SilverExcel115: Alright, i'll maybe patch the grammar, fully. And no, Harem is not my cup o' tea when in pairings. I feel like having many friends is ok. Also, Goodwitch as one of them? Two words; HELL NAH. I like her as a mother figure better. (But one day i might be a creep and imagine a lemon scene of that.)

biGTime2013: It was? Huh, i think i'm gonna re-check that chapter to see if it was pretty generic and a bit boring.

Mattysteel: Well, you'll see whoever this hooded person is in the future chapters.


The Next day

It was now early in the morning and the enrollment day. The new batch of first year students are coming to the academy and become the next generation of huntsmens. One of them of course, was the German boy himself, Hartmann. He had just woken up from his sleep and see the time being 6:30. He let out a sigh as he got off the bed and off to the bathroom for a shower. When he was done cleaning himself, he then changed to his grey t-shirt and some shorts that was given to him.

The uniform felt pretty clean, and it's because that Glynda had either washed them or use some special perfume that killed the smell of his sweat and dirt.

Now for the enrollment, it usually starts at noon which is the time where all the first years will arrive by some "Airbuses" to the school, and since it was still morning, he decide if he could get some excersises to toughen him up a little. Glynda said the world is filled with dangers like the grimm or raiders, and she wouldn't always be there with him when he graduates. So he has to watch for himself at some point.

He went out of his room and started walking to the Gym that is somewhere around the campus. The whole Academy was empty and it is still a little dark, that because the rest of the students don't usually wake up this early and the sun had not risen yet. It felt a bit creepy too.

"Creepy isn't it?~"

Those 3 sudden words jolted the boy like a jack-in-a-box as he yelped and turned around to the source of the voice. He sighed in relief as it was only the dust professor, Thumbelina peach. "Y-You scared me, Ms. Peach.."

The tan-skinned woman let out a light chuckle. "Sorry about that. I just do that when people are wondering around at this hour. But, hey. You got a good laugh at that, don't ya?"

Hartmann rubbed the back of his neck and letting out a slight laugh. "Yeah..a little." He look to the professor and noticed that her eyes appear to have some bags under it, along with that, her peach hair was wrinkled and messy. Her clothes wasn't even tidy. "Are you..ok?"

"What? No! I'm fine as a cat." She said before yawning loudly infront of him, which the latter now knows she didn't get enough sleep.

"Um...by the looks of it, you are not."

Peach sighed in defeat. "Well, I didn't get that enough sleep since i had to prepare for the arrival of the first years. I don't know how many coffee i have drank..." He never seen Peach in this state before, Velvet did told him that Peach can be an Earlybird. And peach gets a bit crazy sorting things out perfectly, or even experimenting dusts aswell.

"But, Professor. The students will arrive at noon, and they will stay in somewhere for the night and begin their initiation first. So, you really did not have to do all of that." Hartmann said, remembering of what Glynda said to him about the first part.

"Oh, well thanks for the reminder, i guess. You go on and do whatever you want." Peach lets out another big yawn. "I think i'm gonna go take a...very long nap. See you later, doucheland boy." Peach walked elsewhere, possibly to her office and take a nap.

"It's...Deutschland." He sighed since the teachers here, in this school, kept naming his country wrong. But he shrugs it off and went to the gym.

After a few minutes of walking through the seemingly empty hallway, he finally made it to the door that leads to the gym room. It wasn't that large, but it is probably enough for at least dozens of students. The boy never been in one before and was hesitant a little of doing things like this, but to survive this world, he had to get stronger.


For about 30 minutes, he was finally done exercising at the gym. It was pretty difficult at first of lifting the heavy dumbbells until then he has gotten a little strong to lift it easily. He wiped off a few of the sweats from his head, after that he left the gym room and walk to the Cafeteria.

Hartmann haven't ate for a while, so he had to get to the Beacon Cafeteria to get something to eat for Breakfast. He wondered if they have the same German cuisine like when junior's club had their Root beer.

A couple of students were still questioning about Him every time he passed them. They always whisper to each other about 'What is his weapons?' or 'What is his uniform' and another one which is 'Why or how is he here again?'. Hartmann just walks past and ignores them.

