Personal Split Chapter 1, a rwby fanfic

Personal Split

A RWBY fanfic

By Donovan Ray Castillo

Chapter 1

Remnant, a world divided into four kingdoms known as Vacuo, Vale, Atlas, and Mistral. All of them sheltering humanity from the evil forms of darkness that are commonly known as Grimm. Grimm have been around since….forever, yeah no one really knows where they come from or how they even exist. They come in several forms such as wolfs, bears, giant birds, ect., and it doesn't help scientists study them because the bodies disappear after being killed. The kingdoms of Remnant work hard to combat this foe, whether they are using the elemental forces of dust (which is a natural resource that can be used as fuel, ammo, or weaponized), a strong disciplined military of well trained soldiers, or what every kingdom always has… HUNTSMEN! Huntsmen and huntresses are individuals who dedicate themselves to protecting their kingdom and the neighboring villages. They are trained at the academies of each kingdom, not to be soldiers but warriors, heroes of tomorrow, basically the best of the best for slaying Grimm or fighting off the White Fang, I won't get into them yet, it's time for the real story to begin, so please enjoy.

The kingdom of Vale has vast green lush forests, mountains that tower above the clouds, and quite a few neighboring villages. One of those villages, being quite far from the city of Vale, takes its place in a well fortified area, a large mountain range that acts as a wall to cover the rear of the village leaving the front exposed to a large grassy green forest with more mountains in the distance. Half of the village is built up higher close to the mountain which is to be considered more of the town area for shopping and certain jobs, while the other half built more in the forest was meant for housing residents, camping, hunting, farming, there's even a port built by a decent sized lake for fishing and a couple of nearby small waterfalls and streams for clean water. The forest does contain some Grimm, but the village has its own defense force of men and women who stand guard at the borders of the village, a few huntsmen would visit to do either missions or find a place to rest till they went on their way. Yes the village Bergseite seemed to be a strong thriving village of happy civilians, one of those civilians being an eleven year old boy named Erin who has a future of adventure and pain.

Erin's POV:

"*huff* *huff*". It was dark and raining… "*huff*, GO, KEEP RUNNING! *huff*"... yet I could still hear the snarling of hunger and their feet pouncing on the ground, breaking sticks and branches in their path. "Mommy I'm scared!", "Just keep your eyes closed sweetheart well be ok!" the mother in front of me said trying to comfort the girl in her arms, I was so tired. "Erin". Aura drained and my body was covered with cuts and blood, but Imanaged to keep pushing forward, then I noticed the woman in front of me stopped, then I knew why once I caught up with her. A cliff above us cut off our path, nothing but a rock wall in front of us.

I cursed under my breath and started to pull at my hair out of stress and…"ERIN"... ok was I going crazy or do I keep hearing my name, I thought to myself looking around, but my attention was redirected to the rustling leaves and snapping branches behind me. "aaaawwww damit, alright you two stay behind me ok?", "but your…" "No!..." I said cutting her off "... I'll hold them off while you run, get your daughter to safety understood" I said a bit sternly. She nodded with a sad smile "Thank *sob* you" she said crying, I gave her a bit more of a brighter smile before turning back to the three Grimm in front of me with a new determination in my eyes and a mean scowl, I drew my sword from its sheath with a long lasting...

*ssshhiinnk*.

Three beowulfs one on the left, one on the right and the alpha in the middle, the rest of the pack I had already been taken care of, it was the alpha I had a hard time with. The Grimm stared at us with death in their burning red eyes, licking their teeth with an anticipating hunger, I stared back daggers that probably could've killed a man. I took my combat stance, sword pointing at the alpha, body drenched in water and a little blood. A lightning strike in the background lit the area for a split second before it went dark again. "RRRRRAAAAAHHH!", the alpha gave a thunderous roar, as they charged at me I gave my own battle cry while full sprinting at them "YAAAAAAAA!", and just as the battle was about to begin

"ERIN!".

"GUH! *huff* *huff*" I woke with my body jolting up from my bed, my breathing was heavy and I was sweating.

"Erin are you awake?".

I heard my uncle call from down stairs, "y-YEAH!sorry Im coming!". I threw the blankets off me and ran to my bathroom rinsing my face with water and looking at my face in the mirror "pbpbpbpbpb", I blew through my lips, "Just another dream… damn." I said with disappointment, I would love to be a huntsman if we didn't live so far from Vale city, but uncle Matt say's that were fine here and that huntsmen usually get into trouble and danger and that I shouldn't be put in those positions. I ran some water threw my brown hair and left, only to come back and get the gunk out of my brown eyes, then left the bathroom.

I went downstairs to see my uncle Matt putting breakfast on the table, "Did you sleep in again?" he asked.

"What makes you think that." I casually said.

" You're still in your PJ's and your hair looks like shit" Uncle Matt said scratching his scruffy beard.

"Craaaap." I groaned.

Uncle Matt gave a shit eating grin, "Mmhmm, now eat your breakfast and get changed, you got a delivery to Lagarto's Cafe so don't be late.".

"I won't," I said, grabbing my breakfast from the table and started for the stairs.

"Eat down here Erin." uncle Matt said.

I sighed in annoyance "Whyyy, I don't make messes." I whined a little.

"Yet I'm always having to clean up your plates and silverware, so I'll respect your choice to eat upstairs when you start respecting the cleanliness of our home cool, cool." he had an amused smile on his face from making his point as he put his dirty dishes in the sink and began cleaning them.

After finishing my breakfast I made my way to my room to get ready for the day. Throwing on a black T-shirt with a gray over shirt leaving the buttons undone, a pair of jeans, and black boots with the pant legs stuffed in the boot. I stood in front of my mirror to check myself out, I was skinny, but I had muscle still, being lean wasn't bad, I rather liked the way my body turned out from all the labor of being a fisher,

"Ok we get it you're in love with yourself can we get a move on." Kore said in his head.

"I'm just admiring my sexiness bro." I replied, making my way to the bathroom.

"Well I think you look great Erin, I speak for Kore when I say that too." a giddy Feliz chuckled in my head.

"See Kore some people aren't afraid to admit how they really feel." I added amusingly.

"Dear god you're a kiss ass Feliz." Kore replied which made me chuckle hard at how quick he replied.

I got to the bathroom with slight tears in my eyes from laughter, "Uuuggghhh man that's funny, ok time to freshen up." I say as I proceed to brush my teeth and then do my hair by simply taking some water and giving my hair a messy look that I felt fit me well.

