The morning was chilly but mildly breezy one as it. The few students that would answer the call of duty and adventure to the tiny school. Ironforrest, the town creating a school from its own town hall as it didn't have facilities needed to support a school elsewhere. Gathering up in a line outfront the school, the students would meet their teacher(s) there. Gazing over the three of them, a male in a lab coat would be the first to greet them. He was six foot four, slim, had a t shirt and jeans on and a stethoscope around his neck. "Right... so... I'm Lute. I'm the... shit.. what was it called again.. head... pres.. PRINCIPAL! yes. I'm the principal of your school, Ironforrest Academy. Also happen to be the nurse, so there's that. We got a few more teachers on staff... so i'd like to introduce you to them..." he explained scratching his head a bit.

"First up we got Bob. he is weapons maintenance along with field tester teacher. some of you are from the island, that's ok and can probably sleep through his classes. Though, i wouldn't advise it, he is rather... stern with no sleeping." he explained, gesturing to a short man who had muscles well defined, veins bulging and was in a smith's apron. "Like the man said, don't mess with me classes and we'll be good. Aye?" asked the short man. He had a forge hammer resting on his shoulder while they waited.

"Next... this is Miss Moose." he said gesturing to the next woman, she had seven fox tails coming from her back. "She shall be general semblance and aura studies." He explained. The woman had on a long and simple dress, giving a professional look that was topped off with glasses and long hair. "Pleasure.' she said, curtsying.

"and... well... they're somewhere. You'll know when you see them, they're your instructors for combat. Twins, Ebony and Ivory." Lute said. "well, go get settled into your dorms.. fourth floor and a few rooms in the attic." explained the doctor, shrugging. "Three students..." he saighed and put his fingers to his nose. "more teachers than kids..." Lute sighed heavily and turned to enter into the building. "Class starts in an hour, it'll be the lecture hall." he said and the rest of the teachers dispersed into the building. All three of them.

The far left student looked around herself. She was leaning on a large hammer with her arms folded, shivering a bit. "Ugh... cold..." she shivered and looked at the other two gathered. "So... I'm Mika... you two?" she asked, tucking the scarf up over her mouth as to conserve her heat. Another shudder ran through the girl, making her silently curse under her breath. "Fucking medicine..." she cursed.

Much Earlier
Silvi sat at the desk in her room and looked over the compound that was both Wulka Armaments, one of the premier weapons and armour makers on Ferris, and her home. From her second floor bedroom, she could see not only the private grounds surrounding her house, but also the workshops, design studio, laboratory, range and testing grounds that were spread across the five acre lot.

Smiling, she watching as early dawn light crept across the grounds, while in front of her, she was carefully disassembling, cleaning, and then re-assembling Moonlight Shard. Humming softly as she worked, her tail twitched slightly as her bedroom slowly swung open.

“HEYSISAREYOUEXCITEDFO-” Her brother shouted as he burst into her room, shining a spot light on her…empty…bed. “What are you? Twelve?” She said with a smirk, from the other side of the room. “Damn,” Her older brother Habeen muttered. “I just wanted to make sure you were up in time to get to the Academy.” He added louder, doing his best to look virtuous, and failing. “Riiight,” Silvi replied, putting the last few pieces together. “You’re so concerned you decided to ‘wake’ me a full 3 hours before I’d even need to leave here to get to Iron Forrest…asshole.” Habeen laughed. “And a good morning to you to dear sister!”

Shaking her head as her brother left, she cycled Moonlight Shard between modes before sliding it back into its scabbard. Standing, she hung the sword on her belt, grabbed her collapsed shield, and went in search of breakfast before some morning practice.

Now
Standing in front of the old town hall, Silvi was less than enthusiastic about what she saw. Three of us? Seriously? Only partially listening to…Lute was it? She instead did her best to observe the other two out of the corner of her eye. Great two humans, an I’m the tallest… She thought a tad sourly. Silvi had no problem with humans in general, at least a third of the company’s people, and their cook, were human, as well as several of her grade school friends…it was just that being the only faunus student, and the tallest by a wide margin, made her feel a tad ‘exposed’ as it were.

