Alright, new chapter. Now I know you've probably read this same thing like a thousand times, so if you want to skip it you can. Monty Oum has passed away. I think we all can say we appreciated his work, I mean that's why people write fanfiction. Anyway, he died, hopefully his family is doing fine.
Now, no more sad stuff, let's read.
"I wonder what Blaise is doing now," Yang asked the rest of team RWBY, BLZE, and team JNPR as they ate lunch.
"Why do you want to know?" Zaria asked her raising an eyebrow.
"I just do," Yang replied avoiding her gaze.
"Well if I were to guess, I'd say he's probably meeting with his family since he hasn't come back yet," Lapis said eating his burger.
"Well this is boring," Nora said surprising everyone at the table.
"Well we could go train," Pyrrha suggested.
"That would be a good Idea," Ren said then Jaune nodded.
"Would any of you want to join us?" Pyrrha asked the groups.
"My head still hurts from the docks, so I'll pass," Ruby said then stood up and started to head back to the dorms, "I'm going to go lie down."
"I'm going to study," Weiss said then followed her team leader.
"I think I'll read my book," Blake said then followed Ruby and Weiss.
"Anyone?" Jaune asked then Yang and the remnants of team BLZE shook their heads. "Alright well we can do some team building exercises," Jaune suggested then team JNPR left the cafeteria.
"Should we at least check in on Blaise?" Zaria asked then Lapis' scroll buzzed.
"Speak of the devil," Lapis said then opened his scroll and his expression changed as he read it. "We have a problem," Lapis said then showed everyone at the table what the message was.
-Help-
-6 hours before-
"Why are you here outsider?" the barkeep asked Blaise as he entered the bar. As soon as he said that everyone in the bar looked at Blaise.
"I'm just here looking for someone," Blaise said then one of the people in the bar spoke.
"Who're ya lookin' for?"
"I'm just looking for a family that used to live here about ten years ago," Blaise said as he sat down on the barstool, "Have you heard of the Campione family?"
"Yeah we've heard of 'em," the barkeep said then pointed out of the window to a bare hill, "They used to live on that hill. It was an amazing mansion, until the fire burned it down."
"What caused the fire?"
"That would've been us," one of the patrons said in the group, "Damn faunuses took over the Campione family name because of some canine whore."
"The Campione family was the pride of the island but then they became the black mark here," another patron said.
"Why are you interested in that family?" the barkeep asked Blaise.
"Oh, I'm from the Atlas Detective Department," Blaise lied, "I'm here to investigate the Campione family because there have been reports of them possibly being part of the White Fang."
"Wouldn't doubt it," a patron said, "Faunus are nothing but trouble, every last one."
"So, anything else I should know about the family?"
"Well after the fire was done the eldest son carried the parents bodies out of the house and buried them under an oak tree, but that doesn't really pertain to anything does it?"
"Not much," Blaise said then left the bar.
-Present Time (It's implied that we're back at Beacon)-
"He have to help him!" Yang said then jumped from her seat.
"I agree, but we have no idea where he went," Eva said getting up from her seat.
"So you're not going to help him?"
"I didn't say that," Eva replied pulling out her scroll.
"Who are you calling?" Zaria asked her stepping behind her.
"That should be obvious," Eva replied then hit 'call,' "Hey dad, I need a favor."
-At Blaise (Now it's implied that this is back a couple of hours, I'll tell you when it changes)-
"So this is home," Blaise said to himself as he wandered through the ruins of what was his house, "I don't remember anything."
Walking down the ruined hallway he stepped around a couple of holes avoiding the spots on the floorboards that were threatening to break under his weight. Looking around he saw several portraits too burned to see any faces, some rusted weapons that would be worthless in a fight.
"Apparently Lucius dragged our parents outside and buried them under an oak," Blaise said to himself finding the exit not noticing the shadow following him.
-Beacon-
"Zaria, you need to go the headmaster's office and figure out where Blaise is from, ask to see his transcripts," Eva said then Zaria ran for Ozpin's office. "Lapis, go to the lockers and get Blaise's swords and guns. And while you're there grab our weapons too. You have three minutes." Lapis then ran towards where the lockers were.
"And now what?" Yang asked engaging her Ember Celica.
"Well we wait for the others at the airship dock while my dad sends one of the newly designed warships that travel much faster than the average airship. We'll have roughly half an hour wait," Eva replied then sent the locker passcodes to Lapis.
"So your family's rich or something?" Yang asked curious causing Eva to glare at her.
"Yes, now no more talking on that subject."
