Intro
There's a point where it tips…
A girl sat on her knees in the middle of a battlefield, her clothes torn, her fuchsia-colored hair tangled and her tearful golden eyes staring at a silver part in her hands, the part resembled part of a robotic hand, but it had broken off in some sort of struggle. To her left, a tall, thin young man in white clothes knelt, his cuffed hands clutching his head as he cried in anguish and in fear. His howling shouts echoing loudly amongst the crackles of the flames surrounding them. As the young man beside her babbled, a young woman, easily half her size and garbed in black, flying above with small raven-black wings, shouting someone's name over and over.
There's a point where it breaks…
The young woman, named Fuchsia, closed her eyes, thinking of the possibility that she may have lost one of her teammates because of her. She began sobbing, burying her face into her hands. Her body trembling and aching with every cry, her face twisted in fear and soaked with tears. She glanced back up to see Ebinissi, praying that she was out of the sky. The small raven Faunus had been searching the ruins of what remained of the train station. She searched everywhere for the missing team member. When Fuchsia looked to see if Ebinissi had landed, she cried after seeing that she was still airborne. The young man beside her still babbled, and his cries were only getting worse.
There's a point where it bends…
"Alinite!" Ebinissi cried and landed where the missing member was.
Fuchsia gasped and ran to see if Alinite was alright as she tucked the metal piece in her pocket. But she stopped in her tracks, watching the white-clothed member shake, rattling the handcuffs that bound him and listened to him whimper. She knew Alinite was with at least somebody. Him- Tiamon, however, wasn't being comforted or being tended to. She went to his side and knelt by him, gently taking his hands and shushing him, "Tai…" she called gently.
"I can't go back to jail… I can't go back to jail…" he cried and sniffled, "I'm not crazy…" he whimpered, "I'm not crazy…" his tone intensified, "I didn't kill him!" he shouted and stood straight up, swinging his arms in every which way, "Get off me! I didn't do it!" he barked.
"Tiamon!" Fuchsia jumped and grabbed his hands, "Look at me!"
Tiamon's eyes had been closed. He struggled and screamed more, trying to break free and run away.
"Tiamon!" Fuchsia slapped him, finally getting a bright, grey-eyed look from him. "Stay with us, okay?" she said and melted the chains holding his wrists together. "Ebi found Alinite, we can grab him and get him home. We'll be fine. You'll be okay, I promise."
"I'm not going to jail?" he asked.
She managed a smile and shook her head, "Not today. Not ever." She smiled, "Come on."
And a point we just can't take anymore…
Fuchsia ran around the corner with Tiamon skating close behind. They jumped over a few piles of rubble and found Ebinissi kneeling by a larger man, easily twice Tiamon's size, in width, height, and weight. The man laid unconscious under a pile of rubble, his head bled and his body was bruised. His right arm, which was a prosthetic under unfortunate circumstances, rested shattered at his side.
"It's not good, Fuchsia…" Ebinissi's small voice whimpered, "I can't lift any of this off of him and he won't answer me." She looked at Tiamon, "Get it off of him…" she sniffled.
Tiamon rubbed his hands together and bent down to grip the rubble, after a moment, he began lifting, seeming to pick up the rubble effortlessly. His feet began sinking into the ground, cracking the pavement under him. "Grab him. Grab him!" he grunted. He was holding up what appeared to be a good portion of the roof.
Four years ago…
Fuchsia walked onto the Beacon campus- her new school. The campus was- as close to flawless as she'd ever seen as far as condition and cleanliness went in a huntsman/huntress school. The majority of the campus was white and the lawns were the perfect color green. Such a clean, sharp campus made her feel oddly at home, considering where her family lived.
She looked around to see the students she'd be joining this year. There was a girl in red and another in yellow, both walking about until the girl in red tripped over the luggage of a girl in white, after the girl in yellow ran off with a small group of people. Fuchsia rose an eyebrow while she watched the girl in white scream at her, supposedly the girl in white was carrying a lot of dust with her and was a member of the Schnee family. She rolled her eyes and kept walking, turning and looking around some more, finally laying eyes on a tall, bulky young man wearing grey. He wore a long-sleeved dark grey shirt under a lighter grey t-shirt. His white pants underneath were barely keeping his thick legs housed, but his tan boots seemed to do the trick.
She smiled upon seeing him, "Alinite!" she called and went to his side. She saw that his hands were tucked into his pockets, "You alright?"
He gave her an uncomfortable look then looked around the new campus.
She sighed, "You'll be okay. So far, I've seen three or four other Faunus here, so you should be okay. Besides, I don't think they're gonna mess with an alligator Faunus anyway." She smiled.
He just rolled his eyes.
She looked back at him and furrowed her brows, "Are you wearing makeup?" she asked.
He gave her another uneasy look with his yellow eyes. His granite-grey hair wasn't tied all the way back like it normally was, the bangs on the left side remained loose and covered his left eye.
She sighed, "You should be fine, Al." she managed a smile.
He sighed and nodded, taking her word as he had done for years.
"Look out!" someone behind them shouted as they heard shuffling approach them. The young man crashed into Fuchsia and knocked her down. The figure in white kept skating by.
