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Trailsls of the Sun

CHAPTER 5

The First Day


- 06:00 AM -

- DORM: WARD's ROOM -


Weiss turned the valve and welcomed the warm water showering her from head to toe. She relished in the warmth that drove away the last remnants of sleep and bringing her to full alertness. As the team leader, she made it a point to be the first one to wake up so that she'll be an example to her team.

She soaks her snow white hair and then reaches for her shampoo in the shower stand. Examining the bottle, she tilted her head and furrowed her brows. It was a brand she never even heard of and simply looked so shabby she wouldn't have given it any more than a passing glance. She placed it back and noticed she didn't know half the bottles there(the other half was hers). They hammered the point that she wasn't in her own private shower in the Schnee manor. She was in a dorm room in Beacon.

She smiled. She had escaped her name! Or more specifically, her father!

The Schnee name came with heavy responsibilities and expectations. However she isn't one to shy away from such things. She'd gladly learn all the inner workings of her family company and happily lead her would-be employees to a better and brighter future. No, the main problem was that she had no choice. Nothing in her life was her choice. It was all decided by her father.

Her Alma mater, her combat style, her hobbies, her future career, even her love life for Oum's sake! So in a spite of rebellion, she mastered her weapon and chose to study in Beacon. To get away from the reach of Jacques Schnee.

She sighed as she lathers her milky white skin with soap. Her father didn't make entering Beacon easy. Angered by her decision, he made her fight against the Schnee family guardsmen, her friends in Atlas Academy, and finally, against an automaton.

Fighting against her guardsmen and friends on one-on-one duels were easy. She'd seen how the guardsmen trained and she was the top of her class herself. The fact they fought her without any intent to kill also helped.

No, the difficult part was when her father came up with the absurd final 'test'. Fighting against an experimental automaton that was "possessed" by amalgamated Grimm that had the strength of a mech!

As Weiss was washing her hair, she brushed against the injury she received from the automaton and winced at the ghost of the pain. It no longer hurt physically, but it reminded how her father just walked away from her, even though she turned his infernal test to scrap metal.

She shook her head of the memory. She turned off the shower and made to dry herself. Her father hadn't always been so difficult. Her mother was able to pacify his authoritarian rule, but that was such a long time ago.

Weiss slaps her cheeks as she was getting dressed. 'Snap out of it Weiss! This is no time to have such somber thoughts! You have a team to lead!' She thought to herself. She finished adorning her uniform and tied her hair into a side ponytail. She hesitated for a moment in wearing her tiara to clip her hair.

But it was just a moment. She grabbed it and secured it to her hair. She admired herself in front of the mirror, making sure everything was perfectly in place. When she was sure, she turned and moved towards the door back to WARD's bedroom.

The room they had was 20 feet long and 12 feet wide. Despite the rather spacious dimensions, the room was quite cramped as it contained four sets of beds, study tables, and closets. Not to mention their luggage that had yet to be properly put away. The room had a single large window with the four beds aligning parallel to it. The bathroom door lay to one side of the wall, parallel to the beds while the main door was opposite the large window. The girls had taken the beds further away from the bathroom for themselves and the boys had to make due with the beds closer to it. Meaning it was their duty to make sure it was clean.

Weiss stepped out of the bathroom, fully intending to wake her entire team up with a whistle. However, she immediately stopped as she laid eyes on her partner, his back turned to her. He was already awake and sitting by the window's ledge.

Hearing the door open, Dante turned his head and smiled at her. He wore a simple white shirt and red plaid long-shorts. "Well good morning to you milady. You sure took your time in the shower."

"Fu- Ha-" Weiss then bended over, clutching her stomach. Then she couldn't hold it in. "Hahahahahaha!" She laughed with abandon and pointed at her partner. "What is up with your hair!? Hahaha!"

Dante winced and touched his hair that reached down to his eyes. "That bad huh?" He asked. His hair, which he kept swept back all the time, was long enough that his bangs covered both his eyes. Not only that, his hair went into every direction, causing him to look quite frazzled, like he didn't have any sleep for a number of nights.

"Yes, it's that bad, haha. Good morning to you too Dante." Weiss said as she managed to control herself. She then glanced to his bed and noticed he'd already cleaned his area. Not only was there more walking room, compared to everywhere else in the room, his surroundings was neat and tidy, with his luggage already tucked away underneath the bed. Even his combat gear was place in a neat pile on top of his bed.

"I woke up when your alarm went off. You took 30 minutes in the shower, so I had time to clean up." Dante said, noticing she was going over his area.

Weiss nodded in acknowledgement. Her partner then proceeded to float cross-legged, with clothes on his lap towards the bathroom. She stepped aside for him to enter the bathroom and noticed that he was conspicuously slouching forward.

'Maybe it's just a case of nature's call in the morning.' Weiss thinks and thought no more about it. She turned to her own luggage next to her bed and searched for her whistle. Finding it, she immediately went to stand in-between the beds of Axel and Ruby.


- FWEEEEEEEEEET! -

"Whoa!" "Ah!"

- CRASH -

"Rise and shine you two." Weiss said.

"Wha-?" Axel grogily mumbled as he lifted the pillow that landed on his face. He had fallen out of his bed in a tangled mess with his comforter. His vision adjusted to the light, allowing him to look up to see the Schnee heiress, hands on her hip with a whistle in one hand. To Axel, she looked all too cheery in waking them up.

"What time is it?" Ruby asked from her bed.

"Six thirty." Weiss answered, looking towards Ruby. "And we got class in two and a half hours."

"Then why the heck are we up?" Axel grouched. He was NOT a morning person.

"We've yet to finish unpacking." Weiss said matter of factly. Axel glared but she looked away as she took out a small notebook and opened it to read it. "And then we need to have breakfast, not to mention you haven't filled the class sheet with the subjects you want to take. Now get a move on! We need to stick to the schedule." Weiss said, turning towards her own bed to clean up.

Axel grumbled as he rose, but did as he was told. He was wearing a tank top and the same long-shorts worn by his brother, except that his was dark blue.