Apparently the staffing meet-and-greet was over and they had an hour to kill.

"So... I'm Mika... you two?"

“Hi, my name is Silvi,” She said, offering a hand; as she spoke, her tail unconsciously wrapped around her legs, a little tick when she was nervous. “Are you okay Mika?” The tiny girl seemed to be shivering pretty good; by Atlas standards, Ferris was a fairly warm place thanks to the active volcano, but visitors still found it a bit on the cool side…Silvi however, being a local, barely even noticed.

Earlier

Aiden was walking around the town before heading to the school. Wanting to get a good feel for the city in case things turn out horrible for him and he needed a way out. The only thing he could think of was that it was so damn cold. 'Meh, why did I think it was such a good idea to come to this school?! Ugh,' he thought as he took the sights in.

Seeing the small town as he almost shook his head. 'if I was still with my old gang, we could easily run this town..probably.' Aiden sighs lightly as he thought of his old gang. He told himself it was for the best to get them locked up. His father was going insane, and hopefully, with him being behind bars he won't end up dead.

Pushing thought asides as he went to the market and take a look around. Finding small selections that people were selling as he browses what they had. Getting hungry from just seeing the food out on display. 'Piece of cake' he thought to himself. Once the Fruit seller looks away, Aiden swipes two apples away and strode away quickly. Putting one apple in his pocket as he munch on the first. Eating his breakfast of the day.

Now

Aiden did not know how to take all of this in. There was hardly any students here and the teachers themselves seem to be uninspired to be here as well. He wonders why they were doing this, was the fall of Beacon so bad that they needed Hunters/Huntress that badly around here? Pushing the thought away for now as he looks over his team.

Two lovely ladies and one of them were a Faunus, neat. He never knew why so many humans had problems with Faunus. They weren't that different from each other. Though he could be biased since he works with Faunus a lot more than the normal human would have, and most of them were thieves like he was. 'Hmmm let's just forget about that part than...' He thought as he returns his focus on his teammates.

"So... I'm Mika... you two?"

“Hi, my name is Silvi"

Letting them chat for a bit before he made his introduction.

"Hello, Mika and Silvi. Names Aiden." He said with a warm smile. His hands behind his head as he walks closer to them. Though he put his hands down as his right hand went to his pocket. Pulling out the second apple as he offers it up, "Anyone hungry? Had an extra Apple on me."

"Yes... i'm fine... just... need to take some medicine... body's chemicals are at a natural imbalance in a rather deadly way, so this stuff prevents me from dieing. Calms down my hyperactivity as well, but the negative is that i tend to get cold rather easily... slow moving blood means i'm lethargic occasionally and tend to be cold, no matter what sauna i'm in..." explained Mika, another shiver running through her now as she wrapped the scarf thicker, hoping to keep herself warmer.

"As for the food, i'll pass... tend to enjoy my meals hot, unsurprisingly. Pleasure to meet you both though." added the girl, looking around them. "I saw a soup restaurant on the way in if you want to drop our shit off and head there." Mika said, referencing a place that Silvi would know as the Little Ladle, a nice little restaurant specializing in soups run by an old couple.

“Well…shit…” Sivli muttered as Mika mentioned her health problems, though it made her question just why someone with her health ‘issues’ would want to become a huntress; her aunt had told her much about her own travel, that she knew huntresses could find themselves away from civilization for extended periods of time…not good if one needed regular medication.

But before she could think on that too much more, the other human introduced himself. “Nice to meet you Aiden,” She replied, smiling. “I’ll pass on the apple, but soup sounds good. Was up pretty early and I don’t remember the last time I was in Little Ladle.” Reaching into a pocket, she pulled out one of the latest models of Scroll to check the time and reply to a message. “My stuff isn’t here yet. Managed to sweet talk our driver into dropping it off here after he finishes his rounds; but go ahead, I’ll wait here for you two.”

