Hey there! Argent here! I'm kinda nervous since this is my first ever fic. And well. My first ever written piece. I really do not have any experience in writing. So anything you guys could point out would be nice.

There will be connections to FF 7 in this fic and I will explain why Jaune is SUBSTANTIALLY different to his canon Appearance mannerisms and fighting style. To put it simply, this jaune is an OC jaune.

So yeah. Criticism is welcome since this is my first fic and I dont really want to mess up.

Chapter 1

Jaune stood quietly beside a window, a mixture of excitement and nervousness filled the bullhead. Who wouldn't be? How can they NOT be excited AND be nervous when they were heading to one of the best huntsman Academies in all of remnant? However, Jaune wasn't nervous because of that. He was nervous because of his faked documents. It was a stupid idea in the first place and he wondered why he did it. A part of him wanted to celebrate. Maybe the transcripts got through? Maybe he somehow managed to trick them? We're they really that lenient on background checks? Or maybe they didn't? Is he going to get arrested? Are the police waiting for him at Beacon? Is he going to get captured and then interrogated?! Tortured even?! He gulped and shuddered at the thought. He closed his eyes and sighed. He wanted to become a hero, even though he had little training as a 10-year-old with a stick. Still, he had a dream! But now, well, now that he thought about it. He was a conman now, a common criminal.

"-Just want be a normal girl with normal knees!"

He opened his eyes and looked behind to see a cute, red-headed girl talking to a beautiful blonde girl.

"What's with you? Aren't you excited?" the blonde said.

"Of course I'm excited!... I just — I got moved ahead two years." The girl in red replied.

If he was drinking some sort of liquid right now he would've have spat it out in a comical manner. Two years? Holy cow! This girl must be a prodigy!

"I just don't want anyone to think I'm special or anything…"

"A little too late to be worrying about that since you were basically yelling about having normal knees." he said in his thoughts.

"But you are special." The blonde said while comfortingly pulling the red-head towards her.

Their conversation however was cut off when a hologram of the news appeared. The anchorman was saying something about Roman Torchwick and his crimes the past few weeks in Vale. So far there were no murders. He had managed to avoid capture though. Really makes you think about the kingdom's police force. The next was news about the white fang. Jaune sighed. Call him a sympathizer or not, he still felt bad about the exploitation of faunus. He could more or less understand the plight of the faunus since his uncle would tell him the adventures of his parents against a greedy, powerful and evil corporation. His uncle was very enthusiastic in telling stories. He even used to get his old minigun-arm, which was pretty cool by the way, and show it off, saying that he once killed an all-powerful Dragon grim with it. He smiled a bit remembering his uncle. Still, even with the fall of Shinra 30 years ago, Greedy corporations still exist. 'After all that, they still learned nothing'. As the newscaster was about to finish the story the holoscreen suddenly changed to show a beautiful blonde woman with green eyes and a stern look. She was very formal down to her attire, even with that weird cape she's wearing.

"Hello and welcome to beacon. My name is Glynda Goodwitch."

She began her brief welcome to beacon academy. Jaune couldn't help but feel afraid of her. She looked like one of those 'strict and proper' teachers who would take their jobs too seriously. After the welcome message was over the nervousness and fear came back with the thoughts of arrest came back. He felt his stomach coil. He looked outside to see that they were already descending. 'Not good' he thought. He then remembered about that greasy cheap burger he had for a snack 3 hours ago. "Definitely not- urk…good". He always hated the feeling of a descent on an airborne vehicle. Though most of the time he was able to wing it. This was not one of those times. He tried to find a nearby trashcan. He couldn't find any. He couldn't hold it in anymore.

"Aaaah!Yaaang! you got some on your shoe. Ew! Gross, gross, gross, GROSS!"

Jaune was too sick to even look at the girls' faces. As the Ship docked. He quickly zoomed passed a few people before finally finding a trashcan to continue vomiting on.

A few minutes passed before his stomach finally calmed down. He looked in awe at the school. He was here, He was finally here no proper training or experience…but he was here…No one was waiting for him. He almost shed a tear but took a deep breath.

"Alright. Here we go."

He walked towards the school. He adjusted the sword on his back so that at least he would look the part. He took a deep breath again but stopped.

"Wait…where was I supposed to go agai-"

His train of thought was cut when something exploded behind him which startled him.

