Hello again, fellas. Tom Reidem here and I want to thank you all for the good reception that I got for the first chapter it doesn't look like much but it well much better than I thought. I will like to have more reviews through (I really like when they post a review, I'm kinda addicted to them).
Now, answering what Lighting Dragon King Vergil left in the first chapter. Well like I describe Natsu is seven foot tall but is not skinny or slim, he is jacked like DB character so not expected to him to look a lot like his original counterpart. Because of this, he needs to wear big clothing like baggy pants and sleeveless vests but he always wears his iconic white scarf.
Well, leaving a part the reviews, Natsu just puke on Yang….yeah….his life sucks and so Yang's hair (Bad pun, I know). Now let's just go to the chapter
Chapter 2: The opening ceremony and…wut?
Beacon the prestigious Hunter Academy of Vale and one the most famous and important Hunter Academy in Remnant. Generations of Hunters and Huntress graduated from that academy and their predecessor have the hope of joint them in vast history of the academy. So does our main protagonist, Natsu, who was hoping to follow the footsteps of his mother and becoming the huntsman that he always dream for.
Since childhood, Natsu admired the Hunters. His mother was his role model for a perfect hunter: Strong, confident and skillful (Also scary but he never said that in high voice because his mother will kill him for that). If he go to beacon and become a Huntsman could he have all those attributes? Could he live on his own expectations and become the Huntsman he wanted to be?
Years and years of training will give that child the answer now that he is a teenager and a Beacon's student.
The day that his mother told him that he will assist to Beacon was one of the bests day of his short life. Now he is a step closer to become a huntsman, one that his mother could be proud of. Being leader of his team and make bonds with his new friends that were last forever until his end. It was his dream and life goal, and now, and now….he….fucked up badly….like REALLY badly.
He didn't land in the Academy he was in midair and he already fucked up his entire school life. When the Airship landed in the academy grounds he couldn't even look up proudly that he finally made it to Beacon. The place looked like it come out from some fairy tale, the academy was more like a castle than a school. You could say that Beacon had a magical touch in it and you could tell just by look it at from afar even from the air. Even so, the faunus boy couldn't enjoy the majestic beauty that Beacon was.
Why you may ask? You don't? Well, I will tell you anyways.
"C'mon, man. I-It's not that big deal…" Now the chapter is going by the hand of the first friend that our main character made from the first chapter: Jaune Arc. "It could happen to anyone. Man! It could happen to me for sure!"
The blonde human boy was doing his maximum effort to cheer up the enormous kid that was Natsu, who for the record, it was having the worst day of his life. That it was also his first day at Beacon!
"…"
He was quiet since he puked on the poor girl at the airship, Yang was her name. When he did that, the girl went silent for a couple of seconds. After those couple of seconds Natsu felt something that no one managed to do until today: Punch him in a way that she left him a purple eye. Yang was stronger than she looks like if she was able to hurt him this bad (although his eyes were the soft spot of his body) it was something to not screw around. But her strength didn't matter anymore, for him, nothing matters anymore.
In his mind the same question that he asked himself every day was beating more than ever: why did his life sucks?
"Why god? Just…why? Did I ever do something that bothers you for doing this to me? Why today? Why me? I want to die. Remnant, please open your ground and swallow me to the deepest parts of you. Make me disappear from this place. PLEASE." The young and unlucky boy prayed Remnant for mercy but it was futile, Remnant couldn't answer his call. He will still walking the lands of the living and keep suffering the daily punishment that is also knows as his "life".
"You will see in a matter of days that everybody will forget this and go into more important stuff. And what happen?! I don't remember anything! Mmmm, I wonder why? Nah, I'm sure it wasn't that important to be remembered! Right?! RIGHT?!" The poor Jaune Arc didn't know what to do in order to cheer him up, Natsu was covering his face for the terrible embarrassment he was feeling right now.
Since they came out of the airship the fuanus boy couldn't look up for his horrible accident. Jaune felt sorry and responsible for the lizard faunus. If he didn't help him before he could be the one who threw up on those girls or anyone in general. Even so, he could merely imagine how he must being feeling right now. What happen back there….he wouldn't wish that to no one not even bullies.
"I'm pretty sure that Yang and Yang's hair and clothes think that is enough important to not forget…." His tone was empty, dead and swallow he wasn't here with Jaune. He was in the depths of despair and solitude. His life was over before it started. "If you really want to help me you could pierce your sword through my heart and end this nightmare for me…" Sooner the end sooner will stop the suffering.
