Many ships can be seen arriving at their final destination, Beacon. Today is the day that all of the new students arrive at Beacon for the first time over the course of the next four years. As soon as one of the many ships lands, a blond haired boy emerges and goes over to the nearest trash can, hunching over it as he loses his lunch. Ruby, Yang, and Cyrus, alongside several other students, walked out of the ship and headed down the paved path to the front of the school.
"Wow..." Was all Ruby and Yang could say as they took in the entirety of Beacon Academy.
"The view from Vale's got nothing on this!" Yang said with enthusiasm.
"If only she saw the cities on Coruscant" muttered Cyrus.
"What did you say Cyrus?"
"Nothing" he said while mentally scolding himself.
"Ohmygosh, sis! That kid's got a collapsible staff! And she's got a fire sword!" Ruby screamed as she tried getting closer, but Yang pulls her sister by the hood back next to her, "Ow! Ooww!"
"Easy there, little sister. They're just weapons!" Said Yang coolly.
"'Just weapons'? They're an extension of ourselves! They're a part of us! Oh, they're so cool!" Yelled Ruby in desperation.
Cyrus heard her and began to listen more carefully to her words. They reminded him of his master before…, he stopped himself from thinking of his master before he loses himself to his emotions.
"Well, why can't you swoon over your own weapon? Aren't you happy with it?"
"Of course I'm happy with Crescent Rose!" Ruby thus pulled a box from her back, transforming her weapon into its scythe form, and cradling it, "I just really like seeing new ones. It's like meeting new people, but better..."
"Ruby, come on, why don't you go try and make some friends of your own, like Cyrus?" Yang said, playfully pushing her sister's hood down over her face, "I saw you blushing whenever you looked over in his direction after your conversation with him. Just so you remember...I already called dibs…"
"But... why would I need friends if I have you?" Ruby asked while taking off her hood, stopping her sister from embarrassing her even more.
Yang smirked, then proceeded to say, "Well..." In a flash, a group of other students surround her and they all dash down the road "Actually, my friends are here. Gotta go catch up. 'Kay, see ya, bye!"
Ruby, spinning and dizzy-eyed from Yang's sudden leaving, screamed, "Wait, where are you going?! Are we supposed to go to our dorms? Where are our dorms? Do we have dorms?" She stopped for a moment, still reeling "I don't know what I'm doing..."
Ruby falls backwards into a luggage cart, sending cases flying. Someone walkes up, standing over her.
"What are you doing?!" Yelled a young girl, dressed in a bolero jacket that was red on the inside, and pale blue on the outside, with a pale blue combat skirt, and bearing a crooked scar down her left eye.
The scar reminded Cyrus so much of a certain Jedi, causing him to seethe with anger. He shouldn't even call him a Jedi after what he had done, especially to his master and his younger…, he again reminded himself to control his anger, and focus on the conversation between the two, just in case he has to intervene.
"Uh, sorry!" Apologized Ruby, getting up on her hands
"Sorry?! Do you have any idea of the damage you could have caused?"
"Uuhhh..." She blundered while holding a case.
"Give me that!" The girl then snatches the luggage from Ruby and opens it to reveal its twinkling-sounding contents, "This is Dust - mined and purified from the Schnee quarry!"
"Uuuhhhh..."
"What are you, brain-dead?" She held out a red vial and closed the case, "Dust! Fire, water, lightning, energy!" The girl in white screamed, shaking the contents out, but all it seemed to be floating close to her own face somehow. This causes Cyrus to smirk.
"I know what dust is." Ruby said, slightly embarrassed.
"Are you even listening to me? Is any…is any of..." She couldn't finished her sentence because she sneezes violently, which erupts into a full-blown explosion of flame, snowflakes, and electricity right onto Ruby. The bottle she had been holding flies over the courtyard and at the feet of a girl in black, who picks it up and notices the Schnee Dust Company logo on the side as she looks up from her book and looks over at the scene.
Weiss, now covered in soot, just seemed to be angrier, "Unbelievable! How could you do something as irresponsible and idiotic as that!"
