Hello again! Man, this has been a tiring week for me. Well, now I have a bit more of where I want the story to go so… that's good. I just want to let you guys know that the whole slave thing and all is probably going to last another ten or less chapters before we start getting into the action. Yes, there will be fighting scenes.

But I first want to establish the situation and the environment that Jaune and other people are in. So please bear with me just a bit more and then we start to get into the most interesting things. Who is involved, the why, and how long will it last.

Well that is about it, so without further a due. Enjoy!

Darkness. It was all I could see. I can hear whispers passed around. The sensation of the truck traveling through uneven roads. I was scared. Scared for what was to come next. There was absolutely no telling what was going to happen.

Only the worst can come to mind. I don't even have the will to continue to think positively. There had to be some way to get out of this situation. It been probably about an hour or so since they put us in the trucks. My thoughts were interrupted when I felt the truck come to a sharp stop. The momentum pushed me against the others.

I can hear the door opening on the driver's side and soon the faint sound of footsteps were making their way around the truck. Soon the doors opened and I was greeted with sunlight. It hurt a bit since being in the dark too much but as soon as my eyes were slowly getting used the surroundings, my eyes slowly opened wide. The sky now was a grey. Clouds covering the sky as far as the horizon. But my focus was mostly on the once empty plain.

Soldiers. Tents. Trucks. Weapons. Everything that you would need for a war was there. The vast plain was filled with soldiers marching. Some of them setting up tents. Some were carrying crates that were being dropped off by other larger trucks. Others that were far away were training. If I had to guess, it was armed combat. People shouting orders around.

All they wore was black. Black combat boots. Black pants. Black military vests. The masks that they had on were a bit disturbing to say the least. White masks with red outlines in the shapes of demon faces. It was alarming. But the one thing that literally made me shiver were the Atlas technology that they had. Atlesian Knights, along with the Paladins that they had at their disposal. It was frightening.

'How the hell did they get their hands on Atlas tech!?' I mentally screamed. Why would they use the White Fang if they had these with them? My mind came to a halt as soon as I was shoved down by one of the Fang.

"Move it!" he screamed. He then grabbed a fistful of my hair and picked me up off the ground. I closed my eyes shut from the pain as I was lifted back on my feet. "Start getting in line, all of you, one by one!" another yelled. As soon as I was pushed in line, I look back to where we came from. More trucks were coming in through the thick trees of the forest. Probably more prisoners.

It seemed like the line was already long. I was probably going to be standing here for maybe half an hour. I kept looking at the trucks that arrived and started to push out the prisoners.

Prisoners.

Never once in my life did I ever think that I would be using that word in real life. My mind was interrupted when more people were being shoved out the trucks. I was eyeing to see if there was anyone I knew from school. I'm sure Goodwitch and Ozpin made it out. Cardin, I could give a less crap about. Yang and her friends… most likely made it out with Nikos, knowing that her fame probably gave her a fast pass to the boats. Man, just the thought was pissing me off.

On the other hand, I'm glad that my family, Coco, and the rest were able to make it out of Vale. That was one less thing to worry about. If they were caught… I wouldn't even be sane right now.

I continued to look every now and then until I spotted a color of ginger. Next to that mop of hair was another with black hair and a slight magenta highlight. 'No way,' I thought. Without a doubt, as soon as their faces came into my view, I immediately knew who they were.

Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie.

They didn't make it out. Did Yang and the rest make it out? I was thinking of asking them but just the thought of asking them made me a bit angry. Why should I even speak to them when they wouldn't help me in the first place? As my mind was focused on that, I didn't notice that I was holding up the line. Before I can turn to quickly follow the line, I was punched in the face and fell to the ground.

"HEY, DID I SAY TO STOP WALKING. GET THE FUCK UP AND FOLLOW THE LINE HUMAN!" the faunus screamed. There was so much hate at how he said those words. Such malice. I thought that it was impossible for someone to hold so much hate towards another person

I quickly got up and made my way back into the line. My left cheek bone would soon swell up but for now I had other things that were more important than that. I was almost up in line. From what I can see, they were giving out clothes. A black loose shirt and black pants. As soon as people were given the items, they were pointed in a certain direction.

It was now my turn.

The man sitting in the counter with his… mask on, looked me up and down before giving me my clothes. "You will be heading to my right, those over there will instruct you on where you will be placed." He said as he pointed to the right. He then handed me my new clothes. Proof that I am now a prisoner among them.

I make my way to the direction he pointed at and saw many others lined up in rows and columns. Each person holding their new clothes on their arms. There was a stand in front of the crowd with a White Fang soldier on top of it. He was a goat faunus with gray hair combed to the back with his horns slightly curved and pointed backwards. He had glasses, and a grey beard. He wore a black trench coat that covered most of his body. His bright yellow eyes were overlooking the ones who were lined up and the newcomers. White Fang members surrounded us with rifles in their arms. As soon as a few more people arrived and lined up, he cleared his throat and began to speak.

