Hello Everybody! Here's the fourth chapter! Enjoy :D
The trio of soon-to-be hunters and huntress eventually made it to the auditorium where they were supposed to be when they had landed from the ship. The interior of the building was rather massive as it was able to contain all the freshman that had arrived. The moment they entered, Ruby began to ogle the arsenal of all the other students, Jaune was just looking at all of the fancy architecture of building in general while Evi was... Where was Evi anyway?
"Ruby!" a feminine voice cried as they continued to stand near the front door. "Over here!"
The three hunters to be trailed the voice to spot Yang waving at them from a distance. Ruby waved back before they went forth and travelled past this rather large crowd.
"Well there's my older sister," Ruby stated as she pointed to where Yang was.
"Wait, that's your sister?" Jaune inquired as she looked between the two girls.
"Step-sister to be more specific. But I wouldn't trade her for anyone else in the world." Ruby answered proudly. "So, I guess I'll see you and Evi... Later..?"
"What?" Jaune wondered as he stared at Ruby's confused expression.
"Where's Evi?" She asked. They both blinked their eyes a few times before they realized that Evi was nowhere to be found. They soon began to look for their missing friend by crying his name a few times. After a few seconds of looking around, they were able to locate him nearby hiding behind one of the several pillars that line the entrance. He was very easy to spot since the pi- I mean lightish-red crosses on his shirt as well as his colorful scarf gave him away.
"Uh, Evi?" Jaune voiced out as he tapped on Evi's shoulder. The moment he made contact, Evi suddenly jumped from his hiding place and stumble onto the floor. "Why are you hiding behind a pillar?"
Evi heard the question before quietly admitting, "Me and crowds don't really like each other that much. I become a nervous train wreck in crowds like these."
"It can't be that bad." Jaune replied as he pulled Evi up from the ground once more.
"No, it's pretty bad." Evi countered. When he finished talking, he slowly shifted back towards his hiding place. "So I'll just stay right here while he does his speech."
"But we won't be able to hear him talk from here." Ruby debuted.
"That still won't dissuade me from this spot. So if you excuse me, I've got a hiding spot with my name on it." Ruby and Jaune soon looked at each other before looking at their friend who currently was facing the pillar with his hands covering his face. "We can still see you." They both stated.
"I can't see you so therefore you can't see me!" Evi replied as he continued to stay at in his hiding spot. Ruby and Jaune rolled their eyes and stifled their giggles as they continued to stare at Evi's antics. Eventually, they each hooked an arm of Evi as they dragged towards the location of Yang, much to Evi's pleads of not to.
"Hey! Put me back!" Evi wined as he was pulled farther and farther from the safety of his pillar. While he was being dragged away into the crowd, the three teens were unaware of another red haired feminine warrior who was smiling in their direction after seeing what had transpired.
After his several futile attempts of escaping his captors grasps, he soon pulled up his scarf to cover his nose down while he activated his goggles to cover the remainder of his face. Although people were giving him odd looks as to why a masked stranger was being dragged by a blond man and a young red- dressed girl, he went limp and accepted his fate.
"Hey Yang!" Ruby exclaimed with her new friends in tow.
"Hey… Ruby?" Yang replied rather slowly.
When they arrived at their destination, Yang was surprised to see her sister Ruby drag an oddly, pink dressed boy covering his face with the assistance of the same boy that made a rather smelly mess on her boot.
Once they stopped moving, they finally let go of Evi's limbs while he double checked his makeshift mask. Ruby, Jaune and even Yang gave a confused look towards the repairman as he curiously asked, "What?"
"Evi, why are you covering your face with your scarf?" Ruby asked innocently as she tilted her head.
Evi sighed before explaining his predicament, "Like I said earlier, me and large crowds don't mix that well. I become a nervous train wreck whenever a situation like this happens."
"Okaay? But what's the mask for?" Jaune reasked the question.
"It's a habit I developed." Evi answered back. "It calms my nerves whenever situations like these occur."
"Yeesh." Yang stated as she inspected the oddly dressed man. he looked familiar but she just couldn't figure it out, " Sounds like someone had a rough childhood."
"Eh," Evi replied as he shrugged his shoulders. "Can't argue with that."
Eventually Ruby nodded before she began introductions. "Yang, these are my new friends, Evi and Jaune. Guys, this is my older sister, Yang."
"H-hello!" Jaune stuttered as he slowly extended his arm.
"Relax vomit boy, I'm not going to bite." Yang teased as she shook Jaune's hand. That comment made a majority of the group sigh and Jaune himself slump.
