0: The start of a new day
In the beginning, God created 12 marks. Each mark harness the powers needed to create a universe. And create it he did.
Man was made, and God entrusted the marks to Man. Man did as he was told.
However, one man would challenge the might of these marks. And with that power, killed millions. God would intervene, and banished the traitor and the marks to a world where he will never return.
Over 10,000 years would pass before the man would return, and bring monsters known as the Equestrians. Man was unable to fight these monsters, and as a final blessing from God, he sent his son. And with his blood, he would drive the Equestrians back to their world.
The Son would bless the Earth with a special material, known as Dust, and give abilities to those who would fight the Equestrians, should they return.
So you can gather your armies, and build your palaces. For in the end, all will fall in the icy cold eyes of Death...
“A wise man once told me, ‘treat thy neighbors as you treat thyself’.” A man said in a rather motivational tone. “Has I look upon all of you, the very student’s who had came to this school to fight the monsters that hide in the shadows, I see the protectors of this world. For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Benjamin Lawrence. I will be your head-master at Beacon Academy. With me are the staff members that will teach you. Ms. Glynda Goodwitch will be your combat teacher. She’s strict, but will surely have you fighting in no time. Mr. Time Turner will be your History teacher. He will teach you the history of the Equestrians, and other events that had happened because of them. And finally, Ms. Ditzy Doo. She will explain how the Equestrians act, behave and how they work. While these aren’t all the teachers, these three will be in charge of teaching you.
“And now for the teams. Through your time in the Emerald Forest, you partnered with the first person you saw. Your task in the Emerald Forest was to find an ancient landmark, and retrieve one of the many relics, that were chess pieces, and return with the relics in hand. There were 16 people in the first wave, forming 8 pairs, which means we are making 4 teams. The chess pieces determine which team you are on. The leaders and teammates are set based on their actions throughout the trial. First I will reveal the groups, then I will announce the teams, then, after all had been done, the rankings. I’ll explain the ranking at a later time. Here are the groups that were formed.”
A female computer voice read out the names of various students while their pictures were shown above the names.
- Coco Adel & Fox Alistair
- Jaune Arc & Pyrrha Nikos
- Blake Belladonna & Yang Xiao Long
- Yatsuhashi Daichi & Velvet Scarlatina
- Octavia Melody & Vinyl Scratch
- Lie Ren & Nora Valkyrie
- Ruby Rose & Weiss Schnee
- Babs Seed & Flutters
“Without further ado,” Benjamin said, “I’ll read out the teams.” He pulled out some cards in his pant’s pocket. “As I call your name, please step forward.” He began to read the names from the cards. “Coco Adel, Fox Alistair, Velvet Scarlatina, and Yatsuhashi Daichi.” All four stepped on the stage. “Because you four retrieved the white bishop pieces, you 4 will be known as Team CFVY [Pronounced Coffee]. And your leader is miss Coco Adel. Congratulations.” Clapping was heard from the audience in the school’s auditorium, congratulating the team’s formation.
“Jaune Arc, Nora Valkyrie, Pyra Nikos, and Lie Ren. Because you four retrieved the white rook pieces, you 4 will be known as Team JNPR [Pronounced Juniper]. And your leader is mister Jaune Arc. Congratulations.” Clapping was summoned yet again, then silenced as Benjamin was about to announce the next team.
“Blake Belladonna, Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, and Yang Xiao Long. Because you four had retrieved the white knight pieces, you 4 will be known as Team RWBY [Pronounced Ruby]. And your leader will be miss Ruby Rose. Congratulations.” More claps were summoned, a few of them had confused looks but accepted it.
“And the final team for the day,” Benjamin said, “Babs Seed, Octavia Melody, Vinyl Scratch, and Flutters. Because you four had retrieved the black knight pieces, the 4 of you will be known as Team Dark Horse. And your leader is Babs Seed. Congratulations.” Nobody clapped. Nobody wanted the Equestrians. They were supposed to be training to fight them, not work with them. “That will be all. I will give the leaders the keys to their dorm rooms. Tomorrow, you can decorate your rooms however you like. Classes will start after all the teams had been assembled. Thank you, and goodnight.” The ceremony ended worse then what many of the staff thought it would. Everyone booed at the Equestrians, telling them to “fuck off” or “go back where they came from”. Still, they were used to it. They always were.
