Chapter 3: The Shining Beacon
Dragon of Creativity: Hello guys, sorry for uploading a week late got held up with something last week and I hope you all liked the last chapter I uploaded!
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Dragon of Creativity: I hope you like this new chapter and I'll see you at the end of this chapter. Bye all you Demi-Gods.
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A few minutes later the air ship we were on landed next to a cliff to allow the new students to hop off and get to Beacon Academy but ironically the 1st person to hop off is Jaune who runs to a trash can to let out a load of vomit. Sans lifts me up with his magic and carries me outside and puts me on the ground so I can become my normal self again instead of a useless bag of magic. As soon as Asriel, Chara, Ruby and Yang came out of the air-craft Ruby says while looking at Beacon Academy, "Wow".
"The view from Vale's got nothing on this!" Yang said shortly after Ruby.
"This looks a little like my father's castle back in the Underground." Asriel said causing Ruby to say, "I didn't know Sans owned a castle."
"No, he's talking about his biological father whose name is Asgore and he's the king of monsters." Chara explained.
"Oh." Ruby said before literally turning 2D with stars for eyes and turning chibi before saying, "Ohmygosh, guys! That kids got a collapsible staff! And she's got a fire sword!" She started to follow them when Sans pulls her back into reality while pulling her back to us. By then I had fully recovered so I said, "Easy there, little sweetheart~ There just weapons."
"'Just weapons'? They're an extension of ourselves! They're a part of us! Oh they'resocool!" Ruby explained and growing a tiny stain of pink on her cheeks from me calling here 'sweetheart'.
"Well, that's true for Dad Asriel and I but why can't you swoon over your weapon?" I asked.
"Aren't you happy with it and what do you mean by that Alastair?" Yang asked while pulling Ruby's hood over her head.
"monsters are mostly made up of magic that come from our SOUL and we can send that magic outside our bodies to generate attacks or weapons." Sans explained as Ruby took her weapon out and transformed it into a scythe and said, "Of course I'm happy with Crescent Rose! I just really like seeing new ones. It's meeting new people but better…"
"Ruby, come on, why don't you go and try make some friends of your own?" Yang asked.
"But…why would I need friends if I have you guys?" Ruby asked after taking off her hood.
"Well…" Yang said before a group of other students surrounded Yang and they all dash down the road with a yelling Yang saying, "Actually, my friends are here. Gotta go catch up. 'kay, see ya, bye!" leaving behind a dizzy Ruby.
"bye alastair, i would like to see what this school looks like so i'm going to have to take chara to keep an eye on her and asriel to make sure she doesn't try anything." Sans said before disappearing as well as Chara and Asriel.
"Wait, where are you going?! Are we supposed to go to our dorms? Where are our dorms? Do we have dorms?" Ruby asked stopping for a moment still in a dizzy state before continuing, "I don't know what I'm doing…" and falls backwards into a luggage cart which sends cases flying everywhere so I walked over to Ruby, grabbed her arm and pulled her out of the luggage only to see a girl wearing a white dress with red lining and a white jacket with a snowflake symbol on the back of it. "What are you two doing?!" the girl asked in a scolding sort of tone.
"Uh, sorry!" Ruby said guiltily.
"What are you doing, yelling at this girl. What where you treated like a princess most of your life getting everything you want!" I yelled at her while being over protective over Ruby.
"How dare you yell…at…me." She started to yell but trailed of when she saw my eye's turn black and my left iris blazing the colour of DETERMINATION but quickly snapped out of it and said, "Do you have any idea of the damage she could have caused?"
"No, but do you have any idea how much damage I could do if you keep this up?" I said with a Ruby in the background holding one of the cases and saying, "Uuhhh…"
"What do you mean by that and give me that!" She demanded before snatching the case from Ruby's hands causing a Soul Blaster to appear behind me as my left iris starts blazing in the colours of the rainbow.
"What I mean is, I can use magic and rain hell on you just by using this blaster." I explained causing slight fear to appear in her SOUL. "What is so important in that case?" I asked in a glitchy and demonic voice.
"Well if you must know, the stuff in the cases is Dust-" she started but was stopped when I pushed my right hand to the ground causing the white princess to fall to her knees because of the change in gravity. "What's this about 'Dust'?"
"Alastair, your taking something such as Dust too literally for it to be a good thing?" Ruby asked concerned.
"Dust is a way to describe a monster corpse, basically when a monster dies their bodies lose the magic inside and their bodies become a pile of dust." I explained to the now shocked Ruby.
"I didn't know that the word dust represents dead monsters." Ruby exclaimed horrified about the fact.
"Ruby you remind me of myself 6 years ago when I had the DETERMINATION SOUL but back to our conversation, what is 'Dust' is it dead monsters or is it something else?" I asked.
"Are you Brain-dead?" the white princess scolded. She opened the case she was holding and pulled out a vile containing red powder. After she shut the case and says, "Dust! Fire, water, lightning, energy!"
"Lightning, what like this?" I asked as I summoned a blue and silver lightning bolt that crashed next to me causing both Ruby and the girl to yelp at the sudden strike.
