So let's see how this one's going to go, also we get to see Tammy in action for the first time, finally.
Also check below for character inspiration we have two though they are just here for this Volume.
Anyway i hope you enjoy.
Frenda ran at the figure that was running thinking 'Just hold on, we're coming.'
Off in the distance Frenda heard Tammy's motorbike roaring loudly in the distance 'I hope the other ones ok too.' Frenda thought as she looked over and saw the dust kicked up by the bike.
As Frenda ran she could just see the person being chased, they were a young child they couldn't be much older than Klara was. Frenda then heard a shot whizz past her, glancing back she saw Maple reloading her rifle and getting up from taking a knee, looking back she saw the Dromedon that was chasing the kid stagger back.
Frenda ran as fast as she could, just as she was about the reach the kid, she saw the Grimm make ready to make and attack, on instinct she shouted for the kid to lay down, as she swung the hammer at the Grimms head, the explosion from the hammer and semblance made the Grimms head move sideways, then a second Grimm came up behind and made to make another attack, then Frenda saw a chain fly around the camel like monster's neck, which pulled it to the side and acid meant for Frenda hit the first Grimms foot making it howl in pain, Frenda then heard a shout.
"Down Frenda!" Fídi shouted as pulled the chain.
Frenda curled into a ball with the kid while placing herself between the kid and Grimm, then a volley of gun fire filled the air, making the child cry out.
Frenda heard the two Grimm groan and thud to the ground, looking behind her Frenda saw the two Grimm start to dissolve.
"Come on, we need to move." Beurling spoke pulling the kid and Frenda away, as Fídi moved to face the three more that were stood before her.
As she walked Fídi pulled her hood down, she then started to swing her chain and cross in a big circle to her side.
"Trying to hurt a child, you creatures really are heartless." Fídi growled as she swung the chain around the leg of one of the camels.
The Grimm lost its footing and fell forward onto its knees, as it fell Fídi swung her staff at the right most Grimm, then jab first Grimm in the side of its head. The Third turned to try and spit its acid but Fídi dodged, upper cutting the Grimm with the staff throwing its head up and Grimm fell on its side.
The first Grimm Fídi struck tried to attack again, but Fídi then hit the Grimm in the leg and it fell again, Fídi finished it off by kicking the Grimm in the side of the head and its head fell to the ground. The Grimm whose legs were bound was finished off by a jab to the head that hit near the eye.
With the Grimm dissolving Frenda looked over the child, she had long flowing green hair with red eyes. She didn't seem to have any injuries as far as Frenda could tell.
"Hey, are you ok?" Frenda asked her getting a nod in response.
Then a thought hit the child "Wait where's Faye, is she ok?"
"She'll be fine." came Fídi's voice "My friends gone to get her; she'll be fine I promise." as the child turned to see the speaker, Frenda saw a flinch of fear in the young girl.
"T…T…Thank you." stuttered the young girl nervously.
"What's your name lass?" Fídi asked, ignoring the flinch.
"Wynn." replied the young girl.
"Ok, Frenda, Wynn's your responsibility, look after her." Fídi ordered pulling her hood back up "Now let's get back, the Atlas forces should have just turned up." Fídi finished up heading back to the dune they had just run down.
Just as they reached the truck with Ironclad and his men, they heard Tammy's motorbike riding to them, up front was another girl, holding onto the front handle bars for dear life, while Tammy shot with her revolver behind her to try and shooting the closet Jackalope's chasing them.
Once she reached the others, she dropped off the child that Frenda guessed as Faye judging by the way she hugged the other girl. Tammy turned on the bike and shot her revolver twice more taking out two more of the Jackalope's.
Tammy put the pistol back in its holster on her belt before she drew her sword that was mounted on her bike before revving the engine up and charging at the three Grimm.
"Is she mad?" asked one of the soldiers.
"Only on good days." Fídi sighed.
The first Grimm came to the side of Tammy, it jumped in the air trying to use its antlers to skewer Tammy, but before it could reach her a clump of sand hit it throwing it on its back, the second tried to the same as the first, but Tammy slashed it with her sword.
The third Grimm tried to go for the tires of the bike but then a screech filled the sky and Frenda saw Sam dive at the Grimm, the bird's claws dug deep into the Grimms neck along with the beak pulling at the neck also, before the bird flew up to the sky leaving the dissolving Grimm on the ground.
As Tammy came to a stop the first Grimm made to stand up, Maple made ready to shoot the but Fídi stopped her. Frenda watched as Tammy held her hand out and suddenly a whirlwind of sand first surrounded, then enveloped and then picked the Grimm up, once it was flow out the top of the sand hurricane, Sam came back and shunted the Grimm to the side, Tammy took out her pistol again and then shot the Grimm in mid-air.
Frenda then turned to the kids "Are you ok?"
