A/N: Like I promised, I shall upload another chapter. I feel like I did well with the ending.

I don't own RWBY.

Chapter 4: First Day At Beacon

~Erik's POV~

Caleb and I were heading to the docks. It was a bright and sunny day.

"So, what if someone asks us about our past?" The teen in the suit asked.

"Well it depends. If we get to know them very well and they are trust worthy, tell them the truth. If we just met them, tell them that we are from an unofficial colony out by Atlas. You can tell them whatever you want about yourself. I will tell them what I feel is necessary." I don't want him making up stories about me. He would probably say I was the colony whore.

"Alright."

Silence fell upon us as we made our way to the docks. As we were about a half mile away from the docks, Caleb broke the silence.

"Who do you think we will meet there?" Caleb asked.

"Ruby, Ruby's sister, girls you will flirt with. Bound to be bullies. You might actually get to see some pussy." I elbowed Caleb in the ribs.

"Really! You think so!" A voice came out of nowhere. We turned to see Pink standing behind us.

"GOD DAMMIT PINK! GO BACK INTO YOUR HOLE!" Caleb commanded.

"But Aegis is sooooooo boring..." Pink whinned.

"Sorry about that." Aegis came out. "I'll take care of him." Aegis and Pink both receded back into the depths of Caleb's mind.

"I'm sorry you have to share brain power with that thing." I truly felt bad for Caleb.

We had finally arrived at the docks. The airships were loading everyone and taking luggage. We stepped on without worrying about the latter, since we only owned small bags.

We walked around the massive airship as it finally took off. There were so many people, I was starting to feel edgy. I was going to go crazy if I didn't find something to preoccupy my mind. And soon my wish was granted. Standing near a window was Ruby and some other girl.

This new girl had long blonde hair. She had lilac eyes and was also pale. She is wearing a tan vest over a yellow low-cut crop top with a black burning heart symbol over the left breast. She has an orange scarf around her neck. She is wearing fingerless gloves with yellow bracelets. She has black short shorts with a back skirt on. She has knee-high, leather platform boots with orange socks. Her left leg's sock is pulled half up her thigh with a gray bandana wrapped around the top of the boot, the right leg's sock is down by her knee. She really needs some pants.

"Oh I can't believe my baby sister is going to Beacon with me!" The blonde was clearly Ruby's sister. "This is the best day ever!"

"Please stop..." Ruby begged while being squished by her sisters hug.

"But I'm so proud of you!" The blonde was bouncing back and forth.

"Really sis, it was nothing."

"What do you mean, it was incredible! Everyone at Beacon is going to think you are the bees-knees!"

"I don't want to be the bees-knees! I want to be a normal girl, with normal knees." Ruby was getting flustered.

I took this as a chance to join the conversation. "What's up knobby knees." I said patting her on the back. This earned an annoyed look from the blonde.

"And just who are you?" The blonde was obviously getting agitated.

"Calm down their missy. Before I answer your question, you should know it is rude to ask someone there name without telling them yours." I shrugged. "But if you insist, I'm Erik Jager."

"Hi there, I'm Caleb Anderson. Please ignore him, he can be a bit of an ass, but he has only pure intentions." Caleb got in between us.

"Yeah. Unlike Pink." I rebutted.

"Anyways, what is your name miss?"

"I'm Yang Xiao Long." She put her hand out for a handshake. Caleb takes it and I could see the look of bliss in his face.

She offered her hand for me to shake, when I took it she brought me close to a whisper. "Hurt my sister and I will kill you." My only reaction was a chuckle.

She was about to say something, but was cut off by the news. "The robbery was lead by the nefarious criminal, Roman Torchwick. Who continues to evade authorities. If you have any information on his whereabouts, please contact the Vale police department."

"I see he is causing even more people to lose their paychecks." I whimpered.

"What's up with him?" Yang asked Caleb.

"Tell you later."

The news continued. "In other news. This Saturday's Faunus Civil Rights Protest turned dark when members of the White Fang interrupted the ceremony. The once peaceful organization has now disrupted-" The news was turned off and replaced with the blonde huntress from the night before.

"Hello and welcome to Beacon." The huntress began.

"Who's that?" Yang asked.

"My name is Glynda Goodwitch." I'm off to see the wizard! The wonderful Wizard of Oz!

"Oh."

