The airships finally let off at Beacon docks where a blonde student stumbled out of it and threw up.

"Eugh... I guess the flight's not for everyone." Yang commented as her sister was fawning over the various weapons she saw each student holding.

"Oooh... WHOA! YANG LOOK! That guy has a flame sword! Oh and that guy has a rifle-bat! Oh and she has a mace with a flamethrower!" Ruby was pulled back by Yang whom pulled her hood over her head.

"C'mon sis, there's more to people than their weapons."

"Oh I know, but like weapons are a part of us, they really tell a lot about the people who make them. Like from your weapon I'd be able to tell you're very direct and straightforward with your approach to new people!" Ruby confidently pat her chest as Yang looked to the gauntlets on her wrists.

"True, that may be so." Yang shook her head. "But you've still gotta grow and meet new people."

"Ugh, you sound just like Dad!" Ruby rolled her eyes. "Besides, why would I do that when I can hang out with my big sister?"

"Oh, funny thing about that rubes-" Yang was cut off by another voice.

"Hey Yang!" a blonde haired male, looking about her age approached, he had a green jacket, black pants and sneakers. His eyes were an emerald green color. "You ready to hit up the cafeteria with me and the others?"

"Oh, yeah of course, Alix!" Yang smiled and before Ruby could protest this, Yang and Alix had gone off in a blur.

"Ugh..." Ruby groaned and started walking towards the statue in the center of the court yard when she stumbled over a luggage.

"Ow..." Ruby stood herself up when a white haired girl with light blue eyes glared daggers at her.

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!" she was clearly angry.

"Um, I'm sorry I didn't see your bag on the ground!" Ruby apologized profusely, bowing her head.

"Unbelievable. How can someone be so blind to their surroundings?!" the girl in white insulted.

For some reason Ruby could swear she recognized this girl. Like she's seen her somewhere before.

"Hey, I said I'm sorry, Princess." Ruby snarked back at her, which just made her groan.

"Ugh, you're right. It's probably my servant's fault." the girl in white turned towards one of her servants, whom had boar tusks, clearly a faunus. "I told you to leave my luggage off to the side!" she insulted.

"Say, Um... I feel like I know you from somewhere." Ruby tapped two of her fingers together as she nervously looked up at the girl.

"You still have NO clue what you're messing with!" the white haired girl again turned to Ruby. "What I have in my luggage is dust!" she took out a vial. Mined and purified in the Schnee Quarry!" she shook it, unaware that the lid was slightly loose, which released a dust cloud in front of Ruby.

"W-Whatever you do! Don't move suddenly!" she tried to warn Ruby, but it was too late as Ruby sneezed. Ruby's sneeze set off fire dust, which in turn ignited and set off the other vials of dust that the girl had in the briefcase she opened.

"YOU COULD HAVE KILLED US YOU DUNCE!" The girl drew out her rapier in her anger which surprised Ruby into transforming her scythe out, defensively.

"I was gonna ask you if you're famous or something!" Ruby whined before everything stopped when another voice interjected.

"She's Weiss Schnee. The Heiress to the Schnee Dust company." the new voice belonged to a girl clad in black, with black hair and yellow eyes. She notably wore a huge bow on her head and glared at Weiss before handing the now empty bottle of burn dust to her, that she snatched out of her hand. "The same company, known for it's questionable business practices and mistreatment of it's workers." she looked sympathetically towards the two servants Weiss had with her, the other one notably had a small little deer tail.

"W-Well I'd never!" Weiss groaned angrily. "Come we're unloading this at the belonging drop off area!" she sheathed her rapier, then stormed off.

Ruby turned towards the girl that had helped her. "Hey thanks for the help!" Ruby called out to her as she only offered a slight smile before turning away and walking off.

"What an odd girl." Ruby sighed before she sat down in the courtyard on a bench and leaned back.

"Make a friend she said. They're better than weapons." Ruby said, trying to mock Yang's tone while she slowly slid off the bench and onto the ground before a hand extended towards her.

"Need a hand?" a male voice asked.

"Aren't you that guy that threw up?" Ruby remarked before taking the hand.


Ruby now walked alongside a blonde haired boy wearing a chest plate over what seemed to just be a regular hoodie and jeans. "All i'm saying is that these things aren't that rare." he argued.

"Sorry, Vomit boy just seemed natural." Ruby laughed.

"Well how would you like it if I called you crater face?!" he countered which just made Ruby laugh.

"What's your name anyways?"

"Jaune Arc, short, sweet, rolls off the tongue and ladies love it!" Jaune confidently proclaimed.

"Do they really though?" Ruby deadpanned.

"They will! I hope so..." Jaune grunted before noticing Ruby's weapon in it's folded up state.

"So that's your weapon?" he asked her.

Ruby grinned eagerly and transformed it into it's scythe form, which made him jump back. "Yep! I call her Crescent Rose!" she hugged it.

"Whoa... I've never seen a scythe before!" he complimented.

"It's also a high impact sniper rifle!"

"Uh... What?" he asked.

"It's also a gun." she cocked it before transforming it back into it's compact form. "What's your weapon? I can see it's some kinda sword. But maybe there's more to it?!"

