Chapter 3 - The First Night at Beacon
Sai, Ruby, Jaune and I finally made it to the room the ceremony was being held.
"It was about freaking time." Sai said.
"Yeah, it took us long enough." I said, uncaring.
"We made it." Ruby said.
"Yeah…" Jaune said, in agreement.
"Hey, Ruby!" Yang shouted. "Over here, I saved a spot for you!"
"Yang! I gotta go; I'll see you after the ceremony." Ruby said, running to her sister.
"Wait!" Jaune called after Ruby. "Oh great, now where am I gonna find another nice quirky girl to talk to."
"Damion!" A familiar voice to me called.
"Sai!" A familiar voice to him called.
We looked and we saw our sisters where Yang and Ruby were.
"How did I see this coming?" I asked.
"Did you really see this coming?" Sai asked.
"No, not at all." I answered.
We both walked to our sisters, with slight smiles on our faces. We get there and our sisters try to hug us to death.
"Okay, Selene, you let me go now. I can't breathe." I said, with my eyes rolling to the back of my head.
"Serena, do you really think it's necessary to be crushing my spine." Sai said, desperately gasping for air.
"How's your first day going little sister?" Yang asked happily.
"You mean, after you ditched me and I exploded?" Ruby asked.
"Yikes. Meltdown already?" Yang asked.
"No, Yang, she means that quite literally, because we casualties of the explosion that happened." I said.
"No, I literally exploded a hole in front of the school." Ruby said. "There was fire and I think some ice."
"Yes. That is true. Painfully true." Sai said.
"Are you being sarcastic?" Yang asked, in an almost teasing manner.
"No, she not." Sai and I said at the same time.
"I wish. I almost fell onto some crabby girl's luggage, but thanks to Damion, he saved from falling. Then she yelled at me, and then I exploded. She yelled at me again, and I felt really, REALLY bad and I just wanted her to stop yelling at me." Ruby explained.
Sai, Selene, Serena, as well as myself saw Weiss behind her.
"Oh shit…" I said quietly.
"This ain't gonna be good." Sai said.
"Ruby, you may wanna turn around." Selene and Serena warned.
"YOU!" Weiss shouted.
"Oh god, it's happening again!" Ruby shouted, jumping into her sister's arms bridal style and closing her eyes.
"You're lucky we weren't blown off the side of the cliff!" Weiss shouted.
"I was!" Sai shouted.
"Oh, my god, you really exploded." Yang said in disbelief, looking at her younger sister.
"Hey, it wasn't her fault that she exploded." I said in Ruby's defense. "If you weren't shaking that vial of red dust, then that explosion never would have happened."
"Yeah, if dust is as dangerous as you say, you don't shake it like it's nothing to worry about. You could have killed us." Sai added.
"It was an accident." Ruby said, getting down. "It was an accident!"
Weiss then pulled out a pamphlet from out of nowhere labeled: Dust for dummies, with a person on the cover who looked very confused as to what he should do with the dust crystal in his hand.
"What's this?" Ruby asked.
"The Schnee Dust Company isn't responsible for any injuries…" Weiss started explaining, before her voice started getting higher pitched and before her voice was being fast forwarded.
"Um…" Ruby said, not knowing what else to say.
"You wanna start making things up to me?" Weiss asked.
"Absolutely." Ruby answered.
"Then read this and never talk to me again." Weiss said giving the pamphlet to Ruby.
"Okay, okay, hang on. Maybe we got off on the wrong foot in the courtyard. Let's retry from the start and get to know each other better, before we're at each others throats." I said, trying to calm the conflict.
"Agreed." Sai, Selene, and Serena said.
"Right. Hello Weiss, my name is Ruby. Would you like to go shopping for school supplies?" Ruby asked nervously, holding her hand out for a handshake.
Instead of doing as I suggested Weiss decided to fuel the fire of conflict and be sarcastic.
"Yeah, then maybe we could paint our nails and talk about cute boys, like tall, blonde, and scraggly over there." Weiss said, with thick sarcasm and pointing to Jaune.
"If you couldn't be any more of a bitch, then I think I was speaking to the queen of them all." Sai said, emphatically rolling his eyes.
"Queen of the bitch race, right here." Serena said, pointing at Weiss.
Apparently Ruby thought Weiss was being serious and fell for her sarcasm.
"Wow, really?" Ruby asked enthusiastically.
After a bit of silence, Weiss answered her question with a blunt and brutal.
"NO!" Weiss said.
