Hello everybody! It's me, and you may be wondering, "Papa, why are you uploading this so early?" The answer is that I've received a bit of love over the past two weeks, and I'm very glad that my story is getting at least some attention. Thanks to all of you who read, reviewed, followed, and favorited, I'm feeling much more creative! I'm grateful to all of you. With that out of the way, I own nothing except for my own characters.

[CRAIG]

When the Bullhead reached its destination, Jaune stumbled off the ship, and barfed like he just ate a huge meal that gave him food poisoning. I stayed with him to make sure that he would be okay, and when he finally stopped, I said, "There you go, pal. Now, remember what I told you on the ship?"

He looked up at me, and weakly asked, "Huh?"

"(Sigh). Well, I guess it can't be helped. You were puking your guts out back there. Anyways, I told you to throw the bucket off a cliff once we got here. I can only keep it up for so long without getting a migraine," I replied.

"O-okay…" he said. He took the bucket, and tossed it off the cliff. As he did so, I wiped it from existence(1), and gave a sigh of relief. "Thanks, by the way. I'm Jaune Arc. It's short, sweet, rolls off the tongue. Ladies love it."

When he said that, I couldn't help but laugh. It was just so ridiculous! "Really? I'm guessing your mom told you that?" I was almost out of breath at that point, so I tried to stop laughing. After I calmed down a bit, I said, "Sorry, sorry. My name is Craig Wilson. Nice to meet ya. Also, it might not be such a good idea to try and say that to anybody who saw… well, that." As I gestured to where he threw the bucket, he seemed to get the point.

[RUBY]

We were finally here! I can't believe this is actually happening. I mean, who could've thought that I, Ruby Rose, would get to go to the best Hunters' academy two years early?! It was too amazing.

"The view from Vale's got nothing on this," Yang commented as she crossed her arms.

Suddenly, I saw a bunch of students who had tons of awesome weapons! I just had to tell Yang about them! "Oh! Oh, sis! Sis! That kid has a collapsible staff! Oh! And she's got a fire sword!"

"Easy there, little sister. They're just weapons," she said. I couldn't believe what I was hearing.

"Just weapons?" I cried. "They're an extension of ourselves! They're a part of us! They're so cool!"

"Well, why can't you swoon over your own weapon? Aren't you happy with it?" she asked.

I took it out, and replied "Of course I'm happy with Crescent Rose! I just really like seeing new ones. It's like meeting new people, but better."

Yang pulled my hood down, and asked "Ruby, come on, why don't you go try and make some friends of your own? I mean, you can try to find the guy who fought with you?"

"But, why would I need friends when I have you?" For as long as I can remember, I was always sort of awkward around people, but I made up for it with my awesome fighting skills.

Suddenly, a bunch of people showed up, and she said "Well, actually, my friends are here. Gotta go catch up. 'Kay, c'ya, bye!"

She brushed past me so fast that I ended up very dizzy. I tried ask her "Where are you going? Are we supposed to go to our dorms? Where are our dorms? Do we have dorms? I don't know what I'm doing…" I fell over, and knocked somebody's stuff down.

As the cases fell, another girl started yelling at me. "What are you doing?!"

"Uh, sorry." I tried to apologise, but she wasn't having it.

"Sorry? Do you have any idea of the damage you could've caused?" she shouted. I attempted to give her the stuff, but she took it, and said "Gimme that! This is Dust mined and purified from the Schnee Quarry. What are you, brain dead? Dust! Fire, Water, Lightning, Energy! Are you even listening to me? Is any of this sinking in? What do you have to say for yourself?!" as I struggled to get my bearings, she kept shaking the bottle of Dust at me. I guess some of it got into my nose, 'cause I had to sneeze. Badly. When I did, it caused an explosion that sent the bottle flying. Thankfully, it didn't break and cause an even bigger explosion.

[CRAIG]

As that exchange was happening, Jaune and I happened to notice the explosion. Jaune said, "We should probably check that out."

"Yeah… good idea." I replied.

We arrived just as that was wrapping up, and saw Ruby lying on her back, and I offered to help her up. "Rough first day, huh? Name's Craig" I said.

