Beeping wakes me up from my exhaustion and I feel alright, well, not alright, but acceptable. Opening my eyes, I find myself in the tent. To my right and left is my team. They are all sleeping rather restlessly in the chairs next to me. I know that pain well from my second year with Hermione. On the table, I see an evaluation. I immediately pick it up and read what I got.
Sirius Black,
The area of improvement is your ability to recognizing threats faster. This will assist you greatly later as a hunter. You showed great use of aura which even I had no idea that could be done. Your dust spells are strange, but strong. The speed you display is faster than mine, so I am unable to accurately determine it other than an S rank. You are suited for any missions at A rank and lower, but only after the rest of your team qualifies. You are allowed to take solo B ranks with your skill at the moment. I did not bare witness to this, but I hear with enough blood, you are able to regenerate limb loss. I would like to formally apologize for injuring you so.
Final evaluation: SS Rank
evaluator: Glynda Goodwitch
Well, that is exciting, soloing a B rank. I can get good money off that as well as some good amount of credit.I reread and put the scroll away. I shake the girls awake one by one, until they are all staring at me. "Do I have something on my face?" I start scrubbing my mouth, nose and cheeks, well until all four girls crushed me in a four-way hug of death. Even Weiss participated. Yang was too excited and knocked the wind out of me in the process of crushing me. I think she may secretly want me to die.
When they break, I finally take a much needed gulp of air. "I guess you are happy to see me alive?" That reminds me, I turn to Blake and tell her, "Thank you for the help Blake. I assume you figured out I was a vampire or benefited from blood after I kept drink all those blood flasks." She nods. "well that is two debts I owe you. Starting a collection are you?"
Weiss spoke up with a shocked tone, "Vampire?! What?! You're a vampire?!"
"Well, yeah... What do you think the blood smell things of liquid was? Fruit juice?" She blushes. I can't help but snicker, but it is cut when I come to a sad realization, "Crap! My coat! That was like four hundred poun- Liens!" Yang rustled with something and tossed me a large familiar cloth. It's my coat and completely fixed. "Hehehe, you live once more! Much more nice than that nasty sword of mine, you are."
Ruby spoke up, "You lost an arm and broke a load of bones and all you care about is your coat?" I stare at her like it's obvious.
"Well, Blood is free if you know where to look. Coats are EXPENSIVE as hell. I can fix most damage done to me so far, so why care. Well unless I get my head shaved off, I think I would care then." I muse. "I am almost immortal I believe. In regards to my health. Injuries can still take me down, so items have more value to me, then say... my foot. I can always regrow the foot, but the shredded boot would cost money which doesn't exist inside every creature around me." I get out of the bed and stretch. Looking down at my pants, I find them mostly intact, a rip here and there, but nothing a little sewing can't fix.
I slip on the parka and ask, "What time is it?" Hope I didn't have the girls stay over night for my sake.
"Noon. We were all asleep because we also used all our energy in the fights as well." Ruby answered. "That was AWESOME by the way Sirius! The way you matched Professor Goodwitch in dust spells! It was a little iffy... But you beat one of the top huntresses!"
"Okay, no big deal, let's go get lunch then, I am starving." I say, ignoring the praise. We make our way out of the tent and to the mess hall. "So, what ranks were you girls given?"
Ruby told us that she is a B. Her weapon of chose mixes range and close quarters, all she has to work on his her ability to read a situation and more strength. Yang a B with her hand to hand and power, but needs some range more powerful than a shotgun. Something about it not keeping power at more than forty feet.
Blake's an A for how unpredictable her chose of weapon is. Lastly, Weiss a C. I look at Weiss with a question on my face. "They told me that I was too rigid in how I fight!" She huffs in annoyance, then asks me in an accusing voice, "What are you and how did you through all those dust spells? I've never even seen you handle the stuff. What did you get on your test also." I think she thrown in the last as curiosity got the better of her.
"Well, I am a wizard, I don't need dust to do some magic with my just hands, but put my wand in them and I will throw out explosives like no tomorrow. She put me as an SS rank, but says I need to work on threat detection. Understandable when I got my ass blown apart."
It took a few seconds for me to find I am not being followed. I look back to see the girls staring at me. "What?" They zip over and get right in my face.
"Your SS rank?!" "How is that possible?! You're a first year!" "You can get into the advanced library?!" All the girls say at once. "My friend is an SS!" Yang hugged me at that. Overwhelmed, I just let the blond girl shake me from side to side in her form of celebration.