I take a step back from the mirror to admire my hair, actually feeling pretty go-"Looks like shit" Kore said, interrupting my thought process.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Chestnut laughed in the background at Kores criticism.

"Hey up yours Kore it's good, alright now let's go make that delivery." I cheerfully exited my room.

Having DID isn't so bad, it just takes a little getting used to is all. I've got a total of four different personalities that have certain characteristics that make them different.

Kore is a bit of a grump sometimes, he likes to complain especially about the little things, but on good days he just won't care and stays quiet until he feels like adding his opinion on a subject. Despite the tough obsidian wall he puts up he cares about us though he just doesn't think we know, but I do.

Feliz is not afraid to express how he feels about anything, he loves showing love in friendly ways as hugs, high fives, and just overall talking to people, he's got a good heart though Feliz has aspergers (a mild autism and social disorder) that prevents him from proper communication with other people and sometimes being awkward, but he's gotten better at socializing and I'm proud of his progress, Feliz will continue to be the kindest soul of us all.

Hugo is a humble, gentleman that is favored most by my uncle because Hugo is apparent on cleanliness and getting work done, he can be a brainiac sometimes and rambles on about why we should do this or that and bla bla bla bull crap, but he does use the most common sense out of all of us so when were in a situation for making decisions or solving a problem, Hugo's always thinking of a plan and I'm glad to have him.

Last but not least Chestnut, now Chestnut has a few loose screws… actually he has no screws he lost them all from the moment he was in my head, Chestnut is a bit psychotic that can get creepy if not contained soon, he's a risk taker that basically opposes anything Hugo has to say, they've only ever agreed on their favorite ice cream being pistachio which to me is gross. Chestnut would literally jump off a bridge if someone told him, I remember him taking control one time just to say yes to that when uncle Matt was lecturing me after some stupid things me and my friends did… I'm still a bit pissed about having to clean every… piece… of equipment we owned for that, so overall Chestnut is a dumbass.

In a way I hate them all yet I love them, don't get me wrong they do become too much sometimes and I really don't know how to handle it, but I wouldn't trade them for the world.

I made my way downstairs to see my uncle zipping up his black leather jacket and proceeded to tie the laces on his dirty brown boots as I made my way to the front door ready to make this delivery. "Alright, I'm off now uncle Matt see ya in a bit" I scurried to the door.

"Hair looks like shit" he replied instantly.

"You have a good day too, love ya" I said positively which made my uncle chuckle softly…... "Oh shut up Kore!" I said walking out the door which caused my uncle to break into a hearty laugh. He knows about my disorder and he's cool with it, he really is the best Uncle ever and I love him a lot.

At least things are better now than they used to be.

Narrators POV:

Wheeling a cart of crated fish to the main town is just a part of Erins physical activity. At first, it was a difficult task for a young kid like him, these crates hold coolers of fish and ice, but in time he really developed a good pair of legs and stamina as he delivered more and more fish. The money wasn't much for the delivering part of this job, but it was enough for living a life with a house and food.

Though they were fishers, they got sick of JUST fish for meals, so they usually just sell what extra fish they have in the market that's in the housing area of the village. Erin made his way over to the cart of fish under the tree covered in tarp while also listening to the conversation his personalities were having in his head.

"Alrighty then lets get this thing up there." Erin said as he turned to look at his head, but as he was about to start pulling the cart.

"Wait Erin shouldn't we do an inventory check." Hugo quickly reminded.

"Why uncle Matt put these in himself, he's not really one to make mistakes for package orders" Erin replied, but Kore spoke up.

"Actually I think we should do it." his statement taking the others by surprise.

"Wow you actually agree with me Kore?" Hugo said in a surprised tone.

"Yeah Kore since when did you actually start caring about delivery?" Erin asked.

"He's always kinda cared guys, it's just one of those repressed feelings he has." Feliz intervened in the conversation.

"Shut up Feliz..." Kore got on to him, which Chestnut only snickered. "I only care about us not getting our asses chewed out if something just so happens to be wrong in the delivery, it's annoying having to listen to Ms. Lagarto scold over a missing crate. I mean how can her son even live with that kinda nagging!?" Kore ranted.

Hugo had enough "Ok we've wasted enough time I'll do it." Hugo exclaimed, suddenly Erin's eyes twitched and blinked rapidly before his brown eyes turned brown to purple.

With Hugo now being in control he lifted the tarp off the crates and began to open a crate to begin the inventory check.

Erin now being in his own head "DAMN YOU HUGO!" he mentaly shouted trying to regain control.

"Quit trying to fight me Erin, the faster I get this done the faster we'll be on our way" Hugo didn't know why, but he's always had this accent in his voice that he couldn't figure out which kingdom it's supposed to be from, nor did any of the townspeople know, at least when he was in control to ask around (think of his accent as a Samurai Jack accent or Japanese, but note he's not Japanese).

A few minutes passed by of opening crates and a little argument between Hugo and Erin, and once Hugo was on his last crate.

"Hey!" uncle Matt shouted a bit causing Hugo to shoot his head up.

"Erin what are yo-" he suddenly noticed the purple in his nephew's eyes "*sigh* Hugo what are you doing" his tone being a bit more blank of annoyance.

"I'm doing a quick inventory check, make sure we are one hundred precent good to go." Hugo reassured.

"Well hurry up, the ice shouldn't be out in this weather for too long ok?".

"*sigh* Yes sir." Hugo said putting the crate back into the cart with the rest and pulling the tarp back over them.

"Don't call me sir, makes me feel old, you know that." Uncle Matt said walking off to begin his day of work.

Hugo had a small laugh at that, "Ok I'm done." he said before giving Erin back control.

Erins eye's twitching back to brown, "I told you to at least warn me when you're going to do that before you guys." he said rubbing his eyes.

"But we didn't do anything, it was all Hugo." Feliz said in an innocent voice.

"It goes for all of you Feliz, now let's get this cart delivered already.".

Erin grabbed both of the handles on the side of the cart and began to pull it out from the cool shade and into the warm sunlight, waves of heat already licking his face and exposed skin. It was only a three minute walk at most to the town's entrance, but the beating waves of the sun's heat made it feel longer. Walking through the village he always got a lot of "Hi's." and "Hellos." from the people going about their business, Felize always loved the way we got along with everyone, some already knew about his condition and like to say "How's it going yall." to them which was amusing.

