"Master Schnee," called the Butler.
"Yes," Whitley replied.
"We have arrived at your home sir," the Butlet said before getting out to once again open the door for Whitley.
After the door opened for Whitley he knew what he had to do. He had to try to convince his Father to have Felix be his personal Butler. Walking... cough... sprinting... cough... up toward his Father study he accidentally runs into Weiss's Butler, Klein.
(Man I really got to get this cough looked at, sorry)
"Mister Whitley, might I ask why you are running through the halls," the ever so kind Butler asked Whitley.
"I need to talk to Father about someone I meet in the mine," Whitley said.
Klein grimaced at the thought of an 8 year old in those mines, "Nothing bad I hope," Klein said.
"No nothing bad, I wanted to see if he could become my personal Butler," Whitley said with a rare smile.
The smile shocked Klein, it had been years since he had seen Whitley smile, "I'm sure you can convince him to let this young man help you," Klein said.
"Thank you Klein," Whitley said before continuing toward his destination.
After a few more minutes of travel Whitley finally made it to his destination. The door to his Father's study towered over him like a massive grimm. Readying himself to face the music, Whitley puffed up his chest and knocked on the door.
"Enter," called Jaques.
"Hello Father," Whitley said.
"Hello son, how was your trip," Jaques asked.
"It was good, I meet someone down their who I would like to become my Butler," Whitley said.
Jaques smiled devilishly, "What is this young mans name," inquired Jaques.
"Felix Steel, he's a wolf faunus, I'd guess he's about the same age as Winter, so around 17," Whitley said to his still grining Father.
"Hm, sounds like you get along with this young man," Jaques said finally losing his grin.
"I'll see what I can do about it, but I make no promises," Jaques said.
"That is all I can ask if you," Whitley replied.
"Is that all you need, because I really need to get back to work," Jaques said.
With that Whitley left with a hopeful smile he began to walk toward his room to began his research. He had to become a better fighter if he was going to continue down this path.
CLANG
"That most be my sisters," Whitley thought aloud.
Whitley ran up to his room grabbed his computer and went back down to the yard to watch his sisters training together.
(Whitley POV)
I reached the entrance of the garden quickly, entered and went straight to the bench that pointed right at where my sisters would be training.
"Hello Whitley," my elder sister Winter said.
"Hi Winter," I replied, "How is applying to Atlas Academy going?"
"Not good l, it looks like I'm just going to have to wait the extra two months," she replied sorrow clear in her voice.
"I'm sorry to hear that, guess you'll just have to deal with Father for two more years," I said trying to lift the mode.
She laughed before saying. "Yeah, I guess I will wont I."
"Anyway, is there something you needed?," She asked.
"Nope just figure I'd come watch," I replied.
"Oh, ok then, are you ready to continue now Weiss," Winter asked my older sister.
"Absolutely," Weiss replied with confident grin.
Oh Winter is so going to kick her butt.
Never mind that I need to focus. I opened up my computer, and entered the search engine. 'The Dark Brotherhood' that's who can train me, them or The Creed, or maybe both if I'm lucky. The results were interesting.
The Dark Brotherhood is a group of highly trained killers located somewhere in the many Atlas mountain ranges. Their outfits usually consist of a black trench coat, with a bitch black mask, combat boots, and other combat equipment. The Brotherhood along with it's former ally The Creed were key players in the ending of the Great War, but spoken of much but in paintings and soldiers journals, their are depictions of soldiers dressed in black helping resolve conflicts peacefully, or seen running headlong into battle. In the journals you could find stories of brave men in black running into the line of fire to help pull injured men to safety or running to an uncovered position to fill in holes in the defense...
Interesting, I thought that the two factions had always been fighting one another, I might have a way of reaching The Brotherhood but I'll need more time for that. Let's look into The Creed. Ok theres more information than the Brotherhood.
The Creed is a large group of the world's best assassins, but when they were on the battle field they acted more as peace keepers in the war, but could sometimes be found fighting along side figures donned in black garb. There are far more easily obtainable depictions of Creed members than their former ally The Dark Brotherhood, one is one of the many proudly displayed status on the grounds of Beacon Academy. In the back garden their is a statue depicting a female Creed member wielding a mace, a male Faunus holding a bow, a female Human with a sword and shield, and one mysterious male undetailed figure nealing with a crossbow on the far left, this is believed to be a Dark Brotherhood member. Upon feather inspection this statue depicts the stand of four unlikely allies standing guard of a farm hold 1 thousands of refugees that were getting away from the fighting. The female Creed member's name was Quartz Gomez, a captain in the Creed ranks. The male Faunus is Obsidian Belladonna, a soldier from the Faunus side of the war. The female Human is Jeanne d'Arc from the house of Arc, she was a knight during the war defending high ranking military officer's, why she was their is unknown. The only thing we know about the male Brotherhood member is that his name was Nero Morte. It is believed that The Creed hides in one of Atlas's mountains.
"Interesting," I said allowed.
"What is interesting brother, was it my fighting," Weiss said cockily.
"Oh uh, yes your fighting is quite impressive, but I didn't mean to say that allowed. I was talking about something I am researching in history after seeing it in one of my history books. It's the two factions called The Creed, and The Dark Brotherhood," I said.
"Interesting indeed, Whitley," a male voice said from infront of me, it was Father.
"Oh, hello Father," I said to him politely.
"I've requested that this Felix fellow be here by the end of the night, his contract is going to last four years," Father said.
"Thank you Father," I said.
After that he left.
"Who is Felix?," Winter asked me.
"He's this nice Faunus I meet during my trip to Mine 17, I told Father I would like for him to be my personal Butler," I told Winter honestly.
