I look around the various courtyards of Beacon and I hear someone say my name, my real name.

"Sean?" (And before you ask, it's pronounced like shawn. Just want to clear that up)

I turn around to notice a girl with blood red hair. I recognized her as soon as I saw her.

She was one of my childhood friends. I grew up with her through school and all that. It probably shattered the world around her when I was drafted.

"Is that really you?" She says. It looked like she was about to cry.

"I-" I have trouble finding my words. "Snow?" She liked the snow so she wanted me to call her Snow. We were just kids, we always gave eachother nicknames. But this one stuck.

She has tears in her eyes and quickly wrapped her arms around my shoulders. "I'm so glad you're still alive." She let's go. "I heard all the other Spartans fell with Reach."

"Well that's mostly true."

"Huh?"

"A few squads managed to make it out, me on the other hand was discharged."

"What, why?"

"My squad mates were killed right in front of me, and it started with me punching holes in the walls and, look that's just a long list of dark things I've done to myself. They deemed me too unstable to operate on the field, so they sent me back home."

"Hey, Luna is here too."

"Really? Where is she?"

"Ran off torwards the main building. That's probably where we need to go."

We make our way to the amphitheater where literally everyone was there.

I could over hear Ruby talking to Yang.

"I tripped over some crabby girls luggage, and then she yelled at me and I exploded!

"Wow, meltdown already?"

"I literally exploded a hole in front of the courtyard. And then she yelled more and I just wanted her to stop yelling at me-

She gets cut off by some white haired girl. "You!"

"OH GOD ITS HAPPENING AGAIN!"

"Oh my god you really exploded."

I turn to tell Snow, "I was wondering what that was earlier."

Someone gets on the microphone. It's Ozpin

"Ahem, I'll... keep this brief. You have traveled here in search of knowledge- to hone your craft and aquire 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."

"Well.... to the auditorium than?"

"Yep. Let's go"

So among all the shirtless guys in the room, I was one of them because it was hot as hell in there.

I think that really got Yang's attention.

"Ruby, look."

"What? Another shirtless dude?"

"Yeah it's Nightmare, look closer."

"Whoa that's a lot of scars."

She wasn't wrong. Some of them are war injuries, the others are from when I got the augmentations. You could tell the difference too. The augmentations are symmetrical to one another. It was some sort of emergency surgery because the augmentations almost killed me.

Eventually Ruby got curious and came up to ask me what happened.

"Hey Nightmare."

"Sup Ruby? What can I do for you?"

"Well, I kinda want to know about your scars. You know, to try and get to know you more as a person?"

I had to tell her, there's no way I could just avoid the question.

"Well.... I was in the Human-Covenent war. A spartan actually, and I've had a dark history. Like this one for example, I got shot by a plasma rifle while my shields were down. Almost went straight through me."

"And what about these ones?"

"The augmentations. It almost killed me so they had to go in and fix me basically."

"Whoa... why have you never told me this before?"

I let out a deep sigh and I take a second to think of what to say.

"I've.... been trying to bury my past for a long time and well... it's just been hard to forget. It just re-surfaces and eventually I just gave up trying to forget about all of this."

"You can't let that stop you now. We're all going to dedicate ourselves to being huntsman and huntresses. We're all here to help one another. Get some sleep alright. We have initiation tomorrow and you wouldn't want to be tired."

"Alright, goodnight Ruby."

Snow finally gives up searching for her sister.

"Can't find her?"

"No, I don't know where she could be. She's always been good at hiding. Hey, speaking of which, who were you talking to?

"Her name's Ruby Rose. She was the only person who would ever talk to me at Signal."

"Socially awkward?"

"Yep."

"Well get some rest bro. Goodnight."

"Night."