As the time passed and day turned to night, we were yet to get any message from Blake and Sun, which worried me a lot.
I told Blake to message my scroll when they found something. She must have run into trouble. I have to find her.
I quickly tapped my scroll to activate it. "Track Blake's Scroll location." I said to my scroll. Immediately, it picked up on her scroll.
I'm glad that the tracking feature the General installed is paying off. For once I'm glad his paranoia helped.
"Location found! Target at the City of Vale's Docks. Currently, 5 miles away from current location." My scroll spoke.
I need to tell the others.
I ran from my dorm room and knocked onto Ruby's dorm door.
"Ruby, Weiss, Yang. I've found where Blake is. She's at the docks, come on."
The three immediately got to their feet and ran out of the dorm room with me. We were outside quicker than I thought.
"We don't have time to wait for the airship. Ruby when I give you the signal, wrap your hands around my neck and Weiss and Yang grab onto my hands." I said as I flapped my wings.
"Do I have to?" Wiess moaned.
"Weiss, please. Blake might be in danger." Ruby cried out.
Weiss shortly let out a heavy sigh. "Fine! Let's just get this over with."
After Weiss agreed, I took to the sky with Ruby clinging to my back. "Are you alright, Ruby?"
"Yeah, everything's fine. Wow! The view's amazing!"
"I bet it is. Hold tight now." I said as I descended to grab onto Weiss and Yang hands.
With one quick swoop, I grabbed onto their hands and we're on our way to rescue Blake.
Blake, please be okay. I don't want to lose you to the White Fang, just like everyone else I care about.
***
As we got closer to the Vale docks, I got my paranoid about Blake's safety.
"Are you alright, Fran. Carrying all three of us can't be that easy." Weiss asked.
"Yeah, we're not exactly light." Yang agreed.
"And with me on your back, I must be hurting you." Ruby also agreed.
"Guys, I'm fine. Back when I was in the White Fang, well before it changed, I used to carry Blake and a friend."
"Who's this friend? You've never mentioned her before. Just Blake." Ruby asked.
"Ilia, she was closer to Blake than me. She hated me because she thought I was stealing Blake from her. She used to pull on my wings and spill my blood packs. When Blake caught her, she would cosy up to her and apologise. It didn't stop her though. When her parents died in one of the Schnee Dust mines, she shut herself away from us. Blake and I tried to help her. Even though she was always bullying me, she had lost her parents, and I wasn't going to leave her alone. Mama and Papa tried to help her fit in, but she just... got angry. Whenever Humans got close to the White Fang camp, she would hunt them down and hurt them. On one occasion, it was a bit more severe. When the White Fang turned into what it is today. She stayed with Blake. Wanting to fight for our rights through fear. The last thing I heard about her was that she led an attack on one of the Schnee Dust Mines; not one of the workers or Schnee guards survived."
"I think Father talked about that once." Weiss said.
"God..." Yang gasped.
"I'm sorry, Fran. I shouldn't have asked." I heard Ruby mumble into my back.
"It's fine. I just hope she comes around like Blake did and doesn't end up like Adam."
"Attention! Approaching Vale Docks. Get ready to land."
"Well I guess, this is it. Yang, Weiss get ready to land." I said as I flew lower towards the ground.
The two let go of my hand and I sensed them land on the ground nearby. "Hold on tight Ruby." I dived toward to the ground as Ruby's tightly wrapped her arms around my neck.
"Everything all right Ruby?" Yang asked as I sense her walk over towards her.
"Yeah, everything is alright Yang. Come on, we have to help Blake. I know someone who can help." Ruby said which confused us all.
Has Ruby met someone who can help us?
"Hello Penny, it's Ruby." Ruby said.
She must be talking to this Penny on her scroll.
Suddenly a loud noise came out of her scroll.
"I guess she's coming to help then." Yang sighed.
"Do you know her Yang?" Weiss asked.
"I guess you could say that. Before you messaged me for finding Sun, we went looking for you. Then Ruby literally walked on her. She's... nice." Yang didn't sound all that confident.
"Well if she's a friend of Ruby's she's a friend of mine." I said. Suddenly a strong gust of wind enveloped us all. It stopped right in front of me.
"What did you just say?" I heard a voice come out of nowhere.
"Umm... A friend of Ruby's?"
"No after that."
"Oh, if you are a friend of Ruby's then you're a friend of mine?"
"You want to be my friend. Ruby was right, you'll be my friend." This Penny said as she ran into me and suddenly wrapped her arms around me.
What was weird about this Penny was that I couldn't pick up a body signal like Ruby and the others, but I can still pick up on her Aura. Weird. I guess, I'll just have to look out for her Aura instead. And I thought today was going to be easy.
"We should hurry and get to Blake, she could be in danger or worse." I said.
"Of course, my friend. Come on my friend Ruby, and Ruby's sister and Miss Weiss." The girl took off.
"So, Weiss, Fran... That's Penny. She's kind of... out there." Ruby said.
"Well she's a lot more orderly then you are, so it's an improvement." Weiss joked as Ruby replied.
"Hey, I resent that."
