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Chapter Cover: Weiss and Blake seating back to back with each other.

Chapter Sixty-Three

Choices that I Make

Weiss listened to what Blake was saying for the past few minutes. The young woman had a light frown upon her features at the words the dark haired girl was saying. It was quite a shocking revelation that was being said to her and what had been happening at Las Hazard over the years and the strange Grimm that Blake had been encountering…thought Blake had done a job of not saying exactly why she had gone to the island other than that she went looking for a friend.

When the girl was done talking, Weiss stayed silent thinking about what she had said. Experimentations using human beings is an inhuman act and could lend the man in jail for what he had done…thought the reason that he had been doing that was off putting.

"Saddler," she repeated softly, "The same sound familiar."

Blake gave her a glance, her golden eyes seemingly becoming curious.

"You know who he is?"

"The name sounds familiar," Weiss answered, "I remember reading it off somewhere during my studies back when I was in the White Clan. I didn't really pay much attention to it at the times…"

"Could that guy be a former member of the White Clan?" Noir asked her as he glanced at her.

"I doubt it," Weiss said, "the Saddler name is not among the families that made up my Clan. Trust me, I know all of them."

Blake stared at her.

"What does it matter who he is?" she said, "This man is keeping an innocent girl hostage and kidnapping Faunus all over Remnant for his experiments. We need to put a stop to his operations."

Weiss gave her a glance.

"Blake," Noir said, "Just charging in without a plan is not sensible. If we don't know who this Saddler is, then we can't expect what else he is doing back on Las Hazard. It could have ended up with how it ended up for you and the people who were with you."

Blake tightened her grip upon the bed.

"With the two I faced and how powerful they are," Noir continued a frowning look upon his features, "We don't know if they are others with him. For something like that to have happened with no one else knowing about it…I find it strange."

"He went to a lot of trouble to keep the Clans from noticing what he was doing," Weiss said, "Something like that fall upon my jurisdiction considering they attacked Vale. Doing experiments on Grimm, I don't think I have ever heard of such…"

Weiss trailed off a thought coming to mind. The other two in the rooms glanced at the white haired girl both with puzzled expression upon their faces as they stared at her but the girl didn't even notices them. The girl finally realizes why the name Saddler was so familiar to her and why it reminded her of her studies. She couldn't believe she had managed to forget something like that.

"Goddess…how could I forget something like that?" she said slapping herself on her forehead.

"Er…Weiss," Noir said staring at her, "Are you okay?"

"I realize now why the name Saddler is so familiar," Weiss said glancing at him, "It's one of the name of the people who went to the Shadow World."

Blake had her eyes widening at that and even Noir was surprised.

"People willingly went there?" Blake said, "I thought that it was made up…"

"I thought that everyone who went there never came back?" Noir asked.

Weiss crossed her arms.

"Obviously we were wrong," she said.

Blake stared at them.

"But why did they willingly go there?" she asked.

Weiss frowned lightly.

"Well, we were always curious about the Grimm true origin," she said, "The Expedition there was to reveal if there was something in the Shadow World that we could use and end the Grimm at their Source. Trained Huntsmen went with the scientists but connection was lost with them so the mission was called a failure."

"And…Saddler was part of that?" Blake said.

Weiss nodded.

"But it was a long time ago," she said, "It's hard to believe that he had survived this ordeal. I hardly believed it myself…it makes me wonder if his experience is causing what he is doing right now."

Noir frowned.

"Sound like someone went off the deep end," he said.

Weiss glanced up toward the duo in front of her.

"I'm going to have to talk to my father about this," she said, "If Saddler is using Las Hazard as some type of experiment facility then we need to put a stop to it and save that Penny girl from him. He'll probably gave me full reigns over the mission with all things considered."

Blake gave her a disbelieving glance.

"How are you even planning to do something like that?" she said, "Last I heard you were exiled from your Clan."

Weiss gave a light smirk.

"Your information is outdated Belladonna," she said, "I'm sure Noir will be more than enough to bring you up to speed with what's being going on, but for now, get some rest. Your injury was quite severe from what I saw."

She turned away from her and made her way toward the door but before she stepped out, Weiss turned toward them again.

"Oh and Blake…thank you for your help against the White Knights," she said, "Sebastian told me that you helped back during that day."

Blake stared at her, for a few moments. Weiss gave her a light nod of farewell before stepping out of the room and closing the door behind her.


Blake couldn't hide the confusion that was on her face at what the Schnee girl, Weiss just told her. The young woman could still feel the echoes of the pain she was feeling upon her body but at least, most of her Aura had been restored in the time she had been unconscious. She turned her gaze toward Noir, noticing the wounded arm that was in the sling before Weiss had arrived and talked to her…thought, she can find herself thinking back to the strange notion that the girl had just told her.

"What was she talking about?" she asked, "Last time I heard she was going to be executed by the White Clan."

