It was the day of the entrance ceremony. The most important day of their lives. The beginning of the rest of their lives.

So why had they slept in so long?

"Damnit Opal! Why did you turn off the alarm?"

Yuki Sutomo ran faster than she ever had before, her white-red hair flailing about behind her, as she rushed to get to the transport that let to Rosewall academy.

"Isn't it really you're fault Yuki for not making sure it was on?"

Opal Rose ran beside her, sapphire blue eyes glaring at Yuki's silver-blue eyes, trying desperately to make this situation not her fault. The two girls had been running for the past fifteen minutes in a last ditch effort to make it on time. They wouldn't get a second chance if they missed the airship.

"Why the hell would it be my fault?" Yuki yelled at her sister. It was as if they had nothing in common sometimes. At least that's was one thing they agreed upon. Suddenly they made it to an intersection that was blockaded due to a robbery on the streets dust shop. There was no way they could get around it, or through it for that matter, and there was no other way to their destination.

"Yuki, for gods sake, jump!"

So she did. Opal swiftly brought out her staff and followed suit, jumping into the air and swinging the staff, following with a gust of wind throwing them up and over the blockade. Yuki turned to her sister after they landed and flashed her a smile. Sometimes they got along, sometimes, just not very often. Due to the quick thinking of Opal they now had their destination in sight. Also in sight was a dark haired cat faunus tapping her foot with a frustrated look on her face. They were in the dog house alright.

"Sorry for being late Aunt Blake, it will never happen again, we swear this"

There goes Opal again. Far to quick to crack and apologize, far too sarcastic for her own good, and far too bad at lying to make Blake believe it would never again happen.

"I don't want to hear it. We're leaving so just take your seat next to Lyndis. Also while you're students here I'm not your aunt. It's Ms. Belladonna Wu Kong. Maybe Ms. Belladonna if you think you can get away with it."

Not daring to talk back they took their seats. Lyndis, their not quite cousin, sat there quietly reading her graphic novels. Everyone back in Elementary combat school swore that she would have more guys than she knew what to do with, if only she would just put down her book, and actually talk to people. But as Lyndis said herself, "They say silence is deadly", and she proves that to be true. Granted fights until Rosewall are one on one fights, and her semblance in basically cheating in that scenario, so no one really counts her wins.

Yuki spent the ride over in silence while looking over at everyone. Opal spent the time texting friends on her scroll, Lyndis read the entire way of course, and no one else did anything interesting. So eventually Yuki pulled out her scroll and started going back over the code of her weapon. Some quick tweaks were done on the fly that would hopefully make it sharper in battle. But as she was started organizing her ammo the ship landed.

Blake brought everyone over to the auditorium for the first day assembly. It was mostly a formality given that everyone had already read the pamphlets and knew what the school was about. But formality or not it was necessary. So they stood in together in a crowded room waiting paitiently for it to be over with. Soon the headmaster, Yuki's mother, Ruby Rose walked out onto the stage.

"Hello everyone. Welcome to Rosewall. You all are the upper echelon, the best of the best, and no one doubts that. You know it, I know it, the world knows it. Some of you even might know of what exactly happened to Beacon Academy. Beacon was once built upon these grounds, its students were also the best of the best, no one doubted that. But then it was destroyed. Being the best is not enough, there will always be someone who turns that against you, and when it happens it will affect us all. You need to be more than just "the best", you need to be a team, and a team you shall be. However it is not going to be a team of four like other hunter academies. You, the person next to you, the person next to them and so on. That will be your team. Adapability, Intelligence, and dependability. Those are what we aim to teach you here. Some of you know this already, and you think, because you have all this knowledge you will succeed. However as my headmaster before me said, "During your time here, you all will find, that knowledge only takes you so far."

Yuki knew her mother was intimidating, but this was different, it was like she was trying to scare them right now. Before she had a chance to think about it further a woman with her long white hair in a ponytail walked to the center of the stage, in her hands was a clipboard sized scroll, and then she looked at them and opened her mouth.
"Hello, my name is Weiss Schnee. I am the Head Masters assistant so get used to seeing me around. Now if you all would follow Mrs. Belladonna to the auditorium then you may get your sleeping arrangements together. You all have 4 hours till you are expected to be there so until then you have the ability to walk around campus," Clear and concise, exactly what Yuki expected from her mother "Now if you all will excuse me and Mrs. Rose we have business to take care of. Oh right, welcome to Rosewall everyone."

