The airship descended and docked at the skyport, signaling to everyone that they have arrived at Beacon. All the new coming students left the airship, among them Hazel and Fiver. The siblings left; doing their best to ignore the same blonde guy that was puking his guts out in the airship was now puking his guts out in a trash can.
Little they knew that a hooded figure was looking down at them. They followed a paved path and stopped at the sight.
From Fiver lips escaped a whistle and from Hazel a simply 'wow' very unlike her due her stoic nature. Saying that the Beacon was big was an understatement…it was enormous. Following the paved path was a big rounded fountain and a statue with what looked like aqueducts around it and the academy looked like a castle.
"We're not in Watership anymore" he said adjusting his hat, astonishment clearly in his voice.
"Yeah" she simply said. He looked at her with mental slap. She noticed this. "What?"
"That's it? 'Yeah'? We're in one of the few academies in Remnant that train persons into grimm slayers and all what you can say is 'yeah'?"
She looked at him a few moments, obviously annoyed "Yeah" she started to walk away. He looked at her upset and quickly catch up with her "You know you should show sometimes more than one emotion at time"
She sighed "What do you want me to say, Fiver?"
"Um, I don't know, how about: 'Wow, what magnificent piece of architecture' or 'I hope we will meet someone interesting' or better 'Maybe I should try to make more friends beside my handsome and cool brother'"
"Is this coming from the same guy that was about to have an anxiety attack at the airship?" she asked incredulous, the sarcasm was obvious in her tone.
Man, a truck could have hit him and it would hurt less "Wow, you bring a gun to knife fight"
There was now silence an awkward one. They walked like that for a while. Even if she was her sister Fiver sometimes couldn't deal with Hazel.
Now don't misunderstand, he loved her sister, a lot. She was gentle and caring and helped the children and persons who weren't able to help themselves, and she would never hurt an innocent. She was there whenever he needed her and was always making sure that he was ok, since they were children Hazel has looked after both of them and he would never let her sister down.
But Hazel sometimes felt…cold. She never talked to anyone beside him or unless necessary and even then she used limited words and only the necessaries and they felt so hollow of emotion and feels. Hazel was stoic, distant, serious and a 'bit' frivolous.
His brother couldn't imagine her sister being like this forever. He was actually hoping that making friends in Beacon would help.
"You know…" he tried to break the silence. Her sister didn't turn her head nor slowed her pace.
"…I heard a few whisper on the airship that we will probably end up in teams…doesn't sound exc-"
"No" she simply answered. Her beter almost covering her eyes. Almost.
He looked at her, she was still walking without looking back "You don't find interesting share room with other pe-?"
"No" she repeated, it sounded like a broker record.
He winced at how sharp her voice was "You know Hazel, if we end up with people in our or in different teams, what are you gonna do?"
"Deal with it. And make sure they don't bother us or at least me"
He gave her a sad look "It wouldn't be better to know and get along with your team than-"
She cut him again "We're not here to make friends, Fiver" she said getting annoyed.
He stoop walking and sighed in defeat "Look Hazel, we can't do this alone" now it was her turn to stop her tracks, yet she didn't turn her gaze.
"Wherever you like it or not we're going to have relation ourselves with people so it would make things easier if-"
"Fiver" the venom and cold in her voice stooped his words. She half turned her face now. Her left lime eye meet the hazel of them "Shut. Up."
Without any other word she started to walk again leaving him behind, he was about to protest but an explosion called his attention.
"What in Monty?!" he looked behind him and saw a cloud of ashes and smoke raise a bit with debris of…frosts and sparks? He was now curious "What was that?!" he asked aloud.
No receiving an answer he quickly turned his head to see that her sister never stooped walking, she was now, almost in no sight.
"Hazel! Wait the explosion! Hazel Oh boy she's angry…" it looked like his curiosity wasn't going to be sated today.
"Dammit! Hazel! Wait!" he started to jog trying to catch up with her and with the hope that her anger was a bit dampens.
"Unbelievable! This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about!" a white haired girl with a ponytail off center was scolding a red hooded girl, the same girl that was in the airship and currently was poking her fingers together and looking at the floor in shame.
"I'm really, really, sorry!"
