So where were we, oh right. Lance and Arthur are about to go through their initiation process. Lets see how this goes.
Chapter 4
"Mom... Mom, where are you!?" I yelled out hoping for an answer... But none came, I continued to walk a long dark road, every rat running in the trashcans made me jump, it felt like it was zero degrees and dropping, it was almost like the world had frozen over. I was shivering uncontrollably, I even zipped my jacket up to try and get warm but that only made it colder. I continued to walk a short ways, I would continually wonder why was I out here? A light flashed on, scaring me senseless consequentially I stopped in my tracks, underneath were the street lamp had flashed on was a woman a woman being illuminated by the fluorescent lights, from this distance I couldn't see her to well, I yelled out to her but she said nothing back, she was eerily quiet, so I approached her slowly. A feeling started rising in my gut, it was as if my body knew who this woman was but my mind was on the same page. I felt warmth rush over me as I got closer and closer, I needed to know who this was. I edged towards her ever so slowly, I was right behind her at this point, I could see her long black hair that reached down to her waist, I wanted to know who this was so I reached out to tap her arm but when my hand was an inch away it was like she teleported farther out of my reach, but my heart was concluded, this was someone I knew, someone I had never seen but knew. It was my mom. I sprinted for the other street lamp she was at and tried to tap her again, she teleported even further than before.
"MOM PLEASE STOP, I"M NOT MAD I JUST WANT TOO TALK!" I yelled at her, how could she continuously leave me? Her silence was all I could hear, does she hate me? I ran full speed after her and tried to grab her and again she would teleport away. it hurt to be this close to her but not be able to see her.
"Lance you okay?" That voice was Arthur's it was a faint murmur, but it was still Arthur's, I looked around and didn't see him anywhere, I fell to my knees and started to tear up, I just want this to end. The woman walked away farther and farther until eventually I was freezing over again, I didn't fight it, I just let the cold consume me, the world slowly faded to black. My eyes slowly opened, I could see Arthur kneeling next to me, Arthur was just confused, I sat up and looked around, I noticed most of the room was cleared out, everyone was probably getting ready for initiation.
"Lance, whats wrong and why were you talking about your mom?" I had this dream before and Arthur knew as much about my mom as I did, I simply stood up and wiped my face, I had a few tears sliding down.
"Nothing, I'm fine." I started to walk away, Arthur chased behind me and grabbed my shoulder.
"Lance, if there is something wrong you have to tell me." Arthur's voice was stern but caring, it was odd, I never really saw this side of Arthur often."
"Look, I don't have to do anything and why do you care so much?" I had a little anger in my voice and Arthur could hear it, I could see in his face he was a little worried.
"I care because you're my brother and one of my closest friends, now what is wrong?" I looked into his green eyes he wasn't going to let this go, I let out a deep sigh.
"Okay, I had a nightmare I guess... I saw a woman that I think was my mom, but every time I got close, she would teleport away from me. I chased her down for a while but I was never able to get close enough to look in her eyes, I just wanted to meet her... I guess eve in my dreams she doesn't want to see me..." Arthur smiled and patted my back
You know if you ever need someone to help you just go to my mom, she already treats you like her own son." Arthur was right, ever since we met, his mom was like both of our moms, she was good like that. "Yeah, we should go see her first when we get a break or something."Arthur nodded, he was probably feeling proud that he was able to help.
"Now come on we got an initiation to go to." Arthur put his hand on my shoulder and dragged me to the locker room. We didn't talk much once we got in there, we both went to our designated lockers and put our stuff in there, Arthur walked over after he finished putting his gear on.
"Bro, should I try my new weapon form today or do it later?" I looked in his hands he had his two pistols in hand.
"Maybe later, we don't want you to have a malfunction on the field, so just stick to what it can do normally." it seemed like good advice so I went with it, Arthur nodded and closed his locker I did the same, we both headed off behind the school and stepped up to some panels that were laid out in a line In front of us was a giant cliff that I definitely didn't want to fall from. Arthur stood next to me, I saw a few other students and a few recognizable faces. Ozpin spoke up with Ms. Glynda behind him.
"For years you have trained to become warriors, and today your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest." Ozpin moved out of the way and Glynda began to speak.