"Don't say those things they are not funny, man." He sighed. "Man, look I know that you're having a really bad time but it's just the first day. Tomorrow is the day that's count, I mean the test is more important that a first impression to people that probably you won't even talk for the rest of the year."
"Unless that I team up with the girl I puke on and have to live the next three years with the living remember of the worst first day in history."
"Yes, that's also a highly possibility." He admitted as a sign of surrender. Don't worry Jaune, you did your best for cheering him but he was more for you to handle. "Well, look at the bright side if you mange to become a leader you will win one hundred lien."
"Only if I become one and the only way to win those one hundred liens if is my friend doesn't become a leader…"
"If you putted out like that even I am depressed…" Now his shoulders felt heavy…
"You want me to pierce through your heart?"
"I'm not THAT depressed…" The deep depression of the faunus infected the blonde boy as well. "Well, look at the bright side you have me as your friend."
"And how is that the bright side?"
"I should hit you with my elbow but I know that it will literally hurt me more than you." He said but I very least the boy recovered his sense of humor. "Well, the only things that you can do is keep walking forward and find a chance to apologize to her…or pray that everyone had a severe case of amnesia right now."
"I don't know, Jaune. Is very rare to find a case of amnesia these days…"The lizard boy looked at his left with sad eyes. "Man, why did I do to deserve this?"
"C'mon, dude. Don't be like that. Let's change our bet whoever wins will be the other man's slave for a week. What you say?" He extended his right hand to the faunus.
"Why if I lose?"
"Stop being so negative, man! Think about it for a second if you manage to become a team leader I will your personal slave for an entire week, pretty neat, right?" Natsu curved an eyebrow. "You can use me as your girl magnet, right?" The blonde boy decided to close the deal with the sentence of the faunus.
"If you really are a chick magnet why don't you magnetize the girl that I puked on…"
*BOOOOOOOMMMMM!*
All of the sudden an explosion occurred at the middle of the courtyard taking the two depressed boys by surprised.
"What the fuck was that noise?!" Jaune screamed nervously while the boy at his side looked focus on something. "W-What's wrong, Natsu?"
"That smell…" He could felt that spiciness on the air, that smell was too familiar to him. "Let's go."
"H-Hold on!" Jaune followed the faunus boy in his running, Natsu looked concerned about that explosion. "And what was about the smell?" He recalling that he said something about a smell but what kind of smell? He couldn't smell anything from here is because that he is a faunus?
They run to the center of the garden floor and found a familiar face and an unknown face for them. The familiar face was from the gothic raven haired girl that they met by accident (more likely by collision), Ruby was her name if they were right.
But the other girl was the whitest girl that they ever seem in their short lives. She was a little taller than Ruby but the reason behind this was that she was wearing high heels. She was the same age as them, this girl was wearing a white dress with no stockings and no upper part reveling her chest (?) and a necklace. But her upper body was covered by a white bolero with red inside of it. Her hair was as the same color as her skin and outfit with a right side ponytail, but on her head the most remarkable aspect was the scar on her left eyes, it was small but you couldn't ignore it either ways.
Also this girl was cover in ashes for some reason and she was teasing Ruby as well. "Unbelievable! This is exactly the kind of thing that I was talking about!" The girl screamed at Ruby for some reason that they didn't know about yet.
When they got up to the scene Natsu blinked his eyes in surprised of how convenient was the situation for him…or was it?
"I'll definitely become a leader." Now he knew that Jaune girl magnetic power was the real thing he needed to make him his personal slave if he really wanted to get a girlfriend.
"And I will this power with full responsibility." The blonde boy agreed with the real nature of his majestic power. His mother was right all the time about him.
But turning back to the girls, Ruby was being scooted by the snow skinned girl. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Ruby was screaming for forgiveness, they didn't know what happen or what caused the explosion but the only thing that they could get was it was somehow Ruby's fault. "It wasn't my intention! I swear!"
"Do you even realize what you just did?! You're are lucky if we didn't destroy the garden or get us killed!" The unknown girl pointed her index finger at her like a high class girl (a.k.a tsundere). "And are you a little young to be attending Beacon?! This isn't your normal fighting school we're here to fight monsters! Do you even realize what does mean?!"
"Hey, I said I am sorry, princess." Now Ruby started to get mad at the snow girl, the same snow girl looked back at her with the same eyes of challenging.
Natsu was nervous; he didn't want to see two girls fighting for no reason apparently. Even so, he didn't know what exactly happen but that girl was being unfairly mean to Ruby after she apologized to her with honesty. His day was already bad so interfering into the fight wouldn't be worse than puke on a girl the first day of school.
