Two sisters, split when one was too young to speak, and one was too young to remember, would soon be destined for an encounter at the precipice of war and total annihilation. Yang would grow up to live with her father, Taiyang Xiao Long, who helped her develop her skills and train for her entrance into Haven Academy after they had moved to Mistral. Ruby grew up with her eccentric uncle, who took her in following his sister's disappearance, as a favor to Taiyang, and he had hoped the best for her, as she had been asked by Ozpin himself to join Beacon after her scuffle with Roman. Taiyang had seen Ruby on very few occasions, and generally kept his distance. She looked so much like her mother did. It was almost painful to see her. He wasn't sure what kept him from her. Like some divine force that kept him from bringing himself to meet her in person. He felt like his fragile existence, or even hers, could crumble if they were to meet. So he kept his distance. Maybe someday, he thought to himself, I can tell her the truth.

Ruby looks up at the grand castle that is Beacon, clutching her folded Sniper Rifle Scythe. Swooning slightly at the sight of the school she nearly bumped into a couple people and then was pushed aside by Cardin, who barely noticed her. She is caught, arms flailing, at the last second by a tall and slender black haired girl in a yellow battledress with three orange stripes down the front, black shoulder guards, orange fingerless gloves and black combat boots. She has a sword on her left hip and a large handgun on her right hip. She helps Ruby back to her feet "This place is something else isn't it?"

Ruby nods and extends a hand "I'm Ruby."

"Yolanda" The two shake hands and Ruby smiles.

"Well I best be going then" When Ruby turned around, she had the misfortune of stumbling into the heiress, Weiss Schnee. Spreading dust everywhere, Ruby sneezed fire and ruined the dress of the heiress.

Weiss stomps "How could you do this you dolt! You could of blow up the whole building! This is dust, have you any idea in your simple mind what damage you could of caused?" One of the vials rolled to a stop in front of the mysterious girl with the black bow and black outfit, reading a book quietly.

She walks over as Ruby hollers out at Weiss "Well I'm sorry, princess!"

Blake interupts "It's heiress, actually. Weiss Schnee, right?"

Weiss folds her arms "Someone who knows me, finally." As the two seem to get into a short dispute Yolanda drags Ruby off to the side.

"You have got to be more careful kiddo. You look a little young to be at Beacon. Ozpin must have made a special exception for you."

Ruby blushes and looks away "I'm not really that special to be honest."

Yolanda laughs "Ha, everyone is special in their own way."

As the two walked together Ruby recounted her battle with Roman "And that's when Glenda showed up."

Yolanda smiles "You are skilled indeed. Hopefully we get the chance to spar some time."

Ruby giggles "What kind of weapon is that?"

Yolanda pulls out her high caliber pistol. "Multicaliber, revolver style high impact dust hand cannon. A M.O.R.S.E. pistol"

"Morse?"

"Most overpowered, really showy and eccentric pistol. My dad invented it and carries one similar, but mine is custom made to match my semblance. As is my sword." Ruby allows Crescent Rose to extend to its full length.

"This is Crescent Rose, my High Caliber Sniper Rifle Scythe. Made it myself."

Yolanda puts her hands on her hips "Your weapon dwarfs you and even me in size."

Ruby scrunches her nose "I'm not that short." Yolanda smiles and Ruby folds Crescent Rose away "Who is your father?"

"You might know him. Man by the name of James Ironwood."

"THE General James Ironwood?! Why are you here instead of at Atlas Academy?"

"Well, I got a lot of pull with my dad and he pretty much will let me do what I want. Well, anything legal of course. I said I wanted to go to Beacon, and he talked to Ozpin. Just like that."

Yang looked across the field of grass at the impressive dark blue and white castle that was Haven Academy. It was great to see familiar faces, friends from her time at Sanctum Academy. Yang walked amongst those in the crowd and waved at people she knew. Urania runs up next to her, Yang's Rabbit-Faunus friend from Sanctum. "Hey Yang, do you think we might end up in a squad together? Oh that will be so much fun! Remember the tournaments at our old school and how we kicked butt together?" Yang smirks as she remembers Neros and their last fight together near the end of the school year. Poor guy never stood a chance but he was so persistent in challenging Yang.

