And now for chapter 2. It's the Beacon initiation where we find out who Pyro's Partner is going to be and who his teammates are going to be as well. So without further ado lets begin.

Disclaimer: I don't Own Ruby just my OC's

I never knew flying could be so fun. Unfortunately for me I lost sight Theo, halfway through the flight but if I;m right he should be close. Oh shit! Incoming tree. come on P&T extend. There we go, I love that feeling of the metal around my hands. Alright spin around the tree and land on the ground. Alright good landing. Lets see, first step find a partner, hopefully Theo, second step, make way to the temple.

"Nailed it." Shit that was Yang. Can't let her see me, there that bush.

"Hey Ruby, that you?" Stay silent Pyro you'll just freeze up anyway. "Huh, must have been nothing."

Whew that was a close one. Alright time for me to start making my way towards that temple, ruin, whatever it is. What was that rustling?

"Friend or Foe!?" I called out. Man I really got work on my stealthiness.

A very stocky boy and a whole lot taller than me , and I'm a good six foot, with cropped black hair a big toothy grin approaches me. That is not Theo.

Friend Comrade, no need to worry. I am no Grimm." well crap there goes my plan for Theo, well this guy is going to be my partner for awhile better start off smart.

"Greetings friend, my name is Pyro Treygen might I ask what is yours."

"HA HA HA, such manners in a place we find ourselves surrounded. My name is Yosef Braninski, pleasure." Wow this guy certainly is laid back but that is my type of guy.

"Oh, you are Faunas yes?" Why would that matter... Bah I should not judge too quickly.

"Yes, I am, is there something the matter?"

"Far from it my friend, my brother-in-law is one of such heritage. You have no fear of me be a Bigot. I may though be a little curious from time to time. I forever wish to learn something new." wow this guy was incredibly open about his views, but that's what I want in a partner, someone who doesn't care about species but your character.

Wait more rustling... this doesn't smell good at all.

"Yosef... get ready. I smell Grimm." I didn't smell many but that could always be a trick of the nose, I wasn't attuned to Grimm like I was to other things.

"Yes, with your claws and my great sword, we should make for an interesting pair yah? Let us give these Grimm a reason to fear us."

"You read my mind Yosef, because fear is kinda my thing." Alright lets see if my new clothes are like my semblance. Lets light em up. Sweet my new cloths work just fine.

"My friend if I didn't know you were on my side I'd say you look absolutely terrifying, but this is good. We must use this to our advantage. Beowulf 12 o'clock"

I duck and I see the broad side of his giant great sword smack the wolf like creature with enough force to send it through 2 trees. There, smaller one charging

"Yosef, delayed roll." He seem to get me as the Beowulf missed his head by an inch. As the wolf creature slashed I slid under him just enough to get close to shred my claws into his relatively soft hide. There was two more charging at us.

"Yosef launch me with your blade at those two." "Right" I jumped up and in one fluid motion sent me flying towards the two. I twisted my body so that I was spinning right in between them tearing up their sides to all hell. While I teared through them, Yosef was already running up to them to finish them off with a swift chop to the head.

"You know Yosef, not many people can move like that while holding something that huge and be dextrous with it. What's your Semblance? Some kind of super strenth?"

"Ahh not quite friend. If I can pick it up I can make it lighter. Why don't you try picking up little Blue here." The blade was a dark blue color and was a foot shorter than me. It looked simple enough besides the small crystal embedded into the pummel. Alright bend the knees and Lifffftttt. Holy crap that's heavy. I didn't even get it off the ground.

"You see, not so "easy, but let us continue. We must get to the temple soon. The quicker we get this done the better we do.

"Agreed, maybe we'll run into another pair along the way."

I see Theo, he's with a girl a really short girl I might add, well she's just as tall as Theo so it's fine. She has hair as long as Yang's but it was less unruly. She was also wearing a, I guess you can call it a battle skirt, and her weapon looked like some sort of rifle, but knowing Beacon it probably could change into some kind of melee weapon.

