AN: Hey all! As this is a more slice-of-life style story than the series, I'm going to need more characters! While I do have an OC team, ARMS, that I plan to use I had a neat idea. I'm holding a little contest! I need 2 more teams. Therefore, I am holding an OC Team contest! Here's how it works: PM me your team, and if you win you'll be in the story! Simple as that. If you aren't interested skip the rest of this (really long) authors note and enjoy the chapter. Now then, for obvious reasons, I am going to lay down some ground rules as to what may and may not be submitted.

1) It must be a full 4 member team, no "we were one short because of class size" or "there was an extra person so we got five people instead" or anything like that.

2) No inappropriate team names. I highly doubt a teacher would officially name a group any of a large number of four letter words.

3) No more than one faunus per team. Faunus are not that common at Beacon from what we have seen in show.

4) No God Mode or Game Breaker semblances. Nothing like time manipulation, mind reading, summoning death, reserection, etc. Regenertion is allowed, but not to Wolverine/Deadpool/Ulquiora levels.

5) It is acceptable if your character does not know what their semblance is.

6) No financial heirs. We already have Weiss and my OC Alexandria for that. Too many would dilute the uniqueness.

7) Similarly, no ex-criminals or those that snuck into Beacon.

8) Minimum age is 17, but may be higher if a person enrolled later in life. You may not go younger.

9) No coppied characters from other series.

10) Your character does NOT need to be a reference to a historical/mythological/fairytale character. If you want them to be so that is fine, feel free to let me know, but it is not a requirement.

Finally, here is a basic format for submissions.

Team Name: Put the team name here. Ex. RWBY, JNPR, ARMS

Members: List all the members in order. Ex. Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang. Jaune, Norra, Phyrra, Ren.

Leader: List the team leader here. First person in the team name doesn't need to be the leader, so this is important.

Specialty: List what the team is most famous for/most skilled at. You may list a maximum of two from the following list:

Assult - high speed attacks that slam into an enemy and take them down fast.

CQC - Specilize and accel at close quarters combat.

Defense - Able to neutralize damage quite effectively with armor, shields, dodges, and other defensive maneuvers.

Equipment - Carries high power/quality weapons and armor compared to other teams.

Investigation - experts in scouting, tracking, and uncovering information.

Mage - Expert dust users.

Marksmen - Highly skilled at long range attacks.

Support - Known for suplimentry skills and talents. Includes medical units.

Stealth - Highly skilled in moving about unnoticed and performing ambushes.

Tactical - Known for utilizing coordinated tactical maneuvers at a higher caliber than normal. Strategic geniuses.

Technician - Expert Semblance users.

Ex. RWBY - Tactical Technician

JNPR - Assult Defense

CRDL - Assult CQC

CVFY - CQC Marksmen

ARMS - Defense Equipment

After that, it's time to write up the members of your team. Characters should follow the following basic format:

Name: Put name here.

Age: 17+

Gender: Male, female, other (be really careful with that last one)

Species: human/faunus (subtype)

Weapon: What is it? How does it work?

Semblance: What ability does your character posess, and what manifests when they use it?

Physical description: what do they look like? What do they typically wear when not in school uniform?

History: Time for backstory!

Personality: What are they like?

Style: How do they tend to fight? What tactics do they use?

Team Relations: How do they feel about their teammates?

Stats: Stats are a rough estimate of power, ranging from E to S. please note this is a rough scale. In addition, this is for purposes of comparison to others on the same level (i.e. first years). An S rating like Yang's strength by first year standards might only be a B by third year. C is average, E is pathetic, A is Amazing, and S is Special. Please no more than one S per character, and even then unless it's really exceptional you should probably err on the side of A.

Strength - How hard do you punch? Do you even lift bro?

Endurance - Can you take a hit, or do you fold like a paper towel? Do you do a 5K or a 50K jog?

Speed - Are you as fast as the wind, or as slow as the cable guy?

Agility - Can you perform an arial triple pirouet? Or do you occasionally trip over your own feet?

Intelligence - Are you a genius, or do you need a lot of tutoring to scrape by?

Aura - Are you a massive font of the stuff, or do you barely flicker?

Dust - Are you able to smite your foes with elemental storms? Or do you have barely enough skill useing the stuff to shoot your dust rounds?

