DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own RWBY, only the created characters in this chapter, all rights go to the late Monty Oum and RoosterTeath #SomebodyFromRoosterTeethForPresident2016!
Hey what's up everybody?! Here's chapter 3 where we are being introduced to the third character (and very briefly the fourth character)! I apologize (or "apple-ogize" if you saw that Saturday Night Live skit a couple days ago, you know what I'm talking about if you did lol) because this chapter is much shorter than the first two, being only approximately 1,245 words. I honestly think this is the weakest of the first few chapters because it just seems rushed, which makes sense because I wanted to upload this chapter on Sunday, and well, it's obviously not Sunday, so I'm sorry that it's kinda late, and if it seems rushed and not as good as the first two chapters.
Also, a friend from school is working on a cover image for this story, don't know when he'll get done and I get it, but eventually, there will be a cover image!
And last but surely not least, I want to give a shout out to SniperHayden117 for giving this story its first favorite and follow, at least somebody cares! :D
But with all that out of the way, enough wasting time, on with the story!
In vale, and most other city's and kingdoms, there are foster homes, places where people who don't have family's to go, human and faunas alike. The biggest, and most occupied of the Vale foster homes would be "Highland's Foster House", where most of the occupants are just content to live their lives as they are now, with the people they're stuck with, while others decide they want to go into more interesting lifestyles outside of the foster home… like deciding to go to an academy that will teach you to kill monsters for example.
"Are you REALLY sure you want to do this?" Asked a concerned and overprotective voice.
A girl with moderate length burnt orange hair and sky blue eyes sighed in exasperation. "You are really freaking overprotective Kayla, you know that?"
Kayla, a human with medium length brunette hair and emerald green eyes, and she was wearing a plain blue short-sleeved shirt with tan cargo shorts and plain white sneakers.
Kayla closed her eyes and let out her own exasperated sigh. "Olivia, I have a right to be concerned."
Before she could go any further, the burnt orange haired girl, now identified as Olivia, cut her off. "What, do you think I'm not good enough to get into to Beacon after all, huh Kayla? Do you think I'm too weak, that I can't handle being alone their? That I'll get hurt too easily?" Olivia relentlessly questioned her older foster sister with a glare that could probably burn someone alive if they weren't used to it.
Olivia's apparel consisted of a plain battle vest with a metal chest and shoulder plates and black leggings and white leg pads that go from her knees down to her ankles and orange and black high top shoes.
Kayla sighed once again. "It's not that I don't think you can handle yourself, I know it's very much the opposite. What I'm worried about is… well, when you inevitably see a faunas. What are you gonna do? We both know you're whole problem with them."
Olivia stayed silent for a moment, trying to think of what she could say to relieve some of the concern from her foster sister. Eventually, she found the words. "Kayla… everything will be fine, I promise. I know you're worried and everything, but I'm not a child that'll just throw some temper tantrum at first sight of a faunas. Yeah, I still hate being around them a bit, but like you said, it's inevitable that I'll see one at some point."
Kayla's concern did not waver that much however. "But how do you know that for sure? You've told me several times that you'll be better around faunas, and yet you seem to always prove me and yourself wrong. Now please, don't think that I don't have any faith in you Olly, it's just me being my normal overprotective self, I do have confidence in you that you'll be able to get over your problems, but what I'm seriously concerned about is what if you're put on the same team as a faunas, because don't they put you on a team of four or something?"
"Yes they do, and to be completely honest, I'm not really sure what I would do if I were put on a team with a faunas, but I promise you Kay, I won't do anything at Beacon to make you worry about me or anything that's going on there, okay?"
Kayla still looked very uneasy, but she knew that she really did need to have confidence in Olivia. "Alright, if you are sure about this Olly, then you know I can't stop you from this. Just so long as you promise me that everything will be fine."
Olivia walked up to Kayla and hugged her gently, and whispered to her. "I promise Kay, don't worry."
Kayla returned the embrace whispered back to her. "I just don't want you to end up like your parents. If anything about the White Fang comes up and you are involved, I'm dragging you back here."
Olivia chuckled and broke the embrace. "It'll be okay, how many times do I need to promise this to you?"
Kayla chuckled as well. "An absurdly high amount of times I'm sure."
The two foster sisters laughed a little together before Olivia spoke up yet again. "I will promise you as many times as you want, just so long as it'll shut you up about all this."
"Don't worry Olly, you don't need to do that, I'll shut up about it now. Now, are you all packed?" Olivia nodded. "Good, the airship will be leaving pretty soon, so get all the rest of your stuff organized and get ready to head out to the ship yard."
Olivia waved goodbye to Kayla and a few other people from their foster house as the airship started to lift off. A few minutes later, as the ship was in the air and on its way to Beacon, Olivia stared out the window in bit of a sightless daze, thinking back to her conversation with Kayla last night, thinking about what could happen at Beacon, and mostly thinking about her parents, who were killed right in front of her as a child by White Fang members, which explains her hatred for Faunas.
'Mother, father, I will avenge your deaths. I'll make sure of it.'
She suddenly heard and saw a bunch of the other students on board the airship start to run towards the windows and look out, seeing that Beacon was now in sight. Olivia smiled slightly at the view, anxious about finally getting there. Her smile faded however when she saw the two figures next to her, looking out the windows next to her, one having long silver hair, and the other having jet black hair. But not only that, they had… cat ears on top of their heads as well.
'… faunas.' She thought with dread and narrowed eyes.
She quickly caught herself and shook her head of the dark thoughts that were starting to cloud her thoughts. She couldn't afford to already get into trouble, that… well for lack of a better term, would just not be a good thing at all.
'I promised Kayla that she won't need to worry about stuff like this, and I'm going to make damn sure that I keep it.'
The airship soon landed and the students started to file out of the airship, and as Olivia was getting, she was ran into by someone from behind, making her briefly stagger forward before finally regaining her balance. Before she could turn around and question whoever ran into her, a voice behind her beat her to it.
"Oh geez I'm so sorry, I'm just in a bit of a hurry."
Olivia turned around and caught a glimpse of who it was. The person, a girl, had maroon red hair and hazel eyes. She was wearing a short sleeved denim jacket with a black undershirt, both of which showed her midriff, and she had dark tan cargo shorts with tan combat boots.
"Uh, it's alright, don't worry."
The girl smiled. "If you say so. By the way, the name's Marriott, nice to meet you."
"Olivia, likewise." Olivia responded, returning Marriott's smile with her own smaller one.
Marriott nodded and walked off past the burnt orange haired girl, her smile, and Olivia's as well, not fading. 'Maybe… maybe this won't be so bad after all.'
Well and that's that. Again, I really "apple-ogize" for this being not as good of a chapter if you see it that way, I rushed it a bit because I was two days late on my own schedule, and I just wanted to get the damn thing uploaded!
Next chapter will hopefully be better as we get into the fourth and final character, and then it goes back (to the past?) to Silver and Koel for initiation. And hopefully the chapter's after this one will be longer, I have a goal for this story to average at least 2000 words a chapter, so hopefully these next few chapter WILL be longer so I can have a bit of buffer there. And lastly I plan on uploading the next chapter by this weekend AT THE LATEST, and maybe I'll actually follow up on that, but we'll see.
But, with all that out of the way, I've got nothing else to talk about, so, until next chapter, LATER GUYS!
