I walked up down the airship, scanning every face. Everyone was there for the same reason I was: To attend the prestigious Beacon Academy. The only difference between them and me was the age. Most people that go to Beacon complete four years at a smaller academy, such as Signal, the one I went to. But me, I only completed two, and got bumped up two years. It wasn't my grades, my athletic ability, or my talent. It was my skill, determination, and past.
I continued walking up and down the airship, when I spotted a red and black haired girl. I remembered her from Signal, our friends once got in a fight. Her father taught there, he didn't like me much. I wondered why she was here, till I remembered what she did a few weeks ago, roughly around the time of what happened to me. She defended a dust shop, but me, I defended my life.
July 25, 2015
"Roses are red, and violets are blue, one day we'll cruise down Blood Gulch Avenue" I sang to myself. I was sitting out in the forest, waiting for my foster family to get the picnic stuff from the car. A twig broke behind me, and I turned around.
"Hey sis, what's taking so long?" I asked, till I looked up and saw what was looking at me.
The Beowolf stared me down. It was waiting for me to be afraid. My family was screaming at me, they were scared. They didn't know my past, all they knew was I was a troubled kid in the foster system. The Beowolf leaned over, got in my face, and opened it's mouth.
I pulled out my knife from my pocket, and stabbed the Grimm through the bottom of it's mouth. It yelped, and swung at me. I hit the ground, rolled to my right, then ran up to it. I shoved my knife into it's stomach, and twisted it. The Beowolf howled and fell to it's side. It grabbed it's side, and stood back up, and glared at me.
There was whistle, and it turned around. A gunshot went off, and hit me in the shoulder. I dropped my knife, and the Beowolf charged me. I jumped to my left, and ran to a tree to take cover. The gunman kept shooting at me, and I pondered what to do. I saw my foster dad on his scroll, calling for help.
"DAD!" I yelled. He looked at me.
"LEAVE! GET IN THE CAR AND LEAVE!" I yelled. My family looked confused, they didn't know what to do, the didn't want to leave me. The Beowolf charged me again, and I dodged, causing him to run into the tree. I retrieved my knife, and beheaded him. The Grimm evaporated, and the gunman ran towards me. I through my knife at him, striking him in the arm. He dropped his gun, took my knife out of him, and ran towards me. He swung the knife at me, and I blocked him with my right arm.
He struck me with a punch to the gut, and I doubled over while backing up. He punched me in the nose, and I glared at him.
You've been through worse Ethan I thought to myself.
I wiped my blood off my nose, and swung. I hit the man across the face, and threw him off balance. As he started to fall, I cocked my arm back, and struck him so hard he left a crater and the ground shook. He looked me, and popped his neck. I turned to my right, to see my mom hugging my sister, who was bawling.
The man stood up and started walking towards me. I picked up my knife from the ground, and charged him. I cut his stomach, and kicked him to his knees. I walked behind him, and grabbed his arm.
"This is for dad." I said. I cut his arm.
"This is for Caleb." I said. I cut his arm deeper.
"This is for mom." I cut his hand off.
"This is for Elias." I cut his arm off.
"And this one, THIS IS FOR ME." I screamed, and slit his throat. His lifeless corpse fell to the ground. I wiped my knife off on him, put it away, and looked at my foster family.
"Ethan...Ethan...how?" My foster mother asked. I stared at her.
"Habit." I answered. I started walking towards them, and my six year old sister screamed. I walked up to her, and squatted down to talk to her.
"Hey, it's okay. It's still me." I told her. She looked at me, sniffled, then hugged me. I hugged her back, and looked up at my mom, who was terrified. My father walked up, and mouthed "I'm sorry." That day, I was back in the foster system.
I sat in the front room of the foster house, when one of the volunteers walked into the room.
"Ethan, you have a visitor." I looked up, and saw Ozpin.
"Ethan. That fighting was, incredible." He said.
"How do you know?" I asked. He looked out the window at a crow, and looked back at me.
"People."
"Are you just here to congratulate me on being kicked out of my foster house?" I asked.
"No, I'm here to offer you a home." Ozpin said. "You don't have to accept."
"Explain, please." I said.
"As you most likely know, I'm the headmaster at Beacon, and the new semester is starting soon. I think you would be a perfect fit for our program. The only thing is, you just finished your sophomore year at Signal. I could, personally, see to it that you start your freshman year at Beacon this fall. If, that sounds good to you."
"Yes." I answered quickly. Ozpin stood up, and nodded at me.
"Very well. I'll be seeing you very, very soon." Ozpin turned around and walked out of the room.
I started to make my way towards the girl. I squeezed in between people, my rifle bumping against me every step I took. I made it close to her, and stood still, waiting for a good time to step in.
"I want to be a normal girl with normal knees!" I heard her say to a blonde girl standing next to her. I took a deep breath, and stepped up to introduce myself.
"Hi, my name's Ethan." I said. The two girls checked me up and down. The blonde one locked eyes with me.
"Didn't you play Grifball at Signal?" The she asked.
"Yes ma'am I did. Starting forward on varsity." She looked at me, nodded, then extended her arm.
"I'm Yang, and this is my sister, Ruby." She said.
"Hi!" Ruby said. Ruby had silver eyes, and it drew my attention, but I didn't mention it. We talked for the remaining thirty minute ride on the airship.
I was a little late of the airship but when I got of the ship I saw Yang walking with some people who I guessed were friends, and Ruby was standing by herself.
"Hey Ruby, you ok?" I asked her.
"Oh yeah I'm fine, but Yang ditched me so I'm alone" She said to me.
"I'm here, so you're not alone" I had said in an attempt to be nice.
"Yeah I guess" She replied. She started walking backwards
"Ruby watch out!" I had yelled, trying to catch her attention. She was about to fall into some girl's luggage. Let me rephrase that. Weiss Schnee's luggage.
"Watch out you duntz! You could have broke something!" She yelled at Ruby.
"Hey, she didn't break anything so leave her alone!" I yelled in defense of Ruby. Weiss had given me a look and walked away.
"At least you tried to save me." Ruby said to me.
"It's the thought that counts." I responded.
"Hey look pukeboy!" She said, taking off. I didn't know who she was talking about, and I stared as she ran off.
A/N: The RWBYE Story is currently undergoing maintenance as of 12/2/2017. Grammar mistakes, spelling, and certain portions of the story will be edited. Thank you for reading. Check my profile for an in depth explanation and schedule. Thank you! -FPSPROsorta
