A/N: What up my gangsters! What up my dudes! MrBlazianz back bringing you chapter 13, hope you enjoy the last chapter. Hope you had a good Easter weekend and 420... If you're into that stuff, also if you don't see another chapter in a week or so that means I'm too busy playing minecraft on ps3 or cod. Anyways here's chapter 13 so read, review, comment, suggests ideas, come join me in an okatucon convention and enjoy
Chapter 13: What we fight for part 2
It was Monday morning, Sun and Markus stayed silent as they were in the kitchen. Markus was playing with some puzzle game on paper while Sun was flicking peanuts with his finger off the table, as the peanuts flew off the table it ricochet off a wall and landed back on the table. Sun continuously did this until Markus grab them in his hands and eats them; Sun sighs and rests his hand on his hand.
"...Hey Markus"
"Yes Sun?"
"It's been two days! Two Days! And she barely has said anything!"
"What do you want me to do? Tie her up on a chair and shock the poor girl until she speaks?!"
"If it gets her to say anything!"
"Listen Sun when she is ready to talk then she will, if we ask her too many questions it'll probably get her upset and leave."
"Well it's creepy to have a person walk with you and not talk at all!"
"Why don't you go tell her that?"
"... I don't think she's awake."
"She probably is due to you yelling."
"So what now?"
"... Let's go get some tea."
Markus got up and left the kitchen, he walks up the stairs and move towards the guest room Blake was in and knocks on the door while leaning on the wall.
"Hey... We're going to drink some tea, you want to join us?"
No response.
"It's ok if you don't want to, you can stay here if y..."
The door quickly flung open and Blake walks past by Markus.
"Well that answers my question... I think."
Meanwhile at Beacon in Team ELIC's room
"Hey! Who finished the milk!?" Cameron yelled.
"Heyo!" Idris replied looking at a news paper.
"Asshole! I wanted to eat cereal!"
"Quit yo whining and go get some milk at the cafe."
"Urghhhh fine!"
Cameron drops the carton of milk in the garbage and walks towards the door, he opens it to see Ruby with arm up and hand close suggesting that she was about to knock.
"Oh Ruby, What's up?"
"It's Blake, she hasn't been in the school for two days and I was wondering if you guys have seen her."
"Uh sorry Ruby but no we haven't, actually same thing with Markus."
"He went missing to?!"
"No no he sent us a message saying that he'll be staying in the city until school starts, maybe Blake's with him."
"Do you know where he is in the city?"
"Unfortunately no, sorry." This made Ruby frowned.
"Well I'm going to the city to look for Blake, Bye!"
Ruby quickly left as Lilly exit the bathroom with a toothbrush in her hand.
"Who was that?" she asked.
"It was Ruby, Blake's missing."
"What? Are you serious?!"
"Yeah this is bad."
"You did make a good point though, maybe she's with Markus. Try sending him a message." Idris got up and place the news paper on his bed.
"Alright good idea."
Cameron reaches for his scroll in his pocket and opens it, he send a message to Markus asking if Blake's with him. However the knights' scroll was turned off.
Sometime later back at the city at a cafe
The trio sat outside sipping on their tea, Markus was leaning on his chair while Sun was on the table. Blake was sitting straight which cause Sun to stare at her. As they sat in silence which irritated Sun, Blake sighs and places her cup down on the table.
"So... you want to know more about me?" she said.
"Finally she speaks! Nearly two days and you've given us nothing but small talks and weird looks. Blake gives him a firm look while Markus rolled his eyes and chuckles.
"Yeah just like that."
Blake closes her eyes and opens them given Sun a sad look
"Sun... Are you familiar with The White Fang?" She asked.
"Of course! I don't think there's a Faunus on the planet who hasn't heard of them. Stupid, holier than thou creeps that use force to get whatever they want. They also have been given Markus trouble with their "plans" causing problems for him. Bunch of freaks, if you ask me!"
Blake took one more sip of her tea before placing it down.
"I was once... A member of The White Fang."
Sun who was drinking his tea started to choke and went cross-eyed as Markus simply looks away which causes Blake to frown.
"Wait a minute! You were a member of The White Fang?!"
"That's right. I was a member for most of my life actually; you could almost say I was born into it."
