*Jade's POV*
The airship lands and I run to get off of the wretched machine, happy to be back on stable, unmoving ground. I look up and I see the largest school in Vale, Beacon Academy, just a short ways in front of me. I get up, and I walk towards Beacon Academy, the school for Huntsman and Huntresses in the kingdom of Vale. As I walk, I keep a hand near the dagger that I have hidden in my hoodie sleeve, ready just in case someone tries to bully me. It's not easy being a faunus, we're hated because of groups like The White Fang, and because of this, I am always ready for a fight, even if I don't use my signature weapon, Nature's Wrath, a Lever-Action Sniper Rifle with a large axe blade underneath that I use as a mono-pod.
I hear something running up behind me and I quickly spin around to see my friend Ron Mahogany running to me. Ron is a faunus too, but not a fox faunus like me, he is a Bull faunus, and a bit of a tank. He's also my best friend from back in Vacuo, has been since we were about 2 years old. He has his weapon, a large club/cannon named Bull of Death, drawn, probably just to scare people.
I stop him and ask what is happening, and he points to a girl, laughing crazily with a purple lab-coat on. She is chasing him and screaming about how she just wants to ask him a few questions. I stop her by aiming Nature's Wrath at her face, not showing any emotion in my own. She stops and looks at me, noticing my ears sticking up through my hood and smiles. "So, you're a faunus too, huh?" she asks me, rather stupidly as it is obvious. "Yeah, why, do you have a problem with that?" I reply, ready to get into a fight just in case. "No! No no no! I didn't expect to meet a fox faunus here in Vale though. From what we heard, most fox faunus live in Vacuo and Mistral, where they have large amounts of land to play and roam.
After talking with this girl, who revealed her name to be Holly Violeta, I realized she is no threat, and her, Ron, and I walked to orientation. We walk into the main hall of Beacon, and after a few minutes we see a gray-haired man that is dressed in green, with a sword-cane walk on stage. He stops in front of the microphone, clears his throat, and says "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." After orientation, we went to the ball room, for bed, well, except me, I went to the bench outside of the ballroom, scared to sleep among so many new faces.
The next morning, I woke up to Ron and Holly arguing over something stupid. "What is going on out here?!" I scream at both of them. "Don't you know, that although some faunus don't, I DO have very sensitive hearing?" I scream, holding my ears in pain. Ron explains that Holly wanted to wake me and that she wouldn't listen to him that it was a bad idea, meaning that they were, of course, fighting over something stupid. "Listen, both of you, if I ever get woken up like that again, I will gut the both of you." I whisper in their ears, making sure that they understand me. "Now, time to go, we have initiation at the cliffs in 15 minutes." I say as I get up and start walking, thinking about what may happen in The Emerald Forest.