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Chapter 02: The Shining Beacon
As soon as the Airship landed, Jaune ran towards the nearest trashcan to empty his guts again. "Well, there goes any chance of a average social life among those passengers." Jaune thought gruesomely as he wiped his mouth.
He looked around and noticing a nearby tree, went to it with the intention of resting his stomach a bit. He had just sat down when he heard someone approaching him.
It was one of the other students who shared the ship with him. She had fair skin, wavy black hair with a bow (Jaune dubbed her Bow Girl because he had never seen a teenager with a bow in his entire life) and amber eyes. She was dressed in a black, buttoned vest with coattails and a single silver button on the front. Underneath that was a white, sleeveless, high necked, crop undershirt and white shorts with a zipper on the front of each leg, black low-heeled boots and full stockings with a color gradation of black to purple at her ankles and to top it off was a black scarf.
Bow Girl walked up and proceeded to jump up the tree next to his, ignoring his existence entirely. Jaune considered talking to her but after remembering what he did on the ship, he wisely decided otherwise. As he stared at the towers in the distance, he recalled one of the things he heard about Beacon from his sister a while ago.
Flashback Scene
*BOOM*
That was the sound Jaune heard as he continued the course his sister, who was a Pro Huntress, was currently training him in. He was running through a forest, trying to find trees with targets on them and slashing them while dodging obstacles. The scary part? The obstacles were INVISIBLE SHOCKWAVES HIS SISTER HAD BEEN FIRING AT HIM FOR THE LAST TWO HOURS!
"Hey Bianca," Screamed Jaune, hoping to slow the barrage down a bit. "When I go to Beacon, is there anything I should look out for? You know, something not just exclusive for you."
Bianca was a tall woman with blonde, shaggy hair the same shade as Jaune's, creamy skin and blue eyes. She was dressed in chainmail which hugged her muscular but voluptuous body quite snuggly, a lightly armored longcoat which reached her knees, and armored gauntlets and boots. Her weapons were a pair of gun blades. She was currently using her semblance, {Tremor}, to blast invisible shockwaves at him.
The purpose of the training was to train him to deal with multiple melee opponents while also dodging a long range opponent who would shoot at him from afar. There was also the bonus of training his Observation Haki.
"Hmm... There were the explosions."
Jaune slowed down to look at his sister with a blank expression. "...what?"
"Oh yeah," Bianca waved her arms in exaggeration. "Looking back on it, It's so obvious. There's no way you could stick several teenagers, armed with Dust and dangerous weapons, in a place where they learn to use them better and not expect collateral damage. Explosions were the most common back then. By the way, dodge."
Due to the fact that she hadn't changed her tone in the slightest, Jaune would have missed the danger if not for his Observation Haki and even then, bending over his back saved him from barely losing his head.
"Y-You aimed for my face?!" Jaune screamed in shock.
"Of course I did." replied Bianca while rolling her arms for another barrage. "You're already behind your agemates by years, Jaune. By the way, I noticed what you were aiming for, starting that conversation. From now on, I'll be doubling the pace."
"NOOOOOOOOO!"
Jaune's scream of terror was heard all the way out of the forest, where a pink haired maid was killing one of the few Grimm attracted to Jaune's immense fear for his life.
Flashback End
"Uh... why did I have to remember that now?" Jaune groaned out as he stood up. After stretching his back, he had only taken one step towards Beacon when Jaune heard the explosion.
*BOOMKACRACK*
He stared blankly for a bit before mentally wailing out, 'I haven't even been to Orientation yet, and the explosions are already happening?!'
Jaune moved towards the crater site and saw Red Hood from earlier, lying in it, muttering to herself. "Welcome to Beacon..." Jaune stopped above her and offered a hand.
"Hey. I'm Jaune." Red Hood gratefully accepted it. "Ruby."
As Jaune pulled her up, he took the chance to look her over. Ruby was a fair-skinned young girl with silver eyes and neck-length black hair with red tips. She wore a Gothic Lolita style Combat Outfit with a red hooded cloak and a metal contraption Jaune couldn't understand, attached to her lower back. " Aren't you the guy who puked on the ship?"
After a brief argument which involved the exchange of insult names, Ruby grew antsy, "So, I got this thing," and pulled out the metal contraption which proceeded to transform into a Mechashift Scythe.
"Woah!" Yelled Jaune as he retreated in shock. "That was a scythe?"
"Yup." Ruby hummed in pride. "It's actually a customable High-Caliber Sniper-Scythe."
"It's a gun too?"
"Yeah, what's your's?" Ruby asked in curiosity as she eyed Jaune's waist.
"Well, I've got a simple Sword and Shield combo." Jaune said as he pulled out out Crocea Mors, a simple longsword with a blue handle and a golden cross-guard and a shield is white with a gold trim, displaying the Arc Family emblem in the center.
