I hate the fact that I can come up with hundreds of ideas for a chapter but I never write it down.
I'm sorry if this chapter took longer; I had surgery and was out of it for a while.
Chapter 6: Beacon Academy
Eastern Vale, Beacon Academy
The sun slowly made its descent beyond the western horizon, the water of the docks shining a brilliant scarlet and gold. Tanya enjoyed the warm breeze, this climate was definitely better than the harsh winter of Atlas.
Winter had been speaking with Weiss the entire way to the younger sister's dorm room. Tanya had decided to remain silent, or at least as silent as Ruby would allow her to be.
"Oh I can't wait for you to meet the rest of my team!" Ruby exclaimed. Her excitement threw Tanya off; she was accustomed to the serious environment of the military. To see someone whose job was to kill soulless beasts and defend humanity against other threats, excited. It was new to say the least.
"So are you going to be a huntress when you grow up?" Ruby asked.
"When I- Ah yes, I have thought about it, but I think I will help…" She glanced at Winter and Weiss, reminding herself of her new name. "...My father with the company." She finished.
It was strange calling Jacques father, but she had been getting better at catching herself.
Ruby tilted her head at the strangely mature answer. Looking at Winter and Weiss her eyes asked them a question. The two girls shrugged their shoulders. Neither of them spent enough time with the girl to give an answer.
"Father did say she was a smart one." Winter simply said.
Ruby frowned at the response; she was thrown out of her thoughts when she spotted the door to her dorm.
Tanya mentally prepared herself to deal with multiple Ruby's. The door opened to reveal a normal looking room. The only real interesting part of the room was the bunk beds, particularly the bed that was hanging from the ceiling via rope.
The two girls that occupied the room, turned to face the door. The blond hesitated for a second, as she registered the two unfamiliar faces. Her hesitation was gone as quickly as it came.
The black-haired one gazed as them with a more emotionless face. Her yellow eyes gave more away, she held a calm but studying gaze. Tanya almost automatically knew she was the most experienced fighter of the group.
"Guys this is Weiss's older sister Winter! And this is Tanya her little sister! Isn't she adorable?" Ruby blurted out before anyone could even begin to think of something to say.
The blond caught herself from asking who their guests were because Ruby had already answered that. "Hello I'm Yang Xio Long; I'm Ruby's older sister." She gave a toothy grin that just oozed confidence.
"Hello I'm Blake Belladonna." She gave a small nod. Tanya could tell the two girls were pretty opposite in terms of social interactions. Tanya decided she would observe Blake. She wanted to learn anything she could that could be useful. Plus Tanya was almost instantly put on edge when she saw Blake. Probably due to the experience she could see in the young huntress. Having fought in the skies against elite mages and the like, Tanya could get a good grasp on someone's battle experience based off of their body language, and what they scan with their eyes when first meeting someone unfamiliar.
While Winter held conversations with Weiss, Ruby, And Yang. Tanya walked around the room looking at its condition and generally looking for anything interesting.
Blake having held back in the conversation, decided to speak with the younger of the two guests. "Weiss never really mentioned having a little sister before." Her bluntness was uncanny.
Tanya looked slightly surprised. "She never spoke of me?" Personally Tanya didn't care much, but she was sure Blake was expecting a surprised reaction.
"Well I was adopted three years ago, so I guess she didn't get enough time to know me." A smile spread across her face. Weiss's horrified face as Tanya held a severed arm in her hand. The memory quickly faded, but it helped Tanya understand why she wasn't really mentioned much. After all that is one of the only memories Weiss has of Tanya, doesn't really make you want to bring that person up.
Deciding to shift the conversation to a more informative subject Tanya sat down on one of the beds, Blake across from her. "So are you guys going to participate in the Vytal Festival? I'm told it has students from all four academies come and dual."
"Yeah we are going to be in the tournament. A few other teams from Beacon will also be in the tournament." Blake answered; she leaned over and grabbed her weapon. Pulling out the blade, she began to treat the blade.
"Don't mind me, just before you got here I was going to begin treating the blade." She explained.
Tanya held up her arms and waved them slightly. "Oh no, this doesn't bother me at all. Please by all means."