"To the cafeteria to celebrate!" Yang cried as she throw me over her shoulder and started walking. I look at the three following girls and they giggle at me. The masculine points I lose for this is astronomical.
Blake steps up beside Yang to talk to me, "With you as higher than an S rank, you can now go into the advanced library section. Could I read some of the books you take out?" She looks at me with such a hope filled face, that I couldn't possibly say no. It would be like trying to deny Hermione her books, you can, but the look on her face when you do just makes you feel like you killed her puppy.
Just then, I hear a crash and we enter the cafeteria. Yang had kicked open the door again and she wasn't putting me down anytime soon. I make eye contact with the girls and give them a mischievous smile. Blake raises her eyebrows and flick her eyes to Yangs lower back. My grin gets wider as I nod. She hides a smirk under her hand as I raise my hand and lightly slap Yang on the ass.
She cries out and throws me across the room. I right myself in mid-air and brace my legs for the impact with the wall coming at me. Coating them in aura. When I hit, a thunderous boom echos the room. The wall now has a ten foot crater in it. I hop out of it and land on my feet with grace that vampirism gave me. Wow Yang really threw me hard.
I click my heels together and raise my arms, "And Sirius sticks the landing!" I immediate stop and go hunt for my steak. I needed my steak. Healing even with so much blood took a ton out of me and meat sounds great right now! I buy two bloodiest steaks they have and take my seat with the rest of the team as well as JNPR. Yang is still red from the embarrassment. I look over and see Jaune looking upset. He must have gotten beaten. The rest of team greets me with a cheer. They tell me how they did in the test, Jaune got a D, must be why he is upset. The rest got C.
I hear cruel laughter and a girl cry. Looking over Jaune, I see the group CRDL messing with a girl with bunny ears, she looks to be in pain. Must be a faunus. I steal Jaune's apple and take a bite of it. "Nora, Blake. You want to break some legs?" Blake gives me a questioning look while Nora cheers. "Give me back up." I get up and take a pitcher stance. Aiming the apple, I hurl it at the team leader of CRDL. It hits him square in the face, shattering his nose and knocking him on his ass. "Take the team," I instruct the pair as I make my way to Cardin.
I stride over in long confident steps to the bleeding man whose teammate is helping up. I grab said mate and throw him back into the rest of the bullies. I grab the armored man and haul him to his feet. I tsk at him, "Cardin... Cardin... Cardin... May I call you Cardin? Thanks. Would you explain to me why you are picking on this lovely lady?"
He spits in my face, "She a faunus like you! You all are animals and monsters!" The glob of spit running down my face. Outside I was passive, but inside something was howling for blood, but I suppress it.
I slowly wipe the spit off my cheek and rub it on his armor. I give him a grin which was just a tad feral and headbutt him in the nose. Blood staining my forehead while I keep grinning, wider when he lets out a groan. "You are only partly right Cardin. I really am a monster, but her... No. She is just a girl with better hearing than regular humans. Now I can not!" I gave him a little shake, "Condone bullying of any kind to anyone, so... I will set down some rules for your team to follow. Understood?"
The guy tries to curse me, but before he can finish the first word, I pull him down to knee him in the gut. Metal bends and twists as my knee dents and almost rips the plate armor. I bring him back to my still grinning face. "Understood?" He just wheezes. "Good! First, no bullying in general, faunus or not. Second, do not be a racist. They are annoying. Last... Well this is not a rule, but a command. You will apologize to this girl sincerely. The punishment for not following these rules will be... Unpleasant. No worries. I will not kill you, but lets just say, I can make your life very difficult to lead. Nod if you understand. Remember the rules start now."
He quickly nods and I drop him to his knees. I push kick him to the ground so he is bowing to the girl. "You have something to say?" I gently grab the girl by her arm and guide her next to me.
"I… I'm sorry." The man pitifully mumbles. I stomp on his hand. "AH! I'M SORRY!" Nodding. I give my foot a little twist and roll my hand to tell him to continue. "I-I won't do it again, please forgive me!" Smiling, I remove my foot from his obviously broken hand. I look back to see the girls had crushed the team. Nora was dancing around one of them, who is clutching a broken leg, singing a merry little song. Laughing at the scene, I tell the bunny girl that she can sit with us. She hesitantly agrees.
I take my seat with her next to me and the girls resume their old ones. "Thanks for the help girls. Would ruin the act if his friends interfered and gave him some hope of deviance."
