DISCLAIMER: I do not own RWBY, but I unfortunately will own the report card that comes out on Monday )':

Hey everybody! I don't have much to talk about here, but something I will say is that this chapter, while for the first half of it, was kinda boring for me to write, this actually is one of my favorites, mainly because of what I have planned for chapter 10.

This chapter is basically just their first day of classes, that's pretty much it, but a lot of it is setting up for what happens next chapter, which I am so freaking excited to write, I have been waiting to write this next chapter for a couple weeks, and I finally can!

Anyway, enough of that, please read and enjoy the chapter!

'BEEP, BEEP, BEEP~'

Three groans were heard around the room as the alarm went off over and over again without halt, and as they got out of their beds, they noticed that a certain leader wasn't in hers, and that the bathroom light could be seen in the small space between the door and floor.

Their confused expressions mirrored each other perfectly. "Why would she be up already?" Koel asked as she rubbed her eyes to get the morning gunk out of them.

Just as she asked this, the door swung open to reveal the source of their confusion, and in her uniform already no less. Silver noticed their looks of perplexity, and she chuckled quietly. "Uh, good morning."

"How long have you been up?" Marriott asked.

Silver shrugged. "Maybe, like, around thirty minutes? I don't know why I woke up so early, but whatever. I've always been an early riser I guess."

"Why didn't you wake us up then?" Olivia then asked with furrowed eyebrows.

"I just thought you would appreciate it if I let you all sleep until the alarm, was I incorrect?"

Koel shook her head as she got up and stretched a bit. "No, it's fine, thank you I guess."

"Just as long as we still have enough time to get ready that is." Olivia said with her eyes narrowed and a lowered voice, practically daring Silver to say anything she didn't want to her to say.

"Take it easy would ya, you got a whole two hours before class starts, so calm down." Silver retorted, matching her look and tone.

They stared each other down for a few moments while Koel and Marriott uneasily watched on the side, ready to jump in if anything more than steely dialogue came out of this.

In the end however, nothing did as Olivia sighed, and muttered a short "whatever", before she gathered her clothes and headed into the bathroom, not further batting an eye over at Silver.

"I would really like to know what her problem is with you." Marriott said wonderingly. "It's not like you've done something so wrong."

Silver gave a long, irksome sigh. "Believe me Marriott, I wish I knew what her big issue is, but hopefully it won't translate to an issue in any classrooms, or anywhere really."

No further words were shared as they spent the rest of the morning getting ready, with occasional whining from Marriott about the fact that they had to have uniforms, and one consistent hour of this later, they went on their way to the cafeteria.

They had suspected that during breakfast, teams RWBY and JNPR would call them over to sit with them, and sure enough, they did, and since they didn't really have many other places to sit, they took the invitation.

They didn't really talk much, they mainly just ate and listened to whatever things were exchanged between the two upper-class teams, and only occasionally speaking up to answer generic questions like "how do you like Beacon so far", or "aren't you excited", and various other questions like that.

But one question from Weiss did catch their attention more than the others. "So Silver, Ozpin said that you are sixteen, not seventeen. Is this true?"

This caught the platinum-haired faunus off guard momentarily, but she regained her senses quickly. "Oh, well yeah actu-"

"Wait," Olivia sharply interrupted, glancing just as sharply at her partner. "You mean to tell us that you are under-aged? How the hell were you accepted then?" Her 'question' ended up sounding more accusatory.

Silver glared at her as she retorted. "My sister sent him videos of me, and he wanted me here. Is that a problem?" Her tone matched Olivia's perfectly.

"What, the fact that our leader is not even the correct age to be in this school? No, not a problem at all." The rejoinder was practically dripping with sarcasm of the highest caliber.

Crimson eyes locked with sky blue ones as another glaring contest ensued as everyone at the table awkwardly observed in silence for a few seconds. "… I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you two haven't exactly gotten along yet." Yang said with a raised eyebrow.

The two girls stopped scowling at each other and looked away completely. "You have no idea." Silver said with an irritated huff.

"What was your first clue?" Olivia then sarcastically asked with a maddened grumble.

"These two haven't done anything in the way of being nice." Marriott said.

"Well, it is always awkward being partners at first. It takes time to get used to." Ruby said, hoping those were the right words for the situation.

