Author Note: Hello everyone so a few days ago was Halloween i hope you had a nice Halloween or you equivalent.
Edit: I am sorry i was meant to add this in the summary but this will be Volume one of four. I have added this into the description as of adding this note.
Tomoko was awoken by Maple shacking her "Wake up sleepy head." she spoke.
"Morning Maple." said Tomoko groggily, looking around she noticed someone was missing "Hey, where Frenda."
"Oh, she's still asleep, I thought you'd be easiest to wake up."
"How do you mean?"
Maple beckoned Tomoko to follow her, one look at Frenda's sleeping area showed what Maple was talking about, in it was a girl sound asleep snoring a little, she looked like she was dead to the world.
"Yeah, I see what you mean."
"Yeah, thankfully we have an hour or two before we need to be getting ready."
Taking a few tries to wake up their sleeping friend with no success Tomoko was stumped at how to wake her up.
"Urgh, how can she sleep so much." complained Tomoko, only to notice Maple wasn't there, looking beyond the corner of the curtain she could see her walking with a tray of cups. Once she got to the bed, she handed one cup to Tomoko and set another one down, she took the third and waved it under Frenda's nose, which caused her to suddenly jump up saying "What, who has coffee?" with the look of a kid who's been given a bag of sweets.
After handing over the cup Maple sat down on the bed, looking at Tomoko who was sat on the floor "You both ready for today?" asked Maple.
"Yep." answered Frenda "I'm raring to go."
"Ok, calm down." said Maple "What about you Tomoko?"
"If I'm honest, I'm a little nervous." Tomoko spoke, looking into the coffee in her cup "Like, who am I going to get as a partner, I don't really want to end up with one of those girls we had issues with last night."
Maple and Frenda looked at each other, Maple got off the bed and put her hands over Tomoko's, Tomoko looked up at Maple "Relax, you'll be fine, and whatever happens we've got your back."
"Yeah." spoke Frenda triumphantly "And if they give you any issue, I'll nail them." she said acting like she was hammering a nail.
"Frenda!" exclaimed Maple "That is not happening."
"You had no issue with that girl, Beurling, fighting last night."
"That's different."
"How?"
"One, she's was a stranger to me at the time and two it was self-defence, she was merely defending herself."
"And all I'm doing to defending Tomoko." said Frenda with a smile, Maple looked exasperated, suddenly Tomoko started to giggle "Thanks you two, I feel better." Tomoko said with a smile.
Frenda was about to comment, when sound of a female's voice through a megaphone filled the room "All first-year students, put your full names on your bags, and be ready with your weapons at the landing pads within two hours, that will be all."
Once they had got dressed and were at the docks, the teachers split the students into three big groups that they all boarded onto transport, with all onboard the transports took off. Tomoko, Frenda and Maple who had all been in the same group could tell they weren't kidding on the heat it was starting to get quite stuffy on board.
After a few minutes on the way two people stood in front of the students, one was a woman with dark hair and red eyes, the other was male with a wolf's ears.
"Right, listen up." spoke the man "We are going to an old abandoned settlement, now we will be dropping you off around the settlement one by one, now once you're on the ground your to make your way to the centre of the settlement, look for the building with the big tower, where you'll pick up one of the objects there with your partner, from there your to make it to the ridge overlooking it, you'll be picked up by smaller transports and brought back."
Once the man was finished the woman spoke "You'll be monitored the whole time so if you get into trouble don't worry, now when you're in the settlement the first person that you come across and set eyes on will be your partner for the next four years."
This caused a load of murmurings among the students, about how they would find their friends and stop from meeting people they didn't like, Tomoko had to admit she was feeling rather nervous about this detail.
She then felt a hand squeezing her shoulder, only to see Frenda and Maple looking at her with smiles on their faces.
"Now any questions?" asked the man.
"Yeah." asked one of the students "Why's this place abandoned?"
"During the great war, about 25 years ago." spoke the man "This place was the site a skirmish between the forces of Mistral and the settlement, during the fighting the Grimm attacked, in the confusion the Mistral forces ran for whatever reason and left the inhabitants to be slaughtered.".
"Not that is did them much good." spoke the woman "They ran the ridge that you'll be using to get back to and were surrounded and they went the same way the inhabitants went."
"So how many Grimm we looking at in the Village then." spoke a voice that was familiar to Tomoko looking over she could see that Beurling girl standing up in the corner of the passenger compartment.
"Unknown." spoke the man "So don't let your guard down, you will have to fight."
