Authors notes before we begin.
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Anyway thank you for reading my first ever Fan Fiction and i hope to see you at the end.
A jolting from the transport was the first thing that Tomoko was aware of when she woke up, looking around she could see the other students most were Faunus like her though there were a few humans but they seemed to be few and far between, looking back out of the window that was behind her she could see nothing but desert and mud brick houses.
"Very different from home." thought Tomoko. Hearing someone walk up to her, she turned to see a short blonde girl, with green eyes standing before her, hand on her hip. She had a black baseball cap on, with matching jacket and trousers, with a grey top and white boots, she could see a pair of crossed hammers on the sides of the cap.
"Mind if I sit next to you?"
"No, sure go ahead." Tomoko gestured to the seat in front of her.
"Frenda, by the way." said the girl offering a hand which Tomoko shuck.
"I'm Tomoko, nice to meet you."
"So, ever been to Vacuo before." asked Frenda with a smile on her face.
"No, never, what about you?"
"Nope, should be an interesting time."
Frenda let out a little giggle "So where you from, I'm guessing you're from Atlas since you're on this old rust bucket."
"The outskirts of Atlas, not much to say really, where are you from then?"
"Centre of Atlas, ungodly amount of pompous rubbish if you ask me, full of toffs going on and on about money, honestly they are so dull."
"Oh, right."
Frenda then looked to the side of Tomoko and asked "That your weapon?" pointing to the machine gun that was laying on its side, it had a magazine on top of it that was curved forward, a carry handle on top of the barrel and a by-pod underneath, accompanied by pistol grip to the front .
"Yeah is it, would you like to look?"
"Yeah, and you can look at mine if you like." Frenda then pulled out a box from her lower back that shifted into a hammer, Tomoko looked amazed.
"It's a bit of an antique isn't it." spoke Frenda as she examined Tomoko's machine gun.
"It might be old but it's still good enough to fight with."
Just then the ships loud speakers alerted everyone that they were about to land, handing back their weapons, the two of them got ready to disembark.
Getting off the ship the two could see lots of other people getting off other ships most likely from the other kingdoms of Mistral and Vale, looking out in the distance they could see the academy, it looked like a load of blocks that gradually got smaller the higher up it went thought Tomoko.
Moving off the landing pad and moving towards the main building the two girls saw more people, as they were passing among them, was one girl with silver hair, smoking a cigarette and leaning on the side of a building.
She had a grey jacket on which was opened at the front, which revealed a light brown jumper, black beret with a symbol on it that Tomoko couldn't quite make out on her head, a blue/grey set of trousers with a navy-blue belt on with white boots on her feet.
"Is that legal here?" asked Tomoko as they passed her, but she got the feeling that she was being watched as she passed by.
"Guess so" spoke Frenda "Hey, I'm going to go find out where we need to go just wait her for me, ok?"
"Sure." said Tomoko as Frenda ran off to find the main hall. Just as Frenda went out of sight and as Tomoko turned back to look at the girl who she had just seen, to see if she was the one watching her, a group of four pushed passed her knocking her over, as she hit the ground she could hear her gun go off and one of the group shout "Watch were you're going you filthy Faunus." as they went the same way Frenda had gone.
As Tomoko sat up, she saw the girl from before, walking up to her, cigarette still in her mouth. As she got to Tomoko, she looked down at her, she then grabbed her by the arm and yanked her up to her feet rather roughly. As she looked at the girl she could see the symbol much better, it was a grey maple leaf cracked diagonally in half with a pair of white wing on either side and a black chain underneath, she could also see that while her face looked young, her pale blue eyes looked like they belonged to someone much older.
"You nearly hit me you know." spoke the girl as she picked up Tomoko's gun, she didn't seem angry thought Tomoko, her voice sounded more monotone to Tomoko.
"Oh, I'm really sorry, it's just…" started Tomoko, her tail wagging with a bit of fear, but the girl interrupted her.
"You got a safety on this antique?" asked the girl ignoring Tomoko's apology.
