Auditoriums are hell; crowded rooms filled up to the brim with idiots, wannabe hunters, exasperated teachers, scantily dressed women, and couples who make PDA an understatement. Everyone in the room had something on their mind, where to go, what to do, who to talk to; it was all frantic, and with this being the first time everyone has been in one place, it was also mass pandemonium. Body motions spoke volumes, everything from shrugged shoulders to middle fingers flipped up; every angry remark, held back sarcastic comment and unpleasant hormonal thought echoed off the walls as if I could hear them, and not a single one of them… was louder than Isaac's fucking whining.
"You know Ian, you told me this place was going to satisfy all my hunter needs," My unrightfully upset friend shouts, his hands once stuffed with various foods located in the stands outside of Beacon now empty, "And this hunter needs food. WHY DON'T I HAVE ANY FOOD?!" My thin neon clothed friend practically collapses on the floor, which is surprising in a room of this size. I glare at him with an annoyed look on my face as Jaune flashes both a vague look of concern and confusion. Isaac rolls over on the floor, sobbing like a baby who had his pacifier ripped right out of his mouth, and then blows his nose on Jaune's pant leg, transforming the look of concern to one of disgust.
Ruby giggles softly as Jaune shakes Isaac off of his leg, who holds on for dear life as he continues bawling his eyes out. I smirk smugly, as discount Lancelot faces the essence of karma in full force. "Well would ya look at that?" I say my accent escaping me a little. "We had a little saying back in Mistral, it goes a little something like 'karma's only as much of a bitch as you are.'"
Even though it was extremely quick and was most likely supposed to be subtle, some dude, a faunus it looked like, turned his head towards Isaac and I and just… squinted. At first I thought it was the same as everyone else, just a little confused about how the hell a couple of fifteen year olds squirmed their way into a school like this. Eventually though, I started to notice, there were more and more of them hovering around us, watching. The first dickhead with bat ears protruding from the sides on his head seemed to be listening in on Jaune and Ruby's conversation on laundry detergent, while two more of them, a guy with some canines sharper than some of the comebacks I make and a woman with yellow eyes and slits for pupils inch towards me. While it isn't as creepy as I'm making it sound, it was a little concerning, and I think Isaac caught on too.
"Alright", Isaac says, nodding as he eyes his surroundings, "how much do you want to bet that you've pissed off these guys in some way or form?" I turn to him scowling, which was basically to say it was for certain that I had, but I wasn't about to admit it. He gives a confused look and elaborates, "We just got into this place, it's a once in a lifetime thing, we're not going to screw it up by beating these guys to a pulp… are we?"
"Well what do you think? I'd love to stay in this place, but if these guys are any kind of remnant of our past then there's all the reason to prepare ourselves." I slip on my two most trusted friends on this planet, Wrath and Agony, mismatched gauntlets that I've used in countless battles before I even met Isaac. One's a red and black heavy hitter that'll absolutely leave a mark, whereas the other is a pale green one quite a bit lighter, but has spikes on the knuckles so that it can leave bit of a more long lasting effect on my opponents. Isaac eyes them in concern, as he knows me to only throw them on when shit's about to go down. "Jaune, get Ruby out of here, I'm not taking any chances."
Ruby, being the little ball of energy that she is, flies into something similar to a two year old's tantrum. "What?! Ian, come on, we can totally handle ourselves!" Ruby sighs exasperatedly, putting her hand on her forehead. "You seem to forget that you and Isaac aren't the only two capable fighters at Beacon, I was the only person at Signal Academy to make it here under the normal age! I prevented a Dust Shop from being robbed by ROMAN TORCHWICK, you'd think I could handle myself."
"Well yeah, you did stop a robbery. But I hate to break it to you, but you weren't the one that fought ADAM TAURUS on top of Sanctum Academy on live television. So please, you and Prince Uncharming need to book it out of here before things get ugly, for me." Ruby and I maintain eye contact for a few seconds, as if she's trying to out-stubborn me, but it ultimately fails, and she throws her hands up in the air walking off.
