Chapter 4
Beacons newest student
As we walked through Beacon I noticed the large amount of students attending, dozens and dozens of students walked past us. If my guess was correct then this was a school to teach people to fight and hunt the Beasts if that's was true then how did the Beacon gather so many students? Didn't the students think about what they were getting themselves into? Didn't they realize what being a Hunter meant? Your duty as a Hunter is to go out into the world and kill as many Beasts as you can before you die or lose your humanity, and while your risking your life to defend the civilians and their way of life, they sit in their nice warm homes getting drunk and laughing the night away as you suffer. Did all the students here accept that cruel reality, did the four girls leading me through this castle accept that reality as well?
"Are you okay you've been really quiet?" Ask Ruby, "Y-yeah I'm fine just a little nervous." I lied. "Its fine professor Ozpin is a little weird but he's a cool guy." I stayed quite for a while after that, I began observing the school and noticed how grand the inside was, banners, carpet even the windows were all exquisitely made. Also I noticed that Beacon seem to have a uniform policy, male students wear black suits with gold outlines with a blue vest, white shirt and a red tie. While girls wear a red and black stripped skirt, and a brown jacket with a tan vest with a red ribbon tied at the collar. "Is that the attire they wear when they hunt is doesn't seem to be anything special" I think to myself. "What do you think your looking at?" Says the white haired ban of my ears, even the Cleric Beasts screeching was better than this. "I'm simply observing Beacons uniforms" I say honestly. "Sure you are I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact you keep leering at women" the white haired heiress says in an accusing tone. "Leering? I'm simply observing the difference between the male and female uniforms." I say honestly. Perhaps I did spend a little to long observing the female students uniform, but its not like I'm a pervert. "Oh Weiss if he wanted some eye candy all he had to do was turn around." Says yang in a teasing tone. I turn my head to reply to her only to see Yang hugging her chest showing of her assets. I thank the Gods I was wearing a mask or else the girls would have seen my cheeks flush at Yang's display. "Y-YANG!" screams the now red faced and embarrassed Ruby. "Don't worry sis if you drink lots of milk I'm sure you'll have a chest just like mine" says the mischievous blonde now wearing a teasing smile.
Deciding a change of topic would save Ruby embarrassment and stop the situation from becoming even more awkward then it already is I said "How much longer till we get to your headmaster." I asked, "Not that much further we just have to take the elevator" says Blake who appeared to be unfazed by the conversation. I look forward and see the elevator and we all go inside, though due to the fact there are five of us it's a little cramp. "Who does this elevator work there's no switch on the ground to activate it? I think to myself. As if Ruby read my thought she pressed a small button on a panel and I could feel the sensation of gravity fighting us as the elevator ascended. "Alright I need to be calm and collected and think of a good story I didn't survive the Hunt to spend the rest of my life in a asylum" I think to myself. The elevator stops with a small ding and the doors open. I get a small feeling of déjà vu as I walk into the room, its similar to the Astral Clock tower except for one key difference, there are gears everywhere the floor has two giant gears on the right and left side with little gears inside them and up above me there are more gears and along with theses gears came the ticking of a clock a sound I despise almost as much as Weiss's nagging. In front of me at the end of the room are two people one man and one woman with the man sitting behind a desk.
The women has blonde hair, green eyes accompanied with glasses, green crescent shaped earrings, she's wearing a dress with the bottom half pitch black while the upper half is white and with what appears to be a green tear shaped stone on her collar. The man has silver hair, brown eyes, glasses is wearing black pants accompanied with leather shoes and a black vest with golden buttons with a green undershirt and a green scarf with a cross on it. "I take it your mission was successful" ask the silver haired man." "Yes sir, this is Drake Richard a Huntsmen in training, he went into the Emerald Forest to train." Says the red hooded girl. "Is that so, team RWBY you are dismissed I like a word in private with Mr. Richard." Says the still unnamed silver haired man. Ruby and the others got into the elevator and leave me now alone with the two individuals. "Don't be so nervous have a seat we have much to discuss." Says the silver haired man. "I'm sorry sir but I don't see a, my words are cut off as the blonde haired women waves some kind of wand into the hair and a chair comes flying out of nowhere and lands in front of the desk, chair" a say finishing my sentence. Recovering from the fact I saw furniture flying which in all honesty is far from the strangest thing I've seen I take a seat. "Do you know who I am?" the silver hair man asks me, "I'm guessing your professor Ozpin headmaster of Beacon." I reply, it wasn't hard to guess even if Ruby and the others hadn't told me this was the headmasters office just by looking at him I could see in his eyes that he was a powerful, skilled and experienced individual in that regard he reminded me of Gehrman. "Correct now the important question what were you doing in the Emerald Forest?" ask Ozpin, "As Ruby told you I entered the forest so I could train, I wish to become a hunter." I lie to the silver haired Hunter. "I see how old are you Mr. Richard it's difficult to tell with that mask on." Says Ozpin. "Pardon me headmaster ill remove it." I reply to Ozpin. I reach my mask with my right hand and pull it down revealing my face and remove my hat with my left hand. In all honesty there isn't much to look at I have brown eyes, brown hair, white skin, chubby cheeks I've had since the day I was born, a above average sized nose, regular ears and chapping lips. "I'm eighteen sir." I reply honestly, I was only eighteen for two months till I went to Yharnam and joined the hunt. "I see, now Mr. Richard why did you choose the Emerald Forest to train? It's a rather dangerous place you're more likely to be over run by Grim and killed then improve your skills." Says the silver haired Hunter. "While that may be true sir I believe it's better to go out and gain first hand experience then waste my time practicing and doing drills to train." I reply, "Very well now onto the next question where did you train from what we picked up on our radars you exterminated a rather large amount of Grim before being found by team RWBY and brought here." Said the silver haired Hunter. "I was trained by an old retired hunter named Gehram, though train is a rather exaggerated term, he taught me the basic of combat and left me to figure out the rest and train on my own." I said to the headmaster, I kept a straight face showing no emotion as I explained where I had trained hopefully the headmaster didn't see any tails that would show I was lying. "I see so you've had no official training at Signal or any other hunter school is that correct?" asked the silver haired Hunter, "What there is another school you have to attend before coming to Beacon? Ruby may be the youngest person I've seen at Beacon but the other girls weren't that much older, how young does this society train people to become Hunters?"
