(Chapter has been edited to fix a few mistakes I noticed) I was sitting in bed and this came to me so enjoy this weird sleep deprived idea that I actually decided to write out of the ones I have had.
Weapons. Weapons span throughout ages and ages, but are they ever really forgotten, so to say? I would have to say no on my part, but not on others. People may have fancy guns and crap like that, but want to know what I have? Multiple weapons in one and multiple armors in one. I know it may sound very stupid and impossible, but here me out here. I have armor that changes based on the weapon I am using out of my array in my transforming weapon. The weapons I currently have are, and this is a long list, a halberd, a spear and shield, a flail and shield, a short sword and dagger, a nodachi, a katana, a naginata, a kanabo, a gladius and round shield, a Dane axe, and double throwing axes. (Haha I am For Honor man if you haven't caught it. I don't know why my brain thinks these things at night.) If you think that is a handful already I have a no weapon mode too where everything goes into hit everything with everything mode. I will just leave out the armor because that is a longer explanation than the list of students over the years of Beacon Academy. Speaking of Beacon Academy, that Is where I am headed right now seeing as I am in an airship, oh wait I forgot to say that. Oh well, just here we go on an adventure! Wait, and I forgot to say what my name was. Remember this now folks, my name is Cye Grown. And now for the adventuring to start!
Man have I never liked airships. I don't have motion sickness like the guy in the corner trying not to throw up does, but I do not like heights when I am in a ship moving at very high speeds throughout the air while I am standing up. Everyone else seems to be having fun, but I am not having anywhere near fun. By first look, I would look very flimsy considering all I seem to be wearing is a metal pouch on my right leg with metal leggings and boots reaching up to the top of my legs and same with my arms with gloves, as well as weird metal curves behind my ears and also a metal ring hung around my neck staying there. I must look like some kind of hippie or goth to other people to be honest. I have been getting weird looks so it makes sense, I mean everyone gets weird looks to be honest if their weapons aren't prominent. I mean you can't even see my weapon you just see armor and weird accessories that I have on and that isn't that settling to people. People like to see weapons to get an idea of the person they will be at school with so that is why you get weird looks if it isn't prominent on your person. I should probably go and socialize but I am more focused on not passing out because of the realization of how high we are in the air and how fast we are going right now. I also realized while I was standing there that we were slowing down which means we were close to landing, which I released a sigh of relief upon realizing. As we landed I noticed all of the different people on the ship that I hadn't noticed before as an announcement came on the holo projectors. As I listened to it I couldn't help but thinking about who I was going to be paired with on my team, which caused me to miss it ending and us landing. I got taken out of my senses though when the doors of the airship opened and I instinctively got out and breathed in the air of relief as I was finally on the ground. I started walking near the back of everyone as I took a while in breathing in the fresh air, and I seemed to be one of the only ones that noticed the two girls having the argument in the middle of the courtyard. I don't know how a lot of other people didn't notice it, but that is not what I was worried about right now. As I watched the argument I knew something bad was going to happen so I got my hand on my weapon as a reflex motion to be ready for what happens. As I sat there I took my hand off my weapon because nothing had happened yet, but right as I did that an explosion went off and I ran in to see if everyone was alright in it. As I ran into the smoke I noticed both of the girls on the ground coughing and dusting off, which made me feel better knowing that they were ok in that explosion. As I stood there I remembered that I should see if they were ok, so I went to the one clad in black in red first to see if she was ok while the other one was already getting up. I ran over and looked her over real quick and got her up on her feet after she noticed me. She gave me a quick thanks before the one with white hair started to yell at her again. I stepped in between them to talk about the problem.
"And what happens to be the problem here miss?" I asked with a slight edge in my voice as an explosion just went off and she is still yelling at her.
"This dolt knocked over all of my things and my dust which could've caused a lot of money!" Was the white haired girls response to the question.
"Ok well I think you should leave it be since you were just in an explosion and nothing was damaged, as far as I can tell with those suitcases having had not have had fallen that much from a very small height." Were the words that caused the white haired girl to storm off like she was a child having a temper tantrum from not getting what they wanted. I turned to the girl clad in black in red to give my apologies to her, but when I turned she had this really bright look in her eyes that I couldn't really put a finger on how they look.
