Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY or the Alcatraz vs the Evil Librariansseries. The former is owned by Rooster teeth and the latter is owned by Brandon Sanderson.
Chapter 2
Now, most of you have probably figured out by now that this is unusual for me to be starting a conversation with two girls I haven't met yet. This would be because of two things. I would rather not be the only guy to not have anybody as a possible teammate through initiation, and because some of the knights swore to brain me with their handbags if I didn't make any friends.
I am still certain they put bricks in those things just for cases like these.
"Hey," I said, walking over to the two as we disembarked, "your coming to Beacon early?"
"Yeah..." the shorter of the two girls said hesitantly. I could see why; trying to avoid attention when getting moved ahead two years early to the most famous hunter training academy in the world would be daunting. Heck, I was in the same boat as her.
"So am I." I said smiling, holding out my hand. "Guess we're in the same boat. My names Alcatraz."
"I'm Ruby," said the shorter girl, shaking my hand, then gestured to the blonde "This is my older sister Yang."
"Nice to meet ya" said the blonde, punching me lightly in the shoulder and making me fall down.
I am not clumsy, her playful punches alone had the force of a truck. I'd hate to get punched by the gauntlets on her wrists, which my lenses had kindly drawn my attention to. I assumed they were her weapon.
"Is that your weapon?" I asked pointing to her gauntlets after getting up.
"Yup. This is Ember Celica." Yang said, grinning as she transformed them into their combat form, "Their twin shotgun gauntlets." I immediately stepped back. You would to if you were confronted with a weapon that could blow a hole in military armor. Though with me, I was more worried my mere proximity would make them break.
"Relax," Yang said laughing, "I'm not gonna use them on you...yet." This did not calm me.
Apparently, my mentioning Yang's weapons had sent Ruby into weapon fanatic mode. She tried to follow a kid with a fire sword to get a closer look at his weapon, but was immediately dragged back by Yang.
"Sorry about that," Yang said, "My sister is kind of a geek when it comes to weapons."
"It's fine. I have a cousin back home who's the same way about guns." Have you ever met Sing Sing Smedry? You would swear he would be the kind of person who loved giant swords and axes, but he preferred his large collection of guns. He could still hit like a tank in melee, though.
Yang turned to her sister, "Aren't you happy with your own weapon?"
"Of course I'm happy with Crescent Rose, I just like seeing new weapons. It's like meeting new people but better." I agree with this. Anti-social, remember?
"Maybe you should try to make some friends." Yang said.
"Why would I need to do that when I have you and Alcatraz?"
"Actually.. my friends are alreadyhere, gottagoseeyalaterbye" came the rapid response as a crowd of people surrounded Yang and ran off with her, sending Ruby and I spinning on our feet.
"Wait, where are you going, where are the dorms, do we have dorms? Ugh, I don't know what I'm doing." Ruby said, before falling over. "Anyone catch the number of that truck?" I said before falling.
Unfortunately, we had fallen onto the girl in whites luggage, which is why I said before that I would regret this in the next 10 minutes. I still think she should have joined the crystin. She has the attitude for it.
"What are you doing?!" girl in white yelled at us as we picked ourselves back up.
"Sorry" Ruby said as she handed the girl one of the cases.
"Give me that!" she yelled out. She opened one of the cases and snatched out a bottle filled with fire dust.
"This is dust, mined and purified from the Schnee quarry." She yelled at us prompting the eloquent response of "Uh.." from both of us.
"What are you two, brain dead? Dust, fire water lightning, energy. Is any of this sinking in?!"
She shook the bottle at us and some of the dust escaped. At which point the Courtyard exploded due to a sneeze from Ruby. When the smoke cleared the bottle had disappeared and the girl in front of us was covered in soot from the explosion. I started laughing at her shocked expression while Ruby tried to apologize again.
"You dunce, this is exactly what I was talking about!" the girl in white yelled as the soot lifted off her.
"Aren't you two a little young to be here anyway?" she said, cutting off my laughter. "This isn't a playground for children! we're training to fight monsters so… watch where you're going!"
"Hey, we said we were sorry, princess!" Ruby yelled. I looked at the girl in white and said "The fact we got in early should be proof of our skill."
"It's heiress actually." said a voice off to the side. The girl in black walked up, holding the bottle of fire dust that had caused the explosion. What was with these color coded clothes?
"Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, the largest producer of energy propellant on Remnant."
"Finally, some recognition." said Weiss, while I just said "...what?"
I was ignored as the girl in black continued. "The same company infamous for its cruel labor practices and questionable business partners."
Weiss just splutters a bit before snatching the bottle of dust and storming off.
"I promise I'll make this up to you!" yelled Ruby to Weiss, before saying "Guess I'm not the only one having a bad day… So what's..." The girl in black was already walking away. Ruby sighed before saying "Welcome to Beacon."
"Hey," yelled a kid as he jogged up to us, panting slightly. "Do either of you know the way to the hall? I'm kinda lost."
Ruby ignored his question, snickering slightly. "Aren't you the guy who threw up on the ship?"