"Now, I'm sure many of you have heard rumors about the assignment of teams. Well, allow us to put an end to your confusion. Each of you will be given teammates... today." Okay that's not good. I hardly know any of these people and if I get put on a team with ice queen, I'm going to lose my mind.
"These teammates will be with you for the rest of your tie at Beacon. So it is in your best interest to be paired with someone with whom you work well." Ozpin you are the most evil person I have come across in all of Vale. "That being said, the first person you make eye contact with after landing will be your partner for the next 4 years."
"Fuck." I heard Arthur bleat out earning him a glare from Glynda, "After you've partnered up, make your way to 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."
"Die?!" I looked over to Arthur after saying that, I could see fear in his eyes."
"You will be monitored and graded for the duration of your initiation, but our instructors will not intervene." So if I am surrounded by Grimm with a broken leg and I can't get to my weapon and I have no one near me, then what, do I still die? "You will find an abandoned temple at the end of the path containing several relics." I looked past Ozpin and into the vast open forest, there was no path in sight. "Each pair must choose one, and return to the top of the cliff. We will regard that item, as well as your standing, and grade you appropriately. Are there any questions?" I had to stop Arthur from spewing out questions that would most likely get us kicked out of Beacon, I heard Jaune try to ask a question, Ozpin completely ignored him, "Good, now take your positions." Everyone who was lined up got into various stances, I pulled out my rifle and held it at the ready, Arthur grabbed his pistols and held them next to his head. We were close to the front so we were one of the first to get thrown by the contraption underneath our feet, sending us flying high over the cliff. While me and Arthur were in the air, I tried to think of the best landing strategy that didn't involve us going splat. I saw Arthur screaming and laughed but I needed to focus on us surviving while I we were plummeting to the ground, it was getting closer and closer, I think what I did was cheating but I looked at Arthur.
"ICE!" He didn't get what I was saying, the wind was pushing our words away from each other, so I switched my rifle into gravity dust and fired to my right, the recoil pushed me into Arthur, he grabbed onto me and I switched my rifle into ice dust, I fired it at the rapidly approaching ground and created a not so safe slide, I switched back to gravity dust and fired in front of us so the landing wouldn't be so hard. We hit the ice and slid down fast, I noticed an Ursa standing at the end of the slide. The creature looked at us and let out a mighty roar, I looked at Arthur, he looked in front of us and smiled he understood a fight was about to happen, Arthur grabbed my hand while I shot gravity dust behind me and gained speed and once we got enough speed I threw him at the creature as hard as I could. Arthur yelled as he went full speed into the Grimm with his pistol blade being the first thing to hit, Arthur stabbed the Grimm in it's neck, it wasn't dead yet. Arthur started to shoot rapid fire into the Ursa's face, it fell to it's back and began to disintegrate. I got off the slide and walked over to Arthur who was hunched over and panting.
"Well...That... wasn't so bad." Arthur said as he straightened up, "Looks like we are teammates now. So where do we go?" I breathed in deeply and began to trudge forward with Arthur right behind me, we walked for some time until we heard some growls and snarls, it wasn't like the Ursa we had fought before, these were Beowolves and they were fighting someone, we followed the sounds as they got louder and louder, we looked threw some bushes. it was a girl, she was panting hard, she must have been fighting for a while, she was surrounded, "Amara." Arthur looked like he was about to jump for joy but he instantly returned back to his worried state, he checked his weapons and was about to run in, I grabbed him by the wrist.
