I'll try and keep the retelling down to a minimum, in the meantime I'll try and update this Fic and the others as soon as humanly possible.
"You want to come to my school?" Ozpin questioned.
"More than anything," Ruby replied, beaming back with determination.
Ozpin looked towards the woman to his left, after she shot a glare at him he look back at Ruby and nodded.
"Well alright then."
She could've swore she never smiled so wide in her life, she nodded back in reply and watched as both Ozpin and the Huntress exit the room with multiple thoughts racing through her mind.
Ruby looked out from the airship, feeling both excited and terrified at the same time. She thought back on what events that had transpired in the last couple of days. She was accepted into Beacon Academy two years early and after explaining it to her dad, he was shocked while Yang was thrilled that her younger sister would be attending Beacon at the same time as she was. It didn't help that she was already getting glances from other students around her, as much as she was excited that she was accepted into Beacon early she didn't want to stand out from the others. She was lost in her thoughts that she was startled when someone placed their hand on their shoulder.
"Hey Rubes why are you looking so gloomy? Aren't you excited?" Yang flashing one of her signature grins.
"Of course I'm excited, it just..."
"It's just what?" Yang raised an eyebrow at the redhead.
"I-I want to fit in Yang, most of the students on board think I shouldn't be here and some have been glaring like I'm some kind of lost child that got on the wrong airship."
She looked away from Yang to only to notice that more people were glaring at her, she turned away and desperately tried to hide in her red hoodie. Yang noticed her behavior, shot a glance at the starring crowd and instantly they looked away.
"Ruby," Yang placed both hands on her shoulder and looked at her, not breaking eye contact, "Don't worry about them, besides you have me remember?"
She stared back at Yang for a while, eventually breaking eye contact, slightly smiling to herself, "Yeah, I do. Thanks Yang, I really needed that."
"Hey we're family remember, we're supposed to look after each other."
Their conversation was cut short when a news report interrupted, it stated that the White Fang had attacked another dust transport resulting in multiple deaths. Before the casualties came up Yang pulled Ruby's hood down resulting in Ruby's surprise yelp. She got her hood off as the death report shifted to Glynda announcing that they'll arrive in a couple of minutes. As she pulled off her hood she glared and pouted at Yang for a moment only to stop as she felt as someone else was staring at her. As she turned around she saw a raven-haired girl with a black bow and a black cardigan walk off to the exit.
Who is she? Was she looking at me earlier?
Blake was never fond of being in public places, mostly because she didn't want to be discovered as a Faunus. Even on here way to Beacon Academy, one of the most well known schools for both combat and education she didn't want to be hassled by anyone because of her cat ears. She sat in the back of the airship reading one of her books until the news announcement came up. Not wanting to listen to the Faunus backlash she closed her book and walked away from the holographic projections. She steered clear from groups of students that were discussing on how the Faunus are nothing but terrorists or how they're bellow humans and such, she eventually sat down in the mid-section of the airship waiting for the newscast to end. Her ears pricked up as she heard the news reporter mention the White Fang, instinctively she turned to the nearest holo projection only to see a blondie and a young girl with a red hoodie messing around. She almost pawned them off as immature until she saw how the older girl was watching the news while keeping the younger girl's hood over her head ensuring that she couldn't hear what was going on.
Is she trying to protect her from the news? Also why is she even here, isn't she a high schooler?
As she tried to organize her thoughts on why she was on this transport to Beacon, she didn't stop staring at the young girl until she pulled off her hood and pouted at the older girl. She looked cute as she made a pouty face at the other girl. Her train of thought was interrupted by Glynda's message to prepare to exit the airship, immediately she made her way towards the exit.
I wonder if she's a student, no she looks too young to attend her and besides what would be her weapon? Would she used something small like pistols or daggers, or does she use a long-ranged rifle?
She looked back at the young girl only to have amber eyes catch silver ones, for a while their eyes locked until a someone walked in front of them dragging along her friend towards the windows.
Did she...smile at me? No no no, it probably was your imagination
She spun around towards the exit, only to barely run into someone else.
"Hey watch where you're going you dolt!" She angrily yelled.
