A/N: Hello fanfiction readers. This is my first RWBY fanfic. I hope you all enjoy it. Please feel free to post any comments or suggestions you have on the story. Also make sure to thank the co-writer of this story, Deviljho's Hatred.
The Dustship flew across the sky over the ocean from Vacuo, carrying with it a group of teenagers. These kids were the newest batch of freshmen who were going to attend Beacon, a prestigious academy where this young students would be molded and shaped into Remnant's greatest defenders of the light and bane against the forces of darkness in all its shapes and forms.
And in this plane was one blood orange haired boy who sat alone, away from all the other conversing soon to be students. The teen simply sighed and closed his eyes and tried to fall into a quick nap before the plane arrived at its destination. As he was just about to reach his goal, he was awakened by a sharp cry of pain coming from a girl.
"Hey what's wrong freak?" an obnoxious voice called out. "I thought your ears could come off if I yanked them hard enough."
The girl, presumably a faunus, spoke against the bully. "They are real! So stop tugging at them it hurts!"
"That's kinda the point toots." another equally annoying voice said. "You faunus trashbags have no business here."
The blood orange teen opened his eyes and saw two teens harassing a dog faunus girl. And no one doing a thing about it. 'What a drag. Now I gotta play the hero.' he thought with a groan as he got up from his position. "Hey assholes! Why don't you leave that girl alone?"
The two bullies looked away from their victim and glared at the teen. "Back off man, would hate for this to get ugly for you."
"If it's gonna get as ugly as your faces then I'd be horrified." the teen remarked snidely. "But considering that you're just prey to me, I'm gonna give you a chance to scram, leave all the faunus on board alone, and you get to keep what little manhood you have in between your legs."
"Why you little!" one of the teens charged at the orange haired youth, throwing his fist forward to meet their opposers face. However it was easily blocked by the teen as he gave them a predatory gleam in his eyes. "Wh-What the!?"
"How boring!" the orange haired teen then lifted the bully by his arm and threw him at his cohort with rough force, both getting the wind knocked out of them as they both fell to the floor. The teen then slowly walked to them as they shrunk in fear of the dangerous Aura that exuded from him. "Entertain me!"
And thus began the worst hour of these two bully's lives.
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"Ah finally we're here!" A lavender haired youth cheered as he exited the Dustplane. "That took forever!"
He was soon shoved aside by a blonde haired teen who began to empty his lunch into a waste basket. 'Sheesh, would hate to be the guy who has to clean that up.'
"Man it's gonna take me forever to wash out this vomit from my shoes." a female voice complained from behind him. He turned around to see a rather busty blonde and a girl wearing a red hood exiting the plane. "I swear I'm gonna get back at that Vomit Boy if it's the last thing I do."
"Relax sis." the red hooded girl said as she patted her sister on the back. "At least it didn't get on your hair."
"Ruby… Don't even joke about that." the blonde said gravely.
"Yo Yang!" the lavender haired boy called to the tall girl. "Is that you?"
The blonde, now known as Yang, turned around to the source of the voice to see one of her friends from Signal. "Hey Leon! Long time no see buddy!" she ran up to the teen and wrapped her arm around his neck a bit too tightly for his liking and gave him a noggie. "Ruby, this is my good friend Leon Vance from Signal. Leon this is my baby sis Ruby!"
Leon managed to get out of the girl's strong hold and held his hand out to Ruby. "Nice to meet you Ruby. Wait a minute, you look a bit too young to be here."
"W-Well I kinda got boosted up a few grades from stopping a thief named Torchwick." the red hooded girl said nervously while poking two fingers together.
"Really!? That's amazing!" Leon said with a smile.
"See Ruby? I told you you'd be the Bee's Knees." Yang said as she ruffled up Ruby's hair playfully.
Ruby pushed away her sister's hands in embarrassment. "I told you I didn't want to be the Bee's Knees. I want to be a normal girl with normal knees!"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Relax Rubes, you'll be fine."
As Leon was about to rejoin when screaming was heard in the distance. Looking behind the sisters, he saw two students running in fear of something, crying out "I want to live!" at the top of their lungs. Walking to the Dustplane of which they came out from, he saw a blood orange haired teen walking out of it with a dog faunus girl standing behind him. The orange haired one with blue eyes is who caught his attention. He was dressed in a large white trench coat with yellow buttons that went to his lower waist that had the black silhouette of a hawk on the back of it. It also seemed like he wasn't wearing it fully as his arms weren't through the sleeves, rather the coat was resting only on his shoulders. He was also not wearing a shirt under his jacket, leaving his bare chest for all to see. His trousers were pure white with a black cover over the right leg with golden colored shoes.
