《The Awakened One, Book 1: Remnant》Chapter 45: From Shadows
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The masked figure just as quickly dealt with everything on the ground, using his rifle propelled slashes to eradicate his enemies before his partner even had the opportunity to land safely on the ground, leaving them in a train car completely by themselves… kinda. Once they finished up the massive group of opponents that plagued them, the red-haired man quickly barked out his orders. “We need to clean these cars of anything of immediate value, mark the cars with the most identifiable combat-oriented Dust, and take care of anymore unwanted guests. All of this needs to be done within the next hour before we arrive at the trains first stop where our Brethren will be waiting to quickly unload the marked cars, and I’ll plant the bombs to make sure the Humans can’t use this Dust for anything else ever again. Do you understand the plan, Blake?”
The now identified woman called Blake simply sheathed her black and placed it back on her back as she rolled his eyes, “Adam, we went over this plan about a million times, why would I suddenly forget the entire plan once we got on the train?”
“That is a very fair point” said an unfamiliar voice, putting both Adam and Blake on guard. “I am inclined to agree with Blake on this one, but at the same time I think he was explaining the plan to me, not you. Blake Belladonna and Adam Taurus, goddamn they are some beautiful people, observe.”
The instant (Y/N) saw Blake he was smitten by her beauty and watching the way she easily dismembered her opponents with deadly efficiency and quickness was something that he found extremely sexy. Blake was a fair-skinned, mature young woman with long wavy black hair that rolled down her back, stopping at her exposed mid-section. At the top of her head sat a neatly tied bow that perfectly covered her cute, pointy, black Faunus ears that matched her hair color perfectly. Blake was gorgeous even as she glared daggers into him at his sudden appearance, she had sharp, deep amber colored eyes that were only slightly slitted, a smaller pointed nose that fell perfectly in the center of her face, two incredibly plump beautiful soft lips that were a natural nude color, and two human ears to match the Faunus ones up top. All in all, by face alone she could seduce and enamor any person she saw with the look of an eye, and she walked around with the confidence to match.
The beautiful, enamoring cat Faunus wore a leathery, black buttoned up vest with a single silver button holding it together underneath her bust, the vest also hugged underneath her cupped breasts with lacey designs sowed into its top. Running all the way up her shoulders and connecting with the vest in the back was the vests thicker straps that exposed her muscular back and shoulder muscles, and along the length of the vest were two long coattails that went down to the backs of her knees in length. Underneath the vest, she wore a pure white, cotton, sleeveless, high necked cropped undershirt that hugged tightly to her bust and in combination with the vest, worked to expose her toned abdomen. On her legs she wore tight, white shorts that hugged her thighs well and went down to the center of those thighs, but were met with her full length, stockings that started black and gradually turned to purple at her ankles. On her feet she wore low heeled, ankle length, black boots with silver buttons along its folds. Across both of her forearms she had black ribbons wrapped across them, but al across her left arm she wore a black detachable sleeve underneath the ribbon and a silver cuff around her bicep. Her outfit was topped off with the loosely wrapped black scarf that was around her neck, giving her the completed air of a natural beauty, but feisty woman.
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Name: Blake Belladonna
Age: 19
Race: Faunus
Titles: Second In Command, Shadow, Chieftain’s Daughter
LVL: 46
HP: 4060/4060, (+153)
AU: 3500/3500, (+77)
Attributes:
STR; 251, (+50)
END; 154, (+15)
DEX; 301, (+60)
VIT; 153, (+15)
INT; 104
LUK; 57
*Shadow (Semblance)*- This incredible Semblance allows Blake to create a physical clone of herself that pushes her in any direction that she wishes, even while air born. The clones are solid and are identical to Blake, however they can be easily dispatched with a solid strike, or if Blake moves to far away from one.
