2 20 words or less

"We're finally at Beacon," a girl with bright yellow hair that fades to pale yellow at the end and lilac eyes, wearing a tan jacket that exposes her bellybutton with golden brown piping and short, puffy sleeves with black cuffs that feature two gold buttons, underneath it was a low cut yellow crop top with her emblem in black on her left boob. She also has a brown belt covered by a pleated brown piece of material reaching from hip to hip around the back of her waist, with her emblem emblazoned on the right-most pleat in gold, underneath this is a long, white, asymmetrical piece of material reaching to her knee on the right side, as well as a pair of black mini-shorts, and pair of brown, knee-high boots and orange over-the-knee socks, with the right sock pushed down just below the knee. A gray bandanna is tied around her left knee and an orange infinity scarf and black fingerless gloves complete her outfit with her weapon, Ember Celica, around her wrist in standby mode.

"So glad we're finally off the ship," I say.

"I really want to know how you wake up exactly when something's done," Ruby says. "Especially during our classes because you slept all the time and still was the best student."

"Outta the way," a boy with short blond hair and dark blue eyes, wearing a black short-sleeved hoodie with detached reddish-orange sleeves, a white diamond-shaped chest plate cut off above his lower abdomen, and placed over his shoulders are a pair of white spaulders with rerebraces set under them and elbow guards that have cords strung through them. Below this, he is wearing blue jeans with a white patch placed on the left knee and black high top sneakers.He has two belts crisscrossing his waist, both different shades of brown, with a pair of small pouches on them, brown wrist-length gloves with exposed fingertips and small metal plates over the back. His sword is strapped to his left hip in a sheath that doubles as a collapsible shield.

"Well on that note there's my friends so bye," Yang says getting dragged off by her friends. "See you later."

"How could she just leave us? We don't know anyone here," Ruby points out.

"I think that's why she left us," I say. "We need to talk to other people besides each other, I mean what team are you going to be on?"

"I thought I was going to be on a team with you and Yang," Ruby says with a meek voice.

"Ruby, we're going to be in teams of 4," I inform her. "And most likely it'll be up to chance so you need to be more social."

{Head's up a member of team NGHT is nearby and he's going to look very familiar to you,} Dest tells me.

I look around and spot a boy with light blue hair styled into a bob cut and blue eyes wearing a long sleeved white shirt, grey pants, and black sneakers.

'Hayate Ayasaki?! How the heck is he here!' I yell at Dest.

{Calm down it's not the actual Hayate, just a version of him,} Dest informs me. {I mean is Hayate in his world a tiger Faunus?}

'No but speaking of Faunus didn't I want to be a wolf Faunus?'

{You can turn into one.}

'How the FUCK is that possible?'

{With out foing to far into the details, ya know when Yang took Ruby into the forest in her wagon?}

'Go on...'

{Well when I put you into the cannon, I put you in the wagon with Ruby but, you woke up when the Grimm attacked and jumped in front of Yang to protect her right before Taiyang got to you three.}

'And where does my ability to become a wolf Faunus come into play?'

{I was getting to that, you were extremely injured and Taiyang went to Ozpin to save you life with a little help from the gods of light and darkness.}

'WHAT?!'

{Let me finish! Jeez, try to explain thing to people and they never listen, dang humans.}

'Dest you finish complaining?'

{Sorry about that, but anyway the gods brought back to life with that side affect of you being able to turn into a wolf Faunus.}

'So I'm a black wolf?'

{White with your hair black at the tips, part of the side effect.}

'So is that why I have two Semblances?}

{Yep, anyhoo you do realize that you have been standing in place staring at Hayate for about ten minutes now right? You really need to fix your problem with stand still.}

'Oh, thanks for letting me know.'

"Bro, you there?" I hear Ruby ask me.

"Yeah sorry I was just remembering what happened when we were young," I tell her while scratching the back of my head.

"You mean when you got hurt? Are your scar hurting you again?" Ruby asks with a worried expression.

"No I'm fine Ruby," I tell her.

"You sure Noir?" Ruby asks.

"Yeah Ruby I am, I'm going to go talk to that boy," I tell Ruby while running in the direction Hayate was walking.

"But-," Ruby tried to call out.

"You'll be fine go make friends," I yelled out to her.

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"Hey wait up," I yell at Hayate.

"Huh, what do you need?" Hayate asks me politely as he turns around but when he sees me his eyes widen in shock. "Y-your the Demon of Signal! Why are you here?"

"First of all the name's Noir Rose and second of all I go to school here now," I tell him. "I wanted to see if you want to hang out until the assembly."

"Really? If it's not an inconvenience for you then let's hang out," Hayate says.

"Ya know, it's considered to be impolite to not gove your name after someone gives you their's," I say.

"O-oh sorry about that, my name is Hayate Ayasaki, it's nice to meet you," Hayate says as he bows.

"Nice to meet you too," I say to him. "If I may, what kind of weapon do you use?"