Other: Anything else you want to share? Neat little facts that don't fit elsewhere, design notes/inspiration, or what have you.

Just make one for each character, and you are good to go! The deadline is by Chapter 6, whenever that comes out.

And now, on with the story!

Ruby stared at Weiss. Weiss stared at Ruby. The silence was thicker than Yang's attempt at making mashed potatoes. Then Weiss turned and started to walk away.

Ruby was quite fine with that. "Okay, maybe we can just pretend that we didn't run into each other. Neither of us wants the other as a partner." She breathed a sigh of relief, turning around to try looking for somebody else to partake up with. "Oh thank god, now I don't have to worry about dealing with the Schnee."

"Gee, thanks for that." Weiss said, startling Ruby. "So nice to know how you really feel."

"You came back?" Ruby asked, honestly quite surprised. "Why?"

"My only other option was this guy who was being rather creepy earlier in the locker room. I'd rather be stuck with you than some overly persistent creep that calls me 'snow angel' while invading my personal space." Weiss explained, stomping off in the other direction. "Between that and you, I think you're less objectionable."

"Ouch." Ruby said, following after. "Seriously, why do some guys think that stuff is okay? Makes me want to claw some faces off sometimes." There were after all quite a few guys who were aggressive in 'acquiring' faunus women, so Ruby was very much familiar with warning signs like that.

Weiss was surprised to hear the dork talk like that. "What do you know about that sort of thing?"

"A lot." the hooded dweeb replied. "I've run into...a lot of guys that felt I 'owed' them for not being assholes and treating me like a person. And more than a few wouldn't take a verbal no for an answer. If it weren't for Rose I'd probably have been a lot worse off."

"Who's Rose?" Weiss asked, not sure how to take this. The way Ruby was talking, it sounded like the guys might have tried...

Her thoughts were interrupted when the girl unfolded a massive scythe from behind her back. "Crecent Rose. My baby is the best thing that ever happened to me." Folding it back up, she continued. "Now I don't have to rely on my sister to keep me safe."

Weiss felt like she wanted to throw up. Being an heires, she hung around a higher class of society. Up there, you were afforded all sorts of respect. Nobody casually harasses someone so high up the social ladder. Ruby sounded like she came from much farther down. Down enough that she needed to be armed to stay safe. Not wanting to think more about something like this, Weiss quickened her pace. "Great. Just keep up, I'd hate to be late because of you."

"Never fear Weiss!" Ruby shouted from in front of Weiss.

"What the?" The heiress looked back and forward a few times,trying to figure out how Ruby had gotten in front of her so fast.

"See? I'm not slow." Ruby continued. "Weiss, just because I don't know how to deal with people doesn't mean I don't know how to deal with monsters." Pulling Weiss into a sort of half hug, she continued "Once you see what I can do, you'll be all "Wow that Ruby girl is really really really really cool...and I want to be her friend."" And with that she dashed off in a blurr of petals.

"Ruby!" Weiss called after her. It figures the dork would just run off, not a care in the world. "As fast as you are, you still accel at wasting time!" Hah, a good one. Who doesn't have a sense of humor now Winter?

Her musings were cut off by some growling from the brush, paired with glowing red eyes.

"What was that?" Ruby demanded, gesturing to the burning clearing. "That should have been easy!"

"Well maybe if you executed just the smallest bit of caution in the placement of your strikes, I wouldn't have set the forest on fire!" the Schnee accused.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Ruby demanded.

"I'm just saying, I'm surprised somebody that talks so much would communicate so little in battle." Weiss explained.

"Well I'm sorry if you need so much help in a fight. Maybe you should have gone with that guy. He'd probably be willing to hold your hand. I can just do fine by myself!" Ruby shouted back.

"Maybe I should have." Weiss agreed. "I can't believe I thought you got where I was coming from. I mean you're what, sixteen?"

"Fifteen." Ruby responded, not sure where Weiss was going with this.

"Oh my god you're a kid." Weiss muttered. "I mean, I've been dealing with pushy guys after my families money since I was your age. What do you know about creepy guys?"

"I've been hit on since I was twelve. I have a whole year extra experience." Ruby argued. "And it wasn't a family fortune they were interested in, I can tell you that." Seeing Weiss's look of horror, Ruby continued "What's wrong princess? Shocked by what goes on outside your pretty princess palace?"