‘Gambol Shroud’- This amazing weapon is classified as a Variant Ballistic Chain Scythe and is a three-part weapon. Firstly, it’s sheath functions as a massive cleaver that can be swung for massive damage, secondly when unsheathed it forms a katana like blade that is incredibly sharp, swift, and light weight, and thirdly the katana splits in half to reveal a rapid firing machine gun that can bombard opponents with bullets; +20% STR, +20% DEX, +10% END, +10% VIT
Adam on the other hand was a much taller Faunus with a lean but muscular build and had an intense but cool aura that surrounded him, heavily assisted by the mask that covered his eyes and upper facial area. Adam stood at 6’5’’ and had spiky red hair that natural slicked backwards and was slightly auburn in some places, and it was atop his hair that he had two reddish-black horns that grew slightly backwards, appearing over the center of his head. His facial features were mostly a mystery as his face was mostly covered by a detailed Grimm mask with four horizontal slits which allowed him to see and was white in coloring but included intricate red designs across its face. On his muscular body he wore an asymmetrical black blazer with a intricately designed red trim and slitted sleeves. On top of the left shoulder of the Balzer was a vibrant designed symbol that depicted red thorn sigils adorned with a white crest, a similar emblem was embezzled on the back of his blazer, but this one was his Wilting rose emblem over top a white sigil that resembles a deadly nightshade plant. Along with his he wore long black dress pants and matching dress shoes, each with red sigils that looked similar to the Greek letter Omega, and on his hands, he wore tight fitting leather gloves with that same red omega sigil on the backs of them.
Name: Adam Taurus
Age: 25
Race: Faunus
Titles: Leader of the White Fang, The Fang Of the Faunus, The Scarred One, Victim of the SDC
LVL: MAX
HP: 16200/162000, (+570)
AU: 15650/15650, (+190)
Attributes:
STR; 2505, (+752)
END; 2010, (+402)
DEX; 1505, (+75)
VIT; 760, (+38)
INT; 525, {+105)
LUK; 255, (+13)
*Moonslice (Semblance)*- Moonslice is the powerful Semblance that Adam utilizes to dispense justice on those that dare stand in the way of the progression of the Faunus, and it is through this Semblance that he deals ludicrous damage. This Semblance allow Adam to absorb the energy of attacks he receives into his blade and stores it until he wishes to re-emit the energy at his enemies with a slash. The energy that he re-emits with his blade can be much, much more powerful than the original energy he absorbed, all depending on how long he charges the attack.
‘Wilt and Blush’- This amazing weapon is the centerpiece of Adam’s offensive and defensive capabilities, functioning as his conduit for extreme offense and secure defense. Wilt is a powerful sword made almost entirely of Red dust, giving it the ability to emit flames at will, and Bush functions as both the scabbard for Wilt and a powerful rifle that can send his blade speeding at an incredible rate. Due to the incredible and deadly combination of the powerful rifle and the unbreakable blade, Adam becomes nearly unbeatable; +30% STR, +20% END, +20% INT, +5% DEX, +5% VIT, +5% LUK
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Before he had a chance to speak again, Adam used his rifling scabbard as a projectile and shot Blush directly at him, quickly following up after his own projectile attack with silent quick steps to close the distance between them. Blake fell right into step behind Adam, using the machine gun function of her Gambol Shroud to unless a hail of bullets onto the man, but (Y/N) swiftly caught the scabbard that was sent at him, using it to easily deflect the incoming bullets from Blakes weapon and as Adam got incredibly close, he used his own attack against him by throwing Blush back at him with incredible speed. Once Adam saw his sheath approaching, he quickly maneuvered her blade, so the scabbard simply sheathed his blade, but he severely underestimated the force at which the Oni-masked man had thrown the object, so once his blade was sheathed it pushed him back slightly. The strength of the man’s retaliation surprised Adam, but, after recovering from the knockback, he quickly dashed forward putting the man in the range of his masterful weapon. The instant he was in range he fired off a rapid slash in a similar manner to how he dismantled the robots, but his extremely fast slash was met with a metallic clang as the Devil’s scythe emerged from his hand to defend him against the attack. After blocking the initial strike, Adam fired off a few more strikes to keep the man distracted while Blake sprinted at the masked man with her Gambol Shroud split in two and once, she got close enough, she propelled herself forward using her shadow, twirling through the air to meet the Devil with two powerful slashes that he was forced to block.