"Thank you so much." the girl said gratefully. "I don't know what would've happened if you hadn't stepped in."
"Yeah, yeah just stand up for yourself next time." the male said with annoyance. "While I hate playing the hero, I hate weaklings more. So please don't make me think that you're weak.."
"R-Right." the girl once more bowed her head in appreciation to the guy and ran off.
"...Ovan…? Ovan Stryker?" Leon asked slowly as he approached the teen.
Recognition seemed to flash in the boy's eyes as he turned to see a lavender haired teen looking at him. He was wearing a vine green jacket with a black shirt under it and brown pants with black boots and a pair of fingerless gloves. He also had a large Scimitar strapped onto his back. "Leon Vance? Is that you?"
"It is you!" Leon laughed as he ran up to him and patted him on the back. "Man how long has it been since you moved to Vacuo?"
"Around seven years give or take." Ovan said as he slapped Leon on the back as well, causing the lavender haired male to fall on the floor painfully. "...Whoops sorry."
Leon gave a shaky laugh as he got up from the floor. "I see you haven't gotten weaker." he said in a rather strained tone. "Oh man. Gonna feel that one later tonight."
"Geez, not even a decade passes and you can't even take a slap to the back? Who were your friends? A bunch of prissy little pansies?"
"Hey! I take offense to that!" Yang yelled from the side. 'It's like their two Leons' …. Oh no, they're multiplying.'
"Well anyway I'm gonna see you around man." Ovan said as he began to turn around. "Gotta see the other fresh meat."
As the teen turned around, he collided with a deep blue haired fox faunus. She wore a dark blue gi and black pants with a blue rope belt. Around her shoulders and legs were several pieces of samurai esque armor plates along with armored gauntlets along with a pair of tan sandals. On her left hip was a long katana in a sheath with a small charm on the handle. "S-Sorry." the girl softly muttered as she looked at the intimidating teen.
Ovan scoffed and began walking away, not even saying a word to the girl.
"Wow. Rude." Yang said with a shake of her head.
Leon walked to the fox faunus and helped her back to her feet. "Hey, you okay?"
The girl nodded her head and gave a quick bow to him. "Y-Yes I am. Thank you for helping me up. I apologize but I must leave now." the girl then started running to the nearest crowd and joined them.
'She sure is skittish.' Leon thought before turning his attention to Yang. "So, want to find our other friends?"
The busty brawler nodded her head gleefully as she spotted a few of them in the distance before turning to her younger sister. "Sorry Ruby, but my friends are over there and me and Leon want to say hi to them so catch you later, okay? Bye!" she said quickly, not even giving her a chance to react as she dragged along Leon to see their friends.
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The students piled into the Auditorium, talking amongst themselves as they awaited their introduction into Beacon. Leon and Yang were chatting, catching up on recent events before Ruby came up to the both of them, looking a bit scorched.
"Hey there sis!" Yang said as she gave a playful pat on her sister's head. "What happened to you?"
"Well after you abandoned me, I met this one girl then I exploded!" the red hooded girl exclaimed at the blonde.
"Wow. Meltdown on your first day?"
"No! I literally exploded! There was fire and everything!"
"You!" a sharp voice called to their right. Turning around they saw a white haired girl in a combat dress stomping up to them with a harsh glare. "You're lucky we weren't blown off the side of a cliff!"
"Oh no it's happening again!" Ruby cried as she jumped on her sister out of fear of the girl before them.
"Oh god you really exploded…"
Leon took this time to make his presence known again. "Well, while this has been delightful, I can see that you three have some catching up to do so… bye!" he then walked away, ignoring the incoming yells from the three girls that soon followed. As he moved through the crowd of students, he bumped into someone causing both of them to fall to the floor. Groaning, Leon rubbed his sore back as he got up to come face to face with the same fox faunus girl from before. "Oh… um hey."
"H-Hello… We met before right? At the front of the school?" the girl nervously responded.
"Yeah…"
The tension between these two was so thick you could cut bricks out of it.
'Come on Leon, think of a topic to talk about.' he thought furiously to himself. 'It isn't that hard.'
"So… I like your weapon. It's a katana right?" He asked as they both got up from the floor. 'Smooth Leon, smooth.'
The girl nodded her head and unclasped the blade from her side. "Yeah. My dad gave it to me before he… passed away."
"Oh I'm sorry to hear that." Leon said awkward;y. 'Damn it! Wrong turn in the conversation!'