"You are among a privileged few who have received the honor of being selected to attend this prestigious academy. Our world is experiencing an incredible time of peace. And as future huntsmen and huntresses, it is your duty to uphold it. You have demonstrated the courage needed for such a task, and now it is our turn to provide you with the knowledge and training to protect our world." Glynda faded away.

Everyone started to gather around the windows, including Ruby. "Look you can see Signal from up here! I guess home isn't too far away after all."

"Beacon's our home now." Yang tried to cheer up Ruby. A blonde swordsman stumbled by, clutching his mouth. "Well, I guess the view isn't for everybody."

"That or he looked at Caleb's face." I retorted.

"No, he would be praising me if he saw my face!" The black haired teen snapped back. I looked down to see some off color liquid on Yang's boot.

"Umm... Yang. You have something on your shoe." I pointed nervously towards her foot.

"Nice try."

"No, I'm not kidding. There is something on your shoe." She looked down and her smile was replaced with a look of disgust.

"Ew. Gross. Gross. Gross. Gross." She said running towards the bathroom.

The airship came to a gentle stop as it docked with Beacon Academy. The doors opened to let us and a vomiting swordsman off. The swordsman ran over to a nearby trashcan and hurled what I assumed, was the rest of his breakfast into the can.

"Ugh... thank God we are out of that flying prison." I stretched as Caleb, Yang, and Ruby walked behind me.

We were in the luscious green front walkway of our new home. "Wow!" Ruby and Yang said in unison.

"Eh, I mean it's not Kettering, but it will do." I said with a smile plastered on my face.

"Really?" Caleb gave me a look of question. "You're really comparing THIS!?" He gestured to our surroundings. Yang and Ruby brushed past us. "To a university in a city with the highest crime rate in America, and that has a poisoned field right in front of it."

"No, I'm comparing THIS," I gestured as well, "to our actual home." Back on Earth, Caleb and I grew up in Flint, Michigan. Not as bad as everyone wants to believe it to be. It has cleaned up pretty nicely.

My black haired friend sighed. "Weren't you always talking about leaving?"

"Hey, home is where the heart is, and my heart has yet to leave Earth."

"You're impossible to reason with, you know that right?"

"No, you're just not reasonable enough."

Caleb finally accepted defeat. Another questioning look came over his face. "Where did Yang go?"

"Up ahead. In fact, where did everybody else go?" I looked to see nobody else was around. "I have a bad feeling about this." We ran up ahead to find two people, Ruby and girl clad in white and blue with some red. She has blue eyes and white hair. Her left eye had a scar, which was more vertical than mine. She has a tiara like hairpin to keep here white hair in a ponytail. She is also pale. She is wearing a pale blue bolero jacket over a similar colored dress. The inside of the bolero is red. Her sleeves turn blue as they approach her wrists. She is wearing white, mid-calf, wedge boots.

Her name was Weiss Schnee. We had done some work for her father when the sheriff had nothing for us to do. Let's just say, she doesn't particularly care for us. We may, or may not have accidently blew up a part of a shipment we were paid to protect. She was currently too preoccupied yelling at Ruby to pay any attention to us.

"Ugh... What are you doing?!" She scowled.

"Sorry." Ruby said sheepishly.

"Sorry?! Do you understand what kind of damage you could have caused?" Ruby handed her a piece of the luggage to the ice queen. "Give me that! This is Dust! Mined and purified from the Schnee Dust quarry!"

"Uh."

"What are you? Brain dead?!" She grabbed a bottle of Dust and started shaking it. "Dust. Fire. Water. Lightning. Energy!" As Ruby picked herself up, she inhaled the Dust.

"This is bad..." Caleb whispered to me.

"On it." I made a ring of intensified gravity around them so, they don't get blown away, and the explosion doesn't hit us. As soon as the ring was finished, Ruby let the sneeze out. An explosion occurred, covering both of them in a cloud of fire, ice, and electricity. The Dust that the ice queen was so haphazardly shaking, flew across the courtyard, and landed in front of a reading girl.

This new girl was pale, like all the others. She has long black hair that is complemented with a bow. Her eyes are amber, with a slight tilt up at the ends. Might be a Faunus. She is wearing a black buttoned vest over a white, sleeveless undershirt that exposes part of her midriff. She is wearing white shorts that are also covered by the vest. She has a scarf around her neck. She has low-heeled, black boots and black stockings that have a gradient of purple covering her legs. She has black ribbons tied around both over her arms. Her left arm has a black detached sleeve and a silver band.

