The students of Beacon woke up the next morning in preperation for their test later that day. In the school a loud beep was heard and Glynda came over the intercom, "All new first year students will be on the cliff overlooking the foreverfall forest in 2 hours."

Everyone was scrambling around looking for their gear except one person. The person sitting down was none other than Link who watched as everyone was running around helplessly. He shook his head and traced his fingers over his sheathe which was a royal blue almost purple color. Along the bottom and top were gold accents smooth to the touch forming a bird shape with three stacked triangles in the center. Link lightly traced his finger over the bird humming a song forgotten through time. As he lost himself in his actions Ruby came and sat next to him staring intently at his hands with stars in her eyes. "May I see your weapon?" She asked eagrly.

Link jumps slightly from her appearence from nowhere and looks to her. "Yea sure just announce yourself next time." He hands her the sheathe.

Ruby smiles and accepts the sheathe. "Sure thing you weirdo." She inspects the sheathe and looks at the opening of the sheathe. "Where is your sword?"

Link looks at her, "My sword is in need of reclaiming."

Ruby looks at him weirdly. "In need of reclaiming?" She looks down at the sheathe, "What happend?"

He turns his head to the sheathe and sighs. "We may be friends but we aren't that close."

Ruby huffed and folded her arms. "Fine then don't tell me."

Link laughed, "I wasn't going too, but I will tell you that I just got out of a coma a few months ago."

Ruby gasped, "Really then why are trying so hard you should be taking it easy."

Link turned his head away and laughed. This cause a slight awkward moment as Ruby wonderd what was so funny. "Why are you laughing?" Ruby stared at him.

Link finally calmed down a little and wiped under his eye. "I'm sorry its just you remind me of someone and we were rather close."

Ruby stopped and tilted her head. "Is that a good thing or a bad thing?"

Link smiles, "Its a good thing cause that will mean that we will be close friends." he looks into her eyes only to realize something was off.

Ruby felt a bit weird under his seemingly distracted gaze. She laughed nervously, "If we are friends then what's your name?"

Link stops and blinks a few times, "Huh?" He shakes his head a few times. "Im sorry my names Link, Whats yours?"

Ruby looked at the sheathe in her hands, "My name is Ruby its nice to meet you."

Link smiles, "Likewise and I'm sorry about earlier, you just have a beautiful eye color"

Ruby blushes and turns her head away. "Thanks I guess."

Link blinked, "Is there something wrong with what I said." He says oblivious to whats happening while getting closer?

'Oh jeez why does he notice my eyes of all things?' Ruby thought to herself.

Link looks at the clock, "We should probably go to the Forever Fall now." He started looking around noticing that the room was empty except the two.

As they get up to leave Link grabs his cloak almost like Ruby's but its white with black and gold trim. He puts it on and flicks his hood up. Ruby was about to question what that was for but decided to leave it for later. They soon left the room and made for the forever fall. The walk there was one of enjoyable silence and they watch as the trees sway and the leaves of autmn fell.

Meanwhile on the cliff overlooking the forever fall everyone was listening as Ozpin talked. "Students today you will be tested on your knowledge, survival skills and your ability to adapt. You must be careful and take this test seriously or you will die." With those last words everyone got serious except a young blonde who paniced externally shuddering at the thought. "Throughout this test you will learn how to handle your surroundings and deal with unexpected situations. That being said there are relics hidden in the forest, come back with one and you pass."

After Ozpin said that two huntsmen in training walked up. They walk to their separate launch pads and listen in on the instructions. Ozpin continues on, "Also the rumor going around that there will be teams." everyone looked at him hesitantly. "Yes there are teams, that being said first person you make eye contact with is your partner for the rest of the school years."

Ruby had a stroke of fear come over her, "Nooooooo!" She screamed falling to her knees.

Ozpin looked at her but kept going, "Now as you all notice you are on a bunch of panels," at his words everyone looked down. "We will be launching you into the forest and your job is to come up with a landing strategy for the exam."

A young blonde raised his hand but ozpin ignored him. "Now warriors take your stance." Everyone got into a battle stance and was launched 1 by 1 into the tree line.

The blonde courageously asked his question. "Um proffesor Ozpin yea will we be given parachutes?"

Ozpin smiled amused by what is about to happen. "No Jaune you will be falling?"

"So what is it too late to waaaaalk." Jaune said as his pad sent him flying through the air unprepared.

Glynda looked at his form and shook her head. "I dont care what his transcript said he isn't ready for this level of combat."

