Blake

Thankfully, Professor Port was also late to class, and so every student had made it to their seats without his knowing of when they had arrived.

'My apologies students,' the portly man had rambled as he waddled into the classroom. 'I was merely tending to my notes for my next few lessons, ha ha!'

'Pfft, more like tending to his moustache if you ask me,' Yang whispered to Blake. 'I think that he cares more for that thing than any of us.'

'Today students, I am going to teach you about a type of Grimm that is only hostile when provoked,' the short man announced to the class, pacing slowly across the classroom floor. 'Alas, the Goliath is a fearsome beast however they are docile and will not attack any human or faunus unless provoked.

Because of their peaceful nature some huntsmen and huntresses forget how dangerous they really are.'

'But, they are certainly no match for a huntsmen such as myself!' the professor said, waggling his eyebrows and moustache. 'For I have defeated many of these beasts in my life! One time in my youth...'

As soon as the older man began to tell another story from his youth, all of the students in the class went back to their usual states in Professor Port's class. Yang leant back in her chair and folded her arms behind her head, placing her feet on the desk before her. Ruby and Weiss were both paying attention, or at least that's what it looked like.

The heiress was paying attention to the Professor's story and taking down any notes that seemed to be important. Ruby had her book open and pen in hand, but was messaging Jaune with her scroll under her desk and copying anything that Weiss had written.

Blake had never admitted it to anyone, but she actually liked to listen to Professor Port's outrageous stories of his youth. She liked to read stories, and liked listening to them even more.

Blake's mother had used to read to her before she went to sleep at night. After her parents disappeared during a faunus riot, Adam had taken her under his wing. He used to read to her as well, but only when she was young. After she was old enough to fight for the White Fang, he had quickly stopped reading to her, and that was when she had started to read by herself.

Ruby had once said that Yang used to read to her before she went to sleep at night, maybe she could do the same for Blake every now and then?

'And so, after we discovered the location of the herd of Goliaths, me and my uncle went to-'

'Hey Blake!' Yang whispered as she tapped Blake's shoulder. 'What did you think about those guys that we're going to be training with for the tournament?'

Blake pondered the question for a moment whilst she thought back to the few times she had seen the members of team Legion.

'Well, they seem like they are ok,' Blake softly replied as Professor Port started to swing his arms around, imitating his battle with the Goliaths. 'But I can't really say anything seeing as we don't really know them.'

'Yeah, I guess you're right,' Yang replied, leaning back into her chair again. 'I wonder what they've got planned for us tonight?'

'Ms Xiao Long!' Professor Port called out mid-way through an imitation of a swing with his Blunderaxe. 'While I appreciate your enthusiasm for my tales, I would prefer it if you talk with your teammate after class.'

'Sorry Professor,' Yang said, throwing her hands up in the air in defeat.

'Thank you, now as I was saying...' their teacher continued, going back to swinging his arms around, pretending to be hacking apart a Goliath.

After that, Yang didn't say a word to Blake, instead she sat back and fell asleep in her chair as the Professor's story continued going on and on and on. At one point during the lesson, Yang had started to snore a bit too loudly, which had drawn the attention of everyone, except for Professor Port, who was still intent on continuing his extremely long story.

As usual, he hadn't finished his story when the bell rang, so the professor had ended up stopping his imitations of combat mid swing, pausing to turn and look at the time.

'Oh, well perhaps we will continue the story next time,' he mumbled as he unfroze from his position. 'You are dismissed.'

Not a second after, Yang woke at the last word he spoke, darting from her seat to the end of the aisle, ready to head to lunch. Ruby was quick to follow, flying across the aisle and out the door, no doubt already halfway to the cafeteria.

Blake and Weiss moved out of their seats, following the blond brawler who was already pulling out of sight as she raced after her younger sister.

'Come on,' Weiss said, floating past Blake and out the door. 'We should get there before the two of them and Nora eat all of the food.'

