Chapter 7: STNL's Backstories

Grey was sleeping soundly, until her overly happy teammate cheered "Wake up sleepy heads! It's time to wake up!" Grey groaned as she looked at her alarm clock to see that it read 9:30. Grey groaned louder as she grumbled "It's not even 10 and it's Saturday. Go back to bed Nabuya." Grey looked around to see Kristine sitting on the edge of her bed, hair a wild and tangled mess of brown while Kira was completely immersed in her blankets. "No! No time for sleep! We have a day to spend together!" Nabuya cheered as she jumped from bed to bed.

Grey put her pillow over her head in attempts to block out Nabuya's cheers, but the repeated bouncing from Nabuya kept her from falling asleep. Grey sat up and groaned "I'm up. I'm up." She looked over to see that Kristine had fallen asleep while sitting up, her head dropped forward and swaying from Nabuya's jumping. Grey grabbed her pillow and chucked it at Kristine, which knocked her back onto her bed. "Rise and shine everybody. Nabuya wants us up and won't stop until we are." Grey exclaimed as she grabbed her clothes for the day.

Grey went into the shower as Kristine dragged herself out of bed, scratching the back of her head. Kristine went over to Kira's cocoon of blankets and started to push on it. "Get up Kira." Kristine sleepily proclaimed. "We have stuff to do." Kira called from inside her cocoon "Five more minutes."

"Come one. Wake up."

Kira groaned from her bundle of blankets "Don't wanna." Kristine grabbed the bundle of blankets and promptly yanked the bundle off of Kira. Kristine dropped the bundle of blankets to see that Kira slept in her underwear. "When did this start?" Kristine questioned as Kira's face turned a bright red and grabbed a blanket from the floor. Kira wrapped herself in the blanket and barked "Don't look! I'm not decent!"

"Come on Kira. I've got the same stuff you do, so there isn't a point in hiding something everyone in the room has."

Kira kept herself wrapped in her blanket cocoon as Grey finally walked out of the shower wearing a grey tank top and blue jean shorts. "Kira, get out of bed." Grey proclaimed as she brushed her hair. "Did you know Kira slept in her underwear?" Kristine questioned as she gathered her clothes. Grey raised an eyebrow and questioned "Kira, do you sleep in your underwear?" Kira groaned from inside her blanket wrap "Yes. I got hot last night. Can you guys stop staring at me? I feel really awkward."

"Kira, you are in a room full of girls. It's not like we haven't seen what a girl looks like in their underwear."

Kira didn't appear as though she heard Grey as Kristine went to the shower. Nabuya had calmed down and was laying across her bed, swinging her feet back and forth in the air. Grey took a seat on Kira's bed and questioned "Are you insecure about your body? Because you are a very attractive girl." Kira poked her head out and questioned "Are you coming onto me?"

"What? No! Kira I'm straight, I was just paying you a compliment."

"Oh, sorry."

Grey patted Kira's shoulder and comforted "It's cool Kira. Besides, I think Alexi on Victor's team has an eye on you." Kira's cheeks turned a little pink and mumbled "Okay. That's nice to know." Nabuya cheered "Yeah! You could have a boyfriend if you wanted!" She jumped out of her bed and knelt by Kira's bed side, proclaiming "You do want a boyfriend right?" Kira shrugged and replied "I don't know, I've never had a boyfriend."

"What!? You've never had a boyfriend?!"

Kira shook her head and exclaimed "Never really had the time to find one… one a guy who wanted to be with me." Grey nudged Kira with her elbow and exclaimed "Well now you have a chance." Kristine walked out of the bathroom wearing a green shirt with blue jeans, questioning "Who has a chance at what?" Grey replied "Kira has a chance at getting her first boyfriend."

"Kira hasn't had a boyfriend?"

Kira buried herself back into her blanket cocoon and groaned "Can we please stop talking about this? Can we talk about something else?" Nabuya suggested "Why don't we go around the room and ask each other questions?" Grey looked at Nabuya with purple eyes and a raised eyebrow, questioning "What kind of questions?"

"Like personal questions. So we get to know each other! I'll go first! Grey, what is up with your eyes?"

Everyone looked at Grey, who looked like she was thinking for a moment, then realized what the question was about. "Oh! You mean why do my eyes change color?" Grey reworded. Nabuya nodded and Grey answered "It's a genetic trait passed down from my dad, Ostendens Oculos or Revealing Eyes. My eyes change color depending on emotion. Green is my base eye color and when I'm happy, blue for sad, red for angry, purple for confused and yellow when I'm scared. There are a bunch of different colors for all of my different emotions." Everyone looked at Grey as she smiled and her eyes turned to the usual green. Kristine exclaimed "Since we are doing this, I have another question for Grey." Grey looked to Kristine as she questioned "Is your brother single?"

Grey rolled her green eyes and replied "Yes, he's single. My turn, why do you have a thing for my brother?" Kristine smiled, her cheeks a little pink as she replied "Because… he's really big, and strong…and hot." Nabuya jumped in "My question is for Kira!" Kira asked "Can I please get dressed?"

"Not yet, how long have you been an Angel?"