"I am sorry for what happened between you and the white haired woman you were arguing with, and if you don't mind me I will take my leave as the ceremony is soon anyways." As I finished my sentence I turned to go but as I tried to walk I found that she was holding me back still looking at me with that sparkle.
"I assume you are holding me back for my name, correct?" After I said that I got a nod in response to which I replied with, "My name is Cye Grown, and yours?"
"My name is Ruby Rose, it is nice to meet you my 'savior.'" She said that last part in a, somehow, higher voice than her own, which caused us both to laugh before we said our goodbyes and headed to the auditorium. As I got there I noticed that there were a few spots open in the front, so I took one close to the end of the line of people. Oddly enough there were no chairs for people to sit on, it was just standing in rows and hoping you can see. It took a while for the ceremony to begin and I also noticed Ruby standing not that far away and after we noticed each other it was a quick wave and back to paying attention.
"Man that ceremony was kind of boring." I said to no one besides myself as I sat near the corner by myself in the hall we were supposed to sleep in tonight. As I looked around I could see Ruby and a yellow haired woman talking and the, as I like to call her from how she acts, ice queen approaching them from a distance. As I saw this I got up and stood in front of her after I caught up.
"And do you think you are going over there to yell at her again?" Was what I asked as that was her clear intention.
"Yes and if you were to move out of the way I could do that." She sternly said while trying to walk past me but I blocked her again and spoke some more.
"I really want to be on your side, I really do, but the reason this is happening is one of the stupidest reasons of an argument I have heard in my lifetime and I lived with divorced parents, so I suggest just sitting down and calming down or talking to her calmly." I looked down at her, as she was shorter than me, and she just looked at me with this face I could not make out.
"All right I will talk to her calmly, and if you are going to refer to me anymore my name is Weiss Schnee, got that?" That last part had an edge in her voice that I wish I could smack out of it, but I chose not to. I told her that I was going to supervise their conversation and walked over there with her. When we got there I tapped Ruby on the shoulder and told her that they were going to have a nice resolution as I don't want anymore yelling and to be honest no one else does. I walked away as they finished their conversation with exchanging names and saying sorry, upon my request so to say. I got my tarp set up and meditated like I always do. I am the type of person who only sleeps once in a few days but never looks or acts like it. As I sat there I began to wonder, how might this turn out?
*12 hour time skip*
As day broke upon the hall I had just gotten up and was rolling up my tarp. I did happen to wake some people up as I have metal armor on causing clanking that nearby people didn't seem to like as it woke them up. After issuing out a few apologies and packing up I went over to the lockers and set my stuff inside, but as I did I noticed that someone else was already up too. I walked over to them and saw an Amazonian like girl with bright red hair and pure green eyes.
"And do I have to ask why you are up this early Pyrrha Nikos?" I said with a sarcastic tone in my voice, which by the expression on her face she seemed to get as she was trying not to laugh at the moment. She gave me the speech of being a warrior while trying not to laugh, which she eventually failed at the end of her speech causing me to laugh as well. After that I went back to my locker to finish setting everything up in there and get ready. After I had finished I noticed that Ruby and the yellow haired woman were at a locker near mine chatting away. I chuckled at that and walked up to join in their conversation.
"Good morning you two, you seem to be having a fun time." I said as I walked up getting their attention.
"Morning Cye!" Was the response I got from Ruby as the yellow haired woman stared at both of us confused as I shook Ruby's hand.
"And who might you be, my knight in shining armor?" Were the words that the yellow haired woman chose to start off with.
"No, just an idiot coming here to learn to be that, also I don't seem to have your name, what might it be?" I purposely tried to sound like a very stereotypical knight at the end, which enacted a giggle from Ruby and a smile from the yellow haired woman.
"The name is Yang Xiao Long and yours?" She held out her hand to shake, which I accepted.
