Weiss was resting peacefully in her bed when suddenly Ruby appeared beside her, grinning eagerly as she held a whistle in her hand. She immediately blew on the Whistle and Weiss fell out of bed screaming.
"WAKE UP!" Ruby yelled as Weiss sat up.
"You could have just told me my alarm didn't work..." Weiss rubbed her eyes before Ruby blew the Whistle in her face again, making her stagger back more.
"We have to get to work!" Ruby stated.
"Work? On what?" Weiss grunted while standing up.
"On the most important task for a team to do on their first day!" Ruby exclaimed.
"DECORATING!" Yang grinned holding up her arms full of various items including CDs, rolled up posters and several other miscellaneous objects.
"We do have a lot of unpacking to do..." Blake stated, holding up her small luggage, that accidentally flung open. "And organizing..."
Don't you worry about the dark,
I will light up the Night with the life in my heart,
I will burn like the sun
I will keep you safe and warm
The team got to work setting up their dorm room, with Blake stacking various books onto a shelf, but notably tucking a couple in the very back of the shelf, hidden behind other books, her eyes darting from side to side.
Yang was hanging her posters up and also putting her CDs onto a little CD shelf she brought with her.
Like the smell of a Rose on a Summer's day,
I will be there to take all your fears away,
Weiss hung up a painting to liven the room's look and make it look a little more sophisticated.
Ruby hung the curtains up, using her scythe to help her do it, but wound up having to stitch the curtain back together after it ripped upon her moving her scythe down.
With the touch of a hand
I will turn your life to...
The room was ready and...
"This is a total mess." Blake stated.
"Yeah..." Yang agreed, noting all the clutter and how the beds were practically stacked on top of each other in an uneven mess.
"We have to do something with this..." Weiss admitted.
"Why don't do bunk beds?!" Ruby grinned.
"Sounds great!" Yang raised a fist up confidently.
"It would help at space saving..." Blake agreed.
"Well how about we put it to a vote." Weiss argued.
"I think we just did." Yang chuckled before the four got to work.
Needless to say, it was still a mess, but it was at least manageable and livable.
"Now that room set up is done... It's time for class. First today we have Grimmology at 9 AM with Professor Port... Ooh I remember him..." Ruby laughed a little.
"Oh yeah, Dad's friend." Yang rolled her eyes, remembering his long winded stories. "Well maybe he won't be as bad in class as he is when he's hanging out with Dad..."
"Wait... 9 AM?" Weiss paused.
Before anyone could question Weiss she pointed to the clock she hung up in the room.
"It's 8:55!"
In that instant all the girls, quickly dashed out of the room, Yang notably still adjusting her uniform and Ruby stumbling a bit from putting on her shoes still.
"8:55?!" Jaune panicked as Nora shoved him over and started barreling down the hall with the rest of her team following in pursuit of her.
Professor Ozpin merely chuckled a little while taking a sip of his morning coffee and Glynda was looking at her wrist watch.
Outside of Port's classroom stood Alix who held open the door for the two Teams to enter and followed them in himself, sitting closer to the front.
The class was about as boring as Yang and Ruby dreaded. Between important talks of Grimm biology and the fact that they're attracted to fear and other negative emotions Port was inserting his own long winded stories about his own experiences with some of these Grimm. Though there was the information of what these Grimm's weaknesses were, such as the Boarbatusk's underbelly being it's weakness and the joints of the Ursa Major's heavily armored body being it's main weakness.
Yang slammed her head on the desk a few times to keep herself awake. Ruby was doodling and giggling to herself.
Blake was just silently listening, though it was clear from a yawn that she was getting tired. Weiss seemed to be the only member of team RWBY giving her whole attention to his stories and useful information.
Weiss however also couldn't help but grit her teeth in slight annoyance at Ruby's behavior. Ruby, showing Yang a silly drawing of Professor Port that she did that made her laugh. She even flashed it in Alix's direction which made him need to step outside to laugh.
Ruby was acting like a complete buffoon and it was getting on Weiss's nerves.
She would be having a word with Ruby after class.
Soon enough class would end and Weiss pulled Ruby over.
"Ruby, I thought you'd be setting a better example." Weiss's eyes narrowed.
"What? I know Professor Port him and Oobleck come over to hang out with our Dad a lot! He's like exactly the same here except more boring!" Ruby explained.
"But does that excuse behaving like that in class? This isn't your home. This is Beacon Academy one of the most prestigious schools in all of Remnant! Show a little respect." Weiss glared.
"Hey, step off my sister." Yang shoved Weiss away as she was starting to get in Ruby's face again. "We're on a team and we need to work together." she insisted.
Weiss merely turned away. "I already want to ask Ozpin about transferring teams." she walked off as Ruby frowned a bit and Yang just glared at her.
"D-Don't pay any mind to her Ruby." Yang stated. "She's just being Weiss."
