The airship finally reached Beacon and everyone got off, the first one being the unimpressive blonde punk who was barfing the entire trip, whose first stop was the trash can, depositing whatever was left in his stomach into the receptacle. "Well, sucks to be that kid. I would say I feel bad for him, but I'd be lying." I said as we walked past him and towards the school.
[Yeah, forget him. He can't have too much importance to the plot, right?]
Ain't nobody got time fo' punks like him!
We then stopped in front of the school, looking at it in awe. "Holy shit!" Draco said.
"Nice digs." Nicolas agreed.
"Yeah. Something tells me I'll like it here." Damion agreed.
"Damn. And I thought our house was impressive." I said, nudging Serena.
"Right?!" She said, looking at it with stars in her eyes.
"I certainly won't mind living here for the next 4 years." Selene said.
Less than 10 feet ahead of us, the two sisters from before, who we now knew as Yang and Ruby, were also admiring the impressive site of the castle-like academy. "The view from Vale's got nothing on this." Yang said, then watching as her sister started freaking out and swooning in excitement over other students' weapons having to pull her back in order to keep her from wandering off.
"A girl who's got a thing for weapons. Nice. I wish I could find a girl like that." I said.
"Oh, please, those weapons are nothing. HERE'S something two swoon over." Serena said, pulling out her two bladed fans that, should she press the button on the handle, would launch the blades at her enemies, effectively blending Kitana and Kratos into one style. And on her back, she carried another weapon: A much larger fan combined with a bazooka, blending together Temari and... I don't know, some guy with a bazooka (True fact: Serena's favorite weapons are steel fans).
"What about mine?" Selene asked, unsheathing her weapons, a pair of escrimas that launch each launch a different type of dart: the left one shooting darts dipped tipped with the incredibly potent poison: Wolfsbane, Sun Tzu style. The second one was the safer one, launching sleep darts instead. And both of them housed on the end electric conduits, which will come as a shock to whoever gets hit by them.
"All great weapons, girls, but now's not the time." I said.
While we were doing this, Yang was encouraging her younger sister to make new friends. "But, why would I need friends when I have you?" Ruby asked.
"Well..." She started. Suddenly, a group of students appeared behind the blonde. "Actually-my-friends-are-here-right-now-gotta-go-catch-up-see-you-later-bye." She said quickly, taking off with the group of students, leaving the younger girl spinning.
"Well, that was kind of a bitch move." I said.
"I don't know, something tells me I'd like that girl." Damion said, Selene rolling her eyes a bit.
"Do you always think with your- whoa!" I said, unleashing the chains on my fingers on my right hand, excluding my thumb, to catch the young girl as she was about to fall on top of a hotel cart which the name of escapes me at present, full of luggage, two wrapping around her wrists and two sticking up from the ground to break her fall.
"Nice job, puppet master." Damion said, which for reference, he was calling me because I had her by the arms with chains replacing strings on a puppet.
"Man, fuck you." I said in my gangsta/stereotypical black guy voice as I pulled the girl back into a standing position, retracting the chains.
The girl looked to where the chains were and saw them wrap back around my fingers. "Whoa... Hey, thanks." She said, waving and about to walk up as we walked closer out of politeness, before a girl with white hair, dressed in all white blocked her path. The girl looked familiar, like someone I'd seen, heard of or read about before, but I couldn't put my finger on it.
"What are you doing?! Are you aware of the damage either of you could've caused?!" She demanded.
"Nope, not really, sorry." I said.
To this, she huffed and picked up one of the many cases on the trolly thing and opened it, pulling out a vial of red dust and closing it quickly. "This is dust! Mined and purified from the Schnee quarry." She said arrogantly.
"Gesundheit." I said jokingly when she brought up the name Schnee. See, the Schnee Dust company and Bladecorp are KIND OF at odds, but that will be explained in a few minutes, depending on your reading speed.
"Uh..." Ruby said, confused.
"What are you, brain-dead?! Dust! Fire, water, lightning, energy!" She said, shaking the vial.
