Chapter 4: A Look into the Past
When Auriaco stepped off the airship and looked towards Beacon, he would sigh and close his eyes. Instead of the blackness that one would normally see when they close their eyes, Auriaco would be taken back 4 years. He remembered stepping into Beacon for the first time. A new student, and a rare case of a Faunus being accepted into Beacon. He quickly made friends with a group of 3 girls, Bluerose Robin, Marygold Titania, and Riko Setsuko. Auriaco and these three girls would come to find out that they would be on a team together, forming Team AMBR. He didn't remember much of his first year, but he did remember he got close to Bluerose, to the point that they became a couple.
In their second year, Team AMBR was at the forefront of most of Beacon's ops. They were sent all over Vale to take out small hordes of Grimm and were hailed as heroes that were close to breaking even the fame of Summer Rose. However that all changed one day when they were on a routine training exercise in the Forever Fall. It had been a normal exercise, Marygold was slacking off, as usual, and Riko was off somewhere private doing whatever it was she did when she was alone, leaving Auriaco and Bluerose to do all the work. Things were going well, nothing unusual had happened so far, which was bad. Usually Goodwitch had a few surprises in store for them.
About an hour into the exercise, Riko returned from wherever it was she was lurking around, but hot on her heels was a horde of about 40 Ursa. They all drew their weapons, Bluerose pulling out her massive blade, Marygold pulling out her morning star, and Riko was already using her semblance to fire off some of her spells at the Ursa. The battle lasted about 30 minutes and the Ursa were winning. Marygold had been taken out by an Ursa taking a huge bite of her side, her armor and aura not standing a chance. Riko had been impaled by a falling tree that was knocked down by a couple of the Ursa, and Bluerose had her bowels gouged out by one of the Ursa. Before Bluerose had died she had used her massive blade to take out a good portion of the Ursa, but it was futile. The Ursa just kept coming with no end to them. By the end of the battle, it was Auriaco against 15 Ursa. He knew he didn't stand a chance, but he wasn't going to run. He ran headlong into the group of Ursa and took out about 5 of them before he was knocked to the ground. One of the Ursa went to claw at his head and Auriaco had barely dodged before losing his head. However the Ursa had managed to scratch out his left eye, leaving Auriaco with half of his vision. He gave up, knowing this would be the end of him. He felt one of the Ursa rip his right leg off of his body, and just before he lost consciousness due to bloodloss, he swore he swore he saw a pair of heeled feet running towards where he lie dying.
Just as quick as the nightmarish memory came to him, it was gone in a flash as Auriaco would open his eyes and start walking towards Beacon. As he was walking he would see 4 girls running towards the airship he just left. The girl in the lead wore a bright red cloak, the one behind her had bright yellow hair, the next one wore black and wore a bow on her head and Auriaco could swear he saw it twitch a little. The final girl in this train wore a pure white outfit to match her flawless white skin and her white hair which was up in a side ponytail held up by a snowflake shaped scrunchie. The first three girls would ignore him as they seemed to be in a rush, but the final girl would look at Auriaco with a look of disgust. He assumed it was because of the way he looked, as he was far from the best dressed, but he quickly put it out of his mind. It wasn't his business what the students thought of him, and the chances of him having them in his 'class' was minimal.