On the stage, Professor Ozpin and Glynda were ready to speak.
"I'll keep this brief." Ozpin said, adjusting his glasses. "When I look at you all I see is wasted energy."
"Ouch." Sai, Serena, Selene, and I said at the same time.
"Energy in need of purpose, in need of direction. Here at Beacon, we're giving you the chance to become ones who protect this world from evil." Ozpin said.
"I thought I was doing a good job of that when I was the local street sweeper." I said.
"You didn't kill anyone when you were?" Sai asked.
"I do restrain myself, yes." I answered.
"Not only will you be protecting each other, but you will also be responsible for protecting your loved ones. Do not let the hope of this world fall." Ozpin finished. (I don't remember how Ozpin's speech goes, so I improvised.)
As he stepped away, Glynda stepped up to speak.
"You all will sleep in the ballroom tonight. Your initiation begins tomorrow. You are dismissed." Glynda said as everyone was leaving.
"I wonder how the initiation works." Sai asked.
"Somehow, I don't really want to know." I said, with my hands in my pockets.
*Nightfall*
Everyone was settling in for the night, but I decided to train for about 30 minutes. As I was working on my Muay Thai kicks and elbows, Yang came by.
"Hey, Yang." I addressed as I continued my training. (Fact: I train in many styles and I always train shirtless.) "How's it hangin'?"
"Oh, nothing. I just wanted to see what you were doing." She said.
I continued to train and I did King's Max 2 from KOF 2002 UM. (I don't actually try to do what I see in fighting games. I train by mixing all of the styles I know)
"I usually train at night so I don't draw attention to myself." I say doing throwing to elbows as if I'm hitting someone in the ribs.
"Well, you drew my attention." She said smugly.
"I guess I did." I said doing a three kick combo.
"What styles do you know?" Yang asked.
"I actually know every single style, but I contained myself to only doing a strict set of six styles." I explained.
"Which six?" She asked.
"Muay Thai, Kick-Boxing, Karate, Judo, Tae Kwon Do, and Boxing." I replied, now going into my Tae Kwon Do stance.
"Nice. I only do Karate and Boxing." She said.
"Awesome. I like that in a girl. Ones who know how to defend themselves." I say, doing a few kicks.
Sai saw Yang and I talking and of course he was one of the only ones to talk shit.
"That guy is always thinking with his dick and not his brains." Sai said.
"You know, it's funny how you only talk shit about him when he isn't around." Serena said.
"Yeah, that just makes you seem like a real punk." Selene added.
"Oh yeah, what have you done that I haven't?" Sai said arrogantly.
"I've shot him off a fucking ten story roof in Vegas." Selene said simply.
Sai only looked at her into seeing how much pride she took in that.
"At least my brother isn't as cliché as you." Selene said.
"How am I cliché?" Sai asked.
"Let's see, you always make references even though most of them aren't funny and most shouldn't be made fun of, you constantly want to have sex with Lady, plus saying my brother only thinks with his dick makes it seem like you don't all the time, and that you have one of the worst senses of humor I've have ever seen." Selene explained./
"That isn't true." Sai lied.
"Sai, when is that not true?" Serena asked.
"Not all the time." He replied.
"And you can't lie well enough to save your life." Selene said.
*Back to me and Yang*/
I've stopped training so she and I could have a more civilized conversation.
"I've been training in martial arts for most of my life and I've come to enjoy it. Sometimes I don't think of it much, but I really do like to fight." I say with a small grin.
"I like to fight too, but sometimes I think it's pointless to fight all the time." Yang says.
"I feel that way too, but I've only been defeated twice in my entire career as a national fighter." I say, doing a slow shadowboxing session.
"How many times have you won?" Yang asked.
"I lost count after my twenty thousandth win." I answer.
Yang's eyes open wide after hearing what I had to say.
"I'm gonna go check to see what my sister's doing." Yang said.
"Yeah, I'll see you in the morning Yang. Nice talkin' to ya." I say as she leaves to go to Ruby.
As she made her way to her sister, I watch her go and I felt Sai next to me.
"What do you want Sai?" I asked, easily annoyed.
"Dude, you totally like her." Sai said.
"Yeah, so?" I say, still holding my angst.
"Why don't you ask her out?" Sai asked.
"Because this is an institution where we are here to fight monsters and protect the world we live in and help make a clear path for the future generation. This place doesn't rely on me making new friends, getting along with others, or getting a girlfriend. I am only here to fight and that's it. Nothing else matters here." I explain.
