Hello folks, I'm Maxstories95, for those who are reading this THANK YOU SO MUCH! I know OC stories aren't everyone's cup of tea, but I'm glad to say that this story will be going somewhere. Special thanks to AAUser Aihara Yuzuko for not only drawing the cover, but also Colab with me, but also being such a good friend even with a busy schedule. Please check her story out Boxer and the Singer, she's really good at what she does. Alright ladies, gentlemen, and others without further delay...lets jam.

"Dust I'm tired." A young man said allowed.

Meet Tiger the Lightning a tall hooded student of Abyss Academy from Mistral. He was dressed in an open black hood and cloak that was all black with an orange sash around his waist and a white muscle shirt being seen around hugging his upper body reveal his muscular figure. The pants he wore wrapped around his legs also matched the cloak he wore. His leather boots matched as well however all his clothes were slightly tattered curtesy of the slain beat he carried.

His weapons strapped to his sash were a long curved blade with a ribbon attached to the bottom of the grip of the blade. He also had a rather large pistol with two barrels one above and below of each barrel.

He was carrying a small Nevermore mask through the halls of Beacon. He was given weird and timid looks from other students.

"Bleh!" Tiger groaned taking the mask off. "How the white fang members wear these is beyond me, smells like death."

"Hm…what's a guy gotta do to get some breakfast around here?" Tiger continued walking around the school grounds.

It was morning and definitely time for breakfast. Once Tiger found the cafeteria he rested the mask by balancing it on the the handle of his sword.

He looked around and liked the way this place looked. Giant windows made of stained glass of famous huntsmen that came from this school. The smell of pancakes and other foods filled the air.

Tiger walked around taking in the atmosphere of this foreign setting here. It was then that a grape flew right by his face just barely missing his face. On pure instinct I backed up a few feet.

"Whoa sorry new guy, Nora did you get it?" A blonde with ridiculously long hair and…very large assets.

"Mmm-Yeah!" Chewed-spoke a girl with orange hair, pretty sure you could call her a ginger, but that would be rude.

Tiger had realized that my backing up made my hood ride upwards revealing some of my hair so he immediately pulled it down not wanting people to know things about him.

A loud gasp came from a short girl with black hair that was also red in it with Silver eyes.

"What? There's no way she saw them. How could she my whole hood was still up?" Tiger thought to himself.

"That pistol looks so cool! DidYouDesignIt? DidYouMakeIt?" She said rapidly bombarding Tiger with questions. She made another gasp "Oh my Dust that pistol has a grenade launcher! That's so bada-" The girl was going to continue when a girl who honestly looked like she had a bit of princess look to her covered her mouth.

She had very white hair, so white if you looked at it in the middle of the day without a cloud in the sky the sun's reflection would burn your eyes making contact with it. She had pretty blue eyes like Sapphires, but had a scar on her left eye.

"Sorry about my leader here, she has a thing for weapons. I'm Weiss Schnee heir to the Schnee Dust Company. You are?" Wiess said extending her hand out.

"My name is Tiger, pleasure to meet you Miss Schnee." I said shaking her hand.

Tiger had flinched immediately after making contacting with her hand, "Was this girl dead? She felt absolutely frigid." Tiger had thought to himself.

"I'm Blake Belladonna." The girl in a black bow said extending her hand. This girl seemed very tired like she hadn't slept in days, but was beautiful none the less.

Tiger smiled, this girl was pretty-not saying any of the other girls she just…alluring to him and he knew why, her eyes gave it away, but her disguise was good.

"You're a Faunus aren't you?" I said in a low voice only letting the others hear him speak.

She looked up frantically from her book. "H-how did you know?" Blake asked completely terrified.

"I'm a Tiger Faunus, I won't ask what kind of Faunus you are, you can show me whenever." Tiger said to Blake putting his hood back up while keeping his voice low.

The two teams began to talk for the next few minutes over a few things.

"Wow so you're from Mistral." Ruby inquired.

"Yup I was taught to use Maya my Talwar and Jangala my pistol with grenade launcher, by my uncle and perfected my technique at Abyss Academy. I'm one of the members of Team MSZT(Mist)." Tiger said resting his Talwar and Pistol on the table showing his weapons off.

