Chapter 3
3rd Person POV
Ruby, Austin and Jaune entered into entrance ceremony, and noticed the large amount of students in the room that are attending the academy. They're attention was caught when Ruby heard her sister's voice called her.
Yang was waving to her. "Ruby! Over here! I saved you at spot!"
"Oh! Hey I gotta go! I'll see you guys after the ceremony!" Ruby says before leaving.
"Alright, See you later." Austin waves bye
"See ya." Jaune says.
Austin and Jaune watch as Ruby walks towards Yang when their attention was caught by someone calling Jaune this time.
It was the blonde girl that was comforting Jaune from earlier. "Hey Jaune! I'm over here!"
"Oh right. Come on, Austin let me introduce her to you."
Jaune and Austin start walking towards the blonde girl.
"Hey sis."
"Where have you been Jaune? You said you would catch up but never did?" she asked him.
"Sorry about that but I did meet a few people though. This is one of them by the way. Austin this is my sister Faith."
"Hello, it's nice to meet you." she says and holding her hand out.
"Same here." Austin smiles and shakes her hand.
Ruby's POV
I left Austin and Jaune as I went to go meet up with Yang and when I got to her I remembered that she ditched me so I crossed my arms and gave her an angry look.
"How's your first day going, little sister?" she asked me
"You mean since you ditched me and I exploded!?"
"Yikes. Meltdown already?"
"No, I literally exploded a hole in front of the school...and there was a fire...and I think some ice." I said as I put my hand on my chin.
Yang smiled thinking I was being sarcastic then tried cheering me up.
"Well, look on the bright side, you came here with your crush and Vomit boy." she continues to smiles while I blush from what she said.
"Yang! It's not like that! He's just really nice to me he even helped me after I tripped over some crabby girl's luggage! And then she started to yell at me, and then I sneezed. And then I exploded! And then she yelled again! And I felt really, really bad! And I just wanted her to stop yelling at me!"
"YOU!" Weiss yelled.
I jumped in surprise onto Yang's arms as I heard Weiss yell. "Oh god, it's happening again!"
"You're lucky we weren't blown off the side of the cliff!"
"Oh my god, you really exploded." Yang said in surprise knowing what I said was true.
"It was an accident!" I said as I was getting down from Yang's arm. "It was an accident!" I repeated until Weiss put a pamphlet in front of me. "What's this?"
"The Schnee Dust Company is not responsible for any injuries or damages sustained while operating a Schnee Dust Company product.(Weiss voice started to get higher and faster) Although not mandatory, the Schnee Family highly encourages their customers to read and familiarize themselves with this easy to follow guide to Dust application and practice in the field." she finished.
"Uhhh…" I was left confused
"You really want to start making things up to me?"
"Absolutely!" I said as she hands me the pamphlet.
"Read this and don't ever speak to me again."
"Hey, aren't you being a little harsh on her Ms. Schnee?" we turned to see where the voice came from and it was Austin.
"And who are you?"
"Austin, but that doesn't matter right now. Look, it sounds like you two got off on the wrong foot. So I apologize on my friend's umm….reckless behavior."
"Hey! I said it was an accident." I retorted
"Anyways, why don't you just start all over and try to be friends?"
"I was gonna say the same thing." Yang smiled.
"Yeah! Great idea, Austin!" I said as I cleared my throat and hold out my hand. "Hello, Weiss. I'm Ruby! Wanna hang out? We can 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!" she points to Jaune who's in the background with his sister.
"Hmm" Jaune looks over to us after what Weiss said.
"Oh wow, really?!" Getting my hopes up.
There was short awkward of silence between us until Austin broke it.
"Ruby…you do know that was sarcasm right?" he said.
3rd Person POV
Their attention was drawn towards the stage where Professor Ozpin was about to give his speech.
"Ahem...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 have 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 prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step." He finishes and leaves while Glynda walks up to the microphone.
"You will gather in the ballroom tonight. Tomorrow your initiation begins. Be ready. You are dismissed!"
"He seemed kind of off." Yang says.
"It's almost like he wasn't even there." Ruby replied.
"Well that's Ozpin for you." Austin thought to himself.
Jaune then approached Weiss.
"I'm a naturally blond, you know!"
Weiss, Austin and Faith facepalm.
Timeskip to Night
On the first night at Beacon, students were spread out through the ballroom in sleeping bags. Ruby, was in her pajamas writing a letter as Yang falls onto her sleeping bag next to her.
"It's like a big slumber party!"
"I don't think dad would approve of all the boys, though." Ruby said while still writing her letter.
"I know I do." Yang smirked staring at the several shirtless guys until Jaune walked in front of them in his footie pajamas making Yang look away, back to her sister. "What's that?"
"A letter to the gang back at Signal. I promised to tell them all about Beacon and how things are going."
"Aww, that's so cuuuute!" Yang says until she suddenly gets hit in the face by a pillow thrown by Ruby.
"Shut up! I didn't get to take my friends with me to school. It's weird not knowing anyone here."
"What about Jaune? He's...nice! And that guy you have a crush with umm...what was his name again…? Well anyways, that's plus two friends!"
"Yang! Can you quit calling him that!? And his name is Austin."
"Well, from the way he looks he's seems more of an 'Aus-ten' don't you think." Yang said while raising her eyebrows towards her sister who threw another pillow at her. "Anyways, where is he? I haven't seen him since the ceremony?"
