Chapter: 7
Revelations
Hello readers, it's the Lazerhat9001 bringing you a new chapter. First I just want to apologize for the wait I had some serious writers block for this chapter. On the plus my swimming season is over so now I have more time to goof off and write so it's a win for both of us. But enough about me enjoy the new chapter.
"Come Drake it's better to talk in the privacy of my office." Said the headmaster, complying Drake followed him through the school grounds and into the elevator.
"What does he want? Did he somehow see me during my episode, and if so how? I would have seen him if he was in the classroom." Thought the masked Hunter,
finally reaching its destination the elevator gave a small ding and opened its doors. Drake and headmaster Ozpin stepped out of the elevator and Ozpin gestured to a chair in front of his desk. Drake sat down in the chair and Ozpin to his desk.
"Drake the schools camera caught your episode I saw everything, and as you can imagine I have some questions for you." Said the headmaster,
"First question why did you react like that? I've seen Hunters and Huntresses alike react violently when hurt , but not like what you did in that classroom. You screamed you have to suffer, like that Grim had somehow taken someone or something irreplaceable from you despite the fact it was a ordinary Grim Peter caught only a few days ago." Said the headmaster,
Drake sat there for a moment before saying "That Grim reminded me of a rather unpleasant memory, and that memory triggered my episode." Said the masked Hunter,
"How often do you have these episodes Drake?" Said the headmaster in a concerned tone,
"Not that often sir only when I go through or I'm reminded of a very traumatic event." Said the masked Hunter,
"What was that liquid you drank it seemed to calm you down." Said the headmaster,
reaching into his pocket Drake pulled out one of his sedative bottles. "This is a powerful sedative, I use it to calm me down during my episodes before I lose complete control." Said the masked Hunter,
"Where did you get these sedatives Drake? There strong and defiantly wouldn't be available to the general public." Asked the headmaster,
Drake didn't want to answer this question truthfully going in-depth with the memory of how he got the lifesaving drug would likely trigger another episode. "Let's just say I got them from a friend and leave it at that." Said the masked Hunter,
"'Sigh' very well Drake I won't push you on that matter however I must ask you, have you seen anybody to help stop your episodes?" Asked the concerned headmaster,
"No sir I haven't, I thought I would handle it myself and get over it in time." Said the lying masked Hunter,
"Very well Drake I won't force you to seek help you don't want, but if an incident like this happens again I will have no choice but to get you help do you understand?" Said the headmaster,
"Yes sir I understand, and thank you for allowing me to handle this on my own for the time being." Replied the grateful Hunter he had enough of people trying to dig into his head and extract the context of his brain.
A ding noise came from behind Drake, he turned around to see what it was and saw professor Glynda carrying his cane in one hand, and his Augur in her other gloved hand.
Walking up to Drake the witch of Beacon said "Please take better care of your equipment Mr. Richard I have better things to do than pick up after students."
As she held Drakes equipment up to his face. "Shit I can't believe I left them in the classroom." Thought the masked Hunter as he placed the Augur back into his belt and reclaimed his cane.
" Mr. Richard you will be excused from class for the rest of the week, and you are also prohibited from fighting we wouldn't want to cause another episode so soon do I make myself clear Mr. Richard?" Asked the headmaster,
"Yes sir I won't cause any more trouble." Said the masked Hunter, "Oh, thank you Mr. Richard you've just reminded me for breaking your Scroll you will report Saturday morning at nine o'clock for your punishment." Said the headmaster with a sly grin.
"Why am I such an idiot?" Thought he masked Hunter as he proceed to face palm and head towards the elevator.
After he left Glynda turned to Ozpin and said "Did you question him about that disgusting slug he used in his fight with the Grim?"
"No I feared if I questioned him anymore than I already have he would no longer see us as his benefactors, but potential threats." Said the headmaster in a serious tone,
"Ozpin that boy is hiding things from us I have tried to dig up information on him the second you invited him to stay." Said the witch of Beacon,
"What have you found Glynda?" Questioned the headmaster,
"That's just it Ozpin I've found nothing. Birth records, medical records, passports, ID's, family members, criminal records and even research into his supposed master Gehrman have all lead to nothing. It's as if he came out of thin air, and on top of all of that he uses weaponry we have never seen before in all our years as Hunters. You saw it, that slug was able to somehow summon those tentacles to attack the Grim, and it defiantly wasn't any type of Dust or semblance." Said the witch of Beacon now gathering her breathe from her long rant,
"Glynda I understand your concerns, but we will never learn anything about Mr. Richard through force and deceit we must wait for Mr. Richard to show us his true colors on his own." Said the headmaster,
"And if he continues to have these episodes and becomes a threat to the students?" Question the witch of Beacon,
"Then I will personally handle Mr. Richard myself." Said the headmaster in a tone that made it clear the matter was closed for now.
Walking back to his room Drake was in deep thought. "Ozpin and Glynda are no doubt going to watch me twenty four-seven now to make sure I don't freak out and harm anyone. I need to figure out some way to control myself." Thought the masked Hunter.
