Chapter 1
As the other brand new students walked off the bulkhead, a teen dashed past the crowd and got off the bulkhead as soon as possible. "GROUND! SWEET SWEET GROUND!" He cries out in relief as he sits down on the path. Another teen steps behind him and pats his back before helping him up off his feet. Some of the students stare at the bizarre stunt the student pulled, others laugh a little. But it didn't last long as they soon saw the large tower of beacon looming above them.
"Thanks Jerome… Gods I can't believe we're here! Aren't you excited man?!" He asks Jerome as he walked down the platform, the quiet teen looks up from his coin that he was currently rolling between his fingers and gives his friend a nod with a small smirk on his face. The way he passed the coin between his fingers, tossed it to his other hand, he did it like he was naturally born with the skills.
The silent boy was standing 5'9, with bright green eyes and tuffs of dirty blonde hair sticking out of his dark grey bandanna. To go with it he wore a navy blue hoodie with three white stripes going up the sleeves. He also had worn white trousers with the legs tucked into his steel tipped boots. He had a rounded jawline, a curved nose and his hair was nicely trimmed. The other teen wore an eye catching racing leather jacket which was colored in black had the number 32 on the back outlined in orange and filled in by white. He had his whole right arm protected in lightweight armor padding with his symbol on the shoulder. With that he also wore grey jeans with a few holes in the knees and sneakers. He had a sharp jawline, a sternly smooth pair of cheek bones, golden orange eyes, and a straightly carved nose to match. His hair was straight and parted to his right hand side, but it was pulled to the back and slightly messy, but what stood out was the tips of his hair were dyed orange.
As the two teens walked around the sprawling campus of beacon to find where they were supposed to meet with the head of the academy, The racer was nearly trampled by a group of students running past him and accidentally trips over a girl and both knock over a cart of containers. Before Jerome could rush over to help his friends, another girl, clad in a white dress with a tiara suddenly began stomping over to them. He immediately took notice of who she was and began backing away, not wanting to catch her attention.
"What do you to think your doing!?" She asks with an annoyed tone of voice towards them. The teen looked up to the girl and his eyes widen at the sight of the all white girl.
'Oh god, please don't be-' before he could finish his thoughts, the little red hooded girl he had knocked over quickly apologies to the stuck up girl towering over the two.
"Sorry? Do you have any idea of the damage you both could have caused?!" She says as she picked up one of the containers and holds up a vial of red dust to them. "This is dust, mined and purified from the Schnee quarry." She says with pride.
'I knew it….' He thinks to himself. He sees the Schnee start waving the jar in front of the black and red dressed girl and she starts to cough into the red dust as the girl keeps shouting at them.
"Hey listen you should really stop that before-" But before he could finish, she sneezes and an explosion engulfs the two of them and sends the vial of dust into the air.
Meanwhile, Jerome was watching this all go down from a distance but then he was bumped into by someone and immediately turned to whoever it was. He was met with a very stunning girl on the ground next to her book, wearing almost all black with a bow tie to match her outfit. Jerome holds out a hand to help her up off the ground with a warm smile,
"thanks, sorry about that. I was not looking where I was going." She says in a soft voice to the boy. Jerome quickly picked up her book for her to hand it back before a large explosion went off and turning towards it. The reader sees a vial of red dust rolling to her feet and leans over to pick it up. "Hmmm." She hummed to herself before taking back her book and thanking Jerome. They both begin to walk over to the chaotic teens.
"UNBELIEVABLE! This is exactly the thing I was-" this time the Schnee was interrupted by the teen caught in the crossfire.
"Well excuse me Snow White! It's not her fault that someone was waving an unsealed capsule of dust into her face!" He yelled at her as he helped up the little girl and dusted her off.
The Schnee immediately glared daggers into the boy "Wha- who do you think you are? You don't get to talk to a Schnee in such-"
"Orion Tromerit! That's who I am, and way to make an impression princess, waving vials of dust into someone. What a fantastic way to get yourself killed!" Orion says with his arms crossed and began to glare at the bratty princess.
Iit's heiress actually." The girl in black says as she walked over to the three with the dust in hand, Jerome walked over next to his friend and patted his shoulder.
"Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company. One of the largest producers of energy propellant in the world." She says like she was reading off of a pamphlet, Weiss straightens her poster and puts her hands on her hip with a proud smile.
"Finally, some recognition around-" Weiss was once again interrupted before she could finish "The same company with tons of controversy about their labor forces and business partners." Orion finished with a grin on his face, this was received by Weiss turning to him fuming mad and a look that would make any person cower on the spot. "Why you…" She growled before walking up to Jerome and snatching the vial of dust from him.
Unknowingly to Wiess, the dirty blond haired teen was clenching his other hand and looking at her with a furious glare in his eye that could make an Ursa shake.
As the bratty heiress stormed off, Both of the teens chuckled as the woman with the bow tie walked away and continued to read her book, leaving Jerome a little unhappy he didn't get to find out her name.
"I promise I'll make this up to you!" The little red girl quickly shouted to Wiess but she paid no attention to her. She then sighs to herself and shakes her head sadly.
"I guess I'm not the only one having a rough first day…" she says to herself, Orion gently patted her shoulder and gave the girl a smile.
"Well you and me both. Welcome to beacon I suppose" he says jokingly, trying to lighten her mood a bit, to which the silver eyed girl gave a light chuckle.
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After a blond armored teen began to tag along with the three, the girl now known as Ruby began to talk to him about something with "vomit and motion sickness" to each other. Orion and Jerome walked behind them as they listened to their conversation, or rather Orion was, Jerome was busy flipping his coin, tossing it from one hand to his other and rolling it over his fingers.