Marriott rolled her eyes. "Yeah, but these two are a special case of that, I can already tell."

"Well, whether they like each other or not right now, they'll need to get used to being around each other for a while." Pyrrha said, getting two cavils from the two in question as a response.

Another quick silence ensued before Ruby spoke. "Y'know, I'm actually sixteen also, so it's not like Silver's the only one here."

This caught the first year team by surprise. "Seriously?" Marriott asked in astonishment. "But you're a second year though, right?"

Ruby nodded. "Yeah, I was accepted last year when I was fifteen. So, if I can do it, so can Silver."

Silver didn't say anything, but inside she got a sudden spark of confidence at hearing this, and a little bit of comfort as well, knowing that, at the very least, she wasn't exactly the only one of her kind, in the way of age, in the school.

The subject wasn't touched upon for the rest of the breakfast, but Olivia still had the whole situation replaying over and over in her mind. 'Ugh, is this world against me or something? First I get partnered with a faunus, then this faunus gets to be our team leader, and now I find out this faunus is a full year younger than required. Oh gods, what have I gotten myself into?'

"Hello everybody, and welcome to your first class as students here at Beacon, I am professor Peter Port, and this is..."

It was evident early on to team SMOK, and pretty much every other student in the classroom, that professor Port was a story teller, and that was understating it by a fair amount, and after a while of his first story about how he was SO freaking brave in defeating a whole pack of Grimm all by himself, and blah blah blah, Silver kinda tuned a lot of everything else out, and when she did, her mind, almost by default, went back to the… interesting relationship that her and Olivia had developed.

It was bothering her to no end that, for some unexplained reason, the sword-wielder just loathed her, and with a burning passion at that, and to make that even worse, Silver knew that when people didn't like her, the main thing she always did was throw it all back. It was hard for her to explain why, but it had just become her natural instinct to react to distaste in the same way, and since Olivia seemed to have a lot of this for her, for whatever rationale it was, this wasn't going to be a pretty partnership between them, and she knew that was bad since it's just the first day of classes, and she is already thinking this.

The main thing that was getting her about it though was the fact that the orange-haired girl wouldn't tell her a thing about what it was that made her abhor come so easily. 'If she could just tell me, we might actually get somewhere positive, because otherwise, I don't know what would be right or wrong around her. Ugh, this is not what I signed up for.'

Her thoughts were interrupted by Port clearing his throat. "Excuse me Ms. Porcello." Her head snapped back up at the mention of her name, she hadn't even realized that she had her head angled down, looking at the table.

"Uh, y-yes professor?" She stuttered out.

Port raised an eyebrow at her. "I would appreciate it if your attention was on my words, and NOT on what might be flashing through your mind. Could you please do that for me?"

She felt herself start to blush in embarrassment. "Yes, I'm sorry."

"Good. Since this is your first day, I will only let you off with a warning, so make sure it doesn't happen again."

Silver nodded, and she heard some students start to snicker around her, and she slumped back farther into her seat, her blush intensifying quickly. 'Alright, it might be a good idea to actually pay attention to what's going on now. This is not going to be my reputation here.'

The rest of the class went without incident, and as they were leaving, Olivia walked past Silver, and shot her a quick scowl. "Nice one leader. Great first impression for us." She sarcastically said, then walked off to their next class.

Silver had to hold back the urge to retort, and successfully did, knowing that nothing positive would be the result. She felt an arm wrap around her shoulders, and she looked over to see Koel, a comforting smile on her face. "Don't worry about it Silver, I have no doubt that a lot is going through your mind. Just try to shove all that out until classes are over." The younger faunus nodded, and they went on their way.

"GoodmorningeveryoneandwelcometohistoryclassIamdoctorOobleck..."

Oobleck talked so fast, it's like he took a breath every hundred words, and Silver tried, oh she tried to keep up as best she could, but after about half the class period, she had completely lost track of what was going on, and she was absolutely positive she wasn't the only one. 'I'm kinda surprised that even HE knows what the hell he's talking about.'

"Excuse me, Ms. Porcello?"

Silver once again hadn't noticed she had her head down, and now she was in trouble again because of it. 'Damn nervous habits.' "Yes?" She responded as she brought her head back up to look at the overactive teacher.

"Could you please give me an explanation on why you look like you're in your own world, and not this one?"