"Theo!"

Yo, Pyro what took you so long? The Temple is just up ahead. Also by the way this is Racheal Thomas."

"Got stalled by a couple of Grimm, nothing to big. And nice to meet you Racheal, my name is Pyro Treygen."

"Ah, so you're the Faunas."

"Excuse me?" that sounded like a really snide comment.

"Pyro. I'll tell you later. For now let's get to those relics." Well he doesn't seem to be in a good mood.

Wow this was some view. There was a crushed tower and half of the bridge was collapsed, craters every where and pushed over pillars. And... Rose petals? how did I not hear this? Looks like Little Ruby was busy with something.

"Theo you see that, the rose petals?"

Yeah, looks like little Red was busy here and Yang as well. I know those craters anywhere."

"Mind explaining you two?" Wow she looks annoyed with something

"Ruby Rose, good friend of ours and a really good fighter, only thing I don't get about her is the giant scythe she carries around that's twice her size."

"Giant Scythe? What is so special about Giant scythe?" Did Yosef forget something in that sentence? Oh well

"Yeah, this is more of Pyro's field but its also a big gun-"

"She's told how many times and you still can't remember? It's a customizable high impact sniper scythe. Things kicks like a mule." Yosef seems intrigued while Racheal still looks annoyed. "Look the temple is across the way from the battle field left behind by the sisters, lets get down there and see what's left."

There weren't that many relics left for us to take as we got there. Though the only two matching left were two black Rook pieces.

"Comrades, I vote that we both take the Rooks, I sense that having matching pairs is important to the construction of our team." he got unanimous vote of a thumbs up practically. As we made our way back to the cliff where we got thrown from we discovered a slightly big Grimm, say about the size of a deathstalker but it wasn't the scorpion look alike, it was an Ursa, it was a very big Ursa. And it was alone which surprised me. Usually there's tow or three. Either way I don't want to leave this guy out here, besides he's already sensing something's up.

"Guys we need to take him out fast, he's going to move up on us pretty quick if we don't do something. Theo since I know for a fact you can take a hit and go on the defensive and from what I've seen from Yosef you can strike it down pretty fast if you can get the drop on it. Racheal what can you do?"

"I can provide cover fire and as a healer if need be."

"Healer? Because of your Semblance?"

"Yes, at the expense of my own, I can replenish yours. It takes a lot of though, so I need to be wary of how I use it."

"Really? Perfect. All right here's my plan. Theo I need you to go in distract it while I back you up with chipping away at its armor and keeping it down. Yosef when you get the chance, get in there and strike as best you can, aim for the vitals let Theo block those hits. Racheal provide cover fire, if Theo is getting hounded too much, which seems likely to happen, light him up. Sound Good?" they all nodded "Alright then lets go to work.

Me and Theo rushed out of the brush and charged the Ursa, Theo running right up to the large Grimm already pounding away at the monster. Every time that I saw the Ursa for a hug swipe, I tearing at his arms with P&T eventually lighting him on fire as to distract him more often than do damage to make sure Yosef got some really good hits in. And like I suspected Racheal provided some great cover fire from the back and even got a few hits in to really seal the deal. Couple minutes later, we felled the beast. I knocked it over and Yosef brought down the axe so to speak.

"Good work guys, now lets get back to the cliff, wouldn't want to be late to our own party now would we?"

"It's not just about us you know you goofball."

"Yes, mother I know. It just sounds cooler that way."

"Jaune Arc, Lie Ren, Pyrrha Nikos, Nora Valkyrie, you four retrieved the white Rook pieces. From this day forward you will work together as team JNPR(juniper). Lead by Jaune Arc!" Well that was a surprise. But I think Ozpin knows what he's doing so let's see how this plays out.

"Pyro Treygen, Racheal Thomas, Yosef Babinski, Theo Salamander, the four of you collected the black Rook pieces. From this day on you will work together under the name of... Team PYRT(pyrite) At least he didn't say pirate. "Led by Pyro Treygen."