"What do they do?" Ruby asked eagerly. Jaune replied in a deadpan tone. "The sword is used to slash and stab. The shield is used to block. The shield also mechashifts into a sheath to put the sword away in. The end."
Ruby didn't seem put out in the slightest. "I've never seen a weapon so close to the classics. That's so cool!"
Jaune blushed at the sheer sincerity as they put their weapons away.
"So where are we going anyway?" That killed Jaune's blush quickly. "Eh? I was following you though..." They briefly stared at each other before shouting in utter panic.
Ruby and Jaune hurried through the doors of the Training Arena.
"Good thing that nice teacher with the coffee mug pointed us the way." Ruby huffed in relief and exhaustion.
Jaune who had been breathing heavily, quickly recovered and looked around. "I don't see any teachers on stage and everyone's still scattered. We made it!"
"Ruby! Over here! I saved you a spot!" Jaune looked to see Goldilocks waving at Ruby from afar.
"Oh, I gotta go! I'll see after the ceremony!" Ruby said as she rushed off to meet her sister.
"Great. Now where else am I supposed to find another cute, nice, quirky redhead to talk to?" sighed Jaune as he meandered off, missing an attractive ponytailed redhead behind him.
After a while he found Ruby with Goldilocks and a white haired girl Jaune had never seen, arguing and only managed to catch the end of that scenario "...cute boys, like Tall, Blond, and... Scraggly over there!" gesturing to him.
Jaune would have gone over for clarification, but a sound from the speakers stopped him. The teachers had arrived.
It was Coffee Teacher, the man who directed Jaune and Ruby to the Arena.
He was a middle-aged man with tousled silver hair and thin brown eyes. He was dressed in an unzipped black suit over a dark green, buttoned vest and green shirt. He also wore black trouser shoes and long, dark-green pants. In addition to the cane in his other hand, his other accessory was a mug bearing the Beacon Academy emblem, from which he drank coffee.
"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. 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." He stepped away from the microphone to allow Professor Goodwitch to speak.
"You will gather in the barn tonight. Tomorrow, your initiation begins. Be ready. You are all dismissed." She stepped off and walked away with Coffee Teacher.
Jaune adjusted his onesie in the bathroom. It was a blue full-body pajamas with blue bunny slippers and a white bunny face on its chest. As he walked out, He could already hear snickering from all corners of the room. He waved at Ruby and Goldilocks as he crossed the room. Ruby waved back, but her sister made a weird face at him when she saw his PJ. Jaune settled into his sleeping bag, brought out his scroll and texted home on his progress.
Several miles away in Jaune's hometown Ansel, his mother, Annabeth Arc, looked through her son's message home. She had gotten to Jaune describing Ruby Rose when she burst out laughing. "What amuses you now, Sweetheart?" Arthur, the Arc Patriarch, looked over his wife's shoulders, read Jaune's message and burst out laughing as well. "I don't believe it. The first friend he made over there is a girl?!"
Bianca, who was also present, flinched and asked to be excused to the bathroom. "Well, my little brother works fast at least."
Flashback Scene
Jaune was heading off to the Bullhead which would take him to the City of Vale. Seeing him off were Bianca and another sister of his, Sara. Sara was a Pro Huntress like Bianca and would have offered to train Jaune too, had Bianca not protested, not wanting Jaune to be traumatized by Sara's regime which was too much for Jaune (Considering that Bianca's training already traumatized Jaune a bit, the fact she decided Sara's regime was too much seriously bothered him). As Jaune climbed the escalator into the airship, Sara suddenly noted the bandages on Jaune's arm.
Bianca wracked her head in confusion. She could swear she had forgotten something. She didn't know what it was, but it really bothered her. WHAT WAS IT?! Then Sara's voice spoke up. "Hey, Bianca."
"Yes, Sara?"
"Is something wrong with Jaune's Aura? He still had bandages on..."
Bianca stared at her little sister, then at the rapidly disappearing airship in the distance.
"...Oh Crap."
Flashback End
Bianca groaned at her blunder. "At least I made him strong enough not to die instantly. He live long enough for one of his friends to unlock his Aura for him."
Hunter Profile
Name: Bianca Arc
Age: 27
Title: The Earth-Shaking Ravager
Aura: Golden Brown
Color Motif: Scarlet, Gold
Semblance: Tremor. She is capable of generating massive vibrations or shockwaves, which can travel through all possible mediums, like the ground, the air, and even the oceans.
Sex: Female
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Likes: Her family, Cinnamon Rolls
Dislikes: Enemies of her Family, Brussel sprouts
Bio: As the eldest sister of the Arc Siblings, Bianca is extremely protective, despite her stoic pernonality. She is also one of the strongest Huntresses in Vale and Jaune's role model.
KingVessel: I just got some constructive criticism, which I appreciate. Next time on "A Knight's Guide to Becoming a Hero" is "First Steps" so please review alright?