Chapter 2: Beacon
"Are you okay" Blake asked, slightly worried for the sick looking blonde in front of her
After the incident at the warehouse Blake and Jaune had to wait till tomorrow to get a Airship to Vale, but because of the late hour they were up and the magic energy used in the fight with the kidnappers they had to rush to get there in time
As they got to the dock Jaune looked up at the Airship and no matter how much Jaune hates them, he's always awed by how people are able to make these kinds of things with their own hands
The Airship's body was almost boat like in shape with two large fins on each side that moved up and down as if paddling through the air, near the base of each fin was a circler cut out in the metal fin and in the middle of those was a green sphere of wind magic witch aloud the ship to fly
Witch lead to their current situation of the two sitting in one of the private rooms of the Airship -given to them by the father of one of the girls kidnapped, who is the pilot of this Airship- Jaune laying down on one of the booths as Blake sat across from him on the other
"I'll be fine, just... how much longer will it be" Jaune groaned out
"Only a few more minutes" Blake said looking at the clock on the wall
As soon as that was said the speakers of the ship crackled to life "attention passengers, if you look to your right you'll see the kingdom of Vale" one of the flight attendants said over the intercom system
Blake looked out of the window and down to the city below, Vale was the largest city in the kingdom and the place were one of the four kingdoms started from
"Oh thank Oum" Jaune said in relief but that quickly changed as another wave of nauseous hit him
As the Airship landed the doors opened for the to passengers walk out, looking closely one could see Jaune running past all of them and to the closest bin, quickly disposing the contents of his stomach into it. Walking more calmly up to him was Blake, who was still looking slightly worried at the blonde
Standing up from the bin Jaune turned back to the shadow user next to him "alright, now that I'm done emptying my stomach, off to the Guild"
The two walked down the road until coming to the river that went through the middle of the city, continuing across one of the bridges Blake stopped and peered over the railing, looking down she saw the water was crystal clear and you could almost see the river bed
But what really got Blake's attention was the multitude of different fish swimming through the water, the sight itself was enough to make her drool
'It's... so beautiful' Blake thought, her eyes wide in wonder
"So if we turn left from here and follow the river we'll end up at Beacon" Jaune said turning to his travelling companion, only to sweatdrop at Blake who was still staring at the river
"Blake" Jaune said, trying to get the girls attention... to little success
Moving closer Jaune waved his hand in front of Blake's face coursing her to jump back in shock, now that she was out of her trance Blake blushed at what she was doing in front of someone
"Sorry... you were saying"
If Jaune wanted to question what she was doing, he didn't show it, simply chuckling and continued walking across the bridge "I was talking about the easiest way to get to Beacon, come on"
Blake nodded and followed after her guide
After a few more minutes of walking Jaune said they were almost there, but there was still one more place Blake needed to know about
"Jaune" Blake called getting the blondes attention and asked "after I join Beacon, could you tell me where the Academy is"
Jaune smiled and just stopped walking "no need to, we're already there" he said looking up slightly
Blake looked confused for second until she followed Jaune's line of sight, what she saw was a stone archway with a sign on the arch that said 'Vale Academy'
"What" Blake said in confusion
"Didn't you know, the Master of the Beacon Guild is also the Headmater of the Academy" Jaune said
As he walked into the Academy Blake followed after him looking around at the various buildings and students just talking with their friends or walking about to different classes
"I had no idea the Guild and Academy where owned by the same person" Blake said
Jaune nodded in understanding "a lot of people outside of Vale don't know, the Academy was actually build around the Guild"
Blake looked forwards to where they were going and saw their heading to the main tower of the Academy, the one that looks like the tower on Jaune's Guild mark
"JAUNE" a loud voice called out to the Dragon Slayer as something zoomed in front of the two teens, standing before them was a tall man with spiky green hair and mug of coffee in his hand
Jaune smiled and waved to the man "hey, Professor Oobleck"
"Doctor" Oobleck said leaning closer coursing Jaune and Blake to step back slightly, standing straight again Oobleck pushed up his glasses, a small smile on his face "good to see you back Jaune, and you brought a guest"
Blake grew slightly nervous as the two looked at her "Oobleack this is Blake Belladonna, Blake this is Doctor Oobleck"
Jaune didn't need to tell her who he was, she was reading his lasted book just yesterday, Doctor Bartholomew Oobleck, one of the four kingdoms leading experts on history and a teacher at Vale Academy
"Hello" Blake greeted
"A pleasure to meet you Ms. Belladonna but I'm afraid I must be off, I have a class to teach" Oobleck said zooming off but stopped and turned back to the two before leaving "and I expect to see you in class tomorrow Jaune"
"Alright"
"Class" Blake questioned
"Every member of the Guild under the age 20 has to take at least one class in the Academy" Jaune answered as they finally made it to the doors of the tower
"Well here we are, the Beacon Guild" Jaune said gesturing to the two sets of wooden double doors to the tower, a green banner above the doors with the Beacon Guild mark in white on it
