AN: Please note that with the clan name, I didn't mean to rip off any trademarked franchises. I thought about it and after I finished writing I realized why it seemed so familiar. If you recognize it, good for you. Cyber cookies for you, just make sure to grab them before Ruby nabs them. Because I own nothing but my own imagination, of course.

Also there's a pokemon reference. Try to spot it, maybe? Lol

Sorry that this chappies a bit shorter than the last few, by the by. I'm just setting up for something grand... I hope...

OH! And CYBER-COOKIES FOR Catoust! You got my Gregor inspiration on the nose my friend! Here's a ticket for any sort of reference you'd like to see or an OC or Story Event! Go wild!

Begin

I winced as Ren few thirty feet back into the air, skipping on the ground like a flat stone on water, even crashing into some of the unfortunate students who could not move out of the way in time.

Ren shakily got up as Sovenar looked extremely apologetic.

"I'm fine!" Ren called out, getting up shakily.

He had thrown up multiple aura force fields knowing of the titanic student's strength but one half-hearted swing had absolutely obliterated through them like a Dust bullet through glass window panes. Lucky for him the forcefield shattering caused a kinetic wave to push him back, minimizing the point of contact as well as contact time, leaving only a grey haze where his right ribs were.

But it was obvious that the blow had cracked a few ribs at least.

Sovenar turned to Goodwitch with a worried look, not saying a word, but sheer nervousness on his face. He really didn't want to fight people it seemed, though his serious power meant that he had indeed trained vigorously to fight the Grimm.

Ren dashed forwards using his aura to triple his natural speed as he fired relentlessly at Sovenar, only for the redheaded student to spin his chain staff to create a vortex of steel and Dust, blocking bullets and deflecting them everywhere, throwing up huge clouds of regular dust into the air.

My male teammate dashed in circles around Sovenar, switching from clockwise to counterclockwise at the drop of a hat, yet barely losing speed as he did so, making me worry about his body's state. Using aura in such an explosive manner is risky at best, but Ren kept it's flow steady, even in such an extreme usage.

It was unlike the calm boy to fight in such a manner.

"Hooo~ I think your boyfriend's trying to show off for you, Nora~" Yang giggled as she hugged our hyperactive clanmate from behind, blowing into her ear. "If I didn't find somebody more interesting I might have tried for the Ren Route, you know."

"Wha-what are you talking about?!" Nora fidgeted, trying to get away. "We're not- hya!"

Did Yang just bite her ear?

Ruby started poking at Nora's sides, making our resident valkyrie skwirm.

"We're all girls here, you can tell us a~ll the details." the scythe-wielder grinned deviously. "Don't make us tickle it out of you!~"

Nora looked at me with teary eyes, begging for me to save her.

I turned away nervously.

The eyes that the sisters are giving me are much more fearsome than you're cuteness. They promise dark things should I interfere. Even Blake and Weiss seem to be gathering interest.

Pyrrah scooted in closer to her female teammate.

"I'm afraid I've garnered some curiosity as well." she sheepishly admitted, much to the siblings' joy and Nora's sadness.

I tried to focus on the fight.

Sovenar lashed out again as Ren aerialed over the attack, firing, a few grazing the titan, but any potential decisive hits splashed across skin like water as Dust sequence circles formed, stopping the Dust rounds in mid-air, dispersing the Dust into the atmosphere in emerald flashes.

Sovenar had the clear advantage with pure physical specs, as the moment Ren got close, his strength would really become decisive for the fight, but should Ren keep attacking at a distance, he would still do little to no damage while expending a large amount of energy moving about.

Also why nobody expected Ren to just dash past Sovenar's guard and running on the staff in the titan's hand. Sovenar quickly fired a Dust spell from the other, unheld staff, causing it to strike Ren hard in the back between his shoulder blades but the bladed pistols that he wielded slashed across the left side of his face in a cross shape, a thick black cross of Dust clouded over the wound to prevent excessive bleeding at the same instant as impact, also preventing a serious injury as a result.

