Chapter 2 : Preparations

I accompanied Velvet to the auditorium where Ms. Goodwitch was giving us our orientation speech. The room was completely filled with other students from signal and the other schools from vale. I was utterly impressed with the turn out and I'm hoping this year will turn out great for all of us especially Velvet. She would always mention becoming huntress at beacon when we would speak to each other. Honestly I never thought I'd become a huntsmen myself. I thought I'd just end up working for a small shop and make an honest living, but then mom and dad...

"Trey?... hello?" Velvet said as she waved me back into reality

"Yeah? Sorry I sort of spaced out for a bit what's up?" I said smiling at her

"I'm guessing you didn't hear about where we're going to spend the night hmm?" she spoke with her arms crossed.

"Not really, but I bet you did so lead the way Milady!" I replied jokingly

"This way" she motioned

A short walk later we found ourselves in an even larger room housing all the newcomers to beacon.

"Pretty big turnout huh?" I said while panning around the room.

"Yeah, but where are we going to rest for the night?" she said in a worried tone.

I spotted a space by the wall to the right and pointed in that direction.

"That looks like a decent spot ill hold it until you get back from changing." I told her.

I sat down in our spot and took off my hoodie and gear to set up the sleeping bags. Afterwards I sat against the wall and began to message Aunt Katherine about my arrival at beacon.

"Hey Auntie Kat" I shortened her name. "Me and Velvet are already settled in at beacon and about hit the sack" I typed.

"Good to hear Trey! I wish you the best of luck tomorrow and so do the rest of the girls from work!" she replied.

"If only your Father were here to see you he would be so proud of you honey."

"Yeah but I know he's up there watching over us both." I typed while holding back tears.

"Me too Trey me too... p.s Mrs. Scarlatina sent me the pictures she took of you and Velvet and let me just say you two look cute together!" she replied.

"Aw quit it with the whole cute thing Auntie Kat I'm not cute." I typed jokingly.

"Whatever you say kiddo anyways knock'em dead tomorrow! Goodnight." she replied.

"Goodnight" I ended.

I looked up and saw Velvet making her way over to where I was sitting.

"Sorry if I took too long the bathrooms were packed with other girls." she said sitting down.

"It's no big deal I was just messaging my Aunt that we were already settled in." I told her holding my hand up.

"Aren't you going to change?" she questioned

"Oh yeah" I got up and began to take off my shirt to put on a grey muscle shirt I had in my bag. During this process Velvet blushed and turned away. Laughing it off, I panned around the room and saw that I was being stared down by some female students nearby. This happened way too often. I didn't even think I was that attractive maybe it's the eyes since that's what they comment on when they try to converse with me. I then removed my jeans to reveal a pair of shorts underneath. I tend to do this because it's faster and because I didn't know where the bathrooms were located.

"There all done... you know you don't have to look away you've already seen me without a shirt." referring to when I worked at her house during the summer.

"I know, but I didn't want to make you feel uncomfortable." she said.

"If you say so" I shrugged.

"Well we have a big day tomorrow so I suggest we go to bed." I said as I crawled into my sleeping bag.

She nodded and did the same

"Goodnight Trey and thanks for letting me tag along I don't know what I would have done on my own." she turned to me and said

"No problem Velvet anything you need you let me know and also goodnight."

(The next morning)

I was awakened by a tickling sensation on my nose. It was as if a feather was doing the work but when I waved it away it came back and hit me then I realized it was Velvet's faunus ears. Turns out she had shifted closer during the night. I slowly got out of my sleeping so I wouldn't wake her. I figured I'd l go get ready and bring her some breakfast since I was up. I made my way to the locker room and went over my gear.

"Armor? Check." "Weapons? I cocked Marcie and put it on my back "check."

I grabbed some ammo from the ammo box in my locker and closed the door. On my way out of the locker room I passed by a girl in a white dress who I identified as Weiss Schnee who took notice of my presence with a frown and turned away. Knowing about the Schnee family's hatred for the White Fang and the faunus race in general. I could care less of what people think of me though I didn't think it was wise to make enemies this early into the year so I just kept walking until I found the mess hall. I grabbed a piece of sweet bread and coffee for both of us and made my way back to our spot. I sat down and shook her.

