Shingeki no RWBY Chapter 7: A Grimm Introduction, an Attack on Titan/進撃の巨人 + RWBY Crossover fanfic

Hey guys! Sorry it took so long, hope I didn't keep you waiting. I kinda hit a writer's block well isn't about what to write how to do so without sucking. I also decided to do some other stories, too.

shugokage: Thanks, man.

Hunter's Academy Arc

Chapter 7: A Grimm Introduction – Meeting New Friends.

(Year 847, Location: Hunter's Academy…)

A short time later, the instructors had taken a good look at all the cadets now in boot camp.

"Sir, This is all we have to recruit new soldiers" spoke a female soldier to the Head Instructor, Keith Shardis. "But they all look so young."

"Hmpf... Just a bunch of little kids" Keith stated. "Alright, you may go. I'm gonna show these brats how to become real soldiers."

"Yes sir" then she went away with the others.

Keith marched forth and stood before the young recruits, looking around if it's okay. He let out a small cough before he could send out a speech.

"All of you have received the great honour and privilege to attend this prestigious academy. Our world is experiencing an incredible time of peril and as future Huntsmen and Huntresses you will hold the responsibility of bringing and maintaining peace. You have to show us the courage and skill needed for such a task and in return we shall provide you all with the knowledge, as well as the training necessary to become real soldiers!" he spoke, loudly. "So I don't want to see any recruits slacking off during the training..."

Then he glared on one of the recruits. "And I don't want anyone pulling pranks of me. If one of you did, you will receive a horrible punishment" he growled. The drill instructor paced through the ranks. "Alright cadet, tell me your name and where you come from!"

"I'm Russell Thrush from the Atlas District!" the guy with the mohawk said.

"And what are you here for, kid!?"

"To become a Hunter, sir!"

"Do you know what a life is as a Hunter is!?"

"To kill Grimm sir!"

"Good and soon you will become a light snack for them!" After the short, intimidating speech, the instructor moves on to another trainee. "You there, blondie!" then he come up to another recruit. "What do they call you and where do you come from!?" he asked, rudely.

"I'm Jaune Arc from the Vale District!"

"Really?! Seriously, what a dumb name! Did your parents give it to you?!" Keith shouted back, singling him out.

"My grandfather gave it, sir!"

"Arc! Why is a runt like you here for!?" the instructor requested.

"I-I want join the Beacon Corps, sir!" Jaune responded, clearly intimidated by the man. "… and to contribute towards mankind's victory sir!"

"Fucking splendid!" the instructor declared, seizing Jaune. "That's what I like to hear! You're gonna make great Beowolf chow, if it comes to it! From now on your name shall be Cadet Kibbles!" Then he turned Jaune to the other way by his head roughly. "Third line, look behind you, Kibbles!"

Ruby frowned at the instructor, pushing down the urge to yell at the man for insulting Jaune's name. With that, he moved onto the next line. Keith walked passed Ruby and glanced into her silver eyes. as he knows that expression on her face and turned to the other recruit.

Ichigo didn't flinch when their eyes made contact and Ichigo almost wished that he would have a go at his name. Ichigo would love nothing more than to beat the tar out of the man, especially for his comments towards Armin but the instructor apparently liked the fire in his eyes and moved on.

"Who the hell are you!?"

"Sir!" the pink-haired recruit with pigtails responded with a salute. "My name is Nemi Miller from the Atlas District."

"Why are you here, Miller?"

"I-I have t-talent and w-want to u-use it c-correctly!" she stuttered.

"Is that it?! Is this the best Atlas has to offer?!"

"I-I-I'm afraid so, sir!"

"Well, when I'm done with you Miller you either be a soldier or you will be dead!" He then moved to another recruit.

"And what do you call yourself?" he asked of the next recruit.

"Sir! I'm Sky Lark!" the navy-blue haired boy saluted. "I'm from Atlas, Sir!"

"Speak up!"

"I'm Sky Lark, si-"

"I can't hear you! Don't come back until after your balls drop!" Without pause or preamble, he moved onto the next group.

"Line four! About Turn!"

