As they flew, the good hunter was looking through the window in a complete trance seeing the moving trees and how fast they were going.
"..." He hasn't spoke a word since then, but he was taking notes on how the two hunters were looking somewhat drowsy. "Is everything okay?"
"Yes, why do you ask?" Ozpin said with his eyes a bit lazy.
"The both of you seem... Tired." He responded slowly noticing a strange mist in the structure.
"We woke far too early to meet you, that's all." He responded to him tiredly.
A few minutes passed before another question popped in his head.
"The two of you are hunters right?" He asked the both of them, they in turn nodded even though they called themselves huntsman. "Then how come the two of you didn't noticed the beast behind you?" As a hunter, their senses are accurate and know when a beast is near. Unless something dulls their senses.
"That is a good question. We would've spotted him right away..." He answered back as Glynda slowly closed her eyes.
The mist continued to grow ever so slowly inside. David became somewhat nervous seeing such a thing before, the color and scent of the mist.
"Wait scent!?" He screamed inside as he quickly looked at his belt, sure enough. One of his hunter tools vials were cracked open letting loose a strange mist.
"Hunter Ozpin! Open the door to this mechanical being!" He said in a hurry, the dots were finally aligned to him.
"May I ask why?" He said while eyeing the hunter.
"This is very important or we can say goodbye to our lives!" He repeated again, the headmaster slowly pushed the door open letting air ventilate the inside.
Without a second thought, the hunter threw his malfunctioning tool out the ship and held onto the door until the mist had left them alone.
"Thank the great ones..." He said while closing the door that Ozpin held.
"What made you react that way?" He asked slowly waking up with Glynda.
"It must of been that beast..." He thought out loud. "The thing that I threw was a vial called Numbing Mist."
"Numbing Mist?" Asked Glynda while wiping her eyes.
"Yes. It's mainly used to prevent other hunters and beasts from healing, but its effects will also dull their senses. I've already experienced this multiple times and it could make an innocent die, if not evacuate from the premises before the mist affects their heart and stopping completely." He explained to them as he remember the fights and that one instance where someone died from it.
"I see. The Ursa must of cracked the vial through the fog while sneaking behind us, using the mist to cloak our senses." Theorized Ozpin to the hunter.
"I think that happened too, not many beasts are this bright while I was there." He said while the background changed from the forest to a more residential area.
"Is this a city?" Asked David as he saw many houses and people below.
"This is Vale, a large coastal city and also the kingdom that the Beacon Academy resides." Explained Glynda as she rubbed her temples.
"She has a headache? Must be a side effect of the mist." Thought the good hunter as they traveled over the city.
Moments later, the metallic piece hovered on the air. Slowly descending towards the ground.
"Excuse me professor Ozpin, I have classes to attend to." She said leaving the two man to themselves.
"Forgive Glynda for her outburst back at the forest, she isn't like that at all. She has had a very busy week, trying to remember the students names and teaching them." Explained Ozpin with a stoic face.
"I don't blame her. Anyone with a rough week would surely be stressed out and needed." He understood as they walked from the Bullhead.
In front of the keen hunter was a building far superior than the Cainhurst castle. Both architecture and simple design were far more impressive than any structure that David ever saw.
"Welcome to Beacon Academy." The headmaster said to him with his palm firmly gripping his cane. "Please follow me to my quarters, there is much to discuss about."
Both hunters walked through the halls of the academy, silent yet analyzing anything that crossed their eyesight.
"Hey who is that?"
"I don't know, but he looks kinda creepy."
"Look at his weapon, looks almost like a scimitar."
"What's that thing on his back?"
Many of the students whispers crossed David's ears. All ignored as he already is custom to be bad mouthed like in Yharnam.
As they entered a tight space, Ozpin touched a button making the contraption rise. Once they reached their destination...
"What the..." Gears and the sound of ticking were the room, it looked similar to Maria's resting place.
"Please have a seat." He said as he sat behind his desk, taking his mug and giving it a quick sip.
Reluctant, the good hunter did so. Looking at the experienced huntsman in the eyes.
