When I walked into the auditorium, I first saw Yang waving back to her friends as she found an empty spot in the middle of things. She must be waiting for me and Ruby.
"Hey, Yang, what's up?"
"Hey, Zach, just waiting for my sister, where is she?"
"She is making a new friend as we speak."
"Really? Who?"
"Remember that guy on the bullhead that was throwing up." She just looked at me kinda blankly.
"My sister is making a friend out of the guy that embarrassed himself in front of everybody?"
"Yep." We both started at each other for a moment before we both started laughing.
"Hahahaha, yeah that sounds exactly like her!"
"The best part was that the guy helped her up off the ground and was talking to her like some kind of lady killer!"
"Hahahahahaha, yeah, that guy couldn't get a girl like Ruby even if he tried his absolute hardest!" We kept laughing for awhile before we say the two of them walk in.
"Ruby! Over here! We saved you a spot!" Yang was smiling and waving while I just smiled and nodded in her direction. We saw her make a quick goodbye to Jaune and walked over to us.
"How's your first day going, little sister?"
"You mean when you ditched me and I exploded?!"
"Yikes, meltdown already?"
"No, you don't get it, she actually exploded a hole out front."
"Yeah, and there was some fire, and I think some ice." She smiled and looked at the two of us.
"Are you guys being sarcastic?"
"I wish! I tripped over some crabby girls luggage and then she yelled at me, and then I sneezed, and I exploded, and then she yelled again, and I felt really, really bad, and i just wanted her to stop yelling at me." I noticed Weiss had started sneaking up behind Ruby, hearing every word she was saying.
"YOU!" Ruby then jumped into my arms in fear.
"Ahh, It's happening again!"
"Your lucky we weren't blown off the side of the cliff!"
"Oh my god, you really exploded."
"It was an Accident!" She jumped out of my arms and stood facing Weiss. Weiss then pulled something out of her bag and pushed it in her face. It was a Pamphlet labeled "Dust for Dummies". I pulled it out of her hand and started reading from the first page.
"The Schnee Dust company is not responsible of any Injuries or damages sustained while operating a Schnee Dust Company Product although not mandatory, the Schnee Family suggests you read and familiarise themselves with this easy to follow guide to dust application and use."
"Do you really want to make it up to me?" Ruby then perked up and looked at her.
"Absolutely!"
"Read that and never talk to me again." I gave her the pamphlet and she stuck it in her skirt.
"Hey it looks like you two just got off on the wrong foot."
"Yeah, why don't you two start over and try to be friends?" I said.
"Yeah, Great Idea Zach. Hello Weiss, I'm Ruby. Wanna Hang out? We could go shopping for school supplies?"
"Yeah, and we can paint our nails, and try on clothes, and talk about cute boys like tall, blonde, and scraggly over there." Jaune looked up when she referred to him.
"Wow, Really?!" There was a second of silence while Weiss glared at Ruby.
"No."
"Wow, you really have to be a bit-" I didn't finish my sentence when Ozpin had walked up to the Microphone and cleared his throat into it.
"I'll keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge. To hone your craft and acquire new skills, and when you are finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But, I look amongst you and all I see is wasted energy. In need of purpose, direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this but your time at this school will show you that knowledge will only carry you so far." He seemed to be staring right at me when he said that. "It is up to you to take the first step." He then walked off the stage and Professor Goodwitch took his place.
"You will gather in the ballroom tonight and tomorrow, your initiation begins. Be ready, you are dismissed."
The four of us just stood there for a moment before I broke the silence. "He seemed kinda….. off." Ruby then pitched in.
"Almost like he wasn't even there." That was when jaune the "Lady Killer" Decided to step in and try his luck on Weiss.
"I'm a Natural Blonde, you know." All four of us face palmed.
It was much later in the night and people had started unraveling their sleeping bags. I got my bag and turned around to find pretty much every spot taken, that was when I saw the only spot left available next to Yang. I picked up my bag and walked over to her.
"Hey, mind if I set up here?" She looked up at me from her scroll and smiled.
"Not at all, go right ahead." I quickly set down my black sleeping bag and took off my shirt and jacket, leaving me in just my jeans for a second. I was about to throw on a more comfy shirt when I noticed Yang staring at my my six pack.
