Royal POV

"For the last time you guys, I'm fine, I was just startled is all." I told Ruby and Yang. We were currently preparing for Initiation in the locker room. For Ruby and Yang, it consisted of putting on their combat clothes, which was just their regular clothes, and gearing up with their weapons. For me, it consisted of sitting down and carefully carving as many knives out of stone as I could. I was up to six.

"Right, you were startled by the "spider"" Yang drawled, "So startled that it you suddenly broke out in a cold sweat and screamed in terror."

I shot he a finger gun, "Exactly!"

"Royal," Ruby said in a worried voice, "Yang and I know what it's like to lose a parent too. We can help.

I stiffened up, "What makes you think this has anything to do with my dad?"

Yang scoffed, "Maybe because one of the words you were screaming was "Dad!""

I winced. It would have really helped to know that.

"We know what you're going through Royal. We can help." Ruby said.

I felt myself get a bit irritated at that, "Oh really? You also watched the one person who ever gave a shit about you in your life, die right in front of you? Then by all means, commence with the helping!"

They looked at me in silent shock as I said, "Don't presume what you don't know, and don't pry where someone obviously doesn't want you looking. See you later." And with that I walked away, just as some guy walked past, followed by a hyper girl who looked at him like a love-sick puppy.

I might have been a little harsh back there but sue me if I wasn't exactly emotionally stable at that point. I spent the last two years hunting for leads on Ryo's killer, not looking for "resolution" or any of that emotional crap. Still, I should apologize later, when I've calmed down.

As I was storming away though, I noticed Weiss talking with a strangely familiar redhead that I couldn't quite place. I figured I should tell her how impressed I was at her actions last night, maybe have a positive interaction to start off the day.

As I approached Weiss was doing some weird maniacal plan thingy, I don't' know I try not to judge. I walked up with a smile on my face, "Hey Weiss I— "

She turned to glare at me. Oh, right this was Weiss we were talking about, so much for positive. "Excuse you! We were in the middle of something here!"

I felt my eye begin to twitch, but I kept my cool, "Right sorry. I'll leave you alone then."

I was about walk away, when a gentle voice asked, "Who is this Weiss?"

I turned to look at the redhead, and upon closer inspection I was almost certain I had seen her somewhere before. I was certain because just looking at her face sent a strange, yet pleasant, feeling to my stomach of all places.

Weiss sighed heavily, "This is… er… actually I never did get your name…"

I chuckled and held my and towards, "Name's Royal, nice to meet you."

She held her head high as she took my hand, "Likewise. I', Weiss Schnee, Heiress to the— "

"Schnee dust company." I finished for her, "I've heard."

She narrowed her eyes, "And of course you already know who this is, no doubt it's why you approached us."

I turned to the redhead. She really did look familiar, but for the life of me I could place her. "I can't say I do…"

For some reason, the girl seemed to brighten up at this. Weiss however was irate. "Seriously? You don't know who this is?"

I shrugged, "Should I?"

Weiss scoffed, "This is Pyrrha Nikos!"

Pyrrha waved happily, "Hello!"

I blinked, "Doesn't ring a bell."

"She graduated top of her class at sanctum! She's the four-time Champion of the Mistral regional tournament, a new record! Jeeze what kind of sheltered life did you live?"

I stifled a laugh at the irony of her statement, but was feeling very awkward about my lack of knowledge, "Good for her?"

Weiss groaned, "SHE'S ON THE FRONT OF EVERY PUMPKIN PETES MARSHMALLOW FLAKES BOX!"

That did it, "Ohhhhhh! That's why I remember you! you were the ultimate score!"

Pyrrha's cheeks went red and Weiss stared at me in disbelief, "I beg your pardon?"

I nodded excitedly, "Every time I found of box of that marshmallow goodness, it was an awesome day. I was wondering why my stomach felt strangely good every time I looked at you."

The girls breathed a sigh of relief for some reason, but then Weiss looked at me strangely, "What you mean "found". As in you didn't buy them?"

I rubbed the back of my head. By now I was beyond caring about people knowing how I grew up. But that didn't mean I was going to go out of my way to let them know. That's when they get all pitying and shit. But I wasn't going to lie either, "My dad and I didn't have a lot of money for food, so sometimes we had to… er… scrounge."

