Alright! Time to give focus to the students on Mountain Glenn as they try to find a way to get through their senpais. Like I said in the previous chapter, these scenes will only last depending on how each pair would get through their test as quickly as they can. That's all I'm going to say, so on to the story!
Enjoy!
Ozpin's Office
*EARLIER*
"EH!?" Yuuki gaped in shock "You want us to fight our kohai, nya?!"
"I did not say that you have to fight them." Ozpin stated calmly, smiling in amusement "I simply ask that you to test them, as another part of their initiation."
"I see, then we shall do our task, Ozpin-sensei." Makoto nodded, understanding the task.
"Uh, I got a question." Coco raised her hand, getting the headmaster's attention "Which newbie do we have to test?"
"That's a good question, Miss Adel." The man closed his eyes "To answer your question, I will assign locations for each team."
That got the second-year students to listen intently on what the man had to say.
"Team MDNT (Midnight)," This got the redhead and his team to straighten themselves "You will be testing the students in Emerald Forest." The headmaster read the contents of his scroll.
"Mr. Himura, you will test Ruby Rose and Kiyoshi Nakamura," Himura nodded respectfully.
"Miss Sullivan, you will test Yukino Miyazaki and Shun Fujimori," Doreen smirked and crossed her arms.
"Miss Mizushima, you will test Ryoma Yukimura and Lily Scarlatina," Nagisa giggled and covered her mouth.
"Lastly, Mr. Jones, you will test Kiara Belladonna and Ezra Williams." Travis cracked his neck.
"As for Team CFVY (Coffee)," The fashionista and her team came closer to listen "You will be testing the students in Forever Fall." Ozpin continued to read his scroll.
"Miss Adel and Miss Scarlatina, you two will test Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Cayden Walsh and Magnar Pederson," Coco and Velvet looked at each other, with the latter nodding politely.
"Mr. Daichi and Mr. Alistair, you two will test Cardin Winchester, Russell Thrush, Dove Bronzewing and Sky Lark." Yatsuhashi and Fox nodded silently.
"Lastly, Team KYNO (Kayano)," Kirino and his team listened intently "You will be testing the students in Mountain Glenn." The man read his scroll once more.
"Mr. Amano, you will be testing Valerie Stark and Ajax Silver," Amano nodded solemnly.
"Miss Sakurako, you will test Riley White and Shizuka Aoki," Yuuki grinned and did a thumbs up.
"Miss Lane, you will test Jaune Arc and Pyrrha Nikos," Natalie smirked and cracked her knuckles.
"Lastly, Mr. Kearney, you will test Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie." Onyx smirked mischievously.
"I do hope, all of you understand what you must do now." Ozpin's expression was unreadable as he said that.
Forever Fall
Cardin, Russel, Dove and Sky
"That was rather disappointing." Yastuhashi said, shaking his head with Fox nodding in agreement.
The fight only lasted for five minutes, but the unofficial team of the four boys were already down for the count.
As if on cue, the white-eyed boy's scroll rang as he immediately picked it up in response and answered it.
With only a few minutes passing, he passed the scroll to the large teen.
"What do you need, headmaster?" The boy said, before nodding many times at what was said on the other side of the call.
"All four of you." This got the boys' attention, as they all groaned whilst standing up.
Yatsuhashi shook his head for a moment, before saying "The headmaster has decided to make an exception for all four of you." he closed his eyes "Which means that all four of you pass."
He received groans in response, which was meant to be cheering for joy.
Fox tapped the boy's shoulder and nodded at him, before getting nod himself in response.
"We shall leave you to save your energy now." The tall boy said, before turning around "Let's go, Fox."
With that, the two boys left the area, leaving the boys to regain what's left of their aura and energy, as well as their pride.
Mountain Glenn
Ajax and Valerie
"Shit, those arrows are freaking tough!" Ajax chuckled nervously as he and his partner hid inside a building.
"Tell me something I don't know." Valerie muttered in exasperation.
The two students had taken cover, as soon as their upperclassman had started firing arrows at a very rapid pace.
Speaking of upperclassman, Kirino was gazing at the building the two first-year students are taking cover in, with a calm and calculating expression.
"Seven Spectrum Array: Indigo Arrow." The pink-haired boy closed his eyes, as he uses his aura to create two indigo colored aura arrows over his bow as he aimed them at the building, before opening them as he shoots "Tracker!"
The two arrows sped towards the walls and went straight through as it hit both underclassmen with merely a single shot.
"What ... was that?" The hidden girl felt bits of aura lingering on her back as it began to spread.
"Am I feeling aura ... on my back?" The black-haired boy bared his teeth as he felt aura running over his entire body.
