Chapter 2: Lapis by Candlelight
Pyrite laid her sleeping bag by one of the stairways of the ballroom. Amethyst was sitting by, after finishing rolling out her own sleeping bag. Opal was half asleep she didn't being her own sleeping bad; it was that or she like sleeping on hard floors.
"So have you heard about the assignment of Teams?" Amethyst questioned
"Hmm, Teams?" the Faunus replied with confusion on her face, Amethyst begin to explain how the Huntsmen and Huntresses are assigned into team to go on missions and fight the Creatures of Grimm together.
"That sounds logical if your alone and you come by a group of Powerful Grimm, you can be defeat if your not skilled enough, but if you have team-mates they can quickly take out the a group of Grimm or a powerful Grimm if one of them is lacking."
" Rumours say that the Teams are made up of four Huntsmen, and one is appointed the leader and Given a Team name." Pyrite listened to the girl for the next few hours as she speculated on the rumours and discussed the possible ways the teams are formed from written exams to fighting each other in a combat study.
Pyrite was glad to see Amethyst returned to her chatty-self after how she was after the end of Ozpin's Speech, Pyrite wanted to know why she reacted in such a way now looking back she probably was hoping for more of an invigorating opening but is that all? She wondered before she felt the call of Nature.
"I've gotta pee"she spoke abruptly; out of the blue as Amethyst looked in annoyance then disappointment. Pyrite lifted herself up from her sleeping bag and made her way to the loo.
She noticed that it got dark outside the red draped windows. Amethyst watched her tread lightly over a few student's, the Faunus despite being in in a raggedy old nightdress; she sill wore those Gold plated armoured boots. To others it was a hazard; but to Pyrite the boots was a must she'll never take them off, she loved those boots more them her weapon or even food. She was given the boots from an old friend, and promised to take care of them until she was dead, that was a promise that she sill kept to this day.
As she was in deep-thought she didn't notice a girl walk right into her; witch causes them both to fall upon there rumps in confusion.
"Hay watch were your going!" Pyrite expelled
" You should be the one to watch were your going!" a refined voice replied to the Faunus. She opened her Brass coloured eyes to see a blue haired Atlesien girl holding a candle in her off-hand.
"Never mind." the girl said beneath her breath. Pyrite got up to her amour-clad feet and offered her hand to the girl she looked at Pyrite with mild-disgust, pyrite followed the girls sea-foam eyes to her own tail. 'oh so its that again' she thought feeling the Atlesien eyes look at her with revolt. But unlike the other times that Pyrite know to much off, this girl just got up on her own and walked past her with out much hesitation. Pyrite then snapped back to the here and now and found her way to the bathroom.
A few minutes later Pyrite left the lavatory and found the Blue haired girl going towards the opposite-direction. The Faunus went past her with out a collision unlike last time, and got back to see Amethyst with her head berried in her pillow. Pyrite thought she was asleep but a snicker gave a way the friends thoughts.
"So what's so funny?" the redhead questioned. Amethyst first replied with a muffled giggle before rising her head with the sweetest face that Pyrite never seen before in her later years.
"You really didn't see that coming?" Amethyst answered with out much breath.
"I guess not" Pyrite said manoeuvring herself into her sleeping bag." I'll be sure to look before running from now on" she commented to her friend. Amethyst almost laughed herself to sleep if people didn't tell to shush. Pyrite gave her an assuring smile as she closed her eyes before Amethyst did, Amethyst watched her day old-friend fall into a soft sleepers breath. She stretched out her hand towards a slumbering Pyrite but stopped halfway closing her hand and fell into her dreams and wonders of tomorrow.
Opal awoke to the sound of some people screaming at each other. She looked around to see that many students asleep, Pyrite and Amethyst too. But something caught her gemlike eyes. The same Atlesien girl was again returning towards the bathroom. Opal followed her to see what was going on. She found the girl intriguing as she watched her walk in and out of the bathroom,she waited outside the doorway for the perfect chance. On the girls fourth visit she approached the Blue-headed girl.
