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"There are many beginnings of a hero, One of those beginnings starts with a Muse, A Muse that turns into a song of a lifetime."
Stay, Kid Laroi (Acoustic Version)
Sounds of a guitar were heard playing, as standing on a cliffside was a girl who was playing the guitar with her eyes closed, she looked like a preteen with a tan complexion that has short dark hair with a purple fade at the tips, two three bangs that are kept in place by two yellow hairpieces. She opened her eyes and her irises were revealed to be steel grey; The girl’s outfit was a violet unbuttoned jacket with silver buttons and short folded sleeves with the ends being black with violet highlights, and a symbol of a heart in the shape of a treble clef.
Underneath this jacket is a white v-collared shirt. She has black pants that matched her fingerless gloves, with a belt of the matching color of her jacket with a silver belt buckle, which had the same symbol on her jacket. The guitar that she was holding was a violet guitar with silver accents along with a Violet matching symbol along with some heart-shaped designs on the bottom of it, That's attached to a silver strap with the same symbol attached to it along with several heart designs on it as well. She wears a silver bandana around her neck, and to complete her look was a pair of white color socks underneath her ankle-length boots, which are violet with silver buckles on them.
It was cool outside as a gentle breeze blew, her hair swaying a bit in this breeze as she was glad to be outside. As the girl felt at peace being here and also getting to play her guitar to get better at being a guitarist. She was excited as she was finally accepted into Atlas Academy, and she had left her home wanting to celebrate by being outside and at one with nature at the moment, before returning. She looked at the stars twinkling in the night and can spot some of the famous constellations of them. A couple of clouds passed by in the night sky, and one partly covered up the moon for a bit. The girl all of a sudden stopped playing her guitar and placed it behind her as she didn't want to play it anymore yet, sits down, and sighs thinking about something and missing someone too.
The girl took out a photo of her, a bit younger and older girl who looks like she was either 16 or 17 with similar hair color but was fully purple and brown eyes instead wearing a t-shirt with a star on it, plus blue jeans; both were doing the peace sign with the same girl laughing in the photo in the background was a valley of some sorts with a bird flying in the background. Written in the bottom in cursive was: “Happy Birthday Violet!”
“Wish you were here to see this sis, I'm finally going to Atlas just like you did.” She said sadly. The Black/Purple haired then chuckled a bit with a small smile. She sighed as she fell silent not wanting to speak anymore as tears streamed down her face.
It took her a few minutes until she felt a little better. Violet was upset as she really did wish that her sister hadn't died and that her sister would've got to see her off to Atlas academy and become a huntress. Right now It would be more enjoyable to be stargazing with her sister at the moment and even hear her sister teasing her right now as it would be a good thing to hear. This cliff was her favorite spot to be and the view up here was always breathtaking, she knew the risks of being here but she didn't mind as she can defend herself from trouble; if there were any. Violet's feet dangle below as she places the photo back into the pocket of her jacket, before rising to her feet. She gets up with one last look towards the sky, but then she heard a loud cracking noise, and she suddenly realizes what that noise was.
"Shit." She cursed. The girl ran as the ground under began cracking she didn't know why it was cracking as she's been here more than once and it never fell apart and suddenly started collapsing, She didn't know why the Cliff was cracking and falling apart but this was a terrible way to die, as she knew there were better deaths than this. But it was too late, as she was nearing the treeline she fell... Not to her death as she quickly grabbed her guitar by the headstock as pulled it from the straps which retracted into the guitar one side of it unclicked from the said guitar, which suddenly shifted from the waist. The right side of the guitar swiftly lifted upwards towards the left in a shape of a blade-like part as it elongates slightly taking on a triangular form along with the headstock shortening to resemble the hilt of the blade; the guitar transformed into a sword as it still retains its Guitar-like traits. Violet immediately plunged the weapons into the side of the cliff as it was slowing her descent down by a greater thing as she planted her feet until she stopped, and She sighed in Relief.
She looked down to see if there was anything down there, as the moonlight illuminated the ground a bit, it was vaguely quite hard to see what was down there but she could make out that it was a 10-foot drop and she pulled her sword out and flips to the ground Violet engages its switch as it changed it back into its guitar mode, puts it back on; starts walking looking for a way how to find her way back up and to her house because she was getting a bad feeling something was bound to happen.
The girl heard cawing, she spun around to find the source; it might be a young Nevermore calling out to other Grimm. Unable to locate the bird the girl shrugged and continued on her way. For several more minutes, she kept on walking as the winds were picking up a little more speed she noticed more clouds were coming in and she knew that it was probably about to rain soon, Jeez she hated being caught in the rain as it was the worst time in her life and it would also mean an extra hour getting her guitar cleaned and darn scolding from her mom about her getting caught in the rain and catching a cold, But a scolding is better than a cold at a time like this.
The girl kept on walking, eventually finding a pathway that led up to a forest; The branches swayed in the night breeze that blotted out the moon's light, as cold droplets of rain fell against her warm skin. She grumbled something under her breath as her walking soon turned into running, She needed to get out of the rain; The drizzle of rain soon became a heavy sheet of rain as thunder was heard, followed by a lightning bolt somewhere nearby yet far. She really didn't like this as she kept going tripping over a root and tumbling down the hill until she stopped face-first into the ground.
She Groaned rubbing her face with the back of her hand, and accidentally smearing some mud on her face, She dusted herself off a bit, but it was no use as her clothes were dirty from the dirt and mud accumulated from the fall and her hair was dripping wet from the rain. Violet found herself in a clearing, where she noticed the bush rustling all of the sudden. Violet treaded slowly with her hand gently on her guitar, Not knowing if it was either people or it could be a Grimm; There was a possibility that it could be people But at the same time, it couldn't be. Suddenly running out of the bushes with a furious roar was Not one, But Three Ursa Minors, and they were charging straight at her.
