring at the red insignia. Blake raised an arm to throw it off the cliff, she went through the throwing motion, but the box was still in her hand. She tried over and over to rid herself of the tiny, cardboard monstrosity, but her fingers simply wouldn't release it. "Damnit." She knew in the back of her mind that she would look at it again, no matter how much she didn't want to.
Blake opened the box and plugged the drive into her scroll. The Faunus gasped when she saw that what was once gibberish was now clear. Several days ago when she looked at the file, it was jumbled letters and numbers, now the characters had rearranged themselves into several sentences.
"If you want her back, be at 1340 Whalers, unarmed at midnight on June 25th. If you have any kind of weapon, she dies. If you are late, she dies. If you go to the police, she dies. If anyone but you shows up to this meeting, she dies.
If you do as I ask, I promise to return her safely.
-Adam"
After reading the message, Blake collapsed. Her body lifeless on the edge of the cliff, she wanted to die, but she knew she couldn't in order to save her best friend. "Damn you, Blake." The Faunus cursed herself.
"Hey, Blakey, you alright?" Ruby handed her friend a plate of hot bacon and scrambled eggs. The dark haired girl was a mess, her hair horribly unkempt, her skin even more pale then usual, her clothes were rugged, and dried tears coated her face.
"No."
"Oh, come here." Ruby hugged Blake, trying to make them both feel better.
"I feel so selfish. She's your sister and I'm the one crying the hardest."
"Listen Blake. I know Yang will pull through this, when we find out where they're keeping Yang, we'll storm in there and get her back.
"No, if you do, she'll be killed."
"You don't know that."
"But, I do."
The Faunus held up the white box and handed it to the redhead. After plugging the drive into her scroll and reading the message, Ruby tried to speak, but no words came out. She sat for a long moment in silence, her mouth became dry and her lungs empty, she felt faint. After what seemed like an eternity, Ruby got the words out. "Blake. When this day comes, you do whatever you need to to get my sister home. Ok?"
"Ok."
After several minuets went by, Weiss looked at the calendar on the wall, "We have two weeks, how do we cover this up for two weeks?"
"It'll be tough, if anyone files a missing person's report the police will start looking, and Yang will be done for-" A knock at the door interrupted the conversation. "I'll get it." Ruby walked to the front door of the cramped dormitory, she hesitated to turn the knob, as she was not in the mood for a visitor.
Another knock. Ruby waited once more. Another knock.
It was clear that whoever was in the other side of the wooden entrance was not going to give up. "Yes?" The redhead finally opened the door, she was rather surprised to see a certain wolf Faunus standing in the hallway. "Rikov?"
"Where's Blake?"
"I didn't know you guys knew each other. Listen, now isn't a good time, she's been having a rough day."
"I need to talk to her."
"But-"
"Now." Rikov let himself in, walking right past Ruby and into the bedroom. "Blake, we need to talk." He reached into his pocket and pulled out his gift from the White Fang. The white box fit snug in his hand. The boy threw it to Blake, who caught it, opened it, and read the message identical to her's.
Think on what you've done...
This is your fault.
"Well, well, well, Bliess. It's about time you came clean."