Their reactions did not go unnoticed by Amano as he transferred aura into his eyes and saw that the two younger teens now had an indigo glow covering their bodies as they were visible right through the building's walls.
"The arrows are now in effect." The older boy nodded to himself as his aura flared throughout his body as it was grayish white in color "I shall now use my semblance."
He closed his eyes again as he raised his free hand in the air with only a single thought coming to the boy's mind.
"The Mist."
As soon as that thought came to mind, a thick fog began to cover the entire area, only to affect all of Mountain Glenn as well.
"Hopefully, the rest of my team are now aware that the plan is now in effect." Kirino mused, thinking about his team.
Shizuka and Riley
The gray-haired boy grunted as he deflected another kick from the older girl using both of his arms, with his weapon on his right hand.
His partner was trying her best to hit her opponent as she focused through her rifle's scope, but the blonde easily dodged the amount of dust shot at her, due to her speed, which was more than enough to cause her some difficulty in aiming.
"She's too fast!" The blue-haired girl felt some sweat on her forehead.
Riley focused on his upperclassman, as she sped around them while shooting at him with her dual pistols. Narrowing his eyes, he transformed his combat knife into a nightstick as he immediately charged at her afterwards.
But before he could reach her, Yuuki stopped in her tracks and surveyed the entire area around them with an unreadable expression.
"My leader has activated his semblance." He barely heard her utter those words.
As if on cue, a thick fog appeared as it began to cover the area surrounding him and his partner.
"What's going on?" Shizuka said from behind with a bewildered expression.
"To answer your question Aoki-san," The feline faunus spoke, getting the two students' attention "The fog that is about to blind us, comes from our leader, Kirino Amano." she stared at them intently as her aura began to flare "This is his semblance, it is called The Mist."
"Another semblance user." Riley narrows his eyes as he watched the fog cover the area even more, to the point where he could barely see his own surroundings "Was this planned?"
"Since Kirino-kun is using his semblance to help all of us in this part of initiation." The blonde girl was slowly turning transparent "I shall use mine as well."
The older girl closed her eyes as her thoughts gathered into a single one.
"Phantom Phase."
With that thought coming to mind, the girl becomes completely transparent as the fog begins to covers her to mask her visibility to her underclassmen.
"Get ready." She said ominously, which prompted the two younger teens to stick together as they prepared for incoming attacks.
Jaune and Pyrrha
"Someone help me!" The blonde knight screamed as he ran from the rock golem that tried to smash him with their fists.
"Move!" The Mistralian champion moved in front of him as she used her shield to block an attack as she and her partner moved backwards.
"What's wrong newbies?" Natalie grinned as pulled out a large gun from her back while standing on top the golem "It's only a matter of time before our fearless leader activates his semblance."
"His semblance?" Pyrrha narrowed her eyes "What do you mean by that?"
The older girl merely smirked in response "That's for you and your partner to find out."
As if in response to her words, a thick fog appeared out of nowhere as it began to cover the area that surrounded the students.
"Huh, what's happening?" Jaune asked, as his vision is slowly being clouded by the fog itself.
"Oh that?" The short-haired girl said in a nonchalant tone "That's just my leader's semblance, no big deal."
"From the way she's acting, she knew that this will happen." The redhead looked around her surroundings as her partner was about to get lost in the fog.
The upperclassman smirked as she closed her eyes with only one thought on in her mind.
"Earth Maker: Golem."
In response to that thought, dozens of rock golems were formed as she manipulated the earth surrounding her, as well as the rocks being materialized by her aura as it flared wildly.
"Get ready 'cuz you can't see these guys in this fog." Natalie smirked, before firing her gun at the two students, as the dust rounds quickly went by second by second.
"Jaune, we have to take cover!" Pyrrha grabs the blonde's hand as they quickly dashed towards a broken wall where they immediately went behind it for cover.
The girl was now aware of the difficulty that came with enrolling in Beacon Academy.
Ren and Nora
"Get back here, Mr. Laughing Voice!" The ginger-haired girl shouted gripping her hammer tightly, before smiling sweetly "Can you please let me smash your leg for just a little bit?"
"Nope!" The fox faunus replied, smirking as he jumped from her attack again "You'll have to wait until the real fun starts."
"What do you mean by that?" Ren narrowed his eyes cautiously.
The older boy turned to him, still smirking "My leader's semblance will come in three, two, ..." he trailed off as fog began to surround him, along with the two students.
"One." The last thing that the boy saw was his upperclassman's mischievous smirk as he disappeared in the thick fog.
"Ren-Ren, what's happening?" Nora tilted her head in confusion as her surroundings were slowly getting covered by the fog before her.
"Nora, stay close to me." Her childhood friend grabbed her hand and pulled her by his side, before preparing himself, along with his weapons on his disposal.