The next one stood tall as Keith walked in front of him, eyeing the cadet before stopping and looking into the eyes. The preteen could feel everyone's eyes on him as he stared into the instructor's eyes sweating slightly. He could feel his heart tense up inside him.

"What is your name cadet?!" Keith shouted at him making light-brown haired boy saluted as they had been taught to when being spoken too by a higher authority.

"Dove Bronzewing, sir" Dove replied.

"That's a stupid name!" Keith shouted as his eyes went wide before narrowing slightly, clearly offended. "How about I call you Dog from now on!"

"Erm, I'd really rather no-"

"How about it, dog?! Bark!" Keith ordered.

"This is Keith Shadis, huh…" Ruby heard of this man from her uncle as both the best and strictest mentor a trainee hunter could ask for. His methods of evaluation so far were harsh and she didn't like how he spoke to her friend but the man knew what he was doing, he knew what everyone here would face in the future.

The Head Professor knew that he had to make these trainees into soldiers and there was only one way to do that. Beat it into them, just like Uncle Qrow did to her so long ago. Ruby knew what they were going to face, what joining the military meant. She, Yang and Jaune still had sleepless nights after what they had witnessed the day the Vale District fell. As Keith made his way through terrorising other trainees Ruby cast her gaze over the few he had missed too, among them being Yang. Being small enough than most of the other cadets, gave Ruby the chance sneak glances to see the others among the trainees without getting caught out.

She was disappointed.

They were mostly all kids, somewhere around her age, looking for glory, not knowing of the horrors that they'd face in the future. She was hoping for older people to help give her tips for killing Grimm.

Her eyes went from face to face before stopping on a young girl's face that got ignored just like her; her long hair was jet-black with a bow on top and hung down her back. She also had amber eyes that were hard facing forward; however, there was something else there. Fear? The way her body was twitched there-and-then seemed to show that she was nervous like the rest. Ruby couldn't help but feel she had seen her somewhere before. A former refugee too, perhaps? Shaking her head from the thoughts she moved her gaze and raised an eyebrow, stopping at Yang.

Ruby swung her foot out and tapped Yang in the back of the leg lightly making her look down at her with a confused look before she gestured to the dark girl.

"Hey Yang. Have you met her before?" the younger sister whispered, making Yang respond by shaking her head. She chuckled lightly to herself not wanting to bring the instructor over to them. Regaining their composure, the sisters stood up straight and looked forward, standing at attention.

The mysterious girl hadn't seen them yet but there wasn't any doubt that she wouldn't in the years to come.

xxxx

(Meanwhile, on the military watchtower…)

Two nearby superior officers watched over Keith doing with the recruits.

"Look at him go" quickly spoke the soldier, known Bartholomew Oobek, as he looked over the trainees while drinking coffee. "I never seen anyone give the newbies such a hard time."

"You went through the same thing when you started as a trainee, did you not?" noted the jolly bigger man known as Peter Port, recalling his time as a lad in boot camp. "Ah, this brings back memories."

"Still... I never did get the point of that intimidation game..." the younger man questioned.

"It's a rite of passage" he answered. Then, he continued to look at Keith giving a shout to another recruit. "This is a degree of self-denial that is needed to cultivate the necessary qualities of a soldier to become a complete newbie… To them psychologically break them down to give them a new, blank slate."

As they passed by, Bartholomew noticed something.

"What about that one over there? He's not telling her anything" the colleague told his senior, about the female redhead recruit who seemed unaffected. He noticed the instructor had ignored her after a glance, deciding not to subject her to the abuse.

"Well..." Prof. Port began. "I say, she looks like she's been through her rite of passage already, there's no need."

"Why is that..?" he asked but Port sighed sadly.

"My best guess is the drill instructor is nothing compared to what she's seen. Because a couple of years ago…" he continued. "It was hell on earth when 'they' attacked. I assume that some people here witnessed it. It shows on your faces."

The drill instructor walked past a handful of other recruits shown, most notably: the blonde sister, the black-haired girl and red-haired man next to her, a boy with Oriental features, a fox Faunus with an ambiguous grin, a shy rabbit Faunus, a grey-haired boy, a tanned skin girl and freckle-faced orangette with a creepy smile.

