The door of the airship slid open as the machine came to a stop. The many students rushed out of the plane and into the open, excitement pulsing through the air. Everyone looked forward to the opportunity they had been given.

"Finally, we're on the ground!"

Natsu Dragneel stumbled out of the aircraft, his stomach still uneasy from the plain ride. Pyrrha rolled her green eyes and let out a laugh. "I wish you'd get over that motion sickness. It's kind of gross."

Natsu rolled his own eyes and elbowed her arm playfully. She elbowed him back, a glint in her eye. "Alright, let's be serious now."

Lucy Heartfilia looked around after stepping off the plain. Her brown eyes were wide with awe at the sight of all the architecture. She knew her Uncle Qrow worked here for some time but she never had actually been here. She breathed in deeply and walked forwards, looking around for awhile.

In her dazzled daze she rammed into something, or someone, causing her to fall. She looked up and blinked, seeing a man with pink hair staring down at her, surprised. She blinked again. Who in the world has pink hair, let alone a guy?

"Pink hair?!"

Instantly Lucy covered her mouth, realizing what she had just said. The man blinked at her, but then grinned and held out his hand. "I get that a lot. Sorry for bumping into ya." Lucy took his hand and stood, brushing non-existant dust off of her. "I'm so sorry," she said. "I'm awful about blurting out things I shouldn't."

"It's fine. I'm Natsu Dragneel." He gestured to Pyrrha as she approached. "This is my sister, Pyrrha Nikos." Pyrrha nodded to Lucy, who returned the gesture.

"I'm Lucy Heartfilia. Nice to meet you."

"Would you like to walk with us? We're supposed to go to a meeting or something."

Lucy nodded to Pyrrha's offer, and they began walking toward the building.

Gray Fullbuster looked absently around at the scenery. Coming from less than something, this was pretty impressive. He looked at everyone else around him, noticing all the weapons they had. He smirked to himself; he didn't require weapons to come here. He took out his little communication device and snapped a photo of Beacon Academy. He sent it to Torchwhick to confirm his location. Then, he continued moving, deciding to follow a group of three people who seemed to actually know where the hell they were going.

"Oooh, look, guys! That kid has a collapsable staff! And she has a fire sword!"

Yang grabbed the hood of her sister Ruby's cape before she could go running after the other people. "Calm down, little sis," the blonde sighed. Erza Scarlet smiled at her two sisters as they continued down the path. "We made it to Beacon," she mused. Yang smiled deviously, pumping a fist into the air. "Yep! Time to become badass huntresses!"

"So, you guys are coming with me right?"

Yang looked at Ruby incredulously. "Ruby, come on. Why don't you go try and make some friends on your own?" She pulled Ruby's hood over her head playfully as she spoke.

"Why would I need friends if I have you two?" Ruby said, gesturing to Erza and Yang. Erza arched a brow at her younger sibling. "We won't be here every minute of the day, Ruby." Yang smiled sheepishly at her sister as a group of her friends suddenly appeared behind her. "Actuallymyfriendsareherenowgottagobye!" Yang and friends sped off into the distance, leaving a dizzied Ruby behind.

The caped girl steadied herself. "Wait! Where are you going! Aren't we supposed to find the dorms? Where are our dorms? Do we even have dorms? I don't know what I'm doing..." She started backing up, not realizing what was happening behind her.

"Ruby, watch out-"

Ruby toppled over a load of luggage, causing them to scatter and left her on the ground. Erza sighed, ready to speak, when a piercing voice interrupted her.

"What are you doing?!"

As Ruby was picking herself up from her tumble, a white-haired girl approached her. Her ice-blue eyes seemed to match her demeanor. Erza narrowed her brown eyes. "She tripped over your luggage. No harm done." Ruby was picking up one of the suitcases to help make amends, but the frightening girl wasn't letting her. "Give me that! And how was there no harm done? She knocked all of my luggage over!"

"Sorry," Ruby mumbled. The icy girl shot her a glare. "Sorry?! Do you have any idea what damage you could've caused?!"

