Author's Note: So, first off, school has started up again so chapter posts will be a bit slower than usual. Don't worry, though, I'm still here and I will still be posting. I swear on the River Styx, and that's a serious oath.

Next, there's something I need to address something I forgot to address in the previous Author's Note: Don't ask me why Claude swears in Greek. I was reading Percy Jackson while I was writing that chapter. But, to keep things consistent, he will continue to swear in Greek so it's not a weird one off thing. I won't tell you the meaning of the swears just to keep it fun.

Finally up on the agenda, I have something to ask of you. Please tell your friends about this fanfic. Heck, while you're at it why don't you tell your enemies about it too. I don't exactly care about how many followers/readers I have but it would be really nice to have more and my shameless self promotion isn't really gonna cut it.

That's all for now. Enjoy the chapter.

Part One

White Clouds

Classroom Révolutionnaire

Another day, another mission briefing from Rhea at five in the damn morning! Either Rhea never slept or she drank more coffee than was healthy for anyone. Nobody was this much of a morning person. At least Byleth could take Solace in the fact that Manuela and Hanneman looked just as tired as she felt, if not more so.

"So, what's this month's mission?" Byleth asked Rhea.

"You've never asked for all three of us at once." Manuela said.

"This month all three houses will be taking on the same mission." Rhea exposited. "You three and your students will be helping with security during the Rite of Rebirth. You recall that we found a note on Lord Lonato's body, yes?"

The three teachers nodded their heads.

"The note details a plot to assassinate Lady Rhea on the day of the Rite." Seteth said.

"I'm guessing it would be inappropriate to laugh." Byleth said.

"Yes, very." Seteth said.

"It's just, an assassination attempt against you, arguably the most well protected person in Fodlan, seems kind of stupid." Byleth said. "Especially during the Rite of Rebirth when the Monastery will be full of people."

"I must agree, it sounds quite ridiculous." Hanneman said.

"It pains me to agree with Hanneman but, well, I agree with Hanneman." Manuela agreed.

"Hey, what about me?" Byleth asked, annoyed.

"Oh, and you too, Byleth." Manuela amended.

"There are many places where one can hide within this Monastery." Rhea explained. "Secret passages and hidden rooms. It is nigh impossible to count them all."

"How in Fodlan are we supposed to keep up effective security, then." Hanneman asked.

"For that matter, how have we been keeping up effective security at all?" Byleth asked.

"Well, admittedly our security has been rather lax as of late." Seteth said sheepishly. Then he muttered. "Jeralt's been on my case about it for the past few months." It was nice to know Jeralt was doing his best to make things better. Seteth cleared his throat. "Anyway, while this is not an ideal situation I implore that you all do your best. Hopefully this will all be for naught but we must be on our guard."

"Well, you can count on us." Byleth said. She looked first at Hanneman and then Manuela. "Right guys?"

"Hmm…" Hanneman hmm'd. "I suppose so."

Manuela elbowed him. "Don't be like that. Of course you can count on us."

"So, before we go." Byleth said. "Hanneman, Manuela, and I have been working on something. An idea."

"Yes?" Seteth asked.

"Why don't you take this?" Byleth suggested to her co-workers.

Hanneman and Manuela nodded.

"Right." Hanneman said. "So, the three of us, Manuela, Byleth, and I, got to talking the other day and we realized that we… aren't exactly the best teachers."

"Well, that's a bit of a pessimistic way of putting it." Manuela criticized.

"Well how would you phrase it?" Hanneman shot back.

Manuela cleared her throat. "The other day, the three of us realized that we all have our own skills and our own teaching styles, but that the three of us teaching individually isn't quite cutting it. We need to work together."

"So… you would like to merge the three houses into one class that the three of you teach together?" Seteth asked.

"Oh no, absolutely not!" Manuela cried.

"No no no no no!" Byleth assisted. "Nope! That is a terrible idea!"

"Are you trying to send us to an early grave?" Hanneman asked.

Seteth pinched the bridge of his nose. "So then what are you suggesting?"

"We rotate classes." Hanneman said. "We haven't quite figured out the schedule but each of us will teach a class every couple of hours. Or every day. Again, we haven't quite decided on the schedule."

"Of course, the three of us will still be taking the house we chose at the beginning of the year on missions." Byleth interjected. "I'll still be taking the Black Eagles on missions, Manuela will still be taking the Golden Deer on missions, and Hanneman will still be taking the Blue Lions on missions."

"This is an… interesting idea." Seteth mused.

"But wait, there's more!" Byleth said in the first example of an infomercial saleswoman. "On the same day we discussed our method of teaching we also realized that the three houses might be a bit too antagonistic towards each other."

"Well, that's only natural." Seteth said. "The three houses are always matched up against each other in things like the mock battle. It only makes sense that they'd be a little competitive."

"Well yeah a friendly rivalry is fine." Byleth explained. "But the only time students seem to talk to other students outside their house is when they're fighting." Byleth rubbed the back of her head. "Admittedly, we kind of inadvertently encouraged it with our own arguing but that's besides the point."