"Yes, thank you." replied Wynn.
The other kid was transfixed by Tammy to notice the question "Wow, she's so cool who is she?"
"Faye, the lady asked you a question."
"Oh, sorry, I'm fine thanks." Faye spoke, scratching her ginger hair, just behind her ginger cat ears before she looked back with her crimson eyes at Tammy as she rode back to the group.
"Alright!" Ironclad shouted getting his troops attention "Go search the rest of the settlement, their maybe more survivors."
As the troops spread out the search the area Ironclad turned to Tammy "What do you suggest now?"
"I'll head on to scout the scorpions fort."
"What about the kids?" Beurling asked.
Tammy looked over at the kids before looking back at her students "Fídi, take the students and help the military, Frenda you and your brother take the kids back, put them in our sleeping area and keep an eye on them till we get back."
Once the kids were in the back of the truck and Frenda was sit in the front with her brother in the driving seat, they headed off, as they headed back looked in the back and saw the two girls asleep in their seats.
"Must be tired out." Frenda heard her brother speak.
"No kidding."
After they got back to the fort Frenda took the kids back to the beds and had them lay down on the spare bed, while her brother went back to pick up those at the tribe's campsite.
(Evening)
Once they were back the team set about trying to make the two girls as comfortable as possible, Frenda noticed that whenever Fídi came near them, the two would move back, although the teacher made a good attempt, Frenda could see that it did hurt the woman to see the kids reaction.
Once Tammy was back, she sat on the end of the bed before asking the girls what had happened to the tribe.
"Well you see." started Wynn "We didn't really see the start we were staying with our friend Leo, then we heard, screaming."
"Yeah, next thing we know we see this dusty like shadow guy, with bright gold eyes." Faye spoke.
"Leo told us to run and hide, while he held them off." Wynn took over, her head hanging low.
"We were coming back to see what happened when the Grimm turned up, we got trapped, we tried to sneak when they found us."
"Yeah that's when you and the scary lady turned up!"
"Faye!" Wynn shouted "That's not nice."
"Oh sorry." spoke Faye her cat ears moving flat against her head.
The team turned to see behind them, Fídi was looking at the floor "It's fine." she spoke but Frenda got the feeling Fídi was crying behind that blindfold.
While having dinner Fídi went to the top of the tower, Frenda thought it was because she couldn't hold up the mask of the kid's words not having hurt her for much longer, though she didn't mention this to her team, Tammy followed her out to the top. A few minutes later Sininen came in saying the colonel wanted to speak to them all.
Frenda volunteered to go get the teachers, once up there she saw Fídi looking up at the sky and Tammy looking at her.
"Excuse me, professor's the colonel needs to see us."
"Ok, we'll be right there." Tammy replied.
Once they got to the room with the maps that was being called the command room, Frenda saw a sand-built fort with a mountain on the back of the fort.
"Is that our target?" Maple asked.
"Yes, it is." Tammy spoke as she came up behind them "Glad to see you like my sand castle."
"So, what's the plan?" Beurling asked as she took a swig from her hip flask.
"Well, we are in luck." Tammy spoke "The majority of them seem to headed out again, they are about here." Tammy spoke as she pointed to a point the map.
"We don't know when they will be back, now we need to go tomorrow or we'll never break into the fort." Tammy continued "Theirs only about twenty-five left."
"As such we will be splitting the force, captain Sininen we need you to head to this pass here." pointed Ironclad "You'll need to block anyone coming back, now it's the last thing I want to do but I don't want to get surprised and trapped so this the best we can do."
"The rest of us will head for the fort, now myself and the Major will take the Atlas forces, initially we will be waiting, while the huntresses sneak up to the gate and blow a hole in it." Ironclad explained.
"Let me guess, once we blow the gate up, we have to hold the breach till you lot ride in like the cavalry." Beurling spoke up.
"Why you getting scared?" the major growled back.
"Only of you not turning up!" Beurling retorted.
"Enough." Ironclad ordered "And to answer the question yes you will, but you shouldn't have to wait long."
"We will be right behind you, you blow the gate and we follow you in and rush the fort, hopefully catching them all in their beds."
"Sorry colonel but why don't we use air support to help out?"
"Two reasons major, first their is to high a risk of civilian casualties and second a sand storm has kicked up near the base grounding all flights and we don't have our own here so we make do with what we have."
Beurling looked like she was about the start up again but bit her tongue.
After the team had headed back to their beds, the team had cleaned weapons for the day tomorrow. After dinner Frenda was playing with the kids keeping them entertained.
"Your quite good at that." Maple observed.
"You think cause Beurling is an aunty that she the only one who's good with kids?" Frenda joked.
"Oi, quit you making me sound old." Beurling moaned, though the kids giggled.
"Miss Frenda?"
"You don't have to call me Miss Wynn, just Frenda."
