Beacon, Vale

6:00 A.M.

"Aaagh, my back," Cyrus said as he stood up from his position on the floor.

"I know right," Patrick responded as he began to stretch in desperate attempts to pop his back.

"Dude," Patrick began, a startled look spanning his face as he looked at Cyrus, "pull your hood up, it came up." Cyrus' hands shot up and behind his neck to pull up the white hood and conceal his species before anyone could notice.

"Thanks Pat, that was a close one," Cyrus said, his face even whiter than normal.

"You are practically my brother, we're here to protect each other," the friends embraced, smiles of brotherhood spreading across their faces.

Edge of the Emerald Forest, Vale
Four hours after reveille

"...the first person you make eye contact with will be with you for the rest of your time at Beacon, they will be with you for the next four years..." was all Cyrus had heard before he had been launched into the Emerald Forest with the rest of the bunch, his scythes were now drawn as he came close to landing. As he neared one of the many high-up tree branches in the massive Emerald Forest, he extended his scythes fully above his head and prepared to hook onto the branch. He came down at just the right angle as to use the inertia from the hooking of the branch to fly off and towards the ground, he then rolled and stood on his feet.

"Pat? Pat?" the hooded boy yelled as he began to slowly walk forward. Suddenly, he heard quickly approaching footsteps behind him, he turned to see what was coming his way.

"Patrick?" was all he got out before a quickly moving rose-red streak knocked him to the side and continued forward.

"That… That was not Patrick." Cyrus muttered as he clambered to his feet and continued walking in search of his friend. He had only walked a mere ten yards before he heard another sound, a rustling in the bushes.

"Is that you Pat?" he asked, his semblance kicking in, causing everything to slow down from his perspective.

"Who's Pat?" a voice questioned as the leaves were pulled aside.

"Show yourself and I'll tell you," Cyrus responded as he began to feel breath on his face. Then there was a small rippling in front of him as out of nothing a hooded girl appeared.

"Woah!" he shouted as he jumped back.

"Sorry! Did I scare you?" the girl asked, a look of care spreading across her face.

"No…. Well… Maybe a little."

"I'm sorry, when I get nervous my semblance kicks in and I disappear. My name is Xena by the way, and I guess you're stuck with me as your teammate," she said as she pulled the bluish-gray hood off her head.

"It's fine, and Patrick is a friend of mine, I was trying to find him."

"I'll help you then, I'm your teammate after all."

With that, the newly forged teammates began walking through the forest in search of the artifact and other students. They finally came upon a small ruin with chess pieces on stone stands. They cautiously acquired one before hearing footsteps on the top of the nearby hill. Xena disappeared with a gasp and Cyrus raced to the nearby bushes. He could feel and hear that Xena had done the same from the crashing of branches next to him and fearful breathing.

"Think this is it?" A blonde teen asked as she approached the "Artifacts" with her raven-haired partner. The two split and walked to opposing sides of the ruin.

"Chess pieces?" the second girl asked as she approached a black king's piece?"

"Some of them are missing… Looks like we weren't the first ones here" the blonde one said, making Cyrus notice that besides the one that he had taken there were two missing.

"Well I guess we should pick one," the black haired one said flatly. As the first teen bent over to inspect a piece.

"How about a cute little pony!?" she asked, raising her hand in the air triumphantly.

"Sure…" her partner said, rolling her eyes with a smile before.

The two walked to the center and began conversing.

"That wasn't too hard." the blonde one said happily.

"Well… it's not like this place is very difficult to find." the raven-haired one responded.

Suddenly, a scream filled the forest, causing Cyrus' ears to twitch.

"Some girl's in trouble! Blake did you hear that?" the first girl asked. Blake simply stared up into the air with a face of befuddlement. The Cyrus saw it. A girl in a red dress was falling towards the blonde yelling something incomprehensible. Then there was another scream as an armoured boy flew into the red-clad girl, slamming them both into a nearby tree.

"Did your sister just fall from the sky?" Blake asked.

"I-" the blonde was cut off by the trees on the far end of the area shaking. Suddenly, a large Ursa came tumbling out of the Ursa, being ridden by a pink haired girl with a hammer and a black haired boy.

"Now I've seen everything," Cyrus muttered to Xena as the pink-haired girl dashed over to the area where the "Artifacts" were and acquired a tower piece, she then raised it triumphantly above her head and began doing a silly dance.