Pushing those thought out of my head I answered the headmaster. "Yes sir, technically I have no official training" I answer honestly. "Normally I have Glynda scold you and put you on a ship for Vale, but your skill in the forest speaks for its self so I have a question for you Mr. Richard" says Ozpin, "What question sir?" I ask the silver haired Hunter. "Would you like to attend Beacon?" My mind stops for a moment as I take in the question. "Is he serious? He barley knows anything about me and he's offering me a place at his school to a complete stranger his students found a few minutes ago, is he deranged, reckless or foolish? I think to myself, I stand there thinking about what I should say, I have no idea where I am, I have no money and no one to ask for help now that I cant see the Messengers anymore, on top of everything besides killing things I have no other talents though not from lack of trying, author, carpenter, baker, merchant and other professions I tried and failed at, as pathetic as it is I'm only good at being a Hunter. Seeing no other option for me I say " I accept your invitation professor Ozpin" He puts on a small smile and says "Welcome Mr. Richard hopefully you'll have a productive four years at Beacon, luckily were only a few weeks into the year so your not that behind the other students, you'll be allowed to where your current clothing until we can acquire a uniform for you and I will give you your class schedule soon. Also since Beacon arranges students into teams of four and there are no other students to pair with you, you will act as a solo unit assigned to other first year teams when you are assigned a mission, did you get all of that?" ask the headmaster, "I work alone, I where my current attire till I have a uniform, I'll have my classes assigned to me soon and when it comes time to do a mission you will partner me up with another team is that correct sir?" I ask the headmaster, "Good, Glynda will you be so kind as to show Mr. Richard his dorm, it will be the one down the hall from teams RWBY and JNPR." Says the headmaster, "Yes sir please follow me Mr. Richard." Said Glynda, I follow her to the elevator where she clicks a button on the panel and we descend leaving behind the headmaster and that horrible ticking noise if I was in there any longer I might have lost my sanity.
( Ozpin POV)
Seeing that Mr. Richard and Glynda had left I once again exercised my rather strange habit of speaking to myself. "You may think me a fool to allow a such a suspicious character such as yourself into this prestige's academy Mr. Richard, but if my years as a hunter have taught me anything it's that it's better to have a suspicious character under heavy monitor at arms length then left free and allowed to escape from my sight. Hopefully I'll learn about you in time Mr. Richard and ever more hopefully you'll become a splendid Hunter dedicated to protecting the innocent like all true Hunters do. If not you will be added to my list of mistakes and I will take appropriate actions to rectify it."
(Drake POV)
After a few minutes of walking Glynda and I had reach my new home. "This will be your dorm for the next for years team RWBY is the room on the right side of the hall while team JNPR is on the left side, understand?" asked the blonde witch. "Yes, I understand" I replied. She held out her hand which held a key, "This is the key to your dorm please don't lose it and don't give it to anyone or there will be consequences do you understand?" asked the blonde witch, with the glare and the tone she was speaking with I couldn't help but feel a little scared of Glynda especially after her little display at the headmasters office, the last women that could levitate things into the hair killed me about a dozen times before I beat her. After grabbing the key Glynda turned around and went back down the hall most likely going back to the head masters office to discuss my sudden enrollment. Seeing so reason to stay in the hallway I place the key into the knob and let myself in. I was surprised to see the dorm was relatively big there was one queen-sized bed with white sheets, a desk to the right side of the bed with a clock, a large window with red sheets, a closet to keep all my one set of attire, and a door which led to a bathroom with a toilet and shower. Sighing a sigh of relief I finally realized how tired I was I hadn't sleep since I got here I fought the Beasts for several hours and then had to walk through the whole school and back. I was ready to strip off my weapons and attire plunge into the bed and sleep until I died of old age, but one thing keep my from fulfilling that beautiful dream. Grrrrrrr my stomach was no longer telling me it was hungry, but demanding I fed it or it would make me suffer. I glanced at the clock on my new desk and read it was three, "Surly a school this impressive feeds its students right?" I asked to no one. Heading out the door and locking my dorm I set out to find a meal to satisfy my hunger so I could go to bed and promptly stay there till I died.
Well another day another chapter, sad news school starts up for me tomorrow que the Darth Vader in honestly it will probably take a bit longer to bring out chapters now. I have no more announcements so thanks for reading, comments and reviews are appreciated and have a nice day.