Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY or anything RWBY related with the exception of my OC's, everything else is property of Roosterteeth and Monty Oum.

Day one: arrival

Ryu Kawisaka, a seventeen year old boy of average height, with short, spiky dark green hair and eyes, and an athlete's slim, toned body, in a black t-shirt, with his symbol, an unsheathed ninjato inside a tornado, done in dark green, and black jeans, holding a sheathed sword, a ninjato, like his symbol, in his left hand, stepped onto the airship already nearly full of teenagers, all of them, including Ryu himself, were bound for Beacon Academy, one of Remnant's top Hunter Academies. Not wanting to be approached by too many people, and to keep his eyes on his surroundings, Ryu took a corner seat. His ninjato, Wind's Fang, lay across his lap like the safety bar on a carnival ride, Ryu was never really comfortable in a crowd unless he was carrying Wind's Fang, all these people made him edgy, the fact that every single person on this airship (with the possible exceptions of the pilot and co-pilot) were all heavily armed and highly trained just made his nerves worse. A retching sound shook Ryu out of his thoughts, a tall, lanky boy with messy blonde hair was busy vomiting into the closest trash can, Ryu winced in sympathy for the young man, motion sickness could be vicious, deciding to help the blonde Ryu stood and walked over to the other boy.

"Motion sickness?" Ryu asked, mostly to start up the conversation.

The blonde straightened, he had bright blue eyes, and a miserable expression on his face, "yeah." The blonde admitted, clearly trying not to open his mouth as much as possible.

Ryu pulled some of the wrapped ginger root he always carried with him, unwrapped and broke off a piece, before handing it to the blonde. "Here, this always helps when I get seasick, maybe it'll do you some good." The blonde took the bit of ginger gratefully before popping it in his mouth and chewing thoroughly, it seemed to help some, or at least the worst of the nausea appeared to have passed, because the blonde stood up straight, fully a head taller than Ryu.

"Thanks, I feel a little better now, my name's Jaune, Jaune Arc."

"Ryu Kawisaka." Ryu took the moment to properly look Jaune over, the taller boy was dressed in jeans and a black hoodie under a white chestplate, with white pauldrons and brown fingerless leather gloves, a sheathed longsword and a pouch hung at his hips from a pair of belts, he carried himself in a manner that suggested he didn't have much confidence in his own abilities.

"So... Ryu, where're you from?" Jaune asked.

"A little village outside the kingdoms." Ryu didn't really like talking about his past, so he cast around for a new source of conversation, a curvy blonde girl with waist length, slightly messy hair was hugging the life out of a smaller, red haired girl in a black and red combat dress and a huge red cloak.

"I wonder what that's about?" Ryu asked, indicating the two girls.

"I heard them talking while I was running for that trash can, I wasn't really paying much attention, obviously, but the blonde was kinda loud, she was saying something about how proud she was of her little sister, I guess that would be the other girl." Jaune stated.

Ryu just looked at him, he was about to speak when the airship came to a sudden stop, the jolt made whatever help the bit of ginger had been doing for Jaune go out the window, or, more accurately, into the trash can outside the, now open, doors of the airship.

Not wanting to abandon the closest thing he had to a friend at this school to his misery Ryu walked over and rubbed Jaune's back, another trick he'd learned for alleviating motion sickness, when Jaune was finally ready to stop puking they started to walk towards the huge main building. Ryu wasn't usually impressed by architecture, but even he had to admit, Beacon was a sight to see, it looked like a huge castle with clusters of smaller buildings at varying distances all around the main building.

Ryu walked next to Jaune, holding Wind's Fang, sheathed of course, in his left hand, however the relative peace didn't last, achoo! BOOM!Ryu's right hand leapt to the hilt of his sword, before realizing that the explosion hadn't been the result of an attack; standing not ten feet away were two soot covered girls, well, one was standing, and yelling at the prone girl, whom she apparently saw as the cause of the accident, Ryu walked forward so he could hear what was said.

"... You complete dolt! What are you even doing here? Aren't you a little young to be attending Beacon?" The angry girl stamped her foot so hard she shook the soot off of herself, revealing a white combat dress under a red lined white bolero jacket, white high-heeled boots, pale skin, and long, snow white hair in an off-center ponytail, her ice-blue eyes were narrowed in anger. "This isn't an ordinary combat school, it's not just sparring and practice you know, so... Watch where you're going!" The angry girl yelled. This caused the previously cowering subject of her wrath to burst out. "I said I was sorry, Princess!"

"It's Heiress actually." A third girl wearing a black bow, with black hair and golden eyes, reading a leather bound book, walked over and picked up a bottle of red Dust, evidently, the source of the explosion that started the argument. "Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, one of the largest producers of energy propellant in the world."

"Finally! Some respect!" Weiss Schnee exclaimed, before the black haired newcomer popped her bubble quite thoroughly. "This same company that's known for it's controversial labor practices, and questionable business partners."

"What! The nerve!" Weiss Schnee was sputtering now, the smug look she'd been sporting only seconds ago was replace by outrage, the sneezer, who Ryu now realized was the cloaked girl from the airship, snickered. With a growl of frustration Weiss stalked over to the black haired girl, grabbed the bottle of Dust from her hand, and stalked off.

"Guess I'm not the only one having a rough first day? So..." The cloaked girl turned to talk to her bow wearing rescuer, only to find her walking away, the girl gave a dejected sigh and flopped into a sitting position, "Welcome to Beacon." She muttered sadly to herself.

Jaune walked over to the redhead and offered his hand to help her up. "Hey, I'm Jaune." He greets.

"Ruby." Replied the cloaked girl.

