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Chapter Cover: Blake standing alone as she held her sword in her hand.

Chapter Fifty-Eight

Escape from Las Hazard

Where…am…I…?

There was darkness, suffocating darkness pushing down upon her form. She couldn't feel anything at all from her body and couldn't feel anything…or known anything. She couldn't even remember how she got to neither this location…nor even remembering her own name…it was like everything was too difficult for her…

"Hey, wake up…wake up…,"

A new voice drew her attention toward it and strangely the darkness that was around her started to recede until she was in a large white plane. The young woman blinked to herself as she stared at the plane that she was in currently noticing the strange wisp of smoke that were dancing around her form.

"Hey," a voice called out.

The girl's golden eyes turned toward the voice finding another girl across her. It was the strangest girl she had ever seen. She had freckles upon her face and her green eyes were looking at her with a look of wonder upon her features. The young woman was dressed in what look like to be a hospital scrub and her green eyes widened lightly as she saw her looking at her.

"I managed to reach you," she said happily clapping her hands, "That's pretty good."

The young woman blinked at her.

"Who…are you?"

"Oh…," the girl said, an embarrass look crossing her freckled riddled face, "Well, I'm Penny. That's what my father calls me."

The woman blinked.

"W…Where are we?" she asked again.

Penny blinked glancing around them.

"Oh…we're inside your mind," she said, "I managed to reach you before it was all gone."

The girl frowned.

"All gone?" she asked.

Penny walked toward her and took hold of her hands, taking the other girl by surprise at her actions. The golden eyes seem to become apprehensive as Penny smiled gently at her.

"I could feel you," she said, "When you first arrived here inside this place. Your mind called to me and it was exceptionally strong, and to tell you the truth I was quite curious about who you really are…Don't worry, I'm going to help you alright so don't be scared."

The golden eyes seem to be more puzzled than anything as the girl stared at her.

"I'm not scared," she said, "I'm just…confused at what is going on."

Penny gave her a light smile.

"You won't be confused any longer," she said.

There was an odd glow coming form their joined hands, drawing the golden eyes down toward them. She can feel the power…Aura surging forward through her form as images started to appear in her mind. She remember a man with red hair dressed in a black coat upon his form and two horns producing from his red hair…she remember a girl with white hair and a black robes upon her form...The images continued to flash through her eyes.

Then the images suddenly stopped as she let out a soft gasp. She turned her gaze toward the girl in front of her, Penny, as the young woman gave her a light smile of joy.

"Are you still confused?" she asked.

The young woman…no, Blake shook her head, her golden eyes staring back at the girl.

"H…How did you do that?" she asked, shocked.

"I simply gave back what was already yours," she said.

Blake was confused.

"What happened to me?" she asked, "Why couldn't I remember anything?"

"It's this thing they're doing to you," Penny said with a light smile, "I don't really know much about it, but I do know that it take away the nice power and make it all black and icky. I could feel everyone they're doing this to have the same thing happening to them…it's like they're here one moment and then, they're not here anymore."

Blake stared at her confused.

"What do you mean…turning the nice power all black and icky," she asked.

Penny raised her hand and a ball of light appeared within her palms.

"This power," she said.

"You mean Aura?"

Penny looked at her confused.

"Is that what you called it?" she said, "Huh…I never knew that you people gave it a name."

Blake stared at her for a few moments before shaking her head, "You don't know what Aura is?"

"It was always there you know," Penny smiled gently at her, "The nice power…Aura you say. A lot of the others had it before the black icky stuff took over them…now they don't have that power anymore."

Blake frowned as a memory came back to her. Dmitri's words about what Adam had been doing to the White Fang came back to her. She couldn't believe that the man she had followed so far and long had fallen so low. She could feel her anger surging through her…but most of all, she can feel the pain in her heart also at the words too…

It was just too hurtful to think about so Blake turned her attention away from the pain she was feeling and turning her gaze toward Penny who was across her.

"What about the people I came here with?" she asked, "Are they…okay?"

