DISCLAIMER: How many times do I need to tell you I don't freaking own RWBY!? D:

Hey what's up everybody, I'm back with another early chapter, just as I had promised last time! But unlike how I promised last time when I said that we would get into the forming of the teams, *nervous chuckling* yeah, well, I didn't quite get that far, because I wanted to upload this before the end of the week, so I didn't quite get their, but, so it goes. I promise though that we will get to the actual team forming and beyond next chapter.

Btw, did you guys see the intro to Volume 4 for RWBY! OHHHHHHHHHH it was AWESOME, I LOVE the new character designs! (Especially how Ren now has long ass hair XD)

But anyway, back to the chapter. Now this chapter stats off with Olivia's and Marriott's perspective at the beginning of the initiation, and also a probably really crappy fight scene, but whatever, I REGRET NOTHING! Also, at the very end, I put in bios of all four characters, so if there was something you were curious about with them, hopefully they'll be answered.

But I'm rambling at this point, so I'll get out of the way and let you guys enjoy (or not enjoy) the chapter!

Everything felt so surreal to Olivia, the fact that she was standing before professor's Ozpin and Goodwitch in front of a cliff side that looked over the beauty that was the Emerald Forest, which she was about to be sent into for initiation. The only thing that worried her was the way they make the teams, which is pretty much up to the students, and considering she hasn't had any real interaction with anybody, other than that girl Marriott the morning before, she didn't really know what to expect from anybody.

The only thing she was really hoping for though when it came to that was that her partner would NOT be a faunas of course. She could deal with it if they were just a teammate, but not her partner. That could only end up in things getting constantly blown up, or so she thought at least.

Although, hearing how they were supposed to get down to the forest kinda scared her a little bit, as embarrassing as that was for her. She hadn't really admitted this to anybody, but she had always had a case of acrophobia ever since she was little, much to her chagrin.

She didn't know what it was about just being really high above the ground, but she just could never get over it, so the fact that they were to be launched through the air, high above the forest, that honestly scared her more than the possible threat of Grimm in the forest.

But she of course wasn't going to let that of all things get to her, after all, she was about to train to be a huntress-in-training at possibly the best school to do so, why would she let a small case of acrophobia get in the way of that?

After Ozpin had ordered them to assume their positions, he said that the first to go was someone named Koel Marceleine, and it turned out she was one of the faunas she saw from the morning before, and second to go after her was the other faunas she saw. 'Well, I know who I'm going to try to avoid.'

Three more students being launched later, it was Olivia's turn, and she had to try really hard to avoid to not show any sign of fear at this point, which she didn't really have a lot of time for, because she was sent on her way just a couple of seconds afterwards.

She closed her eyes as she was launched, and she opened them after just a few seconds, and as she did, she had to repress the urge to scream a little, which she successfully did, not easily, but did.

And then it struck her that Ozpin hadn't mentioned how they were expected to land, and she panicked for a quick second before she composed herself as best she could, and thought quickly on how she could land, and she remembered how she could use her semblance in this situation.

Before she could collide with the tree that was quickly approaching, she crossed her left arm over her chest, then thrust it forward and back across her chest, and she suddenly disappeared from sight.

And then she reappeared on one of the branches on the tree she was heading for moments later. 'It's fun having teleportation as your semblance. It'll be even better when I can control it completely.'

She then proceeded to jump from branch to branch and landed on the ground after a few seconds, and as she landed, she unsheathed her sword, which had a steel blade with an orange strip going down the middle, going from the grip to the very end at the tip, the grip was wrapped in a burnt orange leather, the same color as the strip on the blade, and her hair, and her emblem was, which was an orange portal with her sword in the middle, was engraved in the middle of the blade.

She looked around quickly to take in her surroundings, which obviously wasn't really anything special considering it was a forest, just trees, trees, and then maybe some more trees. She looked up into the sky and saw all the other students flying over head and around her.

She then thought about what exactly she wanted to do when it came to finding a partner. On one hand, she wanted to find a partner fast so she could have someone to rely on for the most part of being here, but on the other, she didn't want to waste any time, and just get to the temple they had been informed of. In the end, she chose latter.

