Standing in a corner on the VTOL. Headed to Beacon. Yet another place for Faunus discrimination and another place to make me hate humanity. Laughing to myself I looked around the ship. There was a girl wearing a red hood that has beautiful silver eyes. Looks young to be headed to Beacon. The young one is hugging a tall blond who likes to show her body off. And there's this blond boy who keeps running around.
"Hello, and welcome to Beacon. Glynda Goodwitch is my name." The woman had appeared out of thin air. "Privileged few have the honor of being selected to go to this prestigious academy! Count your self lucky. The world is experiencing an incredible time of peace." She disappeared, gasps coming from all present.
I was laughing to myself, peace was far from what was going through my mind.
"Wow! You can see Signal from up here!" The girl with the silver eyes said.
I stood up and strolled over to the window. All I saw was hate and ignorance, the world lost its beauty for me long ago. I heard gagging sounds. The blond haired boy had thrown up.
"Oh, Yang, gross! There's puke on your shoe!" Yang looked down and started to freak. "Gross, Gross, Gross, Gross, Gross, Gross!" She started to run around with the silver eyed girl.
"Get away from me!" She yelled at her. I rolled my eyes, idiots.
The VTOL started to make the decent towards Beacon. When the door opened "Vomit boy" puked into the trashcan.
"Wow." Yang and the silver eyed girl said in unison.
"Vale has nothing on this!" Yang said.
The silver eyed girl had stars in her eyes as she looked at all the other students weapons. I stood in the crowd with my hood up. That rule I had learned when young. If you could blend in it made you harder to spot. Which made it easier to do...things. So I moved to the nearest bench. I raised an eyebrow, why even watch? I should just be trying to get through this nonsense.
Yang ran off with a bunch of "friends" and now this silver eyed girl looked helpless as she fell back into a bunch of suitcases. Sending them flying in the air. Raising an eyebrow I wondered who would need all that?
Weiss Schnee. Heiress to the Schnee dust company. Another reason to hate humanity. Her father's company treated the Faunus like shit. Overworked them and gave them almost no pay. Might as well have been slaves, hell they were slaves. Why the hell is she even here? Shouldn't she be back at home playing politics and economics, not being a dammed Huntress? Whatever her reason to be here, status was the main reason. I couldn't make out the conversation, but it sounded like Weiss was letting this girl have it. Until the girl sneezed and an explosion happened.
"Dust explosion, good job Weiss, you're a fucking genius." I mumbled. Weiss continued to let her have it till a girl with a black bow started walking over. The way she moved, her eyes, and that little black bow. She was definitely a Faunus. Yet she looked so familiar. Weiss looked angry and walked away. The girl with the bow also started to walk away. I looked over and "Vomit boy" picked up the silver eyed girl. I started to walk over to them. What the hell was I doing? Trying to make friends. Of course I didn't stop though.
"You okay Silver eyes?" I said. Both jumped and turned around.
"Saw that?" Silver Eyes blushed a bit.
"Yeah from that bench over there." I stuck my thumb out to point to the bench. "The name is Nick Sanchez, what's yours Silver Eyes?"
"Ru-Ruby." I gave a small smirk.
"Fits you," turning and looking over at the tall blond before me. " And yours?
Holding his head high he said, "Jaune Arc, but you can call me Jaune." I raised an eyebrow. The Arc's a well respected name, but this boy didn't seem the part.
"Pleasure to meet you two." I laughed. I always hated saying that, but for once I meant it. These two seemed differentf from most I had met. Not all humans are Faunus haters, but most fill the role, which makes me hate humanity. "Silver...Ruby, where are you headed?" I wanted to know this girl better. Unique, and those dammed silver eyes, soul piercing.
Shrugging she said, "Don't know to be honest."
"Right, well I'll meet up with you two at some point. I'm heading inside, catch you around." turning around I head towards Beacon, wondering if I would see that pretty Faunus again.
