Noir woke up from a well-deserved rest. He looked around his new room and saw that the rest of his team were still asleep. They had all divvied up the room the night. Ivan had moved hi be into the corner near the bathroom, and decorated his part with only a small desk and some pictures from home. Onyx had taken a section next to Ivan’s. His form of decorations included posters of various rock singers and two tiny book shelves. Bastian had moved his bed right next to the tiny kitchen in the room and had decorated his section with a small T. V and a modge-podge of movies and video games. That had left Noir with his section; having his bed right next to the window of the room. Noir had decorated his room with posters from various weapon’s magazines he subscribed to. He finally got a chance to look at the clock and noticed It was 8:30. They only had a half hour to their next class.

                “Wake up! Wake up!” Noir yelled as loudly as he quickly got his uniform on. Bastian and Ivan both groggily rose from their beds. Onyx on the other hand jumped out of bed in full uniform ready to go.

                “I don’t wanna get up,” Bastian yawned out to the others. Noir barely paid him any mind as he was getting his sheaths ready for the day. Onyx walked over and looked over Noir shoulder before finally speaking.

                “You know Noir, I noticed you have two sheaths here, but I thought you blew one up yesterday,” Onyx said inquisitively.

                “Correction, Ivan blew up the last one and I have ten,” Noir answered.

“Ten?” Onyx asked.

                “Yes, I have four, well now three, here at beacon and I left six at home with my uncle,” Noir said clarifying for the sandy haired ninja. By this point Ivan and Bastian were finally up and dressed although due to being the giant he was Bastian’s coat didn’t quite fit right.

                “I can’t believe we have to get up this early for class,” Bastian tried to say as he got his gear ready to go “I mean look at Ivan,” gesturing to the faunus who looked like he was sleepwalking.

                “You will survive you big baby,” Noir responded as he finished prepping his weapons.

“But just look at Ivan, he’s practically a zombie see?” Bastian pointed out. The other two boys looked at their faunus friend. Although being completely dressed in the uniform he was walking very groggily and his ears which were normally pointed up were sagging. Noir and Onyx couldn’t help but laugh at Ivan.

                “That is rather unfortunate,” Onyx started to say “But we should get going we don’t wanna be late for our first class.

                “Good point,” Noir responded trying to sound in charge. “Bastian, grab the wolf and let’s get a move on, we only have ten minute to get to class.”

                “Yes fearless leader,” the giant responded. Bastian grabbed the wolf faunus and slung him over his shoulder and the boys left for their first class. In Professor Port’s class the four boy’s sat towards the top of the rows of bored students. Onyx sat at attention truly paying attention to the lecture the portly man was giving, Noir was writing down notes for later, Bastian was trying to stay awake, and Ivan was snoring through the lecture.

                                Noir took a break from writing notes to get a good look at his classmates. He almost immediately found Ruby and Yang, who were goofing off in the bottom row. He noticed that sitting with the two sisters were two other girls: One who had black hair and a bow on her head, and another with show white hair put up in an odd ponytail, who seemed to be glaring at Ruby while she was goofing off.

                “MR.CANIS!” Port finally yelled pointing at the sleeping faunus. Ivan’s head shot up like a rocket with his ears perked trying to pretend he wasn’t asleep.

                “Yes sir,” Ivan responded nervously.

“You sir, have detention for sleeping in class,” Port then commanded. A few snickers occurred as Ivan blushed and nodded silently in understanding. “Now who can show me that they have what it takes to be a true huntsman or huntress?”

                “I do sir,” The white haired girl yelled raising her hand. Everyone stared at her. Port accepted her challenge and invited her to the arena area.

                “Hey Onyx, who is she?” Noir asked.

“No clue but it seems she specializes in fencing,” Onyx pointed out. The girl had somehow miraculously changed from the school uniform into a white outfit dress that seemed unfit for combat. She had pulled out a rapier that at its hilt seemed to have the same dust cartridge that Bastian had on his spear.