She picked up the Dust bottle and noticed the one-sided arguing between Ruby and Weiss. "Unbelievable! This was exactly the kind of thing I was talking about."

"I'm really, really sorry." Ruby obviously felt bad.

"You complete dolt! What are you even doing here, aren't you a little young to be attending Beacon!? This isn't your ordinary combat school. It's not just sparring and practicing you know. We are here to fight monsters, so watch where you are going." I was starting to get annoyed by her constant shrieking.

"Hey, layoff Ice Queen. She said she was sorry." It took me a second to realize I was the one to outburst. What is wrong with me!? I never outburst like that! Her attention was drawn to Caleb and I.

"Oh not you two!" She stamped her foot.

"Nice to see you too." My friend sarcastically claimed.

"Nice!? Last time I saw you two, you blew up a shipment of Dust you were in charge of protecting!" I swear I saw steam coming out of her ears.

"Hey. We only blew up a little bit of the Dust. Maybe you should put the cork in tighter next time, Princess." Ruby was getting a kick out of our bickering.

"Heiress actually." I had completely forgot about the girl in black. "Weiss Schnee. Heiress to the Schnee Dust Company. One of the largest producers of energy propellant in the world."

"Finally, some recognition." Weiss glared at Ruby.

"The same company, infamous to its controversial labor forces and questionable business partners." The girl in black was nonchalant, like she had practiced this many times over.

"Wha- How dare the nerve of-" Ruby was snickering from this. Ice Queen grabbed the Dust bottle and stormed off.

"I promise to make this up to you!" Ruby sighed. "I guess I'm not the only one having a rough first day. So what's u-" Ruby turned to see the girl in black walking away. She fell down on the ground, defeated. I turned to see the blond swordsman from before come over to us. "Welcome to Beacon." I accompanied him in his walk.

"Hey, I'm Jaune." He held his hand out to her.

"You already know me." I did the same.

She looked over to Jaune. "Ruby." She took our hands as we lifted her up. "Aren't you the guy who threw up on the ship?"

All four of us were walking through a small courtyard talking. Jaune was trying to defend his case.

"Look all I'm saying is that motion sickness is a much more common problem than people let on."

"Look, I'm sorry, Vomit Boy was the first thing that came to mind." Ruby still held her offense.

"Oh yeah. Well what if I called you crater face?"

"Hey, that explosion was an accident."

"So was the vomiting." Caleb added.

"Well the name is Jaune Arc. Short, sweet, rolls of the tongue, ladies love it."

"Do they?" The three of us asked.

"They will. I hope they will. I think my mom-"

"Let me stop you there, before you go digging yourself a bigger hole." I walked over and put a hand on his shoulder. Ruby giggled from the awkwardness of the situation.

"So, I got this thing." She brought out here sniper-scythe.

"Whoa is that a scythe!?" I swear Jaune almost pissed himself.

"It's also a customizable, high-impact sniper rifle."

Jaune was obviously confused. "It's a gun, bro." Caleb answered.

"Yeah, I got a good look at it after she kicked me in the face." I added.

"When did that happen." She asked.

"When, you went flying out the window."

"Oh, I thought I hit something, but wasn't quite sure."

"Well, I have this sword and this shield. If I get tired of carrying the shield, it shrinks so I can put it away." Jaune tried to add himself back into the conversation.

"I like it. Gonna go Medieval on their asses I see." I complimented Jaune.

"So what do you two have?" Jaune asked.

I brought the staff off my back and pressed the button to bring out the blades. "This my lad, is Rolling Thunder. It is a bardiche, sniper rifle power house." I clicked the button to change it into its rifle form. "Also customizable. Fires high caliber rounds with an auto ejection system." I turned to see Ruby gawking at my weapon. "Here, it's loaded so be careful. It hurts to be shot by that thing, just ask Torchwick." I handed Ruby the weapon and brought out my knives. "The blue one is Dusk, while the red one is Dawn."

As I put Dusk and Dawn away, Caleb summoned his weapon. "This is Whiplash. Two shotguns combined with a chain. I pull on a chain and the respective shotgun fires." He demonstrated by throwing a shotgun at a rock and pulling on the chain. The shotgun fired off and was sent back for Caleb to catch. After caught, it was returned to the shadows. After Ruby was done playing with RT, she handed it back and started firing off question.

