Ten years had passed since Diane had arrived, Ironwood frowned “I was considering you should go to a school for Huntsmen and Huntresses, I believe Vale would be a good school it has very different teaching style from Atlas and is a much more friendly environment for Faunus.”

Diane now six foot seven a little taller than her father nodded “I wouldn’t mind learning more about Grimm and how to…” Diane felt a sense of foreboding from far away, Diane grimaced “Something bad is happening, I have to go.”

Before Ironwood could respond, Diane disappears in a flash. Diane reappears in a field, three figures on one side and a fourth on the other. One of the three steps forward her pale skin and black hair as well as red dress stand out quite clearly, she frowned at Diane “It would not be wise to get in my way, you don’t want to mess with us.”

Diane growled “I’d say the same about you, who are you anyway?”

The woman shrugged “I might as well tell you since you are going to die anyway, my name is Cinder, these two are Emerald and Mercury, we are here for the Fall Maiden back there.”

Diane turned back to see a woman with light brown skin, brown hair and eyes, the woman was wearing a white blouse with a brown vest, corset and pants as well as a golden pauldron, golden boots and golden bracer. Diane frowned “What’s your name?”

The woman nodded “Amber” she then scowled “those three attacked me to steal my powers.”

Diane turned towards Cinder, Mercury and Emerald, she scowled “Well looks like it’s your lucky day Amber as I am going to kick some the ass of these three shits.”

Diane’s aura flared up, Cinder, Mercury and Emerald were shocked as Diane’s aura locked them in place. She then slammed her fist into Cinder first causing her to cough up blood as her stomach ruptured, before kicking one of Mercury’s metal legs which instantly shattered. Diane then grabbed Emerald, Diane then slammed Emerald into her knee, Emerald screamed on impact as her spine shattered.

Qrow ran over to them brandishing his sword, he turned to Amber “Are you okay?”

Amber nodded “Thanks to that woman, she beat them up like it was nothing.”

Diane walked over to them, Diane smiled “I believe we should speak to Ozpin.” Diane clicked her fingers and within a second they were in Ozpin’s office.

Ozpin raised an eyebrow “What happened, why is the Fall Maiden here?”

Qrow and Amber were taking deep breaths as they were recovering from the teleport, Diane frowned “Three people Cinder, Emerald and Mercury attacked Amber, I sensed something bad happening and teleported there. I did a real number on the assailants so they won’t follow us anytime soon.”

Amber smiled as she regained her bearings “Thanks Diane, I was not sure I could take all three of them by myself.”

Diane shook her head “I just did what anyone should do in the situation.”

Amber frowned “Unfortunately should and would are very different things, so thank you.”

Diane turned to Ozpin “I was planning on becoming a student in a few weeks, I want to know more about Grimm then what I can find in books plus my teamwork skills are somewhat lacking.”

Ozpin smiled “It will be done, I’ll see you in a couple of weeks.”

Diane bowed “Thank you sir.” Diane dissapeared in a flash of light, Discord frowned as he watched from a distance. Diane reappeared in her father’s office “A woman known as they Fall Maiden was under attack by some goons, I felt something bad happening and ended up in the middle of it.”

Ironwood sighed “Ozpin has a lot of secrets but considering that you saved one of the maidens you deserve to know, those people were most likely sent by a woman if she can really be called that known as Salem. Essentially she seeks the end of humanity, me, Qrow, Ozpin and a few others are a small group set out on stopping Salem’s plans. Ozpin is the leader of our little group.”

Diane nodded “I won’t tell anyone, I promise” she then smiled “I am going enter Beacon Academy in a couple of weeks.”

Ironwood smiled “Congratulations, I hope you can make some friends other than those in the base.”

Two weeks later they were on an airship on the way to Beacon Academy, Diane smiled as she watched the scenery passed her gunblade and shield rested on her back. She heard music and turned to see two girls, one a Bat Faunus she was pale white, her hair was a moderate cobalt blue with cyan streaks, her wings were flapping behind her back, her ears were hidden by a massive pair of headphones while her eyes were covered with a pair of purple shades.

The other was a wolf Faunus, she had a goldish grey coat with dark grey hair her greyish mulberry eyes were focused on her cello. The Bat Faunus girl turned to the Wolf Faunus girl and cheered “Octavia we’re finally heading to Beacon!”

Octavia sighed “Vinyl calm down, we’re not there…ooph.” She turned around to see a pale white man with burnt orange hair holding onto her tail “Who are you and what do you think you’re doing?!”

Vinyl turned to him “Don’t say anything you’ll regret.”
The man grinned “I won’t regret anything, I am Cardin Winchester and I am putting you filthy Faunus in your place.”

Vinyl turned to Cardin “You’re doomed.”

He turned back to see Octavia’s eyes glowed black as she put her bow into a slot inside her Cello, the bow morphed into a longsword and the cello morphed into a massive shield, she growled “I think it’s time for me to kill you!”

Someone laughed beside her, an five foot eight orange equine Faunus with a vivid crimson mane that had brilliant yellow stripes running through it, she smiled “That guy is a total idiot.”

Diane smiled “Sunset I couldn’t have put it better myself.”

Suddenly a six foot light blue equine Faunus with a rainbow mane and tail flew in front of her “Diane!”

Diane saw her pulled back by a six foot four dark orchid equine Faunus pulled her back “Rainbow Dash that’s rude.”

Diane laughed “These are two of my friends Rainbow Dash and Tempest Shadow,” she then whispered “just be careful of Rainbow she has a bit of an ego.” Diane then smiled “Rainbow, Tempest this is Sunset.”

Rainbow boasted “I’m the fastest Faunus flier in the world.”

Tempest deadpanned “That isn’t much of an accomplishment when very few Faunus can actually fly.”

Diane smiled as she looked out the window “Well it’s a new day for all of us, we are going to be huntresses.”

They were interrupted by the sound of barfing followed by the sound of anger and fury as Yang chased Jaune around, Tempest sighed as she walked over trying to prevent a murder before they even arrived little did Diane know her team would be very difficult to deal with.

Author's Note

I hope you enjoyed this chapter.