Chapter 8: The Field Trip Begins
Auriaco woke up at around 4 in the morning. The room he was given for his stay here was a small little shack near the courtyard of Beacon. He sat up on the cot he had with him and reached for his prosthetic leg that he had removed the night before so he could get a comfortable sleep. He quickly attached it and proceeded to shower, brush his teeth, and dress himself. Before he left the shack he grabbed his trench coat, his eye patch that was hanging from a hook on the door, and his tonfas which were currently in a small compartment underneath the cot he slept in. By the time he was finished, it was around 5:30 in the morning and, as he had told the students to be in the room at 6, he decided to head towards Beacon and to his students.
As he strode through the quiet halls of Beacon, his brown combat boots as quiet as ever on the lush red carpet that lined the floors, he was lost in his thoughts. He thought about the day after he was released from the infirmary, restricted to a wheelchair as he had lost his leg, as well as his eye, and he was also currently physically weak. He remembered getting dirty looks every time he entered a room, or even just rolling down the hallway. As he rolled towards the auditorium, where Ozpin was about to read the Obituaries of Team AMBR, Aruiaco thought about skipping it, but just as he turned around, Ozpin himself came to get him. "Come now Mr Cantum. You need to be there with me while I read out their obituaries and their wills."
He would force himself out of the memory as he approached the classroom, where he could hear muffled chatter. When he stepped into the room, it went dead silent. You could hear the flapping of a fly's wings. He looked across the group of students and, not even bothering to take attendance, crooked his finger to all of them. "Ok boys and girls. Follow me. We have a flight to catch." He would leave the room without another word, his boots squeaking on the tiled floor of the classroom.
It took him about 20 minutes for him to get to the airdock in front of Beacon, which already had an airship docked in. Auriaco would wave to the pilot, which signaled for him to open up the door for him and his students to get on board. Before entering the airship, he would turn around to make sure that all of his students made it there and, sadly, he only saw 4 groups of students rather than the 26 or so that were in all of his classes. "Hmm, shame." He noticed that Weiss was there, along with her team, as was the team led by Mr Winchester. The other two teams were the one with the hyper girl, and the other was the Rabbit faunus team. He smiled a little, an expression that just didn't look very good on his solemn looking face. "Ok everyone who made it. Get on board and I will explain what we are doing today." He watched as his students slowly walked into the airship. They all looked sleepy, though he didn't blame them. When everyone was on the airship, he would bang the wall, letting the pilot know that everyone was on board. "Ok boys and girls. Today's lesson is going to have you demonstrate the knowledge you have accumulated up until today. However, it will be in a somewhat controlled environment."