"C'mon let's go, Oobek."

xxxx

(Back with Keith, as he faced another recruit…)

"What's your name!?"

"Weiss Schnee reporting for duty, sir! I'm from Mitras, the capital city!" she responded with a salute. ""

"And what are you here for!?"

"To become an Elite Huntress in the Sanctum Police" she responded with pride, as Shardis looked her over.

"I see. That's pretty idealistic… Wait a minute. Schnee, huh!?" he asked her loudly. "You mean the heiress of the Schnee Dust Company, the largest producer of energy propellant in all of Remnant." This gained everyone's attention.

Why would an aristocrat living far away from the Grimm want to fight them?

"Yes! That is correct, sir!" she smiled smugly. "Ah finally, someone who knows how to give a little respect" the girl thought happily.

"Yes, the same company is also known for its questionable business partners, back-alley deals and controversial treatment of their own labour force" the bald man continued.

"What?! H-How dare you sully my family's name!?" Weiss yelled at him angrily.

Shardis leaned forward silencing her in fear with his stare. "I'm merely stating facts, you and your family did that to themselves long ago" the big man said, Ruby started snickering to herself out of earshot.

"Ooh burn," her sister quietly said.

"Wha-!? I did-! GRRR!" Weiss angrily headed off, into line fading in with the other cadets.

Now, he turned onto a big fellow with burnt-brown hair.

"Who the hell are you!?"

"I am Cardin Winchester from the Atlas District, sir!" he responded, with a salute.

"Cardin!? What kind of a name is that!? Did your parents give the name to you!?" he asked him loudly.

"My father did, sir!"

"Alright tough guy, what's your story? Why are you here?"

"Well, after I ace this academy, I plan on joining the Sanctum Police, the best of the best!" with that, he gave an arrogant grin. "So I can live in the inner district, sir."

However, Ruby looked over him.

"I see! So that's what you wanna be, eh?" he looked stoic. "You seem to have a good head on your shoulders, young man… Nice."

"Really?" he responded, smiling. "Thanks, si-!"

*BAM!*

Moments later, the bigger man took a headbutt against Cardin's face, causing him to fall and many others to wince.

"Ugh! Goddamnit! WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU, MAN?!" the floored man cried, holding his bleeding nose.

"What's the matter with me? What's the matter with YOU?! I didn't tell you to sit down!" Keith blamed, adding insult to injury. "Listen up! If you can't even take a simple, light tap, you can forget about joining the Sanctum Police, Winchester!"

"ARGH! I THINK YOU BROKE MY NOSE!"

Then he faced another recruit nearby to harangue.

"Who the hell are you, snowball!? And where do you come from?!" he bellowed.

"I'm Frost Jackson, sir!" he responded loudly and formally. "From Jinae Town in... in from Wall Rose's southern wall!"

"Where do see yourself in 3 years!?" he asked.

Then, Frost's eyes met at Keith as he sweatdropped, until, he got his retort.

"In the Sanctum Police, sir" he answered, politely. "I want to enter the King's service!"

"Oh... Is that so? You want to be with the king, quite the patriot, huh? Well, that's a great choice, you've got a great ambition" Keith continued to stare, frightening the once composed young man. "That said... I doubt the king will need another kiss-ass, don't you agree? So don't bother!"

"I'M STILL BLEEDING OUT HERE!"

Then, Keith looked to the other female recruit with red hair that tied into a pony-tail.

"Next! You there, redhead! Who the hell are you?!"

"Pyrrha Nikos, sir!" she saluted. "From the city of Sparta, Wall Rose's southern walls, sir!"

"Nikos, huh? I've heard of you. You were on the cover of that shitty cereal."

"W-Well, I admit it's not good for you, sir!" she was hoping no one would bring that up.

"Well, I'm not surprised!" Keith mused. "Anyways, why are you here today, Nikos?"

"To give my heart to humanity's cause, sir!"

"And why would humanity want your heart, maggot?!"