"No problem Sirius! That was fun!" the orange girl cried with enthusiasm. She's like Colin on crack. Blake just said "You're welcome."
"Okay!" I clap my hands, "Introduction in order! I am Sirius." The rest of the guys told her their names. Even Jaune seemed to have cheered up with my beating of Cardin. I think he may be a victim of the bully as well.
"I'm... Velvet. Thank you for helping me... Why did you call yourself a monster Sirius?"
I laugh and rub her on the top of the head like I do with the others, messing up her straight brown hair. I got the habit from Sirius doing it to me. I am fully aware on how much it messes up your hair. He started doing it to me because I would use my metamorph skills to keep my hair in order and he saw it as a game to try to mess it up. "Because I am one madam bunny. I drink blood and have killed many people, bad people, but people all the same and I have accepted that I am a freak of nature even for my kind."
Pyrrha spoke up loudly, "What do you mean you have killed people? That's a crime! You can't just kill people no matter what they do, even if they hurt others! They need to be brought to justice, not killed!" I just look at her raging face with my chin rest in my hands, propped on the table. "Why are you so callous about this?! What happened to you to make you like a... A Grimm?!"
"I know," I tell her sadly. After a little hesitation, I started telling them the story of when I stopped truly caring about killing others. "Story time children! Where I come from, there was a civil war going on. I was part of the light side and as such. We do not kill, only capture and imprison. The dark are the killers, we are the justice that must bring them to the light." I can't hold in a little bark of laughter at this, "The dark had taken the prison as their own and could break out anyone at anytime. Now we were a stupid people. Racist to a fault and stupid. The entire country had ONE maximum security prison filled with soul sucking monsters for everyone. There was no crime that didn't earn you a sentence to a little hell on earth.
So we just stun the dark and give them back while they kill us one by one. The kill count wasn't too high on our side yet due to the dark trying to stay hidden while the government denies their return. The leader was a fool of a man. Someone I would have killed if I could get away with it. A puppet for the dark lord to use and would not even kow who was pulling his strings.
At this point, I was a vampire and secretly drinking from little dark children at school, no one younger than fifteen and soon to be enemies of the state. Not killing, just taking some blood. Only ones I kill are out of school and criminals stalking the night. Never did I do anything more than stun in a lethal battle. Then they killed Sirius in front of me."
I start to laugh quietly, small tears leaking out as I remember the day he died. I had a mini-break down after I left Yang. I blame Dumbledore, but I still had just lost Sirius, "They took the man I considered a father away from me and I just tossed my values that moment. Once I got rid of them, I never saw fit to take them back, so I ripped out the throat of that bitch and I will never regret it!" I snarl out. "She wouldn't have taken Sirius from me if we just executed her as enemy to the state as we should have! That is why I act like a Grimm Pyrrha. I found that mercy will only hurt the ones you care for in the long run. Give the enemy a chance and he will come back and hurt your friends and family if not you." Feeling the water dripping out of my eyes, I snarl quietly to myself, "You fucking pussy Potter! Crying like a bitch!" as I rub my eyes.
Shaking my head, I apperate away and back to the dorm to see Sirius again. I don't want to see his dead body anymore! I want to see him smiling that prankster smile or laughing at something he just did that will probably mess up someone's day in the next hour! I grab his picture and my photo album and pop to the roof of the tower to look at the pictures.
I open the album and skip my parent's section and go to one I added. The first was a picture of a clean and fresh Sirius with a pink bow in his hair, grinning at the camera. We had just forced a bath on Padfoot and Hermione had finished off with a pink bow on his head. The picture next to it was of Padfoot before he changed, still dripping wet from the bath and looking miserable as the girls chat over what to dress him in. They only got the bow on before he changed.
The next few pages were of Sirius and Remus with me, Ron, Hermione, or some friends from the Order doing pranks and the like before school started. Shacklebolt could make a mean trap if he had someone to execute the plan. I got a camera and wanted to take a lot of pictures to fill up the album because I didn't have many of mum and dad. I look through the album until well past midnight. My night vision is almost as good as a cats even with a new moon out.
I take out any pictures with Ron in them and tuck them inside a little storage area in the back for pictures that need to be glued in. I would burn them, but they still have Sirius in most of them and well, he was my friend for five years and I still cherish those times even if it ended on a sour note.
