Violet had just left the small ceremony that she and the other students from Signal had to endure. She thought it was nice, though she couldn't wait to get it over with so she could go to her new school: Beacon Academy!
As she boarded the airship, she looked around at the other students. There were somewhere around fifty or so, and not all of them looked to be from Signal.
Well, that's obvious. You've got people from Sanctum, Signal, Bastion, and Herald coming to Beacon. She thought.
There was a quiet boy with a pink hair streak, and a bubbly girl talking his ear off over by the window. She saw a young blonde boy sitting down and clutching his stomach.
"I don't want to be any kind of knees!" Violet heard. She turned around to see...
"Ruby?" She whispered to herself. She used to be friends with that girl, but over time they drifted apart. This didn't make sense, Ruby was two years behind schedule. How could she be going to Beacon? Well, it's nice to see old friends again, but Violet was wondering if she could make some new ones.
"Hey there." She heard, then turned around to see another student. He was a boy with dark red hair, who wore an outfit that had lots of crimson and white on it.
"Uh, hey." She shuffled a little awkwardly.
"Wow, Vale is really cool! I mean, we don't have airships where I come from." The boy continued. This peaked Violet's curiosity.
"No airships?" She asked.
"Nope."
"Oh, well, uh, where're you from?" She persisted.
"I don't know what your kingdom calls the place, but where I come from, it's called the Dragon Lands." The boy told her.
The Dragon Lands?
"Well, I don't know where that is." She looked down awkwardly.
"Oh well, I'm Ross by the way." The boy revealed to be Ross thrust out his hand.
"Violet." She shook his hand, then turned to the window.
"Wow. I bet you could see your house from here." Ross joked.
"Oh, no. I live on the fringes of Vale. No way you could see it."
"Oh. Well, now we both know where the other came from." Ross smiled, he was breathless from the view before him.
"Your Kingdom is beautiful." He said, making Violet turn to him awkwardly.
Wow, this guy must have came from the middle of nowhere. She thought.
Behind them, two boys were about to get in a fight.
"Call me a freak one more time, I dare you!" Xavier yelled, grabbing the handle of FLLFFL.
"Oh look, the animal's feisty!" The boy with auburn hair, blue eyes, and a full suit of armor taunted. "I'll bet this mutt's got more bark than bite!" Another taunted.
Xavier's blade started to slide out of its sheathe when a hand stopped him.
A gloomy looking girl with her face in a book groaned. "Try not to get expelled before we even get to the school."
Wow, she's hot! Xavier thought as he examined her.
She had long black hair and a large black bow. Her clothes were a mixture of formal and gothic attire, and a pistol sword in a bladed sheathe was holstered on her back.
"B-but he-"
"Look, I don't like their ignorance either, but this isn't the way to go about it." She said, moving her eyes away from her book briefly, revealing them to be a bright yellow. She spoke with calm authority.
"Why defend a stupid Faun-" The bully was cut off by a boy with blonde hair and small armor plating, stumbling between the three of them.
"Uhh?" Xavier questioned, just before the boy threw up all over the floor!
"Oh god!" Xavier backed away, the girl leapt back almost like a cat, and the bully got it all over his leg!
"You're gonna pay for that!" The bully growled as he grabbed the blonde boy by his hoodie.
"Wrruhh..." The boy made a strange exhausted noise before being thrown to the floor next to his own vomit.
The bully stomped away, and Xavier and the girl made sure to go their separate ways.
This boy wasn't making any attempt to get up, and he just stared at the ceiling.
A girl and her brother saw this, and they both had different feelings towards it.
"Wow, what a loser." Forest Goldwin mocked as he leaned against the wall, trying to look cool.
"I think not, motion sickness is actually quite a common problem, and I'm surprised that he was the only student on board with this reaction." His younger sister Tanya said, adjusting her glasses as she spoke.
"Wow, you are such a nerd." Forest mocked as he pulled out his scroll.
"Perhaps, but at least I was allowed entry into Beacon before the likes of you ever would have been." She taunted in her intellectual voice.
Forest simply grumbled as the airship neared its destination.
As the students departed from the airship, the boy sprinted out to a trash can before releasing another load of vomit.
"Gross." Violet commented as she walked by.
"So, where do we go now?" Ross asked her.
The two both shrugged.
"Amphitheater?" Violet thought aloud.
"Is there an amphitheater?" Ross asked
"I don't know, let's ask around." Violet suggested
"I don't think any of the other new students would know either."
"Oh, yeah, you're right."
Violet and Ross just stood there, observing all the students as they walked by, taking in the huge welcoming appearance of Beacon Academy.
"I think following the other student might be a goo-"
Boom!