Now, something you may know about me if you've read my other fics, I know when to stop joking and get serious, a girl shaking around a vial of one of the most dangerous substances on the planet being a perfect example. "If you know what it is, then STOP SHAKING IT LIKE THAT!" I said urgently. Now, something you may not know about me: I have a strong dislike towards getting blown up.
However, this girl's focus was entirely on the young girl she blamed for what I'd see as nothing, but this chick obviously sees as highly dangerous and almost destroying some of her precious property. "Are you even listening?! Is any of this sinking in?! What do you have to say for yourself?!" She demanded, shaking the vial once or twice more, the dust in the air circling around the younger girl's face and she had a look like she was about to sneeze.
"OH SHIT!" I said, making a barrier of demon energy in front of us, which shattered after the dust exploded, creating lots of smoke and fire and some lightning, the vial going flying to someone's feet. This was revealed to be a girl reading a book, who reached down and picked up, looking for the owner.
"Damn, everyone okay?" Damion asked, coughing a couple of times, picking himself up off the ground.
"More or less!" Draco muffled as his head was stuck into the ground.
"What's that?" He asked.
"I think he said 'it's on my chest.'" Nicolas said, pulling Draco's head out of the ground.
"Close enough." The blood demon said.
"It wasn't as bad as it could've been." Selene said, gently moving Serena off of her.
"Oh, my head... Hey, where's Sai?" Serena asked, looking around.
"AAAAAAAGH!" I screamed, falling off the edge of a cliff the explosion blasted me off of (To see how this looks, go to YouTube and type in Sub-Zero mythologies death animations). But then I managed to shoot the chains off of my fingers into the top of the cliff, stopping my fall. "Oh, thank the gods I watched the Spawn animated series too much." I said, hoisting myself back up and over the cliff. "I'm back." I said, walking back to the group.
However, despite no one being seriously injured, the white-haired girl, now scorched black, was furious. "Unbelievable! This is exactly what I was talking about!" She snapped.
"I'm really, REALLY sorry." Ruby said, poking her fingertips together innocently.
"You complete dolt! What are you even doing here?! Aren't you a little young to be attending Beacon?!" The mean girl demanded.
"Well, first off, that was mostly your fault for shaking that damn dust everywhere. Second, warriors are getting better at a younger age. I watched the first episode, this girl kicked major ass. You probably just got in because you are most likely from a wealthy family that pulled a few strings to get you in. We don't really know what you can do yet." I said as I completely rejoined the group.
"How dare you! I happened to be a highly coordinated fighter, which I doubt very much this girl is!" She said, glaring at me before turning back to Ruby. "This isn't your typical combat school. Not just sparring and practice, you know! We're here to fight monsters, so watch where you're going!" She said, crossing her arms and keeping up her arrogance.
"You don't have many friends, do you?" I asked.
"Hey, I said I was sorry, princess!" Ruby said to the girl.
"It's heiress, actually." The girl who picked up the vial of dust said, walking up to us. "Weiss Schnee. Heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, one of the largest producers of energy propellant in the world." She said.
"Oh, so that's why I don't like her." Serena whispered to Selene, who looked confused.
"Finally! Some recognition!" Weiss said as if she did something right.
"But is it really deserved?" I asked, getting ready to counter when I saw her raise a fist and aim it at me, but the other girl spoke up again.
"The same company infamous for it's contraversial labor forces and questionable business partners." She said, to which I nodded.
"The labor force: Mostly faunus getting paid worse than the employee from Five Nights at Freddy's and business partners believed to be associated in a multitude of criminal dealings and even genocide, like that one company Romney got money from... I don't know, I forget the actual story, but I remember the main bullet points of it." I agreed (I made that up, yes, but that does fit both bills... Didn't make up the Romney thing, though).
"What?! How dare- The nerve of-!" Weiss said angrily, but was at a loss for words.
