The Belladonna Cycle

by Vanitus Omnipotent

A simple exam in the Emerald Forest. That was the original plan...until Blake discovered a ring that changed all that. Now, she has the power to summon alternative versions of herself to Remnant, but with very little knowledge of how to use it and how to get it off...well, will she stay sane by the end of her four year semester?

3. Chapter 3- Two Sided Opinions?

The screen began to illuminate the movie cinema as the title 'The Belladonna Cycle' appeared in the center of the screen in dark purple and white font, dark purple curtains parting to the sides as all was quiet and peaceful in the theater.

Well...until the silhouette of Blake Belladonna took notice of...

SPLAT!

A custard pie that collided with her face.

"GAH! Hey! What the hell!?" the faunus yelled in anger, wiping the mustard from her face before seeing the five chibi versions of herself throwing pies at each other, hitting the projector screen and the nearby seats in the process, as they raced around the theater itself. "How did you even get those pie-"

SPLAT!

"GAH!"

SPLAT!

SPLAT!

SPLAT!

"Knock it-" Blake yelled while getting hit by another pie in the face, making her growl as the five chibis continued to throw pies all over the place, not knowing that a black and silver book sporting a purple flower emblem along the spine, was about to fall on top of them. "GAH! YOU LITTLE!"

CRASH!

"AH!"

"My back!" yelled the head chibi as the book bounced towards the projector screen, entering the screen like it was a pool of water as said book quickly opened and revealed its contents to the world itself.

Blake blinked as she stared at the now flat purple and black pancakes that once were her clones...alter...things, causing her to facepalm in annoyance and slight satisfaction. 'That's what you get for hitting me with pies...ugh, I hate custard.'

The Belladonna Cycle: Chapter Two, Two Sided Opinions?

Xxxxxxx

-Remnant, Vale, Beacon Academy, Room 309, Glynda's Classroom-

BAM!

"AH!"

"Hold still you little blonde chicken!" Cardin yelled while slamming his mace, The Executioner, upon the stadium's tiled floor, breaking it as Jaune ran around the arena, wanting nothing more than to dodge the taller boy's attacks...given this was his first time fighting a person his size.

Well, more like his first time fighting in general, but he had one thing that his opponent didn't have.

He had a girlfriend...yes, he and Pyrrha Nikos hooked up after his confession during Initiation, and who'da thought that?

The Invincible Girl and the only son of the Arc Family, dating? What had Remnant come to one would say. But...it just worked somehow, it just...did.

But hey, who knows, maybe they were meant to be...or are going to break it off later in life? Who knows, but at the moment, it wasn't really a factor in the Arc's mind.

BAM!

For he was trying NOT to get hit at the moment!

"I'm not a chicken!"

"Then face me like a man!" Cardin yelled while slamming his mace on the ground again, Jaune quickly jumping away from the spot as Pyrrha quietly cheered for him in her seat a few feet away from the arena, all the while Nora was egging Jaune into 'breaking Cardin's legs' right next to a very annoyed Blake's right ear.

"BREAK HIS LEGS, FEARLESS LEADER!"

'Gods, why did she have to sit right next to me?!' she thought while her ears drooped downwards in agitation, her eyes watching the spar with some interest...mostly due to the fact that Jaune was 'seemingly' trying to tire the larger boy into submission. 'Ugh, next time I'm just going to sit elsewhere. Mmm...when is he going to make a move? Watching him run around the opponent is an interesting strategy but you still have to hit them.'

BAM!

"AH!"

"Hold still!"

"How about no!"

BAM!

"GAH!" Jaune cried out as Cardin finally landed a blow on his chest, sending him falling on his ass before getting hit again in the face, shattering his aura in the process. 'Why the face!?'

"Finally." the taller man smirked with satisfaction as Pyrrha gasped in the background, worried for her team leader/partner/boyfriend's wellbeing. "I got you, cowardly bunny."

'...I know this is his fight but...seeing that faunus hating human being smug about hitting him? It's making my blood boil a little.' Blake thought while ignoring Nora's yells of anger towards the taller boy, her mind recalling similar humans that would attack or mock both faunus and humans, usually those weaker or in line with a pro faunus ideology.

But then again, it could also just be Cardin's bully persona kicking in? Mmm...yeah, that has to be it. It's just school based pride mixed with the euphoria of having aura, a weapon and something to-

BAM!

"GAH!" Jaune cried out in pain as Cardin's mace hit his face, causing him to scream while holding his now bleeding face. "AAAAHHH! WHY!?"

Hit...ok, now that was just a low blow, even for a bully.

"Mr. Winchester!" Glynda yelled while Cardin turned to her with an arrogant smirk.

"It wasn't fatal, he'll live." he said while Jaune rolled on the ground in pain, his team and portions of Team RWBY glaring at his 'dishonorable' act, none more so than Blake, who's eyes narrowed in rage. "But he will have to have bandages over his face, including his girly lips."

"It was underhanded and worthy of a month of detention."

"Meh, worth it really." he shrugged as Blake growled in frustration and rage. 'Plus it was payback for running around like an asshole, like really, that wasn't cool! I'm wearing a heavy set of armor AND a heavy mace while you're wearing and using lighter materials! It's not easy, you know!'

But as Blake's mind was slowly engulfed with negative emotions, a sudden thought clicked in her consciousness.

Why not use her ring to summon another version of herself to kick Cardin's ass?

Yes, it was a good bit of catharsis and a good way to 'learn' more about the ring but it also...felt a little underhanded herself, like really hypocritical of her to let someone else handle the problem instead of just walking up and kneeing the man in the groin.

That and she doesn't want to draw attention to herself again, though thankfully the headmaster told the staff that her ring's ability was a manifestation of her own semblance, or in his words, an 'evolved semblance born from one's desire to make friends', or something like that, she wasn't paying attention at the time and even then, most of the students that learned about her new ability are rightfully skeptical and might try to dig deeper into her personal life, and...find out about her original affiliation.

...then again, he DID hit Jaune in the face while his aura was shattered. And has a smug face worthy of beating up. Oh, and there was the fact Cardin was an anti faunus bully. And...mmmm, yeah, if she didn't do this then Pyrrha will, given she IS his girlfriend.