"Sorry," Blake looked away from the glaring gaze of her. She took a couple steps back from the angry student and waited for her to exit the airship first. She took one last look around the airship for a chance to see the brunette again, only to shake her head.
Why are you so interested in her? She probably isn't even a student
With one last look with no avail she stepped out of the airship and onto the landing pad.
"Hey Rubes? You okay?" Yang waved her hand back and forth in Ruby's face.
"Guh, yeah I'm fine." She quickly recovered and flashed a grin at Yang, "Why is something wrong?"
"Well, I was talking to you about the dorms and such but you looked off towards the distance with a dopey smile." Yang raised her eyebrow and with a smug grin, "Did you find someone interesting?"
Ruby quickly turned away from Yang desperately trying to hide a small blush that appeared on her cheeks. Yang laughed at her sister's embarrassed state and patted her on the back.
"It's ok if you don't want to talk about it sis."
"Shut up," Ruby whispered.
Both sisters stepped onto the landing pad and strode towards the gate. If she thought Signal Academy was big, then Beacon was gigantic! She walked along the main road towards the school stopping to take in the whole campus as it stretched far and wide. They had separate buildings that were for each particular subject besides the main tower in the center of the campus. They both passed the garden and Ruby stopped to look at the statue in the front of the tower, before walking into the main building Yang stopped her sister right outside the doors.
"I'm proud of you sis."
"What for Yang?" She turned towards Yang with an eyebrow raised.
"My baby sister jumped ahead two years, got accepted into Beacon, and-" Yang wrapped one of her arms around Ruby's neck, putting her into a headlock, "She's going at the same time as me!"
"Wha- Yang!" She flailed her arms in desperation, hoping that she could get out of her sister's grip. Eventually Yang let go and she glared at her. "Not funny."
Yang lightly shoved her with a big grin on her face, "Come on, it was kinda funny-" Ruby shoved her back, looking away from her as if she was mad.
"Hey Rubes?" Yang tried stepping in front of her trying to catch her gaze, only for the younger sister to turn in another direction with a pout on her face. "Heyyyy Rubes? Rubes?"
Still avoiding her, Yang sighed for a moment before trying something else. With nothing coming to her mind she sighed again and shoved Ruby with a little more force than her last one. Ruby however was caught by surprise by this and fell backwards, crashing into someone as she fell. She wasn't sure what she hit until she heard a loud screech and an angry voice that soon came after.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU DOLT!" She screamed at her.
Ruby sat up and looked at the student that she bumped into, her glare was as cold as ice as she made eye contact. She had pale blue eyes, white hair, and was wearing a white jacket and matching skirt with a brown splatter on it. Realizing what just happened, she shot up quickly apologizing to her.
"Do you know how much this was?!"
Ruby shook her head.
"A lot more than what you make, why are you even here?! Children like you shouldn't even be here."
"Hey I said I was sorry princess!" She shot back.
"It's Heiress actually." She retorted.
"Whatever, if you're such a noble then why are you acting like a spoile-"
"Okay break it up you two." Yang quickly interrupted, "Rubes I'm going to get her cleaned off, could you save us some seats in the main hall?"
"Sure Yang, don't take too long," She turned towards the door stepping inside.
After Ruby stepped inside, they both walked towards the girl's restroom trying to clean off the stain.
She sat down in the back, close enough to the stage and far enough from everyone else. She took off her hoodie and sat down covering three chairs for Yang and the student. It's been fifthteen minutes since she entered and both of them were nowhere to be seen. She was starting to get anxious that they would get here on time.
What would happen if they don't get here on time? Would they be in trouble? Oum it's my fault that this happened
She was lost in her thoughts that she didn't noticed that someone was watching her from afar.
Blake was sitting in the main hall for quite a while. After getting off the airship she met with Sun and his friend named Neptune, who seemed to be a nice person. She pulled out her book waiting for the welcoming speech, but stopped when she heard someone scream outside. She looked around to see no one else noticed, she would've check on who was in trouble but her mind stopped when she saw the girl from before walk into the room. She watched her look around for a bit and stopped somewhere across the room putting her hoodie on one chair then covering two others. She reluctantly got up from her seat and made her way towards the the redhead.
Blake what are you even doing? She's just a random stranger, but what makes her so interesting?