Looking at the tower before her Blake actually felt nervous, but pushing it down she stepping forwards and opened the door ready to take the next step in her life... only for her instincts to scream at her to duck
Since they've never failed her before, she did what they said and ducked just in time for an icicle to fly over her head, right between the points of her bow
"GIVE THAT BACK YOU INSUFFERABLE BRUTE" a girl in a white dress shouted, her white hair in an off centre ponytail, she was chasing another girl with long wild blonde hair and a mischievous smile on her face
"Oh come on Ice Queen, it's only a diary" the blonde said waving the little white book with a snowflake pattern and gold lock
A tickmark appeared on the white haired girls head, she stopped running after the blonde and placed her enclosed left fist on top of her right palm and then slammed both hands on the floor
"Ice Make: Floor"
A thin sheet of ice spread across the floor and under the blondes feet coursing her to slip and fall, but thinking quickly the blonde did a tuck and roll straight back on to her feet
"Nailed it" she muttered to herself, even as snow white continued to chase her around
Blake stared at the two as they ran around the building while everyone else seemed to go on with their day like this was a normal occurrence... but, then again maybe it is
"Wait over by the counter, I'll go get the Headmaster" Jaune said pointing to the left side of the room as he walked straight ahead, not even looking twice at the two girls chasing each other
Blake nodded and started walking over to where Jaune pointed and now that she isn't distracted by what she just saw, she could take in the appearance of Beacon's Guild hall
Just like the tower the Guild hall was circular in shape with grey walls and a high ceiling, from the doors she and Jaune came through was a green rug that lead all the way to the opposite side of the building to another set of grey doors -witch Jaune was walking to- and looked like some kind of elevator, on ether side of the rug are many wooden tables and chairs on the grey marble floor with Guild members sat around, drinking or just chatting with each other
Although the two girls seem to be running into a few of those tables, the white haired one now throwing ice spears at the blonde
"Does this happen often" Blake asked herself, thinking it was the only reason why no one was worried about one of their members trying to kill another
"Quite a lot actually" a male voice answered
Looking to the source of the voice Blake saw she had made it to the left side of the Guild hall where a bar counter was, wooden stools placed in front of it and shelves behind it with different drinks, there was also a glass fridge for cold drinks
Standing behind this counter was a boy about Blake's age, he wear a green tail coat and had black hair in a ponytail with a pink streak on the left side, his magenta eyes looked at Blake curiously
"I'm Ren, I run the bar here" the now named Ren said, extending his hand to Blake
Blake took his hand and shook it "Blake"
The two were interrupted by a flash of light, turning to the source Blake saw a brown haired girl with large bunny ears -showing she was a Faunus- sitting on one of the stools and holding a camera, most likely the source of the flash
But a strange thing was actually the five objects floating around her, they looked like wooden figures made into the shape of bunny's with their ears hanging down there sides, they were block like in shape and in five different colours, red, blue, yellow, green and black all with white under bellies
Taking the camera away from her eye the bunny girl smiled at Blake "sorry, my names Velvet, are you here to join the Guild"
"Yes, Jaune told me to wait here for the Master" Blake answered
"I saw you walk in with Jaune, how'd you two meet" Velvet asked
"Yeah" the bunny figures floating around her said in unison, their voices being high pitched and male
Blake stepped back a bit at the figures suddenly talking 'is that her magic, I've never see or heard of one like this' Blake thought looking at one of the bunny's, witch tilted sideways like one would with their head when their curious
Shaking her head Blake decided to answer Velvet's question "well I was in Gallus and I ran into-"
"WHAT THE HELL" a female voice yelled, the three looked to the source and saw the Blonde who was being chased standing there with some kind of milkshake covering her face and... were her eyes always red
The white haired girl now holding her diary to her chest looked defensively at the blonde "don't look at me like that, you stole my property"
"But did you have to throw a drink in my face, YOU GOT IT IN MY HAIR" she said, shouting the last part
The two glared at each other and it almost seemed like a fight was about to break out, but before things could escalate a purple glow surrounded the two and pulled them into the air
"What is going on here" a woman's voice said, the two floating girls froze in fear and slowly turned their heads to look at the woman who had walked out of the elevator with Jaune
""Professor Goodwitch"" they said, their voices shaking slightly as the woman glared at them, she lowered the riding crop she held witch coursed the two girls to be gently placed on the floor
Glynda Goodwitch pushed up her glasses, her glare still firmly placed on the girls in front of her "Miss Xiao Long, it's rude to take others belongings-" the white haired girl looked at the blonde with a smug smile, but that was quickly wiped off her face with what Glynda said next "-and throwing a drink isn't the appropriate way to act Miss Schnee"
With a flick of her riding crop the liquid covering the blondes face floated into the air and moved back into the cup it came from, gently placing itself back on the table