"Even if that first day is today." He commented inside his mind with the resolve to stop the fighting. "Hey!" He grabbed Weiss by her shoulder and made her turned back.
"What do yo-KYYYAAH!" She screamed in fear when she saw a giant lizard behind her. The one confident and arrogant girl became a scary one like the rest of the world. "W-W-What do you think you're doing, you dolt?!" While she was screamed at the faunus boy the red hooded girl was watching closely to him.
"Isn't he the faunus from the airship?" Ruby thought when she saw the lizard boy standing in front of them. "Why he is not telling anything? He just is staring at her." Natsu in fact was still as a rock with no signs of life whatsoever.
Jaune noticed this as well. "I don't get it, he was just fine a minute ago why he is just…..wait a minute, Natsu don't tell me…" Now he found out the truth of Natsu sudden silent:
He didn't realize that he was approaching to a girl.
It will be a lie to say that he knew Natsu, they relationship started about a couple of hours back at the airship but for what he could get from him is that he was socially awkward. Juane was socially awkward but not at the same level as him, but he knew that talk to a girl could be hard sometimes but the poor Faunus boy was also discriminated constantly by other so someone would expect him to be a little introverted.
"Why are you staring at me?" The snow flake girl asked confused but she didn't have any respond, the faunus boy stare at her while he was scratching his neck.
"I-I-Is a girl!" His red scales were hiding his intense blush. "I didn't think well this, I just jump out into the mess trying to be a cool guy and make a good expression at her so she can say: 'Sis, Natsu is a really cool guy! You should forgive him and be friends!' and everything will be sunshine and rainbows! But now I can't say anything! I'm frozen!" The only thing that he could do by his nervousness was scratching his neck but for his horrible bad luck that just made him look even weirder and stared at him with odd eyes. "They are staring at me! Think Natsu! Why should you do?!" The girl in front of his eyes was starting to lose her patience. "Just say something!"
He stopped his neck scratching and once again returned to silent. The three of them were confused by this young man's action they didn't make sense (Except for Jaune who did figure out what was happening to him). But then the boy raised his right hand and said….
"Hi, I'm Natsu! What's your name?!"
"…."
"…."
"…."
"…."
"FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!" The scream of despair and anger was only listening inside his head. Why? Just…why?
Why his life sucks?
"*Sigh* I don't have time for this." The girl left out a sigh of tired and turned her back at Natsu, she grabbed a suitcase from the floor and leave the place along a couple of men who were carrying the rest of her luggage.
Natsu didn't move an inch even after the girl was no longer to be seen. The girl that was supposed to be thinking that he is cool approached to him. "Are…are you okay?" She looked truly concerned for the faunus boy.
"Natsu" Jaune joined as well but his were the ones full of pity he had a basic idea of how the lizard boy must felt when he faced the snow girl. "It's okay, dude." He patted him in the back. "You did your best, man. You did your best." The console of Jaune was the only thing that stopped him from lay on the ground and cry like a tiny baby.
"Is he okay?" She got closer to the boy making him to react immediately.
"I-I-I-I-I'm okay! D-Don't worry about it!" Both of his claws were shaking in fear. A girl was talking to him! How was this even possible?! Is this is a dream? No, it felt too real to be a dream and yet it was too beautiful to be true!
Maybe all this is just a dream…maybe he didn't….
"Pffft!"The girl left out a chuckle. "Sorry, but aren't you the guy who threw at my sister?" While she said that between chuckles the big lizard boy went finally down to his knees and cry like a baby. "What happen?!"
"He got depressed again!" Jaune went to consulate once again the big one.
"I'm sorry, it wasn't my intention!"
"Don't worry…" Natsu said in quiet and monotonous voice. "You shouldn't be worried for a death man…" His face, his eyes and his voice mimics the same one of a ghost.
"Natsu?!" Jaune screamed in fear when he saw the face of his friend. "C'mon, you're not death man! You're just having a rough day that's all!"
"Y-Yes! Even I have a rough day, just look!" Ruby pointed the smoking crater that she made a minute ago. "I don't even being in Beacon for 5 minutes and I already destroyed school's grounds, jejeje…." She laughed a little while she remembered what she did earlier.
Her big sister Yang left her behind while she was being chased by some "old friends" of hers. Then she crushed into the snow girl and mess up her things, for that, she started to scream at her about dust, she picked up a bottle full of dust from her suitcase and started to shake it. Perhaps she didn't know for all her teasing but some dust was coming out from the bottle until she couldn't keep her mouse for resisting anymore and…sneeze an explosion.