"Oh um..." he unsheathed his sword. "It's this sword." he began.

"Oooh..." Ruby marveled.

"And it's sheath turns into a shield." he stated. "That's really all it can do. I know it's lame in comparison to your Crescent Rose." he sighed.

"Well I think it's fine!" Ruby grinned. "No one has much appreciation for the classics these days! Did you make it yourself?!"

"Er... This was my grandfather's when he fought in the war."

"Sounds more like a family Heirloom to me." Ruby snickered before the intercoms at the school spoke out suddenly.

"Would all new students please report to the central auditorium!" the voice of Glynda Goodwitch called out.

"Oh, guess we gotta go." Ruby and Jaune started towards the auditorium.


Meanwhile back with Yang, she was taking pictures with Alix and a couple of her other friends in front of the CCT when the announcement interrupted. "Oh right, must be orientation." she scratched the back of her head.

"Right, we should get going then." Alix affirmed.

"Yeah." Yang started off with him. "I'd hate to be Dis-oriented." Yang snarked.

"Yeah, it'd be a real bummer if we couldn't orient ourselves properly." Alix added as the two just snickered immaturely at their own bad puns.

"But in all seriousness though, I hope you've been training buddy. You're gonna need it for initiation. I hear it's gonna be a sorta field training." Yang warned.

"Well, it's a good thing I've practiced and have improved my weapon's stability." he took a dagger out and spun it around in his hand. "By the way, are you gonna check in on your sister?"

"Oh? Yeah of course! I'm sure she hasn't gotten herself into too much trouble. She claims to not be good in environments like this, but honestly when she puts her foot forward she can make some good friends." Yang chuckled before the two entered the auditorium.

Yang split off from Alix and quickly found Ruby. "Hey!" Yang ran up to her sister.

"Oh Yang!" Ruby waved as she then turned to Jaune. "Sis, this is Jaune." she pointed to him.

"Aren't you that guy that threw up?" Yang asked.

"Why does everyone only talk about that?!" Jaune complained.

"Thanks for being a friend to Ruby." Yang smiled. Jaune simply nodded before Ruby was suddenly dragged ahead with her sister so they could get a little closer to the stage.

"Hey wait!" Jaune groaned. "Where am I gonna meet another quirky girl?" he hung his head as he walked by, a red haired girl wearing some armor looked to him.

"Ugh, Yang what I'm trying to say is that I exploded!" Ruby stated.

"Whoa, got mad already?!" Yang chuckled.

"No, I mean I literally blew up in an explosion!"

"Are you joking with me sis?" Yang wasn't taking this too seriously till Weiss stepped forward.

"YOU!" this made Ruby jump into her sister's arms.

"You nearly killed us both!" she scolded.

"Oh my God, you really did explode." Yang dropped her sister.

"I-I apologized! What's your problem with me?!" Ruby argued.

"The Schnee Dust company is not responsible for any injuries sustained while operating a Schnee Dust company product. Although, not mandatory the Schnee Dust Company recommends all users familiarize themselves with this guide as to how to correctly handle dust." Weiss held a pamphlet in front of Ruby's face and also seemed as if she was talking at a million miles per hour.

"Um... What?" Ruby could barely follow.

"If you want to start making things up to me, read this and pretend like we never met." she tossed the pamphlet at Ruby and stormed off to the other side of the auditorium.

Ruby whimpered sadly as Yang put a hand on her shoulder just as Ozpin stepped onto the stage with Glynda Goodwitch besides him.

He cleared his throat, which made every student turn their attention to him.

"Let me keep this short." he started.

"You all came to this academy in search of knowledge, to hone your craft and acquire new skills and when you finish you wish to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But when I look across this room, I see nothing but wasted energy." he looked towards Ruby specifically. "In need of direction," his eyes glanced up at Weiss. "Purpose." now he looked back to Yang. "You all assume knowledge will take you that far, but in reality you have to be the one to make the first step." he then stepped away from the stage as Glynda stepped up.

"You all will rest in the ballroom tonight, tomorrow your initiation will begin." she instructed as the Amphitheater began to clear out. Ruby stopped and looked at Ozpin, whom stood by one of the exits, sipping from his mug before she left with the others.


In the ballroom Ruby laid on a sleeping bag, writing in her journal.

Yang laughed and jumped onto the sleeping bag next to her sister. "It's like a big slumber party!"

"I don't think Dad would approve of the boys though." Ruby remarked.

several guys were without shirts and flexing their muscles to which Yang responded to with a playful purr. Jaune in his onsie stepped out making Yang look away in disgust.

"What're ya writing sis?" Yang asked.

"Just a letter to all my old friends at Signal." she sighed.

"Dawww... That's just so cuuute!" Yang was about to hug a sister but was stopped when Ruby threw a corgi pillow in her face.

"I didn't get to take my friends with me like you did, sis!" Ruby pouted. "It's weird not knowing anyone here!"

"Well aren't some of my friends like your friends? What about Jaune?" Yang asked. "He would be an increase to your friend count!"

"For starters, your friends treat me like a child still. So I'd hardly call them normal friends." Ruby scoffed.