"Today you are no longer free! Today you will become worse than mere livestock! Slaves! Today is the day that you will be robbed of your supposed humanity! You will feel every ounce of pain that we the faunus have endured from you humans! But those among you who are our brethren! If you would like to join us in our cause! Then we will receive you with open arms!" he shouted.

Slowly but surely, some of the faunus in the crowd walked over and joined him on the stand. A total of seven stood by him. Each one slightly terrified but somewhat relieved that they were off the hook. I can hear faint whispers of people damning the faunus but I ignore them.

"Brothers and sisters, thank you for joining us. We are pleased to have more join our cause. You will bring a new generation to this world! One ruled by the faunus!" he shouted. The White Fang troops around us began to cheer. "However!"

"Prove to me… to us… that you are loyal to the Fang and its cause."

He motioned to the other White Fang troops to start selecting people from the crowd. They picked an elderly woman from the corner. They began to walk in between the crowd, choosing. They stopped at a man in his late thirties. Just two rows away from me. My hands were getting sweaty. This situation is not good. Unfortunately, from my right, one of them saw me looking anxious and nervous. They smirked and made their way towards me. I was unaware of this until I heard footsteps stop in front of me. My eyes went wide when I turned to see the faunus grinning. He immediately grabbed me and started to drag me towards the stand.

My heart was pounding. It was beating faster and faster as we were making our way up the steps. As soon as the others were selected, we were placed in front of the faunus that joined them. The White Fang soldiers pushed us down on our knees in front of them.

Each of them were handed a weapon.

My eyes went wide. Tears began to fill my vision. I looked to the people next to me, pleading for mercy. We had no way to defend as they zip tied our hand behind our back. I turn back to the faunus in front of me. It seemed that we weren't the only ones breaking down. They assumed that they would join and be free but they never expected… this. My eyes met his. He was a wolf faunus with grey hair and ears. He looked at me as if he wished there was another way. He slowly raised his gun. His hands clearly shaking. The faunus next to him, the people next to me, the crowd, the man who preached about faunus being superior. They were all waiting for the moment of truth. They were waiting for the bullet to go through my head.

I pleaded with my eyes. I pleaded him to not shoot. I pleaded so hard. He knew what my eyes were saying. He looked to me with almost the exact same eyes. He didn't want to kill anyone. He shut his eyes hard. His finger on the trigger, slowly being pulled back.

This was it. Tears started to fall from my face. Not even one day in this god damn shit hole and I'm already going to die. My family. My friends. That was all that was passing through my mind. I closed my eyes as hard as I can, waiting for the sound of the gun.

…

"I… I can't."

I slowly opened my eyes to see the faunus with the gun lowered, tears staining his face.

"I-I can't kill him. I wo-"

[BAM]

Blood splattered on my face at the sound of the gunshot. The faunus that refused to kill me had a bullet gone through the side of his head. He didn't have the chance to even turn around and face the man. The preacher then kicked me off the stand and I landed hard on my side. I looked to see the faunus' body fall from the stand and land right next to me with his lifeless eyes looking onto mine.

"Traitor," the man said as he brought down the gun to his side. He looked to the rest of the faunus. "Which one of you are also traitors?" he asked as he was raising his gun towards them.

I would not blame them for what happened next. They had no way of surviving if they refused to kill.

And kill is what they had to do.

[BAM][BAM][BAM][BAM][BAM][BAM]

The sound of gunshots rang in the air as more lifeless bodies fell from the stand. The faunus who killed them were crying. Refusing to even look at anyone. They had just taken a life for the first time. There were cries and screams from the crowd but I couldn't even hear them.

I was still on the ground in shock. Tears were endlessly falling from my eyes. I didn't even wail or shout. It all happened to fast. My mind was trying to catch up to what happened. I nearly lost my life today, only for it to be unintentionally be saved.

I looked to the ground just thinking how this was just the beginning. The beginning of something so terrible. The beginning of hell on earth. The beginning of death and destruction. The beginning of…

The beginning of the end.

Wow. Jaune is going to have a hard time that's for sure. So are the rest that were introduced in the story and as much as some of you would have like to have Yang and the rest in it, it would have been hard for me to keep track of all the characters. Yang and the others that did not make an appearance made it out, that is for sure. But oh man, that does not mean that they are okay.

I am probably going to be writing out longer chapters so that the main focus of the story comes into place a bit quicker. With all that aside, I also have two other stories on my profile page in case you are interested. These stories are still being written out or in this case 'draft' because I want to make sure that I have a plot that moves forward. I have an idea of where I want the stories to go but I am going to focus on this one in the meantime. If you would like for me to at least publish the first chapters for the stories then just leave a comment on what you think of them and if you would like for me to publish them.

Well that is about it from me, I hope that you enjoyed this chapter and I will see you all later!

Thanlok out!