Ruby looked around the crowded airship and pulled her cloak down tighter over her ears. She knew she was getting a few weird looks because of the backpack on her back. Most people had stored their luggage in the cargo compartments of the airship, but the backpack she had carried a few changes of clothes, a weapon repair kit, a sewing kit, some survival supplies, and extra ammunition, in other words all of her worldly possessions. Her unfamiliarity with crowds was not helped by her companions attempts to track every possible threat in the crowd around them, which, being that it was a crowd of armed huntsmen and huntresses, was everyone.

"Stop it." she whispered under her breath.

'Sorry but you're the one who put us in this situation.' The voice spoke.

"We are safe," she could feel the voice starting to argue, "for now anyways." Ruby looked up as the doors opened and students began walking out into the courtyard. Ruby proceeded to follow. "We'll stay here, learn what we can, and head back out on our own once we are done." After a few moments the voice relented.

'Fine but I still think this is a bad idea, and no good will come of it.' It warned before it turned its attention outward once more, 'look out!' Ruby suddenly became aware of something in front of her. She and her companion had both been so focused on their discussion neither of them noticed that Ruby was about to walk into something. Unfortunately they both noticed to late, and Ruby tripped over a bunch of white boxes. Thanks to their enhanced senses Ruby could smell the dust inside the boxes and immediately regretted not watching where she was walking. By the time everything had come to a stop Ruby was extremely thankful that she was still in one piece and not a single bit of dust had exploded, or frozen, or hardened into rock. She got up and began to restack the boxes of dust where they were before, thinking that that would be the end of it.

"What do you think You're doing?" Ruby heard a shrill, accusatory voice off to the side of her. She looked up to see a girl wearing all white with even white hair standing there. Thanks to her companion Ruby could sense the emotions of people if she tried, but the girl in front of her was so ruled by emotions Ruby could feel them emanating off her. 'Anger, disgust and...fear?' Ruby looked again, the girl was in a subtle defensive stance, her hand straying very close to the rapier at her side. 'Definitely fear, but of what? Of me?' Suddenly Ruby's own fear jumped, 'does she know what I am?'

"Uh, can I help you?" Ruby asked. The girls eyes narrowed.

"What do you think you're doing? Thief." The girl answered. Ruby's fear fled but now she was confused. 'Why would she think I'm a thief?' Ruby thought.

'Uh Ruby what do you think we're holding?' the voice said to her. Ruby remembered the box in her hand and her eyes widened in realisation.

"Oh! Is this your stuff?" Ruby said, "sorry I was kinda lost in my thoughts and knocked it over. nothing exploded though so everything is fine!"

"A likely story." the girl huffed, "you do realise that we are in the middle of Beacon right?"

"Yeah, of course." Ruby said, but the girl continued on regardless.

"A place that is filled with huntsmen and huntresses, people dedicated to upholding the law and protecting society." the girl didn't even stop talking for a moment and the box was starting to feel a little heavy, so Ruby set it down. "So what in your tiny brain thought that it would be a good idea to make an attempt on me in broad daylight in the middle of Beacon?"

"What do you mean attempt on you?" Ruby said, "I just tripped over these boxes.."

"You tried that excuse already," the girl said, "I know your kind." Ruby's heart stopped, ice flowed through her veins, and her hand began to reach towards her weapon.

"M-my kind?" Ruby managed to get out.

"Yes, all you faunus know how to do is lie steal and hurt people." the girl said, her hand was fully on the hilt of her sword now. "So which are you, broken claw? Beast pack? White Fang?" the girls eyes narrowed and her hand clenched at the last one she mentioned. Meanwhile Ruby relaxed as she processed what the strange girl had meant. Faunus, the only thing going for Ruby remaining anonymous at a school like Beacon.

"Um, I'm a student here." Ruby said. The girl huffed.

"Better than your first story but still," the girl glared at Ruby, "you're too young to be here, and I seriously doubt Beacon would accept someone of your ilk." Ruby was fast growing tired of the conversation, or rather the constant accusations disguised as conversation.

"Whatever, I'm going to the auditorium," Ruby said as she began to walk away, "have fun restacking your boxes."

"Where do you think you're going, thief?" the girl shouted as she drew her weapon and pointed it at Ruby. At that moment, everything was as clear as crystal and as slow as molasses for Ruby. she could feel the spike in emotions from the girl, hear the steel leave it's leather sheath, smell the dust in the cylinders, ice, how appropriate. In a flash of rose petals Ruby was behind the girl with the flat of her weapons blade pressed to the girls neck.

"I don't know who you think you are, and honestly I don't care." Ruby said, her voice was harsh and very cold but also loud enough that those who had gathered around and were staring at them could hear. In for a penny… "I have a code, I will fight and punish evil doers wherever I go for those who can't. So you had better think real long and hard before attacking someone who has done nothing." Ruby then collapsed her weapon and hid it in her jacket before walking away, leaving a stunned crowd and a spoiled rich girl paralysed in fear.

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'You went overboard' the voice said.

"I know" Ruby answered.

'We were supposed to stay under the radar, Ozpin even told you to.' the voice continued.

"I know" Ruby said again.

'And now we're lost.'

"I know already! Okay, it's not like this place has a map or something!" Ruby said indignantly. She was still fuming internally when she reached the corner of the building. It was due to this that she wasn't paying attention when she turned and ran into somebody coming from the other side. She looked at the figure she ran into at the same time they did the same.

"Oh my God! I'm so sorry! Please don't kill me!" Ruby winced as she heard the blonde haired boy say that. She knew she had gone overboard, but this day had been stressing beyond belief. She sighed before answering.

"Why would I kill you?" Ruby asked, "I only hurt those who wilfully hurt others, you're here to learn to be a huntsman and protect others, Right?" The boy nodded.