Looking at Blake's weapon Tanya couldn't help herself. "Though it seems your Captain has quite the strange weapon." Tanya said.
Blake stopped treating the blade for a second. Looking up she curiously glanced at Tanya. "Captain? Ruby is just our leader. It's not like the military."
Tanya was just about to try and excuse her slip of the tongue when Blake continued. "Though I'm sure at Atlas Academy that's a norm."
Tanya wasn't sure if that was simply a statement of fact or a subtle jab at Atlas. She decided to not think about it.
"So how do you think you will do in the tournament?" Tanya asked.
Blake sheathed her blade and glanced off to her left. "While I want to say we'll win, I would have to see what the other teams are capable of." sighing to herself, Blake stood up.
"If we face others from Beacon, say JNPR for example. Then we would have both an easier time and difficult time. Since we know them well we know their fighting style, but they also have the same advantage." Blake scrunched up her face slightly. She realized that she had gone on a long tangent of essentially saying even if they fought against someone they knew well, they would still have an equally tough time.
Tanya sweat dropped at the example she gave for the same reason.
Deciding to talk to someone else, she excused herself and made her way back to the rest of the girls.
The group of girls had been talking about what RWBY had been up to before Winter and Tanya arrived. They talked about the Emerald Forest, and the battle that had been fought there.
Tanya had listened on to the conversation they had been having, but only small segments. She didn't really care about much of the information, especially the school days part.
However when the subject of Blake came about, Tanya noticed their voices became more quiet and evasive. Ruby explained that they had a fight at the docks, while looking for Blake. But there was no mention of the reason why she left to warrant a search in the first place.
Tanya began to wonder why they used such vague language when speaking of the incident at the docks. She was about to walk out the room to write a report to the general staff office when she stopped herself. "What the hell am I thinking? There is no general staff office. I'm not even in the military anymore."
Tanya's many years in the military wouldn't simply vanish because she was now in another world. All that experience was still there waiting to be used. Though only through time and lack of use could her skill vanish.
Deciding to continue listening to the girls talk, Tanya paid attention if there was any more info of the White Fang that they would share. This terrorist group was the one thing she really wanted to know about, after all the Schnee family had been targeted by them. She needed to know more so in the future she could help get rid of them, maybe help the Schnee name become more powerful. If she was successful maybe she would be granted either a high position in the company or, if already in a high office, a promotion to even higher office.
While her ambitions were certainly well laid out and planned, once again it must be stressed that this world, while currently stable, could at any moment become more dangerous than even her past life. After all humans were not even the greatest threats in Remnant. This being a feat very few things could do, most being fictional creatures, or man-made weapons.
"...Want to see JNPR? They are right across the hall from us." Ruby said, she was leaning over so that she could look at Tanya evenly. Her excitement never seemed to end.
"JNPR? Oh, you mean the other team Blake mentioned. I wouldn't mind meeting this team since you seem to be on in good terms with them." Tanya replied, Ruby seemed to dislike with how mature she sounded.
To Ruby, Tanya sounded like Weiss except younger and not as rude. Ruby didn't really want to deal with a mini Weiss, especially the Weiss she first met.
The girls stepped out of their room to head over to team JNPR's room when Winter received a message on her scroll. She claimed it was military related and said she would come back later to pick up Tanya. Tanya while not particularly interested in Weiss's friends and Beacon, it wasn't too bad for her to demand Winter take her.
Team JNPR's Room
Tanya stood behind Ruby when Jaune opened the door. His awkward "Hey Ruby." told Tanya quite a bit about him, well that and the fact that his posture was that of someone who like to make himself smaller. She assumed he was socially awkward...probably.
As RWBY walked into the room, Tanya was noticed by Jaune. His confusion was very visible and his eyes asked a million questions. Tanya decided she would introduce herself before Ruby did.
"Hello I am Tanya Schnee, adopted younger sister of Weiss, whom I presume you know." She gave a little bow, to show respect. She wanted to introduce herself to RWBY this way but Ruby did it before she could. So she was not gonna let that happen again.
Jaune looked towards Weiss in surprise. "You never said you had a little sister before!"
"Yes it seems my older sister, has had trouble informing her friends and colleagues that I exist." Tanya said her passive aggressive tone making Weiss cringe a little.