When he made it to the cafeteria, he is currently having a plate of pancakes that are similar with the ones he had back in Deutschland. When he sat on the chair, he took a look at the pancake along with the berries around and some type of syrup. He took a fork and knife to cut it to little pieces, and then he took one bite of the Pancake while chewing slowly. Eventually, he stopped chewing as he admired the taste of the pancake. It was not that bland like he used to have and it is perfect on a higher level. The butter is making it more savory, the berries add a nice touch with the pancake, and mostly the Syrup made the pancake to be very sweet. All of this made this pancake very perfect for him.

He think even a certain girl would die by eating dozens of these.

The cafeteria was a bit empty with only 10 students eating their breakfast, Hartmann was thinking on how to interact with the First-year students that are coming to this school later at noon. He wasn't much of a social person and sometimes messed up his words.

"I didn't expect you to be up this early." A familiar voice spoke near him. Hartmann turned to his right and he saw Velvet, the adorable looking bunny.

"Oh, hello Velvet. And yeah, I usually wake up this early sometimes." Velvet nodded at that since she also wakes up early sometimes. Hartmann then asked. "Where is Coco and the rest of your team?"

"Coco and Yatsuhashi went to the Gym while Fox stayed at the dorm to take a shower. I just decide to get some chow after I showered." Velvet said while setting down her tray. It was a carrot soup. Seeing the food made him chuckle since she was a rabbit. "You rabbits and your carrots."

Velvet giggles and said. "Hey. We aren't animals but we still have their traits and interests. Plus, I loved carrots since I was little."

"Yes, like a real one." He muttered.

For about a few minutes, the two didn't exchange any conversations since they were still eating their breakfast. When Hartmann had finished his pancakes, he put down the spoon and fork while sighing. Velvet stop munching and look to him.

"Is something bothering you?" She asked.

"Not really. It is just that, I am a little nervous about meeting the new first-year students that I will join in learning in the academy. There are lots of new faces that I will encounter and I am not a social kind of person." He explained.

"It's alright, I've been on that same boat as well."

"What do you mean?" He asked whilst tilting his head a bit.

"Ever since I have enrolled in Beacon Academy, I have been pretty distant with the rest of the first years. I'm one of the few who is a Faunus while the rest are humans. I was very very shy during that, until I have met my team."

"Coco. Fox and Yatsuhashi?" Velvet nods.

"Yep. When I met Coco during initiation, I was hesitant to talk to her since I am shy, along with Fox and Yatsuhashi when our team was formed. But after the times I had been with them, I begin to grow closer to them. I begin to communicate a lot with them and they seem to be taking care of me, especially Yatsuhashi. Coco was actually a pretty cool person to be with, and Fox just likes to crack some jokes, but he is still there for me whenever I have some difficulties."

"I see..." Hartmann said understanding what Velvet had been through in the past.

"However, I'm still shy with any of the students except for my team, and you. You're currently the only person not in my team that I am not shy around with." She said while rubbing the back of her head.

"Well, thank you for the talk, Velvet. I feel a bit better now for my enrollment." Hartmann smiled.

Velvet return the smile, making the German blushed a little seeing it. "That's what friends are for. Always looking after each other." He picked up the tray and was about to put it back and leave.

"I have to go now, but..i can stay here and wait for you to finish your breakfast if you want."

"No worries, you go on ahead. Coco and the rest will catch up." She said.

"Okay. Suit yourself then." Hartmann put back the tray and walked out of the cafeteria, leaving Velvet by herself. He felt a little bad for it, but Velvet seemed like she had been in many situations like this, plus her teammates will catch up with her on breakfast.


Hartmann made his way back to the dorm and it was almost the time where the first-year students will arrive at the academy. Before Hartmann went to the courtyard, he activated a holo TV with a remote that Ozpin told him how it works.

The Holo-TV activated and the channel is currently on the news and it shows the Dust till Dawn shop which the entrance was covered by a police line along with the two broken windows. There was also a blood splatter on the floor of the shop. A male news reporter was heard offscreen explaining of the scene.

