Look who dropped the ball for all of you guys... This fucker right here. I haven't been a very good author in terms of diligence and updating and I'm truly sorry for that. Now, I start College in the fall, and it saddens me to say that my focus will truly be on college while I'm there. Remember that this a hobby for me, but any and all attention that you guys give this story is well appreciated. Anyway... lets kick off volume two.
Also there is a new poll up for everyone, and it's the last round for who Ash will be in a relationship with. It'll be between Blake, Bloody Mary, and Raven. This time you can only choose one and I'll keep the poll numbers to myself until I release who had the most votes. So remember that my awesome readers
(RAVEN) (BLOODY MARY) (BLAKE) Happy reading! ^(^.^)^
I was currently sitting in a chair in detention with a bunch of 1st years and a few 2nd years with the illustrious Goodwitch watch over us. Why you ask? Well I can't say for the other students but I was stuck here because I was visiting Freki in the Emerald forest. Unfortunately Goodwitch saw that as a expedition into the Emerald forest without permission. So that's the reason why I was in detention. I'm going to be a little honest here, It's kinda bullshit and here's the reason why. There's people like what Cardin used to be, which by the way after me saving his sorry ass he turned into a real peacekeeper here at Beacon. He's urging people to change their views on mistreating the Faunus, and now that Cardin, who was probably the biggest anti-Faunus person on this campus for the first years, changed his views, a lot of other people are as well. Either way, back to my original point, Anti-Faunus people don't get detention but if I go out into the Emerald Forest without permission Oum himself save you from Goodwitch's wraith.
After an hour or so, the bell rung and all the students started to pile out. I happily stood up from my seat but before Goodwitch called me back.
"Mr. Steele please remain so that I may talk to you." She said that right as I was about to leave the room. She's good like that, but I'm at least a respectful student. Especially after the incident with Ozpin. Teachers here are scary motherfuckers.
"What do you need Ma'am?" I'm not going to skip formalities with her.
"Ozpin has required your presence after you served your detention and I am to escort you to his office, which I must also remind you that going into the Emerald Forest without permission is forbidden and you should have known that. Otherwise we wouldn't have been in this situation now would we?" Mom alert, divert attention from the mom stare.
"No Ma'am we wouldn't have, but I have to ask, what does Ozpin need me for?" I really hope that I wouldn't be included in the meeting between him and Ironwood. I hate politics.
"He has some more questions about what you discussed with us in private. You don't have to worry about General Ironwood being there, although his fleet is here, he's not scheduled to meet Ozpin till later this afternoon, but if you so wish you may stay and be apart of the discussion that is sure to take place." I wince at that last part, I seriously don't want to deal with Ironwood but if Ozpin needs me to then I'll stick around.
"If I can help it Ma'am, I'll choose to not be there when Ironwood shows up. From what I saw in the show, he seems very strong-headed and doesn't take no for an answer. And I'm afraid if he knows of my existence than he'll interrogate me for all I know then throw me a cell for my 'protection'." She gives me a small smile, probably to try and comfort me at least.
"Yes, James can be a little forward when he wants something done. But even I do not think that he'd throw you in a cell for your knowledge." I shrug my shoulders at her.
"Either way, I don't want to deal with him. But I'll tell you and the Headmaster whatever I can." She seemed a little proud of me for saying that, but I can't be to sure with her. I know Ozpin and Goodwitch will do anything to protect this school, and I'll do whatever I can to protect the people I care about.
We eventually get to Ozpin's little clocktower office thing, where he's waiting there with a neutral expression plastered on his face. Goodwitch walks over to the size of his desk with her little clipboard and I stopped in front of his desk.
"Good Afternoon Mr. Steele."
"Afternoon Headmaster." He seemed a little disappointed at my answer, and my only guess is because I didn't answer in my usual casual demeanor. He sighs, takes a sip of his coffee and looks at me.
"Mr. Steele, is there any more information regarding this queen we're supposed to be facing? I know we discussed a great deal already and my last response towards the information you had given us was... less then ideal. " I roll my head back, palming my face.
"It's alright Headmaster, I totally understood your hostility in the moment, but I've already told you what I think her motives are, that being to get the Fall Maidens powers through the fall of Beacon. Getting to the her within all the chaos. And by now she's infiltrated Beacon. If my teammates are playing that Remnant game they are so fond of in the library, then Ruby will quite literally run into them in the hallway later in the day. They'll be posing as students from Haven, their names are Mercury Black, Emerald Sustrai, and Cinder Fall. They'll have a third teammate who will arrive close to the vytal festival. I don't know what her cover name is but her real name is Neopolitan and she works with or for Roman Torchwhick. Don't know which."
