As the ship touched down on the Beacon Landing pads, Shaya spotted two things in the crowd of people that rushed to leave. The first was a blonde haired boy that rushed to a nearby trashcan to continue emptying his stomach. The second was a familiar black haired kitty-cat that seemed to be trying her best to blend into the crowd while reading a book.

She turned her head to her friends and said simply. "I'll meet up with you guys later, I need to talk with someone privately really quickly." They all gave her little nods of acknowledgement and went back to their own idle chat as Ren and Nora split from the group as well.

Shaya quickly walked over towards Blake and was certain that the girl knew she was coming, so once she got close enough she simply started talking.

"Glad to see you here," the girl jumped so apparently she hadn't noticed Shaya's approach, "I didn't see you on the ship so I was worried I had made a mistake."

Blake shuffled slightly nervously and her bow twitched as she looked around for anyone else that might know of her secret. "I'm not going to run away from the crimes I've committed. This is something I need to do."

"Good, good." Shaya said just before her eyes narrowed into a serious glare. "I only have one more thing to say to you then. A number of my friends are going to be attending this first year with us, which means you'll more than likely be placed on a team with at least one of them." She lightly channelled her aura, giving her a slight purple mist coming off of her. "If you do decide to try to leave, to go back to them. You better do so without hurting anyone I care about, or else I'll have to make a few calls to my Uncle. General Ironwood."

Blake's eyes widened in recognition and fear of the name, before she sharply nodded at the conditions set by the significantly smaller teenager. Instantaneously, the glare and the menacing aura vanished, replaced by the cheery smile that Shaya is known for.

"Good, then I suppose I should let you..." Shaya sniffed at the air for a moment. "Schnee." She said as her eyes narrowed. Winter had been one of Ironwood's specialists for a while now, so there wouldn't be any unscheduled visits or surprises from her. Meaning that this was a Schnee she didn't know, and therefore didn't like.

"Aren't you a little young to be attending Beacon?!" There it is, both her and Blake's heads whipped in the direction of the voice. "This isn't your ordinary combat school. It's not just sparring and practicing, we're here to fight monsters, so, watch where you're going!" Blake looked at Shaya and saw that one of her eyes were twitching. She then looked at who the heiress was yelling at and spotted the girl in the red hood that Shaya had been talking to earlier.

"Hey I said I was sorry, princess!" Ruby said snidely as she started to glare back at the entitled heiress.

Blake opened her mouth to say something after picking up a vial of red dust that had rolled over by her foot, but was cut off by an extremely annoyed purple eyed girl. "Hey, Snow-Bitch!" Shaya exclaimed as she stormed over to the two, the profanity briefly causing all parties involved to widen their eyes for a moment. "What do you think you're doing?!"

Weiss, for her part, readjusted to the newcomer rather quickly. "Excuse me? Do you know who I am?!" She asked the approaching faunus with a glare of her own.

"Excuse me?" Shaya started in a mocking tone. "What makes you think I care who you are?" Shaya got right up close to the white-haired girl, and despite the height difference, gave off a rather imposing tone. She then spoke very calmly and very quietly. "Until you show me otherwise, you're just a pampered little kid that got everything she wanted."

"That isn't-"

"In fact, if it weren't for the fact that my father personally looks over every single new students' transcripts, I would be willing to guess that you just bought fake ones." She grabbed the taller girl by the collar of her dress. "The fact that you're even here speaks of your skill, but clearly not of your intelligence." The Schnee heiress took that to heart and her eyes narrowed further and she started trying to remove the smaller girls grip.

"How dare you?! I am Weiss-"

"Schnee, heiress of the SDC, the largest and arguably most corrupt Dust distribution company in the world." Shaya continued as she recited the line robotically. "Anyway, back onto what I was saying before. You're being here at the lowest age possible for normal admission speaks volumes of your skill in combat." Shaya flinged a finger in the direction of Ruby. "Her name is Ruby Rose, daughter of Taiyang Xiao Long and Summer Rose, an S-class huntress, apprentice of Qrow Branwen, the best Scythe-Wielder in the world as well as an S-class Huntsman." With each word Weiss' eyes widened further and further. "You asked her if she was a bit young to be at Beacon, and she is, two years in fact. Wouldn't that mean that she is significantly above your level if she was admitted so much earlier than is recommended?" The heiress looked in disbelief momentarily, before her pride kicked in again.

"Well then, she must be some kind of disappointment if she can't help but fall into someone else's luggage within minutes of reaching the school!" Weiss shot back, with Ruby shrinking further and further into the background as the argument got more heated. Neither Weiss nor Shaya noticed the blonde haired boy from the ship come by and help her up before the both of them walked off on their own somewhere.

"And simply falling into the luggage caused that explosion?" Shaya shot back at her new rival. "That sounds like someone doesn't seal highly volatile substances properly, despite being part of the family that is entrusted to handle it!"

