A/N: This will probably be the last of the conversational chapters.
Chapter 3: Yang Xiao Long
It is no secret that Yang Xiao Long loves her baby sister.
Sure, she ditched Ruby and hung with her crowd from Signal. But that was mainly for Ruby to make friend on her own. She could have just easily included Ruby into the circle, and had all the more fun with the little sis around. But that would make Ruby grows dependent on her and frankly, Yang saw little signs of it lately. That just wouldn't do. Overdependence is a very bad thing, Yang knows.
Besides, lil' sis keeps saying she's bad with people; but Yang knows her better than anyone: She. Is. Adorable. Also, she has the nicest set of personalities out there. Anyone who can't appreciate that, their loss. Ruby is bound to make some really nice friends, and maybe that will help build up her confidence, too.
So, Yang pushed the little rose into the figurative water (heh).
But she loves her sister. That's why shortly after meeting up with the Signal peeps, she broke off to find a spot for herself and Ruby. Hanging with her people is fun, but she would still be with her sister for the important parts of the little gem's (heh) first day at school.
Speak of the devil.
"Ruby! Over here! I saved you a spot!" She yells, waving at the little red hood.
No luck on making friend huh… oh well there're plenty of other chances. Ruby's face lights up when she sees Yang but then as she dashes over her face shifts into a sulk, she crosses her arms and adds little stomps into her steps. Has Yang mentioned that her sister is adorable?
"Sooo, how's your first day going, little sister?"
"You mean since you ditched me and I exploded?"
"Yikes! Meltdown already?" Is she that socially challenged?
"No! I literally exploded a hole in front of the school! And there were sparks everywhere, some fire…" Ruby looks down and puts a hand on her chin "…and I think some ice…?"
O..kay? Wait! Ahhh she gets it.
Yang smiles broadly
"Are you being sarcastic?" That got her pretty good. Ruby is being a little sassy today.
Lil' sis scoffs
"I wish! I tripped over some crabby girl's luggage, and then she yelled at me…" call it intuition but Yang has the feeling that said crabby girl is the one with pretty white hair standing behind Ruby and glaring daggers at her head "and then I sneezed, and then I EXPLODED…" Ruby throws her hands up for effect, the white hair girl takes a deep breath, uh oh… "then she yelled at me again, and I felt really, really bad" Yang relaxes her stance and slightly bends her knees "and I just wanted her to stop yelling at me!"
"YOU!"
"Oh Oum it's happening againnn!" Ruby lets out a small shriek and jumps towards her. Yang, being a good older sister she is, is ready, and catches her baby sister wholly in her arms.
You could say that it was a well-Xiaoculated Yangneuver (heh heh).
The white hair girl follows up on her offense
"You're lucky we weren't blown off the side of the cliff!"
Oh my Oum she really exploded.
"Oh my Oum you really exploded."
"It was an accident! I sneeze! Can you actually hold back your sneeze?" Yang shrugs. Ruby gives her a grateful double-pat on the shoulder and turns to Ice Girl. Hup, let's put the sister down then.
"It was an accident! I sn-what's this?" Ruby is cut off by a pamphlet shoved in in front of her face by Ice Crème. 'DUST for dummies and other Inadequate Individuals'… oookay, this chic is getting a little too mean. Yang's going to let Ruby handle it though, she can clean up her own mess.
"The Schnee Dust Company is not responsible for any injuries or damages sustained while operating a Schnee Dust Company product. Although not mandatory, the Schnee Family highly encourages their customers to read and familiarize themselves with this easy to follow guide to Dust applications and practices in the field."
Schnee huh, that…kinda explains it. Come on sis, throw back some shades!
"Uhhhh…" No! Sis, no!
"You really wanna start making things up to me?" Ice Queen waves the pamphlet in front of Ruby. She takes it
"Absolutely?"
"Then read this and don't ever speak to me again."
Game, set, and fucking match. Maybe her rose needs a little push in the right direction. The Weiss girl is pretty rough, but judging by how her hair is still slightly disheveled and covered in a little bit of soot after what Yang knows was a great amount of effort to fix it, she probably had a hard day too. Yang is willing to be a mediator.