Blake quickly glanced at Pyrrha's direction, the fur on her ears puffing up in fear as the Mistrali champion's aura was slowly becoming visible...akin to viscous black chocolate oozing from a blazing oven, as her eyes were closed and her smile...small yet 'happy' and false as a porcelain doll's face.

A clear sign that she was about to blow at any second.

'...sorry Cardin, but you kinda deserved it.' the faunus thought before 'accidentally' rubbing her ring, the loud 'boo's' emanating from Nora's lips hurting her ears slightly as she watched Jaune roll along the ground in pain, just as Ruby used her semblance to pick him up and 'fly' him towards the nurse's office.

Siiisiiisiiisis.

As the ring's runes glowed bright purple and its circular 'touch screen' rose up from its sides along with the brightly lit unknown symbols, the cat faunus quickly scrolled over the endless symbols with her left index finger, the internal voice of Cardin's blatant apathy towards a fellow student fueling her actions before noticing a symbol that peaked her interests.

A skull with two crisscrossing cutlasses and the word 'KM' tattooed on the skull's forehead.

Her eyes glistened at the unique symbol before 'accidentally' pressing down on the symbol with her finger.

Boop.

'I hope whoever I summon kicks his smug ass all the way to Vauco.' she thought as her ring glowed with bright purple electricity, a hidden smirk forming on her lips as the energy shot outwards and towards the arena.

ZAP!

"Eh?" Cardin said while turning towards the seats.

BOOM!

Just as a bolt of purple lightning shot towards him and collided with the arena, creating a thick cloud of smoke in the process that obscured his vision.

"COUGH! COUGH! What in the hell is this!?" he yelled while coughing deeply as the smoke began to dissipate all around him, which allowed the students and teacher to see the arena once more. 'Damn it! What a fucking time NOT to have an inhaler! Curse you asthma!'

And lo, standing in the center of the arena, was a tall fair skinned young woman with long wavy black hair that went down to her shoulders and seemed to be tied together into thin 'whisker-like' strands by gray fuzes, amber eyes, a D cup chest and wide ass, a single dull white scar going horazontally down her left cheek, wearing a dark gray long sleeved high necked leather jacket with light blue buttons that went down to her knees, a long narrow white linen cravat sporting broad angular edges, a sleeveless dark gray jerkin with light blue lining, a dark brown tricorn hat with gold lining and a single black bull horn with red lining tied on the left side by a single light brown bandanna, a dark gray laced jabot with a single red gemstone in its center, a light blue leather belt with a single light brown stringed pouch that was tied around a gold button on the left side, dark gray garters attached to the hips that hooked to a gold button on the belt's sides, small light blue ribbons with dark gray beads hanging from the ends on her cuffs, long dark gray trousers that were wide all the way down to her ankles and had bell-shaped cuffs which opened up slightly to reveal her black over-the-knee satin stockings, black ankle length low heeled boots, and holding a large dark gray pistol with a dark blue handle and a large curved blade jutting from the bottom of the barrel, in her right hand, whose face was semi coated in soot as her eyes seemed to be slightly bloodshot for some reason.

That and...she seemed to smell like rotting fish mixed with gunpowder, boiled alcohol, burning whale blubber, animal dung and a hint of maple syrup for some reason, which made both Cardin and everyone else gag, cover their mouths, faint or all of the above from the unbearable stench.

"OH GODS!"

"THE STINK!"

"IT'S SO DISGUSTING!"

"DID SOMETHING DIE IN HER STUPID HAT!? OH GODS, I'M GOING TO-UGH!"

KATHUNK!

"COCO!? WAKE UP!"

"WHAT THE FUCK!? HAD SHE EVER HEARD OF A BATH BE-"

BAM!

BAM!

BAM!

BAM!

BAM!

The room quickly went quiet as the unidentified 'pirate's' weapon was extended upwards, smoke emanating from the muzzle as she glared at the stunned students with unbridled anger.

"KNOCK IT OFF YA LANDLUBBING SHIT STAINS!" she yelled in anger before blowing the smoke away from the muzzle. "OR I'LL PAINT THIS HALL WITH YA BLOOD!"

Silence filled the room as the woman smirked and lowered her weapons to her knee.

"Much better." she said while her eyes scanned the room, all the while Blake felt...her hair stand on end for some reason, as if this summoned being was dangerous. "Mmm, Valeian dogs, Mistrali dogs, Vaucoian parasites, Mantleian opportunists, and…huh?"

'A pirate version of me...that's kinda interesting. But then again, I was never interested in pirates, only ninjas.' Blake thought as her counterpart looked with rage fueled eyes towards Velvet, who was trying to wake up her leader Coco from her stench induced coma. 'For ninjas rule, pirates drool.'

"What'n the bloody Grimm hell is a filthy faunus doing in the SAME SPACE as me!?" she yelled while Blake's jaw dropped along with her team, as Velvet stiffened in fear at the woman's tone. "It's supposed to be in a pen like the animal it is!"

Team RWBY stared at each other in shock, their minds trying to process what they just heard.

Did...Blake, a version of a faunus rights activist that likes perverted books and acts 'weird' with fish, just...spouted anti faunus sentiments!?

Again….did a Blake, a BLAKE BELLADONNA, a member of a PRO FAUNUS family...just act racist to another FAUNUS!?

How...HOW WAS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE!?

"Ahem." Glynda frowned while walking towards the uncouth woman, who was currently spouting 'Anti Faunus' terminologies such as 'beast born', 'abomination', 'spawn of the Grimm', 'beast wench', and 'animal fucker' towards the V of Team CFVY. "Madam, I understand you are...part of a student's semblance, but the use of such language will not be tolerated at Beacon."

"Eh?" She turned towards the professor and frowned. "Beacon? Whaddya talking about wench? Wait...I recognize ya, ya that Valeian siren that I 'plundered' last week. Fancy clothes? Really? Ya didn't have much when I wrecked ya crotch to high he'ven, which was looser than a meat sack."

"W-WHAT?!" Glynda yelled in frustrated shock and disbelief as the students suddenly felt the need to NOT comment on the 'pirate's' words in fear of getting sent into the air by the professor's semblance.

But they did however get a very steamy image in their heads of the newly formed 'ship'...Nightwitch. One that will be forever remembered by every student from first to fourth years for a very LONG time, especially once the more 'creative' students, cough, Blake and Coco, cough, start writing and drawing Nightwitch art on the CCT Net.

