Here we are at Chapter 5. Let's see how the initiation goes for Khazhak and his group, along with everyone else. I do not own RWBY. They belong to Roosterteeth. I only own my OCs. Here's chapter 5. Enjoy.
Chapter 5: Initiation
Khazhak flies through the air, glancing around as he sees other initiates flying through the air with him.
"Birdy, no!" he hears to his left and looks over to see Ruby, and a few black feathers trailing behind her.
Ruby fires her sniper-scythe three times to slow her fall before turning it into its scythe form and hooking the blade around a tree branch. She spins around the branch before releasing herself from it and moving to the forest floor. Meanwhile, Weiss activates her semblance and lands on a glyph in the air before jumping off it to get closer to the ground. Reaper get close to another tree and pretty much does the same thing as Ruby until he reaches the ground. Meanwhile, Porphyrius points his blades in front of him and starts spinning like a drill until he spins right through two trees before landing on the branch of a third one. He looks up when he notices Lloyd falling not too far from him.
"CANNONBALL!" Lloyd yells as he activates his semblance, encasing his whole body in his steel skin armor, rolling into a ball, and crashing into the ground, destroying everything around him. "Oh yeah, that's right! I'm indestructible, baby!" he says, exiting the basketball court-sized crater he just made without a scratch on him.
Porphyrius can only shake his head as he moves on. Meanwhile, Khazhak approaches the trees and when he gets close, stabs his left sword into it before pushing off the tree and repeats the process with his swords three times until he reaches the forest floor. After finishing his landing, Khazhak hears a faint screaming and looks up to his left to see Jaune Arc falling in the air, flailing his limbs around, and looking like he's about to go splat. Khazhak then notices another figure in the air, this figure being Pyrrha Nikos. Pyrrha breaks through three trees with her shield before rolling onto the branch of a fourth and turning her red and gold sword into a rifle. She sees Jaune in trouble and decides to help by turning her rifle into its spear form, taking careful aim before launching it at Jaune. The spear luckily hits its mark and pins Jaune to a tree, saving him from an unpleasant end.
"Thank you!" Jaune says from a distance.
"I'm sorry!" Pyrrha yells apologetically.
"Well, it looks Jauney-boy gets to live a little while longer. Whatever, I need to link up with Reaper," Khazhak says before heading off in his own direction. Khazhak does not get far before he is confronted by a pack of Beowolves, all ready to kill him. Khazhak takes out his swords and gets into his fighting stance. "Ozpin did say to 'not hesitate to destroy everything in my path.' Might as well follow his advice," Khazhak says as lightning charges into his swords. "LIGHTNING OBLIVION!" he yells, sending a swarm of lightning bolts at the monsters.
The attack takes out a several of them, and some trees in the process. Soon, the rest of the pack start charging in towards Khazhak. When one Beowolf gets too close, Khazhak swings his left blade and slicing its head off before kicking the dead body at another Beowolf. Two more come at Khazhak, but he backflips away from them stabbing one with both his swords through its body and firing his guns, sending rounds into the second. Another Grimm approaches Khazhak from behind, but he kicks the monster in the face before spinning his body and slicing the Beowolf in half. Khazhak looks to the remainder of the pack, five Beowolves, all lined up in front of him. Khazhak charges more lightning into his blades.
"LIGHTNING SLASH!" Khazhak yells, sending multiple lightning wave attacks at the Grimm, destroying them and the forest behind them.
When the smoke clears, Khazhak retracts his blades and places them back onto his belt, feeling that the battle is over. What he doesn't notice is another Beowolf coming up from behind him. The Grimm jumps up to ambush him, only to get suddenly pulled away by a small knife with a wire attached to it. Khazhak sees the Beowolf get pulled towards a figure in the shadows before a red scythe blade comes out and slices through the monster's body, leaving it in two. The figure comes out of the shadows and it turns out to be Reaper.
"You missed one," Reaper says in a monotone voice.
"I left that one for you," Khazhak replies.
"You know, I don't think that Professor Ozpin literally meant 'destroy everything in your path' when he said it to us," Reaper says, gesturing to the destroyed trees.
"I'm just following his advice. Come on, we need to find this temple where the relics are located," Khazhak says while walking past Reaper, who follows closely behind him.
During this time…
Ruby lands on the ground and begins running off in search for her sister, Yang.
