Chapter 1 Rise of the knight

Third person POV

It was a dark quiet night in the city of Vale hardly no one was in the streets a few stores were open late than a small group of thugs were approaching a small café that was still open they kicked the door in and started shouting at the people inside.

"HEY YOU FAUNUS FREAKS GET DOWN!" One thug shouted as the rest of them start to push the Faunus around and were shouting at the few customers who were inside apart from one who ignored them than one of the thugs walked towards him and said to him.

"HEY! You get up" he said and then pointed his bat at the back of his head than when the person did not respond he then swung his bat at him but the person had moved behind him than as the thug turned around he met a punch that hit him in the face than he went flying across the café the thugs and the Faunus staff turned and looked at the person who had punched their friend and saw a man wearing strange armour with long blonde hair and blue eyes stood before them than one shouted at him

"Who the hell are you!" a thug shouted at him

? POV

"Who am I my name is Courtney O'Brien and you are going to pay for hurting the Faunus who have done nothing to you" I said as I started to walk towards the thugs who then charged at me but I used my semblance and moved behind them and started to punch them than after I had knocked them down I looked at one of the female Faunus staff who was a deer Faunus I then asked her.

"Are you ok you're not hurt anywhere?" I asked the deer Faunus nodded her head than she looked over my shoulder and saw a thug swung a sword at me she said.

"Look Out!" She shouted as the thug swung his sword down and in an instead I had pulled my sword out witch was no the belt of my armour and blocked it. The thug was shocked that I had managed to block him.

"What the hell how did you block me?" he said I just looked at him and just smiled at him. I than kicked him in the gut then I swung my sword at him and it hit him and he fell to the floor. I looked at his friends who were backing up slowly than they ran away I went to the front door to see if I could see them but they had disappeared so I went back inside and helped with cleaning the café up and made sure the Faunus staff were not hurt than I heard some noises coming from outside so I grabbed my sword then I ran to the front door and saw more thugs had shown up. So I stepped forward and held my sword out in front of me looking at the thugs and to them.

"Well who is first" I said looking at the thugs than one of them charged at me so I blocked it than I kicked him in the stomach and he fall on the floor than another thug came charging at me with a bat so I charged at him and slashed him he then fall to the floor the rest of the thugs were shocked than another charged at me with a sword so I blocked it than I kicked his leg from under him then I brought my foot down on his head and drove it into the road then I looked at the rest and they had started to run off so went back into the café and sat down at the table I was sitting at I started to finish my chocolate cake that I had ordered as I was eating I heard footsteps behind me but I did not move as I felt that they mean me no harm so when the walk round the table I looked at them one was a middle age women wearing glasses and a middle age man carrying a coffer cup than the middle age man said.

"Can we sit here?" he said I nodded my head and they pulled out chairs and sat down I stopped eating my cake and looked at them then I asked them.

"Why are you here if I may ask it is not like the headmaster of Beacon to just show up after someone has had a fight" I asked looking at the middle age who was shocked that I knew who he was.

"You know who I am?" He asked I shook my head from side to side than as I looked at him I said.

"Well I don't but my sister has mentioned you when she has come home from beacon to visit" I said looking at him he started to nodded his head as than he knew who my sister was I went on to say.

"And she told me about you professor Goodwitch" I said to the middle age women now known as professor Goodwitch who had a stain look on her face than the middle age man said to me.

"So your Akasha's little brother she mentioned you when she talked to me" he said I nodded my head than I said to him.

"Are you here to recruit me for your academy Ozpin?" I asked looking at professor Ozpin who looked at professor Goodwitch was shaking her disapprovingly but then Ozpin said to me.

"Only if you want to attend my academy Ozpin" said as Professor Goodwitch shook her head but Ozpin ignored her and looked at me to hear my answer so I said to him.

"I want to attend your academy I tried to get into to signal but I broke my leg and could not attend so I will accept your offer" I said I then stood up and got my things ready and left the café then I went back to my hotel to get my things ready so I could head to beacon and then I let my parents know that I was going to beacon they were happy along with my sisters who gave me advice on how to survive at beacon academy than I went to sleep.

On an airship heading to Beacon Academy

"Hey Courtney!" Someone shouted to me I looked around and saw a very tall person wearing armour that my family had made standing alongside him I saw another person wearing light armour and carrying a bow and arrows along with a guy wearing blue armour with gold decoration along with a helmet and was carrying a spear and a tower shield since I knew who they were so I ran over to them and said to them.

