"Wakeeeyyy Wakeeyyy Rise and Shine"

"Buzz off" He grumpily put a pillow over his head, his muffled voice continued, "its a saturday... just 15 more minutes"

"Come on... someone on the phone's looking for you Mr. Excall, you'd really love to meet him..." the sweet voice of the girl chirped again, she shook him lightly now.

"I said go away..." The sleeping handsome threw a pillow at his sister, She sighed now.

"I really don't want to do this..." When she finished she climbed onto his bed and started to bounce up and down. The next thing he knew, her full weight came crashing down on him as her feet pressed again his stomach over and over again, all the while yelling, "WAKE UP TERRA EXCALL YOU LITTLE SHITHEAD". He jerked up from his slumber and pushed her energetic form off him, "OKAY OKAY I'M AWAKE" He returned and sighed before continuing, "What'd you want Elise?" He grumbled, groaning slightly as he rubbed his stomach. His free hand met with the plastic of the case of her mobile phone, Elise replied, "Hear for yourself" she smirked and excitedly ran out of the room. Terra pressed the phone to his ear and reluctantly answered.

"Hello? What?"

"..."

"Okay..."

"..."

"Alright sure thank you will be right there, bye". His smooth fingers ran over and flicked the "End Call" button on the phone while he tried to figure out who the familiar voice was on the other end of the line. He stoned on his blanket for a full minute before his eyes widened and he jumped out of the mess that was his bed, making his away down hastily to the living room to meet his sister. Elise had a satisfied smile on her face, she asked her clearly elated brother, "So? What'd he say?"

"Mis-Mister Ozpin Invited us over to study at his school! There's no time to waste, go pack your bags we need to be there by 12am!"

With that they ran to their respective rooms. The look of pleasant surprise on his face would have been priceless if seen by anyone else, he had never been this happy since he left his home in search of...his own path. Clumsily, he threw clothing after clothing into his first luggage and filled the second one wtih his personal belongings, his Saxophone, his playing cards and most importantly, his weapon Amor Et Pacis. He ran his fingers from its metal barrel to its wooden finish, the sub machine gun cum revolvers cum tonfa cum sword were the product of his sweat and blood, of countless nights of insomnia. Now all he wanted was his Father's approval, for his Parents to know that a ranged weapon is not a coward's weapon. His grip tightened around its drum magazine. "I'll make you proud... dad..." He mumbled and with a smile, put his weapon into his second luggage and began to drag it downstairs, only to be stopped by Elise's figure at his door.

"Done?" She questioned, holding her green backpack on her left hand and her bow on her right shoulder.

"Yup! Dear god I can't believe it, Elise and Terra going to Beacon? I thought that would just remain a dream in our heads"

Elise giggled and pointed at his abdomen, "Well then you'd better get some pants on, don't want to be talking to a half-naked famous Earth bender in Beacon now do I?"

Terra's gaze fell to his toned body, He admitted he looked pretty freaking attractive.

"Pfft please... like you haven't seen me naked before." Terra snapped back with a smirk.

Elise rolled her eyes and pointed at her exposed abs in her studded-leather hunter armor.

"Mines still bigger" Terra replied half-jokingly. Elise raised her hands in an "Ok, you win" fashion and exited his room so her sworn-brother could change. Terra shook his head, his smile unbreaking as he put on his black vest over a white shirt and long pants, finished with green stripes running downwards. Hastily throwing on his caramel jacket and signature green hat with a fireball design at the back, he made his way out of his oversized tree-home and followed suit his sister who was jumping from tree to tree trying to make her way to the road.

"Hey! No fair!" Terra yelled at the direction of the jumping figure and went along with her. This was going to be an awesome year he thought.

"Dann don't cry..."

The sword raised

"No, PLEASE I BEG OF YOU I'M THE ONE YOU WANT LET HER GO"

"I'll be fine, take care of yourself Dann-"

The blade came down on the nape of her neck, cleaning her head off her shoulders

"NOOOOOOOOOO..." Tears streamed down his cheeks as he struggled against his restrains.

"You killed her..."

"YOU KILLED HER!"

"Hey wake up we're closed". The man in his uniform slammed a cocktail shaker down on the metallic surface, finally the young boy in purple would get up and leave.

"Urrggghhhh... i feel like I was hit by a truck... what time is it?"

The bartender rolled his eyes impatiently, "two in the morning, now go home so I can do so too...".

"Oh... sure-" he had a little bit too much this night and now it threatened to come out the way it entered, he swallowed and continued, "sure think. Thank you ummm Mr... Ju-Junior Xiang".The man with a buzzcut nodded his head and got back to cleaning his fifth final cocktail cup. The purple boy reached into his denim jeans and pulled out two ten dollar notes and thrusted it on the table. Making his way out of the club, tapping about with his cobalt blue walking stick with the lever of a lever-action weapon on the holdable end. When he finally made it out of the club his eyes reverted back to normal and through their glowing pupils, he could see the night-life of this part of Vale. He sighed as he thought about the dream, or nightmare, he had. It had been recurring for over two weeks now, and he really wanted it to stop or for him to at least figure out what it meant. The girl always told him not to cry and her head would always roll, sometimes his captors would release him to wonder in an endless desert, sometimes they would torture him with electricity and water. he shook his head and walked towards the motel in the distance.