Yet this was not the time or place to daydream steamy scenarios of passion, because the 'Witch' of Nightwitch was getting into a heated argument with the new arrival.

And it wasn't looking pretty either.

"How dare you! I never had a relationship with the likes of YOU in my life!"

"Says the one that screeches like a bleeding parrot in the captain's cabin."

"How dare you!"

"I dare, sea wench."

Both women glared at the other, the very air becoming thick with tension, as Cardin, who was still in a bout of confusion from the lightning strike and the weird 'pirate lady's' appearance, shook his head and walked towards the mysterious woman.

"Oi! Lady, just who the hell are you and, while I'm not fond of the faunus, at all, what you just said was not cool at all!" 'I'm a bully first, not a racist! Well...not to HER extent at any rate!'

"Eh? It's captain ya-" she said in anger before turning towards Cardin's direction, causing her eyes to widen in shock as she quickly straightened herself up and saluted him. "A-Admiral Winchester! I-It's an honor to see you here, sir!" 'Why is he here!? He was supposed to be on the MK Nikos right now battling those Valeian dogs!'

"Admiral? Cardin...as an admiral?" Blake muttered in shock while slapping herself in the face. "Nope, still awake...ow!"

"Wait, did she just...call Cardin an admiral?" Yang said with a dumbfounded expression as Weiss pinched her left cheek, trying to wake up from this 'nightmare'.

"That...actually surprises me." Ren said while Nora watched Pyrrha getting up and walking out of the room, hoping her boyfriend was ok.

"Still want to break his legs."

"Figured." 'A one track mind as always...never change Nora, never change.'

"Wait wait, admiral?" Cardin said while pointing to himself. "Me? I think you got the wrong person."

The woman blinked before staring at the taller teenager and raised an eyebrow. "No, you are the admiral, sir. Same build, same chest armor...although you didn't use a mace."

"And what did I use?"

"An anchor grappling gauntlet."

"...that actually sounds cool." he admitted with a smirk.

"Yes it is, sir."

"You can stop calling me that."

"Yes sir." she said while still saluting, making both Cardin and Blake groan at her apparent 'personality swap'. 'Odd, I thought he liked it when I said sir.'

"And stop saluting me, it's getting annoying." he said as the woman lowered her right arm down to her hip. "Now...that the fuck is going on, who are you and why did you JUST call me admiral, and if you say sir again I'll bash you with Executioner!"

'Why is he the only one that's taking initiative?' Blake thought to herself before standing up and walking towards the arena, followed by Weiss, who felt like it would be a good idea to use her 'Schnee Diplomacy Skills ™' to keep the peace.

Although given the fact this new 'alter' of her teammate is very volatile...it might end in a Vaucoian showdown, something that none of them want to experience during their first WEEK of Beacon!

"A little hot headed, like always." the woman said with a small smirk of...respect, pride, something like that. "Right. I am Captain Blake Belladonna of the KM Winchester, Hunting Privateer of the Mantleian Navy."

"...a what?"

"Hunting Privateers."

"...again, a what now?"

She blinked while feeling like her 'admiral' was having a lapse in memory, which could be possible. "Hunting Privateer. A sailor handpicked by the four Kingdoms to handle their ships, the dreaded Gravity Dust powered Flying Dreadnoughts whose cannons can break through a Grimm's hide in seconds, locate new resources for the war efforts and eliminate both pirates and other enemy ships with no quarters. Through hard training, Hunting Privateers gain the use of auras and a better understanding of Dust embedded weapons to better handle the responsibility of leading their Kingdoms to total victory. Mantle is the forefront of naval power thanks to me, despite being only in the role for three years. I hope this information helps, admiral."

"...so what? You're a Huntsman?"

"No, I'm a Hunting Privateer."

"Oh..." 'This is really weird, and wait? Blake? Like that gal from Team RWBY? How...oh right, her semblance. Forgot that the headmaster announced it to everyone via morning announcements. Still...this is really weird seeing first hand.'

"Admiral, why are you in...this cesspool of filth?" 'Blake' said while pointing to the rabbit faunus with disgust. "Especially with beasts of labor here?"

"I suggest you stop while you're ahead." Blake frowned while her counterpart turned and her eyes widened in surprise for a moment.

"...Mantle really is getting their tin cans working, it almost looks like me." she said while frowning a little. "But ye aren't the real deal, at all. And lookie here, a Schnee. The bootlickers of Remnant's vast seas."

"Excuse me!?" Weiss screeched in anger.

"Ya heard me, ye a bootlicker, just like ye father, sister and brother, bootlickers for the Valeian Kingdom, traitors." she said coldly before spitting at the Schnee's left high heel. "Bloody bootlicking traitors."

"HEY!"

"I'm not a 'tin can'." Blake deadpanned as her counterpart leaned in close to her face and pulled her ribbon off, revealing her ears to the world. "Wha-"

"I knew it, yer a bloody beast! A filthy abomination of nature!" she growled in rage as her right hand gripped tightly against the cold steel handle. "Bringers of filth! Ya shouldn't even exist!"

"But YOUR a faunus too you dolt!" Weiss snapped in frustration. "Calling my teammate such names is hypocritical AND racist, especially when you and her are the SAME person more or less!" 'Which is even less sense once you think about it...ugh, at least I learned Blake's faunus heritage on the first day or this would've...no, this would've STILL given me a headache!'

The alternative 'Blake' narrowed her eyes before stabbing the ground with her cutlass and pulled off her hat, quickly moving the bandanna down in the process. "We. Are. NOT."

And lo, right near the top of her shaved upper skull, was...the horribly scrapped and pus-covered remains of her 'ears', thick line-like cuts dotting every visible portion of skin as small chunks of unrecognizable cartilage and muscle dangled from the sides at random.

In other words...it was a sight of...disfigurement.

"THE SAME! I refuse to be associated with the likes of those bloody beasts! They are filth! I was filth, but I refuse to be defined as a beast!" She yelled while Weiss and Blake's faces turned a dark green as Cardin and everyone else in the room that saw the grizzly sight either puked or passed out, again. "I showed my loyalty to Mantle by cutting these accursed ears with me own sha'ven razor! I am not a freak of nature like ye! I am a Hunting Privateer and if ye speak of this matter again, I'll blow ye fucking brains out like the beasts I kick off me ship, before ripping ye own guts and using them for jump roping!"

