AN: I'd forgotten about this! … Oops…
John shot forwards, arriving at a cliff with his friends close behind him, looking around, all the other students had arrived already…
"I SAID WE WERE GOING TO BE LATE, BUT DID YOU LISTEN?! NOOOOOOOOO!" Karkat complained as he rubbed his eyes.
"chill out karkat! we're not late yet. we just didn't arrive with everyone else." John told him, giving a dorky grin, pulling a large blue windsock, which seemed to be a hood on his shirt, up and onto his head.
"so we got any ideas on who tries to team with who or what" Dave asked curiously, keeping his hood down, with some of the students noting that all the people without grey skin had outfits, each with different hood and clothes, colours, and symbols on the fronts.
"Yes, we'll try to keep it in teams of four, obviously, so we're having the B2 group try and team up, same with ourselves, John, you're in charge of giving us the signal of where you are, once you do you need to keep your eyes closed. With the A2 group, Vriska will be picking the teams with Karkat's help." Rose instructed, getting nods from everyone, while Karkat scowled as always.
"For us, it's gonna 8e, Aradia, Gcatavrosprite, Karkat and Gamzee on one team, and Me, Davepetasprite^2, Kanaya and Terezi on the other." Vriska explained.
"B33 why am i on your team?" Davepetasprite^2 asked confused. "B33 is it cause im part nepeta or something?" They pondered, tilting their head.
"That, and there's nowhere else for you to go. It'll help if we have a sprite on each team as well." She explained.
"i count as the sprite for my team!" Jade said cheerily, waggling her dog ears.
"And of course, we don't get one since the only sprite we could have had, which is Arquiusprite, had to get sucked into English by my powers…" Dirk lamented.
"wait." John said quickly, frowning. "where's jasprosesprite^2?" He asked, looking around.
"I… Hmm…" Rose frowned. "I wonder what happened to her…" She said, tapping her chin confused.
"eh, we'll burn that bridge when we get to it!" John decided, adjusting his shirt a little.
"You mean cross that bridge, right?" A girl asked, wearing an outfit similar to Aradia, but in a different colour and with a different symbol.
"no, burn, because we'll mess it up!" John explained with a grin. "you should know this jane." He told her, before Ozpin walked out, giving his little speech.
Few minutes later
Karkat scowled more than normal as he hung from the tree branch by his sweater, unable to get down… "HeY tHeRe KaRkAt. WhAt ThE fUcK iS uP wItH yOu?" A stoned sounding voice asked nearby.
"GAMZEE, GET ME DOWN ALREADY!" He ordered angrily.
"AlRiGhT mOtHeRfUcKeR." Gamzee agreed, slamming his head into the tree over and over, since he was chained up, for reasons…
Somewhere else
John landed in a tree somewhere, looking down he could see the black animals… Grimm, that's right, they were called Grimm. He closed his eyes, harnessing the Breeze and creating a blue pillar of visible wind in the sky. Once it had dissipated, he kept his eyes closed, pulling his hood over his eyes for some extra blindness… And then, he waited… He waited… He waited for she who would thaw solid flesh and resolve it into a dew… He waited for she who would breed lilacs out of the dead land… He waited for he who would drop it like it's hot whilst the pimp's in the crib… He was he who would extinguish candles whilst fanning a fire…
Somewhere else
Jake landed on his hands, pushing off of them and flipping onto his hands, pistols quickly pulled out and readied.
"heeey jake!" A voice called out from behind him.
"Roxy?" He asked, turning around to lock eyes with her.
"the one and only!" She agreed, high fiving him.
"Do you perchance know where dirk and jane are?" He asked her curiously.
"nah, i'm guessing that they probably ended up partnering though" She shrugged.
"Well, i happen to know the direction we need to head, so that should help." He told her, heading in what seemed like a random direction, Roxy following him happily.
Somewhere else…
Ozpin watched the students curiously, he hadn't been told much about them, making it hard to plan around them… But it was interesting…
Back with Karkat
Karkat scowled as he and Gamzee made their way through the forest together, trying to get everything over with as soon as possible.
"uH, aRE YOU SURE THIS IS THE RIGHT WAY?" A voice asked nervously as a single set of footsteps got closer.
"yes im sure!" Another voice confirmed as it got closer.
"ARADIA, THAT YOU?" Karkat called out, hoping it was.
"yeah its me! ive got tavros here as well" She confirmed, as the Troll and sprite arrived.
"hEY GAMZEE,,," Gcatavrosprite greeted quietly.
"hEy ThErE tAvRos." Gamzee greeted, giving a dopy smile.
"DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE WE'RE MEANT TO BE GOING?" Karkat asked quickly.
"ive been going that way" Aradia said, pointing in the direction they had all been heading.
"THEN LETS GO THAT WAY." He decided, heading that way, the others following him.
With John
John almost opened his eyes when he heard an unfamiliar voice, but managed to keep them closed, ignoring the person until they had left.
"John, you can open your eyes now." Rose's voice said, right next to his ear.
"what is dave?" He asked, unsure if it was Rose or not.
"An insufferable prick." She replied quickly, knowing what he was doing. John carefully opened his eyes, to see Rose's lock with his own.
"Sorry, I just wanted to be sure… Any idea where the others are?" He asked curiously.
"They're here as well, I just came up the tree since they had partnered up." She explained.
"i'm really feeling the love here." He grumbled jokingly.
"sorry john! we took a while to decide who would partner with you. we figured it should be rose since you went to her land first, same with me and dave." Jade explained, making her way up the tree.
"oh, thanks…" He mumbled embarrassed, but only a bit…
"thats one red face" Dave noted, comparing it to his cape, they were about the same shade.
"dave, shut up…" John mumbled quietly.