Chapter Five: Free time
Later that night, the auditorium had pretty much cleared out, leaving the new recruits and a few of the returning students that were staying with siblings. Jezie was sitting in a corner trying to avoid people and not attract attention to herself. She was watching the interactions people were having with each other, wishing she was courageous enough to get up to go socialize.
"Hello~!" A blonde girl said as she walked up to Jezebel.
The girl in white, the Faunus girl Jezebel had sensed from before, and the girl in red/ black with her.
"H-hi," Jezie said, unsure of what to do.
"I'm Yang, and this is my younger sister Ruby," the blonde girl said, pointing to herself and then the girl in black with red accents.
"Hiya~," the girl called Ruby said, opening a baggie full of cookies and eating one.
"I'm Weiss," the girl in white said as she curtseyed.
"Blake," the other Faunus girl said, her tone emotionless.
"I, umm, I'm Jezebel," Jezie said, introducing herself, surprised that anyone noticed she was there.
If there is one thing Jezebel could do well, it was blend in and become practically invisible.
"Can I help you all with something?" She asked curiously, trying to figure out why these four girls would come up to a nobody like her.
All four girls sat down around Jezie, "Nope, we just saw you sitting over here by yourself, so we all figured we'd come over and make a new friend," Yang explained.
"O-oh, well th-thank you, that's very kind of you," Jezie breathed out, realizing that she wasn't alone anymore.
"Wanna cookie?" Ruby offered, spreading crumbs everywhere as she talked with her mouth full.
"Umm thanks," said Jezie as she took a cookie and started nibbling on it.
"Ruby! Don't talk with your mouth full!" Yang scolded, glaring at Ruby.
Ruby just shrugged her shoulders and continued eating.
"So, Jezebel…." Weiss started talking, but stopped seeming unsure of what to say.
"Y-yes?" Jezebel responded, encouraging Weiss to continue with what she was saying.
"Tell us about yourself," Weiss all but demanded.
"Well for starters, call me Jezie please," Jezebel said politely before continuing to tell almost everything there was to know about herself; pretty much ranting as her nervousness took over and she became unsure of how much to tell. The five girls continued talking until it was time to head to sleep.
They made plans to hang out after Jezie's initiation and parted ways.
Meanwhile, Nova had finished her book and was about to wake up Starlight who was still sound asleep, when she saw the most beautiful girl she had ever seen. She was completely mesmerized by her. She wore black and her hair was long with waves in it. Nova slowly got up, careful to not disturb her sister, and walked over to the girl she'd seen. But before she made it over to her, she left with a group of girls she assumed were her teammates. She sighed and went back over to her sister and her book. She woke up her sister and told her it was time to head to the grand hall to sleep. While Star was gathering herself, Nova picked up her book and then helped her up before heading to the grand hall.
Tiana had been wandering the grounds of the school since the speech ended; she didn't want to risk any casualties, even though she desperately wanted friends. She had run into a few students while wandering, but they all looked at her and hurried past as if they were afraid of her or they didn't want to socialize with a faunus. Tia had thought of finding that annoying monkey boy to hang out with, but she decided against it for the simple reason that she thought he was annoying. There was that wolf faunus girl she could talk to…... if she could find her that is. The wolf girl had disappeared shortly after entering the auditorium… or at least Tia thought she had disappeared.
"Great, I'm going to be alone here too," she muttered to herself, not noticing someone was behind her.
"Well right at this moment you aren't exactly alone," a mysterious voice said from behind Tia.
Tia spun around to see a guy with blue hair and a red jacket. She screamed in terror and hastily backed away.
"Woah, whoa calm down, I'm not going to hurt you," he assured her, smiling slightly. "I'm Neptune and I just happened to notice that you were out here wandering around by yourself, which isn't safe, even though we are right by the school," he told her.
"Uh, umm, okay," Tia said sputtering, still trying to calm herself from being scared, "M-my name is T-Tiana, but I p-prefer Tia," she stuttered out, attempting to introduce herself.
"Well Tia," he whispered, chuckling, "let me accompany you back to the school, it's almost lights out," Neptune said, grabbing her arm gently and pulling her slowly back towards the school, without giving her a chance to answer him.
Tia slowly followed the strange new boy back to the school. About halfway back, she heard a soft growling sound. She stopped, and Neptune continued walking, lost in his own little world. Tia stayed silent, her tail twitching curiously as she tried to identify where the growling was coming from… suddenly it got louder and louder until Tia saw a pair of glowing eyes staring at her from a few feet away.