So... I decided to not write the fight with the Nevermore and Death Stalker. Why? Cause we all know how that went... just replace Weiss's glyphs with Pyrrha's magnetism and you're done. Also not writing it right now means in the future if I need it to have happened somehow I can just use that.

For pairings, I'm open to basically anything, to be honest, with the expection of Yang X Ruby.

I realize that the team leader is the first letter of the team, but let me take some liberties (or in this case, a single one).


(3rd person)

"Blake Belledona, Yang Xiao Long, Ruby Rose, and Pyrrha Nikos as team BYRN (Burn), lead by Ruby Rose," Ozpin announces.

After Yang hugs Ruby, the 4 move off the stage.

"And lastly, Jaune Arc, Lie Ren, Weiss Schnee, and Nora Valkyrie as team ARSN (Arsenic), lead by Jaune Arc," Ozpin says.

"I don't get it, why am I the leader?" Ruby asks her new team.

"You are the one who came up with the plan to kill the Nevermore, even if it was a 'little' on the completely crazy side," Blake says.

"Come on, you'll do great!" Yang says enthusiastically.


"So this is our room," Yang says as the 4 enter the room the four would live in for the next 4 years... aside from breaks.

"It seems... perfectly up to any reasonable standards for a school dorm," Pyrrha says.

"I've slept in much worse," Blake says.

"Let's get to decorating!" Ruby yells.


And a few hours later, they had stacked their beds for extra room and hung up some paintings and posters and that's about it. And unpacked. And curtains, they added curtains.

"And... we're done!" Ruby yells cheerfully.

Pyrrha chuckles at her younger partner and leader's bounciness and eternal cheerfulness and pats the adorable faunus on the head between her ears, rubbing them slightly and earning what sounded like a quiet purr from the girl, which in turn got a chuckle from Yang and Blake.

"We have classes starting early tomorrow, but we still have at least a few hours before we go to bed, what should we do in the meantime?" Yang asks.

"I don't mind just reading," the other cat-faunus in the room says.

"I wonder if they'll let us use the sparring arena today or if we have to wait till tomorrow or when a teacher is available or something...? Maybe at least a practice or shooting range?" Pyrrha muses.

"Maybe... we could do something together? Like go see a movie or something!" Ruby says excitedly.

"That actually seems like a good idea," Yang says.

"So do you have any particular movie in mind, or just anything?" Blake asks.

"No... I was going to check what's in theaters," Ruby says.

"Well... there's a movie that came out recently that I've been wanting to watching. It's an adaptation of one of my favorite books," Blake says.

"Sure!"

"What kind of book," Yang asks suspiciously, glancing at the title of Blake's current book and deeming a movie adaptation of such a thing inappropriate for her innocent little cousin who wasn't actually that innocent or little. Still she was like an overprotective big sister to Ruby and that wasn't limited to physical harm.

"It's a book about a boy who goes to a space station to train with a bunch of other people to be commanders or soldiers fighting against an alien race that they believe has the power to and intends to wipe out humanity. It's called Ender's Game," Blake says.

"Oh! I've read that one!" Ruby says cheerfully. "I definitely want to see that, didn't realize they made an adaptation."

Yang looks relieved. "Pyrrha?" she asks.

Pyrrha thinks for a moment. "It's been a really long time since I've seen a movie, I'm in," she says.

"Alright! To the movies!" Ruby yells, fist pumping.


The group of 4 boarded an airship to Vale just before it took off, it seemed they weren't the only students with the idea of taking their last day free before the strenuous classes of Beacon in the city.