"Which is?" Seteth asked

Manuela crossed her arms. "The point is that we think there should be more activities that encourage positive interaction between the houses."

"Ones that don't involve combat." Hanneman added. "For the most part, at least."

"So, what do you think?" Byleth asked, spreading her arms.

Seteth turned to look at his advisee. "Lady Rhea?"

"I think this is a wonderful idea." Rhea said. "Like I said yesterday, one of the goals of the Officer's Academy was to bring the three nations of Fodlan closer together."

"Awesome! We'll start tomorrow!" Byleth said, pumping her fist. She raised her finger. "Just one more thing. I'm gonna be meeting with the three house leaders once or twice a week at the training grounds for personal training. You know, to teach them how to work together so they can be examples for the rest of the students. I already have permission from Manuela and Hanneman," She patted her fellow professors on the backs, much to their annoyance. "I just thought you should know."

Rhea nodded. "Thank you for informing me. You are dismissed."

"Are you sure this will work?" Sothis asked Byleth as she prepared for her meeting with Claude, Dimitri, and Edelgard.

"Of course." Byleth said, pulling on her boots.

Sothis looked at her skeptically. "Really?"

"Okay, no." Byleth admitted. "But this is only one part of a multi-step plan."

"And the other steps are?" Sothis asked, putting her hands on her hips.

"Uh… I don't know." Byleth admitted once again. "I'm making this up on the fly. It's not exactly like I have a lot of time to plan between teaching classes and grading papers and revolutionizing the Officer's Academy. Not to mention the half a dozen other things I have to do."

"Speaking of teaching classes, aren't you supposed to have a class right now?" Sothis asked.

Byleth's eyes widened. "Oh crap! And there's a test today, too! I need to find a sub! Quick!"

She rifled through her desk for her various lesson plans, attendance sheets, graded (or not) tests, and several other important papers. Once she had them all she hugged them to keep them from scattering everywhere and ran out the door. She needed to find a substitute teacher and fast.

Lucky for her, she happened to pass by the perfect substitute: Shamir. Well, okay, that was a lie. She was anything but the perfect substitute, but she was there and Byleth didn't exactly have much time to find anyone else.

"Shamir!" Byleth shouted, running up to the mercenary. "Thank goodness I happened to run into you! I need your help!"

"Do I know you?" Shamir asked. Byleth slapped herself internally, she forgot that she hadn't met Shamir yet.

"Uh, I'm the new professor here!" She replied, talking fast. "My name is Byleth and I really need your help! I'm supposed to be teaching a class right now but I've got things I need to do! Can you sub for me! Pretty please!"

Shamir opened her mouth to respond but Byleth didn't even let her. "Awesome! Thanks!" She shoved all her papers into Shamir's hands. "Just head to the Black Eagles classroom! Thanks again!"

And with that, Byleth ran off leaving Shamir standing there baffled as to what had just happened.

Byleth was late to a meeting she scheduled. Because of course she was. She wasn't that late, though, was she? After all, she was only 15 minutes late. The three students she was meeting seemed to disagree.

"Professor, if you're going to call us to a meeting with no prior warning, you could at least show up on time." Edelgard said crossly with her hands on her hips.

"Sorry." Byleth said, rubbing the back of her head. "I had to find someone to dump all my work on- I mean, sub for me."

"You couldn't have called this meeting after class?" Claude asked.

"I… uh… yeah that probably would have made more sense." Byleth replied. "But hey, at least you get to miss class right?"

"You're kidding, right?" Claude asked incredulously. "Professor Manuela's going to shove me against the grindstone twice as hard tomorrow for missing class."

"It's a good thing you don't have Manuela tomorrow, then." Byleth said. "But this is off topic."

"Wait, what do you mean I won't-" Claude began, but Dimitri cut him off.

"Yes, what is the topic?" He asked. "You still haven't explained it to us."

"Right, everyone sit down." Byleth said. Everybody sat. "So, let's start with a simple question: what is the purpose of the Garreg Mach Officer's Academy?"

"To teach us how to fight in the event of a war." Edelgard responded immediately.

"No." Byleth said, pointing at her. "Well, okay, yes but no. Anybody else?"

"Edelgard said what I was going to say." Dimitri said.

"I can answer this question." Claude said. "The Officer's Academy was created to bring the nations of Fodlan closer together."

Byleth smiled and shot a finger gun at Claude. "There we go. Got it in one."

"But what does that have to do with anything?" Edelgard asked.

"Perhaps we are here for a special history lesson." Dimitri suggested.

"Why would we be at the training ground for a history lesson?" Edelgard replied.

Dimitri shrugged "I don't know. It was just a guess."

"You're not here for a history lesson." Byleth said. "Besides, Dimitri, I'm sure Hanneman has already drilled enough of that stuff in your head, in between crest theory." She almost felt bad about subjecting the Golden Deer and Black Eagles to the same fate. Almost. "The reason you're here is to attack me."

There was a brief silence before Dimitri finally spoke.

"You want us… to attack you?" He asked.

"Yeah." Byleth confirmed. "All three of you. Together. With weapons."

