"Oh my God, it's my first day at Beacon. I'm so nervous!" Ruby said. She turned to her big sister, Yang. "But I don't need to worry about making friends, do I? I've got you, Yang."
Yang laughs uncomfortably. "Actually, I got my my own friends. Love you, sis. Good luck. Bye!!!" she said quickly. She ran off with her friends.
The abruptness of what happened put Ruby off balance. "Wait, what's going on? Where are the dorms? Do we have dorms?" Ruby said. She sighed. "I don't even know what I'm doing here."
She fell over, landing on top of someone's luggage cart.
"What are you doing here?" a girl with white hair dressed in complete white, save the collar, said. "Do you have any idea what kind of damage you could have caused?" The dust that had spilled out of the bag flew everywhere.
Ruby tried to help pick it up. "I am really sorry! Please forgive me," she said.
Weiss continued her lecture. "You dolt! What are you even doing here?" Weiss demanded. "Aren't you a little young to be going to Beacon?"
"Well ... I ... uh-" Ruby started to respond, but Weiss interrupted again.
"Do you even know what this is? It's pure refined Dust mined from the Schnee Dust quarry!" The Dust in the air aggravated Ruby's sinus. Ruby couldn't contain the urge to sneeze, enveloping them in a huge fireball.
"I'm sooo sorry. It was an accident. Please don't yell at me again!" Ruby begged.
"You miserable wench!" Weiss screamed, and procceeded to continue to berate her.
After about ten minutes of this, even Ruby, with all her patience, was starting to get annoyed. "Look princess! I said I was sorry!" she screamed.
Blake walked up to the angry duet. "It's heiress, actually. Weiss Schnee, heir to the the Schnee Dust company."
Weiss smiled. "At least someone-" she said before Blake interrupted.
"The same company renowned for it's shady labor laws and dishonest business tactics," Blake finished.
"Hey!" Weiss screamed, throwing her hands up. With that, Weiss stormed off. Ruby turned to thank the mysterious girl with the bow, but Blake already walked away.
Ruby fell to her knees, depressed. "Welcome to Beacon," she whispered to herself. "Way to go. Try to be apologize, and you blow a freaking crater in front of the school. I'm hopeless."
Just then, a guy walked up to Ruby and offered her a hand. "Need help?" he asked. Ruby nodded, grabbing his hand.
"You're the guy who threw upon the ship," Ruby remembered.
He looked self conscious. "Air sickness is a much more common problem then people let on," he explained.
Ruby smiled apologetically. "Sorry, vomit boy was the first thing that came to mind."
"Oh yeah?" he said. "What if I called you crater face?"
Ruby looked at him indignantly. "That was an accident!" she argued.
"Well, the name is Jaune Arc," he said. "Short, sweet, rolls off the tongue. Ladies love it."
"Do they?" Ruby teased, eyeing him suspiciously. She started walking, following him.
"They will! Or, at least I hope they will," Jaune said.
Ruby laughed in a friendly manner, pulling out Crescent Rose to show off. "Well, I got this," she said.
"Is that a scythe?" Jaune asked in awe.
"Yeah," Ruby beamed proudly. "It's also a high impact sniper rifle."
"A what?" Jaune asked, looking confused. He took a right around a big crowd of kids.
"It's also a gun," Ruby clarified.
Jaune self-consciously pulled out his meager little sword and shield. Ruby tried to look impressed and failed miserably.
"Well, I like it," she offered. "Not too many people have an appreciation for the classics. I mean, I kind of went a little overboard designing Crescent Rose."
"Wait, you made that?" Jaune asked in awe.
Ruby looked at him, confused. "Of course I made it! Everyone at Signal Academy was assigned to make their own weapons. Didn't you make yours?"
"Actually it was my grand father's, then my father's," Jaune said, looking at his feet, embarrassed.
"Sounds more like a family heirloom to me," Ruby, being socially awkward, said with a nervous laugh.
Ruby looked around, the path empty of people or landmarks. "Um ... where are we?" she asked.
Shrugging his shoulders. "I don't know, I was following you."
"Don't you hate when that happens?" Ruby asked, walking up to the sign displaying the campus map.
"So, do you know exactly what we will have to do for initiation?" Jaune asked.
"No idea," Ruby admitted. "I am just as much in the dark as you."
"Why didn't we get class schedules?" Jaune asked.
Ruby grinned. "Because, if you don't make it past initiation, you won't need to worry about that," Ruby said. Jaune still looked confused. "Why?"
"Because you will no longer be attending this academy."
"Oh," Jaune said, a look of realization crossing his features. "Let's hope we pass."
After an hour of wandering around the school, Ruby and Jaune made it to the assembly hall.
"RUBY! Over here! I saved you a spot!" shouted Yang.
"I'm sorry," Ruby said to Jaune. "I'll see you in a little bit." She turned towards Yang's direction. "I'M COMING, YANG!"
"Oh, I'll have to find another quirky, socially awkward girl to talk to," Jaune sighed. He walked away, a girl dressed in pink and gold staring after him.
"Sooo, how is your first day going?" Yang asked, smiling.
Ruby frowned. "AWFUL! First, you me leave me, your little sister, alone. Next, I fall on some bratty girl's luggage, and she yells at me. I tried to apologize, but I sneezed and blew a crater in front of the school. Then she yelled at me again!"
Yang smiled "Are you being sarcastic?"
Ruby scowled at her, which was an unusual thing for Ruby to do, but she was unusually annoyed. "I wish!" she exclaimed.
Weiss, who had sneaked behind Ruby that whole time screamed, "You!"
Ruby jumped into Yang's arms. "It's happening again!" Ruby cried.
"Wait, you were serious?" Yang asked in a much more serious tone. She glared at Weiss. "What is your problem with my sister?"
Weiss sneered. "What do I have against her?" she asked sarcastically. "She is a danger to my health!"
Ruby shrank behind Yang, absolutely hating all conflict.
"Look, I see you two got off to a bad start," Yang said. "Why don't you just try to start over?"
Ruby peaked out from behind Yang. She liked the idea. "I think I'll try that, Yang." She turned to look at Weiss. "Hello Weiss. I'm Ruby. You want to, like, hang out some time?"
"Like totally. And we could go to the mall, paint each other's nails and talk about cute boys like, tall, blond, and scraggly over there," Weiss said with mock enthusiasm.
Jaune looked hopeful. Ruby smiles. "Really?" Ruby asked.
Weiss frowned. "No. In fact, I never want you to talk to me again."
Ruby shrank back behind Yang and started to tear up.
Ozpin came on stage. "Testing, testing. Attention everyone," he demanded.
Without a fuss, the noise died down, and Ozpin continued. "Welcome to Beacon! I know all of you studied and worked very hard to get here, but when I look at you, all I see is wasted energy," he said, looking around, clearing his throat. "While knowledge is important, it can only take you so far. Here at this school, you will have to learn that that there is no real substitute for experience."
There was a slight surprised his that spread through the room, but it quickly ended with a glare from Ozpin.
"Now, we only want those who are capable of learning this, so tomorrow after initiation, we will decide who will get the privilege of continuing to go to this school, and who will go home with their tail between there legs, sometimes literally," he said, pausing to let that sink in. "You may also be aware that we are the only academy in all of Remnent to accept Faunus in our school. One last thing before I let Professor Glynda Goodwitch show you around the school. Good luck."1004Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK1rqLwix9X
