Chapter 1: Making New Friends

Narration- Long ago, before the existence of Huntsmen, Grimm, and Dust, there lived powerful beings known as gods. These beings sired children known as Half-Bloods that almost rivaled them in power. But over time these gods and their half-blood children were forgotten. People believed all those to be just legends. But now, the descendants of these children have risen again, and soon the world of Remnant will realize that these stories are more than just myths.

Percy Jackson had always had a fear of flying in the air. Every time it was possible, he always avoided flying in an airship, helicopter, or any other flying vehicle that excluded his flying horse. He had good reasons too. Engines could give out, lightning could destroy the wings, and those were just two among a thousand screaming nightmares. But when he got his letter informing him of his acceptance into Beacon, he never suspected for a minute that he would need to fly in an airship.

Unfortunately, his stupidity was pointed out to him on the day of departure, and now he was going to suffer for it. Now Percy sat down trying not to throw up the blue cookies he ate for breakfast.

In order to take his mind off the death trap he was riding in, he tuned in to the 2-Dimesional animated newscast on Vale News Network playing nearby, talking about a robbery that took place last night and showing the leader, a notorious criminal known as Roman Torchwick and showing his mug shots. Percy listened for a while, but apparently the news broadcast was not distracting enough for him.

He tried to think of other things, like his special dog, Mrs. O' Leary, his flying horse, Blackjack, the sea, and his mother's blue candy. Slowly, the feeling began to reduce until it was almost non-existent. But Percy caught sight of a young man groaning and covering his mouth before running to the back of the ship and reminding Percy of his motion sickness. Almost immediately, the nauseous feeling returned and Percy got up to run to the back of the ship.

After Percy finished, he paced up and down, due his ADHD, while some other passengers gave him some funny looks. Finally, he heard a voice behind him say"ADHD, I'm guessing?" He looked behind him to identify the owner of the voice.

She was beautiful girl with long curly hair, like a princess, tied in a ponytail. She had tanned skin and appeared to be extremely athletic. The most interesting thing about her to Percy was her stormy gray eyes. They looked like they were calculating and analyzing him, trying to figure out his weaknesses and think of the best way to take him down in fight. She was holding a book in her hand that she was apparently reading. All in all, Percy liked her before even getting to know her.

"Uh…yeah actually. How did you know?" Percy asked.

"Well, it's mostly due to your restlessness, but I have it too." The girl categorically stated.

Percy gestured to the book. "You enjoy reading?"

The girl nodded her head. Percy looked at the cover of the book and tried to read the title. At first, he thought his dyslexia was acting up, but he realized that the book wasn't even in English. Once he figured that out, it was easy for him to decipher the book's title.

"Secrets of Ancient Greek Architecture?" Percy asked. The girl nodded, a bit surprised that Percy was able to read the title even though it was in Ancient Greek.

"You can read Ancient Greek?" she questioned.

"Yeah. It's very hard for me to read other languages, because I'm dyslexic. But Ancient Greek is one of the easiest languages for me to read." Percy explained.

The girl stretched out her hand. "I'm Annabeth Chase," she introduced herself.

"Perseus Jackson, but I prefer to be called Percy," he replied, taking her hand. The two proceeded to have a lengthy conversation before the 2-Dimesional lit up and showed the image of a blond woman.

"Hello, and welcome to Beacon!" the woman greeted.

"Who's that?" Percy asked. Annabeth gave him an indifferent look.

"I'm Glynda Goodwitch." She introduced herself.

"Oh." Percy said, feeling a bit stupid.

"You are among a privileged few who have received the honor of being selected to attend this prestigious academy!" she continued. "Our world is experiencing an incredible time of peace, and as future Huntsmen and Huntresses, it is your duty to uphold it. You have demonstrated the courage needed for such a task, and now it is our turn to provide you with the knowledge and the training to protect our world." With that she disappeared.

"Wow. Motivational, don't you think?" Annabeth asked, only to find Percy distracted. They were flying over the ocean, and Percy seemed to be in a trance, smiling as he watched.

