italic writing means that a character is thinking

Nature is a beautiful thing, the scenery is quite a delightful sight, the sound of the wind through the leaves is calming, the landscape is dazzling and the wildlife is graceful. There are Deer, Elk, and other beautiful specimens in nature. We hear the sound of the birds chirping in the distance, and the sound of running water, it is really a gorgeous sight to behold. That was until...

*THWIP*

A deer falls to the ground, with an arrow in its skull, sound seems to disappear, nothing but silence. Suddenly the sound of branches and leaves breaking and cracking could be heard, two boys exit the treeline with bows and a pair of arrows strapped to their back, they walk to the corpse of the deer, once at the once-living creature, they both kneeled down, placing their bows on the ground next to them, and said a prayer.

"Dear Oum, may you bless the life of this beautiful creature, and may it have a safe passage to the afterlife, Amen." They both said in unison, after saying their prayer, the black-haired boy pulled the arrow out of the deer's head and placed it back in his quiver, after that they both put their bows around their bodies so they could pick up the dead deer, they both lifted the deer over their shoulders and began to walk back in the direction of the treeline.

(Transition to a cabin in the woods.)
The appearance of the cabin:

Out of the tree line came the two boys, still with the deers' corpse on their shoulders, looking up from the ground the boys stared at the front porch of the cabin, greeted by the sight of an elderly couple, both of which are relaxing in their rocking chairs, after seeing the two boys the man sat up and walked to the edge of the porch. He was an older man, probably in his late fifties or early sixties, the woman who was sitting next to him looked to be in her late fifties, she was knitting something in her lap.

"Good job boys, take it to the back and I'll meet you out there." cheered the old man.

The two boys nodded to the older man and carried the carcass to the back of the cabin, behind the cabin were two small sheds, one was used for holding their tools and other equipment, while the other was used for 'preparing' the animals, the two boys carried the remains to the meat shed, they lied the carcass on a table, the old man caught up to the young boys and moved in front of them.

"Alright, let's see what you've got this time," said the man.

The old man then looked at the remains of the dead deer, he examined the body for a couple of seconds, taking notice of the large hole in its head.

"Good job, boys," The man said in a congratulatory tone.

"Thank you, sir," The boys respond,

"Alrighty, you boys go take a shower and I'll get to cutting up this deer," The old man says while rubbing his hands together.

"Yes sir," The brown-haired boy replied, respectfully.

"Got it," The dark-haired boy responded.

They both head up into the large cabin and split off once inside.

(Timeskip to dinner time.)

There the family sat at the dinner table in a comfortable silence, which was broken by the old man.

"So, Matthew, James, are you boys ready to go to Beacon Academy?" Both boys go wide-eyed and spit out their water, all over one another,

"Ah! You spat in my eye!" James screams, rubbing his eyes.

"Ah fuck! You spat in MY eye!" Matt yells back while also rubbing his eyes, all while the boys yell at each other, the older couple looks on at them with disappointment, with the older man facepalming.

"Boys, settle down, please." Said the old man with annoyance clear in his voice.

"But he spat in my eye!" yelled James, while holding his hand over his right eye, trying to relieve the stinging sensation.

"You spat in mine first you ass!" retorted Matt as he grabbed a nearby napkin, wiping his eye with it.

"You both are so childish," said the old woman, "and if you two don't stop cursing at the dinner table, then there will be consequences."

"Yes ma'am," the two boys groaned out.

"Anyways, what were you saying about Beacon, Dad?" James asked the older man with curiosity.

"Yeah, what's this about bacon- pops?" Matt joins in.

The rest of the family just looked at him weirdly.

The man sighed before continuing.

"I was asking if you both were ready, we received letters from Beacon saying you were accepted," the man- now identified as their father- says to the two boys, who proceeded to give the older man a confused look.

"We never sent any applications to Beacon, how did we get accepted into something we didn't apply for...also how'd you get letters all the way out here," James questioned his father.

"What do you mean you didn't apply? Enough with your childish jokes, take this seriously, the Headmaster is coming here tomorrow to collect you both," Their father said in a stern tone.

"So the Headmaster himself is coming here to get James and me?" Matt asked

"Why?" Both boys said in unison.

At that, the mother and father looked at each other, both clearly confused by their son's antics.

"James, Matthew, whatever it is you're trying to pull, it's not going to work." their mother stated in a stern tone.

"We aren't joking, we never signed up for Beacon," James tried to explain, "yeah as James said, we weren't gonna go to Beacon, we have no reason too," Matt added.

"Enough, it's too late to cancel now, you both have been in these woods for your whole life, you two need to make friends your age, your mother and I want you both to go out there and enjoy life while you have it, please...for us," The father said in a sort of begging tone whilst holding his wife's hand, the boys looked at each other and sighed.

