Was all of it really worth it in the long run? She found herself asking that question alot.
The White Fang, she had had been with the group for as long as she remembered, and sometimes she thought about what they were really fighting for. Equality? More right's? As naive as it sounded she believed those things could have been achieved without the use of violence. But despite this she always believed what the White Fang were doing was for the betterment of their people. Why would she think otherwise when there was so much prejudice against her people.
But was doing this really essential to their cause?
Blake stared with nervous eye's at the large storage house surrounded by tree's. Near the storage house were train tracks that ran through the majority of the forest. From what she had heard the storage house was privately owned by someone, though who she did not know who. All she did know was that in a few minutes a train was going to make a stop here, and that it would be witholding weapons, dust and more.
"You ready, Blake?" A voice snapped her out of her thought's. Looking the side she took note of her mentor and partner Adam, cladded in a black outfit opposed to their 'comrades' white outfits, he also sported a Grimm like mask that coverd the upper regions of his face, lastly he had a sword strapped to his hip, and his bright red hair stood out in the dim forest.
"The other's are ready, and the train will be here soon." He spoke again
Blake's eye's scanned around the dark forest, about 20 member's of the White Fang were here. Some leaning against the tree's for cover, while other's were perked atop it. She did not know why so many people were necessary but she did not have the time to answer this question.
"Yeah I'm ready." Though the words were her own she did not agree with this whole operation. She saw no point in it, but was she to do?
Whatever thoughts she had went on hold as the sound of the approaching train reached her ears. Coming to a skidding stop was a large train with various containers on it's back carts. Blake studied the containers as several men started exiting the train.
It was strange, whenever they did steal it was always from the Schnee Dust Company, though these containers did not seemed to be branded. Her thoughts went on as the men from the trains started unloading crates from the containers, into the large storage house.
"Once they're done we'll head for the storage house, be ready." Adam spoke up once again, but Blake couldn't help but find it strange that he was so patient during this operation. He had grown violent as the days pass, that was clear to see. Whenever they had to do something, he'd always take the initiative. Sometimes that could have been a good thing but most of the time it was not, Adam was not one for mercy, especially when it came to humans. He'd kill them more often then not, even when it was not needed. This scared her, it wasn't right, she knew but her fear prevented her from vocalizing her opinion.
As the train started up again, it soon went on and disappeared from view.
"Everyone move out." As he orderd everyone of the White Fang stepped out of their cover and swiftly made their way to the storage house, with Adam and Blake leading the front. The place seemed unsupervised, there didn't even seem to be guards present. But Blake was glad, were their any present she doubted they would have received any mercy from Adam, let alone the other White Fang present.
Reaching the entrance, one of the White Fang destroyed the lock that kept two large iron doors together. The doors slid apart revealing the large space beyond it, filled to the brim with various crates, containers and more. Though the space was dark, any faunus could still easily see, a small advantage they had.
"Ten of you stay outside, though it is unlikely keep watch out for anyone that might close in. Eliminate them and stay hidden." Adam ordered and Blake couldn't help but frown at it, as she and Adam with the rest of the White Fang entered the storage house.
Adam gestured for the other White Fang to collect the crates that were recently bought it. They wasted no time in gathering them.
("Just what exactly is in these crates?") She found herself asking, usually no such effort was expanded on only a heist. But she kept the question to herself as her eye's absent-mindedly looked around. What was she even doing anymore? All this stealing and killing, what has it led to? Just more hate, that's what. The White Fang used to stand for something, but the member's were too misguided to seek other means to achieve their goals. Maybe she just didn't belong here anymore.
"You okay?" Adam approached her as she snapped out of her thoughts.
"Huh? Yeah I'm fine, it's ju-"
"Gyaaaahhhhh!!" A blood-curdling scream cut in from outside as gunfire followed and more screams.
