Hello everyone, thanks for reading. i apologize for the long wait. i have had a lot of school work due and getting college stuff set up has taken time. i plan to try and get the next one out sooner. I also tried a different tone for this chapter. I think it turned out well so Enjoy!
Beacon Academy
He had finally made it back and found the other three and announced that they were made into an official team. Siv wasn't talking to him and Mist was trying to make small talk with her while Inar, continually barraged him with questions. Now they were all walking through the dormitories looking for their room. Finally he found the room and pulled out his scroll and the door unlocked. As he opened the door Siv freaked out when she noticed it was co-ed.
"Whaaaaatttt. We have to sleep in the same room as a pervert and another guy. Not to mention there is hardly any room in here." he was about to interrupt her when Mist spoke up.
"Don't worry I think you'll be fine, I mean you're plenty strong Siv and he seems rather weak." Smirking she looked over and laughed.
"You know that kinda hurts, but once again I'm not a perv it was an accident." Inar, was already sitting on a bed in the right far corner.
"Wait I'm confused what exactly happened Valk?"
Just as he started Mist interrupted. "He basically tackled me and got a good feel" she started giggling. He felt his face get very warm as he blushed.
"I did not!" while Mist just kept on giggling. Inar, seemed stunned and gave him a thumbs up. While Siv looked like she was about to burst from her anger. "Okay, maybe but it wasn't on purpose at all. I was just going to attempt to help with the grimm." Sensing Siv not calming down any he decided to make his exit.
As the door closed he heard Siv burst out at Mist "What are you doing giggling at something like that! We are-" He was glad the door finally shut cause who knows who was walking around the dorms. He assumed everyone was at the team announcement ceremony.
Which was slightly puzzling he had gotten permission to come to the dorms early and stay. Walking past one of the windows facing the academy's main building he noticed the ceremony must be done, because a mass of students were making their way towards the dorms. He guess he had about five minutes before anyone would be on the top floor. The top floor had a lot of rooms in their corridor there were over 8 rooms and it went to a T-Section.
Approaching his room he noticed Inar leaned up against the wall. "What happened to you?"
Inar looked up smiling " Well girls looked in the closet and found school uniforms and decided wanted to change into them. So of course I had to leave the room, also in the short time you were away they re-organized the room so that the head of the beds are close to the closets on each side on each of the sides. With two desks near the door and the book cases on other sides of them, Then one under the window."
"That makes since, so we have a decent amount of room in the center then. Which bed did you take?"
"Hope you don't mind, but I took the bed furthest from the door." He nervously replied.
"Yeah, that's fine Inar, but are you okay man I don't mean to intrude. You seem a little on edge now." He was slightly concerned, for his teammates safety, but he knew that some things are just best kept to yourself.
Sitting down, Inar sighed and started to explain. "So I was raised under my parents until I turned 11 when my mentor took me in. My father and mother were rather abusive so at a young age I became very good at escaping my room in a hurry and found having bed furthest from door, but closest to the window leaves open a quick way to get away. Reason my mentor picked me was he had spotted me making my way over the rooftops and climbing around. He was the one that taught me how to move stealthily and how I fight. My mentor's history wasn't the cleanest, but he treated me better than my father and gave ways to use my skills. Unfortunately he was reaching the end of his years so a year ago he died from his old age. Gifting me the gauntlets I use to further improve my abilities. The gauntlets were put together by him using a large amount of dust and mechanical ingenuity. I've still yet to find out all the little ways it works or its full capabilities. So I guess my habit from childhood has carried over and I'm always careful, but I find it easy to relax here with people who seem to care. So thanks for earlier today."
"Yeah, don't mention it Inar. I can't just leave someone who needs my help alone. Don't worry we will be one of the best teams out there." Sticking out his hand for Inar who takes it he lifts him up. "I've always got your back don't worry."
Knocking on the door to the room he shouted "Coming in now." Using the scroll to unlock it. Both Mist and Siv were dressed in their uniforms. Red plaid skirts, with brown jackets, tan vests, and white shirt. With a red ribbon around the collar and both of them were in high black stockings.
"You both look good." in which they both replied thank you. Inwardly he let out a sigh. Can never know when you go wrong.
"Oh and Valk your guys uniforms are in that closet over there. Siv and I are going to scout out the rest of the academy . We'll see you guys for dinner." quickly Mist grabbed Siv's arm and they both exited the room.