"Last night, another Robbery had occurred at a dust shop called 'From Dust till dawn.' Four of the robbers were knocked unconscious as the fifth robber's arm is heavily wounded. He is taken to a nearby hospital to recover his injury."

Hartmann nervously looked away since it was him that injured the man with his rifle. Hoping they would not found the bullet casing of the KAR98K.

The screen then shows a mug shot of the same Bowler hat man that Hartmann encountered last night with the name 'Roman Torchwick' on the sign he is holding. Which the male reporter continued.

"We expect that the robbery was led by nefarious criminal Roman Torchwick, who continues to evade authorities. If you have any information on his whereabouts, please contact the Vale Police Department. Back to you lisa."

The screen changes to another news reporter, who is a female with lavender hair. Beside her was a picture showing a group of Faunus holding signs saying "WE ARE NOT ANIMALS!" The front was a bunny Faunus just like Velvet but with different ear color. Lisa then spoke.

"Thank you, Cyril. In other news, this Saturday's Faunus Civil Rights protest turned dark when members of the White Fang disrupted the ceremony. The once peaceful organization has now disrupted-"

Her sentence cut off when Hartmann turned off the Holo-TV with a sigh. After learning a bit of history of the Faunus and the White fang, he couldn't help but feel a little bad for both Faunus and the Humans.

For the Faunus, the Humans of this world cause some of them to be this Violent and because of Racism and Discrimination. For Humans, there were most who are innocent in this cause as they respect the Faunus, but that still doesn't give a fact for the White fang to kill them because they do not forget what the Humans did to them in the past.

Now with that thought out of the way, he he checked the time as it is where the First-year students will arrive at the academy. Glynda gave him a sleeping bag since he had to sleep in the auditorium with the rest of the first years before initiation and not sleep in his temporary room. He'll leave it alone and maybe go to the courtyard to meet the new faces.


So now he is here, out in the open of the courtyard, and what he sees in the distance were 3 huge airships landed near the landing pad. With that, loads of students were coming out of it. "That is a big ship.". Hartmann commented while gazing at it.

He then saw the First-year students walking around the courtyard as they were carrying their Hybrid weapons. Everywhere he looked, they are seen either carrying melee weapons or guns that will turn into either of them.

There was one built guy who had a weapon that looks like some sort of a big gun which features a sharp, curved, backward-pointing bayonet on its underside, which he thought it is greatly used as a powerful close-combat weapon.

It looked like some sort of a rifle and a knife...a knifle?

Well nevertheless he look away and saw more students coming out from the airships. The day seemed pretty calm for him, no commotions or anything.

"Sorry?! Do you have any idea of the damage you could have caused?"

...That is when he heard some yelling by the middle of the courtyard. He looked and there were two girls and a luggage on the ground. He recognize the first one as the "Ruby Rose" girl that Ozpin said to her, the same one who helped him and try to stop the robbery from Roman torchwick

Now, the second girl wore white clothing with a skirt on, with her white hair tied up to a ponytail braid on the right side and pinned with a silver, icicle-shaped tiara. He admired how pretty she looked, but out of that thought, the Girl was currently scolding Ruby as it looks like the latter had done something wrong. So, he decides to walk towards them and asked what's going on.

"Good day, ladies. What seems to be the problem here?"

The white-dressed girl look to him with the same scolding look that she gave to Ruby while pointing to her. "This dolt here crash into my luggage which she could have damaged all the dust inside!" Ruby nervously smiled and is currently holding one of the white-dressed girl's case. She turned to her with the same scolding glare. "Give me that!" She swiped the case out of Ruby's hands.

"How is the dust in your luggage valuable to you?" Hartmann asked.

The girl opens the case revealing a bunch of dust in small capsules. "Because these dusts are mine and purified from the Schnee quarry!"

"Ok?" Hartmann raised his eyebrow a little as Ruby looked genuinely confused.

