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The Belladonna houshold was reminiscent of a battlefield! Ghira was using his claws to take down White Fang soldier after White Fang soldier after Adam and his followers decided that he was a problem and he and his family needed to be dealt with!
Fennec and Corsac were leading the charge as Corsac fired his weapon at Ghira, well the man in question threw a spear at him that he took away from another White Fang soldier, and both managed to hit each other with their respective attacks!
Fennec activated his wind dust knife as a White Fang soldier tried to shoot Ghira from behind! But Sun jump through the window in the nick of time and save the leader of Menagerie's life just in the nick of time!
"Hurry!"yelled Sun, as Blake loaded gambol shroud!
Blake jumped down from the balconies and stood in between the brothers as they tried to stab her, but she used her semblance to get out of the way in the nick of time and leave an ice clone in her place!
"Dad!"said Blake as she regroup with her father and Sun.
"Where's mom?"asked Blake.
"I'm not sure! I got ambushed right away!"responded Ghira, who did not know where his wife was!
"Once we take care of Corsac and Fennec, we can look for her!"said Blake, knowing the leaders of the attack had to be taken down first.
"No, go find her."said Ghira, worried about Kali.
"But."tried to argue Blake.
"You keep assuring me that your friend is not a complete waste of space. Let's see him prove it."said Ghira, feeling like Sun needed to put in the work!
"Let's do this Blake! I wanted to sock these creeps since the day we met!"said Sun, as the wall behind them shattered upon Cat Viper entering the building!
"The door was too small so I decided to make my own!"said Cat Viper, towering over the people in front of him.
"Who's he?!"asked Ghira, wondering who the giant mysterious Faunus was?
"A friend of a friend!"said Blake, as Cat Viper was Jaune's friend.
"You think you can help you with only one arm!"said Corsac, who although intimidated by Cat Viper's size, wasn't so much Anymore upon seeing that one of his hands was in a cast.
"Nya nya nya! All I need is one in order to take you to poor excuse of warriors down!"was d Cat Viper as he readied the claws of his right hand!
Fennec and Corsac meanwhile broke Free from the ice clone of Blake and charged towards Ghira and Sun, who
Blake meanwhile ran off to search for her mother. As she was running through the hallways, she ran into a familiar face in Ilia!
Ilia said nothing as she raided her weapon as both former friends prepared to face one another!
Kali meanwhile was trying to fend herself along with two others of the local guards as the White Fang continued their relentless onslaught! Kali ran out of ammunition and decided to use a serving tray as a weapon!
Yuma meanwhile popped in through one of the skylights and tried to choke one of the out cold guards! Kali upon seeing this charged towards him, ready to use her makeshift weapon!
Meanwhile Blake and Ilia were having a discussion in the library!
"Did you come in here to hide?"ask Blake, noticing that her former friend wasn't taking part in all the death and destruction like the others!
"I told you. I didn't want this!"said Ilia, who wasn't participating as she did not like hurting her own!
"But your still here!"said Blake, feeling like Ilia was just as guilty as the others attacking her house!
"I don't have a choice! And you think bringing that giant with you will change what has to happen! Look at him! Humans probably took his left arm and he's still fighting for you! Like me, I bet he doesn't have a choice."said Ilia, referring to Cat Viper!
"Of course you do!"responded Blake, making Ilia hesitate.
"Just stay out of my way."said like as she tried to leave the library.
But Ilia jumped down from the second floor and tried to stab her with her weapon, only to stop a shadow clone instead! Blake appeared behind Ilia as the White Fang soldier turned to face her.
Ilia unleashed her whip, as Blake avoided getting struck by it in the nick of time! Blake began to jump around and avoid getting struck as she blocked a few hits before unleashing the ribbon of gamble shroud and catching Ilia's left arm!
Blake pulled the ribbon and pulled Ilia towards her before double kicking her in the stomach! Ilia felll back as both former friends clash blades with one another!
"Why do you feel like we need to hurt people to get our way?!"asked Blake, wondering why her friend even thought that kind of nonsense!
"Because it works!"responded Ilia, as violence through fear has so far worked!
"That doesn't make it right!"said Blake, knowing that it was only a temporary solution in that fear would turn to hatred!
And hatred will turn into violence!
Ilia didn't do nothing as she pressed the trigger on her weapon and activated the electric Dust that was inside. This cause Blake's weapon to become electrified, so she had no choice but to toss it aside!
Ilia kicked her across the room as Blake use the scabbard of her weapon to shield herself!
"Stop lecturing me!"yelled Ilia, as Blake noticed that her mask fell off in the scuffle.
Ilia meanwhile turned off the lights as Blake went over to pick up her weapon! Ilia used her chameleon traits to blend in with the environment as she went in for the attack! Blake was knocked to the floor but she quickly got up and started firing her gun at Ilia!