As soon as he moved to parry Blakes attacks, Adam got in closer, ripping Wilt from its sheath and unleashing a barrage of slashes and strikes that left him practically defenseless to Blakes follow-ups, but somehow, he was able to rapidly speed up to handle Blakes attacks as well as Adam’s own. “He’s so damn fast!” As he watched this happen through his single functioning eye, Adam quickly came to the realization that the man before them was holding back, so he chose to change his approach. Instead of firing off incredibly quick, hard to defend slashes with his blade, he builds up as much strength as he could, pushed Aura through his blade, and unleashed a powerful fire enhanced bladed uppercut to catch the masked man off guard. However, his attack was met with a swift back step that put his opponent perfectly out of the way of his attack, and before he could even attempt a defensive measure the Devil’s scythe cleanly sliced into his open chest, clanging like metal against his Aura, and sending him soaring through the air and landing harshly on the ground near the opposite cars exit.
“He overpowered Adam?!?” Blake thought as she watched Adam fly through the air and bounce as he slammed against the ground, soon skidding to a stop at the train car that they came from. As soon as Blake saw this, she focused her full attention back on her opponent, swinging her sword low in an overhead motion and watching as he deflected the attack from her katana. The instant her Blade touched his, she pushed off his scythe’s blade, using the powerful momentum to flip rapidly in the air and cut downwardly at the Devils now undefended head with her cleaver. However, the moment it seemed like her attack worked, she was met with a shocking surprise as the Devil moved at a blinding speed to powerfully parry her swing. His strength was overwhelming, and her entire arm and body began to fly backwards after the attack, but before her body flew backwards from the knockback, the Devil grabbed Blake by her ankle stopping all her backwards momentum and leaving her limp in the air for an instant. For that single moment she was completely frozen, suspended in the air, until the masked man pulled her in, swung her around in a single revolution around his arm, and launched her through the air, flying towards her partner.
Blake was thrown strongly, but it wasn’t something she couldn’t handle, so in mid-air she was able to slow her momentum by shadowing forward, allowing her to regain her balance in the air, and once she fell to the ground, she was able to land, albeit roughly, on her feet. Standing next to her was a fully recovered Adam whose hands were still plastered on his sheathed blade handle and the trigger mechanism on his scabbard, crotched low to prepare to strike. “Are you alright to attack Blake” he asked roughly, a bit of irritation present in his voice.
Blake quickly stood back up and said, “it’s not going to work Adam. He’s already overpowered both of us at pretty much the same time, I don’t think we have a chance at winning.” Even though she believed that they had already lost, she still readied her blades to attack.
“I know, but did you feel the way he was attacking?” As he asked the question, Blake’s bowed ears suddenly perked up, twitching slightly. “He rapidly speeds up, only uses enough strength to deflect an approaching Blade, and doesn’t take advantage of any openings to attack, he only defends.”
Once he said it, the entire situation started to click in her brain. The man definitely had the opportunity to slam her against the ground, throw her clearly through a train car, or even toss her off the train, but instead he let her fly free through the air. “He’s holding back? But why would he be holding back” She asked Adam the question as she eased up on her blades.
“Did you get a whiff of his scent Blake? Because if you did, you would understand why he may be reluctant to go on the offensive. That is the reason why this battle is lopsided, I cannot utilize my strongest technique because he is only playing defense, we need to force him to go on the offensive” Adam said as he began coming up with a plan to force the masked man to attack him.
Blake on the other hand was confused by Adam’s response to her question, “wait, why would we need to attack him? If you clearly see that he’s only being defensive and you already know why he’s not attacking us outright, then why would we still need to fight? Why can’t we just have a conversation with him and then try to come to some kind of consensus before we start swinging again?”
Adam only turned slightly to the woman, “Blake, all of the worlds problems cannot be solved with conversations and useless words, we must fight for what we want, and those who stand in our way must be dealt with accordingly.” Blake rolled her eyes at Adam’s response, clearly seeing that he wasn’t even attempting to be receptive to her suggestion.
“Its always fight, fight, fight with this man, he never see’s the bigger picture even in situations like this. I’m getting sick of it” she thought as she released her grip on her weapons, sheathing the Katana in the cleaver scabbard, and putting them away on her back. “Not all things will be solved with violence and I’m sick of you not listening to the other side. You are a stubborn, battle hungry, vengeance driven, fool” she spoke as she began jogging over to the still standing masked man. “Hey! Can we talk this out! I know you don’t wanna attack us the same way we don’t wanna attack you!”
