AN: Not much to say. This is a shorter chapter since I wanted to keep it separate from the rest of their first day of classes.

Volume 1 Chapter 10: Time and Place

I stare up at the bunk above me. I'm sure I have a huge smile plastered on my face like some kind of moron, but I just can't stop!

I'm at Beacon! BEACON!

The single greatest Hunter Academy in all of Remnant.

In spite of my parents sabotaging me at every turn, I fricking MADE it!

I hear a sleepy yawn off to the side as one of my teammates slowly stirs themselves awake. I take that as my cue to finally get out of bed and toss my blanket off of me and slide out of bed quietly.

The floor is nice and cool under my feet and I curl my toes in the soft carpeting when I quickly run my body through some light stretches, the cracks of my joints popping sound so loud I'm surprised no one wakes up. Especially the raven-haired girl on my team, she's so twitchy.

She's nice enough though. Kind of strict, but from what I saw during initiation she is definitely qualified to be here.

Once I finish popping my joints and reach into my backpack resting next to my bed and pull out a small whistle.

Inhale.

SWEEEEEEEEEEEE

The three full bunks explode into motion. The blond rolls out of the bottom bunk just in time for the black-haired girl to land on top of him. They both shout in surprise at the collision and tumble to the floor in a ball of limbs and long hair.

My partner flips off the bunk over mine and calmly walks over and yanks the whistle out of my hands, walks to the window, and throws it out as hard as he can.

"What was that for?!" The blond shouts as he finally manages to untangle his limbs from the growling girl. It's a good thing we don't have our weapons in our dorms.

"GOOOOOOD MORNING TEAM STRQ!" I throw my hands over my head and shout cheerfully.

My partner growls and rubs the sleep out of his face quickly but he can't hide the twitch of his lips upwards as he tries his hardest to resist smiling.

His sister isn't quite as happy.

"ARE YOU A MORON!?" Raven shouts as she climbs to her feet, only to step on Tai's calf and fall back to the ground with an undignified squeak.

I point imperiously at the three.

"As your glorious leader, it is my duty to make sure you all wake up on time! And it's already 6AM! We only have three hours before classes! We haven't even unpacked or decided on showering schedules yet!"

Tai sighs and falls back into his bed and immediately begins snoring again.

Well he definitely isn't getting first use of the shower.

Raven finally manages to get to her feat without tumbling over.

"Summer. I swear if you wake me up like that again..."

"Qrow already destroyed my whistle, you are safe!"

SWWWWEEEEEEEEEEE

Rose jumped from her bed and fell to the floor with a thud and a startled yell.

"GOOOOOD MORNING TEAM RWBY!" the combined shout of her three other team members rang out.

All three of the girls were already out of their pajamas and in their school uniforms ready for the day. Rose shakily got to her feat. Her arms and legs were tingling with adrenalin from her sudden awakening. She stomped over to her sister who was smiling far too happily for Roses tastes. She stopped in front of the taller girl and put her hands on her hips, glaring angrily.

"Good morning Rose! It's time to unpack!"

Rose sighed and gave a curt nod.

The four girls unpacking went quite smoothly. Weiss and Yang plastered the walls with colorful posters and Blake had a surprisingly large collection of books she seemed to pull out of thin air. Rose for her part mostly had school supplies and tools for working on weapon designs. Luckily the school had its own entire building for weapon working so she only had to take the bare minimum for upkeep to store in her room.

But despite Roses lack of clutter, they ran out of space quickly.

Blake looked at the pile of extra stuff they had no more space for, it was mostly hers and Yang's.

"I guess we have to get rid of some stuff."

Weiss and Yang agreed, Yang of course being overdramatic and clinging to her piles of junk with tear filled eyes.

Rose thought of her dream and spoke up before the two could start carting things out.

"You could always make bunk beds."

Yang and Blakes eyes shone when they turned from their respective piles. Blake was happy she wouldn't have to abandon her poor books on the streets, Yang was more surprised that her sister of all people came up with a fun idea like bunk beds.

"Do we even have tools to do that?" Weiss spoke up interrupting the two girls exited chattering.

"Of course we do! There's gotta be some sort of supply closet around here! Easy peasy!" Yang and Blake ran out of the room in search of supplies.

Rose facepalmed at the sight of her overly excitable sister.

A short minute later the two came back in loaded up with rolls of tape, nails, hammers, and all sorts of other tools that really didn't have any use in bunking beds, but no doubt Yang wanted to play with.

"Okay. Have fun." Rose said before grabbing her uniform and heading to the bathroom.