"What are you two, brain-dead?" The girl took out one of the red dust vials from the case while shutting it. "Dust! Fire, water, lightning, energy!" The girl shook the fire dust vial as some of them begin to come out from the vial as the wind blew them to Ruby's direction. Hartmann understand and nodded to her but she kept her eyes on Ruby, which looked like she was going to sneeze.

"Are you even listening to me? Is any of this sinking in? What do you have to say for yourself?" She kept scolding Ruby.

The german knew what was going to happen as he tried to speak politely to her of not shaking the vial. "Um..miss. I don't think you should shake the vial that much or else-"

"Or else what?" The white-dressed girl cut off his sentence, which then...

"ACHOO!"

Ruby sneezed from the dust which causes a mix explosion of Fire, lighting and energy. Hartmann and the girl caught in from the blast as they were covered in black ashes of the explosion. The former coughed from the dust as he responds. "That..."

Ruby smiles nervously at both of them while the girl continued to scold her. "Unbelievable! This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about!"

"I'm really, really sorry!" Ruby apologized while embarrassed.

"Ugh, you complete dolt! What are you even doing here? Aren't you a little young to be attending Beacon?"

Hartmann decides to step up. "Miss. Perhaps it is best if you leave her alone." Hartmann said trying to stop the scene.

"Why would you think that? And what are you even wearing?" She asks referring to Hartmann's tank uniform.

"It is my usual clothing, why is that?"

"Well it looks very old and bland. You also don't even look the part for entering this school!" The girl shouted with seemingly no remorse.

Hartmann was taken back like this. He hadn't encountered someone acting like that before. The girl was pretty much mean to hiim just like with Ruby, and boy this was a rare sight. 'My clothes are bad? If she was in Germany and said something like that, she might get executed or something.' His thoughts spoke.

"Well for me, I look like I am in par for training in this school, even Ruby here looks perfect aswell," Hartmann said which Ruby smiled at him.

"Oh so you know about this dolt!? Well, this is not your ordinary combat school. It's not just sparring and practice, you know! We're here to fight monsters, so you can stop getting in my way and tell your dolt friend to watch where she is going!"

"Hey! He didn't do anything wrong to you, and I said was sorry, Princess!" Ruby said finally fed up about this.

"It's heiress, actually." Another female voice spoke.

The trio stopped arguing and turned their heads to the direction of the voice. There, they saw a wavy black-haired and fair-skinned girl who wears a black buttoned vest with coattails and a single silver button on the front. The girl was holding one of the vials from the white girl's case. "Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, one of the largest producers of energy propellant in the world." She explained.

The girl named Weiss smiled at her compliment. "Finally! Some recognition!"

Then the black-haired girl continued. "The same company infamous for its controversial labor forces and questionable business partners."

Weiss begins to grow angry at her as Ruby chuckled while Hartmann did not expect that while hiding a chuckle from him. "Wha- How dare- The nerve of... Ugh!" Weiss moved to the black-haired girl as she swiped the dust vial from her hands and started stomping away.

"I promise I'll make this up to you!" Ruby shouted to Weiss which the latter kept walking away while her butlers were carrying her luggage.

"Well that first impression was decent..." Then something clicked under Hartmann's head, which was the white-dressed girl's name. Weiss Schnee? "Hold on...that is a German name for 'White snow'" Hartmann snorted a little since her name is Snow white, but a little amazed that there are people with German names in this world. He was right about someone having a german name in Remnant.

Perhaps there would be one for a dog too.

"So, mind if i-" Hartmann was about to spoke to the Black-haired girl, but when he looked to his right, she was seen walking away. Top of that, he had a good look at her butt. "Is her butt always like that size?" Hartmann thought while observing.

He shook away his thoughts and look back to Ruby, which she already did. "Rough first day, huh?" She asked.

"Ja. By the way, I haven't introduced myself. My name is Erich Hartmann ." He said.

She smiled. "Ruby rose, although you already know about it." She chuckled a bit.

"It's fine."

From the background, there was a blonde boy who saw all the commotion with Weiss and the Black-haired girl and he is currently still looking at Hartmann and Ruby talking. For him, this might be a perfect chance to communicate and make some few friends. He doesn't want to be the usual anti-social dork anymore. He then man up, take a deep breath and walked to them.

