Last time we left off with blake and the others now in menagerie along with meeting her parents. And it seems a familiar fox to zane who seemed rather nervous. While the cat hoped to explain why they are their with an atlas soilder. RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth and Monty Oum. I own the OC's, AU. Hope you enjoy!
Chapter 21:Familiar trouble
The group were now inside of the belladaonna home. Most of the wlal throughout the house are made of woods varying shades of brown, and in most rooms, the floor is also wood with high ceiling and large doors. For heir decoration are marbled green pillars and plants scattered throughout the house.
However the group was taken to what could only to be the dinning room. It is a large circular room with only a small, low sitting square table in the center. There are five mats it seems for seats. Around them are cream colored walls with a marbled cream color floor and a white ring around it. There are marbled green pillars isutated around the room on the floors in a white the wall around the room are windows varying in sizes and shapes, including what appears to be a skylight with a wooden frame.
The group was now sitting around as Kali currently left them to start dinner for all of them. As they waited two more people joined them.
One of them was 6'4 feet tall and seemed to be forty, his eyes are bright yellow. He had black hair that was medium cut with a samurai bun with a few loose strands of hair in front of him, his skin was white, on his pants sticking out was a black wolfs tail. He wears a pair of black pants with a buckle around his waist. He wears a jacket with a black wool sweater underneath it. The jacke is colored white with a wolf similar to fernir from norse myth curled up. He wears a pair of dress shoes with this outfit colored black with brown soles.
While the woman seems to be thrirtyeight and she stands at 5.6ft tall, with black eyes. Her hair is black and is styled into a messy side pony tail, her faunus trait is a pair of konshu wolf ears. She wears a hakama like Kali but its colored all black instead. She wears a shrug that is colored white. But underneath her hakama she wears tight fit long sleeve and she has a bit of clevage. She a necklace around her necklace with a wolfs head on the end of it colroed silver.
"Ghira my friend Zoey told us you had a surprise…''the man stopped looking at Onxyia and so did the woman.
"Little cub…is that you?"he asked as Oxnyia stood up stunned to see her.
"Yeah dad it's…me"she replied as the man rushed over hugging the girl. She was surprised by and embraced him women gave over with tears in her eyes it seemed embracing her too.
"My little girl is back..…thank god. Did you find your brother?"she asked with a hint of worry and hope.
Onxyia sighed looking at the two"yes….but he's still in the White Fang."she replied
The man seemed angry at this clenching his fist, but he relaxed his fist breathing slowly. "Declan dear it's alright."the women said
The man known as Declan breathed again"I know Katherine but that boy…..he frustrating. I was mad at Onxyia for joining but her and the belladonna knew when to get out. But him hes such an idiot.I don't know why he would join them even."Declan said with anger in his voice.
Onxyia wanted to tell her parents he's safe for now. But now hes with a criminal known as torchwich. But she been unable to call him for the last two weeks recently which worries her.
"Despite that dear who are they?"The women known as katherine asked
"Oh well um….the ice cream hair girl is Neopolitan or Neo for short"Onxyia said with Neo waving and smiling.
."She mute by the way she's unable to speak,"Onxyia added, surprising her parents and Ghira.
"No wonder she didn't talk early I chalked it up to her being shy."Ghira stated
"Then their Piper were the reason were here.''Onxyia said pointing to Piper messing with some looked at everyone then slinked down a little seeming nervous.
Then Declan looked at Harriet with narrowed eyes"whats atlas doing here, are you here to arrest mine and Ghira duaghters?"he qustioned
Harriet stood up bowing"no sir, i'm here as their escort along with guarding him"she said motioning to Zane. He was still being quiet and had his head down it seemed. Onxyia looked a little worried with her tail wagging fast seeming to be nervous.
"What do you mean is he your prisoner, why would you bring him here."Declan asked looking at Zane.
"No… you see he needs to wear that when he leaves Vale. For medical reasons actually his semblance is well um…"Onxyia tried to come up with a convincing lie. But Harriet spoke up again stating the obvious.