Blake knew Weiss was correct, as Nora had also disappeared from the classroom, and like Ruby, was most likely already eating lunch alongside their leader. That thought made her quicken her pace a little bit, as Nora had recently taken a liking to tuna sandwiches.

Weiss

After lunch, the team had yet another slightly boring lesson in Professor Oobleck's class, as he gave them a lecture about the history of dust, which was a topic that Weiss was already perfectly educated in. Well, she was perfectly educated in just about all topics really.

Nevertheless, the heiress couldn't help but feel slightly bored as she listened to the hyperactive teacher, knowing the answers to questions before he had finished asking them, and thinking of ways that she could have made thee lecture better.

Of course, she only ever answered the questions. She would never tell a teacher that she could do a better job than them most of the time. That would be inappropriate and rude.

Afterwards, the four girls made their way back to their dormitory to try and get started on the assessment that Professor Oobleck had set for them. However, when Weiss tried to sit Ruby down to try get into their work, she very quickly gave up as the young girl was too excited about their meeting with Team Legion in the next four hours.

'Ruby, I don't know why you're so excited,' Yang said, grabbing hold of her sisters arms as she sped past her and Blake. 'They said that we didn't need to bring our weapons, which means that we're probably just going to be talking about what we're going to be doing for the next few months.'

'I know that Yang, but we're still going to be learning from a third year team!' Ruby excitedly said, jumping around before managing to escape from her sister's grasp and darting around the room again in excitement.

'Maybe you should just leave her be Yang,' Blake said, pulling her back down so they were both sitting down on her bed, their assessment papers littering the sheets. 'We have some work to do, so why don't we go to the library to get a few books to help with the subject. I'm sure Weiss can handle Ruby by herself.'

'Wait, what?' Weiss asked, her voice becoming even more high-pitched than usual.

'Actually, that's a pretty good idea!' Yang said, grabbing a handful of papers before quickly dashing out of the dorm door behind Blake, leaving the two with a rushed, 'Bye!'

Weiss opened her mouth to protest, but the two taller girls had already disappeared down the hall. Sighing, Weiss wrapped the door in a purple glow, gently pushing the door closed with her ability. The entire bed moved back a few inches as Ruby crashed into it, sitting down beside the heiress. Weiss' neat pile of papers was sent flying off the bed, scattering themselves across the floor.

'So Weiss!' Ruby excitedly said, swinging her legs back and forth off the edge of the mattress. 'What are we doing first?'

Weiss looked down at where the papers had been sitting a few seconds ago, sighing as she realised that it was going to be very difficult for her to get this assessment done with Ruby in her current state.

'Better start sometime,' Weiss sighed, lifting the papers back up to her bed whilst straining to keep Ruby's shoes planted firmly on the floor so she couldn't run off again. 'Alright Ruby, let's start with a definition of dust.'

'It makes me sneeze.'

Weiss sighed again. This was going to be a long four hours.

Three hours and fifty six minutes later, Yang and Blake opened the door and walked back into the dorm room. However they were not greeted back, as Weiss was too busy writing her assessment, and Ruby was too busy snoring from the boredom of trying to pay attention to the subject.

'HELL-OOOOOOOO!' Yang called, waving wildly over her head and fake marching behind her faunus friend. 'How did you do with your assessment?'

'SSSHHH!' Weiss hissed, holding a finger to her lips. 'She only just got to sleep!'

'Nah, I was just pretending to sleep so I didn't have to do the work!' Ruby said, leaping off the bed onto her feet, her usual smile on her face. 'Hey Yang, how did your study go?'

'From the looks of it, the exact same as what happened here,' Blake said, putting the papers on the closest desk to her bed. 'I did all of the study, and Yang did all of the messing around and sleeping.'

'I'm hurt,' Yang pouted, putting a hand over her heart. 'You say I did all of the messing around, and yet you spent almost a quarter of an hour talking to that person who called you. You still haven't told me who it was either.'

'It's not that important,' Blake quickly said. 'I just had to sort something out with someone.'

