Edit (06/19/16): Changed some stuff and grammar.

Ruby rose up from the bed and looked around to see that she was the last person to wake up. It was still six o'clock and it was too early for many students at beacon since classes don't start until nine o'clock. Vi was on her scroll again and Weiss was wearing a bathrobe, probably waiting for Yang to get out of the shower and that would be in an hour or so considering that Yang took so much time grooming her hair and it would take so much longer since she only has one arm now. Ruby buried her face in the comfort of the Zwei pillow before standing up on top of the airbed. Ruby grabbed her pillow and said good morning to Vi who returned the gesture.

"Weiss," Ruby called out, "Yang will take long time so do you want to you our dorm's bathroom?"

Weiss heard the red haired girl and took a few seconds to decide. Weiss then walked towards Ruby and said yes. She then followed Ruby who waved to Vi and went out of the dorm room.

Weiss went out of their room in just a bathrobe but getting a shower as quickly as possible would be better for her anyway. Weiss brought along with her usual clothes and Ruby just had a pillow in tow.

The two went inside the dorm and the two guys of team Lavender were still asleep in their respective beds to the far right of the room which separated the girls from the boys. Ruby jumped onto her bed and cuddled with her pillow, making childish noises that Weiss couldn't comprehend even if she tried listening carefully. As Ruby played with her pillow, she heard the bathroom door close and Ruby immediately stood up from her bed and snuck out of the bedroom. If Yang had seen her exploring Beacon right after she just recently got out of the infirmary, she would be an absolutely terrifying sister that even Zwei, a normally fearless and brave dog, would cower beneath Yang's foot. In other words, ever since Ruby was almost killed on the day of her birthday, Yang changed a lot. Yang became an overprotective mother-like sister who would do anything to keep Ruby safe at all costs.

Ruby, with her pillow and pajamas with dog slippers, Ruby explored the garden, her favorite part about schools here at Vale. It reminded her so much about her mother, Summer Rose. Even though she had vague memories of her as a small child, she remembered what she had always looked like and that she had a scent of roses lingering around her wherever she went and Ruby had acquired that trait as well but she had something that differed from her mother: she leaves petals of roses whenever she had used her own semblance. But since her life-threatening injury, the rose petals that she had left were decreasing over the course of months.

With the memories that came back from visiting gardens gave her, Ruby liked to reminisce about the simple days when her mother was still alive. Ruby walked through the cement pathway and glanced at the different flowers and plants that thrived in Beacon's large garden. As she continued to look at the different lush life forms that inhabited the garden, bees gathered around the girl's long hair and she noticed this too. Ruby knew to just let the bees do their own thing and not bother them or they'd sting her, a lesson she learned as a child growing up in Patch.

The serenity of the garden put Ruby at peace so much that she wanted to just lay down on one of the grass patches and never leave there. Unfortunately, she has classes later morning and she had many more places to go.

She exited the gardens and the bees went back to their hives. Ruby's next destination was the school observatory. When she reached there, it was locked so she thought that it might be a better idea if she snuck in at night or sometime during one of her free periods if she were to get any. Ruby then decided to head back to the dorms for now.

On her way back she met up with a group of three boys that Ruby instantly recognized.

"What're you doing out here so early, Ruby?" Noir asked, "Shouldn't you be sleeping at the infirmary to get healed up or something?"

"Don't tell, Yang that I'm out here wandering around the school!" Ruby hissed, "But the nurse already cleared me yesterday. Sorry I couldn't visit and tell you guys because Yang invited me to stay over their room for a night for a welcoming party."

"Don't worry about it, Ruby," Greene stated, "Anyway, since you're out here anyway, want to grab some breakfast with us? Ryuu's waiting for us at the cafeteria. I heard from Ryuu's brother that they serve really good chocolate muffins, one of your favorites."

"Sure," Ruby replied, "I'm getting hungry anyway."

"By the way, Ruby," Irvine added, "since you weren't at the team selecting event thing, the four of us got put together in a single team. It's called Gneiss or GNIS as this academy would say. Greene got selected as the leader of our team. Time for him to shine, don't you think, Ruby?"

"Hey!"

Ruby laughed and raised the pillow she was holding to her chest and hugged it tighter.

The three arrived in the cafeteria a couple minutes later and lined up for breakfast and the line wasn't long since it was still early for a lot of students to be up. The four got their food shortly, Ruby got a chocolate muffin and it was looking fantastically delicious and mouth-watering and a blueberry muffin, and they met up with Ryuu who was already halfway into finishing his food.