"Uh...hey, I'm Jaune." The blonde boy greeted while waving at them nervously.

Ruby and Hartmann turned to the blonde boy, as they greet him back. Ruby then chuckled a little. "Aren't you the guy that threw up on the ship?"

"Hold on, what?" Hartmann exclaimed.


The trio walked elsehwere to the courtyard as Jaune explain to them that he has motion sickness when aboard in the airship, which Ruby then explains to Hartmann that she and her sister saw him vomit on the airship. She even told him that some of his vomit manage to get on her sister's shoes which she tried to shake it off and Ruby yelling at her to get it away from her.

Hartmann chuckled at that response. "I would be in the same boat as your sister if that happened to me."

"I'm sorry okay, but all I'm saying is that motion sickness is a much more common problem than people let on!" Jaune stated.

Ruby laughed a little. "Look, I'm sorry! 'Vomit Boy' was the first thing that came to mind." Hartmann laughed at Jaune's new nickname.

"Oh, yeah? What if I called you Crater Face?" Jaune questioned of Ruby's nickname, as Hartmann laughed at that.

"Hey, that explosion was an accident! Right, Hartmann?" Ruby turned to the German for his opinion.

"Ya, it was an accident, but I am still calling you Crater face." He smiled smugly which she humphed and pouted.

"Well, the name's Jaune Arc! Short, sweet, rolls off the tongue - ladies love it!" Jaune complimented about himself.

"Are you really sure about that?" Hartmann asked.

"Well- Yeah. They will, I-I hope they will. My mom always says that... Never mind."

Hartmann chuckled while Ruby giggled as the trio continue to walk down the courtyard path with a short and awkward silence falling into the three. Ruby then decides to break the silence. "So...I got this thing." Ruby took out her weapon, which instantly activated to its scythe form as she stabbed the blade part to the ground.

"Woah!" Jaune was startled by it, while Hartmann wasn't fazed since he already saw it. "Is that a scythe?"

"It's also a customizable high-impact sniper rifle!" Ruby added.

"Pardon?" Hartmann asked.

"It's also a gun." She answered while cocking the weapon while smiling.

"Oh, well that looks very cool." Hartmann complimented about her weapon which Jaune agrees with him.

"Yeah, that looks very awesome."

Ruby's cheeks light up a bit. "Aww, thank you. So, what do you two got? You first, Jaune!"

"Oh, i-uh...I got this sword." Jaune unsheathed his sword. Ruby 'ooed' at it, while Hartmann just shrugs since it is pretty bland like other swords. "Yeah, and I got this shield too." He took out the scarab which expands to a shield as it sticks into Jaune's arm. The shield shows what appears to be an emblem at the front.

"So, what do they do?" Ruby asks while touching the shield, which suddenly retracts off from his arm. Jaune tried to catch it before it can fall off the ground until Hartmann manages to grab it for him. He gave back the shield to Jaune which the latter quickly thanks him before retracting it back to his arm, putting it back to his belt and answered Ruby's question.

The shield gets smaller, so when I get tired of carrying it, I can just... put it away..."

"But, wouldn't it weigh the same?" Hartmann questioned.

"Yeah, it does..." Jaune said dejectedly.

"Alright..." Ruby then turned to the German. "What about you, Hartmann? What weapon do you have?"

"Well..." Hartmann took out the Kar98k rifle off from his shoulder and showed it to them. "I call this one a KAR98K."

"Is that some sort of a gun?" Jaune asked which Hartmann nodded after.

"I know that gun!" Ruby exclaims. "You used that last night when you hit that woman during the Robbery. It's like a sniper rifle, except..there's no scope." Jaune also looked closer to the gun and Ruby was right, there was no scope for it. This suppose to be a sniper rifle? He and Ruby thought about that.

"It is sort of like that, I do not use scope very much so I stick with iron sights even in the longer range, but not like sniper range or something." Hartmann stated.

Ruby chuckled. "I doubt someone can even do that."