"These are the only ladies in my life and I love them dearly." Tiger said releasing Maya his Talwar from its sheathe and examined it in the blade encase his darling needed sharpening.

"Wow Ruby it looks like you finally met someone who loves weapons as much as you." Jaune teased but to fall upon deaf ears as Ruby was mesmerized by the Talwar.

"Wow she's so pretty." Ruby said wanting to touch the blade but quickly retracted her finger from cutting it just from making contact with the edge of the blade. "and sharp too."

"Yeah I'm sorry about that. Let me help." Tiger said looking at Ruby's hand and pressing his thumb down on the cut. "If you put pressure down on the cut it helps stop the bleeding.

Out of the corner of Tiger's eye he caught a sort of jealous look from Weiss, but brushed it off as nothing.

"So Ren was it? What's your weapon if you don't mind me asking?" Tiger asked.

"My weapons are stored in my locker. But they twin submachine guns with curved blades attached to the barrels for usefulness in melee and uses Dust rounds to weaken the opponent. Then Nora comes in with her Warhammer Magnhild to destroy them." Ren explained.

"I break their legs!" Nora cheered after inhaling an entire pancake. This caused everyone at their table to chuckle at how much she loved to cause so much pain to someone's legs.

"So you mentioned your team, where are they?" Pyrrha asked.

Tiger scratched the back of his head through his hood.

"Y-yeah that's the thing…I'm actually awhile ahead of my team right now. They're on a plane from Mistral while I took a…faster way here."

Each Beacon student looked at Tiger with a curious look.

"So…how did you get here?" Weiss asked.

"I~ may or may not have rod a miniature Nevermore over here." Showing proof of his latest kill by placing the mask on the table.

The students of Vale exchanged looks between themselves not sure to call Tiger's explanation complete bull or calling Tiger completely insane.

"OH! I rode a Ursa during initiation with Ren!" Nora squealed remembering her 'toy' she broke.

"Weiss and I rode a Nevermore too, but how did you even get it to go to Vale…how did you even survive without getting cut up or anything?" Ruby asked.

Tiger took his thumb off of Ruby's cut seeing as the bleeding stopped.

"You're aura should take care of the cut now. As for how I controlled the Nevermore." Tiger said right as his scroll began to vibrate rather loudly.

"S-sorry I gotta take this. There's only one person in Remnant my scroll would vibrate this loudly from." Tiger explained holding his scroll which said 'Magenta' across the screen.

Tiger cleared his throat before he putting the scroll to his ear.

"Hello Tiger spe-"

"TIGER GALA THE F**KING LIGHTNING!" A loud female voice yelled aloud making everyone around Tiger flinch except for Tiger who was accustomed to it. "YOU BETTER HAVE A GOOD REASON FOR NOT BEING ON THIS DUST PLANE TO VALE!"

"Y-yeah…the thing is I'm already at Beacon academy, the place checks out okay in my book." Tiger said weakly knowing there was next to nothing he could do to make the girl stop yelling.

"Please don't tell me you rode a Nevermore…" the girl said with frustration in her voice.

"S-s-sorry I know you said no, but I was right with it being faster than a Dust plane."

"I DON'T F**KING CARE! NOW I'M STUCK WITH SEREBRO AND ZOLOTO FOR THE NEXT TWO HOURS BEFORE WE GET TO BEACON! YOU WON'T FEEL YOUR EARS FOR A WEEK GALA!"

Tiger then clicked on the end call button as an awkward silence filled the table of trained Grimm killers whose eyes were as big as dinner plates at the girl on his phone's attitude.

"…So I hear there's a dance tonight." Tiger said trying to change the mood that filled the entire mess hall.

On the Dust Ship

"H-H-He hung up on me... THAT FAUNUS PUNK HUNG UP ON ME!" A very angry dark pink haired girl yelled having the air around her pick up some candy bar wrappers that were on the floor.

