Chapter Four: Initiation
Tia felt bad about not checking on the girl laying in the courtyard, but she was glad to get away from the guy she'd run into. She didn't particularly like human interaction due to the whole issue with her temper. However, she knew she'd have to get over that eventually if she wanted a team and friends that weren't paid to hang out with her; that's how it was back home, her dad paid people to hang out with her, so she wasn't lonely. But now she was on her own and she didn't have money to pay people…... not that she wanted to pay people anyway.
Star and Nova were sitting against the far wall of the auditorium, out of the way of the people setting up for the assembly that was to happen in a few minutes. Star was asleep with her head resting on Nova's shoulder. Nova was reading her book; she'd almost finished the book and she hoped the library had the second one. If it didn't, she hoped that one of the bookstores sold it or that she could borrow it from someone.
Jezebel awoke to someone shaking her and yelling at her to wake up, "ACK! GET AWAY FROM ME! I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING WORTH STEALING," she screamed in terror as she tried to back away from the mysterious person in front of her.
"Calm down, it's alright. I'm not going to harm you or steal from you. I saw you laying on the ground and I came over to check if you were okay," Sun explained to the terrified girl that was slowly sliding away from him.
"Who are you and what do you want?" Jezebel demanded.
"My name is Sun and as I already said, I was checking to see if you were okay," he explained calmly to her, offering his hand to help her up off the ground.
Jezie cautiously took his hand, standing up and brushing herself off "Thank you," she said, "That's the first time anyone has willingly helped me," she muttered to herself.
Sun was about to respond to her, but he was cut off by an explosion that happened a few feet away from where the two girls were arguing. "Ruby, Weiss settle down before you destroy the courtyard…. again," he called to the two girls as he walked over to them.
Jezebel watched them for a few minutes before a third girl joined the group. The new girl was dressed in all black and wore a bow on her head. Being a Faunus herself, Jezebel could tell that the girl in black was a Faunus as well, she just couldn't tell what her trait was. Jezie felt weird standing there watching a group of people she barely knew, so she turned and walked to the auditorium, her tail tucked between her legs and her ears pressed against her head. She was so nervous because she was a Faunus, and besides Sun and the girl in black, she hadn't seen any other Faunus. She thought that there might be discrimination here if that was the case, and she wasn't about to stay here and be bullied like she was when she was little. Jezebel made a deal with herself right there that she wouldn't judge anything just because she'd only seen two Faunus besides herself. She calmed herself down and found a seat against the wall near the back of the room. Jezie sat there by herself until the assembly started and she had to stand up.
The room filled with people as a Glynda and Ozpin walked onto the stage at the front of the room. Like any big event, there was chatter happening all over the room, which quieted down when Ozpin started speaking. He gave his speech, then informed the crowd that they wouldn't be doing the normal initiation this year due to the increase in powerful Grimm, so there would be an exam of sorts for the students to take, and tame Grimm to fight. Glynda then stepped up to tell everyone that they would be sleeping in the grand hall tonight. The test was in two weeks and everyone had free time until lights out at 10 pm… it was only noon, so that meant 10 hours of free time, which was supposed to be used to get to know the people there.