A/N: What's up my lovely people of FanFic! MrBlazianz here thanking you for stopping by to read this fanfic, really appreciate it. Now enough talk, make sure you read, review, comment, suggestion ideas, did you guys know that if you tickle an oompa loompa it shits tic tacs? No... Ok nevermind. Enjoy!

Chapter 14: March of the enemy

It's been a whole week and the port incident hasn't left anyone's mind, especially Markus. The White Conjuror had showed up which made Markus really concern, Thursday morning had risen from the depths of darkness as Markus was the only one awake. He dresses into his uniform and left to get breakfast quietly so he wouldn't wake the others, he enters the cafeteria grabbing a blueberry muffin and milk. He sat at a table leaning on the wall; he touches his chest and grips his shirt hard.

'I wasn't really stabbed was I? Was everything an illusion?'

"Markus?"

Markus turn his head to see Lilly dressed in her uniform with a tray in her hands, it had a plate with pancakes and sliced mangos on it with a glass of water next to it.

"Lilly? I thought you were asleep?"

"I got hungry and you weren't very quiet when you sneaked out." Lilly said as she sat next to him.

"Oh... Sorry."

They ate in silence for moment; Lilly stares at Markus who look like his world came crashing down on him.

"Markus is everything alright?" Lilly asked.

"What do you mean?" He responded.

"Well... This whole week you barely said a thing and you look like you space out a lot, is it because of the fight you had with Nora?"

Markus looks up remembering the fight he had with Nora, it was combat training and he and Nora were picked to fight. He wasn't paying attention to her hammer, boy did it end badly.

"You're not mad that she broke your arm are you? She didn't stop apologizing when she calmed down." Lilly said."

"Nope, well my arm is fine see." Markus lift his right arm up moving it around to show that he wasn't injured.

"It's just... There's something I've been thinking about lately."

"What is it?"

"I... I have to go see someone this weekend and I haven't seen them in two years and I was thinking how they will react." Markus half lied.

"I'm pretty sure they'll be happy to see you."

"I don't know two years is a long time."

"Well if it was me, I'd be happy."

"Hmmm... Oh have you notice Idris been having nightmares?"

"Oh that's normal to me and Cameron; it's usually when he doesn't trust someone."

"What? How's that possible?"

"Well it's when he anxious around someone who he just met or something like that."

"So he got trust issues?"

"Major trust issues."

"Why's that?"

"Something to do with his parents and his home town."

"Ah I see."

"Hey!"

Markus and Lilly turn to see Cameron and Idris dressed in their uniform walking towards them.

"You pair of asses didn't wake us up." Cameron said.

"Sorry didn't want to interrupt your beauty sleep pretty boy." Markus replied.

"Go screw yourself and make some room."

Markus moves a bit to let Cameron sit next to him while Idris sat next to Lilly; they enjoy their moment before they left to class. Two days later and Saturday arrives with bright sunshine and a quiet dorm room, everyone wasn't present in Team ELIC's room expect Markus. He woke up at nine o'clock to see his teammate were gone.

'Where the hell are they?' He thought.

He got u from his bed and walks around the room, he saw a paper with a note on it on the fridge door and read it:

Hey sleepyhead,

We went into the city to pick up some stuff. I remember you telling me that you were going to see someone this weekend so I have no clue when you'll be back, but I want to tell you to have fun and a safe trip.

Lilly

Markus places the note back on the fridge and wrote something on the paper, he grabs his bag and head towards the locker room, as he was there he changed into his battle outfit and left to go catch a ride on the dust plane that was leaving to the city. As he got there he move quickly towards the exit of the city heading his way toward a mansion

Just outside the city was a giant mansion with a large garden in front of it, but was heavily guarded. It had a gate surround the area with a large number man dressed in suits standing, walking and talking on radios. In the large garden roses have bloomed filling the area with the color red, two figures stand beside a bush. One figure was an older male well in his fifties with black hair tied up into a pony tail; he had a pair of glasses as he was wearing a black vest, red tie, white shirt, black pants and shoes. He stood behind another figure that was in a wheelchair, she wore a silver corset dress with black bow tied around her stomach, and she had long grey silver hair and bright lavender eyes.

She reaches for a rose and picks it from the bush; she smells it and a smile grew on her face.

"The roses are really lovely this year, aren't they Malcolm?"

"Yes Lady Abigail." The male figure now known as Malcolm said.

"Maybe I should pick up some for him; do you think Markus will like these?"

"I already do." A voice said.

Abigail smile grew wider as she recognizes the voice, she turn around to see Markus next to them.

"Markus!" she joyfully yells.

"Hello there Abigail." Markus greeted with a smile. He walks up to her, leans down and gives her a hug as she gave one back but tighter.

