Where the hell is she?! Thought the young man, pacing back and forth at the entrance of a huge airship.

He had been there for nearly an hour waiting for his sister to arrive, and now the airship was scheduled to leave in 5 minutes.

"I swear if she doesn't get here soon I'm gonna-"

"Mr Dyr, I presume." A strict voice cuts him off making him turn to the source of that, borderline, terrifying voice.

"That's me. Professor Goodwitch I presume." He said back while looking the woman up and down. She had blonde hair that's tied back, a white shirt with a knee length black skirt that starts at the top of her midriff. Further down she was wearing black tights with black knee high heels and going down from her shoulders was a black cape with a purple underside.

From what he had heard from some of the other students, she fairly closely matches the description they made, although she doesn't look as authoritarian as some made her out to be.

"You're cutting it close arriving here 5 minutes before we're scheduled to leave."

"Actually, I've been here for nearly an hour, I'm waiting for my sister… wherever she'd be coming from."

"Do you not know where she is?" she asked, a small hint of concern flashing on her face, if only for a moment.

"Not exactly, I know she's close by, she normally is. That being said, if she misses the flight then she can get there herself. There's no point in delaying for her" He deadpans to her.

The Professor, now actually looking shocked, replies "No we need to wa-"

"There's no need professor. We often travel separately and she always get there first. She'll most likely be there waiting for us by the time we arrive. If fact, you'll likely see her on the way, She's always been a show off."

The now annoyed teacher stared at him for a moment. The moment turned into a whole minute before the gave in. "Fine, but if she's not there by the time we arrive then she's going to be in a lot of trouble."

"Professor, if she's not there when we arrive then you don't know how much trouble she'll be in."

He then walked over to some bags that were piled up next to a nearby bench, picked them up and walked onto the airship. Once he got into the main area of the ship he found where all the other bags had been placed and threw his down with them.

He then had a look around the cabin, noticing the sea of colours from everyone's clothing and for a lot of them, their hair.

He looked down at himself wearing a plain black t-shirt and black combats that are tucked into his black combat boots. Weird to think I stand out, and for once not because of this… necessarily.

He looked at is left arm, or rather at the mechanical left arm he has in its place. His shoulder still being flesh and bone but from there it's a different story. His arm has a dulled black frame with grey armour panels coving it, each having white edges. He looked at a nearby window at his reflection, looking at his shoulder length, shaggy grey hair which fade into white at the tips and his short, but full, beard which of completely white. He, like many people, notices his arctic blue eyes, the blue almost as bright as the whites of them. Lastly is the furry appendage lazily swinging from his lower back, its fur having the same colouration as his hair, only with the underside being completely white.

After giving himself a once over he turned back to the students, eyeing the range of colours that they were clad in, some of which he knew only Faunus could actually perceive.

There was a girl about half way down the cabin that was dressed in all green, even with her bright red hair. There's a blonde guy staring out of the window in a hoodie and jeans with some red fabric in the place of the belt. There's two massive guys talking at the other end of the cabin, one in all grey and the other in something green with a massive, even compared to the guy, green shoulder pad.

Over in the farthest corner as a couple women, and clearly women, one of which has almost blindingly blonde hair and the other in a white coat with long black hair and a bow, which to humans is black but to Faunus is actually a very deep purple, on her head. The rest are a mash of colours that are mostly blocked by the seats they are sat in. the only really noticeable things are the few Faunus with their second set of ears on the top of their heads.

Not wanting to sit down yet he made his way over to a window near the middle of the cabin and leant against the railing in front of it, staring out onto the world outside. From here you can clearly see over the kingdom's wall, over the vast forest that surrounds this side of the city and completely surrounds the school, from what he had heard. Beyond the forest was the ocean which was dotted with ships and an island, the island of patch if he remembered correctly.

After a minute of admiring the view a voice came from the ships PA system. "Attention all passengers, we are about to depart for our destination Beacon Academy. Please take a seat for take-off, after which you will be free to roam about the cabin until landing. The flight should last for 2 hours and 15 minutes."

At that he turned back around, looking over the seats to find a space. He quickly noticed an empty seat just in front of him, with the girl in all green in the next seat. He walked over to it, "Excuse me, is this seat taken?" he asked the girl, who turned her head so fast it looked like her hair was having trouble keeping up.

"Yes, no, I mean it's taken, not, it's not taken, you can sit here sure its fine…." She quickly stammered out, just before her face started to turn red and looked towards the floor.

He stared at her for a moment, trying to process what he had just heard before sitting down. He curled his tail around to rest on his lap and leant back in the seat, enjoying the comfort for a moment before looking back towards the girl. She was still staring at the floor, her face now as bright as her hair. Now he could see her up close he noticed that she is a very well build woman, noticeable through her long sleeves and she had a hammer on the floor, sat between her feet.