"Erm, no, I never found one." Tomoko spoke nervously while rubbing the back of her neck.
The girl took the cigarette out of her mouth and dropped it to the floor and stamped it out, before she took the magazine out and emptied the chamber before shoving the gun and magazine into Tomoko's arms.
"If you got no safety leave the mag in but don't cock it till you need it."
Tomoko put the magazine in her pocket, she then looked back to try and apologise again but the girl had walked off, taking a swig from a hip flask.
"Great start Tomoko, great start." she spoke to herself.
Slinging the gun back over her shoulder, looking back the way everyone else had gone she could see Frenda running up to her.
"Hey, found it, let's go." she spoke her smile still on her face "Hey, what's up why the smile upside down." noticing Tomoko's sullen face.
"Oh, it's nothing, let's go."
Once they reached the main hall, they could see dozens of students, at one end of the hall as a wooden platform, as they tried to find a place to stand noticed a few people who looked a lot older standing at the back and two more on the stage.
"Those must be teachers." thought Tomoko, as they found a place to stand, the lights pointing at the main hall turned on and women walked on to the stage, the woman was wearing a white top, a blue and white neck scarf and khaki trousers, she had long black hair and gold eyes.
The woman stood in front of the mics and cleared her throat "Hello." her voice to Tomoko and Frenda was soft but it held an authority behind it "Welcome future huntsmen and huntresses, I will be you head master for your time here at Shade academy, my name is Tammy Eda Laurent, now tomorrow we will be setting you all up in to your partners and teams and for those of you who are new to Vacuo we will also give you three days to acclimatise to this new climate after this."
The students started murmuring amount themselves at this new info, Tomoko could hear a few people saying how this was a waste of time as they could handle it, she had to admit it did seem a bit of waste of a few days.
Tammy merely razed her hand before speaking again "Now, I know, some of you think you can handle the heat, well this is not where most of you are from especially you from Atlas." Tomoko got a hint of spit of poison in her voice "Now you will be sleeping in the main dining hall tonight and assigned team rooms tomorrow and two more things before you head off, first thank you each of you for deciding to become huntsmen and finally Vacuo has only one rule if your tough enough to survive here your welcome here" the woman then bowed and turned to leave as the other teachers started leading the students out the building to the their sleeping areas.
The dining room was full of beds from front to back and each bed was separated by white curtains.
"Looks more like a hospital, to me." said Frenda as she and Tomoko went to find a bed for themselves and their stuff.
Finding a pair at the end on one side, they dumped their bags and weapons under the camp bed that each bed area had, not everyone of the beds had been taken, there were a few unoccupied beds in the room near Tomoko and Frenda's beds, not long after everyone set about changing in to more comfortable night clothes and settling in for the night. Tomoko took her red scarf followed by her white jumper with its grey leather shoulders and elbows off, followed by her brown belt with its Fox head belt buckle and ammo pouches, then her brown boots and her black trousers., just as she had finished changing in to a white t-shirt and red shorts and had put her stuff under the bed Tomoko walked around to check on Frenda and see how she was doing.
Just as she rounded the corner of the curtain, she bumped into someone again.
"Oh, jeez not again." spoke Tomoko cursing her bad luck.
"Oops, sorry, you ok." asked a girl who held her hand out to Tomoko, who took it and was pulled up by the stranger. Tomoko and Frenda could see she had brown hair tied in a pony tail that reached the middle of her back, and some tufts on her ears, around her head a red head band with two white lines with red cuts outs in the shape of birds, at the front was what looked like a bird of some sort, with two feathers at the back of the head band.
"You ok, Tomoko." asked Frenda who had just come around the corner of the curtain.
"Yeah, just wasn't looking where I was going, are you ok…um…miss?"
"Maple." said the stranger "And you two are?"
Frenda offered a hand before saying her name which Maple returned, Tomoko then introduced herself.
"So, where you from?" asked Frenda, sitting on the foot of Maples bed with Tomoko while Maple sat at its head. At the side was Maples normal clothes, which was a dark blue over coat, light blue shirt with Maples symbol cross hairs over Beowolf's head, and black trousers which along with the over coat head red piping over the stiches, a black belt and boots were to the side of the neatly folded cloths and a white scarf lay to the side, on the other side was chest plate.
