Foreign Exchange

chapter 4:Take My Breath Away

This was not good.

Not good at all.

Shavo continued to scan over the crowd inside the bullhead with a determined expression, making absolutely sure that he hadn't just missed the guy puking his guts out.

But no matter what he did, where he looked, he couldn't spot the blond goofball.

He had even spotted other familiar faces, too. He had seen Ren and Nora talking to each other on one end, even saw Pyrrha too for a moment before a few others saw her and started to crowd around her.

"Damnit Jaune, where are you?" Shavo whispered under his breath as he walked around, still looking for the blond knight, as he stroked his billy-goat goatee.

That was probably why he didn't see the suitcase right at his feet.

He only had time to blankly state "Oh shit." before tripping on the luggage and onto his side. He began to get up before he heard a voice from above him.

"Shit, you okay?"

A gloved hand then came into his view as he started to get up. He took the hand without even thinking of it before he was pulled up. Looking up from the ground, he saw the face of the person who had helped him, and whose luggage he most likely tripped over.

He saw the face of Sky Lark.

"Uhhh…" Shavo stated blankly before mentally slapping himself to get his attention back, "Yeah, m'fine."

"Oh, okay, cool." Sky said with a nod of his head.

"Yeah, it was my bad, man. I was too busy looking around instead of where I was going." Shavo added on.

Sky just shrugged.

"It's fine." The blue haired student assured him as he crossed his arms over his chestplate. "Just wanting to make sure you're okay. Don't really want to make an enemy on my first day."

"Yeah, in a place like this…" Shavo said as he scanned over the crowd, "That would suck."

Sky gave a snort of amusement.

"No kidding." He agreed. The two then stood in silence for a few moments as they both stood next to each other, looking around uncertainly.

"To be honest, I thought I had tripped over Pyrrha Nikos's luggage for a second there." Shavo said after a moment in hopes of keeping the conversation going.

"For a second there, I thought you were Pyrrha Nikos." Sky chuckled nervously, Shavo doing the same.

And with that, the blue haired halberd user stuck his hand out to Shavo.

"My name's Sky Lark." he greeted with a small smile.

Shavo took it with a smile similar to his.

"Shavarsh Odadjian. You can call me Shavo."

"Shavo? Never heard that one before." Sky commented with raised eyebrows.

"I've never heard of someone named Sky before." Shavo defended his new name.

Sky was going to say something back, but stopped with his mouth open and nodding.

"Good point."

"So, where you from?" Shavo asked as he leaned against the wall with his arms crossed over his chest.

"A small town called Helden over in Atlas." Sky answered as he scratched his chin.

The translation was not lost on Shavo, but he brushed it off as he prepared to answer in turn.

"More interesting than me. I'm just here from Vale, the capital, believe it or not, of Vale." Shavo lied easily.

Looks like that would be his cover story from now on, just a kid from Vale, Vale.

"Hell, at least you have stuff to do here." Sky said, "All you could do back there is train, fight Grimm, and look at stupid trees."

"Pfft, who needs trees, right?" Shavo grinned as he looked over at the blue haired Atlesian.

"Air's overrated anyways." Sky waved off sarcastically with a smile of his own, causing the both of them to let out a short laugh.

"There he is!"

Shavo turned from his new friend to the voice and saw Yang and Ruby, the later with an irked expression on her face as she put her hands on her hips after walking up to him.

"Thanks for telling us you were leaving. I looked pretty stupid when I was talking to you for five minutes just to realize you weren't even there!"

Shavo gave her a blank look as he sweatdropped slightly.

"You… You talked to thin air for five minutes before figuring out I was gone?" Shavo deadpanned.

"She was asking you a pretty long question." Yang chuckled from behind her hand.

She looked over to the new guy before nodding to him.

"So, gonna introduce us to your friend?" She asked.

Shavo looked back at Sky and gestured to him.

"Girls, this is Sky. Sky, these are my friends, Ruby and Yang."

Yang hooked an arm around Ruby's neck and pulled her in for a headlock.

"See, I told you you were his friend." The blonde said as she ruffled her younger sister's hair.

"Yang! Stahp! Aak!" Ruby gasped out as she tried to flail her arms around in resistance.

Sky, for his credit, just waved at them politely before a ringtone started resounding from one of his armor's pockets. he then fished out his scroll before turning to Shavo.

