Author's Note

As a reminder, I don't own RWBY or its characters. I only own the OCs. Hope you guys are enjoying so far. I didn't know that I would get followers that fast. I'm going to post two chapter every week, so stay tuned. Enjoy Chapter 2.

Chapter 2

First Impressions

Bailey and Rachael walked off of the ship, admiring the view of Beacon.

"Holy crap! This place is huge!" exclaimed Rachael.

Bailey just smiled and kept walking. The two followed their group of students. Bailey looked around and saw a boy throwing up as he got off the ship. He grimaced and looked away before he threw up. That would not make a good first impression if a staff member saw.

"C'mon, Bailey!" Rachael called back. Bailey caught up to her as they enter the Grand Hall. As he reached Rachael, he bumped into a young man and knocked his weapons out of his hands.

"Hey! Watch where you're going! I just sharpened these." Said the boy, picking up his weapon.

"Sorry, dude." Said Bailey, rubbing the back of his head. The boy looked at him with a confused look. "You seem like an okay guy." The boy puts out his hand. "Name's Richard"

Bailey said his name and shook Richard's hand. He looked at Richard's weapon. "What is that?"

"They're is called Freezerburn." Richard pulls out two swords. One is on fire and the other is frosted over.

"Whoa! What are those?" Rachael said as came over.

Richard puts his swords away. "I'll explain better when we have time. Right now we've gotta get to the-

Richard was interrupted by an explosion. The trio turns around to see two girls arguing. Well, the one in white was yelling. The girl in red just kept apologizing.

"I don't even want to know what happened there." said Bailey. Then, he saw another girl walk up to the other two. Bailey could tell she was a Faunus, but he guessed she was hiding herself just like he was.

"Anyway, c'mon! We have to see what's going on in there!" said Rachael, half-pulling Bailey towards the entrance to the Great Hall.

"Hey! Let go!" Bailey turns to Richard. "A little help?"

Richard chuckles. "Sorry. Got to go find my brother. I'll see you guys later." Richard walked off in search of his brother.

"C'mon, Bailey!" whined Rachael.

Bailey sighed. "Alright. Just stop pulling"

They entered the Great Hall. It was packed to the brim with people. Bailey guessed it was because people from all over travel to Vale just to get into Beacon.

Must be one hell of a school

"Isn't that the girl from before?" asked Rachael, pointing toward a girl.

Bailey turned to see the girl. She was dressed in red, but not the same type of outfit that the other girl had on.

"Nah. That's someone else."

"Oh. Okay. I'm gonna go find the girl from before."

"Alright" said Bailey, only half-listening. He was more attentive to girl he saw before. Her bow kept twitching. He wondered if she had the same ears he did. A loud boom came from the speaker as the headmaster tried to get everyone's attention. Bailey took his focus off of the girl's bow and decided to listen to what the headmaster had to say.

"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," For some reason, Bailey took offence to that remark. What did he mean by that? "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."

The headmaster stepped down from the microphone and another staff member started to say something, but Bailey was busy listening to himself think. What did he mean by "wasted energy?" He decided to drop it until someone brought it up again, but he still wondered. Bailey shrugged and turned around, only to bump into someone else. The girl landed on the ground with a THUD.

"I'm so sorry. I didn't see you." Bailey immediately apologized.

"It's alright. I'm okay." said the girl. Bailey helped her up.

"Are you okay? You landed kinda hard"

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"Hey! Come back!" called Rachael. She ran over to the girl that Bailey was talking to.

"Oh jeez. Can you stop following me?" moaned the girl.

"Sorry. Just want to know if you caused the explosion earlier." asked Rachael, innocently enough.

"Rachael, just leave her alone. I'm pretty sure she didn't cause that." Bailey told her. He then turned towards the girl. "Sorry about that."

"Its fine." said the girl. She held out her hand. "I'm Ruby. Ruby Rose."

Bailey shook her hand. "Bailey Black." Bailey motions to Rachael. "This is Rachael-

"Rachael Rivers! Nice to meet ya!" Rachael nearly shouted as she shook Ruby's hand, pumping up and down very quickly.

"Don't dislocate her shoulder, Rachael." Bailey warned.

"Opps. Sorry." said Rachael, letting go of Ruby's hand.

"What's going on over here?" asked a voice behind Bailey.

"Oh. Hey, sis!" said Ruby.

Bailey turned around and saw almost nothing but blonde hair. It was a girl, but she had really long, really messy blonde hair. It seemed to be her trade mark color too.

"See? I told you you can make some friends here!" said the blonde, wrapping Ruby in a giant hug that Ruby didn't seem to enjoy. When she let go, the blonde asked, "Care to introduce me?"

"Sure," said Ruby, trying to regain the breath that was knocked out of her lungs. Bailey could help but to give a light laugh. "Yang, this this Bailey Black and Rachael Rivers. Guys, this is my sister, Yang Xiao Long."

"Nice to meet you, Yang." said Bailey, holding out his hand. Yang shook his hand, nearly breaking it. Yang didn't look like much, but she was strong. When she let go, she noticed that she may have gripped a little too hard with the face Bailey was making.

"Sorry if I hurt your hand." Yang said.

"No, it's fine." Said Bailey, who was screaming in his head.

"Well anyways, we better go grab our stuff." said Ruby. "See you guys later!"

"Bye!" waved Rachael.

As Yang and Ruby walked away, Rachael turned to Bailey, who was still cradling the hand Yang nearly crushed. "Those two were nice."

"Yeah. I would get on Yang's bad side though." said Bailey, finally getting feeling in his hand. "C'mon. Let's go get our stuff."