Chapter 3

The Shining Beacon Pt. 2

Jason, Jaune, and Ruby finally make it to the auditorium. Yang and Niko notice them walking in and call them over.

"Yo, Jason, Ruby over here! We saved you a spot!" Niko called out.

Jason sees and turns to Jaune, " Oh, sorry gotta go! See ya Jaune!" Jason says to Jaune.

"Yeah, see you after the ceremony!" Ruby said and they both ran over to their friends.

"Hey wait!" Jaune calls out, then sighs, "Great, where am I supposed to find another nice quirky girl and cool, friendly sidekick to talk to!" he says in frustration. As he walk of he is oblivious to the fact that a redheaded girl was looking at him.

"How's your first day going guys?" Yang asks.

"Well it's been fine for me, but it's been kind of rough for Ruby here." Jason says.

"What do you mean?" asked Nathan. "Well, first of Yang here ditched her, then she … exploded." Jason said.

"Yikes meltdown already?" Yang said with a worried look. "No, he mean I literally exploded a hole in front of the school! There was a fire and I think some ice." she said trying to recall.

"Are you being sarcastic?" Yang said not believing a word her sister said.

"Uhg, I wish! I tripped over some crabby girl's luggage!" Ruby starts explaining.

Jason notices that Weiss girl creep up behind Ruby. He reaches a hand out to tap Ruby's shoulder to warn her, but she is so into explaining to Yang that she ignored him.

"And then she yelled at me! And then I sneezed. And then I exploded! And then she yelled at me again." Ruby continued.

As she said this the girl got ever so much closer and Jason frantically tried to get Ruby's attention but to no avail.

"And I felt really, really bad! And I just wanted her to stop yelling at me!"

"Ruby!"

"Yes?" No sooner did Ruby turn around did the white haired girl point a finger at her and yell.

"You!"

"Oh, god its happening again!" Ruby cried out in panic as she jumped into Jason's arms then blushes andhops back to the ground, he face was redder than before, "Sorry!". "It's alright," Jason said his face burning up as well

"You were lucky we weren't blown of the side of a cliff!" Weiss yelled.

"Oh my god you really exploded!" Yang said in realization.

"It was an accident! It was an accident!" Ruby cried out.

Wiess brings out a brochure title "Dust for Dummies and Other Inadequate Individuals".

Ruby looks at her questioningly, "What's this?" Jason asks. Weiss takes a deep breath then starts to recite.

"The Schnee Dust Company is not responsible for any injuries or damage sustained while operating a Schnee dust company product. Although not mandatory, the Schnee Family highly encourages their costumers to read and familiarize themselves with this easy-to-follow guide to Dust application and practice in the field." As she speaks she starts to talk faster until her words blend together into one and her tone starts to gain a higher pitch.

Ruby looks up from the brochure confused as to what Weiss just said

"Uhhh…?"

"You really want to start making things up to me?" Weiss asked

"Absolutely!" Ruby said.

"Read this and don't ever speak to me again." Weiss answered.

"Look sounds like you guys just got off the wrong foot" Niko said

"Yeah, so why don't you just start all over and be friends, okay?" Yang said.

"Yeah! Great idea sis!" Ruby says as she turns to Weiss, she sticks out her hand and says,

"Hello Weiss, I'm Ruby! Wanna hang out? We can go shopping for school supplies together." Ruby says sincerely.

"Yeah, and we can paint our nails, and try on clothes, and talk about cute boys like tall, blonde, and scraggly over there" she said in a sarcastic tone as she gestures towards Jaune with her thumb. Ruby, not hearing the sarcasm dripping from Weiss' voice looked excited and asked,

"Oh wow, really?"

Weiss looks at her with a stern expression and flatly says, "No."

At that moment Professor Ozpin steped onto the stage and cleared his throat to get everyone's attention,

"I'll keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge. To hone you craft and acquire new skills. And when you finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people." As he says this Ruby grins and looks to Yang, Niko, Jason, and Weiss.

