It was a sunny, hot and dry day, just like yesterday, and the day before, and the day before this one, and pretty much every day in the kingdom of Vacuo. The small nomad village called Bacot was active at the moment, with people on the market, working and planting in their little subsistence farms. The guards were in a small wall around the city, watching. A few weeks earlier the guard job would be a boring one. However, lately there have been some "incidents".

"Scaleback coming by north-west!" said a guard

Coming at alarming speed was a lizard-like black and with scaled monster. It's huge body looked like a komodo dragon's and had the size of a horse. Most of his body was black and white alternating scales, except for his back, which consisted in yellow tough scales. With his razor-like claws and an acid spraying mouth, it was a beast you'd want to never find in your life

"Prepare bows!" said the leader, waiting for the right time. The soldiers drew their bows. "Now!" said the leader

The arrows flew while the bows were released and landed in the grimm's back. Most of them just slid over the powerful scales that gave the reptilian beast its name; however three projectiles hit him right in the forehead and eyes, making the huge lizard die with one final howl.

Then, an unexpected thing happened: after a little time there was a small army of about twelve scalebacks coming in their direction in an arrow-shaped formation. The soldiers then, startled by the sudden big amount, ignored their leader's orders and just panicky shot arrows at the first sight. The warriors only killed about 4 lizards when they got to the wall. They drew their swords knowing that they wouldn't stand a chance against the huge acid-spitting killing machines. The grimm were reaching the top of the wall and were starring at the defenders with their cold, merciless devilish gaze, ready for the final strike…

…just to be interrupted by a silver and black shadow that jumped between the men and the grimm. The mysterious newcomer was a man in his early twenties, about twenty-five or six, which was wearing a black shirt, dark gray pants and over that a black and silver cloak. He looked at the lizards with annoyed and somewhat bored eyes, as if it was a very uninteresting routine. He, then, unsheathed his sword too fast for an ordinary eye to see. His blade was a less curved saber that was very well treated, with the blade sharpened and polished.

With a quick slash he cut through one scaleback's eyes making it howl and fall from the wall. The others noticed, then, that he was the threat there. They focused their attacks on him, trying to bite. However when they got too close, the warrior would slice their faces, particularly preferring the eyes. They tried to attack from a distance, then, spitting acid over him. Yet he just gracefully dodged, jumping to a safe distance. He, strangely, sheathed his sword, just to then unsheathe it again, with some difference: the blade was stuck on the sheath and released from the handle, and instead the handle ended in a gun facing up. It turned 90 degrees down and become a fully working flintlock pistol. He began shooting the giant komodo dragons in the face, especially in their eyes. The last five standing grimm have gone around the lone warrior, trying to surround him. He activates his sword again, but when the scalebacks were coming close the handle of the saber revealed another trick: from the pommel a whole rapier blade extended, the sword turning out to have two blades: one side being a saber and the other being a rapier. He quickly stabbed and thrusted all the lizards around in a steel and claws dance, ending with the corpses of five grimm around him and some cuts and bruises in his skin. The other lizards ran away but died not too far from the wall. The soldiers just stare at the figure, startled by his sudden appearance.

The leader however knew what he was. His fight style was clearly focused against grimm. His weapon was a compact multi fighting tool, or CMFT for short. A type of weapon created at the end of the war that consisted in various weapons build up together. As it was a new technology and was usually expensive and could be buggy, it wasn´t very used by the police or the military, however it was very common by a special class of warrior.

Hunters.

The leader stepped ahead and said "Are you the man we called for the work?"

The hunter smiled and said "Hunter Andrew reporting, sir. I think that after seeing this you won't have to test my capacity to do the job"

And that was the first chapter of my first fanfiction: the team saber. This will take place 50 years before the the series; however it's an AU, as it has some different mechanics, especially concerning grimm and semblances. Some notes:

I am not a natural English speaker, so sometimes I will do some grammar mistakes. I will have a lot of care for typos, however I can't promise to have a correct grammar and always use the correct expressions or the correct slangs.

I plan on doing another rwby fanfiction after I end this one. It will happen in the same AU as this one; however it will be in the time of the RWBY team, not 50 years earlier. This one will be like a prequel, and it will explain the new mechanics I mentioned earlier. I will gradually make authors notes like this one explaining them (like the world of remnant episodes).

And finally I just want to thank you for reading this. I will try to post the next chapter tomorrow, if I can.

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