"I shall deal with your punishment later, right now I have another matter to attend to" Goodwitch said and followed Jaune to the bar counter
As the two got closer Blake noticed two things, the purple Guild mark on the back of her right hand and the clipboard she held in her left arm
'Is this the Guild Master' Blake thought
"Blake Belladonna, I presume" Glynda asked
Blake nodded not really sure what to say, the woman in front of her seemed to just give off an aura of authority that made her very nervous
"I'm afraid the Master is busy right now so I'll be handling your initiation into the Guild" Glynda said taking the clipboard and handing it to Blake, when she took the clipboard she saw it had a form asking for certain thing like her name, date of birth and... blood type
"Well that's unnerving" Blake muttered, getting a small laugh from the others
"Simply fill out this form and since your under the age of 20 you will need to take at least one class in the Academy, come see me when your done" Glynda said
As the professor walked off, Blake sat back down at the bar -and saw Velvet had left to a table with four others- and started to fill out the form, until a voice court her attention
"Jaune, your already back from your mission" the blonde from before called out, the white haired girl following behind her
"Yeah, the job was kind of short but I did run into a new member" Jaune said gesturing to Blake
"We heard" the white haired girl said, she walked up to Blake and stuck her hand out "I'm Weiss Schnee, I look forward to working with you"
Schnee, Blake knows that name, their family owns the Schnee Magic Company in Atlas, the largest distributor of magical items and crystals in the entire four kingdoms alliance
But unfortunately their also known for their questionable business partners and hatred for the Faunus
'Why's a Schnee apart of this Guild' Blake thought, but was interrupted when the Blonde jumped into the bar stool next to her
"And I'm Yang" she said smiling brightly
"Blake" was all the shadow user said before going back to her paper, but that didn't stop Yang from looking over her shoulder and her eyes widened in shock
"whoa, you know you only need to take one class right" Yang said drawing the others attention
When they saw the paper it looked to be almost finished and the only thing Blake had left to do was chose her classes, witch Blake seemed to be picking quit a few of, history, english, Grimm studies and even the book club
"It's good to see someone else taking more then one class in the Academy" Weiss said sending a not so subtle look at Yang
Yang in response rolled her eyes "so I don't want to take some class, I'd much rather be out on missions kicking butt" the blonde said punching the air as if she was fighting an enemy
"So were are you gonna get your Guild mark" Jaune asked
That... was a good question, Blake never really thought about tattoos or anything but a Guild mark is basically her ID as a Guild wizard but having it just anywhere...
"If your concerned about how it will look don't worry" Ren said suddenly
Blake looked at the bar tender confused, how did he know what she was thinking
As if once again hearing her thoughts, Ren spoke "a lot of people worry about it, but-" Ren lifted up the back of his right hand and in only a second a magenta Guild mark appeared on his skin "-the marks are made from a special magic, so a member can make it disappear at will"
"He's right, see" Yang said pointing to her chest, over her heart and just like with Ren a yellow Guild mark faded into existence on her skin
Weiss glared at Yang while Jaune looked away blushing, still embarrassed about where she got her mark
"Why on Remnant did you get it there" Weiss asked
Yang gave a mischievous smile "well I thought if people are gonna look they might as well learn something about me" Yang's smile turned into a devious smirk "besides, I'm not the only who has their Guild mark somewhere risqué"
The blondes hand slowly moved to Weiss's... skirt, Blake raised an eyebrow did she really have her mark somewhere on her upper leg
Weiss quickly smacked the blondes hands away and sent her an icy glare "don't, you, dear"
As that was going on Blake finally finished her paper "done, I'm going to go give this to Miss Goodwitch"
"We'll go with you" Yang said standing up along with Jaune and Weiss, they all wanted to know were she'd get her Guild mark
After bidding goodbye to Ren the four walked over to the far right side of the Guild hall where Glynda seemed to be working on a large green holographic screen coming from a crystal build into the wall
"What are you doing Professor" Jaune asked
"Simply updating the mission board" Glynda said typing on the black scroll in her hands, as she finished multiple flyers appeared on the screen all being about different missions
"Miss Goodwitch" Blake called getting the woman's attention and handing her the form, Glynda looked it over and nodded
"Everything seems to be in order, do you know where you want your Guild mark" Glynda asked, putting away her scroll and taking out some kind of wooden stamp, the Beacon Guild mark shown on the bottom
Blake nodded and pointed to her right shoulder "right here, in Black" and with that Glynda placed the stamp on Blake's shoulder and with a small glow a black Guild mark was tattooed onto her skin
Suddenly cheers and clapping erupted from the hall, Blake looked around and saw everyone in the Guild was congratulating her, Blake turned to Jaune and found him, Weiss and Yang clapping to
"Welcome to Beacon Blake" Jaune said smiling
For some reason... Blake couldn't help but smile back
A/N: Yeah, this chapter was more of a filler, Blake seeing the Academy and Guild, meeting some of the characters and finally Blake joining
Sorry if this chapter wasn't that interesting but next one will be better because... it'll be Blake's first mission