In the fog, Onyx's smirk grew wide as he closed his eyes with his aura flaring as it was dark gray in color, along with one simple thought in his mind.
"Thought Shift: Hallucination."
He grinned once that thought crossed his mind, before raising his hand that transferred bits of aura into his underclassmen's minds.
Unaware of her upperclassman's semblance in effect, Nora began to see a herd of Beowolves surrounding her as she noticed that she was in fact alone by herself.
"Ren!" The girl tried to call out for her friend, before noticing one Beowolf attempting to lunge at her.
In response, she swings her hammer at the Grimm, only for the said Grimm to disappear rather than be physically affected by her weapon, much to her confusion.
Ren was also in the same situation as his friend, as he attempted to attack the Beowolf that charged at him, only to have the same result that his partner did.
"What is this?" The boy tensed as he prepared himself for the madness that will ensue.
Ajax and Valerie
The two students were hiding in the building for a while, until Ajax decided to look through it's window.
As he did, his eyes widen in shock as he said "Val, we have a new problem and you're not gonna like it."
His partner raised an eyebrow at that, before looking out the window herself.
Like the wolf faunus, Valerie's eyes widen in shock as she saw that there was a thick fog, which prevented them from seeing the outside, including it's surroundings.
But she didn't let that deter her for long, as she stood up and made her way out of the building's entrance, only for her partner to stop her as he grabbed her shoulder.
"I'm not letting you go out there alone." The boy said firmly, getting a nod of response from his partner.
As soon as they stepped outside, an arrow is immediately shot at them as nearly hit Silver's foot.
"What the!?" The black-haired faunus exclaimed in surprise.
The hidden girl turned to see more arrows being shot as they rained from above.
In response, she grabs her partner's hand and begins running through the fog, hoping that the arrows would miss. However, the arrows were hitting the ground in different areas, with one of them barely hitting the girl's foot as she stopped in her tracks, before running again.
Unbeknownst to the underclassmen, Kirino was the one shooting the arrows as he used his aura to detect the two students', due to the effects of his Indigo aura arrow.
"If they're going to engage me in close quarters combat," The feminine boy thought, shooting another arrow "Then they will have to navigate through my semblance first."
Ajax was trying his hardest to use his faunus senses to see through the fog itself, as he ran along with his partner.
"If I can't use my natural senses, then I'll have to use this instead." The boy's aura began to flare all over his body as it was colored silvery white "Please let this work."
With only a few minutes passing, he managed to detect that the fog is made up of pure aura, as well as noticing that his body was coated in an indigo colored aura, along with the girl.
"What the heck?" He stared at his aura coated hands.
That did not go unnoticed by the pink-haired boy as he used his aura to create more arrows.
"Three Morality Sides: Gray Arrow." He closed his eyes, as he uses his aura to create four dark gray colored aura arrows as he aimed them at the ground, before opening them as he shoots again "Explosion!"
Silver's aura enhanced faunus senses acted up as he looked away from his hands and stared above, before his eyes widened in alarm.
"Look out!" He called out to his partner, to which she immediately dodged the arrows as they exploded upon hitting the ground.
"We have to move!" The short-haired girl grabbed the boy's arm as they tried to navigate through the fog again, but to no avail as more arrows rained from above.
"I have to do something!" The wolf faunus gritted his teeth, as he released himself from the girl so he could use his enhanced senses to detect each arrow being fired.
"What are you doing!?" Valerie shouted incredulously.
"You have to keep moving!" Ajax shouted back, turning to her "I'll take care of-"
However, he stopped mid-sentence as he adopted a shocked expression, before hitting the ground on his stomach as a green arrow is seen attached to his back.
"Ajax!" His partner cried out in worry, dashing over to him.
With a fierce expression, she pulled out the arrow and studied it.
"This ... is made of aura!?" Her eyes widened in surprise, before looking at the boy as he groaned.
As she realized this, Kirino stood on the building's roof as he opened his eyes, before thoughts run through his head.
"Your partner has been shot by a Green arrow, also known as," The older boy stared at the two younger teens on the ground "Seven Spectrum Array: Green Arrow, Paralyze."
She immediately turned his body around, as he now faced her while offering a weak smile.
"S-Sorry, I thought I'd save you by deflecting those arrows." He gave a strained chuckle, before frowning as he spoke again "Y-You have to get to cover, or you'll-"
"Be quiet, you idiot." The hidden girl cut him off, looking at him with a stern expression "I'll get us out of here." She grabbed his arm and put it over her shoulders "Hold on."
Valerie reached out for one of her pockets, as she pulled out a purple raw dust crystal.
