Chapter 2
The First Assignment;
After the teams were created, Summer and her friends Taiyang, Raven and Qrow were in their dorm room and they decided to decorate the dorm, Summer complained about not liking the beds because they were "too simple and needed to be unique to fit the team" Qrow couldn't help but chuckle saying that there's no point in wasting time with the beds if the only thing we'll do with them is sleep to which Raven rolled her eyes and sat down in her bed "so now we're officially students, but there's not much to do" meanwhile Taiyang was in his own bed reading about the creatures of Grimm unaware of all the commotion on the team as Summer started to rearrange the beds pushing Taiyang and Raven off them but to no avail to which she said unamused "oh come on guys we need to make the best out of the time we have here! Lets not be all moody and have fun!" Raven looked at her and chuckled "right everyone lets have fun! Lets do like Taiyang and spend the entire day studying" to which he heard and shot back "at least I'm trying to pass the year while you are fighting over beds" he said with a laugh as everyone laughed as well as Summer stretched and looked at the time "woahhhh its time to go to class come on!" she grabbed Qrow's and Raven's hands and took off from the room while Taiyang was left there completely distracted "did you know that a Grimm can- wait where is everyone? Oh crap I forgot classes!" he then took off running to class as fast as he could getting there panting a bit tired and took his seat next to another student as he looked at him with a chuckle "Hey there! Name's James Arc and you must be Taiyang!" he offered his hand for him to shake and Taiyang looked at him and quickly shook his hand "yes, hello and nice to meet you too Jones" to which James laughed and replied back "my name's James, not Jones, at least the best you can do is not call me Johnny" and Taiyang quickly replied "yeah that's great Jimmy" after saying that James laughed again and shook his head starting to focus on the class as Summer was doodling in her notebook as professor Orpheus Oobleck was giving a lecture about the creatures of Grimm and stating various history facts while sipping on a cup of hot coffee while Summer kept doodling she looked over at Raven to find out she was asleep and smiled smirking as she started drawing a mask on her face that resembled a Grimm's face and tried her best not to laugh as Qrow looked over at her and gave her a thumbs up for approval as she nodded and finished drawing on her face and got asked a question by the professor as she stood up and saluted "Apprentice Huntress Summer Rose sir!" to which the teacher almost instantly teleported to her and stood next to her "firstly miss Rose, you don't salute with a crayon in your hands and secondly, you're a Student Huntress, this kind of distraction can get you killed in a live battle situation" he said that taking another sip and teleporting back to his original place and looked again at Summer "you may sit down but before that tell me what is the most abundant kind of creature of Grimm that you can find" Summer looked at Qrow and Taiyang for help with a gulp and a distressed face as Taiyang was too busy writing things down and Qrow looked at her and saluted back in a way to say "nice knowing you" with Summer poking her tongue out at Qrow and moved her lips but not exactly voicing her own words "oh okay captain helpful!" and then turned back to face the professor again "Ooh Ooh it's the Deathstalkers!? Oh oh wait wait!" she turned to another student that was mimicking a wolf and looked back at Professor Oobleck "it's the Beowolves!" The professor nodded in joy and took another quick sip of the coffee "bravo bravo, I was starting to consider the Deathstalker but you quickly fixed your own silly answer miss Rose. Very well class I'm assigning you all a group work that you must complete until next class, you must travel to the natural habitat of the Grimm and study their movements and actions, take heed not to start any conflicts, that will be all, at the first sign of trouble, retreat to safety, after all, a living and escaped Huntsmen is better than a dead one" after that he zipped past everyone and disappeared leaving everyone there to get up and leave for break.