The three of them silently went to work. Unpacking their bags and placing their clothes inside vacant closets. Axel was surprised they were hanging posters and paintings on the wall respectively, and the girls were surprised that Axel had brought a gaming console with them. Ruby was excited and went to see their games but Weiss pulled her back and told her to finish unpacking.

Minutes later though...

"This... Isn't going to work." Weiss said as she looked over their work. Axel, loathed to admit it silently, was inclined to agree.

They simply had too much things, though the girls had more things than him and his brother. Aside from the console and clothes, Axel also brought his personal tool box, and even some books. He also knew that Dante brought along his chemistry set, quite a few books, sketch pads. But most of those were still in their luggage! Both girls however brought out a large number of books, clothes, accessories, and extra pillows. Weiss looked like she'd had brought along her entire dresser and Ruby took out a number of tool boxes!

"Maybe we should get rid of the beds... And turn them into bunk beds!" Ruby suggested.

"That's a good idea." Axel said, liking Ruby's suggestion. "The bunk beds back home saved the four of us a lot of space!"

"I don't know... It sounds kind of dangerous." Weiss replied.

"It'll be fine!" Ruby cheered. "Axel could lift the beds easy! Then we can just bind them together." Then she turned to her partner. "What do you think? Can you do it Axel?"

"Of course!" Axel said confidently. He lugs TriPhorus around everywhere. And that thing is an engine stuck with two slabs of reinforced steel! A wooden bed is nothing compared to that.

"Great!" Ruby said as she rushed to her luggage. "Then all we'll need is some rope to tie them together!"

"Rope won't secure them well!" Dante called out from the bathroom. The door opened and he stepped out already dressed in his uniform and hair swept back. "I could hear you guys from the inside. The walls are really thin."

"Do you have any ideas how to make the bunk bed idea work?" Weiss asked.

"Sure." Dante said with a shrug. "We'll need a nail gun, nails, a drill, and connection plates."

"Oh, I've got the nail gun and the drill!" Ruby said as she moved to one of her tool boxes.

Weiss furrowed her brows. "Why DO you have those?"

"Oh... Uh... I like to do the weapon maintenance on Crescent Rose." Ruby said, scratching her cheek. "You never know what you'll need so I got deluxe sets of tool boxes." She then took out the power tools Dante asked for and handed them over.

Dante raised his brow in amusement. "Exactly how many power tools do you have?"

"Hm... I don't know. I lost count after 40."

Dante shook his head but laughed. He then thumbed backwards to Ruby. "Why don't you go on and take the next shower. Axel, I'll need you to stack the beds together."

"Sure thing." Axel said.

"Alrighty, so I'll go and take a shower!" Ruby agreed and entered the bathroom. A second later though she popped her head out. "Oh, and dibs on top bunk!" She said before quickly closing the door shut.

Weiss then looked to Dante. "I suppose you want top bunk too?"

"You kidding?" Dante scoffs. "I get first dibs to the space under the bed. Bottom bunk is where it's at."

"Oh? Then did you always get the bottom bunk?" Weiss asked with an amused smile.

"Well, no. When my Aura got unlocked, my Semblance started activating in the middle of the night and I'd float off the bed." Dante said, causing Weiss to laughed and ask for more details about it.

Axel looked back and forth between his brother and the Schnee heiress. It was obvious to him the two were getting along just fine and Axel didn't like it. 'Well, I don't like HER' He thought,but he just kept his mouth shut. 'Brother knows what he's doing, even if it means fraternizing with the enemy.'

The three of them soon went to work on the beds. Dante flew out the window and headed out to find his missing components. Axel lifted his and Ruby's bed and stacked them on top of Dante and Weiss's bed. Weiss... Kept telling Axel to align them properly.

"Little to the left. No, too much! Go back. Little more." Weiss said, directing Axel. As they were left alone, Axel grew more and more irritated as Weiss kept ordering him around and redecorating the whole room.

"Push the bunk beds closer to the window." "I think we should move all the closets to the left." "Could you move the study tables to the other side of the room?" Weiss said, ordering Axel around. in the end, the he ended up lifting everything in the room!

The beds were placed to one wall, the window in between them. Dante and Weiss's bed were the bottom bunks while Axel stacked his and Ruby's bed on top. Then he moved all of the closets to align with the bathroom wall. Weiss even took out a room divider and had Axel set it up for her and Ruby's closets. Finally, she had him move the study tables. They were set up against the wall opposite of the bathroom and along the door to the hallway.

He growled each time she called his name for an order. However, she merely took his growling as grunting when lifting heavy things. He was nearing the limits of his patience just when their window swung open. Dante flew in carry a small bag and a happy grin, gaining the heiress's attention.

"Did you get what you need? And where'd you get them?" Weiss asked.

"Got them from the workshops in South Avenue. Aside from the connection plates, I even got some anchors to secure the bed to the floor."

"They're open already?" Weiss asked as Dante waved Axel over to help him secure the beds.

"Not exactly..." He drawled.

"You broke in!?"

"Of course not." Dante scoffed. "The second floor windows were open and I just... Let myself in. Oh, but I left a note and some credits for them."

Weiss wasn't sure if she should be aghast or impressed, so she settled for shaking her head and crossing her arms. Axel was just glad she wasn't ordering him around anymore.

By the time they were done securing one bed, Ruby finished taking a shower and went to help them. Axel took it as his cue to take a shower and headed for the bathroom. As the door shuts, he took off his clothes and jumped straight into the shower. He turned the valve and gritted his teeth as cold water washed over him. He wanted to reign in his control and take the edge off of his general dislike for the Schnee. As he cleansed himself, he thought back to his childhood. Of when the Schnee family showed their true intentions just when the Solis' needed them most.

Artem Solis, their dad, had just been falsely reported dead and the Solis' needed the Schnee's help to investigate the matter. Axel remembers when their mom and Dante left for Atlas, only to come back sooner than expected, with their mom enraged. Apparently, the formal document that engaged Dante to Weiss also entitled the Schnee's to the lands of Nivage. Their mom would have none of it and just stormed off back home, not even bothering contacting the Schnee family ever again.

