Welcome to the New World

Ernesto awoke, covered in a thick sheet. He glanced down at his hand, seeing it bandaged he frowned, before looking over to each side, there he saw three people asleep in the chairs against the wall to his right. He recognized them as his friends before he stated, "You know, I never tried to be a mummy for Halloween, even before I knew that the animated version of the exists."

That startled his friends awake. Bianca was the first to speak, "How's it going?" she hesitantly asked.

"Pretty well, I think it might be those drugs they gave me, or maybe the nerves just burnt off my hand. Wait, no, it must be the drugs, I can still make my fingers twitch." Ernesto raised his left and watched as it twitched. He heard the door open on his left. He looked over and stared for a moment at the nurse. She had bunny ears. He stared for a while, quite quickly the nurse picked up on it.

"Oh, so I guess you're one of the faunus hating people that are around a lot these days." she crossed her arms, a fiery, angry blush spread across her face.

Ernesto quickly picked up the fact that she referred to herself as a faunus, and made a connection that it was probably a species. He did all that in under three seconds before saying, "No, in fact I think those ears make you quite cute."

The angry blush was replaced with an embarrassed flush. "Oh, sorry about that, I'm Janice Scarlatina." she stated sheepishly.

"S'okay. I would shake your hand, but one is all wrapped up and the other is kind of stuck under my head." was all he replied.

He waited as the nurse checked his hand, then the iv that was hanging to his right. He glanced at his friends before stating, "So, I guess you already sold some of the gold, along with found a hotel or somewhere to stay."

They nodded, before Roman spoke up, "You've been out for a few days, are you sure you're all right?"

"Fine, fine. Though I am a little bored, I guess I can work on the project I've wanted to do for a while. Well, I can if one of you would bring me my book."

Roman frowned before Daisy started, "Well, how long do you think you're gonna stay like that? Also, how can you be so calm, your damned hand is burnt up!?"

Ernesto frowned, before saying "I don't know, I think it just hasn't set in yet. Also, with magical backlash, it's near impossible to heal magically and medically, if anything, I'm very lucky that it only got my left hand, my non-dominant hand, it could have been very worse, I could have died."

They were silent for a moment, before Ernesto spoke up again, "Four, maybe five days before we leave this place. Just so you know though. I honestly didn't expect to be knocked out for a few days."

"Why? Why mention that you wouldn't expect to be knocked out?" asked Roman.

"Well," Ernesto chuckled nervously, "It's now, very likely that we may not be able to go back."

"WHAT!?" all three of his friends shouted out at once.

"The magic that was used in the spell was known as event magic, basically, it involves an important event in the magician's life, and uses the emotions to fuel the spell. Birthdays, anniversaries, magical dates such as Halloween and Christmas. The closer it is to the actual time the event started, the more powerful a magician's magic is. So, for example, we used my birthday as the event. Meaning we had a 24 hour window of time starting at 9:40 pm. Since I was out for a few days the window of time closed, so we're stuck here, at least, until another important event comes up in my life. Also the longer the time from the first time they experienced the event, the more magic will be put into it as well. Since it was my 17th birthday, my magic was far stronger than it is if I instead used the first day I unlocked my magic, which was five years ago. There is also the fact that, there is indeed a more larger window of time, but it's more risky." From the looks he was getting from them, he had better explain quickly, or else the next time the bunny nurse came back, they would find blood stains on the wall. "The magic I use will most likely stay around for another year or so. So that means on my next birthday we can go home."

They gaped before Bianca murmured, "Another year?"

Ernesto nodded, solemnly.

"Well, we might as well make the most of it, when you're healed up of course."

A few days later

Ernesto looked at the doctor as he handed him a ball. "And what am I supposed to do with this?"

"If you can squeeze it at least 20 times with your burnt hand, I'll release you from this hospital." stated the human doctor.

Ernesto glanced at the ball, then back to the doctor, "So basically, it's a bribe to get me to leave?"

"If that's how you want to take it."

Ernesto stared blankly at the doctor as he squeezed the ball 20 times. The doctor sighed before muttering, "Well, a deal is a deal. Come with me and we'll check you out." Ernesto jumped from the bed and quickly stripped, put on the clothes that were laying on the chair (A dark blue muscleman shirt, and a pair of black jeans, along with a bright brick red jacket) and followed the doctor. He signed himself out, before walking out the front door. He frowned as he looked around, before walking down the street. He found the place he was looking for a small apartment building. As he walked up the steps to the rooms on the top floor he hummed to himself.

He reached the room he was looking for, and knocked. There was a noise and the door opened up to see who it was. The door closed immediately, and there was the sound of a chain being pulled from a lock, before it opened again showing Roman, wearing only a pair of jeans.

"Put a shirt on, nobody wants to see you naked." said Ernesto, not even phased.

"Well jeez, sometimes I like to think that some people do, well, I think most girls think that way." stated Roman, a smirk across his face. It was true though, Roman was ripped, he had muscles that only people who exercised often have.

"Still, I don't think another guy wants to see a guy naked, at least, not me."

"Oh, you sure about that?" asked Roman, flexing.