Soon after the bell rang for break Summer jumped up and stretched "phewwww glad that is over, hey Qrow you owe me a cookie for not helping me!" she said pointing her finger at Qrow as he also pokes his tongue out and eats a cookie as Taiyang sighed once again standing up from his seat closing his book "can't you two get a room already? The professor told us to travel to Grimm territory, I suppose you both know what that means riiigghhtt?" Summer and Qrow looked at each other in a funny way then tried to speak at the same time but got nowhere as Taiyang sighed once again in a deeper way and looked at them rubbing his forehead "you guys, if you'd pay attention to the class instead of doodling Grimm masks into Sleeping Beauty over there you'd know that Grimm are naturally attracted to negative energies and places that radiate negativity, that said, we should probably head to some sort of ruins or places that mean negative things, oh and Deathstalkers are one of the rarest kinds of Grimm Summer, that's your bit of trivia for today" he smiled and giggled walking out of the class as Raven woke up looking at Summer and Qrow clearly showing the Grimm mask painting Summer did on her and they both started laughing as she stood up and brushed her clothes off "okay what did the two of you do? And who's gonna give me the notes from this class?" to which Summer replied hastily holding a smirk "you'd have better luck asking Taiyang the Explorer" and Qrow nodded looking at Raven unable to keep from laughing "that new look suits you sis! Ehehe" she tilted her head and narrowed her eyebrows in a way to show confusion and took out her sword to look at her own reflection in the blade and screamed seeing what Summer had done "SUMMER! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" to which Summer started giggling and laughing running around the desks with an enraged Raven after her holding her sword up "OHhhhh I'm gonna turn you into Summer Steak after I'm done with you! Brother catch her!" Qrow whistled innocently as he slowly skipped out of the classroom leaving the two of them to run around as another girl ran in the classroom and seeing the commotion decided to jump in and began chasing Summer down with Raven as she kept running looking at the new person "and who are you?" the girl laughed and smirked catching Summer and restrained her holding her arms from her back and laughed again "my name's Skyler Valkyrie hihihihihi" Raven grinned evily as she took Summer's crayons and drew whiskers and cat ears on Summer's face and smirked "Lookye here! It's Faunus Summer! Meow meow!" and Summer played her part and let her hands up in a kitten style and brushed her hair with her «paws« and nuzzled up to Raven "can I has cookies? Big meanie Qrow won't give me cookies" the three of them laughed and Skyler suddenly waved at the girls and walked out saying "I'm gonna check on Liam really quick" and she poked her head out of the classroom and shouted "LIIIIAAAAAMM?" and slowly a yawning and obviously tired looking teenager showed up yawning again as Skyler grabbed him by the back of his collar and dragged him away "we're gonna have lunch together Liam, I'm paying!" to which he held his arms up and yawned saying "Yaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy-" and immediately started snoring again as she dragged him.
After their classes were all over Summer stretched lazily and looked at everyone of her team "okay lets get that group assignment out of the way I want my cookies with milk" and Taiyang nodded standing up from his seat as everyone was walking out "excellent idea Summer, I've planned the ideal location for our work! So just lets head for the gate and I'll explain on the way!" he walked out holding his books under his arm as Raven stood up as well along with Qrow and looked at Summer as she still had the cat ears and whiskers and both of them ended up laughing looking at Summer as she pouted "Heyyyyy Qrow that's plus one cookie you're owing me" and he suddenly went quiet and nodded "right right" and Raven looked at both of them "okay slowpokes lets get this done and over with!" she said that and darted to the gates where Taiyang was waiting with Summer following right behind her with Qrow immediately following the two girls as Taiyang looked at all of them "I was starting to grow gray hair while waiting and the book's already covered with cobwebs and spider eggs hehehe" he chuckled and continued "right are we set?" to which everyone replied by nodding as Summer hopped up taking out MysticRose "Yes I am definitely ready I'm gonna chop 'em up gooooood!" Taiyang immediately interrupted her by saying "woah woah woahhh wait there miss terminator we're heading there to study them not