But that wasn't enough for the Schnee's apparently.

Soon enough, they started harassing Nivage. They blacklisted their exports with other companies, farm lands started being sabotaged, and armed outsiders started harassing the people. Due to that, the townsfolk soon turned against the Solis family. They demanded they hand over the rights of Nivage to the Schnee's, so they could have their prosperous lives back.

And that was when all hell broke lose.

The resentment, the anger, and all the negative emotions stirred subterranean grimm and attracted them to the surface of Nivage.

Him and his brothers had to rally the townspeople, form a militia and push the grimm back underground. And it wasn't a one time thing. Even now, the grimm back home are likely still active, being held back by the militia he and his brothers trained.

People died. Some of them were even Axel's fault. But it was Dante that turned into a full blown mass murderer. The armed outsiders were feared by everyone in Nivage and they wondered if they would do a violent take over. Dante solved it for everyone by blowing up the outsider's airship by himself.

And he was just 12 years old at that time.

Axel growled and wanted to hit the wall with his fist. He refrained as Dante did mention the walls were thin. With his strength, he could send a whole section of it flying, let alone make a hole in it.

Axel respected his brother. 'He knows what needs to be done. He even took on the fear and dishonor of blowing up an entire airship just to keep us safe. He didn't even let the act turn him into psychopath!' Axel thought, believing his brother's actions spoke volumes of his brother's inner strength.

And because Dante was getting along with Schnee, Axel reigned in his control as best he could.

'But Oum damned, she's not making it easy!' Axel finished showering and dried himself off. He got dressed in his uniform and went infront of the mirror to see if he look okay. Satisfied, he exited the bathroom.

"Hey Axel! You're just in time!" Ruby waved at him while holding a power drill. She was on top on the second finished bunk bed, presumably hers as it was on the girl's side of the room.

"Hey, watch it! That thing's still plugged." Dante said, floating next to Ruby as he ducked under the power drill.

"Oops. Sorry, Dante!"

Axel smiled. Ruby's cheery attitude just seemed so contagious that it eased his temper so easily.

"Are you serious!?" Weiss said.

And just as quickly, his mood soured as he turned to the Schnee heiress, who was looking at him with her hands on her hip. "What now?" He groaned at her.

"You're tie isn't on right." She waved him over. "Come here, I'll do it for you."

Axel rolled his eyes and caught Dante giving him a stern look which he could roughly translated as "Keep it together! Don't lose your cool."

Regardless of what Axel felt, he walked to the Schnee heiress, who untied his tie and retied it. Tightly.

"There!" Weiss declared with a satisfied smirk. "Now let's get to the cafeteria! We're a little behind schedule and we can just finish cleaning up later." She said as she checked her watch. She then moved to the door and exited the room. "Let's get a move on people!"

Axel groaned. She was really not making it easy to hold himself back.


- BEACON: CAFETERIA -

- 08:00 AM -


Team WARD met up with ABYZ and was followed closely by JNPR who rushed to get to the cafeteria when they heard the other teams leaving for breakfast.

The walls at the dorm were really thin...

The duodecim were casually eating and chatting about things of great importance; Such as how thin the walls were or how cramped their room was or how they could hear WARD using power tools from two rooms over. Oops.

"Enough about the rooms." Weiss said, trying to change the topic. "We need to discuss about important matters! Such as what classes to take on the class sheet."

Half the table groaned.

The class sheet was a simple slip of paper with the desired classes of each student written down on it. There is a minimum requirement of classes to be met, but no actual limit. The class sheet also required the students to form their schedule for themselves based on the subjects they selected and the professor's availability. The subjects also split into two categories for the Huntsmen department. The compulsory classes and the specialization classes.

The compulsory classes are general things required by all students such as Combat Training, Ranger Training, Dustology, Tactics, Grimmology and the like.

Specialization classes are meant to enhance students in a particular field of study. Some example of the classes are Glyphology, Aerology, Chemistry, Botany, Advance Weaponsmithing and various others. There is even a class meant specifically for the faunuses in order for them to better train their Limit-Break.

"That's no fun~" Nora complained, stabbing her fork into her pancakes. She really didn't want to think about such things first thing in the morning.

"Don't we have until the end of the week to decide which classes we take?" Jaune whined.

"Yeah. This week is just introduction to our teachers and the classes they give." Yang supplied.

"We should definitely wait until we at least see most of the classes." Zero supported.

Seeing the others, Axel and Ruby agreed that they should fill up the class sheet at a later time.

"That is unacceptable." Weiss said, shaking her head. "We need to think about this now. We might end up not being to get the classes we want because they're full." she argued.

"I concur." Angel said. "As much as possible, we should also make a schedule aligned with our teammates. We can at least set a temporary one where we know each other's schedule."

"There's wisdom in that." Pyrrha said for her team. "This way, we can set up team training sessions. They don't seem to emphasize it much on the curriculum."

With the three de-facto leaders in agreement, the other members could only groan as they all filled up their class sheets. Then breakfast was quickly finished and the duodecim only had a few minutes before classes officially begin. However, before WARD left with everyone else, Dante watched with quiet interest as Weiss called her team over to a vacant table.

"Alright everyone, I've seen you fill up your class sheets. Would you mind if I give them a look over?" Weiss asked as her teammates complied.

Weiss looked over three sets of papers and she furrowed her brows at each one. "This won't do." She said.

"...Ha?" Axel responded dumbly.

"What do you mean, Weiss?" Ruby asked tilting her head. "I mean, we meet the requirements and stuff."

"That's exactly what I mean!" Weiss declared. "You only meet the requirements! As team WARD we need to aim higher than the average! To be the best among our entire batch of students!"

Through all this, Dante silently watched, amused. Weiss continued to make a passionate speech about doing their best academically, about being number one and all that. All the while Ruby looked overwhelmed while Axel looked like he was going to bust a nerve.

