Tales of the Molten Fox
Ch. 3
Previous ChapterNext ChapterIt's been two years since Grandma started training me to be a Huntress and so far my skills have improved over time. I was much better with my sword, got stronger and faster and even unlocked my semblance, which was to control fire, which was… fitting for me. I've even convinced grandpa to teach me some weaponsmithing and tinkering.
So Huntress training, plus smithing training, plus school work from grandma, equals a very busy me. Oh… and taking care of Amber. There's that, who now was a fully grown flame wolf. Funny note on her, her favourite food is burnt food. It oddly fits.
Right now I was out in the Valley with Amber waiting for Grandma or someone to meet us here. I had a suitcase at my side, waiting as a door opened and Mama came out with a bag.
“Alright, I packed you some more clothes, a brush and toothbrush and paste. Also some snacks for later.” Mama said as she handed me the bag.
“Thanks, Mama.” I said to her with a smile. I already have two toothbrushes and toothpastes but hey, never bad to have another set. Mama smiled at me before saying.
“Listen to your teachers, make some friends and don't get into fights.” Mama told me.
“What if I do?” I asked her.
“Then aim for the head.” Mama said before the both of us giggled. Mama soon gave me a hug after that. “Oooh, my little girl is now all grown up~ you make me so proud!”
“Thanks mama.” I said to her with a smile before a doorway opened up with Grandma walking through, holding my new id tag for Beacon Academy and a ticket.
“Everything ready?” She asked us both as she walked up to us. Mama looked at me and gave me one last hug.
“Write to me, if you don't I'll come over and go all mom on you.” Mama said which I chucked at
“I will. Love you mama.” I said to her.
“Love you too.” Mama said back before pulling away before I looked over at Grandma as a doorway appeared behind her. She gestured for me to follow her before going through, to which I followed suit, ending up in some sort of station. It looked almost like a train station but… there were some glaring differences, like the parked airships.
“Here, your school id and Airbus ticket.” Grandma said to me before giving me a small smile… And hugging me. I was surprised by the sudden action but soon returned the hug. “Be sure to write home, dear.” She whispered to me.
“I will.” I whispered to her before pulling away. I smiled at my grandma before we both heard a PA system turn on.
“Attention, Airship to Beacon Acadamy is now boarding. Attention, Airship to Beacon Acadamy is now boarding.” The lady said before I looked back at grandma and gave her one last hug.
“I’m going to miss you, Mama and Grandpa…” I said to her as Grandma gave me a hug back.
“We will miss you too, dear. Now go before you're left behind.” She said to me, turning me around soon after she finished hugging me and gave me a gentle shove. I took a few steps forward before turning back to give her a wave before hurrying off to the airship. I made it just in time to get on before they stopped boarding and was getting ready to take off. I found a seat to sit down with a sigh and waited for the ship to get going.
Five minutes later I got my wish and the ship was now heading off towards Beacon. I looked out of the window to watch the clouds and land below move on the pass as I watched. Honestly, it was kinda… awe-inspiring. As I did this I heard some sort of buzzing going off. It took me a few moments to realize that it was coming from me, more specific my bag. I took my bag off and opened it to see a black and red scroll buzzing and lighting up. I took it out and stared at the glowing light shining up at me before I pressed it, causing it to expand and a screen appeared. The screen lit up and I saw… grandma?!
“Surprise!” Grandma said with a smile and a laugh at my surprised reaction to this.
“But… what… how...huh?” Was all I could say when Grandma was laughing. “Grandma how did you…”
“You can thank your Aunt for that, she was the one that wanted to give you one.” Grandma said to me with a chuckle. “Anywho, just know that your mother knows about the scroll as well so expect her calls to be frequent.” She said to me informatively before, hopping into view behind her was Amber barking at me happily. This made me smile as I sat back down with Scroll in hand.
“I will expect that Grandma, oh and look!” I said, turning the Scroll around to show her where I was. “I’m on the ship! I'm almost there!!” I said happily. This got a laugh from her before she said.