Ruby then looks up to Orion with a raised brow "I… wanted to ask, are you in any way related to… Ares Tromerit? Like the CEO of Tromerit Motors and Arms?" She asks. Jaune looks over to the teen with a look of confusion
Orion chuckles and nods in response "yeah, the same… I'm his son." He says to her and this immediately gets her to squeal in excitement. Orion is slightly taken aback by this and asks "are you a fan of that company?"
"Am I? Your the son of arguably one of the most innovative and genius weapon manufacturers of the century!" She says with a large grin.
"I'm sorry… who is he?"
"Well… he's the son of one of my favorite weapon manufacturers. They practically make art, gun art!" The silver eyed girl gushed with glee. This however didn't help Jaune understand and was still confused.
Chuckling, Orion looks to Jaune with a smirk and asks "well who may you be?"
"Well the names Jaune Arc, short, sweet, rolls off the tongue, ladies love it" he says with a bit of confidence in his tone.
"...Do they though?" Both Ruby and Orion ask him.
"They will! Well… I hope they will." Jaune says after to which Ruby giggles at this and then an awkward silence engulfs the 4 of them.
"Soo… I got this thing." Ruby breaks the silence as she draws a large red scythe that seemed to be almost twice her height and Orion could tell she had made the thing herself. Needless to say he was quite impressed with what Ruby had made, and Jaune certainly was surprised by this huntresses creation.
"Woah, is that a scythe?" He asks and Ruby as she lifts it onto her shoulder with a smirk
"It's also a high impact customizable sniper rifle." She adds and then hears Orion give a whistle, to which she smirks proudly. "...What?" Jaune says confused, Orion sighs and says to the blonde
"It's also a gun. What do you have Jaune?" Orion asks curiously and he then pulled out a simple looking sword "Well… I have this sword..." This was met with Ruby saying "ooooh", he then pulled out a collapsible shield "and this shield." he finished before the shield quickly sprung off his wrist and closed up.
"So what do they do?" Ruby asks as Jaune fumbled to catch his shield.
"Well… I can put it away so when I get tired it's easier to carry." He says nervously "but won't it weigh the same?" Orion asks him before being met with a sigh and a nod of shame. Ruby giggles again before caressing her scythe
"hehe, I'm a huge nerd when it comes to weapons, I may have gone a little overboard with designing it." She says and Jaune blinks a couple times before asking
"Wait… you made that?" He asks and Ruby nods.
"Did you create those Jaune?" Orion asks Jaune but he replies that they are his great great grandfathers "huh. Sounds like a family heirloom" he says to the blonde knight.
"Well I like it. Not many people have appreciation for the classic things" Ruby tells him to cheer Jaune up "Yeah, the classic things…" he says.
"Well… what about you two?" Ruby asks Orion and Jerome, the silent boy looked up and catches his coin and then holds it up for them to see. It was a simple looking silver and gold engraved coin that had one side that had crosshairs and vines, the other had a thinner cross hair design but instead of vines, there were quarter circles.
"Is… that it? Doesn't really look like it can do much." Jaune says with a raised eyebrow, Orion chuckles at this comment and then Jerome places two fingers on one side and pulls on the sides of it. The outer edge separates from the coin and then blades slide out from the coin and then a bit of wire slides out of the coin, Jerome gives it a couple of twirls, letting the whistle of metal ring before he grabs the coin blade with a gloved Hand and pulls to tighten the cord with a hint of a smirk pulling at the silent boys mouth.
"WOW! That's so awesome! No one would think twice about that" Ruby gushed over the weapon as the owner reverted it back to the coin mode.
"Don't judge a book by its cover." Orion says as he reached back and pulled out two lever action shotguns. The design of the shotguns looked similar to an old 1887 lever action shotgun, but the grip was now a polymer pistol grip and making the cocking lever act as a hand guard. The dirty silver colored receiver was more smooth lined and had a breach on the top of the gun. The barrel had a metallic orange heat shield and the engraved grip covered more of the sides of the shell tube and barrel.
"These are my babes, they use custom made shells that can take a variety of dust rounds. They can also turn into these." Orion then flicks the shotguns and the bottom tube flips forward onto the barrel and slides in slightly, the pistol grip and lever turned back and then the front hand guard slid down and turned the guns into medium sized cleavers.
"Oh my gods that is wicked!" Ruby cries excitedly.
"I know right?! And the best part is these two are quite light when you hold them." He with equal excitement and hands one of the weapons to Ruby, she gingerly but carefully holds it and is quite surprised about how it weighs.
"It's very light, it's almost like holding a wooden toy sword." She says as she gives Orion his weapon back. He smiles and puts them back onto his holsters in gun form.
"What are they named? Weapons as cool as those have to have names don't they?!" The silver eyed huntress asks the two boys, Orion chuckles a little before nodding and saying
"These are called Jekyll and Hyde. The coin Jerome here uses…" he then pauses and begins thinking to himself.
"Huh… I don't think it has a name." He says to Ruby. Jerome only shrugs his shoulders in response and looks at the little girl with a frown and an apologetic look.
"...hey ummm… I have not heard you speak dude, why is that?" Jaune asks the fellow blonde to which Jerome looks over to him and gently rubs his throat before shaking his head. This only leaves Jaune confused as before until Orion place a hand on his shoulder and sighs.
"He… doesn't prefer to talk in general. I usually speak for him or he uses sign language. The best way to tell what he's saying is through his facial emotions." Orion quickly tells Jaune.
"Oh, sorry dude" Jaune says to him but Jerome simply smiles at him and waves his hand lightly.
"Now… I think we need to head somewhere am I right?" Orion asks the others and begins to head to the auditorium of the school.