"How did yo-" The girl started but was stopped by Ruby saying, "That was some of your magic, right."
"Yep, Asriel tort me how to do that. After all he has been a monster longer than I have and a god as well, multiple time's actually. All in different timelines." I explained. By that point, the girl was shaking the vile around trying to get our attention but that also made the dust in the vile and the case to become a giant red cloud.
"O… okay cou…" Ruby started but stopped when she started coughing from the dust being blown into her face so I said warily, "Ruby are you okay, here let me get the dust out of here." Which was followed by a small gust of wind that failed to blow away the dust cloud. "I'm not that good at wind magic, sorry."
"Are you even listening to me? Is any of this sinking in? what do you have to say for yourself?" The white princess asked visibly showing her irritation.
"Ah…ah…AH…" Ruby said as she was about to sneeze and when she did I immediately turned my SOUL green and blocked the explosion that was coming my way before it could touch me but getting the girl covered in black soot but it disappears soon afterwards as she says angrily, "Unbelievable! This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about!"
"I'm really, really sorry!" Ruby apologised.
"Ugh, you complete dolt! What are you even doing here? Aren't you two a little young to be attending Beacon?" the girl asked causing me to snap and say, "Oh, so our ages matter suddenly you haven't been in the same position as I was, whatever caused that scar is nothing compared to what I had to face at the age of nine!"
"Well, if you haven't noticed this isn't an ordinary combat school. It's not just sparring and practice, you know! We're here to fight-" She said but was cut off by me saying, "Don't say the word monsters when referring to grimm please."
"Grimm, so… watch where you're going!" She said and by this I grew mad which I expressed by saying, "You obviously got that scar on your eye in a fight but judging by the way your acting now you where home schooled so that means you fought something that your dad set up while I on the other end have survived an entire race of magic beings that where trying to get their hands on my SOUL so they could free themselves from the prison of the underground and wage war on humanity for killing their prince who was trying to complete the first humans and his best friends dying wish. Do you know what made this species special? Their SOULs are mostly made with magic, love and compassion. So, when the humans killed Asriel, the king lost all his love and compassion and declared that any human who fell into the underground where to be killed and their SOULs delivered to the king so the barrier can be destroyed and then wage war on humans with the king as a god on their side. Thousands of years later I fell into the underground and died to a creature called loox, I came back to life and went back in time because of my DETERMINATION so I decided to do a test to see that if I die I come back to life just to make sure I wasn't hallucinating and you know what, I came back to the last place I felt the most determined and continued. Almost a week passed and I had made my way to the Capital home of the king where I knew I would have to fight him but when the first monster I met, the queen of monsters, saved me from having to fight Asgore, all the friends I made showed up and we all were having a wonderful time but this was interrupted by a soulless flower called Flowey, who absorbed the six human SOULs the king had collected so far and all the monsters SOULs and became a god who surprisingly is the prince of monsters Asriel. He killed me multiple times because he had no compassion and became the being of prophecy called the Angel of Death. Soon after he regained his compassion and he released all the human and monster SOULs he had absorbed which were replaced by SOULs that I made when I restored his compassion and at the same time the Barrier was broken. So, whatever you went through was nothing compared to what I went through, so I don't want to see you talking like that to any of my friends or family because the grimm will be the least of your worry's, princess!"
"It's heiress, actually." Another girl said so we turned to her. She had be golden eyes, long, black hair, a black bow on her head, which I swear I saw twitch, and holding the bottle that I didn't realize Wiess had dropped until I saw it. "Wiess Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, one of the largest producers of energy propellant in the world." She continued.
"Finally! Some recognition!" The girl now known as Wiess said with a smug smile on her face before the raven girl finished by saying, "The same company infamous for its controversial labour forces and questionable business partners." Which caused me to walk over to Wiess, grab her on the head, make a basketball hoop and jump incredibly high in the air yelling, "GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTT…" then I put her where the hoop was and she freaked out that we were going at incredible speeds towards the hoop and finished by putting her through the hoop saying, "DUNKED ON!" causing the bow-wearing goth and Ruby to let out a laugh because of how unexpected that was, causing a now very angry Wiess Schnee to stammer out, "Wha- How dare you- the nerve of… Ugh!" She goes to the black-haired girl and snatch's the bottle of dust from the girl and went to her luggage and with the help of her helpers, she packs the luggage up and stormed out of the area.
"I promise I'll make this up to you!" Ruby yelled making me smile at how similar we are and how she reminds me of myself in some ways. She turns to were the girl was and says, "I guess I'm not the only one having a rough day…So, what's…" she then collapsed to the ground and lays on her back and says, "Welcome to Beacon."
"Ruby remember, I have to get used to an entirely different world that I will be staying at for a while…I already miss mum." I said sitting next to her showing her that I still have a lot to get used to.
"I know what you're going through right now, it's just that I'm not used to seeing mum again after so much time and meeting people from a different world. It's just so new to me." Ruby explained causing me to hug her to try and calm her down from her current state.