"Guys, we have to get to Blake. We can sort this out later. By the way Ruby, Weiss is so right." I said as I ran in the direction Penny ran at.
"See! Even Fran thinks I'm right and she can't see." Weiss said, slightly behind me.
The chatter stopped as we eventually got to the docks and an explosion erupted from nearby. "What was that." Weiss shouted out.
"Whatever it is, it's not good. Let's go." Ruby said.
We had gotten on top of a few of the Schnee dust containers when I picked up on people fighting nearby. "Over there." I pointed out.
As we got closer to the fighting. I picked up on familiar body signals. "Blake, she's alright. Sun is with her as well. So is... Huh. He was the one… Ruby, Weiss, Yang distract him, while I check on Blake and Sun."
He was the one who attacked me.
"Hey!" Ruby shouted out as I sneaked around and checked on Blake and Sun.
"Oh, hello Red! Isn't it past your bedtime." The man said.
"That's why we're here with her." Yang said.
"Honestly did you expect this would go unpunished." Weiss said as they continued to stall him. As they distracted him, I managed to check on Blake.
"Hey, you alright Blake?" I asked as I checked over her. Thankfully, she was fine.
"Fran... I knew you would get here. I'm sorry."
"It's alright Blake. You're fine, that's all that matters." I said as I patted her head.
I then went to check on Sun, he was in slightly more trouble as more Faunus surrounded him.
I notched an arrow and fired it at the group of Faunus. This time my arrows had been modified to fire cluster of arrows at once. That arrow knocked out all the Faunus.
"You okay Sun." I asked.
"Yeah, I got this." He mumbled as he got up from the ground.
I turned back around and used my Semblance to get a large sense of the area. I sensed that Penny, Weiss and Yang were all fighting members of the White Fang and Ruby was checking on Blake. That just left...
"So, I see you've been patched up Wings, back for more?"
"So, I was right. It is you."
"That is correct, only this time I got what I wanted. The name is Roman Torchwick."
"Aren't you a wanted criminal? Why are you, a human, with the White Fang?" I asked as I notched an electric arrow.
"What, didn't get the memo? The White Fang and I are going in on a joint business venture together. Why don't you join us, Wings? I could use another partner in crime."
"I'm going to say no." I said as I aimed my arrow at him.
"Shame, I thought we could have worked well together. Oh well then, Neo! Take care of her!" Torchwick shouted as I sensed the girl from before coming at me.
Okay, Semblance don't fail me now.
I quickly dodged out of the way as I sensed Neo dive towards me.
"I see we meet again." I say as I readied myself with a clustered arrow.
Neo didn't say anything. She just stood there with her umbrella. "We don't have to do this. I can let you go."
Neo said nothing and pointed her Umbrella at me.
"I see."
I notched an arrow as she ran towards me. I quickly dodged out of the way and ran towards Neo. She swiped her Umbrella at me, as I deflected it with my bow. I swept my legs to trip her, but she jumped out of the way. She then thrusted her umbrella to where I was, so I quickly ducked and managed to fire an electric arrow. Grazing her shoulder as she let out a small wince.
"I can excuse what you did to me last time, just stand down. I don't want to hurt you." I begged as she pointed her umbrella at me.
"So be it!" I said as she leaped towards me. I ducked out of the way and caught her arm. I pulled her in front of me and charged into her stomach. Unfortunately, this was her plan as she stabbed her pointed-end umbrella into my shoulder.
"AHH!"
I pushed her away as I grabbed at the wound on my shoulder. It felt wet.
She got me good.
I pushed my pain aside and tried to notch another arrow. The pain however was still too strong. I dropped the arrow.
"You will not hurt my friends." I heard a voice shout out.
Penny, don't they're too strong for you.
Penny leaped off the roof and charged at the White Fang members and took them all out. Penny leaped backwards and started to charge what felt like a laser powering up. Once the laser had gathered up the required energy, it fired at the two helicopters, splitting the helicopters in two. As I sensed the White Fang members fall out of the split helicopters and into the ocean, another helicopter flying off with a shipping container of dust from the Schnee Dust Company. Penny though wouldn't let that happen as her swords pierced into that helicopter, stopping it from flying away. She then started to pull the helicopter with her.
"Neo, let's go!" Roman shouted as Neo jumped away from me and to Torchwick. Soon, the two escaped in another helicopter.
I guess there's nothing I can do now.
I picked up my bow and collected my arrows and walked over towards where Blake and Sun were. "Fran! You're hurt!" Blake gasped as she ran over towards me.
"It's fine Blake. I'll be fine for tomorrow."
"Here let me look." Blake said as she led me to somewhere private and peeled away my clothing from my wounded shoulder.
"Ah..."
"Sorry. It doesn't look that deep, you're Aura will take care of it soon enough." Blake said as she dressed my shoulder.
"Why didn't you message me? You're my best friend Blake, you're like a big sister to me."
"I know. I feel the same way."
"Then why didn't you message me!" I cried out as tears trickled down my face.
"I couldn't risk you getting hurt. When we found out from Sun, the White Fang were involved, I couldn't risk you getting hurt if Adam was there. After what happened to your parents, I couldn't take it if you died as well." Blake shouted at me as she started to sob.
