Chapter Forty-Four: Relaxing Recover.
Blake sighed as she stretched out on her bed while she waited for Yang to return with food. She had awoken about a week ago but Velvet had insisted that she stay in the infirmary for several more days as they checked to make sure her wounds were healing properly. Her skin had healed up quickly thanks to Aura Boosters but the muscles and bones were healing slower. The panther knew that she had been very lucky at all to survive Adam's semblance, it was capable of slicing through metal like nothing at all and the only way to 'deflect' it was to flare your Aura at the precise moment of impact. Even then the damage had still nearly been enough to sever her arm.
When Velvet had given her the run down of her injuries Black knew she wasn't going to be able to return to duty for some time. The slice had cut through her ribs in a few places and her pelvis, sternum, and shoulder had a deep gouge in it as well which would took a while to heal. A few of her organs had also been effected by the attack but the surgery had patched those up but she still had to take it easy. There was also the fact that her Aura was still low and it would take a while to recover but considering she was alive and had saved Yang Blake was okay with that.
With another sigh Blake reached out for her book while she looked around the room. Yang had asked Weiss if she and Ruby could vacate the room for the weekend to which the Heiress had agreed, so long as they promised to air out the room. That had comment had made the blonde blush and Blake couldn't help but snicker at it as it was more a comment to save Ruby's sense of smell rather than the Heiress'. Blake had dropped that hint to the Heiress when she had returned to the dorm and could still smell what she and the wolf had gotten up to. Weiss had stuttered and blushed but Blake had held back in teasing her unlike what Yang would have done. So now it was just her and Yang in the room and the blonde was making sure that she didn't strain herself to much.
At first Blake had been annoyed at the blonde's constant doting but after Coco spoke with her and explained how badly Yang had reacted to seeing her go down Blake relented, though she did tell her girlfriend that she may be injured but she wasn't fragile. Yang had backed off a bit allowing her to carry her own books, get her own lunch and dinner and other small things but she was always close by ready to assist if needed.
Sadly Blake could not participate in the combat classes until she was cleared by Velvet and that wouldn't happen until the damage to her bones had healed properly. She also didn't have a weapon anymore since hers was destroyed during the battle. Blake had felt the loose of her weapon as it had once been her mother's but Gambol Shroud was damaged beyond repair by even the best weapon smiths. It had been Ruby who had proposed a new weapon design that would be in the spirit of her old weapon but have a new look. The wolf had designed a pair of ballistic katanas that would fold into chain scythes like her old weapon but would be able to link together. They would lack the large cleaver blade but each blade would be able to channel dust trough vents along the edge allowing for a more damaging blow. They were even using parts from Gambol Shroud to forge the new ones so that way she would have still have a piece of her past with her. Blake actually found herself looking forward to when her weapons would be done, which should be sometime early in the week.
As Blake lay back against the pillows the door opened and Yang walked in with a bag of take out from the Mistain restaurant she had taken her to on one of their first dates. "I got food." She chimed as she smiled at Blake, "Got an assortment of shrimp, chicken and beef lo mien, as well as those dumplings you like."
Blake inhaled and felt her mouth water at the heavenly scents of the food, "Great I'm starving. Though you still got a bit much for just the two of us." She pointed out as she got up from the bed a bit stiffly. "I know Hunters need more food than normal but there's no way we'll eat this much ourselves."
"True but this way we have leftovers and I know Ruby will eat the beef lo mien even if it's a few days old." Yang shrugged, "Besides Mistain food is good warm or cold." Blake shrugged she couldn't argue that point as the team had eaten plenty of leftovers since coming to Beacon. "So how are you feeling?" The blonde asked as she dished out a portion of shrimp lo mien for the panther on a take away plate.
