Chapter 3: Teaming up.

If everyone else knew about what Ozpin was saying, it would have to be that they must find a relic in some temple, avoid dying, and be graded for their performance. If they knew that they were going to be launched out in the air, then they would be fine with it, as long as they had their landing strategy...that is if they're not launched when he was talking about that.

Aeris was going through the air, being followed by a ton of students, down below was the Emerald Forest, the environment was blooming with green leaves, unharmed and untouched by anything, but that would soon changed at any second.

The flower girl had her stave in her hand, she was well prepared for a rough landing. She spun the stave in front of her and was able to get through one of the layers of the tree, she appeared right through and was looking down at the ground. She flipped in a ball and prepared to land, she touched the ground and was now sliding on the grass, before bumbling herself right on a tree.

She fell on her back, and laughed. "that was crazy." She said to herself, she heard the sound of gunfire above the trees and more sounds of students trying to prefect their landing strategies.

Snake was already prepared for this, he got his rifle out and detached it to create sword-knifes, he rolled around in a ball and then struck the knifes right at the second tallest tree. The knifes didn't stuck for so long, he was being lowered down to the grass slowly, and he got off the tree. "That wasn't so hard." He replied.

Lucy was slowly falling down, she was trying to think of a stradegy to land perfectly, but she was acting a little nervous. She had her broken sword ready, but she wasn't focusing on her ability to finish it. She closed her eyes and right then,she felt herself bumbing through the trees hard, she was getting hurt already, and she was expecting the crash into anything.

She landed hard in the grass, and began to roll through, right before she hit another tree, "Oww..." She cried in pain, "I don't want to do that again!"

At Kenway, he was not thinking ahead at this point. He was now awaiting for the ground to get close to him, so all he did was go right through the leaves of the tree. He crashed right on a branch, and fell on another one, just right before he crashed on the ground. "Made it." He said out of nowhere, he slowly got himself up, and brushed off some of the dirt on his clothing, he took his Tomahawk out and pointed it at the enviroment, expecting the grimm to show up.

He walked through the Forest, and he kept his guard up to prevent an ambush, he knew his objective; Find a partner, get a relic, and be graded at a saw distance. It wouldn't be so hard to do, but he doubted that it could be easy enough to beat. Despite the fact that he didn't know what kind of grimm he'd be seeing around here, he stayed on the defensive to avoid any attacks.


The only good thing that Lucy enjoyed was the fact of not seeing anything evil coming at her, at least not yet anyways. She kept her broken sword up and pointed it at any bush or trees, so that she could gain the upper hand, even though she would have to charge her sword up at the perfect time.

"Calm down Lucy, just calm down." She replied to herself, "You can just survive this thing, it won't be so bad." The more she said this to herself, it only made her feel a bit more nervous. There was no possible chance that she would be avoiding a lot of grimm, because they seemed to be around this place a lot, so she needed to be secured.

A bush rustled next to her, "Who's there?" She pointed the busted sword at it, and stepped away from it, there was no telling what it could be. "Come out, come out and face me like a man!" The bush was not moving anymore, this caused Kuo to calm down a little bit, but unfortunately for her, she was unaware of a Beowolf stalking around the environment.

The creature had thrusted himself out of the bush and roared out to the girl, who turned around and a sense of fear came back to her. "Uh oh." She muttered, she tried to focus her energy to recreate the tip of the broken sword, and one she managed to make it sharp and deadly, the Beowolf lunged at her.

She jumped away as it tried to swing at her with it's sharp claws, and she began to return Fire by shooting an ice blast straight at it. Luckily it trapped the monster by the legs, and she was able to run straight at it, without any sign of fear on her face. She slashed it at it's face, and it only scratched the mask it wore, then she thrusted it right to it's neck.

It was now defeated, but the only thing she didn't see was another Beowolf heading straight at her. It slashed at her and she was flew off two feet away to roll off at the grass, Lucy dropped the sword, and was now facing off against the beowolf without any weapons. She fired two icicle blasts and it penitratied through the arms, but it was still moving, Lucy rolled to the left and tried to use another attack, but it steered clear and Rammed at her.

Lucy bakced away, hesitaiting more than ever as the beowolf began to stalk right in front of her. But she was saved as a girl leapt over to the monster and kicked it's face, the person took her stave out and kicked the chin of it, then spun her weapon around to stab it. The monster fell dead on the floor, and the savior was revealed to be Aeris. "Are you alright?"

"Aeris, thank goodness you came around when you did!" Lucy got on her feet, and hugged the flower girl close to her, "I almost died."

"I can tell, And it looks like we're partners now." The girl replied with a smile on her face, "Now we have to find the temple." Lucy got to her fallen sword and gripped it hard.

"Right, let's get going."


Snake was ready for anything. He had his gun armed and he pointed it at everything, he expected to see Lucy or Aeris, because those two are good enough to be friends.

"I'm pretty sure that Assassin guy is going to find those girls first." He muttered on anger, "He's going to pay for doing that if it does." He gripped the handle hard and he kept his anger face on, he was not going to let him do so.