"Hey I gotta take this. Want to try to meet up later or something?" Sky asked the traveller with a raised brow. Shavo merely shrugged in response.

"I don't see why not." He said nonchalantly before giving him a two-finger salute, "Later, Lark."

"See you, Odadjian." He waved over his shoulder as he opened his scroll and walked over to a less crowded area of the Bullhead.

Shavo then turned back to his other new friends before looking at the younger of the two and smiling.

"So, five minutes, huh?"

Ruby's face went red from embarrassment as she punched his arm.

The odd trio stood by the doors leading to the boarding platform as a series of clicks and clacks went on within them before it opened up to allow light to shine in. As students began to walk past them, Yang turned back from the front to face the other two with a grin on her face.

"You two ready to see Beacon for the first time?"

Shavo smirked as he nodded his head, already having seen it before on a screen, but not in person.

"I still can't believe this is happening." Ruby said dreamily as the three began to walk out. Shavo was feeling the exact same way.

As they finally emerged from the Bullhead's bridge and onto actual school grounds, they all were taken aback in awe.

All around them, arcs, spires, columns and buildings rose from the ground with such artificial beauty that Shavo felt his jaw drop. There was so much to look at that he had no idea where to look. The smooth design of the lanterns and pools mixed in with the grass and trees giving it an absolutely eye-catching look. And the sheer size of the whole place gave someone a lot to look at, making them have to take a step back and watch in silence as they registered it all.

And that was exactly what he was doing.

"Woooow." Ruby cooed as she took in the sights, her sister in a similar state.

Shavo did not even hear her as he slowly walked up to the pool in the middle of the walkway and looked down, seeing his own face looking back up at him with an expression of awe-filled shock.

"This… Is really happening." He whispered to himself, the weight of the situation beginning to dawn down on him. The Traveller looked back up and slowly scanned around with wonder evident in his eyes, every person, every stone, every leaf being of an almost biblical significance to him.

"This is really happening." He said to himself again as he began to step backwards slowly to try and get a better view. "I'm really here."

His mind went in over-load from comprehension of the truth. The truth that he really had left Earth.

He really was in Remnant.

"Holy shit." He said shakily as he ran a hand through his hair. "Holy shit, man. Holy shit, holy shi-"

Shavo was still walking backwards while talking, not paying very much attention to where he was actually walking. He did realize that he had run into something, however, when he began to lose balance after bumping into something with his foot. Reeling, he tried to grab for something to keep him up and managed to grab onto a rail. That rail, however, didn't seem to be attached to anything stable as it too fell over with him and sent what seemed like a mountain of luggage falling on top of him.

"Serj damnit!" He cursed as he sat up, luggage bags and suitcases falling off of him as he rubbed his head. He now knew that falling down in Remnant felt the same as it would on Earth. "Who in the hell leaves a freakin' luggage rack sitting in the middle of a walkway!?"

Wanting to find out the answer to his question, he grabbed for a nearby white suitcase and held it up to see if he could spot a name. Instead of seeing a name, all he saw was a familiar symbol.

A symbol of the Schnee Dust Company.

"Just what do you think you're doing!?"

Looking up from his place on the ground, Shavo saw a girl clad entirely in white with a icy-blue gaze that pierced through his very soul.

And it was directed right at him.

Shavo blinked at her blankly before realizing the position he was in and almost laughed at the irony of the situation.

Almost, if it weren't for the death glare being thrown his way.

Hiatus is officially over!

Okay, so two weeks isn't really much of a hiatus, but eh, I'm still glad to be back and writing.

AND HOLY SHIT, MAN, EPISODE SEVEN, I LITERALLY CANNOT EVEN!

Like, I know that it doesn't look very professional to be geeking out over a show in the authors note, but this is fanfiction. I don't think I'm gonna be losing any internets for doing so here.

But anyways, does anyone else just feel that Remnant is full of a bunch of P words? Seriously, they're freaking out over a stupid broken leg. These people are going into a profession where they most likely don't live past thirty, and everyone's losing their shit because of one broken leg. Jesus H Christ, what a bunch of pansies.

Anyways, that's enough of my rambling on for now. This chapter is kind of short, but I really don't know how to follow it up from that until next chapter.

And what about that new profile pic?

-Triple T