I’m sitting at my desk in my pajamas as I did my homework from Professor Port class. Even though most of his lessons are stories of him being a Huntsman. I tired to stay awake in his class but the way he talks…

I sighed as I flipped the page to write the rest of it as my scroll started to buzz. Looking at it, I quickly turned it on and saw that it was Father. I looked at it questioningly, having grown used to Mother always calling me. Shaking my head from these thoughts, I quickly answered the call before being greeted by father in his faunus form, one I rarely ever get to see. In this form, his body looks similar to that of a young adult with two pairs of horns. The smaller pair of horns were slightly obscured by his golden blonde hair while his larger, more jagged horns were displayed proudly.

“Have I caught you in a bad time?” He asked noticing the homework I was currently working on. I looked at it and then at the small pile I already finished.

“Not really.” I said with a shrug. I pulled up the page I'm working on. “Finishing up some homework.”

“How has Beacon academy been treating you?” He asked, a smile forming as he spoke.

“It has been good! Classes are going great… other than on that slowly putting me to sleep, never knew a teacher could have a talent on putting people to sleep.” I said looking at my page. “Made some new friends and over all everything has been great… well, other than this Cardin guy but he's just some bully that I beat in a duel that he was trying to cheat in. My teacher indigo helped me with beating him so it wasn't that hard.” Father raised a brow at the mention of a bully. I simply shrugged. “He hasn't bothered me as of yet but I'm keeping an eye out. So how have you been?”

“I'm happy to let you know that the children are back safe and sound, they've just finished telling me about their time with their families.” He said, chuckling a bit as he did. I smiled at this.

“It's nice that there back and happy.” I told him. Sure those kids pull pranks on me all the time but hearing them happy and everything fills me with joy.

“Anyway, I've called to notify you that my sister has another task for you if you wish to accept.” Father said in an informative tone. My eyebrows raised at this.

“Oh? I haven't gone on a task for some time, any idea what it's about?” I asked. Father shrugged, something he rarely ever does, before answering.

“I'm not sure, she simply wanted me to inform you that she has a task for you.” He answered. I blinked at this as this is one of a few times that my Father doesn't know something.

“Okay, when will she come to tell me this or will I get ported over?” I asked him. He stopped to think this over but luckily it wasn't a long wait.

“She didn't say but do expect her to show herself at any moment.” He said before looking off at something off the screen. “I'm afraid I have to go, the children are desperately asking me to come with them into the valley.” He said. I laughed at this.

“Alright, I'll see you when I see you.” I said with a smile. With one last smile from him the connection was cut and I was left alone. I simply shrugged as I continue working on my homework. After finishing up it and read more of the Crimson Huntress I heard a knock on the door. Looking over I walked over and opened the door. Standing there is a man that looks ancient. His pale wrinkle skin seemed to look that of cracked earth, his hair was a stark white colour with wisps of gray. His eyes one the other hand are a vibrant blue that seemed to pierce into me, as if their piercing into my soul.

“Umm, can I help you?” I asked him.

“Madam Viri, your aunt has come to collect you from school,” he said in a low old voice. “She is waiting outside.”

I blinked at him, he didn't seem to be lying. If he was then I couldn't tell. “Umm, okay… I need to change into some clothes.”

“I'll wait out here for you to finish.” he informed me. I nodded as I slowly closed the door. Blinking right before I head another knock. I reopened it and there was the man again, which is wearing a butler's outfit. He was also holding a brown paper package. “I forgot to give this too you, they are from your aunt.”

“Thanks…” I said as I took the package. I realised the door and started to open the package and saw it was a new outfit. Seeing this I started to put it on.

When I finished I looked at myself in a full-length mirror to see the outfit; it was a dark red shirt and corset that covered my top as some black shorts and a red… frilly half red skirt covered the left side some black leg stockings covered my legs while a pair of fingerless black gloves were on my hands. A few belts with two small bags and canisters for Molten Coil. A golden chain that attached to the corset went up and was also connected to a shoulder pad that looked that of a steampunk skull. An orange pendant that held my hair in a ponytail was on along with a pair of goggles. After checking myself out I went to pick up my Scroll and Molten Coil and then opened the door.

“You ready?” the butler man asked me. I nodded and the two of us headed off. As we walked I saw students watching me go with confused and odd looks. I stayed quite as I followed.