"Let's...let's just go." Weiss said, walking off, a look of disbelief still etched on her face.

Ruby followed after her, a mix of satisfaction and guilt plaguing her. While it felt good to give the Schnee a slice of reality and let her know what was what, the amount it seemed to affect her made Ruby feel bad for Weiss. Still, not too badly. After all, if Weiss knew Ruby was a faunus, all that sympathy would probably evaporate.

Weiss wanted to vomit. What sort of people were that, a twelve year old! Those sort of...freaks should be thrown out to the Grimm. Then again Grimm only hunt humans, and anybody like that clearly isn't human. Weiss knew that the world wasn't a very nice place. There were the White Fang for instance, going around like wild animals and killing anybody that wouldn't bow to their will, even other faunus. Then again it wasn't like their family acquired the organization as mortal enemies by being squeaky clean paragons of virtue. She knew she had to clean up her families reputation and honor, but she'd had no idea how bad the world was. If stuff like that, happening totally independant of her family who would have no reason to pretend it doesn't happen, could go on without her noticing, what had her family successfully managed to cover up that she never heard of? How much work would it take to truly redeem the Schnee legacy?

Ruby was proving an even more infuriating partner than she thought possible. Not just in her bubbly, airhead attitude, or the fact that she was even more of a kid than she had thought. No, the problem lay in how much she was smashing Weiss's view of the world so casually. How could somebody who experienced...that still be so carefree and happy? Still be nice? Despite what most people would think, Weiss did not have a very good childhood. Her attitude, aggression, and scar had to come from somewhere after all. But compared to what Ruby said? It was...still very bad, but in an almost equal way. How do you compare one problem with another? Can you fairly comparing two peoples radically different problems to say who had it worse? Especially if you were one of those people being compared? What is the unit of measurement for suffering?

Weiss was a genius. One of the things about beings genius was that you could connect dots much more easily than others. You could extrapolate, correlate, analyze causation, do pattern recognition, and critically analyze information. Most people learned facts. Geniuses like Weiss learned how to learn. Most people would hear Ruby's story and learn 'Ruby was sexually harassed as a child. How terrible.' Weiss, being brilliant, could build from there. 'She's not ashamed, so nothing serious happened. But she also didn't consider it so weird or out of place that she feels shame it happened to her at all. Sexual harassment is a lot worse and a lot more common than I thought. What are the police doing that this stuff can happen? Do they really just not care about the poorer neighborhoods that much that this sort of thing can happen to a twelve year old routinely? What is wrong with people?'

Sometimes, being smart sucked.

"Admit it, we're lost." Ruby muttered, sitting down and fiddling with some leaves.

"No of course not, I know exactly where we are." Weiss huffed.

Ruby did not look convinced at all. "And that would be?"

"We are..." Weiss trailed off slightly, before continuing in a more strained tone "going to the forest temple."

"Oh my god Weiss, just admit that we're lost." Ruby moaned, standing up. "Or are you too 'little Miss Perfect' to ever just admit you're wrong?"

"I'm not delusional. I know I'm not perfect. Not yet anyway." Weiss turned on her heel and walked off. "But I'm still leagues better than you."

"You don't even know me." Ruby muttered, following after her, oblivious to the large shadow that was following them, and getting larger, and larger, and larger...

Weiss still wasn't fully sure how they wound up clinging to a giant nevermore; it was honestly a jumbled blur of feathers, panic, and Ruby grabbing her and claiming she had a plan, but she was sure of one thing. "I told you this was a terrible idea!" she shouted in order to be heard over the rush of wind on feathers.

"We'll be fine, quit worrying!" Ruby called back, one hand clinging to the bird while the other kept her hood up for some stupid reason. Was she that concerned with how she looked that she'd take an insane risk like clinging to a flying Grimm with just one hand? I mean the situation was crazy enough without handicapping yourself.

Weiss just glared at her. "Oh I am so far beyond worrying."

"In a good way?" came Ruby's reply.

Weiss had to struggle to keep from just gawking at the stupidity of that question. "In a bad way, in a very bad way!"

"Well then why don't we just jump?"