"Stiff." Blake answered honestly, "I miss not being able to stretch my full extent but Velvet told me she'd cuff me to a bed if I tried that before she cleared me." Blake grimaced, while the rabbit Faunus was usually very relaxed and easy going the moment she went into 'Doctor Mode' as Coco called it she became extremely commanding and fierce. Blake had nearly begged the older girl to be released once she had been able to get on her feet and Velvet barely relented and had put a lot of conditions that Blake had to follow or else she'd find herself back in the infirmary. As it was she had to go back every other day to receive a dose of Aura Boost but it was better than staying there all day.
"Well hopefully Velvet starts allowing you a bit more freedom." Yang shrugged, she didn't think the rabbit would though seeing as how bad the injuries were. Yang still had nightmares of seeing Blake's blood spray into the air.
"Yeah she ordered another X-ray for Monday to see how well the bones are healing. Honestly I'm more concerned with that my Aura is so low." Blake sighed, "I know Moonslice could break through Aura but I didn't expect it to keep it from recovering."
"Moonslice?" Yang asked as she sat down with her own plate.
Blake nodded, "It's what Adam's semblance is called. Well it's what he calls it." The panther paused as she took a bite of her meal and considered how to explain her ex-partners semblance. "It's an Aura based attack, he focuses an extensive amount of energy into his sword's edge and then launches it in a single swing. It's nearly impossible to block and doing so takes precise timing. It's best to just dodge it."
"So why did you jump in front of it?" Yang asked with a frown.
"Because you didn't know the attack and knowing you you'd tried to tank it." Blake glared at her girlfriend, "Yang I just told you that that attack goes through Aura and even with the amount you have it would have had cut you in two."
"But I can take a hit and-" Yang started.
"It's not about whether you can take the hit Yang, to deflect Moonslice the way I did I had to flare my Aura at the exact moment before it impacted, it requires a timing down to the near millisecond, I can do it because I've trained to do it if you tried with out the training you'd have died." Blake hissed, she needed Yang to understand Adam was deadly and if she went up against him she'd likely die.
"But my Aura is the strongest of all of ours." Yang tried to argue back. "That's my semblance I take a hit and hit back harder." She knew her argument was weak but she didn't want Blake risking her life like that again, she could tank a hit the panther couldn't.
Blake took a deep breath and calmed herself down, she wouldn't get anywhere with the blonde if they started arguing. "Yang, I've told you before, Adam's fighting style is your counter. You need big long hits in order to fuel your semblance, that's great against Grimm and most of our opponents but Adam attacks with quick short hits. He can unsheathe Wilt faster than you can blink and cut through an opponent before they've even registered it. I've seen him literally slice and Atlas night into ribbons before it so much as twitch."
"But Coco's taken him out before." Yang frowned.
"Because each time Coco's gotten the drop on him." Blake explained, "Each time he's been focused on what he was doing rather than his surroundings. Actually that's his biggest weakness, he had nearly no situational awareness once he gets to focused on a target. But on one v. one situations that's not a problem. If he has someone that can distract a group while he takes out single targets then he doesn't have to worry about it."
"So in others a partner like you." Yang pointed out making Blake nod. "So we just need to get him in a situation where he's out numbered and not able to focus on one of us."
Blake sighed, "You're not going to let this go are you?" Yang just shook her head, "Well then yes that would be the way to take him down if we ever encountered him again. But Yang, Weiss and Ruby aren't always going to be with us and even on a two v. one situation as we were last time he still had an advantage. First of all you need to train against fighting someone like him, but I can't help right now."
"You could teach me the Aura flaring trick." Yang replied making Blake hesitate. "I need to be able to protect you Kitten, as both your partner and girlfriend. He's a serious threat to you and I need to be able to support you in a fight."
Blake took another breath and nodded, "Alright I can teach you the trick but you're going to have to unlearn a lot of what you do already." Yang looked confused and she continued, "You tend to keep your Aura close to you has you use it but to counter his attack you have to send our Aura outward like a pulse. It's the only way to minimize the damage done. We'll have to wait until my Aura has recovered to the point where I can show you."
