Welcome back everyone! Now this chapter is up much earlier than the others because I am currently on spring break, which means that I have way more time to upload and way more time to write. Who knows? I may get bored and upload an early chapter (seriously I have 2 weeks to do almost nothing, don't be surprised).

The days have kind of been blurring together as I am on holidays and I don't need to keep track of them anymore, so don't be surprised if chapters are late or something. I'll do my best to get them up on time, and I'm already halfway there (spring break is only 2 weeks long) so I should be fine.

This is the start of a new color finally, which is Green, in case you didn't notice by the title. This one is only two chapters long, which I apologize for, but I'm somewhat just pushing through these introductions at this point so that I can get straight into the story, so bear with me as these may not be the most exciting chapters in the world.

So yeah, let's get on with it!

I awoke early in the morning, barely able to sleep. I was too excited for the field trip today.

I lived at Signal academy. Although we were supposed to go home every or most nights, I stayed at the academy. My parents paid for it and frankly, home wasn't as exciting. However, I still had to return every weekend

But not this weekend. This weekend we were going to the village of Barcombe. Apparently they had sent out a distress signal, so as a test we were all heading up to the village to defend it. I saw it more as an activity than an actual test. An actual test to me was either writing on paper or dueling with a professor. The Grimm were nothing.

I sat in my bed, trying to fall asleep but too excited to do so. The students in the beds around me blinked in confusion when they saw that I was wide awake.

"Grizzly?" Hippolytos, or Hippo, asked drowsily, "Why are you awake? It's four in the morning"

"I'm too excited to sleep" I replied.

Hippo sighed, rolling over in his bed, "You're so childish sometimes, especially for your age"

"Excitement isn't evil" I pointed out.

"I never said that." Hippo replied, "I said that it's childish"

"Childish to be excited?" I asked, "Remember just yesterday, when you got Twilight's Copper back from the polisher? You freaked out"

Hippo rolled back over to face me, "That different." He said, "I wasn't staying up all night anticipating when I'd get it back"

"You were still excited" I pointed out.

He sighed and rolled back over, pulling his covers over his head.

I stared at him for a second, then leaned back in my bed, resting my head against the pillow.

"Besides," Hippo started again, "if you don't sleep now, you won't have any energy for the test in the morning"

Oh right, I thought, it's a test. "Right" I replied, shutting my eyes and pulling my blanket up to my neck. After about an hour (or at least that's how long it felt) I finally fell asleep, only to be awoken a few hours later.

We had already packed all our things, so it was only a matter of getting everyone fed and organized enough to leave.

Seated in my chair, I talked Hippo's ear off over a large bowl of stew. The field trip today wasn't the only thing that I was excited about. Recently I'd been accepted into Beacon Academy. It was odd for someone like me, a fifteen year old, to be accepted so early. Headmaster Ozpin said that in his time at Beacon, he'd only accepted select few into Beacon early, the most recent of which was Ruby Rose. I found that especially interesting, considering Ruby was a childhood friend of mine.

When we were younger we were both really good friends. However, she was older than me and thus started attending Signal before I could. We saw each other on weekends and she taught me a few things, and very quickly she became my inspiration. I wanted to be a huntsman. So as soon as I could I applied to Signal, but unfortunately Ruby moved on before I got accepted.

She graduated from Beacon a while ago already, and I haven't seen her since she left Signal.

I find it ironic how we both got accepted early into Beacon, and at the same age too.

However, I have to finish this year at Signal first, just to make sure that I pass my final tests and what-not. I'm not too worried about it though.

"It's going to be awfully lonely without you Hippo" I said, referring to when I started at Beacon.

"Don't worry about that," He said, "my older brother attends, and he's part of a team. Everyone is actually. You won't be alone"

I nodded, "But I was looking forward to going with you" I said.

"I was too." He said, then paused, "Now don't go getting all mushy on me Grizz" He added.

I smiled and continued eating.

After breakfast we all went to brush our teeth and get dressed, the last phase of getting ready.

Pulling off my pajamas, I pulled my white long-sleeved shirt over my head. By now it was faded and stained, so it was more of a darker yellow-ish white shirt. I hadn't washed it for a few months now. On top of that I buttoned up my formal brown vest, with a V-shaped collar stretching down to the mid-section of my body. Lastly, I pulled on a pair of formal brown pants.

Once I was done with that I entered the washroom to brush my teeth. I stared at myself in the mirror as I brushed, seeing my yellow eyes and white skin. My hair was green and quite long for a boy. My bangs stuck out between my eyes in messy strands, but my vision wasn't obscured by it. The sides of my hair stuck out a little, and a single strand of hair stood up and curved down on the top of my head. Two small brown bear ears stuck out of the forest known as the top of my head. After brushing my teeth I used the toilet one last time, then left.

To top off my outfit, I pulled my Islamic green cloak off my bed frame and draped it around my shoulders, then did up the single button near my neck. My whole body was mostly covered by the cloak, which meant that no one would see my weapons, Barbed Gustav, at my sides.

I wasn't trying to sneak my weapon along, as we needed to bring them, but it surprised my opponent more, as they wouldn't know what to expect.

Latching both pieces of my weapon to either side of my waist, I picked up my bag, slung it over my shoulder, and headed to the waiting area for leaving.

Once everyone had arrived Professor Lime began explaining the rules. They were the typical rules for expeditions, mostly variations of 'stay with the group unless permitted to do otherwise'.

When Lime finished explaining the doors behind her opened and our expedition began.

So there you go. I guess you could say that this is a cliffhanger, but its not very exciting.

There really isn't a lot to say about this chapter, other than the kid named Hippo...yeah its kind of a crappy name for a kid but whatever. Clearly his parents didn't care that much about him.

So what do you guys think Barbed Gustav (Grizzly's weapon) is?

And also, they're going to Barcombe. Sound familiar to anyone?

Anyways, as usual favorite, follow, review, tell your friends, tell you enemies or don't if you don't want to and I will see you all in the next chapter.