Team SNOW moved as one zombified mass from their dorm to the cafeteria. It was recently made clear to them that they were all most definitely not morning people. They saw team JNPR and what seemed to be team RWBY sitting at one of the tables which lead to them dragging a table over to make room for everyone.
Once they were all situated Nora who until now seemed to be asleep lifted her head off the table and looked at Willow. "Your brother is a despot," she groaned.
"He is not,' Willow reflexively snapped back in her semi-asleep state. As she was looking around confused Jaune handed her a cup of coffee which she took with a smile.
"He got up before the sun so he could start running," Nora said. When Willow was about to respond Nora continued. " and he made us go with him"
Understanding dawned on Willow as her eyes grew. "Oh," she muttered. "Then what happened?"
Ren was the one who continued. "After we ran for a while we went into the weight room and began lifting weights, and after that, we had wrestling practice," the way that Ren said that told Willow what he thought of wrestling practice.
"We went light on the wrestling in order to save the delicate flower over there," Jaune said. Nora was about to bark something at him but Jaune fixed a stern glare at her and she instantly gave up on that idea.
Willow laughed at that since she now knew what he had been. "He'll mellow right now he's just establishing dominance."
Now it was Pyrrha's turn to look shocked. "He's just establishing dominance, what does he do on his own!"
Willow just laughed some more at this. She didn't want to answer so that her brother could have a legend about him with his team. That was the kind of leader he was. At first, you wouldn't like him but after a while, you learn that he would take a bullet for you. The rest of team SNOW was looking at Willow wondering how she had gotten coffee when they hadn't.
Olivia reached for the cup only to stop when she heard both Willow and Jaune growling at her. Everyone who was awake att he table looked at Jaune confused as to why he had growled but then they remembered that Jaune and Willow were twins. They may have had some kind of mental link.
Thankfully team RWBY was ready for such matters since Yang had been forced to be a morning person in order to take care of her baby sister. She passed the large pot of coffee down the table. An act that earned her several pleased grunts from team SNOW.
Once they were all human again, or as human as Blake and Naomi can be. They headed for the food. Thanks to the dire need for hunters the city of Vale offered Beacon a substantial amount of money in exchange for Beacon locating its academy in the middle of the city.
As such tuition was not charged to the students in conventional ways. Instead, they earned their keep by going on missions in the surrounding countryside and in some cases even by doing police work.
It also meant that Beacon's facilities were well stocked. So when the horde reached the kitchen area they found the staff hard at work making large amounts of breakfast food. Nora, of course, went right for the pancakes while Ren reached for the oatmeal. Pyrrha got a small plate of scrambled eggs, and Jaune got a plate of some kind of diced meat and potatoes.
Team snow was surprisingly consistent. Shiro got some scrambled eggs and homefries, Naomi grabbed hard-boiled eggs and toast. Olivia's plate had over-easy eggs and homefries, while Willow had scrambled eggs and toast.
Team RWBY was chaos, Weiss was complaining about the food while Yang was wolfing down a waffle. Ruby had inhaled a bowl of cereal and Blake was hard at work trying to find a particular kind of food but with a mildly disappointed look on her face settled on a muffin.
When they were back at their table it seemed to register to everyone that no one knew what Jaune was eating but he sure was excited about it. It was the first time that anyone but Willow had seen him smile.
"What'cha got there shining knight?" Yang asked with an amused grin.
"This," Jaune said grabbing his fork and taking a bite. "Is hash," that didn't explain a whole lot but nobody really wanted to interpret him since he looked happy.
While that was going on Wiess was still muttering about how the eggs were overcooked and the coffee was too oily. Oliva who seemed to be cringing that whole time finally snapped and got up walking over to Weiss. "Listen up you little priss, you aren't in your fancy mansion so for the time being you need to eat like us peons. If that is a problem for you then the door is always open."
Weiss looked like she had just been spit on. "Who do you think you are? Talking to me like that," she yelled.
Snapping into a parade rest that conflicted heavily with her biker jacket and disheveled hair cut she said. "Atlas cadet 382047386" Weiss whipped out her scroll like she was about to call someone when Oliva continued. "Cadet 382047386, Olivia Ironwood,"
Weiss froze in her tracks as did the rest of the room. Looking over at Wiess' scroll and the number she was about to dial Oliva laughed "oh, you have Sarah's number that's cute,"
Oliva pulled out her own scroll and used the speed dial. After a moment the call was answered and General Ironwood answered. "Hey daddy," Oliva said with a smile. "I just wanted you to know that I made it through initiation just fine, made a good team."
Ironwood (who was wearing reading glasses) looked up from the paper he was signing and said. "That's wonderful sweetie have you gotten your class schedule yet?"
Olivia nodded yes while doing this she hit the call button on Wiess' scroll. After a few moments, a scroll could be heard ringing in the background and the general's secretary said. "Sir Ms. Weiss Schnee calling for you,"
Ironwood sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose and taking off his glasses saying, "Sorry sweetie but you know how it is,"
Both he and Oliva spoke in unison to say "I have an army and a school to run with politics in between,"
"Talk to you later sweetheart bye," the general said hanging up the call and answer the call from Weiss. "Ms. Schnee, how may I help you?"
The reason that Weiss even had Ironwood's secretary's number was because he was the nearest thing to a father that she had. He had been called like this a few times when she needed advice or when she was having a problem with someone.
He was clearly a little annoyed about having to hang up on his daughter but the longer that Weiss just stared at him without saying anything the more annoyed he was getting. After a few seconds of Weiss just staring blankly, Ironwood chastised her saying. "Weiss, I didn't give you that number so you could crank call me."
With that, he hung up and Olivia walked back to her seat and went back to eating her breakfast. Everyone was silent for a few seconds. They all knew who Weiss was but they had no idea that the daughter of one of if not the most powerful man in the world was in their midst.
It was Shiro who spoke up first saying. "Well, that was good to know, note to self never piss off Oliva she can make my family disappear,"
After the laughing died down everyone went back to their food except for Weiss who was still unimpressed with the food. They finished just in time for their first class which just so happened to be Professors Port's class on Grimm studies.
It was an informative lesson for the five students who stayed awake through it. For the rest of them, it was nap time. The lecture was about the time that the mighty mustached man had faced off with a large number of Beowolves and defeated them by oddly enough running into the group with reckless abandon.
The act of blatant bravado drew out the alpha and his close allies. Who he then destroyed causing the whole pack to devolve into anarchy. At that point, they were much easier to dispatch.
The bell rang and most of the class woke up and headed for the combat room where Professor Goodwitch was waiting to give them their next lesson.
