"I don't see why we are here. We did nothing wrong, not only that but we that Bullhead had been filled to the brim with Dust that those crooks had been forced to leave behind." Haru said with crossed arms as he and Ruby sat in a dark room with only a single table with a light hanging over it. The witch-like woman was walking around them, seeming to find Haru's words both filled with truth but at the same time foolish.
"You endangered yourselves and others tonight, and while your actions are commendable I will not tolerate such disregard for your actions." The woman, whose Haru and Ruby had remembered to be a teacher at Beacon named Glynda Goodwitch... which was ironic given that she really resembled her name. She snapped her riding crop against the table in front of them, Haru didn't even flinch, but Ruby jerked back at the surprise movement and the loud sound.
"Yeah, and what if we didn't do anything. I couldn't live with myself if I knew that me doing nothing caused people to die." Haru told Glynda with narrowed eyes.
Yeah, she did have a point. Fighting in a city period endangered lives, but not fighting placed even more people in danger.
"Uh... Haru has a point... if we didn't do anything wrong, why are we here?" Ruby asked with her hand raised a bit, before she jumped when the snap of the riding crop hit the table. She had a worried expression on her face, while Haru frowned and took a DEEP breath of his pipe as the cold dust filled his lungs and cooled down the temper that wanted him to rage out of control. Sadly, his blood was still boiling a bit, but with each drag he was cooling down more. If Glynda hadn't had angered him in the first place, he wouldn't NEED a cool down time.
That nasty little side effect only took affect when he had something to be angry about.
"You two wield some of the most dangerous weapons ever designed, and despite how reckless your actions were I was able to see your teamwork was not only flawless, but you two seem to be talented. Even the recording in the store shows your fighting styles mesh without flaw... and you have somebody that would like to talk with you about that." Glynda admitted, being forced to say that even she was impressed with what she saw. In her hands was a Scroll colored white with the screen extended to show a play by play recording of Haru and Ruby fighting side by side, as well as the recording of them on the rooftop.
It was as if by magic that a person walked in through the open door concealed by shadows at the mention of "somebody".
The person was taller than even Glynda, who was one of the tallest people Haru had seen. He wore a darker shade of green suit with a green overcoat, a green scarf with a cross on the front, with fair skin, his hair was silvery gray, and he wore dark glasses in front of his eyes, but not covering them. In his left hand was a mug filled with something, but in his right one was... a plate of chocolate chip cookies?
Haru immediently realized this was Ozpin, the headmaster of Beacon Academy thanks to the fact he and Ruby both planned to go there in two years when they finished up with Signal.
"Haru and Ruby Rose... you have..." The man started, before he leaned over the table and got closer to them. Ruby seemed more than a little creeped out by the man, while Haru leaned back. Twin pairs of silver eyes showed the man no fear, though Haru's did show annoyance and Ruby was worried but not fearful. "Silver eyes." The man finally commented.
"Thank you, I didn't know I have silver eyes." Haru commented back at him with a fair amount of snark in his voive. That certainly got a raised eyebrow from Ozpin, while Ruby nudged Haru in the ribs for the comment.
"Haru, manners." Ruby quickly whispered.
"What!? I know that silver is a weird eye color, even gray is more normal than silver. He was stating to obvious." Haru complained to her. His blood had finally started to cool down, mostly because he had relaxed, though half of the table had been frozen over thanks to him breathing out ice mist over and over again.
"Well you could have said it less rudely." Ruby muttered when she realized that he was right.
"I'm sorry if you get that a lot. I've only met one other person with your eye color before. Though, she wasn't a scythe user... where did you get these skills?" Ozpin asked with a bit of emotion to his tone. The emotion was neither positive or negative, but it was a strong emotion.