'If this is a version of Hayate he should be quite proficient at using firearms and sword fighting,' I think to myself.

"It's actually kinda embarrassing what weapon I use," Hayate says as he pulls out a sword. "This is my gunblade, Relevant Sky."

The blade had a light blue color with a revolving cylinder on the bottom near the guard. The guard was in the shape of a sun and the hilt hand a black wrapping on it.

"That's amazing you went with a simple yet, efficient design to maximize your usage of dust and bullets so you have less of a chance to miss," I say with excitement. 'Of course, in RWBY if you don't use a mechshift or combination weapon, it'll be weird, even Useless's shield can become a sheath.'

"You get it, it felt weird trying to make a weapon transform into another so I wanted to make a simple one," Hayate "Speaking of weapons, what kind of weapon do you have?!"

I lift up my foot and put my arm beside it. The gauntlet has a sleek black design with a whit clip for ammo. My boots have a barrel on both sides with a black and dark purple color, on the outside was the clips.

"These are my back up weapons, Destrouer Anubis," I tell him.

"Why back up?" he asks.

"Well I have two sisters and I didn't know what weapon I wanted," I say. "One sister wanted me to fight like her which means hand to hand, the other wanted me to use a scythe, and I kinda wanted to use a sword and spear."

{You basically saying what I told you word for word,} Dest says grumpily.

"Where's your main weapon?" Hayate asks tilting his head to the side a little.

I put down my foot and draw my sword from the back of my waist, "Right here."

The sword looked a bit like Qrow's Harbinger in sword form only pitch black. The guard was extremely simple with a dark purple color. The hilt however had a cylinder spinner with a lit up 2D sword.

"Your amazing, you made a weapon that can shift into four different ones and a gauntlet and boot set!" Hayate says with a smile on his face. "We're going to be good friends."

"Then your the first new friend I made at this school," I tell him.

"The same with you," Hayate says happily.

*BOOM* a explosion was heard close by.

"What was that?" Hayate asks.

"Knowing my family, one of my sisters," I say reluctantly.

"Should we go check on them?" Hayate asks.

"Probably," I answer.

We walked in the direction of the explosion to find two girls with black soot on their faces, one was Ruby and the other was a girl with white hair wearing a thigh-length strapless dress with a faint color gradation from white to pale blue at the hem, around the front of her neckline there is a small piece of black lace, and the hem of the dress is scalloped and stitched in a way to resemble snowflakes.Over this she is wearing a bell-sleeved bolero with the same color gradation as her dress from shoulder to wrist, lined in red and with a ruffled collar and on the back of the bolero is the Schnee Crest. Her boots are white, wedged heeled and higher at the back than the front with a small silver decoration across the top of the foot and are lined in red. Around her waist is a thin, white sash with a pouch attached to the back.

"Your Weiss Schnee," I say in mock surprise. "Heiress to the Schnee Dust Company."

"Yes I am," Weiss says with pride. "Finally someone recognizes me."

"Yeah I do," I respond. "But honestly I don't care, Ruby what happened?"

"What, that little-" Weiss begins.

"Choose your next words carefully or I'm going to show you why they call me the 'demon of Signal'," I calmly say with a dangerous tone in my voice then I turn around to Ruby and say with a innocent tone. "Anyway go ahead Ruby."

"I accidentally bumped into her stuff and knocked some of it over then, she started yelling at me with a vial of dust in her hand which made me sneeze, and a explosion happened," Ruby tells me without taking a breath.

"So both of you are at fault," I say.

"No it was-," Weiss tries to say.

"I said BOTH," I interrupt.

"Okay," They both say meekly.

"Good now Ruby, I'm going to go hand out with my friend so, do me a favor and don't explode again," I say firmly then turn to Weiss while walking off. "And Weiss, nice to meet you, I'm Noir Rose, Ruby's twin brother."

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"You handled that really well," Hayate says.

"Well I know my sisters, especially my twin," I tell him. "And she's usually a ray of sunshine so anything she does is probably not on purpose if it's mean."

"You must really love your sisters, huh," Hayate says.

"I do anyway, how is your family?" I ask to see if this version of Hayate's life is just as sad.

"Ten years ago I met a fat man in a bright red suit who called himself Santa Claus," Hayate begins.

"Hold up I don't want your entire life story," I interrupt. "Shorten it to 20 words or less."

"¹My ²parents ³were ⁴horrible ⁵people ⁶who ⁷tried ⁸to ⁹sell ¹⁰ me ¹¹to ¹²the ¹³White ¹⁴Fang ¹⁵to ¹⁶pay ¹⁷off ¹⁸their ¹⁹debts," Hayate tells me. (Small numbers are me counting.)

"Great you had one word left anyway," I say. "How did you come to Beacon?"

"Professor Ozpin got to me before the White Fang," Hayate answers.

"He's a pretty nice guy," I observe. "Anyhow we probably need to go to the assembly."

"Yeah, let's go," Hayate agrees.

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