The Beginning of the Bear

It hurts..it hurts so much. My head feels as if it's on fire! Images are flooding my mind as I roll across the room to no relief. This pain has me holding my head and curled into a ball on the floor of my room.

The flood of images was odd as none of it I understood, other than the fact these people I was seeing had a major role in the world's future. I don't even know where to find them.

The images started to fade as a few more details and a message of sorts was left in all the images and details.

It stated I had quite a few years before anything I just saw started as I'm only 16 of age with no support or background besides my parents being huntsmen before their deaths. By a rough estimate, I know I have about 7 years before these 8-ish people come together by some fate that seemed to tie them to each other.

My room was a mess after that painful experience that woke me from my sleep. It has been a while since I left my room. Let's get dress as I think there's have no more food in the house. My house is placed on the edge of Vale as my parents hated being towards the more crowded areas. They did always love the quiet atmosphere of this place. I guess being a bear faunus does that as we loved to laze around as a family.

I need to stop thinking about this. If I don't move on, I don't think I'll ever go anywhere. As I think of all this I'm forced to decide between my favorite suit or some more normal clothes like a t-shirt and jeans. After a while of just staring, I just grabbed the suit and wore that since I don't have the patience to argue with myself.

Looking sharp with my black tuxedo suit made for me to be able to hunt grim and really any other activity I can think of. My custom purple tie, black slacks, and white undershirt all made to go with the suit as a set. Now I'm almost ready as I still need to grab my weapons. Just in case something my bare hands can't handle appears.

I walked out of my room and entered the dark hall as I hadn't been in any other part of the house in a while. Walking in the living, I pushed a button behind a picture of my parents in their happy days with me just being born. A hidden door slides open for me to walk through as it closed behind me. The small hidden workshop of ours hid every blueprint and weapon we've ever made. I walked over to the middle locker of three and opened it to reveal my 'Purple Glory'. A pair of purple, mechanical, bear-like gloves, that I've made with my parents. It's made to be mobile and hidden on the person when not in use. It's five dagger-like blades are apart of the fingers of the gloves and can move around as if it's a normal hand. If normal hands had 5 inches of red double-sided blades that had a blue inner part. With the blades also having a magnet that has been paired with another to create the ability for me to call the blades back after I have thrown them off the glove at something. After losing the blades though, 'Purple Glory' is just a very durable set of boxing gloves, so if the blades fail I can fall back into my hand to hand combat training that I gained from having great parents.

I walk out of the secret workshop with the gloves and a spare backup weapon that my father made from his childhood movies. Walking out the door to see the bright sun almost blinding me from staying in for too long. I looked around to see almost nothing has changed other than the grass needing to be cut, but I can do that later. Continuing to walk down the road, I gain some stares from people seeing me in a full suit, but I ignored them since I close to the grocery store that was next to a store called 'From Dust till Dawn'. It seemed really familiar, more familiar than I remember it being. Then it clicked, This was the start of what was to happen in 7 years. I'll have to put this aside for now as I need to focus on the now and right now I'm hungry and need to fill my house with food before I proceed with a plan to help these kids from the images. I know their names and appearance but I don't have the slightest clue where to find any of them.

Putting future matters aside, I walked into the store and loaded myself with a few months' worths of food. It took a few trips to take it all between my house and the store but I managed. After also putting everything away and some cleaning on the side, I started thinking over all the information and images I had painfully received. If I had to make some point it would be:

-An evil group led by a creepy looking woman named Salem wants to cause chaos and basically lead grim to kill us all.

-A small group of people trusted and led by a man named Ozpin is the only group that's defending the world from her and her minions.

-I'm on my own as I can't be pulled into either group as both will make living a more normal life harder. I also can't let any of the kids in the future know I'm the one help them. I could wear a mask if I'm forced to act in person.

-Lastly, I need to start my own organization to combat this Salem but hide my identity from both Salem and Ozpin.

This will be a hard 7 years... I'm gonna need some allies too. My parents should have left a good bit of money. Hopefully enough to start a business. I'm gonna copy my father and copy a movie from one of his childhood movies. Building a business to cover for the fact that I'm working on all kinds of activities to help the world. Yeah! That sounds like an idea that my father would have loved. I'll get to it then. I just need over the next couple weeks to make the business and have it do a bit of everything that's legal and within a neutral-good set of morals. Even if my morals are a bit more of chaotic-good.

~4 weeks later~Office~

Over this past month, I managed to make a medium-sized business that's in almost everything but is only found in a select few kingdoms. And when I say 'select few' I mean it's only in Vale as I won't be branching out to the other kingdoms until I'm stable and have a very firm foundation for the in the Merchant world. I already own a few big buildings for each kind of product that each department of 'Bear Corp'. I've already hired many people and chose the more trusted of the many to be the chief of their own department. I also hired a secretary to help me with all the paperwork that comes with the whole business. She should be arriving in a bit. As I was about to continue thinking, a knock was on the door.

"Come in, It's unlocked."