'Awwwww,' Yang said as she grabbed Blake and drew her in for a huge bear-hug. 'My little Blakey has a date!'

'Yang! Let go!' Blake begged, trying to wriggle her way out of the brawler's tight grip but to no avail.

'So, are you going to tell me who it is?' Yang teased, squeezing Blake even tighter to try and get her to talk.

'Why do you even need to ask?' Weiss asked, guiding the papers over to her desk as she rose to her feet. 'It's obviously that Sun character from Vacuo. He's taken an interest in her ever since he met her.'

'Awwww, I'm so proud of you!' Yang said, squeezing even harder. Luckily for Blake, Ruby happened to look at the clock on their bedside table, and see the time.

'Guys! We only have three minutes to get to the roof!' Ruby panicked before darting past her sister and out the door, leaving a trail of rose petals in her wake, the rest of team RWBY both running and gliding along behind her as fast as they could.

Weiss was able to count down the seconds in her head as she glided along behind the rest of her team. To her calculation, they had roughly ninety more seconds to get to the roof before it was eight o'clock. Maybe they wouldn't be too upset if they were a little bit late?

They only had thirty more seconds by Weiss' count as they started to climb the staircase, Ruby and Blake literally running along the walls at each floor landing so they wouldn't stop when they had to turn around for the next flight of stairs.

One more floor, Weiss thought to herself as the countdown in her head ticked down. 3,2,1!

On zero, Ruby burst through the door, but fell to the ground as her cloak got caught on the door handle. Blake managed to leap over her fallen leader, but was quickly dragged back down to the ground as Yang tripped on her younger sister, catching one of the tails on Blake's coat as she fell, pulling the faunus on top of her.

Weiss was the only one still standing at the end, as she had halted her progress with a quick glyph before her, stopping herself from also falling into the team pile. Her attention was dragged from the pile of limbs before her, to the sound of clapping and laughter.

Looking up, Weiss saw the four members of team Legion sitting in chairs around a small fire, four empty chairs sitting opposite them. Lupis looked back at her with a small smile on his face, putting his scroll down beside him whilst the rest of the third year team was laughing and clapping, most likely at their less than ideal arrival.

Lupis calmed his team down with a small motion with his hand and a shushing noise, however the smiles still didn't leave their faces.

'Well, it's good to see that you are all good at managing your time,' Lupis said, lifting the three to their feet one at a time. 'Although, you didn't really need to make it a race. I told you already, we're assessing you tomorrow, I don't care which of you can get here the fastest.'

'We weren't racing,' Ruby started to say as Lupis lifted her to her feet. 'We were doing our assessment and didn't reali-'

'Don't listen to her, she's had a bit too much coffee for one night,' Yang said, her hand placed flat over her younger sister's mouth.

Lupis raised an eyebrow at her comment, doubt written all over his face. 'Uh huh. Come on over then, let's get this started.'

He waved the four girls over to the four empty seats, sitting back down in the one he had recently vacated. Ruby led the other two to their seats, whilst Weiss looked sceptically at the open fire that they had set up.

'Are you even allowed to have that up here?' Weiss questioned as she looked back and forth between the fire and the four older students.

'Don't know,' Garris replied, shrugging his shoulders. 'We've never asked for permission now or before, and we've never gotten in trouble over it. Toasted marshmallow?'

The blue haired brawler leaned forwards, pointing a long stick in her direction, a large quantity of blackened pink and white marshmallows stuck along the stick.

Weiss narrowed her eyes at him. 'No.'

'Pfft, fine then, suit yourself,' Garris said, retracting the stick of marshmallows, plucking one off and putting it in his mouth. 'But I will tell you now, they are really good!'

Eric moved the bag of marshmallows closer to the centre of the small circle of chairs so that everyone would be able to grab some if they wanted them. Apparently, Ruby did, as she grabbed a whole handful, putting them all on one of the spare sticks that the boys had brought with them, quickly holding it over the fire.

