Chapter 04
ARRIVED AT BEACON
After spending time with Tai, Hakuoh and his men went to the airfield escorted by Tai himself since they did not know where to go. Also Tai gave manage to give them passage to an airship that's going directly to Vale. Tai standing before the three men said "Good luck on your journey and say hi to the girls for me." Hakuoh, with a smile, nodded and reached out his hand to shake Tai's hand. Tai goes to shake his hand as farewell to one another. "Until next time Uncle Tai." Hakuoh said and released his hand walking on board the airship to their next destination…..Beacon. The three sits at a corner surrounded by future huntsmen who too are going to Beacon. Tai managed to give them special passage to the airship that'll take them directly to Beacon. As the airship takes off, Tai stood watching it leave wondering when he'll see the boys and his daughters all together again having fun like when they were little. Hakuoh sat quietly looking out the window thinking of what to say to Ozpin upon arrival. "You should get some rest Hakuoh. It may be a while till we get to beacon." Mizuko insisted. "Yeah you're right." Hakuoh replied leaning back and closing his eyes quickly falling asleep.
Hakuoh opening his eyes finds himself not in the airship but in the forest. He looks around in confusion looking for Mizuko and Fu. He calls out to them but there was no response. After a while of wondering around calling out for someone, white rose peddles started to float around him and he noticed it was coming from one direction. He follows the floating trail of the peddles that lead him to a field filled with white roses. He continues to walk forward but stops as he heard someone called out to him. He turned to his right and before him was Ruby and Yang standing there with a smile on there faces. And right between him was his precious sister Akari who was holding their hands. Ashe was about to call out to them, they pointed to their left trying to guide Hakuoh. Hakuoh turns back in front of him and see's a person standing at an edge of a cliff, wearing a bright white cloak with their hood on faced directly at him. As Hakuoh steps forward, a bright light started to emerge from the cloak stranger blinding Hakuoh and surrounded him.
Hakuoh slowly woke up to a voice "Hakuoh wake up. We're here. Wake up." As we wakes up, he find himself back in the airship with Mizuko and Fu. "Finally you're awake." Mizuko said. Hakuoh wiping his eye and yawns, said "Sorry I had a strange dream." Mizuko and Fu looks at each other as if they knew what was going on but instead was concerned and confused. "Well we're here at Beacon. We should go." Mizuko said. "Right," Hakuoh responded. The three then gets up and walks over to the exit door where everyone else was gathered and commenting on how excited they were and how big and amazing Beacon was. As the doors finally opened everyone rushed out and the three followed being the last to leave the airship. The walked towards a fountain and Hakuoh looks up at the tall Beacon tower admiring the structure before them. He then heard some laughing at the other side of the fountain and saw through the water at least four blurry figures. He goes to see who it was and found five men in Beacon uniforms. They were students of the academy but one of them was on the ground. The other four continue to laugh at the student that was on the ground as if it was a joke.
One of them stepped forward and said "You're so weak and a loser. I wonder how you got into Beacon in the first place?" Hakuoh knew right away of the situation. "Now where were we" the man in short brown hair said and started to approach the blonde student who still sat on the ground. However, a Fireball landed in between the two stopping the bully from getting near the victim. Hakuoh stepped in between the two and said to the bully "You will leave him alone." Mizuko and Fu goes to help the student up who thanks them. The bully laughs and said "Oh yeah and you're gonna stop me?". Hakuoh then spreads both of his arms outwards summoning countless amount of Fireballs behind him. The bully started to show fear as he looks at the barrage of Fireballs that emerge from Hakuoh. Then some footsteps was heard and the both of them looked over. A women who was holding a wand of some sort and stood there crossing her arms. "We were expecting you Prince Hakuoh but I wasn't expecting you to pick a fight with one of our students." she said. Hakuoh lowers his arms and the Fireballs disappeared in thin air. He removes his hood and bows saying "Pardon me madame, it wasn't my intention. I was only protecting this young man." The women glares at the blonde and walks over to Hakuoh and looks over to the students. "Cardin, Juane you'll be late for class. Now go." she said to them. All of the students then leaves going inside of the building for class. "My name is Glenda a professor of Beacon. Now if you will follow me. Professor Ozpin will like to talk to you." she said.