The girl unintentionally using her semblance had a red hawk sniper rifle slung onto her torso. She had a long sleeved jacket that only came down to her hips. The jacket was white and her V-neck underneath was the same color as her hair and eyes. Her shirt showed a fair amount of cleavage as well, and her black skinny jeans had tears around the inner thighs and she wore black military style combat boots. Her hair was styled so her bangs covered some of her bangs covered some of her right eye (much like Cinder) while leaving the left sider of her face completely exposed, perfect for sniping.

Two extremely muscular boys both huddled with each other looking exactly the same minus their eye and hair colors being different. The older boy had pale skin and was dressed in white camo military camo jacket, pants, and boots. He had a giant great sword on his back that had a submachine gun acting as the grip. His hair color and eyes were both golden yellow.

The younger boy was dressed in gray camo matching his look alike only having silver eyes and hair and having a bazooka with a dagger acting as its grip.

The sniper and leader slumped in her seat on the plane pouting.

The two eyed their leader while playing their game. It was amusing to see their leader get flustered over Tiger's many shenanigans and not listening to her. To them this was a running joke that never got old.

"What's wrong with spending two more hours with us? The two petrified boys asked simultaneously.

"Nothing really, I just hate getting really mad like that, I get so caught up in the moment. You guys are wonderful I promise. But that Faunus will be the death of me! Always disobeying me! I'm this team's leader damn it!" The girl stomped in continued frustration not realizing her semblance was kicking up the empty candy bar wrappers from the floor and landing right on her face.

"Magenta you should calm down, your semblance activates with your emotions." Serebro reminded his leader.

Magenta grabbed the wrapper and threw it at Serebro.

"I know my semblance is wind! You don't need to remind me Serebro!" Magenta said accidentally knocking the candy bar wrapper right into her face.

Right outside the ship you could hear Magenta yell in even more frustration over the high wind and engine of the plane.

Back to Beacon

"So if I get this right, your semblance is Lightning?" Ruby asked.

Tiger remained silent remembering memories he rather not remember having memories of a bloody woman and Tiger Faunus placing their hands on a young boy's head.

"My mom and dad awoke my aura at the same time and I inherited my mom's semblance. Inheritance of one's Semblance is a rare event to happen, but it doesn't happen often my lightning is well…" Tiger held his index finger and thumb apart where a branch of lightning could be seen. "So all I did was shock the Nevermore whenever it went somewhere or did something I didn't agree with. Then I killed it when I got to Vale."

"That's sooo~ cool! I can't believe someone in our grade was able to take down a Nevermore by himself!" Nora said aloud then gasped and turned to Ren. "After our mission we should see if we could kill a Nevermore together Ren! Well not together together I mean-"

"Don't worry Nora I got it." The martial artist reassured his companion with a weak pink blush.

"Well actually Nora I'm 18 so I'm actually a sophomore. My team and I are actually a year ahead of freshmen." Tiger explained reveling in the fact he was an upper classmen.

The two teams were shocked once again at the Tiger Faunus not expecting this boy to be a grade ahead and possibly stronger than them.

"Oh also before I forget that dance is tonight all are welcome." Ruby urged.

"S-sorry Ruby I'm probably gonna be busy. Plus I don't have anything fancy to wear, so sorry." Tiger pressed his hands together as if in prayer, but apologetically in this case.

Tiger pressed his hands on the table rising from the table.

"Well ladies and gentlemen thanks for the warm greeting. I'm glad people here are fine with Faunus, if not all at the very least some. I'll catch you later." Tiger said grabbing a sandwich from the line and exiting the cafeteria.

"He was really nice." Ruby said her aura fading and the cut closing on her finger.

"Yeah, he was." Yang agreed looking over too Blake scheming. "You're going to the dance Blake." Yang told her partner.

"Not this year Yang." Blake countered focusing on her work.

Outside the Cafeteria Tiger found a directory and made his way to the Emerald Tower since to his logic the people that are important work in tall buildings and that signs don't lie.

Tiger found his way to a waiting room right outside of Ozpin's office thanks to the help of a very attractive blond woman.

"Young man, I must tell you it's rude to carry a Nevermore mask like that. People around here will be getting the wrong idea and will give you the people and Faunus of this school a bad name for you if you wear it." The woman scolded.

Tiger apologized immediately for his apparent rudeness and explained his intent.

