CHAPTER 1: Silva Arsia

The landing pads for the Dust Aviator Duster Model Airships were extremely hectic to the point where the untrained eye might see panic and pandemonium. The pads had crews scrambling to clear the pads and prepare for the students arrival. One particular student that would be riding in the Dusters was currently sitting on the roof of the main hanger watching the planes prepare for takeoff. Runen sat there in his combat armor: a red shirt with a silver chest plate that extended down to right above his waist, a pair of red pants with silver armor that extended from the waist down to his feet, black armored boots were worn his feet. A silver helmet sat atop his head. A rectangular shield rested on his back, stretching from the base of his neck to the roof on which he kneeled. The shield was painted red and had two yellow lightning bolts crossing the shield and a black wreath with an eagle, wings spread, looking right in the center.

The figure took off his helmet and placed it next to his left leg. The man was white-skinned, a pale-white even. This indicated he preferred the indoors to being outside. The hair was cut short and was brown, but a darker chocolate brown. The facial features were vague even: he had a round face with no facial hair and a rounded nose. The most defining feature was his eyes: Black pupils. Since that was his most defining feature, the figure took out a pair of contacts lenses, turning his eyes a definitive dark green.

The figure simply sat there until the landing pads cleared of everyone except the flight crew and students of Beacon Academy, including a male with short white hair and gold eyes in white medieval armor, not unlike that of those from the Giant Armor Experiment, Claymore sword included. The figure jumped from the roof and walked up to the Knight, "Ocelot." The Figure greeted.

Ocelot smiled and slung an arm around the figure, "Runen! So nice of you to grace us with your presence." Runen immediately smacked Ocelot in the back of the head, "Shut it, you idiot." Of Course, Runen could keep a smile off of his face.

-Runen's POV-

I sat with Ocelot in the corner of the Duster as the other students. I felt comfortable with Ocelot; his father was the one who looked over me as I recovered from the lost of the rest of my family. My mother died from a dust explosion at one of the new plants, I can't even remember her face, but I know of all she did. Ocelot was another person in the following of scientific pursuits of Aura as opposed to my wanting to solve all the mysteries of dust, as we tried to give Auras to inanimate objects, it was natural that we worked together. Just his scares were less visible; his entire chest was scared as a result. I laughed and sighed, "We were idiots weren't we?"

Ocelot snickered and said, "Still thinking about Armor?"

I gave him a 'no duh' stare, "We created three advanced combat armors that almost killed you and me. As well as some random singer in the White Castle."

Ocelot leaned against the wall, "Ever find out who that was?"

Runen leaned on the railing and stared out the window, seeing a rad-cloaked girl getting hugged tightly by a blond hair student, possibly best friends or relatives, "I have a list of candidates."

"Who?"

" Alexia Sarasvati, Michael Sacra, Penelope Orate, and…"

Ocelot leaned towards Runen, "…AND?"

Runen sighed and looked at a girl in white and blue outfit with a snowflake on the back of it, a custom rapier on her hip next to a pack on her waist. Her hair was long and white, but was ponytailed to the right as opposed to center; "Weiss Schnee…she was singing her song Mirror Mirror the day of the attack, though the concert was long after the performance…if she had stayed…"

"She may have encountered the Gray Armor, Triarii…"

"Exactly…I have my suspicions, but the media is incredibly tight lipped and the Schnee Company has said nothing about it at all."

Ocelot thought about the situation for a while, "Does she think your still in Mistral Region?"

"According to the press, I am currently disabled below the knees. Considering I can still walk, that's bullshit. However, it has kept the media off my ass, but left my friends isolated. So, she has no bloody idea."

"Should, I be sad at that?" Runen shook his head and spoke solemnly as the school approached, "No, all is well."

The duster landed and all the students filed out of the plane including Runen and Ocelot. Another pair of siblings stepped of the plane: Matthias and Alexi Augustus. Matthias was dressed in camouflage clothing with a bulky vest on top of the outfit. His brown hair swept back as to not be in his face or in front of his hazel eyes. A bulky looking assault Rifle rested on his back. Alexi was a pike-wielder; her pike was as much for transportation as it was for fighting. Alexi had water blue hair that went down to her waist and red eyes. Her outfit was blue in color and was a lot like a combat skirt except there were sections of red armor on her arms, legs, torso, and back. The lance turned into an Arm-mounted ballista in the same manner that Matthias' Rifle extended into a Katana for combat.