Yang nodded, "Okay I think we can wait that long. Though I really don't want you to take that hit again."
"Well it wasn't the first time he turned his blade on me." Blake growled, "Though it was the first I was ever on the end of that attack." Yang's face darkened and Blake could feel a bit of heat leak off of the brawler, "Yang calm down."
Taking a few breaths Yang pulled the heat back and nodded, "Sorry I just don't like abusive assholes like him." Blake sighed and pulled herself over to Yang and placed her head on her shoulder. "I thought I lost you Blake, I really thought I was going to lose you. There was so much blood." Blake heard the blonde's voice hitch.
Blake nuzzled against Yang trying to calm her back down. "Yang it's fine, I survived. Yes I was in danger but you got me to the infirmary in time. The doctors were able to stop the bleeding and made sure I didn't have any more internal bleeding. Velvet is making sure that I heal properly and soon I'll be back to normal." Yang just nodded but held the panther closer.
While they talked they talked about their classes and how the reconstruction of Beacon was coming. Ozpin had turned a bad situation into something usable making many improvements to the campus. The hanger had been one of the fist things repaired and was being expanded. Most of the buildings had finally finished being repaired and the reconstruction of the training areas had been steady as they were updating them too as they went. There were also updating the campus security defenses but as to just what there were doing was a closely guarded secret.
"So what do you think Weiss and Ruby are up too?" Yang asked as she leaned back against the red and white duo's bed.
From her place on their bed Blake raised an eyebrow at her girlfriend, "Do you really want to know?"
Yang grimaced, "On second thought maybe not. I really don't want to know what they get up to while they're alone. She's my baby sister and thinking about her love life is just wrong."
Blake just shook her head, "Well I could tell you how far they've gone but…"
"La, la, la, la, la. I can't hear you." Yang spoke up over her girlfriend as she covered her ears and shook her head back and forth, "Nope don't even want to think about it, don't want to know, don't want to know how you know."
"I'm a Faunus Yang." Blake rolled her eyes, "We can smell things humans can't."
"Oh Gods that even worse." Yang groaned as she continued to shake her head.
"I thought you couldn't hear me." Blake raised her eyebrow at the blonde.
Yang sighed as she pulled her hands away from her hands away from her ears, "Yeah that trick didn't work as well as I had hoped. But still thinking about my little sisters love life is just plan weird."
Blake just snickered and returned to her book while Yang got up and started to clean up the room of the dishes and gathered the food to place it in the floor lounge fridge. When she returned she plopped down at her desk and started to work on an assignment that Port had given them, Blake had finished it while Yang was out getting food.
After a few minutes Yang growled and threw down her pen, "Why does Port assign us these useless exercises? I mean come on it's common sense in finding Grimm nests and what could be in them."
"Not everyone at Beacon has had the prior training that you and your sister has had." Blake pointed out, "A few are first generation Hunters and would have no idea what they were looking for unless they were taught, these exercises are meant to ingrain the knowledge into them." Blake paused before she looked over at the blonde, "Just how fare does your training extend?"
Yang sighed as she leaned back, "If I had to guess Ruby and I are at least in our fourth year in some of our knowledge, like Grimm anatomy and physiology and tracking, Ruby of course is a bit better at tracking naturally. We're also pretty good at reading the terrain natural seeing areas that we can use our advantage and how to avoid kill zones, we've also been trained in some advanced field medicine. But in areas like Dust tactics and Aura methods were still around the area most of our year is." Blake nodded it made sense she figured she was about the same as the two sisters having grown up in frontier and with the White Fang. "Qrow wanted us to be able to survive if anything every happened to him or our dad, guess they kinda forgot that they had to actually be there for that to happen though." The blonde snorted and shook her head.
"You really have a problem with them don't you." Blake noted making Yang nod.