"If we are going in." I switched Fides to its sword form, "Then we are doing it together." Arthur nodded and we both ran in. There were 9 Grimm in total I took the 3 on the left and Arthur took the 3 on the right while Amara took on the 3 in front of her. I slid under a swing from a Beowulf and kicked it in the face, another swung at me from behind, I did a back flip and landed behind it, I wasn't paying attention and the third one threw me into a tree, the tree cracked and leaned over a bit. I stood up and held my side, the Grimm were now surrounding me, I posted up on the tree and put one foot to the tree and prepared for an attack, a Beowolf lunged at me, I pushed off the tree and rolled under it's belly and drove my sword through it's chest, in an instant I switched back to my rifle and fired with red dust, blowing the Grimm sky high, I heard the snarls of the other two Grimm, they probably aren't happy that I killed their friend. They both came at me, I ran at them, they lunged at the same time, so I jumped up and fired my rifle at the ground with gravity dust, it sent me flying upwards above the Grimm, one climbed the tree with unbelievable speed and leaped from the tree at me, I used the gravity dust again and fired behind me so I could gain speed, the amount of force pushed me past the creature's claws and into the Beowolf's chest, I drove my blade through it's chest and my blade exited it's back, we fell back to the earth. Me and the Grimm hit the ground hard, it started to vanish in front of me. Still one more to go I used my blade to help stand up, the now denigrating Grimm helped cushion my fall but it was still very painful, the Grimm looked me over, I tried to aim my gun at it, while it looked at the others who were still fighting, I tried to shoot it but it ran, I fell to my knees and looked around, the girl Amara was standing over Arthur. I limped over to him, he was bleeding from his chest. He had 3 deep slash wounds, each were bleeding profusely
"What happened?" Amara looked up to me, she had a bunch of cuts on her face and some blood leaking from her nose but it wasn't much, her tears were mixing in with her blood.
"He pushed me out of the way, a Beowolf was about to get me." She put a hand on his, I knelled next to Arthur, he looked over to me, a pained smile was crossing his face, even when in a lot of pain, in front of a girl he will still try to be tough.
"Think you can do it?" Arthur smiled a little, I chuckled, "Yeah, but this is going to suck." Arthur nodded and closed his eyes. I placed my hand on his chest and a burning sensation went through my body, I could feel the pain mounting on the inside of myself, I was using my semblance. The pain hurt so bad, I had already lost some aura when I was those Grimm but this was taking away too much, but I had to keep going.
I looked at his chest and watched the 3 slashes fade away, and his skin looked good as new. I fell onto my back and started to shiver and breathe heavily, I was in a lot of pain it felt like I was just dropped into molting metal, Arthur knelled next to me he was completely healed, I watched as some cuts on his face faded away.
"You going to be alright?" Arthur put his hand on my shoulder, every where hurt, so that didn't feel to good, "Yeah...I'll...UGH...Be fine." I started to get up, Arthur picked me up and I put my arm around him. "But we...have to go...Now." Me and him started walking, the girl was walking behind us.
"What just happened? You were in a lot of pain how are you okay?" Arthur looked at me to explain so I did, "My semblance is that I can heal other people at the cost of my own Aura, but it hurts me to do it, so if no one could get hurt in the next thirty minutes that would be great." We continued to walk farther, Amara asked another question.
"So why are we moving if your in pain?" I was tired so Arthur took this question, "Because Lance's last Beowolf got away, so it was probably going get back up or it actually was running for it's life, either way it would be best if we left that area." We came to a clearing and saw a ruined temple with someone inside. We started to walk over when we heard a loud crashing noise and a roar of sorts, it sent chills down my spine.
"Arthur, we need to pick up the pace!" Arthur started to move a bit faster, but it wasn't fast enough, in a matter of moments we were being chased by a Alpha Beowolf, it was way bigger than the rest of it's pack that I assume we had just killed. It ad pointed spikes going down it's back and had way more armor plating than an average Beowolf. It began to run after us at full speed. I looked at the figure in the ruins take off toward us, he was moving at incredible speeds, I almost couldn't keep any eye on him, he was a blur.
