Chapter XXII

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Willow's POV:

I looked down on the main deck to see (Y/N) yelling at Ozpin before going head first into the fight. "MOM!" Weiss yelled at me as I ran down the other stairs to help him and his crew. I saw Winter about to grab me until I closed the distance between and (Y/N) shorter as I jumped over the railing overlooking the main deck and readied the sword for a long fight. I made my way towards him as he went over to the woman with the wolf ears being engaged by three-no four men trying to kill her. I was not even three yards by him till one of the attackers came for me, so I took a stance and prepared for his move.

(Y/N)'s POV:

I saw Victoria being ganged on and absolutely showed no mercy to any of the bastards. "Get off her!" I yelled stabbing one of the four men attacking her right through his back into his heart. I shoved the body off my blade before blocking an incoming attack from my left from one of the other three still not letting up on her. As I swiped his sword away, I grabbed the fool by his shirt and drove my blade through the bottom of his head killing him instantly as his blood ran down my sword onto the hilt. I was halfway pulling my sword when I felt someone shove onto the deck trying to kill me. I turned my back to the deck just in time to stop one of these attackers from sticking me with his sword as he straddled me trying to shove his sword into my chest. I kept my hands on his wrists as he used all of his strength to bring it down on me. I felt his arms move up as I kept pushing till a blade ran right through his left side and pierced every organ needed to breathe and live before he slumped on top of me dead. I pushed him off to see a sight to beautiful to ignore, Willow standing above me holding her hand out which I took in a moment's notice. "Losing your touch?" She mocked. I looked at her before getting my sword out of the dead man's head and replied, "It's hard not to when a beautiful angel saves a this ol' devil from death." She smirked and kept fighting as I got back into the fight turning every chance I get to make sure I didn't end up in the same position as before. I some guy grunt as he threw a punch into Willow which didn't fail to grab my attention. I started to march over to him as he had pin to the boats on the deck while I killed every living thing that came from that ship attacking me, or tried at best. I closed in on him I grabbed him by his shirt and threw him back first in the railing getting his full attention before I buried my blade right into his skull like a cleaver while growling, "Hands off!" I turned back to see Willow holding her arm with some blood dripping down. I took the bandanna off my head and wrapped it around her arm while my crew fended off what ever attacker that came aboard. As I tied it off she thanked me and picked her sword up once more as I observed the fighting on the deck to see it being pushed back to the other ship and off of ours. "TAKE THE FIGHT TO THEM!" I shouted. Willow grabbed me and forced me to duck as some unfortunate man was thrown over us and down in between the ships. We stood back up to see Andre marching over to the railing and getting on it before jumping onto the other ship keeping up the assault. I looked at Willow and said, "Stay here." As I turned away I instantly looked forward to see her run past me and grab a rope to seeing over to the enemy ship. As she landed, some bastard took aim with a gun and fired at her taking her sword out of her hand. I wasted no time doing what she did, but I didn't use a rope, I used a cannon to give me some more room to run and jump across. As he came closer to her I landed on him, shoving him into the deck while I stood up from getting Willow's sword and handing it to her with no words. As the assailant got back onto his feet, he charged at me and Willow till I stabbed him in the gut and lifted him over my head, throwing him back into the waters below. I heard a sword clash right behind me and turned around to see Willow fending off another guy trying to stab me in the back. After she dispatched him we both looked at each other and nodded before we heard the sound of ice showering the deck we now stood on. Both of us looked at the front of this ship to see Winter and Grace fighting off the crew there while we were near the stern. Seeing Grace watch Winter's back, I knew she was safe while I focused my attention towards the man near the helm of this. Their captain. Gunshots kept filling the air every now and then as Annabell and her sharpshooters picked off anyone they could without hitting any of our own as I carved a bloody path to the man who dared challenge me and my crew. I hacked, slashed, and cleaved my way through any opposition that came across me as I marched towards the stern and up towards the helm where their captain held his ground from my crew trying to pick him off. I marched up the stairs and pulled my crew member away as he brought his sword down in attempt to stab him in the face after disarming him. I blocked his strike and shoved him back to get an even ground against him rather than fight on the stairs under his height. "You'd be the man he wants dead?" I gave him a stern look of caution and confusion as he asked. He quickly slashed his sword at me, forcing me to jump back unready for his next attack. He lunged at me with his sword pointing towards my chest and tried to slab me until I ducked under his blade moving to the right around him before kicking him into the place where I stood before backing up past the helm. He kept trying to slash, stab, and hack at me till we both stopped at the sound of swords and guns falling on the hard, wooden surface of the ship's deck and looked at the sight happening on board. Every sailor under his command was putting their weapons down, raising their hands in surrender after seeing themselves getting cut down to size. He growled and made one more lunge at me only to be blocked by my sword in hand. He put more force behind this one which led me to swiping his sword into a gap in the helm's wheel and quickly noticing what I could do, I turned the helm and jammed his sword and hand between the wheel and its cradle effectively ending this fight. He looked at me before signing and letting his sword fall on the other side of the helm before I turned the wheel back letting him go. He fell to his knees and waited while I stood there looking down at him before looking back at the main deck seeing the enemy crew being round up. I looked back at him and said, "Get up." He slowly looked up at me and replied, "Why, so you can make an example out us?" I picked him up by his uniform and shoved him to the stairs while asking, "If want that, then that could be arranged. Tell me, what's your name captain?" He started to walk down to the quarter deck, then the main beck to stand by his crew while mine kept swords and guns trained on them should the worse happen. As he got to the group sitting on the deck I noticed something on his hand, a tattoo. Before he took a spot right next to the mast I stabbed my sword into the deck and grabbed his arm. He started to struggle until Andre stood next to him with blood on his hands and sword which intimidated the captain to give up. I pulled his sleeve back to see a tattoo of Poseidon falling before I ship firing its gun. I let his arm go and smirk before asking, "How long has it been?" He put his sleeve back and looked at Ozpin, Winter, and Willow coming behind me. He looked at me knew what I was asking about since he answered, "Too long to talk about." He mumbled. Ozpin asked, "You know this man Captain?" Willow came to my side and asked, "(Y/N), what's wrong?" Winter turned to Weiss coming behind her while the others stayed on board my ship as I answered, "Ozpin, Willow, this is Captain Jacoby Sumpter. My formal captain until the battle off Smuggler's Bay." I knew Winter and Weiss were looking at the man sitting now before them while Ozpin looked puzzled and Willow gave him a hateful, killing glare that would make any brave sailor shit himself. "Tell me Sumpter, how did you survive the swim to shore?" He didn't reply which prompt me to just leave him to self pity. "Victoria, Grace!" I yelled getting their attention. "Aye captain?" hey replied. "Take some extra hands and search the ship. I want answers soon. Find whatever you can and take what maybe useful." They nodded and started to gather some of the other crew members and went below, into the cabins, where ever they could find some answers. As everyone was bustling about to get the bodies off the ship, load the cargo from the defeated ship to mine, and find me some answers, I saw Ozpin on his devise and walked towards him while taking my sword and wiping the blood off before sheathing it back away. He put it away before I came up behind him and asked, "Mind telling me who you just contacted Headmaster?" He turned around and jumped back a bit to see me staring at him before collecting his thoughts and responded, "I contacted the General from Atlas to fly here and take these mercenaries under his custody. He'll also take Willow back to Atla-" "WHAT!?"