After the ceremony, the four staff members that were present were in a clocktower room. Above them were cogs and gears that were still functioning. Turner was pacing the floors of the room, while Ditzy was covering herself in shame. Meanwhile, Benjamin was sitting in a chair with Glynda on the table that the chair was next to. “What are we doing?” Ditzy finally said in a disbelieving tone.
“We were doing something that could to the world a favor.” Glynda said in a threatening matter. “For years the world feared the Equestrians. Hoping they wouldn’t become a midnight snack for those things, like their missing friends and loved ones.”
“But is this something I would’ve thought to be a good idea? Sending them into a huntsmen school to fight their own kind? If anything, they’ll be ripped apart by the angry mobs before they would even be praised for their work! Ben, you gotta stop this! There is no way we can keep them alive for long. You saw the reactions to their team!”
“What more can we do Derpy?” Benjamin finally said. “You had placed hope in them before. That they could make a difference.”
Derpy huffed. “That was before I saw the crowd of angry people!”
Ben sighed. “What do you think of this Doctor Turner? You’ve been rather quiet.”
Turner stopped pacing and looked at the head master. “Well, given the events, it might take a while for the students to adjust to this idea of Equestrians fighting themselves.” Derpy sighed in relief. “However, it could also fill hope to the brim that maybe this might be a sign. Maybe we should let this play out.”
Derpy stood up with a dumfound look on her cross eyed face. “Those four are living creatures, not a punching bag! Ben, you have to-”
“-stop this, I know.” Ben finished Derpy’s sentence. “But what can I do?” Silence. “The Equestrian Hunger is out of their systems, making them more likely to fit into a human life. It’s only a matter of time before they have to face many dangers that they will not be prepared for. In any case, the pieces are placed.” Ben took a sip from his mug filled with hot tea. “Now lets see what happens.”
Author's Note
Please look at this page if you like to know about the characters a little more.
I decided to skip the beginning of RWBY mainly because A) no MLP characters would fit. And B) I wanted to try a Robert Kirkman style of writing, where they get to the main part with the backstory slowly being explained as the story progressed. This whole thing was mainly a pilot episode to get things started, and get some of the issues running freely. If anyone recognized the ending, you may see why this fits so perfectly with everything.
If you want more of this, let me know. Hope you enjoyed.
1: The day to know everyone.
In the next 12 hours, everyone slept well. Well, except for one member of Team Dark Horse. Flutters was standing outside the door leading into Dark Horse’s dorm. The living costume can’t sleep, even if he tried. He can rest, but not dream. He never had the ability to dream, for all he saw in the darkness was the shadows of his past. Flutters had a filthy yellow coat, held together by black tread, and a pink yarn-like mane only facing to the right of him, covering that side of his face. His eyes and mouth were pitch black, like a void of shadows. He also had a sleeveless coat on, made of black leather, which was starting to peel off the coat itself. The thing also has incredible strength, but has no voice to make up for it. He also wasn’t very smart, only knowing what friends and enemies are, like most animals in the wild. For that is all he is, an animal.
Flutters’ head was facing the wooden ground, until he heard the floors creek down the hallway. Somebody was coming for them, and Flutters didn’t want them to hurt his teammates. His friends. Flutters stood up to face the source of the sound, only to find a girl down the hall. The girl had long brown hair, bunny ears, and wore black, red, and white plaid pajamas, and was sleepwalking. Flutters memories wasn’t good, but he remembered the girl’s name. Velvet. He stood in front of the girl, which stopped her in place. The impact cause her to slowly wake for her slumber, causing a little yawn from the bunny girl. Velvet was confused for a moment. She was in the dorm hallway, in her pajamas, and in front of an Equestrian monster. She rubbed her eyes and apologized before opening her eyes wide with fear. They were brown, like her hair.
Flutters was feared by many people in the past. All them feared him before they got to know him has a lovable marshmallow. But Velvet was afraid of him. She was afraid of being eaten alive by a thing she was training to fight. She had no idea what to do about him, if she could do anything. After a few minutes of silence, Velvet finally said to him, “H-h-hello. I-I’m Velvet.” Flutters let out a grim sigh. “friend?” he asked. Velvet felt a little scared about the fact of hurting the poor thing’s feelings, as she wasn’t sure if he was going to hurt her. Velvet simply responded with “Okay, sure” in order to prevent the thing from getting mad.