"Yeah, imagine a farmer using that type of gun and can get over 500 kills on long range without even using a scope. That sounds too good to be true." Jaune said, jokingly.

The three of them share a small laugh before Ruby continued. "Is that the only weapon you have?"

Hartmann shook his head. "No, I have multiple weapons that are in the storage area.

"Ooh, can't wait to see them!" Ruby said excitedly.

"Yeah but their style is almost the same as my KAR, not as your Sniper-Scythe weapon. I mean look at it! Your weapon is very big and very complex!"

Ruby giggled. "Well, I'm kind of a dork when it comes to weapons, so...I guess I did go a little overboard when designing it."

"Wait, you made that?" Hartmann and Jaune asked in unison.

"Of course! All students at Signal forge their own weapons!" Ruby stated. "Didn't you two make yours?"

"Not really, I found it on a box that has everything this thing needs, like the ammo. Although, if I were to make this gun, I would probably customize it a little." Hartmann explained.

Jaune then spoke about his sword. "Mine is just a hand-me-down. My great-great-grandfather used it to fight in the war."

"Sounds like a family heirloom to me!" Ruby laughed a little. "Well, I like it! Not many people have an appreciation for the classics these days."

"Me too, I think that Classic stuff can be a bit more simplified than some, others" Hartmann said, looking at Crescent rose as an example of the others.

"Yeah...the classics." Jaune unsheathed his sword after that.

"Hey, where are we going exactly?" Hartmann asked.

"I don't know, I was following you." Ruby exclaimed as she turned to Jaune.

"I was following both of you." Jaune said.

The trio looked around as the whole Courtyard was empty and they were the only ones outside, meaning that the rest of the first years had went to the amphitheater. Hartmann sighed. "Ok you two follow me, we are heading to the amphitheater." He gestured to them to follow him. Ruby and Jaune nodded and obliges as the latter begins to ask another question.

"Do you think there might be a directory? Maybe a food court? Some kind of recognizable landmark? Is, uh... Is that a 'no'?"

"That is a no" Hartmann answered while chuckling.


After a few minutes of walking, Hartmann, Ruby, and Jaune had finally made it to the main amphitheater of the academy, which was filled to the brim with the First-years. "Here we are." Hartmann said as Ruby and Jaune gazed at the room on how huge it was.

Ruby then saw a familiar figure waving and calling out to her. "Oh! Hey, I-I gotta go! I'll see you guys after the ceremony!" She then leaves them.

"Hey! Wait!" Jaune tried to reach her, but Hartmann lowered his arm down and looked to the blonde boy.

"Just let her be. She has better stuff to do, i guess."

Jaune sighed in defeat. "Yeah you're right...but where am I supposed to find another nice, quirky girl to talk to?!"

"I'm sure you will manage to find one." Hartmann assured.

"I guess...anyway, I'll see you again after this." Jaune said as he walked away from him, which Hartmann waved goodbye. He then turned to his left and saw a red-haired girl in a ponytail which looked like she was watching the entire conversation with Himself and Jaune. She still got her eyes on the latter when he is walking away. "Hmm..." Hartmann narrowed his eyes to her before walking elsewhere.

He went around the amphitheater while sliding his way from the crowd. He thought about Velvet's idea about socializing after he formed a team with three more students. However, it seemed like he already made 2 friends with Jaune and Ruby, and possibly an enemy with Weiss, but he might get along with her.

When Hartmann kept sliding through the crowd without looking, he accidentally bumped into someone. "Oh, sorry I-" He stopped himself when the girl he bumped into was the Weiss girl. Weiss turned back and looked to him. "Hey! You're the one who defended that young age little dolt!" She gave him the same angry look like what she did to Ruby.

Hartmann nervously smiled. "Uh...Hello again. It is nice meeting you here."

Weiss rolled her eyes and crossed her arms. "Like i even care. So you and that dolt decided to stay here, in this academy?"

"Well where else we should go? We just chose to be here, not like you can stop it or something." Weiss hate to say it out loud but he was right, she also did chose for Beacon academy than Atlas' academy, her home kingdom. She made the choice just to carve out her own way, and to get away from her busy father.