"Terribly sorry ma'am this was actually a gift from Abyss academy to Beacon." Tiger said handing the mask to the professor.

"I see, Headmaster Ozpin will see you when your team arrives along with another group of mercenaries. Please get comfortable young man." The woman said taking the mask from Tiger. "I'll ask the headmaster about, thank you for the gift."

"Thank you ma'am for giving me and my team the opportunity for this mission, I'm honored for just being here ma'am." Tiger said placing his right fist in his open left hand while placing his right foot forward only letting his toes touch the ground.

Her scroll began to beep and she left without saying a word. The blond witch said nothing and made her way out of the room doing work on her giant scroll, probably grading or something.

Tiger sat in one of the chairs outside of the headmaster's office. The dreadfully long wait of two hours plagued Tiger, so he decided to nap off the time. Slowly the hours of riding that Nevermore took the toll on Tiger and let his aches rest and let sleep heal them.

Tiger shifted in his sleep jerking even at the nightmare haunting him from early childhood.

"WORTHLESS FAUNUS! A hand slapped a young Tiger sending him across the room his body already beaten.

"Please I'm so sorry I'll do better next time I swear!" The young adolescent Tiger Faunus begged while covering his nose from the bleeding coming from it.

"No…you need to happen when you lose." The man said turning to other smaller Tiger Faunus'.

"Please no! I'm sorry!" Tiger begged trying to get up doing his best to getting up but his injuries stopping him screaming at him that he had long since reached his limit.

Tiger had jerked even harder in his sleep but stopped when a familiar hand began to feel his ears under his hood.

Tiger opened his watery eyes and saw the girl with dark pink hair he had known for the long two years he attended Abyss academy, his leader Magenta.

"You were talking in your sleep again." Her pink eyes met Tiger's brown. "Same dream huh?"

"Was I saying 'I'm sorry' again?"

"Yup" Magenta took a seat next to me and continued to play with my ears, not pulling them just scratching them and rubbing them between her fingers. It didn't hurt, but it felt nice after a night terror.

Tiger sighed scanning the room for the two twin brutes that were hard hitters of their team. They were playing their game, for the love of dust Tiger could never remember the name, even when he played it. Something about catching them all…even though it's more fun to become champion.

Across the room he could see a group of four other people who were giving Magenta mean glares.

Their gaze was unsettling especially the fact that Tiger could sense their hostility and they were all very skilled.

On the farthest left side from Tiger was a girl with short spikey hair that had a small braid that went down to her ankle. She wore a black leather body suit with roller blades on her feet, Tiger made a mental note to watch out for those. What Tiger did notice was that she had whiskers…she was a Faunus…probably a Jaguar or another big cat like he was.

The next person to the right was another girl whose face…gave off the vibe you'd get from looking a snake in the eyes, she was pretty, but also slightly intimidating. She wore a visible black shirt with leather armor over it and loose pants with purple markings over it. She had really pretty black hair too with two streaks going down it. She had ribbons going down her left arm and a katana on her left side.

The next person in line was guy who had bear ears on his head in the open. He had full body armor made of steel with spikes made of gold going over his shoulders and knees including brass knuckles on his hands. He had neon green hair.

The last girl was a wolf Faunus by the look of her ears she had in the open as well. She had brown hair with roots that were auburn that came down to her waist. She wore a leather jacket and tight T-shirt including combat boots. Her weapon was strapped to her back, a crossbow that looks like it could change into another firearm.

An entire team made of Faunus, Tiger liked the idea that Faunus could deviate from the White Fang, but not so happy that they held prejudice towards humans anyway.

As soon as Tiger finished scanning them out they all launched themselves out of their chairs and drew their weapons. None of Tiger's team was ready for a surprise attack; he'd have to block all of them. Tiger drew Maya in a reverse grip and Jungala.

The Bear Faunus used the spikes on his shoulder for a charging tackle. Tiger intercepted by kicking the guy out of the way with his left leg. The bear Faunus turned his whole body for a cross punch, but Tiger saw the barrel holes in them and swiftly used his other leg to kick the fist to the floor while using his other leg to kick him away for distance.

Tiger's next opponent was the snake Faunus who drew her katana and made for a swift left swing which Tiger used the trigger guard to block.

