The world of Remnant, what is left of mankind after the twin gods abandoned the world voiding it of all magic. Humanity struggled to survive against the creatures of Grimm, soulless creatures of darkness that feed off feelings of negativity. This history was lost in time as human were brought back from the brink of extinction, using the power of dust as a replacement for magic. Now years later the humans and Faunus, hybrids of humans and animals, have build new civilizations and train warriors to fight Grimm, Huntsman and Huntresses, using the power of dust and a Myriad of weapons. Of course the Grimm weren't going to back down from this threat, evolving and adapting to their prey. This forced Huntsmen and Huntresses to adapt themselves to fight, turning to forming partners and a team allowing more chances of survival, one such promising team was made and it looked as though they would bring new hope to this world.
But the long forgotten gods had another plan for them.
The rising sun could barely be seen piercing the dense fog, the sound of propellers screeching through the air as an the form of an airship appeared in the fog descending above the boarding platform below, figures on the platform could be seen scrambling to the safe zone, wanting to be the first on the ship.
"About time the Bullhead got here, and here I thought we would be late." A female voice whispered to the group around her.
"Yeah, but I'm surprised he is even here, this is a bullhead straight to Vale." A male sneered pointing at another person a few feet from them, his rich black hair barely seen in the fog save for his blue streak of hair the flowed from his scalp down over his left eye.
He stood at an average 5'11"; his dark skin gave him a more alluring look to him. He wore a skin tight long sleeved shirt that reach down to his gloved hands with large braces wrapped around it his wrists. Over his shirt was a light blue mesh plating of armor, snug enough that it wouldn't get tangling from constant movements. He wore black slack pants, easy to move and kick with while not tearing easily; his black combat boots were plated in metal. A pitch black pair of shades covered his eyes.
"Yeah I don't understand where he is going, it's not like he could be a huntsman." A different male said as they all chuckled, but one female voiced a different tune.
"Wait you didn't know? Ciel was visiting the orphanage; he finished his last year at Signal."
"What? No way had someone like him managed to graduate from Signal."
"She is right; I remember seeing his name on the graduating list of third years."
"That means he's aiming for Beacon right? There's no way a low life like him can pass initiation." At this the group began snickering; Ciel glanced in their direction before letting out a scoff as the doors to the bullhead opens after securing a landing.
'I knew I shouldn't have stayed at the Orphanage last night, but I just couldn't resist the puppy dog eyes.' Ciel pulled the sunglasses from his face to clean, revealing his light blue eyes that held thin black vertical slits in them.
The reason those arrogant people made fun of him was because of his Faunus half; from what he was told about his parents, his mother was a Faunus while his father was human. They had met and fallen in love during their training as Huntsman and Huntresses, only to for his father to meet his demise during an extermination mission before he was born; his mother had died not long after giving birth to him. Ciel placed the shades on his face once more as he followed the crowd onto the bullhead, attempting to steer clear of the group of fellow Huntsman and Huntresses-to-be.
He found solace in a corner by the window, staring out as he saw the small village, his home for seventeen years; become a small dot in the distance. His eye became heavy as he remembered he didn't get much sleep because of all the little kids at the thought about them as he drifted off to dreamland.
Ciel jolted awake to the sound of chatter around him, trying to rub the sleep from his eyes he looked out the window and at that moment he was wide awake. Below the ship was the city of Vale, the streets bustling with people and cars while shop owners had their shops flooding with people. It was a sight to behold to someone who lived in a small village all his life, but the city isn't what had Ciel captivated. Ciel couldn't turn his eyes away from the school high up behind the city of Vale, Beacon Academy, a school used to exclusively train Huntsman and Huntresses; the school where he would learn to follow in his parents footsteps to protect those who could not protect themselves.
Ciel wasted no time as the bullhead landing on a docking platform, practically sprinting toward the check in station to be allowed into vale. His check in was quick and he bolted for another hallway, wanting to get to Beacon as quickly as possible; the next ship was set to sail any second.
Managing to make it he sighed, the small adrenaline he had now gone. The ship soon took off on it course for beacon. He finally caught his breath as his sensitive ear picked up giggling, quickly realizing he wasn't alone he looked up. On the ship with him were four other people, on the far left sat a girl dressed in a red tank top, an olive green sleeveless button up pulled over it, the middle was left open to show off her stomach. She wore green short shorts that if were any shorter would give any guy a pleasant sight. Her slight olive tan a sight to behold compared with her auburn red hair that was tied in a single braid the flowed over her right shoulder onto her firm C-cup breast.
The red hair female's lips were curved into a smile as her olive brown eyes looked like they were boring into Ciel skull. He averted his gaze to look at the two people next to her, they looked quite similar and Ciel made a strong assumption they were twins. The female on the left had deep purple hair, short enough it only flowed down to her shoulder. The one on the right had the same hair color only it flowed down to her back; the left female wore a purple trench coat with a fishnet mesh body suit underneath, holding snug against her D-Cup breast and plump hips, along with purple shorts that stopped half down her thighs. The one right one wore a deep blue Chinese Qipao dress with body shorts underneath that ran down to her knees, the Qipao was cut at the neck enough to show off her cleavage of her B-Cup.
Ciel turned to the final person one the ship and was almost captivated by her beauty, she was also the one giggling at him if her finger in front of her mouth were any indication; she had long brown hair and dazzling brown eyes. She wore a short, long sleeve brown jacket with a golden zipper, brown shorts with golden trimmings, and black leggings. Next to her sat a large brown box with a camera on top, but the thing that amazed him the most was the appendages on her head.
She had bunny ears.
Ciel stared at all four women in front of him, blinking a few times. "Uh… Hi?" the females all stared at him after he tried initiating conversation, then at each other, then they all laughed. The red head was the first to recover.
"He's sitting in a bullhead with forth beautiful Woman and all he could muster up is a HI?" She asked as the females laughed still and Ciel pouted at them all.
"Oh no, now he's making such a scary face." The short haired female said in a mocking tone as the other made a scared stance, the bunny ear girl just continued to laugh.
"Well I don't see you all trying to make any conversation." Ciel fired back as he got up off the ground he was on and dusted himself off. The bullhead was already flying through the air and towards Beacon.