Pyrrha's eyes widened in shock in realization of what I meant, but Weiss didn't seem to get it. "You mean you had to look in the back of the pantry?"

I deadpanned, "Er, sort of. Except instead of a pantry it was a dumpster."

Weiss' face went green, "You ate out of the garbage! By the Brothers you must have been pretty poor, though I suppose it explains your…umm"

I raised an eyebrow, "Ratty wardrobe? It's fine, I've been meaning to buy some new clothes, I just haven't got the money yet."

"I see…" Weiss looked lost in thought, as if this was some eye-opening experience for her. seriously had she never met a poor person before?

I tried to lighten the mood, "But seriously I'd always wonder what the person who threw out Pumpkin Pete's was thinking. That stuff is delicious! I can't imagine how cool that must have been."

Pyrrha smiled shyly, "Yeah… sadly it's not very good for you."

I snorted, "Could have fooled me. Anyways before I forget Weiss, the reason I came over here was to say that I thought it was pretty impressive how you swallowed your pride like that, I didn't think you had it in you."

Weiss blushed but quickly looked away with her arms crossed, "Of course I had it in me. I am a Schnee after all."

I felt my sweat drop, "Right… anyways nice meeting you Pyrrha, I wish you both luck in Initiation."

Pyrrha waved and said, "To you as well!" While Weiss just huffed again. Yeah, she was definitely a work in progress.

As I walked out of the locker room towards the emerald forest, I wondered how all of them would do in a real fight. Guess we'll see.

Third Person POV

The scene opens up on a cliff overlooking the Emerald forest. Lined up on metal platforms were several of the first years, the others presumably being tested elsewhere, including Royal, Ruby, Yang, some bulky fellow, the Zen looking guy from the locker room, the hyper girl from the locker room, some Mohawk guy, Pyrrha, Weiss, and an assortment of side characters from there. To their left was Ozpin and Goodwitch.

As everyone was getting ready, Ruby and Yang were looking at Royal, who was inspecting each of his knives one last time be putting it back in his coat. Ruby spoke first, "Roy, we want to apologize for earlier. You're right, we shouldn't have pried."

Royal sighed before looking at them, "Don't worry about it, I can tend to be overly touchy about it, I'm sorry I was so harsh to you guys."

"Dude," Yang chimed in, "From what you've said, you're exactly the right amount of touchy about it."

Royal chuckled dryly at that, but before they could say more, Ozpin began to talk.

"For years you have trained to become warriors," Ozpin declared, "and today your abilities will be measured in the Emerald Forest."

Glynda continued, "Now, I'm sure many of you have heard rumors about the assignment of teams. Well, allow me to put an end to your confusion. Each of you will be given team mates. Today.

There was some excited muttering throughout the First years, except for two individuals: Ruby Rose, and Royal Belladonna.

Ruby was feeling anxious because she was notoriously bad at social interaction, and Royal, well, royal hadn't even considered the fact that he'd be put on a team until now. He worried whether it would cause problems later on, what with his own unique abilities.

Ozpin spoke again "These teammates will be with you throughout the remainder of your time at beacon, so it is within your best interest to be paired with someone with whom you can work well."

Ruby fidgeted some more at this, while Royal simply nodded in agreement.

"That being said, the first person you make eye contact with after landing will be your partner for the next four years."

Ruby's world shattered at that moment, while Royal just looked at Ozpin in shock, thinking how that couldn't possibly be an effective or efficient way of doing things. Surely some more thought was put into this right?"

"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."

Royal raised an eyebrow at this. Surely Ozpin had taken precautions to avoid the death of a student right? Jaune was a fine example of how not everyone who made their way into beacon was exactly "combat ready" at the get go. Surely Ozpin knew this right?

"You will be monitored and graded for the duration of your initiation. But our instructors will not intervene." Ozpin stated dryly

Okay… then that was just a slick way of saying there will be automated rescue bots out there instead…or something… right? Surely the headmaster couldn't be so cold as to let students die for real.

"you will find an abandoned temple at the end of the path. There each pair must take a relic and return it to the top of the cliff. Once you reach the top you will be graded appropriately. Are there any questions?"

Royal raised his hand, only or Ozpin to ignore him, "Good! Now, take your positons."

Royals eye began to twitch again. This guy did not just ignore him! Angered he spoke louder, "Hey Ozpin! My hand was raised!"

