Turning towards the house as the sounds of footsteps and chatter reached her ears, she was met with the sight of not only her mother and her sister, but also her father, lugging a black with red trim suitcase along with him. This wasn't really all that strange, her father was always off on missions after all, but he would usually be leaving in the dead of the night. What was stranger was that right now, Qrow should have been at signal teaching the first combat class of the year, classes at Signal starting a day earlier than at Beacon. Coming to only one conclusion, she figured he must be coming to Beacon as well.

Squealing and rushing over to her family, she wrapped her arms around all of them (somehow), but then stepped back confused and asked, "Why are you two coming to Beacon with us?"

"Yeah, why are you two coming?" Yang agreed.

Glancing at Summer, Qrow replied, "It's a surprise," to which summer nodded in agreement.

Both girls, loving surprises, replied in unison, "Ok then," and the four of them headed to the airship docks.

Not wishing anyone to recognise her, upon entering the airship, Summer walked onto the, thankfully white, roof and hid herself in one of the corners until arriving at Beacon. The journey went swiftly, smoothly and without incident as the four sat quietly together in anticipation.

Upon arrival, after exiting the ship. Summer turned to Ruby and Yang and said, "We've got to go and speak with Ozpin so you two go and meet up with some friends, ok?"

Whilst the two members of RWBY headed off to find their partners, Qrow and Summer headed over to Beacon tower to find Ozpin.

Meanwhile, in Ozpins office, Ozpin was recalling the strange conversation he had had with Qrow over the holidays. He had called Qrow with an offer, and much to his surprise, he had taken it. Their conversation however, still left much wanting.

Qrow: hey Oz, what's up?

Ozpin: I have called with an offer. One of our combat instructors along with one of our weapons teachers were KIA recently and will need replacements. Whilst I could not find a weapons teacher replacement, I was hoping you could take over as a combat instructor.

Qrow: sounds great, I'd love to

Ozpin: what, really?

Qrow: yup, and I've got someone perfect for the job of weapons teacher, so don't worry about that either.

Ozpin: perfect, although who is it you are thinking of?

Qrow: it's a suprise

Ozpin: Qrow?

Qrow: yes?

Ozpin: are you drunk?

Qrow: nope, not even a little. Bye Ozpin.

And with that, Qrow had hung up. Well, Ozpin thought on reflection, that explains why he sounded so clear. Deciding to ignore his own confusion, Ozpin started to review the initiation footage he had just received before Qrow arrived. Thinking out loud he said, "What an underwhelming group of students this year, they're all rather pathetic,"

"I totally agree Ozpin," said a male voice coming from the window sill.

"Yeah, our Ruby killed a giant nevermore during her initiation, it took eight of these kids to take down one Ursa, and not even a major at that!" added a female voice from seemingly above him. Whipping his head up he met silver eyes looking down on him, "Hey Ozpin, long-time no see, hey,"

Suffice to say, all three of them winced at the shattering sound made by Ozpins dropped coffee cup. Quickly composing himself he turned to Qrow who, to his horror, had recorded the whole thing, and said, "I assume that Summer will be taking over the weapons class?"

"Yup," said Summer joining her husband on the ground, "I will be,"

"Well then," Ozpin smiled, "Welcome to Beacon"

Meanwhile, in the RWBY dorm, four huntresses in training were catching up whilst unpacking.

"So what did you three do over the break? I had to go home to Atlas to do nothing," Weiss asked.

"I just read," said Blake noncommittedly.

"I trained with dad back on patch, then I met an aunt and a cousin I never knew I had," said Yang as Ruby hid a grin.

"What are they like?" asked Blake.

"My cousin is sixteen, medium length red and black hair, silver eyes, cheery disposition, fights with a sniper scythe and wears a red cloak, while her mother has the same length red hair, fights with sniper chain axes and wears a white and read cloak," Yang replied.

"Sounds just like Ruby and what I had imagined Summer to look like, strange," said Weiss, really not getting it at all.

It was this moment that Summer and Qrow chose to walk into their dorm and Ruby ran over to hug them both and say, "Hi mum, hi dad,"

"Hey Ruby, we will be staying in the teachers wing for a while and we were just dropping in on the way to unpack to say hi,"

After the introductions were over, Summer and Qrow left and the R, B and Y of RWBY stared at the W. Weiss finally getting it asked, slightly embarrassed, "So you two are cousins now?"

"Yup, but she's still my big sis anyway," answered Ruby.

Weiss was about to ask more about it when an announcement rang out over the speakers.

"Can all second-year students please report to the auditorium to receive their timetable for this semester,"

Heading to the auditorium and receiving their timetables, the team found that their first class of the year was weaponry and started in half an hour.

Arriving back at their room and changing into their uniform, Blake said, "I heard the weapons master at beacon was KIA. I wonder who will be taking over"

As they sat in their seats, ready to meet their new teacher, a familiar figure strode into the room. She wore black leather with twin chain axes at her sides with a white cloak over her head. From the back of the room a voice asked, "Who are you?"

Pulling back her hood to reveal her red hair and silver eyes she replied, "I am professor Rose and I am your new weapons instructor,"

"Mum?!"

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