The two continued to bicker at each other continuously until they noticed the area around them start to thin in terms of people being present. Eventually settling to the Heiress storming off with her luggage, claiming that she had "better things to do, than to waste time arguing with a faunus." To which Shaya, rather immaturely, tripped the girl with her tail as she turned to walk away.

After they left each others presence, Shaya decided to follow Ruby's scent, eventually finding her and the blonde haired boy from the ship talking. She actually paused at that for a moment. Ruby Rose, the girl more comfortable talking to weapons than talking to people, was talking to a boy. Most guys she'd met throughout her time at Signal, Noctis not included, never really started conversation with girls they'd had no previous interaction with unless they were... interested.

"So why'd you help me out back there? In the courtyard, I mean." Ruby asked the knight looking boy. To which he responded with a nonchalant shrug.

"Eh, why not? My mom always says, 'strangers are just friends you haven't met yet.'" He recited. Shaya's brain completely froze for a moment. In that one sentence she knew enough about this knight to make several connections.

Optimistic look on pretty much all of existence, check.

Voice with a high-enough pitch to scream like a girl if startled, check.

One hundred percent Momma's boy, check.

Shaya immediately sprinted from the distance she had from the two and jumped, throwing her arm around the boy's neck in a hug that threw them both to the ground. "Arc-Knight!" She shouted with glee. To which the boy, very startled, cried in surprise.

"Sh-Shaya!?" He exclaimed as they both tumbled onto the pavement, ending with Shaya's forehead and nose pressed against his and she was looking him straight in the eyes.

"Hi." They both cracked wide grins as she got up and helped him up, that was when she noticed that he was roughly as tall as Noctis. "Woah, you got biiig." She drawed out childishly. She had only ever seen what he looked like once time, and that was when they were both eleven years old.

His response to the comment was to playfully pat her on the head. "You don't look like you've changed at all. Still just like the adorable little psycho that I always played the Mechit mod for Dustcraft with." That was when Shaya's eyes widened as she didn't feel the presence of something she'd gotten so used to at her time in combat schools. She turned her head to Ruby and pointed in the direction of the schools assembly halls.

"Hey, Puppy-Eyes, you go on to the assembly, I need to catch up with Jaune here really quickly." Ruby looked kinda worried for a moment but nodded in affirmation, and left on her way to try and find her sister.

The moment Ruby was gone, Shaya rounded on Jaune with a shining violet hand. Laying it directly on his shoulder, she began muttering to herself just loud enough for Jaune to hear, and be confused by. "There is no peace, only passion. Through passion we gain strength. Through strength we gain power. Through power we gain victory. Through victory, our chains are broken. Let your soul set you free."

The moment she was finished, the glow from her hand faded, and Jaune was briefly surrounded in a pure white light. He looked at his hands in awe, before looking at his friend who was now slightly winded.

"Are you okay? What was that?!" He asked slightly panicked. She rounded on him with a glare.

"Did you cheat to get in here?" Shaya asked him bluntly, and he reeled back in shock for a moment. He very, very, briefly considered lying. Before he just drooped his head and accepted his fate.

"Yes." He said solemnly as he accepted whatever his friend would do.

"Alright then." She said simply and he lifted his head to look at her in disbelief, and she had a very devious grin. "What? This is a school to train Huntsmen, and you can be certain I'm going to be training you. Congratulations Jaune, you're not allowed to drop out now."

"B-b-but, aren't you going to tell the Headmaster about it or something?!" He asked, fully expecting Shaya to do the lawful thing.

He didn't expect Shaya to laugh in his face. "HehehahahahaHA! You think my Daddy would get fooled by any faked transcript? If you tried to fake your entry and you actually made it in, it's because he knows and he still expects great things from you."

has stopped running... rebooting... "Wait, 'Daddy?!'" He asked in a panicked tone. "Your Dad is the headmaster here? Then that means that you're-"

"Shaya Ozpin, 'The Princess of Vale.'" She greeted her friend with an adorable curtsy to go with the title. She then grabbed him by the arm and started running in the direction of the assembly hall. "Now, come on, we need to hurry or we're going to be late!"


The two got into the assembly hall just in time to see the, as Shaya put it, 'Snow Bitch' vaguely pointing in their direction while saying something, but they were too far away to hear exactly what.

"Watch this." She whispered to her friend as her father stepped up onto the stage. She cleared her throat and straightened her posture as the Headmaster got ready.

"I'll... keep this brief." Shaya was moving her lips perfectly in sync with Ozpin's words. "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. 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."

Jaune stared at the stage as Ozpin walked away, rather unnerved by the unorthodox speech that the Headmaster gave. "Wow... that was weird." He turned towards Shaya, "is he always like that?"

