Chapter 2: Beacon Academy
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Boros found himself standing in a deserted and ruined cityscape. The nearby shops were on fire and the homes were nothing but piles of trashed wood and stone. On his back was Boros' new sword Raider and under his cloak, at his sides were his twin blasters Shade and Lambent, Jessica had named the two black and white box like pistols for him. The hood of his cloak was down at his shoulders showing his expression of confusion and distress at the situation he had found himself in, until turning around only to come face to face with one of the few people he would have never expected to see again at all, let alone here on the undeveloped world of remnant.
There standing not ten feet away was one of the few people Boros had ever considered a challenge in his days as the world conquering space pirate, the rival he had once known as a brother that had mysteriously disappeared when Boros was 10. Boros stared into the eyes of none other than Hatek the System destroyer. While Boros would conquer the planets he landed on Hatek would invade a planet and then proceed to eradicate all life from the entire galactic system before moving on.
The going theory after his sudden disappearance during a failed attempt to destroy a planet known to the galactic community as Wintec-23453 and home planet to a major galactic family empire known as the cold empire was that he was dead. So seeing him all the sudden was a surprise given that Boros had gone out and eradicated the entirety of the Cold, Cooler, and Freeiza empires and was told that Hatek was defeated. Yet despite it all here he stood in front of Boros, a bone helm with glowing red eyes that spewed darkness itself out the bottom accompanied by a white bone version of the black metal Raider on Boros' back on his own.
"Look at you, Oh how the mighty have fallen. I used to believe myself unworthy to be your rival after my defeat at Wintec-23453 but looking at you now… It's pathetic you know, watching you be that local girls lap dog, and for what? You have nothing to gain so what are you doing helping those ingrates? What happened to the Boros that I used to know?" Said Hatek in a low Gravelly voice using intergalactic standard rather than the local language of remnant, which had surprisingly been the same as one of the languages on earth, English it was called.
"Hatek where have you been all of these years? When I took down the Cold Empires they told me you had been defeated and perished. How is it that I see you in a Dream projection after all these years?" Asked Boros desperate to find answers from his old friend and ignoring the worry at the back of his mind that was telling him that things were different now.
"I managed to escape by enclosing my body into several crystals and launched them all in a random direction. After passing through a space time wormhole they crash landed on this planet recreating me in the process. Ever since these 'Grimm' as the locals call them have been my loyal servants in the eradication of the indigenous life, but they are a tenacious bunch and have managed to cling to life at every corner. Join me brother and we can destroy these pathetic worms once and for all."
At that the voice in the back of Boros' mind finally took hold. "No, you are no brother of mine. Not anymore. I have grown Hatek, I've learned that there's more to life than slaughtering those that are beneath you and more to find than just another battle. I will not join you and for that matter, we are now enemies. No longer will we playfully rival each other, the next time we meet will be a real fight, a death match if you will. Prepare yourself Hatek, I know I will." Declared Boros.
"Hmph, very well. Bu-"
"BOROS!"
"Huh!" was all the former space pirate could get out before falling out of his seat as an upset Jessica stood next to his old position. "What's going on?"
"I knew you were asleep. You were like, unconscious through the whole introductory speech. Everyone is already heading over to put their stuff into lockers, shower, and get ready for bed. What are you gonna do? You sure you wanna just reveal everything here?" asked Jessica as Boros picked himself up off the floor.
"Yes and no, while there is no point in hiding things from those who will be my comrades, I do not feel the need to just put myself on display for everyone. As the purpose of this school is to train warriors that will work in the field together one day I feel the need to be able to trust those that we will get to know." Said Boros.
"Ya know, you have a weird way of saying that you want to make more friends." Teased Jessica as she poked the larger male in the chest. "That is not what I said." "Whatever you say mister denial." Said Jessica as she blew off his rebuttal and started making her way to the ball room. On the way they bumped into two girls whose themes were yellow and red respectively.
"Ooh look Yang! He wears a cloak too! Mabey we could be cloak buddies." Red excitedly declared while jumping in random directions only to finally land in front of the boy that is in all actuality OVER two feet taller than her (Yet the same age due to Authors privilege). "Hi I'm Ruby! What's your name? Why do you wear a cloak? Is it because you got it as a gift? I got mine as a gift from my mom. Do-"
"Calm down sis you have to give him a chance to answer before you ask the next question, and besides don't you think that 'why do you wear a cloak' might be a bit insensitive?" said the girl named Yang.
