[Volume 0~chapter 1: knucklavee, the start of the hero's journey]

Menagerie.
A island that is 2/3rd uninhabitable desert.
The other 1/3rd is the only safe haven for faunus where they don't get discriminated for being a faunus.
Why?
Because it's an island of only faunus.
The chief of the only civilization on menagerie is ghira belladonna.
He has a wife, kali belladonna, and a daughter, Blake belladonna.
Well, he also has a son, but the son is the reject of the family.
And that son is me.
Shirou belladonna.

I usually wear a black long sleeve shirt, black pants, a white sleeveless hoodie, and brown combat boots.
I also wear a brown belt that has a black knife sheath on the back of my waist and a brown pouch on my right hip

I'm the reject of the family because I'm not a cat faunus.
Instead, I'm a timberwolf faunus with the anomaly of 2 tails.
My father had a affair with a timberwolf faunus.
Her name was samel emiya.

(Pronounced sa-ma-el)

My sister is a cat faunus, like mom and dad.
I was skilled with a knife, and it was my go to weapon
I was agile and could hunt.
But my parents still didn't care.

They focused on Blake cause she was fully their daughter.
But I still loved them regardless.
But one day, I was in The forests of menagerie for my daily training.
Jumping from tree to tree, practicing attack combos, and meditating to try and awaken my semblance.
Out of all the training I've done, my semblance still hasn't awoken.

When ever I would see other kids my age fight Grimm, the Grimm are relentless in trying to kill them.
But when I fight Grimm and get knocked down, they stay back and let me get up and ready before attacking.
It's almost like they're dueling me and trying to have a fair fight.
What was weird to me is that I seemed to just attract Grimm when I'm alone.

I was currently sitting on the roof of our house, getting a good view of menagerie.
I was doing my daily duty of sharpening my knife and making sure it's in top condition.
My knife is a combat knife made of obsidian that I was able to gather from one of the smaller islands near menagerie that usually have volcanic activity.
It's handle is a slick black with a small cross like guard.
The blade of the knife itself is single edged with the edge reinforced by steel to be sharper and was engraved with many small symbols to reduce its weight to make it lighter.

I had just finished sharpening it, when someone tapped my shoulder.
I looked behind me to see Blake.
"Hey Blake. Need anything?" I ask.
"No. I just wanted to see what you're doing" said Blake as she sat down next to me.
"I was just about done sharpening my knife" I reply as I put it in its sheath.
"It is a very beautiful knife, but when are you ever gonna use it?" Asked Blake.

I was about to respond until my right ear twitched.
There where screams.
My nose twitched.
The smell of blood and smoke.
I looked towards the village and my eyes widen as there was a nuckelave Grimm destroying the village while the white fang of menagerie where trying to hold it back, but where failing.

The Nuckelavee is a horse-like creature with an equine main body and a skinless humanoid creature that is fused with it. Its forelegs are shaped like claws and it has hooved hind legs that leave a characteristic hoofprint. The humanoid body has long curved horns on its head, a mouth that looks almost sewn shut, and two long elastic arms each with two clawed fingers. On the back of the human torso are boney spikes along its spine

I looked at Blake and she was looking in fear at the Grimm.
I stood up on the roof and jumped off the roof, rolling as to not get hurt from the jump.
I started running into town, towards the chaos.

When I finally reached the commotion, the white fang soldier's barely held a formation of defense.
I ran past them, and ran directly at the knuckaleave Grimm.
"Hey! Wait!" Said one of the soldiers, as if trying to stop me.
I shrugged off his calls for me to stop as I unsheathed my knife.
I leaped up and landed a slash on it's front left thigh, causing it to take notice of me, and not the civilians.

It let out it's ear piercing wail as it swung it's right arm at me.
I backflipped away and dodged the attack, landing in a kneeling position.
I spun my knife into a underhanded position and held it infront of me.
The knuckaleave, seeing that he missed, let out a wail and swung it's left arm at me in a downward hit.
I rolled to the right and dodged it and ran at the knuckaleave.
I let out a battle cry and ran at the knuckaleave.

The knuckaleave swung it's right arm at me as, and I dodged my leaping over it and continued running for it.
As I was about to stab the knuckaleave, the knuckaleave's left hand hit me away from it, causing me to slam through the window of a house.
I groaned in pain as I got up.
I leapt out the window and stood up strait as I walked towards the knuckaleave.

