DENO

by JediPrime

Beacon Academy one of four institutions charged with the task of training the next generation of Huntsman to defend the four kingdoms from the creatures of Grimm but when a strange new threat appears will their latest class be enough or will a simple soul alone not be enough and require the aid of one more uniquely suited to face this threat. From start to finish their at a CLIMAX!

5. Ruby Rose and the Shining Beacon

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Kamen Rider or RWBY. Kamen Rider belongs to Toei and Ishinomori Productions. RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth and Monty Oum (RIP)

Heads up this chapter turned out much longer then I expected.

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"Legends. Stories scattered through time. Mankind has grown quite fond of recounting the exploits of heroes and villains, forgetting so easily that we are remnants, by-products of a forgotten past.

Man, born from dust by will of higher powers, was strong, wise and resourceful with great potential, but he was born into an unforgiving world. An inevitable darkness, creatures of destruction, the creatures of Grimm, set their sights on man and all of his creations. These forces clashed, and it seemed the darkness was intent on returning man's brief existence to the void.

However, even the smallest spark of hope is enough to ignite change, and in time, man's passion, resourcefulness, and ingenuity led them to the tools that would help even the odds. The most well known among these was a power appropriately named "Dust.

Nature's wrath in hand, man lit their way through the darkness, and in the shadow's absence, or so they believed, came strength, civilization, and most importantly, life. But even the most brilliant lights eventually flicker and die. And when they are gone…darkness will return and run rampant.

So you may prepare your guardians both seen and unseen, build your monuments to a so-called "free world" and by all means tell your stories of a past you refuse to believe, but take heed…there will be no victory in strength."

"Or perhaps victory is in the simpler things that you've long forgotten, things that require a smaller, more honest soul."

"Agreed. For you have also forgotten one of the simplest and most important things about stories, for all their twists and turns they all have a starting point, a beginning which can be the most unexpected or unlikely of places but whether a story becomes a legend well...that is something else entirely…"

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The shattered Moon shown down on upon a dark alleyway in the city of Vale. Out of the shadows stepped a man dressed in a white coat, with dark brown pants and shoes, on his head he wore a black bowler hat with a red band and a feather. Around his neck was a grey scarf and he carried a cane in his right hand. Orange hair grew out from under the hat and hid the right side of his face.

Following him were four men dressed identically in the same black suit with a red tie, red tinted glasses, at night for some reason, and a black bowler hat in their hands they each held a red bladed katana. They stood still behind their boss as he took a puff of the cigar he held in his mouth, the end of the cigar illuminated his face as he inhaled. As he exhaled a smirk appeared on his face accompanied with a chuckle before they continued on their way to their destination.

The streets were crowded but this posed no problem as the crowd quickly backed out of their way with noticeable unease and a hint of fear as would anyone at the sight of four men with swords but it wasn't them they were wary of. For they recognized the man at the head of the group, who tipped his head to the occasional passer-by fanning politeness, he was non other then notorious criminal, Roman Torchwick.

Roman basked in their gaze as he walked for with among the fear was something any man in his line of work wanted, respect. However he was on the clock and had a job to do and it wasn't long before they reached their destination, From Dust Till Dawn. It was a small shop selling quite the range of merchandise from magazines, weapon parts, hobby supplies and the thief's target.

One of the thugs opened the door, a bell announcing their entrance. Roman was greeted by the sight of the counter right in front of the entrance, well that made things easier. One of the henchmen looked over to his left and saw several Dust dispensers along the wall of the shop, each with a different type of the energy source in the form of powder, while another rested his hand on the glass counter, his eyes locked on the dozens of Dust crystals on display, various shapes and sizes.

Roman walked up to the counter and took his cigar out of his mouth so he could speak to the shopkeep, an elderly man with balding grey hair and a slight hunch. He folded his arms over his chest and spoke in a friendly tone, like he was just another customer, "Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a Dust shop open this late?"

On cue one of the henchmen came up and pointed a gun at the old man who raised his hands in surrender and pleaded, "Please, just take my Lien and leave."

"Shh! Shh! Calm down. We're not here for your money," Roman hushed the trembling old man then addressed his men. "Grab the Dust."

The old man watched as one of the henchmen placed a case on the counter and opened it revealing ten hand held Dust containers. He and one other each took one and went to the dispensers on the wall and inserted them in refill slots at the base. There was a humming sound as the smaller cylinders were filled.

"Crystals!" the old man's attention returned to right in front of him as another one of the thieves placed a second case on the counter and opened it but this one was made for carrying Dust in its crystal form. Having no other option the old man obeyed the order and reached under the counter for the crystals on display that the man ordered. "Burn. Uncut."

As one of the men at the dispensers removed the full canister from the dispenser he noticed something in one of the isles. A man in a trench coat that hid his figure and a hat that obscured his upper face in shadow. His hand moved back and forth along the shelf his finger hovering over the products on it, various boxes of tools, gears and other mechanical components, acting as if nothing was going on.

"Hey you!" The henchmen pointed at the mysterious man. The man froze and the henchmen pulled out his firearm and aimed it at the him, "Put your hands up and turn round. Slowly."

The man did as he was told, raised his hands in surrender and turned to face the thief, keeping his head bowed. It was then the henchmen noticed that under the hat was a red cap making it even harder to see his face. The henchmen raised an eyebrow at the odd fashion choice before he took a few steps closer.

"You're not planning on playing hero or anything, righy?" the man shook his head. "Okay then, stay here and don't try anything! got it?" The man nodded in reply "Good."

The criminal turned his back and went back to his task, then the man reached into his trench coat but this action didn't go unnoticed. The henchmen glanced over his shoulder then spun round and pointed his weapon again.

"Hold it!" the man paused. "You got something hidden up your sleeve huh?" the man remained silent. "Bring it out. Slowly" The man resumed reaching into his coat then pulled something out in his hand. "Show me!" the man turned his hand around to show the henchman a small silver pocket watch.

The henchman raised his brow is confusion then gave an annoyed sigh.

"That it? You're just gonna play with your watch until we leave?" The man nodded. "Fine just...just whatever!" Then went back to job muttering about the weirdo wasting his time.

Meanwhile another one of the henchmen went to collect some Dust from one of the dispensers on the other side of the store. He was about to insert the canister in the slot when something caught his ear, music. He turned to direction it was coming from and saw someone wearing a red hood that hung from their neck like a cape standing by a magazine rack judging by how tall they were it was probably a kid.

The henchmen then drew his sword and pointed it at her, "Alright kid! Hands where I can see em!"

The kid didn't even flinch at the threat. The henchmen frowned then walked over to the kid. "Hey, I said hands in the air!"

"You got a death wish or something?!" He pulled down the hood and the head of its wearer spun round revealing it to be a young girl around fourteen or fifteen years old. She had black hair with red highlights at the end and a pair of silver eyes. Under the hood she wore a black blouse, corset and dress with hints of red. Around her waste was a belt with a pouch and a silver rose design on the right and on her left what looked like silver bullets. However what caught the henchmen's attention was the set of red headphones with a black rose on each side over her ears. The headphones coupled with the loud music must have blocked out all other noise.

With an annoyed look the henchmen pointed to his ears. The girl got the message and put the weapon magazine she was reading back on the rack then took the headphones off her ears letting them hang round her neck, "Yes?"

"I said, put your hands in the air now!"

The girl frowned in confusion, "Are you robbing me?"

"Yes!"

"Oh," the girl narrowed her eyes and gained a small smirk.

Meanwhile back at the counter Roman was occupying himself by admiring a Dust crystal in his hand when..

"Hey!" One of his men went flying past him crashing into the door. Another game raning up one of the isles, Roman motioned in the direction the for mentioned had came form, then went back to admiring the crystal.

The henchmen nodded in understanding then ran down the aisle to the girl and pointed his gun at her, "Freeze!"

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Outside the shop all was quite and still in the street which had emptied since the appearance of the dangerous criminals. Then the window From Dust Till Dawn shattered as the girl and the henchmen jumped out of it the former kicking the latter through. The other three, the first one she took out picking himself off the floor, peaked out the shattered window with their heads titled and swords drawn.

Out in the street the girl slowly stood up while balancing a strange, red contraption on her shoulder which quickly unfolded into a giant scythe. Roman then joined his men in looking out the window as he narrowed his eyes at the girl who then looked at them with a smirk before swinging her oversized weapon around with a surprising about of skill before stabbing the blade in the road pointing it at the crew of criminals and turning off her headphones silencing the music.

"...Okaaaay..." Roman said blinking, this wasn't what he had expect when he first woke up this afternoon. He then looked at his stunned men then said, in annoyed tone while motioning with his head towards the open door. "Get her!"

At his order the henchmen wasted no time and charged out the door to deal with the newly revealed threat. The girl just put away her head phones then jumped up and, balancing perfectly on the shaft of the scythe, spun around two times before sending one of them flying through the broken window with a two foot kick to the face. The using the motion she jumped to the side pulling her weapon out of the ground doing so before landing with the scythe's blade behind her while the other two ran up trying to catch her off guard. They failed as she held the end of the scythe's shaft skyward away from the suits then fired using the recoil to spin around and send one of them flying high into the air. After spinning around a few times she brought the back of her weapon down on an another like a hammer leaving a small crater from the impact and strangely enough a small cloud of rose petals from the end of her hood.