Hakuoh puts his hood back on and then goes to follow Glenda along with Mizuko and Fu. As they walked to Ozpin's office, Hakuoh constantly was looking around and Mizuko knew very much why as he smiled and giggled a bit. He was either trying to avoid being seen by the girls or wanted to see them. Either way Hakuoh kept looking around. Finally they make it to highest floor where Ozpin is and Glenda goes to open the door for them. Hakuoh turns to his men and said to them "Wait here." The two bowed and goes to lean against the wall while they wait. Hakuoh enters the room and the door closes behind him. There he see's Ozpin sitting behind his desk sipping out of his coffee mug. Hakuoh walks forward and removes his hood once again. As he walked up, Ozpin stood up and took a bow then said "Welcome to Beacon Academy Prince Hakuoh. I'm delighted you have came all this way." Both then take a seat to start their conversation. Hakuoh leans forward a bit and asked "By the way Professor, Glenda said you were expecting me. How did you know we were coming?" Ozpin takes a sip of his coffee and answered "How do you think you got passage to that airship? Tai contacted me." Hakuoh leans back and got comfortable. "Well that's Uncle Tai for you." he said.
Ozpin puts his coffee mug down and leans forward onto his desk. "So why have you, the prince, come all this way? I'm sure the King of Dawn could of send someone else." Ozpin asked. Hakuoh smiles and answered "Because I have my goals and a long journey ahead of me. Beacon was just down that path. Therefore, I would of come here eventually anyways." Ozpin seemed intrigued by the answer and places his hands together in front of him. He thought that Okami made a mistake by sending someone far too important to travel with only two men but instead he see's that it was well planned out. Sending Hakuoh to help with his journey and the kingdom, it was like killing two birds with one stone. "I see. Well then shall we get into business then?" Ozpin asked. "Yes, of course. My brother wishes to strengthen our armies and in order to do that we need to understand and learn more ways in using aura. We need to be more like the warriors of today." Hakuoh started off. "Like a Huntsmen?" Ozpin asked. "Yes. He believes if a Dawnish soldier can also fight like a Huntsmen, we can train and build a stronger army to fight off the Grimm. Therefore, he would like wants to start sending our people to attend your academy. Of course it will be entirely voluntarily. However, in the end its all up to you professor." Hakuoh stated. Ozpin leans back at his chair and reached for his coffee taking a sip. He continues to think about it some more, he gets up off his chair and goes to the back of his office looking out the window. Ozpin takes another sip and turns back to Hakuoh telling him "I understand the position you all are in against the Grimm but I wish to not be a contributor to your army. After all a Huntsmen must not have any allegiance with a kingdom." Hakuoh stands up from his chair as well and had a serious expression. "I understand professor and I'm Okami would too. But this can help us greatly not to just protect our own but possibly others as well." Hakuoh stated and it caught Ozpins attention a bit more. Ozpin walks back to his desk setting down his coffee mug. "Very well I will accept your proposal but first I want to see if you can defeat one of my students." Ozpin told Hakuoh who was surprised by his proposal. "If that's what will take then I accept." Hakuoh said with confidence. Ozpin gives Hakuoh a warm smile and said "Then I shall make preparations. In the meantime, please explore the campus and its almost lunch. You may enjoy a meal at the cafeteria if you like." Hakuoh goes to take a bow then said "Thank you professor." He then leaves the office rejoining Mizuko and Fu who were waiting for him.
After the meeting with Ozpin, the three went back outside near the fountain they were at earlier. All three sat down on the fountain and wait for Ozpin to call for them. However, Hakuoh, staring up at the sky, started to think about the strange dream he had and cant seem to figure out what it meant. As we thinks about it, he then hear someone call out to him. He looks back down towards the entrance and see's Yang running towards him. He gets up and opens up his arms with a smile. Yang jumps into his arms and both greet each other with a hug. "What are you doing here?" Yang asked. "I came to speak with Ozpin. We want to start sending our people to attend Beacon." Hakuoh answered her. Yang, still in Hakuoh's arms, looks up at him and asked "Oh really and will you be attending?" Hakuoh giggles a bit and answered her "Unfortunately no but that would have been fun." The two stare deeply at each other, eye to eye with a warm smile on their faces. Then a loud voice killed the mood. "OH MY GOSH! Yang has a boyfriend!" Yang's face turned red and quickly jumps out of Hakuoh's arms. She then turns to the girl who stood next to other students. One of them was Juane. "Nora?! Wait no he's not….he's just a childhood friend of mine that's all haha." Yang told Nora and is embarrassed. "Oh I see. Don't worry your secret is safe with me hehe," Nora said as she smiled big and giggled. "C'mon lets go eat!" Nora said and heads to the cafeteria along with the rest of her classmates. Hakuoh looks at Yang who's looking down all embarrassed and smiles. She finally looks back at him and asked "Want to join us? I'm sure Ruby would love to see you too." Hakuoh looks at his men who both nodded since they were hungry as well. "Yes I would like that." Hakuoh responded. Yang smiled and goes to take a bow with her arm extended out. "Then right this way your Highness." she said in a humorous manner. "Haha lead the way madame." Hakuoh joining in the humor. They too then go to the cafeteria to join the others for lunch.