My sleeveless hoodie had gotten ripped off when I got hit, and my long sleeve shirt had also gotten ripped so part of my left arm and my chest can be seen.
I cracked my neck and popped my shoulders.
"Ok tough guy. You wanna dance? Let's dance" I say as I charged at it once again.
It charged at me as well.
I jumped up, and held my knife in a thrusting position.
He spun his upper half in a full 360, slapping me down the road.
I rolled and stood up at the end of the street.
I shook my head as I tried to regain my senses.

When I regained my senses, the knuckaleave was charging at me, so I jumped to the right, causing him to crash into a building, before turning towards me and charged at me again.
I kept dodging until we reached near the water.
That's when he hit me and knocked my knife out of my hand as I flew back.
I crashed into a blacksmith shop near the beach.
Without my knife I'm hopeless.
I grabbed the 2 closest weapons and rushed out of the shop.
The weapon in my left hand was a cleaver and in my right was a simple broadsword.

I ran towards the knuckaleave and threw the cleaver at it, and it pierced it's right shoulder.
I jumped to my right and kicked off the building to my right and towards the knuckaleave, while unknown to me, sparks of electricity where flying around me.
I raised the broad sword above my head and brought in down in a diagonal slash going from the right to the left, cutting into the left shoulder of the knuckaleave.

I leapt back and readied the broad sword infront of me with 2 hands.
The sparks where getting bigger as I readied to attack.
I charged at the knuckaleave, being slightly faster than before.
The knuckaleave threw both arms at me, but I knocked them away with the broad sword so they passed by me.
I slid on my knees under the knuckaleave and slashed the stomach of it.
Once I finished going under it I spun around as I kept sliding back.
I stopped sliding next to my knife, so I picked it up.
The knuckaleave turned around and charged at me while swinging it's arms.
Lightning flashes around me without me knowing as I ran at the knuckaleave and jumped up over it's arms.

I threw my broad sword through the chest of the knuckaleave and raised my knife above my head.
I stabbed my knife into the head of the knuckaleave, piercing through the Grimm mask as a giant thunderbolt struck us.
When the white fang guard's arrived, the knuckaleave was dead and already starting to evaporate, and I was standing with my ripped shirt and the lower leg of my pants where ripped.
I was breathing heavily as I sheathed my knife on the back of my waist.
What I didn't expect, was to be shot in the left shoulder.

I yelled in pain as I held a hand over my left shoulder, letting my aura heal my shot wound.
12 of the white fang members pulled out electrified whips and threw them at me.
4 of them wrapped around my neck, 2 around my waist, and 3 around each of my arms.
They forced me onto my knee's and held my arms out as if I where a prisoner.
The electricity flowing through me hurt like hell, and the fact they where pulling on the whips so tightly.
This seemed like a tactic atlas would use against the faunus. but my dad ran the white fang, so why are they doing this?
The electricity was causing so muck pain, that it brought tears to my eyes.
I looked forward and saw my dad, standing with a strict face, as if he was angry at me.

"D-dad....... h-help me......." I say through the tears and pain.
"You caused more damage than the knuckaleave did. I'm sorry my son, but I have to do this" said dad.
The white fang tightened their grip on their whips and pulled harder.
I couldn't believe what I was hearing.

My hands started to clench into fists as lightning sparked around me.

My face contorted in anger as I stared at my father as Blake hugged onto mom as mom tried to comfort her.
I gave off a snarl.
Betrayed by the people I tried to save.
Betrayed by the family I love.
Betrayed by the father who gave me my ideals.
I will have NONE OF IT!

I started pulling on the whips on my arms and was able to pull them closer to me with a surprising amount of strength.
My arms where crossed in a X shape as lightning started to spark more around me.
Until finally, I spread my arms and a giant wave of electricity, lightning, and thunder spread, destroying the whips, launching the soldiers holding the whips back and they smashed into the walls of the homes, knocking my dad, mom, and sister over along with anyone who was within a 5 mile radius.
When my family finally looked back, they saw there was a giant crater that's about 60 feet deep and wide, with me floating in the middle of it, in the same place I stood on the ground.

I looked at my hands and clenched them into fists, before opening then again and their was electricity flowing between my hands.
I looked up and at my father.
"You said it yourself. I have to do this." I say as I start to slowly fade into blue electricity that flows into the water.
"See ya around." I said before fully disappearing.