Meanwhile one she sent flying with a kick had gotten back up, pulled out his gun and started firing at the girl. But she coked and fired her weapon using the recoil to jump back a good distance dodging the fire then landing in a crouch before using the same trick to side step to her right then catapult forward straight at him. Just before she collided with him she drew back her scythe then swung it at the man sending him straight up into the air. Then, all within a few seconds, she stabbed the tip of the scythe's blade into the ground then spun around jumping into the air and threw him to the ground knocking him out at Torchwick's feet as he exited the shop as the girl landed back on the ground.

"You were worth every cent. Truly you were," He muttered as he look down at the unconscious man before turning his attention to the girl. "Well "Red" I think we can all say that its been an eventful evening." The faint sound of police sirens growing near told him to hurry along as he dropped his cigar on the ground and crushed the lit end with his can. "And as much as I'd love to stick around," he raised his cane and pointed it at the girl. "I'm afraid this..." the end of his cane popped open revealing a reticle "is where we part ways" and he fired a projectile that looked and sounded a lot like a red firework.

The girl pointed the bladed end of her own weapon downward and fired as well the recoil allowing her to jump and flip over the blast as it made contact with the ground creating a big, colourful explosion that left a large crater in the road.

She landed in a crouch and looked up at the criminal but all she saw was the front of the Dust shop with its open door and broken window. He looked around for him before turning around and saw him climbing up a ladder on a nearby building and later she would wonder how he got so far near the top in just a manner of seconds.

Her head turned to look at the old shop keep as he came to doorway. "You okay if I go after him?"

"Uh huh," the shop keep replied to the girl who quickly ran after the notorious criminal while looking out of the broken window at the girl was the man in the trench coat. His eyes were focused on the ticking arms of the watch in his hand then when the girl made it to the foot of the ladder he closed the lid and tucked his arm under his coat as he departed from the scene as she used her weapon to give her a boost to the top.

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"Hey!" Ruby landed on the roof a second after the crook ready to take him down so the police who were growing ever closer could lock him up.

After her shout the crook stopped on the other side of the roof his back to her preventing her from seeing his face but she heard him mutter with annoyance. "Persistent."

Ruby narrowed her eyes ready to take him on when suddenly a sound caught her attention, the engines of an airship. Suddenly the source of the noise rose up in front of the criminal and hovered turning its lights onto the roof. Ruby's eyes widened in surprise at the craft as its engines caused gusts of wind that blew back her hair and cloak.

A hatch on the side of the craft, a Bullhead, opened allowing her target to climb aboard. When he was standing inside the craft he turned to face her "End of the line Red!"

He then held up a red Dust crystal and threw it at her feet then aimed and fired his cane. She quickly realized what he was planning to do and raised Crescent Rose defensively in front of her and lowered her head eyes closed to try and protect herself from the blast that followed when the projectile hit its mark. She heard the loud explosion and a victorious howl from the criminal but that was it she didn't get burned.

"Ummm what happened?" She thought confused. Sure she felt the heat but her Aura should have taken hit at least. She heard the Bullhead's engines but also a new sound filled her ears, it sounded like something rotating in the air. She opened her eyes and what she saw made her jaw drop. "Whoa!"

Standing in front of her was a lady with blond hair tied up in a bun. She wore a white shirt with puffy sleeves at the end of the wrists and from above her waist she had a long black skirt and heels. She also wore a pair of glasses had a black cape with a purple interior with a silver line of diamonds and the image of a tiara on the back and had an earing fluttering in the gust released from the engines.

However what REALLY grabbed Ruby's attention was the source of the noise the fading image of a large, rotating, purple circle that she realized had shielded her from the blast. The woman seemed to have summoned it with the riding crop she held out in front of her in right hand. Their was only one way a person could have managed to do something like that "She's Huntress! An actual Huntress!"

"Hmph" That was the only sound the newly arrived Huntress made before she adjusted her glasses with her unoccupied hand then waved her crop sending several streaks of purple flying at the aircraft. The blasts moved through the air in various directions and struck different points on the craft which didn't look like such an easy flight at the moment

"Oh my god that is soooo cool!" Ruby thought has her awestruck expression was quickly replaced with a wide excited smile.

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"Whoa!", Roman barely managed to keep his footing as the Bullhead was shook in all directions. He dropped his cane to floor of the craft and waved his arms to try and keep his balance. When was able to stand straight again he ran up into the cockpit after giving an annoyed growl.

In the pilots seat looking somewhat out of place in her red and gold dress and heels was his associate wrestling with the controls to keep the vehicle steady "We got a Huntress!"

The reaction happened immediately, She sat up straight then ran out of her seat to deal with the inference. Roman moved out of her way then dived into the seat she had been occupying and took up her former task of trying to keep the craft as well balanced as possible.

Grit his teeth as he struggled with the device and quickly wonder how this night could turn so bad. It was a simple enough job he'd done it countless times before but he didn't expect to run into a little wannabe Huntress with an oversized gardening tool. The frown already on his face grew tighter as he thought of the grief he'd have to deal with later and thought to himself "This had BETTER be worth it."

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Ruby's eyes looked on in awe the woman standing before her as the Bullhead stabilized and began to move away from the roof. The woman then crossed her arms over her chest as her body glowed with a purple Aura. She then threw her right hand out pointed at the airship and her right leg raised bent at the knee. The purple Aura vanished and another shot of purple light notable bigger then the ones before shot out of the tip of the riding crop and shot over the Bullhead.

"Oh no! She mi-WHOA!" That split second of doubt quickly vanished as the shot of light exploded above the craft creating a circle similar to the one before but on a MUCH larger scale. The circle quickly vanished and a cloud flashing with lightning and booming with thunder appeared then tried to grab hold of the airship as the tails of several small tornados moved down and appeared to wrap around it. Ruby's amazement at the woman's power increased at all she saw.

"Awesome! She's like a wizard from a story book! Except instead of a wand or staff she has a... horse... riding... thingy." Ruby's head tilted to the side as she tried to remember the name of the object before her mind wondered "Not exactly the coolest weapon."

The woman then made another motion with her crop and ice rained down from the cloud like spears, Ruby saw one of them smash right through the windscreen of the cockpit. Then someone stepped in the open hatch looking down at them, Ruby couldn't really make them out but saw a red dress and a faint golden glow.

Suddenly flames burst from one of the mysterious woman's hands as the sleeves of her dress glowed with a golden light. She made few quick motions with her hands before pointing her left palm at the roof and firing a blast of golden fire but the Huntress summoned another projective circle to shield herself from the attack which made contact with a splatter like noise.

The mysterious foe then raised up her hand and the ground with at the Huntress' feet glowed with the same golden light which seemed to... scream. The Huntress then back flipped out of the way as a torrent of fire exploded upwards sending debris flying.

The Huntress quickly regained control and swung her crop around in a circle catching the debris in her purple power before quickly gather into what Ruby could as giant spear which was soon sent flying towards the ship. The mystery woman fired another golden blast at the spear but the Huntress just reformed it and it flew on undeterred. The Bullhead then moved and the projectile struck its armoured roof and broke up. The Huntress made another motion and the debris reformed into three constructs that wrapped around the vehicle like floating serpents.

"This is totally, amazingly AWESOME! Yang is going to be SO jealous she missed this!"

The mystery woman lost her balance for a second before crossing her arms, her clothes glowing again, and Ruby could have sworn she saw then through them out sending out an outward blast that destroyed the Huntress' constructs.

Ruby snapped out of her awestruck stupor and glanced at the Huntress, who didn't look like she was going to do anything, then changed Crescent Rose into its gun form and started firing at the woman in the hatch. However she missed the "What do you think your doing?!" look the Huntress gave her.

Ruby's shot however proved useless as the woman blocked each shot with her BARE PALM then waved her arm causing the roof to glow with the screaming power. She was about to turn to the Huntress when she felt something push her forward onto the ground in a roll followed by a loud explosion. When she looked up she saw the ship flying away in the distance.

"Nuts he got away!" She hit the ground with her fist in frustration over the crook getting away when. Then she remembered the woman standing to her left and stood up. "I just saw a real Huntress in action! This is the best day of my life!" Ruby's anger and disappointment was quickly replaced with the same excitement she felt watching the fight her hands raised under her chin "You're a Huntress," The woman turned to face her. "Can I have your autograph?"

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"This is the worst day of my life."

A little while after the fight on the roof Ruby was seated in an interrogation room in a nearby police station while the Huntress passed back and fourth behind her, her heels clicking on the floor as she walked, and lectured her on her recklessness sounding like a school teacher. "I hope you realize that you actions won't be taken lightly, young lady. You put yourself and others in great danger."

"They started it!" Ruby argued.

The woman made her way to the opposite side of the table she was sitting at. Her eyes were focused on her scroll but for a brief second to looked up from it at the girl some what annoyed at her childish statement. "If it were up to me you'd be sent home..." she stopped standing just opposite of Ruby "with a pat on the back..." Ruby's head perked up.

"Maybe Dad won't find out! YES!"

The woman's head turned to face her "...and a slap on the wrist!" To make her point she struck the table with her riding crop right to which Ruby flinched away with an audible yelp of fear "No Dad is totally going to find out and ground me for life"

"But there's someone here who would like to meet you."

Ruby looked up at the woman at that part in confusion. Someone wanted to see her? Who?

