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The Dom: The pain, the horrible, horrible pain.

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The Dom: H~help m~m~mee.

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Normal speech: "Hey"

Yelling/special moves: "Die!"

Thought: 'Hmm'

Communication through devices: "What?"

Chapter 4. A Forest of Decisions

Intro: Sorairo days from Gurren Lagann

Someone making constant noise was not the way he wanted to be waked up. Groaning, Lucian rose from his sleeping bag and saw a orange hair girl who might have been on a constant sugar rush teleport around a black haired young man that had a pink streak in it. 'Well that's a fashion statement. And how can that girl even teleport like that?' Lucian thought to himself. After getting up he saw his fellow students and his friends getting dress. After putting on his usual attire, Lucian decided to get breakfast.

After filling his plate Lucian decided to sit down at the table his friends were seated at. "Morning guys" Lucian yawned. The other gave the usual replies and they began their breakfast. Ashura, deciding to start up a conversation said, "So I heard rumors that there is a unique way that teams are decided here." Vlade smirked, which greatly surprised his friends and said "Then this should make it very interesting. After finishing their breakfast, the four warriors entered the locker room and saw the same orange hair girl from before talking to the same black hair boy from before. "I know! We have some sort of signal like a distress signal! Oh, a secret signal so we-!" They tuned here out and proceeded to walk over to their lockers. As they approached their designated lockers they encountered the same blond haired man from the Dust plane. He was having a conversation with Weiss and a red haired girl that was wearing a unique fashion choice. "Hmm, never thought we would see Pyrrha Nikos here" Mephisto said in amusement. "Nikos huh, well at least there are experienced warriors here" Vlade added in.

After the blond haired boy's, Jaune they learned his name was, crash and burn they approached him and Ruby and Yang. "Well wench, I guess we'll see your full abilities today" Lucian said in a mocking tone. Ruby sighed and said her now infamous command, "Sit boy." "Gaaahh!" With that, Lucian was slammed into the floor and made a small crater. "Come on Ruby, we don't want to be late." Yang said pulling her sister along. Groaning, Lucian got himself up and left with his group.

~~Later~~

After gathering at the cliff, the gathered freshmen were told to stand on obvious launch platforms. Ozpin, who was holding a mug of coffee, stated his monologue, "For years you have been training to become warriors. Today you will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest." Glynda seeing that it was her turn began, "Now I'm sure you have all heard rumors about the assignment teams. Well allow us to put an end to your confusion. Each of will be given team mates, today." Lucian saw at this statement that Ruby seemed to become downcast. "These teammates will be with you for the rest of your time here at Beacon. So it is in your best interest to be paired with someone you can work well with." Ozpin continued, making Ruby even more nervous. 'Damn it. Why am I so worried about her?' Lucian thought to himself. "That being said, the first person you make eye contact with after landing will be your partner for the next four years." Ozpin finished. For a moment, Lucian could have sworn he had heard glass shatter. 'Probably nothing' he mentally told himself. "After you've partnered up, make your way towards the northern end of the forest. You will meet opposition along the way. Do not hesitate to destroy everything in your path, or you will die" Ozpin added. "Way to install confidence" Lucian said out loud, but was ignored by the headmaster. "You will be monitored and graded for the duration of your initiation. But our instructors will not intervene. You will find an abandoned temple at the end of the path that with contain several relics. Each pair must choose one relic and return to the top of the cliff. You will guard that item as well as standing and grade you appropriately. Are they any question?"

Jaune raised his hand but was ignored like Lucian. "Good now, take your positions." With that, the four ex-experiments got ready for the launch. One by one people were launched and they waited their turn. First was Weiss, then the black hair boy and the orange haired girl. All hearing the gear turn they all had a single thought, 'Here we go!' First to launch was Ashura, then Mephisto, followed by Vlade which left Lucian. Before he launched, he turned towards Ruby and gave her a smile. With that he was flung into the air. Now was the time to show off their skills

(Team LAVM theme; Knight of the Wind by Crush 40 begins)

Twisting his body forward, Lucian proceeded to kick his legs like he was leaping. As he moved his feet, a burst of aura was released from them and propelled the Grimmborn forward at high speed. Turning his head, he saw that the person closest to him was Mephisto who was directly behind him. Mephisto had a glyph under his feet that he used to keep up with his speedy friend. Putting on speed, Mephisto pulled up beside Lucian and kept pace with him. 'Now where are Vlade and Ashura?' Lucian thought to himself.