"Oh is has been so long since I've seen you, I have many things to talk to you about." Abigail let go of Markus.

"You can tell me everything while we take a stroll, if you don't mind." Markus asked Malcolm.

"Not at all Sir Ebony but do not take her too far please, she has a piano lessons in one hour." Malcolm said.

"Don't worry I won't Malcolm." Markus grab the handle of the wheelchair and pushes it as Malcolm takes out his walky-talky and speaks into it.

"The knight is with the princess."

Markus to pushes Abigail as they talk and stroll around the garden; she fidgets in her wheelchair as she was happy to see her long time friend.

"You know you could have come here with a better uniform." Abigail said.

"What? I thought you like guys that show a little roughness on the outside!" Markus responded.

"You?! Rough?! Ha! You're like a big teddy bear that I can squeeze and dress up." Abigail laughed.

"You compare me with a toy bear? Really? I expected a shark or a banana."

"Hey bears are majestic creatures."

"Yeah whatever..."

"... Oh! When did you return?" Abigail said turning her upper body to look at Markus.

"About two weeks ago."

"Did you find him?!" Markus sighs and closes his eye.

"No I haven't, it's been two years and I couldn't find him."

"I'm sure you'll find him someday, so what are you doing now?"

"I'm a student at Beacon."

"WHAT! REALLY?!" Abigail's eyes started to shimmer.

"Yup I have to say not a bad school, expected less than what I thought."

"You are lucky; I wanted to go to Beacon." Abigail looks down.

"I know..."

"If only my archery skills were better..." Markus chuckles at her comment.

"So how's your dad?"

"Very stressed, business flights aren't relaxing you know."

"Well he's doing it wrong, all he has to do is surround himself with pillows."

"I'll surround you with pillows and suffocate you with them." Abigail joked and started to smirk.

"Are you threatening me with pillows young lady? I don't think so!"

Markus started to run as he push Abigail's wheelchair making her scream, they went around the whole garden. Markus pull some stunts such as drifting around a corner too fast and wheelies, this made some of the guard men snickers as they watched the two. It was almost time for Abigail's piano lesson and Markus was saying his goodbye, he leans down and hugs her.

"Can't you stay for dinner at least?" Abigail said.

"Well I could come back but I have to see someone soon." Markus said.

"Where are you going?"

"To The Order HQ."

"What? I thought you quit?"

"I did... I just have to go see Director Magnar."

"Oh ok..."

"I'll try to come back ok?" Markus pats her head.

"Ok!"

As they said their farewells, Malcolm push Abigail's chair back into the mansion as Markus left back towards the city. As he renters the city he makes his ways towards the edge of it, there was a tall rectangular building with two smaller building next to it all having windows allowing people to see the worker inside, in front of the building was a big open space with a fountain in the middle of it while the back had a training ground. In front of it all that was a giant metal door gate... And a wall... Circling around the area, Markus stood in front of the gate.

'Security has improved... Guess the White Fang really did destroy The Order.' Markus thought.

"NO WAY!"

Markus didn't have time to react as he was grabbed around the waist lifted up and spun around, as the spinning stop Markus was let down and he was dizzy. As shakes his head to regain focus, he looks up to see a large older male in his twenties with fiery orange hair and scruffy facial hair, he wore brown pants and a yellow shirt with red shoes.

"Lax?"

"Markus! You're back! Oh now we can finally team up together and defeat our enemies." Lax said as he wraps his arm around Markus's neck and pointing at the sky.

"Lax as much as I want to fight with you, I'm not returning to The Order." Markus said.

Markus notice the Lax's shadow was different; it didn't have the same shape as him. Then a figure grew out from it reveal themselves. This person wore a long green coat with a hood over their head and a black mask covering their face; it had green swirls going by the corner of the eye. They wore a black vest with knives in holsters and dark green pants with and black boots.

"Nigel!"

Nigel uses sign language to communicate with Markus.

"Good to see you to friend."

"Umm who's this?" A voiced said.

Markus took a look behind Nigel to see a female figure; she had funky violet hair and black glasses. She wore a denim jacket that had leather sleeves over a purple shirt, she wore a worn out jeans with a belt that had a buckle of a skull and purple canvas shoes.

"Izzy Shall I present you the one and only, Ebony Knight!" Lax said loudly making some people look at the four.

"This... This is the Ebony Knight?"Izzy said with a bit of disbelief in her voice as she looks at him up and down.

"I'm guessing you're not a fan?" Markus asked.

"Are you kidding me Lax? This guy can't be the Ebony knight; he looks like he belongs in Signal." Markus rolled his eye and look at Lax.

"Hey Lax do me a favor and let me in."

"Sure, but why are you here?"

"I got to talk to Magnar."

"Oh boy..."

"What?"