'I'll just make my way to the temple, and see who I run into on the way there.'

Needless to say, not only did this plan NOT take her THAT far, she also ended up running into someone she was trying to avoid.

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Marriott had been absolutely excited since she got to Beacon, and her morning had gone relatively well, save for the girl she basically ran over (which she still felt bad about), but now, here she was, surrounded by some of the best hunters-in-training, at arguably the best school in all the four kingdoms.

She took in everything that Ozpin and Glynda had said to them before they would be sent down to the forest, but what really caught her was at the end of their speech, when Ozpin said that they were not only going to be sent down to the forest, but LAUNCHED to the forest, and as he said that, Marriott's mind started going a million miles an hour.

'We're going to be launched!? That sounds awesome!'

She was pretty sure that if she said that out loud, she would get some people looking at her like she had grown a few heads out of nowhere, I mean, she thought that being freaking launched into a forest, possibly infested and filled to the brim with Grimm, sounded "awesome".

But after students started being launched, and hearing most of them actually cheering and shouting on their way down as they were sailing through the air, apparently she wasn't as weird as she thought. Or, they're all just crazy together, which also worked for her.

After Ozpin had told them to get into their positions, he then said the first to be launched was someone named Koel Marceleine, who she guessed was the girl she collided with in the locker room, and sure enough, it was, same hair, same outfit. And a few seconds later, the girl that was with Koel in the locker room was launched as well.

'Her name was Silver right? Her sister?' She thought as she recalled her.

The only other one she recognized, a girl named Olivia she remembered, was launched a few people in front of her.

'I guess I know who I'll be aiming to partner up with.' She thought after seeing the previous three launched before her.

And before long, the last one in front of her was launched, and she grinned, and was soon on her way into the air and towards the forest.

As she was soaring through the air, she saw that all the other students in front of her all making these fancy moves and tricks, either with their weapons or semblances, or both, as they were trying to land, and she assumed that she had to do the same, or at least fabricate her own way of landing somehow, which she did.

She reached into the pocket of her shorts and pulled out a small, rectangular tablet looking thing with a button in the middle, and after she pressed it, the tablet transformed into her battle axe, which was more like a halberd actually. The spear handle of the halberd was plain black and the actual axe part was maroon, just like her hair.

She turned it so that the axe was facing her, and as she pressed another button, it transformed again, this time into a kind of sniper rifle, and shot several times to slow herself down, and as she did so, she landed on the branch of a tree, and proceeded to simply jump from branch to branch down to the ground.

As she landed back on the ground, she turned her rifle back into its halberd form, and didn't waste any time in making her way down the path she had landed on.

'Alright, let's go get a partner!'

She started on her way down the dirt path somewhat aimlessly, half searching for any sign of a possible partner, or just for a way to the temple, the latter proving to be
a bit more difficult to keep track of. Her sense of direction had never really been the best ever, and she never would argue with that.

But after a few minutes, she heard something like… growling… followed by a yelp of some kind?

She rushed further down the path to the source of it and found a Beowolf in the middle of it, and it looked like it was just about to advance on something, or someone.

Marriott decided to not waste any time in getting rid of the thing. She gripped her halberd tightly, and rushed straight for the Beowolf.

"HYYYYAAAAAA!" She let out a powerful battle cry, and before the Beowolf could truly know what was going on, or rather about to happen, she quickly thrust her axe down onto its head,

The Beowolf cried out in pain for a few seconds before it quieted down and started to dissolve.

What she found after it completely dissolved was exactly what she wanted to see, which was simply another person, and not only that, but a person she had already met.

This person was the black haired faunas that she ran into in the locker room, who was staring at her with big misty gray eyes, which also happened to be looking straight into her pair of hazel eyes.

"Well, hello again! At least I didn't run you over this time huh?" She asked with a small chuckle and smile.

It seemed to take the girl a few seconds to get over the surprise at her sudden appearance, but she eventually did reply.