"Ouch." Yang frowned.

"And Jaune... Well Weiss doesn't like me, so I'm pretty certain she's a negative friend. Back to 0." Ruby laid on her back, looking up at the roof.

"You can't have Negative friends, Ruby." Yang chuckled. "You made a friend and an enemy!" She was hit with the pillow again. "Look, sis. It's just been a day I'm sure you'll make plenty of friends. They're all around you. You just haven't met them yet!"

Nearby the black haired girl from earlier approached, wearing her pajamas which appeared to be a short kimono. She had a book in hand and a candle in her other. She sat down and started reading a book.

"That girl." Ruby noted.

"Do you know her? She's kinda cute." Yang remarked with a snicker.

"Yang control yourself!" Ruby smacked her head.

"Ow, sorry, sorry!" Yang whined. "Seriously though, do you know her?"

"I met her this morning around the time I met Weiss. She wasn't mean to me and in fact kinda defended me a little." Ruby explained.

"Well then let's give her a chat!"

Yang approached, dragging Ruby along with her, Ruby not wanting to bother her.

"Hello!~" Yang called out to the girl in black.

"Yes? Can I help you?" she asked looking up at her.

"Heh. Hi um..." Ruby seemed nervous and was now glancing back at Yang. "Yang help me!" Ruby mouthed to her sister.

Yang grunted. "Um Hi! What's your name?!" Yang asked.

"Blake." she deadpanned and flipped a page of her book.

"Um, I just wanted to thank you for sticking up for my sister, Ruby!" she shoved Ruby in front of her.

"It's nothing really." Blake looked back to her book and a dead silence lingered in the air.

"Yeah, she's a total lost cause." Yang whispered to her sister before looking at her. "I like your bow, it goes great with your... Pajamas!"

"Thank you." she sounded irritated now.

"Today wasn't a bad first day, right?" Yang asked.

"Yes, today was almost as good as this book. Which I'm enjoying that I'd like to continue reading." she focused on her book again.

"What's it about?" Ruby asked.

"Oh?" Blake seemed a little interested in Ruby as her bow would notably twitch slightly, something Yang saw but decided to keep to herself.

"Your book?" Ruby pressed.

"Oh, it's about a man with two souls, fighting for control over his body." Blake explained.

"Gee if that doesn't remind me of anything." Yang rolled her eyes, a slight glance in Alix's direction as he was chuckling at a video on his scroll. She just mouthed the word 'Scatterbrained' in his general direction.

"That sounds cool. I like to read a lot too. A lot of fairy tales and stories." Ruby smiled.

"Why? Are you hoping to live happily ever after?" Blake asked.

"Well I'm hoping we all will at some point. As a girl I've always wanted to be like those heroes in the books and fight for what's right. And also fight to help those who can't help themselves." Ruby explained.

"That's ambitious for a kid." Blake frowned. "But life isn't like a fairy tale."

"Well that's why we're here, isn't it? To make the world a better place."

"Oh I'm so happy you made a friend!" Yang hugged Ruby, picking her up, which resulted in Ruby punching Yang to make her let go. The two got into a bit of a scuffle now, with Ruby grabbing a large pillow from someone else's sleeping bag and smacking Yang over the face with it.

Yang on the other hand kept trying to hug Ruby, but Ruby kept resisting. Blake could only stifle a slight laugh at this interaction between the two sisters.

"Ruby, Yang it's nice to have met you two." Blake smiled.

Yang smirked. "The pleasure is all-" Yang was cut short when Weiss, wearing a nightgown stormed over, her face looking redder by the moment like she was about to explode in anger.

"Are you two hooligans the ones making all this noise?!"

"NOT YOU AGAIN!" Yang and Weiss glared at each other.

"Shh, guys we should try and keep it down!" Ruby insisted.

"On my side now, are we?" Weiss crossed her arms.

"I was always on your side, Ice Queen." Ruby glared.

"Yeah, what's your problem with My sister?! she just wants to make a friend!" Yang argued.

"She's a hazard to everyone's health!" Weiss glared at Ruby again.

Blake sighed, and doing one last favor, blew her candle out, leaving the room in total darkness now.

Alix snickered a little at a dumb video he was watching, Jaune was glancing over his shoulder and trying to hold back laughter as well. It was from earlier with Ruby and Weiss's ridiculous argument in the courtyard, someone had recorded it. "I gotta send this to Yang tomorrow..." he closed his scroll.


Commentary: Time for this bit. This is the chapter where our main four girls first meet.(save for Ruby and Yang of course since they're sisters.) We're also introduced to one of Yang's shadow friends, who as I mentioned before will be a slightly recurring character. Another thing of note, I did combine both of the Shining Beacon Chapters here because they were only like 4-5 minutes on Youtube. Which to be fair on the DVD those episodes are combined anyway. Some dialogue is changed up here and there's a new scene thrown into the mix, but other than that not much else new here apart from the aforementioned dialogue changes. I think Ruby talking about how weapons can tell a lot about a person is just an interesting idea. She might also just be pulling that one out of nowhere so she can avoid social interactions who knows?