It begins once more. Vacation time is over and it is back to the old grind. It'll be nice seeing everyone again though. A few days before second semester started, I asked Ozpin if he could enroll Lyra in Signal Academy. Now she is a first year in Signal. Hopefully she gets along with the other kids, if not, I'll surely knock some heads. Ruby messaged me saying to meet everyone at the cafeteria. Getting dressed in the school uniform, I walked around and saw Sun walking with a guy that has messy light blue hair, dark blue eyes and looked to be his height. He was dressed in a white dress shirt and black tie under a red jacket with a wide, upturned, black collar and a pair of gray jeans with black padding strapped to the sides. The back of his jacket displays a silver reticle. He wore black shoes that are fastened with straps, rather than laces. He also has black fingerless gloves and a pair of yellow-tinted goggles worn on his forehead.

"Hey Sun, who's this?" I greeted and asked.

"This is Neptune, he and I are on a team together." He said.

"So you're the guy Sun was talking about." Neptune responded.

"That depends, how much talking did he do?" I eyed Sun suspiciously.

"No worries bro, it's safe with me." Neptune swore.

"In that case Neptune, my name is Idris and it's a pleasure to meet you." I shook his hand while looking at Sun, mentally declaring payback. "So what are you guys doing here?" I asked them.

"We just came to visit." Sun said.

"That's great." I said. "Where are you guys headed?"

"Cafeteria." Sun said. "Thinking of getting something good to eat and introduce him to everyone Since I was going the same way, I joined them. On the way there Sun was talking about that day at the docks to Neptune who enjoyed the story meanwhile I waved at some people. Sun also blurted out Blake being a faunus and quickly made Neptune promise not to tell.

"You really have a lot of trouble keeping secrets to yourself don't you Sun?" I smiled at him.

"I just don't wanna screw this up you know?" Sun said as we got closer to our destination. "The people here are the coolest. No offense to you guys."

"None taken." Neptune shook his head. I began noticing food stains appearing on the windows of the cafeteria. As well as Jaune being thrown at a window.

"Ok they're just in here. I'm really excited for you to meet them so be cool ok? You're gonna be cool right?" Sun asked.

"Dude." Neptune struck a cool pose while smiling.

"Good point." Sun agreed.

We entered the building to see every student evacuating the building while one student screamed food fight. It looked like a mess already.

"Ah ha ha ha! I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!" I see Nora announce standing atop of a massive stack of tables on the other side of the building along with Ren, Jaune, and Pyrrha.

Ruby stomped onto a table causing some plates to fall off and shatter. "Justice will be swift! Justice will be painful!" She squeezed the milk carton she was holding. "It will be delicious!" She raised her fist charging at Team JNPR with Weiss, Yang, and Blake by her side.

What happened next literally wins the trophy for epic food fight.

"Off with their heads!" Queen Nora instructed. JNPR began throwing watermelons to Team RWBY as Yang ran ahead, placing her hands in two turkeys and attacked with her fists. Blake soon joined her by grabbing two baguettes and fighting of the watermelon attack. Yang then launched the turkeys to Jaune hitting him with both as Pyrrha grabbed a baguette and fought Blake. She was able to throw Blake back and began launching baguettes to Yang knocking her back. Ruby slid into the action with a lunch tray and jumped to push Pyrrha back. Ren and Nora charged forward as Ruby stepped aside letting Weiss spray a line of ketchup on the floor making Ren slip into a couple of tables making them fly. Nora jumped on a table and grabbed a small pole implanting it into a watermelon and slamming the floor sending Ruby back. Weiss then grabbed a swordfish and fought Nora. Her speed proved no match as Nora overpowered her sending her straight into a pillar crumbling it.

Ruby caught Weiss while Yang continued her assault by grabbing to turkeys fighting Ren who had grabbed to celery sticks. She slammed Ren down and Nora came in. Nora was able to send Yang flying and I mean flying because Yang went through the ceiling. Blake equipped sausage links and used it like a whip to send Nora into soda machines. Nora grabbed soda cans and threw them at Blake. Pyrrha touched the floor activating her semblance causing the cans around her to rise from the ground. Massive waves of cans flew slamming Blake into the wall before stopping. Seeing her fallen team, Ruby crouched then began running full power semblance and all. Twisting herself into a spiral, everything around her was sucked into a twister. She hit the brakes when she reached the other side cracking the wall with a shockwave and jumped. All of Team JNPR was slammed into the wall from all the speed and was soon pulverized with food creating a cool mural as Ruby and JNPR landed on the floor.

"I love these guys." Sun said to Neptune who was covered in grape soda. How he got drenched and we didn't, I don't know.

Ms. Goodwitch barged through the door angrily and waved her wand fixing every bit of damage in the room. "Children please, do not play with your food." She said seriously. Nora burped and Yang came back through the ceiling landing on a table destroying it in the process.

"Let it go." Ozpin came and put his hand on Ms. Goodwitch's shoulder.

She sighed. "They're supposed to be the defenders of the world."