“What about my classes?” I asked him.

“Your aunt will explain when you see her.” he replied. I frowned as we continue after some time walking we came out outside and I saw a very fancy flying transport ship that looked like a Bullhead. It was a shiny black colour with a sleeker look to it. The man walked over and opened the door to me to let me in. I slowly climbed in and sat down on some dark red velvet seats. As the door closed I saw across from me was my aunt, she was wearing a gothic dress that was red and black in colour. Some lace patterns went down her dress as the backside was a solid piece where the front turned more see-thru, making it look like she was wearing an odd short skirt. She had a wine glass of wine in her hand and some red tinted glasses that covered her eyes. She smiled at me and took a sip.

“So, what do you think?” she asked me.

“It's nice… I think?” I said. She chuckled as the ship rumbled a bit as it took off. “Are you using magic to do all this? You made me look like a nobles kid.”

“Oh but you are my dear.” My aunt said. “You see after downtime of self-reflecting after I did… Something, I came here a long, long time ago. In short, our little family is one of the few high up families in Remnant.”

“Okay… what kind of business?” I asked her. My aunt removed her glasses and smiled.

“Why Dust of course,” she rests her chin in her hand as she stares. “The Mal Kun name is known to be one of largest Dust companies, along with some research and development on the side of both Dust and Grimm. The other Dust company that rivals it is the Schnee company.” she explained. I blinked at this, feeling that I know that name before… Schnee, Schnee… oh shit.

“You know I'm friends with Weiss Schnee right.” I told her.

“Oh, well I just have her killed then.” she said simply. My eyes widen as she started to laugh. “I'm kidding, I'm kidding.”

“Right… doesn't mothe- no wait different form, father knows about this?” I asked. My aunt looked away and thought about it. She frowned and made some odd faces.

“I think so? Maybe I told him in passing or not. I don't know but that's not important.” she said with a smile before tilting her head. “Maybe I should expand to that world with your friend Tak is in, start small but grow over time.”

“Are you really planning this right now?” I asked him.

“Yes I am, I am the CEO of the place.” my aunt says. She leans over and pushes a button on the wall. “Havoc, mind making a note for later to pull out a few of the old expansion plans so I look over them?”

“Of course Miss.” the voice of the man through the intercom. I shook my head as I looked at my aunt.

“So… you’ve planning on telling me what this task you have in mind?” I asked her. She blinks at me.

“Huh? Oh! Right sorry, I got caught up with planning,” she chuckles to herself before composing herself. “Now, you know that the Staubgrimm are roaming around in that world correct?” I nodded. “Well, during my research of them I learned more of them and during one instance I found a group of those… pony huntsman,” she scrunch up her nose in disgust before continuing. “Went and killed two such Staubgrimm and took the young one with them.”

“They… took the baby? Why?” I asked, my ears flattening.

“Research maybe, but I don’t trust them to do such a thing. I prefer to do that from afar but… I don’t know, these Ponies think their better than other races because their Princess is a “God”.” she said while doing quotation when saying the last word and rolling her eyes.

“But why? I thought they were good?” I said to her sadly.

“Their like humans my dear, some are good, some are bad. That’s how it goes sadly.” my aunt said before shifting a bit. “Now your task is as follows; find a way to break in to the place that’s holding this Staubgrimm and break it out.”

“Okay… and when I do, what do I do next?” I asked. She looked at me before looking at a small box that appeared out of nowhere, she turned to it and opened it. She reached inside and pulled out a ring of dark metal with a dark red gem in it which she turned back to me and hand it over.

“This is kinda like that gem you have around your neck only in ring form,” my aunt started to explain. “It will send a signal out that will transport you anyway where you in a instant, leaving a shadow of you instead. Once you have the Staubgrimm, use it and get transported to me.”

“Okay…” I looked down at the ring before looking back up. “What if I lose it?”

“Oh don’t worry, it will reappear on your finger if you do. It’ll take like, two-three minutes to reappear.” she said with a shrug. I nodded at her before putting the ring on my… well ring finger.

“Alright… so where are you dropping me off?” I asked her.

“Just outside your friends village, around the time their having a village meeting.” she said as she pulls out a pocket watch and opened it. “Which we should be getting two any minute now.”

