Chapter. 4

One Of The Day's Of All Time: Part 2

The trio burst into the auditorium, which itself is filled to the brim with people like sardines in a can. Yang catches a glimpse of white and her eyes turn blood red as she all but charges toward the wayward color.

"Yang! No!" Whined Ruby as she chased her sister. "Sorry, Jaune! I-I gotta go! I'll see you after the ceremony!"

"Hey, wait!" Jaune sighs. "Great, now where an I supposed to find another nice, quirky girl to talk to?"

Jaune sulks off to a corner, revealing a pair of inquisitive emerald eyes watching him go.

Ruby finally catches up to Yang and calms her down before she beats an unfortunate toe-head to death.

Yang chuckles uneasily. "What a first day, huh?"

"I literally exploded a hole in front of the school!" Ruby exclaimed. "And there was some fire, and I think some ice…?"

"Please tell me you're being sarcastic…"

"I wish!" Ruby scoffed, not noticing Weiss rapidly approaching her from behind, before the stress of the day exploded out of her. "I tripped over some crabby girl's luggage, and then she yelled at me, and then I sneezed, and then I exploded, and then she yelled at me again, and I felt really, really bad, and I just wanted her to stop yelling at me!"

"You!"

"Oh, God, it's happening again!" Ruby wailed as she jumped into Yang's arms.

"You're lucky we weren't blown off the side of the cliff!"

"Oh my God, you really exploded." Yang mumbled in horror.

"It was an accident." Ruby whines before hoping down from her sisters arms and looking to Weiss. "It was an accident!"

Weiss cuts her off by holding up a pamphlet that reads "DUST for Dummies and other Inadequate Individuals" to Ruby.

"Ruby blinked owlishly. "What's this?"

Weiss begins listing off policies to a clueless and horrified Ruby, with her voice speeding up and getting higher pitch with each word. "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 applications and practices in the field."

"Uuhhh…" Replies a brain-fried Ruby.

"You really want to start making things up to me?"

"Absolutely?"

Weiss shoves the pamphlet into Ruby's hands. "Read this, and don't ever speak to me again."

Yang waged a war in her head – with her over protectiveness on one side, and her motherly side wanting Ruby to make friends on the other – but a pleading look from Ruby is all it takes to prevent Yang from knocking Weiss' block off.

"Look, uh, it sounds like you two got off on the wrong foo." Yang placated. "Why don't you start over and try to be friends, okay?"

Ruby puts away the pamphlet. "Yeah! Great idea, sis!" She holds out her hand toward Weiss and clears her throat. "Hello, Weiss! I'm Ruby! Wanna hang out? We can go shopping for school supplies!"

"Yeah!" Weiss exclaimed with faux enthusiasm. "And we can paint our nails and try on cloths and-"

Jaune was moving through the jam-packed crowd, looking for a more comfortable place to wait for initiation, when he overhears something.

"-talk about cute boys, like tall, blonde, and…"

Jaune looked over to the source of the voice, seeing Yang and Ruby with a girl in white – who, for some reason, sported a massive blush that stuck out tremendously on her porcelain cheeks. Jaune looked behind him, and saw no other person that was tall and blonde. Looking back, Jaune quirked a brow and pointed at himself and mouthed. "Me?"

This in turn, caused the girl in white's blush to deepen, and Yang to gain a teasing smirk.

But before anyone could do anything about the matter, everyone's attention is drawn to the stage, where Professor Ozpin is readying the microphone, with Glynda besides him.

"I'll… keep this brief." Ozpin started cryptically. "You have traveled here today in search of knowledge, to hone your craft and acquire new skills, and when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people."

Ozpins eyes slowly scanned the room. "But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose, direction." He continues as the students whisper amongst themselves. "You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step."

Jaune swore Ozpin's eyes drifted over to him when he said that.

As Ozpin leaves, Glynda steps up to the mic. "You will gather in the ballroom tonight; tomorrow, your initiation begins. Be ready. You are dismissed."

"Dad was right." Jaune mumbled. "The Headmaster's off his meds…"

Shaking off the Headmasters weird ass speech, if you could call it that, Jaune decided to go check out what the girls were talking about.

"So… what was this about a tall blonde?"

he never did get an answer, as Ruby looked just as confused as he was, Yang smiled like the Cheshire Cat, and the albino's blush got even worse before she stormed off.

"Was it something I said?" Jaune asked, finally causing Yang to lose it and burst out laughing. "Seriously, was it something I said?!"

-{O}-

Jaune walked through the ballroom with his sleeping bag under his arm.

He is dressed in simple black sleeping pants, with a yellow tee.

As he tries to find a place to sleep, he notices Yang and Ruby – who wore an orange tank top, with a burning heart on the front in red, and a pair of black short shorts, and black tank top featuring a heart-shaped Beowolf design on the chest and long white pants decorated with pink roses, with a black sleeping mask decorated with triangular red eyes, respectively – and waves to them, getting a wave in return.

But he finds the perfect place, unfortunately its already occupied by a poorly hidden Faunus girl, but hey, if she wants to keep it a secret, more power to her – who wore a yukata style pajama dress, one that showed off her long legs.

Shrugging, Jaune walks up to the girl with an award winning smile, at least that's what his mother always told him, and she'd never lie to him!

"Hey! Mind if I sleep here?" Jaune asked, pointing to a spot next to her.

"Sure." Came the girls monotone reply, not once looking up from her book – Gemini Man, nice read.