Blake shouted at the man whilst she waved her arms around in an easy going, ‘I don’t want to fight you’, motion, giving off the impression that she didn’t want to fight anymore. In response to her wish to parle, (Y/N) put his Blade back into his body and began walking towards Blake to meet her in the middle, but Adam clearly didn’t like what she was doing. “Blake! What are you doing!”
Said woman turned around to face the red-haired Faunus, “what does it look like I’m doing? I’m going to solve this event peacefully!” The instant the word peacefully came out of her mouth, a massive Atlas security machine bursted through the train car behind the Devil, creepily crawling its way across the ground with its spider like legs, each step a loud bang that alerted everyone to its presence. As soon as the Mecha Spider appeared, it wasted no time attack as it immediately hunkered down and shifted its mounted guns into a massive cannon that rapidly charged its next attack. As soon as he saw the incoming attack, Adam glew red and pulled his Wilt and Blush out in front of him, pulling Wilt halfway out of its sheath as he prepared to absorb the attack. Blake and the Devil on the other hand had almost reach one another and were in the middle of greeting each other when the Mecha Spider began charging its attack. Blake was slow to react, but the Devil immediately dashed towards the girl and forced them both on the ground to duck and dodge the massive beam, watching as the white beam flew over their heads. At the same time, Adam stood his ground, absorbing the energy of the attack in its entirety and immediately sheathing his Blade to store it for later use.
The Spider like Mech quickly followed after its own attack, leaping through the air to crush the now grounded Blake, not caring that the Devil was also in its range. Simultaneously, the blinding quick Adam’s body glew a bright red as he dashed up to the Devil who was protectively covering Blake, and the instant he reached them he kicked his masked opponent high into the air, putting him in the perfect position to receive the deadly force along with the Mech directly above him. As soon as (Y/N) felt his body lift into the air, he quickly made to teleport out of the way of the incoming attack, but it was too late as the world around him fell silent. It felt as though all of his senses simultaneously shutdown and he was trapped in a world of black and red with the only thing he was able to do was wait for the inevitable. He watched as Adam’s brightly glowing crimson blade went from sheathed to cross body, and in that instant everything behind him fell into petals, free leaves in the fall breeze that began flowing with the afternoon air. The energy painlessly crushed into his airborne body, and it felt as though something had shoved him harshly in his chest, but otherwise nothing else significant happened. He felt as if he was suspended in the air, in the world of red and black, for an eternity but in reality, it lasted moments as he was soon landing harmlessly on the ground, staring at two shocked faces in front of him.
{-46,626 SHD!}
(Y/N) listened as the information was rushed into his brain and he thought out loud, “Goddamn that did a lot of damage” he said, only shocking Blake and Adam even further. After checking himself over a bit and mentally looking at his shields health and watching it very slowly start to regenerate, he turned his attention back to the duo and took a small step towards them. “Blake, are you hurt at all?” The White Fang associated girl had an intense moment of pause after the man who took a direct powerful slash from Adam’s Moonslice reached down and offered a hand to help her up.
She stared at his hand for a moment before slowly saying, “yeah, I-I’m fine” as she took his gloved hand and was swiftly and gently lifted from the ground, back onto her feet. After taking a moment to catch her bearings she returned the same sentiment back to the man, “uhm, are you alright?”
For some reason the question felt odd to (Y/N), so he responded was a slight turn of his head, “huh? Yeah of course I’m fine. Why wouldn’t I be?”
Before Blake could respond with the obvious answer, Adam stomped up to the man, standing next to Blake and in front of the powerful individual. “Why wouldn’t you be?” He asked, repeating the same question the man had asked, “the reason why you shouldn’t be okay is because I sliced you with one of the most powerful Moonslices I have ever executed. The power of that charge was so much that I even had a slight amount of difficulty containing it in my blade for the amount of time that I was able to. It felt as though my Blush was going to explode from trying to contain it all, but somehow you managed to not only survive the attack, but also come out completely unharmed. That is a more than shocking outcome.” Adam spoke calmly almost as if he didn’t just try to eviscerate the man he was speaking to moments ago, and after he finished speaking he allowed himself to relax slightly, taking his hands off his weapon.
