The first day.

The two teams woke up early.

Mostly from habit to train together. Jaune had no trouble rousing Nora and Pyrrha as when they felt him shifting they woke up.

The tricky part was Ren. Jaune had to flip his bed after ramny failed shaking attempts and even yells into his face.

Only once his face met ground was he awake.

They got themselves out of the room at 7am to head out for training together in their workout gear. Jaune knocked loudly on the door to RWBYs room. A bleary eyed Yang opened it and saw his attire before he could even ask. She held up a finger. Followed by a lot of shuffling some muffled yelling. And soon Yang and the rest of her team were at the door with their workouts outfits ready.

They all join them in the gym in silence.

The atmosphere is tense and a little awkward as everyone now knows each other's baggage before they themselves could share it.

Only Jaune, Nora, and Pyrrha were like normal thanks to their bedtime small talk and their stronger bond thanks to their betrothal allowing them to open up more readily.

Soon enough the time to get ready for class came and they went to their dorms to shower and eat some breakfast items before class.

Their first class was something Nora, Jaunes and Pyrrha were very excited to learn.

Grimm Studies. Led by Professor Port.

They entered the class full of hope and with bright eager eyes.

Only for the first five minutes for class to dash them.

Port was rambling on about something of him protecting a village with nothing but a broom stick to aid him. And he took out the horde of Grimm with only that and a pair of nail clippers.

Jaune was trying to stay riveted. But he could tell that aside from the absurdity of it all. It was mostly about his accomplishments.

He looked at his friends.

Nora was doodling in boredom.

Pyrrha was trying to take notes.

Ren was napping behind his text book.

Blake had her ninjas of love story behind her textbook.

Ruby was going over some notes for further Mithral gear for their group.

Yang had a small game on her scroll behind her textbook.

Weiss was doing her best to compare moments in the story to her textbook but was failing hard.

But Jaune noticed her eyebrows slowly coming together in anger as she saw Yang doing a game that involves making men take off their shirts with flirting. Jaune wasn't jealous but mostly intrigued as one of the men she was wooing in game looked a bit like him.

Weiss was getting irritated as Yang kept giving her teasing looks as she got one man after another in game making Weiss lose focus in her notes.

Jaune was about to say something as Weiss was felt through the bond to be near boiling point. But he was interrupted by Professor Port saying, "Now who has these qualities of a hunter?! And who would like to demonstrate them for the class?"

Weiss raises her hand angrily as she shouts, "I do sir!!"

Ruby cheers her on only to get a glare from Weiss making Ruby shrink on her herself.

Weiss grabs her fear and brings her beautiful silver and blue tinted Mithral saber out. It was reforged by Ruby so no one would know about the Mithral edge and core in the sword.

Weiss get into stance as Port released a Grimm he has in a cage.

The one who escaped was a shocker. Even port was flabbergasted as a young Beringal came roaring out.

Everyone in class got up and began to retreat to the back of the class.

Port yells at them to remain calm as Jaune hears from Blake she heard him mutter something about, "Bringing the wrong cage."

Jaune facepalms as Weiss is now hyper focused but also hyper tense. She is quivering a bit as she beholds the Grimm. It glares at her and she flashes back to a painful memory. She quickly dismisses it to avoid causing Jaune and the others pain and gets into full combat mode as the Beringal charges.

She stabs forward while being ready to slide around it's opening punch.

It punches out and she actually stabs up to her hilt through the gap in its knuckle plates. The Grimm howls in pain while Weiss dances around it and gets to its side while pulling her sword out by sliding it up through the inside of its arm.

It leaves the ape Grimm with only one arm that works as it's first arm is now bisected.

Weiss drives her sword into a gap in its chest armor and hits a key point she saw on the diagrams in the classroom.

However as she goes to remove her blade she notices that the Beringal has doubled over in pain from the stab. Trapping her blade in-between the bone plates and causing her to be flung across the room as it twists from her trying to wrench her sword out of its body.

She goes flying and lands against the desks with a small crash. She opens her eyes and manages to right herself just in time to see the Grimm now standing over her with its fists cocked back in a hammer blow.

Her fear spikes as she sees the flashback shoot to her mind. She sees when she was about to die in training and her sister saved her from a blow from an Ursa major when she was barely 13.

She sees the Beringal as that Ursa and she kicks up as terror overtakes her. But also her sense of worthlessness her father drilled into her for being unable to surpass a Ursa major during training. And having to be saved by her sister.

She closes her eyes as she still has no weapon and accepts her defeat.

She hears a loud and masculine "Weiss!!"

Followed by a loud boom.

Soon she feels a gust of wind and hears a loud grunt. Many gasps of shock are heard while she opens her eyes.