Jaune sets his sleeping bag down, sill rolled, and uses it like a pillow, with his right had stuffed inside – gripping the knife placed within – before laying down and closing his eyes…

…only to open them at the sound of Yang's sing song voice.

"Hel-looooo!" Yang sang. "I believe you two may know each other?"

"Aren't you… that girl that exploded?"

"Uh, yeah! My name's Ruby!" Said girl replied far too loudly. "But you can just call me Crater…" She smiles in embarrassment. "A-Actually, you can jus call me Ruby."

"Blake."

"Oh, God!" Jaune thought, feeling embarrassed for Ruby. "It's like when Saph tried to force me to make friends."

Before this train-wreck of a conversation could go on any further, Jaune subtlety pointed towards the girls book to Ruby, who thankfully got the message.

"So… what's it about?"

"Huh?"

"Your book." Ruby clarified. "Does it have a name?"

"It's, uh, Gemini Man… i-it's about a man with two souls, each fighting for control over his body."

"Oh, yeah… it's all coming together now!" Yang mumbled in joy at her "successful" ploy.

"I love books, Yang used to read to me every night before bed."Ruby explained. "Stories of heroes and monsters… They're one of the reasons I want to be a Huntress!"

"And why is that?" Blake asked, laughing a little. "Hoping you'll live happily ever after?"

"Well, I'm hoping we all will." Replied Ruby. "As a girl, I wanted to be just like those heroes in the books… someone who fought for what was right, and protected people who couldn't protect themselves!"

"That's… very ambitious for a child." Blake's smile turns into a frown. "Unfortunately, the real world isn't the same as a fairy tale."

"Well, that's why we're here!" Ruby replied. "To make it better!"

"That's adorable!" Jaune thought with a smile.

"Oh, I am so proud of my baby sister!" Yang squealed as she scoops Ruby up into a hug.

"Cut it out!" Ruby whined as she tried, and failed, to escape her sisters love.

Blake laughs slightly. "Well, Ruby, Yang, it's a pleasure to ha-"

Storming onto the scene was Weiss dressed in a faded blue short sleeved nightgown with white trim and the Schnee Crest on her upper-right chest, she also wears her hair down.

"What in the world is going on over here?!" Screeched Weiss. "Don't you realize some of us are trying to sleep?"

"You're right, I was trying to sleep." Jaune replied as he opened one eye. "And you coming over screaming certainly doesn't help."

Weiss rounded onto the intruding voice, retort on the tip of her tongue, only for said retort to die a quiet death once she say who the voice belonged too. A blush appeared on her face as her eyes dipped to Jaune's waistband, where his shirt had rode up – showing the bottom of his abs.

"Look." Jaune began as he stood to his full height, completely dwarfing Weiss. "It's been a stressful day, so why don't we let bygones be bygones?"

Weiss' eyes refused to meet Jaune's. "T-That is agreeable!" She turned t Ruby, still not looking anyone in the eye. "I'm sorry for my actions, let us start over tomorrow."

Before anyone could say anything else, Weiss briskly walks away, mumbling something that sounded like. "Stupid, sexy, rugged man!"

Jaune ignored that whole mess, and turned to Yang and Ruby, only to notice that they both now had their sleeping bags.

"You're a natural Weiss deterrent." Yang explained as she set her sleeping bag next to Jaune's spot, with Ruby taking the spot on his other side.

Jaune shrugged and went to sleep…

…Only to wake up finding himself being used like a giant teddy bear by the two sisters, and… Blake?

Jaune was trapped in place by the sisters cuddling his sides and Blake sleeping on his chest like a cat. He could also hear whispering to his right, and looking over revealed two people – a girl and a, androgynous person of unknown origin.

The buxom girl is fair skinned and stands at a height of five foot one, with an ovular face and athletic build. Her orange hair fell to the top of her neck – with her right bang framing her face and the left tucked behind her ear, she also has tow "wings" swooping out from behind her head – and her aqua colored eyes shine with a manic energy.

She wears a pair of pink short shorts – patterned with white thunderbolts – with a dark gray T-shirt with the word "Boop" written across her breasts, which has a hammer emblem in place of the second "O".

The androgynous person of unknown origin has pale oriental skin and stands at a height of five foot nine, with an angular face and slim build. Their long black – of which there is a streak of pink hair on their left side – falls to mid-back, and cascades down their form like an ebony waterfall, with tired and sullen looking pink eyes.

They wore a baggy, dark green, long sleeved sleeping shirt shirt with baggy, white sleeping pants.

The androgynous person notices Jaune's awake, and after giving him a frankly adorable embarrassed smile, ushers their friend away and out of the ballroom.

Jaune laid there for a moment… contemplating. "… … … I can't tell if that was a guy or a chick, and it's bringing up rather uncomfortable questions…"

Jaune was taken from his contemplation by a form shifting itself on his chest. Jaune turns to look at the disturbance, only to come face to face, quite literally, with the mysterious girl known only as Blake.

"It's okay, Jaune, just don't say anything stupid and-"

"You have pretty eyes." Jaune's mouth moved without his brains consent, causing a massive blush to appear of Blake's face.

"God dammit, Jaune!" He scolding himself. "I said don't say anything stupid!"

And so. The potential students of Beacon started off their initiation, with the screaming of two embarrassed teenagers, followed shortly by two more…

…What a wonderful way to start the day!