"E-er…" the redhead hesitated for a moment completely caught off guard by the question. She faltered before answering confidently, having renewed her resolve. "B-because I choose to give it, sir!"

"Well said!" the bald man seemed to accept that response, drawing back from the red-haired lassie. "It seems you have a strong spirit there. Good! So the rumours of half-descent fighters from Sparta weren't completely false!"

"We're known to excel at that back home… wait? What you mean by that, sir?!" she asked, a little offended. Suddenly, the bigger man leaned closer to the Spartan, intimidating her.

"It means hopefully you'll be more than just Grimm fodder."

"SERIOUSLY! I NEED MEDICAL ATTENTION!"

As their instructor continued to go down the line, he simply glanced around in passing until finally he approached his next victim. "Hey you, smiling idiot! Wipe that grin off your face! You're next!" His next victim was a blonde Faunus boy with messy hair and matching eyes.

"Oh? I'm Sun Wukong. From the village of Saru, from Wall Rose's southern district, sir!"

"THERE IS. A GIANT POOL. OF BLOOD. COMING FROM MY NOSE. MOUTH. AND EYES! I AM SERIOUSLY SCARED FOR MY LIFE, HERE!"

But then as Keith saw that the Monkey Faunus mistakenly saluted in an opposite direction, he grabbed his collar, lifting him up and makes face-to-face, which made him tremble in fear.

"You got it backwards, Sun! Wasn't it the first thing you were taught?" he growled with a glare, giving him a hard time. Honestly, the others almost felt sorry for him. "Haven't you learned it or just forgot! This salute is meant to represent your resolve to commit your very heart to public service and prevent the systematic destruction of our people...! Is your heart is one the right side, pissant!?"

*Gulp!* *SLURP!*

Suddenly, he heard someone eating messily while in formation. The symphony of slurping turned all eyes towards the perpetrator. The instructor looked on the recruits and saw who, a light-orange haired girl with blue eyes eating red sap-covered pancake. She seemed to be scarfing down the jelly-covered treat as if her life depended on it. Perhaps it did; judging by the look on her face it might've been at least a week since her last decent meal.

Keith didn't fail to notice this. Everyone froze. Even the tough-looking recruits felt just a touch uncomfortable when they recognized that fearsome gleam in the instructor's eye.

Shadis promptly dropped the monkey boy, leaving a cloud of dirt. "Hey, you there..." he demanded, as he walked over. "What's the big idea?"

But the girl looked on different direction still chewing her food, blinking absentminded, she thought it was someone. She continued to dip her hand in her pocket for another piece and puffed her cheeks full of red honey but Keith rushed up to her annoyed she didn't answer.

She was officially on his 'shit list'.

"YOU! I'M TALKING TO YOU, DAMNIT!" he shouted, louder. "JUST WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!?"

The girl munched and quickly gulped before spluttering. "

"My name is Nora Valkyrie, at your service Mr. Shadis!" she saluted, with honey dripping all over her smiling mouth. "I'm from the Village of Valhalla, from Wall Rose's southern district, heeheehee!"

Keith looked at the jar. "Valkyrie, huh..." he began to ask. "What is that thing you're holding in your hand?"

"Oh this? It's a pancake with sweet, delicious red sap, sir!" she responded, cheerfully. "It was in the kitchen and I thought it was just what I needed, I didn't really have much for breakfast! It was just practically begging for me to eat it!"

"So you mean...You stole it...? The theft I get but… Why did you... Pull that out to eat here... Now, of all times?" Keith asked, sternly adding emphasis to each word.

"Well, I wanted to eat it while it was still fresh. It looked so yummy so I wanted to give it a proper home in my tummy, sir! Hey, that rhymes!" she replied, happily. "There would've been no point otherwise so I thought it was now or never, girl."

"…Well, I just can't comprehend it, girl?" spoke the stoic Head Instructor. "Why would you eat it, girl?"

"Huh? Are you really asking me why people eat honey, sir?" she asked back, innocently. "I'm surprised an old man like you wouldn't know…"

A sudden silence followed those words.