"I hope this thing works." She narrowed her eyes at the crystal, before throwing it on the ground, as it created a large, but relatively harmless explosion that masked her and her partner's auras.
The girl took this as an opportunity to quickly move him to another building, as she looked around for signs of arrows being shot at her and the now-paralyzed boy.
After a few minutes of moving, she finally made it to another building before setting her partner down as he groaned in slight pain.
"I-I can't move my body." Ajax said quietly, his body not moving in the slightest "I-It might be, because of the arrow that hit me."
His partner kept quiet as she stared out of the window with a focused expression as she tried to come up with a plan to get past the first test of their initiation.
Shizuka and Riley
"Head for that building!" The boy shouted, transforming his nightstick into a baton "I'll distract her!"
"Right!" His partner nodded, as she quickly went inside the said building with her rifle seemingly out of ammo.
After heading inside, she immediately switches magazines to reload her weapon while her partner was outside dealing with the older girl somehow.
Shizuka closed her eyes as she composed herself, before heading outside with Riley nowhere in sight.
"Riley!" The blue-haired girl called out, going further into the fog "Where are you?"
"Shizuka!" She turned to see the gray-haired boy running towards her, with the baton switched back into a nightstick "Get back!"
With those words said, Yuuki appears out of the fog with twin blades as she is prepared to strike them. As soon as she made her move with both blades, the boy immediately blocks them with the nightstick using both hands.
He barely managed to send her back slightly, before charging forward with the nightstick back into a baton as it was sparkling with electricity.
The blonde faunus narrowed her eyes, and moved back from her opponent's charge, before noticing her other opponent aiming at her with the intent to shoot.
She quickly speeds over to the hooded girl, surprising her, and delivers a swift kick to her stomach as she dropped her weapon and was sent into deeper parts of the fog.
Riley turned his attention to his partner for a brief moment, until his upperclassman instantly appeared on his side, completely transparent, and giving him a sideways kick, which sent him back further into the fog slightly but never dropping his weapon.
Unbeknownst to them, Aoki had already picked up her rifle as soon as Sakurako shifted focus onto her partner, and then dashing towards a two-story building, attempting to snipe her from it's second floor windows.
"I hope Riley's okay out there." She thought worriedly, entering the building before taking it's stairs that would lead to it's second floor.
However, she wasn't aware that the transparent opponent that's fighting the boy, was only a mere phantom, as the real one followed her into her location by going through it's walls.
As soon the blue-haired girl reached the second floor windows, she sets up her rifle as she looked through it's scope to snipe her partner's opponent.
"Nice try, Aoki-san." Yuuki suddenly spoke up, catching her underclassman by complete surprise as she turned to her in shock "But your tactic is useless against a semblance like my own!" she immediately dashed towards her, with blades in her hands as she did.
When the younger girl realized she was backed into a corner, she immediately jumped out of the second floor windows with her rifle on her back, only for Riley to catch her on time.
"Come on, we'll lose her in the fog." The feminine boy carried his partner bridal style into thicker parts of the fog, much to said partner's embarrassment.
"W-Why don't you use your semblance?" Shizuka asked meekly, her face red from feeling the boy's hands on her back and legs.
"I can't." He answered quickly, attempting to navigate through the fog "If I can't get a clear sight of our current area, then I won't be able to summon my portals in different areas."
As if on cue, the feline faunus suddenly appeared in front of them in transparent form, prompting the boy to jump backwards before turning around to continue running.
"Truly, these semblances will be difficult to get past." The gray-haired boy mused, still carrying his partner.
Jaune and Pyrrha
"Pyrrha, what do we do?" The blonde asked, sneaking a peek at the golems before retreating back into the wall.
The redhead was contemplating on what action to take, before she stood up and reached her hand out to Jaune.
"Jaune, stand up." She said, to which the knight responded by grabbing her hand "Do you have any idea what to do?"
"Me?" He was surprised that he was the one being asked that question, before suddenly adopting a thoughtful expression as he cupped his chin.
After a few moments, he faced his partner with a surprisingly serious expression "How about we split up and divide the golems' attention."
"Divide their attention?" Pyrrha looked out of the wall to see that there were six golems at best, before going back in to listen to what her partner had to say "Go on."
Meanwhile, Natalie was standing on top of one of her golems as she had her large gun pointed at the wall the two students were taking cover in, she only managed to see it because of the transferred aura to her eyes.
"I wonder what those two are planning." The girl was genuinely curious on what plan her underclassmen had in mind.
"Go!" She then heard running as someone had run out of the wall on the left side, causing all of the golems to pursue them.
"Interesting." The older girl thought, before hearing another dashing out of the wall on the right side, causing at least three golems to stop in their tracks to chase after them "Dividing their attention, eh?" she smirked to herself "This'll be fun."
