"What's Beacon?" Those words were stuck inside Flare's mind. An hour had passed since she and Ruby were released from their uncomfortable cells and to the outside world, and from the looks of it, they were in a naval base.
"So do we have to wait for Shigure and that 'poi' girl to come here?" Ruby asked Flare. "It's been an hour...".
The two girls were currently in the mess hall, guarded by two heavily armed soldiers.
"Yeah, we they're also comin' with more peeps as well" Flare said, taking a bite of her sandwich. "More people like them I think". She glared at one of the soldiers, the soldier glared back.
"Uh Flare, why are you staring at the guard like that?" Ruby asked.
"Remember what happened earlier?" Flare grunted in response.
Earlier, as Ruby and Flare were being escorted to the Mess hall by the two soldiers, Flare stopped to admire the view around her and the same soldier told her to move. Flare ignored the soldier's warning, oblivious of the consequence of doing so. The soldier bashed Flare's back using his gun's butt stock and leaving quite a nasty bruise on Flare's back. Flare retaliated by punching the soldier straight in the stomach, sending him flying towards a nearby tree. Since then, both have been trying to find ways to fight at every opportunities. Shigure and Yuudachi were unsuspicious of the two, fighting and continued on.
"Really Flare? you had to make an enemy in this place that we don't even know about?"
"What? That guy was asking for it, my back hurts now..." Flare growled.
"Well you deserved it," the soldier scoffed, taking a step forward towards Flare.
"'Deserved it'?, all I did was look around, and then you hit me in the back with that rusty ol' thing you call a gun?" Flare retorted.
"Hey! At least it's better than those fake weapons you guys were carrying before!"
Ruby gasped."Did you just call Cresent Rose...A FAKE?!" if it wasn't for Flare holding her down, Ruby would have tore the soldier into the bits.
"Well looks like you guys are having fun fufufu~" a female voice chimed in. Flare realised the voice belonged to the second soldier.
"SHUT IT AKANE!" the first soldier shouted at the second soldier, whom; Flare guessed from what the first soldier called her, was called Akane.
"Oh my, so impolite~" Akane teased. The first soldier blushed a deep shade of red and turned his back towards Akane.
Silence filled the room once more, but it was soon disrupted when the doors of the large mess hall suddenly flew open, revealing the silhouettes of five people.
One of them stepped inside the mess hall; a man in his early 20s with
black hair,brown eyes and a scar that ran down his left cheek.
"Hello there!" The man greeted as he sat opposite of Flare and Ruby. "You must be Flare Ashworth and Ruby Rose"
"Yes, that's us" Flare replied.
"My name is Hironori Fujita, I'm in charge of keeping things running around here" The man know as Hironori greeted.
"And who are the four behind you?" Ruby asked.
"You girls may come in now!" Hironori cried.
The four who remained outside finally went in the mess hall, Flare and Ruby only recognised two of them- Shigure and Yuudachi, and the other two? Well-
One of them had lost long black hair and red eyes. On top of her head was a peculiar headgear that-To Flare, resembled the various parts of a warship's main tower. She wore a black and white shirt with yellow trimming that exposes her midriff, black fingerless elbow glove;again with yellow trimming, a white pleated skirt, and a metallic garter belt that holds her black and maroon thigh highs in place.
The other had short brown hair and green eyes, Her clothes were similar to those of the first one but had a slight difference. She wore the same shirt as the first one, except it had red trimming instead of yellow, a black pleated shirt and white gloves. She also had a headgear on top of her head.
"Flare, Ruby" Hironori spoke. "The one in my right is Nagato while the one on my left is her sister, Mutsu, these two will be in charge of taking care of you, but first, explain."
"Explain what?" Ruby asked, getting a little confused.
"Explain to me how you two got here, do you have any intent to harm humankind, and where you've come from" Hironori answered as his expression darkened. Flare looked at Ruby and mouthed something to her, the latter nodded in response.
Flare took a deep breath."You already know our names, we have no intent to harm mankind cause we are humans as well, and we've come from a place far away from here" She said.