"I'm really, really sorry!" Ruby said, apologetic and embarrassed.
"Ugh, you complete dolt! What are you even doing here? Aren't you a little young to be attending Beacon?"
"Well, I-I..."
"This isn't your ordinary combat school. It's not just sparring and practice, you know! We're here to fight monsters, so... watch where you're going!"
"Hey, I said I was sorry, princess!" Ruby yelled, finally fed up with this girl's attitude.
"It's heiress, actually." Said the girl in black, causing Ruby and Weiss to look over at the girl approaching them with the bottle. Cyrus was mystified that he couldn't sense the girl through the force, but after seeing her, he immediately knows how she was. The girl then continued to speak, "Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, one of the largest producers of energy propellant in the world."
"Finally! Some recognition!" Said Weiss, who was smiling smugly.
"The same company infamous for its controversial labor forces and questionable business partners." The girl in black deadpanned.
Weiss, now getting angry again as Ruby chuckles, "Wha- How dare you- The nerve of... Ugh!" She gets up in the girl's face and takes the bottle from her, walking off in a huff as her helpers gather the luggage and follow.
The girl in black then walked off when Ruby's back was turned, with Cyrus following her at a distance.
"I promise I'll make this up to you!" Ruby yelled to the storming Weiss, still sorry, before sighing. "I guess I'm not the only one having a rough first day…," Ruby turns to were the girl in black was, "So, what's your..." She stops seeing the girl walking off as well, "Cyrus? Please don't tell me you left me too?..." She asked. Not being able to see her only friend, she then collapses to the ground on her back, "Welcome to Beacon..." She said sarcastically.
She remains this way until a shadow comes over her.
"Hey... I'm Jaune." Said a tall teenage boy with dark-blue eyes that were emphasized by his messy blonde hair.
She takes his hand, "Ruby." He helps here up before she snickers and asks, "Aren't you the guy that threw up on the ship?"
*Scene change to Cyrus*
Cyrus was following the girl in black, who he knows as Blake. She was the one who found him in his escape pod when he crashed on Remnant. What he didn't know, was what she was doing at Beacon. He knows she was part of the White Fang from the conversation they had, but she also knows that he is not from Remnant, which is a big problem for him. He then decides to make sure that his problem doesn't come to surface.
Cyrus quickly catches up Blake, grabbing he shoulder, making her jump from being startled. She then throw her book at him, while simultaneously pulling out Gamble Shroud, all within a blink of an eye.
"Hey! Woah! It's me, Cyrus remember? The guy from the forest?" He said, noticing her reaction speed was fast, faster than a normal human, but not as fast as his, having caught her.
She relaxes when she realizes how he was, equipping Gamble Shroud back on her back, and snatching her book back from him, but not before he catches a glimpse at the title.
"How are you here!?" She yelled very confused, and slightly embarrassed.
"One, you seem a little young to be reading "Ninjas of love", and two, if you truly want to know the truth, I arrested a criminal, got arrested, then was invited to Beacon by the headmaster himself. Now, may I ask the same to you?"
"Well I got tracked down by Professor Ozpin, and when I thought that I was finally going to go jail, like you, he invited me to this school."
"Okay, I believe you, but are you going to keep my secret, because I need to make sure that it won't get out. Otherwise, I will most likely be hunted across the four kingdoms, but I believe you are in the same boat yourself." He lied, he didn't believe her. He couldn't sense if she was lying or not. This troubled him, only one in touch with the force could block him out.
"Like I said before, I will keep your secret if you'll keep mine. Like yourself I'm in need of a second chance, and Beacon is the only way I have of ever possibly forgetting my past.
"Then we're in agreement, but before we make our way to the auditorium, something has been bothering me. Have you ever heard of the Jedi before? Because I believe you could be one of them."
AN: Thanks for the great feedback from the preavious chapters, and feel free to leave more.
Yes, I going to have Blake be Cyrus's padawan of sorts, also Cyrus used the force to keep the dust away from Ruby.
Until next week!
-Codyrex101 out!