"And I'm Ryu." Ryu added, stepping up next to Jaune.

Ruby looked at Jaune and her eyes widened slightly before she stifled a snort. "Aren't you the guy who threw up on the ship?"

Jaune winced. "I get motion sickness."

"...All I'm saying is that motion sickness is a much more common problem than people let on." Jaune insisted, Ryu had been following the two of them for about ten minutes, only occasionally adding to the conversation, content to let the two of them have their debate.

"I'm sorry, Vomit Boy was the first thing that came to mind." Ruby stated.

Jaune had his retort ready. "Oh, yeah? Well what if I called you Crater Face?" At this, Ryu had to try hard not to laugh, he didn't want to offend them.

Ruby leapt to her own defence. "Hey! That explosion was an accident!"

"Well, the name's Jaune Arc, short, sweet, rolls off the tongue, the ladies love it!" He insisted.

At this Ryu finally let out a laugh. "Do they?" He asked.

"They will! I-I mean, I hope they will, my Mom always says, never mind..." The blonde swordsman bumbled.

"Soooo, I got this thing!" Ruby pulled something rectangular from the small of her back, it quickly unfolded into a huge scythe, it was even taller than it's owner, not exactly a difficult feat, seeing as she was maybe five-four, at maximum. Jaune and Ryu gaped at the petite girl holding the massive weapon like it was nothing, finally Jaune piped up. "Whoa! I-is that a scythe?"

"It's also a customizable, high-impact, sniper rifle." The cloaked girl announced with a grin. Ryu was impressed, but Jaune just looked confused. "A wha..."

Ryu cut in. "A gun Jaune, she says that it can turn into a really big gun."

"Oh... Cool, so, what do you have Ryu?" Jaune asked.

Ryu shrugged and slowly drew Wind's Fang, displaying the emerald green ninjato to the other teens, Ruby's silver eyes went a bit misty as she fawned over the simple, yet exceedingly sharp blade, before asking a question. "So... What's it do?"

In answer Ryu sheathed the blade and focused his aura into the Dust infused metal, turning, so as not to hit the others, he drew his sword in a short slashing arc, before returning it to the sheathe almost faster than the other two could see, at the apex of the slash an arc of compressed air whistled outward on a straight path, until it hit a small tree, which promptly fell in two pieces, cut by the force of the hyper-compressed air from the "wind blade" technique.

"Ooooh, that was so cool!" Ruby squeed.

"What about you Jaune" Ryu asked, a little uncomfortable with the attention being paid him.

The lanky blonde looked slightly embarrassed as he drew his longsword, a simple, well-worn, though very sturdy, double edged blade. "I got this sword." Ruby looked impressed, it was a pretty good sword.

Jaune continued, pulling his sheath from his belt, it expanded into a simple kite shield with two gold crescents painted onto the face. "I got a shield too." Ruby reached out and touched the shield, accidentally triggering it, it contracted into a sheath, flying off of it's owner's arm, Jaune juggled the constantly expanding and contracting shield sheath, until he finally caught it, contracted it and put it back on his belt.

"The shield get's smaller, so when I get tired of carrying it, I can just... put it away."

"But.. Doesn't it weight the same?" Ruby pointed out.

"Yeah, it does." Jaune admitted with a sigh.

"I guess I'm kinda a dork when it comes to weapons, I guess I went a little overboard in designing Crescent Rose." Ruby offered. Both boys were floored.

"You made that!?" They exclaimed simultaneously, impressed.

"Of course, all the students at Signal are required to make their own weapons, didn't you guys make yours?" Asked a confused Ruby.

"I did, but my teacher was helping me the entire time." Ryu answered.

"No, I didn't, it's a hand-me-down, my great-great grandfather used it to fight in the war." Jaune, this caused Ryu to do a double take.

"Did you say that sword has been in your family for five generations? That's more like a family heirloom than a hand-me-down, and it's still usable after, what, a hundred years? Whoever made that thing knew what they were doing!" Ryu exclaimed.

"Well I like it." Ruby chipped in. "Not many people have an appreciation for the classics these days."

"Thanks guys."

"No problem, so, why'd you help me out back there in the courtyard?" Ruby asked.

Jaune shrugged. "Eh, why not, my Mom always says, 'strangers are just friends you haven't met yet'"

Suddenly Ruby stopped. "Do either of you guys know where we're going?"

Jaune shook his head. "I don't know, I was following you, Ryu?"

"I was following you, Jaune."

"Y-you think there might be a directory? Maybe a food court? Some kind of recognizable landmark?" When he saw the looks on his friends' faces his shoulders sagged. "That a no, huh?"

"That's a no." Ruby stated with a bit of a laugh in her voice.


Character Bio: Ryu Kawisaka

Age: 17

Sex: male

Species: human

Height: 5'11"

Weight: 160lbs

Appearance: Ryu is has spiky green hair, and green eyes of the same shade as his hair (forest green) he tends to wear a lot of black and green

Semblance: Speed

Fighting Style: Iaido

Weapon Description: Wind's Fang is a 3' long pale green ninjato, with one edge, and a single handed grip, Wind's Fang was designed for fast, deadly strikes, the edge is kept incredibly sharp, but what really makes this weapon special is the sheer amount of wind Dust infused into the blade, which produces a blast of wind from the blade when combined with the wielder's aura and sent through a slashing motion, the speed of the slash determines the amount of compression the blast receives, a blindingly fast slash would produce a thin arc of air so tightly compressed that it has the same capacity for inflicting cuts as Wind's Fang itself, while a slow slash would result in a windstorm, also, other more advanced uses will be revealed

(Auther's note: my first fanfiction, hope you like it!)