She smiled lightly at Jaune. "He does this every year to quell the thoughts and feelings of arrogance in the freshman class."

Goodwitch stepped up to the mic. "You will gather in the ballroom tonight. Tomorrow, your initiation begins. Be ready, you are dismissed." At that Shaya had a brief moment of deep thought.

"Jaune?"

"Yeah, Shaya?"

"Please tell me you didn't bring your 'normal' pajamas with you." She said with deadly seriousness.

"I refuse to lie to you." Jaune stated completely flatly.

Shaya sighed very loudly. "Jaune, I'm gonna give you two choices."

"Okaaay?" He asked, nervous of what these 'choices' were.

"One. You will be allowed to where your abomination, but you will be sleeping in my room tonight." Jaune opened his mouth to protest her word choice of his favorite pajamas, but she cut him off. "Two. You can sleep in the ballroom with everyone else, but you will do so in your boxers and an undershirt."

Jaune grimaced at the second option briefly. "Why?" He lightly whined.

"Because I refuse to let you make a fool of yourself before you even get fully accepted into the school."


Noctis walked confidently through the brush into a campsite, only to see said campsite in tatters, save for the main tent. There were scorch marks on the ground, and a number of White Fang grunts either unconscious or dead scattered throughout the clearing. He stormed around to the front of the main tent to see Adam and the Lieutenant staring at a rather... sensual... woman in a very short red dress with a silver haired boy and a green haired girl behind her. This didn't strike much of an impression in him. What did, however, was the fact that they were armed, brandishing their weapons at Adam, and human.

"We believe our operation will be beneficial for both of us." She said before raising her hand, and fire raised from the ground. "Or one of us."

The attention of all five people in the standoff was called to him as he slowly approached while clapping his hands slowly, sarcastically. Red, grey, and yellow eyes tracked him cautiously as he approached. "My my, I certainly never expected to see Adam being strong-armed into something." He said as he turned his eyes to the person in question.

"What are you here for, Ventus?" He asked with a rather expected hostility.

"Me? I'm here because I wanted to see how the organization that you took over using your teachings from our master was doing. I look around and the only thing I think is," He gestured to their surroundings with open hands and a shrug. "Not great." The Snake said with a fang filled grin.

"We were in the middle of something." Warned the green-haired woman as her hand moved towards her own weapons. The silver haired boy appeared to be on guard, meanwhile the leader of the group was most certainly growing interested.

"Calm it down, minty fresh." He told her with a confident smirk as he strode up to the woman with the fire in her eyes. "Hmmm, you are a fascinating person. I don't believe I know anything about you, tell me, do you know who I am?"

The woman gave a sultry smile as she sauntered closer to the reptilian faunus. "Oh I believe I know a little, Noctis Anguis. The White Fang's Winds of Death. One of the deadliest assassins in the world, believed to be roughly as skilled as Marcus Black at only the age of twelve. But most importantly," she gently stroked the side of his face. "The prized student of Raven Branwen."


Jaune sat on top of one of the multiple beds in the room, dressed in his animal like onesie. "Seriously though, why was I not allowed to just wear this out there?" He asked his friend, who was on the bed opposite him, wearing black pajamas that were covered in adorable little Ursa drawings.

"Jaune, you look like you just came out of one of those amusement parks for toddlers." Shaya stated bluntly. Jaune wilted slightly in response but condeded.

"Point taken." He groaned out. "Seriously though, what was that thing you did before, what was with that glow?"

"I was activating your aura." She stated simply.

"My what-now?" Shaya stared incredulously at him before facepalming and letting out a groan of frustration.

"You know that blue bar in Grimm Race 3? The Focus Point bar?" Receiving a nod of confirmation she continued. "Alright, now imagine if that went down whenever you got hit instead of your health bar, and your health bar only went down once that was completely gone." Another nod. "Now, for as long as that blue bar is active, you always have the buffs 'Bountiful Light' 'Sacred Oath' and 'Deep Protection' active."

Jaune's eyes lit up with interest. "Oh, wow, that sounds awesome." It was Shaya's turn to nod.

"That's what aura is once it's been activated, you can do a lot more with aura, but those are the basics. For example, I used mine to give yours a jump start." She said as she laid back in her bed. "Now go to sleep, we're going to want to get up early if we want to get any of the pancakes at breakfast tomorrow."

He nodded and layed down in the bed he'd been offered, the last common thought the two of them had before drifting out of consciousness was a simple one.

"Tomorrow's gonna be a big day."

A/N: And The Shining Beacon has been completed. Please leave any reactions comments, concerns and whatnot in the review section below. Also I recently made a poll for what ships people would like to see in this story. I may or may not implement the winners in once we've gotten a good amount of votes, but regardless I'd just like to see what everyone would be interested in seeing in the future, you can vote for up to 3 ships.