Disclaimer: The world of RWBY belongs to Monty Oum and Rooster Teeth Productions. All I did was make the OCs that will make up team PLRS and their family
Prologue R – The Relinquished
"Mistral, the land of hero's. A Region where society is built on glory and entertainment. The pinnacle of such entertainment is the annual Mistral Regional Tournament. A giant gladiatorial attraction where contestants face numerous challenges; the fan-favorite seems to be the Grimm slaying contest, and the gladiator matches." I think to myself. The current event just so happens to be the latter and just ended with a red haired amazon girl subduing a man a good foot taller than her. "I wonder if she would make a good sparring partner for Alexi," I ponder. Unfortunately I am shaken out of my query due to the explosion of noise from the crowd. "This tournament certainly lives up to its hype," I chuckle to myself. As I exit the coliseum I take a quick second to look at my surroundings. Words cannot describe how intricate the architecture is. I remind myself to bring my grandchildren here. It would serve Alexi and Diana well to learn more about the outside world instead of being cooped up at home. "However that is a worry for another time," I remind myself grimly. I have a job to do, and it's best to make it quick.
As night falls upon the city I find myself in front of a rather elaborate mansion. "Halt! State your purpose," comes from a security guard. "I am here for the feast hosted by the Honorable Senator Valtome," I respond while attempting to hide my disgust. "Right this way sir," He says curtly. As I am lead to the library of the mansion, I stop at the sight of the security guard opening a trap door. "Cleaver" I think to myself. "Enjoy your meal sir," says the guard as he holds out his hand. As I restrain myself from blowing that arm off I hand him a few lien and descend into the trapdoor. As the door closes behind me I take quick whiff and nearly puke at the smell of man's weaknesses. As I make my way down a corridor illuminated by orange light bulbs dangling from the hallway towards the exit I can hear chants and jeers from the end. Once I exit my eyes widen at the sight of at a horde of men hurling rotten food down at something. As I make my way to the front of the crowd I find myself standing in front of a rail. Beyond is a 40 foot drop into what seems to be a holding pen. Inside that pen the huddled forms of what appears to be children. I cringe when I see a group of children with animal aspects huddled together. I cringe silently as I solemnly think to myself, "the pain of being born a Faunus." As I turn my head to the crowd's largest target I am startled to find an adolescent human boy who looks to be as old as Alexi. I am horrified at the sight of him yet I cannot bring myself to turn away. His hair is red, and his eyes are green just like the amazon from the tournament but that's as far as any similarities go. His body is marred by battle wounds that had to have been inflected by the creatures of Grimm. His arms and shoulders seem to be infected with the bite marks of a Beowolf, and his back appears to have been a canvas for a postmodern Ursa. Excluding his head there is not a single square inch on his body that is not heavily scarred. The biggest eye catcher is the X burnt between his shoulder blades. I can make no sense of it until I see the brands on the other children. His body shelters a young brown haired rabbit girl from the rainfall of rancid food and I whisper "Dear God, what hell hole of mankind have I entered." It takes all my willpower from reaching to Helios and annihilating all the men in sight, but I must wait. "Soon the cleansing can begin," I think to myself. A single gong echoes throughout the underground stadium before a nasally voice echoes throughout the room, "Ahh, welcome to my humble abode. I hope that my esteemed guests find my attractions pleasing." "Valtome you will burn for this," I think to myself. "For any newcomers I welcome you to the Husk Feast. Now let us get seated in the center area quickly so I may begin the games." I move towards the edges of the audience as I keep the V.I.P seats in view, my right hand prepared to unsheathe Helios at any second. I am paralyzed when the crowd roars savagely as the gates to the pen are open and nearly a hundred children of evicted from it. Some turn to claw at the gate, tears rolling down their cheeks. The other children stand huddled behind the teenage boy. The kids are armed with brittle looking swords that look like they would snap by a wind gust. Alone the teenage stands at the front with a trident in hand, his eyes blazing in furry. Immediately after the gates on the other side of the coliseum open and dozens of Beowolves tear down the stadiums field, maws open and frothing. The teenager desperately tries to have the children from some defensive line but his wise advice falls on deaf ears as the children scatter. I am paralyzed at the pure horror as the wolves leap upon the defenseless kids and render them limb from limb. The teenager's strikes widely, yet effectively at the monster. With quick thrusts the demons fall like flies. However it is not enough. The young rabbit girl he is desperately trying to defend is dragged away from his protective reach. He screams helplessly trying to reach her but swiftly the wolves leap on the girl and gorge on her flesh. Limbs are torn apart and her organs and bones are flung throughout the field. The crowds screams for more bloodshed and it shakes me from my paralysis. I grab Heliosand aim at Valtome but before I can fire a guttural roar followed by a massive explosion shakes the stadium, cracking its supports and rains entrails upon us. Ever fiber in my body cause me to recede as far back into the shadows as I can. There I witness a bloodied figure leaping into the audience
After the dust cloud departs from the resounding boom I witness Valtome impaled the end of the figures trident, but he's not done yet. Beneath the blood rain he pounds away at the corpse reducing it to an unrecognizable state before turning his rage upon the audience. I must be having a nightmare, one second I'm looking at the destruction of a bunch of helpless kids, and now I am witnessing a one-sided extermination. His body was coated in a red aura and the veins around his eyes look like they are about to explode. The figure is brutal and efficient; anyone that got close to him was impaled or rendered into a bloody explosion, those that did get close to him were crushed within seconds by his hands. I am in awe as he casts asides powerful warriors like rag dolls. I step out of my hiding spot absolutely shell shocked, only stopping at one of the corpses. Poor bastard, he died when he snuck up to the teen; before he could land a blow the teen spun around and grabbed him by the throat. With a swift movement the boy slammed the assailant to the ground and pinned him down with a foot, before yanking his head off. As I got close to the child he immediately jumped into a defensive position. I rose my arms and calmly walked forward, "I'm not going to hurt you I ju-" before I could even finish my sentence I was smacked in the chest by an invisible force. Steadying my stance I was able remain standing however within that split second the boy had dashed at me covering 3 thirds of the distance. I smiled, this kid had strength. Now all he had to do was refine it. Within I blink of an eye I angle Helios towards the boy and fired. The fiery bulled exploded like a star upon impact, and the boy was launched across the room. As I walked towards the charred body a feeble voice reached my ears, "end it". I looked down at the child, he had gone through so much pain, and his bloodied face reminded me of Alexi on that faithful day. Kneeling down I said, "There are more people like Valtome in this world child. I alone am not enough to stop them." I raise my hand towards him, "I need help and you have something very few people do, the power to change the world. I know that life for you must have been painful and that now you would rather die but, think of the other people that are currently suffering at this moment. Their numbers lie in the thousands and each second I spent here another dies. Live on for the people you lose, and fight for the people that have to live like them. Will you help me?" The boy's arm gave a feeble twitch before he passed out. Smiling I pick him up and blast my way out of the house, "Welcome to the family. Today you are Mavrick Rautio."
Authors Note: I hope you enjoyed this chapter and the new character. I wasn't to confident about this chapter because I had several ideas on how to introduce this new character and I wasn't sure which one was the best choice. Thank you for taking some of your time to read this and I hope I did not cross some people's moral lines when I wrote this.