"Fine, we'll go to Beacon...for you guys," Matt relents.

"Thank you boys, now you better get packed before he gets here, and dress nicely, will you." The mother informs them, making the two groan.
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Later that night in James' room

Time: 8:30 PM

James was laying down in his bed, looking up at the ceiling.

Thinking.

How are we getting accepted into a school we never even applied for? James thought to himself, his eyebrows furrowed with confusion. Ugh, this doesn't make any sense, I need to go talk to Matt. Before he could even get up from his bed, a knock came from his door.

"Hey, James- are you in there?" Matt asked from the other side.

"Yeah, come in, it's unlocked," James responded back to his brother.

Matt then opened the door and walked into the room, he closed the door behind him, locking it.

"Are you getting a weird vibe about this whole Beacon thing?" He asked his brother.

"Yeah, I'm confused cause neither of us had applied, yet we were accepted into it, Mom and Dad probably thought we were joking around about not applying," James explained.

"We have no reason to really go there, I'd rather stay home and hunt animals while pissing off vegans," Matt replied with a chuckle, causing James to release a small laugh of his own.

"While that is one of the best aspects of living here, I think we should just roll with it for the time being. Until we get more information from the headmaster," James stated, "whose name we don't even know, haha."

The two brothers then shared another light laugh, "Honestly, if you're down to go, then I'm right there beside you, bro." Matt said, patting his brother on the back, "I'm going to go pack my stuff, I suggest you do the same. I'll see you tomorrow." Matt finished, giving James a wave before unlocking, and exiting the door.

James sat on his bed for a few more minutes, before getting up and also packing his things.

(Timeskip to the next afternoon)
Time: 4:00pm

The following afternoon, James and Matt were both downstairs, sitting with their parents, just all doing different things, James was reading, Matt was helping his mom knit and their father was asleep in his recliner. They soon began to feel the cabin floor vibrate as everything began to shake violently, the sounds of engines filled their ears, they all got up and walked outside to see a Bullhead land in front of the cabin, as the Bullhead landed the back door slid open and out came a tall, pale-skinned man, wearing black dress pants, a black dress jacket, a dark green vest, green undershirt, black dress shoes, a cane, and his hair was a light shade of silver. The man walked towards the four and stopped about 5 feet in front of them.

"Good afternoon everyone," The silver-haired man started, "I hope you two are ready for an adventure of a lifetime,"

"Oh, I'm sure they are," Their mother replied for them, "Boys, get your belongings while we talk to Professor Ozpin."

James and Matt both nodded and walk back inside to grab their bags, when they came out of the house they both hugged their parents whilst saying goodbye, the two boarded the Bullhead with Ozpin and waved their parents one last goodbye as the door shut, the Bullhead took off and began to fly towards Beacon Academy.

"So, quick question; how were we accepted into Beacon, when we didn't even apply," Matt asked the Headmaster.

"All of your questions will be revealed soon," Ozpin told the two, wearing a visible smirk on his face.

"Can't you just answer them now?" James questioned the Professor.

"No," Ozpin spoke; with authority

(Timeskip 1 Hour)

After a long and silent ride, the Bullhead began to start landing, once it did Ozpin opened the door and got out, James and Matt both grabbed their bags and hopped out of the Bullhead, they then looked around at their new home.

"The other students will be arriving shortly, you both can explore around for a while, we will soon have a meeting in the Training Arena, have fun, and goodbye," Ozpin told the two as he walked away while waving back at them, the two just looked at each other and then just shrugged their shoulders and began to walk towards the school until a massive shadow clouded over them, the boys looked up and saw a massive airship, they watched as the airship landed and a walkway came from the side and made contact with the ground, the doors opened as they saw a blonde boy run out and throw up in the nearest trash can.

"Note to self, stay away from Vomit-Boy," Matt joked.

As more students came out they then saw another Bullhead coming towards the school but this one had SDC written on the side of it, the boys just turned around and walked away, they began to wander for a few minutes until the two heard an explosion, James and Matt both quickly ran towards where they heard the explosion and saw a white-haired girl yelling at a black-haired girl, who was sitting on the floor, the two walked up to them with a worried look.

"Are you two okay?" James asked.

The white haired girl then turned around and had an angered look on her face, "No, I'm not okay, this dunce almost killed me," she said, clearly annoyed, "I said I was sorry, princess!" the black haired girl--who they now noticed has red tips on the end of her bangs--apologized aggressively.

"It's heiress actually," the four all look over towards the voice and saw a girl with long black hair and a black bow on her head walking over towards them, in her right hand was a book and in her left was a vial "Weiss Schnee, heiress to The Schnee Dust Company, one of the largest producers of energy propellant in the world," the bowed girl said.