"Uhhh..."

Erza stepped in, leaning over and picking up a suitcase. "No damage was caused. Calm down." The ill-tempered girl snatched that suitcase from Erza's hands, her eyes glinting like ice. "These cases are full of Dust, mined and purified from the Schnee quarry."

"Uhh...," was Ruby's confused reply to the white-haired girl before she was interrupted once more. "What are you, brain-dead?! It's Dust! Fire, water, lightning, energy! This isn't something you can throw around!" As she yelled, she waved a vial of red dust around. Small clouds of the dust flew into the air and tickled Ruby's nose. As the ice-themed girl continued to rant on the Dust's importance, Ruby sneezed.

The sneeze resulted in a small explosion caused by the Dust particles. The vial flew from the angry girl's hands and rolled onto the ground. The vial came to a stop at the feet of a black-haired girl, and she picked it up. She turned it over, revealing the Schnee Family Crest.

"Unbelievable!" The girl shrieked. "This is exactly what I mean!"

"I'm really, REALLY sorry," Ruby murmured, poking her pointer fingers together nervously. The girl took no notice of her apology.

"You complete dolt! What are you even doing here? Aren't you a little young to attend Beacon?"

Erza stepped in again. She felt her blood beginning to boil. "She was asked to come here by Professor Ozpin, princess."

"Heiress, actually," a female voice interuppted. The three turned, seeing a girl with long black hair with a bow in it, striking yellow eyes highlighted with purple eyeshadow, and a pale complextion. She wore a tight-fitted black, buttoned vest with white sleeveless shirt underneath and a coattail. She wore white shorts with black stockings that faded to purple and on her feet were some black, low-heeled boots. Both arms had ribbons wrapped around them, except on her left arm there was a detatched black sleeve and a silver band. She had a black choker on her neck and a weapon plate on her back that held her weapons. In her clutches she had the red vial that the girl had dropped. "Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, one of the largest producers energy propellant in the world."

"Finally," Weiss Schnee exclaimed. "Some recognition."

"The same company infamous for controversial labor forces and questionable business partners," the girl finished.

"What...How dare..." the heiress stammered. She breathed in sharply, took her things, and stormed off haughtily with a "humph".

"I promise to make it up to you!" Ruby called after Weiss, her voice pleading. Sighing, she turned back to the black-haired girl. "Guess I'm not the only one having a bad first day." Her face brightened, looking towards the black-clothed girl. "So, what's your-" She cut off, realizing that the girl had vanished. She sighed, and turned to Erza. "Welcome to Beacon."

Erza gave her sister a friendly shove. "C'mon Ruby, it's only one girl. I wouldn't worry about it if I were you."

"Yeah, but I exploded, literally, in her face!" Ruby cried, her silver eyes wide. "I don't want someone to hate me for the rest of the semester!"

Erza rolled her eyes. "Really Ruby, you'll be okay. Yang and I are here, too. We're always there to stand up to snobby girls like that." Ruby managed a smile, and together, they left the area.

Soon, everyone was gathered in a large meeting hall. There was a stage in the back of the room and everyong was waiting for Professor Ozpin to welcome them to Beacon. Lucy stood with Natsu and Pyrrha, Gray stood alone, and Erza stood with Ruby and Yang. The students chatted loudly, some getting impatient from waiting. Gray checked the time at least every few minutes out of impatience. Sheesh, he thought. How long can they take?

Sooner than later, Professor Ozpin and a woman named Glynda Goodwitch stepped out onto the stage. The professor tapped the microphone, either to get the kids' attention or test the microphone.

"I'll keep this brief..."

Lucy looked up at the professor. Uncle Qrow had talked about him numerous times before. As did he talk about Glynda Goodwitch. She tore her gaze away from the two and scanned the crowds for her cousins. Natsu noticed and nudged her. "Whatcha lookin' for?"

Lucy turned back to him. "My cousins; they're supposed to be here today. I've never really met them, but I guess now I will."