The toughest part of every delivery to town was coming up and if Erin was being honest to himself, he was excited. Erin enjoyed the feeling of his leg muscles burning and then the sweet relief of his legs cooling off once he made it to the top of the hill. Looking up the cobblestone path that leads straight to town he breathed "*inhaaaaaaale* *exhaaaaale* Alright let's do this!" Erin said excitedly as he began running up the hill, his legs already getting a little heated and a few beads of sweat rolling down his neck, the sun wasn't helping. He was hoping a cloud would cause some overcast on him but he wasn't going to look up and see, that would slow him down. The cart was making a bunch of noise, crates where hitting each other and the wheels were squeaking.

"Erin you should slow down." Hugo said, a little concerned.

"No, put your legs into it and go faster!" Chestnut exclaimed.

"Chestnut you fool, the cart might break from this strain, Erin we need to slow down." Hugo lashed at the crazy voice.

"God you guys can be annoying" Kore affirmed, not making the situation better.

"Hugo why do you have to always b-".

"Stop! Stop! I'm slowing down alright, damn why is it usually an argument when ya'll talk to each other we're supposed to be getting along" Erin snapped, causing everyone to hold their thoughts.

"I'm glad we're all friends." Feliz said, trying to lighten the mood.

The rest of the walk was mostly in silence, Erin liked his other personalities but he wasn't sure if they liked each other, maybe if there was a way to just separate them from each other they would have some breathing room and could actually get along, but that was impossible and he knew it. He was so lost in thought that he hadn't realized he made it to the town wall. There was a fortified stone and wood wall that stood as the entrance to the town and would serve as the last line of defense if the village was under a Grimm attack. The large doors were always open for people to pass through and guards stood watch for suspicious activity, there were rumors once of a possible White Fang group taking refuge in the village, but that case was soon shut down by our town authorities.

Erin began making his way to the entrance.

"Hey Erin!" one of the guards shouted, giving a two fingered wave at the boy.

Erin looked up to see him waving at him "What's up Chad" Erin shouted back.

"Just on duty again, you got another delivery?" Chad small talked.

"Yeah, I gotta get going though, I'll see you around" Erin dismissed the conversation.

"See ya" he said as we both waved goodbye to each other. Everyone was either going to work, walking their dog, grabbing a coffee, or bike riding. We didn't have cars though, our village isn't that big, the town does go up further in the mountains a little, but that wasn't where he was going. Lagarto's Cafe was uncle Matt's best selling customer. Ms. Lagarto and her son live at the restaurant on the second floor as a way of saving money, it's a rather nice looking place, its decorative design of blue, yellow, and the large fish sign over the entrance make it stand out from the rest of the buildings near it. The town buildings were built neater than those built in the forest area, but he wasn't complaining he rather liked the design of their house, he's lived in it for all his life as far as he could remember.

Erin was just arriving at the cafe when he felt a hand on his shoulder yanked him from the cart and into the ally to his left. His yell was muffled by a hand over his mouth and two other pairs of arms held his arms back. Erin couldn't get out of the hold from his attackers and his rough thrashing and kicking only made the grips on his arms and wrists tighter until finally he was thrown to the ground.

"Gggrrraaahhh!" Erin growled getting to his feet and wiping his mouth, "What the- awww dammit.".

"Well well well long time no see Erin, you still smell like fish and hair looks like shit still." It was Erin's worst and really his only group of enemies; Berit, Gash, and Drake.

"I would have laughed at that if these guys weren't douchebags".

Erin ignored Kore and slowly backed up as the smiling trio of asswholes moved in on him.

This wasn't his first encounter with these idiots, but if he didn't escape they would only be just as ruthless with him as they were last time. He would have turned and ran if there wasn't a fence blocking his path, the metal fence rattled as he bumped into it. There was only one other option he could think of.

"Erin wait!" Hugo yelled, but Erins mind was already made up.

Going for Berit in the middle, he delivered three quick punches to his rib cage, but Berit grabbed his fist and sucker punched him across the face, spinning Erin around so he was facing the fence crouching, one hand holding his jaw, the other grasping the rings in the fence. A brown aura flared around Erin's body as it took most of that force from the punch.

Yeah Erin had aura, unlocked it in what should have been his death when a motor boat hit him in the head when it was being lifted from the water, but Erin got his aura last second as if the situation triggered it to life, and even though it wasn't a strong aura it could handle a couple punches to the face.

Gash scoffed "That stupid aura of yours really takes the fun from beating you up if we can't even hurt you" Gash complained.

"Don't worry fellas, with enough hits from all three of us we'll break him eventually" Berite exclaimed.

"Well let's get to work" Drake said with a laugh.

The trio closed in on Erins still slumped form, but then as fast as light Erin launched his body at Berit and sent a punch much harder than the last three straight to his nose.

"AAAHHH!" Berit held his now bleeding nose in pain, causing Drake and Gash to take a couple steps back looking at their bleeding friend then back to Erin, and what they saw made them gasp in a little fear.

Erin now had a red aura around him with bright red angry eyes " YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH TROUBLE YOU ARE IN." Kore said in a deep intimidating tone, his words spat venom at the trio.

"Get ssssss aaahhh-" Berit winced holding his nose again "-him!" he ordered.

Gash and Drake looked at each other wondering if this was a good idea.

"RRRAAAHHH!" Kore roared like a lion charging at the two, and they did the same, but they managed to hook Kores arms with theirs pinning him against the fence.

"Berit he's doing that thing again where he changes his voice and eyes" Gash said struggling to keep Kore pinned.

Kore put up twice the fight that Erin did, his struggle was more wild, his grunts were more primal with a little spit coming from his mouth.

What shut him up was a punch square to the mouth, making his head shoot back into the fence, his aura taking most of the force.

"Little bastard" Berit said bitterly gut punching Kore which made his head come down to his chest as he started going through a coughing fit. Berit landed a final blow with an uppercut, making Kores head slam back into the fence with a rattle, a little blood went flying from his mouth from his aura beginning to drain. "You're gonna get more than just a few bruises today." Berit snarled.

Kore spat blood in his face.

"Kore you fool!" Hugo shouted.

"You've done it now," Berit said, wiping the blood from his face and rearing his arm back for another punch which was delivered in the blink of an eye.

Erin was back in control now, but there were stars in his vision and a ringing in his ears; his body began to slump.

"HEY!" a new voice yelled from behind the trio, the three looked behind them to see a man in a yellow apron with a blue work shirt and white work pants holding a broom in his hands, as if ready for a fight.