Ruby just took a deep breath and smiled again, determined to not let this get the better of her next class.
The next class of the day was with Professor Anne Greene, Team exercises. In this class, first year students were tasked with working with their teammates on various assignments. The first assignment was simple, have a friendly discussion with your teammates to better understand them. There was a questionnaire given, but the students didn't have to follow along with it as it was only to guide them if they weren't sure what to discuss.
Weiss looked intently at the questionnaire thinking about a question to ask.
"Oh! I know, what's your favorite food?!" she asked.
"I really like Strawberries." Ruby smiled. "They're tasty and just such perfect sweet fruits!"
"I gotta say, I love me a good bowl of ramen~ Though my Dad's Rice noodles are the best too..." Yang bit her lip, wishing so hard she could have a bowl now.
"I fancy seafood." Blake answered plainly, while looking more to her notebook.
"Well, I love a good crumpet." Weiss stated.
Ruby couldn't hold in a chuckle at the word Weiss just said.
Weiss just rolled her eyes before turning her attention back to the list of questions.
"Say, Weiss... Why did you want to go to Beacon?" Ruby asked her, which seemed very out of the blue and much to her surprise.
"Yeah, why didn't you go to Atlas?" Yang added.
"It's... None of your business." Weiss stated flatly, clearly not wanting to continue this line of questioning.
"S-Sorry." Ruby apologized and looked away.
Weiss just rolled her eyes at Ruby's shrinking attitude while Yang tried to change the subject to something simple.
"What's your favorite colors?" she asked. "Mine's Yellow."
"Black." Blake stated plainly.
"White." Weiss was still reading the questionnaire.
"Red." Ruby answered, slowly straightening herself out before Weiss shot her another glare, scaring her now into hiding herself with her hood.
Yang let out a sigh, this wasn't going to work.
Soon enough class had ended and it was only now time for lunch break. Weiss sat at a far end of the cafeteria, away from everyone else and made sure to wipe off her seat and section of the table before sitting down.
Ruby was still hiding herself with her hood.
Yang pulled it down and sat down next to her as Alix joined them. "C'mon sis, you can't let her just push you around like this."
"Yeah, I mean look, my teammates give me a hard time, but sometimes ya just gotta push back." Alix stated patting his chest confidently which made Ruby chuckle a bit since he didn't look cool doing it, but rather more silly.
"Ow, please stop!" cried a girl as Cardin Winchester of Team CRDL was pulling on her bunny ears.
"See? I told ya they were real." Cardin snarked before letting go of her ear and putting a hand on her shoulder.
"Ya know, I think we might have an opening in our team's dorm room for a maid." Russel Thrush smirked which just made the girl shudder before Jaune stepped up and got between them.
"H-Hey leave her alone!" Jaune stated, clearly trying to deepen his voice as Cardin looked unimpressed with him and the brown haired girl just walked away to another end of the cafeteria
Blake saw her walk off and followed her to make sure she was alright. Weiss simply scoffed at the two.
Jaune's bravado didn't last too long against Cardin as Cardin merely took Sky's almost finished food tray and dumped it onto Jaune.
"Hey, don't you worry Sky, our new buddy Jaune will pay for your food." he laughed as Jaune groaned.
Ruby crushed the now empty milk carton she was holding in her hand as she decided she would step up to this bully now. If there was one thing Ruby didn't like, it was a bully and Cardin was such a bully.
Without even a warning Ruby moved to dump her trash filled tray onto him, only to bump right into Weiss who was going to throw out her own food. The end result was both girls covered in garbage.
"YOU DOLT!" Weiss stood up and when Ruby got back up, slapped her across the face. The resulting slap was loud enough that everyone in the entire cafeteria stopped what they were doing. Even Cardin was looking frightened as he decided to drop the act turn back to his teammates.
"Weiss I was just-" Ruby tried to argue but Weiss walked off before she could say another word, the door slamming behind her.
Commentary: Here we have our first original chapter! Alright, it has bits and pieces of other chapters, but generally speaking the new content outweighs the old. Here we have some building tension to the team's drama that's mostly going to be what this current arc is about. Although Jaune's arc with Cardin is also going to be squeezed into here as a sort of sub-arc to this already going on arc if that makes sense. Pretty much I'm having both happen around the same time frame. Also Professor Anne Greene is an actual character in RWBY. in the "After the Fall" novel, she's mentioned as being a professor of Stealth and Security, at least for second years. I assume she also would teach another class, so she's also in charge of the team building class where the teams learn to work with one another. I also couldn't resist squeezing "Gold" into the part where the team is decorating their room, I just felt like it fits.
But yeah, most of the serious plot stuff is gonna be on hold for this arc. Although, if we are being fair it IS pretty important that our main characters learn to get along with one another. Will they? Or won't they? I suppose we'll find out soon.