(Y/N) had a sudden realization after Adam explained, “oh that,” he began, realizing what they were referring too, “the reason I’m unharmed is because of my defense, basically my Aura protected me. You both do the same thing all the time, like when I slashed you across the chest with my scythe you were completely fine, it’s the same concept” he explained.
Blake facepalmed as she heard his explanation, “we are more than aware of using Aura to protect yourself, but even those with more powerful Aura cannot defend against an attack of that caliber. Who exactly are you?”
Adam followed up after Blake’s question saying, “I guess a conversation in this sort of scenario is the optimal route for coming to an understanding about our current situation” he said making Blake roll her eyes. “However, we must go fast as we still have a job to complete, so only the most essential questions need to be asked. I noticed that you didn’t wish to go on the offensive against me and my colleague, but who you are isn’t important. The important question is what are you doing on this train brother? You are aware that this is a Schnee transport vessel, right?”
He somehow interrupted and disregarded Blake’s question and managed to waste even more time than she did, but (Y/N) tried his best to ignore that fact. “Why the fuck is he calling me brother? It must be a strength or respect thing with the Fang or som. Well for starters,” he began as he deactivated his appearance revealing his usual form and attire to the Duo, “to answer your question Blake, my name is (Y/N) (L/N), and it is very nice to meet you both. Also, I am more than aware that this is a Schnee transport vessel, that’s why I’m on it.”
Blake blushed slightly once she saw (Y/N)’s face, but she attempted to hide it by turning her head and looking away from the gorgeous man. Adam ignored Blake’s reaction and focused heavily on the man before him, “then what is it that brings you here Brother. This train is carrying hundreds of thousands of Dust crystals in its cargo, all of which is being transported to the awful Human military that puts the Faunus down and treats us like animals! Don’t tell me you’re here to protect this train from dangers, because if that is so then you must die for that treacherous act!”
Adam got angrier the more he spoke, resting his hands back on his weapon in a defensive position. “Protect? Hell no I’m not here to protect shit.”
That’s when Blake perked up slightly, now fully invested in this man’s purpose for being on this train, but slightly nervous that his reason for being here was adverse to her beliefs. “Then what is it that brought you here?” she asked, placing her hand on the hilt of Gambol Shroud.
“To answer that question, let me correct you where you are wrong Adam. This train is carrying more than a million Dust Crystals, not a couple hundred thousand. Also, none of which are being transported to any Military, unless of course you consider my back pocket to be a military.” Adam immediately angered and with extreme quickness he was able to draw his weapon and cut with a horizontal slash, stopping his blade right before his decapitated (Y/N), placing his blade on his neck. Blake reacted as well, looking a bit shocked by his comment, but equally as worried about his health as Adam clearly was about to kill the man that saved her life. However, the man in question didn’t flinch in the slightest, not worried for a single moment about his life being in danger.
“Adam wait! Calm down, he saved my life! The least we can do is hear him out” she shouted, hoping to curve Adam’s anger and speak to his emotion.
Her pleas didn’t help as Adam only gripped the hilt tighter and pressed the blade deeper against his neck, “Blake that’s enough! This man is no Brother of ours! There is no excuse for any of us to do business with the Schnees! You despise me, how dare you support the Schnee by buying their products, directly from them no less! Say your last words before I spill your blood across the ground!”
Instead of begging for his life or showing any fear for his current situation, (Y/N) let out a long sigh and put his single finger up against Adam’s blade, pushing it off his neck. “I didn’t buy this Dust; it was given to me for ransom. Not a single Lien came out of my pocket when acquiring it. So, no need to get all hyped up and call me a traitor or whatever else. Traitor to what? I’m not a part of the White Fang, whatever. I hate Jacques more than you do anyway, and I am going to take him down and end slavery in the process, so you really don’t wanna kill me before I accomplish my goal.” Adam stared at the man for a moment before quickly sheathing his blade and turning his head to face his companion.
Blake had a similar look on her face as she looked to Adam, confusion. “So, how exactly did you convince the Schnee’s to give you a train full of Dust” Blake asked.