I nodded before looking down, remembering Tak’s dream of becoming a Huntsman. I looked up at my aunt, “Hey… is there a way to, have someone go to Beacon from this world?”

My aunt looks at me before her face softens, “My dear, I know what you’re thinking but that’s not something I can do, your friend has a family here and a lot of work he has on his plate. I can’t simply allow him to hop one world to another.”

“You let me do it why not Tak?” I asked her, frowning.

“Because you’re different.” my aunt said loudly. I jumped a bit at her tone as she looked upset. Her face has soften a bit after a moment of silence. “You can do that because you’ve sorta been trained for that, he hasn’t. I’m sorry Viri but I can’t send someone to another world without the right requirements.”

I looked down at the floor sadly, I wanted to help my friend but… I sighed in defeat.

“I can’t send him to the school, but sending the school to him that’s different.” my aunt added. I looked up at her confused. “You had… what, two months of school time there? That’s quite a bit of knowledge and notes on being a Huntsman/Huntress. Plus you could get your hands on some books that teaches that.”

“You… you’re tell me to build a school for them? But a Faunus trying to be a Huntsman is close to impossible.” I told her. She tilts her head at me.

“They can’t be Huntsman due to a rule? Is that what’s stopping them?” she asks. I was about to say something but the aircraft we’re in shutters a bit making me reach out for the walls. “Ah, we’re here.”

With that said the door opened up to a forest that I remembered. I slowly got off the Bullhead and turned back to my aunt. She gave me a wave and smile, “Ta ta.” she said before the door closes and it flew off. I watched it go before looking around and saw the village close by, maybe a five minute walk. Shrugging I started to walk towards the village. When I do I saw that the buildings were all repaired and somewhat brand new. This made me smile as I saw a few Faunus villagers walking about. I also saw that some of them looked like guards, I guess after the attack when I was here they bumped up the security a bit or something. As I was walking I bumped into someone.

“Ah, sorry! I wasn’t looking where I was-” I stopped when I saw who it was. A big smile appeared on my face. “Tak!” I yelled as I gave him a big hug. He let out a squeak in surprise before struggling.

“W-what's going on!?” He asked with a bit of a panicked tone. Hearing this I put him down and backed away.

“Sorry sorry, got too excited there,” I said slowly. “It been a while, Tak.” I could feel his invisible gaze landing on me before tilted his head curiously. I notices that he wore the same attire from the time we met, only that this time his abdomen was wrapped in some bandages.

“V-Viri?” He guessed in surprise. I laughed nervously.

“Yeah… I’ve been gone for a while haven’t I?” I asked him, remembering that it been a few months I went to Beacon.

“Y-yeah, you sort of just vanished after… you know.” He said, refusing to mention the horrid event. My ears flatten at that before shifting on the balls of my feet.

“Sorry about that, I would’ve stayed but… somethings came up.” I told him. I looked at him and at the bandages. “What happened to you?” He placed a hand over his bandaged abdomen.

“We-we've heard about the Ponies taking a-a young Dust Grimm and some of us, well, tried to free the p-poor thing.” He said, stuttering a few times. I frowned at this, the village was trying to save- wait.

“You and some others tried to save the young Grimm!?” I asked him, earning a surprised look from him. “Where did they take it?”

“T-They've set up camp not too far from here, they're expecting a chariot to take the Dust Grimm with them.” He said, taken back from my earlier outburst. He shook his head, regaining his composure. “It's heavily guarded and-and after our failure, they've mostly likely doubled their guard.” He said, raising his voice before wincing. I frowned at this and looked off into the Everfree.

“Which way is this camp?” I asked him.

“Southwest, nearing the border between the forest and swamp.” Tak answered with a bit of confusion before suddenly asking. “You're not thinking of going there alone, it's suicidal.” He said. I looked over at him and smiled at him.

“Yeah I am. Don’t worry, I’ve been through worse.” I said. He looked like he wanted to say something, most likely to discourage me but decided against it and sighed. I simply grin at him before running off towards the southwest.

I made my way through the woods towards the camp in question with a frown on my face.

