A/N Hai Guise :3

So here we are, good ol' chapter lucky number 7. No idea why I said it like that but I already typed it so I'm too lazy to change it :p

Before I start, It's kinda important to remember that all of the events of the prologue/6 chapters all happened in one day, so there's a lot to think about for everyone. My original thought was going to be another conversation only more tamed, but then I kinda realized that it would most likely get way too hectic again, both to write and for the characters (Don't need Yang to burst 3 times in one day xD). So with that in mind I figured it would be best for each character to just have their own kind of reflection on what happened. This will be next chapter (I'M REALLY SORRY [read bottom A/N])

If you have any suggestions or ideas on whatcha read or just want to say hello feel free to Review or PM me, I'm always up for some criticism and friends :)

Ok the rambling is over, COMMENCE CHAPTER

P.S. for beacon dorms I'm assuming like college suite style dorm: Sleeping area the way we've seen it on the show, common area (couch and tv, something like that), and Bathroom.

Just cause that'll be a little important later.

It was almost another 5 minutes before team RWBY had composed themselves enough to report that they were returning and begin their trip back to Beacon. Their trip still composed of taking the five mile hike to get back to Vale, let alone the rest of the time it would take to get back to Beacon. In any other circumstance they probably would have made haste to get back, but considering what had just occurred they all had an unspoken agreement that they were in no rush.

Each with a subconscious desire to create distance between certain others, some more than others, Ruby and Blake walked together on the right side of the road, with Weiss and Yang not all that far away from them, but with enough distance to make a point of not being close. To even further emphasize this, Blake was on the right outer side, making a point to stay close to Ruby. Weiss had done the same to Yang only being on the left outer side.

To say that the air was tense would be an understatement. After the rather intense conversation that had just transpired between the team, no one exactly seemed in the mood to talk. Not even Ruby was able to hold her usual cheery attitude, rather just walking in straight silence with Blake next to her.

Eventually they managed to make it back to Beacon, the sun beginning to hit the horizon as they could tell the day would soon be turning into the night. After quickly moving to their rooms in order to deposit their equipment team RWBY decided to go to the school Cafeteria to eat their dinner. After grabbing their meals they took their seats next to team JNPR, who it seemed were talking about their own outings.

Normalcy, please save me right now. Ruby thought to herself. She couldn't think of a good way to talk between her and the team considering what happened as they were leaving their area of Grimm, so she was trying to think of a way to start talking again. JNPR gave that to her.

"Hey guys!" Ruby exclaimed, putting in a little extra excitement trying to mask her slight discomfort from earlier.

Each of JNPR saw RWBY approaching, and each of them gave a reassuring wave, with the exception of Ren who simply nodded his head. Nora had waved quick but immediately put her head back, continuing her story to the rest of the team, RWBY listening in as she continued.

"...We had been traveling for almost another 45 minutes after the first fight!" She began

Juane interjected, "N-No! It was only another like 5 minutes after the first one."

"Then we saw over 50 beowolves and at least 20 ursas battling it out all at once!"

"Nora, there were only like 5 beowolves and two Ursa on seperate sides of the clearing alone."

So this is what Ren feels like...

"So me and Juane jumped right in. After firing grenades at each killing almost half the beowolves, I took on the rest of them and smashed their heads into mush, while Juane held off all the Ursa until I could come help!"

Everyone stared at Juane waiting for the rebuddle. "That part was actually right. Other then the numbers I mean." He said with a surprised look on his face.

"After I killed the beowolves, five ursa came running at me all at once so I had to keep them off me!"

The story continued like that for a while, Juane all the while having a more and more exausted look on his face trying to fix what Nora said.

Man Ren deserves credit for dealing with this...He slowly thought. It was true, there was no more daunting task then correcting the Valkyrie, and everyone I'm sure agreed in their heads.

"That sounds...exciting, Nora." Pyrrha calmly said, with a smile on her face nonetheless at Nora's antics. "Mine and Ren's went a little...smoother I'd say. We ended up finding a large pack of Beowolves, about twenty or so, we simply used the element of surprise to our advantage."

Ren decided to chime in realizing that they began talking about his and Pyrrha's fight. "It really was clever of you Pyrrha." Pyrrha's smile widened slightly at the praise. "Basically she went out and made them pay attention to her so that I was free to go from behind and take them out one by one." His stoic expression didn't leave his face the entire time, even though Nora, knowing him inside and out, could tell he was plenty excited the plan had gone well.

Ruby's face brightened a bit at realizing how similar their plans were. She nudged Blake to emphasize this and said, "Just like us Blake!" Blake grew a small grin and seeing Ruby with a smile again, knowing she was still down not too long ago.