"Remember Neros? I loved his plucky, stick-to-ittiveness. He was determined he was going to put me down in the dirt every time there was an open sparring challenge."

Urania nods "Isn't he kinda cool though? Maybe a bit full of himself but at least he wasn't totally in your face about it."

Yang shrugs "He's a cut above the rest"

"Ha, because he has a sword." Yang giggles "Yes, Urania, because he has a sword. At least someone appreciates my punny humor."

Haven's headmistress, a woman in a black dress and red scarf stands atop a balcony overlooking the large group of new students "Welcome to Vale, I am retired military Lieutenant Crowe. I will be your headmistress, and along with the teaching staff I will help guide you down the road to your destiny as hunters and huntresses. The first step is to assign you to teams. By gathering information from your exams and your time at your respective former training academies we will select leaders and groups based on a ranking system. Those with strong auras, believed to be adept or higher fighters will be assigned as team leaders to a squadron of less developed fighters. The leader will act as a mentor, protector, voice of authority not to overrule mine of course, and overall role model. Before deciding on these teams with finality, we will be holding matches between the students to better concrete our decisions, like a final exam. This tournament exam will be held tomorrow, with predetermined partners squaring off against other pairs."

Yang smiled over at Urania "I'm so happy we got paired together." Urania draws her staff and smiles "Me too." She wears her usual battle clothing, a light blue and white corset style top that showed off most of her midriff and a little cleavage and a pair of tight black pants with black boots. The two walk out into the arena, and Yang laughs and puts her hands on her hips, seeing Neros opposite her, in his white military style battle armor and holding his single edged two handed sword. His partner, a woman Yang did not recognize, wore an unflattering set of combat armor, which starkly contrasted her beautiful, soft facial features. Her weapon of choice appeared to be a sword with a large sheath that looked like an assault rifle..

"Yang. Good to see you made it to the upper class school. I was worried there would only be me at the top."

Yang folds her arms "Sorry Neros I reserved upper class when I got here. I guess you missed the memo." The two pairs walk closer to each other and Crowe looks down upon the arena from her box.

She nods to the two teams "You may begin when you are ready." Yang's Ember Celica fully extended and she rushes in at Neros but she is interrupted by a slash from mystery girl's sword. She stops it with her gauntlet.

"What's your name my sword wielding friend?" She tries for a few more slashes, all blocked or avoided by Yang.

"Its Genivieve. Nice to meet you." Neros leaps over Genivieve in an attempt to hit Yang but is hit by Urania's flying kick, he flips and lands on his feet, and dodges her fire blast from her staff. Urania deftly blocks Genevieve's sword attack from behind by spinning her staff behind her and uses this spinning momentum to smack aside Neros' sword attack aside as well, slamming it down and causing lightning to lash out and push back both fighters from her. Neros slides back and drops to one knee, then he stands and swings his sword in a uppercut slash, which creates an energy beam that slashes forward at Urania, hitting her and dealing enough damage to her aura that she is pulled from the fight.

Yang slams both fists together and her hair turns gold, flaring up a little as it goes. She blasts back Genivieve, then hits her with a rapid series of shotgun blasts before finishing her with an uppercut, eliminating her from the fight. She catches Neros' sword mid overhead strike and kicks him back before firing off a series of shotgun blasts which he deflects with his sword. She rushes right at him and he swings his sword, a slash of energy flies right at Yang and she narrowly dodges the attack, then she watches as his sword folds down into a one handed longsword. She blocks his slash attempts with his sword and narrowly avoids another energy beam which cuts through a wall of the arena. She hits him with another shotgun blast but he deflects two more of them, before she leaps in the air and slams her fist down, causing a quake that knocks him down and Crowe calls the match "And the winner is the team of Urania and Yang."

"So, this landing strategy thing, will you be dropping us off or something?" Ozpin looks calmly at Jaune "No. You will be falling."

"Oh, I see. So, uh, did you hand out parachutes for us?"