"You like the ocean?" Annabeth asked.

"Yeah. I'm not sure why, but I'm extremely calm and happy whenever I'm near the ocean. Like I have some strong connection. Have you ever felt that way?"

"Yeah, whenever I read books." Annabeth replied, smiling.

The airship began to descend, and before long it docked at the entrance of the school. Annabeth and Percy walked of the ship, along with a huge number of students. One student ran ahead of everyone else, who Percy recognized as the young man from earlier who barfed on the airship. He once again ran over to a nearby trashcan, empting his lunch into it. Percy felt a bit bad for him. Percy turned back to make a comment to Annabeth, only to find she wasn't there anymore.

"Nice to have met you, too." Percy muttered to himself. Percy looked around, hoping he would find somebody he knew, which was unlikely, considering he was the only one who applied to Beacon from his combat school. Instead, he made up his mind to make some new friends.

He noticed a girl lying on a luggage cart, with the actual luggage on the ground all around her. She looked to be younger than the minimum advised age to enter the school, making Percy wonder if she was attending as a student or not. She had shoulder-length black hair with a red tint to it. She had pale skin and silver colored eyes. Her clothing was primarily red and black in color. She had on a black blouse, a black waist cincher with red lacing, and a skirt with red trimmings. She wore black and red stockings, as well as black and red boots. On her back was a red, folded-up contraption. She completed her look with a long, red cloak; the hood was currently down.

Percy was about to help her up when he noticed someone else looming over. She was older than the first girl, wearing white clothing with white hair, glaring down at her with pale blue eyes. Percy didn't know who she was, but guessed that she must've been important due to the way she acted. The first girl had knocked down her luggage and was paying the price for it. Percy saw the white haired girl yell at the first girl for something, before proceeding to pull out a vial of red Dust and start shaking it in front of the girl's face.

It was evident that the action was making the girl uncomfortable, which could clearly be seen from her coughing. Soon after that the girl sneezed, erupting in a full blown explosion of fire, lightning and snowflakes, also causing the vial to fly up into the air and land next to girl reading a book. Meanwhile, Percy ran over to the scene of the explosion, wanting to make sure that no one was hurt.

The smoke cleared to show the red haired girl on the floor, sitting in a huge crater. The white haired girl is seen to be covered in soot, but it quickly disappears.

"Are you guys okay?" Percy asked. The red haired girl was about to answer but the white haired girl cut her off.

"I am unhurt, thank you for inquiring. But this is the exact thing I was talking about!" The white haired girl complained.

"It looked like you were shaking the bottle of Dust in front of her face. What exactly were you expecting?" Percy commented. The white haired girl turned to face him.

"Excuse me, but I don't recall asking for your input. Who are you, anyway?"

Percy sighed. "Percy Jackson." He answered.

"Well, Percy, this matter has nothing to do with you, so you should just mind your own business." the white haired girl said. The red haired girl, now fed up about the way she was acting, decided to respond.

"Hey, calm yourself down! The only reason this even happened was because you were shaking a bottle of Dust in my face! And why are you getting mad at Percy anyway? He came to check on us to make sure nobody got hurt and now you're getting on his case!" the red girl snapped. The white haired girl was still having none of it.

"You are a complete dolt! What are you even doing here? Aren't you a little young to be here?" At the mention of this the red haired girl froze. Sheb was still a bit embarrassed about entering Beacon two years early.

"W-well I-I..." The red haired girl started answering before the white haired girl once again cut her off.

"This isn't your ordinary combat school. It's not just sparring and practice, you know! We're here to fight monsters, so... watch where you're going!"

At the mention of this, the red haired girl became fed up again. "Well sorry, princess!" The white haired girl seemed taken aback by this, but before she could respond a new voice entered the conversation.

"It's heiress, actually." All three students turned to look at the new arrival. Percy was so distracted by the back and forth banter between the red haired girl and the white haired girl that he didn't even notice her.

