Well now I've been putting this off for a very long time, but after reading a plethora of fanfics I'm ready to give this my best shot. This is my first fic and I welcome all and any reviews. For the most part I'm going to try and keep this fic true to the canon. This will be an OC fic but teams RWBY and JNPR will play a much larger role later on in the story.

"Well this could be going better!" I yell out loud to my teammates as I gunned down another Beowolf trying to flank us from the rear.

I hit the magazine release of DMR and slam in a fresh magazine as the empty one hits the ground.

It was our first unsupervised mission since we've joined Atlas's hunter academy. Team SLYR (Slayer) led by my mentor and good friend Robert Moss, although he just preferred Robbie. He stood all of 6 foot 7 inches tall weighing well over 200 pounds. He was a dark skinned green eyed male with short black hair on the side of his head leading to a modest mohawk. He wore a white hoodie with this sleeves cut off, on his back was assault pack filled to the brim with his linked machine gun rounds. For pants he a pair of thickly woven black jeans followed up with black steel toe-tiped boots. Besides that he wore a set of steel infused gloves to make of the lack of a melee weapon. He was at the lead of group laying into a pack of beowolves with his belt-fed LMG he modestly named 'Big Joe.'

"Keep pushing forward, they'll break and turn tail soon enough." said Robbie as he continued to dish out the pain.

"Yeah complaining isn't going to get us anywhere" said Robbie's partner Yoshimitsu.

Yoshimitsu was fighting off an ursa to the right of Robbie. He had twin katanas named 'Ghoul' and 'Wraith' that in the hilt of the blade contained a small caliber pistol. 'Yoshi' stood 5 foot 8 inches tall with lightly tanned complexion and brown eyes, he was completely bald and had no facial hair of any sort. Come to think of it he looked very much like a monk. He wore a skin-tight long sleeve shirt that clung to his thin frame. He had loosely fitting tan pants that allowed unrestricted movement followed up with white running shoes. On his back he two sheathes for his blades.

"We can do this Dez!" said my partner Fuchsia as she shifted her shotgun into a hatchet.

My partner and girlfriend Fuchsia Li was very pale cat faunus, although you wouldn't know by first glance, the only faunus trait she had was her cat like pupils of her pink colored eyes. She stood at the same height as Yoshimitsu and had long dark brown hair that flowed freely. She wore a white padded jacket-vest that was way too thick to be wearing this time of the year but it never seemed to bother her. She wore a pair of thin matching white pants that were padded at her knees with white slip-on shoes.

She sent me a quick smile before she buried a hatchet into the back of beowolf that was attempting to sneak up on Yoshimitsu. Yosh sent her a quick nod as he moved forward to help out Robbie.

As for me I was squaring off with an Alpha beowolf. We started circling each other until it let out an angry snarl and charged me head on.

But before I get ahead of myself, let me introduce myself. I'm Dezmond Slate, (or as Fuschia liked to call me 'Dez'). I'm an 18 year old second year student of the Atlas Hunter Academy. I'm a tan-skinned human from beautiful city of Atlas itself. I wore a black undershirt with a black tactical vest over it with a pair of black jeans and running shoes to go with it. I also wore a set of elbow pads and black padded gloves (being the teams sniper I had to set up in elevated locations, so the extra protection helped). I carried a DMR aptly named Snapshot, and .50 cal pistol that shifted into a falchion named simply Ripper.

I quickly dove out of the way of the beowolf's lunge and slung Snapshot over my back, I drew Ripper and fired two rounds into the left leg of the Beowolf. It howled in anger and dove at me again in sheer rage. I didn't have time to dodge this time around and I took it's tackle full force. I shifted Ripper into it's blade form and planted it into the ground to stop myself from rolling with the beowolf. My foe kept rolling but I managed to stop my progress and catch a quick break to check over myself. As I checked over myself i could feel one of was either broken or severely bruised.

"Shit" I mumbled to myself.

'I need to be quicker than that, the shit really hurt' I thought to myself as I could tell my stamina was already being affected by my shallow breathing.

'I need to end this now, I'm in no shape for a lengthy battle with beast' I steadied myself and got into a low stance waiting for the grimm to make the first mistake so i could end this. The beowolf then when for a heavy swipe with its left arm, I rolled underneath its swipe and slashed up with all my strength across its chest. The grimm recoiled in pain and i followed two slices while I spun to keep the beowolf at bay. It fell to its knees and shifted Ripper back to its pistol form and finished the beast with two shots to the head (one more for good measure).

"Dez are you okay!?" Fuchsia yelled as she came running to my side.

"Yeah I'm fine" I grunted out "I'll just cover the rear from here on out though."

"And we're clear!" belted out Robbie.

"Lightly Grimm infested village my ass! That's at least the 10th pack of grimm we've ran into today. Plus we've only been here like 4 hours, this kind of grimm activity can't be normal." I wheezed out to the team. 'Yep the rib is definitely broken, maybe more than one'

"Oh can it Slate!" Yoshimitsu called out "We can definitely use the experience."

"Yeah but don't you think this much grimm activity is odd? They'd never send a huntsman team in training unsupervised if it was this hostile a mission." said Fuchsia as she reloaded her shotgun and scanned the perimeter.

"Hey the village is up ahead, let's make communication with the townspeople and go from there." said Robbie.

We moved ahead towards the village taking our time so we could all get a little bit of a breather from fighting the grimm. As we neared the village something was definitely wrong.