"Ever heard of a company called Bladecorp?" Serena asked the unknown girl. Everyone turned to look at her, most of us with a normal expression, since we could expect a question like that, the girl with an understanding smile and look of approval and Weiss with her normal arrogance, giving my younger sister a cocky smile that made me want to rip off her lips.
"Ha! That outdated dinosaur of a company?!" She asked arrogantly, to which Serena flicked her on the nose.
"Which is kicking your company's ass!" I said proudly, getting a glare from her and steam shooting from her ears, but that ended when the girl started to explain again.
"Yes, I have heard of it. The superior rival to the Schnee Dust company, using older, but much more reliable forms of energy and making top-class, military grade weapons with contracts only going out to the U.S military and all of its allies. They also make affordable, well-made medicines that can cure any modern disease. All trustworthy business partners and a labor force as well paid as a worker at NASA, as well as highly diverse, rather than all human or all faunus." She said.
"We're equal opportunists." I said, revealing my Bladecorp identification card, Serena doing the same.
"And large portions of our profits go to various charities as well." Serena added, showing her card.
Weiss was beside herself in anger at this, to which I decided to throw even more fuel on the fire. "In other words, our company is so much better than yours. We give away half of our profits and still make more than your company." I said in my own cocky arrogant tone, then gave a smile as if I was about to tell her to have a nice day. Everyone was practically dying from a mixture of laughter and trying to hold it back at the same time.
She looked like she was about ready to tear my eyes out, but merely snatched the vial of dust from the girl and stormed off.
"Someone needs a hug." Serena said.
"Or she needs to get laid, BIG TIME." I said, the guys nodding in agreement, then I turned to the 4th wall. "Moral of the story kids: DON'T FUCK WITH ME AFTER I FELL OFF A CLIFF!" I said, nodding once.
Ruby still felt bad about the interaction, calling out to her. "I promise I'll make this up to you!" She said.
"Eh, forget her, she's got loads of money to cry into and wipe her eyes with." I said.
"You mean like in Zombieland?" Draco asked.
"Exactly." I said, pointing to him without even looking at him.
"Guess I'm not the only one having a rough first day." She said, then turned to the other girl we don't know yet. "So, what's-" She started, then stopped when she saw that the girl was now walking away. She then sighed, dropped to her knees and fell onto her back. "Welcome to Beacon." She said sadly.
"It could've been worse." I told her, offering her a hand.
"How? Damion asked.
"Oh, on my first day of high school, we had a zombie infestation and a dragon attack at the same time." I explained, turning my attention towards him.
"Oh, that'd do it." He said, nodding.
Ruby suddenly noticed a shadow over her and looked to see the blonde kid from before standing over her, holding out his hand. "Hey. I'm Jaune." He said.
"Jeanne?" I asked, Bayonetta's counterpart appearing in my mind.
"Ruby." The young girl said as she took his hand and was helped off the ground. She then noticed something. "Aren't you the guy that threw up on the ship?" She asked.
Later...
We were walking along, trying to figure out where the hell we were going, having a conversation at the same time. "All I'm saying is a much more common problem than people let on." Jaune said.
"Wait, I seem to have stopped caring." I said.
"Here, try these." Serena said, tossing him the wristbands with the plastic studs that prevent motion sickness.
"Look, I'm sorry, Vomit Boy was just the first thing that came to mind." Ruby said.
"And justified. I mean, you had to have puked at least 5 times ON the ship before we got off and you puked more into that trash can." I said.
"Oh, yeah? Well, what if I called you Crater Face and you Cliffhanger?" He countered, pointing first to Ruby, then at me, but then I grabbed him by the throat.
"Call me that again, you won't even have enough time to scream before I tear your throat out." I said in my Spawn voice, dropping him.
"Damn, you done pissed my boy OFF!" Draco said, Damion and Nicolas nodding.
"Hey, that explosion was an accident!" Ruby said.
"And the winter bitch was shaking that dust around everywhere." Serena added.
"If it hadn't been her to sneeze, it probably would've been one of us." Selene agreed.
"That's why I don't like dust. Too touchy. Electricity, much less dangerous. It ain't gonna blow you up if you sneeze." I said, the others nodding.