He knew he was being followed, something or someone he didn't know but it was freaking him out. His grip tightened around his walking stick when it became clear to him that there were constant footsteps walking in the same direction as he was into a dark alley. He steadied his breathing as he felt his blood slow down, and so did his surroundings.

"one", he heard the sound of a gun cock.

"two" ,the screech of a blade scratching against concrete.

"Three", electricity whizzed to life on metal, a Taser he thought.

"FOUR" and he spun around, his walking stick collided with the head of a burly man wielding a cleaver. The other two had the boy surrounded by walking circles around him. His eyes narrowed at the other two men, one with an m4a1 rifle with a grenade launcher in his hands while the other with a Taser baton waved his weapon threateningly around. He slowed his heartbeat and paid attention to his aggressors' every movement, purple here could feel his fangs unretract from their places, revealing his true race. "ok bat boy" the man with the gun adjusted his grip on his weapon, bead of sweat formed on his forehead, "let's see you dodge THIS" and the click of the trigger filled his eardrums, the purple bat unsheathed his ninjato hiding in the other end of his walking stick and its blade sliced the oncoming bullet clean in half, the remainder of his walking stick shifted into a lever action rifle, he pulled the trigger and successfully shot the gunner in his right arm. before the man with the tazer could react, he swung his gun around and the faded turquoise butt smashed into the attacker's skull. He kicked him against a wall and the assailant instantly went unconscious.

"Who. Are. You? WHO FUCKING HIRED YOU?! ANSWER ME!" The boy in purple grabbed the man with the rifle by the bullet wound in his arm and slammed him onto the wall above him, the man stuttered, "You-You're Daniel Agker righ-"

His blade was just inches away from the aggressor's throat, "Never. Call. My. Full. Name you hear me?!" The gun man nodded profusely and put his hands up in a surrender position. "Now again, who sent you?"

"Mi-Mister Ozpin from Beacon High, he wanted us to relay a message to you but not before one final test. and uh- it seems that yo-you have passed. Con...gradulations?" The man thrusted an envelope into Dann's free arm. The Bat boy, dropped the man to the floor as he began to tear the envelope open but then felt the cold steel of a dagger against his neck, "not...so...fast you little shit" The butcher had made a move on him. Dann sighed and readied himself to push off the wall infront, consecutively slamming the burly butcher into releasing him but was stopped when he heard a blade being drawn down behind him. The cleaver man fainted atop Dann, he let out a little grunt as he pushed the heavy body off him to greet a masked man with a scythe pointed in his direction, apparently his saviour looked like a psychopath.

"Easy there buddy, don't want anyone else to get hurt do we?" he taunted with a smirk. The masked man motioned for the envelope, causing Dann to raise an eyebrow, "not much of a talker are yer?" he said and he passed the piece of paper to the grim reaper infront of him. The Scythe-wielder poured out its contents and took out one of the two slips of paper inside it and returned the envelope to Dann. The Reaper waved goodbye to the bat boy as he walked off, disappearing to ash and a single black feather. "Hmm..." Dann's hands reached for the other slip of paper inside as he began to read out, "Dear student..."

"We are pleased to inform you that your potential has caught our very eyes and would like to give you an opportunity to enter into the prestigious Beacon Academy..." The earth bender said.

"and learn the art of Grimm Slaying and Monster Hunting..." A boy with a spike of red hair highlighted in the sea of black read, a girl with rabbit ears and short hair hugging on to his left arm continued, "...to join the ranks of the all-courageous hunters in the future, and to protect our fellow country"

"While it may be a hard and strenuous journey filled with ups, downs, blood, sweat and tears, we hope you will take up our offer, if not for us then for the ones you love..." The built, topless boy announced to his parents with a look of pride on their faces.

"...To end off, we wish you a happy packing for our school year that starts tommorow at 11am GMT..." The Masked Male slowly took off his mask, making his words more audible.

"and a wonderful experience in becoming a protector of Remnant..." The girl in spectacles and brown cat ears hugged the paper to her chest as tears of joy streamed down her cheeks. Her mother embraced her as she yelped and danced around, "I'm going to beacon! Oh my god... YES!" She fist bumped the air and threw her arms around her screaming mother who too was on the verge of tears.

Dann smiled, "offer accepted" he mumbled to himself as he crushed the paper and kept it in his pocket. He picked up his backpack from his motel room and flagged a cab to the nearest port in Vytal.

Stepping off the ground and into the flying, Dust-powered boat, he turned back to see numerous parents, relatives and siblings gathered behind the barrier wishing tearful goodbyes to their departing children. Just as he was about to go further into the ship, a topless boy bumped into him, Dann lost his balance and connected with the ground, rubbing his buttocks, he looked up at the boy, "Argh fuck! My bad!" He grumbled and he picked up his spilled contents. Dann shook his head and sat in the corner he had landed in, "Maybe this year's going to be different...My life's about to get interesting..." He mumbled with a smile.