"America?" Hironori asked.
Flare shook her head. "Uh no...you might not believe us but we've come from a place called 'Remnant', and we go to Beacon, which is a fancy pansy school for hunters and huntress in training"
Nagato slammed her fists onto the table. "Stop lying, we know your working with the abyssals!".
"We're telling the truth" Flare said with a blank look.
"Prove it-" Before Nagato could finish her sentence, oranges flames suddenly engulf Flare's entire body.
Everyone's eyes; excluding Ruby, grew to large proportions and they all went silent.
"Is that enough proof? Or do I have to still show you?" Flare asked as the flames started to extinguish themselves. Before anyone could answer, there was a loud Bang.
"Eh...looks like Mutsu passed out again" Hironori mumbled under his breath. He turned to look at Shigure."I want you to show these two around while me and Nagato take Mutsu to her room.
The latter nodded in response.
"You two can explain things later, and your weapons, you can find them with Yuubari, Shigure and Yuudachi knows where she is" Hironori said as he picked up Mutsu, bridal style. He exited the mess hall, along with Nagato and the two soldiers.
"Well let's start, poi!" Yuudachi exclaimed as she threw her one of her hands into the air. "Let's start by going to the dorms!"
"Lead the way then" Flare said.
Shigure giggled, before opening the doors of the mess hall. Light seeped through the opening, blinding both Flare and Ruby. Being chained in a dark cell for god knows how long didn't exactly help, the mess hall was dark too, probably adding to the problems as well.
"Welcome to Yokosuka!" Shigure and Yuudachi exclaimed.
It's cold...what's...going on?The girl opened her eyes, revealing a pair of mismatched orbs-one red, the other, golden.
The girl realised she was floating in the middle of the ocean, there was smoke everywhere, and she could hear explosions. She lifted her head, and what she saw shocked her. Tons of corpses floated around her, corpses of girls.
Wh-what?...then she saw her, a heavily injured girl with red hair tied to a long pony tail with golden eyes. She stood on the ocean surface, clutching her left arm that was holding a flaming katana. A circle of fire spun around the girl, and she could see a white glyph beneath the red haired girl.
"Hey, you ok Asuka?" The red haired girl asked.
The girl; now named Asuka, tried to speak, but all that came out was nothing, it was if her own body forbade her to speak.
The other girl smirked. "Don't worry Asuka, ill protect you from them"
Them?Asuka finally noticed them, the ones that may have caused the destruction that surrounded her.
The abyssals
The girl pointed her katana towards them. "Die you horrible scum, you killed Ruby and the others, now you're gonna pay" Suddenly, there was a bright flash that lit Asuka's vision, and then darkness took over it...
The ringing noise of an alarm clock blared through the dimly lit room. On a bed, in the corner, Asuka groaned, shifting underneath her thick blanket. With one quick but clumsy motion, she reached up towards the alarm clock and smashed the off button, turning it off.
With another groan, Asuka pulled away her blanket and sat up. Her red and gold orbs scanned the room. She looked at her alarm clock, and now knowing the time, gave another groan. She knew she was going to be late to school, again.
That nightmare seemed real...Asuka thought, running her hand down her white hair.
"Asuka, are you awake?" Asuka heard a voice from downstairs. "If you are, can you please wake up your three guests as well" Asuka realised it was her uncle.
"Ok old man!" Asuka cried back to her uncle. She got out of her bed and went to the guest bedroom, where three girls were asleep.
One girl had brown hair and blue eyes, she wore a white plain shirt underneath a blue zip-up hoodie that had a strange symbol that resembled a wolf with a glowing blue eye in the back, a black pleated skirt, black sandals and black fingerless gloves. She also carried a huge halberd which seemed to glow faintly.
The second girl had blonde hair and purple eyes. She wore a tan vest over a yellow low-cut crop top with a black symbol that resembled a burning heart. The vest had black puffy cuffs, each had two golden buttons planted in the sides. She also wore a buckled brown belt, black shorts that looks like skirt from behind, white asymmetrical back skirt, knee high platform boot that appear to be made out of leather, and an orange scarf. When Asuka found her, she had a pair of yellow gauntlets that could shoot shotgun shells.
