"It feels so quiet and peaceful when we arrive at Beacon." Ruby remarked as she was the first of the sisters to step onto solid ground.
"I swear you say that every time we get here sis, as if this is a whole new experience for you or something." Yang responded as she stretched her arms, relieved that she was no longer confined to the ship.
"I know, but it just...feels like every time we come back from break... I'm taking my first steps at Beacon, just those first few moments of being here, the memory playing out each time."
"Well are you finished soaking up the scene? Let's get going."
Once they had taken in the fresh cool breeze of their surroundings, Yang and Ruby made their way to the rear of the ship, where their luggage as well as Zwei would be collected.
As they waited, Ruby glanced around at the students who were already making their way towards Beacons interior.
She had felt both nervous and excited with the arrival of students from the other academies, nervous because of what type of people they might be.
Could the people of Atlas really behave as Weiss once did? Did people from Mistral be as cautious of others like Blake? And were those from Vacuo as outgoing and rebellious as Sun?
But what made her really excited was the fact that with the arrival of students, meant the presence of a plethora of different weapons, it also meant the possibility of seeing them in action before the tournament.
She was brought out of her thoughts as the familiar sound of barks echoed for a moment.
Before she could even blink, she yelled out the corgi's name, wanting nothing more than to open up his cage and let him loose. However she was caught off guard.
"Zwei!"
Whump
"Heads up." Yang said, as she tossed a red and black bag at her sibling.
Knowing too well that Ruby would most likely forget her bag in anticipation of freeing Zwei from his doggy prison.
She smirked as the red head sprawled onto the ground as a result of a direct hit from her as well as the lack of concentration her sister had at that moment.
Grabbing the dog cage as well as her own yellow duffle bag, she spun around to find Ruby still on the ground, with an almost hurt look on her face.
"C'mon sis, I've thrown punches harder than that when you try to wake me.
Did it really hurt that much?"
"You know how much I hate having Zwei in the luggage hold, he spent nearly an hour cooped up in it. Can't you let him have some freedom?"
"Ruby, Zwei is going to have plenty of time to stretch is paws once we're back in our dorm, I know he will stay with us on the short walk back.
But with all these people here, I would rather keep him close by... as well as keep an eye on you.
I know how once we land, you just want to use your semblance and race right through these people to get back to the rooms to see if we're the first back or not."
"No I wasn't"
"..."
"Okay... maybe I am a little excited to see the others again."
"You'll have all of the semester to run around and be crazy, but right now let's just take a calm and slow walk to the dorm. Okay?"
"Alright Yang."
As the pair headed along the path everyone took, Ruby piped up, thinking about their holiday.
"I wish Blake and Weiss had come with us to Patch, they would have liked it, plus if they thought you were one for puns, they would have really liked dad."
"Well like the ice queen said, she has to keep up with what goes on in the Schnee Dust Company. The fact she has to be there means she'll know exactly what to change when she becomes the owner of the company, undoing the mistakes her dad had created in his time running it."
"Hmm, I guess you're right. I don't envy what she is burdened with though, especially when you're supposed to take time off when on holiday, not work just as hard as you would during the semester.
But I know Weiss will do great." Ruby replied as her mind wandered from one teammate to the next.
"I wonder how Blake's break spending time with Sun went?"
"Well I just hope they spent their holiday time well and didn't... monkey around."
"It's been less than five minutes since we're here and you've already started with puns?" Ruby said as she gave her older sister a scowl, her hood covering her face from embarrassment as nearby students turned to see Yang let out a sarcastic laugh at her own joke.
After the hilarity had died down, the pair remained quiet as they made their way towards their dorm, the muffled sounds of Blake and Weiss talking grew louder as the two approached the entrance to the room.
Before they entered, Yang turned to address her sister, beaming a smile that was all too familiar for Ruby to know that she was devising something sinister.
"Would you mind taking Zwei off my hands for a moment sis?"
"Yang, what are you planning to do?" Ruby said, hesitant by her older sisters' request.
"What?... I need both hands free so I can make an entrance, plus he's feeling a little heavy." Yang replied as she handed the cage to Ruby.
As Yang faced the door, with her back turned, she addressed the red head.
"Oh and could you stay behind me as we go in?"
Ruby could see that Yang was determined to follow through with the scheme.
Finally Ruby begrudgingly accepted.
Once Yang received confirmation she flung the door open and began singing at the top of her lungs as the duo walked in, Ruby quickly closing it behind herself so as not to attract any unwanted attention.