Falling onto his bed he let out a sigh. "Why are the rooms Co-ed? Don't they understand we want privacy from each other sometimes. I mean we even have a gender neutral bathroom."
"Well, we are teammates and I guess we just kinda have to get use to it and we just don't look cause we won't have time in the morning to wait for the other to change cause we all have the same morning class. Our only class mixture is during combatives instruction. Where we learn for are particular fighting style, till we go to the sparring class next together." Inar said as he was putting on the uniform. Valk looking out of the corners of his eye's as Inar stopped talking. "Are you not going to change Valk?"
Groaning as he sat up. "I won't today, I don't think it matters for now. We don't have any classes today. Just the initiation for the teams, so I'm almost tempted to just go to sleep till dinner."
"Are you sure you don't want to explore the academy?" Inar asked.
"Yeah, I'll stay here and sleep some and not to mention I got stuff to unpack" as he reached for the bag underneath the bed.
"Well suit yourself Valk, I'm gonna go check around a bit and I'll let you know of any cool places." Inar said as he finished putting on the jacket.
"Well have fun out there, and don't get lost and see you at dinner." Once Inar walked out and the door closed he decided to look at the uniform. It was a black suit with gold trim and a blue vest and white collared shirt with a red tie. "Eh, only gonna wear it when 100% have to." he said as he pulled out of the bag his casual clothes. The two jackets one light and other heavy both were black with dark purple and his symbol of the dragon and moon on the back. Next he pulled out Jeans, and two pairs of black loose pants. Then he pulled out his three shirts and his favorite hoodie. Two of the shirts were just black and one which he smirked as he read what was on one of the fronts of his shirts. The Beast Within shaking his head he pulled out his workout clothes. A Black sleeveless undershirt and gym shorts. Next he pulled out his pajama bottoms which had his symbol at the very bottom edge of the leg. Then he pulled out two shirts that had holes in the back along with a light jacket with matching holes on the back. He quickly moved those to the bottom of the chest at the foot of the bed. Finally he had emptied the bag. His current attire was another black shirt with dark purple trim, along with black sweatpants.
Finally after putting it all in the chest he laid down face first into the soft pillow and almost instantly fell asleep. Only being awoken by a loud bang on a wall. He closed his eyes again after checking make sure wasn't dinner time. *Bang. . .Bang* Slowly he got out of the bed and slowly made his way to his door. Opening it he spotted one person walking away from the door to his left and he recognized her from the previous day. It was Blake if he remembered correctly, but he hadn't noticed or bothered pay attention to the fact that he had perked his ears at the noise earlier and she looked over as he opened the door and she looked at him and with surprise she said somewhat hushed. "Your a faunus!" Quickly he looked to both sides and roughly grabbed her and pulled her into the room.
Pinning her to the door with both of his arms to either of side of her head to avoid letting her leave he rapidly in a hushed toned replied. "I don't really know you, but you better not tell anyone." Then he smelled the small trace of feline. Narrowing his eyes he realized she was faunus as well. The bow as hiding her ears." Nice job using the bow as a cover and whatever your using for perfume because I almost didn't catch the scent. Now I think it would be best if you go now in case my team comes back early."
He started pushing her out the door when she apologized. "I'm sorry for my team they are a little loud and I do hope same applies for you to not let anyone know."
"Trust me your secrets safe with me Blake, and I go by Valk, now have a good day." Quickly closing the door he looked at the mirror of one of the two desks. He had of course completely forgotten to reflexively brings his dragon ears into the tangled mess of his hair to hide them. He'd gotten to lax, his team could have spotted him out and it would raise question. Not that Faunus weren't accepted at Beacon he was just happy she hadn't paid too much attention to his lineage. For now he was safe so walking over to the bed he layed down again looking at the ceiling. It would probably be best if he left soon for dinner, but the beds were so comfortable. Slowly he willed himself to get out of bed again.
He grabbed his black sweatshirt with purple inlining and putting it on he left the room for the cafeteria. Closing the door behind him he knew Team RWBY was now on their left and he spotted Juan walking into the door across from RWBY's. Once Juane opened the door as he went past he spotted Ren and Nora and Pyrrha in the room. As soon as he spotted Nora, she spotted him and quickly Ren noticed as well. Which he got up and invited him in quickly.