Ruby looked around the room to find Austin until she spotted him. He wearing a black shirt and grey sweatpants while looking out and sitting next to the window with his eyes closed.
"Oh, he's over there next to the window." Ruby pointed out for Yang
"Well, now's your chance to talk to him more!" Yang gets up and grabs Ruby.
"Hey, wait! What are you doing?"
Austin was just sitting quietly until he started to hear commotions coming towards him. He opened his eyes and looked to his right and saw Ruby and Yang.
"Helloooo!" Yang said. Austin just stared while raising one eyebrow "I think you two are know each other!"
"Uh...yeah….Hey Ruby and umm...sorry but I never caught your name?"
"Oh this is my sister Yang."
"It's nice to meet you Yang." he smiled. "But just curious why are you two here?"
"My sister here wanted to get to know you better becau-" Yang was cut off as Ruby covered her mouth knowing what her sister was going to say.
"Because you seemed umm….lonely?" Ruby mentally facepalmed for saying that of all things.
"Well, I usually prefer to be by myself. That's why I tried going to my room but Ozpin wouldn't let me because I'm a student now so I have to be treated like the other students." Austin said in somewhat annoyance on the last part.
"You have your own room here?" Ruby asked.
"Yeah, I lived here for a couple of years so I had my own room, Professor Ozpin and a few other professors looked after me but I guess I lost it now that I'm attending here now."
"What happened to your parents?"
Austin smile faded away and started to look sad and stayed silent for a moment.
"Umm...my father been gone since I was nine years old years because he went on this really long mission so here dropped me off here where Ozpin could take care of me while he is gone but I haven't seen him since then….and for my mother...I'd rather not talk about it. Sorry, just...personal reasons." he said.
"I-I'm sorry, I didn't kn-" Ruby got cut off.
"It's fine, you just wanted to know more about me." Austin showed a small smile. "Anyways, I'm gonna sleep. I'll see you girls tomorrow morning."
"Alright, goodnight." the two sister waved bye to him.
Ruby and Yang were now walking back to their sleeping bags.
"I feel bad now." Ruby frowned.
"Aw, don't be sis. You didn't know and he forgave you about it."
"Yeah but he probably forgot about his past until I reminded him about it. He seemed happy when to talk with us until then."
"Aww, my baby sister cares about her crush maybe you can make him feel better." Yang smirked.
"Sh-shut it Yang." Ruby started to blush.
Ruby then heard a candle being lit and looked to see where it came from. When she found where it came from, she spotted the two girls that she saw earlier from the day.
"Those girls…."
"You know them?"
"Not really… they saw what happened this morning, but left before I could say anything."
"Well, now's your chance!" Yang grabbed her and dragged her towards the two girls.
"Not again." Ruby said while being dragged.
The two girls looked over to Yang dragging Ruby towards them.
"Hellooo! I believe you three may know each other!"
"Aren't you that girl that exploded?" the girl with black hair asked.
"Uhh, yeah! My name's Ruby!" Ruby holds out her hand for handshake.
The girl with blue hair was the first one to introduce herself to Ruby and Yang "Nice to properly, meet you Ruby. I'm Sapphire." Sapphire said and shakes Ruby's hand. "I would like to talk more but I'm feeling tired so I'm going to head to bed. I'll see you in the morning."
"It was nice meeting you, Sapphire." Ruby said as Sapphire got up and walked to her sleeping bag.
"Well that makes three friends now." Yang whispered.
"Now help me with the other one." Ruby whispered back and smiled towards Blake.
"So...what's your name?" Yang asked.
"...Blake." she says while reading her book.
"Well, Blake I'm Yang. Ruby's older sister!...I like your bow!"
"Thanks."
"It goes great with your...pajamas!
"Right…" still reading her book and not looking at them.
Ruby and Yang looked at each other for a bit because of the awkwardness but Yang continued to talk with Blake. After some time Ruby and Blake started to talk about the book she was reading and Ruby telling her why she wants to be a huntress. Yang was proud of her sister and hugged her.
"Ohhh, I'm so proud of my baby sister!"
"Cut it out Yang!" Ruby tried to get out of her sister's grasp.
Blake slightly laugh seeing the sisters fight. "Well, Ruby, Yang...It's a pleasure to-" Blake was cut off as Weiss appeared.
"What in the world is going on over here?! Don't you realize some of us are trying to sleep?" Weiss yelled.
Weiss and Yang looked at each other "Oh, not you again!" they both yelled in unison.
"Shh! Guys, she's right! People are trying to sleep!" Ruby said
"You think!" Austin yelled along with Sapphire, Faith, and other students.
"Oh now, you're on my side." Weiss said to Ruby
"I was always on your side!"
"Yeah, what is your problem with my sister!? She only trying to be nice!"
"She's a hazard to my health!"
Blake then reached for her candle and blew out the fire making the room dark for them to stop their argument. Everyone in the room was thankful for it to be quiet and drifted off to sleep and prepare for their initiation for tomorrow.
Hello again everyone, hope you enjoyed chapter 3. I'm gonna take a small break from writing because I have finals and projects to do now but wanted to finish and release this chapter since it was halfway complete. I also have other ideas for future fanfics but just the concept of them, I'll probably start them when I finish vol 2 or 3 for this fanfic so that I don't somehow catch up with the actually show. Anyways, if you have any questions, comments, concerns, or suggestions feel free to message me or leave a review and I'll see you next time.