"He wears it because his semblance makes him lose control. It puts him in a rage-like state he's unable to control, that's why he wears it.``Harreit said with a straight face. It was a lie but it was also the truth.
"Hmm interesting, why is he here?"Declan asked
"Yes dear, who is he?"Katherine asked
"Well he's um….welll….my boyfriend"Onxyia said with a nervous she said this Kali just came back with food for dinner. It was a combination of seafood, rice, and other meats as well. She walked over setting the plater down on the table.
"I made food since you all might have been tired from your long flight. But it seems I walked in on something interesting."Kali playful replied looking at the group.
Declan looked shocked at this, the man stood there frozen in place with several things going on in his mind. while her mom just smiled hugging her daughter again squealing it seems.
"Thats great to hear you finally found someone"her mother said in joy
"Umm actually i also have a girlfriend…were doing a polymary relationship"She added embarrassed as declan jaw dropped in horror right now as katherine just seemed overjoyed.
"Oh that's wonderful dear, why didn't you tell us? Oh it's nice to meet you young man i'm Katherine Blair ''she said offering a hand but her daughter had more news
"Umm actually i also have a girlfriend…were doing a polymary relationship"She added embarrassed as declan jaw dropped in horror right now as katherine just seemed overjoyed.
"It's nice to meet you "Zane said, finally speaking up to introduce himself. As he did Katherine noticed something and started to examine Zanes eyes and face. Which made them all wonder what she was doing.
"What is your mom doing?"harriet asked
"Yeah…is she going to poke and prod me or something…..I aint into that"Zane asked
"Oh she's the town doctor…..as for what she's doing I don't know"Jazmine replied
As katherine exmained him Zoey was in the room and noticed him staring at her."yeah and why does he keep staring at me?"she asked creeped out.
"Sorry its just…..you remind me of a….. friend I used to know"Zane replied turning away with Zoey laughing
"Its alright kid next time just think about staring at people ,think about how its a little creepy to stare at people.'' Zoey replied as everyone continued to eat.
Neo looked at Zane with a hint of worry on her she continued to eat and everyone got to know each other or catch up. It was hard for everyone to understand the young girl because she had to keep sending texts. But Kali then sighed to her, surprising the girl. Blakes mom apparently knew ASL which made Neo happy if someone understands what she says.
Katherine then concluded something while finishing examining Zane"seems like your little boyfriend here is in a state of emotional shock. This usaully happen when a traumatic event happens and causes the memory to linger. I suggest he get some fresh air right now although he seems to have had this for a cortisol and norepinephrine released can cause reactions or panic attacks to occur "Katherine.
"yeah …i'll do that in a bit."Zane replied, rubbing his neck around the collar. As he did, Katherine noticed something around his neck. His scars are more important.
"Depsite that dig in everyone I bet you're hungry."Kali said as they all took their share of food and ate. Blake simply smiled in delight glad to be finally eat some home cooking for once.
"I forgot how great your moms food is.''Onxyia replied as she smiled content. Even Neo agreed along with Piper with content how the food turned out.
"Yes this is fantastic thank you"Neo sighed to Kali
Kali simply smiled"thank you for the compliment. I make sure no one goes hungry in this family. "Kali added
"Better than the stuff they give back at Beacon, they manage to make coffee their even taste bad."Zane added.
Ghira laughed a little at the joke then he look at his looked at her worried because she seemed okay but their was a worried expression it seems on her face
"Speaking of which. I believe you have to tell us Blake."Ghira spoke up which made Blake stop eating for a moment.
Blake looked down and way from her parents as she knew what her dad was talking about.
"yeah ….I guess I do."Blake repliedas she took a breath.
"Alot has happened so I hope your all ready for a quite a storie"Blake replied as she begna to explain everything that had happen when she ran away from home, returning Jazmine. It also took some time explaining why piper was here. That she was experimented on and turned into a grimm faunus two years ago. She even went into detail about Ollie Weaver and her ex boyfriend back in Vale.