“I see, well do be sure to call often, make some friends… maybe even find that special someone~” She said to me, adding the last bit with a teasing tone. I rolled my eyes at this before smiling.
“I’ll do… maybe most of those.” I told grandma before saying my goodbyes and turning my scroll off. As I turned to look out the window I felt someone bump into me, basically shoving me into the wall. “H-hey! Do you mind-” I turned just in time to see someone throw up into a garbage can. “Oh… uhh…”
I waited awkwardly for her to stop barfing before was she was able to speak. “Ugh… I hate flying…” ShHe said to himself. The man had blonde hair that's braided, a black jacket and white armour. Looking at her gave me the feeling of a knight templar from some stories mama told me when I was young. She looked at me before saying. “S-Sorry about that… I couldn’t really help… oofh... help myself.”
“It’s fine… you sure you’re okay?” I asked her.
“Yeah… Yeah… no not really. I had some pills… for this sort of thing but…” She started to say before having another round of barfing.
“Guess they are in the Cargo Hold?” I asked her as soon as she stopped.
“Yeah.” She said to me. The rest of the flight for her was basically simply hugging a trash can before finally, we landed and we were allowed to get off. When I did I looked up and saw the large, castle-like school in front of me. I took my Scroll out and took a picture, well tried to figure out how to take pictures before getting it and taking a picture of the school just as workers were offloading the luggage, and I saw the blonde barf girl going through one of them. I walked over to her just as she pulled something out that looks like a bottle of pills and took a pill. She sighed a bit as I got up to her.
“Feeling better?” I asked her.
“Yeah… yeah better now.” She turned to me and added. “I’m really sorry for bumping into you and… maybe barfing on you.”
“It’s fine, and you didn’t barf on me… thank gods for that.” I said to her which made her chuckle nervously.
“That’s good…” She said before closing the suitcase up and looking at me. “Hey, my name is Jona Arc, nice to meet you.” She introduced me and offered my hand. I smiled and took her hand.
“Viri. Nice to meet you too.” I greeted her as well. She waited as I pulled out my stuff and opened my bag to pull out my weapon… I think we were allowed to do that… I mean, one guy has a giant hammer over there.
“Whoa… that’s your weapon?” Jona asked me, now seeing it.
“Yeah, pretty cool right?” I asked her as I put the sword on my back.
“Yeah… One could say that.” Jona said to me as I smiled. The two of us both headed off towards the place where we were supposed to drop all of our luggage off before going to the gathering hall for an assembly. Along the way I notice someone walking a little bit ahead of with a bag. All I saw of her is that she had silver hair with blue high lights and a tail. She also was carrying a bag with her that had a tail poking out of it… it was also on fire. I blinked at this in surprise as she looks familiar to me. “Hey, you okay there?” Jona asked me, shaking me out of my stupor.
“Huh? Oh, yeah I’m fine. Just thought I saw someone I knew.” I said to her. We got to the place and dropped our stuff off before making our way back to the front of the school just as there was a loud explosion. “What was that!?” I yelled as I saw a large smoke cloud rise up from the middle of the area. The two of us looked at one another before headed over just as some woman with white hair and dress marched off in a huff, followed by some servants I guess.
“Hey, need a hand?” Jona asked the person on the ground. I looked over to see a short black haired girl with a black and red dress and a red box on her back. She looked up at her then at me, showing us that she had silver eyes.
“Umm, thanks…” She said as she took Jonas hand and was pulled up. When she was on her feet she was actually… younger than the two of us. “For the record, that was totally not my fault!”
“Uhh, don’t know what you mean but… sure, it’s not.” Jona said as she looked at me with a questioning look. I shrug as confused as she was.
“So… Who are you?” I asked the younger girl.
“Me? Oh I’m Ruby, Ruby Rose.” the girl, Ruby, introduced herself to us. The two of us gave her our names and after some conversing, I told the two of them that I was going to head on ahead to the gathering hall to see what’s going on there and I’ll meet up with them.
