AN: Hello all and welcome to my first Fanfiction for RWBY. I decided to finally put a note/disclaimer at the beginning of this chapter. I know the first few chapters of this story are not the best quality. When I started, I had little experience in writing and have since gotten some help and pointers from some amazing authors. I plan to eventually go back and rewrite/edit the first few chapters. However, it probably won't be until I finish it. I hope you'll bear with the first few chapters and that it does eventually become more enjoyable for you.
"I still can't believe I'm gonna be going to Beacon Academy." I said as stared out the window of the airship. I was dressed in a black sweatshirt jacket with a red shirt underneath and dark gray pants with a monkey tail sticking out that was the same deep red color as my hair that went down to my back.
"Just remember I had to pull a lot of string to pull this off kid. You're lucky Oz and I have been through so much otherwise this would have been impossible. Especially since you've already missed the initiation ceremony." Said a tall figure with black hair and a white and gray shirt and black pants.
"I know and I really appreciate everything you've done for me Mr. Branwen I'll do my best to make you proud. I do have one question though. Since I missed initiation what team will I be on?"
"Oz will go through all that with you. Just do me a favor kid and keep quiet that you weren't actually accepted and got special treatment. Just act as if you were a last-minute transfer." I was about to answer but I was able to see Beacon and was in awe of how big it really was.
After we landed Mr. Branwen took me right to the headmaster's office. "Qrow it's good to see you again I assume this is the young man you spoke so highly of."
"Yep this is Crimson Vayr, Oz I really appreciate you still letting him join. I'll let you take it from here so I can get back to Signal." Qrow then hit the elevator button and left the office.
"Mr. Vayr" Professor Ozpin said as he leaned forward in his chair. "I understand you applied to multiple academies including here and weren't accepted to any of them. So, tell me why you had Qrow try so hard to get you into my school?"
I was so nervous I wasn't sure where to begin. I figured I should start with what made me want to be a huntsman in the first place. "I know I may not seem like much, but this is what I've always wanted. When I was a kid, I was picked on a lot in my orphanage for being a faunus. I ran away one day and got lost in a forest. I ended up face to face with an ursa. It went for a strike at me, but it was only close enough to catch my right eye with one of its claws. That's how I got this scar. I tried to run but the ursa was too fast. It was about to attack again when a huntress in white decapitated it. She took me to hospital and if it wasn't for her, I could have lost my eye or worse my life. From then I wanted to follow in her footsteps and become one as well. I know my transcripts may show that I shouldn't be here, but I promise I will work as hard as I can to prove I belong here."
Professor Ozpin just smiled and leaned back in his chair. "Well Mr. Vayr you do certainly seem to have the heart of a huntsman. I understand why Qrow pushed so hard to get you enrolled here. Unfortunately, because you missed initiation, you'll be added to an already formed team. You can choose between Team RWBY, Team JNPR, or Team CDNL. Once you choose, I'll have the team's leader come and show you to your room."
"Team RWBY seems fine. The name at least is like my own."
Ozpin smiled and began typing on his scroll "Very well I will have Ms. Rose meet you outside my office to show you to your room." He finished his message and handed me a scroll. "I'll have a uniform sent to your room and you'll start classes tomorrow. However, your room currently only has four beds in it we will get an additional one as soon as possible."
I gathered my stuff and headed towards the elevator. "Thank you again Professor Ozpin I promise you won't regret this." I entered the elevator and went to meet my new leader and as I'm going down it hit's me. "W-Wait did he say my leader was a g-girl... oh crap baskets."
I exited the elevator and luckily, she wasn't here yet. I was so nervous and was almost panicking. "I haven't even talked to a girl before and the leader of my new team was a girl. How could things possibly get worse' I thought as a voice came from behind me that made me jump
"Hey you OK? You look kinda sick." I turned around and saw a girl with black hair and a red cape.
"Umm... Y-Yeah... I-I'm j-just waiting f-for my new l-leader to..." before I could finish, she cut me off.
"Oh, you must be Crimson. I'm Ruby. Come on let's get you set up in our room. Just try not to puke on the way there. We already have one Vomit Boy we don't need two" she said with a small giggle after. I grab my stuff and start following her to our dorm. I started to calm down a bit when she mentioned Vomit-boy. I seemed to make a good first impression. Despite being incredibly nervous.