"So you've encountered Adam Taurus and his friend Ollie Weaver?"Kali replied
"Yeah they caught them before with our help. But he escaped Ollie is still locked up."Blake replied with her sister placing her head on her sister.
"Terrible shame what that man did, I still can't belvie poor Ben and Xander got involved."Ghira added
Onxyia seemed to fidget at the mentioned of Ben. He know him for years and feels guilty because she knows exactly who did noticed this and placed his hand on her smiling and she seemed to calm down.
"yeah….but thank remnant hes in jail and unable to hurt anyone again."Onxyia said looking away with her mother taking note of this.
"What I'm wondering is how did my sister has her leg again?"blake questioned
Jazmine then stood up smiling presenitng it"well about a month or two or you leaving mom called in a favor. A man came by and did some measurements on my leg. Then a couple weeks later he presented this to us."Jazmine said showing her prosthetic leg in all its glory.
Blake was happy that her sister could walk again but still felt guily about it along with shame. She sighed and breath slowly."Jazmine….I am so sorry….its my fault you lost your leg…you must hate your big sister"Blake said choking on her words with a few tears falling down her cheek.
Jazmine then looked down with closed eyes hugging her sister again. She wrapped her arms around her didn't return the embrace but just stood their silently
"Hey your okay…It was pretty stupid of me to just rush in. Along with joining the white fang but right now….i'm still gonan call you my big sister no matter what."Jazmine said as Blake looked at her picking up a napkin wiping the tears away.
"Although now you have to do my chores for ten years to make it up to me."Jazmine added which made blake laugh a little.
Blake sniffed before wiping another tear away"thank you….although I still hate what i've done for them."blake replied
"Oh stop that nonsense dear, we all make mistakes. Even some that we aren't proud of. But sometimes mistakes can be a good thing as well. Making a mistake is only natural so we don't repeat the same actions again.''Ghira said wisly.
"yeah ….I guess so."blake replied
That was when Katherine spoke up"yes but i'm still trying to comprehend what happened to this little one does she look like that?"She asked, looking at Piper eating now. The girl tried to have the best manners but living in the wild like that seems to have made her animalstic it seems.
"Yes, I'm wondering that too not to be rude. But why does she look like a grimm more specifically an uras by the looks of it."declan added
That was when Onxyia spoke up"actually from what me and my team found out. A man by the name of Athur Watts did it. He used her along with several others as experiments and turned her into a grimm. "Onxyia replied.
As she said his name Piper flinched a little and Zane looked down breathing but kept his emotions in check continuing to eat the food given to them.
"We were wondering if you knew her aunt by chance, her name is Mari and she seems to run an orphanage were told."Blake asked
"Oh Mari along with another woman helps down at a local orphanage near here. You can meet them tomorrow, i'll show you were live."Kali replied
"Thats great, although I do have another question about this topic."Katherine added
"What do you mean?"Blake asked, looking at the women.
"I'm guessing you're also from the same experiments too."Katherine said looking at Zane while he ate and he gently put his silverware down.
Zane sighed"what gave it away….is it my necktie?"he asked
Katherine shook her head"no,while I was looking at you I noticed something similiar scaring on your neck from the little one over what's puzzling is you seem pretty normal."Katherine replied
"Yes I also noticed something when you mentioned Watts name. You and Piper reacted to that name. It's a mother's instinct to know when something is wrong."Kali said as Zane jumped up a little and Piper flinched. Then he looked at her chuckling to himself at her guess, she hit the mark.
Declan's eyes buldged a little from surprise and he examined the boy studying him. He looked at him with suspicion at what was just mentioned.``hmmm if my wife is saying what I think she is saying, wouldn't that make you a…..grimm?"he asked as they all stood there quietly while he looked in anger it seems.
Hariet sighed before standing up and bowing"sorry sir i'm afraid we can't tell you about this. The information is classified we can't….."hariet began before Ghira interrupted her.