"I guess, I have a second not in a particularly large hurry. So this is your team."
Nora interjected "Hiyah Valk, we are team JNPR and where's your team at cause you can go to lunch with us." Scratching his head.
"I'm just going down to meet them now. If you're leaving now I could tag along."
Juane replied "Yeah, we wouldn't mind you seem to be a great fighter like everyone here."
As the others started to get ready to go Pyrrha approached him. "Its nice to meet you Valk, I'm Pyrrha if you didn't know. I couldn't help but notice your armor yesterday and today. If don't mind me asking how did you come across it. I haven't see something of caliber since my second mistrial tournament."
"Ahhh, yeah it was crafted by myself along with help of my family. I have however heard of you and your amazing feat of winning the tournament four years in a row. I also spotted one reason why your ability to hit Juane as he was falling with the spear was spectacular. I wouldn't mind testing myself against you someday." Pyrrha clasped her hands behind her back as she replied.
"Your families metalsmithing skill is extraordinary and I look forward to our sparing day's then. It's not that often I have someone willing to face off against me, because of my standing in the Mistrial tournament."
Valk replied smiling "Well, just because you beat people Mistrial doesn't mean you are the strongest in the entire world because I believe there is always someone stronger. A fighter must train their body and mind to prepare for the next challenger and either accept their demise or become stronger."
Pyrrha went into deep thought on his words and answered back just as Juane, Ren, and Nora walked out of the room. "I just want to mention you seem very wise for only being in this academy. Not to mention your walk displays you fought countless times already. If you ever need help or need someone just let me know."
He noticed pyrrha started to get a little flushed and quickly he replied. " I will if I'm ever in need and I need someone of your fighting caliber." He mentally cursed himself for rushing his reply, but everyone was now in the group and he wasn't sure why he had just suddenly gotten nervous.
Nora bursted out "Who's ready for some pancakes!" in which calmly Ren replied to Nora.
"They don't have pancakes right now Nora, I can make some if you're still hungry later before bed." For a second Nora seemed disappointed and then suddenly full of energy again.
Energetically Nora continually chattered. "Hurry up, hurry up." as she skipped just ahead of himself and Ren who was watching Nora with calm eye's. While behind him Juane and Pyrrha were talking.
Breaking the silence he asked Ren "So what's the story between you and Nora. You both seem pretty close."
Ren replied calmingly "We've just always had each others back and have depended on one another, it's always been good."
Valk nodded in reply "Yeah, having someone you can rely on to by your side is a great feeling." Even though he hadn't really experienced the feeling himself, but from what he had gathered over time was it was a very good feeling.
Relatively the rest of the walk to the cafeteria was filled with small talk about teams and classes they would have together and when they had breaks and occasionally Nora getting distracted by something. Upon reaching the cafeteria they all grabbed plates and once he had gotten his food he dismissed himself from the group and looked around the giant room for his team. Scanning over he saw so many students and eventually he caught the vibrant pink hair of Siv and he made his way over.
"How was your walk around the academy you guys?" Valk asked as he approached the table and took a seat next to Inar. Who looked up with a stuffed face and shrugged. Looking across the table, Mist seemed ingrained into her food as well, but eating much calmer than Inar. Siv swallowed the food in her mouth and replied.
"It went well we found all the area's we need to know for tomorrow and will find more as time goes on. One thing the library her is magnificent. Haven't quiet seen a library so large before." As she continued rambling on about the library he noticed a nudge as Inar seemed to finally swallow all the food in his mouth.
"You should see the sparring arena, it's like a coliseum, but we also found the lecture hall most of our classes are going to be taken in. For the most part everything is fairly condensed it only takes a couple minutes to get to everything once in the main building of the academy."
Valk, started eating his food which consisted of pork, mashed potatoes, beans, and apple slices with chocolate milk. Relatively the table conversations subsided as Siv got irritated that he stopped listening and inar dug his face back into his large plate of food.
As he finished the rest of his food, they all stood up and turned in their dirty trays and silverware. They all walked out of the cafeteria feeling great from the feast. As they closed the door He decided to say something. "Would you guys like to follow me I just wanted to show something to you all." They all gave a nod and he led them towards the loading area for the airships, but then took a hard left before reaching the platforms towards the edge of the forest. Following through the forest taking several turns on a faint path. Siv pipped in "How much longer till we get there?"