Thankfully neither of the girls got hurt for that explosion but at the first day at school Ruby Rose was able to make an enemy and no friends….
…..
….
"Eeehh….." The once cheerful and happy Ruby Rose was now joining the faunus boy in death.
"You too?!" Now both boy and girl were lying depressed. One was hard but two? He didn't stand a chance against this. "Oh man, why should I do?" Think arc! You are they last hope! If he didn't do anything now they will be the emos from the rest of the year. "You know, my mom once said…"
"So what happen to you, miss?" The faunus boy interrupted and ignored Jaune attempt to cheer him up.
"I explode."
"And I puke on your sister."
"Yeah you did, we spend one hour trying to get it all out of her hair."
"I deeply sorry for what I did, it wasn't on purpose."
"Of course not but I don't that Yang will be thinking the same…." The faunus boy left out a sigh of defeat but the red hooded girl smiled at him. "I'm Ruby by the way." She extended her hand surprising the faunus boy.
"I'm Natsu." He answered her call with his claw.
"That's' be like, what? The third time?"
"You're probably right." The two stand up of the floor and started to talk while they were walking somewhere.
And Jaune Arc didn't help at all. He was unnecessary for their cheering and recovery. "At the very least they are depressed anymore." He said in loud voice, he couldn't do anything but he was truly glad that they weren't depressed anymore and now they are going away….
"Hey, wait for me! Don't leave behind!"
"The point is that motion sickness is more delicate problem that people tends to believe." The faunus boy was trying to justified what happen back at the airship.
"Ditto." For his luck (Good one this time) his new friend agreed with him.
"Sorry but the image of threw out on my sister is really hard to get out of my mind." The boy once again went down. "C'mon, you said you're sorry! It's okay!"
"Talk for yourself, you didn't vomit on a girl the first day of school…"
"If you put it like that, your day kinda sucks."
"Aren't you the girl that exploded?" Jaune decided to join the conversation by remembered the girl about her accident.
"It was an accident! She didn't stop to shake her dust….!" When Ruby turned to face Jaune her eyes were deceived by a circular and tiny object that were the cause for all her problems. "Why do you have that?"
Jaune blinked when she pointed the bottle of dust in his hand. "Oh, this? I found it on the floor when we find you." Then he realizes something. "Natsu, can I ask you something?"
"Sure, what it is?"
"When we heard the explosion you said something about a smell, what kind of smell were you talking about?"
Ruby Rose couldn't understand what they talking about.
"Well, the answer is in your hand." Both human boy and girl gazed their eyes at the bottle that Jaune was holding. "When the explosion happen, I could smell the dust coming from it and that help me to find you."
"H-how did you that?"
"I'm really used to dust, the explosion that you made before had a slight but remarkable sight of dust. A High quality one I must say." He came close to Jaune to look closely the dust. "It's obviously is a fire type dust but at this level of quality…" He putted his hand on his chin, the boy was really intrigued of the quality of the dust that white girl had. "Forget it, here some advice: keep it. It's really hard to got one of those things these days."
"Shouldn't we return it? I mean, is not yours."
"For the way she talked to you after you apologize she doesn't deserve it besides if she is able to afford one of these things she probably has more from where it came from."
Even if he tells things like that, and he was probably right about it, one part of her tells her to do the opposite. But it wasn't her call, it was Jaune's.
"Soooo, any of you guys know how to get to the auditorium? We have being walking for a while and I don't know where we are."
"I know exactly where are we going, Jaune." The lizard smiled confidently at his friend. "Trust me I know this academy like the palm of my hand." He declared leaving them more confused.
"How can be so sure? Have you being here before?" The raven haired girl asked to him with curiosity.
"As a matter of fact yes." Now he got their entire attention. "My mom works here, so they were days that she bring me to the academy and show me around. It was pretty cool back then, it's kinda one the reasons that I want to come at Beacon besides becoming a hunter of course."
"WHAT?!" The two of them screamed for surprise at the same time.
Did he say something weird? They were just casually talking about random stuff, it was that weird that his mom was a….?
"I fucked up again!" He needed to be as normal as possible this first day, no call too much attention something that he failed tremendously and now the only secret that he wanted to keep was reveled to them. "I didn't want anyone to know because they will be scare to be close to the teacher's son! And these guys know! What should I do?!" Natsu started to scratch his neck with both hands.
"You're the son of one of the teachers? I….didn't expect that." Jaune admitted.