"Oh don't worry about him. He only wears the cloak so he won't scare little kids right?" "Jessica*sigh*" "In fact he's actually a former world dominating space pirate that came to Remnant through a magic death portal after being defeated by a great hero who managed to get him to change his ways in their final battle." "I should have made something up rather than tell you where I really came from.*palms face*" "Hey you got to admit that their faces are priceless when I say that though. The hard part is going to be getting your team to understand that that's actually the truth."
Ignoring Ruby's mutterings of 'awesome' and 'way cool' Yang couldn't let this one slide. "Wait-wait-wait, you're trying to tell me that he's actually an alien that got to remnant through a magic portal?" asked Yang only to get accenting nods from the two. "How do you actually expect me to believe thaaaaaaaaAAHHHHH!" Yang started to scream mid-sentence as Boros pulled his hood off.
"You're.. You're so … so, COOL!" Ruby shouted with stars in her eyes. As Yang mumbled to herself about how it was impossible and that it's all some sort of prank. "Can you believe it? I get to meet a real live alien from another planet! This. Is. So. AWESOME!"
"You four, people are trying to slee- You!" shouted a girl with white hair and expensive pajamas. Boros put the hood to his cloak back up before the girl turned her attention to him. Ruby jumped into Jessica's arms with a desperate 'oh no' cry for help. "Of course you would be making this much noise but I don't know the rest of you. What are you doing going to bed or going to war?" the girl said addressing Boros causing many of the other students to notice that he was the only one still decked out in full weapons and armor, even Jessica had changed into something comfortable in her lime green and pale pink colors.
Boros turned to the girl and looked her up and down slowly taking in every detail causing her to stop mid rant with Yang to try and figure out what the boy was looking at. "Pale ivory skin, lots of maintenance, well-manicured nails, high grade polish, perfectly groomed hair, muscles built from training in specializations and not a lot of field work or you would have more than just that one scar to show for it. The scar on your eye should have disabled that eye but you still see yet so that means high level medical procedures and lots of money to get them done fast. While your night clothes are certainly expensive and elegant, I cannot make any assumptions from that as even well to do store owners will often find themselves their own guilty pleasures though they don't always extend them to their children so there is reasonable doubt. I've been around for only a few months and have yet to find any system of nobles or higher classes so that would leave you as part of a wealthy business or conglomerate, likely the heiress, no?"
The white themed girl was a fish out of water and Yang and Jessica were rolling on the floor trying not to laugh out loud. After a moment of disbelief the Ivory haired teen straightened herself to a proper posture, gave a polite bow, and proceeded to introduce herself. "It is a pleasure to meet you sir, my name is Weiss Schnee, second daughter to the president of the Schnee Dust Company and current Heiress."
"The pleasure is mine Miss Schnee, I am former Lord Boros, while I was 3rd in line for the throne I managed to claim the throne through rights of acquisition (aka royal fratricide and regicide) and proceeded to eliminate the entirety of the royal line and left my homeland for good after blowing everything to smithereens. While I did not embrace the life of a noble or in your case the upper echelon that does not mean that I do not have my time that I spent as one." Responded Boros. "I think it's time we went to bed. Ruby and Yang seem to be done with that girl with the bow, let's go Jessica. Until next time Miss Schnee." Said Boros leaving a very much dumfounded Schnee as he and Jessica went to find a place to sleep.
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It was early in the morning of initiation day and Boros was leaned up against the wall of the ball room with Raider sitting sideways on the ground across his back. The same place he had taken vigil last night, and for some reason the spot that he is stuck in a there is a strange girl standing over him ranting about sloths and pancakes. It's funny because Boros isn't sure if there are any sloths on remnant to begin with, at least none that he has discovered so far. But then again Boros hasn't been here for very long.
"Do you like pancakes too? I bet you don't like them as much as I do. Oh I also bet you know what a sloth sounds like, don't ya, don't ya!" that was when a boy in a green outfit that reminded Boros of the grendulic clans back on krinchick 7 came in and offered an attempt at relief. "Nora I'm pretty sure he doesn't know what a sloth sounds like, they haven't been seen on remnant in hundreds of years." So Boros was right about the lack of sloths, but they had been here at one point.
