High atop Beacon's tallest spire, where the former tower of the King of Vale once rested, now stood a clock tower with its large gears clanking and clunking. They hung high above a young woman's blue-haired head as she sat in her tight shorts, fiddling with her leather jacket.
Ilene sat before the headmaster of Beacon Academy. It must be a more stressful job than she thought if it had given him a head full of gray hair so early in his career.
Dealing with super-powered, hyperactive, and horny teens may have affected her that way. But more than that, she could see beyond his youthful looks. His eyes had such depth she only saw in hardened warriors of the tribe. Those with many years under their belts, at least those who were still alive.
She ran a hand through her iridescent blue locks. She leaned back in her chair, listening to the gears clanking in the headmaster's office. She awaited his judgment.
"Well Ms.Saturn," Ozpin spoke to her finally, his voice stoic yet comforting to her. She fidgeted with her fingers wishing she had fenrir with her. Not that the headmaster couldn't take her, she had heard the stories Raven had told her.
"It seems that the paperwork has gone through. Congratulations! You are now a student at Beacon Academy. In return for your helpful information, of course." The man said as he set the scroll down and lifted his mug of coffee .
"James has been so kind as to wave a blind eye toward your transgressions against argus provided you keep your nose clean."
"I understand sir." She said but her tone had a little snark to it. But the headmaster was used to obstinate students so he brushed it off and instead offered her a mug of coffee.
"No thanks, I prefer tea sir." she said and he set the mug down and laced his fingers together.
"Now I understand that Raven raised and trained you, but we will not tolerate her methods within these walls."" He said with a stern look.
"I'm not a fool," she said, finally getting fed up with this postering. " Sir, I know I have to act like a perfect little student. Obey my teachers do the homework and work with a group of green kids to pass. Or else you or one of the teachers will kick my ...butt and send me to prison back in Atlas."
She caught her language after she saw the headmaster's raised brow. She took a deep breath and sat down in her chair, feeling more relaxed. Ozpin smiled at her from behind his glasses.
"Yes, that about sums up your predicament." He said with a smirk before he chuckled.
" Hehe, you know it's quite funny. There's actually another young woman I added to the student body by meeting her in a police interrogation cell much like I had with you."
Ilene looked at the headmaster curiously at that and couldn't help but ask.
"Is that where you get all your students?" Making the man chuckle once more.
"I would fear for the kingdom if that were the case, leaving the fate of the future in the hands of delinquents. But no Ms.Saturn this other student took it upon herself to attempt to apprehend Roman Torchwick . During a botched robbery of yet another dust store."
Now this did surprise Ilene. She knew of Roman Torchwick . Former student of beacon, huntsman trained dropout, a master thief and no slouch to combat whoever tried to bring him in had her respect.
"But she failed and was taken in by my deputy," Ozpin said
Respect lost.
"Ah well hopefully next time she shall be able to do so with a huntress license. Before I send you to the auditorium, Ms. Saturn, may I ask you a few more questions?"
"Not like theres much else for me to do sir." She sat straight up and looked the professor in the eye ready to get this over with.
"Now... " The headmaster all of a sudden seemed more serious. Yet his tone betrayed nothing as he asked "You were once part of the Branwen tribe. I know this ...and you know Raven used to be a ...close student of mine yes?"
"Yeah what of it?" Ilene could recall almost all of the times Raven would rant and rave around the camp. About Ozpin being a twat a strong twat but a twat all the same and how her brother was a traitor to the tribe.
"Did she ever mention anything about me that ...would pertain to personal information of our past together?"
Ilene looked at him weirdly.
"No sir, not really. She'd usually rave about how you're fighting a losing battle against the grimm and hw her brother was your lap dog and a traitor. Other than that she'd just train us to make sure we were strong and able to raid at least once a month."
They stared at each other for a long moment that seemed to drag even further than the last silence. Before the elder huntsman leaned back in his chair and nodded.
"Very well Ms.Saturn..." He pulled out a brand new scroll. "Your new scroll holds the same features as the standard student scroll. Except with you being under probation yours will have added features to keep track of your actions and whereabouts. I've talked with the council and your probationary period shall be your first full year of Beacon."
She picked the scroll he passed her and looked it over; it was already reading her aura and registering her as its owner.
"Should you stray out of any forbidden areas or too far from Beacon or your mission parameters we will be alerted you understand?"
"Of course " she said bluntly "I get the message."
Ozpin sighed he could see ravens influence on the youth as she asked. "May I go now sir?"
The headmaster leaned back in his chair once more before giving the young girl leave.
His trusted deputy, Glynda watched the girl leave before she came into his office. She had a usual tempered expression. Glynda was around his age. However, she was the most beautiful woman in Beacon. She had platinum blonde hair in a curled bun. She had bright green piercing eyes behind spectacles. She walked to him in high heels, a tight skirt, and a fashionable white blouse. Her black cape flowed behind her.
"Are you sure it is wise Oz ? Should we allow a girl, who has been trained by a bandit, into the student body?" She asked, looking over the girl's file. "She has probably killed innocent people under Raven's guidance."