"Did you build those yourself? Did you have help? Who helped you? How did you get everything to compress into the pole? How does the chain pull the trigger?" Ruby asked all at once.

"Whoa, slow down there. We had help building these, so if anything ask the guy who helped us." I tried calming down Ruby.

"Sorry, I'm kind of a dork when it comes to weapons." She put her scythe away. "So why did you two help me out back there in the courtyard?"

Jaune answered first. "Eh, why not. My mom always says, strangers are just friends you haven't met yet."

"Sounds like your mom is trying to quote William Yeats."

"Who?" Ruby and Jaune asked in unison.

"Poet."

"Oh, so you like poetry?" Jaune asked.

"No, not really. My dad just really loved philosophy."

"Oh, ok. So why did you help me out back there?" Ruby questioned.

Before I could answer, Caleb butted in. "Cause, he helps out any girl he thinks are cute."

"Shut up, asshole. At least I wasn't drooling over Yang's breasts the whole time."

"You saw that. I-I mean I don't know what you're talking about."

"Right." We kept on walking in an awkward silence until Ruby broke it.

"So where are we going?"

"Oh I don't know, I was following you guys." Jaune said innocently. "Do you think there might be a directory. Maybe a food court, some sort of recognizable landmark?"

The four of us had finally found our way to the meeting hall after wandering around campus. The place was completely crowded by people.

As we walked through the giant archway, we heard a familiar voice. "Ruby! Over here, I saved you a spot!"

"Oh, hey I gotta go. See all of you after the ceremony." Ruby ran towards her sister.

"Great. Now where am I suppose to find a nice, quirky girl!?" Jaune wandered off into the crowd.

"I guess it's just you and me." I said looking over to Caleb. "Lead the way." I gestured him forward.

We found a spot in the back of the crowd and rested against the wall. The crowd was still settling when two women approached us. One clad in green, the other in red.

The green one looked to be almost Caleb's height. She is wearing a green jacket with a dark blue undershirt. She has green skinny jeans and running shoes. Her eyes are, guess what, green. Her only other splash of color is her blue hair. On her back is a hilt of a sword with a long pole sticking out of it. On her left hip is a holster containing a pistol. Her face seemed to be covered in dirt and oil.

The red one looked to be around Ruby's height. She wore red armor plating over her shoulders, chest, and knees. She wore red gauntlets and greaves. Under the armor plating was a plain white t-shirt and blue jeans. Her hair is to about her mid-back and orange. Her eyes are blue. On both sides of her rested two tachis, they are both red. She seemed to be more clean. Both of the girls have a pale complexion.

The green one seemed to be dragging the red one to us. "Hi there!" She waved to us. "I'm Paige, and this is my friend Shiki." She gestured to the one in red.

"Hello, I'm Caleb." Said man waved.

"And I'm Erik." I also waved.

"Nice to meet you both. We were looking around the crowd and we saw you two and thought that you might want someone to talk to."

"And that was a joint-decision?" I asked looking back at Shiki, who was still struggling to break free.

"Yup!"

"Whatever floats your boat..."

A voice came over the speakers and brought our attention to the front. "Ok, I will 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." Ozpin walked of the stage to be replaced by Glynda.

"You will gather in the ballroom tonight. Tomorrow your initiation begins. Be ready. You are dismissed."

"The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation." I interpreted Ozpin's speech through a deGrasse Tyson quote.

"Wow. That was quite an interpretation." Paige responded.

"Takes a philosophical mind to understand one." I said as I turned to walk out the meeting hall.

"Wait where are you going?!" Paige yelled to me.

"A quiet place, too much noise." I countered.

"Boy do I love these starry nights." I said to myself. I was laying on top of the roof of the ballroom. Everyone was in the ballroom, including Caleb. So naturally I found it too crowded and made my way up here.

My sleeping bag was sprawled out onto the concrete roof. I, however was sitting on the edge of the roof.

This reminds me of the cloudless summer nights back on Earth. I would just lay on my roof and watch the stars. Watch our universes past tick away. "They sure are beautiful." An unknown person spoke from behind me.

I had failed to notice Ruby walk up here. "What are you doing up here?" I inquired.

"I saw you come up here and was wondering what you were doing."

