A fifteen-year-old girl with exceptional combat skills is hand-picked by a famous headmaster to join his elite school for training Huntsmen and Huntresses.

The airship carrying the new students arrives at Beacon Academy and Ruby faces the daunting prospect of having to meet new people and make new friends.

Professor Ozpin welcomes the new students to his school and Ruby, Yang, Weiss and Blake find themselves all in the same room together for the very first time.

The students are introduced to the initiation process.

The pairing of Ruby and Weiss gets off to a rocky start.

Yang teams up with Blake to fight Ursae while Pyrrha explains the concept of Aura to Jaune.

Professors Ozpin and Goodwitch assess the students while Jaune and Pyrrha's search for the relics doesn't go as well as Yang and Blake's.

Trapped between two huge Grimm, eight students split up into the nascent Teams RWBY and JNPR in a fight for survival.

Team RWBY faces its first task together: creating bunk beds.

Ruby and Weiss both struggle with Ruby's promotion to team leader.

Jaune struggles with combat lessons while Cardin makes a name for himself as a bully.

Pyrrha offers to help Jaune with his combat lessons, but it doesn't go well.

Team JNPR is disquieted by the amount of time Jaune is spending with Cardin.

Jaune decides to stand up to Cardin's bullying.

Team RWBY's cohesion collapses when an argument about the White Fang becomes personal for both Weiss and Blake.

While the rest of Team RWBY search for the missing Blake, Blake and Sun investigate the local White Fang activities.