"Actually I do happen to know what the cry of a sloth sounds like. While a bit difficult to imitate properly, it is not an impossible task." Boros threw himself to the wolves unknowingly as the second he said that the girl had him by the collar and was swinging him like he weighed nothing at all despite the fact that he was a great deal taller than her.
"Is it true, is it really true!? Can you really imitate a sloth? Oh OOH do it do it now!" Shouted the small girl all the while shaking the space pirate back and forth. "Only if you will let me go!" pleaded Boros feeling the need to throw up soon. At which the orange headed girl dropped Boros on his face. After collecting himself a bit Boros stood up turned to the girl and said.
"Alright I'll do this for you but only once or twice so don't be too surprised by what it sounds like to not remember it. Got that?" at the girls nod Boros proceeded to make a high pitch crying sound that was extremely off putting, especially coming from the nearly eight foot tall boy. "Huh never would have expected something like that. You're not lying are you?" Boros nods a 'no' "Well the lets go Ren time for breakfast!" the girl shouted before grabbing the boys arm and taking off fast enough for the boys feet to disconnect from the ground as he trailed behind her.
Boros turned to Jessica who was next to him and still asleep before gripping her by the shoulders and picking her up. As Jessica stood there in a daze Boros pulled out his bag and grabbed Jessica's toiletry bag before depositing the things she needed and directing the half asleep girl in the direction of the girl's bath and showers. After putting everything away Boros grabbed Jessica's combat gear, which consisted of a protective wire mesh shirt and pants to go under a pair of skintight black jeans with neon green stipes up the sides that connect to the faded pink floral designs on her hoodie with a dark green shirt underneath. On the ankle of her boots was her logo which is a faded pink flower over a neon green circle with a neon green slash over the top going down diagonally. To finish the outfit were some small white shoulder and chest pieces that hung off of her hoodie.
As Boros finished gathering everything up Jessica managed to sluggishly hobble her way back out of the showers clad only in a towel leaving many of the boys that were still around quite flustered. When Jessica finished her drunken weave through the ball room over to Boros the 15 year old immediately pulled off the towel causing Jessica to spin around and land flat on her back before promptly going back to sleep causing shock and a little bit of anger to course through more than just the boys this time.
As Jessica slept Boros used a unique version of sleep projection (AN) to persuade her subconscious to help him in the endeavor of dressing the girl. After getting Jessica fully dressed and ready to go Boros packed everything up into his bag, threw it over his shoulder, and picked Jessica up before carrying her to the cafeteria to get some breakfast.
At the cafeteria Boros grabbed two plates of pancakes, eggs, and bacon, and a glass of orange juice and water, before carrying them over to grab the deal breaker, the one thing that would actually wake his slumbering companion up. A cup of coffee. After setting the food and drinks in front of their respective seats Boros held the steaming cup of coffee, with two creams and one sugar plus a little chocolate syrup (just enough not too much, not too little), and waved the sweet steaming contraption under her nose.
"Oh hey Boros." Jessica mumbled, taking hold of the cup of coffee brewed just for her as her eyes slowly started to flutter open. "What's goin on, you usually don do this unless we're doing something important."
"It's initiation today, for Beacon academy. You've spent all these months making sure I could get in now it would be a shame if you slept through initiation and couldn't attend with me."
On instant alert Jessica snapped to attention "That's right, Initiation. We probably get our teams today too! I wonder if we could manage to get into a team together then I wouldn't have to worry about a thing!"
"I would make you do your own work and train you ruthlessly if you were on my team."
"Oh you're no fun! Oh well let's just eat and see how things go." And that's just what they did. After eating Boros accompanied Jessica to her locker to grab her weapon, which is her refurbished family heirloom. The weapons were originally a short sword/dagger combo, however, over the course of time the dagger has been turned into a dagger/silenced pistol shifter and the short sword shifts into a broad sword when combined with the dagger/pistol. After collecting Fang and Talon the two odd companions set off for the cliff side only to arrive just in time to hear someone's world shatter and a 'what!' before getting the instructions they need as they take to their pads.
"Well this is it, good luck Boros."
"The same to you Miss Warrens."
"Goddamn it, what did I say about being form-*click, fling*"
"Well the-*click, fling*"
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Sleep projection is where a person pushes their Aura out and connects it with someone else's during sleep causing things like combined dreamscapes or the meeting between Boros and Hatek.
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