'Can you please sit down now?' Lupis asked, pointing towards the last empty chair. 'We need to get started as soon as possible if we're going to get you all to be the best you can be for this tournament.'

Weiss didn't acknowledge his comment, merely turning away and glided over to her seat before sitting down, hovering slightly above the cheap fabric of the campfire chair. Once she was satisfied with her posture, she looked straight at Lupis, who had a small smirk on his face, almost as if he found the way she sat funny.

'Well, now tha' wer' rea'y,' Garris said through a mouthful of marshmallows, 'tell us about yourselves.'

'We want to know all about you,' Nathan said moments after the brawler had finished talking. 'Your personality and basic things about you are some of the things that we want to know, like your name or age.'

'But we also want to know about your history,' Eric said after him. 'What you did before you came here, or anything about you in your history.'

'One last rule,' Lupis said, no longer wearing his smirk from before. 'We want to know absolutely everything, and whatever you say must be true. Trust me when I say this, but we will know if you lie, or are hiding something from us. Now, who's first?'

Weiss could see Blake tense up as he said that, and she wondered if they would be able to tell if she decided to hide her faunus heritage. She didn't get to wonder for long, as her attention was brought to Ruby, who was holding up one finger whilst swallowing the mouthful of marshmallows that had caused her cheeks to stick out like a chipmunks. All of the four older students turned to look at her, their attentions fixed on the small girl. 'Alright, go ahead.'

'Well, my name is Ruby, Ruby Rose,' Ruby began. 'I'm fifteen years old, and I came here because I was accepted in by Professor Ozpin after I stopped a robbery in town. After the first test when we got here, I was made the leader of team RWBY.'

Nathan nodded. 'Sounds like a pretty easy way in. Did you have to take the entrance exams like the rest of us all did?'

'Uhm, actually no I didn't,' Ruby said, lowering her eyes to the ground. 'Weiss has actually reminded me a few times that I got it really easy, and I should be very serious about being here, because some people who sat the test didn't actually get to join, whereas I was accepted in automatically.'

'Well, you shouldn't be ashamed of that,' Eric said, shifting in his seat. 'If Professor Ozpin accepted you like that, it means he can see some serious potential in you. And if he sees potential in someone, it means that person is going to go pretty far in life.'

Ruby brightened up slightly. 'I guess.'

'Regardless, you are here now, and that is what is important,' Garris said with a reassuring smile. 'Please, continue. Tell us about your family.'

'Well, Yang over there is actually my sister,' Ruby said, pointing down the line at Yang, who in turn smiled and waved at the four with a quick, 'Helloo!'

'Oh really?' Nathan said, looking back and forth between the two of them. 'Not to be offensive, but I don't really see it.'

'Well, we aren't full sisters,' Ruby replied. 'We have the same dad, but we have different moms.'

'Care to explain that?' Lupis asked.

'My mom disappeared when I was little, pretty much so early on that I didn't even remember her until I was told Ruby's mom wasn't mine,' Yang replied back. 'Ruby's mom died during one of her missions. One day she went out to go protect a village from a beowolf attack, and she never came back.'

'I'm sorry. I know what it is like to lose a parent, it's a tragic experience,' Lupis said, pausing for a moment before responding. 'But don't let me interrupt, please Ms Rose, continue.'

'Uh, well, our dad is still around. He lives out at Patch, and he teaches at Signal Academy with his brother Qrow,' Ruby continued.' It was uncle Qrow who actually taught me how to use the scythe, that's how I came up with the design for Crescent Rose.'

'Ah yes, your sniper-scythe hybrid,' Nathan nodded. 'I saw you with that during the invasion. You handle it very well.'

'What about your abilities?' Eric questioned. 'What is your semblance? What can you tell us about your aura?'

'Well, my semblance is speed,' Ruby said proudly. 'That's one reason why I was one of the top students in my year back at Signal, because I could take a slow weapon like a scythe and use my speed to make it even more difficult to fight against.'

'A good combination,' Garris commented. 'Mixing two opposites together so they can complement the others weaknesses.'