Silver nervously scratched the back of her neck. "Um, I'm sorry professor Ooble-"

"DOCTOR Oobleck, thank you very much." He quickly cut her off to correct her.

"U-uh, okay, d-doctor Oobleck… I'm sorry, but you talk so fast, it's kinda difficult for me to keep up."

"You're not the only one," A male voice behind her said. "I lost track ten minutes ago."

Oobleck shook his head at them. "Well you're just going to have to get used to it, because this is how it's going to be every day, now anyway..." He continued on without another word on the matter, and Silver looked over to her team, Koel looking briefly at her as well, shaking her head with a chuckle, while Marriott looked no less confused, and even Olivia seemed to be having trouble keeping up.

As they were walking out after class ended, Marriott looked over at her teammates. "So… did anyone of you get ANYTHING he was saying?" All she got as an answer was the shakes of their heads.

The next class didn't even need an introduction, everyone already knew what was next, and it intimidated all of them just as much as it excited them. This was…

"Hello everyone, and welcome to sparring class." Yup, and their teacher didn't even need to introduce herself, since the students had already seen her three times before this, and she was the main source of the intimidation.

Silver, and pretty much everyone else in the room, made DAMN WELL SURE that they were listening and paying attention to everything that was said and done by professor Goodwitch; they didn't want to be on the receiving end of whatever she would say and do if she caught them off in their own world.

After a few minutes of basic instruction of what would be specifically going on in the class, she got straight down to business. "Okay, now today, their will not be any actual sparring between any of you, their will just be basic practice, and what better thing for basic practice..." She trailed off as she directed their attention over to one end of the sparring area, and professor Port came out with a cage that was shaking way to much, and as he pushed it into the full light of the room, and they could see what looked like a Boarbatusk inside. "Than a perfectly alive Grimm. Now, who will be the one to demonstrate their fighting?" She asked herself, looking upon the students.

Murmurs were heard amongst the students about the fact that they were getting "practice" by fighting a freaking Grimm, as Silver thought about the whole situation. 'What I want to know is how they got one of those in here in the first place.'

"How about you Ms. Porcello?" She heard Glynda say, disrupting her train of thought. "Why don't you come down here and show us how you fight?"

'Of course it would be me.' She thought, but nodded. Of course she was going to do it, she wasn't going to be a coward in front of everybody. Also, today hasn't exactly been the greatest day ever, so this could help her vent some of the frustration she was feeling.

She heard Koel whisper a quick "be careful", as walked on down to the sparring area, and stood firmly on the other side of the floor, activated Azurewrath, and took her stance. "Are you ready Ms. Porcello?" Silver nodded, ready to show everyone what she is capable of. "Good. Open the cage Peter, and begin!"

As soon as the cage was opened, the Boarbatusk went on a straight beeline at her, and it was a lot faster than she initially anticipated, and right before it got to her, it ducked its head down, ready to propel it back up to skewer her with its tusks, but before it could, she sidestepped out of the way. The Boarbatusk skidded to a stop and redirected itself, and charged her again, just to have her once again sidestep away. This was the whole fight for about a minute, exactly how Silver typically liked it when

she was fighting alone so she could feel her opponent out and get a good idea of their attack patterns, and occasionally landing hits when she saw an opening.

But as Silver thought she had a good idea of all the Boarbatusk could do, it stopped for a quick second, and suddenly started to spin rapidly in place. 'Wait, what?' She thought confusedly, and after this thought, it rolled its body directly at her at a high rate of speed, barely giving her any time to react. She quietly yelped, and barely jumped out of the way. When she turned around to face it, she saw that it stopped briefly, and she saw her chance to finish it. She lunged at it and unleashed a quick flurry of jabs and stabs at it, but unfortunately, it didn't quite finish it off, as it defended against her last few attempts.

She jumped back and took a quick breath, and she got an idea as to how to kill it. As she jumped back from it, she made sure that she was in front of a wall, and when she found herself in front of one, the Boarbatusk had successfully recovered, and it charged at her for one last time, and she sidestepped to avoid it, and it crashed headfirst into the wall, and fell over onto its back, and before it could recover from this, Silver ran forward and, with a brief shout, she thrust her right arm down, and stabbed it through its stomach with her wrist blade, and as it cried out in pain, she shot a couple bullets into its stomach as well, making sure that it was not recovering from this.

