"Ms. Kadowaki."
"Cid."
"Anything abnormal in their condition?"
"Nothing beyond some blunt force trauma to the head..."
"Any injuries on them? Was the damage drastic?"
"Scans showed nothing beyond at most a concussion, even then I can't find anything pointing to that anyway, they'll be fine. They're wrapped up with some cold compress. They'll need a day or two to heal their bruises."
"Thank you Ms. Kadowaki." Cid said as he took a look over at the room over where the girls were resting, he then took a look over by the lockers and took a look at their weapons.
The one in red uses a... rectangular box? The one in brown uses those gauntlets with... a gun barrel on them, The one in black uses... that odd looking Gunblade with the gun portion being underneath everything, and the one in white uses...
Cid took a closer look at the weapon, it looked like it functioned reminiscent to a Gunblade... but this was less obvious of a gun. It had the cylinder of a revolver, as well as the frame surrounding the cylinder. Each bore in the cylinder had a different colour... was her weapon a sort of roulette model? The colours had to mean something. Were they different junction elements she could switch to? If so, a unique weapon it was. If not only because this Gunblade was based off of a rapier. Rather than a longblade/broadsword like the resident Gunblade wielders. Cid quickly brought out his omni-meter, tapping it a few times and swiping once. Soon after taking pictures of each girl's weapon.
Remarkable... Seems like advanced tech, could these girls be from Esthar?
Cid looked over to the girls and looked at their clothing again, shaking his head.
Esthar has a unique style of dress for all of their citizens, they don't fit that description... then where do they come from?
Cid pondered this as he walked back to the desk of the infirmary, heading to the chair opposite of Kadowaki's to do some research based on the girl's appearance, as well as ask some of his contacts in the different parts of the world if they had seen anything quite like the weapons he had taken pictures of. Uploading the picture data and sending it through the channels of hyper data wires that run underground and connect everyone to everybody across the world. Their only means ever since live broadcasting had been impossible since eighteen years prior due to an unknown phenomenon.
Not too long after Cid's venture into weapon curiosity, a young man in an open black leather jacket, a white v-neck undershirt. Chains on his black pants as well as black boots. Holding his head that was wrapped up over one of his eyes, a visible bloodstain on the wrap that was now getting dry. He looks to his right and sees four different girls also in what looked to be bandages.
Groaning, he returned back to laying on his back, thinking one thing before he drifted back off to sleep.
f***ing idiot, Seifer...
The bells for the classes ring as they start their session, one in specific ran by none other than the prodigy SeeD candidate Quistis Trepe, or rather, Instructor Trepe as she was known as for now. Graduated from Garden by 15 and gained her instructor license by 17. She was known for her ability to copy the magic abilities of monsters previously thought exclusive to them. For this she was given the name "Blue Mage" by the faculty overlooking the training department. She even has gained her own following amongst the students, the Trepe fan club, twenty-seven members and counting. Although they claim their interest is exclusively for her combat prowess, their posts on the school's message board suggest otherwise.
Standing at 5"8', she wears her SeeD uniform. Consisting of a black blouse with dark blue shoulders that is reminiscent of the design of the sailor-style collar. Attached to the collar are two gold-trimmed "wings" that hang over the chest; a maroon tie is worn with a metal clasp adorned with the SeeD logo. Complete with a straight skirt cutting off just above the knees. Finishing it with Black knee high boots. She wears makeup to reinforce her already youthful and attractive look, specifically the very thin eye-liner that shows off her ocean blue eyes. She wears her blond hair tied up, held with a silver comb accessory, and has two long fringes framing her face.
The classroom, a lecture hall adorned with Balamb's signature colours, blue, chrome, and gold. Had enough space surrounding the podium before the closed off seats that it was possible to hold sparring matches in the space for the Instructor to observe their students and offer sound advice.
"Class, today is something of a relaxed day. Another instructor will be coming in to fill in for me, I'm needed to help a student recover after an ordeal that happened in the Training Center..." Quistis says as she shoots daggers over to Seifer, the resident prick and just all around a*****. Everyone else looks at him, he merely shrugs as a smirk finds its way on his face. The truth was, the students feared him, he was the champion the past three years of the Garden Festival. An event where Garden students from Trabia, Galbadia, and Balamb Gardens meet to square off against one another and see just who has the best students when it comes to combat. Balamb has had the honour ever since Seifer won his first eligible year. Some students think his skills are enough to take on most of the school at the same time, although he has not personally stated anything on the matter, the faculty have on several occasions backed it up... alongside their disgruntlement with his attitude. He was unique from the other kids, he did not use the junction technique, he came from the Almasy line, a family known for its inheritance of the manipulation of chi. Ever since his first day he was a cut above the rest, defeating an instructor in one on one battle last year, although the match took near twenty minutes to conclude.
