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Chapter Cover: Blake and Weiss face to face with their weapons aimed at each other's neck.

Chapter Twenty-Two

Black and White

Noir stared at the girl that just appeared in the air above them. He could feel his eyes widening lightly at the sight of her. He couldn't believe that she was actually here considering how weakened her power was when she was attacked three days ago. He knew that there was no way that she could have gotten better…

And her wounds weren't healed yet.

Why did you come here into this battlefield Weiss? He thought, I know for a fact that your wounds aren't healed yet.

However, Blake was having a different reaction at the sight of the white haired girl. The golden eyes were fixed upon the ice bleu eyes that were staring down at her. The Schnee girl had come out to face them on her own. She could feel her hatred growing at the mere sight of the white hair. She remembers a lot of her people suffering at the hands of the White Knights that the Schnee had in Vacuo and Mistral. And there is no saying about the number of Faunus that were completely enslaved, working at the mines that the White Family had under their controls…

"Schnee," she growled.

The white haired girl had landed down upon the ground beside the young man. Weiss's eyes were fixed upon the three members of the White Fang that were in front of her and her grip upon her blade tightened as she got ready for combat.

"Weiss…," the young man said.

"Go into the city and find a way to close the Doorway," the white haired girl told him curtly, "If that thing stays open for too long, they will be too much Grimm for all of us to handle by ourselves."

Noir pulled his hat down upon his face, his dark eyes staring at her.

"Are you sure you won't need me here?" he asked, "After what happened three nights ago…?"

Weiss gave him a sideway glance.

"You just worry about that Doorway," she said, "I'll worry about myself."

He let out a sigh. He knew that the girl won't be dissuaded into fighting right now. He knew her too long to know when she had made up her mind about something. He stared at her, and if he hadn't know how badly she was hurt a couple of days ago, he would have simply obeyed her without another word. But with that knowledge in his mind, he couldn't find it in himself to leave her.

Weiss had noticed his hesitation.

"What are you still doing here? Go," she snapped.

The young man nodded.

"Just be careful," he said.

He chanced a glance toward where Blake stood and he could see how much anger that was in those eyes. The little girl that was once filled with hope for a better tomorrow was completely changed, completely overtaken by Adam Taurus ideology of a free world.

I'll let you open her eyes Weiss, he thought, I'll trust you to make her see what she has lost.

With that he was gone, heading back toward Vale to help the others that were fighting against the Grimm.


Weiss focused her attention upon the three Faunus that were in front of her. The young woman took a stance with her sword, her blue eyes narrowing lightly. The golden eyed Faunus seemed to be the leader from how the other two were standing beside her with their weapons ready.

"Treating your people like that," the girl spoke out, her voice filled with a tone of mixed anger and hatred, "I should have expected something like this from a Schnee."

"It's because I won't need his help here," Weiss answered simply, "His ability with Dust magic and Light and Shadow Magic is more powerful than my own. He is the perfect candidate to find a way to close that Doorway that you people have opened."

The girl raised her sword.

"So you're saying, you will fight the three of us?" she said, "Despite your wounds."

Weiss didn't say anything.

"At least," the girl continued, "It will make my job a whole lot easier."

Here she comes, Weiss said.

The dark haired girl was upon her in a split second, her sword coming at Weiss with a speed that surprised the white haired girl. She barely had enough time to block it, sparks flying when the two blades made contact and the power behind the attack caused her to slide back a little as the Faunus girl pushed against her.

Weiss narrowed her eyes lightly as she pushed back with her own strength as her Aura rose up even higher again, and then from the side where the two other Faunus coming at her with their own attack. The white haired girl dodged them by using her Light Step technique instantly disappearing in a flash of white and light wind chimes noise.

She had reappeared a little farther away as she slammed her blade upon the ground, her eyes staring up toward the trio in front of her. Light started to appear around her sword and it shoot toward where the group was and a large Glyph had appeared there.

"Dust Level 41, Storm Center," she said.

A large funnel of wind shoots from the glyph upon the ground completely taking over the group as they yelled out as they were launched in the air by her attack but the dark haired girl had managed to escape most of the attack as some kind of shadow was around her and she landed down upon the ground in front of her. The darkness around the girl spun around her body as the golden eyes fixed upon her.

"You managed to escape such a high level of Dust magic," Weiss said, "You're not bad."

The dark haired girl suddenly disappeared in a burst of speed causing Weiss to take guard as the girl appeared right on her left side she so struck there but it turned out it was nothing more than a clone of some kind causing her eyes to widen lightly before blood was drawn from the blade that had stabbed her from the back. Weiss stared down at the blade that was running through her form right now, unable to understand how she was stabbed.

"It's over for you Schnee," the dark haired girl told her.


Blake could feel her triumph rising.