"Whatever you say oh great one." The red head wiped tears from her eyes as they all calm down from their laughing fit. "What is your name anyway?"
"Don't you know it's rude ask for someone's name without giving you own first?" Ciel said as he walked over to the bunny ear female and sat a few feet from her.
"Hmph, My name is Olivia Sequoia." The red head now identified as Olivia said as she adjusts herself a bit in her seat, trying to get comfy.
"I'm Lavender Ryu, and the girl who looks likes she's hype up on caffeine is my twin sister Raine Ryu." The short hair female identified her and the one sitting next to her.
"HIHI" Raine exclaimed as she waved both of her arms excitingly.
"I guess I'm next, I'm Velvet Scarlatina and it's nice to meet you all." The girl with Bunny ears timidly said as all eyes turned to Ciel who shrunk under their gazes.
"I'm Ciel Kanashimi and it's a pleasure to meet all of you beautiful ladies." He managed to say with a polite manner, the girls held light blushes from his sudden compliment.
"Such a charmer, aren't we?" Olivia said as Ciel Flinched from her gaze, this caused another round of laughter from the group.
They continued with light conversation finding out they were all first years. They talked and laughed until the bullhead started to descent, looking out the window everyone was wide eyed at how much more beautiful Beacon was up-close.
"It's amazing isn't it?" Velvet asked as everyone had to agree, Ciel thought back to pictures that he kept tucked away, pictures of his parents before her was born. They were a Huntsmen and Huntress; it was one reason why he wanted to become one, to live up to their legacy. Sadness glossed through his eyes for a second before disappearing, leaving his ship mates none the wiser.
"We're going to learn to fight Grimm sis!" Raine Excitedly said to Lavender as she just patted her head to calm her.
"Fighting Grimm huh?" Olivia said absent mindedly as the bullhead pulled into the docking station. Each of them quickly grabbed their equipment and disembarked the ship.
They all stayed together until each of the girls found their group of friends and promptly left, agreeing to meet up later. Soon enough it was just Ciel who was just walking towards the meeting place of all first years, the assembly wasn't for another hour but it just so happened to he was all alone.
"Like usual…" He muttered with a sigh as he ran his hand through his silk black locks combing it back. "Man I wished Yang or Rubes were here." He thought back to His few friends back at Signal, it would be at least another year till one of them showed up. 'Man it is going to be a lonely year.'
Ciel reached the Assembly hall and was greeted with a few other early show ups. He noticed a table of refreshments and at that moment his stomach grumbled at him. He made his way over to the table and looked over the table and spotted what he was looking for, a plate of cookies and a hot cup of coffee. He pick up a cookie one that had raisins in it instead of chocolate chips, he always liked raisins as to always another red cloaked friend at Signal. Reaching for the coffee instead of feeling Styrofoam he felt soft flesh causing him to tense and freeze, his eyes traveling to the other hand that held onto the cup.
Traveling up the hand he saw a long cocoa-colored shirt, a dark brown waist cincher was seen over top, Ciel found the figure to be female, she wore a dark brown trousers that went down to her ankle, following the arm up he came face to face with another pair of sunglasses, wavy dark locks that looked dyed towards the bottom in caramel. She was an annoyed expression.
"Do you mind?" she asked bluntly as she was referring to his hand still gripping her own.
"Sorry." Ciel quietly said as he realized he still had his hand on her, removing it the girl huffed before bringing the cup to her mouth, Ciel grabbed another cup and turned ready to walk away.
"Oi." Ciel turned towards the girl again her expression still a mixture of annoyance and Curiosity. "It's rude to just walk away once you've held someone hand." Ciel couldn't hold back his flabbergast expression.
"Huh?"
"You heard me." The girl said lowering her sunglasses to reveal her chocolate brown eyes. "What is your name?" Ciel recovered and turned to look at the podium, talking a sip of his coffee.
"It's Ciel. Ciel Kanashimi."
"That's a cute name, I'm Coco Adel." the girl raised her glasses back up and reached for Ciel's. Ciel slapped her arm down and the girl pouted, repeating the motion. They continued to do this until Ciel grabbed her hand and gave her a stern look.
"You're holding my hand again." Ciel growled and turned away from the giggling Coco as he hid his blush.
"I wouldn't have to if you'd stop trying to touch my glasses."
"But I want to see what's under it. I'm sure you have some beautiful sky blue eyes. ~" Coco cooed as Ciel refused to look her way. More people began filing into the assembly hall. Velvet entered followed by the other three girls from her ship. They were all searching for a black haired fellow wanting to talk to him before the entrance ceremony. Velvet looked towards the refreshments as she spotted him and her ears flopped a little.
"Ciel!" She cried out as the other three turned to see him they all made their way to him.
Coco turned to the voice calling for the male next to her, spotting the group of females walking towards his she smiled. "My Ciel I never expected you to be such a womanizer." Ciel growled and turned to Coco.
"I am NOT!" He yelled a little too loud as the girls grew near, only seeing a giggling Coco and a blushing Ciel.
"Um Ciel? Who is she?" Olivia asked for the group, trying to not question the sudden yell. Ciel choked and stood up straight again as he began to introduce everyone. Lavender was busy trying to stop Raine from getting to the Coffee.
"First day here and you've already got quiet the entourage, eh Ciel?" Coco Cooed pushing her glasses down, causing the other girls to spit out the drinks they were drinking. "Mind if I Join?" She continued turning to a huffing Ciel.
"First off I'm not with any of these beautiful girls, and second if you really want to be stubborn you can be the first of my 'Entourage' as you so called it." Ciel huffs, turning to the rest of the group and only got blank stares from all of them; he gave them a questioning look.
"Wow, not even known me for 10 minutes and already asking me out." Coco Smirked and pushed her glasses up. They both knew they were joking around, but the others didn't need to know that.
"Eh… Hey did you all hear what the initiation might be?" Raine asked trying to move away from this subject. Everyone shook their head no.
"Rumor has it that we have to go retrieve something with a partner." Lavender commented as the hall was becoming more pack with students.