"Ugh! You complete, dolt! What are you even doing here? Aren't you little young to be attending Beacon?"
"Well…I-I…" she said uncomfortable.
"This isn't your ordinary combat school it's not just sparring and practice you know. We're here to fight monsters! So watch where you're doing!"
"Hey, I said I was sorry, princess!" the silver haired girl said more firmly and strong.
"It's heiress, actually" a smooth female voice interrupt her. Both girls turned her heads to see a black haired girl with golden eyes. She was wearing a waistcoat, a white undershirt and high heels with a black bow in her head.
"Weiss Schnee!" another voice exclaimed, this time, a male one, came from behind the white heiress [Man that sounded a bit racist]
The sudden appearance startled the three girls and got a squeak from the red and white one; they turned their heads to see a person with a hood-stole. The hoodie hid the face of the subject, not even the lower part of his face and neck could be seen.
The former figure had in both of his hands the five cases that were on the floor.
"When did you-" the girls quickly scanned the floor to confirm that the cases weren't there, Weiss was about to interrogate the hooded figure but was interrupted when he begin to talk and accommodate the cases in the hotel cart.
"Heiress to Schnee Dust Company, one of the largest producers of energy propellant or Dust for short, in whole Remnant" he finished to accommodate the cases.
Weiss changed the look of her face for a smug; "Finally, some recognition!"
The black bow girl didn't seem satisfied with that explanation. "The same company infamous for its controversial labor force and questionable business partners" Weiss quickly turned her head to the black girl with and offended and furious face. The red hooded girl was barely able to contain a giggle.
"Wha- How dare- The nerve of- "
"Not to mention…" the male voice talked again. "That they been in a secret war with certain faunus organization for a couple of years" this statement caught both Weiss and the black haired girl off guard.
"How do you-" the butlers were behind him and he extended the cart to the heiress in the same way "My lady"
"UGH!" She couldn't discuss the sort of manner in front of strangers and servants. It wouldn't be in her way this time. She snatched vial dust from the bow haired girl.
"Your name-!" she turned her gaze again to the hooded figure.
But much for her surprise (and the other two) it wasn't there anymore. In his stead there was a black feather.
"What the- When did he leave?" the hooded girl questioned.
Weiss let out a visible grunt and stormed off, not bothering to finish the former argument.
"I'll promise I'll make this up to you!" the girl with silver eyed girl called after the departing Weiss, once that she left she sighed and looked down.
"Guess I'm not the only one having a rough first day" she said to herself more than other people. But she quickly cheered up when she remembered the bow girl.
"So what's-?!" but the mood didn't last long when she saw that she was already leaving.
She sighed once again and got on her knees "Welcome to Beacon" she whispered to herself and closed for a bit her eyes throwing herself backwards to the paved path.
"Thanks?" a voice called after her, before open her eyes she realized something.
She never touched the floor.
She quickly opened her eyes and silver encountered hazel. A boy was with one of his knees in the floor and the other up her back serving as support, one of his arms were holding her of the shoulder similar to the one arm hug that she received earlier from her sister.
The boy was wearing black (at least what she could see) and had a black hat, still she was able to see his blonde hair. But what captivated her more were his bright hazel eyes. And with the shadow that his has produced his eyes were brighter.
"Are you ok?" the voice asked. She became aware too that the boy was close. Like too close. She stared at his lips and blushed madly quickly crawling away of the boy waving her hands furiously.
"Y-y-y-yes! I-I'm ok, th-thank you!" she quickly said praying that her face was of a normal color.
It looked like it was, because either the boy didn't really looked at her face or he didn't care. He looked a bit relieved. "Oh, good! I thought…nevermind" he trailed off as he got up.
The boy extended a hand to the girl.
"Name's Fiver" he smiled gently.
She reached for his hand. "Ruby" she presented herself to the boy as she stood up with faint blush still in her face.
Something pumped behind her because it pushed her awkwardly to the chest of the boy. The fluster was now in the face of the two young hunters. Ruby because of the contact to his chest and Fiver because due the fact that they were still holding hands and the recent push make their fingers intertwined.
He couldn't stop the thought of how soft her skin was.