"Gotta find Yang. Gotta find Yang. Gotta find Yang. Gotta find…" Ruby thinks in her head while running through the forest. "Yang! Yang!" She yells. "Oh, this is bad. This is really bad. Oh, what if I can't find her? What if someone finds her first? There's always Jaune. He's nice. He's funny. I don't think he's very good in a fight though. Oh, what about Blake? So mysterious, so calm. Plus she likes books. Well then again, I'm not sure I'd be able to hold a conversation with her. But, then there's Khazhak. He's always helped me out before. Or one of his friends. But, I'm sure they already planned on meeting up with each other to become an official team, so that may not work out for me. Ugh, okay. Who else do I know in this school? There's Yang, Jaune, Blake, Khazhak, Reaper, Porphyrius, Lloyd, and…" Ruby mentally checks off her list while running through the forest.
Fortunately, she finally meets up with someone. Unfortunately, that someone happens to be the heiress, Weiss Schnee. Ruby comes to a stop and they both eye each other, signifying that they are now partners, as per Ozpin's instructions. They stare at each other for a moment before Weiss walks off away from Ruby, obviously not wanting to be her partner.
"Wait, where are you going?!...We're supposed to be teammates," Ruby cries out, feeling down at Weiss abandoning her.
"Ow! Ugh," Weiss says while trying to navigate her way through some bushes and around trees as she walks away from Ruby.
However, she eventually stops, hears some noise, and looks up to see Jaune hanging by his hood on a tree, curtesy of Pyrrha's spear.
"Ow, stop, uh stupid…" Jaune mutters, trying to free himself with no success.
He looks down at Weiss and waves to her while laughing nervously, hoping she'll help him. Weiss then turns around and walks back to Ruby.
"By no means does this make us friends," Weiss says while grabbing Ruby's hood and dragging said girl behind her away from Jaune.
"You came back!" Ruby cheers and starts pumping her arms in the air in celebration.
"Hey wait! Come back! Who's gonna get me down from here?!" Jaune pleads for help since he still cannot free himself from his current predicament.
Suddenly, Pyrrha comes forth from below him, "Jaune! Do you…have any spots left on your team?" Pyrrha playfully asks.
"Very funny," Jaune retorts crossing his arms before looking back at Pyrrha with a smile, which she returns.
Meanwhile…
Porphyrius moves through the forest, getting closer to the crash site of Lloyd's most recent work. He eventually finds the crater and finds that Lloyd is no longer there.
"Professor Ozpin said that the temple would be north of here. Lloyd may have gone that way for it," Porphyrius mutters before heading north through the forest.
Porphyrius continues through the forest before finding some trees, and some Grimm, scattered in pieces. Porphyrius checks one of the trees and notices claw marks on it.
"No doubt about it, Lloyd just came through here. He never was very good at being subtle. He's a lot like Khazhak in that aspect," Porphyrius notes before moving on.
Porphyrius moves in the same direction for a few minutes before he starts hearing gun shots ahead of him. He jumps up into a tree and moves from branch to branch until he comes to a small clearing and scopes out the situation. In front of him is Lloyd standing against a few Grimm, with the rest already dead from his onslaught. Deciding to show him up a little, Porphyrius jumps into the air and starts firing his assault rifles from his weapon arms, taking out the remaining Grimm while also making Lloyd jump out of the way. When Porphyrius lands in front of the dead Grimm, he turns to his right to look at Lloyd, who has an irritated look on his face.
"Dude, next time warn me before firing your guns off! You could've shot me in the head!" He yells.
"Oh, stop crying, you would have just shrugged off the rounds as if they were pebbles. Come on, Khazhak and Reaper are probably already heading to the temple. We need to meet up with them," Porphyrius says and starts walking off.
"Just be ready for when I get my payback for that stunt you pulled," Lloyd warns him before catching up with him as they continue their way.
Back with Ruby and Weiss…
"What's the hurry?" Ruby asks, trying to catch up with Weiss.
"I will not let my mission be delayed because you're too slow. I swear if I get a bad grade because you're-" Weiss says until Ruby suddenly ends up in front of her, thanks to her semblance which is speed. "What the-?"
"I'm not slow, see. You don't have to worry about me," Ruby says with a smile.
"When did-?" Weiss asks.
"Weiss, just because I don't exactly know how to deal with people doesn't mean I don't know how to deal with monsters," Ruby starts before moving to Weiss and placing one arm around her shoulders while Weiss crosses her arms and looks at her with an angry look. "You're about to see a whole different side of me today, Weiss. And after it's all over, you're gonna be like, 'wow, that Ruby girl is really, really cool…and I wanna be her friend," Ruby says before running off again, leaving rose petals in her wake.
