Disclaimer: I don't own anything beyond my own OCs.
It was midday in the emerald forest, and today was a very special day. It was the initiation of the newest students to beacon, a hunter training school.
A place were young adult could come to hone their skills in combat, knowledge and the ability to survive in the wilds.
'We are so lost'
Of course before anything could be honed, one must first have the skill to begin with, which unfortunately one set of girls didn't have.
One was cover in a black dress with red trimming, a bright red cape and stockings, this is Ruby Rose.
The other was dressed in white, white blouse, white skirt, white jacket, and white hair. Her name is Weiss schnee.
After a half hour of walking in seemingly random directions, ruby decided to take a break and sit. Leading to the thought above.
Weiss on the other hand tried to prove her ability to find the correct way to the temple.
"It's definitely this way" and she walked about 4 feet before turning around," I mean… this way. It's definitely this way." Before turning around again and finally coming to a stop in front of her partner, "alright its official, we passed it."
Ruby got up with a huff," Weiss, why can't you just admit that you have no idea where we're going?"
"I know exactly where we're going. We going to…the…forest temple." Weiss said not sounding all the confident.
Ruby merely sighs at her.
"oh stop it. It's not like you know where we are either."
"well at least I'm not acting like I know everything." Ruby defended herself.
Weiss seemed offended by what ruby said," what is that suppose to mean?"
"It means you're a big, stupid jerk and…" ruby stopped mid rant and turned her head," do you hear something?"
Off in the woods was a large rustling and voices, voices that were male and coming closer to the 2 girls.
"Man, that travel agent sucked. I mean what is the point of a map if nothing matches what you actually see." Voice 1 said.
"wait, what map are you talking about?" voice 2 asked.
"this one." Voice 1 said. The sound of paper being shifted sounds out.
"Bowen, this is a map of the Atlas amusement park." Voice 2 sounded shocked.
"right, and I haven't seen a single ride since we got here." The now named bowen said with disappointment.
A loud smack emanated for the direction of the voices.
"OWWW, what the hell Aaron!" bowen asked.
"that is for being an idiot. One, we're in vale not atlas, and two, I told you we were going to beacon, you know the hunter school? WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU BRING A MAP FOR AN AMUSEMENT PARK?" aaron demanded. And a few second the boy spoke again," ya know what, forget it. You're following me now, my sense of direction is much better."
"no it's not." Bowen complained.
Aaron replied back," at least I'm not following a useless map in the middle of the woods."
Finally the boys entered the small clearing that ruby and Weiss where standing in.
One was tall, almost 6'4", had a light complexion, short black hair, and wire glasses over forest green eyes. He was wearing dark green cargo pants, a light brown denim shirt with the sleeves rolled up and what looked to be hiking boots. Strapped to his side were 2 hatchets, one red, and the other white.
The other was shorter but not by much about 6' even, he was lightly tanned with shaggy dirty blonde hair that reached to his shoulders. He wore loose black pants, a loose black shirt, and mid-calf black boots. Over his shoulders he had metal plates, and a larger one on his chest, all of them were a dark gray.
A weirder duo you couldn't find anywhere.
As they entered the clearing they saw the two girls there, and the blonde one decided to say something," hey, your sense of direction might not be crap after all, I mean it lead us right to 2 cute girls, much better then north or south." This was obviously bowen.
Weiss broke out of the shock of seeing two odd boys walk of the woods and marched over to them," cute girl? Do you know how I am?" she asked.
Bowen looked her up and down while putting his hand to his chin," let's see, all white outfit with the schnee dust logo on it. White hair, only really common in the schnee family, and a dust rapier similar to the one the schnee company showcased a prototype of a couple years ago." After each example Weiss beamed with more pride.
"You're Ron Jeremy right?"
Only to trip somehow without moving.
"W-What?" Weiss stammered.
Aaron smacked bowen in the back of the head." Ignore the stupid one. I'm aaron and he's bowen. Ya'll don't happen to know the way to the temple do ya?"
Walking over to the others ruby answered," nope." As she looked over the two a look of recognition came over her," hey, weren't you the two guys making a fuss on the airship yesterday?"
-Flashback-
Ruby was standing next to her sister listening to the huntress who'd helped her a couple days ago with the robbery.
"You are among a privileged few who have received the honor of being selected to attend to prestigious academy. Our world is experiencing an incredible time of peace, and as future huntsman and huntresses, it is your duty…"
From the back of the ship someone was loudly talking," man this movie sucks. When do we get our peanuts?"
"there aren't any peanuts, just sit there for a few more minutes. We're almost there now."
"fine, but I'm definitely complaining to the captain when we get there. No peanuts? Forget that."
