Hello everyone and welcome to my new fanfic. its been a while and I do plan on finishing Accursed ones but a recent conversation with two of my friends gave me inspiration to write this. This first chapter will introducing our OCs. Any constructive criticism is much welcome and I hope you like our OCs! Also as of writing this it is currently September 20th and I likely wont be uploading this chapter until I'm happy with it, so if I upload this after volume five starts this story will heavily deviate from canon

We are the crusaders: prologue

Somewhere in mistral

It was a quiet sunny morning on the streets of a small town in mistral. Birds were chattering and the streets were livened up by people scattered around completing their morning errands, everything was peaceful until the noise of an engine of a motorcycle as it raced through the streets recklessly. The driver had a smile on his mouth and earphones in his ears with music blaring so loud he couldn't hear the curses of the people he rushed passed as they tried to cross the road. He was wearing slightly ripped blue jeans tucked into a pair of short boots with the laces tied up halfway up them. On his body he was wearing a slightly loose black vest with a yellow tropical shirt with blue floral pattern flapping in the wind as if it were a cape. Around his neck he had a dog tag that reads "Zack Dreamer". His earlobe length hair flowing in the wind alongside his tropical shirt. his eyes were covered by his sunglasses he was wearing. He was currently heading towards Haven Academy having been accepted there a couple of months ago. He chose to go to Haven because the last school he went to would not allow him to return due to "reckless and disruptive behaviour" and his foster father Declan forced him to so he can further learn to fight and learn the values of teamwork and friendship. Thus Zack took the family motorcycle and made tracks for his destination, Haven Academy.

Elsewhere, closer to haven.

The sunlight was barely making it through the gaps in the trees in this deep forest. As a fairly tall well build young man wearing a dark t-shirt with a black hoodie with green and white lining. He was wearing dark cargo shorts with similar lining to the hoodie with black combat boots with similar coloured knee pads above them. He also had scruffy black hair with hazel eyes. He was currently making his way towards Haven academy ready for his second year at an Academy, the Academy he originally went to didn't suit him so he enrolled as an exchange student to Haven.

He was currently taking in the scenery enjoying it more then he would lead you to believe where he was halted by a voice shouting. "Please help me!" A female voice cried. The young man sighed and made his way towards the voice past some bushes until he found the source of the pleas for help, it was a woman being assaulted by a large man much larger than the young man. "quit ya squirming it'll be over before ya know it!" He commanded but the woman would not comply. She turned her head to the left to see the young man about 11 feet from them. She reached out to him and called out to him "please help me!" The larger man saw what she was doing and stood and turned to the young man and spoke in a booming voice, "you there, kid! Move along and forget you saw anything or else!" The young man said nothing to him and started to talk to himself. "you should save her" a voice inside his head said "I shouldn't get involved" he said out loud to the voice inside his head. "Huh!" The larger man said exclaimed, clearly annoyed. "you cant just ignore her" the voice said calmly. "I know" the young man responded not noticing that the larger man approached him "you talkin' to yourself?" He asked in a booming voice "what a freak!" He said as he pushed the young man to the ground. "don't do it" the voice said. The young man contemplated the command but didn't listen, "fuck it!" He mumbled under his breath.

He put his hands in his pockets briefly before pulling them out to reveal two chrome coloured gauntlets and used his left one to crack the larger man across the jaw sending him reeling back a few feet away from the young man. The larger man huffed and pulled out a baton which transformed into a larger club. "you'll pay for that runt" he cried as he charged toward the young man. "you should end this quickly" the voice told the young man, "yeah" he said in response as his eyes changed to a darker orange colour. The young man charged at the man as well as all of a sudden drills on each side of his gauntlets erected from them he then drove his hand into the larger mans chest as the drills span at a rapid pace. The larger man cried out in pain and dropped his weapon as the drills continued to spin. after a split second the mans aura gave out and the young man used this opportunity to reel back and deliver a huge punch, drill and all into the mans chest and sent him flying into the bushes. The young man calmed down and the colour in his eyes died down to its normal hazel colour.

"um, excuse me? Thank you so much for getting rid of him is there anything I can do to repay you?" The woman approached him and asked. He immediately turned his head to her causing her to flinch, "you can thank me by leaving me alone" he said quietly "you best leave now he may come to soon" he added. "can you at least tell me your name before I leave?" She pleaded. This caused the young man to sigh deeply, "Finnian. Finnian Thorn" he sad before turning and continuing on his way. As he gained some distance he heard her call out to him "thank you Finnian Thorn!" She shouted before running off. She didn't see it but he had a small smile on his lips.

Elsewhere...

In a small town in mistral laid a small house on the outskirts of the town. Inside that house a someone was packing his belongings into a large bag. He was packing the essentials, his clothes, scroll, toiletries and other things he just wanted to take including a small picture of himself with what looked to be three of his friends. He then smiled at the picture and placed it in a pocket of his bag and zipped it up to show his name on the front of the bag "Salvador Steel" it reads. He then looked at himself in his large mirror in the corner of his room. He was wearing a green sweater with brown trousers tucked into black boots that went up to his knees. He then looks at his face, he had long brown hair that was swept back and went down to the middle of his neck he also had a blonde streak in the left side of his hair. He looked into his brown eyes and huffed and put on a false smile as a knock came on his door. "Sal?" A female voice called to him. "come in mother" he replied grabbing his bag and saddling it around his shoulder. His mother entered the room "how are you feeling honey?" She asked with a concerned look on her face. "I'm feeling great mother, fresh new school, fresh new start" he said with a smile. "well I'm glad to hear that. But as much as I'd like to keep you here you should get going, your new school awaits you" she said with a proud smile. Salvador then left his house and proceeded on to the local train station that would take him in the direction of Haven Academy.

And so these three young men made their way to Haven Academy not knowing that fate had certain plans for them.

To be continued...