Chapter two: arrival at Beacon
Ruby and Onyx boarded the VTOL Airship together, and they met up with Ruby's sister, Yang Xiao Long.
"Oooh! I can't believe my baby sister is coming to Beacon with me! And you've found a boyfriend too, nice going little sis!"
"He's/She's not my Boyfriend/Girlfriend!" Ruby and Onyx corrected at the same time.
"Awww, you two looked so cute together, too." Yang looked nothing like her sister, she was two inches taller, with long blond hair, lilac eyes, and many more curves than her younger sibling, she also wore a pair of large gold bracelets that were nearly identical to the collapsed gauntlets on Onyx's own wrists.
"So, what's your name?"
"Onyx Blanch."
"Onyx helped me fight off those goons who were robbing the shop, he was really good, he uses gauntlets like yours, but one of them charges itself with Dust energy, and the other has a machine gun, and he can charge the Dust rounds with energy just like with his other gauntlet!" Onyx extended his gauntlets.
"Yep, these are Rise and Fall, my wonder twins. I built these guys myself, and they are the best weapons I've ever made."
"Wow! You like to make weapons too?" Ruby was practically bouncing up and down in excitement.
Onyx could feel his face go red, he wasn't used to someone being so excited about something he did. "Yeah, it's mostly just a hobby, but I sometimes get a good idea, and I just have to build it, it's no big deal, really."
"You even have similar interests! You are made for each other!" Yang teased
"For the last time, Onyx and I aren't together, we're just friends!"
A news broadcast began on a holoscreen. The picture was a mugshot of the orange haired criminal from the Dust store.
"The robbery was led by nefarious criminal Roman Torchwick, who continues to evade authorities, anyone with information on his whereabouts should call the Vale Police Department." Onyx retracted Rise and Fall, before pointing to the mugshot.
"That's the guy who was leading the robbery we stopped, apparently his name is Roman Torchwick." Onyx said to the girls, who had been too busy bickering to notice, they stopped and turned to the screen, which was now showing a crowd of Faunas holding signs, one of which read "WE ARE NOT ANIMALS!" the story was about the White Fang disrupting a peaceful Faunus civil rights rally, the image of the Huntress from the rooftop fight replaced the news.
"Hello, and welcome to Beacon!" The hologram said.
"Who's that?" Yang asked.
"My name is Glynda Goodwitch." The projection said, almost as if the hologram of the woman was answering Yang's question.
"Oh."
"You are among a privileged few who have received the honor of being selected to attend this prestigious academy! Our world is experiencing an incredible time of peace, and as future Huntsmen and Huntresses, it is your duty to uphold it. You have demonstrated the courage needed for such a task, and now it is our turn to provide you with the knowledge and the training to protect our world." The hologram vanished, and several students gasped at the view, Ruby and Yang looked out at a large building down below.
"Look, we can see Signal from up here, it looks like home's not too far after all." Ruby said.
"Beacon's our home now." Yang pointed out.
Just then Onyx was pushed out of the way by a blond boy, nearly as tall as Onyx, who was making a dash for the nearest trash can.
"I guess the view's not for everyone." Yang commented.
"Oh gross! Yang, you have puke on your shoe!"
Onyx and Ruby backed away from Yang with expressions of disgust on their faces, while Yang began freaking out.
"Gross gross gross gross!"
By the time Yang managed to wipe the puke off her boot they were landing.
When the door opened the blond vomiter ran to the trash can outside and proceeded to do his best to expel his intestines out through his mouth, everyone else, however was captivated by the sight of Beacon, the main building was one of the most impressive pieces of architecture Onyx had ever seen, and he'd grown up in Mistral, a Kingdom that was famous for it's architecture, it resembled a castle with numerous smaller buildings around it.
"The view from Vale's got nothing on this!" Yang said. Onyx agreed wholeheartedly.
Ruby was distracted from the view by the variety of weapons the new students all held.
"Ooh, Sis that kid's got a collapsable staff, and she's got a fire sword!" She was about to dash off to fangirl over more weapons, when Yang grabbed her by the hood and pulled her back.
"Easy there little sister. They're just weapons!"
"Just weapons? They're an extension of ourselves, they're a part of us! They're so cool!"
"She's right, Yang."
"Well why can't the two of you swoon over your own weapons, aren't you happy with them?"
"Of course I'm happy with Crescent Rose! I just like seeing new ones, it's like meeting new people, but better."