Turning the flight, they chatted and got to know each other better, something they hadn't really had much of a chance to do. However they did all naturally get along, despite conflicting personalities. How Yang and Blake got along was a mystery to anyone. A quiet and introverted girl who liked reading and studying and disliked violence and a loud and extroverted girl who hated reading and studying and wanted nothing more than to beat the crap out of anything at every opportunity. Their interactions

Ruby and Pyrrha weren't nearly as conflicting. Despite her status as the 'Invincible Girl' and a multiple time champion of the Mistral Regional Tournament, she was rather quiet and rather disliked her fame. It made her rather happy to be treated as 'Pyrrha Nikos' rather than the 'Invincible Girl.' Her interaction with Ruby was mostly one-sided, with her mostly just listening, but she enjoyed and absorbed the younger girl's eternal cheer. Pyrrha generally liked anyone who was willing to consider her a friend and preferably not an idol. Ruby was very shy but once she knew someone she was chatty and hyper-energetic and didn't really care about what they were, just who they were. In general, Pyrrha was more than happy to put up with her antics and listen to the various stories she'd tell, generally involving Yang and someone getting beat up. And that someone was generally not Yang.

The 4 leave the airship and Ruby pulls her scroll to get directions to the theater.

"This-a-way!" she yells after a moment, pointing in a direction and starting to walk.

"Lead on, leader," Yang teases and follows after, followed shortly by Blake and Pyrrha.


"It should be somewhere around here..." Ruby mutters.

"It's a movie theater Rubes, it's gonna be pretty hard to miss.

"It should be right around this corner, according to this map," Ruby says as they round a corner Pyrrha was sure they'd turned several times, and yet despite that, the movie theater was there.

"Well what do ya know," Yang says.

Ruby reaches for her purse but Pyrrha stops her. "I'll pay."

"But-"

"I have more money than I know what to do with, it's fine," Pyrrha insists, disregarding that Ruby herself had a large amount of money from the bounty on Roman Torchwick which she inadvertently collected.

"Take the 'offer' Rubes," Yang says.

Ruby sighs and accepts, obviously feeling bad about Pyrrha paying for an outing that was her idea in the first place.

The 4 get into line and buy tickets for nearest showing, making it into the theater just in time.

Once the four went in, they got popcorn and drinks which were once again, payed for near-forcefully by Pyrrha.

They manage to get 4 seats in a row smack in the middle of the theater, width and lengthwise. The order they sat down in was the same as their team name, Blake, Yang, Ruby, and Pyrrha.


"That movie was totally AWESOME!" Yang says.

"It was a good movie... but the book was better," Blake says.

"I loved the movie... but I've gotta agree with Blake on this one," Ruby says.

"If that's the case, then I should probably read this book," Pyrrha says, also having enjoyed the movie.

The 4 then spent a few hours wandering around, exploring Vale. Ruby and Yang had both gone to Vale quite a few times, but not enough to really know the city. Blake hadn't ever really gotten the chance to explore as part of the White Fang, and their operations were generally low in Vale which was relatively accepting of the faunus. And Pyrrha was Mistrali, so aside from the few days she'd spent in Vale on various sponsorships, she hadn't really been there.

Then they went to a restaurant. By request of Blake and Ruby, it was a sushi restaurant. Sushi (and other such foods) were part of the only remains of Mantle.

"Table for 4?" the waiter asks as the 4 enter the restaurant. Both Ruby and Blake (though Blake was more discrete about it) pull the fishy air into their noses, basking in the fishiness.

"Thank you," Pyrrha says with a small nod, taking over.

The waitress leads them over to a table in the corner. Thanks to the small divider walls between the tables along the wall which made the tables into sort of 3-walled booths and them having a corner table, they were nearly completely enclosed, since along with the 2 walls of the restaurant, there were the 2 divider walls. They were slightly shortened, creating a gap in the corner through which they could enter and exit.

Blake smiles as they enter, "I like this table," she says after they sit down and the waiter leaves them with menus.

Blake orders raw fish. Lots of it. Pyrrha... also orders raw fish, having never tried the food before since it wasn't popular in Mistral and she thought that raw fish was the most proper version of cuisine. Ruby also ordered raw fish. And Yang gets it too because why not, she liked it.