"Man, I'm not going to be able to live that down huh?" Jaune said as he looked down onto the ground.
"Nope!" Yang exclaimed as she laughed heartedly. Once she was done, she soon turned to face Evi.
"Nice to meet you." Evi said as he pulled his hand from his pocket and offered it to Yang.
"Likewise." Yang replied as she shook Evi's hand. The moment she made contact though, she noticed that his hand was rather cold and wet. In fact, his clothes looked rather damp for some apparent reason.
"Uh, what happened to your clothes? They look a bit damp." Yang asked as she pulled her now wet hand back before wiping it onto Jaune's hoodie.
"AH! Why are you wiping it on me?!" Jaune complained as he jumped away from Yang's reach.
"Also," Ruby added as she sniffed the air. "Does anyone else smell something or is it just me?"
"Uh..." Evi stated nervously as he slowly began to lower his scarf.
"Now that you mention it, it does smell pretty nice too! It sort of smells like... Bubblegum?" Yang commented as she began to sniff the pleasant scent.
Evi deactivated his goggle earrings as he began to get himself dried off as much as possible.
"And it seems to be coming from..." Jaune finished as all three turned their heads towards Evi's direction. They noticed that right before Evi was about to escape, a pink blur had come out of nowhere and suddenly glomped Evi and raised him into the air with her loving, bone crushing, embrace.
"Bubble Gum Buddy! We found you!" Nora exclaimed as she tightened her grip on Evi. Ren arrived shortly after slowly catching his breath as he finally caught up to his optimistic, best friend.
"What the- Nora?! Where did you come from?!" Evi shouted as he tried his hardest to escape capture once more. Sadly, he was unsuccessful as Nora's grip was too great for Evi to surpass.
"We were by the giant window." Nora stated as she continued hold onto Evi. "Then for some reason, I smelt a familiar hint of bubble gum! So then I followed the smell and I found you!" She squealed in delight as she began to spin their new friend in a circle. "Isn't that right Ren?"
They all turned to Ren as he straightened his back and simply nodded his head before saying, "Nora's sense of smell can detect the scent of recently cooked pancakes from a mile away."
"Figuratively or literally?" Evi asked from his elevated position.
"Literally. I even have a story that proves my point." Ren soon cleared his throat before telling his tale.
Flash Back
It was a nice warm day when Ren had awoken from his bed. He stretched his arms and let out a quiet yawn as the bright rays of the sun illuminated his room. He slowly emerged from his bed, took a nice soothing shower, wore his classic outfit of his dark green tailcoat with light tan pants and black shoes and began to head downstairs.
When he arrived, he noticed that his best friend Nora who would usually there to greet him with a bone-crushing hug was missing. Then he remembered that she and her parents had gone camping in the woods not too far from here. He even had a picture on his scroll that shows her happily riding a white unicorn with a pink main and tail. He always thought that those creatures were simply a legend, a fairytale yet she was actually able to find one. Huh, who knew.
When he realized this, a smile crept onto his face and before he knew it, he headed straight for the kitchen. For this rare opportunity, he was actually going to eat pancakes some with Forever Fall syrup! He never got to when Nora was around mainly because she usually ate everything, the syrup never reaching his pancakes. After a few minutes of cooking his signature pancakes, he pulled out a tightly sealed, glass jar full of Forever Fall syrup which he hid in a secret compartment behind the fridge.
When he finished cooking, he brought his plate full of pancakes in one hand and the jar of syrup in the other hand towards the dining table. He opened the window nearby to let the pleasant smell of his garden compliment his special breakfast as well as apply the syrup to his stack of pancakes. Before he could feast upon his pancakes, he forgot to bring a fork. He soon went back into the kitchen to retrieve a clean fork from the dish washer.
Just as he entered the dining room, he spotted his plate now empty, the jar of Forever Fall syrup now missing. On his seat, he saw a girl with orange hair rubbing her stomach and her face still surrounded with the jars contents. He dropped his fork onto the ground and rubbed his eyes to make sure that his mind wasn't playing tricks on him, that this was simply a dream. Sadly, the girl burped an all too familiar burp that he instantly recognized who she was.
"…Nora?" Ren asked rather slowly.
"Good morning Ren!" Nora replied back as she waved towards her best friend from across the table.
"Didn't you and your family go camping a few kilometers from here?" Ren tilted his head as he tried to comprehend what just happened.
Nora tapped her chin before nodding her head approvingly. "Yep! It was so much fun!"
Ren rubbed his forehead while he asked, "So why are you here? You said you wouldn't be back until tomorrow."