"Hey where is everybody at? The town looks like its been ransacked" said Fuchsia with as a clear emotion of uneasiness spread over her features.

"Move into the first building we'll see when need to regroup and try to gather some info" ordered Robbie as he began to move into a quick jog.

We gathered into the building and started to look for any kind of clue as to whats going on in the village. We checked for any kind of note or message of an evacuation but there was nothing. Damn this isn't good, I checked my scroll to reread the mission briefing to see if I missed anything. 'Small faunus village reporting sights of grimm activity, meet with faunus in town to gather more information in order to exterminate the grimm threat.' 'Well that doesn't really give me too much, damn' It was only when I was checking my scroll that I noticed that I was getting no signal. How could they submit a bounty mission if there was no signal out here?'

"Hey Robbie, do you have a signal on your scroll?" I called out.

"Let me check" He pulled out his scroll and took a look. "No, why?"

"Well how could the village submit a bounty mission if there's scroll signal?" I asked.

"Well damn, smart thinking Dezmond. Alright everybody listen up, we need to find out why there's no signal reaching this village. According to the layout of the village there's supposed to be a communication's tower about 2 clicks to the north of this village near an abandoned military outpost. We're going to move to that location and see if we can establish communications with any of the villagers and move on from there. If we can't establish comms then I'm calling for an immediate scrub of this mission and let Atlas Academy determine the next best move from there. We move out in ten mikes. Understood!?

The rest of team SLYR nodded in agreement and started to ready our weapons and gear. I looked over to Fuchsia and I could see a look of worry on her face.

"Hey Fuchsia what's wrong?" I whispered over to her catching her attention.

"I don't know, it's just that I don't think that grimm are entirely responsible for what's going on here."

"What do you mean" I asked a bit confused.

"It's just that it didn't really look like grimm attacked the town. I mean what if it's the White Fang!? This is a faunus village."

"If it's the White Fang we will treat the criminals accordingly" Yoshimistu spat out. "I'd prefer if they were involved, kill two birds with one stone"

"Hey what's that supposed to mean!?" Fuchsia yelled out. "The White Fang are just trying to help out us faunus, even if their methods are questionable. There only trying to help."

"By attacking Atlas workers? By killing Schnee dust company associates? Their just murderers using the whole 'were helping the faunus' as cover." argued Yoshimitsu.

"That's enough!" barked Robbie. "Stick to the game-plan! If we encounter the White Fang we'll adjust accordingly. The villagers come second, our teams safety is my top priority. If its too hostile we pull out understood!?"

Moments later we set off towards the location of the communication's tower. Robbie took lead of the formation as usual. We were about half a click away from the comms tower when Robbie had brought us to halt.

"Hey Dezmond can you get to the top of the tree over to our right and give a SITREP" asked Robbie.

"Can do" I replied. I started climbing my way the tree, once I found a good position I unslung Snapshot and popped of my lens. I inserted my scroll into a slot i specifically built into the left side of my DMR and opened it up. It displayed data ranging from wind speed and direction to how many rounds I had left in my magazine, but most importantly it tapped into the scope of my rifle and recorded everything I saw. I scanned the area I quickly saw the the said comms tower in question. I zoomed on what looked like some sort of sparks errupting. There it was a blown fuse box on the tower, that would definitely take down our signal. But something else in the distance caught my eye, it looked like gunfire of some sort. Sure enough my suspicions were confirmed, near an outpost an there were extremely large number of grimm attacking its gates. Then I saw them. White Fang defended the walls and what looked like villagers inside the outpost trying to help. "Shit" I muttered to myself.

"Hey Dezmond what's the hold up?" yelled Robbie.

"Think fast!" I yelled as tossed down my scroll. Yoshimitsu caught my scroll and threw it to Robbie who preceded to open it up and review it with the the rest of SLYR. As I made my way down the tree I could already here Fuchsia arguing with Robbie and Yosh.

"What do you mean we're just going to fix the comms tower then call for evac!? They need help! I don't care if the White Fang is with them or not we have to protect them it's our mission right!?" Fuchsia yelled out.

"I told you already Fuchsia! Our safety takes priority! I'll take the flak over a failed mission, but I won't take responsibility for you disobeying orders and getting yourself injured or worse!" countered Robbie.

"If they want side with those murderers then they brought it on themselves." Yosh spat out.

"You're not helping Yosh." I said.

"Well I didn't become a hunter just to sit back and let people get killed when I can make a difference! Regardless of what faction they choose to align themselves with! They're still people!" cried out Fuchsia "I'm going whether you're coming or not" Fuschia then ran off towards the outpost.

"Li! Damn it. Alright let's go get the comms tower up as fast as we can and signal for emergency evac. If were lucky they'll land the bullhead at the village and hopefully bring reinforcements. Let's GO!"

"I can't. I'm going after Fuchsia I can't leave her to fend for herself. I don't care for the White Fang but I'll be damned if I let her get hurt!" I said and then I immediately took off in a sprint towards Fuchsia.

"Damn it Slate get back here! Fuck! Yosh stick to plan we're their only chance at getting out of here alive now. Let's move!"

"Got it Rob."

"Fuchsia wait up!" I yelled. Fuchsia turned around and gave me a honest smile.

"At least I can always count on you to back me up Dez" she then pulled me into a brief hug. and then looked into my eyes. "Now let's go help these villagers."