Chapter 7

Arrival

After a few hours of drinking and laughing, the four packed all their things and went to sleep. The next morning came suddenly and they said their goodbyes to fellow Assassins and friends. They all boarded an airship and began their journey to Beacon. They noticed four other people around their age on the airship as well and took comfort in not being the only new students. The journey was a long one so they took the time to sleep away the awful headache they had from drinking too much the night before. Kai had thanked Dmitri for the beer, but not for the hangover. They all awoke a few hours later to the breathtaking sight of beacon Academy; its clock tower reaching high into the sky and its spiralling towers gave it a slightly fairytale look to it. Then again, this whole world was much like a fairytale compared to their own, what with the magic properties of dust and aura, the half-human half-animal Faunus and the evil creatures of Grimm they would no doubt have to fight in their time at Beacon.

As they and the other four new students disembarked the airship, a tall blonde woman greeted them. She was wearing a long sleeved white shirt, a long black skirt; she had glasses on her face and had green eyes. Overall, she looked very professional. "Good evening, My name is Professor Glynda Goodwitch, deputy headmistress of Beacon Academy, please follow me, somebody will take care of your possessions." She said, walking to the main building with the eight in tow. Goodwitch lead them into a large room where there were eight sleeping mats on the ground.

Also inside the room was a tall man with gray hair, dark yellow eyes and glasses that were excessively small for him but suited his style. He was wearing a black suit vest with a large green scarf around his neck and a green under shirt and black pants and was holding a cane in his right hand and a mug in the other. Kai was having trouble placing an age on the man; he looked relatively young but had an air of wisdom about him that suggested he might be older. The man looked over them all carefully and searchingly at time all before taking a sip from his mug and addressing them. "Greetings, my name is professor Ozpin, I am the headmaster of Beacon Academy. You have all been accepted into my school because you have shown suitable ability at you combat schools, but you are not able to relax just yet. As you may or may not know, passage into my school requires you to take a rigorous entry exam, an initiation, if you will. I have high expectations for all of you and look forward to teaching you in the future. However, you are not just here because you can, but because you want to be here, you want to be the next saviour of humanity, to fight the evil that surrounds us, to be the hero's the storybooks tell you about. With time, effort and training, you will become Huntsmen but it will take an equal amount of trail, error, pain, loss and grief... but let us take it one-step at a time, hmm?" said Ozpin as he turned to Goodwitch, "Glynda, if you would. Good-day children." He said as he left the room.

The eight watched him leave before a cough from Goodwitch brought their attention back to her. "Your initiation will begin tomorrow morning on top of the Beacon cliffs, you may not leave this room until tomorrow. Get to know each other in the mean time; after all, you might be spending the next four years together." She said before walking out the room. Kai, Izaak, Lewis and Alexander turned to the other four new students, before Izaak spoke, "Err... hi"

At the same moment, in Beacon's cafeteria, Ruby Rose and the other three members of team RWBY were talking with team JNPR. "So did anyone else hear?" she said.

"Hear what sis?" asked Yang Xiao Long, mouth full of food.

"You brute! Swallow before you speak!" yelled Weiss Schnee, irritated by Yang's lack of proper manners.

Yang swallowed her mouthful before speaking again, "Gee, sorry princess" she smirked.

Before Weiss could retort, Blake Belladonna cut them off, "hear what Ruby?" she said, trying to get the conversation back on track.

"The new student's just arrived." she said excitedly.

"New students? I didn't know about that." said Jaune Arc from across the table.

"We did mention it Jaune." Said Lie Ren.

"Yeah! I remember!" exclaimed Nora Valkyrie happily.

"I heard there were originally only four but then four more came along." stated Pyrrha Nikos.

"We should go check them out, see what there like." said Ruby

"Good idea Ruby" replied Blake

At that very moment, Glynda Goodwitches voice came through the school intercom. "All students please do not disturb the new arrivals." She said. "Well, there goes that idea." said Yang. "Great, now how are we going to see what they are like?" wondered Ruby before Goodwitch spoke again."Their initiation will take place tomorrow morning, as a special request from professor Ozpin, cameras will video the exam and play it on televisions around school. That is all." She said, turning the mic off once finished. "They're filming it?" thought Ruby aloud. "It does seem odd, they didn't for ours." Said Weiss. "Maybe it's a new thing." Suggested Jaune. "Well whatever the reason, it means we can see what they are like in combat." Stated Pyrrha. "Oooo I can't wait to see what weapons they all have" said Ruby, ever the weapons nut. "I knew you would say that, you're such a dolt" smirked Weiss.

As they continued to eat, Ruby could not stop thinking about the live initiation. It's going to be an interesting day she thought.

Kai had begun unpacking, as had all the others after a brief introduction to each other. As he was unpacking, he started to think about the initiation exam and what it would include. It's going to be an interesting day he thought.