"What?" She then looked at my face in surprise and looked back down at her scroll.
"Nothing, whatever don't worry about it." She was obviously flustered, and since I was so great with people, I could tell that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity, but since I wasn't a torture artist, I slipped on an under armor shirt and laid down on my sleeping bag. Then I looked over to beyond Yang and noticed Ruby writing down something.
"What's that?"
"A letter to the gang back at Signal, I promised to tell them all about Beacon and how things are going?" Yang got off her Scroll just in time to hear that.
"Awww, that's so cute!" She quickly got a pillow to the face from Ruby because of that.
"Shut up, I didn't get to take my friends with me to school, It's weird not knowing anyone here!"
"At least you know me. I came to this school a year younger than everyone else, I don't know anybody, but at least we can stick together through this!" She smiled at me.
"Yeah, I know and I'm happy that I'm your friend, but based on friends at Beacon, I've got Jaune and that's it." Yang had pulled the pillow off her face and was smiling again.
"Hey, that's a one hundred percent increase!"
"Yeah, well Weiss makes a negative friend, back to zero."
"There's no such thing as negative friends, you just made one friend and one enemy!" Yang got yet another pillow to the face for that comment. I looked at her, knowing that she'll do just fine in this school.
"Look, Ruby, it's only been one day, You've got friends all around you, you just haven't met them yet!" The three of us looked up as we saw someone light a candle. We looked over to see the girl wearing black from the explosion out front today. She appeared to be pulling out a book.
"That girl…." I still wanted to know how she knew me, but if I was going to find out, it wasn't going to be today.
"Yeah, her…" Yang was looking at us confused
"Do you guys know her?" Ruby spoke up.
"Not really. She saw what happened this morning but left before I could say anything."
"Well, Now's your chance!" Yang got up and started to pull Ruby towards the girl. I thought I should stay behind, if she did know me, it would spook her if she saw me again. When Yang noticed this though, she turned around held me by the ear, and pulled me and Ruby to the girl.
"Helloooooo, I believe you three may know each other?" When Ruby and I broke free and pulled ourselves upright. She was looking up from her book.
"Aren't you the girl that exploded?"
"uhhh, yeah. My names Ruby." She held out a hand to the girl, which she ignored.
"Yeeeeah, hey. My name's Zachary Milos, but everyone calls me Zach." Her eyes widened when she heard my last name, so I knew that she knew me. I'll have to follow up on it later.
"Okay." She seemed completely uninterested in us and had gone back to her book. Yang whispered to Ruby.
"What are you doing?"
"I don't know Help me!" I couldn't stand this any longer though.
"So, what's your name?" She rolled her eyes at me.
"Blake."
"Well, Blake, I'm Yang, Ruby's older sister. I like your bow."
"Thanks."
"It goes great with yourr… Pajamas."
"Riiiight." She was now basically ignoring us and had gone back to reading her book again. I spoke up again.
"Nice night, dontcha think?"
"Yes, It's lovely, almost as lovely as this book." She then waited a moment as we looked at her in silence. "That I will continue to read. Once you leave." Yang then lost all hope.
"Yeah, this girls a lost cause."
"What's it about?"
"Huh?" I had gone out on a limb and connected with the only thing I could connect with her about. Books.
"Your book. Does it have a name?"
"Well, It's about a man with two souls, each fighting over control over his body." Ruby then looked nostalgic as she thought about her past.
"I love books. Yang used to read to me every night before bed. Stories of Heroes and monsters. Their one of the reasons I want to be a Huntress." I raised my eyebrows in surprise. I had not heard this story yet.
"Why's that? Hoping you'll live happily ever after?"
"Well, I'm hoping we all will! As a girl, I wanted to be just like those heroes in the books, as someone who fought for what was right, and protected people who couldn't protect themselves."
"That's very ambitious for a child, unfortunately the real world isn't the same as a fairy tale."
"Well, that's why we're here. To make it better!" Then Yang went in for a hug, saying she was proud of her baby sister, but ended up starting a wrestling match between the two, when I looked over, I saw Weiss starting to walk over, looking pissed. Before she could get here, I put my hand over the candles flame. When Blake grabbed my hand, to stop me from burning my self, I took it back and smirked at her.
"Just watch." I reached out again and snuffed out the flames with my fingers, without leaving a burn behind.