"Thank you for saying that. My dad called it the Kasumi Blossom." the girl then unsheathed the blade. The katana's blade was pristine, made of a silver metal. Not a single flaw with the weapon in sight. "He said that this blade could cut through any Grimm with a swift strike. What about your weapon? It looks rather unique."
Leon smiled a bit and unlatched his Scimitar from his back "It's called the Lightning Talon, made it myself over at Signal. It's a Scimitar/Bow hybrid."
"If it's a bow hybrid, where are your arrows?" the girl questioned.
Leon quickly turned his weapon into its bow form. With a deep breath, he began to manifest his Aura through his weapon. Soon enough an arrow shaped bolt of Aura appeared on the pull string of the bow. "I don't need any arrows if I have my Aura. It takes a bit out of me but I can hit hard with these babies and then some."
The girl was about to continue the conversation when the sound of a mic turning on was heard. All the students turned to see the Headmaster walk on the stage and up to the microphone.
"I'll… keep this brief." the Headmaster started. "You have come here in search of knowledge to hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished you will have dedicated your life to protecting the people." he then gave a quick look around the student body. "But I look amongst you and all I see is wasted energy. In need of purpose and direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this. But your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step."
The headmaster then walked off the stage as the woman next to him walked up to the microphone. "You will all gather in the ballroom tonight. Tomorrow your initiation begins. Be ready. You are dismissed."
Leon and the girl then turned back to each other. "Well he seemed rather… off. Well anyway I'm gonna get back to my friends. God knows I can't leave Ovan alone for too long or else-"
As soon as he uttered those words, the sounds of girly screaming was heard along with the rather violent yell of "GET BACK HERE!"
"...that happens…"
"I see your friend sure isn't… shy about his emotions." the girl said carefully.
"Him being shy is the last thing you'd ever see. You'd sooner see an Ursa ballroom dancing with a famous Hunter. Well it was nice talking to you... I'm sorry I never caught your name."
"It's Naomi. Naomi Suniku. Nice to meet you… Leon was it?"
The lavender haired nodded his head and brought out his hand. "Yep, Leon Vance. Nice to meet you Naomi." With a shake of the hand both students parted ways, one of whom was about to head into the danger zone that was Ovan's anger.
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"I told you I was going to kill them!" Ovan yelled. "I was just going to beat them within an inch of their lives. They would've recovered… physically. Mentally they would never be the same."
"And that's why I stopped you. It's like you can't even go a day without hurting someone." Leon said sharply.
Ovan rolled his eyes in response and then looked around the ballroom. "So where do we sleep? I don't see an open spot anywhere."
Leon looked around and saw an open bed with no one on it or any belongings surrounding it. He walked up to the bed and placed his stuff on it. "Well I found out where I'm gonna sleep."
Ovan turned around to see his friend, with a smirk, waving to him on his bed. "You suck." he moaned before going back to looking around. "Well I guess I'm just gonna have to find a new spot to sleep."
"You do realize there are no more free beds right?" Leon said as he glanced around. True enough there were no more free beds to speak off.
The blood orange haired teen scoffed at his friend's claim. "Oh please, the floor is just as comfortable as any warm pillow and soft bed right?" with that being said, he laid his belongings down on the floor and laid down as well.
"..."
"..."
"... I think I may have made a horrible mistake…"
"You can sleep with me!" a voice said to their right. Both boys looked over to see a girl with ivory white hair in a nightgown of the same color patting the side of her bed. "I don't have a problem with sleeping with a guy."
A crimson blush appeared on both of their faces. "Wh-Wh-What!?" Ovan yelled.
"Yeah, I have plenty of room so I don't mind sharing." the girl somewhat clarified.
Ovan gave a sigh of relief. 'Oh thats what she meant.' He got up from his uncomfortable position on the ground and walked up to the girl's bed. "Thanks… what's your name?"
"It's Iris Shinagami. Nice to meet you!" Iris said with a giggle.
"Right. Well my name is Ovan Stryker and this is Leon Vance." Ovan said as Leon waved hello. "Thanks for sharing your bed. So how are we gonna go about this?"
Iris shrugged and just patted to her side. "Just lie down like you normally would. I don't bite."
"...Alright then…" Ovan then, rather awkwardly got on the bed. Shuffling around to get comfy as Iris snuggled into her own spot.
"Ahh… Goodnight you two…" Iris said with an admittedly cute yawn.
"Night…" Ovan responded, not even caring about the laughing come from his friend as his eyelids slowly shut, welcoming him to the world of sleep.
A/N: I hope you all enjoyed the first chapter of the story. I promise to try and post the next chapter as soon as I can. I hope to try and get chapters up every month or so.