"Given Raven's view of might makes right that is very likely." Ozpin agreed. "However, when Atlesian troops found her in the Argus wilderness. She was alone fighting to protect an entire caravan of innocent people from the grimm. She had been abandoned by Raven. And faced her sentence without a fight all the way back to Atlas. Or at least that's how it will say on paper ."
Glynda looked too Oz her eyes inquisitive on his explanation.
"In truth Qrow found her wandering the wilds of anima. Likely scouting for her leader. But her own semblance led to her own defeat and Qrow bested her. Brought her to Argus and from there it was quite like I said. Though he wished to be omitted from the details. He only wished we would keep an eye on her whilst he's scouting for us."
Glynda listened and she had read the girl's file extensively. Oz, how can we be sure she knows nothing about Salem? I trust your judgment on understanding people, but she's too risky. She likely only took James' offer to be a huntress at Beacon because it would be better than a prison sentence. I still do not see why he wanted us to have her rather than keep her under his own watch with how paranoid that man is."
"James ...did not disclose that information. He merely said that he trusted me to keep an eye on her more than himself ...as well as his son."
"James has a son?" She was completely flabbergasted at hearing that stone cold Ironwood had a child and he was coming to this school and Ozpin smiled at his deputy.
"Yes ...he does." Ozpin checked his watch ,"In fact he should be arriving with the new students any moment now."
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(bum bum bum bum bum bum bum)
The hum of the engines was so loud . That even with earplugs in all four of his ears Veridian could hear the hum of the dust power manifold so clearly. He could feel the vibrations echoing all around him sending a perfect vision of everyone around him. A blurry image but an image all the same. There were at least two hundred new students on board of varying sizes and genders. Another two dozen crew members piloted this freighter transport on the bridge and engine room while he rested in his seat.
It was calming and would have rocked him to sleep if he wasn't sick of sleeping. But one could hardly blame him; the journey to Vale from Atlas was a long trip. And there was little else to do besides watch the other initiates or read a book. Honestly even being on the airship kinda reminded him of being on a fishing trawler. Except perhaps being higher over the water and a smoother ride. And replace the drunken fishermen with hormonal teens.
But he'd already had a nap after picking up all the Beacon applicants from Vale. Of which had been a rather loud buxom blonde and her sister. Funny thing was the little one who smelled like roses. He could smell her all the way from the other end of the transport as her older sister squeezed the little rose so hard her face grew red. The girl was young, perhaps even the youngest on the ship or she was just the shortest.
He could barely read their lips. But the little one said something about being a normal girl with normal knees obviously a wallflower. Before the headmaster's deputy appeared on a hologram. His father had mentioned Ms. Goodwitch was quite beautiful. And he could see himself within a fantasy with that riding crop of hers in his hand. But he was jostled from his daydreams by someone bumping his seat with his shoulder. He angled his dark green eyes to see a shaggy head of blonde hair and hiding a pair of blue eyes and green cheeks.
"WHOA NOT ON THE JACKET!" Veridian screamed as he leaned away from the kid lest he get chunks spewed on his black leather jacket .
Veridian grabbed the kids arm and pushed him toward the nearest trash bin letting him grab the trash cans edge. Watching him dry heave for a good moment before Veridian asked.
"You good ? You wanna throw up now or later?"
The blonde kid swallowed downsome air.
"I'd rather not throw up at all...(gulp) thanks."The kid wiped down his face. "I'm Jaune Arc."
"Veridian" He said as he took out his ear plugs from his human ears and then his little black badger ears on top of his head. Before scratching the white stripe on top of his head.
"Veridian Agro " He reached into his pocket before he pulled out a small little root. " Here chew this ginger root. It's good for nausea."
Jaune took the little root in hand and looked at it "Really?"
"Yeah I know what I'm talking about, trust me I've worked on boats before." The faunus said as put his hands in his pockets while Jaune put the little root in his mouth. And as he began munching his mouth curled a little. Unsure about the taste but at least it was overpowering the smell of pumpkin petes on his breath .
"So you know if we're close to Beacon?"
"Yeah we're not too far. " Jaune said as she scrunched his lips at the root still in his mouth before he swallowed while they walked toward the windows. "I looked over the edge of the plane and ..urgh."
"Whoa easy there." Verdo placed a hand on the kids back, likely just thinking of the height made him queasy once more.
"Don't look over the edge, look at the horizon, focus on a single point and keep munching that ginger you do not wanna be the kid who vomited on the first day."
Jaune did as the badger faunus asked. Finding a single point at the edge of the horizon line and just breathed and found that it was oddly calming. He turned to his new friend and sighed "Thanks ."
"No problem ...wow so there it is." Veridian looked out more toward the front of the transport and could see Beacon. The highest tower peaking above the mountain looking over the legendary emerald forest and over the city of vale. Like a silent guardian watching over the city. Where he'd be trained to be a huntsman along with all these other kids.
Jaune, the loud blonde girl and her half sister, and ... OOF.
Veridian bumped into ...nothing ? He looked to his left where he swore he felt someone bumping into his elbow. It wasn't Jaune; he knew that it had felt cold and hard like metal.
But he saw nothing . He didn't even see anyone walking away from them but he could smell someone...like mint shampoo .
"You alright Veridian?" Jaune asked, looking a little less green before looking around just like he was. Trying to see if he could see what Veridian was looking for?
