Chapter 1: Aftermath

"Hey wait a minute... Where's Penny?" Ruby asked.

"I don't know, she was sitting there a second ago." Yang replied.

"Well she obviously isn't there now." Blake said.

They spent a few minutes looking around for the crazy red-headed girl that had been stalking them for the past few days.

"I can't say I'm sorry to see her go… she was giving me the creeps." Yang whispered the last part.

"YANG" Ruby yelled. "Don't say that about people! It's not nice!"

"Calm down, let's think about this rationaly." That was Weiss, adding to the conversation for the first time.

"Lady, someone has disappeared and you want us to sit down and think?" Sun finally got up the nerve to question Weiss.

"Shut up, you" she replied with heavy undertones of murder apparent in her voice.

"Let up Weiss, he was only speaking his mind." Blake said, immediately coming to the aid of Sun, who was looking slightly afraid and a little out of his depth.

"Well it's not exactly the best one to listen to, is it?"

"Seriously everyone, stop, enough." Ruby said, thinking the bickering had gone on long enough. "Let's just go back to Beacon so we can have a reasonable debate and have time to think about what just happened."

"Wow Ruby, you're acting more and more like mom every day. It's so cute!" Yang squealed, pulling Ruby into a hug.

"Shut up Yang." Ruby grumbled as she broke free of the grip. "We should get back before we are at each other's throats."

"Uh, totally unrelated question, but ah, what about me?" Sun asked.

"What are you 'what'ing about?" Blake questioned.

"Well, I'm new here and I don't know where to go." Sun replied. "I had been thinking about applying to go to Beacon but I'm not sure."

"Well I'm sure that we can convince Ozpin to let you in." Blake said. "But I don't know what team you'll be put on."

"That's all I can ask for."

"Okay then, it looks like everything's settled." Yang barged in. "Now can we please go back? I'm tired!"

As everyone left, one lone figure stayed where he was. Sun was still not sure where he should go for the night, but he was quickly ushered in the direction that everyone else was walking in.

"You're part of us now." Blake said. "Even though Weiss hates you."

"Thanks Blake." He breathed a sigh of relief.

The next morning everybody in team RWBY woke to the sound of excited knocking.

BANG! BANG! BANG! "Is everybody awake in there?" Nora yelled from behind it, continuing to hit the door with woeful abandon. "I want to know what happened last night."

"Uh, Ren here!" Called another voice. "Excuse us for interrupting but Nora isn't the only one interested."

"That's right!" Jaune chimed in. "Fill us in!"

Just as Nora was about to ram the door down with her shoulder, the door opened and she stumbled forward. As luck would have it, she tripped and landed on Sun, who had spent the night on the floor of the room.

"Oof" He exclaimed as the wind was knocked out of him.

"Who are you?" Nora asked in her usual direct manner.

"Nora, I don't think that is the right way to say hi to someone you just met." Ren scolded.

"No, it's alright." Sun replied as Nora jumped off him. "I should probably introduce myself anyway."

Before he got a chance to tell the team, Ruby burst in.

"He is Sun! He was first friends with Blake and he is a really good fighter and he has this cool staff-gun thingy and he is now a friend to all of us!" She yelled, stringing all of the sentences together until they were almost one word.

"Uh." Jaune said. "What? I got to 'He is Sun' and then you lost me."

"Yeah, I didn't quite catch that either." Pyrrha added, having come in a few seconds after the rest of team JNPR and was the only one still looking drowsy out of her team.

"Yeah, like Ruby said, I'm Sun, I have this as my weapon." As he said that, he pulled out his staff. "And I guess I'm now friends with them." Gesturing backwards towards the rest of the team, who were mostly still in bed.

"Riiiiight." Ren, who was still recovering from Ruby's outburst, answered. "I'll take your word for it over Ruby's."

This, inevitably, forced a deep frown onto Ruby as she heard that she was not going to be used as a first-hand source. Blake, who took that opportunity to get out of bed, walked over.

"Now with introductions out of the way, I would like to go back to bed." Blake said with a hint of irritation in her voice.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Pyrrha exclaimed. "We'll leave now, right guys?"

"Yeah, right, sorry for disturbing you." Jaune said as he slipped out of the room.

"Come on Nora." Ren said as he dragged Nora out of the room and shut the door.

"Are they gone?" Came a muffled voice from across the room.

"Yes Yang, they're gone." Ruby replied.

There was an audible sigh of relief both from the bed the voice had come from and another from beside them.

"Finally, now can we go back to sleep?" Weiss muttered.

"Yes, I think we should, although the floor is kind of uncomfortable, sooo can I have a bed?" Sun asked with a ray of hope in his voice.

"NO!" Came the reply from all four girls who were now secured in their beds.

"That's what I thought." Sun groaned as he lay back down on the hard floor. "I hope we go and talk to Ozpin tomorrow, I need a soft bed to lie on."

Author's Note:
So this is the beginning of what I hope will be a long series. This is kind of a pilot episode and so it was not very exciting. Focusing a bit more on Sun than anyone else and picking up where episode 16 left off, I tried to write what I thought was the logical next step. Constructive criticism is always appreciated. I will not put out a schedule on when I will update so don't expect anything too quickly. I will wait to see what response this gets and might continue even if I only get one read. After all, that is at least one person who deemed it good enough to look. I hope you enjoyed and don't forget to review! Chas1881