“I’m not telling Indigo about this, he’ll hang this over my head forever.” I mumble to myself on the fact that I gotten lost a few times. I continue on until I saw something ahead. I slowed down and crouch down to stay hidden. I chuckled to myself on the few classes Indigo taught how to be sneaky. I got closer and saw the camp in question, I hid in some bushes as I took a look around at the camp and took note of all the guards. It was true that it’s heavily guarded, about three in a group as they patrol around. I tilt my head when I saw a few of them wore metal armor, they’re Huntsman right? Why are they wearing metal armor?

I shook my head as I looked into the camp itself. There was four tents where two of them were much larger. The one farther away was more, I don’t know the word fancier then the others. I’m guessing it was more of the head captains tent. The others I don’t know about, maybe sleeping tents?

As I was looking at around I started to hear some animal screams, my eyes widen as they sound that of a young animal. I wanted to charge in and beat them all to a pulp but I shook my head and took some breaths. I looked at the groups patrolling around until I saw an opening to run over to the second tent and ducked into the tent. When I got in I looked around and saw that it was filled with cages. This made my stomach fall as the idea that the Ponies are doing this. I pushed those thoughts back as I made my way forward.

“Phss!” I heard something behind me that made me jump. I turned back to see another Faunus in one of the cages, he had short red hair and tanned skin and some places where red scales are. He sorta looks like he’s part lizard. He wore brown long coat and some loose pants and shirt “Who are you?”

“I should ask you the same thing.” I told the man in the cage. “Also what are you doing here?”

“Well I’m not here to party if that’s what you’re asking.” he said with a frown.

“Calm yourself Flae,” another voice said. I turned to see another Faunus there, this one is female with dark blue hair and pale skin. She had what look like fins on her arms and wore what looks like old samurai clothing of some kind, I think. It was odd that she wore an open skirt with loose pants under it with some wraps over her chest. She seemed to be drinking some tea of some kind. As I looked at her and the other guy I saw they’re other Faunus are in cages. This made me sad to see this.

“Why… why are the Ponies doing this?” I asked myself.

“Not all.” a low voice said. I turned to see a giant Faunus sitting in. He was a massive man with horns on top of his head over his brown hair. He had a number of scars on his arms and face. He stared at me in a calm tone as he continue. “There’s a group of Ponies that think they're better than others, others… they are scared of Faunus. The Princess spent many months trying to bring peace to everyone but this group been putting a stop to that.”

I took a minute to think about it before looking back at them. “Why are you all here?”

“The others, I think are going to be sold off as slaves to a different land, me and the other two,” the finned Faunus looked at the giant of a man and Flae. “Were stronger than they thought.”

“I see…” I said as I looked at her and the giant man. “Who are you two?”

“Rom.” the giant man answered.

“Xan.” The woman answered. I looked at the three of them for a moment.

“I’m Viri.” I turned back to the flap of the tent and looked out. “I need to get to that head tent.”

“What, in there?” Flae said with a frown and a snort. “Good luck, the head Pony is in there doing… something with that odd Grimm in there. The screams of it filled the area around us for days as he just…” he didn’t finished. I felt angry at this as I was about to storm out.

“It’s suicide girl.” Rom said with a frown. “Going out there by yourself will get you killed.”

“I have to do something, I just can’t…” I didn’t finish as I shook my head.

“Viri, think about it,” Xan started to say. “Going out there by yourself is suicide.”

I didn’t get what she was saying until something clicked. “Oh.” The two nodded and looked over to Flae as he looked at the two of them and groaned.

“I don’t like fighting, but if it gets me out of here.” he said with a grumble. I smiled as a plan formed.

3rd person

Three guards walked towards the large tent with the Faunus that are being held, chuckling to themselves at what their about to do. One of them reached toward the flap right before a large hand grabbed him and picked him up. Rom walked out with a frowned as he held the guard in his hand and stood over eight feet tall. He grunted as he used the guard to smack the other two away.

“You do have a way of talking to people don’t you.” Flae said he stepped out to look around. He took a deep breath of air as he did. “Ahhh, what lovely air, very nice and forestry.”

“Keep to the plan Flae.” Xan said as she walked out. Soon all the Faunus came out with broken poles that were part of their cages. Xan turned to the two small tents as the Ponies that saw this and started to get ready to fight. “We need to buy Viri time to get to head tent and get our weapons.”

