Chapter 1

BEEP BEEP BEEP the alarm clock rang loudly as it always did in Joseph Arc's ear to wake him up for the start of the day. Joseph groaned as he pulled his covers over his head for a minute before lowering them as sat up out of his bed. He took a deep breath as he wiped his eyes. Joseph stood up and walked over to a door on the side of his room. He opened the door and turned on the lights to what looked like a very messy bathroom with a door on the opposite side. "Are you kidding me Scarlett," Joseph mumbled to himself as he walked up to one of two sets of a mirror and sink.

He ran some warm water and splashed his face with it as he looked at himself in the mirror. He looked into the mirror and saw himself, a 6'1, 189 lbs., 17 year old kid with mostly blond hair with dark red tips and mostly blue eyes with hints of silver. He put both his hands on the counter in front of the mirror, closed his eyes and took another deep breath. "Alright today is the big day, first day of Beacon, You got this, it's not like everyone's expecting you to be this super instantly awesome at everything guy right. It's not like they expect the oldest son of Ruby Rose the girl who saved the world and Jaune Arc the man with three semblances to be just as great right? The older brother of the "amazing" Scarlett Rose, who like her mother got in to Beacon two years early."

He took another deep breath. "You are your own man and once people get to know you they won't care about who your family is," Joseph said as he breath outward opening his eyes.

"Yeah until they realize what a dork you are bro," said a girl leaning on the door on the opposite end of the bathroom. The 5'8 tall girl walked over to the second pair of mirror and sinks right next to Joseph. She yawned and then grabbed a brush and started brushing her long flowing mostly dark red hair that appeared to have bits of blond yellow at the end.

"Scarlett you were supposed to clean the bathroom yesterday," Joseph said as squinted his eyes looking down at Scarlett. "What happened," Joseph asks as he picks up a dirty shirt and shorts off the floor?

"Sorry about that, me and mom lost track of time at the shooting range. Wanted to get as much practice as possible done our first day," Scarlett said as she stopped brushing her hair and grabbed her toothbrush." You think Min is already going to be at the Bullhead by the time we get their," Scarlett asked as she started brushing her teeth? Joseph thought about it as he brushed his own. Their cousin had always been one to usually be on time, unlike her mother and their aunt Yang. However she didn't always do the best in new and stressful situations so it was probably a 50/50 shot she'd beat them to the Bullheads.

Joseph and Scarlett both rinse and spit at the same time. "Well we better hurry if we don't want to be late," Joseph said as he exited the bathroom. "Don't forget to make sure you have everything you want taken to Beacon boxed up. Oh and make sure you don't forget you take along bag and sleeping bag to."

"Alright geez. I think I know what I packed and I'm not going to forget anything." After getting dressed in his favorite outfit, a black and white T-shirt with the Arc family symbol in the top left corner and some black jeans Joseph headed out of his room and down a hallway towards some stairs when he heard something coming up the steps. "Cooper is that you boy," he called out? Just then a medium sized brown, white, and black fox came running up the steps towards Joseph. "You ready for our first day Cooper," Joseph asked his pet fox as he rubbed his head? "Come on let's grab some breakfast before we head out." Joseph and Cooper slowly made their way down the hallway and some steps in to their kitchen.

Joseph walked over to and opens the fridge, quickly looking from side to side. Them at a pack of fresh market strawberries in the fridge, as he reaches for them he feels a gust of wind brush by him. Before he even looks back in the fridge he knows that it's too late and his precious strawberries are already gone. He looks down, defeated and sighs "good morning mom."

"Morning sweetheart," Ruby said as she started eating a strawberry out of the pack at a nearby table. "You ready for your first day?" Cooper walked over to her rubbing his head against Ruby's leg. "I mean are you guys ready for your first day," she said giving Cooper a strawberry?

"Traitor," Joseph says looking at Cooper eating his strawberry. "Yeah, just a little nervous. I was actually hoping to grab a bite before we left so if you wouldn't… ," Before he could say another word Ruby was beside him holding the now half eaten pack of strawberries. "Thanks mom."

"No problem sweetheart, but grab your sister we're heading out soon," Ruby said as she walked away. "You're so lucky Beacon decided to start letting Huntsmen and Huntresses bring animal companions to train along side them. Though I suppose we mostly have professor Oobleck to thank for that."

"Wait mom," Joseph called out.

"What is it honey," Ruby asked stopping in her tracks?

"Have you gotten any word from dad?" Ruby was silent for a second.

"Yeah it's been six months, when is he coming home?" Scarlett asked as she entered the kitchen fully dressed in a combination dark and light red T-shirt and a black combat skirt with a red fril trim, hold a medium sized backpack with a sleeping bag on top. Followed by a small mostly black with streaks of orange and patches of white fur ram like creature "Me and Sphinx were hoping he'd be back in time to meet us at Beacon." Ruby looked down for a second. "I guess not then huh."

"Don't worry you guys, I'm sure your gruncle Qrow will tell us the second he hears anything from your dad. Plus he'll probably be waiting for you at the landing pads himself," Ruby said putting one of her arms around her daughter shaking her a little. "Now come on let's head out. Joe don't forget your bags." As Ruby, Scarlett, and Sphinx headed out the front door Joseph ran up the stairs back to his room with Cooper swiftly following him and grabbed his pre packed bag and sleeping bag next to his dresser and a hoodie laying on top. He quickly ran back down the steps to the front door of families home.

As he stood at the front door he took out a medium sized white pocket watch that had his mother's rose symbol in gold with an arch from his father's on the side of it with red filling out the lines of the rose and opened it. Inside was a picture of his mother and father together holding a sign saying "Keep moving forward." "Wish me luck dad, wherever you are," Joseph said as he looked down at Cooper and walked out the front door closing the it behind them.