Chapter 2: Welcome to Beacon

The next day, he boarded the transport to beacon. There he saw a cheerful girl with long blond hair excitedly embracing a younger looking one with red and black hair, probably sisters due to the way they talk. He shrugged and turned his attention to the view outside the window as he puts on his headphones. Then someone tapped his shoulder, surprised, catching his headphones almost falling off his head he turns to see a student who is pointing at the holographic screen. It was Glynda announcing to the students something as they are nearing the Beacon landing bay.

As he disembarked he bumped into the red and black haired girl knocking her on the ground. "Ah s-sorry!" said Gris as he helped her up. The girl stood up and said with a smile, "Don't worry, its okay." He nodded to her and her sister and walked off. "I have a baaad feeling about today," he thought to himself and sighed as he slung his small bag containing a few changes of clothes and at least two bricks of ammo over his shoulder and then carried his collapsed weapons in his hands. Again he ran into the girl this time she approached him her eyes all sparkling. Seeing this, Gris stepped back a little and she calmed down and said, "Wait, aren't you the guy I bumped into?" He relaxed a bit and rubbed the back of his neck and nodded and apologized, "s-sorry, I was just a little too excited to come to this school eh-heh." A quick pause then he said, "a-anyways, my name's Gris Nuages."

She smiled, "I'm Ruby Rose."

"It's n-nice to meet you Ruby."

She nods and glances at his weapons, "what weapons are those?" Noticing the excited tone in her voice he answered after extending the blades of his weapons with a flick of his wrists, "The one on the left is called Shadow on my right Light, both are weapons I customized as extendable katanas also..." He cocks the gun parts of his weapons, "comes with built in submachine guns. I have to say I'm actually kind of proud of these two. What's your weapon?" She grins extending her scythe he yelped a bit and jumped back because as the scythe extended it almost hit him. Ruby smiled and said, "This is the Crescent Rose. Like your weapon it comes with a built in gun but it's a high caliber, high powered sniper rifle." Gris couldn't help but marvel at the weapon she's holding, "w-whoa! You really decked this thing out."

They talked for a bit about how they used their weapons until the bell for them to go to the ceremony. When on the way he almost crashed into a girl in white and as he was about to apologize, the look on her face pretty much forced his words how his throat, so he just quickly bowed in an attempt to apologize and ran off to the ceremony. When he arrived, the place was packed and he walked around and ended up finding a spot next this girl in black just as the chairman walked onto stage and started his speech. He stood there at attention listening to his speech but he couldn't help but look at the girl right next to him out of the corner of his eye. Seems to be rather Goth looking not that it disturbs him but the sight was pretty interesting. He could already sense that she's not the kind to really talk so he left her alone after the speech.

After that, he decided to take a walk and ran into that girl in white again. He gulped in nervousness, "u-u-um s-sorry about before eh-heh..." Clearly he seemed very nervous around her but he kept his composure. She folded her arms at him looking crossed and he flinched and she said, "if you wanted to apologize then apologize properly!" He nodded in response and bowed deeply, "I-I really am sorry." She sighed and sternly said, "be careful where you're going next time." she walked off and stopped and said, "by the way I'm Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Co." He relaxed, "I'm Gris Nuages"

She just nodded and continued walking. "Some rich people these days." he thought as he went to look for the place he's going to sleep in and then he thought, "tomorrow's the initiation I wonder what it's like." he then just shrugged it off and found the sleeping quarters which seems to look like to him just a huge hall where the guys sleep in one area and the girls in the other area. He just sighed and went to get changed and laid out his futon in and empty spot. After that, he checked his weapons and ammo to see if his weapons are clean and ammo sorted correctly. Once he was sure everything was all in check, he decided to start reading a bit. Quickly, he notices that he caught the attention of the girl he was next to at the ceremony. He cocked his head at her in curiosity and he went up to her. It seems like she was reading a book herself. "What are you reading?" he asked. She looked at him and said "a book."

"What's it about?"

"Just stories, what were you reading?"

"I'm reading on what the stuff many war heroes did in the battle against Grim."

"Very interesting"

The two went back and forth on just common small talk and then, "By the way what's your name? I'm Gris Nuages." She said, "I'm Blake Belladonna." He nods and stood up, "nice to meet you and see you at the initiation." Blake nodded and said, "Likewise." with that he walks over to his futon and tucks in and goes to sleep. "Tomorrow's the initiation," he thought to himself, "I hope I'll pass."