Weiss was both eager and anxious to start her first day at Beacon. On the one hand, she loved school and always strived to be the best student out there. On the other though, Weiss felt nervous since she was at a new school yet again. Her father was often moved around because of his life in the military, and so she didn't get the chance to really settle in at one place. She was always the new kid, even though she spent a long enough time at Haven Academy to actually make friends there.

Still, in the short amount of time that she was at this school, she already managed to make a few friends. She just hoped that she would be around lone enough for those friendships to really and truly last. Pyrrha, Blake, Yang, Neo, they all became her friends in the short amount of time that she knew them, and if she had to leave them behind, she would truly feel upset about that.

Weiss shot the door to the car her father drove her to school in, bidding farewell to him. While they didn't always get along, Weiss loved her father. She just wish that she didn't feel like she had to be perfect for him to actually care for her. She always worked to make him proud of her, but everything she did always seemed to end in failure. Burying the thought from her mind, Weiss walked towards the entrance to the school.

Once she opened the doors, she was greeted with the sight of her friend Pyrrha Nikos, captain of the soccer team, and beauty extraordinaire. Pyrrha noticed that she had walked in and turned to greet her. "Weiss, it's great to see you!" She said to the white haired girl.

"A pleasure to see you too, Pyrrha," Weiss responded.

"What's got you here so early?" Pyrrha asked, she started to walk off, Weiss following her in tow.

"Well, I wanted to get here early enough so that I could hopefully find my way around before classes actually start. I would hate to be late for classes because I don't know how to get around," Weiss said.

Pyrrha nodded, understanding what Weiss was doing. "Well, if you need help getting around, you can ask myself, Blake, Yang, and the rest of our friends. I'm actually going to meet with them now. You're more than welcome to join us if you would like to."

Weiss seemed intrigued by the sudden invitation, the idea of making new friends seemed to be a wonderful idea to her. "Sure, that sounds like a lovely idea. Lead the way," Weiss said.

Pyrrha led Weiss over to the library, the two of them making small talk along the way. Once they arrived at the library, Pyrrha noticed a giant group of people that just so happened to be her friends. She walked over to them and waved as she walked. Yang stood up when she saw the pair walking over. "Yo, what up bitches!" Yang shouted.

Pyrrha couldn't help but laugh at that, while Weiss didn't know what to think of it. After a few laughs, Pyrrha finally got around to introducing Weiss to everyone. "Guys, this is Weiss, she's new here and on the soccer team so I figure why not bring her into our little gang of troublemakers?"

Upon hearing the name, one of Pyrrha's friends turned her head suddenly. Weiss seemed to notice that, but when she saw who it was that was looking at her, she nearly dropped everything on the spot.

One of her closest friends that she managed to stay in contact with throughout all the time that she knew her, was sitting right in front of her. That friend, was Ruby Rose.

"Weiss, is that really you?!" Ruby nearly shouted as she stood up to stand right in front of Weiss.

"Oh my god, I can't believe this," Weiss said. When Ruby stood in front of her, Weiss pulled the girl into a huge hug, which Ruby reciprocated in kind.

"Um, does anyone want to explain what's going on?" One of Pyrrha's other friends, Nora Valkyrie, asked.

The man sitting to her left, Lie Ren, placed a hand on Nora's shoulder. "Nora, I don't know, but I'm sure it's a very touching moment if you ask me."

Once Ruby and Weiss separated, they turned towards everyone. "Sorry bout that guys, but uh, before I moved here, me and Weiss were pretty much best friends for a long time. We managed to stay in touch even though we couldn't see each other in person, but I never thought you'd end up here after all this time," Ruby said to the group.

"Wait, so this was that one person who you would always video chat with every other day?" Yang asked from her seat. When Ruby nodded her response, Yang looked flabbergasted. "Wow, I'm a complete idiot."

Neo, who was sitting right next to Yang, signed to Weiss, hoping she would pass it on to Yang for her. -Could you tell Yang that she isn't a complete idiot?-

"Yang, Neo says that you're not a complete idiot. Also, you need to learn sign language, but that was me saying that one," Weiss said.

"Well, I appreciate the kind words, Neo," Yang said to the shorter girl.