The speakers on the ship then rang out that they were 30 minutes from the settlement, the teachers asked if there were any more questions and when no more were asked, they moved back to the upper part of the craft where they had come from earlier.
Most of the rest of the trip was carried out with the little talks between small group of people and the speakers telling everyone how long in minutes they were from the settlement, Tomoko thought she'd be more scared of the task ahead, but she found she was more looking forward to getting out the ship mostly so she could get out the ship and hopefully to a more cooler outside.
Once they heard they were one minute out the teachers came back and stood near the door, soon there was a bleeping noise filling the compartment and the door split open half going down half lifting up, just before they touched the ground the teachers asked for one of the students to volunteer to step forward "Well if you want a volunteer." unsurprisingly it was Frenda was the one to volunteered.
Once it touched the ground the dust and sand on the ground was kicked up by the engines, just before Frenda stepped off she, grabbed the hammer which was in its box form, she then took a half circle magazine and attached in at the upper half of the hammer, she then turned and waved at Tomoko and Maple before running off towards the houses.
With her dropped off the ship flew off, Maple and Tomoko made them self's ready for when they would be disembarking, a few minutes later the process repeated and a new student was dropped off after the third student was dropped off Maple stood up to go "I'll see you later, ok Tomoko." she spoke just as she was getting ready, Tomoko nodded in response, then Maple was off heading off into the village rifle in hand.
"Next student." spoke the woman, Tomoko was about the get off when she heard Beurling volunteer, as she walked past, she gave Tomoko and look that she wasn't sure what was behind it, before she to stepped off the ramp.
As it came to a new drop off Tomoko stood up to head off into the settlement, she suddenly felt her past worries come back about who'd she would end up with as a partner and what she'd find in the settlement and a million different thing's.
When the door's opened the ramp hit the ground, she ran to the nearest house she could find, as she did she heard the transport taking off, once she reached the wall she slammed her back to it and looked around the corner of the building, she could see it was quite a big settlement about the size of a town she thought, she could see the tower in the middle "Well better go this way." she said to herself heading off an alley on the left of where she was standing "I wonder how the others are doing." she thought as she started running off.
Meanwhile, Frenda had started off running though the warren of buildings before she came to a main street looking area, "Right, tower where's the tower." she thought looking around, she noticed the tower was slightly to her left "Ok, well off we go then." she thought.
As Frenda turned to move down an alley she came across a pack of Beowolf's, Frenda smiled a little "Well at least I get to scrap today," she said as swung her hammer at the head of the first Beowolf to come near her, pulling the trigger on her weapon which burst into a fury of round going off cutting down two more, reloading the magazine as the last two came at her she threw a small canister which immediately exploded.
"Yes." said Frenda fist clutching one fist "That was to easy." she said as she started to run off to the tower.
Maple, however had taken a more methodical approach her route, gone in to an abandoned building and climbed to the top floor before heading to a window and getting on the roof "Ok so the tower of over there." she thought, using her semblance she could see further into the settlement "Ok that looks like a good route to go, a few Grimm but not to many, should be ok." she said to herself as she took her rifle off her back and headed out on her route over the roofs of the houses.
After she had jumped onto the top of another building, she saw an explosion, off in the distance, curious as to what that explosion was, she ran in that direction, after some more jumping from roof to roof Maple looked and saw a Beringel, steadying her rifle using her knee as a stand she took aim, taking a deep breath she lined up the iron sights with the Grimm's eye and pulled the trigger, a split second later the head jerked up and then the Grimm fell face first in to the sand, Maple then pulled the bolt back and pushed the bolt back forward reloading the rifle.
"Not seen one of those in a while." she mused, before carrying on, after a few minutes she started to hear gunshots, rapid gunshots "Could that be Tomoko or Frenda?" she thought, "Whoever it is I'd better check this out they may need some help."
Running to sound of the shots, she could also hear a few bang's that were to load to be gun shots "What are those." she thought, as she reached the edge of one the houses and looked at who was making all that noise, it was Frenda "Of course it is, who else could be so energetic." thought Maple as she saw Frenda slam her hammer into a Beowolfs chest.
Just then Maple heard a noise coming down the street behind her and Frenda, turning she could see a load what looked like six rabbits with antlers charging down the street, "What the hell, I've never seen those before." she thought as was aiming her rifle, pulling the trigger, one of the rabbits fly sideways into a wall motionless.
