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Thaleia woke up on the airbus, her pink frizzy hair falling over her eyes. She sits up and dusts off her pink flannel. She looks at the window on her right, seeing the massive building that will serve as her home for the next couple years. She looks down at the smaller passenger on her left, dark purple hoodie covering their eyes. "Get up Indi, we're here," she shakes him a little bit to wake him up.
He sits up and pushes back his hood revealing sandy blonde hair and fiery red eyes. "Oh look at that, the ship didn't crash," he replies nonchalantly, rubbing the remaining sleep out of his eyes.
"You know I'm scared of flying asshat," she starts to get up as he puts his hand to his heart, eyes filled with mock pain.
"Hey, words hurt," She punches him on the shoulder.
"Hope that hurts more. Now get up Indigo, I gotta take a piss," Indigo gets out of the seat and bows as she gets up past him.
"Forever the lady Thaleia."
The pink and purple duo filed out of the airbus and took a step on the courtyard of Beacon, ogling the pillars and arches lining the grass and ponds. Students fill up the pathway, surrounding a girl in red. As they got closer they saw a crater in the concrete, and the girl who looked like she lost a fight with a briefcase of dust. Thaleia went to help her up, but Indigo grabbed her shoulder to stop her advance.
"I don't think you want to get in between that," Indigo whispered as he pointed at the other blackened girl, screaming into her ear. Indigo pulled out his scroll to take a picture.
"Hey, you!" A voice pierced the crowd. Everyone looked around the courtyard, wondering what was going on. They're eyes all fell on the girl in the now grey dress.
"You in the purple!" She pointed at Indigo. He looked around, wondering where the other kid in purple was.
"Indi, put down your scroll," Thaleia gritted through her teeth. His eye's fell on the princess running toward him screaming.
"COME HERE YOU PURPLE SON OF A BITCH!"
"You'll never catch us alive!" Indigo pulled up his hood as he ran.
"I'm not affiliated with him in any way!" Thaleia groaned as she ran after Indigo. The duo made it through the door into the school, following arrows to something or other. They didn't care, they just had to run. The girl chasing Indigo fell down, already exhausted from the day.
"I should've stayed in Atlas."
"Veronica look at this, some poor purple son of a bitch just got caught taking a photo of the explosion!"
"Turn around Grey." Thaliea and Indigo were panting behind them.
"Hey buddy, my friend here's already pissed someone off, can you uh-"
"Take us under your wing?" Indigo smiled as a girl in the crowd started dying of laughter. Grey was about to oblige, just because they didn't act like his wings were a big deal when the doors to the auditorium opened up. A man in black and green gestured inside, tapping his cane on his leg. The crowd of people started to shuffle in, and the four people came in and sat down next to each other. This is the moment they were waiting for. They had gotten into Beacon, and they were finally feeling it. The headmaster stood in front of them, the room dark, the only light on the powerful figure in front of them. This was the moment where they'd feel they deserved this. From this moment on, they'd be on the road to hunter and huntress.
"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." Silence. Ozpin walked off the stage, as if he had said nothing wrong. This wasn't an acceptance speech. The whole crowd realized what they were doing. Signing there life on to be fighters, not superheroes. Soldiers. Ms. Goodwitch walked on to the stage, and talked about sleeping arrangements, obviously pissed at the show that had just been put on.
Grey stood up out of his seat. "This is going to be a long year."
There were two sides of the barn, boys and girls. It didn't make any sense, considering they could see each other just fine, but the whole day hadn't made much sense anyway. On the boy's side, Grey and Indigo were rolling out bed mats next to each other, considering they were the only boys each other had met. Grey put his mat down, perpendicular to Indigo's, he didn't want his wings to interfere with anyone's sleep. The boys lay down next to each other, an awkward silence set it. They still weren't sure whether Ozpin's speech was supposed to scare them, give them hope, it was just kind of bizarre.
"I uh, I never caught you're name, I'm Grey," He craned his neck over at Indigo, he still had his hoodie on, the only difference were that his baggy jeans had been replaced by violet pajama pants.
"I'm Indigo, you can call me Indi though. Thanks for trying to help me earlier, you and Oz saved my life," Indigo looked back at Grey, his usual shadowy t-shirt with light blue pajama pants. "Hey question, I know this might be a uh, touchy subject, but how do you wear clothes with your uh-" Indigo gestured towards the feathery mass on the floor.
Grey gritted his teeth. He knew he meant well, but he hated the wing questions. He would talk about his own damn wings on his own damn time. "If you really wanna know, I have my clothes hand made in a shop in Atlas. Little discrete zippers. But, I want you to know, don't ask questions about my wings unless I say so."
