(Beacon Airfields, Beacon)
(Scarlet Pov)
'Damn I'm conflicted should I interfere or not, I mean it wasn't very fun the first time, but it did let me be friends with Jaune, so…. Screw it I'll let it happen, what's the worst that could happen anyway.'
(Ruby PoV)
'Got to find Yang. Got to find Yang. Got to find Yang. Oh, there's Yang'
"Yang!" I call out quite worried about needing to talk to anyone else.
"Rubes, where were you? I was so worried when I didn't see you in the main cabin. I thought you got lost and missed the Skyhawk." Yang babbled while she crushed me in one of the strongest bear hugs known to man.
"Yang… air…please?" I wheeze out.
"Oh, sorry about that, but you didn't answer my question." Yang scolded me. I wasn't a kid anymore
"First, I couldn't answer your question, you were suffocating me and second to answer your question dear sister I was with Scarlet she told me about all of the cool things she could do with her semblance and a bit about what Niao could do with hers. It was awesome, did you know Scarlet can phase through things like a ghost and she can teleport." I tell Yang with a lot of enthusiasm.
"Oh, that's pretty neat. What did she tell you about Niao?" Yang asked with as much enthusiasm as I normally have.
"Well, Niao has the highest recorded aura reserves ever. And apparently, she can turn into a small star or something, it was hard to tell through the puns." I respond
"Yang well my friends are here. So, Bye!" Yang mutters before running of with her friends leaving me spinning. I fall over and hit something hard and some rich girl starts yelling "DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING?! This is Dust mined from the Schnee quarry, you know, Energy!"
She started shaking the bottle in my face and some dust flew in my face and she kept on doing it and it was getting. 'My nose is getting itchy.'
BOOOM!
(General Pov)
The explosion was felt from the other side of the school, Scarlet who was walking into the atrium felt a sense of déjà vu. Then Ozpin entered with Glynda not far behind, Niao and two other women were standing against the wall. Scarlet moved towards them and called "Hey Sis, Kitten, Snowflake." The last nickname was said with an almost smug tone, to which the one Scarlet called Snowflake responded "Well hello fearless leader. I do hope you prevented that explosion, oh wait you didn't." Scarlet shrugged and said "Well Weiss, what's the worst that could happen." Future Weiss was dressed in an almost exact replica of Winter's uniform during the events of the Vytal Festival albeit with a layer of white and blue armour underneath, she even had her hair in the exact same style that Winter preffered. Future Weiss grinned "Icing on the cake is that my alias is White Xiao Long, I want to give Yang and my younger self a heart attack or three." Scarlet giggles "and you say that I'm the sadist in the family. You're so cute when you're scheming Weissicle."
White (Future Weiss) frowned and the one Scarlet called Kitten smiled softly "Well, White I don't think you are ever going to win against my little rose." Scarlet grinned at the first before pouting at the nickname "Blaaaaakkkeeee, I'm not little anymore. I'm as tall as Niao and my boobs are one full size bigger, so there!"
Future Blake (Belle) smirked "Well, look there's you and Jaune. Odd, I remember him having it unlocked during initiation, Pyrrha must have had some part in it." Niao chuckles as Ozpin starts his speech "when I look out at you all I see is wasted energy, in search of purpose. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but knowledge can only take you so far. It is up to you to take the first step." After he finishes Glynda moves to speak "Now this year we are expanding our faculty to include four new professors, there is the new combat instructor Professor Scarlet Rose-Branwen," as Glynda starts calling their names they move to stand behind her, "the new Dust science teacher professor White Xiao Long, the new teacher for the core courses Proffessor Belle Rose-Branwen and the teacher of the new Field Ops course professor Niao Xiao Long."
Everyone looked at the four new women on the stage, the first they noticed was all of them were wearing the same coat just in different colours, the next thing was that the core teacher was dressed in an all-black leather looking skin suit and had a pair of very noticeable cat ears atop her head that were flicking in the light breeze. The third thing was that the field ops teacher had a prosthetic right arm and looked like the combat instructor with a different colour palette, and the last thing was that the Dust teacher looked exactly like a Schnee.
While everyone was still shocked at the little details, with Weiss pretty much catatonic at the lookalike of her sister standing up on stage, Scarlet started speaking to the crowd "Well, I have so many things to say, but there is only enough time for one. Out there you will find no victory in strength, victory is in simpler things like the bonds between you and your fellow hunters. It is in this simplicity that everyone forgets what helped us get to this point, unity. A group is only as strong as its weakest link, it is the responsibility of the others to help assist them. See while a team is meant to help each other, honesty and openness are the best way to become a good one. Now tonight you all will be sleeping in the ballroom and if I see any onesies, I will break your legs and punt you into the emerald forest…. In pieces."
(later in the Ballroom)
"What are you doing Rubes?" Yang asked. Ruby not even looking up replied "Writing a letter to my friends at Signal, not all of us could bring our friends here with us." Ruby looked up and saw Blake and said to Yang "You know I think I've seen her before… She was there when I blew up, and doesn't she look like Belle minus the kitty ears." Yang looked at Blake with mild interest and nodded before grabbing Ruby and walking over to Blake, before announcing "Hey, the name's Yang Xiao Long and I think you might know my sister over here. And I don't know your name yet." Blake looked up from her book and deadpanned "Blake Belladonna and if you don't mind, I would like to go back to reading my book." Ruby asked "What is it about?" Blake looked confused until Ruby continued "Your book what is it about?" Blake blinked "It's… about a man with two souls fighting for control over his body." Ruby grinned "I love books especially fairytales, Yang used to read them to me when we were younger and they're what made me want to be a huntress. Though, Scarlet made it very clear that life doesn't work out that way. In her words, "Someone has to get the shaft, someone has to get their hands dirty and someone had to take the fall.", but for all the doom and gloom Scarlet's actually pretty optimistic about the future saying "Just because not everyone gets a happy ending doesn't mean no one can have one." She's a realist in every sense of the world."
Blake was mulling over what Ruby had said until she got to the name Scarlet and she asked "
Who's this Scarlet you keep talking about?" Ruby blinked before giggling "Oh you know she was the lady in red up on the stage, oh I didn't tell you my name. ughhh, so stupid, anyway my name's Ruby Rose-Branwen." Blake blinked and looked between both of them and said "So, the two of you are related to all of the new faculty at Beacon and all of them are first year teachers and… you do realize that two-thirds of the first-year staff is your family, right?" Ruby and Yang blinked before breaking down giggling, Ruby looked up and started taking deep breaths before saying "You know, I never thought about it that way. Anyway, it's getting late and from what Scarlet told me we want to get up early tomorrow for initiation."
First off, I'm very, very sorry for the delay. I currently have exams and it is literal hell. I got so much stuff to do, doesn't help that I'm failing English either. Now then I hope to get back in the groove and start pumping out some new chapters, but if the bane of my existence raises its ugly head, I'm afraid that there will delays and if you want to know what it is, well it starts with w and ends with block. This is TheGreatAndEccentricNarrator signing off.