Trailer 3: Lilac
Theme Song: 7 Days to the Wolves (Nightwish)
I never fit in here… I want to get out there, fight the battles that they won't… but it won't be on the side of darkness.
Not far from the Kingdom of Mistral lies the small patch of Heaven called Menagerie. It is a settlement on an island, home to all the Faunus that have grown tired of fighting, and live a life of harmony.
Several patrol boats usually check the surrounding islands, making sure that there is no chance of the Creatures of Grimm coming and wiping them out. Most times, it would be the local authorities, but occasionally, brave individuals would take a boat and make the sweep themselves.
"This is Lilo, searching quadrant six," A young girl said into her scroll. She was a Wolf Faunus, evident by the two wolf ears sticking out of lavender coloured hair. Her eyes were dark purple, and she was wearing a lilac sleeveless kimono top with black ribbon around the waist. Below the ribbon were black baggy pants and pink sandals. On her wrists were a pair of gauntlets, white in colour, with black lines that went up to her knuckles.
"Acknowledged Lilo, be advised, there have been sightings of lancers in the area, and we have no intel on what could be on the ground," Her commander said.
"Copy, I'll take a look around and report back when I'm done," Lilo nodded. "Lilo out."
With that, she put her scroll on her left gauntlet, and leapt forward, bounding onto a thick tree branch, then springing to the next one, moving deep into the forest.
She kept like this until she heard a barking noise from below, and descended, covering herself in the bush. In the clearing, she saw a wolf, not a creature of grimm, but a normal wolf. It seemed to be looking around the area, until it seemed to look back, barking once.
Lilo held in her breath, upon seeing a pair of pups bound out of the growth on the other side. One had white fur, with a grey mane. The other was black, with a white mane.
Lilo smiled, watching them play for a second. Then her Faunus ears picked up growling, and she glanced to where it was coming from. Two Beowolves lurked into the clearing, and set their piercing red eyes on the wolf parent, who was now snarling back. The Beowolves had quite a bit of white armour plating on their heads, paws and chests. That meant that these two were Majors.
The wolf Faunus frowned, and clenched her fists, several razor-sharp blades extending from her gauntlets, and she sprang out into the opening. The regular wolf glanced at her, but didn't deem her as a threat, compared to the creatures of darkness in front of them.
"I'll handle one, you can have the other," Lilo said to the wolf, who seemed to almost nod in response.
The four wolves charged, fangs and claws reared.
Lilo ducked under the first swing from her foe, and blocked the other by covering up her face with her gauntlets. She then slashed back, but her claws raked against the Beowolf's armour. She frowned, stabbing again, but the Beowolf evaded her slash by leaning back slightly.
Meanwhile, the wolf leapt up, fangs out to tear at the Beowolf's black, smoky flesh. The Beowolf countered by swiping down, swatting the wolf to the ground. However, the mother wasn't done, teeth wrapping around the Beowolf's gangly leg like a vice. The Beowolf didn't approve of this, and gripped the mother's torso, and yanked, pulling her off it's leg, and throwing it against a rock.
Lilo saw this, and sprang over before the second grimm could finish the job. "Stay down," She said to the wolf. "Let me handle this!" She called out, before clenching her fists again, gun barrels appearing above the claws and opening fire, ammunition pouring out of her gauntlets and into the Beowolves, causing them to reel back a bit and take some damage from her onslaught.
They roared, before charging again. Lilo growled, her ranged attacks were useless now. Therefore, she leapt at the first beowolf, claws going for it's neck. With a grunt and a mighty yank of both hands, she sliced right through, and it fell to the ground, minus it's head.
With the first one dead, she turned to the second one, which pounced on her, putting her on her back. Wrestling with it's arms and also it's jaws, she grunted, unable to do anything to stop it.
Suddenly, a furious bark came from behind the grimm, the wolf mother had recovered, and her claws were sunk in and teeth on the neck. The beowolf snarled, pulling the wolf off with it's freakishly long arms, and threw her again, however… this time, the mother's landing wasn't as smooth.
Lilo's eyes widened. The wolf was impaled on a rocky spike, and the little aura that the creature had could do nothing about it. "NO!" She yelled, and with a burst of strength, she tackled the grimm to the ground, and began slicing away at the monster, removing it's arms, legs, and then head with barely controlled rage.
With the grimm dead, she sprinted over to the mother, sheathing her claws and pulling the wolf free from her grisly end-bringer. The wolf whimpered from her pain, and Lilo sniffled. As a wolf Faunus, she shared a kindred spirit with this creature, and she was dying now.
The pups ran from their cover and whined. The mother gave a short, pained bark, then turned her head to Lilo. The pups seemed to glance at the girl, then at each other. With a nod, they both turned and lowered their heads.
Suddenly, Lilo felt some kind of itch in her mind. 'Alpha.' She heard a female voice say, followed by a male, saying the same word.
"What the…" Lilo blinked. She glanced down at the pups, who looked up at her with big eyes.
'You are our Alpha. We follow you now,' The female voice said.
"Hold on… are you two speaking with me?" The girl asked, causing the pups to nod.
She grinned. "My semblance… I… think you're my semblance!" She laughed.
The two pups barked, and suddenly glowed, becoming more dog-like in appearance. "You'll need names. Snowfall and Shadow," Lilo said, tapping the white one then the black one on the nose, in that order.
She glanced down at the mother, who was barely breathing. "I promise… I'll keep them safe," She told the mother.
She whimpered, then her chest was still. "Sleep eternally. You earnt it," Lilo said, closing the mother's eyes.
Lilo covered the wolf with rocks, and put a fang from the beowolves on a stick sticking out the ground. "Thank you… you sacrificed yourself to save me and your kids… I won't forget you," She said.
"Come on pups, we've got work to do," She smiled.
I didn't ask for this. She thought, as she set off into the forest again, the two wolf pups on her tail. But I'll happily accept this gift that I have unlocked.
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