"If you're going to interrogate me, then it'll be by my rules. I'll warn you that now." He said towards the headmaster. Knowledge is important to him right now.
"Of course, what are your conditions?" He said while letting his neutrality calm the atmosphere.
"For one question you ask of me, I'll do the same. There are many things I don't know yet, but do not ask things that are meant to be buried." He told him seriously to make sure he understood. It was for the best the old secrets, stay as that.
"Of course. That seems fair more than fair." He responded while putting his mug down. Leaning forward with his fingers together he had a serious expression. "Now then, where are you from?"
"A foreign land, though I was moved to Yharnam to seek something of value." He responded to him. "Now answer me, what land do you call this?"
"It is called Remnant." Ozpin put it short, having his interest picked as the hunter didn't know what land he was. "Tell me, you kept calling the Grimm beasts. Why?"
"Is that what they're called... In Yharnam, we called them that because they were so feral and bloodthirsty. Though the truth was more... Displeasing, to say the least." He responded with his face showing revolt.
"Does the land know about anything about the cosmos?" He asked as he noticed that the moon was shattered during the nights in the forest. It looked exactly like the one that the orphan of Kos was looking at.
"The cosmos? We haven't had any scientifically discoveries about it for over two hundred years." This was music to the good hunter.
"Thank the heavens..." He said while releasing a sigh of relief.
"Is there something dangerous about exploring it?" He asked confused about his relief.
"Very dangerous, It'll make you insane while trying to find 'them'." He said as he remember the great ones he slain.
"'Them'?"
"We call them, the Great Ones. Higher beings than us humans and much more... Disturbing to put it bland." He said as the abominations roamed in his memories. "Now it is my turn to ask, what does this world know about blood ministration?"
"Blood ministration? This is the first time I'm hearing this." He said with his interest being picked.
"Then I shall not speak a word about it, it only brought chaos." Said the hunter, if they knew nothing than it would be better to leave it at that.
"Very well, then tell me about your weapons of choice." Despite not being given him an answer, he wanted to know the basis of David's weapons.
"This one is called the Burial Blade. My deceased masters weapon of choice." Showing the blade to him, its metal being of an unknown substance the the professor never saw.
"I see, it is just a curved sword." He said noting it in his head.
"Wrong." Said David to him. "It is actually a long scythe if you connect it to its main body." The hunter explained as he attached the blade to its full form.
"That is surprising. You have more aces up your sleeve than you show." He said impressed by the trick weapon.
"My tools are nothing to the weapons I've seen from the other students, a week ago."
"What about your other weapon? The Beast Claw?" His question made the hunter become a little nervous.
"It is best not to show you yet, the result would probably make you to fear me." David explained to him, while letting the professor the the weapon on his hand.
"Do you trust me, David?" He asked to him.
"To be honest, I don't trust anyone. Especially myself." He replied almost immediately, the hunt only made him trust one person. And it was a blind, kind dweller at Oedon chapel. "Now let me ask you something, does Remnant have any affiliation with any kind of religion?"
"There may be some, but all they do is pray for someone to help them." The hunter nodded is head, he was fine with this as long as it didn't involved blood.
"Now David, what kind of training did you went through to be able to defeat that many Grimm?" He needed to know, as it could help his students to bloom.
"None, my master simply threw me to the hunt and only gave me a close range weapon and a gun to fend for myself." He responded responded, he put that old weapon in the storage of the mansion, but the gun he carried was still with him.
"That seems very reckless of your teacher, I'm surprised you survived this long." He said somewhat shocked.
"Who said I did?" His words confused him, if he didn't survive how was he here talking to him? "This'll be my final question, after your next one I'll answer no more."
"Very well, this conversation has been going a bit too long." Agreed the headmaster.
"Is there anything related to arcane in the land?" He isn't very fond of arcane, his Beast Roar is different as it is deep inside him. The others are different.
"I know nothing about this arcane you seek." He responded truthfully to David. He nodded in response to that.
"David, I have a proposition for you." He said as he grabbed his mug and took another sip from it. "Would you be willingly to enroll here at Beacon?"
"I refuse." He bluntly said to him, slightly surprising Ozpin.
