This is the day Penny has been waiting for. Penny's eyes come online and she patches up her jaw. Removing herself from her cradle, Penny moves with purpose in preparation. Showered, brushed, flexed and changed, Penny struts out of her room, with eagerness.
Atop the staircase, in the gazebo, Penny looks at the garden she has been renovating for the past week. Much of the soil is overturned, and the plants uprooted. Bags of topsoil and fertilizer lined the backyard patio, and tools placed carefully against the wall. There was even a pair of overalls, layered in dirt laying across a stone table.
Penny marches out of her home. Even outside the normally quiet gated community is alive, as people are wandering from their house to their cars, talking to each other. Noting the activity, Penny enters a car that waits for her. Inside is agents from Atlas military. Penny checks to see if anyone is a familiar face, but none of them are, once again. She keeps quiet as they drive, noticing one officer tense more as the drive went on.
They arrived without incident at the front gate of Beacon Academy. A crowd of onlookers gaze upon Penny as she exits her vehicle. She had taken an officer's preoffered hand. Ironwood instructed her to do so, as to present a proper lady apprearance, to make people underestimate her. Understanding the importance of expectations in combat, Penny took the officer's hand. She looked at the crowd and smiles and waves at the people that stopped to notice her. Some reporters point their camera at her but keep their distance.
Penny walks through the main doors into the school campus. The two agents trail behind her, letting her lead the way on the campus. The halls were littered with public officials and students looking to see the participants. Everyone cleared the way for Penny as she walks by, a few people whispers and recognizes her from being on the school campus, Penny catches someone mentioning "friend of team RWBY and JNPR".
There was a long walk from one side of the campus to The Colosseum. Not the one Penny had practiced at for the past few months, the Colosseum, which dates back to the academy's founding. It use to be the largest structure in kingdom, but times have changed and the school itself has gotten larger. Colosseum sits inside the crescent shaped academy, and is ovular going away from the school. Almost a hundred feet high, made of limestone, brick and mortar with rumors the base is coated in Ash, it's age was hidden only by the reinforcements built around the structure, giving it a solid appearance. The main archway was not the entrance Penny will be using, she will be using the competitors quarters to enter the arena. There were vines in the archway, Penny realized. Not the same vine's Ruby had given her, but they spread across the entire archway.
After looking over the Colosseum's entirety, Penny paces away, smiling. Hard to say, as Penny walks, whether she's excited, or scared for what's to come.