'Yeah, that's what uncle Qrow said to me,' Ruby replied.

'And your aura?'

'What do you mean by that?'

'Well, do you have a lot of it for starters?' Lupis asked. 'It's not always important, but knowing how much you have, how much you rely on it and how much a hit drains you can be pretty helpful.'

'Well, I've never really found out how much I have,' Ruby replied.

'Do you mind if I check then?' Eric asked, leaning closer to the fire.

'You can do that?'

'Sure, I just need permission.'

'Uh ok. I give you permission,' Ruby said.

Eric nodded and extended a hand towards her, closing his eyes as he did. His body began to glow with a dark purple light, and Ruby began to glow a dark red. After a few moments, both of their auras began to pulse, slowly at first, then more rapidly until Eric dropped his hands, breaking the connection. Their auras slowly faded out of sight until the colourful glows were both gone.

'Well, the good news is that you have more than the average amount of aura for someone you age,' Eric said between deep breaths. 'Based from that, I would say that using your semblance never really bothers you, am I correct?'

'Yes,' Ruby nodded. 'I can use it all the time if need be.'

'And what about when you get hit?' Garris asked. 'Do hits badly drain your aura?'

'No, not really,' Ruby admitted. 'I mean, I got hit by one of Roman Torchwick's energy shots last term, and it didn't break through my aura.'

'Good,' Garris said. 'At least you can take some hits if things don't go your way.'

'So tell us more about you,' Eric said. 'Anything particularly interesting that we should know about you that could be useful when we are training you? Maybe a way you act, or something you can do?'

'Well, I'm sometimes a little impatient,' Ruby answered.

'Explain.'

'Well, uh, sometimes I sorta rush into things without thinking,' Ruby replied.

'That's fine,' Eric replied. 'It can't be expected that a girl your age will act the same as girls two or three years older than you.'

'However,' Lupis butted in. 'Seeing as you are the leader of a team, that is something that you and I will be working on.'

'However, moving on, what made you decide to be a huntress Ms Rose?' Lupis asked, leaning forwards in his seat. The rest of his team seemed to do the same thing. Weiss figured that they were extremely interested in her reason, maybe it would tell them if Ruby was worth teaching or not.

'Because my mom and dad always said that it was good to help people,' Ruby replied, as if it were a simple answer. 'I know there's the military and the police force, but huntsmen and huntresses are much more interesting.'

'So you chose this so you could help people?' Eric clarified.

'Yup.'

The four of them leaned back simultaneously, each of them nodding at her response.

'Thank you Ms Rose,' Lupis said, looking away from the young girl and towards the other three girls. 'Now, who wants to share next?'

It only took a moment before Yang replied, 'I might as well go, seeing as you know most of my story as I'm Ruby's sister, this should be pretty quick.'

Garris gave her a quick smile, 'Alright then, go ahead.'

'Well, I'm Yang Xiao Long,' Yang stated. 'I'm seventeen, and the older sister of our dear leader Ruby!'

'Are you proud of your sister?' Nathan asked.

'Of course I am!' Yang replied. "Why wouldn't I be?'

'Just checking,' Nathan replied, hands held up to stop any hostility that might brew. 'It isn't unheard of that people get jealous of younger siblings when they are given big opportunities like this.'

'Well, for your information, I am not jealous of Ruby,' Yang replied defensively. 'I am extremely proud of her. Besides, I never really wanted to be a leader anyway, it's not quite my style.'

'Why's that?' Eric asked.

'Well, to be honest, I'm a bit hot-headed,' Yang admitted. 'I rush into things too quickly, I don't really plan things out. I wouldn't really make a good leader. I can follow instructions well, but if I were to give them, things just wouldn't work out.'

'So you are quite like your sister in that regard then,' Garris stated.

'Yeah, you could say that,' Yang replied. 'We both get it from our dad, he can get a bit hot-headed at times, especially if something happens that is related to family.'