I pause at one scene. It is of Sirius setting up a prank on Remus. He was sleeping in the guest room that night and happened to have overslept. Sirius say fit to wake him in the most complex way possible. From the dining room back upstairs, he had rigged wiring and pulleys to go off one by one in where he predicted Moony to stumble.
He first put a bucket of paint over his bed, then a little cushioning charm in the door way to trip him into a cart of pink paint. The cart would travel safely down the stairs and deposit him in a bathtub in the living room. The tub had a charm to it which will scrub him down, but the paint way enchanted not to wash off without a password. It will put a bow in his hair after pigtailing it and dump him on another cart which will put him in a chair in the dining room for breakfast.
This did not go as planned for Remus had opened the door as Sirius was inspecting the paint cart. He pushed the man into it and he is the one that ended up having pigtails and the skin color of pink. He took great relish in hugging me many times that day before he went to take a bath. he neglected to tell me the password so I had walked around with a pink shirt all day.
I pull one last item I took from my realm out. A gag gift from Sirius I was a little too embarrassed about to keep out. It is the little plush toy I had as a baby that was in the shape of Padfoot. He gave it to me before school, told me to carry it around so even if he was not there, he could claim "Padfoot was there" whenever I did pranks. I had laughed it off, but I never did leave it far from me.
Hugging it, I fell asleep on the roof. I know it is childish to sleep with a plush toy, but I couldn't help it. The only reason I woke up was because the sun rose and I really don't want bad sunburn. After putting away Padfoot, I pop into the room and retrieve my uniform, then to the changing room. I end at my destination, History of the world. the class our team has for the day.
I just sit in there and watch the green haired teacher zip around the room from the back in the shadows. He chugged down coffee like someone would steal it. Seeing how Headmaster Ozpin always had a mug in hand, maybe he is trying to keep it from being stolen. An amusing thought for an idle mind. The headmaster sneaking past the green man and snatching his coffee, laughing as he flees the room with the professor chasing after him. I can't keep in the snort from the image.
The green man jumps and looks to the corner where I am. I give him a wave with my head still on the desk. He looks back at his door and checks it. Locked. "Mr. Black, class doesn't start for another hour… How did you get in here?"
"Teleportation." I simply tell him. "Very useful for getting around." He zips over to my side, a blur to all but the most advanced and trained eye. Thanks to my aura amount and physical overhaul, I can kind of keep track with him. I'm sure Ren could easily follow him with how much he hangs out with Nora.
"Interesting… How are you able to do such a feat?" He gets uncomfortably close to my face.
"Umm… Magic? Please back up sir." He does so and zips back to the front.
"Magic such as Ms. Goodwitch's spells or something different. Yes, something different, maybe aura control, but that has never been done before." The man rambles on and on with these increasingly strange theories. He even got it correct that I was from a dimension of magic wielding people who didn't have dust or aura. I had to suppress a chuckle as he dismisses it as absurd.
He rambled on and on until there was a knock on the door an hour in. Time for class to start. Wow, his rambling is even engaging. He zips to the door and opens it. the class streams in and he takes his place in the front.
I see all the first years stream in and take their seat. My team sees me and joins me in the back. They don't talk and just sit around me as the teacher goes about his lesson for the day. Very awkward that is. We go down to lunch where we all sit with Velvet. There was silence until Ren spoke to me, "Who are you?"
Everyone looks at Ren, whom is looking at me. Sighing, I answer, "My parents named is Harold James Potter. I gave the name up once I came here and took up my late godfather's name because well... I have very little good things associated with the name Harry Potter." Silence rains once more until I snap, "Oh my god! It doesn't matter!" I slam my arm on the table and call out to the group, "Arm wrestle! Let's do this Jaune!" I chose Jaune because he seems to be very distracted today. Pyrrha also seems upset. Wonder if they got in a fight?
This breaks the tension and I easily beat the older lad. We start joking around like old times and even got Velvet to loosen up after including her in a few conversations. By lunch ends, we have forgotten the little break down I had and I even got the two brooders to crack a smile.
I go to the dorm first, setting up my picture of Sirius back up. I decide that today is not a good day to study, so I just sit in my corner and start meditating. I wish to follow in the footsteps of dad and Sirius and become a true marauder. For that, I must become an Animagus which will probably be a wolf or large fluffy dog of some kind judging by my tail.
The aura makes me more attune to my life force and everything else, so I begin to search from the core outward. After a few hours, mist starts gathering around me, but I have to stop there. Scouring your mind is tiring! I just let myself drift to sleep in my mind.