The last girl had white hair and Ivey blue eyes. She wore a white bolero jacket over a similar coloured thigh-length dress, with a pice of black lace making up the neckline of the dress. The inside of the bolero was red and on the back of it was a symbol of a snowflake. She carried a rapier that contained dials of weird substance.
"Hey you guys, wake up" Asuka said. No response.
"Wake up..." She said, a bit louder this time. Nothing happened.
These people take so long to wake up!
Asuka shouted in her head. She took a deep breath and: "WAKE UP!"
The three girls immediately jumped, all had reactions that were priceless.
The brown haired girl grabbed her halberd that was next to her and wildly looked around as if she was expecting someone to attack her.
The blonde immediately jumped onto the arms of the white-haired girl, who had a look of shock planted in her face.
"Finally you guys are awake" Asuka said.
"Huh? Who are you?" The brown haired girl asked, pointing her halberd towards Asuka. Asuka noticed that the girl's eye glowed blue.
"My name is Asuka Ishikawa" Asuka said and bowed. "Now, what are your names?"
The brown haired girl huffed. "Eryn Xander, 18, huntress-in-training, winner of the Annual Grenadier Video Game Tournament, and a member of team FHNX"
"You don't look 18 to me..." Asuka said. "And You're flat..."
"YOU MOTHERFUCKER I WILL KILL YOU" Eryn shouted. The other two managed to hold the petite girl down before she could cause any damage. After a minute or so, Eryn calmed down, but she refused to look at Asuka and acted as if she wasn't there.
"Sorry for Eryn's sudden outburst" the blonde apologised. "My name is Yang Xiao Long, and I'm also a huntress-in-training"
"Nice to meet you, at least you didn't cause a commotion so loud that the neighbours could have heard us" Asuka said as she glared at Eryn, who still had her back turned to her. "Well then, how about you?" Asuka asked as she turned towards the white haired girl.
"Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee company, a pleasure to meet you" Asuka thought hey she's quite nice for a rich personuntil she saw that Weiss was glaring daggers at her never mind she's probably a bitch!
"So now that I know all of your names, please tell me why you guys were falling out of the sky?!" Asuka exclaimed. The three girls never answered, because they didn't had the chance too when Asuka's uncle suddenly burst into the room with a tray of bacon and eggs.
"Hello there!" The cheery man greeted. "I figured you people were hungry so I brought some breakfast!" He placed the tray onto a desk.
"Hey uh, uncle, can you take care of them while I'll be going to high school?" Asuka asked.
"Oh! But I enrolled the three to your school though!" Her uncle chirped.
Asuka went silent, the three girls stopped eating. They all looked at Asuka's uncle in confusion.
"...what?"
"I can't believe this is even happening" Asuka muttered in anger as she kicked a cab with enough force to send it flying over 10 metres. She wore her highschool's uniform which consisted of a white serafuku for the girls and a black gakuran for the boys.
"I know right, we just arrived here and we're already going to school..." Yang said. The other three girls also wore the uniform, except Yang's one was probably a bit too small.
They soon arrived at Asuka's highschool, a lot of people who were Asuka's age gathered around the place in their little friend groups.
"Hey, Asuka!" Asuka heard a male voice behind her.
She turned around and saw a group of teenagers. The first one had dirty blonde hair and green eyes, he was quite tall, towering over the others and Asuka like a giant. It was Jayden Bourne, one of Asuka's friends.
Beside Jayden was a short girl who had reddish hair tied into a short ponytail and for some reason, a pair of ginger cat ears sat on top of her head.
"Hey Rin" Asuka greeted to the red haired girl.
"Yo" Rin replied Cooley.
The third was also a female, slightly shorter than Jayden, with black hair and amber eyes, she had quite an impressive bust that could even rival Yang's own pair. The girl's name was Emi Yamada, also a friend of Asuka.