"No. You will be using your own landing strategy." Yolanda did not catch the last part of this conversation as she was launched into the air. Her sword transforms into a short scythe and she uses the curvature of the weapon to catch onto a tree and kill her momentum, then she allowed herself to drop to the ground 30 feet below where she landed on the forest floor harmlessly. Her sword returns to normal and she holds it in her left hand, drawing her pistol with her right. Set to its .50 caliber setting, she sets out deeper in the forest when she hears sounds of fighting ahead. Leaping in the air she springboards off the side of a tree and fires 2 shots from her pistol and kills two Ursa grimm, landing on the third with her sword through its back. It crumples to the ground and she comes face to face with Blake, who has already slain 2 grimm herself and has Gambol Shroud at the ready.

She relaxes slightly "Partners?" Yolanda hops down next to her "Partners."

Once at the temple, Yolanda sees Ruby "Hey buddy, who did you get…" She sees the huffy and indignant Weiss and Ruby hangs her head, making Yolanda laugh.

"Of all the rotten luck!" Weiss stomps her foot "I know, right?!"

"Actually I was talking to Ruby." Weiss puts a hand over her chest and huffs indignantly. Blake pays little attention to this exchange, walking over to the relics that Ozpin mentioned.

"Fascinating. They are just chess pieces. Yolanda, which piece should I grab?" Yolanda tilts her head "Hm, with its unique movement style, I always preferred the knight."

"Knight it is." "Ruby smiles "I picked the horsey too." Nora rides in on the back of an Ursa and Ren leaps down from the trees, and Nora marvels the chess pieces.

"Ooo I want this one!" She picks up the queen "I'm queen of the castle, I'm queen of the castle!" Nora bounces for joy as Jaune and Pyrrha run out of the woods, followed by a deathstalker. Yolanda pulls out her pistol and takes a couple shots at the deathstalker, as does Ruby and Blake, but the bullets prove ineffective against its armor. Yolanda manages to shoot it in one of its eyes and it thrashes, knocking Jaune aside and Pyrrha turns to it, blocking its claw slash by bashing its claw away with her shield. Ruby rushes forward and narrowly avoids its tail strike, but is unable to avoid its backhand swipe with its claw. Yolanda dodges out of the way of a swooping nevermore and fires a couple rounds into the massive flying beast, seeming to only irritate it. She flips a switch on her gun and the chamber drops out, the gun begins to morph to sport a longer barrel and she slides in a new chamber housing 12 .357 magnum rounds. As it swoops back around she fires 3 shots and each shot explodes on impact, making the bird fly back up to avoid being shot. As Jaune, Pyrrha, Ren and Nora tangled with the deathstalker, Yolanda ran over to Ruby, helping her to her feet.

"You okay Ruby?" She nods "I'm fine. The finish line is close. We just need to survive this fight." Blake runs over "Whenever you are ready."

Yolanda runs towards the temple, across the crumbling bridge, just as the Nevermore swoops down and knocks out the bridge. Yolanda's sword breaks into several pieces, all connected by a flexible cable at its core, and she leaps into the gap. Her sword wraps around one of the pillars supporting the other side of the bridge, and she swings herself up high and lands on the other side. Once there Ruby points to several of the pillars surrounding what appeared to be a courtyard.

"We need to take the high ground!" The future team RWBY stands atop the pillars, and when it is close enough, Yolanda leaps in the air and tries to cleave its head in two. It pulls up but not enough to avoid having its underside slashed. Her sword transforms to its whip form and she grapples its foot, firing at it. Below, Ruby and Weiss seem to be forming a plan, and Yolanda's eyes follow the trail of glyphs. She shoots the nevermore in the head, dazing it and setting it on a crash course for the place the glyphs ended. Yolanda drops to the ground effortlessly and Ruby runs the glyphs at an insane speed, her scythe grabbing the nevermore by the throat and dragging it up the cliff side until she separated its head from its body.

Team coronation day. Team RWBY and Team YUNG did not yet know it but their destinies were closely woven. The Vytal festival in Vale would be the point in which everything would change.. YUNG and RWBY would train whenever possible, and as the bond between the team began to grow so did their strength. Ruby Rose. Weiss Schnee. Blake Belladonna. Yolanda Ironwood. Yang Xiao Long. Urania Azurite. Neros Blanc. Genivieve Helios. The future champions of this world.