'At least I'm not the only guy on this team maybe this won't be so bad after all' I was thinking to myself.
We finally made it to our room and Ruby was about to open the door when a voice came from the room behind us.
"Hey Ruby, who's this" The voice came from guy with blond hair and a black sweatshirt covered by a chest and shoulder plates.
"Hey Jaune, this is our newest teammate Crimson Vayr. He transferred from Shade Academy. Is the rest of your team here?"
"Yeah if you want you can come in and meet them." I nod and walk in seeing a girl with red hair in red and gold on one bed polishing a shield. A hyper girl with orange hair moving like a flash (making it hard to tell what she's wearing) around a guy in green with black hair and a pink stripe in his hair begging for him to make her pancakes.
"Let me introduce you." Jaune said as he pointed to the girl in red. "Over there is Pyrrha." "Hello" Pyrrha said looking up quickly from her shield "The orange blur is Nora and the ninja is Ren. And I'm the fearless leader of Team JNPR Jaune."
"Didn't you panic during combat class today and end up on the floor?" Nora said finally slowing to a stop after Ren gave in to her. "I-I didn't panic I just umm... slipped." Jaune said trying to sound convincing.
"Sure. Anyway, Crimson we should probably get you set up." Ruby said turning to head towards our room.
"Y-Yeah nice meeting you guys." I waved and followed Ruby.
We walked out and Ruby already had the door to our room open. We walked inside and I was surprised. On one side of the room one of the beds was hanging over another by a sheet and rope. On the other side of the room the beds were separated by a stack of books on each post. A girl with a black and white top and black hair with a bow on top is on the bottom bed reading. Something seems odd about her, but I can't quite tell what it is.
"Hey Blake, where are Weiss and Yang?" said Ruby.
"Yang went to the training room for a bit and Weiss went to the Library." Blake said without even looking up from her book.
"Alright this is our newest teammate Crimson." Blake finally looked up from her book and smiled.
"Nice to meet you. Just a warning watch out for Weiss. She acts like quite a princess or I should say heiress." my nervousness started to grow again.
"Umm Thank you and it's n-nice to meet you." 'Three out of four girls well at least there is still Yang he must be Vomit Boy.' I thought to myself while setting my stuff in the corner while Ruby and I unpacked.
"Yang and Weiss should be back soon I messaged them to head back for a team meeting." said Ruby jumping up to her bed. I nodded and sat in the corner and started reading an X-Ray and Vav comic. After a bit a girl in a white dress walked in.
"Alright Ruby what's so important?" Blake still reading pointed over to me.
"Weiss meet the newest addition to Team RWBY." Ruby said jumping off her bed.
"Nice to meet you I'm Weiss Schnee." I got up to shake her hand.
"N-nice to meet you Ms. Schnee I-I'm Crimson." Weiss was a little surprised with him.
'Something seems odd normally a faunus wouldn't be polite and up front with me. He also seems to be kinda nervous. "I can't help but notice we still only have four beds and five people." Weiss said heading over to her bed to study.
"Professor Ozpin s-said that he will get another bed in here as soon as possible. I-I can take the floor until then it's not an issue." I said going back to my comic. 'Schnee... Schnee why does that name sound familiar.' After a bit another girl came in with yellow hair and a yellow shirt.
"Hey Rubes, what's up" she jumped up on her bed and saw me in the corner. "Who's the kid in the corner?"
"That's our newest teammate Crimson." Ruby said. "Oh cool, now here is no question who the best team at Beacon is going to be! Nice to meet you I'm Yang. I'm Ruby's big sister."
"N-n-nice to meet y-you. Umm... I'm uh C-Crimson." 'Crap Baskets!' I went into panic mode 'I thought I had at least one guy on my team. I'm the only one. OK deep breath I need to try to calm down.'
"Hey Crimson, you OK?" Yang said and she got off the bed. At this point everyone looked over at me looking concerned.
"Umm uh y-yeah I-I'm um... Excuse me." I got up and headed out the door. "I need to find a place to calm down." I walked around until I found myself on the roof. I let out a huge breath. "OK I need to get a grip before I make myself sick." I pulled out my mp3 and put my headphones in. I closed my eyes and put my hands together and started to glow white.