to slice and dice them into cubes" Summer pouted again and put her weapon away putting her arms on her waist replacing her smile with a serious pouty face "oh you're no fun at alllllllll" they all chuckled and Qrow made a determined face saying "alrighty lets get this done I'm wanting to get back before dinner!" they nodded and walked out of the gates heading to the ruins and got there as it was becoming dark with Taiyang panting tiredly as Summer saw this and poked him "hehhehe you're the one that suggested we'd come here" as he nodded and shrugged "yeah I know still I wasn't aware it'd be this tiring" Raven chuckled and stretched looking over the ruins as the team stood on top of a hill and Qrow muttered smirking "what a silent hill this is don't you agree? Nothing happening, where's the so feared Creatures of Grimm?" Summer looked around and spotted a Giant Ursa and made aim for it as Taiyang once again pulled her MysticRose down and sighed "remember Summer, no murdering okkaaayy? " he passed his hand in front of their faces as if trying to explain something to an idiot and Summer took note of that and pushed him off and laughed "Heyyyyyy I'm not that idiotic, okay then no killing… FOR NOW!" Qrow crouched and took out some binoculars and started watching over the creatures as Taiyang did the same and took notes "you girls check the perimeter for any Grimm behind and around us" they quickly nodded and Summer put her hand on her forehead and got on her tippy toes to look around as Raven grabbed the hilt of her sword and looked carefully examining her surroundings as the two boys studied the patterns of movement of the Ursas as Qrow put the binoculars down and held his head up as Taiyang glanced at him stopping his note taking for a bit "and what's wrong with you?" Qrow tried to stop himself but ended up sneezing loudly and that ultimately alerted the Grimm to their presence as Summer jumped up scared letting go of MysticRose and the weapon fell on Raven's head and she yelped "H-hey! What's the big idea?" Summer put her tongue out and tilted her head picking up MysticRose putting it away "sorry sorry! Qrow's sneeze was so loud that I got scared" Raven and Taiyang along with Summer looked at Qrow and at the same time gave him a slap to the back of his head shouting at the same time pointing to the approaching Grimm "look what your sneeze has done!" he yelped and looked at the Grimm creatures approaching quickly and jumped back up "right right lets do this!" they all nodded and yelled "YES!" and Taiyang thought for a second and said "but aren't we supposed to avoid conflicts and run if the situation looks bad? From the looks of things it definitely stinks soooo" Summer cut him off and jumped down the hill to face the Ursas with her dual swords and the three of them followed with Taiyang slightly hesitant "but professor-" with Raven interrupting "the professor can go and sip on lava for all I care I'm not letting our teammate and leader die!" she said dragging Taiyang down while taking out her Dust Sword dashing at the enemy to the left as Qrow went to the right with Taiyang still trying to decide where to start while Summer was already fighting an Ursa slashing its legs until it fell and jumped from his head as it got up and slashed it in half taking notice of the one behind her switching behind her and parrying the attack pushing it back and then lunging forward spreading her swords to the side slicing its legs off and then performing a spiral movement with the swords spread out slicing all Grimm that came in contact with her as Raven swiftly dispatched enemies with flicks of her sword that were almost invisible to the human eye as she suddenly pushed herself back gripping the hilt of her sword and performed a quick unsheathing followed by a slow sheath of her sword as the Grimm creature in front of her fell dead as she sheathed her sword as she dashed up again unsheathing her sword using ice dust and freezed a Grimm dead on its tracks and followed by 3 vicious hits with the sheath finishing with one diagonal slice with the Dust Sword using Fire dust magic to crack the ice statue that was once an Ursa and went next to quickly run across various enemies slashing randomly as she crouched at the end slowly sheathing her sword killing the enemies as she sighed opening her eyes standing up. Qrow on his side was dynamically switching between his sword and his scythe weapon form to carefully deal with expertise of the Giant Ursas that lunged at him, sending one to the air following it to the air switching to the scythe as he spun himself in the air spinning the scythe to the left and then to the right in a rotor motion thrusting them further into the air switching to a sword to