The moment their fish arrives, Ruby digs in, Blake barely restraining herself to hide that she's a faunus. Pyrrha and Yang both ate it much slower, but nonetheless they very much enjoyed it. Several more orders later (Ruby and Blake eating together far more than half of it), Ruby rubbed her stomach and says, "I think I ate too much," weakly. "It's okay Ruby," Yang says patting Ruby's head.

"It's not your fault that the fish is delicious or that you naturally like fish a lot," she says comfortingly.

Ruby just responds by quietly purring happily, earning a little giggle from Blake and Pyrrha, which in turn caused her to blush slightly.

"Are we ready to go?" Yang asks.

"We gotta pay first," Pyrrha says with a chuckle.

"I know, I know," Pyrrha says.

A waitress realizes that they were done eating and comes over, asking if they were ready for the check. The say yes and she walks off, carrying their plates with her before coming back with the check.

After Pyrrha pays, they leave and start heading back to Beacon.

"We gotta hurry or we'll miss the next airship and have to wait half an hour," Ruby says, starting to run.

"Wait Ruby! Not everyone can run as fast as you can!" Yang yells.

Ruby literally skids to a halt before grinning sheepishly. "Oh, right."

The 4 speed walked back to ship. Or rather, the 3 who aren't the leader did. Ruby was literally running circles around them the whole time.

Well, not the whole time because... "Ruby! Will you stop already?" Yang asked in an annoyed tone.

"How does she still have so much energy left?" Pyrrha asks.

"She never gets tired. If it's just running and that sort of thing, I don't think I've seen her tired once in my life," Yang says.

"Wow..." Pyrrha says.

"Ruby could run a marathon without breaking a sweat, and if she used her Aura (even without her Semblance) it would only take like an hour and a half," Yang says.

"And by 'could' I mean did. When she was like 13. 3 time in a row. And she still had energy left, but it was time for bed, so I literally dragged her inside," Yang adds.

"Do you live in the same house?" Pyrrha asks.

"Our parents were a team at Beacon, never stopped living in the same house," Yang says.

"Oh... were they a good team?"

"The best in their year, probably the entire school, even in their first year. Great team work, amazing skill, powerful Semblance's, great Aura power," Yang says proudly.

"Oh? Maybe I've heard of them?" Pyrrha asks.

"Probably not, they deliberately stayed out of the spotlight once they left Beacon and what happens in Beacon mostly stays among Hunters who were there at the time," Yang answers.

"Though... you may have, since they won the Vytal Championships... both times, but you weren't alive yet then, so easily not. They were team STRQ," Yang adds.

"STRQ... can't say I've heard of them, though winning the Vytal Championships twice in a row is truly impressive," Pyrrha says slightly in awe.


45 minutes or so later, they find themselves in their room, washed and changed and ready for bed.

Ruby's bed was stacked on top of Pyrrha's and Blake's was on top of Yang's. Ruby had instantly claimed one of the top beds and Pyrrha preferred the bottom so they took one pair and though Yang and Blake both somewhat wanted the top, neither cared much and they knew that Yang was much heavier so having her on the top of the somewhat rickety construction was probably not the best idea.

So on the left of the room (when entering) was Pyrrha on the bottom and Ruby on the top in her bed positioned on top of some gismos Ruby had run off to make real quick when they were arranging their room. They fit perfectly and it ended up being a fairly sturdy construction, something that was good because Ruby would probably be jumping in or out of that bed a lot. Yang's bed was bottom right and on top of her bed was Blake's, placed on stacks of books for some extra height.

"Good night guys, big day tomorrow!" Ruby says excitedly. Everyone buy Ruby were already in their beds, so Ruby turns off the lights and jumps up into hers.

"""Good night!""" the other 3 girls in the room say.


"Yang! Wake! UP!" Ruby practically yells in her older cousin's ear. She had woken up first and with plenty of time and woken the other 3 girls in the room. Or tried, Yang was difficult, so they all decided to get ready first and then wake her up because only one person could use the bathroom at a time anyway.