The two in question were a few hundred feet away from them. Vlade was in complete control of his path. He had transformed his lower arms and legs into bats and used them to glide across the tree tops. He darted quickly between tall trees as he looked for a spot to land. Next to him was Ashura, who was doing a good job keeping up. Ashura had concentrated his electric energy into a ball of lightning that he rode like a surfboard. Spotting a good place to land, the vampire and animus descended and landed in a small clearing. After forming his lower limbs, Vlade looked over to Ashura and saw him staring back. "So, partners then?" Ashura asked his friend. Vlade replied in his usual calm tone, "I believe that it would be acceptable. Now let's find that temple."

Meanwhile, Lucian was hacking his way through trees as he descended. Swinging his oversized blade back and forth, Lucian cleared a path to the ground. Landing with a loud thud, Lucian straightened from his crouch and waited for his companion. Seeing a green flash in the corner of his eye, Lucian turned and saw Mephisto standing in a showmanship fashion. Smiling Mephisto said in a joyful tone, "Now that we are partners, let us venture forth towards victory!"

(Team LAVM theme; end)

Lucian shook his head and said in slightly annoyed tone, "So, do you even know which way to go?" Mephisto's wide smile fell and he ask, "I thought you knew." Lucian, who eye started to twitch, raised his arms and yelled loud enough to be heard by everything in the forest, "SON OF A BITCH!" As he got ready to yell again, he heard someone yell and saw Jaune being carried across the forest by a spear. "Was that Jaune?" Mephisto asked. "I think it was." Lucian answered. Then they heard a loud, 'I'm sorry'. Deciding to ignore it they made their way through the forest, not knowing they woken up a dangerous beast.

~~Meanwhile~~

While the four warriors were partnering up, Ruby was desperately looking for her sister. "Yang! Yang!" Ruby yelled. 'Gotta find Yang, Gotta find Yang!' Ruby repeated mentally. After landing, the young girl in red ran looking for her sister. 'hah, this is bad, this is really bad! Oh, what if I can't find her? What is someone finds her first? There's always Jaune. He's nice, he's funning. I don't think he's very good in a fight.' Ruby told herself mentally imagining scenarios. 'Ooh, what about Blake! So mysterious, so calm, plus she likes books! Well then again, I'm not sure I could hold a conversation with her.' Ruby's thoughts were starting to get her very depressed until she remembered something. 'Wait, there's Lucian! But he has his own friends, and he might still be angry about the collar. Even if he does look cute with it' Ruby stopped herself abruptly. 'WAIT! CUTE!?' Shaking her head she continued to run forward, hoping to find a decent partner. Entering a clearing, Ruby came face to face with Weiss. Ruby smile, but Weiss simply frowned and turn and walked off. "But were partners!" Ruby yelled after the girl in white. Then Weiss came back after seeing Jaune pinned to a tree. "This does not make us friends" the heiress told the young girl. "You came back!"

~~With AV~~

As all that was happening, the duo that would soon be dubbed Tempestuous Shade was continuing their journey towards the temple. Vlade stopped as he heard something in the brush. Ashura not taking any chances, readied a round in his ax's cannon. Vlade also prepared himself, quickly grabbing his Night of Vengeance and lined himself up for a shot. Waiting for what seemed like an eternity, the duo kept the aim. Finally something burst from the bush. It was a Ursa, but it was not moving. "What the hell!" Vlade said. Turning to where it came from, they saw Yang and Blake standing over the carcass of another Ursa. Before Ashura could make their presence known, the two girls left and left the duo alone. "My beautiful Yang has left me again" Ashura said sadly. "She was never your's in the first place" Vlade deadpanned. A growl interrupted their banter. Turning, they saw that a group of Ursas had arrived and they wanted blood.

Smiling maliciously, Vlade said in a cocky tone, "Well, I guess I won't be need to feed for the rest of the month." He finished his statement with a wide smile that showed off his large fangs. Ashura just gathered his electric energy into his ax and readied for battle.