The woman stepped aside and a man in a dark green suit and lighter green scarf stepped out of a shadowed doorway. He had silver hair, a small pair of glasses and sharp facial features. In his left hand he carried a mug and in his right was one of Ruby's favourite sights in all of Remnant, a plate of cookies. The man's eyes were locked on her with interest, Ruby recognized him, any one who knew ANYTHING would recognized him. "Ruby Rose."

Ruby's mind froze at the sight of the man who leaned forward to look her in the eye.

"You..." He paused and her minded unfroze and thought after thought raced through her head about what he was going to say "...have silver eyes."

She blinked in confusion she didn't expect that "...umm?"

The man stood up straight apparently deciding to get to the point, "So where did you learn to do this?."

He gestured with his head to the woman's scroll which played video footage of Ruby's fight with the henchmen. Still assuming she was in trouble she nervously replied not taking her eyes of the man "S-Signal Academy."

"They taught you to use one of the most dangerous weapons ever designed?"

"Well...one teacher in particular"

"I see," he said then placed the plate down on the table in front of her. She glanced up at the man as she slowly reached for one of the treats like they would snatched away then quick as a flash a cookie disappeared into her mouth then she then used her other hand her eyes swiftly switching between the plate and the two adults then she started stuffing her face with cookie after cookie while the man continued. "Its just that I've only seen one other scythe welder of that calibre before," He tilted his head and raised a brow in thought. "A dusty old crow" He said reminiscent of days gone past.

Ruby managed to stop tearing through the cookies and spoke, "Thash muh unkel" She then swallowed her mouthful and wiped her mouth then gave a quick apologetic look to the man. "Sorry" then she perked up and repeated "that's my uncle 's a teacher a Signal."

The man listened with a small smile as he took a sip from his mug as she slowly began to speak more at ease I'll be it a bit fast and hyper. "I was complete GARBAGE before he took me under his wing."

On the island of Patch and the ferry docks two different blonds felt an overwhelming sense of pride, while in a shady bar a man suddenly sobered up as a feeling of dread climbed up his spine.

"And now I'm all like...wooohhaaaaa... Hooo...watchaaaa...!" She struck several martial arts poses to accompany the sound effects.

"So I noticed," He said with an amused tone before he placed the mug on the table and leaned on it by his hands. "And what is an adorable girl, such as yourself, doing at a school designed to train warriors?"

"Well..." She calmed down as the man sat down across the table from her his hands together. "I want to be a Huntress."

"You want to slay monsters?"

"Yeah! I only have two more years of training at Signal, then I'm going to apply to Beacon," her excitement returned as she spoke about her goal and reasons very, very quickly. "See my sister is starting there this year and she's trying to become a Huntress and I'm trying to become a Huntress because I wanna help people. My parents always taught us to help others and I figured 'Yeah well might as well make a career out of it' hehe. I mean the police are alright but Huntsmen and Huntresses are just so much more romantic and exciting and cool and..." She made what could only be described as a VERY excited gasp before looking between the two adults with a wide grin and her silver eyes shining with excitement panting slightly. "You know!"

The woman stared at the girl with her arms folded and blinked still trying to decipher the girl's babbling. But her fellow seemed to follow the storm of words perfectly, "Do you know who I am?"

She nodded, "Your Professor Ozpin. You're the Headmaster at Beacon."

The now named Ozpin chuckled, "Hello."

Ruby politely bowed her head, "Nice to meet you."

Ozpin rested his hands on the table, "You want to come to my school?"

"More then anything."

Ozpin turned his head to his associate with a smile she knew all too well. She gave an annoyed groan and rolled her eyes knowing nothing she said would talk him out of this. He looked back to Ruby. "Well okay."

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"Oh! I still can't believe my baby sister is going to Beacon with Me!" Yang shouted as she wrapped Ruby in a VERY tight hug. "This is the best day EVER!"

"Please stop" The younger girl begged finding it hard to breath.

"But I'm so proud of you!" Her sister said after she released her death grip on Ruby and jumped back. Shaking with the excitement that shone in her lilac eyes and her long, below waist length blonde hair bouncing behind her.

She wore a tan vest with puffy sleeves that stopped above her elbows over a yellow crop top, with her symbol partially hidden on the left, and around her neck was an orange scarf. Around her waist was a brown belt with a pouch and several flaps above a pair of black shorts and a back skirt. On her feet she wore a pair of knee high boots, the left having a grey bandana wrapped around the top, with orange socks. On her hands she had a pair black fingerless gloves and around her wrists were what appeared to be a pair of yellow metal bracelets that in reality were her weapons, a pair of Duel Ranged Shot Gauntlets called Ember Celica.

"Really, Sis, it was nothing."

"What do you mean? its incredible!" She gestured to the other airship passengers who either talked in small groups or wondered around. "Everyone at Beacon is going to think your the bee's knees!" Ruby noticed a passing by girl with long dark brown hair in a white short sleeved jacket and black dress, similar to Ruby's but without the red, with a long grey cylinder strapped to her back raised an eyebrow at the strange phrase Yang spoke before moving along shaking her head a bit. "Great we' aren't even there yet and already someone thinks we're weird."

"Look, I don't want to be the bee's knees okay! I don't want to be any kind of knees," Ruby said her sister having a small smile at her nervousness as Ruby looked at her feet. "I just wanna be a normal girl with normal knees."

"What's with you? Aren't you excited?"

"Of course I'm excited! I just..." she glanced up at her sister silently wishing she could have her confidence. "I got moved ahead two years, I don't want people to think I'm special or something."

Yang made her way to her sister side and put a reassuring arm around her shoulders, "But you are special."

"The robbery was led by notorious criminal, Roman Torchwick..." The sisters looked over and saw several people crowded around a holographic projection showing the mug shot of the man Ruby tried to catch though a bit bruised "who continues to evade authorities." Ruby's shoulder slumped a bit as she was reminded of how she failed to catch the man who was still running free. Yang noticed and gave her shoulder a gentle squeeze as the reporter continued ,"If you have ANY information on his current whereabouts please contact the Vale Police Department. Back to you Lisa."

The screen cut to the a light purple haired woman in a news studio, "Thank you Ceril."

A photo of a group protesters each with a set of animal features such as the ears of a rabbit or bear marking them as Faunus appeared to the right of the reporter's head. "In other news this Saturday's Faunus Civil Rights protest turned dark when members of the White Fang disrupted the ceremony," the photo was soon replaced with a picture of a red aggressive looking wolf's head with three claw marks behind it on it against a white background. "The once peaceful organization has now disrupted-"

The news report vanished and was replaced by the image of the woman Ruby met before which also appeared in front of every window on the ship. The sisters turned to face on the holograms as its spoke with a noticeably gentler sounding voice that Ruby wondeedr if she had to practice to get, "Hello and welcome to Beacon."

"Who's that?" asked Yang.

"My name is Glynda Goodwitch."

"Oh."

"You are among a select few who have been chosen to join this prestigious academy. Our world is experiencing an incredible time of peace..."

"Ha!" The sisters turned in the direction of the noise and saw two heads of black hair, one spikey the other pulled back in a pony tail, walking away on the other side of the crowd.

"And as future Huntsmen and Huntresses it is your duty to up hold it," Ruby smiled. "You have demonstrated the courage needed for such a task and now it is our turn to provide you with the knowledge and the training needed to project our world."

The speech over the hologram vanished and allowing the students to see a sight that many of them, including Ruby, ran to the windows to see.

"Oh wow!" It was the sight of the vast City of Vale, namesake capital of the kingdom. "Look you can see Signal from up here," Her eyes locked on the combat school. as Yang put her hand on her little sister's shoulder again. "I guess home isn't too far after all."

"Beacon's our home now," Yang reassured which worked as Ruby turned to her sister with a smile.

"Uuuh!" They turned towards the source of the moan and saw a boy with blond hair, dressed in a black hoodie, with white armour over the chest and upper arms, blue jeans, orange arm guards and brown fingerless gloves. He had a sword on the side of his waist and looked a bit green as he looked out the window. He then ran past the girls looking around in a frenzy.

"... I guess the view's not for everybody", said Yang commented.

"It was a nice moment while it lasted" Ruby added.

"I wonder who we're gonna meet."

"Uh I just hope their better then vomit boy," Ruby rolled her eyes before she noticed something. "Oh Yang gross! You've got puke on your shoe!"

Yang started chanting "Gross! Gross! Gross! Gross!" while kicking the air in desperation to get it off.

Ruby in return started chanting "Get away from me! Get away from me!" and tried to avoid her sister's kicks, and any potential flying puke.

As the two started chasing each other around the deck the ship began its approach to the glowing light of the apply named Beacon Academy set atop a great cliff at the most eastern civilized point of the Kingdom. The light for which it was named shone atop it's highest tower, a symbol of hope for all those it's sight could reach.

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The air ship arrived at Beacon's sky docks, atop the great cliff the school was built on. The airlocks opened and the first person off was 'vomit boy' who quickly made his way to a nearby trash can and unloaded his lunch into the cylinder. Meanwhile Ruby and Yang walked up the courtyard and looked up in amazement at the magnificent academy.

"The view from Vale's got nothing on this," stated Yang as she folded her arms admiring the sight up close.

Meanwhile Ruby looked over the various students that walked around or more accurately their weapons as she switched into, what Yang affectionately liked to call, 'weapon geek out mode' "Ooooh sis! That kid's got a collapsible staff! And he's got a shotgun axe! Oh and she's got a fire sword!"

Ruby started floating after the sword but Yang pulled her away by her hood, "Easy there little sister, their just weapons."