Aiden listens to Mika and Sivli chat as they discuss Mika's health. Aiden thought it was weird that Mika was here since she requires such medicine, but at the same time, you gotta do what you gotta do. He learned this from his old friends in the gang. A few of them were sickly and couldn't afford the payments for such medicine. Which leads them to a life of crime. Which got Aiden thinking, what kind of sickness she got, but he never asked since it would seem rude to do so when he just met her.

"mm alright, more apple for me later," Aiden said after they reject his apple. "Eh, I'm good for food for now. Maybe in a bit later, so we can all go," he said as he looks over at Silvi. Noticing her new phone as he wonders how much he could get if he swiped it from her. Though once that thought came, he quickly pushes it out of his head. You're not that person any more Aiden...you gotta quit thinking like that.'

"Maybe we should go to our dorm rooms and check it out."

"Yeah, let's get settled in, even if they're bringing it here, you can atleast formulate an idea or something in your head, Sivli." mentioned the girl, picking up her stuff and walking into the building. If the other two would follow, they'd fin themselves in the main entrance way for the building. A board was posted with room assignments. there had been about twenty kids that had accepted, but each one was crossed out with different reasons written next to their names. a few were question marks, showing questionable attendance and then the three of them had check marks next to them.

Silvi and Mika were assigned to room A1 while Aiden was assigned to A2 across the hall. these were rooms in the attic, probably the only dorm space left to use in the building as most was renovated to different things. areas for classrooms, interior training an so forth. poor school really was down on its luck and funds judging by it. However, it was independent from all the other major schools that were still around, so it didn't need to conform or defer to other rules. Heading up to the attic now, the group would find each room had a pair of beds in it. Doors were left open so they could talk. "So... where is everyone from?" Mika asked now, looking around as she put away her stuff, the driver bringing up Silvi's stuff shortly.

"Maybe we should go to our dorm rooms and check it out."

"Yeah, let's get settled in, even if they're bringing it here, you can at least formulate an idea or something in your head, Sivli."

“That’s…actually not a bad idea.” Silvi replied, following after Mika and Aiden. Walking through the town hall, Silvi was mostly curious to see how the building had been changed; even though she’d never really been in line to take over any facet of the company, her parents had still insisted she at least understand the basics of how things were done…which included more trips than she could remember to this very building for some tediously boring meeting with some local official.

Eventually they found their way to their assigned rooms, and the other two set about storing their gear while she waited for hers to arrive.

"So... where is everyone from?"

Taking off her jacket she threw it onto the unclaimed bed, while unbuckling her weapons belt and hanging it off a bed post. “Local girl.” She replied, sitting down and curling her tail onto her lap. “My folks place is about 20 min outta town. It’s al-” Before she could get any further an older human male appeared in the doorway, knocking as he did so.

The man was in his late 40s or early 50s with dark hair that was liberally streaked with grey, and he was dressed in a tidy set of green coveralls with the Wulka Armaments logo on the left breast. “Hey there little cub, they said I’d find you up here.” Silvi let out a surprised ‘yip’ and leapt to her feet. “Berun!” She said as she rushed over. Sticking her head into the hall, she saw her suitcases of clothes and her tool chest sitting there, just behind him.

Smiling, she stood back straight and cuffed him in the arm. “You fool.” She chided. “Why’d you lug them all the way up here? You could’ve just told me you were here, I’d have come and got them.” Berun simply smiled and rested a hand on her shoulder. “If I can help you in whatever small way, I’m glad to do it. I might not be able to help fight those beasts, but I know you’ll do fine.” Silvi smiled and gave Berun a hug. “Thanks.” She said softly; letting go, she then waved to Aiden and Mika. “These are the rest of the student body, Aiden and Mika,”

From the look in Berun’s eyes, he was no happier about the turn out than Silvi was. “Nice to meet you.” He replied, nodding to the others before turning his attention back to Silvi. “Well little cub, I’d best be off.” He said as he turned to leave. “Don’t let Daddy or Habeen work you too hard.” Berun just laughed as he headed back the way he’d come.