-Blaise-
After a couple of hours of walking around the Campione property he came to the tree he believed his parents were buried under. Carved into the tree was a message. It said: 'Here lies Alberto and Maria Campione, and on their graves us four, Lucius, Sedric, Lucia, and Blaise Campione, will make the humans pay for taking away their lives.'
"How blunt," Blaise said to himself looking at the two mounds of earth in front of him, "Well I guess we did just lose our parents. Probably weren't up for much ceremony."
After finding a decent spot to sit at he sat on the ground leaning on the tree in between the two mounds finding an odd sense of peace there. After relaxing for a while he rested his head backwards on the tree and slightly napped. He never noticed when his head drooped down sliding his hood off of his head.
After roughly an hour of peaceful sleep near his parents Blaise woke up to a sight he would have preferred not to. The whole bar full of anti-faunus people walking across the property carrying guns and several other weapons. One of the first ones to aim their guns was the barkeeper from before. He fired just before Blaise could activate his aura. The barkeep was apparently a good shot because his rifle bullet connected with Blaise's lower abdomen going straight through damaging his organs but missing the spine.
After putting pressure on his would he reached over with his left hand and pulled out his scroll. Selecting his contacts he picked Lapis and send one very brief informative message.
-Help-
-Beacon (Well now we're in the air)-
"Now you said 'The Ayw Isle,' right?" the pilot asked as he turned the airship in the direction of the Ayw Isle.
"Yeah," Eva said, "Our friend went there and sent us a message saying help. So we have to get there fast."
"Are any of you guys faunus?" he asked then there was a dead silence from everyone within hearing distance.
"What does that have to do with anything?" Yang asked.
"Well the Ayw Isle is home to some of the most anti-faunus extremists on Remnant, save for Atlas of course," the pilot replied flipping some switches.
After a few moments of silence Lapis spoke up. "Can this thing go any faster?"
-Blaise-
'Ow,' Blaise thought as he blended into the branch he was hiding on, 'Getting shot is not a highly recommended activity on my fun list, but it is better than listening to pop music.'
"Come out, come out, little doggie," one of the guys from the bar said below.
"So which one do ya think he is?" another guy asked.
"He's most likely one of them Campione fuckers," a different one said making Blaise grip the branch harder, "Maybe Sedric or Blaise, too young to be Lucius."
The barkeep was ahead of the group following the blood trail Blaise left behind going to the first tree he climbed up and the trail went cold after that, good thing for aura. Blaise managed to use his aura to speed up the healing process closing the outer wounds stopping the blood loss, now all that was left was the internal bleeding.
"Seems like we're not going to have as much luck as we usually do," the barkeep said then pulled a cylinder from his pocket, "Good thing I have this." He pressed the red button activating the cylinder and as soon as he did a high pitched noise came from it.
To the average human there was no sound, but to a faunus, especially a wolf one, it was unbearable. Grabbing his wolf ears he started to yell in pain. Since he had lost his grip on the branch he fell off crashing to the forest floor right in the middle of the hunters. While he was till yelling in pain they took his hands and feet and bound them together so Blaise couldn't escape then they carried him to the middle of town.
-Team LYZE (Lapis, Yang, Zaria, and Eva)-
"Yang, please stop pacing around the room, we'll be there soon," Lapis said trying to get the brawler to sit down.
"How can you guys not be worried as much as I am? Blaise is a faunus, alone, on an anti-faunus island, and he sent you a message saying 'Help,'" Yang said still pacing.
"Yang, please just sit," Eva pleaded, "We're very worried about Blaise, but we've never really had any reason to show it. Blaise is probably one of the few students specialized in surviving in the field."
"If he was fine he wouldn't of sent an SOS," Yang retorted.
"Yang, do you like Blaise?" Zaria asked making Yang stop in her tracks.
"I-"
"Sorry to interrupt," the pilot said, "but we're coming close to the Ayw Isle, and something is happening in the town." At that comment both Lapis and Yang went to the cockpit to see, and what they saw was to be put simply, a public execution.
-Blaise (now present time)-
"You racist fucking douchebags!" Blaise yelled at them as they kicked the backs of his knees forcing him to kneel.
"We are only keeping our island safe from you beasts," the barkeep said aiming his rifle at Blaise's head.
"You think all faunus people are beasts? Like the family whose house you burned killing the parents orphaning the children. I was seven when you guys did that," Blaise said hanging his head down, "I don't even remember my parents, on the account of amnesia. I was hoping to come to this island to find any of my family, but of course that can't happen. I can't have a glimmer of hope." Then his whole demeanor completely changed to a dark one. "You think all faunus are beasts, and you'll kill me either way. Then if you want a beast," behind his back he unsheathed his wrist blades, "YOU'LL GET A FUCKING BEAST!" He then cut the ropes binding his wrists together and moved his head slightly to the left causing the barkeep to jump pulling the trigger. The bullet traveled from the gun barely missing Blaise's eyes hitting his wayfarers. Keeping his eyes closed he jumped backwards and in mid air cut the ropes binding his feet allowing him to land on the ground perfectly in a battle stance.