Everyone was shocked by hearing her words and made worst by the fact that the orangette was completely oblivious to the man's rising desire to kill. Just when they thought she couldn't make her situation worse, Nora gave a small piece of breakfast to Keith offering the bald instructor to eat, smiling up to him.

He just stood there dumbfounded by the act...

"Is she THAT dumb?" a flabbergasted Weiss thought, as Ruby took a facepalm.

"MY BODY IS TRYING TO DIE!"

Every single cadet watching the scene unfold expected the Instructor to explode at the lass but instead as Shadis calmly put the delicious treat in his pocket to confiscate. But this did not defuse the tension threatening to suffocate every mortal creature in the vicinity. In fact, it made it worse.

"You know… Red Honey farmed from Rapier Wasps is quite high in calories" he told, with eerie calmness. "Did you know that, Cadet Valkyrie?"

Nora gasped sharply in genuine shock. "REALLY?! Oh no! Oh no, oh no, oh no! Why didn't anybody tell me?! I-I-I-I don't wanna get fat!" It was only now the walking buddle of ADD started panicking but for all the wrong reasons.

"Yeah, gaining excessive weight is not healthy at all" the terrifyingly calm man said. "Would you like me to help you burn off those calories, Valkyrie?"

"Oh yes sir!" she beamed, getting up in his face. "Please tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, TELL ME!"

Oh, that poor girl...

"WHY ISN'T ANYONE HELPING ME?! I AM DYING!"

"SHUT THE FUCK UP, WINCHESTER!"

xxxx

(5 hours later…)

Nora was forced to take many laps right from Keith, many hours after the 'Pancake Incident'. It was nothing short of a miracle that he didn't kill her. Now out of formation and at the barracks, Ruby and the gang pitied her as they watched the punishment.

Rubbing her grumbling stomach as she and Jaune walked along with the other trainees to the barracks, they had been standing out in the sun for the majority of the day, they had it lucky though, the poor girl called Nora had the nerve to eat during the time they spent in line and Ruby just couldn't didn't tell whether she was stupid or just insane as she offered her pancake to Keith.

"Man, that Nora girl is still running, huh?" Jaune asked, as they kept looking at said chick. It was one hell of a first day.

"Seriously? It's been five hours straight" Ruby said. "Though, the whole 'running indefinitely till sunset' thing didn't get to her... Quite as much as the moment she was told to skip lunch for the next 5 days." This caused Nemi to giggle.

Glancing over to where she was, the orangette was still running. With a shake of her head remembering how Yang had tried to stifle her laughter at the effort the girl had tried to make to keep her stash of red honey that Keith and smashed beneath his boots, it was like he had kicked her puppy.

"I do remember about Valhalla being a remote place" Pyrrha said. "It's a scarcely populated village of animal hunters and wasp farmers in the mountains.

"I'm pretty surprised those people still exists..." Sun added. "Most villages now focus growing crops now."

Then, Jaune noticed a horse driven carriage leaving the bootcamp carrying people. "Hey, what's going on over there?"

"They're dropouts from today" Nemi explained, with a saddened look. "When you join Hunter's Academy you can choose quit at the end of each day, if you don't want to continue. They prefer to go back home or to the landfill sites if they don't have one."

The group of five got a glimpse at the failures. They all had the looks of defeat on their faces, some were even crying in shame. "There are nearly a dozen of them!" Jaune exclaimed. He couldn't believe so many threw in the towel so quickly. "B-But I-It hasn't even been a full day yet."

"That's just the way it is" the Monkey Faunus shrugged. "If you can't take the pressure, you gotta leave."

"That's a bit harsh" Jaune frowned.

"Maybe but it's still true, though" he sighed.

"I get that but still…" little red pitched in. "I can't believe they'd rather spend their lives picking weeds at home instead of being here."

"That reminds me. I know about some of us but we never heard where you were from... Can you tell us?" Pyrrha's question was meant for Ruby.

"Well, I'm from the Vale District, like him" she introduced with a small smile, along with Jaune.

This surprised everyone else in the area. "...Oh, I see. So that's your story..." the ponytail said nervously unprepared for the younger girl's responded. However, Nemi shoved her aside.