"Woah woah, touchy there. I get it, you're insecure about you're wings. SO. What does my fine feathered faunus friend think about Ozzie's speech?" Indigo was trying to hold back a laugh. He had so much material now that Grey had opened up a bit.
"You're an asshole you know what?"
"It's one of my many charms."
The girl's side of the barn was a little more hectic, there seemed to be four girls screaming at each other while at the same time having a nice conversation about books. Veronica sat down next to Thaleia. "Hi I'm Veronica Anwar, nice to meet you."
Thaleia jumped back, not expecting to be interrupted as she buttoned up her pink checkerboard pajamas. "Hi I'm uh, Thaleia, Thaleia Magdalene. I think we met earlier. We tried to hide under your friends wings if I can recall. Sorry about that."
Veronica laughed and scratched her head. "Yeah he seems to be a little touchy about those things. So why do you want to go to Beacon?"
"Indigo. I'm probably a couple months older than him, but he's always been kind of a brother to me. He's always wanted to be a hunter, and when he got in touch with his aura before me, found his semblance, I felt obligated to find mine. I'd always protected him, and I wasn't going to let that change. He's all I really have, and I need to be able to help him above all else. If I end up protecting others, then it sweetens the pot. I'm just here to make sure if push comes to shove, I can be strong enough to help him. Hey Veronica? Veronica!" The shorter girl was staring at her, sizing her up. It was getting kind of weird.
"Sorry, I space out a lot. That's really cool though, you really care for him. You said semblance, what do you and Indigo have to fight with?"
Thaleia sat still for a full minute. Veronica felt a tap on her shoulder and looked behind her. "Hey there frien-"
"JESUSLORDALMIGHTY."
"I can leave a clone behind, I can move it around a bit, but it doesn't do much. It's really just a mirage." A girl in black walked over to Veronica and stood in front of her.
"Hi I'm Blake. Could you look behind for a second?" Veronica looked behind and saw another-
"FUCKSTOPPLEASENOMORE." Veronica hid beneath a cover. She wasn't taking any more of this cloning bullshit. Thaleia smiled at Blake.
"Can yours move, too?" Veronica moved the clone and high fived yourself.
"No, but I can make it into stone and ice, stuff like that. I hope to meet you again some time," Blake ran away and put a book to her nose before Thaleia could say anything back.
She pulled Veronica out of the sheets. "It's alright, it was a joke. You get scared really easily. If you want to know, Indigo's semblance is that he can turn to stone, and things he's immediately holding. It puts a lot of strain on him to do it for long periods of time, but it's pretty useful. And you're asleep," Thaleia sighed as she fixed Veronica's bed mat, and succumbed to sleep next to her new, slightly bizzare friend.
The room went dark. Most of the students were asleep, but one just couldn't seem to get to sleep. Grey de Ville was not going to fit in, and he knew it. The one person he made a friend with seemed to stare at everyone like they're was something on their face, and his other acquaintance was a wise crack that kept asking about his wings. He wasn't going to fit in, and he had felt that way his whole life. His mom had wings, his brother had wings. They were the unluckiest Faunus known to man, and that's saying something. Grey wasn't going to fit in, and he couldn't do shit about it.
"Hey Grey, you up?"
"Yeah, what's up Indigo?"
"You ever scared you're not going to like, fit in?"
"Funny you should ask about that. I've been wondering the same thing."
"Oh come on, you'll fit in just fine man! You have wings, that is the most badass thing. You're already the coolest guy in this school!"
"Wings aren't badass, they're a burden. I get wide girths and weird looks everywhere I walk!"
"That's bullshit man! You only feel like that because you let yourself. I barely know you, and I can tell that you can't stand you're wings. You know my defining feature? I wear a hoodie! If you actually realized how cool you're burden are, you might actually fit in, make more friends than a purple asshole and a girl who can't stop staring at people!"
"How'd you know about the staring?"
"Thaleia texted me. Look, what I'm trying to say, is I'm like any other basic kid at this school, I want to be important, not just another deadbeat hunter who takes jobs for corrupt assholes and worried grandmas. You're different. No matter what, you'll be important, good or bad. Cheer up man, otherwise you will definitely end up bad." Grey sighed. He looked up at the ceiling, stars peeking through skylights. Indigo was probably right. He'd always be insecure, people would always ask unwanted questions, but he had wings. He hit the jackpot as far as faunus go, he should chill out about it.
"Hey Indi, wanna go get the girls and sneak out for a bit?"
"Wait what?"
"You told me to cheer up, I'm cheering up. Let's take a risk, have some fun-"
"Reach for the sky?"
"You're still an asshole."
Thank you for reading, review and such. Sorry there was so much dialogue, it's kind of what I'm best at. Tell me if you want to see more of a certain pairing, and have a nice day!