Several seasons later, in the top of a tower filled with gears that turned to make ticking and tinking sounds, the headmaster of Beacon sat at his desk looking through new applications into his school for the coming year. One in particular caught his eyes.
Pushing up his classes, Professor Ozpin set down his scroll flat on his desk. "Hmm." Was all he let out, reaching over and grabbing a mug by the handle. As he brought it towards his face, his other hand cupped around the white ceramic piece with Beacon's duel axe symbol on it. He inhaled deeply, taking in the smell of the melted marshmallows in his hot chocolate before taking a sip of it.
After a moment of holding the warm drink, he set it back down. He leaned forward, placing his elbows on his desk as he held his hands together. As his brown eyes narrowed, his shoulders tensed a little as he began to drum his right hand fingers across the back of his left hand.
"Glynda?" He looked over at his assistant who was always by his side, even if she was silent most of the time. Unless something needed to be discussed that is. And at this moment, there was definitely something that needed to be.
"Sir?" The blonde Huntress in purple turned to look at him, her hands which held her scroll up slowly lowering down to her waist.
Ozpin looked away, his head turning back towards his own scroll. "What do you think of... Elise Spruce?" He looked away from the application which was filled out in a rather special way and up at her.
"Miss Spruce," Glynda paused for a moment, glancing back down at her scroll. "Well, she certainly has her heart in the right place. I am not so sure if she is ready though. Or if she even knows what she is doing." She gave off an annoyed groan, revwieng over Elise's request. "Underneath special skills, she put that she can carry a three hundred pound deer over her shoulders through rough forest terrain for several miles." She looked over at him as he gave a half amused smile.
"At least she is strong an has a fair amount of endurance." He looked back down at his scroll, gripping his hands together a little tighter. "And let us not forget how she is able to sleep anywhere and has a health problem relating to her addiction to tea."
Glynda rolled her eyes, swiping her finger across her scroll. "She has also never met a Grimm before. She has not even been to a combat school. She has grown up on a farm and nothing more."
"She's hunted though. And according to her, she never misses. Her aim is so accurate that she could shoot the wings off a fly from a mile away." Ozpin looked over, leaning back in his chair with a small sigh.
"Sir, all do respect, but that is impossible." The Huntress closed her scroll, holding it at her side. "Even the best make mistakes and slip up."
He gave a faint amused chuckle, lowering his head as his eyes shut. "Indeed." He gave a faint smile. "But perhaps all she needs is someome to guide her. She has the want and definitely the pride in herself for the job. Perhaps a little too much pride though." His eyes narrowed as he leaned forward again.
Ozpin swipped his hand just as Glynda rolled her eyes. He had made many mistakes in his life, more than she could ever count. So even if she disagreed with most of the decisions he made, she would stand by them and support him as well as she could.
A while later, as the school year was set to begin in a day, an airship was flying across the city of Vale towards Beacon Academy. On said craft, several will be students had their hands over their ears as a brunet bounced around on the inside and pointed out the windows at several different thinsgs.
"Oh my Oum! Oh my Oum! Oh my Oum!" Elise squealed as she pressed her face up against a window with her palms braced against the glass. "We're so high up! I haven't even climbed a mountain this high before! This is just so amazing!" She pushed herself up, suddenly sitting on a boy's shoulders to get a better veiw outside.
"Do you see this!?" Her dark brown cargo pants wrapped around his neck as she squeezed her legs. "It's so pretty!" Her camouflage covered arms wrapped around his eyes. "I mean the buildings are ugly but ahhh!" She squealed, jumping off him as he fell to his knees, coughing and gasping for air.
She bolted to the door as the ship started to dock. The moment she could fit through the crack between the doors, she sprinted across the bridge to the school grounds.
"So cool! So cool! So cool!" She shouted. In an instant, she was suddenly at the front of the academy on the Beacon statue. She wrapped her legs around the arm of the Huntsman holding the sword, hanging upside down as she stared at the Huntress with a double sided axe. She put her hands on the cliff of the statue, moving her body to look down at the creature of Grimm below. "You don't look that scary. You're not even bigger than the biggest deer I've shot." She mumbled to herself before swinging up and sitting on the soldiers of the stone man with a cry of victory and one fist up in the air.
