Filia for most the trip to Beacon had kept her eyes closed. It's clear to her that her chances of returning to New Meridian have dropped to rather unfavorable odds. With no roof over her head because of getting fired the night before she has ended up attending yet another school. "No point in hiding it Samson, we are never going to see the towering buildings of home again." She said opening her eyes and looking up toward Samson's hiding spot before continuing chuckling at a statement she said several weeks ago "Guess I really was meant not to find out who I was"
"Maybe if you are lucky enough, you will get bashed in the head hard enough to remember." Samson's sadistic statement did have truth to it. Two months after she got infected she did try that just to end up with a mild concussion.
"I'd rather not take the risk." She sighed as she scanned the flying machine's passenger bay. There were a lot of students here to her left she saw an overly dressed woman in white, based on her looks she came to the conclusion that she maybe of noble birth. The last time she encountered one of those types Samson did not get along well with her, course it did not help when said noble happened to be both a fake and certain Egyptian dressed psychopath that apparently killed several of his pasts hosts.
She continued her scan of those present. A quiet out of the way black haired girl. a couple one that was reserve the other less so, a yellow armored woman with quiet the crowd apparently some of the rumors on the ship is she is some kind of huntress prodigy and a celebrity because of it. The last two that caught her eye caused her to dive her head back into the newspaper she picked up this morning to fake reading it. The reason being is she recognized the two. The tallest of the two was the woman she delivered the shotgun shells to. She was busy strangling or bear hugging hard to tell from this angle a small kid in a red hood. Filia could tell she was the one from the robbery last night. She got up and began to make her way to the front of the flying ferry so she wasn't noticed by them.
As she arrived toward the front the ferry conveniently managed to doc at the same time. She waited patiently looking toward the metallic door to see what the school looked like. Several students had gathered behind her at the moment the heavy doors began to fall. To Filia it was like the grand curtain of a theatre opening to the stage of a musical as Beacon Academy lied behind it. The school looked like a castle from a fantasy setting. Course, that wasn't too surprising to her anymore. Everything in this world felt like a fantasy novel revitalized. She was about to walk when a blonde boy ran past her in a hurry to vomit his insides out.
Filia stared at him as she walked on careful to sneak past the two from yesterday who were gawking at weapons that some of the people had. The one in red seemed to really, really like weapons. "(She's make Peacock envious of her weapon knowledge.)" was all that went through both Samson and Filia's head as the two passed unnoticed Thankfully.
"Why are you avoiding people kid?" Samson finally built up the nerve to ask "You know it will do you some good to begin getting some of them to trust so you have people you can rely on in the future." He was speaking from experience it was how they always had shelter back in New Meridian. Samson knew a lot of people granted a good portion were also infected with a form of parasite or a creature from the cities dark underbelly.
"It is as much for our sake and for there's. we don't know how they will react to you. all together you and I are foreign matter from a world that suffers different problems as a whole." She continued her reasoning "The biggest difference is a person with a hat is less conspicuous than a person with living hair. We do not know what will happen should they find out about you so I would like to keep those who know about you to a minimal number for now."
Samson grumbled as he began to shift himself into a more comfortable position under the baller hat as she continued to explore the campus. It was massive to say the least it wouldn't surprise her if this place was at one point an actual castle. It sucked to her that she was in a world where her history was bordering a toddler.
As she contemplated that a crowd rushed past her knocking her forward a little. She quickly adjusted her hat just to have it nearly blown off her from a concussive shockwave that originated behind her. The heat from it felt intense. She quickly turned around to see two people completely covered in of them was the woman in white from before now mostly charred from the front and back. The other the same Little kid from before. She listened in to their talk or more accurately put lecture from the "noble" as Samson would put it.
"What were you think?" she stated rather frantic "aren't you a little young to be coming here? Beacon isn't any ordinary school were here to fight monsters."
Filia began to tune the two out a resume exploring the campus. "Whatever we do let's not Piss her off" Samson said sarcastically She could tell Samson wants to scare that woman bad.
"Samson please don't, she seems to be rich. I don't want to get kicked out of our only shelter, or worse end up on a mafia hit list." Stories of the cat burglar/vigilante, Ms. Fortune entered her mind. She encountered her once, but they never paid much mind to one another. Last she ever heard about her was she was planning on stealing a bank's vault worth of dirty cash from a Medici Mafia Laundering front to donate to an orphanage in need they retaliated by hiring some assassin to take her out. she can't say she approved of her when she gets violent but, she did like the idea of helping those in need.
After walking around the campus she managed to find an empty plaza to rest in. she sighed as she reached into the bag she had brought with her and pulled out was looked to be a pocket radio. After waking up this morning and getting evicted from her room she wandered the streets and bought the old radio from a second hand store as well as a collection of her favorite music genre, jazz and a few radio drama works. She pulled one of the weird cards out of their case and inserted it into the radio and switched it to the track setting. She almost dazed off to the smooth jazz track before a shadowy figure blocked her blurred path. She opened her eyes to see the kid in red from the other day and the blond kid who threw up when they arrived.