"Uh, y-yeah, I guess. So… I guess this makes us partners, huh?"

Marriott smiled some more, and answered in a kind voice. "Yeah, I guess it does."

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Olivia had been wandering for about 10 minutes and she assumed that she was going the right way, she was typically pretty decent with sense of direction, but this forest was so big, it seemed like if you had absolutely no idea of what direction was what, you'd get lost in it pretty easily.

She came upon a clearing of sorts in the path she was following and she suddenly got a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach. Something didn't feel… well, something just felt off to her. She quickly got into a ready position with her sword, just in case something really was off.

And it turns out, she was right, because shortly after she entered the clearing, a pair of red eyes came into view… and then another pair… and another.

She found three pairs of blood red eyes staring dangerously at her, and out of the shadows came three Beowolves, and they slowly crept towards her, snarling and growling all the way.

She lowered herself into a duelists stance, ready to fend off the Grimm.

One of the Beowolves then jumped and lurched at her, and she quickly side stepped out of the way of it, and after the first one, the other two followed its example, and jumped at her as well. She used her agility and quickness to not only avoid both of them, but as she was getting out of the way of them, she thrust her sword out and caught the side of one, making it growl a little. As they all came to a stop, one of the Beowolves ran up to her, and got on its hind legs, and started to swipe at her. She jumped back and out of the way of all its swipes, none of them coming really close to hitting her, and after she saw an opening in its swipes, she quickly dashed forward and avoided the Beowolves' claws and quickly plunged her sword up into its throat, giving no chance at survival.

As it began to dissolve, she saw another one of them running after her. She saw it hunch down, about to jump at her again, and as she saw this, she bent down slightly, and when it did jump, she rolled under it, and when she was under it she thrust her sword up, and slashed straight across the Beowolf's stomach, just about cutting it in half. She then sensed the last one coming up behind her, but before it could get to her, she threw her arm out in front of her like she had done landing earlier, and disappeared from its sight.

The Beowolf skidded to a stop and looked around confusedly, not noticing that Olivia had reappeared right behind it, and before it could realize this, she horizontally slashed at its back, just about cutting it in half as well just like the previous one.

As it withered away, she took a little time to catch her breath. But she didn't have a lot of time to do so, because shortly after she defeated the last Beowolf, she got the feeling that something was behind her, and she whipped herself around just in time to see an Ursa Minor approaching.

'Ugh, are you serious right now?' She thought, annoyed.

She took a deep breath and got back into her stance as the Ursa advanced towards her. But before it could get within ten feet of her, she heard something from behind the Ursa, and then she heard what sounded like gunshots of some kind and the Ursa roar in pain after that, and just like that, practically as quick as it came, it went, killed by something completely hidden from Olivia's vision, but as the black smoke from the dying Ursa started to disappear into the air, it was revealed to Olivia what was behind it all, literally.

And it was not what Olivia was hoping for. This person that had just saved her the trouble of dealing with that Ursa, which she should be thankful for, was… a faunas. In fact, it was the same faunas from the yesterday morning, or one of the at least, but either way, no matter which one it was, she still wasn't what Olivia had been hoping to see.

"Whoa, I wasn't expecting someone else to be… here..." Spoke the voice from behind the still dissolving Ursa, said voice sounding surprised at first, then started to trail off, and Olivia could then see that she had started to recognize her.

And then something seemed to have stuck them at the same time, which was the fact that they were making eye contact right now, and that of course meant…

"You have GOT to be kidding me, right?"

'There's no way, NO WAY, a faunas can be my partner, that will end up badly for everybody involved with us, I guarantee.'

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Wide crimson eyes stared into narrowed blue eyes for what felt like an eternity until the orange haired girl closed hers and sighed.

"I can't believe I got stuck with you, but whatever, I guess we got no choice but to stay together now, there's no taking anything back here, so we might as well get used to each other as best we can. So let me start, or at least try; my name is Olivia Doncieux.