"But what does this have to do with your question?" Claude asked.

"Do what I ask and maybe you'll find out." Byleth replied. She drew her sword. "Now come on! Attack me! All three of you! Together!"

Dimitri was the first to oblige. Grabbing his spear and leaping up from where he was sitting. He ran at Byleth. She dodged and he barreled right past her.

"Too slow." She quipped. She looked at the other two house leaders. "Come on guys, join in. This isn't a one on one thing."

Edelgard was the next to join in. She also grabbed her weapon and leapt to her feet. She readied her axe and prepared to attack but before she could Dimitri turned around for another pass at Byleth who once again leaped to the side, leaving Edelgard as the only thing in his path.

"Watch where you're going!" Edelgard shouted, barely managing to dodge out of the way.

Dimitri skidded to a stop a foot past where Edelgard had just been standing, barely missing Claude who instinctively grabbed his bow and leaped backwards. Unfortunately, his leaping backwards also included kicking Dimitri in the face. All in all it was not a good day for Dimitri.

"Ow." Dimitri complained, which is quite mild compared to what you might expect from someone who missed their mark twice and got kicked in the face.

Edelgard rolled her eyes and readied her axe once again. This time she actually attacked only to be stopped in her tracks by a familiar situation. She just barely had time to duck as Claude shouted "Heads up!" and fired an arrow off.

Instead of dodging, Byleth decided to be fancy and deflect the arrow off her sword. "Come on guys, you can do better than this!"

Recovering from being kicked in the face, Dimitri spun his spear around and threw it at Byleth, right over Edelgard's head, startling the both of them. Byleth hurriedly ducked and the spear embedded itself in the ground behind her.

"Okay, I wasn't expecting that." Byleth admitted at the same time that Edelgard shouted. "Would you people please stop throwing things at me!"

"Firing a bow isn't throwing." Claude said.

"The distinction is not important!" Edelgard insisted.

She charged, aiming to literally sweep Byleth off her feet with her axe. Simultaneously, Dimitri ran to get his spear and they ended up jockeying for the same space. The final straw for the situation was Claude firing another arrow that the two other house leaders attempted to duck, resulting in them collapsing into a pile in front of Byleth.

Byleth dodged Claude's arrow and held up a hand. "Alright, I think we're done here."

Byleth waited for Dimitri and Edelgard to untangle themselves before beginning her lecture.

"Alright, who can tell me what you all did wrong?" She asked, once they were untangled.

"Dimitri got in my way!" Edelgard answered.

"Edelgard got in my way!" Dimitri answered at the same time.

"No." Byleth said. "Claude?"

"Dimitri and Edelgard don't understand the meaning of heads up." Claude replied.

"Not even close." Byleth replied. "What you all did wrong was… you forgot to work together. Like Claude said at the beginning of all this, this school was made to bring the three nations of Fodlan closer together. That hasn't really been working out so well. The three houses are constantly in conflict. But Manuela, Hanneman, and I are endeavoring to change that. And it all starts with you." She pointed at the three of them. "You are the leaders of the three houses, not to mention the heirs to Fodlan's three major powers! It's your job to set a good example for the rest of the students but you're constantly arguing!"

"What?" Claude asked incredulously. "We aren't constantly arguing! Well, maybe Princess and His Princeliness are but I'm not!"

"Don't fool yourself, Claude." Edelgard said. "You argue just as much of the rest of us, if not more."

"I do not!" Claude insisted.

"I agree with Edelgard." Dimitri said. "Though I think that she argues the most out of the three of us."

"What-" Edelgard began.

"Thank you for proving my point." Byleth said, cutting her off. "Listen, you've got to set a better example. I don't want to sound overdramatic, but the fate of Fodlan might very well depend on it. After all, if rivalries like this continue even after you all graduate, well, Fodlan's already unstable enough as it is." Byleth stopped to take a breath. "Look, I'm not asking you to be best friends or anything, but you need to learn how to work together. And until you can do that we'll be holding training sessions like this every tuesday and thursday. Understand?"

The three house leaders affirmed that they understood. Byleth gave them a thumbs up.

"Awesome!" She said, more upbeat. "Class, er, training dismissed."

Author's Note: Welcome to the bottom of the chapter, friends. Today we'll be talking about references!

No seriously there are a bunch of references in here that I feel the need to explain because they're a bit obscure. Well, just one actually. If you understood it, great. Good for you. You don't have to read this. If you didn't, continue onward to learn what you missed.

So, let's talk about the chapter title. Classroom Révolutionnaire is a reference to the name of Athena Cykes' objection theme in Ace Attorney, Courtroom Révolutionnaire. I chose it because 1) I like Ace Attorney and 2) Byleth is trying to revolutionize the Classroom with her crazy plan, thus making her a Révolutionnaire (French for Revolutionary). Well, actually she's trying to revolutionize the school as a whole but Classroom fits in better as a reference than just School.

And that's all she wrote. Well, not actually. One, I'm not a she and two there is definitely more chapters after this. What I mean is, that's the end of this Author's Note and this chapter.