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Beacon Academy, a home to future huntsmen and huntresses, handpicked prodigies who go through the most elite education there is to protect humanity against the creatures of Grimm.
While in Beacon, students learn about using Dust, the main source of magic in the realm, practicing with their weapons, learning tactics effective against Grimm, and learning about the bloody history of Remnant. The Professors, veteran hunters, attempt to maintain an environment of honor and humility and instill this in their students, in addition to the constant physical challenges ensuring the students maintain the physical skills necessary for their chosen line of work, and the teams they are assigned encourage the creation of bonds with their fellow students, making lifelong friends.
It was a few minutes after Ruby and her sister, Yang, arrive at Beacon. The final school for huntsmen in Vale, and the most highly regarded academy in Remnant.
Beacon is even bigger and more impressive than it looks in television and pictures, especially with the afternoon sun standing high above the highest tower. Excited, Ruby dashes forward, taking everything in as she leaves Yang with all of the luggage.
Unable to hear her sister’s slightly amused yet exasperated call asking for her help with the luggage. However, a worker from Beacon walks up to Yang and offers to bring their luggage to the sleeping area and giving them instructions to the dining area for when they get hungry.
Handing over the suitcases to the porter, Yang quickly rushes after Ruby, catching up to her and asking “So, what do you think of Beacon so far? Does it match your expectations?”
“Well, it's great so far!” sarcasm apparent across Ruby's face and voice, “That mace wielder already hates me, and the black haired girl who rescued me disappeared before I could get her name!””
Suddenly, Ruby's eyes widen and her hands start to tap her head as she tries to look behind her, spinning in a circle. “They’re not visible, are they?”
Yang chuckles at her sister spinning in a circle, stopping her and ensuring that her skirt and hairpins are still in place..
“Don’t worry about it, they’re still in place, and I’ll beat up that asshole if he ever bothers you again. What about the girl with the white hair you talked to? She seemed nice..” Yang trails off.
The sisters make their way to the dining room with Ruby explaining that no, the white haired girl was not nice, she was very snooty and standoffish.
The dining room is massive, a sleek marble floor that glistens by the light of the chandeliers illuminating the room. The windows seem to reach to the top of the ceiling, ending in a beautiful archway pattern. Many soon-to-be students are among the room.
Ruby heads off to get some food while Yang searches for a free table. Eventually, she spots a black haired girl wearing a bow, sitting alone.
She looks exactly like the girl who Ruby said helped her during the incident she had shortly after they arrived in beacon today. Yang walks to the table and stands in front of it, “Do you mind if my sis and I sit here with you?” Eyes never leaving her book, the girl nods nods at Yang’s question and makes a soft approving hum.
Yang waves Ruby over, and sits down slowly, a bit uncomfortable since the girl is still deep in her book.
They sit there in silence for a few minutes, the black haired girl turning the page every minute or so and Yang shifting uncomfortably, until Ruby arrives at the table with two plates in her hands, she places one in front of Yang and notices how the book girl doesn’t have anything to eat. “Oh! It’s you again! Hi! Want me to get you something to eat too?l Oh, my name is Ruby and she’s my sister Yang, what’s your name?”
The girl looks up from her book and just says, “I’m Blake”, before she returns to reading again, leaving both Ruby and Yang confused as they start to eat. They eat their meal in silence, Ruby slowly starts to shuffle along the bench, slowly and inconspicuously making her way in front of the girl.
Looking with a bright and wide smile over her book, waiting for a response she doesn’t get. “Soooo… you like reading books?”
The girl lets out a gentle sigh and looks back at Ruby over the book, still hiding half of her face behind it. “Yes, it’s nice and quiet.” Ruby is surprised by this reaction, but begins to respond before Glynda Goodwitch, a teacher she recognizes from the incident that got her invited to Beacon early, silences the entire room.
She orders everyone to clean up their plates and to head into the ballroom where they will spend their first night at Beacon.
Yang fetches their sleeping bags while Ruby picks out a nicely lit spot in the ballroom near Blake.
The Blonde brawler then goes on a mission to find her old friends once the sisters settled down, leaving Ruby alone with Blake. The little Rose concentrated on the flashing video game on her scroll..
Slowly but surely, the room starts to fill with students, and Yang spots three interesting students enter and look around for a place to sleep.
She waits until they find a nice and quiet place to sleep and approaches them, trying to think of things to say. A blond boy, a black haired boy with a shock of pink in his bangs, and an orange haired girl are slowly unpacking until the blonde girl stops before them with an excited look and her hand outstretched in greeting. “Hello! I’m Yang.”
The three look up to Yang and smile before the girl jumps up and shakes her hand roughly and quickly. “Heyy! I’m Nora, this is Ren and that’s Jaune!!”
The two boys stay crouched and smile as they’re introduced. After Nora finishes the introductions, the black haired boy who was introduced as Ren stands up and places a hand on Nora’s shoulder, calmly reminding, “Nora, please, calm down. A lot of people are trying to sleep here. It is nice to meet you, Yang.” He shakes Yang’s hand after Nora releases it. Yang then looks at Jaune, who stands up shyly, scratching the back of his head while he gives a more awkward handshake.
Meanwhile a white-haired girl sits down in between Ruby and Blake, still a bit annoyed at the young girl but she’s the only one she actually talked to already so she doesn’t have much of a choice. Ruby looks up from her scroll surprised, yet excited to see Weiss next to her and smiles bright and wide at her.
”Hey!!”Weiss rolls her eyes and sighs as she looks at the energetic teen. “Hey… what was your name again?”
Ruby looks a bit confused and sad at Weiss since she already forgot her name “I’m Ruby...Ruby Rose, we talked earlier.”
“Ooh yeah,” says Weiss pretentiously while acting like she didn’t remember who Ruby was.
“You’re the one who clinged on to me in the courtyard. Right after we landed until you got in an argument with that brown haired guy.” Her gaze moves back to her scroll as she pulls it out and ignores Ruby again.
Ruby is about to say something as she suddenly spots a tall girl with long red hair walking through the room with a noble touch to her movements as she makes her way through the room.
Ruby gets a strange feeling down in her gut as the watches the girl walk gracefully, completely mesmerized by her aura.
In the meantime Yang finishes her conversation with the three students and joins Ruby, Weiss and Blake, looking at Weiss in particular.
“I don’t think we met, I’m Yang and that’s my sister”. They both look questionable at Ruby who stares into the room filled with people. “Are you ok sis?”.
Ruby shakes her head and loses track of the red-haired girl as she looks at Yang. “Y-yeah, just a weird feeling...probably nervous because of tomorrow”.
The noise in the room dies down along with the light as Professor Goodwitch flips the switch.
With that, the girls decide to go to sleep and rest for the upcoming days.