"You may be fast, but you still excel at wasting time," Weiss says while waving one arm, trying to get the rose petals out of her face, noticing that Ruby didn't respond to her. "Ruby?" Weiss asks as the forest starts to get darker and she hears rustling in the bushes around her. "Ruby…" Weiss mutters, starting to get worried as red eyes appear around her and she hears growling. Then a Beowolf comes out of the bushes and roars at her. "RUBY!" Weiss yells.
…Meanwhile, with Yang…
It is the middle of the day as the initiation exam continues for the new recruits. For now, Yang Xiao Long walks aimlessly through the Emerald Forest, looking for any signs of the other students nearby.
"Hello, is anyone out there? Hello! I'm getting bored here," Yang says before hearing rustling sounds in some nearby bushes. "Is someone there?" Yang checks behind the bushes. "Ruby, is that you?" she asks, but only gets an angry growl in response and looks up, "Nope," She says, adding a popping sound to the word.
Suddenly, an Ursa rushes out from behind the bushes and attempts to slash at Yang with its right claw, but Yang rolls out of the way in time. She activates her shotgun gauntlets before a second Ursa attacks from her right, to which she avoids with a back flip. She turns to the Grimm as they come at her again. One Grimm runs at her, but she punches it with a right hook, sending it flying backwards. The second Grimm comes at her, but she retaliates by giving it a left uppercut and then a left kick, knocking it back.
"You guys wouldn't have happened to see a girl in a red hood, would you?" Yang asks, but the Grimm only roar at her. "You could just say no," She replies.
One of the Ursai attacks Yang again with a swing of its left claw and then its right claw, but Yang backflips out of the way.
"Ha-ha-ha! Jeez, you two couldn't hit the broadside of a bu-…" Yang starts before noticing something in front of her. That something being a single strand of her blonde hair as it falls to the ground. One thing no one should ever do to Yang Xiao Long is this: never touch her hair.
"You…" Yang mutters as her eyes change color from lilac purple to crimson red in pure anger, while the Grimm look on confused. "YOU MONSTERS!" Yang screams as she explodes in an angry blaze.
Yang charges at the Grimm, hitting one with a left hook before sending it up with a right uppercut. She then points her gauntlets behind her and fires them, launching her at the mid-air monster. She then begins to pummel the hopeless Grimm with a flurry of punches before hitting it hard enough with a final blow to send it crashing through numerous trees behind it. As the trees fall, Yang turns to the second Ursa as it comes towards her.
"What?! You want some, too?!" She yells, still burning with rage at the monsters.
The Grimm stands on two legs, sizing her up, before something attacks it from behind, killing it. That something turns out to be a black katana blade in its gun form attached to a black ribbon. Yang looks and sees that the culprit is none other than Blake Belladonna, now her new partner. Blake pulls the katana back to her and places it back in its sheath on her back before smirking at Yang while the blonde just looks at her as she calms down from her previous rage episode.
"I could've taken him," Yang says.
…Meanwhile, with Weiss Schnee…
Weiss gets pushed back by a Beowolf as she fights while being surrounded by the whole pack. She gets back on her feet and readies her blade in front of her.
"Remember your training, Weiss. Head up, shoulders back, right foot forward. Not that forward. Slow your breathing. Wait for the right time to strike and…Now!" Weiss thinks to herself before setting her blade pointed at a Beowolf as the revolving chamber in her sword spins to the red dust chamber. She then shoot over to the Grimm to kill it, but someone gets in her way. Suddenly, Ruby appears out of nowhere and attacks the Grimm with her scythe.
"Gotcha!" Ruby says, unaware of Weiss closing in on her from behind.
"Huh?!" Weiss freaks out, losing her balance and sending a stream of fire at a random tree to avoid hitting Ruby.
Ruby finally notices, but loses focus on the Grimm, allowing it to strike her with its claw. The attack sends Ruby back, colliding into Weiss and causing both to lose their footing.
"Hey, watch it!" Ruby says.
"Excuse me! You attacked out of turn. I could've killed you!" Weiss yells at her.
"You'll have to try a lot harder than that," Ruby mutters to herself.
The two refocus on the Grimm still surrounding them. Ruby reloads her sniper scythe and points it behind her, cocking the rifle while Weiss gets her blade up in defense. Then, a tree encased in fire falls by their side, showing that their part of the forest is on fire.