"Finally, some recognition," Weiss said with a hint of pride in her voice.

"The same company infamous for its controversial labor forces and questionable business partners," The bowed girl finished in a deadpanned tone.

What the fuck is going on James and Matt thought at the same time, both of them sweatdropping.

"What-How dare...The nerve of...Ugh," Weiss then snatched the vial from the bowed girl and then began to walk away.

"...Hot," Matt whispered to himself.

Or so he thought.

James then looked at Matt with a questionable face, "What?" James asked, clearly concerned and confused.

"hmm?" Matt hummed, seemingly in a trance.

"You just...nevermind," James said with a dead tone, he then looked back at the conversation in front of him and saw the young girl who was getting yelled at was now lying on the floor.

"Should we help her?" James asked his brother

"Huh? Oh, yeah, probably," Matt said as he got out of his trance, wiping some drool off of his bottom lip.

James then walked over and looked down at the girl, "Need a hand, red?" James asked the girl as he held out his hand, said the girl looked at him before looking a bit to the side with a blush on her face, clearly embarrassed, she faintly nodded before accepting his held out hand.

James then pulled her up off of the ground, as they let go of each other, the girl started wiping some dust off of her dress, "The names Ruby Rose by the way," she introduced herself, "I'm James and the guy behind me still daydreaming is Matt," James said while pointing at his brother who was still looking off into nothing, then he noticed the same blonde guy from before was walking towards them, "Hey, are you guys okay?" The boy asked, "Yeah we're all okay, names James," James said.

"I'm Jaune," Jaune told James while shaking his hand, "aren't you the guy who threw up on the ship?" Ruby asked, getting chuckles from James and Matt and an embarrassed Jaune.

(Transition to somewhere else in Beacon)

James, Matt, Ruby and Jaune were all walking side by side, on the outsides of Beacon, "All I'm saying is motion sickness is a much more common problem than people let on!" Jaune exclaimed.

"Look, I'm sorry but Vomit-Boy was the first thing that came to mind" Ruby said with a small giggle, "Exactly, that's what I said to James," Matt said in agreement.

"Oh yeah, what if I called you Crater-Face," Jaune asked as Matt began to quietly laugh to himself, "Hey! that explosion was an accident," Ruby pouted,

"Well the names Jaune Arc, short, sweet and rolls off the tongue, ladies love it" Jaune said in a flirtatious voice.

"Do they?" James, Matt and Ruby all asked at the same time.

"They will. Well, I hope they will...I-I mean, my mom always says that...never mind," Jaune said, they all walked for about a minute in silence until Ruby started talking, "So...I've got this thing," Ruby said as she pulled her weapon off of her back making it transform into a scythe, slamming it into the ground.

"Woah, is that a scythe!?" Jaune asked in excitement, "It's also a customizable, high impact velocity sniper rifle." Ruby told them as she cocked the gun, "A wha-?" Jaune and Matt wondered, "It's also a gun" Ruby sighed, "Ohhh," the two stupidly breathed.

"What about you guys?" Ruby asked, "Oh-uh I've got this" Jaune said as he equipped his sword and shield, "Ooooooh, what do they do" Ruby asked, "Well, the shield gets smaller, so when I get tired of carrying it, I can just put it away," Jaune told her, "Wouldn't it weigh the same?" Ruby asked, "Yeah it does," Jaune said "What about you guys?" Ruby asked James and Matt.

"I've got this," James said as he opened his hand as a shadow began to cover his whole hand then soon a scythe began to form from the shadows, the shadows then began to disappear as the handle of the scythe turned into a brown wooden form and the top of the scythe turned metal, he then spun his scythe around and slammed the scythe handle into the ground making Ruby swoon over it.

"Yeah, and I've got this," Matt then clapped his hands together as a golden glow came from within, he then slowly moved his hands apart as the golden glow began to take form of a sword, Matt then grabbed the handle as the sword then lost its golden glow as the handle turned into a brown wooden handle and the blade became a steel metal, Matt then juggled the sword and swung it downwards as Ruby began to swoon over both of them.

"So what can they do?" Ruby asked, "umm, kill?" Matt said in a questioning tone.

"No like, do they turn into other weapons?" She asked.

"Nope, they're just a sword and scythe" James plainly told her.

"Oh, well still pretty cool," Ruby said while holding her weapon, "Say, do you guys know where we are going?" Matt asked, while looking around.

"No, I was following Jaune," Ruby replied, "I was following Ruby," Jaune said, James just facepalmed and began to walk in a direction as the others followed.