"Hey you were at the dust shop yesterday." the girl spoke up after a quick look over Filia's attire which was rather poorly kept. "You heading here to?" Filia nodded though remained quiet. "I didn't know you were training to be a huntress." at this point she was holding what appeared to be a load of energy. "what's your name anyway she asked rather calmly."
"It's Filia"
The girl in red seemed satisfied with her answers. Filia gestured to her causing the kid in red's eyes silver eyes to widen "Oh right, I'm Ruby and the person that was throwing up is Jaune." as she said his name he held up a hand and waved.
Filia did a more in-depth look at the two of them she has only ever seen Ruby from either behind her or from a distance. She was about the same size as her with black hair though it seemed to show traces of red She was not sure if it was because she had highlights or if it was natural. clothing wise it was hard to miss the red cloak she had on. the rest of her attire consisted with a Black dress and Black corset with red strap. "(This kid makes Parasoul look more colorful)" was going through her head. the rest was not helping her case. with black stockings and what looked like black boots with just traces of red on most of her clothing.
Jaune on the other hand was what she would regard as slightly more confusing in design. simply put he looked like an average high schooler on his day off after he decided to join a renaissance fair last second. a Black sweat shirt with a hood with a set of plate male only on his chest and shoulders. down below was only a pair of blue jeans held up by a brown belt underneath a second belt that held his weapon, a sword. "It's a pleasure to meet the two of you."
the two of them weren't sure what to make of Filia, her head was covered by a white Baller cap with a Black band wrapped around it. her basic clothing consisted of a stained white button shirt with two pockets on it. a small tie hung from her neck but it has been torn to a point it looks like a mix between a scarf and a choker, she has considered getting rid of it on a few occasions. a belt is wrapped around her to keep her skirt on. worn down purple stockings that head down to her surprisingly minimal damaged shoes. "So where are you from?" John asked curious given her attire.
Filia looked at the sky trying to think of the best way to describe where she is from. "I'm from a, uh, Major Metropolitan that is a long way from here." She said quickly hoping they don't pursue it.
"So from Atlas?" Jaune asked to get clarification.
"(Crap.)" "Yeah let's go with that." Filia stated quickly without hesitation. It wasn't like she wanted to lie but telling it to the wrong person and she may find herself in a strait jacket.
Ruby stepped in "So, what do you use as a weapon?"
Filia raised an eyebrow "Excuse me?" That was one of the most direct approaches she had ever witnessed from anyone maybe outside of that weird nurse she encountered one night. even then they never walked up and asked how do you fight.
"In combat what do you use to fight?" Ruby began to ask again.
"My, uh... Fists." Filia blurted out panicking.
Ruby didn't seem convinced, or she was disappointed, it was hard to tell with energetic types. "You do all the, Wahhhhh. Yaaaaoooo?" as she spoke she began to make series of ridiculous poses that a b rate martial arts film would produce. Filia and Jaune had to take a few steps back as they stared at her dumb founded as she did this. Ruby realized she was being stared at and stopped without saying a word
"Okay I'll be forth coming" Filia spoke "I left my weapon at the shop a few hours before getting on the ferry to here." though She was lying it was better than saying "I have a head of living hair that shapes shifts into salon/animal figures as she strikes." She still was going to beat herself over this one a good portion of the time she has been on Remnant she has done nothing but lie. to a degree it sickens her. she hated being lied to and now she has to do it to keep a very hard to control secret.
"Oh I see, well this is my weapon." she held out a red weird looking briefcase. Suddenly a stick shot out of one end. it looked like it could double as a gun barrel the middle section of the pole stayed the same mostly but the device was now close to double Ruby's size. the end of the long shaft began to flip showing a giant blade slide out. "This is the Crescent Rose." she stated proudly "I made it myself, all the students at Signal have to."
"So death wears red" Filia stated she heard that line somewhere though not sure when she was certain though this was a great implication of such a line. "It's a beautiful device." Ruby took a stoic pose as she complicated the giant bladed weapon. She looked at Jaune with curiosity regarding his weapon.
"Oh my weapon doesn't do anything like that." He was a lot more modest than she was expecting. "It's just this sword and a collapsing shield."
Filia nodded to show signs of Acknowledgment before looking at them. "those things must to be heavy to lug around." she realized that both devices had a lot of weight to them The crescent Rose particularly seemed to look very heavy.
"Not really." Ruby said as she waited for her weapon to refold back upas she continued to speak "I would love to see you weapon when I get a chance" Filia nodded.