Markus turn his focus to Blake as she started to speak again.
"Back then things were different, in the ashes of war The White Fang was meant to be a symbol for peace and unity between humans and the Faunus. Of course despite being promised equality the Faunus were subjected to discrimination and hate, humanity still thought of us as lesser beings. So The White Fang rose up as the voice of our people, and I was there." Markus closes his eye as he sips on his drink.
"I was at the front of every rally; I took part in every boycott. And I actually thought we were making a difference, but I was just a youthful optimist. Then five years ago our leader stepped down and a new one to his place, A new leader, with a new way of thinking. Suddenly our peaceful protest were being replaced with organized attacks, we were setting fire to shops that refuse to serve us. Hijacking cargos from companies that used Faunus labor, and the worst part was it was working. We were being treated like equals. But not out of respect... out of fear."
Sun stares at Blake as she places her teacup down while Markus slowly opens his eye.
"So... I left; I decided I no longer wanted to use my skills to aid in their violence. And instead I would dedicate my life to becoming a Huntress. So here I am... a criminal hiding in plain view, all with the help of a little black bow." Her cat ears wiggles beneath her bow.
"So... have you told your friends any of this?" Sun asked causing Blake to look down.
"No... I... I was..."
"Worried for what they would say or think of you?" Markus interrupted.
"...Yes, yes I was."
"Blake you shouldn't have, so what you were a member of The White Fang? It doesn't matter now, what matters is that you continue dedicating your life on becoming a huntress."
"Well what about you?! You were a member of The Order; you had troubles with The White Fangs for years. Don't you hate them?!"
"No... No I don't hate them, but you can say I'm angry at them." Sipping on his tea.
"What do you mean?"
"Yes they may have hurt and even killed some people I cared about but if I start hating them then I'll be like the rest of humanity, a bunch of ignorant fools. Plus after all the shit humanity has given to the Faunus... I'm surprise that there hasn't been a second war."
Blake was stunned at what Markus just said, she has never heard a human say such a thing especially one that had problems with them for years. Markus finishes his tea, stood up and place lien on the table.
"C'mon... let's go for a walk."
Back in team ElIC's room
"Muahahahah all shall bow and fear the mighty toothpick!"
"Lilly stop poking me in the face with that please." Idris said.
"Fear it... Fear it... Fear it." Lilly continuously poke Idris in the face with the toothpick as he sighs.
"Carmeron it's been an hour has he replied yet?"
"No reply, do you actually think Blake's with Markus?" Cameron answers.
"I hope sooo... OW LILLY THAT'S MY EYE!"
Back in the city
Blake, Sun and Markus were walking down a street, Blake looks at both boys thinking of a question.
"So how do you both know it each other?" She asked.
"Oh we knew each other since childhood." Sun replied.
"Yeah this asshole stole my lunch and I had to hunt him down half of the city before I was able to catch him."
"Yeah wasn't much of a great seafood soup."
Blake chuckles softly as they continue to walk, Sun puts his hand behind his head.
"So what's the plan now?"
"I still don't believe The White Fang is behind these robberies, they've never needed that much dust before."
"So what do you believe?" Markus asked.
"I'm... I'm not sure." Sun eyes widen as if he just solved the world hardest math question.
"What if they did?" He said. He lowers his arms down and walks in front of the other two.
"I mean... the only way to prove that they didn't do it, is to go to the place where they would most likely go to if they were to do it and not find them there! Right?!"
"Sun... I've known for many years and that... That was the smartest thing I've ever heard you say."Markus said with a straight face.
"The only thing is I've no idea where that would be." Blake stated.
"Well while I was on the ship, I heard some guys talking about offloading a huge shipment of dust coming in from Atlas."
"How huge?"
"Huge, big Schnee company freighter."
"You sure?"
"Postive!"
"You really believe that The White Fang are not behind the robberies Blake?" Markus questions her.
"Yes I am." Blake responds.
"Alright then... Let's all meet at the port later tonight and be prepared, if we are going to catch anyone in the act they won't go down without a fight."
The three separate going in their own direction, later that night as crickets chirp and darkness crept into the world. Blake laid flat on her stomach on a rooftop looking at shipments of Schnee dust.