To make things interesting, the short-haired girl jumped off from the golem and chased after the student on the right side herself wielding blades between her fingers.
"Huh?" The student was revealed to be Jaune, as he was surprised that he was found instead of his much stronger partner.
She immediately made the first attack, prompting him to use his shield to deflect the attack itself before pulling out his sword.
However, he only seemed to swing it around wildly, leaving his upperclassmen to stare at him with a raised eyebrow.
"Is it me, or he doesn't know how to use that sword of his?" Natalie thought, looking at the boy himself with a confused expression.
The blonde Arc seemed to notice her expression, before snapping "Don't look at me like that!"
As if on cue, three golems appeared out of the fog as they stared down at the knight, causing him to gulp as he tried to stand his ground. He then stared at the older girl, who's blades shined menacingly as she grinned at him.
"You've got to be kidding me?" He deadpanned to himself.
Ren and Nora
The ginger-haired girl had swung her hammer again at the Beowolf, only for it to go through the Grimm again rather than actually getting hit.
"Why won't you let me hit you!" She snapped, which was unlike her to do so.
Her friend and partner was in the same situation as his attacks did nothing to physically harm the Grimm attacking him.
"There has to be a reason why my attacks aren't harming them." Ren thought as he attacked another Beowolf, but had the same result like the last one "Furthermore, I can't find Nora anywhere."
Unbeknownst to the two students, Onyx was smirking upon watching the his underclassmen struggle to kill the "Grimm" that surrounded them.
"I made sure to make those Grimm look real in their eyes." He thought, referring to his aura and semblance "The best part, Kirino's semblance makes it especially hard for Lie to realize that all he's seeing are nothing, but one big hallucination."
The fox faunus had the impression that the younger teen was knowledgeable with his aura, as well as observant, which was why he decided to test that.
"I'll see if that guy can figure out that all of the Grimm around him is fake." He cupped his chin thoughtfully, waiting to see great results from his underclassmen.
Meanwhile, Nora was still attempting to smash the Beowolves with her hammer, but all of her attacks had the same result like before, much to her growing frustration.
"Why isn't my hammer working!?" The girl thought, slowly losing her previous cheerful demeanor as she grit her teeth in frustration.
As if on cue, strange hooded men appeared out of the fog as they wielded axes and machetes, which had gotten the girl widen her eyes in shock and recognition.
"If you want to hurt my little Nora, then you'll have to go through me first!" A man's voice rang in her head, as seemingly old memories resurfaced "Little Valkyrie, I will always be there for you."
"No." She tried to push them away.
"Don't hurt my little girl, I beg you!" The voice switched into a woman's, further opening unwanted memories "I hope that this village will be a better home for you."
"Please no." The girl begged in her head, not wanting her memories to resurface even further.
"I apologize if I plan to collect your daughter, but it's for the sake of our lord." A third voice came into her head "It's nothing personal, because she will-"
"Shut up!" She especially didn't want to hear that voice.
Letting her own emotions take over, Nora growled at the men approaching her as she gripped her hammer even tighter.
"I'm going to kill you!" She shouted with tears going down her eyes "You're going to pay for killing mommy and daddy!"
The girl immediately charged at the men and swung her hammer, but it did nothing as it only went through them, like the "Grimm" she tried to hit a while ago.
While his friend was confronting past memories, Ren was slowly getting suspicious of the Beowolves that surrounded him, as they made no effort in trying to attack, other than lunging and pouncing.
"These Grimm are far different than the ones Nora and I have fought before." He mused, as he dodged another pounce "Usually they would all attack differently, but they all have the same kind of attack." the boy decided to use his aura as it was the same color as his eyes.
He transferred that aura into his eyes as he observed the Grimm closely.
"They are all made up of aura." The black-haired boy narrowed his eyes, before observing the fog that surrounded him "Onyx said that his leader's semblance would come, which means that all of this fog is a semblance itself."
As if to answer his thoughts, another Beowolf lunged at him, only for the Grimm to right through him as it landed on the ground, before doing it again.
"What I'm seeing is likely the work of Onyx's semblance." Ren deduced, as he allowed the "Grimm" to attack him at once, but with the same result.
It did not go unnoticed by the black-haired faunus as he smiled at the boy's observation.
"Looks like he didn't let my leader's semblance get in the way of using his aura." Onyx was genuinely intrigued by his underclassman "Though I don't feel proud of using his friend's memories against her as another test."
He decided to release the effects of his semblance on the younger boy's mind, with the said boy coming back to his senses as he barely noticed his partner swinging her hammer at nothing through the thick fog.
"Nora." He tried to reach out to her, only to receive a death glare from the girl in response.
