Hello everyone and welcome to my first fanfiction. Hope you guys enjoy and as always RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth Productions.
Chapter 1: Prologue
A sandstorm raged in the desert's of Vacuo. The wind was rough and the sands bit the skin, a lone figure fought against the storm. She wears a white robe with golden lining. Steadily making her way through it. Her breath is heavy and her eyes show sadness, pain, and anger.
She stumbles and memories flash before her eyes. Memories of her tongue being cut out and her brain being removed through her nose while being forced to live through the experience with magic. She shakes off the memories, for she does not wish to dwell on them.
She gets up and presses through the storm, walking through debris and ruins of what was left of humanity; before it was destroyed. She felt that humanity would return though, and when it did, she would try to figure out a way to free herself of this curse she called an existence. As well as find a way to take her vengeance.
(Many Years Later)
In the dark of night, a lone figure stands a top the peak of an old castle in the far north of Atlas. He has an average build, but his prominent features are his larger than normal bat-like wings and his crimson eyes. He looks in a direction about south-east of his position and flies off in that direction.
Meanwhile in the city of Mantle, beneath the shadow of the towering floating city of Atlas. A fox Faunus woman is walking back home after a long day of working in the Schnee dust mines. She stops and turns around. "Who's there", she questions to the empty street behind her.
Thinking that it was just the wind, she continues down the street to her home. Knowing that it was more than just the wind she continues down the road with the sense that she is being followed. She begins to run into a nearby alleyway to evade her pursuer, only to be cut off by a dead end. "Where do you think you're going little lady"? She turns around and sees a middle-aged man of roughly minimal build in the alley way entrance looking at her with cold red eyes. As he approaches her, she feels light headed, as if the drowsiness from work had increased three fold.
When he gets within arms reach of her a new voice speaks up, "What do you think you're doing?" The middle-aged man looks behind him to see the bat winged individual standing in the alley way entrance waiting for a response. "What's it to you?" says the man. The younger male responds, "you shouldn't be feeding so regularly, have you forgotten rule number one?" "I'll feed whenever I feel like it. Unless you think you can stop me kid." said the man, already forgetting about his would be meal standing behind him half-cautious. "Actually, I do." As he said it, the young bat-winged male opened up a portal beside him and pulled out a silver sword with the form of a hand-in-a-half sword.
Without warning the man rushes the young male with what looks to be claws for nails. The bat-winged young man sidesteps him with near unnatural speed and impales him with the sword, causing the man to vanish in a burst of fire and ash. The young man went to the woman, who is starting to get over the drowsiness of whatever spell that she was under, and asks, "hey, are you alright?" The woman tried to scream, but the young man touched an area at the back of her neck knocking her out cold.
The young man then picks up the woman bridal style and walks out of the alleyway with her. He is then stopped by two Atlesian soldiers, "Hey kid, what happened? What are you doing with that unconscious woman?" The boy replied, "Hey gentlemen. I just saved this poor woman from a would be assaulter. Could you make sure that she gets home safely when she wakes up?" As he is laying the woman on the floor next to a building, one of the soldiers replies, "Uh, sure, we'll insure she gets there safely after we talk to her about what happened." "Thanks", says the boy, "Sorry, but I can't stay. But I was happy to help. Good evening gentlemen."
As the boy gets a good distance from the soldiers, he asks himself, "Why do they always scream?" "Its because of what you are." says a voice from the boy's left. Out of a different alleyway, walks out a very attractive young woman with light brown skin and raven black hair that comes down to her shoulders. She wears a pure white dress with gold trimmings lined around the edges that accentuates her golden colored eyes.
"Cleo? How long have you been there?" the boy said. "Long enough to see your handy work Prince." responded the young woman known as Cleo, "So, what was the reason you wanted to see me?" she asked, "I actually wanted to speak to everyone, could you give me a lift to Vale, it's a bit of a long flight." Prince rersponded "Sure, we can pick up Ebon and look for Maria afterwards." said Cleo. Prince exclaimed, "Cool, then let's get going." With that Cleo places a hand on Prince's shoulder, and with a flash of light, they vanished.
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In the early morning light, a lone young man stands ready in the brush. He has short white hair and a lean muscular build. His eyes are an orange, amber color that are slitted while staring at his quarry. He is wearing only a pair of ragged torn shorts that seem like they used to be jeans. The cool breeze of the morning air tingles at his bare skin as he waits for the perfect opportunity to strike.