"Good morning, friends, Ruby," he greeted and resumed eating, "How are your first morning before school starts?"

Ruby nodded and the boys groaned somewhat audibly, indicating that they were not having the best of mornings.

"Greene just had to wake us up," Noir complained, "He knew I stayed up late playing video games and that classes start at nine."

"Well, I did warn you that I'd wake you guys up early yesterday," Greene retorted.

"Guys, I have to go. I don't want Yang catching me wandering on my own," Ruby said.

"See you in class, Ruby."

"Yeah, see you."

Ruby picked up the muffins she bought with her and headed back to her dorm and spotted Weiss sitting on top of her bed, drying her hair with a towel she borrowed from their bathroom. Ruby approached Weiss and extended an arm out to her, holding a blueberry muffin, "Here, Weiss. You can have this if you want to. I brought an extra one in case you or Vi were here."

"Thank you, Ruby," Weiss took the blueberry muffin and peeled the paper wrapper before biting onto one of the sides of the muffin, "This is very kind of you to do."

"No problem," Ruby grinned, "Before my mom died, she always told me to treat everyone nicely even if they were strangers because they might become my friends in the future."

"Oh…," Weiss' voice dropped its tone, "I'm sorry for your loss…"

"Has my sister never told you about our mom?" Ruby asked curiously.

"Unfortunately, no," Weiss stated, "She never really talked about her family but she's only opened up to us when we saw her crying about you being in the hospital for two months. I don't know if you were awake at the time, but my entire team visited you once two years ago."

"Really?" Ruby squealed, "Thank you so much, Weiss. That means a lot!" Ruby hugged the white haired girl who almost dropped her muffin if it weren't for Ruby's quick thinking, "Sorry. Hehe…"

"It's fine," Weiss bluntly stated, "Thanks for letting me use the shower by the way. I'm just lucky that those two boys over there are still asleep."

The two chatted for a while and Weiss changed to her school uniform before leaving team Lavender's dorm room. Ruby then took a shower and had to dry her hair as well before changing into the brand-new school uniform her dad had ordered for her.

While waiting for classes to start, Vi never went back to their dorm room which got her worried a little bit since she knew that her relationship with her brother was still sort of strained from yesterday's events. But first things first, Ruby needed to grab Crescent Rose, inspect her for deformities or broken parts before she went to class.

Ruby Rose entered her first class, Grimm Studies, and she proceeded to sit in a random sit, hoping that she would have a class with Vi, she waited there patiently but she was growing restless from the excitement of having her first day of classes at Beacon. Ruby shook her left leg repetitively to shed some energy that was building up from the wait until the class started.

While sitting down minding her own business, Ruby saw Vi enter the classroom in a state of messy hair. Ruby waved to Vi who waved back to Ruby and went to sit right next to her. Soon, all the members of team Lavender showed up as well and sat in front of the two girls.

After a while, the classroom was filled with students, both faunus and human, then an old man with a noticeable gray mustache and wearing a brown coat.

"Hello students, welcome to Grimm Studies. My name is Port and all of you students will address me as Professor Port. Starting today, I will be your teacher for all of your four years in Beacon. If you signed up your contact information beforehand, you should receive a file regarding the expectations and rules in class along with the class material. All things aside, let us have wonderful four years together!" Professor Port's mustache wiggled every syllable that came out of his mouth and Ruby found this very amusing.

Class went on for an hour and a half which was mostly about Professor Port recalling his hunter days as an adolescent and some about how to fight Grimm with a demonstration from a volunteer and Ruby was glad that class had ended since she was still excited for the other classes that she had for the day.

"Class, since this is your first day of classes, I will be kind enough to let you off without homework for today but do not expect it to be this way for the entire schoolyear. That will be all and have a nice day toady students," Professor Port ended the class with the statement and Ruby rushed out of class without using her semblance and by pushing through the other students that were trying to get out of the class to get to their next class.

In History of Remnant, Ruby and Vi, who caught up to Ruby somehow, was introduced to Professor Oobleck along with every other student present in class. Professor Oobleck always held a thermos on his right hand which Ruby thought was filled with coffee spiked with twenty or more sugars which might have contributed to his abnormally fast speed of talking and zipping around in class. Or it could be just his semblance.

After talking about how the four kingdoms of Remnant—Vale, Atlas, Vacuo, and Mistral—was created from the ground and the discussion was cut off with the limited time each class has for each day. Professor Oobleck then assigned a small research paper that each individual student must write by next class. Hearing this, Ruby groaned since she knew that she would have to stay up really late just to get the paper done by tomorrow.