"Just weapons?!" Ruby's head whipped round and all Yang could think was "Oh here we go" as she gestured to the crowd "Their an extension of ourselves! Their part of us!" She brought her hands to her chest. "Oh their so cool!"

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

"Of course I'm happy with Crescent Rose" to make her point Ruby unfolded her beloved scythe and hugged it like a teddy bear. "I just really like seeing new ones! Its like meeting new people!" She looked at her feet and quietly added. "But better."

"Ruby come on!" Yang playfully pulled her sister's hood over her head and shrugged. "Why don't you try and make some friends of your own?"

Ruby pulled her hood back and asked in a quiet tone "But why would I need friends when I have you?"

"Well...actually, myfriendsareherenowgottagocatchup, kayseeyabye!" several people appeared at Yang's side before she quickly waved farewell at her sister and took off past Ruby who spun round dizzy as they went by.

"Wait where are you going?" unable to tell Yang was already out of earshot. "Are we supposed to go to our dorms? Where are our dorms? Do we have dorms?" She sighed before falling over. "I don't know what I'm doing."

She landed in pile of suitcases being carried on a trolley which quickly buried her until an angry voiced shouted, "What are you doing?!"

Snapped of her dizziness Ruby sat up and looked to the speaker, "I'm sorry!"

"Sorry? Do you have any idea of the damage you could have caused?" She was around Ruby's height in heels and had white hair tied in a ponytail on the left side of the back of her head with a hairpin that resembled a tiara that went down below her waist. She had pale skin and small rectangular earing and a small apple shaped necklace around her neck. She wore a light blue, almost white short jacket with a red collar over thigh length dress coloured white and light blue and on her feet were a pair of wedge heeled boots. A ribbon was tied around her waist and at her side was a modified sabre with a royal like appearance to it.

The girl's icy blue eyes were locked on the girl sitting in the pile of suitcases, who also noticed a faint scare over her left eye, who then picked up a nearby suit case "Uuuh?"

Give me that!" The girl snatched the suit case and opened it and spoke with a hint of pride in her voice. "This is Dust! Mined and purified from the Schnee Quarry."

"Uuuh?"

"What are you brain dead?" She took out a container of Red Dust from the case and started shaking it, an ironically foolish move, as she proceeded to lecture Ruby. "Dust! Fire! Water! Lightning! Energy!" as she shook it around some Dust particles escaped the vile and were inhaled by Ruby. " Are you even listening to me? is ANY of this sinking in? What do you have to say for yourself?"

"ACHOOO!" As in answer Ruby sneezed causing the Dust loose in the air to react "BOOOOOOM!" triggering a small explosion of fire, ice and lightning which resulted in a black cloud covering the two. The girl dropped her case, which fell open and one of the jars bounced out and rolled away while the one she was holding was sent flying in the opposite direction.

The jar from the suitcase rolled along the ground before coming came to a stop in front of a pair of dark purple boots with silver tips that resembled three toed feet.

"Hmm?" Their owner reached down and picked up the jar examining it in his right hand while his left held the left side of his headphones. His purple eyes examined the jar with curiosity. Shouting was heard and he looked in the direction and saw a girl in white yelling at a girl in a red hood next to a pile of suit cases. Then another sound in the opposite direction caught his attention and he looked over there. Sitting one a bench were two boys. one dressed in gold armour with his arms folded over his chest and his head leaned back snoring away and one in red with who leaned on his right hand with his eyes closed, though his expression showed it was more from boredom then anything else.

The boy in purple looked back to the container in his hand and a mischievous grin came to his face. He then tossed the jar into his left hand as he looked to two on the bench while his right lifted up a very big customized gun. He made a quick flick with his wrist and the gun's chamber opened up for its ammo.

"He he."

---

The jar that the girl had been holding had a similar fate it landed, rolled and came to a stop at a pair of low heeled boots whose owner reached down and picked up the jar with her left hand. The right was currently occupied with a book that she had to tear her amber eyes away from as she looked at the jar before turning it around to see a white variant of a familiar logo.

"Unbelievable!" She looked up from the jar and saw two girls one in a black dress with a red hood looking sheepish as he poked her index fingers together and one, blackened with ash no doubt from the explosion she heard, and very angry. The girl in ash stamped her foot shaking off her new colour scheme. "This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about!"

"I'm really, really sorry!" said Ruby.

"Ugh! You complete dolt! What are you even doing here? Aren't you a little young to be attending Beacon?" she asked in the haughty tone that only someone rich could possess.

"Well I..."

"This is not your ordinary combat school. It's not just sparring and practice you know," She folded her arms. "We're here to fight monsters, so watch where your going!"

"Hey! I said I was sorry princess!" Ruby countered having had enough of whoever this was' attitude.

"Its heiress actually," a calm voice correct.

Ruby turned and saw a girl with long black hair with a bow on top and black scarf around her neck. She wore a black vest with coattails and silver buttons over a white sleeveless undershirt with white shorts. She had legging that started black then turned purple as they neared her feet with white flower emblems on them. The girls eyes were amber with a light purple eye shadow. Wrapped around her hands and wrists where black straps on her left arm of a black sleeve with a silver band near the top. On her back was a gun metal sword.

The new comer held up the jar of dust and continued, "Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company. One of the largest producers of energy propellant in the world."

A smug smile made it's way onto Weiss' face, "Finally some recognition."

She turned and looked a Ruby, probably to resume scolding her, but the girl wasn't done. "The same company infamous for its controversial labour forces and questionable business partners."

"What-How dare-! The nerve of-" Ruby giggled at Weiss' outburst as the heiress glared at the new comer, then something caught her eye.

Weiss' had fallen open and not one but two jars of Dust were missing. "Um where'd the other one go?"

The heiress spun around glaring at the hooded girl, then followed her gaze and her glare vanished as she looked around for the missing jar the other two doing the same wondering where it could have went.

Their answer came in the following chain of events: A computerized voice, an explosion, an angry shout and a chorus of giggling that came running towards them.

"Full Charge!"

BOOOOOOOM!

"GAAAAAAKIIIIIIIIII!"

"Hehehehehe!"

A boy who looked about a year older then Ruby ran between the girls and ducked behind the girl in the bow, before leaning out with a mischievous smile.

He had a long black hair with a streak of purple in the front and a long braided ponytail of the same colour at the back of his head. On said head he had a dark coloured hat,a mid point between purple and black, with the image of red eyes and lighter purple horns on it with a pair of headphones. He wore purple chest and shoulder armour over what seemed to be a long coat of the same colour with a high collar that went down to his heels at the bottom of the armour was four silver rings. Around his waist was a belt with a pouch on the right, presumably for ammunition, with a silver buckle with a purple outline that roughly resembled the shape of a dragon's face. Below his waist he wore a pair of purple jeans and boots that went up to his knees that were covered by diamond shaped guards. His boots had three silver tips each which made them resemble feet. Diamond shaped markings and stylized Rs were all over his outfit.

"You can't catch me! You can't catch me! Na na!" He sang before sticking his tongue out and pulling the bottom of his left eye down with a finger. His other hand was occupied with holding a half empty jar of Schee Company Dust.

As Weiss was mentally correcting herself on Ruby being too young to be at Beacon the boy's pursuer shoved past her almost tripping her up. "Hey!"

Said pursuer was a tall, older boy with spikey hair covered is ash like Weiss was earlier. He then stomped his foot shaking off the ash as he pointed to purple kid "Ooooh you'd better hope I don't catch ya, Hanatare Gaki!"

He wore red armour on his chest and shoulders, with small spikes, and wrist guards on his lower arms underneath was a dark red shirt. He also had armour on his thighs and knees over a pair of black jeans that went into a pair of armoured boots with armoured tips. On his back was a sword that unlike the bow girl's had no sheath. Much like the other boy had R's this guy had stylized M's on his amour. He had black spikey hair with a red streak running though it and bright red eyes that shone with anger directed at the boy.

He then marched up to the youth cowering behind the amber eyed girl, reached out to grabbed him, only for his quarry to lean out of reach over to the otherside of his human (sush) shield. The red boy leaned over himself and again made to catch him only for his purple compatriot to again dash out reach and the routine began to repeat. The raven hair beauty caught in the middle was so baffled she didn't do anything but swerved her head from one side to the other.

Eventually the boy in red just grabbed her and shoved her aside shouting, "Sumimasen!" Then resuming the chase. Before the former human shield regain her balance, someone grabbed her hand.

"Are you alright?"

She looked at the new stranger the hand was attached to. This one had blue eyes that stood out against his dark framed glasses and calm straight hair with a blue streak tucked behind his ear. His armour was coloured light blue and was bulkier then the others the chest armour covered the entire front of his torso and he had bulky shoulder armour roughly hexagon shaped. He had thicker thigh armour and boots with thick toes. Beneath the armour he wore a smart light blue shirt the collar of which stuck out of his armour and dark blue pants. His belt buckle was a silver hexagon with three blue stones that made a triangle. In his left hand he held a blue battle staff with hexagon shaped plates and either end.

He smiled at her, radiating charm, he then pulled her up causing her to place a hand on his chest to balance herself. His arm meanwhile was know wrapped over her shoulders.

"Some fools just don't know how to treat a lady," He sighed before turning to her and flashing a charming smile then pulled her closer squeezing her shoulder "Especially one as lovely as yourself."