~~With LM~~

After walking for ten minutes, Lucian and Mephisto came to a stop. "Why do I get a feeling that we been walking in circle" Lucian said with annoyance. Mephisto deciding to answer his friend's question told him, "That is because we might have been." "Mephisto, this isn't the time for your sense of humor!" Lucian yelled. Before the Grimmborn could continue his rant, he and Mephisto saw a large blast of fire. Feeling his eye twitch, Lucian said in a sad tone, "Why do I know that was Ruby and this is only could get worse?" "Because it is" Mephisto said pointing to the pack of Beowolves that had appeared in the clearing. Reaching for his sword, Lucian said in a strangely amused voice said, "Finally, some anger management!" But before he could relieve his stress, a loud roar range out and a Beowolf was flung across the clearing. When it landed, the Crimson Specter duo saw that it was almost torn into three pieces. Whimpering, the Beowolves fled, knowing the danger that reared its head. The beast was twice the size of the Beowolves and looked even more dangerous. The body was pitch-black with bony plating on its shoulders, spine and head. The body was humanlike and built for strength and speed. The teeth were all oversized fangs. The plating had blood red lines running over it. On the hands there was a pair of large scythe like boney protrusions that were three feet long. This was not some run of the mill Grimm. This was the ferocious species that was known as the Terminator. With one roar it made its intentions clear. It wanted them dead. "Run now." Were Lucian's only words. With that they began running for their lives as the Terminator gave chase, destroying everything in its path.

~~With AV~~

An Ursa's head was blown clean off as Ashura shot his cannon. Sensing an attack to his right, Ashura dodge a slash as a paw tried to cut him to ribbons. Sending his electric energy into his ax blades, Ashura swung his tremendous weapon and tore right threw the Grimm. Still having a small charge in his ax, Ashura stabbed it into the Ursa behind him. With the beast stunned, Vlade made his move. Quickly stabbing his sword into the Grimm's spine, Vlade then sank his fangs into its neck. After a few seconds, the once deadly beast was now nothing more than a husk that quickly decomposed in to dust. All around them were either torn up bodies or dust piles of what used to be a large group of Ursa. "So" Ashura began, "how do think Lucian and Mephisto are doing?" Shrugging his shoulders, Vlade replied, "They're probably doing fine."

~~With LM~~

"WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN TO US!" Lucian yelled as he ran for his life. Clutching his back so he wouldn't be left behind was Mephisto. "Whatever you do, don't stop running!" Mephisto yelled, seeing the massive juggernaut of a Grimm that was chasing them. This beast wasn't simply running, it was destroying everything in its path. "We have to do something quick or its lights out for us!" Mephisto continued. 'Lights out? That's it!' Lucian mentally cheered at his quick thinking. "Mephisto, I need you to blood mark a safe point as soon as we pass on. Then use a smoke screen glyph to hide us from that thing!" Lucian quickly told his partner. Mephisto, quickly catching on, nodded his head in agreement. Cutting his hand, Mephisto waited until they found a safe place to deposit his blood. Then as the passed a rock that was a few yards to their left, Mephisto let his blood fly. Running for a hundred yards passed it, Mephisto then instigated part two of their plan. Quickly summoning the right glyph, Mephisto created a thick smoke screen. After seeing that it was working, the Crimson Specter duo quickly teleported out of danger.

Reappearing at the aged rock, the exhausted duo panted heavily. Soon regaining their breathe, the two friends smiled to each other and quickly leave before the Terminator found them again.

~~With AV~~

After a few minutes of walking, Vlade and Ashura finally came upon the temple. As they got closer they saw that Yang and Blake were already there and a few chess pieces were missing. "Chess pieces?" they heard Blake ask. "It would appear so" Ashura said out loud alerting two young ladies to his and Vlade's presence. Before Yang could speak up, her hands were grasp in a very familiar way. "My dear Yang, will you with your most gracious heart please bare my children?" was the very familiar question. And a punch to the face was the very familiar answer. Turning to Blake, Yang told her, "Looks like some of the pieces are missing, guess we weren't the first ones here." Vlade who was scanning the pieces before picking one of the black knight pieces said out loud, "It would appear so, and please do not harm the pervert too much. I need him in working order." Looking over the pieces herself, Yang picked up a white knight piece and said, "How about a cute little pony!" Blake gave a small smile and said, "Sure." Then out of nowhere, they heard what sounded like a little girl scream. "That sounded like a little girl in trouble!" Yang exclaimed, but what went through the Tempestuous Shade duo's minds was, 'That was not a girl.'