Frenda noticed the shot and could see the shooter aiming down the street, running to end of the street to see what they were shooting at she could see the now four rabbit Grimm running down the street "Aw man, why they have to make Grimm out of such cute things." she said to herself as she took a fighting stance with the hammer head behind her, as she watched the sniper shot another rabbit.
Frenda took another canister out and threw it out at the three rabbit Grimm, it exploded in a massive fire ball, the shock of the blast knocked Maple backwards onto the roof on her back and knocking the wind out of her.
As she got back up coughing, steadying herself she could head Frenda calling out to her "Hey, Maple, hey, you still alive up there?"
Maple let out a sigh before replying "Yes, I'm still alive!" she said exasperated, taking a breath to calm herself down.
"Sorry." shouted Frenda "Didn't think it would be big."
"When we get back, we're having a chat about safety just so you know."
"Aw, don't be such a kill joy."
Maple shock her head "What am I going to do with you?" she muttered.
Jumping down from the roof she was on, so she could talk to Frenda directly without shouting at her from the roof and possibly attracting more Grimm, though now that Maple thought on it those explosions were more likely over her voice.
"What were those Grimm, I've never seen those before?" asked Frenda when Maple had reached her.
"No idea, never seen them before myself." replied Maple before asking "You see Tomoko at all?"
Frenda shock her head "No, you're the first person I've seen." Frenda said putting her hammer over her shoulder.
"Alright, let's get moving." said Maple.
Frenda looked a bit confused before remembering what they were told before "Oh, yeah right, well let's get going then, partner."
"Ok, this way." said Maple running in the direction of the tower, with Frenda following after her.
Meanwhile Tomoko was making her own way towards the tower "Maple wasn't kidding about the heat." she spoke while wiping her forehead with her sleeve.
She'd been running around the place, no matter how far she went, it felt like she was no closer to her goal then she was when she started, deciding she needed a break she rounded a corner and saw a building with its wall collapsed, deciding it was as good a place as any she ran through the collapse.
Laying on the collapsed amount of rubble and her gun on its side on the collapse next to her, she caught her breath from all the running and to try and cool down "I wonder what it was like in place before it all went to hell."
"Ok, off we go again." she spoke ton herself, but just as she stood up with her gun in hand, she heard a noise, turning around she couldn't see anything, but then the noise came again, so she went to door where the noise came, looking into the room she couldn't see anything till she looked up, there on the ceiling were dozens of bat like creatures, she tried to make her way back to the hole, but knocked over a piece of old furniture, looking up she could see the Grimm waking up, wasting no time she climbed out the hole and rubble she started to run, hearing the Grimm screeching behind her.
Maple and Frenda, were walking as they made their way through the settlement, they had stopped running because of the heat, had just rounded a corner when they heard a rapid series of shots going off, stopping to work out where it was coming from, they heard the shots going off again "That way." Maple spoke as she made her way to the sound of the gun, Frenda running behind her to catch up.
"Why is my luck always so damn terrible?" spoke Tomoko as she was firing her gun trying to kill the Grimm chasing her, but they were to small and too fast for her to hit properly, so she was stuck with just trying to get them to either go away which was unlikely or to hold them off till she could hit from them or find some help, she hoped she could find something soon she was getting tired and they were getting closer all the time.
She turned a corner to go down an alley, after she had she turned to face the bats, they turned in turn but Tomoko noticed they turned rather wide and in a clump "I wonder if I can use that" she thought as she exited the alley, finding another one on the other side the street she went down it and turned to face the way she had come, the Grimm followed but this time Tomoko opened up full auto she could see the Grimm fall like paper planes, that was until she heard a click "Oh no." she thought, before running again with she had half of them but six were still following her.
Just as she had reached the end of this alley, she tripped over a can landing flat on her face.
"Oof." she grunted as she hit the ground, still on the ground she turned to face the Grim, which diving in at her, Tomoko berried her face into the ground screaming.
Just then she heard the noise of metal cutting threw flesh, then again, then again the sound of something hitting a wall before a single shot rang out followed by a burst of shots, moving her hands that she had moved to cover her face she could see Frenda and Maple standing at the edge of the street running towards her.
"Looks like I'm stuck with you." spoke a voice Tomoko recognised, looking up she saw the back of her saviour weapon in hand, she'd seen a couple of these Kukri's if she remembered their name, but they were an old weapon hardly used now or at least they were modified, this one wasn't.
The person put the Kukri back in a sheath on her back attached to her belt, as the person turned around, they spoke again.
"I just can't get rid of you, can I?" they asked.