The girl's cheeks warmed at his words, while her mind flashed through one romantic scenario after another from her stories.

Watching this Ruby tilted her head wondering how he approached without them noticing, while Weiss just folded her arms gave the charmer an annoyed look as she shook her head. "Is this really the sort of behavior to display, on your first day at this prestigious academy?"

The spell broken, the girls face turned even redder as she pried the boy's arm off, her eyes scrunched closed. She let out a frustrated sigh at the slip of control, while charmer gave Weiss deadpan look.

"Spoil sport," the charmer state earning him an icy glare.

The guy in red however stopped chasing the one purple threw his head back and groaned in annoyance. "Oi Kame-ko! For crying out loud, can ya stop chasing girls for five minutes?"

In an instant 'Kame-ko's' eyes went from annoyed to frightened as he snapped out of his stupor and raised his hand to the red boy in a 'don't do it motion'. "Senpai don't say that!"

"Ack!" 'Senpai's' hands went over his mouth in a late attempt to keep the words from leaving.

Suddenly a new figure appeared right in front of him the girls jumping back in shock from his arrival while 'Senpai' waved his arms in front of him in a vain attempt to stop him. "Nononono! Don't even think about it you stupid BEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-"

The stranger threw his arms up palm flat striking the red boy's chin and sent him rocketing into the sky, till he vanished from sight with a single twinkle. The strike sent out a weak shock wave that cause all present to raise their arms to fight it off, while their hair and clothing flew in the resulting gust.

The eyes of the group meanwhile followed 'Senpai', the girls open wide with with shock at the sight while the charmer shook his head seemingly exaspirated, the kid cheerily waved "Bye bye!" before a grunt drew their attention back to the new comer.

"Hpm!"

He stood tall with his eyes closed and arms folded, his black hair was shoulder length and pulled back in a pony tail with two gold coloured streaks, one at the front the other in the tail. He wore gold chest armour under a black sleeveless jacket covered with golden letters that spelled out 'Kin' on either side. He had round shoulder armour with small blades on the sides. He wore black fingerless gloves with gold armour over the back of the hand with what looked like three claws and metal bands around the wrists. He wore thigh armour that covered his entire upper legs, again with the stylized letters, and he had amour on the front of boots and gold metal tips. Underneath the armour were a pair of black jeans with a yellow belt with a silver axe head buckle with a gold outline and a t-shirt with short sleeves allowing his muscles arms to show before vanishing beneath the armour. Strangely enough the jacket had white fur around the collar and arms holes same for the metal rings on the gloves.

But what was really attention grabbing was the pair bear ears sticking out of the top of his head marking him as a Faunus. Ruby and the other boys didn't seem to notice or care but Weiss' eyes narrowed at the features while the other girl's widened slightly, and she seemed a bit more at ease.

The Faunus then brought his hand to his jaw and popped his neck before marching forward a few steps, "My strength has made you cry!" He then slapped his belly and held up a piece of tissue paper in his left hand to Ruby. "Wipe your tears with this!"

Ruby befuddled by his action took the offered tissue, "Um...thanks?"

He opened his eyes, which were gold, and nodded before looking around the plaza looking for something. "Hm?" He turned to the blue charmer. "Wasn't Momonoji standing here a second ago?"

"He was but you could say," He turned for a second to look at the shorter boy in purple, who covered his mouth to try and stop giggling, before turning back to the Faunus. "That he had a flight to catch."

The kid started loudly laughing into his hands with Ruby doing the same while Weiss just groaned and shook her head but bear Faunus just frowned, folded his arms and tilted his head in confusion. "A flight to catch? Did he leave something on the air ship?"

"Not exactly Kin-chan," He folded his arms and took several steps forwards. "You see-."

"Stop!" Weiss stepped in between the two a hand raised to into both their faces making them pause her voice telling she had had enough. She then turned to the girl in the bow glared in her eyes again and again the girl's face was unreadable before snatching the jar of Dust from the girls hand and then proceeded to do the same the purple boy who responded with a "Hey!" she then turned around and marched away from the plaza as several men dressed in suits, finished picking up the rest of her luggage and followed her.

"I promise I'll make this up to you!" Ruby shouted after her before she sighed at the less then steller first impression. "I guess I'm not the only one having a rough first day."

She perked up slightly then to the girl in the bow "So what's..." said girl was already walking away in the opposite direction.

"What about you gu-," she turned to face the three boys but they were already walking away as too the blue one seemed to be talking to the yellow one on his right while the purple one skipped along happiy opposite. She looked around and saw she was the only one still in the courtyard before dropping to her knees and falling on her back then muttered, "Welcome to Beacon."

She closed her eyes wishing she was back a Signal when she felt something blocking the sunlight on her face she opened her eyes and saw a familiar blonde boy offering her a hand up, with a sheepish smile she was sure she had worn since she left her house that morning. "Hi...I'm Jaune."

"Ruby," she accepted his hand as helped her up she snorted when she recognized him. "Aren't you the guy that threw up on the ship?"

Vomit boy or Jaune groaned and hung his head before it perked up and he looked around the courtyard.

"You hear that?"

Ruby heard it too, and started looking around.

"-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR-ACK!"

"Whoa Mama!"

"Oh my God!"

The two jumped back as the boy in red landed face down in front of them.

"A-are you okay?" Ruby asked him as Jaune looked up wonder where the heck he came from his face still on the ground the stranger whose leg twitched a bit as he muttered something the two couldn't make out. Ruby and Jaune exchanged a confused look before turning back to the stranger.

"Ogre's banjo?"

"Moory mango?"

The stranger lifted his head a muttered, "Ore Sanjou."

Ruby and Jaune glanced at each other again, that explained nothing.

Suddenly the stranger jumped up into a crouch with his back to them, causing the socially awkward duo to jump back.

"YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT YA-huh?" He saw no one was around a looked around the place. "Oy! Where'd those jerks go?"

"Um they kind of left...while you where still up there" Ruby answered as she pointed skyward Jaune's haze followed the direction followed and scratched his head still wonder how that happened.

"DAMNIT!" Ruby went a little wide eyed at the language and Jaune snapped out of his confused state as the stranger sat on the ground legs crossed his left hand on his knee and his right clenched in a shaking fist that he glared at with bared teeth. "When I get through with that Kuma-yaro there won't be enough left for a bear skin rug!" He muttered before dropping to his usual frowned expression when he noticed Ruby was staring at him and turned to see Jaune doing the same but he did a double take at him then pointed and asked. "Oi aren't you the guy who threw up on the ship?"

Jaune hung his head and shook it while Ruby cover her mouth as she giggled before repeating Jaune's offer, "Need a hand?"

He turned back to her and stared at her his frown increasing slightly making her smile to awkward. He then glanced between her and her hand before accepting it and got up of the ground then dusted himself off, then nodded in thanks with grunt, "Thanks."

Ruby place her hands behind her back with a smile, "No problem"

The realized they hadn't introduced themselves and gestured to herself then to Jaune, "Oh! I'm Ruby and this is Vomit Boy."

"Hey!"

She then flinched, realizing her blunder, as the stranger paused as dusted off his left arm then turned to her with a confused expression the turned to the embarrassed blonde.

"'Vomit' eh? Didn't know that counted under the colour tradition, sucks to be you."

"It's not! It doesn't! That's not my name! It's Jaune! Jaune Arc!" He said waving his arms over his chest then turned to Ruby, who was pressing her index fingers together again. "I just told you!"

"Heh he sorry."

They weren't sure who started walking but they made their way away from the courtyard while Jaune continued, "What's so strange about getting sick on a vehicle I mean..."

The stranger sighed and tucked his hands in his jean pockets. "Well he's not stopping."

"Yeeaah," Ruby turned to the other red student. "So what's your name?"

He removed his hand from his pocket and pointed his thumb at his face, "Momotaros."

"Nice to meet you," she nodded in greeting Momotaros returned the gesture as he returned his hand to his pocket.

---

Later the three were walking by a fountain Jaune somehow managing to give a five minute lecture of motion sickness which Momotaros was ironically getting sick off grit his teeth in annoyance before he could take no more.

"Oh, for the love of Oum and Ishinomori! WE GET IT!"

Jaune, still walking, waved his hands in a pacifying manner, "Hey all I'm saying is that motion sickness is a much more common problem then people let on."

Ruby, who was between the two, glanced between the two with amusement. "Look, I'm sorry. 'Vomit Boy' was the first thing that came to mind."

"Heh heh."

"Oh? Well what if I called you...'Crater Face?" He then looked at the boy in red "Or you...Splatter Boy?"

Momotaros pointed at him and his eyes seemed to glow a bit causing Jaune to hold up his hands in surrender, "Just try calling me that and see where it gets ya?"

"That explosion was an accident!" Ruby added.

"Well the name's Jaune Arc," He said confidently making a few hand gestures. "Short, sweet, rolls of the tongue, ladies love it."

In perfect sync, the red pair raised a brow and asked. "Do they?"

"Th-they will! or at least I hope they will I mean my mom always say tha...eh never mind" He waved off the topic.

"Damn," Momotaros muttered catching the other two's attention. "Now I can't say Kame-yaro has the worst pick up lines I've ever heard anymore."

That comment didn't help Jaune's confidence as hung his head Ruby decided to change the subject. "Heh heh ummm...Sooooo I got this thing."

She stopped and pulled out Crescent Rose in all its glory stabbing into path while the boys jumped at sudden appearance of the weapon.