"Positive." deadpanned Ernesto.

"You know, we got some forms from a place called Beacon. Apparently one of their spotters saw us fight off some goons that were harassing us."

"Oh really? What is Beacon?"

"From what I gathered, it's one of the prestigious schools of hunters and huntresses." A raised eyebrow was all it took for Roman to keep talking. "Apparently there are these creatures, Grimm, that attack people, it's the hunter's/huntresses jobs to keep the people safe."

"So, it's like an elite guard?"

"Something like that."

"So are we going for it?"

"I don't see why not," seeing that Ernesto was about to disapprove of the plan Roman continued, "Also I heard that Beacon had the best library in the world, or should I say of this world?"

The thing is about Ernesto, is he's crazy and absolutely insane about learning new things. Despite Ernesto's weak looking stature, he's can be quite a power house if something got in the way of his reading or learning

Roman still felt sore from one particular beating and he was a professional boxer.

He still wasn't quite sure what happened.

"Well, what are we waiting for, let's go fill it out."

They answered the question, and with Ernesto's medical report, they put in the right date they were born and date they finished the form. ("Besides, it would be embarrassing if we put in the wrong year, 'Oh yes, it says here you were born in blah-blah, but your 17 years old!'")

They looked over each others forms, and they ran into one problem, Ernesto's occupation. "You can't put 'Adept Wizard' in occupation!"

"Oh, yeah? What did you put?"

"Teacher."

Ernesto looked at him, before a snort of laughter escaped from him, "What are you teaching?"

"Boxing classes."

"Okay, that I can see, you might was to add the word boxing before teacher."

"Still, you need a job."

"I could be a private I!"

"And then you'll legally change your name to Harry Dresden, have a cat named Mister and a talking skull named Bob."

"How did you know?! No, but seriously, I could be a Private Investigator. With some of the locating spell I have, I could scour the entire world to look for that person along with items."

"Fine, but you'll have to get a license for it won't you?"

"Yeah, don't worry, I'll try to get one tomorrow or the day after. Just remind me to do so. Or maybe I'll join one that's already existing. In fact, I'll do that now."

A Few Hours Later

"Alright, I got the job!"

"What?! Already?"

"Yep!"

"How?"

"I solved a case that was thought to be unsolvable."

"What was it?"

"A missing person's case, disappeared without a trace, no stuggle around the place where he was taken. The actual police were called when we heard screams from a warehouse. Four mobsters caught beating a young man. He was tied to a chair, bruised and bloodied when we saved him. Met his wife and kids when I helped him to the hospital. Nice family. I used my magic on a piece of the victim's hair."

He said all that with a tone of nonchalance. It was kind of sad, except for that fact that most people involved with magic have seen some things worse. People that supposedly died of unknown causes, magical residue was found on them. Psychological trauma was even worse, it was much more vivid than what some people could do physically, and it stayed when the magical user Saw what it was. Always fresh in the magician's mind.

Roman nodded before he wrote in 'Private Investigator' in the occupation box for Ernesto. "So, how much you get?"

"Oh, a few hundred Lien. Apparently nobody decided to tell me what the currency was called." Ernesto leveled a glare at Roman, who chuckled nervously.

The door opened behind them. They turned and saw Bianca walk towards them, and stopped, "So they got tired of you Ernesto?"

"Yeah, they seemed rather glad to let me out of there."

"So," She stated after chuckling, "what are you guys doing?"

"Oh, we just finished filling out Ernesto's Beacon Academy form."

"Really? What did he put for occupation? Adept Wizard?"

Ernesto sat down on the couch and pouted as Roman laughed at him. "Well, if you must know, not even one hour ago, I became a private investigator."

Bianca blinked before stating "So where's the cat, or the talking skull?"

"I don't know, do you think a talking book would count?"

"Sure."

"Then I have half of what is needed."

They all started to laugh. Before Daisy came in. Repeat same conversation.

"So then, do we have all we need to go to Beacon?" asked Ernesto.

"Yeah I think so, now all we need to do is send the forms." said Daisy, smiling.

"Nice! How long will it be until we go to school again?"

"Let's see, it says it starts in about a month."

"Alright then, until then!"

The month went fast, Ernesto got a few new cases, one of which he was partnered with the local police to destroy a smuggling ring. He was paid extra for that, as dozens of animals were shipped back either to zoos or their natural habitats, along with a few dozen faunus slaves rescued. Ernesto was quickly gaining a reputation, for both himself, and for his agency. Roman kept teaching his boxing classes. Bianca and Daisy got jobs as a clerk to the same Dust store. Which was basically a chemical compound that people mined an energy source. They contain powers quite like Ernesto's ability to store a power into a gemstone.

It was also during this time that Ernesto upgraded Roman's gloves. Now on the back of the hands were triangles with three runes at each point. Ernesto refused to explain what they did.

There was a problem near the end of the month however. While Ernesto and Roman were visiting Bianca and Daisy, their store had taken a part in an attempted robbery. There was the sound of a gun being loaded and Roman felt cold metal pressed into the back of his head. Roman frowned as he put his hands up, however, he did have his gloves on, and Ernesto had his staff. They suddenly heard a girls voice ask, "Are you trying to rob me?"