He didn't know that the trees were losing only two of three leaves and floating down on the ground. He kept walking all over the place and he had his finger on the trigger, prepared to shoot anything. He could hear that someone was about to come right behind him, so he turned around quickly and grabbed whoever it was, and aimed it at his head.

"Wait, I'm not an enemy!" The appearance of Connor was right in front of him, and he was not shocked to see himself being caught by the soldier. "I'm one of you guys."

"Oh...Goddammit!" Snake shouted in rage, "Out of everyone possible, Why did I had to be paired up with this guy?!" He let Connor go, completely forgetting that he would kill him if he was with him. "Why him!"

"Uh...Are you finished yet?" Kenway had a confused look, and he was just standing there, watching the guy rage. "Because we need to find the relics right now."

"No, I'm not!" Snake put the gun away, and turned to the Assassin, "I'm going to be mad at you for the entire time until this ends, alright?"

"Uh...alright then." The assassin wasn't sure of this, snake walked away from him, and they began to walk. "But can you tell me your name?"

"No!" The soldier kept his pace away from the hodded guy, about to mutter angry compliments at him, but then he could smell some smoke. "What is that smell?"

"It must be fire." Connor pointed to the left, and they could only see a tree falling down in the ground, while roars of Grimm creatures were heard from that place. above them, a bird was flying away from the place, and it seemed like it could survive the fire, and the smoke. The assassin turned away from the smokes and headed off to the other direction.

Snake had to follow him with no other option, the smoke would not catch up to them, and just continue it's unknown course until someone would come by and extinguish it. The two males just kept going until they were clear of the fires and such, although if they could hear cries of monsters, then they would be alone.

"Who caused that fire?" Snake asked, his new partner made no response, as he just sulked under a tree, feeling a little exhausted, The soldier just stood next to it, and looked all over the place, "Well, we'll have to ignore that, we need to find those relics."

"We might need to get to higher ground." The assassin said.

"No, I can't go up by trees like you can, I'll just walk my way through this." He began to storm off to the woods, and Connor had the courage to just climb the tree, and follow his partner in the middle of the air, He used Eagle vision to see his partner going through some of the bushes and tag by him.

"I'm not going to enjoy this initiation." Snake muttered, still not believing that the infamous Kenway was alongside with him. "If there was a grimm coming at me, I'd rather ger killed by it."


Back at Aeris and Lucy, they were also trying to find the Relics, but this was a good time for the two to help out each other. "Okay, if you want to get a clear shot," Aeris guided Kuo, they were hiding in a bush, keeping an eye on the armor less Boarbatusk walking around the small area, "You have to use your semblance and trap it, so you can kill it without any fear of being hunted down by reinforcements."

"got it," Lucy held out her hand, and focus her sights at the grimm creature, it was not dong anything at her, making it a perfect target for her. She blasted an icicle at the creature, but for some reason it missed it entirely, and flew out to the horizon, hitting something else, which caused a roar to come in.

"Eh...close enough." Aeris jumped out of the bush, and tackled the Boarbatusk head on, and slamming her stave at it. Lucy got from the bush as well, and headed over to the far distance to see what she hit.

The ice-powered girl walked to the pack of trees, and noticed what had hit the creature. "Oh...shoot." She could see a large Beowolf in the far corners of the Emerald Forest, this one stood exactly twice the size of a hunter, and it was fully covered in tons of Armor, from head to toe(s). It's red eyes looked around to see whatever it was that shot him, the icicle Lucy used was on the side of it's neck, not even penetrating through it.

The monster growled at the distance, Lucy ducked behind the trees, and covered her mouth to avoid attracting this beast. 'I hate myself right now.' She thought to herself, nearly grabbing the hilt of her sword, and trying to step away from the creature. She was lucky that she didn't step on any branches on the floor,.

Aeris was back at the Boartatusk, getting tired of hitting the thing, and seeing the girl shaking in fear. "Hey Lucy, what's up?" The flower girl investigating the reasons by the girl was panicking, but right then, she came back out in fear as well.

"We have a giant Beowolf in there!" She shouted, but she was trying to shout it as quietly as she could, not wanting to attracting it's attention. "What are we gonna do?"

"Let's just go ahead and avoid it, by hiding in the trees"

"That's not a good idea, you know!" Despite their reasoning, Aeris had to agree with the option, so she went first. She walked to the first tree she saw, and tried to climb it up, but that didn't work. "See, it's not a good idea."

"AAAAAHHHHHHH!" A female's scream came from the distance, completely stopping the two's attempt to escape their position. "Someone's in danger!" Lucy said, "We have to help her!" She moved her feet and accidentally stepped on an inconviently placed twig on the grass, halting her, Aeris, and the Beowolf from the distance. "Aw for the love of-!"

"Run!"


A/N: I am so so sorry about this being short. I'm still struggling with this thing, and right now, I can't focus much. But on the bright side, Winter Break is just around the corner, and I can work on this more.

Thanks for reading, Please review, compliment on some things, and I'll see you guys next time. Bye.