"Hey." A male voice said causing us to look at him showing that it was Jaune. "I'm J-"
"Jaune, my dad told us your name, we Dreemurr's have a special ability to see the STATS of a person, basically your name, LOVE and HP." I said letting go of Ruby with a slight blush from embarrassment. "I'm Alastair Dreemurr and this is Ruby Rose." I introduced helping Ruby up.
"Are you to dating?" He asked causing both me and Ruby to yell, "NO." from embarrassment.
"Aren't you the guy that threw up on the ship?" Ruby asked.
(Time skip)
We were walking around trying to find were we are supposed to go while chatting as Jaune said, "All I'm saying is that motion sickness is a much more common problem than people let on!"
"I hear you but for me it is a really rare case because all my energy is drained from my body and I don't throw up." I said.
"So, what was that about another world?" Jaune asked causing me and Ruby to freeze in place as Ruby tries to think a way around it and when she does she says, "That doesn't matter anyways, I've got this thing." And she pulls out Crescent Rose and stabs it in the ground giving me an idea to do something simular saying, "And I've got these." I summoned two Soul Blasters behind me causing him to take a step back from shock and say, "Whoa! Where did they come from and is that a scythe?"
"These are Soul Blasters, a light cannon that is fused with the power of Seven Human SOULs that I can summon to my aid." I explained.
"And my scythe is also a customizable high-impact sniper rifle!" The red scythe-wielder said causing a confused Jaune to say "A-wha…?" which caused Ruby to cock the rifle smiling and say, "It's also a gun and there are human SOULs in a Soul Blaster?"
"Yep, only something I can do. By that I mean no human or monster can create a SOUL without going through…that process…but I can summon Blasters that have the power of a god and fire the energy of the SOULs out but because of my stupid curse I only deal 1 damage to a target with a SOUL." I explained.
"Oh. That's cool?" Jaune said with more confusion than understanding but because Ruby knows what a monster is she nods her head in agreement.
"So what've you got?" Ruby asked Jaune who said, "Oh! I, uh…" He unsheathes his sword and continues saying, "I got this sword!"
"Ooooohh!" Ruby said in a tone that sounded cute to me so I blushed a little and said to get my head out of the clouds, "A 1-handed long sword, no modifications so it's a plain old classic, you don't see them around much." I said which Ruby looked at me with a shocked expression before saying, "How do you know about weapons, I thought you were just some incredibly powerful god?"
"When your friends with an anime fanatic like my friends Undyne and Alphys it's kinda hard not to research if that's what the weapon can actually do." I explained to Ruby who now had a shell-shocked look on her face.
"I've got a shield, too!" Jaune said as he got his scabbard and raises his arm causing metal to expand on the sides making a shield appear on his arm.
"Oh cool, do you want to see my shield?" I asked just wanting to see his reaction.
"Sure. How bad can it be." He replied which prompted me to lift my arm as if holding a shield which he gave a questionable look so I said, "Just wait a second." I than changed my SOUL green and a green heart appeared on my arm causing him to stare in shock at how a shield appeared on my arm. "This is one of the many powers I have, basically I can change someone's SOUL a certain colour and when I do that they have to fight in a certain manner. The green SOUL mode is the one I'm using now" I explained causing him to nod in understanding.
"So, what do they do?" The little red reaper asked while touching Jaune's shield after I dissipated my shield. He fumbles with his shield making it retract and expand multiple times before putting it back on his belt and saying, "The shield gets smaller so when I get tired of carrying it, I can just…put it away."
"That doesn't make sense, if it folds down and you put it on your belt wouldn't it still weigh the same?" I asked sceptically causing Jaune to say dejectedly, "Yeah it does…"
"Well, I'm kind of a dork when it comes to weapons, sooo… I guess I did go a little overboard when designing it." She said after giggling while gesturing to her weapon.
"Wait – you made that?" He asked shocked by the fact.
"Of course! All students at Signal forge their own weapons! Didn't you make yours?" she asked, confusion clear in her voice.
"It's a hand-me-down. My great-great-grandfather used it in to fight in the war." He explained.
"Sounds more like a family heirloom to me!" I said before Ruby and I let out a small laugh.
"Well, I like it! Not many people have an appreciation for the classics these days." She said causing Jaune to say after sheathing his sword, "Yeah, the classics…". We started walking again when Ruby asks, "So why'd you introduce yourself to us back there? In the courtyard?"
"Eh, why not? My mom always says, 'Strangers are just friends you haven't met yet." Jaune replied.
"Hmm…Hey guys where are we going?" I asked realizing we were lost.
"Oh, I don't know! I was following you guys. Y-you think there might be a directory? Maybe a food court? Some kind of recognizable landmark? Is, uh…Is that a 'no'?" Jaune said, bombarding us with questions.
"That's a 'no'." Ruby said while laughing.
"Follow me, I know a shortcut." I said walking behind a pillar which they followed looking suspiciously at the pillar I walked behind.
Dragon of Creativity: Sorry about not uploading last week, I just had a bunch of things to do with my family.
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