"Cell 502 ready to drop. Good riddance you lot." Jaune was snapped out of his thoughts as the floor beneath him dropped away and he fell towards the ground.
"Well crap", he muttered as the hurtled towards the dirt below. He landed flat on his front and felt a bump forming on his forehead. As Jaune started to lift himself off the ground something heavy landed on his back, causing his head to hit the ground again as well as injuring his back. He looked up and saw that it was not a something that had landed on him, but a someone.
"Uhhh…. You wanna... get off of me?" Jaune coughed. A white haired girl with a scar running down her left eye looked at him venomously as she picked herself up and headed towards a smaller female fox faunus lying prone under a tree. Jaune got to his feet, dusted himself off and took note of the surrounding area. He was in what looked like a kind of courtyard in between four dull concrete two story houses. The houses were small and seemed to be falling apart in front of Jaune's eyes. There were small holes on the sides of the house where he could see straight into the building itself.
The girl that had landed on top of him was checking on the girl she had walked towards after she had gotten off of him. His eyes wandered over to a girl with a long blonde mane that cascaded down her back. She was sitting against a wall arms crossed, clearly pissed off about something. Standing off in the distance was another girl wearing a black bow, her amber eyes looking around warily.
"Well this beats one of Ironwood's cells." an older man with orange hair that draped the right side of his face, covering his right eye. The eye that was visible was a shade of dark green.
"I bet you would know all about that." said a boy with silver hair and grey eyes. He had a smug look on his face that Jaune would love nothing more than to just punch right off. But alas, the shortcomings of being a weekling.
A girl behind them with mint green hair and dark red eyes sighed and shook her head at the two. "Can you two please give me a break?"
A raven haired boy with pink eyes and a similar colored streak in his hair was crouching beside an orange haired girl who was looking around with panicked eyes and seemed to be on the verge of tears. The boy seemed to be looking around just like Jaune. The two's eyes met and Jaune quickly looked away.
Jaune looked to his left and saw a girl leaning against one of the buildings a few yards away. She had long red hair and looked like she wasn't to aware of her surroundings. Her green eyes were glazed over and she was just staring at the ground with her arms crossed.
As Jaune started to stand up, he heard someone silently sobbing behind him. He turned around and saw a rabbit faunus in the fetal position As she continued to cry, three people came towards her and started to try and comfort her. The first one, a girl, had brunette hair with blonde tips while the other two were both boys, one towering over the rest with black buzz cut hair while the other was slightly shorter with dark skin and copper hair.
Jaune fully stood up and waited for the lightheadedness to stop as all the blood rushed out of his head. He stumbled over to one of the buildings and leaned up against a pole so he could regain his balance. He put his full weight against it and it shifted backwards, throwing him off balance again and making him fall flat on his back. The pole shifted a loose slab of concrete on the side of the building causing it to tip forward and fall forwards towards Jaune who was still sprawled on the ground.
Jaune barely had time to scream before two pairs of hands grabbed his legs and pulled him out of the path of the falling piece of wall. The two people who had just saved him had escaped his notice before when he was looking around. The first was a male faunus with black hair, green eyes, and a monkey tail while the second was another male faunus who suspiciously also had very similar black hair and green eyes, but white tiger ears and a similar colored tail.
"Well at least you used the right one this time", the tiger faunus said, directing this remark towards the monkey faunus.
"It was a mistake that anyone who was just starting out would make", the monkey faunus replied with a shrug of his shoulders and an amused grin on his face.
"Yah yah, whatever", the tiger faunus said before directing his attention towards Jaune. "You are pretty damn lucky that we were able to make it to you before that hunk of stone crushed you, next time don't be such an idiot and watch where you're going"
The monkey faunus frowned and looked towards his companion. "What crawled down your pants and bit you?"
"I don't know if you have noticed by now but we are in the middle of nowhere with no food or water and probably surrounded by grimm who are just waiting to rip our sorry little heads off. If I die here I'm totally coming back to haunt your ass!"
"I'm sorry to interrupt but, who the hell are you two?" Jaune asked, bewildered.
