AN: Hello all Lord Dragonic here, I hope you like this story it may not be my first but I hope you like it. I look forward to any and all feedback, please note Rai is powerful but has little control over his powers for a good while. The inspiration for this character stems from a few places the first off his lightning which is from RWBY: Raging Storm. The speed is Ruby and the final power is from ECHO. listen to me I'm rambling well anyway enjoy :D

Name: Rai Zilar (lightning silver) Gender: Male

Race: Faunus (Nine Tail kitsune), He hides this by making people believe that he is a fox Faunus

Age: 15½ Height: Five foot Six inches Weight: Average

Physical appearance: Rai has red shoulder length hair that ends with silver, his eyes are two different colours the right eye is silver while the left is a bright gold with streaks of silver going out from the centre. He has Nine tails that are not too big but are large enough that if he wants he can wrap himself and another if needed, he tends to keep eight of the nine tail wrapped around the centre tail so that people think that he is a normal fox Faunus with a larger than normal tail the tail is roughly four feet long and each tail (including the hair) is half a foot wide, when he wraps them around it is only a foot and a bit wide, the colour of the tails matches his hair. The clothes he wears mainly consist of Red, silver and black, the one piece of clothing you almost never see him without is the Red cloak with a silver lightning rain pattern (think Ruby's but lightning running down it), his cloak does have dust infused in it but because how long has had it is unaffected by his semblances, keeping the cloak attached are two different clips his symbol (see below) on the right and his sisters on the left (see hers in back story), the main entire concise of a black shirt with a red overcoat, he wears black canvas trousers, with black and silver combat boots.

Symbol: Rai's symbol is a Red Lotus with a gold lining, with nine fox tails going from the centre to the edge with the same colour and his hair all on a gold background

Personality: Rai is very energetic, a little bit on the shy side, has a little trouble when speaking about how he feels and only speaks of his past with those he trusts, when in combat he prefers to follow than lead but if he must lead he will and often moves before think if a friend or ally is at risk of falling, when fighting he mostly relies on instinct.

Interests: Reading, combat, stargazing, weapons of all types mainly mech shift weapons and his weapons

Strengths: When push comes to shove, he will not back down, very fast reactions he is very fast, has a very good idea on what his surroundings are, has very good memory and lastly has higher physical abilities than most other Faunus types.

Weakness: At times moves before thinking, takes time for people to earn his trust.

Weapon: Rai's weapons are two single edge swords named "Tor" and its sister "Damini", when putting the two swords together they mech-shift into a scythe called "Arashi", the blades of the two swords and different, a red blade for "Tor" and a silver blade for "Damini", the handles of the two swords are black, after the mech-shift the scythe's blade is dual edged with the red blade on the outer edge and the silver on the inner, attacking with the sister blade and blocking with the brother blade the staff of the scythe opens for a marble sized clip to slot in, the ammo of the weapon are 40mm metal marbles that are fired out from low to high velocity depending on what is needed, the weapon does not use any Dust because it reacts violently with Rai's powers, Dust shots can be used but only if they are coated in metal, when shifting back to sword mode the ammo is auto ejected so that there are no complications in the transformation and the transformation only take a total of a second and a half between each, there is very a staggering amount of recoil when firing the Railgun (uses lightning and speed semblance to fire) at the weakest fire strength it's equal to half Ruby's sniper shot at its strongest it has enough recoil to see a person flying several hundreds of meters. When moving at high speeds with the scythe the blade does bend back like Ruby's scythe

Fighting style: Rai's style of fighting is like both Ruby's and Crows when using scythe mode when using dual blades, he does very quick strikes while moving around at high speeds.

Semblance: Rai does not have just one semblance, he has three the first semblance is lightning in its entirety so from shooting lightning to using it to give a speed boost and anywhere in-between. The second Semblance it Speed that's all speed, reaction time, movement speed, semblance usage (speed semblance won't work on itself), healing rate and movement of held objects when he moves using his speed or lightning semblances silver sparks are left behind like Ruby and her rose petals, but he can choose to not leave them behind it just takes more concentration, he leaves the sparks because it helps him hold back because the sparks are excess aura that isn't used. The final semblance is force absorption, in short, any physical force that Rai is hit by is absorbed stopping it completely and gives him a boost to all his physical abilities, not his semblances (think of Yang's semblance), he can control how much force he absorbs which still lets him use the railguns recoil to move around like Ruby does.

Aura: The colour of Rai's Aura is a silver mixed with red and gold that are all equal and constantly moving. If he shows his Aura normally it's a bright silver as it is part of his lightning semblance, and if he is using his other semblances their colours will be added with red for the speed and gold for the absorption, to make use of all three Semblances Rai has an extraordinary amount of Aura many times greater than a normal Hunters/huntress and finally he has excellent Aura to Semblance usage as well as excellent Aura control

Prologue

Rai's story starts half a year before Ruby is born. Rai was born in a small unnamed village a great distance east away from the kingdom of Vale, he was born to two fox Faunus parents with one older sister by four years. His mother's name was Sapphire and his father's name was Cobalt and finally, his sister's name was Lillian.

