How's it going again? I hope y'all are enjoying this. Well, now onto where Delta actually gets to have a decent conversation with Ruby. Onward!

Ruby stared at the picture on the jumbotron for a good amount of time until Yang shoved her a bit, catching her attention.

"Look sharp," she said, "Ozpin and the new team's coming on."

Looking down, Ruby watched as the four climbed onto the stage, her eyes locked on the boy at the end of the line.

"…he looks so…familiar…," she thought to herself, looking back at the jumbotron and seeing his picture.

"Sierra Hawthorne, Hotel Lancer, Lima Kerrigan, Delta Ordance. You each retrieved the Black Bullet pieces. From this day forward, you shall now be known as: Team SHLD. Led by: Sierra Hawthorne."

Her team and the crowd cheered as Ruby found a lot of familiarity with the name.

Delta Ordance.

"Where have I heard of that name before? Why does he seem so…familiar?"

Ruby's gaze slowly went back down to Delta, whose gaze was slowly drawn towards hers. Their eyes met for an instant, which felt like forever as her silver orbs met his amethyst orbs.

Then it hit her.

And everything seemingly fell together.

She gasped, bringing her hands up to her mouth, catching Yang's attention.

"Sis? What's up?"

"D…Delta…," she said to herself as he turned away, circling and huddling with his team and getting into a team motto.

"SIERRA!"

"HOTEL!"

"LIMA!"

"DELTA!"

Finally dropping her hands, Ruby felt a bit of a heart ache of happiness as the four yelled, "SHLD!"

"He…came to Beacon," she thought to herself, smiling in guilty happiness and continuing, "He actually came to Beacon."

I woke up, feeling a bit more comfortable than I did when I was sleeping on the floor. Looking toward the provided desk, I read the clock at 5:07 a.m. Sighing, I sat up, stretching, then stood up as I mentally prepared for my usual morning jog.

"…Delta…?"

I turned around, seeing Lima staring at me. I blinked, then smiled as I said, "don't worry; I'm just going for a jog."

Lima nodded, turning around in her bed. Man, I sure am glad that she's my partner.

Throwing on some proper clothing, I put on my shoes and slowly opened the door. Looking back, I could see Sierra curled up in a ball and Hotel splayed all over his bed with Lima still facing the wall. Smiling, I slowly and quietly closed the door, hearing the knob click into place.

Sighing, I began to make my way toward the doors that led outside. Keeping my mind in check, I remembered my glance back at Ruby yesterday. She seemed to be trying to remember something that wasn't quite clicking in until I looked at her. I then remembered how she then looked like something had clicked in, like she finally remembered something that was important.

Very important.

Maybe it wasn't a good thing for me to change to no glasses, huh.

Opening the doors, I took in the fresh air, then took off, practically sprinting toward the cliff.

*tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap*

Turning corners, I quickly reached the fountain, running a full circle around it, then ran the perimeter of the pillars. I could feel my lungs burning, as well as the slight taste of blood in my mouth as I finally reached the cliff.

I caught my breath, putting my hands over my head as I caught a glimpse of the sun slowly rising over the horizon. When I'm rewarded with views like this, it's totally worth it.

Suddenly, the sound of footsteps caught my attention.

Turning around, I felt my heart skip a beat as a dark red haired girl walked up next to me and said, "I…see you still have your habit of waking up early."

I blinked in confusion as she continued, "Um…welcome to Beacon…though it's a bit late."

I couldn't help but smile sheepishly as she stammered to find something to say. I guess that's why I….

"A-and…! W-well, th-thank you for-!"

"Ruby."

Ruby straightened up as I put my hand on her shoulder, saying, "relax, and I'm glad to see you too."

Ruby's anxious face slowly turned into a look of relief as I smiled and said, "Hey Rubes, how's it going?"

Her face turned into that of excitement quickly afterwards as she began bouncing up and down, saying, "Oh, it's great to see you again Delta! I'm so glad you decided to attend Beacon!"

