Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls to chapter 2

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Alec steps out of the large airship Mimi standing next to him Beethoven and Raven bringing up the back of the little group. Alec walks following the crowd of people and join the gathering students in the courtyard of the new fortress of Beacon. They arrange themselves near a statue, it stands above all of them. The statue depicts a battle in the middle four faceless huntsmen protecting a little child on one side the white masked forces of the Grimm on the other the machine Knights of old Atlas.

Raven looks at the plaque on the side of the Statue, "In Remembrance of all those that faced the darkness partially blind. We thank you for the sacrifice of your peace, of your innocence to bring those things back for the future. In remembrance of the souls who gave the ultimate sacrifice with their lives. For facing the horrors of the darkness and standing firm swearing to an immortal place that non would pass. In Remembrance of those heroes that stared into the darkness and became monsters to protect us from so much worse. For those who stared into the darkness and watched as it stared back. Thank you. Without you all would be lost. Long live the Kingdoms, long live life, long live us all." She reads it aloud and begins to step back as like many around her they realize that carved deep into the marble base of the statue are names covering every surface of the stone. Raven looks around realizing that the courtyard is filled with three dozen of the statues. "Holy shit."

Alec puts his hand on her shoulder, "You good Vee."

"There has got to be ten thousand names on these statues."

A thick accented bat Faunus speaks up, "More like fifty thousand. Every huntsman that died in the war, don't really mention all the one that died after, or the soldiers or militia or civilians. Those have monuments in the city." She is wearing a tight pair of pants and holding a long spear. Her bright pink shirt covered in a form of integrated armor; her black pants mostly covered by knee tall boots with a heel a chainmail armor sitting in front of her legs. The back of each of her boots going down to just above the ground is a larger blade. "My names is Rita mind if I stand with you for the orientation."

"Feel Free," Alec replies with a gesture, "My name is Alec, this lovely tiger next to me is Mimi, big guy with the hammer is Beethoven and then our lovely reading voice here is Raven."

"Thank you." The thick accent replies as everyone looks to the pair of adults now standing on the central stage.

A woman steps to the front of the stage, "Hello I am Crimson Immerta Headmistress of Beacon, next to me is my assistant Headmaster, Azul Pendragon." The woman speaking wears a green pin stripe suit dress with a long sword at her side. The man next to her is wearing a more lax suit with the jacket open. "you are all here to begin on a fifteen-year journey in exchange for the education and retirement you will receive. If you are not sure in your decision to be come one of civilizations defenders I want you to walk right now. No one will hold it against you and the decision will cost you most of your young life in the least." As a few leave the courtyard the Headmistress continues, "now as most of you know there are no longer huntsmen in training only those more or less experienced. If you leave after this orientation you will technically be deserting and will be rogue." She stares over the crowd of students, "Is that everyone?" With a sigh she waves her hand as the large airship start to pull away. "Well then welcome to The Fortress of Beacon Huntsmen of Remnant. Tomorrow your first test will begin we will be using the information to form you into your teams and units. We know that some of you have served in teams this will make it more likely that you will be assigned the same team as long as you work well together. As of now each of you will be labeled as Huntsmen and will be granted a stipend for equipment and the such once you have had your units formed you will be expected to take smaller jobs and missions. Once you complete you test tomorrow you will be given two weeks to pick classes. If any of you die in the test tomorrow you will be labeled as a dead huntsman and your families will receive the payment of death benefits for a year one Huntsman." She looks at the crowd. "Thank you for choosing to become the second class of Huntsmen at Beacon." She turns away as the Assistant Headmaster steps forward.

"You are all dismissed please head towards the main hall, and remember the fortress is an open campus, you will see both military and civilians among the area. Be safe. Have fun." The lax man smiles as he turns and follows the Headmistress.

The crowd begins to move towards the grand hall. Alec grabs his duffle bag and starts to follow. "You here with anyone Rita?"

"Aye no just me." She shrugs, "I grew up alone parents died a bit after I was born." She keeps walking a longer than normal distance away from the quartet. "Where are y'all from."

Alec smiles as they walk forward, "We are from a small community called The Strip about a thousand people live there." He pulls on his coat. "So, did you register to join to be a Huntress or a Huntress Support."

"I don't have enough Aura to be a front-line Huntress and my semblance is not useful in combat, so I am registered to be in a Support team. You four obviously are a combat team looks like a standard multipurpose team ya." The Bat winged woman smiles. "I am going to split off and grab a spot for myself I will see you tomorrow." She walks away with a wave.