Flutters pitch black mouth grew into a big smile as he approached the little rabbit girl. Velvet feared her life as Flutters began to approach her, bringing her into a bear hug. Flutters’ yellow fur felt soft and comfy to Velvet. So much so, that she feel asleep, thinking she was in bed. Flutters saw the little rabbit girl sleep on him, and his smile shrunk to a mere line. He picked Velvet up, and carried her to her team’s dorm room. Velvet woke up the next day, in her bed, feeling relieved that she wasn’t eaten. Maybe they aren’t so bad, Velvet thought to herself with a smile, as she looked out the window, seeing Flutters under a tree, reading a book.
Velvet spent the whole morning decorating the dorm room with her fellow teammates. All and all, it was okay. Velvet sat on the wooden chair where the study table was, took out her notebook, and jot some things down about the day. She also noted various things about her teammates. Like how Fox was blind, yet uses something to help him see to an extent. Yatsuhashi was like a brother to her, even if he didn’t talk much. And Coco... Velvet stopped after writing her name and looked at the girl she was writing about. She was in her combat uniform, looking at a fashion magazine, and had some sunglasses covering her eyes. Why she wore them was beyond her. Coco eyed Velvet, lowered her shades and winked at her with a grin. Velvet's face turned red. Damn, why does she have to be so hot!?! Velvet hid her face in her book. Her head then shot up a minute later, as she then had an idea. “What if we introduced ourselves to the other teams?”
Only Coco was in the room, unfortunately. Fox left after decorating, and Yatsusashi is outside meditating. Coco, lowered her shades to look at her more clearly. “Why?”
“It’s common curtesy to introduce yourself. Plus there might be someone you might like. Come on, let’s make some friends!”
Damn, why does she have to be so cute!?! Coco sighed before agreeing, earning a delightful yay from Velvet. Coco swears she saw stars in her eyes. This was gonna be a long day, Coco thought to herself. But, it can’t be that bad. With that, Coco got up from her neatly folded bed, and head out with Velvet to, hopefully, bond with her follow classmates.
The first two teams they visited weren’t as much as Coco hoped for. The only one she bonded with was Weiss from Team RWBY. Velvet, however, bonded with half of the people they visited. Those four being Ruby and her sister Yang from team RWBY, and Jaune and Pyrrha from Team JNPR. The only ones they never got to bond with were Blake from Team RWBY, and Nora and Ren from Team JNPR. Then came one more team. The last of the four teams that were made in the first ceremony. Team Dark Horse [see previous Chapter. Pen]. As much as Coco didn’t want to go in there, Velvet insisted on doing it. And so, she knocked on the door, and waited. Once the door was opened, Velvet tried to introduce herself but was meet with the tip of a curved long-sword poking her nose.
“Whoever you are,” the owner of the sword said, “we don’t want any trouble. So back up a bit, show you’re unarmed, and walk in slowly.”
“Alright,” Coco said, “Maybe we should go Velvet.”
“No!” Velvet yelled “We said we’d do every team.” She sighed. “Hi, I’m Velvet. This is Coco. We thought we’d get to know the other teams a little more, and sense you’re the only team left, I-”
Velvet was cut off as the sword was removed and the door was slammed. Apparently they don’t want visitors. After yesterday’s mob, it was understandable that they would isolated themselves. Velvet wasn’t going to give up. She knocked on the door again, and waited, again. And the door opened, again. Coco was in shock with what was in front of the door. Velvet, however, decided to continue with her talk only to open her eyes to see a familiar filthy yellow coat. Flutters was standing between the two girls and the doorway. Coco had her mouth open at the sheer size of the costumed creature. Velvet kept her smile on, and raised her arms up for an embrace. “Hugs?”
“Velvet!” Coco yelled. “Are you crazy!?!” Without a second to delay, Flutters trapped the two girls in a big bear hug. While Velvet appreciated it, Coco was in an awfully amount of discomfort and tried to get away from the monster’s crushing hug. However, Flutters carried the two inside despite one of them objecting completely to the idea.