"I'm not a fan of crowded areas." Her body language told me there was more. "I can tell that isn't the only reason you are up here, is it?"

She joined me on the buildings edge. "Back at the police station. What did you mean my name fitted me."

"Oh that. Well, first of all, you dress like that of a ruby. The red and black. Your last name however shows when you fight. A rose is beautiful, but get to close and it's thorns will harm you." She seemed to be trying to process the information. " So in short, a rose has its charm, but hurt it and it fights back."

"I see now."

I leaned back to gaze at the stars. "You know what I love about this world?"

"What?"

"Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Remnant, we're still at the mercy of nature."

"Wow, I'd expect that from someone a bit older."

"It is the words of a true genius back from where I came from. Neil deGrasse Tyson, I doubt you have heard of him."

"Nope." She popped the p. This earned a smile from me.

"You know, if it is too crowded down there. You are free to sleep up here. Don't worry, if big-baddies come, I'll be here to protect you." I joked.

"Thanks..." Her gaze turned downward. Did I say something wrong?

"Hey, you all right?" I was truly concerned.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Just thinking about the gang back at Signal."

"I know the feeling. I used to have my own group back where I came from. We were a bunch of social outcasts. The discarded that society didn't want. And funny enough, we were the smart kids. Well, except for Brandon."

"Where did you come from?" Ruby asked.

"Someplace far from here is all I can say." I continued to look to the stars.

"Did you have any family?"

"Yeah. I had a brother, mother, father, and sister."

"Had?" Ruby innocently asked.

"Well, my father died when I was ten. The rest are alive, but no matter how hard I try, I believe I will never be able to see them again." My eyes started to water.

"Oh. I'm sorry..." Red started to get depressed.

"No. It's fine. You were only curious. You had no malicious intentions." I tried to comfort her by rubbing her back.

"Thank you..." She whispered.

"For what?"

"You have been one of the few people to try to be my friend since I got here."

"Remember what Jaune said. You've got friends all around you. You just need to meet them first." I said as I pulled her in for a hug.

"Thank you..." *Snore* She had fallen asleep. I guess the day had finally caught up with her. Her head laid on my shoulder as I propped her up to avoid her falling off the building. I continued to rub her back as she slept. This is going to be quite the interesting year.

~Yang P.O.V.~

Where could she be?! I continued to walk through the ballroom and question everyone if they had seen Ruby. I had found Caleb and asked him if he had seen her.

"Yeah. I saw her walk up onto the roof. Something about talking to Erik." He had pointed to a staircase in the corner of the room leading upwards. I thanked him and ran off in the direction of him pointing.

As I made my way up the stairs, I thought of all the bad things that could be going on up there. The images him hurting her filled my head as I climbed the steps. As I approached the door at the top of the staircase, I heard humming.

I opened the door to reveal Ruby and Erik sitting on the edge of the roof. Ruby was leaning on Erik's shoulder as he rubbed her back. The humming was coming from Erik.

I cleared my throat to get his attention. He turned his attention from the sky to me. "Ah. I've been waiting for you to show up. You were late, by the way." He said as he picked up Ruby in bridal position.

"I hope you didn't do anything to her. Or it will be your head." I was worried for my sister. He walked her over to me and motioned me to take her. I held her the same way Erik held her.

"I wouldn't expect anything less from you." He said as he went to his bag next to the sleeping bag. He brought out a weird black device and headphones. He was starring at the device. "I haven't turned this thing on in six months. I'm feeling a bit nostalgic tonight."

"What is that?"

"Huh? This?" He pointed to the device. I nodded. "Just my music player. I'm just about to go on a walk." He stepped on the edge of the building. "Talk to you tomorrow." He jumped off the side of the building. I rushed over to see if he was ok, and saw him on the ground, walking along the path. He is a strange one.

A/N: Yay! Longest chapter so far! 4,465 words!

So, guys and gals. I'm thinking about writing a Highschool DxD Fic (That show is way too funny.) and a Minecraft. The Minecraft one is mostly planned out in my head, yet the DxD I'm having some trouble with. So, I might put up some polls to get your guys opinion on the Fic, like what my OC's Sacred Gear will be. The RWBY fic will still be my main one I work on, so don't worry.

If any of you have any questions, feel free to Review and/or PM me. I love reading all of your thoughts. BAI!