Prologue
Well this is awkward, but I best explained how exactly I ended up getting stuck fighting endless hordes of Grimm, with two short swords, a bow and a spiked shield as my only weapons... Then again, I think I'll let my old vessel do all the work after a certain point... Anyways let me start from the beginning...
It was a quiet morning, myself and my friend Morgan were sat in a café, it was about 7 AM, we were going to an anime and comic convention. We had decided to go as a couple of video game characters, I was dressed like Nero from Devil May Cry 4, Devil Bringer and everything. Morgan on the other hand was dressed like Sephiroth from Final Fantasy, to be fair I still have PTSD from the fucker when I played to first Kingdom Hearts game and he was a secret boss...
Anyways we were sat there enjoying from fresh tea, mine full of sugar to satisfy my sweet tooth.
I tuned out of the world and lost myself in my imagination, Morgan could probably see that I was tuning out as people would notice my eyes glazing over as if they were fake glass eyes. My imagination took me deep into my own waking dreams, pitting me in the shoes of random video game characters, like Kratos from God of War 3 or Sly Cooper, or Garcia "fucking" Hotspur from Shadows of the Damned, god I loved playing that game.
My daydreams were broken when I heard the bell from the above the door ring actually making me jolt back into the real world, Morgan nearly spat out his drink when I nearly punched him square in the jaw. I gave a soft sigh calming myself down, I turned to see the person who walked into the room and my blood ran cold.
I saw familiar red and black clothes, armour and... the sword...
I grabbed a tight hold on Morgan and grabbed my bags, he instinctively grabbed his and we ran. I didn't dare look back. The warm summer air filled my lungs as my legs pumped harder and harder with each step I took. We rand for a good five minutes before ducking down into an alley, I panted hard collapsing to my knees, lifting my head I stared into the beady red eyes of the raven that landed before me.
"You bitch." Was all I could spit before we fell, the burning red and black portal swallowing the both of us.
Chapter 1
As we fell through the portal my body felt like it was engulfed in flames, everything just burned I could feel myself sweating profusely which only added to the pain as the salty sweat ran down my blistering skin. I wanted to scream but when I tried to breathe in order just to utter the noise the flames entered my lung so I just held what little air I got with the flames, gritting my teeth as I felt the flesh on my arm melt and solidify again.
Saying that I was terrified would be an understatement even now thinking of the pain is bringing the feeling back, feeling my whole anatomy change was a strange feeling one that words would never be able to describe any more than a fuzzy, warm feeling
Luckily when the world of black and red finally opened, the cold air hit me like a truck and soothed my burns, I closed my eyes and smiled feeling cold air fill my lungs I then snapped them back open and saw red leaves falling around me, I sat up and stretched. Getting to my feet I looked around myself and saw Morgan climbing a tree. He was wearing a dark red jacket, a pair of black jeans and boots, he wore a belt with several ice blue coloured crystals hanging from small golden chains.
On the back of his jacket was what looked to be an ancient symbol for the sun, the rays depicted as impressive wisps like smoke or sharp points, the centre was more shaped of the eye of a feline, probably some big cat.
"Morgan, you alright?" I asked walking towards the tree.
"Yeah, I'm good I saw some apples up here though, I'm starving." He laughed I however was distracted by the fact he had a long ice blue tail with darker blue stripes attached to his back, his hair being the same icy colour.
"Umm…you have a tail." I said he turned to look at me I then saw the blue stripes on his face and his gaze held that of a tiger.
"And tiger stripes… And your hair is icy blue!" I pointed out.
"Your hair is silver and you have wolf ears…" I instantly pulled some of my hair in front of my eyes and saw that indeed it was silver in colour, I reached my hands up further and felt a large soft ear with flinched at my touch at first but soon I found that I enjoyed the sensation of something petting these new additions to my form.
My ear flicked around and I heard a river, my throat was parched so I went to look for some clean water to drink. The moon above me was glowing white but was shattered like glass.
I soon found the river and drank greedily from the fast-flowing river now that my throat was no longer burning I walked back to Ice to find him carefully bringing down some apples for us to munch on, and right on que my stomach growled loudly.