Hearing a rustling, the four gathered students turned towards the brush and drew their weapons. But what came out of the brush was not a Grimm, but was Lucian and Mephisto who looked extremely exhausted. "Hmm, I was wondering when you two would get here." Ashura said. Lucian who looked the most tired went over to a rock and sat down. Mephisto on the other hand went over to the pieces and grabbed the other black knight piece. Turning towards his friends he said in a gleeful tone, "Now we have a matching pair." Lucian smiled then he turned his head upwards as his ears picked up a faint sound that soon became larger. As the source of the sound came into view, Lucian saw it was Ruby. Reacting quickly, the Grimmborn leapt high into the air. "Look out below!" Ruby yelled before Lucian caught her. They quickly fell but something broke their fall. "Never doing that again" Ruby muttered to herself. Looking over to her savior, Ruby asked Lucian, "Umm, what are we sitting on?" "Me" came a weak reply. Quickly getting up, they saw they were sitting on Jaune. "Sorry Jaune." "Heh" were the replies. Yang and Blake stared befuddled at the comedic situation while Vlade, Mephisto and Ashura just shook their heads. "Did your sister just fall from the sky?" asked Blake. Before Yang could answer, a loud crash caused the gathered students to turn and see a Ursa burst out of the forest. But before they could kill it, it fell to the ground, obviously dead. "The fuck?" Lucian said out loud. Rolling off its back was the easily excitable red head from earilier soon followed by her black haired friend. "Aww, its broken." The girl said sadly. Everyone that heard that statement felt like face palming. "Nora," Ren began, "never do that again." But his plea fell on deaf ears as Nora was already eying a white rook piece. Picking it up, Nora started to chant, "I'm queen of the castle!" repeatedly. Lucian's eye then proceeded to feverously twitch. "NORA!" with that she reappeared by her partner with a cry of "Coming Ren." "Did she just ride in on an Ursa?" Blake asked. Mephisto who was still smiling replied back to her, "Well at least it wasn't what we ran into." "What did you run into, Mephisto?" Vlade sternly asked. "Better if you didn't know" was Lucian's quick answer. Suddenly a loud, hungry scream rang out and Pyrrha ran into the clearing with a Deathstalker following closely behind her. "Did she just run all the way here with a Deathstalker on her tail?" Blake asked. Before anyone could answer, Yang exploded with a fiery aura. "I can't take it anymore! Can everyone just chill out! Can we go two seconds before something crazy happens!?" Yang yelled. "Still want her?" Vlade deadpanned. "She is even more beautiful when she's angry." Ashura replied. "You really are an idiot." Lucian said shaking his head. Tapping Yang shoulder, Ruby pointed skyward. Looking up, everyone saw Weiss clinging to a Nevermore's claw. "How could you leave me?" the heiress asked.

"I said jump" Ruby said outloud. "She's gonna fall" Blake deadpanned. "Not very encouraging miss sunshine" Lucian said a little irritated. "She'll be fine" Ruby said. "She's falling" Ren deadpanned. Knowing he would regret it later, Vlade dispersed in numerous bats which quickly congregated around Weiss's falling form. The cloud of bats landed and disappeared revealing Weiss in the arm of Vlade. Quickly jumping out of his arms Weiss said "Thanks, I guess." "Don't expect this one to do it again" Vlade replied, slipping into his superiority style of speaking. Thinking that all the craziness was over, Yang sighed only to be startled by a loud, vicious roar. Crashing out of the forest, the Terminator that chased the Crimson Specter duo roared with fury and hunger. "It followed us!?" Lucian yelled. "That what chased you!?" Ashura yelled with fear. Terminators were some of the deadliest Grimm ever and this one was pissed.

"What do we do?" Weiss asked with true fear. Lucian stared at the three massive Grimm and said a single word everyone agreed to, "Run!" With that they all took off, not before Ruby and Pyrrha grabbing pieces for their partners. The Grimm were persistent, but the young hunters/huntresses will to survive was just as strong as the Grimm's hunger. As they ran, they came upon a large ruin and took cover. Seeing the Nevermore circle, Jaune said aloud, "That's just great." Then as if the universe had heard him, the Deathstalker and Terminator burst in. The gathered students then ran again. Ren seeing an opening in the Nevermore's defense yelled, "Nora, distract it!" Quickly following the order, Nora dodged the fired feathers and fired her grenades at the Grimm. The ensuing blasted stunned the beast and gave the young warriors a little breathing room.