"And they will be." Ozpin added. "But right now they are still children. So why not let them play the part? After all, it isn't a role they'll have forever." Ozpin said walking away with her following him.

"Well I'm going to go get clean and you're helping." Neptune said dragging Sun with him.

I looked back at both RWBY and JNPR. "You all seriously have to tell me when you're preparing to do cool stuff like this. Overall, I'd say that it was the most epic food fight ever."

"Idris!" Nora ran up and hugged me covering me in food, not that I mind it anyways.

Blake walked up to me. "Thanks again for your gift." She pointed to her new bow with a green outline.

"No problem, also I was able to get Lyra into Signal Academy since she is old enough to go." I informed her.

"That's good." She said.

"Now if you excuse me, I have some cleaning to do." I referred to the splotches of food on me. Beacon life sure is great.

After classes

I got a message saying that Ozpin wanted to see me. Walking to his office, I see him and Ms. Goodwitch talking to a black and gray haired man wearing a white overcoat, with a gray undercoat, alongside a red tie, and a white glove on his right hand. He also seems to have a strip of metal on his forehead. Weird.

"What'd you need?" I asked, interrupting their conversation.

"Ah Idris, I would like you to meet an old friend of mine, James Ironwood." Ozpin introduced.

"Hello sir." I extended my hand.

He took my hand in his. "Greetings."

"What were you all talking about?" I asked.

"We were discussing about future preparations for the Vytal Festival." Ironwood spoke.

"What kind of preparations?" I asked.

"Well Ironwood thought it was best to transport hundreds of soldiers here for the purpose of protection. You seem like a man with a good grasp in strategics, what are your thoughts?" Ozpin pointed out.

"In all due fairness, doing this would ruin the cheerful feeling of the festival. If there is a problem then we will deal handle it our way without ruining the celebration." I admitted.

"My thoughts exactly." Ozpin agreed.

"Alright then, but let me ask you this, do you really believe that your children can win a war?" These were Ironwood's last words before leaving the room.

I turned to Ozpin. "Don't worry, as long as I'm around, there won't be much of a war to begin with. Especially since I've been training so much."

"Thank you." Ozpin said.

"Quick question. Since Lyra is now in Signal, will she continue staying with me or will she live on her own in Vale?" I asked.

"I have an old friend who can take care of her for you if that's what you want?" He suggested.

"That'll be great also, should she be needing my help for anything, if it is alright to take some days off from classes in order to help her out."

"That can be arranged but you will have to ask the professors as well so you can get their work done early which will grant you those days you are requesting."

"That's fine by me, thank you." I nodded and went to the elevator, going down. The elevator door opened to which I walked out and began making my way back to my dorm room to get some work done. 'Okay with that done, what else do I have to do?' I thought to myself, starting to reassess some priorities. 'I got Port's project, Oobleck's paper, Peach's presentation, The presentation only needs two more slides, a majority of the paper is already done, just need a conclusion. Lastly when it comes to Port's project I definitely need to work on that detailed sketch of the biology of a berin-' My thoughts were interrupted when I bumped into someone. I saw that it was Blake and blushed a bit. "I'm sorry about that Blake."

She had a bit of a blush on herself too. "No, I should've been watching where I was going."

"So uh where were you headed?"

"I was...going to the library to check out some more books to read, do you...by any chance want to join me?"

"Uh sure yeah, I have some time to kill." I nodded quickly and walked with her all the way to the library, making some small talk along the way. "I am telling you that Oobleck just drinks regular coffee."

"But at the rate he moves, talks, and jitters, there is no way that could be regular coffee." She argued.

"Take it from the guy who spent time in his class before school started, it is regular coffee unless…" I trailed off, catching her interest.

She raised her eyebrow. "Unless what?"

"Unless he was, you know…" I pretended to cut something repeatedly and sniffed real hard which got a small laugh out of her when she realized what I was insinuating.

"I honestly doubt that he does any kind of drugs."

"I know, but it made you laugh which is good." We made it to the library and after a couple of minutes of her stacking books along with checking them out, we left the library with me carrying fifteen books. "You really read all these alongside doing all the homework and training?"

She nodded as she took a book off the stack and started reading. "Yes, yes I do. How about you, do you read?"

I shook my head, trying to make sure the stack doesn't collapse. "Never been much of a reader in my previous life or this one, well more so that I have yet to find a book that catches my eye. That and training keeps me more focused which is why I do that more than read like you do."

"Then maybe I'll find you a book to read, I have a bunch of them in multiple shelves, I'm sure there might be one you might like."

"Alright, I'll hold you up to that." We reached her dorm room and I had to bend my knees just so I can barely go through the door. She directed me where to leave the books and I set them down on the desk. I turned to look at the multiple shelves filled with books. "You were right but that seems way more than a bunch doesn't it?"

She shrugged. "It's a bunch to me and thanks for going with me."

I nodded. "No problem, I'll be on my way then." I walked out the door and made it back to my dorm, getting started on my homework.