We sat there for about five minutes practically inhaling each apple we chewed through. I raised my head when I heard something step on a twig I was instantly up on my feet and listening. I closed my eyes and waited… I didn't have to wait for long.
The Beowolf leapt out at me I jumped over the swipe and kicked it in the head sending it flying. Okay this was not my body, I could never do anything like this back home. The Beowolf came running back but I was ready I ducked under one swipe and blocked the other with my right arm. I jabbed at its head with my left, I then noticed the dark leather gauntlet I wore that reminded me of the nightingale gloves from Skyrim only with some sort of retractable claw mechanic attached to the back. I raised my fist and the claws shot forward, four long glittering silver claws ready to rip and tear through flesh and bone.
The claws slashed through the Beowolf's neck the creature fell limp onto the ground the body soon disintegrating into nothing but black smoke.
"Okay this maybe the best mess we've got ourselves into." I smirked as the claws retracted again, I then looked over what I was wearing, with my Nero costume gone I had donned a black hoodie with no sleeves, my right arm was fully bandaged up to just above my elbow…weird… I had what looked to be a Beowolf Grimm mask as a shoulder guard for my left shoulder, and a Nevermore mask on my right knee, I wore a pair of black torn jeans much like the pair I loved to wear the most back home, with a silver studded belt that had a cross section attached going across my hips. I wore a pair of black military issued boots.
Looking at my left arm and traced some of the strange runes that decorated the entirety of it, ending at my knuckles, what they meant or how they got there was a complete mystery to me.
I unwrapped my right arm and gasped at the sight of what used to be my FAKE Devil Bringer. My arm had glowing blue veins, the veins looked more like cracks in stone than normal blood vessels. The thick coat of fur, silver in colour and soft to the touch, covered the arm, slightly glowing where it covered the veins, razor sharp claws ended the fingers..
"Well I think I found my main weapon." I chuckled wrapping the arm back up but I knew that hand to hand combat wouldn't be enough I'd have to find a better weapon soon, I turned to Ice and saw that he had raised his fists ready to fight.
"Now this is an interesting wake up call." I joked playfully high fiving him.
"You get all the fun." He laughed we joked for a bit longer while setting up camp near the river I had found. We soon had a fire going after I figured how to use a couple of hollowed out twigs to make fire.
"That will definitely be useful in the future." Morgan smirked as we laid down to get some sleep.
"You know we should probably give ourselves some names that follow the rule that Remnant has." I said as we laid down on our beds of fallen leaves.
"Hmm, well with my colouring I might go with Ice... Ice Skyark." He said looking up at the stars and the shattered moon.
"Cool, I'll go with Silver Charcoal." I told him it took us both a couple of minutes to realise the terrible pun I had unintentionally made, we cringed and groaned before bursting into laughter.
I laid there unable to rest as voices in my head began to whisper little ideas to me, my ears flicked and I growled to myself, the voices silenced themselves.
When I did wake up again I could feel someone gently tap my face I was sat up my back resting against a tree, I slowly opened my eyes and saw a girl about my age with brown eyes, light brown hair and… rabbit ears?
"Coco, she's waking up!" The rabbit girl called over to her friend who looked to be holding a black and gold minigun constantly spinning it around, she turned to the rabbit girl.
"That's great, Fox and Ytsuhashi should be back soon with the professor." She smiled I yawned and stretched I could feel the sun's light on my skin, the welcoming warmth felt good.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" I asked looking her in the eye, she immediately backed down.
"I'm Velvet, what's your name?" She asked.
"My name is Silver."
"To answer your question we were just coming here to do a bit of field training when we saw your camp, how long have you two been out here?" Coco, Velvet's companion, and team leader said putting away her weapon.
I was just about to answer here when another voice called out.
"Miss Adel, Miss Scarletine what happened?" Another voice called I turned my head to see a woman with a purple cape of course it would be Professor Goodwitch.
"We found these two just laying here, they seemed to have spent the night out here." Velvet told her while I was poking Morgan to see if he would wake up, no response… of course…
"They aren't students here but…" Glynda mused as Morgan began to get up
"I'll have to see what Professor Ozpin says about them." She soon left and Morgan finally got his ass up.