Without a second thought Adam and the other's wasted no time in running to the exit. Blake still tried to shake the screaming out of her head, she heard it so clearly , she had never heard someone scream with so much terror. Shaking out of her daze she too went to the exit, she took note of the White Fang member's who already had their weapons drawn as well as Adam.
The hate and fury practically radiated off him, despite the mask covering his eye's she could imagine the hateful gaze. She even found herself taking a step back, but the smell of blood took her attention away from Adam. As her eye's moved to the side she saw a sight she would not soon forget.
Severed head and arms, intestines sprawled on the ground, fingers and gouged out eye's and she even spotted loose sets of teeth drowned by the pool of blood. Drenched in blood was various faunus parts, severed ears and tails alike, all violently ripped from their bodies
"Blargh!"
She could no longer hold it in, whatever she had for lunch violently erupted from her mouth as she hunched over, it felt like she was throwing up her own intestines. The sight before her was just too much. The other's looked like they themselves were on the verge of throwing up but somehow they kept it in.
"Sorry for the little show." An unfamiliar voice spoke and Blake willed herself to look up again, trying to ignore the violent scene.
There she saw a boy maybe even younger than herself, dressed in all white from head to toe.
But what stood out most was his pale snow white hair that seemed to reflect the moonlight as well as those beautiful sinister red eye's that seem to illuminate in the dark. He had a relaxed face and slouched posture, were one to ignore his eye's then he looked almost innocent.
But he was far from it, as he was standing in the middle of the blood bath. Though strangely enough not a drop of blood was found on him. Were he not holding a severed head one might think he was just at the wrong place at the wrong time.
"Bastard..." A low growl escaped Adam as his grip on his sword tightened.
With that white hair he almost mistaken the boy for a Schnee, but those red eye's proved he was not.
"Surround him!" He ordered as he ignored his appearance.
The remaining White Fang members circled him, but Blake could not will herself to move. She was shaking, and her heart was beating erratically. Death wasn't something new to her, she had seen it many time's before, be it protesting faunus being put down or human's being killed by the White Fang. But this was a nightmare, something she wished she had never saw. How can someone do something like this? Something so inhumane, so cruel..
"You'll pay you bastard!" One of the White Fang circling him snarled as he readied his weapon.
"Human scum! You'll suffer!"
More threats followed yet no one made a move.
Throwing the head aside the boy's expression grew bored as he lazily looked around. He himself had not moved but quickly Blake noticed something off.
Why was she seeing her own breath?
It wasn't suppose to be this cold, even if it was night time, the temperature shouldn't have been this low.
"What!?" Adam's exclamation took her by surprise but she soon found the source of it.
Frozen. The other's who had incircled the boy were frozen solid, horrid expressions etched onto their faces. They seemed more like ice sculptures now all in various positions, though that did not last long as their frozen bodies cracked and fell to pieces. Not even a trace of blood was found. Or any organs.
"With this expansion of air I created, I can control the temperature in it all I like." The boy mutterd as he stepped passed the shatterd chunks of ice and approached Adam and Blake. "But it seems aura does more than protect it's user from harm, huh..."
Grinding his teeth, Adam took a stance as he watched the approaching boy.
("Damnit how? He didn't even have any dust on him, is it his semblance then?") Whatever it was Adam readied himself before he glanced at Blake.
"Really think you have the luxury of looking around?" Suddenly the voice was much closer and Adam's eye's snapped forward only to see an open palm reaching for his head. Thinking fast he swung his head out of the way while he moved to the side of the boy's blind spot.
Releasing a swift attack with his blade he expected blood, instead he found himself nearly loosing a grip on his blade as his arm along with the blade violently shot backwards. With the momentum his body spun, but he quickly got a hold of himself as he backed away, eye's still staring with hatred towards the boy.
Accelerator watched on bordely as Adam kept his distance.
Apparently his unnamed employer didn't want him killing the faunus, he had said something about having future business ventures with him. Atleast that was the relayed message the esper recieved from the one who approached him with the job. But he didn't care either way.