"That means...You were there? On the day that it happened!?" the pink-haired girl asked her, gleefully. "Did you see it?"

"Hey, easy there!" Pyrrha said.

"Did you see the Leviathan? The biggest Grimm?" she asked, not noticing Ruby getting uncomfortable by the mention of it.

"…Yeah… I-I did."

xxxx

(5 minutes later…)

"Man, Rubes sure is getting popular" Yang thought to herself smiling, as she and Jaune sat across from Velvet who were all listening to Ruby tell about what had happened back in Vale. She was surrounded by people who were eager to hear about the events that had caused devastation to the population. Yang simply rolled her eyes as she turned back to the slop that they had been offered known as food, it wasn't actually that bad it just looked like shit.

Breaking off a bit of bread Jaune dipped it into the slop and shoved the piece of bread into his mouth. "Probably is healthy, they wouldn't give stuff to us that wouldn't be nutritional."

Raising the mug that had some sought of water in it, the blonde girl brought it to her lips and washed down the bread and let out a small sigh before stretching with a yawn, she saw several people at different tables flinch at her movements. "Great everybody's afraid of me. Guess I probably shouldn't have beaten the crap out of that policemen this morning" she thought out loud remembering the bout earlier in the day.

This caused Jaune to sigh in defeat; after all he told her she had the option to walk away. "Oh, you realise that now…"

Meanwhile, nearly every cadet in the cafeteria gathered round the shy redhead to hear the big story.

"Yes. I told you, I saw the really, really big one" Ruby said in a nervous expression. She was not used to getting so much attention at once. Little Red was surrounded by her classmates, constantly questioning her about the Grimm attack on mankind 2 years ago. They wanted to know all the details about that day from first-hand experience.

"Whoa! Seriously?!"

"Wait, just how big was it?"

"It was big enough to show its head above the wall, okay" Ruby eventually responded.

The rest of the group was surprised. "Really? I heard it was big enough to walk over the wall!" Sun exclaimed, with the crowd in the background agreeing.

The redhead shook her head. "Nah, it was big but not that big…" Guess rumours tend to exaggerate a lot from person to person to make it was exciting. "Since the walls are 50 meters tall, I guess it was really 60 meters… which is still pretty huge."

"What did it look like?" asked another cadet, eagerly.

"Well, it had a head like a snout like a crocodile's and had a white mask and black scales" she told. "It also had a big, cavernous mouth and blood-red eyes."

"Really! I got to see it!"

Murmurs of how 'cool' the monster sounded and 'incrdible' it must have been to be there did not escape the Rose girl. And every word aggravateed her. Ruby remembered being in the crowd of people watching in shock and curiosity, just at the moment the Leviathan lifted its leg, plunging it through the Wall. The onlookers thrown back and the remnants of the crushed Wall plummet into the city, crushing houses and squashing people. "If they knew…"

"How about the D-rex?" another pressed for more. "You know the one that broke through Wall Maria?"

"That's what they're calling it?" Ruby raised an eyebrow. "In all the panic, it just looked like some dinosaur thing to me."

"No way! Did you see a Beowolf? What does that look like?" the pinkette asked. "It's the most common Grimm, have you seen that."

"Well it, you know looked like a werewolf… with a mask" the deadpanned class looked unsatisfied by her lack of description. "What?! That's what it looked like! Were you expecting a poem about it?"

Ruby remembered back when she and Yang reached their home just to see their house destroyed. Their way back was intercepted by a Beowolf and prevented them from reaching the gate out of Vale. She would forget looking in fear into those red, soulless eyes. Unable to run. Unable to fight.

Young recruits kept questioning the Vale girl for themselves, as they must know what a Grimm is. Trying to get her mind off those awful memories, the redhead started fiddlng with her gruel. However, one of the recruits asked something that Ruby could not ignore.

"Have you seen a Jabberwock?" the pinkette asked.

At this moment, Ruby stopped playing with her food. "H-huh. Wha-What did you say?"

"Yeah, they say before the Leviathan and D-rex appeared that it was the strongest, most dangerous Grimm known to man."