While she was focus on the wing beast, she did not notice the Deathstalker sneaking up behind her. Before it could strike her, the large scorpion Grimm's attack was stopped by Ren and Blake as Weiss got Nora out of there. Unfortunately they forgot about the Terminator as it leapt at them. But Lucian did notice the ferocious beast and launched himself at it, impaling his blade into it and sending it and himself into the mist. But it parted as Lucian's flaring aura created a strong gust. The warrior and beast landed on a flat stone stadium that was 300 feet wide and had no walls around it. Deciding to help their friend, Mephisto teleported himself, Ashura and Vlade to Lucian's location. Smiling at his loyal friends, Lucian said, "Well guys, let's show this beast what we're made of!"

(Character theme L: What I'm made of by Crush 40 begins)

Smirking, Lucian knew that it was time to cut lose. "Guys, what we have here is an unique opportunity to cut lose!" Lucian finished with a feral smile. The others hearing this also smiled as well. For so long they had to restrain their power, now they were facing a beast that was good practice for them. Getting into fighting stances, the four let loose with their aura which caused the Grimm to roar at the powerful auras it sensed. Their condensed and surrounded them in an outline of pure power. One red as the fury locked in the Grimmborn's heart. One a cold blue like the vampire's icy personality flowed forth. One a dark hellish green seemed to flow from the shadows itself. Finally an electric gold similar to a storms wrath. With more of their power now displayed, the four warriors charged at the massive beast.

Vlade was the first to reach, quickly drawing his blade in his right hand and his revolver in his left. Vlade began his assault parrying a slash from the Terminator. The beast then swung its other arm and Vlade dispersed into his numerous bats that swarmed the Grimm. He then reformed behind it and fired four aura enhanced Dust bullets at the Massive Grimm. He then kicked off the Terminator's head and flew back as Ashura leapt into the air. The vampire caught the animus and threw him at the Grimm. The energy cylinder on his ax then expanded and electricity overflowed his weapon as his eyes glowed pure orange. Completely knowing how the beast will attack, Ashura blocked one slash after another until the Terminator went in for a bite. Dodging to the left, Ashura lined up a shot and fired a lightning powered explosive round into the Grimm's neck. He then slashed his ax into the beast back three times before using a lightning powered jump to dodge an incoming attack and regroup with his allies.

Mephisto, seeing that the move was his, formed a glyph under his feet. Then seven smaller glyphs formed around the massive beast and Mephisto launched himself. As he passed the Terminator to get to the first small glyph he slashed his staff's blade into its side. He repeated this until he reached the last the last glyph where he fired his rifle attachment point blank into its eye. He then teleported back as the massive beast staggered. Lucian, seeing an opening,drew his Stampede Hunters and fired shot after shot into the Grimm's hide. The Grimm roared and charged and Lucian charged as well. Meeting the beast scythes with his sword, Lucian stood even with the beast. The Terminator then poured more power into its strikes and sent Lucian back. Roaring with determination, Lucian yelled, "That's it! I'm killing you in one slice you bastard!" Sending tremendous amounts of his aura into his Wild Cleaver, Lucian unlocked it true power. The gold ornaments flipped back and the blade separated in to threes as a large aura blade formed around the center blade. The aura blade was nine feet long and exhumed power. "Now die! Aura Shredder!" Lucian roared and flew at the Grimm. After a second the saw Lucian in a crouch with his blade back to normal. Then the Terminator exploded into to pieces and started to disintergrate. The four turned to see how their allies were doing and saw Jaune, Pyrrha, Ren and Nora around the dead carcass of the Deathstalker. Ruby Weiss Blake and Yang just finished up decapitating the Nevermore and looked exhausted. Smiling, Lucian said with pride, "Nothing like a nice work out."

~~Later~~

"…lead by Ruby Rose!" Ozpin said assigning another team. Jaune was already assign on a team with Nora, Pyrrha and Ren that was dubbed JNPR led by Jaune. They weren't sure about his skills yet, but they saw his potential. "And finally," Ozpin began, " Lucian Wolf, Ashura Seishen, Vlade Draculus, and Mephisto Erlking. The four of you retrieved the black knight pieces. From this day forward you'll work together as Team LAVM, led by Lucian Wolf." Lucian scratched the back of his head at this and smiled. "This is now a good day!" Lucian said happily.

Outro: I Wanna Be from Soul Eater

RedDragon: Finally done! That was the longest chapter ever.

AssassinK: And we hope you all have a happy Halloween.

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