It took a few seconds for Silver to respond. "Um, my name is Silver Porcello." Silver introduced herself after averting her eyes down to the ground and with a slightly quiet voice.

Olivia then opened her eyes to look at Silver with a slight glare, and then spoke in a bit of a condescending tone. "Okay, now if we're going to be partners, let's get some stuff straight here; I don't do well with faunas, point blank, no questions asked. Me and them mix just about as well as oil and water, so it would be in your best interest to watch what you do, understood?"

This in turn made Silver flash her eyes back up at her with her own glare and speak in a questioning tone. "What do you mean by that exactly? You think I'm just goi-"

Olivia cut her off in an even more condescending way than before. "I SAID no questions asked, understood!?"

Silver was about to remark, but decided that it wasn't worth the trouble that she could already see brewing between the two of them. So she gave an exasperated sigh instead, and nodded. "Okay, yeah, whatever you say dear mistress of mine."

Olivia's glare persisted, and actually grew more intense after those words, but didn't say anything back, but instead gestured to Silver to follow her back into the forest, and started to walk back down the path, not bothering to look back to see if Silver was going to follow, not like she really had a choice at this point though.

Silver sighed again. 'Ugh, this is going to be a lot of fun, I can tell.' She thought sarcastically, fearing what might await her, now that she had a partner that didn't seem to thrilled about her already.

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Koel had mixed feelings about having the tall redhead as her partner, although she thought that it was better to have someone she had at least a little bit of interaction with, even if it was very little, instead of someone completely new to her.

Koel had never done well with being around new people, she didn't know what to say and do at all. She had also always been painfully shy, especially when she was alone, but that last part came mainly because she was usually with Silver practically all the time, so it was typically pretty difficult for her to communicate when she was on her lonesome.

"So, that girl that you were with in the locker room is your sister, yes?" Marriott asked, breaking Koel out of her internal musings.

"U-uh yeah, t-that's right." Koel stuttered out, internally cursing herself for her naturally shy nature.

Marriott didn't pay her stuttering any mind though, but instead pushed the subject a little further. "Not to be rude or anything, but it's kinda weird for two sisters to literally have completely different hair colors, right?"

"Um, well that's because I was actually adopted by her family when I was eight." Koel corrected.

This seemed to have caught Marriott by surprise pretty well. "Oh… well, I'm sorry if I might have brought up any tough memories you might have, that wasn't my intention, I was just curious." Marriott said in an apologetic voice.

Koel noticed this and tried to reassure her. "Oh, d-don't worry about it, you couldn't have had any way of knowing."

Marriott nodded, but didn't respond, afraid she might say something that actually might offend or sadden her new partner, needless to say, that wouldn't be a great thing to do on the first day of all times.

After a bit of silence, Koel decided to try to start a little interaction this time. "So you said you're from Vacuo right?" Marriott nodded her head but again didn't say anything, so Koel continued on. "We then I'm gonna guess that your life wasn't exactly… easy I assume."

Marriott sighed and closed her eyes as she tilted her head down towards the ground before confirming. "Yeah, Vacuo isn't really the best place to raise a family, so I have learned. My family had always been… well, not really poor, but not exactly rich either. My dad had a job when I was a kid, but then the job economy went a little… wacko, I guess. My dad got fired from his job despite the fact that he was arguably the best at what he did, and it really drove our lifestyle down the drain to say the least."

She opened her eyes to look at Koel to see her staring back with sympathy filled eyes, but she didn't say anything, so Marriott carried on as she looked back down the path they were following. "About a month after my dad lost his job, my mom started to insist that we should move somewhere else, anywhere that we could make money easier, because at this point both my mom and dad were just doing random fill in jobs around the kingdom, but none of them paid a lot really. But despite my mom constantly importuning him about it, he never gave in, instead he would always say something along the lines of "don't worry, we'll be perfectly fine", or "we're making money though, so why do we need to move now", or whatever, anything like that really. So after a while of this, my mom… well, she had just had enough of it, and she divorced my father. I was fourteen when that happened, and after that, that was when I decided to take matters into my own hands and make my own money, and I did so by doing one of the easiest things to make money off of; fighting, more specifically underground and promotional tournaments around Vacuo."

