Chapter 15 – Blake Belladonna

Miles away in a build near the edge of Vale, the night continues as a meeting of members of the White Fang. The leader of the White Fang, Adam Taurus stands behind a podium, addressing the crowd of Faunus.

"Fellow Faunus, the time has now come for us to eliminate the humans of Vale, once and for all. We will kill them all by tomorrow, thanks to the help of a few associated. Rest now, for tomorrow will be a long day." The Faunus cheer in his name

However, one Faunus does not cheer as she observes through a windows high up on the wall, outside the building. She observers from the shadows. She has long black hair with a bow, gritting her teeth as she scans the crowd for someone. Unbeknownst to her, she is also being watched. She hears someone call her name in a familiar voice outside the building.

"Blake." She turns around with her gun aimed at the person's head. The Funus sees a women in battle armor and long red hair, a man is a green tailcoat and black hair with a pink strand, and woman in a pink skirt and light orange hair. All three raise their hands in response. Their friend lowers the gun once she realizes who they were. She jumps down to see the people and talk with them.

"Pyrrha, Ren, Nora, what are all of you doing here?" Blake whispers in concerned for their safety as she looks around for any guards.

"We were worried about you. You ran off crying after we told you and Yang about Weiss. Why did you come here?" Pyrrha says in a low tone of voice.

"I here to find Sun." Blake says as she looks around to see a White Fang solider come into view. She on the others hide behind nearby wooden boxes.

"Why would he be here?" Nora inquiries in a louder tone. To witch Ren tries to muffle his friend to stay hidden.

"I found out that the White Fang had an emergency meeting today, they might have gotten captured. He would not have left his friends without a reason and this is my only lead." After finishing this statement, Blake jumps back up to the window. Her three friends look at each other in concern over their friend's action. They then form a human totem pole to lift Pyrrha to match Blake's eye level. She looks at her Faunus friends with sincerity in her voice.

"Blake, have you even talked to Yang recently, or even Ruby? This is not like you."

Blake starts to cry as she answers Pyrrha, but does not look her in the eyes, "Not Yang, Ruby called but I did not answer. I messaged her back saying I will be safe and will be come back tonight."

She tries to wipes the tears from her eyes, but more form, "I did not want to lie to her, but knew she would follow me if I told her the truth."

"Blake…" Pyrrha says as she puts her hand on the cat Faunus's shoulder.

"That is what I am. I never have really been there for anyone. I always run away before things get serious and never could be a real teammate. It is my fault my friends are dead or missing," Blake wipes away all her tears as she looks at Adam walk away from the podium to the back exit, "Now I need to find answers before I can see Ruby or Yang again." Blake then jumps back to the window to look thought the event, her eyes red after crying.

"Blake, it was not your fault. You cannot blame yourself for what happened. Please, let us go home and talk with Ruby." Pyrrha beseeches Blake to no avail. Blake only focus on the Adam, she jumps down to move to the back entrance to the warehouse, Pyrrha and the others follow her.

At the back of the warehouse, two black vans act as a transportation for the leader of the White Fang. Standing near the vans, were four individuals. One was a young girl with short black hair and a katana. One of her shoulders was covered with a bloody cloth.

Another was a tall man with dark blue short hair and a blue jacket. It was the other two that caused Blake to loss her sense of reality. Wearing blood stained uniforms, were her missing friends, Neptune and Sun.

Blake is about to rush out but is stopped by Nora. She pulls her back before the enemies can see her. She comments on what her was friend doing. Blake then shows Nora and her two teammates to see. They could not understand why Sun or Neptune would change sides.

"What happened to them?" Ren comments trying to keep his voice low. Nora tries to find reason in situation. "And why are they covered in blood? Who are those two? None of this makes sense?"

Blake ads on. "They are not Faunus, so maybe they are connected the organization Roman is in. We need to talk to Sun or Neptune to find out what is going on, but how can we just get their attention."

Pyrrha then notices a metal bin a distance away from the enemies. "Maybe we should just separate one of them from the rest." She waits for one of the vans to leave with Adam, and the other started loading with the other four. The warrior student used her power of polarity to causes the metal bin to fall over. The woman with short hair is started by the loud notice, she looks over at Sun. Pointing at the metal bin, causing Sun to walk over to it.

Pyrrha then looks over at Blake, "Okay you have the opportunity now to ask some questions. Then we have to get out of here before the others notice us." Blake nods and stealthily maneuvers behind cover to get close enough to her friend to ask him a question.