"Woah!"

Jaune pointed, "Is that a scythe?"

Momotaros nodded approvingly, "Nice colour."

"Thanks! And yes! Its also a customizable, high impact, sniper rifle."

The boys tilted their heads in confusion, "Huh?"

Chak-chak

"Its also a gun."

"Oh!"

"That's cool!"

"Not bad."

"So what do you two got?"

Momotaros chuckled then pulled his sword out from over his shoulder, "My Momotarosword II." He held the weapon out for the two to see, Ruby smiling with an excited look in her eyes while Jaune raised a brow and its odd appearance. He then gave it a twirl in his hand showing his skill "It may not look like much but its got a few surprises" He rested it against his shoulder "but I'll be keeping those for later."

"Awww!" Ruby moaned in disappointment before turning to the blonde. "What about you Jaune?"

"Oh uh," He pulled out an old fashioned blade with grip wrapped in blue. "I got a sword too."

"Ooooh!"

"Yeah! I got a shield too," He picked up the sheath from his belt which unfolded into a white shield with a golden line on the stop and what appeared to be two golden crescent moons.

Ruby place her free hand on the shield while Momotaros leaned in to look at shield both admiring it. Momotaros noticed dozens, maybe hundreds of tiny scratches on the surface that looked way too old to be from Jaune's lifetime.

"So what do they do?" Asked Ruby as he patted the surface of the shield before it jumped out of Jaune's hand, just missing Momotaros' nose, as it the proceeded to switch between shield and sheath form and it's master struggled to catch it.

When he did he turned it back into shield form and held it up as he explained, "The shield gets smaller" he turned it back into sheath form. "So...when I get tired of carrying it I can just...put it away."

Ruby raised a brow while Momotaros scratched his head, "But...wouldn't it weigh the same?"

"Yeah it does," Jaune hung his head.

"Well I'm kind dork when it comes to weapons," Ruby confessed as she held up Crescent Rose. "I guess I did go a little over board in designing it."

"Wait you made that?" Jaune asked eyes wide while Momotaros whistled.

"Of course! All students at Signal forged their own weapons."

Momotaros nodded then made a head gesture at the blade on his shoulder, "Same, more or less."

"Didn't you make yours?"

Jaune lifted up his sword and looked at the blade before explaining. "Its a hand-me-down. My great-great grandfather used it to fight in the war."

He hung his head and his arm did the same at his side.

"Sounds more like a family heirloom to me," Ruby chuckled nervously.

Momotaros nodded in agreement before adding "Or something you'd pay to see in a museum."

"Hey be nice!" Ruby said then gently elbowed him in the side when Jaune started rubbing his sword arm sheepishly.

You, started it!"

"Well I'd sure pay to see," Jaune lifted his head to her. "Not many people have an appreciation for the classics these days."

"Yeah," Jaune lifted his head and put away his sword with a small smile. "The classics."

Ruby walked between the two boys then Momotaros gave Jaune a pat on the shoulder before they followed her.

"So why'd you help me out back there?" she asked. "In the courtyard?"

"Eh why not," Jaune said when he and Momotaros caught up to her pace then pointed his finger upwards. "My mom always says: 'strangers are just friends you haven't met yet.'"

"Huh?" Ruby's eyes narrowed as she thought the phrase over while Momotaros titled his head a thought aloud. "I know about three or four guys who would agree with that."

Then Ruby noticed something, "Hey where are we going?"

"Oh I don't know I was following you," Jaune confessed before looking around. "You think there might be a directory? maybe a...food court? Some sort of recognizable landmark?" he said half joking Ruby started giggling while Momotaros chuckled a bit while he looked around trying to figure out where they were. "Is...is that a 'no'?"

"That's a 'no'" She confirmed.

Momotaros kept looking around before he noticed they were both looking at him "...What?"

"Well you did get the best view of the campus," Jaune explained pointing upward with an amused smile the same smile was also found of Ruby's face.

The red boy then pointed his sword at him, which got an immediate surrender action with blue eyes locked on the point blade, then took a few steps closer with a very annoyed look on his face "Ha ha ha! Maybe I should send to flying then you can get the 'best view of the campus'!"

Ruby appeared between the two trying to calm him down. "H-hey easy Momotaros it was only a joke right Jaune?"

The blonde boy nodded franticly.

"Lost already, Momotaros?"

The trio turned and standing behind them was smiling in amusement was a boy with black hair, Ruby thinking she must have set some kind of record. He wore purple armour with hints of silver over his chest, shoulders, lower arms and thighs. Over the shoulders were four silver lines that made, for want of a better term, small wing shapes on his back. He wore black fingerless gloves and under the armour were a pair of dark purple jeans that went into purple boots, a black jacket and black t-shirt. Around his waist was a black belt with two pouches on either side.

He stood with his hands on his hips with his left leg crossed over the other and over his shoulder they saw the hilt of sword attached to his back hanging from the hilt of the sword was a chain of white beads ending in a pair of silver interlocked stars.

"Yo, Kotaro," Momotaros turned to face him then moved his sword away from join upwards gave it another twirl before placing back on his back and Kotaro nodded back.

"Friend of your's?" Ruby asked.

"Yeah something like that," replied the temper mental swordsman.

"Hey no need to be grouchy," Kotaro said as he walked up to them and held out a hand to Ruby to shake then did the same to Jaune. "I'm Kotaro."

"My name's Ruby."

"Hi I'm Jaune."

"Ki ga aimashou."

Jaune and Ruby tilted their heads, "Huh?"

Kotaro chuckled at the pair's confusion, "Let's get along."

"Oh!"

Ruby then noticed something over Kotaro's shoulder and leaned over to get a look at the sword on his back held by a thin metal ring.

It was silver and purple with a mostly silver handle. The blade had a silver edge but most of it was purple and bulky.

"You've got a sword too?" Ruby asked.

"Hmm? Oh yeah," Kotaro drew his weapon allowing them to get a better look at it.

Now Ruby noticed several other details about the weapon firstly at the back of the tip was a cylinder like the end of a gun barrel, secondly now that she could see Ruby couldn't help but notice how the weapon kind of looked like a train and finally and the most odd thing about the sword it had a cartoonish face along the bottom of the spine with black eyes, two spikey horns and two rows grey teeth.

"Kind of an odd design choice but it looks soooo cooool!"

"I call this guy the Macheteddy," Kotaro said fondly. Momotaros nodded at the blade in greeting, unseen to the two Vale natives

"Whats with the face?" Jaune asked the obvious question.

Kotaro leaned the weapon against his shoulder using both hands with the face pointed outwards and shrugged, "You could say I was feeling but artistic when I was designing it."

"Cool!" said Ruby. "So what does it do?"

Kotaro chuckled and waved his finger in mock disapproval "You'll have to wait and see."

"Aaaaaaawwww!" the weapons nut moaned and hung her head is disappointment. What was the big deal about keeping your weapons secret.

"Any way what were guys talking about?" Kotaro asked as he placed his sword back on his back.

"We where kinda wondering where we're meant to go," answered Ruby. "You got any idea?"

The purple boy frowned slightly, "Uh yeah" he turned his torso round and dug into his right pouch. "They handed out pamphlets with a schedule and map of the campus on the ships." He pulled out said pamphlet which had the words 'Welcome to Beacon' above the school's symbol in his left hand, "Didn't you guys get one?"

"I...didn't notice," answer, looking away sheepishly.

"I...was busy looking for a trash can," Jaune scratched the back of his head sheepishly.

"Those jerks have mine with the rest of my stuff," Momotaros growled as he held up a shaking fist.

"An I thought I was unlucky," Kotaro muttered quietly to himself but was heard by all three.

"Wha-?"

"Oh! Nothing! Now let's see..." He unfolded the pamphlet and read it aloud. "Okay first we head to the amphitheatre for the Headmaster's welcoming speech."

"And where would that be?" asked the young Arc.

Kotaro looked at the map and pointed a finger upwards and motioned it around in circle, silver, blue and red eyes following it. "Okay it should beeeeeee..." He almost pointed to his left then pointed to his right. "There down that path."

"Yosh!" Momotaros motioned his head in the direction "Ikuze!"

He walked down the path Kotaro following behind while Ruby and Jaune said behind and exchanged a puzzled look at the words before running after their new companions.

---

The four shortly arrived at their destination and walked through the open doors.

"Woah," Ruby breathed and the others couldn't help but agree as they stared in awe at the spacey arena. It was beautifully designed almost resembling a church.

Momotaros let out a whistle as he looked around the room before a familiar head of calm black hair with a blue streak.

Momotaros then clenched his fists and bared his teeth Ruby noticing a faint fiery red aura around him as he growled "That Kame-yaro!" He then turned to them speaking much calmer and nodded at Kotaro, Ruby and Jaune "Oh! Kotaro, Buki otaku, Hakimasu-ko later!"

He stomped off towards his target Kotaro absent mindedly waved in farewell as he looked around amphitheatre.

"Ruby! Over here!" A familiar voice called and the three turned to see Yang in crowd waving at her sister. "I saved you a spot!"

"Oh!" She turned to Jaune. "I got to go, I'll see you after the ceremony!"

"Hey wait!" But Ruby was already running over to her sister. "Great where am I supposed to find another nice, quirky girl to talk to?!"

He turned to Kotaro but the guy was already walking away with his hands in his pockets absently looking around the room. Jaune sighed and walked off to find someplace to stand not noticing he caught the attention of a red haired girl in Greco-Roman styled armour.