Looking back up at her face he asked, "You nervous as well I take it?"

After a moment she shot her head back up and looked at him. "Huh, did you say something?"

"I'm guessing you're nervous as well?"

"What? Me? No….. Well maybe a little….. Actually yes I am. Sorry I didn't mean to lie, I just get nervous and when I'm nervous I start talking and then I can't stop talking and then-"

He raised his hand up, signalling her to stop. "It's fine, it's fine. You won't be the only one, I'm Lupus by the way, Lupus Dyr." He held out his hand to her as he introduced himself.

She quickly grabbed his hand and shook it, rather vigorously. "I'm Linn Ember, it's nice to meet awful you, I MEAN ITS AWFUL NICE TO MEET YOU! Oh god I meant the second one not the first one….. I'll just be quiet now." She immediately looked back at the floor again.

A small smile grew on his face, "Linn?" he asked.

"Yes?"

"Can I have my hand back?"

She looked at her hand, which was still holding his and quickly let go and forced her it under her leg.

"Sorry" she muttered quietly, somehow turning more red.

"Like I said, it's fine. If it makes you feel any better its actually one of the best 'hello's' I've ever had."

"Really?"

"Well, compared to some of them at least. Anyway, who's your friend here?" he said, pointing to the hammer on the floor.

"Friend?" she asked, before looking at where he was pointing. "Oh, this is Dawnbreaker-"she lifted the hammer. In a childish voice, waving the hammer, she said "Hi, I'm Dawnbreaker, it's nice to meet you."

Stifling a laugh, he replied "It's nice to meet you too."

She gave him a puzzled look for a moment before she went wide eyed and puzzled turned into mortified. "Did I just do the voice?"

"Voice? What voice?"

"The voice I sometimes do for Dawnb-"

"Honey, he's letting you off with it" said a woman on the other side of Linn, who drew her attention. "Just go with it".

Linn nodded her head, before slowly turning back around to him, mouthing 'thank you' to him. He smiled back before closing his eyes and leaning his head back into the seat.

A moment later the airship set off, very smoothly he thought which made him question why they had to sit down.

After a few minutes the same voice came onto the PA from earlier "You are now free to roam about the cabin." With that Lupus stood up and wondered back over to the window he was looking out of earlier, noticing that after only a couple minutes they were already clear of the kingdom walls.

"Quite a view, isn't it? It's nothing like back home." Said Linn as she came up alongside him.

"it is, nothing like back home… so where's home?" he replied.

"Vacuo, although everywhere is different from there."

"Well, I'd say Atlas is a lot like Vacuo, except for the technology, stuck up people and the temperature being on the other side of the thermometer."

"Really? What makes you say they're like each other?"

I small smirk grew on his face. "They're both deserts, in essence. They're both mainly large expanses of barren land where little to no plants grow and is a very hostile environment to live in. although up there you won't be dehydrated, but you'll freeze before then."

"I suppose… so where is home for you?" she asked back.

"Atlas, or rather the large expanses of land outside of the Kingdom. At least it was until we turned 12, then home was wherever we were at the time."

"How come? Parents chasing jobs?"

"… Not exactly, it's just been me and my sister for the past 6 years"

"Really? Why?"

He paused for a minute. "If it's okay with you I'd rather not go into it."

She held her hands up apologetically "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked."

"Huh? Oh, no its fine, it's just… If I told you my life story now I'd have nothing left to say for the next 4 years, would I?"

"I suppose so, but, if you don't mind me asking, where's your sister now?"

"She's supposed to be here, but I guess she's making her own way there. As ever, not telling me though…"

"Why not? Do you two not get along?"

"Oh we absolutely do, better then best friends, but we often travel separately. She gets air sick in these things so she makes her own way around, she's just a sister and, therefore, the most annoying person on the planet." Linn giggled at that, putting a smile on his face.

"So how about you? Any annoying people in your life?"

"No, just me. It's kinda why I'm nervous, there wasn't many kids around where I grew up so this is new to me."

"Then you should run while you still can, siblings are the worst!"

"If that's true then what does that make you?"

He held his hand up, "Hey I'm not saying I'm any better, I'm just not as bad as her." They both laughed at that, leading into a minute of quiet between them. Around them the others were talking to each other, the new students trying to meet everybody they can, while the older students were just sat around in their teams chatting between themselves.

Linn decided to go back to the person who spoke to her earlier, some woman in a beret and sunglasses and her rabbit Faunus friend. Lupus decided to stay by the window, eavesdropping in the conversations around him. Even though he only had human ears his hearing was far above that of a humans, and other Faunus that didn't have an extra set of ears. It was then that he decided to listen to one conversation in particular.

