The airship came down next to a large round landing pad. It's doors opened so the throng of eager students within- could stand to one side so the blonde haired boy could empty his stomach into a conveniently placed trash can.

Yang, her sister and their friends exited the ship, thankfully the avian Pokemon's trainer had been able to get it under control. They took in the giant, medieval castle before them. Halfway between the landing pad and the main building was a large, round wall encircling the campus. At the center of it all was a large grey tower, resembling a lighthouse with a collection of green circles in the topmost section.

Trevor furiously began taking photos, while the rest of them looked up in awe. "View of Lumiouse got nothing on this." Yang commented.

Her sister was going into full fan-girl mode, but not because of the tower. "Sis! Sis! That boy's got a Manky! Oh, and she's got a Combuskin!" Before her sister could wander off the cliff, Yang grabbed her hood and pulled her back.

"Hey, calm down. Why can't you swoon over your own Pokemon? Aren't you happy with them?"

"Of course I am." Ruby said. Her hand reaching to her belt, where two red and white spheres hung. "I just really like seeing knew ones. It's one of reasons we became Huntresses, remember?"

Yang wrapped her arm around her sister's shoulder, "Yeah, one of the reasons."

As the group wandered off, Shauna found herself alone near another landing pad. She was watching some of the other students depart when she caught a glimpse of blonde.

"It can't be." she thought to herself. She jogged over toward them, only to trip over some girl's luggage cart. "Oh, sorry." She apologized before running off again.

"Hey! You clumsy-!" The rest of what she said was lost. Shauna scanned the crowd, yes, definitely a boy with golden blonde hair. She grabbed his shoulder and he turned around.

"Uh, can I help you?" It wasn't him.

"Sorry," she apologized, "I thought you were someone else." She walked away from the boy, "But I was so sure..."

"Hey!" Same guy. He was wearing a white chestplate over a black hoodie. Off his belt hung another belt with a pokeball attached to it. "I'm Jaune." he said, extending a gloved hand.

She smiled, recognizing the request of friendship. "Shauna." She said, shaking his hand. Suddenly she realized she had seen this guy before. "Aren't you the guy who threw up on the ship?"

Serena sat down on a bench. Beacon was turning out exactly as she expected; everyone knew exactly who her mother was. Ever since she stepped on that airship, all she heard was: 'Isn't that Grace's daughter?' 'OMG! It's the Rhyhorn racer's girl!' She hated it.

All her life, people saw her and expected her to be just like her mother, a great huntress and Pokemon racer. Well, she'd become a huntress all right, but by no means would she ever become a racer.

"Except," she thought to herself as she reclined into a laying position, "Now that I'm here, I have no idea what to do."

She was rudely brought out of her musings by a sharp pain hitting her leg. Apparently, her leg was in the path of some girl's luggage trolley. Said girl had long white hair tied in a ponytail on the right side of her head. She wore a white dress that turned to ice blue near the base, which was only as far down as her thigh. Over this was a white, long sleeved mid-riff jacket with a red interior. Around her waist was a white scarf with two pokeballs attached.

"Uhg, what is with this school?" the girl exclaimed, "Hey, do you have any idea of the damage you could have caused?"

Actually, she didn't. She saw one of the bags had fallen off the trolley, but the pale skinned girl grabbed it first. "Give me that, these are Type Gems, mined and carved from the Schnee quarry."

"Um," Serena said, never having heard of Type Gems before.

"What are you, brain dead, Types: Fire, Water, Electric? Is any of this sinking in?"

"Look, I'm sorry for bumping your cart, but could you please leave me alone?"

"How dare you speak to me like that."

"Well excuse me, princess!" she said, slurring the 'U'.

"It's Heiress, actually." said an unknown voice.

Looking up, they saw a third girl, sitting on top of a nearby wall and reading a book. She was wearing a black vest with coattails, underneath was a sleeveless white shirt, her midriff was left exposed. She was also wearing white mini shorts and black leggings which faded to purple near the bottom. Her arms were decorated with black ribbons on the forearms, and a detached black sleeve and metal bicep band on the left arm. A black bow sat in her raven hair.

She jumped down to them, "Weiss Schnee, heir to the Schnee Dust Company. The largest suppliers of evolution stones, type gems and other crystals."

The white haired girl, Weiss, seemed to beam at this, "Finally, someone who recognizes true-" "The same company renowned for their controversial labor forces, and questionable business partners. And that's not including the Fossil World incident."

"Wha- How dare, the nerve of-" With that, she grabbed her luggage, and stormed off. The girl in black looked to where the blonde haired girl had been standing, only to find she had snuck off when she started talking.

"Smart girl."

"All I'm saying is, that motion sickness is a much more common problem than most people realize." Jaune and Shauna had begun walking down a path, casual batter being exchanged by both parties.

"Look I'm sorry, 'Vomit Boy' was the first thing that came to my head."

"Well, the name's Jaune Ark. Short, sweet, rolls off the tongue, ladies love it."

She looked at him, the conversation suddenly taking a very uncomfortable turn, "Are you, flirting with me?"

"What? No! No, I'm sorry. I meant other girls." he was wildly moving his hands, his face flushed red.

Shauna couldn't help but giggle at his attempted apology. "It's fine, I was the one who jumped to conclusions. You might want to rethink that pickup line anyway."

"It wasn't a pickup- look, sometimes my mouth moves faster than my brain does."

"Hehe, everything moves faster than this guy's brain."

Shauna stopped when Jaune's pokeball suddenly opened, a wave of white energy exiting it then wrapping around Jaune's waist. The energy condensed into a blue ribbon that covered both belts. Hanging from the left side of this ribbon was a large scabbard, it was brown in color, with three circles near the hilt of the sword (which had also appeared from the pokeball), two of these were white, while the third was a light blue stone that was… looking at Shauna?

"What is that?"

"This is Honedge, my Pokemon."

"… It, He, spoke."

"Yeah, Honedge is a Ghost Type, so it can learn how to speak."

"Hey, don't talk about me like I'm not here." The blue stone, Honedge's eye, moved so it was looking at Jaune, while it, furrowed it's brow?

"Okay, that is going to take some getting used to."

"So, where are we going?"

It dawned on them that they had been following each other, neither one knew where they were, orwhere they needed to be.

"This is my un-life now."