"Did you see anyone next to us?" The badger faunus asked before the blonde shrugged his shoulders.
"I didn't see anyone." They both looked and could only see someone else. But only saw a very tall looking guy who could likely see better than them. And Verdo nudged him lightly and the tall boy looked at them.
"Hey there did you see anyone next to us?" Veridian asked getting a good look at the guy next to them. He had to be at least seven feet tall. He was a little tan and he had his long dark hair in a ponytail. Sporting a large trench coat with no sleaves over his large pudgy frame. The large teen looked around and Veridian expected him to have a bad attitude and tell him to piss off. But the giant teen only shook his head shyly before he turned away before Jaune thrust his hand out to the boy and he said with a big brimming smile.
"Hey there I'm Jaune Arc, short sweet rolls off the tongue ladies love it." He said and the boy took his hand with a sheepish smile. And shook Jaunes small hand in his own giant paw that Veridian thought could crush a watermelon as he greeted back.
"Charlie...Malachite"He said with a small grin before he turned to Veridian.
"Just call me Verdo." the badger said introducing himself before he turned to Jaune and asked.
"And please tell me you haven't used that as a pick up line?"
"What it's not like there's worse pick up lines out there?" Jaune defended his introduction.
"Oh that was a pick up line ?" Charlie asked before cheekily saying. "Well I have to say I'm flattered but I don't swing that way."
Jaune looked appalled while Verdo held in a deep chuckle. While Charlie smirked himself at his quip before Jaune nudged him lightly and then laughed as well.
"Oh haha very funny." Jaune good naturedly feeling better. It seemed that ginger was doing good for Jaunes stomach. He felt in a better mood as did everyone else because they were all chattering up a storm. Making Veridians ears twitch and rush to the windows as they all looked to beacon academy trying to see when someone yelled.
"Hey wide load move your fat butt."
Charlie looked behind him to see some guy wearing a full set of armor and slicked back auburn hair looking at him heatedly. Before the chubby giant sidestepped out of the way.
"Sorry here you can see." Charlie said kindly despite the jerks shoving him aside to look out at Beacon.
"I thought this was a school for huntsmen not a fat camp ?" The pompadoured jerk hissed at Charlie.
Everyone heard that and looked around at them. Verdos faunus ears could hear some people saying hurtful things agreeing with the armored jerk. Though more agreed with Verdos' thoughts, the guy was a fat jerk. Both Veridian and Jaune expected Charlie to have something to say about that. But the large boy sauntered to the back and they followed him having already seen the view.
"Hey Charlie."They called, catching the boy by the arm and he stopped right before the bathrooms.
"You okay?"Jaune asked concerned for his new acquaintance.
"Yeah I'm fine ." (bum bum bum ) Verdo heard the big guy's massive heart skip a beat and he nudged him on the arm.
"Hey you don't need to lie to us big guy." He pushed, wanting the gentle giant to open up. sure they could hardly be called friends after a meet and greet for about thirty seconds. But Veridian knew about discrimination and dirty looks being a faunus and husky people got their fair share of flak. And Jaune was no stranger to bullying.
"Really it's nothing I haven't dealt with before I'm fine guys." He said wanting them to drop the subject. Both Jaune and Verdo shared a look before they nodded. Jaune himself knew the big lug was playing tough he did the same back home. And so they would let their new friend tough it out his way.
That was until they heard the pilot call over the intercom to prepare for landing. And they all returned to their seats ready to disembark off the transport.
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It was easy to find Charlie again through the crowd. He was seven feet tall and stood taller than most of the other students. That and the giant boy had hung back like Verdo had likely to avoid causing a ruckus or being in a crowd. He'd done the same but that was because with his senses in such a large crowd would have been havoc on his enhanced nose. Smelling all of their hormones in the air plus he felt that Charlie could use a friend.
And so after a quick meet and greet Charlie and Veridian walked together off the transport. He smelled around the air he could faintly smell ginger breath on the air and followed that intent on finding Jaune.
"Hey Charlie let's go this way I have Jaunes scent." Veridian said with his nose in the air.
"You can smell him?" Charlie asked following the faunus boy who kept talking as he followed the scent.
"I can smell everything. My semblance allows me to divert my aura into my senses and my muscles increasing whatever I want. And years of doing that has kinda enhanced them naturally. It's why I wanted to avoid the crowd smelling all our peers at once is something I kinda wanna avoid." He said with a joke.
"Ohhh that's cool." Charlie said before they both looked up at Beacon the ancient castle of the kings of vale turned into a school. Where they would be taught and trained, refining their huntsmen skills. Verdo noticed how they were both looking at the giant central tower; it wasn't even as big as the Atlas Academy tower. But It still cut an overbearing shape over them both making them feel small.
"Wow." Charlie sighed.
"Yeah I know." Veridian agreed, thinking that Beacon did seem imposing up close before he heard a giant boom. Or at least it was big to him with his enhanced ears while Charlie heard a large pop farther ahead.
