* Hey there everyone and welcome to my first chapter of my first fanfic, I don't normally do this so don't expect perfection or anything living up to your standards. I would like to if you left criticism in your reviews but keep it constructive okay? So without further adieu lets begin RWBY: Behind the mask. *
Disclaimer : All characters of RWBY belong to Monty Oum along with everything else that is original to the show. I own nothing expect for my OCs.
" So I'm going to Beacon huh? A new chapter in this story called my life" thought a 17-year-old male to himself on board an airship heading to the prestigious academy for training hunters and huntresses known as Beacon. This teenage boy had short black hair with a light brownish tan for his skin complexion. His brown eyes portrayed him as friendly but yet didn't show show any light or comfort and seem to hide another side of him. In terms of clothing he wore an ash gray hooded jacket with white stripes going down the arms and black trims complementing it. The sleeves were rolled up to his elbows but his steel-gray bracer covered the rest of his left arm while a wicked looking metal gauntlet was on covering his arm up to his ending in claw-like tips. On the back the back of the gauntlet an image of an stylized eye inside a Celtic designed circle imprinted on it. A red long sleeve shirt could be seen through the open jacket and wore black and gray pants. For foot wear he wore steeled tipped gray boots. Pieces of armor were also fastened to body which consisted pauldrons on his shoulders, leg bracers and chest armor that was covered only his right breast. It only made sense to be prepared since his future occupation would be to fight monsters who would like nothing but to rip people limb from limb. On his back was his weapon, which took the form of a collapsed blade in its sheathed form with two shield-like pieces lying on its side along with hidden surprises. As he was watching out the window of the ship watching the scenery until an arm wrapped itself around his neck.
"Quite the view isn't it brother?" said a voice on his left.
The teenager turns his head to his left and stares into the face of another teenager that looked identical to him except that his hair was swept forward compared to his swept back hair. He gave a small smirk to his twin brother " It sure is Azure"
The teenager known as Azure was his twin brother, he looks nearly identical except for his hair and clothing. He wore a jacket like his twin only it was sky blue with black shoulder pads and zipped up half way with an image of a bow and arrow on the back, a white shirt, a pair of brown pants and black shoes, and to finish brown fingerless gloves with metal pieces on the back of the hand. Like his brother had armor but only consisted of leg bracers and chest armor that covered his entire chest. On his back you could see two swords in their sheaths slung across his back. " Can you believe it Grane? Beacon the school to become hunters and train to slay monsters, oh man this such a thrill I could just sing!" he exclaimed joyfully in the air.
" I would rather like it if you didn't"
" Oh come now brother you should be optimistic like mom always says, we are going to Beacon be happy like everyone else on this airship" he says as he throws his hands out to indicate everyone else on the ship. Grane looked around to other accepted students that were going to the same school. He looks around and observes the applicants and takes in every detail he could gather, he had a knack for analyzing. He found some that looked strong and others that didn't. He looked around till his eyes rested on two girls having a conversation, a short with dark red hair dressed in black outfit with red trims and a red cloak and a taller blonde haired with a brown vest. He noticed that the red one seemed out of place in this group probably because she seemed way young to be here. With his ears he listened to their conversation.
"Oh I can't believe that my baby sister is going to Beacon with me! This is the best day ever!" the blonde said while enveloping her younger sibling in crushing that was sapping the life out of her.
"Please stop," said the younger red head. Grane was glad to see someone else was having a hard time with their siblings. Grane loved his brother but did tend to get on his nerves, but he was his brother and wouldn't have it any other way.
" But I'm so proud of you!" her sister exclaimed excitingly
"Really sis, it was nothing"
" What do you mean? It was incredible! Everyone is going to think that you are the bee's knees!"
" I don't want to be the bee's knees! I don't want to be any knees I want to be a normal girl with normal knees!"
" What's with you? Aren't you excited?" she asked confusingly to her younger sister.
"I am excited, it's just that I got moved ahead two years, I don't want anyone to think I'm special" she finished.
Like that he gathered all the information he needed and having enough of their conversation he tuned them off. The young girl Grane gathered was moved two years would explain why she was younger than everyone on the airship and didn't seem sociable around other people. He was deep in thought until his brother spoke out " Hey what are you staring at?"
He looked at him " Just observing our fellow peers is all"
A smirk appeared on Azure's face when he heard that " Are of our peers attractive girls that caught your eye?" Grane just rolled his eyes " There are a lot of cute girls on this ship I wouldn't blame you for staring at them, so who is she?"
Having enough of his brother's company Grane shrug his arm off his body and began to walk into the sea of students aimlessly " I'm going for a walk be right back" he said over his shoulder to his twin.
"Alright I'll be here if you need me bro" he said to Grane who gave a wave of his right hand to acknowledge him.
As he walked he passed many students and took every bit of information he could gather such as their appearance, weapons, and personality gathered from their conversations. He walked until he heard a news announcement lead by a male voice coming from a holoscreen. Everyone turned their attention to the news broadcast.
" … The robbery was led nefarious criminal, who continues to evade authorities" a mug shot of a man with orange hair and pale skin dressed in a white over coat appeared on screen. "If you have any information on his whereabouts please contact Vale Police Department" Grane just looked blankly at the screen thinking nothing about the criminal, but gave him some credit if he continued to escape the police. " Back to you Lisa"
Now a female voice come on along with a picture of a newswoman with white hair and yellow eyes dressed in a purple shirt and black coat. " Thank you Cyril. In other news this Saturday's Faunus Civil Right protest turned dark when members of the White Fang disrupted the ceremony. The once…" everything else faded out when he heard that name. "White Fang" normally Grane's eyes would show no emotion to anyone or anything but the mention of the White Fang filled them with a fire of hatred along with a scowl on his face. His right arm was twitching and shaking and he held his armored arm with his left hand to keep it under control. Unknowingly to him his brother Azure was watching him and went over to console him. But before he could Grane stomped away from arm's reach and retreated further into the airship but not without bumping into the young girl in red and black he was observing earlier and walked off without an apology, which angered her older sister.