"Sorry for be so impolite for you see, I DON'T GIVE TWO SHITS" the monkey faunus said focusing back on Jaune. "Let me introduce myself so that I may be the proper gentleman that apparently others make me out to be. My name is Nachton and my 'friend' here is Rezeal. We used to be hunters until I killed a man, which is apparently illegal, and he tried to kill me for killing that man."
"That guy was my boss!" Rezeal yelled
"He had it coming"
"He sneezed on you!"
"Your point?"
"My point is you don't kill people for sneezing!"
"Regardless of the specifics, I'm here and so are you so we're going to have to deal with it"
Jaune stood up and started to back away from the two. "Well, it was an experience meeting you two psychopaths but I have things to do that are less threatening to my life than hanging out with you both."
Nach smirked and waved saying, "Ok, it was nice meeting you."
"And for the record," Rezal looked towards Jaune with a ear to ear smile "I'm a sociopath not a psychopath."
Jaune quickly walked away and exited the courtyard. Outside the square of houses was a gray looking landscape to what he presumed was the south were a range of hills. To his left were more buildings that looked more or less like the ones he had landed in between.
From behind him he heard someone call for everyone's attention.
The girl with the blonde hair was standing in the center of the courtyard, "Hey you lot, my friend and I have decided to go over to the hills and see what we can see. Those of you who want to see what we're dealing with here feel free to follow us. Those of you who are too pussy and want to stay behind to watch the vegetables, go right ahead. We leave in 10 minutes so be ready."
She then went back to the people she had been talking to earlier.
"Just a few more yards 'till we reach the top" said the brown haired girl. She had earlier introduced herself as Coco Adel, a former huntress in training at beacon. Jaune had heard of her and her team but he had never really seen them before.
A group of 5 people, including himself, sat in a circle, taking a break. They had been walking for about an hour and had started to go uphill about fifteen minutes ago making the trek even more difficult. The group consisted of the giant whose name was Yatsuhashi Daichi who was also part of Coco's team back at beacon, the orange haired man who told them his name was Roman Torchwick, and the silver haired boy who went by the name of Mercury Black.
Jaune had heard of Roman as he had been a notorious criminal before he was captured and even now when he no longer had his weapon, Melodic Cudgel, he was still very intimidating.
Suddenly Coco stood up and clapped her hands together. "Ok, let's get going. I'd say it's about another 5 minutes to the top so it shouldn't be too hard."
They started their ascent towards the top of the hill. So far the group hadn't come across any grimm which was slightly suspicious to Jaune. He wasn't complaining about it but they surely should have met at least a little resistance by now.
Finally they reached the top of the hill. Jaune collapsed onto the ground, exhausted from the last stretch of climbing. He had never been very fit while at beacon so this was not fun in the slightest for him.
The others went past him and looked out on where they had landed.
"Oh shit," he heard Coco mutter.
"What the fuck is this?" Mercury said.
Jaune stood up the best he could without retching and looked at what the others were seeing. All around them were walls that could easily exceed half a kilometer. Inside the walls were countless amounts of buildings just like the ones Jaune had seen earlier.
And from the looks of it, they weren't the only people here. There were signs that others lived in the rundown buildings surrounding theirs.
The thing that everyone was so startled about was the fact that none of the walls seemed to have doors of any kind. In short, they were trapped.
Snot: Well then, this was the first real chapter of cell that has long been awaited by those of you who actually like our story. Sorry for such a long wait for the first chapter, we thought it necessary to introduce most of the main group who this story will be centered around before having the actual story start. I'm also sorry for how short the chapter is but just remember, Dantai the hobbit can always make it shorter
Dantai: Hey my shit isn't that short. This chapter is about the size of my normal chapters.
Sauron: *shouts from the distance* It's kinda short mate.
Dantai: I'm standing right next to you just because my head is at your knee doesn't mean you have to shout.
Snot: It kinda does.
Dantai: Fuck off.
Snot: ANYWAYS, I hope you all join us in the next chapter for this insanity that is Cell. See ya'll later.
Note From the Editor: Umm, why was that so tame? Oh right, I know why...