Silvi stepped into the hallway, first dragging her suitcases and then the tool chest into her and Mika’s room. Opening the suitcases, she began to pack her clothes into ‘her’ closet and chest of drawers. “Right, like I was saying, local born. My folks own Wulka Armaments, Berun there, he’s been working for us for as long as I can remember.” To those who knew what to look for all her clothes were, while not flashy, top quality brands, the type of stuff that people who valued quality over simply a ‘brand name’ sought out.

Aiden follows the two girls to the rooms as he thinks to himself. 'Huh, very quiet around here. Wonder why no one here yet.' Though that question was soon answered as he saw the board with all the student's names, or at least had their names before they were crossed out or had a question mark over them. 'I guess the fall of Beacon scared more people off.' He assumed before joining the others at the rooms. Seeing he was the only one in room A1 at the moment. He didn't have much since he didn't bring much with him. Throwing his only bag on the bed as he walks over to the girls' room.

"So... where is everyone from?"

Aiden thought about it, wondering if he should even say where he from. Thinking of just giving a vague answer as he said, "Vale. Was from a small town. Nothing great about it. Always wanted an exciting life." He smiles but soon that disappear as he jump nearly out of his skin when he heard a knock on the door. Stepping to the side, as it seems the man who was standing there was a butler or something for Silvi.

Doing a small wave at Berun as he saw the look in the old man eyes. He didn't seem to be pleased at all about the current situation. He couldn't blame him since this Silvi looks to be a corporate 'princess' where she should have been sent to Atlas or something more respectable.

Mika looked around and raised an eyebrow at the sight of the boy jumping out of his skin. "If you think that is scary, then it won't be easy for you with the grimm... no formal fighting can prepare you for it... hell, i've only had a few fights myself, during travels with my parents. As for me, moved around a lot. Never stayed in one place for too long." she explained, sighing and looking down at her hands as they started to shake. Her breathing pace began to increase and quickly Mika got out an injection and stabbed it into her arm, the needle dispensing the liquid quickly into her. There was a visible shudder and a sigh of relief now, the girl pulling it out of herself before sitting on the bed to regain herself now. "Must... have forgotten to take my pills this morning in the... excitement. So to speak..." said the girl, eye glossing over for a small bit as she relaxed into the bed. "Rather hungry now...." the girl giggled.

Once again, there was a momentary flash of concern about Mika’s health in Silvi’s eyes, as the smaller girl injected her medication. Part of her really wanted to ask Mika just what was wrong, if they were going to be on the same team, then knowing stuff like that could be very useful if something went wrong while they were out; but Sivli couldn’t muster the nerve to ask, hell, she’d only just the other two.

Hi I’m Silvi, nice to meet you, by the way, just what are you dying of!? Yeah…that’d go over great… She thought sardonically to herself. As these thoughts rattled about, unconsciously she wrapped her tail up around her waist now, and began to idly play with the tip of it.

"Rather hungry now...."

The giggle snapped her out of her own thoughts, and she smiled at Mika. “That sounds like a good idea. I dunno about other faunus, but wolves like me have a pretty fast metabolism, and I had breakfast like 3 hours ago, so yeah I’m getting kinda hungry myself.” Letting go of her tail, she turned her smile towards Aiden, she started to head for the door. “You coming? Hey, tell you what.” She said with a moment’s inspiration. “Food is on me, so long as I don’t go crazy with my spending, my folks are pretty generous with the lien.”

Aiden was a bit annoyed from Mika comment, "I was just startled, never expect someone to show up already." He said but soon got over it. Not wanting to cause anything yet with his new teammates just yet. Plus he was about to get some free food, so all is good. "Yeah, I'm coming along. Free food is free food." He smiles as he follows the two girls out.

"Have an idea of where to eat, Rich girl?" Aiden said, giving the nickname to Silvi as all of her actions so far seem to be qualities of someone who has quite a bit of money. She has the latest scrolls, which cost quite a bit for being the newest model out in the market. She has a butler of her own, as well as it seems her family holds quite a bit of power. 'hmm I should look into her family line to see how rich and powerful they are.'