"Well that will be interesting for sure," Winter said.
"Yes, yes it will," was all I could say in return.
(Time skip brought to you in part by Neo's Neo)
(General POV)
Their was a knock at the Schnee Manor door, which Klein rushed to open.
"Hello, what can I do for you," Klein said politely to the stranger.
"Hi my name is Felix Steel, I'm here to speak to Mister Schnee about my position as Master Whitley's Butler," Felix said begrudgingly.
"Well let me tell you what you're already doing good addressing them like that, but if your the man that young Whitley was speaking of, then the only time you'll need to call him Master Whitley, is when your near his Father," Klein told the young wolf Faunus who was noticeably cleaner then when we last saw him in the mine.
"Thank the Oum," Felix said with a sigh.
"Anyway, let's get you up to Mistrt Jaques's study shall we," Klein told Felix.
"Led the way then," Felix told Klein.
Klein began to guide Felix through the never ending home. Eventually they made it to his study. Klein knocked on the door.
"Who is it," Jaques called out from inside.
"Klein sir, Mister Steel has arived," Klein replied.
"Let him in," Jaques replied.
Klein open the door for Felix and ushered him in.
(Felix POV)
There I was face to face with the man that has been enslaving my people for decades. I couldn't let it get to me though. I could possibly help shape the one of the three possible heir's of the SDC.
"Hello Felix, as you already know my name is Jaques Schnee, you are here because my one and only son had requested that you be his personal Butler. Now you will need to blah blah blah"
After the first part that I was wondering it all faded into rambling. I paid a little bit of attention their were somethings I needed to know like where I was to sleep and where the bathroom was after all.
"Now all you need to do is sign here agreeing to at least five years of service, after the five years is up you can sign on again for however many years you'd like. You will be paid an average of 50 thousand a year,"
"I'm sorry 50 thousand," I said cutting him off.
"Yes, is that a problem?," Jaques asked.
"No... no sir it's just a lot, that's all," I said.
"Yes, it is, now once just sign here," he said pointing to a line.
"Let me read it before I go signing a anything," I told him.
"Smart man," Jaques said.
Nothing seemed wrong nothing hidden in between the lines or hiding in some unnamed clause. It was just a contract, so I signed it.
"All right, Klein will be waiting for you just outside with your new uniform, it is yours to clean and take care of. It should be spotless before you come out of your room in the morning," he told me.
He wasn't lying, Klein was just outside of the room with a sharp looking suit.
"Nice," Is all I could say.
"Very much so," Klein said.
Klein led me back through the manors never ending hall's, down a flight on stairs. At the bottom as a hallway of doors. Leading me down the hall the eleventh door was the door to my room.
"This your personal bedroom, try to keep it clean, one of us does do it every week, but out of respect try to keep it as clean as possible. The door to the left as soon as you enter is your personal bathroom, the second door is your closet, you will find a second uniform in their as well as a pair of sleeping clothes," Klein told me, "Now I will leave you to get changed, once you are finished just step out and I will lead you to Whitley's room," he finished.
"Alrighty then," I said, taking the suit from Klein, entering the room and closing the door.
The room itself wasn't all that bad and had room for me to get my own decorations once I get to that point. It had a total of 4 outlets for me to plug anything into, and the bed was amazing, probably so that the butlers and maids got enough sleep to do their jobs. The closet had a small dresser on the floor that could hold my underwear and socks or any small belongs that I may come to own. I quickly unpack not really have much to unpack. In my bag of belongings was a small box, into was something that ment the world to me. It was a pocket watch with a few rare bits of dust and a picture on the inside of me and my family when I was younger before the mines. I undressed and began to put on the new suit, it fit perfectly on me. Once I had finished I grabbed the pocket watch, attached the end of it to my blouse pocket and put the watch part in the pocket. After I was finished I exited the room, and just like he said, Klein was standing just outside waiting for me.
"Do you like your room?," he asked me.
"It's definitely an upgrade compared to my last place," I said jokingly.
"I would sure hope so," he joked back.
"Now let's go find Whitley shall we," Klein said.
"Let's," I agreed.
After making the trip back through the manor and up two flights of stairs, we reached what I can only assume was Whitley's room.
Knock... knock
No answer
"Strange he's usually in here," Klein said.
"Let's go check the garden," he said.
"Great, more stairs," I said sarcastically getting a laugh out of Klein.
We made our way back to the main floor and took a right heading toward the gardens.
CLANG CLANG
CLANG
CLANG
That's all my ears could hear.
"It appears that Winter and Weiss and training," Klein said
'That's what that awful sound is, dear Oum their loud,' I thought to myself.
We finally made it to the garden and Klein made our presence aware.
"Ahem, ladies if you would stop for one second," Klein said.
That's when I saw two things. The first was Whitley sitting on the stone bench with his laptop. And second was probably the most beautiful women I have ever seen.
"You already know Whitley, but you don't know these two. The taller one is Winter, the shorter one is Weiss," Klein told me.
'Winter, a beautiful name for a beautiful women'
(Winter POV)
"Ahem, ladies if you would stop for one second," I heard Klein say.
I turned and saw a handsome young wolf faunus.
He was looking at me.
'Strange, what is this feeling'
"This young man is Felix Steel, Whitley's personal Butler," Klein said.
"Hello you two, and hello Whitley," Felix said in a calm voice that sent shivers down my spine.
"Hi Felix, thanks for not calling me Master Whitley," Whitley said from behind me.
"I was told I could call you Whitley as long as your Father is not around," Felix replied.
"Cool, want to see talk and get to know each other better?," Whitley asked.
"Sounds like a plan to me kid," He replied back with a grin.