"Unlike most Grimm, it breaks its victims' spines and eats half of them" a random trainee told. "Usually for the big ones it's just one chomp and you're in but you can see their guts spilling out and everything, like the spinal fluid."

"W-Wh-Wha-What are you ta-?" Ruby's eyes widened, in horror. She realise it but she started breathing frantically, unnoticed by her harassers.

The little redhead's memories flowed through her mind, remembering when her mother was killed and devoured by the merciless monstrosity. Ruby, looking behind on Uncle Qrow's shoulder, gasping as she saw the Smiling Dragon Grimm move debris of the house away eyeing Summer. It snapped her vertebrate with its hands as the daughter saw her twitch in its hand. The heartless monster ate her, blood spraying from its mouth while laughing manically. Ruby could only look back in despair as the Grimm gulped her legs down in satisfaction, blood splattered over itself and the ground as well.

"I heard that some of Jabberwock's victims are still alive even after having their spine broken. They must suffer the most horrible, agonising pain imaginable until it finishes you off when… everything… just… stops…" Nemi noted, adding emphasis to her words dramatic effect, before looking at Ruby. "You okay?"

"Oh god…"

As that memory replayed in her head over and over, Ruby couldn't respond as she covered her mouth with her bare hand, feeling nauseous. The poor girl was still traumatised by that terrible, terrible memory. Ruby felt vomit rise up in her throat and made her cheeks puff out like a chipmunks but quickly and instintively swallowed it back down, panting heavily. This got all of her new friends staring at her in confusion, wondering what was wrong.

Pyrrha was the first to grasp the situation. "Alright guys, stop asking her questions" the Spartan suggested. "Let's not force her to bring up things she'd rather not remember. Some things need to be left forgotten."

"Oh! I'm sorry! You must have some unpleasant stuff!" Nemi apologized, waving her friends frantically. "We didn't mean to make you relive it. Let's talk about something else."

"Hah..." she sighed as she looked down, then she took a piece of bread, she looked back and slowly took a bite having regained her composure. "Yeah, let's talk about something else."

xxxx

(Meanwhile, in somewhere else in the barracks…)

"...*pant*...*pant*...At last… I did it…" Nora spoke, weakly.

After 9001 laps, Nora collapsed on her way to her dorm, she was done. She had completed her punishment. Her exhausted body was begging for sustinence, however, a black-haired boy with a pink strand came up to her with a small loaf of bread in his hand. Suddenly, Nora smelt the fresh bread then lunged at him, snatching the loaf with her mouth like a mad beast.

"Whoa!" he yelped in surprise.

"Hmm...? What is this...? Bread?" As Nora looked up and saw her childhood friend smile at her.

"Jeez Nora, first day and you're already on the Head Instructor's bad side" Ren gave her a bottle of water. "Here... have some water; you must be thirsty from all that running."

"Uh... really!?" Nora cheered, practically worshiping her friend's kindness. She brought the violet-eyed boy in a suffocating bear hug. "Oh my god, thank you Ren!? Thank you, thank you, thank you! You're my lord and saviour!" With that said the grateful girl greeddily consumed the offerings.

"Feel better now?"

"Yep!" standing up she puffed her chest out in arrogance, as triumph music started playing. "I feel like I could climb a mountain! I feel like I could do a billion jumping jacks. I feel like I could... could..." the background music started going offtune. "I could go to sleep."

True to her words, the pancake-loving chick passed out in her friends arms. "*Sigh* What am I going to do with you?"

xxxx

(Back inside...)

The ballroom was, quite possibly, rollout bed to rollout bed. The students talking about the creatures of Grimm, the asshole Head Instructor, the Pancake Girl, future classes, the monsters they're gonna fight, Pancake Girl, the teachers they'll have, Pancake Girl.

Did I forget to mention the 'Pancake Girl Incident'?

And other various things. The recent Faunus uprising was being talked about in hushes and in small packs. Talks of the White Fang are either 'Liberating the lower class' or they are 'Menaces and Mass Murders'. No real middle ground, from what Ruby could hear.

Ruby looked over at her older sibling, who was running a hand through her golden locks. The blonde pulled on her hair, before letting out a laugh and spreading his arms out.