"Well, the name's Jaune Arc. Short sweet, rolls off the tongue, ladies love it." Jaune said, giving himself a rather boastful introduction.
"Really? Because the last person I knew named Jeanne WAS a lady." I said tauntingly, causing him to drop his head.
"Do they really love it?" Ruby asked, clearly not buying it.
"They will. I mean, I hope they will. My mom always says that-" He started, before Draco interrupted him.
"Dude, you're just digging your grave deeper. When your mom tells you something like that, it's usually a lie." He said.
"ALWAYS." Nicolas agreed.
"So... I got this." Ruby said, pulling out her giant scythe.
"Whoa, that's cool!" I said, getting a closer look at it.
Jaune, however, jumped back in fear. "Whoa! Is that a scythe?" He asked, pointing at it.
"It's also a customizable, high-impact Sniper Rifle." She said, bringing out it's scope.
"Wha?" He asked, confused.
"... It's also a gun." Everyone else said at once as Ruby did something that made it sound like she was cocking a shotgun.
Hehe! He said cocking!
[You make our head hurt...]
"Ugh..." I said, pinching the bridge of my nose with one finger on my forehead.
"That's cool!" Jaune said, looking at the weapon.
"So, what do you got?" She asked.
"Oh, I've got a sword." He said, unsheathing it, a medieval broadsword.
"Ooh." She said.
"Oh, medieval style." I said, nodding in approval.
"I've got a shield, too! It's the sheath for the sword." He said, turning the sheath into a shield.
"So, what do they do?" She asked, touching the shield, which caused it to bounce all around, changing forms, falling to the ground despite Jaune's effort to catch it.
"The shield gets smaller. So when I get tired of carrying it, I can just... Put it away." He said.
"But, wouldn't it still weigh the same?" She asked.
"Yeah, it does." He said, lowering his head.
"Everyone else?" She asked, looking at us. We went down the line and she was fascinated by each weapon, but I think she liked mine the best.
By the way, before people ask "How do the chains move on their own?!", don't! It's OUR fic with OUR rules!
[We use our demonic energy to control them like the force. The same way Dante can send Rebellion flying anywhere and make it fly back to him.]
"I'm kind of a dork when it comes to weapons. I did go a little overboard in designing Crescent Rose." She said, cradling the scythe like a baby. Not that I blame her, I do that with my weapons, too. Mostly my guns.
Rock-a-bye rifle!
"You made that?!" Jaune said, shocked.
"Of course! All students at Signal design their own weapons!" She said.
"We didn't go to Signal, but all of us made ours." Selene said, to which we nodded.
"Didn't you make yours?" Ruby asked him.
"It's a hand-me-down. My great-great-grandfather used it to fight in the war." He said.
"Sounds more like a family heirloom to me." Ruby said.
"I can appreciate that. Our clan has an ancestral weapon, too. It's a double-ended katana- *turns to the 4th wall* picture a katana version of Darth Maul's lightsaber- *turns back* that can pull apart into two separate katanas. Been passed down in our clan for 20 generations now. It's our oldest sister's personal weapon currently, since she's appointed to be the next head of our clan. She cradles it like a baby, too." I said, nodding.
"Well, I like it. Not many people have an appreciation for the classics these days." Ruby said.
"Yeah, the classics." He said.
"So, why did all of you help me out back there in the courtyard?" She asked.
"Common decency." I said, the others, minus Jaune nodding.
"Eh, why not. My mom always says, strangers are just friends you haven't met yet." He said.
"I see a great many holes in your mom's logic, no offense." Serena said.
"So, where are we going?" Ruby asked.
We all stopped at this. "Oh, I don't know. I was following you." Jaune said. We all groaned at this. "You think there might be a directory? Maybe a food court? Some sort of recognizable landmark?" He asked. We all groaned each time he said one of these, except Ruby, who laughed. "Is that a no?" He asked.
"That's a no." She said.
"Oh, this is one big clusterfuck." I said, annoyed.