Chapter 1
This is a tiny tale of love in a faraway land.
Once upon a time, there was a kingdom surrounded by a deep, dark forest.
The forest was a frightening place, filled with beasts and ruled by a powerful, mysterious, dark sorceress. Many gruesome stories were told, tales of fear and despair from humans seeking a boon from the dark sorceress in hopes of changing one's fate.
Even during the day, the forest could be as dark as the winter night. Creepy looking carcass hung idly in the depths of the forest. Because of this, humans rarely ventured inside and those who did and are lucky enough to survive the treacherous journey, died once they reached home.
As terrible as the forest was, a beautiful singing voice would always pierce the darkness when the moon shone. The magical voice belonged to a lone Faunus girl. She would climb up the hill with the clearest view of the moonlit sky and read her book. After which she would proudly sing toward the moon high atop a cliff every night. It was the only thing that made her feel happy, free from her fears and loneliness inside her very soul…
Not far from the forest lives an unruly blonde princess who is loved by her kingdom due to her loyalty and kindness for everyone. She may look picture perfect physically, she do have another side to her that only her family knew. Every night she would venture around in hopes of meeting her biological mother who went missing since her birth.
One particular night the Faunus's singing drew in an unforeseen admirer; the princess from the kingdom at the outskirts of the deep, dark forest. Enraptured by the lovely voice, the human eagerly awaited for the night to fall and hike up to the foot of the hill. Ever since she found out about this beautiful voice, she would sneak out of the castle at night just to listen to it instead of solely looking for a missing person.
Every night, the human would strap herself with her hunting gear and venture into the scary forest just to hear the beautiful voice singing. One night, when the Faunus finished singing, the human feeling brave, applauded. The identity of the voice was hidden because of the cliff, but this only piqued the human's curiosity.
The Faunus glanced at the human girl with predatory eyes; wolves are man-killers after all.
'What a stupid prey' she thought. 'I should kill her now that I've finished singing.'
However, the girl had jovially applauded the Faunus who had never before been praised for her singing. Upon hearing the applause, she hesitated and gave a long hard look at the human girl below.
Clearly a person of stature, she don on a set of high quality brown leather hunting vest over her yellow tank top that matches her leather boots, and black shorts with a utility belt. The most noticeable gear was her gold bracelets with crystals of some sort on both of her arms. Of course not to forget her prominent cashmere scarf that compliments her luscious blonde hair that flows freely in the wind; radiant lilac eyes shone ever so brightly under the moon light as though they are piercing through her very soul. For some reason, the weird feeling within her prevented her from attacking the blonde goddess.
Nights turn to days, days turns to seasons… soon it was almost a year of yearning on both sides. Day by day the Faunus sang her songs, constantly looking forward to the girl's applause.
'But…' she thought 'If she finds out that I'm a monster, she'll get scared and he won't come listen to me sing anymore…' fear of discrimination and rejection filled her heart. So every night after her song, she would hear the human's applause and quickly retreat into the deep, dark forest.