Nora was the first to speak and the question was so obvious Glynda saw it coming a mile off, "who's that from miss Goodwitch?" her voice was calm and careful, a stark difference from her usual bubbly self. "well if you must know, cole gave it to me for my birthday" she replied evenly before taking a drink.

"ms.Goodwitch with all do respect-"

Letting her emotions get the better of her she snapped at her, "hold your tongue then Miss xaio long!" taking it all in as well as a long drink 'im too tired for this' she groaned internally.

"I will not tolerate this behavior towards cole to go on any longer, out of all of you at the very least ms.branwen and schnee did everything to fix the situations. as your leader and best friend to stop you from pushing things too far they both did a great job. Unfortunately as we've all witnessed it wasn't enough."

She glared and placed the glass down "at least when cole got in it was public knowledge that he got in for his skill and fortitude against various types of grimm and was even reevaluated by two different professional hunters"

She looked over every one of them and listed them off one by one but not as depreciating as cole had put it.

pacing back and forth on front of them "ms.nikos, you transferred to beacon to live your way without too much publicity and wanted out of the spotlight of a celebrity, with that much fame you must've felt alienated no?"

turning her attention to the others she chose nora and ren next.

"ms.valkyrie and mr.ren, you both earned your way in through rigorous tests both physically and mentally despite your situation of being the same as mr.valentine...albeit he had more on his plate, but the point still stands as is."

she turned her attention to the blonde bombshell with the same amount of wrath "ms.xaio long, you got in after graduating signal along with a letter of recommendation from qrow...despite destroying a dance club searching for raven and don't get me started on the lien costs to repair the place."

Next obviously she turned to blake.

"Ms.belladonna, you earned your place here much like nora and ren had but your background shows you came from wealth and luxury same as ms. Schnee no less, and...ms.Schnee you got in with perfect scores academically and physically just so you could escape your father and I commend you for that, but you?" she looked at jaune with disappointment and bitterness.

"mr.arc, you got in because professor ozpin saw great potential in you, not because of your bloodline or your skill...or lack there of." She turned off the lights and closed the shutters before turning on a holo-projection of his transcript.

"normally you would have been shipped back home but because of this, you weren't. do you know what this is?" she asked angrily.

"yes ms.Goodwitch , its my fake transcripts" he said looking down cast and expected to be told the worst news "no mr.arc these transcript papers are legitimate." His head shot up with a thin veil of hope and a lot of shock "after you passed initiation for second year ozpin had real ones made so that your vanity could be spared, but I could have them redacted and you reported for breaking international and global laws, and would've been sent to prison if your lucky, or put on death row." Suddenly her tone switched "But im not going to do that" she said with a smile and haf something else planned, "really, you wont?" the others looked like they were about to say something but she held her hand up.

"no, because your going to detention in port's classroom for additional schoolwork for the remainder of the school year; no breaks of any kind except to eat sleep, or use the facilities, and that goes for the rest of you starting Monday seeing as Friday is a half day. Go back to what you were doing, but don't attempt to leave beacon not even to go into the forests nor out on missions. Consider it a professional curtesy warning"

"yes ma'am" they all replied sadly before shuffling out toward the elevator. Yang turned back and said "you guys go on ahead, I need to talk to her about something" No one said a word as the door closed leaving yang to her own devices.

"uhmm, ms.Goodwitch?" she asked standing in front of her shifting awkwardly.

"yes?"

"what about Ruby, are there any other hunters looking for her?' Glynda looked up at yang meeting her gaze and put her drink down.

"ms.xaio long- yang...if im being blunt about this I can only tell you that she's still a student but her file -as of this moment- states that she's missing and that your uncle is tracking her"

Looking down at her boots yang wiped a few tears from her eyes and said "it's just that...my father is freaking out, my team is leaderless, and my friends all think she's in league with him; its been almost two months since she disappeared, so- just- why?!" she cried into her hands "does she really trust his words over ours?"

