The airships are beginning to land, as the new students begin to depart from the ships, they reflect on their invitations to Beacon academy What are you doing? Well I need to explain how you guys got into Beacon, so I'm going to do that now. Why couldn't you do that during the prologue chapters? Because they were to introduce your characters Rene, now I will explain why all of you are going to Beacon. Alright then, just make them decent. Yes your highness.
Grant
I hold the picture of Victor and Jerrod; the kindly old man and his son who let me into their life when I had nothing... sappy yes, but it happened. Two years I lived with them, well; mostly Victor, Jerrod works in Atlas a lot, but we see him often enough. And Victor and I still work as self employed dust miners, thanks to the casino's... donations, we operate with pretty decent equipment; powered carts, multi-tools, and my personal favorite; two semi-automatic ax rifles; Suzy-Lu, and Suzy-Bell.
Everything was perfect; then he showed up. A representative from Beacon academy, he asked some questions that for the past two years I had finally pushed aside; "Mr Ozpin insists you attend Beacon academy, he would be happy to answer your questions in time." It takes more effort than I thought to not punch this guy in the face, he's just following orders, but he's digging a deeper hole than he can climb out of.
"Look, I don't need the answers anymore; I've gotten over it a long time ago. I'm perfectly content living in ignorance with my adoptive father and brother, now if you'll excuse me; I have some wood to chop." I unsheathe my axes as intimidating as I can and turn to the old stump and start splitting logs, pretending I no longer hear the recruitment officer. (He never actually said his name...)
"Very well Grant; I suppose I will need to tell Rene you won't be coming." I mentally punch myself when I turn to look at him when he says her name, geez; I haven't seen Rene for two years..."Really? How'd this wonderful professor Oz convince Rene to go to some stuck up huntress school?"
"She joined because Mr Ozpin has answers to her questions, just like for you." Okay, I think I see where this is going now;
"So I'm going to stop you right there... Let me guess; you expect me to make a remark, then you'd tell me Natalie also said yes because she wanted answers, and Desmond wants answers too right?"
For a moment I swear I see him cringe, but he regains his composure so fast I would have missed if I blinked. "Well Grant; your half right..."
Natalie
"What do you want with us?" I don't know who this man is, but he was apparently looking for us. "Please relax miss... am I speaking with Natalie or Naomi?"
"DEPENDS; DO YOU STILL HAVE LUNGS?!"
"I do appear to, yes."
"Then you're talking to me; Natalie... please just leave us alone."
The man pulls out a piece of paper from his pocket; "I will leave, but please read this letter from professor Ozpin."
I slowly take the letter and start to read it, the letters are weird and swirled, but I remember Naomi called it 'cursive' and I was able to read most of it; Dear Naomi and Natalie, I have heard of the problems that ail you two, and I wish to recruit you two into Beacon academy, we can help. Prof. Ozpin.
I stare at the letter in utter disbelief; how did he find out about us? How does he know about Naomi? I knew she would want us to go... "I'll go... but only if Ozpin helps us..."
Grant
"And that was when she agreed to attend, now will you join?"
This guy just won't quit, "Perhaps hearing how you convinced Rene to join will give me a reason to."
I swear his eye is starting to twitch, but he gathers himself again; "Very well then Grant, shall I also tell you the story of Desmond's recruitment?"
"I actually kept some contact with Desmond, he's going because it was his grandmothers dying wish he become a hunter, and so he accepted."
I was actually starting to worry I was pushing this guy's patience, but he told me about Rene anyway;
Rene
Finally me; don't screw this up for me. What do you mean screw this up? Well you said you were going to rush slightly to get to emerald forest so you could write a Christmas special chapter. Oh sure; tell everyone... Also; does Remnant even have Christmas?
Remnant? Oh right, the world RWBY takes place in... probably not since Christmas derives from 'Christ's masses', from the celebration of Jesus' birth, before becoming a mostly non-religious holiday, since Remnant seems void of such religion, I think it's safe to say they have no 'Christmas' but I believe they would still have some form of holiday; which until an official name is given, I will call 'Day of Warm Hearts'.
... Firstly; cool it with the history lesson people don't like learning, second; why warm hearts?
Well, it's been inferred that the holidays in remnant are annual celebrations of the end of a war, so 'warm hearts' would symbolize the end of a war in winter, a 'cold-war' if you will.
... That joke was terrible but I see what you're doing with the name. Okay, good, let's get back to the story then.
Rene
You know what; let's just skip my story, you have no idea what to write but you've been preparing for the 'Emerald forest fight' and you have that team your friend helped make to introduce, let's just make my story mysterious for later development.
... So now you read my mind? No Ocelot; I AM YOUR MIND! YAAHAHAHAHAHAAAA... ahh; back to the story.
Grant... I think
"So Grant; will you join or are we going to have to explain something vaguely related to the current events?"
I look to the sky for a moment to contemplate... "Very well, when do I need to leave? I need to talk to my father first." I feared a day where I would have to leave the only home I remember, and the only people who I can call family, but the chance to learn who I am... who I was, and see the people who are the closest things to friends I have, and to become a certified hunter... It was too good an opportunity... but I would need to talk to Victor first...
"You have three days until the ships arrive; I look forward to seeing you there Grant." With that he turns and walks off, if there were anymore venom in his tone I'd be dying right about now... but I needed to go talk to Vic... This won't be an easy talk...
Three days later
Grant
After a long; heartfelt conversation with Vic, he understood why I needed to leave and go to Beacon, so now we wait in the terminal for the airships.