His mother and father were both Huntsman that attended Beacon Academy, they have both since retired. When Rai was born, they were very surprised to see him with more than one tail and more so with him having nine. When he opened his eyes to show his silver and gold eyes it only shocked them further but also extremely happy so they chose to call him Rai Zilar, for the shock they got and for his silver eyes.

Because of Rai's good memory, he remembers almost everything and learned very quickly. When Rai was six months he was ready starting to crawl around albeit slowly, fast forward two to three months he spoke his first word which was "Cookie", by the time he was eleven months old he was walking around unsteadily but with minimal help, and finally when his first birthday came around he had started to get some control over his tails. Over the next two years Rai was a very big ball of energy that proved to be very good for his family as well as a little frustrating because he always had more energy to spare and was stronger than normal babies, but his family loved him very much, it was around his second birthday that he could get all his tail wrapped around one tail and keep it there to make it look like there is only one tail.

Rai's village was very friendly to both humans and Faunus alike there was very little bullying and when there was it was dealt with before it started to cause a problem, After his third birthday Rai started going to school and friends and quickly proved how smart he was and quickly outpacing everyone in studies and was moved ahead several years, very few people had a problem with it mainly because they were jealous but they accepted it, thankfully Rai's friends still keep close and did not treat him differently than before, he still had fun.

If Rai gets into a book it is very hard to get him back to reality and even more so if it was a book about weapons. Every birthday he would get a new book but on his fifth birthday he confused when he didn't get any book, but when his family gave him his present which is the red cloak with silver lightning rain along with his symbol, he thanked his family but then put on a look of confusion when looking at his symbol and asked why it was different to his family's. They said, "The open Lotus is part of the family's main piece but the nine tails are what makes you, you". When he put the cloak on it was way too big but slowly readjusted to his size, looking to his family they told him that it has dust infused in in it, he never left anywhere without it on.

But as all good things come to an end when he was five and a half and was three to four years other that are his age in school and he was relaxing in a top a cliff that overlooks a vast forest with his tails unwrapped (he keeps his tails as one tail and only had them as more than one when he was alone or with just his family) and just laying down on the ground enjoying the sun, he remembers the many times that his family had come here to enjoy the day.

He was broken from his memory when he started to hear screaming coming from the village he ran back as fast as he could and when he got there he saw Grimm all over the place and fires starting in several places he ran to his house to find his family and saw his sister being chased being chased by a Beowulf while his parents were being occupied by a pair Beowulfs each seeing his sister he ran to her only getting half way before the Grimm struck her back sending her down, seeing this Rai was enraged and broke open his Aura which flooded the area and charged to Beowulf at unimaginable speeds leaving behind silver sparks in his wake the grim did not even have time to register what happened as Rai's fest hit into the chest of the Beowulf and was sent flying too fast for the eye to see, what happened was Rai charged the Grimm disappearing only to show up milliseconds having hit the Grimm and spotted immediately by using his semblance to absorb all the force coming his way stopping his momentum completely while the Grimm took all the force and was sent flying.

Rai after sending the Beowulf off kneeled down and picked up his sister crying and hugged her close and froze when she said "Thank you… for being… the best brother… I love you…" as she gave her last breath he cried even more and hugged her closer whispering "I'll get stronger so other don't have to go through this", pulling away Rai reached out and carefully removed her symbol which is an open lotus floating on ocean water with a sky blue background, he stared at it until he heard his father shout "Rai Run, Run and don't look back we will hold them off" after saying that both his mother and father took out their symbols and throw them to Rai who caught them and looks at both of the symbols his father's symbol is a great flame with an open lotus in its centre, his mothers is an open lotus floating on top a tornado.

Knowing what this meant he clutched the three symbols to his chest and laid his sister's body down and closed her eyes before looking at his parents with tears streaming down his face, he nods once and says "I love you", seeing them smile he turns and runs only to hear his mother speak "One final battle hey?", and his father reply "Yes, Hells Inferno!". Rai didn't hear any more of there as he sped away only to hear an explosion, turning to see what it is only to see a massive column of swirling fire.

Giving one final nod he runs with all he has leaving behind a silver lightning that quickly dissipates. He runs past Grimm so fast that they only see what looks like lightning travel past them. Rai ran and ran and ran not stopping for anything and constantly weaving through trees as he ran through the forest, all he saw was the red and brown leaves blurring together while tears are fall down his face, after running for what felt like hours to Rai he failed to move his foot out of the way of an exposed tree root and caught his foot on it and started tumbling having lost all control only to feel himself being caught by someone and sliding back with that person due to his speed looking up at the person hold him Rai sees a man wearing grey with a tattered cape and grey comb back hair with the physical exhaustion of using his semblance and the mental exhaustion of the events that have happened Rai slow loses consciousness while hearing "Hey, Kid…" before falling into a dreamless sleep.

AN: end of the Prologue Looking for a better some Title suggestions. If people want more information about the type of Faunas Rai is and what his family looks like Just say the word. Till next time.