"Yeah…oh! DO you think that you can get me an autograph?!" Ruby looked at him with sparkles inside of her eyes.
"P-Please don't say it out loud I'm trying to keep it as a secret…"
"Why?"
"Because I don't want to be known as the teacher's son."
"What about vomit boy?"
"Please, don't make me remember it." He hide his face behind his claw. "Let's go to the auditorium, the last thing that I want is to be late at the welcome speech."
"Yeah, Yang is probably waiting for me in…." Ruby didn't end her sentence when she saw the faunus boy making a weird face. "Eh, maybe if you speak it out with her like you did with me they will be a slight little chance that she forgives you."
"I truly hope that's the case, Rose."
"I'm Ruby, call me Rose make fell old." She smiled at the boy making blush (But she didn't notice for all those scales.)
Jaune didn't add anything to the conversation, he just stare at both of them and see how they were casually talking without taking care about their different races.
"Not like I see it like problem." He added mentally.
After a couple of minutes of walking, Natsu kept his word at saying that he will bring them to the school auditorium. was surprised by how many students were filled the room, they were docent and docent of students waiting for the principal's speech.
"Wow." Was the only word that came out of his mouth after seeing this.
"You should see it completely full, that will leave you speechless." Natsu answered the boy surprise. "Again, with the new year starting you will see it sooner or later."
"RUBY! OVER HERE!" An energetic voice called her out loud. "I save you a…." The girl calling was Ruby older sister, Yang, also known by Natsu as the girl he puked all his breakfast on.
And now she was glare at him, imaging thousands of ways of how to torture and murder him in the most gory and painful ways possible. He wonder: It is fear?
"EEhh, we should go before your big sister murder me. Take care!" Natsu run away alongside Jaune, not giving the chance to say by to Ruby.
"Yeah, take care…." Ruby sighed, and then she decided to join her older sister at the spot she saved.
"How are you little sis?!" Yang hugged her little sister with the enough strength to break her apart.
"Y-yang I can't breathe…"
"Oh, sorry! I didn't control my force again!" Her sister gave her all time apology smile. "By the way, who was that blonde boy that you came with?"
"You mean Jaune?"
"Ooh, so he is called Jaune, huh?" Yang grinned but Ruby already knew what she was implying.
"It's not like that, sis!" Even so she couldn't help to blush. "Wait, no! I'm mad at you!" She crossed her arms angrily.
"Huh? Why?"
"Because you leave behind to chase some boys! I will be lost if Natsu didn't help me to get here!"
"Who's Natsu?"
"Is the other boy with I came in."
"Other boy, what other boy?"
"You know the other boy, the faunus…"
"What other boy, Ruby?" Even so she was smiling like always something dark was emerging from the deepest part of her being.
"….No one, I came here by luck."
"See? It's not good to made up things, little sister."
"Yeah…."
"I don't think she can see us anymore."
"I'm a 7 foot lizard man, there's no way that no one can see me." Natsu could felt the different stare and glares from all the students. "See?"
"I get it but I don't think that she is gonna kill you…for now." Jaune sighed. "Well, you should thank Ruby later for keeping her calm."
"Yeah, I owe her now." He stare at Jaune that for some reason he was the one who was down. "Dude, are you okay?"
"Yeah, I was just thinking now that Ruby is gone, where can I fund another quirky girl to talk to?"
"That's my daily dilemma, Jaune." Then he came out with an idea. "Hey, why don't you use your chick magnetic powers to get another girl?"
"Dude, you actually believe I'm capable of doing that?"
"Until know you prove right, I mean, you manage to attract the little sister of the girl I…do 'that' and someone else, that's two girls in a row!"
"If what you said is true then the next girl I magnetize will be a red headed warrior." Jaune said with sarcasm.
"Is that the kind of girl that you after to?"
"Not exactly, the color of her hair doesn't matter to me at all."
"Good for the girls."
Jaune at the moment didn't know, actually he didn't even think that his conversation with his new friends was being heard by a red headed warrior.
"Speaking of girls, look over there." Natsu pointed were Ruby and Yang were standing and at Ruby's left was standing the snow skinned girl. "Oh man, here we go again."
"I mean I literally blown up, I bumped into a cart owned by a crampy girl. She started to yell at me, then I explode and made a hole in the count, then she yelled even more at me and I just want stop."
"You!"
"Oh god, it's happening again!" Like a scary kitty, Ruby jumped into Yang's arms.
"You're just lucky that you didn't blow up the entire cliff."
"Oh god, you really exploded."
