AN: Wow..this one was a little easier to write...no big fight scenes. Well...Read&Review, if you so desire.

The two sisters exit of the ship was delayed by a quick trip to the bathroom to deal with the puke. When they actually exited the ship, the hurried past the boy hurling into a trash can. The two calmly walk down the paved path towards Beacon's entrance.

"Wow…" they both mutter in stunned wonder, taking in Beacon Academy as a whole. They had always seen its silhouette imposing in the distance when they visited Vale, but they never imagined it was this big.

Yang's gaze followed the length of the tower in front of them. "The view from Vale's got nothing on this!"

While Yang was gazing upon the school, Ruby was watching the other people that arrived with them. She was enamored by not the people, but what they were carrying. "Ohmygosh, sis! That kid's got a collapsible staff! And she's got a fire sword!" The hyper girl followed the weapons that caught her eye, or tried to.

Her sister looked at her funny before reaching over and grabbing the cape of her cloak and pulling it back, and its owner along with it. "Ow! Ooww!"

"Easy there, little sister. They're just weapons!" she said simply. She didn't share her sister's enthrallment of weapons.

"Just weapons?" Ruby echoed. She didn't even notice her ear prick and her hood move a little. "They're an extension of ourselves! They're a part of us! Oh, they're so cool!"

Yang looked at her sister strangely. "Well, why can't you swoon over your own weapon? Aren't you happy with it?"

Ruby quickly drew her scythe, expanding it fully and practically cradling it in her arms, her ears pricking and flipping off her hood without her realizing. "Of course I'm happy with Crescent Rose! I just really like seeing new ones. It's like meeting new people, but better…"

Yang quickly reached back and pulled her hood back over her head, glad no one really saw. She pulled it over further, down over her eyes, to keep Ruby believing her hood never fell off. "Ruby, come on, why don't you go try and make some friend of your own?" she purposed.

Ruby pulled her hood back to reveal her face and eyes. "But...why would I need friends if I have you?" She asked quietly.

"Well…" Yang glanced around as her friends suddenly came up. "Actually, my friends are here. Gotta go catch up. 'Kay, c'ya, bye," she said quickly as her friends pulled her away.

Ruby was sent reeling by the sudden disappearance of her sister. "Wait, where are you going?!" she called out, though her sister was gone. "Are we supposed to go to our dorms? Where are our dorms? Do we have dorms?" Ruby stopped and sighed. "I don't know what I'm doing…"

Ruby sighs and falls backward...into a luggage cart, not really helping her figure out what's going on. Cases go flying off the cart...and suddenly a harsh, yet proper voice screeched. "What are you doing?!"

Ruby slowly got up groaning softly. "Uh...sorry!" she said carefully. She looked up and found a girl in a white dress, a strange rapier hung at her side, and her pure white hair was tied up in a side pony tail. But none of this is what stood out the most was the scar over her left eye...Ruby could tell it wasn't more than a year old.

"Sorry?!" the girl screeched again. "Do you have any idea of the damage you could have caused?"

Ruby knelt down and picked up one of the white cases, a snowflake pattern adorning the side. "Uhhh?"

"Give me that!" the girl snapped. She snatched the luggage from the confused girl and opened it to reveal similarly marked vials of what appeared to be dust. "This is Dust, mined and purified from the Schnee quarry!"

Ruby blinked in confusion. Wasn't...all dust mined and purified from some Schnee quarry somewhere? What makes this girl important? The faunus girl stared at the girl in white.

The white haired girl stared at Ruby for a moment. "What are you brain-dead?" she snapped. She reached into the case and pulled out a vial of red Dust, shutting the case with a bang. "Dust! Fire, waster, lightning, energy!"

The girl shook her fist angrily as she spoke and powdered flew into the air, specifically around Ruby. She tried to answer, but her words were overtaken by a violent cough. The young faunus was sensitive to Dust in its raw form, it could be considered an allergy by some, but more simply a nuisance by the girl, meaning she could only use processed Dust, the Dust cartridges used in weapons.