"Oh, sis, look. He's got a robot arm too. It looks so cool. You should go and talk to him." One voice said, a young sounding female.

"Why should I go talk to him? You're the one that thinks it's cool. Besides, what would I say? 'Hi, I see you lost an arm too, wanna be best buds?'. Amazingly, I don't think that'd work." A second, slightly older sounding female voice said.

A third female voice said "Exactly, we don't have a clue how he lost it, it could have been really traumatic for him."

"Ok ok fine… why don't you try?"

"Me?" a forth female voice said, this one deeper than the rest "why? Just because he's a Faunus? Frankly, I'm offended" She finished speaking a decent amount of sarcasm in her voice, but judging by how much the first voice was apologising, along with the 'sis' giggling away, she didn't pick up on it.

He started to move his body around a little, trying to see the people he was listening too in the reflection of the window and after a few seconds he found them. It was the blonde and black haired women he saw when he first got onto the ship, along with a small girl burying her face in the black-haired ones back, apologising, and a white-haired woman that looked slightly familiar.

He had to guess that the one pretending to be offended was also a Faunus, although nothing clearly highlighted that. Maybe it has something to do with the bow… He thought. Taking a guess, he decided to say something quietly that others around him wouldn't hear, but if she was a Faunus she might.

"I don't mind if she asks" He said, which caused the woman's bow to twitch, followed by her looking at him. "It's honestly not a problem".

He waited to see what she would do, she clearly heard him but was wondering if she was just hearing things.

After a moment, she said "it's really not a problem?" which seemed to confuse the others.

Instead of just saying something back, he turned around, smiled at them and then said loud enough for them to all hear "Nope."

The black haired one looked a little surprised at that, while the other two looked utterly shocked. The forth, and the shortest, looked absolutely mortified that he had heard her. At least that was what he saw, before she disappeared with rose petals taking her place and the blonde being, clearly, shoved forward by something.

With a huge smile on his face he headed over to them, trying not to laugh at the huntress in training hiding from him. As he was walking over he had time to get a decent look at three of the 4 of them. The black haired one was wearing a long white jacket, open at the front showing off her tank top and her well-toned midriff, completed with thigh high heels and deep purple leggings. The white haired one was wearing a pair of light blue skinny jeans, black canvas shoes and a white hoodie. Judging by her hair, make-up and jewellery this clearly wasn't her normal attire, but each to their own. The blonde was wearing an orange tank top, clearly showing off just how well build she is, black leggings and brown knee high boots. To top that off she has a gold and black mechanical arm, only in place of her right arm, opposed to his left, and hers starts just above the elbow.

Reaching a hand out towards the black haired one first "Hi, I'm Lupus, the one with the 'cool robot arm' and I wanna be best buds." She shook his hand, although it seemed more like it was an automatic reaction. Next he reached out to the white haired one who did the same, then to the blonde who just stared at him, still shocked and a little scared.

"Erm… How much of what we said did you hear?" she asked, answering why she looked scared.

"Nothing before 'oh, sis, look' if that's what you're worried about, why do you ask?"

"No reason" she quickly replied, shaking her head side to side.

"Are you sure? Maybe this one can tell me" he said pointing his thumb at the black haired one who was now completely to his right.

The blonde jumped straight at her, covering her mouth, much to the surprise and protest of her. "No, she can't, she didn't hear anything."

He, smiling, turned his head to the one that was hiding behind the blonde. "And you must be the one who wanted to see my arm, it's nice to meet you…" reaching his mechanical hand out to her.

She was just stood there, frozen in place, staring at his hand. After about 30 seconds the white haired one spoke up "I think you've broken our leader… I'm Weiss by the way, these two are Yang and Blake and this one" resting a hand on her shoulder "Is our team leader, Ruby."

The two to his right, Yang and Blake said a quiet "Hi", while the leader, Ruby, just kept staring.

"Well, first I must apologise for breaking this one." He reached into his sleeve and started to mess with something at the top of his arm, "and second I should apologise for what I'm about to do."

"What are you about to do?" Weiss asked.

"This" he said, as he then pulled his arm off, to the shock and probably horror of everybody who was nearby, and held it out in front of Ruby. "Here you go, just please don't drop it. I don't normally carry spare limbs around with me."

It was at that point Ruby finally moved, but not in the most expect of ways. Instead of reaching out to the arm, she fainted, which only added to the silence. A moment later Weiss reached down to Ruby and sat her up.