Penny blinked in confusion.

"Who?"

"I came here with two others," Blake said, "Can you feel them as you did mine?"

Penny thought about it for a few moments.

"I don't think so," she said, "I did feel them when you had arrived…but I can't feel them anymore. You were the only one I could still feel when I woke up. It could be too late for them to wake up."

Blake thought back to Mirkia and Torchwick. While she didn't really care about Torchwick all that much, she still feel it to be her responsibility that he was here. Mirkia had been a companion she had fought side by side with in her time in the White Fang and if she was already lost…

Oh Goddess, she thought.

She took a deep breath before refocusing upon Penny.

"Am I…in one of those pods too?" she asked.

Penny nodded.

"Then how…how do I wake up?" Blake asked her, "I can't really do it on my own."

"It's easy," Penny laughed lightly, "How do you wake up from a dream? It's the same thing here."

Then her face because a little sullen.

"Say…when you wake up," she asked, "Can you come and help me as well?"

Blake stared at her, confused.

"Help you?" she said, "Are you a prisoner here?"

Penny shrugged.

"I don't know," she said, "I have spent all my life in this place. I have never seen the sky nor the moon. Despite having seeing it in the memories of the people around me, I want to see them and make memories of my own."

Blake stared at her. Getting off the island will be hard enough if all of those strange Grimm…but can she really turn her back upon Penny and leave the girl here by herself?

No…No I can't, she thought, If what she said is true and Mirkia and Torchwick are...gone. I can't just leave her here…not if she is the one to help me.

"How will I find you?" she asked.

Penny raised a hand creating a small ball of light within her palm. The light flew out of her hand and its headed straight toward Blake's chest and flew into her form. It felt warm…yet at the same time, there was a touch of loneliness upon it. Blake touched the location that the ball of light had entered her.

She looked up toward Penny who smiled at her.

"Come and find me," she said.

Then Blake opened her eyes.

She saw that she was completely submerged into a tank filled with water. The young woman blinked to herself as she glanced around herself, noticing the many wires that were touching her skin as well as the breather mask that she had upon her face. The girl made to move her arms but she found them restricted of all movements.

Similar to how Dmitri was, she thought, Then…I have to be in a form that will be able to sneak away from here…From what I can sense, my Aura has depleted considerably…Just how long was I out? How long has it been since that guy took us down?

Blake shook her head a little.

Thinking about that isn't going to help me here, she thought, I need to get out of here first and find Penny…

The girl's body started to glow lightly and then Blake can feel herself becoming smaller in form and she felt her arms thinking and slipping out of the restraints that were holding her until she had fully transformed into her Animal Spirit form, which is a black cat with golden eyes. The feline form was now floating in the liquid with the breather mask off.

Then she transformed back into her human form and she was now free of the restrain that had been holding her. Blake turned her attention toward the door in front of her and made to push it open but the door won't budge.

It took me and Mirkia to crack open Dmitri's, she thought, But with how low my Aura is…I'm going to have to use some low level Dust magic…I can't risk drawing attention toward me yet.

Blake placed a palm against the body of the door and concentrated upon her Aura. She was starting to run out of her in her lungs so this has to work because if it doesn't…she is going to die.

Black Dust level 12, Pentagram Shot.

Upon the metal door a soft purple glow completely covered her hand as the metal door in front of her started to hiss and then a hole was instantly blown on the area in front of her and water suddenly surged outward and spilling upon the ground in front of her. With most of the liquid out of the tank she had been submerged in, Blake could finally draw breath and it caused the dark haired girl to start coughing at the sudden fresh air at the back of her throat.

Blake pulled her wet hair out of her forehead and flicked her Faunus ear to get water out of them. The girl stared at the hole in front of her and transformed back into her Animal Soul, as she jumped out of the tank and unto the ground. The black cat glanced around herself for a few moments. It was the same room that she and her companions got captured in and it was filled with numerous pods. She frowned to herself as she glanced around them, wanting to see if she could find the others but before she could actually got anywhere the sound of someone approaching toward where she was caused her to hide behind one of the nearby tanks.

