To Save Your Life, You Gotta Die
Chapter 1: The Black Pawn
"She has secrets she never told
She holds those dark secrets deep within
People say she is coldhearted
They do not know how she weeps in her sleep
Nor the secrets she keeps
If only they knew her darkest secrets"
"You can't trust anyone, Halley. Just me. I'll protect you, little sister, from the evils of this world," a calm voice says inside Halley Comette's head as she shakes her head at the olive skinned boy that was apparently her partner now. "A pawn? Really?" Halley asks with annoyance clearly shown in her voice. "The knight is cooler," she adds on keeping an eye on their surroundings by the ancient temple, the gold streak in her short black hair flying into her face with the wind.
"We were the last ones here, okay. The pawn was the only piece not taken," the olive skinned boy says turning to look at the amber eyed girl with his light brown eyes that matched his hair exactly. "Let's get going, and this time actually listen. We only got lost thanks to you," he says as Halley rolls her eyes and follows him back into the forest.
Halley twirls a gold arrow in her hand as they walk through the forest looking for the way back to the cliffs. Shadows dance across the trees and the sunlight begins to dim and the two teens begin to tire. "We're lost, aren't we Seth?" she says as they stop to rest by some rocks. She looks up at the taller boy, Seth, as she sits down on a rock crossing her right leg over her left. Seth looks towards the small creek off to the side causing Halley to smirk as the water gurgles over the stones in the creek. "I told you that we wouldn't get lost if I climbed a tree to see where we are," she calls over to him standing up and stretching. Seth glances over at her as the sunset beams seem to glow on her pale skin as her vest slightly falls back exposing her skin under the black bandage crop top she was wearing. She snaps a finger and the golden arrow she had been carrying disappears as she grabs the lower limb of a tree beginning to pull herself up. She continues to climb higher until she is above the tree line. The cliffs seemed to be a straight path ahead if one jumped from tree to tree, but Halley knew that Seth wouldn't even be able to climb the tree. He weighed too much for the branches to support him for a long period of time, they could barely support her and she was rather light. Zigzag paths across the forest grow more prominent after Halley looks across the dense, green, foliage of the forest. After a few more minutes she begins to climb back down before just jumping and landing in a perfect crouch with a cat-like grace. "Follow me, idiot. I know where to go," she calls over her shoulder beginning to walk towards the cliffs. Seth begins to walk after her right as Halley smirks and breaks into a run easily vaulting over the rocks and bushes in her 3 inch heels. Seth crashes through the forest after her trying to keep the dark-haired girl ahead of him in sight.
"Hurry up, slowpoke. The sun is almost down." Halley smirks standing at the edge of a path that she found going up the cliffs. "We already passed being fashionably late," she chuckles starting to go up the path with Seth catching up to be close behind her. At the top of the path, the rest of the first years were standing there waiting having caught their breath from their fight with the grim.
"Let's get back to Beacon. The teams have been decided," Professor Ozpin announces before heading to the ship that will bring him and the students back to Beacon.
"The final team will be team SHDW. They have chosen the black pawns and the members are Seth Powers, Halley Comette, Diggie Lupin, and Warden Schnee. Their leader is Warden Schnee," Ozpin announces after going through the creations of teams RWBY, JNPR, and CRDL.