"Would you tell me your reasons for denying it?"
"I'm no fool, Ozpin. This worlds hunters are very different from where I'm from, I saw the young accomplishments of two groups in that forests. How they were able to dispatch two beasts with their combine strength. They wouldn't need the guidance of someone from a foreign land."
"You say 'this worlds hunters', are you trying to tell me you aren't from Remnant at all?"
"You're a smart person, figure it out by yourself." He said as he stood to leave the establishment.
"Wait." He called him out. "There's someone that wanted to talk you, for what you did in the exam." He said towards David.
"...Alright. I'll stay for a bit longer, but after I hear her out I'll be leaving." He said as he walked a bit for his legs before looking through a window of the academy.
"Miss Nikos, I found the person you wanted to meet. Head over to my office, he's waiting." He warned her, before taking a sip from his mug, revising the reports he had to evaluate.
A few moments later, the elevators doors open revealing the called student. She looked at the hunter, completely focus looking outside, not letting a single change pass his eyes.
"You're..." She said as she approached him. Her voice grabbing his attention.
"You must be the one that called me. My name is David, a pleasure to meet you." He said as he did a hunters bow to her.
"The pleasure is all mine." She said calmly with a small smile to him.
"This is miss Pyrrha Nikos, she's with team JNPR and only listed herself a week ago. Though she is very capable and smart, she still needs, as well as the other students, experience to fight the Grimm."
"Thank you very much for what you did back at the forest. If you hadn't wounded the Night Stalker and damaged its stinger, we would've perished back at the bridge." She said with gratitude. Something that David rarely seen and felt.
"I just did as any other sane hunter would do, miss Nikos. It is our job to protect the innocent and eliminate any beasts." He explained her with his facial expression being the same.
"I've never met a huntsman so fearless as you, mister David. The way you attacked the Grimm and drove him back to protect me, how you weren't concern of getting hurt as long as its for the well being of others inspires me to continue striving forward." She said with her words being true.
"..." David had no words, those were the kindest words anyone ever said to him.
"The proposition is still open if you want David, should you wish to do so." Said Ozpin to him.
"I'm not sure, professor Ozpin. They still have a bright future, but I'm already... Tainted." He spoke the truth, the horrors changed him both physically and mentally.
"What proposition?" Asked Pyrrha intrigued.
"I asked David if he wanted to enroll in Beacon." He told her, making her look at him.
"You aren't enroll on Beacon? That's shocking to hear! You're more than adequate to join and hone your skills!" She encouraged him to join.
"While it's true I can groom my skills here, I won't be able to hunt at all. A hunter must hunt after all." He thought to himself, before an idea popped into his head.
"I'll join." He said to the both of them. "But on two conditions."
"And they are?" Asked Ozpin intrigued.
"One, I would like to be a substitute teacher in the fighting department, in case he becomes ill to do his job. I carry many experiences and teaching them how to handle most situations will benefit the students greatly." He told him his valid points to the headmaster.
"That is an acceptable term, I'm sure professor Peter Port would like the assistance."
"Two, I'm going to ask for me to have every now and then a couple of days of absence."
"Why so?" Asked Pyrrha to him.
"We hunters have a strict code once we enter this profession, to hunt. A hunter must hunt, that is what my friend once told me." He said recalling Eileen's words.
"I understand your point and code, you will do so in every month at the least three days. Would that suffice?" He asked to him.
"That is more than enough. Thank you, headmaster Ozpin." He gave him a bow of respect to the man. To not deny his code, is to be a hunter.
"You'll start heading to classes tomorrow morning, I'll ask professor Glynda to send you your school uniform, you may use your current attire when you can teach your classes."
"Thank you, sir."
"Congratulations on entering Beacon Academy!" Said Pyrrha to the good hunter. He only nodded indifferently to her.
"Miss Nikos, would you please take our new friend to his new room? I'm sure that he'll need help in finding it and knowing how to use a scroll."
"Of course, headmaster Ozpin." She said with a bow while leading David to his new room.
"This year will be... interesting." He said to himself as he took another sip from his mug.