Chapter 3 : Teaching the First Step
The day starts a mysterious girl waking up first, she reaches for her glasses, gathers her clothes and heads towards the bathrooms. She has long orange hair reaching to her back owning several curls, with her light skin and green eyes she has a few freckles on her cheeks. She puts on a pink tee shirt and slips on brown pants with knee pads on them. She than puts on a brown vest similar to Duran's that goes down to her chest, and light brown timberland boots.
As she heads to her locker, one of the guys from last night trips her feet, causing her to fall over.
"Ow. W-w-what was t-t-that-".
Her apparent speech impaired words are cut off by the boy's laughter and teasing, "Come on beat box, speech up. I don't have all day."
"NEITHER DO I, PISS ANT!"
"Huh.."
As the idiot turns around, he is grabbed by his shirt and flung to a locker. As he eyes the person responsible, he notices a pissed off woman.
She owns long blonde golden hair with light skin with black tattoos - lion ears on top addition to her blue eyes that are piercing into his soul with rage. She is wearing a tribal outfit taking form of a white top bearing black designs with only one sleeve, she wearing green pants with a red belt cloth going around her waist, however leaves enough space for her tail to roam freely. On her wrists, she wearing white and green cloth wraps. She is wearing armor boots bearing black platings and green stripes.
Above all this, she did not look happy.
"Apparently you didn't learn jack shit from last night's beating if you want to call it that! If you wanted another crash course, than all you had to Do Was ASK!". The lion girl roared at the poor soul about to jump him, however the orange haired girl stepped in her path. "No no no, it's o-o-okay Zera, I f-f-fine see." The girl now known as Zera takes a deep breath as she calms down. She looks at the scared shitless boy.
"You're safe, for now."
As the boy gets up to leave, Zera looks at her friend sighing in the process, "You have got to stop letting people push you around Brianna. You could have taken him and you knew it.".
The now known as Brianna tries to reason with her lion friend, "It's w-w-was just a first im-im-impression. Besides, I'm n-n-not hurt see?". Zera walks with Brianna by her side wondering what is she gonna do with her.
The two girls walk up Duran who has fully clothed himself in his combat attire and is now gathering his twin sword blades "Crimson Spiral" out from his locker. Not paying the girls any mind, he does a final check up on his weaponry.
"Good Morning Buddy!", the sound of a familiar female voice causes him around and shrug at the calling.
"What's up, Alice.", Duran turns to face Alice dawning her smile and raising hyena ears. Strangely she seemed to have added want looks like war paint to her face, resulting in two black stripes under her eyes.
"Oh, nothing but just ready for the field test today, which I am by the way. What about you, are you set?". Duran mainly sighs at her question as he sheathes his two swords behind his back. "Ready as I should be. It's just another outside training exam, right?".
As Alice ponders the question, a third voice enters the conversation. "You really don't know anything, don't you?", Duran narrowed his eyes in sudden annoyance as he turns to see Kira Tabito, in all her bitching glory. "The final initiation exam is basically the entry exam into any huntsmen academy. It forces you to rely on all you've in the pervious school, that's if you went to any-".
Duran "really" doesn't like her, he pities the people who end up with her on their team.
"-and navigate through the setting terrain they choose. The objective is varied depending on the course used. Understand, boy?".
Duran stands in annoyed silence until Alice speaks to him, "Can you translate that?".
Duran groans as he answers Alice's question, "In common terms without the unnecessary vocabulary, it's basically another field exam with more objectives.".
This earns an understood "ah" Alice as she turn's to Kira, "Why couldn't you just go with THAT?!".
This surprisingly earns a chuckle from Duran as Kira's face turns red.
"So you know, I am one who tries to follow everything to the letter!"
"Which one? So you know, there's twenty-six of them and I keep count!"
"WHAT ARE YOU?! A CHILD?!"
"I'm a adult!"
On high sight, Duran's glad he was here. Seeing this girl suffer as she yelled at a "brick wall" was priceless.
( The Cliff of Emerald Forest )
The student bodies approach the edge of the cliff where they were recently called to. There Professor Weiss and Blake stand waiting for Group A's arrival.
( Group A being Duran V. Raglan, Alice G. Vermillion, Ross D. Love, Kira S. Tabito, Alex P. Crosshart, Rena Rena, Zera B. Leafhead, and Brianna C. Terla. )
As the Headmistress of New Beacon, Weiss decides to speak first,
"Once again, I welcome you to New Beacon Academy. To enter the academy in full, you most first pass the initiation exam. Professor Blake Belladonna will inform you the objectives of the exam.".