A truly remarkable formula indeed.

Ren proceeded to crash another dozen and a half feet across the ground, dark clouds of Dust forming at every other skip with the ground, showing how much the blow had prevented Ren from using his aura to protect himself at his maximum.

Sovenar dropped his weapon as he rushed to help carry the now unconscious Ren to the medic tents, his incredibly long strides getting Ren there in just seconds.

The rest of Team JNPR rushed to our teammate's side.

We were lucky that a secondary attribute to Ren's amethyst aura, or lotus pink, some could argue, was kinetic reflection, so the force of the blow had been largely distributed all across his back and shoulders, causing major bruising and some capillary tears, but nothing life threatening.

"I am so sorry…" we heard Sovenar talk for the first time. "I tried to control my strength the best I could, but-"

"It's ok." Ren, who regained consciousness cut him off. "I learned a lot from fighting you, just - urk!... It's a bit of a painful lesson."

"Ren! You'll be ok, right? This isn't enough to keep you down right?"

Ren laughed and winced as the medics quickly healed up his bruising, the dark black and purple blotches becoming a light yellow-tan in minutes.

"Nora." he smiled. "Just who do you think I am?"

An inside joke I assumed, as the girl beamed, wiping tears from her eyes.

The medics tried to shoo us away as they wished to also check is aura flow, but whispering credential codes in their ears I convinced them to let me and Nora stay, although this meant disqualification for Nora.

It was still a victory for our Clan as Sovenar and Ren's bout had been classified as a tie seeing as how in a real fire situation, either or both of them could have landed killing blows with that final decisive hit.

Sovenar even nervously asked if they could leave some of Ren's attack as a scar, because he wanted to honor such a brave attack.

I let my fingers graze over skin as I closed my eyes, using my aura to replenish and fix spiritual connections and fix the size of the openings and closing of aura channels in the body. Though this being my first time operating on somebody not myself, I found five points that the medics might have overlooked as they were better trained for physical healing, not aura. The aura pathways are somewhat similar, but different for every human, after all. Though I could only point them out, the actual healing and the like was left to the professionals.

I was proud to say that I cut his rehabilitation from months to days as a result.

"Thanks for helping with the healing." Ren said as Nora helped the boy put on his clothing, hovering about like a mother hen, seemingly unaffected by his near nakedness. "I actually feel better than before we started the spars today, although I'm tired as all hell."

"No problem." I nodded. "I'm glad to have been of help."

Team RWBY as well as Pyrrah were waiting outside the tent as they all complimented Ren for his exceptional match against such a powerful opponent.

"Can you believe that guy was an S rank?!" Ruby asked us all incredulously as the Dust formula was removed from us by the instructors. "And Ren tied with him! You're amazing!"

Ren smiled calmly, too tired to be excited.

"I got lucky. That would only have worked one out of ten times, probably. I'm just more surprised that he isn't in a more advanced class for combat or training separately."

"Ozpin wanted him to be a part of the round robin today, apparently. I heard it from one of the more motherly medics as I helped heal Ren. It was supposed to be inspiring for the other students, but that's not what would have happened if he had just dominated. People would have been more afraid of him than anything."

Weiss grew furious.

"This is an abuse of power! How dare he do this?! Your brother may be Headmaster, but that kind of decision is so irresponsible that I can't even begin to describe how many ways he'd be fired if he was a Schnee company employee!"

I patted Weiss on the shoulder, helping her calm down as she fumed about the need for proper business manners and the like. So that's the kind of things a princess like Weiss Schnee worries about, huh?...

"I told you that he liked pulling stunts like this. But he also finds people like Sovenar Kastil all the time. Why do you think Beacon is so famous? Most of the legends that come out of this academy are 'interesting' people that he personally scouted."

Ruby had a nervous shuffle as she heard that.

