Chapter 2: Meeting New People

Edge was standing next to a window and looking out at the stretches of green below, it relaxed him, let him think. Edge was wearing a white short sleeved shirt, a black and orange hoodie with two crossing lilium, a set of headphones, blue jeans, a pair of white satchels around his waist and orange and white high-tops.

Meanwhile: After the knees debate, news broadcast and Glynda's speech.

"Come on little sis, you need to try and meet new people." Yang said, trying to encourage Ruby to make new friends.

"I don't need to meet new people, I have you." Ruby replied.

"Oh come on sis, at least try talking to someone." Yang said before taking a look around. "How about him?" Yang pointed to an orange haired boy, he was staring out the window.

"Fine." Ruby groaned as she gave into her sisters wishes, the two of them walked over to the boy.

"Hello." Yang greeted with enthusiasm in her voice. The boy turned around, revealing a pair of familiar sky blue eyes.

"Hi." The boy replied. He looked over at Ruby, they recognized each other immediately.

"You're from the other day!" They both exclaimed.

"Wait, you two know each other?" Yang asked, confused by the current situation.

"Yeah, we met the other night." Edge answered. "Also, who're you?"

"I'm Yang, Ruby's older sister." Yang replied.

"Oh, it's nice to meet you. I'm Edge." Edge introduced himself

A short while after:

The carriers landed and everybody walked off, one person ran off so that he could throw up in a bin. Ruby, Yang and Edge stopped to gaze at the building in front of them.

"The view from Vale's got nothing on this." Yang stated. Some people walked pat and Ruby immediately started fawning over their weapons. Ruby almost wondered off, but Yang pulled her back. Edge was analysing the weapons he could see.

"Come on sis, they're just weapons." Yang said.

"They're not just weapons, they're extensions of ourselves." Ruby explained.

"Well why can't you swoon over your own weapon, or Edge's?" Yang asked.

"Of course I'm happy with Crescent Rose, I just like seeing new weapons, and I haven't seen Edge's weapon yet." Ruby answered. "Speaking of, Edge, where is your weapon?" Ruby asked. Edge smile as an orange light appeared in front of him, he grabbed the light as it took the form of a pair of roller skates.

"These are my weapons. I call them Hermes' boots, they can reach insanely high speeds which I use to create devastating attacks. They have... actually, I'll save you all the techno babble." Edge stated.

A few moments after the weapon discussion:

"Well... actuallymyfriendsareheregottagobye." Yang said in a rush before darting off with her friends. As they left, Ruby got spun around.

"Wait, are we supposed to go to our dorms? Do we have dorms? I don't know what I'm doing." Ruby admitted in a dazed state, she fell over backwards into a luggage cart.

"Are you alright?" Edge asked as he held out his hand to help Ruby up. Ruby took his hand and Edge pulled back to her feet.

"I'm fine." Ruby replied.

"What do you think you're doing!?" a white haired girl yelled. Edge and Ruby turned to see a girl who had an angry look plastered on her face.

"She doesn't know." Edge smiled, this earned him a jab from Ruby's elbow.

"Sorry." Ruby apologised.

"Sorry? Do you know how much damage you could've caused?" The girl asked. Edge picked up one of the suitcases and looked inside, he then looked at the girl.

"Judging by the amount of dust you've got and the quality of your outfit, I would estimate a few thousand lien." Edge answered as he handed the suitcase over to the girl.

"Exactly. This is dust, mined and purified from the Schnee quarry." The girl said as she looked in the suitcase.

"Uhh." Ruby replied. The girl picked out a bottle from the suitcase.

"What are you, brain dead?" The girl asked. "Dust, fire, water, lightning, energy." The girl explained, waving the bottle. "Are you even listening to me? Is any of this sinking in? What do you have to say for yourself." The girl questioned as she continued to wave the bottle.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Edge warned. A small amount of dust escaped from the bottle and caused Ruby to sneeze, and explode. "Gesundheit." Edge coughed.

"You complete dolt!" The white haired girl shouted at Ruby. "What are you even doing here? Aren't you a little young to be attending Beacon? This isn't your average sparring school you know?"

Edge was getting more and more irritated with every word that came out of this girls mouth.

"Hey! She said she was sorry princess!" Edge yelled, completely irate.

"It's heiress, actually." Corrected a girl with black hair, she was holding the bottle from earlier. "Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee dust company. One of the biggest producers of energy propellent in the world." The black haired girl continued.

"Finally, some recognition." Weiss sighed.

"The same company infamous for its controversial labour forces and questionable business partners." The girl continued, Edge snickered.

"W-Wha? The nerve." Weiss said, she took the bottle from the black haired girl and stormed off.