Inside people were all talking. I looked around and Professor Ozpin was standing up on stage at the podium.
"Keeping this brief I will only say this. You all have traveled here today in search of knowledge. To hone your craft and hone your skills. For the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, your energy in need of purpose, a direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this. But your time at this school will prove that it can only carry you so far. Now it's up to you to take the first step." Ozpin walked off stage to have Ms. Goodwitch take his place.
'"Gather in the ballroom tonight; tomorrow, your initiation begins. Be ready. You are dismissed," said Ms. Goodwitch. I raised an eyebrow and laughed. Guess he wanted to seem strict and mysterious, he succeeded. I saw Ruby, and she waved to me. I gave a small smirk and gave a quick peace sign salute. My stomach got little butterflies. Weird. It looks like I should find a quiet spot to sleep tonight.
Later that night I found a corner and sat down. I had my hoodie on and never took it off without a good reason. It was white with a point on the end of the hood. With the words "Were It So Easy" written on the chest. The mark of shame over my heart. I had my hood up, munching on an apple, till a familiar voice called out.
"Hello!" said Ruby standing there with Yang.
"Hey Ruby. Who's your friend?" I said. Yang held out her hand.
"I'm Yang, Ruby's older sister." grabbing her hand I shook it.
"Name's Nick. Pleasure to meet you Yang." The awkward silence lasted till Ruby broke it.
"Well I guess I should head back now...I ah...wanted to introduce you two. Catch you later Nick." Ruby said as she started to walk away. I nodded.
"Didn't tell me he was a cutie." Yang whispered to Ruby.
"Be quiet, he can hear you!"
I raised an eyebrow. Cute? Not often am I complemented. I stood up and stretched, I looked over and caught the eye of the Faunus girl from earlier. I took a deep breath strolled over to her and sat down beside her.
"Hey." I said, hoping to strike up a conversation.
"Hello."
"So, what's your name?"
"Blake."
Belladonna, my old friend. "Blake Belladonna, I knew you looked familiar." I said.
Lowering her book. Those amber eyes. Locked to my hazel. God dammit. Eyes were always a weak spot of mine.
"Nick? Nick Sanchez?" looking surprised she said.
"How have you been Blake?" I lowered my voice, "Still with the White Fang?" shaking her head.
"No. I couldn't be apart of it after they started raiding. Made me sick to my stomach." I laughed, Blake was always like that, never wanting to hurt the innocent.
"But they're human, why does it matter?" shooting me a glare which pierced through my soul.
"Because they have emotions like you and I!" I laughed.
"And so do we. But do they care? No, humans care about three things, and that's money, power, and dust, nothing more, nothing less." Now she started laughing.
"Talking as if you're a Faunus! Your Human are you not? The race you despise so much. Why can't you consider that not all humans are bad? I mean just look at yourself, there are others like you you know."
I growled. "Well maybe if more of them were kinder to the Faunus I wouldn't feel that way! Most humans hate the Faunus, or don't care what happens to them! The ones that do don't support us, they sit and just watch!" I was angry. Faunus-Human relations tended to do that to me. Reaching out Blake patted my shoulder.
"Relax, before you attract anymore attention to us." I looked around and Ruby and Yang were standing in front of us.
"Nick you alright? You were starting to raise your voice." Ruby had a worried expression on her face. My face turned pale, just how loud was I?
"I'm fine, just started remembering something. Anyway I'm heading back to my things. Good night Ruby, Yang, and Blake. I'll find you in the morning." I stood up and walked away, not hearing the question Ruby had asked.
Christ. A long year was ahead of me.
So, I re-did chapter 1 to make it easier on the eyes, as well as smoother to read. My father got me this new program, which is so nice. It pretty much tells you all the things that are wrong with it. So I fixed most of it and boom, this seems much better. Anyway, hope you enjoyed reading this, or re-reading if you already did read this. Also, I still would like for you guys to tell me what I can do to improve upon this, hopefully though it won't be much.
-Blade