"Let's see if we can find ourselves a spot." Alec walks in the opposite direction of the Bat. "So, what do you all think of that one?" He asks quietly as he kept walking.

Mimi laughs, "this isn't a battlefield analysis Alec." The look Alec gave over his shoulder causes her to stiffen, "fine, she is nice but from what I can tell she isn't lying, at least not that I can tell. I think that she is lonely."

"She is smart and tries to think like an analyst. Her weapons were interesting that rifle spear seems like a more combat oriented tool over a support but looked pretty durable." Raven adds, "She had some kind of dust on her couldn't tell which one."

"Her parents were Fang," Beethoven adds bluntly causing the group to stop, "she had two pairs of dog tags around her neck White Fang standard issue her parents survived the war and apparently had her."

From the other side of the hall a call is heard, "that fucking flying rat is a Claw." The silence of the grand hall is hard to ignore.

Alec turns faster than he should have, "You sure those were Fang Dog tags."

"Yes."

"Mimi my right, Vee second line be ready, Bet my Left." The four start running.

"If I had known that the academy let is such animals I would have walked." The murmuring around the yells is getting louder.

"Get out of the way!" Alec yells as he pushes through the crowd.

A group of people step in the way. The clicking of Ravens whip can be heard as she unlatches it. The leader of the group a massive man smirks. Before anything else happens a scythe blade wraps around his waist a pair of rabbit ears barely seen. The group barely parts as Alec and his group break through.

Coming to a sliding stop on the tile around Rita the four young adults with weapons drawn stare down a dozen angry humans some with weapons drawn. Rita with her spear in hand and in a battle stance stands in the middle.

An angry woman steps forward an axe in hand, "move, let us deal with the Claw."

Alec stares at the woman and the group around her, "no. She is not with the Crimson Claws." He growls his weapons in his hands, "don't do this."

"Give me the animal. She has Claw tags."

Alec reaches back to Rita, "Give me the tags."

"They are all I have of them." Her voice is meek.

"Trust me please." The tags are placed in his hand and he quickly looks at them. The tags have two names and the marking of the White Fang on the back. He holds them up with one weapon still pointed at the woman in front of him. "The Fang died right next to humans and synthetics I am not going to let you sully their name by comparing them to the Claws. Now stand down or die."

"We still out number you. Five against twelve is still a loosing battle." The woman stares angrily, "You willing to die for an animal."

"You are a Huntress are you saying you are not," Alec challenges his irises becoming crosshairs of aura.

The click of a large weapon behind the head of one of the group of threats. "To be honest I am not sure what this will do against someone with Aura, but I can tell you a fire dust shell normally destroys a Grimm in one shot." A bigger human male says holding a cannon against some one's head. More weapons were drawn as the dozen find themselves surrounded.

Alec stares at the woman, "Look I hate the Crimson Claw as much as you do I hate them just like I hate the Pure Breeds they are both extremists, but I will not support a witch hunt. This woman chose to protect Civilization from the only enemy that matters." The attackers and any supporters they have begins to move away from the main group of the class. Alec looks at the group around him, "Thank you, now we need to get some sleep." He looks at Rita handing back the two pairs of Dog Tags, "Are you going to be alight." She takes them and starts to hide the dog tags under her shirt. "Don't," Alec smiles, "you need to show them the respect they deserve out in the open."

She nods with a gulp, "Thank you."

"You are one of us, we back each other."

The Headmistress and her Headmaster watch the screens in the head office. "That was almost bad." She says watching her new students disperse back to their chosen sleeping areas.

The assistant Headmaster shakes his head, "I don't think so Crim, those kids know what they are doing."

"No, they don't Azul. They almost started a war in my great hall. I think every one of them was ready to kill." She sighs placing her head in her hands, "shit they were ready to do it, you saw it in their eyes. They were activating their semblances weapons drawn, all over a few old dog tags."

"But they found a nonviolent solution. They are from different places, different ideals they only see what happened after the war not before it." Azul looks away from the monitors, "Put those four on a team together, that is what they want. That young woman, Rita didn't back down impressive. That Rabbit girl reacted well and that young man with the cannon well he was surprisingly subtle until he was needed. Put those two dozen who supported the attack together in teams and units no one else will take them it will take a very long time for them to earn back the trust of the others and at least putting them together will limit any accidents." He sighs as he sips on the amber liquid in his glass, "you know I am right."

"Of course, you are right, I have trusted you on this kind of thing for what? Twenty two years?" The headmistress takes his glass and downs it, "Make your notes and put them on my desk. Damn it. I am going to dropped into the forest tomorrow. I am going to make sure that the forest is still cleared."