Chapter 1
7 years later
The sun was shining over the town of Orre, a small town south of Vale dedicated to the mining and purification of dust crystals in the name of the Schnee Dust Company, this was where Petros lived. A small desert surrounds the town, a gripping embrace of sand. Alcatraz walked along the dusty main street, covered from head to toe in armour, Petros walked in front of him, a cloak covering his head only letting his eyes feel the air, he wore a grey shirt, tan cargo pants and a pair of combat boots to complete his look. Alcatraz held his black and pink axe, the Heartbreaker, while Petros held his green and blue tomahawk, the Thunderfairy. They stopped and turned to look at a billboard that showed news about any Grimm in the area.
"This one" Alcatraz said, pointing his gauntlet at a picture of a deathstalker.
"You really hate deathstalkers don't ya?" Petros said looking at Alcatraz
"Yeah, they're the worst" Alcatraz said as his eyes flashed red for a second.
"Alright it's apparently just outside of town" Petros said pointing in a north-east direction. They began walking in the direction of the deathstalker, weaving in and out of the busy streets passing people by.
"Petros, can I ask you something?" Alcatraz asked to break the silence.
"Sure, what is it?"
"Do I need this armour for combat?" Alcatraz asked
"No" Petros said bluntly
"Then why do I wear it?" They were walking through the square when Petros stopped walking.
"Alcatraz, what isn't in that huge group over there?" He asked
"Um, I don't know" Alcatraz answered, genuinely confused.
"There are no faunus, not many people in this town have seen one before, you however look like a faunus cos your tail sticks out of your armour, granted there are no animals with a tail like that but to these townspeople you are just a large armoured faunus, does that satisfy you?" Petros said
"I guess but I don't like being stuck in this armour, it's just really warm."
"I know but let's keep moving, this deathstalker isn't gonna kill itself!"
"Y-yeah" Alcatraz answered, somewhat lost in his own thoughts. They continued moving through the town passing the mine, refinery and the Bullhead loading area. They finally set foot on the dusty sand, which was dotted with large jagged rocks, cacti and the odd bush.
"There" Petros said, pointing at a sleeping deathstalker under the shade of a rock "You distract it while I get to max power" he began to charge the Thunderfairy.
"With pleasure" Alcatraz replied, his eyes had gone to pure crimson as he walked up to the deathstalker, he then stepped on it's tail, hard. The deathstalker shrieked in pain and turned to look at it's assailant but the second it turned Alcatraz smashed it hard with his axe, cracking it's armoured carapace. Alcatraz took advantage of the dazed deathstalker and headbutted as hard as he could, the deathstalker couldn't take anymore punishment so it blindly attempted to hit Alcatraz, Alcatraz went into a defensive stance allowing him to take any hit from the deathstalker's claws as the deathstalker wildly smashed against his arms, doing no damage, Alcatraz then jumped onto the deathstalker's tail, not attacking it but just playing with it.
"Al, I'm ready" Petros shouted, Alcatraz stopped playing with the deathstalker and made eight vines come from the ground and they then wrapped themselves around the deathstalker and pinned it in place. Alcatraz then dropped to his knees, the deathstalker noticed why, it saw a huge ball of electricity on the end of the human's gun.
"Let it rip!" Alcatraz shouted as he said that the ball of energy went over his head, making his fur stand on end, when it collided with the deathstalker, the beast was enveloped in bolts of electricity, it's nerves were infected by electricity, the deathstalker was completely and utterly paralyzed. Petros put his weapon away and them simply said:
"Al, sic em!" On hearing this Alcatraz dropped his weapon then dropped to all fours and charged at the terrified deathstalker, he jumped on top of it and hooked his claws under the beast's carapace, then pulled and with a sickening squelch the section of carapace came free. The deathstalker had what looked to be tears in it's eyes, that only invigorated Alcatraz to continue with his assault, he began to glow green again and eight vines erupted from the ground again, this time wrapping around the deathstalker's tail, then pulling it down and forcing the deathstalker to sting itself in it's newly exposed flesh.
"GWAHAHAHA!" Alcatraz laughed at the sight before him, a deathstalker, stinging itself to death, he loved it. The deathstalker got over it's paralysis but it wasn't strong enough to fight the strength of the vines, it flailed around attempting to cut the vines but to no avail, and soon the beast died from it's own venom, "Awww, you're no fun" Alcatraz said as his eyes faded from red to blue. The two of them walked up to each other and high-fived. They both then turned to a Bullhead that must've landed while they were distracted, a man stepped out, he was dressed in green with white hair and small glasses. Petros knew who he was, the man clapped in applause.
"Now that, was a spectacular performance" The man said, he put his hand out to shake Petros's "My name is Professor Ozpin, Headmaster of Beacon Academy, and your name young man?"
"Petros Stone Sir" Petros said returning the handshake, Ozpin then turned to the armour-clad Alcatraz.
"And your name?" He asked Alcatraz
"Alcatraz Sir" Alcatraz said with a bow.
"Well" Ozpin said "I have been observing the two of you for some time and I must say your abilities to work as a team work exponentially, Petros I have no idea why you weren't able to join my school, and Alcatraz I don't know how you learned to use that hand axe with such a mix of brutality and grace. So here's my offer, you two… even though the school year started a few days ago, would you two like a place at my school?"
"Could I just have a talk with my partner?" Petros asked, he and Alcatraz walked off and began whispering.
"I need to show him" Alcatraz said
"No, he'll kill you for sure" Petros
"Look, it's now or never" Before Petros could argue Alcatraz walked up to Ozpin "Ozpin, let me truly introduce myself" he then smashed his axe into his chest piece, hard. Cracks appeared all over it, he tore it off, his fuzzy fur underneath was exposed, Ozpin was confused but watched with intrigue, Alcatraz then pulled off his gauntlets, exposing his sharp claws, he then took off his boots exposing his clawed feet, then he took his leggings off revealing his tan cargo shorts underneath, he then finally took his helmet off.
"Y-you're a Grimm?" Ozpin said in shock
"Yep" Alcatraz said simply.
"You used a semblance so you must-" Ozpin said before he was interrupted.
"Have a soul, yeah got that"
"Well then" Ozpin said, regaining his composure"What's your answer to my offer?"