Flutters finally lets go of the two girls from his hug to reveal their dorm room. It wasn’t as bad as Coco thought it would be. Everything was clean and almost just the same as their dorm. Fully functioning kitchen, a TV room with a couch, and a chess board. The only exception being the bedroom. 2 of the 4 beds were present, one side of the room was painted purple, while the other side was orange. The purple side had a chained weapon and techno gun of some sort, a cello, various vinyl disks from the 60’s to the 80’s, and a bed, which big enough for two people to sleep in. The orange side had the walk-in closet, a dresser with a mirror, various vials of a combustible liquid, and a bed.
Coco looked around the kitchen, opening cabinets and the fridge to see if any human remains while Velvet blushed in embarrassment. Flutters walked over to a chest next to the couch, opened it and took out the same book Velvet saw him read this morning. The book had a brown cover with no title, which as odd to Velvet. Flutters sat on the couch and offered Velvet to sit with him. She did, and was shocked to find child-like drawings. Some of Flutters, others of a family. From the looks of it, the family consisted of a mom, 2 girls and a baby. “Those were the Wetsworth family.”
Velvet was shocked to see Babs Seed was in front of her. Her dark orange skin, green eyes, and pink hair now in full view. “They were a family that Flutters was around before he wounded up here.” She pointed at the figures in the drawing while explaining more about them. “The Mother’s name was Carylon, the eldest of the family was Elizabeth. She goes by Eliza to friends. The youngest daughter is Molly, and the baby’s name is Gage.”
Coco, convinced there wasn’t anything they could eat (aside from normal food), sat next to Velvet, looking at the pictures. “What happened to them?” She asked. Flutters small, black smile slowly turned into a frown. Tears were forming from his large pitch black eyes.
“There was an earthquake. The house they were living in collapsed. Flutters tried to save as many as he could. But, ultimately, he couldn’t. Carylon and Gage died and Eliza went missing. Molly was the only one who survived,” tears were forming from Babs eyes and slide down her checks. She was struggling to finish her story. “But she could never walk again.”
Flutter screamed and threw the book from his hands (upper hooves), earning a heavy thud and several cracks to form on the wall, ran out the door, which was left open, and slammed it shut. His cry was heard from everyone's dorms in the hallway. Black liquid began to leave a trail of tears where Flutters ran outside twistedly screaming. Velvet and Coco was shocked to say the least. That thing really had someone who loved and cared for him, and that was taken away from him. It showed a more human side to the creature. Babs fell to her knees, and covered her face with her hands. She was crying. Like how a little girl would feel with guilt chained all over her. To Velvet's surprise, Coco went up to comfort the fellow team leader, putting her in an embrace, as she let her cry on her shoulders. Coco hushed Babs, saying everything would be okay. Velvet felt relived that Coco finally treated the Equestrians like a friend. Knowing well ahead, that this will be the start of a new era, where Humans and Equestrians would work together.
At the end of the day, after several games of chess, Babs said goodbye to her two guests, cleaned up the dorm a bit, and laid down on her bed in the orange side of the bedroom. Babs then took out a photo from under her pillow, and stared at it. It was a picture of her and her family, in front of a red farmhouse, and surrounded by apple trees. She stared at the photo for what felt like hours, before her other two teammates walked into the bedroom from their date. Passionately making out, they fell on their bed (on the purple side) and moaned in each others mouths. Babs decided to leave the two love birds alone, and went outside, down the hall to cool off. That moment, Velvet informed her fellow teammates of her and Coco's trip, and recommended something that could help the teams know each other a little more.
Author's Note
Here we go! Chapter 1 is officially done!
Over the span of a few days after posting it, 5 people favorited it and I was happy that the favorites were given. The whole thing was actually nice. I type stuff on this site (even though I give 0 craps about the brony community), and let my creations flow. Over the course of the few weeks this story was up, I had more motivation to continue this then I did with my other stories I did on this site, and I owe it all to you guys for reading this. Thank you.
I also had Velvet and Coco as the main characters of this chapter. I felt like I could try to get an understanding of the Equestrians using Velvet as a cute little bunny girl, trying to get her leader, Coco, to interact with the neighbors. It was a nice thing while it was done. Next chapter will be Team RWBY vs Team Dark Horse. Stay tuned for that show sometime soon.