He was ignored as the people at the opposite end of the line started getting launched out one by one. Royal turned to Ozpin in shock, "Are you insane! How do you expect them to survive a fall like that?"

Ozpin sipped his coffee, "I have faith that you all will find your own landing strategy."

It was almost Royals turn now, Yang just shot off with a wink to Ruby. "And if they don't make one in time?" Royal asked.

Ozpin looked him dead in the eye as Ruby was launched, "Well then I suppose they'll die."

Royal realized right then that there was in fact no half-truths, no clever turns of phrase, and no lies in Ozpins speech. He was sending them out on their own. As Royal was launched, he could only say one thing

"YOU LAZY PRIIIIIIIICK!"

Ozpin just watched him fly off, not a hint of a reaction in his eyes.

Much to Royal's relief, everyone else seemed to be doing just fine in developing a landing strategy. Ruby had her scythe recoil, Weiss had strange snowflake thingies, Yang hand… shotgun gauntlets? Okay that's awesome. However, not as awesome as Pyrrha, who went full on badass, taking down trees in her path by plowing through with her shield.

Royal was doing just fine as well as he flew through the air, his hair and coat tail billowing in the wind.. He wasn't ever really worried about his own landing, he had a plan for that. To slow his fall, he built up aura on the bottoms of his feet and in the palms of his hand's before releasing it violently. It was similar to Comet launch, but on a larger scale, and requiring more Aura, so he was careful to only do it three times, using the force of the release to slow his descent and adjust his course towards a particularly thick looking tree.

When he was at the tree, he grew his claws and dug them into its bark, allowing him to grind to a halt down the trunk, leaving deep scratch marks as he went.

When he reached the ground, he dusted himself off, adjusted his coat, and set off to find someone.

He didn't have to walk long. Unfortunately the someone he found was a someones, and instead of people, they were a snarling pack of Beowolves.

Royal just smiled and got in a fighting stance, growing his claws once again. Once he found a partner, it was very likely that he wouldn't get to use them again for a long time, so he was going to make this count, "Bring it."

The pack all charged at once. There were about 10 of them at the beginning, but the number started dropping quickly as he easily jumped over the head of one, before landing behind and shoving his claws deep into its back. It died instantly and he moved on to the next. He moved fluidly, mixing martial arts' dodges and deflects, with his own calculated claw slashes.

Eventually a few got smart and snuck up behind him, each clamping on to his arms with their powerful jaws, but he activated his aura before they could do real damage. However, before he could get his arms free, a third rushed towards him from the front. So he did the only thing he could think of. He kneed the creature in the face.

Only sprouting from his kneecap was a long, silver barb, that pierced through the Beowolfs skull before receding back into the skin, which was now fading from black to his usual skin color.

As Royal freed his arms with an aura enhanced yank, and began to decimate the rest of the pack, his mind drifted back to when he first developed his new power.

He was fourteen, it had been almost a year since Ryo was taken from him, and he wasn't doing so well. He tried as hard as he could to get Taijitu extermination jobs, but not many people were willing to hire a child to kill Grimm, regardless of what he claimed to be capable of.

It had been several days since he had eaten. He had begun to use one of the first advanced aura techniques Royal taught him, which used his own aura to sustain himself from dying of starvation, however like most aura techniques, it had a time limit depending on the amount of aura you have, and Royal had reached his.

In a final act of desperation, he resorted to something Ryo told him never to do: stealing.

He attempted to take a couple apples from a fruit stand in the Vacuo marketplace, but due to a lack of focus due to hunger and weakness, he was soon caught and chased into an alleyway.

Royal knew that he would die if he didn't eat soon, so he curled up in a ball with the apples close to his chest as the vendor began to kick him, trying to let go. All the while Royal coughed out, "Please, please, please, please, please…"

The vendor wasn't in a charitable mood however and continued kicking the boy. Royal just clenched his body and closed his eyes as he took each hit. It wasn't until he felt a rib crack that it happened.

His skin began to grow darker, and harder, and silver spikes started emerging from his back, causing the Vendor to scream and run away yelling "Monster!"

As the spikes receded and his skin returned to normal. Royal began to weep while he ate the apples. Sure he was happy to get away with the food, but in his mind he had broken three promises to Ryo in one day: don't steal, don't develop new Grimm powers, and don't use said powers in front of others."