"Our Uncle Qrow, that is with a Q not a C like you would think. Ruby wanted to learn from him, and I thought the weapon was pretty cool. He works at Signal as a teacher, so we learned this stuff at Signal." Haru answered quickly as Ozpin sat the cookies down in front of them. Haru reached out and grabbed a cookie, while Ruby leaned down and bit the cookie out of his hand. She grabbed a cookie as well, before she held it out towards Haru's face for him to bite. Ozpin raised an eyebrow at how close they were, though their relationship as twins may or may not be known to the man as of yet.
"We..." Ruby started, before Haru sent a look at her. "Okay okay, I was complete garbage in a fight until Uncle Qrow took us under his wing." Ruby admitted. She had been about to call Haru the same thing, before she remembered that Haru always had his hand to hand and his powerful Semblance to fall back on.
"We worked wonders for her... though she sucks at hand to hand." Haru said when he saw Ruby attempting to show off her mad kung fu skilled. Her jaw dropped, before she looked at him with betrayal in her eyes.
It was true, but he didn't have to be so blunt about it.
"I see, and you... your Semblance is... unheard of." Ozpin said as he looked at Haru, who had four arms of orange aura come out of his back and move in front of him. The arms picked up four cookies and held them in the palms of their hands. Haru himself had his arms crossed again, while Ruby smiled.
"Asura's Blessing, unique to Haru actually." Ruby said, before her eyes widened when Haru's arms crushed the four cookies into nothing more than crumbs. She was able to whine about that to Haru, before the arms moved together and started to place their palms together and began to press tightly. The arms quickly retracted, and a cookie four times the size of the other cookies while taking the shape of a ball landed in Haru's hands.
Ruby placed her hands up and acted like a puppy for a second, and Haru tossed her the cookie ball.
"I see, and you have Speed as your Semblance?" Ozpin asked Ruby, who nodded as she chomped down on the cookie ball.
"Though she hasn't mastered it, and need a all of concentration to use it... then again all Semblances take concentration." Haru said with a look at Ruby. Sure, he hadn't mastered his Semblance either, but that was enough his Semblance required him to control each arm, the strength of the arms, as well as the size and length of the arms wile memorizing their locations while making sure not to hit any allies with them.
There was an uncomfortable silence that permeated the air.
"So... what are you two doing at a school made for the training of Huntsmen and Huntresses?" Ozpin asked, a small smile on his face as he waited for the answer.
"I want to be a huntress." Ruby answered with complete seriousness, though the crumbs around her mouth ruined the serious image.
"... I want to protect the world from Grimm and close the gap between Humans and Faunus. Becoming a Huntsman... that seems like the perfect way to do that." Haru answered with a frown on his face.
"Slaying monsters and bringing peace... quite ambitious." Ozpin said to them, while Haru nodded his head. Beacon was one of the few school that were extremely tolerant of Faunus, though their stance was more neutral than it was anything else.
"Well, not yet. We still have two more years at Signal before we can apply to Beacon, and our parents always told us to help people so why not make a—" Ruby started to say quickly, before Haru covered her mouth.
"One long winded talk later. We want to go to Beacon to so that we can help people." Haru told the man, while Glynda looked at how Ruby was still talking despite her mouth being covered by Haru's palm. Haru took his hand off of Ruby's mouth though when she licked the palm of his hand, but he wiped the saliva off on her skirt so everything was made even with that.
"... Do you know who I am?" Ozpin asked, with Ruby nodding.
"Your Proffesor Ozpin, headmaster of Beacon." Ruby answered with a serious tone again, and this time she didn't have cookie crumbs on her face to ruin her image.
"Would you two like the chance to come to Beacon?" Ozpin asked, while Haru's eyes widened for a second.
That was a BIG question.
"Of course." Haru answered right away.
He and Ruby both already had the skills needed to enter if they were allowed to take the test, this way they didn't need to wait the two extra years.
"More than anything." Ruby answered back seriously.
"Okay then." Ozpin said with a nod.
Haru and Ruby looked at each other with matching grins on their faces.
They were going to Beacon!