"Yeah, whether or not we're happy with our weapons isn't the point Yang, you can tell alot about a person by looking at their weapons, as most people's fighting styles match their personality to some degree."
"Well, you two should go meet some of those new people."
"But... Why do I need to have new friends when I have you and Onyx?"
"Well... My friends are here now, gotta go catch up! 'Kay see ya, bye!" Yang dashed off with a crowd of people. Leaving Ruby to spin confusedly in place.
"Wait, where are you going?! Are we supposed to go to our dorms? Where are our dorms? Do we have dorms? I don't know what I'm doing..." Onyx quickly caught her before she fell backwards.
"Watch it you two!" Two angry voices yelled, one male one female.
The voices belonged to a white haired girl in a white combat dress like Ruby's and a red lined white bolero jacket, and a young man in an impeccable gold suit, crisp white shirt, gold pants, and a pale yellow tie, with golden blond hair, a rapier hung from the girl's belt, and the boy held an ornate cane, with a sword grip topped by a red Dust crystal.
"What are you doing?"
"Uh, sorry." Ruby apologized.
"Sorry? Do you have any idea what could have happened if your boyfriend hadn't caught you?"
"He's not my boyfriend!"
"It doesn't matter!" The gold clad boy yelled at Onyx. "I don't know what would have happened if you hadn't caught her, but, you nearly stepped on my arsenal box! That box contains dozens of single use weapons, most of them explosive! Your friend's clumsiness nearly cost us our lives!"
"And these trunks are full of Dust! Congratulations little girl, you nearly blew us all to pieces! Aren't you both a little too young to be attending Beacon? This isn't your ordinary combat school you know, it's not just sparring and practice, we're here to fight monsters, so... Watch where you're going!"
"I said I was sorry Princess! And you can't possibly blame Onyx for nearly stepping on your stupid box, he was a bit busy catching me to look where he was going!" Ruby snapped, aiming the last part at the boy in gold.
"It's heiress actually." A calm voice corrected. "And heir: Weiss Schnee and Julius Gold, heirs to the top two businesses in the world: the Schnee Dust Company, and Gold Industries."
"Finally! Some respect!" Both heirs cried.
The girl who'd spoken had long black hair, gold eyes, and a black bow, she was reading a leather bound book, which she looked up from to deliver her parting shot.
"Both of these companies are known for their controversial labor forces and questionable business partners."
"What- how dare- the nerve!" Weiss Schnee spluttered.
"Why that... Who dares..." Julius Gold was reduced to a similar state of apoplexy. They stalked off in different directions, leaving their valets to handle their luggage.
"I guess we're not the only ones having a rough day, huh?"
"Apparently not."
"Are we interrupting a moment or something? 'Cause we can always come back later."
The girl's voice startled them.
"What? No, we're not together! And we weren't having a moment." Onyx said, embarrassed.
The girl, whose purple hair and green eyes stood out from coffee colored skin, and who had some kind of large silver bracers on her arms a pair of weights on chains hung from the bracers, the chains fed into the bracers themselves, suggesting that they were much longer, but the majority of their length was wrapped around the girl's arms.
"It certainly doesn't look like that's the case."
Onyx and Ruby both turned red as they realized for the first time that Onyx hadn't let go of Ruby's shoulders since he'd stopped her from falling.
"Anyway, my name's Violet Lightwood, and this here." Reaching behind her, Violet produced the blond boy who'd tossed his lunch on the airship. "Is Jaune. What're your names?"
"Onyx Blanch."
"Ruby Rose. Wait, aren't you the guy who threw up on the ship?"
Jaune looked embarrassed. "Yeah..."
"...All I'm saying is that motion sickness is a much more common thing than people let on." Jaune insisted, the four of them had been wandering around for ten minutes, and Jaune and Ruby had been talking the entire time.
"I'm sorry, Vomit Boy was the first thing that came to mind."
"Well if I call you lovebird?"
"I told you! Onyx and I aren't together!"
"Well my name's Jaune Arc, short, sweet, rolls off the tongue, ladies love it!" At this the other three burst out laughing, before Violet asked: "Do they? It certainly doesn't work on me."
"They will! I-I mean I hope they will, my Mom always says... Never mind." Jaune turned red with embarrassment.
A short silence passed before Ruby pulled Crescent Rose off her back, and unfolded it. "So... I got this thing!"
"Whoa! Is that a scythe?" Jaune asked nervously.
"It's also a customizable, high-impact sniper rifle!"