Ruby darted quickly and was the first to apologize. "S-sorry"
"I-It's ok" he said avoiding her gaze. They both turned their heads to see what had caused the bump and saw the blonde guy from the airship; he was…sucking a leaf?
"Aren't you the guy who threw up in the ship?"
"All I'm saying is motion sickness is a much more common problem that people let on!"
Fiver, Ruby and the vomit boy that presented himself as Jaune were walking around the academy. He was now explaining o them how common the problem was since that every person suffered of the problem at least being in small scale and occasionally to big scale and more easy.
Apparently Ruby got tired of the explanation. "Look, I'm sorry; Vomit boy was the first thing that came to my mind"
"Oh, yeah? Well, what If I called you 'Crater Face'?" Jaune retorted a bit of annoyance on his face.
"Hey, that explosion was an accident!"
"Well, the name's Jaune Arc! Short, sweet, rolls of the tongue, ladies love it!"
Fiver snickered.
"Do they?" Ruby asked skeptically.
"They will!" he said quickly extending his hands in a defensive way "Well, I hope they will…I mean my mom always says, uh…nevermind" she laughed at the awkwardness.
"So, I got this thing" she reached for her back and unfolded her weapon. The weapon unfolded transforming in a scythe and planting the blade in the ground. Both Fiver and Jaune looked in awe.
"Whoa! It's that a scythe?!" he asked impressed.
"It's also a customizable, high-impact, sniper rifle!" she said in proud.
"A wha-?" he asked confused.
"A gun" Fiver answered with an understanding smile, just in quote as Ruby loaded her weapon.
"Oh. That's cool!" Jaune said.
"So what do you two have?" Ruby asked in curiosity.
Fiver turned his gaze to Jaune and was quickly followed by Ruby. With eyes on him he pulled out his longsword and grabbed his sheath.
"Oh-uh…" he got nervous "I got this sword!"
"Oooooh!" Both Ruby and Fiver said at unison. Ruby because it liked her to see new weapons and Fiver because liked him to see new swords.
This boasted Jaune confidence. "Yeah, I've got a shield too" The scabbard unfolded taking the form of a shield.
"So…what do they do?" Fiver asked as Ruby touched the shield, causing it to spring shut, much to Jaunes surprise. Both Fiver and Ruby looked how Jaune struggled to get a grip of his weapon with unimpressed eyes.
Finally Fiver grabbed the shield in sheath form in the air and stretched to Jaune, which he awkwardly grabbed with embarrassment written in his face.
"Well…the shield gets smaller…so…when I get tired of carrying it…I can just put it away" he said trailing off trying to sound cheerful.
"But wouldn't weight the same?" Ruby asked.
"Yeah, it does" he said hunching and sighing at the same time, obviously realizing that it wasn't impressive as the Scythe-sniper.
Ruby realizing the mood of Jaune quickly turned to Fiver. "So, Fiver, what do you have?"
A smug appeared in his face "I'm actually kind glad you asked" He grabbed a curved hilt in his back.
"I present you…" He said motioning to the two. Jaune wasn't sulky anymore instead there was curiosity in his eyes.
"Waning Seer!" he said as he drew a large sword of his back. Both Jaune and Ruby looked at the sword in awestruck.
The blade wasn't connected to sword itself, it was floating just by a few centimeters of the metal. But that wasn't what draw the attention of the large sword, it was the blade, it wasn't made of any sort of metal it was a made of crystal. A lime crystal color.
"And when I do this" Fiver said as he pressed a little button of the hilt.
The blade made 180° turn and connected with the metal. A few others parts rose and a weapon stock expanded from the pommel.
"It's also a gun!" Ruby said excited.
"Yeap!"
"Wow!" it's all what Jaune said.
"I'm guessing that because I don't see mags that it doesn't work by combustion, right? That means no recoil and better stability"
Fiver looked at her impressed, seeing his face of shock a wide smile appeared in her face.
"Yeah…how did you know? Usually it takes a bit more of time to know that…" Ruby giggled.
"Well I'm kind of a dork when it comes to weapons. I guess I did go a little overboard design it."
"Wait. You made that?" Jaune asked incredulous.
"Of course! All Signal students forge their own weapons. Didn't you guys make yours?" Jaune sighed and Fiver transform Waning seer in a sword again and sheathed behind his back, the blade connecting with the metal.
