Hello! This is my first ever fanfiction, and I was encouraged to upload it to somewhere, even though I was going to keep it private. Please enjoy, and constructive criticism is appreciated. (I do not own RWBY, but I do own all the OCs except two. Those belong to my friend, although I did design them.)
Blood of Grimm: Chapter 1
Beacon Academy, the foremost combat school in the world of Remnant. Many aspiring huntsmen and huntresses apply every year, and the graduates of the school are always top class warriors. A new school year is beginning, and out of kingdom students are being flown in from all over the world using massive airships. One such airship is arriving at Beacon right now, and one of the staff just made an announcement on the holographic displays. From inside, a girl is shouting. "Oh Yang, gross, you have puke on your shoes! Get away from me, get away from me, get away from me, get away from me!" It seems that one of the incoming students got motion sick.
Meanwhile, a solitary figure is seen on TOP of the airship, where no one is supposed to be able to reach. He wears a strange cloak, the left side and hood white with yellow accents and swirls, with a sleeve, the right side a black cape with red accents covering the entire right side of his body. The remarkable thing was that there is no sign of him having a right arm. His height appears to be about five feet six inches, so somewhat short, but not overly so. He seems to be napping, right on the middle of the top of the ship. Meanwhile, in the ship, a girl in white clothes, with pink hair and electric blue eyes, seems to be searching around, looking for something. She ears a top with red accents and a cherry blossom pattern on it, with an orchid in the left chest area, with no sleeve on the left side, but a long sleeve on the right side, which was wrapped in about five straps, three on the bicep and two on the forearm, in red, black, and brown leather. The left forearm had a long white fingerless glove up to the elbow, and also had two straps in black and brown leather. She had a skirt with red accents and a blue lightning bolt on them, black pants underneath and metal plated leather boots. On her back was what appeared to be an oddly shaped double sided axe, with a golden claw reversed at the end, so the bottom of it had a spike with a slot in it, probably to catch weapons. "I need to find him, that boy in the cloak… I'm almost certain he's the one!" She didn't know his name or who he was, but had been told to watch someone fitting the boy on the roof's description by a trusted mentor.
Arriving at Beacon Academy, all the students leave the airship to head to the orientation/welcoming ceremony for new students. After everyone left, the cloaked boy jumps down from the roof of the airship. He starts leisurely walking to the place the orientation would start when he hears an explosion. Dropping down and rolling to the side, he looks in the direction of the explosion, seeing a girl in a white dress yelling at a girl in a black dress with a red cloak. Realizing it was a dust explosion, he slowly stands up and walks onward, avoiding the commotion in the circle. Arriving at the auditorium where the orientation would be taking place, he climbs up the wall and sits on the frame of the gigantic door, unnoticed by the other students, save a few who are looking back, including a big armored student with orange hair, who smirked and decided he would remember the cloaked boy.
Soon after, Professor Ozpin, the headmaster of Beacon Academy starts his speech. "Ahem… I'll keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge. To hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people…" At this point the boy drowns out all noise and daydreams. He was here for only one purpose.
That night, the new students have to sleep in the ballroom because the teams weren't decided so the dorms were not ready. With all the students grouped together, something was bound to happen. In this case, it was the two girls from earlier fighting. The boy sighs in exasperation from the corner, and stands up. He starts to walk outside, intending to climb a tree or a tall building and sleep there, but realizes that several eyes were on him and decided that it was safer to stay in this room, where he would have people around to help him, especially since not all the eyes on him felt just curious. Sitting back down, he puts on a pair of headphones from his backpack, deciding to drown out the sounds of everyone else. Meanwhile, the girl from earlier is staring at the boy, curious as to why he had sat back down, and Cardin Winchester, the armored boy from earlier, who is disappointed that the boy hadn't gone somewhere so he could bully him.
Closing his eyes, the cloaked boy dozes off. "Hey, Valke, wake up!" He awakes with a start. He looks around, seeing that he's no longer in the ballroom, but in a cave. "You're finally up, huh. It's time to go out exploring." A blond haired person in red robes is talking to him. The blond teen gestures outside. "Come on, we agreed to explore the ruins today, rights? We've got to leave before everyone else wakes up."
"Okay, okay," Valke says, his voice sounds musical, but raspy, like a snake. "Just let me get a few things." He runs deeper into the cave, grabbing some food and water, and a large knife, the long blade diamond shaped like a kunai, with a serrated back. He runs back to his friend. "Alright, let's go." They chat on the way to the ruins.