"Morning sleeping beauty." I laughed rubbing my hair I kept my back to Coco and Velvet.
"I'm Ice." Ice smiled holding his hand out to shake with them his tiger tail whipping about.
I stomped out the remains of the fire and turned to Velvet.
"So you two just happened to wander on our camp and didn't think to let us sleep?" I growled baring my teeth, Velvet took a step back, Coco moved slightly in front of her.
"We would have been fine on our own, we would have made our way to Vale ourselves." I growled taking a step towards them, I could see Coco was slightly scared of me, even from behind those sunglasses of hers I could see her fear.
"But, with you four here I guess this trip will take a lot less time than I originally thought, so…thanks." I smiled holding out my wrapped-up hand and shook Coco's.
"For a minute, there I thought you were going to attack us." She chuckled I only tightened my grip.
"But we could do with working out this stiffness in our joints, care for a spar?" I smiled Coco smirked when I finally let her hand go.
"Okay, I'll take you Fox you take her friend." She called over her shoulder, Velvet quickly hid behind Ytsuhashi.
"Just so you know," I smirked getting into position, "I'm not going easy." With that I launched myself at her.
She swung her bag at me and I blocked with my Grimm arm and knocked it away, the claws on my gauntlet extended again.
"I should have put Fox against you." She smirked I shrugged and she made a break for her bag quickly switching it into Mini gun form I made a zig-zag pattern to dodge the bullets while also getting closer.
As soon as I was within range I swung my claws at her she lifted her gun and blocked.
"Coco, swap! Fox yelled swinging his wrist blades at me I spun around and blocked his attack Coco immediately began to shoot at Ice who rolled easily out of the way and closed the gap between them in a split second.
Fox and I were very similar when it came to our fighting styles but where Fox had experience I had speed, maybe I'm more like Tyrian then. I then saw an opening and struck out my claws raking his side his blade however slashed at my face, I yelped and fell back I could feel blood run down my face.
Why wasn't my aura activating? I do have aura, right?
I laid there holding my cheek thinking what about what just happened, I do have aura right? Or does it have to be awakened?
"Silver are you okay?" Ice asked coming to my side.
"She doesn't produce aura…that's not normal." Fox said staring at the blood on his blade I just laid there and slowly moved my hand from my face and saw the blood on my hand.
"We should let Ozpin take a look at this" Coco turned to her team and then turned to look at us.
I had heard the words but never paid much attention as the blood continued to drool down my face and neck, I was continuously wiping it away but it just kept coming.
"We will come along with you if this "Ozpin" can fix the issue we are having here." Ice said to Coco's team, picking me up by my arm and dragging me along.
Velvet had stopped us in our tracks and had me sit down as she patched me up. We were walking around in Vale my eyes wandered about taking in street names and little landmarks so I could map out the area in my head. The runes began to itch...
"Coco...are you sure it's ok to bring them along? Velvet asked Coco.
"They don't seem dangerous anymore, they are less aggressive than they were earlier." Coco stated.
My eyes continued to roam around, landing on a Blacksmiths, then a bakery and a dust shop right next door.
My attention was soon brought back to the present by Ice pointing out Beacon Tower to me. We've got one shot at this, ONE shot to get this right... And here I am doubting I'll be able to do much here...
Author notes...
Wolf: Shit...
Tiger: Yep
Wolf: I'm an idiot
Tiger: your words, not mine
Wolf: Dear readers, I'm sorry for the reuploading shit but I've had to change a lot of details, namely Silver's arm, which yes is no longer a direct reference to Devil may cry 4, but instead is similar to the arms of Fenrir from Smite, just because I love the design and those arms would be easier to hide from public eye. Due to this however I have given myself a lot of work that needs to be completed before Volume 6 airs, meaning that I have five volumes and extra chapters to go through and edit before it airs, luckily for me that I've finished college for the year and have a long summer to do work during, however this means I may try to pull off all-nighters to get the work done, I hope you can understand ~ Wolf
Tiger: Nice
Wolf: Thank You! :3
