While Redwood was getting over to the Auditorium, we can see Ruby Rose and Jaune Arc have now walked into its doors, after asking directions from one of the Security staff.
As they marvelled at the room Ruby's sister Yang calls her over leaving a disheartened Jaune behind.
Yang asked Ruby "How your first day going, little sister." Ruby was not in a good mood however and replied with "You mean since you ditched me and I exploded"
Yang not understanding that her sister really meant said:"Yikes, meltdown already?" Ruby turned to Yang with an arm raised " No, I literally exploded a hole in front of the school, there was a fire and I think some ice."
Yang just leaned in closer to her sister "Are you being sarcastic?" she asked with a smile.
Ruby just scoffed "ugg I wish, I tripped over some crabby girl's luggage, then she yelled at me, then I sneezed, then I exploded and she yelled at me again, soon security arrived and I just felt really bad and I just wished she would stop yelling at me!" unfortunately for Ruby the 'crabby girl' whose name is Weiss was behind her.
"YOU!" Weiss shouted at Ruby "Oh god its happing again" Ruby said jumping into her sister's arms.
"You lucky we weren't blown off the side of the cliff, and don't get me started on how the security could have just reported us to the Headmaster and got us expelled before even the first day!" Weiss said angrily.
Yang just looked at her sister "Oh my God, you really did explode." Ruby got out of her big sis's arms and said" It was an accident!" and got a flyer put in front of her face.
" 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." Ruby just looked at Weiss having not caught any of that.
Weis then said "You really want to start making things up to me?" she asked.
"absolutely!" and she was given the fryer and got a cold reply" Read this and don't ever Speak to me again."
Yang seeing the trouble that her sis was in said" Look, um, It sounds like you two got off on the wrong foot!" she then continued with "Why don't you just start over and try to be Friends, okay?" she asked.
Ruby was happy with that idea and introduced herself. Sadly being cold runs in Weiss's family and she promptly joking about all the things they could do together.
Ruby the being naive girl she was asked if she really meant it, coldly Weiss said "NO."
Ruby just defaulted now in mild sadness, but this was soon interrupted.
"Hello!" everyone turns their attention to the stage where the headmaster was at.
In all honesty, this was some of the students first time actually seen Redwood Wall, and he mostly surpassed most of their expectations.
"I can see that all of you have now made it," Redwood said, "even after the explosion that happened earlier" Ruby shrunk a little as Wiess glared at her "now here you are at the Academy having finally gotten your way here through whatever methods you have done."
He looked at the crowd of Students with a smile. "At this school, you will use the skills you have and Mastery of your craft to fight monsters " his smiled grow "and School work to climb the ranks and become Fullfledged Hunstmen and Huntresses." He then said more loudly with a full smile on his face "to defend those who cannot defend themselves from the beasts beyond our walls"
The mood of the students was high, that would change with what he said next.
"But as it is now, you are all just whiny children still growing into adulthood to me," he said with a disappointed face.
The students were confused and some felt insulted.
"I will not lie, I can just not see most of you being Hunters, now before you start saying I don't know what it means to be one." he took a deep breath "I have lived most of my life at odds with death and I have seen many hunters both young and old." "It was not Superior knowledge, better training or Advanced weapons that got us through our darkest moments," Redwood said to them thinking back to every Huntsmen and Huntress he had met in my life. "But the experienced we had gained throughout our life and the bond's that held us together" "At this school, we may be able to give you the tools to be great, the knowledge you seek and the training you need." He then had felt a cold feeling come over him that seemed to fill the room as well. "But what happens to you next is what matters the most in the end" he then walked as Glynda walked over to the mic "You will gather in the ballroom tonight, tomorrow your initiation begins, be ready you are dismissed"
Yang then said to her sister "He seemed to, um I don't know exude some kind of cold feeling or something at the end." Ruby replied with "I could tell, it's like the room lost its warmth suddenly at the end there."
Soon Jaune said to them "I'm a natural Blond, you know!" Weiss just facepalmed.
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Redwood was sitting back in the office with his axe on the table, staring at the emblem on its head and comparing it to the one in the book he found.
He has had this book for a while now and only now did he finally see the truth.
It was what he feared, they were identical, right down to the last detail.
This Book was of his home.
One that was now gone.
He tried not to remember his home, it was too painful to think about.
He tried to forgive Ozpin, wanting to give him the benefit of the doubt.
But no matter how he looked at it, how he remembered it.
It always ends the same way.
And no amount of apologies or forgiveness will bring them back.
He placed the book closed on the table and picked up his axe to go to sleep.
But instead of going to bed he sat on it as he placed his hands on his face and cried.
He can remember his home and how there were happy, how he would walk up to Grimm to say hello and they would not bat an eye, how he was taller than most of the kids his age, how he had a family in every person that lived in his life.
He would be fascinated with the world and how it worked.
How Ozpin came to make a speech, which he drank every little word into his brain, how he told everyone at home how he will be a Huntsman one day at Beacon.
How the Headmaster left and the mood of his home changed.
And just 4 days after Ozpin left, the Grimm came to tear away his life away.
How he cried alone as the Grimm clawed at the door asking for help from the guards of his home, for the man who fought the Grimm, for his family for someone!
But no one came and as the door was about to break, he grabbed the axe that was with him.
And swang at the paw that broke through the door.
He then in a rage stood up suddenly grabbing his axe and slammed it into the wall shattering it.
He looked in surprise at what he did and after calming himself down went to fixing the wall.
After some time it was like it was never broken in the first place.
"if only I can do the same for myself," he told himself and placed his axe at the side of his bed and went to sleep and dreamed of when his home was gone.
When he first experienced the power of his aura.
When the mind of the boy who was of pure joy was replaced by a beast of rage and for the first time in his life.
He felt alone, in the cold, in the dark, without a home.