RWBY: Faith Restored (Book 1)

Betrayal and Bloody Kings

Mistral, White Fang Headquarters

In the halls, cages set in place, held by iron bars. Adam sat in place with a permanent scowl on his face. Footsteps echoed until they stopped in front of Adam's cage. "Adam... What has become of you." Sienna Kahn's voice asked. Loud enough for Adam to hear "Don't pity me, High Leader." He spat out in mockery but it didn't phase her. "These were the results you wanted. You wanted us to be more violent. You wanted us to fight back! Now you took away our only means of gaining respect!" Adam shouted as he stood up and got up close to the bars in Senna's face. "You disgrace us all! You disgrace our entire way of life!" He continued shouting at her. Sienna's face only held pity. Pity for one of her finest soldiers. But now, he was a monster worse than humans.

Sienna steeled her face and spoke "In a few hours, you will be executed for treason and attempting a coup against your High Leader." Adam gritted his teeth and spoke "There will be others... Others to take you down." Sienna shook her head "I didn't want this for the Faunus. I didn't want it to cone to the point of genocide. It's over Adam." Sienna started walking away along with her two guards while Adam gripped the iron bars then shouted "YOU CUT OFF ONE HEAD, TWO MORE WILL TAKE IT'S PLACE!" Sienna turned her head to respond "Then we'll just have to find two more." Her two guards looked at each other then nodded.

They gripped their spears as they thrusted them into Sienna's abdomen. Blood splatter as two blades pierced through and Sienna screamed before quickly swiping her claws against the right guard's throat. He gurgled and choked as he closed his hand around his throat in an attempt to stop the bleeding. He quickly fell as blood leaked through his fingers. The second guard pulled her spear out of the Tiger Faunus and aimed for Sienna's heart. Sienna dodged to the left then leaped at her traitorous guard. Her claws were out as she gripped the guard's neck. The guard's aura didn't activate quickly enough and so Sienna killed the other as her her nails dug into the guards neck.

Sienna pulled her hands away and looked at the spear still stuck through her body. She gripped the head of the spear where the blade and the handle met and snapped it off. She pulled the shaft out of her body (Innuendo not intended) and dropped it. Her aura stopped the bleeding then slowly started closing the wound. Realizing now that the White Fang was against her, she walked out of the hallway to see a 10 of her subjects looking at her then kneeling down. She said with a ragged breath "The... White Fang is against me... Those of you who are still loyal to me... Follow me. We're going to Menagerie." Some of the grunts were a little happy at going to see their family members. But many of them were confused. One female bear faunus asked "High Leader, what happened?" Sienna showed them her wound and she spoke "We've been betrayed. Adam's influence is already spreading. We must abandon Mistral and head for Menagerie. There we'll be safe." A snake faunus shouted before running out of the building "I'll go get the Bullhead started!" The now betrayed High Leader looked at the rest of her people and ordered "Bring only what you can carry. We must travel light." Everyone nodded and started walking away towards their different rooms found throughout Headquarters. Though one Faunus, a male buck stayed with Sienna "I'll be by your side, High Leader. My wife will have only our essentials and our children." Sienna smiled slightly but winced at the pain as she kept her hand on her wounds. She looked at the buck faunus and asked "What's your name?" "Alan, ma'am. Alan Cohen." "Thank you Alan. For still having faith in me." Alan smiled "You only wanted what's best for us. Not genocide like Adam. Even though I couldn't see his eyes, I recognized madness seeping through him."

A couple minutes later and all her people reappeared with their bags and some with their children. Sienna spoke "As my last command as High Leader... Drop the masks. We're no longer a part of the White Fang." The people hesitated a bit before Alan took off his mask then dropped it and smashed it with his boot. That encouraged all of them to take off the Grimm masks and broke them. Sienna smiled before walking down the steps of her throne and walking towards the entrance. Her people following behind her and keeping a look out. Two of her people carried Dust rifles as a means of protection before a shout stopped them "COWARDS!!" Sienna turned around to see Adam out of his cage with several of his brothers holding Dust rifles. Sienna ordered "Run!" The bullets started flying as Sienna and her only loyal people left and ran towards the entrance of where the snake faunus had the Bullhead prepped and ready. As the people ran, the two guards fired back at Adam's radical group, managing to kill two of them before running with the rest. The snake faunus, named Manny, looked to see Sienna and the rest without their masks running towards the Bullhead while dust bullets whisked by them. "Holy shit!" Manny lowered his head in an attempt to dodge the fire as he opened up the doors.