"Oh c'mon sis, don't you wanna help!?" Yang pleaded pitifully. Her eyes grew watery and large like a puppy.

"No. You two are the ones who need it, so do the work yourselves."

She shut the door behind her and moments later she could hear the sounds of hammering nails, tape being cut, and far too many sawing noises for comfort.

Please don't destroy the room Yang...

After her shower Rose came out of the bathroom refreshed and slightly damp to see two bends bunked in slightly... abnormal ways.

One side of the room had a bed suspended by rope and tape, the other was stacked on top of the other using stacks of books between the beds to level the posts.

"So Rose, whadya think?" Yang posed in front of the beds arms stretched wide like she was presenting some sort of gameshow reward.

"It's about what I expected actually. I call top bunk." Rose tossed her pillow onto the bed hanging by ropes and tape.

"What!? Shouldn't we put it to a vote!?" shouted Weiss. She didn't want to wake up at night to find a bed fell on top of her and crushed her in her sleep.

"If you wanted it safer you should have built it that way."

Weiss sighed in defeat at that. She could have reined in Yang after all and just nailed the suckers in, and if the person making them didn't feel comfortable using them they had no right to tell someone else to use them after all. Weiss tossed her things in the bed below Roses, and Blake and Yang played a quick game of rock paper scissors to decide their situation. Blake pumped her fist in the air while Yang grumbled dejectedly. Blake tossed her thing in the top bunk across from Rose.

"Say Yang, where did you get the idea to wake me up with a whistle?"

Yang looked up from her bed where she was trying in vain to fit the sheet around the mattress without it having crazy folds all over it.

"Oh that? Dad told me about it a while ago. Said Summer did it to them on their first day as a team. Did he or Qrow never tell you about it? Half of dads' stories from Beacon are about Summer's antics after all."

Rose frowned and shook her head. "No, I don't think dad has ever told me a story about Summer before."

"That's strange. Dad and Qrow never shut up about her when they drink."

Rosees frown deepened. She glanced up at the clock sitting on one of the desks under the window. Bright LED's read 8:55am.

"We better get going. Class is in five minutes."

"WHAT?!" Weiss shouted and barelled past Rose and out the door quickly followed by Blake and Yang.

Rose remained in the room alone. Thinking about the weird dream.

Whatever. Dad probably just told me it once and I forgot until I came to Beacon myself.

The dream was weird though. She was always had that lingering sunken fear eating at her that she had to overcome, but during that dream she was just... happy.

Rose shimmered and vanished out the door leaving a trail of rose petals in her wake.

Welcome again to the bottom of the chapter.

Now that I have initiation over and am actually into Beacon, I will be going back over the next few days and giving some first edits to the first 10 chapters. Should only take a day or two. Might write another chapter while I'm doing it so i dont get too bored.

Starting from this chapter, and into the classes that will start next chapter, you will be seeing a lot more of my lore changes.

Oh, and since they never show Summer's weapon, I decided to make it a Curved Greatsword. Basically if you have played Dark Souls, you should know what I'm talking about in terms of visuals. All flowing slashes, no stabbing. I really like it in anime and stuff when really tiny girls have massive weapons hahaha.

Sence its short I guess I will respond to some reviews.

A guest mentioned how Yang is portrayed in fanficitons as being protective of her sister while in the show she isn't really protective at all 90% of the time. I'm inclined to agree. It's one of my minor gripes with the show that Yang almost gets Ruby killed and doesn't significantly change for it. That will be a major event for Rose and Yang in my story. Yay! Mostly it will have to do with Rose overcoming her fear and becoming a hunter.

LastheJihadist: You bet it's a bad highschool anime! THE BEST KIND OF ANIME! But yeah. Once the edits are done Rose should have less Weiss like personality. Mostly i just enjoyed swapping their places in that chapter to be honest haha. I really plan on doing more with Jaune and Pyrrha, and actually using Jaune as a full character with alot of screen time. During my initial drafts i really didn't want to write for him though so I kept putting off bringing him up as a character haha. He will be getting a fairly major upgrade over the course of things. His character type works alot better over a longer period of time. i especially want him to be competent and actually useful by the time team JRNY... errr... RNGR goes to Mistral. I hated how they went on a dangerous adventure and even then Jaune is still incompetent. Also... ALL HAIL THE OP ANIME OC'S! LONG MAY THEY SHARENGAN THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYTHING! or whatever the current bullshit overpowered anime power is haha. But yeah. Klara is quite OP to be honest at the moment. I need to actually introduce and show off people like Qrow and other top tier Hunters in combat to give more context to how strong each character is since I have increased the power cap so much.