"This seriously is the worst night for me, "
With blinding speed, she drew her weapon and parried out of the way from the first Ursa Major's deadly claws, while trying not to slip and fall because of this mud. She swung her sword as it turned around at her snapping her teeth at her, which she dodged only to get batted in the back of her head by the second one as it almost knocks her out cold, causing her to almost fall to the ground but manages to steady herself quickly. As the Third one lunges forward, they seemed to be tag teaming to take her down, which is something new to her besides the stories her dad told her about this; But Violet is not going to die as she knows this is her first Grimm fight and she did wanna not miss going to Atlas to become a Huntress.
As the first one Pounced Mid-air going in for the kill, quick with reaction Violet drew up her sword in a crescent-like arc in one swift motion as the Grimm fell onto the ground lifelessly causing some mud to splash up into the air, its head falling onto the ground immediately disintegrating, rolling a few feet away. She sighed in relief, glad that her dad taught her that technique just in case that ever happens. But she couldn't celebrate yet as there were two more left. So she charged forward with her sword ready as she braced herself with the second Ursa coming at her with such ferocity with a loud yet aggressive roar, she raised her sword to block the attack, as its claws came slamming down at her.
Gritting her teeth as she struggled against the beast; The Ursa's teeth were bared as its eyes gleamed bloodlust wanting to kill her, But then two audible clicks were heard as the hilt split with enough space for her to place two hands between them She pulls onto it, while steading herself from the pressing weight of this Ursa, pulling apart the sword into two as it splits into half resembling half to the same sword but the halves automatically changed resemble the original blade but thinner, as she stabs it in its eye causing it to roar in pain.
Noticing the weight shift, she grunted in a swift yet precise movement decapitating its head off in one clean blow with the other sword as she smiled, as it disintegrated like the first one. "I knew it! two in one sword guitar instead of a sword-gun-guitar is a good choice!"She exclaimed triumphantly. Her happiness at this accomplishment(?), as an Ursa rammed her knocking her off balance and slipping into the mud further muddying her clothes and her hair now stained with mud, Right now she didn't care about her clothes and hair being muddled up as she needed to focus on surviving, Noticing the Grimm's as she just had realized this was an Ursai major as she was surprised, pretty much afraid, before ducking out of the way from the Grimm's claws not wanting to be skewered or sliced.
She rolled out of the way from the Ursa's deadly claws as she breathed hard; knowing this is her first actual fight against a Grimm, and not against another student or a close friend of her's. Wanting to finish this before she gets really tired, She raised both her swords only to be swatted by the Grimm's massive paw with a roar, dropping her sword in the process. She slammed into a tree, back first, luckily her aura was protecting her as she screamed in pain, that would've been worse if she didn't have an aura and broke something in her back. Dizzy as her vision blurred a bit and heard ringing in her ears from that blow until heard a roar as it raises its body to swipe at her again with its claw.
"Oh, Sh-" She ducks in the nick of time as the Grimm got its claws stuck in the branch as it was struggling to get it free, she took this moment to get away from it. "Seriously why today out of all days?"She mentally complained. Noticing her swords on the ground several feet away from the Grimm and her looking back and forth between the two as her thoughts ran a mile a minute before deciding to run to get her swords to finish this, Not before the said Ursai manages to get's it claws run turning towards Violet with a menacing growl.
She literally glanced between the Grimm and then at her weapon, As it slowly stalked towards her with its growl growing more audible by the moment, The girl decided to make a run for it with the Ursai Major suddenly charging towards her full throttle as she literally runs as fast as she could really wishing her semblance would allow her to go very fast instead of this Time perception. She somersaulted out of the way as the Ursai major neared her landing next to her swords and grabbing them; The Ursa turned towards her eyes glowing with hatred, and Violet glaring at the beast with her swords raised ready to attack as it began to rain harder with a lightning flash and a thunderclap being heard; The Purple clad girl outfit was covered with mud and grime and her hair was wet as it was drenched and covered with mud as she looks like a mess, these two stood motionlessly standing there as if this was a standoff.
With a furious roar Bear charged towards her with teeth bared suddenly as she charged forward with a scream, as the two neared each other the Grimm got onto its hind legs with it's claws raised to deliver the blow, as she blocks the hit with one sword and uses the other to slice down decapitating its arm in a swift motion, causing it to screech in pain right before bringing down its right one at her only for her irises started glowing while smirking all of the sudden; things seem to be slowing down as the raindrops went down slowly, the Ursai's attack seemed to be slower too as she moves out of the way of the attack with a couple of steps as suddenly her eyes stopped glowing. Suddenly, things seemed normal again as everything was moving at normal speed.
The Ursai stumbled and fell in confusion as it manages to stand up a bit shakily with a groan, looking at Violet with its glowing red eyes as it suddenly growled getting ready to lunge at her, It would've killed her if it wasn't for her to swiftly stabbing it with her other sword in her hand mercilessly with a cold look in her eyes; The Grimm disperses into a cloud of mist as she sighed quite glad, notably afterward she fell onto one knee clutching her head as a headache started up."Jeez, i forgot what happens, once I use my semblance."She groaned.
Violet sighed as she combines her swords into one as it turns back into the default guitar mode."Man, let's just hope i can explain this to mom."She spoke aloud. The Violet haired started trudging through the forest, as every single inch of her body ached from that battle.