A younger woman came in and seemed to be surprised that a 16-year-old was the owner of this whole thing.

"Hello, I'm Amy June and I guess I'm your new secretary. May I know your name?"

After she introduced herself I stood up to get a better look at her as I was kinda behind an opened laptop.

"Hello Miss June, I'm happy to welcome you to Bear Corp and My name is Nick B. Serve. You can call me Nick as the company is based on my middle name. Take a seat please."

I closed the laptop that sat on my desk and offered candies and cookies I've kept in one of the desk drawers that I had filled with some snacks for throughout the day.

"I'm gonna go ahead and say that. You were as to help me manage this company as I'm completely new to this and I will sometimes be unavailable to help as I'm also gonna attend Beacon as I want to complete my huntsmen training before I go full time. I also don't expect you to do this by yourself, so you can hire 3 others to help you as they will your assistants. You've already been told your payment amount. Now before I end this and have someone lead you to your new office. Do you have any questions?" Amy just sat there for a few minutes after some thinking before her answer.

"I only have one. What's your reason for making Bear Corp?" I only smiled at her question before answering.

"You'll see... You'll see when the time comes. Go ahead and go to your new office as we got some work to do before the weekend."

~4 days later, Saturday~Home~

I'm finally home! I never knew paperwork was such a pain and with Amy showing me how to do it was worst since it just took that much more time. I can finally relax as it's the weekend, Amy hired the assistants and I have to start Beacon soon as I've still got to head there to take the entrance exam. Work never seems to leave me. This is gonna be a long 7 years as I only a few things left.

I pulled my scroll from my pocket and made a call to my best and childhood friend that I've haven't seen in awhile, Liz Razaberry. She'll hopefully agree to look after my house since I have to live in the dorms during the time of Beacon, but that's if my request to enter the solo course is rejected or/and fail the exam. I'd rather be a solo hunter than in a team as I'm gonna be on my own for a long time already.

My scroll starts ringing and a click is heard from someone picking up.

"Hello? This Nick calling to ask a favor."

"Nick? Did you finally decide to call me as I was starting to think you forgot about me after mourning for so long? It's been what..more than a month and only now you call? *Sigh* You said you're calling to ask a favor?"

"Yes, I was calling for a favor and sorry for not calling or visiting. I was busy getting life together for my later life. The favor though, I was gonna ask if you could watch over my house or live in it for a few years as I'm gonna go to Beacon. Though this won't really be necessary if I fail to get in though."

"Ok! I'll do it! Even if you don't go to Beacon I'm gonna crash at your place whenever I need to. I also doubt you'll fail as your parents were one of the best. You even got them to train you from a young age. You are their legacy now, so I'm confident you'll pass this exam or whatever it is." I can't help but be thankful for having Liz as a friend sometimes.

{A/N: I'm not planning 4 years of plot that's gonna be him just going through school but with lots of training, studying and later with lots of missions of fighting Grim. Also with him trying to manage Bear Corp at the same time. I'm just gonna make some stories for him to tell someone at some point in time or it's a mystery part that he talks about now and then.}

~4 years Later~ Home~

I just walked in the door of my old home as I haven't been given too many chances to visit it. Liz did move into the guest room and basically lived in a rent-free house for the past four years. I got to the living room with all my gear and stuff I had gained over these four years. Liz was curled up on the couch with a blanket over her as she held on to the giant teddy bear I had made for her when I was first learning to sew. I didn't know she had it still. Looking around to check on everything before coming back to the living room. I snapped a picture with my scroll of Liz still sleeping.

Leaving Liz to sleep from whatever she had been doing. I walked into my room and placed my new gear around the room. I decided I'm gonna take a shower so fast forward 20 minutes.

~Twenty minutes later~

I'm now in front of a mirror after so long of never using one. I'm standing almost exactly 7 ft tall as we bear faunus are just bigger naturally. My wild purple hair that I never brush but at least stays somewhat in place to never bother me. The bear faunus ears on my head moving now and then as I listened to the noise around me. My body look trained to the max, but I knew that it was only with time I would be able to tell that.

After I was done checking out my appearance in the mirror I left the bathroom to walk to my room. I was stopped mid-way by a very surprised and tired Liz as I had forgotten she was asleep when I came in. It didn't help that I was almost naked with only the towel around my waist. Her face quickly flushed red as she just walked back to the living room and laid back down with the covers over her head.

My brain didn't start working that I was just seen like this but after some thought, I threw the thought out of mind as I've been seen in worst by even worst people. That's a story for another time though.

I just went to sleep after putting on some underwear and a t-shirt. I'll deal with Liz tomorrow morning as I need some rest to ease my mind.

After that thought, the sweet and enticing darkness of sleep took its course and I fell into a sleep that I need after these last few years.

{A/N and 2nd Update: Sorry if y'all got a notification and were all hyped to find mostly nothing has changed. I was editing some of the text to fix some errors I made. I hope y'all enjoy this and the next chapter should be com out in a few hours if I finish in time.}