"Simple enough." Ciel noticed a lady dressed in white and purple and a male dressed in black and green suit slowly walking up to the microphone. Ciel began walking towards the Group of other first year. "Come on, I want to be able to hear what's being said." The group of females nodded and followed behind their only male companion the male, who turned out to be Headmaster Ozpin gave a small speech on how he saw a room full of potential and couldn't wait to shape it. Ciel glanced over at Ozpin assistant, Glynda Goodwitch, and turned his head in confusion.
'Cynthia?' On a closer look Ciel realized that she wasn't the Orphanage Caretaker, but looked eerily similar to her. Glynda took over to direct the students that they were to sleep in the auditorium tonight before initiation tomorrow. With that the students were free for the rest of the time till curfew.
Ciel and the six girls stood as people began filing out to check out the campus. "So, what do we do now?" Raine asked already bored of standing around. Ciel Snapped out at his thoughts, glancing at his scroll. 'She shouldn't be busy right now' Ciel thought before looking at the group. "Go on ahead without me; I have a phone call to make."
"Oh? Going to tell your mommy you made it into Beacon?" Ciel tensed and froze at Olivia question, the group fell silent and Olivia felt as if she said something she shouldn't have. A few second past as Ciel let out a shaky breath and slowly relax.
"Something like that." He replied quietly and turned away with his head down walking away before the girls could stop him. Coco turned to Olivia and lowered her glasses.
"Smooth move their goes our eye candy." Coco said and Olivia deflated slightly.
"Yeah, way to go Olivia." Lavender commented, Raine glaring at Olivia, Velvet stared off at where Ciel's disappearing back was.
"How was I supposed to know?!" Olivia cried out to the group. She vowed to apologize later.
Ciel found a place away from the frequent corridors, leaning on the wall he let out a sigh and held his head in his hand. "Good going you idiot, 17 years and you still can't get past it." Hearing things about parents always put Ciel in a bad mood; he couldn't get past it even though he knew he should have by now.
He pulled out his scroll and looked through his small contact list, by small it meant he only had four one of which he hasn't spoken to in years, clicking on another contact he brought it to his ear. It rung for a few second before the line was answered and a feminine voice call out over it.
"He- Carol put that down- Hello?" Ciel chuckled as he heard the voice call out to the one named Carol.
"I see Carol is still giving you trouble when I'm not there Huh?" The voice gasped.
"Ciel!"
"Yeah, it's me Mother Cynthia."
"Ciel Kanashimi how dare you leave this house before breakfast." The voice known as Cynthia called out anger and Ciel just let out a nervous laugh.
"Sorry, but I wanted to catch an early flight to vale."
"I know, but the kiddos were all sad to wake up and not see you." Ciel sighed again thinking of all the little ones.
"I knew they would be but I'll make sure to visit during my breaks,"
"You better, I'm assuming you've made it to Beacon already?"
"Yes I made it earlier today, our initiation test is tomorrow." The line was silent for a few seconds
"Someone asked you about them?"
"Huh?"
"Someone asked you about your parents didn't they?" Ciel froze and didn't reply for a few seconds, letting out a sigh.
"I can't ever get anything past you cam I?"
"I did raise you for 17 years~" Cynthia sang over the line; Ciel could hear a few other voices on the other end, he assumed the kids heard her yell out his name and they were fighting to talk to him.
"I'm guessing they all really want to talk to me." More yelling was heard and Ciel sighed. "Gather them all and put me on the big screen." Cynthia could be heard corralling all the young ones up as Ciel pulled the scroll from his ear, turning on the video feed and waited. A few seconds passed and Ciel slid to the floor as his legs were tired of standing. As he did his screen flicker on to see a room filled with about thirteen little kids and Cynthia, she wore a simple cherry pink kimono and had bright blond hair that draped down her back.
"BIG BRO CIEL!" all the kids cried out at once and Ciel chuckled while simply raising his hand waving at all the kids.
"It's good to see you all again. But you don't have to be so loud."
"But big brother! We didn't get to see you off." One kid said as others agreed with him.
"I know and I'm sorry but I really need to leave this morning. I'll make it up to you all when I come to visit"
"Promise?" A little girl with orange hair asked.
"I promise but only if you stop causing trouble for Mommy Cynthia, Carol." The little girl blushed and the kids all laughed. "Now I know you all just got to see me but I need to get ready for bed soon and so do you all, but I need to ask Mommy Cynthia one more thing in private before I do, I want you all to be ready for bed before that, understand?"
Some of the kids stood up and saluted as others called out their replies. After giving their goodbyes the camera feed went off and Cynthia voice could be heard on it again.
"Now what did you want to ask?" Ciel waited for a view second before asking the question.
"How come you never told me you had a sister?"
…
"So Glynda still works at Beacon huh?"
"She's the headmasters Assistant." The line was silent again.
"Just, don't get on her bad side."
"Yeah, the last thing I want is to suffer the wrath of someone who looks like you."
After a few more laughs Ciel found it was dusk and it was almost curfew time, quickly giving goodbyes Ciel hung up and looked at his blank scroll. Sighing he stood up and turned to leave, only to come face to face with on Glynda Goodwitch. She stood there tapping her foot, a scowl on her face which led Ciel to wonder how long she had been there.
"Good afternoon Professor Goodwitch." Ciel said trying to make conversation.
"So, asking my older sister about me huh?" Ciel shrunk under her stern gaze as she leaned closer to him. He let out a nervous chuckle trying to find an escape route.
"I'm sorry, she never told me and when I saw you I just had to know." Ciel looked away as Glynda glared at him for a bit before letting out a huff and standing up straight.
"Understandable, regrettable after hearing my own sister had sent a recommendation letter for someone made me a bit curious about you myself."
"Ah, Excuse me?"
"I expect great things out of you, Mr. Kanashimi." Glynda turn around and walked away, her heels clacking against the granite floor. She disappeared around the corner and left Ciel standing there dumbfounded.
'Why do I feel like I'm in for a world of hurt this semester?' Ciel shook his head and made his way back to the Auditorium.
…
Wherever the hell it was.
Finally finding the auditorium Ciel let out a tired yawn, quickly finding his belonging, along with a changing room, he change into his sleepwear of a simple black tank top and black sweats with a light blue strip running down the sides. Stepping out of the changing room he was promptly tackle to the ground by a blue blur.