"Well, a lot of things happened when we went to rescue her," Noir told her taking a seat upon the bed, "Long story short, Weiss is now the Captain of the White Clan."

Blake stared at him surprised.

"Is she now?"

Noir nodded.

"It had been a real mess what happened back there," Noir told her, "I hadn't expected her to actually chose to become it, but at least it gave her to authority to actually deal with this problem you've landed yourself in."

Blake stared at him, anger coursing through her.

"I didn't ask you for help."

Noir stared at her for a long moment.

"So…what happened to Adam?" he asked, "He was the one who you went looking for there hasn't it?"

Blake silence might as well have been an answer for him. The young woman avoided his eyes as she stared down at her hands which were joined upon her lap. After everything she had seen back in Las Hazard, the words that Dmitri told them about what Adam had been doing.

"How did you realize?"

"You're a loyalist Blake," Noir told her, "If someone got your trust, you would throw yourself into hell to help that person and that was something I really like about you back then…"

Blake looked up toward the man across her.

"Why?" she asked softly, "Why did you leave?"

Noir let out a sigh before standing up and walking toward the window to look at the city of Vale. The young man had this far away look on his features as he stared toward the distance.

"I left the White Fang because I couldn't see an end to the conflict," he said, "It's mainly because of you too."

Blake was surprised.

"Me?"

Noir turned toward her, giving her a light smile.

"You were a Faunus like I was," he said, "But you didn't have any type of hatred toward Humans like I did. You wanted to change how Faunus lived because you wanted them to be in harmony with humanity…something about you reminded me how I used to feel when I was at that age."

Noir leaned upon the windowsill.

"It's one of the reason I trained you to use Aura," he said, "If maybe we tried a different way, things could be different and I didn't want to draw you into the White Fang…not into this life, but the more I spend time with you…the time, I realize that I didn't have any right to raise you. I still hold resentment in my heart toward humanity and the White Clan for what they have done and I knew that one way, I will completely taint your innocence…so I left…but I never expected Adam to drag you into this and take away that innocence that I admired about you."

Blake turned her gaze away from him.

"Why didn't you explain this to me back then?" she asked, "I could have understood…"

"Would you?" Noir asked, his dark eyes staring at her, "When Adam brought you into the White Fang, did you understand what he was asking you to become?"

Blake didn't have an answer for him. She can admit that she didn't understand how the world worked when Adam had and even in the many years that she had been with the White Fang, she had come to trust in Adam's vision and the hatred of the Faunus had for the White Clan and the name that had been leading the clan for centuries.

The Schnee Family.

"Get some rest Blake," Noir told her as the young man made his way out of the room.

The rest of the day was spent lying in bed, mulling over everything that had been happening to her. She still couldn't believe that Adam would have betrayed the White Fang members and sending them to that place to die and become experiments for Saddler. Just how long had this thing being going on without her noticing?

Was Adam planning to send her and the others that had attacked Vale to that place so that they could become experiments as well? Was the man she trusted and was loyal to was nothing more than a lie? Was everything she had fought for? Everything that she was trying to accomplish…was it all in vain so that they could become monsters?

Deep down, Blake hadn't wanted to believe that Adam could have been doing this without her noticing it. It just didn't make any sense as to why he would want to become like that.

Adam…have you really changed so much…that I didn't even notice it?

Night had fallen upon the Manor when Blake had woken up again. The entire place was silent thought she can still feel the wisp of Aura that was all around the place she was in. The girl slowly seated up and glanced around herself. With her Aura back to hundred percent and most of her wound healed, Blake didn't feel like going to sleep again.

The dark haired girl slowly got out of bed and dressed herself in some of the clothes that were placed on the table beside the bed. They weren't here when she had been talking to Noir earlier meaning that someone had come back in the room and placed them here for her.

And she was even more surprised to find that they were hear size. She was curious as to whose clothes they were. They couldn't be Schnee's because the girl was kind of lacking in the chest area and she didn't think that she would give her own clothing. Shaking the thoughts out of her mind, Blake made her way out of the room and into the empty corridor. Thanks to her night vision, she could see everything quite clearly and she could walk taking in the structure of the mansion she was in. The place was old that much she could see from the architecture, and it wasn't Atlesian that much she could see and it made her wonder exactly what influenced it's built and just by looking at the designs that were upon the window, it reminded her of a place probably from one of her gothic romance novels.

The girl made her way toward the entrance of the manor and was surprised that they were no one here. Surely someone would have realized that she was moving about and would have come to intercept her or something...then Blake stopped her attention suddenly drawn toward a flash of Aura and it didn't seem to come from inside the mansion.

And she recognizes who it was of course.

Weiss Schnee.

Blake followed the direction where the Aura was coming from and find herself in front of a door which she opened. The door led outside of the manor and noticed that it was some sort of garden she had stumbled unto. They were many flowers around her and her ears picked up the sound of running water…probably of a nearby lake or a river or something…

She followed the trace of Aura glancing around herself until here eyes found the person she was looking for. Weiss Schnee was seating upon the ground with her back to her. The long white hair was not tied up in the off-center ponytail but was falling down upon her shoulder and in the moonlight, the white hair seems to shine with an ethereal glow. The young woman was seating there and she didn't seem to be dressed in the black Huntress clothing she had seen her in.