---

"Wow this place is amazing!" Kotaro thought as he looked around. Even though he wasn't really that into architecture when he thought a building was beautiful he could stare at it for hours, he remembered being told he got it from is grandmother. So far between its amphitheatre and the academy's famous tower Beacon was proving to be among those buildings. "I wonder if the rest of the school is like this."

As his eyes drifted over the stands he noticed something in one of the archways or more accurately someone. Standing in the middle of the entrance was a girl dressed in what Kotaro assumed was the girls uniform of the school from this distance he couldn't make out much other then a black blazer and red skirt. She had long brown hair and two rabbit ears on top of her head. She seemed to be looking over the crowd.

"Must have been curious about the new students" Kotaro mused with a smile. When the girl was looking in his direction he held up his hand and gave a friendly wave. The girl froze, with her ears perking up, which the purple swordsman couldn't help compare to the actual animal, then gave a small shy wave in return.

Kotaro chuckled then saw the girl's ears perk up again then she looked behind her then looked back at him before she dashed away from through the entrance then round the corner. Kotaro then heard a faint chuckle behind him, hereached a hand behind him and flicked the face on the sword roughly where the nose would be then went on his way.

---

"I imagine, coming all the from Vacuo must have been quite the taxing trip," Urataros said to blonde girl standing before him who he managed to reel into a conversation his left hand up in his signature gesture.

"I guess," She shrugged with arms folded. "I mean Vale seems like a nice place but home is home you know?"

"Oh yes," He gave a small nod. "I'm not exactly local myself."

"Oh?"

"If you like we could exchange scroll numbers and talk about it sometime."

Before the girl could reply a hand smacked him on the back of his head knocking his glasses off. He spun around and gave annoyed sigh at a familiar head of red streaked black spikey hair above red armour with a less then happy expression.

"Thanks for leaving back in the courtyard like that, jackass!" He growled.

"Don't blame me, Senpai" He reached down to pick up his glasses and returned them to his face. "You should know by now how Kin-chan reacts to that word."

He turned back to the girl but she vanished. He looked around but found no trace of her then hung his head while Momotaros looked around the crowd cracking his knuckles. "Where is that Kuma-yaro anyway? I owe him some payback!"

"Ryuta saw something and ran off Kin-chan went to keep an eye on him."

Momotaros threw his arms down at his sides. "All the good that'll do."

On that Urataros had to agree.

The red swordsman then placed his hands on his hips and turned back to him, "So what did ya do with my stuff?"

The blue staff welder shrugged and placed his other hand over his chest. "Kin-chan, had it last I checked. Honestly, Senpa,i how much stuff did you bring?"

"Oy! I didn't bring that much."

"You brought three large rucksacks. What was even the point?"

Momotaros held up a finger as he counted. "One's personal stuff, one's clothes and one's battle gear."

"Oh..." Urataros' brows raised in surprise. "I didn't expect you to be so...organized?" He said unsure if that was the right word then noticed a smug smirk on Momotaros' face. "Naomi, give you a hand?"

Momotaros' head shot round to look at him the grabbed him by the neck of his armour "What you think I can't pack my bags by myself or something?"

Urataros just gained a smug smile, "You do realize Sempai that this just confirms it?"

"..." for a moment Momotaros was frozen before dropping him, looking away and folding his arms. "Whatever Kame-yaro."

---

Ruby stood to her sister's left arms folded with an annoyed frown on her face.

Yang turned to her, "So how's your first day going little sister?"

"You mean since you ditched me and I exploded!?"

Yang's eyes widened in concern and she lost her smile, "...Yikes meltdown already?"

"No I literally exploded a hole in front of the school and there was some fire" He held her chin in thought "and I think some ice, maybe some lightning."

"Are you being sarcastic?"

"I wish. I tripped over some crabby girl's luggage then she yelled at me and then I sneezed then I exploded and then she yelled at me again and I felt really really bad and just wanted her to stop yelling at me!" Ruby explained getting more stressed as she recounted the events "Then there was another explosion then this giggling kid in purple came running up, then a guy in red came chasing after him then he was sent flying by a guy in yellow and I hope I never have to go through all that again!"

"You!" Ruby was unaware that a certain crabby girl was right behind her and when she made her presence know Ruby did the only natural thing she jumped into her big sisters arms.

"OH GOD ITS HAPPENING AGAIN!"

"Your lucky we weren't blow off the side of the cliff!"

"...Oh my god you really exploded."

"It was an accident!" Ruby removed herself from her sisters arms and faced Weiss "It was an accident!" A pamphlet was held up to her face "What's this?

On the pamphlet was a confused looking cartoon man holding a Dust bullet with the words 'Dust for Dummies' above him and below him was 'and other inadequate individuals' "The Schnee Dust Company is not responsible for any injuries or damages sustained while operation a Schnee Dust Company product. Thought not mandatory...!"

Ruby zoned out as Weiss proceeded to list off what sounded like a warning you ignore in a set of instructions "...Uh?"

"You really want to start making things up to me?."

"Absolutely."

Weiss pushed the instructions into Ruby's hands "Read this and don't every speak to me again."

"Look uh..." Yang rubbed the back of her head while Ruby pocketed the instructions in her pouch "It sounds like you two got off on the wrong foot. Why don't you start over and try to be friends okay?"

"Yeah great idea sis" Ruby held out her hand "Hi Weiss I'm Ruby. Want to hang out? We could go shopping for school supplies."

Weiss threw up her arms in false excitement "Yeah and we could paint our nails and try on clothes and take about cute boys like tall blonde and...scraggly over there" She pointed out Jaune standing behind her who perked up at being noticed.

"Oh wow really?"

Weiss dropped her false smile and frowned at the hooded girl "...No."

Ruby hung her head in disappointment and Yang was about to give the girl a piece of her mind when a voice behind spoke up.

"Excuse me," She turned round and was met with the sight of a tall guy dressed in black and gold with bear ears on top of his head who had his arms folded. "Have you seen a boy about his high," he gestured just below his jaw. "Dressed in purple with a cap and headphones with a long purple ponytail?"

"Hmm?" Yang tapped her chin in thought then snapped her finger. "Oh yeah!" She pointed off closer to the stage. "I saw a little guy like that trying to get close to the stage."

"Ah" He looked in the direction she pointed then back to her and nodded. "Thank you."

The blonde smiled, "No problem."

"Hey!" Yang turned round and saw Weiss pointing at the Faunus. "You're that brute from before that sent that thug flying!"

Yang turned back to the Faunus in surprise, "You did what?"

"Oh, you're the girl in white from the courtyard."

"Between you, your friends and this dunce in the hood, I'm amazed there's not a crater where the courtyard should be!" Yang gave the girl an annoyed look but Weiss continued. "I mean what do you have to say for yourself?"

Yang turned back to see the guy's reaction and almost burst out laughing when she saw he was snoring away. "ZZZZZZ!"

"When di he-I mean-of all the-!" Weiss struggled to find the words then turned her back to them with her arms folded. "Hmph!"

Yang snickered at the white haired girl's grief, then rapped her hand against the Faunus' forehead like she was knocking on a door, "Hey!"

The Faunus' ears twitched a little then his eyes opened with a snort. "Huh? wha?"

Yang pointed towards the stage, "Your friend."

"Oh right!" He bowed to her. "Thanks for your help."

"Anytime," She waved after him as he headed towards the stage then turned to Ruby. "See making friends isn't hard."

"Easy for you to say," She muttered as she hung her head.

Yang looked back to where the Faunus had gone and spotted him with the boy. He seemed to be telling his younger friend off judging by him stamping his foot like a child throwing a tantrum. Suddenly the sound of a microphone ringing and a throat being cleared drew everyone's attention to the stage where Professor Ozpin stood with Glynda Goodwitch to his left.

"I'll keep this brief," He adjusted his glasses before continuing. "You have all travelled her today in search of knowledge. To hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people," Ruby looked at her sister with a smile that barely fit her face, while Weiss looked to the ground as if in thought. Yang meanwhile was focused on the man in green.

---

"~Boring~" Ryuataros sang only to lightly get shoved from behind.

"Oy pay attention."

"Like your one to talk, Kuma-chan," the purple gunmen folded him arms in a pouting manner.

---

"He could at least put some umph into it," Momotaros complained it was as if the Headmaster was as bored as he was.

"You're not wrong," Urataros replied.

---

"But I look amongst you and all I see is wasted energy," the statement garnered mutters and looks of confusion and annoyance. "In need of purpose, direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step."

Yang tossed her mane of hair back then exchanged a confused glace with Weiss over the Headmaster's speech as he left the stage.

Glynda then stepped up, "You will gather in the ballroom tonight. Tomorrow your initiation begins. Be ready your dismissed."

Yang turned to the other two girls, "He seemed kind of...off."

"It's almost like he wasn't even there," Ruby agreed.

"I'm a natural blonde ya know," The girls turned and saw Jaune smiling at Weiss, who planted her face in her palm.

"You raise a good point," They then turned to their right and saw Urataros, smiling at Yang and nodded in the direction Ozpin had gone. "About the headmaster I mean. Your quite the perceptive- OPH!"

He was cut off when Momotaros kicked him away in annoyance causing the girl's and Jaune's eyes to widen in surprise. "You never know when to stop do ya, Ero-Kame!"

