Location: Locker-Room

Aura's PoV

This was it. This was the day that I would prove myself to be worthy of going to Beacon. This was a day I had only ever dreamed about, but never believed it would come true, but yet it had.

I got out of my sleeping bag, noticed the other people around me were getting ready as well, and changed into the normal clothes I usually wore. I wore a black tux with a blue dress shirt that had white buttons going down. I slid one my black dress pants, which were held up by a white belt with a red buckle. Accenting my clothes, I also put on a pair of glossy black bracelets that I had received from my youngest sister. Staring at the bracelets for a moment, I thought back to my family. I missed them a lot, and I wondered if they missed me… I quickly ushered the thoughts of them out of my head...I didn't want today to be a sad day. This was the day I took control of my destiny. I made my way to the locker room, to prepare for initiation.

I looked around at all the other students putting some of their stuff into lockers that the school provided. I was told that they would be summoned at will, so they were useful. When it came to me, I didn't find any use in the locker when I could summon my weapons at will. I decided to use it more to store extra clothes I had, just in case I ever needed to change.

"Well, looks like somebody's getting their spirit on." I hear a familiar voice say as I finished putting my extra clothes into my designated locker. I closed my locker then turned to see Zinex leaning up against a locker, not at all changed from before. He honestly looked the exact same as he had before, same expression, with only a smile on his face. I glanced around him, trying to look for a weapon of some sort, but didn't see anything.

"Oh, hey Zinex." I said to the guy. I was about to question why he hadn't changed his clothing at all, but decided that might be a strange thing to ask, so I held off. "Are you ready for initiation?"

"As ready as I can be." He said with a laugh as we both began to follow the rest of the students to where we were supposed to go. "You got any idea what they have planned?"

"I have no idea, all I know is that we're supposed to go to the cliffs" I said glancing around at the various student to see all sorts of people, human and faunus alike. Some looked confident, others looked scared, but most seemed expressionless, possibly trying to get themselves prepared for what was going to come.

"Cliffs? Interesting." Zinex said with an with an odd smile. I noticed a slightly pained look on his face when I said cliffs. Was he scared of heights? "Well I guess it could be worse, anyways good luck. I wanna get a good look at what we have to do."

"Yeah, same with you..." I said in a friendly demeanor, as I looked at the other students. I turned to look at him to say something, but couldn't see a single sign of him. Where had he gone?

After about fifteen minutes of walking through the school and nature, we arrived at the cliffs. Ozpin and Glynda were waiting for us, along with several other people. I looked around at my fellow students and saw everyone I had met so far. Zinex seemed to be the first one on the left, possibly being the first to arrive. He seemed to have a irritated expression on his face for some reason. On my right was both that off monkey faunus and the guy that had puked on the bullhead. We were then directed to step on a number of pedestals that lined the edge of the cliff. Just stepping on the pedestals made me anxious for some reason, but I powered through it.

"For years you have trained to become warriors." Ozpin began in his wise yet soft voice. He took a look at all of us, as if seeing where our attentions were. "Today, your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald forest."

"Now…" Miss Goodwitch began, still holding her little tablet. "I'm sure many of you have heard rumors of the assignment of teams."

"Nope, not really." I muttered as I continued to listen to both of them.

"Well, allow us to put an end to your confusion" she continued, "Each of you will be given teammates… Today."

"What? Aw…" I could barely hear Ruby say from the background. Thank you fox ears.

"These teammates will be with you for the rest of your time here at Beacon" Ozpin continued, "So it is in your best interest to be paired with someone with whom you can work well."

Considering most/all of us just met recently, that was highly unlikely. Out of all these people I didn't really know much about any of them. They all seemed so different, so much unlike me.

"That being said, the first person you make eye contact with after landing will be your partner for the next four years." Ozpin continued once again. Causing a jaw drop for me, how could that be? Then I focused on what he said… landing?

"What!?" I heard Ruby squeal in the background, along with someone saying "See? I told you!"

"After you've partnered up, make your way to the northern end of the forest" He began to explain. "You will meet opposition along the way. Do not hesitate to destroy anything in your path, or you will die. 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 containing several relics. Each pair will choose one, and return to the top of the cliff. We will regard that item, as well as your standing, and grade you appropriately."

So get into the forest, find a partner, and get a relic. This couldn't be too hard, but my question was how we were going to get into the forest? My thoughts were interrupted when I heard the sound of someone whooping. I shot a glance to my left and saw the platform Zinex had been standing on was raised up and he was going sky high. For a second I was confused but then what was going on hit me.

Oh… no…

Three seconds later, I felt my body launch forward and the ground leave my feet, as I was catapulted into the air towards the Emerald Forest.

"I can't believe that I was that stupid!" I yelled at myself "He said 'when you land', that would indicate you would either be dropped, or launched!"

Sighing at my own stupidity, I decided to focus on my goal of hitting the ground but not dying. Using my tails, I slowed down my velocity and made my way down through the trees, avoiding various branches and twigs. When I landed I took a few second to gather my bearings, and then ran off northward, luckily I was a kitsune. I could run way faster than a normal human could run due to my genetics.

"Ok, If I were a temple, where would I be?" I asked myself. I then began to walk instead of running just so I could track the temple easier, it was hard to run and look around for a temple… especially in a forest. As I reached a small clearing I heard a growl, I turned around and saw five ursa closing in on me.