The sound of Crescent Rose's bullet filled the air as I found myself holding her in my arms, her arms right around my neck. I smiled, feeling the fluttering feeling in my chest flare up as I said, "Yeah…I'm…glad as well."

"…But I'm glad that you didn't show up last year or the year before; that was really rough," Ruby said to me as we made our way back to the dorms. On our way back, I confirmed that she did, indeed, become more defined. But she remains her same height. Can't really say the same; I only have two inches on her. I laugh as she cracks a joke, something that she's never ceased to do at Signal. I kept my smile on as I felt my heart flutter from just standing right next to her. She's so…beautiful.

"There he is!"

I looked up, seeing my team walking towards us. Hotel looked at Ruby, whistling and asking, "Hey Delta, who's the chick?"

Sierra landed a good one on his crotch, causing all of us to laugh as he rolled around in pain. Lima stared at Ruby, then looked down the hall, causing me to look back and see the rest of her team walking towards us.

"Ruby! There you are!"

The girl with white hair approached her and asked, "Where were you!? We've been looking for you all morning!"

"Ahaha," Ruby laughed, scratching the back of her head, "Sorry guys!"

I looked at Yang, who was looking intently at me, then put a clenched fist in an open palm as she said, "I remember you! You're Delta!"

I smiled and replied, "Nice to see you too, Yang."

The girl with white hair looked at me, then back at Yang, asking, "Do you know him?"

"Yeah," Yang replied, "he's a friend from back at Signal."

I turned back to Ruby, who made her way back to her side of our teams, saying, "Well, let me introduce you; this is Weiss and Blake."

The girl with white hair smiled and said, "Nice to meet you."

White hair…a Schnee?

Blake looked at me, bowing as well, repeating what Weiss had just said.

Looking back at my team, I took note of Lima staring intently at Blake's hair ribbon. Blake took notice, staring back at Lima's own wolf ears.

"…Faunus…," Lima said, tilting her head.

Blake looked away as Lima approached her, reaching up for her ribbon.

"…want to touch…," she said, touching the ribbon ever so slightly.

"W-wait," Blake said, pushing her away, only to get pestered by her as Lima didn't give up. The two struggled it out as Sierra laughed, saying, "I'm Sierra, that guy holding his balls is Hotel, and that one that's pestering Black over there is Lima.

Yang instantly took interest in Hotel, walking over to him. He finally stopped rolling around, then looked up at her. He turned red, quickly scrambling to his feet as Yang put on her own smirk, putting a finger on her chin as she looked him up and down.

"Well now," Yang said, reaching out towards his biceps, feeling them up and down.

"I-I'm Hotel," he stammered, causing her to look up at him. She kept her smirk on as she said, "Yeah? Well then; you can just call me-," she reeled back, one half of Ember Celica wrapping itself around her right arm as she prepared for what looked like a punch, "SIR!"

A loud "BANG" echoed through the halls, causing some teams to look out of their dorms as Yang clapped her hands clean.

I looked through the hole in the wall as did Sierra, who whistled and said, "Never in my life have I ever seen him manhandled; or in this case, woman-handled, like that before."

I looked at his motionless body several yards away from the hole and asked, "Is he going to be okay?"

"He'll be fine," Sierra said, "besides; what's our aura for anyway?"

Looking back, I took note that Lima had finally won her battle against Blake, who was obediently knee sitting on the ground as Lima stroked her cat-like ears.

"…soft…," she muttered every now and then as Blake held an annoyed look on her face, clenching her ribbon tightly in her hands. And unless my eyes were tricking me, she was even blushing. I couldn't help but chuckle a bit as I heard Sierra yell, "Hey, Hotel! You've got three minutes to get your ass back up here or else there's going to be a castration today!"

Now this time, I couldn't hold it back as both teams, minus Blake and Lima who were still "busy," began laughing uncontrollably as he replied with an audible, "be right there ma'am!"