A Summer Rose x Raven Branwen story...
Beacon had always been a dream for Summer. She imagined herself as one of the greatest huntresses Remnant has ever known and would often think of herself as one when she was young, much to the other kids' amusement. Today, Summer would be starting her first day at Beacon, her dream finally coming true for once.
"Um, hello?"
Summer was immediately snapped back into reality as her sights came upon black and red armour.
"Hello?" she said absentmindedly.
"I asked if you knew where the Ampitheatre is?"
Summer, still in a daze, pointed in the direction, leading the black-clad girl to grumble away. Summer shook her head and slapped herself for her actions, gainind attention from a few students around her. Sighing, Summer walked towards the Ampitheatre, hoping she'd find this girl and apologize, though it wasn't a possibility. After arriving, she saw an unusual amount of people standing there, prompting her to pull her hood down so that it covered most of her face, leaving just a bit for her to see.
"I'll...keep this brief," a man with gray hair had walked on stage. "You have traveled here today in search of knowledge--to hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose – direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step."
Summer looked at the man with a certaim degree of suspicion, like as if-
"That was a bit glum amirite?"
"What?" Summer turned to see a young man with blonde hair and what could only be described as a horrible taste in fashion, not even her, who was only wearing a black dress and some flats, would have the audacity to wear cargo shorts.
"Yeah, that was Professor Ozpin, the Headmaster here at Beacon. Hell I thought he'd give us a pretty good speach but after that, I sorta feel attacked!"
Summer giggled at the boy's words, "Well if you feel attacked there musy be some sort of truth behind his words right?" Summer stuck out her hand awkwardly, "Summer Rose."
"Taiyang Xiao Long, nice to meet you." he said, shaking her hand lightly. Summer could feel the boy's calouses and other jagged parts of his hand, I bet he's been training all his life, I guess I should too if I wanna have cool-feeling hands!
The two walked over to the Academy ballroom to settle in for the day since they hadn't had their dorm rooms assigned to yet. "Hey Taiyang, so um, why are you here? Not that I'm saying you shouldn't! But like... why?" she asked sheepishly.
"Probably for the same reason as you, to become a Huntsman! Other than that, not much, though I do kinda wish they'd made us stay in dorms for the night."
"Yeah, I heard something about assigning teams or something, I guess we haven't been assigned one yet though." She looked around and saw not many familiar faces until her eyes landed on a very familiar face, oh no it's that girl from before! I should go apologize... "H-Hey Taiyang? M-Mind joining me over there?" she pointed in the direction the girl was, luckily her hood was down because her face was red.
"You know them?" he asked, looking over.
"Them?" Summer turned around and saw another boy with the girl she'd been a total klutz to. Taiyang grabbes her by the wrist and literally dragged her over to the two people who were currently arguing about something.
"Sup! I'm Taiyang, and this here's Summer, so Sum, whatchu got for them?"
Summer's face was now a very dark shade of red, almost matching the girls pajamas. "H-Hey..." she said quietly, "S-Sorry for earlier, I-I was just amazed at the school and I guess I didn't oay attention to you so... sorry..."
"This is the girl who pissed you off?" the boy laughed, "Seriously Raven, if you get pissed at people like her, you have no chance at making friends!"
"Shut up Qrow!"
Qrow continued laughing and found himself leaning on Taiyang for support, leaving a very confused and embarassed Summer standing there. "Y-You two know each other?"
"Of course! I'm Qrow Branwen, this here is my overly-angry sister, Raven."
"H-Hi..." Summer let out sheepishly. Qrow waved and winked at her while Raven continued pouting at her brother's antics.
The four first years decided to settle in close to each other since none of them knew many people. Taiyang and Qrow decided to have a snore-fest, making both Summer and Raven have to put their pillows over their heads. Slowly, Summer drifted off to sleep, her thoughts about the day turning into a blur, and her anticipations for the next day formed happy dreams and a smile on her face as she slept. Unknown to her however, was the smile on Raven's face towards her, she's... kinda cute...
The next day...
"Ugh, why the hell are we even up here?" Raven protested. This morning, the four of them had a rude awakening and were led to a cliffside by Professor Ozpin and Professor Goodwitch.
"For years you have trained to become warriors, and today your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest. Do not hesitate to destroy everything in your path... or you will die."
"This guy never ceases to depress me with one of his speeches or whatever."
Summer tightened her belt holding her most priced posesions, her sword. She looked to the left of her and saw the platforms they were standing on start to launch students off the cliff and into the forest.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, you expect us to just land in there? Don't we at least get some sort of parachutes?!" Taiyang argued. Ozpin looked at him with a small smile and nodded, "You will be using your own landing strategy Mr. Xiao Long."
As more and more of them were being launched into the forest, Summer braced herself for the platform to launch her into what would be her first experience with Grimm. Taiyang was launched up and he ungracefully hit a few trees as he soared through the air, leaving Summer and Raven there. Soon the two of them were launched up and using her cloak, Summer glided through the air. She glided over to a nearby tree and used her sword as means to slow.down her decent from it as she was sliding down the hard tree log. She immediately became aware of her surroundings and heard a roar not too far from where she was. Unsheathing her sword, Summer, using her semblance, sped through the forest, dodging trees and a few shrubs as she left a trail of white and red rose petals behind. She came to a stop as she saw Raven teleporting around an Ursa, hitting it multiple times though the Grimm continued to attack the girl. Summer quickly rushed into one of Raven's portals and foumd herself falling towards the beast aling with Raven, she gave the black-clad girl a nod and the two joined together into Summer's semblance, creating a speeding swirl of white and black until the two landed safely on the ground and an Ursa head rolling near Summer.
"Eww!" She kicked the Ursa head away and sheathed her sword.
"You know next time, at least warn me you're joining me in a portal okay?" Raven said, annoyed.
"Aww c'mon, that was awesome and you know it partner!"
"Partner?"
"Well we looked into each other's eyes... we're partners right?"
Raven scoffed at the shorter girls worlds and continued walking, "Next time, I'll tell you when to jump in and help got it?"
Summer celebrated internally and walked behind Raven.
Elsewhere...
"Ugh c'mon Qrow!"
"Just a little longer man I'm sure they'll fall for our trap instantly!"
"You know, I really regret asking for help."
"You were begging Tai!"
"Whatever let's just get this over with."
Tai walked over to Qrow and crouched down next to him. The two had set up a trap for some incoming Ursai, which Qrow thought would give him a nice KDR with the Grimm. Tai, although reluctant at first, decided to help out since Qrow DID help him from that tree.
"What if we trap other people?"
"Nah don't worry about it. I'm sure no one will be dumb enough to-"
The trap suddenly sprang into action and a very feminine yelp came afterwards. Qrow's eyes went wide at the sight, "QROW!"
"Ah crap."