Oh, he knew that Axel was losing control and Weiss was definitely going full dictator but he just silently watched it all happen for three reasons.

1. ) He wanted to see just how far Weiss was going to be a control freak.

2. ) He'd have a far easier time to convince her to stop ordering her team around so much once Axel blows his lid off.

And 3.) He needed Axel to blow his lid off.

'Obviously Axel doesn't like Weiss. Probably a bias to what happened in the past, though she had nothing to do with the attacks.' Dante thought. He sighed inwardly. 'Well, it'll be easier to explain it to him once he's blown off some steam.'

So he watched with silent amusement as Weiss "corrected" their class sheet, and created a time table for all three of them in record time. He looked over his new schedule. 'She was at least kind enough to give some "free time"(read:30 minute breaks)' He thought sarcastically. She also gave copious amounts of study time as well as classes he had no intention of taking.

Axel looked like he was going to blow then and there, but surprisingly, he stood up, said he needed to "stretch his legs", and walked away in a brisk pace.

"What's up with him?" Weiss asked, her brows furrowing.

"Umm... Weiss, I don't think.. I can cope with this kind of schedule..." Ruby said with a small voice as Weiss whipped her head to her.

"Why not!?"

"I- I was bumped two years ahead and well... I have to actually learn everything of those years while doing catch-up."

Weiss blinked. And seemed to actually be considering it.

'Well, I'll be damned. She's not a complete unreasonable dictator after all.' Dante mused. 'Better step in this time though, just to alleviate Ruby's worries.'

"I suggest Ruby takes her original class sheet. After all, she needs to learn two years worth of lessons while also attending classes. She'll probably also need help." Dante told Weiss.

Weiss thought about it for a moment, and nodded. "Alright Ruby, you get to keep your previous class sheet. However, I'll also be checking up on you catching up on my free time."

"It's.. probably best we all take one less class. You know, to pitch in helping Ruby." Dante suggested. 'I'll solve the whole class sheet predicament later.' Dante thought. He wasn't actually crazy enough to take the extra classes when he didn't have to. 'She'll reject the whole idea if I mention it now. Have to do it before the week ends though.'

Weiss sighed, and nodded. "Fine, we'll all help Ruby." She said before turning to Ruby "You hear that Miss Rose. You better try your Damned hardest in studying!"

"Y-yes!"

Dante inwardly sighed. 'Ah well. Theres four whole years to curve her perfectionist attitude along with her dictatorship...'

When they finished, they headed to their first class and met Axel along the way. His brother had calmed down. More so when Ruby started talking with him again.


- BEACON: DEPARTMENT OF HUNTSMEN -


Beacon's classrooms and lecture halls were designed in a tiered seating. The bottom tier, or in some cases called the arena, is typically where the teacher stands at the focus of the room. Of course, the first tier was sufficiently shielded, just in case the professor's wanted have liberal use of the term 'arena'.

Like all first day of classes, it was rather boring. The professors each took time introducing themselves, talking about their history and achievements and what to expect in the coming classes. Most of the students didn't rank it worth writing down notes for. Most students.

Weiss was not one of them.

Weiss took the down all the prattling of the professors studiously. Even if most of it was most likely embellishing the achievements. Dante too was taking down notes, but for completely different reasons from Weiss and she didn't seem to catch on to that.

What did catch her attention was Ruby and Axel. True to the spirit of every teenager when they know the lesson wasn't going to be important, the two of them were quietly talking with one another.

Weiss glared at them in class, but otherwise kept silent about it. Once the first class was done however, she berated the two out of earshot from the other teams. She told them that it was quite disrespectful and that they should be taking their studies seriously.

In the second class, they seemed to have listen to Weiss and took down notes quietly. That is, until it was lunch time and Weiss asked to look at their notes. She found that they were doodling this whole time. Weiss was, of course, infuriated to which Axel replied, "The first day of classes was a load of baloney anyway and wasn't worth taking down notes."

Which of course set Weiss off.

And so, there was team WARD. Attending the class of Peter Port. With Dante watching Weiss, while she was watching over both Axel and Ruby. The latter of the two seemed resigned to her fate and quietly took notes, even as professor Port talked about complete nonsensical tales of his past deeds. The former was grinding his teeth, with Weiss constantly berating him to take down notes.

"Axel, as your leader, I order you take down notes!" Weiss said quietly.

"Why? It's nothing but nonsense! Are we going to have a test that ask for "What is professor Ports favorite ant to eat in the jungle?"" Axel argued back just as quietly.

"That's not the point! You'll never know when such knowledge could one day be useful!"

Axel rolled his eyes. "Yeah, sure. I'm sure I'll one day be facing a Rank-B King Taijitu with nothing more than a fork!"

"We're Huntsmen-in-training! Of course will be facing King Taijitu soon enough!"

"I doubt a freaking fork would make a difference! I would have a better chance surviving with my bare hands!"

"Which is precisely why he's telling us HOW to we could survive the situation!"

"Somehow, I doubt the chances of us going through the exact same situation would ever happen!"

- "AHEM!" -

Professor Port coughed loudly, gaining the attention of the arguing pair. They had failed to notice that their voices had started rising and gathered the attention of the whole room.

"Mr. Solis..." Professor Port said with a stern voice. "I couldn't help but notice that you have quite the low opinion of my use of strategy against the grimm. If it's not too beneath you, perhaps you would like to demonstrate infront of the class how you would combat a Boarbatusk? If you're not too busy with arguing with Ms. Schnee of course."

Weiss threw a triumphant smirked at Axel. A Boarbatusk was a grimm that had had extra sets of eyes and tusk. It was also covered in bone plate armor, making most of its body incredibly tough. Earlier in the class, professor Port also explained how to specifically deal with such a grimm. And it was the only known method that wouldn't endanger the Hunter. If Axel uses it, he'll be forced to admit that the professor's prattli- er... lesson, was NOT a complete waste of time.

Axel however, had an idea of what Weiss was thinking with her 'you're going to prove me right' face. So he gave her a glare but turned to answered the professor. "Of course professor."

