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Initiates
Fox watched as everyone pulled their weapons out of their lockers. One of the benefits of being able to fold it down into a piece of metal half the length of his forearm was that it was easy to travel with. Coincidentally, he could also get it past metal detectors by saying it was just a really big, fancy multitool. Technically not a lie.
"See anyone interesting?" Wulfe asked.
"Well, there's Pyrrha Nikos," Fox said, watching as an oblivious blond in white armor and jeans with nothing but a normal sword and shield who had absolutely no idea what he was doing tried to flirt with a girl with white hair in a long ponytail on the side of their head, a white long-sleeved shirt and a fluffy white skirt, and white boots.
She had a long thin sword clearly made mostly for stabbing hanging from her hip. And as the oblivious fool tried to flirt with her, he completely ignored Pyrrha, who was trying to get to know him. She had blood red hair in a ponytail, brown and gold greek-style armor that exposed a fair amount of cleavage, a red cloth around her waist, a gold shield, and a red and gold greek-style sword, which Fox knew could grow into a spear or change into a rifle.
"Is he seriously trying to pick up Weiss Schnee?" Wulfe snorted. "What an idiot."
"And completely ignoring the goddess behind him," Leon said. "Such a shame. My turn."
"Don't waste your time," Fox snorted. "You're sixteen years old with a full beard. Forget it. you've got no shot with anyone."
"Chicks dig the beard," Leon said.
"Chicks dig humans, buddy," Fox said. "Face it, you're going to die old and alone unless you meet another lion."
Fox turned, walking away from them and toward where they were supposed to gather. As he did, however, he glanced to the side and saw a girl with a black one-button vest over a white midriff shirt, white shorts, and thigh-high stockings that were purple on bottom then faded to black around her knees. She had a sword on her back with a pistol as a hilt and a length of some kind of fabric hanging from the base of the grip. The sheath also had a handle and looked to be metal, so Fox had a good guess that she used it to fight as well. He walked over, staring at the bow on top of her head, which stood upright.
"Hey there," Fox said. "I'm Fox Winters."
She looked over at him and nodded. "I'm Blake Belladonna."
"I like your bow," Fox said.
"Oh, uh, thanks," Blake said.
"Kind of looks like cat ears," Fox said. "Funny, huh?"
"Uh, yeah," Blake said. "I gotta go."
"Would all first year students please report to Beacon Cliff for initiation," a speaker on the wall said. "Again, all first year students report to Beacon Cliff, immediately."
"Apparently so do I," Fox said. "See you out there Blake. And let me know if you need anything."
"Uh, sure," Blake said. "Why not."
She turned, walking away and Wulfe and the others walked over.
"She's pretty," Wulfe said.
"Way out of your league," Leon said.
"Yeah, you don't have the best record with girls," Ava said. "You may be good looking, but you have the worst luck choosing."
Fox rolled his eyes. "This one's different."
"Why, because she wears a bow to hide-" Leon stopped as Wulfe stomped on his foot.
"Watch it big mouth," Wulfe said. "Not everyone's proud."
Leon rolled his eyes and they all headed to the cliff.
Fox sighed, crossing his arms as he stood on the launch pad. To his far right, the blonde that tried to flirt with Weiss, Jeanne Fox thought he was called, was asking Ozpin how they would be getting to the bottom of the cliff, even as, one by one, everyone else was launched. Finally, Fox was sent hurtling through the air, flipping once, keeping his arms crossed, before waiting to land. Around him, everyone else, including his friends, used either their Semblance or their weapons to land safely. In a manner of speaking, that was true for Fox as well, but his was a bit less...flashy than the rest.
He landed hard, dropping into a squat with the momentum and kicking up a thin cloud of dust. Then, he stood, brushing off his clothes and walking away from the cliff. Ahead of him, a tree rustled. Ozpin had said that the first person they made eye contact with was supposed to be their partner, so, naturally, Fox dropped his eyes to the ground. He stepped through the brush, finding himself staring at a pair of black boots that reached above the bent knees and a green skirt above it. He looked up, smiling as Ava looked up at him, having had the same idea.
"I'm glad it's you," Fox smiled. "I'd have to kill Leon if I found him first."
"Now that hurts," Leon said, stepping out of the bushes with Wulfe. "Come on. If we get there first, we get first pick."
Fox nodded and they all walked through the forest. Before long, a massive black creature with white, scale-like armor over some parts of its body burst out of the trees, roaring at them.
"Awe man," Wulfe sighed, extending his claws. "Just one beowolf? What a disappointment."
He darted forward, ducking under the beowolf's first swipe then standing and spinning, slashing it several times and killing it. As soon as he had, three more, along with an Ursa Major. Wulfe grinned.
"Much better," Wulfe smirked, darting forward.
He flipped over the first beowolf, allowing Leon to step forward, his weapon going from a large folded up chunk of metal on his back to a massive sword longer than he was tall with a single-edged blade and a large metal block between the blade and the grip. He slashed the beowolf, splitting it in half as Wulfe rapidly cut down the rest.
"We're waisting time," Fox said. "Stop playing with them Wulfe. You're not a cat."
"I resent that," Leon said as they all started walking again. After a few more minutes without trouble, they reached a large, round, stone ruin with pedestals around it, each with a black or gold chess piece on them. Fox counted them.
"Four of each," Fox said.
"Queen," they all said.
They found the queen pieces and picked them up, pocketing them just as the bushes rustled. Fox turned to them as the blonde with the gauntlets, then Blake, stepped out of them, looking around.