“It’s kinda a long story, but I’ll give you the short version since we’re pressed for time. I held about 50 million Lien worth of Dust hostage after taking over the Schnee shipyard in Vale, then after that in exchange for releasing the Dust, I got this train full, and a some more shipments coming in later in the year.”
Adam then asked, “how are you aware of the enslavement of the Faunus then? Even most of the higher members of the White Fang don’t know of that secret.”
“Well, I got it from the horses mouth. Willow Schnee told me during ‘negotiations’” he said, putting air quotes around negotiations. “And don’t even think about disrespecting either her or her daughters in front of me or I will cut out your other eye and make you fully blind” he coldly said the threat, making Adam question even more about the knowledge that the man before him held. Blake was just as shocked, but before she could ask anything else, (Y/N) kept talking, “the head of the Schnee Dust Company is Jacques and the one before him was Nicholas. It is those male heads of the family and the ones that came before them that instated Slavery on Solitas and Jacques will be the one to pay the most once we free the Faunus. However, I need your help to do so Adam.”
Adam didn’t say anything at first, but after a moment of taking the man’s words in he relaxed again, letting go of his blade and looking the man in his eyes. “I was planning on freeing our people regardless. However, I don’t understand why you believe that I would be so willing to assist you when I have no idea who you are or what your true purpose is. You expect me to believe that some random person with strength as great as yours simply just waltzes around unnoticed by the anyone and somehow has the strength, knowhow, and resources to free our people? That’s nonsense. We at the White Fang have been working for years on a plan to free our enslaved brethren, our people. I won’t help you, but you will help us.”
(Y/N) scoffed slightly at Adam’s words, “listen Adam and you as well Blake.” Both of them perked up at him calling them both out, “the White Fang is a gorgeous organization that brings hope to a group of the hopeless. However, at the same time it is a group that strikes fear into the masses because of the actions and lengths that they will go to achieve equality.”
Adam didn’t let the man finish, instead he piped up and said, “what? So, you wish to remain weak? To attempt to talk down the worlds strongest military with your words? To achieve equality and end our oppression with negotiations and deals? That is nonsense! That is the same ideology that got us in this mess in the first place! The way to succeed, the way to grow, the way to equality, the way to strength is through one means and one means alone. Violence. We cannot talk our way out of hundreds of years of mistreatment. We cannot fight swords and guns with picket signs and megaphones.”
Blake suddenly said, “but all that does is bring more hatred and fear towards the Faunus as a whole! Then the Humans just oppress us more out of fear and mistrust, and then we end up further and further from our true goal! There isn’t any other way than through social change! If we grow together as a people, and Human’s accept us as we are then everything else will follow. We can go public with the information about slavery, people will see how horrible they’ve treated us and then peace will naturally ensue after. But none of that can happen if the White Fang keep blowing shit up and killing the innocent.”
“Blake you are far too naïve! Even if your precious peaceful ideals were to come to pass it would take years, decades, centuries even for it to come to fruition! In the meantime, thousands of our people will be dying day after day, night after night, slaving away in the mines not knowing what freedom tastes like! We need to make them understand the pain of being us, the senseless fear of simply being born different than the rest. I understand where you are coming from, but there is no other path to salvation. Do you understand Brother (Y/N)? Join the White Fang, give us the Dust and put your strength to good use.”
(Y/N) gave Adam’s words a thought for a moment, thinking of a way to address the duo of opposite ideologically aligned Faunus, and once he finished his thought, he began to speak. “Adam you are correct, this is not a war that will be one with words” after he heard his comment, Adam nodded his head proudly, but Blake’s ears drooped in defeat and her eyes teared up slightly. “Blake” once he said her name, she gave him her full attention, “you are also correct, the image that Human’s have towards the Faunus is something that matters equally to the safety of the enslaved Faunus in the mountain.” Their reactions were reverse now, with Blake looking up happily and Adam looking at his Brethren in shame.
“But-“
“But nothing.” (Y/N) quickly cut off Adam’s interjection, allowing himself to continue speaking on the topic. “Listen, while you are both correct, you are both wrong at the same time. Violence committed in silence speaks louder than peacefulness acted in cacophony, but Heroism shines brightest in the dark of night where Fear works tirelessly to dim the light of the day.” (Y/N) took a moment to allow his words to sink into the minds of the duo before he spoke again. “There is another way to achieve the absolute best of both worlds. A way to free the enslaved Faunus and make people understand the horrible wrong doings of their society, so they full accept the Faunus as equals. And completing all of this in a short amount of time such that the lives of thousands remain safe.”