"I'M BACK, BACK IN THE NEW YANG GROOVE!"
This sudden outburst in the somewhat quiet dorm caused the other three girls to recoil in surprise.
"Would you please cut that out!" Weiss exclaimed, once her hearing slowly returned to her.
"What's wrong Weiss queen? A little jealous of my singing?" Yang teased as she stood tall, proud of how loud she could 'sing'.
"Hardly, I'd take those horrendous puns any time over that excuse of your screams you call singing."
"Well, I get the feeling I'm going to be getting the cold shoulder from you as I have brand new material that will last until the end of the year and into the next." She replied as her focus then turned to Blake, who still appeared annoyed at the blonde. Yang smirked as her comedic side was kicking into overdrive.
"And did ya miss me Blakey?"
"Right now, I regret breathing the same air as you..." Blake said, almost hissing at the brawler.
"Aww Blake, you don't mean it that way do you?
Besides even if you didn't miss me, I know someone who really missed you..."
She smirked as she turned to grab the cage from her sister, slowly turning around, letting her teammate ponder what she was talking about.
"No... you didn't bring it back with you?! NO, you're joking right?" Blake's voice was filled with dread as she connected the dots.
"He likes you Blake. Don't you want welcome back kisses from him?" Yang said as she opened the cage door, Blake's eyes' widening in horror.
"No Yang, please, get that thing away from me!"
But Blake's pleas for mercy went ignored as Yang let the corgi loose.
Zwei leapt out of the cage and stood straight up just in front of his taller and louder owner. He panted a little and sniffed the ground before lifting his head up, his beady little eyes making contact with amber ones.
Blake stood there motionless, afraid that its vision was based on movement. All the while Yang was smirking to herself, she walked around Zwei and casually picked up Blake, lifting her onto the top bunk and throwing her duffle bag over the Faunus once she placed her down. As Blake lay on Yang's bed, the blonde climbed up and sat beside her teammate.
"C'mon kitty cat, tell me about your adventure with Sun, Zwei can't get you up here." She said, in the hopes that it would bring Blake back to reality.
Both Ruby and Weiss stood in silence, staring at what unfolded in front of them. Once Yang had Blake talking to her, the red and white pair made eye contact with each other.
"Weiss!" Ruby cheered as she dashed to her teammate, leaping for a hug, much to Weiss' reluctance.
"Hello Ruby." Weiss sighed, slightly annoyed yet grateful for the exuberant welcome from her team leader, feeling the sense of warmth that came from the hug.
"Weiss I missed spending time with you, did you miss me, didya didya?"
"I was quite too busy observing what father did to really think about other things going on."
At that moment Ruby had an almost hurt puppy dog expression, but she changed it when a thought came into her head. She turned around to see the corgi at her side, so she picked him up and turned to face Weiss.
"You missed Zwei though, didn't you?"
"Oh how could I not miss a face like that. Who is the most handsome dog in all of Remnant? You are that's who." Weiss said in a babyfied tone as she began to scratch behind Zwei's ear.
Ruby handed Zwei for Weiss to hold and as she did, she turned around and made her way to the door, her teammate placing the dog down as she caught sight of this.
"And where do you think you're going?" Weiss said as she grabbed onto Ruby's hood, yanking her back to where she stood momentarily.
"I was going to see if team JNPR were back, ask them about their time off."
"And leave your things in your bag until whenever? Ohhhh no...you are going to unpack your things before you're leaving this dorm. Do you hear me Ruby Rose?"
"B-but, but Zwei" Ruby said, trying to give the puppy dog look as she lifted Zwei up again and almost shoving him into Weiss' hands.
"You're not going to be using Zwei as leverage to procrastinate, just get your pack and put your things away, that's all I ask." Weiss said in a tired tone, crossing her arms so that Ruby wouldn't simply fling the corgi at her and use her semblance to make an escape.
It worked once, it won't work again.
"Alright, I'll unpack my things now then Weiss." Ruby finally said in defeat, as she placed her fluffy accomplice on the ground.
As the sun poured into their dorm room, Zen sat at the foot of his bed, playing with his scroll as he read his timetable for the lessons of the day.
Penny was due to leave earlier than normal and so Zen made sure to be ready before she left for her own lessons.
"So how do you feel?" Penny asked as she made one or two last minute checks of her combat backpack.
