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It was winter in the City of Atlas, there a man can be seen wearing a white overcoat, with a gray undercoat, black sweater, a red necktie and a white glove on his right hand. His suit pants shared the same color as his overcoat and were tucked into silver boots accented in gray.
He was wandering alone around the streets of the city, viewing the city's lights. As he was passing by an alley.
He heard a soft crying at the back alley, he turned his attention at the noise and directed him looking at a green dumpster.
The noise can be heard from the back of the dumpster, so the man approach with caution at the prior.
There he faced a child, crying softly, all alone in the corner of the city alley. The child appears to be lost, judging from his tattered clothes with covers snows from the weather, he have been here for hours in despair. His hair was red and have two black horns sticking out above his forehead, a faunus, his skin was pale and beaten or worst hungry, his hands was covering his weeping face.
"Excuse me-" Startling the child as he removed his right hand out of his face giving him a panic look. "Are you alright?"
The child look directly at the man's face and hesitated first, but then shake his head.
"Are you lost?" Ask the man.
Another denial response from the child
The man was unsure to do. Why there's a child was crying but not lost?
But looking at his right face, he must've been hurt bad as tears burns in his right eye, covering his face again.
The man tried to reach his hand out to the child, but only to see him react with fear as the red-haired boy quickly pushed himself up and distant himself away from the man.
The man caught a few seconds glimpse from his left face as the boy quick reaction escape.
SDC, that's what the man have seen from his left eye. An slave from the Schnee Dust Company.
"I-I see." said the man as he look at the boy with a bleeding heart.
The man thought for a moment before making his quick decision nod to himself, he reached out his hand at the boy.
"Come with me, boy. If you want to change the world."
The boy hesitated for a moment to accept the man's hand at first as he stared at the man's eyes with both his ruined and fix eye at him.
To the boy's field of vision, he saw a flash of image of the man that was helping him, shaking his right hand and his left hand on his shoulder with a proud look on the man's face towards him. Through that vision he saw that the boy was an grown up with a good parent, a father that is proud of his choice.
Back in to present, the boy accepted the man's hand.
"Adam." said the boy softly.
"M-my name is Adam "
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Years later...
A young man wearing an Atlas Military Officer with an black cloth wrap around on his left eye, was walking briskly towards the Headmaster Office.
"Sir-" he saluted to the Headmaster.
The Headmaster was on a holographic call with another Headmaster from another Academy
The Headmaster in the call, bids farewell as he dismissed the call. As the Headmaster of the office was done, the officer ease himself up and continue.
"Beacon is in danger."
In this Fanfiction, Adam Taurus was adopted by James Ironwood of the General of Atlas Military and Headmaster of the Academy making him, Adam Ironwood
His history will be told in the upcoming chapters of "Atlas Military Deputy"