When suddenly he heard "Hello Drake."
Snapping out of his thoughts Drake realized he was accidentally approaching Velvet and three others with her.
On her right was another girl with white toned skin, brown hair wearing a brown sweater, black pants, black shoes and sunglasses covering her eyes.
Next to her was a male with some kind variety of red hair Drake wasn't familiar with, dark skin tone, a red sleeveless shirt, black pants and disturbing pure white eyes that reminded him of Scourge Beasts.
The final member on Velvet's left was a giant tanned figure that was roughly a foot taller than Drake. He's wearing green robes, a dark brown belt and sandals.
"Hello Velvet who's your company?" Questioned the masked Hunter,
"These are my teammates Coco, Fox and Yatsuhashi." Said the bunny eared girl with a smile.
Taking that as her queue Coco said "So you're the new guy Velvet told us about, well nice to meet you as Velvet said I'm Coco leader of team CFVY." Said the fashion queen of Beacon,
"Team coffee? I can't help but think Ozpin gave them that name so he could get a good laugh." Thought the masked Hunter,
"Now before we dive into anymore introductions or conversation I need to ask you an important question." Said the fashion queen of Beacon pointing at Drakes chest.
"What is it Coco?" Said the confused Hunter, he just meet her and she's already questioning him?
"Why are you wearing that hideous clothing?" Said the fashion queen of Beacon in a disgusted tone, it toke Drakes brain a few second to process that question.
"What are you talking about?" Said the confused Hunter glancing at his hunting attire,
"Don't what me, you look like you pick that up from the dumpster of a costume shop." Said the fashion queen of Beacon,
"Excess me if my only set of clothing isn't up to your standards." Said the masked Hunter in an annoyed tone,
Coco gasped as if Drake had slapped her grandmother right in front of her. "You can't be serious, that is the only clothing you have?" Said the fashion queen of Beacon in a tone of disbelief,
"That's actually kinda hard to believe Drake." Shyly said the bunny eared girl"
"Well I didn't really have much to bring with me when I enrolled." Said the masked Hunter, it was the truth Drake had nothing but his attire, weapons and the contents of his belt.
"Well lucky for you Drake I am a kind and merciful being that has made it her mission to help you." Said the fashion queen of Beacon,
"What?" Said the completely bewildered Hunter,
"Friday after school me and Coco will take you to Vale and get you some much needed clothing, right Velvet?"
"R-right." Said the bunny eared girl who sounded a bit nervous,
"Good luck man I hope you have strong arms like mine." Said the giant of team CFVY,
"What? I haven't agr-." "It's a date than see you on Friday, let's go guys or will be late to class, bye Drake." Said the fashion queen of Beacon completely ignoring Drake.
with that team CFVY said goodbye to Drake and went off to their class leaving behind the completely confused Hunter.
"What in the hell just happened." Said the masked Hunter to no one in particular, shaking his head and regaining some of his composure Drake decided to just go with the flow and meet Velvet and Coco on Friday and decided on a new course of actions.
"I don't have classes for a few days this is the perfect time to do some research." Thought the masked Hunter,
walking around and asking his fellow students Drake found out there was a library at Beacon, and after getting lost for a few minutes he finally found it.
"Finally I'll get some answers." Thought the masked Hunter as he went through the libraries front doors.
Like almost everything at Beacon the design of the library was beautiful, the floor was decorated with light orange tiles, black and red book shelves and a dome like ceiling complete with curving pillars.
"Hello young man shouldn't you be in class?" Said the librarian at her station,
"I've been excused from classes for the day so I decided to do some research, what section are the history books in?" Asked the masked Hunter,
"On your right section three and please don't be loud." Said the librarian,
Complying Drake quietly made his way to section three and began scanning through the books. "I need to find a book that summaries the history of this place or I'll be here for hours." Thought the masked Hunter,
after checking several enormous books a small one caught Drakes eye, "The history of Remnant for ages ten and up. That's fine I don't need too much detail." Thought the masked Hunter,
Drake sat down at a table open the book and began reading.
Chapter one the begging of civilization, our planet our home Remnant has been plagued by the Grim since the dawn of time. Our ancestors had no choice but to cower in fear and hide in a desperate attempt to survive. It seemed like only a matter of time before humanity was wiped out. But just when all home seemed lost humanity found its guardian angel Dust. Dust mysterious crystals that had the power of nature its self. With the discovery of Dust mankind became strong and built settlements and eventually kingdoms that thrived and prospered, but mans greed nearly destroyed everything mankind had gained. Four all-powerful kingdoms rose to power Atlas, Mistral, Vacuo and Vale. Each kingdom demand more and more power and eventually war broke out. The war lasted forty years and by the time it was over the fighting and Grim invasions had nearly reduced every kingdom to ashes. Thankfully the four kingdoms realizing they either had to negotiate peace or lose everything, they chose the former. Since then the four kingdoms have lived in peace training inspiring young Hunters and Huntresses to protect the kingdoms and the peace the world has enjoyed for so long.