"Hey Velvet wake up." I spoke softly.

"Huh … oh hey Trey... what time is it?" she said rubbing her eyes.

"It's about 9AM; here I got you something to eat." I answered and offered her the food.

"Thank you" she said as she took the bread and coffee.

"You still have a few hours to gather your things before initiation so take your time." I said with a smile.

"Aren't you nervous?" she tilted her head saying this.

"A little bit, but I'm sure we'll do fine." I answered. "Look I'm not sure what we'll be facing out there all I want is for you to be careful and always be on your guard if you can find me I'll stand by you until the end, but if you find someone else stick with them. I know for a fact that you can handle yourself well so I don't think you'll have any problems." I said in an attempt to comfort her. "Here I want you to have this." I said handing her a leather bracelet that had the same symbol as my vest. "It was my Dad's bracelet. I wear because I think it keeps me safe so I want you to have it."

"Trey I don't know what to say..." she said looking at the bracelet and back to me.

"You don't have to say anything just come back in one piece." I interrupted.

Before I could say anything else she hugged me tightly.

"You better not die out there." she said squeezing the air out me.

"I don't plan on dying anytime soon." I replied returning her hug.

She released me from her grip and stood.

"I'm going to go get geared up ill meet you at the cliff." she said and smiled while waving at me.

I waved back and sat against the wall. Next thing I knew I was being surrounded by 4 female students who wanted to "talk" but before they drew any closer my semblance kicked in and blocked them off.

"What is that thing!?" the leader said.

"Sorry ladies I got somewhere to be maybe next time!" I yelled from across the room as I ran off to the courtyard.

Without paying attention I collided with another student. He was a rather muscular guy. I stood up and offered him my hand.

"Aw man I'm sorry I didn't see you." I said hoping he'd accept my apology.

"Its fine I wasn't paying attention either." he said in a sort of deep voice.

"What's your name?" I asked.

"Roland... and yours?" he replied. (Roland has short brown hair and eyes and what looks like Leather armor along with metal pieces around it. About a few inches taller than Trey)

"Trey." I answered.

"Wait... your outfit it looks familiar" Roland said. "is this you?". he said showing me a video on his scroll.

The video showed me fighting off a gang of thugs that were robbing a shop.

I sighed and said "Yeah that's me alright."

"Dude you're amazing!" he exclaimed. "I've never seen anyone fight as well as you and your semblance is amazing... could you show me please?"

Well since he said I was amazing I did just that. A dark purple aura surrounded my body and from my shadow rose a dark figure. Once summoned my clone walked to my side and motioned for a handshake facing Roland. He practically lost it when he shook hands with the clone.

"Hey do you mind if I get a picture of you with my friend? She's right over there. He said pointing to the direction of a girl with pitch black hair a blue hair tie.

"I guess it wouldn't hurt and there's still time before I have to head to the cliff." I said

"Hey Phoebe!" he yelled motioning her to come over.

As she made her way over to us I noticed her huge sniper rifle resting on her back. It's like something you'd only see in the movies.

"Hey Roland what's up... wait is that?" she said with a shocked tone.

Didn't know I was 'that' popular around Vale.

"Roland picture now!" she said with excitement.

A few pictures later*

"So where are you heading shadow warrior'?" Roland asked.

"Is that what they've been calling me?" I asked in confusion.

"Yeah its all over the news. Some people actually follow your cause and fight crime all over the city. Then again some don't trust you because you're a faunus." Roland said answering my question.

"I'll need to check up on this when I get back to town and to answer your question from earlier I'm heading to the cliff."

"Hey do you mind if we tag along I mean we are heading to the same place?" Phoebe said grabbing my hand.

"Yeah our friend said she'd wait for us there so it's a win-win for all of us." Roland jumped in.

"Oh what the heck why not I thought I was going to be stuck finding other friends on our own. Turns out they found me." I said to them and smiled.

"AWSOME!" they both said in excitement. Wait until Anna finds out we became friends with 'the' Shadow Warrior she'd love to meet you!"

"You guys don't have to keep calling me Shadow Warrior just call me Trey." I insisted.

"Well then Trey Let's go!" Phoebe took my arm and was practically dragging me towards the cliff.

Special thanks to FaunusSeth for helping me with this story