Diane, Rainbow and Lie Ren leading their respective teams had returned to Beacon. They were in a large hall on a stage Ozpin and Glynda Ozpin frowned “We had to make some changes to how the teams work. As such the first team is…” Diane stepped forward alongside Sunset, Cardin, Weiss and Blake “Team DSBUC (Pronounced Duskbuck) lead by Diane, the adopted daughter of General Ironwood.”

Glynda stepped forward “Our second team is…” Rainbow flew forward alongside Pyrrha, Jaune, Ruby and Yang “Team RPJRY (Pronounced Raprajury) lead by Rainbow.”

Ozpin nodded “Now last but not least we welcome the final new team…” Lie Ren walked alongside Nora, Tempest, Vinyl and Octavia “Team LNTVO (Pronounced Linoteviot) lead by Lie Ren. These are your new teams, we have great expectations of you all.”

The other students cheered, after being officially inducted into the school the three teams split up as they headed to their rooms. Diane lead her team in their room, Cardin frowned “Are you really the adoptive daughter of General Ironwood? I didn’t know that there were Faunus in the Atlas Military.”

Diane nodded “Most of the Higher ranking Atlas Officers are Faunus. Most of those who go after the White Fang are Faunus, none of us like the fact that some of our kind are giving the rest a bad name.”

Blake grimaced “Wait you are telling me there are Faunus who fight against their own best interests? The White Fang wishes for us to be equals to humans.”

Diane’s eyes narrowed as she turned to her “How are we doing anything other than proving them right? Many believe that we are violent beasts, how does going around terrorising everyone change that? It just makes us smart violent beasts instead of dumb ones, that makes us in their eyes more dangerous.”

Blake was silent as Diane turned back to Cardin “Cardin. Whether your hatred of Faunus alleviate itself of not is not my problem, my problem is that you will not obey my order because I am a Faunus. That you will not work with your teammates because they are Faunus. If it helps see me as your CO and they are your fellow soldiers. You must work together with them because lives will be on the line, more than just than just the lives of our team.”

Cardin saluted “I can do that Commander.”

Diane nodded “We should get some sleep, we need to be ready for classes tommorow.”

Meanwhile in the room of Team RPJRY Rainbow, Ruby and Yang were throwing pillows at each other while Jaune and Pyrrha watched. Pyrrha stood up with a frown”Tommorow we have classes and it wouldn’t be wise to be falling asleep in class.”

Rainbow whined “Does this mean we have to study?”

Jaune frowned “My father always told me that if one didn’t study then they would run foul of some Grimm one day that they don’t quite understand. The thought of the Apathy Grimm still give me Nightmares.”

Yang blinked “What are Apathy, I’ve never heard of them?”

Jaune grimaced “Apathy are not very physically strong but they band together in packs their screams drain one of their strength. To the point they can kill you just by draining your strength, they are also quite durable and require quite a bit of power to take down which makes it all the harder when they sap your strength.”

Ruby blinked “How do you deal with them?”

Jaune frowned “Range, their screams weaken the further you are away. The other option is to use automatic drones, they can’t drain their power.”

Pyrrha was slightly shaken “They sound horrifying, like something out of the darkest nightmares.” Rainbow was however was shaking like a leaf in a hurricane,she simply got under some blankets trying to blot out the images of the horrid monsters sucking out her soul.

In the Team LNTVO’s room, they were all getting ready for bed. Nora complained “Can’t we stay up a little longer Renny?”

Ren shook his head “We have classes tomorrow, it would not be wise to be late to our first class.” Tempest nodded as she laid in her bed, Vinyl had put some relaxing music on headphones as she drifted off. Octavia tucked herself in and soon all of them save Nora were sleeping.

The next morning Diane woke up first and rounded her team up, Sunset and Cardin nodded to Diane both clearly early birds. The three had quick showers while the Blake and Weiss had longer ones to wake themselves up.

Blake turned to Diane with a scowl “Did you have to wake us up so early?”

Diane shrugged “A Huntress should rise with the sun, the reason we had a quick shower was so we could have a longer one later. I want to know where you are all at so I’m going to observe you spar against each other, Weiss vs Sunset and Blake vs Cardin.”

Cardin nodded “We’ll do it out the front where we will disturb minimal people.”

The team headed to the front of the school, Blake stepped forward drawing her weapon Gambol Shroud, it appeared to be a clever style blade. Cardin met her drawing his mace the Executioner, a huge black weapon spiked mace with in circle around a large amount of empty space. A red dust crystal was embedded in the top of the hilt.

Diane gestures for them to begin, Cardin swing his heavy mace only for Blake to dodge and her weapon converts into a Katana. Cardin turns around barely able to block the swing of the weapon with his mace, Blake seemingly divides into two, one leaps at him and explodes in flames. Blake then cuts him with her weapon glowering “How do you like that?”

Before she could reacts grabbing her arm with one hand using it to swing his mace striking her in the gut. Then in the head, her aura beings to splutter. Cardin smirked “That cut hurt, that was a pretty good shot for a Faunus.”

Blake snapped back “Your not bad yourself, for a human at least.”

Diane interrupted before they got into a death match, she turned to Cardin “You have a lot of strength but that is not an excuse to think. You should have known that your enemy was trying to trick you” she then turned to Blake “You were a little to hasty to go for the finishing stroke, your aura is not designed to take hits like that.”

Cardin and Blake both nodded before returning to the sides as Weiss and Sunset , Weiss drew her rapier Myrtenaster which had a revolver style hilt with dust cannisters inside. Sunset drew her flaming sword, Philomena. Diane smiled “You may begin.”

Sunset rushed forward so fast that only Diane saw the movement, Weiss barely had enough time to block using her rapier to create a hard light barrier. Weiss then used Lighting Dust to create a series of Lightning Glyphs allowing her to move faster. Sunset dodged Weiss rapier thrusts “That’s quite Impressive, using your semblance to keep up with me but you made one mistake. You got too close.” Sunset’s body flashed red and powerful flames surrounded them “My semblance, Flame Walls allows me to trap my opponent in close quarters which helps me to overcome ranged opponents.”

Weiss was about to move only for her lightning glyphs to vanish and Sunset smirked as she moved fast cutting into Weiss until her aura depleted. Diane frowned as approached the pair, she turned to Weiss “You should not rush at your opponent it never works, it just makes you a target.”

She then turned to Sunset “That semblance of yours doesn’t work very well on Grimm or large mechs, save it for ranged targets.” Diane’s team after that headed back to have some proper showers before classes.

Author's Note

I hope you enjoyed this chapter.