Chapter 1: No Place Like Home

Kage Okami was a controversial figure since day one.

His father; a human and retired huntsman

His mother; a Faunus.

Two star-crossed lovers whose affection was forbidden by the whole town even the ones they love. Humans were the majority in the small town of Turnpike. The mayor was human, judges were human and the police were human. Any kind of authority in Turnpike was human and being a Faunus during that time was very difficult, humans saw them as lesser beings and discrimination was very apparent.

News spreads fast in Turnpike and when they caught word that a Faunus was having a baby by a human let alone by a respected former huntsman a near riot ensued. They chased the "happy" couple out of their beloved town with pitchforks and torches and they had to take refuge in small hut in the middle of nowhere, any kind of communication with the outside world was a good few hours away. Little did they know that this is where they would spend the rest of their life.

Kage's upbringing was less than perfect, isolated from everything a normal child would have. His only stroke of luck being the fact that he's male thus not inheriting his mother's Faunus features like ears and a tail so he was able to attend school and blend in with all the other kids and not be picked on for being a Faunus. Not that he made friends or anything but he got a decent education and that's what's important. Things were going pretty okay for a family in hiding and wanted dead. That Is until a revolution reared its ugly head .

The Faunus were sick and tired of being treated as second class citizens and began standing up for themselves, letting themselves become known through peaceful protests and non-violent acts. Kage's mother was delighted to hear this news and with the approval of her other half she went incognito and joined The White Fang; A signal of hope, a beacon of light. Maybe, just maybe what the Faunus men and women need to be treated equal.

All their efforts were to no avail. Nothing changed. They were still being looked down upon, even more so now. After years of peace rallies and the boycotting of companies that discriminated against them in any way, the leader of The White Fang stepped down and was replaced by a figure who didn't exactly agree with the previous leader's choices and leadership skills.

Peaceful civil rights rallies were replaced with organised attacks against anyone that didn't share their views, did them wrong or simply stood in their way. Everything that The White Fang once stood for is dead and buried along with many humans.

Despite their bad reputation nobody could deny that The White Fang's new attitude was effective. Faunus men, women and children were given equal rights and nobody was looking down on them anymore, in fact it was quite the opposite. Humans were scared, plain and simple and this new found power only made them more out of control. There were two sides to The White Fang. One handled the complicated business like strategically sticking it to the Schnee Dust Company, organising big heists and acts of terrorism and there were the anarchists, setting fire to and destroying anything and everything anything in sight. Destroying whole buildings and causing chaos wherever they may roam.

Unfortunately Kage's mother was an anarchist. Using her Faunus agility and animalistic instincts she was one of the most wanted women in the country. She wasn't there for her family. Her brothers and sisters came first and that tore the family apart. Kage's mother would come home in the early hours of the morning battered, bruised and bloody. The man that she supposedly loved couldn't look at her the same. She was arrested more times than he could count and what was once a beautiful woman was covered in cuts and scars, spitting blood every day. Kage's father was sure a civil war between the humans and the Faunus would break out at any given moment so he protected Kage the only way he knew how. With training.

For five years while Faunus and human kind were battling to the death, Kage and his father were training vigorously while his mother was causing chaos. He was a natural. The way of the huntsman was in his blood, it was encoded in his DNA and combined with the Faunus agility, reflexes and awareness that he inherited from his mother he was quickly becoming the most talented warrior his father had ever seen. He was in awe of his own son. He was like nothing he's ever seen before and was most certainly a proud father.

Then on the day of his fifteenth birthday. His world was turned upside down forever.

Kage's father had been waiting patiently for his wife to return, she even set an exact time. 6pm, it was now 10 and still nothing. Kage and his father were sat in the middle of a room lit only by the birthday candle in Kage's cake which soon went out. Kage's father sighed and handed him a present that he had been working on for a while. Just then Kage's mother exploded through the door along with 5 other members of The White Fang. The sound of heavy footsteps, guns and cars soon followed. The place that the Okami's called home was surrounded. Kage's father asked the mother of his child what was going on and why one of her "Brothers" was carrying a large metal crate. She avoided the questions like the plague and told her partner in crime to put it in the kitchen out of sight. Tensions were rising as Kage's dad asked the woman of her dreams to turn herself in and end the madness while The White Fang protested but before things escalated any further, the door was blown off its hinges and in came a heavily armoured tactical force team. Before Kage's parents told their son to hide he had already made a B-line for the nearest exit. Which happened to be the kitchen widow. Clutching his present and the metal crate, Kage shot out of the window and was already out of sight before the police surrounding the back door even knew what had happened. He ran and he didn't stop, even when he heard gunfire he kept running and didn't look back. He didn't want to know who died back there.

Many hours passed and the sun was beginning to rise. Kage was exhausted, confused and lonely but he didn't stop moving. He didn't care where he went just as long as it had people. Soon enough he found town. It was beautiful. He stuck to the shadows and tried to find a place to sleep. He soon found an abandoned factory. He didn't know what they made but there were plenty of places to hide. He took refuge in the dusty head office on the top floor and set his present and the metal crate (Which he still didn't know the contents of) and set them down underneath the broken desk. Kage slowly peered through the gap in the boarded up window and saw the police chasing what appeared to a Faunus carrying a box of apples. He could hear him laughing as he escaped the police and set himself on a rooftop. Taking the first bite of many apples. Kage smiled for the first time in a while as he could see both the mysterious, shirt wearing Faunus and the police hopelessly looking for him.

He stepped away from the window and sat himself down on the dusty chair and slept waiting for inevitable nightmares about the events which transpired earlier.

(Editor note: There will be dialouge in the next chapter. I wanted to sort of narrate his introduction so you have a better understanding of his backstory before you find out what kind of person he is)