It was a young woman, she noticed.

The woman had long hair falling down upon her shoulder and was also dressed completely in black. She had this frown upon her face as she approached the area where the water had fallen everywhere and came to a stop in front of the empty tank Blake was in a few minutes prior. The woman stared at it for a few moments before letting out a sigh.

"Saddler's not going to be happy about this," she murmured, "Thought I am surprised she managed to escape from the pod…No one ever does that even after four days."

Blake can feel her eyes widening lightly.

Four days? She thought, That's how long it's been since then?

The woman approached the empty tank and placed a hand upon it.

"I wonder…," she murmured softly.

Blake stared at her from where she had hid in the darkness. She could see the young woman's face…at least, a side of it. There was something working in the woman's mind as she stood there before turning away and walking back to direction she came from. Blake stayed there for a moment longer waiting for the footsteps to disappear completely before moving form where she was.

Now I have to find Penny, she thought, I can sense her too…which is strange considering I couldn't sense her before. Could that strange ball she had placed in me be the reason why I can sense her now?

Blake moved quickly from where she was, keeping her ears open for any type of sounds that she could hear, all the while, following the source of where that power was leading her. She made her way through the ventilation system and following the feel of the power in her chest.

Just who is she anyway? Blake thought frowning to herself, For her to be able to gave me back my memories like that and reverse whatever those people were doing to me? Was this the reason why she is kept here…because she could reverse what Sadler had done?

Blake frowned thinking about the girl.

If she can gave me back my memories just like that…it makes me wonder what else can she do with memories, she thought, Can she manipulate them to her will? Can she…make false memories as well…

That caused Blake to come to a stop. What if that girl was tricking her and lead her straight back into the hands of whoever those peoples were? What if it was all a trap and that Blake was going to lose everything again?

If something like that had happened before I was captured, she thought, I would have thought that it was a trap…but she gave me back my memories...can I really run and turn my back upon that girl and save myself?

Blake let out a sigh before moving forward again.

I know if I did that…It will hunt me forever, she thought.

The girl reached the area where the power was leading her to and she came to a stop near the vent that was leading down toward the room where the power was coming from. Blake came to a stop at the corner of the room, glancing down toward the room bellow and took notice of a bed and scattered drawing everywhere in the room. It caused her to feel confusion at what she was seeing before suddenly the blind that was in front of her was removed.

Then a familiar face was pocking through the opening of the vent. The two large green eyes stared at her and Blake found herself staring back in the freckled face of Penny. The young girl had her eyes wide with surprise at the sight of her.

"A kitty," she said, sounding surprised before a light frown appear on her face, "No…I can feel my power coming from you…Blake?"

Blake approached her in her cat form, "I did told you I'd come after you."

Penny had a large smile appearing upon her face at hearing her speak in her cat form. The girl had a soft look crossing her face as she stared at her.

"I didn't think you'd come for me," she said, "Whenever I talked about someone to come at me, they always brush me off…but I shouldn't be surprised, my Father is quite busy in his work."

Blake stared at her.

"And who exactly is your father?" she asked, curious.

"His name is Desmerond Saddler," Penny said with a large smile, "He is the one that kept me here in this room. I wonder why he doesn't want me to leave thought."

Blake can feel her eyes widening in shock at the revelation. This was the daughter of the man they spoke to when they first arrived. This was a little curious that Saddler was keeping her in this room and from the look of it, the girl probably didn't have any contact with the outside world.

"So you can't leave this room at all?" Blake asked.

"I tried it once," Penny said, "But Father got really upset and placed this thing on my hand."

She raised her hand and Blake can feel her stomach churn at the sight of the marking upon her skin. She recognizes it quite well. It was a Dust spell from the look of it and it was something that was mostly used for convicted criminals.