Professor Ozpin's voice broke into the silence once more. "You have travelled here today in search of knowledge. To hone your craft and acquire new skills, and when you are finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people.

"When I look amongst you, all I see is wasted energy in need of purpose, direction. You assume knowledge will set yourself free of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowlegde can only get you so far. It is up to you to take the first step."

Will an ominous end of his little speech Ozpin moved away from the microphone, allowing Glynda to step up to the microphone. "You will all meet in the ballroom tonight," she stated. "That is where you will be sleeping. Tomorrow your initiation will officially begin. Be ready. You are dismissed."

The duo left the stage, leaving a rather confused audience. "Well, that was..." Erza trailed off. "Something." Yang nodded in agreement. "Yeah...he seemed kinda...off."

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

Gray was already leaving the building. That speech was kind of pointless... But he had recorded it for Torchwhick. He walked out into the open and started heading for the ballroom, wherever that was.

Lucy sat on the ballroom's hardwood floor, laying out a pastel-pink blanket and setting down a few pillows. She then spread another blanket that was a pale yellow color, like starlight. She sat down with a sigh, and let her hair down. She looked over at Pyrrha, who was also putting her stuff out, and then at Natsu, who was already fast asleep and snoring. "I don't know how you live with such noise," Lucy said to Pyrrha. "That's dreadful. Not even my uncle snores that badly." Pyrrha laughed in reply, taking the ponytail out of her hair. "I guess I've gotten used to it. It doesn't bother me much anymore. It used to, when he first moved in."

Lucy paused. "You two aren't related? Is he adopted?"

"Well, sort of," Pyrrha replied uneasily. "He kind of came home with us one night, and stayed. He was in rough shape. He doesn't like talking about it, though."

Lucy nodded slowly. "Well, same with me. My "uncle" will never admit it, but I know we're not related. I don't even look like anyone in my "family". He brought me home, and I just sort of stayed there. Although...," she trailed off. "I don't remember anything before that. It's..." She sighed, clasping her hands together. "It's like I have no idea who I really am. All I know is my name and that I have this weird symbol on my right hand." She held that arm out, showing it to Pyrrha. Her green eyes widened, and before she could say anything, she was cut off by Natsu's voice.

"What the hell... I have the same mark on my right shoulder!"

"It's like a bi~g slumber party!"

Yang plopped down on her sleeping bag next to her sisters. Ruby was currently writing and Erza was brushing out her hair.

"I don't think dad would approve of all the guys, though," Ruby murmured, her eyes focused on the paper.

"I know I do!" Yang replied, rolling her tongue as she scanned the room of shirtless boys. Her eyes landed on a blonde boy that was wearing a onsie in the midst of no shirts, and she stuck her tongue out in disgust.

"So, Ruby, what are you writing?"

Ruby looked up at Erza, and replied, "To my friends back at Signal. I promised them I would tell them about everything that went on here."

"Aw~! That's so cute!" Yang cried, earning a pillow in her face for her remark.

"Shut up. I didn't get to bring my friends to school with me. It's weird not knowing anyone here."

"You can always put effort into making some," Erza commented, who was now polishing one of her swords. "I don't know anyone here either."

"I guess so. I'm just not good at communicating with others."

Gray sat in the corner of the room, writing a first-day report to the company he was working for. He scanned the room of people, trying to find out who was stronger and who was weak. He sighed, starting to get bored of doing all that writing. He finished it and pulled off his shirt. He always felt so much more comfortable without a shirt. It didn't really make a difference here, with so many shirtless guys, but he didn't care. He didn't care about most things, except he wanted to find out who he really is.

"What?! Seriously?!"

Natsu showed his shoulder to her. "Yeah, see? It's red instead of pink though, thank goodness."

Lucy stared awe at the two exactly alike symbols. "That's so weird... Wait, Natsu, do you remember anything after coming to live with Pyrrha?" Natsu slowly shook his head, but shot a glare at his sister for telling this girl something he didn't want her to. "No... Well, I don't remember most things anyways."

Lucy sighed. "Same for me. This is getting really weird..."