RWBYKARE
Erick Nemo looked around the entrance to Beacon Academy. He saw so many different faces around the courtyard. Some looked nervous, others calm, but many others were eager. While walking through the crowd, he stopped in front of a statue in the courtyard. The statue had a man and a woman standing on top of a rocky outcropping. Below the pair stood a Beowolf on its hind legs in an aggressive stance. The man had a sword in his right hand, and he had raised it in a triumphant gesture. The woman, on the other hand, had a double-edged battle-ax in her left hand.
After pausing for a while, Erick headed to the right of the monument for the Amphitheater. As he stepped sideways, he tripped over an obstacle that he had not noticed. As he fell, Erick pulled into a combat roll before standing up to see what he had tripped over. He saw a tall boy with long dark brown hair in a ponytail and black goggles over his eyes. Everything about the boy's attire was black from his knee-high boots to the trench-cloak across his back. On the collar of the trench-cloak was a silver eye with the iris containing two tiny kunai daggers crossing each other in the form of an X. The boy had a large black suitcase which turned out to be the obstacle which Erick had tripped over.
With an angry look on his face, the dark garbed boy harshly spoke to Erick. "Watch where you're going, boy." He started to turn away and headed towards the school building.
Erick's backpack unzipped, and in a flash, the iron scales flew out in the formation of a cirrus cloud. The zoomed to the retreating boy, wrapped around his body, and pinned him to the rocky outcropping of the statue. Several passersby saw the swift action Erick had taken and quickly gave him a wide berth.
The boy let out a gasp as the iron scales slammed him against the statue's outcropping. He looked at Erick and began to plead for his life.
"Wait! Don't hurt me."
Erick looked at his target in a confused manner before releasing him and transferring his iron scales back into his backpack. The boy dusted himself off Erick's sudden attack. Once he had done so, he turned to Erick and addressed him politely.
"My apologies for earlier. My name is Alexander Magnus. What is your name?"
He extended his hand to Erick. Erick stared at it before he shook it.
"Erick Nemo." He said.
"Well… it was nice to meet you, Erick." Alex said, picking up his luggage.
"Yeah. It was."
"Shall we go to the Amphitheater?"
Erick responded by walking side-by-side with Alexander to their intended destination as the sun shone down upon their backs.
Kayden Thorn sat on a stone bench while students passed him by on their way to the Amphitheater. The air was warm, with a gentle breeze blowing in his face. He was in no rush at all to set foot in the school.
His eyes began to droop as the warm air blew past him when suddenly, a giant of a man stood in front of him.
"Hello!" the giant said in a booming voice.
Kayden yelped like a fox and leaped ten feet into the air off the bench. After making contact with the ground, he stood up and faced the giant. The giant had a rather messy attire, but most striking about his was the skin of a grizzly bear which he had tied around his neck like a cape.
"Aren't you that boy I met that one day I walked into a bar?" The giant asked.
"Uhhh… yeah?" Kayden was terrified by this man who stood at an overwhelming height of seven feet.
"Allow me to introduce myself. I am The—Great—Ragnar—Ironside!" The giant said, flexing his enormous biceps with each word.
Kayden looked shocked and confused at Ragnar's mannerisms. Ragnar grinned with a broad smile at Kayden's shocked confusion.
"Now for Ragnar's next question." Ragnar twirled his fingers around. "Who—are—you?" He ended, pointing both fingers at Kayden.
"I'm... Kayden…"
"Well, Kayden. What are you doing here? At Bacon Academy?" Ragnar asked.
"Well, I'm— wait. What did you just say?"
"Bacon Academy. Isn't this the place?"
Kayden looked even more confused at Ragnar's stupidity.
"I've… never heard of 'Bacon Academy.' This place is Beacon Academy."
Now it was Ragnar's turn to look confused. He rummaged in one of the many pockets of his brown cargo pants.
"I got a letter that said I, The Great Ragnar Ironside, am to study at Bacon Academy." He said before handing Kayden a dirty-looking paper. Kayden looked at the paper before replying.
"You can read, right? It clearly says Beacon Academy."
"Of course, I can read! I am The Great Ragnar Ironside! Reader of two books!"
Kayden gave him back the letter, completely dumbfounded by what the giant had said. Annoyed, he turned and walked away from Ragnar. He heard the sound of pounding feet and turned around to see the giant form of Ragnar jogging after him with such great strides.
"Wait! You must tell Ragnar where bacon is!"
"To find bacon, you have to find a fridge. To find a fridge, you got to find a kitchen."