(Weiss' POV)
"Anyone have any idea what just happened?" Yang said looking at everyone.
"Well when we were walking here, he did seem really nervous." Ruby said "I thought it was just because he was new here. Maybe there is something else wrong with him."
"He did seem to get more and more worked up after everyone came in. Maybe he has Claustrophobia or something." Blake said standing up.
"I'm worried about him maybe we should split up and look for him. Ruby said jumping back down.
"As much as I hate saying this. Your right Ruby he's our newest team member and we need to watch out for each other." I said getting up. "If you find him message everyone else and we'll meet up." We all head out the door and I headed for the roof. As I got closer, I could hear someone. I looked around the corner and I could see Crimson. 'He's singing and he doesn't look anything like he did a few minutes ago.' I thought as I watched on.
(Crimson's POV)
(Cue If Today was Your Last Day by Nickelback)
'I have a feeling I'm gonna be up here a lot.' I thought. I heard someone clapping from behind. I turned around and saw Weiss.
"That was amazing Crimson." I simply smiled and turned back around and leaned over the wall.
"Thanks, it always helps me calm down when I start panicking." I said
"You seem fine now that song must work wonders for you." Weiss said as she walked up beside me.
"It's not just the song I also have my semblance activated. It masks my emotion of fear. It also gives me a strength boost and an Aura boost. If I wanted to, I could jump off and still have half my Aura left."
"You won't actually do it right? Everyone is worried enough as it is." Weiss said with a look of concern on her face. I gave a small laugh.
"Considering I have no fear right now it is tempting. But no, I wasn't going to. Knowing my Aura, I've never had thoughts like that. Unfortunately, I have to manually activate it unless it's triggered by anger. Not to mention unless I deactivate myself it only lasts an hour. It's not easy to focus on it when I start panicking. And I don't like relying on it. I only try to use it when my stress level gets too high for me. So, I try to find other ways to calm myself. Music is the best way I've found so far. Even better when I can sing."
"If you don't mind me asking. Blake said that when each of us entered the room you seemed to get more and more worked up. What happened?" I gave a short chuckle
"As crazy as it sounds, I get incredibly nervous around girls. So, imagine when I saw each of my teammates was a girl."
"I understand why you ran so suddenly." Weiss said sounding sympathetic.
"Please don't take this the wrong way but I've never met a faunus like you. Most of them take one look at me or hear my name and insult me almost instantly."
I look over confused at her and said "Well I don't know what your name has to do with it, but I try not to judge a book by its cover. And with how this conversation has gone I don't seem to have any issues with you." Weiss was the one who was confused now.
"Weiss Schnee heiress to the Schnee Dust Company. The biggest supplier of dust in Remnant?" It finally clicked in my head.
"That's why the name sounded familiar. Cool." Weiss was even more confused now.
"So, you know who I am and still have no issues with me?" I shook my head and looked at her.
"Like I said I try not to judge a book by a cover. I know the Schnee Dust Company has been known for mistreating faunus. However, think about this. You took the time to continue talking to me. And you seem to be showing emotion and care for me as more than a teammate. I can tell because I've noticed the fluctuation in your voice. If it was only as a teammate, I can't see you putting this much effort and you probably would have just yelled at me as soon as you found me instead of waiting till the end of my song. Sorry if this strikes a nerve but while your family is unfortunately known for mistreating faunus you don't seem to live up to the rumors." Silence fills the air as we both look up at the sunset.
I think I saw a tear in Weiss's eye when she finally spoke. "I appreciate everything you've said, and I'm not upset. While I haven't generally thought highly of the faunus with everything they put my family though. Making a difficult childhood for me. I don't want the Schnee name to be remembered by his actions since he took over." I put my hand on hers. "Thanks Crimson you'll probably hear this from the rest of the team but were all gonna be here for you. I know it probably won't be easy but if you have to at least take one of us with you before you run off."
I smiled. "I'm sorry and I'll do my best. Although I think I've already decided this is where I'll end up if it gets to bad."
"We should probably head back I'm sure everyone is gonna be upset with both of us. I was supposed to contact them when I found you. Are you sure you'll be okay?" I let out a sigh.
"Probably not but I don't have much of a choice. Plus, I'll never get better if I don't deal with it." As we start walking back Weiss sent a message to our teammates saying we were on our way back.
