Chapter 1: 3 little bears, a huntsman and a monkey?
It was almost midday on the world of Remnant after the world witnessed a shooting star cross the sky the night before. The pod managed to crash in a forest far away from any sign of human civilization. The forest had a healthy green grow to it as it was not touched by humans or machines the area was peaceful not a human for miles around except for one man with a red bo staff strapped to his back, wearing what seemed to look like a black gi with a white sash around his waist. On his feet he was wearing black shoes with white soles and white socks going into his trouser leg. His skin was slightly tanned like he has been out in the sun but his hair was a very unusual bright orange and styled in a way to look like he had cat ears but upon closer inspection he didn't have any ears of the sort in his bright coloured hair. His eyes were a bright green, he was quickly darting around looking at his surroundings making sure anything wouldn't catch him by surprise as he walked further into the forest. Everything about the strange man walking alone through the woods looked normal except that he had a long bushy orange tail with a little white tip coming out the back of his trousers. This man was called Santoro Vermilion, he was a fox faunus and professional huntsman.
Also he was a man hunting his breakfast. Unlike most huntsmen Santoro was a very secluded man and barely had any contact with other huntsman. He was hunting for a stag that he had been tracking all morning he heard something that he didn't expect to hear so far into the wilderness. "Is that a baby crying in the distance" he thought to himself. "No it can't be" he said out loud shaking his head. "I need to focus, all this being alone is starting to make me go mad". Santoro finally had stag in his sights and started to slowly creep upon the deer as it stood still in a clearing in the wood."Hmm something is wrong" he said to himself looking all around himself.
He heard the cry again this time louder and clearer, he didn't care that his food would get away from him he knew there was an infant in trouble and he needed to save them. He quickly jumped out of the bush spooking the deer he was tracking and it ran from his sight.
"You got lucky this time." He yelled at the deer as he broke into a sprint with his bow staff in hand. As he got closer to the crying he started to notice that some of the trees have been recently broken with some force. "What could have done this" he thought to himself still running at speed like an Olympic sprinter going for gold.
Santoro heard a loud guttural coming from his left he looked over and saw through the trees that were quickly passing him and noticed a bear like animal with black fur and bony protrusions coming out of its back and arms and a bone-like face mask covering its face. "Damn why does Grimm have to appear now of all times." The creature running through the forest was an Ursa a creature of Grimm. The faunus sighed heavily "he must have heard the crying and started to head towards it, damn things." Two more Ursa appeared next to the one Santoro saw originally. "Great three of them". He said in an unenthusiastic tone but luckily for Santoro the three Ursai hadn't seen him yet and Vermilion was first to get to the source of the crying.
What he saw he couldn't really make sense of in the a clearing in the forest was a crater with what looked like a human child inside a metal egg in middle of nowhere, but before he could tend to the child he needed to focus on the three creatures of Grimm that were hot on his tail. He turned around in one swift motion, holding his staff in two hands points the head of the weapon toward to where he knew the Grimm were coming from he waited a couple of seconds. There was silence no bird chirping, the wind wasn't blowing heck even the baby stopped crying.
"Hmm maybe-" before he could finish his sentence one of the Ursai jumped from tree line towards the huntsman "Well better late than never that is what I always say." The huntsmen lowered his staff and started to charge towards the bear-like creature, using his staff like a pole vault he sprang into the air kicking the Grimm back into the tree line. He landed on his feet with his arms stretched out into a T-shape holding his staff in his left hand.
"And he sticks the landing!"
The huntsman called out in a victorious tone with a smile on his face this green eyes focused on the tree line where he sent the beast. The two other Ursai ran out of the trees as they watched a big ball of black fur sail over their heads, they both eyed the fox faunus with fury as they came to a stop waited for the huntsmen to make his move.