"What are you crazy?" Weiss demanded, turning to look at her partner...only to see that she had already jumped. Her partner who had thrown them onto a giant nevermore, hung on one handed so she could keep her 'cool' look, and had now jumped from about a hundred feet in the air from said giant flying Grimm as if it were a casual mode of transport. "Oh my god she is crazy. I have to have the craziest partner in the history of Beacon."

"Hey Ren, watch me ride this ursa!" Nora shouted.

"Wait, what!?" Ren asked. Really though, it should be expected. After all, he had the craziest partner possible.

Rahu Malice was a huge guy. At five ten and two fifty, he was just huge. His heavy black ō-yoroi had golden nozorashi as a mon. His menpo bore the continence of a lion. His kabuto, demon horns. His weapon was a golden spiked black tetsubo that doubled as a cannon. He looked every bit as intimidating as he could manage. His partners reaction to his appearance had been "Oooh, black samurai armor and a gold broken skull picture on your chest. How much is your scary looks compensating for cupcake?" After a full five minute spar had proven to both of them that they were sufficiently tough enough to be partners with each other, they had continued on their way. It was only upon their first encounter with the Grimm that they ran into a serious problem. They'd been able to come up with a solution. It was a crappy solution, but it worked so far. There was just one major problem. "I'm bored." the giant complained as he sat upon a log and watched.

"Well then you should have done better at rock paper scissors." his partner replied, impairing the last of the beowulf with her bident. "And you don't hear me complain when you get a group." Alexandria Woden looked as far from her partner as most could imagine. At only five feet tall, the pale slender girl looked like she maybe topped a hundred pounds if she'd eaten a large dinner, wore heavy winter gear, and carried her weapon. She wore no armor, or even what most would think of as battle attire. A powder blue tank top that left her midriffs exposed served as her top, a dark yellow sixteen point star her symbol. She also wore brown short shorts with a simple black cloth belt and a pair of heavy leather sandles, with straps going up to mid thigh. Unlike a lot of girls that would wear such things, it clearly was just for comfort and not to show off her (nonexistent) assets. She had short chopped brown hair, and brilliant blue eyes. In short, she looked a bit like a cross dressing guy. "Seriously, did I say anything when you got the last two groups in a row?"

"No. You just took a nap." Rahu pointed out. "I have never seen a huntress so lazy."

"I'm not lazy. It's called knowing my limits and pacing myself." Alexandria snapped as she retracted Asura's shaft and tines so that the weapon could be easily clipped to her belt. "Anyway, hail to the fighters! Their glory theirs even in defeat!" she shouted as she brought her left fist over her right breast in salute to the Grimm, even as the first ones started to slowly crumble to dust before her.

Rahu just groaned at the pointless showmanship. "Do you have to do that after every group you kill?"

"Of course." Alexandria stated proudly. "A true warrior is gracious in victory. So...what do you say we start heading for that temple area?"

"Eh, I don't know. I was hoping to fight a few more Grimm first." Rahu complained, scratching the back of his helmet.

"Yeah, but it's been a while and I do want to get back in time for lunch. Plus it's not like we won't run into Grimm on the way." Alexandria pointed out. "Come on, please? I'll let you have the next two fights, I promise."

Getting up, Rahu stretched a bit. "Now that's more like it. Come on, let's get going." That there would even be two more fights was a given. After all, they didn't have to go looking for the last five fights at all. They'd all come to them, drawn by their negativity. There would be plenty of fights. Just the way they liked it.

"How could you leave me?" Weiss shouted from her perilous perch on the nevermore's claw, having lost her grip on its feathers and having to grab the talon to keep from falling. She couldn't hear what the dolt was saying in response, didn't the idiot realize that with that distance they'd need to shout to be heard? But then it didn't really matter as the nevermore took a sharp turn and she lost her grip, sending her plumitting to her doom. 'If I die because of this, I am so killing Ruby.'

She was saved from having to figure out the logistics nightmare of how to kill somebody after dieing when, oh god not him. Sigh, when Jaune Arc leapt forward and caught her. "Hey there. Just dropping in?" The universe quickly punished him for that bad pun as he suddenly realized he had overshot the tree branch, causing the two of them to crash to the ground.