"Nonsense miss, I understand atlas wants to keep their secrets hidden. But i'm concerned this boy will be a problem if he's a grimm.I can't have panic occur in village it would be really bad right now"Ghira asked with hands clasped
"Don't worry with that collar on he's alright see"hariet said pushing a button on her gauntlet. This shocked Zane as he was eating and he dropped his silverware. Everyone was a little shocked by that and Zane stood there looking at Hariet.
"I hate you girl scout"Zane said, rubbing his neck looking at hariet.
"Isn't that much, he's just a child, what harm can he do?"Ghira asked
Hariet laughed at his question making him anger"you haven't seen what i've seen sir, kids dangerous Ironwoods beleive we should have kept him in the lab.''Hariet responded. As she did, Zane mimicked her, moving his hand around annoyed.
Blake just sighed at what hariet just did"hariet could you please remove the collar for tonight. It making some of the people here nervous."Blake said with hariet looking surrpsied.
"Sorry kid but i'm under direct order to keep it on him."Hariet replied then Zoey walked over speaking up.
"I think she wants you to remove it because a few of my men here are ex dust mine workers. Along with the people in town, remove it for now and if anything happens we can handle it."Zoey said with Hariet looking at her then she groaned rubbing her forehead.
"Fine…..ironwoods going to kill me if he finds out."Hariet said, walking over to Zane and putting her eye to the collar.
"Activation code Charile, Hariet Bree, remove restraints on Subject Omega."harriet said as the collar beep making a large clanking noise. Then it un snapped with a beeping noise it seems. Zane took it off happily smiling before tossing it to the atlas grunt.
"Thanks for removing that thought I will be sleeping underneath a brick again tonight."Zane said, putting his hands on his neck, cracking it. With Declan standing up walking over to the boy. Zane stood there a little nervous infront of Onxyia's father.
"Hmmm in my opinion you don't look that dangerous my boy. I'm sure I can take you anytime."Declan said, arms crossed, smiling smugly. Zane laughed before he slowed breath as his semblance activated. Then his skin became covered with everyone a little surprised by this.
Ghira looked at this wondering what makes him a grimm exactly"hmm my boy what makes you a grimm, this looks pretty normal."Ghira asked scratching his chin.
Zane rubbed his neck in this armor form"don't worry about it….but you still wanna go sometime old man?"Zane taunted.
Declan looked at the boy annoyed and seemed to give him a death stare. Then he laughed to himself at his little threat"My boy I could beat you with one no….both hands behind my back."Declan hollered laughing.
Onxyia sighed with Neo tapping her on the shoulder confused."why is your dad wanting to fight him?"Neo said in a text
"My dad likes to fight, when he and mom met. He would always be up for a fight no matter what, which caused problems.. Lets just hope nothing bad comes from this."Onxyia said
"If they destory my house I'm suing Atlas' 'Blake said, making Hariet look surrpsied by that comment.
"Why would you do that?"Hariet asked
"Didn't you say he was atlas property before?"Blake asked with Hariet being silent knowing what she said that one time. Zane rubbed his head before relaxing as his armor fell off. Luckily he wore his bracelet this time the flight made him feel tired.
"Well why don't you tell us about your team Blake, from what I hear they're an interesting bunch it seems."Kali asked, ruffling Piper's hair with the girl humming.
"Hmmm their Ruby our leader, she is actually the youngest huntress their right now. Despite her age shes actually a really great leader."Blake said
"Then their Weiss, she was annoying at first but I got used to her over time. Even though she is annoying sometimes."Blake added
"Hmmm are you talking about Weiss Schnee?"Ghira asked
The teens were a little surrpsied by him figuring out that name. It wouldn't be hard her name and family are everywhere. But they did get a bad name from most faunus it seems. If she was here maybe she wouldn't be treated so great by the people here.
"Oh ummm….yes she is, but don't worry she isn't like her father."Blake replied trying to clear up the situation.
Kali laughed at her daughter response"Don't worry dear its quite alright, i've met her mother before. The only person faunus really hates most of the time is her father. That man has given them a bad rep along with his businesses pratices"Kali replied
"Hmmm you are right but most huntress and huntsman team are four who is your 4th member?"Katherine asked
Blake figeted for a bit with her ear twitching as she hide her face. She thought about how Yang was on her team. It would be easier to just say it but she felt a little nervous thinking about her. Neo and Jazmine noticed this along with a few others.