"..."

"..."

"...lady." Cardin said while holding back the urge to puke. "Your...kinda fucked up in the head, like...REALLY fucked up." 'And that's saying something!'

The 'Blake' lookalike quickly put her bandana and hat back on before sighing. "Admiral, I understand my words and utter...hate for the faunus is irrational, downright weird at times."

'That's putting it mildly.' Both Cardin and Blake thought at the same time.

"But, I stand by my beliefs as you do." she said with a small frown of discontempt. "For you are the Kingdom's starch pro faunus activist, my eternal enemy."

"Wait what!?" Cardin yelled in shock as Blake and Weiss looked at the taller teen with disbelief.

"What a twist!" Nora yelled while munching on some popcorn, causing Ren to blink in surprise.

"Where did you get that?"

"Oh I just walked off screen, duh." she said while winking at the camera, making the Mistrali born groan a little.

"Why can't you say things normally?"

"Because I'm a ball of chaos, duh." she said before poking Ren's nose with her index finger. "Boop!"

'...why does she have to be THIS CUTE!?'

"Ok, now I know your fucking with me. I'm not a faunus activist, I'm a neutralist!" he frowned before seeing Blake's deadpan expression along with Velvets. "Ok, I might be a little anti faunus, but I'm neutral to the whole 'faunus rights' thing! I mean, I just think they are weird for their animal parts, NOT their right to live or die!"

"...that's not what you told me last time." the Hunting Privateer said with a frown. "You couldn't stop talking about faunus rights and how it would help end the Great War. Yet here you are, in weird clothes, talking nonsense and having more amnesia than a Grimm mauled loon."

"Because I'm. Not. Your. Admiral!" Cardin frowned while getting fed up about the entire situation, wanting nothing more than to hit something or someone in the face to vent his anger.

And luckily for him, this extremely horrible version of a fellow student, who he now realized was a faunus with a lot of trust issues...something he would keep in mind in the future and tell his team later on, possibly warn them not to go TOO far with the 'harmless pranks' for her, was the perfect target for his boiling hot rage and titanium forged mace.

After all, she kinda deserved it...right?

"And another thing, I'm sick and tired of you! Making fun of others is fine but you, you disgust me!" he growled while slamming his mace on the ground. "I am a bully but I won't tolerate people like YOU! So feel the wrath of my mace!"

"Oh? Ye trying to pick a fight with me are ye?" the alternative Blake frowned while grabbing her cutlass and pulled it out of the ground. "Because be ye the admiral or neh, I'll killhall ye blooming faunus lov'ng ass all the way BACK to Mantle!"

"I dare you! And for your information, Mantle isn't a Kingdom anymore and the Great War is LONG dead, like you'll be after I'm done with-"

BAM!

"YEOW!" Cardin yelled out as a Fire Dust lined musket ball spread fired towards him and hit his face, causing him to stumble backwards as the privateer ran at him and slashed at his torso, his aura protecting him from the blows.

"Ye talk too much!" She roared out while Weiss and Blake quickly ran off the arena and right next to Glynda, who was still fuming yet not doing anything to stop the ensuing fight.

"Um, professor?" Weiss said while looking at the blonde 'dominatrix' with worry. "Why aren't you stepping in? That uncivilized woman is going to kill Cardin! Not that I like him but even I know he's not ready for such an opponent."

"So you're saying I can beat him?" Blake said with a smirk. "That's awfully kind of you Weiss."

"You know what I mean!" She said with a blush of embarrassment.

Glynda sighed while watching the two combatants fighting each other, the alternative 'Blake' aggressively putting the normally attack focused Cardin into the defensive with her cutlass and pistol fused weapon. "Normally I would, but after the headmaster explained about Miss Belladonna's 'upgraded' semblance and its time limit, I chose to wait it out."

"Yes, but that is still not enough time! That other Blake is going to wreak havoc after she's done attacking Cardin!" Weiss snapped while pointing at the fight with her right hand.

"I kept track of time since her appearance and she only has twenty one minutes left."

The two students blinked in surprise as the sound of gunfire rang in their ears, just as Cardin was able to dodge the last bullet spread, barely, and swung his mace down upon 'Blake's' head.

"Besides." the professor said with a stern gaze as 'Blake' dodged the strike and aimed her cutlass at Cardin's right arm. "If that harlot attempts to kill Mister Winchester, then she will be given the maximum amount of 'punishment' feasibly possible."

BAM!

BAM!

BAM!

"Ah ah ah! Feel the cold taste of Mantleian steel!" 'Blake' laughed while Cardin hissed in frustration and attempted to slam his mace at her sword arm. "Blood faunus lo'ver!"

BAM!

BAM!

'Shit! Those Dust spreads are getting my aura into the red! I need to hit her RIGHT NOW!' he thought before noticing 'Blake' jumping right in front of his face.

POW!

"GAH!"

And kicked him in the face with her feet before slashing her cutlass at his right hand, causing it to bleed as the aura around it shattered instantly.

"Now, to finish this!" 'Blake' smirked before grabbing the mace in midair with her left hand and, with some difficulty on her end, slammed it down hard on his chest plate, shattering his aura and the armor in one fell swoop. 'Fuck! This damn this is heavy!'

CRASH!

KATHUNK!

"Damn...it." Cardin groaned as he fell on his face, his family heirloom shattered into pieces by his own weapon...a disgrace to the House of Winchester itself. "This can't get any-"

Click.

He quickly turned towards his left as 'Blake' aimed her pistol at his face, her sadistic grin visible to the world. "Wait wait! What are you doing!?"

"Off th'e books, Hunting Privateers be thee feared for more...unpleasant side of act've warfare." she said with a shrug. "An eye for an eye admiral, ye know that."

"I am not an admiral!"

"Ye are, stake me own hat on it." she chuckled while aiming for his left eye. "Now, stay still ye beast kisser."

"Two minutes." Glynda muttered before using her semblance to hold the other 'Blake' in place.

"Eh!? What'n tarnations!?" she snapped in fury while unable to move. "Ye better let me go NOW!"

"And let you brutalize an unarmed student? No, I'm not letting a student's life be placed in jeopardy, especially from an uncultured harlot like you." The blonde professor frowned while increasing the power of her semblance, causing the 'Blake' to hiss in pain.