"As a result, you all will be in the tech wing for today on the second floor until my return. This will not interfere with tomorrow's schedule which will have you in the tech wing again. Thank you, if you need help with any of the material we went over yesterday make sure to e-mail me with your assigned computer." Quistis nodded as she walked out of the room, another instructor heading in soon afterwards.
"Whatever..." Seifer says as he gets up, two of his friends doing so as well.
"We're getting out of this dump, don't need to worry about anything till the festival and then the field exam... I want to try some of that Balamb Fish..." He says as he too walks out, heading the opposite way of Quistis.
"Ugh... my head..." The one known as Ruby says as she slowly gets up to sitting position. Immediately finding it odd that her head was wrapped in bandages. Getting up she looks around. Immediately finding the rest of her team lying down on beds. A little more and she found a nurse of some sort sitting at a desk with a computer as well as a heavy set looking man.
"Hey, Y-yang?" Ruby says as she begins to shake her sister's shoulder. Finding an immediate response as she opens her eyes too, Ruby does this to the other two members of her group. Wakening them as well.
"OOBLECK! VALE!" Ruby suddenly remembers as she looks around, not seeing the Huntsman they were supposed to be shadowing.
"Hold up, let's remember what was happening..." Yang says as she rubs her eyes.
"The train was heading to break out into the city and... then I went out." Weiss says as she gets off the bed, Blake doing so as well.
"I remember the train was about to hit the wall and then everything went blank." Blake says as she too takes a gander around.
"Cid, looks like the girls are awake." Ms. Kadowaki says as she takes a look over at them.
"Good, good. I'd much rather talk to them sooner rather than later." Cid says as he gets up from the chair, logging out from the computer and heading towards the girls, who immediately look at him.
"Good morning strangers." Headmaster Cid says as he nods towards them, holding his hands behind his back as he speaks to them.
"I'm unsure if you're aware that you four were involved at a scene that was nearby our Garden, Balamb Garden. We responded immediately and found you four unconscious alongside four dead T-Rexaur. That is most unusual..."
Immediately the girls give Cid an incredulous look.
What's a T-Rexaur...?
They all thought to themselves in unison.
"Balamb... Balamb Garden? Huh? What about Vale? Did they fix everything?" Ruby asks immediately, the girls looking at Cid.
"Vale? I haven't heard of a Vale. Do you four... know where you are currently?"
"Yeah we're on Remnant... in Vale."
"Remnant?"
"You know, the planet."
Cid gives them a look of confusion, closing an eye as he scratches his chin.
"We call the planet Gaea. Go ahead and explain what you guys were doing before the accident."
"Well, we were on a train..." Ruby starts off first, Yang, Blake, and Weiss jumping in and adding information from their account of things leading up to the train crashing. Cid immediately sparks an idea of what may have happened in his head of what may have happened.
"I see, well, my intention is not to panic you four, but there simply exists no Vale, no Remnant. I think I have an idea of what may have happened with you, it's only a hypothesis, but based on what you've said it's starting to lend more credence to it. I think what may have happened is you've all been displaced either temporally or dimensionally. This would make sense given the design of your weapons that I've seen, especially the white Rapier."
"You have our weapons?"
"Yes, they're in a locker near the nurse there, we haven't tampered with them so don't worry about that. Anyway, we have... an issue as of late. Witches or Sorceresses have been increasing in activity as of late, at ridiculous numbers. Their abilities are largely unknown, but from what we've observed it isn't impossible that they could've ripped you four from your home and placed you here..." Cid looked at the girls' face, seeing them giving him a blank expression, looking like they were lost.
"It sounds far-fetched, I know, and I apologize if I'm not cohesive. I've made contact with the other Gardens as well as some contacts in the other continents. I'll get back to you on that if anything comes up, especially with this information you've given me should be enough to see if you're in the right place or even time." Cid said as he scratches the back of his head.
"I'm assuming as of right now you all don't have anywhere to stay?"
"Well... if we're lost like this... no." Weiss says quickly in response.