She was a girl with long black hair and black and white clothing. She wore a black bow on her head and had amber eyes. "Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, one of the largest producers of energy propellant in the world."

The white-haired girl, now known as Weiss, smiled proudly. "Finally, some recognition!" she said with a pointed look at the red haired girl.

"The same company infamous for its controversial labor forces and questionable business partners," the black-haired girl continued.

Weiss immediately grew angry again. "What- How dare- The nerve of-" The red haired girl giggled at how speechless the new girl had made her. Even Percy let out a few chuckles. In Percy's opinion, it was always very satisfying to see a proud person be stood up. Weiss stepped closer to the girl, who didn't even flinch, and grabbed the vial from her hand before storming away heatedly.

"I promise I'll make this up to you!" the red haired girl called after her, but she didn't acknowledge her words. She sighed. "I guess I'm not the only one having a rough first day. So what's—" She turned to the other girl, only to see her walking away, leaving her alone.

Feeling like her day was off to a bad start, the silver-eyed girl sat down on the ground morosely and fell onto her back. "Welcome to Beacon," she told herself gloomily and closed her eyes. Percy, understanding her dilemma, stood over her. Noticing a shadow, the girl looked up and saw Percy's outstretched hand. She smiled before putting her hand in his own and allowing herself to be helped up.

"I'm Percy." he said, officially introducing himself.

"I'm Ruby Rose." She said. Then she narrowed her eyes. "Wait. Aren't you one of those guys that threw up on the ship?" Percy immediately flushed and explained his airsickness problem. They began walking together as they had a conversation.

"So... what brings you to beacon? You look below the minimum recommended age to be attending this school." Percy asked. Ruby then proceeded to narrate her story about taking on Roman Torchwick, how she was saved by Glynda, her meeting with Ozpin, and finally how she was offered a place at Beacon. Percy just listened the whole time intently.

"Wow. You must be really good to have been moved ahead two years." Percy commented when she finished her story. When he made that comment, her checks flushed pink.

"Not really. I'm not special or anything." Ruby said. As they were walking, Percy failed to notice the person walking in front of him until he bumped into him and the other boy fell on his butt.

"Sorry!" Percy said, grabbing his hand and pulling him up to his feet. Percy recognized him as the other boy who threw up on the ship. So did Ruby apparently, because of the next comment she made.

"Hey, you're the other boy who vomited on the airship. Looks like the Vomit Twins are reunited!" Ruby joked.

"Motion sickness is a much more common problem than people let on!" the other boy, defended.

"And I already told you, I get airsick! It's not like it's something I can control!" Percy said.

Ruby continued laughing. "Look, I'm sorry. Vomit Twins was the first thing that came to my mind. Besides, you have to admit, it's a bit funny."

"No, it's not!" the boys said in unison with unamused looks.

"You're right. It's hilarious!" Ruby said, laughing even harder.

"Oh yeah? What if we called you Crater Face?" he challenged.

"Or Exploding Girl?" Percy added.

Ruby began to blush. "Hey that explosion was an accident! How did you even see that?" she asked the boy.

"I was there." he said. "And the name's Jaune Arc! Short, sweet, rolls off the tongue - ladies love it!" Percy let out a small cough.

"Do they?" Ruby asked, skeptical.

"They will! Well, I-I hope they will. My mom always says that... Never mind."

Ruby giggled before an awkward silence fell. The three continued walking, taking note of the scenery. Inside the walls of Beacon were filled with scenic trees, arching architecture. The three started walking down a winding road alongside a river.

"So... I got this thing!" Ruby said, pulling out her weapon and sticking it into the ground.

"Whoa! Is that a scythe?" Jaune asked.

"That looks awesome!" Percy said.

"It's also a customizable high-impact sniper rifle!" Ruby informed them.

"A wha...?"

"It's also a gun" Percy deadpanned, as Ruby cocked it. He knew a lot about weapons. He had his younger brother to thank for that, anyway.

"So what do you have?" Ruby asked Jaune.