                “Her name is Weiss Schnee,” Bastian said. The rest of the team Looked at Bastian and noticed his interest had now peaked into what was going on.

                “Care to elaborate more?” Noir asked inquisitively.

“She is one of the heiresses of the Schnee dust company, which just so happens to be the largest company in the world. She is a skilled fencer, extremely intelligent, her semblance takes the forms of different glyphs that do a variety of different effects,” Bastian explained.  Right as Bastian finished explaining, Port let out a boar like grim that started attacking the heiress.

                “How do you know all this?” Ivan asked.

“My dad is the head bodyguard for the Schnees, and I grew up with Weiss. In fact when I got my acceptance into Beacon she gave me Omni,” the dark giant responded.

                “Wow she seems pretty skilled though look,” Noir said pointing to the Arena. Weiss was rushing to get her rapier and she caught the spinning boar off guard and impaled it. Soon after the bell rang and everyone rushed out of the class room.

                “That was pretty boring,” Bastian said as the team walked out, with the exception of Ivan.

“Agreed,” Onyx responded. “It is a necessary class for us to have, without it we don’t know about the Grim we fight, and besides, it could help you learn new forms for your semblance.”

                “Huh, didn’t think about it like that,” the dark giant said putting his hand on his chin to think more about the class.

                “In any rate we don’t have our next class till after lunch,” Noir started to say. “And since lunch isn’t for an hour why don’t we take a study hall?”

                “Or we could go play some games back at the dorm room,” Bastian suggested. Noir rolled his eyes at Bastian’s suggestion. He had thought about going and playing games until lunch but he decided against it.

                “Sorry Bastian I’d rather get ahead on the homework,” Noir responded.

“That’s alright fearless leader, Onyx will join the fun in your place,” Bastian then said. The sandy haired ninja looked shocked at the idea.

                “Wait what?” Onyx managed to get out before Bastian started dragging him away towards the dorms. Noir just smiled as he walked towards the library. On his walk he ran into a familiar face; a man with silver hair dressed in a suit with a green necktie carrying a cane and a cup of coffee.

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                “Professor Ozpin,” Noir addressed as he bowed to the headmaster.

“No need for bowing Mr. Pendragon,” The headmaster said kindly as he sipped a bit from his coffee. “How is your first day going?”

                “Pretty good, however one of my team members did get detention for sleeping in class,” Noir reported. Ozpin just smiled and shook his head.

                “I’ll wager a guess that it was Mr. Canis who was sleeping,” Ozpin responded.

“How did you,” Noir started to say before Ozpin cut him off.

                “I am well aware of most of the student’s personalities and skill sets. Mr. Canis seems like the kind who isn’t a morning person,” the headmaster then said honestly. Noir just laughed as he couldn’t tell the headmaster he was wrong. “Any how I will say I was impressed with your performance in the Emerald Forest, I expect your team to continue to impress me.”

                “Thank you sir, I am sure we will,” Noir responded smiling that the headmaster had given his team a compliment.

                “Good although next time, I suggest not burning down a good portion of school property,” the headmaster said as he started to walk away. Noir was almost embarrassed or he would have if he didn’t find it funny that the headmaster at one of the best Huntsman academies in Remnant had quite the sense of humor. Noir continued walking to the library. Once he got there he found a couple books on the Grim and looked for a place to sit. He soon spotted an almost empty table. Sitting there was a small girl with her hood over her head trying to read a book. Noir laughed as he walked over to the hooded girl.

                “Okay small child, what happened?” Noir asked Ruby. He knew she only wore her hood when she was either nervous or upset.

                “My leadership skills suck,” Ruby mumbled.

“Oh how so?” Noir asked.

                “Weiss, one of my team mates thinks all I do is goof off. She yelled at me that Ozpin made a mistake making me a leader,” Ruby whined out to Noir “Then Ozpin tried to give me a pep talk saying that he doesn’t know if he really made a mistake, maybe he really did, so I checked out a book on being a leader. See?” She continued holding up a book. Noir shook his head laughing.