Unfortunately, she was still under the effect of the semblance, as she saw a hooded man instead of her childhood friend.
"I'll break your legs and kill you!" The ginger-haired girl roared, charging forward as she swung her hammer hard.
Ren barely managed to dodge his friend's attack, as he closely observed her eyes as they were clouded, likely from the semblance's effects.
"She's still under the influence of Onyx's semblance." The boy mused as he dodged another swing from the girl's hammer "I must find a way to snap her out of it."
He was going to have to fight his friend, in order to free her from the effect of his upperclassman's semblance.
Ajax and Valerie
"Val, I still can't move." The black-haired faunus groaned, trying to get his partner's attention.
That seemed to work as she reached out for something in one of her pockets.
"My father's friend said that this would take care of any aura effect." She said, pulling out a small glass tube filled with a glistening substance "I think this should erase the aura arrow's effect on your body."
The girl moved to where he was and opened his mouth, to which she spilled a bit of the substance as soon as she did. Afterwards, his body started to glow silvery white, until one of his fingers moved.
"Whoa." To his own surprise, his arm moved "It actually worked." his own body followed afterwards.
Valerie smiled at the fact that the substance actually worked and placed it back into one of her pockets.
"While you were still on the ground," She crossed her arms over her chest "I found a way to get to Kirino, without getting noticed by him and you're going to help me."
"Oh?" Ajax raised an eyebrow and smirked "I'm listening."
*A FEW MINUTES LATER*
Kirino was looking over the fog with his aura transferred to his eyes and his bow already armed with an arrow.
"I hope those two would take their time in planning their attack." He mused, still keeping his guard up.
As if on cue, he immediately detected one of his underclassmen inside the fog as he aimed his bow at the said underclassman.
He shoots the arrow at his target and to his surprise, it was deflected by his underclassman.
In the fog, Silver had his entire body enhanced with aura as his faunus senses were in overdrive and his sword ready.
"Thanks for the boost, Val." He smiled as he remembered the enhancement he took.
*A FEW MINUTES AGO*
"Uh, what is that?" The black-haired faunus asked. pointing at the glowing glass tube.
"It's an aura enhancement potion." His partner answered, examining the potion herself "My father's friend loves making potions for just about everything, which means that this might be the right time to use it."
"Would this help my faunus senses then?" He questioned, furrowing his brows.
"The potion can enhance them as well, so you don't have to worry about that." The girl gave him a reassuring smile "I figured that I should start using what I have at my disposal."
The boy wordlessly took the potion and gave her one more smile, before drinking it with his aura flaring wildly and his faunus senses going into overdrive as a result.
*BACK TO THE PRESENT*
"Thanks to that potion, I can see through the fog now." Ajax gripped on his sword tighter "Plus, it also means I can see and deflect those arrows with no problems."
Another arrow is shot at him, and he easily deflects it with a lazy swing from his sword.
More arrows are being shot after that, to which he begins move around his surroundings as he deflects every one of them as soon as they got close.
With his faunus senses enhanced, he can detect every arrow shot at him and can easily see through the fog, like it was never there in the first place.
He deflects another arrow as he jumped backwards, and another as he rolled to the right.
Kirino tracked the boy's movements, and is impressed by what he is seeing.
"Seven Spectrum Array: Orange Arrow." He closed his eyes again and used his aura to create an orange colored aura arrow as he aimed it at his underclassman, before shooting "Bullet!"
The arrow was shot at the boy as it's speed was something to keep track of due to it having the speed of an actual bullet, something that the wolf faunus barely noticed.
"A fast one!" Silver managed to deflect it, but it slightly cracked his sword, which was something he kept track of "I'll have to get that fixed and reinforced."
Shaking his head, he went on to deflect the arrows being shot at him, with the upperclassman seemingly unaware that he was buying time for his partner to sneak up on him with the help of another potion.
Without getting detected, Valerie makes it to building the pink-haired boy was in and quickly made her way to the rooftop, with the potion still in effect.
As soon as she made it to the roof, she spots Amano still shooting arrows at her partner.
The hidden girl reaches out for her sword and charges at the older boy without hesitation.
However, that's where the potion's effect end as the archer immediately detected her and moved out of the way as a result.
That did not stop the girl as she stopped herself from running off the egde of the roof and continued to charge at him with her sword ready.
In response, he repeatedly flipped backwards to distance himself from her and shot another arrow using his feet as he stood on his own hands for a brief moment.
Valerie quickly deflected that arrow as she continued to move forward, until she finally reached him.
Realizing that he was in a disadvantage, he activated his semblance and creates a small fog on the roof to buy himself time to distance himself from her and prepared to shoot another arrow.
