Author: Okay, here's the second chapter, hope you enjoy it, if not….. whatever, just tell me what you didn't like about it and I'll try to do better next time, and if you wish to know a bit more about my characters you can check the RWBY Amino. Name is the same as my characters name
Casey had been sitting in this airship for upwards of 3 days, that much she knew, but as to why they had to take forever to get to Beacon was escaping her while she was talking to the captain.
"So why is this taking a 70 years?" She said for the 5th time to the old man that was the captain. "Because there's headwind and our propulsion systems are old and outdated!" He yelled in frustration.
"But wouldn't that be an issue for overall flight capabilities if it was outdated" She asked still very confused "Yes, but old Bessy flies true and gets people where they need to be, we aren't to far out, should take a few more hours, so you'll be there either on time, or just mildly tardy" *Sigh* "I'm too old for this shit" He thought to himself.
"Okay, that was my only concern, bye!" Casey walked off leaving the Captain to his headache."Yup, too fucking old…" He said as she left earshot.
Casey made her way through the ship looking for Drake, passing through the doors to the observation room she found him staring out at the view. "Why are you watching the terrain like a bird of prey?"
"I'm looking over the landscape, making sure I know what I can expect to fight in, and how to effectively use this terrain" He said in his usual monotone voice.
"Why must you always be like that?" She asked trying to initiate conversation. "It's how I was raised, always expect that your opponent is more familiar with the environment, and make it so they don't have that advantage over you" He looked over his shoulder
"But why don't you try to admire the beautiful geometric landscape on the rocks or the patterns in the forest?" Drake sighed and thought for a moment "I suppose…..that's just not what I tend to see in everything, it's a habit"
"Yeah a bad one" She joked and punched his shoulder. He didn't react to the punch but he seemed to agree, she couldn't really tell because of the face mask that he wears religiously.
Suddenly they both heard the intercom switch on and looked up at the speaker. "Attention Passengers, we are now entering the Kingdom of Vale, you should be able to see the city as well as Beacon Academy shortly" The intercom switched off and quite a few people started entering this observation deck of the ship so they could see the sights before they landed "Look like nobody here has seen Vale"
"I wouldn't expect them to, they are all Atlesian, and you haven't seen it either" Drake said as a matter of fact "I know, but it just isn't to exciting without the twins…they made everything fun…" She said with a frown. Drake just looked at her and remained quiet not knowing what to say to her.
But at that moment the ship got through the dense clouds that had blocked the vision of the passengers a few minutes before finally revealing both The City of Vale and Beacon Academy to them.
When they looked back out the large window Casey almost pressed her face to the window in excitement causing Drake to huff out a breath of amusement. "Draaaaake it's so cool!" She had with the brightest smile he had seen in quite a while.
He pulled her back a little from the window. "Calm down, don't eat the glass" He said "But it's so cool!" She said going back to the window. "I know, but the janitor is also going to have to clean up your face smudge mark…"
Casey pouted just slightly and stood back a little bit "I never get to have fun" she said. "Well that's because we are students, we aren't allowed to have fun on a back to school day."
"I know...I wonder what kind of people we'll meet at Beacon, I know one of my old friends moved here to join beacon, but I'm not sure where he is, didn't exactly get his new scroll contact info either" She was thinking out loud.
"Maybe you will find him when we get there?" He asked curiosity getting the better of him. "I'm not sure, I certainly do want to see him again, but I don't want to bother him or his team"
"I doubt you'll be a bother, if you are friends, then he'll welcome you when you find him" He said reassuringly. "Yeah alright, come on, let's get to the unloading bay so we don't have to get through the crowds of people to leave" She said pointing a thumb behind her to indicate the passenger exit area... thing, I'm calling it a thing, okay whatever. Drake agreed with this and they were walking to the other side of the ship and surprisingly didn't find too many people already at the loading area.
"What do you think Beacon will look like up close?" She asked Drake. "Probably a giant building made to look really nice but really has just crappy wallpaper"
"Yeah probably right…but either way at least we get to meet new types of people" She said with excitement. He sat down at one of the various benches in the room "New people aren't always the best people to meet, from my experience at least"
"That's because you can't ever seem to find to kind people, you're always finding all the bad guys before I can" She had her arms clasped in front of her and smiling cutely
Once again the Captain's voice came over the ship's intercom in an announcement "We are now approaching the landing pads for Beacon, would anyone and everyone heading to Beacon please head to the east passenger platform" The intercom switched off again and after several students dressed in many different kinds of clothing and weapons and a few adults came into the platform.
"They must really want to see Beacon" Casey watched the numerous people as they flooded the room. "Don't you want to?" Drake turned his head to face her. "Well, of course I do, it just doesn't seem as exciting as it did before…"
"Try not to worry about it, you're probably nervous" They could feel the ship clank against the metal on the docking pad. "I think we are here" Drake shouldered his backpack, which didn't have many things inside besides his few personal belongings. For Casey it was pretty much the same case, just some more random items. "Seems like it."
Just as they had composed themselves the large bay door opened a bright light blinded them for a few brief moments. After the light had evened out they stepped off the ship revealing the tall white buildings and beautiful scenery of Beacon Academy. "It looks so much better up close" Casey was looking around, excited to just be at the landing pad of the school, not even to mention the fact that she had yet to see the inside of the buildings themselves.
All of the sudden she tripped and almost fell over into….some random crater in the ground… "How did this get here?" She question to herself. "Must have been someone shaking a bottle of dust that either wasn't sealed properly or was cracked, and it just kind of exploded" The Assassin said just ghosting her making a probably accurate assumption.
"Possibly" She stepped out of the crater taking one last good look at it before continuing on her way, Drake following close behind. "Where do you think we should go?" He asked, quite unsure as to what they should do now that they had arrived. "I don't actually know, maybe we should just go to where everyone else is?" She pointed to the building that most of the students were making there way to.
"I think that's just for the new first years" He pointed out. "I wish they had given us more information on what we should be doing…" Casey sighed deeply , she was getting pretty annoyed with walking around like a headless chicken.
"Well, maybe you should check your scroll for once in your life, Casey" A voice called out from behind her.
Author: Well, I've got nothing besides what's up at the start of the chapter. Please Review, I'd like any and all constructive criticism if at all possible, I'm trying but I know there's something in here I didn't catch. I'll also try to keep the chapters consistent on the word count until I can get into the more important stuff later.