"Frenda." Wynn began again "Will you save our friend too, from the bad people?"
"Sure, I promise."
"If they are there, we'll get them." Fídi added, Frenda could see the small smile she had on, but it faltered with the kid's shaky thanks.
"No problem." Fídi spoke while she turned away, but just as she turned her back to the kids Wynn spoke up again, Frenda could hear the shakiness in her voice.
"Miss Fídi, how did you lose your eyes?" Wynn asked. There was a coldness and stillness that filled the room, everyone expected Fídi to snap.
Fídi turned to the two girls, who recoiled a bit in fear "It's my semblance, it doesn't work quite like my companions here, it's been cruel to me." Fídi spoke with a bitterness, yet softness to her voice "I don't blame you for being scared of me."
"I'm not scared." Faye lied trying to sound brave, the shake in her voice spoke otherwise.
"I don't need my eyes to know your scared, I'd be scared of me to, what hurts is that you feel you the need to lie to me about it." Fídi spoke as she left the room, Tammy watched her go.
"Sorry, I shouldn't have asked." Wynn spoke looking like she about to cry.
"It's ok." Frenda whispered as she hugged the little girl.
"Is she going to hate us now?" Faye asked.
"No." spoke Tammy looking morosely the way Fídi had left "She knows you meant no harm, it's just that semblance is hard for her, you're not the first to ask her, or be afraid of her, everyone was, she was an outcast living alone when I met her." Tammy sighed before heading off after Fídi.
(Later that night)
Frenda was about to turn in when she noticed Wynn was gone, deciding to look for her she went up to the top of the tower, just as Frenda could see over the entrance to the top of the tower, she saw Wynn slowly walking up to Fídi who was looking at the sky, with her hood down.
"Is there something you need lass?" Fídi asked making Wynn jump.
"I just wanted to say sorry for before, I wasn't thinking." Wynn spoke.
"Forget it." Fídi sighed "Everyone gets scared of what they don't know, I know for a fact half my students are scared of me at first." Wynn looked down at the floor at Fídi's words.
"Don't be ashamed of it, it's a natural thing to do, it's why humans and Faunus have such poor history together."
"But still, you saved me, you're a hero and I've been scared of you, it's not right."
Frenda thought she saw a smile on Fídi's face "Being scared is a perfectly natural thing to be, its how you react to it that makes you stand out." Fídi spoke as she turned to face the little girl and lowered herself to the girl's level.
"I don't think I've done very well."
"Yes, you have,even though you're scared you asked about it, you tried to understand it, that's something people a lot older than you have never done and when you saw you made a mistake you tried to make it right, that's courage and something to be proud of."
"Really?" Wynn asked.
"Yes." Fídi spoke as she put her hand on Wynn's shoulder "Now promise me that whenever you're scared again, you'll show the same courage then as you have now ok?"
"I will." Wynn smiled.
Fídi returned the smile "Now, I think you best head to bed."
Wynn turned around and waked past Frenda back to bed, Frenda was about to head to bed when she heard Fídi call out to her "You really are good with those kids Frenda."
"Are you sure your blind?" Frenda asked as she walked to the top of the stairs.
Fídi smiled "How'd you learn to be so good with them?"
"When I was younger, I would sneak out of the house and help at a homeless shelter, I saw a lot of orphaned kids there, they loved having me around, said I made their day's brighter with my jokes."
"How'd your parents take your little escapes?" Fídi asked.
"Not well, gave me a choice, I picked the kids, the thought of their sad faces, broke my heart and I was never close to my family except my brother so I didn't feel too bad leaving."
"Why are you here and not with them, sorry for asking I'm just curious."
"There was a Grimm attack, the homeless shelter was damaged, I hated seeing those kids scared, huddling around me like I could make the bad things go away, that I could save them, when I was just as helpless as the rest of them but trying to hide it to reassure them, I wanted to really be able to stop it so I became a huntress."
"Do you still hear from them?" Fídi asked.
"Yeah, they're doing good, some have found homes now." Frenda smiled.
"It's a noble thing you did Frenda." Fídi smiled too "You should be proud not many are as selfless as you, now off to bed we have a long day ahead of us."
"Yes ma'am." Frenda spoke, doing a mock salute.
Aw i felt kind of bad for Fídi here i mean yeah the kids weren't being mean but still, must have still stung a little. Also seems Frenda was a bit of rebel when she was younger. Finally Tammy you were just showing off with that last Grimm.
Character inspiration:
Wynn and Faye: Both of these two were loosely based off Jack and Jill, as for their names well Faye is a name i've seen and heard a bit and i kinda like it so i just picked in at random, Wynn's name actually comes from an old YU-GI-OH card i have Wynn the Wind Charmer i'm not sure why but the name just came to me when i was thinking up the name.