Koel didn't know what to say, but Marriott continued on before she could think of something. "And I made a decent amount of money too, typically more than my dad made actually, as sad as that is, but it was still hard to make it through." As Marriott finished her story, Koel noticed the downcast tone her voice had taken.

The faunas was speechless. While she knew the lifestyle in Vacuo had been… declining to say the least, she didn't think it was quite so bad to the point of having to literally fight for money and a living.

"Wow… um, I'm sorry, that sounds terrible."

Marriott shrugged. "Ah, don't worry about it. I mean, yeah, it was difficult, but sometimes I enjoyed fighting, in fact it's why I got both introduced to training to be a hunter or huntress, and wanting to do so, and sometimes I did it forgetting that in the end it was for money. I enjoyed fighting, as weird as that sounds, but the main reason I did enjoy it was because I loved proving people wrong, especially about my fighting skills. The people of Vacuo didn't exactly put equality first, at least gender wise, so it was always fun to prove them wrong of course." She giggled at the end.

Koel nodded, but didn't say anything, thinking she had already been told to much. But Marriott didn't seem like a bad person. Not only was Koel painfully shy around new people, but she also had some trust issues, especially around humans, but there was something about Marriott that told her that she could trust the taller girl, and this made her smile.

'Maybe I don't need Silver around all the time to survive after all.'

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This isn't how Silver was expecting her initiation to play out, mainly because she wasn't expecting to be paired up with somebody who apparently didn't have a thing for faunas. 'Why does it have to be me?'

Of course, it wasn't like she wanted Koel to take this instead, Koel would probably faint if she would be with someone like this.

But, unfortunately for her, she also had a natural curiosity, and it was eating away at her to find out what exactly it was that made this girl hate faunas so damn much.

Ever since she encountered the orange haired faunas hater, they had been going a direction that they both assumed was north, or something like that, and they had been walking in complete and awkward silence, but before long, Silver couldn't resist her curiosity anymore, and she finally gave in to it.

"So… I feel like I need to ask, what exactly is it about faunas that doesn't mix well with you?"

Olivia stayed silent for a few moments, and for those moments, Silver thought she was actually ignoring her, but she eventually did respond, though not in the way Silver wanted.

"… what makes you think you can ask that?" She questioned with a glare that was already becoming to familiar for Silver's liking.

So Silver then went on the defensive. "Well, I mean that, I've of course met people who aren't exactly in favor of a faunas' well being, but I can already tell that you are a… special case of that, I guess."

Olivia sighed and closed her eyes as she spoke in a bit of a softer tone this time. "Listen, its just… not something for you to know, alright? I'm not really willing to explain it right now, I might later on, but just not right now."

Silver was disappointed to hear this, but she felt like it wasn't exactly the best thing to push, and she also felt that Olivia wasn't somebody she wanted to push for information that she didn't want to reveal. Plus, Silver also knew what it was like to have bad experiences and want to keep it from other people, at least until they were ready to give it away. So keeping all this in mind, she decided to resist her curiosity, respect Olivia's say in the matter, and drop the subject, but, of course, she still planned on getting the information from her in the future, not only to just satisfy her curious nature, but also to maybe help her new partner, and maybe she could also prove to Olivia that she could trust her.

'I'm going to find out what happened to you, and when I do, I'm then going to find a way to help.'

They then carried on down through the forest, in hopes of finding the temple, and they did so in complete silence yet again.

And that's that. I feel kinda bad that I didn't get to the end of the initiation, but I hope to god that next chapter, whenever it will be, hopefully not to far off, we will get to the end. But anyway, I'm going to leave you with these bios that I had promised, so let's get on with the information fest!

Name: Silver Porcello

Age: 16

Race: Cat Faunas

Personality: Silver is often cold and distant when you would first meet her because she had trust issues. She doesn't talk a lot at first and doesn't really open up , but give her time and she'll warm up to you and start to open up. She can also be a bit of a smart-aleck too.