"Wait! Where does Ragnar find a kitchen?"
"I dunno. Maybe in the mess hall?" Kayden said.
"Then let's go there!"
"But we have to go to the Amphitheater now. There is a speech we are late for."
"But bacon is calling me! Ragnar can sense that it is close by!"
Kayden sighed.
"Ok. Look. I will find you bacon if you come with me to the Amphitheater to listen to the speech. When the speech is over, I will get you the bacon."
Ragnar stopped in his tracks to think of what Kayden had said.
"Alright. I will go with you. But. You must get Ragnar all of the bacon."
"All of the bacon?" Kayden asked questioningly.
Ragnar leaned in close to Kaydens' face. "ALL OF THE BACON." He said forcefully.
Kayden leaned back from Ragnar, now looking slightly terrified. "Ok, then."
Alexander and Erick stood in the Amphitheater, among many other new arrivals. Some from Vale and others from the other kingdoms like Vacuo. Ozpin walked onto the stage of the Amphitheater and addressed the students.
"I'll... keep this brief. 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."
Some students whispered amongst each other as they heard what Ozpin said. Alexander's gaze diverted from Ozpin to a dirty blonde-haired boy with his back to him. The boy was whispering to a dark-brown haired girl with pale skin and royal blue attire. Alex then returned his gaze to Ozpin.
"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."
Ozpin finished and then stepped down as Glynda took the stage.
"You will gather in the ballroom tonight; tomorrow, your initiation begins. Be ready. You are all dismissed."
The crowd, along with Alexander and Erick, began to disperse for the ballroom.
As they were leaving, they heard a loud voice yell out, "WHERE'S THE BACON?!"
In the ballroom, Erick and Alexander got into their sleeping bags as the others around them did the same.
Alex was wearing a wooly black bathrobe and pajama pants. He had replaced the goggles around his eyes with a black blindfold.
Erick wore a pair of green pajamas, which consisted of a shirt and shorts.
"So, Erick," Alex said with his chin in his hand. "Before we go to sleep, what kingdom did you hail from?"
"I'm from the Kingdom of Vacuo," said Erick nonchalantly
"What's your plan for studying here in the Kingdom of Vale?"
"I want to find my father."
"Your father?" Alex looked puzzled. "What happened?"
"According to my mother, he left just after I was born."
Kayden sat on top of his sleeping bag as he looked around the ballroom. Ragnar had wrapped himself in his bearskin as opposed to using a sleeping bag and seemed ready to sleep. Kayden, on the other hand, was looking over at four girls, three of whom were arguing amongst themselves.
"I was always on your side!" yelled a little girl with short black hair and red highlights to another girl with long white hair.
"Yeah, what's your problem with my sister? She's only trying to be nice!" shouted a tall girl with wavy gold blonde hair.
"She's a hazard to my health!" said the white-haired girl.
"SHUT UP!" Kayden yelled over at them. "Just shut up! No one wants to hear about your midlife crisis!"
"Excuse me?!" the white-haired girl addressed Kayden snobbishly.
The blonde turned around and, with tremendous shock, Kayden recognized her as Yang Xiao Long and the short-haired girl as Ruby Rose.
"Well, well, well. Look at what the cat dragged in."
The fourth girl, who had black hair with a bow on her head and sat on the floor while holding a book, raised an eyebrow at Yang.
"That's offensive."
"Man. I forgot how good those curves are," Kayden said carelessly under his breath while staring at Yang.
It was evident that she had heard him because she stomped over to him, pulled back her hand, and slapped him across the face. The sound of the blow echoed around the ballroom. Ragnar got out from beneath his bearskin, stood up, and bent down to face Yang, who was nearly a foot and a half shorter than him.
"No one slaps my little friend here!" He shouted in her face.
"Oh?" Yang retorted, raising an eyebrow.
Ragnar slapped her in the face, causing her to keel over onto her side.
Ruby, seeing her sister fall, moved towards Ragnar and yelled at him.
"How dare you hit my big sister, you giant meanie!"
Ragnar was about to flick Ruby on her forehead when Glynda came into the ballroom and cracked her crop weapon. Ragnar and Ruby were instantly thrown backward onto the floor. She stood towering over them.
"Children, please." She said, in a firm voice while gritting her teeth, "Do not fight when it is time for bed."
"Yes, ma'am." They both said.
Yang got up and rubbed the spot on her face where Ragnar had smacked her.
"Ugh, I did not see that coming." She said before she and Ruby went back to their sleeping bags.