The girl in white seemed annoyed at the girl she was dealing with. "Are you even listening to me? Is any of this sinking in?" she demanded, as she shook her fist more. "What have you got to say for yourself?!"

Ruby continued to be annoyed by the Dust until eventually she sneezed. There was an explosion of fire, ice, and energy. Ruby barely sees what happens in the cloud of Dust but when it clears in front of her stands a the girl in white still, but she was no longer white, but grey with soot.

The girl looked at her clothes with disgust and appall. "Unbelievable!" she said as she began to wipe off all the soot. "This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about!"

Ruby shied away, she felt her ears press against her head, her hood twitching just a little. "I'm really, really sorry!" she insisted.

"Ugh, you complete dolt! What are you even doing here? Aren't you a little young to be attending Beacon?" she snapped.

"Well, I-I…"

"This isn't your ordinary combat school. It's not just sparring and practice, you know! We're here to fight monsters, so...watch where you're going!"

Ruby had finally had enough of this girl and her pompous attitude. "Hey, I said I was sorry, princess," she growled, literally.

The girl in white opened her mouth to rebuttal when a voice, soft not unlike a cat given voice. "Its heiress, actually."

The two bickering girls turned to see a girl in black and white clothing. On her back was a small sword like thing, and she had long beautiful black hair, tied up in a bow. Ruby took a moment and examined the girl, she could sense something about her...something cat like. The newcomer looked over at the white haired girl and spoke again. "Weiss Schnee, second in line to the Schnee Dust Company. One of the largest producers of energy propellant in the world."

The girl, Weiss Schnee, smiled smugly and put her hands on her hip. "Finally! Some recognition!"

The cat girl seemed to glare at Weiss. "The same company infamous for its controversial labor forces and questionable business partners."

Weiss seems fluttered and angry at that comment, and Ruby couldn't help but chuckle at her expression. "Wha- how dare you- The nerve of...ugh!" Weiss marched up to the cat girl and glared up in her face. She snatched back the bottle of Dust the other girl was carrying, then stormed off as some...butlers, Ruby guessed, gathered her things and followed.

Ruby, still sorry for her actions, called out to Weiss' retreating form. "I promise I'll make this up to you!" Ruby let out a sigh when Weiss ignored her call. "I guess I'm not the only one having the rough first day...so, what's…" Ruby paused when she saw the cat girl walk away already. The young faunus let out a defeated sigh and sank to the ground, almost collapsing, to her knees. Then she leaned back and said softly. "Welcome to Beacon…."

Ruby stayed on the ground, resigning to her fate of being a social outcast, until another person came and stood over her. She looked up to find a boy with short blonde hair, wearing a strange mismatch of armor and casual clothes.

The boy reaches down, holding out a hand for the girl to take. "Hey...I'm Juane."

Ruby paused for a moment, making sure her hood would stay on before she took his hand. "Ruby," she said softly. Then she recognizes the boy that just helped her up. "Aren't you the guy that threw up on the ship?"

The two ended up wandering around the grounds as they talked to each other, the boy named Juane was explaining motion sickness to the cloaked girl.

"All I'm saying is that motion sickness is a much more common problem than people let on!" he insists.

Ruby tries to hold in a laugh as she responds. "Look, I'm sorry! Vomit Boy was the first thing that came to mind."

Jaune glared at the girl for a moment. "Oh, yeah? What if I called you Crater Face?" he countered.

"Hey! That explosion was an accident!" Ruby growled defensively. Her hood twitched, but Jaune was busy making grand gestures as he introduced himself properly.

"Well, the name's Jaune Arc! Short, sweet, rolls off the tongue. Ladies love it!"

Ruby looked over at the boy in front of her, nothing but skepticism in her silver eyes. "Do they?"