"Found him girls!" Raine called out as the 5'8 girl turned to the others; Lavender, Olivia, Velvet, and Coco walked over, all dressed in their sleep wear.
Raine was dressed in a dark blue one piece pajama; it had rain clouds all over it. Lavender was dressed like he was, in a purple tank top but had on purple booty shorts on instead of sweats.
Velvet had a brown T-shirt with a bunny on it that was two sizes to big; allowing it to hide her short underneath. Coco wore a dark brown nightgown the stopped half up her lower leg.
Olivia stood at the back of the group, timidly trying to hide like Velvet was. She wore a deep red T-shirt with a tree plastered on it. Her brown shorts also had trees on it. Lavender had managed to pull her twin sister off Ciel while Velvet helped him stand, there was an small silence as every female turned to look at the Auburn hair female who flinched under their stern gazes, Coco sighed and got behind Olivia and pushed her forward, the girl stumbling but caught herself and stood up, staring face to face with Ciel.
"Ah, Hey Ciel…" Ciel looked confusingly at the girl acting all timidly; she didn't come off as a timid person so he found it weird. "I'm sorry about what I said earlier." Ciel didn't understand for a few second before a light bulb went off.
"Oh, nah don't worry about it, you just caught me off guard was all." He said trying to lighten the mood while shaking his hands in a dismissive manner at all the girls. "I'm not mad at you." Olivia looked at him as if to see if he was lying, finding no traces of lying she smiled lightly.
"Is it something you want to talk about?" Coco asked as she pulled Olivia back so everyone could see the man in question.
"Mhm, I don't mind but it is getting kind of late, maybe I'll tell you all tomorrow okay?" Ciel said trying to avoid the question, as if on cue Raine let out a deep yawn, her eyes half closed as she tried to stay awake. Everyone else agreed as they all suddenly felt tired and left to lie down, Ciel and Velvet found out their stuff were right next to each other. Velvet chose to continue a conversation.
"Hey um..." Ciel looked at her shyly try to speak. "How…do you feel about my ears?" She blurts out as they both lay down covering her face as her ears drooped. Now Ciel would of giving her a straight answer, but felt like teasing someone a bit, but Coco was not around for him to do so.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean about me being a Faunus, I know some humans don't like Faunus the much, the other girls don't really mind and say my ears are cute-"
"They are right though." Ciel cut her off and she blushed and cover her faced with her sheet while Ciel chuckled, she lowered it enough so she could see the chuckling Ciel. "Besides, who said I was Human?" Velvet was confused this time around as she watched Ciel removed his glasses with his eyes shut, slowly opening them Velvet let out a gasp.
"You're also a-"
"Half Faunus to be exact." Ciel quickly corrected her as he placed the glasses down with his scroll. "Now, get some sleep Velvet, we've got a big day tomorrow." Velvet nodded curtly and rolled over to face away from the male as he also laid down facing away from her he eyes slowly closing as he entered dreamland, his last thoughts were on the big day tomorrow.
The sun rise glared through the windows of the Auditorium, waking anyone who was in its path, Velvet awoke to the murmurs of good mornings, and rising to a sitting position she stretched and let out a yawn. "Good morning Ciel." She called out to the person she assumed was still sleeping next to her. Not hearing any form of an answer she turned to find Ciel's entire luggage neatly packed but no Ciel in sight.
"Hey Velvet where's charmer at?" Olivia called out to the bunny as she saw the girls walk over to her, still dressed in their sleepwear.
"I don't know, he wasn't here when I woke up and his stuff is already packed so he had to of been awake for a while." Velvet answered trying to untangle herself from the blanket they provided for the night. As if on cue Ciel walked into the room, fully dressed in his combat gear, the other students shuffling around to get ready, he saw all the ladies over by Velvet and made his way there.
"There he is." Velvet was the first to see him, being the only one not turned away from the door, Raine immediately tried to tackle him, they were amazed to see Ciel dodge her, instead holding out his arm for her to cloth line herself into, grabbing onto it everyone immediately thought of a sloth hanging off a branch.
A really hyperactive sloth.
"Does this belong to anyone?" Ciel called out as he walked over to the rest of girls, Raine still hanging from his arm, swinging back and forth, the girls watched the display before Coco began to giggle, followed by everyone else as he was still trying to get Raine unlatched.
After a few minutes and a fake promise of candy from Lavender, they had detached Raine from Ciel and all left to get ready, leaving Ciel to his own, he sat against his luggage, opting to wait for the others he reached into a small pocket on his bag and pulled out a few worn out photos and a fairly new one. The newer photo shown him being dog piled by a bunch of kids from the orphanage, off to side stood two people, one was Cynthia, dressed in her usual pink kimono, her eyes were closed and she had a small smile.
The person next to her looked to be about Ciel's age; she had dark tan skin like him with mint green hair, her deep red eyes beaming with light as she watched the kids' dog piling on him with a smile.
This photo Ciel remembered well, it was a goodbye photo before he left for Signal, it was also the last time he saw the green haired girl as she disappeared not long after his departure. He was sure he'd see her again, he only had to wait.
He flipped to the next photo; it was of a tall dark hair and skin man, standing next to a woman with bright sky blue hair and rich cream white skin. It was his parents, one of the few photos he had of them that were recovered before from their house, Ciel has never been to the house himself as Cynthia said the it was stated in his parents will that he wasn't allowed until he was ready both was allowed to have the photos. A small sad smile adorned his face as his thumb ran over his mothers face; he looked almost like her but with his father's complexion and hair color.
The last photo was a bit older than the last, it was of his parents, but they were with their team from the academy, it seemed they still fought together even after graduating; they all had their weapons drawn and held as if they were going to attack the camera, and bright smiles spread over all four faces.
"Whoa, they looked so cool!" Olivia's voice suddenly rang in his ear; he jumped into the air from the sudden voice as he was already on his feet, noticing they all the girls were back and in their combat gear. Realizing he wasn't in danger Ciel sighed and put the photo away.
"Who were they?" Olivia asked as she was the only one who clearly saw the photos." Ciel stood up and stretched, he didn't know how long they took but he was stiff from suddenly moving.