I found the gathering hall pretty easily with all the signs and saw many other people in the room. I took this time to wander a bit to see what else I could find… and then the strangest thing happen.
“HEY COUSIN~!” A female voice yelled as I felt someone wrap their arms around me for a hug and I felt two, soft pillows on my back. I blinked a few times before looking back a bit, seeing some silver and blue hair.
“Umm, mind letting me go… please?” I asked the lady who’s hugging me.
“Aww, okay.” She said, letting me go and stepping back, allowing me to turn to fully see her. The woman had long silver hair with blue highlights that went all the way down to her ass. She wore a black hoodie with short shorts that showed off her legs and some simple shoes. What stood out was the blue horns coming out of her head in front of her fox ears and her… well… bombshell of a body. She was curvy and very busty, which explains the two large pillows. She smiled happily at me, her piercing blue eyes stared at me as she reminded me of grandma.
“U-Umm… hi? Who are you?” I asked, blushing a bit as I stared… I wasn’t the only one as any boy and girl looking in our direction was staring at her.
“Aww, you really don't recognize me?” She asked me, tilting her head with a laugh. I tilted my head a bit as I stared at the woman in front of me just as the top part of her bag lifted up and I heard a small bark. I looked and saw… Amber?! Amber barked again, somehow a puppy again than the normal fire wolf from before.
“Wait… what? Huh?” I asked, completely confused by this whole thing.
“Come on, it shouldn't be that hard. We spoke in the airship ride here.” She said to me with a smile as Amber, pup Amber, looked at me with excited eyes and her tongue out in a cute manner. I stared at her before it finally clicked.
“Wait… grandma?!” I said in shock. This got hed to smack my head and say.
“Shh~ I'm your cousin.” She said to me while I rubbed the back of my head. I rubbed my head as I stared at the woman saying she was my cousin.
“I'm missing something here am I…” I said as I gave Amber some pets which she enjoyed. “What are you two doing here?” I asked them.
“Well, for one I'm here to keep an eye on you. Don't get me wrong, I trust that you'll attend your classes and do your assignments but your mother wanted me to be by your side in case something ever happened.” Grandma said… oh gods, it's weird calling her grandma when she's like this. She looks just two years older than me!
“Okay… can you tell me why you look like you climbed out of someone's… wet dream?” I asked her in a quiet tone. I also tried to make it sound I wasn't rude as well.
“I'll have you know that this is what I used to look like back in my single days. Just ask Jericho.” She said to me with a pout and hands on her hips. My jaw literally dropped as she said this.
“Wow… just… wow.” I said as I looked around, seeing that everyone was staring at us… well, her. As we stood there I heard whispers of others were saying.
“Damn… didn’t know Faunus could look like that?”
“I would definitely would tap that.”
“How did she get that body yet also be here to be a Huntress?”
“Going to sleep good tonight.” And so on and so forth.
“Hmm, good to know that I still got it.” Grandma said in a quiet yet prideful tone.
“You enjoying this way too much.” I said to her flatly. My grandma… still weird, smiled at me before the assembly started and we saw the Headmaster, whose name is Ozpin, give an… ominous speech before letting us off to enjoy the day. We were also told that we would be assigned dorm rooms after the event tomorrow which means we all have to sleep in a large gym. From the whispers I heard, a lot of guys are excited for tonight… I wonder why… as I walk around with the hotter younger version of my grandma… okay, need to deal with this.
“Hey uh… when you’re like this… what do I call you? Because grandma now sounds… really weird.” I asked her.
“Just call me Mavis, it's the name I used to use when I was a well-known huntress in this world.” She said to me. Wait, well known? Grandpa mentioned something like that a long time ago. Ooh I wonder if this place has any information of her past missions!
“Okay… Mavis… still somewhat weird but I guess I’ll get used to it… soon… maybe.” I said as I held the bag which held Amber who was taking a nap. “What happened to Amber by the way? She was way bigger when I left.”