inflict damage while they were on the air jumping to the top of the Ursa and piercing the sword through its abdomen coming crashing down on the other Grimm creatures as he switched to his scythe while still having the sword form impaled on the downed Ursa as he swung it upwards sending the now dead enemy to the air as he parried another attack from behind and another from his left side pushing them back and sweeping their legs while cartwheeling to the side with his Scythe form latching it to the Ursa's leg and then he grins "lets go for a ride!" immediately after he started swinging the scythe along the ground dragging the Ursa hitting all surrounding Grimm with both the sword and the Ursa attached to the Scythe sending the latched enemy to the air and jumping up switching to Sword form and performing a downwards slash into the ground slashing the Ursa in half as he got up running his hand through his forehead to get rid of any sweat as Taiyang combined his expertise with hand to hand combat with his own martial arts skills combined with his own weapons, handguns fitted on his shoes and shotgun gauntlets dishing out massive damage to Grimm creatures taking them one on one starting every combo with a left and right punch combination and then either following into either a showering of kicks combined random shots of his foot handguns and then a downwards kick smashing any Grimm that was unfortunate enough to be caught underneath it running ahead to other creatures quickly one after the other with a rapid flurry of kicks and punches using his built up momentum to propel himself forward into a vertical circular movement shooting both his handguns and his shotguns as he hit the several Ursas in a line and then jumped off one's head and crashed down on them with a fist that caused a small crater as he smirked dodging an attack by ducking and punching the chest of the enemy timing his punch just right to deliver a shotgun blast that sends it flying up then he back flips shooting the handguns before landing on his two feet preparing a focused shot into his punch as the Grimm falls and is hit by a straight forward powered up punch that totally disintegrates it and then finishes it off by kicking one's head clean off his shoulders as he brushed his hands and then his clothes "too damn easy" as Summer was finishing as well holding her arms out with her swords to the side as she starts to run forward slashing at light speeds catching about 5 Ursas in her wake and then finishes them all off by spinning her own body horizontally holding her blades vertically slicing them all as she lands crouching getting up and looking around "hihihi are we done here? Ahah I can say that this was one good class eh?" she said with her usual and trademark giggle as she put Mystic Rose away with Raven powering up her sword then dashing forward slashing 3 Grimm creatures then coming back with her back facing them as they stood still as she sighs deeply sheathing her sword and as soon as the sheath's click is heard they all dissipate and fade being cut into tiny pieces "yes we are done, mission accomplished right everyone?" Taiyang nodded and once again was taking notes about their combat performance and most importantly of how the Grimm behaved when faced with hostiles around them and ended up having a perfect essay to show to Professor Oobleck as he smiled and nodded "this is perfect! I have enough to give the team a perfect score! Now come on its getting dark!" he said that turning around and started climbing up the small hill again as they all followed, Summer was whistling with her eyes closed randomly swinging her sword along the ground unknowingly killing a downed unconscious Ursa "oopsie? Did I hurt you? Oh no I didn't mean it! Sorry sorry Ursa!" Raven chuckled and dragged Summer with her "B-But Raven I hurt that Ursa! Poor thing was just taking a nap!" to which Summer replied still with a chuckle "you're the one that's gonna take a nap now Summer heheh" she said with Summer being dragged by her crossing her arms and dragging her foot along the ground pouting as they went back to Beacon after a good day of work heading back to rest and shower as they sat by their beds and Qrow broke the weird silence "so today was excellent don't you all agree?" they all nodded demonstrating tiredness and turned off the lights to sleep but about 5 minutes later suddenly Summer's phone started ringing bringing upon the general annoyance of her team as her song was terribly loud with Raven looking at her throwing a pillow at Summer "I swear Summer if you don't shut that thing up I'll throw it out the fucking window!" to which she squealed and laughed shutting off her phone "I'm sorry!" she said as they all went back to sleep, getting ready for their next day