"Oh! I, uh, have this sword!" Jaune said, pulling out his sword from his sheath.

"Oooooooh!" Ruby said, clearly interested.

"Yeah, and I've got a shield, too!" Jaune said, holding up his sheath, which expanded into a shield.

"What do they do?" Ruby said, touching the shield.

Jaune began fumbling with the shield as it retracted off his arm, expanded, and retracted again before putting it back in place and finally shrinking it down for good, placing it on his belt. Percy wondered just how useful Jaune would be in a fight. "The shield gets smaller, so when I get tired of carrying it, I can just... put it away..."

"But... wouldn't it weigh the same?" Ruby asked.

"Yeah, it would." Jaune said dejectedly.

"Well, I guess I went a little overboard in designing it. Probably because I'm a dork when it comes to weapons." Ruby said.

"Wait- you made that?" Jaune asked, surprised. Percy was also intrigued. This girl was only fifteen and she had already designed one of the most complex weapons he had ever seen.

"Yeah! All students at Signal forge their own weapons! Didn't you make yours?"

"It's a hand-me-down. My great-great-grandfather used it to fight in the war."

"Sounds more like a family heirloom to me! Well, I like it! Not many people have an appreciation for the classics these days." Ruby said.

"Yeah. It's pretty cool. I have a strong appreciation for a sword and a shield." Percy said.

"Yeah, the classics..." Jaune sighed as he sheathed his sword. Ruby then turned to Percy.

"What's your weapon?" She asked. Percy smiled as he placed his hand in his pocket. He always loved showing people his weapons. Jaune and Ruby looked on, excited. Percy pulled his hand out of his pocket to reveal... a pen. Both Ruby and Jaune had identical dumbfounded looks on their faces.

"That's a pen." Jaune deadpanned. He was having doubts about his weapons, but he felt somewhat better now.

Percy smirked. "That's what it looks like. But, in actuality, it's one of the greatest weapons to ever exist." He uncapped the pen and immediately, the pen grew into a three foot tall double edged sword.

"So, what do you think now?" Percy asked. Jaune had a look of awe on his face while Ruby had gotten so excited that she had transformed into a 2-D, starry-eyed, floating chibi.

"OHMYGOSH! Thatissoawesome! Whatisitmadeof? Whomadeit? Howcanitdothat? Doesithaveaname?" Ruby asked, flying forward to touch it.

Percy laughed. "Calm down Ruby. First, thank you. Second, it's made of celestial bronze-"

"Celestial Bronze? What material is that?" Ruby asked as she turned back to normal.

"It's one of the strongest and most durable metals in existence. It also extremely effective in killing Grimm." Percy explained. Ruby thought about this. When she was designing her weapon, which she had named Crescent Rose, she was completely sure that she had used the strongest metal. She contemplated adding some to her weapon, but first decided to see how effective it was in a fight.

"Third, I don't actually know who made it. According to myths, it belonged to some great hero. And it's able to shift from a pen form into a sword by the use of magic."

"Magic?" Jaune asked. Both he and Ruby were really interested.

"Yeah. It's enchanted, which allows it to change from pen to sword. Also, I can never lose it. It reappears in my pocket." As to illustrate his point, Percy recapped his pen and threw it into the river. A few minutes later, he put his hand into his pocket and pulled the pen out. Both Ruby and Jaune had amazed looks on their faces. "And also, its name is Anaklusmos in Greek, or Riptide in English."

"That's not all though." Percy said as he held up his watch. He pressed the stopwatch button and instantly, the watch changed. It expanded, the metal rim spiraling outward like an old-fashioned camera shutter, a leather strap wrapping around his forearm until he was holding a round war shield four feet wide, the inside soft leather, the outside polished bronze engraved with different designs.

"Whoa." Ruby and Jaune said at the same time.

"Cool, right? Its name is Synos. My younger brother made it for me five years ago. Also made of celestial bronze. Since I've used it, it never once gotten broken, dented, or even scratched for that matter."