Runen was speaking about various 'science things' as Ocelot would put it when Matthias and Alexi approached Runen and introduced themselves. "Hey, there!" The ever-peppy Alexi said as she literally jumped in placed as she spoke. "Hello there." The neutral sounding Matthias spoke. "I am Runen, this is Ocelot." "Hello." Ocelot said in a happy voice.

"I'll keep this brief." The Headmaster started, "You have travelled here today in search of knowledge. To hone your craft and acquire new skills. When you finish, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. 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." The headmaster then walked off to the right and the assistant headmaster Miss Goodwitch spoke, "You will gather in the ballroom tonight, tomorrow your initiation begins. Be ready. You are dismissed."

"Did anyone else get a weird feeling about Ozpin there, like he was distracted as he was spoke." Runen spoke.

"Yeah. You got like that at the meeting of the board during our work on…" Ocelot provided not wanting to talk about the Armor project after it went terribly wrong.

"He was definitively strange. Almost like he was haunted by something." Matthias provided. Alexi nodded in agreement before grabbing the hand of Matthias and running of with her stoic brother. Ocelot motioned for the door and they walked off towards the ballroom to prep for the night, as the sun was rapidly falling from its dominion in the sky.

As the sun fell, more and more students succumbed to slumber as the night approached its apex at roughly one in the morning. Ocelot still sat with Runen as he looked around, "Alex, it's clear." Runen took out his contacts and the disguise that Alexander wore disintegrated as his eyes returned to it's normal black color, creating the illusion that he had no pupils. His hair was still dyed though. Runen, no Alexander blinked several times before he spoke, "Those contacts are suffocating. I hate them." Alexander looked around as confirmed that no one was awake before speaking to Ocelot again. "Okay, what are the latest reports on the location of Auxiliary? And the Armor project in general?"

"Well as you know the first batch failed catastrophically with platforms GOD, LLEGON, and AUXILIARY escaping into the wild. GOD was destroyed within the facility as you fought it yourself. Reports claim that LEGION was killed at the White Castle in Northern Vale, but no evidence of this has been uncovered. Auxiliary was tracked to the Arc Forward Ruins, the old base established by Captain Arc during the Great War to stop the Grimm advance that was occurring in the deep emerald woods. There is only one problem, it's now a Grimm nest supposed guard by a rank 7 Hydra Grimm, meaning it has seven heads." Ocelot stopped for a glass of water before speaking again, "Platforms 1-27 have all been scratched on the basis of over-independence. Nothing is working to cause the obedience the red dust android series; the Armor project simply cannot combat the free will the white dust gives them. It is pure life, such as the black dust at HQ is pure death."

After a time of silence Alex spoke as the moon peeked through a curtain space long enough to illuminate Alexander's eyes. "I have an idea. Create one new platform, give it its free will, and then convince it. Do what you need to do in order to give me a willing soldier in the form of a human sized armor. Make it my height…" Alex spoke.

"What should we name this one, you never have named one yet…" Ocelot started.

Another pair of eyes in the form of the eyes of the Schnee heiress gazed at the black orbs that were Alexander's eyes, but that was all she could see: his eyes and then nothing else due to the darkness. Alexander then spoke up as said solidly the one word that would be the Armor #28's name, "Heir."

Chapter 1 done.

So, how did I do with Ocelot and Alexander's relationship? As to explain any confused with Alexander/Runen, Runen is Alexander's disguise from the media that hounds him and the identity he wanted to leave behind. Alexandr will only be called such, when his is our black-orbs-for-eyes friend.

Well, Weiss thinks Alexander is at the school, but does she know what is going on, and that he is responsible for the Armor project? And will "Captain Arc" play a bigger part in this, yes. Juane will be a very important person, along with Lie Ren, later on in the plot.

Reviews are nice, but not required,

Good Day,

GF