Chapter 14

"You will sleep in the ballroom tonight. Tomorrow, your initiation begins. You are dismissed." A Blonde woman announces after Ozpin had finished giving his speech. Dressed in a pencil skirt, and a white long-sleeved pleated shirt, it is none other than Glynda Goodwitch.

"He didn't quite seem himself." Pyrrha says as the crowd begins to leave. Looking around, it seems that they are being led away by students of the Academy, I suppose expecting people to find their way would be kind of odd, especially when you consider the size of the school. Thinking back, I'm pretty sure I saw some students when I got off the airbus.

"I agree…" As I reply, I hear someone shout loudly at one of the exits,

"What do you think you're doing!" Looking towards the voice, I see a number of people crowding around a small group.

"I'm going to see what the commotion is." I say, making my way over to the crowd and leaving behind Pyrrha.

As I get over, it's hard to see the centre due to the size of the crowd, so I push my way through, before coming to the front.

"Because of you Schnee's, my father never came home!" A girl with horns shouts.

"Yeah!" The group shout.

"What the fuck is a damn Schnee pretending to be a huntsman for, get bored of killing Faunus?" A boy with some kind of tail shouts.

A group of 5 students, four being newly enrolled and not wearing a uniform, are shouting insults at a lone girl, Weiss. The group of 5, consisting of Faunus of varying types and genders, hurl insults as Weiss fires back.

Noticing this detail, and considering the…reputation Jacques has, it is obvious something like this is happening, it was only a matter of time, but already? I'm quite shocked, especially considering one of them is wearing the Beacon uniform, so they must have been studying here for at least a year.

Luckily they don't seem to be taking any physical action, but I can't tell how long that will last.

"What do you think you're doing?" I ask, with a deep and angry tone.

"This isn't something a human like you would understand, so back off." A slightly older student says. He is wearing the only one in the group wearing a uniform, being slightly older than the crowd, either starting his second or third year.

"Your right." I say, walking forward. "Because all I see about this, is a group teaming up on a new student, so tell me." Standing in front of Weiss, in between her and the group, "Is this how Beacon operates?" my tone filled with anger and oozing killing intent.

"I don't need you to protect me, I'm strong enough!" Weiss shouts from behind me, causing me to turn around and look at her with a smile like I always gave her when we were younger, I reply,

"I know you can. You've grown. But I'll handle them, what else is a brother for?"

"Brother?!" A horse-like tailed boy shouts.

"There's another one!" Shouts a girl with small antlers.

"Fucking Schnee's, thinking they can just do what they like whenever!" A girl with a missing fox ear shouts.

"Bhahaha!" The uniform student, who seems to be their apparent 'leader', bursts into laughter. "I thought you looked familiar! The alleged 'Prodigy' of the Schnee! To think, after vanishing from view, you decide to join this very Huntsmen Academy! Bhahaha."

As he scoffs at the nickname, the rest of the Faunus laugh alongside him, however the crowd, mostly filled with humans, are gossiping amongst themselves. It's not like I don't understand; the famed 'prodigy' of the Schnee family, vanishing from the public eye. There were rumours that I had died, or fallen ill. Whatever the reason, showing up here, it's obvious it would cause a commotion, after all; the Schnee family is one of the richest families in the world, but that doesn't mean I have to like others treating this as some third rate soap opera.

"But you're not my brother, so stay out of it!" Weiss shouts.

"I suppose you're right." I reply, chuckling slightly before continuing through a sorrowful smile, "But I'm not staying out of it."

As soon as I utter those words, a large magic circle appears beneath me and spreads to include the group of Faunus before creating a wall of ice, acting as a makeshift barrier around us. I had learned this as a way of herding….animals. Considering my family that could be considered racist, I mean to say it was for farming, I had been at a farm and wasn't so good at the shepherding part, I got creative, but I probably shouldn't say that to the Faunus here considering the circumstances. If it helps, I'm of the 'Animals ears are cute' faction.

"I will say this once, since I'm in a good mood; I'll give you two choices. You can either leave and never speak with us again, or stay and I will make sure you won't be able to." I say, wanting to get this over with, the anger in my tone from before is gone, so I'm being nice, if only this once.

Without even giving a response, the so-called leader, charges, swinging a right straight, however while it looks like it packs a punch, it is slow. I sidestep it, stepping into his chest and push him, which sends him flying into the opposite ice wall. Naturally, pushing someone wouldn't have this effect; I had used a magic circle, or rather multiple. Using one on the ground to keep me steady, then five more to increase the force on the point of contact; one for each finger. While this would have taken quite a lot of energy usually, since the effect was just the basic effect that Glyphs use, namely attraction and repulsion, it was actually not a lot, well in contrast to my aura supply.

Looking at their 'leader' in the ice wall, they all draw their weapons. The first to attack was a horned girl using a scimitar, with a ribbon; if she wasn't attacking me, it would look like a beautiful kind of dance. Sadly, she is attacking me, so I couldn't admire the form and quickly drew my weapon, still in its sheath and fired it at her, causing her to block. As I do that, a metallic ball flies past me, just missing me thanks to a slight tilt to my head. Looking over, I see the antlered girl holding a slingshot-type weapon. As she fires again, I quickly move, running towards the recovered scimitar girl and thrusting thrice in quick succession; one impacting her blocked blade, another impacting her arm, and the last hitting her in the solar plexus and sending her flying into the ice wall. A large metal ball is sent towards my back, which I jump and flip over; landing behind the assailant. A quick glance shows a metallic ball connected to his leg by a steel chain. Sending him flying with a spinning hook kick, he impacts the wall, followed by his metallic ball hitting his gut. Sweeping my sheath to redirect another metal pellet, I step to the side, a giant axe hits the ground where I once stood. Looking at the so called 'leader' who took too long to recover from a single push, I notice large curved ram horns, even in the uniform it is easy to tell he is quite muscular, as well as being tall. However, my hand shoots towards his face, grabbing it with an iron claw grip; I slam him into the ground, which cracks under the force.