"Look, uh, it sounds like you two just got off on the wrong foot. Why don't you start over and try to be friends, okay?"
Ruby perks up immediately "Yeah! Great idea sis!" she carefully puts Weiss pamphlet away, then holds out her hand and clears her throat "Hello Weiss! I'm Ruby! Wanna hang out? We can go shopping for uh...school supplies!"
Yang pats her sister on the back and looks at the other girl expectantly
"Yeah! And we can paint our nails and try on clothes and talk about cute boys!" Dammit Ice Queen!
"Wow, really?" Ruby leans back and whispers to Yang "Yang, teach me about boys talk later" Dammit sis!
Weiss Sneeze freezes her face and sends glares at Ruby direction
"No."
Well screw you too you snobbish little spoiled-ass brat.
"Well scr-"
She is interrupted by a mic howling.
"I'll…keep this brief." The person in gray hair, headmaster Ozpin speaks up on the microphone. Ah, well. "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." The students start to whisper among themselves, Yang and Ruby exchange confused glances "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."
With that he steps off, the blonde professor who addressed them on the air ship, Glynda Goodwitch (?) takes over and instructs them to gather at the ballroom tonight, lets them know they have initiation tomorrow, after that she dismisses them.
Ice Queen is already walking off away from them; Yang's about to flip the bird to her back when she remembers Ruby is nearby, so she settles for sticking her tongues out. Ruby, for her part, pulls out the Schnee pamphlet and read it through.
"So I guess you haven't made any new friend then" Yang leads them to a bench to sit down.
"Hmm?" Ruby looks up from the pamphlet and puts it away "Well… I met these two guys. Mors and Jaune. They're pretty cool. Jaune is funny, he's the guy who threw up on your shoes" Vomit Boy? Oh man she is going to have a field day with him. She's over the shoes thing, but she is not going to let him live down today. "and Mors is like, huuuge" Ruby raises her arms and spread them out for emphasis "Mors has the same eyes color as you, too. Well, not quite, but they're purple."
"Oh? Why didn't I see them with you back then?" Boys, huh? Ruby does seem like the type to hang out better with boys; what's with her obsession with weapons and all.
Yang should probably look out for the Casanovas though.
"We were about to get inside when Mors realized he forgot his duffel bag back in the courtyard, Jaune offers to go back with him" Ruby snaps her fingers and fishes out her scroll "I should probably text them about tonight." She taps into the scroll "Oh, the bag's not there anymore, they're going to try the lost and found office."
"Do we have a lost and found office here?" Ruby looks horrified "Speaking of which, wanna go and check on our stuffs? They're in the locker room. Maybe tell your friend to look there too."
"Oooooh! Okay!" Ruby frantically types into her scroll, tapping her feet to the ground. Yang looks at her little sister, grins and pats herself on the back. Ruby did make some friends, and if Yang was to guess, they probably helped her after her episode with Why Sneeze (heh).
They seem like pretty good people, Yang would love to meet them, she'll probably like them.
She does not like them.
Well, one of them anyway.
After checking on their stuffs she and Ruby decided to have a self-guide tour around the academy. Yang was very, very impressed. Training rooms, gyms, arenas, all cutting edge and top of the line here. Made her wonder where all the funds for the academy come from, because the tuition fee is, to be fair, not that high. In fact, it's even lower than that of Signal; but she wasn't about to look the gift horse in the mouth.
As they change into their pajamas and get ready to turn in for the night, Ruby was lying on her belly writing something, Yang was enjoying the macho show the shirtless male students provide when a blond boy in blue onesie walked into her line of sight. Eugh. That put a little damper on her good mood. But she would have paid him no mind and gotten back to the show, had he not walked over to an absolute Ursai of a human.
She could guess right away the duo would be Jaune and Mors. Jaune was tall and a little scraggly with a face that is, to be honest, pretty handsome, in a cute way. Although Yang would not approve his choice of pajamas, he seems alright.
Mors, though, there was something wrong with him; Yang could feel it in her gut.