Ryo shook himself back into the present. He really shouldn't zone out like that in the middle of a fight. However, as he was about to take down the last Beowolf, an orange and red spear appeared from the side, impaling the creature to a nearby tree with a loud thunk.

Royal POV

I quickly willed my claws away as I turned to see Pyrrha Nikos approaching in her trademarked Spartan armor. Thankfully it seemed like she didn't notice the claws, that or she didn't say anything about it. As we looked into each other's eyes, the clearing was silent save for the rustling of the trees.

That is until my stomach growled loudly, causing Pyrrha to cover her mouth as she giggled, and me to hang my head low in embarrassment.

"I guess you weren't kidding about the stomach thing." She chuckled.

I stood up straight, "You know what? Screw it. It's not my fault my mind subconsciously associates your face with food."

She nodded as if trying to act serious, but was failing miserably. "Well, it's a pleasure to meet you partner. I must be quite lucky."

I looked at her curiously, "What do you mean? I'm the one who got paired with the four time winner of the mistral thunder dome or whatever."

She gestured around us at the now decaying Grimm, "I did that with a sword and shield. You did this barehanded, which if you ask me just as impressive, if not more so. Though I have to ask, do you prefer fighting without a weapon, or is there another reason?"

I shrugged, "I couldn't really afford one to be honest." I didn't correct her about the bare hands things. I could've done it without the claws, it would have just taken longer, "But that's okay. My friend Ruby, er, "offered" to help me build one after initiation." I wouldn't admit it, but I had been practically bursting with ideas. I couldn't help it, I had been fantasizing about a weapon of my own since I first saw a hunters weapon in Vacuo.

At this Pyrrha looked a bit disappointed, but before I could ask why she brightened up again, "She brightened up again, "Well perhaps I could assist the two of you! my Uncle Leo is a master blacksmith back in Mistral, and I picked up a few things from him."

I blinked, "That would be awesome! But seriously If it's too much trouble—"

She scoffed and walked past me, "Nonsense, we're partners now, nothing is too much trouble."

I turned to look at her go, walking off as if she knew exactly where she was going. I couldn't help but smile, as I followed after her.

As we made our way through the forest, we came across a few more Grimm. A couple Beowolves and a few Ursa all fell to a few slashes, some well-aimed knives and some well-placed strikes. Any that I knocked out I made sure to snap their neck before I left, feeling a bit awkward as Pyrrha watched me.

"You're a bit brutal aren't you?" she suddenly said as we were trekking along.

I froze, "I'm sorry I—"

"Oh no no!" She stopped me, "I didn't mean it in a bad way, I was just observing. You're ruthless, efficient, not showboaty. Too many people try to mix theatrics with fighting nowadays if you ask me."

I smirked, thinking about Ruby's crazy twists and spins with her beloved scythe, "Yeah but you have to admit: some people make it work."

She shrugged. As we continued walking however, she asked the question I was waiting for.

"Theirs a bit more to you're fighting style than just skill isn't there?"

I chuckled, "What? You don't think all that was just pure muscle and skill?"

Her eyes widened, "I'm sorry! I didn't mean—"

"Kidding!" I stopped her, "Just messing with you, sorry. I figured you'd notice eventually."

She actually looked at me with a hint of irritation in her eyes, "So it is something else. Your semblance?"

I shook my head. "Aura. Aura manipulation to be precise."

She looked at me in surprise as she moved a branch out of her way, before letting it go, causing me to have to duck to narrowly avoid getting hit, "Oh sorry! But I didn't know that there was such a thing."

I nodded, "That makes sense, as far as I know only a few families practiced it, and they kept it close to their chests. I can use it for a lot more than defense."

She raised an eyebrow, "Such as?"

I shrugged, "Physical enhancements, making myself stronger or faster, more so than just activating your aura accomplishes, also aura projection, that has a lot of uses, really it's up to your own imagination and aura count."

She looked intrigued "Really? May I see a demonstration? If it's not too much trouble."

"Sure." I closed my eyes, and focused on extending my aura.

When I opened them, I was floating in the air, suspended in my glowing purple aura Avatar, which towered several feet over Pyrrha's head.

She stared up at me in awe, "Amazing… you have to teach me how to do that!"