“She can do a lot more than burn things, Viri. She can make herself big as a wolf or small as a pup.” Mavis said to me with a chuckle.
“Oh… cool.” I said as I checked up on Amber who again was sleeping soundly. “Aww, how adorable.” I cooed happily before the two of us went off again, finding something to do until we ran into someone. The person in question was a long haired blonde woman wearing a yellow top that showed off her midriff, a brown jacket over top and some black short shorts and some boots. She had a yellow scarf around her neck, some black fingerless gloves and yellow bracelets. She seemed to be looking for someone before noticing us… well, Mavis.
“Hello~” I heard her say to herself before coming a little bit nearer. “Hi there, nice to meet the two of you. Guess you are also new to Beacon right?” She asked us… well Mavis but really us.
“Uhh, yeah. I’m Viri and this is… my cousin, Mavis.” I introduce us to the woman who looked around my age.
“Hey.” Mavis greeted the blonde with a wave and a smile, a little happy hop in place as well. This got the buxom blonde to smile more before saying.
“The name’s Yang, also new here too.” Yang said happily before moving over a little closer to Mavis. The latter giggled at this but made no attempt to step back. I watched the two of them… chat a bit and… wait are they flirting as well?! Just… what?!
“Okay I will just… go…” I said as I moved a few steps back and saw that they had no real reaction to this as I went off a few steps before I saw Ruby came the other way.
“Oh hey!” Ruby called out to me as she got up to me. “Nice to see a friendly face.”
“Yeah… kinda.” I said with a little laugh. “What’s up Ruby?”
“Oh nothing, just looking for my sister. Say have you seen a tall woman with blonde hair and…” She stopped as she looked past me and saw Yang and Mavis. “Oh there she is… who is she talking to?”
“That… would be my cousin… and they are actually flirting with one another.” I said which brings up a number of questions about all of this. I looked back to see Ruby staring at me… or at something. “What? Got something on me?”
“No, but what is this!” She asked me as she turned me around to look at my sword.
“What? My sword?” I asked, pulling my sword out. “Cool isn’t it?”
“It is! Oh, it’s beautiful!” Ruby said happily which made me smile. Someone who understands the beauty of my sword.
“Well I should be, my grandpa made it from a drawing I made.” I said to her with a smile. “He showed me how to keep her up in good condition and ready for a fight.” I explained to Ruby.
“Wow, that’s amazing. Say, does she have a name?” Ruby asked me which made me blink.
“Name? Uhh, no not really. Haven’t really come up with a name.” I hummed at this as I tried to think of a name before seeing the fox imagery and fire. “How’s… Molten Fox sound?”
“That’s cool!” Ruby said happily. The two of us chatted for a bit about different things, mostly weapons and parts, she even let me see her own weapon, a scythe sniper rifle named Crescent Rose and… oooh~
The two of us soon ended when we shared contact info of our scrolls, in which I needed help with before Ruby had to head off. Just in time too, I felt Amber wiggle and move around in the bag. Eventually, she poked her head out, she was still concealed but her snout was out, sniffing loudly.
“Something up Amber? Need to come out?” I asked her as she sniffed a few more times before burying back into the bag. “Okay then.” Soon enough Mavis came back up to me, holding her scroll out before finishing typing something and putting it away. I arched a brow at this. “What was that about? And are you done with… flirting with Yang?” I asked her, shuttering at the fact she did that.
“Is there something wrong with a little flirting?” Mavis asked me with an arched brow.
“Well, over the fact that you are married and… no that’s just it. How can you do something like that behind grandpa’s back?” I asked her with a frown. She arched a brow at this.
“What do you mean?” She asked me in confusion.
“I mean… you are married to Grandpa right? Or is this some kind of… I’m much younger now and technically I’m single?” I asked her. I’m still trying to figure out the whole goddess thing with her.
