"I still can't believe we're actually going to Beacon." I said to my friend Andrea Adams, who was sitting beside me on the airship that was now headed for Beacon Academy.
She looked me in my dark purple eyes with her light brown ones and smiled. "Yeah, it's pretty incredible." She agreed with a nod. I decided to dress casually for the day and was wearing a black hoodie with a white t-shirt and blue jeans. Andrea was wearing a dark blue tank top and black denim jeans. Along with her brown eyes, she had orange hair down to her shoulder blades that I found out that she had dyed from its original color, which was black.
Andrea and me had known each other ever since our first day of Signal. We were both working out in the weight room and were taking turns using the bench press. My maximum had only been 150 pounds but since I didn't want to be beaten by a girl, she made me push myself past 200 pounds. Ever since then, we've shared a brother-sister bond that was only separated in the fact that we weren't related. That was the same day I promised myself never to underestimate another female again.
I chuckled as I thought of that day. She noticed my laugh and looked at me like I just said that toast was my best friend. "What's up?" She asked me.
"Just remembering how we first met." I replied looking back at her with a smile.
She returned my smile and laughed with me, ruffling my short dark blue hair. "Yeah, I still can't believe you nearly killed yourself because of your stupid pride." Andrea replied with a smirk.
"Hey! You were the only girl in the weight room that day and I didn't want to get shown up!" I yelled in my defence, straitening my hair.
Before she could reply, a hologram of a blond haired and green-eyed woman appeared by the windows of the airship. She said something about everyone being specially selected to join Beacon and I pretty much tuned the rest of it out. I was too focused on the view from the airship. I always loved flying and if I hadn't been accepted into Beacon to become a huntsman, I would've been a pilot.
"Joe!" I heard Andrea call. "You still with me, bud?" She asked.
"Yeah." I replied. "Just admiring the view."
"I can see that." She said suggestively. I gave her a confused look and she gestured back to where I was looking. Beside the window were two girls: a blonde girl wearing black shorts and a tan jacket with a yellow undershirt and a smaller girl next to her wearing what looked to be a glorified red and black dress with a red cape and short black and red hair.
"I meant the view outside the airship." I stated.
"Suuuure you were." She replied sarcastically. I just decided to shake my head at her response. You're a real class act, Andrea. I thought to myself.
As the airship was on approach to Beacon a blonde guy in a hoodie and jeans puked on the blonde girl's shoes. I knew it was probably impolite to laugh, so I decided to stifle my mirth until we landed.
Andrea and me walked around the campus grounds for a while waiting for the announcement from the headmaster to begin.
"So how are your uncles?" Andrea asked, trying to make small talk.
"Sounds like uncle Pollux is still trying to make new designs for my blades and my uncle Castor is trying to keep him in check." I said with a smile.
"I still don't see why you decided to name your weapons after them." She responded, referring to the dual bladed gauntlets I used during combat.
"Because they raised me for five years when my parents had to go on business in Vacuo and Pollux helped me build and design them while Castor trained me on how to use them properly." I replied.
"Yeah, but why couldn't you have chosen a cooler name like 'Sudden Death' or…" Andrea was too busy looking at me to realize that she had bumped into another student wearing a black leather jacket with nothing underneath and green cargo pants, sending them both sprawling to the ground.
I looked at my best friend and she was on top of a wolf faunus with short dark green hair and light blue eyes, his fangs showing clearly as he smiled.
"Well hello there." He said to Andrea. "I usually wait to date a woman until I get to fourth base, but if you want to…" He was interrupted as Andrea got off him and gave an annoyed grunt in response. "Aw, you're no fun." The wolf-boy said, also getting back on his feet. "In all seriousness though, sorry for bumping into you. Name's Elias." He said extending his hand.
"Andrea." She replied, shaking his hand. "My friend's Joseph." I smiled and waved a hand at Elias at the mention of my name.
Elias' expression turned slightly confused. "So you guys are…" he waited for one of us to finish. I was confused as to what he was implying whereas Andrea apparently wasn't.
"Just friends." She said shaking her head.
"Ok, so you're still single, got it." He said with a smirk. Andrea groaned in aggravation and I felt my smile grow. I was beginning to like Elias. He had a pretty good sense of humor and I didn't have very many faunus friends. That, and it was pretty funny to see him aggravate Andrea.
"Elias!" I heard another female voice yell. "I leave you alone for three freaking seconds and you're already hitting on some other poor girl."
Another girl approached who looked very similar to Elias in terms of hair and eye color, the only difference being that she had different clothes and wolf ears instead of fangs. Her hair was also longer than Elias', just down to her shoulders. She was wearing a white long sleeved shirt with a red t-shirt and a pair of red jeans. In my opinion, she looked pretty cute.
"Calm down, sis." Elias said to the other girl. "It's not like she wants to kill me…yet." He added, looking back to Andrea with another smirk.
Elias' sister sighed massaged her temples. "One of these days, a girl you hit on is going to kill you." She chastised her brother. She then looked up at Andrea and myself. "Sorry about my twin brother. He can be quite asinine at times. My name is Denara, but you can call me 'Dee' for short." She said with a smile and extending her hand for a handshake from both of us.
"It's alright, Dee. So long as he minds where his hands are, I think we'll get along just fine." Andrea said glaring at Elias, who only smiled back. "I'm Andrea, and this is my friend Joseph and before you ask, we're only friends, not boyfriend-girlfriend."
"Unlike my brother, Andrea, I wouldn't have asked you that. I have much more respect for other people." Denara stated glaring at her brother.
I decided to head off the conversation before poor Elias got butchered by my friend and his sister.
"Alright guys, we should probably head to…" I started before I heard a muffled BOOM.
"Head to what?" Elias asked me.
"… I thought I heard an explosion." I said looking around.
"I didn't hear anything." Andrea stated.
"Neither did I." Denara agreed.
I must be going crazy. I thought to myself. I shook my head and continued. "Anyway, I was saying that we should head to the amphitheatre for Professor Ozpin's announcement."
Elias nodded. "Sounds good, let's get going." He led the way as the rest of us followed behind him. As we passed the school courtyard, I noticed a small crater embedded in the concrete. Guess I'm not going crazy. I thought with a smile.