"Shouldn't we interfere?" Jaune whispered to his friends.
"Perhaps but I worried that she will kill the exact moment she see me sooo…"
"She is pretty much at her own."
"Yep."
"I said I am…" Ruby was cut off by the girl when she showed her a pamphlet that said 'Dust for dummies'. "What's this?"
"The Schnee Company does not make responsible for any injuries or damage sustained by operating a Schnee Dust Company product. Although not mandatory, the Schnee Family highly encourages their costumers to read and familiarize themselves with this easy-to-follow guide to Dust application and practice in the field."
Ruby as well as Jaune and Yang were overwhelming by the amount of words that the snowy girl said to her.
"Uuhhh…"
"No way…." Natsu wined his eyes in surprise. "Jaune, she is Weiss Schnee!"
"Who?"
"Weiss Schnee!" Juane keep quiet. "The heiress of the Schnee Dust Company." Still nothing. "She is stupidly rich and her family has a lot of power."
"Aahh, okay then." Natsu couldn't help to face palm himself for Jaune ignorance about the world.
"Emm, I think you girls started with the wrong foot. Why don't you try all over again from zero?"
"Good idea, sis!" Ruby extended her hand. "Hello….."
"Weiss."
"Weiss! I'm Ruby! You wanna hang out one of these days? Go shopping for supplies?"
"Yes, and we can do our nails, and try on clothes, and talk about boys like tall, scrawny and blonde over there." Weiss pointed at Jaune Arc that was amused by the white haired girl sudden declaration.
"Really?!" Ruby looked at Weiss with highly expectation to be bff with her.
Only that Weiss's eyes were saying the contrary. "NO" And Ruby got down once again.
Natsu and Jaune looked at Ruby with pity eyes, were more pity coming from Natsu than from Jaune that was still enlighten by the snow angel (suppose) interest in him.
"*Ahem*" But all the attention of the room was directed by the gray haired man standing on the platform. He looked old but not enough to be considerate an 'old man' in the usual way but he was merely young. He was wearing a black suit with a green scarf around his neck, but something curious and funny about him was that he never left the cup of coffee off his hand.
AT his side was a gorgeous blonde woman, she was wearing glasses as well but the let see her intense green eyes. Her hair was tied in a bun but her frontal hair was slipping out a curly hair. Her attire consisted on a white long-sleeved shirt that didn't have the same to show a part of her chest and a business type of skirt, completely tight at her body one must said. She looked like a strict woman and her whip didn't help at change that image of her.
"Hey, Jaune you want to hear something funny?"
"What?"
"Heard this: 'I'll keep this brief/I'll keep this brief'" Natsu and the principal said at the same time. "'You've all come here for knowledge, to hone your craft and acquire new skills, and once you finished, you plan to dedicate yourself to the protection of the people'/You've all come here for knowledge, to hone your craft and acquire new skills, and once you finished, you plan to dedicate yourself to the protection of the people."
"'But I look out, all I see is wasted energy, in need for purpose'/ But I look out, all I see is wasted energy, in need for purpose."Jaune was confused but not at the principal's word but at Natsu's words mimic the principal word by word.
"'You assume knowledge will free you from this, but your time at this academy will prove that knowledge alone can only carry you so far'/ You assume knowledge will free you from this, but your time at this academy will prove that knowledge alone can only carry you so far."
"It is up to you to make the first step/ It is up to you to make the first step." Word by word, the Faunus boy was able to predict every single word of his speech.
"How did you do that?!"
"He says the same speech every single year."
After saying his speech, the woman at his side came close to the microphone. "You will be gathered tonight in the ballroom, you can save your belongings inside our lockers. Tomorrow your initiation begins. Be ready, you're dismissed."
By that, both teacher and principal turned their back and left the platform.
"Well….that was very inspiring." Yang commented about
"He sounded off like he wasn't even there."
"Wish me luck." Coming back at Natsu and Jaune, the last one was confident of getting Weiss Schnee as his girlfriend.
"Good luck." Natsu said in a death tone, off like the principal. "I will totally become a leader and use your power to get myself a cute girlfriend!"
Ballroom that night:
As everybody, Natsu was already ready to sleep at the ballroom with all the first years. He (Once again) was the center of attention. He always sleep with less clothes on, the only that he was wearing were his baggy pants and his scarf.
AT VERY LEAST his sleep clothing were normal among the boys, his new friend was wearing something that was completely ridiculous. Jaune Arc was wearing full body blue pajamas and it didn't end there, it had bunny slippers on it! He didn't know if he was stupid or had a lot of balls.