I laughed as I shrunk back down, "That's a scary thought. Like you weren't enough of a badass already! I had to use several speed enhancements back there just to keep up with you."

She stopped and turned to me with a hand on her hip." So you won't teach me?"

I patted her on the shoulder, "Relax, I'll try my best to teach you how, though I can't promise that I'll be a good teacher."

She smiled, "Deal. Now come on, that cave up there looks promising."

I looked where she was pointing, there was indeed a cave on the side of a rock wall, "You think that's where the relics are?"

She shrugged, "That or a shortcut to them, worth a try, right?"

I nodded and followed he inside. We made a torch by striking one of my stone knives against her shield, which acted as the flint to create sparks. I took the torch and lead the way.

The farther in we went however, he less sure I was that this was anything but trouble, "Uh Pyrrha, maybe we should head back…"

"No wait!" she said, "I see a light up a head.

she jogged forward, making me have to jog to keep up, and we soon entered the room of said light, which was hovering in midair.

And attached to a deathstalker,

I felt my heart begin to pound as I stared at the menacing creature in front of me, the same type of creature I faced with Ryo right before I died. Unable to stop myself, my mind started replaying the scene over and over again in my head.

Next thing I knew I was sprinting out of the cave, with a very confused, and slightly embarrassed, Pyrrha Nikos in my arms, "Royal! Royal I can walk by myself, it's okay we can face it together! Royal? Royal!"

I could hear her, but her words weren't registering. All that could occupy my head was my father falling off that cliff, over and over again, after fighting that creature, and the overwhelming urge to never let anything like it happen ever again.

Third person POV

Pyrrha was starting to get scared, no matter what she said Royal would not respond, he just kept running through the emerald forest at insane speeds, covering several yards with each step.

Finally they burst through the trees, into a clearing where the ruins were. Blake and Yang were already there, having collected their chess piece. When they saw Royal enter carrying Pyrrha, they rushed forward, thinking she was injured.

However, as they drew closer, Pyrrha started struggling in his arms to get free, but was having trouble, "Stop him!"

The duo didn't know what was going on but they got the message. Yang squared her shoulders and met him head on, stopping him in his tracks while Blake looped her weapons chain around his neck to pull him back. Even with them both working to hold them back, they were still beginning to lose footing, "Jeeze how strong is this guy!?" Blake exclaimed as his neck strained against her chain.

Yang was silent however as she looked into his eyes. They were frantic and terrified, darting left and right for something or other, not truly seeing her. she looked down at Pyrrha, "What happened?"

Pyrrha was lost, "I don't know! He was fine until we saw a death stalker in a nearby cave! Next thing I know he had picked up and we were going the other way, it's like he can't hear us..."

Yang sighed, "More than "like". I'm going to have to break him out of it."

Blake looked up still struggling, "How?"

'Like this." Yang suddenly backed up and punched Royal square in the jaw, sending him, and an unlucky Pyrrha flying.

They landed near the steps of the ruins, Royal groaning and coughing as Pyrrha quickly got to her feet and helped him on to his back, brushing his hair to the side as he had a coughing fit.

Once he was done he looked around, "What the fu—weren't we just at the cave! Where's the deathstalker?"

Pyrrha looked at him in disbelief, "You took one look at it and ran, carrying me with you and ignoring my words. You mean to say you blacked out?"

Blake put her weapon away and said, "Let me guess, your "arachnophobia"? or are you just a coward?"

"Stop!" Yang yelled, causing everyone to look at her in surprise, especially Royal, who had been content to take the verbal barrage. Yang stepped towards Royal before pulling him into a hug.

Royal blinked, 'I'm very lost right now."

Yang chuckled and whispered into his ear, "You got stuck remembering. I could tell from your eyes, they had the same look in them as my dad's when he remembered Ruby's mom." Royal stayed quiet, but was much less confused now.

Yang pulled back, "I don't expect you to tell me anything, but you should at least let Pyrrha know, she is your partner after all."

Royal looked like he about to protest, but one look back at Pyrrha's worried face shut him up. He nodded and went to go see her.

He rubbed the back of his head, "Hey, sorry about that, I sort of lost my head there "

She scoffed, "I'll say. But I'll forgive you, cause I don't think you meant any harm. Just try to stay with us okay?"