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

Yang flips her hair over her shoulder as the group all look at each other. Ozpins steps of the stage and Glynda takes the microphone,

"You will gather in the ballroom tonight. Tomorrow your initiation begins. Be ready. You are dismissed!" she, too then walks of the stage leaving the group to wonder about the speech.

"He seemed kind of off… almost as if he wasn't there." Yang said.

Just then Jaune walks up to Weiss.

"I'm a natural blond, you know!" he says which causes Weiss to faceplam.

Beacon: Ballroom

The ballroom is crowded as Jason and Niko walk in with their pajamas on, carrying their sleeping bags. Jason wearing a slate colored shirt and slate blue pants, and Nathan wearing a green tank top, to show off his biceps, and dark green shorts.

"So… where do you wanna sleep?" Jason asked Niko though he already knew the answer before his friend even said anything. Nathan points at Yang and Ruby as Ruby throws a pillow at Yang for saying something.

"Let's sleep there." Niko said

Jason can't help but snicker at his friends look, " Alright, but don't do anything stupid." They see Ruby throw another pillow at Yang.

"Sup", calls out Niko as they arrive.

"Hey guys!" said Ruby and Yang.

"So what you doing Rubes?" asked Jason

"Writing letters to friends back home." Ruby says

Jason smiles and ruffles Ruby's hair,

"You miss them already?"

She shakes off his hand and grumbles.

"It's not like I could bring my friends with me to Beacon!" Ruby says

"It's weird not knowing anyone here."

"What about Jaune? He's nice." Yang asks, "And don't forget about us!" Niko said

"Yeah, see! Plus three friends! That's a three hundred percent increase!" Yang said cheerfully.

"I think Weiss counts as a negative friend. Back to zero" Ruby said sadly as she lays on her back.

"Come on kid, there's no such thing as a negative friend. You just made one friend and one enemy." Jason said to try to make his friend feel better.

"And can you stop calling me 'kid'? I'm only one year younger than you!" Ruby said annoyed.

"Whatever you say… kid." Jason said with a smile as he dodges a pillow thrown by Ruby.

"Look it's only been one day. Trust, me you got friends all around you. You just haven't met then yet." Yang said.

Ruby rolls over onto her back and stares at the sealing then she looks over to the wall where a girl with yellow eyes and black hair is sitting reading a book.

"That girl…" Ruby said

"What you know her?" asked Niko.

"Not really, we just met her in the courtyard after Ruby blew up." Jason answered

"Why not go talk to her?" Yang says as she drags Ruby away.

Jason smiles and rolls his eyes as he and Nathan prepare to sleep he saw a familiar face one sleeping bag away from him.

He got up walk over to the raven haired girl. He walked over to her and waved,

"Hey, you're the girl from this morning right?" he asked

She looked up from her book,

"Why yes and you're the boy from this morning." she said.

"Uh… yeah my names Jason," he then gestures at the rest of his friends, "that's Ruby, Yang, and Niko."

The girl raises an eyebrow, "Do you really think its wise to tell a stranger the name of all you friends?" she asked

"Meh, if you mess with them you gotta get through me first." he said. He then looks down at her, "So what's you name," he asked.

She looked at him with her onyx black eyes for a moment then said "My name is Olivia, Olivia Qi." she said cautiously.

Jason grinned and stuck out his hand, "Nice to meet you Olivia."

She shook his hand just as he hears and argument break out behind him. He turns to see Weiss and Yang arguing.

He groans and was about to go over to stop then when three shots rang out through the air. He followed the bullet trails to see a girl dressed in bright purple holding a purple revolver, and she did not look to happy, "Hey idiots we're trying to sleep here." She shouted.

Jason can't help but roll his eyes, 'I'm pretty sure you just woke everyone in the room.' He wanted to shout, but decided to keep it to himself. He turns forward the group who still looked a bit shocked at what just happened. He turn to the girl sitting by the wall with the candles, "So... nice to meet you, whats your name?"

"Blake Belladonna" she said.

"So, Blake I think we should, you know, lights out." he said in a whisper.

She nodded and blew out the candles with a 'whoosh'.