" Ello something happening ?" Verdo said before the two of them walked ahead to see what was up. And they passed into the courtyard to see a large smoking crater. With the girl in the red cape that smelled like roses was being scolded by a familiar face Veridian would know blind folded. Her graceful figure like an ice skater. Her skin pale like snowflakes. Her hair flowing like soft swan feathers in the wind . Her face adorned a superior haughty scowl as she scolded the little red hood.
He heard the whole conversation between the two while he and Charlie kept walking toward the girls.
"Im really really sorry!" Red said, pushing her fingers together like a child being scolded by her parents for stealing cookies.
"THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT!" Weiss screeched like a harpy in the middle of Beacon's courtyard . And with his enhanced eyes Veridian could easily deduce what happened between them. Weiss, likely not looking where she was going, bumped into little red and one of her dust canisters came loose and exploded somehow.
"You complete dolt! What are you even doing here, aren't you a little young to be attending Beacon?!" Weiss shrieked at the young girl.
"Well I I ." Red kept stuttering and Veridian didn't know if it was the big brother in him or the fact that he was looking forward to this reunion with Weiss. but he decided to help save the little rose bud.
"HEY?!" Verdiain heard her icy heart skip several beats before it was hammering hard in her chest as he stepped closer with Charlie by his side.
"Cut her some slack Weiss, it was just an accident."
"You." Her tone suddenly became even colder than it was against little red as she glared at him with pure ire in those pretty blue eyes. "What are YOU doing here? "
"Nice to see you too." He said, crossing his arms and flicking his faunus ears over his sneer while she looked ready to lob a jar of fire dust as his head.
"Hmph you would come to her defense wouldn't you just to spite me!" She said obviously still having a lot of heated feelings after their last encounter several years ago.
"Uh no actually I would come to your defense as well Weiss... If you were in the right. But looking around and looking at her I can obviously determine that you weren't watching where you were pushing your loads of luggage. Bumped into her and somehow she set off several of your dust canisters for Myrtenaster. Which I'm surprised because you're usually so anal retentive you'd have tightened them all in secure alphabetical order SNOW FOX."
He heard little red snicker at the nickname snow fox while Weiss seemed to bristle at being called that and jammed her finger into his face.
"AND YOU would stoop so low as a common place brigand using whatever chance you could just to cause me annoyance. Including coming to this little girl's aid just to make me seem the villain." Weiss growled at him, stepping to his face so close he could smell her so vividly. Like a beautiful bouquet of Lavender and so many different types of dust. It used to make his spine tingle. But her haughty attitude made his blood boil.
"Don't flatter yourself, you're not that important in my life anymore. After all I'm just a sniveling beast a low life pathetic creep." He recalled some of the last words she ever said to him. He stepped closer to her and she didn't back down letting him see the fire in her beautiful periwinkle eyes. And they stared at each other with all the years of pent up fury for the other.
"A Schnee yelling at a faunus for poor behavior is hardly anything new." Came a new voice and they all turned to see some sort of goth lolita ninja type girl in tights carrying a book and a jar of ground fire dust. Before she tossed it back to Weiss who caught it angrily.
"Is everyone at this school going to be looking to attack me verbally, emotionally, and physically?" She screamed before Red tried to defend herself waving her arms around between them all.
"Hey I was just trying to-"
"I DO NOT CARE JUST STAY AWAY FROM ME ALL OF YOU !" The irate white haired girl snarled at little red before she stomped over toward her luggage. Which had been picked up by Charlie and placed back on her trolly and he said kindly.
"You uh dropped this ." He said handing her the last bag and she took it with a snatch. "Thank you at least someone at this school has manners. And doesn't seem to want to personally assault me in some way."
And they all watched her roll her trolley over to the rest of her baggage and left them be. Before red fell back on the ground and sniffled "Welcome to Beacon."
"Are you alright?" The girl asked and Ruby looked up to see she wasn't talking to her but the boy who had come to her rescue instead. Then she was offered a giant hand off of the ground and she followed the arm attached to the hand to the largest boy she'd ever seen.
"Hi I'm Charlie." The boy said with a warm smile.
"Ruby." She said bashfully to the gentle giant as he hoisted her up with ease as that other boy talked with that girl with the bow.
" Yeah I'm fine Weiss is ...Weiss." Verdo said offhandedly, taking a closer look at the girl.
"You sound like you know her personally ?" The goth looking girl asked as her bow twitched Verdiains eyes, barely catching it. And with a inhale of her scent he could tell why she was asking him if he was alright. One faunus to another.
"Yeah I did ..once upon a time. But hardly something I wanna talk about with a stranger. So I think me and my friend will just head to the assembly." He thumbed to Charlie and Ruby who asked "There's an assembly?!"
"Wanna come?" He asked the girl who shook her head.
"Actually I still need to get some of my things so I'll leave you too it." And with that the girl turned on her heels and walked away. Verdo watched every step she took making sure she wasn't a Schnee hater and wouldn't try anything on his former...
"HEY GUYS!" A cracking voice brought him away from the hidden faunus and he saw Jaune coming up behind them .
"I heard the commotion and came over. I've been looking over for you ."
"We decided to hang back and dodge the crowd." Charlie explained for them both. And he nudged Ruby who was pushed by the boy's massive strength ahead a couple steps "Bumped into a new friend."
"Hi I'm Ruby." She said as she corrected herself on her feet.