"Fine, i guess you do have a point." She admit she doesn't like being the wrong one, but she'll let this one slide. "Which kingdom are you from anyway?"

"In Vacuo." Hartmann answered which was not actually true, but he had to so his secret won't be revealed.

Hearing the answer, she harrumphed and avoid contact. "Hmmph, no wonder. You still don't look the part like that dolt."

"You are wearing a dress..." He said while looking at her attire, seemingly confused about her hypocrisy.

"IT'S A COMBAT SKIRT!" Weiss shouted, which caused some of the nearby students to stare at both of them, confused or startled from Weiss' outburst. Hartmann raised both of his arms in surrender, not expecting that kind of response from her.

"Okay okay, whatever you say. But look, I apologize for what happened back at the courtyard. We can introduce ourselves to make it better, i-if you want?"

Weiss eventually sighed. "Fine. As that black bow girl said, my name is 'Weiss Schnee', heiress of the Schnee Dust Company, but I doubt you even care."

"Well i think you look pretty great, along with your name." Hartmann smiles nervously until he realized what he just said. His thoughts immediately blamed him for that, and why did he say that to her. He said nothing as it just came out from his mouth.

Weiss was a little shocked from his response as she turned to him eye-widen. "W-Was that a recognition?" Weiss asked while hiding a little blush.

"N-No, I-I think...maybe. I-I was just..thinking of a compliment about you." Hartmann said and then he blames himself again with his thoughts saying why did he say that grew irritated a bit and then he stopped him, putting one of her hand infront of him.

"Enough. I don't know what is your nonsense about me, but I think it's best if you leave me be or-" Weiss stop herself when she heard a familiar voice feets away.

"You mean when you ditch me and i exploded?" That voice belong to Ruby, that little dolt who messed up her dusts luggage and exploded it. Hartmann also heard her voice. Both of them turn to the direction and there was Ruby along with anohter girl with long blonde hair, which Hartmann somehow knows that it is Yang.

Weiss lared at her before turning to Hartmann and said. "Be back in a minute..." With that, Weiss walked away from the German as she makes her way to Ruby. Hartmann knew this will not end well so he decides to catch up to her.

(With Ruby)

Ruby had told her big sister that she ditched her at the Courtyard with her Friends and told her she exploded at the courtyard. Yang thought the 'Exploded' part means she is very angry at her and had a meltdown. Ruby tried to clarify. "No, I literally exploded a hole in front of the school! And there was some fire, and I think some ice...?"

"Are you being sarcastic?" Yang asked while smiling broadly.

Ruby scoffed and explained. "I wish! I tripped over some crabby girl's luggage, and then she yelled at me, and then I sneezed, and then I exploded, and then she yelled at me again, and I felt really, really bad, and I just wanted her to stop yelling at me!" At this point, Weiss was already next to Ruby and heard all of it.

"YOU!" She shouted to her which made Ruby jump on to Yang's arms.

"Oh Gods, it's happening again!" Ruby held into Yang's arms tightly.

"You're lucky we weren't blown off the side of the cliff!" Weiss scolded.

"By the Gods, you really exploded..." Yang said with a deadpanned look realizing Ruby was telling the truth.

Ruby got down from Yang's arms and spoke to Weiss. "Look, i-it was an accident, okay!" Weiss then holds up a pamphlet titled "DUST for dummies and other Inadequate Individuals" up into Ruby's face. "What's this?" She asked.

"The Schnee Dust Company is not responsible for any injuries or damages sustained while operating a Schnee Dust Company product. Although not mandatory, the Schnee Family highly encourages their customers to read and familiarize themselves with this easy to follow guide to Dust applications and practices in the field." Weiss explained.

After her explanation, Ruby only responded with her eyebrows raised as it looked like she did not even listen. "Uhhh..."

"You really wanna start making things up to me?" Weiss questioned.

"Y-Yeah?"

She then handed Ruby the Pamphlet. "Read this, and don't ever speak to me again."

Yang goes inbetween them and tries to defuse the hostile interaction. "Look, uh, it sounds like you two just got off on the wrong foot. Why don't you start over and try to be friends, okay?"

