Do You Believe in Fairy Tales?
Chapter 10: Sun Wukong and Neptune Vasilias
A RWBY Fanfic
Two boys, the best of friends, even the coolest of guys (as they would call themselves), partners and part of the best team from Haven academy (if they said so themselves). They were alike and yet very different from each other. It is true that they were the best of friends, but the most striking thing about them was that one was human and the other was Faunus. That never made a difference when they hung around and sometimes the only way you could tell one from the other was that one had a tail like a monkey. No the boys did not look alike, but they were always together and they had very similar tastes in humor and fondness for getting into trouble while having fun.
Sun was born in Vacuo, he lived there when he was a small boy, and the easy going life style there could be found in his love of fun and life. But his family moved to Mistral when he was still quite young in the hopes that they would be able to give Sun and the rest of the family a better life, a more secure life. And this is where he met and became friends with a young Neptune. You see Faunus always had a harder time in the world as there were many who still didn't think kindly of them, and Sun was looked at and picked on until one day this blue haired young boy came to his aid and they had never been able to be separated ever since that day. At least that I how Sun would always describe the way their friendship started.
Neptune was born in Mistral and spent his entire life there. He was a very likable young person and he really loved to have fun. But, he also hated to see people be mistreated and would speak his mind. He would be teased by older kids and told that he didn't know anything and he was pushed around. Then one day when he was getting shoved around a little there was this other kid who swooped in and helped him to set things right by throwing a banana peel in the other kids face. Neptune always thanked this kid and they struck up a great friendship that would never be broken. At least that's how Neptune would always describe the way their friendship started.
As these two friends grew they had heard all the stories and fairy tales that there were from all over Remnant. But the way that they saw things in the stories was different sometimes than other people might think. Growing up in Vacuo, Sun saw the stories as ways to kick back and have a good time, he never took them too serious because these types of things could never be true. While Neptune heard the stories and always thought how cool the stories were because of how they were crafted and he would love if even a tad bit of the stories were true. No matter what the story was the two of them grew up overlooking most of the stories as they got older and only learned how to be themselves.
One day almost of the blue, they started to chat about what they might do if they had to choose. They both sat around and thought about it for a bit. Then they started to really think about what it was that they truly wanted to do in the future.
"Hey Neptune what do you think you want to do when we grow older? You know everyone keeps saying we need to grow up." Sun pointed out that the adults where really pushing on him now that he was getting into his teens.
"I really don't know, Sun. I really haven't been giving it much thought." Neptune would say. "But, I do know that I don't want to do anything that wouldn't be cool or boring. What about you?"
"Yeah, boring is bad. I want to do something that will lead to adventure where I can also have fun." He pointed out that they both were on the same idea direction. So they continued to ponder what they might do. At some point they both had the same idea!
"Let's be huntsmen!" They looked at each other and exclaimed! Surprised they thought of the same thing at the same time. They looked at each other with quizzical stares after that.
"What made you think of that idea Sun?"
"I was going to ask you the same thing. But, for some reason all the stories that we grew up with started to come to mind." Sun explained that he was remembering how the heroes of the stories always had the grand adventures and how he always thought that it would be so cool to have fun on adventures like they had. And with the way things were in life today that being a huntsman just seemed to be the best idea.
"I was thinking about the stories too. Maybe they weren't so far off. You know there has to be a grain of truth to them since every story starts somewhere." The only reservation that Neptune had was that he would refuse to go after pirates. When Sun pressed him further on that Neptune just kept insisting that chasing pirates was the complete opposite of cool.
"Just think about the things that we could do Nep." Sun started to think about the things they could do. "Chasing after the damsel in distress and how much fun it would be. All different places we could go. Man, that would be so cool, and all the fun we would have!"
"Yeah," Neptune said thinking about what Sun was saying. "All the pretty girls we could save and impress. We would be the greatest huntsmen. All the popularity and all the accolades that we could get."
So the two best of friends got it in their heads that they had thought of the coolest job and career that would suit them. They would start to work hard and get themselves readied for the great adventures they would have.
"LET"S DO THIS!" They shouted as they got up and danced to their ideas.
"But NO PIRATES! I'm serious."
"Neptune you really need to get over that fear of water, dude. That's so not cool."
"I am NOT afraid of water!" Neptune shouted! "You know not what you speak of and you can't prove a thing! He stated as the two friends headed off for their grand adventure.