Sup everybody! This is the first chapter of Grimm Solstice and I really appreciate all the people who have read the prologue and of course the two people who have followed it. I haven't gotten any reviews or anything though and I really would appreciate anything you guys want to say about Grimm Solstice. If you have any questions or advice feel free to ask or give away! Anyway, sit back, relax, and enjoy Chapter One of Grimm Solstice!
Seven years later and I am in my freshman year at Beacon Academy. One year to recover. Three years of therapy for fear. Two years of therapy for anger. One year of pure training. Six years to train and become ready to fight. Six years to learn all I needed to enter Beacon and now I am stuck in freaking history class with nothing to do but get lectured. Seriously?
I sighed "Halfway through the semester and Port is still boring." I muttered. Grimm Studies , probably the most boring thing in the world, was getting tedious. Today's class was on the location of Elder Grimm hearts. Why does Professor Port make every single class into a story of his exploits? I began slowly banging my head on the table. "Why, why, why, why?" I muttered. Sound crazy? Maybe a little, but there were five other kids doing the same thing. Finally the best sound I have ever heard in my seventeen years in Remnant started. The lunch bell. My sigh of relief was echoed by everyone in the classroom.
Stretching, I waited for everybody to filter out before leaving. After I got out to the hallway, I let out a contented groan, and headed toward the cafeteria following the sounds of about four hundred hungry teenagers. "Hopefully, Tariq is already there with a table," I groaned. "And not surrounded by a bunch of lackwit girls scrambling for his attention. I really don't feel like dealing with that right now." I muttered under my breath.
"You know it's rude to mutter." said a voice beside my ear. "Gah!" I cried as I jumped away from the voice; tripping over my own feet and ending up on the floor in the process. "Hahahahahahahahaha! You should have seen your face! Hahahahahahahaha!" laughed Ches, one of my best friends and the leader of our team here at Beacon. Misting into existence beside him, his sister, Bella, smacked him on the arm. "Ches! That is so rude! Scaring her like that, I mean honestly! You can be such an ass sometimes." She berated him, as she angrily finished Misting. Misting is what everyone calls their semblance of evaporation. Evaporation allows them to move through objects, allow anything through them like smoke, and turn invisible, as well as kind of teleport.
Glaring up at Ches I tried to kick his legs, but he just let it pass on through, snickering. "Ah, well it was worth it." He shrugged and gave me one of his best cheshire smiles. "Still mad at me?" he asked. I grinned, "Like I could stay mad at you!" I laughed, as Ches pulled me up from the floor with ease. "Soooooo, should we go find Tariq?" Bella asked. She whirled a strand of hair that fell in her face, revealing the scar on her face. Despite the damage we had all taken that day; we had grown into our parents images. Bella and I had grown into beautiful young women, and Ches and Tariq into handsome young men. At least that's what Ozpin told us.
The catcalls Bella and I received on our first day proved him right. Tariq and Ches put a stop the catcallers immediately. Of course, the boys were fine with being mobbed by girls everywhere they went. When we got to the cafeteria, we looked around for Tariq. Walking with Bella in between us, we walked between the rows of tables toward the back, where most of the teams with Faunus hang out. On the way some asshole with bright red orange hair, tried to cop a feel. I lashed out, grabbing his arm as I opened my wings and flew up to the ceiling. When I got up high enough for there to be an issue for his aura, I flipped him and caught his leg. "Now, why would you do that?" I said, tilting my head. "Uhhhhh. I'm sorry?" he said. I dropped him and caught him a couple of feet later. "For what?" I asked as if I didn't know. "I'm sorry for trying to grab your butt!" He cried, close to tears. "Can you please let me go?" In my best Joker impression I said, " Hmmm, bad choice of words!" and dropped him.
He squealed like a little girl on the way down, but about eight feet from the ground Tariq flew out of nowhere and caught him. Then Tariq flew over and caught me as I fell, because as it turns out laughing my butt off and flying are hard to do at the same time." Do you always have to be that extreme, Sis?" Tariq asked as he flew us over to the table Ches and Bella had grabbed for us. "Yes; yes I do." I said. I noticed the red haired boy walking past me and jerked my body toward him while flaring my wings. He screamed and high tailed it straight out of the cafeteria. Both Ches and Tariq performed a spit take and Bella was on the floor laughing.