“First off, yes. I'm married to Jericho. I love him with all my heart.” She said to me with a smile before adding. “And I'm not going against his back if he already knows.” She said before pulling out her scroll to reveal a message from Grandpa.
“Ha! It's good to know that my beloved still has the looks to make them swoon.” Was the text with a laughing emoji at the end. I stared at this before Mavis put the scroll away.
“I’m… going to let this go… I feel like I’m going to get a headache from all of this.” I said to Mavis who chuckled.
“Doubt it.” She said to me simply before taking the bag with Amber inside and saying. “I'm going to take Amber out for some walkies and feed her.” She told me before adding. “You go and socialize, don't think I haven't seen that Ruby girl.” She said to me with a smile. I nodded at her as Mavis headed off, swaying her hips which, from some people that were around, drew their attention. I shook my head at this before heading off to socialize a bit… I hope.
As I was walking I was stopped with some yelling as… some dragon Faunus guy was running around on fire as a group consisting of a guy and two girls looked on with intrigue.
“Fucks sake put it out!” Yelled the Dragon man as he began to roll on the ground, only for it to not work.
“Stop whining, you're the one that suggested this.” Said another guy, a normal looking human by all regards besides his dirty steel grey hair, which slightly covered by a trilby hat. “Besides your skin isn't peeling off so-”
“Fuck off you twat!” The dragon Faunus yelled before one of the girls, a very gothy looking rocker chick walked up and dumped a bucket of water on the guy. “Finally~” Sighed the dragon man.
“Wuss.” Said the other man with a smirk, only to be flipped off by the dragon Faunus. I slowly blinked at this and had every mind to turned away and walked off… but Mavis did say I should socialize more but I ultimately decided to just move on down the street. Sure I would've went to talk to them but… I thought otherwise.
I continued on walking before I ran into someone. “Oh sorry, didn’t mean to-” I stopped as I looked up. Did I walk into a giant?!
“Huh?” The female giant said as she looked down at me, her long red hair braid down I guess her back and her face was tanned and freckled seemed to invaded her face. She wore a white shirt and overalls that covered her body. From the looks of it she was a Faunus, juging from the tail and ears that look like they belong on a cow. “Oh sorry, did I run into you?”
“Uh, no… other way around actually.” I said to the tall woman who smiled at me. “Uh, you new here too?”
“Oh yes, I’m trying to find the gathering hall for the assembly.” the woman said. I blinked at her as she said this.
“Umm, the assembly… happened. You missed it.” I told her.
“Oh… was it important?” She asked as I thought back on it.
“Uhh, it’s just the headmaster saying hi, telling us that there’s a event tomorrow and we would get our rooms after it.” I explain to her. “For tonight we are going to sleep in the gym.”
“Oh good to hear… um where’s the gym then?” She asked me. I stared at her before leaning over and seeing said building behind her.
“It’s… it’s right over there.” I told her which she turned around.
“Oh thank you! You're really nice.” She said to me happily. I smiled at her, though it was a little forced as she went off towards the building.
“Okay then…” I said to myself as I went off to look around some more.
A few hours later…
It was night time as all the new students were getting ready for bed, again they allow the boys and girls to sleep in one large room but if anyone did anything and they would kick us out of school. I was sitting against a wall with my stuff close to me and Molten Fox on my lap as I gave her some maintenance. I wore my PJ’s while doing this so I could not worry changing after I was done. As I worked on this someone came up to me, making me look up to see Mavis standing in front of me wearing a outfit that… well drew in heads. She wore a top that simply covered her chest and some shorts that would act like underwear… how she’s able to get away with this is beyond me.
“Hi Mavis.” I greeted her.
“Hey Viri.” She greeted back with a smile before she began to stretch a little bit. “Hope your day was as fun as mine.” She added. I arched a brow as a number of guys were staring at her as she did this.
“Yeah, I bet you did.” I said to her. “And my day has been alright.” I told her before she laid down beside me, on the bag she had set up before leaving to change.