I see a small red light in the reflection of the 'leader's' pupils as I begin speaking, my tone filled with anger and drenched in killing intent, I speak, "This. Is. Over."

'I guess I was still a bit angry with them.' I think as I stand up again and attach my weapon to my belt, brushing off my clothes. Looking up, I notice the slingshot girl is also unconscious, with Weiss standing over her. Looking up, I notice the height of the ice barrier was only a few meters, so she must have jumped over it.

As we make eye contact, I notice a slight glimmer in her eyes before, "Hmph." Walking away, as the ice wall has melted.

As she rounds a corner, I look to the students on the ground. It feels nice being able to actually defeat someone so easily now. After sparring with Winter growing up, then my run in with Cinder, then Raven and Vernal, then Winter again; it felt tiring, I couldn't help but curse my luck, Give me a break! Saying that though, I doubt they were all that 'exceptional' if I'm being honest, I guess team RWBY and JNPR were more exceptional than the show let on, especially if that's their peers.

"Are you okay?"

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"It seems you've improved by even more in the last four years." Pyrrha says, as she places a sleeping bag near mine, but still leaving a bit off space. Lighting a candle due to how dark it is, I reply,

"I doubt I'm the only one, weren't you…" As I was about to tease her again, I see Weiss make her way over, casually setting a sleeping bag in-between mine and Pyrrha's.

"Is there a problem?" Pyrrha asks as the heiress unrolls the sleeping bag.

"This is the only open space that is not surrounded." Weiss argues, looking around I notice she was right; there was a lack of students near us, and the rest of the area was a bit cramped. But considering my…display earlier, I can't say I'm surprised, a student taking on a team of 5 without even going to initiation, they don't want to get on my bad sad, or perhaps they don't want to approach Pyrrha, considering how much she was treated differently, even by the teachers, due to her talent; it could just be both though.

"You aren't wrong." I say to myself as I continue to look around, spotting some familiar faces. "Pyrrha, this is my sister, Weiss Schnee. And Weiss this is Pyrrha Nikos."

"Nice to meet you."

"And you."

They both say politely.

"However I am not his sister." Weiss corrects, slightly annoyed.

"But you are related, yes?" Pyrrha inquires,

"Yes we are, the current head of the Schnee Dust Company raised me however, so I have treated her as my sister since I was born." I say, choosing not to go into too much detail about why.

"I see… I've known Ira for quite some time, although he never mentioned his second name, I had assumed he didn't have one."

"If I had used my semblance it might have been easier." I say, chuckling slightly at the last time we had seen each other.

"Yes, it was as if destiny wanted to keep it a secret until now." She says, chuckling along with me.

Standing up abruptly, Weiss makes her way away towards loud chatting. Looking at the source, I see Ruby and Yang speaking with a familiar bow wearing girl, who seems to be more interested in the book she is reading than the people in front of her.

Chuckling slightly as she begins shouting at them, loud enough for it to reach both me and Pyrrha.

"We should get some sleep, tomorrow seems like it will be even more exhausting than today." I say as Weiss begins to walk back, Pyrrha lightly chuckling.

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As the early risers of the group of new coming students begin to wake, so too does a certain heiress.

As she slowly regains her consciousness, having slept well the night before, she had opted to stay like that for a while. However she noticed that, unlike when she had went to sleep; she felt her hands holding onto something, still not quite awake enough to tell what it was, she slowly began opening her eyes.

"…!" However when she opened her eyes, she was slightly shocked to see someone's face, not 50cm away from her own. Lying on his side, Ira had turned sometime in the middle of the night, with one hand beneath his head like a pillow, the other was outstretched, causing Weiss to realise that the thing she held with both hands was Ira's free hand. Red flushing through not just her cheeks, but to the tips of her ears, turning her once snow white skin to bright red, she didn't move, just staring at the peacefully sleeping face in front of her.

The past 5 years, all the hardships she felt, it was as if they were just a distant memory. For the past 5 years, she had one goal. She had been sad, so sad she had cried herself to sleep more than a few nights. The anger, towards her family, towards the company, towards her father, towards having to be bo…..

So she fought; she trained, so that she could become a huntress, so that she could fight for what she wants, not letting other people dictate what is good for her; she would decide herself. And now…she has a cha…..

"…" Ira suddenly turns, groaning and showing signs that he is waking up. Jumping slightly at the sudden movement, Weiss stands up, grabbing her things to go and get ready, before hastily making her way away.

A/N

I'll don't think I got the characters down yet, if they are acting different put it up to the AU thing.

I tried to make Weiss hostile, but still polite in this one. There are a few reasons why, but not really getting in to them. Pyrrha, let's just say she isn't always polite. Ira? He feels like he had done something wrong, but it was necessary, while he hasn't changed much from usual (it was a really slight change in thought pattern), he wasn't his usual self here, and he'll be fine in the next chapter.