"Awesome!" Ruby said. She was definitely going to upgrade her weapon with some of this celestial bronze.

"Yeah." Jaune said, feeling a hint of jealousy. Compared to Percy's his weapon might've well have been a broom and a dustpan.

"But besides the Dust I put inside, it's not really special. Just really durable." Percy said as he turned his shield back into a watch.

"Speaking of Dust, why'd you help me back there?" Ruby asked Percy.

"Well, my parents always taught me to always help those who are need. After all, that is the code of a Huntsman."

"Besides, strangers are just friends who haven't met yet, right?" Jaune added.

"Exactly." Percy agreed.

"Hmm." Ruby pondered on this. Then she looked around. "Hey, where are we going?"

"I don't know! I was just following you." Jaune admitted.

"I was just enjoying the scenery." Percy said, but in reality he had no idea where they were going either.

"Y-You think there might be a directory? Maybe a food court? Some kind of recognizable landmark? Is, uh... Is that a 'no'?"

"That's a 'no'." Ruby laughed.

"Maybe she knows where to go." Percy suggested, pointing to a student, a girl, walking in the opposite direction.

The girl was black with shoulder length curly hair cinnamon brown hair and gold eyes. She wore a gold shirt with a blue skirt and a white jacket. She had a type of sword, which was partially hidden by her jacket, so none of them could identify it well.

Percy ran up to them with Ruby and Jaune following behind. "Hey, there!" The girl turned around to see three students heading towards her.

"Hello." Percy greeted. "My friends and I are a little lost and we were wondering if you could point us in the direction of the auditorium."

"I was just heading that way. You could tag along if you want." The girl offered. Percy smiled.

"Sure." He stretched out his hand." I'm Percy. This is Jaune, and that's Ruby."

"Hi." Jaune said.

"Hello." Ruby said.

The girl smiled as she shook Percy's hand. "I'm Hazel Levesque. Nice to meet you guys."

"You too." Percy said. Together, the four of them made their way to the auditorium, where they saw it was filled to the brim.

"Ruby! Over here! I saved you a spot," a girl called out. The girl looked to be around the same age as the rest of them (minus Ruby). She had long, blonde hair, light-colored skin, and lilac eyes. She was wearing a tan vest with puffy sleeves over a yellow top, a brown belt over a white back skirt, and black shorts. She wore an orange scarf around her neck and had on brown, knee-high boots and orange socks. There was a gray bandana wrapped around her left leg. To top it off, she also wore black fingerless gloves and what appeared to be gold bracelets.

"There's my sister! I'll see you guys later!"

"Wait-" Jaune said, but Ruby was already gone.

"Great! Now where am I supposed to find another nice, quirky girl to talk to?" Jaune said as they left.

"I'm sure that you'll find someone else." Percy consoled, as the three of them moved away to stand somewhere else. However, none of them noticed a girl that he just described, with long, scarlet hair, emerald green eyes, and clothed in armor, staring after him.

"Hey Percy!" The three looked to see Annabeth waving at them.

"Who's that?" Hazel asked.

"She's a girl I met on the airship. My first friend, I guess." The three went to stand near Annabeth, who wasn't standing very far away from where Ruby and her sister were standing. Soon, all the students' attention was drawn to the stage, where Professor Ozpin was readying the microphone for use and Professor Glynda Goodwitch stood next to him.

"I'll keep this brief." Ozpin started. "You have traveled here today in search of knowledge, to hone your craft and acquire new skills, and when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose, direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step."

As Ozpin left, Professor Glynda stepped forward to talk. "You will gather in the ballroom tonight; tomorrow, your initiation begins. Be ready. You are dismissed." As she said this, students began to disperse; some went to walk around, others went to hang out with their friends. Percy also started walking away.

"Where are you going?" Jaune asked.

"I have to go pick up my luggage. I'll catch up with you guys later." Percy said as he left them.

Percy had already picked up his stuff and was looking for his friends when he once again bumped into someone else and was knocked off his feet. Percy looked up to see who he bumped into.