"Well... we had another incident and he's not very happy right now."

"Don't worry Lax, things well be fine."

They four got close to the metal door and were scan by a machine hanging by the wall, as a light pointed at their feet and raise upwards, a female voice spoke from a speaker.

"Unidentified subject, please state your business here." The voice said as the others look at Markus.

"I'm Markus Brooks here to talk to Director Magnar." Markus responded.

"You have no permission to do so."

"Am I not in the Database, surely you'll let me in if you know who I am." Markus waited for a moment before the voice spoke again.

"There is no Markus Brooks in the Database."

"Try Ebony Knight."

"... No Ebony Knight."

"Member 11030596"

"...No number records are in the database."

"Ummm He's with me, uhh he's our new recruit maybe he didn't get enter into our database yet." Lax announced.

"Where is his cardkey then?"

"I've lost it."

"If you don't have a cardkey or any identification to support your case then you cannot enter."

Markus looks at Lax and Nigel and walks away, as he did so he disappears in a flash of black and the metal door open.

"Uh where did he go?" Izzy asked.

"He got inside." Lax replied.

"What? How?"

"Oh you don't really know the Ebony Knight do you?"

Inside the tall building in the upper levels in a large room was an older man dress in a white general uniform with his left sleeve's folded and pinned standing in front of a TV screen talking to someone whose face was hidden.

"The attack of the dust plant left hundreds dead including some of our members, explain this." The man on the screen said.

"The White Fang happened, what else do you think happen, they've been attacking us ever since we broke our partnership and trust with them." The Man dress in white responded.

"Do we have a plan to retaliate?"

"Why does everything have to resort to violence? We can't be sending our men to attack them, it'll cause another war. Why can't we just talk to the leader?"

"You know what will happen Magnar; their listening skills aren't very functional."

"Then what do you propose? We are losing our men; we barely have enough for a counter attack."

"You are the leader Magnar, you deal with this." The TV screen shut off as Director Magnar rubs his face.

"That guy is one giant asshole." Magnar turns around to see Markus sitting in a chair.

"Markus... How did you get here?"

"I mostly walked here." Markus responded.

"Ok... Why are you here?"

"The White Conjuror and the White Fang are working together and I think I know who is behind it."

"Who?"

"I believe Cinder is, she's the only one that had massive amounts of dust when we arrested her a long time ago."

"But it doesn't make any sense; the White Fang don't work with humans... Wait how do you know that The White Conjuror is working with them?"

"I uhhh got into a fight with him."

"Well when did you get back?"

"Two weeks ago."

"And... Did you..."

"No I didn't find him." Markus cut Magnar off mid sentence. "Hey what's with all the extra security?"

"After you left we have been attack too many times so we had to build a wall around HQ."

"And my information is no longer in the database?"

"Our computers had a virus so we had to shut it down losing most of our information."

"Damn Magnar... What is happening to The Order?"

"We are slowly dying, that's why I asked Ozpin to tell you we need your help."

"How did you know I was Beacon?"

"Well Ozpin told me."

"Of Course..."

Magnar took a sit by a desk as he rested his head on his hand.

"So... Did you ever complete Kami No Kanjo."

"Are you kidding me, my master left before I could ever finish it." Markus replied.

"And I can't teach you with one arm only."

"Yes you can."

"And what? Get killed? No thank you, I got an organization to lead."

"I can always take over."

"Then I'm going to have to kill you." Both shared a chuckle.

"Although there is someone who can teach you to control it." Magnar said.

"What... There is?"

"Yes, she is our..."

Magnar was caught off guard as a loud explosion was heard; both of them rush towards the window to see a large hole created in front of The Order Headquarters. With smoke flowing in the air shadows appear behind them and figure started to run out of it, it was White Fang soldiers. As people ran to safety a larger shadow comes out of the smoke, it was the Red Juggernaut.

"Kill! Kill the people who betray you! Show them no Mercy." He said pointing towards the build.

Magnar quickly went towards a wall and press a small button, then a secret door open with a large case standing on a shelve. He took it out and laid down on the table, open it and took out a rapier. It was a double edge blade with crimson red as its color scheme. The handle and the guard was black with the guard larger than a normal rapier.

"Since when did you ever use a rapier?" Markus asked.

"Are you serious? This is my weapon, now enough talk let's go!"

End of chapter 14

A/N: Hey guys, hope you guys enjoy this chapter, however I have questions for you, how do you guys feel if I include death in this story. Do you guys want me to write more than five thousand words or continue with an average of two thousand to three thousand words? Do you guys want me to continue making OCs? Do you think it's a good idea to include an older sibling for Markus? Would you guys like to see harsher swear words in the story?

Anyways thank you for stopping by and please review cause I'm a lonely bastard.