"CRAP!" Drake said letting go of Erin.

"Come on, let's get out of here." Gash said in panic, also dropping Erin.

The trio quickly climbed over the fence making their escape.

"I'M GONNA KILL THEM WHEN I SEE THEM NEXT TIME!" Kore growled in anger.

"Their foolish actions will not go without future justice." Hugo spoke up.

"Erin are you ok?" Feliz said concerned and it only worried him more when Erin didn't respond.

ERINS POV:

My body went completely numb from that last punch, my head was dizzy and ears were ringing, yet I could hear muffled voices of what I think were my personalities, but there was a different voice calling my name that wasn't one of them. Next thing I know there's a face in my vision but everything seems to be cloudy and I couldn't make out the face, but I think he was calling my name; he said some other stuff but I couldn't make it out. Then he began lightly smacking my face as if he was trying to get me to come out of my faze which seemed to be working slowly.

NARRATORS POV:

Erin just stared blankly at the guy crouching in front of him.

"Erin! ERIN!, DAMN THOSE STUPID KIDS! It's ok buddy I got you." he said lifting him into his lap, Erin's eyes only half way open now. "Hey now come on stay awake man." he said softly slapping his face to keep him awake, his yellow eyes boring into Erin's brown.

"Uuuggghhh… Re… Renald." Erin croaked, starting to regain his senses.

"Yeah! Yeah it's me Erin, come on let me get you inside.

''Ok" Erin replied with exhaustion weighing down his words.

Erin was now slumped in one of the cafe booths resting his head on the window looking out at the people passing by, dry blood caked under his nose, and the taste of blood still lingered in his mouth from a couple cuts in his mouth. His aura was slow when it came to recharging itself, and ever since he got it he's only made mild improvements with it, not knowing how to make it stronger. He would ask some of the guards that have aura to teach him how to use it and make it stronger, but he worried that his uncle would get suspicious and that would only bring trouble.

Reginald came and sat at the booth putting a glass of water, wet rag, and some ice in front of him. Erin downed the water in a couple of heart beats, wiped the blood from his face, and put the ice in place.

"(sniff) Thanks." Erin said in a gloomy tone.

"No problem, sorry I didn't get there sooner."

Erin shook his head at this, "Don't go beating yourself over this, this isn't your fault. I just hope I'm not getting you in trouble by having you take care of me" Erin felt guilty.

"No No your fine man" Reginald said waving his hands and shaking his head trying to get that thought out of Erins head, but the door behind the counter burst open with an elderly woman wearing an annoyed expression came storming up to the counter.

"REGGIE! You are a cook not a doctor, why is this sad boy bleeding in my cafe!" her voice was definitely painful to the ears.

"(sigh) Mom this is Erin he delivers our fish, including the shipment we got today." he said trying to get his mom to remember his face.

"I don't care if he is a Schnee. I want him out before we open, understand." she ordered while placing a board on the counter behind the rows of several fish on display followed by laying out a wet cold fish. She raised a blade in one hand ready to dismember the fish.

"Oh my God mom." Reginald groaned.

"Don't get snippy with me young man, I control your checks." she pointed the blade at him before chopping off the fish head.

"I'm nineteen mom I'm not a kid anymore.".

The Lagartos began their bickering which Erin took as an exit ticket, "Yeah so thanks again for everything I'm just gonna split, sooo see ya." he showed himself out of the threshold of the battle.

Erin was now pulling the empty cart with one arm since it was light enough to be pulled with one while he used the other to hold the ice bag on his right cheek. This town had only two dust shops that were supplied by the mines further up in the mountains, though there was little in the shops because most of the dust that was mined went to the defence force and border patrol of the village. The sign read "Dusty Old Shelf", a clever name Erin thought.

"Anyone else? Or you wanna call it a day and just go home?" Kore was quick to suggest.

"Yes please."

"Uhu."

"That sounds like the smartest decision."

"Yeah pretty craaaazy day huh, heheh."

Everyone said, agreeing on putting this day to rest.

However the day wasn't done with him yet.

*THUD*

Erin heard and felt something moving in the back of his cart. The heat of annoyance he felt was immediately extinguished when he saw who had jumped into his cart. It was his three best friends that weren't his personalities. You had Yana who was the only girl of the group who Erin "didn't" have a crush on as he said, but his friends pretty much called bullshit every time he tried denying it, she had a pink and blue dyed ponytail that smelled like cotton candy, with turquoise eyes and pale white skin; she wore a pink tank top with a sports bra underneath and pale blue pants with a couple holes, she even had a couple of silver earrings.

Next was Yolo, the youngest of the group who was nine years old and loved his yo-yo, always pulling of the craziest tricks that caught the attention of the group, along with Feliz and Chestnut, he had blond hair that was combed over to the left and covered his eye, he wore a maroon T-shirt with a blue and white checkered overshirt, his brown pants were a bit big on him so he wore a black belt to keep them up.

Then last but not least was Axel who was the tallest in the group and was packing some pretty good muscle at the age of twelve, he wore only a buttoned up black sleeveless vest on his top that was a bit too small for him, but he just liked to show off was all including his legs that were exposed by shorts that barely covered his knees and black Atlas military boots, how he got his hands on those no one really knows; he had the darkest skin out of us, but his brown hair was darker and pushed back, exposing his forehead; Axel has Mutism which renders him the inability to speak, so he will either use sign language, write his words, or just make grunts and hums.

"Heya Erin hows it- *gasp*-Your face!" Yana panicked with wide saucer eyes, immediately jumping down and inspecting his face. Yana always felt the need to be concerned for her friends, like a mom babying her kid that fell off their bike. "You're gonna tell me who did this to you right...now." that last word seething with a little anger.

Erin nervously laughed, "Yana I'm fine I do- owww!" Erin yelped as Yana pulled his ear.

"You fool! Just answer the question, you know she won't give up" Hugo begged of Erin.

"Yeah man she's CRAAAAZY! And I like that." Chestnut said in a seductive tone.

"Chestnut not right now dude really" Kore objected.

"I was just joking." Chestnut laughed.

"Owowowow ok I'll talk I'll talk." Erin said finally getting out of Yana's iron ear pinch, "Awww damn Yana I thought you were trying to ease the pain not make it worse" he said in slight annoyance while rubbing his stinging ear lobe.

Yana realized her mistake cupping her mouth and widening her eyes again "*gasp* I'M SO SORRY!" she said in concerne, "Here let me make it better." she said taking a couple steps toward him, when she didn't stop getting closer he was about to ask what she was doing until his mind went blank from feeling her land a peck on his cheek where his bruise was.

