Legacy of a wolf

by Overlord Salem

Tanner Grey and his twin sister Emma are two wolf faunus trying to leave the White Fang and start a better life for themselves. Will they succeed, or will their past come back to haunt them.

4. Professor Gal

Tanner's hand came slaming down on his alarm clock, silencing the annoying beeping. The fuanus sat up in bed, rubbed the sand from his eye's and looked around the room that he now shared with his new team. Annie was already up and dressed in her school uniform. Emma was up as well, still in her pajama's though and trying to wake up Rebecca, but to no avail.

"Morning everyone."

"Morning," the two girls replied in unison.

Emma looked back down at the huddled mess of blanket's that was her partner, a mischevious smile creeping onto her face. Jumping into the air, she landed right on top of her teammate.

"OW!" Rebecca shot up so fast, Emma was sent flying to the floor. "JESUS FUCKING CHRIST THAT HURT! HOW WOUL-"

Emma had a fightened look on her face and threw up her hand's in front of her to try and protect herself. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

Tanner could only laugh at this as he climbed out of bed. "Hey Annie."

"Hhm, ya?"

"I'm going to get ready, could you please make sure they don't kill each other until I get back?"

Annie gave her leader a thumb's up as he grabbed his uniform and headed into the bathroom.

After a quick shower, Tanner put on his new uniform, and was admiring it in the mirror. You know, these uniform's arent that bad.

The faunus was dreading the scene that might await him as he opened the bathroom door, but was relieved when everything seemed calm. Emma had her hands behind her back, her eye's were enlarged and her bottom lip was sticking out.

"God damn it! Your lucky your so damn cute!" Becka was obviously frustrated at this turn of event's.

Tanner burst out laughing. "Oh my god, Emma. You actually had to break out the puppy dog eye's?"

"WHAT!? You knew about this? Hell, we could have sent her after those damn grimm yesterday with how lethal that look is!"

"Well, now that I know you two arent going pummel each other into the ground, Annie and I are going to head down to the cafeteria for breakfast. When your finished getting ready, meet us down there and we can go over our schedule's for the day."

Rebecca just waved him off. "Ya ya, whatever."

"Okay. See ya later bro."

The door clicked shut, and the two teammates took off down the hall. Tanner turned to his partner. "A word of advice, don't ever look her in the eye's when she does that face."

"Is it really that affective"

"You have no idea. Once she learns someone can be controlled with it, there is no hope for them."

"Well, I grew up with two younger sisters who got into a lot of trouble, so I like to think that I could handle it."

"There might be some hope for you after all. But we've lost Rebecca." Tanner gave her a small grin. "Her sacrifice will not be in vain." The two burst out laughing.

Before long, they had made it to the dining hall. The large room was packed. There was a buzz in the air from the constant noise of student's conversing, excited for the first day of classes.

The partners quickly grabbed two trays each and got in line. They got their meal's, as well as two extra's for their teammates, and found an empty table near the entrance and sat down. As they were about to start eating, the other half of their team entered. Tanner caught their attention and waved them over.

"Hey guy's, over here."

"Hey Tann! Oh, you already got us food? Thank you."

"Ya, thanks."

Rebecca was fidgeting with the red ribbon around her collar as she took her seat, causing Annie to give a curious look. "Everything all right there Becka?"

"Ugh, it's this damn uniform. Why do they have to be so girly?"

"I think their kinda cute." Replied Emma with a soft smile.

"How can you be so happy all the time?"

"Well, someone has to." She said with a wink.

"Okay, okay, we should probably eat. We don't want to be late for our first class." Tanner interjected.

"So, what is our first lesson?" Asked Becka

"It look's like the class is called Properties of Dust and Aura with Professor Gal."

Annie was caught off guard when she heard the name. "That's not Professor Ben Gal is it?"

"Yes it is. Why do you ask?"

"You mean you've never heard of him?"

The other three gave each other a confused look. "Should we have?" replied Emma.