Weiss landed on top of the creep, taking the time to check her nails to hammer in the fact that she didn't like him. "My hero." As much sarcasm as she had put into her voice, she did have to admit that his leaping catch had severely lessened the damage she would have taken. Turning him into a human pillow was just a bonus in her mind. It was only when she saw Phyrra being flung through the air that she noticed the deathstalker. "Well, that's not good." Seeing Ruby just haphazardly running at the thing was even worse. "Oh my god I know she's crazy but-" She cut herself off as she started speeding forward. The nevermore had pinned Ruby's cloak down and she was about to be killed. Using her dust, Weiss quickly froze the deadly stinger before it could do anything, and turned to face her partner...whose hood was down.

A hundred little things clicked for Weiss right then. Why she was 'the Schnee' the faunus was relieved to not have to work with. Why some creeps though she owed them for treating her like a person. Why the police didn't give a damn. Why she wasn't used to dealing with people. Why she was more willing to risk death by falling from a nevermore than to let her hood slip and show Weiss what she was. Ruby was looking at Weiss then, and she looked far more scared of the Schnee than the Grimm. 'This is Father's legacy. Schnee being the name of just another type of Grimm.'

"Weiss...I..." Ruby spoke weakly, hesitantly.

"That was wreckless, immature, impulsive, and crazy." Weiss chided her. "You're childish, you act without thinking, and let's not even get started on your so called fighting style." Seeing the faunus...Ruby cringe, she continued. "And I know I can be...difficult to work with. But if we are going to get out of this, we are going to have to stop fighting and work together." With a quick sword swing, she cut off the shaft of the feather pinning Ruby's cloak, setting the garment free. Seeing Ruby's shocked face, she smiled as best as she could as she offered a hand up. "So, you willing to stop the whole go it alone deal?"

Hesitant in taking the offered hand, Ruby accepted the help up. "I just...I wanted to show you I could handle things. So you'd respect me."

"You dolt." Weiss grumbled. "You got into Beacon two years early. If you acted like it instead of trying to show off, you'd impress me a lot more."

"...you don't mind that I'm?" Ruby asked, eyes full of hope and fear.

Any further conversation was cut off though as Jaune pointed out the returning nevermore. Weiss assessed the situation. "We'll finish this conversation later. Right now, we have to focus on getting out of this. Our objective is right here."

"Weiss is right." Ruby agreed. "All we need to do is grab a relic and get back. There's no point in fighting these things."

"Run and live. That's a plan I can get behind." Jaune said. He and Ruby went over and grabbed a chess piece, Jaune a white rook and Ruby a white knight.

With the deathstalker starting to break free from the ice, the group made a hasty retreat toward the cliffs.

Weiss sat down next to Ruby in the cafeteria; the faunus still had her hood down, seeing no point in hiding it now that so many had seen her ears back in the forest. The pairs that had come back and turned in their 'relics' were instructed to wait here while their results were evaluated and the remaining students returned. At least they served lunch while you waited. Looking at her partner's tray, Weiss noticed something. "What, no cookies? I'd figure you for a sweet tooth."

"They're chocolate chip." was Ruby's succinct reply. Seeing Weiss's confused look, she elaborated. "I can't eat chocolate, it's poisonous to me."

"Oh...sorry." Weiss said, looking at her own cookies with guilt. "Um, any other stuff I should know not to buy in case I ever do a snack run for the team or something?" Seeing the odd look Ruby gave her, she explained "I'm trying to be...nice."

Putting down her ham sandwich, Ruby sighed. "Okay, just say it. You hate being partnered with a faunus. I know about your family."

"No. You don't." Weiss said, keeping herself...restrained. She was talking to somebody scared of her last name, the name she had sworn to redeem. "You know some of it. I...don't hate faunus. It's hard but I don't."

"Hard to not hate people because they look different?" Ruby asked darkly. "Real mature."

"That's not what I meant." Weiss snapped, accenting her mood with a pound on the table. Taking a deep breath, she continued. "I am being mature. It would be wrong to blame every faunus for what the White Fang does. Them, I hate. Hating the other faunus would be just...wrong." Seeing Ruby's startled look, she continued "The White Fang has been targeting the company and...my family and friends for as long as I can remember. Cousins, friends, board members, their families, one day they'd just disappear and we'd never hear from them again. My father...was always furious. It did not make for the happiest of childhoods."