The deer ran and he chased after it, as he used the trees to keep up with his prey. "Man, this never gets old." said the young man as he closed in on his prey. When he got just above his quarry, he launched forward and used his claw like nails to slash at the deer's neck, killing it instantly.
Taking a few breathes he said, "Whew, now to get this back so we can eat," "Well I heard about fast food but this is just ridiculous," said a voice from the trees. The boy looked up to see a young man with bat-like wings wearing a rugged, button-up, long sleeved shirt with a leather long-coat over it, with a pair of travel-worn pants. "What are you doing here Prince?" asked the boy. "I have something I need to tell everyone. We came to get you Ebon." said Prince.
"I've got to get this back to the pack," said Ebon, gesturing to the dead deer, "after that I can go and see what you want to talk about." Prince got a smile on his face, "Cool, I'll wait for you here and we'll go to the normal place together. Besides, Cleo is currently looking for Maria anyway." "Alright, I'll be back soon." said Ebon as he hauled the deer carcass over his shoulder.
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In the late evening of the Forever Fall Forest, a serpentine humanoid slithered through the foliage. She listens to the wind, marvels at nature's majesty, and smells the sweet scent of the Forever Fall sap off the trees. The animals at peace and nature in complete bliss.
She then hears a shear cry, as if something was frightened and needed help. She rushes to the location of the cry, only to discover that a lone young grim is being cornered by three hunters. Now to clarify, this is not like the soulless monsters that are the creatures of Grimm. This is a creature that looks like a young black dog, whose eyes look at one with the intenseness of the spirit of vengeance itself. But a child of this rare breed of creature.
To get the hunters' attention, she makes her serpentine tail known, to which they follow; forgetting the young creature that they were going after. Then they hear a voice singing with the sound of an angel in the morning light. So pleasant it is to their ears that when they see the visage of the one singing, they do not pay any mind to it. She was a colorful, almost rainbow-serpent from the waist down and a beautiful young woman from the waist up, with hair of emerald green, eyes and skin of sapphire blue, wearing only what appears to be the top of a swimsuit two-piece.
Unbeknownst to them, when they get close enough to touch her, her tail springs forth with one swift motion and takes off their heads with the force of the hit. She then goes to check on the young grim. It barks happily to her and runs off, back into the reaches of the Forever Fall Forest. The serpentine woman then transforms into a beautiful young human woman, with light tan skin and long chestnut brown hair. She now wears a casual pair of jeans with a complimentary blue t-shirt. "Hello Maria", says the voice of someone nearby, "still protecting the young I see." "Only from those who threaten them Cleo," the one now known as Maria says. "Well if you're done, Prince has something to tell all of us and you are the last to be retrieved." said Cleo. "Oh goodie. What does bat-boy have in store for us this time?" asked Maria. "Don't know, but he was pretty adamant about it," replied Cleo. "Alright, so what are we waiting for? Let's not keep his highness waiting." With that, they made their way through the Forever Fall Forest, leaving it as peaceful as it was before the hunters' deaths.
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On a cliff in Vale, the four creatures stand to discuss the event that will change their lives forever. "So, now that we are all here, what I propose is that we attend Beacon Academy." The other three starred at the vampire like he had been brought back to life and died again in that one instance. "WHAT!?" exclaimed the other three. "You're insane," said Maria. "You've finally lost your mind," responded Cleo. "That's it, I'm throwing him off the cliff," said Ebon.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait," Prince pleaded, "Here me out. I thought of everything. We can easily say that our natural abilities are just semblances, we look the correct age. And if worse comes to worse we can just book it the hell out of there." "But how do you propose we hide our nature's from the headmaster of Beacon?", Cleo questioned. "That's the best part," exclaimed Prince, "We tell him what we are and get him to help keep our secrets, well, secrets." Ebon looks at him with an annoyed expression, "Actually, scratch that, I'm going to throw him into the cliff." "Wait," Cleo said, "it might actually work. If he gets hostile I could easily use my powers to make him forget about the encounter and we can go about our lives as normal." "Of course", exclaimed Prince while hiding behind Cleo. "Well, I guess it could be interesting going to a human/faunus school for the first time," responded Maria. "I guess it could work," said Ebon, "but if this goes to far south for us to get away, I'm personally ripping you a new one Prince." "Noted", Prince said, "Now guys, let's get started on our newest adventure. Let's go to huntsman school!"
So yeah, not a bad start. Should let you guys know that I will not be able to get ch. 2 out until after St. Patrick's Day sense I'm going to Savannah. But I'll try to get it finished and up after I get back. Until then I'll be looking forward to reviews and comments. Tell me what you guys think of it so far.