A black aura engulfed Blaise as he leaned into a better battle stance making his fingernails grow into white claws accented with red lines and his canines grow in length. Sheathing his wrist blades he let out a blood curdling howl making everyone in the crowd take several steps back in fear. Off in the distance another howl could be heard coming from several different kinds of wolves, regular wolves and grimm alike.
Opening his eyes to show the crowd caused them to gasp. They were black eyes with glowing red irises.
"Now then," Blaise said, "Let's get started." Behind him emerging from the woods were all kinds of wolves along with regular and alpha beowloves.
-LYZE-
"What the hell is he doing?" Lapis asked looking at the scene in front of him, "Turn around you idiot. The grimm are going to kill you."
"Lapis," Eva said activating her semblance looking through the scope of her crossbow, "They're not here to attack him, they're helping him."
"What, some kind of wolf kin type thing?" Zaria asked trying to get a better view on the scene but Lapis' armor was getting in the way.
"Maybe, but I don't think Blaise and those village people are just going to have a strongly worded conversation then go their separate ways," Eva said then zoomed in with her scope, "The only thing I see is murder and hate in his… eyes."
"Wait, you can actually see his eyes? Let me see," Zaria demanded jumping down from the ceiling.
"Guys, his eyes aren't normal," Eva said trying to get a better view.
"What do you mean by that?" Yang asked leaning next to the pilot who already started to descend to the island.
"When you think of normal eyes you think of a white eye with a regular colored iris. Well he has black eyes, and that is all I can see," Eva told them then shrieked and fell over.
"Eva! What's wrong?" Lapis asked catching her.
"B-Blaise," she stuttered pointing at the crossbow.
Yang picked it up and looked through the scope and saw the scene unfolding down on the ground. Blaise had started the conflict jumping into the group of men using his claws cutting the man holding the rifle's abdomen then cut the man's throat showering blood everywhere. Yang didn't even notice when she lowered the crossbow in shock.
"We need to get down there," Yang said dropping the crossbow.
"I'll have us down there in a moment," the pilot said aiming the airship's nose towards the ground faster.
-Blaise-
"What's wrong? Didn't you guys say you'd rid this island of wild beasts," Blaise mocked them as he threw his claws through another man's chest. "Well? Who here thinks they can beat me and my pack?"
"Blaise! Stop this now!" Lapis shouted from the airship as it descended to the scene.
"Blaise is dead! They killed him ten years ago in the fire that killed his parents! They deserve to die!" Blaise shouted whipping his arm to the side throwing blood off of his claws.
"Blaise this is not how the system works! All you're doing is killing in revenge!" Lapis shouted jumping from the airship landing in front of Blaise looking into his black and red eyes with his blue. "If you're going to go and kill these men then you'll have to fight me too." He pulled his battle axe and got into a battle stance.
"Have it your way," Blaise said then punched Lapis in the chest throwing him into a nearby building. Jumping after the berserker he landed right next to him then punched him in the face knocking him out. "You're lucky you're my friend."
"We need to make a new plan," Eva said as they jumped out of the airship that then flew off to circle the area hopefully avoiding conflict.
"Did you see him punch Lapis through a building? How is that even possible?" Zaria asked throwing up her hands in frustration.
"Zaria, do you know what a railgun is?"
"A gun that Blaise uses."
"A railgun is a form of weapon that uses electronegativity to build up kinetic energy of a projectile in the chamber launching projectiles at around Mach 10+. If you've paid any attention to Blaise's fights when he turns the pistols onto their highest charge he doesn't appear to be affected much by the recoil so that concludes Blaise is very strong," Eva told her as Yang listened in devising a plan of her own.
"I have an idea," Yang said, "If I were to fight Blaise I could absorb the kinetic energy and use it against him in the fight." She then pulled off her gauntlets and shifted them into their bracelet form and tossed them at Eva who caught them. "You two fight the grimm terrorizing the people, save as many people as possible. And no matter what you do, don't come near our fight, if I get too angry there could be damages done."
"Alright, be careful," Zaria said then pulled out both of her katanas and headed towards the groups of grimm followed closely by Eva.
"Blaise, get out here!" Yang shouted only to get a loud growl from the building.
"I told you before, Blaise is dead," Blaise said slowly emerging from the hole.
