"All student's please report to the locker rooms and be prompted for the initiation." Said the voice over the intercom, as students filled the locker rooms Grim, Rona and Elise all headed towards their lockers to retrieve their gear. "Yo Grim, you mind lending me a hand with this knot?" Elise asked. Grim walked over to assist Elise. "Sure thing, but why can't you reach it?" Grim asked knowing that Elise could reach it. "Yea but... I just need it ok." Elise blushed as she replied.
Rona looked on in jealousy, but didn't say much as she too wanted Grim to be with her but she couldn't find an excuse to get some time with him. But it did not stop her from grabbing Grim by the arm. "Hmmmm..." Rona looked at Grim with a stare while making a pouting face. "What's wrong Mona?" Grim asked puzzled by Rona's sudden reaction.
Rona continued to look at Grim then she turned to Elise. "No fair, I want Grim to help me to." Rona said whiningly. Then Elise grabs Grim by the other arm and pulls him away from Rona. She then says in a demanding voice hoping that her little sister will back off. "He's helping me." Mona grabs Grim's arm again, and both sisters stare at one another waiting for the other to release Grim from their grasp.
Grim was unsettled by this random event and tried to get a word in, "Umm... Girls don't I get a..." Grim was interrupted by both sisters, "No!" They said in unison. Grim couldn't win against the two so he gives in to their bickering, but then notices Apollo making his way to his locker across from them.
Apollo ignores the noise and retrieves his cutlass from his locker and turns towards the three but only speaks to Grim, "What are you staring at you simpleton?" Grim is baffled, and then a question popped up. "How are you able to see where I am and why the blind fold?" Grim was curious at the answer Apollo would give.
Apollo seemed annoyed by his question and retorted with a rather rude comment. "Have you ever thought for a second that I would tell you anything?" Apollos said angrily. Elise took note of the situation and backlashed at him. "Hey ass wipe!" He was only asking, you don't need to be such a dick about it if you don't want to answer." Elise yelled while holding her arms crossed and waiting for him to apologize.
Apollo was thrown back by Elise's voice. Apollo blushed and asked, "Who is that?" Grim took note and said, oh that's right…" grim was stopped by Elise's ego at that point. Elise then made a pose and answered. "Me? I'm Elise...Elise light lie, but I would prefer you just call me Elise." She replied and followed," 'cause If ya call me by any other name I'll beat the living hell out of ya, got it!" she finished her introduction, but lost sight of her true intent as her ego took over.
Apollo was taken away by her voice and walked up to her, "oh sweet angel of the havens for thou hath given me sanctuary with this angel." Apollo then grabbed Elise's hand and kissed it. Elise pulled back and dropped kicked him to the floor. "W-W-What was that for?!" She said baffled. Grim stepped forward before Elise could do anymore harm.
Grim placed his hand on Elise's shoulder, "Calm down Elise, he was tiring to be polite. I think." Elise was enraged at how Apollo acted toward her and said, "I don't care! I'll kill him with and have his corpse shoved in a box and ship out to sea." Elise threatened.
Grim was now getting scared but he paid her threat no mind. "Okay, calm down." Grim walked over to Apollo offered a hand to pick him up. Apollo still recovering from the kick was rubbing his head in pain and noticed Grim was offering to help him up. Even if he didn't like Grim, Apollo was still in titled to act gentlemanly. Apollo then reaches out to Grim's hand and grabs hold, "look we got on the wrong foot, my fault so let's start over...ok?" Grim smiling waits for Apollo's response to his offer for a redo from yesterday's event. "Fine, but I'm not shaking your hand." Apollo said while agreeing in an annoyed tone.
Grim smiled and began to introduce everyone. "Ok then let's try this again, I'm Greg arc, these two ladies are Elise and Rona my childhood friends." Grim pointed at each one signaling for them to introduce themselves. Rona was the first to do so, tho she isn't as outgoing as her friends. "N-Nice to m-meet you I-I'm R-Rona...Rona lime." Rona said shyly
Elise looked at Apollo with a distasted look and introduced herself as well. "Tsk..I'm Elise her older sister and I don't like you...pervert." Elise said annoyed while also spitting at his feet. Apollo bowed and began to apologize "I'm sorry about that Miss Elise, I have no clue what came over me. Please forgive me." Apollo then bowed to Elise waiting for her answer.
Elise then freaked out; she wasn't used to someone bowing to her. "Wait...what are you...?" Elise was puzzled by the event and sought to Grim for an answer. Grim shrugged, "Huh... hey don't look at me, he's bowing to you and I think he's learned his lesson." Grim responded.
Elise couldn't bear someone doing this in public let alone to her, so she forgave Apollo. "Damn it fine...apology accepted...but you have to say sorry to Grim as well." Apollo disliked the thought of having to apologize to Grim, but he did not want to disappoint her and risk an early grave. "Very well..." Apollo then turned and faced Grim and bowed, "I am terribly sorry for my actions towards you, I hope you can forgive my incompetent actions." Apollo said annoyed at the fact he has to bow to Grim.
Grim just like Elise didn't like for the guy to have to apologize like that so Grim said, "Hey man it's cool, I apologize as well for my behavior yesterday." Grim then placed his hand In front him to signify the situation has been resolved between the two. "Shall we shake on it and call this misunderstanding over?" Grim suggested,
Apollo then grabbed Grim's hand, and nodded in agreement "Yes of course." They shook hands and then Apollo asked, "By the way, why are you called Grim Brown when your name is Greg arc? Are you ashamed of the name given to you or something?" Apollo brought up a good point.
