As the airship slowed to a stop I stirred in my seat, briefly glancing out the window to verify the location as being Beacon Academy. 'Nothing could ruin this moment', I thought to myself, before a blonde male streaked past quickly exiting the ship and vanishing before horrible retching sounds could be heard, 'except, maybe that.' I shuddered before following the crowd and took my first steps to becoming a fully-fledged Hunter. I gazed in awe in no sooner than ten steps when my eyes were drawn to the Academy; it was massive in scale and looked extremely well-kept. I passed a couple of girls roughly my age, the one in the red hood clutching the others arm, a blonde maybe a year or two older than her and dressed mainly in brown with some yellow, and jabbering away excitedly about the different weapons the other students were wielding.

I hung back from the crowds outside of Beacon before I heard the sound of an argument, I watched from a distance as the hooded girl from before was being berated by an older girl wearing primarily white and with hair to match, evidently Hood had knocked over the Princess' suitcases and was really getting a mouthful. I had to suppress a laugh as Princess began shaking a vial of Dust, creating a cloud, obviously trying to make a point before Hood sneezed, causing the Dust to react and explode, scorching Princess and leaving a crater in the ground. The vial of Dust rolled away and my eyes followed it until it bumped against the left leg of-'Another Faunus, maybe this will be an eventful 4 years' I silently prayed to myself. The Faunus picked up the vial and examined it after spending a moment lingering over a passage from her book, before looking over to see the argument. She began to walk over and I followed suite, hoping to find out what this was about. I was several feet slower, when I heard the Faunus, "It's Heiress, actually", correcting someone, this piqued my curiosity, "Weiss Schnee", 'so, Princess is actually an Heiress called Weiss, need to remember that', "Heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, one of the largest producers of energy propellant in the world".

So I assume most of, if not all of, her suitcases are filled with these Vials. "Finally", she began proudly, "some recognition." before glaring at Hood.

"The same company infamous for its controversial labour forces and questionable business partners".

"What-How dare-The nerve of-", Weiss was obviously surprised at the insult to her family company and couldn't find words to retaliate with, instead choosing to sigh angrily before grabbing the dust Vial still being held by Cat, nicknames go a long way, and walking away, leaving her butlers/manservants to pick up her suitcases and place them back on the trolley.

Cat snuck away without Hood noticing, leaving me the only other one there, "I promise I'll make this up to you", Hood yelled after the departing Heiress, before sighing, "I guess I'm not the only one having a rough first day", turning to where she thought her saviour was, "So what's-". Not realising I was behind her and her saviour was walking away. She sighed dejectedly and fell to the ground while closing her eyes and mumbling, "Welcome to Beacon".

I bent down and my shadow fell on her face causing her to open her eyes and look at the source. I extended a hand, "Hi there, I'm Fang", she took the extended hand and as I helper her up she introduced herself.

"Ruby".

There were footsteps beside us and we turned, seeing Vomit Boy from the airship. "Hi, um, I'm Jaune".

I nodded to him and Ruby smiled before re-introducing herself and then gave a small snort before saying what I was thinking. "Aren't you the guy who threw up on the plane?"

The three of us walked on and while Ruby and Jaune chatted away I mused over the likelihood that either of them felt distrust towards the Faunus species as a whole, 'Can't just come out of nowhere and say something like "Hey, what are your attitudes and feelings towards the Faunus?", that would be cause for distrust and I hadn't even got to know either yet, might leave it and find out through other means.'

"All I'm saying is that motion sickness is a much more common problem than people let on". Jaune's voice snapped me out of my trance as he attempted to justify his previous vomiting.

"Look, I'm sorry, Vomit Boy was the first thing to come to mind". Ruby answered back.

"Oh yeah, what if I called you Crater Face."

"Nice burn", I began setting up the punchline, "Though not as good as the one Ruby gave Weiss, am I right?" We high fived as Ruby began to get defiant.

"Hey, that explosion was an accident."

"Well the name's Jaune Arc, short, sweet, rolls off the tongue—ladies love it."

"Do they?" Ruby asked, sceptically.

"Yeah Jaune, 'cos you're just being swarmed by women now aren't you?" I piped up, thinking how I've managed to be part of a conversation for this long without personal questions popping up.

"They will", Jaune became slightly crestfallen, "I hope they will, I mean my Mom always says-never mind".

I quickly zoned out of the conversion before a noise drew my attention as a loud thud resounded across the area, nearly sending my hands to my ears. "Whoa, is that a scythe?" Jaune stepped back in shock.

The proud wielder of the weapon grinned joyously, "It's also a customizable, high impact, sniper rifle".

"Uh- what?"

"A gun, Jaune". I contributed, "Y'know, PEW PEW, BANG BANG, you're dead."

"Funny, but that's cool".

My focus again drifted away as I noticed the distinct lack of students. "Guys, uh, hate to break up the bonding over weapons, but where is everyone?"

"You think there might be a directory? A food court, some kind of recognisable landmark?" This elicited a giggle from Ruby, "Is that a no?"

"That's a no, Jaune."

We found the rest of the students as Ruby was called over by the blonde girl from earlier, "I gotta go, see you after the ceremony"

"Hey wait". Jaune's cry fell on deaf ears. "Oh, great, just me and-Hey where are you going?"

I paused mid-step, "I was going to move closer to get a better view."

A microphone switched on and silence fell across the crowd as a man cleared his throat. "I'll, keep this brief." Headmaster/Professor Ozpin began. "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." For a moment his eyes lingered on me in particular, not surprising considering he is one of the two in the entire Academy who know my past, the other being is second, Glynda Goodwitch, huntress of supposedly unparalleled power. "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."

Ozpin walked off and Goodwitch stepped up to the mic, "You will gather in the ballroom tonight, tomorrow your initiation begins. Be ready. You are dismissed."

It soon became dark and all students had changed into their night attire and were climbing into their sleeping bags that were arranged haphazardly across the floor. Personally I found it was too crowded and began to ascend to the roof where, under the light of the moon, I dozed off and had a rare night without any bad dreams.