"Nice bro, going from almost not making it to team leader. Things are looking up for you."

"Ha-ha, I must agree, you are a good team leader."

"For a Faunas." Yeah she whispered that because neither Yosef or Theo reacted to that.

"Thanks guys. I'll do my best."

"And finally, Blake Belladonna. Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, And Yang Xiao Long. The four of you retrieved the white Knight pieces. From this day forward you will work together as Team RWBY(Ruby). Led by Ruby Rose." If I was drinking something I would have done a spit take. Ruby is not the best social person but if he's looking for a judge of character, then he judged right. Let's just hope nothing goes wrong.

After the ceremony we went around talking to the other teams, mainly just RWBY and JNPR. JNPR seems really cool. Jaune is a bit of a goofball, Nora talks a lot, Ren doesn't and Pyrrha is a world renown tournament fighter. That I didn't know well because I didn't really care about tournaments, but she's quite smart.

Now if there was one thing I didn't like about team RWBY was Weiss, she is snotty, entitled and didn't like the Faunas. Man poor Blake, having to deal with that won't be fun. So she didn't particularly like me but whatever. She's not my teammate but what Yang said in my defense really touched me. She said "Weiss, not all faunas are evil like you say they are. So quit insulting my friend before he does something we all regret." And that sentence just blew my mind. She's right I would have done something, well half right.

With that debacle over time to head to or shared dorm for Team PYRT. It looks just like my room back at the orphanage back home. But they were bunk beds.

"I CALL TOP BUNK!" yes it may have been unnecessary but oh well.

"Man, I forget how much of a child you can be."

"Well my good friend Theo, when you live in an Orphanage for awhile you learn to love the small thins, like being on top bunk. Well let's get unpacked and get settled in. I want to discuss a few things after everyone's relaxed."

"Dah, I agree, I have a great many questions for everyone." it only took us an hour or two to get unpacked into our respected areas. And now it was time for the team talk.

"So who wants to go first?"

"I will go first, you said you lived in an Orphanage, how come?"

"Well Yosef, my good man, I lived in two, the first one I can't remember and the second is the one after my adoptive parents died. I don't know who my real parents are and that's ok and all, but there's nothing I can do at the moment. They did leave me one thing really, well maybe two but, I have two tails. Something I've never seen before. And probably never will."

"Theo how long have you two known each other? You both seem like brothers to me."

"What's it been Pyro? Almost 9 years now?"

"Yeah seems like it doesn't it."

"And yes we are brothers in a sense, we would do anything for each other. Well almost anything, there was this one time at the school dance-"

"Nope, no you don't, you swore that you'd never speak of that again. So stow it."

"I'm only joking Pyro, it's all in good fun. Besides, I don't go back on my word."

"Yeah, yeah code of honor and all that. Well the main reason why I wanted to do this little meeting is because I heard a little birdie say 'For a Faunas' back when Yosef said I made a good leader. Care to explain Ms. Thomas."

"What on Remnant are you talking about?"

"Sweet heart, when he says he heard something, then he heard it. He's got the best hearing I've ever seen, heard, or whatever it is, so spill it. You already know my stance on your opinion but go ahead and say it."

"Fine, I don't like the Faunas, I wasn't treated like a person by a lot of the Faunas. Adult and my peers both in my small village hated me and my father, why? I don't know. So I'm sorry, but that's where I stand." Uh, kinda like me but on the other end of the spectrum.

"Racheal, I get, to be hated for no reason other than existing, but if anyone so much as did that to my team, Faunas or otherwise, I would deck them right then and there. You aren't going to get any crap from me so there is no need to worry. Now... why don't we go get something to eat, I'm starving."

"My statement still stands dude, you are such a child."

"Yes, but you love me, so you deal." I'm already liking it here.

And that's the end of chapter 2 of A New Chance. I hope you all enjoyed it and please Read Review and all that good stuff. Peace.