Blake's POV:

We all started to watch Weiss, Winter and their mother argue with Ozpin while everyone else kept doing what Captain (L/N) ordered. While they stared at four, I left a clone where I was and went down into the ship's hold to see what they were hiding. I hid behind crates and barrels to avoid anyone from spotting me while getting the scent again. What does it feel like there's someone here I know? I as made my way down, it became easier to move around until I got to the last staircase leading down. I peaked down before seeing something that horrified me, Sienna Khan and Adam Taurus locked away looking at each other before spotting me. "Blake!?" I looked at Adam as he got up and stood near the wall of iron bars between us. "You couldn't have found me at a better time! The keys are right over there, you need to release me before-" "What are you doing down here Adam!?" I interrupted. He was about to speak when the sound of slow moving footsteps hitting the wooden deck above us silencing the two of us. We heard them get closer and closer before I ducked behind some crates and barrels waiting for the person to go away. "You can come up now missy." Someone said. I didn't reply I peaked around a crate to see Sienna looking at me before turning back towards the stairs as the voice said again, "You can come out now. You didn't get down here unnoticed kitty cat." I froze wondering who knew about my secret till it dawned on me. Oh no! I said to myself as the footsteps started to come down the stairs. I ducked back as the woman named Victoria called me out. "You know you can't hide behind those boxes forever." I gulped and slowly came out from behind the boxes as she stood there at the foot of the steps staring at me. "Explain to me what you're doin' down here." She demanded. I looked at her and asked, "Mind telling me what these two are doing here!?" She didn't flinch to me raising my voice till she walked forward and stopped when Adam said, "You touch her and I'll-" He didn't finish seeing how she grabbed him and bashed his head against the bars and let him drop. I wanted to help him, but I asked again knowing I couldn't beat her in a one on one fight. "TELL ME WHAT THEY'RE DOING ON BOARD THIS SHIP LOCKED AWAY IN THESE CAGES!" She turned to look at me and replied in a distasteful, yet murderous tone. "Getting revenge for what they did to us." "What?" I asked confused. I noticed Sienna and Adam looking at her in a confused expression like me before I said, "Is this about the men you guys lost getting Weiss mother back!? Did you really think you could kidnap these tow-" "You watch your tone girl! You have no idea what kind of animals these two truly are." I jumped back as she took a step forward and pointed at me. I was gonna ask another question till Adam asked, "What did we do to you dog?" She glared at him before looking at me and responded in a hateful tone. "You two claimed what you were doing was best for all faunus in Remnant." I kept looking at her as she continued. "Everyday, since I was a wee girl, a slave ship sailed right past Menagerie and not a single one of you bothered to save us on board from meeting a terrible fate." Sienna stared at her in shock while Adam stayed silent, knowing something and didn't want to say it. "I was only a eighteen years old when they took me and family. EIGHTEEN! We we not even two miles from that damn island and not a single one of you bothered to save us. You knew and you didn't bother to save any of us." Sienna looked down in shame while Adam smirk thinking of something that would make matters worse. "What happened to your family?" I asked her. She glared at me and didn't answer my question. "It's not your problem girl." I heard an engine powering down, but paid no mind to that except what was happening before me. She pointed to Sienna looking down in shame as she said, "The captain knows what we've been through and made us an offer we couldn't refuse." 'We?" I asked wonder who else he saved. "Me and every faunus on board here where on one ship when he took it. He didn't kidnap these two just for leverage, he took them for us to settle our debt with." Before she started to walk back to the stairs she stopped when Sienna said, "I never knew about the ships." Victoria looked at her with pain in her eyes. "I...I really never knew. I always thought is was a myth, so I had Adam investigate it and he never told me anything about it." She looked at Sienna seeing the truth before looking at Adam with a murderous glare. I looked at Adam as his smirk faded into a scowl while looking at Sienna. I didn't say anything seeing Victoria point up the stairs for me to go without muttering a single word without breaking her stare at me.  

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