Drake but down the book with shaking hands his suspicion was right after all. "I'm in another world, and I'm stuck here forever." Thought the masked Hunter,
this wasn't like being stuck in another Nightmare realm he didn't have the messengers anymore no lantern to teleport him, for better or for worse this new world Remnant was his new home.
"I move to a whole new world maybe even a new reality, but I'm still surrounded by blood thirsty Beasts I still have to fight to survive. Is this simply my destiny? Am I meant to fight monsters and Beasts Forever? Was it too much to ask for to live a simple carefree life? Was asking the world to allow me to honor my mother's last wishes to much?" Thought the masked Hunter as tears of frustration started creeping into his eyes.
It wasn't fair it simply wasn't fair.
Drake didn't know how long he sat their fighting back against the tears in his eyes all Drake knew was he had no choice but to move on and adapt to this new world.
Drake searched and gathered every book that seemed even slightly important in his studies to understand this alien world.
Drake read all about the mysterious crystals known as Dust, how it could be used to power devices, strengthen bullets and even be used in arcane ways like his Hunter tools.
His brain was nearly fried when he read how this world had created living suits of armor called machines, if the books are accurate these machines powered by Dust could be commanded to fight, work, protect anything their masters told them to do.
Drakes eventually learned why Velvet acted so sad to his question earlier today, from historical books Drake found out that Humans and Faunus had a major war only eighty years ago.
The Faunus were outnumbered and outmatched, but using cunning strategies and guerrilla warfare they put up a strong resistance.
After three years of bloodshed there was finally a peace treaty, Humans would treat Faunus as equals and Faunus would see Humans as allies not enemies.
Unfortunately the world is cruel most Humans if any never treated their counterparts as equals, how could they? Every time they saw a Faunus they were reminded how their loved ones had died and suffered just because people they saw as animals decided to rebel against them.
There hatred spread from generation to generation causing fierce racism to be born. Beaten, hated, abused a group of Faunus decided to fight back in a peacefully way, and created an organization to fight for Faunus right this group was called the White Fang.
The Fight Fang staged rallies, protest, strikes any peaceful way possible to fight back. While a beautiful way to fight for what you believe in it proved to be futile.
The public's opinion of the Faunus changed slightly but police and annoyed citizens would attack the protester. Eventually the White Fangs leader disappeared mysteriously, if they retired, went into hiding or was assassinated is unknown.
All anyone is sure off is that they wish the leader of the old White Fang whoever he or she was had stayed. A new leader was elected by the White Fang a person with a far more violent agenda.
The White Fang were transformed into a terrorist group, they destroyed shops that refused to serve Faunus, robbed countless banks to fund their corrupt organization, and those who were known to physically harm Faunus were found chopped into pieces, there severed body parts dispersed all over the area.
Over time Faunus were treated better, but not out of respect or love but out of fear in other words a worthless peace. "What worthless scum hurting and killing others for their ideals there no better than the Healing Church was." Thought the masked Hunter with his hands tightening into fist at the thought of the White Fang.
Calming down Drake decided it was best to research a different topic and grabbed a book with a rather interesting name "Aura the power of the soul."
Normally Drake would disregard this book as a work of fiction if it wasn't for the fact he was in a whole new world, and found the book in the history section. Of course it could be that some lazy reader decided to stick the book where ever was most convenient for him or her, but it's not like Drake loses anything if he reads it.
Picking up the book Drake turned to page one, or he would have if a voice from behind hadn't said to him "Hello Drake."
Turning around Drake saw Beacons resident female ninja Blake, "Hello Blake what brings you here?" Asked the mask Hunter, "
Same reason you're here to read a book in peace, but I have to admit you may like books even more than me." Said the female ninja gesturing at all the books Drake had gathered for his research.
Looking at his table Drake realized he had read far more than he planned to there are at least a dozen books on the table.
"Um Blake what time is it." Ask the masked Hunter,
"It's six o'clock." Said the female ninja,
"I've been in here that long?" Thought the masked Hunter shocked at how long he's been here reading.
"Any reason your studying history, technology and Dust dispute the fact you've been at Beacon for a day." Asked the female ninja.
Sighing Drake said "I've been excused from all my classes until next week for the trouble I've caused."
"I wont pry but you should probably tell Ruby your okay she got a little scared and worried when you freaked out in class today." Said the female ninja,
"Great Ruby the nicest person I've meet in this world thinks I'm a freak." Thought the masked Hunter,
"I'll talk to her tomorrow right now I think I'm going to go back to my room it's been a long day." Said the masked Hunter in a tired voice, his fatigue catching up to him with out books to distract him.
Forgetting the book he was going to read Drake got up said goodbye to Blake and made his way back to his dorm for some much needed sleep.
After leaving Blake keep her eyes on the front doors thinking, " After he killed the Grim in that brief moment of hesitation and fear, I saw a look in his eyes the look of someone who wanted nothing more than to run away from their past and move on, eyes just like mine. Drake I wonder what secrets you hide from others?"
Welp thats it for today's chapter folks, hoped you enjoyed it. Leave any comments or reviews if you want, and like always I hope you have a nice day
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