"The steel and the stock of waning seer was made by a blacksmith, the gist was in getting the crystal, I obtained one, shape it and after a ritual I got my weapon nothing in mechanics like yours"
"Mine's a hand-me-down" Jaune said as he looked at the sword "My great-great-grandfather used it to fight in the war"
"Sounds more like a family heirloom to me! Well I like it! Not many people have appreciation for the classic these days" she said trying to cheer Jaune, because she actually liked the sword and shield, however the blonde knight wasn't so convinced.
"Yeah, the classics…" he trailed of. He was about to sheath the sword but was interrupted by Fiver.
"Can I see it?" He asked to Jaune. He seemed unsure "Ehh…sure…" he passed the sword to Fiver, he did a few tricks with the sword maneuvering to the sides. The display impressed both Ruby and Jaune.
Once he finished he checked the sword closely. "Atlesian Cryldarrian Steel. One of the most light and resistant steels in the world. They are only 5 quarries in Remnant and 3 of them were lost during the war…" he explained. He hunched, checking and touching the sheath-shield, trying to not activate it like Ruby did.
"It looks like the shield is made of a rare kind of ore that lies beneath Forever Fall, just like the sword, its light and strong, and by the look of it, it probably was one of the first transformable weapons"
He went on. "These materials were rumored to last fully at least 400 years before they start to rust…with the right training and dedication these probably would destroy any kind of Grimm"
He returned the sword to the knight. Jaune still was processing the information he have received from him.
"You have a hell of equipment Jaune don't underestimate it"
"Yeah…I think I got one. Thanks Fiver" he smiled genuinely to the young man with the akubra.
"Wow, you see to know a lot about swords and shields" Ruby pointed.
"More like swords to be specific. You're a dork when it comes to weapons. I'm a dork when it comes to swords" he said in huff.
Ruby giggled for the comment.
"So why were you-" she was about to ask but then she remembered the last scene, red threatening to get back in her face as she accounted the former memory. Fortunately for her (and probably Fiver's too) he guessed her question and answered before she finished.
"I saw that you got on your knees and almost fall in the floor so I thought that you fainted or something like that…"
"Oh! I-I see…" she trailed off, a bit of red in her cheeks, a thing that both Fiver and Jaune failed to notice.
An awkward silence rose and Jaune was the one who decided to break it.
"I gotta say that thing must be really sharp if it got this deep" he said as he looked down followed by Ruby and Fiver when he finished talking.
And indeed there was a vertical hole in the ground. Ruby started to panic a bit. "Oh no…you-you don't think they will notice, right?" he asked.
"Dunno" was the simple answer of Fiver. "Just by curiosity is it normal that your weapon got that deep in the ground?"
"So-sometimes" she quickly changed the theme "Th-this wouldn't be considered pro-property damage, right? Right?" she said the last part more strong that she intended.
"Ummm" Both Jaune and Fiver looked at each other hoping that other could answer the statement. This only helped Ruby to fret.
"Oh Monty! I'm going to be expelled-and I haven't even started-What am I going to say to Yang?-Oh dust what am I going to say to dad?! To uncle Qrow?!" circled around talking to herself.
"O-ok, calm down!" Fiver reassured her looking at her state. "Ma-maybe they will not notice it" he looked at Jaune pleading in his eyes for help. He seemed to get the message.
"Ye-yeah…maybe if we cover it with the gravel it will-" Jaune kicked some rubble in the hole but he shut it when he saw that they were devoured by the gap.
"Ok, we need to get out of here, before they see it" Fiver said as he started to walk quickly.
"B-but where? Where are we going?" Ruby asked less anxious.
"Oh, I dunno, I was going with you" Jaune looked at Ruby and he looked at Fiver.
"What makes you think that I know?"
"You guys think there might be a directory? Maybe a food court? Some sort of recognizable landmark?"
"If there's a directory I hope it's one with a 'You're here' sign" Fiver added.
Ruby sniggered at the two.
"Is that a 'No'?" Jaune asked for both he and Fiver.
"That's a no"
A/N: Still trying to get used to fanfiction. Again if you see any grammar mistakes, tips or observations, do let me know.