"What do you mean Ruby?" Nora began to question, walking up to Ruby and nearly putting her face directly in front of Ruby's.

Too Close, Too Close! Ruby's face showed her obvious objection to Nora's closeness.

"Nora." That one word from Ren and Nora backed off.

How close could they be? Ruby slowly thought, surprised how easily she listened to him.

After Nora clearly established her personal space Ruby began to tell her story with Blake about their outing, how they managed to kill the pack slightly bigger than Pyrrha and Ren's using similar tactics

with their end spin technique. Afterwards Yang and Weiss went into their battle with the Ursa, how they separated each group and the way in the end Weiss used her glyphs to help propel Yang. All the while JNPR's expressions were mostly the same:

Juane and Pyrrha looked on with a more positive look, impressed with the team's adaptations and feats.

Ren was mostly stoic with an occasional grin at a good feat.

Nora in the meanwhile was bouncing and giving plenty of "Ooooh" and "Aaahhhhh"'s, and another personal space issue with Yang. Luckily Ren managed to stop her before things got...iffy.

After they finished their meals and cleaned up, both RWBY and JNPR had decided their days had come to an end, and retired to their rooms. There was small idle conversation along the way back, mainly about what the group were planning to do over the next two days. The monthly hunts were always on Fridays so they would have the weekends to rest, the teachers not giving Homework for any of their classes.

Juane and Pyrrha were planning to complete some more training to keep themselves on Par, while Ren and Nora were planning to take a trip into Vale to stock up on groceries. Or so they said groceries, even though JNPR knew Nora was just gonna buy sweets and pancake mix for Ren to make.

Before RWBY could discus their plans the teams made it to their respective dorms, waving goodbye as they walked inside.

Usually team RWBY would be talking about something: the hunt, their weapon conditions, the weather even. Today: silence. No one seemed really in the talkative mood, and it was evident the second they were alone in the room.

Ruby being the last one in the room and sensing this, sighed aloud realizing that normalcy wasn't exactly achieved.

So much for going back to normal huh? Her usual grin had died down, realizing that what happened must have taken a bigger toll on the team then she thought. Maybe I should just wait for now, I'm sure by tomorrow everything will be ok. Ruby always was more of an optimist, and was simply hoping her team would be able to patch things up again. This didn't seem as bad as two months ago with Torchwick and finding out Blake was a faunus, seeing that they had all come to terms with that. With that in mind, Ruby searched for something to do.

Eventually everyone seemed to find something to do for the night:

Ruby decided to clean and perform maintenance on Crescent Rose in the common room, she didn't want her sweetheart getting rusty. The team used to be a little uncomfortable with Ruby cleaning her weapon in the room, but being Ruby and having her slight weapon obsession, everyone kinda just stopped caring.

Weiss decided to take a shower, simply because she felt disgusting after the long day they all had. Everyone else wasn't all that worn out from their battles, minus Yang, so Weiss had the bathroom all to herself for the moment.

Blake decided to do the one thing she could do anytime of day no matter what the circumstance: read. She had "Ninjas of Love" ready to go, of course masked by "Faunus DiscrimiNATION", avoiding anyone finding out what she's actually reading.

Yang on the other hand immediately changed her clothes and went to sleep. She was extremely tired from the day she had, and from the moment she went into the room all she wanted to do was sleep it all off, so she intended to do just that.

The silence was evident minus the sound of Weiss' shower. The slightest sound would break it, even Blake turning the page of her book as she read. This gave everyone the ideal opportunity to think and reflect on what happened over the course of their day.

A/N I know you all think I'm horrible but HEAR ME OUT

This chapter is mainly up because I felt bad I couldn't post earlier. It's a busy weekend for me this time 'round and currently I'm not in an able enough position to write out everything that I wanted too, and I felt like you guys deserved better than another A/N chapter considering I had this much written already. So I figured I would post this and at least give you guys something to see for now :).

CHAPTER 8 WILL BE UP BY TUESDAY NIGHT I PROMISE!

At the very least you guys are plenty set up for the next chapter. It's literally going to be each character's thoughts over what happened on that day one by one, which will in all honesty just be another set-up for the rest of the story. I assure you my fine audience, after the next chapter the real fun will start ;D.

Anyways thank you all so much for dealing with me in my busy times and showing your support! I love you all and will be back soon with the next chapter :)

Andrew (135246)

PS sorry if this looks weird, had to use copy paste cause I'm actually on my phone on the train, hence the busy weekend :p