"Viktor!" I yelled out, before I could get him to stop he was already standing between us and the Alpha. The creature stopped and looked down at him, this was literally David and Goliath if I had ever seen it, I wanted to yell for him to run but I saw his wrists, his watches were changing, they slid over his fists and started to give of sparks, he fiddled with them for a second until the Alpha swung at him. Viktor ducked under it's paw and ran in close to uppercut it, sending the creature into a spasm, the creature tried to fight back, it lunged at Viktor, he did a simple side step and punched it in the ribs as hard as possible, he sent the creature tumbling, it stood up and I saw Viktor smile, the two ran at each other top speed, they jumped at each other, the Grimm swung, Viktor tried to dodge that swing but this time it didn't end so well. The Alpha hit him in the chest and sent him spiraling into the woods. The Alpha looked back at us, Arthur dropped me and grabbed Vitae and Mortem, he put them together and made Orbis, his short sword. Arthur took off towards the creature and began to dodge most of the slashes and swings, until eventually Arthur saw an opportunity and jumped on top of the beast and stabbed it in the back, it let out a load roar and began to shake Arthur off. Arthur was holding on for dear life, I looked over to some rustling bushes and saw Viktor running back into the fight, Arthur saw him too. He removed his sword and jumped off, Viktor ran full speed to the Grimm and jumped up and punched the it full force on the left side of it's jaw, sending to the ground. Arthur ran over to the downed Alpha and with a clean swipe cut of a leg , making the Alpha howl in pain, Viktor walked over to it and placed his fist on it, the creature began to smoke until it ultimately caught fire and began to disintegrate into nothingness. The two fist bumped and fell over on their backs, I don't blame them.
"I have to say... THAT... was way more fun... than the Ursas I've been fighting." Viktor pressed a button and his electric watches went back to normal watches, Me and Amara walked over to the now laying boy and helped them up.
"Looks like your on our team now, it's good to have you." I reached to shake his hand he did the same, "Nice we should head over to the ruin and choose what piece we get." I nodded and we ran over to the ruin to see what the relics were.
I looked around, they were all chess pieces, none had been grabbed yet so I took my time and choose, I grabbed the black knight pieces and the rest of my team did the same, we slowly walked out of the ruins so we could catch our breath.
We walked for a while until we came across a large broken down building that went all the way back to the top off the cliff, it was high up, it took us a while to climb it but eventually we got to the top, once we reached the top of the cliff, we were met by Ozpin.
"Hello Lance." Ozpin nodded at me, I simply nodded back, I was way to tired to speak, but Viktor seemed to have some energy left, "I'm not complaining or anything but, why did you make us climb sooo many steps?" I silently chuckled at Viktor's antics, Glynda walked up to us and looked at each of us.
"Good job students, due to the speed at which you completed your mission and that everyone is still walking you all receive A's for this grade." I smiled in relief and fell backwards, I would have went to sleep right there if it hadn't been for Ozpin.
"Would you all like to watch the other teams finish their tasks?" I sat up and nodded, my team did the same, Ozpin had us follow him back into the locker room and took us into a room of to the side. It was an average size room with chairs all around and in the middle of the room was a big TV. Ozpin walked over to a table that had a remote sitting on it, he picked up the remote and pressed a button, and the TV flashed on.
We all sat down and began to watch, at first it wasn't anyone we knew until, we heard a loud crumbling noise and Ozpin flicked to a different camera, It was Yang, Ruby, Weiss, and the girl that was their when Weiss was yelling at me and Ruby, my heart sank when I saw what they were fighting. It was a Nevermore, a giant bird Grimm, one talon was easily the size of Ruby.
I watched as the Yang ran up to the top of a now destroyed tower and begin firing her gauntlets at the Nevermore, she hit it dead in the face which made it change course and go directly at her, Yang jumped up into the Grimm's mouth, I shut my eyes tight and looked away from the TV.
"WOW... that girl is crazy!" Viktor said with an open mouth, I opened one eye and saw Yang holding the Grimm's mouth open and she was firing into it's throat. I followed Viktor's lead and my mouth fell open too, Yang had to jump out of the Nevermore as it crashed into the cliff-side, it fell on top of a building and started to flap again, Weiss ran over with her rapier and used glyphs to freeze the beast by it's exceedingly long tail feathers. The girl from the Weiss incident threw what I guess was her weapon to Yang who shoved it into the wall, and a long black wire was now in between two giant pillars, Ruby jumped up and used her scythe to land on the wire and stretch it back, I saw what was going on, and it was crazy, Weiss held Ruby there with her glyphs and aimed their giant sling shot at the Nevermore and fired. Ruby flew at top speed into the Grimm and caught it by the neck with her scythe, glyphs began to line up the side of the cliff and Ruby started to run on them, dragging the Nevermore up the wall with her, once they got to the top Ruby fired her scythe and decapitated the Grimm and landed next to it's dissolving head.