"OOOOHOOOO! Things are getting steamy, ALRIGHT ERIN! HAHAHHA!" Chestnut cackled in pleasure of Erins embarrassment.

"God make him stop." Kore pleaded, getting annoyed.

"Chestnut hush you fool." trying to defuse the bickering but only to soon find himself bickering with Feliz because of the name calling.

"You're gonna hurt someone's feelings one day by calling them that" Feliz started bickering with Hugo.

Meanwhile Erin was stuck frozen from Yana's "treatment". Yana just giggled and rolled her eyes at the behavior of her friend.

"Man I've never seen him this bad before, I think you actually broke him Yana." Yolo said with a laugh.

Axel just snickered at Erin's state of shock while leaning on the cart with arms crossed.

Yana was now snapping her fingers in front of Erin's face "Hellooooo? Erin you in there?" Yana asked.

Yolo hopped out the cart, yo-yo in hand, "Stand back Yana, I think I know a way to save him.".

Yana stepped back to allow Yolo to work his magic.

Yolo began doing a vertical swinging motion and then… uppercut Erin with a yo-yo.

*SMACK*

"AAAAWWW come on man" Erin rubbed under his jaw, thankfully his aura took the minimum damage.

Yana rushed to Erins side "YOLO!" Yana shouted.

"What he has aura and it worked" Yolo said innocently.

"Gggrrr, lets beat that little shit." Kore growled, "He's only nine Kore." Hugo said not caring about Kore's anger.

Yana looked at Erin "Sooooo, now you gonna tell us who did this?" she asked.

"I just want you guys to know that yall suck at treating pain" Erin said, earning a hard look from Yana. He heard a slite "Ooooooo." from Yolo, but Axel pinched his arm making the young boy yelp in surprise. "I mean, uuuuugh-".

"Tread lightly Erin." Hugo warned.

"Kiss her." Chestnut whispered softly, getting shushed by the other three personalities.

Erin saw no other way to delay the inevitable "(sigh) Berit and his friends jumped me" he said simply.

"WHAT!" Yana and Yolo shouted getting up in Erin's face causing some of the walking pedestrians to look their way.

Axel now getting off the cart making a low angry growl as he clenched his fists at the mention of that name. Berits group messed with all of us including Axel, despite his size Axel was sensitive about his condition, and Berits group used that to their advantage.

"But it's fine, see." Erin said flaring his aura trying to quickly defuse the situation, "My aura is patching me up, by tomorrow I'll be good as new." Erin said, giving a half assed smile and thumbs up.

Axel punched his hand and cracked his knuckles "Hrrrrr" he hummed.

Yolo zipped his yo-yo back in his hand, "Yeah he still wants to hurt them." Yolo said looking at Axel a little scared.

"No one's gonna hurt Berit until I've gotten my turn, I'm gonna scratch my name on their faces when I get ahold of them" Yana growled, her voice struck with venom, and body seething in anger.

"Awww they really care about us." Feliz cooed happily.

"I love this girl!" Chestnut came in out of the blue.

Erin turned around to hide a creeping blush that tinted his cheeks, "Shut up Chestnut!" Erin mumbled in embarrassment.

Yolo hit Erin's shoulder with his yo-yo that managed to make its way back to him from that distance, seriously the guy knew how to use a yo-yo, "Hey you good man" he asked.

Erin quickly whipped around "YES!" he said a bit too loudly, "I mean (clears throat) yes I'm fine." he mellow toned.

"Real smooth dipshit." Kore shot Erin down.

"So what were you guys originally doing." Erin asked, ignoring Kore.

"Well we were gonna do something with-" Yana started but stopped to hold her hand out to the side, as if on cue Axel pulled something from his pocket and flicked it, making a *ding* sound as it landed perfectly in Yanas hands "-THIS!" Yana shouted in excitement holding up a blue ice dust crystal that emitted blue rays from the sunlight.

Apon Erin seeing what it was, he pulled her wrist down covering the crystal, "What are you doing with that!" he whispered, looking to make sure no one was passing saw.

"Relax Erin I'll be careful with it." she said, trying to put it in her pocket, but dropped it.

*Dink* *Dink*

It made hitting the ground.

Yana staggered to pick it up; she stood up looking at Erin with a red face and wide eyes.

Erin gave this face that said "Really?".

"Yeah I do that sometimes, at least when I get control of the body." Feliz said.

"Well at least we know there's another dumbass like you in the world" Kore added in dryly.

Then Chestnut butted in with "Oooooo burn, that was a burn, burn dude, burrrrrn." he continued to say.

"SHUT UP CHESTNUT!" Kore and Hugo shouted in unison.

"It's ok Kore I know you love me." Feliz said happily.

Erin wanted to tell them all to shut up, but he was more focused on getting an explanation on why his friends have a dust crystal.

Yana tossed the crystal back to Axel who caught it and tucked it away.

"Just tell me what you guys are doing with that thing" he said, a little tired, this day was exhausting and he needed rest, he just hoped things would be a little easier for the rest of the day.

"I'll tell you on one condition" she said like a child while pointing her index finger in the air.

"Uuuggghhh" Erin facepalmed, "What?" he said, dragging his hand down his face.

She said nothing, but gave a wide toothy grin and turquoise eyes that beamed with excitement for her plan.

"I'm not sure we made a wise choice." Hugo stated in his head.

Erin seemed to notice something over the last eleven and a half years of his life. It's that when he hopes for something, it seems to never happen. Like right now when he hoped his day would get easier, it resulted in him now pulling his friends in his delivery cart.

"Faster! Faster! Giddy up!" the youngest of the group laughed.

Axel smiled at Yolos behavior while rubbing the nine year olds hair, messing up his golden locks.

"I'm not a damn horse and I'll go faster if I'm told what you guys plan to do with that dust crystal." Erin said, raising his voice from annoyance.

"Ok ok calm down" Yana said calmly.

Erin realized that his tone was a bit rough, "(Sigh) Look I'm sorry it's been a long day so far and I just don't want any more stress, but I'm guessing you guys are going to do that anyway.".

"Probably" Yolo said with no hesitation and a spin of his yo-yo.

"And that's what the crystal's for huh" Erin continued saying unenthusiastically.

"Yep!" Yana chirped, making Axel chuckle a mutley.

"Greeeeat" Erin said with no enthusiasm.