"In any case, why don't we introduce you to everyone?" Pyrrha cut back into the conversation. "Going around the table, Weiss, meet Sun, you already know Blake, that's Ren, Nora, you know Yang and Neo, that's Sage, Scarlet, Jaune and you obviously know Ruby already. So, that's the whole gang."

"There is certainly a lot of you," Weiss said. "You'll have to excuse me if it takes me a while to learn all of your names.

"Heh, no problem, it took Yang here about three months to get me and Sage right, and you look smart enough to figure out who's who," Scarlet said.

Weiss looked over at Yang, who instead of responding, looked away and started whistling. "I promise to do better than the blonde brute over there."

"So, princess, what year are you?" Sun asked.

"Junior, and don't call me princess," Weiss responded indignantly.

"Ok, ok, calm down. It's meant as a term of endearment, not to be mean. Also, pretty much everyone here is a junior as well," Sun responded.

"Keep digging your own grave, Sun," The bass like voice of Sage spoke. "Anyway, what are you planning after this? I can assume college, but for what exactly?"

"Sports journalism, you?"

"I'm looking for something in media, same with Sun and Neo. Jaune's got history, Ruby's in media and music, as I'm sure you already know by now, Scarlet is doing music, Yang is in culinary arts, Nora is looking to do art, Ren is in biology, and Blake and Pyrrha are looking for something in teaching." Sage spoke up.

"Wow, diverse crowd huh," Weiss asked.

"Yeah, we get that a lot," Jaune said.

Before anyone else could respond, they all heard the bell go off signalling that their first class was going to begin shortly. "Well, time to get moving then," Sun said as he stood up from the table. Sage, Neo, you guys get your rough edits done yet?" Sun said as he walked with Sage and Neo away from everyone, waving goodbye to them as he left.

"Come on Weiss, I'll help you get to your first class," Pyrrha said to Weiss. Weiss just smiled and let the girl lead her through the halls to begin their first day.

For her first day of school, Weiss felt like it went pretty well. But now came the fun part of her day, the first game of the season. Now what her chance to show how great she really was. Pyrrha had told Weiss before in the locker room that their opponents were a tough one tonight, but it didn't deter Weiss at all. In fact, it did the opposite, it lit a fire inside of her that built up her confidence level.

She was out at the stadium warming up with Pyrrha and Blake, the crowds of parents and friends were gathering to see the team play. As they filed into the stadium, she thought about what her own parents were doing, whether they would be at her game or not. As much as her parents were busy, they always tried to make it to her games to watch their daughter play.

Weiss ended up finding exactly what she was worried about. Her parents and younger sister Winter were all there. Weiss saw Ruby walk over to them and talk to them, Weiss' family surprised to see her after so long, and pleased to know that Weiss has someone at the school that she knows. A sudden wave of worry overcame her and she felt pressured to be successful. Pyrrha seemed to notice the sudden change in her expression, and went over to check on her.

"Everything ok, Weiss?" She asked.

It snapped Weiss out of her trance, causing the white haired girl to shake her head subtly. "Yeah, I'm fine," Weiss said in response.

Pyrrha looked out at the crowd, trying to find what Weiss was looking for specifically. "I'm guessing your family is out there and you feel pressured to be successful," Pyrrha said, making it sound like it wasn't aimed at Weiss. Despite that, she could tell that Pyrrha was talking to her about it.

"Yeah, my father is a tough man to please and so I need to do well tonight," Weiss responded.

Weiss felt a hand on her shoulder, realizing that it was Pyrrha's that was there. "You'll do fine, I promise. Now come on, let's get going, we got a game to play," Pyrrha said.

Nodding with a renewed confidence, Weiss followed Pyrrha off to the side and readied herself for the first game of the season.

As the game went on, it was clear that when Pyrrha said that their opponents were tough, she meant it. The game was tied at 1-1 with a short amount of time left in the game. Weiss' team scored first off of a Blake goal that was set up by Weiss, giving Weiss the assist on that one goal. Defensively, the team played hard, but their opponents managed to capitalize on a quick turnover down near the goal to get a quick score in. Ever since then, Yang went into beast mode and blocked everything in her path.