She shook off that thought only to see that she was standing right next to the brunette, apparently she didn't realize that Blake stood next to her. She gave a small cough that broke her out of her trance.
"Uh hello," the redhead gave a small wave to the older girl. She gave a friendly wave back and gestured to one of the chairs.
"Are these taken?"
"Oh, um those two are taken but I think no one is sitting here," She pointed to the seat next to her.
"Thank you," She dropped her bag in front of the chair as she sat down, they both sat in silence for a while until she broke the silence.
"So, are you a student?" Blake looked at the brunette with an eyebrow raised.
"Yep! I'm enrolling this year with everyone here." She flashed a grin at her.
"Really?" Blake stared at her in disbelief, only for the young girl to nod her head.
"Well I'm Ruby!" She held her hand out to Blake.
"I'm Blake, nice to meet you." She took her hand and lightly shook with a small grin on her face.
Ruby was about to say something until the blondie from earlier accompanied by a white-haired girl walked up to them.
"Hey Rubes! Who's your new friend?" Yang sat down next to Ruby.
"Her name is Blake! How was-" She stopped as she saw a faint red mark on her face, "Yang? What happened?"
"I uh, told her what happened earlier. You know when you crash into her at the entrance."
"And she slapped you because of it?"
"No she slapped me because-" She was interrupted with a small slap on the arm by the white-haired student sitting next to her.
"Yang, I thought we promised not to discuss this…" She whispered as she turned her head away from the group.
"Right, right. Sorry Weiss."
"Weiss, as in Weiss Schnee?" Blake asked, causing all three of the girls to look in her direction.
"Yes, I am the heiress of the Schnee family."
Both Ruby and Yang looked at her with their eyebrows raised.
"What?"
"I'm sorry, but you? When we first met you starting acting like a child," Ruby brought up earning a chuckle from both Blake and Yang.
"That's because you crashed into me spilling my coffee you little-"
Their conversation cut short when a man walked onto the stage and began tapping the mic gaining everyone's attention.
"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."
As he walked off the stage, Glynda took his place and began instructing students to meet in the next room to drop off their bags and that they could explore the campus until they call everyone back. As everyone was getting up to leave Glynda tapped Ruby on the shoulder before she left the hall.
"Miss Rose, a word please," Glynda nodded her head towards one of the elevators.
"Sure," She turned towards Yang and the others, "Hey, I'll be back don't wait for me."
"Okay sis, come on you heard her." Yang pulled both Blake and Weiss out of the hall leaving Ruby alone with Glynda.
Once they left, both Ruby and Glynda walked towards the open elevators. It took a while to reach the top floor where Ozpin was waiting in his chair waiting for her to arrive.
"Now then, lets begin." He stated as the elevator doors close behind her.
Throughout the whole day, the trio explored most of the campus. They settled at a small cafe near the garden discussing their courses and interests.
"So you take literature and arts?" Weiss looked at Blake who nodded in response. "And you're in Biomedical engineering and robotics?"
Yang flashed a grin at the white-haired girl, "Engineering runs in our blood, besides prosthetics are cool."
"What classes are you taking Weiss?" Blake questioned.
She looked at both of them in the eyes with a smug look, "I'm in Chemistry, Financing, and Marketing."
When she got no reactions from both of them she sat back down, with an embarrassed look on her dace and a slight blush. They all sat in awkward silence until the waiter brought their drinks to the table. Weiss and Yang both ordered coffee while Blake ordered tea, they all sat there until Blake heard somebody running towards their direction. She was expecting to see Ruby, but was taken aback when the trio saw a blond boy panting as he looked like he ran a marathon.
"Are- any of- you Yang Xiao- Long?"
Yang stood up immediately and walked over to the boy. "That's me, who are you?"
"No time to- explain." He pointed in the direction of the cafeteria, "Your- sister-"
Yang took off after hearing those two words, she didn't need to hear anymore to understand that her little sister was in danger. Weiss stayed behind to check on the tired boy while Blake followed Yang towards the cafeteria. It wasn't long until they both heard voices, one belonging to Ruby and the others to other male students.
"Leave her alone!" Ruby shouted at the leader of the group.
"Or what? You're gonna tell momma on us?" He snarked back with his little entourage laughing with him.