As Bella fretted over Ches and Tariq's messes, a boy walked up to our table asking for us to fill out physical exam sheets for the nurse. "Why not?" I shrugged. He stood nervously shifting from foot to foot. "I will make sure to get these back to you when we are done. Okay?" I said giving him a head tilt and smile and activating my semblance, Entrance, which activates the natural impulses of the brain toward flirtation and affection. Basically making whoever I use it on attracted to me and thusly easier to manipulate. He flushed, which was kind of cute, and nodded vigorously before running off, his ash gray hair flowing.
"You know, that guy has a huge crush on you right?" Tariq said with a condescending look on his face. I grimaced, " Yeah, I realize that Tariq, but he's human! It probably wouldn't even work out! I don't even know his name!" I looked over my shoulder. "I mean, I guess, he is kinda cute." Tariq's eyes widened and Ches choked on his sandwich. I stammered "But so what?!" When Ches was fine again they both looked at each other and they both grinned from ear to ear at the same time as they turned both to me. "Don't you dare!" I whispered vehemently. "Fine, we won't." They said simultaneously. Then it was my turn to be shocked. "Really?!" I said. They paused and before I could say anything they yelled, "Nope! Leila's got a boyfriend! Leila's got a boyfriend!" They chanted. Loudly. I flushed hotly and moved to smack them, when suddenly Bella grabbed onto me and the boys and evaporated.
We reappeared in our dorm room. The boys both stood up and were promptly smacked over the head by Bella's tail. Yeah, both of the Cat's have tails which they are constantly brushing and grooming. They are both so strong that being hit feels like being hit by a sledgehammer. Nonetheless both of them were flattened by the unexpected assault. I was about to laugh, when I glanced Bella out of the corner of my eye. Her ears had flattened against her head and her tail was puffed up. I grabbed Tariq as quietly as I could and backed up slowly. Which is when Ches finally stood back up and opened up with, "What the hell, Bell!", his own features matching her own. "Why the hell were you trying to embarrass her like that?!" Bella yelled back at him, getting right up into his face. "IT WAS JUST A JOKE! THOUGH IT'S NOT LIKE YOU WOULD KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HUMOR, KILLJOY!"Ches roared. "OH YEAH? WELL AT LEAST I CAN TAKE A JOKE!" Bella retorted. Ches sneered. "OH PLEASE! WHEN HAVE YOU EVER TAKEN A JOKE WELL!?" He yelled.
At this point Tariq had regained his senses and quickly sized up the situation with widened eyes. The twins were about to have one of their epic fights. We opened the door as quickly and quietly as possible and exited. Then we ran for our lives as all hell exploded from our room. You see no matter how pleasant people are they always have limit, a dark side, one that with the strength the twins possess, could lead to death. The Cats fought for over an hour evaporating all over the school grounds; blasting and slicing everything that got in the way with their matching long sword/ chainguns.
Fortunately there are precautions in place for when the twins temper gets the best of them and both of the Cats wear a small bracelet whenever they are within the city limits that curbs their anger and directs them away from people whenever their blood pressure reaches a certain level. Unfortunately, you never actually see anything during their fights because they evaporate so often when they fight each other that all you see is a thick silver and purple mist. Which is a shame, because I know a couple of TV networks who would love footage.
Ches and Bella both ended up in the nurse's office sleeping off the fight. Tariq and I made sure to check on them before heading back to our room to clean up the remains and try to get everything back in order. I was walking pretty slow because I didn't really want to see our room and all the work we would have to do, so Tariq got the honors of opening what was left of the door. "Oh, good!" Tariq cheered. I looked in and my jaw dropped. "The room is perfectly clean!" exclaimed Tariq, admiring the room. I looked around shocked at the cleanliness of the room.