"Nervous to say the least, worried about what could happen, not to mention the things Ozpin said floating in the back of my mind." Sighing as he said these things.
"So you'll be good with your private lessons?"
"Yes, it will just be a continuation of what I've done before our time together, as well as improving upon my ability to control these swords."
"Well did you want me to walk with you to your lesson?" Zen said, his voice sounding a little more energetic.
"I think you should take the time you have before classes to just clear your head as well as maybe getting to know where your lessons will be situated." Penny said reluctantly.
"Oh." Zen said, he turned his head away from Penny as he looked towards the carpet, the sense of anxiety slowly started to tighten his chest.
Sensing how he felt, Penny walked over to her friend, knelt down and wrapped her arms around him. The only sound that filled the room for a minute or so was Zen's slow breathing, the thoughts that bothered him moments ago disappeared as they sat there.
"You will do fine Zen, if you do talk to anyone, just talk to them as if you were talking to me... and in no time, I'm sure they'll come to call you a friend just like I have." She said before releasing him from their embrace.
"T-thanks Penny, I know that you have your own thing to do, so you should get going. I'll collect myself and get ready for class." Zen said as he looked up at the red head.
"Alright, if you are sure...I'll see you in the afternoon, hopefully no one will be using the training rooms and we can continue like we did yesterday." Saying this as she made her way to the door.
"I'll see you then." Zen said as he watched Penny give a final wave before she closed the door behind her. He sighed once the sound of her footsteps were barely audible.
Come on Zen, best get going.
And with that in mind he got his things and headed for his first lesson.
As he made his way down a corridor he opened up his scroll to see if he was even in the right part of the academy.
Well looks like the right room. Best go in rather than just standing out here thinking to myself. He reflected as he went in.
Looking around he could see that the class was almost ready to start, with nearly all the seats being occupied. There was still time before the lesson and so it made sense to see one or two students talking quite loudly, one girl that had a bow on was reading and a girl sat beside her appeared to be cracking jokes.
Zen decided to sit at the front, given that it appeared that his 'peers' had dominion over the seats they were on.
As he sat, his attention was drawn to what appeared to be a map of Remnant, it show the terrain as well as the names of various regions that made up the four kingdoms. There were also several papers with writing pinned on the map and on top of that, there was also string that interconnected the papers to one another.
He blinked for a second and as he did, standing in front of the map was a man with green hair and large glasses, he also carried a cup in his hand.
He gestured for Zen to approach, at first Zen thought he was signalling another student, but as he did it a second time, almost as fast as the first. Zen stood up and walked over.
"Hello, you must be Mr Discovery, I've been told of your presence in my history class, welcome ."
"Uh thank you sir." Zen said, a little surprised by how quick teacher spoke.
"You can call me Dr Oobleck, and make sure you get it right..."
"Oo-bleck?"
" No, doctor."
"Alright, I'll make sure of that... Dr Oobleck."
"So I've heard that you have spent some time in Beacon before lessons started, do you like the time here thus far?"
"Yes I have indeed."
"Well that's alright, isn't it? Now if you wouldn't mind, I'd like the class to know you'll be studying alongside them, perhaps you'll make friends with one or two of my students before the end of the day?"
"Um, I'd rather not stand up here and make a big deal about it...if that's alright?"
"Nonsense, I've met students who were several times as timid as you are, you seem to be a confident well spoken type of individual. You aren't nervous talking to me right now are you?"
"No, not really..."
"Then it's settled then, I will allow you to take your seat in a moment."
Well here goes nothing. Zen thought to himself, looking around at everyone within the room.
A sharp pain filled his head for a moment as his eyes rested on a red hooded girl. The pain quickly subsided as Doctor Ooblecks' voice took his attention.
"Quieten down children. I would like to introduce you all to Zen Discovery, a student from Atlas who wishes to study at Beacon after the Vytal festival.
Please make him feel welcome, but make sure you do it after class.
For now we're already a minute behind the lesson, so take your seat Mr Discovery, and as for the rest of you, take out your notes as we were discussing the times of war between the four kingdoms..."
And with that I give you a chapter, on time this week.
And we finally get to see team RBWY..yay (was really easy to write them once I had the setup)...all i had to work with was Ooblecks final line of introducing Zen)
So gotta say Chapter 6 of RWBY was great, the Apathy are definitely a unique form of Grimm.
Also did anyone get the reference to yang's singing?
Hint: It is linked to a song in GTA 4.
That was it from me today,
Will see you in the next chapter.