"Come on Jaune hurry up!" the young Reaper giggled, stopping so that the swordsman could catch up to her.
"Well excuse me for not having a speed semblance." He said when he finally caught up with her.
Ruby quietly giggled, "Oops."
Jaune just chuckled, "It's fine. Come on I think we still have some time before the speech starts."
"Ruby!"
Ruby gasped, "Oh, um, that's my sister, I guess I'll see you later?"
Jaune glanced at her, "huh, oh, yeah see you later."
As Ruby walked away Jaune couldn't help but feel like he was being watched and being part Grimm, that feeling was rarely wrong. When he looked back, he saw a girl with long red hair staring at him. Realizing that he spotted her staring her face flushed and she looked away.
"Yeah! And we can paint our nails and try on clothes and talk about cuties, like tall, blond, and scraggly over there!"
Jaune glanced over, then did a double take, Winter was standing a few feet from him. No, she was far to short to be Winter. Her voice was different too, and her aura felt different, not as mature. She was talking to Ruby and a blond girl. As he walked over jaune shifted his hair to black.
"I don't know she doesn't look scraggly to me."
Jumping slightly, the white haired girl look over to see jaune just behind her.
"What the..."
"I mean if anything, she looks rather fit, we are trying to become huntsmen after all."
The blonde girl smirked, "Well ar-"
"Ahem, 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."
A murmur spread throughout the mass of students,
"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."
As a blond woman stepped onto the stage and gave instructions to the students, Jaune noticed that the white-haired girl started walking away.
"That was...weird."
"Yeah, it's like he wasn't even there. What do you think Weiss? Weiss? Where'd she go?" The reaper slowly spun in place looking for, the now named, Weiss.
Jaune turned to her, "She left just after the headmaster's speech."
"Oh," Ruby seemed to deflate on herself before abruptly jumping, " how did you do that with your hair?!"
"Do what with my hair?" Jaune tilted his head
"It changed! you were blond, and now your hair is black!"
Jaune shifted his hair to Blond,"I have no idea what you're talking about."
A gasp escaped Ruby and the other girl, "See, you did it again!"
Suddenly the crowd started to move, Swallowing Jaune whole. Ruby could be faintly heard over the crowd, calling out to Jaune.
When Jaune was finally able to get out of the mass of people he found himself in the ballroom. Sleeping bags of many different shapes and colors littered the floor, Many of them with other soon-to-be students nearby, all in their sleepwear. Realizing that he should also change into his sleepwear, Jaune started to look for his bag.
Finally finding his bag near the corner of the room, right next to a familiar looking girl. As Jaune got closer to her, she subtly shifted, seemingly ready to run.
"Hi, I'm Jaune."
She glanced up from the book in her hand, "hello."
As he was looking through his bag, Jaune glanced over at the girl, "Are you nervous?"
The girl visibly stiffened, "What?"
Jaune pulled his sleeping clothes out and tilted his head, "Are you nervous about the initiation."
The girl looked back to her book, "No, It shouldn't be too hard."
Jaune got up and chuckled, "well, I got to change, I'll be right back."
If the girl heard him, she didn't show any signs of it.
When Jaune got back, now in a tank top and a pair of shorts, the girl was so deep into her book that she didn't seem to notice him when he got back, nor did she when he set up his sleeping bag. She was, however, torn from her book at the sound of a particular reaper getting pulled towards them by the still nameless Blonde girl.
The girl sighed quietly when the blond, in a sing-song voice, called out, "Hellooooo! I believe you two may know each other?"
"Aren't you... that girl that exploded?" The girl responded in a flat voice.
Ruby blushed, rubbing her arm, "Uh, yeah! My name's Ruby!"
The other girl blinked before looking down at her book, "Okay."
The blond whispered something to Ruby, who stiffened and whispered something back.
The blond smiled, "So... What's your name?"
The other girl sighed again, "Blake."
The blond Girl smirked, "Well, Blake, I'm Yang, Ruby's older sister!"
"Oooh, so that's your name."
The three girls Jumped, looking over to see Jaune sat on top of his sleeping bag.
Jaune blinked, "What?"
Blake was the first to speak up, confusion clear in her voice, "When did you get here?"
Jaune just smirked, "I've been here bookworm."
Blake blushed slightly. Before Jaune could say anything else, however, he felt a spike in sadness and confusion. Looking over to where he felt it coming from, he saw, Ruby?
"Jaune, What happened to your arm?" She asked in a quiet voice. And Jaune immediately knew that she was talking about the jagged scar that ran around his left bicep. Feigning ignorance Jaune looked down to his arms, not realizing that he had revealed the scar running across his chest, "What happened, Do I got something on my arm?"
A Gasp escaped Ruby and Yang, making Jaune look up, this time truly confused, "What?"
"What do you mean 'What' you have a huge scar on your chest!" Ruby yelled out before blushing and shrinking in on herself.
Yang snickered at Ruby before turning to Jaune, "Yeah what's up with the scar lady killer?"
Jaune tilted his head, " I have no id-"
"What in the world is going on over here?! Don't you realize some of us are trying to sleep?" and in came Jaune's savior the white-haired ice queen... who had just seen Yang.
"Oh, not you again!" they both cried out. Ruby, realizing the trouble that was brewing tried too defuse the situation,
"Shh! Guys, she's right! People are trying to sleep!"
Unfortunately for Ruby, she hadn't counted on the white-haired turning on her.
"Oh, now you're on my side!"
"I was always on your side!"
Yang, being the big sister that she was, immediately jumped in to help Ruby, "Yeah, what's your problem with my sister? She's only trying to be nice!"
The white-haired girl stomped her foot, "She's a hazard to my health!"
Blake, having enough of the argument, Sighed and blew out the candle that she had. With a yelp of surprise and a bit of grumbling from yang, the three had gone back to their sleeping bags.
As Jaune tried to get under the covers of his sleeping bag a voice, Blake's voice, came from beside him.
"Why didn't you tell her what happened?"
Jaune looked over to where Blake was laying.
"I can't bring myself to tell her how cruel the world can be. I'm sure you know, Kitty, bulls have horns."
Well, this is almost 2 weeks late and im sorry. TL;DR computer problems happened then life happened. Either way this is finally out and i can get started on chapter 3. As always please leave a review if i made a mistake or somethin and check out my Tumblr (guerra-bored)