Ch.1) The Beginning

The night was dark and somewhat ominous. He was running through a forest that he felt was familiar but he couldn't understand why. But there was no time to think about that as howls went up around him.

He stopped and looked around though the trees to realize he had been surrounded by beowolves, some three dozen burning red eyes of hate glared at him. He readied his weapon knowing his chances were slim with this many grimm surrounding him. The woods in front of him shimmered suddenly, like the shadows had gained its on will. The shadows then formed a portal of pure darkness and out came the last thing he would of expected, a woman.

But it was obvious this woman had no good in her. Malevolence poured from her like a mist.

"You've done well to stay alive so far, but this game ends now," she said.

With that the woman turn towards the beowolves and told them they could go ahead and have fun then began going back through the portal she came through.

"Wait what do you me-". Then the grim all attacked at once. He defended as much as he could. And just as he was about to be struck down by the Alfa, he fell out of bed knocking his nightstand over and generally making a loud racket.

"Ceril, was that you? Everything in there alright." A voice downstairs called up.

"Yeah everything is fine, I just tripped, Ms. Goodwitch," Ceril called back.

"Alright I don't want you getting hurt already today. You are going to be heading to Beacon in a bit, right." Goodwitch chastised.

"Yeah, I can't wait it sounds like fun from what you've told me." Ceril said.

"Well I'll see you there, but things will have to formal from now on alright?"

"Alright. Thanks Ms. Goodwitch for helping me out these past few years. It's been great."

Glynda Goodwitch thought about what Ceril had just said. When Ceril had first shown up in her life it had been three years ago. She and the other headmaster of Beacon Academy, Professor Ospin, had been setting up that years teams for the first years. In the middle of congratulating a team for passing initiation, an explosion had rocked the gym just outside the open doors. After the smoke had cleared they found a crater and inside Ceril. It had taken a week in the infirmary before Ceril woke up. When Ospin and her asked where he had come from and who his parents were he looked at them with utter confusion and told that he didn't the only thing he new was that he was fourteen and his name was Ceril.

"Alright I'm headed out to the airship see you soon Ms. Goodwitch," Ceril's voice broke Glynda from her thoughts.

"Alright before you go I have some advice. When you get there seek help from a girl named Ruby Rose," Glynda told him.

"Alright?" Ceril said confused.'Well that was cryptic.' Ceril thought as he left.

The airship ride to Beacon academy was relatively uneventful other than reports of dust shops being robbed and an extremely airsick guy in armor, there wasn't much to look at and Ceril wasn't often one for small talk with people he didn't know so he decided to look at who would be joining Beacon that year with him. There was the blonde dude that was vomiting, then there was a black haired girl off to the side with a book in hand and a bow in her hair. For some reason he felt that the bow was hiding something, he wasn't sure why, it just felt wrong. There was a girl in all white that had a trolley cart full of suitcases, she had a sort of snobbish air about her that put him off. He looked to the other side of himself and he saw two girls, one that had long yellow hair that reached the small of her back. She had what looked to be extendable wrist gauntlets at first glance, but Ceril was certain that there was more to them. Then there was the girl next to yellow, she had short black hair with red tips, a long red cloak, and she looked to be almost his age. Glynda had said this year there would one other student about his here, also due to special circumstances. She must of been that student which meant it would probably be best to get to know her.

"Oh I can't wait to see everyone's weapons!!!!" Ceril heard cloak squeal in excitement. He smiled at that, he also wanted to know but probably not for the same reason as her.

"Um . . . Hi I'm Ceril I saw that you looked more around my age and thought we could talk," he introduced himself to the girls. Yellow looked and immediately gave him the evil eye. Cloak on the other hand was much more welcoming.

"Hi Ceril, I'm Ruby and this is my sister Yang," Ruby introduced herself and her sister.

"That might explain the evil eye she has been giving me since I came over here."

"What, Yaaaang stop it he hasn't even done anything," Ruby turned on her sis who was still looking at me darkly.

"Um Yang I can guess what you're thinking and I'm not going to say anything weird like especially to people I just met and don't really know soooo you can stop. I just came over cause Ruby looked about the same age as me and I thought we could be friends that's it."

Yang looked shock at hearing this and was impressed at the new guys ability to guess her thoughts. "Alright Rubes you can stop glaring he's cool with me. Your smart kid how'd you guess what I was thinking?"

"Well as soon as said hi and you started to try and burn a hole in me with your eyes, I started to think 'did I do something to anger her' then Ruby said you were her sister then it clicked you being protective of her cause I was just some guy trying to talk to your sister. If I had a younger sister I would be the same way," Ceril explained.

"Nice, I think I could trust you to be with Rubes then. Sis I'm gonna mingle with others see you in a bit," Yang said and walked into the crowd though I could still feel her eyes on me.

"So what are you looking forward to at Beacon Ruby?" Ceril asked.

"Um. . . See the. weapons other students have with them and seeing if we get to fight Grimm while here," Ruby said.

"Cool, I agree. Say while we're on the subject want to see mine."

"Wait, really, I can see your weapon?"

"Yeah, why not," Ceril said as he pulled out his weapon. Ruby looks surprised as he pulls from his pocket a small cylinder.

"What is th-" Ceril quieted Ruby so he could concentrate on what he was doing. As soon as he was done creating the image of the weapon he wanted he pressed the button on the end of the cylinder while flowing his aura over it. As his aura came in contact with it the cylinder changed shape. It elongated, over a third of it flatted and sharpened itself and where his hand was a handle, guard, and pompel formed. When it was done the cylinder Ceril had had in his hand was now a four foot long black katana with a glowing blue edge.

"Wow, that was awesome," Ruby said while she gaped at Ceril. "Where did you get that from?"

"It was a gift from the person who took care of me before I left for Beacon. The one I had to train with doing that would make me pass out, it's was very hard to use," responded Ceril. "Now what about yours?"

"My what?"

"Your weapon. I showed you mine now you show me your weapon."

"Oh okay," Ruby says blushing. She then brings out her weapon. As she spins it around herself expertly it extents into an enormous scythe.

"Now it's my turn to be awestruck. Cause that's awesome."

"It's also a high impact sniper," she says as she pulls on the chamber pin.

"Nice!"

DOOOOMMM!

We both turn at the sound and see the image of Ms. Goodwitch on the holoscreen. She explains that orientation will be in the gym that we will have thirty minutes to get there. As soon as she is done the screen goes blank and it's announced that the airship has arrived at Beacon academy. The two of them agree to meet up again after orientation. Ruby then heads off to look for Yang and Ceril decides to go to the gym. After he finds the gym Ceril decided to relax in a nearby tree until he needed to be inside

Orientation wasn't to bad, Professor Ospin, the headmaster spoke to them and said that tonight they would all be sleeping in the mess hall then the headmistress which happened to be Ms. Goodwitch told them if anyone were to try and fool around that they would be severely punished by her personally, which made Ceril cringe. He had had to go through one of her 'punishments' for accidentally wreaking her living room at her house when he discovered his semblance one day. He never wanted to do anything like that ever again.