"Ruby," she replied. She got up and pointed at Jaune, "Isn't he the guy who threw up on the ship?"

"Yes. Yes he is," I said.

"Oh, come on, dude!"

"All I'm saying is that motion sickness is a much more common problem than people let on!" said Jaune, still trying to hold onto whatever shreds of dignity he had left.

"Look, I'm sorry Vomit-boy was the first thing that came to mind."

"What about Barf-boy? That sounds a bit better," I tried to keep up with the conversation, but I was always that one friend that doesn't really talk or go out much.

"Uh, sure. Hey, you look kinda familiar. Did we meet sometime?" she asked.

"Yeah, remember Torchwick?" I reminded her.

"Wait, you guys took on THE Roman Torchwick? Whoa…" Jaune looked at us in awe.

"Yep! That's actually how I got into Beacon," Ruby said. "So I got this thing." she took out her massive scythe.

"Whoa! Is that a scythe?" asked Jaune.

"It's also a customizable, high impact velocity sniper rifle," she was almost bragging about it. Honestly, I couldn't blame her. If I had something that awesome, I'd be talking about it non-stop.

"A what?" he seemed very confused.

"It's also a gun," she said.

"Oh. That's cool!"

She turned to me and asked, "So what've you got?"

"This is the Casey MK 2. It's a bat, but it can also do this!" as I said that, I pressed a button on the bottom that opened the tip, and pushed the trigger down. I pulled on the barrel(2), and it gave a satisfying Chk-chk. "So, in other words, it's also a shotgun. But wait, there's more! Say some bad guy's trying to hit you with a bomb or something. All ya do is just slam it with this baby, and it goes flying! If you aim it right, you can even hit the guy who threw it! Pretty sweet, huh?" I figured it was my turn to brag a little. I mean, it is really cool, if I do say so myself.

Ruby was ecstatic. She looked like this was one of the coolest things she'd ever seen! After she stopped gushing about it, she turned to Jaune, and said, "What about you?"

"Oh- uh, I got this sword."

"Ooh!" she said.

"Yeah, I've got a shield too!" he was trying to sound at least somewhat cool, but I guess I was a bit of a tough act to follow.

"So what do they do?" asked Ruby.

She accidentally activated the shield's shift function, and Jaune struggled to get it back under control. "Well… the shield gets smaller… so… when I get tired of carrying it… I can just put it away."

"But wouldn't it weigh the same?" she said.

"Yeah, it does." he looked a little dejected.

"Well, I'm kind of a dork when it comes to weapons. I guess I did go a little overboard designing it."

"Wait. You made that?" he asked.

"Of course! All students at Signal forge their own weapons." Ruby said. "Didn't you make yours?"

"I actually got mine from Silver's Smithy, in town. Nice place."

"Really? Cool." she said.

"Mine's a hand-me-down. My great-great-grandfather used it to fight in the war." He looked dejected.

"Sounds more like a family heirloom to me! Well I like it. Not many people have an appreciation for the classics these days." she was really trying to help him feel better about himself.

"Yeah. The classics"

Ruby turned to me and asked, "So why'd you help me out back there, in the courtyard?"

"Because… reasons." I said. It was my go-to response for why questions I don't know how to answer.

"Hm. Hey, where are we going?" she said.

"Oh, I dunno, I was following you guys." replied Jaune.

"I got this. One auto-tracking map of Beacon, coming right up!" as I said this, a map appeared in my hands. It showed a few little blinking yellow dots where we were, and a large amount of them at the auditorium. "That's probably where we gotta be."

"(Sigh) Thanks, dude."

So, that does it! I think this may be my longest chapter yet, so I hope you appreciate it.

1: the bucket, not the barf. He can't will things that he didn't create out of existence. He's strong, but not that strong (yet)

2: I looked it up, and the part that you're supposed to whack the ball with is called the barrel. Yall better appreciate the research I've done!

So, I may or may not add two characters from rival families that eventually fall for eachother… so like, Romeo and Juliet, but not stupid. It would definitely not be "love at first sight," so I need to know how to write something like this. Please send help. Anyway, as always, if you liked this, then review, follow, and favorite! Thanks!