Chapter Two: Red Like Roses
"Well Oz, this has certainly been an eventful night." The vigilante mumbled, mask now off revealing his facial features. "Mind if I see the footage from tonight's attack?" he asked Professor Ozpin, headmaster of Beacon Academy.
"I suppose you should." Ozpin replied, handing the screen to his adopted son. The footage showed a girl who was fighting thugs that had attempted to rob a dust shop called "From Dust Till Dawn". She looked to be around his age, maybe a year younger. She wore a black dress with red trimming and a red cape with a hood. She seemed to be fighting using a combination of a sniper and a scythe.
"Damn, she can kick ass," he said, receiving a look from Ozpin that said "language".
"That is Ruby Rose. She'll be attending Beacon with you"
"What? With me? But-," the boy stammered.
"Phoenix, I think you're more than skilled enough to attend my school," Ozpin stated, "Besides, you won't be attending officially. Since you already have a room there, you should be able to attend all the classes without any complications. All the teachers have been informed of this arrangement." Phoenix was still seeing one major flaw in this "arrangement".
"But how am I supposed to do my uh… 'job'?" Phoenix inquired wondering how he would get to the city from Beacon.
"Simple. You fly," the professor retorted, smirking.
"No! Nonononononono! I am not getting on one of those floating death traps!"
"Ugh…" Phoenix groaned, sitting on an airship bound for Beacon Academy. Next to him A blond boy wearing a hoodie, jeans, and armor seemed to be having just as rough of a time as he was.
"So, you hate flying too?" the blond boy asked, looking slightly queasy.
"No! Of course not. I love it. Can't you tell? I'm moaning from the sheer joy of knowing that one slight issue with the engine is a death sentence," Phoenix retorted, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
"I can't believe my baby sister is going to Beacon with me!" a new voice, seaming to be female, exclaimed.
"Sis, stop," another voice replied. Phoenix looked up to see a girl with long blond hair. She wore a brown jacket and extremely short pants.
"But I'm so proud of you!" He then noticed who she was talking to.
"You wouldn't happen to be Ruby Rose, would you?" He asked the red caped girl.
"Sorry, do I know you?" Ruby asked, a look of confusion on her face.
"Well… uh… no," Phoenix stated, his mind racing to come up with an excuse for how he knew about her identity. "I just heard someone with that name was got moved ahead a couple years and was headed to Beacon. Didn't know how she looked, but since she," he gestured towards the blond, "Seemed especially excited you were here and referred to you as her baby sister I assumed it was you."
"Oh, well it's nice to meet you. As you guessed I'm Ruby's older sister, Yang," the blond girl said, buying his response.
"Nice to meet you both. I'm Phoenix, Phoenix Fall," he stated, becoming less nervous.
Their conversation was interrupted by a hologram of a hologram of someone who appeared to be one of the professors. "Hello and welcome to Beacon," the projection stated.
"Who's that?" Yang inquired. Phoenix, however, already knew it was Glynda Goodwitch, one of the professors at Beacon, and rather than listen to a lecture he had already gotten from Ozpin decided to look at some of the other students on the ship.
One of the first people he noticed was Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company. She was wearing a white skirt white coat with she SDC logo on it, and even had white hair. She had a rapier filled with different types of Dust, and she was surrounded by luggage, most of which was presumably Dust for her weapon.
Another celebrity on their flight was Pyrrha Nikos, a master fighter from Minstral. She was wearing red and gold battle attire her weapon and shield strapped to her back. She seemed to be looking at the blond warrior he had been sitting next to.
There was also a boy in green with a pink streak in his otherwise black hair, and eyes to match the streak. He was next to a redhead girl who was bouncing around him saying something about pancakes.
Finally, there was a girl who seemed to be ignoring everything around her, completely immersed in her book. She had yellow eyes and black hair. She was wearing a bow, although it took him a moment to realize it, seeing as it looked so much like cat ears, raising the question of whether or not she was simply trying to hide the fact she was a Faunus. "Somethings to look into," he muttered.
Before he could look around anymore, he overheard Ruby and Yang talking. "You can see Signal from up here. I guess home isn't too far after all," Ruby commented, looking out the window.
"Beacon's our home now," Yang replied, "Hey Phoenix, want to get a look at the view."
"No thanks. I'm fine right wh- aughhh!" Phoenix shouted as he was shoved toward the glass by the blond knight, who looked like he was about to vomit. Phoenix took one look out the window before falling backwards in fear.
"I guess the view isn't for everyone," Yang said commenting partly about the knight, partly about Phoenix, earning a glare from the latter.
"Well, it was a nice moment while it lasted. Wonder who we're going to meet," Ruby replied.
"Wait… Maybe I hit my head when I fell, but I think I see something on your shoe," Phoenix said as he got up.
"Ewww! Vomit boy got puke on my shoe!" Yang shouted trying to shake it off and running around.
"Grossgrossgrossgrossgross! Get it away!" Ruby shrieked running away with surprising speed. This incident just caused Phoenix to grin while shaking his head.
"She's actually kinda cute," he thought. "Wait! What the bloody hell did I just think!"
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