" Hey watch it!" she shouted but he ignored her as walked off, not like he even acknowledges her existence to begin with at the moment. He needed to calm his mind.
As he walked he reached to the empty back of the airship that was filled with more couches to sit on and just stopped. He took deep breaths to calm down and steady his nerves. His right arm eventually stopped shaking and now returned to his original state but was now thinking to himself "Dammit I need to keep myself under control I almost lost it back there." He bowed his head and closed his eyes while commencing again to walk aimlessly. " What am I doing here? I don't belong here with these people and yet here I am. What was Ozpin thinking accepting me, better yet why did I even apply in the first place?" As he walked he felt himself falling but caught himself in time. He deduced that he must of trip on some thing. He looked back and found a pair of legs dressed in black pants and combat boots outstretched on the floor. His eyes followed the legs to the body. He saw a dark skinned male teen around his age dressed in a black hooded cloak with grey trims, a black collared shirt and his left shoulder was a symbol of a red colored target sight. His hair was black and swept back with a white stripe. He was lying there on the couch not moving.
Grane wondered how he didn't see him. "Um excuse me?" no response. Grane looked closer and couldn't find the slightest hint of movement and thought that he was dead. To make sure he wasn't dead he shook a little and got no response. He was going to get someone when he heard grumbling and shifting of clothes coming from the boy as he awoke from his death like state. He raised his head and fluttered his eyes open to reveal two pairs of red eyes and said red eyes look at him and stared. After what seemed like a minute Grane spoke " Uh … hello?"
The boy gave no expression but just yawned " Are we there yet?" he responded lazily.
Grane blinked " Excuse me?' he asked not comprehending the question
"Did we arrive at the school yet?" The mysterious boy answered his question
" Oh no we haven't yet we still have some way to go till our destination" Grane informed him. He wondered why he didn't see this guy when he was observing everyone from the crowd that gathered further up. He guessed he stayed back to get some sleep. He was than brought back to attention by another yawn from the teen.
"Well if that's the case don't wake me till we get there" he told Grane as he pulled down the hood of his cloak over as he began to fall back to slumber.
Grane was going to start a conversation but thought against it and knew there would be no point with this guy and left him to his own business. " Alright if you say so, by the way Grane Javan is my name" he got no response and left.
" Nero Morio" he responded back without looking at him and went back to sleep which was recorded and saved in Grane's mind.
Elsewhere
" I can't believe that guy bumps into someone without even apologizing" growled a busty blonde who looked into the direction of the guy who bumped into her sister.
"Yang it's okay you don't have to be angry for my sake" the younger sister said while trying calming the furious blonde down.
" But Ruby that guy just bumps into you and ignores you like you were chopped liver!" Yang yelled with fire in her eyes.
"Yang it's all right he wasn't even looking probably he seemed troubled and needed someplace to think" Ruby explained to her older sister. Yang was overprotective of her and wouldn't think twice before hurting someone who hurt her which is why she is trying to calm her sister down from hurting the boy who bumped not her. Now that she thought about it the black haired teen did look troubled as his eyes were narrowed and was breathing heavily as he rushed past her. "What was his problem?" she wondered.
Yang sighed as she calmed down "Alright Ruby but if I ever see him again he's getting what he deserves" she smirked as she pounded her fist into her hand.
Just then a hologram of a green eyed blonde haired woman dressed in a white shirt, black skirt and tattered cape appeared in front of everyone. " Hello, and welcome to Beacon!"
" Who's that?" Yang asked her sister
" My name is Glynda Goodwitch" she responded to the question.
"Oh"
" You are among a privileged few who have received the honor of being selected to attend this prestigious academy! Our world is experiencing an incredible time of peace, and as future Huntsmen and Huntresses, it is your duty to uphold it. You have demonstrated the courage needed for such a task, and now it is our turn to provide you with the knowledge and the training to protect our world." And like that she finished her speech and she disappeared.
"Wow!" Ruby exclaimed as she and many other students went to the windows as they passed a town indicating that they were close to the school as they were able to see it off the horizon. " You can see Signal from up here" she indicated as she spotted her former school. " Looks like home isn't too far after all!"
"Beacon's our home now" Yang said putting a hand on her shoulder. They both heard straining and moans and turned their heads to find a blonde hair teenage boy in a black hoodie and blue pants wearing simple armor hunching over and holding his hands to his mouth as he ran past them like he going to lose his lunch. " Well I guess the view isn't for everyone"
" It was nice while it lasted" Ruby Said
" I wonder who we are going to meet?
" I just hope their better than vomit boy"
Elsewhere Grane was watching the academy coming closer and closer. " Well lets see what new experiences await us at this school" he thought as many other things were swarming in his head.
" Oh gross Yang you got puke on your shoe!" Ruby shrieked
"Gross, gross, gross…" Yang said with disgust
" Get away from me! Get away from me! Get away from me!" cried as she was trying to steer clear of her sister
Grane rolled his eyes " Yeah this is going to be the most interesting four years of my life, what have I gotten myself into?"
Author's note so what did you think? Good? Bad leave comments in your review. This thought has been forming in my head since I first watched the show and produced this. I hope this goes well and that you all enjoy reading it.