Jaune follows close behind her, continuing their conversation from earlier, "As I was saying, motion sickness is a much more common issue than people let on." The conversation seemed to derail, the faunus from earlier finally approached us. Canine was leading the charge, and it seemed that at least five more angry bystanders had been added onto what looked to be a fight in the making. There was something out of the ordinary though, the shadowy figure girl from earlier. She caught my eye for a second, just long enough to see her amber irises, identifying that she was indeed human. For a moment she looked like she was going to hop into the angry mob surging towards me, but instead, she adjusts her bow and walks off, too far for me to see.
When I turn back however, the sharp toothed wolf faunus was practically inches away from my face; I had to fight the urge to knock him in the jaw right there and then. He smiles at me, not the most welcome one I've ever gotten, so I decide not to return it. "Hey, ya ever heard of personal space?" My accent thickens as I speak slightly louder than my normal tone of voice. "I don't need the scent of dog food stainin' the air around me here, I'm tryin' to breathe."
"Well goddamn, you've certainly got a mouth on you." He says as his toothy smile wraps around his face again. "The names Titus, a faunus, as you can tell, and I'm looking for the man that killed seventy six members of the White Fang on live television." Isaac, clearly attempting to not be a part of this conversation begins to back away slowly, realizing that this isn't his fight to fight. I catch him by the shirt and pull him back beside me, I'm going to need backup in case things escalate.
"Ah, don't worry, I've got you covered." I unfold an imaginary map in front of his face, pointing at different things in the air. "As you can see, we're right here. Now all you need to do, is take a right here, and then the moment you start to see the trees you can go fuck yourself." His once confident facial expression drops into a scowl, and the rest of his little clique moves in on us, causing Isaac to hop into something of a weakened sparring stance. "Listen, we don't want any trouble, so how's about we chill out a bit, and wait for initiation before something escalates, deal?"
Titus scoffs, "'You don't want any trouble'?! That's rich coming from a bastard like you, killing nearly one hundred faunus without breaking a sweat is 'trouble' if I've ever seen it." He cracks his neck as his crew nods and vocalizes agreement.
"You act like I went into the slums of Atlas and unleashed hell!" I shouted, "My home was being attacked by a bunch of no good terrorists that were better off dead. If you were in my place, you woulda done the same damn thing." It was a poor attempt at descalating the situation.
And it showed how poor it really was. A fist slammed into my face as I was about say something. I recovered almost instantly, quickly grabbing his shirt I head but him as hard as I could. If this guy wants a brawl I give him one.
And I was till some Aura wrapped around the both of us. Then from the crowd walks out a girl who looked eerily like the chick from the vid we all saw on the transport here. It wasn't her that much was certain, but it was really bugging me.
"Why can't boys have the decency not to fight anywhere at anytime. If you two boneheads didn't notice this is a Auditorium," She said with on hand on her hip and the other holding out a…
I start laughing much to everyone's surprise and shock, even Isaac looked a little bewildered. "I'm-I'm sorry but," My laughted acts up some more. "Is that a Monty damned WAND."
She clearly did not like me making fun of her wand. As evidenced by her lifting my up and slamming me on the ground face first. It wasn't hard enough to cause any damage, but I'm not gonna lie. It hurt. I notice Isaac trying to talk to her, "Look he's an ass but it was that wolf faunus that started it. So if you would let him go me and him would just go somewhere outta sight." She regards him for a second then I feel the Aura let go of me. I stand up and brush myself off. I look to Titus and flip him off before getting in toe with Isaac.
After we were away from all that mess Ruby, Jaune and a new girl with blonde hair, huge tits and an outfit that even I would call a bit to showing walked towards us. "Yo." I say regarding Ruby and Jaune. I look to the blonde (Whos blonde was also brighter than mine, this shit is pissing me off). "And who might you be?" She gave me a grin. "Im Yang Xiao Long, Ruby's big sister." She said as she grabbed Ruby (much to Ruby's dismay) and started to give her a noogie. Before I could comment or flirt I heard a familiar voice boom in the room. "Students I present to you Headmaster Ozpin."