I sat in the front row seat in the outdoor graduation that my battle school was holding family and friends of all the grads sat in the back behind me and to my one of the only people I have ever had the pleasure of calling friend Abigale Ivory Lupin my best friend. I twitched a little as I got nervous "Alister calm down" she said calmly holding my hand giving it a reassuring squeeze "you can do this… get your diploma and leave you don't have to stay" she said knowing full well that I did not want to be there. Turning to her I saw her trembling slightly her stage fright catching up to her even before she got called up to the stage.
"it is with a heavy … but prideful heart that I bid ado to this year's Graduating class may all there ventures turn out as successful as this one has" the short balding headmaster said "I will now turn you over to Mrs. FairVay "and with that he stepped back letting the taller slim woman dressed in a dark brown suit that made me think of nothing but dirt and mud.
"Welcome graduating class I will call your names up by last name starting with A and ending in Z" she said awkwardly "cough …. Um can Edison Applegate come up to the stage" she said meekly. A smaller boy that looked like the embodiment of a techy waked up to the stage I knew him from strategy class kid was a mastermind and with that the ceremony began watching people go up I sort of fuzzed out "Abigale Ivory Lupin "she called as I watched my fried climb out of her seat almost tripping she turned to me flashing me the smile I had grown to love after all these years. She eventually got to the stage and picked up her diploma and smile as she returned to her seat she looked down sadness pouring off of her "if only my mother could have been here for this "she said quietly. her other died early last year making this young girl an orphan and she had to bear he weight of her family name the Lupins were proud warriors they never seemed to die or lose and whoever they chose to call kin were they were loyal to till death and beyond it was rumored that some Lupins came back to help old comrades or there family's from beyond the grave figures dressed in all white who never seemed to be hit mercilessly slaughtering the enemy white and sliver the Lupin family colors and they wore them with pride all of their children had something to do with one of the colors Abigale's for example was her middle name Ivory . "Alister Ebony Nightingale" the woman on stage called the distant in her voice was so clear it made me wince. As I stood up I heard the whispers and the quiet boos "why did he even other to show up?" Came a rather loud whisper from left wing. Sighing I walked down the row and up to the steps of the outdoor stage walking over I accepted my Diploma just wanting this to be over after today this school can go to hell for all I care hell I would be happy to light it on fire and watch it burn bunch of bigoted brats. As I reached for the diploma Mrs. FairVay pulled it back slightly "Don't expect much to come of this Ravenscroft" she hissed the blood-lust almost visible. Taking the diploma "I won't …. Bitch" I hissed back as I passed her on my way down the other side of the stairs heading back to Abigale to let her know I was leaving not wanting to be in this hell hole another minute.
-five Minutes Later-
I stood outside the school building taking a long drag of a flask I had hidden in my stupid dress suit. Feeling the familiar burn and taste of Roseberry Coconut Rum go down I put the cap back on and slid it back into the inside pocket and walked off the school grounds and into the public parking lot where I had the Motorcycle I had built from the ground up grabbing my helmet I looked at my scroll to see a message from Abigale "Don't wait up I'm going to catch a movie with Venus and Indigo" to which I chuckled some of the few people who did not care what my last name used to be or where I was from putting it back in my pocket is put the black bike helmet on. Flipping a switch on the hand bars I felt the entire thing hum with power which was just begging to be unleashed to which I was al to happy to oblige tearing off down the road I thumbed the blue switch on my right handle bar to activate a function that had taken ages and many, many explosions to get to work. the bike leapt of the ground as the tail wings came out and the thrust kicked in sending me through the air like nothing short of a pissed off nevermore. I slowly began to calm down as I approached the small town near bye here I had my apartment dive-bombing the ground I felt a adrenalin rush that I loved as I pulled up last second sending small cracks threw the warn pavement hitting the blue switch again the tires descended as the tail wings withdrew and I slowed down heading for my shabby apartment in the small section of this town where everyone avoided me at all costs I began to actually get happy or as much as I could let myself knowing full well that the entire town hated my guts but not because of my past. More accurately one of the failed antigravity attest flew off and detonated the dam causing major flooding in some parts and a lot of money to repair which I helped out of course I did my share of the work and paid what I could spare there being no actual evidence it was me but everyone knew regardless of that fact.
authors note:
this is my first RWBY story and i am going to try and keep up with it but please letting me know that i should continue it helps