Adam once again charged in, with a slight leap he swung his sword and aimed at the esper's neck, only to be met with the same result. As though violently bouncing off him his arm and sword swung backwards, only this time Accelerator did not remain idle, tapping his foot on the ground a explosive noise rang out as the ground beneath him cracked and broke apart, as though he had stepped on a landmine, the chunks of ground scatterd and flew in every direction, including Adam's.
They made contact and the blunt force caused his body to almost fly backwards, though thanks to his aura he took little damage.
Clenching his teeth the frustrated faunus continued to glare at the esper.
("Hmm, that sword...") The crimson blade had seemed to have lit up with a red hue.
("He's somehow reflecting my attacks. That would explain why I managed to gather so much energy in my blade in such a short time.") Though the excess amount of force still traveld through his arm, the majority of energy was absorbed by his blade. With his enemies ability uncovered Adam dashed forward again, only this time he attacked with just enough force.
("Oh I see now.") Accelerator watched as the faunus attacked him again only to suffer the same fate as he once again distanced himself. ("That blade must be gathering energy, it would explain why it lights up every time he tries to hit me. Shock absorption? Or he's just gathering and converging the momentum.")
Accelerator watched as Adam's sword and hair lit up with a red hue. The faunus sheathed his blade and tightly gripped it as he glared at the esper.
"This is where you die!" Swift as lighting he unseathed his sword with a vertical slash, what followed was a crimson cresent shaped energy attack that sped through the air towards Accelerator.
The esper leisurely raised his hand as the attack drew closer, and as it connected Adam stared dumbfounded at what he was looking at.
The crescent shaped attack froze in the air once it made contact with the esper's open palm.
"Take away the the kinetic energy of something, then it can't move." Then he started tapping against the crescent energy with his index finger, though it might've looked like a random action, the esper was really just adding more kinetic energy to the attack as well as amplify the momentum.
Adam readied for another attack but then a red blur passed his vision, he could barley react to it.
In the next momment he spat out a mouthful of blood as he fell to his knees. He stared downwards and saw a deep cut ingraved into his chest, the sharp pain made him grit his teeth in pain though he could not will himself to move. His vision grew blurry as he watched the approaching white figure.
"Damm...y-you..." The faunus fell forward as the esper merely stared on bordely.
Rolling his body to the side Accelerator looked around.
"Hmm, could've sworn there was someone else here."
Her legs hurt and her lungs were on fire. But she kept on running despite this, she needed to get away from that place, from the White Fang, from that monster. She just needed to get away. She didn't know where, but all she knew was that she had to be anywhere but there.
Her running came to a skidding halt as she found herself throwing up what remained in her stomach. The scene came back to her once again, every minute detail. It was ingrained into her mind.
She wiped her mouth as she fell onto the ground, she was exhausted, though she did not pride herself on her stamina she was not one to get tired quickly, she must've run too far away.
"...What now?..." She asked herself.
What was she going to do now? Go back to the White Fang? No, that didn't seemed like the right move, the White Fang were not what they used to be, they might as well be a violent terriost group. Though could she really talk? She had been a part of said group and she had witnessed all their wrong doings yet she had done nothing to stop it. She let out a laugh in spite of herself.
"I'm just as guilty." She leaned against a tree as she brought her knees to her chest.
She was lost, she didn't know what to do. But maybe leaving the White Fang was a step in the right direction.
It was funny in some way, the one who was responsible for something so horrid was also the one who gave her an chance to leave the White Fang.
"But still, where do I go from here?" She once again asked herself as she stared at the night sky.
("What now? What should my next move be after I get paid?") Mistral City was essentially useless, the only worthwhile library's they had there were in Academy's.
And the place in general was just...shit.
("But Vale's the city closet to Mistral, guess I'll head there next.") He wouldn't find a way home so quickly, so for now he could just learn all he can from this world in the meantime.
"Vale it is then."