And now they were all ready to get to their classes, except Yang, who was asleep.

Ruby sighs. She pulls a whistle out of her uniform pocket which causes Blake to question, "When did you even put that in there?"

"I grabbed it before I went to change because I felt I might need it for waking Yang," Ruby answers with a giggle and a smile and puts the whistle in her mouth.

She leans down next to Yang's ear, covers her faunus ears with her hands, and whistles loudly. Thankfully the walls were soundproofed very well so it didn't bother their neighbors, but it caused Yang to stir.

"5 more minutes Ruby," she says, reaching out and pulling Ruby face first into the bed.

Ruby, however was not okay with that and blows the whistle again, right in Yang's ear. This time she herself winced because she had been unable to cover her faunus ears because her hands were pushing her away from the bed Yang was pulling her into. Blake cringed in sympathy, something that went unnoticed by Pyrrha.

Yang sits up and rubs her ear. "What the hell Ruby!" she says annoyed.

"It's time to wake up. We're all already ready to leave and if you don't hurry up, we'll go without you!" Ruby says, pointing to her watch and showing that they had just 30 minutes before their first class and this included their time to get breakfast.

"Fine. I'll get ready," Yang says, getting up and grabbing her clothes.

"Oh, and, just go get breakfast without me, I take a while to get ready," Yang says, grabbing her hairbrush.

She walks into the bathroom door, "And I can eat quickly," she adds before closing it.

"She's not kidding when she says she takes a while. She's never cut her hair in her life and she brushes it very thoroughly every morning so she takes forever. That's part of why I didn't try very hard to wake her earlier, so we would all be able to go before her," Ruby says and the 3 leave the room.

They arrive in the cafeteria and see Jaune wave to them.

"Hey!" he calls and Weiss looks not-so-happily at Ruby. They quickly grab some food—Pyrrha snatching some of the cookies off Ruby's plate and grabbing a bowl of porridge for her—and sit down across the 8-person table from team ARSN.

"Good morning. Where's Yang?" Jaune asks.

"Good morning. She told us to go on ahead and that she'd catch up," Ruby says.

After a quick exchange of greetings, the 7 eat their food with little conversation. They wanted to finish ASAP and have time to spare to get to their classes.

Yang shows up when they were nearly done (well, Ruby and Nora (who had somehow acquired pancakes, despite there not being any offered) already finished), grabs a bowl, and wolfs it down, finishing about in line with the others. Noticing that the others had finished, Ruby quickly eats her cookies and the group of 8 (the first class on the first day was the same for everyone) head to their first class...


...Which was the extremely boring (according to two certain hyperactive red-heads) Grimm Studies. The class taught—at least in theory, in practice it was the teacher telling over-glorified stories of his past—about the types of Grimm, their anatomy, their various strengths and weaknesses, and tricks for killing them.

"The moral of this story? A true Huntsman must be honorable!"

"A true Huntsman must be dependable!"

"A true Huntsman must be strategic, well-educated, and wise!"

"So, who among you believes themselves to be the embodiment of these traits?"

Thus concludes the professors story that somehow included cabbages and captured Beowolves.

Immediately Weiss raises her hand. "Come on Ruby, raise your hand," Yang whispers next to her, raising Ruby's hand for her.

And of course, in that instant before Ruby can force her arm down, the professor looks over and says, "Well then Miss Rose, let's find out."

Ruby glares at Yang, who just grins at her. Weiss glares at Ruby, who remains completely oblivious.

"Come forward and face your opponent." A pair of glowing red eyes could be seen in a cage at the corner of the room, along with a growl.

Ruby walks forward and unfurls Crescent Rose (they had been instructed to bring their weapons to the class).

"Alright. Let the match... begin!" Professor Port yells and smashes the lock on the cage with his weapon. Blake looks unhappy by the pointless waste.