"Sienna must have planned this, but why? Why does she want with shipping containers of Schnee Dust?" Blake said after a couple of minutes of silence between us.
"Wait, Sienna is in charge of the White Fang? I thought Adam took charge."
"He tried too, but once when he told Sienna that he murdered you and your parents, Sienna took it as insubordination because we don't turn our backs on our own. Sienna nearly exiled him from the White Fang, but I talked her out of it. At the time, Adam told me he went there to check on you and your parents, to try and bring you all back. He never told me he murdered them. Now the White Fang is ruled with her Iron fist. Ruled through fear, with Adam leading her strike teams."
"That's so messed up!" I heard a voice say. I used my Semblance to sense Sun just behind us.
"Ah, Sun!? How long were you there for?" Blake cried out.
"How much did you hear?" I asked.
"Enough. I understand, why you two avoided my question earlier about how much you both knew about the White Fang."
"We're s-sorry. It's something we would like to forget." I apologise.
"I don't see the problem, you've put that behind you, but I understand not telling me. And I'm sorry about your parent's Fran."
I smiled. "Thanks."
"Hey! Everybody alright?" I heard Yang yell as I sensed her, Weiss, Ruby and Penny run over towards us.
"Yeah, we're fine." Blake said as they others approached us.
"Huh!? Fran you're hurt." Weiss said hurrying to my shoulder.
"It's fine, Weiss. Blake has already had a look at it. It's not that deep."
"Just another battle scar to show off, huh Fran." Yang joked as I chuckled.
"I guess you're right." I said.
"I wish you wouldn't encourage her." Weiss sighed. "Well at least everyone's fine. As for you Blake." Weiss spoke harshly.
"I know, I messed up. I should've listened to Fran." Blake apologised as Weiss scolded her.
"Next time, invite all of us. We're a team Blake. Now come on, I had ordered food for us all, which'll be cold by now. And before you ask, no Monkey boy, you're not invited."
"Oh, come on princess. I thought after saving you from one of those jerks back there, would be worth something."
"It would, but I remember saving you from getting killed after you tripped up, so it balances it out." Weiss counted as Ruby and I giggled.
"I would take the loss, Sun. You'll never win an argument with the ice princess." Yang said as Sun let out an audible sigh.
"I take it, that's a no then. I guess she's too rigid to pick up on my charms." Sun murmured low enough for my ears to pick up on, but not Yang, Ruby and Weiss.
Was Sun trying to hit on Weiss? That's a mistake.
"We should head back; Professor Ozpin will want to know about this." Weiss said as I nodded my head. Weiss, Yang, Blake and Sun started to walk away, however Ruby remained.
"Ruby, what's wrong?" I asked.
"Can you pick up or sense Penny nearby. She's not here."
Okay, Fran concentrate. Try and find Penny.
***
That's weird she was right here with us. Where is she?
"I'm sorry, Ruby. I can't find her. It's weird she was just here."
"Not it's fine, Fran. Oh well then, let's go. Hopefully she's fine and just went home to her dad." Ruby cheerfully said as she started to walk away.
"Umm, Ruby can I ask you something?"
"Mmm. Go ahead." Ruby cheerfully said.
"What is Penny?" I asked. "When I tried to familiarise myself with Penny's body signal, I couldn't pick up an anything. I could pick up her Aura, but not her body signal and her Semblance."
"That's a bit weird. Are you sure you're not mistaken, you were probably taken by surprise. When I met her, she was a little... weird, but I think that's because she doesn't seem that very... sociable."
I chuckled. "I guess you share that in common." I teased as I started to walk back to the dorm.
"Hey! I'm perfectly sociable." Ruby shouted as she ran after me to catch up to me.
Still going back to Penny, I'll have to ask the Professor about Penny. He'll probably know more about her. Ne tends to know about most things in Remnant.
***
(Roman P.o.V)
"I can't believe that winged bitch, she and her friends got in the way of my plans." I furiously stamped out my cigar.
"How very disappointing, Roman." Cinder said.
"Woah!" Cinder gave me a fright there. "Wasn't expecting to see you guys so soon."
"We were expecting... more from you." Cinder said as she smiled maliciously, as if amused by my failing.
"H-Hey, you were the ones who suggested working with those stupid mutts from the White Fang."
Cinder snickered. "And you will continue to do so." She summoned that freakish fire in her hand. "We have big plans for you, Roman. All we ask is a little cooperation." Cinder said as her eyes glowed red.
Cinder's two cronies stepped forward as a third dropped down from the ceiling.
"Wait... She looks just like that bitch from before...!"
She looks exactly the same. Wings, ears and everything, her eyes though, her dark red eyes creep me out.
Cinder chuckled. "I would like to introduce you to my new protege. This is Emilia. Please help her feel welcome." Cinder said as the fanged girl smirked at me and wrapped her arms around Cinder's stomach and leant her head on Cinder's shoulder, kissing Cinder's cheek.
Great! They're together, I though having to deal with one blood-sucking whore was bad enough, now I've got two to deal with. Urg! I hope Neo stays out of the new girl's way. I've got enough to deal with, I don't want more shit to deal with.