The search for the lost

Chapter 1

A month has passed since the attack on the Heaven academy and the heroic death of its headmaster Leonardo Lionhart. The ruling elite of the Mistral had appointed a new headmaster to run the school and continue with training of new generation of huntsman. Her name was Freya Vanir, she was an elderly woman who retired from being a huntress years ago, when asked to take Lionharts place she did it but reluctantly. She managed to get some other huntsman to come out of retirement to serve as professors at the academy but she knew that that wasn't enough, that they would need more. The problem was that all of the other huntsman and huntresses had gone missing. She had her suspicions to what had happened to them because it was not possible for all of them to simple die by the hands of some grimm. There was something else at work here, but she knew she needed to focus of rebuilding the academy for now. The new school year started quickly with new students arriving at the academy and starting with their classes immediately. For the next few weeks she paid close attention to the performance of her new students, noticing the very best and the worst of them. One day a fight broke out in one of the outdoor classes between two students, a purple haired girl called Penelope and a white haired boy called William, supposedly it was started when during an exercise he pushed one of her teammates of a tree. The professor sent them both to the Frayas office.

"Its a shame really for two excellent students such as yourselves to behave like this. This is my academy and I will not tolerate this." Once there the gray haired women scolded them for their behavior, each argued that the other one started it but she did not want to hear it, in her eyes they were both guilty. Once she was finished with her lesson she gave both of them detention, the two were frustrated but knew that there was nothing more they could do, that wont just make the headmistress angrier.

The next day while Freya was going through some papers, one of the professors came in wishing to talk to her.

"Hector come in, so what do you have for me today?"

"I came across some interesting rumors. It appears that two of our missing huntsman have been spotted." This was good news for shore, but only if it turned out to be true.

The headmistress was intrigued "Who and where?"

"Heather Shields and Shiro Wan. Shields was supposedly spotted in a village to the northeast and some travelers down south claim that they saw a man matching Wans description." The women was deep in thought contemplating what to do. On one hand this could just be rumors, but if this is true that means that there are huntsman out there that could help her rebuild Heaven. Hector broke her concentration

"We need to do something, you know well better then anyone in what state we are in, there just too few of us to do this alone. If this is true that means that there is someone out there that could help us."

"I know Hector, I know but we don't have anyone to send out there to confirm this." The man lowered his head, sighing and grabbing his nose with his fingers.

"I'm getting too old for this Freya. When you asked me to come here I didn't think that it would be this stressful." She only looked at her friend not saying a word. They both knew that it was going to be tough, but this was proving to be more challenging by the day. Then an idea popped into her head.

"Hector, those two students that fought yesterday, what are their names again?

"You mean Penelope and William, what about them?

"I know that their grades are good and that they both have shown great potential, but you have spent more time with them, do you think that they would be ready for a mission?"

"Don't tell me that you want to send those kinds out there to find them. They are just first year students."

"They are training to be huntsman Hector, they need to learn and best place to learn is in the field. They don't need to bring them back, they just have to confirm or disprove your findings." The man was conflicted but he knew their situation well.

"Alright Freya, have it your way. I will send them to you immediately" The professor walked out of the office and shut the door behind him, leaving Freya with her thoughts. She knew that it was risky to send someone so young but she grew to knew her students well and she believed that these two will achieve their mission no matter what.

Sometime past before Penelope and William came to the office. They both feared that she is going to give them another lesson or worse, but when they came in she gritted them with a smile. They were puzzled by this mostly because they never saw her smile.

"You are probably wondering why I asked you to come here." The two only looked at the old women not saying a word. "Relax, I'm not going to scald you again or anything like that. I asked you to come here because I have a mission for you."

They looked at each other on confusion,"Mission?" the two said in unison.

"Yes a mission. You two are some of the best in your class and I'm in need of help with a certain matter. You see sometime ago a bunch of huntsman went missing, but it appears that two of them have been found. I want you two to go there and confirm that are them. Now, do you accept?

They both nodded in excitement and said yes.

"Good, all of the information you need will be sent to your scrolls. Now remember, your mission is only to see if they are there, don't take any unnecessary risks, got it?"

"Yes professor Vanir. We wont let you down." Freya smiled at the enthusiasm of the youngsters.

She remembered when she was like that. William and Penelope were given the information they needed and were sent on their way. William had to find Header and Penelope had to find Shiro.

As they were about to part ways William said "Good luck out there."

She was still a bit angry at him, but she wished him good luck as well and then they set off on their way.