So began the longest and shortest night of Yuki's life. First she went down to the armory and said her hellos to Vivi. They caught up on life and how they were, it had been a while for them after all, they hadn't seen each other since the last time their parents had met up outside of school. Then she and Opal went ahead and got their sleeping arrangements together. Not that they were anything special, just a sleeping roll, and a pillow. It was about 4 when Yuki finally got out of there, this gave her about 2 hours till curfew, and she had no idea what to do with the time. So she decided now would be a good time to go take a walk through the rose garden off to the side of campus. It didn't take long to get there but at the same time it was not what she wanted. Where it should be quiet and serene, all Yuki heard was gunfire and impacts, the sounds of battle harshly contrasting the beauty of the flowers.

Curiosity getting the better of her, Yuki sought out the source of the noise, wondering why somebody was already training before the real first day. When she turned the corner she saw her aunt Yang sparring with some boy. The fact that he was not already on the ground and in pain was impressive, but it wasn't as if he was hitting her either. In fact it was very evident that Yang was going easy on him. Rapidly losing interest in this match she emerged from around the bush to make herself known. Yang was the first to notice her, so she turned, and she flashed a bright smile.

"What's up Neicey?" She then turned around to the boy "Let's take a break Sylva." The boy quickly nodded in agreement. Turning back to Yuki she beckoned her forth. "This is Sylva, he's pretty good as you could plainly see, he also happens to be an amnesiac. So when he showed skill at hand to hand combat I had to make him my personal apprentice."

"Aww thanks Yang. It's great to hear you think I'm actually good at this." The boy, Sylva, said.

"Now I never said that Sylva. You are quite a few steps from actually good." Yang quipped without a second's hesitation. Sylva just chuckled at this, clearly not showing any belief in Yang's words.

"How long have you two been doing this?" Yuki was very curious given that she had never heard her aunt even utter the idea of an apprentice before.

"Since about two days ago." It was Sylva who said this. It seems he had enough sense to answer questions himself if he could. Before Yuki could express a new question Yang piped up.

"Hey Yuki, how about you go a round with him if you're so interested. Winner gets dinner on me tomorrow." Such an offer was one that you couldn't pass. Yang was known for giving out the best rewards, so when she offered one no one in their right mind refused. The look in his eyes told Yuki that Sylva understood that as well.

"Agreed," they both said as they took fighting stances. His gauntlets activated and Yuki pulled out a white framed gun blade. He adopted the same stance as Yang one without any obvious opening due to the rotational speed the fighting style could achieve.

"Right foot forward… not that forward… alright."

From the fencing stance of her mother Yuki dashed forward, sword point extended, towards Sylva. He stood there waiting for the perfect chance to dodge. Then Yuki pressed a trigger, shooting forth a fragment of her aura towards her opponent. A startled look filled his face as he hurriedly dodged away from it. However she was right on top of him, the shot had given her the rotation needed to keep up the offense, her blade swinging straight into his side. It was a clean impact knocking him across the room. He rolled across the floor righting him as he did so. Once he had solid footing her started swinging his fist firing projectiles towards Yuki. Naturally she shot at them to knock them out of the air, which produced a beautiful light show as they collided, but nothing more as the attack continued to fly towards her. This time it was her turn to dodge in a rush. They continued fighting like this, evading attack after attack, retaliating at every chance. But then Yang stopped them, and when asked why pointed to the clock, indicating that it was 5:50. Realizing what that meant Yuki and Sylva both started to run towards the auditorium. She lost track of him in there and spent the next few hours looking at the code of her weapon. Sadly there were no serious modifications she could make without missing sleep entirely. As she went to sleep that night she knew that Sylva would bump into her some other time. So she didn't worry too much. Tomorrow was the proper entrance test. So who knows maybe she would end up in the same dorm as him? Stranger things had happened in her life.

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So yeah. Gonna try to lighten up on the Authors notes. Not that I don't like talking to you guys but I feel like I start repeating myself.

In any case the next chapters of each story will be having the same request. I have a desire for cover art for these stories so if you have anything go ahead and send me a link in a pm. Secondly I need an editor. So if you like this story but see far too many grammatical errors for your taste apply for the position for that story.

Finally I would just like to thank you all. I may not have any reviews yet but I also don't have any OC hate mail yet. That's part of why I'm still writing this besides the fact that I can't get it out of my head.

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Topaz Smith