"Well you guys never asked about my family!" Weiss shot back.
"No, but you could never shut up about how great the Schnee name is." Blake simply stated. While she was quiet it seems she could be quite sassy. Tanya was certainly amused by Weiss's gasp.
"Excuse me? One I haven't done that once since first semester." Her arms crossed across her chest, she pouted.
"While you haven't done it condescendingly since first semester, you have certainly promoted the Schnee name and Atlas." Blake said, her eyes closed like she was uninterested in the argument.
"Yeah you did brag a lot when we went to the C.C.T tower." Ruby cut in, she rubbed the back of her head in an awkward fashion.
Weiss, knowing she was losing the argument, simply huffed and walked to the far side of the room to sulk for a while.
Now that the argument about Tanya's existence was out of the way, she was introduced to team JNPR. The group was as colorful as team RWBY was, figuratively and literally. Tanya was immediately interested in two of the team members, Pyrrha and Ren. Why these two caught more of her interest, well because of the simple fact that they were less annoying to Tanya. Plus Tanya wished to look at their weapons; she was currently considering getting herself a weapon of her own.
Walking up to Ren, Tanya asked if she could see his guns. To anyone who didn't know Tanya well, this was simply a child in awe of something cool. To those who did know Tanya well, which was no one, she was looking to see what type of caliber and weapon type she should consider getting.
Ren's weapon was simply described as two machine pistols with blades attached to the front of the body. Tanya knew that almost all machine pistols were 9mm mostly for controllability when firing on full auto. These rounds did not really have the stopping power she wanted, but the high rate of fire more than made up for it.
After looking at Ren's weapon, she moved onto Pyrrha. Her javelin was amazingly simply in design but could function for both long range and close range, when turned into a short sword. Plus when needed the javelin also turned into a rifle. This was what Tanya was looking at.
Pyrrha watched with slight worry as Tanya shouldered the rifle and aimed down the iron sights. Tanya grabbed the charging handle and pulled it back. The round that was in the internal magazine was chambered. She once again pulled the charging handle and caught the round that was chambered.
Tanya let go of the charging handle and let it close. Knowing that there was another round in the chamber she made sure that the safety was still on and handed it back to the still nervous Pyrrha.
Pyrrha ended up having to clear the gun manually, by pulling the charging handle until every round had been chambered and extracted. It was going to be a struggle to reload the internal magazine without chambering a round, Pyrrha would have to push the rounds down, so they don't get caught by the bolt. Then she would have to slowly let the charging handle move forward, watching that the bolt doesn't snag a round.
Tanya looked at the round in her hand; it was a red crystal instead of a bullet. Clearly confused she looked at Pyrrha. The older girl simply told her that was a dust round, specifically a fire type.
Tanya decided she would look that up later; she looked at the back of the casing and saw the caliber number. 7.62x39mm while that was the size of the round, this did not tell anything much to Tanya. Seeing that they don't use lead bullets, she couldn't use her knowledge from her past life to guess the power and recoil this round could produce.
Seeing that she was going to have to research quite a bit, she asked if she could keep the round as a souvenir. Pyrrha wanted to disagree, but her nature as such an agreeable person didn't allow her to refuse. So Tanya ended the day with little to no useful information that she wanted and a single fire type dust round.
After that she spent the next few days studying at Beacon library, until Winter told her that she would be going with Ruby's team to the arena to watch Pyrrha's fight. Apparently Yang has been disqualified the day before. Tanya was slightly annoyed that she missed the match, she was curious about how Yang fights with those braclet shotguns that Ruby mentioned.
As the sun set for the day, Tanya did not have the slightest clue that tomorrow would be a day of the history books. She has become too accustomed to the peace she has had for the past few years. But soon she will receive a rude awakening.
Sorry that the chapter took so long. My surgery didn't help my bad habit of saying "I'll finish this later." So I hope you all enjoy this chapter. I know it's rushed but I really wanted to get to the good stuff faster. Not to say I don't like all the RWBY characters that were in this chapter, I do love them but I wanted to move this story along. Plus if I had to write a conversation for every single character, of them talking with Tanya, this chapter would be probably its own book, with how long it would be. I will have more chapters out but I need access to a computer.