"Mistral, my village is near the hills on the outskirts."
"Wow, that sounds remote!" Tomoko responded "Must be pretty rough up there."
"Yeah it is, can get quite cold really quick, so I'm rather glad of the week to get used to the heat."
"Really, it was quite hot when we got here but it wasn't that bad, it felt like I could have gotten a nice tan or gone the beach." replied Frenda.
"Well, I got here yesterday, before the airships arrived and it was really bad then." said Maple seriously.
"Oh really." spoke Frenda "Well it's going to be interesting tomorrow then, dips on getting a tan first then."
Maple and Tomoko looked at Frenda for a second before they both burst out giggling at what Frenda had just said.
Tomoko was about to ask a question about Maple and Frenda's families when they heard footsteps, looking at the way the sound was coming from Tomoko and Frenda saw the girl they had seen before walk past them and towards a door next to one of the bed areas.
"That girl again." spoke Frenda.
"You know her?" asked Maple.
"Not really." replied Tomoko "We saw her before smoking a cigarette, I also got bumped into and my gun went off nearly hitting her"
"Wow, that was a bad introduction." said Frenda giggling a little.
"How did she react?" asked Maple.
"I'd say calmly considering, though she didn't wait for me to apologise." said Tomoko.
A few minutes passed, with the three just talking about Maples experience of Vacuo and what they thought of the head master, just then the girl returned walking back past them again, Tomoko jumped off the bed in the hopes that she could talk to her and apologise properly this time.
But it would seem her bad luck was working against her again, as after she had passed a few of the beds she was stopped by a group of four girls who came around the corner and stood between her and the girl who she had wanted to talk to.
"Oh, would you look here girls, a Faunus." said one of the four girls.
"Erm, can I help you?" asked Tomoko.
"Shouldn't you be carrying a pick axe or are you a different type of slave" said the girl who had spoken before.
"Oi!" screamed Frenda "leave her alone."
"Ooh, would you look here another Faunus and a human, these two your slaves or you one of those animal lovers who likes these freaks."
"We didn't do a thing to you; don't you think your being rather stupid seeing as your meant to help humans and Faunus."
"Don't you dare talk back to your masters, your filth, you should all just go back to the mines or that rubbish island your kind call home, you're not fit to be Huntsmen." the girl who had spoken, she then punched Tomoko centre of her chest knocking the wind out her and leaving her hunched on the floor
"That's it!" screamed Frenda, her eyes turning red "I'm going to kick each of your arses, come on!"
The girls laughed "Oh please." spoke the girl from the group who had done all the talking "First we all know Faunus can't fight, plus you're out numbered"
"No, they're not." spoke a voice behind the group "And the only ones who aren't fit to be huntsmen are you bunch!"
Tomoko looked up and saw the four girls had turned around to face the mystery voice, the voice belonged to the mystery girl Tomoko was trying to talk to before all this happened.
The leader of the four girls walked up to mystery girl "This has nothing to do with you, now leave before you get hurt, unless of course you want to join this filth on the floor."
The mystery girl, immediately burst into green flames with white lightning coming off her, this made the girls step back and get into a fighting stance.
"Wow." spoke the group's leader "You can at least put on a good show, but not good enough, get her!" she shouted as she charged in to the mystery girl, followed by one of her group, the other two who weren't looking so convinced watched Maple, Frenda and Tomoko who was still on the floor but had recovered a little bit.
The leader swung a fist but, the mystery girl stepped back as the second attacker came in the mystery girl threw some disk like thing at her, causing her to break her attack off to cover her face, this was followed up but the mystery girl punching her like the leader had punched Tomoko but this punch sent her sprawling on the floor like a star fish struggling for breath.
The leader gritted her teeth giving the mystery girl a growl before speaking "You bitch, you'll pay for that." swinging a punch again the mystery girl who used her fore arm to parry the punch before punching the girl on the nose with huge crack, the leader put her hands on her nose "You bitch" she shouted.