Her blade was now running through the white haired girl's stomach and it was a fatal blow as well. This girl was as good as dead. With this girl dead, that mean this world will be one less of the accursed Schnee in this world and from how stiff the girl was in front of her, Blake knew that soon enough, she will lose consciousness and then died in a pool of her own blo…

Out of nowhere, a Glyph appeared right beneath the duo drawing her eyes down toward where it had came from and Blake could feel surprise at it. She heard the Schnee girl speak, and Blake can feel her surprise growing even more…

"Dust Level 41, Storm Center,"

The powerful Dust spell overcame the duo and Blake felt the full fury of the attack that had taken down her two allies earlier. She had been lucky that she had managed to block out most of the damage that this attack can do but this time, she had managed to feel the pain surging through her body at the numerous slashes she could feel coursing through her body as she was thrown away from where the Schnee girl was still standing.

Using an attack like that, she thought, At such a close range…she will be affected too…

As the winds died out, the white haired girl was still standing with her back to her. Blake could see that the black robes had been damaged from the attack, but there was no wound visible upon her body. The girl turned to face her, and the blue eyes upon her.

Why is she still standing? The dark haired girl thought, the stab I gave her was a fatal wound and there is blood on my sword so why…

The Schnee girl suddenly sprung forward and Blake was in a stance blocking the attacks that were coming at her as she pared them, the attacks causing sparks to flash through, as the blades met each other. She was a little impressed at the girl's skill with the blade, and she was good enough to match her in combat. Blake was still miffed up seeing that despite the wounds that she had been given.

She was instantly pushed back by an attack from the white haired girl and then the next second she was upon her again. Blake narrowed her eyes as she instantly activated her sword's special ability, creating a after image of herself where she once was as the Schnee's blade came down only to take the clone and leaving herself wide open for attack.

Got you, Blake thought.

She slashed at the girl's unprotected back causing and blood flew from the wound as it splattered upon the ground around the girl and the black robe was ripped from her slash and she staggered a little at the wound but instead of falling down upon one knee as Blake expected her to, the Schnee girl stayed standing.

Then she turned toward her.

"Dust Level 33, Purifying Blue Lightning."

The spell shone bright blue as it launched itself straight toward Blake causing the girl to jump away from the sudden attack that had came at her. She had grit her teeth, unable to understand how the Schnee girl could still be moving like this from the two wounds that she had given her and there is no way that she could have been healed that quickly…not from the mortal wound that Arkos had given her…

So why…why is she still standing?

Then the girl was there again, her sword coming for Blake. It was glowing with the white haired girl's Aura and Blake had managed to block it but then the girl spoke out.

"Ice Age."

A wave of ice shoot out of the sword and Blake was completely covered in second and instinctively, she used her sword's special ability so that her clone was in now incased in the ice as she landed a few feet away huffing.


Weiss stared at the lightly formed figure that was incased into her Ice Age attack. She stared at it for a few moments before turning toward the dark haired girl that was across her. The girl had managed to evade her Ice age attack by using that strange clone again. She was a little amazed at the ability and it made her wonder if all Faunus can do something like this…but she disregarded that for it must have been her Soul Weapon ability.

"You are strong," the dark haired girl spoke, "As expected of someone from a prodigious member of the most powerful clan in existence."

Weiss didn't say anything as she stared at the girl across her. She could see the Faunus ears that were upon the top of her head, cat ears, she recognized.

"And you didn't even release your sword yet," the dark haired girl continued, "But I am curious as to how you can move despite the wounds you had from Arkos's Axe and from getting stabbed by my sword."

"Is that the brute's name that wanted to kill me?" Weiss said, "A quite cowardly tactic, to attack someone when their back is turned."

"Like you Schnee are any better," the dark haired girl growled.

"My name is Weiss," she said, "Schnee is the name of my family. If you are addressing me, do so as Weiss. Schnee can mean a lot of people and there are only the two of us here."

The dark haired girl let out a snort.

"As if I care," she said, "All of you are the same."

Weiss observed her carefully. This would be a good opportunity to actually learn why the White Fang wanted to kill her family. Ever since she had been a young girl, Weiss knew of the White Fang and their relentless attempts to kill member of her family. It was one of the reasons as to why her Father had wanted her to be a Huntress and be able to fight back. The other, well, she had always had a stupidly large amount of Aura despite her young age…

"Tell me White Fang," Weiss asked, "Why do you hate my family? Why do you attack us even after the war against your Clan had ended long before the two of us were even born?"

The dark haired girl narrowed her eyes at her.

"You're really asking me that," she said, "You're asking me why I shouldn't have revenge for the slaughter of thousands of my peoples? You're asking me why I shouldn't have retaliation when you destroyed the Faunus Clan because of your jealousy of us?"

"That war had killed hundreds of my own people as well," Weiss said simply.

"It was a war you initiated;" the dark haired girl yelled at her, "Because of that, the Faunus had never managed to recover entirely. Because your family, every Faunus in Remnant are thought as lesser being than Humans. That war had taken everything from us and we are going to make every Schnee pay for that…And I am going to erase your bloodline from this world."

A sudden rise of Aura caused the ground around Weiss to start shaking with the amount of power the girl was suddenly releasing. Weiss stood her ground as the wind blew her black robes backward. She stared at the girl in front of her and she knew that the girl was going to do an Awakening.

Flashback

"Are you out of your mind?" Sebastian asked, "If you use something like that…you could die."