"Hi Achilles Dec and Edward how have you been" I said to them as we shook hands and started to talk about going to beacon and becoming hunters I looked over my shoulder and looked at vale below than as we were talking Achilles called to a female rabbit Faunus who was walking by.

"Hey Velvet" Achilles said the rabbit Faunus now known as Velvet stopped and looked at us than she came over to us Dec and Edward both bowed their heads to Velvet than Achilles said to Velvet.

"Hello Velvet how are you looking forward to attending beacon" Achilles said to Velvet who smiled and then replied.

"I am ok thank you and yes I looking forward to attend beacon" Velvet said than she looked and saw me than she looked back at Achilles ten Achilles realize what she was going to ask so he said to Velvet.

"This is our friend Courtney we were telling you about him when we were attending signal academy" Achilles said as Velvet was looking at the ground I than looked at Achilles suspiciously than I asked him.

"What did you tell her about me?" Achilles I asked Achilles he then looked at me then back to Velvet but before he could say anything Dec decide to spill the beans on what Achilles said

"Achilles told her how you were a kind, caring person who treated everyone as equals including the Faunus who worked for your family's company and when we were kids you always tried to include the Faunus kids when we would play games" Dec said I then smiled knowing that they would say how I was brought up to be treat the faunus as equals but I knew that everywhere elas treats faunus poorly than I heard professor Goodwitch start to talk about us training to keep the peace but I ignored her and kept looking at the floor and then when professor Goodwitch had finished talking I looked at velvet and asked her.

"Did you make any other friends apart from these three" I said pointing at my friends Velvet looked at my friends than back at me and shook her head from side to side then she looked at the floor so I put my hand on her shoulder and said to her?

"You can hang out with us until you do find more friends that will treat you with respect" I said to Velvet who looked at me and smiled then we looked out the window and saw beacon academy we were amazed by how big it was then when the airship landed. We got off the airship and started to walk towards beacon I was looking at the place that would be our home for however long it would be then I looked at velvet and saw she was carrying a box so I asked her.

"What is in the box?" Velvet I asked looking at Velvet she looked at her box than back at me and said.

"My weapon is the box as I am a mage" Velvet said I nodded my head in agreement than Achilles looked at me then he smiled as he said.

"Well let's show beacon what the power of Hoshido is and become great hunters" Achilles said as me, Dec and Edward nodded our heads and smiled Velvet was looking at us confused then she asked us.

"Hoshido?" Velvet asked we looked at her and then at each other then I decided to tell her about where we were from so I looked at her and said.

"Hoshido is the kingdom where we are from" I said looking at Velvet who now understood now but before she could ask any more questions Dec pointed out where we should be heading to so we followed Dec to where we should be so when we arrived at what looked like an Amphitheater so we stood at the back of the room than Edward said.

"There is a lot of people here who are attending Beacon but I wonder how many will not make it" Edward said as we looked at all the people who were in the amphitheatre I could see lots of people who were from different parts of Remnant we started talking among ourselves then I saw professor Ozpin and professor Goodwitch walked on stage then Ozpin started to talk but I was too busy looking around at my friends to listen then Goodwitch said that we would be sleeping in the ballroom I looked at my friends who just shrugged their shoulders as we left to put our gear away.

Later that night

After we had something to eat and got ready for bed we were in the ballroom I went into the bathroom and saw Velvet brushing her teeth I walked alongside and started to brush my teeth I looked over at Velvet then I finished brushing my teeth then I went back into the ballroom and I went to where Achilles, Dec and Edward were and set up a sleeping bag near them than Achilles said to us.

Well this is new we have to sleep on the floor Achilles said as we got into our sleeping bags than I saw Velvet come over and she asked us.

"Can I sleep here?" Velvet asked I looked at my friends who were too busy looking at the ceiling to notice so I decided to let Velvet sleep next to me.

"Yes you can sleep here" I said to velvet she got into her sleeping bag and went to sleep straight away I smiled at her sleeping face then as I closed my eyes I felt a foot hit me in my face I looked over to see who's foot it was and saw it was Achilles's foot so I moved it off my face and rubbed where Achilles's foot had hit and I moved my bag away from Achilles and after making sure Achilles could not reach me I then closed my eyes and went to sleep.