DatBoi: not yet but soon.

Johnathen: to be honest I have no idea who he will be paired with, I think a pairing between him and Weiss would be cute, but I'm still undecided. As for alien x, that's a secret.

A/N: You guys won't see Ben unlocking all of his forms, I think it would be boring every few chapters to just focus on Ben doing something random to unlock a new form.

Chapter 7: A beacon of hope

Yang had just run off with her friends, and left Ben and Ruby alone to 'make some new friends.' Unfortunately for Ruby, Yang's sudden departure left the poor girl spinning, literally right into someone's luggage.

After falling, and making a mess of the suitcases, a girl came up to Ruby and started to yell at her all the while shaking a bottle of dust. "this is dust, fire, water, lightning, energy. Are you even listening to me, is any of this sinking in. What do you have to say for yourself." And they exploded, needless to say that only made the girl in white even angrier, if that was possible.

After the explosion Ruby was able to apologize to the crabby girl "I'm really, really sorry." Ben walked up to the white-haired girl with a glare, "there she said sorry, are you happy now princess?" The girl looked indignantly at me and huffed.

The argument was about to start up again, until a third voice interjected "it's heiress actually, Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, one of the largest producers of energy propellant in the world."

"finally, some recognition." Weiss turned to glare at Ruby and Ben.

The black-haired girl spoke again "the same company infamous for its controversial labor forces, and questionable business partners." Weiss sputters indignantly for a moment and then huffs and leaves.

The bow wearing girl had left too, leaving Ruby and Ben alone once again. That is until a blond boy approaches the two "hey, I'm Jaune." Ruby was the first of the two to speak "Ruby, aren't you the guy who threw up on the ship." Ben and Ruby chuckle at the blond knights look of embarrassment.

A few minutes later

"all I'm saying is motion sickness is a more common problem than people let on." The knight defended, Ruby put her hand's up in mocha surrender "I'm sorry vomit boy was the first thing that came to mind." Jaune shot back "oh yea? What if I called you crater face." Ruby huffed indignantly "hey, that explosion was not my fault."

The Blond puffed out his chest and stated "well, the names Jaune Arc, short, sweet, rolls off the tongue, the ladies love it." Ruby and Ben gave him a strange look and Ruby questioned "do they?" Jaune looked embarrassed "they will, well, I hope they will, my mom always says... never mind."

Ruby tries to find something to say but ultimately decides to say "sooo I got this thing." She then pulls out crescent rose, leaving Jaune gobsmacked at the sight. "wow, is that a scythe?" Jaune asks while pointing at the oversized gardening implement.

Ruby smiles brightly "it's also a high impact customizable sniper rifle" Jaune looks at Ruby in confusion "huh?" Ben clarifies "it's also a gun."

Jaune nodes "cool." Ruby then asks "what do you have?" Jaune pulls out his sword "I've got a sword, and a shield." Ruby asks excitedly "so what do they do?"

"The shield, gets smaller, so that when I get tired of carrying it I can just put it away." Ruby blinks "wouldn't it still weigh the same?" Jaune looks down dejectedly "yea it does."

After Ozpins speech

Ben decided instead of going to sleep right away he could get in some extra training, and so he went out on the balcony, climbed up onto the roof and worked on his balance. After almost falling off the roof a couple of times, he decided to call it quits, and get some sleep.

After successfully sneaking back in and laying down in his sleeping bag, he went to bed.

Morning

Ben was woken up by Ruby who had decided the best way of doing so was to shake him as hard as she could, Ben did not appreciate it. Ben decided to forgo breakfast, instead he wanted to shower and get changed, but Ruby wouldn't have it. "You're going to eat breakfast." Ruby declared. Ben looked to Yang for help, but she agreed with Ruby "you can't keep skipping breakfast, Ben you of all people should know how much your semblance takes out of you." Ben sighed and conceded to Yang's point, his semblance takes an enormous amount of energy to maintain.

Ruby pulled Ben and Yang into the cafeteria, it was full of initiates, this was the first time Ben saw how many people applied to Beacon this year, he was slightly worried about his chances of making it in, but on the other hand, the headmaster wouldn't personally invite him here just to kick him out, would he?

Ben, Ruby and Yang sat down at an empty table, Ruby and Yang began to converse, Ben was too tired to talk, he is not a morning person, at least he wasn't as bad as Yang, but he certainly wishes he had Ruby's energy.

Ben got up and excused himself "I'm going to get changed, I'll meet you guys in the locker room." To Ben's surprise nether of sisters tried to stop him.

Locker room

Ben pulled out the slip of paper with his locker number on it, he then spent a few minutes trying to find it, thankfully he was able to find it and get changed before Ruby and Yang to there. Ben started checking his weapons, which he had yet to name, much to Ruby's annoyance. Finding nothing wrong with them, he got up and closed his locker, and waited for Yang and Ruby to show up.

Ben's mind wandered back to his training with Yang and occasionally Ruby, while both were still more skilled, Ben was at least able to fight them to a draw, albeit not very often, and only with the help of his semblance.' I wonder if I'll ever be as amazing as those two are.' Ben shook his head dismissing the ridiculous thought.

Ben had been so lost in thought that he didn't notice a certain blond brawler approaching him. Yang put a hand on Ben's shoulder and asked "hey, Ben are you alright?" Ben blinked, and smiled at her "yea, I'm just a little nervous about initiation." Yang smirked at Ben "awe, is widdel Ben scawed?"

Ben crossed his arms and huffed, "how can I be? I mean I'm like the best." Yang playfully punched Ben's arm.

Initiation

Standing on the platform and looking over the edge of the cliff, Ben felt kind of nervous, he had a fear of heights. He was so scared in fact he didn't even notice the initiates to his right being launched into the forest.

Ben was sent rocketing through the air, screaming like a little girl... not that he'd admit it. Before colliding with the ground Ben transformed. BOOM!

The sound of the crash reverberated throughout the entire forest. "ow, that rely hurt." Diamondhead stood up, dusted himself off and started walking north.

It wasn't long before Diamondhead ran into some Grimm, Beowolf's and lots of them, Diamondhead lifted his arms and sharp crystalline projectiles fired from his hands, turning the pack of Beowolf's into Mistralian cheese.

Transforming back Ben continued to walk north.

It felt like hours, and he'd found no one, until he spotted the temple, where Ben spotted, Yang and a black-haired girl wearing a bow.

Walking up to them, Yang gave Ben a confused look "where is your partner?" Ben sighed "I don't have one." Yang blinked a few time's and started laughing. "oh man, I don't even know how you managed that one."

Ben crossed his arms "it's not like I did it on purpose, and becide-" Ben was cut off by a yell "head's up!" Ruby was falling from the sky.

A/N: there we go, next chapter is the end of the intimation. I hope you liked it, bye-bye.