A deer faunus was shot in the back and fell while she held her baby. The baby cried which stopped Alan in his tracks and saw the baby crying then saw the deer faunus on the ground. He shouted "JUNIPER!!" He ran back towards the baby then grabbed him and held him close as he ran back towards the Bullhead. He got to the door before holding the baby up to Sienna "Please, take care of Grover for me. Let him know his father died a hero." Sienna looked at Alan in fear before nodding her head "We will never forget this sacrifice, Alan." Alan smiled before grabbing one of the rifles from the guard and started firing at the enemies who were once his brothers. He managed to kill a few of the guards as he walked toward the body of his wife, Juniper. A grunt managed to shoot Alan in the leg, causing him to go down on one knee and he picked up her body and held her close with her head on his shoulder before saying "Our son will be safe, Juniper. I'll see you soon, honey." Dust bullets whisked before Adam walked over to Alan and pulled Wilt out of its sheath and aimed Blush at Alan's head.

Alan glared at Adam and said "You're gonna lose, Adam. It's in your nat-" Before Alan could finish, Adam shot him in the head. Alan fell down on his back with his wife still in his arms. Adam sheathed his blade then looked back at his brothers and sisters "Today is a new beginning! No longer will our fangs be white! Today, they will be of Bloody Fangs! No longer will we just let the humans walk over us! No more talks of peace with them! We will prove to them once and for all, who is the superior species! Are you with me!?" Shouts rained as they all raised their fists up in the air and Adam had a smirk of madness and corruption. The Blood Fangs will let their bite be known.

Sienna watched from the window of the Bullhead as Alan was executed and all the grunts raise their fists in the air. She looked down at the baby who was whimpering and so she held the child close to her and rocked him back and forth gently. A tear fell down her cheek as they all lowered their heads. Manny watched the scene then saw his brothers and sisters have no masks so he decided to take his mask off as well. He threw it onto the other seat and focused on flying them all the way to Menagerie.

Sienna wiped the tear away from her cheek and spoke "Their deaths will not be in vain." They all nodded before the bear faunus asked "What will we do now?" Sienna looked away before saying "We regroup at Menagerie, I tell the Chieftain the situation then talk to Willow Schnee." "A Schnee? Why go to them!?" A lion faunus asked and Sienna answered "I made a peace treaty with Willow Schnee, the new Head of the Schnee Dust Company. She's different. I swear this on my life." They all looked nervous at the thought of asking help from the family that has caused Faunus so much agony. "I trust her." They all looked to the source of the voice. The female bear spoke "I've followed her since we started getting more aggressive. Since the news of her meeting with Willow Schnee and Chieftain Belladonna, things have been changing. For the better. I'll follow her into Hell for giving us a true chance." Sienna looked at her and smiled in appreciation "What's your name?" "Mary. Mary Hollow." "Thank you Mary. But it wasn't just me made the meeting. It was someone else..." "Who was it?" "He called himself Dracula."

"Dracula? The Blood King?" Mary asked which confused Sienna "The Blood King?" Mary swallowed then spoke "It was an old story my grandma told me. A human king who was the most evil there could be told. He impaled his enemies and began a conquest of the four kingdoms. He never put wine in his cup. Instead, the blood of his enemies. He also went by another name. Dracula. Son of the Dragon. But the reason why it sounds familiar is because news of an attack on a White Fang recruitment center came to me and it said that the attacker was The Blood King. Long black hair, black facial hair with the palest skin you could ever think of and eyes red as blood."

Sienna thought about it. If this was the same Dracula she was speaking of, then perhaps, he was attacking to stop anymore Faunus from being corrupted. She'd have to wait until establishing communication with him. For now, they must recuperate and figure out their next move. Sienna looked down at little Grover to see that he was asleep and had little stumps in his forehead and looked adorable. She sighed and held him gently to her. This was the beginning of something different. Whether for better or worse has yet to be decided.