Jaune put on his best smirk.
"Well hey there I'm Jaune Arc, short sweet rolls off the tongue ladies love it ."
Both Charlie and Verdidian rolled their eyes at his flirting attempt. While Ruby just smirked.
"Do they?" she asked, patting off her combat skirt.
"They will ! " Jaune said, trying to rescue himself. But he was falling down a spiral that was painful for Verdo and Charlie to watch. " I mean I hope they will, my mom says that ..eh never mind."
His social awkwardness seemed to placate Ruby and made her feel a little more comfortable around them. She giggled before turning back to Verdo and asked "So you said something about an assembly ?"
"There's an assembly ?" Jaune asked before Verdo shook his head at his friends ineptitude.
"Yeah I'll lead the way." And the four of them began walking down the path to Beacons amphitheater as designated by the emails they were given.
"Hey didn't you have someone with you?" Charlie asked Ruby, having seen her with that blonde girl on the transport.
"Ugh yeah my Traitorous sister. She ditched me as soon as she met up with her friends from signal leaving me all alone to be yelled at by that princess."
Speaking of Veridian, cast one last look behind them to look at said princess. Who was having her hired help carry her bags to Beacon. She was at least fifty feet away looking over her shoulder to see him looking back, her scarred eye glaring at him as she said.
"I hate you."
In the lowest whisper she could. Knowing he would hear her before stomping off with her bags. He turned around with a huff and led his new friends toward the ball room . Ignoring the harsh stab those three words did to him.
" So wait, I know your names," said Ruby, pointing to Jaune and Charlie as they walked. Then she turned to the badger faunus and asked, "What's your name? Or is Common Brigand really your name?""
"Ahaha no my names Verdian Agro, just call me Verdo crater face." He jostled her hair playfully as she swiped his hand away like he was her big brother.
"Hey that explosion was an accident, skunk boy!" She griped crossing her arms.
"I'm a badger actually ." Veridian corrected her. " But yeah I know my hair makes people make that annoying mistake."
"Ohh sorrry ...sooo why'd you guys help me out back there? " She asked.
"Eh I was gonna bump into Weiss one way or another. Thought I'd just rip off the band aid. Besides, it was an obvious accident." Verdo explained
"And I thought you needed help so."Charlie gave his reasons as well. "Besides you didn't seem like the type who'd blow up someone on purpose. "
"You blew up someone ?" Jaune asked, having missed that scene.
"Well sort of ...still thanks guys." Ruby said meekly.
Charlie smiled down at her while Verdo nudged her like a teasing older brother.
"Well my mom says strangers are just friends you haven't met yet ." Jaune chuckled as they passed a large statue of some long dead huntsmen.
"You're an only boy in your house arent you?" Verdo asked, making Jaune look at him surprised.
"Yeah how'd you know that ?"
The badger put his hands on top of his head and walked past Beacons' large columns and into the amphitheater.
"Lucky guess." And they all looked around to see everyone standing around before a raised stage. All the new student body standing around talking with old friends and new friends. showing off their weapons and fashion waiting for the assembly to get started.
Veridian could smell all their teenage pheromones and scents swarming together. Their voices like loud shrieking without even trying. And so he did his focusing exercise to try and quiet them down.
"Whoa so many." Jaune said, looking around at all the other applicants when they heard someone yell.
"Ruby hey over here! " And they all turned to see a blonde girl waving their way ."I saved you a spot!"
"Oh!" Ruby perked up and she turned to her new friends ."Hey I gotta go I'll see you guys after the ceremony."
Before she disappeared into the crowd. Making Charlie wave goodbye while Jaune tries to catch her before he deflates .
"Ahh great now where are we supposed to find a nice quirky girl to talk to?" He groaned not seeing the tall beautiful girl with blood red hair and bronze armor behind him looking his way with interest. While Verdo let out a breath as his mind calmed down being in this throng of adolescence.
"Uh if you wanna cute girl to talk to just look around everyone here is smoking hot." Verdo said, nodding everywhere to the room. Jaune had to admit everyone here was freaking gorgeous even more than anyone from his hometown.
But Verdo heard a nervous heartbeat next to him and he looked to Charlie who shuffled his feet awkwardly. Verdo had to admit saying that was probably a mistake. Because everyone else around the whole room was skinny petite muscular people. Who looked like they belonged on magazine covers. While Charlie was seven feet tall with a belly that got one bullied a lot in middle school.
"Uh sorry." He said before coughing and returning to Jaune. "But really blondie, just go out and mingle, you'll probably meet someone nice."
"HEY GET YOUR DAMN HANDS OFF ME !" They turned behind them to see a punk rock looking girl sporting a tight black jacket lined with neon blue pulled her arm free of a vale police officer.
"Maybe not her." Charlie said as the girl was pushed inside. Charlie looked at her glowing blue hair and felt that she seemed familiar to him.
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Ilene looked around at all these green kids. And sighed thinking how she would be forced to play nice with all these weaklings for an entire year before she could even attempt to escape. And thinking about how the biggest problem these kids will cause her is teenage drama over who's dating who. Or where to get the latest huntsmen fashion.