With this, Blake steps up with tablet in hand. "The objective of the exam this year into transverse to the Emerald Forest in search for several relics hidden somewhere in this forest. This relics will indeed to many forms, obtain one of them, keep them safe, yourself and whom ever you may run into, and return to the top of this cliff before night fall. Keep in mind that the Emerald Forest is roaming with Grimm and other obstacles willing to sit in the way of your path, keep your wits about you and your guard up at all times, fight them or you will indeed die.".
Duran catches a 'Eep' sound from Alice whose next to him as she claps her mouth with her hands.
Weiss's eye not leaving the group delivers one final piece of information, "Also keep in mind that the FIRST person you make eye contact with upon landing will be your partner throughout your next four years here at Beacon.".
With that, Duran looks around to notice the group he will be dropping with. Alice looks at him and waves with a grinning smile.
"With that said, know you will indeed be monitored throughout the exam, but the instructors will not intervene. This will mark your first step into New Beacon. Professor Belladonna." Weiss turns to Blake. Blake nobs and passes a button causing the tiles to go off one-by-one. As the students take off one-by-one, Weiss stands at the cliff watching the first group of the new generation take their first step.
Blake turns back at the next group, "Will Group B step forward?".
In response, she hears a male student in the back, "Oh, Hell No!".
A female voice follows, "Is there another way down?!"
( The Western Section )
Duran manages to land in the western side of forest, using his twin swords to cut away the branches in his way. On his way down, he impales one of his swords into a tree and safely slides down. Coming to a stop, he then hears Alice flies past him and lands in a nearby tree.
As Duran believes that she would be alright, we starts to walk the other direction, shockingly watching Kira drop in that same direction.
"Kira or Alice?"
"Bitch or Talkathon?"
... "Screw it.".
Duran gathers himself up and walks Alice's direction swords in hand.
( The Eastern Section )
Alex manages to land safely as well and proceeds to travel through the forest. He walks with his javelin "Dragoon" in hand, in mid walk he ears catches the sound of Grimm in the distance and the seem to be closing in on him.
He readies his javelin and puts on his hoodie and face mask covering his mouth and nose.
Three Beowolves approach him. He calm waits for the first move to be made.
The first Beowulf charges at him from the right side, Alex twirls his javelin taking two steps forward, as the Grimm launches from the ground, Alex swipes his weapon upon the back of the knees behind the kneecaps, causing the Beowolf to flip backwards.
This causes the second Beowolf on left to charge. With the first Grimm still in mid spiral, Alex then twists his body in a spin attack, hitting the Grimm with his weapon to send it flying towards the second, thus causing them to collide into one another.
With the two Grimm on the ground together, Alex then jumps upward and comes down on the two Beowulves, impaling them both with Dragoon, killing them. Leaving only the third remaining.
Before Alex could charge, what looked like two spinning discs pass him striking down the Grimm in front him and passing him again. He looks back to see where they're going and catches Rena Rena in his line of sight.
Rena Rena catches the two discs that now to him are twin chakrams, and looks at him, dumbfounded at how he looks with the hoodie and face mask. "Must you really go over the top with everything little thing you do?".
Alex takes off his hoodie and face mask, "But I look cool this way do not?"
Rena Rena rolls her eyes and states not, causing Alex to drop his head in defeat. "Guess this means we're partners, huh?".
Rena Rena shakes her head, "What's the point in asking questions you already know the answer to?".
Alex raises his hands in honesty, "I like to hear other peoples opinions...".
...What has Rena Rena got herself into?
( Back at the Western Section )
We catch Alice in the trees upon landing, using her Garrote Wired Gauntlets "Lilith's Grace" to safely swing and propel her way down, eventually catching Duran in her line of sight. Excited she'd see him first, propels towards him landing behind him.
"Duran! What luck is it that we ended up on the same side of the forest, right?".
"It was either you or Kira really."
Duran keeps a straight face and give a stoic tone comment, "You can say that, I got lost along the way." Alice chuckles at Duran's sense of direction and points another direction, "Well lucky for you, I caught a quick glimpse of something interesting while in the air. It's that way, lead on partner or would you prefer Boss! I like Boss!".
Duran smirks at Alice's cheerful comments and leads the way with his partner, Alice. He can actually say wiithout a doubt that at this point, he feels comfortable around her.
"Hey Duran. You know what this reminds me of?"
"What?"
"Outlast 2!"
"Ha. One was better..."
Well this caused Alice's hyena ears to spike up in anger.
"SLANDER! TRAITOR!"
"There is no way you actually enjoyed that crap game?"
"Your treason will not go unpunished!"
"It was basically a "Run or You'll Die" game and you know it..."