"I promise I'll make this up to you!" Ruby shouted to Weiss. "Guess I'm not the only one having a rough first day." She said to herself. "So, what's..." Ruby started before realising the black haired girl was walking away. "Welcome to Beacon." Ruby whispered to herself as she slumped to the ground.

"Hey, at least you're not alone." Edge said in an attempt to cheer Ruby up.

"Yeah... You're right, I've still got you." Ruby replied. Ruby and Edge started walking around the academy.

Later:

"Hey, could you give me a rundown of your weapon." Ruby asked, she looked at Edge with a gleam in her eyes.

"Sure, hmm, where to start." Edge hummed. "I'll continue where I left off earlier. My Hermes' Boots are roller skates with a high powered motor that runs off of dust. My excess aura is actually helpful in that regard, you see, depending on what type of crystal I use, the attributes of my attacks change. Fire makes my actual attacks stronger, it adds more force to them. Water gives me the ability to launch streams of water at my opponents, it's good for feints. Lightning adds a magnetising effect, it's helpful for riding on walls. Energy is just a simple speed boost. I can also use two dust crystals at once, I can load a separate dust crystal into each boot and the crystals effect affects both boots." Edge explained, he noticed Ruby looking at him with a huge smile. "You really like learning about other weapons, huh?"

"Yep." Ruby nodded.

"Anyway, I told you about my weapon, so now you tell me about yours." Edge said. Ruby pulled out a compacted Crescent Rose and changed it to scythe form. "Still a scythe." Edge commented.

"It's also a customisable high impact sniper rifle." Ruby explained.

"So basically, it's also a gun." Edge simplified,

"Yes." Ruby replied. "Hey, where are we going?" Ruby asked.

"I don't know, I was following you." Edge answered.

"But, I was following you."

"We're lost." Edge said bluntly.

Sometime later:

"Ruby! Over here!" Yang shouted, grabbing Ruby's and Edge's attention. "I saved you a spot." Ruby and Edge walked over to Yang. "How's your first day going little sister?" Yang asked Ruby.

"You mean since you ditched me and I exploded." Ruby answered in an irritated tone.

"Yikes, meltdown already?" Yang asked.

"No, she literally exploded." Edge deadpanned.

"Yeah, and then I tripped over some crabby girls luggage and then she yelled at me and then I sneezed and then I exploded and then she yelled at me again and I felt really, really bad and I just wanted her to stop yelling at me." Ruby explained. Noticing said crabby girl, Edge looked at Ruby with a worried expression.

"You!" Weiss yelled, startling Ruby and causing her to jump into Yang's arms.

"Oh god, it's happening again." Ruby cried.

"You're lucky we weren't blown off the side off the cliff." Weiss said.

"Oh my god, you actually exploded." Yang said, shocked that her sister wasn't exaggerating about exploding.

"Told you so." Edge smirked.

"It was an accident." Ruby explained, getting down from Yang's arms. "It was an accident." She repeated. Weiss took out a pamphlet and held in front of Ruby's face. "What's this?" Ruby asked.

One explanation later:

"Uh." Ruby groaned, dazed from everything she was just told.

"You really want to start making things up to me?" Weiss asked.

"Absolutely." Ruby answered.

"Read this and never speak to me again." Weiss ordered.

"Look uh... sounds like you two just got off on the wrong foot, so why don't you two start over and try to be friends." Yang said, trying to play peacemaker.

"Yeah, great idea sis." Ruby replied, she cleared her throat. "Hello Weiss, I'm Ruby. Wanna hang out?" Ruby asked as she introduced herself. "We could go shopping for school supplies." She suggested.

"Yeah, and we can paint our nails and try on clothes and talk about cute boys like tall, orange and annoying here." Weiss mocked.

"Oi!" Edge yelled, getting more annoyed at the heiress.

"Wow, really?" Ruby asked.

"No." Weiss stated bluntly. And after that, Ozpin's speech began.

Later that night in the guys' changing room:

"Well, today was hectic." Edge sighed whilst hurriedly getting changed out of view. "I can scarcely guess what tomorrow will be like." Edge walked over to his locker and threw his clothes in. Whilst looking around, Edge noticed that one guy was bunny pyjamas. Edge walked over to him and tossed him a spare t-shirt and bottoms.

"Huh?" The guy asked, he looked over at Edge.

"Wearing those will be less embarrassing than bunny pyjamas." Edge stated.

"Oh. Thanks." The guy replied.

"You're welcome. I'm Edge, Edge Columbus." Edge said introducing himself.

"Nice to meet you Edge, I'm Juane Arc. Short, sweet, rolls off the tongue, ladies love it." Juane introduced himself, in a way that slightly caught Edge off guard.

"Do they really." Edge questioned while stifling a laugh.