Nora cleaned her face with a nearby napkin and smiled before saying, "I smelt pancakes from my tent when I woke up and I wanted pancakes for breakfast!"
Ren simply stared at her friend before falling onto all fours in despair. So close, yet so far away.
"Hehe… Sorry Ren." Nora said sheepishly
End of flashback
Everyone stared at Nora in bewilderment as she continued to embrace her new, bubblegum-scented friend. Then Evi remember something rather important.
"Guys, these are my other friends that I made earlier today, Nora and Ren. Nora, Ren, these are the friends I met on the ship, Ruby, Jaune and Yang." Evi pointed out while he was still lifted into the air.
After a brief introduction, Yang suddenly remembered who he was. "I remember you now! You're the guy who crashed into my sister!"
"Yeah… Sorry about that." Evi apologized as he scratched his neck and sheepishly smiled.
Yang waved it off before asking her question once more. "So, why are you soaking wet again?"
Before Evi could think up a lie for what had truly happened, Nora decided to speak up for him, even if it was against his own wishes. "Oh the reason being is because he decided to take a bath in the central fountain of Beacon."
Yang, Ruby, and Jaune began to chuckle from how Nora explained it before asking "Really?"
Evi could only sigh as he prepared himself to retell his events. But before he could do that, he had do something.
"Ren? Could you ask Nora to let me go now? I can't feel my legs." Evi pleaded as he was still elevated from the ground.
Ren smiled from the predicament of his new friend before nodding his head. "Nora?"
"Yes Ren?" Nora asked as she gave Ren his full attention.
"Put the pink man down." Ren answered as he pointed to the ground.
"Hey! Im not pink! I'm lightish-red!" Evi complained as he waved his arms.
Before he could continue distinguishing the difference between the two colors, Nora suddenly released her grip leaving Evi to fall rather ungracefully into his rump. After recovering from such a distance, Evi began to retell what had happened, with the assistance of Detective Nora Valkyrie of course.
"Well do you guys remember what happened onto the plane a few moments ago?"
The three plane pals began to recall their memories until they all cringed at the moment where Vomit boy got his nickname.
"Well, it turns out that the public restrooms don't exactly have the things needed to deal with a mess like that." Evi stated rather sadly.
"Hehehe...Sorry." Jaune stated as he smiled sheepishly.
"Don't worry Jaune, its all in the past." Evi said happily. "So anyways, the moment we landed, I ran out of the plane to find a way to remove the stink from my clothes. Unfortunately, they don't have stuff like that outside on Beacons grounds."
"And that's when I decided to take a bath in the central fountain." Ruby, Jaune and Yang soon began to tear up of laughter from that abrupt answer.
"Oh! Oh! That's where we come in!" Nora exclaimed as she suddenly pulled out a detectives cap, a bubble blowing pipe, and a red note pad in the shape of a couch with a little green crayon tugged snugly in the spines.
Everyone, excluding Ren, stared in amazement as they tried to figure out where in the world did Nora pull all that stuff from!? But before they could continue their analysis, Detective Nora began to tell her part of the story.
"Well take over from here Evi!" Nora exclaimed loudly. "Well when Ren and I got off our plane, we decided to look at all the pretty things before coming into here! There were nice smelling flowers, the cute little birdies, we even got to feed some of them because of the bird feed that Ren has in his sleeves!" Nora stated.
"Nora." Ren said quietly.
"Oh, sorry, getting a bit off topic. Anyways while we were feeding the birdies, I heard someone yell *INCOMING!* really loud that they scared all the birdies away. Then right after that, we heard and saw a super gigantic splash above all the trees. That was when we decided to become detectives and investigate the recent disturbance!" Nora continued as she checked off something in her notepad.
"Nora made me her minor junior detective assistant while she dragged me by my collar towards the fountain." Ren added.
"Yep! When we arrived, we saw that the scene of the crime was completely filled with soooooo many pink bubbles EVERYWHERE! And when you pop them, you could smell bubble gum and it was super awesome! Then we heard Evi from the fountain so we went all the way towards the edge and that's when we saw him for the first time. Then he asked us to help him get out since the water made his clothes too heavy and we pulled him out together!" Nora made several wacky hand movements while she explained what had happened.
"Nora tossed him as well as me several meters into the air when we tried to pull Evi out." Ren filled in.
"And they landed gracefully onto the ground!" Nora exclaimed.
"Nora, you threw him into a tree." Ren gave her friend a deadpanned stare.
"And then after that, Evi said to me that we could go to town one day so that I could smell like bubble gum too!" Nora finished off as she put all of her detective stuff away.