Mika got off the bed and followed the two of them towards the soup place that they were heading to. "Yeah... food is good." Giggled Mika, the drug clearly being rather powerful. "Sorry if i get all bubbly and stuff, it takes a lil bit to balance out when it's an injection and not pills." she explained, following along and attempting to put an arm around Silvi's shoulder all giddily and happily. "So armorers making money... hehe... weapons are good... i like mine." she said, holing the hammer by the head with one hand. "Super cool!"

"Have an idea of where to eat, Rich girl?"

Silvi playfully stuck her tongue out at Aiden, more in response to his tone of voice, than what he actually said. “I’m not that rich, I mean, I’m no Schnee or anything.” She said brightly, before muttering. “Bigoted fuck-buckets.” She was chuckling at Mika’s ‘hyper-happy’ mode, but let out another surprised ‘yip’ as the short girl tried to wrap an arm around her waist, and ended up with half a handful of Silvi’s skinny backside.

Doing her best to extricate herself, without making it look too obvious that that was what she was doing. “Nice hammer.” She said as she slipped free. “Sometime soon we should bomb out to my place and introduce you two to my folks; I mean if you’re going to be hunters and huntresses, it wouldn’t hurt to have some personal contacts with at least one armourer.” She added, grinning playfully. “Anyways, back to food. ‘Little Ladle’ still sound good?”

With the other two in agreement, they made their way to the soup café. ‘Little Ladle’ was a local institution as far as eateries went; owned by an elderly human couple named Ube and Lavi Sno, it’d been selling good soups, quickly and for a reasonable price, for as long as most people could remember. As they entered, they were greeted by Lavi Sno, a bustling grey haired woman who seemed to exude large amounts of positive energy.

“Come in, come in!” She chirped brightly as she rushed towards them across the sparsely populated little place. “You must be some of our new hunters and huntresses to be!” Reaching the trio, she clasped each of their hands and shook them. “Well good for you kids, we can never have too many folks willing to keep the Grimm at bay.” Her words were caught by the few other customers, who added their approvals with a smattering of applause.

Having been seated at a window booth, they were all presented with simple menus and left to make up their minds while ‘Auntie Lavi’ as she insisted she be called, went to get their drinks; and once they had all made up their minds, the three of them quickly found a rather substantial bowl of soup placed before each of them.

'Little ladle, huh?' Aiden thought as he walks inside and was greeted by the friendliest, cheerful, old woman he ever seen. Smiling from such a warm greeting as they got their seats. Aiden was looking over the menu as he thinks of what to get. He orders a sweet tea for his drink and got a bowl of crab soup.

Though the soup quickly came as he orders it. Smiling as such a quick service as he said, "Thanks, Auntie Levi." he smiles at her. Calling her by her nickname she wanted. Tasting it as he savors the flavor. "mmm perfect." he said as he starts to eat his soup. He could get used to living up here if the rest of area is this nice.

"thank you..." said the girl, giggling a bit as her soup came, a clam chowder. The girl also didn't speak too terribly much, she seemed pretty occupied with the giant bowl before herself. The meal itself was filled with idle chatter about the school and Mika somewhat remembering there were a pair of twins that were supposedly their combat instructors. Mika brought up the point and coincidentally, they were disturbed by a pair of what looked like kids clashing infront of the window they were sitting next to, just appearing with the sound of thunder from clashing blades and the pair blinked out of existence. "Hehe... funny how they show up as we were talking about them." giggled Mika now, bowl empty and girl happy.

Silvi sat back with a satisfied sigh, chuckling at Mika’s comment. “Almost like they might have been checking up on the Academy’s only students.” Once again, she couldn’t quite keep a note of disappointment out of her voice. Still savouring the rich, meaty, she sipped a glass of water and sighed once more as her scroll began to vibrate. “Oops,” She said, pulling it out and looking at it. “That’s a timer I set; we should probably head back relatively soon…they might notice if we’re late…” She added with a smirk.