"A wha...?"
"It's also a gun." Ruby supplied, cocking it helpfully.
"Cool! I've got these! Inferno and Blizzard, my retractable, magnet propelled battle chains, the weights have a Dust crystal in them, fire for Inferno, and ice for Blizzard" Violet showed off her weapons by whipping Inferno out and blowing up a sizable rock ten feet away, then retracting the chain.
"These are my gauntlets, Rise and Fall." Onyx extended the weapons and displayed them for Jaune and Violet to see.
"Nice!" Violet said appreciatively.
"So... What do they do?" Jaune asked.
"They can both enhance themselves using the rotating selector of Dust crystals in each gauntlet, but while Rise enhances the gauntlet itself, Fall's enhancements go to the bullets for the mini machine gun built into it."
Violet turned to Jaune. "What do you have?"
Jaune looked embarrassed, he drew a plain, sturdy longsword. "I've got a sword." Ruby oohed, Onyx could understand why, the simple sword had it's own kind of elegance, nothing fancy, but it had clearly seen many battles, and it was still deadly sharp and sturdy.
"I've got a shield too." He pulled his sheath from his belt, and with a click it expanded into a simple kite shield with two golden crescents painted onto the face..
"So.. what do they do?" Ruby asked.
"Well, the shield gets smaller, so when I get tired of carrying it, I can just... Put it away." Jaune finished a bit lamely.
"But wouldn't it weigh the same?" Ruby asked, Jaune hung his head.
"Yeah, it does."
"Well I like it, not everyone has an appreciation for the classics these days." Ruby said honestly.
"Yeah... The classics." Jaune muttered.
"Well I'm sort of a dork when it comes to weapons, maybe I went a little overboard when I was designing Crescent Rose."
"Wait... You made that!?" Jaune asked incredulously.
"Of course! All students at Signal forged their own weapons, it's the same at Sanctum, where Onyx is from, didn't you make yours?"
"Nope! I inherited these from my Dad when he was killed in action." Violet said, Ruby and Onyx both looked sympathetic, Onyx could tell that Ruby knew what losing a parent was like, just like him, however, in Onyx's case, it was both of them. Jaune broke the silence.
"These have been in my family for generations, my great great grandfather used them to fight in the War."
"That sword is one hundred years old? What kind of metal did they use to make it? Most swords only last for about forty years of consistent use." Onyx asked curiously.
"I don't know, you're saying that there's something special about my sword?"
"Well, yeah, at minimum it's made of a really good metal that just isn't in common use anymore, does it have a name?"
"Crocea Mors, my Dad says it means 'Yellow Death'. Umm guys?"
"Yeah?"
"Do you know where we're going?"
Ruby shook her head. "Onyx and I were following you two."
"And I was following Violet."
Violet looked uncomfortable. "I was just wandering around until one of you pointed out the place we're supposed to be."
Jaune laughed nervously. "I don't suppose there's a directory, maybe a food court? Some kind of recognizable landmark?"
The others laughed.
"Is that a no?" Jaune asked dejectedly.
"That's a no." Ruby replied.
(Author's note: now I've introduced the V, the O and the J in VOAJ, Violet Lightwood is meant to be based on a crossover between Yang and Ruby, Yang's personality, Ruby's Unusual weapon preference and leadership, Julius Gold is, of course meant to be based off of Weiss, and the O is Onyx of course. Read, enjoy, and review)
Character Bio: Violet Lightwood
Age: 17
Sex: female
Species: Human
Height: 5'8''
Weight: 120lbs
Hair: purple
Eyes: Green
Skin: Brown
Aura: Purple
Semblance: Polarity
Weapons: Inferno and Blizzard: two ten foot long weighted chains stored in a pair of specially designed bracers, Inferno holds a fire Dust crystal inside the weight at the end of the chain, whenever the weight hits something it causes an explosion, Blizzard holds an ice Dust crystal in it's weight, and it freezes anything it hits, Violet uses her Polarity Semblance to manipulate her chains on the battlefield
Character Bio: Julius Gold
Age: 17
Sex: male
Species: Human
Height: 5'11''
Weight: 167lbs
Hair: golden blond
Eyes: Brown
Aura: Gold
Semblance: Glyphs
Weapon: The Gentleman's Guardian: a sword cane, with a fire Dust crystal set in the pommel that causes the blade to burst into flames, the cane sheath is steel encased in wood, and is sturdy enough to be used as a second weapon, or as a defensive item