Orion’s POV: 

We've been walking for around a week now, we were headed to the east because in the journal that I was reading there was another Akai tree in the eastern side of Caldera. I took the journal with me so I could read in my spare time. I heard there was a guild near it so we might join.  

“Orion, my feet hurt.” Shiro said dragging her feet. 

“Just a bit longer until we get there.” I responded. “Can you walk until then?” 
 

“No, my feet are gonna fall off if I walk anymore.” She said.  

I smiled, she seems to be better, that’s a good sign. “Fine, hop on my back.” I said kneeling down.  

“Yay.” She jumped on my back.  

“Ahh you're so heavy.” I pretended to start being crushed. “I can’t l-lift you.”  

“Are you calling me fat.” She gasped.  

I hit the top of her head and laughed. “You know what I mean.”  

Finally, a town got into view, there was a large building near the center of the town. “Hold on Shiro.” I announced before putting her on my shoulders and going into a full sprint enhancing my legs to go even faster.  

The town was around 2 miles away and I got there in around 2 minutes. Out of breath I put my sister down and we headed in the direction of the big building which I assumed was the guild hall. We were walking for a while before we ran into a hunter.  

He was a boy maybe around my age and was wearing a scarf as black as an endless void, he is wearing a black cloak, crafted by the gods themselves, wielding a blade as dark as the night, with a length of about 3 quarters the size of the boys arm, his hair as white as a ghost, and he had eyes so grey, he could’ve been mistaken as a lost soul. He had no left sleeve and on his left shoulder was a black guild symbol. “You new around here?” He asked. 

“Uh yeah, we came from the west, can you point us in the direction of the guild hall?” I asked. 

 “Welcome to Shin’en home of Titan’s Blade, and it is that way the big building you can’t miss it.” He smiled. “I would go with you but I'm on a mission sorry.” 

“It’s fine thanks for the help.” I thanked him and we headed in the direction he pointed at.  

After a few minutes of walking II saw a group of nobles I could tell by the way they dressed in their fancy clothing and the way they puffed their chests out to look bigger. They were with someone dressed in a raggedy old brown cloak and had chains around their ankles and wrists. Probably a prisoner is what I thought until they aid something. “Get a move on brat.” he pulled the chains a made the person fall. “This is why you are a slave. Useless as ever.”  

He hit them and their hood fell off. It was a girl, she had long beautiful hair as black as an endless abyss that slowly fades into a ruby red, her eyes were a scarlet red, but the things that stood out the most was her black cat ears with a little bit of white and her black tail that slowly fades to red at the end of her tail. She had chains around her neck causing it to go red.  

My blood started to boil at the mention of slaves. I let out a little killing intent on accident which made the noble that was holding the chains drop the chain and the girl tried to get away. “You’re not going anywhere you bitch.”  He then stomps on the chain which makes her head jerk back and she fell. 

The group of nobles laughed at her as she struggled to get up and stepped on her tail. She winced in pain as I got closer. “Move your foot.” My voice was cold. I was almost in the guy's face. 

“Buahah why should I pipsqueak?” The man laughed twisting his foot on the girls tail.  

“I said move your foot.” I snapped.  

“And if I don’t?” He laughed.  

I glared into his eyes letting loose my killing intent which made him crumple to the ground gasping for breath. I picked him up and ignited his collar in black flames. “This will happen.” I threw him into a near by stall causing a rukas.  

The other nobles that he was with threw a giant ball of orange flames at me, I pushed the girl out of the way and thanked the full force of the ball of flame. “I take baths hotter than this.” I cracked my neck.  

I threw a ball of black flames the same size of his at him. It didn’t burn him as badly because I held back but it still launched him back leaving him with some burns. The last noble charged his body with blue lightning and dashed around me. I watched his every move. He moved at neck breaking speeds as he dashed around me. 

He finally decides to charge me head on. Nonchalantly, I brought up my foot and kicked him in the sternum, I could feel his sternum break under the force of my foot. He crumpled to the floor in pain.  

I walked up to the girl and helped her up. “Hey you, ok?” I asked.  

She looked frightened at first but calmed down eventually. “U-uh thank you.” She said. 

“Oh Orion. And yours?” I asked  

“Scarlet.” Her voice was soft and quiet.  

“Nice to meet you, this is my little sister Shiro.” I gestured to Shiro who was standing a few feet away. 

She bowed. “Nice to meet you, I’m Shiro.”  

“Do you have a place to go, if not me and Shiro are gonna join the guild in this town.” I asked. 