"Did I miss anything?" Blake looks up to see Sun dropping down beside her.
"Not really, they offloaded the crates from the boat. Now they're just sitting there."
"Cool, I stole you some food!" Sun held out a green apple in his hand from the other fruits from his arm.
"Do you always break the law without giving you a second thought?"
"Hey weren't you in a cult or something?" Sun counter back only to given an angry look form Blake.
"Ok, too soon."
Just then a flash of black appeared to reveal Markus as he drops down between Sun and Blake; however his outfit was a little different. He wore a black shirt and cargo pants and combat boots but had two belts going across his upper body diagonally; he wears black fingerless leather gloves under a black steel vambrace on his right arm as he holds his helmet by the horn in his hand while he holds a katana by its sheath in his left. The katana was damage, the white tsuba was a rectangle and it has dents and burn marks on it. The black tsuka ito was ripping while the sheath didn't have a sageo on it but it did have a cloth wrap around it dangling. The white sheath itself had damages also as pieces were ripped out of it showing a black blade underneath it.
"Since when can you teleport?" Blake asked.
"Since always, it's just that I can transport from different places only if there's a strong flow of electrons in the area."
"Oh... And the katana?"
"Oh this isn't mine; it belongs to an old man who can't use it anymore. Plus since I left my sword at Beacon I took this from my apartment."
"Why do you have it?"
"The old man hands and forearms were burned to the point that he couldn't move them so he passed this to me."
"Oh..."
"Hey pass me an apple Sun."
Ten minutes later and nothing has happen, the three teens still rest on the rooftop of the building waiting for something to happen. Markus twirls the katana around his hand while Sun was juggling the fruits that weren't eaten as Blake continues to lie on her stomach.
"So have you heard of me in any database when you were in The Order?" Blake asked.
"Nope, it was kind of a surprise to hear that you were a member of The White Fang. However your intentions weren't." Markus rests the katana on platform and leans on it.
"What do you mean?"
"Well... I guess we have reasons for what we fight for, even our enemies do but can we really judge them for what they believe in? Their action may be wrong but it's what got them to start doing so is the subject people should talk about."
Just then wind blew around them as a Bullhead aircraft lights flashes around the landing spot and descends in the middle of the cargo containers, as a ramp extends out on to the ground as a group of black hooded individuals with metal mask walk out of the airship. As they stand outside of the airship, their outfits reveal a symbol of a red wolf on their backs.
"Oh no..." Blake grips the edge of the rooftop hard.
"Is that them?" Asked Sun.
"Yes... it's them."
"Alright grab the tow cables!" one of The White Fang goons said.
"You really didn't think they were behind it, did you?" Sun asked Blake while looking at her.
"No... I think deep down I knew, I just didn't want to be right."
Blake looks down and closes here only to open them again when a loud voice was heard causing the three to focus at the area of goons.
"Hey! What's the holdup?!"
The goons look up to see Roman Torchwick walking down the ramp swinging his cane.
"We're not exactly the most inconspicuous bunch of thieves at the moment, so why don't you animals try to pick up the pace." He yells as he walks out of the airship.
"And you think yelling at them will make them work harder." Another voice was heard.
Markus eye widen as he realize whose voice was it, a man in a white suit walks down the ramp slowly smiling as he straightens his outfit.
"No... Why is he here?!"
"Who is that?" Sun questions Markus.
"The White Conjuror, a well known criminal and a powerful foe." Markus replied.
The three brought their attention back at the group of criminals as The White Conjuror and Roman Torchwick was standing next to each other.
"You see if you really want them to work faster, don't yell just give them an example. Hey! You bunch of road kills!"
The White Fang goons look at The White Conjuror as his raises his arm and snaps his finger, they stood still for three minutes before they started to move quickly.
"Whoa... What did he do?" Sun asked.
"He cast an illusion on them, I don't what it is but it seems to be working." Markus answers.
"This isn't right... The White Fang would never work with a human, especially humans like them. Blake gets up and draws for her katana of Gambol Shroud and jumps off the building.
"Wait Blake!"
"Hey what are you doing?!"
Blake lands on the ground and continuously hid behind containers.