On the next day the silence of the coming morning and the sunrise was shattered by a loud thump as Summer fell off her bed and yelped seconds later getting smashed by Raven as she also fell off the bed as Qrow was the one pushing everyone off their beds as he slowly crawled up behind Taiyang but was interrupted by him saying "you better not…" Qrow was taken aback and whistled going back to his bed and looked at the two girls on the ground and laughed to himself as Raven slowly woke up and saw she was on top of Summer and screamed on her ears as they both got up much to Qrow's amusement as he also fell off his bed laughing as Raven hit Summer with a pillow as she woke up with her mouth full of pillow feathers and giggled "heyyy Raven what is it? Good morni-" she was interrupted by another pillow to the face as Raven hit her again then went to Qrow and hit him with the pillow as well as Summer got two pillows and started doing attack movements as if the pillows were MysticRose repeatedly hitting Qrow on the head as he yelped "ow ow ow ouch stop stahpp!" as Taiyang slowly woke up looked at them three and muttered to himself "more and more I find myself wondering if I'm in a team of huntsmen or a kindergarden…. I'm surrounded by children" he then fell back asleep putting his pillow over his head to muffle the noises of Summer and everyone else hitting Qrow on the head as James knocked on the door and Raven opened the door "oh hey Raven I was thinking you and me cou-" she interrupted him by hitting him with a pillow too and closed the door on his face replying "no" and went back to her bed and sat down "well pointless to sleep now" Summer nodded and stopped hitting Qrow and put her pillows on her bed and sat down there looking out the window "yeah besides we have classes in 10 minutes sooooo we better get going huh? today we have to deliver that work we did!" Taiyang slowly sat up and spat the pillow into the bed and sighed stretching "yeah the work we did before Mister Achoo decided to attract the whole hoard of hooligan Ursas" to which Qrow replied "if only Taiyang the Explorer didn't bring us to such a place in the sticks perhaps we could retreat quickly and without much fuss to protected territory but NOooooooooooooooooooooooooo you had to bring us to a frigging silent hill overlooking some ruins filled to the brim with Grimm! And I'm allergic to the flowers that were there not my fault" he crossed his arms as Raven laughed "stop it girls and lets get to class" after that she got up with Summer and clapped hands with her and laughed "and you call us girls while you're there bickering like two old ladies! Shame on you boys!" they both laughed and headed out for class as Qrow and Taiyang were left speechless "h-hey! I'm not a lady much less an old one! Come on lets go to class already" Taiyang left the room as Qrow got up and followed shrugging "if I'm a lady at least I'm not ugly, can't say the same for Taiyang though" he said this in a low tone so he couldn't listen and walked to class and soon everyone was there on their places as Raven as soon as she saw Oobleck fell asleep again almost instantly as Summer smirked and fought herself not to doodle on her face again and instead decided to place crayons on her hair and rolled them with her hair as she chuckled evily as Qrow looked and made a grim face calling Summer's attention and gave her a motion of him running his fingers along his neck as to say that she was done for but she shrugged it off and finished placing crayons on Raven's hair as Summer sat down looking innocent pretending to take notes as Oobleck arrived with his trademark coffee and started sipping on it at the same time calling everyone to check on who was present as James looked at Taiyang and whispered "hey hey hey don't you think Raven is cool?" to which he looked at him narrow eyed "why yes she is Jeremy" he thought for a moment and kept talking "but like she has that air about her ya know?" and Taiyang looked at him again "okay Jonathan what's your point?" to which he chuckled and banged his own chest "well I James Arc am gonna try and get with her!" Taiyang couldn't help but laugh a bit "wow good luck with that Junior" James nodded and looked at his notes "yeah I'm sure I can do it!" Taiyang looked at him "okay James lets just focus on the class you know what that is? C.L.A.S.S" he then sighed and started taking more notes again as James muttered "thanks bro" and Taiyang was getting frustrated as he replied hastily "thanks for what?" to which he replied "for actually getting my name right" and Taiyang smiled and nodded "oh no problem Jamal" James hearing that dropped his head to the desk and sighed deeply.