Ruby was very quiet. "...I hate the White Fang too."

Weiss was surprised at how solem Ruby sounded. "Why? What did they do to you?"

Ruby sighed. "They used to be the good guys. Faunus that stood as an example for the best of us. Then they started doing, well, things like what they did to your family. Bombing public places. Riots. Attacking peaceful faunus protestors for not sharing their ideals. Nobody thinks faunus can be heroes anymore."

Things were quiet after that as they ate in uncomfortable silence.

"...so do you have a tail?" Weiss asked seemingly out of the blue.

Ruby was just stunned at the non sequitur. "Do I what?"

"I'm sorry, was that rude?" Weiss asked. "I just wanted to end the awkward silence and it was the first thing that popped into my head. I'm sorry if it was inappropriate."

"It uh, it sort of is." Ruby hedged. "I mean if a faunus doesn't show it off you're not supposed to ask, but you didn't know. And for the record, no tail, just the ears."

"Ah. I'll keep that in mind when talking to other faunus. I...don't have much experience with you guys. So...I'm sorry in advance if I do anything wrong." Weiss said, doing her best not to cringe at how awkward and forced that sounded.

"...there are several things I can't eat." Ruby said, bringing the conversation full circle. "Avacado, chocolate, grapes, macadamia nuts, and onions and garlic. Especially not chocolate or grapes. And yes, that includes grape soda and raisins. And any type of chocolate, even white."

"I see." Weiss said, nodding. "If you eat any of that stuff by accident, what should I do?"

"Chocolate or grapes? Hospital, stat. The first hits my liver like an ursa as a petting zoo, the second can cause kidney failure." Ruby explained. Not seeing Weiss's look of horror at the idea that her partner could have a slow death brought on by grape soda, the dog faunus continued "Avacado? Leave the bathroom clear, I will be stuck in there a loooong time. Onions and garlic will make me anemic and tired."

"And macadamia nuts?" Weiss asked, having already decided that a good sized chunk of her snack choices had to go, no questions asked.

"Doctor for some pain killers. This one I have had first hand experience with instead of just a doctor's note. It happened to me once when I was eight and ate the wrong kind of cookie at a birthday party. Not fun. Intense body pain and a high fever. My legs also stopped working for a bit, the muscles spasiming. A small amount, like what was in that cookie, isn't going to kill me. Heck, I'd probably have to eat a whole jar for that to happen. But it will still be a very sucky day for everyone involved." Ruby explained.

"Duely noted. If whoever we wind up on a team with has a problem with our diet, they can starve." Weiss said.

Ruby looked confused. "Our diet? Um, Weiss, I don't mind if you eat that stuff, really. Just label it and stuff. I don't want you ending up like Yang, feeling guilty about eating chocolate or something just because I can't."

Weiss blinked. "You really don't mind?"

"Weiss, I have never had chocolate." Ruby pointed out. "I literally have no idea what it tastes like. I can't feel jealous because I have no idea what I am missing. I know chocolate is supposed to be sweet and stuff, but there is so many other types of sweets I really don't care. Honest."

"Oh thank god." Weiss said, breathing a sigh of relief. "No so much for the chocolate thing mind you. I just really love grape soda."

Ruby chuckled a bit at that. Maybe things wouldn't be so bad after all.

"Lead by Ruby Rose." Ozpin finished.

Yang had a look of horror stamped on her face. "Oh no."

"What's wrong?" Blake asked, curious.

"Ruby is a dog faunus." Yang stated, the realizing how that might sound elaborated "A dog faunus who's never been in a ranked group before and just got handed 'alpha'."

Blake's eyes widened like saucers at the implication of a canid with no experience dealing with that instinct being put in command. "Oh fu-"

AN: Next chapter, see what happens when you put a person with a hierarchy instinct in charge of a group.

For those upset about what I put in Ruby's backstory, I did research on harassment of minors. I actually had to bump up her age for when the harassment started to make it less squick.

Also, here is the team profile from my OC team. You'll be seeing more of them soon.

Team Name: ARMS

Members: Alexandria Woden, Rahu Malice, Mahogany Brown, Silvia Odyssey

Leader: Silvia Odyssey

Year: First

Speciality: Defense Equipment