Hunters Ascendant

By LemonCoffeeCake

Boring preface: Hello! I am LemonCoffeeCake, and this is the first chapter of Hunters Ascendant, a fic about RWBY. Now, for boring legal BS…yadda yadda yadda…and your firstborn son…LemonCoffeeCake does not own RWBY. RWBY is owned by Rooster Teeth, and was created by Monty Oum, R.I.P. I have merely…repurposed it.

"Is today pancake day?"

"No, Ruby. Today is not pancake day. Yesterday was pancake day, and, as we have previously established, you dolt, there is only one pancake day in a week."

"Hey, no insulting my sister! Only I get to do that."

"You're not her partner, though, are you?"

"Well…um…Blake, help me out here!"

"Sorry, love. Reading a book."

"But what if I promise to do the thing?"

"What thing?"

"The thing with the-"

Weiss clapped her hand over Yang's mouth before anything particularly scarring came out, but Ruby was pretty sure—in the moments where Yang managed to remove Weiss's hand—that she heard the words "tongue," "double-ended," and "repeated at least five times."

Blake face-palmed repeatedly.

So, in all fairness, it was a pretty normal walk to breakfast for Team RWBY. As it had been for the previous three years.

Later, they'd all look back on that day, and share a hearty laugh about how normal it had been.


Breakfast, as it turned out, was oatmeal. Ruby, as it turned out, did not like oatmeal. And Nora, as it turned out, did not like people who didn't eat their breakfast.

"Nora, you're killing her!"

Nora looked up from her current occupation of Using a Gigantic Ladle to Make Ruby Eat at her team leader with a face that Jaune could only describe as adorably terrifying. Much like Nora herself, actually.

"No, silly! I'm helping her live longer! Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, ya know! Hey, that reminds me, did I ever tell you about the time when…"

Jaune turned to Ren, who had adopted his standard policy of non-intervention, and made a subtle hand signal.

Ren, as per instructions, quickly slid next to Nora and silenced her with a kiss.

He was then silenced in turn by Nora hugging him hard enough to break a rib or ten. Ruby quickly took the opportunity to escape.

"Aw, that's so sweet! Hey guys, did you just see what happened! Ren kissed me! In public! I remember the first time that happened…"

Jaune turned to Ren with a deeply apologetic look on his face.

Someone behind him laughed.

"I see our fearless leader still doesn't quite have a plan for every situation, then?"

Jaune smiled, turning around to see Pyrrha behind him.

"Yeah, well, love is an undefinable quantity, right?"

Pyrrha smiled and kissed her boyfriend on the cheek, sliding in next to him and prying Nora off Ren.

"Actually, from a scientific perspective, one could argue that's not the case."

Jaune's smile widened.

"Yeah, but I was never very good at science. Anyway…"

Jaune spun to face Ruby.

"Today's when our next field mission starts, right? Have you guys looked for one yet?"

"Well, since my very sensible idea of hunting down just a few Beowolves didn't get a majority, we haven't yet, no," huffed Weiss.

"Hey, wait a minute, princess!" said Yang. "We very specifically agreed we were going to kill that nest of Deathstalkers in Mountain Glenn, remember? Because we're familiar with the territory?"

"Yang, Blake and I both voted against that idea, effectively eliminating-"

The intercom buzzed.

"Would teams RWBY and JNPR please report to the office of Headmaster Ozpin at once?"

The heads of everyone in the cafeteria turned quickly to the aforementioned eight people.

Ruby was the first to respond.

"I don't know what it was, but Yang did it."

"Hey!"