"That trigger guard is the strongest part of this gun!" Tiger said before rising his Jungala and using Maya to scare the snake Faunus away with a horizontal slash.

It worked making the Faunus girl back up. Out of the corner of Tiger's eye the girl that had roller blades on was bladding right for him and twirled bringing her leg up for roundhouse kick. Tiger flipped Maya in between his fingers into a correct grip and used the blade to block the roller blades which had rectangular blades on them similar to teeth.

"Scary weapons here." Tiger commented and shoved her away.

Tiger saw the last girl the Wolf Faunus who pointed an assault rifle at him, which Tiger could have sworn was a crossbow. Tiger had pointed Jungala at the wolf and pulled the grenade launcher hammer of the revolver back and pointed it at her.

Tiger had been successful blocking and intercepted these mercenaries, but wasn't ready for their next move at the moment.

"Rush him!" They all yelled to each other and proceeded to their move.

The Bear rushed Tiger with another spiked rush. The snake tried making a stabbing attack towards Tiger. The Jaguar made an axe kick. The Wolf came rushing keeping her rifle pointed at Tiger.

Tiger had to consider his next move carefully, he didn't want to fire a shot indoors. Tiger flipped jungala and used the guard to avert the blade away while the two metals glided against each other. Tiger swung Maya in a revers grip using the blade to stop the bear Faunus in his tracks and the guard on the blade to stop those wheels on the blades from spinning. The barrel of the assault rifle was closing in and Tiger used his foot to move the gun upwards again Tiger's foot stopping the barrel of the gun.

Tiger and the other Faunus pushed back and forth trying to gain an inch. The rest of team MSZT were more than aware of what was happening. Magenta aimed her sniper rifle, while Serebro aimed his Bazooka and Zoloto aimed is sub machine gun grip that was crossed with a great sword.

"Nobody touches my leader." Tiger grunted and growled pushing them back slightly.

"Why do you let this human on your team, he could easily betray you?" The Jaguar Faunus grunted pushing back.

"She's a she, we've been in situations where I nearly died and not once have they left me for dead. All three of these idiots are my family. I know perfectly well how bad humans can be. I was in slavery for years!"

The four Faunus were shocked at how quickly the Faunus admitted to his tragedy.

"I'll consider trusting humans when they return my tail." The Jaguar replied pushing back harder.

It had occurred to the Tiger Faunus that this person didn't have ears so a tail should be there or…

"You were captured weren't you? People, no…humans cut off your tail because of that prejudice…I know what it's like to live with the prejudice that humans have towards us…but we don't have to let it define us, some sins can't be washed away and sometimes forgiveness can't be earned." Tiger said letting his muscles relax knowing that this fight won't continue.

"I may not have had my ears cut off or something like that, but taking your anger out on someone who doesn't deserve it. I'm her subordinate and I continually disobey her so she plays with my ears as punishment, trust me it doesn't hurt."

"But why? Why would you let this…human treat you so lowly like a pet more than a teammate?" The bear Faunus said backing up.

"Because he knows I do see him as an equal, I may be the leader so I can't treat one member of my team in a certain way because of his or her heritage. I treat him so because he constantly disobeys me like a loose cannon and well…honestly I couldn't bring myself to hit him or the other members of my team. I'm not the kind of girl to hurt people physically like with a belt or something." Magenta said putting her rifle over her shoulder with the sling.

The team of Faunus were stunned at the compassion that one human had for a Faunus, in complete honesty it was the only time they had ever seen compassion of the two species.

"I refuse to trust humans, it's my own thing along with my team. I'll never forgive them for cutting off my tail. If humans really seek to make friends with Faunus they'll have to try awfully hard to win me and my team over." The other Faunus nodded their heads in agreement hinting that they as well have experienced great prejudice.

"Then let me take the first step." The girl with dark pink hair said extending her hand out. "My name is Magenta Valentine, I'm 19 years old and I'm from Atlas." Magenta said sweetly waiting for one of the Faunus to take her hand.

They were all hesitant to take her hand but eventually the faunus in the spiked armor stepped up and shook her hand.