"That's quite a lot of information Mr. Steele. But everything ou've told us has been true up to date. And you're certain nothing has changed?" I grimaced at that, me just being here, has changed so much.
"I hope so, that's what my foreknowledge is banking on at least. But me just being here, has changed quite a bit. Back in my world, Bloody Mary wasn't an actual person in the show, but here, she's a dangerous maniac that nearly killed me. Mercury and Emerald were supposed to kill a bookstore owner by the name of Tukson. But when I was in Vale shopping when I saw them enter the store. I stopped them from killing him, and he hightailed it to Vacuo."
"Although that was very dangerous of you Mr. Steele, but I must applaud you for saving his life. You're already becoming the great Huntsman I know you will be." Giving me pleasant smile, one I haven't seen since when I first met him. And it honestly made me feel a whole lot better. I returned his smile with a full grin.
"Meh, It's something I think every Hunter would do. So it wasn't that big of a deal. Anyway's, anything else you need from me Headmaster? Otherwise I'm going to go find my team and make sure they don't destroy where ever it is that they are hanging out." He chuckles at that and Goodwitch seems appreciate the sentiment.
"Nothing off importance Mr. Steele. I do hope the rest of your day goes swell." Who the fuck says swell anymore? Anyway I give a two finger salute, stuff my hands in my pocket and start heading back to my dorm. Only place I for sure know where my team is without either looking throughout the entire school or calling them. And I'm to lazy to do either of those options. Plus gets me the chance to avoid my stalker lately.
"You are aware that your laziness will get you killed one of these days yeah?"
'Yes I'm aware Edgar. But as of right now, it's of no consequence to me or you guys at the moment. So I'll be lazy for as long as I can.'
"Fine, but what about in a months time? 3 months? What will you do about it then, when your laziness will be the detriment to you and your teammates well being?
'I'll cross that bridge when I get there. Right now I'm worrying about Cinder and her plans. Honestly what brought this on? Did I do something to warrant this? If so, tell me so I can fix it.'
"You're such an idiot Ash, if you weren't so lazy you would notice that you have a tail. Please don't be stupid and look but that Mercury fellow is currently you."And sure enough, just and the edge of my peripheral I saw that stupid silver mop of hair. Honestly he should let the sneaking be to Emerald or Neo. You know the illusionist that can teleport or the thief? Ugh, looks like i'm going to have to shake him. Welp, at least it's a good test of my stealth skills.
So I lead him on a wild trip around the campus and he's getting more and more irritated. It's only quite amusing to see this. Well I feel like I toyed with him enough. I turn the corner and thanks my new power up from Freki, I can jump a hell of a lot higher and without making a sound. I'm able to make and adopt my full Grimmish appearance so that I can blend into the shadows more. He turns the corner expecting to see me there and lo and behold I'm gone. He stands there for a second blinking, turning around making sure that I'm not behind him.
"Shit" I almost loose my cool there and he takes off sprinting down the hallway. I land silently and i start making my way towards my dorm room. Keeping an eye out now for any unwanted stragglers. Like my stalker, who I think is stalking me because of being the best male student among the first years. Honestly it's a little creepy with how it's very hard to spot her even with the help of Edgar, Freki, and Orion. Thankfully I don't see her today, and that's awesome because I don't have a fan girl creeping up on me.
I hear arguing coming from the other side of the door so I can only imagine what they're arguing about now. I open up my dorm and I'm confronted with a scene that is quite unexpected.
"We're going to ask you one more time! Why do you keep following our brother around like a creepy stalker?!" My very irate sister Yang was practically screaming into this poor girl's face that they have tied up on Blake's bed. It seems like my team have some how captured my stalker. Very impressive considering that I was barely able to catch glances of her, even with the help of Orion, Edgar, and Freki.
"I-I'm not! I swear I'm not a creepy stalker. He's just so cool and stuff. He helped me see that greatness can come from anywhere. I'm just trying to find a way to talk with him without clamming up and being an awkward mess." And this is all going on without them noticing me. So I jumped up to my hammock and waited for them to continue.
"So you follow him around all the time hoping that one day that you'll sum up the courage to go and talk to him." Blake seems like she's the most calm out of the group but then again, that's kind of her thing though.
"Yes, I promise that's all. Now can I at least not be on this deathtrap you call bunk beds?" Her voice is no much more than a quiver. Poor thing, shouldn't have followed me around campus all weird like. I hear Ruby pipe up next.
"And for future reference, next time don't wear so much perfume, it's a little overpowering." Ah Weiss, ever the girl with the social etiquette.