When Yang and Blake turned the corner, both of them were shocked to see the sight before them, Ruby was protecting a bunny Faunus while covered in bruises and cuts while the group surrounding them.
"Aww, I think she's going to cry." One of the bullies jeered to his friends.
"Yeah! I bet tha-" Yang grabbed him by the arm and slamming him to the nearest wall, leaving a crack in the brick wall. Blake followed suit, grabbing one of the other bullies and tossing him into one of the other bullies leaving the leader by himself.
"Just who do you think-" He was cut off by Ruby who got behind him and delivered a sharp kick in the back. He spun around and tried to punch her in the face, only for her to duck and slam her boot on his foot. As he recoiled in pain, she stood up and head-butted him knocking him out. As he fell the two remaining bullies got up and ran, leaving the unconscious ones behind in fear of what would happen if they stuck around longer. After waiting to see if they would come back Ruby fell on her knees with her back against the wall.
"Thank you Yang, thank you Blake-" She said as she passed out. Blake rushed over to her catching her before she hit the pavement while Yang went over to check on the Faunus. Blake put her head against Ruby's chest, sighing in relief when she heard her heart was still beating then she looked over her bruises and cuts.
They're not deep but we need to clean them soon
"Hey Blake?" Yang called from where she was helping the Faunus.
"Coming," Blake replied back, she picked up Ruby and carried her on her back as she made her way to Yang, "What's wrong?"
"Do you remember where the dorms were?"
"Yes, they were across from the gardens nearby the east docks."
"Thanks, I'm going to help her get back to the dorms." She helped lift the Faunus up and supported her by putting her arm around her shoulder, "Blake can you get Ruby to the nurse, then to the main hall?"
Blake nodded in response as she made her way towards the main hall.
She didn't know how long she was out until she woke up. She was covered in bandages and an ice pack was applied to where the bruises were, she tried sitting up only for her body to groan in pain until she slumped back on the sleep mat. She tried looking around only seeing other students either asleep or quietly whispering in small groups.
Okay, where am I?
She tried again to sit upright, this time succeeding, she got a good look around and saw she was in the main hall and that all the new students were coming in to retire for the night. She was startled when she heard something behind her, she quickly turned around and saw Weiss and Blake talking about something. The only words she were able to pick up were infections and something about her physical state.
"I'm fine, just a couple of scratches. That's all." She startled both of them. Suddenly both if them rushed over to the injured girl making sure she didn't strain herself.
"Are you alright?" Blake sat next to her while Weiss applied another bag of ice on her bruises. Ruby nodded her head in reply.
"What happened?" Weiss asked as she replaced the almost melted ice bag with a fresh one. She then looked at Ruby who seemed to be uncomfortable at the moment. She stayed like that for a while until she spoke up.
"Do you both remember when I went with Glynda?" She waited until both of them nodded their heads, "When I finished I went to look for you guys but-"
She was cut off when Yang walked in tossing a pillow at Weiss, knocking over her in the process, "Found a spare pillow Wei- Oh! Hey Ruby."
"Hey Yang," She waited for Weiss and Yang to settle down before continuing, "As I was saying, when I was looking for you guys I saw a group of students bully a Faunus near the cafeteria."
Blake felt her ears go down, it seems that anywhere she goes there are always racists against Faunus. She broke out of her trance as soon as Ruby continued.
"-I stepped in to stop them, tried telling them off but-" She looked down with tears caught in her eyes, "They started harassing the both of us, tossing rocks, and calling us nasty insults-" Her voice trailed off as she broke into tears.
"Ruby..." Yang tried comforting her sister by hugging her, signaling both Weiss and Blake to join in. After sitting there for a while, Ruby calmed down wiping away the remaining tears.
"I'm- sorry, I shouldn't have broken down like that-"
"Don't apologize Ruby, you did nothing wrong." Blake spoke up, "You did the right thing."
"Thank you," They all separated and went back to their sleeping bags after seeing the remaining students enter the main hall.
"We should all probably sleep, we have a big day tomorrow," Weiss brought up.
"Yeah, see you all in the morning." Yang replied as she crashed in her sleeping bag.
"Good night," Ruby pulled the sleeping bag over her before putting on her Grimm sleeping blinders.