This is the day, the day in which students from all over the Kingdom of Vale and the world would be enrolling into the prestigious Beacon Academy to finalize their training and education to become protectors of humanity. The airships arrived at the school's landing sites, the students came out looking for their chaperones who would take them to the auditorium. Out of my one of the many airships, a young man stepped out, he breathed in deeply, his black hair flew with the wind, and his bright blue eyes were full of confidence. He carried a small duffle bag full of clothes, a toothbrush, and a set of glasses. On the side of his shirt was his sigil…a small red 'S'. He smiled as he walked towards the other students.

As he walked he bumped into a tall girl knocking her books in accident, "Oh I'm sorry!" He immediately knelt to pick them up. "Here…I hope I didn't ruin any of them,"

"Oh, it's okay." She replied, her azure eyes met his, taking her books. "I haven't seen you before, in the ship I mean."

"There's a lot of people. Name's Steele." He extended his hand for a handshake. "And yours?"

"Aurum." She shook his hand. They were silent for a couple of seconds before she continued, "We better go with the group."

"Lead the way." Steele replied with a small smirk, as they walked, they began talking about their backgrounds and the reasons they had come to Beacon. "Yeah, parents thought that I might as well do something good for people, didn't want me to become a farmer like them."

"Yeah I wouldn't want to be tending to sheep and chickens all day either." Aurum replied, "Then again that sounds better than staying on a small island in the middle of nowhere ocean."

"Must've been quite rough training all day everyday with your mom." Steele stated, "Say, where's your weapon?"

"Right here." She showed him her bracelets, "They can reflect any dust bullet, strike, and kicks. You could say that they are invincible."

"Pretty unique!"

Aurum looked for Steele's weapon, but he didn't seem to be carrying one. "Where's yours?"

"Ah, right, I don't need one." Steele replied confusing Aurum a bit. "My semblance and aura are pretty tough by themselves."

"What, you can grow a shell and hand swords?" Aurum jokingly asked.

"Ha! Nah my aura is just super strong, I've tried testing its limits, threw a tractor over my head. Not even a crackle." Steele replied.

"Threw…a tractor?"

"Right. My semblance allows me to punch really hard and lift up heavy objects." Steele explained, it's not the most of glamourous of abilities, but it gets the job done every time Pa needed me to pull the cows back to the barnyard."

"Huh…"

The duo finally arrived at the auditorium where dozens of first year students had congregated, on the stage were several professors and attendees preparing for the first-year orientation. "Lots of people." Aurum said. "Lots of…guys."

"What never seen guys before?" Steele asked with a sly smile.

"What, no that's not what I meant! It's just that…" But before Aurum could answer, another young man approached from behind her.

"Heyyy pretty lady, noticed you from all the way over there. Name's Naran, I heard that there were going to be teams made for the first-year students, and I was wondering if you would like to join mine." The redheaded teen 'confidently' asked Aurum.

"Pass. I would rather just roll the dice." Aurum shot him down.

"C'mon, sweet cakes, I'm the main man around town. I'll show you how cool I can be, I can run real fast." Naran insisted.

"I can see that confidence is overabundant around here." Steele commented.

"You bet your dumb shirt, friendo." Naran responded, making fun of Steele's plain blue shirt with the little 'S' on it.

"My mom made it for me…" Steele quietly said.

"How about we just wait for whatever the professors say, after all, it might not be our decision." Aurum said. "But if I were to pick a teammate you would be far from it, Naran."

"Ow, that hurts, princess." Naran responded feigning his feelings being hurt. One of the professors approached the microphone, taking front stage. He had white snow hair, green tint glasses, a similar dark green outfit, and held a coffee mug in his right hand.

"I'll...keep this brief. 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." He then took his leave with another of the professors taking over and telling students where they would be residing for the night.

"Kinda of a buzzkill." Naran said scratching his head.

"Do you even know who he is? That's Professor Ozpin, he runs this place!" Aurum replied, a bit annoyed that Naran didn't even know the headmaster of the school.

"Jeez, I didn't know." Naran said trying not to be scolded by Aurum anymore.

Steele sighed, 'This is going to be quite the year.' He thought. Later that night, the students were taken to a large room where they were told to sleep for the night. Boys on one side and girls in the other, this didn't stop Steele from looking for Aurum, he might as well make of acquaintance with her.

"Hey Aurum." He took her attention from a book she was reading, sitting next to her sleeping bag. "Whatcha reading?"

"Oh, just this book about Valerian culture and history. Believe it or not, Vale has a lot of interesting history. Aren't you supposed to be on the other side of the room?" Aurum asked him of his presence in the middle of a sea of girls.

"Just wanted to chat with someone that's not over-amused with their weaponry." Steele replied, "And besides, I'm not that sleepy yet."

"I can't wait for tomorrow, I've been talking to some of the girls, they said that there's going to be this big test and that we'll be having firsthand experience in the ways of being huntsmen and huntresses." A smile of joy appeared over her face, "Oh right I forgot to show you…"

She grabbed something from her bag, "My sword!" She showed him.

"I thought that the bracelets were your only weapon." Steele was slightly confused. "Not hiding anything else cool?"

"Just look. It was forged by some of the finest blacksmiths from my homeland. And it bends right here to become…" The sword bent backwards from the hilt allowing a barrel to come out. "…a gun!"

"Huh…" Steele was looking at the sword's barrel. "Neat. My hands turn into fists."

"Very funny." Aurum smirked from Steele's joke. "Hey so…speaking of things with edge, have you taken a look at that guy over there?"

"A reason I should've?"

"He looks so mysterious, as if he were some type of angsty poet." Aurum said looking at the lone young man sitting in the corner where the guys stayed. He was alone looking at a datapad while drinking tea, he had dark black hair, fair skin, and gold colored eyes. "I should talk to him."

"Why? He doesn't look like a people's person." Steele said but she ignored him. "Hmph."

Aurum approached the guy, "Hey…" She introduced herself. "I saw you looking at your pad alone here, just wanted to…get to…well…know you. My name is Aurum."

He looked at her, but then he continued reading whatever was in his pad. "Daku."

"Wha…"

"My name is Daku." The young man clarified.

Steele caught up to Aurum, "Told you." He said, "Hey buddy, my friend here is trying to start a conversation with you."

"I noticed." Daku responded but kept reading his datapad.

"Might as well talk to a brick wall. Come on, let's go." Steele said not liking Daku's aloof attitude. Aurum was disappointed, he looks so mysterious, but nevertheless she followed Steele back to her sleeping bag. As they walked away, Daku placed his datapad down, and sighed.

"Nice to meet you."