"They will. At least I hope they will." Juane admitted.

"I'm sure they will." Edge reassured him. "Anyway, I'm going to go get some sleep, see ya tomorrow." Edge said as he waved goodbye.

"Ah, yeah. See you tomorrow." Juane waved back.

In the ballroom:

"Where to sit, where to sit." Edge repeatedly muttered to himself. The legs of his white Pyjama bottoms fell underneath his heels, not that he would notice since he was wearing socks, his black t-shirt had the word 'Autumn' in orange letters across the front. "Ah!" Edge exclaimed, quietly, as he noticed a familiar looking girl. 'She intervened in the argument me and Ruby had with Weiss.' Edge remembered. 'I'll sit a little bit away from her.' Edge thought as the girl was reading. He set sleeping bag and pillow down close to the wall and tried to sleep, until a familiar voice spoke up.

"Hello." Yang greeted. "I believe you two may know each other."

"Aren't you that girl that exploded?" The girl asked.

"Yeah, my name's Ruby." Ruby introduced herself as she extended her arm for a handshake, but was rejected. "But, you can call me crater-" Ruby cut herself off. "Actually you can just call me Ruby."

"Okay." The girl replied. Yang pulled Ruby to the side.

"What are you doing?" Yang asked Ruby in a whisper.

"I don't know, help me."

"So, what's your name?" Yang asked the girl.

"Blake." The girl introduced.

"Well Blake, I'm Yang, Ruby's older sister." Yang introduced herself. "I like your bow." Yang complimented, trying to start a conversation.

"Thanks." Blake replied, she was obviously getting fed up with the conversation.

"It goes great with your pyjamas." Yang continued, still trying to start a proper conversation.

"Right." Blake replied.

"Nice night don't you think?" Yang asked.

"Yes it's lovely." Blake started, Ruby and Yang were looking at her. "Almost as lovely as this book." Blake continued, Ruby and Yang were still looking at her. "Which I will continue to read." She continued, Ruby and Yang were still looking at her. "As soon as you leave." Blake finished.

'And I can get some sleep.' Edge thought as he moved closer to the wall.

"Yeah, this girl is lost cause." Yang said to Ruby.

"What's it about." "Ruby asked.

"Huh?" Blake replied.

"The book, does it have a name?" Ruby asked.

"Well, it's about a man with two souls." Blake responded, this caught Edge's attention. "Each fighting for control of his body." Blake continued. It was at this point that a surprised Edge jolted forward, bashing his head against the wall.

"Ow..." Edge groaned as he sat up while holding his forehead.

"Oh, yeah. That's... lovely." Yang responded. Ruby stepped forward.

"I love books." Ruby said. "Yang used to read to me every night before bed, stories of heroes and monsters, they're one of the reasons I want to be a huntress." Ruby explained.

"And why is that? Hoping you'll live happily ever after?" Blake asked.

"I'm hoping we all will." Ruby answered. "As a girl, I wanted to be just like those heroes in the books, someone who fought for what is right and who protected people who couldn't protect themselves." Ruby finished.

"That's very ambitious for a child." Blake said. "Unfortunately, the real world isn't the same as a fairytale." She finished.

"Well that's why we're here. To make it better." Ruby stated.

"Oh, I'm so proud of my baby sister." Yang said as she pulled Ruby into a bear hug. This led to a fight, in a dust cloud?

"She's right you know." Edge said to Blake.

"Do you know them?" Blake asked, looking at Edge.

"Yeah, I met Ruby the other night and she introduced me to Yang this morning. I'm Edge. Don't worry about introducing yourself, I overheard your conversation earlier." Edge answered while introducing himself. "About that book you're reading. You said it was about a man with two souls, right?" Edge questioned.

"Yes, why?"

"Just wondering." Edge smiled solemnly.

"What in the world is going on over here!?" A familiarly irritated voice yelled. "Don't you realise some of us are trying to sleep?" Weiss asked.

"I'd give up on that, heiress." Edge interjected.

"Oh not you again!" Weiss and Yang yelled at each other. Edge rubbed his forehead.

"Oh god. Here we go." He sighed.

"Shh. Guys she's right, people are trying to sleep." Ruby whispered.

"Now you're on my side." Weiss scoffed.

"I was always on your side!" Ruby exclaimed.

"Yeah, what's your problem with my sister? She's only trying to be nice." Yang argued.

"She's a hazard to my health." Weiss reputed. Edge and Blake looked over to each other, Edge lied down as Blake blew out the candle she was using as a light source.


So many words. So many hours. Anyway, for those of you wondering, Edge will be bringing his own story alongside the cannon plot. There will be revelations and explanations, just why does Edge have excess aura? What are the limits (if any) to copy and paste? All will be revealed in time.