Unresolved Chapter 3 – Mine and Blake

At a separate part of the kingdom of Vale, a lone teenage girl stands on the sidewalk. Her long, black hair has a bow in it as it blows in the wind. She looks down to see a large bloodstained pavement. She kneels down to pick up a broken piece of Grimm mask near the stain. She angrily looks at it her hands as she tightly grips the fragment. She closes her eyes as her grip loosens and the piece of the mask falls out of her hand. The girl stands in silence, until it was broken by the calling of a name.

"Blake!" the girl hears the voice call from a distance behind her. She opens her and turns to see Mine running to her, holding a large silver gun. "There you are. Ozpin said you went off on your own a little while ago." Mine says as she approaches her, trying to catch her breath.

"I thought you were bring food to the others in the hospital." Blake says.

"I did. Then I came back out to help clear the area any Grimm." Mine say as she adjust her grip on her weapon, "I did not spend all day yesterday fixing Pumpkin for nothing."

"I see." Blake says as she starts walking down the street. Mine, feeling slightly ignored, follows. "I heard this district was already cleared, why come back?" she says as Blake looks ahead.

"I wanted to find out something for myself." Blake says not making eye contact. "What?" Mine replies. "It was personal." Blake replies back in trying to take a couple of steps ahead of Mine.

"Okay, but we are going to classmates pretty soon. It would be a good idea for us to get to know each other." Mine says trying to keep pace with Blake.

"You do not need to know who I am. We are not on the same team." Blake says in an emotionless tone. Mine sighs as looks back at girl with a bow.

"Ruby said you were a little antisocial. We should move to one of the areas not cleared yet, there may still be some Grimm or White Fang members." Mine says pulling out her scroll and looking at a map of the kingdom. As she is looking at the remaining red areas, she bumps into the back of Blake. She looks up to see that the girl with a bow had stopped walking and had turned her head to look back at Mine.

"The White Fang, what have you heard about them?" Blake says.

"I know that they were a terrorist group and the leader was who Akame fought." Mine says as she wonders why Blake asked that question.

"They were not always a terrorist group, they were an organization that was protesting of the unfair treatment of Faunus. It was the leader that caused the change to more violent ways of protesting." Blake says causing Mine it gasp.

"Faunus like Velvet." Mine says in astonishment.

"Yes and other Faunus in worse situations." Blake says now turned fully towards Mine, "I was a part of their organization until I saw that their methods were too cruel."

"Are you a Faunas also?" Mine says looking closely at the bow atop Blake's head.

"Yes, now you know what I am." Blake say as she turn around and resumes walking.

"Wow, I guess we have more in common than I thought" Mine says in slight surprise before she starts to walk, but stops moving when Blake turns around after hearing what she said.

"You have no idea what I have been through, what my kind has been through! You are just a normal, human girl! We do not have anything in common!" Blake angrily declares towards Mine, "You're not a monster!" Mine stares back at Blake, who was breathing heavily after what she had said.

"Nothing in common? You are right that I am a human girl, but I am not normal. In my old world, I was considered a half foreigner. I was cruelly mistreated and harshly bullied because of my race. I joined Night Raid in the revolutionary army because they were going to improve relationships between the bordering countries." Mine says in a serious tone as Blake looks at her in astonishment, "I wanted to make sure no children of a similar background to mine would ever go through what I did. Is that not what you were fighting for?" After hearing what Mine had said, Blake waits a few seconds before responding, looking at the ground.

"It still is, I just did not want to do so the way the White Fang's leader was doing. I do not want humans to fear Faunas, I want people to cooperate with each other." Blake says as realizes the irony in her statement, "I am sorry, I did not know what you went through." Mine begins to walk forward, brushing her hand on Blake's shoulder as she passes her.

"It is alright, but you were wrong about one other thing." Mine says with a smile as Blake turns around in confusion, "You're not a monster. You're just a little different, like me." After hearing that, Blake smiles back as she follows Mine.

"Now, let's check out this area. After that, we can head back to meet the others for something to eat." Mine says as she points to the map on her scroll. Blake replies with a slight nod.