"yang...I've already made myself clear, don't make me repeat myself again" she replied softly as she walked over and guided her to the elevator holding her by the arm "get some dinner and rest up, its been hard on everyone, and for the record, I know what it's like worrying about a missing person you love" she yanked her hand off her arm and said angrily crying and eyes red "how could you know what I'm-"

"because my sister went on a similar path and went missing too, the only proof that she's alive still is because of this" she said pulling up her blouse revealing a small purple and green dragon tattoo on her stomach reaching up towards her chest, "her semblance is called 'soul bond' it lets me know if she's alive" yang glowered at her and asked snippily "and how would that tattoo tell you if she was dead" putting her shirt down she answered "the color would fade away and turn grey and black"

Yang's apology was stuck in her throat as she rushed out the door into the elevator. 'I really messed up' she thought as the elevator descended.

After opening up the door to the ground floor weiss grabbed jaune and ignored the others while she dragged him into a small grassy area outside the building. "I know what your thinking arc and I'm going to make this crystal-clear for your tiny brain" everyone looked at the pair and froze when weiss spoke. "if you so much as step out of line at this school now and moving forward, you will be in serious danger so do me and everyone else a big favor and just listen to them for once" shoving him to the ground she straightened out her uniform and cleared her throat.

Jaune stood there for what felt like hours until he replied "this is worse than anything we could've expected weiss, and in case you missed it, Glynda threatened beacon with some serious punishments if we broke the rules." After he lied down in the grass he added "we just got reminded how badly we fucked ourselves...and as it turns out, I now see how we all messed up- and pretty badly at that" he paused putting his arm over his eyes in shame "especially me" Pyrrha sat next to him and sighed pulling his head onto her lap running her fingers through his hair.

"You just took what I just said and repeated it; cole did that too and at least I'm making the effort to make his words mean something" weiss said scoffing at him.

without a word they all sat on the ground together and relaxed in the sun. "if cole is brought back we owe him an apology" a voice said in a matter-of-fact tone. They all looked at who said that and it surprised everyone, "and we need to start by fixing ourselves and go from there" Blake stood up and asked "but...if cole doesn't forgive any of us then what?"

weiss stood up and asked sarcastic and ironically "we do favors for him? bake him confectionery sweets, help him with his training? Oh wait, WE TRIED HELPING AND WE BLEW IT!"

nora growled at them and sat up "we just apologize to him and play it carefully, if -and it's a strong 'if'- he comes back -and an even stronger 'if'- he even acknowledges us, we can't do anything after what we put him through" she normally ended her expectations with giving him half of her pancakes for the rest of his time but this nora was thinking logically and she had a point.

Pyrrha looked over at weiss and the others before speaking up, "I think I know what we should do" ren looked her over and tiredly said "I usually am not the one to say something about this...but it would be best if we just drop this and focus of the present not the future or the past. We'll deal with whatever comes in time"

In a more ironic turn of events team cardinal walked up to them with a few small grills, a large cooler, a few collapsible tables, and a box of plates, bowls, cups, and utensils. The irony in them walking up was that they were the ones that seen humbled now. "you guys mind helping us set up?" dove asked setting the cooler next to ren.

"get bent dove, we don't want to help you with anything" yang said sitting next to Blake.

Cardin let out a loud chuckle "that, right there." he began putting the tables down "that is why you guys are getting the worst of it all now." The seven of them looked up at them as they were setting up their stuff anyway, eyes burned with anger at the ginger like he'd said something horrible.

"you guys were good people until jaune started winning fights and got nikos as his lover, weiss found a rival in cole...or something more possibly; honestly you did nothing wrong" he shrugged that last part.

"ren and nora stayed in the middle and didn't play either side, Blake dug up information on cole that wasn't true and yang beat him to a pulp when he held Ruby in his arms caked in blood and looked broken; overprotective doesn't even compare anymore" the other three would've laughed at his jabs but they all looked at the seven with some disappointment and sadness.