"Oh the last person shes talking about is Yang shes Rubys older sister. Word of advice if you ever meet her don't touch the hair."Zane said eating with Katherine confused by that.
"Why can't you touch this girls hair?"Katherine asked
"She goes ballistic ready to destory whatever took her hair.'' Blake added, hiding her face still.
Declan looked at his daughter wondering,"what about your team dear?" Onxyia finished eating and looked at her father.
"Well you've already met the leader of the team here."Motioning toward zane sitting there waving.
"The other two are sisters, actually both named Eria and Rogue Hayley,"Zane added, which surprised Kali.
"Really those two children are going to Beacon. That is surprising actually….it's been a while since i've seen them back in my huntresses days.``Kali replied surspining a few.
"Wait you were on the firestarter and Princess Ice queen's parents team?"Zane asked with Kali nodding in response.
"Yes me,their parents and their uncle. We were quite the team back then. Those two brothers would argue alot while Calida and their mother would just be all happy and try to improve the atmosphere no matter the situation."Kali said smiling.
"It is a shame what happen to their uncle he was an interesting man."Kali added somberly
"Yes I remember him back in the day. But I think it's time for everyone to head to bed for the night. Dear are you coming home tonight?''Katherine said looking at her daughter.
"No….i'll stay here tonight. I'm pretty tired from the trip. Thank you for offering"Onxyia replied with Katherine rolling her eyes smiling at her husband and leaving saying goodbye returning home.
Ghira nodded at this"we'll get the guest rooms prepared then."Ghira said as the groups disbursed. As they did Zoey looked at Zane's neck , noticing a familiar necklace to her. The laughing skull necklace her brother used to wear and thought to herself about it. Along with a scent she hasn't smelled in years.
"No way….could it be….no he isn't him, hes dead."Zoey thought to herself.
Then Kali gestured her husband over as the groups left to do their own thing.
"Something wrong dear?"he questioned.
"I'm not sure but…..something doesnt feel right about this. An atlas Ace Op here, two grimm hybrids. I may be over worrying but…"Kali added stopping herself.
"Kali I know you want to protect her but she isn't a little girl anymore. Sometimes we need to her make her own choice. Even if she falls we'll be their to pick her back up and help her in anyay we can."Ghira said wisely.
Kali only sighed"I know but that doesnt mean i'm not keeping an eye on them."
"I understand, ''Ghira replied as he returned to the dining room while Kali went to prepare the rooms.
It was geting late and a few people were still up throughout the was outside looking at Kuo Kuana night sky. The pale moon shone over the town illuminating it. Along with several lights throughout the town. They slowly went off as Blake watched, thinking it seemed.
"I can't believe Jazmine has her leg back…..but I still feel like there's a hole in my chest that needs to be filled. I hope I can patch things up with them soon."Blake thought then as she stood their her ears twitched. She could hear soft footsteps that were light on the ground to her right.
Blake turned to see who it was, their Onxyia stood their in her sleep attire.
"What are you still doing up?"Onxyia asked as her tail moved slowly.
Blake sighed leaning against the railing"I'm just…..thinking about today."Blake said with Onxyia closing her eyes walking over to her friend standing next to her.
"Blake…..you just need to let them know you wanan patch things up. It seemed like they were really happy about your return it seems. "Onxyia said
"They did…..but I feel like there's some hole in my chest. It feels like I haven't made an amends at all."Blake replied
"Look….if you wanna do something just try and be the best big sister from now on. You all saved me from making the worst decision of my life. When…..I had Ollie, all I wanted to do was punish him for his crimes."Onxyia stopped with Blake staring at her.
"Although I saw how everyone was looking at me then I realized…it wasn't worth it killing him to be happy. I felt ashamed for a while not going through with it, but then I felt relieved that I made the right choice."Onxyia said
"What does this have to do with my situation right now?"Blake asked the wolf faunus.