It dissipated, and she heard some applauds from some of the students, and she deactivated Azurewrath as she turned around to face professor Goodwitch. "Well done Ms. Porcello. Your strong and agile, you definitely remind me of your sister from a few years ago." Silver faintly blushed at the compliment. It never ceased to flatter her when she was compared to her sister when it came to her fighting skill. "However, your style might need a little more refinement. I see some holes in your attacks that could prove to be problematic in the future, but good job regardless. You may go sit back down now."

The faunus nodded. "Thank you professor Goodwitch." And with that, she went back to her seat.

After sparring class, the rest of the day kinda flew on by. They ate lunch and dinner with teams RWBY and JNPR, both of which asking a variety of questions on how the day went, but none of them daring to question what had been going between Silver and Olivia during the day, for they didn't really want to start something between the two. After all, how many more glaring contests would their be before something really broke out.

That night, as they were coming back from dinner, Olivia took their attention when they got to their dorm. "Koel, Marriott, you two go on ahead into the dorm, I want to talk to Silver real quick."

The three others froze, and looked over at the orange-haired girl. "Um, are you sure?" Koel asked, afraid of what she wanted to "talk" about, and she only got a quick glare as an answer, which immediately shut her up.

Marriott glanced between Silver and Olivia for a second, then sighed. "Just make sure that we don't hear you shouting to loud, and that we also don't hear any explosions go off. Could you do that for us please?" She said as she opened the door, and dragged Koel in quickly.

Silver faced Olivia and narrowed her eyes questioningly. "Well, spit it out, what do you want to "talk" about?" She asked as she leaned on her side against the wall.

Olivia gave her a "shut up and listen" kind of look. "After sparring class, I asked professor Goodwitch who your sister exactly was. She told me that she was one of the best students they had ever had, both academically, AND fighting wise."

Silver was confused as to what that had to do with anything. "Okay, and?"

Olivia sighed, and gave her a razor-sharp glare. "Listen well here Silver, don't think for a single second at ANY time here, that just because you are the sister of one of the greatest students to graduate here, and you got in a year early, and you're team leader, and all that crap, that you are someone SO special, and someone SO high above me. I will not deal with, nor be led by someone like that. Capiche?"

'Oh, so that's it.'. "I have not thought for a second that I am above anyone else here. So I got in a year early, big freaking deal, doesn't mean I'm going to let something so insignificant go to my head. I'm a student just like everyone else here, and I have to do just as much to become a huntress like everybody else. I'll make sure of that." She tried to make her tone as purposeful as possible.

But apparently, that wasn't quite enough for Olivia. "You better, because if you think at some time that you are better than anyone hear, you will have another thing coming."

Silver narrowed her eyes at her again. "Are you threatening me or something?"

Olivia kept her glare strong. "If you don't do anything to warrant any kind of action, you won't have to know."

Silver could hear the warning in her voice, but being who she is, she wasn't backing down from this, so she stopped leaning on the wall, and walked slowly over to Olivia, and spoke with a low voice. "The same could be said for you." She locked her crimson eyes with Olivia's sky blue ones as she continued. "Just because I'm a year younger than you, doesn't mean I'm going to turn around and run away like a scared little kid. I plan on proving myself here, and if it takes showing YOU, personally, I will. You can threaten, and warn me all you want, but the last thing I'm going to do is back down from you, and if you're going to test me on that, then I'm more than willing to comply."

Their most intense glaring contest ensued, and without any words for a few moments, until Olivia broke the tense silence, while still not looking away. "Fine then, I'd love to see you try."

"Challenge accepted." Silver replied without a moments hesitation, also not looking away.

Their contest continued for a few more seconds, until Olivia opened the door and walked into the dorm, not speaking another word.

Silver watched her enter the dorm, and she sighed. 'This is going to be a fun four years.' And with that bitter thought, she walked into the dorm as well, ready to just end this day and put it behind her.

I suck at fighting scenes, but whatever. I'm sure you guys at least have an idea for what happens next, but I won't spoil anything about the next chapter. Hopefully I'll have it up before next weekend, but I have no idea. But anyway, if you enjoyed, or just have something to say in general, please leave a review, and I'll see you guys next chapter! (I'm so excited!)