It was a sunny day at Beacon Academy and the airships were due in a few hours to drop the students off to start the semester. One student, however, was in an incredibly irritated mood. And that had to do with the fact that her seating neighbour wouldn't leave her alone. Velvet Scarlatina had to stop herself from hitting Cardin Winchester, a first year student of Beacon, who was currently annoying her by pulling on her rabbit ears.

"Why don't you go back to your own compartment?" Velvet grumbled in irritation. Cardin smirked as he gave a quick and hard pull on Velvet's ear, earning a hiss of pain from her. 'Even I'm losing my patience with this twat...' The normally shy faunas thought.

After a few more seconds, one of his friends ran over, laughing loudly. "Hey Cardin! There's a guy over there puking his guts out!" The blonde Mohawk teen told him while trying to hold in his laughter as he told Cardin. Cardin smiled as he let go of Velvet's ear and got up. "I have to see this!" Cardin said as he followed his friend.

Velvet sighed as she massaged her ear. 'Why did I have to deal with this asshole.' Velvet asked herself as she looked out the window, waiting for them to arrive at Beacon in a few hours.

Meanwhile, near an alleyway at Beacon Academy...

It was a real privilege to Vernon Dursley to be near the Beacon campus. He was chosen by his higher up from Grunnings to come here and showcase their products to the various businesses around campus. Especially their new, top of the line drills that ran on Dust. However, he also had another reason to be happy he was within the vicinity... Today was the day that he wouldl finally be rid of the black sheep of the family, the one that tainted the normality of his family.

Said black sheep was currently stuffed uncomfortably inside his suitcase with his drills.

Vernon was whistling a happy tune as he slowed down and stopped his vehicle in front of an alleyway. He quickly opened the suitcase next to him and took out a heavily scratched up and bruised child. Without a moments hesitation or remorse, Vernon rolled down his car window and tossed Harry into the alleyway.

"See you never you little freak!" Vernon called out to the injured boy when he hit the ground. Vernon then quickly rolled up his window and drove away, continuing whistling the happy tune as he drove off. The beaten, battered child whimpered as he weakly tried to get to his feet. When he was able to get on one foot, he dropped and fell on his face. The impact he made with the concrete broke his nose with an audible crunching sound. Despite the pain, Harry only whimpered as he crawled to the alleyway wall and rested against it. He supposed this wasn't a terrible place to die... It beats living with the Dursleys anymore and being tormented and beaten everyday. His eyes started to droop as the events of the day started to get to him. Before long, he was fast asleep.

A few hours later at the airship landing docks...

'Just go away already...' An exasperated Velvet mentally groaned as Cardin was tormenting her again. They were just minutes away from landing and she was at piece...until Cardin got bored by the puking guy and came back over to pull her ears again. 'I should pull his bloody ears, see how he likes it...' The faunas thought bitterly.

Cardin was laughing to himself throughout his torment session with Velvet. 'This is so fun.' Cardin thought as he pulled on her ears. 'This stupid Faunus has such pullable, cuddly, cute ears.'

Velvet let out an agitated sigh. "You know, I AM a year above you. A little respect for the older students would be nice."

"Pff, like I would respect an animal like you." Cardin told her, bluntly showing his racism.

"Takes one to know one..." Velvet mumbled under her breath.

Cardin looked at her with a frown. "What did you just sa-" Cardin was interrupted by the intercom going online. "We will be arriving to Beacon port in five minutes." The woman's voice told them. Velvet took the opportune distraction to escape from Cardin. "What?" Cardin said as he looked at the spot that Velvet was at moments ago.

Velvet sighed and shook her head as she walked away. Just like the woman said, they landed five minutes later and the students started to clear out. Velvet blended in with the crowd, wanting to avoid being seen. She walked past a blonde kid who was throwing up in a trash can. She gave him a sympathetic frown, and continued walking.

Luckily she was able to avoid Cardin and stumbled across a alley way and saw something in the corner of her eye. 'Hmm? There's something in the alleyway...Could it be an animal?' She decided to edge closer to it and was horrified to see a horribly scratched up and bruised child resting against a wall. She clapped her hands over her mouth, stifling a scream. 'WH-WHAT HAPPENED HERE!?' Velvet screamed in her mind.

Harry heard the noise she made, and his head snapped up. He looked at her in fear and backed himself away from her and hit a garbage bin. He hissed in pain as the impact jarred a still tender wound he had sustained.

Velvet heard him hiss and walks over to him. "I need to get you to a doctor!" Velvet told him as she walked closer to him, causing him to curl up in a ball and whimper. "Stay away..." He whimpered. "Don't hurt me...Please don't hurt me..." Velvet halted in her tracks, not wanting to upset him anymore.

'Oh no...How do I do this...?' Then Velvet's eyes lightened up as she realized that she has to go about this in a calm fashion to coax him into letting her touch him. And so, she knelt by his side, putting on her best smile. "Hello there. My name is Velvet, I'm a student of Beacon. How did you end up like this?" Velvet asked him. Harry looked up at her timidly, trying to find the will to respond. His eyes trailed upwards and to his amazement, she hat two long rabbit ears on top of her head. He stared curiously before looking down. Velvet looked at him in confusion before realizing that he was staring at her ears. Coming up with another idea to get him to open up, she smile. "Do you want to touch them?" Velvet asked him, pointing at her ears.

Harry looked at her in surprise. "C-Can I...?" He asked softly.

"Of course! Just...please be gentle..."

Harry tentatively reached out and gently prodded her ears. 'T-They are so soft.' Harry though as he started to rub her ears. Velvet stood patiently and allowed him to rub her ears.

'At least he isn't pulling them.' Velvet thought, still bitter about that jerk Cardin. 'In fact, this actually feels rather nice.' She thought. 'Like a massage...' Velvet started to hum in pleasure. Finally, Harry eventually pulled his hands away and looked up at her curiously. Velvet smiled and rubbed the top of his head. "I'm not so scary now am I?" Velvet asked him. Harry smiled ever so slightly and shook his head. Velvet smiled. "So how did you get this way?" Velvet asked again.

"Um...Well...I...Uh..." Harry wasn't able to bring himself to tell her.

Seeing that he wasn't about to tell him, she sighed. "Well...if you don't want to tell me then you don't have too, but at least let me take you to a doctor." Velvet told him.

Harry tilted his head. "A doctor?"

With a nod, Velvet explained what a doctor was. "A doctor is someone that helps you get better when your hurt or sick." Velvet explained.

Harry nodded in understanding. "You really wanna take me to one?"

"I HAVE to take you to one." Velvet replied.

"Oh...Um...Okay..." Harry responded softly. Without another word, she gently picked him up and made sure he was safe and secured in her arms. He winced when she touched one of his injuries.

She stiffened when she saw his wince and realized that she touched an injury. "I-I'm sorry." Velvet told him as she started to pump a little bit of her aura into his injuries to accelerate his injuries slightly. Harry breathed a small sigh of relief as a little bit of his pain faded. Seeing that he wasn't in pain from the injury she touched, she smiled at him then walked out of the alleyway and to the nearest hospital to get him healed.