"This! Is! Awesome!" Yang laughed. She looked at everyone around her, his smile almost lighting up the room. She looked at Ruby out of the corner of her eyes. She shot up, her hands on her knees. "It's like summer camp! I wonder if we'll tell ghost stories and eat s'mores?!"

"Your guess is as good as mine" Ruby commented, turning her tired eyes back to the ceiling. The blonde rolled her eyes, sitting up on her knees.

"Relax, sis. First day skitters are always expected" Yang said, her palms resting on her knees as she turned to her pride and joy. "Especially with you."

"Don't rub it in" the deadpanned girl noted.

"I'm serious" Yang said, raising both hands defensively. She didn't see so much as a smile from Ruby and she didn't like that. "So, any luck with the friendo business?"

"Any luck with being..." Ruby tried to think of a witty comeback. Anything to sting Yang, only to fall short and grumble. "No."

"Cheer up! I saw you with that red-haired girl, monkey guy and pinky pigtails earlier today"

"Wouldn't call them friends, yet" Ruby mumbled. He thought of Jaune's comment then how they interacted with one another, wondering if the other cadets were really 'friends' to her. They didn't hate each other and that was good. They didn't blow up. They didn't threaten to kill each other, which was a good start.

"But you guys don't hate each other! That's the first step!" Yang stated, before hearing Ruby groan and turned her back towards her.

"Probably be known as that girl who nearly threw up" Ruby averted her eyes, feeling her nerves getting the better of her.

"Hey, you're not alone, we've still got Jaune" she plainly reminded.

"Yeah… Plus I'm enemies with the ice princess of an entire corporation sooo… I'm a little less than breaking even on the friend count" Ruby pointed out. She explained what had happened earlier before the ceremony but only because Goldilocks pestered it out of her.

"Sis, you never get less with friends you just convert them… into enemies… one friend one enemy" Yang said. "Though you got me thinking about that corporate thing now, you think if Snow White wanted she could bribe the academy into kicking you out?... ooh or even staging an accidental death-"

*Smack* Ruby hit her older sister with one of her pillows.

"Don't talk like that you're gonna freak me out!" Ruby yelled, comically. "Seriously, I have enough sleeping problems as it is!"

"What? I'm sorry, I was just curious" Yang said. "If you're feeling so alone then go make some friends; there are hundreds of guys and girls. You friend zoned a few already without realising it." Yang inched towards Ruby, patting on her ribs like a bongo. "Cheer up, sis. I know things have been tough these past few years. For all of us. But this is a second chance. It'll work out."

"You don't know that!" Ruby snapped, turning to her. Yang didn't so much as jump or wince. Yang felt her face lose her smile, letting Ruby lash out. Just let out whatever was on her mind. "I'm not like you, Yang! I can't just let it-" she barked, letting out a low growl of frustration.

She tightened his hand and punched into her pillow. She felt his knuckles buckle against the wood beneath it, falling onto his side and holding her hurting hand. Yang shut her eyes and counted to five to herself.

One, Two. Three and Four. Then there is Five. She then let out a slow and steady sigh.

"Ruby..." Yang whispered, moving close to her sister. She poked Ruby's shoulder, not feeling her move away or trying to push her back. "It's ok. It'll be ok" she rubbed the younger girl's shoulder, smiling. "Remember when we were little and we would always get into trouble?"

"I remember you getting into trouble and me getting dragged in it" Ruby mumbled, feeling a smile breaking through her pain. She looked up towards Yang, her eyes having lost their cold nature and replaced with a sense of warmth and sisterhood. Safety and understanding. "Why bring that up?"

Yang let out a gasp, that voice now sounding like a scared child.

"We've been through the worst" Yang nudged her softly with her elbow. "And we've come back. You've come back. You'll see. It'll all work out. It's only been day one." Ruby rolled back onto her back, her left hand holding onto his right hand. She softly rubbed her knuckles, shutting her eyes and allowing the muscles and bones to relax.

"Day One..."

Well their you go folks. Btw I changed the name of the dragon Grimm. What do you think?