She sees Port at the back of the class in the middle of grabbing his weapon. The others of her team and the other class mates were all in the middle of rushing towards her or getting the heck away, (Cardin *cough cough*)

But as she looked above her she sees a grimacing Jaune holding back the hammer fist. The Grimm struggling to move him while he wasn't even shaking. But he was wincing as he felt all of Weiss's feelings.

He grunted as he stumble as bit from readjusting his stance to look at Weiss. She was breathing hard on the verge of a panic attack from those memories hitting her. Jaune pushes away the Beringal making it skid back a solid 15 ft.

He turns fully to Weiss and kneels to her while saying, "Weiss! Stay with us! You're not this! You're not a scared young girl any more! You are here! You're a huntress! And you are our friend! You are not alone! You are someone who is proving herself to this day! Now prove it to everyone here!"

Jaune finishes that while turning to a now slightly bigger Beringal who is feeding off of the confusion, fear, and panic of the students and Weiss.

She breathes slower as Port rushes in with Jaune. Jaune holding the apes arms back while Port lands a big blast to its back. It grows a bit bigger when some students hide and sniffle from seeing it still standing despite two hunters fighting it. And it finds the strength to lift Jaune and hurl him at Port causing both hunters to land on a heap and for Ports weapon to fall from his grasp.

Weiss gasps as the Grimm turns to the now panicking students and roars out.

One of the cowardly members of Carson's group pushes Ruby by accident as she is trying to help ferry students out of the room. She tumbles down the stairs and hits her head on a few desks.

She gets up groggy from the fall and the hits when she feels a snorting hot breath on her face. Looking up she sees the Grimm opening it's maw to roar and take a bite out of her.

Ruby screams.

Yang turns and screams out, "Ruby!!" She tries to get through the crowd but all the bodies are pushing her together and away.

Their other teammates are rushing towards the fight but are too far away.

Weiss sinks back to her memories as she remembers something Winter said as she saved her, "Don't worry Weiss. I know you'll be able to save someone too. You just need that moment when you can decide. Are you a princess to be protected? Or are you a fighter to defend and protect?"

Weiss snaps back to the present where the Grimm raises its remaining good arm while the other is slowly mending from the negative emotions feeding and healing it as it prepares to crush Ruby.

Said red hooded girl tries to run but she finds herself tripping over some books and pencils so her dash turns into a trip.

Weiss glares hard while charging up her flyphsm she is not focused on the past. She is focused on the now and right now?

Her partner needs her. Her friends need her. She is needed and can do something. She is a fighter!!

She uses her glyphs and unknown to her her snowflake soul mark glows as she flies across the space between her and Ruby.

Weiss seemingly teleports between her friend and the Grimm causing both to become confused before Weiss flings out her arm and grabs the hilt of her blade. With a flick of the wrist and a propulsion glyph on the blade she sweeps it through the now thicker bone chest plate of the Grimm and slashes it's wounded arm off.

A screech of pain erupts from the Grimm as it rears back from the blow. Unknown to it that opened its legs up for Jaune to return and grab the legs and lift it into a duplex throw.

He turns to Weiss and kneels down going, "Spring board!"

Weiss nods and rushes up Jaunes back and leaps off his shoulders. She flies into the ceiling and uses a force glyph to bring her Rapier right into the core of the Grimm.

Her improved blade shears right through the bone plate of the Grimm allowing her to skewer it to the floor. The Grimm gives a death rattle before it falls to the ground motionless and dies right there.

Fading away the Grimm smoke reveals a panting Weiss who looks proud of herself as she brandishes her sword and looks back at her friends with triumph.

Only for her to go wide eyed as a teary eyed Ruby flies at her yelling out, "WEEEEIIIIISSSSS!!!!"

A loud oomph is heard as Weiss fails to dodge the tackle. And she is suddenly glomped by a thankful and happy Ruby. Her friends all chuckle at the display as Yang joins in thanking Weiss and making sure Ruby is alright.

Weiss thinks it couldn't get worse until Nora dog piles them all in happiness.

Weiss goes, "Oh mother of-! Oooff!!"

As Nora sticks the landing.

Everyone has a good chuckle while Glynda appears and is busy reprimanding Port for capturing such a dangerous Grimm and bringing it to a theory class without proper precautions taken.

Soon everyone is let go early for the class and head to their next one.

Where they are all congratulating Weiss for her ability.

She looks down at her blade. The one made by Ruby and Jaune. And the one that saved Ruby and helped Jaune. She smiles as she thinks, 'Sis... I've become a fighter.'

And her snowflake tattoo thickens a bit while their soul bond repairs the cracks made from yesterday. It is still cracked but it is no longer to the point where a single event could shatter the bond.

Weiss walks with her head up high to history class with her friends. Eager to see how Oobleck handles his lesson.