"Ye be sorry for this! The Kingdom of Mantle shall conquer ye all like the animal fetishizers you are!" 'Blake' growled before glaring at her 'copy'. "Especially YOU, filthy mouse eater!"

"I like fish, not mice." Blake deadpanned. "And you are in no position to get angry at me. That and you will be gone in a few seconds too."

"What're ye talking about!?" she snapped before noticing her body fading away like mist, tiny sparks of purple lighting forming near her fingertips as her eyes widened in horror. "I knew it, ye a part of Cinder Le Fall's crew! Ye pay for-"

But before she could even finish her sentence, the alternative Belladonna had...vanished back to wherever she came from, as Cardin groaned and stood up, his body aching from all the fighting he had endured.

Blake sighed in relief along with her teammate as she looked at her ring, the ruby encrusted gemstone having turned pure black on its left side, with a serious look of...disbelief. 'What other...mes are there that have the...same ideologies as her? Or was she the exception?'

"Damn it, my dad's going to kill me...and then my mom's going to kick the corpse." Cardin grumbled while looking at the now shattered frame of his chest piece.

"Aw!" Nora groaned in annoyance. " I was hoping for some leg breaking!"

"Not now Nora." Ren sighed while Yang shook her head, having kept quiet during the battle to observe the 'alter's' capabilities.

Yes...she can form complex thoughts and analysis, she wasn't a bimbo! She could form complex battle strategies when she felt like it, like the clu-...no, bad example. The for-...no, not that either...anyway! She could make big brain stuff and that's final!

'Dirty tactics, using her own faunus senses to outmaneuver the opponent, using aura damaging weapons, taunting...this Blake is like a crooked cop and a bandit rolled into one.' Yang thought while narrowing her eyes. 'She has the same 'aura' as mother, but less tactful and racist to her own kind to boot. If we meet again, I'll clock her!'

The faunus frowned to herself before walking towards Cardin and patted his back a little. "Good attempt."

He turned towards the smaller faunus and frowned a little. "It wasn't good enough. That 'other you' creamed me, spoke nonsense and just..."

"Acted like you with the other students with faunus traits?"

"...I am nothing like her." he said while grabbing his weapon with his right hand. "I bully the faunus because I'm a jerk. I don't tolerate people that are blind in their perspectives."

"Mmm, I see."

"...let's both agree that this was a weird class and just agree to never bring this up again."

"Fine by me." she said while walking away.

"Oh and Belladonna."

"What?" she said while turning around.

"I'm not going to change my attitude as a bully, but I will get my team to not go overboard in the future." he said while the faunus nodded and walked away. "But that doesn't include the human students." 'Like Arc, mmm, better 'check up' on him, just in case. And maybe take some lien from him too, that chest piece isn't cheap.'

RRRRIIIINNNNGGG!

Just as the bell rang, signaling the end of third period class and the transition to 'free period'.

And for Blake, this was her chance to vamoose and she knew the perfect spot to unwind.

Yet as Blake left the room, Glynda grumbled while rubbing her forehead in frustration, knowing that she was going to sign a lot of paperwork for this 'tiny' incident.

'This whole semblance thing is going to kill me one day. I just know it.'

(Later on)

-Beacon Library, Mystery Section-

"Ugh...that other me...my head hurts." Blake grumbled while rubbing her temples with her hands, feeling a headache forming as she sat at a table in the library's more quiet section, the faunus needing a break from reality at the moment.

And who wouldn't after learning that there is a version of yourself, a faunus no less, that is anti faunus and a version of the school bully that is both her superior...and a pro faunus sympathizer...which in itself makes one wonder if there is a small trace of good within her OWN version of Cardin but for the moment...

She was too confused and perplexed to really consider that fact. After all, she needed space and alone time, not another headache.

'Note to self, reflect on this...revelation once my head stops pounding.' the faunus thought while failing to realize that her ring was touching her forehead.

Siiisiiisiiisis.

'That...other me was so...unlike me, it physically hurts. I...I-ugh, just thinking about it hurts.' she thought while the ring's runes glowed a bright purple and its circular 'touch screen' rose up from its sides, her forehead 'scrolling' through the 'touch screen's' options as she felt her migraine getting even worse. 'A racist faunus...that is something no one in the White Fang, not even when me and Adam were partners, ever thought about or truly considered...or I was just too sheltered? That might've been the case-OW! Pain...need medicine...ow!'

Yet as she continued to rub her head in pain, her brain feeling like it was getting punched by one of Yang's fists, a lion head symbol with two long bandages wrapped around the ears and face was pushed against her skin as the ring glowed a bright purple hue.

ZAP!

BOOM!

Blake blinked as a bolt of bright purple lightning shot out from her ring and hit the table, causing a thick cloud of smoke to form around her, which unfortunately caused her migraine to intensify from the sudden loudness. "AAAAHH!" 'FUCK THAT WAS LOUD AND WHAT THE FUCK!?'

"Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz."

"...eh?" the faunus muttered in confusion as the cloud began to dissipate in front of her.

the fading smoke cloud, the sound of snoring making her migraine even worse. 'Is this...other me...sleeping?'

"Zzzzzzzz." the 'lump' snored from within the cloud as Blake smacked the 'lump's' 'body', causing it to yelp in pain. "AAAAH! What the!? Who smacked my ass!?"

The faunus blinked as she finally saw...the 'limp's' true form.

That being a tall tan skinned young woman with long wavy blonde hair that went down to her hips, dark brown eyes with black eyeshadow that curled downwards towards her nose, two blonde cat ears, a G cup chest and wide ass, large blonde furred three clawed paws in place of her hands and feet with thick white fur near the elbows and knees, long gold earrings with a single jasper gemstone at the ends, a long blonde cat-like tail with a silver band sporting a single eye-like emblem at the end, a thick dark gold tattoo on her stomach in the shape of a snarling cobra, wearing a dark gold cylindrical beaded sleeveless tight fitting kalasiris that went down to her ankles and went up to just below her exposed breasts and was held together by two dark gold shoulder straps, long dark gray and pink feathers near the shoulders and hips, a black see through shawl that went down to her feet and had gold thread stitched into the fabric, a gold usekh with turquoise gemstones in the shape of a vulture and several silver metal disks around the sides that rested on top of her breasts, a silver encrusted lapis lazuli pectoral in the shape of a scarab, a long gold hilted scimitar with red Fire Dust crystals on the sides of the hilt held behind her back by a white linen bandage and covered from head to toe in white linen bandages with silver hieroglyphs inked into the fabric, whose expression was a mix of tiredness and annoyance as she rubbed her behind with her left paw.