'Does that happen with you as well?' Lupis questioned.

'Well, sorta. I mean, I'm really protective of Ruby, because she's my little sister, so I often feel like I need to look after her. Sometimes I react before I think, especially when it comes to my sis.'

'Anything else get you worked up like that?'

'Uhhh, yeah,' the brawler replied, going slightly red. 'My hair.'

'Wait, what?' Eric asked, a confused look on his face.

'I'm really protective of my hair,' Yang replied, her face still red. 'If anyone does anything to it, I get really angry. A lot of the time my anger sets off my semblance.'

'Which is?'

'Well, if I get angry, I get more powerful. But mostly what happens is that as I get hit, I get stronger. It's kinda like a trading thing. I lose aura, but I become stronger.'

'If that's the case, wouldn't it be impossible for you to lose a fight?' Nathan asked.

'Not really,' Yang said. 'I can still get knocked unconscious, if that happens then my semblance can't kick in. Or if someone choked me out, it wouldn't have a reason to kick in because my aura isn't getting drained from hits.'

'I would assume that you have quite a large amount of aura to be able to use your semblance,' Eric said.

'Yes,' Yang replied. 'During the tests for Beacon, they checked my aura. I had one of the highest aura readings out of everyone coming this year. My semblance is also good for only taking small amounts of my aura at a time. I've never really had that much of an issue in regards to running out of it during a combat situation.'

'Alright, now the big question, why did you want to be a huntress?' Lupis asked.

'Well, I want adventure,' Yang replied. 'Not the sort of adventure that you get in books or movies, but I mean traveling across the world, fighting the against the grimm. If I protect people along the way, then it's even better.'

'Hmm, interesting. Thank you, Ms Xiao Long,' Lupis said before turning to Blake and Weiss. 'Who's next?'

'I'll go next,' Weiss said.

'Fine, tell us – '

'But first, why don't you tell us about yourself?' Weiss interrupted.

Lupis paused and looked straight at the heiress. 'The point of this is for us to get to know you better, Ms Schnee. The better we know you, the easier it is for us to train you. You do not really need to know anything about us.'

'Hmph.'

Lupis narrowed his eyes at her response. 'Although I will say this, do not try to use that attitude against us Ms Schnee. You may be the daughter of one of the richest people alive, but it does not mean you can treat me any different from yourself.'

Weiss was slightly taken aback by his response. 'Sorry.'

Lupis nodded in return. 'Accepted, but do not do it again, we do not have the time to adjust you morally as well as train you for the tournament. Now, begin.'

Weiss straightened up slightly. 'Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company.'

'Yes, it was big news when you decided to be a huntress and not follow the family business. Speaking of, how do you feel about your family company?' Eric asked.

'Well, I don't agree with some of the choices that it has made,' Weiss admitted. 'Ever since my father took over the Schnee Dust Company, the business has been working in a, well, morally grey area. I always felt that way, and I knew that it was why the faunus hated us so much, but because it was still my family, I sided with them a lot of the time just because it was family.'

'Tell us about your family,' Nathan said. 'Give us your opinions of them. Just the ones closest to you though, we all know how big your family really is.'

'Well, there's my father, Leon Schnee. He took over the company after his father died a few years after my birth. It was his idea to use a faunus work force to mine more dust faster, so we would have higher stock. When people found out about it, there was a huge outcry, and even I disagreed with it.'

'Did you say that to him?' Lupis asked.

'No,' Weiss admitted. 'I thought that there must have been a reason why he did it, so I didn't ever disagree with him, but I didn't have to like it.'

'Alright then. What about your mother?' Lupis questioned. 'She isn't heard of as much as your father is. Tell us about her.'

'My mother is very different from my father. She doesn't agree with most of the decisions that he makes for the company, but whatever she says to him he never listens to it.'

'Would you say you side more with her then?' Nathan asked.

'Yes. It was actually my mother who suggested that I try to get away from the family business, because she didn't want me to have to inherit such a corrupt company.'