Weiss ran the ball down the field, dodging past the other team as the came to block her. There wasn't much time left in the game and so she had to do something. She felt the pressure build up onto her as she took aim and readied her shot. Taking a hard swing with her leg, she sent the ball sailing through the air from around midfield towards the goal.

Weiss watched as the goalkeeper for the opposing team came up to block the shot, drawing the frustrations of Weiss out. She knew that she had messed up her shot and that her team was going to pay dearly for it.

Before it got to the goalkeeper though, it changed direction suddenly, and sailed past the goalkeeper and into the net. Weiss looked to see what had happened, and she was pleasantly surprised to see that Pyrrha had ran in and knocked the ball into the goal with her head. It gave Weiss her second assist of the game, and her team the lead with little time left for their opponents to do anything about it.

Giving herself no time to celebrate, Weiss quickly switched her mind to defense and looked to hold the line long enough for time to expire. In the end the game ended with Beacon winning 2-1, giving Weiss' team the opening game win.

As the team made the trek back over to the sideline, Weiss felt a mixture of pride, and worry wash over her. She felt proud of getting the assists on both of the goals, as well as holding down the lines as best as humanly possible. At the same time, she was worried that her father would think that she didn't do a good enough job after what had happened. She didn't score any goals in the game and that means that she didn't do a good enough job in his eyes.

Her coach said a few words about the game and how it went, then allowed everyone to go home to get some rest. Weiss walked out of the stadium with Pyrrha, chatting with her about how things went that evening. Weiss soon noticed Ruby approach her through the crowd and hug her, congratulating her on a stellar performance. When Weiss saw her parents coming over, she became worried about what they would say to her, so it ended up drowning out all the positive energy that Ruby was showing.

"Weiss, I have to say that performance of yours wasn't the best you could've given," Her father said. Weiss almost knew it was going to go that way, but she just had to deal with it. "For starters, you didn't make any successful shots on goal, and on top of that it ended up coming down to almost the last second."

"Father, I know it doesn't seem like a good performance, but I swear to you I gave it the best I could," Weiss said back.

"Apparently it wasn't good enough."

At that point, Pyrrha decided to step in for Weiss. "Sir, I don't mean to interrupt, but I know that Weiss' performance tonight was actually a stellar one. Of our two goals, we wouldn't have been able to make them if it wasn't for Weiss setting it up for us to be successful. In a team sport such as this, the assists are just as important as the goals themselves, and she set up both of our goals." Weiss felt a mixture of gratefulness and concern shower her, she was glad that Pyrrha was sticking up for her, but worried that her father would react badly to it. "Furthermore, aside from the lucky fluke, our defense held strong and Weiss was a huge part of that end of the field as well. As one of the team's captains, I'd say she really kept this game together for us from the start."

Weiss' father seemed to approve of that at least. "Very well then, I guess you make a valid point. Anyway, I hope to see more performance of this caliber and higher the next time Weiss. Now come, we're heading home." Weiss' father started to walk away with Weiss' mother and sister following him.

"Thanks for that, Pyrrha," Weiss said quickly. "I promise I'll make it up to you tomorrow, but right now I got to go."

"Ok, I'll see you tomorrow. And Weiss, good job tonight," Pyrrha said before letting Weiss go.

"You too," Weiss said before she turned away and walked over to her parents to go home and rest up.

Unfortunately for Weiss, her head started to spin out of nowhere. She felt as though she didn't want to leave the red-heads side, just wanted to hold her tightly and never let go. Something started to twist and turn inside of Weiss until she couldn't think of anything else. When she climbed into her fathers car, her mind was completely gone from the world she was currently in. Instead she was filled with more questions about herself that she could possibly answer.

'What is this?'

AN: Well, the gangs all here, now they can die together. Not really, but you get what I mean. The reason I had Ruby as an already close friend of Weiss is actually going to come into play next chapter so hopefully that all goes well. As for Weiss' father, we'll be seeing plenty of him in the coming chapters as well.

Glad you guys are interested to see the Neo Yang relationship and what I'm doing with her. I took a chance with that, figuring why the heck not, and so far it's going well if I do say so myself.

Anyway, thanks for the read and hopefully you enjoyed the chapter.