When Nora had finally finished telling her tale, she noticed two things instantly. One, Yang, Ruby and Jaune were on their backs laughing and two, Evi was currently curled up into a ball covering his face once more with his hands due to sheer embarrassment.
"I know how you feel Evi." Ren said with a look of understanding. It was as if he had been in a situation like that before.
"Welp!" Yang cried as she got up from the floor. "I've got two things to tell you. One, you've got to bring me and Ruby to where your taking Nora and Ren. And two, I'm calling you Pink Bird from now on!"
Evi jerked his head towards the direction of Yang as he heard the ridiculous nickname that she had now dubbed him. "Wha-why are you calling me a bird!?" Evi exclaimed as he shot this feet.
"Well, you take baths in fountains like a bird," Yang started as she began to count down her many reasons. "You have a tendency to be flying like a bird, and not to mention you like hanging out in trees like a bird!"
"Oh! Well… That does kind of make sense...B-but all of those happened because someone caused me to do that!" Evi defended himself. "And why are you calling me pink?!"
"Because of your shirt, the amount of pink on it can be seen a mile away." Yang countered as she crossed her arms.
"First of all, this is my comfiest shirt so I don't care what people say about it but come on! This is clearly lightish-red, it's not even pink!" Evi huffed.
"Nope, that's pink." Yang stated
"Definitely pink." Jaune added
"That looks like pink to me." Ruby replied
"I like your pink!" Nora added happily.
"Pink." Ren bluntly stated
Evi gave everyone a shocked stare, especially Ren, "Well your wearing pink too!" Evi countered.
"Nope, this is all magenta." Ren said with a smile as he pointed at his eyes, sleeves and the colored strip on his hair.
"…Dammit." Evi grumbled as he landed on all fours and quietly wept in defeat once again. While he was doing this, everyone began to laugh once more with renewed vigor through Evi's misfortune. After bring satisfied with teasing Evi, she decided to start teasing her little sister about her day.
"So, how's your first day been going Ruby? It couldn't have been as bad pink bird down there."
Ruby suddenly remembered what had happened when her sister left and began to pout at her older sister. "You mean how you ditched me and I exploded?"
"Yeesh, breakdown already?" Yang huffed as she crossed her arms.
"No! I literally exploded! There was a giant hole and there was fire, some ice and a bit of lighting… sorta?"
"Are you being sarcastic?" Yang inquired as she raised her brow.
"I wish, Evi can you back me up on this?" Ruby turned her head towards her friend.
Evi had just recovered from his slump before backing up Ruby's statement. "Its true, I was there to repair all the damage."
"See? Then I tripped over miss crabby pants luggage and then she yelled at me! Then I sneezed and I made a crater at front of the school-"
"The crabby, ghost lady almost caused me to die of hypothermia..." Evi added as he suddenly shuddered from that near death experience.
While Ruby and Evi were talking about Weiss, the remaining friends, namely Jaune, Nora and Ren, saw a rather short, white haired girl shoot steam from her ears as she approached their location.
"Hopefully, she won't see us in this rather large crowd." Evi stated quietly. Ruby nodded in reply before crossing her fingers hoping that it would be so.
"YOU!"
Both Evi and Ruby froze in place as they slowly turn towards the frightening sound. Their suspicions were confirmed when they realized that the voice was indeed Weiss Schnee, the person that they were currently fearing.
"Oh God it's happening again!" They both cried. Ruby jumped into the comforting arms of her sister while Evi quickly hid behind the golden mane of Yang while slowly peeking above her shoulder.
"Your lucky that both of you didn't blow us off of the cliff!" Weiss nagged as she continued to rant once more.
"Oh my god you were telling the truth." Yang stated with wide eyes.
"It was an accident! An accident!" Ruby cried as her eyes were closed shut.
"Yeah! And I was just doing my job!" Evi whimpered from his hiding place.
While this was transpiring, Ren, Nora and Jaune were currently just trying to figure what in the world happened that lead to this current situation. Although they were a bit curious as to why Jaune was subconsciously hiding behind Ren.
"Jaune Jaune?" Nora called out to their friend.
"Y-yeah?" Jaune stuttered quietly.
"Why are you hiding behind Renny?" Nora asked innocently.
When Jaune realized that he was indeed hiding behind her childhood friend, he scratched the back of this neck while giving a sheepish smile before saying, "Well, there's a reason for this."
"The reason for that would be?" Ren asked as he crossed while staying in the same position.
"I-I'm pretty weak when it comes to women." Jaune admitted as he continued to hide behind Ren.
"Weak to women?" The both asked in unison.