But before he could shoot, he is forcibly pushed down on the floor by an unknown force as he struggled to move, let alone stand on his own.
"Man, sorry if I took a while to get here." Ajax said as he came out of fog, scratching the back of his head sheepishly.
"Don't worry about it." His partner responded, trying to see him "Your semblance really helped this time."
"So you're the one that's holding me down." Kirino said from the floor "It was the work of your semblance, correct?"
"Yup!" The younger boy said, grinning "I can control gravity as my semblance!"
"I see, then both of you pass this test." The feminine boy smiled as his aura began to flare "As a reward for your efforts, I shall deactivate my semblance so both of you can move on to the relics."
True to his word, the fog slowly begins to disappear as the abandoned safe haven once again came into sight for the two students.
"Both of you can go now." He said, nodding "But can you deactivate your semblance so I can stand."
"Oh!" The wolf faunus realized that his semblance was still in effect "Sorry."
WIth his aura disappearing, Amano stands on his stand up as he dusted himself before looking at his underclassmen.
"I look forward to seeing you both in the first day of class." He smiled calmly, getting a nod of response from the two as they quickly made their way out of the building.
Shizuka and Riley
The boy was still carrying his partner as he was still finding a way to get through the thick fog that prevented him from seeing his surroundings.
"At this rate, this will get us nowhere." He thought as he dodged another surprise attack from his upperclassman.
As if to answer his thoughts, the fog slowly disappears as he was beginning to get a clear view of the area he's in.
He looked to his left and saw that Yuuki was aiming her dual pistols at him and his partner, before proceeding to shoot.
In response, Riley dodges the dust bullets shot at him, before transferring aura to his feet and creates a portal, to which he immediately falls in, along with Shizuka in his arms.
"Since this fog is now clearing itself up, I can finally use my semblance to quickly escape her and move on to the next part of initiation." He thought as the portal closed, leaving the feline faunus alone.
The blonde closed her eyes as her aura envelops her once more, before reverting back to what she originally wore.
"Looks like Kirino-chan has been defeated by his kohai if his semblance is no longer active, nya." The older girl thought to herself, before walking all by herself towards Kirino's area "I better see if he's okay, nya."
As the upperclassman was left alone to her own thoughts, the two underclassmen were teleported to an area where they are secure.
"Can you put me down now?" The blue-haired girl asked timidly, as she was still in her partner's arms.
"Very well then." Her partner placed her own on her feet gently.
"So, I guess we should move on into the initiation now." She said, twiddling her thumbs.
"Agreed." The boy nodded, before turning around "Let's move."
Jaune and Pyrrha
"Ugh!" The blonde knight was sent back, due to the strength of his opponent's attacks.
"Seriously, that's all you got?" The short-haired girl raised an eyebrow as she walked towards him.
"I-It's not like I can keep up with your strength." Jaune groaned, trying to stand up.
Natalie sighed putting away her blades, and snapping her fingers to call her golems as they appeared from the fog,
"It's a shame, actually." She said, shaking her head "It seems like you lack physical training for a huntsman," the boy looked down on the ground in response "I can tell you have some smarts in there, but they're rough around the edges at best."
Suddenly, sounds of footsteps can be heard, getting their attention, as well as the golems.
What the they saw was Pyrrha running from the three other golems as her shield was slightly dented from blocking their attacks.
Turning around, the Mistralian dodged another fist as it collided on the ground, before jumping on top it as she ran towards the golem's head.
Fortunately, that move seemed to be in her favor as another golem attacked the one she was on, which was meant to be her. The golem ended up smashing it's head as the redhead quickly jumped onto another as she landed on top of it's head.
Another one came forward and did the same thing as the one did before, which resulted in two of the six golems being destroyed.
Luck was clearly in Pyrrha's favor as all of the ones that chased Jaune did the same things that resulted in one golem remaining, much to Natalie's awe.
"Damn, she's not the Invincible Girl for nothing." The older girl smirked, turning to the blonde "Though I don't remember seeing her do all those moves on TV."
As if her luck had gotten better, the fog slowly clears out as she had spotted her partner while on top of the last remaining golem.
"Jaune!" She called out, getting his attention "I'm coming!"
With fluid movement, she immediately jumps off the golem and dashes towards the blonde, dodges a few attacks from Natalie, as she had pulled out of blades, and grabs his hand before transferring aura to her feet as she boosted herself up, along with her partner as they landed on a building roof.
"We must escape as quickly as we can!" The Mistralian champion said as she and the knight quickly left the building's rooftop and into the ground as they managed to get far away from their upperclassmen.
The older girl could only pout as they were immediately out of her sight.
"That wasn't even a fight, dammit!" She whined childishly, before sighing in defeat "Oh well."