"either you drink a lot of water, or your nerves about this place; or you have one hall of a weak bladder" she questioned
"and what's it to you?" she replied rolling her sea-foam eyes to the pyjama wearing Opal
"I like helping others, its really a bad habit on mine."
"why me out of everyone else? I'm sure you can find many people with problems more distressing then me."
"Well I'm the only one here, who finds you fascinating and I bet i'm the first one who talked to you with out bumping into you."Opal's gemlike eyes began to shimmer as she narrowed her site to the blues-heads sea-foam gaze.
"Fine then, you got me"she continued "I don't think Beacon is for me." Opal carefully studied the Atlesien as she listened to her words falling from her mouth.
"I think I should of gone to Atlas at lest I could be with people and customs I know."
"So why did you come to Beacon?"
" It's too embarrassing to talk about, it really stupid now I think about it." the blue-head stopped and and the Bathroom fell into silence for a few moments. Opal waited for the girl to continue, but time kept crawling and she thought of a way to get the Atlesien to fully answer her question.
"Mate,If I tell you why I came to Vale you tell me why you came to Beacon then?" she let the question linger before The Atlesien finally spoke up.
"All right. What's your reason?"
" I'm from the badlands of Vacuo, I liked it there me and my mate's would find the best camping sites in all of the badlands we all set and watch the world pass by, but one day we met this huntsmen, he was injured in a battle with a King Taijitu, we helped him recover and brought him back to Vacuo. On the way there he told us about how he was once a student at Beacon and how the best days of his life was set in the halls and gardens of the academy, so we decided to go to beacon instead of Shade, if we ever wanted to become huntsmen; I came in hopes of having a Team who could join me out in the badlands, there are people who prefer to be nomadic, but I don't like how they go missing overnight eventually my mates met the same fate so I came hear to Vale to Beacon to find new mates, because I know that that's what they would wish for me. They always liked my smile so I shall smile for them in there place and mine..."
Again the room fell silent. The blue-head watched as Opal gave her an overly wide grin.
"I came to Beacon because um.." she struggled to speck out the embarrassing statement she was wishing to not revile, but the accented girl in front of her just bleed-out her Story and reason compared to her goal she felt hers was weak and not as inspiring.
"I came to Beacon um."she took a deep-breath before admitting. "Because I wanted to see Miss Coco Adel!" the room once again fell silent.
Opal and her stood there, she was waiting for Opal to laugh but instead she just gave the Atlesien a thumbs up with a slight smile.
" Your not laughing?" she said in astonishment to the white-head's response.
"Why would I laugh?"
"But do you know who Coco is?" questioned the girl.
"Nope, no clue whatsoever!" she answered with ignorance.
"She's! Wait never mind this is a good thing."
"What's a good thing?" Opal slowly crept into the comfort space of the Atlesien.
"It's better that you don't know." she answered
"Fine, by the way my names Opal, Opal Australis" she held out a hand for the Blue-headed girl.
"Oh yes, how rude of me; I'm Lapis Mist." she said taking the hand with hers formally greeting the odd girl with a small smile.
"Nice to meet you Lapis, tell me? have you heard of the assignment of Teams?"
End of Chapter 2 Lapis by Candlelight.
~Authors notes~
Yes two chapters done! we are getting to the Good parts now introductions done and dusted.
I hope you all are enjoying the story so far, even though this is just the First few Chapters.
anyway thinks for the reviews it really helped me out lot! and thinks for the warm Welcome to the RWBY Fandom.
This is my first fanfic so pleases do tell me if there's anything I can improve Grammar, spelling, if there's to much exposition or too little detail on what the Characters are doing.
By the way Pyrite is Inspired by Puss in boots just in case people didn't get the boots thing Pyrite has. yes she does sleep with them on...
her last name comes from the Marquis of Carabas witch Puss uses to get his master some land and even a sweat Ogre castle.