"Cye Grown, pleasure to meet you." I said as we shook hands, and as we stopped shaking hands she had the witty remark of, "Pleasure will be mine." And even decided to wink at the end of the sentence. All three of us were deadly silent for a second before we all had a good laugh together. As we stopped laughing an announcement came on to tell us to go to the meeting point marked for us. As we got there we were directed to stand on the launch pads that were placed on the ground. I decided to stay near the end to make it to where I wouldn't miss some hilarious things from new people to launching. And boy was I right to be at the end. After The newbie was launched I was launched and ended up almost failing my landing because I was laughing so hard. After I landed I took out a small handle like object from the metal pouch on my leg and changed it to a katana. As I did that my armor changed to the armor of an Orochi samurai and I gained the ability to run faster and have higher spatial awareness. If you are wondering about that, I had the armor modified to where certain effects happen for as long as I have the armor on, and it is not my semblance, that is for later. As for now I should get moving, which I proceeded to do and actually got pretty lucky in not running into anything or anybody most of my way to the point we were supposed to get to. The only thing that I actually did run into was a Ursa, which got taken out quickly because of my fast movement and attack I am capable of. As I got to the monument, I realized I wasn't the first there, but I was pretty far up there in the people. I decided to wait for some of my friends so that I didn't just sit around alone in the end area. It took about 12 or 13 minutes before Yang and a black haired woman with a bow on her head showed up. I stood up from my sitting position and clearly startled them until I did the hand motion Yang did while she did her joke earlier, which made her calm down, but not the black haired woman.
"Who's your friend Yang?" I called out as they were still approaching the statue.
"Blake Belladonna is her name! Don't worry I only met her a few minutes ago too!" Was what she yelled out before we went silent until they got to the statue.
"Do you want to wait here for Ruby or jus-" my sentence was cut off by screaming from, which we deduced, up. We looked up to see Ruby and Weiss falling from the air after something, I guess, blew up again. I gestured to Yang to get Ruby and I was to get Weiss. I timed it perfectly so that I caught her in a dive roll to reduce as much damage on both of us as possible as I could make it. As we stopped rolling I looked down at her and noticed she was blushing slightly before she got up and started questioning who I was until I deactivated my weapon showing her myself. She got noticeably flustered before walking over and grabbing one of the pieces for her and Ruby while Yang and Blake did the same. Before they got here I had already grabbed mine so I just went with them until I heard more screaming and loud stomping. I quickly got out my handle and changed to Lawbringer mode (To get my modes just look up characters in for honor) and got ready. I stayed put until the thing making the noise came through the trees, which was a Death Stalker with Pyrrha and the kid at the launching pads named Jaune riding on top of it. At the same time two more people appeared soaring over the Treeline riding an ursa that had just seemed to die on impact with the ground as they landed. As we got ready to fight we got backed into a bridge in some of ruins above a cavern, which got landed on by a nevermore and we all got launched. Jaune, Pyrrha, the two other unnamed people and I landed on the side with the Death Stalker while Yang, Ruby, Weiss, and Blake got put with the Nevermore. As I studied the Death Stalker I switched to Kensei samurai mode to get some good hits on it and to also be a little faster than it. I looked over at the rest to see how they were doing with the Nevermore as the Death Stalker striked at the rest of the people over here. I actually got back into focus on the Death Stalker as it striked at me and I was able to dodge it and get some good swipes in at it's stinger damaging it. I yelled at the others to go for the stinger, which they then proceeded to do and the Death Stalker was dead quickly, as once the stinger was gone I stabbed it in the head. We all turned around fast enough after we killed it to see the miraculous play by Yang, Ruby, Weiss, and Blake to take down to Nevermore. As we all sat there dumbfounded I snapped out of my dazed state and went back to without a weapon to get across the cavern. When we got to the finishing area we could see that everyone was already done, they were just waiting for us. We sat down and talked about what happened and laughed and had a good time.
*Small Time Skip*
The ceremony after the initiation mission had Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang on a team and also Jaune, Pyrrha, and now that their names were announced I know them, Nora, and Ren were put on the same team. I was put on a team with 3 other people named Razz, Tenne, and Lav to form team LCTR, referencing Electric Blue. They were all woman and I was the only male on the team, so I had to think things were going to be fun for all of us. After I got my stuff moved into my room and I took off my armor, I laid down and actually got that sleep I had probably needed yesterday. I think this is going to be a fun time, my stay here at Beacon, in my opinion. I heard one last thing before I fell asleep and it was these words spoken in a deep and unknown voice,
"Have fun."
This went a lot better than I expected and 3k words too! This is also a lot weirder considering this only took about 2 hours to write this and it is midnight here is California. So the day you see this is technically the day it was written, (Finished at midnight so technically written on Friday) so Have Fun, Be safe, and remember to play for honor or look it up to get my character!