-Flashback End-
Aaron scratched the back of his neck," yeah, not our best first impression."
"Hey aaron, don't these two look familiar too?" bowen asked while looking closely at the girls.
"now that you mention it, they do." Aaron leaned in closer," oh I know, they're the explosion twins!"
Weiss raised her eyebrow at the title they'd been given," explosion twins? What does that mean?"
"after we arrived yesterday, we decided to take in the school so we wouldn't get so lost later. Eventually we ended up near the courtyard when a big explosion went off. We went to take a look, and we saw to girls fights in the middle of a crater. That was you two wasn't it?" aaron pointed to weiss and ruby.
At this Weiss got angry again," it was this dolt's fault. She knocked over my dust supplies and then sneezed into the cloud, nearly killing us."
"nice." Bowen complimented.
"hey I already said I was sorry about that." Ruby said angrily, why couldn't this girl just drop it already.
Aaron coughed into his fist, trying to get everyone to stop arguing," since, no one here really knows which why we should go, I suggest that we just choose a direction neither of us have cover and get going. If we sit here too long grim are likely to start showing up."
"fine, but we're not stopping if you fall behind. Go it?" weiss stated.
Bowen and aaron just nodded, then aaron waved his hand as if to stay 'lead the way'.
With that the now group of 4 started into the forest, never noticing the feather that fell into the clearing soon after they left, or saw that if was massive.
Elsewhere in the forest was another pair of students, this time thou it was one guy and one gal.
The boy was of average height, below average form for a huntsman and seemed very clumsy. With his blonde hair, blue jeans, and armor, jaune arc just didn't have the look of a great warrior that people thought of when they think of huntsman.
The girl on the other hand looked like something out of history, bronze chest piece, shin guards, arm guards, and headpiece gave her the feel of a gladiator of old. Add on the shield and sword, and this was not someone to take lightly. Pyrrha Nikos was a name known world over, thou whether for her tournament wins or time on the front of a cereal box is anyone's guess.
Moving on, the two of them were currently ending a very important talk about aura.
"…it's alright, I used my aura to unlock yours, but the energy that protects you is your own. You have a lot of it" Pyrrha said as she recovered from using so much of her energy unlocking jaune's aura. Hopefully they wouldn't run into any grimm anytime soon.
Jaune looked down at his hands, see that there was a white glow coming from them," wow". He looked up and see that Pyrrha was looking better and decided that they should get moving," thanks Pyrrha, this will definitely help out here, but we should probably get going. Those shots we heard were close by."
"Right" she nodded and took the lead, walking towards were they hoped the temple was.
They walk for another 10 minutes or so, before jaune spoke up, looking around as if searching for something.
"Hey Pyrrha, before you mentioned the feeling of being watched. Is that supposed to still be there after your aura's unlocked?"
"no it's not." Pyrrha also started looking around, on guard now sensing the same thing that jaune was." Something is here so watc-JAUNE LOOK OUT!"
"whaaaaAAHHH" where jaune had been there was now a large hole in the ground, 8 feet deep and 6 across. A pitfall trap, and there at the bottom was jaune rubbing his head from the fall.
From a tree further along the path that jaune and Pyrrha were walking dropped two figures.
Pyrrha got into a battle ready stance as she finally noticed the figures rushing towards the hole, at least until one of them spoke.
"a blonde idiot has fallen in victor's hole, a celebration I say." Said the now named victor. Victor was a boy of 19, with shaggy blue hair and a slim form. He wore a sleeveless yellow overcoat that he left open, and no shirt underneath. On his lower half he had regular blue jeans and white combat boots, but around the neck of the boots seemed to be ammo belts. Across his chest was a strap that attacked to a red pack that rested near his tailbone.
The other person was far more intimidating. On his head was a helmet, segmented vertically for folding down over the face the only feature being the eyes which were small black lenses, making it impossible to see the eyes underneath. Their chest was armored as well, heavy black steel with a small control console on the left breast. The arms were covered in the same segmented metal as the helmet, but on the right forearm was what looked like a computer screen. Their legs were incased in the black steel, same as the chest plate, and strapped to their back was…a pitchfork.
The armored person made several gestures towards his partner.
"what do you mean that this isn't an idiot, he fell in the hole did he not greg?" victor asked.
More gestures.
"yes, you have a point. Very well, no celebration." Victor said before looking back down the hole at jaune. "hello, blonde-boy, do you require assistance getting out of victor's hole?"
Jaune called back up at him, "if you wouldn't mind."
"very well." Victor bent down and extended his hand to jaune, once jaune grabbed it he hauled him up with a grunt. Then dusting jaune off he said," there we go, no harm done. Here take this as apologies." From his pack, victor pulled a large turnip and handed it to jaune.