"Unbelievable!"

Well in this case, someone. He turned around and see a familiar Red headed girl being scolded by a beautiful white haired girl. 'Wait, She was the one that exploded?! And is it just me or is every girl in this school either pretty, cute and beautiful?' he thought to himself. Still it looked like the white-haired angel was giving the red haired girl hell for what ever happened. "How does one even explode?". He saw the dust vials on the ground. 'oh.' He hummed to himself. Dust is pretty dangerous after all.

"hey I said I was Sorry princess!" the red haired girl glared as she replied in an aggressive tone. This was getting out of hand. He wanted to approach to at least diffuse the situation. He knew he doesn't have the right to interfere. But it looked like the red haired girl really need someone to back her. However he stopped when another beautiful girl, now with black hair and yellow eyes and a cute bow to boot, approach the two of them. 'Seriously, is this a huntsman academy or a fashion academy?!'

"It's heiress actually. Wiess Schnee, Heiress to the Schnee Dust Company. One of the largest producers of energy propellant in the world."

'Wait, did she say Schnee?' looked at the Schnee carefully. 'Mom always did say to avoid interacting with corporate rich snobby girls'.

"Finally some recognition!" The Schnee huffed in pride, until the black haird girl continued.

"The same company infamous for its controversial labor forces and questionable business partners."

The Schnee stuttered trying to hold back unlady-like words from her dignified mouth. The red haired girl giggled. The Schnee then chose to just get away from them with and angry 'ugh!'. Jaune moved away when the heiress passed.

Ruby POV

Ruby was relieved to see the ice-queen leave.

"I guess I'm not the only one having a rough first day…so-!"

She turned around to introduce herself and thank the person who helped her. However when she turned around she saw the black haired girl with the cute bow already walking far away from her.

She groaned and sat on the ground, mentally exhausted. She sighed and laid on her back.

"Welcome to Beacon…"

She looked up the sky. It turned out to be a bad idea since the sun was there and it blinded her a bit. however the sun was then blotted out by a shadow. She turned to the source and saw a White haired boy with eyes that matched the color of the summer sky dressed in a black coat with silver chestplate on top of it, reaching out to her

"Need any help?" He looked down to her with a smile.

She smiled back and accepted his hand.

"thanks."

"No problem. What was that about?" he asked.

"ugh…it was nothing. Just a little scuffle due to an accident" she answered. She looked at him more closely.

"My names Jaune. Jaune St- Arc." He introduced himself

"I'm Ruby, nice to meet you…Wait, Aren't you the guy that vomited on the airship?"

"ugh…" he winced and groaned.

The two walked around the campus for awhile. At first she was cautious around him, since well, he IS a stranger and Yang always told me to be cautious around strangers. Especially if they were guys. However Jaune was pretty cool, he has a lot of things he like that I like too, like comics and videogames…oh! He also has a collection of the latest 'Reds and Blues' action figures! That certainly was a plus for her since she now has someone to talk to about those things. Yang used to love them. Well. Used to. Nowadays shes more or less focused on fashion and her hair more than anything. Speaking of which-

"I wanted to apologize to you about...you know. And that girl who I had A LITTLE of my puke on her boot too."

"nah you'll be fine!... I think. My sister may be a hothead but I'm sure that she'll be reasonable."

"she's your sister?" He was surprised, they looked nothing alike after all.

"Yeah! Don't worry I get that a lot. She and I just had different mothers. Even so, we're sisters no matter what."

"Well… Okay."

Silence and awkwardness came as they continued to stroll through the campus. She wondered what would happen if her sister saw the two of them walking side by side. She sneaked a glance at him. She concluded that he definitely did not look ugly. He had spikey white hair that reminded her of those Mistralian Anime heroes. Pretty cliché but he kinda looked good with it, it suited him naturally. He certainly looked the part with that coat of his. He also wore this natural smile which looked pretty cute.

"!" she flinched.

'Oh gods did I really just think about how cute this guy is?!' She felt herself blush as she realized what she had just said in her mind. She fidgeted and hid her face with her hands and groaned. 'Stupid puberty! Stupid Social awkwardness!' she exclaimed in her mind. A while ago she would've just ignored all that hormones thing.

"Are you okay? You're flushed."