Both new students and returning ones all stopped and stared for a few moments, each laughing quietly with a smile before continuing on. Not that Elise took notice of them. She was too happy and excited to even care. They were lucky she didn't notice though. If she had heard even just one rude remark about herself, whichever person it was, they would end up at the bottom of the lake in front of Beacon.
In the corner of her eye, the young girl suddenly caught a glimpse of a pair of deer antlers. "Mine!" She shouted, her riffle already flung out and held in her hands. A second later, she grinned, squeezing the trigger softly.
An extremely loud yelp shot through the air, making Elise lower her riffle and blink several times.
On the other side of the statue, a light brown haired deer Faunus held up her hand, taking a step back. With wide eyes, she shut them. A prick went through her palm, her aura protecting her from any harm from that. Then, the metal dart turned straight to rust. It went into a red powder, blowing across her arm and through her hair and face. With heavy breathing, she lowered her arm as her eyes opened. "Jeez..." She let out, trailing off. Every nerve in her body was screaming as she trembled ever so slightly.
"Hey!" Elise snapped, jumping down with narrowed eyes. "That was my dart! Do you know how hard that is to make!? What did you do to it!?"
The Faunus in a white vest over a tan shirt with white shorts and brown boots she was yelling at blinked and slowly raised an eyebrow, a look of confusion coming over her face. "You... shot me first." She spoke very hushly, her left hand grabbing her upper right forearm.
"B-But you broke it! You turned it to dust!" She flailed her arms back at her. "That was one of my special deer hunting ones!"
"Uh..." She blinked, her eyes going up to look at her antlers before she looked at Elise. Her head tilted slightly as she gripped her arm a little tighter. "Do you... nevermind." She shook her head slightly, about to walk away.
"Nevermind!" Elise shook her arms around much faster. "Who do you think you are!? Telling me nevermind!"
"Ch-Cheyenne Aurora." She mumbled, taking a small step away while point up at her antlers. "A deer Faunus." She put extra emphasis on the word deer. Not like it helped much.
"You still ruined one of my best darts!" She shot back, throwing her arms down with a groan. "How am I suppose to get dinner now!? Several deer surround me sometimes and I need all the darts I can get!"
Cheyenne blinked several more times, glancing up at her antlers before giving another sigh. "Nevermind..." She let out again, slowly lowering her head as she started to walk away.
Elise stayed standing where she was for a few moments, tilting her head before crossing her arms with a small scoff. "Wonder what her problem is. She's the one who broke my stuff." She looked at the ground, kicking the red powder at her feet. She gave a long sigh before her head shot up.
She smiled from ear to ear suddenly. In an instant, she was holding another female student's shoulders and shaking her like crazy. "I made a friend! That wasn't so hard! Cheyenne Aur-something! I made an actual friend! Mama said it might be hard but it wasn't!" As the student's eyes turned to swirls, Elise started to think of how she left home to come all the way here.
To her, it was funny how a week ago she was back at her house on her family farm. It was a perfect day like usual. And then they got word she would get to go to Beacon. Her mother freaked out the worse by far. She may or may not of been a little too over protective in Elise's eyes. Her father though, he couldn't of been more happy. More food for him to eat that is. He had given her the camouflage jacket he always wore when hunting as well forearm and shin padding that was harder than steel. Of course she wanted to take her horse, Jelly Bean, with her, but that was the last thing she dared to ask for when she received her mother's response. And now she was here, standing in front of Beacon Academy as a student, as a Huntress in training.
Elise squeled, dropping the person she held before bolting off. She had no clue where she was going at the moment nor did she care where she was going. She was here. That was all that mattered. The types of adventures that would be in store for her were unimaginable. She was going to have the time of her life here. She was going to make sure of that.
Little did she know though of everything Remnant had in store for her.