"My parents and their teammates." Ciel answered in a slight monotone voice and Olivia froze again, everyone else tensed up again. "I told you girls it wasn't that big of a deal, quit trying to dance around it." Ciel quickly shot down their worries. He saw a people begin to file out to head to their initiation. "Come on, before we're late." Ciel called out and began walking towards the door, the girls following quietly behind him.
At least until Coco began teasing Ciel again.
Emerald Forest looked just as the name implied, lush emerald green leafs blanketed the canopy of trees without a view of the ground beneath it, on top of the cliff stood a row of student were standing on metal platforms, waiting for their test to begin, Ciel found himself standing between two people he did not know.
On his left was a man that was lightly tanned, he stood over 7' tall with a giant sword that was almost as big as he was. He wore a long short sleeve robe, only one shoulder was used to hold it up; a black muscle shirt was underneath. He had a leather armor belt with two pouched on it; his brown pants blending well with his black and green combat boots. Over his left arm was a 5 layer sode that ran from his shoulder down his arm.
The man glanced over at the staring Ciel and offered a smile, to which Ciel returned before turning to the other tan person flanking his right side. He wore sleeveless orange zipped up vest with black linings to match his black jeans; on both arms were long blades attached to his gauntlets. It reminded Ciel a bit of his own weapons.
Before he could implore about the similarities, coughing brought him to reality back as Ozpin made himself known again. "I trust you all had a good night's rest?" He started off as a few answered him back. He began explaining the rules of the test.
It was a simple relic find and grab; they were to make their way to the center where a patch of ruins laid, and the first person they met eyes with was to be their partner. Ciel thought of a little red reaction when she learned this. They were to grab a relic for the team and return it to the Cliffside, the forest was also seething with grim so every student was told to bring their all because there would be no help.
"Is there any questions?" Ozpin asked and was amazed to see no one's hand go up, usually there would be at least one person every year, Ironically it was also a student that could not pass the test. Taking a sip of coffee he stared at the batch of new students. "If there are no questions then prepare to start jump sequence. Glynda, who was standing beside Ozpin, pressed a button on her oversized scroll and a few seconds later the first student was propelled into the air.
Ciel watched as Olivia, Lavender, Coco, Velvet, and Raine were all launched, soon the man next to Ciel was launch and took that as his cue to get ready, crouching in a jumping position he waited to hear the click of his pad, as it went off he jumped forward, the pad boosting him into the air. He sailed through the air and glanced around; he watched Lavender and Raine fall close together assuming the twins already had their partners he looked a little back in time to see blurs of brown descend below him. 'Well Coco and Velvet are out.' Ciel looked forward and spotted a patch of red ahead of him, and it was staring right at him.
Olivia was waving her free hand her weapon occupying the other; a six foot lance that had an diamond point for a head, she was sailing through the sky with hey back to the trees she winked at Ciel before she fully dropped into the lush canopy. 'How does she...' Ciel pondered on how Olivia knew what he was looking for; he reached the pinnacle of his flight as he angled his body downwards, flying to land around where he last saw Olivia.
He found himself descending behind where she fell into the canopy; as he neared the tree line he threw his hands over his face and brought his knees to his chest. He felt his Aura taking most of the hits as he fells through the tree limbs; seeing the ground quickly approaching he threw his arms and legs out in front of him, moving into a tumble as he hit the ground and began running forward in an attempt to find Olivia, already hearing the sounds of fighting around him.
Lavender fell through the trees as she brought out her weapon, a double edge sword with a red line running along down the middle, she held the sword in a reverse grip over her head, stabbing it into a upcoming tree as her momentum kept her going, causing her sword to cut into the tree as it curved her around it, landing on a limb she dislodged her sword as she heard rustling near her she turned to watch Raine land on a limb a few feet below her, Raine held her own weapon in hand, a blue bow with angels painted along both ends, the middle grip was left untouched.
Raine turned up to see her sister, their eyes locking together for a few seconds before they nodded to each other, a smirk adorn their cheeks before each dropped to the floor without a word.
Right in to the middle of a pack of feeding Beowolves
"Just our luck." Lavender cried out as all seven Beowolves turned to the two, growling menacingly. Raine only chuckled as she pulled back the sting on her bow, on her string fingers were four cartridges of dust, each a different color; the blue one on her index finger lit up, as it did an arrow of Ice formed in the string ready to be released.
"At least I couldn't ask for a better partner to fight with." A Beowolf roared and charged forward, only making it halfway before it found an arrow of Ice lodged in its chest. With a painful cry it began to decay into roses and disappear. The six remaining Beowolves cried for their fallen brother, ready to take revenge.
Two wolves charged this time to end the girl with the bow, they saw the other girl start running towards them and changed their attack to her, the closer one raising its arm to strike her down, only to have it cut off as the sword sliced straight through in an upward slash, before Lavender brought it back in an arc to slice right through the chest, thankful that these were young wolfs or else her sword would not have gone through. The other wolf appeared on Lavenders left; raising her sword in time to block another claw strike the Grimm growled as it brought it other hand down in another strike.
Lavender clicked her tongue before parrying the claw against her sword and ducking to the ground, rolling away from the wolf, standing up straight she saw two more wolves had joined her as two attacked Raine, she launched her dust arrows as she dodges the swiped and lunges but she was quickly tiring out.
"Ugh, we don't have time for this." Lavender cried as the wolves took that as a signal to charge her at once. As they all neared her she gritted her teeth and jump up, the wolves all striking the place she had just been; flipping over in place Lavender pointed her sword down at the Grimm, letting out a war cry as the red dust in her sword lit up, the tip of the sword opening up and red hot flame sprouted down on the Grimm, not even having a chance as they were burned alive leaving nothing.
Raine panted as she dodged another lunge from the wolves she was fighting, they barely gave her a chance to form her arrows before going on the attack again. She knew her sister could handle herself against the three wolves as she was a melee fighter, but she was more range than anything, but that didn't mean she couldn't fight close quarters, at least not with her current weapons.
