June 10, 2015

"God damn it," an unmasked Adam yelled loudly as he smashed a mirror in his tent office, the crashing sound startling several people outside. As he looked at his now-bleeding right hand, he said to himself, "Blake, WHY?!" He then looked up at himself through the remains of the mirror still on the wall. "Ugh... First, I had to deal with that bitch, Cinder, and now THIS?! THIS?!"

Then, Simon, who had just heard of Blake's defection, walked into the tent. He said to Adam, "Hey, Adam, I heard about what happened."

"So you did," Adam said as he grabbed a bandage from an opened medical kit. As he wrapped it around the self-inflicted wound on his right hand, he sighed and said, "I can't believe she did this to me... To us..."

"I know," Simon replied as he patted Adam on the back. "She doesn't appreciate how much you have provided for her. You've almost died protecting her several times, right? Why must she hurt you, Adam?"

"Yeah," Adam replied as he nodded and wiped his eyes. He then put his mask back on. "Why would she turn her back on me? Why?"

"She doesn't care about you anymore," Simon replied. "It's that simple. She'd rather see you suffer. It's a sad fact, Adam."

Adam then paused. "I see... Simon, you always were a trustworthy mentor. I'm... I'm glad I could talk this out with you."

"You're welcome," Simon said. He then thought to himself, "Excellent... Since I can't use Blake being WITH Adam to manipulate him, I can use Blake being WITHOUT Adam to manipulate him instead. All I need to do is to get him to blame her for everything and make him believe she hates him." He then walked out as Lieutenant Banesaw, a well-respected officer in the White Fang, walked in.

As Simon walked to the edge of the camp, he dialed a phone number on his cellphone and waited for it to pick up.

On the other end of the line, a female voice said, "Hello?"

"I talked to Adam," said Simon. "He's halfway convinced his runaway girlfriend hates him. He's starting to blame her for everything."

"Good," said the female voice. "We'll be over to the camp soon. The more Adam hates his ex, the better."

Simon then asked, "Promise you and your cronies won't harm me, right?"

"Of course," said the female voice. "Just go away from the camp and pretend you walked in on it and act like you are surprised and scared of me."

"It will be done," Simon said. "I'll see you in a few minutes, Cinder. Say, how did the attack go?"

"It was going juuuuust fine," Cinder said in an annoyed tone. "Up until some fucking asshole stopped me halfway. Yeah, I got exactly HALF of that Maiden's powers. HALF! I didn't even know you could actually interrupt the process!"

1 day earlier

"Well," said a bummed-out Mercury. "That was a failure."

"You got that right," Cinder said, equally bummed. "Looks like we'll have to do this shit alone, guys." She then shrugged. "Not much else I can do."

"I don't mind," Emerald replied, trying to keep the gang of three upbeat. "The less people, the less confusion, I guess."

"True," Cinder said. "Now, let's go get that Fall Maiden."

Suddenly, a man rushed out towards them from the woods. He stopped the gang in their tracks as he said, "Pardon the interruption, ladies and one gentleman."

Cinder, surprised, asked, "Who the hell are you?"

Mercury said to Cinder, "Want me to take care of this guy?"

"Nah," Cinder replied. "Not yet."

"I'm actually the leader of the White Fang, thank you very much." He then extended his hand out to Cinder, who replied by shaking it. "I apologize for Adam's coldness to you three aspiring young people earlier."

"So you are," Cinder replied in a questioning tone. "Say, I do recognize you... So, why do you want to work with us humans when it was you who made the White Fang into a terrorist group that wanted humanity dead?"

"Because I see potential in all of you," Simon replied. "You three could easily overthrow all of the governments in Remnant. If you, Cinder, were indeed able to gain the power of the Fall Maiden, it would be even easier. Now, I know me and my group want to see humanity locked away or even dead, but I think we can work together, the 4 of us, to bring down human rule."

"I see," Cinder replied. "You got yourself a deal." The 2 then shook hands again.

"I got a plan," Simon said. "How about you go defeat the Fall Maiden, and then come back right afterwards and battle the White Fang members at the camp. Do not kill Adam or Blake, however. I'll pretend I walked in on it afterwards and act all scared shitless and stuff, okay?"

Mercury nodded his head and said, "I think it sounds good."

"Same here," Emerald said.

"Well then," Cinder replied to Simon. "If my 2 subordinates say yes, I'll say yes, too."

June 12, 2015

Diary Entry: 127 of Book 7

I left Adam and the White Fang 2 days ago.

I first bought a diary book about 5 years ago, around the time I started dating Adam. Looking back at my old writings now about him, it hurts. I may very well never look at those 6 other books again. I won't throw them away or anything, but I won't open them up anymore.

Dear God, I love Adam. I really do. That's why I left him, though. I love him too much to let him keep going down this path. The White Fang has gone far beyond just fighting for faunus kind. What happened to the boy I fell for all those years ago? What happened to the man that I let into the deepest parts of mi mind and more? SIMON HAPPENED.

Even writing that fucking name down makes me want to throw up now. I just went along with it because I didn't want to get on Simon's bad side, but these past few weeks have gone too far. He's literally poisoning his mind with all of these violent thoughts that will only hurt faunus. He wants us to target other faunus civil rights leaders for not engaging in violent tactics.

Adam, please, I'm begging you. Leave the White Fang. I needed to break your heart so you could see what went wrong. I can only hope you actually did. I can only imagine that that asshole Simon is already telling you how much of a "whore" or "slut" I was and how I wanted to see you suffer by leaving you.

DON'T BELIEVE HIM, PLEASE