"Oh get over yourself drama queen, and admire the forest" Inar Jokingly replied. Siv gave him a playful punch. Valk found himself smiling at the group of people who had become his team. They all seemed to get along fairly well. They all started chit chatting about what they were excited to start doing for classes and scheduling when they would all be in the room or how each other's schedules were set. Finally after a couple minutes they reached the new edge of the forest and it came to a edge of a cliff. Over the edge and down was more forest, but it led to the Vale way off in the distance. A transport ship could be seen taking off from the academy's landing zone way off to their right. They all walked up to the cliff's edge as they admired the setting sun reflecting off the ocean, and the lighting that had befallen over the forest below and the glimmering of the lights turning on in Vale. The sight was breathtaking as He stood looking out over the cliff captivated. Slowly Inar took a seat on the ground right next to the edge leaning on a rock with his left foot dangling over the edge. Siv just plopped down on the edge to his right with both feet over the edge. While next to him Mist stood next to him with her arms behind her back admiring the view.
It was a relaxing location and they all looked out over the edge as the slight breeze ruffled their clothing and swayed their hair. A couple minutes went by as they all just reveled in the beauty. Finally Valk broke the silence. "I brought you all out here to show you, what we are here for, it's for those in cities that can't defend themselves and that we can't fail or we lose all this peace and beauty if we let ourselves fall. I just wanted to let you all know that I believe in each of you and I hope are time together will last forever. Just know we each have the others back. I don't want any of us forgetting this. So I had this jewellery made for when I finally became part of a team" He pulled out of his side pocket 4 separate pieces of jewellery each was black with a dark silver lining. With a black diamond. Their was a bracelet, ring, and a necklace. He tossed the ring to Inar who deftly caught it, and handed to the bracelet to Mist who kindly accepted and Lastly he gave the necklace to Siv who also graciously accepted it. The three after being handed the jewellery inspected the pieces and marveled at the craftsmanship of the jewellery. "I don't necessarily care if you hold onto those or not, but they were a gift from my parents and I wanted something for us to remind ourselves of each other. We will never be alone." He wanted to let them soak it in and he noticed as Inar quickly put the ring on his left hand and inspected it and a small smile made its way onto his face till he turned his attention back to the setting sun. Mist put the bracelet on her right wrist and gave him a smile in return. He looked down at Siv who was inspecting the necklace. "Do you want me to help put it on" he asked.
She jumped a little as she looked back at him with a small blush appearing as she replied "If you would be so kind." He walked up behind her and she turned around to hand him the necklace and gently strung it around her smooth slender neck. He didn't quite know what it was, but her skin seemed to glow beautifully in the setting sun and her sweet fragrance she had started to fill his heightened sense of smell. It was so calming and yet exhilarating. He was broken from his trance when Inar coughed. Quickly he realized that he had finished putting the necklace on and stood up and subduing a blush, and backed up to where he was standing before. Looking over his shoulder he had thought he heard a giggle and sure enough Mist was covering her mouth with her left hand. He glared at her as she leaned in, and she whispered "Cute."
Taking a deep breath he relaxed before replying. "I don't know what your talking about." Not wanting to continue the awkward conversation he said to the group. "We should probably head back, it's about to set and we do have classes in the morning." Slowly they all got except for Siv who he quickly called back to. "You coming Siv?"
She took a second to get up and he swore he heard her mumble something before she yelled back. "Yeah, I coming." The rest of the walk back was small chit chat about the jewellery. Upon reaching back to the dorm room he spotted Ruby and Weiss walking into their room. Quickly they exchanged pleasantries and made way into their own rooms. Currently it was only 8:37 and he realized that he was the only one who had unpacked any of their personal stuff. For next hour he helped Inar re-organize their side of the room and once they had the room set up they decided should go sleep early. He was exhausted he forgot to mention that don't bother people who didn't have a early class. Laying in his bed he stared up at the light grey ceiling and slowly it his vision changed to the lightly tanned skin glimmering and the scent came back to his mind. The skin looked so tender and smooth he just wanted to reach out and touch it. Then quickly he shook his head as he realized who and he was thinking about. Why would he be thinking about her features like that. Rolling over he found himself looking out at the the starry sky and finally he succumbed to his exhaustion.