"Come on, you can't be a loner all your life." Sai said.
"Once you know the pain of having everything you love taken from you, only then can you speak to me about not being a loner. I may seem like I'm cheerful, but I'm really hurting everyday on the inside. The pain of having my friends taken from me, my parents, and know that it's entirely my fault; I have to live with that everyday of my life. I've killed thousands of people and I didn't think twice about doing it either…
Selene overheard me talking to Sai, and when she heard all of the terrible things I was saying about myself she quickly walked over to me.
…What the hell am I? Tell me that Sai." I said, before Selene came and slapped me hard across my face.
"Stop it. You've resented yourself long enough. Damion, ever since we met each other again, you haven't said one good thing about yourself. I know you lost your friends, like Johnny, Lilly, Brittany, and the person you loved most, Tiffany. I know that it hurts knowing that you had something to do with their deaths, but you can't keep hating yourself for something you had no control over. Losing your friends hurts, losing family hurts, but I'm all you got left; and I'll be here for you until my time comes." Selene explained, hugging me.
I smiled and embraced my sister like a brother should.
*To Yang and Ruby*
"It's like a big slumber party!" Yang said happily as she flopped down, next to her younger sister.
"I don't think dad would approve of all the boys though." Ruby said uncaring.
"I know I do." She replied, looking at all of the boys who were shirtless and flexing, but she mainly looked at me, which I was back to my training.
That is until Jaune walked in front of her, blocking her sight, wearing a full blue pajama suit with bunny slippers to match.
"Ew." Yang said, getting a disappointed look on her face as the blonde smiled at her. "What's that?"
"A letter to my friends back home." Ruby answered.
"Aw that is so cuuuuuute!" Yang said, before have a pillow thrown at her face.
"Shut up! It's weird not knowing anyone here." Ruby complained.
"What about Jaune, Sai, Damion and their sisters? You know them, plus five friends, 100 percent increase." Yang said.
"I bet Weiss counts as a negative friend. Back to zero." Ruby said, with a non interested tone of voice.
"There's no such thing as a negative friend. You just made five friends and one enemy." Yang explained before have another pillow thrown at her face.
*Back to me*
I finished my training and I was covered with sweat. I went to the bathroom to clean myself up. As I was washing my face, I looked into the mirror and saw the man who killed all of my friends.
"I should have killed you when I had the damn chance. Mark Sanchez. I'm gonna kill you and get revenge for what you've done." I say gripping the sink tightly.
"If you want to kill me, then you have to find me and stop talking about what you would do. It's what you will do that counts. You can always talk about what you would do, but it takes more effort to do what you say. I dare you to find me Damion. You want revenge so badly? Come get me, or else you would have spit in the face of all of your friends that I happily murdered in cold blood." Mark got to say before I punched and broke the mirror.
"I'm going to find you and I'm going to rip you to pieces." I say leaving the bathroom.
As I got back into the ball room, I saw Yang and Ruby talking to the girl with the black bow from this morning.
*To them*
"Hello, my name is Ruby Rose." Ruby said, holding her hand out for a handshake.
The girl with the bow didn't bother looking up from her book, but she did acknowledge their existence.
"Blake." She said as she kept reading her book.
Yang was too busy trying to make friendly conversation as Blake was trying to read.
*To me and Sai*
I made my vampire like touches to my air mattress before I laid down on it.
"I know that's annoying." I said as I pulled out my own book.
"What would be annoying?" Sai asked as he pulled out a water bed and flopped on it.
"Someone who keeps trying to talk to you when you're trying to read." I said, trying to read my book. (If I were to have a favorite book, it would be the 39 Clues. My favorite Manga however would be Kaze Hikaru.)
"Oh. So what are you reading? Wait, since when do you read?" Sai asked, confused as fuck.
"Since shut the fuck up, that's when. And what does it matter to you anyway as to what I'm reading? I read once every blue moon. Only when I've got nothing better to do." I explain. "Stop asking me simple questions Sai; it's rather intrusive and annoying."
"Jeez, do you have to always be like a gothic rock?" Sai asked.
This made me close my book and bashed his skull in with it.
"Ow! Dude that was a real d-." Sai began to say.
"If you say dick move, I swear I'm going to rip your tongue out and put you in a fucking coma." I said as I interrupted.
Sai didn't say a single word the rest of the night. To that, I slept happily and so did everyone else. Tomorrow was our initiation and we had to be ready for anything that came our way.