Prologue:Daily Life

-Reality-

"Stop slacking off there Chase!" I snap out of my daydream and look around seeing him standing there with an annoyed expression. I rub my eyes "sorry boss won't happen again." He sighs "I know it's your last day but please try your best." He says with a small smile I nod "of course sir I 'll try my best."

I work as a hunter...oh not one of those psychos who go around firing their chain-saw shotguns or something but an actual hunter. I go out into the woods and hunt for animals while avoiding the grimm which plague the forest.

Luckily someone had decided they wanted to go out today so I worked in the shop at the counter sadly there's no buyers today so I'm having trouble staying awake. The man who was just talking to me is the owner of this shop nice guy but a bit of a pain when it's time to pay us our share.

Not that I seriously mind I enjoy my work but if I'm being perfectly honest...The Grimm terrify me. It's not like hunting an animal where you just have to cover your tracks and wait no it'll come to you but it won't stop it'll pursue you ruthlessly and when it comes to normal people like us we find it hard to stay motivated when something stronger quicker and deadlier than you is out to kill you at any moment.

That being said I've only killed one of them and it was an accident I'd been careless and ended up catching one of those wolf like creatures attention it strayed from the pack luckily while they were chasing me and I manage to catch it when it wasn't paying attention...though because of my blunder a friend of mine was killed.

As it stands I live in a border city meaning we're on the border of two of the kingdoms not sure which ones they are but I remember someone talking about how nice it was even though grimm still show up because it's a border city it's heavily guarded.

Introductions right I'm Chase Gray Towers or Chase G. Towers for short and for the past three months or so and I've been living in this city I'm seventeen and work as a hunter for one of the local traders and as I already said I'm not that kind of hunter I just hunt animals so no gun blade gun or anything fancy like that.

I live downtown in a small apartment with a friend of mine she's stuck in a wheelchair sadly and I insisted she'd let me work in her place she's nineteen today so I've been putting in extra hours so I could get her a present.

A small shop near here was making a small heart shape locket for me I just need a little bit more money before they'll actually give me the thing though. I wonder if she'll be happy with it she seemed a bit depressed recently so I hope this'll cheer her up.

"Chase are you slacking off again!" I snap to attention shaking my head "no I-I was just um huh?" I sigh sitting back down "really man I don't need you stressing me out right now." I groan rubbing my eyes he laughs sitting on the counter "it's fine boss went out for a bit one of the guys got injured during the hunt."

"So the hunt went bad then?" I asked he shakes his head "oh no it went fine idiot tripped and hit his head on a rock." He hops off the counter spinning to look at me "so how's everything here slow as usual?" He says with a small grin I nod sighing "I've got another hour before my shifts done but tomorrows pay day so I'm happy." I say with a smile.

He nods "that's good to hear I guess I should let you get back to work then?" He asked me with a small smile I nod "yeah I'll see you later!" I yell to him as he exits the shop. I let a small sigh leave my lips as I sit there waiting for a customer to show up and sadly for the rest of my shift they don't.

The city has a great security system all cameras' in the city run to one place as to avert an epidemic from spreading say a riot broke out towards the northern side of the city next to the great lake and they began marching into the city they be able to respond alot quicker than if the cameras' didn't exist since they could see where they all were.

That for the most part deals with the people on the inside of these walls there's also the dome that for the most part is always closed around the city and only opens to let aircraft lands. With that we avoid alot of conflict with any grimm and along with that if I haven't mentioned it already is the wall that we're apart of. Two other places are key components in keeping the field that is the wall up and we're in the center of it.

I don't think about it much since I came here to forget village life. "Chase your shifts over get the out of here!" Boss roars I stand up grinning "thanks boss sorry not many people came through I yell as I get to the front of the building I grab the sign flipping it from closed to open "so he did flip it." I say with a grin running grabbing my bag before heading out.

I run down the street stopping at a red light a motorcycle fires past a woman nearby takes a picture of one of the fountains and a large muscular man continuously presses the button while talking to his buddies.

Annoying but I can't take it I close my eyes drowning everything out. I can hear some birds chirping the wind blowing past and the sound of feet crossing gravel. I open my eyes realizing I could cross the street now I bolt across barely catching the bus.

While on there we past by an old mechanics shop a mall even a small weapons place I think I saw a dust place but I'm not sure Schnee is everywhere so I wouldn't be surprised. Everyone seems to have some form of animosity towards the family could careless to be honest the whole 'faunus' thing they've got a problem with probably just a rumor besides I live out in the sticks I don't think a group like the White Fang would target this place they're like folk tales to us they don't seem to exist I wish I could say the same for the grimm though.

Of course there's still hostility between humans and the faunus but I don't think it's as bad as other places people really just tolerate each other here although you'll probably hear one or two bad rumors spreading around about one of the groups.

Right she's still waiting at home I just want to check how the lockets progress is. I get off the bus and walk through the open door into the store "Chase my favorite customer what can I do for you today my friend?" The man asked this would be Grinch Greendale he said his parents were obsessed with some old tale and his name originates from it.

Grinch Pinch Junk Shop this find establishment is well a junk shop they pretty much do anything and sell anything as long as it's legal and sometimes legal is stretch to a thin line with Greendale.

"I was wondering if you're guy finished the locket?" Grinch grins "I see you're excited to give it to your friend, am I right?" I nod pulling out what I had "I was going to wait but until tomorrow but I wanted to give you what I had today I'll get you the rest tomorrow I just want to make sure you know I'm actually paying for this."

The Grinch tears up grabbing me and hugging tears in his eyes "you see why you're my favorite customer you pay up front no questions asked!" He laughs walking into the back saying something I couldn't really hear after a moment he's back out with a small box.

"Here kid take it I know you're good for the rest but consider it a special discount for being my number one customer." He says with a sly smile I nod taking the box running out of the shop. It was true I came to his Junk Shop every other day looking for parts to fix up things in my apartment I don't have enough money to hire anyone so it was my best bet.

'The bus won't be back for awhile I'll just take the train.' I think to myself as I head to the subway. "did you hear about hunters are suppose to be passing through the area today!" A boy says as I pass him the girl he was talking to laughs "right why would they stop through here?"

She was right even though we were a border city we weren't known for many tourist or any kind of actual visitors it was safe if you had the money to pay for it and all my money went to that safety well almost all of it.

"What is that!" A man screams before I can lift my head I'm blown back smashing into something hard the pain surges through my entire body and I'm positive I heard a crack I'm not sure if was from my body or one of the others that smashed into the ground around me but all I could manage was a gurgled response to the pain as I fell to the floor my vision blurred and everything went black.

And that's it for that one! I hope you enjoyed if you have any questions OCs' or you just want to say something review or P.M. me and I'll be sure to respond as soon as possible. This story is in the RWBY Universe if no one caught onto that but it's far away from the conflicts of the main cast and alot of them won't have anything to do with this story for a long time so sorry to anyone who wanted them to have a big part through the whole story. Next alot of characters didn't have descriptions if not all (It was all). That's because this was prologue to the story to show a bit of our protagonist normal life before things go to hell. I'm accepting OCs' since this is more OC centered but don't really need them I just want to make it more fun for everyone with that said thank you for reading and I'll see you in the next one!