"Why couldn't you just leave?!"asked Ilia, wondering why Blake came back.
"Because I run away too much!"responded Blake, as Ilia try to attack her from above but Blake got out of the way in the nick of time by hiding under a nearby desk!
Blake knew that this fight wasn't going anywhere as she couldn't see Ilia and she knew that her former friend had the shadows to her advantage! So Blake decided to use a more extreme option in order to draw Ilia out!
"Sorry Dad."said like as she fired some fire dust into a nearby wall and set it on fire!
The growing flame allowed her to see her friend from the shadows as Ilia ran towards and tried to strike!
Ilia and Blake soon got into a fierce close combat fight as both tried to hit the other with their weapons! Blake soon got the other hand by grabbing Ilia's weapon and forcing her into an up and personal fight!
"Quite taking pine shots and fight me like you mean it!"said Ilia, knowing that Blake was holding back as the girl in question jumped to the second story hallway!
"You use to see things the way I did! The way Adam did! If no one's going to defend us from the humans that attack us! Then we have no choice but to attack back!"said Ilia, not seeing any other solution!
Blake meanwhile fired ice dust at Ilia! She blocked every shot before noticing that the ice messed with her weapon as Blake tied her ribbon around her weapon and tried to pull it away from her! Blake succeeded and jumped high into the air before kicking Ilia to the ground.
"Your wrong. There's always another choice! Ilia please! you're a good person but you're making all the wrong decisions!"said Blake, trying to reason with Ilia.
"Shut up!"yelled Ilia.
"Is this really what your parents would have wanted?!"asked Blake.
"I don't know what else to do!... I don't know what else to do..."said Ilia as tears began to fall down her face!
Blake tried to say something but before she could Corsac and Fennec were kocked into the room by Cat Viper!
Ghira soon followed and noticed his daughter! But as he called out to her he was stabbed in the back by Fennec!
"Dad!"yelled Blake, before Ilia used the opportunity to knock Blake away!
"No honor!"said Cat Viper, as he picked up Fennec threw him across the room!
Ilia stood up as she noticed that Ghira and Corsac enter the fist fight as Cat Viper began to approach Fennec!
"Ilia! What are you doing! Fight!"yelled Fennec as he tried to stab Cat Viper!
"Why won't you go down?!"yelled Fennec as he tried to stab Cat Viper, only to be surprised by the difference and strength as he grabbed him by his arm!
"Because I spent the last twenty years training the fight someone who was a lot whole hell of a lot stronger than you!"said Cat Viper, referring to Kaido!
Cat Viper knew he was still not in fighting condition after Jack the Drought and the Beast Pirates attacked his homeland of Zou, and knew he was not at the same fighting condition he was those few days ago before the battle!
He still needed to regain his strength but there was no way he was going to let these overzealous cult followers go without a fight!
Cat Viper just clawed Fennec using his right hand, piercing through Fennec's remaining Aura as the claws left deep gashes in his skin!
"AAHHHHH!"exclaimed Fennec as his wounds began to bleed!
"Brother!"yelled Corsac, who tried to run over and help his brother only to be knocked to the floor by Ghira!
He tried to get back up but he was knocked down by Sun as he jumped into the room!
Sun noticed that Blake was on the floor and that Ilia was up!
"Go help Blake!"ordered Ghira.
"On it!"said Sun as he and Ilia began to engage in a close combat fight!
"Stop!"yelled Blake as tears appeared in her eyes."Please."
Ilia and Sun looked at each other as Sun knocked her away as a nearby pillar was about to give out! Ilia was about to be crushed when Ghira held it in place and saved her life!
"Go!"ordered Ghira, causing Ilia to quickly get away as fast as she could as he was struggling to keep the large amount of rubble from crushing him instead!
Sun noticed this and activated his semblance to send two of his clones to help Ghira! Blake meanwhile recovered her weapon as Fennec got up and began running towards Ghira with both he and his brother's blades!
Cat Viper noticed this as he grabbed Ghira and pulled him away in the nick of time as Fennec failed to stab him just as Sun ran out of energy, resulting in Fennec getting crushed by the ruble!
Kali meanwhile entered the room, with a knocked out Yuma in tow. Kali let him go as Blake went over to hug her.
"What have you done..."said Corsac as he got up."You ruined everything...! EVERYTHING!"yelled Corsac as he charged at Sun and the Belladonnas, only to be electrocuted by Ilia!
Corsac fell to the floor as Ilia began to cry in realize that everything she did just made her a major hypocrite and a monster no better than Adam.
A short while later the Menagerie guard was helping with the damage that was done! They arrested the White Fang on scene as Ghira came out with to a White Fang soldier and one of his own men!
