This story begins a week before the Vytal festival begins, on a fine day like any other. Suddenly as the wind blew, a red portal opened dropping a body. The body was that of the Shepherd of Fire, the God of War,Fire and Death. He was wearing his armor when he landed, the armor being made up of a bodysuit covered by medium weight black armor and a combat vest of the same color. His helmet of course was black with a small golden glass covering his face, with a white skull over the face. He lie defensesless as he came too, awakening in a small forest. "Oh Hell where am I?" He questioned to no one. As he stood up, about a mile out he saw a large city. "Oh great a city... Fuck this is gonna suck." He spat.
He slowly made his way down the hill, as he clutched his side in agony. He grabbed at the small, sharp knife sticking out of his side. This injury was due to his last battle before he was cast out by the Gods. Finally staggering over to a tree, he was able to rip out the knife with some ease. After he cursed the one that did this, his wound healed easily. His armor began to heal itself as Shepherd made the run to the city at a quick pace, not wanting to get caught wherever he was. Soon he reached the gate of the city, and he wondered why it was there, but regardless was able to sneak in as someone came in. Quickly not wanting to be seen, he made his way to a newspaper stand and began to read the date. Noticing there was no date and instead just read "Spring in Vale". "What the hell..?" Shepherd wondered to himself as he kept reading, noticing he was in a place called "Vale" one of the kingdoms of "Remnant".
"Whatever fuck this... I'm obviously not on Earth... and I'm damn sure there's something big happeing called the vytal festival apparently... that's in a week so I'll definitely get answers there.". Sighing as he put down the newspaper, carefully making sure not to make noise as he didn't want to be seen. Soon a day had gone by, and Shepherd had found an ally to hide in. He quickly slept as his thoughts of what was happening put him to a peaceful rest. He was rudely awoken to the sound of soft voices muttering about, and he opened his eyes to the bright light of dawn. "Ughh God it's Dawn... great..." He frustratedly mumbled as he got up, brushing off his armor.
Soon he found himself wandering the streets of Vale, his eyes wide like an owl's under his helm. The reason for his amazement is the people he saw, some had ears and tails of different animals. The freaks were being insulted by some people in the streets, but Shepherd had no care for it. He just wanted to find some answers and food. But the later would have to wait because he needed to find their currency first, seeing as his American dollars (of course) weren't accepted at any places. Apparently their currency was called "Lien" and was a "Shit one use credit card.". Shepherd mused to himself with a smirk.
Shepherd probably was just gonna steal some, seeing as he had no way to make any. Eventually finding some random woman that just beat the shit out of an animal person, he decided to oblige her and do the same. After a quick swipe to the legs he took her purse and said "Payback's a bitch". Then ran off and took the money, not bothering with the purse. As soon as he threw the purse down he thought to himself "I'm a damn God, why am I stealing from random people?! It didn't matter anyways because he needed to eat, it's been four days since his last actual meal.
After buying food from a shitty noodle stand, Shepherd was finally able to eat. Taking off his helmet he began to inhale the food. During his meal four teenage girls walked up and began talking amongst themselves. After listening in a bit he was able to tell that the one talking the most was a short redhead, seconded by an obnoxious sounding blonde. The other two weren't loud enough to where he could tell the two apart, but one was a black haired girl with a bow on... that moved... Shepherd didn't think much of this, but the white haired girl drew his attention. Soon without realizing it he'd stared at the white haired girl long enough to warrant the attention of blondie. She then got up and walked over to him and said " Hey man, stop drooling over my teammate ok buddy? Unless you want a problem." Shepherd did notice her taking in his facial features rather oddly, seeing as he wasn't the prettiest man to say the least. He had short brown hair and a chiseled jaw and face, showing slight age along with a scar along his cheek. Most people don't notice the other scar above his eye that was from dodging to close to a blade. But she did, which caused the blonde to question " You seen some shit haven't you?" With a small grin. As quick as she asked that Shepherd retorted
"No shit Sherlock, and no I wasn't drooling over your white haired friend. I just was watching to see if you were friendly enough to ask some things too." He hid the venom in his voice quite well. The blonde pauses for a bit and with friendliness in her voice said
"Well of course we could answer some questions stranger! Oh and by the way my name's Yang." She held out a her hand and winked and she cooed the last part. "Jesus what a pushover. Shepherd thought with slight malice towards the girl, but obliged her answering his questions. "The name is Shepherd, and I just wanted to ask what the festival is that's happening around here? I'm not from this area." He responded with a silly tone. Yang looked confused as he asked this, apparently this wasn't a normal question.