Annie got annoyed at their ignorance. "He's only one of Remnants leading authorities on Dust. His research even got the attention of Atlas. They tried to recruit him for their R&D department, but were turned down. Gal told them that his research would never be used to make weapons, and that they should look somewhere else."

Becka seemed impressed with this. "He sounds like a real badass to turn down Atlas like that."

"He is!" Standing up, Annie grabbed Tanner's wrist, yanking him to his feet. "Come on, let's go!"

"Calm down, we still have twenty minutes."

"I know. I just want to get good seat's," dragging her leader out of the dining hall and into the hallway.

"Should we go after them?" Asked Emma.

"In a bit, I'm still hungry."

The classroom was completey empty, to Tanner's annoyance. "You see, you didn't have to rush here and dislocate my wrist like that."

"Quit your whining. Your wrist be good as new in no time." She quickly took a seat in the first row. Tanner reluctantly sitting beside her.

Fifteen minutes had past when they were finally joined by the rest of their team, who sat down next to them. Team CRDL were the next ones to arrive, choosing to sit at the back of the class, a look of disgust on their leader's face as he noticed the twins. Tanner paid it no mind, as he was used to those kind's of looks.

The door leading to the adjacent office flew open, in walking the professor. He was big, definately a body builder type, looking like he could strangle an Ursa with his bare hands. He wore a pair of black leather shoes, dark blue dress pants and a simple black T-shirt that showed off his impressive build. He had short black hair and golden orange eye's. Gal also had four different colored stripes tattooed onto both of his massive forearms. As he walked into the classroom, all eyes went directly to his extra feature. The professor had a long white tail with black stripes.

"Annie, you didn't tell us he was a fuanus."

"I didn't know. Nothing I ever read said he was."

Tanner turned his attention back to their teacher. I've met plenty of tiger faunus over the years, but never a white tiger. The leader was snapped out of his thoughts by their professor clearing his throat.

"Ahem. Hello class." The professor's voice was very deep and raspy. "I am professor Gal. I will be your teacher for-" The professor stopped, looking up from his paper's and glancing around the room. "Does anyone know where the rest of your classmates are?"

Everyone was giving each other a confused look when the door burst open, in pouring the missing teams.

"Ah, teams RWBY and JNPR. How nice of you to grace us with your presence."

"Sorry we're late," the young silver eyed leader said nervously.

"Just hurry up and take your seats so we can begin."

Once everyone was seated, the professor started agian. "As I was saying, I am professor Gal and I will be your instructor on the properties of dust for the remainder of your time here at Beacon. I have watched and reviewed your progress from the Emerald Forest, and I have to say that I am impressed with the level of competency that most of you possess."

An excited murmur spread through the classroom with all the students silently congratulating themselves.

"BUT, every last one of you as it stands right now, will fail my class!" The cheery atmosphere was immediately extinguised, with everyone now listening very carefully to their instructor. "You all lack control over your aura, which in turn, causes you to use up to much of it. In a prolonged fight, this will lead to your defeat, or worse. I intend to rectify this problem. By the end of this course, you will all have the knowledge to be able to utilize dust's fullest potential, using as little energy as possible. In order to obtain this, we will be going back to the basics. Now, can anyone tell me the four basic forms of dust that are found in nature?"

Emma's hand shot up, as well as a few other's.

"Yes, Miss Grey is it?

"Yes sir, the four basic forms of dust are fire, water, lightning and wind."

"Very good. Now, there are also several sub classes of dust, some of which inc-" The professor was cut off when he heard snickering coming from the back row. Everyone turned to see team CRDL bent over in fits of laughter. "Mr Winchestor, what could possibly be so funny that you would decide to interrupt my class?"

Cardin calmed down enough to start talking. "Well, I was going to make a joke about her being a teacher's pet, but then I realized that the teacher was a pet as well." The whole team went back to laughing.

Emma slammed both her hands down on her desk and stood up to face Cardin. "Your just a bully. Someone who thinks they can use their size to intimidate those who are smaller. But your just a coward!"