“Yeah yeah, so shall we-” before Flae could finish there was a loud yell and the Ponies charged at them. The other Faunus charged after them as well which made Flae sigh. “Or go charging in, that works.”

With the battle going on Viri sneaked out of the tent and headed around to the head tent. She ducked under some magic and arrows that were flying around as she saw Rom was simply battering the Ponies away with his hands and arms. She saw him turn and raised his arms up and slammed them onto the ground, sending out a wave of earth towards the group. She saw the other two that went into the other tent come out with weapons; Flae had a pair of gauntlets on his arms that he used to fire fireballs and lightning, complaining that he’s using up his Dust as Xan had a dark blue katana that seemed cut through anything. Viri saw these there can came to a conclusion as Xan slashed her sword and sent a water wave that tore into a group of Ponies; the are like Huntsman.

She smiled a little as she made her way to the head tent and went inside to where she saw a male stallion trying to quickly pack everything up that’s there. Viri turned and saw a small cage with a small white body in it. She grit her teeth and turned to the Stallion which he turned around to see her. He was a Unicorn and had a large scar over his left eye as she growled.

“This is what I get for keeping you animals alive.” he said as he pulled out a rod that turned into a large mace, kinda like Cardins. Viri frowned at this as she pulled Molten Coil out and held her.

“You and your group make me sick, capturing Faunus and selling them off as slaves!”

“So what! Faunus are nothing more then monsters, like the Grimm!” he started to shake in anger as he hit the small cage. The creature yelped at this as the cage when behind the desk. “Your race… you tainted the Royal blood!”

Viri blinked at this in confusion before putting her weapon up to block his attack. Our weapons clash as he continue to insult her and the Faunus. Her eye twitched as she just simply had enough and ignited Molten Coil and slashed his mace in two. His eyes widen as she pointed her blade at him. I took a deep breath and sighed.

“You’re not even worth it.” Viri said as she thrust Coil at him and shot the Stallion off into the forest, making a large hole in the tent. She shook her head and started to hear some cheering happening outside. She wondered how long was this battle lasted as she pulled her scroll out. After seeing it was about an hour and a half of fighting she put it away and went over to see the small creature. Sure enough there was a small baby Staubgrimm in the small cage. It looked like a small fox with white fur with an off white armor like plates that had glowing blue veins coming off it. The Mask it wore was the same way and shaped like a fox head but what made Viri sad is the look of fear it was giving her. She kneeled down and moved slowly towards it.

“Easy there little one, I’m not going to hurt you.” she said as she went to open the cage. As she did she started to reach in to pull the fox out, this only made it yelp and shot a small frost at Viri, making her jump a bit. She slowed her breathing and tried something, she let her semblance heat up her hands as she moved closer. The Staubgrimm fox saw this and slowly moved closer to sniff her hands. “See, I’m not a bad guy.”

Viri slowly pulled the fox out and let it sit in front of her and the two stared at each other for a bit. The Staubgrimm was still scared of everything as Viri got down low to it. It yelped at this and shot more fire at her face. She winced at the pain but didn’t back away as she reached over to it, letting the Staubgrimm see her hands as she picked it up. At first it squirm bit, whimpering a little before it quite down as Viri started to heat up. Viri smiled as she walked out of the tent. She saw that the others drove the Ponies off and the Faunus were cheering. The other three that Viri talked to said that the Ponies left their supplied here so there were all too happy on taking it all.

“The only issue is that we all have nowhere to go.” Flae said with a frown after taking a look at the Staubgrimm for a few moments. This made Viri raise an eyebrow as a idea came to mind.

“Actually, I know of a place.”

Viri, a few hours later.

It took some time and with help of Xan we all made it back to the Village that I first came from. I rode in one of the two carts that were left in the camp as I held the Staubgrimm in my arms. It fell asleep as we left which made me smile as we all traveled to the village. Soon enough we came to the village and I saw all the Faunus that lived there were surprised at the large group that came out of the forest.

When we stopped I went off to find Tak again to see how he’s doing. I found him sitting down with his back to the tree with a frown on his face. I walked up to him and stood in front of him.

“Hey, I’m back.” I said to him. He faced me, his frown changing to that of a surprised look. “And alive just in case you’re wondering.”

“W-what? How?” He asked with yet another stutter. I simply smiled at him.