"Yeah... My childhood wasn't exactly that great. After an accident that happened when I was ten… let's just say if they as so much try and seduce, I may need to be rushed to emergency for a blood transfusion." Jaune answered sadly.
"But how come you're not scared of me and Ruby?" Nora asked.
Jaune scratched his head before replying, "You know what I'm not really sure myself. You two just give off that vibe that, for some reason, doesn't make me want to run away in fear of dying. The only other person that does that too is my mom."
Soon, Nora and Ren nodded their heads in understanding Jaunes weakness.
"Just one more thing, could you guys keep this a secret? Last thing I need is people making me feint on purpose." Jaune begged as he slowly emerged from his hiding place.
Both Nora and Ren smiled and gave him a thumbs up as the three friends continued to enjoy the scene in front of them.
"Look, do you really want to make it up to me?" Weiss asked from the two quaking individuals. They both nodded their heads rapidly.
When she heard their answer, she pulled out what appeared to be two pamphlets with titled Dust for Dummies from the sleeves of her jacket.
"What's that?" Evi asked
"Read this and never speak to me ever again." Weiss stated
"The Schnee Dust Company is not responsible for any injuries or damages sustained while operating a Schnee Dust Company product. Although not mandatory, the Schnee Family highly encourages their customers to read and familiarize themselves with this easy-to-follow guide to Dust application and practice in the field." A deep voice stated like one of those warnings in commercials.
"Who said that?!" Evi whimpered quietly "I knew it! There are ghosts here!"
"Look." Yang stated as her arms started to get sore. "We all started off at the wrong foot here, so lets start all over."
"Great idea sis!" Ruby replied as she hopped off Yangs arm. "Hi, I'm Ruby, do you want to hang out? We can go and buy school supplies!"
"Yeah!" Weiss sarcastically answered. "We can paint our nails, try on clothes and talk about cute boys like tall, blonde and scraggy over there or pink, drenched and reckless back there."
"Hey! I'm not pink, I'm lightish-red!" Evi complained as exited from his hiding place.
"Really?" Ruby asked with sparkles in her eyes.
"…NO!" Weiss yelled as she stormed off back to her original position.
Ruby's shoulders slumped as she possibly gained herself an enemy. While she was once again down in the dumps, Ruby felt a soft pat on her back once more saw Evi give her a comforting smile.
"Don't worry about her Ruby, miss crabby pants was a lost cause anyway." Evi stated quietly. Ruby chuckled by the description of the white haired lady while facing her new friend before saying "Thanks." Evi gave her a thumb's up while they both just waited in silence.
While this all transpired, Yang was grinning like a maniac after seeing her sister smile from the assistance of her new friend Pink Bird. The amount of teasing material that she had on both of them was rather massive. Before she could continue plotting what she had in store for the two, the intercom activated and Headmaster Ozpin stepped onto the stage.
"I'll...keep this brief. You have traveled 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, 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."
When he finished his speech, his assistant, Glynda Goodwitch went up to the intercom before adding, "You will gather in the ballroom tonight but feel free to explore the school grounds. Tomorrow your initiation begins. Be ready."
"Well… He sounded a bit off." Yang commented.
"It was like he wasn't even there." Ruby added
"Eh, he sounds more like he didn't have his coffee today if you ask me." Evi stated casually.
Before they could disperse, Ozpin made one final announcement.
"Evi Magkumpun, please report to my office… Immediately."
Evi suddenly tensed up by the sound of his name being called. Evi's friends began to stare at him quizzingly while Evi himself was not enjoying this one bit. Thankfully, nobody in the crowd knew who he was yet. That was until Ozpin pointed out whom he was.
"Yes you, the pink guy in the middle of the crowd. Please report to my office once the students have all dispersed." Ozpin added with a smirk.
"IT'S LIGHTISH-RED DAMMIT!" Evi yelled instinctively towards the Headmaster of Beacon. He quickly covered his mouth with his hands hoping that no one saw his outburst.
Sadly, everyone turned to the direction towards the source of the noise and to where the Headmaster was pointing. They all saw the pink dressed man as some made some rather interesting comments about his attire. Evi, who was now the centre of attention, was really, REALLY not liking his situation at the moment.
"Uh, Evi? Are you ok?" Ruby asked quietly. Nora suddenly appeared beside Ruby and booped him on the nose to double check if he was working properly.
The moment Nora booped his nose, he simply fell backwards and crash landed onto the floor, fainting almost instantaneously.
Done! I decided to cut this chapter here mainly because I still need to plan out a few more things before they go to sleep. Not to mention that trying to move while typing is pretty darn tough. So this is Nutshop saying stay handsome, and have a nice day! :D