"Good. Get your gear and-"

"I don't need my gear professor." Axel said as he stood up and walked down to the arena floor.

The room immediately launched into a murmur frenzy.

"Is he nuts?"

"Hey hey, this is a Boarbatusk we're talking about."

"What's he gonna do? Play Corrida* and say 'el toro'?"

But Axel ignored them and looked at the professor with a determined look.

"Hmph." Professor Port huffed. "Well if you're sure."

"Hey, wait-" Weiss started, wanting to stand up and stop her teammate at what she was sure was complete suicide. However, Dante stopped her and pulled her arm back down to sit.

Weiss stared at her partner and furrowed her brows. "What are you doing!? You're brother is about to fight a Boarbatusk unarmed!" She might be annoyed at Axel, but she didn't want him dead.

"He'll be fine." Dante waved her worries off. "Rather, you should take this opportunity to understand your teammates better. And learn exactly how dangerous it is to be playing with fire."

"What?" Weiss furrowed her brows in confusion. Axel will be fine fighting a Boarbatusk unarmed? Is he crazy!?

"Oh look, professor Port is opening the gate." Dante said, making Weiss whirl her head to her teammate.

Wearing only his uniform, Axel stood in front of the cage. One leg forward and shoulder apart. Arms raised and ready. And then the Boarbatusk charged out with a fury.

Axel bent his knees, pulled his arm back, and swung.

- BANG! -

"RHEEEE!?"

With an explosive crack, Axel slammed his fist right on the Boarbatusk forehead, making it squeal in surprise. Axel's fist cracked, pierced, and pulverized the grimm's skull, bone plating and brain matter. His swing had more than enough force to reverse it's momentum, sending its head traveling backwards even as the grimm's rear end traveled forward, crushing it's spine in between.

The whole class was stunned silent. The Boarbatusk looked like it was caught in between two trucks that slammed into each other full force, squashing the grimm like a pancake and ending it's life before it even hit the ground. But there were no trucks. There weren't even any weapons. Just Axel and pure brute strength.

"Holy shit!" Yang said out loud. Everyone other than the siblings were inclined to agree.

"What the heck was that!? Was that his Semblance?" Jaune asked out.

"Nah." Zero answered, one arm supporting his head. He looked utterly bored of the entire spectacle. "If it was his Semblance, the Boarbatusk would be sent flying through the wall."

"Are you serious?" Blake asked.

Axel turned to Weiss with a glare, the grimm brain matter in his had already dissipating into the air. Even if he had just one punched a grimm, he was still feeling mighty infuriated at the heiress.

Then the alarm rang and professor Port seemed to recover himself.

"Oh! Uh! Yes! That will be all then! Class dismissed! Good show Mr. Solis." Port said, seemingly having forgotten about Axel ignoring his entire lecture.

Axel just clicked his tongue. "Tsk." He then turned away from Weiss and stomped his way to the door.

"Why that- that..." Weiss started, but seemed to be having a hard time to pick a word for Axel and what he just did. Brute didn't seem to cover it.

Dante sighed. 'Welp. Got what I wanted.' He thought, before turning to his partner and held her shoulder. "Hey." He said, gaining Weiss's attention. "I'll deal with my brother. In the meantime, I need you to think about your teammates feelings alright?"

Then he let go of her shoulder and looked at both Weiss and Ruby. "I'll see you guys at the cafeteria." He nodded towards ABYZ and JNPR and exited through the door to follow after Axel.

"Unbelievable!" Weiss said after some time and threw her arms up into the air. "Axel, I can believe in being rude, but Dante too?" She turned to ask Ruby who seemed like she wanted to be anywhere but here.

"Well... I don't... I mean..." Ruby stammered as she tried to gather her things and see if she could make a hasty retreat. She didn't like arguing and even less with her team leader.

"- Ahem - I know it's presumptuous of me, but perhaps I could give some insight into whatever transpired with my brothers." The two girls of WARD turned to see Angel and the rest of his team. The two of them completely forgot about team ABYZ was just one tier seating above them.

Weiss nodded. "I would appreciate that. Thank you, Angel."

Angel smiled and turned to his teammates. "You guys go on ahead to the cafeteria. We'll be just behind."

"Yup, sure thing!" Yang said. Knowing a situation she should run away from, she grabbed her sister for a hasty retreat. "Come on Ruby, you're with us!"

Everyone left the room is hurry to get to the cafeteria. It was already six in the evening and most classes had been dismissed. From there, it was easy to assume the cafeteria would once again be over crowded. Angel and Weiss were the last to exit their room though, leisurly taking their time.

"I take it you had a rough first day?" Angel finally asked Weiss once they were walking along the West Avenue. There also wasn't much people left walking the brick path.

"You have no idea." Weiss said then started talking about her day. Angel already had an idea of them turning their beds into bunk beds, but asked her to go further into detail. She told him that Axel was the one carrying the beds and moving most of their furniture. She reasoned that because he had the best ability to do the heavy lifting meant that it was his duty.

Angel raised an eyebrow at it, but refrained from commenting just yet. He simply asked her to continue. And she did.

"Alright... To reiterate, you've been ordering Axel around from the very beginning of the day and even berated him about his tie." Angel asked.

Weiss nodded.

"Then at breakfast you looked over your whole team's class sheets. And when you found them unsatisfactory... You added in subjects you personally thought important, though it was slightly alleviated by Dante for Ruby's sake."

Weiss eyebrows were rising up. If Angel puts it that way...

"And then finally, you nagged your team to take notes. Even going to far as look at their notes during lunch time. And when you found out that they didn't find the professor's introductions worth taking notes, you decided to personally watch them take notes in order to be sure they were actually writing word for word about what the professor's were talking about."

Weiss grimaced. "I- I just thought it would be good for them to get into the habit of taking notes! And besides, it would do some good to have high academic achievements!" She said trying to justify herself.

Angel sighed. "Weiss, I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but aren't you being too much of a dictator? You haven't allowed your team to have a say in it and didn't allow them to have a choice in the matter."

