They stood there looking at the airship as it flew away, they had failed.
Beacon Academy is one of the elite combat schools, there were others but in Vale, it was the best, rarely did any of its students fail to become huntsmen.
The school's entrance exam tested everything from a person's skill in combat- how resourceful they were - how they worked as a team - how they worked alone and their luck.
Unfortunately for Pyrrha she didn't have the last one and Jaune didn't have all of them, however, years later Pyrrha would argue that he did have a lot of luck because the day they failed they met each other.
Beacon was a school where the students were made into a pair, and that pair would be put with another pair to make a team.
Pyrrha, however, found herself without a partner and as a result, the school had no choice but to let her go.
They told her that this was similar to her managing to kill the enemy, but realizing that she had been staved in the process.
She didn't like their reasoning but she hadn't come to the school to just learn to become a huntress.
Her entire life she had been in various competitions, she had fought against all sorts of people but alife like that was a lonely one.
Unlike girls, her age or younger Pyrrha didn't have any of the experiences she believed no she knew that had.
She never sat with her friends at school and talked about something they found interesting, and she never passed time with them simply being kids.
No, her life was filled with training- tournaments and going to parties where she met others like herself, hell she did most if not all of her school work alone with private tutors
She had gone to Beacon to try and get some of those experiences, to try and live her life as a normal girl, no matter how brief those few years may have been.
And now that chance was gone.
Jaune didn't even get a chance to try, his fake application to the school was instantly discovered.
The headmaster had called him the moment he saw him and told him that his dad had o.
Jaune always wanted to be a hero, his grandpa-uncle's - great-grandpa, hell even his aunts and some of his sisters were either huntsmen or served in the military.
He was the only boy in a house that had seven girls eight if someone counted his mom, but his dad didn't count because he was usually out in one mission or another.
His family had decided that because he was the only boy born into the family, he should be kept away from danger, so the family name didn't die.
Jaune had other ideas, at the time he would sneak away and train under his grandpa, but he was old and could only teach him how to block with his shield and swing his sword.
Jaune always listened to his family's war stories, how they all sat together and told about their travels, the people they saw, and the places they had been.
One day he heard his sisters talking and heard that Beacon would be having their entrance exam, that day he made a choice.
He took his family relics the shield and sword his great grandfather used during the war, along with the armor his grandpa gave him.
When he was about to leave, he found his grandpa looking at him, his old eyes focused on Jaunes, yet it was the smile on the old man's face that caught Jaune's attention.
"You are an Arc, my boy"
"Life will be hard for you because you lack any real experience with it, go find what your looking for," His grandpa said to him before they hugged each other
"Jaune, your going to fail, but don't give up" His grandpa said to him
So Jaune found his sister's application to Beacon and filled it up with nothing but lies, lies that were immediately found out.
Jaune turned his head towards the red-headed girl she was the only other person there.
"Hey do you want to get something to eat?" he said to Pyrrha
Pyrrha didn't know who the blond teen that had invited her to eat was, but she didn't knows if people just randomly invited each other to pass the time, but she took a leap of faith and said
"Okay"
"Sorry, my name is Jaune Arc" Jaune introduced himself, no more lies, there were other ways to become a huntsman, but he wouldn't do it through lies
'I'm Pyrrha Nikos" Pyrrha introduced herself and waited for Jaune to start acting like everyone she met, but he never did, he just shook her hand and walked towards a nearby restaurant.
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