Meanwhile people were flying through the air Ruby and Yang made brief eye contact. As this happend Yang pushed her hands through the air and two golden colored metal bands on her wrist extended into shotgun gauntlets stopping just below her elbow. As she smiled at her sister she proceeded to shoot behind herself to fly faster and farther through the air. Yang screamed in excitement as she continued to fly through the air. Ruby was left behind and the only other person she could see was Link who was really just free falling toward the ground spinning and twisting through the air. "Thats not safe." She said a bit worried.

She stopped looking at him and reached under her cloak and grab a compact sniper rifle. She smiled as she finaly got into her zone of work and started firing of rounds beneath herself to stay afloat. That is until she hit a bird and flailed in panic. "Birdie noo."

She took her sniper by the butt stock and flicked it outward extending into a full scythe almost twice her size. She used it to hook into a tree and spin toward the ground. She sped into the forest not wasting anytime. Not too far from where she landed Link landed. It wasn't his most graceful landing but he survived.he looked up and smiled as his aura kicked in last second. He blinked and looked around. "Im close but how did I find it the last time." Link pondered to himself.

As lonk thought to himself he walked off and didn't notice the orange And red spear pin Jaune to the large tree behind him. Jaune struggled as Link walked off in thought. "Hey you help me please." His plea fell on deaf ears as Link was too lost in thought about his past

He hung there for a while trying to yank the spear the somehow only peirced his hood. Then he saw A girl in white walk up and smiled at her seemingly asking for her help. She looked at him and turned around. She walked back through the treeline and grabed Ruby by her hood and dragged her along. "Lets go."

Ruby cried happily. "Weiss you came back."

As they went on through the test they caught a few personality clashes along the way. "Ruby how can you be such a child I mean yea you got accepted into beacon two years early but you clearly weren't ready."

Ruby got a bit mad and shouted. "You think I wanted to be here?" Weiss crossed her arms and gave a look that said yea I know I'm right. "I was just doing what was right and then here I am, The better question is do you really think I wanted to be stuck in this test with you."

Weiss looked offended. "Whats wrong with me?"

Ruby looked at her. "You have a negative attitude about everything and most of all your personality just sucks."

Weiss stopped and sighedsighed "I can be a bit much sometimes but thats no excuse for you to be immature."

Ruby calmed down "I'm only 15 so why would I not be a bit immature."

Weiss was taken back by the Ruby admitting to being immature. Not wanting to outdone by a 'child' she sighed. "I guess I can be a bit much to handle."

Ruby looked at her disapprovingly. "Fine Really hard to handle."

Ruby was about to say something when a giant Grimm flew out of the trees and jumped at them. They jumped out of the way and rolled to opposite sides. They both pull out their weapons Ruby carrying the giant scythe and Weiss pulled out a rapier with a revolver system. They both jumped at the Grimm and readied their weapons. Ruby was the first to strike making a crescent arc causing the grimm to fly higher and almost hitting Weiss. She dodged of course and yelled at Ruby. "Are you trying to kill me be more careful."

Ruby looked back and sighed 'I can never win with her.' she thought.

Weiss created a glyph symbol infront of her and was about to shoot ice from them when Ruby rushed at the Grimm again and slashed at the feet of it. "stay out of the way I almost hit you." Weiss yelled

Ruby turned around. "You need to be faster." she sped out of the way.

Wiess got angry and turned away to yell at her speedy companion. The giant bird creature had other plans, as Weiss turned around it flapped its wings hard and fast shooting out pitch black feathers. The wind and the feathers rained down and washed over the two while they ran around to avoid being impaled. Just then Ruby stopped and came up with a plan. "Weiss I have an idea and just trust me on this one."

Weiss look skeptically at Ruby but agreed none the less as the bird came divebombing back at them. "On the count of 3 we jump and grab." Weiss was confused but nodded her head anyways.

Ruby smiled and started counting. "One..."

"What exactly is your plan anyway." Weiss asked while she counted

"Two..." Ruby kept going ignoring Weiss' question.

"Three!" on the count three they both jumped as the bird flew by and grabbed onto its legs

It took Weiss a bit of time for her to realize it but she did. "This was your plan?!" Weiss screamed in panic as the wind rushed and whipped past their faces.

"Of course it was, you couldn't tell?" Ruby said nonchalantly as Weiss screamed at the top of her lungs.

Down in the forest below Weiss' scream didn't fall on deaf ears as Link looked up and saw the giant bird. "Thats a big grimm." He said running deeper in the trees.

(Next up a hero's trial and the end of the test)