"you know what I miss the most?" sky asked russel, whom was busy setting up the large grill.

"what would that be?" he asked grabbing charcoal from dove "Velvet and coco for one"

they all laughed at that. Cardin smiled looking at weiss who stood up and asked "why would you miss a woman you tormented and bullied?"

The others got up and backed her up in case it got bad, but his team saw it coming. "well Velvet and I have been dating since half way through first year and coco is dove's girlfriend so why wouldn't we miss em"

"hey cardin don't forget yatsuhashi and fox" russel said with a smile putting napkins and whatnot on the table. "oh man they were the best when it came to training buddies and drinking buddies...ahhh, man those were good times"

"Yeah especially when you kissed Velvet in a drunken stupor, she punched you so hard you went sober for a minute" they all stood there laughing. nearly finished setting up cardin opened the cooler.

"that was probably when I fell in love with her" they all laughed at that.

Meanwhile the seven hunters were dumbstruck by what they were seeing, cardin and dove dating coco and Velvet?, they all were close just like RWBY and JNPR when they were first years.

"you see jaune" cardin began as he knelt down and gave him his unopened beer "you seven helped us change for the better while you seven changed for the worse...and im sorry for you" he looked over the others "for all of you"

Yang gritted her teeth and decked him in the side of the forehead knocking him back "shut up cardin, just shut your damn mouth! You have no idea what we're going through"

the rest of his team knew why it happened but also knew not to intervene but cardin still felt the need to say something "you guys finish setting up I'll handle it" he replied calmly and took a deep breath letting the blood slide down his face.

"just get to the point Winchester " ren said looking for a sign that he'd attack but nothing happened.

"look im sorry for what we did in the past- we proved to you guys that we've changed since then, despite our not-so-great-beginning." he took a drink out for the other six of them and smiled.

"Blake, you taught us that we were horrible for how we acted to everyone around us, Faunas or not" she took the drink with a nod. "ren you and nora helped us see that there's a time and place for our behavior in and out of class"

they both grasped the cold bottles and looked confused, "yang...you scared us shitless after we had accidentally knocked out Ruby- and boy you were pretty terrifying" he smirked giving her the beer.

"Pyrrha, you taught us to train hard and to not be arrogant and half cocked" and finally "weiss?" he said handing her the last beer "you proved to everyone that you aren't like every other rich bitch and you have faults like the rest of us" taking a few steps back he grabbed his own beer and held it up "to teams RWBY and JNPR, for teaching us to act better as people and as hunters" they all held up their drinks out of respect but said nothing "but now its our turn to return the favor" they all snapped their attention toward cardin like he'd grown wings and a second head.

"I fail to see how this equates to us needing anything from you four" Blake said slamming (slamming in this context means chugging) her beer and tossed the bottle in the recycling bin.

"because you guys need to, plus none of the students here are going anywhere soon so why not let us help you out?" he replied handing Blake a plate of freshly grilled chicken and salmon with a side salad. "but that can come later, for now we eat and relax; I asked Glynda if we could use this stuff and she said she was alright with it as long as we didn't start a huge fire"

"so you are changed hunters and are actively looking to help us?" Pyrrha asked receiving a chicken salad with potato chips "that's right" Cardin replied happily. After nearly an hour of talking and cooking cardinal one by one gave everyone a plate of food without being asked. "jaune and ren you guys get steaks with mushrooms and stalks of grilled asparagus, weiss you get the famous Winchester burger with all the fries you'd ever want " and added "I made sure to remove as much as I could, but the fries are a bit salty and the burger is a little greased up" She smiled at the scent and...hugged him, hell definitely froze over today.

"and yang" Cardin offered her the plate stacked high with chicken drumsticks and mashed potatoes with a small drizzle of gravy. "this is for you" they all sat down with their food and hesitated to eat any of it "guys its not poisoned I promise" russell said chuckling.