Scars…
Too many scars…
That was the first thing she noticed about him. He was draping a deep blue long coat over his shoulder, underneath was a plain black, high neck, short sleeves tight shirt. The exposed arms were bulging with lines after lines after lines of dense muscles, and littered on them, were scars. The scars looked like they're fighting for every millimeter of this guy arms, crisscrossing and overlapping each other. Some of them Yang recognized, she had seen them on Uncle Qrow: claw marks, bite marks, bullet punctures, slash marks, stab marks; some she did not. By how there are also scars peeking of his shirt's neck, most likely he has scars in other places too.
This guy is seventeen, Huntsmen have aura, what kind of guy with what kind of life has this many scars?
Someone dangerous.
Yang isn't about to judge a guy by how he looks. 'sides, he helped Ruby out, so maybe he's not bad at all. But, she'd been stubborn and ignored signs of danger once before, it didn't turn out very well; and right now, she gets the sinking feeling in her stomach every time she looks at Mors.
And Ruby hangs with him; what's more, the girl is the kind that makes friend to last.
"Ruby, are those two Mors and Jaune?"
"Hmmm?" Ruby looks up from her writing. Huh, wonder what she's doing there. "Oh yeah! Woah…that's a lot of scars…kinda reminds me of Uncle Qrow…who do you think has more? Mors or Uncle Qrow?"
"…Eh, probably Qrow, the old man has been through some serious stuffs. Did Mors say where he's from?"
"He said 'North of Atlas' is the most apt description, he doesn't stay in one place for long." North of Atlas, she can probably start her digging from there. Ruby frowns "Is there anything north of Atlas?"
"I dunno, apparently there is if he's from there" Yang shrugs "…I'm not sure about this guy Rubes, that is way too many scars over dangerous bad boy requirement."
Ruby props herself up, looks over at Yang with a startled expression "What? No! He's really, really nice. He helped me, and he talked about weapons with me! I don't think he's even aiming for the bad boy image! What kind of dangerous bad boy forgot his own duffel bag? Yaaaaang…" Ruby whines "Don't ban me on hanging out with him. Jaune and Mors are like, the only two friends I have here; and I'm pretty sure Weiss counts as a negative friend, so I'm down to one."
Yang laughs
"There's no such things as negative friends! You just made two friends and one enemy! That's pretty much enough to start a drama club." She catches a pillow from her dear sister with her face "Look, I won't tell you how to choose your friend, but just… be careful, okay? You don't get that many marks going around making friendly conversations."
"Ughhh, yes Dad!" Ruby rolls her eyes and gets back to her writing.
Yang grins, she takes another glance at the duo. Jaune is talking to a boy with long black hair with a pink highlighted streak and a girl with orange hair that seems way too energetic to be able to sleep anytime soon. He really need to get better pajamas. Mors, yep, still having that sinking feeling, is already deep in his sleep. He's lying on what looks like a spread out blue fur cloak, using his duffel bag as pillow and his coat as blanket. He seems so out of place. Who sleeps with his boots on?
She turns to the little red.
"What you got there?"
"A letter to the gang back at Signal. I promised to tell them all about Beacon and how things are going."
"Awww, that's so cuuuuuute" she catches another pillow with her face.
"Shut up! I feel bad skipping ahead of them you know! I have to let them know what to avoid on their first day at Beacon." Ruby mumbles "Like crabby princess with rapier…"
"Didn't you say there was another girl?"
"Oh, yeah" Ruby perks up and scans the room "There she is" Yang follows her gaze to a girl with raven black hair and a cute bow sitting on her head. "She left before I could say anything though."
Well then, lil' sis did complain about having only two friends.
"Well, now's your chance!"
Yang stands up, lifts her sister by the arms, ignores the smaller girl feeble attempts at resistance and pulls her towards the little rose's another potential social disaster.
Well, I would like to have written out the girls' interaction with Blake but the chapter was getting too long, and most of us here already know how that went down. The idea here is if the inserted Mors doesn't have any interaction with it, things will mostly go as canon. That makes sense, because the world doesn't revolve around Mors. Of course, there are some fundamental changes to Remnant to fit Mors in, and they will have effects on the story later on. The more Mors interacts with the story, the more things change, and some time the changes are large enough to affect the story as a whole. Weaving an OC into a story proves challenging, I can see how most people are skeptical about an OC fic. Let's hope I do not succumb to the weight of the story.
Finally! The next few chapters we can see some actions!
