Beacon Academy. Home to many huntsmen and huntresses, all learning to hone their skills to fight the enemy of all mankind; the creatures of Grimm. Beacon is home to a particular group of both huntsmen and huntresses, teams RWBY and JNPR, as well as their friends in teams CVFY and SSSN. This story starts where many do, at the beginning.

"Oh, Yang! Gross! You've got puke on your shoes!"

The little redhead, who couldn't be older than 16 was yelling at him. No, not him. She's yelling at the tall, blonde one, who seemed pretty pissed that he had upchucked on her shoes.

Jaune ran for a trashcan, and away from these scary looking new students. His luck was exceptionally poor today, as there was none in the main cabin for him to use. He stood by the exit to the ship, hoping there would be something he could use soon, or he would be throwing up on someone else's shoes. He did not have to wait long as the airship finished docking just a few minutes later. He barreled out the door and found the nearest trashcan, and proceeded to camp out at said trashcan for the next few minutes as his lunch (which his mom had made for him) fell into the trashcan.

When he had finished loosing his very tasty lunch, he propped himself up against the wall, growing accustomed to the solid ground again. As he did so, he thought of what was in store for him, now that he was at Beacon Academy. He did not have high hopes as he knew he had no formal training, and could barely hold his own sword.

He quickly checked to make sure that Crocea Mors was still in it's sheath, and a quick feel at his hip confirmed it was still attached. If he lost his family's sword, there would be hell to pay, namely his father.

As he started to get up (which his stomach was still not too happy about), he began to look around at the other students, still filing off the airship. There were many different types of people, he saw. There where many different types of weapons, as well. He usually checked for weapons as that meant he was going to get thrashed. Jaune saw lots of different types of weapons. Some students had some traditional looking swords, but most had some weird amalgamation of different weapons. One student he saw had a particularly nasty looking grenade launcher, which he would be sure to stay away from.

As he started making his way to the main hall for orientation, he got the strange feeling that he would have fun here. He had no way of telling where that feeling had come from, but Jaune had always trusted his instincts, despite them sometimes leading him into trouble.

Lucky for Jaune, his gut lead him to someone else's trouble this time. He watched as the snooty girl with the ponytail stalked off after yelling at the impossibly young redhead. From what Jaune gathered, the younger girl had done something to mess up her hair. At least that's what Jaune thought.

He started to walk up to her to introduce himself when she lay down in the center of the courtyard. Jaune thought she was weird, but who was he to judge. When he finally reached her, he put out his hand to help her up.

"Hey. I'm Jaune." he introduced himself as she took his hand and got up.

"Ruby" she said, then snorted, which Jaune thought was kinda cute. What she said next was not as cute.

"Aren't you the guy that threw up on the ship?" 'Great.' he thought, 'I already have a bad reputation.' Little did he know, he would be fast friends with this nice, quirky young girl.

Author's note: Hey everyone, thanks for reading through this first chapter. This is my first RWBY fanfiction, and I haven't written for a couple years, so it may be a little rough at first, but I hope to get better and make this story a hit.

So quick note: I'll be making this as I can, so no real regular updates, but I hope to be working on it as much as I can. The story will have everything the main series has, minus the Roman/Cinder stuff. Cinder should be in the story somewhere (not too sure yet) but they are not currently plotting to destroy everything. Roman is a somewhat infamous crook, who has his own band of men, and is going about his usual thing, stealing dust, so Ruby did fight him at the dust shop in Vale, and he did get away.

I'll mostly be diverging from the main storyline, but I wanted to set up the world abit, plus having the first couple episodes to draw from helped me actually figure out what to write to start off. I'll also be switching between character viewpoints throughout, but I do have a fondness for Jaune, so he'll get a good deal of attention.

So anyway, rate and review as you see fit, and I will hopefully turn this into a nice, long story that will basically be how RWBY would progress if I was writing it, so expect the best of ships as well as some surprises.