Violet and Ross's attention was stolen by a crater formed in the center of the plaza! There was ice, fire, lightning, all kinds of elements!
Sitting at the center of it was a prissy looking girl with a lot of white on, and none other than Ruby Rose.
Violet groaned.
"She always used to do things like that." She told Ross as they watched the girl in white scream at Ruby. Another girl in black, the one that stopped the fight on the airship by the looks of it, stepped up and started to talk to the two of them. After a short talk, the two left, leaving only Ruby laying defeatedly in the center of her crater.
"I think we should help her." Ross said, beginning to walk over.
"No, wait, someone's already on it." Violet pointed to none other than Vomit Boy, offering Ruby a hand.
"Ah." Ross deadpanned.
"Wait, you know her?" He asked, turning to Violet. "Oh, uh. Yeah, I used to." Violet answered. "We were friends a few years back, but over time we just kinda, you know, stopped being friends..."
"Well, I'll try not to 'stop being friends' with you." Ross assured, placing a hand on her shoulder.
"Wait, did you just say we're friends?" Violet asked.
Ross nodded. "I mean, we're able to tolerate and hold a conversation for longer than five minutes, so we must be friends."
Violet giggled. "Yeah, though your 'everything is so amazing' thing you got going is starting to get annoying."
Ross chuckled and shook his head, "I'll try to keep it to myself then."
Elsewhere, Xavier skulked around, invisible.
He'd been stalking his prey he'd met on the airship for at least an hour now.
Cardin Winchester, he said his name was. He thought as he trailed invisibly ten feet behind Cardin.
Cardin looked around, he'd felt he was being followed, then he continued.
I'm gonna break this guy's arms first, then I'm gonna break his legs, then I'll send him crawling to Ozpin, but he'll have no idea who did it because he never saw who was doing it! He thought sadistically as he rounded a corner, ready to charge in and assault the young man.
"I don't understand why you continuously attempt to get rid of me. I am your sister!" A loud voice called from behind the two boys. Cardin turned around, though he didn't see Xavier.
A short girl followed around a boy with similar features to her, wearing green attire in place of her brown and tan.
"My god! You are the most annoying little girl in the entire school! Being around you makes me look like a complete loser!" The boy growled at her.
"But Forest, we've been together for-"
"I don't care Tanya!" The boy stormed off, leaving a confused Cardin, a saddened Tanya, and an annoyed Xavier.
Cardin began to continue walking, and Xavier would have taken his chance to attack him. But, the girl started to cry.
Oh come on! That's not fair! I'm a sucker for crying girls! Xavier yelled in his head!
He had a choice to continue his hunt, or help someone in need.
This jerk deserves a beat down. He told himself as he turned to continue his prowl. But, that girl really needs someone...
Xavier felt pretty conflicted. You know, if I attack this idiot, I'm no better than the White Fang. He told himself, then turned to approach the crying girl.
Cardin was out of sight by this point.
Xavier sighed and returned to visibility, then he approached the crying girl.
"Hey." He said simply, throwing a quick nod.
She didn't react, but just continued sniffling.
"I said 'hey'!" He said a bit louder, startling her but catching her attention.
She looked at him funny, and shifted awkwardly.
"Uh, don't worry about your brother, he, uh, he seems like a jerk."
Tanya just looked at him, but her tears stopped.
"I apologize." She whimpered.
"Huh?" Xavier was confused.
"I apologize for crying in your presence, it is not professional, and it isn't necessary to show the way I feel through outbursts such as crying." She said in a half sad, half intellectual voice.
What is up with this girl? Xavier wondered.
"Well, crying isn't that bad. It's good to cry sometimes." He assured her, "I won't judge you for letting out your feelings."
She nodded sadly, then took her glasses off to clean them.
"So, Tanya was it?" He asked her, receiving an affirmative nod.
"Do you know where we're supposed to go?"
"I think it's down this way." She said after getting her emotions back under control.
The two of them started down the hall and off toward the auditorium.
As soon as all the students where in the massive auditorium, Professor Ozpin stepped forward toward the mic.
"I'll keep this brief," He began as he adjusted his glasses.
"I'll...keep this brief." He began as he adjusted his glasses.
"You have traveled here today in search of knowledge, to hone your craft and acquire new skills. When you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people."
All the students were nodding and murmuring.
"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."
Violet and Ross contemplated his words.
"Well, he was brief about it, like he said he'd be." Ross shrugged.
"So, we're not gonna just become hunters by sitting around and suffering class. We're gonna have to get off our butts and do things." She explained more to herself than Ross.
They were to go to the Ballroom and sleep there until the next day. There was a mention of teams, and everyone instantly went to go find allies.
This year was shaping up to be an interesting one...
BOOM! First Chapter done!
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Next up: What's this about teams?