There was the sound of something crashing through glass, and when the man with the guns to their heads turned to look over at it, both Ernesto and Roman went into action. Quickly turning, Roman slammed a fist into the man's stomach, there was a whoosh of air, and the man went flying. Ernesto swung his staff in his right hand, knocking the gun to the floor before planting the end of it into the man's chest. He muttered "Ventus!" under his breath, and the man went flying with his partner. They raced outside, and they watched as the girl chased a man that was climbing up a ladder to the rooftop.

Ernesto was faster, as he reached the bottom of the ladder, he exclaimed "Qui flare fecit ventum!*" a strong gust of wind lifted him up towards the top of the room.

"Dammit Ernesto!" Roman pounded a fist into the ground, and was taken by surprise when he was lifted into the air. "Whoa!" He flailed his arms underneath him to catch him and another gust of wind lifted him up. 'I wonder,' though Roman, he continued punching towards the ground and watched in awe as he was lifted into the air. When they reached the rooftop, they saw a helicopter flying in the air. Since Ernesto was the first one up, he raised his staff towards the helicopter and shouted, "Ignis!" a five inch thick cone of fire was released from the staff, and hit the side of the helicopter. Suddenly, the girl from before was beside him, along with Roman. They saw the outline of a woman before a ball of fire went towards them. Without thinking Ernesto stepped forwards and raised his left hand.

It was not needed, suddenly strange glyphs surrounded them. They blocked the fire from hitting them, while smoke covered the area, Ernesto placed his left hand in his pocket to hide the burns. Before them stood a woman with platinum blond hair tied in a bun, sending a cold glare towards them. Her clothing showed off some of her chest, and she wore a business skirt with it.

Later

"That was dumb and irresponsible." Glynda Goodwtich stated, after a few minutes of grilling them of what happened.

Meanwhile Roman muttered under his breath, "Great it's like I'm back in school again."

The young girl, whose name they learned was Ruby, giggled at that. Before there was a sharp crack and the all sat rigid in their chairs. "There is someone here, who would like to meet you." She sent a pointed glare at Roman. "All of you."

From the doorway a man appeared, carrying a plate of cookies with him. He talked to Ruby for a moment or so, before turning towards Ernesto, "And you, where did you learn this?"

On the screen behind him, a video was being shown, Ernesto was racing towards the side of the building before he was suddenly shot up in the air, then again when he shot the beam of fire at the helicopter. "My grandfather, it's sad, but he's no longer with us." stated Ernesto, which was the truth, his grandfather was not in this world, so he is technically not with him.

"And you, where did you get those gloves and learn that fighting style?"

"The gloves where a gift from him," Roman stated gesturing towards Ernesto, "and I learned how to fight like that from my father. Who is no longer with us." Again, technically.

They both turned to Ruby, and they watched in awe as she finished the cookies. There was enough on there for all of them, yet she ate them all in a minute or so. She explained that she was from Signal Academy and that she wanted to be a huntress. It was then that Ernesto figured out where he saw this man from before at the same time as Roman.

"Aren't you Ozzy Osbourne?" asked Roman, before chuckling.

"No, he's professor Ozpin. The headmaster of the school we sent our forms to. Beacon Academy. Besides, Osbourne doesn't have grey hair, yet."

"And who are you?"

"Aww, don't you know? I already have a reputation here, but..."

"Ah, now I know, you're Ernesto Greene, Private Investigator, solved a missing person's report and stopped a smuggling ring."

"Got it in one. Not many people recognize me, thinks I'm taller or something. Maybe older."

"Well, I'll guess I'll see you at Beacon then." He turned to look at Ruby, "All of you."

Two Days Later

Ernesto and Roman groaned as the ship took flight. Ernesto reached into his pocket before pulling out a small bottle, he opened the bottle and took a pill from it, as did Roman. He looked to the side and saw a blond boy having the same problem as them. He pulled out another pill and handed it to the boy, before saying "It's supposed to calm your stomach."

The boy nodded his thanks as the took the pill. An hour or so later, they landed. They both stumbled from the airship, and tried not to vomit as Bianca and Daisy stood behind them.

"Come on! We're going to be late!" exclaimed Daisy

"Yeah! Let's go!" they then proceeded to drag the two boys as they clutched their stomachs.

They entered the main room, listened to the speech as it grew dark out, and they all went to bed in the other room. They all had a sleeping bag and they changed into their pajamas. Ernesto's was black pants with a muscleman shirt. Bianca's was a light red sleeping gown that went down to her shins. Daisy was a yellow shirt and yellow pants. Roman slept in his clothes. "Goodnight guys!" called Ernesto to his friends, they all mumbled back a sleepy 'goodnight' and they all fell asleep awaiting the next day and what will come with it.

*Please note that I used google translate for some of the spells, If any of you could point me to another site that has better latin translator thing, then please, tell me in the reviews. Also it you see any mistakes please tell me and I will try to fix them later.