Onxyia smiled"Yoor mistakes are in the past like your father said. All you need to do now is just keep moving forward and look toward the positives."Onxyia said with Blake seeming a little reassured from her words.
"Thank for that….we should head to bed now its getting late"Blake said with Onxyia nodding and both returned to their rooms.
In Zanes' room he was on his bed staring at a picture Colt gave him from the gym. It was him in front of the gym with his adoptive sister and mother. As he did he breathed placing it back on the desk face down. As he sat on the bed contemplating things a small knock could be heard near the balcony door. He got up slowly and cautiously approached it.
He opened the sliding door to reveal Neo in her pajamas. She was wearing a long seeleve shirt and pants swirled with pink,white and brown. She looked a little tired but why is she here.
"Whats up Neo?"Zane asked as the girl walked into his room confusing Zane. Neo then pulled out her scroll typing away on it.
"Why didn't you tell Zoey?"The text read and Zane looked away from stood in silence and Neo rubbed her temple in she went over to him poking him in the face to get a response. After a bit of pestering she finally did.
"Ok stop it….the reason I didn't tell her was because…..I was afraid she wouldn't believe me."Zane said surrpsing Neo.
"Why wouldn't she believe you?"Neo next text read as Zane scroll buzzed
"I don't know….a guy comes out of nowhere claiming to be your long dead brother. What do you think would happen?'' Zane asked sarcastically.
Neo understood what he meant by that, the only reason she believed it was him because of the name he called her. Back when they were kids they gave each other some stupid nicknames to match their antics. They called Vance a fish eater because he would always be eating fish. Lazuli feather head since she had a fascination with Swan. They called her Ice Cream girl since she always looked like one. Then there was Zoey who they called Big sis since she was the oldest.
Neo then texted on her scroll again"I understand what you mean by you should at least give it a try tomorrow at least."Neo text read
Zane sighed"fine but….just be prepared if they try and beat the crap out me. "Zane said as he went to lay down and Neo left the room closing the door behind her returning to her room. In hareits room she left the door open to look at the night sky. She was looking at the reports given to her by Ironwood.
The reports were based on what appeared to be a string of disappearances and murders happening around remnants. One stuck out and it was about a pair of assassins killing a governor of a city in Vacou. She chalked it up to some rich snob trying to take the guy's spot. But there could be more to it but she just wanted some sleep from the long flight.
It was now late into the night as most buisnesses and residents were asleep or closing up their shops. The owner of what appears to be a small food stand had walked off his business, he locked the door behind him and made his way home.
The owner himself was a lizard faunus with short black hair and purple scales. As he was walking home after having another successful day of business. As he walked he heard a loud crack behind him sounding like glass. He stopped dead in his tracks hestiating it seems but slowly kept walking.
The noise then came again and he turned round brandishing a small knife.
"Alright whoever their come out?!"he shouted. Then the noise got closer as he began to hear footsteps coming toward him. Then from out of the shadows came out someone he didn't know and she had a smiling mask you would see in theatre play.
She wore a short black skirk with tight legging, with a pair of womens dress shoes dark brown in color. Along with that she wore a peach colored turtleneck. On this turtle neck was a tactical vest colored black it seems. Along with that atop her hair seemed to be blonde and in a bun. She also wore long gloves on her hand.
"Oh hello are you a stage performer, what are you doing out here so late."the fuanuas asked
The girl in front of him gave a thumbs up surprising the man.
"Oh are you mute….well from that thumbs up I guess that means yes. We'll need to get going then. Have a great…."before he could finish she suddenly charged at him taking the small knife out of his hands then swiftly stabbed the man in the abadamon before removing it and slashed at the man's throat killing him.
The woman then put her finger up shushing the man as he slowly bled out. Then behind her was what appeared to be three men and four Atlas AK-130's. She quickly motioned for them to move out of sight as they all quickly left the scene.
Looks like a new foe has appeared on the scene of the island. I wonder what will happen with this new trouble on the island. Declan and Katherine Blair are my OC along with Zoey. Thank you for reading!