"Move it." The pig pushing her along into the ballroom shoved her angrily. Likely still mad that she stole his wallet earlier wasn't like he had anything in it.
Still she looked around the ballroom and was a little impressed with the school. Not the student body, she could easily wipe the floor with all these losers. Still though they were trained and ready for a beat down these kids would give her a challenge at least.
After all, her leader got stronger in these very walls.
"Here." The officer shoved her bag of meager possessions into her hands before glaring at her with zero pity in his eyes.
"Remember you little punk you're to report to professor goodwitch everyday listen and obey. ONE slip Up and your free ride is gone and you're on the first transport to an Atlesian prison you understand me?"
Ilene scoffed at the guy who was trying to play tough like anyone in his whole school couldn't kick him as five ways to sunday. The difference between huntsmen, even student huntsmen and civilians was lightyears apart.
"Do you understand me?!"
He seethed again and she rolled her eyes at him.
"Yeah I get it, don't act so tough, big man. We both know that even without my weapon I could rip out your spine." She threatened before she gave him a small smug smile . "But don't worry I'll play nice with the other kiddies I'll be a good girl."
Her handler looked like he was about to blow a gasket. And shoved her flying chakram Fenrir into her hand and he pointed to the ball room and said.
" JUST ...get out of my sight."
And with that she took her weapon and her bag and walked off with a scoff glad to be rid of him as he was of her. Looking out toward the students, some of which were already talking about her and looking her way.
"Pfft welcome to Beacon." She scoffed before heading off to find a dark corner.
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While Ilene was hiding away from all of the weaklings, Ruby was finally reunited with her sister. Who smiled at her caped sister and asked.
"How's your first day going little sister?" Ruby scoffed at the question waving her hand accusingly at her traitorous sibling.
"You mean since you ditched me and I exploded in front of the school?!"
"Yikes melt down already?" Yang asked her sister, a little worried that she was already feeling the weight of the school pressing down on her.
"NO I LITERALLY EXPLODED A HOLE IN FRONT OF THE SCHOOL" Ruby said angrily "And there was some fire and some ice...I think."
Yang looked at Ruby with a smirk and thought she was being dramatically asked. "Are you being sarcastic?"
"UGH I wish !" Ruby guffawed. "I tripped over some crabby girl's luggage and then she yelled at me and then I sneezed and then I exploded. Then she yelled at me some more until these two guys came in and saved me and made her yell at him instead and-"
"YOU!" Ruby jumped into her sister's arms when that crabby girl's voice screamed in her ear.
"OH MY GOD IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN!" Ruby whined.
Weiss glared at the girl she had met earlier and harped judgmentally .
"You're lucky we were not blown off the side of the cliff !"
Yang looked at the girl yelling at her sister then to Ruby surprised. "Oh my god you really exploded."
"It was an accident !" Ruby said to her sister before turning to the crabby girl. "It really was an -"
Ruby was cut off when the girl shoved a pamphlet into her face.
"What's this ?"
"The Schnee Dust Company is not responsible for any injuries or damages sustained while operating a Schnee Dust Company product.-"
Ruby's head swayed as each word of what the girl said went flying in one ear and out the other. Crabby's voice got faster and faster as she explained the dangers of Schnee dust in a disclaimer speech. Before she finally stopped talking leaving Ruby confused on what had happened.
"Ummm?"
"You really wanna start making things up to me?" Weiss asked the little girl who had become a grade A annoyance.
"Absolutely ." Ruby said feeling hopeful that she could forget this whole ordeal and put it behind them. Until the girl shoved the pamphlet on dust handling and procedures into her hands.
"Read this and don't ever speak to me again."
Yang watched the whole thing and felt so bad for ditching her sister now. So she thought she owed it to her baby sister to help out now. She looked at the girl who had a stick up her butt and tried to play mediator.
"Uhh look sounds like you two just got off on the wrong foot why don't you guys start over and try to get to know each other. " She offered an olive branch. She had experience with this sort of thing running with the popular kids back at signal. She knew Ruby was on board as she perked up.
"Great idea Yang. Hey Weiss I'm -"
"Friends with that rapscallion Verdian Agro." Weiss cut off the girl before she could continue making Ruby withdraw her extended hand .
"And as long as you're friends with HIM then I don't want to be any closer to you. Because he is one person in beacon that I want to be the furthest from as humanly possible."
"INCOMING !" Weiss barely turned around before she was hit by a flying badger boy and the two of them fell over each other into a tangle of limbs. After a moment of righting themselves he had her resting in his chest groaning in pain.
(A few moments before.)
Charlie had to admit for his first day of beacon things were going really well. He'd gotten up early. Gotten a good breakfast and had a good flight on the way to Beacon with the exception of that jerk on the transport. And to make it better he made three new friends two of whom were still hanging around talking to him which made him happy.
"So it's just a sword and shield ?" Verdo asked Jaune who was showing off his family heirloom as they all got to know each other better.
"Well I mean ..yeah it even compacts down to make it easier to carry ."Jaune defended his blade.
"I mean wouldn't it weigh the same though?" Verdo teased while Jaune slumped.
"So what about you what are you packing?" Charlie asked the badger who reached under his coat and pulled out two very large handguns. One dark red, the other dark blue they had to be at least fifty cal. With long rectangular barrels with two straight edge blades welded underneath.
