The morning sun reached into windows, shining its magnificence to the world. Very few clouds crossed the sky in the early dawn, the brilliant sun reflecting off of them in hues of red and orange. People, human and faunus alike, were waking up- some taking walks or jogs outside, some climbing into their cars, driving off to their workplace. The low murmur of people talking filled the streets below, the birds in the city of Vale gathered together to sing their songs.

In the midst of the calm chaos, one man slept on- he had become used to the cars, trucks and various other vehicles rumbling on in their course to their destination. He slept on peacefully, until an alarm started blaring its tunes: "My time is now, you can't see me, my time is-" until a hand slammed down upon it.

From underneath the warm covers of his bed, Silver grumbled, "I still can't believe they have that song here."

He rubbed the gunk out of his eyes as he got up into a sitting position. Sighing, knowing that he wouldn't be able to go back to sleep, he swung his legs over the side of the bed and started his daily routine. Finishing up, he looked at himself in the full-body mirror- he was wearing a blank dark-green t-shirt, and cargo pants. On his right wrist was is watch- still working- and on his right ring finger was a black ring with a pink gem on one side and a color-changing gem on the other side.

Taking a glance around the room, his eyes swept over the corner next to his bed- where the cause of his appearance in this world was sitting innocently. Pushing down the sudden flash of anger, he put on his socks and shoes. Standing up, he left his apartment, locking it up behind him.

Breathing in the clear air outside of the apartment complex, he set off in the direction of From Dust Till Dawn. Minutes later, he was walking over the river that started at Beacon Academy and ended up in the sea outside Vale. Over to his right, Beacon Academy itself stood- a watchtower against the enemy of the Grimm. Balling up his twitching right hand, he turned away from the glistening white tower, and started back on his way.

Another few minutes later- he didn't really care how long- he was outside FDTD. Opening the door, he called out, "Yo, Tom, I'm here! Need me to do anything?"

"Ah, Silver! Didn't expect you to be here so early- you usually come in around nine!" Tom called from the back- probably refilling something.

"Yeah, well, after the fiasco last night, I came back to make sure that everything was alright here."

Tom waved a dismissive hand, coming out of the back, "Nah it's fine here. All I need to do is store the valuables in the back then close up until I get a new window in."

"Okay. Need any help?"

Tom looked around a bit, "No, I've got it here. Go explore the town a bit- you've earned it."

Silver gave him a dubious look, "You sure?"

"Yes, I'm sure- go have fun, live life."

"Okay," Silver relented, "Call me on my Scroll if you need me." Silver waved said object, walking out the door.

"I will," Thomas chuckled, waving him off.

Closing the door behind him, Silver sighed, "Well that was a waste of waking up early." Frowning, Silver started walking to his right, pulling out his Scroll as he did so. "If I remember correctly, the news said that the term for Beacon starts a day from now, which means that the prospective students are probably boarding the Airship now. and if I remember that correctly, then- yeah, it all matches up correctly." Sighing, Silver put away his Scroll and stared up at the blue sky.

The city of Vale was now bustling, people walked the streets, cars and trucks roamed the roadways, people conducting shady deals in the back alleyways, criminals planning plans, Faunus getting beaten up in an alleyway- Silver paused. Backing up a few steps, he looked inside the alleyway.

Throwing up his best accent, he started walking into the alleyway while saying, "Howdy there, whatcha doin'?" Silver held up a friendly hand.

The lead thug narrowed his eyes, "Teaching this animal its place," He spat.

Silver blinked, "Animal, I ain't seein' any animals 'round here."

The lead thug kicked the faunus, making the groupies laugh, "This animal right here."

"And I say again: what animal? All I see is a faunus." Silver kept up the accent.

The leader sneered, he lifted his leg and set it on the faunus' back, pushing her back to the ground, "This one right here. You blind or sumthin'?"

"Ahh, ah, I see now." Silver dropped the accent, "You mean yourselves."

"Yea- Wait, what?"

Silver gained a little grin, "You're all insecure of your manliness that you take it out on poor faunus."

The lead thug shoved the faunus down with his foot and stalked over to where Silver was standing, "I don't know what you're talking about, but you should shut it."

Silver's face scrunched up in disgust. Waving a hand in front of his face, he complained, "Ugh, I can smell the insecurity from over here- and lemme tell you, it's not a good smell."

The thug's face contorted in rage, leaping towards Silver, he yelled, "Get over here!"

Casually side-stepping the rage-blinded thug, Silver commented, "Quoting a MK Character? Never pegged you for a gamer."

One of the other thugs muttered to his buddy, "The hell is a MK?"

Silver waved a dismissive hand, "It's an old game that I played." Silver jumped back from another lunge of the lead thug, "Man, you are really bad at this. I can easily dodge your lunges- and I'm outta shape!"

"Shut up!" he yelled, lunging again.