"Something wrong?"
"No, I'm just thinking in something else that's all." If he said something about his outfit heir entire friendship could be at risk. "I didn't ask but what happen with you and Weiss Schnee?"
"I'm still working on it, is not good to rush things, you know?"
"If you say so, you're the chick magnet here."
"C'mon, man! Think if you manage to win the bet you will be using this sweet power of mine to get some sweet girls."
"Yeah, more time I'm thinking more I want it."
"Yes but let me tell you that I don't going to get down that easily."
"I hope that you will not."
Leaving apart that incident in the airship and his horrible first impression with the Schnee heiress, the days wasn't that bad. Years ago, he couldn't even think about having a normal conversation with a boy and met a girl. To be able to make a friend this early and met a girl. He even joke with him and pass a great time together. And met a girl!
"She was pretty cute." He talked to a cute girl! In just one day he improve his social interaction against the opposite sex ten levels up! "I must become my team's leader! Nothing will forbid me to get my so desire girlfriend!" By every second passing his resolve to become a leader and use Jaune's power to get a girlfriend were growing stronger.
This was in the boy's side, in the girl's side however things were different for Ruby Rose. On her perspective, the day was a complete failure. She blew up and now Weiss probably hate her with all her hearth.
No, don't of that Ruby. Just focus on your letter….
"It's just like a big slumber party!" Yang let down at Ruby side, both girls were on her sleeping clothing but the elder sister was wearing more reveling clothing that her little sister.
"I'm sure that dad wouldn't approve more of the boys." Their father, Taiyang Yao Long was very overprotecting on her daughters. It was practically a miracle that he let her go to Beacon (Well, her uncle helped too…must well he did most of the job.), if he knew that all the boys were walking by with their torsos exposed he will certainly kill every single boy at the academy.
"I sure I do, grrrrr!" Her old sister was very interested on the boys at difference of Ruby. She was a really 'active' girl after all (Not in that kind of sense of course.) but her eyes were damaged when a blond boy appeared in his….pajamas. But her eyes changed when she saw who Jaune was talking with: The vomit dragon.
She didn't say a word but the faunus boy got the massage quite clear: "You got close and I rip your head off."
"So, watcha doing?" Her eyes returned back to normal when she faced her sister.
"I'm writing a card for the gang back at Mistral."
"OOOOhhhh, that's soo cute!" Then a pillow projectile stoked her on her face.
"Shut up! I didn't get to take my friends to Beacon. It's weird being here and no know no one."
"What about that Jaune guy who help you to get here? He counts like a friend."
"I'm pretty sure that Weiss count as a negative friend."
"There's not such a thing as a negative friend. You made one friend and one enemy."Ruby was about to threw another pillow at her sister when she realized something.
"Wait…it will be two counting Natsu?"
"Who?"
"You know, Natsu. The boy…."
"Who are you talking about, Ruby?" Her usual smile was still on her face but her voice and eyes teller her something else.
"I forget that she still mad at him!" She liked the boy so far, he was a really cool guy regardless of his appearance. She wished that he and Yang made up finally.
"Dude, hold down! Think it about it for a second!"
"Jaune, if I don't do this right now it will bother me all the night." Coming to them, Natsu decided to talk finally to the blonde girl that he puked on at the airship.
Yang looked up the boy who was standing right in front of her. Natsu didn't look scare at all, not even at Yang dreadful glare. Is just like he said if he didn't do it right now he will never do it.
"What do you want?" She asked the fuanus boy with cold eyes.
"Oh no, please no…." Ruby was worried for Natsu of course but she was more worried that she started a fight and alarmed the teacher, and then they will call their dad and took them back to Signal. "No, I don't want that!" She mentally cried for help.
"Are you listening?" Natsu didn't say a word he was just standing in silence. "I ask you: what do want?" The blonde girl started to high up her voice tone, notice a slight touch of angry.
Still not answer from the faunus lizard boy.
At that moment a memory kicked inside of Jaune and Ruby's Minds, a memory about a young lizard boy and a snow skinned heirless and how the former one wasn't able to formulate a single word.
That moment was happening again, this time was with the blonde bimbo.
"Are you going…."
"I'M DEEPLY SORRY!" The lizard kid shouted with all his strength while he bowed down his head.
"What?" Yang dumbfounded in disbelief, she wasn't expecting something like this from him.
"I really, really sorry for what happen today! It's been eating me alive since it happen! If you still want to punch me be free to do it."