"Well you're just going to wait then" Santoro threw the staff into the air, both of the Grimm had their eyes trained on the weapon as it flew into the sky. "I'll make the first move then" the huntsmen charged at the beasts with vigour, his speed was too quick for the Grimm to realize that he has already moved. Suddenly the huntsmen kicked one of the Ursai on the underside of its jaw with such force causing the creature's head to shoot straight up with a crack as it neck broke from such strength.
The other bear-like creature turned quickly to face the hunter after realising that the throwing his weapon was just a ploy, but it was already too late before the creature could turn its whole body to look at the huntsmen it felt a fist in its stomach quickly winding the animal. "And that's how you deal with Grimm" He said to himself as he caught his weapon in his hand quickly dispatching the beast with a thunderous strike to the head cracking the bone like armoured plate on its face. "Now let's see whose child this is" he said with a joyous tone as he started to walk towards the crater.
As he descended slowing into the crater he started to notice that the object the baby was in is completely spherical with what looked like a small round window for the occupant to see into space. "This far beyond what I've seen in Atlas" he whispered in a stern tone admiring the pod in silence, which was broken when the child inside started crying again. "Well I should calm this kid down before more Grimm come." He peered into the open hatch of the revealing a small baby girl no older than a couple with long black spiky hair with what seemed to be a brown monkey tail coming from her lower back.
"Ah so you're a monkey faunus eh?" He said scratching the back of his head. "I thought you were going to be a big green slug monster or something." Santoro quickly laughed off his comment as he began to take off his shirt ready to use it as a makeshift blanket. He reached in to pod and as he was about to grab the child, he noticed some weird looking armour in a compartment that has its door ripped off from the impact of the pod hitting the ground, the armour looked extremely odd to the huntsmen there was no satchels or pockets to carry an small weapons or medical supplies. He didn't pay too much attention to the armour because the child was his first priority plus started to look like she was getting cold so he promptly started wrapt her up in his shirt so she wouldn't get a cold. "Well do you have a name little missy?" He spotted something in the dirt next to his foot. "Hmm what's this?" He thought to himself holding the child in his other arm he slowly leant over to grab the object that caught his eye, it was a silver necklace with a small tag on it. He brushed the necklace against his trouser leg getting the dirt off it so he could see it there was any identification on it like a name or address. To his relief there was something engraved on the tag it only had one thing on it "Lottus." He looked at the child "I guess that's your name then? But it seems that there is no address or any other information on it" He looked at the child wrapped in his shirt, who now has stopped crying. "Well then Lottus it looks like you're going to be staying with me for a little bit until we can figure out where you're from. Does that sound good?" He said tilting his head looking at the baby.
Her eyes started to slowly open revealing that she had beautiful sky blue iris. She looked at the strange looking man as he repeated his question again for Lottus to reply with a smile and a bubbly giggle.
"Good, well I guess should start heading back to where you will be staying." He turned to look at the strange pod which still laid there in the middle of the crater with its hatch wide open. "And I will be back later for you!" He pointed at the sphere with his Bo staff as he started to make his way out of the crater with baby in hand. He got to the rim of the crater with child in one hand and weapon in the other.
"Now which way do we need to go?"
But before the faunus could decide on a direction the same Ursa that he kicked back into the woods charged at him through the tree.
"I didn't forget you!"
As the Grimm was about to pounce on to the baby wielding hunter, his staff suddenly spilt at the tips revealing two small scythe like blades on either side of the staff and in one swift motion he cut downwards towards the beast's neck and quickly turned his back to the Grimm and started to walk away as the beast moved motionless on all fours, the blades retracted back into the main body of the staff as he placed it on his back.
"Piece of cake"
Slowly the head of the beast started to slide of its shoulders and landed on the ground with a thump quickly followed by the rest of it. The child giggled as she watched the Santoro decapitate the Grimm. "hmph you're kinda twisted aren't you kid" The child giggled with a huge smile on her face. "Well it looks like we will probably get on very well together then." He started to laugh as they both ventured into the tree line.