A wolf attacked her form the side but she was ready for it; she twirled her bow in her hand as it collapsed on itself, turning into a short barrel shotgun. She aimed at the charging wolf as it was right on her, raising the barrel right at his neck. A loud bang went off and the wolf body froze as its head began to disintegrate in the air, being blown clear off, Raine gave the other wolf no time to charge as she duck around the body, changing the shotgun back into a bow as she already had three flame arrows forming, sending them flying at the wolf, striking their mark the wolf cried out and burned to death.
Lavender walked up to her sister, a bright smile on her face as she had watched the last bit of that fight. "Good going Sis." She said playfully punching her, even though they weren't too hurt the punch caught Raine off guard and she fell to the ground face first, Lavender stood shocked before she began laughing, Raine glared at her laughing sister before joining in. they soon set off to find the ruins they were searching for.
Ozpin and Glynda stood up on top of the Cliffside they had flung, uh, launched their student hopefuls off of, ten minutes had already past and they watched the multiple cameras that showed off the kids as they formed partners and all moved towards they common goal, some group met almost no resistance and already nearing the ruins.
"Hey just a side question," Glynda started as she tore her eyes away from watching a brown clad female mow down a nevermore with her minigun, her bunny ear partner fighting off the Boarbatusks that drew close to them. "What did you use as relics this year?" This question caused Ozpin to freeze in place trying to come up with a lie. Glynda was about to pressure him before her Scroll buzzed. Answering it she listens to the quick sounding voice frantically talking on the other side.
Ozpin began to sweat, he knew exactly when that call was and he wanted nothing more than to escape. By the ending of the call Glynda was glaring daggers at him. Hanging up her scroll she finally spoke.
"Ozpin."
"Yes Glynda?"
"Professor Oobleck has just informed me that someone has stolen his precious relic orbs, you know that ones with stars in them. You wouldn't happen to know anything about that would you?"
Ozpin could not move under the glare of Glynda, he knew no amount of lying would get him out of this; he could only stand there as the wrath that was Glynda Goodwitch descended upon him. Neither Teacher noticed that four partnerships were nearing the ruins together.
Ciel pushed some shrubs out of his way as he walked into a clearing, Olivia not too far behind him. He had found her not too long after landing, being attacked by a Beringel. As Olivia had parried one of its smashes as Ciel ran up to it. Jumping up and bringing his arm down on its neck, a foot long short sword extending out of his gauntlet into the apes neck, killing it instantly.
They had traversed the forest together, Ciel reveal to Olivia that he was actually a Faunus. She actually liked the sky blue eyes of his which cause Ciel a little discomfort, not used to people actually liking his wolf half. Olivia didn't mind and instead was thankful as Ciel could detect killing intent from the Grimm a lot more easily than she had.
They found a set of ruins sitting in the clearing, fourteen pedestals stood in the center with had crystal orbs on it, half of them were gold with gold stars that started with one and stopped at seven, the other seven were the same gold but and black stars in them instead. They both noticed some were already missing, meaning teams have already been here.
"Finally, lets grab one and go." Olivia said as they walked up to the ruins, Ciel walked ahead of her and looked over the orbs. Walking towards the gold seven star balls; lifting it up to Olivia. "How about lucky number seven?" Olivia smiled and nodded, just as they hear more rustling from all around them, they geared up for another fight as instead of Grimm six other people appeared from different spots of the forest.
"Looks like everyone is here." Coco called out as her and Velvet stepped out. Lavender and Raine were next. The last two people Ciel recognized as the two guys that flanked him at the launch of the test.
"Glad to see everyone safe and alive." Lavender called out as she noticed Raine had already disappeared and was now next to the black seven star orbs.
"Sissy, I want this one!" Raine cried out as Olivia and Ciel jumped never seeing the girl appearing next to them.
"It seems everyone already knows each other, except us too isn't that right Fox?" The green clad man said as the orange clad man known as Fox walked close to him.
"It seems so Yatsuhashi, of course, not actually being able to see them is quiet upsetting." Fox replied as everyone picked their balls. Yatsuhashi and Fox decided on the six gold star orbs while Coco chose the black six star one. As they turned to continue talking Ciel felt a LOT of Killing intent being pushed at the group.
"EVERYONE MOVE!" Ciel quickly called out to the group as he jumped away from the spot he just was in, everyone quickly did the same as the ground were they once stood erupted and Eight King Taijitu heads emerged from the ground, all connected together.
"What the Hell is that?" Coco cried out as she used her box to deflect stray rocks velvet close behind her, Yatsuhashi and Fox were close to them as Ciel and the other landed together not far away. All glaring with slight fear in their eyes, the creature towered high above the trees as it looked down at its prey.
After receiving the wrath of Glynda, Ozpin had resumed watching the student, before the ground shook suddenly, Ozpin and Glynda looked into the forest and gasped as Eight King Taijitu snake heads appeared above the tree line, right where the ruins were.
"What is that?" Glynda hesitantly asked as Ozpin was wondering the same thing; Taijitu never got that big, and that many never existed in the same place at once.
Something was seriously wrong.
"Glynda quickly get me a video feed on the ruins." Ozpin hastily called out, already creating different ideas on this sudden new Grimm. She quickly did as she was told and pulled the feed up on both of their screens and gasps at what they saw.
Ciel, Olivia, Lavender, Raine all stood together as Coco, Velvet, Fox, and Yatsuhashi stood not far away, all of them glaring with fear at the Grimm towering over them.
"Glynda, quickly get Port and Oobleck on their way over here, and then follow me to the ruins." Ozpin called out, this new Grimm wasn't normal and he knew the kid were in danger. This would be the one and only time he stepped in and help during this test, not waiting for a respond Ozpin quickly ran over the cliff and fell into the canopy, Glynda hurriedly calling the two professors before following behind him.
I May Fall (Feat. Casey Lee Williams & Lamar Hall) by Jeff Williams
The giant Grimm towered over the eight students as it looked at its prey, it had waiting until it felt the most amounts of humans in the area before moving to strike, it had not known how the humans had known it was striking but it was sure to not let its prey get away. Each mouth opened to let out a low hiss at them.
Ciel was thankful he had sense the killing intent soon enough; any later and someone would have been snake food. "Everyone alright?" He called over both his group and the other group.