"We have to go!" Weiss orders Ruby, grabbing her and pulling her away as the Grimm howl and retreat from the flames like them. The two girls make it out of the fire and into safety as Weiss hunches over, trying to catch her breath while Ruby remains unfazed.
"What was that?! That should've been easy!" Ruby questions Weiss.
"Well, perhaps if you had exercised even the slightest amount of caution with the placement of your strikes, I wouldn't have set the forest on fire!" Weiss angrily replies.
"What's that supposed to mean?!" Ruby further questions her.
"I'm just surprised that one who talks so much would communicate so little during an encounter," Weiss argues with Ruby.
"Well, I'm sorry that you need my help to win a fight. I'm just fine on my own!" Ruby retorts.
"Well, congratulations on being the strongest CHILD to sneak your way into Beacon. Bravo," Weiss says before turning around and walking away.
Ruby yells at her and vents her frustration by slicing a tree in two with one strike of her scythe. Ruby follows Weiss, neither of them noticing a large black feather falling onto the fallen tree.
…With Khazhak and Reaper…
Khazhak and Reaper continue towards the temple until they spot smoke rising above the tree line. Then, they hear the faint sounds of howling, howling that sounds as if it is getting closer to them. They wait a few moments before a pack of Beowolves run towards them and soon, they are both surround as the Grimm encircle their prey.
"Looks like someone set the forest on fire to drive these Beowolves away from them, only for said beasts to come running to us. I swear, we can never catch a break," Reaper says while preparing his twin scythe.
"Makes no difference to me. At least I can alleviate some of my boredom now," Khazhak replies, pulling out his swords.
The Grimm charge at the two warriors all at once, but Reaper fires his two hidden knives, each attached to a thin metal wire, at two Grimm, and starts spinning his weapon above him while Khazhak kneels below him. The technique causes the two bound Grimm to get sent spinning into a twister, colliding with all their fellow monsters. Reaper eventually releases the captured Grimm, sending them flying into the trees. Retracting his knives back into his twin scythe, Reaper readies himself as Khazhak stands back up. Khazhak rushes towards four Beowolves, spinning his body and doing a swing with his left blade, decapitating one Grimm before slicing a second one in half with his right sword. Khazhak then kicks a third Grimm in the face before performing a cross slash that cuts the Grimm into four pieces. Finally, Khazhak stabs his blades into the fourth Grimm before pulling the trigger and watching the Grimm explode into tiny fragments. Meanwhile, Reaper spins his twin scythe as five Grimm charge him from different angles. As they get close, Reaper jumps into the air, dodging the assault. He lands on one Beowolf and spins his scythes until one blade curves around the creature's neck. He then flips over it, and slices the head off while simultaneously stabbing a second Grimm in the shoulder. He separates his weapon into two separate scythes and pulls the pinned scythe out of the Grimm, opening up its body before cutting both arms off with a downward slash of his scythes. Reaper then ducks under an attack from the third Grimm before slicing off its legs and stabbing it in the head and swinging it into another Beowolf. Reaper combines the two scythe weapons back into one and then performs a diagonal slash, cutting the Grimm in two. The last Grimm approaches from behind, but gets killed by a shot from Khazhak's swords before it could finish the job.
"Well that was easy, as usual," Khazhak says, disappointed at the dullness of the fight.
"Now, now. I'm sure there will be bigger challenges ahead of us in time," Reaper replies.
"Whatever. We should be near the temple by now. Let's get moving," Khazhak says before moving on with Reaper in tow.
…Meanwhile, with Porphyrius and Lloyd…
"Are we there yet?" Lloyd asks his partner.
"For the hundredth time, no! We are not at the temple yet!" Porphyrius shouts, getting frustrated with Lloyd's impatience.
"I'd just wish something would come out and fight us already," Lloyd notes.
Not a minute later, a large group of Ursai surround the duo. Both ready their weapons while Porphyrius gives Lloyd an irritated look.
"You just HAD to say it, didn't you?" Porphyrius rhetorically asks him. "I wonder if Khazhak and Reaper have become partners and made it to the temple yet? Hopefully, we'll meet up with them soon…" Porphyrius mentally wonders as he and Lloyd prepare for their next battle.
And that's the chapter. Well, at least the initiation isn't boring for Khazhak's group. How will they fair with the rest of the initiation? Until then, please Read and Review.