"Shit! Sun go after her fast and don't look at The White Conjuror when he snaps his fingers."
"Got it!"
Sun and Markus jumps off the build with Markus disappearing in a flash of black in mid air while Sun lands on a container. Blake peeks behind a container to see Roman insulting a goon.
"No you idiot! This isn't a leash!" Suddenly Blake appears behind him with the blade of her katana at his throat.
"What the... Oh for f..." Roman rolled his eyes as he was cut off mid sentence by Blake as goons surrounded her readied their weapons.
"Nobody move!" Blake yelled but the goons didn't listen as they got closer.
"Whoa! Take it easy there little lady." Roman spoke.
As the grunts got a little closer Blake reaches for her bow and removes it, revealing her ears.
"Brothers of the White Fang! Why are you aiding these scums?!" She yelled. The grunts lowered their weapons just a bit.
"Well obviously because we have business to take care of together." The White Conjuror said as he walks in front of the Faunus goons.
"Now be a dear and drop the sword." Blake didn't listen to him instead did the opposite and held the grip tighter and pull harder to Romans throat.
"Oh boy, wish I didn't have to do this." The Conjuror lifts his arm up and was about to snap his fingers but a bright light appears in front of him, he was grab by his tie and disappeared.
"Well... There's goes back up." Roman said.
"Tell me what is your business with the White Fang or I'll put an end to your little operation." Blake spoke. Just then wind started to blow aggressively around the group as two Bullheads hovers above them. Roman smiles.
"I wouldn't exactly call it a little operation..." Roman pulls the trigger of his cane at Blake's' feet causing a large explosion which got the attention of a familiar red hair girl and a friend beside her.
Meanwhile above the port a flash of black electricity appears on top on a crane launching The Conjuror backwards, he rolls and quickly maintains his balance. He stands up fixing his suit and looks up to see Markus in front of him now wearing his helmet.
"Ahhh Ebony! It's a pleasure seeing you again."
"I don't think it's the same case for me."
"It's funny I thought you were dead the last time I saw you."
"Well I'm here and going to stop your little heist."
"Haha! Finally after all these years I got a worthy opponent."
The Conjuror reaches for his pocket in his suit and pulls out a dagger; his places his hand over the hand and slowly moves his arm. As he did so the blade of the dagger got longer while is smile never left his face.
"Come on now Ebony! Show me that you've gotten stronger!"
Markus quickly unsheathes the katana and rushes towards The Conjuror, their blades clash with Markus pushing The Conjuror back. He dashes and swings the sheath at The Conjuror only to be dodged and kicked, but Markus was able to block it with the blade of the katana. The White Conjuror forces his strength to push Markus but was only moved slightly, Markus looks up to see The Conjuror snaps his finger but nothing happened. After a few short seconds of waiting a container fell down from the sky between Markus and The Conjuror, Markus looks up to see multiply Containers floating in the air and quickly dropping down. Markus jumps down from the crane as the containers crashes and destroys it, As Markus lands on the ground he looks back to see that there were no crates and no damages.
'Damn... I got caught in an illusion.' Markus thought.
"You should be paying attention of the fight Ebony instead of things that are not there."
Markus quickly turns around and swings the katana only to be block by The Conjurors long bladed dagger. After seconds of struggling pushing each other back and forth, Markus jumps backwards into the air. Electricity wraps around the katana and he swings it in two directions, up and down creating an electric sword beam emission at The Conjuror. The Conjuror moves back dodging the slashes as it cuts through the ground and some crates, Markus lands back onto the ground and sends another slash horizontally hitting The Conjuror but his body fades like a shadow. Then Markus was slashed on the back but he retaliates back by quickly turning around and cutting The Conjuror across the chest, both moves back creating distance from each other.
"Oh shucks... you made a mess of my suit."
"Please is that all you think about?"
"I think about looking good half of the time, the other half is thinking about killing people who think playing hero will get them anywhere. Like you!"
The Conjuror quickly raises his arm and snaps his finger causing Markus to flinch and blink, as he open his eyes a large amount of replicated long bladed daggers of The Conjurors above him. The daggers point at Markus and started to move rapidly at him, just then the translucent shadow appears behind Markus and defends him with its shield. It disappears to reveal that no daggers were in sight.