"Hey Blake," Fox greeted.
"Oh, uh, hey," Blake said.
"Well that was easy to find," the blonde said. "Hey, I don't think we've met. "I'm Yang Xiao Long."
"I'm Fox," Fox said. "This is Wulfe, Leon, and Ava."
"Nice to meet you," Yang smiled, walking over and picking up a piece. "Hey Blake, how about a cute yellow horsey?"
"Sure, why not," Blake shrugged.
Just then, a scream rang out overhead. They all looked up, seeing a girl with shoulder length black hair, a black skirt, and a red cape with a hood falling toward them. Before she could land on Yang, Jeanne crashed into her from the side, both flying into a tree off to the side. Fox sighed just as an Ursa Minor came stumbling out of the trees, roaring before a blast of pink light went off behind it, killing it. As it did, an obnoxiously talkative and hyper girl with short orange hair, pink clothes, and a massive hammer that folded up into a grenade launcher flipped over it.
"Yeehaw!" she cheered before looking back at it. "Aw. It's broken."
"Well she's normal," Leon said sarcastically.
"Yeah," Fox said.
A boy with a green gi and white pants, black shoes, long black hair in a pony tail, and a single pink strip in his bangs followed her, breathing hard and asking the girl, Nora, to never do whatever she had done again. Fox sighed, turning back to the others. Just as he did, Pyrrha sprinted into the clearing with a Death Stalker scurrying after her.
"Really?" Fox said, unamused. "A Death Stalker?"
"I cant take it anymore!" Yang shouted, eyes red. "Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something crazy happens again?"
Minus Pyrrha and the Death Stalker, everyone else stood still and silent. As if on cue, two seconds later, the girl with the black skirt pointed upward at a giant Nevermore, from whose talon, Weiss was clinging.
"How could you leave me!?" Weiss demanded.
"I said jump," the girl shrugged.
"She's got a point," Blake said.
Then, Weiss let go. Fox pinched the bridge of his nose as she fell, only for Jeanne to leap out of the tree he had been stuck in to catch her, only to fall with her instead. To his credit, his body did soften her landed when she landed in a seated position on his back.
"My hero," Weiss grumbled, not amused in the slightest.
"My back!" Jeanne wheezed.
Fox rolled his eyes, looking to the Death Stalker, which was still chasing Pyrrha, and drew his weapon, spinning it into a sword and sprinting forward. Just as it moved to snap at her with a claw, he slammed his sword into the side of the claw, making it miss and allowing her to run to the others while Fox flipped onto the Death Stalker's back, driving the sword down into the Grimm's armor plate, not hurting it, but annoying it to get its attention.
"Hurry up and head back!" Fox called out.
"What about you?" Blake asked.
"I've got this," he waved.
"He's insane," Yang said.
"He's got this," Ava smiled. "Come on. That Nevermore will be back."
They all ran into the trees and Fox looked up as the Death Stalker's tail pulled back.
"You idiot," he grumbled. "You didn't even make it fun."
Then, he leapt off of it with his sword just before its own stinger impaled it. He landed in a roll and ran after the others. As he arrived, he found himself at a ruin, the others all hiding behind pillars as it shrieked, sitting on top of a pillar between them and the cliff.
"Hey, you caught up fast!" Wulfe shouted.
"He what?" Weiss shouted, spinning and glaring at him.
"Impossible!" Yang said.
"It stabbed itself," Fox shrugged.
"Possible," Pyrrha said. "Get to cover. They fire their feathers as projectiles."
"Oh, I know," Fox said, pressing a button on the base of his sword's grip. Instantly, the blade split down the center, the cross guard rotating so that it was pointed away from his fingers before sliding toward him then shifting back, placing the handle on the side of it, two pieces of metal now holding it in place there. The pieces of the blade stopped opening as they reached a very wide angle back toward him. Fox held it out, switching hands.
"What is that, a boomerang?" Weiss demanded.
"Not exactly," Fox said just as the Nevermore fired a wall of feathers at him.
He flipped and dodged through them, Nora stepping out and firing a grenade at it, forcing it to stop shooting just before Fox stepped into cover beside Blake.
"Promise you can keep a secret?" Fox asked.
"What?" Blake asked.
Fox closed his eyes, sniffing as a pair of snow-white ears stuck up from where they had been folded into his hair, twitching and tilting before folding down again.
"You too?" Blake breathed.
Fox smiled before stepping out closing his hand between the points of his blade pieces while holding his arm out, the blades vertical.
"You're going to kill this thing with a bow?" Blake asked.
"Uh...kind of," Fox said.
Then, a glowing white string appeared in his hand, connecting the ends of the blade pieces as a glowing arrow made out of the same odd energy formed. He pulled his hand back, the blades folding back even more, rather than bending. Then, he let go and the blades snapped back out to their previous position, the arrow streaking through the air, expanding as it went. Then, it hit the bird in the torso, having expanded so much that the arrow head split it in half. The arrow sped past the cliffs, vanishing into the distance as Fox pressed the button on his weapon's handle again, transforming it back into a sword before spinning it back into its compact form and putting it away.
"That was amazing!" Jeanne cheered. "What kind of weapon is that!?"
"A fancy one," Fox said. "Come on. We need to get back."
Jeanne nodded and they all ran to the cliffs. Once there, they all used their weapons or Semblances to climb up it, Fox simply running up the side with Jeanne, who cheered the entire way.
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