"I know I've told you it before but it's hard to really care about a Dad shuts down without any provocation and a drunk uncle who's idea of family bonding is tossing a weapon in our hand or dropping you off in the wild saying he'll come back in a week." Yang said looking out the window, "Ruby and I grew up depending on each other after Summer died because those two men couldn't be counted on. I did all of the grocery shopping, cooking, laundry, and cleaning. Ruby helped where she could. The only thing Dad and Qrow did was make sure we had enough lien for everything." With a sigh the blonde shook her head, "I still care about them but it's just hard when they don't really care themselves."
"That can't be easy." Blake sighed, she gave a small stretched and winced a bit as her muscles protested. Yang noticed the wince out of the corner of her eye and stood up to walk over to the panther with an extended hand, "What?"
"Come on we're gonna get your muscles to relax. And besides we have the place to ourselves so I have just the idea." Yang smirked as Blake took her hand and followed her into the bathroom. Shutting the door behind Blake Yang shrugged out of her jacket and motioned for Blake to stand over by the sinks. "Can you hand me out that bag of bath salts." Yang asked as she headed towards the tub and started to run warm water into large bathtub. She turned back to see Blake still standing beside the sink with wide eyes, the panthers stunned looked almost made her laugh, "You in there Blakey?"
"Yang…" Blake started slowly.
Yang huffed, "Oh it's not like you haven't seen me naked before. Besides this way we get to relax a bit while Weiss and Ruby are gone." The blonde winked as she walked over to the panther and lightly kissed her, "That is unless you don't want a cat bath."
Blake couldn't help it, she snorted at the blonde's terrible pun and shook her head. "Fine you win." With an over exaggerated sigh Blake took off her jacket and placed it on the hook next to Yang's while the blonde took out the salts and started to stir them into the warm water. As the water filled Yang quickly stripped down to her underwear noticing Blake had already done so and was putting her hair up into a loose bun. With a smirk Yang padded over behind the panther and wrapped her hands around her bare waist and ran her lips gently across her neck and exposed shoulder. "Yang." Blake hissed as her voice hitched.
"Yes Blake?" Yang asked innocently as she teased the clasp of the black bra. The panther let out a low growl that made Yang chuckled as she pressed herself against her back before backing away with a smirk.
"You're a fucking tease." Blake growled as she glared over her shoulder. Yang just smirked and reached behind her and undid the clasp of her bra making Blake glance down at her chest. Out of all of them Yang was the most well endowed and seeing them in their full glory was still nearly jaw dropping.
"And proud of it." Yang smirked as she pulled her own hair up into a high ponytail to keep it out of the water. "Now hurry up it's cold out here." With another wink the blonde pulled down her panties and slipped into the water letter out a low sensual groan. Blake had a slight dusting of blush on her cheeks from the blonde's antics with only made Yang chuckle. While Blake knew that Yang was trying to play it cool leaning back in the bathtub she could see the lilac eyes glancing over at her from the corner of her eyes, with a smirk Blake slowly reached up undid the clasp of her bra and let it slowly slip off of her chest causing a small amount of blush to appear on the blonde's cheeks too. Satisfied that Yang was teased just as much as she was Blake tossed her panties towards the pile of her clothes and slipped into the bath in front of Yang letting out her own groan of pleasure as the warm water enveloped her.
As Blake leaned back against her girlfriend she felt Yang's strong arms encircle her and pull her close to her front. Blake couldn't help but squirm as she felt Yang's soft breasts against her back and the blonde running her lips across her neck. "I thought you said we were going to relax." Blake groaned as Yang's hands began to wander across her chest lightly massaging her.
"This is relaxing." Yang whispered as she teased Blake's human ear with her teeth, while she found that the panther ears were much more sensitive to such stimulation she couldn't reach them in this position. Blake's breathing hitched as she tweaked one of her nipples lightly. Yang couldn't keep the smirk off her face as she felt the panther lean against her more molding their bodies together. "See."
Blake couldn't reply as she bit down on her lower lip to try and prevent a moan from escaping her throat but failed as Yang's hand drifted lower. She honestly didn't mind though as she felt the tension bleed from her muscles.