"Uh, well, yeah." he said somewhat hesitantly.

"Then we are on the same side." Ruby said, "My name's Ruby, Ruby Rose."

"Jaune, Jaune arc," The boy answered, "short, sweet, rolls off the tongue, ladies love it."

"Really?" Ruby asked with a flat voice as she tilted her head ever so slightly.

"They will!" Jaune answered, "at least I hope they will, my mom always said," Ruby raised an eyebrow, "nevermind." They said nothing for a second and just stood there, then that second became several seconds.

'Crap!' Ruby thought 'I've never had to actually make conversation with normal people before! What do I do? Do I wait for him to say something? Do I say something? What do I do?'

'It's a wonder we have survived this long with you're forethought.' The voice mocked. 'Oh, yes, we'll just pass ourselves off as another student, nevermind the fact we haven't had a conversation of more than a few sentences that didn't include threatening.'

'Shut up' Ruby wasn't in the mood for the voices hijinks. She was about to ask Jaune something, she wasn't sure what yet, when he asked her something.

"So, uh, do you know where we are?" Jaune asked. Ruby looked at him for a moment.

"Uh, no, I was kinda hoping that you did." Ruby said, "well, we might as well search around together." They continued to wander for a bit until a green haired professor met them in the hallway.

"Students!" the man said, "what are you doing out here! The orientation speech is in only a few minutes!"

"Uh, we kinda got lost sir." Ruby said.

The man sighed before pointing down a particular hallway and saying quickly, "that way students, next time be sure to learn the layout beforehand!"

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When Ruby and Jaune finally reached the auditorium, Professor Ozpin had gotten on the stage and was preparing to give his speech. Ruby looked around the room, it was rather crowded, which told her that it was more than the first year students present here. While Professor Ozpin gave his speech, which she assumed was in some way strange due to the reactions of the first year students, Ruby was studying those who would soon be her fellow classmates. She only recognized a few of the students namely the white haired racist girl, and of course Jaune. There were however some interesting members of the group. There was an orange haired girl who just oozed love and excitement, and her friend who Ruby could read nothing from, odd. There were a few in the group who lacked the characteristic nervousness of new students, amongst that group was a faunus girl, though she had no visible traits.

'Look again' the voice told Ruby. and look again Ruby did, she still couldn't see anything until she saw a part of the girls bow twitch.

'She has ears!' Ruby realised before fiddling absently with the hoodie that still covered her own ears, 'why didn't I think of that? It would definitely stay on easier than this thing'

'Because you have no idea what fashion in the city is like?' the voice answered her question, 'besides you like hoods.' Ruby couldn't deny that, for some reason they just felt right to her.

"-Ruby? Remnant to Ruby." Ruby suddenly realised that Jaune was talking to her.

"Sorry, I was lost in thought, what did you say?" Ruby asked the boy.

"I was saying we should go get our stuff before the others," Jaune said, "are you all right? You kinda spaced out after the speech was over."

"Like I said lost in thought, that happens with me sometimes." Ruby answered.

"Oh, well, do you want to go get our stuff?" Jaune asked again.

"What stuff?" Ruby asked.

"Y'know luggage and stuff." Jaune shrugged. Ruby wondered for a brief moment why they would need luggage when the voice explained what she hadn't heard because they were conversing in her head.

"Oh, this is all I have." Ruby answered motioning to the bag over her shoulder. "So I guess I'll just head over to the ballroom." Jaune's eyes widened.

"That's all you brought?!" he said incredulously, "I wish I could pack like you." he then shook his head and walked the same way most of the other students were walking. Ruby then looked towards where a few of the students were already walking with their luggage and followed them. She entered the ballroom and found only a few students in it. They were picking spots on the floor in which to sleep. There was a line on the floor that separated the boys area from the girls area. Ruby picked an area near a window which could serve as an exit if the situation demanded it. Once she had everything set up, a relatively simple affair for Ruby, she pulled out her journal and began to review notes on her most recent target.

'You planning on still going after him?' the voice asked Ruby.

"I haven't let a criminal like him escape for long before," Ruby mumbled under her breath, "I don't intend to start now."

'Fine, we'll need more info on him than what we got right now though' Ruby nodded in agreement.

"Beacon will pay for a scroll for all students who don't already have one." Ruby reminded the rogue Grimm, "I can use that to search for him on the internet and find out more about him, and vale's criminal networks."

'Just don't try to take them all out, ok?' the voice was almost pleading this time.

"I'll pace myself, ok." Ruby answered. After Ruby finished checking over her notes she decided to turn in early in preparation for the next morning.

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"Wake up! Lazy Bum!" Ren groaned as he heard the voice of his long time friend. Normally he would just sigh at his childhood friend's antics, but last night had been difficult for him. He had a wonderful semblance that allowed him to mask himself and a few others emotions as well as detecting if any Grimm are in the area. However the second part of his semblance was apparently going haywire. It was telling him there was a Grimm, here, in Beacon of all places. He knew it was absurd, but he couldn't shake the feeling. As a side effect it had kept waking him up through the night. Ren turned his tired eyes towards Nora who was bouncing around singing, "It's Morning! It's Morning!" When she caught his eyes though she stopped, mid sentence.

"Hey are you okay Ren?" she asked suddenly very concerned. Ren looked at the girl and afforded a rare smile that only she had been privy to seeing.

"I'm fine, just tired I suppose." He told her.

"Still feeling that Grimm around here?" Nora asked, Ren nodded, "Well don't worry! Once we pass initiation we'll just talk to one of the teachers about it!" Ren smiled again at the girl's attempt to cheer him up.

"Thanks Nora, we should probably start getting ready" Nora nodded and began skipping off to the Chow hall with Ren following slightly behind.

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