Weiss promptly came to a halt and stopped walking. Angel had to turn his head back to face her. He tilted his head, wondering what made her suddenly stop.

'Didn't allow them to have a choice.' the phrase echoed in Weiss's mind. She hadn't realized she was mimicking her father's nature. She blanched as the realization placed a bad taste in her mouth.

"It seems you've realized it." Angel said quietly.

Weiss hung her head down, but nodded. She was considerably down spirited as the whole reason of escaping to Beacon was to be able to make her own choices. And here she was depriving her team of theirs. What a hypocrite she turned out to be.

"Weiss, your desire to improve your whole teams academics is no doubt admirable." Angel started, causing Weiss to peak up at her fellow team leader. "It's just that you were overzealous about it. You could simply apologize to them and I'm sure it will be nothing more than water under the bridge."

"You think it's that easy?" Weiss asked.

"Of course." Angel said and approached Weiss and gently lifted her head by her chin. "Chin up, Weiss. A beautiful girl such as yourself shouldn't be so down spirited."

Weiss blushed. "Wha- What are you saying!?" She said and averted her eyes. She didn't take a step back though.

Angel chuckled, and drew back his hand. "That's better. A leader needs to have such spirit no matter the challenge, correct?"

Weiss tried to control her beating heart. Senji always called her beautiful so she should be used to it, and yet here was Angel, sending her heart racing at such a small gesture. She could still feel her heart beating but took her courage and met Angel's gaze. "So... What do you think I should do? After apologizing I mean."

"Ah, that's simple." Angel said as he walked to her side. "You should take your time and get to know your teammates personality. I could help you with that. Especially with my brothers." He said with an easy smile and offered his hand.

Weiss nodded. "I would like that. Thank you Angel." She said as she linked her arms with him.


- BEACON -

- 06:00 PM -


Dante didn't have a hard time following after Axel. He just asked anyone around if they saw someone who looked like they were on a war path and they'd point him to the scariest bastard they'd ever seen. And an angry Axel just so happened to fit that description.

As soon as he got outside of their building, Dante used his Semblance. Some of the crowd exclaimed in surprise as he glided over them, but it made catching up to his brother easy. He quickly found Axel being given a wide breadth by the people around him and descended next to him.

"Come to scold me?" Axel asked.

"Nah." Dante said, waving the question away. "Just asking for a spar before dinner. Let's head to the Basement."

"Hmph." Axel harrumphed.

The Basement was something Zero found last night. It was inside a building that was built on the Northeastern part of the Academy. Between the dorms and the Huntsmen department. The building itself was more or less turned into a large storage room. It had fallen to disuse when the Academy started expanding the departments. Due to other buildings cropping up around it, it was now easily missable.

However, the brothers weren't satisfied with using the rooms that still occasionally saw people, even if it was just the custodians. So Zero explored the building. He found the door that led down to the Basement at the end of a hallway that was hidden behind various crates.

The Basement itself was quite large and could qualify as a parking garage for several cars. It was hidden, tucked away, and Angel could easily soundproof the walls. The perfect training area for the boys as they liked to train without any eyes on them.

The brothers arrived and immediately took off their tops, shoes, and socks. Their sparring sessions would easily make them sweat. Not to mention they had yet to fix the ventilation so the room was already quite humid.

They gave themselves some distance and took their family stance. Identical to each other, yet also different. Both had one leg forward and shoulder width apart. Both raised their arms similar to boxing. But Dante had one fist forward at chest level and the other under his chin, while his back was slightly bent forward. Axel had both his hands raised up, fist to eye level and back straight.

"Fu-" Axel let out a breath as struck first, closing the distance between them in an instant.

Dante gritted his teeth as he dodged. He could feel the heavy wind pressure from Axel's strike even through his aura, meaning his brother activated his Semblance. It would not be pretty if he got hit even once.

"That damned heiress!" Axel yelled as he kept swinging fist after fist. He delivered a low sweeping kick which Dante jumped over.

"Thinks she knows everything! Thinks she's so damned perfect!" Dante dodged through a series of hooks and uppercuts. Axel then tried to grab his brother's hands for a grapple hold, but Dante kept countering it by slamming his fist on Axel's forearms and pulling his hand away.

"She's nothing but a sheltered brat! A mini tyrant!" He brought both his fist downwards and Dante jumped back, creating a crater on the floor. They'll have to ask Zero if he could fix that later.

"A selfish," Axel started a rising side kick. There was quite a bit of wind pressure even as Dante ducked underneath it.

"demanding," Axel spun for a backhand, Dante had to bend backwards to avoid the blow. He overextended. Going along with the momentum, he went for a kicking backflip but missed Axel.

"conceited princess!" Axel went for a powerful straight punch with his other hand and aimed downwards as his brother had yet to land with his feet from the back flip. However Dante used his Semblance, floated upwards, and pushed the punch to hit the floor. Still using his Semblance, he then started his own counter attack on Axel upside-down.

"How do you even put up with her!?" Axel asked as he readied himself for his brother's unorthodox combat specialty. He tried to counter against the strikes as best he could. He tried to ignore the origin of the blows and merely treated all the upside-down attacks as normal attacks. It didn't mean he was good at it though, even as he ducked under an upside-down low sweeping kick, Dodge an uppercut and blocked it as it turned into a corkscrew punch.

"You've been angry at her even before she started giving orders as the team leader." Dante pointed out as he did a flying kick which Axel blocked with both hands. "Are you blaming her for what happened to us?" He asked as he pulled his leading leg back, causing Axel to miss at his attempt for a grapple hold. Dante then brought in his other leg for a knee kick. Axel ducked, but he was nicked at the tip of his skull but was no worse for wear.

"She had nothing to do with it you know?" Dante dodged to the side, orienting him right side up, just as Axel moved for a rising upper cut and was left hanging in the air. "She was a child, just like we were." Dante rushed in for a feint and Axel countered with a hook. Pulling back his feint, Dante swept his feet on his brother's legs, causing Axel to land on his back.