'And so you decided to become a huntress,' Garris concluded. 'But why take up this lifestyle, and not something else?'

'Once I began training for it and I learnt that I could fight, I knew there wasn't any reason to do something like office work. Once I got into it all and started doing really well, I knew that this was what I was going to do with my life. Both my mother and I figured that I could make a bigger change by being here as a huntress than simply another owner of the Schnee Dust Company.'

'Do you still keep in contact with them?' Eric asked.

'Well, I message my mother every week, just to keep her updated on my progress here. I haven't heard much from father however. He wasn't very happy when I decided to pursue this life. He has done his best to avoid me since then.'

'He was upset that you were so much like your mother,' Lupis stated. 'You sort of rebelled against him, and he felt like he had no connection to you once you began this life.'

'He overreacted though!' Weiss shouted across the fire at him. 'So what if I chose a different life? He should be proud of me no matter what choice I make!'

Lupis raised his hands to calm her down. 'Attitude Ms Schnee. I understand your anger in regards to that. I agree with you, he definitely overreacted, but parents are always disappointed when their children rebel against them. It is only natural for a child to rebel against their parents.'

Weiss nodded slowly. 'I guess so.'

'Anyone else you want to talk about?' Garris asked.

'Yes, I have a younger sister, Winter,' Weiss admitted. 'She was both the best and worst thing that ever happened to me.'

'What do you mean by that?' Eric asked.

'When Winter came along, I was incredibly happy that I would finally have someone else around that I could be with that wasn't an adult, or one of those terrible rich kids that my father always invited home because their parents were possible business partners. But as she grew up, she took to the same hobbies and talents that I did. She started singing just like I did, she played the piano just like I did, and she took to dancing just like I did. The only difference between me and her was that she was better than me at everything.'

Weiss went silent for a second, taking a pause to let the idea sink in with everyone. She had told Ruby the same story earlier today, and that was the first time she had talked about her sister since she had left to prepare for her attendance at Beacon. She had left the family home to go to a private tutor's house to train as a huntress a year before she had taken the test to be admitted to Beacon.

Eric nodded,' Please, continue.'

'As she got more and more noticed by the world, I would be both proud and angry at her. She had become so talented that I had to feel proud, but she had also made me seem like I was second rate. People started paying her more attention than me, especially my father. I am angry at my sister because she made me seem like nothing after all of the work that I had done to become noticed in the world. But, that's also why I wanted to become a huntress, because I knew that this is one profession that she will never be able to follow. I wanted to be better than her at something, and that's why I wanted to be the best I could be last semester, to prove that I was better than her.'

'Why didn't you ever tell us you had a sister Weiss?' Yang asked.

'I don't talk about her, because I don't want any of you to know that my sister, to whom I am six years older, is superior to me in so many ways,' Weiss finished, looking at Yang. 'You and Ruby both had a father that loved you equally, but my father loved my sister more than me, because she was more like him and because she was better in every way.'

'I'm sorry that you feel that way towards your sister Weiss,' Garris said, a look of sadness in his eyes. 'You can't choose family, so sometimes you get screwed in that regard. But you can choose your friends, which is why it is important that you are truthful and honest with them. If you find a really good friend, they will be even more important to you than family.'

Weiss nodded in response.

'Last question,' Eric said. 'Semblance and aura, what can you tell us about those?'

'Originally I just had my regular glyphs, but after the invasion you arranged the dust infusion surgery, now I have the ability to manipulate the movement of objects and people,' Weiss said, lifting the marshmallows out of the bag as an example. 'The surgery put my spine back together, put I can't actually come into contact with anything, because it would ruin it again. That's why I only float around, even right now I'm not really sitting on this chair, because the pressure would break my spine.'

'Meaning you have to play the cautious game in combat now?' Nathan asked, receiving a nod for a reply.

'Hits to my back cause the most problems. I can still fight with Myrtenaster, it just tingles a little bit, but nothing really bad.'

'Thank you Weiss,' Eric said to the heiress. 'That is very helpful. Blake, would you like to start now?'