The cage swings open and from the shadows charges a Boarbatusk. Acting purely on instinct, Ruby leaps up and spins round, landing on the back of the Boarbatusk facing the same way it was charging. Before it can stop or turn around or do anything to throw her off, she hooks her scythe under its stomach and fires several rounds, pulling at the same time and cutting the Grimm in half all of less than a second after the Grimm left its cage.

Everyone save for Yang, especially Weiss, look onward in surprise at how fast the younger girl had killed the Grimm, which while not the strongest, was decently old and the strongest of the common types (Boarbatusks, Ursai, and Beowolves).

The Professor quickly recovers from his surprise, muttering something which only Ruby (since she was closest and had good hearing) heard, saying, "Truly, Summer's daughter."

He then claps loudly and then in his bold voice says, "Well done, well done indeed. It appears we are in the presence of a true Huntress-in-training."

Weiss doesn't look very happy, along with several other people. Yang looks not in the slightest bit surprised, and the rest of teams ARSN and BYRN look happy for her.

"I'm afraid that's all we have time for for today, be sure to cover the assigned readings and stay vigilant. Class dismissed!"

The students all started getting up, making their way out of the classroom.

"That was awesome Ruby!" Pyrrha says in a whispered yell (like the volume of normal speech but the enthusiasm of a yell and the sound of a whisper).

"It wasn't that cool..." Ruby says, looking away in embarrassment.

"Come on Ruby, stop being so modest," Yang says, patting her on the back with enough force to cause her to stumble.

"Yaaaang," Ruby whines.

Yang just giggles.

Ruby punches Yang in the face.

"Ouch," Yang says, rubbing her nose and not retaliating in any way really.

"Is this normal?" Jaune asks Pyrrha and Blake.

"They haven't done it before in the day we've known them," Pyrrha says slowly.

"I hope not," Blake answers.

"Okay," Jaune says unsurely.

Ruby had already forgotten about her previous interaction with Yang and was looking at her schedule on her scroll. A smile appeared on her face.

"What?" Yang asks.

"Next class is combat practice," Ruby says with a smile.

"Oh," Yang says.


"...Now, as none of you have had much time to practice with each other, we will not be doing team practice yet. And, one of the best ways to learn someone's fighting style is to fight them, so each of the first years will be sparring with their partner," Professor Goodwitch says.

"Second year and above teams will be doing pair matches with pairs from other teams," she adds.

"With our partners?" Blake wonders, turning to Yang, who grins.

Ruby turns to Pyrrha, smiling, excited by the idea of sparring with a strong opponent.

The class all got changed into their combat clothes and moved to the gym adjacent to the classroom.

Ruby stood across from Pyrrha with Crescent Rose in her scythe form, a sniper rifle being useless at this range. Miló was in its spear form, tipping Ruby off that she would probably throw it or charge, either way, the attack would be immediate as soon as the match started.

"No holding back," Ruby says with a smile.

"Alright, no holding back," Pyrrha says.

And true to Ruby's expectations, the instant Professor Goodwitch says begin, the spear is raised over Pyrrha's shoulder and hurled forward, firing several times to accelerate it further.

Ruby jumps to the side however the spear ever-so-slightly alters its trajectory. Ruby's eyes widen slightly as she notices the change in trajectory, but she swings her scythe backwards, timing it correctly to send the spear flying to the side and onto the ground.

Pyrrha runs towards it, raising her shield to block a strike from Crescent Rose and rolling to absorb the force. 'Damn she hits hard,' Pyrrha thinks as she rolls to her feet and dives the remaining distance to her spear. As she once more rolls back up to her feet, the spear had already turned into its sword form.

Pyrrha had been hoping that the alteration of the spears trajectory wouldn't be enough to catch Ruby off guard and she was not disappointed. She was also impressed by Ruby's ability to time her swing well enough to hit the spear with the hammer-like part on the back of her scythe.