In the cafeteria, Hakuoh and his men sat across the rest of team RWBY and JNPR as they eat their lunch. At this point Ruby already explained that she's the team leader and all the adventure they gone on. Same with Hakuoh and about his task in Beacon as well as his journey. "Who would of thought that you of all people would of become team leader." Hakuoh said to Ruby. "Hey whats that supposed to mean?" Ruby said. Hakuoh laughs at Ruby along with the rest of her team. "Who would of thought that you two were such good friends with both princes of Dawn." said a red headed girl from team JNPR by the name Pyrrah. "I said the same thing." Weiss said. "They are full of surprises." Blake added to the remark."Anyways its good to see you girls are alright and made great friends. Okami definitely would be happy." Hakuoh said. After that statement, Rudy and Yang looked at each other as if something was bothering them. Ruby looks down at her plate and Yang looks over to Hakuoh. "So he's king now. How is he holding up?" Yang asked. "He's doing alright for himself. Believe it or not he's actually working really hard more then ever." Hakuoh responded. Hakuoh noticed Rudy still looking down. "Listen we're sorry we weren't there when…..your father…we know what its like to lose someone and we regret not being there for the both of you." Yang said as if she was a big sister to Hakuoh. Hakuoh couldn't help but give them a warm smile. "Its okay. Both Okami and I understand you had other things to take care of. Neither of us are mad at you." Hakuoh stated. Ruby seemed to be relieved now that she knows that Okami wasn't mad. She then quickly raises her head and places both of her hands on her head and yelled. "Aaaah! Now that he's king, we wont be able to see him as much anymore." Ruby said out of frustration. "Well then why not try visit him instead? I'm sure he would be overjoyed by you visiting Yamato." Hakuoh suggested. Ruby with a big smile said "You're right! What do you say you guys? Shall we go on a road trip?" Ruby was all jumpy and excited since she never been to Yamato before. Especially with the fact that she'll catch Okami off guard. "Sure I don't see why not." Blake answered. "I'll consider it AFTER the school year." Weiss said. Ruby then turns to Yang who then says "You should already know my answer sis." Ruby overjoyed reaches as far as she can to hug her teammates. "Yay! This will be so much fun!" she yells out of excitement. Then she looks over to Juane and his team and said "Oh! You guys can come too."
As Hakuoh watches the excited huntsmen talking about their possible trip to Yamato, Glenda walks over to their table stopping next to Hakuoh catching his attention. "Professor Ozpin is ready for you." she told Hakuoh. Hakuoh and his men gets up from their seats placing their swords back on their belt buckle. "Thanks you all for lunch. I'm glad we had this moment." he told everyone as he looks at them. He then looks over to both Ruby and Yang. "Until next time." he tells them. Ruby and Yang responded by giving him a smile. Hakuoh and his men then began to follow Glenda but then was stopped by Juane voices "Wait!". Hakuoh goes to look at the young blonde who is standing from his seat and now has everyone's attention. "Thank you for helping me earlier today." he said to Hakuoh and his men. Hakuoh gives Juane a smile and said "Of course, anytime for a friend." Juane was surprised by being called a friend by Hakuoh. So Hakuoh then leaves the cafeteria to go Ozpin for whatever challenge he set up for him.
Glenda leads then men through the academy halls then goes to open a door for them. Hakuoh and his men steps in leaving Glenda behind to close the door. The appeared to be in an empty classroom that is meant for combat training and Ozpin stands alone down the stairs in the middle of a stage. They go down towards Ozpin for their meeting. "Now that you're all here we can began." Ozpin said. Hakuoh confused and looks around trying to find the students that he should be facing but only finds Ozpin alone. "Where is your student we were supposed to fight?" Hakuoh asked. Instead of answering Ozpin leaps forward and attacks Hakuoh with his crane. Hakuoh, however, managed to block his attack using his armor gauntlets as protection. "I'll be your opponent." Ozpin said. Hakuoh with all his strength pushes Ozpin away. He then removes his cloak entirely as well as his men. They then drew their swords preparing for a difficult fight. Ozpin brushes off his sleeve and gets ready as well saying to the three men "Now show me what a Dawnish can do."