Meanwhile, Jaune and Pyrrha stopped to catch a break as they felt that they managed to escape as quickly as they could.
"Thanks for the save." The boy thanked, smiling "Though you should give me a heads up next time."
"Your welcome, and I'm sorry for a while ago." His partner bowed politely.
Ren and Nora
The fog was clear, but the two students were glaring at each other as the boy was determined to free his friend from the effects from his upperclassman's semblance.
"I'll break your legs!" She roared, dashing forward as she swung her hammer.
Ren dodged her swing and fired off a couple of shots from his weapons, with Nora avoiding them while taking a couple of hits from them due to her strength.
Narrowing her eyes dangerously, the girl switches her hammer into a grenade launcher as she immediately fires it at the hooded figure, in her eyes.
Knowing his friend's weapon, he dodged each grenade as they damaged parts of the buildings.
"I must stop her before she destroys this place." The boy closed his eyes, as his aura flared.
The black-haired boy then masks his presence with his semblance as he jumped from another grenade before landing behind his unsuspecting friend.
"I apologize for this." He sighed, before chopping the back of her neck with his aura enhanced hand.
As a result, Nora's eyes rolled at the back of her head as she was knocked unconscious from the sudden attack.
"Since Onyx isn't around, I must escape him as quickly as I can." Ren mused, as he carried his friend's body and ran off.
Meanwhile, the fox faunus sighed at his lack of action during his part of the initiation.
"At least all of us at the office agreed to actually hold back on those guys, since it'd be unfair if we went all-out." The boy mused thoughtfully, cupping his chin "But man, I barely did any fighting, other than dodging the girl's hammer."
"Onyx-kun!" He turned around to see Yuuki waving at him "We should meet up with the others, nya!"
In response, Onyx smiled as the girl came close.
"Alright then," The black-haired boy laced his hands behind his head "I was going to find my girly leader and partner, once I finish this."
"Kirino-chan won't be happy that you called him 'girly', nya." The girl smiled, as both of them made their way to the other two members.
With both upperclassmen on their way, Ren places Nora on the ground as the latter had just awoken.
"Ren?" The girl rubbed her head "What happened?"
"You nearly attacked me when you saw me as someone else." Her childhood friend didn't want to keep that from her, as her eyes widen in shock.
"I did!?" She places her hands in her cheeks, before pulling the boy into a tight hug "I'm so sorry!"
"That's alright, Nora." He sighed, already used to her hugs.
"No it's not!" The ginger-haired girl let go of him as she had some tears in her eyes "I thought I saw one of those meanies, but it was actually you, so I'm sorry!"
The boy responded by wordlessly pulling her into a hug, as he comforted her over her own inner demons.
Ozpin's Office
"I must admit, those students have some skills." Glynda admitted as she stared at the headmaster's scroll.
The teachers had been watching the battles the entire time in Ozpin's scroll.
"I have my eyes on Rose and Nakamura though." Kyosuke smiled as he repeated the duo's actions in the Emerald Forest "They're pretty skilled on their own, and I can't wait to see what they do as a team."
"But all of the other first-year students are quite skilled as well." Yuna said, watching the events on Mountain Glenn.
Suddenly, the elevator rang as new person stepped out of it.
"Professor Ozpin, I would like to-" The person cut themselves off as they are seeing other people occupying the office "Am I interrupting something important?"
"Not at all," The man waved off, smiling wryly "I believe I must ask why you have returned on your own without Qrow, Miss Mizuhara?"
Mizuhara, the person, sighed in exasperation before speaking "That drunkard sent me back so he could finish the rest of the mission himself, and that was after I stopped him from starting a bar fight."
Hayashi chuckled lightly at that as he smiled "It's nice to see you again, Kiyomi."
"The feeling is mutual, my friend." Kiyomi smiled as she fully came into view.
Kiyomi Mizuhara was also a Beacon Academy graduate as she has long black hair that reached mid-back, light purple eyes and a pale complexion. Her physique was slightly average, but has a moderately sized chest and slightly toned legs. She is at twenty years of age.
She is wearing a dark gray long coat over a dark green v-neck sweater with a white dress shirt and a black necktie underneath, a light gray short skirt and wears black knee-high boots with gray thigh-high stockings. She also wears black gloves and a dark brown belt around her skirt, and carries a black satchel.
"What is your reason for being here, Miss Mizuhara?" Ozpin laced his hands together, as he stared at the young woman intently.
In response, she sighed as she said "It is about Salem."
To be continued ...
This chapter was slightly shorter than the last one, but at least we have some decent scenes from Ren and Nora, especially the latter. The next chapter will focus on some small interactions as they grab the relics, before facing off against the Grimm on the next one after.
Next Chapter: Teams (Part 1)