He put something like this on his own daughter? She thought, That mean…they must be an Anchor somewhere to hold her inside the room. If I can destroy this Anchor…then the seal will break and she'll be free but…if I break it…then everyone will be upon us and with how much Aura I have…I won't be able to fight any of them off…and from what happened before…I don't think I'll be able to fight any of them off.

She jumped down into the room transforming into her full human form as she landed down upon the ground in a crouch. Her Faunus ears flicked as she listened to the sounds around her but it didn't seem that there was anyone near where Penny was. The young woman stood up and turned toward Penny beside her.

"Penny, did your father give you any present when he put that mark upon your hand?" she asked.

The girl thought about it for a few seconds before a look appeared upon her face. She then make her way toward a small bookcase and took hold of a doll.

"Yes," she said, taking hold of the doll, "He gave me Mrs. Summer."

"Mrs. Summer?" Blake repeated.

"I like summer," Penny said, "From what I've read in books, it get really warm. I like it when it's warm."

Blake took the doll from the girl and stared down at it. She frowned to herself and removed the clothes that the doll was wearing, searching the doll's entire body for the Anchor but it wasn't there upon it.

"What are you doing?" Penny asked, curious.

"The mark on your hand is called Mark of Judas," Blake said giving her a glance, "It's something that they use on criminal so that they can't get out of the place they are kept in. While it doesn't restrict the Aura, as long as you have that mark on you, you won't be able to leave the area the person who placed it upon you had left you in. But there is a way of removing the mark, and that's to find it's Anchor."

Blake had pulled the head of the doll and locked inside of it.

"Gotcha," she said.

The Anchor mark was different than the Judas mark but they both had similar characters upon them.

For the Anchor to be this close to the mark, Blake thought, This is a stroke of luck…or maybe Saddler was confident that Penny would have never be able to figure out the truth about the mark on her hand and that way, he was keeping her prisoner here without her knowing…it makes me wonder if he is even her father at all?

She touched the doll.

Well if there is one thing I have learned to do during my time in the White Fang is to remove those marks, Blake thought, It's one of the thing you taught me…right Adam?

Blake surged her Aura through the mark, "Dispel."

The mark inside the doll disappeared. Penny let out a gasp.

"The mark on my hand," she said, "It's gone."

Blake tossed the Doll to the side and then raised a hand toward the air in front of her. A Doorway sprung to life in the middle of the room, probably alerting anyone nearby of where she was.

"What is that?" Penny asked, shocked.

"You said you wanted to see the outside world right?" Blake said, extending a hand toward her, "Then c'mon."

Penny had her eyes wide with surprise before pure happiness appeared upon her freckled face. She extended a hand and took hold of Blake's. Then the two girls jumped through the Doorway which closed as soon as they had disappeared through it.


"What do you mean Penny is gone?"

Saddler was staring at the two black clad people in front of him. He was seething were he stood, unable to understand what had just gone. The man narrowed his eyes at them, feeling his anger shooting through the roof.

"That troublesome girl," he growled, "I swear she is becoming more trouble than she's worth."

"It would seem that one of your subject had somehow woken up from the Endless Sleep," the woman said, "I would say that she is the one responsible for it…although, how she had done this is still a mystery."

Saddler frowned lightly.

"It doesn't matter now," he said, "If that Faunus filth actually spoke of what she had witnessed here. We will have the Huntsman on us before the project is completed. Penny's ability is crucial and yet she is missing…"

Saddler turned his gaze toward them.

"I want the two of you to track down this Doorway to whenever it opened and get Penny back here immediately," he said, "If anyone get in the way…kill them all."

Both of the black clad people bowed to him.

"Yes sir," they echoed before walking out of the room leaving Saddler by himself in his office.

The man turned his attention toward the monitor in front of him, staring at the form of Adam Taurus from where the man was seating.

Your White Fang is quite tenacious Adam, he thought, I'll make sure to destroy the one remaining completely.

Blake managed to escape but this time bringing along the mysterious Penny...

Next Time: Choice

Jacques0 out.

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