Jaune collapsed under the weight of the big vegetable.
"so who are you two, I am Victor, son of a Shepard. This is Greg." Victor asked.
Pyrrha finally relax after seeing that these were fellow students, "hello, I'm Pyrrha and this is jaune." Pointing to herself and her partner.
Victor nodded," so you are partners, yes?"
"of course, same as you." Pyrrha said.
Shaking his head victor pointed at greg's mask," his eyes are cover, so there is not contact of the eyes, thus we are not partners."
Confused jaune asked," why wouldn't you want a partner, isn't that the whole point of this test?"
Greg made several gestures with his hands before victor answered," he says that he is mute, making communication difficult. So he decided to wait to find a partner that could handle it. Apparently I was the third person to find him."
"so that why he hasn't said anything, makes sense." Jaune nodded.
"well we should get going, we still need to get to the temple and collect one of the artifacts." Pyrrha said
Greg turned to victor and nodded.
"we shall accompany you then. We too need the artifact." Victor said.
"ok. You wouldn't happen to know which way the temple is would you?" jaune scratched his, embarrassed that they were a little lost.
Victor looked towards the sun before crouching down, "no but I will ask." He then scooped up a handful of dirt and held it to his ear.
Pyrrha and jaune blinked at this.
"the temple is 500 meters that way" he points, "also, there are several people there now, cooking beets."
"um, victor? You do know that that's dirt right?" jaune said slowly.
Victor dropped the dirt and stood quickly," foolish youth, the soil knows all. The ability to speak to the soil has been passed down for generations."
"if you say so. Guess were going that way." Jaune pointed in the same direction that victor had pointed.
The quartet started walking.
20 minutes later the group came upon a cave with symbols and pictures draw around the entrance.
"think this is it?" jaune asked Pyrrha before turning to victor with a grin, "hey victor mind asking the soil if this is the place?"
" I cannot head in clouds jaune-boy. The soil here is full of rocks and clay, they muffle the voice of the soil. But I will ask that large rock over there." Victor walked over to a big chunk of granite and pressed his ear to it.
"that's a boulder." Pyrrha said looking doubtful.
Victor shushed them," I must have silence, my rock speak is rusty… Either it says that this is the temple or they are serving tacos made of shoes at the school."
Jaune and Pyrrha share a look that shows their disbelief.
"lets go then, obviously this is the place, I mean who would waste shoes on tacos, they are far better in a casserole." Victor said.
Jaune quickly fashions a torch and the group enters the cave.
As they go further, Pyrrha looks around, not seeing anything that one would expect to see in a temple, even an abandoned one. " guys I'm not so sure this is the right place."
"Pyrrha I already made the torch, could you humor us for five more feet?" jaune promptly drops it, plunging them into pitch blackness.
"do you feel that?" Pyrrha asks.
"soul crushing regret?" jaune answered.
"nana's overgrown toenails?" victor added.
Suddenly before them was a large golden object, glowing and seemingly hovering in the air.
"that's the relic!" jaune said excitedly. But when he went to grab it, it moved away, and again he tried with the same result.
Victor wasn't so convinced," head of school ozpin said that there would be several relics, not one." Sensing movement close by he turned to greg," shine your moon-box ahead."
Just as greg activated a flashlight on his wrist, jaune finally grabbed ahold of the glowing object and was hoisted into the air.
The light showed that what jaune was hanging on wasn't the relic that they were looking for. It was the stinger of a very large, very pissed off deathstalker that after being hit with the light hissed and charged at the three hunters on the ground.
Victor, Pyrrha and greg in front with the only light, ran back the way they'd come and burst from the cave and turned around. The deathstalker broke thru the front of the cave with jaune still hanging onto the tail.
" oh why? Pyrrha, guys, this is not the relic. It's not." He said as he was whipped back and forth by the angry deathstalker.
Pyrrha looked worried," jaune whatever you do don't let…" suddenly jaune was launched over the trees and out of sight,"…go."
Shading his eyes, victor watched as jaune flew away, " jaune flew faster then my father's shoe on bath night."
Greg tapped them both on the shoulder and pointed back at the deathstalker that had finally stopped thrashing about and seemed to stare at them. Pyrrha and victor got into ready stances, preparing to fight, but greg spun them around and pushed them, sending a clear message.
Don't fight, run.
So the three rushed off in the direction that jaune had been thrown, with the deathstalker hot on their tails.
Not knowing that they were finally going in the correct direction.
A/N: So that's the first chapter in my new story. feel free to send me comments on things you liked or didn't, anything helps in making this story better. thx