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Hey what's up everybody!? It's freaking 12:30 on a school night when I'm uploading this! Isn't that just WONDERFUL!? #RipMe
But seriously, I'm really sorry I'm late on updating again, but I had a ton of school work over the weekend. I was going to upload this chapter as soon as I got done with it today, which I actually did, but it would've been earlier had my laptop charger not randomly screw the hell up and make my computer die, because my laptop for some reason can NOT go literally 20 minutes without charging or it dies. It took me just about over an hour to get the god damn thing charging again, and well, HERE I AM NOW!
By the way, two chapters in a row now that have names that have alliteration, yay!
But enough of this, just read the freaking chapter already, and leave me alone for the rest of the night, I feel like I'm gonna die
Vacuo is probably the most… neutral of all the four kingdoms when it comes to fighting and training. Or maybe consistent is the word, or any other synonym you could think of, Vacuo would be it probably. Vacuo has always been decent when it comes to training whoever is interested, and most of these trainees are usually good enough to go to an academy like Haven, but not a huge academy like Beacon.
It's either because they just aren't quite THAT good, or it's a personal choice, and they just want to stay home, or just don't want to go to a huge academy. But then there are others, not many, but there some that ARE good enough, and DO want to go to Beacon, and CAN get in.
… and then there are the very few that surpass all of those with flying colors, and then some.
"Marriott, I can't believe you're going to Beacon!" Came a young and very giddy voice from across the training field.
Marriott Stoute, a tall, long maroon haired girl, who has her hair in a long ponytail going down to her lower back, is probably the best fighter to ever come out of Vacuo, at least in recent memory, clearly more than cutout to enroll into Beacon, and that is exactly what she is doing, and lastly, today is the day she goes to the airship lot.
She chuckled at the voice. "How many times have you said that ever since I got the acceptance letter?"
Aside from her maroon colored hair, she has sky blue eyes, and wears a leather sleeveless cargo jacket that stops at her midriff, a maroon undershirt, leather cargo shorts, and leather combat boots. Yeah, she's definitely from Vacuo.
"Seriously Maize, you don't have to say it every ten seconds." She said to her little brother name Maize, the chuckle still clear in her voice.
Maize pouted a bit. "But it's so AMAZING that you got in, it's sooooooo coooooolllllll!"
Marriott knew that her ten year old brother wants to train to be a hunter and go to Beacon, so it wasn't exactly difficult to see the stars in his eyes as he said that, and she chuckled yet again.
Maize kept going on before Marriott could properly reply. "Can you PLEASE tell me what it's like when you get there? Please, please, PLEASE!?"
At this point, Marriott was fully laughing now at her brother's hyperactivity. "Hahahaha, alright Maize, I'll send you a letter once I get there, okay?"
Before Maize could respond, their father could came out of the backdoor, and started walking towards the two siblings on the training field, and he shouted out to them. "Hey Marriott, what are you still doing out here!? You gotta get finished packing so you can get to the airship lot!"
'Oh yeah… I forgot to finish packing last night.' "I'm coming! Sorry dad, I was just getting in some last minute training in before I had to go."
Marriott might be one of the toughest people you'd ever meet, but she most definitely is not the most organized one, or someone to keep up with a schedule, a flaw by her own definition.
And this was proven when she basically had to cram anything else she needed in her suitcases without any orderliness whatsoever, but hey, at least she got it done and to the airship before it took off!
'Whatever works I guess.' She thought with amusement.
Of course she wouldn't be stuck in Vacuo if she had missed the airship, because it would come right back to get anyone that did miss it, but seriously, Marriott didn't want to wait any longer. She wanted to get to Beacon the absolute freaking fastest she could so she could start her new life!
Marriott, as you you could probably tell by now, was a bit of a thrill seeker, after all, growing up in Vacuo, you had to go out and find a living, and that's what she's done, despite her young age.
While the ship was about halfway to Beacon, she started to reflect on her life thus far up to this point. She started to think about her family and how they'd be without her, her previous accomplishments in Vacuo, both publicly and personal, how Maize would be, the people she would meet at Beacon, and especially, who her teammates would be.