Ruby went through the day with Vi and with classes that would have made her fall asleep from the lengthy talking and the constant note-taking and Vi's encouragement was Ruby able to go through the day without sleeping in a single second. But the last class she had was what she had been anticipating the whole day, although she did look forward to meeting her new teachers and new weapons that might show up during the classes.

Ruby and Vi left the two boys, which the two had the same classes with the entire day coincidentally, and went to their final class: Combat and Technique taught by Ruby's uncle, Qrow. The two were one of the first few that were there. Ruby looked around and saw her sister with the rest of her team and she zoomed off to her side which surprised the tall blonde a little.

"Hey, Yang!" Ruby greeted, "What're you guys doing here?"

"In this class, all students of Beacon are mixed together for the first week then we will have separate rooms when we have to learn through textbook," Aqua answered, "But Professor Branwen probably doesn't need us to have textbooks. He'll most likely just have you first-years to spar against each other. We did that too on our first year here at Beacon."

When she heard that she was going to be sparring with another live person on the first day of school, Ruby immediately faltered and lost her bearings slightly. She knew that she'd have to fight someone if she were to become a huntress especially when there are humans on the loose aiming to hurt their own kind.

"Don't worry, baby sis," Yang assured the girl, "I'll be here for you when your match starts. Uncle Qrow's there too to stop the match if anything happens. I'll even start pushing people around just to get to you when you're in real trouble so don't worry about anything. Plus, everyone in my team knows what you're going through and they'll be glad to lend you some help." Aqua, Blake, and Weiss all smiled at Ruby to reassure her more and calm her nerves a little bit. "And Vi's here too. Your best friend also isn't going to let anything to happen to you, right Vi?"

"Right," Vi replied, putting a hand over Ruby's shoulder, "You should be fine, Ruby."

Ruby had initially thought that she would just be training with dummies as she had done most of her life after the incident two years ago. But seeing as she was in Vale's best hunter school and Professor Goodwitch allowing her to study in Beacon despite her medical history, Ruby would have to step outside her comfort zone and prove herself that she can be one of the best huntresses in Remnant and she had to train herself to overcome her problems with her semblance. Ruby had really missed the wind gushing past her as she used her speed to do anything she'd like.

Ten minutes after the Ruby and Vi settled in a seat on the sides of the small arena with team Basil, students poured in one by one or in groups as they sat in front of the small arena and the seats were quickly filled. Lucian and Dewitt sat next to Ruby's left and Ruby managed to say hello to the two who returned the gesture.

When every single student of Beacon was present, the headmaster entered in through a door and stood in the middle of the arena. "Alright, everyone here is accounted for and we will begin shortly." Professor Branwen produced a scroll from his pack strapped to her back. "As tradition started by headmasters before Goodwitch, first year students will be sparring for the rest of the class and the rest of you I expect a two-paged essay regarding the combat techniques that are going to be used today. Pick one student of your choosing and elaborate further. I expect them done by next week. Now, the screen behind me," Branwen said, pointing a hand to the large screen above him, "will choose two first year students to compete against each other. The selected fighters will fight until they are knocked out of the arena and or have they're aura drop down to critical levels. I wish the fighters good luck." Branwen then moved to the side of the arena and pressed a finger on his scroll. With that, the screen above him turned on and showed two boxes with a question mark in the middle. The headmaster tapped her scroll again and the boxes began spinning vertically.

"Violette Fleur from Team Lavender vs. Peter Nyx from Team Phoenix. Please step forward to begin your match."

"Wish me luck, bestie," Vi said to Ruby. Ruby smiled and nodded while Dewitt said good luck to her and Lucian simply ignored her sister. Ruby noticed this and vowed that she would fix whatever was happening between the two. Vi stood up and pushed her way through the seats to get up front. On the arena was her opponent with a bored look on his face waiting for her to get up on the arena with him.

Vi saw at how much the guy was underestimating her and she returned the bored look with a smug face and grinned at her opponent. She then took her time to get up on the stage.

When Vi got up at the stage, Ruby suddenly felt an urge to just jump up and shout good luck to Vi which she released and embarrassed herself when she realized that the two fighters were looking at her, Vi smiling and giving her a thumbs up, and everyone else in the room as well. She sat down and kept her mouth shut.

"Fighters, please ready your equipment before I begin the spar," Branwen announced.

Peter produced a large battle axe from his back and Vi took out her collapsible bo staff. Peter readied himself in a protective stance while Vi smirked and twirled her staff around herself.

"Are the fighters ready?"

The two nodded and their aura appeared in the large screen and a four minute timer started counting down and the fight between two students had begun.