"Hey- watch it!" Alinite finally spoke, his tone was aggressive and he seemed to growl.
The young man, turned around and held his hands up submissively, "Sorry." He scoffed and continued to skate away after catching a metallic gleam off of Alinite's right hand.
Alinite growled, "Jerk." He said and helped Fuchsia to her feet.
"It's okay." She reassured him, "Accidents happen." she brushed herself off. "At least he gave us a warning." She said.
"Are you okay?" a small voice asked. The voice belonged to a small girl, half Fuchsia's size and easily a couple years younger. Fuchsia at the time was seventeen. She had large violet eyes and long, semi-wavy black hair with dark grey ends. She wore a small witch's hat and a small black dress to match, off the back of her shoulders hung a cape. "That was rude, yes, but he didn't mean it." She gave them an optimistic smile, "He's just in a rush, I'd imagine."
Fuchsia nodded, "Do you know him?" she asked.
"No, not yet." The young girl shook her head, "But I'd like to." She smiled, "I wanna meet every student here. And hopefully make friends with them all." She held out her hand, "Ebinissi Abyss." She introduced brightly, "Nice to meet you."
Fuchsia felt she had no choice but to cooperate with Ebinissi, so she shook her hand, "Fuchsia Bourgun." She said.
Ebinissi turned and held her hand out to Alinite, then shrunk a little when he just looked at her, seeing his yellow eyes surrounded by the blackness of the rest of his eyes. She knew there was some sort of Faunus in him
"Sorry- he doesn't talk much. His name is Alinite Grey." Fuchsia introduced him.
"Oh…" Ebinissi looked back up at Alinite, "Well, I hope you warm up to the school! And I hope we become great friends!" Ebinissi cheered and hopped away.
Fuchsia and Alinite both watch her skip away. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Fuchsia asked.
"She's adorable?" Alinite said blankly in a low tone, low enough for only Fuchsia to hear him.
"Huh? No, I think she's a Faunus." Fuchsia said, "She is cute though." She managed a small smile.
"She is a Faunus." Alinite said, "Some sort of bird." He said.
"That explains the cape." Fuchsia nodded, "Come on, let's get inside." She pat his back.
Later that night, each of the first-year students were piled into the ballroom to spend the night. Alinite chose a quiet corner where very few people huddled. He rested on his stomach on top of the sleeping bag that had been given to him, and beside him, laid another sleeping bag that he had reserved for Fuchsia. He watched the room quietly, taking in his surroundings and observing the people he was going to be spending the rest of his school year with. He closed his eyes for a while, already missing home and his one-on-one time with Fuchsia. She made him feel comfortable. In fact, she was the only one he was more comfortable to even talk to, much less spend time with. He heard soft footprints approach him, but not coming from the women's locker room, like he hoped. Instead, they came from the other side of him, "Yo, big guy, got a second?" the owner of the voice asked.
Alinite opened his eyes and looked up at the tall, slim figure above him, easily recognizable as the guy before that knocked Fuchsia down earlier that day, however this time, instead of the sleeveless waistcoat he wore before, he was now only wearing a pair of light grey sweatpants and no shirt. He glowered at him.
"Look, you're clearly not the guy to be messed with here, and I don't want to spend the next four years of my school life with a target on the back of my head." He knelt to Alinite's level, "Sorry for knocking over your girlfriend, earlier." He apologized. "Name's Tiamon Pearl, you can call me Tai, though. Truce?"
Alinite just looked at his hand and glared back up at him.
"Alinite, who's this?" Fuchsia asked, finally approaching them.
"Hey, speak of the devil." Tiamon stood and turned to her, "I just came over here to apologize for knocking you over earlier." He said. "Your boyfriend here-"
"He's not my boyfriend." Fuchsia said, "We're not dating."
"I see." Tiamon nodded, finally observing Fuchsia. Her long, fuchsia hair draped neatly over her shoulders with her white bangs trailing down. Her body was thin, but very curvy. He would not describe her to be a small woman, in height or in size. She wore a dark red cami and a pair of black silk pants. "Well, again: I apologize for knocking you over and maybe sometime I can make it up to you. Maybe we can go out for coffee or a drink sometime." He said.
She scoffed, "I accept your apology, but I'd rather get to know a man a little more before I go out on a 'date' with him." She explained, making the air quotes, "Don't get me wrong, you seem like a nice guy." She continued, "But, maybe we talk a little first."
Tiamon rose his hands and chuckled, "I got it, you're one of those chicks who likes to take her time with her men. Makes sense. No pressure or nothing." He smiled, "Besides, I didn't come to this school to turn it into a dating service." He said, "Although…" he pointed behind him to a blonde who was trying to flirt to another girl but was failing horribly at it, "Some guys here think otherwise."
Fuchsia leaned over, and laughed, "Good luck to him." She then sat down on the sleeping bag Alinite had laid out for her.
Tiamon nodded in agreement, "Hey, mind if I crash with you guys tonight? I haven't settled anywhere else just yet."