A few hours later found the pair drifting off to sleep in their bed. After the initial few releases Yang had allowed Blake to relax again and started to work lavender soap into their skin keeping her touches light and professional though she did make sure that both of them were thoroughly washed. Once they were finished with their bath Yang helped dry her off with one of the only large fluffy towels though neither one bothered to get dressed again as by the time they were done it was late and both were tired. As they slipped into the bed Blake lay her head against the blonde's chest and rested one of her ears over her heart listening to the deep thump coming from her heart with a wide smile on her face.
Adam was livid. Twice his plans had been foiled and twice he had been beaten by that damned Huntress wearing sunglasses, only this time she had done more than just smack him away with her stupid handbag she had also broken his nose. Now his whole face was swollen and stung anytime he tried to speak, even breathing hurt.
The attack on Beacon had not gone as planed. While he knew there was no way he'd be able to actually take control of Beacon, it was the best academy to train Huntsman and Huntress in the world, he had been hoping to deal enough damage that they'd be unable to recover quickly, he had also been hoping to take out the blonde bitch that dared be with his mate. Blake was his and his alone and anyone who dared touch her would be killed by him. He also wanted to make Blake pay for betraying him by making her watch as he killed the blonde before making her regret ever leaving him.
He still couldn't believe that Blake had jumped in front of his attack saving the blonde. She knew how deadly his semblance was but yet she had leapt in front Moonslice preventing him from slicing the blonde in two. He knew that Blake knew how to counter his semblance as well but even then she had suffered a grievous injury. If she survived he would have to make sure she never taught anyone how to counter his semblance once he had her back.
The attack had also been costly too as a lot of his soldiers had died in the battle. While he didn't overly care about the loss of them as most of them were just disposable, he had lost his lieutenant in the fight. That was a loss he did regret as he had been with the man for several years now and had been a trusted ally battle. How the man had died was still a mystery but he was hoping once his spy returned to them he would have his answers.
Adam wasn't expecting his man back soon as he had made his forces pull back to the far north of Vale to prevent any retaliation while the injured were recovering but he hoped he didn't have to wait long, he was not a very patient man.
"Sir." A voice cut came from the other side of the tent flap, "Perry has returned." Adam had a moment of surprise before he schooled himself back.
"Bring him in." Adam commanded. As the tent flap was drawn back the nervous deer Faunus stepped in. "Your report?"
Perry swallowed as he stepped up to the table Adam sat behind, "I was successful in infiltrating Beacon's secure files during the attack and found several useful bits of information that would help us in weakening them." He stated hoping not to anger the dangerous man.
"Good," Adam nodded cutting over him, he had questions he wanted answered quickly, "What took you so long in reporting?" He asked not letting the man know he hadn't been expecting him so soon.
"Vale was locked down for several days." Perry replied quickly, "I knew that the White Fang had ret-" Perry paused, he knew if he said retreated he might lose his head, "Left quickly and couldn't risk being exposed as a member while I have information."
Adam just nodded and again before Perry could continue he broke over him, "Lieutenant Daver was killed in the attack, do you know how?"
Perry nodded, he had discovered who had killed the lieutenant from a few loose-lipped civilians who had been near the fight, "He confronted a Schnee and another Faunus who is quite well known on the campus her name is Ruby Rose and she is a wolf Faunus." Adam's eye twitched, a wolf Faunus could mean trouble. "As to who he died I don't know but it appears the Schnee had a hand in his death." Adam growled, the Schnee's had caused too much pain for his kind and they would pay for the loss of his lieutenant. "But sir I have more pressing information." Adam raised and eyebrow, "I found a file on Leviathan, and it includes its current location."
Adam couldn't help it, he smiled despite the pain. Once he got his hands on Leviathan he'd make them all pay and finally the White Fang would rise to power. "Send a message to all of our brethren to rally to our location, once they arrive we make our move."