She runs forward, holding her shield in front of her on instinct and forgetting that with such a long, swinging pole arm, attacks would mostly come from the side.

Reacting just in time to the side coming at her from the side, she abruptly stops her forward movement and jumps back, holding her shield to the side incase she was too slow and slightly slowing Ruby's scythe with her Semblance, however finding it almost completely ineffective. 'Her scythe... isn't magnetic? Or barely, anyway,' Pyrrha wonders.

She does manage to avoid the scythe swing, however is unable to react in time to the 2 bullets fire as the scythe swung by, both hitting her in the chest and draining her Aura considerably, as well as messing up her landing slightly.

Pyrrha holds her shield in front of her, wary of another gunfire attack. 'I need to get within the range of her scythe and then just keep pushing forward, not allowing her to retreat. A scythe seems more practical against Grimm then against people,' Pyrrha thinks.

Meanwhile Ruby just spins around from her strike and charges at Pyrrha, who holds her shield to the left.

However as Ruby approaches, she flips sideways, effectively reversing the direction of her scythe and causing it to come from Pyrrha's right. Pyrrha moves her shield in front of her and turns right at the same time, blocking the attack and getting flung back. Ruby finishes her side flip and lands, her spinning coming to a halt.

'I still haven't been able to even get close enough to get a single attack off. She's better than I expected,' Pyrrha thinks. 'This is fun!' Ruby thinks. Though she had managed to get Pyrrha with the surprise shots, Pyrrha had managed to block the sudden reversal of the direction of her spinning scythe, something which had yet to happen from anyone on first, or even second or third, try.

"That was awesome, I didn't expect you to completely block that, most people need to experience it a few times first, and you haven't even seen it before!" Ruby says cheerfully.

"It certainly caught me by surprise," Pyrrha says, also enjoying the match.

They both charge forward again.

Pyrrha was on the defensive most of the round, Ruby's heavy strikes and ability to keep chaining the attacks together would have been enough to overwhelm almost anyone's defenses. On one hand, if Pyrrha fully blocked the attacks, then there was enough force to throw her greatly off balance or even knock her over entirely, a situation where Ruby could recover much faster, on the other hand, if she angled her shield to redirect the attacks, then Ruby was already spinning round faster than before, striking again and shooting at her, both to use the recoil to spin faster and to shoot Pyrrha. With a combination of shooting, spinning, and various flips, as long as Pyrrha was within Ruby's range, Ruby could attack from front, back, either side, top, and even the bottom.

If Pyrrha retreated, then she was also at a disadvantage, because while she had a shield, Ruby was very agile and she wasn't a particularly amazing shot, combine that with her rifle being not very powerful—powerful enough to distract someone or shoot a grimm not in the armor, but not powerful enough to actually take away much Aura—and Ruby having a very powerful rifle, she was at a disadvantage.

Her shield could only cover so much of her, and Ruby was more than accurate and fast enough to capitalize on the fact.

This left Pyrrha with her only option being to try to close the distance between them as fast as possible and get too close for Crescent Rose. She had managed it once or twice, however each time she would only manage a hit or two before Ruby would use her Semblance—which turned out to be able to also make her move fast—to create distance once more.

Despite this, most of Ruby's hits were through Pyrrha's shield or just glancing and not taking too much of Pyrrha's Aura, even if they stopped her from counterattacking, so while Ruby was winning by a bit, Pyrrha's few good hits let her keep Ruby's Aura pretty close to her own.

However before the match could be decided either way... "Time up!" Professor Goodwitch says loudly.

The two snap out of their combat concentration and look up out of the arena pit (made this way so stray shots would be contained) and see that they'd gained quite the audience.

Ruby puts away her weapon and shakes Pyrrha's hand, "That was fun! Good match."

"Indeed, let's go again sometime," Pyrrha answers, shaking Ruby's hand.


So yeah, Ruby's scythe is made of titanium... not so magnetic. Sorry Pyrrha.

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