The last one was a boy with messy white hair, his eyes were covered by a pair of cup giggles. He wore a lab coat over his uniform and he carried a fish bowl that had a mechanical fish swimming in it. The inventor of the group, Daisuke Toyama.
"So who're the three girls behind you, Asuka?" Jayden asked. Asuka's mind went blank.
What should I say?!Eryn took a step forwards, coughing a little and stared straight into Jayden's eyes.
"Hello there, my name is Eryn Xander, the blonde one is Yang Xiao Long and the white haired one is Ice Qu- I mean Weiss Schnee" Eryn replied. "We're Asuka's...distant cousins!"
Jayden raised an eyebrow. It was evident that it was a lie, Asuka's only known relative was her uncle, and she couldn't have any sisters.
Although that was the case, Jayden let them through.
"Hello there Eryn,Yang and Weiss, welcome to Otonokizaka High!" Greeted Emi (AN:Sorry for the sudden AN, but let's see if you know which anime that school comes from ;)). Eryn looked down at Emi's chests as they bounced a little. She looked away in disgust and looked down at her own chest, wondering when they would eventually grow.
Two of the gossipers in the school passed by the little group.
"Hey, did you hear that we're gonna have 9 new transfer students"Asuka heard one of them whisper to the other as they passed by.
"I heard 6 of them are gonna be Kanmusus!" The other whispered back.
"And how about the other 3?"
"Humans, duh"
Kanmusus?Asuka thought. Suddenly images flashed through her mind, images that belonged from the nightmare. Asuka realised that the corpses were the Kanmusus, but some of the corpses looked like...
She looked at Eryn. Another image passed through her mind. In the image, Eryn was still alive, barely. She was heavily injured, and using a wooden board to stay afloat.
Asuka then looked at Yang, and another image appeared. Yang was dead, her corpse floating near Eryn.
She lastly looked at Weiss. The image she saw caught her by surprise. Weiss had turned into an abyssal, though she didn't have any riggings, it was clear she had turned into one.
"Hey, Asuka!" Rin interrupted. She grabbed Asuka's hand."Come on, we need to go!"
"Wait why?" Asuka asked.
"WE'RE LATE!" Daisuke shouted.
"WHAT?! ITS ALREADY 9:00?!" Asuka exclaimed.
Eryn was the one to respond"Yeah, it is," she got out a pocket watch and showed Asuka. "It's 9:00"
Asuka looked closely at Eryn's pocket watch, before shouting, "HOLY SHIT WE ARE LATE!"
The group managed to get to class, though they had to stop by the principal's office to see which class Eryn, Yang and Weiss were gonna be, and it took 5 minutes. It turned out that the three were in the same class as Asuka and the others. Now it was time for introduction.
"Class, as you know, there will be 9 new students" Asuka's homeroom teacher announced. "Only 3 of them are only here right now, and the other six will arrive later"
"You three can come in now!" The first to step in was Yang, followed by Weiss then Eryn.
"Sup! Name's Yang Xiao Long!" Yang greeted, giving the class a friendly wave.
"Weiss Schnee, a pleasure to make your acquaintance" Weiss said as she bowed.
"And I'm Eryn Xander!" Eryn said, holding up the peace sigh.
Everyone began chatting to each other about the three, with most of the boys talking about Yang.
"Woah! They look so cool!" Asuka heard one of her fellow classmates say.
"Yeah! Especially the blonde one!" Came the response.
"Silence, please" The teacher sighed before writing something on the chalkboard. "Let's start with maths shall we?"
Everyone groaned, except for Daisuke.
AN:Hello, Chaos here. I am so, so, so sorry that this chapter was really late. I 'kinda' rushed it so there will be like a lot of grammar mistakes.
Asuka is quite important to the story, you will soon see why.
If you have read the last chapter, Eryn's weapon was a 'lance' but I decided to change it into a halberd, and her new semblance is that she can stop time.
That is all for this chapter, I hope you enjoyed.
-ChaosDivinity