"I'm a bit scared…" she admitted while tugging at her cloak. "But at the same time I can't help but be a little excited. So this is Beacon, huh?"

We all smiled a bit at that.

What kind of warriors didn't get a bit excited at the thought of fighting somebody strong and getting stronger from it?

With that in mind, it isn't surprising that Beacon is the most revered Huntsmen Academy out of the four kingdoms of Vytal.

I suppose even crummy Oz can do something good every once in a while, even if it was unintentional.

After changing back into our uniforms and putting our equipment away again we all headed to the dining halls. Needless to say it was a pretty interesting experience as although most of the people had already heard about our initiation exploits, the results today at the Intermediate Combat Intensive class had already seemed to have spread throughout the school in the extra half hour it took to do a full scan over of Ren.

The dining halls was a huge complex, five stories tall. It really made you wonder where all your tuition money went as the top was reserved for the top ten ranked teams in the school as well as faculty members and the floors scaled up from first years and up. It was rare to see eyes that were actually focused on food.

Not to mention all the food choices one could make.

And we had all won a dinner buffet usable at any time from Goodwitch.

We didn't use it that day.

"I can't eat." I sighed, "So many people are staring at me that it's not even funny."

I fiddled with my bean stew and spaghetti, spinning the noodles around and around my fork.

"They're not really being discreet about it either." Blake agreed as she nibbled on a fish and egg fried rice, being surprisingly discriminating against the onions.

She was also reading again.

"So, just to be clear this staring is not normal human interaction?"

The whole table burst out into giggles, Nora almost choking on a glass of apple cider.

"Sound about right! You're catching on quickly." Ruby teased me as she flicked a grape at me using her spoon.

"Hey cut that out! I'll fling my meatball at you."

Yang and Blake both choked on their food.

Ren uncharacteristically burst out into full laughter.

"Bad word choice, my friend."

We all turned to see a tall, lean red haired student with a third year badge on his blazer.

He was wearing a high collared black trench coat over his clothing and had a white porcelain mask with Grimm markings over it. The left sleeve was entirely cut off and a giant metal left arm reached all the way to his knee, making it clearly obvious that it was one hell of a prosthesis. It was a gunbolt grey and as a tinker I could tell that it housed a multitude of weapons and plenty of Dust.

For some reason Blake looked at the guy like he was somewhat familiar.

He must have looked like somebody she knew once?

"Yo. I hear lotus boy managed to go toe to toe with my kid brother." he chuckled happily, practically humming, "I'm glad somebody could keep pace with him, even for a bit. He could use the confidence boost, poor kid."

The student flashed us with his pearly whites as he pulled out a box of cookies and started munching away.

"I'm Kastil. Kastil Kastil the Eighth. Terrible name, I know. Eldest child also has the family name as a first name stuff in my family. A load of bull if you ask me, but eh. Want a cookie?"

Rose stared at the box, a small bit of drool at the corner of her mouth.

"What do you want with us?" Ren asked calmly, eyeing the upperclassmen.

Kastil scratched his head with a confused look that could only be understood via body language.

"Nothing, really. Just wanted to say hi and meet the new hot news on campus. No big. That and ask you to school little Sov here and there if you can. For such a big guy he's always been shy as a lost lamb. Just be careful, he's the one that accidentally tore me arm off you know, which is a shame because nobody wants to fist-fight with me when I'm lugging this thing around." He laughed nonchalantly as he rolled his left shoulder, flexing the metal arm, digits and all. "I just came by to tell you cute little underdogs that I'm expecting big things from your Clan. Big things. Fun things, he he. Come challenge my Team KSTL anytime, eh? I could use the exercise."

Team KSTL?

And I though that Team CRDL sounded self-serving.

"You shouldn't underestimate us." Yang challenged back, "We have a habit of being unconventional."

"Yes! Now this is fun banter! Nobody has fire in them anymore, a pity you're blonde or I'd ask you out right now!"