Weapon(s): Two wrist blades on each wrist; named 'Azurewrath'

Semblance: Electricity

Theme song(s) (Because every cool character for anything ever needs to have a theme song or two!): Warrior-Evans Blue, Breaking The Silence-Breaking Benjamin, Time That Remains-Three Days Grace

Background: Silver was born on Patch, an island in the see west of Vale, and she had lived there her whole life before going to Beacon. When she was 7, her parents left one night without telling her where they were going, and when they returned, they had black haired cat faunas girl named Koel, who was about a year older than her with them, and they told her that they had adopted her. It was awkward at first between the two, but after a bit of getting used to each other, they soon grew really close together. When Silver was 8, her mom was killed on a mission, and then a few afterwards, when she was 11, her dad was killed on a mission as well. Her father dying was especially tough on her and Koel, because they didn't have anyone to take care of them because their older sister Alexandrite, who was 7 years older than Silver, was at Beacon at this point, but she came back to take care of them for about a month, and then she searched around for someone that could take care off them when she was back at Beacon, which she eventually did in the form of one of their parents' teammates when they were at Beacon. Silver then trained almost nonstop with Koel so they could follow in their parents' and sisters' footsteps.

Name: Marriott Stoute

Age: 17

Race: Human

Personality: Marriott is very kind, energetic, and overall easy to get along with as long as you can deal with and tolerate her. While she is very nice, she also has a bit of a short fuse. Piss her off, and she is liable to NOT let you get away with it in the end.

Weapon(s): A black and maroon halberd combined with a sniper rifle; named 'Maroonmite'

Semblance: Telekinesis

Theme song(s): The Red-Chevelle, Wasting Time-Red

Background: Has been explained like two times now in previous chapters :/

Name: Olivia Doncieux

Age: 17

Race: Human

Personality: Olivia is pretty difficult to get along with, she had a really tough childhood when her parents were killed by White Fang members. She's pretty much been drained of any innocence and emotions that she had when she was younger, and now she really just feels hatred for faunas. But that doesn't mean that she is a really a bad person inside, if she cares about someone, she will do whatever she can to defend you.

Weapon(s): A standard sword combined with a rifle; named 'Orenjiburedo'

Semblance: Teleportation

Theme song(s): Alone Not Lonely-Evans Blue, I Will Not Bow-Breaking Benjamin

Background: Olivia was born and grew up in Vale and had always wanted to become a huntress, and she grew up a nice, fun-loving kid, but that changed when she was 10, when her parents were killed right in front of her in a White Fang raid of her apartment complex, and she was never the same after that, as you would probably expect. She was found as a survivor of the raid, and she was placed in a foster home, but her personality had completely changed, and she just wasn't the same. Ever since that had happened, she had felt a very strong hatred for faunas, and she just couldn't be comfortable around them.

Name: Koel Marceleine (or Porcello)

Age: 17

Race: Cat faunas

Personality: Koel is painfully shy and introverted, if it weren't for Silver always being there for her, Koel would probably not really talk to anybody at all. Much like Silver, she has trust issues, but also like Silver, she opens up as long as she knows she can trust you.

Weapon(s): Two daggers combined with firearms with a purple hue; called 'Evapmine'

Semblance: Water

Theme song(s): In The Shadow-Evans Blue, Break Me Down-Red, Ashes Of Eden-Breaking Benjamin

Background: Koel was born on Patch, just like Silver, but she was abandoned by her parents when she was almost 8, but she doesn't know why they had abandoned her, and it's her secret mission in life to find them and then find out why, for she doesn't remember, because something happened to make her lose her memory of her childhood before she was abandoned, but the eventual scarring she has on her arms and legs (which explains why she always wears long sleeves and never wears shorts), gives her a grim idea of what her old parents did to her. After her parents left her, she was put in an adoption house, and was shortly adopted by Silver's family and given a new life, and since then, she and Silver had almost never separated from each other, and after her new parents were killed on their missions, she and Silver worked tirelessly to avenge them.