"At least they were thinking about us." Feliz said, trying to brighten up the situation.

"Now giddy up!" Yolo chanted.

Erin sighed, but complied now jogging with the cart in hand, this was going to be a good workout for him.

Only a few seconds in the jog and Erin was already sweating from the suns baking heat waves. The salt from his sweat stung his eyes, his breathing was getting heavier and his heart was pounding faster. As his friends bellowed in laughter and excitement, peoples attention were being drawn to them, especially when Yolo gave a-

"WOOOOOHOOOO!".

Erin honestly began to have a little fun if the small smile on his face was no indication. He began to taste salt as some of his sweet got in his mouth.

Yana leaned out the cart a bit to talk to Erin "So you having fuuuun Erin?" she said playfully mocking.

Erin wouldn't give in so easily, "*huff* UP! *huff* YOURS!" he said between breaths.

Yana laughed hard at that, some tears of joy spilled down her cheeks.

Erin shook his head smiling at his ability to make her laugh easy.

"Why do we even put up with this?" Kore asked annoyed.

"Because we don't want to make her sad, Kore." Feliz said like it was obvious.

"I have to agree with Feliz on this one, to upset Yana would be suicide, she...she can be as destructive as the Grimm if patronized." Hugo said with a little fear in his voice.

"But that's where I COME IN! I've calmed her down twice, so technically I saved the village, you know what that means?!..." Feliz asked in glee.

Kore quickly replied with "You're the town idiot?".

"Wait, I thought I was the idiot." Chestnut seemed conflicted.

"No, you're the moron that I use as my verbal punching bag when I'm pissed." Kore said with a little happiness in his voice.

"... IT MEANS I'M A HERO!" Feliz exclaimed joyfully once Kore and Chestnut were done talking.

Erin's attention to the funny conversation his personalities were having was cut short as he felt a pair of hands going through his hair, already knowing who it was.

"Yana *huff* what are yo- hey stop that!" he he shook his head like it were covered in flies.

"Stop moving, I'm fixing it." she said struggling to get his hair to look decent, she licked her hand a couple times to keep a few strands down.

"Ok seriously *huff*, what's wrong with my hair!" Erin shouted with exhaustion.

"It looks like shit!" Kore and Chestnut shouted together.

"Thank you Chestnut!" Kore loudly thanked his moronic friend who he usually told to shut up.

"Well Feliz *huff* said it looked good, AAHH!" he groaned at the stinging pain of wiping sweat out of his burning eyes.

"I just didn't want to be rude, sorry." Feliz said apologetically.

"Feliz it's best to make Erin look like less of a fool by telling him the truth about his looks." Hugo said trying to not laugh at Erin's frustrated sigh.

Erin knew one place where he could relax in this town, he could always go there to grab a snack or even take a nap, and that's exactly where he was going.

"See even your little mind friends think your hair is bad." Yana said, making her point with a smile.

"You're slowing down." Yolo whined at the back of the cart.

Erin just groaned and picked up the pace a little bit which increased the burn in his legs, but simply pushed on. Erin liked giving his best effort when doing something, which is something his uncle admired highly of him. That's just how his uncle raised him though, and that determination would soon come in handy.

"Come on Erin you should hang with us today, we're gonna have fun." Yolo said, trying to convince his friend.

"Oh yeah *huff* I can only imagine *huff* the great things yall are gonna do *huff* with a dust crystal." he said sarcastically.

"Something CRAZY! Something we SHOULDN'T!" Yana proudly shouted.

"ASK HER OUT ALREADY!" Chestnut shouted.

"No Chestnut!" Erin half whispered and half breathed out from fatigue.

"Chestnut, you're not good with girl advice… like at all… you suck." Kore stated which made Feliz chuckle at the way he said it.

"Was he ever?" Hugo asked, Kore thought for a couple seconds.

"Good point." Kore said, making Feliz laugh harder.

Erin looked back to his friends but was looking specifically at Yana who was pretending to be an airplane. The angle of the sun made her hair glow vibrantly, but her smile seemed to shine brighter. She was beautiful, but Erin wasn't sure if telling her was a good idea or couldn't feel the burn of a blush on his face because of the sun but it was there, and the butterflies in his stomach flapped wildly. "Eyes on the road Erin." Hugo reminded him with an amused tone, "R-right!" Erin said snapping his head back forward, his blush getting redder.

"She's pretty." Feliz stated.

"Yes she is Feliz… yes she is." he mumbled with.

Axel grabbed Yolo's yo-yo while he was in the middle of a trick.

"Heeeey!" he whined, but Axel began making hand signs. "Ooooh, ok." Yolo, understanding what Axel was saying.

He watched closely till Axel was finished, "Got it… hey Erin!" Yolo shouted from the back of the cart.

Erin rolled his eyes, "*huff* YEAH! *huff*" Erin shouted back.

"Where are we going!?" Yolo asked.

"Oh don't worry *huff* were almost *huff* there! You should start realizing soon enough *huff*." Erins words were getting heavier, he just had to keep this up a little bit longer.

Finally it was over, Erins legs felt like jelly as they quivered before collapsing. Erin was now on all fours sucking in air rapidly, sweat dripped from his nose and chin and soaked his clothes, he felt like a wet rat.

"Erin you need to stand up and put your hands behind your head to allow your lungs to take in more air." Hugo stated.

Erin began nodding his head, "Yeah *huff* yeah ok *huff*." he said, slowly getting to his feet using the cart for support, he almost lost his balance trying to walk due to his legs being numb at the moment.

Yolo groaned upon seeing where they were, "Why are we here." he complained.

"Because *pant* this is the place I come to when I need to cool off.".

The library of Bergseite was home to Erin's favorite fantasies and legends he grew up with, stories of huntsman saving a village from hordes of Grimm with magic, legends of warriors who were feared by the Grimm just by the color of their eyes, and his favorite fantasy was about the four maidens who possessed magic abilities through a wizard of great power. This was the birthplace of his love and dream of being a huntsmen for the sake of his village. Growing up outside the kingdom Erin saw first hand the prime need of a huntsman. He got to see a few in action when they were here for missions because him and his friends would usually tail them which was dangerously stupid, yet so worth it.

But unfortunately that dream would never come true.

*BAM!*

The doors to the library burst open with an elderly woman with short grey wavy hair with glasses in a cayn button up shirt an azul skirt hanging below her knees being kept up by a large brown belt. "Erin!" she shouted with joy.