"They will! Well...I-I hope they will." The boy's confidence wavered and he chuckled nervously. "My mom always says that...never mind…"

Ruby giggled before silence fell between the two. She squirmed nervously and closed her eyes before she finally spoke. "So...I got this thing." She pulled her weapon out and expanded it fully, spinning it around her body before stabbing it into the ground.

Jaune jumped back, surprised by the large weapon. "Whoa! Is that a scythe?"

Ruby smiled at his reaction. she always loved watching people react to her beautiful weapon...or scary weapon. "It's also a customizable high-impact sniper rifle!" she explained as she pulled her weapon from the ground.

"A-wha…?"

Ruby smiled and cocked her gun. "It's also a gun."

"Oh," Jaune looked at the girl in front of him differently now. "That's cool!"

"So...what've you got?"

"Oh! I, uh…" Jaune nervously pulled out a pain sword out of the sheath on his side. "I got this sword!" he said proudly.

"Ooooo!"

"Yeah, and I've got a shield, too!" Before Ruby could ask where, Juane grabbed his sheath and gripped it in his hand, and it expanded into a proper shield, with a yellow symbol on it.

Ruby reached out, gripping her scythe incase something happened. "So...what do they do?" she asked as she touched the shield.

As if the mechanism was failing, the shield suddenly retracted and snapped off his arm. Ruby jumped back at the sudden loud snap and blinked a few times. He fumbled with it, trying to get it under control and put it back on his belt. "The shield gets smaller, so when I get tired of carrying it, I can just...put it away…"

Ruby paused and looked at Jaune, confused. "But...wouldn't it weigh the same?"

Jaune sighed and looked down, defeated. "Yeah...it does…"

Ruby giggled, then stroked her weapon lovingly. "Well, I'm kind of a dork when it comes to weapons, so I guess I did go a little overboard when designing it," she admitted softly.

Jaune paused, taking in what the hooded girl just said. "Wait...you made that?!"

"Of course!" Ruby answered, like it should be obvious. "All students at Signal forge their own weapons! Didn't you make yours?"

"It's a hand-me-down…" Jaune explained, examining his blade. "My great-great-grandfather used it to fight in the war."

"Sound more like a family heirloom to me!" Ruby said with a laugh. Then she noticed Jaune's serious look. "Well, I like it! Not many people have an appreciation for the classics these days."

"Yeah...the classics…" Jaune mumbled as he sheathed his sword.

Ruby sensed this wasn't the best topic to discuss, so she dropped it. Continuing on her way, she spoke so Jaune knew she was moving, and to try and cheer him up. "So...why'd you help me out back there? In the courtyard?"

Jaune quickly sprinted to fall into step beside her. "Eh, why not? My mom always says, 'strangers are just friends you haven't met yet'."

"Hmm…" Ruby nodded a little, her sister used to say the same thing...but she never believed her. She shook her head, then looked around carefully. "Hey, where are we going?"

"Oh, I don't know! I was following you," Jaune responded. "Y-you think there might be a directory? Maybe a food court? Some kind of...recognizable landmark?" Ruby couldn't help but laugh at his suggestions. "Is, uh...Is that a no?"

Ruby chuckled and stifled laugh. "That's a 'no'."

The young faunus looked around carefully and noticed a few other students heading towards what she could only assume as the main building...it's the largest spire. "Let's follow them."

Jaune looked up and blinked a few times. "Yeah okay."

And so the two walked off, following the crowd. Though its probably the last time they'll ever do that. Ruby didn't know why...but she had this feeling that the two of them would do something important...it made her ears itch.

AN: Well, that's a thing. Short, like the actual episode. I hope ya'll enjoyed it. I know its rare for me to update so quick...but this was easy to write, so I just did it. I'm still working on other stuff, don't worry, don't worry.

AN Edit: I had to fix one little small thing in this chapter that's been bugging me since Vol 3.