She looked at him again only to see him staring at her with genuine worried eyes. He was genuinely worried about her. Her face turned even redder than before.

"I'm okay! Really! Peachy! I am the pinnacle of health!" she quickly answered while waving her hands in front of her. Her eye twitched at the ridiculousness of her answer.

Jaune POV

"uhh…okay?" He still looked worried. Her face is very red and she's stammering. She was breathing really hard.

"Just a sec." he stopped walking which also prompted her to stop. He then put his hand on her forehead. She squeaked at the sudden action.

"Sorry, woah! You're burning up! You sure you don't need a doctor?"

"I- I- I- I- I'm fine!" she jumped away from him.

"w-well if you say so…" He accepted her answer. She's a huntress after all.

Ruby then cleared her throat as they started to walk again.

"S-so! I'd like to introduce you to my baby!" she said.

"Baby?!"

"Oh! I-I-It's not a real baby per se, here!" She clarified.

She suddenly unsheathed her weapon which looked to be a gun which then shifted into a HUGE scythe.

"This is Crescent Rose! My one and only! I made her myself you know! She's also a high impact sniper rifle."

She huffed proudly as she showed off her scythe.

"woah." He looked in awe. It certainly looked cool and also well maintained! The thing was practically shining! It reminded him his dad's buster sword because it had so many moving parts. He always wondered how these mechanically advanced weapons could endure being used to hit things without breaking into pieces.

"So what do you have?" She asked as she shouldered Crescent Rose.

"oh uh…I have this sword." He unsheathed his katana to show her. It was a fairly simple blade. It didn't turn into anything else. The sword had a standard black hilt and a simple circular guard.

"I made this myself too….though it just with parts you can buy at any weapon shop minus the blade. It's fairly simple. Okay yeah it's just a regular sword if anything. The sheath's the only complex thing about it." He explained.

"The sheath? Oh yeah! Why do you carry it on your back?" She asked. Good question though. It wasn't really that common to wear a Katana on your back.

"My dad's a huntsman and always wore his sword on his back. He says it's easier to move in tight spaces with it. That and the fact that his sword is huge, and I do mean HUGE. And the sheath? Well I had it made with the purpose to be easily used while wearing on you back. It's really comfy." Yeah, and expensive too.

"I guess after seeing my dad with his, I just felt accustomed to it." He continued while giving her the weapon.

"hmm…well it certainly is a good weapon." She examined it.

"It's well maintained too. It's a good weapon." She continued. 'Of course its well-maintained! I spent a month's worth of allowance to buy just the hilt! Why are these so expensive!?' he exclaimed in his head. Speaking of which.

"Though you could've used a different brand on the hilt. The Wesson brand may be sturdy and fairly durable, but its maintenance and replacement kits are always really expensive. There are other brands that have better specs with cheaper kits." She said.

"Say what now? I just thought the most expensive one was the best one!" He twitched.

"Well yeah, sure, it's the best, but the best also needs the best to be used and maintained at its best." she said as she gave it back.

"that's a lot of bests. I'll keep that in mind." He sighed and drooped.

"Hey don't worry about it. I'm sure beacon has maintenance kits for all weapons. And who knows! We're now students of beacon. I'm sure the shops in Vale would give us some great discounts!"

Jaune sighed. He frowned for a bit but then smiled at Ruby.

"You really know your stuff huh?" Jaune commented.

"Yeah! I really love weapons! They're like an extension of us! I mean we are huntsmen and huntresses after all. What would we be if not for our signature weapons?"

"well-"

Their conversation was cut when an announcement was made at a nearby speaker. A familiar voice spoke. It was that Glynda woman.

"Attention to all new-comers. Please be informed that the general assembly will commence in 10 minutes. Please proceed to the auditorium and assemble yourselves in an orderly fashion. That is all."

The announcement ended. Jaune and Ruby looked at each other.

Jaune smiled at her.

"Shall we go my lady?" he mimicked a gesture from one of those sappy fairy tales where a chivalrous knight escorts a maiden.

"We shall." She answered also mimicking a noble girl.

She snickered. He snickered. They both laughed before they followed the other students that were also heading to the Auditorium.

Let's end it with that. His first friend in beacon. Next chapter will delve on making more connections and relationships (no not that kind of relationship). Also, Initiation time!...yeah...woo...

I really hope you guys liked the first part.