Nikki Amber (Finished)

Nicolette Amber didn't have the normal life even as an early age. Stolen from her original parents from Vacuo or rather 'bought' to pay off debt, Nikki was raised onto a skyship with slavers and branded with the 'Silver Wolf' Tattoo to represent her ownership. Even from an age as early as 6 she knew intense pain. The brand on her back never fully healing was a bad omen to the majority of the Silver Wolves, but regardless the mercenary leader, Apostellios, decides to adopt her at the behest of his lover Sisu who suffered a miscarriage three days prior. Adopting her branded name, Silver is trained by Apostellios to use a sword and later enlisted in the mercenary group at age eight.

Nikki was a wildcat on the battlefield and was a clear subject to bloodlust. Getting an intense bestial satisfaction from combat, whether it was man, faunus or grimm. It was almost to the degree of being considered psychotic. When it came to battle she had no qualms or held any morals on how she won, it was about survival. She adopted her own fighting nature and when she became 10 would even traverse on the battlefield with barely any clothing on outside of a jacket, a hat and sunglasses. Calling her an artist that only painted with the color red. One night, Apostellios attempted to sneak into the girl's quarters exclaiming that she was still his slave. She ended up killing him and adopting his weapon, taking helm as the new commander adopting the nickname, 'Lady Luck' for her reckless abandon on the battlefield. It was then and only then the tattoo on her back healed.

During one Mercenary raid the airship had to deal with the dreaded Nevermore and several other Grimm along with it. Too much for them the airship crashed and most of the crew had died. True to her namesake, Lady Luck, broken, bloodied and battered but still ultimately alive, was found by a hunter named Lee. A shrewd man, but one with a past in which made him not able to judge anyone for their past actions. He immediately recognized her but not of the sky pirate that she had become but of Nicolette Amber, the Amber Prism household of Hunters and Huntresses. He saw this as an opportunity to groom this young girl into something much more. At first it was quite rocky, she had known nothing but pain and struggle and couldn't even fathom an act of kindness, but over time she came to see him as a father and he saw a daughter in her.

By the time she was 13 she had learned to be a master swordsman, specifically adept with Iaijutsu and Shukuchi-Tenken. Learning how to face individuals of all kinds with many different weapons with just her katana regardless of the circumstance. Her fighting style ultimately was unconventional but used a ridiculous amount of speed and agility. It was a fighting style that he, in his advanced age could not use anymore. But with her body frame she'd be able to use it with ease. Around this time, while lurking around the village, Lee had brought another female around her age named Lucy to the village. They got to know one another for those next five years of intense training, she had two years of training on Lucy, but Lucy was a quick learner. Beyond that however, she was Nikki's other half. They were night and day, two sides of the same coin, the ebb and flow. Their friendship knew no bounds and even though Lucy may have not realized it, Nikki had loved her both as a sister, a best friend and as a lover. Some of the villagers would make jokes about the lone wolf and the Lone ocelot finding each other finally. They couldn't be more right.

However, her past could not escape her. Atlas troops had been tracking her skyship as well as her location for several years and finally they sent a message to Lee explaining the reasoning of why they needed to capture her. Lee informed the two girls and where as Lucy was heartbroken, Nikki began to panic and physically go into an anxiety attack. She couldn't live without Lucy, this was her one true connection. Her serrogate father Lee and her sister and one friend, Lucy. It wasn't until, by the grace of Lucy, gave her a coin that she had found off in a nearby forest, foreign and in Nikki's words, 'too good' for her. With that she was able to calm down and she was shipped off to a prison to serve out her time. During her last year, the headmistress of Bellmuse was recruiting all candidates and took a peculiar interest in Nikki's case, demanding her release quite recently. Once released she was able to obtain all her weapons back as a 'free' woman, but that didn't matter to her. She was finally going to be able to go to school and from what a little birdie told her, Lucy was at this school. She had her own plans in mind, but her priorities were simple as she was placed on an airship straight for Syne Academy.

The hot water was soothing as rain drops that ran down her skin, it had been awhile since Nikki had a decent shower so she was going to milk it for every minute she had it. She let out contented sighs as she continued to roll her joints and stretch with the water beating down her face before leaning against the wall infront of her. She wrapped her hand around the only memento she had of her only real friend as it dangled from her neck with a faint ring as she placed it on a chain now, the loop of silver in which was the previous benefactor of this coin became tarnished over time. She let out a contented sigh with a smirk on her face. "You were always so hard to get to. Weren't you Lucy..." she said before glancing through her shower window, which was the size of a small hand mirror, seeing the ever approaching academy coming closer and closer to view. She couldn't contain her smile as they were almost there. As soon as she was done with her shower, the first thing she was going to do was find her best friend. Then maybe... a fight here or there.