Been a while, I honestly didn't think so many people would make the effort to read this fanfic...Let alone follow it...I hope you enjoy this one as well as the other chapters! I spent a lot longer on this one than the others, but that's only a small part of the reason it took so long to write. Enjoy this new chapter that I'm pretty proud of! :D

Why did I always have to be annoyed by the weird people? I was already grumpy and having little to no sleep did not help. I got up expecting to see bird boy teasing the beowulf, but to my surprise, it was the other guy cloaked in black seriously fighting the thing, and 5 others...With just his katana. Why do I always come in contact with psycho people?! It does not help my state of mind. But I couldn't just let him go kill himself by going up against 5 beowulves, I had to help him. He only had a katana and he wasn't even using his semblance to help him! ...Though I had to admit that his katana looked pretty sharp and lethal.

I saw a beowulf circle around and sneak up behind him unawares. Chance! I leaped from my place in the tree and landed on its back, my fist digging into its armor and skin. With a quick slash to the base of the skull, the beowulf fell, soundlessly. Landing with a small 'whump'. The guy spun around to see what had happened, noticing me.

"Get away!" He yelled, his voice full of worry.

I replied by jumping over his head and, taking out the beowulf that had started to charge him while he was distracted, soundlessly replied "no" to his attempt to shoo me away. "Do you know how stupid you are, trying to take on five beowulves at once?! And then not noticing me coming up behind you until he fell? You're probably going to die sometime soon, if you don't die tonight."

Obviously shaken by my verbal punishment, he didn't notice the two beowulves who started to charge him from the side at that moment.

"Ugh! okay, you attack that one, and I'll attack this one!" I said, pointing to one beowulf, then the other. "Do that and we might survive with teamwork." I charged the beowulf I had selected as my target, easily dodging it's first couple slashes, then going for the base of its head again. Flipping over its head, swinging around in the air to see my target and went for it. I looked up right before my hand made contact with its head, seeing the idiot attempting a downward slash at the top of its head.

Once the beowulf was dead, I sprinted after the guy and decided that the safest and fastest way of finishing this would be to go around and come up from behind, attacking at the base of its head. Swiftly swiping and cutting it's head in one swift motion.

"What kind of idiot are you?! Don't you know that the top of a beowulf's head is the hardest part of its armor?" I scolded, landing in front of him and looking up at his face… The heck is this guy?! He's like, 8 feet tall!

I guess I was a little harsh with my way of talking, he looked like he was contemplating his failures and feeling extremely ashamed.

"...I guess I was a little harsh saying that. My name's Patricia, by the way." I apologised.

"Meh...I tend to become disoriented when someone comes to help me fight things… My name's Kurotsubana." He replied.

"That's a pretty long name, I'll call you...Kuro for short. So...why were you attempting to kill those beowulves?"

"Um...I felt like it? I don't know, it's just what I tend to do at night. I've been doing since I was a kid. I don't really know any life other than this."

"That's pretty odd. Why did you decide to come to Beacon then? Just wondering."

"I ran into the headmaster a while ago and he was really nice to me. He offered to let me into this school."

"uh-huh...Sounds pretty cool! Can you, uhh...not try to kill more beowulves tonight? I'd like to be able to sleep the rest of what is left of the night."

"I'll try not to, sorry."

"Well, have a nice rest then, if you can."

Crap, crap, crap I'm late! and in a bad mood... I can't believe how many more grimm that idiot boy attempted to kill. I only got, like, an hour of sleep. What is that guys problem?! Whelp, I guess I've gotta run to the meeting place...wait, where was that again? I think he told us to meet him at the clifftop, I'll go there, I guess.

Sure enough, I showed up just in time to grab the last launch pad and prepare myself to be flung into the air.

"Gaahh!" I yelled, my knees almost crumbled under the sudden weight of gravity in my successful attempt to become airborne. " Great start, legs." I muttered sarcastically, as I soared through the air, pulling my arms tight beside my body for extra speed. Shooting past bird boy, I caught a quick glance and noticed that he wasn't using his wings to help him fly, all he needed to do was spread his wings and fly. Interestingly enough, they were just a large lump underneath his black cloak.

"Sh-!" I almost swore before narrowly missing the trunk of a tree that would have thoroughly knocked me out. Well, I guess it's time to land now. Spreading my arms to slow me down, I spread my legs out in front of me to catch my self and roll into the ground a couple times to reduce my momentum. The impact was a little more than I was expecting and I smacked my head after the second roll. My knees didn't like me very much either. I tried to stand up and fell right back down, my legs buckling under the stress.

I obviously hadn't had enough sleep last night to be able to do this right now. I had efficiently attracted a pack of Ursai, great. I was not in the mood for this. Simply, I blew up a couple dust crystals and ran off while they were temporarily dazed.

Jeez, these grimm are really annoying. You just can't get away from them without some other species coming after you. First a pack of Ursai, now a Death Stalker. I officially hate this forest. Luckily for me, I really hadn't wanted to trouble myself with almost dying against one of these, so I had studied them extra carefully. Knowing its blind spots and where it would take one well placed explosion to effectively knock it out, I leaped, jumped, aimed, and fired. Kaboom, it shouldn't be threat for a good twenty more minutes.

Now, to make my way through this ridiculously hard to navigate through forest. I thought I heard a scream from above my head and looked up. Waddaya know, familiar faunus friend was falling head-first towards me at a dangerous speed. Freaking out, but keeping my insanity under control, I managed to catch her safely without getting her injured. Then I collapsed from putting too much stress on my bad leg, dropping her in the process.

"Thanks for catching me, I honestly thought I was gonna die there." The faunus said. "Oh, my name is Marron." She stated after a moment of silence.

"I'm Patricia, I guess this means we'll be partners for the next four years then." I replied. "I look forward to being friends with a fellow faunus."

"But you're not a faunus, aren't those ears and tail fake?"

I was stunned to silence for a minute, nobody had noticed before. "Wow, you're pretty observant."

"It comes with the packaged deal, along with degradation."

"I completely understand-" A rustle behind me caught my attention. "Aw, come on! I thought it would take them longer to find me. We gotta go somewhere else, that's a load of grimm that I didn't bother to completely kill and they finally caught up with me."

It was clear that I had scared her, oops. I grabbed her hand and started running as fast as I could, somewhat thankful for the chemicals that gave me extra speed, which had been injected into me while I was at the White Fang. Narrowly outrunning the grimm, we came to a large clearing with a bunch of ruins that looked like they had once been a grand temple, or some kind of battle arena? I had no clue, but that wasn't important right now. We quickly ran in, grabbed one of the small things on the many small columns and made our way back to the cliff as quickly as we could. Hoping that we would survive long enough to make it back to beacon and be put into our teams

Aaaand end! If you're reading this and you didn't just scim through this chapter, you actually enjoyed it, thank you! I really want to know what you guys think of this fanfic, maybe give me a couple suggestions on maybe something funny that could happen, I might include it... You never know...Talk to you in the next chapter! :D