'Of course, we might as well get this over with,' Blake replied. 'I'm Blake Belladonna, I have no idea who my family is because they left me in an orphanage when I was born.'

Blake paused here for a second, and Weiss knew that she was struggling to say the next part. 'I wasn't treated well there because I was a faunus.'

All of team Legion except for Lupis nodded their heads, Lupis being the exception as he simply gave a sigh of sadness.

'I'm sorry you had to go through that. Discrimination towards faunus is something that I do not tolerate,' he explained.

'Anyway, I would go out in the evening to go to rallies for faunus rights. The last one I went to went horribly wrong when a group of anti-faunus humans turned up and started shooting everyone there. I only escaped because another faunus saved me.'

'He ended up bringing me into the White Fang, where he taught me how to fight back against the humans to get our rights forcefully. For a long time I believed him, until around a year ago, when he started getting more and more violent. After that, I left him. I came to Professor Ozpin looking for a spot here at Beacon. I figured that I could do more good by putting my skills towards helping people rather than terrorising them. Strangely, he accepted me in even though he knew about my past somehow.'

Lupis nodded. 'Sounds like you had a very difficult life before you came here.'

'Yes,' Blake replied, nodding back to him.

'What was the other faunus like? The one who looked after you?' Lupis asked.

'Well, he was always pushing the White Fang towards faunus rights, it was his big goal for the group. It was just the way that he tried to get it done that eventually pushed me away from it all.'

'Wait, you say that he pushed them towards the rights,' Garris questioned. 'Was he the leader of the White Fang?'

'Yes actually,' Blake admitted. 'He said that he saw potential in me, and that was why he saved me back at the rally, and why he kept me by his side all the time.'

As Blake was speaking, Weiss noticed that Lupis had tensed up ever so slightly as Blake spoke. Maybe they had run into the White Fang before?

'Anyway, moving on,' Eric said in a rushed tone. 'Seeing as you covered pretty much everything already, we just need to know about your abilities.'

Blake nodded. 'I can leave a shadow-image of myself and use it to escape from sticky situations. I tend to try and not get hit in combat, as it really drains my aura. So instead, I use my semblance to keep out of the way.'

'Alright then,' Lupis said. 'Thank you all for your cooperation. Now that we know more about you, it will be much easier to train you.'

'So when are we actually going to start?' Yang interrupted.

'That's what I was about to say actually,' Lupis replied. 'Tomorrow after lunch we have the combat arena booked in. We will be doing a few group exercises first, a few warm-up exercises, then we will have a fight between our two teams to see how well you do in combat. Afterwards, each of you will be pulling a name out of a hat to see who you will be training with the next day. After that, we will go through a cycle to go through all of you and strengthen you all in different ways.'

Lupis turned to Ruby. 'Now, seeing as you are the team leader, you and I will be working together after classes from half four until seven.'

Ruby nodded in response. 'You got it.'

'Good. After tomorrow, we will also be meeting up at the fountain every morning at six. I expect you to be there, or else we will be dragging you here in your sleepwear, and you can do laps of the campus in what you are wearing.'

'So you better hope you're wearing something!' Garris commented with a small grin.

Eric looked down at his scroll. 'Lupis, seven thirty.'

'Is it?' he asked, looking at his own scroll. 'So it is.'

He pocketed his scroll before turning back to the group. 'Alright then, go get to sleep, I hope to see you at the arena slightly earlier than you were tonight. Understood?'

'Yep!' Ruby said, jumping to her feet in a mock salute.

'Good, we will see you tomorrow.'

Eric raised his hand and extinguished the fire glyph, plunging the rooftop into pure darkness under the moonless sky.

I realise this is a day late, but it's better than never.

If this one seemed a bit dull, it's just me trying to get back into writing again, it's been a bit of a while since I wrote this story. So do excuse my writing if it felt that way to you.

Regardless, I hope you all had a great Valentines Day, I know that I didn't….