Sliding out from her seat, she rubbed her rather full belly appreciatively, before heading over to the till. There was no-one in sight, but when she rang the bell a mountain of a man, about the same age as Auntie Levi stepped out of the back. As he walked over to the till, it was obvious he moved with a limp. “You must be the students Levi told me about.” The man rumbled. “I’m Ube, Uncle Ube to my friends.” He added with a smile. “A pleasure to meet you.” Silvi replied. She was generally used to either looking down or at least across at most people, even full grown adults, but even she had to look up to look Ube in the eye.

“I was a hunter once.” Ube went on. “But I miss timed a dodge, and well…let me say this, at least the Beowulf never got a second swing in.” She was unsure how to respond to that, but Ube quickly moved on. “Now then, you kids come back here any time you need a good hot meal to fill your bellies.” Seeing Silvi pulling out her wallet, he waved her off. “That’s not need Ms. Wulka, I know you for sure are good for it, but think of this as me and Levi’s little way of doing what we can to help; for you three, your meals are on us.”

Her eyes widened and her tail twitched in surprise. “That-that is very generous of you, thank you so much!” Reaching out, Sivli shook Ube’s hand, his giant mitt enveloping her own hand. With the, aborted, attempt to pay done, she thanked Ube once more and stepped out onto the street.

Aiden nodded in agreement about the food while giving little notice to the twins outside. He'll worry about school when school is in session. Eating the last portion of his soup as he pushes the bowl away. If he kept it near him, he might start up again. "Ugh..I think I ate too much." He half joke as he rubs his stomach. Loving the food as he gets up and follows Silvi. He was about to say thanks to Silvi until the big man who introduced himself as Uncle Ube came forward to greet the kids.

Aiden just found this whole place weird and not normal at all. When he was growing up, hardly anyone gave a rats ass about him or anyone other than themselves. "T-thanks," Aiden said a bit sheepishly. Never thought he would say that to anyone he didn't know very well. Putting his hands behind his head as he tries to play it off like it was nothing.

Standing up with the group, the Mika smiled and gave a bow. "Thank you Uncle Ube!" the girl said rather happily. She seemed to be getting over the "high" her medicine gave her as she seemed to be less giggly at this moment in time. Walking out the door now, The group of students found the street empty, people watching on from doorways in enjoyment and awe as the two from outside the window seemed to be going at it.

Somehow, the twins were teleporting around the street, making contact with cracks like bullets, one holding the weapon in their left hand, the otherholding it in their right. short sleeve white shirt, black slacks and a grey belt, the two had black and white hair, black on the left, white on the right of their heads; spitting image of one another. AS much as they looked like one another, they both looked like the genders, androgynous.

Upon noticing the three students, the pair stopped their warp battle and began to speak in unison.
"Hello. You three must be the new students. Welcome to combat training." Said Ebony.
"Hello. You three must be the new students. Welcome to combat training." Said Ivory.

"I'm Ebony." Said Ebony, on the left, raising their left hand; holding their smg/sword.
"I'm Ivory." Said Ivory, on the right, raising their right hand; holding their smg/sword.

"Who has fought grimm before?" Asked Ebony.
"Who has fought grimm before?" Asked Ivory.

Mika sheepishly raised her hand. "Traveling with my parents once or twice... it's part of the reason i want to become a huntress... to protect people." explained the now once more soft spoken girl.

Silvi’s tail curled uncertainly around her leg as she tried to make sense of the duo who’d been sparring in the streets; their ability to instantly move from one place to another was like nothing she’d ever heard of, and their mirror imaging of each other raised even more questions for her.

"I'm Ebony."
"I'm Ivory."

"Who has fought grimm before?"
"Who has fought grimm before?"

Please tell me they won’t be speaking like that ALL the time… She thought. She was sure they must fine it ‘cute’, but to Silvi the novelty was going to wear off really fast. “I have,” She said in response to their question. “Nothing major, just a few boarbatusks. My aunt is a huntress, and she has been instructing me, on and off, when she’s been in town.”