"Good evening Blake," Weiss said without turning around.

"Schn…Weiss," Blake answered.

"Are you well enough to be walking about?" Weiss asked her, "Those injuries you had were quite severe."

"My Aura is already back at hundred percent," Blake answered her, "It won't be long before my injuries healed up."

She approached toward Weiss seated form and noticed that her Soul Weapon was seating upon her lap. Weiss had both of her eyes closed, an serene expression upon her features and looking at her face, Blake noticed again the scar that was upon her left eye. She had seen that scar upon Weiss when they were battling against each other and it made her wonder where she had gotten it.

"What are you doing out here?" Blake asked.

"Meditating," Weiss answered her, "It's a good way to make contact with the Soul Weapon and have her train me."

Blake was curious. It wasn't the same as the Animal Spirit that the Faunus has. She had heard from the few Huntsmen she had spoken to in the past.

"Your sword…is a separate entity?" she said.

"Yes," Weiss said, "Isn't it similar with Faunus?"

"No…," Blake told her taking a seat down on the ground beside the white haired girl, "Our Animal Spirit has always been part of us."

"Is that so?" Weiss repeated, in a airy tone.

"But you already knew that didn't you?" Blake said.

"Yes," Weiss answered, "It had been part of my studies when I was a child. I wasn't always the studying type mind you…thought I wonder if I was could things have been different today?"

Blake was confused at what she was saying. Did something happen to her when she was young?

"Did something happened?"

Weiss didn't answer for a long while, but the young woman opened her eyes and glanced at her. There was some open curiosity in depths of those blue eyes as they observed her. Weiss let out a soft sigh before glancing forward.

"The White Fang…murdered my mother," she answered simply.

Blake feels her heart freeze at this. Now she was staring to feel like she shouldn't have asked.

"It really destroyed me," Weiss continued, "and it was also what caused me to start hating Faunus. I threw myself into my training, wanting to get as strong as possible and at thirteen I was strong enough to be Captain."

Blake was shocked to hear that.

Thirteen and strong enough to be a Captain. At least that's explain why she was so strong even when she was weakened back during the White Fang invasion. If I had faced her with all of her strength that day…I would have been killed…

"But…a young Faunus boy changed my views," Weiss said, "He wanted revenge as well for his family and he wanted me to train him so that he could become strong. A foolish boy of course…and I ended up saving his life. He told me that he wanted to become strong so that he could protect others rather than continue his revenge and it made me think…maybe…I was wrong."

She glanced toward the distance in front of them.

"Is it really that easy….?" Blake asked, "To change your views on us?"

"I suppose they are some difficulties," Weiss told her, "I won't lie…but there is still hope to put an end to the ashes of war Blake."

The dark haired girl pulled her knees toward her chest and wrapped her arms around it.

"I don't know what to think anymore," she said, "The one person I always trusted and believed in turned out to be a monster who betrayed everything he ever said and because of that trust, I lost one of closest friend…"

Weiss turned her head toward the girl. Tears had started to fall from Blake's eyes from where she was seating down. Her cat ears were lowered down and she was feeling a little helpless with everything that had been happening.

"It always seem that all the choices I made in my life had been the wrong ones," she said, "I just…I just can't deal with this anymore."

A soft hand was placed upon her shoulder. It was a gentle touch something that caused Blake to look toward the white haired girl beside her. There was something like a soft smile upon Weiss's lips as she was staring at her.

"I don't think it was all bad," she said, "You chose to help Ruby and Yang against the White Knight attack. You chose to help that Penny girl from whatever situation she was in, and you uncovered the existence of a man that by all right should have been dead for many years. Yes, they have been missteps and yes, they have been losses…no one make changes without first suffering lost."

Blake looked away from her before whipping her eyes.

"You…why are you so nice to me?" she asked, "I tried to kill you…"

"Because I don't believe you are a bad person Blake," Weiss told her removing her hand, "And if you are indeed Noir's sister…then I think I can trust you."

The dark haired girl stared at her for a few moments before suddenly turning to face the white haired girl. She didn't know why but hearing that Weiss trusted her it had caused a warm feeling inside her chest. It would seem that even when she didn't know it, Noir was still helping her.

"Then…let me come to Las Hazard when you're going to move against it," she said, "I have a promise I need to keep."

Weiss stared at her for a few moments probably shocked about the demand but the white haired girl let out a small smile.

"Then it's a deal Blake," she said softly.

In the sky above them, the broken moon of Remnant shone down upon them as clouds parted from the wind that was dancing in the area across them.

So ends this chapter. Hope you have enjoyed the read.

Next Time: Sometimes you just got to slow down

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