“I’m just that amazing.” I said with a chuckle. I spent the next hour telling him what has happen at the camp as I scratched behind the ear of the Staubgrimm that slept in my lap.

“I could've prevented this…” Tak whispered, burying his face within his hands before saying. “If I wasn't so slow, I could've prevented their deaths. But I didn't.” He said just above a whisper. I reached over and patted his back.

“Hey, don’t get bent about this. You all went off to do the right thing and things didn’t go so well.” I said before thinking about it and my ears flattened a bit. “Okay, I suck at these cheering up talks.” as I said that I heard some sounds from the Staubgrimm. I looked down and saw it has woken up and starting a Tak, curling up and whimpering at the sight of him. I saw Tak’s ears twitch a bit meaning he heard the young one.

“Hmm?” Tak hummed questiongly, moving a hand towards the young Staubgrimm slowly. The latter did nothing, interested in what Tak might do but at the same time, it was afraid. As Tak’s hand got closer the Staubgrimm batted his hand away and growled a little, shaking in its ball.

“Hey now that’s rude.” I said as I petted it. It seems to calm down and leaned into my hand as I turned to Tak. “Sorry, this one isn’t that trusting of others since the captain I shot tortured it for who knows how long.” Tak’s ears flattened against his head, a look of guilt forming on his face. “It’s not your fault, in fact this is a bit better than when I met it… it kinda blew frost at me.” He looked like he wanted to say something but kept silent, planting the back his head against the tree. I tilted my head a bit until I started to hear someone coming. I turned to see one of the villagers coming towards us.

“Um, Zecora asked everyone to come for another town meeting.” the villager said. Tak nodded absentmindedly. I watched the villager went off as I stood up and helped Tak up. Both of us headed off to the place where the meeting was being held. It was a large open place with Zecora standing in front with Flae, Rom, and Xan up there as well.

“I thank you all for coming to the second meeting, I know you all have work to be doing but this is important,” she looked over at everyone before continuing. “As we all were led to believe that the Pony race had it out for us Faunus for as long as we can remember. But as of today we were wrong, it seems there a large group that put that idea in our heads, one that seemed to stop their own ruler from bringing peace to both races.”

This led to some mumbling from the crowd as Zecora continue, “Today with the help of one being that is going to be left unnamed unless she wishes to join me up here has struck a blow to this group and saved a large number of Faunus.”

I turned to see those Faunus smiling and gave a small cheer. Zecora smiled at this until someone walked forward.

“That’s all good and all, but that’s just one blow. If they know about this then they’ll come back and with greater numbers!” a villager said, this caused more mumbling from the crowd. “They have magic, weapons, Huntsman! We have nothing to defend ourselves with other then sticks and tools.”

I frowned at this before I remember something. I turned to Tak and hand him the Staubgrimm, “Hold Frosty here.” he gave me a odd look that was off center as I moved forward. “Then why not learn to become Huntsman?!” I yelled out. I earn the attention of everyone.

“Are you mad?!” someone yelled out. I frowned in that direction.

“Maybe, but I think we could do it. I don’t see what’s stopping you all.” I moved up to where Zecora and the other three are at and turned. “I’ve see Faunus do things that are amazing, I heard things as well. I was told a group of you went off to save a small Grimm, something that was told to be evil but did it anyway. You all have what it takes to become great Huntsman and Huntress!”

I looked around as I saw a lot of nevose looks on the crowd. I took a breath and started to push how far I can keep this secret, “If anyone remembers I came her a few months ago and saw the attack then disappeared. The reason is that I went to a Huntsman school far away and learned to be one. I have the knowledge that I will happily give you so you can all be Huntsman and Huntress.” I yelled out.

“That’s nice and all but you forgot the Ponies won’t allow us to be Huntsman.” Someone said. I rolled my eyes at this.

“You all live in the Everfree, those rules don’t apply here!” I yelled out. Some of them blinked at this as if they didn’t think of that.

“But there’s no teachers, and I don’t believe you will stay and teach us.” someone else yelled. I bit my lip at that for being right.

“She doesn’t have to be the one teaching you all,” Xan said, standing up. “I am Xan, I came far from the East where anyone could learn how to hunt. I spent much of my youth learning such ways and I can teach anyone if they’ll have me.”