"Well it's called the Vytal Festival, and it's a tournament of hunters and huntresses to compete against each other and all the Academies, it's ever year so I don't know how you haven't heard of it." She answered confused as she tilted her head. Shepherd just simply kept up his act of a lost person and answered he with "Well I guess I don't pay attention to anything anymore, but thanks for the help. And is there anyway you and your friends could show me around and tell me more of this place? I've never been." He completed with a laugh. Yang of course responded with "Sure!" As he put up his dish and followed her over to her friends. "The red haired girl is my sister ruby, the black haired girl is Blake, and the white haired girl is Weiss!" Yang practically screamed. All of the girls smiled and waved hello to Shepherd as he told them her name, and he sat down and continued his questions. Soon he got to his most curious question.
"So I hate to be rude, but umm what are the animal people around here called? I've never seen them before." Shepherd asked as nicely as he could. Yang began to respond but was quickly cut off by an extremely agitated Blake. "They're not animals, they're called Faunus! And they'd just as good as normal people!" She growled, and Shepherd knew he had hit a soft spot from her reaction. Recoiling slightly and beginning to blush because of her outburst, she quickly apologized. "It's ok, I hit close to home, Its my fault mostly." He responded while barely batting an eye. Continuing on even though thoroughly embarrassed.
"Faunus have always received hate and abuse from normal humans, and can never stop it. It's why I hope to one day stop it." She finished off as she beamed with pride. Shepherd had a very hard time not rolling his eyes, but nonetheless told her that that was a noble cause and she could do it. After paying his respects he told them goodbye and walked off to "catch a friend." but in reality he was just going to follow them back to the academy they were at and catch a free shelter until he could fully recover. Seeing how he still was slightly below his normal power levels after battling his way out of hell.
That was the reason he was here after all, It started out with an argument with the God King that led to his temporary banishment to Hell and in his anger he slaughtered his guards and escaped, but not unscathed. An angel sent down to help the demons guard him was able to stab him with his knife just before Shepherd had entered the portal. The heavenly blade taking some of power with it, just enough to where he couldn't summon his weapons of choice.
After following Yang and her friends for a bit, they arrived at what seemed to be a helipad. Soon the four girls got on a giant helicopter looking thing, and Shepherd was somehow able to sneak on. Once they arrived at what the attendants called "Beacon", Shepherd got off, knowing that this place would have somewhere to hide. Hoping he didn't run into those four girls again, seeing as this would be stalking because he followed them here. In reality though Shepherd really had not cared for the four and would rather not run into them. Soon finding a safe bench to sleep on, he laid underneath it as to not been so easily seen. Upon shutting his eyes he quickly heard two distinct voices, one female and one male. Groaning quietly Shepherd tried to go back to the quiet he was in, but that becoming obvious it wasn't happening. Quickly recognizing the voice as belonging to the white haired girl Weiss, the next thing she said was "Shepherd..?" Oh did he know how fucked he was.
Soon after Weiss and this dude named Jaune finding him, he followed her and this dude back to Weiss's dorm, and into a very angry Yang. All he could get out before Yang started screaming was a slight "Fuck". Yang just kept yelling "What the hell is wrong with you!?" and shoving him. Shepherd was of course not happy at all, and finally snapped screaming "Fuck you! I don't know where the fuck I am, I've never even been to this world before because I come from someplace called Earth you dumb bitch!" which was screamed loud enough for the four girls to quickly stop and stare at him, not seeing the anger that was hidden behind his helmet. Yang was especially shook up, but just asked him what he meant by all that.
"I'm the God of War, Fire and Death, and For speaking out against the God King I was punished and sent to Hell where I escaped from and through a portal to here." He quickly stated, and the four girls just stood in shock and took all that in. Jaune and another red haired girl he called named Pyrrha came into the room to see if the girls needed any help, but they didn't respond. Quickly shepherd walked out of the room but was stopped by Yang grabbing him, and whispering "If what you said is true, and you don't have anywhere to go. You can stay here for a bit.". Gladly accepting the offer Shepherd went into the room and laid in the floor and passed out. Shepherd's last thoughts were of what would happen if this... situation... if you could call it one, worked out. "You know what, fuck it." Shepherd thought before sleep overtook his worm mind.