'Damn it I keep getting caught in these illusions!"
Markus becoming aggravated he starts to calm himself, as he did his senses kicked in and he turn around and sent an vertical emission beam at his target. It hit The White Conjuror cutting off his arm, his screams in pain and he kneels down onto the ground. He holds onto his wound as Markus stood in front him, Markus brought his sword down but The Conjuror roll backwards grabbing his long bladed dagger. Markus flick his wrist sending an electrical beam emission at The Conjuror burning a hole of his suit; He fell down backwards and quickly got up and dashes at Markus swing his dagger. Markus blocks it and hit The Conjuror in the face with the sheath, both rushes at each other clashing blades dodging, blocking, and slashing at each other.
Meanwhile Sun had taken down some grunts as Blake appears in front of him attacking Roman, Roman was able to block every attack and counter back by hitting her with his cane but Sun jump kicks him and detaches his staff turning them into nunchucks and twirling them in circles. As he twirls them he fires flame bullets as Roman blocks them with his cane, when Sun finishes hitting and shooting every bullet he had Roman paused for as second allowing Blake to knock him backwards. As he lay on his back he saw a crate hanging by a crane above the two teens, he gets up to shoot the crate making it fall. It crashes onto the ground causes Blake and Sun to separate with Sun skidding in front of Roman, with his face below the barrel of Romans cane a familiar squeaky voice yells.
"HEY!"
Roman attention turns towards the yeller to see that it was Ruby on top of a building; she spins her scythe around in front of her allowing it to stab the ground.
"Well hello there red! Isn't it past your bed time?!" He yelled back.
In the meantime sword beams slash through some containers as Markus and The Conjuror lands on a crate, with The Conjuror looking like a bloody mess. He had multiple cuts, a cut off arm and blood coloring his shirt. He was breathing heavy and struggle to stand, Markus on the other hand just had some cuts across his upper body. Markus was to strike down the Conjuror until an explosion was heard, Markus looks away from his foe to see a cloud of black smoke that was near him.
'Blake! Sun!' he thoughts screamed.
But as he turn to look at The Conjuror he had his hand in front of his face and snaps his finger, Markus blink and the world was covered in darkness. He looks around turning his head in a fast motion and was stab through the chest and heart, he was then kick off the crate and crashes onto the ground. Markus laid in his own puddle of blood as the world was still covered in darkness in his view, a voice in his head lingers as it was The Conjurors.
"Such a shame, I expected you to fight better but this is how you die Ebony." The voice fades away.
'No... I can't die this way... I can't die now.'
Images flash before Markus's eyes, Images of friends, family, great times he had.
'No... I still have to find him... I still have to see her...'
That last word continually repeats itself
Her...
Her...
Her...
An image of a girl on a wheelchair with silver and purple eyes smiling flashes in his mind
NO!
Markus raises his upper body while on his knees, an electrical aura flows around his body. He flings his arms and with roar electricity burst out of him going if different directions, it hit crates sending those flying in the air even burning holes through them. It hit some cranes and causes it them to explode, in a line of explosions, dust products destroyed and a crater created. Markus had destroyed a large area of the port. The Conjuror watches secretly behind a container as a Bullhead flew over him, the door open wide and was help into by some White Fang grunt and the airship flew away quickly. Markus gets up on his feet and the darkness slowly died down, he looks around to see the destruction he had made and then to see that he wasn't stabbed.
'What? I'm not hurt? Why would he do such a thing?'
"Markus!"
He turns around to see Ruby, Sun, Blake and an orange hair girl looking at him.
"Whoa... Dude did you... Did you do this?" Sun asked.
"Yeah... Yeah I did" Markus said looking back at the flames. "C'mon lets go somewhere safe."
Later, the five were sitting on boxes quietly as a large group of police were investigating the scene. Yang and Weiss appears at the port walking towards them; Ruby quickly got off the box and went straight to Weiss.
"Look Weiss it's not what you think, she explain the whole thing see she doesn't actually have a bow. She has kitty ears and they're kind of cute..." Weiss walks past Ruby and in front of Blake, they look at each other in silence both Blake spoke.
"Weiss I want you to know that I'm no longer associated with the White Fang, back when I was with the..."