He nodded, then looked at the relics, "So which one should we pick? I'm assuming that these are the actual ruins,"

Pyrrha chuckled nervously, "Yeah that cave seemed like a bad idea in hindsight. How about—"

"HEADS UUUUP!"

Everyone looked up, to see Ruby Rose literally falling out of the sky. Everyone got ready to catch her, but Royal was fastest, he jumped high to meet her midair, looping an arm around her waist before plummeting towards the tree line, where he expertly slowed their fall by falling through the leaves and branches, before landing lightly on a sturdy branch.

Blake and Yang watched this in awe, "Did your sister just fall out of the sky?"

"I—" Yang was cut off by a crashing on the other side of the clearing

an enormous Ursa had emerged from the tree line and was roaring savagely, until there was a pink flash behind it's back. Suddenly it fell forward, dead, causing it's hyperactive passenger to fall off as well and look back sadly, "Aww! It's broken!"

'

An out of breath Lie Ren emerged behind them a moment later, "Nora… please… don't ever do that again." He then looked up and realized she was already gone.

Over at the relics, she was eyeing the white rook piece, before snatching it up and singing, "I'm queen of the cas-tle! I'm queen of the cas-tle!"

"NORAAA!" Ren yelled angrily, causing her to chuckle nervously before skipping back to him, "Coming Ren!

Blake spoke again, "Did that girl just ride in on an Ursa?"

"I…" Yang was once again cut off by a familiar screech. On yet another side of the clearing, the deathstalker emerged, taking down many trees in its path and roaring angrily at Royal and Pyrrha, angered over having to travel so far for its prey.

Ruby and Royal jumped down from the trees, and rejoined the group, Ruby going straight for Yang.

"Ruby!" Yang exclaimed as she lifted her arms to hug her sister,

"Yang!" Ruby replied happily, lifting her arms to do the same,

before they could embrace however, Nora sprang out of nowhere between them, "NORA!" causing them both to fall back slightly in fright.

Suddenly they heard above them, "How could you leave me?'

They looked up to see Weiss dangling helplessly from the talon of a giant Nevermore. Ruby called up, "I said jump!"

"She's going to fall." Blake stated matter-of-factly.

"She'll be fine." Ruby assured her, though mostly herself.

"She's falling." Ren stated calmly.

Royal groaned in annoyance, "I got her."

He repeated the process he dead with Ruby, bringing Weiss safely to the ground, who quickly shoved him off, "Watch where you're touching!"

Royal smiled thinly, "And you're welcome." He then turned and walked away, making it easier for Weiss to hide her blush."

"Great the gangs all here!" Yang exclaimed as the Deathstalker began to charge at them, "Now we can die together!"

Ruby stepped forward, "Not if I can help it!" then shot off in a blur of rose petals. Royal's eyes widened at his, "Ruby NO!"

However, she didn't listen, and as fast as Royal was he couldn't keep up with her speed at all, yet he still ran forward, struggling to keep his mind grounded as he watched the Deathstalker bat her away easily.

Yang followed as well, but had to stop to avoid being skewered by a volley of Nevermore feathers that also pinned down Ruby's cape, keeping her from escaping. The blonde brawler watched as royals silver hair fly behind him as he skillfully evaded each one as he never stopped moving towards ruby, especially since the Death stalker was now bearing down on her.

As she closed her eyes, waiting for the final strike, a strange crunch was heard.

Slowly she opened her eyes, realizing quickly that she wasn't dead. Instead she saw the purple leather of Royal's coat, behind the shining silver of his hair standing before her, his arms raised towards the stinger that was coming down on her. she felt relief flood through her body. until she saw the blood begin to drip.

Her eyes widened at that and she quickly ripped the feather pinning her out of the ground with newfound strength, before picking up Crescent Rose and rushing to his side to see how badly he was hurt. What she saw almost threatened to release her breakfast.

The crunch she heard earlier was the sound of the stinger piercing through his chest, obliterating the bones of his sternum and ribcage. His hands resting on either side of it showed that he was trying to stop it, but failed miserably. Blood was leaking out of her friend's mouth as he turned to her with eyes filled with agony. It

"That went better in my head…"

CHAPTER 4!

To any readers who are knew to my work, if you don't like cliffhangers you are shit out of luck. Though, I wonder if you can predict what will happen next...