'...what kind of faunus is she?' Blake thought in confusion as the 'faunus' glared at her.

"Why did you do that!?"

"S-Sorry. I didn't mean to." she said quickly as her migraine became even worse, causing her to flinch a little. "AH!"

The woman blinked while seeing Blake rubbing her head in pain. "Are you ok?"

"Ah...no, I have a migraine."

"Oh, I didn't know. So...are you a Mimic Monstro by chance? Because you are a little shoddy with your transformation." She asked while Blake raised an eyebrow.

"A Monst-what?" Blake asked before-

"Zzzzzzzzzzzz."

Seeing her counterpart asleep in front of her, having somehow gotten off the table and fell asleep in a matter of seconds...while standing up!

All the while her tail...moved...wait...her tail...moved...it...

IT MOVED!?

How can a faunus have...TWO EXTRA TRAITS!? That's...GENETICALLY IMPOSSIBLE!

"Oh gods...SHE ISN'T A FAUNUS-AAAAHHHHHHH! MY HEAD-"

Clank!

Woosh!

Blake's eyes widened as she saw her chair, along with several books that were pulling her 'lion' counterpart by the armpits, float in the air with a bright gray aura around them, causing her to realize her mistake.

She accidentally yelled in the library.

And...and the librarian...one Altair Ignis, HATED loud noises in HER library.

WOOSH!

'This isn't my day!' the faunus thought as she and her counterpart went flying through the library at great neck speeds, their trajectory being the twin swinging front doors.

CLANK!

WOOSH!

BAM!

Which led to the two to go flying out the doors as they were 'pushed' off their chair/books and...collided with the nearby wall.

"Ow!"

"Zzzzzzzzzzzzz."

'How is she still asleep!?'

(Some time later)

-Cafeteria-

"Zzzzzz." The 'lion' version of Blake snored as she stood near a cafeteria table, the normal Blake currently eating some tuna tails...for science while her eyes darted towards the woman with hesitation.

For the fish smelled so good right now.

'This is so good...must...eat-NO! This isn't for me, it's just an off-brand smelling salt for...whatever this other me is.' Blake thought while drooling a little as she moved the plat of tuna tails towards her counterpart's nose. 'I hope this works...and that she saves some for me.'

"Zzzzzzzz...sniff. Sniff." '...f...f...f...f...'

The faunus blinked while seeing her counterpart's eyes widen, her tongue hanging out in the process.

"FFFFFFFFFIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHH!" she yelled before yanking the plate out of Blake's hands and began scarfing the tuna down like a wild animal, her tail curling a little to form a 'heart-like' symbol as scales and tiny chunks of meat splattered on the Belladonna's face. "NOM NOM NOM!"

"..."

"NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM!"

"..." 'Disgusting!'

"NOM NOM NOM NOM!"

"..."

"NOM NOM NOM NOM!"

"Are you-" Blake tried to say before her counterpart burped in her face. "...EW!"

"Ah, I needed that." She smiled before realizing what she just did and chuckled nervously. "My apologies. Sometimes I forget my upbringing as a Sultana's daughter...which is often."

"Yeah….I can see that." The faunus frowned while wiping the fish scales and meat off with a napkin. 'Disgusting.'

"So, how long was I out? I have to get back to work before the Mummies find out I've been sleeping on the job again." she said while looking around. "And where exactly am I? This place doesn't seem like Set-Ka."

"About a few minutes and Mummies? Set-Ka? What are you talking about? And more importantly, what is a Monstro?"

"...have you been living under a rock? Set-Ka is the Sultanate of all Sphinxes." she deadpanned. "And I'm the daughter of Kali Sekhmet, Blake Sekhmet. As for Monstros, that's what Sphinxes are, a subspecies of the entire Phylum, Monstros, or Monster Girl's if you're really into that term. Mummies, Sphinxes and the like are ALL part of this group."

"...so you're not a faunus?"

"What a faunus?"

"...a faunus is a subspecies of humans that have randomized animal traits. For example, my ears."

"That sounds kinda weird."

"It's a thing and occurs in both genders."

"Wait really?! That's amazing!"

"Why?"

"Because all the males of our species went extinct during the Monstro/Human Wars!" she said while Blake's eyes widened in shock. "We nearly wiped each other off the maps before we began corroborating. Heck, there's several universities that help with coexistence, although there are a LOT of kingdoms with different ideologies on the matter...kinda gives me a headache thinking about it."

"...that…that sounds...interesting."

"Yeah, but hey, that's old history and I'm not really into history. Kinda boring really, which is why I became the captain of the guard for the Pharaoh Glyn-Ra."

'Glyn...Ra? Glynda...oh. Huh, that kinda makes sense, she does have that 'royal' air around her.' Blake thought with a smile. "That's interesting, what do you do exactly?"

"Guard the palace, kill intruders, sleep, sneak away for food, read porn." the Sphinx said with a shrug. "Nothing much."

"So what about the Sphinxes?"

"What about them?" she asked while eyeing a random student's plate, unoccupied and full of fish, and took some of them.

"Are they...you know, bombastic like you?"

"Me? Bombastic, not even close." she chuckled while swallowing one of the fishtails whole, not realizing that Nora was standing right next to her and listening in on their conversation. "Mmm, tasty. I'm just the black sheep of my species. Sphinxes are the most lazy Monstros in the world, even rivaling sloths in terms of slowness. Like if you poked them with a stick, they wouldn't even register it until an hour later."

"..." 'Well, that was….disheartening. Especially with the sloth part.'

'My. Gods. SLOTH RIVAL!' Nora thought with stars in her eyes before taking a picket with her Scroll and ran off. 'Renny needs to know! I just hope he isn't too busy, because I now have a RIVAL OF THE SLOTHS! LONG LIVE THE SLOTH OVERLORDS!'

"So you're not a Mimic Monstro?"

"No."

"Huh, I guess that is...somewhat expected, but at least now I know what I look like with black hair." she said while pointing to her blonde hair. "I personally find blonde hair kinda annoying. Like I'm some kind of air headed bimbo, but I'm just as smart as anyone else."