"What!? You want a piece of me you mutt!?"

"THATS ENOUGH!" Professor Gal bellowed, startling everybody. "There will be no fighting in my classroom." Once the class settled down, he continued. "But, I can tell that there is alot of tension between the two of you. So, I propose a friendly sparring match between the two of you to relieve some of your, pent up frustration. Are their any objections?"

"No sir, sounds good to me," replied Emma.

"Ya, it should be fun to knock her off her high horse."

"Okay, then it's settled. We will be relocating to the arena for the remainder of the class. You two will head to the locker rooms to get ready."

As everyone stood up, Rebecca grabbed Emma's arm to stop her from leaving. "What the hell was that? I've never seen you that angry, even when we were fighting those grimm yesterday."

Emma was shaking out of frustration. "All our lives, we have had to deal with jerks like him. Tann always told me to pay them no mind, that ther weren't worth a second thought. And for a while, it worked. But it never really stopped. Then, we were accepted into Beacon and I thought maybe, just maybe that we found a place that we wouldn't be discriminated against, but I guess I was wrong." Emma's ears laid flat against the top of her head, tears running down her cheeks. Before the little wolf realized it, she was embraced by Annie in a warming hug. Emma was startled by the sudden contact at first, but quickly reciprocated the kind gesture.

"I'm so sorry Emma, I never realized how tough being a faunus must be. I don't know how you've done it."

The two girls broke from their embrace. "I've always had my brother there to help me through it. Whenever I got really upset, he would be the one to calm me down, reassuring me that not every human shared the same feelings as them. It never seemed to bother him."

Rebecca grabbed Emma's wrist and started dragging her down the hall. "Well, now's your chance to grow some claws and kick this bastards ass all over the school. Come on, I'll go with you to get changed and make sure that douche doesn't try anything."

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The two opponents stood facing each other. Emma had her regular combat outfit and Cardin had donned a full set of plate armor, with the crest of a bird on his chest piece. As everyone was waiting for the match to begin, Blake had made her way over to Tanner.

"So, how badly do you think Emma is going to beat this idiot?"

"I don't know. There's no question that she will win, but by how much is up in the air." The two friends shared a laugh as Professor Gal moved to the center of the ring.

"This will be a friendly competition. The winner of the match will be decided when their opponent's aura level drops into the red. Any and all attempts to seriously injure their opponent will be met with severe consequences. Do I make myself clear?!"

"Yes sir!"

"Ya, I got it."

"Alright, if both combatents are set, the match will begin on my mark. Three, two, one, BEGIN!"

Cardin was the first to move, charging Emma at full speed, his giant mace above his head. He brought his weapon down with an overhand swing, but was met with only ground as Emma easily sidestepped the attack. The young wolf quickly went on the offensive, taking her katana and swinging at her opponents chest. With a loud clang, her blade merely bounced off of the plate armor, catching her off guard for a split second. Cardin took advantage of the distraction, swinging his mace up and catching the faunus in the chin, sending her flying back several yards and crashing to the ground.

"Ha! Not so high and mighty now are ya?!"

Emma quickly stood up, giving her opponent a sly grin. "Heh, I'm just getting started." With blinding speed, she dashed forward, catching the boy off guard. Once in close, she slashed at the exposed joints on the back of Cardins knees.

"AHH! Why you little..." He swung his mace around, trying to score another hit. But Emma was able to dodge the attack and countered with a few strikes to the elbow and midsection. "QUIT MOVING SO I CAN HIT YOU!" Frustration clearly taking over as Cardin swung the massive mace around blindly, unable to land a single blow. "Ugh, THAT'S IT!" With massive force, Cardin slammed his weapon into the ground, breaking apart the floor of the arena and sending out tremors from the epicentre. The attack took Emma by surprise, causing her to stumble as the ground shook violently. Cardin saw an opening and took it. Running full speed at her and swinging his mace like a bat, he was able to make contact with her midsection.