“Meet anyone interesting?” She asked me with a smile, intrigued about my day.
“Well, I did meet some woman. Very tall Faunus woman that-” I stopped when I saw the one I was talking about. “Oh, that’s her over there.” I said, pointing over to the woman in question.
“Oh my~ quite the looker.” She said with a chuckle and a smirk. I looked at Mavis and back at the woman in question. She was in a oversize shirt as she rolled out a sleeping bag.
“Sure… anyway, ran into her, literally, and asked me where was the gathering hall. I guess she was late so I told her where we were all going to head to sleep for the night… even though it was right behind her the whole time.” I explained to Mavis. “Don’t know her name though, she never asked for mine and I didn’t ask for hers.”
“Maybe you should get to know her, I know I would.” Mavis purred jokingly and I knew that too but… ew.
“I… eww… just eww…” I said to her with a frown. “Was this how you acted when you were my age?” I asked her. Her response was to lightly slap me with her tail.
“Rude of you to even suggest that, I'll have you know I was a renown huntress when I was your age.” She said to me with a serious frown before she flipped onto her back. “And besides, I'm letting loose my playful nature.” She said to me. Just as she said this some guy that was nearby looked over and let out a catcall towards Mavis, getting both of our attention. We saw him grin at Mavis before something flew into the air and hit the guy in the head. The item in question being an empty can that… circled back around and hit him again all the while Mavis moved her hand around similarly to the can. This caused the guy to run away from said soup can as it chased after him.
“Well, that happened.” I said as Mavis chuckled a little.
“I don't take remarks such as that lightly.” Mavis said simply with a little laugh. Just as she said that, Yang walked by in a yellow-orange tank top and black shorts.
“Hey you two, did you see a guy getting hit in the head with a soup can?” She asked us, which I pointed in the direction. “Thanks… also hello Mavis. Enjoying yourself?” Yang asked with a grin.
“I am now.” Mavis said back with a purr and a smirk. This got Yang to chuckle before walking off, in the same direction of the guy. When she was out of earshot I looked at Mavis.
“You said you don’t take remarks lightly.” I said to her with a frown.
“I don't. Yang is just hot.” Was all she said to me. I shuddered at this, seriously that's my grandma! I shook my head as I tried to get ready for bed.
“This is really weird hearing you say that you know. I still can’t help but think your…” I glanced around to make sure we were not being listen to. “That you’re my grandma that is now younger and is going by the idea that you’re my cousin.” I whispered to her.
“Oh hush now, it's not the weirdest thing you'll ever experience.” She said just as Amber poked her head out of the bag, which got me to panic a little.
“Ah! Amber!” I said and looked around, making she now one is around. “Sorry girl, can’t come out yet… can’t have anyone see you.” This got a whine from Amber that was in the bag which made me sad. She used to be running around in the open but…
The bag soon lifted off the ground and over to Mavis, who quickly glanced around and did some odd hand gestures that made the bag glow a bit. Soon after she did this, she opened the bag and took out Amber, which sent me into a panic.
“What are you doing! Everyone will see her!” I said, eyes darting around to everyone around us. They… didn’t seem to notice anything.
“Oh calm down, they won't be able to see her until tomorrow morning.” Mavis said to me as Amber panted happily before hopping over to me. True to her word no one seem to notice her which made me smile as I gave her a big hug.
“Oooh, it’s so nice to do this again…” I said as Amber gave me a few licks which made me laugh a bit. After a few minutes both Mavis and I got into our sleeping bags and Amber curled up beside me.
“Sweet dreams Viri.” I heard Mavis say to me as Amber yawned.
“Night.” I said to the both of them before closing my eyes to sleep.
Author's Note
Mavisath: Wise, Loving, Caring, best Grandma
Mavis: Fun loving, sexy, and a bit of a flirt...
Yup, this is going to be fun~
Also Decided to mix things up with rule 63 Jaune Arc. Why? I think it be neat :3
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