"No you're very much alive, and even if I have to beat that fact into your head then I'll have to do it," Yang said cracking her knuckles and her eyes turning a shade of crimson.
"This is going to be interesting," Blaise said then jumped out of the building lunging at Yang delivering an uppercut to Yang's chin throwing her several feet above. Then gravity decided to be mean to Yang making her crash into the bar breaking through the roof.
Without missing a beat Blaise burst in through the door and landed an axe kick to Yang's head as she tried standing up throwing her into the floor breaking the planks. Then he grabbed Yang by a large portion of her hair and threw her through the bar wall into a nearby tree breaking it.
Yang didn't even seem affected by it as she stood up and activating her aura sending a wave of fire outward lighting a few trees on fire. Blaise then jumped from the building and attempted to punch Yang but all she did was catch his fist causing what was similar to a gale force wind blowing out the small fire.
She then retaliated by punching Blaise in the gut. He quickly grabbed Yang's arm and whipped her around but before he could let go of her she grabbed his arm and planting her feet firmly on the ground she whipped him into a nearby building.
Running towards the building she saw Blaise running out of the building with his fist ready to punch her. Meeting him halfway Yang dodged the strike making Blaise stumble a bit. Turning around to face her Blaise attempted close quarter combat with the brawler which was not a good plan. Attempting a low strike Yang brushed his hand to the side then punched him in the face. With her other fist she punched Blaise's right ear making him stumble a bit. As he was dazed for a split second she then clapped her hands over Blaise's ears again dazing him. Just as he was distracted she did the one thing nobody would expect her to do, she gripped him in a strong hug immobilizing his arms.
"Let go of me!" Blaise shouted trying to get out of Yang's hug.
"No, not until you give me my friend back!" Yang demanded.
"Let go!"
"Give me back my Blaise!" she demanded on the verge of tears.
"Blaise is dead!"
"No he's not! He's right here in my arms! The same Blaise that I like! I feel him right here!" she shouted as she tightened her grip on Blaise practically sobbing.
"Yang, I-" Blaise said in his normal voice until he was hit in the head by a blue gauntlet knocking him out.
"I got him!" Lapis shouted in between breaths.
"I was getting him just fine!" Yang shouted back at Lapis while holding an unconscious Blaise.
"It just seemed to me that you were just hugging him," Lapis said then held his head where Blaise hit him. "He seriously packs quite a punch."
"Which was why I was trying to get him to come back on his own," Yang said then hit Lapis over the head. "Help me get Blaise into the airship."
"Yang and Lapis managed to subdue Blaise," Eva said looking from the message on her scroll.
"Good," Zaria said then pulled out her twin katanas and found the nearest villager. Placing both of her katanas of the villagers neck she looked him straight in the eyes. "The grimm attacked here today. We were never here, and there was no faunus here named Blaise. Got it?"
"Y-yeah," the villager nodded then Zaria sheathed her katanas.
"Let's get to the ship," Eva said then Zaria nodded.
"Alright everyone, there is a storm front moving in so I'll try to avoid it, but the ride might get a bit shaky," the pilot said over the intercom to them as they gathered around Blaise.
"Thanks Frank," Eva said on the microphone on their end, "Just make sure we get to beacon alive, so if we have to take a detour we're fine with it.
"So what are we going to do?" Lapis asked applying ice to his head while looking at Blaise who was lying on the bench in the airship.
"You saw how he went berserk," Zaria said, "He killed those people."
"Even though it was self defense, I'll have to agree with Zaria," Eva said, "but I don't think we should tell Ozpin because then there'd probably be an investigation and Blaise might be expelled."
"We can't let that happen," Yang interjected, "We just don't tell anyone."
"It took both Yang and I to subdue him, and I had to punch him in the head. So what if he goes berserk again?" Lapis asked then everyone was silent.
"Just to be fair, you didn't knock me out," Blaise said rolling over to look at them. He stood up making everyone take a step back. "The regular me came back before Lapis hit me in the head thank you very much. The only reason I went berserk was because I was about to die. I was shot through the abdomen," he showed them the bullet wound, "I was bleeding internally so I was going to be a gonner soon unless my aura healed faster. Not to mention they killed my parents so I had a reason."
"They killed your parents?" Zaria asked.
"Yeah, I found them, but there is a silver lining," Blaise said then walked over to the first aid and pulled out an ice pack then placed it on his head. "I have a sister."
Annd we're done. Blaise now knows he has a sister, yada yada yada, Yang ship is sailing away, Blaise can go crazy. Frank is the real hero! Anyway next chapter is going to be interesting with the storm, and there will be mention of a ship and Xais Cay.
Have a good day people.
-J. Van A