"Unfortunately, the real world isn't the same as fairytale..."
After the events of volume 4, Fourteen Year Old Jessica Ciane's final years at Signal Academy are cut short. Beacon has been rebuilt, and many new students are arriving at the rebuilt academy, including Jess's childhood friend, Oliver Crone. However, fate gets the best of her, and she finds herself attending Beacon Academy three years earlier than she should be. As soon as she arrives at Beacon, she immediately bonds with seventeen year olds Blythe Amra, Lachlan Byzzi and Ube Mae.
But that's not all. Her best friend Lilly has returned from Haven along with her teammates Aracel, Hazel and Rj for the Vytle Festival.
However, as things may seem to go perfectly at first, Beacon has been predicted to take a much darker turn...
Former test subject for Salem, Jet Blac is searching for his lost sister Midnight Blac, whose whereabouts are unknown.
Meanwhile, Cinder Fall along with Emerald, Mercury and Hazel (Rainart) have formed a rebellion against Salem's evil deeds. However, with assassin Draven Graphite joining Salem, along with his girlfriend Celenia Icesis, things may not go to plan.
Jess and her friends must find a way to defeat Salem, before her evil plans get the best of Remnant...
And who knows, you may not only prove yourself to your family, but the whole entire of Remnant as well...
A year after Team LIAC (pronounced Lilac) was made, Lukas Lavender meets up with his sister's team. Team TEAL; after being followed around by Team LIAC for an unknown reason, find out many things about themselves, and the older students. After a large mission to rescue a lost relative of one of the members. The teams stop interacting entirely, spending their remaining years in Beacon, avoiding each other. Just as Team LIAC and a few older teams graduate, Beacon goes downhill with the assassination of headmaster Ozpin, Vale's president. The remaining teams? Instantly kicked out of the school, so that Beacon and Vale can find new leaders.
This takes place before "Thus Forward" and during, Rebecca Hoffman's story, "Beacon's Battlefield"
Hopefully the time-line does not get too confusing.
Reminding you of the Team's Members bellow.
Team TEAL;
♦Temperence Lavender
♦Evan Nightshade
♦Aiden Charcoal
♦Lily Umber
Team LIAC;
♦Lukas Lavender
♦Ivory Tegeirian Crescent
♦Ace Aero
♦Copper Koyo
(P.S. The cover is a play on words, ゚・✿ヾ╲(。◕‿◕。)╱✿・゚ specifically on the team's names.)