"You and Yang would be instant friends if she heard you say that."

"Yang, you mean the Ice Dragon Monstro?"

"No, the human one that I know." Blake deadpanned.

"Ah! Well, that's cool. The Yang I know is an Ice Dragon with white hair, and is kinda a stuck up bitch."

"...that sounds like Weiss. To a 'T'."

"Weiss? Huh, human as well?"

"Yes, and part of a family that was ruined by her father's idiotic and anti faunus policies." 'Among other things.'

"Weird, the Weiss I knew was a Yuki Onna that is in love with...Jaune Amleth." 'Blake' said with a hint of swooning in her tone.

"Jaune?"

"Yeah, a guy from Argus University. He's kinda studying the Monstros and...has a harem in the works, and I kinda want to join too." she said while Blake blinked in surprise. "Although he is currently traveling with...Pyrrha No Daji, the Empress of the Mukon Empire."

"And what Monstro is she?"

"Nine Tailed albino Kitsune. And she's...insane, like really insane. Wants Jaune all or herself and gives me a bad vibe, even when I'm not doing anything TO her." she shivered in fear as Pyrrha, holding a tray of mashed potatoes and a juice box in her hands...for her injured boyfriend, walked behind her and raised an eyebrow, having gotten interested in a version of herself that was more faunus-like.

That and she wanted to know her other version's relationship with Jaune.

"Like, she'd give me a death glare, hug Jaune every time I say 'hello' in a protective manner, and she nearly poisoned me with her cooking! Who does that!?" she groaned while Pyrrha's eyes widened and she bowed a little in shame.

"I'm sorry!" she yelled before running off, feeling the 'sins' of her counterpart weighing heavily on her heart. 'I will not be like her! I will not be possessive!'

"Wait huh?" 'Blake' said while turning towards Pyrrha's direction, but didn't see anyone at all. "What was that?" 'It sounded like her but...more humble? Sorry? Weird, I must be hearing things.'

"It's...nothing." Blake said while feeling bad for her Pyrrha, especially after hearing how yandere your counterpart was. "So, what are you going to do now?"

"Well, since I'm here in this magic-less world, I'll just wait until the spell cast upon me is done and then...I'll just follow Jaune. Maybe for a year tops, Glyn-Ra will understand my reasons, she is in love with some guy named Ozpin so she'll know what my intentions are." she said while Blake raised an eyebrow.

'First it was a teleportation device, then something about a 'Cinder Le Fall' and then magic? What is with the weird analogies about the ring?' the faunus thought while looking at her ring. 'I understand it might be magic, or something akin to it, but it feels a little weird that no one seems to give a similar answer to each other. Ugh...this ring makes no sense sometimes!'

"So wondering about the bandages?"

"No, but I am slightly curious about them."

"Well these are Mummy bandages, filled with magic absorbing properties since Mummies 'dry' up if they don't 'consume' magic on a regular basis. And I use them to disguise myself as one to get off guard duty...but they always find out my real identity. And I have no idea how."

"Maybe it's because of the ears...and the tail...and the paws?"

"...what's silly! You're silly! Like that is the reason!" 'Blake' chuckled as Ruby walked by and saw her tail, which was slightly curled and wagging around like a snake. "There's no way that my Sphinx features would betray my flawless disguises! It's impossible-"

"OH MY GOD YOU'RE ADORABLE!"

"Eh-EEEP!" the Sphinx Monstro said before crying out in shock as Ruby started rubbing her tail with both hands.

"So soft! Just like Zwei!"

"L-Let go!"

"AWWWW! SO SOFT!" Ruby squealed, like a dork, as Blake chuckled at her team leader's childish.

'Just like with my ears.' she thought as her copy stood up quickly and ran to the right, her ears puffed up along with her tail, as Ruby pouted cutely.

"Come back! I want to pet you!"

"No way in Ra! I'm not a house cat!" she yelled while darting out of the cafeteria. 'Why does she remind me of that cat obsessed Tengu!? She even has the same EYES as her!'

"Grrr!" Ruby growled cutely before using her semblance to follow after the 'Blake' copycat, leaving a trail of red petals in the process. "YOU WON'T ESCAPE ME! I WILL HAVE THAT TAIL!"

CRANK!

CRACK!

"...welp, better make sure both of them are ok." Blake sighed while blowing a petal off her head as she stood up and walked out of the cafeteria, the screen slowly fading to darkness in the process. 'Especially my team leader. Crazy dog and cat loving kid.'

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Name/Designation Title: Captain Blake Belladonna (Privateer Blake Belladonna- PBBRWBY)

Age: 25

Affiliation: Good

Dimension: 8124- 66 PBBRWBY

Abilities: Enhanced speed, agility, reflexes, hearing (hampered due to missing ears), jumping power and endurance, night vision, airship handling and knowledge, ship handling and knowledge, high Mantleian navy knowledge and skills, Hunting Privateer skills and knowledge, high firearm handling and knowledge, blade handling and knowledge, cutlass handling and knowledge, pistol cutlass handing and knowledge, Dust knowledge and handling, highly discipline mindset, an extreme hatred of the faunus (including herself), silver tongue (limited to humans, not faunus).