Now Yang was the one who was in silence. She wanted to punch this boy, really bad. She expended an hour trying to clean up her hair and used all the bottles of shampoo and hair conditioner to rip off that bad smell. It was the first time that someone actually managed to hurt her hair this badly, and boy she loved her hair like a second little sister. That punch in the eye was not even close to paid what he just did to her hair.
And here she was receiving from the same boy that she hate an apologize. He said that she could punch him if she wanted and deep inside of her being wanted to rip him into tiny pieces but he had the guts and the modesty to apologize for what he did in front of everybody.
Now that she was thinking about it, all the first years in the ballroom were looking at them right now.
"O-Okay, I get just get up. Everybody is looking at us right know, you know?"
"Don't worry I'm good at making people don't look at me again." Natsu stood up while he gently smiled at Yang. He turned his attention to the people who were looking at them and…. "Do you want some?! Then stop looking at me!" The boy made justice to his appearance making himself look and talk like a monster.
Just by doing that, everybody turned back their heads and mind their own business. "See? Easy as cake." The faunus boy started to laughed at his action, Jaune and Ruby dropped a sweat at their heads.
"Jajajajaja!" Suddenly Yang started to laugh. "You…you scare the shit out of them, man." She couldn't believe that the same boy that looked so freighted was the same who made everybody stained their blankets. "Man, alright let's start all over again. I'm Yang." Yang stood up to meet the Faunus boy.
"Ah….Hi, I'm Natsu!"
"I already know that." The boy blushed at that. "And I suppose that your friend here is Jaune."
"Yes, Jaune Arc at your service." Jaune smiled confidently at Yang, the girl was incredible beautiful. And her outfit revealed a lot of her… "So, I heard that you both are sisters?"
"Heck yeah! She is my cute little sister!" Yang grabbed Ruby into one of her Yang hugs.
"I can't breathe…."
"Sorry!" She freed her from her hug. "I forgot sometime about my strength."
"Yeah, I know that feeling." Natsu agreed with the bimbo.
"And I know how it feels your strength." Jaune remember their fail high five attempt at the airship. "Mmmm, I don't want to sound rude or everything but Ruby isn't a…..."
"Little too young to be at Beacon? Yes." She cut off the Arc boy.
"Actually, I'm been wondering the same when I saw the first time." Natsu and Jaune decided to sit down and talk at the same level as the girls. "You're like, what? 16?"
"15, I just skip it a couple of years that's all…" For some reason, talking about Ruby age wasn't a good topic for conversation.
"C'mon, Ruby! It's nothing to be ashamed to be a little special!"
"I don't want to be special! I want to be normal as anyone else."
"Well, if it makes you feel any better you're not the only one who is 'special'"
"What you mean?"
"Didn't you guys heard about in the news?" For the silence coming out of them he could them that they didn't know about her. "Did you guys live in a rock? It was a worldwide new, I surprised that you didn't hear nothing."
"Yeah, we had been busy in the last days." Ruby ashamedly admitted.
"I don't see anything on TV since a week." Jaune said like it was the most normal thing in the world.
"Well, the point is this. A couple of days ago the Principal Ozpin made a private audition along the others teacher of Beacon. The audition was something similar to your case, Ruby. A girl wanted to attend Beacon but she never go to a combat school because of her age…."
"Wait!" Yang stopped Natsu at the middle of his telling. "You said that a girl, who never went to a combat School, is now at Beacon? Why?"
"Well, if you let me finish you will know. And like I was saying, the principal made this audition to this girl, making her do multiples test and challenges that she succeed with no problems at all. In fact, she made new records!"
"S-Seriously?" Jaune was dumbfounded for what he just heard, whoever that girl was she must be an unstoppable monster.
"That's so cool!" Ruby was rather exited than surprised. "What kind of weapon did she use?! Can I have an autograph from her?!"
"C-Calm down, I'm just saying what I hear. I don't really into details of her."
"Still, to skip three years of combat school and go straight into Beacon, she reminds me Ruby a lot but you say that she couldn't go to combat school because of her age. How old is she? Fourteen? Thirteen?"
"Eleven."
"….."
"….."
"….."
For a moment everybody went into a deep and emotionless silent, this silent anticipated a unilateral question that came out of the mouth of the huntresses and huntsman in training.
"What? /What? /What?"
End of the second chapter, over 7000 words! I work my ass to get this chapter done, guys. You're might be thinking: "And Blake? Where is Blake?" Let's just said that I have something planned for her, and here a question for you guys: Who do you think that the special and young student is? Leave a review about your honest opinion and you'll get the answer next time.