She shook her head. “Then wanna join us?” I asked. 

She looked at the chains around her feet, hands and neck. “Don’t worry about those.” I said lighting a small flame to cut the cuffs.  

“Hey you there, stop right there.” someone in knights armor barked from behind us. 

“That’s our cue, let’s go.” I grabbed Scarlet’s hand and started to run.  

We ran around the streets aimlessly as we didn’t have any form of guide. We must have been running for ten or twenty minutes before we finally stopped to catch our breaths. “Ok now we are lost.” I said out of breath. 

“I never said I wanted to join the guild with you guys.” Scarlet huffed. 

“You don’t have to.” I replied. 

“Then why did make me run?” she asked. 

“Better than being locked in a cell, so you gonna join with us or not?” I asked again. 

“I mean I guess I will.” She giggled. “Thanks for helping.” 

“Of course.” I responded. “Shall we get going?” 

“Yeah.” Scarlet said.  

I hopped up onto a building to look for the guild hall and it turned out we were on the completely opposite side of town. I hopped down and we headed towards the large building.  

We were walking around 20-30 minutes before we finally got to the guild hall. It was a large building with a banner strung across the front with the name of the guild in all caps. TITAN’S BLADE. “Woah.” I looked up and down at the building. It was huge and grand, it felt more like a mansion than a Hunters guild. The exterior was grand with pillars holding up the front made of marble, there were double doors made of glass. 

I opened the double glass doors and headed inside. The two girls followed me into the building. “Hello, welcome to Titan’s Blade. Can I help you with anything.” A young woman asked from behind a desk, she had distinct long auburn brown hair and brown eyes, her presence was that of a loving mother with her warm smile 

“Uh yeah we are here to register for the guild.” I answered looking around. “Also, what is the age restriction.”  

“The youngest you can register at is 12 and you need a B-A class guardian if they are under D-rank.” she answered. “And if you would follow me to go do the registration process.”  

“No, I will take them.” A voice sounding like a teen said from behind me.  

I looked to see who the voice was, and it was a little kid no older than my little sister. He had short blonde hair with light hazel eyes, he was wearing a silver chest plate, a long black collared shirt with his sleeves rolled up.  

 “Is this your kid?” I turned to the woman behind the desk.  

“No, I am the guild master.” he said. “I’m atlas.”  

Pfft I couldn’t stop my self from laughing. “What could a pipsqueak like you do as a guild----” I was interrupted when he charged at me, I couldn’t even see what happened before I was on my ass across the room.  

My hand hurt like it was broken, I must’ve blocked what ever hit me. Was it the brat? I tried getting up, but my legs were weak. What happened? “Guess you can do that.” I coughed attempting to get up once more.  

I got to my feet and shook Atlas’ hand. “Nice to meet you guild master.”   

“Now would you like to take a tour of the guild and see your class?” Atlas asked. 

“Uh sure.” I responded looking at the girls who were staring in disbelief. 

“Yeah, that works.” Scarlet answering my nonverbal question.  

“Lydia, if you would please sign them up for rank evaluations, thank you.” Atlas said before heading in a different direction. 

We started to walk around the guild hall first we went to the mess hall. There were a number of hunters gathered and cheering around a single table. “Why are there so many people gathered around that table.” Shiro asked curiously. 

We walked up to see what was going on and Atlas just sighed. “Summer is trying to break record of eating 100 bowls of ramen.”  

“Who’s Summer?” I asked.  

“Her.” Atlas pointed at the table.  

He pointed at a girl around my age, she had long crimson red hair tied into a ponytail by a light blue ribbon, she wore a white blouse that was loose at the arms and had black leather straps around her stomach, she wore black leather pants with two black belts one with a pouch while the other held her sword. Her sword was a crimson red that matched her eyes, while the hilt was a light blue.  

As we got closer the air around us started to get warmer until we were right in front of her, we locked eyes and they were a deep crimson red. She smiled at us before getting back to her eating. There was another girl with long snow white hair in a lazily tied bun and pale blue eyes that matched my sisters. She wore along sleeved black overshirt with a white under shirt with black leather gloves and black leggings with black combat boots, she also had a black belt around her waist that held a pure white dagger.  

Summer was eating noodles out of a bowl at high speeds. Next to her was a stack of 30 or so bowls almost falling over. “What is she doing again?” I asked looking at Atlas.  

“Last year she broke a record for eating 100 bowls of ramen in 10 minutes and it doesn’t look like she is going to do it looking at the time.” He answered. 