"You got a thing against blondes now?" Yang glared, actually angry, ignoring Blake trying to calm her down. Ruby became preoccupied by the eldest Kastil sliding the box of cookies her way.

"More like a certain level of phobia. I've had a couple of bad childhood experiences, nothing you need to know, goldielocks."

He laughed as he dodged an angry jab by jumping to the top floor, not even bending his knees as he stood on the railing, only the barest hint of aura used.

"The people at the top are always waiting for fun to come our way. Don't disappoint us."

Needless to say that other than Ruby who almost cried tears for her delicious cookies, the rest of us had lost the majority of our appetite, but we forced ourselves to eat a bit because food is important.

Well, maybe not Yang.

"Stupid - mphg - who the - munch - does he think - gulp - he is?!"

So she's the type to eat or punch her feelings huh?

"You just thought something rude about me, didn't you?" Yang glared at me as I shook in my seat.

"No, no of course not."

"Well…" Ruby said as she finished off her last cookie, "I think I know what our clan name should be."

"What is it?" Weiss asked, although she didn't seem to be expecting much.

"Clan Ala Alba, or Clan White Wing. Because while we're here, we should aim to reach higher than anybody else right? To fly harder and fly higher than them?"

"That's actually pretty good." the Schnee Dust caster agreed, obviously impressed. "I didn't think you could actually think of something that good."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"It probably helps that we have somebody who actually has white wings." Blake mused as she looked up from her book to glance at me, her eyes drawing me in for a minute before I righted myself.

I truly have zero experience with women…

We turned our Clan name registration after dinner, heading back to the Clan Hall for the night, picking up some groceries on the way.

Ruby insisted on baking supplies and plenty of milk while Yang had reached for all the salty snacks she could get her hands on.

Ren picked out some vegetables with me to help balance out our meals for when we would cook at home as Pyrrah and Blake had a discussion about red meats vs white meats vs fish. We all worked to keep Nora from buying jars of honey and bags of sugar, though we did get some of the latter for Ruby's sake.

We had to reach a compromise for Yang though and made sure to buy some good quality cuts of meat in exchange for her cutting down the amount of snacks she wanted.

But Ruby absolutely refused to buy milk in large containers, and demanded that we set up a milk delivery system with the grocers and buy milk in small bottles.

Still, it had helped us unwind a bit, a taste of normality after a day of weirdness.

For me, it was a restless night and I found myself unable to sleep and I sat on the roof all the way until sunrise. The shattered moon was still visible in the sky like a fragmenting meteorite.

"Hmmm. The pieces of the moon are separating again. It's waning then, huh?" I sighed. "I want to see the full moon. Tsk. Too bad it takes twice as long to wax as it does to wane. Forging weapons using aura and Dust is best closest to the full moon too…"

"Jaune?"

I turned to see Ruby with a small bottle of milk.

"Hey Ruby. You're up early."

She scratched her head nervously, her 'angry eyed' sleeping mask still on her head and dressed in her pyjamas. She had tossed her cloak on though, not surprising in the coldness of the early morning.

"I couldn't sleep well. First nights in new places are always a bit nerve wracking for me. Yang sleeps way too well though, she even somehow sleep walked into my bed to cuddle." She sheepishly admitted. "So I thought I'd get some air and see the sunrise. That and milk helps me calm down."

"Ah, is that so?"

"Yup."

We sat in silence next to each other as we watched the sun slowly rise.

"...Hey Jaune."

"Hmm?-PPPPFFFT!"

Ruby had a milk moustache and was posing, head turned slightly to the side with a L made by her thumb and index finger supporting her chin.

"Wha-what ha ha ha are you - pftkha ha ha ha - doing?" I asked, struggling for breath.

She flushed before wiping the milk moustache away while looking away from me.

"You looked like you needed the laugh. That and you have bags under your eyes. You've been up all night, haven't you?"