Axel realized his predicament, and rolled away just in time as Dante stomped on the floor where he had just been. Axel immediately got back up from his roll and continued the exchange of blows. Axel's anger then began to chip away. He started to look back between the interactions between Dante and Weiss, and added that to how Dante was defending her now . "You don't actually like her do you?" He asked in a small lull in the spar.

His brother said nothing. Just resumed his offense. The intensity increasing even. And Axel quickly picked up on that. "By the Maker, you do like her!"

That was all he got to say as Dante's speed spiked and delivered a knife-handed thrust to Axel's throat, cutting off his air supply and making him choke.

"- HURK - HACK - COUGH -" Axel grabbed his throat and sank to his knees. Their sparring ended with that and his brother stood in front of him, saying nothing. Neither denying or affirming Axel's accusation. " - COUGH - COUGH - ...why?" He managed to ask, looking up to his brother.

Dante shrugged. "She's cute?"

Axel looked at him like he wanted to spit blood.

Dante rolled his eyes. "Look, I'm not in love with her. Despite our engagement, which I doubt she even remembers about, I just think it's worth trying to actually get to know her. She's clumsy and misguided about being appointed team leader, but she does strive to do her best." Dante then offered his hand to Axel. "She just doesn't know how to lead properly and I think we should just give her a chance to learn."

Axel looked down to the floor as he thought about it. 'It was kind of stupid to blame her for what happened to the town...' He fell silent for a while then raised his head to meet his brother's gaze. "Is she a good person?" He finally asked.

"Yes." Dante answered without any hesitation. "A little rough around the edges, but yes."

Axel grumbled, but nodded. 'Well... I should at least give her a chance.' He thought and took Dante's offered hand. He got up with Dante's help and they then wordlessly went to their clothes. They wiped off their sweat, redressed themselves into their uniforms and made their way to join their other teammates.


- BEACON: CAFETERIA -

- 07:00 PM -


"Oh! There they are! Axel! Dante! Over here!" Ruby called out. She stood and waved the two over with the other teams.

"Remember to apologize." Dante said quietly to Axel.

Axel rolled his eyes. "Yes, mom." Causing Dante to strike him on his shoulder. As the two of them neared, they noticed their friends were already mostly done with their dinner and that Weiss and Ruby sat on the opposite side from them. Axel didn't hesitate, He stepped and bowed in front of Weiss. "I'm sorry about what happened in class. I shouldn't have gotten so mad."

Weiss, for her part, looked wide eyed in surprise. She was sure she was the one at fault. She already apologized and made up with Ruby before the boys arrived. "I should be the one saying sorry." Weiss said. "Stop standing like that you two! You'll cause a scene so sit down!" She said in a hurry. Then she realized she got mad again. As the two Solis sat, she sighed and apologized again. "Sorry. I know I'm being difficult. I didn't realize I was being so pushy about everything. I swear I'll ask for your opinions from now on."

"Does that mean we don't have to take those extra classes you signed us up for?" Dante joked as he sat in front of Weiss.

"Well... yes. But I still want you guys to be doing your best on your classes! You better not slack off!" Weiss affirmed.

"Alright! WARD survived the first day of Beacon as a whole team!" Ruby declared, causing the others to laugh.

"Hey. Loser's punishment." Dante said, hitting Axel on the shoulders lightly. "Go get us some food."

Axel groaned. 'Man, I forgot we had those rules.' He thought as he got up and went to grab his and Dante's dinner.

"What do you mean loser's punishment?" Weiss asked.

"We sparred. He lost." Dante said, then proceeded to take Weiss's uneaten cup of chocolate mousse.

"Hey!" She yelled.

"You can take mine once Axel comes back." Dante said as he started eating the dessert. "I just really need the sugar as my aura took a beating."

"I'm surprised you didn't come back in a stretcher." Weiss said. "The way that Boarbatusk died... Well, I was sure his punches break bones."

"They do. But it was the wind pressure from his fist that was damaging my aura." Dante said, causing Weiss to wince at the though of what would happen if you ever got hit by an angry Axel. "Putting our spar aside though," Dante continued, "I'm surprised you reflected so much. I was sure we'd come back here with you still mad about just stepping out on you like that."

"Y-yes. I've took it up upon myself to reflect on my actions." Weiss said with a blush. Her reaction caused Dante to raise a brow.

"Yeah right, Weiss." Ruby scoffed and turned to Dante. "Angel stayed behind with her and they came in holding hands. I'm pretty sure he talked some sense into her by then."

"W-We did not hold hands!" Weiss said, turning even redder. "We were just linking arms! It's perfectly acceptable for a gentleman to be walking a lady while linking arms!"

"Oh, you don't have to be embarrassed about being wrong Weiss!" Ruby said with a pure smile. "You already admitted you were wrong anyway, so you don't have to deny Angel corrected you after class, right?"

Weiss furrowed her brows at what Ruby was talking about. Then she realized Ruby was teasing her about Angel rectifying her about being a dictator, and not for holding hands! She groaned and hid her face behind her hands. "Ruby Rose, I swear!"

"I... see." Dante drawled as he looked at the two, then turned to Angel who sat nearby. "It seems I have you to thank, little brother."

"Of course brother." Angel said with a smile. "We're friends with team WARD so it's natural for us to help each other out, right?"

Everyone nodded to that. Even Weiss nodded enthusiastically as she put her hands down. Zero however, paused just as he was bringing food to his mouth. He picked up on the subtle notes of Dante being annoyed as he looked towards his second brother. Angel too, was giving looks of challenge to his eldest brother. Sparks were flying between the two as they gaze into each others eye but no one seemed to notice.

"Dante, here's your food!" Axel said, finally arriving. Causing Dante to look away less he makes a scene.

"Thank you, little brother." Dante said, causing Axel to stiffen. He knew when his brother used a formal speech he was either acting or annoyed. He looked towards Zero who still was mid bite. 'Trouble?' He asked nonverbally.

Zero nodded, 'Trouble.'