"We're all alright over here but do you have any idea what that is?" Coco called out hoping they knew, she had never seen any Grimm of this Caliber in any book.
"We don't know, but from the look the heads are giving us, fleeing isn't an option." Lavender called out as everyone had their weapons drawn and ready to strike or defend.
"Then we attack!" Coco called out, her Minigun already spinning up, releasing a hailstorm of bullets at the heads; Raine followed her as she formed three ice arrows and fired. They all watched in fear as the bullets and arrows only seem to bounce off the skin.
"It's not working!" Velvet called out as Ciel clicked his tongue, his mind working in over drive as he tried to formulate a plan to fight this thing.
"Raine, Coco! Keep it under fire as long as you can Fox and Velvet protect Coco, Lavender and Olivia you do the same for Raine. Yatsuhashi on me!" Ciel ordered as he ran towards the eight heads, Yatsuhashi hesitated before steeling his nerves and charging forward behind him. Coco and Raine continued to pelt the heads with bullets and arrows, two heads quickly move towards them only to be intercepted by the defenders beating them back as much as they could.
One head moved to attack Ciel as it lunged towards it, it maw wide open to swallow him whole, open to have a large great sword bash against its head, Yatsuhashi smashing against the head hoping to cut it to no success, Ciel jumped on the head and ran up, his foot long swords extended as he attempted to cut along the body. He was forced to jump as a head turn to strike, landing on that head but forcing to jump again as the head worked together to try and eat him. He saw Yatsuhashi attempt to help him but was beaten back to the group as they were all forced to start dodging the remaining heads.
Ciel was quickly tiring from jumping to avoid death when something caught his sharp eyes. Deep underneath the swirl of snake heads he caught a glimpse of white; it looked like a skull with tentacles. Each tentacle was attached to a different head.
"Is that thing controlling- Ugh!" Caught in his momentary thoughts a snake head had struck his side and sent him into the air, Cries of his name were called out as he began falling right for a open maw. He broke from his daze but had no time to find a way to escape 'Is this how it ends? Before I could even begin?' Ciel thought as he fell towards his untimely demise.
Everyone watched in fear as Ciel fell toward the open maw, Velvet couldn't look and Yatsuhashi cursed himself for not being there with him like he was supposed to. Suddenly everyone watching eyes opened as an orange blur jumped from head to head until it flew at Ciel, catching him and getting out of the way of the closing mouth. Ciel and the orange blur that was fox flew to the group and skidded to a halt.
"My hero." Ciel joked as he stood up and the rest laughed. "But seriously thank you Fox, I'd be dead if it were for you." Fox, even though he was blind had felt Ciel's signature left the heads and was freefalling, his Semblance, he quickly explained, allowed him to sense movement in the ground and vibrations in the air using that to 'see' around instead.
The Eight heads screeched at being denied its meal and turned to attack again. "Everyone, I think I found a way to beat this thing. On a side note I'd like to dub this new Grimm with the name Hydra Taijitu." Everyone quickly agreed allowing Ciel to continue. "Right before I almost eaten I saw what look like a possession type Grimm attaching to all the Taijitu heads. I believe taking this Grim out would kill this thing."
"But how? None of our attacks are even denting its hide!" Velvet said as the Head posed to strike. Ciel turned to Olivia as she saw the determined look he had.
"I think you would be the only one able to break through it by using that." Olivia gulped; she and Ciel had exchanged what each other's weapon had done on their way to the ruins.
"Are you sure? What if it can't?"
"If it's as powerful as you make it out to be then I'm sure it will." He grasped her shoulder as Olivia tensed up under his hold. "I'm counting on you Olivia."
Olivia was struck with anxiety as she saw the snake readying to devour them all. She knew she had to be strong here or they were all dead. Relaxing her body she looked over all of her new comrades and nodded at Ciel, who smiled and nodded back.
"Okay now that you two are done having a moment in the middle of a life or death situation could you please explain to us what you're talking about?" Coco said but before Ciel could answer they all had to jump away as the snake head strike down.
The group land a few feet behind the heads and it reared back for another strike. "Coco! Yatsuhashi!" Ciel called out to draw the two people attention. "I need you to throw Olivia and me up in the air!" Now everyone was confused. "Just trust me! Everyone else defend us." With that Ciel and Olivia ran over to Coco and Yatsuhashi.
Two heads struck again, but were met with an arc of flame and lightning curtsey of Lavender and Raine. Velvet held a digital constructed Minigun, having taken a picture of it earlier why coming here with her partner, her box at her side allowed her to digital print 3D copies of any weapon she photographs, combine this with her semblance, Mimicry, and she was a one man army. She showered the other heads with digital bullets as Ciel explained the plan in full to Coco and Yatsuhashi.
They were going to get Olivia above the Grimm so she could hit the possession type hiding in the Taijitu heads Ciel stood on Yatsuhashi sword as he was going to swing him into the air, Coco was going to do the same with Olivia as to allow Ciel to grab her and throw her higher.
As preparation were complete Yatsuhashi was first, with a battle cry he spun in a circle before throwing his sword, Ciel surfing on it towards the sky. Coco grab Olivia arm and spun her couple of time before flinging her into the air towards Ciel. Ciel felt the sword losing speed and spring boarded off it as Olivia raced towards him, they were both above the Hydra heads but Ciel knew Olivia had to be higher to see the Grimm.
Olivia was almost on top of Ciel as he extended his arm to her, grabbing it he was about to fling her higher when a head quickly shot towards them, Olivia eyes widen, if Ciel threw her he would be left defenseless from the attack, she began to let go so he could move but grasp when he grabbed her arm tighter.
"Don't be getting soft on me now!" Ciel called out as he flung her with all his strength; sending her soaring high above the Hydra, she watched as Ciel brought his sword out and stuck them against the giant fangs, his feet hitting the bottom of the maw to stop it from closing. "We're counting on you!" He gave her a reassuring smile as Fox appeared next to the snake head and struck it with his hand, send on aura pulse into it, dazing it so Ciel and Fox could land on top, he quickly thank Fox before they started running along the heads to run distraction.