"Stop!" Weiss cut Blake off.
"Do you have any idea of how long we've been searching for you? Twelve hours! That means I've had twelve hours to think about this, and that twelve hours I've decide..." Weiss stop getting looks from the other 6.
"I don't care."
"You don't care?"
"You said you're not one of them anymore right?"
"No I-I haven't been since I was younger..."
"Ah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah! I don't want to hear it, all I want to know is that the next time something this big comes up... You'll come to your teammates and not some... Someone else." Weiss looks at Sun who threw is hands in the air.
"Hey she didn't go to me, she went to him." Sun points at Markus who rolled his eyes.
"No... I went to her because I saw that she was in pain so I wanted to see if I can help, but looks like it's dealt with, with her teammates." Markus said standing up.
Blake looks back at Weiss and wipes a tear off her face.
"Of course." She said nodding.
After the serious moment was done, Ruby started screaming.
"YEAH! Team RWBY is back together!" Weiss looks at sun and points at him.
"I'm still not quite sure how I feel about you!" Sun laughs nervously
"Hehehe well then... I guess I'll be leaving, see you guys later!"
"Make sure you stay out of trouble ok?" Markus said.
"Can't promise that pal!"
With a fistbump Sun walks away from the group, Markus continues to look at Sun until he is no longer in his view.
"And can someone please explain to me why a whole shipment of my family's dust products and the port are nearly destroyed!"
Markus continues to look away not wanting to be yelled at the heiress.
"Hey wait a minute... where's Penny?" Ruby asked causing the five to look around.
"Maybe she also had to leave... Come on, let's head back to beacon." Markus said.
Later the five teens left the dust plane and walk back to their dorms, as they were in the hall ways and before they said their goodbyes Blake stop in front of Markus.
"Blake what's wrong?"
"I just... I just want to thank you for being patient with me in these last two days."
"Anytime... Remember we are your teammates and friends so if you are having trouble don't be shy to talk to us." With a smile Markus pats Blake head causing her to blush a little but yet she also smiles.
As Markus heads to his dorm room he opens the door to see Idris wearing an eye patch.
"Hey I know I'm awesome and stuff but copying me won't get you so far." Markus inquired.
"Where were you?! We've been sending you messages all day." Cameron said getting up from his bed.
"I was in the city, had a long day, plus my scroll is turned off."
"Uh oh..." Lilly quietly said.
"Uh oh what?" Markus questions her.
"You might not want to open your scroll and see those messages."
"... Anyways, I'm headed to bed."
Markus sat down on his bed and took out his scroll and open it, as it turned on his saw ninety two messages notifications. As he touches it he reads all the messages he got and stayed silent for the rest of the night
Epilogue
Meanwhile in a large warehouse Roman went over to a table and places a suitcase and sighs.
"However disappointing Roman." A woman voice said causing Roman to turn around quickly.
"Whoa... Hehe... I wasn't expecting to see you guys so soon..."
Three figures came out of the shadows revealing themselves, the woman in front has dark hair and glowing yellow eyes.
"We were expecting... more from you... And from you to Conjuror."
The White Conjuror walks from hiding behind from the metal pillar.
"What can I say...? We ran into some problems, big problems." He said.
"Please enlighten me."
"The Ebony Knight is back."
"Wait how are you still able to walk around like nothing has happen to you? You have an arm cut and you're a mess." Roman said loudly.
"Do I look like a mess? Do I really have my arm cut off? Or are you just seeing things?"
The Conjuror snaps his fingers making everyone blink, as they open his eyes they saw he was completely unharmed revealing that his injuries were just illusions.
"Hmmmm... hehehe well I believe it's time for you to shine my dear." The dark hair woman said.
The ground shock as a large man in red armor came through the door, Roman eyes widen as the Conjurors smiles.
"I have a job for you Red Juggernaut; it will require you to... kill." An evil smile crept on the man in red armor face.
"Then it's a job I won't argue about..."
End of chapter 13
A/N: Holy shit... this was originally going to be three chapters but I said screw it. I'm going to have more surprises and more characters for you guys in future chapters and even back story on Team ELIC's history. I hope you guys enjoy this chapter and I'll see ya later.