The boy had a large and stocky frame. He also had a babyish face with brown eyes and close cropped black hair. Percy thought that this seemed out of place with his stout body and military haircut. He wore a blood-red shirt with black jeans and a very large backpack on his back.

The boy stretched out his hand to help Percy up. "I'm sorry about that." The boy apologized.

"No worries. My fault. I've been pretty distracted today." Percy shook his hand. "I'm Percy."

"Frank Zhang." The boy now known as Frank said. The two awkwardly stood.

"So... I guess I'll see you around?" Percy said.

"Sure." Frank said, as he started walking away. The corners of his mouth slightly upraised.

A few hours later, and it was time for bed. Luckily, Percy managed to get to the ballroom early and pick a nice spot. He had already changed into his sleepwear, which consisted of a tank top and sea green shorts. He lay down onhis cot and closed his eyes when he heard the sound of someone doing something next to him. He opened his eyes and turned his head to see Frank sitting down on a sleeping mat next to him. He wore a black shirt with white shorts.

"Hey Frank." Percy said.

"Hi Percy." Frank responded.

Percy turned his head back and was about to close his eyes again when Frank said, "Hey Percy. I know we just met today, but can I ask you a personal question?"

Percy sat up and faced Frank. "Sure. Shoot."

"Have ever wondered about the existence of Omnipotent beings?" Frank asked.

"You mean like God?" Percy said.

"No. I don't mean like the metaphysical." Frank took a deep breath. "Both of my parents are soldiers. But my father was very superstitious. He believed all the myths and legends that exist. He was a very good soldier and he never lost a war. He felt that losing would disgrace himself in the eyes of Mars, the god of War. After winning a war, he always made a sacrifice to him. He believed that was the reason he never lost. I guess what I'm asking is, do you really believe in myths?"

Percy thought about this. He had to admit, some things that happened in his life were strange. Like one time when he was younger some guys was making fun of his favorite Greek god, Poseidon. He had tried to defend him, and then suddenly one of his father's horses came and started attacking the kids. The vet said that the horse just ate some bad food which resulted in its wild behavior, but Percy had wondered otherwise.

Or his brother. The first day he been brought home, Percy wasn't sure but occasionally he would look at him and see only one eye instead of two. All in all, Percy was beginning to wonder whether or not those legends were real or not.

"I don'tknow," Percy finally said. "I mean, some really strange things have happened in my life, and now that you've said this I'm beginning to wonder myself."

"Yeah. What's your favorite myth?" Frank asked Percy.

"Well, that would be the one involving Zeus chaining Epimetheus to a rock for giving humans the fire."

"It was Prometheus, doofus." Both boys turned to the direction the voice came from to see Annabeth sitting on a sleeping bag of her own. She was wearing gray pajamas and had a book face down on her lap.

"Who are you?' Frank asked, puzzled.

"She's Annabeth. My friend." Turing to Annabeth Percy said "Sorry. I usually get those two mixed up."

"Well try to be more accurate next time." Annabeth said, turning back to her book. Then Hazel came over. She wore bright purple pajamas. "Excuse me guys, but people are trying sleep. Do you mind keeping it down?" she said.

"Sure." Percy said. "We were just about to go to sleep anyway."

"Thank you." She walked off, without noticing how much Frank was staring at her, but Percy picked up on that.

"Dude, are you okay?" Percy asked.

Frank snapped out of hisdaze. "Fine. Let's just sleep. We have a big day tomorrow." As he and Percy were about to sleep, they heard some noise coming from somewhere else in the ballroom. They turned and Percy recognized Ruby, Weiss, the black haired girl from earlier and Ruby's sister having an argument about something before the black haired girl blew out the candle illuminating the room and the room was bathed in darkness.

Their journey was about to begin.

A/N: Finally finished with the first chapter. Please read and review and tell me what you think of the story. Also, I have trustingHim17 beta-reading this story, so you should go check out her stories!

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