"*gasp* Erin can I say hi pleasepleasepleasepleaseeeeee-" Feliz pleaded desperately.

"He's not gonna stop." Kore faced the facts.,

Hugo sighed, "Just give him control for the time being." he said knowing there was no winning this fight.

"Ok Feliz you ca-" but before Erin could finish his sentence his eyes twitched rapidly before turning from brown to yellow, his aura glowed yellow for a brief second.

"MS. LEZIMOOOOOO!" Erin said in now a more happy childlike tone only now it was Feliz doing the talking. Feliz ran to her with open arms stopping just in front of her to delicately wrap his arms around her in a gentle warm hug. "Hi." He chirped.

"Oh Feliz, It's so good to see you aga- *gasp* sweetheart your face!" said with worry as she brought her wrinkled hands to his face examining the blotches of purple spots on his cheeks and eyes.

"How's it feel being back in the mind of your own body Erin?" Chestnut asked.

"Eh, it's a strange feeling, you know with seeing everything but not actually moving around is kinda trippy." Erin answered.

"Yeah well you get used to it." Kore said with a hinting tone in his voice that they don't get time to have control of the body very often.

"Hehe, right, remind me to give you guys more time to have control when we're out and about." Erin said feeling kinda bad now.

"My goodness and your hair is a mess." started inspecting his hair, while back at the cart his friends were failing to suppress their laughter, even Axel let out a few chuckles.

"Yeah hehe, it could use some work." Feliz said scratching his head from embarrassment. In his head though Kore, Chestnut, and Hugo were laughing their asses off at another bad comment on his hair.

"Man I really just want this day to end." Erin said aggravated at the several bad hair comments today, and to his annoyance they continued to laugh.

"I'm fine though really, it doesn't even hurt." Feliz proceeded to touch the spots, which only stung a little, but gave a look that said she wasn't convinced.

"Who did this to you?" she asked in a gentle voice, "It was Berits group wasn't it." she said, her voice rising in anger.

"(sigh)... yes mam, it was." Feliz said knowing he couldn't lie to the sweet woman.

"Those dagum rotten kids are a bunch of no good… MEAT SACKS!" she yelled losing her temper, some of the people in the library looked to see what the commotion was.

"Look Ms. Lezimo I'm fine ok… I'm fine." he said putting his hand on her shoulder giving it a reassuring squeeze.

"(sigh) I'm not sure how you manage to stay so positive about these things Feliz." the old woman said with a frown.

"It's just part of my charm." he said back with an even bigger grin infecting Ms. Lezimo.

"Cocky bastard." Kore said.

"Hey, do you mind if we come in for refreshments!" Feliz said with hope in his voice and light in his bulging eyes.

"Oh of course I don't please come in come in, oh and would your friends like to come in?" she asked looking at the kids in the cart.

"YEAAAAAAAAH!" they screamed in glee pushing to get out of the cart and make their way inside.

The next few hours consisted of snacking and chatting. They started with small talk but soon it got to talking about their futures and dreams. Yana wanted to move to Mistral and start her own amusement park with some of the craziest, spine shivering, stomach turning rides in remnant by moving to Vale City and getting enough money and investors to start her off.

Yolo wanted to get into yo-yo competitions and eventually be good enough to qualify for the Remnant Yo-Yo Contest and start his own yo-yo company and teach yo-yo classes.

Axel wanted to form his own community fundraiser for people with mutism or other speaking conditions to help hospitals conduct research for more treatments and maybe even find cures for these disorders.

Erin wanted to become a huntsman; travel to every kingdom taking on missions of every difficulty in any village that was looking for a hero, because that's what he was going to be a hero, he just needed a way to get the money to leave this village and a way to get uncle Matt to agree with him, he just hoped the time would come eventually.

Time had seemed to fly by because it was now six thirty and his uncle is going to wonder where he's been all day. Erin and his friends said goodbye and Erin gave a long nice hug to .

"Thanks again for everything ." Erin said sweetly.

"Oh I always enjoy the company of you and your friends Erin, just tell your uncle you were helping me with some moving and cleaning, I don't want you getting in trouble now." she said.

"Yeah don't worry I've got it covered, bye now." Erin said, giving one final wave. He stopped in his tracks when he turned around to see all his friends gathered in the cart with big wide grins, ready for him to pull them again.

"Hey Chestnut, you wanna give this ride?" Erin asked.

"Hell-".

Erin's eyes began twitching.

"-Yeah." Chestnut said sternly, now taking control.

They did not scream in joy on this ride but in utter terror all the way back down to the residence village.

Once Chestnut got back to the house with a cart of terrified kids, Erin took back control and helped them each down.

"That was exhilarating! Ha Ha!" Chestnut chuckled.

"Well they won't be sleeping tonight." Hugo stated.

"Maybe next time they won't be a pain in the ass." Kore growled.

Axel was now carrying a sleepy Yolo, "Uuuggghhh, no more cookies." he groaned in Axels arms.

Axel quietly gestured down the row of homes beginning to settle for the night.

Erin nodded, "Alright buddy, you two be safe. Don't sign to strangers." he joked

Now it was Erin and Yana, Erin could feel the nerves begin to build up in his stomach.

"Stay calm Erin and say something to keep us from going into an awkward silence, HURRY!" Hugo exclaimed.

"Good luck Erin!" Feliz said supportingly.

"WOO HER!" Chestnut cheered.

"Don't listen to that idiot, just do your thing man." Kore said surprisingly, sparking some confidence in Erin.

Erin cleared his throat, "Well, I ugh, I hope you had a good day, sorry you weren't able to use your crystal.", "Eh it's cool just means we'll have another day of fun ahead of us." she smiled digging around in her pockets, "Oh wait Axel has the crystal." she said as realization dawned on her.

They both shared a laugh at that, "Well I should get going, we spent a lot longer at the library than I thought." she said looking at the orange sky and pink cotton candy clouds.

"Sorry about that." Erin said apologetically.

"No no, it's fine, I had a good time" she reassured him.

"Hehe I guess that's all that matters then." Erin said looking into her turquoise irises.

Yana smiled and looked down at the rocky path "You're too sweet sometimes Erin." she said looking up at his brown hazel eyes.

Despite both being the same age at eleven, well almost twelve, Erin had three inches on Yana, but she made up that height difference real quick when she stood on her tippy toes and gave Erin a peck on the lips and dashed off down the cobble path into the village.

"BYE!" Yana yelled back to a stunned Erin.

