"Time for bed little guy!" my dad says running up to the 7-year-old version of myself. "Go get ready and I'll have mommy come sing you the lullaby when you're in bed." I walked up the stairs that led to my room in little shorts and a shirt that said My dad is marines for a reason. My mom was in the kitchen washing the dishes while my dad was cleaning out his favorite rifle. After a few minutes I get my teeth brushed and I head to bed right before my mom walks in.
"Hey Marla, the base called and said they need me to help with a Beowulf infestation at the east gates. I'll be right back!" I heard the door close and then my mom turned back around to me.
"Which song would you like tonight?"
"Red!"
"Okay,
Red like roses fills my dreams and brings me to the place you rest.
White is cold and always yearning, burdened by a royal test
Black the beast descends from shadows
Yellow beauty burns gold"
By the end of the song my moms amazing voice had me asleep and she walked back downstairs.
Later that night
Ring ring, "Grimm residents how may I help you?" my mom answers the phone. "This is she, what seems to be wrong. WHAT? Yes thank you for calling"
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Next morning
"What's wrong mommy? Is daddy back yet?" I ask looking at my crying mother who lay on our table shaking from a long night of crying. "Mommy?"
"Brendan, daddy isn't coming home this time. I know you don't understand now but you will when you're older." She stands up and puts a fake smile no for me. "Now go put something nice on, we have some where important to be later."
10 years later to the day
"Brendan! Wake up you're gonna be late for the plane to Beacon! Your cousins will be waiting for you there. Hurry up and get dressed." My mom yells up the stairs. I groggily get up and look at myself in the mirror.
"Yup, just as good looking as ever." I jump into the shower making sure it's cold so that it really wakes me up. I get out and slip on my usual black tee shirt, strapping my machete sheath and pistol holster on over while walking over to my table and picking them up. "Morning Winlen, morning Eld." I say as I slip Winlen into its sheath and Eld into the holster. I then head back upstairs and put on my dads old dog tags and my red jacket that I slip over everything else. I slip on a belt for my loose dark blue jeans and right as I'm about to head out the door I slip on some black and white Nike running shoes.
"Your father would be so proud of you." My mom whispers as I hug her goodbye. "Now hurry up, you know how Garnet and Ruby can get if you keep them waiting."
"Bye mom" I say pulling open the door. "Don't worry about the you know, I'll be able to keep it under control."
"I know you can, doesn't mean I can't worry." I walk out the door and look at my watch CRAP! The plane leaves in 5 minutes! I start sprinting towards the air port. The air port is about ten minutes from my house at a walk so it was fairly easy to get there on time once I start to use a little bit of my aura to take for a few shortcuts. Just like my cousin my aura has little to no healing properties but is very affective in the sense that it allows me to read peoples emotions and also feel when danger is coming, which comes really handy in battle.
Here's a little bit of family history. When my great-great-grandfather was fighting in the war he killed an Ursa whose blood spilled into an open wound on his left forearm. Since then my dads side of the family has had a few issues with keeping our anger and strength in check but I don't really care because I got it under control at a young age but I still have a lot of pent up energy that I use to help my endurance. The down side is that at times my skin will turn pitch black and I lose almost all control.
That's enough of the sad stuff, I can see yang from here. Where are Ruby and Garnet? I run up to Yang and she kind of hits me on the head and drags me inside saying that she had to make the pilot wait.
"Your watch must be slow, come on! Garnet has been waiting for awhile just chilling out in there all gloomy." Sure enough when I walk in Garnet was already asleep. He and Ruby were twins from my moms side of the family. He looked a lot like her still but he refuses to believe it. He was wearing a red tee with his black hoodie and shorts that matched perfectly. His dual katanas Red Raven and Gale Force were strapped to his side and looked sharp enough to slice me in half with the tip.
"Hey Brendan!" Ruby says running up to me and giving me a hug. "How's your mom doing, I mean it is the day your dad died right?"
"She's actually doing pretty well. Do you have a blade sharpener on you? I forgot to use mine on Winlen before I left the house this morning." I pull out my machete.
"Seems sharp enough to me, didn't you make that out of tungsten? That is for a fact the toughest metal on all of the Earth, what did you do to make it need sharpened?" Ruby asks me pulling one out of her pocket. It was pretty rough but I knew that just means she got done sharpening Crescent Rose recently. I sit down and explain that I went out and killed an entire pack Beowulf's last night in honor of my dad. Our family does not have the best luck with those things.
"Look you can see Signal from up here! Guess we're not far from after all." Ruby walks up to the glass wall and starts to peer out. Garnet slightly stirred at the sound of Ruby's excitement.
"Beacon's our home now" Yang said walking up and putting her arm around Ruby.
What's up wild people? Thank you for joining me on this brand new story! This is just the intro so expect a lot more! Lots of thanks goes out to Ventusblade for giving me a little inspiration before writing this! Go check out his story called Garnet Rose: Another Side right after this. Leave a review if you can and I'll see you next time. IT'S A WATER MALONE INSIDE A WATER MALONE! AAAHHHHHH!