(Transition to the Training Arena)

As James, Matt, Ruby and Jaune finally got to the arena, they all heard Ruby's name get called out, they all looked over and saw a girl with long blonde hair waving towards Ruby, "Oh, that's my sister, see you later guys," said Ruby while running towards her sister, "wait, who am I meant to talk with, oh well, I guess I can talk to-" Jaune then saw James and Matt walking away from him, "damn it," Jaune said while looking down.

James and Matt then walked through the crowd and stopped while looking at the stage, after a few minutes Ozpin walked on stage and stood in front of the mic, "I'll...keep this brief, 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." Ozpin spoke to all, he then walked off stage as another blonde woman with her hair tied in a bun walked to the mic and spoke into it.

"You will all be spending the night in the ballroom, initiation will begin at 8am tomorrow morning," The blond said, everyone then began to walk to the ballroom, the boys made their way to their change rooms, whilst the girls went to theirs, after they finished changing everyone had gone into the ballroom and placed down their sleeping bags, James and Matt had placed theirs next to each other, as James sat down and began to read his book, Matt just started doing his nightly workout which starts with 100 pushups, meanwhile Ruby was writing, while her sister then flopped down next to her.

"It's like a big slumber party," Ruby's sister said, "I don't think dad would approve of the boys though, Yang," Ruby said, "I know I do," the girl-now identified as Yang-said with a purr at the end while looking at all the boys, "so what are you doing?" Yang asked her sister.

"Writing a letter to all my friends at Signal, I promised to tell them all about Beacon and how things are," Ruby told her sister.

"Aww that's so cuuuute," Yang said as her sister threw a pillow at her face.

"Shut up! Unlike you, I didn't get to take my friends with me, it's weird not knowing anyone," Ruby told her sister, still writing in her book.

"What about Jaune? he's...nice, there you go that's one friend, one hundred percent increase," Yang said to her sister.

"Yeah, but I'm pretty sure Weiss hates me, that's one negative friend, back to zero," Ruby said with sadness in her voice, "oh wait, there's also James and Matt," Ruby said realising she almost forgot the two guys who helped her.

"Oh, James and Matt, where are they at?" Yang asked, looking around the ballroom.

"Umm, I don't know," Ruby says, whilst looking around, soon she saw the two...shirtless as well, she then pointed at them, "Over there," Ruby said.

"Ohh, momma likey," Yang said to her sister as she purred again, she then stood up and began to walk towards the boys, Ruby quickly got up and ran in front of her sister to stop her.

"What do you think you're doing?" Ruby asked nervously.

"I'm gonna go talk to those two hunks," Yang says in a flirtatious voice, while nudging her sister to the side, Ruby then followed behind as Yang stopped a couple feet in front of the boys, James looked up from his book and smiled.

"Hey Red, who's your friend?" James asked the girl

"The names Yang Xiao-Long, I'm Ruby's half sister," Yang said, "same dads, different moms," Yang continued

"Well it's nice to meet you Yang, I'm James Yaeger and this is my brother, Matt," James said.

"Hey, good to meet you," Matt said as he finished his push ups and began to do sit ups.

"So, what brings you two lovely girls here?" James asked the two girls.

"Oh, well, Ruby just couldn't stop talking about how cute you guys are," Yang said with a small smirk on her face, trying to rile up her sister...and it's working as Ruby begins to try and speak before she finally finds the words.

"I did not, don't make lies," Ruby told her sister in a serious type of tone.

"So you don't think they're cute?" Yang inquired

"Well they are, but...shut up!" Ruby yelled, becoming a blushing mess.

James just chuckled at the embarrassed Ruby, "It's okay Red, we know what you mean," James said, as Yang just smirked at her sister.

"So how did you guys meet my little sister?" Yang asked the two brothers.

Matt then stopped doing his sit ups and just looked at Yang, "Well, we heard an explosion, ran towards it, and saw her getting yelled at by that Schnee girl, they argued then after that we just talked with her for a bit," Matt stated, answering the question.

"Well Matt, James, it was a real pleasure meeting you both," Yang said flirtatiously, "But I've gotta go help my little sis make more friends," Yang said.

"Alright, well good luck, Red," Matt said as he and James waved them both goodbye, Matt then turned to his brother after the girls left, "Dude, first day and we already got the attention of some pretty cute girls," Matt told his brother, James just looked at him with a questionable look, "Dude, why did us coming here, change your whole attitude?" James asked.

"To be honest...I don't know" Matt said, after a few minutes of James reading his book and Matt doing his exercises, they both then got their attention caught by hearing Weiss and Ruby yelling at each other.

Definitely not getting into that mess, they both thought.

"Okay, we should just go to sleep now," Matt said to his brother, who nodded in agreement, they both stopped what they were doing, as they got into their sleeping bags, both falling asleep to be ready for tomorrow.

(To Be Continued)