Hello everybody,
This is my first story and chapter on fanfiction! Writing has always interested me greatly and I felt inspired as I read some RWBY fanfiction, what made me write this story.
It's nowhere near as done, and please note that English is not my mother language.
Anyhow, I won't waste your time any longer, so please enjoy the first chapter of The Beast!
2/11/2014: Rewrote bits of this chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY.
The Beast Chapter 1: A hunter and its prey
The corridors of Beacon were only illuminated by the moon, It was shining through the large windows which were located at both ends of the long hallway. The space in between existed of darkness and doors.
Night had fallen over the school, and the only thing that could be heard was the howling wind outside, it was storming that night. The rain was pouring down and the corridor was engulfed with the light of a lightning strike for a few seconds.
Suddenly something broke through the wall of silence, a noise that sounded like an animal, looking for its prey.
The thing was moving against the wall, trying not to be spotted by potential students who had to take a walk at night. It sounded ridiculous, but the thing wasn't taking any chances.
While moving from door to door, it was listening what was going on inside the rooms. Most of the rooms were wrapped in silence, but sometimes the thing could hear voices of people chatting, arguing and giggling. It finally stopped at a door that looked somehow familiar, like it had been there before. Holding its ear against the wood, it listened.
"Shoot, I just remembered I forgot my drawings in the classroom!" a girl yelled.
Another answered sleepy: "Don't you dare go and get them now, it's almost 1 à clock." She sounded older than the first girl.
"But I don't want anyone to find theeeem!"
"Plus I am still mad at you."
The girl grumbled: "Alright, maybe I did go a bit overboard, but you deserved it."
The other girl sounded falsely hurt: "Oh, did I?"
Another voice interrupted the argument: "Can you please shut up for one moment you two! I'm trying to sleep!"
Ignoring the remark the second voice asked: "Can you believe she wants to go inside the school at this time to get her stupid drawings?"
"Hey, they are not stupid, I put hard work into those!"
The second girl bit back: "How the heck would I know, you never let me see them!"
"That is because they are not finished, and even if they were, I wouldn't show them to you!" the younger girl stated.
The older one spoke with a mysterious undertone: "Oooh, is that so? Do you have some secrets hmm? Dark secrets? Or even dirtier..."
The younger girl sounded baffled: "Wha-What? NO!"
The third girl yelled: "I SAID SHUT UP!" before sighing. "I don't care if she gets them or not , if you two would just stop nagging already."
"You just stay here and get them tomorrow, it's raining outside" the second girl stated, "Hey, where the hell did she go?!" She sighed. "Why do I even try…"
The thing could hear footsteps coming towards the door at an alarming rate, it quickly jumped out of the way before the door slammed open and the younger girl ran towards the exit of the dorm.
This was its chance, it crept behind the sprinting girl, destined to not lose her out of its sight.
The girl was running as fast as she could, and boy could she run. She was enjoying the cold breeze of the night, however she wasn't aware of the typhoon outside. She opened the big doors to the courtyard. It was freezing cold outside, she felt herself tightening her arms to her chest and shuddered. The girl shrieked as she suddenly caught by a rain storm, so she doubled her pace, sprinting over the courtyard and past some statues of past hunters and huntresses.
'Off course it's raining, why wouldn't it? Should have taken a jacket with me' she thought.
The girl jumped out of surprise and fear as a lighting strike hit one of the lighting rods of the academy. She thought she saw a shadow on the other side of the courtyard so she rubbed the rain out of her eyes and looked again. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, so she decided she was imagining things.
Sneaking into the main school building, she noticed it was a lot warmer inside. She stood in the main hall, there were multiple corridors leading out of the room and a big staircase that led to the first floor.
'Thank god professor Ozpin has installed a good heating system…' she sighed in relief while wringing the water out of her hair. 'Now where was professor Port's classroom again?' At night the building looked so different on the inside.
She thought she heard something, she stopped and listened. 'Strange, I thought I heard some banging noise in the distance…' She stood there for about a minute and decided it was nothing. What she didn't notice was that the door where she had come from opened and closed quickly.
She ran up the stairs and came at a fork in the corridors.
'Was it left or right?' she asked herself. She smiled before answered herself: 'Always go left.' . Minutes ticked away as she ran through the empty corridors while trying to read the signs on the doors. When she passed some paintings, one was of Beacon a few years ago, (there wasn't much difference between then and now, only it had less towers) She swore she had seen them before. 'This must be the right way then!'
She skipped along happily till a thought stopped her like she ran into a brick wall.
'I know where I saw that painting before… I just passed it like two minutes ago!' She smacked herself against her head as she realized she was running in a circle the entire time! 'Always go left-rule, you lied to me! Why?!' Out of frustration, she began to mumble "Stupid hallways with their stupid turns, I don't recognize anything because it's so damn dark…" She blushed, cursing wasn't really her thing.
Like it was her last hope, she decided to turn right at the end and she stepped into a very familiar hallway.
'Aaah yes, here it is!' she thought as she stepped into the classroom. The classroom was like an auditorium, the desks stood in a half circle around the blackboard and stood on a slope. It weren't really tables, but more like one big wooden structure. The girl walked up the stairs toward her seat. 'My drawings should be right… here.'
She squeaked as she saw that her drawings were still there. 'It would be a very embarrassing moment if someone would find them.' She sighed as she put drawings away in her pocket of her belt.
She was about to leave, until she heard something…
The thing followed the girl inside the school, it was getting excited, the expectation of meat made its mouth water.
As the girl entered the classroom, it knew this was it. The only thought it had was blood and flesh, it made its vision red and its heartbeat rose in excitement. The predator was preparing to jump its prey. When the girl turned around, it knew she had seen it, So it quickly leaped forward and upward out of her vision and landed in front of her.
It could see the sudden fear washing over the girl's face, making it even more eager to kill her. Fear was its weapon.
The girl quickly turned around as she saw something in the classroom, it was the same shadow from before! 'So I wasn't seeing things!' She was about to grab her weapon, but she remembered it was still in the armory! She looked back to the shadow, but it was gone. The next moment it appeared in front of her, she was confused.
"How did you…"
As she stared into those burning red eyes, filled with blood lust, her knees began to weaken. The thing hissed: "Kill her, rip out her throat..." She was scared, she had never felt this scared before in her life! Her instincts let her roll away from her invader, but it was too late.
Before she had even time to react or scream for help, she felt herself knocked against a wall. A loud breaking noise sounded in the room as she hit her head on it.
The thing growled victoriously and loomed over its prey as she fell unconscious…
If you liked the first chapter (which I hope you did) and even if you didn't I would appreciate I you reviewed for feedback, so I can become a better writer in the future!
Next chapter will be less dark, just giving you a heads up!
See you in the next chapter (hopefully)!
DragonSlayer out!