An armored fist smashed into the teens face, splattering blood onto the ground around her. The strong hand grabbed her by her strawberry blond hair and lifted her off the ground. The high-powered gauntlets propelled the fist into her face again, sending blood flying through the air. She spun around and collapsed onto the ground.

Deep in the forest, a blond-haired teenage girl died on the ground after being severely beaten. Standing over her body was another girl, the same age as her. The other girl had golden blond hair flowing down her back, though it now had blood splashed on it.

She clenched her fist as she watched the body carefully, talking to the departed teen. "This is your own fault. Why couldn't we all just be friends?" She grabbed her head and fell to her knees, crying out. "Now there's only one of us left!"

The midday air of the forest was filled with mad laughter as the young woman slowly let madness and despair fill her mind. The laughter soon turned to a sound well near screeching, the substance in her body warping her mind into insanity.

"Hey. I'm talking to you."

Yang turned to see whoever it was that claimed to be talking to her. "Okay. So, I have to listen, right?"

The other girl didn't look very special when it came to her clothes. She was just wearing a yellow t-shirt and blue pants. She had a white shirt or something tied around her waist by the sleeves, but nothing much else. The single most notable thing about her, as far as Yang was concerned, was her light green hair done up in a ponytail.

The girl fixed Yang with her deep green eyes. "I asked you what the hell you're wearing."

Yang looked down at herself briefly, wondering what could possibly be wrong with her outfit. After determining that nothing was wrong, she looked back up to the green-haired girl. "I'm wearing awesome clothes. What are you wearing?"

She crossed her arms, annoyed. "Normal clothes. You know, like normal people wear."

Yang smirked. She had no idea who this girl was, but she deserved to be taught a lesson. She didn't mean that in a mean way, either. Plain and simple, this girl had obviously missed something or misplaced her wording. "If you're so normal, then why are you at Beacon? This school is for special people."

Green, that's what Yang decided to call her, started fuming. "Of course I'm special! I'm awesome! I just don't need to go flashing around in a randomly pieced together costume so that other people will notice me!"

Yang noticed someone she did know walking past, so she grabbed their arm and pulled them over. "Come here and meet my new friend!"

Weiss shoved Yang off of her. "Just because I'm your sister's partner doesn't mean I like you. Anyone who's a friend of yours is probably not someone I want to meet."

Yang rolled her eyes. "Oh, well, then you two should get along splendidly. Weiss Schnee, meet boring loud green-headed girl!"

Weiss sighed and held out her hand to the other girl, out of spite for Yang more than anything else. "Perhaps we will..." She accepted and they shook hands.

Yang threw up her hands in defeat. "Whatever. Have fun!" She turned and walked away. She wandered across the courtyard in front of Beacon Academy, looking for someone more fun to talk to. Eventually she spotted her little sister, and Weiss' partner, and called over to her.

Ruby Rose looked up from her conversation to see her sister running over. "Oh, hey, Yang! What are you up to?"

The people around Ruby also moved their attention to Yang. There was Jaune and his partner Pyrrha, but there was another girl Yang didn't recognize. She was wearing what looked like a stereotypical schoolgirl uniform, but Yang found her hair more strange. There was no discernible style or pattern in it as far as she could tell, but it was bright pink and therefore it was weird.

The girl noticed Yang's critical eye and blushed. "Aww, please don't ask me why I'm wearing this. My teammates make fun of my clothes enough."

Yang shrugged. "Then why don't you wear something else?"

She grabbed at the hem of her skirt and tugged at it, causing Jaune to turn red when she absentmindedly tugged it up a bit too far. She looked to Ruby for some sort of help. "Well... I don't know, I just sort of like it."

Ruby jumped to her defense. "Everybody should be allowed to wear whatever they want, don't you think?"

Yang smiled. "Yeah, I guess you're right. Besides, I just met some grouchy girl who didn't like what I was wearing. I think she was just jealous, though. Her clothes were pretty boring."

Pink, that's what Yang decided to call her, clasped her hands together behind her back. "Did she have green hair?"

Yang was confused for a moment, but she quickly shook it off. "Uh, yeah. Why?"

The girl grinned at her. "Oh, okay, she's a member of my team. She's like that a lot, but I think she might actually be pretty nice too."

"Yeah, well, heads up." Yang pointed over her shoulder with her thumb. "I may have sparked a friendship between her and Weiss. Ruby, you should watch out too."

Ruby sulked. "Gee, thanks Yang." She brightened up. "I guess if Weiss has some real friends she might be nicer..."

The pink-haired girl ran off to join some other friends, so Yang turned to Pyrrha. "Hey, have you seen Blake around?"

Before Pyrrha could answer, Blake's voice came from behind Yang. "You told me to come with you. You haven't gone anywhere yet, so I was about to just leave. What did you want?"

Yang spun around to face her partner. "You were behind me the whole time? Why didn't you say anything?"

Blake was holding a book, reading it as well as she could while talking to Yang. "I thought you wanted to tell me something."

Yang froze. "I... I did? I don't remember doing that." Blake turned and started walking away, but Yang called after her. "Hey, that doesn't mean I don't want to talk to you about something!"

Blake kept walking. Yang turned around to see the others had all left too. She slapped her palm to her face. "Darn it, now what?"

"Hey! You all alone?"

Yang looked up to see another girl. She had strawberry blond hair done up behind her in two ponytails with black and white bear-shaped hair clips. She wore a black shirt, a red miniskirt, and a tie. The tie was mostly white, but ended in black and had a red circle with a line through it intersecting the border from black to white. She watched Yang with wide blue eyes.

"Are you alone, or what?"

Yang stood up straight, trying to look like she hadn't just been abandoned by her friends. She smiled. "I seem to be. How about you?"

The girl shrugged and held her hand out to Yang. "I'm Junko Enoshima. Nice to me you!"

Yang took her hand and shook. "Yang Xiao Long... just call me Yang."

"Alright. Hello, Yang!"

Author's Note: I hope you enjoyed the opening scene for my SAGE series. Yes, SAGE is a team. No, they are not OC's. We see three of them here, but we only get one of their names. This will be a dark story, if you couldn't tell by the opening scene, and there will be death, but don't despair! There is always hope.

I lied! There's no such hope!

I'd love to see what you all think of this story as I post more and more!