“As for I.” Rom said standing up. “I came from near Griffionstone so I know a thing or two.” The three of us turned to Flae and stared at him as he was put on the spot.

“Um, I’m no fighter, just a scholar so…” he said before I spoke.

“We need someone with a large knowledge on Grimm, Dust, and the new Dust Grimm.” I told him. He tilt his head at this, intrigued.

“Well I do have a good library on such things and I was thinking on diving in to these Dust Grimm…” he looked at everyone and threw up his hands. “Alright fine, I’m in.”

With the three of them up I looked out to everyone that was staring at me, “So, who wants to become a Huntsman?”

No one seemed to move, they all looked at one another in nervose or fear. I slowly started to frown as this wasn’t going to work.

“I will.” a female voice yelled out as she stepped forward. With that more and more started to speak up and step forward. I smiled as I looked to Zecora.

“Mind becoming the Headmaster of the new school?” I asked her. She turned and smiled at me.

“I will be honored.” She said. With that I moved down to the crowd as the ones that stepped up went to talk to the four. I went over to Tak as he was turning his head around as he held the Staubgrimm.

“Aren’t you going to go as well? Isn’t this your dream?” I asked him. He looked conflicted, as if something in his mind was filled with doubts. I tilted my head a bit. “Something wrong?” He looked down at the Staubgrimm in his hands.

“I… I can't.” He whispered sadly, shaking his head as he did. “I failed to safe the Dust Grimm, I failed to protect the young one…” He said, placing the little Staubgrimm down. The latter looked up at him in confusion. “I'm just not cut out for this.” He said, turning to walk away. I frowned at this as I reached out to him to stop him.

“Hey hold on, don't be down on yourself.” I said to him. “I never asked why you wanted to be a Huntsman in the first place, what was it?”

“People look down at me because I'm blind. That because of my blindness, they think I'm weak.” He said, still looking down at the ground. He closed his teary eyes and sighed. “I thought that by becoming a Huntsmen, I could prove them wrong and to show that I am strong.” He said.

“Tak, I think you proven yourself to be a great Huntsman already,” I told him. “For the amount of time I've known you you went off to protect the village and to protect Frosty here, a Grimm like creature without a second thought. I believe you'll become a fantastic Huntsman and you already proven you're strong.” He faced me, surprised to hear my words. His cheeks taking a rosy tint.

“I-I…” He took a deep breath before sighing loudly. “T-Thank you.” He said. I smiled as I put a hand on his shoulder.

“No problem, I’m not forcing you to become a Huntsman and you can do whatever, but I believe you will become a great one.” I told him. He thought on this for a bit, silence settled between us. After a minute or two of silence, he finally nodded.

“I'll do it.” He said, a little smile forming. Tears streaming down his cheeks before being wiped away. I smiled at him before I felt someone tap on my shoulder. I turned and saw Zecora there.

“Sorry to interrupt but do you have a good idea on where this school is going to be placed?” she asked. I blinked at her and realised that I didn’t have a place. She chuckled at me, “I figured as much, don’t worry I have a place in mind.”

I stood alongside Zecora and Tak as I held the Dust Grimm in my arms as we looked out at some castle ruins. “This was once said to be the Castle of Two Sisters, a place where both princesses lived thousands of years ago, it’s now all abandon and the Everfree has already taken it as its own.” Zecora explained.

“That sounds… lovely.” I said as I took a good look around from where I’m standing. It was a pretty big place and, since it’s abandoned, no one would mind if it gets turned into a Huntsman school. “It's gonna take a lot of work just to fix it up.”

“Yes it would, that’s why I've sent out messages to the other villages for support on repairing the castle.” Zecora said as she looked over at Tak. “I guess I’ll see you there Tak, helping with the repairing.” He answered with a nod. She smiled and looked over at me. “I want to thank you Viri, you were a big help with everything here.”

“Oh I uh, didn’t really do much, really.” I said with a blush. Zecora simply rolled her eyes before walking off towards the village. I was then left with Tak now as I sighed. “So, this is going to be interesting huh?”

“Yeah, no kidding.” He said in agreement. I started to laugh as the two of us headed back to the village.

Author's Notes:

Faunus Huntsman school coming soon, they just need to fix up the place a bit and get some spiders out of the closets.