Semblance(s): Shadow

Bio: In this timeline, the Great War never ended due to the Four Kingdoms being unable to finalize the Vytal Accords into a concrete solution of peace, yet unlike before, where land based warfare was a valuable necessity, all four Kingdoms chose to pool their resources into their navies. As a result, the Kingdoms' respective navies evolved into fleets of heavily armored city-sized ships capable of floating in the toughest of seas and flying through the most turbulent of skies utilizing Gravity Dust engines and state of the art Dust cannons that can destroy a Leviathan Grimm's tough hide in seconds...however, these ships were too complex for normal sailors to maintain over long periods of time, due to the prototype AI systems not having the processing power to maintain the ship's internal systems, the engines and the navigation systems at the same time, which forced the leaders of each Kingdom to develop a new breed of sailor that not only can maintain the ships, but also track down both resources and enemy ships with pinpoint efficiency, especially when it comes to pirates. This new rank, the Hunting Privateers, were trained and hand-picked from numerous candidates to both maintain the ships they commanded and combat enemy ships, utilizing a mixture of aura, semblances and Dust based weapons to fight off the enemy and reduce the number of lives lost, although that aspect of the Hunting Privateers' code was usually swept under the rug during the heat of combat. One of these hardened privateers was Captain Blake Belladonna, a sailor from Mantle that joined the navy in a bid to gain enough money from the occupation to help her parents, who have been stricken with poverty from the Great War along with an unknown strain of smallpox that has them quarantined, by the rest of the Manleian faunus population, to the cold badlands of Solitas due to the fear of contamination. However, unlike most versions of Blake across the RWBYverse, this event would instill a deep hatred for all faunus kind, including herself as she viewed her ears as 'unnecessary filth'. As a result, she cut off her own ears with a barber's razor as 'proof' of her 'loyalty' to the Mantleian way of thinking, slowly rising to the top of the navy 'food chain' until she was picked by Admiral Cardin Winchester, a man that unlike most versions of himself was a highly active Pro Faunus Rights sympathizer and the only man that Blake respects and follows even if their ideologies differ drastically, to become a Hunting Privateer and, after three long years, gained the title of captain for the MK Winchester, the Kingdom's most powerful flagship, which she used to pillage and destroy all forms of 'piracy' across the seas of Remnant. Yet...even after gaining numerous victories against the Kingdoms of Vale, Mistral and Vauco, she would become the target of a pirate whose Kingdom was unknown even to her...the dreaded and terrible Captain Cinder Le Fall and her strangely techno-organic Grimm themed ship, The Salem, whose mission was to capture ships, regardless of Kingdom or affiliation to their respective navies, and kill all aboard that are deemed 'worthless' in her eyes. Unfortunately for the Hunting Privateer, she caught the eye of this pirate and would be forever hunted by this unnecessary 'rival' to her own power, their inevitable clashes would leave the sea and sky quaking from the roar of their cannons yet every time victory was at hand, Cinder would escape to plan another battle in the shadows, always adding the line 'For the Queen', during her defeats. For Captain Blake...these words would haunt her for a very long time, a possible foreshadowing to an unnerving conclusion to her tale...one that might rip the veil between reality and the maritime legends of old, one that would teach her that perhaps...some legends are truer than others. Is it possible...the Legend of Ozma and the Witch of the Grimm was real? For now, some stories were better left untold, some secrets left forgotten for the sake of the endless war. Afterall, there is no such thing as Salem...right?

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Name/Designation Title: Blake Sekhmet (Dating a Monster Girl Blake- DAMBBRWBY)

Age: 17

Affiliation: Good

Dimension: 201234- 02 DAMGBBRWBY

Abilities: Enhanced strength, speed, agility, reflexes, hearing, smell, jumping power and endurance, semi prehensile tail (limited), night vision, Sphinx/Monstro physiology, sharp claws (hands and feet), high aura handling and knowledge (considered magic or spell craft by the unfamiliar), blade handling and knowledge, espionage skills and knowledge (limited due to Sphinx/Monstro physiology), Dust knowledge and handling, scimitar handling and knowledge, limited bandage handling and knowledge (usually stolen from Mummies and infused with aura absorbing properties), near hyperactivity (for a Sphinx).

Semblance(s): Shadow (rarely uses due to laziness)

Bio: In this timeline, the ancestors of the faunus species were outcompeted into extinction by a new Phylum of semi humanoid lifeforms called the Monstros, or Monster Girls by the general public, whose unique ability to adapt to any situation through the use of specialized animal or somewhat 'mystical' traits that are unknown to current science and higher manipulation of aura, which vary from subspecies to subspecies, allowed them to go toe to toe with the Grimm as alpha predators capable of killing the Grimm with very little effort. This would last for a few thousand years until Remnant's Medieval Age, when the fledgling humanity's first encounter with the Monstros went horribly wrong, the original 'fuse' being lost to time, as both groups went to war against each other...nearly leading to their extinction and completely obliterating the entire Monstro males into an early grave. Upon this realization that the Monstro/Human Wars would eventually drive them into mutual destruction with no real winner, both sides decided that in order to survive, they had to work together and intermingle with each other to create a better world, which resulted in the formation of ten thousand smaller kingdoms that vary in religious and cultural norms. One such kingdom, located deep in the deserts of Western Sanus, is the 'Lesser' Sultanate of Set-Ka, home of the Sphinxes of Vacuo, a species of cat-like Monstros known for their enhanced strength and speed, the ability to use 'magic' aka advanced forms of aura manipulation, their devotion to the charismatic and alluring Pharaoh subgroup of 'undead' Monstros that rule most of Western Sanus' kingdoms, and..their extreme slothful nature as these species of feline Monstros are more lazy than a sloth and have to be ordered or motivated to even do the most simplest of tasks like defending their homes or hunting for food. Yet for Blake Sekhmet, the only daughter of Sultana Kali-Ra, she was the 'black sheep' of the Sphinx species as she was one of the few that was naturally energetic...to a point and diligent enough to train her mind and body in the way of the blade, favoring curved swords as her weapon of choice, which helped her rise within the court of the Pharaoh Glyn-Ra as her captain of the guard. However, despite her repertoire and warrior skills, she is easily bored and distracted over long periods of time, causing her to fall asleep on the job when no one is looking...which usually ends in her getting scolded by Glyn-Ra, especially when she uses bandages from another Monstro subspecies, the Mummy, to disguise herself as said undead to get out of work...only for her actions to be mooted by her own tail and ears. But besides those personal quirks, Blake would protect her Pharaoh and kingdom from all would-be invaders, from other Monstro kingdoms to Anti Monstro human kingdoms, yet even she would fall in battle...but not in combat but in love. For one day, a traveler from the Kingdom of Argus, a Pro Monstro society that allows free use of information and home to the famed Argus University, known as Jaune Amleth traveled to her kingdom to study the culture of the Sphinxes as part of a university archival project, which resulted in her falling head over heels in love with him upon first contact...which led to her sneaking off and became his traveling companion. Unfortunately for Blake...she wasn't the ONLY companion on this journey either, nor the last, as Jaune had eighty other Monstros from various species, kingdoms and allegiances, that follow him due to their affections towards him, including the most dangerous of them all...the dreaded albino nine tailed Kitsune, Pyrrha No Daji, the empress of the Mukon Empire and Jaune's childhood friend...and possessive yandere extraordinaire. Needless to say...Blake has a LOT of competition in her future...good luck, you'll need it.