'Thoughts'
"Speech"
The sound of cheerful laughter filled the streets as a pair of young teens, one with short, spikey, firey orange hair and the other a pale blue with basically the same style but more wild, both of them sporting what looked to be animal ears, raced through a market.
"Hey you brats! Watch where you're going!" Yelled the merchants as the boys ran past their stalls. "Ah! My merchandise" shouted one of them as one of the boys crashed into the stalls.
"Hahahahah! You're so~~~~ slow Storm!" shouted the orange haired one as he laughed at his friends mishaps his voice was cheerful, as if it represented a carefree yet responsible personality. He was wearing a one sleeve black coat with an orange trim the, coat had a high collar that reached his jawline, his coat reached down to his knees and instead of having buttons or a belt his had a zip that started at his core which made the lower bit, which seemed to have a bit cut out of it as it was split as it hung loose. The coat's zipper was left open a little at the top and it revealed a simple dark grey V-neck shirt, a small part of a black pocket could be seen as the coat covered the rest of it. He was wearing gray combat pants that were the same shade as his shirt. They were tucked into black hi-top chucks with orange laces. He had a pair of sheathed swords on his back that were placed parallel to each other, the sheaths seemed to be attached to the coat itself as there were no straps holding them in place. And the final piece of clothing that could be seen was a red band on his sleeveless arm that seemed to hold two spherical golden bells that jingled as he moved around. He had piercing yet warm orange eyes that were the same bright orange as his hair. He looked around 5'10. His hair was short and spiky with a few bangs that formed at the centre of his head that didn't make contact with the rest of his forehead. They rested just to the side of his right eye. (Look at the cover photo if you can't imagine it..the left one.)
The pale haired teen picked himself up and brushed himself off as he turned to his friend his calm blue eyes staring at him. "I think you've just got too much energy, Flare." His voice was calm, as if representing an intelligent yet fun loving personality. Storm was wearing much more different clothing than Flare. It was much more simple as all of consisted of was a sky blue tank top with one pocket on the left that was colored dark blue. He wore a white Mandarin collared leather jacket that had sleeves that stopped just before his elbows. This was because of what was occupying his forearms which were two pairs of gauntlets of light gray leather vambraces which seemed to act as sheaths for short swords. For pants he wore almost the exact same thing as Flare but his had extra pockets and were a light shade of gray. He also had a black and gold belt wrapped around his waist. And his footwear consisted of dark grey combat boots. Storm had a large rectangular contraption attached where his tailbone was via a strap on one side of it that ran diagonally across his torso and looped around and then connected to the other side. Storm was wearing silver dog tags as the final piece of his outfit. Storm stood at 5'9 making him only an inch shorter than his friend. He too had short spiky hair but it was well kept...kind of. He had multiple bangs in centre of his hair that went past his eyebrows and rested on the bridge of his nose. (Once again check the cover photo...the right one)
Flare stopped and turned around to face Storm. "Well yeah, it's not like we could make it to the airship on time if we didn't hurry. Speaking of which" Flare grabbed Storm's wrist "Let's gooooo!" He shouted as he grinned whilst Storm's face paled.
Flare ran as he kicked up a cloud of dust leaving all the merchants coughing or waving a hand in front of them. "Oi….I….don't….like….this." Said Storm as his body flailed about.
Flare just laughed like a maniac as he continued to run. That is until they got to the appointed location and found a large airship with a few people that appeared to be around their age boarding the ship.
Flare came to a grinding halt, letting go of Storm's wrist in the process causing his face to scrape across the asphalt. Flare admired the ship as his eyes widened in astonishment. "Woah….it's huge" his eyes sparkled as Storm picked himself back up.
"*cough* *cough* that's what she said. Thanks by the way" said storm as he shot a glare towards his friend who held his hands up defensively as a cheeky grin formed on his face. Storm just sighed. "You comin' or what?" He said as he walked towards the ramp. Flare smirked. "Wouldn't miss it for the world" he replied as he jogged up to Storm's side.
Storm smirked at him. "Definitely too much energy" he said as he shook his head. Flare feigned being insulted as he put a hand over his chest. "*gasp* how could you be so cruel?" He then buried his eyes between his elbow as he fake cried but still continued to walk.
"Oh ha ha. Just hurry up and get on the ship." Said Storm as he walked up the ramp and inside the aircraft. "Yeah yeah whatever." Replied Flare as he soon followed suit.
Once onboard the pair were immediately greeted by a small number of teens all of which were carrying some sort of weapon or contraption much like they were. "So I'm guessing these guys are heading to the same place we are?" Questioned Flare as he observed his surroundings. "That's pretty cool."
Storm mimicked Flare's actions though it looked more like he was sizing up a potential enemy. "Attention all passengers, please prepare for lift off." Came a voice on a intercom.
Storm walked up to Flare and placed a hand firmly on his shoulder. "Well buddy it looks like our journey has began at last." He said as he flashed a toothy grin to Flare. "Yeah, finally we're gonna be hunters." Said Flare as he stared out the window for a bit.