After exploring the ruins, they walk back silently shocked at what they found. Before either one could bring it up, they hear gunfire. "That's the village's direction. We need to go check it out," his friend says. He runs ahead, not worrying about what he may find and what the consequences might be.
"Wait, if you rush ahead you might be in danger!" Valke shouts after his friend. Realizing it's futile, he dashes after his friend, but sticks to the trees, being as stealthy as possible, barely visible due to the combination of speed and stealth. He heard a few last gun shots, and then they stopped. He started moving faster, thinking "Please let me make it." Reaching his village, he dashed to the side, hiding in some bushes. Looking out, he saw Atlas company soldiers and robots, which load onto an airship and leave.
As soon as they leave, he dashes to the path he had left the village on that morning. There, he finds his dying friend. "Connor… I'm sorry. I couldn't-"
"Hey… Don't worry... about it. I should have… listened to you and waited," he said between ragged breaths and sporadic coughs of black blood that seemed to evaporate in the sun. "Thanks for the years of friendship… I know that everyone else regarded me as a rebel. Now, go check for any survivors. I'll meet everyone else on the other side." And with that, he closed his eyes, and vaporized into the air like ash.
Running into the village, Valke, looks and calls for any survivors, but found and heard no one. "NO! I could have saved them. That was my job… TO PROTECT THEM ALL!" Despair overtaking him, he loses control and started smashing everything, when…
"HEY! Wake up!" Valke awakes with a start. He was sweating and breathing heavily, his pulse racing. He looked up and saw a boy in green, with magenta eyes and black hair, save for one bundle the same color as his eyes and a girl in pink, with orange-brown hair and teal eyes. "You were thrashing around a little, and looked as though you were about to break something, so we woke you up. Do you need help?" the boy asked.
"Ooh, you can talk to us about it, and we can eat food, and then we can help you or take you to someone who could, and then we could be friends and-" the girl said hyperactively, which was strange considering it was dark outside.
"No, I'm fine." Valke answered, his voice now smooth, but also cold and brusque. He stands up and grabs his bag, and walks quickly outside.
"Yeesh, I wonder what his problem is Ren."
"No idea, but maybe we'll find out one day, Nora." Replied the boy in green. "Come on, let's go back to sleep."
"That flashback again… One day I will have my revenge. But for now, I need to bide my time." Valke muttered to himself. With that, he climbs a building. At the top, he sets his pack down next to a wall and sleeps again.
The next day, everyone leaves to Beacon Cliff, where they will begin the trials to match up the teams. Waking up, both Cardin and the pink-haired girl notice that Valke was gone, but shrug it off and leave. Meanwhile, Valke was still dozing, when he was woken up by a voice. "Hey, are you awake?" says a female voice with an Australian accent. Opening his eyes and looking around, he sees a Faunus girl in brown, yellow, and black clothing, with brown-red bunny ears. Standing up, he stretches and looks towards the girl. "What are you doing up here? And how did you get up here? Are you a Faunus? Also, I've haven't seen you before, are you a first year?"
"I like being outside, I climbed up here, no, not quite a Faunus, and yes, I am indeed a first year." He says, replying to all the questions at once, tersely. "What is she doing here? And who is she?"
"Oh, in that case, you'd better hurry, all the others left a few minutes ago."
"Really?" Gathering his stuff quickly, he shoulders his bag, and walks to the edge of the building. Looking back, he says "Thank you."
She shakes her head. "No problem. My name's Velvet. Come find me later. You seem like a nice person."
"No promises," he says, jumping down from the building. Gasping in surprise, Velvet runs to the edge, and looks past the edge, but sees nothing.
"That's weird, where did he go?"
Running quickly to the locker areas, he makes it just in time, and stores his bag in his locker, and heads to the Beacon Cliffs. Once there, he stands on an open spring-launcher in the ground since everyone else was standing on one. Ozpin announces that this trial would decide the partners as the first person you make eye-contact with would be your partner for the next four years. Preparing to launch, he sees several other students get launched, before finally being launched himself.
Flying at a high speed, he calculates where he'll hit the tree line, he reaches for a branch with his left hand, and, swinging on the branch, lands on a limb in front of him, then continues to jump from tree to tree, going lower and lower until he finally reaches the ground.