(Prologue)
One years ago
March 26
Morning
"Aww my head. What happened" i kept asking myself as i slowly began to awaken my head was spinning around, confused as i started to look around the room "Wait a second… i'm not in a tent with others?"
When i was with that now horrible group called the white fang i would have to sleep in a tent with a few other members whom would go on watch every night it was awful. Then i heard the door slowly creep open as someone walked in. whom i hardly known nor had seen before. She had very cute light pink eyes and very long green hair tanned skinned, she walked into the room humming a song as i smiled from the song as she walk over to me i asked one simple thing as she stopped humming.
'Please sing it again, it was very beautiful'
Then i passed out again and didnt get up till a few more days later when the green hair lady walked back in i hear her talk for the first time since i woke up.
'Well about time you get up, have you tried to walk at all?'
I look at woman confused but i decide to stand up almost falling over as i do, she sighed heavily
"Don't you know how to….Oh right you have to get use to your implants"
Well when i heard implants i was very confused but very worried too as i hardly had a clue as to why i need them nor how i even ended up with them until she explained
"I found you on the ground,you're leg was in horrible condition and your eye wasn't there. I couldn't watch someone die from a white fang attack, so i bought you here to my house where I began to bring you back from the grasp of death"
Once i heard that i started to remember what happened,
"i was in the white fang with my friend Aurelio whom i remembered being around most of my life as was like a brother to me, we both were in the white fang were trouble makers however i began to see that life in Vacuo was rough and started to lie to the people in the white fang until my friend found out got very annoyed. I guess that was the point where our own close friendship began to crack and break away until he decided to "Tie loose ends" witch happen to be talking me out to the outskirts close to desert and teaming up to fight grimm.well by teaching up i really mean he left me too fight for myself. I managed to live only thanks to discovering my semblance with happened to be a shield bubble. I made my way back to the camp let's just say a very heated argument happened that caused a fight to Break out which in turn lead me to be stabbed in the eye and then my leg cutted off".
Once i felt that pain i have to play ago as i knew right then, somehow i was given a second chance at life and i shouldn't mess up. So i decided to go along with what she told me.
'Yeah thats right, sorry miss i don't think i know your name do I nor do you know mine'
She looked at me and i felt her warm, soft pink eyes look me right in my eyes… er i mean eye and i heard her speak softly
'My name is Layla, Layla Jade. What is your name blackbird?'
"Blackbird? Oh right my wings" I thought before i laughed a little from the nickname before saying my name.
'Ah my name is Eric Smitten, its very nice to meet you Layla'
It seem like once we found out our names we begin to talk more and she helped me get back into shape. Heck i still remember my birthday gifts too witch where in fact two weapons i used today. A sword with a oddly curved handle witch could work as a cane to assist me walking and a custom-made shotgun that was triple barreled. i didn't mind seeing how that was in july when the weather was hot she decided to train me at night when it was cooler by then our once simple friendship had grown more… deeper although i was mainly just a hug here and a kiss there… it was very prefect….
Until september
It seemed like things where going well, i had been getting fully used to my cybernetics and my weapons and i was feeling great, yet the once warm days where starting to cool down but i didn't seem care as i was happy but something told me that it wasn't going to last but i foolishly choiced to forget that warming and now looking back on it i was a fool to. As i remember that day for all the wrong sad reasons.
September 20th
"Oh Layla'
"I called out almost singing as i was in a very great mood as today was my birthday i had just turned Eighteen and that summer seemingly fly as i had improved greatly once i was just a former white fang enforcer who made sure everything went smoothly but ended up questioning my current life after seeing the chaos i was fueling only to start slowly change my ways and lie witch came back to haunt me, where i was at my lowest point and almost wanted to die yet i saved by angel whom help me become a good person"
For once i was happy as i walked into her kitchen where she was looking very annoyed and before i even had a chance to speak Layla walked up to me and slapped me hard across the face leaving a mark that hurt and she spoke.
"YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE. YOU'RE A FORMER WHITE FANG MEMBER!'
'Yes but i can"
I tried to explain but layla wasn't exactly a very calm person as she continued to flip out.
"GET THE HELL OUT BEFORE I CALL THE POLICE ON YOU AS I THOUGHT YOU WERE JUST A INNOCENT VICTIM NOT A FUCKING MEMBER."
I had decided it would be best if that happened as i didn't want to cause drama altogether once i left i felt lost, broken but i knew deep down that i was on limited time as i walked away from her house i felt lost, confused and worried yet oddly hopeful as i had submitted my paperwork for a huntsman school now the only question was how do i get to mistal when i'm vacco.
"Oh that's right i can draw to make money so i just have to save up money for a ticket to mistal on top of renting a small place to live, Food and art supplies. This is going to be a while but i can manage but i do also have to keep my past as a white fang member quite"
So during the few months i began to work away slowly saving money and improving my art greatly however i rarely seen or heard from Layla with caused nightmares as even though she kicked me out also in a way unofficially broke up with me i still cared about her and was worried that the white fang would catch her. Once i felt confident in my ability to draw, i drew a picture of me and her based loosely on a summer night we shared as i was pushing her on a swing and she had decided to take a selfie as i smiled happily as i way to remember her as i drifted asleep.