"Yang, can you give me a hand putting her in a seat?" she asked. Without missing a beat Yang grabbed the top of her own mechanical limb, took it off and offered it to Weiss.

"Here you go" she said, a huge toothy grin very quickly appearing on her face.

Weiss looked at the arm, up at her, then back down to the arm. With a heavy sigh, she said "I hate you." And with that Yang Burst out into laughter, which quickly drew everybody's attention.

After a few seconds, she fell to the floor laughing, which caused other around us to start laughing as well. About a minute later everybody was going at it. Laughter is infectious after all.

A few minutes pass and everyone started to quieten down and people go back to their conversations, the entire time though Weiss was quiet, giving Yang her best death stare.

"Are you going to help me or not?" she asked Yang, who was still giggling a little. Before she could answer, Lupus spoke first.

"I'll help, it is my fault after all. Although, I must say that this is a first-time reaction for me."

"You do that a lot?"

"…. That may be why then."

Yang spoke up after putting her arm back on, "Don't worry about it, I've got her."

Before anyone could say anything, she stepped forward, picked Ruby up and walked over to a seat.

Blake, who Lupus had forgotten she was there as she was so quiet, asked, "Are you going to put your arm back on now?"

"Huh, erm…. I suppose it might be a good idea, but I'll need a little help with that."

"Help? Help how?" she asked apprehensively.

"Nothing weird or gross, I just need someone to hold it up for me. It's not as simple as Yang's."

"Here, I'll hold it." Said Yang who appeared from behind him. "What makes it hard to do yourself?"

"The way it connects." He hands her the arm and lifts up his sleeve, revealing a dome shaped piece of metal with a large rod in the middle and 5 smaller rods around the edges. "The one in the middle does the most to hold the arm on, the other 5 are for controlling it. Each has to be clamped in place properly or it doesn't work… Or it causes a lot of pain. Either way, it's best to just put it on properly."

"Pain?" asked Weiss, "How can it cause pain?"

"Oh you don't wanna know, that's where it gets gross, even by my standards. But," clamping the last rod in place, "that doesn't matter, just as long as it's working, which it seems to be doing." He started moving his arm around.

"So, what year are you four in?"

"We're forth years" replied Weiss "what about you? I don't recall seeing you here before"

"This is my first year, along with my sister… Who I would introduce you too but she decided to make her own way there, as ever."

"Why did she do that?"

"Because siblings are incredibly annoying, and she gets airsick on these things which is the most ironic thing ever."

"How is that ironic? Airsickness is a far more common problem then people let on…. I can't believe I just said that"

"When you see her you'll find out, until then it's a surprise."

"Ok then… is her name a surprise as well?"

"No, her name is Corax Dyr."

"Wait! Your sister is THE Corax Dyr?" a shocked Blake blurts out, almost shouting as she did so.

"Typical, everybody always knows who she is but never me, so unfair." He feigned being hurt.

"Is she famous or something?" Yang asks.

Blake quickly replies "She is to the Faunus, she's got- "

"Woah now, don't spoil it for them," Lupus quickly interrupts her, "It's not often you get to see peoples first reactions, and knowing her she'll put on quite the display…"

"Ok ok I won't, but still, I can't believe I'm going to meet Corax Dyr. Oh my god I'm so excited! What's she like? Is she nice? Is she scary?..." Blake rambled on for a couple minutes, earning two very confused looks from Yang and Weiss.

His equally confused face was interrupted by his scroll vibrating.

Corax: You left without me? I'm offended :O

Lupus: Oh shut up, you knew what time to get there! Where are you now?

Corax: Like you said to the Professor, I'm close by…

Just then he felt like punching a hole in the side of the ship to throw his scroll out of.

Lupus: GOD YOU'RE SO ANNOYING!

Corax: You love me and you know it

Lupus: That's up for debate, you had better be there when we get there or there'll be hell to pay

Corax: Pfft! Like you can do anything to me little brother

Lupus: We're twins! We're the same damn age!

Corax: 12 minutes little brother, 12 minutes…

Lupus: Yeah, the most peaceful 12 minutes of my life. Just make sure you're there on time

Corax: Of course I'll be there, after all I always arrive first

With that he decided to rest for what was left of the journey, so he said goodbye to the three girls, one of whom was still rambling on and went back to the seat he sat in when they took off. He sat down, leant back and closed his eyes. After only a couple minutes, he fell asleep.

Hey there, so here's the first chapter of my first fan fiction ever. This story started off as one person, then two, then more and more, got backtracked and rewritten until i finally settled on this. I've got a lot planned (like nearly too much) and now i'm just working on getting it onto paper so i can't (yet) put this onto a schedule. Regardless i hope you enjoyed reading this and i look forward to seeing what you guys think.