WARNING: This fan fiction may contain content that is triggering to some. You have been warned.
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| Prologue: Black | |
| Author | Lizzie |
| Genre | Angst/Drama |
| Perspective | First Person - Omniscient |
| Narrator | Ruby Rose |
| Official Characters | Blake Belladonna, Sun Wukong, and Adam Taurus |
Description: From shadows, we'll descend upon the world, take back what you stole. From shadows, we'll reclaim our destiny, set our future free and we'll rise above the darkness and the shame, above the torture and the pain, above the ridicule and hate, above the binding of our fate. Call us liars, degenerates, and killers; psychos, heartless, insane criminals; stupid mutts and nothing, but pure evil. Primal bloodshed is all that's left to do. We're misguided? Treated like we're criminals and we should hide. Born indicted, tired of being pushed around and we will fly.
“... Black the beast descends from shadows...”
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Minding her own business in her bedroom, a black-haired girl sat at her desk and read her book by the lamplight. Things were usually like this for the girl, quiet and peaceful; it was just how she liked it. Every now and then, she’d get a text from her boyfriend and she smiled as she replied.
Her phone buzzed and she looked at the message. “Hey, babe. Can I come over? We can watch some movies. I’ll pick up some pizza on my way there.”
“Sure, Adam. Beauty and the Beast sound good for today?” she texted back as she sat her book and got up to tidy up her already mostly clean room. They wouldn’t be watching up here though, but Blake liked having a clean room anyway. Her cleaning went on to the living room downstairs and she sat quietly with her book to wait for Adam.
“You like to clean a lot, don’t you?” said a male voice.
The black-haired girl jumped and looked around for the source. Her golden eyes fell onto a blonde boy sitting incorrectly on the loveseat next to the couch she was on. She stood on her feet quickly and backed away from the intruder.
“Wh-who are you? How did you get in here?” she demanded.
“The name’s Sun, doll face.” he said, jumping on his feet and waving at her as he grinned, “I’m your friend; I’m like you.”
The young female blinked at him and furrowed her eyebrows in confusion, “What?”
The boy waved a monkey tail at the girl and chuckled, “You got some cute kitty ears, Blake.”
Her amber eyes widen as she touched the top of her head. Cat ears. “Wh-when did I-?”
“You’ve always been a little kitty cat, but the technical term is Faunus and you’re of the cat type.”
“Faunus...?” Blake repeated.
A knock on the door interrupted their conversation as Blake looked at the door and then back at where Sun was; he was gone.
“Bye, Blake.” she heard the monkey boy said.
“Wait, how do you know my name?” she demanded to the air.
No response came as the front door opened and a tall man with brown and red hair entered. “Blake?” he called, concerned, “Who are you talking to?”
“Uhh... No one...” she lied, “Did you bring the pizza?”
Adam showed her the pizza box, still looking worried at his girlfriend, but dropping the subject. She smiled and then excused herself to the bathroom. Examining herself in the mirror, she found no cat ears on her head that had actually been there a moment before. She stared down in the sink as her hands shook.
‘What’s going on...?’ she thought, beginning to cry silently.
Another knock caused Blake to clean up her face and come out. She smiled at Adam who only returned with an expression of worry. The pale girl ignored it though and started their movie as if nothing was wrong.
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A few days past and there was no sign of Sun. Blake was relieved and pushed the incident as nothing more than something that come from the stress of midterms. However, she would not believe it as such for long.
She was cooking dinner for her and Adam one night and she begun to hear growling from upstairs. The young girl froze and look into the living room. Adam was sitting on the couch, watching some random show; it couldn’t be him. She slowly walked out of the kitchen, trying to not be caught by her boyfriend.
Ascending the stairs, she pin-pointed the source coming from her bedroom. With a light whimper, she continued towards the growl, but something grabbed her from the bathroom.
“Get in here!” a hushed voiced said, tugging her in the dark room.
Once inside, Blake shut the door and turned on the light. She turned to see the monkey boy once again. Her eyes widened in horror and she whimpered, beginning to cry.
“Why are you here?” she cried.
“Saving you.” the blonde said, “Don’t go in your room. There’s Grimm in there.”
“Grimm?”
“Yes, they’ll hurt you. They want you dead.”
“No,” Blake said, shaking her head, “You’re lying. You lied about the cat ears; you’re lying about this!”
Sun made the girl look in the mirror and said, “No, I’m not.”
The cat ears were back and Blake begun to cry more at the sight of them, slumping to her knees. “Liar... Liar... Liar...” she said repeatedly.
“If you don’t listen to me, they’ll kill you.” Sun said before the bathroom door opened.
Blake looked up, seeing Sun had gone again, and then looked behind her; it was Adam.
“Blake...?” he asked, “Are you okay...?”
She listened for a moment and heard no more growling. “I... I don’t know...” she admitted, getting up and looking in the mirror. No more cat ears. She grabbed a ribbon from one of the drawers and tied it around her head to hide them if they ever “show up” again. “Adam, can you stay the night...?” Blake asked, looking teary at him, “I’m really scared...”
Her boyfriend hugged her and nodded, “Of course, baby girl. Can you tell me what’s going on?”
The black-haired girl shook her head and buried her face in his shoulder. With that, he just dropped the subject once again.
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It was a couple days later and Adam was staying at Blake’s place more often ever since the bathroom incident. She stayed home from school during those days and said near Adam most of the time. Tonight, they’d opted to cuddle up and watch another movie together, but Blake was too tired and was dozing off on Adam instead. Blake was awoken by the sound of a raven’s call. She stood up as Adam looked at her fearfully.
“Babe?” he called.
Flying around the room was a tiny raven with what looked like bone covering its face and four red eyes. It had sharp talons on its feet and two talons on each of its wings with long black tail feathers. It cawed and swooped at Blake causing her to jump off the couch to get away. One raven turned to many and they began to attack her and make her scream. Adam looked confused as he tried to shake his girlfriend out of it. It was no use; the hallucination of the ravens were too powerful to allow her to comprehend his efforts. He resorted to calling for help as Blake continued to scream from her invisible attacker.
The ravens finally went away as Sun had returned and hit them all off of the black-haired girl. “Hey, you okay, Blakey?” he asked, shaking her.
Looking up in tears at him, she croaked, “Leave me alone...”
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Word Count: 1,133