"Sure, I don't mind, Alinite, do-" Fuchsia looked down at Alinite and found that he'd already fallen asleep.
"Passed out already, huh?" Tiamon smirked and laid out a sleeping bag that he'd retrieved. "So… you and Croc: how did that happen? You're nice and he's not nice at all." He asked and sat down.
"Croc? Where does that come from?" she asked.
"Well, he kind of looks like a croc and he's a jerk. How did that happen?"
Fuchsia scoffed, "First off- gator." She corrected him, "Second, he saved my life and we've been friends since. Of course my parents were pissed about it-"
"Why were your parents pissed?" Tiamon cut her off.
"They… they don't like Faunus. They see a Faunus like they see every other animal in this world." She said.
"Faunus?" Tiamon leaned over to get a better look at Alinite. "Oh, an alligator Faunus." Tiamon nodded, "That explains a lot." He said and shook his head.
She saw this and glared at him, "Do you have a problem with Faunus?" she asked, an aggressive tone rumbled in her voice.
"Absolutely not. I see a Faunus like every other person here. Faunus are people. Some assholes are just blind." Tiamon shrugged. "A few friends of mine are Faunus."
She nodded, "Good." She said, relaxing. She laid back on the sleeping bag.
"So what happened?" Tiamon asked, "Why'd he need to save your life?"
She sat back up and looked at him, "There was a Grimm." She said, "A Deathstalker, I think it's called. Anyway, I was walking and the thing came out of nowhere. I thought I was alone and I thought it was gonna kill me, then suddenly Alinite jumped in between me and the monster and caught the stinger in his arm. The Deathstalker then grabbed the rest of his arm and threw him at a tree. I thought he was down for a while, but he got right back up, then he ran and shouted at the Deathstalker, like he was roaring at it. The Deathstalker paused before it swung to attack. But it didn't." she explained, she had become distant, replaying everything in her head, "It turned around and left." She said. "Then he looked at me for a minute and started walking away."
"Wait- a Deathstalker stung his arm?" Tiamon asked, "How does he still have that arm?" he asked.
"He doesn't." she said and looked at him.
He gave her a confused look, "Wait- what?"
"His right arm is fake." She said, then pointed to Alinite, who slept with his right arm tucked under his body and his left under his head.
Tiamon thought for a while, "You seem oddly 'okay' with telling me this stuff about this guy." He said doubtingly, "Why?"
"I'm really telling you the stuff that most people would know sooner or later." She said.
"Like his arm and that he's a Faunus?" he asked.
"Hey Fuchsia." Ebinissi hopped over. "Just wanted to tell everyone good night." She leaned over and saw that Alinite was asleep, "Good night, Ali." She smiled, "Good night, Fuchsia." Then she finally looked at Tiamon, "Good night, Tai." She giggled and skipped away, saying good night to several of the other students, several of which Fuchsia was able to remember the next day: Jaune, Nora, Pyrrha, Ren, Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang.
"Well then." Tiamon yawned, "She's right though, should probably get some sleep." He stretched. Then thought a while, "How did he survive? Where were you guys?" he asked, "How'd he get the fake arm?"
Fuchsia smiled and laid back down, "We were in a swampy area. I got lost trying to find a spring and ran into that Deathstalker. Fortunately his family didn't live too far away, so I walked him home. He was barely able to stand by the time we got him home."
"Damn…" Tiamon said, he was beginning to drift off.
"Yeah, and his parents are mechanics. So they built him one with some help from a family friend, of course." Fuchsia explained, answering his final question.
"That's cool…" Tiamon murmured.
She nodded, she knew he was tired, but she was still wide awake. "So, you know mine and Alinite's story, what's yours?" she asked. She heard no response. "Tai?" she called, then she glanced over and barely saw Tiamon sound asleep in the candlelight from across the room. Then it occurred to her, most of the people in the room were now asleep.
"What are you two doing?!" a voice shrieked from across the room, "People are trying to sleep!"
She looked over and found it was the Schnee girl, Weiss. She was yelling at Ruby, the girl in red from before, and Yang, the girl in yellow from before, who was apparently her sister. Before she knew it, all three of them where yelling at each other. Of course right then was when she was beginning to feel tired. She glanced down and saw Alinite stirring, pulling his eyebrows together in frustration. His eyes opened and he took a deep breath.
Fuchsia snapped, "Now all three of you are loud! Shut it and let everyone else sleep!" she barked.
Alinite flipped around and looked at her, managing a small smile.
The three bickering girls had grown quiet, their attention on the corner from which they'd heard the voice from.
Alinite chuckled silently as the light from the candle died out. He relaxed once more, "Good night, Fuchsia." He whispered.
**Alright, just a note, my Fiance and I are both working on RWBY fics. I don't think he's posted his just yet though, but we are gonna borrow each other's OCs for this. Fuchsia, Alinite, Tiamon, and Ebinissi are mine. Kit. Yes. But she won't show up until later. Anyway. Please lemme know if you liked it. Just wait for Initiation. When I said kind of cannon, I meant they go through through most of the same events as everyone else. But they're gonna have other stuff going on too that has nothing to do with the RWBY plot.**