I looked at the time and there was 5 minutes left and still like 60 bowls of ramen left to eat. This is when shit hits the fan. 

Summer looked at the time and started to eat faster, she slurped down the noodles at frightening speed. Bowl after bowl she ate it's only been 2 minutes and she’s eaten 10 – 15 bowls already. 

Everyone started to cheer louder until she started to cough on the noodles. “There’s still 2 minutes left get her some water.” Someone shouted.  

Someone quickly left and came back with a glass of water. She chugs the water then continues eating the bowls. “10....9......8.......7.......6.......5......4......3......2....1” Someone counted down with the timer.  

Summer through her hands in the air and waited for someone to count the bowls that she had eaten. “98, 99, 100,” They counted. “100 and a half, sorry Summer you didn’t finish the last bowl.”  

“Summer that was the stupidest thing I've seen you attempt.” The white haired girl said.

“Oh, shut up Winter, I've seen you do something stupider than this I almost broke a world record.” Summer shot back.  

“Well, that was” I paused. “Interesting, I guess?” 
 

“Who are you?” Summer asked looking in my direction.  

“I’m Orion, nice to meet you.” I reached out my hand to shake hers.  

She grabbed my hand, and I could tell she was strong, her grip strength showed that of a swordsman with years of training. “I’m Summer and this is my twin sister Winter.” She said with a smile. “You knew here?” 
 

“Yeah, me and my sister recently moved here and became friends with Scarlet.” I pointed at them. 

“Nice to meet I’m Shiro.”  She did a little polite bow.  

“I’m Scarlet, nice to meet you.” Scarlet said reaching for her hand. 

They shook hands and locked their eyes as if saying something to each other mentally. “Nice to meet you guys, welcome to Titan’s Hand.” she said before standing up. “Have you figured out your class yet?”  

“What? Is this a school or something.” I asked dumfounded. 

“No, you dunce every Hunter when they join a guild, they get a class and a class skill.” Winter interrupted.  “Did Atlas not take you do that yet?”  

“No, I’m giving them a tour before they have to do paperwork.” Atlas answered for me. “Any way we should get going with the tour.”  

“I’ll see you when you get your rank.” Summer waved before heading in a different direction than we were headed.  

Next, we went to the training yard, it was outdoors, and the ground was concrete covered in a thin layer of sand. There were two people sparing. They were going all out, as if they were trying to kill each other, one of them had a genuine smile like he was having fun, but the other had a crazed smile as if he enjoyed killing or was an assassin having fun. “Thats Jack” Atlas points to one of the boys fighting.  He was wearing a black collared shirt, his hair was a pitch black almost as dark as an abyss, his eyes were a bright yellow.

He was fighting with someone younger than him. “And that’s Rekka.” Atlas pointed to the other boy.  The boy was wearing a white hooded cloak, had pitch black hair with a dark blindfold covering his eyes he had a warm smile as he fought with Jack, he was using a light blue katana charged with lightning and Jack used 2 chained scythes.  

I watched closely as they fought, they were on a different level than the guards or the hunters back at the village, Jack makes a giant spike out of Rekka’s shadow, but Rekka dodges a fatal blow to the throat. “Hey this is supposed to be for training purposes.” Rekka shouted at jack in a panicked tone, you could tell Jack was more experienced than Rekka. 

“Well, if you don’t take this seriously you won’t get stronger, you know you're a rank below me, right?” Jack laughs. 

“You know what, fine fuck you.” Rekka blasts Jack with a giant ball of light green flames covering him in the flames.  

“Eh hem” Atlas clears his throat to interrupting the two fighting. “We have some newcomers, Karma, Shiro and Scarlet.”  

The two stopped their fight and walked over to the us. “Hey, the name is Rekka nice to meet you.” Rekka greets them and offers to shake my hand. 

“Hey, I'm Orion and this is my little sister Shiro.” I took his hand. 

“H-hi I’m S-shiro.” She stutters as she hides behind me. 

I looked at Jack. “It’s Jack and quit staring unless you want to die.” Jack says annoyed. 

 “Do you really think that you can kill me” I asked deadpan. 

This pisses off Jack and he swings his fist towards me, I side step to the left and swing at his stomach. He catches my hand and tries to knee me in the chest, but I stop his knee with my free hand. “That’s enough you two.” Atlas stops the altercation between me and Jack. 

“When are we going to get a rank evaluation?” I asked looking at Atlas.  

“We can do that right now if you want.” He answered.