"I'm trying to look for something stupid Grimm. Ok, fine, I needed the practice anyway" I said summoning Mythrid Truths, which took a few seconds. Making the first move, I ran towards the middle ursa, and with a swift movement, beheaded the ursa with one slash. Though I succeeded in killing it, the one right next to it slashed at me. I turned just in time to see it's claw coming towards my head, but thanks to my aura I was only knocked down. I jumped back quickly and pulled power from my aura to heal myself. The four began to close in on me but I then focused my semblance and launched my sword through one of the Ursa's bodies, immediately killing it. Then I held out my hand and pulled the sword back to me. The three that were left let out huge roars that hurt my ears, I frowned and steeled my nerves. One of the Ursa's barreled at me as the two others began followed right behind the front one. As it neared me I took a knee to the ground and pushed my sword in front of me, the ursa was too late to stop and impaled itself on my sword but the force flung me back into a tree. I groaned and watched the other two Ursa's begin to near me, sensing I was almost in no position to defend myself. As they approached I stood slowly, only to have a sharp pain course through my back, it would take time for my aura to heal that.

"C'mon then, attack!" I yelled getting in a defensive stance, they snorted indicating they were about to attack. I readied myself as best as I could but I didn't like my odds. Suddenly, from nowhere, Zinex fell onto the ground with his boots slamming into the ground in front of me. In his hand appeared to be a black four foot sword, except he was holding it as if it were a rifle of some sorts.

"Hello there." He said in a humorous tone, then with a sound of pure energy, the blade bent slightly and opened up, making the appearance of a gun. A shot of fire flew from the blade, connecting with one of the Ursa's faces knocking it back, then doing the same to the other. He then pressed a button on the hilt of the weapon and it closed the gap between the blades, forming back into a traditional blade.

"Zinex? Where did you come from?" I asked in a weak tone as the Ursa's scratched their faces. He turned and saw a glow in his yellow eyes and a grin on his face.

"The trees man." He said simply then turned back to the Ursa's who had finally regain their eyesight. They roared at him which hurt my ears once again but didn't seem to bother Zinex. He raised his sword then began eyeing the two Ursa's who then ran towards him. He laughed then shot to the side cutting one of the Ursa's head off as the other one continued to barrel towards me which I wasn't ready for. I raised my arms to hopefully lessen the blow but then a large boom went through the clearing, the Ursa was knocked off course and hit a tree. I looked to Zinex who had his left hand extended, what was that boom? We both stared at each other for a second before nodding, this was it. From this day forward, we were partners and we had each other's backs. I reached my hand out towards Mythrid Truths, and it flew into my hand. I then sliced downward on the last Ursa, and it was gone.

"Wow man, the force is strong with you." He said with a laugh but I just looked at him with a confused look, what did that mean?

"Alright now do you know where the temple is?" I asked him and he nodded.

"Yeah saw it as I saw you. Noticed you might need a little help." He shrugged and began leading me towards where he said the temple was. Eventually we reached the temple-like structure and noticed there were many podiums with different chess pieces on each. We both began walking around the structure and glancing at the many different pieces.

"So… which one do we take?" Zinex asked looking at each of the pieces.

"How… about…" I said reaching for one but before I could grab one, I heard more growling behind us with my fox ears. I turned and noticed a horde of grimm coming our way. "Zinex…"

"What?" He asked turned towards where I was looking. In the horde, there were beowolves, lots of ursa, and a deathstalker. As for the two people they were chasing, I had definitely seen both of these two before.

The first was the male monkey faunus who now had both of his weapons out, to which he appeared to have two of. One appeared to be a large, blue bladed spear with a chain around the hilt, and a split in the middle of the blade. I guess it separates into two separate blades that are connected by the chain. His second weapon appeared to be a teal tinted bow with some dust cartridges on it. I guess the spear doesn't have ranged capabilities. He also had these purple bracelets on his forearms, what did those do?

The second person seemed to be an average human, in fact it was the same guy I had bumped into after I had exited the bullhead, His fire red hair and eyes told me that much. As for his weapon, it appeared he had a pair of Boomerangs, both appeared to have straight blades in one end. The other end he was pointing at the grimm; judging by the size of the boomerangs, the other end was firing pistol rounds as they ran. As for his clothing… he was wearing a loose red shirt, black cargo shorts that reaches his knees, the shorts also had a red stripe on it. He also had black leather jacket and was wearing the same pair of boots that looked rather bulky and metallic, what did they do?

"Well this should be fun." Zinex muttered, turning his sword back into its railgun form.

"We have to help" I say grabbing a random chess piece and dashing after them.

"Oh really? I didn't think of that." Zinex said sarcastically as he fired fire energy right into and Ursa's head, causing it to explode. He then put the weapon down and put in another cartridge, though there were even more Grimm.

"I have an idea, guard me while I do what I'm about to do." I said then pulled my hands out as Zinex ran next to me firing another shot of fire dust at another Ursa. I used my psychokinesis on a good amount of stones around the area pulling them up into the air. "Hey you two! Duck!"

"Got it!" The monkey faunus called as they both hit the ground. I yelled as I pushed my semblance to the limit and flung nearly every stone at the grimm, killing many of them. My head immediately began to spin as my knees hit the ground.

"I got you buddy." I heard a voice above me say as some hands grabbed my arm. Suddenly I felt extreme warmth fill my body as my vision cleared and I saw both the monkey faunus and the red haired human next to me on my left. I glanced to my right and saw Zinex's hands on my arm and his eyes closed, what was he doing? I glanced forward as Zinex removed his hands from me and saw a Deathstalker in front of us.

"Aw come on!" I heard the person in the red shirt say. I sighed then stood up, though I felt a bit weak, I felt much better than I had a second ago. What had Zinex done to me? I quickly shook the thoughts out of my head and focused at the task at hand. I noticed this Deathstalker looked much bigger than any I had seen before. I guess this wouldn't be so easy huh?