Chapter One: The Arrival

Leo King stepped onto the landing pad in his combat outfit of a white lab coat over jeans and a forest green t-shirt which matched the color of his messy hair. The box that contained his weapon, Limit Breaker, bounced at his side as he took in the wonder that was Beacon, it was a marvel of architecture, and unfortunately, Leo was so preoccupied with admiring the view that he didn't notice the pair of girls until he was practically on top of them, unfortunately he got too close before either party became aware of the other, the girl on Leo's left acted on pure instinct, she stepped backward and broke Leo's balance with a stomp on his instep while she grabbed his left wrist and flipped him onto his back, Limit Breaker's box hit the flagstones and burst open, spilling machine parts out onto the ground.

"Omigod! I'm so sorry!." The girl who'd flipped him looked absolutely horrified, her blue eyes were wide with panic behind horn-rimmed glasses as she bent down to check on him, Leo's own slit pupiled green eyes took in the details of her features while he lay on the stone, she was cute, long blond hair bound into a ponytail, drawn back from a thin face with a pointed chin and small nose. It took a second or two to get his power of speech back, between getting thrown and his sudden nerves at being near a pretty girl, but he did speak.

"No hard feelings, I should have paid more attention to where I was walking."

"I still feel bad for flipping you like that." The blond replied as she held a hand out to help Leo to his feet, the snake eyed boy took the offered assistance, by the time the blond girl helped him to his feet they realized that the other girl had vanished. Leo smiled reassuringly at the girl. "Nice to meet you, I'm Leo King."

"Bridget Glass." Her smile was sheepish, but it gave Leo the opportunity to take in the rest of her appearance, she was two inches shorter than him at five foot five, she was thin, not unhealthy, just very fit, which Leo supposed was to be expected in a school for Hunters, she wore a grey hoodie, jeans, and brown leather boots, a pair of fingerless gloves covered her hands, the right one was red, the left was yellow, and if Leo had to guess he would surmise that they were infused with Dust, her weapons.

"I'm sorry for the mess I made." Bridget apologized, indicating the machine parts strewn over the ground.

Leo shrugged, he wasn't really bothered by the mess, it would be simple enough to clean up. "I told you already, it's not an issue, you don't need to apologize, I'll get this cleaned in a second." Leo stepped into the rough center of the mess, then he activated his aura, green lines like the wiring of a circuit board spread from his elbow to the tips of each finger on his right hand, then he laid his aura cloaked hand on the flagstones and spread it outward, the green lines slithered over the stones in a rough circular pattern until each of the fallen components was in contact with at least one green line, once that was accomplished Leo stood up straight and retracted all the lines toward his palm, the lines all slithered through the air like glowing geometric snakes with a machine part at the end of each one, as they approached his hand the parts fit together and shifted position constantly until the snake eyed boy was holding a six foot long spear, glowing green lines ran into and around the whole thing, holding it together. Bridget Glass gaped at the spear, which Leo spun once, then propped against his shoulder with a small smile.

"That's pretty awesome, your Semblance?"

"Yup, it's called Construction, I can create any machine or mechanical weapon I can design as long as I have the necessary parts."

"Sweet! But how is a spear mechanical?"

Leo flipped a switch on the shaft and the spear mechashifted into a boxy gun, a bolt gun specifically. "That's how."

"So that's why you carry a box of junk, in your hands it's basically an armory full of weapons, whatever you can imagine." Bridget looked at Limit Breaker's box with new appreciation.

"It's not quite whatever I imagine, I need to design each weapon from the ground up, and I'm limited by the resources I have on hand, but I've got a few designs I came up with memorized so I don't have to whip out a blueprint in the middle of a fight."

Bridget's crystalline blue eyes widened. "You memorized multiple entire blueprints!"

Leo's cheeks burned, he was a genius and he knew it, but he'd never really been comfortable with the fact. "Only four." This wasn't enough to embarrass him, his face was red with the knowledge that he could easily handle memorizing a few dozen more at minimum.

"Still, it's impressive."

"Not really, I've always had a talent for weapon design, I guess the designs just made sense to me, but I spent weeks studying each one to make sure I got every detail down, if I got even one detail wrong, the weapon I create might be totally worthless, or worse, a danger to myself and those around me." Leo objected to the praise, but his companion was having none of it.

"That makes it more impressive, you've put a huge amount of work into mastering your Semblance, and I bet you've gotten training in a bunch of different weapons."

Leo face and neck burned with a furious blush. "Well, yeah, but I'll never be as good with any of the weapons I make as other Huntsmen, I was honestly surprised that Beacon even accepted my application."

Bridget looked at this short skinny Faunus boy, with his messy forest green hair, those silly goggles and lab coat, his skin a shade paler than was likely healthy, with a flat, vaguely angry face, though he was clearly at ease, mostly, his long fingered hands clutched a spear taller than himself like a trained professional, she saw the bright, piercing reptilian green eyes reflecting the plainly incredible mind behind them. He was wrong, this boy was a fighter, he most definitely belonged here, and she had a suspicion that he would prove that to everyone, including himself during Initiation.

Leo's voice snapped the girl out of her reverie. "So, Bridget, who was the person you were with before?"

A flash of irritation surged out of Bridget's gut before vanishing, of course he'd ask about Catherine, every guy did. "My sister Catherine, we're twins, identical."

Leo nodded. "Oh, cool, I wish I had siblings, but I'm an only child."

Bridget snorted. "It's not as great as you think it is, at least you never had anyone who stole your clothes." She felt a bit ashamed for that flash of jealousy, and didn't really feel like thinking about why she even experienced it.

"I'm a guy, we don't steal clothes, just beat eachother up."

The pair shared a laugh, then Leo shifted his spear into it's bolt gun form, then he held it over Limit Breaker's box and retracted his aura from the metal, the gun collapsed into it's individual components which all fell into the box, Leo snapped it shut before turning back to his companion. "It's time to head over for Professor Ozpin's speech."

Bridget watched as her new friend turned and started walking with no doubt about which direction he should head.

"Let me guess, you memorized a map of the campus?"

"Yyyyup." There was that damn blush again, Leo mentally scolded himself, he really needed to work on that.

"Knew it."

Both teens laughed. It was shaping up to be a good day, for both of them.

(Author's Note: enjoy!)