"Well of course it is. I cleaned it after all." Said a voice. I turned to be face to face with Bianca Alabast, or as many people call her, the White Queen. With her, as always was Alban Ivory, her faithful, uh, friend, I guess? Alban is an Albino Rabbit Faunus. Stuttering, Tariq groveled, " W, w, well, Bianca, thank you." She smiled pleasantly. " Well to be honest," she said in a voice as clear and beautiful as crystal, " As he said, Alban was the one who cleaned the room." Alban, to his credit, only nodded lightly, a friendly smirk on his face. Not impressed by either their grace or beauty I asked "So where is the dark side?" Their team of four was made up of Bianca Alabast, Alban Ivory, Kiera Sable, and Cole Ebony. Kiera and Cole make up the "Dark side" because while Bianca and Alban wear almost pure white, Kiera and Cole wear almost pure black. That and while all four are not at all hard on the eyes, Kiera and Cole are a little creepy.
"Why, we are right here." Kiera said from behind me. I made a very high-pitched and girlish noise, that I regretted immediately. I slowly turned around to look behind me and sure enough there they were. Kiera Sable and Cole Ebony. The only reason I know what they look like is because they are always in the news for hunting down Enshadowed. They are in an advanced placement class, so most people don't really see them in person. Those classes are for teams or individual students who are really powerful or have powerful and strange semblances.
So plenty of rumors surround them. The advanced placement teams do, however, participate in parades and festivals though. In festivals, like the Vytal Festival, they always participate, but Kiera has never used her semblance in the festivals I have been to. I have never really seen either Alban or Coles semblances. Probably because they were so skilled they didn't really need to use them. But I had heard that Alban's semblance had something to do with speed, while Cole's had something to do with absorbing shadows.
Bianca and Kiera, do however, have well-known and powerful semblances. Both of them can summon Grimm. A semblance that hasn't been seen outside of a few distinct families. I have seen Bianca's Grimm, which usually consist of knights wearing white plate armor with helm's shaped like chess pieces, because she uses them in parades and in combat. I haven't seen Kiera's Grimm though I've heard that they look just like normal Grimm.
I have also heard that apparently Alban and Cole are twin brothers except that Alban was born albino. And now I could tell this wasn't idle rumor. They'd look the same if they didn't have different colored hair, eyes, and clothing.
I chuckled nervously "Oh hello, Kiera! Cole!" I said hoping to take everybody's mind off of the incredibly girly sound I had just made. Alban picking up on what I was trying to do tried to help out "Obviously, I" Alban started " I think you mean we, bro." Cole interrupted. Alban grimaced. "Yes, I meant we. We also folded all of your clothing, along with repairing the damages. Though I think you may need to replace your door. Uh, except, the girls clothing which Kiera and Bianca folded." He finished, with an awkward grin. I sighed inwardly. That would have been awkward.
"Sooooooo, I believe Tariq and I had plans for today?" Bianca said casually, trying to break the silence. Alban and I froze. "What?" We said simultaneously. Tariq and Bianca stammered something about it not being a date and them just hanging out as friends. Alban had stopped listening after she said plan and he froze up. His face of course decided that it was a great time to freeze there looking horrified. So, I decided to continue the questioning.
"What will you guys be doing? Where are you going? When?" Asking whatever came into my mind. Alban, finally, recovered from his shock. " Bianca, I can not allow you to be alone." Bianca thought for about a second before replying cheerfully, "I won't be alone! Tariq will be with me!" Alban's glower could have melted sand into glass. "Well we ought to go, Tariq! I will be back in about two hours! Why don't you hang out with Leila?" Bianca said, as she dragged Tariq out the door. With finality the door closed. Kiera and Cole were frozen, not moving an inch.
"Uh, Alban? Why don't we go get food, bro?" Cole asked tentatively. "Or maybe go take a nap?" He continued. "Or maybe we can go into town? Go shopping? Or something..." Kiera muttered, quietly. I had never seen Cole so nervous or Kiera so silent. After what felt like hours, Alban took a deep breath "We need to go train. Cole, you're not accurate enough when you punch with Fanged Obsidian, you miss every tenth swing. Kiera, you need to work on your summoning. Let's go." Alban said, pushing the door open with enough force to break it off the hinges again. Cole and Kiera slunk out. "I will fix that later." Alban said on his way out the door. Before following them Alban glanced over his shoulder. "If you would like to come, I'm sure that the other two would be fine with it." I shrugged. "Fine, I don't have anything better to do."