Chocolate Frosting and Pink Cake - 1

Summary: Made just for you. A little batch of flour, but lots of cocoa too. Soul Mate AU.

I am continuing my tradition of weird pairings here. Now let's just hop right into it (all puns are intentional).

It's the start of another school year at Beacon.

Velvet watches as the new students begin to disperse after Ozpin's speech. It's exciting to see others wishing to become hunters and huntresses as well, but she's even more excited at the prospect that one of them may say those words to her. This is the place she is most likely to hear them. Her mother had said the words to her father at school, the same as most Faunus that weren't still looking, or had simply given up on their chance.

Though, it didn't look like there were many Faunus with this new batch of students. Likely the work of the White Fang, the terrorist organization was becoming even more aggressive lately. Even if the school was still accepting Faunus some of the applicants probably got run off by human protesters.

Not on school property of course, Ozpin wouldn't allow that. She can only hope none of her fellow Faunus were beaten so they wouldn't attend the school. There were even more stories like that cropping up as White Fang activity continued to grow.

Why couldn't those humans respond with more reasonable methods than violence? It was things like that that had started the White Fang in the first place.

Velvet sighed as she walked down a hallway. These weren't the sort of thoughts she wanted to be having right now. She would much rather welcome other Faunus into the school, make their first day be a good one. Maybe this year she would meet her soul mate.

It would make each new conversation she had that much more exciting. Those first few words could be the ones she had waited to hear since turning twelve. Since the mark containing her soul mate's words first appeared on her arm: wrapped around her right elbow, or rather just above it. The pink words were bright against her skin, not that she displayed her soul mark. She knew the humans would, but... well, it might as well be one of those many cultural differences between them.

Besides, she should hurry down the stairs just ahead if she wanted to find a fellow Faunus to greet. Who she hoped would be just as excited as her to find their soul mate.

"Hey, bunny girl."

Velvet stopped in her tracks at hearing a voice, though she regretted it when she turned to see three human males walking down the hall behind her. A fellow Faunus wouldn't have called her that. So she shouldn't have stopped.

As Velvet turned back around - fully intending to make a run for the stairs - another boy came around the corner ahead of her, with a grin that clearly said they were the leader of the group behind her. So, some of the new students were already trying to group up into four person teams. She would have appreciated the effort to stay together with friends if they didn't seem to be so intent on keeping her from the stairs.

"It appears you're in between a rock and a hard place," the leader said, grin still in place.

She takes a step back as her heart launches into her throat. Oh, please no. When had she entered a nightmare? This... well, bully to put it bluntly couldn't be her soul mate. Human or not she didn't believe for a second that this was just a bad time to meet. Or she hoped it wasn't.

"Me and my buddies were wondering if those ears of your's are real. Or if you're just some sort of Faunus rights supporter."

She tried to come up with something to say, she did, but her tongue was twisted. And in the next second all she could manage was a, "Ow!"

A hand had just clamped around her ear and gave a tug, sending her stumbling back towards the other three in the process. She was sure the one that had grabbed her was the first to laugh, followed by the leader and the rest of the 'team.' "So they are real. Who would have guessed?"

"Please, let go," Velvet said as she angled her head in such a way so that she may be able to slip out of the boy's grip. If his grip on her ear would just loosen for a second...

Feel free to suggest some future pairings for this new multi-chap.