"Get in there! Search for any stragglers!"ordered the captain
"We came as soon as we got the call."said the captain has he turned his attention to Corsac.
"And Fennec?"asked the captain, as Ghira just shook his head as his answer.
The Captain just approached Corsac."Was it worth it?"
Corsac didn't respond to the question...
Blake looked over to Sun, the Ilia, before turning her attention to the crowd!
"Blake!"said Ghira, before his wife stopped him as she knew that Blake needed to do this!
Blake approach the crowd and took a deep breath before speaking..
"Humans didn't do this! we did this! Fanus, we did this to ourselves!"said Blake as the crowd looked at her with silence.
"We are just as capable of hate and violence as the humans, but I don't think anyone would jump at the chance to point that out! So why are we letting Adam do it for us?"asked Blake, wondering why the people of Menagerie were letting Adam talk for them!
"By doing nothing and staying silent, we let others speak and act in our place and if we're not proud of the choices they make, then we have no one to blame but ourselves!"said Blake, as people being afraid of Adam and staying silent led to the attack on her family!
"This is the message Adam Taurus will bring to the world unless someone stops him! But we can stop him! You I'll need to understand that you're looking for simple answers to a very complicated problem! And I can't give that to you! I don't know how to make hate go away, I don't. But I know that this kind of violence is not the solution! I understand that to have to ask you to leave your homes and protect Haven Academy is asking you at putting your lives at risk. But that's what's at stake! So I'm going, and I'll stand by myself if I have to!"
"Are you kidding!"
"That's suicide!"
"There has to be a better way!
"SHUT UP!"yelled Cat Viper, causing the crowd to go silent as he approached them and many were intimidated by his size and stature!
"The young Lass has a point! I used to think like you and think that humans were awful! That there was no way to change them! When I was a little boy I was strung up onto a pole by humans who then set the pole on fire! But guess what! A human came along and saved my life! He defeated my would-be assassins and yelled at them asking why they were doing this to me when I never did anything to them! That it was their ignorance that made them afraid of me! That human took me in when I had nowhere else to go and never judged me as anything but a sentient being! We may all look different...but we all have red blood in our veins. The same red blood these cultists tried to shed! The only way to cut off hate is with the children! Let them see the world with their own two eyes and judge for themselves if they want to be brothers and sisters with the humans! I did that when that human saved my life! He showed me that no matter how many terrible humans there were, there are more good ones! He also showed me it didn't matter if you were human, Faunus, or whatever! All people are capable of hate! And all people are careful of love! We all shed the same red blood so let me ask you! How are you anyway different from the humans!"said Cat Viper, shocking the crowd as no one expected him to say such kind and compassionate words!
"I lost my left hand to someone exactly like this Adam! It wasnt humans! I hate that man because of who he is, not because of what he is! Judge people by their character, not by their race! Installing fear into the humans may sound like a great idea! Heck it may look like the only solution! But let me tell you that one day that fear will turn into hatred! And soon among the humans someone like Adam will use that hate to acquire power and take charge! And when that hate is turned against you what are you going to do then!"said Cat Viper, knowing that they hate that these people feel was the same kind of hate that made Kurozumi Orochi the monster that he is!
No one in the crowd could say anything as they knew that his words were right! This peace through fear thing was only a temporary solution and soon someone like Jacques Schnee could take power among the humans and eventually use that power against them!
"I'm going with Blake to Haven! No power hungry lunatic is going to talk of me in my place! If you want to let Adam continue to hate then stay! Or you can come with Blake and protect Haven and show the world that you're not like Adam! Shatter the chain of hatred!"said Cat Viper, as the crowd once again grew silent.
"I'll go with you!"said Ilia,"If...if you'd have me."
"Your just going to forgive her after everything she did?"asked the captain, as Ghira reluctantly ordered him to let her go.
"What does she think she's doing?"
"Learning a lesson that it took me a long time to learn until I was much older. That there is strength in forgiveness."said Ghira.
"I'll go!"said many members of the crowd, as one by one they said they'll go and fight by Blake and Cat Viper's side.
"Looks like we have work to do!"said Sun, before telling Ilia that she stabbed them before he poked her and said they were even!
"We have about two weeks before Adam's attack on Haven. We are going to need shields, training, whatever we need to do in order to save as much people as possible."said Ghira, knowing that they had a lot of work ahead of them.
"We're going to need transportation for everyone, especially the giant."said Kali,
"I think we know a seat captain who owes us a favor."said Blake.
"I'll help train these people into find warriors!"said Cat Viper, before Blake tugged his shirt.
"Before that, I have a question?"
"What is it?"asked Cat Viper.
"How do you know Jaune?"asked Blake, wondering how this man knew her dead friend!
Cat Viper just smiled. "It's a long story that spans thirteen years."