"In that case, I can offer you temporary dorms until we get this mess dealt with. We have the room so don't worry, we're an academy that trains young adults and kids such as yourself to become protectors of the world after all. We're well funded." He says with a smile. He walks off towards Doctor Kadowaki, looking back at the girls.
"Go ahead and grab your weapons and wait outside for me." He says in his calm and inviting voice. The girls shrug and listen, heading to the locker and grabbing their weapons, soon after heading out the door.
Waiting for a few seconds for them to get far enough, Doctor Kadowaki spoke to Cid, revealing her untrusting nature of what they said.
"Do you really trust that far-fetched story they gave, enough to offer speculation on it?"
"I've seen the eyes of children that lie Kadowaki, I saw nothing to tell me that they were lying. It seemed to me that they believed it as one hundred percent truth, who am I to tell them that they're lying? Besides, it wouldn't hurt to train our future SeeDs to train for temporal or dimension dislocation." Cid said as he brought a cup of coffee to his lips, drinking it before putting it back down.
"If you'll excuse me, I have a tour to give." He says as he heads off to meet with Team RWBY. Kadowaki shakes her head and rolls her eyes.
"That man's trust will be his downfall..."
"So... what is Balamb Garden?" Blake asks Headmaster Cid as they begin to walk down the open hallway, the one with the open view of the courtyards and the bell of Balamb Garden that chimed.
"Think of it as the academies you told me about. We train kids to help protect the world from monsters, although we are different in that that's not all that we do. We're ultimately a mercenary for hire force, we've had a sudden spike in payments as of late, what with a country by the name of Galbadia beginning to take land from surrounding neighbors. We've had recurring assignments across the world to help protect small countries from its hand. But, I think what I'll do is have an instructor give you all a crash course on the state of the world currently tomorrow in case of a worst case scenario, which for you would mean being stuck here... permanently" Cid spoke with some uncertainty on that last part, he didn't want that to happen them truth be told. Separation anxiety was a big enough problem for SeeD operatives, he can only imagine what it would be like to have virtually zero chance of getting home.
Coming up upon the nearby CCTV, Headmaster Cid waves them over to take a look.
"Right outside of here you will be at this spot specifically."
Cid said as he pointed to the path closest to the left edge of the screen.
"From there you would go left until you reach behind the elevator. Also, the red path is the cafeteria." Cid said as he switched the view to the camera behind the elevator.
"That center path, the one outlined with grey leads to the dormitories. I'll have an instructor show you where it is..." Cid says as he sees Quistis in the distance.
"Finally, to the right of that is where you will find the Training Center and Library."
"Any questions?"
"Uhm..." Ruby stammers out.
"Good. Quistis!" Cid says as he slightly raises his voice to get her attention. Quistis raising her eyebrows as she looks at the girls with their weapons.
"Would you please mind guiding these four to the guest dormitories? As well as setting them up with an account at the cafeteria?" Cid says as he forgets one thing.
"What are your names? I forgot to ask you."
"I'm Ruby Rose."
"I'm Weiss Schnee."
"I'm Blake Belladonna."
"I'm Yang Xiao Long"
"Well, it was very nice meeting you four. I'll make sure to waive any fees regarding food expenses should you head towards there." Cid says as he leaves back towards the elevator, to return to his third floor spot.
"I'm Instructor Trepe, also known as Quistis Trepe, I train the students here to become members of SeeD. I will be showing you your residence as well as helping you set up your account here at Balamb Garden. Do you have any questions?"
"Not a question, but that man told us he would waive our food expenses."
"His name is Cid, for reference, also thank you, that makes this process much easier. Follow me."
They walk for the better part of an hour getting accustomed to the academy.
"This place is beautiful..." Ruby says through awe-struck eyes at the architecture in place.
"It really is." Yang adds.
"We would hope so, everything from the fountains to the way the hallways are built are meant to give off a good feeling. Studies have shown as of late that small things such as colours on a wall can effect the mood of a person. Cid spent a lot of capital on this place, it would be wasted if one thing was faulty or ruined the mood of a student."
Once their tour was done, Quistis gave them their keys to their dormitory as they stood in front of it.
"Before you ask, our staff will wash your clothes for you, there are a change of clothes of varying sizes in there that you can use as pajamas. Good luck, and welcome to Balamb Garden." She said with a smile before walking off to go check on the boy in the infirmary and his condition.