"Well now we have to figure out a way to get your courage up so that you can go talk to him. He needs a nice girlfriend, help unwind." There's a long silence and I'm so dumbfounded by that statement that I loose my balance in my hammock and fall out and hit the ground with a loud 'ooph'. There is a collective scream from all the girls in the room, especially from my stalker. Which now that I'm getting a good look at her, she has blonde hair that's tied up into a single braid that's draping in front of her shoulder. And the deepest Red colored eyes that I've ever seen. She's wearing the usual school uniform, but she has a little addendum in the form of a little top hat. Honestly it's a little adorable.
I roll over onto my back and look up at all of them. "Hiya."
"Ash... Uh... Heyyyy... What are you doing here?" It takes all my willpower to not face palm.
"Well geez Ruby, it's not like I live here... Unless there was a last minute change I didn't know about. Like maybe this girl that you all have been interrogating for Oum knows how long. And did you seriously have to tie her up? This isn't one of your raunchy high school anime's Yang, it's not Ok to tie up people without there consent."
"Wait, but it is Ok to tie people with consent?" Seriously? That's what she picks up on? I move over to start untying the girl who seems to be white as snow, but I think that's just from the mortification of the situation.
"Yes, it's a little Kinky but that's perfectly fine. But back to my point, no tying up people! Bad! Geez... if she follows me around school, there's nothing I can do about it. She's doing no harm to me or you guys. And Ruby!" At that she eeps' and hides behind Yang.
"What makes you think that I need a Girlfriend so bad that you thinks it's Ok to kidnap someone? You know what? Forget it for now. You all stay here while I escort our friend here back to her dorm." I escort her away from my crazy teammates and to outside. I ask her which way her dorm is in and she points me in the right direction.
"So you gotta name?" She takes awhile to answer, and my only guess is she's trying to build up courage.
"M-My name is Marianne Blut"
"Well that's a nice name Marianne, but on behalf of my team I would like to apologize for their behavior, it's not becoming of future Huntress'." She shakes her head before answering
"No I can understand their reasoning behind it. I-It's not like what I was doing wasn't weird." Now that I'm standing close to her I'm maybe 4-5 inches taller than her and I can see where Weiss is coming from. This girl did put too much perfume on. It's like she's trying to cover up something. But it's a nice smell nonetheless. Smells like...
Like...
Petunias... With a faint hint of blood.
...
And in that split second , I pushed her away from me and I recalled Freki into my Mind, storing all three Grimm there transforming into what I call stage 3. So far that's all I got for it. Stage 1, is when I only have 1 Grimm active in my mind, stage 2, is of course 2 Grim, and my walking around limit. And Stage 3, where I have 3 Grimm stored, which I reserve for heavy combat.
In stage 3, my appearance vastly changes. My shoulder and wrist bone guards thicken. My shoulder guards stretch into back plating and develop little bumps almost like little mounds. I develop a chest plate, my eyes become a lot brighter and I can start to sense emotions. And then finally all the hair on my body shifts into pure Black fur. In essence I look like a humanoid Grimm.
"Why are you hear Mary? Come to finish me off? Just so you know I have the ability to call ever teacher here to my location if I need to. I may die, but not even you can survive that many trained Hunters."
"Oh would you relax Ash... I'm not here to hurt you or your little group of friends. In fact, I'm here to help."
"Help? Don't fuck with me... Why on Earth would you want to help me? Last time we met you tried to kill me, remember?" I slowly moved my hand to my back pocket where I keep my knife, which I kept for situations like these.
"On the contrary, I do want to fuck you. But I'm done working for that Cinder bitch. So I'm going to help you, to fuck over her." Wait... What?
Obliviously she saw the blank look on face and laughed. At this I've started to let my guard down and a blush started to creep up on my face.
"Ok... Um... Can you uh... Maybe be a little more specific than just, 'I'm here to help'?" At this point I'm standing there looking like an idiot. And my Grimm are just laughing, except Freki, she's seems annoyed at the situation.
"Fine, if you want to be so picky. I give you info on Fall's plans, you take that info to your headmaster, and you do with that what you will." Then she seductively walks over to me and whispers in my ear.
"And maybe, have a little fun in the meantime." I get a chill down my spine and she pulls away from me. "But for now, I'll see you later Sport." And just like that, she disappeared leaving behind a feint smell of Petunia's, but no blood this time.
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"FECKIN WHAT?!"
So I have failed you guys as an author. It's been months since I last updated and I honestly and truly feel bad. I just the last half of this for the past 3 and half hours because I feel like I owe it to you guys for making you all wait so long. Honestly what made me pick up again, was just me wanting to write. But anyways the Poll.
It's a three way final bout between Raven(1) Bloody Mary(2) and Blake(3) you can only vote for 1, and I will keep the votes hidden. But please Vote for the poll, read the story and leave feedback. Either in a Review or a PM. Every bit helps.
Anyway this Lord Rage Quit signing off for now!