"I'm sorry I have to leave dad, but I need to do this..."
"Grant, the day I met you and you saved my life and lively-hood I knew you'd do something great, and I think being a hunter may be just that! But do me a favor and try not to cry like ya did when you told me you were leaving."
My face turns red for a moment; the conversation was hard; more-so for me apparently. But everything was settled out, and I'd told Jerrod about the trip and apparently he'll be working at Beacon from time to time, so I'll get to see him more often. Honestly I think everything is ready, I have my axes, my crowbar, and a few nice tomahawks, you never know when you'll need a small throwing ax, things were looking good, I just hopped my friends were fairing as well as I was...
Rene
I sit on a rusty bench; this terminal smells of sweat and over-priced fast food, guaah... (Guaah? A sound of disgust. Ohh...)I just want the damn ships to show up already so I can get this over with... but hopefully the rooms will be nicer than my last apartment, but perhaps being a huntress pays well...
Another person sits down on the bench beside me; he falls asleep in a matter of seconds for some reason... he his wallet hangs pretty far out of his pocket, and there isn't anyone looking... too easy, gimme a REAL challenge.
Natalie and Naomi
I really wish there wasn't so many people here... I really don't like being surrounded by people, Naomi likes it but she also likes blood so...
WHEN DO WE FLY THE METAL WHALR TO SCHOOL OF BLOOD-BRINGERS!?
I don't know, I think there are only another few minutes left... I hope...
Desmond
...
Uhh... why isn't anything happening? It appears Desmond took a private shuttle and isn't thinking about anything, he must be meditating... Or he's helping you be a lazy cop-out. Oh stuff, at least your all about to get to Beacon now.
Professor Ozpin walks onto the stage and the crowd of students quickly silence.
"Ahem... I'll keep this brief. You have travelled here 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. But I look amongst you and all I see is wasted energy 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."
G
I don't know if I'm encouraged or depressed now...
R
The hell?
N+N
Uhmm...
D
...
As Ozpin's speech ends and the crowd attempts to properly interpret it, Glenda takes the stage. "You will gather in the ballroom tonight. Tomorrow your initiation begins; be ready. You are dismissed."
The students set their temporary bedding within the ballroom and ready for the night.
G
I lie on the sleeping bag and try will myself to sleep; I'm not too good at the whole `getting to sleep` thing, seems even when I'm in the dark my eyes adjust too well and it's hard to sleep, I sit up to rummage through my bag for my goggles, they can tint to bitch-black, nice for sleeping and welding mine-tracks.
As I sit up however I hear some commotion from two different sides of the room; one side appears to be the two girls I saw on the ship, and Weiss Schnee; Vic used to work for her family, and Jerrod still does so I've seen her face, I don't recognize the fourth girl, she wears all black and a bow... it would probably be hard to sleep with that on... the two girls and Weiss are fighting over something while the black haired one just blows out the candles she was using to read.
The other side of the room REALLY catches my attention though; a girl with long purple hair with a massive drill for a weapon is yelling at someone who (from what I can tell) asked her to take the drill off, as it was really large, about a foot in width, and two in length... she looks like she`s about to impale the poor kid before a large guy built like a comic book super hero with short brown hair comes over and convinces her to just move over to the corner of the ballroom with him.
I finally find my goggles and out them in so I can sleep...
R
I set myself down as far away from a certain group of shirtless guy who keep wrestling, the last thing I need is to be spattered with some idiots sweat while I try to sleep, I set down in a corner with some other girls who seem asleep already, and so it should be nice and quiet...
It was quiet at first... but then the girl sleeping beside me started mumbling, at first it didn`t bother me, I was used to mumbling people from when I lived with Anna, but then it got weird; she started shifting around and her blanket falls off, she wasn`t wearing pajamas, just her underwear... her tight frilly underwear... I roll over and look away because this is getting weird when I feel her wrap her arms around me, I nearly scream but for some reason I can`t, the girl mumbles something; "Sona... I ha n a nightmare... can I slee wi you..." I try to tell her I'm not Sona, but she's already asleep, and my lips won't move, I couldn't speak... I guess I will just have to endure... I suppose it's not too bad.
... WHAT THE F$%K!? What is this!? You're writing a canonical yuri scene about me?! Ok Rene, calm down and I'll explain. Oohohoo, THIS should be good. Okay, firstly; yuri is the Japanese word for lesbian intercourse or implied intercourse, not just contact. Secondly, it's meant for comedic effect, you don't like physical contact, or people in general, so being in a situation where you're stuck in prolonged physical contact, with a scantily clad girl nonetheless, so it's a joke, I didn't make you describe her slender, curved figure or monologue about her soft skin as you felt the flesh of her ample bosom against your back... I may have a problem. ... Her soft skin... Rene? Buwah? I mean; fine, she can sleep beside me, but I'm not sleeping with her baka. Alright, alright... did you just say 'baka'? SHUT UP! BACK TO STORY!
N+N
I was afraid to sleep with so many people surrounding me, but I met a nice Faunas girl with bunny ears who said I could sleep by her a few feet away from the other students, I don't see why people seem too hate Faunas, there really sweet... I'm sorry I can't tell a longer story... I'm tired.
D
I walked into the room, and I went to sleep, what more do you want from me?
I really hope you start putting actual effort into Desmond soon... Don't worry, now that I finally slapped this together; I can work on finishing the 'Emerald forest' chapter so I can write a big epic battle scene, eeYUSH! Was that even English? Probably not, new chapter soon... I hope...