                “Can I see that book?” Noir asked. Ruby handed it to him. Noir then proceeded to chuck it across the library.

                “I was reading that,” Ruby said angrily.

“Ruby, you can’t learn about being a leader by reading about it. To lead your team, you need to have four things: Confidence, Courage, Compassion and Strength. You need confidence in both yourself and your team. Courage to make all the hard choices. Compassion of those around you, and to be strong in body, mind, and spirit. Ruby your team is going to rely on you so you can’t fail.” After the pep talk from Noir, Ruby took her hood off and smiled up at Noir.

                “Thanks Noir,” she said smiling. Noir sat down and the two discussed their two teams. Ruby talked all about Weiss and Blake, and how they had defeated a Giant Nevermore. Noir in turned talked about his team mates and how they took on the Morbidantula and swarm. After a short while the bell rang for lunch. The two friends quickly made their way for the cafeteria. Once arriving there, the two saw their respective teams on opposite ends of the cafeteria.

“See you later leader,” Noir send winking. Ruby smiled as she ran to meet her team. Noir walked over to where his team was chowing down. Bastian and Onyx spent the entire time at lunch arguing about some first person shooter game. Ivan complained about why detention was so unfair. Noir just laughed with his tem. Shortly after lunch they made their way to their next class; combat.

                On the way the team had to stop by the locker room and dress in their combat gear. While there Ivan ran into a bit of trouble with a larger boy in plate armor with a military haircut.

                “Hey guys,” the large new stranger said to three goons that stood with him. “Look we got another one here,” he continued to say as he started yanking on Ivan’s ears. The three goons started laughing hysterically.

               “Please kind sir, remove your hands from my ears,” Ivan asked politely as he stared up at the massive stranger.

                “Oh the animal has manners, how cute,” the plated bully started to say cruelly.

“Watch who you call an animal,” Bastian said as he shoved the bully off of Ivan. It didn’t take long for the bully to regain his composure.

                “You’re going to regret doing that,” The bully said getting ready to fight. The bully picked up a mace weapon and was about to swing it. Before he got to Noir grabbed the bully’s arm stopping him in his tracks.

                “Look, I get you’re itching for a fight and I am sure my team would happily oblige but I recommend before we all get in trouble to just gear up and get to our next class which happens to be combat. I am sure we can oblige you then,” Noir said coolly tightening his grip. The bully looked around and pulled his arm out of Noir’s grip. He motioned for his team to come with him as he bumped Noir out of the way.

                “Who the hell was that guy?” Bastian asked as he turned to finish getting ready.

“His name is Cardin Winchester, captain of Team CRDL (Cardinal),” Onyx replied tying his gi and equipping his weapons. “Apparently a local bully.”

                “I can see that captain obvious,” Bastian retorted. “Hey Ivan why didn’t you fight back?”

“Not worth the effort,” Ivan responded as he lifted his axe over his shoulder.

                “At any rate let’s get to class I am looking forward to this,” Noir said. The other three nodded their heads in agreement as they finished preparing for the class.  Once they were finished they made their way to the massive combat room all the teams were sitting all over the stands. Noir had his team sit closer to the bottom of the stands. Almost as soon as they sat down they saw a blonde woman dressed in a white blouse, black skirt and cape enter.

                “Hello class, welcome to Combat 101, I am your instructor Ms. Goodwitch,” The woman said messing with her touch pad. “How this class will go is that everyone will get opportunities to duel each other in one on one matches. These duels will follow tournament rules; if your aura level hits red you lose ,and you will be graded based on your performance. Any questions?”

                “When do we start?” A voice from the top stands yelled. Noir and his team turned and saw the bully from earlier slouching on the stands with his goons surrounding him.

                “Immediately Mr. Winchester, starting with you,” Goodwitch responded. Cardin grabbed his mace as he walked down to the arena and stood awaiting his opponent. “Your opponent will be… from Team NOIS, Mr. Ivan Canis.”