Grim knew someday that question was going to be asked, but for it to be asked so sudden threw him off guard. Grim knew had an answer. "Well...at flare elementary I was the odd ball in class, everyone was scared of me back then. See I had this scary look giving everyone the impression I was always mad. So the kids in my class avoided me and truth be told so did the teachers." Grim sat down to feel more comfortable and continued, "They had made a game where there were two teams, the Hunters and the Grimm and guess how was the Grimm. Yeah me, but it wasn't all bad. I was able to make at least make one friend, and that one friend was Elise. She was the first person who wasn't afraid of me and the first person I ever fought with as well." Elise blushed as Grim went on about his past.
Elise gave response to Grim's story. "Oh shut up, you're the one who started it. Plus isn't that the same time you meet Rona?" Elise added. Grim continued, "Yea your right you introduced me to her during our last year at flare, you said that you had a new little sister but I assumed you meant a baby sister. Anyway that's for another time." Grim was thinking where it was he left off then began again, "But yea…Grim just stuck after Flare elementary and brown, well my hairs brown and I have a silver black color on top, So that sums up how and why people call me Grim Brown." Grim finished.
Grim stood up and reached for his locker that was next to Apollo's. As he did, another announcement was heard. "Will all first year students, please report to the Beacon cliff for initiation." Grim gathered his gear and pulled out his Dual-A-Ham and equipped it on his back. "Isn't that heavy?" Apollo asked. "No it's fairly light and you should know I built it." Grim said with a smirk.
Apollo was stunned at the sight of it. "You built that goliath of a weapon?" Apollo seemed puzzled but then Rona added, "He even helped make our weapons." Rona then pulled out her teddy bear.
Apollo looked at it closely and only saw a stuffed animal with a metal plate covering half its head. "That's a weapon? You're kidding right?" Rona pulled back her teddy bear in shame. Elise lashed out at Apollo, "You better take that back!" Apollo saw what he had done and sighed. "I'm sorry, I'm sure it's a great tool."at those words Rona made a face of distest.
Rona then said, "He's not a tool he's my friend, and grim helped make him real." Apollo then corrected himself, "Sorry, I meant to say was, he must be very helpful to you." Rona nodded, "Yep, Mr. Time has saved me multiple of times and so has Grim." She smiled happily.
Elise stepped forward pulling out her weapon, "Yep that's for sure and he even helped put this bad girl together with me." She lifted her weapon to show it off to the group. "This is Buzzkill the most badass weapon that was ever made by this crazy guy over here. He found this lying about some place while we were still in Signal academy." She turned it over admiring the work. "And all in over a day it was rebuilt, till this day this little lady hasn't even broken down on me yet." She then placed the chainsaw on a latch on her back.
Apollo was shock at the capabilities of how just one man had done so much in a single day. Grim was embarrassed but also fearful for their kind words. Then he asked, "Apollo, tell me what's..." Grim was interrupted buy the final call for all freshmen to proceed to the Beacon cliff. "I guess I'll ask you later, but we should really go… like now." Everyone nodded in agreement, and head to their destination.
The entire freshmen class stands at the foot of Beacon cliff along with their headmaster and vice headmaster. "Alright then I hope everyone has slept well and had time to prepare their gear..." The head master tried to be as hyped as possible but with no prevail in getting the reaction she was hoping for. "Ok then… we'll your here today to begin initiation and with me is Mrs. Weiss Vasilias she too was in Beacon just like me...uh she will handle the rest." The head master then steps back and allows the vice headmaster to speak.
Clearing her throat the vice headmaster began, "Thank you headmaster. As some of you may have heard from rumors that this school carries a tradition of the strongest survive and the weak fail. Well let me tell you that they're all false." The vice headmaster fixes her lenses and continues, "it's the weak that are strong and the strong that are weak, so don't go thinking your strong just because you have better scores. Your will be tested on speed, tactics and communication in this trial, so be ready." She then looks down and projects a holographic map of the forest.
She points toward the map," There is a temple in the Emerald forest you must reach. There are relics that must be brought back here in order for you to pass. Now as for how teams go, you will be assigned teams today." Everyone starts to chatter. "So be sure to choose wisely, because the first person you see will be your teammate for the next four years for the rest of your life. You will be monitored the entire time, oh and you will face Grimm along the path to the temple ruins so be on guard and don't hesitate or you will die. Our staff will not help you in anyway, so once you have collected the relics you will come back here and you will be graded accordingly." She then looks around and asks, "Are there any concerns or question you may have? If so, now is the best time to ask."
Of everyone that's present, Elise is the only person to raise her hand. "Yes the girl with the orange beanie." The headmaster pointed out. "Yeah, when can we start kicking some Grimm but?" Elise asked enthusiastically.
Weiss noticed Elise's response, "Well you're an eager one, and what's your name young miss?" Elise then gave a peace sign and replied, "Elise...Elise Light Lie but I'd prefer you call me Elise light." The headmasters took notice.
Weiss then gave a response, "Oh so your Nora and Ren's child, I see your just like your mother." Elise was puzzled on how they knew her parents and so was Rona. Elise then tried to get one last question out but was cut short. Weiss then yelled out, "Everyone take your positions!" Weiss grinned.
Ruby then tried to get in a few words of encouragement, but was a little late on the delivery. "I wish you..." At that moment Weiss had pushed the button to trigger the launch pads that were under the children's feet. "...luck" Ruby then turned to Weiss giving her a stared look of disbelief
Ruby then said, "Really you hand to do that? You couldn't give me a few more seconds?" She asked Weiss. "I just wanted to know how felt when she did it and I found it rather funny...hehe." Ruby then looked out in the open.
Ruby looked back and said, "You saw him right, are you ok with how it turned out?" Ruby said with a worried tone. "It was not my choice, but if it was I would have like for him to have just been in a normal school." Weiss said with a sigh.
A flock of birds flew past the cliff into the sun rise toward the forest, but there is one question that's left to be asked, just how will this day end for this group of freshmen?