Extra:

- BEEP - BEEP - BEEP -

Dante woke at the sound of an alarm. 'Who's alarm is that? I don't recognize it.' He thought as he opened his eyes. Out of his peripheral vision though, Weiss sat up and stretched her arm upward. Dante turned to look at her which was a bad idea. Though the lighting was dim, Dante could clearly see Weiss's slim body through her night gown. The way her back arched, the soft, yet lovely accents on her chest, and the way her white hair glowed in the dark made her seem to have an otherworldly beauty that left Dante in a trance.

She rose from her bed and went to her luggage and bent down. The hem of her gown was really short which left a clear view for Dante. 'White' Dante thought dumbly.

Weiss then made her way to the bathroom sleepily. Dante noted she didn't seem to realize her hips swayed even as she walked. 'Uuuuooohhhh! Dante, what the hell are you doing!?' He screamed internally.

As the bathroom doors closed with a click, he rose up to a sitting position. He never felt so erect before. 'Holy shit, control yourself! Come on! Think of something else! Think of ingredients! Night's Bane, Snow lilies, Lion's paw, Rosebuds.' His mind then pictured Weiss's soft lumps. 'OUM DAMMIT!'

Dante got up from his bed and started pacing. 'Got to get my mind out of the gutter!' He thought. Then he turned to his bed decided to clean it. He fluffed his pillow and dusted his blanket. 'It's so white... like Weiss's- FUUUUUUUUUUUU-'

Dante grabbed his head and wanted to bang it against the wall, but that would just wake everyone in the room. Then looked around and found his luggage that he had yet to put away. 'Right, right. Stop thinking about Weiss.' He thought and started putting his clothes into his closet. He did them neatly and was concentrating. 'Hmm... I don't remember this shirt. It's kind of big too...' He thought but still folded it to place it away. 'I wonder how it would look on Weiss if she was wearing only my shir- DAMN IT ME! STOP!'

He finished placing his clothes away and grabbed his uniform, but he still couldn't get Weiss off his mind.

'Didn't she ride on your back yesterday? How soft her bossom felt on it.' A demon seemed to whisper in his ear. 'AHHHHHH! Come on! There's got to be something else to do! Weiss! Please finish showering!'

Dante looked around and noticed his gear. He went to them and placed them in a neat pile. He then started cleaning his black blade, Notus. Once finished, he reached for Euros. His white blade. 'White' he thought before his mind reminded him of a bent over Weiss. He dropped Euros right there on his bed and didn't even bother cleaning it.

Dante heard the water stop running and he moved to the window and looked out to see the view. The sight offered to him was a courtyard with plenty of green foliage. 'Yep. Don't think of that color. Just green, green, girls taking a jog- wait what?' he then looked down to see a few faunus girls jogging. Their breathing rapid, sweat glistening off their body, a bunny tail contrasted to her bloomers.

Dante twitched and decided to look up to the sky. 'Ah! Beautiful azure sky! You'll never betray me right?' A cloud then passed by in the shape of a heart. Or in Dante's mind, the cleft and shape of Weiss bending down and her lovely white legs that needed no stockings to highlight her legs.

The bathroom door swung open. 'Heaven has opened! Non nobis Domine!' Dante turned around to look at both his salvation and damnation. There stood Weiss in her uniform. The black coat hugging her figure. The red skirt enhancing her legs. And her light blue eyes that also stared back at him. 'Just like the sky.' Dante thought.

"Well good morning milady!" Dante's mouth said. Evidently, a small part of him hadn't gone out the window just yet. "You sure took your time in the shower." 'It felt like an eternity!'

"Fu- Ha... Hahahahaha!" She started laughing. 'It sounds like heaven opening up.' Dante thought as more and more of his will left for vacation. "What is up with your hair!? Hahaha!"

"That bad huh?" He asked, touching his hair. He didn't realize how much of a mess he made when he ruffled it.

"Yes, it's that bad, haha. Good morning to you too Dante." Weiss said.

'Oum, woman. It is a VERY good morning.' He thought then noticed she was looking at his belongings. "I woke up when your alarm went off. You took 30 minutes in the shower, so I had time to clean up." Dante said aloud. 'Still feel like it was an eternity!'

Weiss nodded, and Dante moved to go to the bathroom. Then he realized he was still quite erect. Thinking quickly, he placed his clothes on top of his member, leaned forward, and floated to bathroom as Weiss stepped away to let him enter.

As door clicked shut, he let out a sigh. 'She didn't notice, she didn't notice.' He affirmed to himself. He took off his clothes and stepped into the shower. It was still warm and he took in a large breath. 'Weiss scent... wait- Noooooooo!'

And his suffering continued through the morning.


Note:

Corrida - Literally just bull fighting


A/N:

Sorry it took a while. What, like 3 weeks? In return, this is 10k chapter when my usual is 5. No harm done right? Also, there... might have been 1 week from that when I was lollygagging in Tyranny. It was just mad fun being a loyal vassal to the Overlord and not giving a fuck about everyone else's opinion because LOYALTY.

If you've noticed, the classes are quite expanded from canon, that's because we'll be seeing those classes discussed quite a lot. Especially Dustology. It will play a very big part in the story.

Anyway, I had problems with Weiss and Axel's 'childhood'. Weiss because there really wasn't much to build on, while Axel's was the opposite. There is simply too much that went on in order for them to completely OP. However, I didn't want the scene to dally on it as that isn't what the chapter is about. So I shortened it quite a lot. I also didn't want to give a half hearted flash back, and it simply wasn't time for a full on flash back either.

After an intermission, we're going back to the past. We're finally going to look at Cinder's childhood and we get to see Artem Solis in the spotlight at last!

Lastly, I just started a Dragon's Dogma and Zero no Tsukaima crossover and it's sadly getting popular even though it's 1 chapter with 2k words with lots of errors. Apparently, no one has posted a Fic yet with Louise summoning a dragon.

Why sadly? Cuz this is still my main fic even if so few people like it! xD

See you guys soon!