"Meet Dante and Virgil." Verdo said proudly as he spun them around with ease. Making Jaune back away from the spinning blades. " They both shoot fire and ice dust rounds and turn into two straight edged swords and mecha shift into a claymore I call sparda."
"Whoooa cool." Jaune said with stars in his eyes before turning to Charlie. " How about yours?"
"Oh well." The giant rubbed the back of his head shyly before saying. "Mine isn't good for crowds but they work in tandem with my semblance."
"Semblance?" Jaune asked, confused for a second Verdo thought that the dork knight had no idea what a semblance was.
"Oh yeah I call it slap stick ." Charlie explained. "When I get hit by anything I store the kinetic energy in my body before I use my weapons to direct it out in attacks. I can redirect almost any form of physical energy. "
"You mean like this ?" Verdo said cracking his knuckles with a smirk. Before Charlie waved his hands trying to get his friend to not do what he was definitely going too. But the badger had already charged his aura into his fist and slammed it into Charlie's large rotund belly. Charlie could feel the energy swelling inside of him from Veridians physical blow. But he wasn't ready for the attack and so his body repelled it automatically . Sending the same energy back into the badger who went flying through the air like a black and white mortar. Falling toward the crowd as he screamed.
"INCOMING !" Charlie yelled hoping wherever he landed it wouldn't hurt anyone. Both he and Jaune rushed through the crowd. They found that Verdo had landed on the one person who likely wanted nothing to do with him at all with her resting on his chest with him smirking up at her . While she was shoving herself off of him.
"Well hello Snow fox we meet again." He said smiling listening to her ever rising heart beat like the crescendo of one of her operas.
"YOU , you did that on purpose coming to her rescue again!"She pointed to Ruby who looked as awkward as she had when she had exploded in front of the girl.
"Saved who?" Verdo asked before he sat up and looked to see little red right next to the same blond girl from the transport, likely the sister she had mentioned.
"Oh hey Rubes sorry for dropping in." He said as he picked himself off the ground. The way he so nonchalantly played it off only served to fuel the fire in Weisses heart as she stomped on his chest sending him back to the ground.
"I swear to all gods above and below Veridian if you keep assaulting me and pestering me I will-"
"Hey, it wasn't his fault. " Charlie said, putting his hand on her shoulder. She glared up to the giant who laid his ungodly sized paws on her person. Her icy glare making him release her small frame.
"It really was an accident Ms. Schnee ." The gentle giant begged for her forgiveness with his soft hazel eyes. But it seemed she could only take so much and dish out a certain amount of verbal barbs before she had enough. She took her heeled shoe from Verdo's chest and stomped off to go anywhere they Weren't. Charlie let out a sigh before helping his friend onto his feet as he rubbed his chest where her pointed heel had dug in.
"Well that was something." Yang said and the giant boy turned to her and stood still like a deer in headlights. Charlie looked at her and swore he heard a slow saxophone playing as this beautiful blonde girl flared her hair. Looking at him with those beautiful violet eyes and asked him through a haze of stars. In a sultry tone only Charlie heard.
"So I'm guessing you're the guys who helped my sister before ?"
"Yeah we are." Verdo said as he made introductions. "Verdiain, Jaune and the giant guy starting to drool is Charlie. "
That snapped Charlie out of his staring at the voluptuous blonde wiping his hand on his sleeve quickly. While the girl introduced herself as Yang Xaiolong.
"So why did you come flying through the air like a cannonball?" Ruby asked her second time savior.
"Oh that would be because of me." Charlie said, raising his hand . "Verdo punched me in the stomach and activated my semblance and it sent the badger boy flying into Weiss unluckily."
"Well she definitely seemed badgered alright." Yang punned and Ruby groaned while Jaune and Verdo looked at her oddly at the bad pun. But Charlie let out a little chuckle.
"Funny hehe."
Yang looked up at him like she had found a diamond in a big doughy pastry. But her happiness interrupted when the microphone came alive. They all turned to see the headmaster who pushed his glasses higher upon his nose.
"I'll keep this brief."
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Ozpin's speech was ...something to say the least. Everyone listened to the headmaster before they were ushered toward the ballroom. They were given a chance to find their things and their survival packs and sleeping bags. And allowed to put their weapons away. They were also given dinner and Ilene had to admit beacon didn't skimp on funds to the cafeteria.
So at least she wouldn't starve not unless that bubbly redhead would try and steal from her plate again. Then Ilene would have to hurt her and her pink eyed trans girlfriend.
She finished putting her weapons in her assigned locker after getting her sleeping bag set up.
"Well at least I'm used to sleeping on hard ground." She thought before closing her locker as she changed into her panties and a wife beater alongside all of the other girls in the locker room. She walked out to go find her sack and get some shut eye only to bump into Ms.Goodwitch. Who was standing watch over the new students to make sure they didn't get up to any tomfoolery. Her green eyes peered down at her bare legs and her bright blue hipster panties.
"What?" Ilene asked the teacher who pointed her crop back toward the girls locker room.
"Please put some pajamas on Ms. Saturn. This school does not let its students walk around displaying their undergarments."
