GRAE Ch.7, Officialization

“Greyson Skye, Azure Ozeen, Rusty Braun, Ember Blackburn. The four of you retrieved the Black Queen pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as team GRAE, led by Greyson Skye,” Headmaster Ozpin announced. The crowd cheered and applauded. Greyson smiled and nodded, acknowledging his leadership. Azure hugged Greyson tightly, congratulating him. To Greyson’s horror, his face turned bright red in front of all of the students of Beacon, as well as a considerable number of families.

  Ozpin proceeded to announce more teams. The last two teams were team JNPR, in which Greyson took considerable interest in due to Pyrrha’s affiliation. The very last was team RWBY, led by the girl Greyson had seen just after landing, and consisting of Azure’s cousin Weiss, as well as two other girls.

  “Interesting, I didn’t know this many other people were named Azure,” Azure stated about halfway through the ceremony. Several teams contained students whose last, or sometimes even first, names were Azure.

  By the end of the ceremony, Rusty was in a deep slumber in his chair, leaning in Ember’s direction. Ember glanced at him disdainfully once in a while, as he drooled dangerously close to her side. Greyson looked onward, analyzing each one of his new classmates.

  That evening, all teams were given dormitories. Team GRAE was given the fortune of scoring a fourth story dorm overlooking Beacon’s main quad, with a perfect view of the sunset every night. The Sun was setting, turning the sky into several shades of orange, pink, and dark blue. The fragmented Vytal moon could be faintly seen, looming over the campus.

  “Look how beautiful it is,” Azure remarked, fixated on the sunset. Rusty sat on his bed, looking out the window quietly. Ember was busy lining the shelf nearest her bed with small bottles from her bag.

  “We need a fridge,” Greyson declared.

  “I second the notion,” Rusty added.

  “And where would we both obtain a fridge, and put this fridge?” Ember questioned.

  “We could get creative...” Rusty suggested.

 “There’s a grocery store nearby, right?” Greyson asked to Azure and Ember, the two who knew the area best.

  By bedtime, Greyson’s night stand was replaced with a mini fridge. GRAE had stacked it full of juice, soda, watermelon, several sandwich ingredients, and an entire apple pie. Greyson looked at the fridge triumphantly, snacking away on a particularly large slice of watermelon. He finished his slice, prepared for bed, bid his team mates goodnight, and rolled over onto his side, flicking off the lights.

  The first class of the year saw team GRAE in a large, semi-circular lecture hall. Professor Port was the professor, a portly, grandfatherly man with white hair and a thick white moustache. Several diagrams of the Grimm were posted on the wall, with intricate fact listings, their name, attacks, and weaknesses.

  Professor Port seemed more intent on reciting his life story than teaching. Azure and Rusty seemed to pay attention, Ember looked bored and slightly angry -more so than her normal expression- and Greyson was sound asleep on his desk, using his arms as a pillow.

  “I sure hope my cousin isn’t injured in this fight...” Azure said worriedly.

  “Huh? What fight? Where? Let’s go,” Greyson asked sleepily, springing up from his desk.

  “That girl down there is fighting a boarbatusk, you walnut,” Ember answered.

  Greyson looked to the battle, interested. After a bit of a hassle, Azure’s cousin, Weiss had conquered the Boarbatusk. While not injured, she did look angry with her teammates.

  “Psh, I could do it quicker,” Greyson remarked, putting away the books which had served as nothing but a pillow all class.