Kira sighed and thought "I can't pull this Angel gag off for too long. Might as well tell the truth now." Kira turned so she was sitting on the edge of her bed and exclaimed "The truth is… I'm not an Angel." Everyone looked at her with raised eyebrows, Grey's eyes purple. "Then how did you grow wings?" Nabuya questioned.

"I'm… I'm half Grimm."

Everyone's eyes widened Nabuya stood up while Grey shifted away from Kira a bit. Kira dropped her head and thought "I'm so damn stupid! Why? Why would I tell them that?" Nabuya questioned "What does that mean? That you're half Grimm?" Kira explained "That part of what I am is a monster."

"But you aren't a monster, you're my friend."

Kira looked up with a smile and questioned "Really? You'll still be my friend?" Nabuya sat next to Kira and wrapped her arms around her for comfort, proclaiming "I will always be your friend." Kira felt tears in her eyes as she hugged Nabuya back, and then she felt Grey's hand on her shoulder. Kira looked up to see Grey and Kristine smiling at her. "We're here for you too Kira." Grey proclaimed. "We're a team, and teams stick together." Kristine added. Kira wiped her eyes and sniffled "Thank you. You guys are the best."

Kristine pulled up a seat and questioned "So, were you born half Grimm?" Kira nodded and explained "I far as I can remember, I was always this way. I can turn into all kinds of Grimm, but at a price." Grey gulped and questioned "What price?"

"I have this… Hunger that all Grimm share… the hunger for human."

The room was quiet for a bit until Nabuya questioned "So the thing I saw you eat during initiation?" Kira shook her head and answered "That wasn't human meat. I found a way to curve my Hunger, Grimm meat. It isn't the same, but it satisfies." Kristine questioned "So you've…"

"Eaten a person? Yes, but I've left that path long ago."

"Why?"

"Because I was used as an experiment. Scientists tried to figure out how I could change shape. After so long, I broke free of my binds and tore them apart. I indulged in my Hunger, but I've regretted it ever since."

Kira wrapped her arms around herself and cried "I can still hear their screams as I tore into them. I can't make them stop." Nabuya pulled Kira close and cooed "It's okay Kira, it's all going to be okay." Kira wiped the tears from her eyes and questioned "Can I please get dressed now?" The rest of the team looked away from the dresser and let Kira finally get dressed. Kira took a seat back on her bed and questioned "So whose story do we have next?" Everyone turned around and Grey exclaimed "I guess that would be my cue."

Grey took a deep breath and proclaimed "As Kristine said, Victor and I are blood. We both came to Beacon to try and improve Human-Faunus relations. We were born in the Wolf Faunus village of Volk, towards the mountains and the town of Wocsom. Up in the mountains is a Mountain Lion Faunus Clan called the Lev. Our two sides are at a clan war and are almost always fighting, sadly the town is caught in the cross fire." Kira questioned "So the people didn't really like either of the Faunus groups?"

"Not in the slightest. People would give us dirty looks and tell us to get lost. It kinda effected how me and Vic see cats, mainly me though. I just can't stand cats."

"But you know that all cats aren't bad guys right?"

"I know, I just get so angry around cats."

Grey leaned back and grumbled "I just can't stand cats. So who is next for sharing hour?" Kristine shrugged and replied "I guess it's my turn. My life was pretty normal. Parents that loved me, good school life. I got picked on a bit for being a Wolf Faunus." Kira pointed out "Looks like there is still some negative feelings towards Faunus. It's sad really." Kristine nodded and went on "Yeah, but I still lived a good life, only had one serious boyfriend, but it didn't really work out between us." Grey questioned "What happened? What he a bad boyfriend?"

"No, it's just… we were really great friends and we tried to date, but it just wasn't meant to be. We worked more as friends than we did dating, so we just kept being friends."

Nabuya cheered "At least you two are still friends! My turn!" Nabuya stood on Kira's bed and exclaimed "I spent a lot of time with my mother when I was young. My dad was a hunter so he was away a lot, but it was okay because I knew he would be home soon." Nabuya's demeanor changed drastically as her smile faded and she sat down on the edge of the bed. "Then one day a group of men from the White Fang showed up to my house and tried to take me, but mom fought them. One just pulled out a pistol and…" Nabuya trailed off. Kira put her arms around Nabuya as she cried "I couldn't do anything! I watched them kill her and I just… just…" Nabuya wiped her eyes and continued "I grabbed the White Fang's arm and it just… exploded. I used that moment to run and I ran to my uncle's. Dad came home and got me, he said I looked like I'd been through Hell and back, which was almost a perfect description. I talked to a lot of doctors about that day, it hurt every time I had to talk about it. Once the doctors said I was 'recovered'" Nabuya put air quotes around the word recovered, causing Kristine to state "You never really do recover from something like that."

"No, you don't. Anyway, Dad started training me to fight with my kanbo, the bat you guys saw me use. I trained at Tsukuyomi Academy until I received a letter of acceptance to Beacon."

Grey nodded and exclaimed "Well, now we all know each other's stories. I feel like we are a little bit closer as a team." Kira nodded and exclaimed "I have to agree with you. I'm actually happy about this year. I figured that I wouldn't be able to make any friends, but now I have a bunch of friends." Kristine laughed "Yeah, this is going to be a fun four years!"

As'/N: Sorry again for being so late, I REALLY needed to catch up on this. That being said, sorry once again.