Emma landed hard on her back. With barely enough time to get back on her feet, another attack came her way. This time she was able to block it, their weapons locking in a struggle for dominance. "You should give up mutt. There's no way a dog like you can beat me!"

"You ignorant, close minded rascist! I'm not a dog! I'm a wolf!" Emma stepped to the side and let Cardins weight carry him forward. As he stumbled, Emma struck the back of his head with the hilt of her sword. Cardin whirled around, only to be blinded by the flames emanating from the katana. Before he could react, Emma struck his midsection with her sword, sending the boy flying back and crashing to the ground. As Cardin struggled to get up, Emma placed her foot on his chest, the tip of her sword pointed at his throat.

"Congratulations Miss Grey on that impressive victory." Professor Gal moved back to the center of the arena, which was now mostly rubble. "Both of you performed exceptionaly well."

Cheering could be heard from most of the class, except for the rest of team CRDL, who were in complete shock at the outcome.

Emma seathed her sword and walked away from her defeated opponent.

"YOU BITCH!"

Emma only had enough time to turn around and see the mace coming straight for her head. Tanner and the rest of the team saw the attack happening and were ready to intervene. But before anyone could make a move, Professor Gal beat them to it. He had grabbed Cardins wrist just in time to stop his weapon from finding it's mark.

The room went so quiet, you could hear a pin drop.

"Ugh, let go of me you filthy faunus!"

The yellow stripe on the Professor's arm started to glow, sending sparks of electricity up through his arm and into Cardin's. The boy screamed in pain, dropping his mace and falling to his knees. Without letting go of the boy's wrist, Gal moved his right hand to Cardin's shoulder guard, crushing it like a soda can.

"My, my father will hear about this!" Cardin stammered, fear taking control of him.

"No, I don't think so. Call it a hunch, but I don't think that you want it getting out that you were bested by a faunus." Professor Gal yanked Cardin back to his feet. "Now, let me make one thing perfectly clear. THIS GOES FOR THE REST OF YOU AS WELL! If I catch anyone trying to maliciously attack another class member again, I will personally put them on a ship out of beacon. Today is your first and only warning on this matter." His eye's narrowed back down to Cardin's. "Do I make myself clear?!"

"Y-yes sir."

"Good!" The professor let go of the boy's wrist, who started rubbing it to relieve some of the pain. "You should probably head down to the blacksmith and get that shoulder piece repaired. We can't have a huntsman in training with faulty equipment now. I'll let Professor Goodwitch know that you will not be attending her next class."

Cardin scooped up his mace and ran out of the arena. His teammates in tow.

"Miss Grey!"

Emma tensed up as she heard her name. "Yes sir?"

"You did very well in the fight. But just because a fight is finished, doesn't mean it's over. Turning your back on an opponent like you did is usually a fatal error and I don't want to see that happen to any of my student's.

"I understand sir, It won't happen again."

"Glad to hear it." The professor glanced at his watch. "Well, that just about wraps things up for today. Be sure to bring your weapons to class tomorrow. I wish to learn more about them and yourselves." With those final words, the professor turned and walked out of the arena.

The rest of team TERA ran over to Emma.

"Are you ok?" Asked Tanner

"Ya, ya I'm fine. Just a little tired is all." The team moved to one of the free benches and sat down. Blake came over and joined them soon after.

"Emma, that was incredible. You certainly have grown in the last few years."

Emma looked up into her amber eyes. "Thanks Blake. But it looks like I still have alot to learn."

"Well if Cardin ever gives you anymore trouble, just come get me."

"Will do!"

Blake left to rejoin her own team.

Emma turned to her partner. "Hey Becka?"

"Hhm?"

"You remember at breakfast when you said that the Professor sounded like a badass? I think that statement kind of undersells him."

Authors Notes: I originally had Tanner fighting Cardin during initiation in the last chapter. But I ended up scrapping it in order to give this moment to Emma. Hope you enjoyed the chapter. Reviews are always welcome.