"Umm... I think we aren't going to be beating them in sparring anytime soon." Viktor said as he blinked rapidly, he was making sure he had really just seen that, "Ruby packs one hell of a punch for a kid." Arthur said as he placed a hand on his head.
"Guys and Gal, we can be better than them, we just have to work hard, as corny as it sounds it's true." I tried to get my team hyped to train, Arthur smiled and Viktor did as well, Amara just nodded. This was going to be a tough year but I thunk we can be great as long as we work together.
We all walked back to school and was escorted to the auditorium again, this time it was a much more excited environment, people were cheering and smiling, everyone was happy. Ozpin got up to the microphone and started to call names.
"Russel Thrush, Cardin Winchester, Dove Bronzewing, Sky Lark. The four of you retrieved the black bishop pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as... Team Cardinal" I watched as their initial's went under each of their faces, forming the word CRDL, "Lead by... Cardin Winchester." I didn't know them but I clapped anyway.
"Jaune Arc, Lie Ren, Pyrrha Nikos, Nora Valkyrie. The four of you retrieved the white rook pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as... Team Juniper" I shouted at the top of my lungs, my other teammates did the same. "Lead by... Jaune Arc." I shouted again, I did't know Jaune to well but, I was proud of him none the less. it was are turn to go up.
"Arthur Kobolt, Amara Zenth, Viktor Celer, Lance Kobolt. The four of you retrieved the black knight pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as... Team Lava" my emotions were shot, he didn't have to say anything for me to understand who the leader of team LAVA was, my mouth was wide open, "Lead by... Lance Kobolt." The crowd erupted from were Yang and them were, I looked over to Arthur and Viktor, who both had a big smiles on their faces, even Amara was grinning. We walked off stage an down some steps, Me a team leader who woulda thunk.
"And finally Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladona, and Yang Xiao Long. The four of you the for of you retrieved the white knight pieces. From this day forward you will work together as... Team Ruby" I looked up to the screen to see their faces lined up to form the word RWBY," Lead by...Ruby Rose." Ruby looked around like that was a mistake, Yang ran over and hugged her, "Looks like things are shaping up to be an... interesting year." slowly everyone left the auditorium, I stayed behind I had a question I wanted to ask Ozpin, I saw he was about to exit the room and I sprinted after him.
"Ozpin how did you choose team names?" Ozpin smirked and kept walking, "Lance it was pretty clear that the only way that your team would work was if I used your name to at least get a color out of it." My face darkened, "You're kidding, right?" Ozpin chuckled and spoke again, "Yes I am, Your semblance told me that you were perfect for the position, the fact that you put someone before yourself shows me that." I smiled widely at least now I know Ozpin isn't crazy , "Don't worry sir I wont let you down." Ozpin nodded, "I know you won't, Now go to your team, they're probably worried about you." I did as told and walked out of the auditorium and walked quietly for a while, I saw a few kids running to their dorms and some others doing what I was doing. I walked into us first year's dorm and wondered around for a bit, until I finally came across my room, before I even opened the door I heard Lance and Viktor yelling, I opened the door and they were oblivious to me.
"Dude that stings!" I saw Arthur with his pistols out, Viktor had his watches ready to go, and Amara poked her head out of the bathroom, she was scared of these two.
"ENOUGH!" the two boys looked at me and stopped, "What's going on here?" Arthur spoke first
"He shocked me with his gloves!" Arthur shot a dirty look at Viktor who returned it, "I told you don't touch my tail!" I face palmed, I looked over to Amara, "Are you okay?" she nodded and walked out of the bathroom, holding one arm.
"You two need to chill out, Arthur what have I told you about doing things without permission and Viktor next time can we solve this without deadly force?" Arthur put his weapons down and walked away, "it was only a thousand volts." Viktor said under his breath, I stared him down and he went back to his bed. I got undressed and went lay down in my bed, the others did the same, I laid in silence, I was still a bit sore from helping Arthur earlier but I should be fine when I wake up in the morning.
What a day, this chapter took me a bit longer cause i had a lot to take care of but the next chapter should becoming out a little bit faster, I hope anyone who read this enjoyed and please review and let me know what you guys think. See ya later!