Sliver slid to the side and smacked his elbow on the back of his head, "I mean really, I've been in Vale for two years and people are still idiots." Scowling, he muttered, "Ever since I landed here, it seemed like people got more idiotic."

The thug got up and charged at Silver. Sliver slid to the side again and tripped him saying, "Now, enough about me, what about you?"

Getting up the thug yelled, "Stop standing there, get him!"

Silver clucked his tongue against the top of his mouth, "Ooh, that's a bad idea. Do you know how badly I'd beat you if you attacked me- heck, I might have to resort to violence!"

The other thugs looked between themselves dubiously. "Gotcha!" a yell came from behind Silver.

Dodging out of the way of the lead thug's 'surprise' attack, he shoved him forward saying, "First rule of fight school: don't talk about fight school." Silver paused, blinking, "Wait, I bungled that up. Fuck. I definitely bungled it up," he swore, completely ignoring the pile of thugs and confused faunus.

Sighing, he gave up, "I had all the one-liners prepared and I had to go bungle them all up! Darnit. Guess I'll finish up here and get on my way." Moving over to the pile, he thumped each of the thugs on the head, knocking them all unconscious.

Rubbing at his temples, Silver walked out of the alleyway- only to be stopped by a shout, "H-hey!"

Looking over at the faunus that was getting beaten up, he asked, "What?"

"I-I just wanted to thank you for helping me back there- not many people would do that."

Silver raised an eyebrow, "Yeah, well, I'm not many people."

He started moving away, but she spoke up again, "I-I heard what you said back there- when you muttered under your breath. I-it was something about 'landing here'?"

Silver's eyes darkened, still turned away, he said, "Yeah, well, mind your own business." He started walking.

She was persistent, he'd give her that, "I've never seen someone put so much hate into those two words, usually they're ecstatic about landing somewhere."

Silver stayed silent. She took that as an answer to continue, "OH! You must be a Hunter! It makes sense now- you helped me and now you're grumpy because you're late for the Airships!"

"If I was a Huntsman, I'd already be at the Airship dock. Plus," Silver pointed a finger to the sky, "The Airships are already heading to Beacon." At that moment, said Airships flew overhead, straight to Beacon. "Besides, I was going to look at the new initiates, anyways."

"Oh. Weeeeeeellll, do you do anything interesting?"

"If you count working at a Dust shop, then no." Silver paused, "Well, I do have the highest score on OSOK."

She gaped, "One Shot One Kill? That game's hard as hell! How'd you do that?!"

Silver shrugged, "Most arcade games back home were harder than that."

"Okay, that's it- you've mentioned 'back home' and 'landed here', what do you mean by that?"

"Curiosity killed the cat, you know." Silver's good mood vanished.

"But satisfaction brought it back." The Faunus finished the quote.

"Darn, you have that quote here, too," Silver muttered.

She gave him a flat look. Rolling his eyes, Silver relented, "Fine, fine. Not here though."

Following him as he made a sudden turn, the faunus asked, "Something big? Or too private?"

Silver gave a humorless chuckle, "Let's just say if certain people knew of my existence, then it would cause chaos." Shaking his head, he looked at the faunus girl, "Say, what is your name? I don't think you ever said it."

Rolling her eyes, she shot back, "I don't think I heard yours, either."

"Touché. It's Silver. Now yours?"

"No last name?" she asked. Getting a negative headshake, her eyebrows rose in surprise, "Huh. Well, my name's Kira. Kira Slate."

Silver raised an eyebrow, "'Kira'? that doesn't sound like it's related to a color."

She huffed, "It's faint, but it's there, Mister 'Name that sounds like it was chosen'."

Silver shrugged, "Fair enough. Now c'mon. My apartment's nearby."

Thirty minutes later, they were entering Silver's Apartment's complex. Kira looked at Silver in the elevator, "You call that 'nearby'?! We walked for, like, an hour!" She gasped, still breathing heavily.

"It was thirty minutes. And it was nearby, compared to everything else here." Exiting the elevator, Silver walked down the hall to his apartment, Kira following him.

"But, but, you walk fast." Kira was gaining some more air, now.

Silver side-eyed look, "It wasn't that fast."

"You were going, like, thirty miles per hour!"

"Most people can't go that fast. It was more like two mph. Anyway, we're here." He swung the door to his apartment open.

Entering, Kira didn't look all that impressed. "Looks kinda empty."

Silver shrugged, closing the door, "I've only been here for two years. I haven't had the time to get all that much stuff."

Looking around once more, her eyes landed in The Hated Corner. Narrowing them, she spun around to look at Silver, "I though you said you weren't a Huntsman."

Grimacing, he spoke, "That's. . . part of the tale." He sighed, motioning towards a seat, "Take a seat, and I'll tell ya."

Looking at him dubiously, she sat down. Sliver leaned on the kitchen counter and spoke, "What do you know of the Multiverse?"

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