Even the breeze in the air didn't move a hair on his head or the clothes on his body, Erin was a statue in front of his house at the moment.

"OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH!"

His personalities screamed in triumph.

Yes, today was a good day.

Erin was now at the docks, there was one thing left on his agenda that he did every now and then. He stepped into one of the canoes carefully gaining his balance before taking a seat and undoing the rope from the docking bay and pushed off the edge giving the canoe some space from land. Erin grabbed the ore and began paddling to the far side of the lake.

"Just you wait Erin, it starts off with kissing then y'all are making out and before you know it you guys are ba-".

"SHUT UP CHESTNUT GOD DAM!" Kore interrupted Chestnut.

"Whaaaat I'm trying to help him out with his first time." Chestnut explained.

"You're going to help him get his first slap in the face by a girl.".

"I'm sure she'd be crazy enough to be down… no pun intended." Chestnut said, earning a groan from Kore.

"You're a fool." Hugo simply said.

"I don't get it, can you explain it for me Hugo?" Feliz said in confusion, clueless to the inappropriateness of Chestnut's personality.

"You're both fools." he said, not wanting to deal with the both of them.

"You're all fools." Erin interrupted, "Now shut up or change the subject." he said.

"Ok then, why are we still doing this?" Kore said changing the subject.

"It's just… like a tradition we do every now and then to just clear our minds from the stress we go through sometimes." Erin replied.

"I do like star gazing." Feliz added in.

"Yes and star gazing." Erin replied with a bit of strain, the paddling making his arms burn a bit now.

"Okay but how does talking about your parents make you feel at ease?" Kore questioned the logic.

"Actually, when someone is troubled by pondering feelings it's stimulating to let your mind vent through calming activities." Hugo stated confidentiality with his answer.

Kore, as usual, disagreed, "That's not right. If you need to vent you punch a wall. Throw a scroll to the ground. Or my favorite, punch a Berite in the face!" he seemed a bit too jittery about that last bit.

"Now Kore, you can't just punch your feelings out of your mind." Feliz said.

"Why not?" Kore asked, unaware of the bad potential in his words.

Feliz thought for a second, "uggggh… because it-".

"Because it is not an ideal solution." Hugo interrupted.

Erin sighed in frustration at the upwelling of an argument, "Look Uncle Matt just avoids the topic when I bring it up, so all I got really is you guys to lay everything out." he explained.

"He means us!" Feliz shouted out.

Uncle Matt didn't bring up the topic of Erin's parents ever, maybe they did something bad to make Uncle Matt push them out of his life. Though there were a few ladder options that picked at Erin's mind, it was never easy growing up when your parents gave you to your Uncle before you could even register what an Uncle was. Things were far from good for a long while as Uncle Matt raised Erin, their relationship now was nowhere near as well bounded as it is now. And though their relationship has healed, there were still scars left over, fabricated in Erin's memory. Though it wasn't all bad…

It's how he met his personalities after all.

"So we have to go to some tree away from the village to look up at the stars and do it?" Kore complained. Kore never really received the big picture.

Chestnut had an alternative idea, "Why not talk about our special goodbye with Yana mwa! Mwa! Mwaaaahahahaha!" he cackled wildly.

"Hush you fool!" Hugo scolded.

Erin shook his head, "Because it's a nice place away from home that's reserved for me and my thoughts." Erin explained.

Five minutes of paddling later Erin arrived at the tall waterfall that blocked out the crickets and other noises of the night, a couple stars began piercing the sky. The east of the sky was a bit black and blue, while the west was a bright burning orange color that came from the soon setting sun. He docked the boat near a rock platform tyng it off as he usually did. He proceeded to follow the hike up to the waterfall, as he got closer to the falls the air seemed to become cooler and he could smell the mist of the water. Upon making it to the top of the waterfall, he looked back to see the village lanterns give it a beautiful shine that could be explained as looking at a city of gold.

"It's pretty." Feliz said soaking in the view.

"Indeed it is, this won't take long." Erin said now walking along the river, going deeper into the forest.

Grimm hadn't been a problem in this area, but he was still cautious and on guard for any potential threats.

He reached his favorite tree that was the tallest in the forest and had the best view of the landscape. He began climbing, his arms a bit weak from patling but he'd manage. After reaching the top he propped himself up on a thick branch and leaned back on the tree and hung his legs freely on each side of the branch. He looked over to the setting sun as it began its final countdown before descending behind the distant mountains, the orange fire sky began to slowly fade, allowing more stars to shoot their light through the night sky. It was so beautiful and peaceful, he wanted to bring Yana up here some day, it would make a great end to their first date, when he asked her out at least.

"You know I always thought that you needed parents to have a family…" Erin broke the silence.

Feliz followed up the question, "But now?".

Erin reflected on his moments with his friends over the years, "... now… well I guess I've already had a family." he figured out.

"So does this mean we can stop talking about the parents you don't have?" Kore asked coldly.

"Damn." even Chestnut was a bit taken back.

"Kore that was rude." Feliz stated.

Erin scoffed, "Are you really that inconsiderate?".

"I'm not inconsiderate I'm just considering you quit letting this get to your head. How exactly does depression help with overcoming?" Kore's question began to give base to an argument.

Hugo was quick to cut off any other voice of opposition, "Enough! Understand that you both have valid points and let's just carry on with the night." his statement earned a few seconds of silence.

"Party pooper." Chestnut abruptly added.

Erin sighed, "What would I do without you guys?" he spoke softly with a smile.

It wasn't always sunshine and rainbows when conversing with his personalities, but they each held a special place in his heart. And for good reasons.

After conversing with his personalities for a bit, he propped his head up with his arm looking back up in time to see a shooting star.

"*gasp* A SHOOTING STAR! MAKE A WISH MAKE A WISH!" Feliz happily cheered.

"MAKE IT YANA RELATED!" Chestnut exclaimed.

Erin closed his eyes wishing he would unlock his semblance as a sign that he had what it takes to be a huntsmen.

It was late and Erin's eyes were getting heavy, so he slapped his face a couple times and began the climb back down. Air was now cold as he walked upon the river again as he could hear the falls getting louder as he got closer. Once he got to the falls he looked out at the village again, he stared in awe at the sight of the village as it glowed just as bright as before with a vibrant orange color. However, his face twisted into a look of horror, eyes snapping wide open, and the color in his face drained to a pale color because his village…

… was on fire.

Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY, it is the property of Rooster Teeth made by Monty Oum.