The duo was left speechless at the mans words and Blake waited with bated breath for the solution that would safe her people, but Adam on the other hand starved for it, so he asked, “how?”
“We powerful few travel to Atlas to do the worlds dirty work, slaughtering armies, destroying machines, and gathering all that we need to free the enslaved Faunus. At the same time, we set up the White Fang to be the Heroes of a horrific event, solidifying the Faunus as the ‘good guys’ of the world and showing the Humans that they have nothing to fear from them, and instead should view them as the protectors of the world like they did during the Great War. The White Fang will prevent the fall of Vale and at the same time we will be shipping hundreds of thousands of previously enslaved Faunus back to the main continents and releasing that fact to the world. At the height of Faunus heroism, it’ll be revealed that Humans have still been treating the Faunus as slaves all this time and, the short version is, they will feel so bad that the people of Vale will instantly accept them in mass. Don’t worry about the details, all of that I have under complete control, but I still need your strength Adam and I need your assistance, Blake.”
Blake and Adam were at a complete loss for words and for good reason, everything that (Y/N) said was far to good to be true, but for some reason when he spoke it all felt so real. It seemed as if everything he said would come to pass and there was nothing else that needed to be done since it was already set to happen in their future. Blake was instantly swayed by his words, the promise of peace and freedom for their people was just far to great for her to pass up, but at the same time the man in front of her seemed to perfect for her to simply just believe in him. Adam felt a similar way, however he was pulled by the idea of taking the fight straight to Atlas, to be on the front lines fighting for his people. The silence between the group lasted a while, but it was broken by Adam saying, “Brother, I don’t understand your methods, nor do I understand anything about you, but I can say with confidence that you have my trust. If I can be on the front lines fighting for my people, no longer being useless here on the main continents stealing Dust and wasting away while our people die, then I will gladly assist you in any way possible.”
Blake soon followed up with, “(Y/N) I wont lie, you seem far too good to be true. A gorgeous, powerful man that seems to have all the solutions to all of our problems just suddenly appears completely coincidentally on a train that we just so happened to plan on stealing a bunch of Dust from and blowing the rest up. It is an oddly suspicious event, but at the same time I still find myself trusting your every word, so if there is anything that I can do to assist in saving our people, then I’ll gladly do it.”
(Y/N) smiled an enamoring smile at both the Faunus woman and man before saying, “well, who said that our meeting was a coincidence?” Suddenly, a deep chuckle erupted from Adam as he heard his Brothers words, and at the same time he smiled a wide smirk that looked about as genuine as genuine could be.
“Interesting choice of words Brother, I cannot say that I’m not looking forward to working with you” Adam said as he extended his right hand in an interesting handshake. Adam’s extended hand was out like a regular handshake except his fingers and thumb were folded, making his hand look like the clawed paw of an animal.
Blake saw what Adam was doing and said, “I look forward to assisting you in anyway possible as well (Y/N). However, I can’t say that freeing the Faunus is the only reason that I wish to work closely with you” she said as she extended her hand in the same claw as handshake that Adam had.
(Y/N) didn’t know what exactly to do with the handshake, but when he looked in their eyes they were practically gleaming for him to do the same, so he simply replicated the move that they were doing, putting out both of his hands in the claw formation. Once he did, Blake and Adam crossed arms as their clawed fingers reached his wrists, and once they laid there for a moment, they both pulled backwards, sliding their nails lightly against his skin until clawed fingers met with clawed fingers, locking the hands together. Once their hands were locked, the bended thumbs on top of their hands connected with one another, forming a bridged that connected the trio with one another. After the handshake was complete, simultaneously the duo spoke, “Welcome to the family Brother/Welcome to the Family Brother!”
Quest ‘Hero of the Faunus Race’ Complete!
*Quest Rewards*: Faunus Race Crystal Shard!
You have collected 3 Faunus Race Crystal Shards! Your Crystal Shards have fused, becoming a full Faunus Race Crystal!
Your body is now undergoing major changes!
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