They all glanced at one another and back to cardinal, whom happily talked and cooked but with everything that happened so far, jaune and the others devoured their meals and tried to leave but was stopped by water hitting them from behind they all turned around and saw the four men whistling and playing innocent, they turned around to leave again only this time the water him them all right in the head, they all angrily whipped around seeing the four laughing and holding...water guns and water balloons?

"you idiots cruisin for a bruisin or something?" nora asked cracking her knuckles.

"who us?" Cardin asked as they dumbly looked around smiling like children.

"yeah you, who else we going to talk to?" yang asked only getting a water gun sprayed in her face.

"probably the water we hit you with" russell said chuckling.

"HA, so you admit that you-" Pyrrha said before the four of them hit her together with balloons and columns of water.

They all laughed even harder as ren walked over to do something but slipped in the wet grass. "c'mon guys take some time to recover, have fun, just do something fun while you can" cardin said throwing a large balloon at them but soon found it sent back at them cause of ren hitting sky in the chest knocking him on his back drenching him in the grass.

They all laughed even harder when that happened and to everyone's surprise weiss stood at the forefront and smiled "maybe we should have some fun...after all we were told to stay on campus grounds"

yang walked up to her and said "have you lost your mind? Ms.Goodwitch-"

"said that we couldn't go on missions or train in the forests, she said nothing about having fun outside" she interrupted before summoning a wall of water with her glyphs and sent the water at the four guys with a warm smile.

The eleven students played together for what seemed like ages and Glynda was alright with that, and by the way everyone had seen, they all decided to join in on the fun and for once she didn't punish them but had something in mind to still be stern and not look too nice. About halfway through the entire school had joined in and crdl was happier when team cfvy came back in a bullhead and immediately joined in too.

Dodging a water spray to the legs yang exclaimed with a giggle "wont the professors and Glynda get upset with us?"

"who cares just enjoy the moment while it lasts" giggled nora as she slapped a balloon into Blake's face laughing as she did the same back to her. After about half an hour Glynda showed up in light blue knee high shorts a purple short sleeved shirt with a large inflatable pool behind her "you said no one cares if I approved this?" she asked sternly watching everyone put the balloons and water dust crystal guns down and the first person to speak out was of all people, jaune "are you going to take this from us too Glynda?" he asked sounding like a scared child. She smirked at him and used her semblance to carry the pool to the center of it all, "not at all mr.arc, just came to drop off this" she replied as she walked away "after your all finished I want you to pick up every single shred of balloon and clean up the food" they all murmured in agreement but soon the unthinkable happened.

A water balloon the size of a melon hit her in the back soaking her from head to toe.

Every person froze at this and studied the blonde carefully, "Pyrrha what the hell!?" jaune quietly scolded "she needs this too jauney" she replied softly before tossing another one at her but this one stopped mid air and was sent careening back to it's sender. "don't push it students, im not joining this" she said gesturing to the school wide party. But this time got a few more balloons thrown at her soaking her again and when she whipped around she saw coco and her team smiling and holding their water weapons "but Glynda you gave us ammo, its only best that you join in on the fun"

Everyone either looked away in embarrassment or stared with blushes and bleeding noses as soon as Glynda turned around, water soaked clothes stuck to her like a second skin revealing just how voluptuous she actually was and getting her wetter only made it worse "im running this academy until ozpin returns so I can't ms.adel but thank you for the offer" she replied wringing out her hair letting it flow down her shoulders and back "but remember to please clean this mess up, the council will be here in a few days so I think you should be responsible about it" she added before walking back to her temporary office to dry off in the room off to the side for staff use i.e. Glynda and ozpin's special room. "she's got her moments doesn't she" ren said before getting water sprayed in his nose and mouth.

Thanks for reading I hope to improve the next chapter.

I'm limiting each chapter to 4000 words or less from here on.

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