Weiss was standing up by the window staring toward the Doorway that had appeared over Vale a few minutes ago. Weiss knew she was still very much injured to go to battle at the moment, but her pride as a Huntress just wanted to go out there and fight.

"Protecting Vale is my duty as a Huntress," the white haired girl told him, "You can't expect me to just stand aside."

"Ruby and Yang are more than enough to win this battle now that they know the names of their Soul Weapon," Sebastian told her.

"I do not doubt their power," Weiss answered, "But Vale is under my protection. Staying out of a fight is not something I am good at. I'd rather die in battle, than die without fighting back."

Sebastian was gong to argue again but Weiss silenced him with her gaze.

"I've made my decision," Weiss said.

Sebastian fell silent as he stared at the girl.

"Very well," he said, "If you are prepared to go this far…then I won't stop you. Juts know the consequences of what you're doing here."

Weiss's black robes appeared around her form.

"I'm fully prepared for it," she said, "I wouldn't have become a Huntress if I didn't know how to make sacrifices."

End of Flashback

Weiss stood there staring at the large amount of Aura that was being displayed right in front of her. Her blue eyes stared without blinking at the large amount of power that the Faunus girl was unleashing.

"Purr, Nigri Fellis (Black Cat)"

The power appeared around the Faunus girl's form. Her ear had become more visible and two purple lines appeared upon her cheeks simulating whiskers. Her golden eyes had become sharpened with a slit in the middle and a tail was now dancing behind the girl. Her hands had become clawed like as they resembled more of the paws of a cat.

Some black furs had appeared upon the girl's body as her face looked even more like a cat. The golden eyes then fixed upon Weiss as she took her stance but then the next second, the clawed hands of the Faunus was inches from her face causing the white haired girl's eyes to widen considerably at the speed she had moved.

"Dust Level 4, Repulse,"she screamed in her mind.

The shield appeared upon Weiss's body just as the attack reached her causing a large boom to overcome the two girls. Weiss was pushed back as she slid on the ground, the shockwave of the attack launching her backward. She grits her teeth lightly as she tightened her stance and the Faunus was upon her again, moving with a speed that shocked Weiss.

She had never seen someone who moved as fast as her before…

The Faunus was upon her again, launching an attack at Weiss who blocked it with her blade and then the other hand came at her from the right side and Weiss dodged it but not before it got her on the arm causing blood to appear as well as the clawed marks of the Faunus's Awakening form.

I thought I had dodged that…but not fast enough…

The Faunus was upon her again and Weiss launched her hand forward.

"Dust Level 50, Red Dragon Canon."

The red glow appeared around her hand as the blast launched straight at the girl as the tip took the shape of a Dragon head, launching straight at her opponent. In front of her very eyes, Weiss saw her Dust magic attack get completely shredded like it was made of butter.

No…she managed to cut through a level 50 spell like it was nothing? Weiss thought, unable to hide her shock, Her Awakening is stronger than the Faunus from the past…

A black shadow launched straight at her and Weiss took hold of her blade as her Aura surged through her.

"Ice Age," she yelled.

The white ice attack launched straight down toward where her enemy was but blood surged from her shoulder as the claw marks appeared there as well. That caused Weiss to wince lightly at the pain before she turned around.

"Too slow Schnee," the Faunus girl spoke out.

Weiss raised her sword to attack but a hand slammed upon her face before she could actually attack. Then, with a brute force she was send slamming down into the ground where her ice age was and it all shattered around her with the force of her body making impact on the ground causing the ice that she had created to shatter completely as they dissipated into nothingness.

Weiss lied there in the crater that had formed around her form. She was staring up straight toward the Faunus girl in the air above her. She can see the golden eyes staring down at her pitilessly at her situation.

I…I hadn't expected her to be this powerful, she thought, I thought I'll be able to take her without my Sword release but…she managed to overcome a Level 50 spell like it was nothing…She is stronger than the other Faunus from back then…she must be…one of the strongest in the White Fang.

The white haired girl let out a sigh.

So that's how much they want to destroy my family eh, she thought, to send someone this caliber after me…

Flashback

Sebastian was staring at her again, his eyes grave.

"Can you really say that you're prepared for those consequences Lady Schnee?" he said, "If you use that power, it will strip you the ability to use your Sword release in exchange for your wounds…but, if your enemy is too strong and demand the release of your sword…that spell will be lifted."

Weiss stood there with a frown upon her features.

"And all the pain will return," she finished, "I know the technique all too well Sebastian."

Weiss's hand went toward her shoulder.

"But I can handle a little pain," she said giving him a glance, "Do it…I can feel strong powerful Aura approaching the Manor and from what I can sense they are Faunus."

End of flashback

Weiss stood back up upon her feet. She couldn't feel any pain now but she knew that if she release her sword, all that pain she had received during the battle will all come all at the same time and there is no saying that she will still be conscious.

But I still have to try, the girl thought, I was tasked to protect Vale…and I have my pride as a Huntress and as a member of the White family…

The girl placed her blade at a chest height, her Aura rising.

"Whiten the Petals of the Snow Flower, Myrtenaster."


Pushed in a corner...Weiss release her Soul Weapon...

Next Time: Desperate situation.

Jacques0 out.

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