Chapter 2
ORION
'Ow' was the first thing that came to my mind when I regained consciousness.'What the hell happened to me and where am I?' I thought when I looked around to find that I was lying on a bed. My weapon "Nightfall" was in its spear form and propped up at the foot of the bed. I sat up on the bed trying to remember what happened before I fell unconscious. 'Wait,' I froze, 'where is my mask?' I reached for my face only to feel my skin. I started to search around for my mask but when I tried to stand up a headache assaulted me and I almost fell over. I groped at my head and found out my forehead was wrapped in bandages. Then I remembered what happened last night. That lady was about to take Mychaels weapon "Dawn" when I rushed her. She was too fast, too trained, and ended up knocking me unconscious,'But damn how hard did she hit me?' I was about to continue looking for my mask when I heard someone speak up behind me.
"Looking for something?" I whipped around, grabbed Nightfall, shifted it to its broadsword form, and got into a battle stance. Leaning against the doorway of the room with her arms crossed was the lady who knocked me out. She had white hair with a crimson stripe in a ponytail. She wore a blue baggy shirt adorned with grease stains, a small red phoenix on her breast pocket and, tawny cargo pants held up plain leather ammo belt. Her eyes are the color of embers set into a somewhat square face. She was about 4 inches taller than I and in her hands was my mask that I carved from a Beowolf mask. It still had the crack through the right eye.
"Who are you?" I asked or rather demanded. She raised her arms as if to surrender and said,
"Waoh there, calm down kid I'm not here to hurt you."
"Oh really? Then who was it that hit me in the head until I lost consciousness?" I shot back
"Last time I checked you were the one who attacked first, I was only acting in self defense." I lowered Nightfall and sheepishly scratched the back of my head.
"Oh… yeah," Then I remembered why I rushed her and pointed at her, "I only did that because I thought you were going to steal my brothers weapon."
"How the hell was I supposed to know that was your brother's weapon? I've only been here for a week and the place was already in ruins." I let out a sigh when I realized she had a point and shifted Nightfall into its compact form, which is a foot long black pole 2 ½ inches in diameter with three small buttons on it, and put it in it's holster on the back of my belt.
"So, who are you? You never gave me your name." I asked her,
"My name is Nix, Nix Thanos." she held out her hand. I walked up to her reached out and shook her hand.
"Orion, Orion Forsythe. So why did you come to this town or what's left of it? You've been here for a week but you haven't done anything." I asked her and let go of her hand. She was about to respond when she stopped and started to stare at me suspiciously.
"How did you know I was here for a week and didn't do anything? Because I haven't seen at all. Have you been stalking me?"
"WHAT!?" I started to blush while shaking my head and waving my arms around frantically, "No, I haven't been stalking you?" She continued to stare at me. It was almost like she was staring into my soul to see if I was lying.
"Then how did you know I was in the clearing when you rushed at me?" She took a step towards me and I took a step back.
"Uh…well you see… I was… uh… um… " I was sweating bullets. I didn't know what to do and honestly, it was scaring me. I don't have much experience with socializing. It's because I didn't spend much time when I was little talking to people and I have literally talked to about 3 girls in my entire life. So yes, I was scared of Nix. She took another step towards me and I was going to step back but I hit the wall.
"So you were stalking me you little pervert." She said while taking another step forward. My back was to the wall and had no other options so I did the only thing I could, I ran. I reached into my pocket and pulled out a smoke pellet and threw it at the ground. While Nix was blinded by the smoke I rushed at her, grabbed my mask, and ran out of the room into the hallway. I ran towards the nearest window and jumped through, shattering the window, and cutting my arms. I landed in a roll. put on my mask, and took off like a bat outta hell, cause after all, 'Hell hath no fury like the wrath of a woman scorned,' I thought to myself as I ran, 'Wise words, I'll have to thank Mychael for telling me when I finally kick the bucket.'
I risked a look back to see if she was following me just in time to jump to my right when she fired her weapon at me and left a smoking crater where I once was. I had no choice but to use my semblance to enhance my speed. I focused on my semblance and soon my body started to gain a silver glow and spark with a small amount of silver electricity. I lunged forward and started to run on all fours at almost triple my old speed. Don't ask how I'm able to run on all fours cause I don't understand it either, it must have something to do with the fact that I'm a wolf faunus.
I kept running until I was sure she wasn't following me anymore. I stopped and started to examine my surroundings. I was in the forest next to the town and judging by the placement of the sun I had about 3 hours till sundown. I sat against the nearest tree and pulled out all of the things I had to make sure I didn't lose anything.'Ok lets see. Nightfall, check, mom's necklace, check, silver dust, check, hunting knife, check, smoke bombs, check minus one, mask, check, and eye patch, check. Ok I got everything I had on me when left the house yesterday. I doubt Nix gave up on looking for me so I'll wait till night before I go home.' I put everything away and stood up before I started walking again. I walked over to a fallen tree and picked up a chunk of decently sized wood that fell off. 'I wonder how the pups are doing? I haven't seen Eclipse since he left with the pack last year. I might as well see if he's in he area.' I looked up at the sky, about 2 hours left. I took a deep breath and let loose a long and loud howl into the sky. I stood there waiting for about 5 minutes before I heard a howl coming from the east. 'Cool he near but why did only he respond instead of the pack leader?' I thought to myself as I sat down and started to whittle using my hunting knife.
I was halfway through my little project when I heard something walking towards me. I stopped whittling and turned around to see what was there. It was a large black wolf that stood at three feet tall at the shoulders with white paws and dark blue eyes.
"Been awhile hasn't it Eclipse?" I asked the wolf who gave a wolf's equivalent of a smirk before he replied,
"That it has Orion, that it has."
"So how have you been since last year?"
"Pretty good. I left the pack so I could go out and explore more of the world. By the way where's Mychael and why do you look like you've just ran for your life?" I let out a sigh while standing up.
"Walk with me,this is going to take a while." I started to walk towards my house and Eclipse trotted up to my side and I told him what happened in the last year.
We just arrived at my house when I finished explaining what happened over the year.
"Wow, you've only known the girl for about 2 hours and she already wants to skin you alive. Only you would get into that situation." Eclipse said while laughing at me."And for what it's worth, I'm sorry for happened to Mychael."
"It's ok Eclipse, the past is the past, I won't it define who I am in the future." I told him. I was about to open the front door when Eclipse decided to speak up.
"Uh Orion that Nix you were talking about, did she have long white hair done in a ponytail with crimson stripes?" I froze with my hand on the handle.
"Yes she did. Why do you ask?"
"Well…"
"She's standing right behind me isn't she and she's already charged up her cannon hasn't she?" I asked without turning around. Before he could answer Nix decided to speak up.
"You have 5 minutes to tell me why you were stalking before I fire." I let out a sigh. Today just hasn't been my day. 'Oh Monty Oum, why have you forsaken me?' I thought to myself before I turned around and began to tell Nix the truth.
TheLoneWolf555 wrote this chapter and will most likely write most of the even chapters. Just as I will write most of the odd chapters. Also, posting two chapters in two days will be rare; However, you can expect another tomorrow at some point. To explain the use of Monty Oum as a curse, people often curse in God's name, so we decided that in RWBY's case Monty was god because he created the world. Also, again I do apologize for any grammar mistakes on our parts. Have a good night or rest of your day and thanks for reading!
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