Olivia was now high in the air, almost suspended as she looked around, in the distance she could see a ship quickly closing in to their position, even the teachers found this Grimm to be threatening. She steeled herself, looking down at everyone fighting the Hydra; she could see the Possession Grimm amidst the weaving heads.
Extending her spear out it began to change, the tip folding into itself and the staff began to shorten and grow wider, once it was finished she held in her hands her gun form of her weapon, the elongated barrel protruding out as clear glass ran from the trigger to the muzzle, she place the butt of the gun against her shoulder as she took aim. Lightning dust began charging in the barrel, flowing through it until it was pure white energy circling in the barrel.
The Grimm knew something was wrong as it turned all its eyes to the sky, seeing a human above them with something in it hand aiming that them, it moved to attack her before she could finish but was stopped by the orange and black colored one. This was the scene Ozpin and Glynda arrived to as they watched Olivia almost done charging.
"EAT RAIL GUN YOU DAMN HYDRA!" Olivia screamed out as her gun was done charging, she pulled the trigger and a large beam of lightning fired from the barrel, the recoil shooting her higher into the air as the beam descended on the Hydra, aimed directly at the white skull, the beam tore through any part of the Grimm as it struck home, instantly destroying the skull tentacle Grimm as the Taijitu heads screamed in agony, slowly dissolving and dying along with the white skull Grimm.
Olivia felt her aura almost break from the recoil, but she did it! She killed the Hydra, her friends were safe. Now she faced another problem.
She was currently plummeting toward the earth.
She closed her eyes as the air rip across her face, which was why she was surprised to being caught in someone arms mid air, she opened her eyes to see Ciel holding her as the neared the ground, flipping over and landing safely on the ground. Olivia had only a few second to enjoy the soft ground before she was tackled by Raine, Velvet, and Lavender who began throwing her in the air with praise. Coco, Yatsuhashi, and Fox walked up and stood with Ciel, all of them giving a smile of approval.
"And here I thought I was going to break my promise to not help." Everyone turned to see Ozpin and Glynda walking towards them, before looking to the sky as a bullhead was heard flying into the clearing, the doors open to show two move professors both with approving smiles.
Ciel and the gang simple looked at the smiling Ozpin before Ciel fell on his butt letting out a exhausted sigh. "You all couldn't show up like ten minutes earlier!" He called out as they all quickly checked their Aura levels, finding all of them under half, Ciel and Olivia were the worst at almost red. Had that fight gone on any longer and they might not have made it.
"Well at least it nice to see we have some strong Huntsmen and Huntresses this year, now why don't you hurry along, after all you all have a test to complete. The other teachers and I will stay here to clean up while the rest of students make their way." Ozpin said as his mug appeared out of thin air and he took a sip of it. The group all realized it was no longer a death match and quickly recovered as they began running back to the Cliffside as a group.
Watching the group leave the other two Teachers landed from the Ship above and moved to secure a perimeter, leaving Ozpin and Glynda to watch the remnants of the Hydra Taijitu disappear, both had a worried expression on their faces.
"You don't think it was.."
"It might have been, but nothing is certain until we figure out if more of them can form. This may have just been a random occurrence." Ozpin answered before Glynda could finish, finding a satisfactory answer she moved to repair the ground the beast came from. Ozpin stood there, his worried expression never leaving his face.
Ciel and the others stood off to the side of a stage, the place where Ozpin would form teams, the student who didn't pass initiation where lining the floor below. All the other teams had been formed and all that was left was Ciel and the group who fought the Hydra.
"Now, before I announce the last two teams a bit of congratulation is in order, if everyone remembered during the test a new Grimm had appeared in the forest, the eight headed beast was attempting to feast on a large quantity of humans that were all gathered in one place, the two teams were caught by this creature and fought it down with their own strength, and with that alone they have my congrats." The small screen had shown clips of different parts from the death struggle Ciel and the others went through not too long ago. "And with that I will now announce the final two teams."
"Coco Adel, Fox Alistair, Velvet Scarlatina, and Yatsuhashi Daichi, for Bringing the four star balls and for showing admiral teamwork and ability to cooperate with little to no knowledge of your opponent, I recognize this team as Team CFVY (Coffee), led By Coco Adel." The crowd cheered at the four named people stepped forward; Coco was eating up the cheer as she blew kisses into the crowd, velvet stood timidly as she was shy from the sudden cheers. Yatsuhashi and Fox stood there with smiles on their faces; the screen had shown different parts of the fight that were these four, even the part with Fox saving Ciel from his death.
Ciel smiled as Team CFVY was formed, looking at the three girls around him as they also had bright smiles beaming back at him. Team CFVY walked off stage as the screen began playing parts of the same fight but including the last four people they took it as their cue to walk out.
"Ciel Kanashimi, Olivia Sequoia, Lavender Ryu, and Raine Ryu, for bringing back the seven star balls and also showing off remarkable teamwork along with quick think and action skills I recognize this team as Team COLR (Cooler) Led by Ciel Kanashimi." The crowd went wild as they watch Ciel hurl Olivia into the air before she fired her Railgun off into the Hydra. Ciel stood dumbfounded at being named leader. Olivia was also shying from the abundance of attention her gun form was getting her. Lavender and Raine were both giving peace signs to the crowd.
Ozpin saw the dumbfounded look Ciel gave him and only chuckled as he walked towards him. "You showed great command work under all the stress, if it wasn't for you, no one would have lived past the first strike, and for that I will whole heartily stand by my choice to appoint you as team leader. I expect great things from you Mr. Kanashimi." Ciel blinked a few times before mock saluting the Headmaster. Ozpin gave him on last smile as he turned to leave the stage, the crowd dispersing as the five teams leave to find their rooms.
Team COLR and CFVY both found their rooms to be right across from each other, with quick goodnights they entered their rooms and all proceeded to crash on their beds, Raine didn't make it and fell asleep on the floor with lavender trying to drag her only to give up and leave her at the foot of the bed.
Ciel rolled over as he heard his scroll buzzed; after his eyes adjust to the light he saw it was a message from Ozpin.
I forgot to mention that I sent a full video of your fight to Ms. Cynthia.
Needless to say Ciel was wide awake with fear for the rest of the night; he was in for a long school year.