The mystery girl grabbed one of the leader's arms and twisted it behind her back and made her look at her group "Now, say sorry to the girls for all the things you said." the mystery girl ordered, pulling the arm as she did.
"OW." screamed the girl "Ok, I'm sorry human for all the things I said."
The mystery girl pulled the arm again "And the Faunus to!"
"Not a chance!"
The mystery girl grabbed the Leaders fingers and twisted them backwards "ARGH, STOP IT!" screamed the leader "Not till you apologise to the Faunus." replied the Mystery girl pulling the fingers again.
"OK!" screamed the leader "I'm sorry." said the girl through gritted teeth, "There now was that so hard." said the Mystery girl as she let go of the leader who turned to face her, she looked ready to retort but she left it and ordered her gang to leave it, but swore she'd get the mystery girl back, before they ran off taking their downed friend with them.
"Aw, man I so wanted to fight them." spoke Frenda as her eyes went from red back to their normal green.
Once they had left the mystery girl's flames died out as quick as they ignited, she then walked up to Frenda, Maple and Tomoko who was still on the floor, the Mystery girl bent down and pulled Tomoko up.
"I seem to be making a habit of picking you up." spoke the girl.
"Wow, that couldn't be taken the wrong way." spoke Frenda.
"Thanks." spoke Tomoko ignoring Frenda's comment.
"No problem." spoke the mystery girl before she turned to leave.
"No, wait!" spoke Tomoko.
The mystery girl turned around to see the three.
"I didn't get the chance to apologise for before." spoke Tomoko who was still holding her chest.
The girl sighed "You don't need to its fine."
"Well, can I at least know your name?"
The girl remained silent for a moment and looked like she was weighing up her options, before she sighed again "You can call me Beurling, if you must know"
"Beurling, that sounds more like a surname to me." spoke Frenda.
"It's what I go by."
"Well I'm Tomoko."
"I'm Frenda."
"And I'm Maple, nice to meet you."
"Pleasure, oh and Frenda was it?" Beurling spoke pointing at Frenda "I wouldn't worry about fighting you'll get plenty tomorrow."
"How do you mean?" asked Maple.
"You'll see." spoke Beurling before turning and walking back to her bed "Better get some sleep, night."
Tomoko tried to talk again before Maple put her hand on her shoulder, Tomoko turned to look at Maple before Maple spoke "She's right, we have a busy day tomorrow, besides I think she wants to get to bed"
The three went back to their beds but just as she got to where her bed was, Tomoko turned to Beurling's bed.
"Hey, you ok?" asked Maple.
"Yeah, it's just, it's been a long and not necessarily good day for me." Tomoko spoke dejectedly, with her tail down.
Maple put her hand on Tomoko's shoulder, and smiled at her "Look it happens, ok, some people just have bad luck sometimes."
"My luck is always bad it seems."
Maple smiled again "Look, just get some sleep, it will be different tomorrow, ok, me and Frenda will see you tomorrow."
"You will?"
"Of course, we friends aren't we."
Tomoko felt herself smile a little "Thanks Maple." Tomoko then looked to where Beurling had gone "I just wish me and her weren't so bad, I feel she hates me now."
"Well there's nothing you can do now; besides I don't think she hates you; I mean she did come to help us."
Tomoko let out a sigh, not convinced by Maple's argument, before turning to her bed "Good night Maple."
"Good night Tomoko."
Authors notes at the end.
If you've made it this far thank you i hope you like it and continue to like it.
If you see any mistakes do please let me know especially on grammar and spelling as they were never my strong side in school so advice and corrections are appreciated.
I also want to say a big thank you to Combine117 who helped me correct a mistake that was in the Maple Trailer and gave me some information i was not aware of. They also have some RWBY stories of their own so if you haven't check them out and also thanks to Seanchaidh who helped me in getting this set up so do please check them out to if you have the time also, no RWBY stories sadly but they are good and you might find something else you like.