'I really hope they are nice and not some self-centered assholes.'
Despite being kind of an outgoing person, that's more of a "out of the house" meaning, not a "meeting a bunch of people" meaning.
Vacuo is a really vast land, and civilization is a bit spread out, so you had to go out and adventure around to go to new places, but not many really did, most chose to just settle where they were and stay there, not moving unless they absolutely needed to.
But Marriott had never been that type of person, she wasn't really a fan of that lifestyle, she found it boring and a waste of time, and even from an early age, she has had a thing for going on little adventures of sorts, and she tended to wander, much to the displeasure of her parents.
Yet, despite all these "adventures" she went on, she never really met many people, so her social skills weren't exactly the best, or at least as good as you would think, but the people she does know and are friends with would quickly say that she's a nice, caring, and compassionate person who puts their lives before hers.
However they would also tell warn you that she has a bit of a… short fuse so to say. She's not exactly someone you'd want to get on the bad side of. And at the very least, it added to her intimidation factor.
This led to her thinking of her own accomplishments in Vacuo, specifically fighting tournaments and how she won pretty much every single one she would enter.
Marriott was almost always the favorite heading into any tournament, and it was because of her fighting style, and how well she could combine her raw strength and brute force with her semblance, telekinesis.
Yes, to go along with having a freaking battle axe as your weapon, which it was for her, she could move things with her mind thanks to her semblance, and she uses this combination so well, that some people have wanted to ban her from certain tournaments because she was "too dangerous". But they never did ban her from any of these tournaments, because after a while, she was the main attraction, the main event, almost the WHOLE reason people went out to see these tournaments.
And she obviously loved this, she loved that fact that they were there to see HER, and she always wanted to put on a show for those lovely people.
But then this led to her next train of thought; her family.
While it was nice to put on a show for the audience, it was never the real reason she entered the tournaments. It was really because her family was pretty much flat broke.
The job economy in Vacuo had been sputtering a bit in recent years, and people had lost jobs fairly fast, her own parents included. Money was quickly becoming a struggle, and her mom insisted they should leave Vacuo and go to another one of the four kingdoms, but her father refused everytime, trying to assure her that they could still make a living in Vacuo, and be happy.
But her mom wasn't happy, and this only made her more disgruntled, and she eventually divorced, and left the family she had helped create, and this only drove the knife in a little deeper.
They didn't know where she had went, but they knew she wasn't in Vacuo anymore, that was for sure, and after the divorce, Marriott, who was fourteen at that point, decided to take matters into her own hands, and literally fought to get her family money. And considering she won almost every tournament she was in, it definitely worked a bit. At the very least, they weren't completely broke anymore.
But that was why she was concerned about her family now that she won't be there, how will they get money, and from where?
As she was thinking about all this, she noticed that the airship had finally landed, and her fellow future students were picking up their things, and filing off the ship.
As Marriott got her things, she remembered getting a message from one of her friends who was a second year at Beacon, and had told her to meet him near the front of the academy.
'Well I'd better hurry then, don't want to keep him waiting.'
As she got off however, she ran straight into the back of someone, making them and herself stumble a little bit before regaining there balance.
"Oh geez I'm so sorry, I'm just in a bit of a hurry." She apologized quickly.
The girl turned around to face her. "Uh, it's alright, don't worry.
Marriott smiled and decided this would be a good time to introduce herself and acquaint herself with someone. "If you say so. By the way, the name's Marriott, nice to meet you."
The girl returned Marriott's smile a bit before responding. "Olivia, likewise."
Marriott nodded and waved back at Olivia, and walked off towards the school, her smile not fading from her face.
'That went better than I expected. Maybe this won't be so bad.'
Well, I hope it was to your liking. This is the last of the character introduction chapters, so now, like I've said or the past three chapters now, the next chapter will focus on Silver, Koel, and the initiation, and then we can get to forming the team! YAAAAYYY *Party ball comes out of the ceiling*
But anyway, I want to go to bed now, so good night, and I'll see you guys next chapter! LATER GUYS! *Peace sign*