"Really then what about her?'' She thumbed as another girl left wearing a mistralian style black yukata so short a sharp breeze would give everyone a full show of her business. Said girl didn't even look up from her book as she lifted her robe to show she was wearing spats underneath before she wandered off to a hidden wall to read.
Ilene scowled at the back of her stupid bow before Ms. Goodwitch pointed again, not flexing on this and Ilene rolled her eyes.
"I don't even have a pair of pajama bottoms. I sleep in my underwear."
"Then ask one of the other girls to loan you a pair, now go Ms .Saturn." The blonde huntress ordered.
Ilene looked back inside to some of the girls and their pajamas. One girl had a night shawl, others wore short shorts. And all of the rest were pajama pants so bright and colorful it made her wanna barf .
"Uuuuuuuugh." She groaned before she went back inside she would've argued with the headmasters deputy. But she didn't want her expulsion to be whether she wore pajamas.
She didn't wanna ask any of these brats to borrow their jammies; she was a ruthless bandit. Not some preppy little twit.
"Maybe I can just wear my shorts to bed ? " She thought as she rummaged through her locker once more. But couldn't find anything before she felt someone nudge her from behind. She turned to smack whoever had dared touch her only to find ...no one there.
She looked around and all she found was black pair of gym shorts on the ground. She looked around and didn't see anyone clambering for them and so she shrugged and put them on.
"Finders keepers." She smiled at her luck glad she could go to bed now and walked out happy to call it a night.
She walked out showing her new shorts to Ms. Goodwitch by spanking her bottom and despite the scowl it seemed to placate the teacher. Ilene walked to where she remembered she put her sleeping bag and flopped down onto it as others did the same. She watched some blonde dork walking by in footy pajamas of all things as his faunus friend chortled.
" You officially have the biggest balls of anyone on campus Jaune."
"Huh why?!" the blonde asked in his tight blue onesie.
"Because you're wearing that monstrosity in front of all our peers. Who will remember this forever? You don't find it at all embarrassing to wear pajamas with bunnies on them?"
"...Well I do now!" The kid yelled before they walked away to their sleeping bags. She looked at the kid. Indeed, that was a hideous set of pajamas even if it was her color. His friend is a faunus, a skunk maybe, wearing shorts and a t-shirt kinda cute. But behind him was a familiar face. 7 feet tall thick arms riddled with muscle framing a large belly and dark hair in a ponytail.
She didn't think to meet the son of one of Raven's contacts. Son of the infamous little Miss Malachite, the spider's hand. Maybe he got pinched by the feds as well.But it wasn't her problem.
She just tried to lay down and go to sleep while she listened to some little girl who was writing a letter scribbling on paper. At least she wasn't reading it out loud when she heard someone yelling happily next to her.
"It's like a big sleepover!" Before plopping down to where the girl writing her letter scoffed.
"Don't think dad would approve of all the boys."
"I know I do rawr." The new girl hummed watching all the boys flexing off their muscles and abs. Before she caught glimpse of that kid in the onesie."Ohhh"
The two of them kept talking up a storm about making friends and how bad their first day had been and so Ilene shot up and growled.
"Hey you guys mind ?!" She looked at the two, the little girl writing her letter gasped quaking in her little white and pink pajama pants. Like she had just done something to personally offend Ilene. While the fluffy head of blonde goldie locks turned her way as she kept seething.
"Some of us are trying to (gasp)."
"Sorry, we'll try and be a little more quiet." The girl said lilac eyes looking at her while Ilene just stared at her in complete shock. Because she looked just like her former master and tribal leader. She knew Raven had a daughter but she never thought she'd ever meet her let alone go to school with her.
She looked so bright and happy. Raven only looked like that when her blade was running red standing on top of a pile of loot.
"Uhhhhh...you alright?" The girl asked her and Ilene realized that she was staring like a weirdo. She merely shook her head trying to seem cool.
"Yeah I'm fine just keep it down yeah? " She grabbed her bag and tried to go to sleep right next to the daughter of the woman who raised her.
'Why the fuck did this have to happen to me ?' She thought before she tried ignoring the girls. But it was hard as they kept escalating conversations and having a yelling match with a Schnee.
Ilene turned to her left and tried to block out the noise. Only to see some girl with pale skin and two sets of robotic arms ,with scars upon her face looking at her in shock in a sleeping bag. Ilene shot up and blinked but as soon as she did the girl disappeared .
"But she was ...she...who?" Ilene blinked again as she thought "Who was I talking about?"
She found herself unable to remember who she just saw or what they had even looked like.
"That was weird." She said as she fell back to her sleeping bag and everyone finally started winding down. Raven's daughter stopped having a verbal hash out with the white haired princess. The little girl put away her letter and someone turned off the lights .
And just when she thought she would get some sleep the blonde on her right started snoring like lumber through a wood chipper.
'Ugh she even snores like Raven.' She thought as she slammed a pillow over her head.
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This is my first fic please be gentle in the comments. This whole fic is based on a five year long Rp ive done with a friend.
And we wanted to let people see the characters we made and hopefully feel the same joy we did playing with them.
Any questions I will try and answer. I will also do omakes every once in a while of Chapter alternatives and such. Or just fun things.
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