It was about an hour after giving statements to the police that Ruby and Blake were on a dust ship back to Beacon Academy after their fiasco with Torchwick. However, along with them came a giant man who introduced himself as Aokiji. With very little talk in between then and now, Ruby attempted to pass the time and get information from him. "Um, Mr. Aokiji?" She asked, as the tall man seemed to he facinated with checking out everything he could on the dust ship. Kuzan turned around to face Ruby. "Oh, what's up?" He asked casually.
"You've never been on a dust ship before have you?" Ruby asked, giggling as she had just spent the past three minutes watching him opening and closing the cargo ramp to look down below once the pilot gave him the green light. "I've never even heard of these things" Aokiji admitted, while silently adding, "or anything else you've mentioned so far, for that matter"
"Oh, well it runs on Dust to keep afloat in the air. I think it's lightning dust to keep it running" Ruby explained. Aokiji rose a brow as he looked at Ruby with confusion. "You can make ships fly... With specks of dirt?" He asked incredulously.
While Ruby tried to contain her snickers of amusement at Kuzan's obviousness, Blake was slowly adding more and more notes to the compartment in her brain she was forming for this ten foot tall mystery. "He comes out of nowhere and begins displaying amazing ice manipulation abilities, possibly his semblance but to such a powerful magnitude?" She thought as she studied Aokiji, who was still waiting on an explanation. "He can move and attack at incredible speeds, and most impressively, turn his body into ice and seemingly avoid harm! He uses strange terms we've never heard of, and in turn, he hasn't heard of anything we mention either.. And strangest of all, the differences in the maps. It seemed far too official and intricate to be a forgery, and nothing on his map has ever been discovered anywhere in the four kingdoms." Blake finished her list off with another glance at him, before speaking up.
"Dust, is a mineral essence that's mined and sold in many forms all over the world. It can be used to harness the elements, like Fire, electricity, ice.." She lingered and looked at his ice prosthetics before continuing. "It's used to power many things used today, and commonly used as ammunition for weapons, or even medical supplies." She said.
"Wow, this stuff sounds too good to be true." Aokiji admitted, rubbing the back of his head. "One mineral can have so many forms and uses with no drawbacks" He asked suspiciously. Blake bristled slightly and looked away. "I never said there weren't drawbacks..." She said as she turned away. A scorn flashed quickly across her face, before even more quickly, a sadness, then back to her neutral expression. Kuzan almost missed it. "Many lives are lost due to mining accidents and prejeduce forces many to work in the mines if they want to make any sort of living at all." She explained, before reaching into a small pouch and pulling out a glass vial full of a red powder. "But, this is what comes of it. Our little 'miracle' Blake said as she gently coated the tips of her delicate finger and thumb in it before rubbing them together. Seemingly from her fingers, glowing, bright, warm embers trickled down before vanishing.
The battered admiral watched in amazement but stayed silent. "Such advanced tech.. Vegapunk would love to study this.. But as long as he's under the Marines, I'd hate to see what he'd do with it." Kuzan's thoughts lingered until Rubys chipper voice snapped him to attention.
"Mister Aokiji, were about to arrive at Beacon Academy!" She said, pointing out the window. As he followed her finger, Kuzan was shocked. Even in the dark of night, the beauty of a massive white building with a tower as tall as Marinefords, but much mite elegant. The pearl colored building was almost a castle, with the size of the courtyards and arches.
And then Kuzan saw it. The moon. Pale, beautiful, haunting. And shattered into pieces. He had his suspicions, but Kuzan knew without a doubt. This was not the world he knew. As the dust ship got closer, Kuzan could make out four shapes waiting for them.
Upon landing, Blake and Ruby were rushed by Two of the four figures. A beautiful young girl with curly locks of firey blonde hair who quickly wrapped herself around Ruby. "I'm glad you're okay sis! I heard from Ozpin what happened." She said as she squeezed Ruby. Aokiji noted this to be Ruby's older sister. Meanwhile, The young leader did everything in her power to try and push away from her well endowed sister. "Yang! Oof- Get off, I wanna breath!" She gasped as Yang released her.
While the girls seemed quite okay with reuniting right then, a soft "Ahem" from the man with silver hair gathered all of their attention. "While I'm sure this reunion is necessary, i believe we should introduce ourselves to our friend." The man said in a proper tone, before turning to Kuzan. "I am professor Ozpin, the headmaster of Bacon Academy, where you are now. You have already met Ms. Belladonna and Ms. Rose," he said, motioning respectively to Blake and Ruby.
"Allow me to introduce their teammates, Yang Xaio-Long," he pointed at Rubys sister.
"And Weiss Schnee" now pointing to the pale skinned girl with the silky white hair and white delicately laced clothing.
"Together, they form Team RWBY, a group of Huntresses in training, all led by Ruby Rose. They are actually one of the most promising teams of this year." Ozpin stated proudly. This made Ruby blush and giggle, rubbing the back of her head sheepishly. "D'aww, well... Hehe, yeah..." She mumbled happily, making Kuzan chuckle.
Finally, Ozpin turned to the final person joining them that night. "And this is my most esteemed assistant, Ms. Glynda Goodwitch." He said, pointing to a woman with wavy blonde hair styled and twisted professionally off to the side, and piercing green eyes behind a pair of librarians glasses. She pushed them up as she gave a slight bow. "It's a pleasure to meet you." She said courteously. Kuzan was floored suddenly as he attempted to speak. "Oh my..." He said in a hushed tone, gathering the attention od everyone. "Is everything alright?" Ozpin asked with concern.
"I've just seen a lovely lady with tantalizingly titanic tits." he said in a stunned tone, taking in the view of her generous cleavage through her pleated shirt. "You wouldn't happen to be single would you?" He asked eagerly.
Everyone was silent.
Suddenly the silence was broken by the outright howling of laughter from Yang, quickly followed by the deranged snickering from Ruby. Even blake giggled whike Weiss seemed to blush heavily, her pale face turning a bright rosy pink as she looked at the mammoth of a man. Ozpin seemed to be holding it together, but the slight quivering of his shoulders every so often would show he himself was trying to contain a bout of laughter.
Glynda gasped and quickly crossed her arms over her chest before turning around and stomping back inside, unable to contain her outrage as she blushed almost as heavily as Weiss.
"Ahem, yes well, while Glynda's status of singularity is inviting, I'm sure we have some rather important things to discuss, like perhaps the topic of your origins while we set you up lodgings for the night?" Ozpin asked as he turned to Weiss and Blake. "As soon as you'd like, you can gather your team mates and return to bed. I will take statements from Ms. Rose and Ms. Belladonna tomorrow." He left the WB portion of team RWBY to drag a cackling Yang and Ruby to their dorm.
"So what I'm hearing is she's single?" Aokiji questioned the retreating professor.
"This way, Mr. Aokiji." Ozpin said, leading the tall Admiral out of the night.
AN: Hey guys, just wanted to say thanks for all the support from everyone who followed/Favorited/Commented. It actually means so much and I got a lot of positive feed back. I'm apologizing early for the short chapter but today is my birthday and I'm excited both to celebrate as well as complete this chapter so I'll make it up next time. Also, I understand if the story seems to pick up slow, but I'm pacing myself so I can make sure I don't burn out and possibly abandon it.