"Nora!" the black-haired boy yelled over, stopping her dance and making her jump to a mocking salute.

"Coming Ren!" Nora yelled with a giddy smile on her face as she began to skip over to her partner.

"Did that girl just ride in on an Ursa?" Blake asked her partner.

"I-" she began again. She didn't finish whatever she was going to say as a Death Stalker knocked over another set of trees while chasing an armoured girl out of the forest and into the clearing near the "Artifacts."

Suddenly, the girl in the rose-red clothing jumped back down next to the blonde.

"Ruby?" the blonde teen asked as she raised an arm to give the girl a high-five.

"Yang!" Ruby replied as she raised both hands in the hair in celebration.

"Nora!" Nora yelled as she popped up between the two with the same, giddy smile on her face.

"Did she just run all the way here with a Death Stalker on her tail?" Blake asked as she looked towards the girl who was still running from the giant black and white scorpion.

Enraged, Yang began to shout, "I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! CAN EVERYONE JUST CHILL OUT FOR TWO SECONDS BEFORE SOMETHING CRAZY HAPPENS AGAIN!?" she yelled, her eyes turning a pale shade of red. Ren, feeling exhausted, finally caught up, he bent over to catch his breath as Nora laughed elatedly.

"Ummm… Yang?" Ruby asked, looking up to the sky.

"How could you leave me?" A voice called from above. Cyrus looked up and saw a white-haired white-clothed girl hanging from a Nevermore's talon.

"I said jump…" Ruby said as she continued to stare at the girl.

"She's gonna fall," Blake said calmly as she looked up at the dangling student.

"She'll be fine," Ruby declared.

"She's falling," Ren said flatly.

The boy who had come soaring into Ruby earlier managed to finally appear in the area, he jumped from a nearby tree and caught the falling girl before he himself fell and she on top of him. Cyrus grabbed Xena by the wrist and walked stealthily over to the boy who had been left lying on his back, the two hoisted him up to his feet.

"Thanks…. Uh… fellow student" the boy said.

"My name's Cyrus, and she's Xena," Cyrus informed him as Xena uncloaked herself.

"My name.. My name's Jaune, Jaune Arc." he replied as he popped his back and ran off to join the others.

"Cyrus!?" the hooded boy heard a familiar voice calling his name.

"Patrick!" Cyrus yelled happily as he watched his friend come stumbling out of the bushes. The boys ran to each other to high-five. "And Olisa…," Cyrus said sadly as he noticed the girl walking out of the bushes behind Patrick.

"Cyrus." she acknowledged with an annoyed expression.

"Go grab a chess piece so that we can get out of here," Xena said in an almost whisper as she gracefully walked over.

Olisa beat him to it and retrieved one as the other students darted away, the Grimm following them. The group heard movement nearby.

"IT'S AN URSA!" Patrick yelled as the large beast stumbled out of the forest.

The team drew their weapons and prepared for combat, Xena drew her fists with silver knuckle dusters on them out of her cloak, Cyrus his scythes, Patrick his SMGs, and Olisa her staff. They all give one great battle cry as they charged the large, hairy beast. Olisa jumped, did a flip, and then slammed her rod down on the head of the beast, Patrick slid under the distracted monster and fired his weapons into its vulnerable belly. Cyrus slid from behind, jumping as he came under its throat to strike at the weak spot. Xena then dashed up, she dodged ever swing from the Ursa before finally managing to make it strike the ground, she then punched the arm and squeezed her hand, using the gauntlet's special ability and freezing the monster's arm to the dirt. She managed to do the same to the other arm before the beast could free itself. The team regrouped in front of the Ursa's now bowed head, they switched the use of their weapons and all fired at once, penetrating the beast's skull and freezing it at the same time.

"That….was...AWESOME!" Olisa yelled as she began jumping up and down.

"Now who needs to calm down?" Cyrus asked, out of breath.

"Oh shut up!" she retaliated.

The team made their way back to the cliff that Patrick said was where they needed to go. The other teams were already there waiting for them.

Beacon, Vale
Later that night.

In the auditorium that night, Professor Ozpin announced the newly forged teams. The teams were: CRDL, JNPR, RWBY, CFVY, GLAS, JRES, TODE, and finally, their turn came.

"Patrick Lymus, Olisa Orthon, Xena Xarxos, and Cyrus Cyanus. Together you will make Team PCOX. You will be lead by Patrick Lymus." Ozpin announced.