"Harley Skovaski, bear faunus, 19 years old and from Vacuo." The bear Faunus shook the sniper girl's hand.

The Jaguar scoffed and crossed her arms across her chest turning her back to her partner.

"I refuse to shake her hand or any of these humans, especially not a Human loving Faunus." The girl with gray haired turned to her team mate. "I'll have words with you later after all this is said and done."

"Look I don't want to start anything between us, I'm the keeper of the peace on this team. I don't really care too much if these humans want to befriend us. Rule 1 for MASH is the same as it always has been…we trust each other above all else."

The spiky gray haired girl turned her head again. "Well spoken."

It had just dawned upon the armored boy that his hand was still wrapped the city girl's hand which he quickly retracted and put to his side. It was then that the office doors of the emerald tower opened.

"Ah, sorry about that wait, paper work and other business, but please come in and let's get down to business." Headmaster Ozpin requested of the eight teens.

"To defeat…the Huns!" Serebro and Zoloto sang hilariously chuckling wrapping each other's arms around their shoulders.

Tiger and Magenta chuckled at the Disney reference the two twins had made.

Ozpin did seem amused by the twin's antics unlike the other Faunus who did not know what they were singing about.

"Funny, you two but this is a very serious matter please, again… come in."

The two teams went inside the office while Ozpin went behind his desk and began fumbling with holograms and then a dark figure that you could only make out a grin that extended from ear to ear appeared.

"Hello head master Cheshire…your team has arrived safely along with the team of Mercenaries. Can we begin?" Ironwood asked.

"Yes, let's get down to work here." Headmaster Cheshire said almost knowing a pair of twins' antics.

"Excellent. While the Vale Police department is a very effective force, it has had a very hard time tracking down." Ozpin began.

"Yes, Ozpin and the chief of Police have asked abyss academy and this group of mercenaries to eliminate a target who is the prime culprit in multiple dust robberies with the plausible aid of the white fang."

"Tsk, bunch of barbarians." The snake Faunus commented upon the white fang followed by 3 other nodding of heads from her partners.

"Your mission as huntsmen in training and mercenaries is to eliminate Roman Torchwick, if needed the white fang members you run across as well." Ozpin said pulling up and image of their target.

"I still say that my small faction of the Atlas military can track him down."

Ozpin began to cringe, but began to keep his composure.

"Your forces are indeed formidable, but these huntsmen are the greatest sophomore students in one of the greatest in one of Mistrals most difficult schools to enter, these young ones have what it takes to bring this syndicate down and headmaster Cheshire along with the council both agree with my decision general. Please...show some faith in me." Ozpin glared at the General who became fumed from continued frustration at Ozpin and left the head master's office.

"Pardon him, he's very hard headed about his military might." Ozpin explained.

"Its fine sir, may I ask the reward for a successful mission?" The wolf Faunus asked.

"You mercenaries will each receive one million lein each." Cheshire said upon hearing this perked the heads of the 4 Faunus mercenaries with interest.

The Tiger Faunus walked over slowly to examine the hologram of their target. "That's him…are you sure?" Tiger said with the upmost focus staring down the mug shot of Roman Torchwick.

"Yes without a doubt Tiger, I expect great things from the lightning in the Abyss." Cheshire said showing his famous ear to ear grin.

"Sir…" Tiger began with a low voice almost inaudible. Then picked up with a large storm of blue lightning coating Tiger as his aura striking fear into the other Faunus in the room and peeking an interest in Ozpin. "I'll make sure personally that that man will never live to see the next sunrise." Tiger said growling his aura growing larger around the room.

Hey guys thanks so much for reading you're awesome like that. RWBY is owned by the sad to admit late Monty Oum. I own team MSZT and Yuzuko owns Team MASH. I really hope you guys enjoyed, please review and feel free to PM me. Constructive criticism is encouraged so please be a critic about it. Its also sad to admit that this was written and being developed from Monty's hospitalization and passing. I won't say goodbye to Monty, but I will say rest in peace. If you liked this story then please follow and favorite it if you really had a good time. I know that this might not have been the best story written on this fanbase, but I had a lot of fun writing it. Thank you guys SO SO much and stay frosty out there.