Meanwhile Oobleck got everyone's attention "very well class lets see the work you've done on that assignment I gave you yesterday! Team STQR you're first!" Summer got up with the rest of the team as Raven was asleep and she replied "Professor Oobleck we've done the work successfully!" she saluted and continued! "This time I don't have any crayons on my hand while saluting, our work was compiled by Taiyang Xiao Long Sir!" and as soon as she finished Oobleck teleported right to in front of her "its DOCTOR OOBLECK! I didn't take a Ph.D for nothing my dear" he sipped once again on his coffee and went back instantly to his original position as Summer was left with a weird expression on her face given how close he was and chuckled sitting down as Taiyang went ahead to deliver the work and bowed "all our work was complied here, we took the liberty to not only study their neutral activities but to also STUDY Their combat behaviour and came up with that final result" the doctor was pleased and surprised by how in depth the work was and clapped "splendid work team STQR! This is precisely what I want from young Huntsmen in training! You may go back to your seats, anyone else want to deliver their work?" to which a notebook went flying to the face of the doctor by Liam as he was too tired to even stand up and decided to throw it mumbling "the work is there, have fun, goodnight" and went back to sleep but not for long as Skyler slapped the back of his head and he jolted back up on his seat as she said "did you forget we're going out today? You can't just sleep!" to which Liam nodded slowly looking at her and plummeted down on the desk again snoring while mumbling "killll meeeehhhhh" as the doctor went over the work and clapped as well "this is also splendid work, you're all congratulated for another work well done Liam, Skyler, Ebony and Ivory, team EISL!" as he sipped once again on his coffee as Raven mumbled in her sleep "I swear he's gonna be slurping on ice before the end of the year…" to which Summer chuckled and giggled to herself while continuing to doodle happily drawing a picture of literally the doctor sipping on ice and becoming a walking ice cube while Qrow just sat back and thought to himself filtering the words of Oobleck so he could only listen to his own thoughts and after a while the class ended with Doctor Oobleck running around getting his stuff up and zipping as always through everyone running out to god knows where as everyone got up and left except for Qrow, Taiyang, Raven and Summer as she poked Raven awake and she stretched again yawning lazily rubbing her eyes "umm miam miam did I miss anything?" she runs her hands down her back pulling her hair back and feels something is wrong and shouts again "SUMMER ROSE! I'M THE ONE THAT'S GONNA MAKE YOU SEE RAINBOWS WITH YOUR OWN CRAYONS WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU!" and she started chasing her down again as Summer couldn't nothing but laugh and giggle while running around the desks vaulting over Oobleck's while running and laughing "oh come on Raven at least now you're a bundle of joy and colors! Hihihihihihihihihi!" to which Raven got more angered while chasing her and started laughing manically drawing her Dust Sword as Summer let out a loud gulp and ran as she could using her Semblance of wind to outrun Raven and circle her several times until she got dizzy and fell on her back spinning her head in circles "this isn't funnnyyyyy Summerrrr" to which she just stopped in front of her and pulled her up and sheathed her sword handing it back to Raven and smiled "there all good now! Come on everyone lets grab something to eat I'm hungry!" to which Qrow instantly replies with a chuckle "I can agree with that totally!" while Taiyang thought and then said out loud "hmm I wonder if there's any Grimm Steaks made out of Ursa ribs, that would be yummy!" to which they all looked at him giving him a weird look as he shrugged it off and laughed "oh nothing nothing just thinking to myself hehe" and they all said at the same time "Ooookkkkaayyy" then Summer added "STRQ! TO THE MESS HALL!" and they all replied with a "Yay!" as the group steadily and quickly made their way out of the classroom into the mess hall.