Just then a speaker went off. "all first year students please procced to the entrance hall." it announced before going back into silence.
Thee three of them upon hearing the message and left to the entrance hall. it was huge to say the least at best the larger than New Meridian 's gym but it gave several theatres' a run for their money. the three of them parted ways to find a place to sit. Ruby rand towards the yellowed haired woman from before while Jaune just walked off sad over a lack of people to talk with. Filia just stayed in place listening to the speech. if it was one way to describe it was generic. this Ozpin person while Charismatic in approach could be called fairly dull. All Filia got from it is there is experience and knowledge go hand in hand. It is probably safe to say it was just the speech they give every year to make a student feel intimidated. The bond woman known as Goodwitch gave them their instructions.
hours later
Beacon's ballroom was no different in approach to this place gigantic grand and an absurd amount of mixing of fantasy and science fiction. Filia however realized that this was going to be a hard night to get through. She was stuck in the middle of a room with a lot of wandering eye teenagers. Samson could easily be made. "Looks like we're going to be first to awake last to sleep tonight Samson" she sighed as she went to put her radio on again this time with the radio adventure drama: Trials of the Discarded. She was in the middle the episode when two figures loomed over her. she looked up to see Ruby with the Blond woman again. "Ruby, to what do I owe the Pleasure?" she decided to keep a form of formalities since it was getting a little late.
"I came by to introduce you to my sister" she waved her arm in the blonde's direction.
"Hey the names Yang." She waved with a rather care free approach.
"We've meant before." Filia responded while keeping her attention on the two. "I was the one that delivered your shotgun shells."
Yang looked at Filia before making the realization herself. "Wow, talk about a change in careers. So you have any training?"
Filia stared at Ruby for a quick second before answering "some, most from street fights my associate puts me in."
Yang looked at her rather dumbfounded "Nice choice of friend Ruby" she mumbled to her younger sister. afterward she shot her attention back toward Filia "Bet the initiation will be fun don't you?" Filia remained quiet distracted by her radio. much to Yang's annoyance "alight enough radio for a second" She stated reaching down and pulling on the cord of her headphones disconnecting them. Filia shot her head up. "answer my question."
She rolled her eyes "how would I know? I'm new here." She watched as yang's eyes flash from purple to red like that time she was delivering.
"You are like the Ice Queen you know that?" Yang's hand was twitching it's possible that she has a shorter fuse than either Samson or Peacock which was saying something since both would be willing to get into a fist fight easily. Yang however managed to cool down a lot faster than the two of them combined "Fair enough, even I don't know what to expect I just hope it will be fun."
"I doubt that will be the case." Filia spoke up "The last school I went to had an entrance exam it was a two hundred question quiz." Filia may not have much memory of her past but hearing students complain about it when she attended made her certain it was something she had to do. "based on what this place looks like." she looked around the ballroom Elegant free of fault, and beautifully crafted "I imagine this place is no different."
Yang sighed "Well let's keep that a positive thought." She continued smiling that same kind of grin Samson got before a fight, or a big meal. Filia began to come to the conclusion she can't be too bad if she was close to her sister. "Well, I'm going to hit the sack" Yang yawned "I'll see the two of you tomorrow for the entrance test." she walked off still stretching.
It was just Ruby and Filia accompanied by the two's awkward silence. Ruby began to get nervous as Filia calmly read her book as her radio played. "Well I'll see ya around" She stated awkwardly as she left.
As she left Filia looked up at her. She contemplated how much she could trust Ruby she seemed to be very kind and willing to see things without over reacting albeit a little childish. "Hey Ruby." As she called her name she stopped and turned. Filia hesitated again before speaking "you said you'd like to see what I use as a weapon, correct?" at that moment Samson tightened on her head. "I'm not showing her now to many people." She whispered so only He could hear her before turning her head to Ruby. "tomorrow after the exam I'll let you see it."
Ruby stood silent but then nodded showing signs of excitement. an hour goes by before everyone went to sleep except Filia who looked left and right at the room. before removing her hat for Samson to stretch and eat a bunch of the simple snacks she took with her. "So, you trust that kid?" Samson's mouth was full of junk food and wrappers from Filia's bag. She simply nodded as he swallowed. Samson sighed "I'll be honest Filia you are a terrible judge of character." His tentacles reached into the bag again to pull out more of the food stashed in there. "But if you prove to be right on her I'll try my best not to scare her too much, like I said you need to build up your contacts and that requires you to build trust in each other."
"Thank you Samson" Filia yawned a little must be close to midnight. You may not need to sleep for a while but please wake me up early. I think it's best we get cleaned up before others notice you."
"Yeah, sure thing kid." Samson said looking into the bag for more food. he looked to see her out cold. "(guess even she gets drained easily.)" he thought as he scanned the room while avoiding any patrolling teachers till the dawn of the next day.