Flare then turned back to Storm. "No, we're going to be the best hunters!" Declared Flare enthusiastically as he flashed a wide toothy grin as he had his eyes closed. "Let's work hard Storm"
"Yeah." Storm gave Flare a pat on his shoulder and then released it. "Listen I heard that hunters usually form teams of four." Flare opened his eyes and his grin went down to a smirk as he raised an eyebrow. "So what are you implying?" Storm began to walk away with his back facing Flare. "I'm implying that you should meet some people. Well bye!" And with a quick wave he had disappeared into the crowd.
Flare reached his hand out to Storm. "Hey wait! *sigh* whatever." Flare then moved his outstretched hand to his chin, resting it between his thumb and index finger. "I guess he does have a point. But who am I supposed to talk to?" He asked himself as he looked around.
His eyes then fell upon a girl standing by a window alone. She had long straight brown hair she was wearing what looked to him to be a black shirt underneath a dark brown long sleeved jacket that came down around her chest. She was also wearing black form-fitting jeans underneath dark brown shorts. She was also wearing light brown shoulder pads and vambraces. Her most noticeable feature however were her brown bunny ears.
'Hmmm.' Flare thought as he gazed at her. 'Easy on the eyes and a Faunus? Reminds me of a certain someone.' Flare chuckled at his own joke which made people stare at him. He ignored it and just made his way over to the window.
He took a spot right next to her. She didn't move which meant, to Flare at least, either she didn't notice or didn't mind. Flare decided to speak up to see what the answer was.
"Nice view huh?" He said as he cast a glance at her. It was a nice view they had made quite a bit of progress on their journey already, countless trees were beneath them and traces of clouds could be seen from where they were looking.
The girl then looked at him and then looked around before pointing at herself. "I'm sorry were you talking to me?" Flare stared for a little at the girl her large brown orbs seeming to capture all the attention and her accent only seemed to make her more attractive to Flare.
"Hello?" She asked as she tilted her head at him. "Huh? Oh sorry I was just thinking...about birds….ha ha hahaha" said Flare as he scratched the back of his head. 'Wow real smooth Flare the panties are dropping already. Wait what? What am I saying? Er thinking? What the hell?! Mmmmm but that British accent though, wait what the hell is British? Am I making things up? Am I going crazy? No, no way I just gotta calm down and take a deep breath.'
Flare did just that as the girl looked at him confused. "Sorry I'm not really a people person but my pal ditched me and told me to meet some people and you looked...interesting? So here I am." Flare was questioning whether or not he had said something stupid as the girl just stared at him blankly.
"I'm interesting?" She asked her tone full of curiosity. "How?" Flare just looked at her and then pointed to her ears. She got a bit defensive about that and started to back away until Flare made the gesture to stop fortunately she did. 'Oh yeah! I'm so good at this.' He thought as he then pointed to his ears, well his animal ones.
The girl made an 'o' shape with her mouth as she realized what he was implying. "Your a Faunus too" she said sounding quite happy surprisingly. "Yeah I'm a fox Faunus and I can kind of guess what yours is already" he said as he chuckled while having his eyes closed with his hands behind his head and a wide toothy grin on his face.
*click* Flare opened one eye at the sound of a camera click to reveal the girl holding a camera in her two hands as she aimed it at him. The girl slowly lowered her camera and gave Flare a small smile which he returned.
"Is taking photo's of strangers a hobby of yours?" Teased Flare which made the girl pout. 'Gah she's cute! Wait! No you just met her! You're not allowed to have those thoughts…..yet' thought Flare as his eyebrows furrowed. And it seemed that the girl took notice of it as she asked him. "Is something wrong?"
And once again Flare was caught off guard. "Ah! Sorry *sigh* you know what let's start over" said Flare as he looked at the girl in front of him. She giggled a little and then nodded her head.
Flare grinned as he clapped his hands together. "Great! So first things first I guess. My name's Flare. Full name Eiro Kitsune Flare." He then held out his hand and grinned. "Nice to meet ya"
The girl smiled as she grabbed the hand with her own. "My name is Velvet Scarlatina and the pleasures all mine." The two stood there smiling before letting go and starting to get to know each other better. Though they didn't make much progress. As a hologram of a blonde woman appeared on the screens of the airship.
"Hello and welcome to beacon" said the woman. Flare and Velvet both looked over at the hologram upon hearing her speak. "My name is Glynda Goodwitch. You are among a privileged few who have received the honor to attend this prestigious academy."
Flare chuckled. "Oh that makes me feel so~~ special." He stated in an amused tone which made Velvet giggle a little.
"Our world is experiencing an incredible time of peace." The woman continued. "And as future huntsman and huntresses it is your duty to uphold it. You have demonstrated the courage needed for such a task. And now it is our turn to provide you with the knowledge and the training to protect our world."
A determined grin formed on Flare's face as the holographic image disappeared. Most of the students including Velvet went over to the window as they looked at the surroundings. "Look you can see signal from here." Said one girl in particular who wore a red coat with a black combat skirt under a corset.
'Signal huh?' Flare smirked. 'Just you wait Qrow I'll catch up to you in no time.' His thoughts were cut off as a blonde haired boy wearing white armor, blue jeans passed him looking like he was about to throw up. 'Poor guy he thought.
Unfortunately a pair of girls didn't seem to have the same mindset as one started to freak out over some of the puke getting on her shoes. "Gross, gross, gross, gross." She said as the other kept telling her to get away from her.