I chuckled.

"Even though we've only been friends for a few days, you know me really well, don't you?"

"It-it's not like that… you're pretty easy to read… I mean… ummm… It's not like I was trying that hard to cheer you up or anything..."

I stood up before slapping my cheeks simultaneously with the palms of my hands to wake myself up further.

"Yosh! This isn't the time to brood and be depressed. I mean, this was only the first day. Things will only get better from this point on. No point in worrying too much about the future. We just have to get stronger right? I don't know about you, but I want to smack that idiot with a repeating name once at least for looking down on us."

I turned to Ruby with a smile.

"Let's get stronger. Let's become the most awesome Hunter and Huntress Clan ever!"

Ruby hopped onto her feet, grinning.

She then turned to the rising sun and cupped her hands.

"CLAN ALA ALBA'S GOING TO BE NUMBER ONEEEEE!"

I laughed.

"WE'RE GONNA KICK ASS AND TAKE NAMES!"

"WE'RE GOING TO SMACK BEACON A NEW ONE!" Ruby followed.

"WE'RE GONNA BE THE VERY BEST!"

"LIKE NO ONE EVER WAS!"

"YOU'RE GONNA BE CATCH ALL MY DUST SPELLS TO THE FACE FIRST IF YOU DON'T SHUT UP! WHAT TIME OF MORNING DO YOU THINK THIS IS?!" Weiss had awoken from our screaming and had opened the window to Team RWBY's room and berated us for our early wake up call. "I SWEAR YOU TWO WON'T LIVE TO SEE YOUR FIRST QUEST!"

"..."

"..."

"...why are we actually doing this?" I asked Ruby as we both knelt in the hallway on the second floor in something called a seiza position with signs around our necks saying 'We're idiots that scream in the morning, we're sorry.'

"Because Weiss might kill us if we don't?"

"She's sleeping in her chair."

"Do you really want to risk that, Jaune?"

"..." I pondered and pondered. "Yeah good point."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"...You know, she looks really at peace when she sleeps."

"Isn't it nice?" Ruby asked, agreeing with me.

"Yeah, I worry about her blood pressure. I hear people who get angry often have a problem with that."

"Pft. What are you, an old man?" Ruby joked.

"No, but I'm afraid for the circulation in my feet. I can feel my cells slowly smothering and dying."

"Urk, don't remind me."

"Yeah. Such a shame though."

"What is?"

"Weiss looks really pretty when she isn't frowning. Doubly so when she smiles."

Ruby narrowed her eyes at me as she pouted.

"Just so that you know, you shouldn't complement other girls too much when you're talking with one."

"Is that so? Ok, I'll be sure to remember that."

"You better, mister."

"Ok, ok. I didn't think that saying that Weiss is pretty when she smiles was that much of a compliment though. Doesn't the saying go 'All women are like blooming flowers when they smile?' "

"...Still."

"Ok then."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"...You've seen Weiss smile?"

End

AN2: The milkstache Ruby idea is something I saw on DevArt. It's on somebody's RWBY comic, so that idea originally theirs, although I'm sure everybody thought of it. They were just the first to produce it publicly. Hell that was the first thought I had when I heard her say "I drink milk." in that huffing tone of hers.

You all excited for episode 10 to come out this Thursday? Two more days people!

I can finally find out if I was right about the Grimm being a Boombatusk or not :P

Anybody wanna bet with me?

Leave it on a review or PM. If you win I'll make a OC character after you or make a certain event happen, though I retain the right to take creative liberties with it. Like with the Lucian Umbra OC, for example.

I like making things funny/badass. It's such a fun past-time.

Whelp, time to begin writing the next chapta! Review people! I'm always open to suggestions!

And spread awareness, tell your friends, I'm only desperate for your company, after all, just kidding don't hurt me pleaaaaaaaase.

….this is what happens when I post up chapters late at night…

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