---

That evening the students gathered as instructed in the ballroom. Many of them were already trying to sleep tucked in the sleeping bags that littered the floor. Ruby was laying on her bag dressed in her black tank top with a pink heart shaped Beowolf image, her white pajama pants with pink roses petals and a black sleeping mask with red eyes on her head. Her eyes were on the piece of paper she was writing on.

"Its like a big slumber party," Ruby's eyes widened for a second as Yang landed on the bag next to her dressed in an orange vest with her sigil and a pair of shorts.

"Don't think Dad would approve of all the boys though."

"I know I do," Yang made purring noise at the sight of several shirtless guys roughhousing or showing off. Then Jaune walked past dressed in the cringe worthy sight of a blue onesie with bunny slippers.

"Eeew," She then noticed Ruby writing. "What's that?"

"A letter to the gang back at Signal" Ruby replied. "I promised to tell them all about Beacon and how things are going."

"Aw that is so CUUUUUUUUUU-!" Yang was cut off by Ruby's pillow meeting her face.

"Shut up! I didn't get to take my friends with me to school, its weird not knowing anyone here."

"What about Jaune he seems..." Yang tried to find the right word ."Nice. Oh! And there's those other guys Momotaro and Kotaros. There you go plus three friends that's a 300% increase!"

"I'm pretty sure Weiss counts as a negative friend." She rolled over so she was looking up a the ceiling on her back. "Plus I think Kotaro is more Momotaros' friend. Back to zero."

"Okay, first of all check your math. Second there's no such thing as negative friends. You just made two friends and one enemy," A corgi face pillow met Yang's face she pushed it off then spoke in a calmer voice. "Look its only been one day. Trust me you've got friends all around you just haven't met them yet."

Ruby's mind flashed back to that morning when Jaune said something similar. Then the sound of a match being lit caught her attention she sat up and sitting in the corner was the black hair girl from before dressed in a yukata, sitting next to a candlestick with a book in her hand, "That girl."

"You know her?"

"Not really she saw what happened this morning but left before I could say anything," Ruby rolled her eyes as she though "Then again after all That who would."

"Well now's you chance" Yang proclaimed as she grabbed Ruby's hand and pulled her along.

"Whoa- wait! What are you doing?"

The girl's amber eyes peaked over the top of her book with a brow raised when she saw them walking over, Yang with a big smile and Ruby trying to break out of her sister's grip.

"~Hellooooo~!" Yang sang as she waved while Ruby finally managed to get out of her grip and turned away from her arms folded. "I believe you two may know each other."

"Aren't you...that girl that exploded?" She asked.

"Uh...Yeah my name's Ruby," She held out her hand to shake but the girl's eyes went back to her book. Ruby then rubbed the back of her head awkwardly. "But you can just call me Crater...I mean Buki...actually you can just call me Ruby."

"...Okay."

"What are you doing?" Yang 'whispered' to the scythe wielder.

"I don't know help me!" was the rushed and hushed reply.

The sisters then turned back to the bow wearing girl smiling.

"Soooo what's your name?" Yang asked.

The girl gave an annoyed sigh then looked up at them, "Blake."

"Well Blake I'm Yang Ruby's older sister," the brawler introduced herself. "...I like your bow."

"Thanks."

"It goes great with your...pajamas."

"...Riiight."

The sisters exchanged an awkward glance before Yang tried again, "Nice night don't you think?"

"Yes! Its lovely," Blake looked up from her book at last. "Almost as lovely as this book..." The girls were still there. "...That I will continue to read..." still there. "...as soon as you leave."

Blake went back to her reading then Yang turned to her sister. "Yeah this girl is a lost cause."

But Ruby just stepped forward. "What's it about?"

Blake looked up, "Huh?"

"Your book" Ruby answered. "Does it have a name?"

Blake looked at her in surprise, "Well...It's about a man with two souls. Each fighting for control over his body."

"Oh yeah..." Yang replied sounding awkward, it didn't sound like her kind of thing but she tried to be polite. "That's...real lovely."

"I love books" Ruby continued. "Yang used to read to me every night before bed. Stories of heroes and monsters. Their one of the reasons I want to become a Huntress."

The blond brawler's cheeks warmed at his sister's word, a fact that didn't go unnoticed by amber eyes.

"Why is that?" Blake asked with a chuckle in her voice. "Hoping you'll live happily ever after?"

"I'm hoping we all will," the younger girl replied the continued a quiet determination in her voice. "As a girl I wanted to be just like those heroes in the books, as someone who fought for what was right and protected people who couldn't protect themselves no matter what trails or hardships they faced."

"That's very ambitious for a child," Blake said with a small smile before looking away with a sad look in her eyes. "Unfortunately, the real world isn't the same as a fairy tale."

"Well...that's why we're here" She responded. "To make it better."

Blake looked back to her with a small smile on her face once more which Ruby returned.

"Oooh! I'm so proud of my baby sister!"

"GAH!" Yang wrapped Ruby up in a hug, then lifted her off the floor making cutesy noises. "Cut it out!"

Then the sisters started fighting as Ruby tried to get out of Yang's grasp.

Blake's small smile grew with amusement. "Ruby, Yang its a pleasure to-"

"What in the world is going on over here!?" Weiss with her hair down dressed in sleeping dress appeared as Ruby held Yang up and off balance by her foot. "Don't you realize that some of us are trying to sleep?!"

She then did a double take when she saw Ruby and at the same time as Yang cried, "Oh not you again!"

Ruby shushed them then tried to avoid a fight. "Shh guys she's right people are trying to sleep."

"Oh so now your on my side?!"

"I was always on your side!"

"Yeah what's your problem with my sister?!" Asked Yang. "She's only trying to be nice."

"She's a hazard to my health!"

While the three argued, Blake rolled her eyes then picked up and blew out her candles.

---

"YAAAAAY!" Ryutaros cried as he hopped around in his sleeping back. "Its like a big sleepover!"

"Oy knock it off Gaki!" Momotaros, dressed in grey pajama trousers with a red shirt and a metal tag necklace, tried to grab the bouncing sleeping bag but no luck then went back to reading the book in his hand or at least tried to.

"Well I'm certainly enjoying it," Urataros, dressed in smart blue pajames with a hexagon pattern, said as he saw several girls talking or brushing their hair. "Ouch!"

Urataros rubbed the back of his head where Momotaros slapped him then turned to annoyed swordsman. "Hey if I didn't do it then you know who would."

Urataros sighed. "Senpai?"

"Yeah?"

"Why do you insist on ruining my fun today?"

Momotaros shrugged with a smirk, "Heh just lucky I guess?"

"Its cause your a boring old man!" Ryutaros reappeared at Momotaros' side bent down.

"Oi!"

"He's not wrong," Urataros chuckled.

"Hey!"

Ryutaros giggled.

"Go to sleep Gaki!" He pushed the boy away causing him to trip over Kintaros, who was fast asleep and snoring under a futon, and then wriggled around as he tried to stand up again.

Urataros chuckles the noticed Momotaros drumming his fingers on the side of his head. "Something wrong?"

"Hmm?" He turned to face him. "I dunno its just," He scratched the back of his head. "Tah! Something seemed off about that speech. I wonder what that old man, is up to?"

"Ozpin-Sensei."

"Huh?"

"Ozpin-Sensei," Urataros repeated ."We're students here now you've got to be respectful Senpai."

"Yeah, yeah," Momotaros fell back on his sleeping bag with his arms behind his head and stared up at the ceiling.

"Besides without his help we would may not even be in this school right now."

As Urataros spoke, the mind of his red compatriot began to drift off into memory of a few months ago. And even a bit further or at least the train of thought attempted.

"Oy, Senpai!" Urataros' voice snapped him out of his trance.

Momotaros' eye's widened in surprise before he turned and asked, "What is it Kame-yaro?"

"Its lights out. I'm pretty sure the only one still wide awake," He said as he removed his glasses and set them by his bag.

Momotaros turned and saw Kintaros snoring away with a Ryutaros still on top of him though now facing up ward.

"Better get some sleep Senpai," He yawned then lay his head on the pillow. "Our initiation test is tomorrow after all, We need out rest if we plan to succeed."

"Yeah, yeah! I hear you."

Momotaros looked back up at the ceiling one more before sighing and closing his eyes. As much as he hated to admit it the staff wielder had a point then needed to pass the initiation test after all they had a job to do. He just couldn't wrap his head around why they had to do it like this.

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Author's Note(s): Yeah, not a lot of the Den-O cast in action but I wanted to focus more of them interacting with the RWBY characters and set some stuff up for later. The Taros' outfits, their basically armour based on their Imagin forms, though Momo's spikes and Kin's blades are smaller. Same for Kotaro, the shoulder...rails are much smaller, plus no big Den-O symbol on his chest, with straps over regular clothes. Their show based get up from the trailers was their equivalent of RWBY's alternative combat outfits from Vol 2. I had considered giving Momo, Ura and Kin head gear that gave them more resemblance to their Imagin forms but I shelved that.

I had planned to start this chapter at either Ruby meeting Ozpin or Yang and Ruby's arrival at Beacon but I decided to go to very start mostly because of the amazing opening narration by (Censored on the very off chance someone who hasn't watched Volume 3 is reading this) plus I couldn't think of a decent way to open up with those scenes and the three episodes kind of flowed like one big episode to me and it gives me some practice handling the characters.

Anyway hope you enjoyed the first chapter and please review.