"Yeah! Great idea, sis!" Ruby exclaimed while putting the pamphlet away. She then turned to Weiss, clearing her throat and holding out her hand. " Hello, Weiss! I'm Ruby! Wanna hang out? We can go shopping for school supplies!"

"Yeah! And we can paint our nails and try on clothes and talk about cute boys, like tall, blond, and scraggly over there!" Weiss said in a seemingly Enthusiastic tone, when she was actually being sarcastic as she pointed to Jaune at the last part, which the latter turned to them, a little confused.

"Wow, really!?"

Weiss stood there silently under her glare, still pointing to Jaune at the back as she couldn't believe that the dolt fell for her sarcasm. "No."

Yang then saw someone that was behind Weiss as she begins to smirk. "Y'know, if you do like to talk to cute boys, I say take that Handsome looking person behind you."

Weiss scoff as she slowly turned around. "I don't even know what you are-" She stopped when the person that was behind her is Hartmann. The said person nervously smiled and waved at them. Greeting them again.

"Hello again."

"What are you doing? I said to wait there for a minute!" Weiss shouted.

"I was going too when I noticed you were heading to little Ruby over there and I knew what will happen next, so I catch up with you hoping the interaction would not be like the one at the courtyard, and I was wrong."

Hearing that, Ruby crossed her arms while pouting. "I'm not little..."

"Why do you even defending her, what does she even do to make you act like this?" Weiss asked.

"I mean, she saved me from being robbed, yesterday." He mentioned of the dust robbery happening from the dust shop from that Roman guy and his henchmens. Ruby exclaimed that it was true while smiling. "If something bad happens to her, I will gladly repay the favor." Weiss only rolled her eyes from that response. "And maybe, if it happens to you too, I will not even hesitate to help you out as well, Heiress."

Weiss just frozed after that, staring at the German boy. The german was willing to help people no matter who they are, even for a schnee. Weiss didn't really mind, but the tone of his voice and how we delivered it gets a soft spot somewhere in her heart. Hartmann noticed her cheeks were a little red as her eyes were seen shaking. "Um...are you okay, miss Schnee."

"No...it's nothing, but thanks for the compliment, you Vacuan dolt." She crossed her arms and look away from him, hiding her blush.

"You have a crush on him already, eh?" Yang said with a smirk that made Ruby giggled and look to the red checked Ice queen.

"SHUT UP YOU TWO!" She shouted at them with a glare and avoided eye contact from anyone.

A few minutes later of standing around awkwardly, the Girls and the German along with the rest of the students draw their attention to the front stage as Ozpin was seen readying the microphone, with Glynda beside him.

"I'll...keep this brief."

Ozpin began his speech. "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." Some of the students whispered to each other along with Hartmann raising his eyebrow. Ozpin then continued. "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."

As Ozpin finished his speech, he turned to his right and walked out of the stage. Glynda then stepped forward and spoke to the microphone. "You will gather in the ballroom tonight; tomorrow, your initiation begins. Be ready. You are dismissed." She informed and walked out of the stage too.

"He seemed kind of...off," Yang said referring to Ozpin as she feels a bit suspicious about him.

Ruby nodded at that and replied. "It's almost like he wasn't even there."

"Whatever it is, it is his own business. For us, we will do what Miss Goodwitch says." Hartmann assured.

"I guess you're right," Weiss said.

"Well, I am going to get some of my belongings in my locker, i will see you fraulein's tonight." Hartmann said as he left.

"Don't know what the last part means but okay!" Ruby exclaimed as she waved goodbye to him along with Yang.

Weiss just stood there and watch him go. The Schnee felt something tingly inside and it is a bit rare for her. She doesn't know if that was good or not but she kept focus on the Boy. "I guess he is not that of a dolt at all." She turn her eyes to Ruby and glared. "Still not liking her though.." Weiss then felt someone poking her left shoulder as she turned to her left, revealing Jaune with a confident smile.

"I'm a natural blonde, y'know?"

She just rolls her eyes and puts her hand to her face in exasperation.


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